Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or Monster High. I do not own the original story this is based on.
Danny and Spectra soared through the skies as they closed in on Gravity Falls. Spectra was comfortably tucked away in Danny's arms. The ghost boy was stronger and faster than her, so it was decided they jetted the last leg of the trip this way.
Luckily they didn't fly all the way here. Connecting the supernatural areas in the human realm was a series of magical underground trains that could get them from city to city across the states in hours. Though there was no stop at Gravity Falls, the couple started from New Salem, Massachusetts and ended at Salem, Oregon. Such a coincidence there were two Salems, but they ignored it as that was history's fault...maybe.
Spectra took half a dozen photos to remember all the sights they got to see together. She especially snagged a few cute, charming and handsome pictures of Danny in both his human and form with iCoffin, while her half-ghost boyfriend was none the wiser of her sneaky photography antics. She glanced at the camera she had brought. While her cellphone would do, she decided to buy a camera to document the town properly. It wasn't anything fancy but could take pictures of a higher quality. Plus, it gave her the idea of being a reporter. Did they carry cameras anymore?
Looking at the beauty of nature, Danny and Spectra thought about making some future plans to revisit such sights whenever they were both free. As Spectra had just finished sorting through all the photos, they had taken, plus a few of her personal collections, she had a slightly hard time staying focused on looking out for the small town that they came all the way out here in the first place. Mainly because the ghost girl was so excited at the prospect of her discovery. Sure, this wasn't going to get her any awards, not that she was looking for that, but the rare opportunity was a sure-fire way to get her foot in the door.
"There it is!" Spectra said, pointing at the sleepy-looking town.
"Great!" Danny exclaimed before stopping. "Now just to be sure—"
"You visited there over the summer for a date with a girl named Wendy and she doesn't know your identity," Spectra added with slightly narrowed eyes. While she wasn't upset that one of Danny's previous dates was living there, the ghost girl wished she didn't learn such a fact immediately after telling Danny they were going there.
But it was better than arriving and finding out. Even if the ghost boy had trouble pronouncing everything.
For some reason, the closer he and his girlfriend got to gravity falls, the more Danny had this feeling in the back of his brain that screamed DANGER. Like deja vu, only the ghost boy didn't see any viable threat. It couldn't have been that Dipper kid who had a not-so-hidden crush on Wendy. Maybe he had been nosy, but he was a good kid.
No, it was something else. And the boy got his answer as an inter dimensional portal opened up and something seemed to reconstruct itself out of it. The ghost boy got chills as he saw the one-eyed monster.
"Hey look a new monster!" Spectra pointed as she got out her camera. She was overwhelmed with excitement, unable to properly register the danger. "I've never seen one like that before." She snapped a shot as Danny narrowed his eyes.
"Looks like the pyramid on the back of the dollar," the ghost boy commented.
Suddenly, a force pulled the ghostly couple in, jetting them into the town area. The ghosts fought against the pressure with everything they could, but it was too much, and the couple found themselves thrown into the town limits.
"Danny!" Spectra cried out, outreaching her hand.
"What the heck!? What happened?" Danny cried out.
"That was not what I was expecting." It was then an X-shaped portal appeared in the sky as the gigantic cyclops, pyramid man with a top hat seemed to manifest in a creepy and horrific method, yet he seemed to enjoy every second of it. "Neither was I expecting that."
The loud echoing voice from the yellow one-eyed pyramid guy startled the ghostly couple as they were just forcibly transported inside Gravity Falls by some weird feeling energy. The small town now was being invaded by even more bizarre (especially by monster society standards)looking monsters, with its skies looking like it was getting darker by the minute.
At that moment, Danny knew that his gut feeling and instincts were right. They were in some terrible danger, and the young halfa didn't know if he could get them both away from here and out of harm's way while doing it. However, his ghostly ghoulfriend was of a different mindset. Instead of feeling instant fear right now, Spectra was excited as her reporter instincts kicked in as she took photographic evidence of everything she was seeing in front of her.
In both panic and wanting to keep Spectra safe, Danny rushed over and hugged her from behind. He dragged her behind a building for cover. Spectra, thinking that her boyfriend was getting a little aggressive with her, was in a stuttering mess as she was utterly lost for words. She misunderstood and believed this wasn't the time or the place to do something so forward. Except she made no efforts in stopping him, as her face was turning into a blushing mess with a rosy shade of red. However, once she got the courage to look at her boyfriend in his eyes, her blush faded away as Danny made a gesture his hands to keep quiet and pointed towards the giant floating monsters in the sky. Her face remained red as embarrassment enveloped her.
The sky darkened, and weirdness spread. The water tower came to life as screaming tornadoes, and monochrome rainbows appeared with a goat enlarged to a monstrous size.
"Alright, listen up you one lifespan, three dimensional, five sense skin puppets! For one trillion years I've been trapped in my own decaying dimension, waiting for a new universe to call my own. Name's Bill! But you can call me your new lord and master for all of eternity!" The pyramid man introduced himself. He floated down, melting the state in the center of town. Probably the founder. The town folks panicked as the triangle laughed evilly before looking to his collection of creepy creatures: a walking pair of teeth with arms, a pink demon creature with a cape and flaming heels, a loaf of bread with a tiny forest growing out of his back, and a demon baby with a pacifier in his stomach. And a whole lot of others. "Now meet the gang of interdimensional criminals and nightmares I call my friends: 8 Ball! Kryptos! The being whose name must never be said! Haha, what the heck. It's Zanthar. Then of course there's also Teeth, Keyhole, Hectorgon, Amorphous Shape, Pyronica, Paci-Fire, and these guys. This is our town now, boys!"
Danny jumped in front of Spectra as the two held hands and turned invisible.
Meanwhile, the town folks weren't taking the impending invasion well.
"Now see here, you unholy triangle fella!" Cried a skinny man who was the mayor. "As mayor, I strongly urge you to git...git on out of here!"
The rest of the town followed quickly. The citizens gave their opinion in quirky and somehow humorous ways.
"Yeah! Things with one eye are weird!"
"We don't like out-of-towners."
"We punch what we don't understand!"
The last man, a burly lumberjack, ripped open a mailbox. Most of the people were against this strange and freaky visitor. One man was not with the townfolks.
"I would just like to say that as a rich capitalist I welcome your tyrannical rule. Perhaps I could be one of your, uh... horsemen of the apocalypse?" A rich-looking man asked. He seemed somehow in place despite his expensive suit with his wife and daughter beside him. Though his daughter was not with him on following the pyramid man.
"Dad!" The little girl cried out.
"Not now, sweetie, the grownups are taking."
"Oh wow, that's a great offer. How 'bout instead I shuffle the functions of every hole in your face?" Bill replied. He snapped his fingers, and the man's face became mixed up as his features were rearranged. The rich man now muffled in agony, and probably bizarre pain, as everything was switched around. He'd scream, but his mouth now housed his now only eye. He fell over in seconds as his family screamed in pain.
Flying eyeballs soon appeared as they turned everyone to stone in their red, beam-like gaze. They carried off any victims as everyone scattered. A cop tried to catch his partner as one of the bats caught him. He could do nothing but weep and scream at losing his love.
Bill laughed, but he wasn't done yet.
"It's time we do a little redecorating. I could really use a castle of some kind." He raised his hand, and a stone pyramid formed in the sky. "And how about some bubbles of PURE MADNESS?"
With a wave of his hand, enormous, almost psychedelic colors of bubbles appeared as they bounced and floated through the town. One man ended up phasing through an orange one and came out screaming in terror and insanity as he ripped his shirt off.
Danny watched in horror as he did everything to compute current events. What was supposed to be basic discovery and reporting became a place of indescribable, chaotic insanity of which new words needed to be made to describe it. At this time, Spectra, entirely overwhelmed by everything around her, went into reporter mode to capture and record everything.
"This is...unphantamable..." she gasped.
She was soo caught up, the ghost girl didn't see one of the madness bubbles bouncing towards her.
"Spectra, look out!" Danny cried, pushing her out of the way of an oncoming bubble.
It missed the ghost girl, but Phantom took it full blast. He was only there for a moment, but he saw frightened him as a pair of piercing red eyes practically bore holes into the boy before the bubble passed.
Danny knelt down, panting heavily, almost emotionally exhausted.
"Danny!" Spectra cried out as she grabbed the boy and dragged him away from the scene.
The creatures seemed preoccupied as the townfolks were scrambling. Some were being turned to stone in the chaos as eyeball bats used a tractor beam to carry them away. This gave ample time as Spectra helped Danny upright, and they began running.
Danny was in no shape to fight. He was tired from the long flight, and that madness bubble drained him. He only managed a few feet before passing out.
"Danny? Danny!" Spectra's words didn't reach him as the world faded to black.
"This party never stops. Time is dead and meaning has no meaning. Existence is upside-down and I reign supreme. WELCOME, ONE AND ALL, TO WEIRDMAGEDDON!" Bill cried out as he laughed in triumph.
Danny woke up in a strange room. It appeared to be some kind of peculiar bunker. It was old and dusty with a bed and supplies. A shelf with food labeled by year for the next seventy years and a cabinet that said weapons.
Whoever built this place was probably one of those the-world-will-end-soon kind of guys. Danny thought. He noticed he was on a cot, equally dusty. Next to him was his bedmate, a spider next to his head, inspecting the ghost boy with its eight eyes.
"Ah!" Danny cried as he jumped onto the floor. He got up and dusted himself off as he checked his surroundings.
"Danny! You're alright!" Spectra ran over and hugged him tightly. Danny could feel the tears fall from her eyes as he wrapped his arms around her.
"I'm fine, Spectra." Danny winced. "Though I'm kinda sore. Would you mind letting go?"
The ghost girl did so, but only after making a quick check-up on the boy. She was no doctor and could only make an assumption. For the most part, Danny seemed fine as he got up.
"Where are we?" He asked.
"After you passed out, I flew us into the woods to find some shelter. I found a tree sinking into the ground, and then...well..." She gestured to the bunker. "I tried calling my parents, but something is blocking the signal." She brought out her iCoffin to show no bars. "I think we may be in trouble.
"I'll say," the ghost boy replied as he got out his phone. It showed the same thing. He looked around again for anything of interest before his stomach growled loudly. Spectra couldn't help giggling as the ghost boy grew a blush.
Danny picked up one of the bean cans and opened it up. The food might be expired, but he was hungry and would not check things out on an empty stomach.
"How long was I out?" He asked.
"About a day."
Danny winced as he glanced at the door. While muffled, he could make out the sounds of unknown creatures wreaking havoc or the like around. And this was just the woods. The town was definitely in worse shape.
Not wanting to just sit by and do nothing while people were in danger. Danny Fenton transformed into Danny Phantom and phased out of the dunker to see how bad things have gotten and see if he could do anything to help fix things.
Danny scouts and sees Dipper and helps him by fighting off the weirdness. Dipper runs off before Danny can talk. Spectra makes a shelter underground for her and Danny as she makes sense of things. The ghoul's angry this happened, but a part of her is beaming at the chance of reporting this. She goes out taking pictures.
Spectra, seeing this coming from a mile away, knew that her manster would try his best to save the people in this small town. Despite the new environment with a lot of weird and unfamiliar danger that surrounded him. It just wasn't in Danny's nature to not rescue people in trouble, just like he came to Spectra and her friend's rescue and after only getting to know for less than a day too. Spectra blushed as she remembered that and decided to follow her boyfriend. Both to help out where she can and get some photos and recording materials for her blog.
Danny and Spectra gulped loudly as they searched the town. The ghost boy was prepared for such sights, but he was not expecting the weirdness to be this bad.
The buildings were thrashed, smashed, and trashed, either by the freakiness or looters. Barely anyone was out, and the people that were had become crazy cultist wannabe's in an attempt to spare themselves. Eye bats roamed the place, searching for anyone to turn to stone and carry them into the fly pyramid palace. It was a madhouse that seemed like an album cover for death metal.
"Looks like they're putting in some local art," Danny snarked at the horror. He didn't mean to crack a joke, but the sharp turns of events were a lot for him.
"I kinda like it," Spectra said, snapping a picture. While she was well aware of their current predicament, she could do nothing but comment as well. Maybe even try to lighten things up. "It reminds me of the latest Jason Voorhees exhibit at the booseum."
A strange noise was heard out of the corner. The ghostly duo saw someone running down the streets and over a fence. Remaining invisible, Danny looked over to see a familiar face he'd never thought to see again. And one just as frantic as he is.
Hey, that's that Dipper kid from before! Danny thought.
"Mabel, it's me," Dipper spoke into a walkie-talkie. "So far, I have eluded capture, but I haven't been able to find you or Stan anywhere. I don't know if you can hear me, where ever you are, whatever happens, I'm going to find you."
An eye-bat screeched as the boy now ran for safety. Thinking quickly, he spotted the mall and ran over. Hitting the door, Dipper was shocked to see the entrance seemingly closed. He banged against the glass doors as he attempted to pry the entrance open. The glass squeaked against his hands, and his noise didn't go unnoticed.
"Hey! Hey you!" Came a voice. "I want to talk to you." The source turned around to be a giant head with an arm sprouting out of the top. "I wanna talk to you about jumping inside my mouth."
"Ok, that's my cue to stop him," Danny said as he rushed over.
Knocking the head around, Danny held off the giant weirdness. Its arm made attempts to grab and eat him, but it was pointless. Having an arm attached to the top of his head was not a good idea. Heck, asking people to jump in his mouth was worse. It was taking freakiness to a whole new level. And the ghost boy was having none of it.
The head gave everything he could, but it wasn't enough, and he soon found himself relaxing his arm. He panted heavily as he pondered how to eat the boy, unaware of the presence of Spectra and her camera.
"Hey there," Spectra said in a friendly tone. "Do you mind flash?"
"Huh?" The head stared in confusion.
Spectra used the flash on her camera to take a picture, blinding the head-arm guy. With his only hand covering himself, Danny looked to see Dipper had made it inside the mall.
"That settles that," Danny said, dusting his hands. "Thanks for the help." Spectra blushed at his words. He looked around for more survivors but noticed more eye bats coming and turned invisible. The duo phased inside the mall to make sure Dipper was alright.
The mall was trashed more than after a stampede on Black Friday. The windows were smashed in as any merchandise was scattered everywhere. Escalators to the seconds were twisted as one laid on the ground. The food court was empty, probably ransacked for supplies by whoever came by. Most of the lights were either barely working or not at all.
It really looked like a scene from a horror apocalypse movie that Danny had watched with his friends a couple of times before, but this just felt too real. There was even writing on the walls with images of the one-eyed triangle guy and the words BILL written repeatedly.
It was horrible, yet the ghost boy couldn't help quipping in the face of destruction.
"Wow...and I thought I saw everything at the last Black Friday sale," Danny dryly snarked. He traced some fingers along the walls. The boy could practically feel what happened here, with all the panic and screams included. He mentally cursed himself, wondering how many he might have helped.
Spectra took photos, keeping the camera's flash off. No need for unwanted guests. Unless they wanted an interview.
She was on a high of fear and delight. While this entire experience had taken a new turn of weirdness, the events unfolding were monstrously reaching new levels. She was sure no monster had seen such unique beings or corrupted, for that matter. Even the triangle man that started this was new to her. No ghoul in history had been seen like that.
This was indeed a scoop. Forget about getting her foot in the door. This was going to be the key to her career, jumpstarting everything. Provided she endures this odd chain of events. While ghosts were probably on the same level of freakiness present, she didn't want to discover how far that protection could go.
The blogger in Spectra was screaming with joy at these new discoveries, yet the reporter in her was a bit frustrated at not getting any more concrete facts about these new discoveries. Since so far, she's only been able to fill in the blanks with guesswork, and there were too many blanks that left her feeling unsatisfied with her own conclusions on the matter.
She needed more information, but with no service of any kind, that was pointless. She sulked as the ghoul inside came to terms with her situation.
Once Spectra calmed down, she went into her reporter mode and rethought all the data she had collected over the past hours. The more she thought about things, the more lost she got as she categorized everything in her head.
"Maybe, once I'm at Monster High, I could ask some of the older stuff if they've ever seen anything like these creatures before. Perhaps Headless-Headmistress BloodGood could shade some light on these mysterious events?" Spectra quietly asked herself until a loud voice echoed throughout the empty mall halls.
Danny snapped his head around as he leaned over. Spectra joined him by his side.
"Help! The nachos tricked me!" yelled the voice.
Danny sped off as Spectra followed. The two cut a corner saw the boy in his predicament.
Dipper was caught in a net with a pile of nachos on the floor. Attached to the nachos was a string that led to a system of pulleys holding the net. Seems the boy picked it up out of hunger and bagged himself.
Danny almost laughed, but He was also slightly horrified at the idea of baited nachos. Deep down, the ghost boy had a feeling he could fall prey to the same tactic. Luckily, Skulker didn't care about fast food. Danny wanted to quip about how they were not his chips but kept it to himself as he flew over to help.
Spectra was just confused. She knew everyone needed to eat but never thought she'd see a human being caught by a trap baited with cheap food. Though she'd probably do the same if she was Dipper right now. The ghoul wished right now she had eaten one of those cans of beans earlier.
Before either could help, however, someone pointed a crossbow at Dipper and cut him loose.
Danny, expecting to deal with another fight in his hands, got ready and immediately put up his guard to counter any attacks thrown his way.
But what came out of the shadows was a total surprise for everyone in the room. It was a red-haired teenage girl with a part of her green plaid flannel shirt tied in a makeshift bandana around her with the rest tied around her waist, a few scratches on her arms, and some black face paint on her cheeks. This redhead was also one of Danny's past dates from the blind dating service they both took. Seeing her again like this got the half-ghost hero to speck up, grabbing everyone's attention(especially the two girls in the room).
"Wendy!?" Danny said in shock.
This took a while, but I'm glad to finally post the next, probably long-awaited, chapter of Danny and Spectra. Looks like what might have been a peaceful trip turned weird and deadly. Of course, that was the plan, given the intermixed timelines. Looks like Spectra's more than happy, but how long will that last? Anyway, enjoy, I'll have the next chapter up this month, though things are still busy right now in real life. Stay safe and have a nice day!
Special Thanks to 61394 and Jay The Average Fanboy! Without them, this would have taken MUCH longer!
Reviews:
ghust95: And it's just the beginning.
Invader Johnny: You got that right.
LockAndKey989: More like weird.
pokemon fan 1991: Thanks! Chester! Good to see you again!
RonaldM40196867: I haven't seen all the movies yet. I'm working on pairing, though it will be a while. Danny will meet Spectra's parents later.
danifan3000: Danny's revelation will not be spoiled, but that won't be coming for a foreseeable time.
William Escobar 608: 1) ... 2) idea interesante, pero tendré que ver. 3) Sí. 4) Sam no tiene apariciones aquí. 5) No tienen que explicar nada.
Luiz4200: Spectra probably won't publish anything about Ford's work as the journals are burned by the end of this chapter. No, there will be no party. Though the mansons being there is an interesting concept.
Jebest4781: Thanks!
Mazamba: Yep.
Jay The Average Fanboy: You might want to add your name to the list of writers now. As for your questions: 1: Torelai will obviously make an appearance, but it'll be in the school year. 2: Maybe, but I don't consider Re-Breather an original Character, given he was created and voiced by Butch Hartman. I forget the Khaki Bar ghost's name right now. 3: No.
DJ Rodriguez: Thanks! I am aware of Dreams Come True 996.
sanid096: I'll send someone to do that.
Zoomedin: Torelai? You'll see. It's Weirdmageddon, so yes. Interesting idea... Thanks!
Guest: How's this?
Leonardo(Guest): Ever After High will not be in the fic. There are too many crossovers as it is and Ever After High could add LOT to the world history.
GhostRider00(Guest): How's this?