OH NOES D: Danny has been caught!

And hurt D:

But don't worry, Dash came to his rescue! He took Danny and bandaged him up.

Say Hello to the Newest member of Team Phantom! :D


Danny POV

My right calf was searing in pain, and my arm wasn't much better. I groaned. Had I passed out after the fight with Skulker? I sure hope no one saw me revert back. In fact, I hope that I am still laying exactly where I passed out…huh? I felt the ground where my hand was. It wasn't the soft grass where I had landed, in fact…It wasn't even outside.

I snapped my eyes open and sat up quickly, then realized that it had been a very poor idea to do that as I was suddenly woozy from the motion and I collapsed back down on what seemed to be a pillow on an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar room.

Great. This was just great.

"What did I ever do to deserve this?" I muttered to myself putting my elbow in the air and running my hand through my hair and I gave an exasperated sigh.

That was when I saw the bandages, and my ripped shirt sleeve. Great, I was going to need another new one. The bandages were wrapped in a professional manner around my arms. The bandage was stained with a muddy mix of green and red. Well, mostly red now that I wasn't in my ghost form, so thus the ectoplasm in my system was at a minimum.

Just as I had started thinking about who or what had come to my rescue I heard footsteps in the doorway and the light shifting of weight with the rustling of clothes. The next thing I heard was the LAST thing that I would have EVER expected.

"So you're finally awake, eh Phantom?" I cringed at the use of my ghost form's last name, but over everything, what had startled me the most was the person who was speaking to me. I looked over and it just confirmed my suspicions.

Dash was standing in the doorway of the room I was in. I had by then assumed that by the looks of things the room I was in was probably one of the rooms in his house. I sighed, defeated. I let my arm fall back down to my side. "So with that question," I said, closing my eyes. "I guess that you saw?"

"Your hunch is right. Sorry." He said to me, making me just a little more than shocked, but I didn't say anything about it.

"Nothing to be sorry about, I was just being careless I guess." I said after a few moments of silence. "I'm going to take a stab in the dark about this, but I'm assuming that you are the one who brought me here and patched me up?"

"Yeah, you were hurt pretty badly, and I do have quite a bit of medical knowledge so I took it upon myself to fix up your rather large cuts." Dash said and leaned against the door frame. "You've done a pretty good job of keeping this big secret…I'm assuming that the first time you became Phantom was about three years ago right?"

"Pretty perceptive of you. Yeah, I did get these powers three years ago." I said in a light tone. I didn't know whether to be shocked that I was having a conversation about this with someone other than Tucker or Sam or that I should be shocked that I was having a civil conversation with Dash.

I tried sitting up again, which I managed this time without feeling like I was going to fall over effective immediately after standing up. I turned on the bed and swung my legs over the side, facing Dash.

"If you want I'll answer questions, but I am going to have to swear you into secrecy first, otherwise Sam might kill me the rest of the way." I said, and chuckled.

"Trust me, if I wanted to tell someone about this I would, and could have. But I didn't. The media was actually starting to show up by the time that I had gotten you out of the park as quickly as I could. I figured that there was a reason the whole 'secret identity' thing."

I sighed in relief and smiled up at the blonde from where I was. "Thanks Dash."

"Anyway…can I ask some questions about how this might have happened to you?" He asked and I nodded.

"Sure. You know that my parents are Ghost Hunters right?"

"Doesn't everybody?"

"True." I said. "Well, 3 years ago they had finished the ghost portal, one that leads into the Ghost Zone, it's kind of like a…parallel world to ours."

"Okay, and?"

"This story might be a long one, so you are going to want to find a place to sit…what time is it anyway?"

"It's about the end of fourth period at school right now. You were only out for about 2 hours.."

"Okay, thanks." I said, then thought about what kind of reaction Sam and Tucker would have to me telling Dash about our deepest secret. Well, since I destroyed the Reality Gauntlet, I couldn't really do anything about this now could I? I looked back up at him after staring at the ground for a moment.

"The ghost portal didn't work at first and Sam convinced me to go inside…."

I explained everything that had happened throughout the entire whole of my 3 years of half-life. From the beginning to the end, from the Box Ghost to Pariah Dark and also about Vlad Plasmius and…Danielle.

I told him that I was going looking for Dani later that day and asked if he would come with me and the others. I needed to tell them as soon as I could because they needed to know and I didn't need to become a full Ghost without ever going to my first college party.

"So…wow." Dash said, breaking the small silence that had happened between us. "I just don't know how my brain is processing this right now…"

"Oh believe me, I had a way harder time realizing that I had been electrocuted into half-death."

Dash chuckled. "Yeah, I would guess so huh."

I stood up. "I need to go back to the school to let Sam and Tuck know that I am still among the living...err…partially at least. Meet me at the Nasty Burger at 4 and then we'll go and get the others from their houses, hopefully they'll take this okay…"

"I have no doubt in my mind that we might find combat boots stuck in our ears later."

"Scary thought, but it will possibly happen." I said and flashed into my phantom form. Dash gaped.

"No matter what I see, that is probably going to be the coolest thing ever."

"I've seen some pretty cool things after this. You will too if you stick around."

"I just might do that." Dash said, and he flashed me a smile.

Man I was going to have to take some time to get used to this…well, what's done is done. I turned myself intangible, thanked Dash for bandaging me and keeping my secret and then launched myself into the air, flying through the ceiling of his house.

I turned and headed towards the school.