TEACHER OF THE YEAR
Danny and Tucker were up playing their favourite online video game DOOM, they both watched on each individuals computer screen as a player was destroyed and defeated by two players named Chaos and SpiritBlaster, Chaos had some sort of black armour with spikes on the shoulder parts and held two blasters in its hands, SpiritBlaster had a red overcoat on, red shirt with red pants and black combat boots, she a long range blaster on her back and two small hand held blasters on each side of her hips, her face was covered in a white kabuki mask and she had long black hair that went down to her hips in a ponytail.
Danny and Tucker's avatars were hiding behind a wall, Danny had a blue battle suit on his one and Tucker had a yellow one on his, along with a helmet.
"That's the trouble with these video games, too many unqualified random players" Tucker said as he typed.
In the lab where Danny was playing the game on the computer, Danny was trying out his dad's latest invention the Fenton Helmet to control his avatar in the game.
"I know what you mean, nobody but us has a clue. Except for that Chaos guy and his partner SpiritBlaster, they're both unstoppable" Danny said while checking out their opponents.
Tucker smirked and pulled out a blaster while saying, "Was unstoppable, watch this"
Tucker jumped out from behind the wall and pointed his blaster at them while exclaiming, "Hey Chaos! SpiritBlaster! Game over nitwits!"
Tucker blasted a ray at them, but Chaos and SpiritBlaster saw it coming and jumped out of the way. SpiritBlaster pulled out one of her blasters and shot it at Tucker, which hit him dead on and blasted him back to where Danny was still hiding.
"Still not stopped" Danny said sarcastically. They both then screamed as Chaos and SpiritBlaster came running towards them shooting at them.
They both ran doing their best to dodge their blasts, they both ran into a building and hid, Chaos pulled out a grenade and activated it, and he then threw it inside the building. Danny and Tucker watched as the device beeped and knew it was definitely a game over for them.
"Danny I just want you to know, I accidently killed your gerbil in the sixth grade" Tucker said.
"WHAT!" Danny exclaimed in complete shock.
The grenade exploded and Danny and Tucker were defeated, they watched as Chaos and SpiritBlaster laughed in triumph and the screen blaring the words GAME OVER.
"Oh man! Smoked again!" Tucker exclaimed in defeat and slumped his head on the computer keyboard.
Danny took off the helmet as he said in frustration, "Darn it! I thought using the Fenton Helmet as my game controller would give me an edge, not hat hair"
He looked up to see that his hair was flat from wearing the helmet too long, he threw the helmet in anger but didn't notice that it hit the button that opens the Fenton Portal, the door opened and from out of the Ghost Zone came Technus as Danny's ghost sense went off.
"HA! HA! Once again I Technus Master of all things electronic and beeping am free once again, to conquer this world!" Technus exclaimed.
Danny looked up in shock, he thought about waking Dayla up to help but shrugged the idea off and decided to handle this himself. Technus flew over to the computer where Danny was sitting, he looked at the character Chaos and SpiritBlaster in awe and exclaimed, "Although that world looks far more entertaining and the fashion sense is far superior! Perhaps it is there that I shall be king!"
Technus reached over to touch the computer, but Danny stopped him and pushed him away yelling, "Oh no you don't!"
Danny stood up and transformed into his ghost half and stood ready to fight, he looked up and noticed that his hair was no longer flat from wearing the helmet.
"Well at least the hair's better" Danny said and then he took to the air and charged at Technus.
Technus placed his hands in front of him and created a techno shield, Danny hit the shield dead on and yelled out as he was electrocuted by it, the shield the wrapped itself around him and continued shocking him, one of the shocks then hit the computer screen and broke it, completely stopping Technus from going inside the game now.
"Oh that stinks! No matter I shall return! So long ghost boy!" Technus exclaimed and then phased out of the lab.
The shield disappeared and Danny fell to the ground, he stood up and groaned as the portal closed, "Oh great! Constantly getting zapped in DOOM is bad enough, but now I gotta track down that loser! Dayla and I will have to deal with it tomorrow"
His eyes then widened as he noticed the time on the clock read 5:30 AM and realised that he spent the entire night playing the game.
"It is tomorrow, I've been up all night!" Danny exclaimed. He yawned and then said with a shrug and tired eyes, "Oh well. One sleepy day at school and one lame ghost free, what's the worst that could happen?"
Unfortunately Danny spoke too soon, he was so tired that he fell asleep during a really important English test and didn't complete it. Dayla looked at her brother from her desk and groaned knowing that he was up playing DOOM during the night, instead of studying for the test.
"Pencils down! All tests in!" Lancer announced. He looked at Danny and pulled the drool covered test paper from underneath him and sighed, "Ah teaching always rewarding"
The class bell rang waking Danny up, he tiredly walked out while Dayla stayed behind for a few minutes because Mr Lancer wanted to talk to her.
"What's up Mr Lancer?" Dayla asked.
"Dayla I am really concerned about your brother, you noticed him asleep during the test and since he didn't answer a single question, he instantly failed it. So what do you think I should do?" Mr Lancer asked.
"Look Mr Lancer he really wants to pass this class, I know he can do it. Can't you allow him to retake the test, I'll even help him study for it" Dayla answered.
Mr Lancer thought about it for a minute and then said, "Okay Dayla I'll give your brother a second chance. I was going to consider it anyway. However I don't want you to help him study for it, this is something he needs to handle on his own, and I know he's capable of doing it"
"Yes sir" Dayla said. She then noticed a picture of a woman on his desk and asked, "Mr Lancer who's the woman on your desk?"
"That's my sister, I haven't seen her in ages. I can't afford the plane fare to visit her" Mr Lancer answered.
Dayla looked down and said, "I'm sorry. I couldn't imagine not being able to see any of my siblings, hey maybe you'll see her one day"
Mr Lancer smiled and said, "One day I will. That's all Miss Fenton you may go, oh and don't tell your brother anything yet. I will tell him tomorrow"
Dayla nodded and then left to meet up with the others, Danny had explained to them about Technus coming out of the portal and what he tried to do. Later that night, they all split up and searched around town for the technical ghost.
"Last time Technus fused a monster out of the junk from our dad's shed, so be on the look-out for run-away appliances" Danny said through his communicator to the others.
Tucker drove around on his scooter and said, "Copy. The objective is to beat the boss and power him down to level zero"
"Uh level zero is a no-man's land girls, it's a glitch in the DOOM program if you get knocked into it you're stuck there" Danny explained.
Sam drover around on her scooter and Dayla was flying around as they heard Danny, they both looked on in boredom and then Sam said sarcastically, "I cannot begin to tell you how interesting that is"
"If you girls we're game savvy you'd both know that" Tucker said smugly.
"Excuse me? Let me tell you something…." Dayla began to protest but she was cut off when Sam said, "Hold it! I've got something, fast moving garage sale heading east toward the park"
They all arrived and hid in the bushes, they watched as all different types of technology circled around Technus and began to fuse together as he exclaimed, "Come to me beautiful technology and together we shall build a new body worthy of my greatness! Something sleek, stylish and totally powerful! Yeah baby!"
His new body became complete and revealed to look exactly the same armour Chaos wears in DOOM.
"Look familiar? Technus saw me playing DOOM last night and now he's trying to look like Chaos" Danny said.
Tucker gave Danny a smug look and said, "The way you play DOOM he shouldn't be hard to beat"
"Ignoring that! Okay Tuck here's what we'll do, you distract him with L2 throttle right manoeuvre and I'll power up and engage him in battle mode" Danny said.
"What about us?" Dayla asked.
"You stay here girls, you two probably don't know the moves we're talking about here" Danny answered and then Tucker added as they left, "Yeah you'd both just get in the way"
Dayla transformed back into her human half, she and Sam then both sent Danny and Tucker glares, they practically called them both useless! Tucker revved up his scooter and then charged right at Technus as he exclaimed, "Time to show him what five volts of manly battery power can really do!"
Technus grabbed a disk from his belt and tossed it at Tucker, he barely dodged the attack and continued charging at him, he then began to circle Technus and made sure that his focus was based on him, giving Danny an opportunity to attack.
Danny charged right at Technus and delivered a powerful kick to his face, Technus fell to the ground on his backside, and Danny charged again for another attack but was swatted away by Technus who slapped him with his giant hand, which caused Danny to be thrown into the tree and then landed on the ground in front of Sam and Dayla and they crossed his arms and smiled smugly.
"So much for battle mode" Sam said sarcastically.
"Okay this calls for advanced mode with an intangibility bonus!" Danny exclaimed, he turned intangible and then flew towards Tucker.
Technus started firing blasts at Tucker as he continued riding his scooter, Danny flew up to him and turned them both intangible, completely avoiding the attacks.
"YEAH! This is better than level nine on DOOM!" Tucker exclaimed as Danny dropped the intangibility.
Unfortunately a blast managed to hit the back tire of Tucker's scooter, forcing Tucker to stop. They both looked up and saw Technus firing a ray at them from his eyes, Danny had managed to put a shield in front of them just at the last minute, which the blast hit and bounced back hitting Technus dead on and knocking him back to the ground.
"Cool! How'd I do that?" Danny asked as he looked at his hands.
"NO! I Technus am getting tired of getting beaten by you and your sister!" Technus exclaimed in anger as he stood up and his body was crackling with electricity.
"Yeah well you Technus are gonna have to learn some new video game moves if you want to beat us!" Danny retorted back.
"Your right! I have the style but none of the substance. I must acquire this new skills and I know exactly where I can do that!" Technus exclaimed and then he pushed a red button on his chest, in just a few seconds he blew up and smashed to pieces. All that was left of him was his head that was all smashed up and it landed right in front of them.
"You won! Great job Danny!" Tucker exclaimed in victory.
"What are you talking about? Danny didn't win, he self-destructed" Dayla corrected.
Danny turned human and leaned on the head as he said, "Whatever! I'm here, he's gone and that means our work here is done"
He was unaware that Technus hid himself in his ear piece communicator, Danny's ghost sense went off and he looked around but nothing was there.
"Cool! So what do you guys wanna do?" Sam asked. Tucker and Danny gave each other knowing smiles and just a few minutes later, they all went home and Danny and Tucker were once again on their computers playing DOOM.
"Okay tuck, just like in the park" Danny said and then Tucker replied back, "I'm all over it"
They loaded up the game and saw Chaos and SpiritBlaster standing there, they both watched as Tucker charged at them on a hover board and blasted right at him. Meanwhile Danny activated his jet pack and charged right at them, however Chaos saw him coming and blasted right at him, which hit him dead on, SpiritBlaster tripped over Tucker with her foot and caused him to fall right on top of Danny, they both died and were evacuated from the game, Chaos and SpiritBlaster laughed in victory and the screen read GAME OVER once again.
"Oh man! It was like he was three steps ahead of us" Danny groaned as he took off the helmet, he then glanced at the clock and yawned as he noticed it was once again 5:30 AM, he stayed up all night again.
"Another all-nighter" Danny said, he then left the lab yawning. As soon as he left, Technus came out of his ear piece and went straight into the game program. His new form had three legs, a cyborg type body and his head had a jar on top that revealed a brain floating inside.
"HA! HA! HA!" Technus laughed evilly.
The next day at Casper High during the last class of the day, Mr Lancer handed out everyone's test except Danny's who was once again nearly falling asleep in class.
"By far I am pleased with the test results, I know that the poetry of the 19th century is enough to put one to sleep…" Mr Lancer announced, he then pulled out Danny's test which had an F on it and slammed it on Danny's desk while continuing, "This however borders on sarcasm"
Danny just opened his eyes and looked tiredly down at his test, the bell rang and everyone left the classroom. Danny was about to leave until Mr Lancer stopped him and asked, "A word Danny?"
Danny sat back down and looked up at his teacher with tired eyes as he said, "Danny when a teacher looks at his student he hopes to see the reflection of his own abilities. When I look at you I see my own F. I don't like to fail, do you?"
M…Mr Lancer I…I can explain…" Danny began to say but he was cut off when Mr Lancer said, "I need no explanations, I need results"
"So you know what I'm gonna do?" Mr Lancer asked.
"Pass me so you don't look bad?" Danny asked hopefully.
Mr Lancer laughed and then said seriously, "No but I am going to give you the opportunity to do better, I'm making you retake the test"
"But it's only one stupid test" Danny complained.
"One stupid test that counts for one quarter of your final grade" Mr Lancer retorted back, Danny just gave him a blank look. Mr Lancer clarified, "That's twenty-five percent in case you failing math as well. You have three days to study for the make-up and don't go asking your sister Dayla to help you because I have already discussed with her and asked her not to"
Danny slumped down in defeat and then said, "Got it sir"
However instead of studying for the test after school, he and Tucker were at the internet café playing DOOM instead.
"I got it! If you crack the safe at Mega-Mart you get an extra life" Danny said as he continuously typed of the keyboard.
Dayla and Sam walked up to them, Dayla gave Danny a look of disappointment knowing that he should be spending his studying for the test instead of playing DOOM. Dayla then said, "That extra life will come in handy when Lancer kills you for flunking again"
They both stopped playing and looked at the girls. Tucker then said, "What are they doing here? They can't be here to play"
"Oh why? Because we're girls? And us girls are lacking in what? Apposable thumbs, one track minds, stupid berets?" Sam asked sarcastically.
"HEY!" Tucker exclaimed really offended by the comment about his hat.
"As much as I hate to say it, Sam and Dayla have a point I probably should be studying" Danny said getting up from the computer.
"You think?" Dayla asked sarcastically.
"What about you Tuck?" Danny asked. Tucker smiled and answered, "I'll stick to goofing off. We're gonna need all the ammo we can get if we wanna defeat Chaos and SpiritBlaster"
"Chaos and SpiritBlaster are nothing compared to Lancer, I mean imagine if he caught me in here" Danny said and gave off a laugh. He then stopped when he heard from behind, "Yes imagine that"
He turned around to see Mr Lancer standing behind him giving him a glare. Tucker and Sam left for home, while Danny and Dayla stayed behind with the disappointed teacher, meanwhile in the game Technus was trying out his new body.
"My last form was unstable and I was unable to conceal myself from those annoying children, but this new body is much more…How would the kid's say it today? Far out! In this new body they shall never know it's me, Technus!" Technus exclaimed.
"Yo newbie! Look out!" Tucker shouted and destroyed a monster that was about to attack Technus from behind.
"Excellent! You are quite the game player bespectacled one" Technus complimented Tucker.
"Thanks I know a few moves" Tucker said as he twirled the blaster in his hand, but then accidently dropped it.
"Perhaps you can teach me these moves of which you speak, then I can become as hip and far out as you" Technus said.
"Hip? Far out? Wow! You do need help, fortunately you came to the right place. Step into my office" Tucker said and then he and Technus went through a game portal and transported to level two completely unaware that he was practically helping one of Danny and Dayla's enemies. As soon as they reached level two, they came up to a bridge where they would fight the next villain.
"This is level two the Bridge of Doom, to survive you need cunning and lightning fast reflexes" Tucker explained.
They suddenly heard a horn of a truck and watched as some sort of monster possessed truck came speeding down the bridge heading right towards them. Tucker stood in front of Technus and said, "Watch and learn"
Tucker then pulled out a disk and threw it at the truck, but it didn't do any damage since it just bounced off the front of the truck and continued to head straight for them. Technus was not really impressed at this.
"That was informative, but let me try something" Technus said.
Technus then grabbed Tucker and flew straight for the truck head on, he then turned them intangible and they both phased harmlessly through the truck and reached the other side of the bridge and landed on the ground.
"Awesome! I've never seen that power in this game before" Tucker said.
Technus gave him a wide grin and said, "You mean I have powers here that you don't? Interesting"
Tucker and Technus continued on to level three, which had some sort of ancient Chinese theme to the background Tucker had promised to teach Technus everything he needed to know about the game as they fought against Shaolin Wushu War Lords. Meanwhile Danny and Dayla were being driven home from the internet café by Mr Lancer, Danny sat up in the front passenger seat while Dayla sat in the back. Danny had his arms crossed and continued glaring out the window while Mr Lancer drove down the road.
"Playing an internet video game is hardly the stuff of human drama Danny" Mr Lancer said.
"He has a bit of a point bro, you have been kind of obsessed with the game for a few weeks" Dayla said.
"But it's fun" Danny said. Mr Lancer then said with a bright smile, "Fun is relative, when I see a student pass through the portals of Casper High for the last time brimming with the knowledge it takes to make it in the outside world, to me that's fun"
"Then you need to get out more" Danny said.
"And you need to stay in more and here are a couple of people who will make you do just that" Mr Lancer said as he pulled up to their house.
Danny and Dayla's eyes widened when they saw their parents standing out the front of their home, frowning at them.
"OUR PARENTS?!" Danny and Dayla exclaimed.
Danny then rolled up the window in an effort to try and hide himself from them, but it was no use he had to face the fact that he was in serious trouble. Meanwhile back in DOOM, Tucker and Technus had just finished defeating all the villains on level three.
"Now what exactly is the purpose of this skill contest?" Technus asked.
Tucker showed Technus a hologram of what the game is about and answered, "To defeat all foes, reach level thirteen and retrieve the Seven Silver Keys to the Apocalypse, once you do all that you gain ultimate power and access to the World Wide Web"
"Very well then I Technus shall use my ghost powers and newfound gaming prowess to win the game and spread my intellect to every machine in the world!" Technus exclaimed, his eyes then widened as he realised what he did and said, "My that was a long speech"
"What! Technus?" Tucker exclaimed in shock.
"BINGO! GAME OVER!" Technus exclaimed with a grin and then blasted Tucker with a ghost ray and said, "That was fun"
"Oh man! Technus is in the game and he's able to use his ghost powers, I gotta stop him before he gets to the internet!" Tucker exclaimed as he reloaded his avatar and chased after Technus.
Meanwhile everyone was in the living room as Mr Lancer told Maddie and Jack all about Danny failing the test. He read off a notepad describing Danny's performance.
"Lazy, unfocused, ill prepared, lethargic! I don't think I need to go on" Mr Lancer said as he put the notepad away.
"Dad I…." Danny was about to speak but he was cut off when Jack said, "That's enough of your sass talk mister!"
"What do you suggest Mr Lancer?" Maddie asked.
"Danny will pass, I know he's capable but I'd like him to spend his after school hours in my office studying until I administer the make-up exam" Mr Lancer suggested.
"But we/they have stuff to do after class" Danny, Dayla and Jazz said at the same time. Danny and Dayla looked at Jazz in confusion and asked in unison, "How do you know that?"
Jazz just gave them a weak smile in return. Mr Lancer then said, "Ah but consider this Danny, if you fail the test again you may be held back a year. If it's boring once, imagine taking it again"
"Get this straight Danny you're a Fenton, Fenton's get A's or in your father's case B minuses" Maddie said. Jack then added, "Solid B minuses"
"Until you retake this test and pass it with flying colours, we are forbidding all access to electronic devices" Maddie finished.
Danny slumped in defeat and then suddenly his mobile phone rang, he pulled it out of his pocket and said, "It's Tucker"
Jack snatched the phone out of his hand and exclaimed, "He's busy!"
He then crushed the phone in his hand completely destroying it, meanwhile Tucker was doing his best trying to take down Technus but it was really difficult. He charged at him for a full frontal attack, but unfortunately he saw him coming and punched him right back, Tucker hit the wall and got another game over. Suddenly Technus felt himself become more powerful and larger.
"Interesting. I seem to grow stronger from each vanquished foe" Technus said admiring himself.
Tucker reloaded his avatar and tried calling Danny again, but he still wasn't answering. He then did a three way call to Dayla and Sam and told them what's going on. Tucker asked, "This is bad, he's figuring the game out. Why won't your brother answer?"
"Sorry Tuck but he's now on strict technology lockdown curtesy of both Mr Lancer and my parents" Dayla answered.
"Could you use a hand from us?" Sam asked.
"Fat chance, it's every man for himself" Tucker scoffed as he watched himself get beaten by Technus again.
"Every man huh?" Sam asked sarcastically.
Chaos and SpiritBlaster appeared and Tucker's eyes widened in complete shock as their faces revealed to be Sam and Dayla instead.
"WHAT! You two are Chaos and SpiritBlaster?" Tucker asked in disbelief.
"If you were game savvy you'd know that" Dayla said with a smirk.
The next day all four of them were in the basketball court at school shooting some hoops, Danny was completely shocked that the ones beating them in DOOM this whole time was none other than Sam and his own sister Dayla.
"I'm GhostBoy! I'm FryerTuck! We don't need your help because your both just a couple of girls" Sam mocked the two boys and gave them wry smiles.
"Alright! Alright! Enough already!" Tucker said with annoyance and then threw the ball, but missed the hoop.
"I can't believe it was you two dusting us this whole time! Why didn't either of you say anything?" Danny asked.
"We tried to but you two seemed so sure of yourselves we decided not to say anything" Dayla answered as she picked up the ball and threw it straight in the hoop.
"Well the main thing is I can Sam and Dayla fight Technus while you're out of commission" Tucker said.
"What a mess! It's my fault Technus is out there while I'm stuck studying the world's dullest subject" Danny groaned.
"Just leave everything to us Danny, Technus may have the power but we got the moves" Sam said as she threw the ball in the hoop and continued, "Dayla and I have got lots pf cheat codes and secret power-ups in our arsenal. Of course you guys must know all of those too right?"
The boys then looked at each other and then back at the two as Dayla said, "Weird the girls do, maybe you guys need to communicate better"
Mr Lancer then came up to the doorway and yelled out, "Danny Fenton! My classroom now!"
"Good luck Danny" Dayla said as Danny walked out of the basketball court and headed for Mr Lancer's classroom.
It had now been an hour and Danny was still studying, although he started falling asleep and leaning forward on his desk, he didn't realise he accidently activated his intangibility power and started falling right through the desk. He yelped and woke up, he deactivated his intangibility and stood up from his desk and began walking up to Mr Lancer's desk.
"Going somewhere Mr Fenton?" Mr Lancer asked.
Danny stretched and then answered, "Just stretching my legs" He then noticed him writing a letter and a picture of a woman on his desk in a pink flower dress, red curly hair and some sort of facial hair and asked, "Oh writing to your sister? You have a sister?"
"You know Dayla asked me that two days ago, I haven't seen her in ages I can't afford the plane fare. You know this would be an excellent time for you to say 'gosh Mr Lancer I never realised being a teacher could be so difficult'" Mr Lancer replied.
"I'm fourteen, I don't really care" Danny said. Mr Lancer then said in a huff as he walked out, "Yes of course. I'm gonna go get some air"
"Gotta cross teacher of what I wanna be when I grow up list" Danny muttered.
He then noticed Mr Lancer's computer and looked behind to make sure nobody was looking, he then ran over and logged into DOOM and watched Dayla, Tucker and Sam fight Technus as he asked, "You guys there?"
"What are you doing online?" Sam asked. Dayla then asked, "Yeah aren't you meant to be studying?"
"Just checking in. How's it going?" Danny then asked.
"We're keeping Technus in check but he's getting stronger, it's only a matter of time before he masters the game" Tucker replied.
"Wish I could help, studying is a drag" Danny said.
"Is it Danny?" Mr Lancer asked as he watched and glared at him from behind, Danny gasped and turned around stammering, "M…Mr Lancer! I…I…I was just taking the…."
"Taking up my valuable time! There are no cheat codes in school Danny or in life! You know at first I wasn't going to even give you the opportunity to try again, but your sister was the one who convinced me" Mr Lancer said.
"She did?" Danny asked in shock. Mr Lancer nodded and replied, "There's an old saying, twins feel each other's pain, emotions and most importantly your fears. I have come to know Dayla as not only one of Casper's brightest students apart from Jazz but also the kindest as well, she seems to have complete confidence in you that you will pass this class and is willing to give up anything to help you. Yet here you are wasting time and letting her down. But if you don't care, why should I?"
He then left the classroom, leaving Danny to his thoughts. Danny looked down and thought about what he said, he started to feel guilty about what he said to him a second ago and also felt guilty about how he treated Dayla also these past few days. He looked back at the computer and switched it off and decided to do the right thing.
"Here we go" Danny sighed as he grabbed the poetry book and walked out the door to Mr Lancer who was sitting on a bench just outside the classroom.
He looked up at his student who was holding the opened book. Danny then asked, "Um in the poem The Tyger, why does he rhyme the words I in cemetery?"
"The poem was written in the early eighteen I'm sure there were multiple ways to pronounce that word" Mr Lancer answered.
"And it's Blake right? William Blake?" Danny asked as he sat next to him. Mr Lancer smiled as he finally seem to get it and replied, "Actually yes. There were other poems he wrote that used the sane form of rhyme scheme"
"Really which ones?" Danny asked.
As Danny continued to study with Mr Lancer, Dayla and the others continued to fight Technus. But it was getting more difficult as Technus was becoming stronger as he continued to use his ghost powers. As Dayla, Sam and Tucker tried firing a couple of blasts at him, he laughed as he turned intangible and allowed the blasts to go right through him.
"Not bad for a guy with no moves huh?" Technus asked rhetorically.
Sam, Dayla and Tucker pushed their game controllers vigorously and charged at him all at the same time, but it only resulted with them colliding into each other. As Danny continued to take notes and read the poetry book, Mr Lancer started to become impressed at the concertation and effort he was putting into studying for the test knowing that his speech had worked.
The next day Technus blasted them back with a ghost ray, which knocked them down for a few seconds and then he found a power-plus cube and became even stronger, they just couldn't seem to stop him from getting more powerful. His form changed the bottom part of his body into some sort of spider form.
"Farewell children I the new improved Technus have reached the next level!' Technus exclaimed as he jumped through the portal and headed to the next level with Dayla, Tucker and Sam following behind.
Danny closed the poetry as Mr Lancer told him it's time for the test. He sighed and said, "Well it's now or never and it better be now. I've got less than an hour before Technus gets to the last level"
Mr Lancer placed the test papers in front of him and sat down at his desk as Danny began to do it, as he continued answering the questions on the piece of paper, he found that thanks to so many hours of studying he knew some of the answers. An hour later he finished and handed it to Mr Lancer to grade it, he was feeling really nervous as Mr Lancer marked it with his red marker. He closed the test booklet and put the final mark in top of it.
"Ninety-one" Mr Lancer said as he wrote it down.
"Ninety-one? Ninety-one! I aced it?" Danny asked in shock. Mr Lancer smiled and said, "Hmmm just barely but yes, you aced it"
"YES! I knew I could do it! Hey I did, I did know I could do it. Thanks" Danny said with a wide smile.
"Yes well don't think this means I won't be keeping an eye on you Fenton" Mr Lancer said.
"Don't think this means you won't have to" Danny retorted back and then ran out of the classroom in excitement screaming, "I ACED IT!"
Mr Lancer smiled and picked up the picture and said, "Ah the old I don't get to see my sister speech gets them every time. Why don't they ever realise that's me in a dress?" (A/N Okay this part of the episode made me LOL because it was really funny how Danny couldn't tell that the woman in the picture was actually Mr Lancer)
Maddie and Jack were in the kitchen tinkering with a new invention, when Danny came running in and showing them his test paper exclaiming, "Hello, not an idiot see ya!"
They looked at his test paper and smiled proudly at him as he headed towards the lab where Dayla was sitting at the computer desk with her laptop. He put the helmet on and said as he logged in, "Hey guys I'm here and I aced the test"
"Dude that's great! Did you get a hundred?" Tucker asked as he tried to reach the key, but was blasted back by Technus who then grabbed the key.
"No I got an A minus, a solid A minus" Danny answered.
"Well done bro! I'm happy for you. Anyway we're in level thirteen, Technus has five of the seven silver keys and if he gets the last two he's becomes king of the world wide web" Dayla said as she, Sam and Tucker continued to follow after Technus as he started heading towards the gates and the last two keys.
Danny dodged a couple of blasts from a couple of monsters in the game and exclaimed, "It'll take me forever to reach level thirteen!"
Dayla, Sam and Tucker then tried blasting Technus, but he merely turned himself intangible and allowed the blasts to phase through him.
"He's using his ghost powers! We can't stop him!" Tucker exclaimed in defeat.
"Wait a minute ghost powers! Oh I'm such an idiot I should've thought of this a few days ago" Dayla said.
Danny then caught on and continued, "Technus used his ghost powers in the game so that means we should be able to too"
Dayla and Danny transformed into their ghost forms and phased into the game, Dayla's form was practically the same as her avatars only her coat turned black and white and her face was hers when she was in ghost form, Danny's form was also the same as his avatars only his battle suit turned black and he was in his ghost form.
"Alright I'm in, this had better work" Danny said.
He then flew up and turned intangible as the monsters turned blasted at him, the blasts just shot right through him and he flew straight through the portal to the next level exclaiming, "Sweet! Our powers are the ultimate cheat code!"
Meanwhile Technus had placed the keys he already had into the key slots and exclaimed, "Yes! Two more keys and then I the new improved Technus shall become the hip modern ruler of the world!"
"I don't think so techno-boy!" Dayla shouted as she blasted him away and then said, "Now I also got the advantage! And so doe's Danny as soon as he gets here"
Technus got up and started racing towards the keys, he went intangible to avoid everyone's blasters and then he crushed the two guards of the keys in his hands and then grabbed the second last key that were hanging in the tree branches.
"HA! HA! I Technus am totally frying your bacon!" Technus exclaimed.
"Well that's one thing he hasn't upgraded, his catchphrases" Tucker said.
Danny had finally reached level thirteen and raced to get to the others in time.
"HA! HA! You are no match for me and since your brother isn't here, you can't do anything to stop me! For I am Technus Master of…." Technus had begun to exclaim but then Danny came in and cut him off exclaiming, "Master of long winded introduction! Do you ever stop talking about yourself?"
"We gotta do something quick Danny! We are one key away from a catastrophe! Oh and congrats on the A" Sam said.
"Thanks" Danny said and then he and Dayla threw a combined ecto blast at Technus, but Technus placed a shield in front of him and deflected the shot which ended up hitting both of them.
He leapt up to grab the key, but Sam blasted him back with her own blaster and knocked him back to the ground. Technus felt himself suddenly getting weaker and shrinking down a few sizes.
"He's becoming vulnerable, keep hitting him with everything you got!" Dayla yelled out.
Tucker threw a grenade underneath him, the grenade exploded and made him even more powerless, Technus then flew off. They all gathered together and then Sam asked, "Do you think he gave up?"
"Negative! Incoming!" Danny exclaimed as he saw Technus hurtling towards him on a flaming rock.
"Hey Tuck, remember that mega cheat me and Dayla told you about?" Sam asked as an idea came to her.
"Time to bust it out?" Tucker asked. Dayla then answered, "Time to bust it out. Go Sam! We'll hold him off till you get back"
Sam then left as Danny, Dayla and Tucker fired at him, Technus started firing back which the force of blast caused Danny and Dayla to become trapped within a mutated Venus fly trap, leaving Tucker to defend himself against Technus's constant blasts. Tucker then jumped in an effort to grab the last silver key, but Technus jumped in and knocked him away, Tucker had lost a life and was evacuated from the game.
"TUCKER!" Danny and Dayla exclaimed in unison, they both then concentrated and blasted themselves out of the plant and landed right in front of Technus.
"The game is over, victory is mine! Any last request child?" Technus asked as he reached out to grab the key.
"Uh yeah could you take out the trash Sam?" Danny asked with a smirk.
"WITH PLEASURE!" Sam exclaimed as she stomped on Technus with her now giant foot, her avatar had changed to some sort of Aztec Warrior upgrade.
"Not bad for a couple of girls" Danny said and then Sam and Dayla said in unison, "Ignoring that"
Sam then picked up the now powerless Technus and held him as Danny and Dayla opened a whole in the program, Sam then threw Technus and he sat up weakly taking in his surroundings to see that there was nothing around.
"Where am I?" Technus asked.
"its level zero, a glitch in the program once you're in there is no way out and it makes the perfect prison for someone like you" Dayla answered.
"Now listen here young whippersnappers! I Technus am hip and funky fresh and…." Technus began exclaiming but was cut off when Danny and Dayla closed the hole trapping Technus in there for good.
"Totally out of date" Danny finished off and gave Sam and Dayla high fives. Tucker then reappeared in the game.
"Good thing I upgraded my anti-virus program. Did I miss anything?" Tucker asked.
"Just the most awesome display of gamesmanship ever!" Danny exclaimed.
Tucker grabbed the last game and said, "Hey guys we got the Seven Silver Keys to the Apocalypse, all we have to do is open the door and we win the game"
They all started getting really excited as Tucker began to place the key into the hole, but then suddenly they were blasted and evacuated from the game as they all got a game over. Danny and Dayla were thrown out of the computer and they landed on the ground.
"Huh?" They all said in unison and confusion.
"Who on earth could've done that?" Danny and Dayla asked in unison.
In the game, it turned out that it was Mr Lancer who did it and he picked up the key and exclaimed in victory in his office, "HA! HA! Once again I have the seventh silver key and I am victorious! Me! MR LANCER!"
He then looked around to make sure nobody heard his yelling and then muttered, "I gotta stop doing that"
THE END
Next time on the Phantom Twins:
Jazz has is dating a guy named Johnny 13! But is there something weird and ghostly about this biker teen? Plus is Tucker going Goth? Find out next time on the Phantom Twins in: 13!