Flashback
Danny was attempting to pay attention to one of Mr. Lancer's most boring lectures yet instead of daydreaming about Sam who sat in front of him and seemed to have changed the scent of her shampoo. He was failing with flying colors as his ghost sense went off which was soon followed by the school's ghost alarms that had been installed by his parents that year.
Mr. Lancer just rolled his eyes because the alarm seemed to always go off when he was on a roll during a lecture and began to follow the safety procedure that was listed on every classroom door. Every student got up and, despite Mr. Lancer's pleas to leave in a calm and orderly fashion, panicked, screaming towards the door, fighting to get out first. Danny, Sam, and tucker, forgotten in the chaos, swiftly turned invisible and went through the wall to an empty classroom where Danny could transform. Before he got a chance he was ripped out of the room by an invisible force. Danny was up in the sky before he got a chance to see that it was none other than Plasmius.
Danny had pretty much guessed it was Plasius since he had really ticked him off earlier that week. Danny had rigged all the voting machines to vote for Vlad's running mate for mayor and had ultimately cost him the entire election. This, however, was unusual retaliation for such a stunt. Vlad had never attacked Danny during school hours or his human form.
"Transform now and everyone finds out your little secret Daniel," said Vlad in a menacing voice. Danny looked down and noticed a large crowd forming around the high school.
"Don't you mean our secret," Danny choked.
"Hmm… No, I believe I meant what I said since Vlad Masters is across town giving a speech welcoming his successor."
"What are you doing Vlad?"
" Frankly, Daniel, I have grown tired of your antics after all these years. You are no more than a thorn in my side. I realize now that it was a mistake ever thinking that I could turn you into a substantial human being, That you could possibly be my protégé' and learn from my ways like I generously offered you which I never had myself. I blame this, of course, entirely on myself."
"Yeah, well, I'm sorry I didn't want to become like you: a lonely old man who only fines happiness in other peoples' pain."
"Alas, this is where my plan comes in," Danny's face became worried after Vlad agreed to his insult, "Since, like you said, I take my only happiness from your pain, that is also how I plan to get rid of the thorn in my side."
"Are you going to kill me?" Danny asked, not planning on letting him go through with his plan.
"No, of course not," gradually flying farther and farther away from the crowd, "I'm going to give you a choice."
Danny could see now that other ghosts were surrounding the crowd. Three swooped in and grabbed on looking spectators,
"You can either let the ghosts deal with your sister, your girlfriend, and the nerd you hang around with and live with the guilt that you are the soul reason for the death of the three people closest to you and ultimately end up alone…like me; or, you can reveal yourself and who you really are to the people of amity, saving the people you love and probably also ending up alone… for being…ah, what's the word? A freak. The choice is yours."
Both Vlad and Danny knew it was not a choice. Even if Danny did not have a hero complex, he would never let anything happen to his friends or his sister. He would do anything for them even if it meant ruining his life.
"Why are you doing this?" Danny yelled. He could not understand why any of this was happening. Even though Vlad and he had always though, he did not think it would ever come to this,
" I can't have you in my way any longer."
As the ghosts were beginning to hurt their captives, Danny transformed. There was a bright flash of light that every citizen of Amity saw that day. It was replayed over and over and analyzed by every specialist available. Where there was once a scrawny teenager with raven hair and blue eyes, there was a self-assured ghost-boy with snowy white hair and glowing green eyes. After this moment, there was no going back.
Danny soared down and hit skulker, who was holding Sam, as hard as he could. He could not hold back his rage over the situation. He was a little over zealous fighting the ghosts, but the ghosts did not hold back either.
The Fright Knight, who was holding Jazz, dodged almost everyone of Danny's attacks and hit him with a blast that left him in a crater on the verge of losing consciousness. With one last surge of adrenaline, he used his ghostly wail which was so powerful that it left the ghosts not knowing which way was up.
Danny promptly returned them to their home in the Fenton Thermos, scooped up his friends and sister, and flew them to Fenton works. The crowd could only gawn and wonder whether what they saw was true. Was it possible for a ghost to also be human? Or was a ghost impersonating a human all along? Where they all just hallucinating?
The tapes, however, did not lie. At least four news teams, all of which Vlad owned, had caught his transformation on tape and made sure it was on air all day. Yes, the famous ghost, Danny Phantom, was also the mediocre high school student, Daniel Fenton. There really was no denying it.
When Danny arrived back at Fenton Works, he did not know what to do next. His sister had told him, that despite the fact he had thought that Tucker and Sam had only knew his secret, that she figured it out a long time ago and that she was really proud of everything he had accomplished with his powers.
This, however, did not reassure Danny since now the Guys in White were sure to capture him, regardless of what the town thought about him being their hero. After everything that happened, Danny never really thought that the town would turn of him. After all, he spent all the time he had, the time that he could be sleeping or studying or anything else that an average 16-year-old should be doing, hunting ghosts that were attacking the people who were never even that nice to his human half. He thought that if the town housed any decent people at all that they would not scorn him, at least. Now by science? By his parents? Maybe. But not the people he spent sleepless hours protecting.
He was wrong.
At once there were threatening phone calls, letters, bricks sent to his house, threw his window, anywhere people thought would reach him. There were protests on TV almost 24/7 about how someone should put an end to this abomination. Eventually it came to a vote whether to put an end to him but the Guys in White would only have it so that they could use him for experimentation since there was nothing else like him.
His parents did not acknowledge him. When he first came home from the fight, he realized that they were in the crowd that saw him transform. He saw their reaction in the news afterwards when the news stations tried to interview them.
"How does it feel to have a son who is the epitome of everything you hate?"
"Are you planning on disowning the freak you call your son?" They were all like that. Each one met with a stony face from Danny's father, a face usually filled with joy and love now looked angry and filled with hatred. His mom, for the first time in Danny's memory, looked like she was going to cry. His mom had always been so strong and looked like she was going to break down into tears from utter shock and disappointment.
They did not come home the next two days. The only thing that Danny saw of the outside world was the threatening messages, the news (which was just as bad), and Jazz who always told him not to watch that trash because it was not true. That there were people that loved him for all the good he did out there. But that had been bullshit.
Danny woke up one morning to find Jazz shaking him, "Danny, you need to wake up, you need to go."
"wah.." Danny replied almost forgetting the horrible experience that had been his last two days, "They're coming to get you, you need to leave now. "
Danny bolted right up and looked around. Jazz had been crying. Her eyes were red and puffy and it looked as if she had not slept for several days.
" You need to go now. I packed your bags. The vote passed. You are to be handed over to the Guys in White but I'm not going to let that happen. You need to go, I packed your bags."
Danny looked down to see two stuffed suitcases: one full of food, the other full of clothes. Danny just looked at his sister and she pulled him into an embrace that he really hoped would not end.
"I'll find you, promise," she said. Neither one of them really believe it would happen. Neither of them would be able to face each other again.
So without even a good-bye from his parents, his (sort of) girl friend, or his best friend he left.
He flew as fast as he could for as long as he could without passing out. When he ran out of food he stole. Eventually he landed far away in a small town in Pennsylvania and he had not seen or heard from his family or anyone in Amity since…until now.