A gasp managed to escape Danny's lips before Technus acted. With a heinous cackle, the ghost sent a glowing net Danny's way. It wrapped around the halfa's limbs in his shocked state.

"I'll have my revenge!" His voice was like nails against a chalkboard and made Danny cringe. But then someone was screaming. Oh. It was him.

The net became electrified, threatening to make Danny revert to Fenton. But he managed to power through and pushed frost from his core. The icy tendrils snaked over the green ropes, britling them. In an expulsion of energy, they shattered, sending shards hurtling through the air. Everyone around ducked as the pieces rained down. Luckily, they missed hurting anyone.

Danny collapsed on his back for a moment, catching his breath. But then he remembered that, oh yeah, he was surrounded by enemies. How fun.

The teen launched to his feet in tandem with a bit of flight to make him look cooler. He smiled inside at how all the times when he was younger he tried to do that ninja thing where he'd be on his back and roll back then launch to his feet. That was a lot of headaches. But the teen saw that no one had noticed as his eyes surveyed the scene. His Mom and Dad had pulled out an ecto-rifle and bazooka respectively. But, of course, only one of them had managed to singe Technus. The dark green mark could be seen on Technus' black coat. He looked oddly like a pilgrim, in his 2.0 form.

"I WILL AVENGE MY TECHNOLOGY!" The tech-obsessed growled, his eyes narrowing. Avenge? What could he be- oh. Had he not been back to Amity since the time Danny ran into him when the power was out? Did he think they wouldn't be able to fix it?

"Oi! Tecchie!" Danny shouted. Three pairs of eyes swivelled back to him, and Danny was glad to see that none of them were yellow. Well, he'd forgotten that. Was his Dad overshadowed? He acted normal enough. He'd have to send a push blast at him later, to see if he was or not. The halfa didn't think any ghosts he knew would have the guts to overshadow one of his parents, a ghost hunter. Except for Vlad, but at least he had a home address where Danny could face him. But how had Danny missed his own Dad being overshadowed? Maybe it was because the ghost was so convincing. But he had to save those thoughts for later.

"GHOST CHILD! WHY ARE YOU HERE?" Ugh, if Technus didn't always yell his plans Danny would probably wear earplugs for their battles. The ghost's voice was just so grating. And Tecchie had just attacked him, why was he only now asking why he was there? He couldn't answer anyways, secret and all. It's not like he could yell; 'I live here, dipstick!' Oh no, he was stealing Ember's insults now. He really needed some new material.

"No dip, Sherlock. Just leave!" With that the halfa charged airborne headfirst, slamming his head into his adversary's gut and shoving him into the wall. Technus grunted and huffed, trying to regain his breath. Even if he didn't technically need to breathe. Who cared? But Danny gave him no chance as he grabbed Tecchie's booted foot and tossed him across the room. Technus screeched as he was sent flying. A shot from Danny's left hit Technus across the face. Now that was just uncalled for. And that only aggravated Tecchie further. He grumbled and pushed off against the opposite wall like an astronaut on a spaceship. And he was careening right for the halfa. Danny only chuckled and turned intangible, shifting to the side as much as could in case Technus turned intangible as well. But Danny didn't expect him to be that smart.

"C'mon Technus! Charging like that? That's a move that only a neanderthal without wifi would do!" Ignoring the fact that Danny had done the same a few moments ago. Nope, no mention. Danny would swear he heard something crack when Technus and the wall met. Danny returned to the tangible plain with a grin.

"Ack!" Danny exclaimed as he had to dodge fire from his left. A smoking barrel told him all he needed to know.

"I'm on your side!" The halfa exclaimed. By some miracle, his Mom changed her aim. But he doubted it would last long. Technus' expression turned even more downtrodden, and Danny knew his next move would be a hasty one. The odds were not in favour of the electrically-inclined ghost in the room. But the teen hadn't expected what would happen next.

Technus darted, hauling Danny's mom into the air, making her drop her weapon in shock.

"Maddie!" Jack yelled in genuine fright for his wife. Either the ghost overshadowing him was a really good impersonator, knew his Mom personally, or Danny had just seen incorrectly. After all, there was a lot of green light sources. But Danny just couldn't believe it.

"Drop her, Technus!" Danny was concerned, to say the least. His Mom sounded pained as Technus wrapped his limbs around her, using a chokehold. Even through her goggles, Danny could see she was uncomfortable. The huntress' arms scrabbled at the ghost's own. Oh, Technus was dead. The eldest Fenton looked at Danny -Phantom, to him- with a pleading look.

At that moment, Danny knew that this was his time to earn any trust he would ever get. His Dad knew he couldn't really help, what with his horrible aim, and his wife was in danger. A million words were exchanged in an instant.

How could he be overshadowed?

Danny formed a large blast in his palms and turned invisible. Technus looked around wildly and the teen halfa grinned. Danny let loose just as his Mom managed to kick Technus were the sun doesn't shine. The ghost doubled over and released his grasp. His Mom let out a short scream as she fell, but she was caught by her husband. She smiled lovingly up at him as she sat in his arms, bridal style. Danny hoped against all odds that they wouldn't kiss. It was nothing but awkward when parents kissed in front of their kids, or at least where the Fentons were concerned. But they didn't exactly know that one of their kids was in the room, did they?

With Technus keeled over Danny had no problem getting him into the Fenton Thermos. The basement turned eerily quiet after the ghost was dispensed. Danny's felt his limbs turn heavy as his adrenaline rush began to fade and he dropped to the floor. He slipped one of his gloves off and wiped the hair from his forehead. The glove gooped and melted into one of the drains in the ground, but Danny knew it would be back. Next time he transformed. One thing he had over Spiderman and all those comic superheroes, he didn't have to fix his own suit. Haha, Iron Man 0, Danny Phantom 1. Iron man was a stupid name anyways, almost as bad as Invisobill. Danny was so deep in his thoughts, and tired, that he almost reverted. But the sound of a powering up ectogun startled him.

The teen's Mom was standing over him, barrel aimed at his face. A bolt of fear curled itself around Danny's spine, dread settling like a stone in his stomach.

Thank you to all those reading! This is my longest going story and makes me wonder how people write entire books when I can barely bring myself to type up a thousand words for these. My friend is writing a book, and she got to 100,000 words! I've been working on this a bit on and off for about six months, and it's only at like a quarter of that. I dunno how she did it. Sorry if the style is kinda inconsistent, I'm still trying to get better for the thirty-odd of you reading this.

Anyways, thanks for the reviews and follows and likes and all! I'm glad that some of you actually enjoy this mess of a story, lol ^U^