Disclaimer: I do not own 'Danny Phantom' or any of the characters, concepts etc. Those are owned by Butch Hartman/Nickelodeon, I believe. I make no claim to anything in this story, it is a perspective with hypothetical scenarios added in.

[AN: So yeah... the two week wait kinda happened again... sorry about that; it's honestly not intentional, just not always avoidable.

To make up for my lack of updates, I would strongly recommend checking out two other stories that have degrees of similarity to this one;

The first is 'Drips and Drabbles' by MsFrizzle, a collection of short pieces that range from humorous to serious and often cover some complex topics quite well.

The second is 'DANNY PHANTOM Owner's Manual' by Nobody Famous, a hilarious summary of the character interactions and plots of much of the series.

Both can be found in my favourites list if you want to check them out.

But enough about my own inability to update my stories in a timely fashion, here's the next featuring Mr Lancer.

As I'm pretty sure his first name is never given, I have used Edward. I'm not sure if I had heard him called that somewhere (read: in another fic) before or not, but it seemed to fit better than any other name I could think of, so I've decided to use it here. If another author did originally come up with the name and takes offence at me using it, then please let me know and I will change it immediately; I mean no disrespect with my choice./AN]

Edward Lancer: Ally, Vice Principle of Casper High School and the representative of the Amity Park Schools for the Town Council. He is widely respected in the community for his teaching proficiency and enthusiasm for learning.

Despite the often low opinion of him carried by his students in the younger years, Edward Lancer is in fact highly regarded by most people in Amity Park. He represents the School Boards of Casper High, Casper Junior and Amity Elementary and he has done much to support and encourage education within Amity Park for years. As such, he was the obvious choice to approach when Danny wanted to ensure the continued safety of the schools after he graduated.

In his Senior Year, Danny realised that, upon graduating, he would no longer be present at school and therefore in a position to defend it when a ghost attacked. While it was true that a number of attacks at Casper High were a response to his presence there, the majority were simply because it had one of the highest concentrations of people in the smallest area, and with little in the way of defences because, of course, none of the schools had decided to invest any of their rather slim budgets into robust defensive systems since Phantom always showed up within seconds of the other ghost in order to fight it off.

A good solution proved elusive, and Danny went so far as to propose that he intentionally fail so that they could have another year to work out a viable plan. Of course, none of his friends or family would have let him do such a thing and talked him out of it pretty quickly. In the end, days of discussion resulted in a plan that would involve Team Phantom dedicating a substantial amount of man-power and resources to protecting the schools, but such a system would require the approval of the School Board.

Enter one Edward Lancer, Vice Principle.

The original plan had been to get Maddie or jazz to approach him with their plan, on the pre-text that they may not always be able to rely on Phantom to protect them. Jazz and Maddie were chosen as the other members of the Team were either his students or ghosts and either would have caused obvious problems. But while he accepted the rationale of better protecting the schools from Ghost attacks, he needed a better reason than the possibility that Phantom might suddenly stop doing what he had been doing for years up to this point.

The situation deteriorated when Maddie accidentally let it slip that Phantom himself had told them that he might not be able to protect the Schools anymore. At that point, Lancer naturally insisted on speaking to Phantom himself about the situation and Danny being Danny, agreed.

The problem was that Danny simply could not provide a viable excuse as to why the Town's Hero would suddenly be less able to respond to threats at the School after the current year graduated. After trying futilely to convince him for over two hours, Danny eventually conceded and revealed his dual identity.

And by revealed I mean he transformed right in front of his rather shocked teacher.

Upon processing this rather abrupt turn of events, Mr Lancer immediately grasped the seriousness of the situation and so overnight became a very strong proponent for better spectral security in and around the Schools.

The plan was approved within a month and preliminary work started two weeks after that, with eth Fenton's donating a substantial amount of equipment as well as some from the local manager of Axiom Labs.

Edward Lancer was also introduced to the rest of Team Phantom shortly after Danny's revelation. To say the least, he was shocked to find three more of his students spending much of their time engaging in regular combat against the spectral entities that often entered the town. Of course, this explained the downright strange behaviour of the students in question over the past couple of years.

As the project progressed, he became the unofficial liaison between the schools and Phantom and his allies (the majority of the human Team Members hide their identities so as not to draw unwanted attention to themselves or Danny), and even after the program had been implemented, he continued to act as the liaison between the community and Team Phantom, often representing them in Town Council meetings or presenting Danny's recommendations for better defences and protocols for dealing with Ghost Attacks.

There was one other, less obvious, thing he did however. He also ensured, through entirely legal means, that the school-aged members of Team Phantom passed their Senior Year with marks deserved of their abilities and without the baggage of their often numerous detentions and absences caused by their 'other commitments'. Specifically, Danny went from barely above a passing grade to a solid A average across most of his classes, with A+'s in Physics and Advanced Mathematics, as he devised a system that would allow Danny to prove he had sufficiently learned the Course Material, without being restricted by deadlines that he was rarely able to meet.

On the whole, Edward Lancer has been an invaluable ally for the Team when dealing with the inhabitants of Amity Park and he has done much to ensure that the Town as a whole is safer than it was when the attacks first started.

[AN: And there's Lancer.

I have no plans for an offshoot story about this, but if people are interested I will do it.

In other news, 'The Events That Shape Us' is nearing completion, so I should hopefully have the next chapter of this story up much sooner. The final ally chapter will have to wait until such a time as 'TETSU' is finished however as it's subject is the main focus of my last spin-off fic.

And for those who enjoyed the more technical chapters at the beginning of this story, I'm working on a separate piece dedicated to Danielle's unique situation that will continue in much the same vein, so keep an eye out for it.

Thanks again for reading and I hope you have enjoyed it so far. /AN]