AN: Danny stops a bank robbery. People should really know better than to mess with his town.
Has some kinda brutal uses of Danny's powers (no one dies or is gravely injured, aside from maybe some potential frostbite) and Danny is rather unsympathetic.
Danny's day was pretty decent, at least by his standards. It was a Friday, which meant like 3 tests on the same day, and he's at least certain he passed all of them. The English one might be a bit iffy, but Danny blames that on Skulker burning his book and SparkNotes not being very helpful.
After school, Danny decided to go flying to relax a bit. Most of the time when he flew it was during a fight or on the way to one, so it was nice to be able to just do it for fun. His parents were holed away in the lab working on something, and since he turned off all of their sensors weeks ago they wouldn't be coming after him. Valerie was also doing a group project with Sam in one of their honors classes so she was occupied. Leaving him with some time to just ghost around without needing to worry about any hunters coming after him.
Danny flew over downtown, looking down at the people below. He was about three stories up, flying over the tops of most buildings but not all. The holidays were nearing, so there were more people than usual. Add in the fact that it was a Friday and it was practically packed, compared to the usual maybe ten people out and about. Almost everyone was decked out in heavy coats, ducking into the warm stores and under awnings to avoid the falling rain. It was almost snow, but not quite.
Danny was enjoying the cold, even if he'd be happier if it was snow instead of rain. He did take advantage of it though when he flew over Dash and turned intangible to dunk him with all the water that had been collected in an awning above his head. It was kind of a cheap move, but the squeak sound Dash made up for any guilt Danny felt. Dash immediately sprinted into the shop and disappeared into a bakery. Danny watched him go with a satisfied smirk on his invisible face.
Danny stuck around for a bit longer, people watching from above. It made his core happy to see his people not being attacked for once, which was why he stuck around for as long as he did. But when the sun finally set he decided that he'd hung around for long enough, and decided to go overshadow a bird to poop on Vlad's favorite car before going home.
He didn't quite get there, however. In fact, he only made it a few blocks before a blaring alarm had him turning on a dime headed in the way he just came.
Danny was slightly surprised when he saw the alarm was coming from a bank in the middle of town. Ghosts usually went for places where they could just take what they wanted, they didn't have much of a need for money. Where were they gonna spend it? Ember would probably be the only one who had a use for it, and she wasn't masquerading as a human much anymore. For a moment Danny feared that Freakshow was back, but that concern was quickly wiped away as Danny phased into the building.
It was a scene straight out of a movie. Three armed men were demanding money from the tellers, faces covered by black ski masks. For a moment Danny thought he actually had walked onto the set of a movie and looked around for cameras. Upon finding none, he decided that these three must have no idea where they are. Turning visible, Danny decided to ask about just that.
"Did you three take a wrong turn?" He asked, and they practically jumped out of their skin. Tellers forgotten, they whipped around to see the white-haired teenager floating 5 feet above the ground with arms crossed. Judging by the wide-eyed looks of terror on their faces, they were definitely out-of-towners.
"Amity is kinda a ghost town, literally. You picked the wrong place to try out a heist. So I recommend you put those guns down until police get here." The three would-be thieves were practically frozen, but moments later one of them finally decided to speak up.
"What the hell are you?" One of them shouted, looking at the other two for answers.
"I just told you, I'm a ghost. I'm Phantom!"
"Don't say, you haven't heard of me?" Danny gasped in mock surprise. One of the criminals turned back around and ignored Danny in exchange for harassing the teller that had ducked under the counter.
"What did I just say?" Danny chided like a disappointed parent. He darted past the other two to rip the weapon out of the guy's hands. He grabbed him by the back of his shirt and hauled him into the air, making the man intangible to he couldn't get out of Danny's grasp. He grappled at nothing, trying to escape.
"This is my town, and I don't take kindly to people who want to hurt people for no reason. That's lower than most of the ghosts, dude." Dany figured that he'd tortured the guy enough, and dropped him on the ground. He phased the guns into the ceiling, safely out of reach.
Honestly, Danny wasn't really quite sure what to do. He should probably stick around until the cops came to get these guys, but he didn't know what to do with them in the moment. Luckily it seemed that everyone who was in danger left while he had them distracted but if Danny left then the robbers would too.
"I don't suppose you three would stay until the cops show up?" He questioned. There was idiot #1, the recently-dropped guy sitting on the floor looking queasy, idiot #2, the man who had climbed on top of the counter and was trying to remove panels from the cieling to get his weapon, and idiot #3, who was just staring, frozen in shock. Wait a minute… frozen.
"I'll take that silence as a no." Ignoring them, Danny floated over to the door and started freezing it shut.
"What the hell!" Shouted idiot #3. He ran over to Danny, and grabbed his shoulder. Unluckily for him, it was immediately encased in a block of ice. Danny just sighed as #3 fervently tried to remove his hand.
"You really are stupid." Danny shoved him, and the guy slipped on a patch of ice that had spread too far. He groaned in pain, trying to pull of his mask and accidentally hitting himself with his icy fist. Danny tried to keep from laughing, he hadn't meant for the guy to slip but it was the cherry on top of his already pretty good day.
Suddenly a loud bang split the air, paired with a victorious shout. Danny's eyes went wide, and he looked down at his torso in shock.
"Did you just try to shoot a ghost? Have you never seen a horror movie!?" Danny whipped around and saw the bullet that was lodged in the ice behind him. Luckily his body had morphed on instinct, or else he'd have a new hole in his body (aside from his pierced ears).
Idiot #2, who had been tearing up the ceiling, was now trembling and on the verge of tears. He dropped the gun and it clattered on the floor.
"I told you this was a bad idea, man!" Shouted #3. The guy Danny's picked up earlier finally lost the battle with his stomach, and emptied the contents of it all over the floor. Ew- intangibility wasn't always the easiest thing to adjust to but that was the first tic in Danny's "people I've made hurl" box.
"I think that's my cue to leave," Danny covered his face with a gloved hand, hoping to block out the smell. He went intangible and invisible, floating forwards into the iced-off remainder of the building. Meanwhile ignoring the shouts and insults left in his wake.