Chapter 4: Meet the Corduroy's
As the world continues going insane here's a new chapter for my readers stuck mostly at home.
Enjoy.
Danny Fenton was thinking about what to say. He was going to tell Wendy his secret, that he was Danny Phantom. He was on the bus heading to Gravity Falls as rain clouds began to form.
How to tell her. Hey Wendy I'm the superhero Danny Phantom. Too simple.
Danny had to think of something on how to tell Wendy about him having ghost powers. You know what, just keep it simple.
The bus stopped and the driver announced the stop was at Gravity Falls. Danny got off the bus and folded up his umbrella as it began to rain down. He decided to head for the Mystery Shack thinking it was the best place to go to find Wendy first.
As Danny approached the Mystery Shack he saw the front door open and a kid around 10 that had platinum white hair and was wearing a light blue suit and a green sun razor on his head exited the building, which Danny guessed was Lil' Gideon because of various posters Danny saw around town advertising his business as a child psychic and how Wendy described how Gideon's really a little devil that is trying to steal the deed to the Mystery Shack for whatever reason. Danny saw Stan was chasing after Gideon with a broom while wearing his undershirt and boxers.
"You mark my words, Stanford, one day I'm gonna get that combination. And once I steal that deed, you'll never see the Mystery Shack again!" Yelled Gideon as he faced his rival.
Stan, having stopped chasing Gideon, said, "Good luck, bucko."
Gideon then ran into the woods, while Danny walked up to Stan and said "Hey Stan, is Wendy here?"
"Wendy, your new boyfriend is here!" Yelled Stan without bothering to say hello to Danny.
Wendy then walked to the doorway and said, "Hey Danny. Didn't expect you to be here today, especially with this weather."
"I wanted to surprise you." Said Danny.
"How sweet of you." Responded Wendy, "You can come inside if you want into the TV room. That's where everybody else is."
Stan walked towards the room where safe that held the deed was. While Wendy lead Danny to the TV room where Dipper, Mabel, and Soos were watching some western movie.
"Oh my gosh, oh my gosh!" Yelled Mabel, excited to meet Wendy's new boyfriend officially.
Dipper just groaned not really trilled to see the current boyfriend of his crush, at least he was not Robbie.
Mabel ran over to Danny and said in her cheerful demeanor, "Hi, I'm Mabel and I like you. You're so cute and short."
"Uh…thank you. I'm Danny by the way."
"Hey Danny, what's up dude?" Said Soos.
"Nice to see you again Soos, and things are looking nice." Said Danny as smiled at Wendy, who in turn blushed back.
"Nice dude." Said Soos, "Anyway want to watch Grandpa the Kid with us?"
"Sure." Said Danny, he didn't want to tell his secret in front of everybody else, especially Stan. He wanted to tell Wendy in private. Maybe later, besides this movie looks cool.
This movie was boring.
After a half hour of watching this movie Danny couldn't keep up with the slow plot and was mindlessly playing with a toy dart gun with Wendy and Dipper. Mabel was just plain bored. Stan seemed to be the only one who to enjoy it, apparently being able to related to the main character of the film.
Mabel, in an attempted to cheer everybody up, said, "Grunkle Stan, why can't we watch a movie we'll all enjoy?", she then pulled out an old VHS tape from her sweater, "Dream Boy High! "Where love is on your permanent record.""
"Boo!" Said everyone else in the room, for Danny that tape did remind him of those stupid high school drama films that Jazz used to watch when she was Mabel's age.
"You'll learn to like it." Said Mabel cheerfully.
After that a large crash was heard from the kitchen and Soos, who was busy patching up some leaks, yelled, "Aaah! Dudes, there's a bat in the kitchen! It tried to touch me with its "weird little bat fingers!""
"Don't worry, I got this under control." Said Stan as he leaned back the armchair he was on, "Dipper, take care of it."
"Ha Ha, yes." Said Mabel.
"What? Why can't Mabel do it?" Said Dipper.
"Cause life ain't fair. Now go fight a bat so we can watch TV." Said Stan.
"No way, Grunkle Stan! You always make me do dumb chores. I'm putting my foot down this time!" Said Dipper.
"I said do it kid. Now!" Said Stan.
Before tension could rise, Danny said, "I'll do it. Don't want to you to get hurt Dipper."
"See Dipper, this punk is more of a man than you are." Said Stan as he laughed.
Both Dipper and Danny sent Stan an angry scowl. Soos handed Danny a broom to take care of the bat. Danny then walked into the kitchen while everyone else was watching the movie.
As soon as he entered the kitchen he saw the large beast, for a bat that is. Danny then went ghost and send a small ghost ray at the bat, scaring it away but also breaking the kitchen window as it left.
Danny then went back into human mode and returned to the TV room.
"Well that was quick." Said Stan impressed at how a supposed wimp like Danny can easily take care of a bat.
Danny just ignored Stan compliment and said, "Soos, when the bat escaped it broke the kitchen window."
"I'll order a new window pane after the movie." Said Stan.
Danny, not in the mood to deal with Stan anymore, said, "Hey Wendy, you wanna go on a walk with me."
Wendy, noticing that it just stopped raining, said, "Sure."
Danny and Wendy walked outside with Mabel and Soos following them outside.
"Hey Wendy and Danny, want to see if Soos can lick his elbow." Said Mabel.
"Uh no thanks." Said Danny, Wendy just shook her head and both walked away from the Mystery Shack.
As the couple walked away from the Shack, Danny swore he heard some strange laughter coming from the woods. Probably nothing.
As Danny and Wendy were far away enough from the Mystery Shack, Danny stopped. It was for the reason he came here.
"Wendy, I want to tell you something." Said Danny.
"What is it?" Responded Wendy.
He was going tell her his secret as Danny Phantom. Come on Danny spit it out. Don't keep us waiting.
It's that simple.
Your Danny Phantom. Created when your parents built a very strange machine and it was designed to view a world unseen. When it didn't quite work, his folks, they just quit. But then you took a look inside of it (or rather a dare caused by your best friend Sam), there was a great big flash, everything just changed, and your molecules got all rearranged. When you first woke up, you realized you had snow white hair and glowing green eyes. You could walk through walls, disappear, and fly.
Tell Wendy all about that Danny. Come on, a quarter of the girls you met during the service know your secret identity, like Kara, Sabrina, and Kitty. You can do it.
"I…I…I want to meet your family!" Danny said quickly.
You stupid idiot, it's that simple.
"Uh okay. Though I must warn you, my family is pretty intense." Said Wendy.
"That's okay my parents are ghost hunters." Said Danny not believing what he just said as he covered his mouth.
"Really, I thought you said your parents were at home inventors?" Asked Wendy.
"Well, they do design ghost hunting equipment most of the time when they are at home, so technically I didn't lie to you ." Said Danny.
"Well that sounds neat, especially where you live." Said Wendy.
"Well most people thought my family and I were freaks until ghosts were totally proven to be real, even then I'm still treated as one." Responded Danny.
"Ouch." Said Wendy.
"Yeah, anyway I still want to meet your family." Said Danny.
"Sure." Said Wendy.
The couple walked towards Wendy's place unaware of great changes that were about to occur.
The couple arrived at Wendy's house as evening began to roll in. The house was in the middle of woods and a little dilapidated with some grass growing on the roof and sides, as well as lumberjack equipment spread out across the front yard.
"So this is your place. It does fit the lumberjack tone though." Said Danny.
Wendy laughed and said, "Thank you, my folks are home by the way."
"How do you know that?" Asked Danny.
"I can see my Dad's truck." Said Wendy, who pointed at a rather large truck designed to carry lumber.
Wendy then knocked on the door and a rather very large, breaded man opened it. Danny concluded that the man was Wendy's father based on his hair color.
"Wendy glad to see you, who's your new friend." Said Mr. Corduroy in a rather gruff voice.
"Hey Dad, this is my new boyfriend, Danny Fenton." Said Wendy.
"Pleased to meet you Danny. You may call me Manly Dan." Said Mr. Corduroy as gave out a rather strong handshake.
"Well…uh…pleased to meet you too, Manly Dan." Said Danny intimidated by Manly Dan's big size and voice, also his handshake bruised Danny's hand a bit.
"Come on in." Said Manly Dan.
"Uh…thank you." Said Danny as he and Wendy walked into the front room of the house.
"Kids, Wendy's back and she brought her new boyfriend over!" Manly Dan yelled to the other side of the house.
After that three boys, who also inherited their fathers red hair, came to the front room.
"These are my younger brothers Marcus, Kevin, and Gus." Said Wendy as introduced her siblings to Danny.
Marcus was the oldest of the male siblings. He wore a green cap, had shoulder length hair that covered his eyes, had a forming mustache, and is about inherited his dad's muscles.
Kevin is the middle male child. His appearance was a little thinner and a more pronounced chin than his brothers.
Gus is the youngest child. His appearance is that he is short and has an undercut hair style.
"Your sure thin, I expected you to be bigger." Said Gus.
Wendy groaned and pinched her nose. Her father walked into the front room, Manly Dan huge size not allowing him to fully stand up inside his own home.
"Now kids Danny might be thin, but he could be more manly than he seems. So Danny are you part of your high school's football team?" Said Manly Dan rather aggressively.
"Uh no." Said Danny.
"Well are you on any other sports team?" Asked Manly Dan.
"Well…uh…no as well." Responded Danny feeling a little more intimidated now.
"Do you do anything else manly?!" Shouted Manly Dan.
"Dad! Please stop pressuring my boyfriend." Said Wendy.
"Sorry Wendy. A fathers got a know these things about her daughters new boyfriend." Said Manly Dan in a slightly more calmer voice.
"So…uh…is dinner ready?" Asked Danny hoping to change the subject.
"Yes, you can help us debone the fishes me and my sons caught today." Said Manly Dan.
Wait, what thought Danny.
Wendy helped Danny when it came to deboning the fish. Both could hear Wendy's brothers snickering behind their backs, mainly they thought he was a wimp for not knowing how debone a fish at his age.
Eventually all six of them sat down at the dinner table after cooking their meal. The TV was turned on to the local news, they were eating their meal when shocking news came out, especially for both Danny and Wendy.
"In other news, local child psychic Lil' Gideon Gleeful has just announced he has acquired ownership of the Mystery Shack from local shyster Stanford Pines." Said the female news reporter.
"WHAT!" Yelled Wendy in shock.
The rest of Wendy's family cheered as they are fans of the deceiving child psychic, thinking like the rest of the town that Gideon was a sweet child.
"Dad, Gideon's a monster who uses his charm to get what he wants!" Explained Wendy.
"Not this again Wendy, he's a sweet child who wants nothing but good for our town." Said Manly Dan.
"I told you once that Gideon tired to kill Dipper when he told Gideon that Mabel was not interested in him." Said Wendy.
"That story is ridiculous, Gideon wouldn't even harm a fly." Said Manly Dan.
"Well earlier today I saw Gideon threaten Stan that he was going to steal the deed to his Shack." Said Danny jumping to his girlfriends defense.
"You're an out of towner who has no idea how things work in this town. Stan Pines is a cheap conman who once bought a bear so he can teach it how to drive with his niece and nephew in the car." Said Manly Dan.
"I can totally agree on the cheap conman part about Stan. However that still explain the fact that why would a 'cheap conman' suddenly decide to sell his own house to a rival?" Asked Danny hoping it would convince his girlfriends father in this flaw in logic.
Manly Dan then punched the wall next to him and yelled, "How dare you call Gideon a thief!"
"I'm just telling you on what I saw. Geez, no need to yell." Said Danny.
"Don't you dare talk back to me!" Yelled Manly Dan.
"Dad don't talk to my boyfriend like that!" Yelled Wendy in the defense of Danny, "I also saw Gideon trying to steal the deed to the Mystery Shack earlier today. Also Danny has a good point, why would Stan sell the Mystery Shack, his own home, to a rival."
Unfortunately Manly Dan and the rest of Wendy's family were blinded by the charm of Gideon Gleeful, especially as her siblings booed at them.
"Really, I'm telling you guys what Danny and I saw." Said Wendy.
"You were both bribed by your boss to say that trash about Gideon." Said Marcus.
"Also Wendy, since the only job you had is now gone you what that means." Said Manly Dan.
"What does that mean?" Questioned Danny.
"It means that since I don't have a job in Gravity Falls it means that I have to work at my cousin Steve's logging camp for the rest of the summer." Explained Wendy.
Anyway, yeah looks like Danny and Wendy's relationship hit a sang, for the rest of the summer that is.
Next Chapter: Phantom Rises
