A/N: I do not own any characters.

Brace Yourself-Epilogue

Having missed a full day of school, Danny, Sam and Tucker are walking down the hallway at Casper High School the following day. Some of the other students passing them look oddly at Danny. He doesn't notice their curious stares or their disappointed whispers.

The trio finally reaches their designated picnic table outside the school and sit down to eat their lunch.

"Ow!" Danny says at his first bite.

"You all right?" Tucker manages to ask, even though his mouth is full.

"Yeah, my teeth are still a little tender, but I'll be all right." Then, with a sudden seriousness in his tone, Danny adds, "That was pretty scary what happened to us. Something I definitely won't forget….Oh! And speaking of 'forget', I forgot to tell you why I thought about using the vine to keep the braces from working." He takes a careful bite of his food.

"Yeah, you were going to tell us!" Tucker remembered.

"Well, remember how I told you about the frog-thingy vomit?" He reflexively spits out some of his yellow custard pudding with the memory. "Sorry, I can still taste it! Well, my braces didn't glow with that stuff on it. Or when I had vine juice in my mouth—yuck! I still taste that, too!—they didn't glow either. So I figured—and hoped—that ghost stuff touching other ghost stuff on my braces short-circuited the radio waves! Man, am I so glad I was right!"

"So are we, dude!" Tucker agreed. Sam, who is still chewing, nods and smiles.

Danny smiles weakly and continues. "But like I said, I'm sorry I got you guys into so much danger...and trouble with your parents for missing school."

Tucker protests, "Dude, it wasn't your fault! That's part of the job, you know. Besides, my folks believed me when I told them that nothing important was happening anyway."

"Yeah," Sam adds wryly, "We all know that nothing important ever happens at school! And I agree with Tucker about all that happened at Skulker's Island. Did ya think it would always be as simple as putting the Box Ghost in the Fenton thermos?"-+-

Danny smiles at his friends' loyalty. Before he can comment, Tucker continues where Sam left off, "Yeah! And you wouldn't have discovered that cool new power! I can't wait for you to take me for a ride some time in your 'supersonic' mode!"

Danny chuckles and answers, "Any time, Tuck. That is, if I can ever do it again!"

"I'm sure you'll be able to," Sam chimes in. "Anything's possible now that your braces are off!"

Danny laughs and adds, "You're right! And not only that, but now, thanks to Skulker, my teeth are perfectly straight!" The three friends laugh as Danny shows off his cheesy, sparkling smile.

Just then, Dash and a bunch of his flunkies walk up to the friends. Dash demands, "Hey, Fenton! How dare you skip school and then show up without your braces! I still had a lotta mileage left, like, geez, at least a year's worth, of tormenting you about your braces!"

"As if that has stopped you before!" Danny quips back, and wearily adds, "Just go away, will ya, Dash? I don't have to explain anything to you!"

"You've gotta a lotta nerve saying that!" Dash retorts, drawing a fist and aiming straight for Danny's mouth. Danny instinctively makes his mouth intangible and Dash, of course, misses. But the force of Dash's swing comes full circle and Dash hits himself in the mouth!

"OWWWW!" Dash yells, covers his injured mouth, and runs away, along with his alarmed lackeys.

"Hey, Dash!" Danny calling after him, chuckles, "Maybe now you might need braces!"

Sam and Tucker frown and then smirk at him. Tucker then adds, " Hey, and just what happened to your braces?"

"Gee, I don't know. I think they got blasted to smithereens. But who cares?" +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Meanwhile, at the far end of Skulker's Island, Skulker is lying on the ground, finally rousing from his encounter with Danny's 'ghostly wail'. Suddenly, his mouth lights up with electricity and he screams, "Oww!"

He immediately looks at his arm battle gear. The button that controls the braces is permanently stuck in the 'on' position. He then whips out a mirror from another part of his arm battle gear and after seeing his reflection, has no smile for his new braces.

THE END

-+-taken from "Reign Storm"

A/N: Well, I'm sorry the story was so short, but I hope you liked it anyway. Believe me, I tried to "stretch it out" and it was a real challenge. As I told you before, this was originally a hopeful-but-never-submitted–cause-I'm-a-'nobody'-writer-and-didn't-have-the-nerve- teleplay, which describes the scenes, actions, and feelings separately from the dialogue. So, even though putting it all together into a narrative was hard, it was immensely fun, because the story did change a little, with a little more twist than the original teleplay. I'm now working on my next story, "A Mini-Review" which started as an unfinished teleplay, and ended up as a narrative, because I actually finished it with this website in mind. So, this will be an interesting piece to perfect, and so far, ta-da, it's not going to be short at all! And I still promise to complete any story I begin in a timely manner ... And I think y'all have figured out by now that I love action and quirky humor; and I love all the cool powers Danny has and could have, which is why the show has so much potential. Please keep writing to Nickelodeon to revitalize it. I do!! (And don't forget to keep it cordial!)….BTW: Not all my stories will have new powers for Danny, but I do think they're cool anyway! And Thank You again, especially for letting me have so much fun!! You phans rock, especially Angelus-alvus, crazyvi, and Wolfinson!! truephan