Well, I'm glad to have gotten some reviews for this story even though the prologue was a bit cruddy. I just hope that this new chapter is good enough to satisfy all of you who are reading this. Oh, and here's a list of Danny's current aliens.
Current Playlist Includes: Humungousaur, Echo Echo, Rath, Gravattack, Arctiguana, Spidermonkey, Greymatter, Goop, Brainstorm, Armodrillo, Big Chill, Swampfire, Fasttrack, Jetray, NRG, Lodestar, Diamondhead, ChamAlien, Alien X
Ultimate Forms Include: Humungousaur, Gravattack, Rath, Arctiguana, Greymatter, Echo Echo, Spidermonkey, Swampfire, Big Chill
Signature Alien: Undecided
Pairing: Danny F. x Sunny T.
Disclaimer: I still don't own Danny Phantom, or Ben 10!
"..." = Regular Speech
"Italics" = Thinking
"Bold" = Yelling
Finding the Ultimatrix! An Unrecognized Prodigy!
In the ghost infested town of Amity Park, we find ourselves in the basement of a building that had been converted into a laboratory. And working in that lab while looking through an electron microscope was a fifteen year old boy that was about five feet, ten inches tall. The boy had a slightly pale complexion, silver hair that spiked in a forward direction, and eyes that were as red as the purest fire ruby. He was currently wearing a simple black tee shirt and a pair of baggy blue jeans with white sneakers and a white labcoat as he continued to work. This is Daniel James Fenton. Or Danny, as he prefers to be called.
He was currently looking at how DNA from his own bloodstream continued to adapt to radiation that was slowly introduced to the sample. Each time he added more radiation to the blood, the cells would drastically change. Once the cells had turned crystalline for a brief few seconds before turning back to normal. It had astounded Danny so much that he had devoted much of his time towards his studies on Genealogy.
His parents were very proud of their son for following his dream of becoming a scientist. While their daughter and Danny's sister Jazz was smart, Danny was in an intellectual league all his own! One time, the Fenton family doctor had given both children an I.Q. test to see where they were in life, and Jazz had scored an above average 160% on her test. But Danny trumped her by having an I.Q. of just a bit over 300! While she was jealous of her brother for being smarter than her, Jazz was still happy for her little brother, and knew he would go far in life.
Unfortunately, not everyone shared Danny's family's sentiments. Many of the teachers at Casper High School despise Danny for his superior intelligence, and tried to put down his grades. Fortunately, the principal quickly caught wind of their activities and put a stop to it. But on the plus side, Danny's Japanese Language teacher Ms. Ishida, and his music teacher Mr. Sanchez found it refreshing to have such a smart student that is willing to help out his classmates with their studies. He was well respected by his peers in these classes, but there were always certain students that tormented him for other reasons.
Due to his silver hair and red eyes, the popular kids always put Danny down with mean notes and physical assault. Danny also didn't have any friends because of this. Well, friends no. But a girlfriend? Now that's an entirely different manner altogether.
"If I had known how obsessed you'd be with that microscope, I might've chosen to instead get you a pocket watch for our anniversary." said the voice of a teenage girl.
Danny looked up from his work to see someone walking down the stairs and into the lab. It was a girl that looked to be about his age. She stood at 5'7, had long black hair that fell to her waist, a tanned skin color, and deep blue eyes. She wore a purple T-shirt, a black mini-skirt, and a pair of black leather boots. Her eyes showed a mix of mischief and love for Danny. This is Sunny Tennyson, Danny's girlfriend for a year now.
When Danny had first started high school, he'd found Sunny being sexually harassed by Dash while a few of the other jocks were trying to stop him. Danny's eyes had turned redder than usual when he saw Dash about to try and remove Sunny's shirt, and he ran in to save her without a thought for his own safety. He had hit Dash with a powerful right hook that sent the blonde jock skidding into a few lockers, and broke his jaw in the process.
Danny had gotten Sunny to the nurse's office, and the whole way there she had clutched onto him for dear life while crying uncontrollably from such mental trauma. The two of them started to hang out more often after that, and five months later they were in a relationship. But Danny did have a bad habit of letting his passion for science distract him from most other things outside of his life.
"My blood keeps reacting in different ways the more radiation it absorbs, and I don't know why. This could be the key to furthering human evolution, Sunny!" Danny said.
"Danny, I know you want to be a Genealogist one day. I also support your studies fully." Sunny said before grinning coyly. "And you promised me an evening away from the lab."
Knowing that he wasn't going to win this argument, Danny just sighed before smiling at the girl of his dreams.
"You're right, my love." Danny said.
Seeing that she won this argument, Sunny went back upstairs to wait for Danny while he cleaned up his work station. She and Danny had spoken about how they would spend the evening earlier in the week, and decided on a romantic picnic under the stars. Sunny smiled as she gently fingered the necklace that Danny had given her for their anniversary.
It was an obsidian charm that was shaped like the north star with a turtle shell stone in the middle attached to a golden chain. It wasn't very fancy, but Sunny didn't mind. She had been very happy when Danny had given her the necklace, but her grandmother was never gonna let her live down the fact that she made out with Danny until he was unconscious from lack of air. It still embarrassed her when her grandma brought that up.
Pretty soon, Danny was up without his labcoat on. He bid his family good evening, and he and Sunny walked arm in arm to their favorite spot in the local park.
***On a Hill in the Park***
The whole scene was the perfect setting of romance for the two teenagers as they enjoyed their picnic. They watched the stars, named a few constellations, and even created a few new ones. But right now, they were talking about how Danny's blood was reacting to the radiation in his test.
"Sunny, how can you not be curious about such an astounding discovery?! This phenomenon could very well revolutionize all of mankind!" Danny said before taking a sip of water.
"I'm just as curious about those reactions as you are, but I don't see the need to control everything." Sunny said as she scooted closer to her boyfriend. "Trust me when I say that these things can't be rushed. Record your findings, and maybe publish your findings when you have enough data to back up your theory."
"You're right as always, Sunny" Danny said with a smile.
"Oh, you flatterer you! I'm not right all the time." Sunny replied, returning the smile.
For a moment, the two of them just stared into each other's eyes. The love these two shared was very powerful, and could be felt by many of the other couples that were passing by. That's when Sunny caught something in the sky.
"Look, a shooting star!" Sunny exclaimed, pointing at the sky.
Danny looked up, and saw that Sunny was right. It was a shooting star streaking through the sky. Danny grinned from seeing such a sight. Shooting stars were very rare to see in heavily populated areas, and he was very pleased by this find. But that was when he noticed something off about it.
For one thing, the "star" kept getting bigger and bigger as it streaked through the night sky. It also seemed to be coming in their direction. Danny got the sinking feeling in his gut as he thought only one thing.
"That's not a star… That's an incoming projectile!"
"SUNNY, GET DOWN!" Danny yelled as he pushed her out of the way.
The "star streaked right past them, and crashed into the ground. Upon impact, the thing created a huge crater that was quite deep. Danny and Sunny got back up once the ground stopped shaking, and walked cautiously over to the crater. They looked inside to see a metal pod the size of a basketball in the crater.
"A pod?" Sunny muttered to herself.
"Stay here. I'm gonna get a closer look." Danny said.
He walked down into the crater, and stopped just a few feet away from the pod. He could tell from the heat that this thing was still fairly warm due to entering Earth's atmosphere. Suddenly, the pod hissed as it released compressed air, and opened up to reveal something.
It was a gauntlet that looked like it was supposed to cover the back of the hand from the knuckles to the wrist. The gauntlet was red with four black squares where the knuckles were, a silver colored, circular dial with a red hourglass on the faceplate and four silver "spikes" jutting out of the sides of the dial. It also had a band that looked like it was supposed to clamp on by the palm of the hand.
"What's a gauntlet doing in a pod?" Danny asked himself. "And more importantly, how'd it get here in the first place?"
With his scientific curiosity piqued, Danny reached out with his right hand to grab the watch. But what he wasn't prepared for was for the gauntlet to leap up and clamp down on his hand. Danny shouted as he tried to get the gauntlet off. It flashed and beeped a few times to show that it had keyed itself to his DNA, but neither teen knew this.
There we go! I hope this chapter is satisfactory to you all, because I worked very hard on it! And if guest reviewer Omnipotent 18 is reading this, know that I have gotten your reviews for Quest of the Kaminatrix, and will use that idea. But I also ask that you don't act so surprised if I don't update some days, as I won't always have time to write. If any of you have ideas for a new look for Danny, feel free to let me know! Next up, I'm updating Danny, The Tiger of Light!
