A/N: Oh my goodness! I finally figured out how to view the 'Hit' counter and...I don't belive this...I've gotten 911 hits and 38 signed reviews! Thank you, readers and reviewers! Oh, and I've mapped out how I'm gonna update all of the chapters through the end of the story. I think you'll be well-satisfied by the length of most of the upcoming chapters! Oh, and sorry if I have an annoying amount of extra stuff before and after my chapter, but I had a lot to put in today! So, here we go!
Disclaimer: I don't own any Kim Possible or Danny Phantom stuff. Anything that you don't recognize from either show, however, is mine.
Oh, yes, and I'd like to clarify something. I thought of the plot for this story about a month BEFORE the episode 'Million Dollar Ghost' was even being commercialized. You can imagine my surprise when they began showing commercials for that episode. Thankfully the plot was a lot different (and there's also the fact that Vlad didn't actually get the portal in the show). So this really is a completely original plot, at least for me, because I created it before I knew that the show was going to make that episode. Just wanted ya'll to know that!
Special Author's Note: Remember, no cussing in the reviews. Thanks!
Replies to Reviewers by Riverfox (Doncha just love alliteration?)
Darkcloud1: Hoverboards are so cool. I hope they're invented someday. I'm basically going w/ the idea that Danny is flying at the same speed as the others are driving, 'cause zooming there ahead of them would simply entail some really long, annoying waiting. Sorry, what are 'general specs'? I feel so stupid not knowing this, and I have an idea, but please tell me so I can be sure of what you meant. Hope ya like this chapter!
charizardag: Thanks! Hope ya like the new chapter! And I'll try to read your fic eventually, but I have this annoying lazy complex where I don't wanna read whole stories in one sitting. It's really annoying...Honest, I'll try to make time!
Sirka: Aww, thanks! I'm so glad you think so! Yeah, I kinda had that whole 'his powers suddenly shutting off in front of Kim' idea stuck in my head, and it just seemed like too funny of an idea to not use it! I suppose if that hadn't happened, Danny would've kept his identity a secret, but I liked that scene way too much. Thanks for reviewing, and enjoy chapter 5!
Worker72: It's not like Kim's a blabbermouth. And she doesn't know about Vlad's 'specialness' yet. Oh, and if you read all the stuff I wrote above the Replies to Reviewers, you'll see that this isn't necessarily after the episode 'Million Dollar Ghost'. Don't worry, you're questions will be answered as you read. (Hopefully, unless I forgot to cover something.) Thanks for reviewing!
Daeron Blackoak: Ohhh. Yeah, sacred definitely makes more sense. Scared Monkey Object did sound pretty funny, though. And the idea you gave about Monkey Fist was interesting, but I can't use it in this story. (The whole pre-written and I-like-my-plot thing.) Maybe I could make another story about that. Who knows? Yeah, I figured them knowing would make things less complicated...plus I thought it would be hilarious if Danny suddenly accidently un-transformed right in front of Kim. Haha! Keep reading to have your questions answered! Hope you enjoy!
Anythinggirl2004: Yay! I'm so glad you like it so much! Thanks alot! Yeah, I love the Ron and lunchlady scenes, they're always funny. Thanks for reviewin'! And in response to the Ch. 4 review you sent, glad I'm doing good w/ the Ronness! Here's an update for ya!
DestinyGuy678: Thanks! And I read your fanfic; not bad! Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Oh, and a special thanks to Anghammarad, Anythinggirl2004, blue dream fairy, charizardag, DestinyGuy678, elpowermoe, pixie2010, and theferretmenace for putting me in your favorites list! And another thanks to Anghammarad, Brimmstone, crashfourit, Darkcloud1, elpowermoe, The Halfa Wannabe, theferretmenace, & Worker72 for considering my fic worthy enough to be put on your alert lists! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I'm so glad that you guys are so interested in my fic! And also-
Readers: "OKAY, YOUR WELCOME, GET ON W/ THE UPDATE!"
Heehee...I just figured you guys were thinking that. Alrighty, here it is: the update!
Ch. 5: Naco and Dude (Bet the title confuses you, doesn't it? Heeheehee...read to figure it out!)
Even with the reasonably-fast hover-scooters, it still took the 5 teenagers over half an hour to reach the edge of the estate. Ron and Tucker kept arguing over which of their friends was the better hero.
Example:
Ron: Kim!
Tucker: Danny!
Ron: Kim!
Tucker: Danny!
Ron: A thousand times, Kim!
Tucker: A zillion times, Danny!
Ron: Yeah, well, a…um…Kim, what comes after a zillion?
Kim: (exasperated sigh)
They also had to stop 3 times because Ron's pants kept falling down and tripping him off the scooter. Finally Sam spotted an old rope lying on the side of the road and gave it to him to use as a belt. That problem solved, they continued on towards the estate. Kim, Sam, and Danny listened with grated nerves as Tucker and Ron started their argument a-fresh.
"Well, Kim has super-athletic skills and knows, like, 17 kinds of karate!" Ron yelled over the whirring of the scooters.
"Yeah, well Danny's got intangibility, ectoplasmic beams, and an energy shield," Tucker replied, accidentally yelling straight into Sam's ear. She twitched, seriously considering decking him and leaving him on the side of the road.
"I've seen Kim wrestle a shark with her bare hands!" Ron yelled back, missing the almost insane look that crossed Kim's face.
Tucker would not be outdone. "I've seen Danny blast a-"
"ENOUGH ALREADY!" Sam, Kim, and Danny yelled in unison. The 2 scooters screeched to a halt (which must have been hard to do since things that hover don't usually screech) as the girls pulled back on the handles to brake. Ron and Tucker looked surprised as their friends glared angrily at them.
"What?" Ron asked indignantly. "We're having a diplomatic discussion on which of you rocks the most out loud." Tucker nodded in agreement, but before he could comment, Danny flew down in front of him, glaring threateningly.
"Tucker," he said warningly, "if you drive us this insane again anytime tonight, I promise that I will overshadow you at school tomorrow and make you sing that Brittney Spades song you hate in front of everybody. Got that?" A look of horror came onto Tucker's face, and he hurriedly agreed to be quiet.
Meanwhile, Kim had grabbed Ron by the shirt and was now nose-to-nose with him. In a heated voice she said slowly, "Ron. I'm hungry. I'm tired. I know 5 ways to twist you up like a pretzel. And Rufus has agreed to chew through your video game controllers' cords if you don't quit with these pointless arguments." Rufus had climbed out of Ron's pocket and now stood on Kim's shoulder, nodding seriously. "Do I make myself clear?" Kim asked in a deathly-calm voice. Ron grinned meekly and gave her a thumbs-up. "Good," she said, turning to face forward. "Let's go, everybody. We're almost there; I can see the lights up ahead."
As they mounted the scooters again and picked up speed, Tucker muttered, "Danny's still the best." Suddenly the hover-scooter unexpectedly jerked to the left, causing Tucker to lose his balance and fall to the ground with a, "Hey-oof!" The techno-geek glared up at Sam, who smiled down at him innocently.
"Oh, I'm sorry," she said sweetly. "I must have 'accidentally' turned the scooter the wrong way. Clumsy me!" Kim and Danny laughed as Sam helped her annoying friend back onto the hover-scooter, and then they continued -for real- on to Vlad Master's estate. Tucker and Ron kept quiet for the rest of the way, pouting.
A/N: You'd just hate my guts if I stopped here, wouldn't you? Heehee, no, I'm not that mean. Keep readin'!
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A few minutes later, they had reached the edge of the estate grounds. The whole area was surrounded by a 10-foot-high brick wall. The front drive was blocked by a steel-bar gate and several large Doberman guard dogs on chains. The whole estate was backed a good distance away from the road, its front shielded by a thick line of tall trees to keep passers-by from staring at the tall, impressive mansion in the middle. Kim and Sam parked the hover-scooters near the wall, well away from the front gate, and everyone got off the scooters (or came down from the air) to figure out their next move. Kim, with some quick instructions from Wade, folded the handlebars of the scooters upward, which automatically acted as a trigger to make the hover-scooters refold into their small cube forms. These were stuck back into Kim's backpack.
Kim and Ron had pulled out their grappling hooks and were about to fire them over the wall when Danny stopped them. "I think I have an easier way," he whispered, grinning. Suddenly his whole body became bluish and see-through. He stuck his head through the wall for a second, then pulled back out and said, "All clear. Sam? Ladies first." He held his bluish hand out to the violet-eyed Goth, and when she took it, she became clearish-blue just like him. Standing halfway inside the wall, Danny carefully walked her through to the other side. Then he offered his hand to Kim.
As the red-headed teen cautiously accepted the ghost-boy's hand, she felt a tingling sensation. Looking down at her hand, she saw that she, too, was now intangible. There was a second of blackness as the teen heroine walked through the thick, solid brick wall, and then she was on the other side with Sam. She felt her body return to normal, and then a moment later Danny walked through the wall after them, holding Ron and Tucker by the arms. (You know how boys are about holding hands.)
"Everyone ready?" Kim asked. "Okay, let's go. Quietly," she added, tossing a glare at Ron. Ron pretended not to notice as they crept across the lawn from bush to tree and so on. When they were about halfway across, they stopped to get their bearings. The group sat behind a large outcropping of decorative bushes, catching their breath after the constant lunging, ducking, and dashing.
"Well," Tucker whispered cheerfully, "at least we haven't seen any ghosts yet." Kim was giving him a quizzical look as if wondering why he thought there'd be any ghosts here, when suddenly Danny gasped and an icy-blue mist came out of his mouth.
Sam gave Tucker a pointed look. "You were saying?" she asked sarcastically.
Kim heard a growling sound and turned to see the 2 black-haired Doberman guard dogs from earlier. "Oh, it's just the dogs," she said calmly as the others turned to look. "Looks like somebody let them off their chains. And there's the one that tried to bite me!" the teen heroine growled, pointing accusingly. Sure enough, the 2nd dog still had a piece of her green cargo pants in its sharp, growling jaws.
Danny looked confused. "But why would my ghost sense go off over regular dogs?" he wondered aloud. As soon as he said this, both dogs began glowing bright green. Then, slowly, they grew bigger and bigger, their hair turning bright green and their eyes completely red. Soon they were huge, and both had a pair of saber-tooth fangs hanging from the sides of their long, pointed snouts. "That's probably why," Danny said, answering his own question as they all gaped at the monstrous ghost dogs.
Kim quickly pulled the out Fenton Goo Gun. Waving for Danny's attention, she told him, "We'll take this one, you take that one," pointing at the dog that had ripped her pants as the one she wanted to fight. Danny nodded, and then without further adieu, punched his dog as hard as he could. The beast fell onto its side, whining, and then jumped back up with a snarl.
"Oh boy," Danny muttered. "This could take a while."
Meanwhile, Kim and Ron were circling the 2nd saber-toothed dog. Ron got in front of it and waved nervously. "Uh, hi doggy…um, Kim?" He looked over to where Kim was circling behind it. She waved her hand in a signal for him to keep it busy, and then began climbing up a tree behind it. Ron looked back into the ferocious green face of the Doberman.
"Nice doggy. Good doggy. Umm…so…how's the ghost business treating you?" he asked awkwardly. The dog just stared at him. For some reason, though, it had stopped growling and was simply staring at him. Ron snapped his fingers as an idea came to him. "Hey, I know!" he cried triumphantly. Digging through his back pack, he pulled out his takeout bag from lunch. "Hey, boy. Wanna naco? Nice, tasty naco!"
Sam slipped over and tapped Ron on the shoulder. "Uh, Ron, I don't think ghosts can eat."
"Nonsense!" Ron declared. "No one can resist the charms of the naco!" Sure enough, the ghost dog's nose was following the bag back and forth as Ron waved it around. He pulled one of the nacho/taco combinations out of the bag and held it up, and the dog carefully sniffed it over, and then nipped its huge teeth gently around it, tossed its head back, and gulped down the naco. Sam and Tucker stared, gaping, in utter disbelief as the monstrous ghost dog began wagging its tail and let Ron reach up and scratch it behind its big, pointed ears.
Kim, who was now in the tree branches above the giant glowing dog, couldn't see Ron making friends with it. Poising herself directly over its back, she leapt onto it, grabbing it by the ears. The Doberman yelped in surprise as the teenage girl landed on its neck, clinging to its soft green hair. Suddenly the dog's body turned clearish, and Kim felt herself falling to the ground. Landing with a bump between the creature's legs, she looked up and saw its underside turn solid again. "Right. Ghost dog. What was I thinking?" she asked herself, shaking her head.
The dog jumped to the side and glared down at her, growling angrily, but, to Kim's surprise, Ron ran between them. "No!" he commanded. "Sit. Stay. Be good." To Kim's utter astonishment, the saber-toothed Doberman sat down on its rump and panted happily. Ron reached up and scratched its head. "Good boy!" he praised it. "Who's a good boy? Who's a good boy?" The ground trembled slightly as the ghost dog thumped its tail against the ground.
Danny zipped out of the way as his canine opponent lunged at him. Spinning back around, Danny fired a double-handed energy blast that struck the hound in the back. It whirled, snarling, and shot 2 red eye-beams back at Danny, who managed to rebound it just in time with an energy shield. He zoomed down and gave the ghost dog a hard punch in the jaw, but before he could get out of reach again, the saber-toothed Doberman slashed him across the back with it's vicious claws. Danny cried out in pain, but came back with the strongest ectoplasmic blast he could muster. It hit the beast full force in the head, knocking it to the ground with a pitiful whine. Danny opened the thermos to suck it in.
Suddenly the other ghost dog bounded between Danny and his opponent. It growled defensively as it hovered over the fallen dog. And then, before either the hound or Danny could attack the other, Ron jumped in again.
"Dude!" he called up to Danny. "Drop the thermos and move away from the ghost dogs!" Danny stared at him in complete confusion as he turned to the fallen dog. Flying over, Danny landed a few feet behind Ron and watched as he pulled his last naco from the paper bag and fed it to the ghost dog, talking soothingly. The beast chomped down the mixture of nacho and taco ingredients, then struggled to its feet. Danny was prepared to hit it with another energy blast if it tried anything, but to his relief it began wagging its big green tail and panting happily. As the rest of the group gathered around, both dogs slowly morphed back down to their normal sizes until they once again resembled normal black Dobermans, with red eyes.
The dogs jumped on Ron, licking him sloppily across the face. In response to the disbelieving stares of his friends, Ron merely shrugged and grinned. "Guess they like me. And I told you no one can resist nacos! Hey! That tickles!" This last comment was directed at the 2nd dog, which had licked him on the neck. "Ya know, they kinda remind me of the dogs in some pictures with my great-grandpa." The boy said, a pleased look on his face. He got them settled down, then pointed at the Doberman Danny had been fighting. "I'll call you Dude," he said. The dog yipped happily. "And you…" he laughed when he saw the 2nd dog eagerly digging through the empty Bueno Nacho bag, "I'll call you Naco." Naco popped his head up at the sound of his new favorite treat.
Kim grinned. "Way to go, Mr. Ghost Tamer." Then she pointed towards the mansion. "Come on, we'd better hurry."
The group, which now consisted of 4 teenagers, one halfa, one naked mole rat, and 2 ghost dogs, quickly made their way to the wall of the mansion. It was easier to faze everyone through this time because Naco and Dude let Ron and Tucker put their hands on the tall dogs' backs, and Danny walked the girls through. They found themselves in a large, empty hallway with lots of doors on either side. Sam looked up and down the hall.
"So, Oh Leaders," the gothic girl said sarcastically to Danny and Kim, "which way do we go?"
Before either could answer, Ron had knelt down between his 2 ghost dog friends. "'K, guys," he said. Their ears perked up. "You know the Vlad Masters guy who owns this place?" Both nodded their heads, and Naco growled slightly. "Well, we need to find him. Can you guys sniff 'im out?" The dogs nodded their heads enthusiastically, and then instantly stuck their noses to the black marble floor and went sniffing down the hall. Ron waved the others over. "Come on, guys, the hunt is on!" Sam slapped a hand to her face and Kim rolled her eyes at the stupid phrase, but the group hurried after the dogs.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT--To all my anonymous readers: I am so sorry! I just realized that my thing was set to reject anonymous reviews! Well, that's all fixed now, so anybody who wants to review, can! And I hope you guys do! Thanks!
A/N: Well, I'd say that chapter was pretty long. If you consider that a cliffie, well, it's pretty impossible for any of these chapters to NOT end in a cliffie, seeing as everything happens in the space of one night. I'll try to get all my updates up on time. Actually, I may skip Sunday, I don't know yet. After all, it is the day of rest, but on the other hand, updating my story is fun...see my confusion? I guess it'll depend on my mood, and how badly you guys want me to update on Sunday. Anyways, thanks again to everyone who's reviewed!
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Welp, until tomorrow (or perhaps until Monday), Riverfox237 signing off!