Disclaimer: I own neither Danny Phantom nor Freakazoid.
moonymonster: Laura, after reading the plot summary on Wikipedia for Freakazoid, I double-dog dare ya to write a Freakazoid/Danny Phantom crossover.
moonymonster: I also dare you to put this conversation as the intro for the story when you put it on BECAUSE I CAN.
laryna6: I was going to do Powerpuff girls this week, but ok.
moonymonster: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!
moonymonster: hops up and down hyperly to avoid homework
And there you go.
Adopted crossovers:
DP/Labyrinth – Author: Angelic Gargoyle Artemis; Title: Labyrinth and Danny Phantom
DP/Yu-gi-oh – Author: Laryna6; Title: Shadow Spirits
DP/CSI & DP/Kim Possible have been reserved, but are not up yet.
The respective chapters have therefore been taken down from this fic due to ff . net's rules against double posting. If you wish to read them and their continuations, find them on the profile page of the adoptee.
Please, adopt a plotbunny? Continue this fic?
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Tucker typed furiously, eyes scanning pages his own search engine had dragged up.
He'd been fascinated when he heard about the superhero Freakazoid. A real superhero! Just like Danny. After what happened with Desiree, Tucker had no desire to get ghost powers, even though their second encounter with Desiree had shown that Sam's photo of the dials gave them the information they needed to create more half-ghosts.
If people ever found out about that… they didn't need any more power-hungry half-ghosts, Plasmius had been more than enough. There was Dani, too.
She hadn't been seen for months now. How was she surviving, a little girl on her own who couldn't use her powers without risking death? How did she find food?
Tucker hadn't waited for Danny's request to set a program to scanning the newsgroups for anything that could be her. She might have been created by Vlad, but she was a person and shouldn't be allowed to just dissolve. Or starve on the streets.
Danny's parents had been so pleased when he asked to have a corner of the lab for himself. Jack had made him another jumpsuit since he had lost his first one on the day the portal had started working.
Tucker was a computer genius, not a geneticist, but with the Fenton's technology and access to their data, how hard could it be? After what Plasmius had done to them, giving them ecto-acne, he wanted to be prepared.
Not to mention that is was just fun. He loved technology. He might be out of shape, he might not be good with people, but this was something he could do. Easily. He could help his best friend, defeat ghosts like Skulker.
He'd been really flattered that Danny hadn't left him behind with the Specter Speeder when they rescued Sam. Those summer camp archery lessons had actually come in handy! And he'd been bored still and missing the internet the whole time. Who knew?
His mind had drifted. He needed to focus on Freakzoid.
His powers came from being pulled into the internet somehow, Tucker had discovered.
More than that, one of his enemies, Guitierrez, had disappeared from his prison cell. Right after a phone line had been installed so he could, you guessed it, connect to the internet.
Tucker didn't want to become insane like Freakzoid, but certainly a dangerous man like Gutierrez wouldn't have gone into the internet if he couldn't control what would happen.
Go into a computer. For real. Tucker had been so jealous that Danny and Technis had been able to go into Doomed. The seven silver keys to the internet. If he got Freakazoid's powers and the ability to go into the internet… It would be like a dream come true. He'd really be able to help Danny then.
And if some criminal could do it, then he, Tucker Foley, computer genius, could do it too.
It had taken him forever to dig up the IP address Guitierrez had had in prison. The actual computer had been taken by the government, no chance they would hand any information over to a kid. But he'd hacked the research team's computers.
Just before he'd disappeared, he'd input a string of nonsense characters. The lab had been trying to repeat the process, but nothing happened.
Either it was all just a joke to frustrate investigators on Guitierrez's part, or there was some missing extra step.
Tucker looked at the screen and grinned. "Yes!" These were the characters:
"g3,8d&fbb-q1/hkC
His eyes skimmed the notes. There had been one more character typed, but he'd deleted it before he disappeared. Must have been a typo, the investigator thought.
Idiots. Just like with the dials, computers were totally predictable. If you want something to happen again, you had to do the exact same thing again. Then it would for sure.
But what had been the last character?
Close quotes.
"g3,8d&fbb-q1/hkC"
Tucker opened the right window, typed that in, and hit delete.
Suddenly a weird light came from the computer and he felt himself sucked in. He screamed.
He found himself floating in a weird space, patterns of circuit boards and other stereotypically computery things floating around him.
He looked at his black gloved hands and clenched them. "Yes! Yes yes yes, I did it! Me, Tucker Foley! I rock!" The rest of his outfit was white. The opposite of Danny's! Perfect! Only he had a T instead of a stylized DP.
He spun around and tried a few tricks he had seen Freakazoid do in the tapes. Super speed, check, although it was hard to tell in this weird place.
"I don't think I'm insane. Not that that's a good sign." He looked around. "Now, how do I get out?" He reached up and felt long, spikey hair and pulled a strand down to look at it. Green. Huh. "And how do I turn back? Danny just concentrates…" Tucker closed his eyes and concentrated. "Change back, change back, change back," he muttered.
Then he opened his eyes again. "Darn, didn't work." He looked around. "Okay, concentrate in being back in my room. Maybe that will work." He closed his eyes again and opened them.
He was in his room. "Yes!" He picked up the phone to call Danny.
No sound came from it.
A horrible suspicion struck him. He opened the door.
Yep, outside of the room he had created with his will was only that same weird space. "Darn." He closed the door again.
"I should have called Danny and Sam before I did it. Danny could have come into the computer and found me. I really am a clueless geek." He sighed. He hadn't told them about his research into Freakazoid either. How would they know to look for him in the computer?
Well, all his files with his notes had been opened on the desktop. Unless his parents turned off the computer because it was wasting power.
Darn.
"Look on the bright side, Tucker! You're in the internet. You can do anything! This is a dream come true!" he told himself. Yeah, that was right. He'd get out eventually. Until then he could fool around.
Wait a minute! He could e-mail Danny and Sam!
He found himself in his inbox. Okay.
Elsewhere, Dexter Douglas frowned. There was a disturbance in the net. He'd traced it back to Tucker Foley. A fellow geek who was definitely smart enough to be dangerous. Who, although he tried to hide his tracks, had been hacking a government database.
He had to find out what was going on.
"Freak out!"