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Nine: My Name?

Sneaking out of their room that night was no problem, avoiding the patrolling staff was no problem, finding the abandoned elevator shaft was no problem. The problem came when they actually reached the thing. Together, they'd managed to pry the doors open but what lay before them seemed to be an continuous expanse of dark tunnel going straight up and down forever, cables swaying in a draft. ZeE shivered.

"I dunno if I wanna do this anymore, Danny," He whispered, leaning out over the edge a little bit, "It looks like a long way down…"

"Do you want to get poked full of needles and electrocuted and who knows what else?" Danny snapped back in a harsh murmur, "I sure as heck don't…! Come on!" He stepped back a bit, ran forward, and jumped with outstretched hands, grabbing at the thick cables. He caught them, paused to catch his breath and slow his heartbeat, and looked back at ZeE whose face was pale, "Let's go, we don't have all night! Hurry, before someone shows up! Jump!"

ZeE nodded to himself, moved away from the elevator shaft, ran forward, leapt and caught the cable beside Danny. He grinned in relief and Danny nodded, motioning that they should start climbing. ZeE started pulling himself up, his laptop slung across his back, and the black haired boy followed suit. Creaks and groans accompanied their journey upward, the cables swung with their movements, and their hands and legs soon became sore and calloused.

"How much farther do you think?" Danny asked, pausing a moment to wipe some sweat from his forehead, "It feels like we've been doing this forever!"

ZeE was about to answer when there was a horrible tearing sound and the cable the hacker clung to snapped, whipping about in the air before beginning to fall, taking ZeE right along with it! The orange haired boy screamed and started clawing at the air and, quick as a flash, Danny grabbed one of ZeE's grasping hands. The two hung there for a moment or two, panting, eyes wide, Danny clinging to his cable with one hand and his legs wrapped around it and the fingers of his other hand holding tightly onto ZeE.

"Are you okay?" Danny rasped and ZeE nodded in response, shocked into silence, and Danny pulled him back onto another cable, giving him a weary smile, "It can't be that much farther, right? Let's get out of this stink hole…!"

After what seemed like hours, they made it to the top of the shaft. They had no problem with the doors; the things were smashed open and looked like something had left some serious claw marks on it. But it didn't matter. They were free. Danny helped pulled ZeE out of the elevator and they both stood, looking through the holes in the warehouse roof at the stars sparkling in the black sky. Danny took a deep breath, relishing in the sweet, fresh, outdoor air. ZeE tugged his arm.

"We should get going. You lead, I don't know where Amity Park is."

"I don't know where we're at." Danny stepped carefully out through the rusted door and out into the night, looking around, "Lucky us, looks like we're near the dump. That's about two hours away from the outskirts of Amity Park. If we run, we can make it at least by mid-morning."

"Then why're we standing here talking about it!? Let's go, man, go!"

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Saturdays were the bane of Sam's existence. They were torturously slow and each moment seemed to be filled with emptiness. She had used to love Saturdays; they meant getting away from her parents and hanging out with Tucker and Danny. She winced. It hurt to think about him.

A clatter against her window snapped her out of her dreary thoughts and she turned her head slowly to look at it. The curtains were drawn against the morning sunlight but she figured it was Tucker, trying to get her to come out. Agonizingly slow, she sat up off her bed and made her way slowly, in a sort of dead haze, to the window, pushing back the curtains and opening the glass.

"Tucker, I've said it a million times, I'm not-."

"Sam!"

The Goth almost had a heart attack right then and there, her breath catching, her heart rate speeding up, her eyes widening. She was delusional. She had gone insane. Or she was dreaming. Or something. It was something other than what she was seeing here!

"D-Danny!?" She choked out his name and it tasted so sweet, "Danny! Danny! Danny!"

"Shhhhh!" He hissed, waving his hands, glancing around, "I don't want the whole town to know I'm here yet! Hey, can you toss me down a rope or something?"

"Yeah, yeah, hold on…!" She was reluctant to leave the window, like if she looked away then he was going to disappear again and she'd realize it had been nothing but a vision. She secured the rope of bed sheets and tossed it out the window. Danny scrambled up it quickly and fell into her room. A moment later another boy fell on top of him and they rolled away from the window to allow Sam to pull the rope back in, close the window, and shut the curtains.

"Sam, this is ZeE, he was kidnapped too." Both boys were unbelievably scruffy and there were several scratches and bits of dirt smeared over them, "Sorry about the mess, we've been running cross country and back alleys all day."

"Danny!" Sam wrapped her arms around him and squeezed until she lost feeling in her arms, tears sparkling in her eyes, "Do you know how much we've missed you!? Oh my gosh, I can't believe you're real!" She stepped back and looked him up and down, "Go ghost."

"What?" Danny stopped what he was doing, which was making sure his spine was still intact, "What're you talking about? Go ghost? I…I don't think I want to do that again…"

"Man," The one called ZeE was still on the floor, looking exhausted, "I wouldn't want to do that again either." He rubbed his face in his hands, "That was scary."

"What was scary? Danny, you have to tell me what's going on? Why don't you want to go ghost?"

"'Cause…'cause last time I turned into my Yokai Ghost form…I almost…got stuck like that…" His brilliant blue eyes shone with fear, something Sam had rarely seen, "And if it wasn't for you and Tucker-Tucker!" A light come on, "Where's Tucker?!"

"Probably at his house…" Sam said warily, "Should I call him?"

"Yeah, yeah!" Danny looked excited about something and he turned to ZeE, "ZeE, man, I'm remembering stuff! I can remember Sam and Tucker and school and Dash and…!" He kept going, rambling off names and places though he didn't seem to be able to put things together quite right; he could only recall names but put no pictures to the names, only feelings.

Realization hit Sam. He couldn't remember his ghost powers. He couldn't remember that he was the town's hero. He couldn't remember that he was Danny Phantom.

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"OUCH!" Danny yelped and jerked away from Tucker who almost dropped his precious PDA at the sudden movement, "That hurt!"

"Sorry!" Tucker responded in an annoyed sort of voice, "But, dude, if you want these things off you gotta let me mess with them!"

"Ow!" Danny twitched again as the bracelets on his wrists sent a spark through him, "Why can't you do it ZeE?"

"Because," The hacker spoke through the mouthful of food that came from the numerous amount Sam had managed to sneak upstairs, "I hack websites and computer files. Not scary, advanced technology wristband stuff."

"Hey, hey, hold still!" Tucker cried, typing faster on his PDA, "I think I got it! Sam, come here!" The Goth leaned over her friend's shoulder, looking confused.

"All I see is numbers and stuff."

"Ahhhhh…just a little bit more…there!" Tucker looked up expectantly and whooped aloud as the bracelets clicked open and fell off Danny's wrists, "Oh yeah!"

"I don't even know why I had them on." Danny confessed, rubbing his wrists, "I mean, there's something that tells me it was important but I can't remember what it was."

"Danny it was your ghost powers." Sam's eyes locked with is blue ones, "You have to remember!" She grabbed his hands unexpectedly, "Come on, Danny, think! What've we been doing for almost two years, huh!? What've we been fighting off!? What is that makes you so special!?"

"I…I…I…"

"Then why're you still holding my hands?"

"Gah!" Danny's eye widened, "Ember!"

"She had good music." ZeE commented.

"Shut it!" Sam and Tucker snapped at him and he quailed under their angry gazes.

"I…I can't…she did something…" Danny yanked his hands from Sam's grasp and fell back onto her bed, burying his face in them, trying to remember, "Errrhhhggg…!"

"Beware!"

"That's against the rules, punk…!"

"We're not lovebirds!"

"Have you lost your half or our mind!?"

"Don't scare me like that!"

"Hey Fen-turd!"

"Aw, young love, they say it never lasts…!"

"You don't know the half of it."

"Fight it Danny!"

"This is so wrong!"

"Danny!"

"I'm…"

"Goin' ghost!" The familiar blaze of cold white light, the familiar feeling of freedom, the familiar weightlessness. Glowing green eyes flashed and a grin split his face, "Danny Phantom…is back!"

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All those lines…um…they were just ones that popped into my head. I haven't watched DP in a while and so my memory of good lines to use was a little vague. I was planning on using some from Ultimate Enemy until I realized that this was set before that so it totally screwed over any cool lines I planned on using. Darn…!

So, Danny's got all his memory back! Now what's he gonna do? I dunno. See you in the next chapter and thanks for reading! Bye!