"Yo, Danny, you okay man?" Tucker waved a hand in the adolescent's face.

"Wait what? Were you saying something?" Danny started, snapped out of his thoughts.

"You've been like this all day." Sam replied, worried.

"Correction, he's been like this since yesterday." Jazz added to the conversation.

"Sorry guys, I've just been thinking." Fenton sighed again. All he had been thinking about was how hectic everything had been the day before. He had been so distracted by this... ninja guyDanny didn't even notice that both the mysterious robot and Vlad had escaped.

"Look, Danny, we know how you must feel." Tuck looked over at Danny. "What we gather from your conversations make it sound confusing."

Danny smiled, "Well, you have this stalker thing down now."

"You bet! I'm not letting my little brother take all the fun!" When Danny spotted Jazz, she was obviously high in spirits.

"Thanks guys. I guess it was a good idea to walk to school together."

"Even though Tucker took forever to leave his house." Sam intervened.

"Hey! I have to have the right gadgets for the day or I'd fail the test!"

"Test?" Danny asked, suddenly confused.

"Yeah, you know, that humongous test that everyone must pass to graduate?" Danny shook his head at Tucker's words, "The one we've been talking about since last Monday...?"

As it slowly sank in, Danny also slowly realized he was so screwed. He hadn't known there was a test, much less this large of one. Much less study! "Ohhhhh... I swear, this superhero-ing business takes way too much time out of my precious teenage life."

"Danny! I told you to study!" Jazz sounded disappointed and mad at the same time. She always had a good way of blending the two emotions.

"Was I ever listening?" Danny retorted, "Besides, I've been...?" He thought for a moment, for once in his life he wasn't busy that week.

"Exactly." Jazz replied matter-of-factly.

"Don't worry though Danny, we can help you cram." Tucker looked like he knew what he was doing, but Danny never was very good at flash-memorizing.

"You think I can stay home today?" Danny asked, worried.

"Well, most likely, but I wouldn't advise it Danny." This time it was Sam who spoke up. "You already have half the year 'absent'."

Danny sighed in defeat, Sam was always good at giving the facts out.

"Besides, I'm sure you'll do fine." Sam smiled.

"No pressure." Tuck grinned at Danny.

"'cuz, you know, not like your future depends on it." Jazz hammered down the last point.

~Time skip to lunch :D~

Danny stood in the lunch line, which seemed to be growing at a ridiculous pace, even for high school. He ducked behind the tables when he spotted Dash, who had teamed up with two other kids, one had brown hair, the other had brown hair that defied gravity. Ever since the school had merged, the three bullies had come together and ruled the school. Most likely the smartest thing they would ever come up with.

"Hey, whatchu doin Fenton?" Danny jumped when he heard the voice, then turned to see Jake.

"Oh god Jake. You scared me." He sighed, "Don't do that again man."

"Seriously, what are you doing?" He crouched down too, then the teens took a step forward with the line.

"You see that blondie over there?" Danny pointed to Dash.

"What, that guy standing next to Brad? What 'bout him?"

"Yeah, he's the bully from Casper, and he hates me."

"Why don't you kick his as- Oh, right. same reason I can't beat up Brad." Jake reached for a subject change, "So, what do you think of this exam?" The boys took a step forward in the line.

Danny jumped on board with the suggestion and replied, "Well... I want to stay home."

"Yeah, same here."

"You know when we're taking it?"

"I heard Trixie say right after lunch."

"Well, you want to cram with us?"

"Trixie and Spud said they'd help out."

"Why don't you bring them? The more the merrier."

"Sure, I can ask them if they wanna." The two took another step forward, almost into the room.

"Cool, we sit over there." Danny gestured to the back left corner of the room, where Sam was eating her turfburger and Tuck was chowing down a stake. Don't ask Danny how they got the stuff, most likely brought it from home.

"Alrighty, see ya there." Jake stood up and continued in line like nothing happened. Which, nothing did happen.

Daniel sighed and got his lunch, then arched around the bullies to Sam and Tucker.

"I'm tellin ya Jakie, I don't like the vibes coming off of these guys." Danny stopped watching out for the bullies and spotted Jake talking to a young lady and man. The girl had spoken to Jake, and Danny didn't like what she was getting at.

"Maybe they're.. like... Aliens." Danny wasn't sure what the kid in the beanie was talking about.

"Trixie, you have to trust me." It was Jake replying to the girl, "you were in the back when he visited, but he's truly a nice kid. I'm sure Danny's friends are okay. At least try it out first."

"Yeeeaaa don't knock it till you try it Trixie!" The teen in the beanie kinda sounded drunk, but he most likely wasn't.

Just as Danny stood up to confront the teens and reassure that he wasn't an alien, something fell onto his head. Pausing, Danny reached up and felt the slime that had befallen his black hair. He took a deep breath in and slowly looked up.