Welp, I'm really bored in Summer health class enough to actually type up the sixth chapter! Heh… Thanks to all who reviewed.
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom in any way, shape or form. HAIL BUTCH HARTMAN AND HIS MIGHTY POWERS!
AND SAVE DANNY WHILE YOU'RE AT IT! But I do own the Spectral Shooter.
Now, on to the next chappie!
Chapter Six: Phantom's Plan
A quick jump out of the bed and change of clothes was what Danny least wanted to do on a Saturday morning. But, he had to or else Phantom would have more time to cook up any evil plot he might be serving. Danny was gonna make sure that dish was burnt beyond all recognition.
Danny then forced himself downstairs to eat some breakfast, and paned his head to his left to find Jazz already awake and watching TV.
"Morning, Danny," Jazz said, cheerily. She gestured him to have a seat next to her.
"No thanks, I have work to do," Danny answered, then looked at the TV screen playing some kind of cartoon. "Saturday morning cartoons?"
"It's important to hug your inner child Danny. Keeps the mind young!" Jazz said, taking the remote and turning down the volume.
"Whatever…" Danny responded and stepped out of the living room and into the kitchen.
Danny looked into the cupboard and took out a box of cereal and a bowl. Then he retrieved a spoon from the drawer to the right of him, and took it all to the table. Then he looked in the fridge and searched for the milk carton.
"There you are," Danny said as he grabbed the carton which was next to the emergency ham. Shutting the door, he coughed. "Dad really needs to get rid of that ham…"
He strolled over to the table and set the milk down, pulled out a chair and sat in it.
Then Danny poured the dry cereal in the bowl, and opened the milk carton and poured the contents into the bowl. Then he took the spoon and ate.
Danny's stomach wasn't exactly used to getting food in the morning, especially after waking up so early. It kind of went "Eh…" and turned to make room for the food.
Danny started to perk up a small bit and cocked his head to one side to look at the clock hanging on the wall.
"8:30…" Danny groaned. "Sam and Tucker should be getting here soon."
Then, he paned his head the other way to look out the window. It was cloudy and almost looked like it would start pouring any second now.
Danny raised himself to his feet and took his empty bowl and spoon to the kitchen sink and placed them in there. Then he put the milk away and then followed by the box of cereal.
Then there was a knock at the door. Danny walked over and saw Sam and Tucker waiting for him.
"Hey guys, glad you could come," Danny said.
"No prob," Tucker said, stepping in the house.
"Danny, you still look half asleep. What time did you go to sleep last night?" Sam asked.
"That's because I am and I went to bed around 10…" Danny answered.
"Figures…" Tucker said. "I was so excited last night I couldn't sleep."
"My parents forced me up with bright colored dresses that had floral prints on them," Sam groaned. "Almost made me gag…"
Jazz peeked around the corner and saw the 2 arrivals.
"Hey, Sam and Tucker. Why are you here so early?" Jazz said.
"Erm…" Sam said, then Danny cut in.
"Private business, Jazz. Nothing to get concerned about."
"Oh ok…" Jazz said, returning to her program.
Danny sighed and gestured them downstairs where the Spector Speeder was waiting.
They each grabbed their set of Fenton Phones and they climbed into the Speeder.
"Wait," Danny said. "I have to get something."
Danny quickly climbed out of the Speeder, grabbed the Spectral Shooter, and climbed back in.
"Now we can go," Danny said and Tucker activated the rockets.
The door to the Ghost Zone was opened, and the Speeder took the invite full force, and soon the trio found themselves in the heartless, lifeless intensity that was the Ghost Zone.
Danny reached under the dash and felt along the bottom as if looking for something.
He soon came across a button that would split the entire Speeder into three separate pods.
Danny smiled and pressed it.
With a Magic School Bus –type movement, the Speeder separated into 3 different pods.
"Everyone alright?" Danny cued.
"We're good!" Sam and Tucker said.
"Ok, search your area as well as you possibly can and call if you found something. Ok?" Danny said.
The trio nodded and took off en route to their respective, assigned places.
Danny found himself in Doorway Alley in no time and searched around every nook and cranny he could get his hands on, but came up with nothing.
Danny grew frustrated.
Over on Sam's end in the northern region, her purple eyes never lost a little detail or overlooked a single rock.
Over on a plateau, Sam found a round-like object, appearing as if it were a land mine, and the DP symbol on the red button.
Sam became insanely curious and pressed a button that was a little to the left of her and a metallic arm produced from the bottom of the pod.
Sam moved it over to the land mine-like object, and gently tapped it on the top.
Silence. For what seemed like an eternity.
"Hmm… Guys," Sam said, her lavender glare never leaving the object.
"What that, Sam?" Danny said, trying to left up a rock.
"I think I found something. It looks like a land mine with the same symbol on your jumpsuit on top," Sam reported.
"Strange… pick it up and put it in a safe place until the rendezvous point, Sam. I'll take a look at it," Danny said.
"Kay," Sam said and disconnected. The metallic arm scooped up the object and placed it in a safe place within the pod.
2… 3… 4 hours passed and everyone was just about ready to give up on the whole thing.
"Ok guys, time to meet up," Danny said.
Another 20 minutes and the trio were back together again both literally and figuratively.
"Anything, Tucker?" Danny asked.
Tucker shook his head no and displayed a disappointed face.
"That's ok, Tuck. Happens to the best of us," Danny said.
"Then what happens to the worst of us?" Tucker asked. A question not even worthy of the time or thought.
Sam retrieved the land mine-like object from the back of the Speeder, and placed it in Danny's hands.
"I don't know what it is, but I'm guessing it has something to do with Phantom's plan," Sam said.
"Good work," Danny said, then looked at the strange object, twisting and turning it like a child would with a toy, and then he flipped it over.
Then the object took a mind of its own and started to shake vigorously in Danny's hands.
"What the-" Danny said, then the device flew out of Danny's hands and planted itself on Danny's chest with a force so strong it knocked him over on his back.
Danny's hands instinctively rose to his chest and gripped the device and tried to yank it off.
It didn't budge. Not a little bit.
"Danny, Danny, Danny…" said a sinister voice, coming from above.
"Phantom!" Danny said surprised.
"You are correct, sir!" Phantom assured. "It seems that your fate has dealt itself right into my hand, Danny. What a pity…"
"What is this thing?" Sam asked, helping to get the object off.
"Try to your heart's content, that device will not pry free of its target. Might as well forget it…" Phantom scoffed.
Tucker slipped away and grabbed the Spectral Shooter from the back of the Speeder, and then aimed it at Phantom.
"Get that thing off of Danny NOW, Phantom, or you're fish food," Tucker warned.
Phantom's rose colored eyes took the threat without a grain of salt.
"Really? You really think I would take that thing off of him? Wish I could, but I won't." Phantom said, pleased of what he's done.
Tucker aimed the new invention at Phantom and pulled the trigger.
A glob of sticky ecto-goo shot itself from the barrel of the gun, and lounged itself at Phantom, who turned intangible at the last second, allowing the goo to harmlessly pass through and stick itself onto a stray plateau.
Phantom laughed a little bit at the pathetic attempt to put him away for good.
"That all you got?" Phantom said. "Let me show you how a real shot should look like!"
Phantom made an ectobeam and fired it dead on Tucker.
Danny grabbed Tucker and pulled him out of harm's way. The beam dissipated along with Phantom's patience.
"I'll leave you with a little something:
My work here is done
But I'm not the only one
The device you see
It will not free
It will go away
After a boom
But with a life
It will loom"
Phantom then disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Danny gave up on trying to get the thing to pry away, and just looked at it.
Then the device slowly sank into his skin, and lodged itself just below the surface.
"And let's not forget this lovely feature to it…" Sam said sarcastically. "Wonder what Phantom meant by that poem."
Danny repeated the poem.
"Hmm. My work here is done… But I'm not the only one…" Danny mused. "Could mean that there's more to come. More ghost attacks."
Sam repeated the next two lines.
"The device you see, it will not free," Sam mused. "That device won't come off…"
"It will go away, after a boom…" Tucker said. "That means…"
"THAT THING IS A BOMB!" Sam and Tucker said staring at the device.
"But with a life, it will loom," Danny whispered.
Then he turned to his friends who were on the brink of crying.
"Phantom's trying to kill me…
That's what his plan is all along…"
Phew! Another chappie done.
Will Danny survive the bomb? Will he get it off of him in time? Tune in next time to find out!