Chapter 6: The Big Fighting Scene

"Are you guys ready?" Danny asked.

"Yep!"

"All clear!"

"Roger!"

"Good!" Danny exclaimed. "Now just stay low and out of the way until Tommy and I give you guys the signal! Sam and Tuck, be ready for whenever the monster comes!"

"We're all set!" Tucker replied.

"Copy. Over and out!"

Danny and Tommy were sitting in chairs in the op center on top of Fenton Works. The Fenton earphones, which they used to communicate, worked better up there than in the lab. So, Danny and Tommy set up base camp there. Plus, the monster would be too busy trying to destroy the city to pay any attention to a giant op center on a house roof.

"Are you sure this will work, D?" Tommy asked. "I mean, I've never stopped a giant ghost monster before!"

"It has to work T!" Danny replied. "I just know it will work!"

"How can you be so sure?"

"Fenton instincts. Remember, Tommy?"

Tommy grinned. "Ah! The Fenton instincts have never failed us before!"

"Yeah, it-," Danny was cut off by a huge roar, booming noises, and shaking ground. "Tucker, Sam," he said, into the earphone's speaker, "you have company!"

"Roger!" Tucker exclaimed. "Sam, let's move!"

Danny and Tommy heard the sounds of motor scooters revving up on their Fenton earphones, and zooming away. They knew the monster had followed them because the booming was getting closer and closer, and louder and louder.

"Good work you guys!" Tommy exclaimed. "Chuck, have Tucker and Sam gone by yet?"

A minute passed before Chuckie answered. "Yep! The ghost monster is still following them! Should I call out to Phil?"

"Sure!" Tommy glanced out the window to his right. "But you'd better hurry! The monster is getting closer!"

Soon, the AmityPark citizens were waking up from the loud stomping of the monster's feet across the road. Some people were looking out their windows, some were standing outside the door, and some were even brave enough to get a view from the roof. And of course, when everyone saw what was causing all of the commotion, they screamed and ran back inside.

Suddenly, "Hey! Big, green, and gruesome! Over here!"

"Huh?" The monster turned around to see Phil waving his arms up and down to get its attention. He furrowed his eyebrows (Or whatever were his eyebrows anyway.) at the ten-year-old and started stomping toward him. Phil ran as fast as he could in the opposite direction.

Five minutes slowly passed, and Phil was starting to run out of breath. Luckily he spotted his twin sister with Kimi, Susie, Angelica, and Rachel all standing just a few feet from them. He ran up to them, breathing hard.

"Glad to see you could make it so quickly." Lil said, smiling.

"Just launch the soccer balls!" Phil cried. "It's getting closer!"

The girls quickly pushed out the cannons that they got from the lab. This cannon could launch out anything. Plasma, balls, apples, you name it! There was a full list of things to shoot out of it!

"Get ready…" Lil murmured.

The monster spotted them.

"Get set…"

It started charging toward them.

"Now!"

The girls pulled the triggers on their cannons, and soccer balls came flying toward the monster. It cringed and covered its face with its glowing, slimy green hands as they started flying toward its head.

Susie giggled. "Who knew shooting soccer balls at a giant monster would be so much fun?"

Angelica laughed. "You're telling me!" she exclaimed. "It kind of reminds me of my childhood days with Tommy and his friends when we were babies." She launched a soccer ball upside the monster's head. "Ha! Ha! Bulls-eye!"

Rachel grinned. "Actually," she stated, "I was going to say it kind of reminds me of how I got Sam to finally talk to Gregor."

As if right on que, Sam and Tucker showed up.

Sam grinned. "Hey, Lil! Hand me one of those soccer ball cannons!"

Lil gave her a puzzled look, then handed her one. "Okay. But this wasn't part of the plan!"

Her friend grinned mischievously. "I know. There's something I need to take care of first!" Sam turned to her right to see Gregor running up to her. She made a careful aim, then fired. The soccer ball hit him right in the middle of his face!

"That's for using me you jerk!" Sam yelled. "Tommy caught you kissing that girl on tape! We're through!"

Rachel laughed. "Knuckle touch!"

Sam tapped her fist to her cousin's, then they started shooting at the monster.

Then, something unplanned happened. The seven friends didn't know how it happened, but it did. The monster lost its balance! It kept slipping and sliding, so it needed to grab something. And that something happened to be the Fenton Works op center that Danny and Tommy were in!

"Oh no!" Kimi cried. "The op center! It's being pulled off!"

It was true. The monster had grabbed onto the op center too firmly, and it was pulled right off!

"Danny!" Sam yelled.

"Tommy!" Rachel screamed.

Meanwhile, Danny and Tommy were sliding all over the op center.

"Hey, Danny?"

"Yeah, Tommy?"

"Is the op center supposed to be doing this?" Tommy asked, nervously.

"I don't know!" Danny panicked. "But somehow I don't think so!"

Both the monster and the op center came crashing down.

The whole group of friends (including the ones that weren't there during the scene, but had overheard what had happened through the Fenton earphones) rushed toward the op center. Were their two pals alright? What had become of them?

"Quick!" Phil cried. "Grab the Fenton Thermos! The monster's unconscious!"

It was true. The glowing, slimy, green monster was lying flat on its back in the middle of the road. It was breathing heavily.

Lil quickly ran to the op center to grab the Fenton Thermos. When she looked inside, she gasped.

"Are they okay?" Harold asked eagerly.

Lil turned to face her friends. "You guys!" she cried. "Danny and Tommy aren't in there!"

"What do you mean they're not in there?" Dil asked, running up to her with a puzzled look on his face.

"Take a look! I can't see them anywhere!"

Dil opened the door, stepped inside, and took a quick thorough search through the op center. His friends waited outside with eager anticipation.

Once Dil stepped outside, he exclaimed, "Well, I found the Fenton Thermos!" He handed it over to Lil. "But, she's right! I couldn't find my big brother or Danny anywhere!"

Susie glanced over at Kimi. "Where do you think they could've gone?"

Her friend shrugged.

Five minutes of silence passed as Lil sucked up the giant monster with an unpleasant look on her face.

Another five minutes of silence passed afterwards when a voice called out, "Hey, what did we miss?"

Everyone glanced up at the direction the voice was coming from. There was Danny holding onto Tommy by his waist. They were both beaming with pride and satisfaction.

But they weren't the only ones!

Everyone ran up to their two friends, shaking hands, hugging, and talking excitedly, saying stuff like, 'We thought you were goners man!' or 'I'm so glad you guys are safe!' and 'That was awesome! You guys are like the Great Houdini!'.

"How did you guys manage to escape like that?" Chuckie asked.

Tommy grinned at his best friend. "Simple!" he exclaimed. "Danny just turned intangible and flew us out of there before the op center fell to the ground!"

Their friends laughed. Because of their state of shock after the op center came crashing down, they had all forgotten that Danny could do that!

"Hey!" Phil cried. "How about we find ourselves one of those late night restaurants and grab ourselves a couple of milkshakes?"

"Awesome!"

"I'm so there!"

"Me too!"

"I'm in!"

The big group then were talking and laughing as they headed to the restaurant, like nothing unusual had happened. They figured that this was going to be their life from now on and they might as well enjoy it while they can!

Angelica had tears streaming down her face. It was her thirteenth birthday party, and no one that she invited except for Harold and Susie had shown up. They had all said they would come. An hour had passed since the party had started.

"Well," Harold said, trying to cheer Angelica up, "maybe they all just lost their invitations!"

Susie glanced at him with a serious look on her face. "I don't think so!"

That made Angelica weep even harder.

"Now, Angelica, don't cry!" Susie pleaded. "Maybe someone will show up soon! They just might've been all busy and couldn't show up the first hour!"

Angelica sniffed. "Yeah, right, Susie!" She sighed. "Thanks for trying to cheer me up, but no one, I mean no one is showing up to this party!"

Suddenly, "Sorry we're late!"

Angelica glanced up. Danny was standing there with Tommy and their group of friends. All of them had gifts in their hands.

As they were setting them down on the present table, Angelica stared at them in shock. "Y-You-, You came to m-my p-party?" she stuttered. "After all the mean things I've said about you guys over the years? But why?"

Tommy smiled at his older cousin. "Let's put it this way." he started. "Even though we've had our ups and downs, and some more downs, and some more downs, and some more downs, and some mo-,"

"Tommy!" Chuckie warned.

"Right. Anyway," Tommy continued, "all of us here are family. And family never deserts a family member when he or she is needed the most!"

Angelica smiled. 'So this is what family really means!' she thought. Then she said, "Thanks, T!"

"No, prob, Ange!"

Angelica's party was a blast! Everyone was dancing, drinking punch, talking, and having a good time.

"So anyway," Tommy said, to Chuckie, "I said to Josh, dude is that your hair, or are you growing fur out of your head?"

Chuckie laughed. "That's great, T!" He paused, then said, "I'm glad that Josh is off my back now! Ever since I started showering in the locker rooms after tennis, he hasn't been picking on me!"

"That's great, Chuck!"

The two friends talked for awhile, then Rachel ran up to them. "Hey, boys! What's up?"

"Nothing really." Tommy replied. "Just chatting."

"I see." Rachel hesitated, then asked, "So, Tommy, do you want to get out on the dance floor?"

"Er-," Tommy glanced at his best friend.

Chuckie rolled his eyes and said, "Oh, go ahead, you lovebirds! I'll be over there getting some punch."

Tommy glanced over at snack table. Sam was standing there by herself, and getting a glass of strawberry punch. Tommy held his pal back. "Hold it, Chuck." He turned to Rachel. "There's something I have to take care of first. Wait here you guys!"

Tommy dashed to the snack table, past Sam. "Excuse me!"

Sam glanced at him, and laughed watching Tommy grab two large grapefruit. "Tommy, what are you-,"

"I owe you, remember?"

Sam gave him a puzzled look, watched him run off, and shrugged.

Tommy then ran up to Danny, who was talking to Phil. "Hey, Phil? Can I borrow Danny for awhile?"

Phil glanced down at the two grapefruit in both of his friend's hands and grinned. "Go ahead, dude!"

"Thanks!"

Tommy pulled Danny on the opposite side of the yard Sam was on, with Chuckie and Rachel watching him.

"What the heck does he think he's doing?" Chuckie asked, puzzled.

Rachel suddenly smiled. "I think I know!"

Soon enough, Tommy threw one of the grapefruit, and it hit Sam in the back of the head. She whipped her head around just after Tommy had placed the other grapefruit into Danny's left hand.

"Danny did it!" Tommy exclaimed.

"TOMMY!" Danny yelled.

But Tommy didn't seem to hear him. "Good luck, D!" he cried.

Chuckie and Rachel burst out laughing, and ran off onto the dance floor with Tommy.

"So," Sam said, grinning at her friend, "Tommy used the fruit trick too, huh?"

"Fruit trick?" Danny asked, approaching the snack table. "I didn't even know there was such a thing."

"Rachel did the same thing to help me talk to Gregor."

"Ah, I see!"

Sam laughed.

"What's so funny?"

"It's like the same thing Gregor kept saying to me when we started talking. It was all 'Ah!' and 'I see!' just like you just did!"

Danny smirked. "Just remember I don't come with an accent."

Sam smiled. "I don't need an accent."

They smiled, and slowly leaned toward each other. The moment was soon broken when Rachel ran up to them. "Sam!"

Sam glanced at her cousin, a look of disappointment on her face. "What is it, Rachel?"

"My Mom just called!" Rachel cried. "She's in labor!"

"What?" Sam asked, with a surprised look on her face. "It's two weeks early!"

"I know! Come on! We have to get to the hospital!" Rachel raced down across the yard.

"I'll be right there!" Sam called. "Wait up!" She turned to Danny, and quickly kissed him on the cheek. "I'll catch you later, Danny! Goodnight!" She dashed toward her cousin, who was already on the other side of Angelica's wooden gate.

Danny raised his hand slowly up to his left cheek. "Wow!"

Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, and Tucker who had seen everything ran up to him.

"That was awesome, D!" Tommy exclaimed.

"Way to go!" Chuckie cried.

"Cool, dude!" Tucker said, slapping his pal on the back.

"Yeah!" Phil paused, then added, "Although, I'm really going to miss all of the teasing!"

Tommy and Chuckie nodded.

Tucker turned to face Danny. "Can we tease you one more time, just for the fun of it?" he asked.

Danny rolled his eyes. "If you must."

"Alright!" Phil exclaimed. "On the count of three! One! Two! Three!"

Just as Phil finished counting, the ground started shaking. The four boys glanced around, trying to figure out what was going on.

"What's happening?" Tucker asked, panic in his voice.

"It's an earthquake!" Chuckie cried. "Duck and cover!"

The four friends dove under the snack table covering their heads. Suddenly, bright, white light appeared blinding the boys for a second. Then everything went dark.

"Ahhhhhhhhhh!"

There was a loud crash, and everything stopped.

Danny opened his eyes. They were back in Tommy's backyard in the toy airplane.

Five-year-old Danny glanced over at Tommy, who had just now opened his eyes. "Wow!" he exclaimed. "That was fun! Let's goes again!"

He reached toward the switches, but Danny grabbed his arm.

"No, Tommy!" he exclaimed. "We're not doing that again!" He glanced back at Chuckie and Sam who were still sitting in the back seat. "Are you guys alright?"

Chuckie sighed with relief. "Yeah. I'm fine!"

Sam grinned. "Never better!"

"What happened anyways?" Tommy asked, climbing out of the plane.

Danny sighed. "That's what I wanna know!"

Suddenly, another card popped out of the slot. Danny spotted it, quickly grabbed it, and glanced at it.

"What does it say, Danny?" Chuckie asked.

Danny slowly read the card to his friends. It said:

Thanks for Flying Forward into the future!

Everything should be back to normal now!

You shouldn't remember a thing!

Unfasten those seatbelts,

and exit on either side of the plane.

"Wait a minute!" Danny cried. "We went into the future? And we can't remember anything? What was the whole point of that scary plane ride if we can't we remember anything?"

Sam shrugged. "Beats me!"

Chuckie shook his head. "Don't looks at me!"

Tommy, who had been standing silently for a couple of minutes, suddenly grinned. "Hey you guys! This card thingy is also part of the game!"

His friends gave him a puzzled look.

"What do you mean, Tommy?" Chuckie asked.

"Chuckie," Tommy started, "we went into the footure! We did things no baby has ever done or seed afore! We did all the things that growed ups do! But, we can't members it because what if we'd members something that we didn't wants to members? We'd goes back and changes it!"

Sam smiled. "It makes enough sense to me!"

"I don't see anything wrongs with thats!" Chuckie exclaimed.

Danny nodded. "He does have a point!"

Suddenly, Didi Pickles walked outside. "Well!" she said, grinning. "It looks like you kids are having fun!"

"We sure are Mrs. Pickles!" Sam exclaimed. She smiled. "You look a lot better!"

Tommy's mom grinned. "That's just what I was coming to tell you kids about."

"What do you mean?" Danny asked.

"Well," Mrs. Pickles started, "as you all know I wasn't feeling well for the past few days. So, I went to the doctor and he asked me to take some tests."

"What kind of tests?" Sam asked.

"Tests that only grown up girls can take." Didi replied. "So, I took those tests, and I passed!"

"Passed what tests, Mrs. Pickles?" Danny questioned.

"The pregnancy test!" Tommy's mom exclaimed. "I'm pregnant!"

Danny and Sam shrieked with excitement, jumped up and down a few times, and ran up to hug Didi Pickles.

Chuckie and Tommy on the other hand were standing there, staring at their friends and Tommy's mom in puzzlement.

Didi laughed. "Okay!" she cried. "Okay! Settle down! I'll go inside and make some lunch, then I'll tell you the whole story."

Danny and Sam nodded. They were too excited to speak.

Once Didi was inside and out of earshot, Tommy asked, "Danny, what's going on?"

Danny turned to his playmate, and exclaimed, "Tommy, you're going to have a little brother or sister!"

"Wow!" Tommy cried. "Really?"

"Really!"

Tommy grinned excitedly. "Well, then, if giving up my binky is helping my new baby brother or sister, I'm going to do it."

"Wow." Danny exclaimed. "That's a pretty neat thing to do, Tommy."

"Yeah, well," Tommy said slyly, "I guess I'm just growing up."

Danny grinned.

"So," Tommy asked, "when is my little brother or sister coming?"

"In nine months."

"Wow!" Chuckie said, in amazement. "Is that a really long time?"

"It'll be awhile." Danny admitted. "I'll keep you updated now and then!"

"Okay! Come on, Tommy! Let's go celebrate by playing in the sandbox!"

Tommy laughed. "I'm right behind you, Chuckeroo!"

The two baby boys ran off laughing.

"So," Sam asked, turning to Danny, "do you think Tommy and Chuckie are going to be in the future together now?"

Danny quickly picked up Chuckie's magic ball out of the rounded holder on the inside of the toy airplane, and shook it to answer Sam's question. He waited eagerly for the answer. Soon, the tiny letters came up.

It said, 'Yes.'

Danny laughed, put his arm around Sam's shoulder, and said, "Sam, I think they're going to be just fine."

The two friends ran off toward the sandbox, to join the babies, not a care in the world about what lay in the future ahead.

To Be Continued…