Guys…
Holy flip.
I'm not even gonna say anything, I'm just gonna hand you the facts and let you piece it together.
Butch Hartman tweeted in response to this guy, who asked:
realhartman Is there any chance of Danny Phantom coming back? I am a huge fan and I know I speak for a lot of people! That show was epic!
BH said:
Funny you should ask that... :)
That same day, he asked his fans:
QUESTION: If I were to make a live action #DANNYPHANTOM movie, who would you want to be the villain?
Then, more recently, he tweeted:
#DannyPhantom PHANS! #TUFFPUPPY ratings translate to #nickelodeon making new eps of ALL my shows! Supporting one show supports all of them!
When asked about this by another phan…
realhartman are you saying dp can make a return?!
He said…
anything is possible!
Guys…
Danny Phantom is totally coming back. Because of the awesome news at the top of this story, I'm gonna save the bad news and the review responses for the bottom.
It's just so… Wow. I nearly hyperventilated after reading this.
Chapter 10:Attack
Right. Wait for something big to happen. Great plan, Jazz.
Danny rushed through the hallways of Casper High, pushing against the screaming crowd running from the sounds of explosions. Classmates gave him odd looks, wondering why he was running towards the disaster, but he just cursed himself, absolutely sure there was some detail he'd missed in the last 24 hours that would help him fight this ghost. More specifically, a detail from this morning. There was something missing, he was positive.
He ran the day's events through his head again. He'd woken up beside Danielle, who was still sleeping peacefully, when Jazz had come and practically banged the door down with her incessant knocking. Danny had gotten up reluctantly, grabbed breakfast and his unfinished homework, avoided the Booomerang, and left to walk with Sam and Tucker down surprisingly empty streets. Was that the thing? Empty streets? No, normally, ghost attacks filled the streets, not emptied them, however irrational. On the walk, he'd been trying to finish his homework, following directly behind Sam to use her back as a tabletop. His two friends, were on edge, and had been pointing out anything that moved, in case it was that halfa. Luckily, they had very little chance to freak out, and they made it to school without incident. Before class, Dash had handed him his daily locker smash, Paulina her ghost boy gush, and Lancer his disapproving glare. Nothing ghostly at all. Same thing applied to his English class. It was completely normal, being the usual lecture from Lancer, the regular "Do you think homework is a joke, Mr. Fenton?" and the expected "Man, I wish we could get out of this class" from Tucker. All of a sudden, loud bangs were rattling the desks, and people in the hall were screaming about ghosts. Taking the easy way out, the class had run into the halls to follow the screamers. Danny was trying to find a place to go ghost, but the crowds had been rough and unavoidable. Now, here he was.
He shook his head, and tried to dash for the janitor's closet. No luck. What had he missed? What was that little thing that should have triggered his suspicion?
Wait. What was it that Tucker had said in class?
"I wish we could get out of this class."
Wish.
Desiree.
Crap. With new rage, Danny forced himself into a boy's bathroom and transformed. Invisibly, he floated back into the hallway and continued making his way to the scene, phasing through the crowd this time. Soon, the group faded, and Danny became tangible and visible. He could her steadily blasting a wall, and her evil laugh, high up and in the distance, almost unrecognizable. He closed his eyes and focused on pinpointing her position. It was right… about… THERE!
Without missing a beat, Danny whirled to face the hole in the wall, and just completely Wailed her out, giving her a heck of a surprise, he was sure. When he heard feminine screams descending to the school yard, he flew out and called his friend's names. He really needed to carry a Fenton Thermos more often.
"Sam! Tucker!" Danny cried, his echoing voice spreading across the block. Then Valerie popped into his head, and he realized that she probably had some kind of ghost catching tech, "Valerie!"
As he called, he heard Desiree groan and rise, "Augh, why do children have to be so stupid!"
Danny laughed at her frustration, but his happiness was short lived when he spotted the dark-skinned girl lying among the rubble, blood appearing from a cut on her cheek. In seconds, he was there, checking for a pulse and making sure she was breathing.
"Val! Wake up! C'mon, I need your help! Val!" Danny cried. Confusion seemed to cross her face, and he held onto that like a lifeline, gripping her shoulders and shaking her like a rag doll. Annoyance flitted across her features. Danny sighed, realizing he wasn't getting anywhere, and, knowing how much crap she was going to give him for it, slapped Valerie across the face.
Instantly, she sat up and took in the destruction, her jaw slowly dropping more and more as the chaos became worse. It really was bad. An entire corner of the building had just kind of… slid off, and practically all the windows were either cracked or smashed open. The whole place was smoking, and the wall of one hallway had been torn away to reveal a row of lockers. Burned across these was the single word "HALFA", and unfortunately, Danny noticed both him and Valerie had suffered from the vandalism. Oh well. Not the most important thing right now.
Valerie began to stutter, "W-what's going on?"
Danny offered her a hand up, and she took it, "I'm not really sure. But the gist of it is that Tucker wished for a way out of class, and voila! Desiree handed it to him. I managed to give her a Ghostly Wail before things got worse, but she's already warming up, and I haven't got a thermos. I would really, really would like your help with this. So, you want to come kick ghost butt? That's, um, not mine?"
Valerie watched Desiree rise higher and aim at the school, "You kidding? I'm already there!"
With a kick, her upgraded suit appeared over her clothes and her board folded out underneath her feet, and she flew up to meet the ghost. Danny smiled at her confidence and joined her.
"Hey jerk-face!" Valerie called, pulling out an ecto-bazooka, "You ready to get your ectoplasm smeared into the ground?"
"You?" Desiree appeared surprised and laughed, "Child, you couldn't touch me in half my life. And my life is infinite."
"That's pretty big talk from someone who's dead!" Valerie insulted, firing three shots.
Desiree swerved, only to be blasted in the back by a green ecto-ray, "Even bigger talk coming from the green fairy that grants magical wishes!" Danny flew circles around her occasionally tossing in a shot.
"I. AM. NOT. A. FAIRY!" Desiree shrieked, blasting Danny away. He recovered in time to float beside Valerie.
He gave her a look, "Remember that time when Ember was attacking, and you went after me instead?"
Valerie smirked, "To the hour of incidence."
"Then let's do it!" Danny dove down to circle underneath Desiree, and Valerie zipped overtop. Together, they orbited Desiree, changing their angles constantly. The ghost couldn't track either of them well enough to fire a shot, and was caught completely unaware when an ecto-gun shot hit her side, and as she whirled to face the same direction, an ecto-blast hit her arm. Soon, shots were flying at the wishing ghost from all directions, and with a call of "Faster!" both ghosthunters sped up, flying like they'd gulped down six cups of coffee before the fight. It wasn't long before Desiree simply passed out from exhaustion and fell to the ground. With a high five, the two ended their dramatic display and floated down to Desiree, where Valerie cuffed her.
"Whoah, guys, that was like, the coolest thing I've ever seen!" Danielle crowed, floating in to land beside them.
"Ya think so, huh?" Danny ruffled her white hair, "You've probably done some pretty cool things yourself, while you were on the road."
"Nuh-uh. Nothing as totally butt-kicking awesome as that!" Dani ran up and gave him a hug.
He seemed surprised for a second, then welcomed it, "Well, what do you expect from the two greatest ghostnuters this town has ever seen? It's goot to be… what did say? Butt-kicking awesome!"
The girls chuckled, but Valerie was suddenly reminded of who she was with, and her laughter faded. Danny noticed this, and took it as a chance to become serious.
"What knocked you out back there?" he questioned, referring to how he'd found her.
She looked thoughtful for a second, and then answered, "I think I'd gotten to her early, and she'd taken me down with a power surge. I was in some kind of weird state where I could hear everything and it translated into my dreams. I heard you Wail, and I heard her screaming as she went down. It was strange, though. She called herself 'Captrix'."
Danny nodded, "Yeah, well, I'm not the first to meet her. She's an ancient ghost, probably has a whole wackload of names from different places. That certainly could have been one of them."
"I don't know," Valerie shifted uncomfortably, "I was wondering… do all halfas have to start out human?"
"Well I didn't," Danielle pulled away from her look-alike, "I started out as a halfa , right from the get-go."
Valerie shook her head and waved her hands like she was clearing the slate, "No no no, I mean, what if they started out as a ghost, and became half human?"
Danny appeared thoughtful, "Y'know, I never really thought of that. But half dying is easy, whereas coming back to life, even halfway, is impossible."
She punched him in the shoulder, "Technically, you're impossible."
Danny laughed, "I guess that means anything is possible."
Over by the school, Sam suddenly barrelled out of the school, thermos held aloft, "DANNY! YOU'RE GONNA NEED a thermos…" she stopped short when she saw the trio. They couldn't hear her yet, and just went on grinning and laughing like an age-old family. Like darn, flipping family. Danny. In a family. All of a sudden, Sam had her whole world turned upside down.
Suddenly, Sam hated Valerie with a passion.
DP
Aw! Sam's jealous!
Ok, like I promised, bad news first.
Apparently, and this may only affect U.S. internet goers, SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, is back, and if it gets passed, there may be some big, bad changes to how we use the internet. And Fanfiction? That will probably be one of the things that changes the most. So yeah, if you hate it, let people know.
Second, review responses.
Inviso-Al: She explained it pretty well. As for what happens next, I'm thinking no school for a while, and for some more exploration of ghost-first-halfas.
kingpariah: Great guesses, all of them, but according to the story, it doesn't look like it. Sorry.
~Rainosa