All Danny Phantom characters belong to Butch Hartman, not me
All Danny Phantom characters belong to Butch Hartman, not me. Thomas, however, belongs to me and me only.
Evening was quickly falling on Amity Park as Dani and Thomas flew through the skies, wondering just where on Earth Danny could be. They had previously flown to his home and checked around while being invisible to the rest of the Fenton family, but he had not been there.
"We have to find Danny…If we leave Valerie hanging any longer, she might get impatient and hand us over to Vlad!" Thomas said in a worried voice to Dani. Dani clearly understood. It would be best not to leave Valerie for too long, or she might go back on their bargain. And Dani was in no hurry to see Vlad.
"I know, Thomas, I know. But I'm sure he's around here somewhere…" Dani mumbled her reply to Thomas as she flew the skies, the wind whipping her white ponytail behind her like the tail of a comet. Down on the street below them, cars honked at two people on motor scooters, and Dani looked down at them.
"Hey! It's Sam and Tucker! And wherever they are, Danny is around! Come on, Thomas!" Dani said, flying down towards the street.
"Wait up, Dani!" Thomas yelled, flying down with her. Together, they hovered above the street at Tucker and Sam's eye level. But the two just drove right on past them.
"…Maybe it would have been a better idea to have actually stopped on the street." Thomas said as Tucker and Sam screeched to a halt several feet in front of them. Without another word, Dani flew off in the opposite direction, her legs forming into a tail.
"Dani, quit flying off like that!" Thomas called after her, flying in the same direction. Without looking where she was going, Dani promptly crashed into fourteen year old Danny Phantom, each of them giving off their own yell of surprise as they landed on the roof of a building. Thomas shook his head and floated down towards them, landing on his feet.
"Danny!" Dani said excitedly as she looked up from where she had landed, clearly happy to see Danny.
"I've got this one, guys!" Danny spoke into an earpiece, sticking it into his pocket afterwards. He then averted his attention to the two ghosts that were before him, especially Dani.
"Danielle? Are you okay…?" Danny asked, holding out a hand to help her up. Dani accepted the gesture and allowed Danny to pull up her tired body. But when he pulled his hand away from hers, green goo coated his white glove. Thomas quickly put a hand on Dani's shoulder, fearing for the worst.
"You look awful. What happened to you?! The last time I saw you guys, you flew off kinda dramatically." Danny said in shock, shaking the goop off of his hand.
"Do you know how hard it is to fly off dramatically?!" Dani asked, looking at her now green palm. With a groan of effort, she quickly re-absorbed the goo into her hand.
"She can't keep this up much longer, Danny. That's four times she's had to re-absorb herself! I doubt that she can do that four more times!" Thomas exclaimed, his faced filled with worry.
"That, plus our last battle with Vlad left me really wiped out. As much as I've tried to save my strength since then, I keep getting weaker. I needed your help to see if you could help me stay whole, but as soon as we got into town, Vlad came after us!" Dani said, her voice clearly tired and weakened, a hint of worry in her voice.
"Danny, I can't let her melt! I can't! I promised that I would take care of her, but I'm doing a fairly lousy job, if you can't tell." Thomas said sadly, his eyes going downcast with shame.
"It's not your fault, Thomas. And you are doing a good job of taking care of me! I've lasted this long with your help!" Dani said as Danny placed his hands on both of her shoulders.
"He's not gonna touch you guys! Come on, I'll protect you!" Danny said, taking Dani into his arms, flying off with her to help her conserve more strength.
"Do you have anything to eat at your place, Danny? I'm starving!" Thomas asked, his stomach growling loudly. Not only did he need to eat for himself, but he was eating for another. But before Danny could answer Thomas, a metallic tentacle with red talons snapped onto Danny's ankle tightly, stopping him in his tracks.
"What the?!" Thomas yelled as he tried to pull off the tentacle, but to no avail. The three ghosts looked to see where it was coming from, and to their surprise, Valerie was the owner of the tentacle. There she was, hovering in the air on her hoverboard, a triumphant look plastered on her face, visible through the visor of her helmet.
"I knew you'd take the bait, Phantom!" Valerie said in a triumphant voice, the look not going away once. Danny whirled around to face Dani and Thomas, who looked just as confused as Danny.
"Bait? Was this a trap?!" Danny asked angrily, his eyes glowing a violent shade of green. Once bitten, twice shy Thomas thought, remembering how Dani had tricked Danny by pretending that she was a weak little girl just so that Vlad could capture him for a sample of his mid-morph DNA.
"No! No! We would never do that!" Dani exclaimed in a stunned and somewhat hurt voice, holding her hands up in front of her as if for protection.
"She saw us go ghost and was going to turn us over to Vlad until we told her that we knew you!" Thomas said, glaring at Valerie the entire time.
"It's true, Danny! The little ecto-brats had no idea that I was using them to get to you!" Valerie explained, the look on her face becoming more intense.
"You what?!" Dani said in an angry tone, filled with disbelief.
"You liar! How could you?!" Thomas retorted, his eyes flashing an angry shade of red.
"And they actually believed that I wanted the honor of meeting Danny Phantom!" Valerie said in joking voice, her face still triumphant.
"When I really just wanted the honor of destroying you!" Valerie said, her tone no longer joking or mocking. It was filled with something else: Hatred. Without hesitation, currents of electricity traveled through the tentacle and into Danny's body, shocking him with such intensity, he screamed out in pain, his eyes shutting as he fell towards the ground after the tentacle released him. As he hit the ground with a loud thud, Thomas quickly embraced Dani to try and at least shield her from harm, knowing that it was quite pointless.
"You-you tricked us!" Dani screamed, pointing at Valerie through Thomas' arms, her face filled with justified rage. Valerie merely smiled and pointed a painful looking ray gun at them, not saying a word.
"Valerie, no!" Thomas yelled as she pulled the trigger, the painful ray coursing through their bodies. Thomas tried to scream, but nothing came out. But he heard Dani scream a terrified and pained scream as his world turned dark, feeling his body plummet towards the ground next to Danny. Just before he passed out, he heard Valerie chuckle as he looked up, his vision getting terribly hazy.
"Now that's two Danny Phantom's for the price of one, and three ghosts for the price of two!" Valerie chuckled as the world went dark for the three ghosts.