Chapter Seven: She's Gonna Catch'em all because she's Danielle Phantom
March 17, 2008, Sunday
Our story begins again in the town of Amity Park. For once it was not a sunny day in this little town. Today it was raining and thunder and lighting filled the sky. This was an appropriate background for the mad science that was occurring today. For in the room of Ben Szivos the little child genius was working on an invention that would have bad consequences for our heroes.
"And attach one wire here, and it is done! My genetic manipulator ray works perfectly now." said Ben, cackling like a mad man. (AN: Why does this remind me of Technus?)
"Now I have to test it. But mom and dad said I couldn't use animals anymore because of the Chihuahua Incident." said Ben.
Flashback
We see a giant Chihuahua robot rampaging through the town. The people running in terror as it spreading its canine powered evil. Our heroes are trying to stop it before it goes potty on the town hall. A little ways away we can see Mr. and Mrs. Szivos punishing their son.
"That is it mister, no more animal experiments." said Robert.
"You are so grounded when Alicia and the others stop that thing." said Sarah.
End Flashback
"Hmm, they said no more animals, but bigger sisters are not animals, Oh Alicia! I have something to show you!" said Ben as he went to his sister's room.
Meanwhile Alicia and the others were hanging out in her room playing a board game. This was the fifth attempt to relieve the boredom they felt. Little did they know that their boredom would soon be solved, but not in the way they had hoped.
Suddenly Ben came into the room and everybody looked up.
"Hey Ben, what are you doing in here?" said Alicia.
"Oh nothing, I just wanted to hang out with my cooler older sister." said Ben.
"Ok, what do you want this time?" said Alicia, being very suspicious.
"Nothing." said Ben, and then Alicia noticed the ray gun behind his back.
"Ben, what is that behind your back?" said Alicia.
"Nothing." said Ben.
It was then realization dawned on Alicia. She quickly jumped behind her bed.
"Oh no you don't Ben, you are not going to try to experiment on me." said Alicia.
"Oh come on Alicia, I need to test this new invention." said Ben, bringing out the ray gun.
No Ben, not in a million years." said Alicia.
"Come on, it won't hurt." said Ben as he started to take aim.
"That's what you said about the tan in a bottle, I was pealing for weeks!" said Alicia as she tried to hide more.
"Now Alicia just hold...STILL!" said Ben as he fired.
The shot went right over Alicia's head and hit the wall, leaving a slightly burned mark.
"Ben, stop this right now." said Alicia as she tried to look for a way to escape.
"Science doesn't stop for anyone sister." said Ben as he fired again, he then got up and started to chase Alicia.
And so the chase began, with Alicia running and ducking and Ben firing away. The rest of our heroes tried to help Alicia, but they mostly had to duck lest they too get hit by the ray.
"Ben stop! Who knows what will happen if that thing hits me." said Alicia, as she dodged another shot.
"Don't worry, I can change you back, it's not like you haven't changed forms before." said Ben as he fired again.
"Yeah, but that was me doing it, and I knew how to change back!" said Alicia.
"What about the time you changed into a squirrel and couldn't change back for three days?" said Ben.
"That's not the point!" said Alicia.
Alicia was just about to make a break for the door when she tripped on her favorite possession, a stuffed hippo named Mr. Cuddles.
"I have you now." said Ben as he moved in.
But he did not get the chance, for Tucker decided to trip him. Ben fell over and the shot went wild. It bounced around the room and finally it headed towards a mirror. But this was no ordinary mirror, it was a magic mirror. So instead of the shot bouncing off it the shot was absorbed by the mirror. The shot bounced around inside the mirror and it started to make a buzzing sound.
"Uh oh, I better get while the get'ens good." thought Ben as he quickly scrambled for the door.
Unfortunately our heroes were not as quick on the draw as Ben. The shot came out of the mirror as several shots and hit them. Knocking them out, and it also did one more thing. Ben pocked his head in to see what the damage was and was shocked at what he saw.
"Mom and dad are going to kill me when they get home." said Ben.
A little while later Danny and friends began to come to. The first thing they heard was a lot of yelling coming from downstairs.
"I can't believe you would do this, and to your own sister!" shouted Sarah.
"Sorry mom." said Ben.
"Sorry is not good enough, now you help your mother fix the mess you made, I'm going up to check on Alicia and her friends." said Robert.
Our heroes were just getting up when Robert entered the room.
"Hey, how are you kids' doing." said Robert.
"Fine Mr. Szivos, why do you ask?" said Danny.
"You don't feel any different?" said Robert.
"Just a little light headed." said Sam.
"Uh, well, Ben's ray gun sort of changed you." said Robert.
"What do you mean?" said Valerie.
All Robert did was point to a large mirror on the door to the closet. Our heroes looked in and saw what had happened. Their genders had been switched, all the girls were now boys and vise versa.
"My god, what the heck happened!" said Danny in his now much higher voice.
"Well it seems when Ben's ray hit that magic mirror it sort of had an effect on you. It changed your genders around." said Robert.
"Alicia, where did you get that mirror?" said Alex.
"I picked it up in a pawn shop, I never really looked at it before. All I know is that it is magic." said Alicia.
"Well it seems that there is a little more to it then that. Your mother looked at it and said it is a special mirror that lets the person see what they would look like as the opposite gender." said Robert.
"Why would someone make a mirror like that?" said Sam.
"Who knows? But what is important right now is that we get you back to normal." said Robert.
"How long will it take?" said Tucker.
"Well it should be a little while. Meanwhile Sarah wants you kids out of the house in case something happens while they are experimenting, we don't know what will happen if you are hit again." said Robert.
"Maybe we can go to my house?" said Danny.
"That's a good idea Danny, its close enough so that if we need to get you we can do it quickly." said Robert.
So our heroes went to Danny's house. Alicia's powers still worked so she changed their clothes into the appropriate style before they left so no one would stare at them. They walked to the door and Danny rang the bell, Jack was the one to answer.
"Hello, who are you kids, are you some classmates from Danny's school?" said Jack.
"No dad, its me Danny, there was accident at Alicia's house and it changed us." said Danny.
"Right, great joke kids." Said Jack as he was about to close the door, but Danny stopped him.
"I'm not joking, I really am Danny." said Danny.
"Well if you're really Danny then tell me something only he would know about our family." said Jack.
"You keep the emergency release button for the ops center next to the emergency ham in the fridge." said Danny.
"Suffering spirits! It really is you!" said Jack.
"Jack, who is that at the door?" said Maddie.
"Its Danny and the others." said Jack.
Maddie instantly recognized Danny, even though he had changed.
"Danny! What happened to you!" said Maddie.
"Hey, how did you recognize Danny so quickly?" said Jack.
"A mother always can recognize her children." said Maddie.
After a much more detailed explanation of what happened to Danny and his friends Maddie and Jack were in shock.
"Why! Why did cruel fate take my son from me!" said Jack, falling to his knees in sorrow.
"Uh dad, I'm still alive you know." said Danny.
"Uh right, sorry about that." said Jack.
"So it will be a few hours before you can change back to your normal selves?" said Maddie.
"That is what Mrs. Szivos said, but they may be able to find a way to fix it sooner." said Danny.
"Well until they do I want you to stay here where it is safe." said Maddie.
Just because fate is cruel the ghost detector alarm went off at that exact moment. A picture on the wall retracted to show a map of the town and a TV monitor.
"It's the town wide ghost alarm, it says there is a ghost at the Wall 2 Wall Mart." said Maddie.
They turned on the camera monitor to see that Technus was ripping up the store's electronic area.
"Yes, I Technus will use these electronic devices to rule the world!" said Technus.
"We better go and stop him." said Danny.
"Your not going anywhere in your condition. Your father and me will take care of this." said Maddie.
"Yeah, we'll mop the floor with him." said Jack as he ran to the door, but he tripped on the way.
"I meant to do that." said Jack as he got back up.
"Be careful mom." said Danny.
"We will sweetie." said Maddie as she and Jack left the house.
"Do you think they will be ok against Technus?" said Sam.
"I don't know, but just in case we better keep an eye on the camera monitor." said Danny.
"In the mean time how about we get some lunch, I'm starved." said Tucker.
It seemed even as a girl Tucker had a huge appetite. The rest of our heroes watched as Tucker put away a huge plate of leftover meatloaf.
"Well it seems becoming a girl didn't effect Tucker's eating habits." said Alicia.
"Yeah, think you could slow down on the food intake human vacuum cleaner?" said Sam.
"Hey, I'm a growing girl." said Tucker.
"Did anyone else feel weirded out when he…I mean she said that." said Valerie.
"Not as weird as you calling Tucker a she." said Alicia.
"Man, I really hope Mrs. Szivos and Ben fix this soon, its starting to get weird." said Alex.
"Guys! Come quick you have to see this!" said Danny from the living room.
Our heroes raced to the living room and saw on the monitor that Jack and Maddie were not doing to well. Technus had managed to trap them in a pile of technology and they were helpless.
"Foolish humans! Did you think you could stop me? Well you are wrong, for I am Technus, lord of all gadgetry and destroyer of worlds!" said Technus.
"Have you actually destroyed a world?" said Jack.
"No, I have not actually destroyed a world, but why don't I start with this one? Mwhahahaha!" said Technus.
"We have to go rescue them." said Danny.
"But what about us being the wrong gender? He'll laugh at us and tell everyone in the Ghost Zone." said Alicia.
"That is not important, we have to stop him." said Danny as she transformed.
"Wow, I never noticed how little that jumpsuit leaves to the imagination." said Sam as he looked at Danny in her now tighter fitting jumpsuit. It was tighter due to some…new additions.
"Get your mind out of the gutter Sam, we have to help my parents." said Danny as they took off.
Meanwhile at the electronics section of Wall 2 Wall Mart Technus was building his new robot suit.
"Plasma screen, surround sound, I still don't know what this thing is. Oh, look at the low price on these digital cameras." said Technus as she added the electronics to his suit.
"You'll never get away with this ghost!" said Jack as he tried to break free of the electronic prison he was in.
"But I will, in fact I've gotten away with it so much its long gone." said Technus.
"You'll never win!" said Maddie.
"Oh but I already have, soon the world will be mine!" said Technus.
"You'll have to go through us first Technus." said a voice.
"What? Who said that?" said Technus as he looked around.
Finally his eyes came to rest on a small group of teenagers standing in front of the store. They looked familiar but Technus could not say why.
"Uh, can I help you young people?" said Technus.
"You don't recognize us?" said Danny.
"No, should I?" said Technus.
Technus began to think of whom these strange kids reminded him of, and then it came to him in a flash.
"Your cousins to the ghost child and his friends aren't you?" said Technus.
"What! We are not…" said Tucker before Sam but his hand over her mouth.
"Quiet, maybe if he thinks were our cousins then he won't tell any other ghosts what happened to us." said Sam.
Tucker nodded her head in agreement.
"Yes, now I recognize you, cousin of the ghost child. Speaking of the other ghost child, where is he and his annoying friends?" said Technus.
"Uh, they went to Florida and told us to watch the town for them." said Danny.
"Well you may have won last time, but with the ghost boy and friends gone I will defeat you and conquer the world!" said Technus.
"We'll see about that Techdork." said Danny as they attacked.
Our heroes started with trying to blast Technus's robot suit to pieces, but he just kept bringing more technology to fix it. He swatted at them with his huge hand and they had to fly out of the way.
"Ali, Alex! Stop Technus from getting more technology." said Danny.
"Right Danny." said Alicia as he and Alex cast a spell to stop Technus's power.
"What! I can't summon technology anymore. No matter, I am still powerful enough to defeat you." said Technus.
From his back came a bunch of painful looking weapons, which also looked very familiar.
"Uh, why does Technus seem to have a bunch of Fenton inventions?" said Valerie.
"Oh, he took those from us in the beginning." said Jack.
"This is not good." said Sam.
"You are correct, now prepare for your destruction!" said Technus.
Technus fired all of the Fenton weapons at our heroes. They tried to dodge the weapons blasts but it was impossible. First Valerie was knocked out of the air, and then Tucker was knocked out when she went to help. Then followed Sam and Alex when they tried to blast Technus's suit and got to close. The only two left standing were Danny and Alicia, but they were hurt from the battle. The giant Technus robot backed them into a corner and loomed over them.
"It is over foolish children." said Technus.
"Well it was nice knowing you Alicia." said Danny.
"Like wise." said Alicia.
Technus prepared to fire all his weapons at them, but just as he was about to fire someone interrupted them.
"Alicia! We found the cure, we can turn you back to normal!" said Ben as he and the rest of the Szivos family ran in.
"What, did he just call you Alicia? As in the magic human girl…" said Technus, then he began to laugh.
"I knew he would laugh when he found out." said Alicia.
"Great, now we get to die being humiliated." said Danny.
"What do you mean dying?" said Sarah, and then she noticed all the weapons pointed at Danny and Alicia.
When she saw this she started to become angry, and I don't mean just regular angry, I mean vengeful spirit angry. Her face pulled into a mask of hate and the fires of fury burned in her eyes.
"HOW DARE YOU POINT THOSE WEAPONS AT MY BABY!" bellowed Sarah.
"Ha-ha…uh what?" was all Technus said.
With a mighty roar that could be heard all the way in the Ghost Zone Sarah launched herself at Technus.
"Uh oh." was all Technus could say before Sarah was upon him.
"AHHHH! Help me!" said Technus as Sarah ripped his robot suit apart.
Finally she had gotten to the actual Technus and ripped him loose from the suit. She held him by the collar and growled like an angry mother loin.
"Now I'm going to show you what happens to people who try to hurt my babies." said Sarah in a voice that would have sent Dan Phantom running away in terror.
Sarah began to inflict a pain on Technus that was like no other kind of pain. The beating was so terrible that if I were to repeat it to you, you would flee from your computer in horror.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry! Noooo!" said Technus as he tried to escape, but was dragged back into the fight.
"Wow, I've never seen mom so angry before." said Alicia.
"I've only seen it once before, when a Periota Demon tried to kidnap you and Ben, near the end he was begging to be banished to the plain of eternal screaming." said Robert.
"Remind me never to get on your mom's bad side." said Danny.
"Cool, I never knew you could tie ghosts in knots." said Ben.
"Well, I think he has learned his lesson, now to turn you kids back to normal." said Sarah as she wiped some of the ectoplasm from Technus off of her hands.
They quickly woke up the others and got them ready to change back.
"Whoa, what happened to Technus?" said Tucker.
"Alicia's mom happened." said Danny.
"Wow, remind me to never get on her bad side." said Alex.
"That's what I said." said Danny.
"Ok, hold still so I can do this." said Ben.
Ben fired the ray back into the magic mirror. The shot bounced around inside then came back out and hit our heroes, changing them back to their normal selves.
"It's good to be back in my regular body." said Sam.
"Yeah, just one last thing to take care of." said Danny.
He walked over to the crumpled form of Technus and picked him up by the collar.
"Ok Technus, you won't tell anyone about what happened to us or else." said Danny.
"Or else what?" said Technus defiantly.
"Or we'll hand you over to Alicia's mom." said Danny.
"No! I promise I won't tell anybody!" said Technus.
"Good." said Danny, he then brought out the Fenton Thermos and sucked Technus in.
"Well that crisis is over." said Danny.
"Its good to see your back to normal son." said Jack.
"Yes, I have my baby boy back." said Maddie.
"Yeah, I'm glad we're all back to normal." said Danny.
"Well you kids have been through a lot today, how about you all go to the movies, my treat." said Robert.
"Yay! Thanks dad!" said Alicia.
"Let's see Exterminator V: This Time it is the End." said Alex.
"No, lets see the Nexus, that thing where they move in slow motion is the coolest." said Danny.
And so our heroes left to go see a movie, arguing along the way about what movie they wanted to see. This left only the Fenton's and the Szivos's left in the store.
"Well Ben, you've caused quite a bit of trouble today." said Sarah.
"Your mother is right, for turning your sister and her friends into the opposite gender, you can't conduct any scientific experiments for two weeks." said Robert.
"But dad!" whined Ben.
"Do you want to make it three?" said Robert.
"No sir." said Ben.
"Good, now let's go home." said Robert as they all left the wreaked store.
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Rob: Well it looks like out heroes got out of a sticky situation there.
Ember: Yeah, and did you see what Sarah did to Technus, I'm glad it was him and not me.
Rob: And speaking of inflicting massive amounts of pain, its time to pull the hurt Vlad lever.
Ember: Can I pull it this time?
Rob: Sure, go right ahead. Ember pulls the hurt Vlad lever. On the TV we can see Vlad sitting in his arm chair. Suddenly he is transported to the set of MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge. He happens to be playing in the game Dash to Death.
Vick Romano: Welcome to MXC, I'm your host Vick Romano.
Kenny Blankenship: And I'm Kenny.
Vick: Today we have a special show, with only one contestant, who is this man Kenny?
Kenny: Some weird rich billionaire dude who never got laid named Vlad Masters.
Vick: And he will be playing in Dash to Death. The object of this game is to run down the course while avoiding the swinging nards of doom.
Captain Tennel: Get it on!
Vlad: What? What is going on? Suddenly some one pushes Vlad onto the course.
Vick: Oh, he took the giant boulder right to the head.
Kenny: There he goes jumping over the grinder past the bump.
Vick: He's to the swinging nards of doom and…oh! He took it right to the gut and fell into the mystery sludge, what is today's mystery sludge Kenny?
Kenny: It's run off from Dalv co's chemical plants.
Vlad: AHHH! IT BURNS! Suddenly Vlad is transported back to his home, battered and burned.
Vlad: Well at least it is over. Then he notices the Fluffy Army of Doom has surrounded him.
Vlad: Why! Then the Army of Fluffy Doom attacks.
Ember: That was awesome!
Rob: Yeah, and now for the chapter summery.
Well our heroes are back to normal and Technus will probably not be bothering them for awhile. One can only wonder at what will happen tomorrow? Well read the next chapter of 14 Days in the Life of Danny Phantom to find out.
Rob: So until next time Danny Phantom fans, read and review!