Before we start with the summary, the first thing I have to say is that I do believe that my normal once-a-fortnight updates will suffer and be delayed more than once. I will be solely focusing on this story until we're all done with all of season 1, but because of the longer chapters (6K words) and my new school schedule, it'll take some time for me to get them out. I hope you guys can understand if you're still following this story. Thank you!
Summary: The wish-granting ghost Desiree comes to town, and when Tucker Foley makes a wish, it leads to chaos. However, can the Fenton twins take advantage of this to gain themselves not one, but two new allies?
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"Heads up, Dani!"
Dani ducked under a metal frame used to hold up the stall of the seasonal — and very witchy — marketplace, forgetting for a minute about her intangibility powers, still trying to check her surroundings for the blobs of ectoplasmic goop that had escaped the Fenton Ghost Portal that morning. She nearly ran right into a faux spider web, and immediately turned intangible and shot through it, shuddering at the large, fake, fuzzy spiders that were pasted on the string that made up the fake web.
Ugh, she hated the witch market.
"I've got a lock on it!" she exclaimed as she shot forward, seeing her brother chase up behind her as he went over the tent itself. Her hands blazed green with the ghostly blasts the twins had learnt to get under control over the past few weeks since first discovering it, and she took aim, pulling her fist back as if she would be throwing a punch, and she threw the punch, firing the shot at the green blob. "Gotcha!"
The thing — not even those ghost octopodes — just freaking bleeped like it was some sort of android and shot off, narrowly missing her shot and making her huff. "What is that thing, even?"
Danny shook his head, slowing down as he tried to track and predict where the creature was going. "I don't know," he said, narrowing his neon green eyes. "Either way though, we need to get it into the Thermos and back into the Ghost Zone. I don't know what it even wants or why it's doing this, but we better start catching up! Penny, Terrence, you two see it anywhere?" he asked into his ear-piece.
Somewhere along the line, Terrence had gotten all four of them Bluetooth ear-pieces for easy communication, and they'd used it every single night, and sometimes in the day too. Thankfully, the battery life for the devices was great, so they didn't have to worry about losing contact with their friends after a long day.
"Nope, I can't find it on the targeting system of the cannon," Terrence said back, "it's moving too fast to be picked up, Dannies. You two have got to step up your game and start moving faster."
"The tracker thingamajig isn't picking it up either," Penny added, "so I second Terr's statement. You gotta go fast for this one."
"Alright," Dani said with a nod. "I got it. I mean, we got it," she corrected herself, looking over at her twin. "C' mon Dan, let's go!" She squinted as she looked down at the black-themed marketplace, and her eyes lit up when she saw the flash of green ducking into another stall. "Found 'im! Let's go!" She back-pedalled a few more metres before shooting forward to get to the creature. "Don't you dare run from me this time!" As the white-haired girl flew into the marketplace, she turned herself invisible and intangible to not alarm people, slowing down to track the motion of the creature.
On her chase, she passed by a young redheaded girl begging an older, white-haired woman for something. "— please, gran? I want some peanut-butter cookies!"
"Gran's sorry, Em, but your momma said no," the grandmother said gently. "You're allergic, remember?"
Em stamped her foot impatiently. "I wish I could have some!" she shouted, about to pitch a fit, and that was all Dani heard before she found the green blob again and shot after it once more.
"Hey, ghostie!" Dani yelled, charging up both hands with the green plasmablasts. She unloaded them onto the creature, managing to corral it into staying in place, just long enough for Danny to catch up to her and uncap the Fenton Thermos, sucking up the blob-like spectre in a swirling vortex before he hastily slammed the cap right back on. "Hah! Take that!" the white-haired girl exclaimed, sticking out her tongue at her brother — or rather, the ghost held inside of the Fenton Thermos he was holding. "Not that fast now are you?" She harrumphed, victorious.
The older Fenton twin just laughed, shaking his head at his sister as he handed her the Thermos. "How about you release it back into the Zone this time, Dani?" he teased with a chuckle. "Seeing as you're so pumped about catching it and all."
Dani was about to retort when a scream was heard, and the ghost twins snapped their heads over in the direction of the shriek. They glanced at each other, sharing an unspoken sentiment that needed no words. Go?
Go.
The twins shot through the air, flying back the way they came, just in time for them to find a giant, still-growing pile of cookies in the middle of the road, stacking higher and higher until it was almost as tall as a two-storey building. People were being buried under it, but what caught Dani's eyes was the sight of the redhead kid from earlier — the one allergic to peanut butter — trying to claw her way up to the surface, and her skin already going red and breaking out. I'll save the people, you deal with the source, she immediately thought to her brother as she shot down to save the girl.
As she shot down, intangible, into the growing pile of cookies, she caught sight of her brother exchanging blasts with a black-haired, green-skinned ghost woman. The ghost girl pushed from below, her hands going tangible as she pushed the redhead out of the allergen pile, quickly sweeping her up — she was about five and was really petite — and carrying her over to the white-haired grandmother that was standing anxiously at the edge of the growing pile to see where her granddaughter was. "You need an Epipen," she told the woman as she laid the girl on the ground. "I gotta go."
"Thank you, young lady!" the woman called as she flew off, and Dani could see her inject the girl with the Epipen as she continued to pick people out of the growing cookie pile. She got the last of them out and immediately shot up into the air to help Danny with the ghost woman. "Dan!" she called out. "Heads up!" She blasted two shots of energy through the air, heading towards Danny's head, but her twin listened just in the nick of time to duck his head and let the blasts hit the ghost's stomach.
"Nice one, Dani!" the older twin called in praise, turning around and giving her a thumbs up. "Now, let's show her what's... huh?" Danny turned his head back, realising that the ghost had vanished while he wasn't looking, much to his frustration. "Oh no."
The phantom duo glanced at each other, looking down and realising that the giant pile of cookies was shrinking back down to normal. "Let's get out of here before anyone else sees us," Dani suggested, and Danny nodded in agreement. The twins flew away, turning invisible as they headed back to where Penny and Terrence were. "By the way, who was that lady?"
"Some kind of genie ghost," Danny said as they landed and turned back to normal. "Or at least, that's what I figured. She said something like 'your wish is my command'. Either way, we need to be on the lookout for another runaway ghostie."
Dani just sighed, her shoulders slumping. "Just when we thought it was over."
"It never is, Dani. It never is."
It was a few days later when Danny was attempting to clear a path by wedging his way through the crowd to get to where Dani, Penny and Valerie were sitting. By the time he arrived at the bleachers where all three of his closest female friends were seated — and yes, two of those three were related to him, no surprise there — the game was already in full swing, and Casper High Ravens were losing, very badly, if the older Fenton twin had anything to say about it.
"Where's Terrence?" he asked as he sat in between Penny and Dani, Valerie on Dani's other side as the African-American teen cheered on the Ravens. Danny looked, and the Ravens slowly began to regain ground by scoring another point. "I thought he was free today."
Penny shook her head. "The team mascot tapped out today because he went down with some kind of virus that's been floating around. He sits next to Manson in Chemistry, and she's been out for at least a week. Terrence got roped into doing it," she explained. "Apparently he knows the cheer coach personally and she convinced him to do this as a favour or something."
Danny cringed at the idea of being out in the heat inside the black and fuzzy Casper Ravens costume. He was just thankful that he hadn't been pulled into it by Terrence, even if Terrence wouldn't ever do it to his friends. "I've never seen the school play such a bad game every since Foley took over as tactics," he commented, watching as Kwan Lee lost the ball to the opposing team. "I can practically see him frothing at the mouth in anger already."
"This is just like the game that semi-permanently benched Baxter," Dani observed. She squinted at the field, narrowing her eyes. "Wait, Dan, do you—" She stopped as a wisp of cold air left both her and Danny's mouths at the same time, thankfully going unnoticed by Valerie. "I need to go to the bathroom, Penny, can you hold my seat?" she called as she stood up, carefully watching her words and trying to make her sound as normal as she could.
The Asian girl nodded, giving her a thumbs-up as Dani jogged out of the bleachers. "Hey Danny, you want to go and check up on Terrence and bring him some water?" she suggested purposefully.
The quartet was almost an expert at this point at making up excuses and it showed whenever they were forced to make lies for themselves and others. Danny had felt awful about it at first, but he'd stopped caring when he realised that if he couldn't get away, he'd be in trouble and the ghosts would keep on doing what they were doing. It was a necessary evil.
"Yeah, sure," he said, standing up and running a hand through his black hair. "Dani's got some iced tea in the Thermos, right? I'm sure she wouldn't mind me taking some and giving part of it to Terrence." He took the Fenton Thermos when Penny tossed it at him, shooting her a friendly glare. "Penny, come on, you know I'm a lousy catch," he said jokingly, even as the girl grinned at him and gave him a thumbs up. "I'll be back as soon as I can."
He'd barely gotten to the back of the bleachers when he heard an earth-shaking roar, and immediately, he transformed into his ghost form as the white rings passed over him. Turning invisible and intangible, he shot through the bleachers with the Fenton Thermos in hand and saw what was causing the commotion, much to his alarm.
One of the players from the Ravens had turned into a massive, Hulk-like creature, torn pants and all, and was rampaging through the field, though the helmet and facepaint were still on his head. The opposing team's players had scattered in an attempt to get away, and the monster charged straight to the end and tossed the ball down onto the field with a roar.
Out of the corner of Danny's eyes, he saw his sister briefly flicker into visibility, and he knew where she was. Dani, I think that ghost is Lee, he told his sister as he flew closer to the field, still invisible and intangible. Or rather, I think that ghost is inside Lee.
Yeah, you're right, Dani said in return. I also think that this might be the work of that ghost genie you were fighting earlier. Think I might be onto something?
I think you're right. Here's the game plan — I'll hold him, you reach inside and grab the ghost. Ready? Go!
Danny dashed around to behind the monster and revoked his intangibility, using the superior strength he had in his ghost form to grab onto the creature's arms and hold him there. It was still a struggle, though, as while Lee was just an overshadowed human, he was still being empowered by a ghost. He exerted as much strength as he could to hold the fullback in place as Dani reached in, creating a small distortion in the light as she yanked out a green, blob-like ghost from the boy's chest. Immediately, Danny was just holding an unconscious Kwan Lee, who he quickly and unceremoniously dropped him to the floor as he grabbed the Fenton Thermos.
Hold it still, he said as he uncapped the Thermos, watching as the green vortex sucked up the blob ghost. Good grief. That's two in one week! he exclaimed as he capped the Fenton Thermos. Who gets this back to the Zone?
I'll do it, Dani volunteered, and after a few moments of nothing, he felt a pull on the Thermos, and he let it go. You keep an eye on Terrence and make sure that he doesn't get wailed on if the Ravens lose the game. And keep an eye out for the Goths potentially coming after the Jocks too, by the way. I hear from Jazz that it's getting out of hand.
Danny nodded, before realising that they were still invisible and she couldn't see him. Right, got it. I'll see you in a while, Dani. Be careful, and if there's another ghost, call me, he reminded firmly. Don't go off on your own. I know you're still trying to make up for the Technus thing, but you can't be too careful.
I know, I know. Dani's smile was audible even if he couldn't see her. I will. Don't let Val get suspicious now, yeah Dan? I'm gonna go now; see you later!
Danny returned the farewell and flew over to the side of the bleachers again as the players were recovering from the event. He took the chance as he passed through a crowd to reverse his transformation — which surprisingly went unnoticed — and he walked over to the black mascot as half-time was called. "Yo, Terr!" he called, getting his blond friend's attention, and making the raven-costumed teen look over at him, and the half-ghost teen stifled a smirk of amusement at his friend's condition.
Terrence was huffing and red-faced from the heat, and the all-black costume wasn't helping at all. "Hey Dan," he grumbled. "What was going on the field?"
Danny had brought an actual thermos of cold water with him, and he handed it to his friend, helping him partially out of his costume so the slippery vinyl of the costume didn't make it slip out of Terrence's hand. "A ghost overshadowed Lee," he said with a frown. "Dani thinks it might be the same one we were dealing with earlier this week. We haven't found her yet either, which just makes things worse."
Terrence gladly gulped the cold water down before returning the now empty thermos to Danny. "Thanks, man," he said with a relieved sigh. "Colleen owes me for this. Now, about that ghost genie. Do you need Penny and me to join you guys on a new hunt?" he asked. "Tonight's a Friday, so we can stay out later than usual and it'll... probably be just fine. Well, I think."
Danny frowned for a moment. "Well, we could, but the thing is that Dani and I don't even know where she is and what she can do. If we're rushing in there blind, we might be getting into more trouble, and you know how Dad and Mom have started going on patrols at night." His voice had dropped significantly at that. "I don't want to get caught. They'll freak."
The blond frowned, his brow furrowing. "Okay, let's meet up at my place after the game and we can talk about what we can do," he suggested. "The break's almost over. I should get back to work. See you then, Dan!" With a wave, the boy quickly put on the rest of his costume, much to his visible displeasure, and hurried back towards the cheerleaders, who were gossiping eagerly with each other about something or the other.
"See you then, Terr!" Returning the wave, Danny made his way back to the stands, feeling his phone buzz. He glanced at the text he'd just received. "Dad and Mom are working on some kind of Ghost Catcher, like a dream catcher," he read off the message from his twin. He sighed. "Right..." We'll talk about that later with the gang. Meet-up at Terr's place later after the game.
A few moments later, Dani responded. Yeah, okay. On my way back now. See you in a few.
"How could all of you lose like that?!" Tucker shouted at the Casper High Ravens as the team shrunk back, physically afraid of the nerdy teen despite being much stronger than he was, pacing back and forth in front of the team. He stopped, glaring at the team of jocks, knowing that the football coach trusted him enough to take his word for which players to bench. That was how he'd gotten Dash side-lined for the better half of the season, after all, and none of the football players wanted the same fate to befall them.
"You've never lost since I've given you tactics; Kwan, you're slacking off!" he shouted, going off on the Asian quarterback, his hands wringing in the air in frustration as he tried to properly articulate his fury towards the bigger teen. "Okay, that's it! All of you aren't going to go anywhere after this failure of a game anyway. Stay here and think about what you did wrong, and meet me back here tomorrow after school, because you're going to practice like no tomorrow!" In fury, he turned around and stormed out, stomping his way out of the locker room.
"How could they possibly lose?!" the African-American teen fumed as he stormed down the hallway to grab his things. "Ohh, I bet Manson bribed Kwan into losing the game, just so she could make me look bad," he griped angrily. Sam and he had been best friends in kindergarten, but as the years passed, they had simply drifted apart. The Goth had grown more vindictive over the years as well and Tucker had lost count of the number of times she's tried to undercut him since they had entered high school. "That's exactly the kind of thing that witch would do, and Kwan likes her enough to do what she wants. Ugh! I wish I could take her down!"
"Your wish is my command!"
"Tucker, wait! Please, it was a bad game! It's not going to happen again!" Kwan suddenly yelled as the jock ran into the hallway after him, just in time to witness it as Tucker began to swell up in size physically until he was a literal Hulk, green skin and all. "Tucker!" the Asian boy shouted, looking aghast as the A-lister-turned monster roared and charged out of the school with only one target in mind. Kwan had gone pale when Tucker broke out of the room, standing at the entrance of the school hall as the main door entrance was ripped to shreds by the massive form of the Ravens' tactician.
Samantha Manson was going down. Way down.
"Okay, so what's this Desiree's deal?" Dani complained as she and her twin flew through the air, invisible, on their usual patrol. Usually, they'd be with Penny and Terrence, but the former had come down with the same virus that Manson had, and the latter had 'an important meeting with the 'rent's to make', so both were unavailable for patrol that night, much to the younger twin's chagrin. "Why's she doing all this?" They'd just barely made the connection after a long discussion. Dani had heard the redhead with peanut allergies say 'I wish', and Terrence, on the field, had heard Kwan shout in frustration that 'he wished he could demolish the other team'. "Why'd she grant these wishes in this way?"
Danny was thoughtful as the two phantoms soared across the starry night sky of Amity Park, relishing in the cool breeze. "Maybe it's a limit of her powers?" he suggested. "Despite being powerful enough to make all sorts of things happen, it's possible she, like that genie from Aladdin, is compelled to grant all wishes made to her and to get some control over it, she twists the wishes?" The white-haired boy frowned as he turned mid-air, continuing to fly in reverse so he could keep facing his sister. "It's no excuse, but that might be something."
"Aw, I don't know," the younger of the Fenton twins said with a groan. "But all I know is that we need to stop her before she does something like grant people superpowers!"
"Speaking of superpowers, I think we have a supervillain!" Danny exclaimed, seeing something big and, more importantly, green, come stomping down the street, followed closely by a boy in a letterman jacket that the older twin vaguely recognised as Kwan Lee. The white-haired half-ghost took another look, and he recognised torn cargo pants and yellow sweater sleeves. The real giveaway, though, was the stretched out red beret on the behemoth's head. "That's Foley!" he exclaimed.
"Tucker Foley? And that's Lee right behind him!" Dani exclaimed in realisation. "Let's get him out of here and make sure Foley doesn't kill anyone! I'll distract Foley — I'm more agile. You need to talk Lee into getting out of here and drag him away if he won't listen!" And with that, she flew off in the direction of Monster Foley, her hands blazing with green fire. She might have had a crush on Tucker, but she knew that he was just a jerk. Besides, he was going to terrorise the town, and she couldn't let him do that.
Meanwhile, Danny shot down to Kwan and made himself visible to Casper High's star quarterback. "Lee," he called, getting the boy's attention. "Look, I'll make it brief. Don't ask about how I know your name — that's not important. Your friend isn't himself right now. What I need you to do is get out of here immediately and stop anyone from getting here, because things are going to get ugly. Do you know where he's heading?"
Kwan just looked to be in awe at Danny's appearance. Despite being taller than the half-ghost teen, the white hair and glowing green eyes were also accompanied by the fact that he was hovering in midair, giving him an otherworldly appearance, to say the least. The quarterback shook his head, blinking. "He's, um, Tucker's heading to Manson!" he blurted out, looking somewhat terrified now that he'd blurted it out. The Asian boy had just gone pale and for good reason. "Please, don't hurt him," he added hastily. "I know it looks bad, but I swear, Tucker isn't usually like this!"
Danny felt somewhat sympathetic to the boy's plight — if one of his friends was in this situation, he wouldn't want them to be hurt either — but he had a job to do, self-appointed or not. "Kwan," he said to get the boy's attention — boy did it feel strange to be calling him by his first name — "I want you to listen to me. I can't promise that I won't hurt him. It might be the only way to get him back to normal. But I can promise that I'll stop him from doing something he'll regret when he's back to normal. For now, I want you to listen to my advice and get the heck out of here before it's too late. Got it?" Danny turned around, ready to go after the behemoth to help his twin
The boy nodded. "I got it. And, um, h-hold on!" he called as Danny began to move off. "Who are you?"
Danny looked back, smoothing his white hair back as it got into his eyes. His glowing eyes darted around as he tried to think up an alias, and then it struck him.
Phantom, Dani echoed in his head as he came to a decision. A bit tacky, but I like it.
"Phantom," Danny said, looking down at Kwan as he took off higher into the air. "The name's Phantom; Danny Phantom. Or at least one of them, at least." With a grin down at the jock, he turned and flew off to help Dani, his hands blazing green as he caught up to his sister. "Hey ugly!" he shouted out, blasting Monster Foley in the back of the head. "Hands off my sister, you green... thing... that just ruined the flow of the insult..." He shook his head. "Nevermind, you idiot," he said to himself. Narrowing bright green eyes, he shot off again.
Dani, true to her word, was easily darting and weaving through Monster Foley's swipes and grabs, turning intangible at just the right moments to get out of his grip. "Ugh, I wish he would just freeze!" she cursed in frustration, not realising that she'd said the dreaded two words. No sooner did she say the words, did the white-haired ghost girl hear the voice of a woman.
"Your wish is my command!"
Monster Foley turned blue, a dark cloud forming over his head and hailing down snowflakes, which, as soon as they touched the green skin, formed ice crystals that slowly began to grow, until the entire body of the possessed boy was just a hunk of ice that was frozen to the pavement.
Desiree has got to be near! Danny figured through their mental link. In that case, then I hope this works! "I wish you would show yourself to us and not do anything to disadvantage us!" he wished, loud and clear, trying to cover as many of their bases as possible to ensure the wish didn't backfire on them. It earned him a scream of frustration as a pink mist formed in front of them, coalescing into the green-skinned ghost woman with black hair that he'd fought earlier in the week.
"You've learnt the trick," Desiree said sourly, glaring at Danny through red eyes.
Dani held up both of her hands in a sign of peace. "Look, Desiree," she started slowly. "We don't want any trouble. We just want to make sure that things don't go awry here. Why are you doing this?" I'm sure we can come to an agreement here." This was the first time that the twins had really had to talk things out, surprisingly enough. The Lunch Lady was impossible to talk down. Skulker had tried to kill them. Technus, well, he just got too much into the supervillain idea. But Desiree, right now, was open for them to have a conversation with.
"I don't have a choice," Desiree said plainly. "All ghosts have an obsession. Mine is with granting wishes but at my own expense. And before you ask, I can't pick and choose either. It's a limit of my powers." Her red eyes seemed to soften a little as her shoulders slumped. "Look," she said with a tired sigh. "You've figured out the trick to gain an advantage over me. Just wish me back into the Ghost Zone and we're done."
Not until we get Foley back to normal, Danny thought to Dani.
Yeah... and I... also really want to know why she's like this, the younger twin admitted. Every other enemy we've fought so far has just continued to fight us even as we fought back. She's just... given up like that. That's really strange. "I wish you would share with us why you're like this, Desiree."
The pink mist took hold of her, and the wishing ghost had only time to shoot Dani an annoyed look before she began to speak. "When I was alive... or rather when the one who created me was alive, she was a harem girl in Ancient Arabia. She was beautiful, the most gorgeous girl in all of the harem and she had the sultan's favour. Eventually, his jealous wife found out and banished her from the kingdom. She died at a ripe old age, but of a broken heart and with plenty of resentment. That resentment mixed with the ectoplasm of the ghost zone and thus I was formed, cursed with making all wishes I heard come true at my own expense for over a millennium."
Oh goodness... that's sad, Dani thought sympathetically and looked over at her brother. Dan... I'm not sure I want to kick her butt back into the Ghost Zone now. She's already practically given up anyway, and you know what mum said when she made us have some karate classes. We're here to defend the city, not bully our opponents.
It's not like we can do anything about it, Danny retorted, but his furrowed brow and otherwise audible silence said otherwise. He was looking at Desiree with a focused and intense expression, which was visibly startling the genie ghost. Or... can we? I have a plan, Dani. If we play this right, we can help her, get the ghost out of Foley, and make sure that Amity Park has one less danger to contend with! His green eyes lit up with his plan, and he spoke, "Desiree, I wish you'd grant us three wishes without consequence, not including this one. First, we wish Tucker Foley was back to normal. Second, we wish that you wouldn't terrorise Amity Park anymore."
"Third," Dani said, knowing where her brother was going with this, "we wish that you could choose which wishes you grant."
"Your wishes are my... command...?" Desiree began to say before the realisation of the last wish caught up to her. But before she could do anything, her powers kicked into effect as she cast her pink-tinged magic. A blast of energy surrounded Monster Foley, shrinking him back to normal size and defrosting him. Two more tendrils of pink surrounded Desiree herself before wrapping her in a cocoon that vanished into thin air. "Children... why did you...?" the ghost woman was speechless.
"We might be enemies," Dani said, "but our mother always said that to kick people when they're down is to bully them. We've got that enough in our own lives, so we don't want to do that to you either."
Danny nodded. "Sorry about the extra caveat, but I couldn't be too careful," he apologised. "Now you're free to go back to the Ghost Zone if you want to, and you're free of having to grant every single wish people say. This way, we won't have to fight you in the future." He offered her a small smile.
The ghost woman cried out, not in anguish, but in thinly-veiled glee, and swooped in towards the two teens, wrapping them in a tight hug of gratitude. "Thank you, thank you, thank you so much!" she cried out, much to their surprise. "I owe you so much, children! I swear to you, I will do my best to return here and aid you in the future." With a gleeful smile, Desiree finally released the two dazed Phantom twins, and leaned in, kissing both of them on the top of their heads in a matronly way. "Thank you," she said again, her voice warm. "And take care." Snapping her fingers, she vanished in a swirl of pink mist.
Still dazed, the Phantom twins lowered themselves to the ground, and they stared at each other blankly for a few moments.
"That... was unexpected," Danny commented, looking at Dani, "but I'm glad that happened. I guess that's one more crisis averted, huh?"
Dani nodded. "Come on, let's go and get Tucker to Lee," she suggested, heading over to the African-American boy's side. With some effort, the girl picked up the unconscious boy with her supernatural strength and took to the air alongside the older of the twins. They flew only shortly before Dani was waved down by her brother to see Kwan Lee looking up in awe at them. She slowly descended until her feet touched the ground, and moved to let the quarterback take Foley in his arms. "Your pal's going to be alright," she told him.
Danny nodded, still hovering a metre or so above the ground. "He might not remember anything for the past few hours, but he'll be okay," he added. "It's late. Be careful." He had no idea why he said that, but it sounded right, in some capacity, even if the quarterback was part of the group making his life miserable. "C'mon, let's go!" he called to Dani, and with her rising up next to him, the Phantom twins immediately flew off into the night sky, their job done for the night.
The next morning, when the Fenton twins walked down the steps for breakfast, they were both in a very good mood.
"Looks like everything turned out alright, last night," Danny said with a smile to his sister, handing her backpack to her after she finished tying her ponytail. "No one got hurt, we helped someone, plus we found a snazzy new name for the two of us."
Dani laughed. "Snazzy, huh? Nope. That was stupid, Dan, but I like it, I guess. We should tell Penny and Terr about it later in school." She grinned, tugging on her red beret over her head with one hand. "I hope Kwan didn't notice anything, though," she said, mildly concerned.
"He's a jock," the older twin dismissed. "He might have noticed something, but we're not as noticeable as for him to learn who we are... right?" He smiled uneasily as they reached the front door. "Hey mum, dad, we're going off to school!" he shouted, getting an affirmative from their parents in the kitchen. Opening the front door, Danny picked up the newspaper for the day from the front steps and put it on the table next to the sofa, not reading the headlines.
If he or Dani had, he would have noticed the cover photo depicted two shadowed figures with light hair and blazing green eyes, and a large headline saying, Amity Park's Heroes: Friend or Foe? Mysterious duo saves fourteen from certain death by burial, including an elementary schooler. Local football star says they're the heroes we need.
The change from the original episode came in the middle of my rewrite of the chapter. I had initially planned for the episode to go similarly to the original, but I figured that here would be a place to start making larger changes, especially in preparation for episode twenty in the future. Desiree's changed role here is because she only really has an important role in two episodes out of the three seasons, so I figured that there was no reason to keep her as an enemy after this anyway.
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