DarkFoxKit: Hello readers! Hey, so since we don't have a lot of chapters in stock yet, we're going to try to get every new chapter out every other week, biweekly, however you want to call it. It'll make it easier on us since we're updating CoM on a weekly basis. And now, Andy and I are… wait, where is he? Andy! Hey! *sees Andy in his room, playing on his 3DS XL* What are you doing over there? It's time to start the AN already.
Andy: Playing Pokemon Sun, I've almost beaten it. Just do this one without me.
DarkFoxKit: What!? No, you're supposed to come out here and do the ANs with me like you promised! Now get out here before I drag your butt out here and throw that game into a ghost proof safe!
Andy: Fine! Just let me save! *After a few moments Andy came out of his room before looking at the new font* Hey, why are our words looking different?
DarkFoxKit: Just thought I'd change it up a little, might make it easier for the readers to read. *Notices someone coming up behind Andy* … Andy, did you bring Dora here?
Andy: No, why would I bring her here? She's most likely off somewhere doing some task for Clockwork.
DarkFoxKit: Then who's that big dragon behind you?
Andy: What drag- *Turns around to see a giant, black dragon looking down at him.* O.O Nope! I'm out! *Literally runs and jumps out of an open window.*
Darkzdragon: Seriously Fox? Did you have to make him terrified of me? Couldn't you just have introduced me like normal? Honestly, that wasn't the best way to start off on the right foot.
DarkFoxKit: What? You looked like a malicious dragon in the shadows like that! Erm… oh dear, the Andy in the ANs doesn't have any ghost powers... I better go see if he's okay. Would you mind starting the chapter?
Darkzdragon: Yeah yeah, just make sure he isn't terrified or traumatized by me. *Watches DarkFoxKit leave to check on Andy* Well, that was… eventful. Now, I'll let you readers get to the chapter.
Chapter 42: Sister Trouble
After the movie was over, I stretched out and walked out of the theater. I gave a yawn as I looked outside, "Wow, it's night time already?"
"What'd you expect? We watched the movie twice, all because Dash wanted to watch it a second time," Valerie said. "At least we went out and paid for the other showing instead of movie hopping."
"Well, the movie really was good," I said. "I didn't mind watching it again."
"I have to admit," Valerie started to say. "It was a pretty action packed movie."
"And emotional," Dash said. "I loved the ending."
I chuckled before I said, "Well, we better head on home. I don't think our parents would appreciate us being out so late like this, especially on a school night."
"Yeah. I should probably get home before my dad starts worrying… that is if he's home," Valerie said.
"How is your dad doing with his night guard job?" Dash asked.
"It's awful, he's getting paid barely enough to keep us fed," Valerie responded with a sigh.
"Is he going to get a promotion any time soon?" I asked. "So maybe he can make better money for you two."
"I don't know," Valerie said. "He's working hard, but we're so financially challenged that I'm thinking of taking a job at the Nasty Burger."
"But don't you already work there?" I asked.
"I mean take a full time job," Valerie said. "There a manager position open and I'm hoping I can get it, that way I can start helping my dad out."
"If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know," I said.
"Yeah, same here," Dash said.
"Thanks for the offer guys," Valerie said. "But for now, I best be heading home now."
"Okay Val, see ya!" I said as she waved to us and walked away. I looked over at Dash.
"What about you, Dash? You gotta get home too?" I asked, knowing Dash's parents are pretty strict even if I hadn't met them myself.
"Yeah, today was our day off from practice, but coach wants us to be on the field for morning practice at 6:30 AM," Dash said.
"Heh, okay, good luck out there Dash," I said. "I'll be rooting for you."
"Thanks Andy," Dash said. "Cya later man."
I waved to him as Dash walked away. I stood in front of the theater a little longer, wondering if Danny, Tucker and Sam would be coming out soon.
"-all I'm saying is that it could've used a little more cyber and a little less zombie," Tucker said as he, Sam, and Danny walked out of the theater.
"Hey, so how was your precious zombie marathon movie?" I asked.
"It's Cyber Zombie Commando," Sam replied. "And it was great."
"But like I said, it could've used a little more cyber," Tucker said.
"Of course, you're the techie of our group, technology is basically your middle name," I said with a chuckle.
"I doubt you would be able to go an entire week without touching something technological," Danny said. "Hmmm, maybe next time you lose a bet, that will be your punishment, having to go a few days or a week without touching anything technological."
"No! Danny, I would literally die if that ever happened!" Tucker yelled dramatically.
"Oh Tucker, don't get so-" Sam began to say when a red convertible suddenly came up and parked in front of us.
I saw Jazz for a split second before she all but jumped out at both me and Danny. I knew I shouldn't have stood so close to Danny. I couldn't even yelp because she knocked the wind out of me. Jazz had Danny and I pinned to the wall.
"Jazz, what are you doing here?" Danny asked in an annoyed tone as he tried to push Jazz off of us.
"Oof!" I had a metal thermos in my hand before I could even respond. "Jazz! Is this really necessary?"
"Yes! You two know you shouldn't leave the house without the Fenton Thermos. What if there's a ghost around? They could come at any second!" Jazz said.
"They didn't," Tucker said as he pulled a Fenton Thermos out of his backpack.
"Besides, there's no ghost around tonight," I said.
"If there was a ghost around, our ghost senses would be going off," Danny said.
And, as if the universe wanted to laugh at us, I felt that familiar hot sense coming up my throat. Both Danny and I opened our mouths to let out a light blue and dark blue mist.
"Like that?" Jazz said, crossing her arms.
Looking up, I could see Skulker flying through the sky. Skulker looked down at us for a few seconds with a curious look on his face.
"What are the chances that right as you say there are no ghosts around, that a ghost would appear?" Tucker asked with a chuckle.
"Skulker's here to hunt you again?" Sam asked.
"Again? As in more than once?" Jazz frowned.
"It's not like one ghost is the most challenging thing in the world," I said. "Unless they're Pariah Dark level."
"Hey guys…" Sam said. "If Skulker is here to hunt you again… why isn't he attacking?"
"Wait what?" Danny frowned as we looked up at Skulker again.
Skulker was flying over us and off in another direction.
"That's odd, why is he ignoring us?" I frowned. "The fact that Skulker is ignoring us must mean he's doing something else right now."
"We should probably follow him and find out," Danny said.
"Just be careful you two, since he is a hunter, he may be luring you into a trap," Sam said.
"Then we'll try to be stealthy, don't attack Skulker unless he attacks first," I said. "I'm going to be the optimist this time and say maybe he's just tired of hunting us."
Danny shook his head and said, "Let's just go ghost and see why he's here."
"We'll be right behind you two as back up!" Jazz said enthusiastically.
"Just… don't do anything hasty," I said, knowing how bad this was going to end already. I'm glad Valerie went home already, otherwise this would turn into chaos.
Danny pulled me down into an alley and we both turned ghost.
"Alright, let's go," Danny said before he took off and started to fly in the direction that Skulker went.
I flew after Danny, hoping he wouldn't go too far from me or too close to Skulker. I rather find out what Skulker is doing before we start blasting our ghost rays at him. I could hear Jazz's convertible just below us, at least they're keeping up better than in a moped. Danny can still fly faster than me, but at least it's not such a struggle to keep up when he's not flying as fast as he could.
"Axiom labs… I haven't been back here since the ghost dog incident," Danny said as I flew up next to him. "Why would Skulker go here?"
"That's why we're here to find out," I said quietly. "Now try and keep quiet, I don't want Skulker finding us. I also hope to avoid a battle here of all places, I don't want to make things harder on Valerie and her dad."
"Fine, then how about you take the lead?" Danny responded quietly.
"You probably know this place more than I do," I whispered as we flew closer to the Axion Lab before I noticed Skulker was still outside. I pointed at him, hoping Danny gets the message to keep quiet and follow.
Thankfully, Danny did understand and both of us turned ourselves invisible and flew closer to Skulker. I hope Skulker doesn't sense us.
"Where are they?" Skulker mumbled to himself as he pressed a button on his wrist. A pair of what looked like high tech visors came out from his suit and went over his eyes.
After a minute or two of looking around, Skulker stopped and flew over to a cabinet while saying, "Ahhh, there they are."
Skulker reached into a cabinet and pulled out a bottle and turned it over in his hands.
I flew a little closer, but not too close, trying to read the bottle's label. Bloodstream Nanobots. What the heck? I know what the bloodstream and nanobots are, but… are they saying these nanobots go into the bloodstream or do they work like the human bloodstream?
"Bloodstream nanobots?" Danny asked out loud as he turned visible, making me cringe. "What do you need those for?"
"Danny! What are you doing?" I hissed from beside him, still invisible.
Skulker frowned before he aimed his arm at Danny, without saying a word he shot out a glowing net at my brother. Danny yelped as the net trapped him. I facepalmed before I felt a hot ecto blast hitting me from behind. I hit the floor, turning visible. Ow… I guess Skulker used his high tech visors to see me since he knew Danny was here.
"Trying to sneak up on the ghost world's greatest hunter?" Skulker asked. "As much as I want to deal with you two right now, I have more important business to take care of."
With that said, Skulker flew through the wall. I sat up and hurried over to Danny to release him from the ghost net.
"Seriously, what part of 'do not attack first' don't you understand?" I said in an annoyed tone.
"I didn't attack him, I just asked what those bloodstream nanobots were for," Danny said as he stood up.
"Clearly you don't know what stealth means," I grumbled.
"I know what stealth means. But tell me, how would you have found out what those were for without asking?" Danny asked.
"Research? Gather more intel? Oh I don't know, keep following Skulker and see where the heck he takes them?" I pointed out before shaking my head. "Nevermind that now, Skulker's getting away!"
"Oh, right! We better hurry after him!" Danny said before he turned intangible and flew through the roof of the lab.
I hurried after him. We flew out of the Axion Lab just in time to see Skulker flying away. Because Danny was faster than me, he went on ahead. I flew after them, trying to keep up. I was still quite a few feet away as Danny was catching up to Skulker. I think we're going to actually catch Skulker, he's not built for speed like Danny and I are. But suddenly a bright beam of light just came up from below and Danny flew right into it. I quickly stopped myself, but it was already too late for Danny, he was getting pulled down by the weird force of light.
Looking down, I saw Jazz holding the Fenton Thermos and just sucked up my brother into it.
Skulker looked back at Jazz and then at me for a second before he smiled and flew off.
I was a bit worried for Danny, but since Jazz, Tucker and Sam were there, I'm sure he'd be fine, if not a bit cranky. I decided to go invisible and follow Skulker. I wasn't as fast as Danny, but I was able to catch up to Skulker.
Skulker stopped in the sky before shooting something from his arm. To my surprise, he opened up a portal to the Ghost Zone. Skulker flew into it. This might be dangerous, but I have to see where he's going. I was about to follow Skulker when something searingly hot hit me from the side and the next thing I knew, I was caught in a tailspin in the sky. I shut my eyes and stopped my body from flipping around. What the heck was that? The portal closed.
"All alone tonight, Ghost Kid?" A familiar voice asked. I looked up and saw Valerie in her Red Huntress gear.
Oh crud… I thought Valerie was with her dad tonight.
"..." I knew reasoning with her wouldn't do any good, so I did the only logical thing I could think of… I turned and flew away in the other direction.
"You think you can get away from me, Ghost Kid?" Valerie yelled as she started to chase after me.
This is bad. Danny had trouble losing Valerie once she caught him in her sights and he's a much faster flyer than me. I'm going to have to be smart about this. Knowing Valerie, she'll try to shoot me down, so I should try to avoid going near the buildings. I flew down towards the trees, hoping to try and lose her there.
Valerie flew over the treetops keeping a close eye on me while she charged up one of her guns.
I could hear Valerie shouts echoing through the trees. I could already hear her shooting her guns. I'm worried at this rate she'll knock a tree over or run into one herself. Well… I suppose there is one way I could escape her wrath…
I stopped and turned around, letting Valerie catch up to me.
"Giving up, Ghost Kid?" Valerie asked as she caught up with me. She quickly looked over me before she said, "Wait, you're not the Ghost Kid. You're his brother or clone or whatever you are."
"What? Because we look alike that makes us brothers or clones?" I said.
"You two look almost exactly the same," Valerie said. "The only real noticeable difference are the logos on your chests."
"Hey! My eyes and suit color look different too," I pointed out. "So why were you chasing me?"
"Because I thought you were the Ghost Kid," Valerie said. "But it doesn't matter, if I capture you then the real Ghost Kid will come to rescue you."
"Okay, first of all, maybe you can call him 'Phantom'? It has a nicer ring to it since he's apparently the number 1 priority of your capture list, and second… sorry, but I have to be somewhere. So maybe we can do this another time," I said before waving to her and going intangible before falling underground.
I could hear Valerie shooting the ground, trying to somehow hit me, but after a few shots and explosions, it went quiet.
I didn't dare resurface from that spot, so I flew a good mile or two while still underground before I decided this was far enough. I slowly lifted my head up from underground to make sure I was in a good area. I scanned my eyes around the area, it looks like I came to an alleyway. Good, it's empty. I flew up and landed on the concrete. Now that Skulker is gone and Valerie's busy screaming at some poor dirt somewhere, I should probably head on home. I hope Jazz managed to get Danny out of that Fenton Thermos.
It was the next day at school. Danny had been a pretty big grump since Jazz caught him in the Fenton Thermos last night, and the fact that I lost Skulker didn't help with his mood. I'm just glad it wasn't Mom or Dad who caught him.
"I can't believe she actually Thermos-ed me," Danny grumbled as we walked into class.
"I guess Jazz had to inherit something from our dad," I said. "And you've been complaining about this all night."
"Tell you what: I'll stop complaining about it if you go into the Thermos yourself," Danny said. "Then you'll see why I'm grumpy and complaining."
Thankfully Mr. Lancer came in and it was time to be quiet and start class. Unfortunately, the bell rung all too soon and Danny was back in complaining mode. We walked out of the classroom and into the hallway. Tucker and Sam were waiting for us.
"Hey, what's with the grouchy face?" Sam asked.
"Mr. Grumpy Face here is still mad about how Jazz not only made us lose sight of Skulker, but trapped him in the Thermos for a good hour or two before we managed to figure out how to release him without forcing him into the Ghost Zone," I explained. "Maybe if we actually stuck with my idea and tailed Skulker quietly, that wouldn't have happened."
Danny just ignored me before he said, "So what are we going to do about Skulker now? We could go to the Ghost Zone and find out what those bloodstream nanobots were for."
"He could literally be anywhere in the Ghost Zone," I said. "Do you really want to look for him in an infinite realm without any idea where he's supposedly taking the bloodstream nanobots? We can't just assume he's taking it to his island, that's way too obvious, especially for a careful hunter like Skulker."
Before anyone could say anything else Tucker started to crack up.
"What's so funny?" I asked.
"I'm sorry, I just can't help but laugh when I think about how Jazz, clumsy Jazz, managed to catch the elusive Danny Phantom like that," Tucker chuckled. "That's comedy gold right there!"
Danny looked a little ticked for a second before he walked up behind Kwan and smacked the booked out of his hand.
"Who did that?" Kwan asked angrily as he turned around.
"It was him," Danny said as he pointed at Tucker.
Kwan didn't even ask questions, he just grabbed Tucker, stuffed him into a nearby open locker and slammed it shut before storming away.
Danny gave a satisfied smirk as he leaned against the locker.
"Wow… I didn't know how ruthless you could be," I said as I walked over to the locker to try and help get Tucker out of it.
"Well, he was laughing at how I was stuck in the thermos," Danny said. "He's getting a small taste of what it was like for me."
I managed to get the locker door open, because it was actually my locker. "Here's an idea, Danny, maybe you should talk to her."
"Jazz is a smart girl," Sam said. "Maybe it's making that kind of mistake that'll get her to stop trying to ghost hunt with you."
"So what? I keep getting sucked into the Thermos until she decides to quit?" Danny asked. "Do you really think that will work?"
"Hey, you've dealt with worse before," Sam said.
"Yeah, you're right about that," Danny said.
"And I'm totally ignored here," I sighed.
Tucker was about to come out of the locker when Jazz suddenly ran up, almost tackling me, and pretty much slammed shut the locker door on Tucker. She had a really big and excited grin on her face. Jazz was also holding a laptop to her chest.
"Jazz? What the heck?" I frowned when she came out of nowhere, and that smile is creeping me out.
"Guess what I figured out?" Jazz asked.
"What?" Danny asked.
"I did painstaking research on last night's mystery ghost," Jazz said as she opened up the laptop showing some data.
"Jazz, you've heard us call him 'Skulker', didn't you?" I deadpanned.
"Let's just call him Ghost X for now," Jazz said. "And based off of my research I would characterize him as a hunter of some kind."
"Didn't we already establish that when we said he was 'hunting us'?" I said.
"Don't interrupt Andy, it's rude," Jazz said.
I facepalmed, "And once again I'm completely ignored here."
Jazz folded up her laptop and pulled out a folder. "This is my composite sketch of Ghost X as well as what thing I think he might be able to do being a ghostly hunter."
I decided to help Tucker out again while Jazz was talking since today was clearly 'Ignore Andy Day'. Based off of Danny and Sam's look, I'm guessing the sketch of Skulker was… weird?
"And I took the liberty of craft, and I must say, some funny and ingenious witty banter for your next confrontation," Jazz said. "Now I gotta go get ready for my next class, so I will see you later."
I decided to look over the sketch of Skulker after I helped Tucker out of the locker. Um… wow… it kind of looks like him at least, but way too friendly.
"See you later X? X marks the spot? You've been X-ed?" Sam said as she read off the sheet of paper. "None of these are funny."
"Why bother with the witty banter anyways?" I asked.
"Those may not be funny, but nothing's funnier than her sucking you into a Thermos like she did, Danny," Tucker said. "You can't beat physical comedy like that with a one-liner."
"..." I frowned, now Tucker's going to ignore me too?
Danny gave a glare at Tucker.
"No, no, let me," I sighed before walking over to Dash, who was putting books away in his own locker, and whispered in his ear. "Tucker said your game sucked."
"He said what?!" Dash shouted before he turned around and glared at Tucker. Before Tucker could react, Dash picked up Tucker and stuffed him back into my locker before slamming the door shut which caused the locker door to bend inwards a little.
It's a good thing I only keep my text books in the locker.
"And you called me ruthless," Danny chuckled at me. "You pretty much just sicced Dash on Tucker."
"Yes, and I'll sic him on you and Sam too if you keep ignoring me," I growled irritably.
"Alright, alright, I get it," Danny said. "Now let's head to lunch before our next class starts."
"... Nobody's coming to get me, are they…" I heard Tucker groan.
"Don't worry, I have to open my locker eventually," I said.
"Maybe you could just borrow my book next class," Danny said. "I mean I was trapped in the Fenton Thermos for 6 hours. I think he can go 30 minutes in your locker."
"This isn't fair! I need my lunch!" Tucker yelled from in my locker. "Or I will die from starvation!"
"You'll be fine Tucker," Sam said. "Anyways, what are we going to do about Jazz?"
"You could talk to her?" I suggested. Both Danny and Sam just gave me a look and raised their eyebrows.
I sighed, sometimes I forget who I'm dealing with, "Or you can just have her think she's doing well and hope that she'll stop interfering as much."
"Wouldn't that have the opposite effect though?" Tucker asked from inside the locker. "I mean think about it. If she thought she was doing a good job then wouldn't she want to help out more often?"
"Nah, she'll think that she's so good that she should just supervise and let us practice without her," I said that as a joke since I knew Jazz would never stop helping us if she thought she was doing a good job.
"You know what, that's actually worth a shot," Danny said.
"Wait, what?" I frowned. "You're actually going to go through with that?"
"Yeah, it's a good plan," Danny said before his stomach rumbled a little. "Now can we go get some lunch? I'm starving."
"Awww come on, don't rub it in my face," Tucker whined from inside the locker.
As Danny and Sam were walking away, I went ahead and unlocked the locker. I can be mean, but I'm not that cruel. "No more jokes for a while, Tucker."
"A-agreed," Tucker said nervously.
So now, operation make Jazz think she's good is a go. That Lunch Lady that Valerie and I couldn't catch yesterday afternoon was now in Mr. Meat's Butcher Shop. Why was she there? Was she planning to turn into a giant meat monster again? Heh, that felt so long ago now that I think about it.
"Feast on my hot links of doom!" Lunch Lady yelled.
"Okay Jazz, now!" Danny yelled.
"Stand back," Jazz said as she ran in between us and Lunch Lady, swinging around the Jack-O-Ninetales. "I'm trained with this thing!"
"Yeah, trained by her dad!" Tucker yelped as he moved out of the way.
"Oh crud!" I quickly moved back, getting as far away as possible.
Jazz pressed a button on the Jack-O-Ninetales which sent the ball at the top out, unfortunately, she activated it at the wrong time. Nine electrified heads came out from the ball as it moved backwards towards Danny. In an instant he was wrapped up.
Jazz didn't seem to notice this as she pulled forward on the base. She then said, "Oh right! Witty banter." She then pulled out a little notebook and flipped a couple of pages as Danny flew over her head. "Take that Lunchabelle! And your evil wieners too!"
"Uh Jazz…" I tapped her shoulder, getting her attention. "You do know you just used our brother as a nunchuck just now, right?"
"Oh, oh no!" Jazz pressed a button which released Danny, but it was too late. Danny went flying into a wall and fell into a vat filled with something called Chit-Lins.
Ah… I hope that wasn't too hot for him. The Lunch Lady quickly flew away. I gave a sigh. I could go after her, but Jazz is supposed to catch her, not me. Come to think of it, the Lunch Lady had been here for almost two days and she hadn't really been causing any problems, had she?
Danny climbed out of the vat with guts and intestines covering himself. "Nice try… Jazz," Danny said, obviously trying extremely hard not to show any anger. "You'll get them next time."
Jazz smiled at that, "Come on, if we hurry we can still catch Lunchabelle!"
"Maybe we should let Danny go wash off or something," Sam said holding her nose as Danny flew over. "He smells awful… no offense, Danny."
"I think he smells pretty good," Tucker said, my ever so carnivorous friend.
"Come on! Come on! Come on!" Jazz yelled as she was already in her car, waving to us.
After Danny turned himself intangible to get all the meat guts off him, we were flying again, with Jazz driving under us of course, as we were trying to find the Lunch Lady. Our ghost sense lead us to the Amity's Pool Park however, and we saw the water was turned to ice.
"You don't think it's him, do you?" Danny asked with a groan as he looked over to me.
"Who?" I asked. "I don't think I know any ghost that shoots ice."
"Klemper," Danny answered. "He's a ghost who is obsessed over getting friends, and when he doesn't get his way, he throws a tantrum and tends to freeze water and throw ice balls."
I raised an eyebrow, a ghost who's obsessed with getting friends?
"Hey!" A loud and obnoxious voice shouted nearby. "You brought someone new! Will he want to be my frieeeend?"
I was staring at some kind of… weird hunchback looking ghost, wearing… I think pink and purple striped pajamas?
"Oh boy…" Danny said as he rubbed the bridge of his nose with his thumb and index finger.
"Uh…" I looked at this ghost that Danny called Klemper.
"Please be my friend!" Klemper begged loudly. "I just want someone to be my friend!"
"I-"
"Forget it Klemper, we're busy!" Danny snapped.
Klemper frowned sadly before he said, "PLEASE!" he summoned ice balls in his hands and started throwing them like snowballs.
"ARGH!" I yelped as one of them grazed my arm. "Ow!"
I hissed as I grabbed my arm. That cold sting really hurt! It was like an entire wasp nest just came out and stung my arm.
"I'm coming, Andy!" I heard Jazz yelling from behind us. I turned around and saw her running towards us with the Fenton Anti-creep stick.
"Give me your worst, you friendly fiend!" Jazz yelled as she started batting the ice balls out of the way. "You don't have the guts."
Danny looked at her and said, "Yeah, that whole guts joke would've worked better in the last fight."
Why in all of the Ghost Zone is Jazz running up to an ice ghost with a baseball bat? And ow! How bad is my wound? It still hurts.
"Danny!" I yelled as I saw Jazz flailing around while slipping on the icy ground. "Don't get too cl-!"
Jazz's flailing around caused her to smack Danny with the Anti-Creep stick since he was too close, and it was enough to cause Danny flying right into the waterfall, and apparently he hit it with enough force to break the ice. Just how hard did Jazz swing that thing? I didn't even know she had arms that strong.
Klemper watched what happened and cried in fear before he flew away.
"I'm glad I could help," Jazz said before she turned around to see Danny, Sam, and Tucker digging their way out of the ice pile.
I was still holding my arm, that cold sting was dulled now, but I'm surprised that it lasted so long. I slowly removed my hand from my arm to see a cut there. As a human, this would be normal, but as a ghost, this is unusual. My suit grew over the tear, making it as good as new… yeah, that's not weird or creepy at all. Is this suit alive?
"You okay, Andy?" Jazz asked as she walked over. "You looked like you were in pain."
"Y-yeah, I'm okay," I said. "I just didn't think that ice would cut me like that."
"Jazz, why don't you go help Tucker and Sam out of the ice?" Danny said as he flew over to us.
"Oh, right!" Jazz said as she ran over to the pile of shattered ice to help Tucker and Sam get out.
"Andy, wasn't the older you capable of using those flame foxes?" Danny asked quietly as he flew closer to me.
"You mean those weird fox skull things made of fire that shoot out those really hot beams?" I asked as he nodded. "What about them?"
"Well, wouldn't that mean he uses fire?" Danny asked. "Meaning you use fire, and probably vulnerable to ghost ice."
"You mean ghost have some kind of elements in them?" I asked.
"Well, I mean it makes sense since Klemper's ice hit you that hard, maybe it works the other way around too," Danny said. "I mean that would mean if you used those fire attacks, that the older you had, on Klemper, then it would've done more damage to him than just a normal ghost ray."
"... Elements in ghosts, huh?" I said thoughtfully. "I'm going to have to learn more about that when we get back home… assuming we survive Hurricane Jazz that is."
"Heh, Hurricane Jazz, nice one," Danny said as he smiled at me. "See? You can be good at witty banter too."
I facepalmed myself for saying that.
So now we were back in the sky with Jazz driving under us, looking for the Lunch Lady and now Klemper too. Why are these ghosts coming out into our town anyways? It doesn't look like they really want to do much of anything right now.
"Do you think we're gonna catch any ghosts tonight?" Danny asked as he flew beside me.
"Sure, just don't let Jazz handle the Fenton Thermos… or any other weapons for that matter, and we should be good," I said.
Then both of our ghost sense came out of our mouths, leading us towards the docking area.
"There's more?" Danny groaned.
"Apparently," I said. "Ready for another round of Jazz the Helper?"
"To be honest? No," Danny said. "But if I don't keep going through with this, then she won't leave us alone."
"I wouldn't either if I was in her shoes, which I was a few months ago," I said. "If I thought I was helping then-"
"I AM THE BOOOOOX GHOOOOOST!" I lost my train of thought when I heard that very familiar shout and catchphrase.
"Really? First Klemper and now him? Is tonight weakling night?" Danny asked as he started to charge a ghost ray in his hand.
"I'm coming!" Jazz yelled as she ran towards us with the Thermos.
"Jazz! Just… wait out here, okay?" I said quickly. "And be careful where you point that thing!"
"Freeze, Crate Creep!" Jazz yelled, obviously ignoring me, as she started to take the lid off of the Fenton Thermos.
"Crate Creep?" Box Ghost actually looked insulted. "Didn't you hear me? I said I AM THE BOX GHOST! WHO ARE YOU? … Seriously, who are you?"
"Look out!" I yelled as I pushed Danny away as Jazz took the lid off the Fenton Thermos before she lost her balance, and the next thing I knew I was caught up in the suction of the Thermos's beam and felt like something strong and invisible was pulling my entire being into the Thermos.
Everything was dark and cramped. I looked up at the tiny hole to freedom, but it was too hard for me to move. It felt like there was a constant suction holding me where I was.
"I'm so sorry, Andy!" I could hear Jazz saying.
"Jazz, give the Thermos to me," I heard Danny said in annoyance.
Huh… so this is what it's like for the ghosts we catch in here, and I guess I can see why Danny was so grumpy the other night.
"Now let's see," I heard Danny mumbling. "Where's that release button...?"
"I think it was over here?" I heard Sam's voice speaking up.
"No, that's the suction button," I heard Tucker say.
This… is going to take a while, isn't it?
I think, after what felt like an eternity to me, there was a loud beep and I was pretty much shoved out of the Thermos and hit the wall. Ow…
"Andy! Are you okay?" Jazz asked as she and the others ran up to me.
I groaned as I stood up, stretching myself… did my bones just popped? "Okay, that is it! No more ghost hunting tonight!"
"It's getting pretty late anyways so we should probably head home. If the ghosts aren't causing too much trouble, I'm sure we can go one night without having to hunt them down," Danny said. "But are you sure you're okay?"
"I'm sore, but I'll be fine," I said. "Let's just… go home before our parents worry about us."
"Sorry about that, Andy," Jazz said apologetically. "But on the bright side, my aim is getting better."
I looked at her and said, "... I'm… not going to make any comments right now. And Tucker, if you start laughing, you're going to wish Dash kept you locked up in that locker!"
Tucker was smiling before he quickly stopped and chuckled nervously before he said, "Who's laughing? I'm not laughing."
"Yeah… sure," Danny said as he rolled his eyes.
Danny and I were back in our human forms and riding with Jazz in her convertible. Danny and I were feeling pretty annoyed right now, but Jazz was looking quite satisfied.
"That was a good night's work," Jazz said. "We caught 3 ghosts!"
"No, you caught 2 ghosts," Danny said. "Twice was me and the other was Andy!"
"Still, congrats on catching two ghosts that others have trouble catching," I said sarcastically. Who would've thought our sister would be more dangerous than Valerie and our own parents combined?
Jazz parked her convertible in our backyard, where Mom and Dad were working on the Fenton Assault Vehicle.
"Look Jazz… I know you're trying to help-" Danny started to say as he unbuckled his seatbelt.
"Trying?" Jazz asked.
"Jazz, you're a smart girl," I spoke up. "Why don't you try thinking back on what happened when we were trying to catch those three ghosts that got away?"
"Jazz, don't take this the wrong way, but-" Danny was starting to say before Dad grabbed both my and Danny's shirt and yanked us both out of the car.
"Danny, Andy, check this out," Dad said as he pulled us towards the RV. "Your mother and I have suped up the RV with this Ecto-Converter."
"Ecto-Converter?" Danny asked. "What does it do?"
"It converts a ghost's natural ecto-energy into a constantly replenishing fuel source," Mom explained.
"Why is this a thing?" I asked. "What's wrong with just using regular fuel? And why would a ghost go under your RV just to touch that little spot?"
"That's the thing," Mom said. "If a ghost touches it once, it will be powered up for a long time, and we'll get energy equal to the strength of the ghost that activates it."
"Does it hurt the ghost?" Jazz asked as she walked up next to us.
Mom laughed a little before she said, "Oh Jazz, you know your father and I don't care about things like that."
"Yeah, if we hear it screaming then we know it's working," Dad said.
"..." I don't want to know what this thing did.
"Heh, well it's too bad there's no ghost around," Jazz chuckled. "Right boys?"
"Jeez Jazz, can you be anymore obvious?" I grumbled. What is going on here? Jazz knew about Danny's secret for as long as I have, and this is the first time she's acting so… giddy…? Childish…? Crazy? ... Okay, that last one was just mean.
"We know something they don't know~" Jazz said in a singsong tone.
"We knew something Danny didn't know either~" I said in a mock singsong tone. "Seriously Jazz, why is this any different?"
Jazz kept humming to the singsong tune that was going in her head before she suddenly slapped us both on the back really, really hard.
I yelped as both Danny and I fell forward, which caused our hands to land on something cold. I looked up to see both of our hands were on the Ecto-Converter. Our hands were glowing green, and I felt a weird, tingly feeling in my hand. I quickly pulled back my hand and Danny did the same, but it was too late, the RV was already starting up.
"Jazz!" Danny yelled at her as the engine of the RV roared to life.
"Danny!" I yelled when I saw the RV charging down the street with our parents on top of it. "We have to stop the RV!"
"Right!" Danny yelled.
Both of us ran towards the RV and transformed into our ghost forms. We went invisible so our parents wouldn't see us as we chased after the runaway RV.
ZAFT Prime: DarkFoxKit: Oh, really? The whole Blue Hunter thing gave you an idea? Now I'm interested to see what you would use it for. And you can give the idea of the Blue Hunter credit to Dragon here. Originally I was just going to have Andy join Valerie on her hoverboard without the mask and suit.
Darkzdragon: Yeah, I thought it would work. To be honest… I was kinda basing the whole Blue Hunter off the Blue Ranger from Power Rangers. Oh and ZAFT, is your name based off of one of the military organizations from one of the Mobile Suit Gundam series?
sjsreader: DarkFoxKit: Yeah, I like doing just a nice, slice of life-ish chapter after the big, epic chapters. It's a good way to just relax after everything that's happened. I did say I wanted Andy to spend more time with Valerie and Dash, especially since there hasn't been as much spotlight on them since Andy became half ghost in this book. Unfortunately, I'm still not sure what to do for Dash yet. Valerie's easier since she hunts ghosts, but Dash is, more or less, just your average popular jock. I'll have to figure something out for him. I'm hoping Dragon can help me out with that. Speaking of ideas from Dragon, he actually came up with the idea of Valerie offering Andy to be her partner in ghost fighting. At first I was skeptical about it, but after thinking about it, I realize it does have a good potential plot point in the series. I'm pretty excited to see how this will turn out myself.
Andy's Fangirl: DarkFoxKit: Heh, yeah, it'd be a shame if this trio broke up just because Andy got his ghost powers.
OMNISENSE95: DarkFoxKit: I'm not too sure, but I think "Danganronpa" means Bullet Truth, but don't quote me on that. Yeah, I highly doubt Andy would just tell Valerie the truth, especially since he's not sure how'd she react if she knew the truth.
mysteryfan4ever: DarkFoxKit: Andy will try, but he's not going to push his bounds with Vlad. Unlike with Youngblood, Vlad is a full grown man with a conniving plan in mind. Andy isn't going to just be able to reason with Vlad like he was able to do with Youngblood.
leslidannyphantom: DarkFoxKit: Yeah, I was watching Danganronpa anime while writing that last chapter. Sorry for the long wait. I'm hoping it won't take as long for the next updates. Thank you for the drawing, it's always appreciated.
Andy: How is me disliking horror movies translating to me being a coward? I just don't like them. And I saw that AU of me being a demon! Why would you make me a demon!? And I think the word you're looking for is 'invincible', not 'immortal'. Immortal means you live forever, but you can still get hurt. And, well, I don't know if you've noticed, but in this world, people who die become ghosts, and it's easy to talk to ghosts, so… even if they are dead, I can still talk to them. But most likely go insane at first, and if I get bored with that, just get on with my sad excuse of a life. … Thanks for the cookie.
Luna Lillyth: DarkFoxKit: Okay, I'm going to just come right out and say it… Andy's not learning his fire element at the same time as Danny. Which means, Andy will not get his pyrokinesis ability during the Undergrowth episode. I have a later episode in mind for when Andy starts using pyrokinesis.
Darkzdragon: If Andy did learn how to use his pyrokinesis abilities before that fight then he would be a little OP against Undergrowth. Besides, Andy still is behind in skills compared to Danny. Danny has had more time as a ghost, so he is more experience than Andy. Oh and depending on the combination of fire and ice, you could have water, steam, heck you could even make an explosive in a way. Make a ball of super cold ice, light it on fire, and there's a do it yourself frag grenade. The extreme temperature shock of the ice getting coated in fire would make it explode.
DarkFoxKit: There's a lot of cool combinations the twins can use once they get their core elements. Yes, I do believe Danny is more vulnerable to heat, more specifically pyrokinesis that ghosts can use, since ghosts can affect ghosts. Regular fire probably wouldn't do as much, in fact, Danny could easily freeze normal fire. The fire Andy used against Danny during their battle in Control Freaks was ghost fire, which is why it affected Danny so badly. As for Andy, I think the reverse is true as well. While Andy can counter cryokinesis, melt ghost ice and the like, he can also get frozen by them. So, in a sense, both twins are vulnerable to each other's element.
Mana: DarkFoxKit: Yeah, it's a nice thought, but I fell too far behind to put it up during the holidays. Oh well, I guess it's not the end of the world if I don't. I mean, I could possibly put it up then, but we would be rushing through the chapters, and nobody wants that. I do think Secret Weapon was meant to be right after The Ultimate Enemy, but Nickelodeon decided to air the Christmas special next since it was close to the Holidays at the time. I figured it'd make more sense for me to do Secret Weapons first and then the Christmas one. We have no idea when The Ultimate Enemy took place, maybe it did take place in mid December. Perhaps the C.A.T. were the finals for the freshmen in Casper High to take before the winter break. I always felt Valerie should've had more character development. It was cool to see her become from some background popular girl character into this vengeful ghost huntress, wanting revenge on Danny Phantom. There were a lot of episodes that I thought she should've appeared, like Public Enemy #1 or the Million Dollar Ghost, but for some reason, she didn't. I especially got more interested when she and Danny began to get a crush on each other. That would've been interesting to see, especially after D-Stablize when Valerie realized there are half ghosts out there.
I think Skulker respects Vlad, and doesn't hunt him because Vlad pays for most of his equipment. Danny, however, is free game.
It's too bad, I would've liked to see some character development between Danny and Dash, but I guess we can't really expect too much for a show that's supposed to be kid friendly.
Jazz apparently doesn't know how to get Danny out of the Fenton Thermos. And don't mess with an irritated ghost boy. ^ ^'
Darkzdragon: Nice to meet you too, and I'm glad someone appreciates my kind. Most humans tend to look at us as monsters and only want us dead. And yeah, we didn't just want to forget about Box Lunch. She only showed up in one episode, and I think that could've been explored more. So we are doing that by showing the start of that.
DarkFoxKit: It's a good thing I'm not human then. XP Anyways, I thought it was weird that they would introduce Box Lunch only for her to be a one off character in the series. I get that they probably showed her off as a way to show she came from the future, but they could've explored this more. Maybe show Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady getting closer and move lovey dovey to each other, anything to indicate that they have an interest in each other. Oh well, I guess Butch decided he wanted to forget about it.
OutcastsAmongOutcasts: DarkFoxKit: I know how that feels, to see a good yet long story, then binge read it for almost a week, and then you reach the end and feel like you just don't know what to do anymore because your life revolved around the story. O.O
Darkzdragon: My recommendation? Go watch some anime or play some video games. Some anime ideas are Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, most of the Mobile Suit Gundam series, Dragonball Z (and others).
DarkFoxKit: And thank you, I'm always happy to see people giving my OC a chance and ended up loving him. It shows just how well Andy was written.
Darkzdragon: Yeah, you wrote Andy really well and fit him into a story seamlessly. Very nicely done, Fox.
DarkFoxKit: Thanks, Dragon, I appreciate it.
DarkFoxKit: Well, that's it for the reviews, but before I sign us off, I want to remind you readers that we will try, keyword: try to update this biweekly. We're still behind on chapters, and don't want to update weekly until we're at a more comfortable number. At least that's better than not having any chapters for almost a month. ^ ^' Anyways, I am DarkFoxKit, this is Darkzdragon, and we look forward to hearing from you again.
Darkzdragon: Bye!