just a little idea I had while watching Danny Phantom on Nicktoons. If Butch Hartmann had been given the chance to give each of the ghosts Danny fights some sort of backstory, I feel like this would be something for Ember.

"Ugh, I can't believe this," Danny said. "I save this school from a dang crab ghost, and this is the thanks I get? Cleaning the school basement?"

"The downside of a secret identity," Tucker said.

"The longer we take, the more time away from my mom's dresses we take," Sam said.

"That's one way to look at it, I guess," Danny said before tripping over his shoelaces. He dropped the boxes he was carrying, and they hit a bookcase. Danny went ghost to catch the stuff. "That was close. Hmm?" He noticed a yearbook on the ground. "Hey, look a yearbook from the 1970s. Maybe Lancer is in here. Oh, look!" His friends came over and laughed at the image of him with a ponytail. "Oh-ho-ho man. We should put this back before-"

"What's wrong Danny? You see a ghost?" Tucker joked.

"Yeah, only not as a ghost."

"Huh?" Danny pointed to a picture, making his friends gasp. "That looks like-"

"Yep."

-meanwhile in the ghost zone-

"Hey, my firey phantasmal filly, I caught dinner," Skulker said as he entered with a hideous beast only to have Ember's guitar thrown at him. Luckily he managed to catch it. However this caused their dinner to escape. "Hey you know how hard it was to-" He started to say until he noticed his girlfriend on the ground. "Ember, is there something wrong?"

"No," she said, but her lack of fire and tone told a different answer.

"Ember, I'm your boyfriend. How can I be a good boyfriend if you don't tell me what's wrong?"

"It's nothing." She looked up, and saw his exo-skeleton suit raise an eyebrow. "You're not going to let it go till I tell you, are you?"

"Nope. Come on, tell skulki what's the matter."

"Okay. It's the anniversary."

"The anniversary?"

"Of the day my afterlife started."

-back at Amity park-

"Mr. Lancer?"

"What is it, Daniel?" the teacher said.

"Well, we were cleaning the mess downstairs and found this."

"That yearbook! You didn't see-"

"Yes, we did. But that's not why we're here." Danny opened the book, and turned to a certain page. "This girl here." The picture showed a tanned girl barring her midriff and wearing boots along with having a ponytail. Her hair was red and eyes blue. "This girl kinda looks like Ember McLain."

"Ah yes Amber McLain. We were in school. Whenever there was music involved, she would always disrupt it with her new music if you could even call it that. We never interacted so I didn't know her that well."

-back in the Ghost Zone-

"The day your afterlife started? So it's the anniversary of your death."

"Yeah. The year was 1975."

"Ah yeah, tonight's the night!" a girl said. It looked like Ember, but she was tanned with blue eyes and red hair. "After tonight, everyone's gonna know the name Amber McLain!"

"Right, the battle of the bands," a red-haired girl with an afro said. "I'm sure you'll do great, Amber."

"Yeah, finally my music will be appreciated."

"Out of the way! Need to use the toilet!"

"Ghost nutjob."

"Well, he's kinda cute."

"Oh, Maddie, I do not understand your taste in men, but you do you, boo."

"Boo? A ghost is afoot!"

"A ghost nutjob? You mean Phantom's parents?"

"Yep. Anyway, there were talent scouts there, and if I impressed them, I might get a record deal. But..."

"Casper High, are you ready to rock?!" Amber said on stage outside on the lawn. No one said anything but Amber started playing her guitar, and soon everyone was cheering. "Here's a little song I wrote that I like to call- Huh?" She heard something as she turned around and saw a car swerving out of control.

-back at Casper High-

"A car?" Tucker asked.

"Driven by a drunk driver. While everyone ran, Miss Amber got her ankle tangled in a cord. I assume you can figure out the rest."

"Whoa. So that's what happened."

"She was the only casulty, thankfully. To be honest, I had forgotten until you brought this book."

"Remember..." Danny muttered, realizing the meaning of her first song.

"That's my story. The night I was going to become a rock legend, I die."

"Whoa. That's tough. I'm just a whimpy little guy in a high-tech suit of armor that has finally gotten rid of a dang schedule. Seriously, why didn't he ever stop the gorilla thing?" Ember laughed at his complaints. "Sorry baby. You wanna eat out?"

"Yeah, let's do it."

"Maybe I can hunt some stones. Maybe some ambers. Ow!"

"Don't push it, or say anything about this."

"I got it."

sorry if it's lame, but if Danny Phantom hadn't been cancelled and if Butch was given the chance, I think this is something he would've done for Ember.