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ArashiNokitsune: to have a clearer picture of what happened to Sam, read my fic "The Birth of Timelines". It is a prequel to this fic as it sets up a couple of things
Germanjustiniano9: I took the normal Sam out of the story cause I have read enough stories where Sam is jealous and causes problems. I didn't want that with mine. Not sure about Tucker keeping the powers of the Scarab as we haven't gotten to that point yet. I am thinking of going the Harem route but not having that many girls. 3 or 4 but I will NOT go over 5. BUT that has yet to be decided. I have a plan for Desiree so you will have to wait and see :)
Guest: noted
Richard1081: for Danny's powers as a spoiler, yes they will be altered. I won't say any more than that. I am leaning towards multiple pairing BUT I will do my utmost best to keep the quality of my story up. If I see it start to drop than I will do my best to fix it. I want my story to be enjoyable
Wrightdylen21: noted
Kyuubi9110: well here's the next chapter
Chapter 3: Tech trouble
Danny phased his head through the lab ceiling to see his father tinkering with a new ghost-catching device which he was sure would cause problems later on. He quietly phased the rest of him inside of the lab, landed on the ground, and tiptoed his way to the ghost portal. 'Just keep messing with what you have and ignore the ghost right behind you.' He knew that when his parents were focused on their inventions, they tend to ignore what goes on around them. He made it to the portal grabbed his thermos and inserted it into the slot meant for sending ghosts back into the ghost zone
"AH HA!"
Danny froze when he heard this and slowly turned his head and prayed that his father wouldn't shoot. He sighed in relief when he saw that his father had merely grabbed the tool he needed and went back to messing with his invention. He hit the lever that flushed the ghost he caught back into the ghost zone and used this time to hide behind a desk and transformed back into a human. He peeked over the desk to see his dad still working before he went back to grab his thermos. Once he put the thermos on a table that had a bunch of other devices he went to the mini-fridge and looked through what was inside. The fridge was used to hold drinks and snacks as well as samples of ectoplasm that his parents would pull from the ghost zone. He saw a can of grape soda and grabbed it along with a glass that had a small amount of ectoplasm.
Something he had learned was that his body now required intake of ectoplasm after a certain amount of time. He learned this when one day he felt extremely drained of all energy. He felt like he had run two marathons after another all-nighter of fighting ghosts. He didn't know how or why and his body had dragged itself into the lab and as if on autopilot he grabbed a beaker of ectoplasm his parents extracted the day before and downed it in one go. It was like he had the first glass of water in months after traversing the desert for all that time. In other words, he needed it badly. His parents had thought that a ghost had taken it, which was true, but he now had to make sure that when he takes it, they needed to be small amounts so no one would be suspicious
The amount he was using would just be thought of being used in his father's invention so he could get away with it. He opened the soda can and poured it into the glass of ectoplasm. Didn't matter how he took it just as long as he took it. He sighed in satisfaction as he walked out of the lab, leaving his father to his thing. He made his way up the stairs drinking his ecto soda
In the kitchen sat Jazz and Dash as she was attempting to use the jock as a way to make a thesis that no one was un-tutorable. "...So A squared plus B squared equals C squared where C is the hypotenuse with A and B are the sides of the triangle, got it?" she looked up to see that instead of listening to her lessons, she saw that he was gazing at her. She leaned back as he was way too close to her liking "Dash you need to focus on the lesson!" she sighed as she thought to herself 'he is going to ruin my thesis.'
Danny walked into the kitchen from the stairs as he took another swig of his drink and only half paying attention to his surroundings. "hey, Jazz. hey, Dash…." he took another sip of his drink as the last thing he said finally clicked in his mind. He choked on his drink and coughed before he looked nervously at the jock. "Hey Dash, what are you doing here?" He leaned on the table with his free hand as if to act casually but thanks to his nervousness, his hand became intangible and fell through, causing his face to smash into the table. This also sent all the papers and a book to land on Dash's head
Dash glared at Danny as he tried his best not to pummel him. "Doing a study on what it would be like to wail on a wimp in his home!"
Danny backed off as he didn't want to get hit by the bully "I uh…..I better go and…..uh….go!" Danny ran back downstairs as he realized the upper floor was now unsafe for his health
Dash watched as Danny ran away before smirking. "Now that, that wimp is out of the way…." he pulled out a card and brought it up for Jazz. "you're coming to my party Saturday right? It will be the hottest party in town and give you a chance to see me in my natural environment."
Jazz took the invite with a scowl on her face "and a chance for me to write a thesis on 'being mean to my brother and then asking me out'." she looked at it and tried to think of what to do with it. "I'll think about it."
Danny took another swig of his drink as he came back to the basement. He saw his dad finishing up what he was working on and went over to see what it might be "hey, dad. What are you making?"
Jack got up from his crouched position and smiled brightly "I got it the ghost weasel" he showed Danny a high-tech-looking vacuum nozzle that seemed to be attached to a high-tech pack. "It captures ghosts and launches it back into the ghost zone."
Danny looked between the nozzle and the ghost portal before nervously asking "does it work?"
"Why wouldn't it?" Jack then turned it on, causing it to begin to suck up every paper document that was around the room. After Jack tried to get a hold of it, it sucked in the Fenton Thermos, which got lodged in the nozzle. Jack blinked a few times at the Thermos before he began trying to pull it out. After a few seconds of failed attempts, he grumbled "darn. Better get the Fenton unlodger." he handed the nozzle to Danny before running to another part of the lab
Danny looked from where his father left to the nozzle in his hands. He then noticed the switch that was on the main body of the device and saw it had a reverse button. "Uh, dad? Wouldn't it be easier if you just flip it to…..." he then hit the switch and held on as the nozzle began to flail a bit. He held on to it and watched as the Fenton Thermos was launched towards the ghost portal. His eyes widened when he saw that it had hit the button to open the ghost portal "reverse!?"
The ghost portal then opened up and out came a green smoke that seemed to be cackling.
"Ahahaha HA" the smoke reformed to show a lanky ghost that had tall white hair, black sunglasses, and wearing a scientist's lab coat. All in all, he looked like an insane Albert einstein. "Child you have freed me: Technus, master of all science and technology!"
Danny, going on high alert, got into a stance, ready to jump into the fight. "Oh no, you don't! You're not going to use the tech here to take over the world!"
Technus dropped his arms and excited smile as he dumbly asked "what?" he then looked around the lab at all the tech and weapons that were available to him. He then gained a grin as he looked at Danny. "That's a great idea! Have you ever considered tutoring?"
Danny facepalmed as he realized that he gave the ghost that idea. "I really gotta learn not to say stuff like that." He was about to leap into the air and go ghost until he heard
"GHOST!"
Danny turned to his left to see his father was still in the lab. 'I forgot he was still here!'
Jack came to a sliding stop in front of Danny and pulled out the Fenton Bazooka. "Eat hot Fenton Fury!" he then sent out a shot at Technus though thanks to his poor aim he missed by a good margin. Jack's grave look turned to a look of confusion as he brought up the barrel of the bazooka to his face "huh….. This thing's still broken."
Technus smirked as he raised his arms into the air as the technology in the lab began to levitate and then circle him.
As Jack shook the bazooka to see if he could jostle something he didn't notice all the tech around him flying by his head
Danny panicked as he wanted to go ghost but with his dad here, he couldn't do it.
Technus then began to laugh as he phased through the ceiling, with all the tech floating up the stairway.
Danny followed the tech with his eyes and then gained a thought. 'If all that technology is heading towards Technus, then…' he looked to his dad and saw he was now reaching his hand inside the bazooka's barrel.
Danny then noticed that despite the amount of stuff Technus took, there were a bunch of things that weren't taken. 'Must be some sort of anti-ghost possession feature they have.' he then saw that the thermos was one of them and quickly grabbed it before bolting out of the lab.
Jack finally finished examining his weapon and smiled wide before pointing it back to where the ghost was only to see the ghost gone. His grin dropped before looking around. His smile returned as he came to his own conclusion "HA! Scared the ghost off." he shoulder the bazooka and pointed a finger at the ghost portal "and let that be a lesson to you not to mess with Jack Fenton!"
*Boom*
Unfortunately, he pulled the trigger and sent a blast towards the ceiling. He looked up to see a scorch mark where the blast hit. He stared at it for a second before shrugging. "Aw well, I'll get Danny to clean that up later." he then noticed the lack of his son. "Speaking of which, where is Danny?"
~outside~
Danny was running outside, following the flying gadgets and gizmos that were flying through the sky. "Come on! How far are they going to go?"
Soon the flying tech made it to its destination. The park.
Technus was cackling as all the technology swirled around him. He stopped his laughter as he began to speak loudly. His voice could be heard by everyone in the park and their homes. "YES! I, TECHNUS, MASTER OF ALL THINGS ELECTRONIC WILL USE THESE OBJECTS TO CONQUER THE WORLD!"
Everyone that was in the park began to scream and run away from the supernatural event that was going on with a few of them pulling out their phones to call the police.
Danny made it to the park and was now directly under the other ghost. "Not if I can help it!" he looked around to see that no one was looking in his direction. He smirked as he activated his transformation with a white ring that had a small flicker of white flames on it. The rings did their usual thing and he became Danny Phantom. He flew towards Technus with his fist pulled back to stop him.
Technus saw Danny coming and waved his hand, which sent a bunch of electronics towards him. Some being chainsaws, weed whackers, and an enlarged shaver.
Danny stopped in his charge as he yelped at the oncoming blades. He shifted his body left and right to avoid being cut to pieces. "Now I know what a weed must feel like ARGH!" he was cut in the back by the razor as it spun around and sliced him. He spun around and grabbed it by the cord before spinning it around in his hand like it was a ball and chain weapon. He waited for the other objects to get closer before he swung the razor hard enough to send the other objects flying in other directions. Swinging the razor downward at the chainsaw, he let out a breath of relief as he said. "I can't believe that worked." he then brought the razor closer and looked it over. "Where was this in the lab? He then saw a sticker which he read out loud. "Property of Lancer." realizing who the razor belonged to, he couldn't help but ask "wouldn't he need hair to use this?" he couldn't think about it much since the razer then flew out of his hand and towards Technus
Technus swirled all the tech around him as he cackled "CHILD! YOU ARE NO MATCH FOR TECHNUS!" he then brought all the gadgets in and morphed them into one massive machine
Danny had to look up as the ghost he was fighting just made a massive battle suite using all the gadgets he gathered. "Oh boy!"
"HAHAHAHAHA NOW I TECHNUS, SHALL USE THIS BATTLESUIT THAT I HAVE MADE USING ALL THE GADGETRY I HAVE GATHERED TO TAKE OVER THIS TOWN AND THEN THE WORLD!"
Danny felt nervous at the sight of the suit but he wouldn't let him do what he wanted
"My Baby!"
Danny turned around to see Tucker running towards them. "Tucker! Get out of here!"
Tucker stopped where he was before looking at Danny Pleadingly "but my baby!"
Danny turned back to Technus and flew up to send a punch at his chest. The issue was that when his fist made contact the only thing that happened was his hand feeling extreme pain. He pulled his fist back and held it against his chest "ok that didn't work."
It was then police sirens were heard and everyone looked to see several police cars arrive at the scene.
Danny saw that the police came out of their cars and all pointed their guns at the large battle suit "get out of here!"
Unfortunately, the officers didn't hear him and they all assumed that the large suit and floating boy were the ones causing trouble. They all began to panic as they saw the large metal robot was starting to move towards them. The one in charge then gave an order "Open fire!" all the officers then began to shot at not only the giant robot but the boy as well
Danny panicked at seeing several bullets aimed at him and brought his arms up in a defensive manner. He shut his eyes as he didn't want to see them get closer. After a second the firing stopped and he slowly opened his eyes to see that the officers were all getting back into their cars and driving away from Technus who made it in front of them. He let out a sigh of relief since he didn't feel any pain and figured that the officers missed. That is until he looked down to see that his suit had several bullet holes in them. He yelped in panic as he put his hand on them but he stopped as he realized that…...they didn't hurt. In fact, he pressed his finger on them and it was as if nothing happened. He didn't get it. Why was he ok from all the holes in him? He wasn't even bleeding. "What the…?"
"HAHAHAHAHA! FOOLISH HUMANS! YOUR WEAPONS CANNOT HARM A GHOST! THEY ARE MERE PEBBLES TO US!"
Danny looked at Technus and blinked….once…..twice…..three times. "Really?" he then looked down at his body and figured that the same applies to him. Taking a guess, he went intangible and saw several bullets fall down to the ground below. "Wel, good to know that I don't have to go through all that gruesome stuff you see in movies." regaining a determined look he charged at Technus, aiming to take the mech down.
Tucker was hiding behind a tree just under where Danny was floating and saw the bullets fall to the ground. "Was he…...shot?" he was surprised to see that his friend was shot by the police and was able to brush it off. He saw his friend charge at the robot and despite how he wanted to help he didn't know how. He chose to get some distance but stay nearby.
Danny knew that his punch wouldn't do anything since it still hurt from the last attempt a few minutes ago. But he needed to get him to stay away from people so he figured that he should add to his attack. He flew past Technus who was a little confused at this. Once he gained some distance he spun around and pushed his flight speed as fast as he could. His eyes actually stung from the wind that hit his face as he flew faster than he ever did and aimed for the center of the robot's chest. He poured as much energy as he could into his flight and fists and shut his eyes as he was coming up on Technus. He expected to at least push Technus back into the park and figured he would just have to deal with the pain of his fist hitting the metal later. What he didn't expect was to hear crunching, breaking, and shattering as his body began to scream in pain from something cutting him up. He felt himself keep moving forward and thought that Technuss had dodged him and sent out another razor to cut him. He ended up crashing down to the ground as he opened his eyes to see his arm and torso were littered with cuts and bleeding green. "Ok….that didn't work like I planned." he slowly got to his feet and turned around to face off with Technus again but to his shock, there was a gaping hole in the robot's chest. "What the…?"
Technus brought his hands up to the hole and was surprised to see that the boy had been able to do that to his suit. He ran a diagnostics and saw that he was still functioning at 90% power and figured that the area that was destroyed was most likely a weak point he did not know of but still the area was reinforced with his ghostly energy. He decided that he would deal with the ghost boy first before going to take over the world.
Danny saw that he now had Technus's full attention and tried to get up to continue the fight. Problem was that he had spent almost all of his energy in that last strike and could only take a knee. He felt like he had run a marathon for three days in a row. He was spent and could not take any more damage. He was already trying to stay in ghost form as best he could but he knew that he couldn't keep it up for long, especially since he would still need to fight the giant robot.
Technus now stood over Danny, looking down at the tiny figure "CHILD, YOU HAVE DAMAGED ME AND FOR THAT YOU MUST PERISH!" he lifted both his arms ready to smash Danny into the ground
*rumble*
Technus paused as he heard rumbling and looked up "wha..?"
Danny also looked up and then felt a drop of water hit his nose. "Huh?"
A few drops of water began to fall and soon it became a steady shower
Technus continued to stare into the sky until he heard a spark coming from his suit. He looked down to the hole and saw that the electronics there were starting to spark. "NO!" he covered the hole, trying to cover it up but the sparks grew in size, and the screen that showed his face began to fizzle as he was starting to lose power. "IT'S NOT WATERPROOF!"
Danny saw that the rain was causing Technus's suit to malfunction. He grinned as he knew that this was his chance to finish the fight. Gathering what energy he had, he got to his feet and unclipped the thermos from his belt, and flew up to be in front of the mech. "I hope you have a warranty on your suit!." He brought up the nozzle of the thermos and hit the button to power it up.
Technus looked up in time to see the blue beam hit him. He felt himself being pulled out of the suit and losing some of his solidity. "NOOOOOOOO~"
Danny smiled as he saw Technus enter the thermos before he caped it. He heard some rattling and saw that the mech started to fall apart and turn into a pile of gadgets and electronics. He winced at that as he wouldn't be able to do anything about it. His wince turned into a grimace as he felt something jab into his side. He flew to a nearby building and landed on the roof before looking down to see that there was a shard of glass there. He saw that it still had some residual ecto energy and he chose to pull it out which immediately caused him to feel better. He sighed as he laid on his back and let the rain hit his face.
Down below, Tucker ran to the pile of tech and began to dig through it in order to find his baby. After a bit of digging, he found his precious PDA and pressed a few buttons to see that it was still working. "Oh, my baby! I'll never let you go again." with his PDA back in his hands, he ran off home with the thought of calling Danny to see if he was ok since he didn't know where his friend went.
~next day, afternoon~
Danny and Tucker were sitting at their usual booth at the Nasty burger
Danny looked haggard as he felt drained of all his energy from the fight yesterday
Tucker lowered his drink as he asked "dud, you ok? You look like you're about to pass out any second."
Danny sighed as he picked up his burger and took a bite. He swallowed before answering his friend "I'm fine. It's just that the fight I had last night drained me of all my energy and what little I had was put into healing my cuts." He looked at his arm and was glad to see that there was no scarring as he did not know how to explain that to anyone.
It was then that cheering could be heard and the two boys looked to see that Dash was passing out invitations for his party.
Tucker whined out as he noticed that they weren't getting one. "The biggest party of the year and neither of us have invites. Why? We have charm, good looks….at least I do anyway."
Danny shook his head as he went back to his food and ate some fries "Tucker, the only way we would get an invite would be if we gained millions of dollars in the next several seconds." as he finished this statement, he felt something slap into his face and looked to see that Dash was standing over him with an invite in his hand
"I normally wouldn't even think of inviting you, but your sister made the suggestion saying she would come if I invited you." Dash looked to see Tucker looking at him expectantly. "And only you." he then got into Danny's face and began to poke him in the chest as he emphasized his orders. "Show up! Shut up! And I won't beat you up!" he then chose to leave as he had given all the invites he had
Danny looked down at the invite in his hands
"Hi, Danny."
Danny looked behind him to see Paulina walking past him and waving as if it was a normal everyday thing. "I got invited?"
Tucker slumped in his seat "man, why do you get the invite when I have all the charm."
Danny looked at his friend before looking at the invite again. After a few seconds of thought, he placed the invite on the table and slid it over to Tucker.
Said boy blinked in confusion at the invite now laying on his side of the table before he looked up at his friend
Danny sighed as he took another bite of his burger. "As cool as it would be to go to the party on Saturday, I don't really feel like going. If I go, I wouldn't really have anyone to talk to. I would just show up and stand in the corner, so what would be the point?"
Tucker picked up the invite and held it close and slowly put it in his pocket. "What about the ladies?" was Tucker's response as he wiggled his eyebrows suggestively
Danny paused for a second before the image of Dora popped into his head. He smiled at the memory before shaking his head to get rid of it since he still hasn't seen her since then but the suggestion Tucker was giving just didn't feel right to him. "It's fine, Tucker. You go and have fun with the ladies."
Tucker then jumped from his seat and held the invite in his hand "YES!" he then ran out of the restaurant, leaving Danny on his own.
Danny chuckled at seeing his friend running off. He reached over and took Tucker's fries and extra unwrapped all meat burger before pouring the fries on his and unwrapping the burger. "More for me." he took a bite out of it and enjoyed the food by himself.
End of chapter
As you can see, Danny did not take the invite as he did in canon and the fight with Technus happened earlier.
Instead of Danny learning about treating his friends better and not trying to get into the "in" crowd, he learned more about his ghost abilities.
The police thing was just an idea I got from reading a bunch of other fics that say conventional weapons don't work on him, I felt the need to show him finding out about it. Probably be one of the only times that the Amity park police force will make an appearance in this fic.
Danny punching through Technus's mech wasn't really showing Danny being stronger, it was more of Danny pooling everything he had into that attack. It's why he was out of the fight after he did it.
The next chapter might be super short since it is Poindexter and for one, he isn't my favorite ghost cause of his lack of sense and with how Sam isn't there, Danny won't do what he did in the show.
I'm leaning towards making this a multi-pairing. I have a couple of girls in mind but I will not make it to many. As clearly shown in the first chapter, Dora is in it. I like Dora and she never gets any time to shine. But I will say this, I will not make it a super large harem cause too many would ruin the story and I would lose track of things. I want my story to be good and have a point and not be a "who will Danny get with next." read a few of those and although many are good, it's not my thing
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