Secret Weapons premeres tonight! Two new episodes in one week! Man, it must be Christmas.

Disclaimer: (Looks around for Desiree) Darnit! Still owned by Butch. Now where's that lamp I found...

Thanks to my one reviewer, thesleepwarrior! I'm glad you liked the first chapter so much! Hope this one is just as good.

So, onward with the second chapter! Hi ho!

Danny sat relaxed on the couch surrounded by his two best friends. They had already made it through Signs, which Danny didn't think was that scary, and Sam was now digging out The Ring while Tucker got up to go get more refreshments.

"Just you wait, Danny, Signs is nothing compared to The Ring."

"Sam, I fight ghosts. I'm not going to be scared by some cheesy movie." Sam looked back and grinned mischievously at Danny. Feeling a little unnerved, Danny continued, "I mean, it's just a movie, it's not real"

"Yeah Danny, just like ghosts." Sam smiled back at Danny's frown, laughter in her eyes.

Tucker entered the tv room, his arms overflowing with snacks. "Ok, now that's scary." Sam said, looking at the mounds of candy and pop that Tucker was planning on eating.

"What?" Tucker asked.

Ok, Sam's mood was lifted, now for Danny.

Sam sat down on the corner of the couch with the remote in hand. On the other end sat Danny, staring at Sam. Tucker grinned suddenly.

"Hey Danny, mind scooting over? I need somewhere to put my drink…s." Danny glanced up, then down at the table he was sitting next to. "Sure." He said as he moved over next to Sam. Tucker sat down and relaxed, his job done. Sam turned on the movie.

About halfway into the movie, Sam and Danny had moved closer to each other, both pretending not to be scared. "I-I can't take it anymore." The screen flashed white as one of the characters electrocuted himself. Danny moved closer to Sam, glancing over at her. Sam's eyes were glued to the screen, her mouth halfway open. Danny quickly looked back. "Oh my God!" The main character screamed as it showed the man's dead face. Both Sam and Danny flinched.

"Sweet!" Tucker yelled, and then proceeded to stuff his mouth with popcorn.

It was almost the end of the movie, and Sam and Danny were practically sitting on each other. Both gasped as the horror of the film climbed out of a well and zombie walked towards her prey. "N-no!" A man yelled as he tried to get away from the creepy little girl. Stopping, the girl lifted her head and her hair fell back to reveal her face. "Aaaah!" The music building, the girl began to walk towards the guy, who was frozen with fear. Sam looked away and hid her face in Danny's chest as the guy screamed one final time. Danny, who suddenly didn't feel so scared, looked down at Sam and smiled.

The end of the movie passed and the whole group let out a sigh. Tucker looked over at Danny and Sam, who were still sitting comfortably in each other's arms. Both Sam and Danny noticed his look and stood up quickly, blushing furiously. "Uh, I'll get the movie out." Sam said, watching the floor as she moved towards the tv. "And I'll, um…" Danny looked around, ignoring Tucker's knowing look, "I'll…" He was interrupted as a blue mist flowed out of his mouth. Tucker immediately jumped up and looked around. "It's in the lab!" Danny yelled, watching the blue mist float down.

"Right, I'll get the thermos and meet you down there"

Danny nodded, once again appreciating what good friends he had. As Danny phased through the floor, Sam looked around, confused.

"What just...?"

"Ghost, in the lab." Tucker explained as he tried to remember where Danny had put the thermos last. Spotting it, Tucker ran to grab it as he heard muffled noises from below.

"Tucker, where're Danny's parents?" Sam asked, looking around nervously.

"I don't know, I haven't seen them all night." Tucker ran over to the stairs to the lab, "I've got this covered, you stay here and watch for his parents." Sam nodded, looking determined as Tucker ran down to the lab.

Danny phased down, entering the lab and looking around as he changed into Danny Phantom. He prepared himself for the worst; Walker, Pariah, Vlad… or even the creepy girl from the movie. Danny gulped.

"Beware!"

Danny smacked his forehead, "Oh you have got to be kidding me"

"I am not one to kid, ghost boy!" The Box Ghost yelled, floating up and waving his arms menacingly. "For now, you shall face the corregated wrath of-" BAM! The Box Ghost went flying backwards, Danny's fist where the ghost's head used to be.

"Maybe you should-" Danny never got to finish his sentence as another wisp of smoke left his mouth. The Ghost Portal shimmered forboadingly as both Danny and the Box Ghost watched it, their breath held.

A pale hand broke through the green of the portal, closely followed by a floating girl. She stopped, framed by the portal and looked around curiously.

The Box Ghost gulped, and with a parting "Beware!" flew through the ceiling, probably headed towards a shipping store.

Danny looked the new ghost over cautiously. She floated in front of the ghost portal, calmly looking around at her surroundings. Danny swallowed a lump that had formed in his throat, suddenly feeling like he usually did whenever Paulina was around. She had brittle black hair and a pale face, but she suddenly seemed like the most beautiful ghost Danny had ever seen. Straightening her singed black dress, she gazed up at Danny with intense golden eyes.

Danny instantly forgot all about Paulina.

Smiling serenely, she floated up to where he stood awe-struck. "You are Danny Phantom, are you not?" She asked, her soft voice flowing around Danny's head. He nodded dumbly, his mouth open slightly. His whole body relaxed, Danny smiled blissfully. She smiled back at him, thinking this would be easier that she originally thought.

"You're eyes," Danny murmured, "They're so… beautiful." He stared at her, his mouth slightly open. Golden eyes gazed back at him in triumph. The lab faded away as she filled his vision. He sighed happily.

I should prove how much she means to me. The thought floated through Danny's otherwise empty head. The need to prove himself overwhelmed Danny as crazy thoughts filled his head. I should give up my friends for her, no, I should give up everything for her! Danny blinked, realizing something. Wait, I don't have any friends… do I?

She smiled at him, and his mind emptied once again.

She is my friend, my only friend. He smiled stupidly at her, she smiled back. She is everything…

Something in the back of Danny's mind struggled. He hadthat naggingfeeling that he was forgetting something important. Danny shook his head in confusion. Something… purple. Danny shut his eyes in frustration, trying to remember. But the golden eyes pervaded his thoughts. Suddenly, a pair of purple eyes replaced the golden ones.

"Purple…" Danny murmered, words on the tip of his tounge. Purple… wait, I remember!

"Sam!" He remembered now! The room swam back into focus as his life came flooding back; his memories, his hopes, his dreams, his friends… Sam.

Danny looked up in triumph, realizing with a shiver what had almost just happened.

Everything was back to normal. Danny looked around at the familiar lab, reality sinking back in. Noticing something out of the corner of his eye, Danny looked back to see the girl, her golden eyes narrowed in hatred.

"Eep!" Danny ducked as she seemed to grow in front of him, a coldness spreading throughout the room.

"Danny!" Danny looked down to see Tucker arrive shivering at the bottom of the stairs with the Fenton Thermos in hand.

"Tucker! Don't look at her eyes!"

"What?" He glanced up. "Golden…" He mumbled, a silly smile spread across his face.

"Damnit Tucker!" Danny looked back at the ghost. She looked up from Tucker, her golden eyes blank, her emotions hidden.

"Tucker," The ghost spoke, her eyesregardingDanny calmly."Trap Danny in that device in your hands." She said with a slight grin, watching the color drain from Danny's face.

"No!" Danny yelled as he heard the Fenton Thermos charge up.

Back upstairs, Sam paced nervously back and forth in front of the stairwell. After all of the commotion and yelling that had been going on for a while, this new silence really scared her. She reminded herself that Danny had done this a million times before, he could take care of himself… right?

Sam stopped her pacing as she heard a yell come up from below. It sounded like Tucker.

She sighed. Good, he must be helping Danny fight. She continued pacing again, wondering if she should go down and help.

"Oh, but I get the exciting job of looking out for Danny's parents." Sam grumbled at the floor. Glancing around, she frowned. Danny's parents were probably at some ghost convention or something. Jazz, heh, Jazz was probably at the library.

Sam heard the distinct sound of the Fenton Thermos powering up. She sighed in relief; they had caught the ghost. Another sound reached her ears and her heart almost stopped. This wasn't how it was supposed to go! Turning around, Sam raced down the stairwell.

Her heart pounding in her throat, Sam desperately willed her legs to go faster as her mind echoed with Danny's terrified voice.

Danny looked at his friend in horror as Tucker pointed the thermos at him and, with an insane grin on his face, blasted the beam straight at Danny. Coming out of a daze, Danny dodged the beam and headed towards the golden eyed ghost, the beam following him as he went.

His mind kicking back in to hard drive, Danny yelled furiously "Dodge this, creep!" Golden eyes smirked, watching the beam as it followed Danny closer to her.

Something's wrong…A little voice in Danny's head whispered. Danny blinked asthe ghostsuddenly disappeared. Stopping and looking around angrily, Danny forgot one crucial little detail; the beam that had been following right on his tail.

He gasped as his whole body tingled, surrounded by piercing blue light. Terror gripped his heart as he realized what was happening.

Tucker… Closing his eyes, Danny screamed out, "Tucker, get a hold of yourself! Don't do this! Tucker you can beat her! Please, stop!" He pleaded, losing hope with every inch he was dragged backwards.

Deciding to save his breath, Danny struggled against the pull of the beam, willing his body to go forward.

Suddenly, he stopped. Opening up his eyes, his vision was filled with two golden orbs.

She… she's holding me back?

"Why…?" He asked.

"I have a question for you," She whispered, her face tinted by the blue light. Danny stared at her. She pulled Danny closer, searching his eyes. Instead of seeing her gold eyes reflected in his, she saw the reflection of two purple eyes staring defiantly back at her. Hiding the disappointment that she felt wash over her, she continued, her plan unhindered.

"Can the infamous Danny Phantom save himself? Or only the lives of others." She asked, her eyes reflecting red. Feeling her hand loosen, Danny struggled, reaching to grab her arm. She let go, her eyes watching his as Danny felt the beam take hold of him again.

Danny screamed as the room blurred and he was pulled backwards.

"Danny!" Sam's voice cut through. Sam?

The blue light disappeared and Danny stopped once again, looking back.

Sam stood over a dazed looking Tucker, her eyes hardening as she looked past Danny. Danny turned around to see the golden eyed ghost shrug, her eyes finding Danny's. With one last glance, she seemed to study Danny for a minute. Apparently satisfied, she disappeared in a cloud of black smoke.

More then a little unnerved, Danny looked back at his two best friends. Sam was helping Tucker up while yelling at him about losing his mind. Tucker still looked rather dazed and kept rubbing his head.

Danny's gaze was drawn to the Fenton Thermos held safely in Sam's hand. Questions flooded Danny's head, but he ignored them as he floated down and landed next to his friends.

"Danny, are you ok?" Sam asked, looking concerned. Changing back into his human form, he nodded. The ghost hadn't hurt him, just scared him… more then he wanted to admit.

"Danny, I-I didn't mean to," Tucker stuttered, walking over to his friend "I don't know what I was thinking. I'm so sorry!" Tucker looked at his feet, ashamed. Danny shook his head.

"Don't worry about it." He said, feeling sorry for Tucker. "She's gone…for now." Danny looked up at the spot where she had disappeared, his two friends following his gaze.

"Who was she?" Sam asked.

"I don't know, and I don't think I want to know." He said, shivering. Tucker's watch beeped. Danny looked over at him, his eyebrow raised.

"Wow, 11:30. We should get some sleep." Tucker said, looking back at him "We do have school tomorrow, y'know."

School tomorrow, great. Danny thought, losing what energy he had left.

Sam nodded, her worried eyes taking in Danny's tired form. Noticing her look, Danny tried not to look as tired as he suddenly felt.

"Tucker's right, Danny. We can worry about this tomorrow. Right now you need as much rest as you can get." Danny sighed, looking over at Sam.

"Yeah, I guess so. I'll see you guys tomorrow then?" Both his friends nodded. He smiled, letting his worries wash away as he pictured his soft, warm, comfortable bed…

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

"Ugh." Danny groaned as he reached out to turn off his alarm. A strange dream he had just woken up from floated to the top of his mind. It had included a certain creepy girl from The Ring as some weird form of Technus that lurked in tvs.

Frowning at his pillow, Danny wondered if all of this ghost fighting was getting to him. Good thing Jazz can't see my dreams. Danny smiled at this thought. She'd probably try and psychoanalyze me or something.

Groaning, he finally dragged himself out of bed. Putting his normal shirt on, Danny brushed his bruised and road-burned back and winced. Once again thinking evil thoughts about Skulker, Danny began his morning routine in a brainless stupor.

More awake now that he had food in him, Danny began to worry about the strange golden eyed ghost as he shoveled more oatmeal into his mouth.

"Danny, are you ok sweetie?" His mom asked.

"Huh?" Danny looked up, focusing his blank stare on his mom. "Yeah… I'm fine." His mom continued to look at him worriedly as Jack entered the room with much gusto.

"Maddie!" Jack yelled excitedly, "Come take a look at the lab! There's tons of ecto-energy all over the place!" Her husband's energy contagious, Maddie leapt up and ran after Jack down to the lab. Danny's triumph at having the kitchen to himself lasted about two seconds before his sister Jazz walked in.

"Hey Danny."

"Hey Jazz." Jazz sat down next to her little brother and smiled. Danny took another bite of oatmeal.

"Any ghost attacks last night?" Jazz asked after making sure their parents were no where near. Danny sighed and nodded.

"Yeah, we caught quite a few on patrol, but I let Skulker get away." Danny sighed again and continued, "And then this weird gold eyed ghost girl came out of the portal and," he paused as he remembered the effect her eyes had had on him and Tucker. "Well, she hypnotized us, I think." Jazz looked up at this.

"How?"

"What"

"How did she hypnotize you"

"Oh," Danny paused for a second, feeling stupid, "She didn't actually do anything, just after looking at her eyes my mind sorta," he paused, wondering what to say "…went blank."

"Hmm." Danny stared at his oatmeal while he remembered what had actually gone through his mind. It was like nothing else mattered, nothing except for pleasing her.

"So," Jazz spoke up, interupting Danny's thoughts, "I'm guessing that you didn't have enough time to do that essay Lancer assigned." Danny choked on his oatmeal. The essay! Aw man, that's worth like a quarter of our grade! He put his head in his hands, feeling hopeless.

"Hey Danny"

"Yeah?" He asked dejectedly, lifting his head. Jazz sat there, smiling, with a typed essay held out towards Danny.

"Jazz! You didn't!" Danny grabbed the essay out of his sister's hand. Looking it over, he shook his head in amazement. "You did!" He looked up, smiling broadly.

"You're the best sister ever!" He said, laughing.

Jazz smiled, "And don't you forget that." She messed up his hair. "I just want to give you the same chance that you give other people. You really are a hero, Danny." Danny grinned, embarressed.

"Thanks Jazz." He said, meaning it with all of his heart. She ruffled his hair again before going to fix herself some breakfast.

Danny stood outside of Sam's house, waiting for her to get ready. Feeling better then he had all week, Danny looked up at the sky and smiled. How much trouble can a golden eyed ghost and Skulker cause anyway? He took a deep breath of the crisp fall air, feeling relaxed. I probably won't even see that gold eyed ghost again. Feeling like he could take on the world, Danny's heart danced as he watched Sam open her door.
"Hey Danny." Sam greeted. He smiled as Sam walked out, all remaining thoughts of ghosts far away.
Aww, poor Danny, hormones crowding his mind. Heh, maybe I should make his greatest fear be asking Sam out. Heh heh heh… wait, what am I thinking? I actually have a plot I'm working with here, believe it or not.

Ack! I swear, if I make another story, it's gonna be humor. Oh yes. This drama/angst thing is hard for me to write. But trust me, next chapter it gets better. More drama, more angst, more, well, general action. Oh, and how did you like the ghost I threw in for kicks? (I plotted out a little bit of her character, but I couldn't think of a good name for her that wasn't cheesy beyond belief. Sad, yeah?)

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