At Casper High, Danny was leaning against a tree, looking quite contented. Tucker walked up to him.
"You seem pretty happy today." Tucker said.
"Why shouldn't I be? I finished Lancer's totally useless book report." Danny leapt from the tree, hands on hips in a triumphant position. "Nothing could spoil this day."
He seemed to have spoken too soon. Dash and Kwan were nearby, and Dash was holding a football.
"Think fast, Fentoni!" Dash said.
He threw the football. Danny was hit and thrown back by the force of the football. Tucker rushed to him, mouth open. The football was on his chest. He leaned up, dazed. Dash and Kwan ran past him, laughing.
"You've gotta get him back for that." Tucker said.
"Already taken care of." Danny said.
He pointed to Dash and Kwan by their lockers. Dash's locker was straining to stay shut. He opened it, and toilet paper cascaded onto him. There were designs on the toilet paper.
"Come on, how good was that?" Danny said.
"He's going to find out it's you." Tucker said.
"Have you seen his grades? Never gonna happen." Danny laughed.
Dash held up some of the toilet paper. The design was Jack Fenton's face.
"Hey!" Dash yelled. "THIS IS FENTON WIPE!"
He turned over to where Danny and Tucker were standing, seething.
Danny, sensing impending danger, ran away. A Band Geek and Mikey were playing a Yu-Gi-Oh! type game (according to Danny, 'Nerd Poker').
"Aha! I blast you with my Ball of Infinite Exposition!" Band Geek held up said card.
"Aw man, you bored my character to death." Mikey said.
Danny burst through the doors to the cafeteria, looking for a place to hide. He saw the Band Geek's trumpet.
"FENTON!" Dash ran after him.
Fenton, however, was nowhere to be found. Dash ran out of the cafeteria. Under the cafeteria table, two little blue eyes peeked out from underneath: Danny's. He looked away and breathed a sigh of relief- a little too soon, it seemed. Kurai Hikari was also under the table, hiding as well. They noticed each other- and didn't acknowledge it well.
"Find your own hiding spot! I've got dibs on 'Under the Nerds Playing Nerd Poker'." Danny pointed behind himself. "Who are you anyway?"
"Kurai Hikari." Kurai said, pointing at herself. "Ease up, you're not the only one who needs to hide, you know."
Outside of the cozy little table, running by was the art teacher, Mrs Haruna.
"C'mon Kurai!" Haruna said. "You've got to submit your painting! You'll make me—I mean, you—famous!"
"Ugh." Kurai snorted.
Back under the table, Danny tried not to laugh.
"We could be here awhile." Danny said. "I'm Danny Fenton."
"Wanna check over our book reports?" Kurai suggested shyly.
Danny smiled.
Xxx
On a street in Amity Park, Danny and Kurai rounded the corner, panting. They ran over to a dumpster and attempted to hide behind it. Unfortunately, Tucker is already hiding there, curled in a somewhat fetal position. He pointed at Danny, silently asking, "What are you hiding from?"
"Hiding from Dash." Danny said.
Tucker pointed at Kurai.
"Hiding from Mrs Haruna." Kurai said as Haruna ran by. "You?"
Tucker pointed over.
"Tucker!" Maurice Foley ran by wearing a Revolutionary War costume. "C'mon we'll be late for the re-enactment! I get to be Paul Revere!"
He ran away. Back at the dumpster. Danny, Tucker, and Kurai peeked up from behind it.
"Cmon." Danny said, pulling them to FentonWorks. "Over there. We can all hide in my house."
He pointed to it. Danny and Tucker were running together. Kurai was behind them.
"So...what's up with this? Why are you helping her all of a sudden?" Tucker said.
"Ah, she hid me from Dash earlier today. I'm just returning the favor." Danny said.
They got to the steps of Danny's house.
"Well, be careful. The last thing you'd want to do is invite arch-enemy into your own house." Tucker said.
Kurai stopped at the steps, surprised, and then walked up behind them. The three opened the door to a surprising sight. Danny's jaw dropped.
Vlad was sitting in their living room, towel over his suit, having tea and playing chess with Jack. Maddie was holding the teapot, Jazz was reading a book, and the sight was not at all pretty.
Vlad casually moved a chess piece. "Ah, hello, Daniel!"
"Too late." Tucker said.