A/N Ok guys this is it, the final chapter of my story :(...NOT! Ha ha! Well anyways you won't be hearing from me till Wedsday July 26th because my family is going on Vacation to Colorado, so I expect atlest 7 review alerts in my e-mail inbox while I'm gone! I'm Serious, I mean Chapter 9 had almost over 10 reviews, and that rocked! YAY! My vacation also means that no one will be getting review replys before then either, but I still send them out, cuz I feel the mark of a good author is replying to the readers!
Well on a sadder note tonight on Nick was the Jimmy/Timmy 3, and I found out that was the finale of both shows! Those shows are too good to go! Oh well I'm kinda delerious cuz I'm listening to Ember's song on Butch Hartman's website, and I'm obsessed to it, I discovered it today, and I already heard it 15+ times, and funny thing is, that was BEFORE they showed Fanning the Flames on Nick today! Lol well I guess I should shut up and let you read right? WRONG! Just kidding again, please read and review while I'm gone!
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom or any other characters from that series, Butch Hartman does.
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 11: New York, New York
It was the middle of the night before Peter awoke from his unconciousness on Harry's floor. Weakly getting up, he reached for his mask, pulled it back on and sent a web out the window, which was broken, and left.
Something was really wrong with Harry last night, and I'll bet anything that ghost boy's behind it! Attacking innocent men is one thing, but causing my best friend to go evil is another, and he's gonna pay! Spiderman thought as he swung through the city back to his appartment.
Landing outside his appartment, he went into an alley and took off his stuff so that he could get back in the normal way and not be questioned. He knew it was very late, Danny was probably in bed, and he didn't want to swing in to his house the way he usually did, in fear of waking Danny up and then having to answer some very awkward questions.
He walked up the stairs and back into his room. He fell into bed and was asleep instantly.
The next morning Danny was awoken by Peter, who was standing by his bed, telling him to get up.
"Peter, you made it back alright?", Danny said grogily as he sat up in bed, "What happened last night?"
"Oh...nothing, nothing really, just a small delay at the store that's all", Peter answered thinking about every word he said carefully.
"Right...", Danny said very quietly under his breath, so Peter couldn't hear him.
Peter then left the room for Danny to change, giving Danny a chance to think.
He's hiding something, and it must have something to do with all the times he disappears on me...
He changed into his clothes and headed over to Peter's room where Peter was sitting at the table, apparently absorbed in his paper, because when Danny tried to get his attention, nothing happened.
"PETER!", Danny cried, finally getting the boy's attention after several tries. Peter looked up from his paper and answered Danny.
"What?"
"What are you reading that's so important?".
Danny's heart sunk when Peter showed him the front page of the paper, on it was a man in a dark green suit, and an evil looking mask. He was oviously in the air, because the thing he was standing on reminded Danny alot of Valerie's back home.
That's the flight suit Tucker was talking about, that's...that's...that's HARRY!
It was true, Danny, having only seen Harry in full view once, maby twice, could tell right away it was him by the body build.
The words above the picture read: GREEN GOBLIN IS BACK!
Green Goblin?
"Umm Peter I know it's probably intresting, by why does it partain to us exactically?", Danny asked, trying to sound like he didn't know about the missing flight suit.
"Well umm, I can't say it does, it's just that umm...last time he was around he caused some trouble and now it looks like he's gonna cause more, and ummm...well he's just bad", Peter said, trying to hide his fear of what he knew was true: That was Harry, and the Ghost Boy had done something to bring this on.
"Well of course he's bad!", Danny said almost screaming, "That's ovious isn't it!".
"Well yeah I guess so", Peter said quietly.
"And you know what else is bad?", Danny yelled as he got up and headed towards the door.
"What?", Peter asked, not sure if he wanted to know.
"The fact that you make such an effort to sound like you don't know anything, but I can still tell you're hiding something from me!", He yelled as he went out the door, slamming it behind him.
It was almost 11 and Tucker was still waiting for Danny and Peter to come pick him up. Thinking that maby, just maby they had forgotten, he felt relief as he heard the doorbell. He opened the door to find Peter standing there with Danny sulking behind him.
"What's wrong with him?", Tucker asked Peter as he looked at Danny's sulking face.
"Well we had a little spat this morning"
"Really...", Tucker said, thinking fast in his head. Ever sence he had found out Peter's secret the night before, he wasn't so sure he could trust him anymore. Yes Peter had helped him, but he had also tried to hurt Danny (oviously not knowing who he really was though) on several occasions, and one save isn't enough to forgive someone for that. He decided he was going to watch Peter closly today.
"Don't worry Tuck, I'm fine now", Danny said to his friend as the headed to the car.
"Ok guys, after we pick up Sam, we'll go down to Central Park, maby get some hotdogs", Peter told them as the got in the car, him driving and both boys in the back.
"Yeah sounds good", Both boys said as the buckled up and left Harry's mansion.
"Well it took you long enough", Sam said as she opened the door to find the three boys on the other side, there to pick he up for their day of fun in New York.
"Sorry about making you guys wait MJ", Peter said as Mary Jane came up behind Sam to greet them, "but me and Danny had a few problems this morning"
"No hurry, I have nothing to do anyways", MJ said, "Sam enjoy yourself and remember what I told you last night ok?"
"Yeah sure whatever", Sam said as she left with the boys, and added, seeing MJ's expression from her answer, "I'll be fine..."
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It was getting close to noon by the time they made it to Central Park, and everyone was getting hungry.
"Hey Pete, lets find some grub okay?", Danny told Peter, in a slightly better mood than he was earlier, but still mad at Peter.
"Yeah, there's gotta be a hotdog stand somewhere", Peter said getting out of the car.
"ahem...", Sam coughed behind him.
"Oh yeah...well I'm sure there's a pretzel stand somewhere too", Peter said remembering Sam's vegitarian status.
"Good", Sam said, and with that they headed into the park.
Upon entering, the first thing they saw was map, which showed that they were in the south end of the park and it also showed the different things they could do there. Looking at it, they found that a hot dog stand wasn't too far off, and there was a pretzel stand next to it as well. Danny's stomach gurgled, telling them it was time for lunch.
They headed off in the direction the map had pointed, and soon found their stands.
"You know Sam, Cental Park pretzels are supposed to be world renownd", Peter told her as she headed for the pretzel stand.
"Good, cuz I'm buying two!", with that she pulled out her wallet.
"You don't have to pay, I got paid yesterday, and I still have $100 left from paying the rent, I'm buying today", Peter told her, handing her a five dollar bill.
"Thanks Peter, but I'd feel better paying for myself", Sam said, trying to hide the fact that she was rich and give back the five.
"I insist", Peter told her, placing the five in her hand, "you can pay me back later when I get thirsty or something"
With that Sam got in line at the pretzel stand as the boys got in line at the hotdog stand.
10 minutes later they all had their "lunch" and found a bench to sit down at. Sam sat down and took a bite of her pretzel. It was very warm and very delicious.
Peter was right about the world renoun thing; she thought as she ate then looked over at the boys to see a horid site.
All three of the boys had demoted to primative cave man like eating styles. Danny was woofing his down like he hadn't eaten in days, Tucker was already done and had ketchup all over his face, and Peter was taking very big bites.
Boys. Sam thought.
"What do you say we all go to the zoo now?", Peter sudjested as they got up five minutes later from their so called meals.
"ZOO?", Sam said, "you mean like animals in cages?"
"Yeah, it could be neat", Peter said to the group.
"fine, but if I see one cage that's too small I'm leaving!", Sam said in a rude way.
"What's with her?", Peter whispered to Danny.
"Oh she's still sore about the thing last semester with the purpleback gorilla, that's all", Danny told him, then seeing Peter's confusion added, "last semester I did a Purpleback gorilla report and she said it was cruel to keep hi...er her in captivity"
"Oh", Peter said, "Well Sam, I've been to this zoo, and it's not small cages, it's big and luxurious"
"fine...lead the way", Sam grunted, feeling depressed, "but I get to choose the next site"
Upon entering the zoo, Sam got a brochure and read it to the group.
"The Central Park Wildlife Center has been trying to spread the word of not being a "zoo" anymore. Here we feel that "zoo" connotes small cages for animals and concrete floors for "habitat" with no commitment to the conservation of threatened and endangered species. Central Park's state-of-the-art Wildlife Center was built after the Wildlife Conservation Society took over the management in 1984. It showcases animals from tropical, temperate, and polar zones around the world. Central Park's state-of-the-art Wildlife Center was built after the Wildlife Conservation Society took over the management in 1984. It showcases animals from tropical, temperate, and polar zones around the world."
"See we told you it wasn't cruel", Tucker said, heading over to where there was supposed to be a lion.
"We'll see", Sam muttered, following the boys.
They spent the next half hour looking at the zoo, and Sam had to admit, it was way nicer than Amity Park's zoo, that was for sure. She even enjoyed herself watching the sea lions through the glass wall of their exhibit.
Upon leaving, they stopped at the gift shop. Tucker bought himself an eletronic zoo game.
"It may be for kids, but it's still electronic!", he told Danny when asked why he was buying such a dinky item.
"Your's isn't much better man, I mean a baseball cap that says 'Central Park Wildlife Conservaton Center', come on.", Tucker added, looking at Danny's purchase. Peter decided to buy nothing, since he had been there before, and Sam left the zoo with a nice T-shirt that read, 'save the sealions' and had the zoo's logo on the sleeve.
"You really liked those sea lions didn't you Sam?", Danny asked her as they left.
"No, what makes you think that?", Sam asked nerviously.
"Well for one thing, there's a sea lion stuffed animal sticking out of your shopping bag", Tucker said pointing at her bag.
She quickly pushed it back into the bag and blushed before they continued on through the park.
As they explored the park that afternoon, some of the places made Sam wish she and Danny were alone, afterall the views were spectacular and there were many perfect sites for couples.
Stop thinking that way, you know if you admit you're feelings your friendship could be in danger, Sam told herself for atleast the fifth time that afternoon. But even as she told herself this, she knew she wanted to be with Danny alone.
It was late afternoon,and everyone was getting pretty tired of the midafternoon heat, so Peter volunteered to take them to a shopping mall instead, which they all agreed to. It took them awhile to find their way back to the car, but they did eventually and headed off towards the mall Peter had mentioned.
They found a decent parking space and headed in. As they did though, Danny's ghost sence went off, and he once again got a headache.
What is with the stupid headaches?, he screamed in his head.
"Hey uhhh guys, listen I gotta go to the bathroom, bad, so can you guys just maby wait here?", he said seeing a restroom sign close and making up an excuse on the spot.
"Yeah I guess so", Peter said, but Danny was already running towards the bathroom very fast, trying not to hit anyone. Peter spotted a bench and motioned for them all to sit down. After doing so Sam whispered to Tucker, "This can't be good"
And she was right, for about three minutes later, Danny Phantom flew out of the bathroom's and he was fighting off a ghost who looked about age 10 or so.
"youngblood", both Sam and Tucker whispered in unison. Luckily, Peter didn't hear them, for his spidersence had just gone off, weakly, but it had, and he got up fast, looking around.
"Can you guys stay here, I kinda gotta go get ummm...that CD on sale over there before it's sold out", He said pointing to a sale sign.
"Peter don't!", both kids screamed in unison, than glanced at each other in amazment. Sadly Peter hadn't heard them, he was already running into the CD store.
"How did you...", Tucker began before Sam cut in, "MJ kinda told me cuz I kinda told her Danny's secret", Sam confessed.
"You told her about DANNY?", Tucker asked shocked, "But why?"
" 'Cuz it was mortal peril ok?", Sam said, ending that, "but how do you know?"
"Well last night Harry went nuts, and almost killed me, but Spiderman saved me, I then went upstairs and watched the battle, and I saw him take off his mask to talk to Harry", Tucker told his goth friend.
"Wow, so Harry is officially nuts", Sam concluded.
"yeah well lets focus on this, ok Sam?", Tucker said, then continued, "Youngblood only appears to kids, so Peter can't see him, meaning that he think's Danny is attacking random stuff and people for no reason at all and..."
"and that can't be good", Sam said, interupting Tucker's talking to point something out.
Down in the middle of the main mall "hall" Danny was standing, blasting Youngeblood while staring at Spiderman, who was across from Danny and staring back. They looked like they were about ready to fight.
"Will you leave me along while I beat up this punk?", Danny asked Spiderman who only 'stared' back though his eye hole things.
"If you mean the innocent mall shoppers, fat chance!", with that, Spidey sent out a web, causing Danny to get flung and stuck to the wall. Although it was effective, within a minute he phazed out of it and sent back an ecto-beam in full force.
"Don't you see him?", Danny yelled, then remembered that youngblood only appeared to kids. Duh! He told himself then yelled, "Oh yeah you can't he only appears to kids!"
"The only KID I see hear is you, and you're going down for what you did to Harry!", Spiderman replyed in a yell and sent out another web, missing Danny, who went intagible at the right moment.
"Harry?", Danny asked,and being caught offguard got sent plumitting to the ground by another web.
"Yeah Harry, you hurt him, and made him go nuts, and now you are gonna pay!" Spiderman sent a web up to the ceiling, and went up with it, clinging to the roof, ready to dodge the kid's aim.
In the distand youngblood gave up, "Forget it, you have you're own problems" and with that he and his 'parrot' which currently was in the form of a dog, disappeard.
Seeing this, Danny got up, sent a strong blast at Spidey and dissapeared as well.
Spiderman got hit straight away and fell to the ground, getting up he headed for the music store.
Five minutes later, Peter came back, without any purchases.
"I thought you went to buy something?", Tucker asked suspiciously.
"Well they were, errrrrrrr, sold out", Peter answered than added, "and is Danny STILL in the bathroom?"
"Yeah, but here he comes now", Sam said pointing to the bathroom, as Danny walked out, looking worn out.
"Man, what happened to you", Tucker said, pretending like he knew nothing.
"Oh, just long line and I had a hard time well you know...can we go home please, I need to get some rest", Danny answered.
"Yeah we can go early I guess", Peter said, and with that they left the mall, making no purchases or anything, and headed for the car.
Seeing as it was about five O' clock, Peter decided to stop at the Burger King on their way to drop off Sam and Tucker.
"What do you guys want?", He asked as they pulled up to the order box thing.
"I'm too tired Pete, just order me some oninon rings I guess", Danny replyed with a yawn from the backseat.
Why is he so tired, I just fought off ghosts and I'm not an ounce tired; Peter thought as he heard Danny's order.
After recieving their food from the very rude lady behind the window, Peter passed it all out and told them they could eat in the car. Sam who had ordered a salad, was disusted by Tucker's three burger hight BK stacker, and even more discusted when he wolfed it down in four bites.
"Geeze Tucker, take a break for air", she commented as she tried to eat her salad in the back of the car.
Danny on the other hand was not paying attention to anything, not even his food, he was just gazing out the window of the car thinking.
Spiderman was at the mall, in fact he's always where me and Peter are, and my ghost sence was screwed up too, it barely went off that time. Something is wrong with this...
His thoughts were broken by the stopping of the car. "Well Tucker, we're here, why don't you take him to the door Danny", Peter said.
"Wha...oh alright", Danny groaned as he got out of the car and walked with Tucker up to the door.
"Dude, are you alright?", Tucker asked, seeing Danny's tired expression.
"Not really, I was up all night waiting for Peter to get back, and then we had that fight, and then the whole ghost thing at the mall didn't help either", Danny confessed to his african american friend.
"You only know the half of it", Tucker said to himself very quietly.
"What?", Danny asked curious.
"Oh nothing, look we're here now, I should go see if Harry is home, and in one peice if you know what I mean". Tucker winked at Danny upon saying that, then he opened the door and went inside.
"See yah later Danny", with that he closed the door leaving his friend on the path to wonder.
Finally after another 30 minutes of driving and dropping off Sam, and Danny and Peter had finally made it back to Peter's place. Danny went straight to bed, not wanting to talk to anyone. Peter just sat at the table and thought about the day.
Where ever me and Danny go, the ghost boy shows up, it's like he knows where I'm going to be! And last night, my spidersence was really weak, I almost didn't make it in time. Something's wrong with this...
But before he could think of what, his spidersence went off again, extremely weak, but he still knew there was danger somewhere. Looking around to see if anyone else was there, he quickly changed into his Spiderman stuff and shot a web out the window, swinging into the night.
A/N Ok so this chapter was not that good. I had a cliff hanger planned, BUT I decided if I did it now, I'd have nowhere for the story to go over the next few "days" of Danny's trip, so I'm waiting, it will probably happen next chapter, if you're lucky! Lol well I chose Burger King cuz of them giving out DP toys last year, and I got some of the Central Park info online, I had no clue what I was doing that's why the Central Park part is so short, I can't write about stuff I don't know! Well I start vacation tomorrow (Saturday) and I expect atleast 5 review alerts in my E-mail box when I get back in 4 days! Thanks bye.
Lisa