Hey readers, how is everyone doing? I hope you are all doing well. The Fall season is upon us, the weather is cooling down and the leaves are starting to fall, bugs are out looking for food, and the school days are becoming long, grueling and tedious. Hang in there. Personally I love autumn and winter due to the cold and lack of bugs, I naturally like the cold better than the hot. It rarely snows where I live, but I'm always hopeful we'd get a good inch or two of snow every year. Anyways, let's get on with the story, shall we?
Captivity: I'm glad to see you changed it back as I'm used to this name of yours, especially since Key and I once gave you Andy to fit that name. XD So out of curiosity what was your name before?
This chapter didn't have too much happening except the whole premonition thing, so I don't blame you. And yes, it's definitely related to The Ultimate Enemy. ;)
Andy's one of those characters who's more of a thinker than a fighter, hence why he relies on weapons rather than his actual fists like Danny and Vlad does. His own physical strength is still stronger than an average human due to being half ghost, but he consider himself weak among other ghosts and prefers using his head and weapons to fight. Just thought I should tell you how I plan Andy's style of battling is going to be like. :3
CalmTheHydreigon: Yeah, nothing's more funnier than when a character in a kid's cartoon say 'booty'. :D My feels author magic? I sure hope not, I'm just taking a little break from the fandom is all. ^^' And thank you!
ZAFT Prime: I like keeping my story in suspense~ And for once someone loves a cliffhanger rather than hate it. ^^' And well, I hope so too, but for now I'm taking a break from the fandom so it might be a while before I can get back into the swing of things for this story, but I'll try my best to keep updating.
OMNISENSE95: Yeah, you could say that. After all Andy can't keep denying this like he tried to do when his brother 'died' in the previous story, especially since he has to keep using it.
Nine-tailed kitten: Thank you, I'm glad you like the story.
muney73: Hee, hee, hee, glad to see you're excited for it. :) And the Andy in his vision isn't old, but yeah he was talking about Dan, and you're right; there is something deeper than that, but I won't give it away right now. ;) You'll find out what Dustin's up to. And as for Andy's mind, well I'll leave that up to you.
Yeah, it was mentioned way back in the beginning of My Brother's a Ghost that Danny has interested in astronomy even though Andy doesn't share the same interest. The two brothers are different from each other yet make a beautiful combination with each other. I've seen a lot of twin fanfics that have the two almost a clone from each other. ^^'
Dracoya: Yeah? I'm glad I could make Andy's dream/vision thing something suspenseful that wasn't too obvious or vague, sometimes I feel it could be one way or another, but glad to see it's in the middle. And yeah, the FNAF series is full of mystery. And answering your other review... I do have some plans for Reign Storm, though I still need more to fill in the rest of the it. I don't think the Fentons would make two ectosuits since making one was already taking a long time and tedious to do, especially in that point in time. Let me ask you this; if you were working on one long tedious story would you be willing to make another beside it without the ability to use copy or pasting or using a flashdrive of any kind? It wouldn't be easy and take a long time to do. So unfortunately, realistically speaking I can only keep it to where they made one ectosuit for this, plus I didn't want Andy using one anyways. But still, your idea is pretty good and shows potential, maybe I'll keep it in mind for the future.
Linkonpark100: Yeah, that sounds like something Andy would do.
PsychicEevee0103: Yay, glad you like it! :D
PrincessDragon96: Glad you managed to read it, and apparently people in College have something against giving people free time.
I don't use Andy's future vision too often since I feel it could be a bit OP, though he must use it a lot more in the future, but for now it's something he has no control over and seems to come when he needs it the most. And yeah, you'll see just how badly Dan affected future Andy once we get to The Ultimate Enemy, I've been planning it for months, now I just have to get there.
Chapter 17: Obsessive Radio
"Bro, wake up, come on we don't want to be late for school. Mom, Dad and Jazz are already downstairs in the kitchen." I groaned as I heard and felt my brother trying to wake me up.
"I'm up… I'm up…" I said groggily as I sat up from my bed.
"Good, now hurry up and get cleaned up. I don't want to miss breakfast." Danny said to me. "I'll meet you downstairs."
"Okay..." I said with a yawn.
I head into the bathroom as he went downstairs to the kitchen. I looked into the mirror before that dream came back to me. I frowned as I touched the mirror… but I didn't see the pain, sadness and regret in my eyes like I saw the one in my dream. As I was brushing my teeth I tried to figure out what that dream meant… Could it have been a vision of the future? It certainly wouldn't be the first time I had visions of the future in my sleep… but this was really odd. It felt like my nightmares and visions crossed paths with each other and it was hard to tell if it was just a dream or an actual vision… or multiple visions.
But whatever those were they're a bit hard to remember. It's like they just blended in with my nightmares and are now being lost somewhere in my subconsciousness. The only things I did remember vividly from that were bits and pieces like the odd dark exercise room, Dustin giving me that cruel smirk, Corrupted Danny again, and that reflection adult me who looked like he's been through a war zone and lost everyone he knew. That last one haunted me the most.
I finished rinsing my mouth and washed my face. I took a comb and brushed the tuff of my hair. I tried not to think about the dream too much since I don't think I can afford to be too stressful today. After I was satisfied with my hair, which is the exact same style as my identical twin brother's, I changed into my usual black shirt with the blue triangle and red pants. This time I grabbed my favorite dark blue jacket since it's a little chilly today, and the hood is always handy in case it starts to rain.
I head downstairs to the kitchen and saw Mom, Dad and Jazz all spacing out. They just kept repeating their actions with a relaxed trance-like state on their faces. Mom was screwing or unscrewing something and hasn't stopped since, Dad was drilling a spark into another something and doesn't seem to notice, and Jazz was just stirring her cereal with her spoon. There was that radio on the table playing that soothing music we heard last night. Only Danny looked bothered by it. I made my way over to the pantry and poured myself some cereal in a bowl.
"So… I take it you guys really like the music that's playing?" I asked after I poured milk into my bowl.
"Of course, Andy. It relaxes me." Mom said with that relaxed smile never leaving her face.
"But it's so lame and boring." My brother grumbled as I sat down next to him and picked up a spoonful. "When you're 14 easy listening isn't that easy, could I please turn this off?"
"NO!" Mom, Dad and Jazz all yelled at the same time, it was so unexpected that I dropped my spoon to the floor.
"Oh come on!" I growled as I reached to picked up my spoon. Then I pointed my spoon at my brother, "That's age discrimination. I don't think it's that bad and we're the same age."
"Yes, but at least you're not obsessing over it!" Danny pointed back to me. "And you might want to wash that spoon."
I sighed before getting up from my chair and going over to the sink to clean the spoon I dropped.
"This music is relaxing." Jazz said as she put her head on the table.
"And it's much cooler than that other music that's been going off all morning." Dad said with a frown.
"What other music?" I asked as I returned to my seat after cleaning up the spoon and picked up another spoonful of my cereal.
"It's not music." Danny sighed as he facepalmed. "That would be the warning signal that the ghost shield has been stolen."
But Dad just rolled his eyes as he said, "And it's interfering with the cool, relaxing music on the radio. So crank up the tunes Jazzypants!"
Jazz was more than happy turned up the volume and I took a bite out of the cereal… before I tasted something so rotten and nasty that I had to spit it out before I threw up! "Blah! Ack! Ugh… what the…? Is this milk expired? Why do we have expired milk?"
"What's a little spoiled milk when it comes to the nice, cool music?" Mom said with that trancelike smile.
"... I'm skipping breakfast." I said as I poured the entire spoiled milk and cereal into the sink. Such a shame, I hate wasting food like that.
Danny and I left to get to school, and as I looked around I saw a lot of people listening to that same music Mom, Dad and Jazz were listening to. They were all adults and seemed… obsessively addicted. I think the song is fine but this is way too obsessive for my taste.
"Is it just me or has this radio completely taken over every adult in the entire city?" I said to my brother as we reached school.
"It must be a generational thing." I heard Tucker say as he and Sam approached us.
"I doubt it's as simple as that, Tucker." I said with a frown. "Everyone has different taste in music, it doesn't matter what age you are. I hadn't seen only a single generation be obsessive with music since Ember and she was using mind control on our generation."
"You don't think Ember's behind this do you?" Sam asked me. "I mean she hates anyone over 30, why would she only mind control them?"
"...I don't know if she is, Sam." I said with a frown. "It's only a possibility. What if Ember has an older sister who wants to control the adults? We can't just ignore it."
"Andy's got a point- I guess things settled down in the Ghost Zone enough for ghosts to come roaming around here again." Danny said, nodding in agreement. "The least we should do is keep our guard up."
"Whether or not Ember or someone related to Ember is still up for debate." Tucker said. "But until we figure it out, our parents are going to be listening to to it 24/7!"
"Yeah, and at this point I can't get it out of my head!" Sam groaned.
"Me neither, I swear I can hear it now!" My brother frowned.
"Wait, you guys can hear it too?" Tucker asked.
"Yeah." I said. "That's because it's being played in the school gym." I pointed at the doors to the gym, where the song was the loudest. That was also when I noticed a lot of big signs saying 'Radio Casper High- DJ Auditions Today!' Huh… what do you know… what's the DJ Auditions for anyway? Is there some kind of school dance or event coming up?
I noticed Danny, Tucker and Sam smiled at each other as if getting the same idea. I followed them into the gym where just about all the other students were gathering. I looked up and saw more students all lining up at the booth where Mr. Lancer was playing the music… does it have an official name? Because I don't think I ever heard this song's official name.
Then Mr. Lancer spoke into the microphone, "Since we've announced our new school's radio station, an anonymous donor has been kind enough to provide us with these promotional and incredibly soothing vinyl albums."
"Vinyl? What is this, the stone age?" I heard Tucker grumbled beside me, always the technology geek. But I have to admit it IS weird to have a vinyl album in this day and age, it made me wonder if the donor is someone from back in the times vinyl is the new thing. Wouldn't surprise me, especially if ghosts are involved since most of them are people who lived and died.
"Of course you kids should have the freedom to- as you say it- bust our your freaky beats!" Mr. Lancer continued saying in the microphone, and he's trying way too hard to be hip. "As long as they're not too freaky… or to uh… beaty."
"Hey!" Danny suddenly said excitedly. "Do you know what this means? We can bring back some decent music here!"
Before any of us could protest my brother ran to the booth and opened the door, "Where do I sign up to yank this crud off the air?"
"How did he run up there so fast?" I questioned.
"Hey, if it helps get decent music back then I'm all for it." Tucker smiled.
As if on cue there was a loud yet short scratching kind of screech, Danny must've scratched the vinyl. I sighed before making my way up the stairs and towards the booth. I better save my brother from humiliation, did he just forget nobody in school really cares about him? You know other than me, Tucker, Sam and Jazz?
As soon as I walked into the door I saw Dash, Kwan, Star and Paulina already up here while Danny put on the earphones and spoke through the microphone, "What do we want?"
And nobody answered. My brother frowned before he awkwardly said, "Uh… this is the part where you say 'good music'. Now WHAT DO WE WANT?"
Still nothing. I sighed as I walked over to Danny, "Come on bro, you know nobody really listens to you in school, right?"
"Well I had to try." Danny frowned over at me.
I looked over at Dash and smiled, "Hey, maybe Dash could help with that. He is popular and people usually listens to him."
"Dash?" Danny frowned. He and Dash were still uneasy with each other.
I looked over at Dash, "Come on Dash, what do you say?"
"Hey, that'll be cool! Dash for DJ!" Kwan cheered.
Dash smiled at this, "Sure, I'll bet I could get these people to pump it up!"
Danny sighed before handing Dash the earphones. Dash winked over to me before yelling in the microphones, "WHAT DO WE WANT!?"
"GOOD MUSIC!" Everyone cheered.
"WHEN DO WE WANT IT?!" Dash yelled again.
"NOW!" Wait… that didn't sound like a crowd cheering, it just sounded like one really loud voice.
As if on cue both Danny and my ghost sense came out of our mouths, thankfully nobody noticed as they were too busy seeing… those boney ghost pirates as well as their ghostly kid captain wanna-be appearing in the middle of the gym. This caused the entire school to panic and run around screaming, including Mr. Lancer and Dash… and Kwan… and Star… and Paulina… basically everyone but me and Danny were running around screaming their heads off.
"You know… being ignored does occasionally have its advantages." Danny said to me before he turned serious. "Bro… think you can go ghost and help me fight them?"
I hesitated but saw Youngblood terrorizing people and seem to aiming for something. "I… don't think I have much of a choice. But won't people wonder why there's another 'Inviso-Bill' flying around? I'm not exactly famous yet."
"Are you going to help me or not?" He asked me quickly.
"... Fine." I sighed.
"Good. Going ghost!" Danny transformed into his phantom form before flying out of the booth to charge at the pirates.
"Alright… uh… going ghost…!" I still felt a bit awkward saying that and transformed into my own phantom form. Thankfully the transformation isn't as slow or hard to do anymore after two months of training… flying on the other hand… still working on that. I phased out of the booth and flew over the fight Danny was in, at least I can float without having to stabilize myself.
That was when I noticed the ghost pirates were taking exercise equipments, like the bikes and treadmill- I felt like I've seen those in a dream. Why were they stealing these things anyways? They're ghosts… most of them don't even have skin!
"Sorry guys, hate to break it to you but you can't build muscle tone without muscle." I heard my brother say as a witty banter.
The ghost pirates all flew at him with hooks and swords ahoy. These guys weren't nearly as tough as the Pirates we had to face in that tournament two months ago, but I should at least help my brother. I held out my hand and used my ghost ray to create the Plasma Rod before swinging at the nearest ghost pirate, easily causing it to scatter some of its bones and smash into a wall.
More of the skeleton crew were flying towards me. I glared as I looked back at them before landing on the ground and running to them, then I used the less weight I feel as a ghost to jump above them before slamming my Plasma Rod onto the one in the middle and caused it to scatter its bones on the gym's floor, then I landed the rod on the ground before using it to spin my body around to kick the other ghost pirates that were coming at me.
But I didn't train this stunt very well yet, it had left me feeling dizzy and disorientated. This cost me dearly as another pirate ghost was coming at me to slice me with that huge sword! But thankfully my brother got my back, he shot that thing away from me with his own ghost ray.
"Thanks!" I said to him, leaving out the 'bro' since I didn't want people knowing Danny Phantom has a twin brother, even they shouldn't be dumb enough not put two and two together.
"Watch your back." Danny said to me before glaring over at Youngblood. "So… another play date with Captain Kid."
Youngblood glared before he pointed his hook hand at my brother and shooting out several hooks. I didn't have time to react before Danny was suddenly pinned against the wall with those hooks trapping his wrists and feet.
"Get the stuff and let's go!" Youngblood quickly ordered his crew.
I knew I had to do something fast. "No you don't!" I jumped at Youngblood with the rod in hand, and the little kid yelped before he transformed his hooked hand into a sword to combat with my rod. Both of our weapons clashed with a CLANG!
"You know, kid, stealing is wrong. Looks like someone needs a spanking." I said with a smirk.
"I'm a pirate, not a kid! Stealing is what I do!" Youngblood snapped at me before pushing me back and shooting his cannonball peg leg at me.
I quickly used intangibility to make the ball go through me, thankfully it didn't hit anyone and just smashed into the wall… Well, maybe the teachers will have to pay for collateral damage but I can't worry about that right now. I used my free hand to fire a ghost ray at him, my aim still needs work because he dodged it rather easily.
Then I noticed those pirate ghosts were taking the exercise equipment to the ceiling. Argh, of course! Youngblood was only distracting me to let his crew escape! I tried to fly up towards them, but I was too slow and Youngblood only laughed in my face as he caught up with me.
"Hahaha, you call that flying? That's a snail pace compared to me!" The obnoxious pirate kid said to me before his eyes suddenly turned red and before I could react I was hit by a searing red laser. I yelped in pain as I fell to the ground.
"BRO!" I heard Danny shout and I groaned… I really hope nobody heard him say that.
I looked up to see Danny had flew over to me… how did he get out of those hooks? Wow, he's stronger than I thought. "Are you okay, Andy?"
"I'm… I'm fine… but we lost them again." I said with a sigh when I noticed Youngblood and all the other pirate ghosts were gone.
"Oh great, hide-n-seek again." Danny grumbled but shook his head. "I'm just glad you're okay."
"We better go, the students are starting to crowd us." I said when I saw all our peers were looking at us curiously and cautiously now that the danger's passed.
They were starting to whisper among themselves, and I think I heard someone say, "Did you hear what the ghost boy called him?"
"Yeah, he called him 'bro'."
"I didn't know Inviso-Bill had a twin brother."
Danny frowned as he must've noticed the unwanted attention before he took my hand and helped me up. "Y-yeah, we better go."
Both of us turned intangible and sink ourselves into the ground. I didn't care if we were buried under the earth, anything was better than those staring, curious eyes.
I have never been more relieved to be in the school's boy's bathroom before. I used to hate it here… I've never liked public bathrooms, especially the school's bathroom, but now I'm loving it. I was hiding in the stall already back in my jacket wearing human form.
"Andy, you've been in there for twenty minutes. People are wondering where we are." Danny said to me from outside the stall. "I didn't mean to call you bro back there, but it's too late now, you've gotta face it at some point. Besides it's not like they know it's us."
"You don't get it do you Danny? We look similar to our ghost forms, and we're the only twins in this school! Right now it's only a rumor but once word gets out 'Inviso-Bill' has a twin brother it's only a matter of time before somebody with a brain figures it out! They're going to connect it back to us! And Valerie's already on high alert for both of us! This is NOT a good thing, Danny!" I ranted… yeah I was freaking out… again.
"Nobody's going to figure it out, will you relax already?" Danny said calmly.
"And what about Vlad? What's he going to do once he finds out you have a twin brother? Oh sure you could try to say it was a clone you were working on, but the man's smart enough to figure out what really happened!" Oh man… there's no way I'm going to get any peace if Vlad finds out!
"Andy! You need to calm down! Don't make me come into that door and drag you out!" Danny snapped, losing his patience with me.
I grumbled. I knew he could easily do that and he could also easily overpower me. Even though we're both half ghost he's much more experienced and have developed more than I did. I zipped up my jacket and pulled up my hoodie over my head. "Fine, I'm coming out, but I'm keeping my hood up."
"Will you relax? Why must you make a big deal out of everything?" Danny grumbled to me and I rolled my eyes.
"Because there's always a good chance that we'll be find out. And Vlad's going to be a hard one to get by if word spreads far enough to Wisconsin." I said with a frown.
"Look, we'll worry about Vlad when we cross that bridge. We've always known this was bound to happen at some point." Danny said to me. "So just suck it up and take it, bro!"
"Easy for you to say! You've been at this far longer than I have!" I growled.
"Yes I have. Welcome to my world, bro. Now come on, I don't want to get into more trouble than I am now for being late." Danny said as he grabbed my arm and dragged me out of the bathroom.
For the rest of the school day I mostly wanted to remain invisible… uh… no not literally, but just enough to not be noticed. I didn't see Valerie at all today come to think of it, where is she? I was thinking about where could she be while I was getting some books from my locker.
"Hey Andy." I looked out to see Dash had spoken to me.
"Dash." I smiled. "I'm glad you're here. I was just wondering where Valerie is."
"She's been out sick today with a cold." Dash said. "But she should be fine in a few days. Actually I wanted to ask if you've got any plans lately?"
"Hmm? Why ask me that?" I asked.
"It's just things have been rather slow lately. I just feel bored, and the whole DJ deal just went down the drain because of another ghost attack." Dash groaned. "Man, I just wish we could hold a party or something just to shake things up."
"Why not hold one at your house like before?" I asked him.
"I wanted to, but my parents said no and we just finished painting the walls, it'll be a while before it drys." Dash sighed.
"Sounds like you're bored." I chuckled.
"Of course I am. Ghost attacks have become almost a regular thing now. Admittedly I still run away from them, but I want actual fun not run for my life." Dash groaned.
"You know Dash… you used to help me fight ghosts. Maybe you need some confidence back." I said. "Maybe you could take out your aggression on ghosts like you used to on nerds."
"Nah, I'm not much of a ghost fighter." Dash said with a sigh.
I shrugged before I said, "Still, I think you could make a good ally in case we need it."
But later that day, when school was over, I was confident enough to take my hoodie down from my head as I was walking down the streets with Danny, Tucker and Sam. There were people drinking lemonade and ice cream trucks… why? I don't know. It's chilly today so why are there cold drinks and ice cream being sold on the streets? But what else is weird is that one of the ice cream trucks that passed by was playing that weird song and a lot of older people were chasing after it like little kids.
"We have to counteract it somehow! Send some real music into the air waves." Sam grumbled after watching that display.
"Sure, you can do that, once you're able to start your own radio station and broadcast your own music." I said sarcastically.
That's when the goth girl gasped and smiled… me and my big mouth. "That's it Andy! We can start our own radio station!"
"Uh-huh, and you do know equipment for such things are expensive right?" I said. I realize Sam is actually filthy rich, but I doubt her parents would loan her the money just to start a radio station.
But Sam only smirked, "We already have the equipment for it." She pointed at our house… more specifically the OPs center.
"No way, our parents would never allow it." Danny said with a nervous chuckle.
"Oh, I'm sure they won't mind if we explain it to them." Sam said as she walked towards the house.
"I'm sure they'll be thrilled that we're interested in their equipment. I'm always complimenting on it." Tucker said with smile.
"Yeah right, the day Mom and Dad lets use turn the OPs Center into a radio station would be the day I get psychic powers too." I said sarcastically as I opened the door.
"Don't you kinda have psychic powers with the whole future sight thing?" Tucker asked me.
"That's not psychic powers!" I snapped. "That's just… some weird thing that may have something to do with temporal powers that I once had."
"Wait… wha-"
"Mom, Dad! We really want to use the Emergency OPs Center to start a radio station!" Danny suddenly shouted as we ran into the kitchen, interrupting the confused Tucker.
"Uh Danny… nobody's here." I said when I noticed how empty the house was.
"Then that's a yes!" Sam spoke excitedly.
"Sam, don't make decisions for us." I grumbled at her.
"Come on Andy, we all agreed we need to do something about this music and this is the best way to do it." Sam said to me.
"Hey, they left a note here." Danny spoke up and picked up a magazine with a sticky note. "'Your Mother, sister and I are on a weekend get-away fun cruise. We're sure Danny will take charge and act responsibility since he is the older twin. Love Mom and Dad.'"
"Wait, they left to go on a fun cruise, without us? Why?" I asked with a frown. "If anything they should've taken us too so we could go as a family."
"And they took Jazz, who isn't the fun in the least." Danny said to me.
"Jazz can be… fun… when she wants to be." I halfheartedly defended.
Danny looked at the magazine, "M. Bersback Cruiselines… never heard of it."
"But we gotta see if they left the OPs Center open!" Sam said as she quickly went up the stairs.
"Ooh, I can't wait to see what sweet technology they have up there!" Tucker said eagerly.
It turns out they did leave the OPs Center open, but this whole thing is weird. I was looking at the magazine Danny was holding earlier. I've never heard of this 's Cruiseline either, then again I've never really kept up with these things. But the music, the pirate ghosts, our parent's weird attitude and now this cruise ship… What the heck is going on here? And… for some reason that dark room with the adults running on treadmills or riding those exercise bikes flashed through my mind. What does this all mean? … Whatever it is I have a strong feeling they're all connected somehow.
So what do you guys think so far? I'd like to hear your thoughts on the story so far and any theories you may have for the future chapters. I am DarkFoxKit and I look forward to hearing from you!