Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom (Butch Hartman does), the song "I Would Walk 500 Miles" (originally by The Proclaimers but the version I like is sung by Less Than Jake), The Time Warp (from The Rocky Horror Picture Show), or Poke-balls (Pokemon TV Show). I do own April, Tick, and Tock…and possibly anything else you don't recognize!
((Fenton Household, Present Day))
Danny Fenton squirted the shampoo into his hand and began to lather it into his jet black hair. The steam rose around him, caused by the hot water pouring out from his shower head. Nothing felt better than taking a hot shower, uninterrupted in the morning before a stressful day of school. It seemed to Danny as if all his cares were being washed down the drain with the dirt and grime. He felt so happy that he could just sing…so he did…rather loudly and off key, "BUT I WOULD WALK 500 MILES AND I WOULD WALK 500 MORE! TO BE THE MAN WHO WALKED 1,000 MILES TO FALL DOWN AT YOUR DOOR!"
"DANNY YOU SOUND LIKE YOU'RE DYING! SHUT UP!" Jazz shouted from downstairs.
Danny rinsed the soap out of his hair, continuing to hum the song. He finished washing his hair and turned the water off, just as he did a strange green portal opened in the ceiling of the bathroom, a figure fell out on the other side of the shower curtain, and Danny's ghost sense went off (all of this basically occurred simultaneously). 'Great now I can't even take a shower with out some kind of ghost problem,' he thought to himself. Danny reached for a white towel, wrapped it around his waist, and pulled the curtain open and coming face to face with a ghostly girl about his own height with long white locks, except for her front strands which were black. Her purple glowing eyes widened at Danny's nude form and in the same instant both let out an ear splitting scream. The ghost girl immediately went transparent and flew up and out of the bathroom and Danny stumbled back in shock and feel down in the shower.
"OW!" he cried, rubbing the back of his head in agony.
Jazz barged into the bathroom, "DANNY! I TOLD YOU TO STOP SINGING!" she shouted and slammed the door shut quickly. It opened again and she threw his clothes at him, "Now get dressed or we'll be late for school," Jazz said and slammed the door again.
Danny sighed as he pulled his boxers from his head, "Well I can tell today's going to be fun."
((Cue Danny Phantom Theme Song))
((Casper High School))
Sam slammed her locker shut as she sung The Time Warp from The Rocky Horror Picture Show under her breath as it was playing on her I-Pod. She turned to head to her homeroom class when she spied Danny and Tucker walking through the hallway. She ran up to them, pulling the headphones off, "Hey guys what's up?"
Tucker groaned as the familiar tune drifted through Sam's headphones, "Please tell me that's not The Time Warp."
Sam scowled, "Yeah. Got a problem with it?"
"You know Tucker hates The Rocky Horror Picture Show after you took him that one year and made him dress up," Danny said with a smirk.
"I thought we agreed never to bring that up again," Tucker muttered, shuddering at the thought of the French's maid outfit he'd been forced into wearing. "Besides…at least I wasn't flashing some girls this morning…Danny."
Danny blushed, "I did no such thing…she dropped in on me."
Sam raised an eyebrow, "What are you two talking about?"
"A ghost girl appeared in my bathroom this morning after I had finished showering…she disappeared pretty quickly though so I don't know what she wanted."
"Isn't it obvious…she's a Peeping Tom from beyond the grave," Tucker said in a faux-spooky voice.
"Wouldn't it be called a 'Peeping Tawnya' if it was a girl," Sam asked.
"Whatever Sam…I just hope it doesn't happen again…I thought I was safe in the bathroom but now this happens! I can't even go to the bathroom without some ghost popping up," Danny exclaimed.
A bell sounded in the halls and the trio headed for their homeroom.
((Across the Street from Casper High))
April stood across the street from the high school in her human form. Her hands were thrust in her pockets and a scowl was on her face, 'When I meet those two dimwitted ghosts again I'm going to give them such a pounding,' she thought. The "dimwitted ghosts" she was referring to were Tick and Tock; they had sent her back in time and had landed her in the middle of some guy's bathroom. 'Luckily I was still in my ghost form and was able to make a quick escape…and luckily he was in a towel so he blocked any…unmentionables,' she thought to herself with a shudder.
April glanced at her watch; it was a little after nine o'clock so she was sure her father would be at school. She had yet to find a newspaper or anything to tell her exactly what the date was…though Tick and Tock had seemed to know why she was there, she was sure they had only sent her a few years back and that Danny was teaching at Casper High, "Now all I have to do is find him, explain who I am, and then take him with me to the future," she muttered, looking down at the time medallion around her neck. She took the medallion and tucked it into her shirt so that no one would see it.
April took a deep breath and crossed the street, "Time for school."
((Casper High School))
The bell signaling the end of first period rang and classes emptied out in a hurry. Sam, Tucker, and Danny walked slowly down the hall to their next class, chatting and talking as friends do. Approaching from around the corner was none other than April, in the midst of so many students she blended in easily. Danny and April approached the intersection where their two halls met when suddenly their ghost senses went off.
Danny and April took off at a run, spun around the corner, and ran smack into each other. April and Danny both fell flat on their butts and the students around them burst into laughter, "Smooth move Fentonio," Dash mocked from where he stood by his locker.
Danny and April both groaned at the nickname and from the pain of running into each other. April recovered first and stood up, brushing her trench coat off (AN: I might have left this out but the trench coat in her human form is plain while when she transforms it gets the wings stitched on it), "Watch where you're going," she muttered.
Sam and Tucker helped Danny up, "I could say the same to you," Danny retorted as he picked up his scattered books.
April's head snapped up and she opened her mouth to retort but the words caught in her throat. 'No…please don't tell me…but I'd recognize him anywhere…mom goes through her old yearbooks and photo albums so often…It's dad,' she thought in a panic. 'Great they sent me all the way back to see my dad at fourteen…how the hell can he help…I wonder if he's even FOUGHT Dan Phantom yet!'
Danny blinked as the girl gawked at him; there was something familiar about her…though he couldn't place it. He shivered and his ghost sense went off again, 'Where is that coming from,' he thought, glancing around. "Look I'm sorry…uhm whoever you are…but I have to get to class."
April sighed as she watched the young boy that would become her father walked off, "This is just TOO weird," she muttered.
"If anything's weird it's your hair, skunk," Dash laughed as he walked past her. She growled, she hated people making fun of her hair. April reached out and grabbed onto Dash's letter man jacket, "Hey, what gives!" he protested.
"Don't make fun of my hair," she whispered menacingly. She pulled her free hand back and punched him in the face. Dash dropped to the ground as the hallways became silent, all the students now staring at what the "new girl" had just done.
April just tossed her hair, shoved her fists into her pockets, and stormed off through the crowd as Dash sniveled on the floor like a little baby. 'Bastard,' she thought.
((Rooftop of Casper High))
April sat on the ledge of the school, staring down at everyone eating lunch outside. She sighed, 'I can't go back empty handed…I'm here so I should just make the best of it…maybe he can fight,' she thought, trying to be optimistic like her friend Carrie. She lowered her head, 'Who am I kidding…he's as old as I am. There's no way he can fight Dan Phantom.'
As she mused over her options a blue wisp of air escaped her mouth and she sat up straight, "Now what?"
((Casper High Grounds))
Danny set his sandwich down, "Now what," he muttered.
Sam gave him a curious look, "What?"
"I sense a ghost."
Suddenly a net came flying through the air and captured Danny, pinning him against a nearby tree. The students, who had been innocently enjoying their meals, shrieked in fear as Skulker materialized before them. Skulker, ignoring the fleeing masses, turned to Danny who was struggling with the nets, "Don't even try it ghost child…that net is made to hold the likes of you."
"Danny!" Sam and Tucker shouted in unison.
Danny glared at the hunter, Skulker had him trapped in more ways than one. For starters not everyone had cleared the lunch yard yet so he couldn't even transform without exposing himself. Secondly, according to Skulker's statement at least, even if he did transform he wouldn't be able to phase through the nets. 'Too bad Valerie's not here today…for once I could use her help,' Danny thought to himself.
Skulker pulled out a device from his utility belt and it expanded into something that resembled a poke-ball "I've had some free time lately and was finally able to make a device similar to that blasted thermos of yours…I call it a Spect-o-ball"
"HEY TIN MAN!" a voice shouted from above them.
Skulker spun around to find a girl with long white hair with two black streaks in the front glaring at him with purple eyes. She was floating above him and her hands were placed haughtily on her hips, revealing the black 'S' on her white shirt that was slightly covered by her trench coat. Danny's eyes widened, 'That's the ghost from the bathroom this morning,' he thought.
"Who are you," Skulker asked in a bored tone.
The girl clenched her gloved fist, "Your worst nightmare if you don't let the boy go Skulker!"
"Sorry…I'm not one to release my prey," he said, bringing his hand up and aiming it at the girl.
The girl shrugged, "We settle this the hard way then," she said, pushing a lock of her hair behind her pointed ears. Her eyes became fierce as she sped toward Skulker. She slammed a white boot into Skulker's temple and he was slammed into another tree.
The girl spun to Tucker and Sam, "Would one of you happen to have the Fenton Thermos?"
Before Sam or Tucker could respond Skulker was up and slammed a fist into the back of the defenseless girl's head and she collided into the ground with a thud. From her position on the ground she sweeper kicked Skulker, sending him onto his back. She then flipped back up, Clockwork's medallion falling out from her shirt and hanging around her neck out in the open now, she hardly noticed it though as she turned to check on Skulker. Skulker was up on his feet in an instant and grabbed at the girl's wrist. She struggled in his grasp, for some reason she couldn't phase out of his fists, Skulker brought her close to his face and peered deeply into her eyes, "You're interfering with my prey wench," he growled. He sniffed and raised an eyebrow, "You smell strangely like the ghost child over there…could you be a…"
He was cut off because at that moment the girl had given up struggling and had swung her legs upward, kicking him in the jaw. Skulker dropped her and she hovered off the ground. Not waiting for him to recover the girl ghost charged up a purple energy blast in the palms of her fist, "Eat ectoplasm blasts lame brain!"
Meanwhile Sam and Tucker were helping get the nets off of Danny, it was proving rather difficult as they were wrapped tightly around him and were very sticky. Sam pulled her hand back and shook the green goop off of her hand, "You owe us big for this Danny…whatever is on this net is disgusting."
Danny rolled his eyes, "Just hurry up…that girl might need help."
"Who is she," Tucker asked as he pulled away more of the netting.
"I think she's the same ghost who was in my bathroom this morning…though why she's fighting Skulker I have no idea."
Sam pulled away the last of the netting, "Alright Danny you're good to go…and look, the coast is clear now," she said, noticing that the school yard was empty.
Danny raised his hands above his head, "Then I'm GOING GHOST!" In a flash of white light Danny Fenton's outfit changed into the familiar black and white jumpsuit with the letter 'D' blazing on the front. His hair changed from black to white and his eyes from blue to green. He smiled as the transformation finished and turned to Tucker, "Hey Tuck…think the PDA trick will still work?"
Tucker pulled out his PDA with a coy smile, "Only one way to find out."
Skulker, busy with his own fight, hardly noticed that his prey was actually free. Instead he was in a hand to hand grappling battle with the strange girl ghost who had interrupted his hunt. He tried to push her back but she stood her ground and smirked at him, "Well I'm getting a bit tired of playing games Skulky…let's finish this."
His eyes widened, "Games? You think this is a game child!" He activated the two blasters located on his wrists and was about to fire when the girl suddenly let go, causing Skulker to fall forward, off balance.
The girl appeared behind him and grabbed one of the strange "poke-ball" devices known as a Spect-o-ball from his belt. She pushed a button and it expanded in her hand, "Let's see if I can catch 'em all," she paused, "God I can't believe I just said that." She hurled the ball at Skulker, assuming it worked the same as a poke-ball. It bounced off the large bounty hunter ghost's head and popped open. Skulker scowled as he was sucked into his own device. The Spect-o-ball sealed and flew back into her hand. She tossed it up and down a few times, "Well…that sure as heck was fun."
"Uhm…excuse me," a voice said behind her.
April turned around and found Danny, in ghost mode, hovering slightly above his two friends who stood beside him. She sighed, "What?"
"Who are you? How did you know Skulker? Why did you save me? Why were you in my bathroom? What are you doing here?"
April blinked, "Whoa, whoa, whoa…back up…bathroom…that was YOUR bathroom!" April exclaimed. When Danny nodded April paled, then turned beat red, then pale again, "AHH HELL NO! I DID NOT…AHH GOD! This isn't happening…why…why…WHY!"
Danny, Sam, and Tucker stared at her unsure of what to do. "She must not have liked what she saw," Tucker finally said with a laugh.
"Tucker!" Danny exclaimed, his own cheeks turning red.
April took a few deep breaths, trying to calm down, "Sorry…sorry…I'm okay."
The trio stared at her, 'Whoever she is…she sure is weird,' Sam thought, 'yet she looks familiar…though I don't know why.' "So who are you," Sam asked.
The girl ran a hand through her hair, "You can call me April…April Spirit. I'm…well this really isn't the best place to discuss where I'm from. The point is," at this point April took a deep breath, "the point is I need your help Danny."
"Wait…how do you know my name," Danny asked in surprise.
"There are lots of things I know about you…and your friends."
"But…hey that's one of Clockwork's medallions," Danny exclaimed, pointing at April's chest.
April looked down and cursed, 'It must have come from out of my shirt while I was fighting Skulker,' she thought.
"Do you work for Clockwork?"
April shook her head, "No…I…I'm from the future." April landed on the ground, tired of hovering and seeing no point in remaining in her ghost form. She closed her eyes and two circles of white enveloped her. When they cleared the girl Danny had crashed into in the hall stood before them, her white hair with two black strands had now changed to black hair with two white strands and her eyes had gone from purple to one being blue and the other being green.
"You…you're a half ghost?"
She shoved her fists into her pockets, ignoring the question, "I've come back to get you're help…the future's changed since you've last been there…for the better…but something's happened that might make it revert back to what you last saw."
Danny's eyes widened, "What…what are you saying?"
April's eyes narrowed, "I'm saying, Danny Fenton, that your worst enemy has returned…Dan Phantom…is back."
Danny dropped to the ground, reverting back to his human form in shock, and Tucker and Sam gasped in horror. It couldn't be possible…could it?
To Be Continued…
AN: Climatic ending, no? Was it humorous enough for you all? I tried my hardest to capture everyone's character…I hope it worked out okay. I'd like to apologize for any inconsistencies that might have popped up with the whole Clockwork's medallions thing…time travel is hard and how the medallions worked wasn't really covered. True if she takes off the medallion she'll be sent back…but as I told a reviewer of this it had been awhile since I saw the blasted movie/special. So forgive me please. I'm just glad everyone is enjoying my little fic. Send more reviews, I love getting them, and you guys are what inspire me to keep this stuff up. This has become my favorite fic next to my joint fic with Crimson Ninja (Han Rei) so I'm glad you guys like it too…well see ya' next chapter…or in one of my other fics…CIAO!