The layout was a digital place as a teen ran through the labyrinth before him before emerging outside to a green sky and surrounding, panic filling as something was chasing him with heavy stomps before he booked it for the light post where a key hung before the chaser emerged, black and violet armor adorning the figure with a scowl as the twin pistols fired and deleted the player, the rifle falling before the pair of Danny and Tucker, in cybernetic armor as Tucker started. "That's the trouble with these online video games, too many unqualified random players." In the Real World, Tucker typed away to the game as, at Fenton Works, Danny was doing the same with a helmet on his head as he spoke and typed back.
"I know what you mean... Nobody, but us has a clue..." His digital avatar glanced back from behind the wrecked wall as he continued. "...Except for that Chaos guy, that guy's unstoppable." Tucker was TOO confident in his own abilities as he spoke up from peering over the same wall.
"WAS unstoppable. Watch this!" Tucker exclaimed as he readied a pistol to Danny's look as he rushed out and pointed the weapon with the first mistake of taunting. "Hey Chaos, game over, nit-wit!" He fired, but Chaos jumped, landing with a turn around before firing at Tucker, launching him over the wall as Danny exclaimed to the damaged avatar.
"Still not stopped!" They screeched as Chaos fired on them before they booked it out of there, taking cover in one of the wrecked structures, but Chaos was far from done as the hunter pulled out a grenade and tossed it in, both grimacing to the weapon as Tucker yelped.
"Danny, I just want you to know..." The pair looked at each other as the bomb beeped. "...I accidentally killed your gerbil in the sixth grade." Danny yelped the reply.
"WHAT!?" The building erupted in violet energy, deleting the pair of them as Chaos just laughed at their failure as Tucker whined in his home.
"Ah man, smoked again!" Danny gave a surprise look before he too exclaimed.
"Darn it!" He huffed as he leaned forward. "I thought using the Fenton Helmet as my game controller would give me an edge..." He pulled it off to the flattened black of his hair. "...Not hat hair...!" He chucked it and it hit a button which was connected to the Ghost Zone, opening it up to a cackle as Danny gasped with his sense as the ghost that came out was a familiar foe as the guy just monologue with posing.
"Once again, I, Technus, master of all things electronic and beeping, am free once again to conquer this world." He laughed to Danny's surprise while mentally, he was scolding himself on how stupid he just threw that fit over a game. Technus flew over with ponder as Danny looked skeptic as the ghost spoke to the display of Chaos going at it in the game. "Although... that world looks more entertaining and the fashion sense is far superior. Perhaps it is there that I shall be king!" He lashed out a hand before Danny shoved him away with a call.
"Oh no, you don't!" He got into stance as he turned into Phantom and remarked at the flat head went back to it's spiky look. "Well, at least the hair's better." He took flight to fight as Technus made a circuit board that zapped Danny and bound him, but the outgoing electric current latched onto the computer and destroyed it as Technus remarked.
"Oh, that stinks." The doubt slipped away as Technus continued. "No matter, I shall return!" He flew over to the wall from Danny as he exclaimed. "So long, ghost boy!" He phased through the wall, releasing Danny from the power as he groaned before remarking.
"Oh great, constantly getting zapped in DOOM is bad enough..." Danny remarked with regret as he continued on looking at the spot where Technus disappeared through. "...But now I have to track down that loser?" The portal closed as he moaned. "I'll have to deal with it tomorrow." He grimaced as he looked at the clock on the wall, it SAYING that it was tomorrow as Danny exclaimed. "I-It is tomorrow!? I've been up all night!" He yawned as he continued to remark. "Ah well, one sleepy day of school and one lame ghost freed... What's the worst that can happen...?"
He really shouldn't have asked that question as he dozed right out for a test, Cedric and Talia rubbing their temples before she spoke to her 'boyfriend'. "You know, I thought that he would be more conscious of the time."
"Leave it to both Tucker and something unexpected to keep him up, he should have known better by now." Both shook their heads and resumed before Lancer called out from the front of the class.
"Pencils down! All tests in!" He glanced about before reached down, snatching the slumbering Danny's test and grimacing to the drool-covered piece of parchment. "Ah, teaching... Always rewarding." Not that much happened over the day as Danny did get back up from his slumber before going out on patrol for the annoying 'master of tech' as he conversed through a pair of Fenton Phones, wary of any more 'hypno' light shows as he mused.
"Last time, Technus fused a monster out of the junk from my dad's shed." He responded as he spoke into the Phones. "Be on the lookout for runaway appliances." Tucker rode on his electric scooter as he returned.
"Copy. The objective is to defeat the boss and power him down to Level Zero." Danny took over as Sam, Cedric, and Talia were on the search as well, explaining the 'Level Zero' nonsense.
"Uh, Level Zero is a no man's land, Sam." Danny answered as he walked down the side of a building. "It's a glitch in the DOOM program, if you get knocked into it, you're stuck there." Sam sighed as Cedric and Talia just peered about in the jeep.
"I cannot begin to tell you how interesting that is."
"If you were game-savvy, you'd know that." Tucker remarked as Talia joined in.
"Okay, can we stop, it sounds like you are being very rude to Miss Manson right now."
"It's a simple male mentality, Talia." Cedric answered as he continued to drive with skill. "Some guys don't believe that girls and females are able gamers, a bit rude indeed." They nearly let the fireworks erupt as Sam started in rage.
"Oh, really!? Let me tell you something!" Before she could lecture, she came to a stop as she exclaimed. "Hold up, I got something." Going into the park was a series of appliances as she continued. "Fast-moving garage sale headed east toward the park." They formed up as Technus just laughed to the tech bounty on hand.
"Yes! Come to me, beautiful technology, and together, we shall build a new body worthy of my greatness." The tech compacted and mounted as Technus continued. "Something sleek, stylish, and totally powerful! Yeah baby!" The five arrived with Sam and Tucker giving surprised looks while Talia, Danny, and Cedric stared with resolve as Danny spoke.
"Look familiar? Technus saw me playing DOOM last night and now he's trying to look like Chaos." Danny answered with narrowed brow as Tucker remarked.
"The way you play DOOM, he shouldn't be hard to beat."
"Ignoring that!" Danny peered back with the pair donning a serious look of fun as Phantom explained. "Okay, Tuck, here's what we'll do, you distract him with L2 throttle right manoeuvre and I'll power up and engage him in battle mode."
"What about me?" Sam questioned as Danny spoke in return.
"You stay here, Sam, You probably don't know OR care about the moves we're talking about here." Danny answered as Tucker added to it.
"Yeah, you'd just get in the way." They stood up as Sam glared before Cedric hummed and spoke as Talia, though angry as much as Sam, turned her attention to him more.
"This is the part where we watch as a pair of teen fools TRIES to conquer a tech-obsessed ghost in a digital avatar." The rev of an engine and Tucker took off as he exclaimed.
"Time to show him what five volts of manly battery power can really do!" He sped toward the behemoth as the ghost hurled a disc at Tucker to his uneasy dodge before... circling around the ankles as he called out. "I got him distracted! Hit him, Danny!" Hard to say that as Danny flew up and delivered a solid punch to the colossus. He went in for another beat down before he was swatted out of the air and crashed into the tree they were peering from, landing in front of Sam as she commented.
"So much for battle mode, huh?" Danny leveled a glance to Sam before he exclaimed.
"Okay, this calls for advanced mode with an intangibility bonus!" The pair just shook their heads as Danny took off again with his intangibility activated, soaring over to Tucker who was getting shot at before Danny saved him and he cheered.
"Yeah, boi! This is better than the gauntlet on DOOM in level nine!" He spoke too soon as Danny's own glee let the power slipped away and an ectoblast popped Tucker's back wheel, bringing them to a stop and the perfect target for Technus to hit with blasts from the eyes, but on reflex, Danny conjured a shield and the blast reflected back on Technus, toppling the titan as Danny exclaimed before questioning.
"Cool! How'd I do that?"
"NO!" Technus ranted as the new body sparked and surged with volts. "I, Technus, am getting tired of getting beaten by you!" Danny countered back.
"Yeah? Well, you, Technus, are gonna have to learn some new video game moves if you want to beat us!" Danny replied back with glancing over to a smug Tucker, but that single thought gave Technus an idea.
"You're right! I have all the style, but none of the substance. I must acquire these new skills, and I know exactly where I can do that!" Technus then pushed a red button on the body and the whole thing swelled up before exploding, the head crashing in front of the five of them as Tucker cheered, Danny feeling the victory being bittersweet for some reason.
"You won! Great job, Danny!" Sam, as always the voice of thought, lectured otherwise.
"What are you talking about? He self-destructed." Danny came close as he hummed in thought.
"I'm leaning toward Sam's point, he makes that big of a lecture and then just blows up? Something's not adding up here." He turned human and leaned on the head as he mused at the sweet taste of victory anyways. "Well, whatever! I'm here, he's gone and that means my work here is done." What he didn't notice was a wisp of green floating out of the jaw and into the Fenton Phones as his ghost sense went off and he peered about in confusion as Sam approached him, Cedric and Talia keeping a distance for a bit.
"Cool! So... what do you wanna do?" Tucker and Danny gave each other knowing smiles as they headed home, Sam paused as she looked Cedric and frowned. "You knew, didn't you..." She said with some grief as Cedric waved a hand.
"Just do what you do, we'll be along." She smiled and bolted as he looked to Talia. "Likely place of Technus?"
"The Fenton Phones Danny is wearing..."
"Right..." He hummed as he stretched and rolled his head as he continued. "Well, I don't have a reason to press this further right now." He extended his elbow to Talia. "I promised, didn't I?" She smiled as she looped an arm through and held.
"That was your vow, you have a place?"
"It's a fancy little spot, better than Nasty Burger, you'll love it." The pair headed off while, back at Fenton Works that Danny got to in time to do the DOOM, spend the last few hours grinding for the big moment as he called to Tucker.
"Okay, Tuck, just like in the park."
"I'm all over it!" The level loaded up and Chaos arrived, confronted with the pair of Tucker and Danny trying the tactic, but Chaos was not so fooled as Tucker was forced to swerve from getting hit, Danny with a jetpack was knocked out of the sky with a single, precise blast, before getting Tucker dropped on him when Chaos TRIPPED the hover scooter, deleting the both of them as Chaos laughed once more to the GAME OVER as Danny exclaimed.
"Oh man! It was like he was three steps ahead of us!" He glanced to the clock and grimaced as the clock read five-thirty AM, meaning one thing for him as he removed the helmet with a groan. "Another all-nighter." He yawned with departing, heedless of the tech ghost popping out of the Phones and zapping into the game, forming as a tri-legged abomination with a brain in a jar as he crackled with greedy intent...
The day started as usual as Lancer spoke. "By and large, I'm pleased with the test results, I know that the poetry of the Nineteenth century is enough to put one to sleep..." He announced before pulling out Danny's test, with a F on the front of it, as he slapped it down in front of a groggy Danny. "This, however, borders on sarcasm." The bell rang and the students stormed out as Danny made to go as well before Lancer's voice spoke up. "A word, Danny?" To the disapproving face, Danny sat back down as Lancer went off in explaining. "Danny, when a teacher looks at his student, he 'hopes' to see the reflection of his own abilities." That crossed a smile on Lancer's face before he frowned at Danny. "When I look at you, I see my own 'F'." He planted his hands on the desk as he inquired. "I don't like to fail, do you?" Danny went off as he tried to explain.
"M-Mr. Lancer, I-I can explain...!"
"I-I need no explanations, I need results!" Lancer cut Danny off as he inquired. "So you know what I'm gonna do?" The first thought of Danny's was to 'pass him so he doesn't look bad', but he debated it before asking.
"You're going to give me a second chance to take the test after some studying?" Lancer laughed before he continued.
"Yes, I am going to give you the opportunity to do better, I'm making you retake the test." Danny felt the naive side stammer on the stupid test, but he pushed it down as he asked.
"How much was the test?"
"A quarter of your final grade." Danny blinked before he counted on his fingers and Lancer rolled his eyes as he spoke. "That's twenty-five percent, in case you're failing math as well. You have three days to study for the make-up, get it?" Danny slumped down in his seat as he replied.
"Got it, sir..." Danny left and he KNEW that he should be studying, but his mind was focused on victory against Chaos as, later at an internet cafe, Danny was going through DOOM before he exclaimed. "I got it! If you crack the safe at Mega-Mart, you get an extra life!" Danny went to work on typing on the keyboard as Sam arrived, surprising the pair of them while Cedric and Talia soon approached as well.
"That extra live will come in handy when Lancer kills you for flunking again." Tucker decided to open his mouth as he commented, now focused on the goth who was there now.
"What's she doing here? She can't be here to play." Cedric rolled his eyes as he turned to Talia.
"Talia, zipper over the mouth, only Danny and Sam can open it and it disappears when they leave."
"With pleasure." Tucker moved to speak before his mouth was zipped shut to Talia's briefly glowing hands and he struggled with a look of spite for the action as Sam commented back, slightly chuckling at how easy it was to shut Tucker up.
"Oh? Because I'm a girl? And us girls are lacking in what? Opposable thumbs, one track minds, stupid berets?" There was a muffled 'hey' as Tucker placed a hand on his beret in grief as Danny spoke up again with some regret.
"As much as I hate to really say it, Sam's got a point, I probably should be studying." He glanced over to Tucker as he asked, grabbing the latch on Tucker's mouth. "Tuck?" The mouth was opened and Tucker spoke, looking just as normal as always under the zip line given.
"I'll stick to goofing off." He resumed playing as he commented. "We're gonna need all the ammo we can get if we wanna defeat Chaos." Danny huffed as he shook his head as he commented himself.
"Chaos is a video game avatar, Lancer is an actual person and hates me. I mean, imagine him scowling at me for being in here." He shook his head as he continued. "I can already hear the disappointment he has for me only."
"Well, I wouldn't go too far with that assumption." Danny looked behind him and found Lancer staring at him, meaning he was in trouble as, in DOOM, Technus was testing out his new body.
"My last form was unstable and I was unable to conceal myself from those annoying children, but this new body is much more..." He paused as he thought about it. "How would the kids say it today? Far out!" He straightened up as he continued. "In this new body, they shall never know it's me... Technus!" He near-exclaimed as another voice spoke up.
"Yo newbie!" Tucker landed and fired the bazooka he got with an exclaim. "Look out!" The blast flew true as it deleted a barbaric monster that was going to attack Technus as the ghost praised the success.
"Excellent!" He stamped over as he continued with praise. "You are quite the game player, bespectacled one." Tucker let that praise fill his ego as he returned volley.
"Thanks, I know a few moves." He twirled the blaster in hand before accidentally letting it fly as Technus inquired, Tucker still not aware of who he was talking to.
"Perhaps you can teach me these 'moves' of which you speak, then I can become as 'hip' and 'far out' as you." Yet somehow, Tucker still didn't clue in as he exclaimed.
"Hip? Far out? Wow! You do need help. Fortunately, you came to the right place. Step into my office." Tucker gestured to a portal and the pair walked through it as Tucker explained the game level and witnessed Technus use his 'ghost powers' to cheat the game, but he was still an idiot to the identity of who he was helping as the pair were then confronted by a trio of 'Shaolin Wushu War Lords' while Danny was being driven home by Lancer as the man lectured a bit.
"Playing an internet video game is hardly the stuff of human drama, Danny." Danny countered as he explained.
"But it's fun... and frustrating, 'cause of this 'Chaos' player."
"Fun is relative, when I see a student passing through the portals of Casper High for the last time, brimming with the knowledge it takes to make it in the outside world, to me, that's fun." Lancer beamed as Danny questioned.
"That sounds like you don't often go out or something, sir."
"And you need to stay in more and here are a couple of people who will make you do just that!" M. Lancer exclaimed as he pulled up to the house and Danny grew fearful to the pair standing outside of the house.
"My parents!?" The window rolled up, but Danny knew that he was in trouble. Meanwhile, Tucker and Technus blasted through the foes before Technus asked the big question.
"Now what exactly is the purpose of this 'skill' contest?"
"To defeat all foes, reach Level Thirteen, and retrieve the Seven Silver Keys to the Apocalypse." Tucker voiced as he brought up a display for the keys as Technus continued the question.
"And what happens after that?"
"Gain ultimate power and access to the World Wide Web!"
"Very well..." Technus then unleashed a powerful speech of domination. "Then, I, Technus, shall use my ghost powers and newfound gaming prowess to win the game and spread my intellect to every machine in the world!" He paused as he realized something. "My, that was a long speech." Tucker FINALLY clued in as he exclaimed.
"What!? Technus!?"
"BINGO, BOOBY! GAME OVER!" Technus blasted Tucker before he mused. "That was fun!" In the Real World, Tucker was panicking as he exclaimed.
"Oh no! Technus is in the game and he is able to use his ghost powers! I better stop him before he gets to the Internet!" Easier said then done as, Technus's power gave him the advantage of bypassing most of the game within reason while Tucker was not given those powers in the game and progressed with a crawl, but still he chased the ghost through the game, hoping that he could stop the mad man...
"Lazy, unfocused, ill prepared, lethargic! Need I go on?" Lancer commented as he read off a notepad of how Danny was not doing so well as Danny tried, Jazz even staying back as she could see that he needed help, but she couldn't provide that right now.
"Dad, I..."
"That's enough of your sass talk, mister!" Maddie spoke up as she asked Lancer.
"What do you suggest, Mr. Lancer?" The aging man rested a hand on Danny's shoulder as he explained.
"Danny will pass, I know he's capable, but I'd like him to spend his after-school hours in my office studying until I administer the make-up exam." Jazz made to pipe up, but Danny shook his head and she nodded as Lancer continued as if understanding the silent conversation. "Ah, but consider this, Danny, if you fail, you may be held back a year. If it's boring once, imagine taking it again" Maddie cut into the threat-filled reply as she pointed out genius.
"Get this straight, Danny, You're a Fenton. Fentons get A's, or in your father's case, B minuses."
"Solid B minuses." Jack grumbled as Maddie continued.
"Until you retake this test and pass with flying colours, we are forbidding all access to electronic devices." She finished as a cell went off and Danny pulled his own to see who was calling.
"It's Tucker..." Unfortunately, the act was passed as Jack snatched the phone and shouted.
"HE'S BUSY!" He crushed the phone as Tucker fought in vain against Technus, getting deleted again as Technus doubled in size and mass as the ghost commented.
"Interesting. I seem to grow stronger with each vanquished foe."
"This is bad." Tucker commented with phone to his ear as he commented. "He's figuring the game out. Why won't Danny answer?"
"Maybe he's busy." Sam commented on the line as she inquired. "Could you use a hand?"
"Fat chance. It's every man for himself." Tucker reloaded and was deleted just the same as Sam commented with sarcasm.
"Every man, huh?" Chaos appeared in the game with a turn before the face change to have a monitor look of Sam as Tucker exclaimed in surprise.
"WHAT! You're Chaos!?"
"If you were game-savvy, you'd know that." Tucker slumped as the following day had the friends in the gym playing basketballs as Sam mocked the pair of guys while Talia was having a time observing their confusion, Cedric watching as well as he switched between them and his PDA on hand. "'I'm GhostBoy! I'm FryerTuck! We don't need your help because you're a girl.'" She crossed her arms with amusement as Tucker finally shouted.
"Alright! Alright! Enough already!" Tucker threw the ball, but it just bounced off as Danny spoke up.
"I can't believe it was you dusting us this whole time! Why didn't you say anything earlier?"
"I tried to, but between the condescension and the cockiness, I barely had time for anything else!" She played with the ball that rolled in front of her before she tossed the ball and scored as Tucker spoke to Danny, neither of them really involving Cedric as he didn't seem like much of a gamer.
"Well, the main thing is, Sam can help me fight Technus while you're out of commission." Sam's brow narrowed as Tucker corrected for safety. "I mean... I can help Sam." Danny huffed as he replied.
"What a mess! It's my fault Technus is out there while I'm stuck studying the world's dullest subject." He huffed as Sam came over while Talia and Cedric headed off for something.
"Just leave everything to us, Danny, Technus may have the power, but we got the moves." She tossed the ball once more and scored again as she continued. "I've got lots of cheat codes and secret power-ups in my arsenal. Of course, you guys must know all of those too, right?" The pair glanced at each other before Sam continued with a smile. "Weird, the girls do, maybe you guys need to communicate better." The moment was shattered by Lancer as he called out from the entrance to the Gym.
"Danny Fenton! My classroom now!" Danny headed out, pausing as he found Cedric waiting a bit as Lancer spoke. "Mr. Trace, what are you doing here, I believe that the exam is only for..."
"Yeah, I know, Lancer sir, just wanted to part some friendly words to the student from another." Lancer paid it little mind as he headed in, Cedric glancing to Danny as he spoke. "Focus only on the exam, treat it as an emergency, you can't be a hero if you neglect yourself." Danny raised a brow as Cedric pushed off and headed out. "Just, don't turn from your studies, Jazz and us helped you, but now you need to do this on your own, don't worry about your friends, focus on your exam and understand the meaning if you just give up."
Cedric headed out as Danny commented. "Weird..." He got to work, studying, but it really was a dull subject as Danny felt his eyes droop now and then before an hour passed and Lancer was still grading several papers before Danny near-yelped as he slipped through intangible before he got up and stretched as Lancer commented.
"Going somewhere, Mr. Fenton?" Danny answered with a stretch and pop.
"Just stretching my legs." He glanced down to the top-most paper and spoke with a filter in boredom. "Oh, writing your sister, huh?" He paused before he fully inquired. "You have a sister?" Lancer reached over to the photo of a 'woman' in a pink flower dress, red curly hair, and what appear to be both facial hair and chest hair as Lancer remarked.
"I haven't seen her in ages, can't afford the plane fare." He glanced to Danny as he explained on. "You know, this would be an excellent time for you to say 'Gosh, Mr. Lancer, I never realized being a teacher could be so difficult'." He leveled a glance to Danny as he stammered.
"I'm fourteen, I didn't really think about it that much." Lancer huffed as he commented.
"Yes, yes, 'course." He paused before breathing again. "Gonna get some air." Lancer headed out as Danny turned with a comment.
"Gotta cross teacher off 'what I wanna be when I grow up' list." His eyes landed on the computer before he looked around and near-moved for the device before he stopped. "...What am I doing, Sam and Tucker are handling Technus, buying time for me, but what am I doing about it, being a coward and just wanting to play games instead of studying, what kind of person am I to do that...?" He sat in the seat and rested his arms on the desk before he stood back up and stopped at his desk, picking the book up before he paused and spoke to himself. "...Wait a minute... maybe..." He glanced to the door and moved toward it and found Lancer, rubbing his temples as he would have been doing if Danny yielded to the temptation of games, before he asked. "Um, in the poem, The Tyger, why does he rhyme the words I in symmetry?"
Thankfully, Lancer answered, looking hopeful about the question. "The poem was written in the early eighteen hundreds, I'm sure there were multiple ways to pronounce that word." Danny took it further with sitting beside Lancer as he continued with the book.
"And it's Blake, right? William Blake?"
"Actually, yes. There were actually other poems he wrote that used the same form of rhyme scheme."
"Really? Which ones?" From the corner, Cedric smiled as he had taken a moment to make sure that Danny did the right thing, the look of hope true as he headed off for real.
"Now, that is the sign of a good student, always needing help and willing to ask for the aid that they need." Meanwhile, Tucker and Sam did their best, but they were helpless to the ghost powers and Technus advanced further and further into DOOM, even turning into a more spider-like being as Danny studied without pause before he breathed with the book closing.
"Well, it's now or never and it better be now. I've got less than an hour before Technus gets to the last level, I suspect." With that, Lancer gave the exam and Danny worked it over, the time studying for the exam truly coming in handy before he finished and Lancer graded it over, Danny nervous before Lancer gave the end result.
"Ninety-one."
"Ninety-one?" Danny's heart soared as he exclaimed. "Ninety-one! I aced it?"
Lancer hummed before he replied. "Just barely, but yes, you aced it."
"YES! I knew I could do it!" He paused as he realized that he could always do it, it just took a moment of recognition to get it. "Hey, I did, I did know I could do it. Thanks." Lancer huffed as he pointed it out.
"Yes, well, don't think this means I won't be keeping an eye on you, Fenton."
"Don't think this mean you won't have to!" Danny cheered with the paper in hand as he cheered out of the room. "I ACED IT!" Lancer just smiled as he plucked the photo up, used for his 'I don't get to see my sister' speech as always before pointing out the truth of it to himself, it was just him in a dress...
Danny quickly got back to his home, planted his test results in front of his parents, and rushed down to get into DOOM as he exclaimed. "Hey, guys, I'm here and I aced the test."
"Dude, that's great!" Tucker typed back as he asked. "Did you get a hundred?"
"No, I got an A minus, a solid A minus." Danny grinned in the game as Tucker and Sam pursued Technus who now has five of the seven keys.
"We're in level Thirteen, Technus has five of the seven silver keys, and if he gets the last two, he's king of the world wide web!" Danny was faced with a different issue as he was just as swiftly pinned down by hostile fire as he exclaimed.
"It'll take me forever to reach level thirteen!" The pair in said level tried to Technus, but he just went intangible as Tucker exclaimed.
"He's using his ghost powers! We can't stop him!" Suddenly, the answer clicked for Danny as he exclaimed.
"Ghost powers! Ugh, I'm such an idiot!" Danny typed his reply to his friends on what he just realized. "Technus used his ghost powers in the game, so... why can't I, right?" Pulling the helmet off, he went ghost and zapped himself into the game, his avatar changing just the same to match a digital Phantom avatar as he remarked. "Alright, I'm in. This had better work..." He took flight and soar, using his intangibility to zoom through without injury as he exclaimed. "Excellent, I'm learning all over the place." He chuckled to the missing fire. "Swee-e-et! My powers are the ultimate cheat code!" He zoomed through the truck and headed into the next level as Technus, on Thirteen exclaimed in glee.
"Yes! Two more keys, then I, the new improved Technus, shall become the hip modern ruler of the world!" He crackled before getting blasted off the large entrance to the web, he glancing to the keys and making a beeline for them, phasing through the blasts with ease before crushing the pair of monsters guarding the keys and snatching one with a laugh. "I, Technus, am totally frying your bacon!"
"Well, that's one thing he hasn't upgraded, his catchphrases." Tucker remarked as Technus just continued to taunt.
"You are no match for me for I am Technus, Master of..."
"Master of Long-Winded Introductions!" Danny shouted as he arrived. "Do you ever stop talking about yourself?" Chaos's face resumed to using Sam as she exclaimed.
"Do something, Danny, we're one key away from a catastrophe! Oh, and congrats on the A" Danny chuckled as he generated energy into his palms.
"Thanks." He fired, but Technus blocked it with a reflect, slamming Danny out of the air as Technus made to grab the final key before he was blasted away by Sam, weakening him and shrinking him down as Danny commented. "He's vulnerable, keep hammering him." Tucker added to the damage as Technus barely got up, just to get exploded by Tucker's bomb before he took flight and the trio met up as Sam questioned.
"Do you think he gave up?"
"Negative! INCOMING!" Danny shouted as Technus returned atop a flaming boulder before Sam and Tucker came up with a plan.
"Hey Tuck, Remember that mega cheat I told you about?"
"Time to bust it out?"
"Time to bust it out." Sam answered as she bolted the other way as she exclaimed to the pair still on the offense. "Hold Technus off 'til I get back." The pair fired away, but with the rock, their shots went wide, but not for Technus as he fired back, knocking both of them away as Danny got trapped in a plant while Tucker made a break for the final key with Technus missing before crashing, the rumble felt as Sam arrived to a series of totems, lifting a small one up before hurling it into the mouth of one of the giant ones, creating a portal as she exclaimed.
"Here goes everything!" She leapt in as Tucker dove for the key, just as Technus, jumping off the boulder on impact, slammed into Tucker, knocking him back and deleting him as Danny exclaimed.
"Tucker!" He supercharged the plant, exploding it and landing in front of Technus, mere moments from grabbing the last key.
"The game is over, victory is mine!" The ghost taunted as he continued. "Any last requests, child?" Technus inquired with hand reaching the key.
"Um... yeah." Danny smiled as he crossed his arms. "Could you take out the trash, Sam?"
"WITH PLEASURE!" Sam exclaimed as a giant foot crushed Technus, she now in a cheat code that made the avatar into a titan of Islander origins as Danny remarked.
"Hey, not bad, better than me, but I kinda want to be a bit manly, you know."
"Slightly ignoring that." Sam answered as she plucked the now-crushed Technus up. "Care to lend a hand?" Danny was happy to as he soared off to the edge of the program before tearing a hole in it for Sam to toss the bug into as the ghost stammered to his new surroundings.
"What? Where am I?"
"It's level Zero." Danny answered as he peered down the hole. "It's a glitch in the program, one way in, no way out."
"Now listen here... young whippersnapper! I, Technus, am hip and funky fresh and..." Anymore was lost as Danny released, closing the program back up as he finished with his own line.
"...Totally out of date." He flew back over as Tucker reformed with a comment.
"Good thing, I upgraded my anti-virus program. Did I miss anything?"
"Just the most awesome display of gamesmanship ever!" Tucker gasped as he lashed out, snatching the final key as he exclaimed.
"Hey, guys, we got the Seven Silver Keys to the Apocalypse, all we have to do is open the door and we'll win the game!" It was truly a moment of excitement as they watched the key go in before all three of them was deleted with all going through the same confusion, Danny launching out of the game and into the lab wall as he exclaimed in confusion of what just happened.
"Who on earth could've done that?" The answer came when the seventh key, dropped by Tucker, was plucked up by a violet-armored individual, but it was the face that shocked them as Mr. Lancer exclaimed with key held high.
"Once again, I have the seventh silver key and I am victorious! Me! MR. LANCER!" He paused from his seat in the classroom before hanging his head. "I gotta stop doing that." The trio were in shock as the avatar continued. "Now, time to insert the key and victory is truly mine..."
"I find your lack of belief disturbing..." Lancer turned to the imposing figure that had appeared and Danny, Tucker, and Sam watched as DOOM history was made, they had heard of the figure, but never had gazed upon the mad doctor appearance of respirator, bellowing cloak, and mechanical parts as the two faced off with Lancer scowling to the figure.
"Calamity...!"
"DangerGame..." A clawed finger pointed as the legendary figure spoke. "Your victory has come to fall, surrender the key freely or perish."
"I am onto your tricks, Calamity, you will not catch me off-guard this time." Sudden, a bladed circle pierced through Lancer's chest as a second figure had appeared, seductive and alluring of a harem girl, but chains wrapped the wrists, ankles, and collared to the neck, head hidden in a large cloak like Calamity, with both hands holding chakrams, with one cutting through.
"I believe you don't know all of my tricks, DangerGame." Lancer was deleted and Calamity laughed before he took the keys and replaced them once more, the game turning off as the trio and teacher were still unaware of WHO Calamity truly was...
