Inside Vlad's hidden laboratory under his castle Vlad Plamius was observing his latest defeat by his now confirmed enemy, Danny Phantom. After his betrayal by Danielle and his Prime clone's destruction, Vlad has finally viewed Danny as a threat. He still remembers the powerful blows the young halfa has thrown at him. Normally Vlad would write this off as him letting Danny believe he won, but the truth is that Vlad was physically beaten by Danny.
'How did that boy gain so much power?' thought Vlad as he looked at monitors that saved the recording of his defeat by Danny before his remote lab was destroyed.
Over at Fenton Works, Danny was watching TV in the living room. He was watching a show about police officers fighting zombies instead of criminals. The show as actually a comedy and Danny was enjoying every moment of it. The show ended with one cop poking a zombie's stomach and it exploded. Danny laughed before turning off the TV and got his backpack and headed towards the door.
"Hey Danny, need a ride?" offered Danny's Uncle Vince.
Contrary to popular belief, Jack and Vince are not completely a like in the slightest. Where Jack was built like a truck, Vince was more of a motorcycle. He had a slim built that matches a martial artist. He had dark slightly spiked hair that was slowly graying, but it was barely noticeable. If nobody knew Jack was Danny's dad they would assume Vince was Danny's actual father. The older man was wearing a gray shirt with a black jacket over it. He had blue jeans and desert colored combat boots. In his right hand was a motorcycle helmet.
"Sure Uncle Vince," replied Danny.
Vince tossed the helmet to Danny who caught it and walked outside with his uncle. They headed towards a red Ducati 916 that was in front of the GAV. Danny got behind his uncle as Vince revved up his bike and sped off to Danny's school. The two arrived at the school in about seven minutes due to Vince moving fast and no cops were around. Of course he was also passing the larger cars as he sped through. Another thing that sets Vince apart from his older brother is that Vince is actually good at driving a vehicle.
A lot of the students were surprised to see a motorcycle stop in front of the school. They were especially surprised to see Danny getting off said motorcycle and taking off the helmet. He gave the helmet to his uncle who put the helmet on and headed off. Danny headed towards the double doors and went to his locker. He opened his locker and put his bag in and grabbed a couple of his books and a notebook before closing it again.
A few seconds later, Danny was in Lancer's class for another 'fun filled' day of English with the very out of shape teacher. To occupy himself, Danny was drawing a picture of a Tyrannosaurus eating Paulina on his notebook. Since his time dating Valerie, Danny has lost complete interest in Paulina. He began to see her as what Sam had called her, a shallow puddle that was impossible to drown in. However, after finding the ghost club 'Dead-Lite' the young hybrid found himself becoming more interested in the female ghosts, especially one that he is now dating.
Flashback
After his parents, sister, and uncle went to bed. Danny waited for a couple of hours before heading into the basement. He opened the portal and jumped in to enter the Ghost Zone. He turned into his ghost form and flew towards the west of the Badlands. Once he reached the border of the Badlands, he turned yellow and moved too fast for any to see him. About two minutes Danny arrived at his destination, Dead-Lite.
The club looked like most nightclubs, only it was floating in the middle of nowhere with no rock used as a foundation for the building. The club had a large glowing sign that says Dead-Lite on top. Loud music was being played inside and silhouettes of ghosts can be seen inside dancing. Danny floated through the door and entered the club.
Once inside Danny was bombarded with loud music saw a large number of ghost teens dancing. Danny floated towards a table and sat down. He was listening to the music and enjoying himself. He felt a tap on his left shoulder and looked at the source and was stunned.
Right in front of him was a ghost girl and she was quite beautiful. She was slightly shorter than Danny with short choppy silver hair and faded blue skin. She had the slim built of a runner with small C cup breast cover with a green T-shirt. Over her shirt was a thin black hooded jacket. She had blue cargo pants and white sneakers. She was floating in the air with a smile on her face. She looked at Danny were her slightly glowing orange eyes.
"Hey there, haven't seen you around before," said the ghost girl.
"Oh, well I come here usually on Thursdays, but I was bored and decided to come tonight," explained Danny. "I'm Danny by the way, and you are?" he introduced himself.
"My name's Janelle," replied Janelle. "Say Danny, want to dance?" she asked.
"I would love to," smiled Danny as he took Janelle's hand as they floated to the Dance floor.
End of Flashback
Danny smiled at that memory because he and Janelle really hit it off nicely. She was a laid back girl who was interested in having fun. Compared to the girls he dated before, Danny really liked Janelle and asked her out after their dance. As the minutes past, Danny noticed that his ghost sense went off again. At first he tried to ignore it, but he noticed a note that appeared on his drawing.
Meet me above your school in a few minutes; I'll be in the air. Janelle.
Danny was surprised to find out that Janelle was here in the human world and wanted to talk to him. Luckily the school bell rang and the students started to pour out of their classes. Danny headed into the bathroom and changed into his ghost form. He turned intangible and flew out of the school and was on the roof top. He looked up and saw Janelle floating above him and smiling.
"Hey there beautiful," greeted Danny. "What's up?" he asked with a smile.
"Oh nobody, but me," replied Janelle. "So I was wondering if you would show a lady around town?" she suggested.
"Why not, I would be honored to show such a lovely lady the sights," flirted Danny as he floated towards her.
The two ghost teens smiled at each other and flew towards the Amity Park mall. They looked at all the stuff while invisible. They amused themselves by picking out clothes and trying them on while people were around. The people saw the clothes come off the racks and started to form around unseen bodies. The shoppers screamed and ran off in terror as the two ghost teens laughed in childish delight. The two of them left and headed towards the movie theater and floated inside. Normally, Danny wouldn't do this or the prank he and Janelle did, but today he wanted to be mischievous like many other teenage ghosts.
It turned out that many young newly formed ghosts actually learn about their powers through pranks. Janelle told him how when she discovered that she was a ghost, she was at first scared, but after trying out a few harmless pranks such as misplacing items after they were placed that she enjoyed being a ghost. She later on in her existence discovered that her element connection is wind after she blew a person's car over about two years ago in her hometown before deciding to stay in the Ghost Zone.
The two of them decided to sneak into a room and watch a horror movie. The two of them were enjoying the movie and surprisingly freaked out during some frightening scenes. They laughed together after realizing what fools they were to freak out over a movie. It was no surprise that their laughter caused the other humans watching the movie to get angry and tried to silence whoever was laughing. This struck Janelle with an idea as she whispered into Danny's ear.
"Hey Danny I have an idea," whispered Janelle as she leaned towards him.
"What do you have in mind?" asked Danny.
Janelle whispered her idea to Danny who was smiling at the idea. The two nodded their heads in agreement and went to work. Janelle started to build up some air in the area and move the air around the people. The humans in the room were starting to wonder about the wind as it slowly picked up.
"What's going on here?" asked one person as he tried to stop his drink from spilling.
"Look!" yelled a woman as she pointed towards the screen.
In front of the screen was a faint green glow that moved from right to left and then up and down. The glow started to do figure eights and suddenly the glow started to get larger. The people were starting to get nervous as the glow started to form a head of a dark haired boy. The flesh started to melt off the boy's face and drip onto the floor. Some of the melted flesh landed on a few people who were freaking out. Suddenly, the eyes were sucked into the blood soaked skull. The people were starting to get out of their seats and ran towards the doors. Sadly, the doors were held shut and the locks were not in place. The floating skull headed towards the people as they screamed in terror. Suddenly, the skull stopped in front of them and did a sickening smile despite having no flesh.
"Hi there," greeted the skull in a distorted voice.
The people screamed in terror as they all finally managed to get out of the dark room and ran out of the theater. The skull vanished and was replaced with Danny who was laughing childishly. Soon enough Janelle appeared and was laughing too. The two ghost teens flew out of the theater and headed off to have some more fun.
After about two hours of goofing around, Danny and Janelle returned to the top of the school. Danny turned intangible and entered the school with Janelle following. Janelle looked around the halls and was surprised to see a jock stuff a nerd into a locker. What really shocked her was how one teacher watched it happen and did nothing. She turned to see Danny who shook his head and lead her to a janitor's closet. The two entered the closet and started to talk.
"Does this always happen in this school?" she asked Danny.
"Yeah, a while ago I used to always be stuffed in the lockers and humiliated on a daily basis," answered Danny.
"Why didn't you do anything to stop it from happening?" asked Janelle.
"When I was friends with this girl named Sam, she would constantly try to get me to do the right thing and let the bullies have their way," answered Danny.
"That's messed up, even to a ghost," commented Janelle.
"Yeah, but I think she only wanted me to ignore them because I have the power to not only get back at them, but to choke the life out of them," replied Danny deep in thought. "But now days I just beat the crap out of them in human form outside of school grounds. So I don't have a problem with them at all," he added.
Later, Janelle headed back into the Ghost Zone while Danny served detention for skipping most of his classes. About an hour later he left the classroom that was used for detention and headed to the double doors. He saw his uncle waiting for him on his motorcycle. A few of the jocks and a few cheerleaders led by Dash and Paulina were also outside and saw Danny. They surrounded Danny in front of the school just when one of the teachers was stopped and looked at what was about to happen.
"Well, well, well if it isn't Fen-ton of fun?" joked as expected Dash. His so-called joke got his group to laugh at Danny.
"You're not big on giving up are you Dash?" sighed Danny as he looked behind him and saw a teacher watching him.
"Now why would I give up on my favorite punching bag?" questioned Dash as two of the jocks got closer to Danny.
"Maybe it's because this punching bag has been kicking your ass for the past few months?" retorted Danny causing a few of the cheerleaders to laugh.
"That's it!" yelled Dash.
The two jocks that were next to Danny grabbed his arms.
"Shit," cursed Danny.
"Hold him tight," ordered Dash as he got ready to throw a punch.
Danny saw the punch coming and jumped slightly. He did a double kick into Dash's chest which caused the blonde bully to fall on his back. The two jocks let go of Danny and backed away slightly.
"Mr. Fenton!" yelled the teacher. "What have you done to Mr. Baxter?" demanded the teacher.
"I think the question is what were you doing letting my nephew get picked on by these little dirt-bags?" retorted Vince as he walked up to the teacher.
"Dirt-bags?" repeated the teacher in offense to Vince's claim. "What are you talking about and who are you?" he asked as his temper slowly rose.
"Vincent Fenton, Danny Fenton's uncle and from where I was watching these brats were ganging up on Danny and he defended himself. You on the other hand were watching the whole thing and only reacted after my nephew kicked this piece of crap," explained Vince as he grabbed Dash by his arm and slightly twisted it.
"Hey let me go!" whined Dash.
"Let you go? After what you tried to do to my nephew?" questioned Vince as he glared at Dash. "If I anything I should be thinking of how to rip your skull out of your worthless stomach," he threatened.
"I wasn't going to hurt him. We were just playing around," lied Dash as he felt Vince apply some pressure onto his arm. He whimpered like the beaten dog that he truly is. "Right everyone?" he said to his group hoping for some support.
"Excuse me if I don't believe any of that bullshit coming out of your mouth," replied Vince. "Danny, has this been going on for a while now?" he asked his nephew.
"Since the start of my freshmen year and as expected none of the teachers do anything to stop it," answered Danny. "In fact I think it's because Dash and his friends are members of the football team. They are exempt from any form of punishment and the victims usually get screwed over instead," he added as he pretend to think about it.
Vince looked at the teacher who was looking at anything, but Vince's face.
"Well then, I guess I'll just have to ask the students who have been victimized to see if it's all true," said Vince as he let go of Dash. "If I found out that what Danny says is true then I will do something about this," he added as he and Danny left the school.
The next couple of hours Vince and Danny were heading towards the homes of many of Casper High's students. Vince talked to the parents of the victims while Danny tried to convince his 'peers' into admitting to what has been going on. Surprisingly, all of the students agreed and told what has happened to them during their freshmen year and what has happened recently. The parents were horrified to find out that their children were harmed and not once were they given retribution. The parents agreed to a lawsuit on the school for allowing such actions to continue.
Little did Vince or Danny know they were being watched by a small robotic bug that vaguely resembled a certain ghost hybrid.
Back in Vlad's lab he watched as Danny and his uncle headed towards the Manson's home. Vlad has been aware that Danny has usually been the victim of bullies, but he was surprised that Jack's brother would get himself involved.
"This could complicate things," muttered Vlad as he watched Sam opened her door to see Danny and Vince. "However, since Jack's brother is quite protective of his family. He may have just given me the opportunity to observe Daniel and find out where he gained so much power," he reasoned as he watched Vince start to talk to the Manson couple.
Back with Danny and his Uncle Vince, the two male Fentons were standing in front of Jeremy and Pamela Manson with their daughter beside them. Vince's eyes moved from the Goth girl to her parents and vice versa. He turned to look at his nephew in confusion. Danny looked at his uncle and wondered what he was thinking at the moment.
"Uh Danny," said Vince as he looked at the Manson family again.
"Yeah Uncle Vince," replied Danny.
"Is this girl adopted?" asked the older Fenton unaware that he just offended the Manson couple. "Because I don't see any resemblance between them at all," he added.
"Excuse me, but who do you think you are?" demanded Jeremy.
"Oh right, I'm Vincent Fenton and I…" started Vince only to get the door slammed at his face.
"That went well," commented Danny.
"Well I never liked rich people anyway," stated Vince as he started to turn around. "They're nothing, but a bunch of greedy, self-centered, egotistical, assholes that lose sight of what really matters in life," he added as he and Danny headed back towards his motorcycle.
"Sounds like you had a lot of run ins with these type of people," commented Danny.
"Sadly, yes and it never gets easy because so long as they have money, they can get away with almost anything," explained Vince.
"Danny wait!" yelled Sam as she and her grandmother left the house. The two of them caught up with the Fentons just in time. "Mr. Fenton, this is my grandmother and she's the one who really own our house," she said to Vince.
"Hello young man, my name is Ida," greeted the eldest Manson. "How may I be of assistance?" she asked.
"Well Mrs. Manson, uh… Senor?" started Vince.
"Please call me Ida," said Ida.
"Okay then, well I've actually came to your home with my nephew after seeing him get ganged up on by several students in his school. There was also a teacher who was watching, but he didn't do anything to stop them. However, when Danny fought back the teacher was suddenly interested in getting him in trouble for defending himself. Danny has told me that this has been going on for quite some time and it has also happened to other students," explained Vince.
"Oh dear," replied Ida.
"Yes and Danny gave me a list of students who have been subject to bullying and I believe one name may catch your interest," said Vince as he gave Ida the list.
Ida and Sam looked at said list and found Sam's name on it as well. Ida gasped and looked at her granddaughter. Sam looked at the ground to avoid eye contact with her grandmother and Danny. Danny looked at Sam and felt bad for bringing her into this. Vince looked at Danny and then at Sam and was somewhat confused by their actions.
"Bubeleh, why didn't you tell this was going on?" asked Ida.
"Bubeleh?" repeated Vince in wonder.
"Sam's family is Jewish," answered Danny.
"Oh, just wondering," replied Vince.
"Grandma, I didn't tell you about my recent problems with school because they're not that important," said Sam.
"Sam, bullying is important," said Vince.
"Huh? Did you just call me 'Sam' just now?" asked Sam.
"Well yeah that is your name isn't it?" asked Vince.
"Yes, it's just that not that many adults call me that," said Sam.
"That's because Uncle Vince is very informal with people and prefers to call people by what they want to be called by," explained Danny.
"Young man, what can I do to help?" asked Ida.
"Well I've managed to get several parents to agree to sue the school for allowing these actions to happen and I'm hoping you would be interested in helping," explained Vince.
"Of course I'll help in fact I believe I know of someone who would be interested in taking this case," agreed Ida.
"That would be great Ida, thank you for your support," said Vince as he and Danny headed towards his bike again.
Ida waved them off while Sam looked at Danny with a slightly sad expression on her face.
'No, I'm not ready to talk to him. Not until I can prove that I'm not how I used to be. Danny deserves a person who won't go behind his back. I promise you Danny that I'll never do that to you again,' Sam mentally declared to herself as she watched Danny ride off on his Uncle's motorcycle.
Sam started looking at the ground remembering what Vince was talking about. Ever since she, Danny, and Tucker lost their friendship Sam has actually experienced a small amount of bullying herself. It wasn't anything big, generally a lot of girls talked about her behind her back. The talks were about how she screwed up big time with her friends especially with Danny. A few girls talked about how despite being at the bottom of the social ladder, Danny is a very sweet guy to almost everyone before and even when he isn't ramming Dash's head into the pavement. To make it worst for her, Paulina's satellite, Star mentioned that she would love to have a guy like Danny around if she was feeling down because he would help out.
It didn't help much for her since many girls talk about how she is would never survive school without Danny or Tucker, especially Danny. To make it worst for Sam is that what they say is true because she never bothered to try to make friends with anyone else after losing Danny. She was a little upset about losing Tucker too, but she was only friends with him because of Danny. The two of them may be opposites in many ways, but she was still sad about breaking off her friendship with him too. However, she doesn't regret rejecting her when he asked her out. Despite the old saying of opposites attract, the truth is that Sam could barely tolerate him at times especially now thanks to his moronic wish that led to several ghosts attacking the town. Still, she does miss having him as a friend, but nothing beyond that.
Ida looked at her granddaughter and sighed knowing what she was thinking about, or rather who was thinking about.
"Bubeleh, if you want to fix your relationship with Danny. You need to swallow your pride and apologize," said Ida causing Sam to snap back into the living world.
"But Grandma, after what I've done. How can I possibly expect Danny to forgive me?" complained Sam.
"Sam, sometimes forgiveness can be achieved only when one admits that she was wrong," said Ida.
"She?" said Sam. "Grandma, do you mean that you…" started Sam as she started to get worried.
"Yes Dearie, I know how you spied on Danny when he was going out with the one girl," interrupted Sam's grandmother. "I did the same thing with an old friend of mine and it cost me our friendship," she explained.
"You spied on one of your friends?" repeated Sam. "Did she forgive you?" she asked.
"He didn't and sadly he never wanted to speak to me ever again because I wouldn't admit that I was wrong. I wasn't even invited to his funeral," answered Ida. "Please don't make the same mistake I did Sam. Despite how independent you believe yourself to be, you'll never survive without someone reach out to when you fall," advised Ida as she headed back inside the mansion.
Author's note: Not much action in this one, but it does give a little insight into Vince. Still there won't be a whole lot about him to make him be seen as a broken or replacement character like most OCs. Then again if you looked at my first fan fiction, Naruto: Bad Blood you would see several original characters and about 95 percent of them end up killed before they get any real character development. Since this is an M-rated story and given my track record of killing original characters, chances are he may end up dead at some point unless I like him enough to spare his life.
Also the ghost girl Janelle serves a purpose in the story. She for the moment plays out as Danny's romantic interest due to the fact that Danny is not only a teenager. He is also a ghost teenager, so he would find himself interested in the opposite sex of his ghost half of the species. I know some fans aren't exactly fond of an original female character paired with the main male character, but don't worry she is basically a female ghost friend in a flirting/drinking buddy relationship with Danny. Yes, Danny is pretty much dating her, but it won't last for one reason or another. I started to think about Sam dating others, but with how I set her up she would most likely not because she is focused on fixing herself as a better person.
The dialogue between Sam and her grandmother was something I threw in for the sake of finishing the chapter off with a meaningful conversation of the older generation advising the younger generation to take responsibility for what you have done. Some DP fans complain how Sam seems to be immune of repercussions for her actions. I'm on the fence on that because there are times where she seems to get off with no backlash. So I figured that since the only adult she would most likely listen to is her grandmother. I decided that the eldest of the Manson family has done something similar to what Sam did during 'Flirting with Disaster.' Hopefully, I got it done right to help Sam change for the better and become a more relatable character. I know a lot of us have made mistakes and would like to fix them or change ourselves so we won't make the same mistakes again.
