What's up:P...again, chapter corrected by Sophie :D

EDIT: Sorry, I forgot to add the line breaks :P, but the problem have been fixed ;) enjoy!

Alarmed

After having a long day of school, Danny had arrived home and started doing his homework.

Several hours have passed after that moment, and Danny had already completed his work. It didn't actually surprise him, because this past week, he had been able to complete almost all of his work, since not too many ghosts had appeared lately. Though he shouldn't have been surprised knowing that Vlad was in the city. No ghost was stupid enough to mess up with Vlad Plasmius.

Danny relaxed after putting away his hated math notebook, and he turned back to glance at the clock to see what hour it was already. The problem was that there was no clock.

He mentally smacked himself for not buying a new alarm clock already; he was getting tired of his sister waking him up, or even worse, being awakened by Tucker in the morning. And even though he hated when that beeping noise made him go back into the real world from his sweetest dreams, he surely had to stop destroying all of them, or he would shoot an ecto-ray at Jazz one of this days.

So the tired halfa got up from his bed, and took the Fenton Thermos. "Just in case...' he thought, and went down the stairs. He was going to leave the house when his mother noticed him, "Hey Danny, where are you going?" she questioned with curiosity.

"I'm going to buy an alarm clock," he said. And with that, he shut the door, leaving a confused Maddie behind.

Danny was one block away from the shop right now, and he was wondering why he didn't call Sam and Tucker to accompany him to the shop. But on a second thought, maybe he really wanted to be alone. Everything that had happened this week was very strange. It was Thursday already, and he hadn't figured out what was Vlad doing in Amity Park. It seemed that he was avoiding Danny since the beginning, and much more avoidance had happened since the fight. Well, there was something that could happen, and it was that Vlad might have been telling the truth… Or he might have been lying to him so Danny would get worried. Whatever the true reason was, he had to be stopped, because the fruitloop's plans weren't like the ones his other simple-minded ghost foes had. Vlad's plans, those were just genius.

The young halfa sighed just at the thought, and looked up to the sky so he could just relax. But it was interrupted when he saw a red line moving forward in the sky. This left him awestruck, and made him blink twice, but when he tried to locate the strange red sight, it wasn't there anymore. 'Wow, I think I'm becoming crazy,' he thought, and then noticed, after looking back down, that he was already in front of the shop.

The halfa went into the electronic place and started to look through all the shelves, looking for his clock. 'CDs, DVDs, keyboards, calculators, MP3s, Ipods… Where are the alarm clocks here? Hmm…More DVDs, computer hardware, finally! A clock!' Danny grabbed the clock with enthusiasm, and went to the cashier. He hadn't even made it halfway to the cash register when he noticed that his clock was moving on its own. Then the boy looked around and saw all of the electronics moving too. At that moment his ghost sense went off, and Danny only knew but one ghost who could control technology…Technus. He had already managed to get out of the ghost zone! That was fast timing for him! Danny had captured him last Monday before he had found Valerie and Vlad!

The halfa then looked around; everybody had run away at the mere moment the electronics started to move. He had been so focused on his own thoughts; he hadn't heard their screams. So making sure there were no tape recorders, or someone spying around, Danny cried, "I'm going ghost!" and became Danny Phantom.

The TV's that were in the front of the shop turned on, and Technus's face appeared on their screens. Laughing, the TV's flew out and into the sky. Danny phased through the roof and stared in awe, as all of the electronics became the ghost's body. The halfa then turned his gaze into an angry one, and waited for the right moment to attack, gathering some ecto-energy in his hands as he waited.

Then the ghost's blabbering began, "HELLO!! I'M TECHNUS, MASTER OF ALL ELECTRONICS-" He was cut off by another voice.

"Hey, Technus, I'm Danny Phantom, AND I'M GOING TO HIT YOU!" he said grinning. At that moment, Danny shot two ecto-rays, one on each hand, to the techno-ghost. The shots from his hands caused Technus to stumble back. And, because of the law of gravity, he fell down in the middle of the road. Danny was thankful that nobody was around when he fell, because it could have been deathly.

"Nobody messes with me, TECHNUS, master of all electronic and mechanical devices! So due to your insolence you shall-" He was cut off again by an annoyed teen.

"Hey Technus, master THIS!" And with that said, Danny sucked the ghost up into the Fenton Thermos. "Man that was easy, if he wants to win, he has to stop losing his time when he talks." Danny phased into the shop, and eyed the clock that he was going to buy before Technus had interrupted. The halfa took it and looked around for the cashier in a hurry. He found him. The cashier had red-colored hair, brown eyes, and seemed to be about nineteen or twenty. The guy was entering the shop again to look at the damage, which unfortunately was mostly done to the articles than to the shop itself.

Danny flew to him, and said "Hey umm… sorry for the damage, I just… wanted to buy this… how much is it?"

The teen was awestruck! A GHOST was talking to HIM, and it was not any ghost, but Phantom himself! He was in such a shock; he didn't ask himself what a ghost would want a clock for. "Umm… ahh... 10 b…buc…ck…ks…" he answered nervously, hardly finding his voice.

Danny shrugged and looked for his invisible left pocket in his jumpsuit. He took out the money and gave it to the teen. He mumbled simple thanks while flying upwards and through the ceiling. As he disappeared, he left an impressed teen that fainted from the shock.

He was standing in front of a glass, looking in at his great achievement. It was unbelievable that after months of work they had managed to do it! But it was time to go already; he needed a rest after this exhausting week.

Vlad sighed, and started to go out of the secret section of the company. Thanks to the information he had gathered from the Fenton's some hours ago, they had managed to finish the project. This was the first time that the millionaire was glad to stay with the Fenton's at their home.

He was walking through a metallic hall, when a beeping noise was heard. The halfa looked around, and then noticed that a red light was flashing on his clock. This caused the evil ghost to grin and walk faster toward the end.

Five minutes later, he was outside, and, after making sure no one was watching, Vlad turned into Plasmius and flew off into the sky.

'Very well, so the time has come. This is getting interesting, pretty interesting… Now where are you my dear?" he thought, and started to fly much faster, turning his invisibility on as he progressed. He saw a group of people gathered around a shop, whose merchandise was spread out all over the road. 'I guess Technus has been around lately, and if I'm not wrong, young Daniel must have captured him, since it seems that everything had been taken care of…or it could have been Ms. Grey. Where is she?'

That was when he saw a red light shooting in the sky. Vlad was really impressed at watching this scene, and tried to catch on with his prey, going faster and faster as he advanced in the right direction. He knew that he wasn't going to be able to catch up, but he wanted to see where it was going.

Then the red light stopped. Vlad gasped, and time seemed to stop.

He made himself visible again; as he knew that it was pointless to try to hide.

She noticed it and grinned. Gotcha!

He smirked at the sight, that she really thought it was going to be that easy. And then he vanished before her very eyes.

Danny phased through the wall and into his bedroom. Making sure that the door was shut tight; he morphed back into Fenton and jumped onto his bed. Even though the fight had been pretty easy, what left him exhausted was how Technus had managed to get out off the ghost zone so fast. Maybe he had talked with the Box Ghost before. And maybe the Box Ghost had told him his own secret, too. Danny was sure that the Box Ghost had a secret way to get into the human world to annoy him so fast!

The boy then realized he still had the clock in his hand, and went up to connect it and settle up the hour. In that moment his mom opened up the door of his bedroom to check up if Danny had cleaned his room. This caused the halfa to get alarmed. 'Stupid! Stupid! STUPID!!! I should remember to use the door next time!!!' He left what he was doing, and turned invisible just on time.

Maddie blinked once, then twice. She could have sworn that Danny had said he was going to buy a new clock, but there it was! She then eyed the room; his clothes were a bit disorganized, but it was okay for her. So the once again confused mother went out of the room, without noticing a certain invisible boy letting out a relaxed breath.

Danny mentally smacked himself as the door closed, and phased through the house, going into the nearest alley. The boy turned visible again, and went to his house, this time, entering by the DOOR!

"Hey, mom," he said somehow nervously.

"Hello, sweetheart," she said. She was going downstairs at the moment, after coming from the teenager's room. "Umm, Danny?"

"Yeah, mom?"

"Didn't you say you were going to buy a new clock?" she said with curiosity.

'SOMEBODY SHOOT ME!!! THE CLOCK!!!' Danny realized, alarmed. He nervously managed to say "Uh…nope?" he lied, trying not to sound too suspicious.

"But... How? Then… But you did say it!" she said, a bit freaked out, or in actuality, really freaked out!

"Mom, are you okay?" Danny asked innocently, pleased with himself. She actually fell for it!

"What? Oh, yes, sweetheart, I think I drank a little too much coffee this morning. I think I need rest." She then went up the stairs again, this time into her own room.

Vlad kept an eye on her for a while; she really was doing a great job with it. This made him even happier; everything was going as it had been planned. He waited for the best moment to appear in his human form. He wasn't completely sure if she had or hadn't noticed his presence yet, though Vlad was keeping a very considerable distance away from her.

The halfa then noticed that she was turning, and looking around again, and then, with what seemed like a sight, she flew to stand over a building. Perfect, just perfect, this was the best moment to show up.

Vlad flew behind the girl carefully and transformed back into his human self. Like this, he was undetectable.

"Oh, what do we have here?" he said, with a smile on his face. The sudden and unexpected voice made her jump up, and turned around in a fighting stance. It was then that she realized it was Vlad.

"Whoa don't you ever scare me like that again! By the way, what are you doing here?" she asked.

"Oh, my dear, I only wanted to look at you, but don't you misunderstand my intentions, I'm just proud on what you have become," he said, still smiling.

"Was that the only reason you were... stalking me?"

"Me? A stalker? No, I asked you not to misunderstand me, I just wanted to talk about... business."

"What business?" she asked. This was really getting weirder everyday that he appeared.

"I just wanted to help you…train you, my dear Valerie"

Is Valerie going to accept his offer? Was it planned that he was going to ask her that? To answer those questions: You are going to find out next chapter, and NO, it wasn't planned, these stupid fingers of mine are always screwing up the story!!

Oh well, I hope you enjoyed this filler in chapter (yes it was more like a fill in, and me trying to mess up with Danny and Maddie -there is a reason for this- XD)

HAVE AN AWSOME DAY!! And please review :D -does the sad puppy eyes-

-Bluename

Chapter posted: Monday, May 28, 2007.