Wow . . . I didn't think that anyone would really like this enough to give me such great reviews. In fact, I originally had only planned for it to be that one chapter, but so many of you asked for me to continue it that, well, I couldn't say no . This big shout out goes to: teengirl27, Catnip070, wishing for rain, Firehedgehog, Cheerin4danny, Kraven the Hunter, hikarisailorcat, cakreut12, Hearts of Eternity, bluish black dolphin, and Ghoster 17 (I apologize if I got any of your guy's names wrong or if I missed anyone). And a bag of Chips Ahoy goes to Princess Nightfire, for giving me the aardvark!

Also, here's some of the information that I forgot to put in the beginning:

Title: A Temporary Cease Fire

By: Me, Justina Bubbles

Summary: Jack and Maddie Fenton have been called by the city to be the official ghost hunters. Their main target is public enemy number one, "Inviso-Bill" While trying to hunt him down one night, they run into another ghost and discover something that could change the way that they look at ghosts forever.

Rating: K

Genre: General

Disclaimer: Geeze, this is only the second time I've written one of these, and it's already annoying. I don't own Danny Phantom. Butch Hartman (that lucky man!) does.

A Temporary Cease Fire

Chapter Two

Jack and Maddie were stumped. It was two and a half weeks since their encounter with "D. Phantom", and they hadn't seen a hair of him since.

"Mom, Dad? Umm . . . I can't believe that I'm about to ask this, but are you two okay?" Jazz asked at the breakfast table one morning while the parents were thinking about their situation. "I mean, normally you're weird and all anyway, but your silence is kind of creeping me out."

"Huh? Oh, yeah, we're fine." Jack affirmed, his mind somewhere else. "You haven't happened to see a ghost boy with white hair, green eyes, and about . . . how tall would you say he is, Maddie?"

"About Danny's height" she answered.

Their son, Danny, who seemed to have not been paying any attention, choked on his cereal and went into a coughing fit.

"Are you okay, dear?" His mother asked.

"Have you seen the ghost boy?" Jack inquired.

"Oh, heh-heh, yeah, I'm okay, and no, I haven't seen him at all . . . what was his name again? Inviso-Bob or something like that?" Danny replied, laughing nervously and shifting his eyes around the room.

"Actually, it's D. Phantom, and we're trying to keep tabs on him, but we haven't seen him for almost three weeks!" Jack said angrily, pounding the table in frustration. As he pounded the table, the ghost hunters' most recent invention, a more advanced tracker, jumped up and fell off the table, breaking some of the parts into several pieces. "I've really got to stop doing that . . ." Jack admitted, and sat down, almost feeling defeated.

"That was our last circuit board that size," Maddie observed, "We've got to go to Technology Town and get some more. Let's go as soon-"

"As we're ready, and I'm ready!" Jack exclaimed, and hopped up out of his chair and sprinted to the RV.

"I was going to say as soon as the kids left for school!" Maddie called after her husband, but it was too late, and Jack was already backing out of the driveway. She sighed. "You kids can be sure to lock up the house before you leave, right?"

Her two children nodded. "We're responsible young adults, Mom, you shouldn't have to worry." Jazz groaned. "Have fun or whatever."

As with every time the two went to Technology Town, Jack and Maddie received stares from the complete strangers also shopping in the store. Recently, however, it was out of respect because of their local status as protectors of the town, and not from their silly outfits that protected them from ghost energy.

In fact, a little kid with goggles on that resembled Maddie's ran up to them and held up a squirt gun and pen. "Could you sign my ghost bazooka?" she pleaded in her cute, high-pitched voice.

"But it's just a water-" Jack started, but Maddie elbowed him in the stomach to shut him up.

"We'd love to." Maddie cooed, and bent down to the little girl's level and signed the squirt gun. She handed it to Jack, who, through many protests, finally signed it too.

Just as he handed back the toy and he and Maddie were back on their way to the parts section, they felt some sort of . . . electric current go through the air. Everyone in the store jumped at the same time, and those with long hair looked like they had afros, because of the static electricity in the air. Customers and employees alike looked around at each other, as if to look for some sort of explanation for the strange phenomenon. When no one could find a culprit, the people went back to their shopping, helping with the register or customers, or, in the case of some nerds, loitering.

Then Jack and Maddie heard a scream near the front of the store. They only had to look at each other to know what the other was thinking – ghost. They sprinted to the source, and found a befuddled cashier, customers everywhere, and cash floating through the air. The teenaged girl register worker absentmindedly picked up her phone and put her voice on the PA. "Assistance needed at register six . . . code . . . umm . . . I don't know what the code is for an exploding register. Thank you." She stood there for a couple more seconds, then screamed.

"Everyone, just calm down, we're professionals here!" Jack tried to shout above the excited crowd. "Excuse me . . . excuse me!" He tried to get the customer's attention.

"HEY, PEOPLE!" Maddie shouted. Immediately the mass of people stopped everything and looked at the woman. "Thank you. We're professionals here, and we'll figure out what's behind-"

"Hey, you're that ghost hunting lady on T.V.!" A random person shouted out. "You totally rock!" The crowd cheered for their local heroes, and Maddie blushed and smiled.

"Oh, why thank you, thank you. But listen, we have a situation on our ha-"

She never got to finish her statement, because another scream was heard throughout the store. Immediately the ghost-hunting couple ran off to investigate.

This time they found themselves at the back of the store, with an extremely interesting scene before them. There was another teenage girl employee there, who was helping up a fellow employee from the ground. He looked like he was conscious, maybe a little shocked, but mentally okay. Physically, though, he looked horrible. His hair was standing on end, and it and his skin looked charred.

"What happened?" Jack eagerly asked, now positive that all the strange activity was due to ghosts.

The girl explained for her friend. "We were just going to go to the store room to . . . umm . . . restock on CD players, and when John here went to open the door, he was, like, shocked or something! John, honey, are you okay? I'm sooo scared!"

Just as Maddie was about to further question the event, she was interrupted again by a sound near the center of the store. There was further screaming, but . . . something else . . .

The paranormal experts started off to the source of the noise, but stopped in their tracks when they were met by the strangest sight they had ever seen – even more so than normal. All of the electronics were flying off the shelf, literally. They were actually floating to the air, and seemed to be headed to a central point. The screaming subsided, and they were soon able to recognize the other sound . . . laughter? Evil laughter? They started off again and soon found what they were looking for.

A giant, green, spider-looking ghost with a human-like head stood in the midst of electronics of all kinds floating from all points in the store.

"I, Technus, master of technology, have freed myself from the prison you humans call 'level zero', and have found that the Internet is indeed, overrated! The real world is much more pleasing than either the information highway or the ghost zone, and I will proceed to take over this city, and then, the world! Ha ha ha ha!"

"He's not very concise, is he?" Jack noted.

"No, he's not, but that doesn't matter right now. He's a ghost and we need to stop him. Let's go!" Maddie jumped up and ran to the ghost, ready to take him down. She jumped up onto a shelf, then jumped off of it into the ghost. He took a few steps back from the impact, and Maddie flew through the air in the opposite direction, landing on her feet.

The technological being turned around and saw Maddie and Jack, who only a moment before joined his wife, and frowned.

"Someone dares oppose me, Technus, master of technology? A couple of humans, at that? No problem, in this world, you humans are easy to crush." Technus then ran toward the couple at an alarming speed. So fast, even, that Jack and Maddie barely leaped out of the way in time. They were quick to think, though, and immediately got up off their feet and counter attacked their new enemy.

For a while, it seemed that Jack and Maddie had the upper hand. Maddie was fighting extremely well with whatever resources she had, and Jack, well . . . he was doing okay, too, but seemed more concerned with how well his equipment worked. Soon, though, it was apparent that the ghost they were fighting against was gaining power. Maddie wondered how he was doing this, and realized that not only was Technus getting more powerful, but bigger, too. She saw the floating stream of gadgets in the air and realized that, even though he was busy with fighting her and her husband, he was still taking from the store and building on to his high-tech armor.

It only took this moment of being off guard for the electronically obsessed supernatural being to take the upper hand in this fight completely, and knock Jack and Maddie in an inescapable corner. He slowly crept up on the two, and let out another fit of evil laughter.

"I, Technus, master of all things electronic-"

"Still can't cut down on his long-winded speeches!" A black and white blur shouted, coming through the roof and knocking Technus down.

Maddie smiled to herself and quickly got up to get back to fighting this static foe.

"Hey, it's that ghost kid!" Jack said as he got up too.

"Yes, it is, but there's no time to chat, dear, we've got to concern ourselves with this Technus guy first." Maddie pulled out her ectoplasmic saber, and ran to aid D. Phantom in defeating Technus. Jack pulled out the Fenton Fisher, but moaned when he found that it was still tangled.

"I've really got to put 'untangle the fisher' higher on my priority list." He dropped it anyway and planned on fighting with his own hands, since he had run out of everything else.

By the time the couple reached the other end of the store, where the two ghosts were battling, D. Phantom had already stopped the flow of mechanics to Technus' battle suit, and had weakened him down considerably. Maddie was impressed at the boy's talent, and went in to deliver some blows of her own. Between the three ghost fighters, they were able to chip down at the main body of Technus' suit enough so that everything else collapsed, leaving nothing but a thin, wimpy-looking ghost floating there in front of them.

"I, Technus, shall not be defeated so easily! I will-"

"Shut up for two seconds!" D. Phantom interrupted again, sucking the momentarily distracted computer ghost into the Fenton Thermos, and capped it. He was about to fly off through the ceiling without another word, when Jack verbally stopped him.

"Hey, Phantom . . . ghost . . . kid . . ." He started, trailing off when he wasn't sure how to address the ghost that had just helped them out.

D. Phantom turned around and looked at them a little nervously. "Yeah? Am I in trouble?"

Maddie thought that was a weird question to ask but shrugged it off and picked up where her husband left off. "Thank you for helping us out there."

"Oh, trust me, you needed ear plugs more than you needed my help." The ghost boy chuckled. "I've kicked this guy's butt more than once, and he still has an ego the size of Wisconsin."

"You really aren't that bad, are you?" Maddie wondered out loud.

"Well, I would hope not." The ghostly teen replied, and flew off through the roof before either of the couple could fit in another word.

Maddie turned around, ready to leave, when Jack stopped her. "Maddie, what about the circuit board?"

She looked around at the destroyed store, and shook her head. "I'm pretty sure that this place will be closed for a while. Come on, honey, let's go to Wall 2 Wall Mart instead."

Jack looked around at the mess that he had, in a way, helped to make, and agreed. "Let's just hope that this place is insured." And with that last word, the couple left without trying to draw any more attention to themselves.

Yay! Another chapter up! Now go on . . . you know what I want you to do . . . ; )