Hellbreaker, I know, but she does seem to think she knows so much about being an adult while still being the teen that she is. Remember that Danny had to make her remember that in the episode where there Pirate Kid is terrorizing him to the point his family thinks he is crazy?
dakotabaker72, LOL...You posted about how it had a more mature feel while still remaining like the show. :)
kingthe13, thanks for adding this story to your alerts.
Above the crowd of students a ring appeared, the blue white shapes moving to separate into two rings before disappearing leaving a small group of pirate ghosts, the skeleton ghosts leering at the students while the pirate kid smirked. It only took seconds for the humans to react, screams of terror and fear echoing in the large room. Danny glared at the ghosts, Tucker taking a step back while Sam transformed, the space cleared out just in time.
"Avast ye bilge rats!" He then looked uncertain, his green eyes shooting to look at the bony bird on his shoulder. The bird nodded at his question and he turned back to the teens, his smile back. "Plunder lies a fore!" The target of the crew became apparent as they headed for the weight room. Narrowing her eyes Sam went after them, Danny rushing from the radio booth with Tucker bringing up the rear. When the trio came into the room they found the pirate crew rushing to tear treadmills and exercise bikes from the floors, the equipment hard to move as it was all nailed down. They had little trouble making it come out though with their ghostly strength. As it pilled up more and more before the ghost hunting trio Sam rushed forward in an attempt to take the crew down.
"What are you going to do with something that you can't even use?!" she hollered. "You have no muscles for that shit to build up!" The ghosts glared at her, their obvious dislike for her interference reflecting in their eyes and in the blasts that came at her. She threw her arms up to protect herself, but also some how managed to create a shield, the green energy solid enough to reflect the blast, but still managing to knock her back. Danny took that chance to grab at one of the pirates as they attempted to take another shot at the disoriented Sam. Grasping the other creature's arms he managed to rip them off.
"Stay away from her!" Tucker growled suddenly showing some initiative as he too went after a ghost. Sam shook her head, stars swimming in her vision before going after the runt that ruled over the bony pirates.
"Another playtime with Captain Kid?" she queried in obvious disinterest. "Sounds like fun." Before the Goth had time to react she was blasted with his hook, well several of them as he changed his weapon. She was knocked back again, but this time she was attached to the wall, a hook on each appendage. The Kid smirked at his victory before turning to his crew with instructions to take the booty and run. Sam struggled to release herself, but when Danny rushed to help her she growled out that he needed to take care of the school property.
"I don't think so Sam," was his response as the ghosts made off with the exercise equipment. As they phased through the ceiling Danny and Tucker pulled the hooks out of the wall, the halfa released. She floated to the ground, her obvious bad mood making Tucker step back. He knew what was about to happen.
"Why didn't you listen to me?!" she hissed angrily turning to her friend. "How could you let him go?!" Danny was shocked at her anger and yet at the same time he felt his own boiling up at her lack of appreciation.
"It was school equipment!" he growled back. "Why do you care so much?" Her eyes grew wide for one moment and then narrowed at the next as she tried to stutter out her reasons before giving up and phasing through the roof to see if she could see the puny pirate. Looking around in a circle and above her gave her nothing.
Sighing she muttered, "Damn, I grow tired of hide and seek."
After school the trio walked home, the walk made even longer by the fact that everyone, police officers and civilians alike were listening to that one song.
"What would ghosts want with exercise equipment anyway?" Tucker questioned. "It really makes no sense." Sam shrugged, but looked thoughtful. She too was unsure. There was nothing that she could connect to those ghosts and the equipment that they had taken.
"I have a really weird feeling that he might be connected with this music." Sam and Tucker looked at the former halfa in question. "They show up just after the music started and well..." he faded off as an ice cream truck sped past, teens and children alike following the icon of childhood before another ice cream truck rushed by, this one playing the eerie music. This time an older crowd rushed behind it.
"We have to counteract it somehow," the Goth muttered with a glare at the truck as it turned a corner. Suddenly she got this look on her face, her amethyst eyes gleaming with mischief. "We need our own radio station!" Danny looked skeptical.
"And where would we get the equipment to do that?" Sam smiled and pointed up. Above her was the Ops Center. He shook his head and held up his hands. "No way, Sam." The Goth is question just raised her brow with a twist of her lavender lips.
A few minutes later found the trio rushing into the kitchen, Danny holding up his finger as he he said, "Mom! Dad! I really want to use the emergency Ops Center for a radio station!" Opening his eyes he, Sam, and Tucker looked at the empty room in question. Tucker raised his hand and made a fist pump.
"That's a yes," Sam said with a smile, her eyes meeting Tucker's. The pair gave Danny a thumb's up. The former halfa didn't look happy as he walked over to the table where a brochure and a note lay. Picking them up he read the note aloud. It let the trio know that his parents, as well as Jazz, had all gone on a fun cruise...no telling when they would be back.
"M. Bersback Cruise Lines?" He turned it over and then opened it as the pair behind him joined him. "That's weird." Tucker raised a brow and Sam looked confused.
"That they went on a fun cruise?" He shook his head.
"That they went on one with Jazz." Tucker nodded, completely understanding and Sam realized that it was indeed strange. "You know what this means?"
The door to the Ops Center burst open, Sam's foot still up in the kicking position. "That it's time to take down that awful music!" She rushed into the room with Tucker following while Danny looked hesitant. "They even left it open for us." Before the trio stood an empty room save for the DJ station and several spotlights.
"Doesn't this all seem a little coincidental? The pirates? The music? And now my parents just up and leaving with Jazz?" He looked to his two best friends. "We need to get to the bottom of this!" Tucker blew him off.
"So your parents decided that Jazz needed to unwind and they wanted to get away," he stated. "What is so bad about that?"
Around the city several suitcases were clicking closed, adults rushing to head out leaving their children unattended. All that was left behind were brochures and notes, all saying the same thing as Danny's, except for the Jazz thing, that was unique. The next day the trio showed up at school only to find that none of the teachers were there... Only students milled the halls.
"Wow! Your parents ditched you too?" Danny asked in amazement. Sam's parents hardly left their only child alone. They always were watching her to make sure she did well and that she didn't spend too much time with Tucker or Danny, both of them being the bad influences that her parents saw them as. The Goth looked smug.
"Yup," she said. "And just because I enjoy those words so much I will say it again!" She let out a little cheer. "My parents are gone!"
"It's like this cruise is attracting every adult in town," Danny pointed out, still unable to enjoy the freedom that had been thrown in his lap. Around them other students grinned with the knowledge that they could do whatever they wanted and there was no one that would say a word. "And my sister, who despite only being a little older than me thinks she is an adult."
"Just think of it like this," Sam stated with a wide grin. "This is Fate helping us get that rotten music off the air with a little party." The former halfa's brows went up in concern.
"What party?" The raven haired halfa held up a flyer, obviously very proud of herself. It wasn't super glamorous, but it did point a finger at him with his name scrawled across the top with the words Danny Fenton's Party, each letter representing another word to spell out Providing Alternate Radio For You.
" Y!" she cheered as Tucker joined in.
"We ain't got no alibi!" Danny questioned that they already had a logo after only one day of being without adults. "Not only do we have a logo!" Tucker bragged. "We have a sponsor!" He held up a while paper sack, the words Nasty Burger Party in red across the front off it. The techno geek pulled out a burger. "And all the Nasty burgers we can eat!" Snatching the paper and the bag from his two friends Danny ripped into them.
"This is serious guys!" Throwing the items in the trash he continued on about his suspicions. "I can't focus on a party with my parents out of town." Tucker shrugged and Sam followed suit.
"I can," she stated, the trio walking down the halls away from the trash can, a shadow looming over it just seconds later.