A/N. Ok so it's been a very busy week for me! I had this chapter done by the time I put chapter 7 on the site, but I wanted to wait so I could build up suspence and get some more reviews! Chapter 9 is currently about 1/4 done, andit should be up sometime next week. I have a new rule for myself: No more than 2 updates a week! Sorry guys but it's for 2 reasons: A) I'm busy and don't have time to type faster than that, B) It builds suspence and alows the readers to think and stuff! Well like I said, this week was busy, yesterday I saw "Pirates 2" and it ROCKED! And today I had driver's ed from 8 am to 3:30 pm...so that occupied my day! Well now it's time for thank yous: 1) 2wingo, for being my "ghostwriter" and sending me some pretty awesome ideas which were used in this chappie. 2)DphantoMfan for beta reading for me! Thanks guys! Time to get reading...(did I mention that this chappie is kinda long...the more I write, the better I get and the longer they get!)

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom or any other characters from that series, Butch Hartman does and will until I take over Nickelodeon! (just kidding)
I do not own Spiderman or any other characters from that series, Sony Pictures owns any thing mentioned from the movies, and Stan Lee owns the actual characters. I do, however, own the brain, creativity, and ideas (Unless noted in A/N) to create this story :)

Along Came a Spider

Chapter 8: Discoveries

Tucker was getting tired. He had flipped through all 999 channels on his personal TV in his room at least four times, and still there was nothing to watch. It was almost noon, about one hour after Harry said he would be back from Oscorp. Even though Tucker wasn't his mother, he was getting worried about Harry, and Danny too. For MJ said she would call when they found Danny, but that was hours ago. Tucker was starting to wonder if maybe Danny and Harry had met the same mishaps and were in trouble, but his stomach interrupted him.

"I guess I should go find something to eat," he said out loud to nobody. He got up off the very comfortable bed and left the room. He went down to where Harry had told him the kitchen was the night before. Tucker found the very large refrigerator and decided to raid it for food. After finding some left over ham and some bread, Tucker made himself a sandwich and sat down at the table in the room to eat it.

I think I'll do some exploring after this. Harry didn't show me alot last night, and this place is really fascinating, he thought as he ate his sandwich.

Once Tucker was done eating, he got up and put everything away. Then he started his "investigation," as he called it. He headed for the main living room first. As he looked around he saw various things like masks hanging on the fireplace mantel, and different sized and colored chairs and couches. What interested him the most was the mirror though.

It was off to the left of when you first entered the room, and upon further investigation, Tucker realized that it was once broken, and then glued back together.

This is an odd place to keep a mirror, Tucker thought. It has to be there for a reason.

And Tucker soon figured out that reason upon looking even closer. It was a door.

There must be something really secretive back there, he thought. I probably shouldn't go in it and look around.

So he headed back towards the couch, but when he sat down, temptation got the best of him and he caved, heading back to the mirror and opening the "door."

He stepped inside the dimly lit room and looked around. It was loaded with cobwebs, which means that it wasn't used for a while.

Probably just storage, no biggie there.


But he continued anyway, still curious as to why the room was concealed. His answer came as he turned the corner and gasped.

Danny couldn't believe it. Harry Osbourne, who had lived through one of Vlad's attacks, and was attacked by Vlad himself, had just blamed Danny for everything.

He must be delirious, there is no way that he could honestly think I did everything to him.

Quickly reaching up and pulling off the web from his mouth, Danny interrupted Spiderman and Harry's talk.

"Hey Spider-guy, I didn't do anything to Harry. It was Vlad, Vlad Plasmius."

"Yeah, again with the Vlad!" Spiderman yelled, and even though Danny couldn't see his eyes, he knew that Spidey was glaring at him.

"It's true, I saw it. He hurt Harr—that guy, and then I came in and beat him up with my wail!"

"Wail!"

"Oh for Pete's sake, it's an attack I have that destroys everything in its path!" Danny almost screamed at Spiderman. "That's why Vlad isn't here. I chased him off!"

"And destroyed the room too, as you can see!" Harry said for the first time since he had told Spiderman about Danny.

"Yeah, well at least the evil guy's gone, right!" Danny replied.

"No, he's still here and right in front of me!" Spiderman yelled as he sent a web ball at Danny. Danny quickly turned intangible and flew up to the ceiling, but before leaving he yelled down at Spidey, "You might want to work on your aim, and stop giving me these stupid headaches. They're getting really annoying!"

With that he flew through the ceiling, leaving Spiderman and the deranged Harry alone in the room.

What Danny didn't know is that there were cameras hanging from a web on the wall, and they had taken pictures of everything he had done.

Sam was still trying to put two and two together with the warehouse incident, when MJ's car came to a halt. Sam looked out the window and was in utter shock.

They were outside Harry's company, Oscorp, and there were police cars all around. Something had obviously happened here, and both MJ and Sam were pretty sure who was involved. Okay well Sam was sure about one person, but MJ was sure about two, seeing as she hadn't told Sam about Spiderman yet.

"We should get out and look," MJ said as she opened her door, ushering to Sam to do the same.

As they got out of the car, Peter came running out the front door, with Harry at his heels.

"MJ, Sam, what are you doing here?" he asked, sounding winded.

"We were in the neighborhood, and saw the commotion," Mary Jane replied. She glanced at Harry, who looked sick. "Is he okay?"

"I'm not sure. He seems a little...odd," Peter replied in a voice that one could tell he was trying to hide worry. "I need to go talk to the police. The ghost boy made another appearance and destroyed half of the top floor!"

"Ghost boy!" both MJ and Sam said at the same time, glancing at each other. Sam gave MJ that look of "you promised not to tell anyone" and MJ nodded.

"Yeah, it was the ghost boy. He attacked me, cornered me, then ruined the entire plant!" Harry said, to Mary Jane and Sam's surprise, seeing they didn't think he was in a mood to talk. "Now I'm ruined again, and that ghost boy is going to pay if it's the last thing I do!" he exclaimed with a very un-Harry type evil grin.

Sam and MJ glanced at each other with mere expressions of worry on their faces.

After flying through the ceiling of Oscorp, Danny went back down to the ground behind the building and turned back into Danny Fenton in no time flat. He then sneaked around to the front and saw MJ and Sam standing next to Harry by Mary Jane's car. He cautiously approached them.

"DANNY!" Sam cried as she ran over to him and gave him a hug, before they both separated with a blush.

"Where were you?" MJ asked, trying to sound like she didn't know his secret. "We were looking everywhere for you!"

"I went for a walk and then I kinda got...distracted," Danny told them.

"See, I told you he goes for walks in the morning," Sam said to MJ.

"Oh well, Peter's over there talking to the police. I'm guessing that after he's done, he'll probably want to go get some lunch or something," Mary Jane said, but realized that Danny was busy staring at Harry.

"Danny...are you okay?" Sam asked. "You're staring at Harry like he's got the plague."

"Oh nothing," Danny said, averting his gaze from Harry. "Just thinking about something, that's all."

"Danny!" Peter called as he came back to the group. "Where the heck were you buddy? We were worried sick!"

"I'm fine, okay.…..fine," Danny answered for the second time that day.

"Okay well I'm getting pretty hungry. Can we go get some lunch?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, but we should stop by Harry's place and pick up Tucker. I'm sure that he's bored out of his wits by now," Peter replied.

"Yeah, let's stop by my house and get that ki—err Tucker," Harry said.

There is definitely something wrong with Harry, Danny thought as they all got into MJ's car, and I'll bet anything that Vlad's behind it.

Vlad was floating in his lab, watching the computer screen in front of him. It showed him exactly what the group of six (well five now, seeing as Tucker wasn't there) were doing whenever he wanted. He was especially watching Harry, though.

"I see that the capsule hasn't taken full effect yet, as he is still able to tell right from wrong in some cases," Vlad said to himself.

He picked up a remote that said "curse capsule remote" and hit the button that said "minor" on it.

"If they think minor is bad, then they are definitely going to not like "major." But let's save that for later, shall we?"

Tucker was still in shock. He couldn't believe what he had found, but he didn't plan on asking Harry about it. He knew it was private.

He was about to go back up to his room when he heard the doorbell. He went to the big front door and opened it. Danny was standing there with Sam.

"Danny! You're safe!" Tucker cried.

"Well yeah, okay I'm fine, whatever," Danny replied. "Do you want to come to lunch with us or not," he added, nodding at the car with Harry, Peter and MJ waiting inside.

"Well I already ate, but yeah sure, as long as you promise to fill us in on the airplane accident," Tucker answered.

"Yeah Danny, we are kinda wondering what happened," Sam added as they walked down the path to the car.

"Okay, I'll tell you guys at lunch," was all Danny could say before they got into the car.

Peter had directed MJ to a nice little diner where they were to eat lunch. Once there, Danny asked if he, Sam, and Tucker could share a table to themselves. "Just because we haven't seen alot of each other lately."

Peter agreed and he, Harry, and MJ sat down at a table about four away from Danny's.

"Okay, buddy, what happened," was the first thing out of Tucker's mouth the second they sat down.

"Yeah, start with the airplane business," Sam added, eager to hear the story at last.

"Okay, fine!" Danny said, giving in. "Well you remember how Ember came and played a song to put us all to sleep?"

"How can we forget!" Sam said angrily, then added, "Please continue."

"Well afterwards, I woke up in an abandoned warehouse outside of New York City."

"Really..." Tucker commented.

The warehouse MJ mentioned. I wonder if Danny knew Peter was there, Sam thought.

"Then, well, Vlad sorta attacked me, you know, like he always does," Danny kept going as Sam's mind reeled and Tucker just stared at him.

"And then I found my bag and I used the specter deflector to bring down Vlad."

Just like MJ said...

"But that was the least of my worries."

"WHAT!" Sam said unexpectedly, like she knew the whole story already, but covered up well with, "…do you mean?"

"Well I got this bad headache and then this weirdo spider-man person came in and attacked because he thought I was the bad guy!"

Spider-man? Thinking Danny was the bad guy, where have I heard this before?

"But he got a headache too, so we must have some kind of psychic connection or something."

"Huh, I don't understand," Tucker commented.

"Well basically I think he means that they have something in common that's causing all this," Sam said cautiously.

"Yeah, every time my ghost sense goes off around him, I get a headache, so I figured it was his fault, but then this morning I got a headache when it went off in Peter's place, but I know that spider-guy wasn't around then!"

At Peter's place, that couldn't possibly mean that...

Sam's thoughts were interrupted by Danny though.

"But I beat him and then I flew back to you guys and found you safe," Danny concluded.

Just then a waitress came by, wearing a pink apron and holding a note pad.

"What can I getcha kids?"

"Umm...me and Tucker will take burgers," Danny began, pointing at Tucker.

"Nah...I'm not hungry," Tucker said to the waitress.

"So that's one burger for him, and I'll take a Caesar salad please," Sam told the waitress as she wrote down their orders and took them to the kitchen.

"Okay, so now that we've got the plane thing down, you're probably wanting to hear about this morning," Danny guessed, and guessed right.

"Yeah, we sure do," Sam said, remembering to keep her and MJ's conversation from earlier to herself.

"Okay well I woke up to a headache from my ghost sense and I knew something was up. So I got out of bed, went ghost, and flew off to find the trouble," Danny began.

"And then you beat some ghost butt, right?" Sam asked.

"Can we skip ahead to the part where you end up at Oscorp?" Tucker asked impatiently.

"Okay, well I was on my way back, around 8:00 AM."

'About a half hour after Harry left our place,' Tucker silently added.

"And my sense went off again, headache free, and I ended up at Oscorp just as Vlad got done doing something to Harry."

"He did something to Harry?" Tucker asked curiously, seeing as he was the one who would have to stay with Harry the rest of the week.

"Yeah, I didn't see what though. All I saw was Vlad's hand go in and then leave Harry's body, and that's when I interrupted them."

"WHOA, hang on! His hand was in Harry's body? That can't be good!" Sam interrupted.

"Yeah, but we don't know what it was about, so we can't press that matter right now," Danny added.

"Oh fine..." Sam said. She really wanted to investigate.

"Anyway, Vlad was winning, and Harry was unconscious on the floor."

"Unconscious? No wonder he looks so sickly," Tucker said, glancing over at the other three's table.

And in fact, Tucker was right. Harry was looking pretty battle worn and sick.

"Anyway, Vlad made me REALLY mad, so I unleashed my Wail on him, and he left, leaving me to take the blame for the mess."

"Who would blame you? Harry knew that it was Vlad, right?"

"Wrong," Danny said, sadly.

"HUH?" both Sam and Tucker said loudly.

"Well that spider-man guy showed up again, and I think Vlad did something to Harry causing him to tell the spider-guy that it was my fault, ALL OF IT!"

That's the second time Spiderman has been somewhere Peter was, so...

But once again Sam's train of thought was interrupted by Danny.

"And then I got another headache, but managed to escape and then I found you guys and now we're here," Danny concluded. "Any questions?"

Both Sam and Tucker just sat there, staring at Danny is awe.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT PETER IS SPIDERMAN!" Sam demanded to MJ as they entered her apartment after eating lunch.

"What makes you think he is?" MJ said calmly to the rather annoyed-looking Goth girl.

"Because Danny told us about the plane and earlier today, and both Peter and Spiderman were there both times, but he never mentioned Peter so I put two and two together," Sam replied, still angry that her best friend's new rival was, in fact, his intern partner.

"Well I gotta admit, you're really good," MJ sighed. "It took me about three years to figure it out"

"You mean I was right?" Sam said, surprised, then added, "Three years?"

"Yeah, I didn't know from the get go like you and Danny did," MJ said, sitting down.

"Oh well, does Peter have some kind of spider-powers then?" Sam asked, intrigued.

"Yeah, well he can shoot webs, and climb walls, and see really well...oh and he has a spider-sense telling him when there's trouble."

"Spider-sense.…..wait, that's why they get headaches around each other!" Sam cried defiantly.

"Huh?"

"Well they both have 'senses,' so when they are around each other, they go haywire!"

"Oh, duh, I can't believe I didn't figure that one out!" MJ said.

"And you know what makes this situation worse?" Sam said, suddenly thinking of something.

"No, what?" MJ asked curiously.

"Well, both think the other is bad, so they're rivals!" Sam told the redhead next to her.

"Oh boy, this could end badly," was all MJ could say.

"You're telling me. So we have to try to stop them next time they try to fight each other."

"How?"

"I don't know, but I'll think of something."

"Okay, you do that. I'm gonna go check my answering machine for messages."

With that, MJ left the room and went over to her phone. The light was blinking, and she hit play. Listening intently, she suddenly let out a big smile.

"Hey Sam!" she called to her Gothic roommate.

"What!" Sam called back.

"I just got myself another acting gig!"

Danny and Peter got back to Peter's place around 3:00 PM after lunch and a few errands. They found a newspaper, The Daily Bugle, by Peter's door, and Peter picked it up.

Once they entered the room, he sat down, with Danny next to him, and looked at the paper. He gasped at the headline.

OSCORP STARTS NEW GHOST HUNTING DIVISION

Harry Osbourne of Oscorp announced yesterday that they have started work on a new ghost hunting division about one month ago and already have some prototype weapons ready for testing.

"We feel that the world needs to be ready to defend themselves from the ghosts that everyone has been hearing about lately, and that it's a good opportunity to start something new," Osbourne commented yesterday to yours truly...

The article went on, and both Danny and Peter read it, before turning to each other in awe.

"Why would they start a ghost hunting division?" Peter asked. "Ghosts aren't a threat here." Yet, but they're starting to be, he thought, thinking of a certain phantom-kid.

"Who knows, really? Listen Peter, I have to tell you something," Danny said to the person next to him at the table.

"Yeah, what?"

"Well the reason I was gone this morning is because—"

But before he could continue, Peter put his hand to his head like he had a headache and suddenly sprang up saying, "Can we talk later? I just remembered that I need to go get some milk!"

"Umm, okay I guess," Danny said as he watched Peter run from the room.

But why milk, now of all times?

He went over to the fridge and saw that they were actually well stocked on milk.

That's odd...oh well I'm taking a nap.

He went back down the hall to his room, forgetting all about telling Peter his secret. As he lay down on the bed, one thought came to his head.

Tonight, I'm gonna go investigate Oscorp and see what the whole "ghost hunting division" is about.

A/N, and I thought the last chappie was long! Oh well sorry bout that guys, but I just couldn't stop 'till it all came out, and believe me, it came out! Thanks again to 2wingo for the idea of Oscorp's ghost division and the spider sense thing! Well that's it for now, review cuz you know you want to!

Lisa