Ok, I know I said I'd wait until I got reviews to post this, but I just can't wait that long, and besides, the first chapter doesn't really tell you anything. So on to the Danny Phantom!
Disclaimer: If I owned it, Danny and Sam would be together!
CHAPTER 2
The next day at school, it was clear that Ember had returned. Everyone but Sam and Danny was wearing Ember's merchandise and singing her songs, especially Dash and the other popular, shallow and easily-swayed kids.
"This is ridiculous," Sam scowled, her purple eyes narrowing at Paulina's new Ember costume, complete with a flowing teal wig. Sam was still dressed in her normal black non-Ember wear. The only thing different were two communicator earrings Sam wore to block out Ember's voice. She, Danny, and Tucker it seemed, were the only unaffected ones.
They were both leaning tiredly against their lockers, and Danny was distracted, tugging at the green earphones he was wearing. Sam giggled as his face twisted into a perplexed grimace. He looked over at her and grinned shyly.
"Don't take those off Danny," she said, suddenly serious. "Remember what happened last time?"
As if on cue, Danny's face turned a dark shade of red and he coughed uncomfortably.
"I won't," he said, blushing furiously. "I just feel weird in these, that's all. You don't think they look too much like earrings, do you?"
Sam smiled sympathetically and shook her head, looking out at the mass Ember chaos surrounding them.
"Hey FENTON, niiiiiiiiice eeaarrings!" came a screechingly annoying voice that Danny would know anywhere as Dash's. He shrunk back into his locker, wishing he could go ghost and disappear.
"Oh man," he groaned, covering his ears and trying to ignore the laughter in the hallway, while Sam shot daggers at the retreating Dash.
"Ignore them, Danny," she growled. "They're not worth it."
Just then, Tucker came rushing toward them, waving a CD in the air. He was wearing the green communicator earphones too. They had figured out last night that once the earphones went on, the Ember obsession went off. Since then, Tucker had been working nonstop on the CD.
"Hey guys, I think Operation Anti-Ember should be put into effect now, don't you?" Tucker said excitedly, handing the CD to Danny.
Danny nodded, laughter still ringing in his ears, and leaned in toward his friends.
"Here's what we do," he said, his blue eyes flashing green.
Ten minutes later, Danny and Tucker were inside the Main Office and invisible. As long as Danny concentrated hard enough, Tucker was just as intangible as he was. Tucker was putting the Ember CD into a player on the Intercom system.
"How much longer is this gonna take?" Danny asked, already feeling tired. He had barely gotten any sleep at all last night, and maintaining Tuck's invisibility was zapping the energy he had.
"Just a minute," Tucker said, fiddling with his PDA. "There. Now I should be able to control it, and we can get out of here."
Danny breathed a sigh of relief, and flew the two of them back into the hallway, where they turned visible again in a corner.
"So that should do it?" Danny asked, yawning as they walked down the hallway to homeroom. Tuck was busy entering things into his PDA, but he nodded as they walked.
"Yeah, all I have to do is turn on the CD and the whole school will hear it." He flashed a cocky grin. "And after that, no one will ever want to hear Ember again."
Danny laughed, one eyebrow raised. "I already don't ever want to hear Ember again."
All three friends sat in homeroom together, waiting for the morning announcements to end. Tuck sat poised to control the CD with a flick of a button, and Sam and Danny were both on edge, wondering if the plan would work.
"This concludes the morning announcements," finished the smooth voice over the Intercom. "Have a wonderful day."
Tuck took a deep breath and pressed a button on his PDA. The sound of Ember flooded the classroom with music and immediately cheering students.
"Sweet!" Kwan yelled, jumping up on his desk to dance to Ember. Everyone else followed his lead, swaying to the music, shouting Ember's name.
"Moby Dick!" Mr. Lancer shouted, holding his hands to his middle-aged balding head. "They've gone bananas!" He stood and started yelling for order to resume, but no one could hear anything but the music.
Danny exchanged glances with his friends.
"Tucker, you said this would STOP people from liking Ember! What's going on?"
Tuck looked serene. "Wait for it…wait for it…now!" he yelled, clicking another button on his PDA.
Suddenly the music went scratchy, the lyrics slowed down, and the spell was broken.
"My head!" screeched Dash, crumpling over on top of his desk. Other students were moaning and holding their ears; and Mr. Lancer was gasping for breath.
"Great Gatsby!" he shouted. "What is going on here?"
Tuck grinned and clicked another button, and the horrible sound stopped immediately.
"That should do it," he whispered triumphantly, looking at all the students crawling around on the floor.
Sure enough, Paulina was pulling off her teal wig. "Eeeeew, why am I wearing this retro rat pelt? It, like, doesn't even match my sandals!"
Danny high-fived Tuck, grinning at Sam.
"We did it!" he whispered fiercely. "I knew it would work!"
"At Casper High, anyway," Sam corrected. "Now we just have to do this again for everyone else in the world that's heard her music. Hopefully she's not going live again."
"Danny Phantom can stop her," Danny said grimly, his eyes shifting rapidly from blue to green.