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Boom mic

When Danny and Jazz climbed into the vehicle, Danny immediately went to the control panel to put it in lock-down mode to which the windows were covered, the doors wouldn't budge and no sound could come in or out.

Just to make sure that no ghosts or humans would come in after them, better safe than sorry is what Danny always went with, but of course he was always overly protective of Jazz ever since their parents were taken.

But what he didn't know was that all that they've been through today was just an act... literally.

A bell sounded off notifying everyone that the scene was done with.

"All right. Good job, let's strike the scene." One of the crew members said as the stage and setting crew came out to clean up the mess of fake and lightweight cars, helicopters, and motorcycles. And all the stunt people who played as the guys in white dusted themselves off.

"We're gonna need a cable guard on set for that move tomorrow."

"Yeah, all right."

The sound and camera crew, and some of the actors talked as they walked down the hallway to the watching room, where the director was looking over the scene they just finished.

There in front of the main screen was the director of the TV show Danny Phantom. (I'm not saying it's Butch Hartman because he is the real director of Danny Phantom, nor giving the guy a name, in Bolt they just called him the director, so...)

He and two co-directors were at the part where Danny and Jazz turned in the direction of the airport, only to be stopped by the army of guys in white coming right at them. On the screen they could hear Danny telling Jazz to cover her ears.

But right when he was about to step forward they paused the video because a boom mike was spotted in the corner. Collective gasps could be heard through out the room.

"Boom mike!" Yelled the director.

"We got a boom mike."; "It's a boom mike." Exclaimed the two other viewers with him.

The man in charge of said boom mike quickly lowered it so no one would see it as he hid behind the others.

"That's sloppy. The kid could have seen that, he could have seen that!" The director yelled again as he looked at the screen in annoyance.

"Uh... Who cares if the kid sees a boom mike?" a new voice asked.

Feeling insulted by the question, the director slowly got up from his chair.

"Forgive me for answering a question with a question," he then turned to face a small woman in a lavender business suit looking to be unimpressed with the whole ordeal. "But who are you?"

"Connie Parker, from the network." she answered.

(If you don't know who that is just look up her first name in Danny Phantom characters, you'll find her. And I promise this is the last annoying note you're going to see.)

"Of course." The the director said, more annoyed then before.

"Let me ask you, Connie from the network." He then pointed to a camera with Danny leaping over one of his enemies, Technus. "What do you see here?"

"Uh... Danny."

"Danny she says." the director said in a sad and mocking tone.

"Oh. Connie. Poor, poor, Connie."

"Am I missing something?" Connie asked, confused with the whole situation.

"You're missing everything, Connie." the director answered as he sat down backwards in the chair that was still facing the screen.

"You see Danny." he then started to roll closer to her in the chair. "I see a boy who believes with every molecule of his being, every molecule!"

He then stopped right in front of her, "that his whole family is in mortal danger." He then pointed back to the camera with Danny and Jazz.

"I see a depth of emotion on his face the likes of which has never been captured on screen before! Never, Connie from the network!" He slammed his hands on the back of the chair as he turned back at Connie who had a concerned look.

"We jump through hoops to make sure that Danny believes everything is real." he explained some more as he got up from the chair once again.

Hearing this Connie spoke up, "wait so you mean that you pretty much hypnotized this child for years just for your show?!"

One of the co-directors stepped up to her shaking his head. "No we didn't hypnotize him, this is sort of like a science project we've been working on, we think that if the actors truly believe everything that is going on is real, then they will act better than just any good actor."

Then another co-director walked over to explain some more. "The Fentons were kind of in a rough spot until we came to them with this theory, and they agreed to help out by starring in our show with their kids. Even though Jazz was too old, Danny was just the right age to where we could start."

"That's why we don't miss marks, its why we don't re shoot," the head director then jumped in to the conversation as well. "And it's why we most certainly do not let the kid see boom mikes!"

He then took a heavy breath from his outburst as he dramatically looked at the screen with Danny staring right at the camera not knowing it was even there.

"Because Connie from the network, if the boy believes it, the audience believes it."

"Wow... Okay." Connie said as she picked up a bobble-head of Danny that was sitting on one of the monitors. "You want reality? Here you go chief, the shows too predictable."

Her tone then changed from surprised to serious as she got down to why she was even there in the first place. "The girl's in danger, the ghost kid saves her from the other creepy ghost old guy, we get it."

There's always a happy ending." she said, "And our focus groups tell us 18-to-35- year-olds are unhappy."

She then flicked the head so it would bounce side from side. "They're not happy with happy."

The director stopped looking at the screen and turned towards her with a shocked look as she kept talking.

"So maybe you should, I don't know, spend a little less time worrying about the kid's method acting and more time figuring out how to stop 20 year olds in Topeka from changing the channel."

She then made her way to the door throwing the bobble-head for one of the crew members to catch before it hit the floor.

"Because if you lose so much as half a rating point, so help me I will fire everyone in this room, starting with you." she was about to close the door before she said one last thing.

"How's that for real?" and with that, she slammed the door closed.