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Richard1081: I don't know about learning martial arts from his mother since for some reason, I don't like that idea. I like Danny learning from experience rather than learning from his mother. I don't even know why I don't like it but ….I just don't. For Dora, she will be a help but it is not yet time for her to do so.

Dreams Come True 996: to be honest, I don't really like the episode either because of Poindexter. But there is a part in this chapter that you might like.

Kyuubi9110: actually, I'm taking the idea that normal weapons don't work on Danny. The bullets entered his body but the biology of a ghost makes it that normal bullets do nothing but just float in him so he can go intangible and have them fall out of him. The glass and metallic parts did affect him because of the ecto energy that they were coated in

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Chapter 4: The Cost of Bullying

"So here I sit. Wondering the purpose of my existence. Our hero goes through so many hardships that he is amazed that he is able to go through it all while keeping his sanity."

"Are you…..monologuing?"

Danny jolted from the sudden voice and slammed his head on the ceiling. "OW!" he rubbed his head as he looked through the vent opening. "uh….no. can you get me out of here?"

"Yeah hang on…...locker number…...so the number should be"

Danny heard the dial of the locker and after a second, the door opened and he fell out. "DAH urgh!" he landed hard on the ground with his feet in the air and his head bent sideways. "...ow."

"Ooh. you ok Fenton?"

Danny groaned as he fully flopped to the ground. After a second he pushed himself off the ground and dusted his clothes off before looking up "yeah, I'm fine. Thanks again, Kwan"

Football player, A-lister, and best friend of school bully Dash Baxter nodded to Danny as they fist-bumped. "no problem, Danny. I figured Dash would take his frustration out on you when he failed the English test…... And the math test…...and science…..anyway. I hate to tell you this but he is going to be using you to vent his frustration….or cause he wants to."

Danny sumped as he let out a deep sigh "thanks for the warning, Kwan."

Kwan and Danny had become acquainted early on when they enter high school.

As part of the A-listers, people would have assumed that Kwan enjoyed being a bully to the nerds and dweebs in the school. But the truth was that he actually had some respect for them. Well…..some of them anyway. He knew that some of them would end up in high-paying careers that they got from their knowledge. While some of them wouldn't really get very far.

Kwan actually wanted to get become a scientist when he is older so he had actually taken his studies seriously as well as his football playing. His aunt had actually brought up the importance of taking his schooling seriously in order to get ahead in life. It was also thanks to this that he chose to help out the nerds that the A-listers tend to pick on. But he does this in secret to hold his spot in the group. He just felt that high school is a turning point in their lives and he shouldn't have to make it harder for anyone. He had a good bit of maturity because of this

Kwan nodded to Danny "no problem. We should get to class before we both get in trouble." Kwan decided to go first so that they can keep the status quo. But before he could get far he turned around and smirked at Danny. "By the way, nice monologue."

Danny grew red in embarrassment as he shouted out "you tell anyone about that and I'll tell Jazz never to help you in tutoring again!"

Kwan chuckled as he ran off to class

Danny stood there grumbling before he began making his way to class, not caring about the fact that he was going to be late.

What he didn't notice was that he walked past a certain locker that had a rusted door. As he walked past it, a green glow responded to the presence of his ghostly aura. A soft whisper could be heard coming from the locker as the ghostly aura faded

"Buuuuullllyyy~"

Danny felt a chill run down his spine and turned back to see if there was anything. At first, he thought it was his ghost sense but he didn't see his breath and the chill was too small. So he figured that it was just a draft. He turned back and made his way to class

~next break~

"Get back here Fenterd!"

Danny was running away from Dash as the jock yelled at him for being the cause of him failing the math test. 'Thank you, Kwan!' he actually had a head start in this game of cat and mouse thanks to Kwan's warning so he was able to stay ahead of Dash for a bit longer. Problem was that he was getting tired and Dash was gaining fast. After he turned the corner, Dany lost his footing and fell to the ground. Grunting in slight pain, he tried to push himself up but he was then lifted into the air by the shirt

Dash lifted Fenton by the shirt ad brought him face to face. "Nice try, Fentonio! But your nothing but a wimp trying to run from the star Quarterback. Now to pay you back for making me fail that test."

Danny's feet hung in the air as he chuckled nervously 'I didn't even do anything to him…' his thoughts were halted when Dash's fist made contact with his face.

Dash began to pummel Danny as if he was a punching bag

Danny took the hits and grunted in pain from them. Dash had only hit his face a few times before aiming for the body. Though, they weren't that painful compared to some of the hits he took from his ghost fights. He had learned that his human half was less durable than when he was his ghost persona but he was a little tougher than he used to be.

Dash finished beating on Danny and ended it with a wedgie

"GAH!"

Dash dropped Danny on the ground with everyone in the hall laughing at Danny.

Danny groaned as Dash walked away while still laughing.

As Dash walked away. He moved past the Locker from earlier that Danny walked past

"Bu~lly~"

Green ghostly energy came out of the locker and moved over to Dash's feet as they undid his shoelaces and tied them together

Dash suddenly fell face-first onto the ground, causing everyone to laugh at him. He lifted his head to show that he was furious. He looked at his shoes to see the laces were tied together and beyond that was Danny getting up from the ground. "You're gonna pay for this, Fenton!" he got back to his feet only to fall again since his laces were still tangled together, which caused the kids to laugh at him once again

Danny on the other hand was looking at Dash with a bit of confusion. Sure he thought it was funny but he was confused at the fact that Dash thought he did it. Sure he wished he did but he hadn't. He then realized what this could mean. 'Oh, great. He's going to make his next beating worse.' he began to walk away as he felt the chill again. He looked around for anything but again there was nothing. He shrugged as he walked away and Tucker came up to him

"Aw, man. That was sweet. It's about time you started using your ghostly powers for some payback."

Danny looked to Tucker with a raised eyebrow. "I didn't do anything."

Tucker elbowed him in the side, missing the wince Danny made. "Come on, man. I know it was you. Who else has the ability to do all that to the biggest jerk in the school."

Danny sighed as he just let Tucker think what he wanted.

The two continued to walk down the hall, missing Paulina and a random jock being sprayed with foam from a fire extinguisher as a nerd that had a projector on a stroller (not sure what to call it) walked away from the two.

~Lunch~

Danny was glaring at his food since every single break, Dash had used him to vent his frustrations on and since Dahs thought he was the one to do the shoelace thing, he was extra brutal in the beatings. Not only that but because of the beatings he had with Dash, they were both late for class. However, the Teachers let Dash off with nothing but…..actually just nothing. All they did was say "welcome Dash" before looking at him and saying "you're late, Mr. Fenton, that means that you will be having detention with us". He could understand it to an extent.

Danny had been late constantly and he was just a normal student.

Dash was the star quarterback and favored by most of the teachers since they were fans of the damn sport and the school team.

Tucker was eating his meal with gusto before looking at Danny's tray. "You gonna eat your mini burger?"

Danny grunted before he shoved it towards his friend. He may like eating those mini burgers but he wasn't in any mood for eating.

Tucker smiled as he grabbed the burger before opening the wrapper and eating it

Danny suddenly felt something hit the back of his head several times and some liquid dripping in his hair.

"Hey look, guys! I made a nerd sandwich."

Danny looked up to see that it was half a sub thrown at his head with mustard dripping from it. He turned his head to glare at the jocks that were laughing at him. Although the jocks were laughing, his glare was solely on Dash. his eyes flashed green as he was so tempted to get some real payback.

Tucker noticed this and smirked "do it. Danny. He deserves some karma for all he did to us."

Danny was even more tempted to do just that but he took a deep breath and turned around. "No. just because I have these powers, doesn't mean that I should use them for my own personnel wants." he turned back to his tray only for his head to be shoved down to the table as he felt more liquid soaking his head.

"Don't forget your milk, Fentonoza. Hahahahaha!" Dash then began to walk away towards the hall, all the way, laughing hard

Danny tilted his head up to give a ghostly glare at Dash. he was so tempted to get some payback but he knew that it was wrong of him to use his powers for such a petty thing. 'Deep breaths. You don't need to do it.' as he continued to try and keep calm, the laughter of the other students were causing the string holding his anger back to whittle down.

"Maybe the sad nerd sandwich needs a side dish hahahahahaha."

*snap* that did it. Danny's eyes glowed brighter as he gained a mischievous look on his face. Oh, he wasn't going to hurt Dash, that just wasn't right, but a little payback would be oh… so.….euphoric.

Dash was in an empty hallway as he went to a drinking fountain.

Unknown to the jock, Danny in his ghost persona was smirking at the easy target. 'now …...how to make this fun?' he thought about what he could do before he felt like being silly petty instead of mean petty.

Everyone in the cafeteria were eating their lunch as if nothing happened until the double doors were slammed open. everyone turned to the door to see Dash standing there in nothing but his underwear

Dash then lifted his arms into the air as if in a ballerina pose and he began to dance like one through the cafeteria. As he danced to music that couldn't be heard by anyone he went by every table with all the kids watching in awe as he spun, kicked, lept, and twirled through. Suddenly as he got halfway through the cafeteria he changed his style of dancing and began to shake his ass left and right in students' faces. "Don't stop the music! Watch me dance and watch me fly free!" he jumped on top of a table before he did a swan dive onto the floor with a loud *Slam*. He got up as if nothing was wrong and made his way to where the food was splayed out. He went to a tub of beans before dunking his head for a second. Pulling his head out of the pot, he spun around and did a salute as if he was a soldier. Once done he danced once again towards the second entrance and out the door.

Everyone in the cafeteria were stunned by the sudden action of the quarterback but after a few seconds of silence, a majority of them started laughing.

A few though, couldn't help but think 'since when did Dash know how to dance?'

Dash ran down a hallway with a big smile on his face. After a bit more running, he entered a closet and before laying on the ground unconscious.

Danny flew out of Dash's body and left the closet before he collapsed on the ground, holding his sides as he started laughing so hard it hurt and made it somewhat difficult to maintain his invisibility. "Hahahhaha oh, man. I wish I could have seen the whole thing myself but just doing it was great!"

Nearby, a locker glowed bright green as it reacted to another ghost being close by. The door of the locker burst open to show an old-style mirror with a pair of hands coming out of it and pulling out a very nerdy-looking boy that looked like he was from one of those black and white movies. "Hey! I'm free!" the boy then looked down the hall and saw the other ghost laughing. He had actually seen the whole thing thanks to the ghostly energy that had been leaking from the mirror. Though it was all fuzzy and the audio wasn't good. He saw the other ghost use his powers to bully the poor blonde and he would not stand for such things. He flew over to the ghost to confront him

Danny's laughter was slowly dying down as he took a few deep breaths "oh man that was good."

"Think that's funny buster brown?"

Danny looked up to see another ghost floating there glaring at him. He was a little stunned that his ghost sense didn't go off but with how hard he was laughing, he figured that he wouldn't have noticed it. He got off the ground and floated in front of the other ghost "huh? What? you can see me?" he looked down to see that he had his invisibility on but then he remembered that when he was giving Dora a tour of the town, they could see each other if they were both invisible. 'Oh right.' he mental face palmed himself for forgetting that little tidbit.

The ghost angrily spat out "yeah that's right, bub!" he then jabbed a thumb over his shoulder "now stop bullying that poor kid."

Danny blinked at the ghost before he chuckled "you...you think that kid was being bullied? Man do you have things backwards."

The ghost pointed a finger at Danny "don't sell me that jazz, Clyde. You're the bully from where I'm standing."

Danny pointed at the ghost's feet as he corrected him "uh...floating."

The ghost awkwardly mumbled to himself "oh uh, floating. Right." he regained his glare as he raised his arms in the air. "Let's see how you like being bullied."

Danny grew worried when the hallway darkened and the lockers that lined the walls gained a green glow to them. He turned back to the ghost to see his eyes turn red. He gained a determined look as he figured he was in for a fight. He then saw school supplies fly out of all the lockers and aimed at him. "Oh boy."

~cafeteria~

All the kids were still eating their lunch while talking about what Dash just did.

Tucker was replaying the whole thing on his PDA as he had recorded it the second he saw Dash burst into the room in his underwear. "Oh man, Danny's gonna get a kick out of this."

suddenly, food trays began to fly into the students' faces and seats began to flip with kids still sitting on them.

Tucker fell to the ground and looked up in shock at what was going on. "Is it another ghost attack?!"

All the kids began to run out of the room, screaming with Tucker heading down the hall Dash left since he figured that Danny was in that direction as well.

~bio-lab~

Mr. Lancer was prepping several frogs for dissecting until all the beakers around him began to shatter with no indication of what the cause was. "Great Ceasars ghost!"

Danny was using an English Textbook to block all the pencils, pens, rulers, and papers being flung at him. At one point he felt a little cocky since he was doing a good job at him that he spoke in a "wise" tone. "Use the ghost Energy, Danny. The ghost Energy. Let the Ghost energy flo~w through you." he swung the book in his hand to deflect a pencil and he couldn't help but laugh at his little movie reference. His laughter stopped when a Math Textbook hit him in the face "oof." the book slid down as Danny shook his head "ok, the ghost energy is not strong in me." he went intangible when he saw more supplies heading his way. As they went through him he tried to explain himself. "Look, you don't understand."

The ghost chose not to listen as he lowered his arms. "I understand a bully when I see one." his eyes then flared green as he sent beams out of his eyes and hitting Danny

Danny was shocked at being hit since he was intangible and due to his intangibility, he was sent through several walls. After he went through the second wall he landed on his back. He laid there for a second as he thought about what just happened. 'Did he just use heat vision on me?' he thought about that ability and couldn't help but think 'can I do that?' he would have thought about it more but right now there was still a ghost problem. He pushed himself off the ground and floated before he flew through the walls he went through to find the ghost. He floated into the same hallway as the ghost landed on the ground "just who are you?!"

The ghost stood straight as if proud of what he was about to say "I am Sydney Poindexter!."

It was then that Tucker came in looking at what was going on

Sydney noticed the new arrival and spoke as if at a podium. "And whenever there is a nerd in need, I shall be there!" he said while gesturing to Tucker

Tucker deadpanned at being called a nerd as he pointed at Poindexter. "Hey, who are you calling a nerd, nerd."

Danny glared at Poindexter before flying towards him. He saw that Poindexter used his intangibility and knew he wouldn't be able to activate his in time so he turned to fly around Tucker and planted his feet into the lockers he would have flown into if he didn't have control of his flight. He pushed himself off the wall and activated his intangibility and slammed his arm in the nerd's neck and dragged him downward. Once he got into the boiler room of the school he thrust his arm forward and threw Poindexter into the ground hard.

Poindexter laid there groaning in pain as the move was unexpected

Danny landed on the ground as he looked at the downed ghost. The heat of the room was getting to him and since he felt that he had won the fight he chose to change back into his human form. Once he was human, he put his hands on his knees as he felt more tired now. "Whew."

"Holy smokes!"

Danny jumped and looked to see Poindexter was sitting up now. He was about to change back until he heard Poindexter continue

"You're the Halfa."

Danny quirk an eyebrow as he asked "the Whata?"

Poindexter got up excitedly as he gestured to Danny. "The Halfa. Everyone in the ghost Zone talks about you. Your half-ghost, half-human: the Halfa. You have all our powers on the mortal plain. Every ghost was in shock when they heard about you and…..." it was then his excitement died down until he glared at Danny. "And you're using your powers for evi~l!" the last part came out as a statement rather than a question as he was so sure about it.

Danny waved his hands in front of him as he tried again to explain "no! Listen I took over Dash's body because he-"

"Wait, you can take over a person's body?" Poindexter interrupted Danny as he had not heard of this ghostly ability before. "Jeepers Creepers, I would flip if I had your powers." he paused as he tapped his finger on his chin. I wonder….." he activated his intangibility and flew at Danny entering his body

Danny was too stunned to react in time as Poindexter entered him. "Hey, what are you doing?!"

"Giving you a taste of your own medicine."

Danny bent over as he grunted in pain as he felt Poindexter attempting to take him over as it would normally do. He fell to his hands and knees as he felt the nerds ghostly energy overtaking his own. Danny shut his eyes as he tried to fight back against the full ghost.

"You may use your powers to pick on the defenseless…."

Danny's eyes shot open to show that they had turned grey.

"But I sure as sugar won't!"

Danny's eyes turned angry as the grey of the eyes flashed green. "Get…...out…..OF….MEEE!" he turned his hands intangible and using all the energy he had, ripped Poindexter out and threw him across the room. Danny panted at the energy he used before he glared at the ghost and transformed back into Phantom. He then flew to hover over Poindexter and angrily shouted "Dash is the Bully! He's the bully of the whole school! This is the first time I ever used my powers for a little bit of payback! I was his punching bag for years and the one time I use my powers, you blame me for being the bully. Where the hell were you when I was being picked on!?"

Poindexter floated up as he glared at Dany. "you think I would believe that hullabaloo?"

Danny gritted his teeth as his eyes not only glowed a brighter green but his pupils narrowed. "No…" he pulled his fist back since he was tired of people not believing him. "...I don't." unknown to him, his fist gained a green aura and when he thrusted his fist into Poindexter's stomach, he let out an Ecto ray that sent the ghost flying.

Poindexter impacted the wall hard and this time he actually lost consciousness.

Danny blinked, causing his eyes to go back to normal. He looked at his fist to see that it was steaming from the energy dispersal. "Woah….I guess I can do it." he then looked to the unconscious ghost to see that he won this fight. He placed his and on his hip to see that he didn't have his thermos on him so he had to go get it. He looked back to the knocked-out nerd before flying as fast as he could to his locker so he can get the device. He made it to his locker and phased his hand inside to grab it

"Danny!"

Danny turned to see Tucker running to him

Tucker made it to him and asked "how'd the fight go? Were you able to get him."

Danny nodded before he pulled out his thermos "yeah, but I gotta capture him first so hold on." with that, he flew back to the boiler room to see Poindexter still on the ground. He pointed the thermos at him and sucked him up. He sighed as he capped it and flew back up. He landed on the ground and transformed back human. As he was walking back, he saw a rusted locker door open and peeked inside to see a mirror. He felt a chill go up his spine and now he realized that it must of been a very very very small tingle of his ghost sense. He looked left and right to see that he was alone and immediately grabbed the mirror and quickly made his way to his locker.

~that night~

The family were at the dinner table with Danny happily eating the meatloaf that wasn't growling at him.

Jack took a large bite out of his meal before looking at his kids "so….what's this I hear about an attack at your school.

Danny paused in his eating before he nervously looked left and right "nothing. It was nothing. Not a thing happened!"

Jack narrowed his eyes "you sure it wasn't a ghost attack."

"I'm sure, dad!" he was hoping that his parents wouldn't do anything embarrassing to him. He knew that if they knew about the ghost attack, they would go to his school and do things.

Jack then jumped out of his seat and pulled out a pair of large metallic gauntlets "well, if it was a ghost I can use these Ghost gauntlets to fight that ghost Mano-a-ghosto!" he did a few jabs in the air before he did an uppercut that caused the heater system to fall to the ground.

Danny sighed as he finished his meal and got up from the tale. "It wasn't a ghost, dad. It was just a food fight that was caused by someone tripping."

Jack narrowed his eyes at his son. "Maybe…..it was a ghost."

Danny shook his head at his father's antics as he put his plate in the sink and made his way out of the kitchen "I doubt it, dad. I'm heading to bed tonight. So later guys."

Everyone bid him good night as he left

Danny made it to his room and sighed again. He looked to his desk and saw the mirror. He didn't know what to do with it since it was a ghostly artifact and didn't know what would happen if he tossed it in with Poindexter. He shook his head and transformed into Phantom before flying through the ceiling and into the air. He flew to the park and looked around to see that no one was around. Smiling he lifted his hand and focused his energy to activate his ghost ray. "Better practice till I get this right. Don't want something embarrassing happening like when my pants fell from the intangibility."

With that, Danny tried to practice with this new power

End of chapter

Gonna be honest, I don't like Poindexter. He immediately thinks Danny is a bully and wouldn't even listen to him. It's one of the reasons I had Danny call him out a bit

I wanna bring Dora back but I gotta get through the introduction episodes first and there are two I really can't wait to get to. Next chapter will be the first and it will cause something to happen. Hope you look forward to it.

Also, I hope you like the new cover art. And to let you know, it will change as the story goes on.

Don't know if the mirror will play any role or just be put away somewhere

I did not like Poindexter taking over Danny's body so I made it that Danny fought it off.

also, the reason Danny couldn't detect the mirror was that it had very little ghost energy to detect. Also, it was responding to Danny's ghost energy, which is why it hadn't reacted before

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