DarkFoxKit: How do you feel now that we're finally out of that castle? It's been about two weeks now, hasn't it?

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': It has felt like months… *Was splayed out on the couch* It's good to be home. Tonight… honestly I think I'm going to order in a feast of some kind. I'm not in the mood to cook anything right now. *Glances over at Fox* Where and when did you get that plush?

DarkFoxKit: *Is holding a Hamsuke plush* I may have ordered this plush while you were taking a very long bath once we got home.

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': I'm a bit surprised you got one of those considering you were one not too long ago.

DarkFoxKit: You had to admit I was adorable and fluffy as a giant hamster, so I wanted a plush version of it.

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': *Glances over at the huge pile of boxes by the door that seemed to all be from the same company* And those?

DarkFoxKit: Erm… I uh… may have ordered more than just one...

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': So long as you didn't use my credit card and this doesn't become a problem, I think I can deal with you having a huge plush collection.

*The door suddenly opened*

Andy: What the? What's with all these boxes?

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': *Narrows her eyes* It's risky for a stranger to walk into the home of a dragon, let alone a house of a dragon that has been slowly building up rage over the past while.

Andy: *Looks up at Onyx* Will you relax, Onyx? It's me, the Andy from the AN.

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': Ah, just needed to be sure.

Andy: Anyways, I've heard you and Fox finally got back from being stuck at Aragon's castle. You know, it's kind of weird to have memories of seeing you two there yet not actually meeting you.

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': *Shrugs a little* As a great time travelling doctor once said, it's all a bunch of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.

DarkFoxKit: *Smiles* Here, take a Hamsuke plushy. And since it's been a while since I got to use the computer, let's go read some Danny Phantom fanfiction together~

Andy: *Pales* N-no, no, no, I'm good. I only came here to check on you two.

DarkFoxKit: *Takes Andy's hand* Come on, there's so much more you have to see!

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': I don't think this was one of the scenarios where you had a choice, Andy. On the bright side, at least you'll be here when all the food arrives.

Andy: *Is being dragged away by Fox* Onyx! Help me! DX

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': Nah… too comfy. *Looks at the camera* Oh, hey, it started recording. I guess if this is for the readers, go get to the chapter. I doubt you want to stay around and watch me watch TV and eat a huge bag of barbeque chips.

Chapter 71: Campaigning for Student President

Danny and I were flying through the Ghost Zone in our ghost forms. We had already taken Sam, Tucker, Juliette, and Scarlet home back in our world, so it was just the two of us. Though, that was about to change…

Both of us stopped when we sensed a powerful ghost coming towards us. I looked up as a large shadow towered over us. I gave a smile and waved.

"Oh, hey Dora, surprised to see you here," I greeted the blue and green dragoness princess as she flew closer to us. "I thought you'd still be at your new kingdom, cleaning up Aragon's mess."

"The citizens and servants have everything handled from what I saw," Dora answered. "And while I would love to help clean up the mess, I have to go let Clockwork know about how things went."

"That's great, because we were on our way to see Clockwork now," Danny replied. "Andy's got that cursed watch stuck on him, so we were hoping Clockwork could help remove it."

"Yeah, so maybe we can go together," I remarked. "Strength in numbers, so there's a less chance of other ghosts trying to attack us."

Dora gave a small chuckle. "Very true. Not many ghosts would challenge a ghost dragon. Not even Skulker would try. By the way, if he ever claims that he has the skull of a ghost dragon, don't believe him. What he claims is a ghost dragon skull is simply a deformed giant wolf skull."

Danny and I both laughed.

"Well, Skulker never said he had a dragon skull, but we'll be sure to keep that in mind in case he ever does make that claim," Danny chuckled.

The three of us began moving again. The Ghost Zone was always infinite and changing, making it difficult to navigate, but we knew where Clockwork's tower was. When we reached Clockwork's tower, Dora reverted back to her smaller, humanoid form before we entered.

"You're late, Dora," Clockwork's voice stated from somewhere in the tower. "What took you so long?"

"I ran into Danny and Andy on the way here," Dora explained.

"Ahh, so that is the…" Clockwork started to say, but the rest of his sentence was a bunch of mumbled words.

"What was that?" I asked.

"Nothing for you to worry about, Andy," Clockwork chuckled. "Now come on up to me, I'm in the temporal observatory."

The three of us flew up through the ceiling. I smiled a little, remembering this place, it was the place where Danny, Tucker, and Sam finally met Clockwork.

Clockwork himself was currently a young adult, and he was fiddling a bit with his time staff. Clockwork turned his attention to us.

"So, what can I help you boys with this time?" Clockwork asked with a small smile.

"Well, I got this cursed watch around my neck. It helped me out with Dora's mission to overthrow her brother, but I can't get it off," I explained.

"We were hoping you could help us with that," Danny finished.

Clockwork floated over and leaned down, looking at the watch on my neck. "Interesting… very interesting."

"What is it?" I asked curiously.

I knew Clockwork well enough to know not a lot of things could catch the Master of Time off guard, or easily impress him.

"In short, an anomaly," Clockwork stated. "Something that exists, yet it shouldn't."

"What does that mean?" Danny questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"It is impossible to say for certain, young Danny," Clockwork replied, turning into an old ghost. "Though I will say, it is not of this universe. It is likely it came from a timeline that no longer exists, or a universe that had collapsed."

I looked at Danny and he looked at me, both us found it intriguing, but we shrugged.

"That's pretty cool and all, but can you remove the curse?" I asked.

Clockwork gave a slow nod. "Yes, that will be an easy task. The curse does originate from this timeline. Though it was not meant as a curse at first. Simply a poor fool trying to break open the seal of the watch and draw out the anomaly forcefully."

"That reminds me…" I spoke up. "Is this anomaly sentient? I remember when I found this watch, it suddenly attached itself to me."

"That is not a question I should answer," Clockwork replied. "However, I will assure you that it is not dangerous."

"Well, that's a relief at least," Danny commented.

Clockwork pointed his time staff at the watch. I watched with interest as the time staff glowed blue before it touched the watch around my neck. The watch then glowed purple for a few seconds before the purple turned blue itself, and the glow dissipated.

"Try and take off the watch," Clockwork instructed.

I nodded before I took the straps around my neck and took it off. I smiled as I held out the watch that was no longer around my neck.

"That's a relief, thanks Clockwork," I stated gratefully.

Clockwork smiled as he turned into a child before looking at Dora. "So, since you're all here, I take it that your mission was a success?"

"Indeed it was," Dora confirmed. "Aragon has been banished. Though he did lose an eye in the process, so you might want to keep an eye out for that variable."

"I had suspected that would happen," Clockwork noted.

"It's not going to lead us into a bad future, is it?" I asked in concern.

"If it does, I'm sure we'll find a way to change it," Danny assured. "I mean it wouldn't be the first time."

I sheepishly rubbed the back of my head. "Yeah…"

I frowned a little. I was a little more concerned about Danny's psyche about what happened in those bad futures before. Most of them happened because he was corrupted or turned evil. While it wasn't all my fault, I still couldn't help but feel partly responsible.

"Andy, you should take a seat or lay down," Clockwork suddenly stated.

I blinked, confused by Clockwork's sudden statement.

"Trust me," Clockwork added. "You'll want to sit down in the next… 27 seconds."

Danny gave me a concerned look, and since it was Clockwork, I decided to heed his warning. I didn't know what was about to happen, but it would be foolish of me to ignore him. I sat down on one of the nearby chairs, waiting to see what would happen. Danny stood next to me, likely concerned about what was about to happen.

After the seconds were up, I felt a sudden pain in my head. I shut my eyes and hissed, rubbing the temples of my head. I was seeing visions of Aragon, and how he was yelling at Dora, pushing down Sam, kicking his servants. I also had visions of Danny practicing sword fighting with Scarlet. I didn't understand why I was seeing these visions as they had likely already happened.

I heard Danny's voice calling out to me in worry, but I couldn't tell if that was present Danny or the Danny in my vision. I saw us fighting with Aragon, there was a split path during the fight. It showed me one where Danny was engulfed in Aragon's flames, and became incapacitated while I had to continue the fight with Aragon alone. The other path was me pushing Danny out of the fire's way, and then riding on Dora into battle against her brother.

Then there was darkness for a few seconds. I wasn't sure if I had passed out or if the visions were still going. Then suddenly, I saw the bright sunlight, and two figures flying in the sky.

But upon focusing to get a closer look, I noticed that only one figure was flying, and was carrying the other. I focused more on these two figures as the bright sun was making it difficult for me to see them. Finally, I was able to make them out. The one that was flying was a ghost lady, she had bright green skin, red eyes, wore a red cloak, and had tattoos all over her arms. She looked familiar to me. But the figure she was carrying was who really caught my attention. I saw a familiar pale white human wearing a coat, he had a long nose, and red eyes. I recognized that man. It was Friedrich, a.k.a. Freakshow. Freakshow was smirking, and his mouth was moving, which indicated that he was talking as the ghost carried him through the sky. I couldn't hear anything that was being said, but one thing was clear: Freakshow was, or going to be, free.

I groaned as the pain in my head finally started to fade, but left a throbbing ache. I felt someone's hand on my shoulder. I managed to open my eyes to see the hand belonged to Danny, who was giving me a concerned look.

"The pain shall pass soon," Clockwork informed.

"What happened?" Danny questioned. "Why did Andy's head suddenly started hurting?"

"It was due to the watch's curse," Clockwork replied. "It was slowly building up something that causes Andy pain and once the curse was broken and the watch was removed, the dam burst."

"What?" Danny blinked.

"I believe, in other words, Andy's future visions were being blocked, and removing the watch made it so they all came to Andy at once," Dora explained.

That explains why I saw visions of what already happened. I was supposed to get them while we were at the kingdom. I observed, still rubbing my throbbing head.

Clockwork nodded slightly. "And as such, Andy experienced a high amount of pain as there was an enormous amount of data for his mind to process."

"These visions seem to come and go at random though, sometimes I don't get them at all for a long period of time, sometimes they get pretty frequent. Just my luck that they got frequent while I had the cursed watch on…" I grumbled.

"What did you see?" Danny asked me curiously.

"Mostly stuff that already happened. Likely I was supposed to get them before they happened," I sighed. "But there was one thing I saw that might've been in the future."

"What was it?" Danny inquired curiously.

"I saw… Freakshow," I answered quietly. "He was free from prison, and one of the ghosts who worked for him was flying away with him."

"What? Does he still have his staff? I thought that thing shattered." Danny frowned.

I shook my head a little. "I… don't think he still has it. I didn't see him holding his staff."

"It would be best not to worry about that now," Clockwork suggested. "Freakshow will be someone you will meet again on a later date."

That was a date I was not looking forward to. The last time I encountered Freakshow was when he controlled my brother, twice, with his accursed staff.

"We should get back home now," Danny spoke up. "We got the watch off, so there's no reason to stay here."

"Yeah… but…" My head was feeling a lot better now, but there was something I was curious about.

I looked at Dora and at Clockwork, who turned into a teenager. "It's probably none of my business, but… Dora, why are you working for Clockwork?"

"It is a bit… complicated," Dora informed. "When I found out that my brother was behind the disappearance of my parents, I was angry, sad, confused, and so many other emotions. Instead of challenging my brother in a fight I knew I would lose, I decided to leave the kingdom for a time and devote my energy to try and find my parents. I searched for decades and found only a trace of them. As I was searching, I became more and more hopeless, until I was essentially a broken husk of a being floating through the Ghost Zone. That is when Clockwork found me. He informed me that he had been watching me out of interest and saw that I had a strong desire to find my parents. I was angry at first that he was essentially stalking me. After I got over my anger, Clockwork gave me a simple offer. I become his assistant, and he will help me to find my parents as well as ensure that Aragon could not hurt me."

"She was hesitant at first, but eventually accepted my offer," Clockwork took over when Dora stopped to catch her breath. "Dora became my assistant, and I gained two new tasks. To try and find her parents, which I am still working on to this day, and to keep an eye on her brother. I am not quite sure what Aragon did or how he did it, but he did… sadly this is the only way I can say it, he did a very thorough job on making his parents disappear. Only minute traces of them exist, and none help point to where they are now. I know they still exist, however I simply cannot discern their location."

Aragon must've had outside help if he was able to make his parents disappear from even Clockwork himself. I thought.

Danny frowned a little, thinking the same thing I was. "If the Master of Time can't find them, it makes me wonder what or who Aragon got involved…"

"Yes, that is something of concern," Dora agreed. "But I won't give up. I know one day I'll find them."

"I know you will." I nodded encouragely.

"Andy, be sure to keep that watch with you," Clockwork spoke up, changing into a young adult. "It may help you in the future."

I blinked, looking at the pocket watch in my hand.

That night, Danny and I were in our room. We had changed into our blue and pink pajamas. Danny was already laying in his bed. Neither of us had sensed any ghosts in the area, so we hoped it would be safe for us to get some sleep tonight. I put the pocket watch away in my drawer. I didn't want to wear it or have anything to do with it, but if Clockwork thought it was best I kept it, then I wasn't going to go against his advice.

"You know, Andy, you handled yourself pretty well against Aragon," Danny commented as I walked over to my bed.

I picked up Hope and got into my bed. "You really think so?"

"Yup, I can see that all that training has been paying off." Danny smiled. "You've been getting better at keeping up with me too."

I chuckled a little. "Of course, I couldn't keep letting myself fall behind, especially when you need me."

I thought back to when Danny was always trying to get me to train when I first got my ghost powers. I had hated it, I was terrified of the thought of using my ghost powers. But now I keep finding new ways to use them, and I find them fascinating. It also helped that Danny was guiding me along the way, teaching me what he already knew. Scarlet was also a great weapons teacher, for both Danny and me. Juliette made an excellent teacher for stealth, as her invisibility was able to hide from tracking devices as well as other ghosts.

"You know…" Danny spoke up, sounding a little somber. "I'm glad you're okay with these ghost powers now, but I was worried for the longest time that you really would get rid of your ghost half. Though it was for more than one reason."

"What do you mean?" I asked, looking over at him.

"Well, before you became a halfa, the only other person who could've truly understood me was Vlad." Danny frowned a little. "You could imagine how well I felt about that. I knew you were trying hard to support me at the time, but there was only so much you could've done. And, well, with how different our biology were after the first accident, things just weren't… the same between us."

"Yeah, I know…" I stated quietly, remembering those days all too well.

"That's why I was glad… I was so happy to finally have someone I actually care about become a halfa, like me. Although, thinking about it now, I probably should've been a little more sensitive to how you felt about it," Danny admitted. "You were in distress about the whole thing, yet I kept pushing you to accept your powers. I acted pretty much like how the fruit loop acted with me. I guess if there was one good thing about that, it's that I understood Vlad a little more when he found out there was another halfa."

"True, it's not a bad thing to understand someone, even if you don't like them," I remarked. "I'm sure Vlad is trying to do the same with you."

"You think?" Danny questioned, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah. From what I could tell, Vlad is more of a thinker, kind of like how I am, so I think he's been wanting to understand you better. Maybe try to use what he knows to have you join him," I explained before giving an amused chuckle. "Well, I suppose I should include myself into that equation now. It will be interesting to see what Vlad plans to do next."

"You almost make it sound like it's some kind of game," Danny pouted. "Vlad is dangerous, he's got way more experience than either of us combined."

"I know," I said. "But I guess that's just what makes it interesting."

Danny sighed a little. "By the way, remember how I said there was more than one reason why I was worried about you splitting up from your ghost half?"

I gave Danny a look of interest. "Go on."

"Remember how I split myself with the Ghost Catcher?" Danny asked.

"How could I forget? I got to know two halves of you that I rather not experience again," I grumbled.

"Heh… y-yeah… well… from that I realized that my ghost self isn't actually a separate being from me," Danny sheepishly replied. "And from what I've learned from your future self, it's very easy for our ghost selves to get corru- uh… to turn evil, I mean."

I blinked, noticing Danny's hesitation to say the word 'corrupted'. I briefly wondered if that was for more my sake, or his.

"I guess what I'm trying to say is, I was worried you might do that if you got desperate enough to get rid of your ghost half," Danny clarified.

"Yeah… I can see that," I agreed. "I guess I do still fear that could happen to me one day. But I don't see it happening any time soon. Even if it did, I know you and our friends will snap me out of it."

I gave Danny a reassuring smile, and Danny gave me a smile back.

"Okay, can you two go to sleep now?" Hope spoke up, sounding groggy.

Danny and I both chuckled.

"Sorry about that, Hope, we just had a lot to say," I remarked, patting the living teddy bear's head.

"Well, I'll see you in the morning, bro. Or maybe later tonight if a ghost decides to visit," Danny stated.

"Goodnight, Danny. Hopefully we'll both get a good night sleep," I replied before both of us got comfortable, and soon, we fell fast asleep.

It was the next morning, Danny and I were at school as usual. Thankfully after the beauty pageant was over, the craze died down. The girls, while angry they didn't win, thankfully didn't try to claw our eyes out for it like I was fearing they'd do. Though several of them did give us the stink eyes whenever we passed them by. As we met up with Tucker and Sam, I noticed that there were posters and banners that said 'Student Council Election this week. VOTE!'

"What do you guys think?" Tucker asked after he had explained his plan to run for Student Council President to Sam, Danny, and I. "I really want to implement changes that have been needed for years. For instance, as Student Council President, I would make sure they stop serving mystery meat in the cafeteria. I would also replace those bricks they call computers in the computer lab."

"Those sound like good ideas," I started. "There's just one problem…"

"Nobody's going to vote for you," Danny finished for me. "No offense, Tuck, but you're not exactly… popular in this school."

"That's why I need an awesome campaign to bring in the voters," Tucker explained with a smile. "That's why I'll be enlisting all three of you for help. Sam is also a Manson, as such, she's natural at this stuff."

"What do you mean by that?" Sam asked in a slightly annoyed tone.

"It means you're a natural born leader, you know what the people would want, and how to draw them in. Look at how you managed to gather up so many protesters when you and I were going on strike between having meat or veggie sandwiches that time," Tucker informed. "I only managed to get that many people because this is America, we practically live and breathe meat and barbecue. But you somehow manage to find all those vegetarians in one night. That's pretty impressive."

"You know, he has a point," I agreed.

Sam grumbled. "Fine, I'll help you with your campaign, but know that in exchange, you're going to owe me a favor in the future."

Tucker gave Sam a bit of a nervous grin. "O-of course, Sam. Just as long as it's within reason."

"I'm not a part of the mafia, Tucker." Sam sighed, rolling her eyes a bit. "I'm not going to have you 'take care of a guy' or anything. Most likely I'll have you flex your future Student Council President powers in my favor at some point."

"Oh, then that should be fine." Tucker smiled.

"That's only assuming he wins," Danny pointed out. "So how are we going to make someone, who people often ignore, into the Student Council President?"

"Well, I have one idea on how to get him at least some of the popular kids' vote," Sam responded. "Have him take a picture with Danny Phantom endorsing him."

"What?" Danny frowned.

"Hey, that's actually not a bad idea," I stated.

"You can't be serious, Andy!" Danny exclaimed in exasperation.

"Think of it this way, Danny. If Paulina or some of the other popular group sees Danny Phantom supporting Tucker, they'll most likely vote for Tucker or convince others to vote for Tucker," Sam explained.

"Exactly," I agreed. "To them, Danny Phantom is a celebrity. That's probably one of the best ways to get people to notice Tucker more."

"But it's also dangerous," Danny spoke up. "If people see Danny Phantom getting along with Tucker, they might start to get suspicious. Why only Tucker? Why now?"

"We only need one picture of Danny Phantom showing support of Tucker's campaign, not being buddy-buddy with Tucker," Sam reasoned. "We could explain that Tucker did Danny Phantom a favor at one point, and that's why he's supporting Tucker."

"Besides, being a former journalist for Casper High, I think it'll be nice for the school paper to have a proper picture of Danny Phantom instead of a blurry black and white mess," I added.

"Speaking about being a former school journalist, perhaps you can get in contact with some of the people still there and see if you can get them to put Tucker's plans for the school into the newspaper," Sam suggested.

"Well… I can certainly try, but I quit being the school journalist a long time ago," I replied. "I'm not sure if they'd let me do that. But... maybe if the paper has Danny Phantom on it, I'm sure they'd be more than happy to publish it."

"One thing I think we do need to prepare for is any smear campaign from any of my opponents that I may have," Tucker spoke up. "I don't want to resort to smear, but I also won't lie down if my opponents try to make me look bad."

"I'm sure it won't come down to that," Danny said. "And if it does, at least you know you have Danny Phantom at your back. Speaking of which, what about Andy? I mean people should know by now Danny Phantom has a twin, or at least a look-alike."

"I'm pretty sure most people think Andy Phantom is just your duplicate from splitting yourself into two," Tucker informed.

"Lovely," I grumbled sarcastically.

"Then perhaps we should give them a picture of Tucker with both Danny and Andy Phantom," Danny suggested.

"You just don't want to be the only one in the picture, do you?" Sam raised a brow.

"Well… that's not the only reason," Danny chuckled sheepishly. "This would also be an opportunity to show the school that there are two beings. And if Andy can pull some strings in the journalism club, we can get a story about 'The Phantom Brothers Support Tucker Foley' in the school paper."

"Wait, are you serious?" I asked, surprised by the suggestion. "Wouldn't that be risky? I'm fine with just working in the shadows."

"People have already seen you multiple times, Andy, so they know you exist, they just don't know that you exist as your own person," Danny pointed out. "And I rather they didn't think you were just my clone or another part of me."

I sighed, though I had to agree with Danny. I didn't like being mistaken as his clone. "I understand, but… still… it might not be a good idea, I mean we never did find an alternate name for my ghost form, wouldn't people put two and two together?"

"The campaigns only start tomorrow, so if you want, we can spend tonight trying to think up a different name for you," Danny offered. "Though it will be a bit limited due to the fact you have a giant 'A' on your chest. If you'd like, you can go by Andrew Phantom."

"No, that's still my real name," I rejected. "And besides… I do have to ask… Sam, why did you put the A on my chest in the first place?"

Sam gave a sheepish grin. "I just thought it looked cool with your hazmat suit. I mean you sometimes wear it when we go out to fight ghosts. But hey, I'm glad I did, it looks good on you."

"Alright, you two figure out a name for Andy's ghost form. Tomorrow, we've got a lot of work to do," Tucker instructed.

The three of us nodded in agreement.

That afternoon, after school was over for the day, Danny and I were in our room, trying to figure out a name for my ghost form. I was at the desk, writing down possible names on a notepad, while Danny was pacing around the room.

"I mean, why not go with something more related to Foxfire? It sounds like it'd be a cool name," Danny suggested.

"For one, I doubt many fox-like names starts with an 'a', and second, I can't use Foxfire yet anyways so it'd be weird to be referred to as something I don't have," I explained.

"Oh come on, this shouldn't be so hard," Danny groaned, seeing that we had piles of crinkled up papers in the wastebasket.

"Maybe it'd help if you didn't call your ghost form Danny Phantom. You must've been pretty confident nobody would figure you out since you stated your name to the world," I grumbled.

"And nobody has," Danny pointed out. "Which… is honestly a bit amusing."

"Well, despite the obviousness of your alternate name, we live in a world where the obvious often gets overlooked anyways," I sighed.

"Do you two need any help?" Hope asked from my bed. "It seems you're having some difficulties."

"We're trying to come up with an alternate name to my ghost form that starts with an 'a'," I informed. "We haven't had much luck."

"All the ones I've thought up make Andy sound like a villain." Danny sighed. "For instance, Apocalyptus."

"Strangely enough, it also feels a little fitting," I chuckled. "I have been through more than one apocalypse."

Danny rolled his eyes. "But it's not a name you would want to go by. It would strike fear into people instead of confidence and a feeling of safety."

"We don't have to use a stellar name, it could just sound like a regular person's name, like yours does," I pointed out. "Like Adam or Arthur."

"Perhaps Alexander, like Alexander the Great," Hope suggested.

"Oh, that does sound like a pretty good name." Danny grinned. "But a little long. Maybe we could say you shorten it to Alex, but your real name is Alexander?"

"Well… yeah, it's the best suggestion we've had all day," I admitted.

"Alright, so your ghost form's alias will be Alexander a.k.a. Alex Phantom." Danny smiled.

"But are you sure that you need an alias for your ghost form?" Hope questioned.

"If we don't have an alias, people might figure out we're half ghosts, or at the very least, that we can turn into ghosts," I answered. "Figuring out that we're half ghosts might be jumping it." After all, it's not exactly something that seems very possible. Danny had to straight up tell me he was half ghost.

"They might still figure it out with Danny's name," Hope pointed out. "What's the point in using an alias now when everybody already knows Danny as Danny Phantom? What would using Andy Phantom change? I mean sure, it could increase the likeliness that people put two and two together, but it's not like they can prove you two are the ghost brothers."

"You know… she has a point," Danny agreed. "I mean if I could go on this long without anyone finding out I was Danny Phantom through the name alone, then I doubt anyone would figure it out if we just used your name, Andy."

I sighed, though Danny did have a point. Even though Danny told me his name was Danny Phantom before I knew his secret, I didn't really figure it out until I saw him transform. "Danny and Andy are common names, I guess… and it would be a lot easier to go by my name instead of a different name."

"It might also impact your combat if Danny calls out to Alex and you don't respond," Hope added. "Or Danny might slip up and call out for Andy, which people may hear. It's much better to just go with your natural name than it is to come up with a fake one."

"Heh… we've spent all this time trying to come up with the perfect name, and we decided to go with the one we've had all along," Danny laughed.

"Great," I sighed a little. "Well, now that we have the name thing out of the way, we should talk to Tucker and Sam on what we should do tomorrow. I wonder who's going to be running against Tucker…"

"YOU TWO ARE WHAT!?" I found myself screaming out.

I was staring at Dash's and Valerie's campaign outside the school. Dash and Valerie were looking at me with smiles on their faces as they just informed me the news that they were running for student president.

"We've decided to run for Student Council President," Dash repeated. "I figured that with one of us in charge, we can fix up this old school, and maybe even get a Ghost Shield installed."

"I also plan on making it so everyone will have at least a ghost weapon on them at all times, even something pocket size, so everyone will be able to defend themselves should any spook decide to invade the classes," Valerie added.

"That's… err… that's… great… hehe…" I chuckled nervously, sweating a little bit.

"Huh… it looks like Foley's also running his own campaign," Dash noted, seeing Tucker setting up a board of his own slogan.

"Y-yeah, so he is," I nervously stated.

"Well, I think he'll be an excellent competitor." Dash smirked. "Of course, I have my own helpers for my campaign."

"So do I. Star and Paulina are nice enough to help me out with this," Valerie remarked.

"That's great," I said, feeling a little relieved. "I guess I'll see you two lat-"

"Hey, Andy, would you like to help me out?" Dash suddenly asked. "I could use your help with the campaign."

"No way, Dash, you already have most of the football team helping you. I could use the extra hand myself," Valerie retorted.

"Don't you two already have all the help you need? I mean… I'm not that good with politics," I said, sweating a little more. It's getting a little hot, maybe I shouldn't have worn the blue hoodie today...

"You might not be good with politics, but you are great at coming up with ideas," Dash pointed out. "Those ideas would be really helpful for my campaign. Who knows, maybe I can make you the vice president."

"Well, Andy, we can't really force you. So who do you want to help run for student president?" Valerie asked me.

"Uh…" I looked between Dash and Valerie. "Well, you see… um… err… I uh…"

There's no answer I can give that won't anger one of my friends… I inwardly sighed.

In a stroke of somewhat brilliance and panic, I suddenly gasped and pointed at the sky. "Is that Danny Phantom!?"

"Where!?" Dash excitedly looked up to the sky.

"Where is he!?" Valerie demanded angrily as she quickly looked up as well.

Some of the other students who were in the area all began to look around as well, trying to find the ghostly hero. As soon as Dash and Valerie were distracted, however, I quickly ran away and dove into a nearby, empty trash can that was next to Tucker's campaign. I made sure the lid was over my head. I couldn't risk turning invisible, Valerie's sensors would've picked up the use of a ghost power. I also couldn't be sure if she was still on hiatus from ghost fighting or not.

"Where did Andy go?" Sam asked as her voice got closer to the trash can I was in.

"No idea," Danny said, chuckling, sounding like he was right beside me. "Maybe we should ask this trash can over here."

I cringed when I heard someone knocking against the trash can, before the lid was removed. I was curled up, with my arms around my legs. I looked up to see Danny and Sam looking down at me.

"Hey, bro, so where did you see 'Danny Phantom' exactly?" Danny teased in amusement.

"Put the lid back on. There's nothing but trash here, so stop talking to trash," I hissed.

"Oh, then I guess we should take you over to the curb for the trash truck to pick you up," Danny playfully remarked as he held the lid over the can. "If you're lucky, they won't use the compactor."

"That's cold, bro," I scowled before pouting. "What am I going to do? I already promised to help Tucker with his campaign, but Dash and Valerie want my help too. I can't just ignore them, they're also my friends…"

"You could be brutally honest with them and say you're already helping Tucker," Sam suggested as Danny pulled the lid away. "Or you could choose option B, which would be you running for Student Council President yourself so you don't have to help them."

"Huh, that'd be interesting, but also kind of awkward if Andy's running too," Danny pointed out. "I mean we're already helping Tucker, but I don't want to leave Andy hanging."

"It's fine, Danny, I don't plan to run anyways," I replied, still sitting in the trash can. "I have no interest in being the Student Council President. I just don't want to disappoint Dash or Valerie…"

"I'm sure they'll understand that you're helping an old friend," Sam reassured. "If they can't understand that, then maybe they're not real friends."

I gave a sigh. "I guess…"

"Hey guys," Tucker's voice spoke up as I heard his footsteps approaching. "Everything is all set up. Are we ready to start campaigning?"

Then I heard Tucker stopping for a few seconds before his head appeared in my view. "Andy? Why are you hiding in a trash can?"

"Dash and Valerie both are running and want Andy to help them," Sam summarized.

"Ooooh… ouch, that's rough man," Tucker sympathized. "Do you want to stay hidden?"

I gave a sigh before standing up. "No… I promised to help you with your campaign, and that's just what I'm going to do. Dash and Valerie already have all the help they need, so they shouldn't need my help."

Tucker smiled. "Good, because we've got a lot of work to do today. Sam will be keeping track of the schedule and plans. You and Danny will have to help with the heavy lifting stuff considering both of you are stronger than normal people. Just… try not to be too obvious about it."

"It might help…" I began to say before I looked down at my legs that were still in the trash can, before Danny took my hand and began to help me out of it. Going intangible with Valerie nearby was too risky. "... if you put most of the heavy stuff in a box, and close it. That way people won't know what we're carrying. Just make sure the box isn't labelled, or at least will have a label that would imply there are only light stuff inside."

"Maybe slap on a 'fragile' sticker," Danny chuckled as I finally got out of the trash can. "I just hope the Box Ghost doesn't get a hold of it."

"Good idea, we'll be sure to do that." Tucker grinned.

"By the way, when should we take that photo of… two certain ghost heroes with Tucker?" I quietly questioned as Danny put the lid back on the now empty trash can.

"We can take that after school, perhaps sometime in the evening when we are usually out on our patrols," Danny responded.

"Actually it's best to do that at night near Tucker's house," Sam stated, looking at her schedule. "Though we will have to bring a camera that can take a picture in the dark, even with street lights, it would be hard to see the picture otherwise."

"That's what I meant," Danny chuckled sheepishly. "Sometime in the late evening when Danny and Andy Phantom are on patrol. When Tucker could most believably get their attention."

"I'll take care of the camera, don't you worry about that!" Tucker smirked proudly.

"Well, this will certainly be interesting," I remarked. "I just hope Dash and Valerie will be okay with me helping out Tucker's campaign. That, and that Valerie doesn't go crazy on Tucker when she sees the picture."

Reviews

Anime lover 3593: DarkFoxKit: Heh, well you know I love stressing Andy out in the story. XD I don't think there was any confusion on the dragon ghost, I was just explaining a few things about how it works and what we plan to do with it later. *Smiles* Heh, imagine Danny as Hiccup and Andy as Toothless in that scenario. XD

I'm glad you enjoyed the chapter and the fight scene. It's fun to write the fight scene, but sometimes it can get pretty hectic to write about it, especially in first person. As for Danny using a sword, he actually used it in The Infinite Realms episode of Danny Phantom when he was fighting Vlad in… I think Ancient Japan, and Danny seemed to be pretty good with the sword despite never seeing him actually use it before that point, so I figured having Danny being trained with a sword by Scarlet would explain that scene a little more even though Scarlet doesn't exist in canon. Heh, well Andy is inspired by his older self, so that's the reason why he's been using his telekinesis in such a way, that, and it was easier to use his telekinesis than to have to hold on to the pistol with his hand.

Jewel moonstone: Darkzdragon 'Onyx': My favorite myth…? Oh geez… uh… I may have to go with the Greek myth of the Labyrinth, the one built to hold the minotaur. The same minotaur that got killed by Theseus. There is also the hydra though… Sorry, it's a bit hard to pick from the nearly infinite list of mythology ^^'. Let's just say that I like a lot of different myths from different cultures.

DarkFoxKit: Not sure if I know enough Myths to have a favorite, most of my favorite 'myths' or 'lore' comes from anime or TV shows. ^^'

haloguardian452: Darkzdragon 'Onyx': Like I said in the PM, but just wanting to restate it here for anyone else who had the same question, Dora made an agreement with Clockwork that she would not be directly involved in the fighting in the way that she wouldn't actually fight her brother herself. Due to Dora's affiliation with Clockwork, any actions she makes could drastically impact the future. There was also the fact that if Dora did any of the fighting, some may just see her as a dragon trying to take the throne from her brother.

DarkFoxKit: I did have Andy question it during the chapter, but he didn't ask for details due to it not being a very good time for explanations when there was a fight going on. Clockwork sort of answers it in this chapter, but also not, so it's probably best that you got a direct answer from Onyx.

Luna Lillyth: Darkzdragon 'Onyx': While we wanted to add more, we didn't want to drag it out for too long.

DarkFoxKit: I wouldn't say it was a quick finish, we had the whole breakfast scene, Sam pulling out all the stunts, the big battle against dragon Aragon, and then Dora taking over the kingdom. Felt like a pretty compact and long chapter to me. ^^' If it was a quick finish, then I feel like we rushed it then.

Mana: DarkFoxKit: Aragon is pretty prideful but also insecure, kind of like Scar from the Lion King, so when he heard that his parents chose Dora, who was younger than him, over himself to be the next ruler, he devised a plan to get rid of his parents before they could make the official announcement that Dora was the next heir. Aragon is good at hiding his ugly nature, but he's still pretty short tempered like he was in canon, just better at hiding it here. As you can see, Andy is free from the 'trinket' now.

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': Emphasis on 'trinket' because it's more than just that~

DarkFoxKit: The King Tuck episode is going to be a bit of a doozy. Not only did we change and expand on quite a few things, but we also decided to switch between brothers during it as well, so it's not just in Andy's point of view.

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': Please let us know what you thought of the switching points of view when we get to it. It may be something we do more often when Danny and Andy are separate but they're both doing important things that aren't parts of the episodes you can watch.

DarkFoxKit: I like your perspective on each of the new villains Butch talked about on Youtube. Who knows, maybe we'll use some of those later on in the story. I mean Hope is already kind of like Plaything, just she's not an evil ghost trying to scare the living daylights out of people.

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': If we did introduce Plaything, then Hope would probably be included. Perhaps due to her unique circumstances, Plaything would be able to control Hope~

DarkFoxKit: Oooh, something to look forward to then~

Iria Stars: DarkFoxKit: Thank you for that, I'm really glad you like this story and think it's one of the best. :3

Darkzdragon 'Onyx': It means a lot to hear that our work, mostly Fox's, has somehow reached someone's favorite list. Anyways, since that's the last review, I hope we'll hear from all of you again soon. Make sure to stay safe, stay hydrated, have fun, and enjoy yourselves. Until next time~