"And so I said 'not with my umbrella, you don't'."
The whole table burst out into laughter, except for Jake Long, who was sleeping in his breakfast. Jake turned around and took one look at Tiffany, compared to their first day on the ship, she was looking way happier. He had no idea what the cause was, but whatever happened, everyone in the group was happy it did.
"So, Tif, is that what a Technomaster is? Someone with the power over all technology?" Sky asked.
"He's something like Technis, right?" Danny added.
"That's exactly what a Technomaster is, and Tom's one of them." Tiffany explained. Danny's expression became concerned. Tom had to have something planned. His powers were more powerful than his, so if he hatched something, he had no power to stop it. An army of technology would be disastrous.
"Danny, are you ok?" Jake turned to him.
"I'm fine…but you should probably be asking Jake Long that question." Danny said, lifting Jake Long's head out of his meatloaf, and then plopping it back in since he was obviously not going to be waking up soon.
"So what did you do once everyone left? You just sort of disappeared." Ali asked. Tiffany just smiled, she didn't tell her friends that she invited Tom to hang out with them yet, she hoped that they would take it well…
She thought wrong.
"You'll see." Tiffany smirked as she spotted Tom drowsily holding his breakfast. "Hey, Tom, over here! We saved you a seat!"
"WHAT?! That seat was for him?!" Barry exclaimed.
"ADFGHJKLPOIUYTRW!"
"Larry's right!" Cubby shouted. "I thought that seat was reserved for the president of the United States!"
Everyone just looked at him with a dull expression.
Tom walked over drowsily and sat down in his seat. Everyone just looked at him with shocked faces. Nobody could believe that he was sitting there. Tom just looked at everyone plainly, and then at Jake Long, who was still in his meatloaf.
"Whats-that-boy-doing-in-breakfast?" Tom asked dully.
Nobody answered. Tom just shrugged and helped himself to his eggs. Meanwhile, Danny was giving Tiffany a death glare. He couldn't believe that she invited him to the table. Tiffany smiled innocently and went back to her breakfast taco. Everyone else just stayed silent. After a long and awkward moment, Tiffany decided to break the ice.
"So, what's up guys? It's a great morning today, and it's sure good to be…"
"Whatever happened last night was Danny's fault!" Ali exclaimed.
"Wait, wait, wait…me? What do you mean?!" Danny exclaimed.
"You were the one that suggested we should spy on him!" June shouted. "So it's only fair we pin everything on you."
"Nice comeback…" Danny glared at her.
"Yeah sure, blame it on the paranoid halfa." Tom said, slowly snapping back into consciousness. Everyone's eyes widened at the table, even Tom's. "Wha-what I meant to say was…"
"How do you know my secret?" Danny asked.
"…Let's change the subject – it is a great morning." Tom pronounced.
"How do you know my secret?" Danny demanded.
"Danny, wait, when you saved the whole world from the disasteroid, everybody knew your secret." June told him.
"Yeah well, only my world, Tom's part of the real world!" Danny explained.
"It's obvious." Tom sighed. "I compared two pictures of you and Danny Phantom, all that was different was your hair and eye color. It really isn't that hard to figure out."
"Wait a second, you're obsessed enough to get a picture of Danny Phantom and Danny Fenton?" Sky asked.
"Weirdo…" Cubby chimed in a sing-song voice.
"I'm a goth – ok? I do these things for a reason." Tom said.
Danny was still in shock, this guy could do anything with his secret. If he found a way to duplicate his powers or anything, both worlds could be done for. Apparently, the best way to solve this problem was to act fast. If Tom tried to pull anything stupid on, they had to be ready. But in the meantime, everyone just had to act like everything was normal.
"So, who's up for having fun?" Tiffany asked once breakfast was over, everyone jumped up and walked out of the restaurant. Tiffany turned around to see Tom sitting there.
"Hey, aren't you coming?" She asked.
"I'm invited?" He asked.
"Sure! Um…just find a way to bring him along as well." She told tom, pointing towards Jake Long, who was still in his meatloaf. Tom smirked as he picked the teenager up and dragged him out of the restaurant.
Meanwhile, the gang was at the tennis court. Larry ran around the whole court, hitting the tennis balls randomly on his friends' heads. When it landed on Tom's head, everyone gasped. But Tom just calmly waved his hand towards the direction of the tennis-ball-shooter and it aimed at Larry, then it began shooting tennis balls at the poor stick figure like crazy. He fell to the ground in defeat.
Later, everyone was at the movie theater where they were watching the scariest movie in history. Even Danny was scared at the movie, and he was a ghost. Everyone was shivering, except for Tom, who was about to fall asleep. Ali saw this and raised an eyebrow at Tom, and then resumed screaming when the ghost's lifeless face popped in front of the screen.
Much later, everybody stopped by the arcade. Everyone looked around and Dixon even challenged Tom to the hardest game in arcade history – Dance Dance Mania. The boys watched the screen and tried to match their footsteps with the arrows. In the end, the score was 0 to 10000, Tom won by far.
Then after that, the girls had mercilessly dragged the boys into the mini-shopping mall in the center of the ship. As the girls chose outfits for themselves, the boys (and Hui Hua, who wasn't into shopping for anything at all) just slumped down and looked around, bored out of their minds. Ali looked at an outfit and smirked as she whispered something to Tiffany, who turned around and looked at Tom.
Both the girls smiled as they grabbed the clueless 18 year old and pushed him into a booth, where he came out in a whole new gothic outfit. He looked at the girls with an impressed look. Everyone burst out laughing.
At the end of the day everyone went back to their rooms, exhausted. The only ones out in the deck were Ali, Tom and Tiffany, all laughing hysterically.
"You seriously liked that outfit we picked out for you?" Tiffany asked, surprised.
"Sure, why not? It was my style." Tom smiled.
"Wow, I wonder what Danny was nervous about. You're a cool guy." Ali smirked.
"Yeah, he actually thought that you had something to hide from us. That's hysterical." Tiffany smiled.
"Ha ha, yeah…hysterical…" Tom said nervously. Tiffany and Ali walked towards their rooms while Tom just headed in the direction towards the cargo pit. The girls turned around to see where he was going.
"Hey, genius, our rooms are that way?" Ali told him.
"I just have to talk to Shadow for a sec. I'll talk to both of you tomorrow." Tom smiled.
"Ok…um…bye." Tiffany smiled as she and Ali headed towards the rooms. Tom headed down to the cargo pit. Shadow's headlights immediately lit up at the sight of him.
"Tom, you're alive!"
"What do you mean?" Tom raised an eyebrow.
"You've been hanging out with unstable kids for the whole day, dude. I'm just glad to see you in one piece, especially when they found out about…"
"They didn't find out." Tom told Shadow.
"So, you haven't told them yet?"
"I don't think that they'll be able to handle it." Tom said, looking at his mechanical friend.
"Well, News Flash…they're going to have to find out sooner or later."
"When the time is right, Shadow." Tom told his car. "But these kids are smart, so we have to try hiding it from them as long as possible. But if they're going to have to find out about it, they better be able to handle what my powers can unleash."