Chapter 37

"Peter, where's Danny?" Maddie asked as Peter arrived.

"He was giving a little girl some time with her hero last I heard," Peter said taking out a few folders. Maddie looked up at him.

"He was doing what?" Maddie said concerned.

"He was giving a little her dream to meet her hero," Peter said confused. "It's June's niece."

"When will he be home?" Maddie asked.

"I don't know, according to June he was going to take her up to the Empire State Building and have dinner," Peter said smiling. "I bet that girl's smile was so big when she seen Danny."

"She thought of him as a hero," Maddie whispered smiling. "A lot of people back in Amity believed him to be one. I never thought that because I was only thinking that he was just a ghost. I feel bad, but if I let him know that he will most likely yell at me for blaming myself."

"That sounds like Danny," Peter said smiling as he took all the papers and started sorting them.

"I'm sure that girl is tickled," Maddie said looking over the files. "Are these the files on Masters?"

"Yeah," Peter said. "He is working with a guy named Adler. Eight years ago, Adler pulled off a Ponzi scheme and had stolen billions of dollars from the investors of his company."

"Wow," Maddie said looking at the photos. "Did you guys ever find him?"

"No, he disappeared off the face of the earth," Peter said. "That is until a certain Millionaire cut a deal with him to get Danny and Neal."

"Vlad is working with him?" Maddie asked amazed that he was able to do that.

"We have a plan to take them both down," Peter said smiling. Maddie looked up and smiled as well glad that they had a plan to take these guys down.

DANNY

"That was the best night of my life," Samantha said smiling up at Danny. "Thanks, Danny Phantom."

"You can just call me Danny," Danny said kneeling down to look into her eyes. She stared at his neon green ones with pride. "Here, this will protect you and keep you safe no matter what happens," Danny whispered handing her a small necklace. It had a small ice crystal in the center of his DP symbol. It was very small but glowed when he put in her hand. "If you are ever in need of me just hold this and ask. I will come as soon as I can."

"Really?" Samantha asked looking at the small necklace. "But I don't think I need it."

"Everyone sometimes needs someone to be there if no one else can come," Danny said smiling. "I can be yours, trust me, as things are going it will be a while before I can fix everything."

"I won't misuse it. I promise, Danny," Samantha said smiling and hugging him. "You will always be my hero."

"Keep your promises," Danny said smiling. "I have always kept mine no matter the consequences they may cause me."

"That's good," June said walking out onto the balcony where Danny had taken Samantha. "Keeping your word is the sign and loyal heart." Danny blushed and Samantha ran to give her aunt a hug.

"This was the best surprise ever, June," Samantha said smiling. "Thank you so much." June smiled and nodded.

"I better get home before my mom freaks out," Danny said smiling. Samantha looked at him and smiled.

"Be careful, Danny," she said grinning from ear to ear.

"I will," Danny said then taking off as fast as he could go and then dipping and diving up and down of the building.

"He really is a true hero," Samantha said smiling and holding the necklace he had given her. Later on that night the greenish crystal turned blue and she wondered of that was because of something Phantom, no Danny, was doing as she went to sleep feeling protected and safe.

"Danny," Jazz said glaring at her little brother.

"Whatever it was I didn't do it," Danny said hoping to stay out of trouble.

"You're right you didn't do anything," Jazz said still glaring. Danny caught on to what she was saying.

"I don't know what you are talking about, Jazz," Danny said trying to get into the living room. Jazz was blocking his way so he couldn't get anywhere.

"You mean you weren't the one who didn't apparently eat their dinner," Jazz said holding out the picnic basket from earlier with his night with June's niece. Danny stared wide eyed at it.

"Why do you have to know everything," Danny growled grabbing the basket and throwing back into the kitchen. Jazz looked angry.

"Danny, we all care about you, you can't just eat something little, do you even know how underweight you are? It could hurt you," Jazz yelled at him hoping for something.

"Jazz, I'm fine. I get it that you guys are worried, but seriously I had a bad night," Danny said glaring at his sister. "Just let me go."

"Not until you finished your meal," Jazz said still standing in the doorway with a Specter-Defector on. Danny looked at it and realized that it wasn't the one dad had fixed and it was going to shock him if he got too close.

"Jazz, I'm not feeling all that great, and if I eat that then I might get sick," Danny said glaring at the belt. "I really don't think that will help anything."

"Danny," Jazz said calmly. "Please, you really can't miss a meal."

"I ate some and it didn't really agree, so please just drop it," Danny said looking down. "I feel bad enough not eating it all, so please just let me go." Jazz looked at his defeated face. She felt horrible that he felt like that and that he knew it wasn't good, but he just couldn't do it without getting sick.

"Fine, but when you feel better you are eating a full meal and then something extra," Jazz said looking down at Danny waiting for a small cheer. It never came instead Danny walked by her and laid on the couch. Jazz watched as he fell into an uncomfortable sleep. "I hope that you don't have that torment again so soon, but I have a feeling that in the morning everything is going to come collapsing down." Jazz whispered turning off the lights.

MADDIE

"This is amazing," Maddie whispered looking though the files that she had gotten from Danny's bag. She opened up the one given to him by Peter. It had the FBI form for training and requirements for the position. "Peter wants Danny to join the FBI," she whispered looking over the paper.

"Maddie?" Peter asked entering the room. "What's wrong?"

"You want Danny to join the FBI. Don't you think he's a little young?" Maddie said glaring at Peter. He looked at the paper in her hand and smiled.

"I thought that when he was older, he could use a chance to get a good job. He was telling us how his grades weren't the best. I figured that maybe giving him something to work for would help. I know that the grades aren't the best because of protecting Amity, but I might have pulled a few strings to get him in," Peter said smiling. "He can use it whenever he needs." Maddie looked at him and smiled.

"Thank you so much," Maddie said tears running down her face. "This is so nice. You didn't have to."

"That kid is doing more than what is asked of him," Peter said smiling. "He doesn't have to do what he is doing now. He deserves some giving back. He has most likely saved the world so many times, that we don't even realize what he has done," Peter said smiling. "He deserves the chance." Maddie nodded and put the file back in his bag. She looked curiously at the bag.

"It's organized. Danny has never been organized," Maddie said smiling. "He is learning, even when not in school. Wait, have you guys been getting him to school sense he came here?"

"Yes, we have," Peter said smiling. "He has gotten enough credits to make up for when he was gone."

"Good," Maddie said smiling. "At least he is still doing school work."

"I figured it was a great idea," Peter said smiling. "And he was really interested in school. He said something about bullies in hi school too."

"Yeah there was one guy that always picked on him," Maddie said sadly. "Are we bad parents for not doing anything about it?"

"Normally that's something the school should be watching for," Peter said. "I can get the school in trouble for that."

"Good, because I don't think that they are going to do much about it unless we really get on them and me and Jack can't go over there without getting Danny in trouble with the teachers," Maddie said sadly. "Jack has made Danny get so much extra homework."

"That shouldn't be a punishment," Peter said. "If Danny didn't do it, then he doesn't need to be punished. Whatever teacher there does that I'm going to ruin them."

"Thanks for watching out for him," Maddie said smiling. "You don't have to."

"Danny deserves to not have to worry about school while keeping everyone safe," Peter said sitting down to go over the case. "Even though no one knows his secret, they shouldn't pick the football players over the other kids in the school. They are the ones that aren't going to run this country. They are the ones that may provide entertainment, but the students like Danny are the ones that are most likely to go on to bigger and better things."

"Yeah, I was always on Danny about his grades. They had dropped near the beginning of freshman year," Maddie said smiling. "Now I know why." Peter smiled sorting though the files once again.

"According to our intel on Alder, he had meet Masters in Amity," Peter explained looking though the files. "Then we were flagged on a flight he took back here. It was a private jet from the DALV group. According to Danny, that is a face for Masters."

"DALV is Vlad spelled backwards," Maddie deadpanned. "I can't believe we missed that." Peter shook his head.

"Bad guys are so predictable," Peter said smiling. "Anyway they will arrive in New York tomorrow somewhere in the morning hours. I couldn't get the times from the company once they shut us off. But that's all I know. Diana will be staking out the Hudson Air Strip since that is the only place where private jets are allowed to land."

"Is that where we plan on taking them down?" Maddie asked looking over the paper.

"No, we have to find out where the U-boat is before Adler finds it. If he hasn't already considering the sources Masters has," peter said frowning. "Alder killed Kate and I'm afraid Neal is going to do something really stupid."

"Danny won't let him do anything really stupid. Danny's not really the violent type," Maddie said looking down. "I have been going over all our fights and he never really goes looking for them. He is always on the defensive, even with the human hunters."

"Amazing, actually I can pull some strings and get the Guys in White off his back," Peter said. "They can't be allowed to track a minor like they are doing to Danny."

"I really hate them," Maddie said glaring at the table. "They only want to cause pain and torture the ghosts. Me and Jack only wanted to experiment on them and learn more about them. At least we had better intentions than them. Danny doesn't need to have them going after him either."

"You wanted to learn more about ghosts in general," Peter said looking at her. "The Guys in White only want to destroy them. To be honest, Danny said that the ghost is a much more peaceful place than earth. He hasn't really heard anything about a war in the Ghost Zone. According to him, the only ones that cause trouble are the ones that are after him or like to mess with the humans. Other than that, most ghosts are pretty peaceful."

"See, we can learn some much from just talking to Danny. He will at least be more willing to tell us everything. Every ghost we caught either couldn't talk or would not answer anything and get away," Maddie said sadly. "Actually thinking about it, Danny may have helped them and then put them back in the Ghost Zone. He is not just protecting us, but also the ghosts from us."

"He doesn't like it when someone is in trouble," Peter said smiling. "You raised a good boy." Maddie smiled.

"I was worried about him because of the way he had been acting. The school cared enough to think that he was into a gang," Maddie said shaking her head. "I was terrified that they were right."

"He is a good kid," Peter said smiling. "You raised a really good kid." Maddie smiled.

"Both of them are really good. I guess I'm lucky I don't have any of those teens that hate their parents," Maddie said smiling. "Jazz was never into our work, and Danny wanted nothing to do with it either, but they both got dragged into it and they have handled it better than what most adults could."

"They are really smart," Peter said smiling.

SAM

"You guys ready?" Mozzie asked as Tucker came out of the bathroom. Sam glared at the techno geek as he adjusted to the new clothes,

"As ready as I'll ever be I guess," Tucker said looking over his outfit. "This feels weird."

"It still has pockets for all your gadgets," Sam growled. "Can we just go? I want to see Danny."

"Okay, I think Peter said that he was going to take June's niece for the night and then he was going home afterward," Mozzie said smiling. "According to Neal, June's niece had done a report on Phantom and June thought it would be cool if she could spend some time with her hero."

"Danny is with her in Phantom form. He knows that dangerous," Sam said looking around waiting for Danny to appear broken and beaten.

"It's okay," Mozzie said calming them down. "They are okay." Checking his phone.

"How do you know?" Sam said glaring darkly at Mozzie.

"Jazz sent me a text saying that he is home and asleep," Mozzie said turning to them. "He's fine, you guys are going to go with me and we need to get some things before we go and see Danny."

"Okay," Sam said still glaring. "But then we go and see Danny. Why does he still to feel that he has to make everyone safe?"

"June's niece had gone under some really hard times, she is only nine," Mozzie said. "She had to have a new kidney and Neal helped to make sure that she got it. Danny heard and decided that would make her feel better."

"That's so sweet," Sam whispered smiling down at the floor. "I guess he was humbled while on the run."

"Sam, I think he would have done that regardless," Tucker said smiling. Sam stepped on his foot.

"OW," Tucker yelled holding his foot and glaring at Sam. "That really hurt."

"Good," Sam said following Mozzie out the door. Mozzie only shook his head at the immatureness of teens.

"Where are we going?" Sam asked looking out the window of the limo.

"We have to stop and get a couple things of mine to find a U-boat and then we will be heading to another hotel where we are keeping Danny's family," Mozzie said turning in the rain.

"When will we be seeing Danny then?" Tucker asked looking up in the front at Mozzie.

"Danny is with his family in order to keep him from hurting himself," Mozzie said sadly. Sam looked at him confused.

"What are you talking about? I thought Danny was fine," Sam said sadness, concern, and angry leaking into her voice.

"While at Peter's he had been cut in his dream," Mozzie said knowing that he was treading on water. "Apparently it also showed up in real life. Peter believes it to be something from trying to protect his family and not knowing where they are isn't helping. Maddie wants you guys there so that way they can see if that will prevent him from having the nightmare at all."

"Wow," Tucker said looking back out at the raining skies. "You know, Danny used to love flying in the rain. He said it was something that was amazing. Flying with water around you, nights where it was raining he said it felt like he was even freer that just flying around in the clear skies."

"That sounds so weird," Sam said looking back at Tucker. "He never told me that."

"It was after a fight with Technus. You were having a fight with your parents and he needed patched up. He kept himself talking so he didn't have to focus on the pain," Tucker said. "Sometimes I wondered if he was even still alive when he was gone. He didn't have anyone to patch him up after a battle."

"He would have found someone," Sam said smiling at the resourcefulness of Danny. "He always has people willing to help the hero."

"At least he is willing to ask for help," Mozzie said smiling. "He just has odd ways of showing it."

"I never would have thought of Danny being cryptic, according to Peter you had to decode everything he said. What he would say, it could mean different things to everyone," Tucker said. "I bet now he can completely confuse Dash and have no problem getting away while he tried to figure out what Danny just insulted him with."

"Knowing Dash," Sam said smiling evilly. "He wouldn't ever even figure it out. He would be so confused."

"Yeah, that would be so funny," Tucker said smiling. "I can't wait until Danny comes home. We have to celebrate at your house with movie night."

"Of course," Sam said smiling. "My parents aren't gonna care, because they aren't gonna to know."

"You guys are so strange," Mozzie said smiling coming back in.

"When did we stop and you get out?" Tucker asked confused.

"Not that long ago. It wasn't going to take long," Mozzie said turning again on the street with the hotel on it. "We are almost there anyway."

Okay here is the beginning of the end

I think

Danny: You would forget your head if it wasn't attached

Me: You stole that from my dad

Danny: I'm in your head and you are the one typing.

Me: I hate you

Danny: So you hate yourself

Me: *Throws frying pan at Danny again

Danny: Anger issues

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