Thanks for the reviews! Here is the next part. Just to warn you, I suck at writing "battle scenes," so it may seem a bit lame. I also apologize for the extremely slow plot. I promise it will get better.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Back at Tucker's house...
"Skulker!" Danny exclaimed in surprise.
"You seem surprised to see me, ghost child. Don't tell me you didn't expect me to stop hunting you down. Well, now I've found you."
Danny was about to answer as Tuck returned to the room and stopped in shock.
"Sk-Skulker?" He asked.
The frightening ghostly ghost hunter (That's an oxymoron, eh?) turned to face him. "Why it's the whelp who gave me this horrid device," he stated as he motioned at the PDA which was now fully integrated into his body armor. "Thanks to you, I now know more about purple-backed gorillas than I ever wanted or cared to know!"
"Uh, yeah. Heh heh, about that..." Tuck started.
"...It doesn't matter now, though. I have found the child I have been seeking." He turned back towards Danny, and some kind of small cannon unfolded out of his armor. Danny looked in shock as he stood up and backed away. Skulker fired a huge glowing net out of it at him, but Danny dodged out of the way.
"Oh no you don't!" He said aloud. "I'm going ghost!"
As he said this, two glowing blue rings emanated from the middle of his
body, one moving up while the other moved down. He felt his body
becoming both light as a whisp of smoke and cold as the energy rings
changed him into his alter-ego, Danny Phantom. His jet-black hair was
now white, and his ice-blue eyes were glowing bright green as he
floated in the air. Danny was now a ghost, too.
"Ah ha! I see you will make this a challenge for me, boy. How pleasant." Skulker barked.
"Hey, wait!" Sam announced. "You're forgetting that Danny helped break you out of jail in the Ghost Zone. Don't you owe him something?"
"I helped him get out too. I'd say we're even." Skulker said. "Now, to finish with you..." He fired a particularly strong beam of ectoplasmic energy at Danny, but Danny phased through the wall of the kitchen and headed outside before it reached him." The beam burned a whole in the wall.
"Hey!" Tucker yelled. "You're going to pay for that, preferably before my mom comes back down here!" But they were gone. Tucker and Sam climbed out through the steaming hole in the wall and saw what they assumed to be a fight. Danny and Skulker had both turned invisible, but when either one was slammed against something, Sam and Tucker would hear it and see the results on whatever they were slammed against.
"Danny where are you?" Sam yelled, not knowing which way to direct her question. She heard a loud bang, and saw a car's hood now had a huge dent in it. The alarm went off, blaring loudly. Danny turned visible, crumpled in the indentation. He looked in pain as Skulker kicked the car, and the alarm turned off.
"Guys, get the thermos! It's in my bag in the house!" he pleaded as Skulker became visible and hit him with a blast of energy. Danny fell to the ground. Before he could regain his composure, Skulker was on top of him. The hunter grabbed him by his throat and held a glowing blade up to his neck. Danny knew he could not phase through another ghost, so he struggled violently, but to no avail. He then remembered he could use his powers to make a shield. He held his hands up and concentrated, causing a green energy bubble to appear around him. Skulker was thrown away from it when the energy shield touched him. Danny got up and fired an extremely powerful ectoplasmic energy ray at Skulker, throwing him back even further.
Skulker became enraged and charged at Danny. The two flew through the air punching and kicking each other; Danny in defense, while Skulker seemed driven to kill him once and for all.
Sam and Tuck ran back into the house looking for Danny's bag, when Tuck's mom ran downstairs.
"What's all the commotion-" she stopped and her mouth gaped open at the huge hole in the wall.
"I can explain! Tucker said nervously, trying to divert his mother's attention from what was going on outside. He then noticed Danny's bag under the table and motioned to Sam where it was. She got the hint, grabbed the whole back pack, and ran outside, leaving Tucker to receive the full blast of his mother's chastisement.
Sam ran outside, and saw the faint silhouettes of two ghosts battling brutally in the sky a few blocks away. She dove behind a bush. "Thermos, thermos... Darn, where is it?!" she muttered as she desperately rifled through the bag while crouched unseen behind the shrubbery. After pulling out a camera, cell phone, Fenton Fisher, and Fenton Peeler, she finally found what she was looking for. "Aha! At least he comes prepared," she cried as she held up the thermos, just as Danny was captured in yet another glowing ectoplasmic net Skulker had fired at him. This one he couldn't phase out of.
"Struggling will do you no good! As you can see, I've had some upgrades, boy," Skulker remarked as he surveyed the battered and bruised hybrid. He pressed a button, and the net got tighter and tighter around Danny. Danny cringed in pain as the strange net constricted him until he could hardly move. Unable to stay afloat, Danny fell to the ground landing flat on his back, followed closely by Skulker. "How I have awaited this day!" Skulker said proudly standing over his prey. He then held a small spherical device next to the boy's head.
"Get off me!" Danny yelled as he saw Sam running over with the Fenton thermos in hand. He knew it would take her a few moments to reach him- more time than he knew he had. I have to distract him before he sees her, somehow, Danny thought. "Skulker, why don't you hunt Vlad Plasmius?" the hybrid asked the hunter desperately while he was hopelessly entangled in the net. "He's a halfa too, you know."
"Plasmius?" Skulker asked with a slightly surprised laugh. "He's the one who hired me to capture you in the first place. However, you have really ticked me off, and it was taking a lot of self restraint on my part to not skin you right now and mount your head on my wall."
"Well, gee thanks," Danny said a bit sardonically as he watched Skulker thrust the orb in front of his face. He closed his eyes not wanting to know what this sinister device would do to him. A thought then crossed his mind. "Hey wait, Plasmius hired you to capture me?"
"Enough, child!" the hunter growled and pressed a button on the orb. "This will ensure that you won't cause me any trouble while I take you to Plasmius." A red mist started to spray from the orb. It burned Danny's eyes even though they were half-closed. He struggled again, but the ghost boy started feeling weak as the world was going black. "That's right, boy. Go to sleep now," Skulker cackled.
"What... are you... doing...to...me?" Danny asked, feeling weaker and weaker but still holding on to consciousness.
"This is a special gas that will make you sleep just long enough for me to bring you to Plasmius. It works because you don't have to breathe it in- you're a ghost and don't do that anyway. The effects will wear off in a few minutes, so you needn't worry," he hissed. "For now..." he added a bit maliciously with a sly grin showing his toothy metal smile.
He was interrupted by a musical beeping coming from his arm. "What now?" He whined as he glanced at the PDA.
"Drop and give me fifty!" he read the words that flashed across the tiny screen aloud with great inflection. "WHAT?!" he scowled as his mechanized suit automatically caused him to drop to the ground and start doing push-ups. As he looked up confusedly, he saw Sam with the fully charged thermos pointed right at him. He stared a bit stupefied at her, but it was too late for him. She turned it on and it sucked the tiny glob that was Skulker, along with all his armor and his little sphere into the container. The goth girl quickly threw the cap onto it, and both she and Danny breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks for that little stalling tactic, Tucker," she said into her cell phone.
"No problem," she heard Tucker reply on the other end as he put his own PDA away. She also heard his mother continuing to yell at him as he did so. Sam hung up as soon as he got her message, then turned to Danny.
"Are you okay?" she asked, but the boy had fallen completely asleep, and inadvertently changed back to his human form. The bizarre ectoplasmic netting also dissipated around him, since Skulker was now gone. "Hello? Danny? Wake up!" she said loudly, but he was completely out cold. "Um, okay... I heard Skulker say that this would only be for a little while. I'd better wait for him to wake up so we can send Skulker back to the Ghost Zone," she said to herself as she dragged Danny out of the street and hid him behind yet another bush. She couldn't help but notice some of his injuries; his shirt had a few blood stains, his arms were bruised, and she could tell his legs were too, because his jeans had sustained some tears below his knees. He also had a faint scratch on his neck from where Skulker's blade had touched him.
A few minutes later Danny's eyes slowly opened, as he came to his senses. The memory of the fear he experienced came flooding back to him, and he tried to push it out of his head. His body ached all over.
"Oh Danny, you're awake," he heard Sam's voice proclaim happily.
"Yeah, thanks for your help. Who knows what would have happened if you hadn't shown up."
"Let's not think about that. Right now, we should get you home."
"What about Tucker?"
"Oh, he's still trying to explain the huge hole in his kitchen wall to his mom."
"Oh, about that..."
"He'll make up a good story Danny," Sam said calmly, and helped Danny to his feet. "he won't give away your secret."
"Thanks," he said as he tried to steady himself and keep his legs from buckling underneath him. After gaining his composure, he and Sam started walking towards his house, where he would send Skulker back to the Ghost Zone through the portal in his basement. As they turned the corner, he noticed Dash's house and the two quickly crossed the street to stay away. Just as they did this, a van pulled into the driveway, and the big blond bully himself came out to greet his relatives. (Parked down the street was an ugly green spinach truck). -wink wink-
Danny, however, had become too preoccupied with thoughts about Skulker, Plasmius, and excuses to tell Tucker's mom about the huge hole in her kitchen wall to even notice them right away. That was of course, until a completely new sensation came over him. Instead of the characteristic blue mist and shivering chills that he always felt when a ghost was near, both he and Sam saw a pink mist escape his mouth and he felt a warmth spread over his body while the pain went away.
"What was that?" Sam asked.
"I have no idea, but it was weird," Danny replied slowly in astonishment as he noticed a small boy with a pink hat exiting the van carrying a fishbowl. The little boy was followed by a girl with dark hair and funny glasses who was about his age, as well as by another older girl in a green shirt who had red hair. Dash and his parents came over to greet them, but Dash had a look on his face indicative of pure boredom. The small boy made a break for the house and disappeared inside, before he had to talk to anyone. As soon as the little boy with the fishbowl was out of sight, Danny's pain returned.
"A different kind of ghost, perhaps?" Sam inquired as she saw Danny's confused look.
"It could be," Danny answered. "But maybe it's not a ghost at all."
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Well, that's it for now. Those of you who have seen the FoP episode (maybe it was a movie- my memory's a bit fuzzy) with the spinach truck will know where I am going with this.
If you want the next part, PLEASE REVIEW! It may take me a while to write it though, with schoolwork being as it is. Thanks for the reviews so far. If you have any suggestions, let me know. (I don't normally write these kinds of fics, but I am having fun with this one!)