Disclaimer: See Chapter 1, and there is a line in this chapter that belongs to The Incredibles. I dare you to see if you can spot it. ;)Chapter 7: This isn't Funny Anymore
Kim returned to the Kent's barn after a couple of hourse. Ron and Tucker were still playing games with Rufus while Clark and Chloe were sitting at a desk with her laptop.
"Hey, KP," Ron chirped up.
"Oh, look. The cheerleader's back," Sam muttered, looking up from her dark book from where she lay in the hay.
Kim rolled her eyes. "Look, I know you think I'm trying to steal your boyfriend from you," ("He's not my boyfriend!") "but I'm really not. Sure, he's cute, but he's not my type."
Sam growled but returned to her book without another comment. She did seem a little warmer toward Kim though. Kim was reading her own book until they all heard a muffled gasp and looked toward Sam who had disappeared. They then turned to Tucker who hadn't even looked up.
"I'm used to it by now," he said, still not looking up.
Sam glared at the ghost hybrid floating in front of her. "You could've done that without scaring the hell out f me."
"Listen, we need to talk." He returned to human form, ignoring your scowl. "I think Lex is evil."
She started laughing. "You've got to be kidding me!"
"No, I'm serious." He grabbed her arm, which immediately got her attention. "I had to overshadow him to keep him from getting run over."
"Couldn't you just make him go intangible?"
"Oh, yeah, sure," he muttered sarcastically. "That way we've got newspapers with headlines that say Lex Luthor and his Amazing Abilities."
She tore her arm from his grasp. "You're jealous!"
He felt a blush creeping onto his cheeks. "No, I'm not! Why would I be jealous?"
"How would I know? But you're jealous."
"If you don't want to believe me, fine," he muttered, his hands clenched at his sides before he went ghost and flew away at top speed.
Sam let out a frustrated roar and sat on the roof, scowling. "Now how am I supposed to get down!" she yelled angrily as Danny disappeared out of sight.
Kim and Chloe were sitting together discussing clothes, make-up, and other girly things while the guys were playing games on the communicator and PDA. None of them seemed to notice Danny and Sam hadn't come back. Meanwhile, on the roof, Sam had given up on pacing and now sat on the roof singing her favorite songs by Evanescence. She had to admit the setting sun was beautiful, but it was getting colder.
Danny had flown to the edge of town and was sitting on the city limit sign trying to calm himself. He remained invisible to avoid weird stares. How dare Sam think he was jealous! Jealous? What would he have to be jealous about? He was just warning her to be careful around Lex, right? HE shivered a little from the cold around him. The sun had set about an hour ago, leaving the earth bathed in darkness. He sighed and flew back to the barn.
The others were settling down for the night when he entered in human form. He was calmer now and wanted to apologize and maybe talk to Sam. However, she was nowhere to be seen.
"Hey, Tuck," he walked up to his other best friend, "where's Sam?"
"I haven't seen her since you made her disappear."
Danny felt his heart drop to his toes as he and Tucker looked up at the roof. She was going to kill him. He went ghost then flew through the ceiling. Sam was sitting where he had left her, her legs pulled up to her chest and her head resting on her knees.
"Sam?"
She looked up, her violet eyes gazing into his guilty pale blue ones. "Okay, we've fought before, but this is definitely giving me the 'cold shoulder,'" she halfheartedly joked.
"I'm sorry, Sam." He approached her slowly. "I didn't even think…" His unfinished sentence trailed off uselessly.
When she made no move to stand and slaughter him, he changed back to Danny Fenton and sat beside her. She was at least wearing jeans instead of her goth skirt. He smiled sheepishly when she looked at him then removed his jacket and put it around her shoulders. She watched him, but he was leaning back on his hands, gazing up at the sky. She moved her arms to tug the jacket closer to her. It was still warm from him.
"So, um, why are we still up here?" she asked.
"I wanted to talk about…earlier." He paused, gathering his thoughts. "Maybe I was a little jealous, but the three of us have been best friends for so long. I don't know; maybe I thought you were trying to leave the group." He looked at her. "I don't want to loose you, Sam."
She decided to ignore the double meaning those words contained. "It's going to take a lot more than Lex Luthor to drag me away from you guys." She smirked. "I mean, someone's got to keep you two in line."
He smiled too. "I don't know about me, but Tucker definitely needs looking after."
They both laughed then Danny stood, changing back to Danny Phantom. He helped Sam to her feet then the two of them went intangible and sank through the roof.
Clark and Chloe decided to look for traces of Drakken's work in town while Kim and Danny looked for clues in the caves.
"Well, Drakken's got Chloe's computers." Kim held up a computer chip. "Unless there's been a report of other stolen computers."
"And he's got Valerie's ghost weapons too," Danny added.
"Ghost weapons?"
"Yeah, you know." He motioned to himself. "Weapons to hurt me."
"Does he know that?"
"Not yet at least."
They both whirled around at footsteps. "Hello?"
"It's Lex," Danny whispered, changing back to his Fenton counterpart.
Kim grabbed him by the shoulders, turning him to face her. "Kiss me!" she whispered.
"Is someone here?"
"What?" Danny hissed, staring at her. "Are you crazy?"
"Just do it." She grabbed him by his collar, pulling his lips to hers.
Lex stopped just short of the lip-locked couple. He looked surprised.
"Danny!" Sam and Ron ran in barely seconds after.
They both stopped and stared as the couple finally pulled away. Sam didn't know what to say or what to feel first, and Ron looked sick. Sam walked up, her eyes alight with rage. At first, Danny thought she was going to slap him, but she walked up to Kim and slapped her across the face before running toward the exit. She turned to look back at Danny, tears shining in her eyes.
"Now who's trying to leave the group?" she spat out before running away.
Ron punched Danny not very hard in the chest before following after Sam. Danny was stunned, but Kim just rolled her eyes. "So not the drama." She walked out, looking completely unfazed.
"You know, she's crazy about you."
Danny had completely forgotten about Lex and almost jumped when the bald man spoke. "Who, Kim?"
Lex gave him a look that made him think Lex thought he was a complete moron. Danny remained silent to think.
"S-sam?"
Lex nodded then walked forward, his hands behind his back. "It only took me five minutes of knowing her to figure that out, and you've know her how long?"
Was Lex trying to insinuate something? Danny couldn't think; he needed to clear his head. He muttered a "thanks" then ran out. Once back above ground, he looked around for his friend. Figuring she'd probably run back to the barn, he went ghost and flew back to the Kent farm.
Clark and Chloe looked up as Danny flew in. "Have you guys seen Sam?" he asked.
"What'd you do to her now?" Chloe asked in an almost exasperated tone.
"Nothing! I didn't do anything!" Danny explained the situation.
"It's because she likes you," Chloe said bluntly.
"Hah! I knew it!" Tucker said. Everyone looked at him. "Sorry, that was just my random addition to the conversation."
"Why am I the only one not informed of these things?" Danny asked. "Did I miss a memo or something?"
"Chill out, ghost boy." Chloe stood. "I'll go look in town." She looked to Clark while Danny continued flying around frantically. He looked like a weird, big, black and white flying buzzing around the Kent barn. "Try to calm him down."
When Chloe didn't come back, Clark started to get a little worried too. Kim had returned with nothing to report and was now lying in the hay waiting for Ron to return.
Beep beep bedeep.
Danny and Clark jumped when Kim's communicator went off. She laughed then pulled it out of her pocket.
"Go, Wade."
"We got a hit on the site."
A video feed popped up. "Hello, Kim Possible! and….whoever those two boys are you've recently been fighting with." Danny and Clark moved to look over her shoulder. "I'm sure you're wondering where I am now." Drakken laughed. "Well, I'll tell you, but not before I show you this." The camera moved to show Sam, Chloe and Ron tied and gagged behind him.
"He's at the school." Clark zipped off, and Danny flew off behind him.
Kim threw her hands up in exasperation before stuffing the communicator back in her pocket. "Thanks, guys, but I think I'll just walk!" she yelled sarcastically.
Danny and Clark arrived at the school only two minutes later. Without a word, Danny touched Clark's shoulder, and the two sank into the ground. They floated back up through the floor of the gym, and Danny released Clark. They were surrounded by kryptonite-strengthened synthodrones.
"This is going to be fun," Danny muttered sarcastically, having already been thrown into a wall.
Clark was weakened by the kryptonite in their blood system and couldn't fight back. Sam, Chloe, and Ron were tied and gagged sitting near the opposite wall. Although it would weaken him and leave him powerless, Danny knew he had to use the Ghostly Wail. He took a deep breath and opened his mouth, releasing his newest power. The drones disintegrated into a blob of green goo. Danny dropped to the ground, returned to human form. He groaned and weakly got to his feet as Drakken and Shego entered the room.
"My synthodrones!" Drakken cried. "You'll pay for this!" Clark moved to fight, and Drakken shot a weapon that dimly reminded Danny of the Fenton Grappler. The net phased right through Clark and trapped Danny against the wall instead.
"This is really not my day," he muttered to himself.
Clark moved to help him, but Shego leapt forward. A kryptonite rock fell from her pocket, and Clark backed away as it rolled toward him before tripping over something and toppling to the ground. Danny struggled against the netting as Shego walked up to Clark holding the rock. She pulled him up by the collar of his shirt, holding the rock close to his face. Clark grimaced and tried to pull away.
Danny managed to pull out of the netting and jumped at Shego. She growled and threw the powerless halfa over her shoulder before turning back to Clark who was lying beside the green rock. She grabbed the unconscious teen (Danny) and tied the two together, leaving the rock nearby to throw Clark's powers off.
Danny groaned and shook his head, blinking his eyes to clear them. He felt someone's back against his and recognized the rope around him from when he had to fight Dan Phantom. He would be unable to phase through it.
"Danny" The person behind him moved. It was Clark. "Can you get us out of here?"
"No." He sighed. "My powers are inactive, and even then it wouldn't help. Last time I ran into this rope, the only thing that could break it was the Ghostly Wail."
Clark snorted. "Ghostly Wail?"
Danny's eyes narrowed. The Ghostly Wail had saved Clark's life, and all he could do was laugh. "Well, what about you? You run out of muscle?"
"Hey, why don't you take a look at the rock by your foot," Clark growled.
Danny glanced at the rock. "That's it? Your weakness is a rock?"
Clark opened his mouth to smart back, but a voice above stopped him. "You know, arguing is getting you guys nowhere."
They both looked up. "Kim!"
"Yeah, thanks for the lift by the way." Kim dropped to the ground, kicking the Kryptonite rock aside.
Clark broke the rope apart, and the boys stood.
Kim smiled. "Now, you boys kiss and make up, and I'll go get Drakken and Shego." She disappeared.
"Is she getting on your nerves as much as she's getting on mine?" Danny asked.
"Probably," Clark agreed. "Okay," he looked toward their friends, "the lasers are kryptonite enhanced, which means we'll have to hope your powers work at least a little."
"Worth a shot. Going ghost!" Two rings moved up and down Danny as he changed to Danny Phantom. He went intangible and walked through the lasers. He touched the three captives so they were also intangible, and the ropes slid off of them. They kept hold of each other and Danny as they walked through the lasers. His powers gave out, and he yelped as a laser zapped his shoulder before he toppled to the floor, tripping on his own feet. Chloe stifled a giggle as Danny got back on his feet.
"Hey, where's Tuck'?" Sam suddenly asked.
Tucker walked around the barn carrying a whimpering Rufus. "Guys, this isn't funny anymore! Where are you?"
A/N: School ended today (I know, on a Saturday, honestly!), so I have free time until Monday. (sigh) Spring semester starts on Monday, and we don't even get a holiday! (cries) Anyway, I'll probably be updating again next weekend. Spring semester is longer, and it'll be easier for me this time around. I'm so sorry, guys!