QS: Danny and Alex have just left detention and are on their way over to defeat Ember! And…I think that just about sums it up, doesn't it?

A/N: we're still on Ember. *sigh* I am getting impatient to get to the more action packed parts so… yeah. Don't worry! We'll get there soon! Hopefully I don't completely stink at fight scenes… we shall see I guess.

CW: we do not own Danny Phantom nor his friends

Alex: but Frooty does own me! Woohoo!

VFR: alright, who gave him the Fenton Sugar High?

Chapter 11:

Danny and Alex were almost at the mall where the concert was at, but they were stopped when Danny's Fenton Phones exploded with sound.

"Danny! Get your butt over here! Tuckers lost it, we need you now!"

Alex regarded his brother in midair curiously, "What happened?" he had gotten rid of his pair of Fenton Phones long ago, figuring he could simply ask his brother, like he was doing now, if the two full humans needed to contact him. He thought they looked ridiculous on him, but the best part was that he hadn't had to try them on to know that. When Danny had brought them up to their room, he had already been wearing a pair, causing his twin to laugh at him. Ah, the benefits of having an identical twin…

"That was Sam. She's having a crisis with Tucker or something," Danny looked torn. He knew he had to get Ember, but he wanted to help Sam with her problem.

Alex picked up on his facial expression and waved a hand through the air, "Hey don't worry about it. I can take care of Ember. What's the worst she could do? Sing me to death? You see what Sam needs and meet me there later, ok?"

Danny gave him a grateful look. He tossed the thermos he carried into the air and zoomed off back to Casper High. Alex watched him disappear, only letting his over confident smile falter after he was gone.

He didn't know how he was supposed to beat the rock ghost, but he wasn't going to tell Danny that. At least he had ectoblasts, Alex had nothing more than his fists. But, being the stubborn mule he was, he was determined to beat this ghost on his own.

"Well, no use in delaying this," Alex sighed, and he raced off again to the booming sound coming from the mall.

-Line break peeps-

Danny phased through the ceiling to a very interesting sight. Somehow, Tucker had acquired a blue wig that made him look absolutely ridiculous! Well, more ridiculous than usual.

"Must…get…Ember…tics!" Tuckers eye twitched as he made slow steps to the door, Sam trying to drag him back the whole time.

"What happened? And what are you two doing here anyway? School ended an hour ago!" Danny asked confused

Sam rolled her eyes and jerked her head to her other friend, "Would you just be quiet and help me? We have to keep him away from Ember! It's doing something to his head. He actually left his PDA at school. Which is why we're here, by the way, I had to remind him where he left it"

Danny nodded; he picked up his friend and placed him on his hip, almost as a father would do to a young child (1) much to the "child's" chagrin.

"No! I have to go see Ember! Let me go, Danny! She's my soul mate!" Tucker was kicking and screaming, but since Danny only needed to carry him using one arm, and his hip, tuckers flying fists and feet pass harmlessly though the rest of him with a bit of his intangibility

"We're going to have to deprogram him," Danny said, the pun of deprogramming the techno-geek not lost on him.

Sam got a wicked gleam in her eye, "I know what we need to do, but…" she trailed off as something occurred her, "Hey, where's Alex?"

"He went to take care of Ember, why?" Danny asked, head cocked to the side like a confuzzled puppy.

Sam smacked her forehead in a face-palm, "Why would he go by himself? He can't go up against a ghost by himself!"

Danny was even more confused, "Why not? He's just as much a halfa as I am." He crossed his arms, a little defensive of his younger brother.

"Yes, but if Ember turns out to be more powerful than she seems, which I think she is, he doesn't even have ectoblasts to defend himself!"

Danny nodded, "Good point, but what are we going to do with the pop star's biggest fan here?" the techno geek had re to singing Ember's one song again, causing the two to wince.

"You deal with him, I'll help Alex," Sam said, already running out the door, calling out her plan over her shoulder about the subliminal message device thingy. She pulled out a wrist ray as she went, and made like the wind towards the mall.

"Hey, how come she gets to go?"

Danny ignored his male friend as he went to strap him down. He was struggling the entire time, so it wasn't going to be easy, "This is going to take a while…"

-Line break-

Alex was floating above the mall, jaw dropped at the sheer size of the crowd. Everyone under the age of 21 in Amity Park was gathered here to catch the falling tickets that would soon fill the air. To his dismay, he could see his sister among them, dancing and screaming a long with the rest. He had always thought of her as a strong willed, stubborn person, he never would have guessed she'd fall under Ember's spell like the rest.

He took a deep breath and turned intangible, preparing to barrel into the pop start and then suck her into the thermos. He was just about to go when he heard a familiar voice call above the concert.

"Alex!" he turned in the air, dropping his intangibility, to see is his gothic friend riding her electric scooter towards him.

"Sam? I thought you were at school with Danny and Tucker?"?" he floated down quickly, eager to catch the pop star.

Sam raised her arm with the wrist ray on it with a smile, "Just reinforcement, what's the plan?"

The halfa suppressed his relieved sight and simply smiled back, "Don't have one actually. Unless you count 'catch the ghost' as plans do you?"

Sam rolled her eyes, "See if you can get her to the room and ill blast her, how about that?"

Alex nodded, that was better than his plan by a long shot. And it didn't hurt his pride to be helped by Sam. She had proven herself to be quite resourceful with her wrist ray. A weapon she had happily snagged from the Fenton's large cash.

"Alright, I'll fly you up there and you get ready, ok?" Sam nodded. The ghost teen hurriedly picked her up by her waist and soared into the air, quickly depositing her where she would have a little cover if need be.

"Now hurry up, I don't want to be on this roof forever you know." Sam shoved the boy away playfully.

Alex smirked and back flipped through the ceiling of the mall. Ignoring Sam's cry of "show off," he scanned the area for the pop star herself. A large setup of multiple TV's shoed her singing that same song again, but as far as he could tell, Ember hadn't shown up yet. One more scan revealed her to have just poofed into existence on a balcony overlooking the writhing teens below. She threw her hands out, scattering a handful of tickets down, eliciting more manic cries and cheers than before.

Alex growled when he saw the citizens of his town reduced to snarling animals, all struggling for a piece of meat. Before it could escalate any further, Alex had finally had enough and he charged the ghost. He barreled right into her, dragging her up and out of the mall within seconds.

"Concerts over, time to go back to your garage where you came from,' Alex quipped (2)

Ember growled, "wellif it isn't thing 2, come to see me before it's too late?"

Alex frowned, trying to ignore the sting from the comment. He hated being thought of as second best, espeialy to his brother., "what do you mean?"

Ember grinned, ensing she hit a nerve, bt answering the question anyway, "just hwat I said, Baby Pop. Just wait till tonight, when my concert goes global. And whole world's chanting my name!" she strummed her guitar and a loud power chord sent the halfa screaming into a large billboard of Ember, knocking it over.

She couldn't o that before! He thought. She must have gained strength from the chanting crowd. Alex rolled his eyes and nearly face-palmed at his own stupidity. Duh! That's why she had said the thing about the concert! He had to stop it…

Alex flew forward, fists outstretched and eager to make contact with the female ghost. They hit, sending the full ghost backwards, screaming angry words. She recovered quickly and was about to blast her attacker, but ended up getting blasted herself by a sideways shot from Sam.

"Leave him alone!" the angry Goth aimed her wrist ray threateningly to the ghost.

Ember recovered, standing up from where she landed on the roof top. She growled in anger before realization dawned on her face, "Ah, teen love. They say it never lasts."

"What?" Alex and Sam yelled together before Alex was slammed out of the air and reverted to his human form beneath a leg of the poster. He came up dazed and confused, searching around him for the enemy.

"But nothing distracts teenagers more than hormones, and I need to keep you busy for the next eight hours."

"ha!" Alex taunted, trying and failing to create the white rings for his transformation. Instead of letting his panic consume him, he opted for witty banter instead. "What are you going to do? Your music doesn't even affect me!"

"yeah, it's a pity isn't it?" Ember's voice was full of false sympathy, "Fortunately, with all those kids down there chanting my name, I'm more powerful than I was before. Meaning, my music can affect you!" she looked down at her blue guitar and twisted the dial till it was facing a small pink heart. With an evil grin on her face and a mischievous, power-hungry light in her eyes, she strummed her guitar with one quick and powerful arm. Waves of pink ectoenergy emitted from the guitar and blasted the boy and girl.

Sam, being closer to the blast, received the hit full force and was thrown backwards and onto the head of the billboard, only staying aloft by the fragile balance the other half of the billboard provided. Alex, on the other hand, stayed stationary as the waves flowed in and around him, filling his mind with one thought that repeated itself over and over in his head.

SAM! He blinked his eyes at the intrusive thought and tried to fight the odd feeling that wasn't his own, but didn't last long. When he opened his eyes again, all he could do was look for that beautiful girl that was filling his mind with the bliss of pure love.

Sam raised an eyebrow in confusion. What was his deal?

"Well, I think I'll leave the new couple alone," Ember laughed maliciously and phased through the roof of the mall back to her screaming fans.

"what was she talking about?" she asked Alex, expecting a sarcastic remark, but only receiving half-lidded puppy eyes, "um, Alex, don't you think we should go after her?"

Alex ignored the melodious sound of the voice and simply followed it to where he knew his angel would be. "Wow, you're really pretty, you know that?"

"What? Alex, what are you doing! You're going to tip us both over the edge!"

"But I've already fallen. Fallen in love with you."

"Ok, now that's just corny. Quit playing around and fly us out of here!"

Alex ignored her again and just continued to walk forward, eager to be reunited with his love again. He couldn't remember the last time he had been close to her, and it hurt him to be so far.

"Alex? Wait, I know that look, that's the same look Danny gives Paulina." Horror flashed across her eyes as she realized what that blast from ember's guitar did. As she fell over the edge of the building, she couldn't help the rueful thought that passed through her mind: wrong Fenton…

A/N: 1) I'm not sure if I described this right, let me know?

2) I stink at witty banter, any help?

I'm sorry for the long wait, but it's here now right? *gets nailed by a tomato* I'm sorry! I'm writing, but it's taking me forever to type!

Anyway, I'm not sure about the use of the word 'rueful' but I think I got the right thought across, right? I appreciate everyone's thoughts, and I absolutely adore each and every comment, anonymous or otherwise

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