Special note to whom it may concern:
SilverSummer'sMoon posed an interesting review to me concerning the straight facts on POTO. Unlike many people reading this fanfic, I am not a Phan and have never been. It's just a sad attempt that I did to make a good plot. I'm sorry I didn't get the facts compleatly straight. I was just going on what my mom told me about the play version of POTO, and she said that it involved a fire. Sorry for the mix-up.
When we left our heroes, they were traveling the dark, mysterious tunnel…..
Sam and Tucker were running down the hallway. Tucker paused, panting and out of breath. Sam waited for him to rest. Danny caught up with them, picked them up, and flew on.
Flying through the inky blackness, even with his night vision, made Danny nervous. The tunnel seemed so big, and he felt so small. It felt as if the tunnel went on forever. Danny suddenly remembered his first trip inside the ghost zone: the way it seemed to go on forever as well. He had felt exactly the same way! This only made his growing uneasiness worse. He flew faster, heart pounding, until...
"DANNY! Are you okay?", Sam asked. "You're going awfully fast." "l-i'm fine", He said, shaking the feeling off. "I'm just a little nervous, that's all." Tucker stared at him, confused. "What?", Danny asked. "Is it some crime for me to be scared of a ghost?" "No, no, it's not that", Tucker said. "It just seems odd, you know?"
Another piercing scream sounded. Danny followed the chilling sound to a fork in the path. Tucker remembered it from when he found Sam and Danny. "Guys, the path right next to us on the left-hand side is full of danger", Tucker said. "The one down the middle there", He said, pointing, "Is a dead end, and so is the one to the right." "Well, then", Danny said in a voice that could've been the Phantom's, "We'll just have to use the dangerous tunnel." "Danny, how are we going to get through a tunnel with a humongous spider web, poisonous snakes, and bats in it?" Tucker asked. "That would be a dilemma now, wouldn't it?" Danny answered cleverly, "But that's only if your friend doesn't have ghost powers."
Jaz woke up. She felt as if she had been hit by a semi truck. She tried to get up, but found she couldn't. She looked at her wrists. They had been shackled to the wall, and so had her ankles. "Get me out of here!" Jaz yelled. "Wait a second..." She let out an almost sonic scream. "Hey, maybe if I scream, Danny will hear me and I'll be saved!" Jaz snapped out of this quickly. "Jazmine Fenton, you should be ashamed of yourself! You just put everyone's lives in danger, all because you had to see a stupid play! And now you're leading them out of the frying pan and into the fire!" Jaz felt terrible. She knew that Danny would come, but what if the Phantom found her first? Or what if Danny and his pals got here at the same exact time as the Phantom did? She could only hope Danny got there first to save her.
Danny headed down the tunnel. He hovered over the snakes and ducked under the bats, making sure they couldn't hit him or his friends. Now he faced a bigger problem: how to get through the web of the poisonous spiders. The screams echoed down the tunnel. Danny knew he had to get to Jaz before it was too late. Wait a second, Danny thought. With that, he became invisible and flew straight through the web.
The tunnel ended in what looked like a prison cell, complete with rusty metal bars and shackles. There was even a skeleton shackled to the wall. Jaz was also there, screaming bloody murder. "Uh, Jaz, you can stop now," Danny said." You're safe."
Jaz looked up. For a split second, she didn't recognize the strange kid hovering in front of her. She suddenly realized two things. The first thing was how bizarre the kid looked, with his black and white suit, white hair, and neon green eyes. The second thing she realized is that she had seen this kid before, but only as a brief glimpse behind the ice cream shop. Right after the day her life changed forever. Right after the warm, July afternoon that she saw Danny race behind the-ice cream shop and go ghost...
"Danny? Danny! I knew you'd find me!" Jaz yelled in joy, wishing her arms were free so she could give him a big hug. "Oh, Danny, I'm so sorry! I never should have dragged you or your friends along with me!" she sobbed. "All f wanted was a nice, quiet evening without creepy ghosts and getting chained to the wall. Now all I want is out of this nightmare!" Jaz broke down and cried. Tucker jumped out of Danny's grip and used his PDA to unlock the cell door. Danny set Sam down and flew over to Jaz. "I've been a horrible big sister, Danny," Jaz said, tears welling in her eyes. "I deliberately put everyone's lives in danger, and I'm sorry. Can you forgive me?" She looked up at her brother, tears streaming down her cheeks. Danny looked back, tears welling up in his luminous green eyes.
"I forgive you," he whispered. "I forgive you, Jaz!" Tears began to run down his cheeks as well. Danny phased Jaz out of her shackles and gave her a huge hug. Jaz hugged him back. Neither dared to let go. Sam and Tucker couldn't help but notice the sibling's love for each other and began to cry. "Tucker, I'm sorry that I said veggies are better than meat, both are okay!" Sam said. "Sam, Ricky Marsh didn't throw up in your lunch box in third grade!" Tucker yelled. "I did!" He broke down and cried. "Wait a sec," Sam said, getting slightly angry." You threw up in my lunch box? I pushed Ricky off the monkey bars for that! Oh, whatever, I forgive you!" Sam hugged Tucker tightly, much to his surprise.
"Oh look, a Kodak moment," a familiar voice echoed. "How touching." The Phantom. He was back again, and Danny was sick and tired of everything he had done tonight. Scaring him and his friends half to death, the bungee cords, the chandelier... even kidnapping him! Danny wiped away his tears and let go of Jaz. Danny felt searing, red-hot fury replace his sadness. His eyes glowed angrily. The Phantom was going down.
"Man, I am so sick of you scaring me out of my wits. And I am definitely sick of you nearly killing my friends." He glanced back at his sister, now trembling in fear. Danny grabbed the Phantom's shirt. He stared right into the Phantom's brown eyes, now showing a new emotion: fear. "And you're going to stop it...now." He blasted the Phantom backward with an energy beam, focusing every ounce of his adrenaline-induced rage into it.
The Phantom was stunned. His opponent was usually the terrified one, but the tables had been turned. This child had such power. Did he even realize what he could do with that much skill? And he was only thirteen, maybe even fourteen years old! Never mind that now, the Phantom thought to himself. He wasn't going to let some little brat, no matter how much he admired his strength, beat him. He would show this kid real power.
Danny realized that his ghost adversary was about to hit him back. "Man, why didn't I write down how to shield?" he said. He suddenly held up his hands, still glowing with ghost energy, and formed a green-tinted bubble around him. The Phantom's purple-colored blast bounded off it and hit the Phantom dead on, again knocking him backwards. Danny, satisfied that he had learned a new maneuver, dropped his shield, watching it dissipate all around him. Big mistake.
The now confused and groggy Phantom looked up at the ghost boy, seeing he had dropped his guard. Perfect, he thought. He blasted Danny backward, knocking the wind out of him. Panting, Danny countered by flying straight at his enemy and hitting him with tremendous force, sending both flying into the wall. Danny got to his feet and quickly grabbed his Fenton Thermos.
"Danny, is that...does it really...are you...?" Jaz began.
"Yes, it's a Fenton Thermos, yes, it works, and no, I'm fine," Danny replied. He pointed the Thermos at the Phantom, who now was pretty banged up and nervous. Danny grabbed him with his free hand. "This is for scaring me", he said, flying the Phantom up about ten feet off the floor and dropping him. He picked him up again. "This is for scaring my friends", he explained, throwing him against the wall. He pointed the Fenton Thermos at the terrified villain. "And this is for scaring my sister,", he ended, uncapping the Thermos and trapping the Phantom in it.
"Danny, that was awesome!" Jaz exclaimed, running up to Danny and hugging him. "How did you...?" "Okay, first of all, that was nothing. Sometimes I have to fight at
least ten ghosts a day," Danny explained. "Second of all, I've got ghost skills, but not ghost weaknesses." "Think Blade with ghosts," Sam said. "And last of all", Danny continued, "I'm a Fenton, and Fentons are tough in the face of danger." Jaz hugged her brother. "Danny, I'm really proud of you," she said, "You toughed it out. But you're so battered and bruised; doesn't it hurt after you do the whole ghost thing?" "Yeah, but remember, It's like Blade with ghosts," Danny answered. "I have a fast healing ability. It's one of the effects of the accident in the lab. Now come on, we'll talk about this when we get out of this creepy tunnel." With that, Danny flew over to Sam and Tucker.
"Danny, you aren't seriously going to fly us out of here, are you?" Jaz answered. "Hmm," Danny responded. "Let me respond to that in the following way." He grabbed Sam and Tucker by the shirt with one hand, Jaz by the shirt with the other hand, turned invisible, and flew through the ceiling and into the outside world. Danny landed behind a tree and switched to his human form. He walked out. "Come on, guys, walk and talk," he said, walking down the sidewalk.
"Danny, why didn't you tell anyone?" Jaz asked. "I would've understood." "Jaz," Danny explained, "There are things you keep to yourself and just a few friends." Danny stopped, waiting for the rest to catch up. "Jaz, please don't tell anybody about what you saw tonight." "But, Danny", she asked, "Shouldn't mom and dad know?"
"Promise me, Jaz."
"But..."
"Promise?"
"Oh, alright. I won't tell them. It'll be our little secret." She winked to show that she meant it. "You can tell whenever you feel ready to." She hugged her brother. Danny had trusted her with his secret, and Jaz wasn't going to let him down.
"Hey, Danny", Tucker said. "Now that you've caught the Phantom, haven't you broken your record?" "Hey, that's right!" Danny said in joy. "The score for tonight was twenty... four, right?" "Twenty-five, but who's counting?" Tucker said, adding up the total on his PDA. He looked satisfied. "Danny, guess what?"
"What?"
"You've just beaten your score."
"YESSS!"
"I say we celebrate with smoothies," Jaz suggested. The others looked at her, "What? Can't we all be friends?" She laid her hand down. Danny layered his on top. Sam followed suit. Tucker ended the hand sandwich. They threw their hands up and hi-fived each other. "Smoothie timer, they yelled, and off they ran for Danny's house, a crescent moon glowing brightly in the star-dotted sky.
Well-rounded story, if I do say so myself. But what's YOUR opinion? Pleeeease tell me, I MUST KNOW!