I'm sorry for the late update... An elderly relative of mine died recently, and although I didn't know her very well and she was well into her eighties, I still didn't particularly feel like writing. Normal updates begin again next tuesday, sorry for not being very reliable these past few chapters.
I don't own Danny Phantom.
The trap was set. Maddie hid herself carefully, one full Fenton Thermos in her hands.
It was a long and agonising wait, but shortly after midday, she finally saw what she had been looking for. In the distance she could see an unmistakable flying silhouette- Danny Phantom had arrived.
She took a deep breath, and aimed the thermos carefully. Then she pushed a small green button on the side, releasing the occupants from their prison and allowing all hell to break loose.
Danny was about to fly back to the Wallis's home when a rush of icy blue mist poured from his mouth. He heaved a sigh, and scanned the horizon for the otherworldly menace.
Once he spotted it, it was all he could do not to groan in annoyance. Hovering above the park, cackling manically, was Technus, and beside him, Skulker. Danny resisted the urge to go and bash his head against something and flew towards the disturbance, preparing an ectoblast in his right hand.
"Hey! You guys weren't thinking of starting without me, were you?" he yelled, causing both ghosts to turn in surprise.
"You will not stop me this time, ghost child for I am-"
"-Technus, ghostly master of egomania, yes, I know. And Skulker, the worst hunter in the ghost zone."
He fired the prepared blast straight at Technus's stomach, sending the ghost tumbling backwards through the air, and then dashed towards Skulker with another ectoblast blazing in his hands. The hunter blocked quickly, but couldn't quick save himself from the kick Danny aimed at his abdomen, temporarily throwing him off-course. While he was confused, Danny fired yet another ectoblast- only to be hit in the back of the head by a floating radio.
"Ha! You stand no chance, Ghost Child! Fall before the wrath of Technus!" the voice came from the center of a whirling mass of floating technology.
"Or not!" Danny yelled, firing an ectoblast at the ghost's head before he could fuse the machines together into Technus Version whatever-they-were-up-to-now-point-oh. He took the ghost's momentary disorientation as an opportunity to grab his Fenton Thermos and suck the ghost into it.
"Now to deal with Skulker..." he turned to face the hunter just in time to duck a glowing orange blast from one of the hunter's many guns. "Whoa!"
"I will have your head, ghost boy!"
"Don't you get tired of saying that?" Danny asked, firing a quick blast at the ghost's helmet and successfully knocking it off, leaving Skulker's froglike form undefended. "You know, you really aren't all that threatening once you know what's under the suit." he grinned, once more taking out the thermos. "Bye-bye!"
Skulker howled with rage as he was pulled into the vortex and Danny capped the thermos with a self-satisfied grin. "There, now I can..."
He was cut off, however, by a very familiar sound. He turned around just in time to see a grim-faced Maddie Fenton stood before him, a Fenton thermos in hand, aimed directly at him.
"Sorry, Danny Phantom." she said, and Danny was sucked into the thermos.
PS: I hate fight scenes.
