Disclaimer: I wish I owned Danny Phantom! Desiree: -turns me into Butch Hartman- AHHHHHHHHH! CHANGE ME BACK CHANGE ME BACK! -is changed back-
Lance eagerly walked into work that next morning. He was exhausted, since he had to stay up an extra two hours to do the interview and write what was sure to be his biggest hit yet.
"What are you so perked up about?" Harriet questioned he walked in.
Lance grinned, spinning the disk that held his interview on his finger before catching it like a ninja when it nearly fell.
"Watch this," he ordered, opening her computer CD drive and put the disk in. Harriet pushed it in and the computer made that noise meaning it was processing it and was going to play. Harriet clicked play and her eyes widened when the screen showed up.
"You didn't," she gasped, briefly glancing up at him as she turned up the volume in order to listen.
"I did," he bragged. "And he agreed to do a live web-interview for his fans. I just had to give him a time."
His co-worker looked impressed, then glaring at him when he popped the DVD out and took it.
"Hey, I was watching that!" she exclaimed.
"Gotta show the boss," he explained. "You can watch it later. Like everybody else."
His boss never looked more impressed as he watched the interview. Well, everybody was. So many people from the office were crowding around to see the interview that his boss ended up taking out the DVD, and playing it on the background screen where they filmed the show. The interview was an hour long video, so people were rushing to prepare for the show while listening to what Danny Phantom had to say. When it was finally over, there was only ten minutes till the show needed to start. Harriet rushed to fix up her hair and put on the last bit of make-up.
"Well Lance, I am a man of my word, but I'm not dumb," his boss said. Lance listened closely for the magic words. Bonus. Raise. Promotion. "If you can get Danny Phantom to publicly, in person, confirm that this is really him speaking and to watch it, then you will get everything I promised you. If he doesn't, you're our new on-scene reporter."
Lance nodded, feeling nervous. He quickly brushed it off.
"No problem," Lance told him. "I'll email him now."
"Great. We'll air the tape this evening if he confirms it before the afternoon news. If not, tomorrow afternoon. Tell him that," his boss ordered. Lance nodded, showing he understood. "In the meantime, I will keep this locked up in my safe, to ensure nobody takes it. This story can really make you. I know you're one of our morning reporters, but do ya mind if we switch you and Jones for that? You did do the interview, and I think Phantom's most comfortable talking and dealing with you than Jones. I wan to air it in the evening, because, well for one it will take quite a while and may run into the school day, which kids are just going to skip if we run into it. Try to keep the whole thing under three hours, cause we DO need to air some actual news."
"We can open up with the interview, switch to some news, then back to the interview," Lance suggested. "He IS Danny Phantom, so he may need to run off to fight ghosts, so we can do the news in those periods."
"Perfect!" his boss cried out. "Talk to him and get it scheduled! Our news station is going to the top!"
Tucker and Sam nodded in approval when they finished watching Danny talking to Lance. On Tucker and Sam's insistence, Danny recorded the conversation too. The trio were watching it at study hall on Tucker's PDA, but the bell rang for lunch after wards, so they just stayed in the library to finish watching it. In private of course. Heaven knows what would happen if anybody discovered this interview tape before it went on the news.
"Why three sisters and a brother?" Tucker asked. "You know, just curious. I like how far off your made your family life seem."
"Why not?" Danny asked, shrugging his shoulders before grinning. "I hope Vlad catches the reference I made to him. Other than the whole Senator thing."
Sam and Tucker looked a tad confused before it hit them and they laughed.
"Oh man, I hope so too," Sam giggled. Tucker snickered.
"Come on. I'm starving. Let's go eat!" Tucker begged. The trio went to the lunch room to buy their...well the school called it lunch, but who the hell knows what it really is. As they waited in line, Danny checked his email on his phone. Tucker was listening to Rebecca Black on his PDA, hiding it from everybody's view, though Danny could see it. He decided to bring that up later. Sam was replying to a text she got from one of her gothic friends. Danny noticed the email from Lance.
Can you publicly confirm the interview before we air it? We hope to air it tonight or tomorrow night on the 5 o'clock evening news.
Danny entered his reply into his phone and sent it.
Of course. I'll yell it from the sky after my next ghost-fight. Which will probably be sometime in the next hour.
As soon as Danny sent that, his ghost sense went off.
"What do you want?" Tucker asked, turning off his music.
"The normal with extra fries," Danny replied as he got out of line and zoomed for the bathroom. There, he changed into Danny Phantom.
He came out of the bathroom in ghost mode before flying out to face Spectra in her all-black mode. After a quick fight that the author doesn't feel like writing because she feels awful and has a headache but advises you to check back later because maybe there will actually be a fight scene here, Danny finished her off by sucking her into the thermos. People immediately pulled out their phones to take pictures while others screamed questions.
"Uh, I'll answer all your questions tonight on the five o'clock news," Danny yelled, as if almost unsure himself. Everybody stared at him in disbelief. He ignored it, turning invisible before flying back into the school.
Not much action in this chapter, but the next chapter will have a cliffhanger. I SWEAR there will be a cliffhanger in the next chapter.