A/N: Hey peoples of the Earth! I really don't have very much that I want to say before the chapter begins. YAY! I'm on the Lyoko's Biggest Fans community. This chapter is dedicated to the manager of that community, have-a-cookie, in honor of the occasion. In this chapter, I will be finishing off the Danny Phantom episode Memory Blank with the Lyoko gang helping him out. This chapter will have a bit of action in it for those that have been desperately awaiting an action chapter from me. The reason why it has taken me a few days past what the condition for creating this chapter had been met is because I wanted to get the action just right. Anyway, let's get on with the chapter. Please R&R, Damon is ready to give everyone who doesn't the atomic wedgie of a lifetime if you don't. Can you say, "Iced Man Thong?"
"Wow, first day at a new school. This is going to be either really exciting or really boring," Odd declared. The group was on their way to school with their new friends.
"How would you know either way Odd," Ulrich responded, "You'll be asleep through all of it."
"Cheap shot," Odd huffed.
"So you're some sort of super genius, right," Tucker asked Damon.
"Officially, yes. But Jeremy is the smartest one out of the group. I'm just really good at building stuff," Damon replied.
"Just watch out for Dash," Danny stated.
"Dash," Erethyr inquired.
"He's the quarterback, and a bully to boot," Sam replied.
"Hey Fen-terd," called a voice.
"And that would be him," Danny groaned. A muscular boy wearing a red and white letter jacket, denim pants, and white sneakers with swept back blonde hair and blue eyes came running up and knocked Danny down.
"I would help him up if I were you," Damon stated.
"Oh look, Fen-terd has some new loser friends," Dash jeered.
"Yeah, he does. Want to make something of it," Damon proclaimed walking up to Dash and staring him right in the eye.
"Maybe I do," Dash proclaimed as he threw a punch at Damon's gut. Damon caught his arm and threw Dash over his back. Still holding onto Dash's arm, Damon turned around and performed an arm bar on his opponent.
"Where did he learn to fight like that," Danny asked his new friends.
"Saint Louis," Aelita said simply.
"Ah," Danny replied.
"All right! I give already," Dash cried out in pain. Damon let go and stood up. He held his hand out to help Dash up, but he just slapped it away.
"Next time I won't go easy on you," Damon stated.
"Yeah, right," Dash muttered as he stood back up, trying to pop his shoulder back into place.
"Before you make any assumptions, realize that I grew up in Saint Louis. I've beaten up way bigger than you," Damon stated. Damon turned around and Dash thought he saw a chance to get him back. He threw the hardest punch he could to the back of Damon's head. Damon ducked and performed a handstand to perform a powerful kick to Dash's jaw. Dash crumpled and lay on the ground, unconscious.
"Remind me not to get on his bad side," Danny whistled.
"I told him that I wouldn't go easy on him next time," Damon proclaimed.
"He's not gonna be happy when he wakes up," Sam stated, shaking her head.
"Nobody ever is when I start getting serious," Damon declared.
"And he's your boyfriend," Sam asked Erethyr incredulously. She couldn't help but laugh and rub the back of her head.
"It's been a while since the last time he did that," Jeremy proclaimed.
"How long," Danny asked.
"About six months," Jeremy replied.
"Since the last monster attack that you fended off then," Sam commented.
"Yes, I guess so," Jeremy laughed.
"We should probably be going in now," Xavier stated.
"Why, I think that we can probably get away with being late on our first day," Cid proclaimed.
"Cover me, I'm gonna heal him," Cassandra stated. Danny, Sam, and Tucker looked at each other awkwardly while the rest of Cassandra's friends surrounded her and Dash so that she could heal him without anybody seeing. Danny thought he saw her glow a faint white as she brought Dash around.
"Don't worry, he probably won't remember a thing," Damon stated.
"Why should we worry; you would have been the one that got expelled before entering the doors," Ulrich responded.
"Alright, I'll give you that one," Damon laughed.
"Ugh, what hit me," Dash groaned.
"Which cover story to use this time," Aelita thought out loud.
"How about number G-11," Odd offered.
"We ain't pullin' no G-11," Jeremie replied adamantly.
"What's G-11," Tucker inquired.
"Just because you're a Teletubby fan doesn't mean that the rest of us are," Cid hissed.
"Odd, you're a Teletubby fan," Tucker asked in disbelief.
"Just because I'm fourteen doesn't mean that I can't be a Teletubby fan," Odd protested.
"Actually it kind of does," Erethyr declared.
"Whatever," Odd huffed. Everyone started laughing, except Dash who was still trying to figure out what had just happened to him.
Mr. Lancer's Class
"Well, it looks like we have some new students today. But I have a more important matter to address first," Mr. Lancer declared. He turned to the globe he had setting on his desk.
"Look at Odd, he already fell asleep as soon as Mr. Lancer turned to that globe," Ulrich joked.
Mr. Lancer could hear Odd snoring, so he walked over to his desk and slammed his fist on it. Odd suddenly woke up and almost fell out of his seat. "I'd appreciate it if you didn't fall asleep in my class, Mr. Della Robbia."
"yes sir," Odd mumbled.
Mr. Lancer walked back up to his globe, "Thousands of meteors will be visible in the sky over Amity Park this Friday night. People tend to wish on these 'falling stars' without realizing that at the speed they're going, they could drill through your tiny skulls like they were wet toilet paper!"
"Oy," Sam sighed as she doodled in her notebook. She was trying to come up with Danny's emblem, and circled a D with a P inside of it.
"My papa says that the stars are falling just for my birthday," Paulina started monolouging, "And I'm going to wish to meet the ghost boy. And if one of the meteors comes towards me, the ghost boy could save me!"
"I'd wish for more arms so that I could catch more footballs," Dash proclaimed as he turned to Danny, "And to wail on you FenTON, but that's not really a wish because-" Dash caught the glare that Damon was giving him and sat back down; he decided to stay really quiet. Dash could faintly remember that Damon had kicked his ass, but couldn't remember all the details.
A seven foot tall green female reptilian humanoid with an armored left shoulder and upper arm, mini-rocket launcher on left wrist, claws on right wrist, pigtails, and mandibles crashed through the roof. "Paulinaaaa," it hissed. By now most of the students ran through the door.
"Did it just say your name," Dash asked Paulina at the door.
"Neat," Paulina proclaimed.
"War of the Worlds creature; get away from my youthful charges," Mr. Lancer exclaimed as he picked up a fire extinguisher and bashed it over the monster's head. The creature just roared at the English teacher. "Well, I tried. RUN!!!" Mr. Lancer ran to the fire alarm and pulled it. All the stragglers had run out of the classroom by now, except for ten familiar faces.
"Who's turn is it this time," Erethyr inquired.
"I took down Dash, so I'm out," Damon stated.
"I haven't gotten a detention yet, so I'm out," Odd half-joked.
"I healed Dash, so I'm out," Cassandra declared.
"Pulled something sparring with Damon last night," Ulrich confessed.
"I have to be able to run the super computer in case of an attack," Jeremie stated.
"And I have to be able to deactivate the tower," Aelita said apologetically.
"That just leaves me, Cid, and Xavier," Erethyr declared. They pulled their hands back as though for a punch.
"Rock, paper, scissors, shoot," the three of them shouted together. Even the monster's jaw dropped at their antics. It took them seven tries to get a decisive winner: Xavier.
"Alright! Let's storm her gates," Xavier exclaimed, "I'm going digital!" Xavier pixilated and expanded as his form changed. He compacted back down and depixilated, revealing to Danny what his Lyoko form looked like.
"That's a good start, but it's my turn," Danny declared, "I'm going ghost!" The familiar white rings appeared around his middle, but this time they went vertical before splitting to transform Danny Fenton into Danny Phantom.
Xavier pulled his bow out and drew the string. An arrow made of red energy fizzled into existence notched onto the bow. He let go and the arrow hit the mini-rocket launcher, destroying it instantly. "I got more where that came from, ugly," Xavier proclaimed as he drew back the bow string and four more arrows appeared, "A lot more."
"Wow, witty banter with a show of abilities to emphasize the point; well done," Danny mused as he fired an ectoplasmic blast out of his hand. The blast hit the monster and it sent crashing through the wall.
Erethyr winced, "That's gonna cost a little bit to fix." The remainder of the Lyoko gang had decided to stay and watch the fight. They had to see what Danny had to offer in the way of fighting, and they were fairly impressed so far.
The creature ran up to Danny and tried to slash him, but Danny turned intangible to allow the attack to go right through him. Xavier's forehead glowed red as he activated his Lyoko power. He was trying to figure out whether or not his arrows would harm Danny, but he didn't have sufficient data to come up with a conclusion. Xavier rolled to get Danny out of his shot and fired his four arrows while Danny fired another ectoplasmic blast. The creature roared in pain before collapsing onto the ground.
"Alright, ugly, who sent you," Danny demanded.
"Saaaaaamm," the creature hissed before it faded away. An intangible Desiree floated through the room to admire her handiwork before going away.
The Park, After School
"So the monster said Sam," Tucker inquired.
"Actually it was more like Saaaaaammmm, but you get the point," Danny proclaimed.
"You honestly can't blame me for this can you," Sam protested.
"Hey, Danny and I both fought that thing and it wasn't exactly a cake walk," Xavier stated.
"From our perspective it looked like it was," Ulrich stated.
"And what was with saying 'I'm going digital' anyway. I thought that we agreed that 'What do you mean' was our catchphrase," Odd proclaimed.
"It's a new battle cry," Xavier protested.
"Why did you feel like you had to roll away from Danny though, he was intangible," Erethyr inquired.
"Intangibility only affects matter, it doesn't really stop energy," Jeremie proclaimed.
"I was trying to use my power to see if it would affect Danny in particular, but I didn't have a sufficient amount of data to come up with a suitable conclusion," Xavier stated.
"So do all of you have powers or something," Tucker asked.
"Sam, I'm going to need you to wear the specter deflector and stay out of the way," Danny stated as he put the metallic belt around Sam's waist.
"WHAT!!!" Sam shrieked.
"Yeah, all of our group has powers and a different form," Aelita started to explain.
"Sam, all this has something to do with you, so until we figure out what it is we're going to need you to lay low," Danny declared.
"Wow, that's amazing," Tucker proclaimed. Just then Danny's breath could be seen, his ghost sense had just gone off.
"What the-" Odd started to ask as a blood-curdling scream could be heard.
"Paulina, again! This is going to have to wait," Danny declared, "I'm going ghost!"
"I'm going digital," Cid declared. Danny turned into his ghost form and Cid turned into his Lyoko form.
"A samurai gunman….now that's just freaky," Sam stated.
"Need a lift," Danny asked.
"Sure," Cid replied. Danny grabbed Cid's arm and flew off to find out what was attacking Paulina this time.
Paulina was getting chased on a MoPed by someone that looked like the Terminatrix wearing black leather while holding the dress she was going to wear for her birthday celebration. The Terminatrix wanna-be fired a laser blast at her quarry, but missed.
"Hey," Paulina shouted, "I just got this back from the cleaners!"
"Why don't you leave the lady alone," Danny shouted as he floated out of the ground near Paulina with Cid in tow.
"That had to be the scariest ride of my life," Cid proclaimed, his eyes as wide as saucers.
"Well, sorry-" Danny managed to get out before he was cut off.
"Let's do it again," Cid exclaimed.
The new monster came running up on the trio as fast as a speeding bullet. Danny fired his ectoplasmic blast and Cid started firing his revolvers. The monster transformed itself into something that looked like the head of a giant flyswatter and scooped up both Danny and Cid. They flew into a nearby fountain where they got tangled up further into the monster. She started to electrocute both of them and then threw them into the water. Danny transformed back into his normal self while Cid started to pick himself back up. Her arm transformed into something more fearsome looking as she held it out towards Danny and Cid.
"Leave them alone," Sam shouted as she rode in on a MoPed. She pressed the button on the specter deflector and was covered in a glowing green energy shield. She rammed into her enemy and Cid drew his sword out to slash it.
The monster hit the water and hissed, "Saaamm." It faded away and Cid transformed back into his normal self.
"Man, you're right," Sam proclaimed, "That specter deflector works like a charm!"
"Nice save," Danny declared, "Though to be fair, I probably wouldn't have needed it if it hadn't been for you in the first place."
"Danger, Danny Fenton," Cid stated.
The specter deflector started glowing and shocked Danny, causing him to fall back into the water. "Uh, excuse me. I save your butt and you're giving me grief," Sam exclaimed.
"Welcome to my world, remember," Danny retorted, "We should make the menu recyclo-vegetarian, we should let the gorilla out, we should sell all your dad's stuff at a garage sale."
"Anything else you want to blame me for! World hunger, the ice age, puberty," Sam argued.
"Sam, both those monsters knew your name," Danny stated, "Either there's another Sam involved with ghost fighting, or it's you."
"Um, Danny….oh forget it," Cid proclaimed as he walked back to the rest of his friends.
"How about a thank you," Sam proclaimed, "You think that Paulina would have saved you back there!"
"She would if she wanted me at her party," Danny argued as he stood back up again.
"I swear Danny, there are days that I wish that I had never even met you," Sam growled as she got on her MoPed and rode off.
"Good job, Fenton. You just ticked off one of the few real friends you have," Danny thought out loud to himself.
Just then, a figure coalesced above the water's surface. "Finally," Desiree laughed.
"Desiree, you look different," Danny commented as he went ghost.
"More powerful, why yes. The more wishes I grant, the more powerful I get," Desiree laughed, "Oh, and only days away from the meteor shower where everybody will be making wishes." Desiree wrapped her ghostly tail around Danny and threw him fifteen feet away.
"What do you want," Danny demanded.
"You, out of the way by Friday night," Desiree gloated, "But it's not about what I want. It's about what your little friend wants! And she just wished she had never met you!"
"Oh, oh no," Danny gasped.
"And so she has wished it, so shall it be," Desiree cried as she enveloped Danny in a wave of pink ectoplasmic energy.
The Next Day At School
Dash and his buddy Quan were busy sticking nerds into a locker. The currently had three in there. "Heh, a new record, but there's still room for more. Go get Mikey," Dash ordered. Quan walked off to retrieve his prey.
"So, what we got planned for tonight," Danny asked Tucker.
"My PDA says that we're free through college," Tucker replied as he looke through his calendar.
"Hi," Sam said.
"Do I know you," Danny inquired.
"Pssh, real mature," Sam stated, "I said that I wished that I had never met you and now you're acting like you don't know me."
"No, seriously," Danny proclaimed, "Do I know you?"
"And more importantly, do you want to know me," Tucker inquired.
"Eww, are you hitting on me," Sam asked sounding more than mildly creeped out.
"Ahh, I wish someone would show you what this feels like," Mikey declared. The Lyoko gang came running up at this point. Desiree came floating out of a ventilation shaft.
"So you have wished it, so shall it….oh you know the rest," Desiree declared as she enveloped Mikey in a wave of her ectoplasmic energy. Mikey turned into a reptilian creature bent on beating the shit out of Dash. Desiree floated over to Danny and said, "Boo."
Danny freaked out. "Okay, apparently we have been left out of some kind of loop," Odd declared as Desiree floated away, "Would anybody care to explain why ghosts are scaring the parents of the number one ghost hunters here in town?!"
"That's Desiree the wishing ghost," Sam declared, "Danny, you have got to do something! Why aren't you going ghost?!"
"Look kid, I don't know what you are talking about, but I'm outta here," Danny declared as he ran away. Tucker had long since split.
"Okay, that's weird," Xavier stated, "Why didn't he recognize you?" Mikey had stuffed Dash and Quan into a single locker when Dash started begging for forgiveness. Mikey transformed back into his normal self and slammed the locker on the two jocks.
Sam looked into Danny's locker and gasped as she realized what had happened. "Oh no. Last night I wished that I had never met Danny and Desiree must have made it happen! That means that Danny doesn't even have his powers!" Sam was holding up two versions of the same photo, one with her and the other without.
"That's pretty freaky," Ulrich stated.
"Wait, if the wish affected Danny, then why didn't affect me or any of you," Sam inquired.
"I guess that it works similar to the return to the past program we had for a while," Jeremy concluded.
"What," Sam deadpanned.
"Before we lost the return to the past program, nobody had any idea what our group was actually doing when we wandered off the school premises," Jeremy stated.
"How long had you been heroes before anybody found out," Sam asked.
"About two years," Aelita answered, "For most of our group anyway."
"About three months here," Damon and Erethyr stated.
"Cassandra and I didn't get into the group until after it became public," Cid admitted.
"What about you," Sam asked Xavier.
"Um, I was actually the original cause of all the strife, but about the time that Damon entered the group I was cleansed of the virus that was causing me to be evil," Xavier said sheepishly.
"What do you mean," Sam inquired.
"She just said our catchphrase," Odd proclaimed, nudging Ulrich in the shoulder.
"I was originally a computer program, but I got infected by a virus causing me to try to take over the world, starting with the school that the original members of the group were attending," Xavier replied in a low tone.
"I was originally an AI too," Erethyr offered.
"Human turned AI turned back to human," Aelita declared, holding up her hand sheepishly.
"Same here," Damon admitted.
"Your group really is diverse," Sam stated, sounding awestruck.
"Well, we try," Odd declared, rubbing the back of his head.
"Well, anyway, I have to catch up with Danny so that I can try to convince him that what I'm saying is true," Sam declared before running off to catch up with her once best friends. Xavier's forehead started to glow red again.
"What are you planning, Xavier," Ulrich inquired.
"I'm just trying to figure out a way to solve our Danny problem fast," Xavier declared.
Near Fenton Works, After School
"Why won't you believe me," Sam protested.
"Believe what; that I had superpowers, you and I are best friends even though I've never met you, and you're the only one that knows it," Danny proclaimed. He was starting to get irritated at this stranger that had outrageous claims.
"Yes, isn't that crystal clear," Sam shouted. Danny just walked up the front steps to his house and slammed the door on Sam. "I've got to do something to get him to listen to me. But how do I get through the thick head of a fourteen year old boy….aw damn it." As she had been thinking out loud, the thought struck her; and it was a horrifying thought to her.
Sam turned around when she heard laughter behind her. The Lyoko group was going up the stairs to their house, and apparently Odd had just told a good joke. Cassandra turned and noticed Sam standing in front of Danny's house; she waved for Sam to come in. Sam shrugged and followed them.
When she entered the house, it looked fairly normal. Three couches were situated to allow all of the group to be able to watch television, there were pictures of the group hanging on the wall, there was an Xbox 360 and a Wii sitting nearby the TV, and various weaponry was hanging on the far wall. "So when do your parents get home," Sam inquired.
"They're all back in France, we're on our own here. But the French government is paying for our stay here, so it's all good," Cid stated as he sat down on one of the couches and turned on the Xbox.
"Want to see why we chose this house," Cassandra asked.
"Sure, why not," Sam replied and followed her and Damon down into the basement. She saw a giant computer with a holomap in the center of the room, five disks with rings around them, and a chair sitting in front of a set of five monitors.
"This is the entire reason why we came to Amity Park, to stop another demonic artificial intelligence from causing massive damage and trying to take over the world," Damon stated as he sat down in the computer chair.
"We've all been talking and we've agreed that in case we are all unavailable, there needs to be a team here that might be able to handle things in Amity Park," Cassandra explained, "And we all agreed that you, Danny, and Tucker should be a part of that team; that is if you want to be a part of the save the world committee…"
"Of course I want to," Sam stated, happy at the chance to help out, "I've been sitting on the sidelines helping Danny fight ghosts for months now, and I have finally been given a chance to take a more active role…of course I would want to!"
"Alright, but realize that nobody outside of our group of friends is supposed to know about this. We're trying to work incognito while we're here, if our cover gets blown then all this will probably get confiscated by the government," Damon proclaimed.
"My lips are sealed," Sam responded.
"Good answer," Cassandra responded, "If you're serious about this, then step onto one of the disks on the floor. They are our scanners while we're here in America." Sam cautiously stepped onto one of the scanners and Damon started to type away as fast as he could. He was nowhere hear as fast at running some of the programs on the super computer as Jeremy or Aelita, but he could get the job done right. Cassandra also decided to step onto one of the scanners.
"Transfer, Sam; Transfer, Cassandra," Damon declared. The disks at Cassandra and Sam's feet started glowing blue as the ring started to raise a few inches off the ground.
"Scanner, Sam; Scanner, Cassandra," Damon declared. The rings were floating higher until they were above the two girls' heads, casting a green light on them as it went up. They were getting their bodies scanned into the super computer. This whole thing seemed to be freaking Sam out a little bit; she was not expecting anything like this when she had stepped onto the disk on the floor.
When the rings reached their apex Damon proclaimed, "Virtualization." He hit the enter key and a green wall of light shimmered down from the rings all the way down to disks below them. Sam and Cassandra felt a warm, tingly feeling as the blue light from the disks shone more brightly. With a flash of blue light, they were virtualized onto the new digital world. The rings floated back down to the ground, signaling that the job was complete. "And now I just have to keep an eye on them. I'll give them about five minutes before I bring them back in."
Next Day, School Cafeteria
"Are you sure that you want to go through with this Sam," Cassandra asked. She was concerned about her new friend. Sam was going to extraordinary lengths to get Danny to listen to her. Sam was wearing a pink sweater, pink polka dotted skirt, pink sneakers, and pink eighties' style socks alongside a pink bow and poorly applied make-up. Sam had decided that if she couldn't get Danny to listen to her logic, then she'd have to appeal to his baser fourteen year old instincts.
"Would I have put all this on if I wasn't sure," Sam stated, "Besides, I have my normal clothes on under this horrible outfit."
"Alright, we're all rooting for you," Cassandra declared as she opened the cafeteria door for Sam. The Lyoko group had all been in on this plan, but none of them had relished the idea very much. They were sitting at a separate table from Danny and Tucker, who were eating ice cream cones. Sam sauntered up to her old friends' table and grabbed their attention.
"Hi," Sam said as gently as she could through her gritted teeth, "Mind if I join you?" Danny grinned as he caught Tucker off guard and pushed him off of his chair. Sam quickly sat down where Tucker had just been.
"She surrendered her individuality for a boy," Paulina commented from another table, "I'm so proud of her!"
Sam quickly went to work trying to prove to Danny that she was telling the truth. She pulled out to photos, one from before her accidental wish and one from after, that had the same date on them. "Notice anything," Sam inquired.
"Yeah, you broke into my locker and doctored an old photo of me," Danny declared, "That means you really like me; or you're nuts. You're not nuts, are you?"
"Focus," Sam growled as she dragged Danny over to look at more of her photos. One in particular caught Danny's eye.
"Wait, that's a picture of my parents' lab," Danny gasped. He picked up the photo album and leafed through the pages, seeing photos of things that had happened to him that he couldn't even remember. "Who are you?!"
"I'm Sam Manson, and about a year ago I convinced you to go into your parents' portal and there was an accident."
"And I got superpowers," Danny said almost incredulously.
"Actually ghost powers, but I wished that we'd never met and that ghost in the school made it happen. I was wearing this," Sam declared as she held up the specter deflector, "Which is why I think that the ghost didn't affect me, but you don't have your powers anymore!"
"Paulinaaa," hissed a voice from the other side of the cafeteria wall. It stuck its claws through the wall and sliced a hole big enough for it. The monster looked like a fat, female version of Freddy Crueger. Almost everybody in the room started running for the nearest exit, while Danny, Sam, and their friends stayed where they had been.
"Danny you gotta," Sam started to say as she looked towards Danny, who looked like he was in the middle of a panic attack, "Actually, I gotta!" Sam put the specter deflector around her waist and took Tucker's beret, cutting two eyeholes out of before donning it like a mask.
"Alright, it's my turn," Erethyr proclaimed as she jumped nearby Sam, "I'm going digital!" She transformed just like Xavier had earlier that week into her Lyoko form. Sam took one of the various Fenton weapons out of her backpack and prepared to fight alongside her friend. "Why didn't you just turn into your Lyoko form," Erethyr inquired.
"I figure Danny might actually come around if I fight using his parent's weaponry," Sam replied.
"Good plan," Erethyr stated as she drew her scimitars. Erethyr leaped into combat while Sam exteneded the whip-like apparatus within the tube that she had taken out of her backpack. Sam lashed out at the monster and ensnared it while Erethyr went in and started hacking at anything that was exposed.
After a few moments of pain, the monster managed to break free from her bindings and started to retaliate against Erethyr. The two were exchanging blows left and right, blocking then attacking in a rhythmic pattern. Sam went for her backpack again and pulled out a thermos. She pulled off the lid and pressed a button, aiming it at the creature in front of her. A beam of light came out of the thermos and hit the monster, sucking her into it. When she was secured, Sam popped the cap back on.
"Does this happen often," Danny inquired while Erethyr regained her natural form.
"More often then you remember," Sam replied as she took of the make-shift mask.
"Alright, you've got my attention," Danny declared.
"Finally," Sam gasped and tore off the pink clothes, revealing her usual attire underneath, "Come on!" She grabbed Danny and started to drag him back to the Fenton Works. Tucker, Xavier, and Jeremy decided to follow them.
Fenton Works
The five teens were in the basement under Danny's house. Tucker had decided to watch the stairs for any sign of Danny's parents, Xavier and Jeremy had decided to watch the proceedings to see if they could glean any information, and Danny was with Sam. The latter was discussing her plan with Danny while holding out a hazmat suit to him.
"How's it going over there," Danny inquired.
"Pretty good," Sam replied, "I guessing that if we set everything how it was when it happened, it will happen again." Sam was examining a picture in her hand, and setting the dials nearby the Fenton Portal to match them. "Are you sure about this?"
"Of course I'm sure about this," Danny proclaimed, "You saw those things, those monsters, ghosts! Those ghosts were attacking our school, besides, I always wanted to go in here. Who knows what kind of awesome, super cool things exist on the other side of that portal?!" Sam threw the hazmat suit to him.
"One question, weren't the colors on the hazmat suit inverted from the ones that you are handing him now," Jeremy inquired.
"That is the exact same one that he had on the first time this happened," Sam replied. Danny had the hazmat suit on and was ready to enter the portal. "Hold on." Sam took Danny's dad's face off the hazmat suit and instead slapped on the insignia that she had designed just yesterday.
"Uh, what is that," Danny inquired.
"Just trust me, okay," Sam responded. Danny walked into the portal and was fairly depressed at the lack of activity within it. That's when he accidentally pressed the on switch located inside of the portal. There was a bright green flash as the portal was activated and Danny's scream could be heard coming from within. Danny's DNA once again became infused with that of a ghost's. He stumbled out of the Fenton Portal in his ghost form, except that now he had a white insignia on his chest.
"Cool," was the only thing that Xavier managed to say. His forehead had been glowing red the entire time in an effort to analyze every detail.
"Danny, are you…" Sam inquired as she ran over to Danny and tried to help him out. Her hands slipped right through him when he turned intangible. "You're a ghost, again!"
"You're right, I am a ghost. Cool," Danny exclaimed, "This is cool, right?"
"It's very cool," Sam responded as she put a hand on his chest.
"Hey, what's going on down there," came a masculine voice from up the stairs.
"Oh no, you're dad! Change back," Sam cried.
"Change back, how," Danny asked.
"I don't know, you just think about it or something," Sam replied. Danny tried as hard as he could, but he couldn't seem to transform at will. That was when an idea struck him. Danny grabbed Sam and leaned her back and performed the fake-out make-out. He managed to transform back to normal like this just as his dad came down the stairs. Danny's dad was a large black haired man with white sideburns wearing an orange hazmat suit with black gloves and boots.
"You're in a lot of trouble mister," Mr. Fenton exclaimed, "And who the heck are you?"
"Um," Sam thought up a lie as fast as she could, "I'm Paulina?"
"Then Danny Fenton is never allowed to see you, Paulina," Mr. Fenton declared.
The Next Night, On A Hill Overlooking the Country Club
"I can't believe it took me this long to figure out what the hell Desiree was planning," Sam muttered. All twelve friends were standing on the hill overlooking Paulina's party.
"Why did you guys come along anyway," Tucker inquired.
"We thought that since Danny doesn't have complete control over his powers yet, he mind need some back-up," Aelita replied.
"You mean all of you can transform like Erethyr did yesterday," Tucker asked, sounding awestruck.
"Yeah, and we better get started, the first star has just fallen," Ulrich declared.
"I'm going to become ghostly," Danny exclaimed.
"Nah," Odd said, shaking his head.
"That's 'going ghost,'" Sam corrected.
"Nah," Danny stated before he started to transform. When he was done he noticed that he didn't have any legs. "GAH, where'd my legs go! Phew!"
"Our turn now," Cid stated.
"WE'RE GOING DIGITAL!" With that, the entire group transformed before Danny, Sam, and Tucker's eyes. When the transformation was complete, Damon was the only one that didn't look radically different.
"Why didn't you transform," Sam inquired.
"I did, notice that I'm not wearing those boots anymore," Damon replied, wiggling his toes for emphasis. Sam, Tucker, and Danny just groaned.
"Just remember, nobody make a wish," Sam proclaimed.
"I wish I had one of those sweet monster trucks," Tucker declared.
"Do you ever pay attention to anything, at all, ever," Sam exclaimed. Desiree floated out of the ground behind the group and granted Tucker's wish, making a Gi-Normo 6000 appear before him.
"This doesn't seem very monstrous," Tucker declared, he started yelling when the hood opened up and revealed a row of razor sharp teeth. Tucker ran away and his wish followed him.
"Yes fools, keep on wishing," Desiree exclaimed as she started to grow in size.
"What do I do, what do I do," Danny asked frantically.
"You fight her, then you use this," Sam replied as she threw the Fenton Thermos to Danny.
"For what, soup," Danny inquired sarcastically. Two shrubs nearby Sam came to life and bound her wrists.
"Who asked for evil plants," Sam asked rhetorically as she tried to free herself.
Danny unsteadily floated up in the air to face Desiree while Xavier was in place with four arrows notched onto his bow. Jeremy and Aelita were on opposing sides of Desiree, their energy fields at the ready. Cid had his revolvers in hand. Odd was holding his arm up towards Desiree. Cassandra and Erethyr were in fighting stances. Damon had encased himself in his ice armor.
"You're back," Desiree shouted, "But how?!"
"Danny, use your ghost ray," Sam shouted encouragingly.
Danny held out his hand to try to use the supposed power, but instead his butt started glowing green. "That can't be right," Danny stated as he turned over in midair and aimed his butt at Desiree. He fired and Desiree went flying. Danny unscrewed the cap off of the thermos and realized that he didn't know how to use it. Desiree came back and swatted Danny. When Danny hit the ground, Desiree smashed him to it while still granting wishes.
Damon decided to help Sam out with her little gardening problem while Cid went after Tucker and his 'monster' truck. Cassandra fired her lightning at Desiree, sending electricity coursing through her ghostly body. Odd was firing his laser arrows at his foe's face. Xavier was firing his arrows like a mad-man, sending four arrow volleys at a time rapid fire. Jeremy and Aelita fired their energy fields at Desiree in synchronous, but quickly found out that their polarity trick would not phase this ghost at its current power level. Erethyr was trying to pry Danny out from under Desiree's hand, but to no avail.
Damon quickly ran over to Sam and proclaimed, "Dost the lady need me to do away with her pesky gardenia?"
"Yes," Sam shouted.
"Alright, sheesh. Spray it, don't say it," Damon joked as he grabbed the offending shrubs and pried them off of Sam. Once they were safely off of her, Damon extended his icy touch to freeze the evil shrubs before crushing them.
"And your cruelty to plant life will never cease to amaze me," Sam growled, brushing herself off. Damon decided to put her on his shoulder before entering the fray against Desiree.
"It was either let them hold you down, or destroy them," Damon quipped, "And speaking of destruction, why haven't you gone digital yet?"
"I'm kinda afraid to," Sam admitted after a long pause.
"So let me get this straight," Damon stated as his ice armor melted off of him, "You will stare down most ghosts without even flinching, but you're afraid to assume a form that will allow you to fight here on Earth?" Damon's ice armor had completely melted off of him, but he was still carrying Sam on his shoulder.
"I guess so," Sam laughed, "Why did your armor melt away?"
"It has a time limit to it," Damon said off-handedly. Sam slid off of Damon's shoulder and he took it as a sign to help Danny out of his manhandling problem.
Cid was taking careful aim at the monster truck. If he fired at the wrong time, he might kill Tucker. He was going to try and disable the truck permanently with a single shot. That was when an idea struck him.
"Tucker, lead the truck towards Desiree," Cid shouted, "I have a plan!" Tucker laughed as though he thought that Cid was crazy, but he decided to go through with his part anyway. Tucker ran towards Desiree, but before he could get right next to her, be tripped over a rock.
"Perfect," Cid declared as he fired a single shot at the truck. It hit the gas tank, making it explode in such a way as to flip right over Tucker and hit Desiree just as the big explosion happened. Damon and Erethyr had been putting all their might behind lifting Desiree's hand, and were surprised by it suddenly being moved to her belly. They fell on top of Danny, accidentally dodging a flying tire that would have killed both of them. Cid spun the revolver on his finger before blowing on the muzzle.
"Enough of this, you foolish mortals," Desiree exclaimed, "You dared to harm me, and now you shall pay the price!" Desiree extended her glowing hand towards the Lyoko gang, when Xavier pulled a bold move.
"I wish that Danny and Sam had never had their stupid fight," Xavier declared.
"And I wish that me and my friends remembered everything that happened but nobody else did because I really, really like it," Sam proclaimed hurriedly.
"And so you have wished it, so shall it be," Desiree automatically proclaimed. Without a single thought, she granted their two wishes. In a flash of pink energy that engulfed Danny, he remembered everything that he had forcibly forgotten, including multiple incidents involving the girls' locker room. When the flash faded away, he smirked and aimed the Fenton Thermos at Desiree, sucking her into it. "I've got to stop granting every wish I hear," Desiree muttered from within the thermos.
The Lyoko warriors let out a sigh of relief as they transformed back into their normal selves. All of the ill begotten wishes that Desiree had granted ceased to exist as soon as Danny slapped the cap back onto the thermos. Danny took one look at his costume and dropped the Fenton Thermos before he decided to ask Sam a question.
"Did you do something to my costume?"
"No, it's always been like that," Sam lied. Danny decided not to implore further because the emblem was actually a pretty cool looking idea.
Tucker walked over to Danny as he was bending over to pick up the thermos, "Whew, that was close. Watch where you're pointing that thing!" Laugher ensued as the group of friends counted their blessings that their recent trials against this powerful ghost were finally over, not aware of an evil that was about to awaken.
A/N 2: I know that this is highly unusual of me, but after all this time without posting a chapter, I need your help! I need a few monster designs for the new sectors in the new digital world. These monsters need to fit in with the theme that each sector represents. No monster from one sector will ever appear in a different one. Also, if you could send me your ideas for what to call this digital world, I would appreciate it. Oh, and also, I'm in need of a look for the new virtual villain...or villainess! Send me your ideas, the ones that sound the best will be chosen and the creators will have individual chapters dedicated to them. I will put all these winners' names into a hat and randomly select one to get the chance to create a new OC of their own design, whether it be for good or evil! BWAHAHAHA! And also, I decided not to reveal Sam's digital form yet, I love to keep all of my readers on the edge of their seats in suspense. But I digress, my random threat still holds from the first author notes at the beginning of the chapter.
From your menacing neighborhood author,
alteris