Hello my wonderful Phamily both old and new, I'd just like to take a quick moment of your time if you don't mind me doing so.
If you don't particularly care either way then please do continue reading this story and I hope you enjoy it.
If you are still reading this than let me say, from the bottom of my heart and deep down in my soul. I like to express my gratitude to everyone who has and continues reading this story. It means so much to me that I gave something back to you all that you seem to enjoy fairly well. I really do enjoy writing this as I do reading along with you all and as this story continues I hope to make you all proud to read this and think, 'hey, I like this guy's story' and keep on reading it.
Now that being said, this would be the time where I announce all the new members of the Phamily and start the chapter, but I didn't keep my promise. I actually missed a lot of Phamily members over the months that joined and I didn't even see or acknowledge and for that I'm deeply sorry. So that being said and done, I'd like to introduce you all to the many I unintentionally forgotten plus the new members of the Phamily recently, lets all welcome:
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Red The Pokémon Master, DragonReader18,Crashmansion,12oj3n, and The Winter Epsilon.
Alright, that's everyone...I hope. Oh well I'm going to be adding more people anyways... In the future.
So after a LONG hiatus(Sorry again), I am proud to bring you the next chapter of When Cores Collide.
(So and FYI, it's pretty long.)
(Amanda's POV)
I couldn't believe what I just heard, this little prick had the nerve to pull a stunt like that to Danny, my Danny. Faking a family death like that and just laughing it off like it was nothing isn't something to mess around with, especially to a ghost, and in Danny's case he has every right to be angry. I know that Danny won't act on his anger, he's too pure to let himself fall down that path without losing himself in the process. His humanity is his greatest power and most ghosts wish they could have that blessing back, some even praising him for having it and others resenting him like a plague for not being a full ghost.
If Danny didn't hold himself back like he does in battle, I don't know what he would've done to his friend right now. There's just one problem with that, I don't have to hold back. Danny may not like it, but this little S.O.B deserves a fate worse than death for orchestrating that little scheme. I could somehow feel Danny's pain and negative feelings towards his friend, that and I was downright pissed.
Something within my soul just seemed to snap like a twig and I felt my power grow stronger as I approached Danny's so-called-friend. With each step I took, I saw him cower and tremble as he backed towards the only way out.
His reaction to the door not opening was perfect: fear. As soon as his eyes met mine, I started charging up a Ecto-blast and had aimed it right at his head. I was about to finish him off when I felt a hand on my shoulder.
I turned around and saw Danny shaking his head 'no' with a calm, yet stern look on his face. He seemed to stare right into my eyes and I stared into his. I slowly started to melt under his gaze and my anger started to fade away, calming down my rage towards his friend. I let dissipated the energy and lowered my hand back to my side.
Danny gave me a warm smile, almost saying 'I'm proud of you'. He removed his hand away from my shoulder and walked up in front of me and towards his friend. He walked up to his scared friend and quickly gave him a not-at-full-strength dead-arm snapping him back to reality.
(Normal POV)
"Ow!" Tucker said as he rubbed his now sore arm.
"Sorry Tuck, but that felt good. If you ever pull a stunt like that again to me or anyone else we know, I promise you that me giving you a dead-arm was mercy compared to what Amanda could've done." Danny said as he produced a small ice block and handed it to Tucker to help numb the pain.
Tucker graciously accepted the small ice block from Danny and applied it to his sore arm.
"Danny, I'm so sorry. I may have went a little too far with that Halloween prank, I never wanted you to break down like that or see such a horrible thing. Jazz and your parents were pretty much against it from the start, but I didn't listen. I hope you can forgive them." Tucker said begging to be forgiven.
"Tucker, I forgave them when I saw them alive and not in the ghost zone. Sure they may have laughed at me, but their family and I will always love them no matter what, that and they apologized afterwards after seeing me like that. I think that will call it even...for now." Danny said whispering the last part with almost a Dark grin. (Oh yeah, he was still mad at Tucker.)
Tucker let out a sigh of relief and finally calmed down from that almost being ghost-ray'ed in the face moment.
"Danny, I have a question. HOW IN THE HELL DID YOU TURN YOURSELF INTO DAN!" Tucker said almost screaming.
"Who is Dan?" Amanda thought.
"That would be my genius." Amanda said.
"What do you mean?" Tucker asked.
"Rather than explain it, which I think you won't understand. I'll make it short and sweet for your tiny little mind. Remember Technus and how he used to look like a Dr. Frankenstein mad scientist?" Amanda asked.
"Yeah and then he changed after Danny separated him from his house." Tucker said.
"From your house?" Amanda asked confused.
"Another long story." Danny said.
"Okay, so when Technus gained more power; his ghost form evolved to handle that power. Any ghost can alter their appearance if they have good ecto-control and have large amounts of ecto-energy to keep them in that form. Formless ghost's like Amorpho can change their form at will for long periods of time, but need to have good concentration over their form in order to keep them solid." Amanda said.
"So Danny used his ecto-energy to make himself appear to be an exact copy of Dan, even his voice was on point. How did you do that?" Tucker asked Danny.
"It wasn't easy, but I finally got the voice right. Dare I never do that again any time in the future." Danny said with a melancholy expression on his face.
"Dude, you alright." Tucker asked noticing his friends mood immediately change.
Danny seemed to be in his own little world at the moment, his unresponsiveness meant he was really in deep thought. Amanda noticed this and grabbed Danny's hand trying to pull him out of his little funk.
"Danny?" Amanda said worried.
Danny felt Amanda's hand and he came out of his self induced trance.
"Huh, what. Did you say something Amanda?" Danny asked.
"Dude, you alright. You seem out of it." Tucker said worried.
Danny just waived it off the question and turned his sights towards the young mayor.
"I'm fine Tuck, really I am. Just got lost in thought for a moment there." Danny said with a half-smile, trying to steer the conversation in a new direction.
"Danny, be honest. You were thinking about becoming him again weren't you?" Tucker asked.
Danny knew that he couldn't keep putting on the same mask of pain in front of one of his best friends, Tucker could read him too easoly. Taking a calming breathe, trying to regain his cool. Danny answered him.
"Yeah, I may have stopped him from destroying my life, but seems like I'll never get away from him, it must be destiny for me to become him Tuck." Danny said his head hanging low.
Tucker couldn't believe what he was hearing, his best friend; a friend who became like a brother to him, still grieving over a future that no longer existed. A fate that Danny prevented so that the future will be not a barren wasteland of destruction and ruin. He felt that Danny still blames himself for that future and he didn't know how to help his friend.
Amanda was confused, who were they talking about and why did it bother Danny so much. She knew that she had to try to help him, no she wanted to help him like he has been helping her.
"Who are you both talking about, who is Dan!?" Amanda snapped from frustration of being left out.
Danny didn't say a word to either of them, his regret and anguish of that day replaying in his head like a bad song on the radio.
Tucker turned towards the young woman who just a few minutes ago had his head at blast range. Knowing that she could do it all over again in a heartbeat, he had to answer her. At the same time he didn't want to cut deep into the mental scar that Danny has, he only knows as much as Clockwork showed them and his own experiences with the alternate future. He couldn't imagine what Danny had gone through between the time he and Sam left that future and returned back to their present.
"Danny I don't think that..." Tucker said.
Danny just glared at his friend, telling him it was alright. He turned his gaze back to Amanda and spoke lightly.
"Amanda, I don't really enjoy talking about this and I don't think I'll ever will. So I won't repeat myself." Danny said.
Amanda gave a nod in understanding.
"Alright, so couple of years ago before my secret got out, our English teacher Mr. Lancer was preparing us to take the C.A.T, a important test to decide our future's and he had the answers handcuffed to him so no student could cheat. So after a brief meeting with a alternate version of Box Lunch, I accidentally found the answers for the test. It was at that time I met first Clockwork and he showed me what my future would've been like if I had cheated when I found the test answers and it was horrible. All because of what I did, and because of it the future was being terrorized by a ultimate ghost; Dan Plasimus. A combination of the ghost halves of myself and Vlad Plasmius merged together. For ten long years that ghost had just been getting more powerful and eventually took over both the human world and the ghost zone, where ghost or human zone stop him." Danny said.
"Danny why are you pushing yourself to explain this?" Tucker thought.
"Dan eventually found a way to travel back to our present and tried to recreate the situation in which he would exist, ensuring his reign wouldn't be perturbed, leaving me in that disaster of a future. The only good that came out of it was that I gained my ghostly wail and used it to defeat Dan, then trapping him in a thermos that is now guarded my Clockwork, after that Clockwork reset the timeline in which I was taking the C.A.T and stopped myself from cheating and return the answers back to my teacher who gave me a make-up exam in detention, saving my future. That's who Dan is." Danny said his eyes never leaving Amanda's gaze.
Amanda was shocked, no wonder why Danny seemed to distracted. That future sounded terrible and having to face your own demons like that and survive it was no easy feat to accomplish. In the back of her mind however, she was thinking that Danny wasn't telling her the whole story. She didn't want to push it even further than she had to. So she gaze Danny's hand a firm squeeze letting him know that she was right there understanding.
Tucker stood there watching the two with a smile on his face, not because Danny was actually talking about what happened, but for talking to someone besides him or his parents, and what made it even stranger that it was Ember McLain. He didn't know how this happened, but he could tell that there was something going on between the two and if he was right than Danny may finally get the happiness he rightfully deserves after all that he has come to sacrifice.
Wanting to lighten up the dreary mood, Tucker spoke.
"Are you two going to just stand there or do I have to leave the room?" Tucker said with a sly smirk on his face.
Both Amanda and Danny's widened at the same time as their faces turned red from Tucker's comment.
"Tucker!" Danny said his face still red.
"Alright, I'm going. Just don't make a mess of the place will you, I just had the place cleaned." Tucker said teasingly.
"Tucker!" Amanda said angrily creeping up to Tucker again, fist in the air ready to strike the young mayor.
"Kidding, jeez. You both need to get a sense of humor. Now can someone please unlock this door?" Tucker asked, trying not to get blasted.
"One sec." Danny said as he turned intangible and flew right threw the door, surprising the young secretary.
"Mr. Fenton, when did you get here?" Alicia asked.
"Not too long ago, you know you can just call me Danny. I'm not that self titled where you have to address me as such, Ms. Diez." Danny said.
"Well if I get to call you Danny, then I insist that you call me Alicia." Alicia said.
"Alright, oh and you might want to plug back in your intercom system. Tucker was asking for you." Danny said with a knowing grin on his face as he unlocked the door.
"Wait, how can it be unplugged. I didn't knock it out, did I?" Alicia asked as she looked for the intercom plug, which she found was really unplugged.
"How did that happen, it was plugged in the last time I checked." Alicia said.
"That would be my doing." Amanda said as she and Tucker walked through the door.
"How did you get in here?" Alicia asked.
"Flew in." Amanda said.
"How did you fly in, the only people that ever flew in the sky were the Wright brothers, Vlad Masters, Danny Fenton, and ghosts in the ghost zone. If you were a ghost the ghost defense systems would have notified us and held you at bay." Alicia said.
"Well your half right, I was a ghost." Amanda said.
"Wait, what. How can you be a ghost, you're human." Alicia asked confused.
"Here does this help?" Amanda said as she turned back into Amanda Phantom.
When the young secretary saw the glowing rings around the young woman, she thought it was the coolest thing ever. She hasn't seen Danny transform right in front of her before and here seeing someone else do it threw her off guard. When the transformation was finished, she was shocked to see that it was familiar ghost, although a bit different than what she remembers.
"Ember McLain!" Alicia said with excitement in her voice.
Amanda just internally laughing it up, seeing another fan react to seeing her in person. It was amusing that she still had a fan-base in the human world and this young woman was a fan, even after her whole taking over the world schemes didn't work.
"Yep, let me guess you want an autograph?" Amanda asked smugly.
"Yes..I mean, I do...I just like your music and I..." Alicia said nervously, trying to form a sentence, but her words all jumbled.
Danny and Tucker looked at Alicia with a smirks on their faces. Since the day they met Alicia, she has never been nervous type. So seeing her stutter and be all shy about it was a new sight to behold.
"Alicia was it, relax. I know it's not everyday you see a famous rock-star and your excited, but it's no different than talking to anyone else on the streets." Amanda said as she transformed back into her human form.
Alicia took a deep breathe and then spoke as calm she could, trying to follow Amanda's advice.
"Alright, calming down. Wow, I never thought I'd met you in person Ms. McLain. I thought you were a ghost though, why do you look human?" Alicia asked.
"I'm not to sure myself, you'd have to ask Danny about that." Amanda said.
"Yeah, how did this happen Danny?" Tucker asked.
"Well, it all started when..." Danny said as his stomach cut him off.
"Oh man, I completely forgot. The whole reason I called you over was to grab lunch and catch up, not to have the life scared out of me. Why don't we save the explanations after we eat." Tucker said.
Alicia got out a P.D.A that had Tucker's schedule in it and looked through it for any free time.
"Well Mayor Foley you're lucky your free for quiet some time, you do have the third grade class field trip coming in the tour of city hall at 2 pm. So where are we heading to?" Alicia asked.
"Nasty Burger!" Tucker said excited.
"Mayor Foley you do realize that it isn't the healthiest food out there, why there?" Alicia asked.
"Well originally it was supposed to be just Danny and me hanging out together and catching up, then with this new surprise here it was hard to ignore. Come to think about it, you haven't even seen most of Amity Park since you arrived here Alicia so I thought I could get you to see what this town has to offer. Now with the addition of a new halfa in this town, I believe this is cause for celebration." Tucker said.
"I don't know sir, I mean it does sound like a good idea and all, but..." Alicia said.
"But what?" Tucker said.
Alicia's face turned a little bit scarlet as the thought of actually going on a date with the mayor, her boss, crossed her mind. Now with seeing both her favorite musician and superhero was too much for her to handle. If one more surprise came her way, she was pretty sure she'd faint from being overwhelmed by embarrassment.
"Never mind, let's just go." Alicia said as she cleared her throat and her face was a little less red.
This gave tucker an idea, hopefully Danny would come through.
"Hey Danny, instead of us driving over there, why don't you just fly us all over to Nasty Burger, you know to not get caught up in the afternoon lunch rush." Tucker said.
Danny thought about it, it would save time and they wouldn't have to wait for some moron to go through a green light. On the other hand, Amanda was still getting used to her powers and he wasn't sure that Amanda could handle something like that, it was all up to her. So he had to ask.
"Amanda, you up for it?" Danny asked.
Amanda looked at Tucker and Alicia, she may not have as much experience as Danny at the moment, but she knew that she could at least handle this.
"Yeah, let's go." Amanda said.
"Alright, Tuck your with me. Alicia, seeing as that it'll weigh me down carrying Tucker. Amanda will take you, is that fine?" Danny asked.
Alicia just gave a nod and said. "I just can't believe this is all happening." Alicia said.
'You'd better get used to this, Amity park is always full of surprises." Tucker said.
"Speaking of surprises, Tucker a word. Alone." Danny said.
Amanda got the drift and led Alicia outside where Danny and Tucker could talk.
"Just don't be too long Danny." Amanda said.
Danny just gave a nod and when Amanda and Alicia were outside and the door finally closed he took a deep breathe and turned towards Tucker.
"Dude what's up?" Tucker asked.
Gathering the strength not to let loose his tears of happiness that trimmed his eyes, Danny finally spoke in a calm tone.
"Tucker, she's back. She's really back." Danny said.
"Danny what's wrong, who's back?!" Tucker asked.
"Danielle." Danny said with a small grin on his face.
Tucker finally understood why Danny looked so relieved, he knew how much time and energy Danny spent in looking for Danielle. Even weirder when he asked him to hack into a NASA satellite to try to find her, even though it didn't work out aright. He wasn't for sure why Danny asked him to do this, until Danny explained to him that it was for someone important in his life and after putting the pieces together, he figured out why. Danny saw Danielle as his own child, sure she may look older on the outside, but she was really only a couple of years old mentally; maybe even younger than that. Now she's back in his life, the question is how far Danny is willing go to for her.
"Danny, where is she now?" Tucker asked.
"Home, I have a duplicate watching her and if something happens I'll know about it." Danny said.
"Is she sick?" Tucker asked.
Danny nodded. "Yeah, she had a slight fever the last time I saw her. Her clothes did look a bit smaller on her thought, maybe she hasn't been eating right or even not at all." Danny said.
"Danny if you want, I'll upload some medical programming into V.A.I's system." Tucker said.
"Thanks Tucker, you the man." Danny said.
"Don't you forget it, now I do believe we have two beautiful girls to take to lunch, better not keep them waiting." Tucker said.
Danny's face had a pink tinge as Tucker mentioned the girls and followed Tucker outside.
While Danny and Tucker were talking inside, things were a little awkward between Alicia and Amanda outside. It's hard to make small talk with a person you just met. Not wanting this to be a boring first impression, Amanda had to get this girl to relax. What better way to get someone to relax than to embarrass them and after seeing her reaction to the young mayor, she was pretty sure what to do.
"So Alicia, how long?" Amanda asked.
"How long what?" Alicia asked.
"You and Tucker, I mean there's obviously something going on between you and him. Am I right?" Amanda asked.
Alicia's face became rose red, she'd be lying to herself if she didn't feel something towards Tucker. Being so kind to her and only asking for her assistance when it became too much for him to handle alone. She was with him every step of the way in his physical conditioning and the final results made her heart soar into the heavens above. She'd been with him on both good and bad days of their training, she didn't want him to feel alone so she decided to take the challenge along side him, giving each other strength as they pushed the other along.
When the day came when the doctor gave back his new results, she was proud when the doctor said that Tucker's body was no longer at risk. Tucker was so happy that he wrapped his arms around her laughing and cheering for all his hard work and thanked Alicia for all her support. That was the day that she fell in love with Tucker, but she couldn't he was technically her boss and it didn't seem right to have romantic feelings for her employer, but no matter how hard she tried couldn't not stop loving him.
Now hearing her one of her favorite singers notice her feelings towards Tucker, put her over the edge.
"Wait, what. There's no...I mean, there's nothing going on between...there's nothing, nothing." Alicia said disarranged.
Amanda gave her the 'Oh really' look.
"Come on, it's just us girls. Listen whatever you say will stay between us deal?" Amanda asked.
"Fine." Alicia took a deep breathe trying to calm herself down once again.
"I do like him okay, a lot. He's always been there for me and I've been their for him. I guess eventually I started seeing him as not my boss, but as a friend and later on a crush. I just haven't told him my feeling for him, I mean what if he doesn't like me back. I don't want to ruin our friendship and make it awkward to work with him or worse for me to quit the job I love." Alicia said.
Amanda was really surprised with this girls bravery. Trusting her like this was great in starting a good friendship with her and she didn't want to ruin in.
"Hey, let me tell you something my mom always told me: You won't know unless you try to make it happen. So even if it doesn't work out, at least you won't have the regret of not telling him how you feel. You understand?" Amanda asked.
Alicia thought about it for a second and realized that Amanda was right, as much as she didn't want it to be true. She was only making things harder for herself by keeping her feelings for Tucker under lock and key. So starting now she made other goal to confess to him before the day is thru, now the real question is when.
"I think so, thanks Ms. McLain." Alicia said.
"Call me Amanda and you're welcome Alicia." Amanda said with a smile on her face.
"Wow, I never thought I'd be helping anyone, especially a girl in the romance department." Amanda thought.
"Ms. McLa- I mean Amanda, can I ask you something?" Alicia said.
"Anything." Amanda said.
"Well, what's your situation with Danny. I mean do you like him?" Alicia asked.
Amanda blushed at the question as her mind raced back towards this morning, she wanted to deny that she felt anything towards Danny and just call it her hormones taking over. However the more she thought about it, the more red her face got and her true feelings for the ghost boy showed through.
"Well, I..." Amanda said.
Amanda was about to answer when behind her Danny and Tucker came out of City hall. Danny who overheard his name be spoken, decided to put his two cents in.
"What about me?" Danny asked.
Amanda and Alicia were startled as they heard Danny's voice come from right behind them.
"Danny! Uh, how much did you both hear?" Alicia asked.
"Well I'm sorry I eavesdropped, but I heard my name and wanted to see what was going on. I'll ask again, what about me?" Danny said.
Alicia was about to answer, but Amanda beat her to it.
"It's nothing Danny, we were just getting to know each other and your name just came up. Isn't that right Alicia?" Amanda asked with a 'Help me out here' look on her face.
"Yeah, so are you boys ready to go?" Alicia asked changing the subject.
"Well if your both sure, than I guess we are. Tucker?" Danny said.
"Let's go already, I'm dying over here!" Tucker said over-dramatically.
"Tucker, knowing you. You'd probably wipe the inventory out in a hour with your appetite." Danny said with a chuckle.
"Ha Ha, very funny Inviso-Bill." Tucker said getting a playful jab at Danny.
"Inviso-Bill?" Amanda and Alicia asked in unison.
"Oh, that's right. That's what the media called Danny when he started getting more popular before the world knew his secret." Tucker said.
Amanda and Alicia were still a bit confused on why it was so funny, but they just shrugged it off.
"Alright, let's get going." Danny said.
Tucker grabbed onto Danny's shoulder and Danny did the same for Tucker to keep him stable while in the air. Danny flew himself and Tucker a few feet in the air before turning their attention towards the girls.
"Alicia a word of advice from a expert, hang on tight!" Tucker said.
Alicia was a bit nervous, she has a slight fear of heights and the thought of her falling always scared her. Amanda seeing how nervous her new friend was, she put a hand on her shoulder and gave it a small squeeze in comfort, telling her it was going to be alright.
"Thanks." Alicia said.
"No problem. Let's get going." Amanda said motioning for Alicia to climb on her back.
Alicia cautiously climbed on Amanda's back and wrapped her arms around Amanda's shoulders in almost a vice grip. Amanda caught on to Alicia's nervousness and with a comforting grin that told her, 'I won't drop you, I promise.'
Alicia watched as the twin silver rings appeared and transformed Amanda into her ghost form: Amanda Phantom. She a moment of pure awe at the sight of a halfa transformation.
"How does it feel to do that?" Alicia asked.
"Its much different than what I'm used to. You feel a surge of energy following through you and at first it tingled a bit. Now all I can feel is the energy following through me, making me stronger than before, maybe it's because that I now have a human half. I'm not for sure, but what I can do is to keep working at it and maybe soon I'll be back to where I was, maybe even stronger." Amanda said as she slowly made her way up in the sky, using her answer to distract Alicia.
"You want to know something even weirder?" Amanda asked.
"What?" Alicia asked.
"Look around, don't you see anything different." Amanda asked.
Alicia looked around and saw that she was now more than thirty feet off the ground, at first the view was amazing. She could see the tops of many of the buildings and stores, but when her eyes caught the ground bellow her fear of heights came back to her. Afraid she was going to fall, her grip on Amanda's shoulders tightened, she closed her eyes tight as she began to hyperventilate.
Noticing his friends distress Tucker motioned Danny to fly over towards the girls to try to comfort Alicia enough for her to enjoy the experience of flying.
"Alicia, I know your scared, but I need you to open your eyes to look at me." Tucker said soothingly.
"I can't!" Alicia exclaimed.
"Yes you can, just try to look at me alright. Nothing else, I promise you're going to be alright." Tucker said.
Alicia peeked one eye open and saw that Tucker was right next to her, calming down a bit she opened the other eye. Not breaking eye contact with Tucker for a single moment.
"There you go, now I want you to take good look at where you are. Sure you're high in the sky right now, but the view is pretty amazing don't you think?' Tucker said.
Alicia quickly looked around and nodded at Tucker regaining her eye contact with him.
"See, it's not that bad. Just don't look down and you'll be fine. Even if you look down, just remember that you aren't going to fall. Even if that happens, Danny or Amanda will catch you." Tucker said.
"Tucker's right, if you get too scared just let us know and we'll fly lower towards the ground. We'll take it nice and easy and only speed up when you're okay, alright?" Danny said.
Alicia thought about it for a second before she nodded her head.
Danny and Tucker smiled.
"Alright, let's get going." Amanda said almost flying off in a random direction, but Danny flew up next to her.
"Uh, Amanda. Why don't I lead? You kind of have to know where Nasty Burger's at in order to get there." Danny said.
"Oh, right." Amanda said with a nervous laugh.
Danny gave Amanda a quick smile before he took off. He was flying a bit slower than he'd normal would and for two reasons: The first so that Amanda could keep up with Alicia on her back and the other for not wanting to drop Tucker. Danny hasn't flown with a person Tucker's size in a long time, so while it was easy for him to carry him; it was even harder to remember that Tucker was even there in the first place. Now that Danny is much stronger than he was back when he was 14, so he has to be extra careful not to accidentally let him go.
When he was younger he used to be able to lift a 15 ton (30,000 lb) school bus for a short amount of time and not be tired afterwords unless he made copies to help him. Now that he is older, he is able to do that with just one hand and can now handle more than triple the weight easily with both hands.
However, in his human form, he could only lift and hold up to 175 lbs without injuring himself for about 20 minutes before his muscles give out. So after a couple of months after the Diasterroid, Tucker and himself designed and built obstacle course for both his forms abilities and to improve both his forms physique's.
What made it really challenging is that the course was ever-changing. The course would change in small and sometimes drastic ways based on a algorithm that Tucker came up with and installed into V.A.I's system so that each time Danny ran it as either human or as Phantom; it would challenge his speed, endurance, strength, and reflexes all in a simple hour long course.
Danny didn't want rely on his ghost form for everything like he did in the past. This was also a contingency plan, in the event that his power's are being hindered, his human form would have to able to pick up the slack easily until he can regain control of his powers.
Now Danny could lift up to half a ton in his human form for about an half an hour before his muscles gave out. So it was a major improvement overall and worth the training. Danny may have the build a body builder, but he is all muscle, and even though both his ghost and human forms grew stronger than he ever thought imaginable: he has also learned to not get too carried away or show off just to impress. A lesson he learned after his many years of vigorous training with his obstacle course and the Master of Time: Clockwork.
Danny isn't a moron, a bit dense even after all these years, but smart enough to know when to call it quits when it came to his training. He made sure that Tucker designed in a emergency stop keyword so that when Danny got too tired or had to stop completely due to an emergency he could have instantly take a break or leave in a flash. The only downside is that if he stopped the course early V.A.I would change the course again based off his progress. Now to make sure that no one would intentionally disturb him while he was training, he made the Keyword something that only Danny would say, and that word was: Halti. (AN: Halti is Esperanto for "Stop")
This didn't matter to Danny, in fact it gave him a challenge to work even harder and now with more people in his life to protect he made a silent vow to not let anything happen to them even at the cost of his own life.
(Amanda P.O.V)
Danny took off ahead of me and Alicia, but thankfully at a slower pace so that way I wouldn't lose sight him. I turned back towards Alicia and with a nod from her I took off after Danny slowly. It was actually kind of nice to just fly without the need to look over my shoulder every few minutes because some arse-hat decides that I'm in his territory when I'm just passing through.
(Flashback Last night-Ghost Zone, Amanda's POV)
I was on my way to Kitty and Johnny's realm, apparently Kitty had something she wanted to ask me. I didn't really know what she was going on about, but the way she said it over the phone made it seem like it was urgent. I was just a few minutes away when i heard a small commotion near a nearby floating island, so being curious I flew towards it. I hid behind a broken pillar and saw the Fright Knight and two cloaked ghosts conversing between themselves.
"It seems everything is coming together quicker than planned, all we need is the final element and the master will be released and soon both worlds will tremble at his might and no ghost, not even the great Danny Phantom will be able to survive his wrath." One of the cloaked ghosts said.
"Indeed and to think that the fool will be the very key to the master's return from oblivion." The other cloaked ghost said.
"Whose the master?" I thought as i tried to get closer to hear them better, but my foot slid on some loose ground and a loud screech attracted the ghosts stare towards me.
"She's heard too much, Fright Knight silence that heathen!" The first cloaked ghost said as he pointed towards me.
"As you command!" Fright Knight said in a monotone voice as he drew his soul shredder and charged at me.
I hit him with a strong chord shock wave and flew away as fast as I could. I heard the sound of horse hooves coming up to, I turned around and saw that the Halloween reject has called upon his ghostly horse to play catch up. I was fast, but no has ever escaped the Fright knight when he was upon his horse. I needed to escape and when almost all hope seemed lost a natural portal opened up, not caring where it lead as long as it lead me away from the dipstick of a knight.
I thought I was in the clear when I flew into it, but the portal didn't close in time and the ghostly knight followed through and struck me with a strong blast from his soul shredder sending me crashing into the hard ground. I must've lost consciousness, because the next thing I knew I was in Danny's room with Danny standing over me.
(Flashback end)
"Now I'm a halfa just like Danny and now I'm getting my secret wish to become human once again, it feels so surreal to think that I'm actually doing this and enjoying myself. And Danny, he's been so warm to me, am I really falling..." I thought before Alicia got my attention.
"Amanda look out!" Alicia said.
I didn't notice it but I was about to hit the side of a building. I snapped out of my little trance and swerved away from the building before we collided.
"Sorry about that, a little lost in thought." I apologized.
"It's alright, I think. What were you thinking about?" Alicia asked.
"It's nothing, don't worry about it." I retorted.
"Are you sure? I looked like whatever it was is really getting to you." Alicia said.
"I'm sure, but I do have this weird feeling that bad is going to happen." I said.
"What kind of bad thing?" Alicia asked.
"I don't know, just something. It may be nothing." I said.
"Well shouldn't you at least tell Danny, I mean you do like him right, shouldn't he know what's bothering you." Alicia said.
I stopped immediately as I felt my face grow warm
"I never said I liked him, it's not like I can do anything about it anyway. I mean I've tried to take over the world so many times and put his friends and family in danger in the past. What makes you think that all that will suddenly change if I told him that I like him." I exclaimed. I covered my mouth with my hands and my face felt like it was on fire.
"So you do like him then." Alicia said in a smug tone.
I let out a sigh in defeat, I knew that she wasn't going to let up until I either told her and at the rate I was going, it was going to be now.
"Yes, okay I admit it. I do like Danny, but after so many years of nothing but fighting with each other, what am I supposed to say. 'Danny, I know we fought in the past and I tried to take over the world and all, but would you go out with me.' It would just be awkward between us and I mean he already has a girlfriend right, the goth chick. So why would he go out with me when he has her?" I said.
"Oh, so you don't know." Alicia said a bit knowingly.
I was genuinely confused, what was she going on about.
"Know what?" I asked.
"Well Tucker told me about Danny's little romance with the goth chick as you call her: Samantha Manson, it is true that they did date in the past, but the two did break up, Tucker told me that it was hard for Danny when they broke up. After that day, Danny hardly did anything or talked to anyone in so long besides the children he visits in the hospitals or at premiere gatherings or gallas. Tucker could tell that Danny wasn't taking it too well; miserable even. So it surprised myself and Tucker to see Danny with someone, especially a gorgeous girl like you and I could tell that Danny was happier, with you." Alicia said.
I was beyond words, I didn't even know that Danny was sad. All this time, I thought he just being the kind person he always was. Now I'm hearing that Danny was miserable because of a bad break up with the goth chick. Wait that means that he's...single. I felt my face warm up at the thought of having my chance to be with him.
"You mean, that I can actually..." I said.
"Yep, tell him how you feel. Just like you told me: You won't know unless you try to make it happen." Alicia said.
I could feel that she was smiling, my mother's words once again used to help me out and it reminds me that I miss her with all my heart.
"Thanks Alicia, I needed that. You promise you won't tell Tucker?" I asked.
"I promise, now come on. We're falling behind." Alicia said.
She was right, while we were talking Danny was almost out of view.
"Oh crap. Alicia, I'm going to fly a little bit faster to catch up, hang on." I said as I once again took off, this time going about 50 mph compared to my 30 mph.
I heard Alicia exclaim as my speed picked up. Then I heard her laugh when I slowed down when we were just a few feet away.
"That was awesome!" Alicia said excited.
Danny and Tucker turned to see that we were right behind them and chuckled a bit at Alicia's enthusiasm.
"See I told you, it's pretty fun once you get used to it. Was I right or was I right?" Tucker asked.
"You were right Tucker." Alicia said.
I turned towards Danny as he gave me a smile and pointed towards a building bellow us: The Nasty Burger.
"There it is." Danny said.
We landed just a few feet outside of the small building, from the name it had to be a fast food place. Even though it was the middle of the afternoon, it didn't look like anyone was there. Danny turned back into his human form and I did the same, I didn't want everyone in the restaurateur freaking out.
"Must be our lucky day, no crowds." Tucker said running up to the glass doors.
(Nasty Burger: Normal POV)
Amanda, Alicia, and Danny followed the young mayor inside the restaurant. When Tucker opened the doors, after a few seconds of silence the entire restaurant erupted in excitement.
"Its Danny Fenton!"
"Mayor Foley!"
Soon a large crowd of children, yes children swarmed around the group with stars in their eyes. There wasn't too many of them, maybe about 20-25 students and each one of them wearing a light blue t-shirt with the words Ms Bellman's Class trip on the front.
*"Pale Fire!* What is going on here!" A familiar voice said pushing through the crowd of children.
Danny and Tucker turned to see their old Teacher Mr. Lancer. He hasn't changed much over the last couple of years. His little soul patch now a bit duller in color, but he looked just the same.
"Mr. Lancer?" The two boys asked.
"Mr. Fenton, Mayor Foley? What in the name of Vladimir Nabokov is going on here?!" Mr Lancer asked.
"We were about to ask you the same thing." Danny said.
"Well I was just enjoying my lunch when you four came bursting through the doors and these children gathered around." Mr. Lancer said.
"Then what are you doing here Mr. Lancer. You normally wouldn't eat here except if you taking your lunch break at the school." Tucker said.
"I happen to be chaperoning this group of young minds for the day, if you haven't forgotten today is the class field trip to city hall that the elementary school scheduled with you and Ms Diez." Mr. Lancer said.
The entire group of children turned to in shock, how did he know Danny and Mayor Foley.
"You know them Mr. Lancer?" One of the students asked.
"Of course he knows us, we used to be students of his back at Casper High." Tucker said.
"WHAT!" The group of children exclaimed.
Before the students bombarded Mr. Lancer with questions about the Mayor and Danny, one of the elementary school teachers came up to stop them: Ms. Bellman. A woman who doesn't look too bad in her late forties. 5' 2", short, frizzy, red hair, and a hourglass figure. Her vibrant green eyes hidden behind her light blue glasses with round frames. Dressed in a red and white custom T-shirt with bold black letting that spelled out Class Guide on the front. She wore nice faded blue jeans with a white belt on her waist.
"Children, return to your lunch. If your lucky maybe Mr Fenton will get a picture with all of us." Ms. Bellman said.
The students quickly obeyed and rushed back to their meals and started eating as fast as they could so that they could get a picture of their favorite superhero, and maybe ask a few questions.
"I'm sorry about that Mr Fenton, I guess the children were excited to see you." Ms Bellman said.
Danny chuckled a bit before turning towards the teacher. Danny would have corrected her on telling her it was okay for her to call him just Danny, but he respected her decision on being formal. So he decided to show her the same respect.
"It's fine, Miss?" Danny said as he took out his hand.
"Bellman, Sarah Bellman." Ms Bellman said reaching for his hand and giving it a light shake.
"Ms. Bellman, I get it. When kids see the superhero of Amity Park, it's hard not to say hi." Danny said.
Ms Bellman saw the two lovely ladies standing next to the hero and the Mayor.
"So I'm guessing one of you is Mr Fenton's girlfriend?" Ms Bellman asked.
"I'm not his girlfriend!" Amanda said abruptly.
Ms. Bellman turned towards Amanda and smiled knowingly. Danny and Amanda's faces turned bright pink.
"Oh young love, so much denial." Ms Bellman thought.
"My apologies. I guess I shouldn't make claims like that." Ms. Bellman said with a slight chuckle.
"I accept your apology." Amanda said, trying to hide her embarrassment.
"I guess, we'll let you be on your way. Mr. Fenton, I know it would make the children day to get a picture of you as a souvenir of their field-trip." Ms. Bellman said.
Danny thought about it while looking at the ravenous faces of the children eating their meals. Those who were done, looked at him and their smiles huge in excitement. Who was he to tell them no.
"Why not. I guess a few pictures wouldn't be so bad. If they want, I would sign their shirts. It make the shirts priceless." Danny said.
"Thank you Mr. Fenton, I know the children will like that. Well you four enjoy yourselves. I'll try to keep the children away until your done eating." Ms. Bellman said.
"Thanks Ms. Bellman." Tucker said.
"No problem Mr. Mayor." Ms Bellman said as she walked back with her book to her table.
Mr. Lancer cleared his throat and finally got a word in.
"Mr. Fenton, Mr. Foley?" Mr. Lancer said.
"Yes Mr. Lancer?" The boys asked.
"Although this meeting was a bit unexpected, I just want to say how proud I am of the both of you and of how far you both came since your graduation at Casper High." Mr. Lancer said.
"Thanks Mr. Lancer, we couldn't of had a better teacher to guide us and to help us out when we needed it. Especially after the Disasteroid." Tucker said.
"Yeah Mr. Lancer, I don't think I would've graduated if it weren't for you giving me that make up work and extra credit assignments to boost my grade and for convincing the other teachers to do the same." Danny said.
"Your both quite welcome, now I do hope to see you later Mr Mayor for the tour of the new City Hall building in a hour." Mr. Lancer said.
"You bet." Tucker said.
Mr. Lancer gave a nod and walked back towards his booth with Ms Bellman who was taking a new bites out of her hamburger.
"Well that was nice." Danny said.
"Yeah, I didn't think I'd see Mr. Lancer again after grad." Tucker said.
"You said it, now let's order before there's a line." Danny said.
Tucker and the girls agreed and they all walked up to the counter and when they got there, the young, blonde, teen cashier was starstruck at who was about to order.
"Mayor Foley, Danny Fenton!" The cashier said.
Tucker chuckled at the teen cashier's reaction and started to order.
"What's going on...(Tucker reads the name-tag on the cashier's shirt) Franklin. Can I get two number three's, large drinks and two number fives medium drinks." Tucker said.
Franklin snapped out of his little starstruck shock and repeated the order back to the Mayor.
"A-alright, that was two number three's and two number fives. Two large and medium drinks. Would you like anything else, Mr. Mayor?" Franklin asked nervously.
Tucker turned towards Danny and with a grin he added.
"Yeah, one classic Nasty Kids Meal." Tucker said.
Danny in all this commotion he forgot that Danielle was at home, probably starving. He is going to thank Tucker for this and he already had the perfect idea in mind. Franklin was confused at the odd request of a kids meal, but the customer is always right and seeing that the customer's were Mayor Foley and Danny Fenton, so they had to have their reasons.
"Okay, one classic Nasty kids meal. Will that be it?" Franklin asked.
"Yeah that's it, thanks Franklin." Tucker said.
"N-no, problem Mr Mayor. Will that be for here or to go?" Franklin asked.
Alicia looked at her watch and saw that it was getting closer until the class trip was supposed to arrive at City hall, so she spoke up.
"Better make that order to go Tucker, we still have a schedule to keep." Alicia said.
"Oh right. Can you make that order to go Franklin?" Tucker asked.
"Y-yeah, no problem. Y-your total is $19.79." Franklin said.
Tucker handed the teen a $20.
"Your change is .21 cents." Franklin said pulling out two dimes and a penny, also grabbing five cups for their drinks.
"Keep the change, and here's a little something for yourself Franklin." Tucker said pulling out a five.
Franklin was shocked to be getting a five dollar tip from the mayor, it made working at Nasty burger worth it.
"Thank you Mr Mayor. Oh, here's your number ticket. When it's called out, your food is ready." Franklin said a bit more relaxed at the exchange, handing Tucker the ticket.
"Thanks Franklin. Alright now that is taken care of, I think we can give those kids that picture now." Tucker said grabbing the cups.
"Mr Foley, Danny. This might be a awkward to ask, but do you think I can get a quick selfie with the two of you?" Franklin asked.
Tucker turned towards Danny and after a quick smile and nod, they gave Franklin his answer.
"Sure why not." Tucker said.
"Really, awesome!" Franklin said jumping over the counter, hoping his boss wouldn't catch him.
Pulling out his phone, Tucker and Danny came up behind him with smiles on their faces, Tucker putting bunny ears behind Franklin.
"Say Phantom!" Tucker said.
"Phantom!" The three said as the picture was taken.
"Thanks Mr. Mayor, Mr. Fenton. You both just made my day." Franklin said as he put his phone back in his pocket and hopped back over the counter. Once again, his boss didn't catch him.
"No problem, not's not every day you have the mayor and a superhero for a customer." Tucker said.
Franklin went right to work in making the order for the Mayor and his friends. He was so excited that he started whistling a chipper tune as he worked.
Tucker turned towards the girls with a smile on his face.
"Why don't you girls find a booth, this shouldn't take too long." Tucker said handing Alicia the ticket.
"What are you going to do?" Amanda asked.
"Going to give these kids a good picture of their favorite ghost superhero." Tucker said pointing to Danny.
"Maybe more than one Tucker, they did seem really excited." Danny said.
"As long as we do it before our foods done, take all the time you need. Mr Hero." Tucker said with a chuckle.
"I'll try." Danny said as he walked off towards Ms Bellman and Mr Lancer.
Tucker walked over towards the soda machine, as the girls found a booth to wait for their food.
(Danny's POV)
I could feel all the little eyes on me as I walked up towards Ms. Bellman. I knew they were just excited to see me, well Danny Phantom. I was just about to come up to them when I felt someone bump into me. I looked down and saw a little boy sitting on the ground, probably from when I bumped into him. He didn't look hurt, but falling on your butt doesn't feel to good.
"You okay kid?" I asked.
I saw the little guy look up at me, he looked a bit scrawny for his age and had a scared look in his eye. He probably thought I was mad at him for bumping into me, but had a weird feeling that this wasn't a accident. I've seen that look in his eyes before, it was like someone made him bump into and that meant a bully. I turned my head and saw a few kids snickering at the little guy on the ground, when they caught me looking at them they turned their heads oblivious. I saw that this kid was scared so I knelled down to the kid.
"Those other kids pushed you into me?" I asked the kid.
I couldn't see it from the kids shaggy dark hair covering his eyes, but he had tears in his eyes, it was like he thought I was going to hit him.
"Hey it's okay, I'm not mad at you. What your name?" I asked.
"Michael, Michael Forest." The kid said nervous his eyes still avoiding mine.
"Well Michael, do your friends call you Mikey?" I asked.
The kid lifted his face towards me and wiped the tears from his face.
"Yeah, your really not mad Mr. Fenton?" Mikey asked.
"No, I kind of know what's like to have a bully. Why do they pick on you?" Danny asked holding out a hand to help Mikey up.
"It's kind of embarrassing. Mr. Fenton." Mikey said.
"Call me Danny. Mikey, now tell me what is it?" I said.
"Well, I kind of said my dream was that I would be a ghost-hunter like you when I grow up and help you fight ghosts. They thought I couldn't do it and made fun of me because I'm scrawny and saying that you'd never let me join your team." Mikey said.
(What Mikey said was only half the truth, there was also another reason, but he didn't want his hero to find out. So he hid it the best he could.)
I nodded, understanding this kids problem, I always wanted to be an astronaut when I grew up and I even wanted to fly in real spaceship to explore outer space, this was before I got ghost powers and then I actually did it when I fought Technus when he took over that satelite. I knew a thing or two about a bully. Since I was little, Dash always teased me and my friends for me having ghost chasing parents. Dash quickly backed off when I saved the world and revealed my secret. Now hearing the same thing happen to a kid even younger than me or wanting to have the dream my parent's wanted me to have.
"You know if my parent's heard that, my dad would totally give you his Fenton bear hug and telling you stories of all the ghost's they fought. They wanted me to hunt for ghost's and join the family business. I really wanted to be an astronaut, but things didn't go as planned and look at me know. But you want to fight ghost's like them and me, that's special. Most kids are scared of ghosts, you're not?" I said.
"Well I mean, some ghosts are scary like that Halloween knight I saw last night." Mikey said.
"Wait, you saw Fright Knight?" I asked.
"Yeah, I live close to the park. I also saw that pretty rock and roll girl ghost fall to the ground, I wanted to see if I could stop him myself. I had one of your parent's Fenton thermoses underneath my bed from when the ghost king took over the town. I kept it just in case I would catch a ghost like you." Mikey said.
This kid is braver than I was growing up, although it would've been extremely reckless and dangerous for him to face ghost's like the Fright Knight by himself. This kid could be a good ghost hunter with the right training.
"Well I know you wanted to prove yourself, but the Fright Knight isn't a ghost you take on by yourself without the right gear and training. But the next time you see the Box ghost, I'll gladly let you capture him. But until you have some training, I'm afraid you aren't ready to ghost hunt by yourself." I said.
"You mean that!" Mikey said.
"Sure, maybe I can convenience my folks to teach a ghost catching class for future ghost hunters. I'd think my parent's would like your dream Mikey." I said.
"Thanks Mr. Fenton- I mean Danny. Your the best!" Mikey said.
"No Mikey, you are. Remember that buddy and you'll go far. Why don't we tell your teacher that I ready to take that picture." I said.
"Really, you're going to take a picture with my class. That's awesome." Mikey said excited.
"Picture's plural. I'll take some separate photo's with a couple of your classmates. Maybe of just you and me, how does that sound?" I asked.
"Wow, Danny that would be so cool!" Mikey said.
"Well what are we waiting for, let's get your teacher." Danny said.
Mikey grabbed my hand and led me over towards Ms Bellman and Mr Lancer, I guess he was just as excited as he was scared.
"Ms. Bellman, Ms. Bellman!" Mikey said excited.
"Yes Mikey, what is...(Ms. Bellman looks at me), Oh Mr Fenton, I assume from my students excitement that you want to take that picture after all." Ms Bellman said.
"Yep, and my new little buddy Mikey here is going to be first." I said.
"Really?!" Mikey asked.
"Yep." I said as transformed into Phantom.
"That's so cool!" Mikey said staring at my transformation.
"I guess it is, Ms. Bellman I think that now's a good time to let the other's in on our little plan." I said.
"Oh of course." Ms. Bellman said standing up.
"Children, may I have your attention please?" Some of the students eyes focused on Ms. Bellman and others were on me. "Now, Mr. Fenton and I were talking and he thought it would be a little treat if we all got a photo with Mr. Fenton for our class wall and a few for our yearbook." Ms Bellman said holding a Nikon D-7500 camera in her hands.
In not time at all everyone jumped out of their seats and rushed towards us.
"Now, now. No crowding. Mr. Fenton is on a time schedule with the Mayor so please do not rush. If you all would please gather in front of Mr Fenton we can get a picture." Ms Bellman said.
"Actually Ms. Bellman, I think you all should be in the picture." I said.
"How, we cannot be in two places at once and we didn't bring a Tri-pod?" Ms Bellman asked.
"That's easy." I said, making a duplicate.
Everyone was in awe that I made a copy of myself, saying how cool it was that I could do that.
"Of course, thank you Mr. Fenton, Fenton's?" Ms Bellman said a bit confused handing the duplicate the camera.
The duplicate smiled as he flew over just a few feet away from the crowd.
"Alright, first picture Mikey and Danny." The duplicate said.
I picked up Mikey and placed him on my shoulders.
"Whoa!" Mikey said as he sat on my shoulders.
"Why does Forrest-turd get a picture with Danny Phantom?" One of the kids said and from that comment it was one of the bullies.
I could tell he was the bully, because of the way he talked with that tone of not liking Mikey. He did look a bit bigger than Mikey and that meant he could intimidate anyone he wanted from his height.
"Call it a apology for me bumping into him, I wonder how that happened?" I said glaring at the boy.
The bully was silent as he didn't want to get in trouble.
"Wait, Danny can my friends be in this picture too?" Mikey asked.
"Sure Mikey." I said.
"Cool. Daisuke, Liz come on!" Mikey said talking to his friends.
Two little kids, a little Asian boy with a green beanie on his head and a little brunette girl with a purple hairband in her hair walked up to me and Mikey.
"Um, Hi Mr. Fenton." Daisuke said nervous.
"Yeah, Hi." Liz said just as nervous.
"Guys it's okay, Danny isn't going to hurt you. He's really cool." Mikey said getting his friends spirits up.
"Alright Mikey, if you say so." Daisuke said.
Mikey's friends turned towards the duplicate.
"Alright say "Phantom"" The duplicate said.
"Phantom" We all said as a light flashed.
"Got it, it's a keeper." The duplicate said.
"Alright, now let's all take a group picture. Everyone gather in, shorter kids in the front and taller kids in the back." Mr. Lancer said directing the children.
In no time at all everyone was gathered in front of me and the teachers. Mikey and his friends standing next to me.
"Alright, everyone say "Phantom"" The duplicate said.
"Phantom!" Everyone including the teachers said in unison, a flash of light completed the picture. I put down Mikey next to his friends.
"Dude that was awesome, I didn't think we'd actually get a picture of Danny Phantom and us." Daisuke said.
"I know right, thanks Danny." Mikey said.
"No problem, but it's not over yet." The duplicate said walking over towards us.
"What do you mean?" Liz asked.
"Anyone got a marker?" I asked.
"I do why?" Daisuke said pulling out a black sharpie.
I turned my attention towards the other kids and Ms Bellman, with a nod from her, I knew it was fine.
"How would you like to have your shirts signed." I asked.
"You serious, that would be so awesome." Mikey said.
The duplicate smiled as he turned towards the group.
"If you kids want an autograph on your shirt please line up and to make it easier, make two separate lines one in front of me and the other in front of the original Danny standing over there." The duplicate said pointing towards the original Danny.
(Normal POV)
So after a lot of pushing and shoving, two lines were made between both Danny's. Ms. Bellman, who had an extra sharpie in her purse handed it to the duplicate while the original Danny started signing his Danny Phantom Logo on each of the students shirts. Some of the students gave Danny a hug, a high five, and a handshake after they got their shirts signed. Then they went to tell their friends and showed off their autographed shirt. The last one's to get their shirts signed by Danny himself was the bullies that pick on Mikey, nervous about what Danny would do to them or if he would even sign their shirts. They tried to get away, but Danny, the duplicate and Ms. Bellman stopped the boys dead in their tracks.
"Don't you boys want Mr Fenton's autograph, I thought you were just as excited to see him as the other kids." Ms. Bellman said.
Each one the boys looked away from their teacher and from Danny, not wanting to make eye contact.
"I think I know why Ms. Bellman, you go calm everyone down. I think I need to talk to these three boys for just a sec." Danny said turning his attention towards the three boys.
Getting the idea Ms. Bellman gathered the students who got their shirts signed and tried her best to calm them down, unfortunately all the students were just too excited to calm down by herself, so Mr. Lancer had to step in, which proved more effective. Danny chuckled at the authority that Mr. Lancer now had in his voice compared to when he was in school. A total 360 turn around. Now Danny turned his attention towards the three boys, seeing their nervousness, he put on a calm face before he spoke.
"Okay, for starters I'm not mad at you boys, your still young and have a lot of time to change. I do have just one question why pick on Mikey. He seems like a really cool kid." Danny said.
When he didn't get a answer he tried asking again.
"Well, I'm waiting?" Danny asked.
Danny was going to ask again, when one of the boys finally spoke up.
"Because he left us, that's why!" One of the kids said.
"Oh so he was your friend, what changed?" Danny asked.
"We used to hang out all the time and play together at the park near our houses. But Mikey and Artie here got into a bad argument about who is the most powerful bad ghost and eventually got into a fight. We wanted to stop them, but Mikey said not to, even though he was loosing. He didn't want us getting involved." One of the kids said.
"Yeah, Mikey soon pushed Artie down and ran away. After that Artie and Mikey didn't speak to each other, even when we tried to apologize for Artie. He said that it had to be Artie who told him.' The other kid said.
"I see, so you must be Artie huh?" Danny said looking at the only kid who didn't talk.
Artie looked up at Danny and with a sneer said. "Yeah, what about it?" Artie said.
"Have you apologized to Artie, who did you say was more powerful a ghost?" Danny asked.
"Does it matter, Mikey won't admit I'm right." Artie said.
"I'll be the judge of that, who did you say and who did Mikey say." Danny said.
Artie looked confused, but still answered Danny.
"Well I said Johnny 13 and he said Pariah Dark, I told him no fair in picking the king of all ghosts. He said it was fair seeing as he was a bad ghost. That's why we fought." Artie said.
Danny was surprised that this friendship ended because of a argument as silly of who is a badder ghost. Danny fought both Johnny and Dark and won, though it took a battle suit to defeat Dark. So Mikey would be right, but without the crown of fire and ring of rage Pariah Dark was about as strong as Plasmius.
"Well who threw the first punch?" Danny asked.
"I did, but who was right?" Artie asked.
"Well both ghosts are powerful, but remember that I had a much harder time defeating Dark than Johnny and it took all the ghosts in the ghost zone to help me. So Mikey would be right." Danny said.
"It still isn't fair, he picked a ghost you fought only once. You fought Johnny 13 more times than that." Artie said.
"True, but in all the ghosts I fought, Dark was really tough. Johnny isn't such a bad guy, he's really changed since than. He and I aren't really friends, but since I know his girlfriend and we're pretty good friends, he and I tolerate each other and even have a good time. Ghost's can change I know that personally." Danny said looking over at Amanda.
"So Mikey was right and I was wrong?" Artie asked.
"Well since Dark is forever locked in a tomb and can never come back. I guess you are right, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't fight about it. I think you should apologize to Mikey." Danny said.
"Yeah come on Artie, we want our friend back." One of the boys said.
"I mean we did find his dream a bit silly, but it's no fun messing with him anymore." The other boy said.
Artie thought about it, it would be good to have his best friend back and he really did feel like a jerk towards Mikey, but being angry at him made him forget their good times together.
"Mr. Fenton?" Artie asked.
"Yeah?" Danny asked.
"Do you think you could help me apologize to Mikey." Artie said a bit nervous.
Danny smiled before he signed Artie's shirt. Artie was surprised when he saw Danny's logo on his shirt.
"Yeah, right after I sign your friends shirts." Danny said approaching the other two boys and signing their shirts.
All three boys were as excited to see that their favorite superhero signed their shirts, so the all gave Danny a warm hug around his legs before saying thank you.
"Your welcome boys, now I believe you owe someone a apology." Danny said pointing to Mikey and his friends.
"O-okay." Artie said.
"Come on, I'm right behind you." Danny said guiding the boy along.
Artie nodded before he and his friends walked over towards Mikey and his friends. By this time the duplicate merged back with Danny and Danny absorbed all the memories that the duplicate had of each smiling face of each student's shirt he signed.
"Mikey, I think these boy's have something to say to you." Danny said.
"What do you want Artie?" Mikey said a bit nervous about seeing his bully with Danny.
"I-I'm sorry." Artie said quietly.
"What?" Mikey asked.
"I said, I'm sorry!" Artie said louder.
"Your sorry, for what pushing me down or taking my lunch money or the other times you messed with me or my friends." Mikey said a bit angry.
"All that! Plus for our fight, I was wrong." Artie said with tears in his eyes.
Mikey and his friends jaw's dropped, they didn't think they'd see Artie the class bully apologize and actually look serious. Liz and Daisuke knew about the fight that made Mikey and Artie not be friends anymore and that Mikey wouldn't be friends with Artie until he apologized. So seeing this really put them on the spot.
"Y-you were?" Mikey asked.
"Yeah, Pariah Dark is more powerful than Johnny 13, Mr. Fenton said so." Artie said.
"Artie?" Mikey asked.
"Yeah?" Artie said.
"I'm sorry too, friends." Mikey said extending his hand out.
Artie was surprised at how quick that Mikey forgave him, all this time. If he just apologized then none of this would've happened. Feeling the hole in his chest close up, he ignored Mikey's hand and gave his friend the long awaited hug to say how sorry he was.
"Friends, I really am sorry Mikey." Artie said.
Mikey gave his friend a good squeeze before letting him go and turned to Danny.
"Danny, thank you. For giving me back my best friend." Mikey said smiling at Danny.
"Yeah Mr. Fenton, thanks." Artie said.
"No worries boys, I'm glad you both are friends again." Danny said.
Ms. Bellman walked up to see the group of kids laughing and smiling at each other. It brought a smile to her heart to them all getting along, especially Mikey and Artie.
"What's going on here?" Ms Bellman asked.
"Nothing Ms. Bellman, just talking." Mikey said.
"I see that, now come on. I'm sure Mr Fenton is hungry after all that." Ms Bellman said.
"Number 762, order up!"
Franklin's voice over the over-com rang out.
"Looks like my food's ready." Danny said.
"Alright, tell Mr. Fenton thank you and rejoin the class to finish your lunch." Ms Bellman said.
"Thanks Mr Fenton, Danny!" The kids said together before running off, Mikey turned around and gave Danny a smile. Danny gave him a thumbs up.
"Last one to the table's is a rotten egg!" Artie said getting a head start.
"Hey, wait up." The other kids said.
Ms. Bellman and Danny laughed at the kids little race as they sat down.
"It seems like you got Mikey and Artie to be friends again, you Mr Fenton certainly have quiet a way with kids." Ms. Bellman said.
"I guess I do Ms. Bellman, I guess I do." Danny said remembering his vow to Danielle.
"Well I guess I better let you and the Mayor get going. You must be starving." Ms Bellman said.
Danny's stomach rumbled and his face turned red.
"I guess I was right." Ms Bellman said chuckling as she walked away back towards the children.
After talking with Ms. Bellman, Danny walked back towards Tucker and the girls who were patiently waiting for him. There were four bags, Nasty Kids meal box, and a soda holder sitting all five drinks. The three noticed Danny come over.
"Have fun?" Amanda asked.
"You know, I really did. Let's go." Danny said.
Before they left, Tucker opened both bags and pulled out three hamburgers.
"Hold on, Alicia, Amanda. You got to have at least one bite before we go." Tucker said.
They gave Tucker a confused look before turning towards each other and gave a shrug. Unwrapping their hamburgers from the little white paper, they each took a bite and their eyes lit up.
"That's good!" Amanda said.
"MM-hmm." Alicia said with her mouthful.
"See I told you." Tucker said taking a good sized bite out of his.
"Oh man, I missed this!" Tucker said with tears of joy.
Seeing his friend happy, Danny took out his hamburger and took a good sized bite out of it.
"You said it Tuck, now come one. We can get back at City Hall, you still have those kids to welcome and give a tour too." Danny said wrapping his hamburger and placing it back in his bag of food.
"Oh yeah, your right. Almost forgot." Tucker said wrapping his hamburger and putting it in the bag.
The girls chuckled to themselves as the did the same.
"Lets go." Alicia said a bit more confident to fly this time.
The group made it outside, Tucker grabbing the food and Danny the drinks, being careful not to spill them. Amanda transformed back into Amanda Phantom and Alicia climbed on Amanda's back.
"Race you back?" Amanda asked.
Tucker and Danny turned to each other and grinned.
"Your so on!" Danny said as Tucker grabbed onto Danny, the four then flew into the air.
"On your mark, get set...GO." Amanda said as she took off, this time a bit faster than last time, but slow enough that way Alicia wouldn't get too scared.
Danny gave the girls a few seconds head start before he turned to Tucker and said. "Hang on Tuck, oh try not to drop the food." Danny said as he took off after Amanda.
The race lasted a couple of minutes, Amanda and Alicia won. Danny and Tucker just coming close to winning, but didn't want to drop the food. The girls were excited to win and gave each other a celebratory high five before turning towards Danny and Tucker as they landed at City hall.
"Well that was a good race, Danny. Next time let's see how well you do without holding the food. Still it felt good to win." Amanda said.
"I know the feeling." Danny said.
Danny was about to walk into City hall with Tucker and Alicia, but something made him instantly stop.
"She's awake." 6 said telepathically.
Amanda, Tucker, and Alicia stared at Danny worried what was going on through his head.
"Danny, you okay?" Tucker asked.
Danny shook his head and then turned towards Tucker and Alicia.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I got to go." Danny said.
"Dude what's up?" Tucker asked.
"She's awake." Danny said as he took off like a rocket, still holding the drinks in his hands.
Alicia didn't know what was going on, but Amanda and Tucker understood perfectly. Tucker turned towards Amanda and handed her Danny's, Her's and Amanda's food.
"Tucker what's going on?" Alicia asked.
"I'll explain later, Amanda?" Tucker asked.
Amanda turned her attention to Tucker. "Yeah?" Amanda asked.
With a smile Tucker said, "Tell Danny, I'm glad she's finally home." Tucker said.
Amanda flashed Tucker a quick smile before she finally took off in the sky. Before she took off, she looked at Alicia and said. "Alicia, don't forget what we talked about."
Alicia nodded and replied. "You too, go get him." Alicia said with a wave goodbye.
Amanda took off towards Fenton works as fast as she could without dropping the food, leaving behind a confused mayor and a blushing secretary behind.
There you go everyone a very long update, so I hope this makes up for my long hiatus. I put a little more into it than originally thought and took the time to add some filler of a few OC's I made up on the spot. I didn't want to just have you all just read a short chapter after all the time since my last update.
Quick Note: Pale fire is a novel based on the 999 line poem by poet John Shade. I know it's a bit out of character for Mr Lancer, but I think it goes pretty well with Mr Lancers degree of poetic arts and English.
Danny races home as quick as he can to Danielle, but will Danielle be the same girl he remembers or will things have changed since the last time he saw her.
What will Danny think once he merges back together with 6 and all the little moments that he missed, will Amanda have the courage to tell Danny how she feels, and what great evil is coming for our heroes.
Find out all this and more in the next chapter of When Cores Collide, Chapter 10: Aflame of Love, a daughters return.
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Thank you all so much.
-Mr. Rolyac