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Groove Phantom

Chapter 1: Introducing the Girlfriend

Danny Fenton was inside a plane returning to Amity Park from Florida. Unlike previous summers he spent there, there was a reason for him to enjoy the experience other than his desire to become an astronaut. He met a girl named Mackenzie (Mac for short) and, after they got to know each other, started a summer romance. With permission from her parents, Mac agreed to go to Amity Park with him to know the town and meet his parents and only later return to Bay City.

"Danny, do you think your parents will like me?" Mac asked while slightly worried.

"Mac, there's no way they wouldn't like a nice and smart girl like you." Danny reassured his girlfriend. 'It's what you'll think of my parents and my sister that worries me.' He thought.

Meanwhile, at the airport, Jack, Maddie and Jazz Fenton were waiting for Danny's plane. Jack was carrying a huge sign with "Danny + Mac" written on it. "Dad, couldn't you have written just Danny's name on the sign?" Jazz asked. "What if this Mac is going back to 'Canada'?"

"Jazz, she's not from Canada." Jack replied, not understanding his daughter's doubting her brother's girlfriend really existed. "She's even from this state. Unless Danny meant another state's Bay City when he said where she's from. Do you think there's a Bay City in Canada?"

"Jack, just look out for Danny's plane, OK?" Maddie asked, frustrated at her husband.

The plane eventually landed and it was easy for Danny and Mac to spot the former's family. "Mom. Dad." Danny said, relieved they were more restrained then he expected.

"Am I invisible?" Jazz asked and looked at Danny's girlfriend. "Is that Mackenzie?"

"Yes, but you can call me 'Mac'." Mac replied. "You must be Jazz."

"And you're… real?" Jazz asked, surprised about Mac not being imaginary.

"You're from Bay City, right?" Jack asked and Mac nodded. "Which Bay City are you from? It's so confusing Jazz's starting to think you're from Canada."

Before Danny had a chance to make a retort, he felt his ghost sense. "Uh, where's the bathroom?" Danny asked and ran away.

"Couldn't he have done that in the plane?" Jack asked.

"I'll have your pelt, whelp!" Skulker said as he showed up, making practically everyone run away in fear.

"I don't know who you're calling whelp, spook, but no ghost terrorizes people with Jack Fenton around!" Jack bragged and drew a bazooka. Maddie drew another one.

"Where were they keeping those?" Mac asked.

"I'm not sure I want to know, Mac." Jazz replied.

"Looking for me, Skulker?" Danny Phantom asked as he showed up. "Shouldn't you be in Canada to spend quality time with your girlfriend?"

"She's NOT from Canada!" Skulker shouted in anger.

"Did he ask that question to mock you?" Mac asked Jazz.

"What?" Jazz was shocked. "I don't know what you're talking about." She unconvincingly said.

"Relax, I found out the truth when Technus invaded the space training." Mac explained.

Meanwhile, the fight between Danny and Skulker was in a stalemate until the latter was hit by Jack's Fenton Bazooka and sucked back into the Ghost Zone. "I missed!"

"But you got rid of the evil ghost, Mr. Fenton." Mac commented.

"And I know it was a good thing but we were aiming at the other evil ghost." Jack explained.

"Jack, Phantom escaped." Maddie told her husband.

"We'll catch him another time." Jack told his wife.

"If I had a dollar for every time he said that, my college education at Harvard would be guaranteed." Jazz commented.

"What did I miss?" Danny Fenton asked as he returned.

"A ghost in some weird armor showed up but your father and Danny Phantom saved the day." Mac answered.

"Please, don't say it like Phantom and I were a team." Jack replied.

"We'll talk about that later, Danny." Jazz whispered to her brother.

They eventually went to Fentonworks. "Don't worry, Danny." Jack said. "Your mother and I made sure the food will be ectoplasm-free."

"Did you order pizzas?" Danny hopefully asked.

"Yes." Jack sadly replied.

As they ate their pizzas, the heard the doorbell. Jack answered it and found Sam and Tucker. "What brings you guys here?"

"We heard Danny came back, Mr. Fenton." Sam answered. "Where's he?"

"Sam! Tucker!" Danny exclaimed. "I'm glad you're here! Please meet my girlfriend Mac."

"Girlfriend?" Sam asked.

"Mac?" Tucker asked in confusion.

"Short for 'Mackenzie'." Mac explained.

"Mac, these are my best friends Tucker Foley and Sam Manson." Danny said.

"Nice to meet you." Tucker replied with a smile but then recomposed himself. 'Control yourself, Tucker.' The techno geek mentally berated himself. 'She's dating your friend.'

"Hi." Sam replied with barely contained anger.

"She doesn't seem to like me, Danny." Mac commented.

"I know." Danny replied. "And that's odd because I didn't even tell her you're a cheerleader."

"A cheerleader?" Sam was really angry now.

"May I have your phone number?" Tucker eagerly asked. "And those of your fellow cheerleaders?"

"I knew he'd ask for those upon learning Mac's a cheerleader!" Jack exclaimed.

"All of us here saw it coming, Jack." Maddie replied.

"What do you have against cheerleaders?" Mac asked Sam.

"Cheerleaders are weak and shallow girls whose beauty is their only quality." Sam answered.

"Paulina might suggest otherwise but there are nice cheerleaders, Sam." Danny defended his girlfriend. "Mac is a straight-A student."

"She probably must have someone do her assignments for her." Sam muttered.

"I heard that, Sam." Danny said. "And if that's how you'll treat my girlfriend, you'd better leave."

"Alright, Danny. I'm leaving." Sam grumbled. "Let's go, Tucker."

"But I'm not being expelled." Tucker protested. "And she still hasn't given me any numbers!"

"Tucker!" Sam insisted and he gave in.

"Was it just a hatred of cheerleaders or did she want to be more than friends with you?" Mac asked Danny, shocking his whole family.

"She is smart after all." Jack whispered to Maddie.

"No, Sam and I are just friends." Danny answered. "Or used to, at least."

"Clueless." Jazz commented.

"Why do people keep calling me clueless?" Danny asked.

"A better question is why a girl so smart and pretty wants to date my brother." Jazz said.

"He's a nice guy who doesn't feel threatened by my brains." Mac replied. "You'd be surprised by how many potential boyfriends I lost because they don't feel comfortable around girls smarter than them."

"What a bunch of jerks." Jack commented.

"Mom, please pass me the ketchup." Danny asked, wanting that talk to stop.

"Here it is, son." Maddie replied as she handed him a bottle of ketchup.

"Thanks, Mom." Danny replied.

Meanwhile, Sam was dragging Tucker back to his home. "Sam, why don't you just go to your own home and let me go back and get those phone numbers?" Tucker asked.

"Because you'll help me learn more about this Mac girl, Tucker." Sam replied.

"Just let me get the numbers and my charisma will do the rest." Tucker said.

"Like that'd work." Sam replied. "There must be records of her somewhere. Do a web search for them."

"It sounds so wrong." Tucker complained.

"I'll pay you 20 bucks." Sam offered.

"But that makes it so right." Tucker smiled and then frowned. "But, after how you tricked me into running and only you got a medal for it, I want advanced pay."

Back at Fentonworks, the Fentons and their guest were having dessert. "What's wrong?" Mac asked her hosts.

"How do you stay so thin in spite of eating so much?" Jazz asked.

"Cheerleading." Mac explained. "Do you how many calories we must burn to win regional and state championships?"

"I never stopped to think about that." Danny commented. "I just assumed every cheerleader had a special diet like I've seen the cheerleaders at Casper High doing."

"No wonder they don't enter competitions and there are people at your school who don't take cheerleading seriously, Danny." Mac said. "You should watch us in action the next cheerleading championship, Danny."

"It's a date." Danny eagerly replied.

"And tell your friend Tucker Foley to moderate his behavior if he wants to go as well." Mac warned her boyfriend. "The other cheerleaders won't take it well if he flirts with them during the tournament."

"Okay." Danny said, not feeling he could defend his techno geek friend in this case.

"So, are you free to visit my parents before summer is over?" Mac asked.

"S-sure." Danny answered. 'I fight ghosts and yet the idea of meeting my girlfriend's parents scares me.'

"I'll call them to see if it can be next weekend." Mac said as she drew her cell phone.

"She's serious." Maddie commented. "Sam lost her chances after all."

"Please, Mom." Danny replied. "No jokes."

"Clueless." Jack muttered.

"I wonder why he thinks Sam's name was in the ring Dad gave him." Jazz whispered to her mother.

"I think he misread it as "Wes"." Maddie whispered back.

"He's so clueless." Jazz said.

After the dessert, the Fentons drove Mac to a bus station where she took a bus back to Bay City. "Bye, Danny!" She said.

"Bye, Mac!" Danny replied.

The next day, Danny was at the mall buying notebooks for when classes start. "Danny!" He heard someone call.

"Hi, Tucker." Danny replied.

"So, are we okay?" Tucker nervously asked.

"You're not responsible for Sam's actions, Tucker." Danny reassured his friend.

"Good." Tucker replied and then something else came upon his mind. "So, did you get the numbers?"

"Tucker." Danny scolded his friend.

"Come on, it's not like you'll try anything with them now that you're dating a friend of theirs." Tucker pleaded.

"Tucker, I won't give out phone numbers of people who didn't give me permission." Danny said. "And I doubt Mac would."

"At least try to introduce me to them." Tucker asked.

"Speaking of that, Mac told me to warn you." Danny replied. "If you ever go watch the cheerleading championship, don't flirt with the cheerleaders."

"You and she sound like my parents whenever I ask them to let me go." Tucker complained. "So, is Mac still around? Maybe she'd agree to give me the other cheerleaders' numbers."

"No, she's already back in Bay City and you will NOT ask for their numbers." Danny answered.

"Don't worry, Danny." Tucker tried to reassure his friend. "I understand you're afraid Mac won't resist my charms, good looks, and modesty…"

"Especially the modesty." Danny sarcastically replied.

"Yeah." Tucker commented, not understanding Danny's sarcasm. "But I understand that, as a friend's girlfriend, she's off-limits. No need to be jealous. I just want her to give me her friends' phone numbers."

"Goodbye, Tucker." Danny was really annoyed at that point.

After Danny walked away, Sam approached Tucker. "Charms, good looks and modesty, really?" She asked.

"What?" Tucker asked in confusion.

'Why do I only have clueless boys as friends?' Sam thought. Deciding it wasn't worth it to set Tucker straight, she decided to do what she planned to. "Did you find any info on the Mac girl?"

"Yes." Tucker proudly answered. "And it wasn't easy considering I had to find out which Bay City she came from. They're champion cheerleaders and here's a poster of them. The twins are Stacey and Roxanne, one for each arm." He said and was so distracted by the mental image he didn't notice Sam's disgusted expression. "This one is Chrissy, the head cheerleader; this one is Star."

"Does every school have a cheerleader named Star?" Sam asked, interrupting Tucker.

"That's what I thought when I first read her name, Sam." Tucker replied. "And the cheerleader with the suggestive pose is Ping."

"What do you mean by 'suggestive'?" Sam asked.

"Don't you see how she holds her pom-poms?" Tucker asked with a smile. "Doesn't it make you wonder if she's really wearing the upper part of her cheerleading outfit? Not to mention the way she winks at the camera?"

"Don't make me gag, Tucker." Sam replied.

End chapter.

Author's Note: Ping's pose is based on the picture with her, Chrissy and Mac at the tvtropes' and wikipedia's pages on Groove Squad.

Author's Note 2: At this point, Chrissy, Ping and Mac still don't have their superpowers.