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"Well I suppose we should be on are way now." Said Vlad as he stood up from his armchair. "It's 5:57 now."
"I'll see you guys there."
Danny's familiar transformation rings emerged turning him into Phantom and before the flash left the room he was gone, on his way to the Channel 5 News station.
"Just loves to be flashy." Said Vlad as he changed into Plasmius in a much less brighter way.
"That's my dad for you." Said Dani as she copied Danny's transformation style.
"One day he's going to be caught with that bright flash. I already taught both of you how to bring down the amount of light."
"Where's your sense of awe?"
"It was overpowered by my ability to keep a secret. We'll get there faster if we teleport."
Dani waked over to him and he quickly grabbed her hand while focusing on seeing both of them being on top of the Channel 5 News station. A moment later he stopped having to picture it since he was looking out over the rooftop.
"Took you 2 the whole of 35 seconds to get here."
"Danielle here had to put on just as much of a show as her father."
"He doesn't understand the shock and awe feeling." Said Dani as she pointed an accusing finger towards Vlad.
"Let's just get this over with. My ribs are still a little sore."
The 3 then phased though the roof and headed towards the interview room.
In the interview room
"This is Kate Hansen here with Amity Park's resident ghost hunters Jack and Maddie Fenton. Welcome to the show Mr. and Mrs. Fenton."
Kate was sitting in a single armchair while the Fentons sat on a black loveseat.
"It's a pleasure to be here Ms. Hansen. I would prefer if you would call us Jack and Maddie though."
"Well Maddie every one of our viewers wishes to know you and your husband's take on today's massive ghost attack?"
"Me and Jack came to the most obvious conclusion there was. It's obvious that they are now using a pack mentality to attack the town since they've been defeated a countless number of times alone. It's just like how predators take down large prey. They are really just like a bunch of animals when you look at it."
"Those animals though easily defeated both of you while the ghost they kept referring to Plasmius was easily fighting them off single handedly. Isn't he the Wisconsin ghost, so what is he doing here in Amity Park in the first place?"
"That we can't be entirely sure of. We think that he was attempting to become the Alpha Male of the group though. He was most likely on his way here to cause trouble himself, saw the ghost already here, and then attempted to become the head of the group."
"Why do you keep referring to them as some sort animal, when they clearly possess a level of intelligence similar to our level? It might be higher even."
"Sure they may be able to talk but they don't have anything else close to our level and they definitely aren't smarter than us."
"They are simply rage filled beings who wish to bring destruction to humans."
"Jack is completely right when he says that too. The only emotions they could possibly be able to feel are rage and hate towards everything that isn't them."
"But what about Danny Phantom?"
"He seems to be a unique ghost when compared to the rest. We won't entirely know the truth until we've had a chance to dissect him though. Then we can answer all your questions about him along with some that we've had ourselves."
"So you want to kill the town's protector?"
"The ghosts only started to appear like this after Phantom came around. They will probably stop after he's gone."
"What if they don't though?"
"We'll take care of it." Said Jack.
"How are you going to do that when you 2 were easily taken out by the single ghost that we know as Technus?"
"That's because he simply surprised us."
"Shouldn't you and Jack be on guard when you go into a ghost fight like that?"
"I and Maddie were very prepared. It's was just that our attention was devoted elsewhere at the time."
"It's 2 of you though. Shouldn't at least one of you have noticed what was happening?"
"Are you trying to call us incompetent Ms. Hansen?"
"No I'm not. I'm just pointing out how you 2 were taken out so easily and how the Plasmius ghost not only saved a crowd of people from your weapons being turned on them and also fought off all those ghosts. There had to be at least 40 ghosts attacking today."
"Well there are only Maddie and me fighting them."
"But Danny Phantom and Plasmius easily fight them off whether they're together or alone."
"Are you saying that those ectoplasmic scum are better than us at fighting ghosts?" said a clearly angered Maddie.
"It's not only our profession. We have devoted out lives to this Ms. Hansen."
"I'm just stating facts here Mr. and Mrs. Fenton. According to our records and eyewitness accounts those two ghosts have succeeded in a defeating and capturing a much larger amount than you or any other human ghost hunter. The Red Huntress is the only one to come close while you 2 are far behind even her. We still don't even know her identity or the source of her weaponry."
"I thought this was an interview and not a time to insult us and our skills Ms. Hansen."
"She's right Ms. Hansen." Said a new voice.
The 3 people started to look around for the source of the voice and weren't completely shocked when they couldn't find it.
"I'm above you by the way."
Jack and Maddie were up from their seats and had pulled out ghost weapons in the blink of an eye. The 2 fired nets at the ceiling. The nets hit the ceiling empty while Jack and Maddie wasted no time in starting to walk around to find the ghost while Kate was dumbstruck.
"Show yourself ghost!" called out Maddie.
"Remember that you asked me to."
With that a ball of green fire erupted from the center of the room forcing Jack and Maddie back to their seats. The flame disappeared just as quickly as it had appeared leaving 3 figures standing where it had been. The three where none other than Vlad Plasmius, Danny Phantom, and Dani Phantom. Danny was in his King Phantom form this time and everyone finally got a good look at it.
"You asked me to show myself."
"It didn't need to be as flashy as that Danny." Said Plasmius.
"Come on. That had to be one of my best entrances."
"I would give it a ten out of ten." Said Dani.
Their talk was interrupted by the voice of Maddie Fenton who had finally regained her footing.
"Freeze ghost."
"I would but then I couldn't give Ms. Hansen the interview I had planned for her. I'm pretty sure I can answer her questions about today's attack and my new appearance better than you 2 could with your biases. What's better than the source itself anyway?"
"That sounds like a wonderful idea. We'll be right back with to continue the interview after the commercial break."
At Sam's house
"What the hell is he thinking?!" Sam said as she was started walking around the room.
They had been watching the interview in Sam's game room in her basement. It was good that Sam's parent had been out or they would have come running to see what had made Sam that mad.
"Calm down Sam." Valerie said as she tried to calm down the raging Goth. "I'm sure he has some sort of plan."
"I know my baby brother and he must be out of his mind to pull a stunt like this! The Guys in White are probably on their way to the station right now to capture him so they can dissect him or something sick like that!"
"I'm with Valerie on this. No way Danny would charge in there with his parents already there if he didn't have a plan."
"Still Tucker, the Guys in White are probably heading there as we speak! I know Danny and let's say he planned for our parent being there. There's no way he planned for the Guys in White coming there to shoot the place up to catch him!"
"He was in his King Phantom form though." Added Valerie.
"It doesn't matter what form he's in! They'll just sneak up on his and blast him with the biggest gun they have or shoot him with a missile!"
"We're going down there right now! I'm not letting my little brother get killed!"
Jazz headed for the door along with Sam and a reluctant Valerie when Tucker put his arms out and put himself in front of the door, effectively blocking them from getting out.
"No! We're not going anywhere. If we go down there now they'll realize that we're close to him and only use us as bait to catch him. The best thing we can do for him is to stay here and wait for it to come back on. If things start to look bad, we can go down there then and only then."
The group was pretty taken back by the usual laid back Tucker yelling at them with authority in his voice. They decided to just take his advice and remained in silence looking at the TV, hoping when it came back on Danny was still okay along with Dani and Vlad .
"I know you both want to help Danny. I want to help him too. He's my best friend for as long as I can remember. But if we just go charging down there asking for Danny it'll only end up hurting him when people realize how close we are to him. We might even blow his secret when they don't see Danny with us. We can't take that chance and risk destroying his life." Tucker said with a hint of sorrow in his voice. "Our best option right now is to just sit here and watch the interview. We'll go running down there the moment were sure that the Guys in White are there. He has Vlad and Dani with him so they should be able to handle themselves anyway."
"We wow return to our exclusive interview."
Back in the interview room during the break...
"Mr. and Mrs. Fenton I'm going to have to ask you 2 to leave."
"We can't leave you here with these ghosts."
"I'd rather not be forced to call security."
"No they can stay." Danny said.
His hands started to glow blue and he made 3 more chairs made entirely out of ice. He then snapped his fingers and the chairs turned from ice into looking just like regular chairs. Kate applauded while Jack and Maddie just continued to stare daggers at the ghosts.
"What a ghost can't have a comfortable seat?"
Jack and Maddie's answer was to intensify their stares on the ghosts.
"Come on you two. Lighten up already." Said Dani as she flew up to eye level with Maddie. "You two really should be more kind to the town's protectors."
"Be quiet ghost!"
"Fine. But I taking you off the "Save these guys" list."
"We can save ourselves."
"Of course you can. Even though we've saved you both a grand total of…"
"Dani stop antagonizing the Fentons. You 2 could at least act nicer for the camera you know."
"We'll be back from the break in 30 seconds. All of you should take your seats. I also need your full names if that's okay."
"Of course Ms. Hansen. Mine is Vlad Plasmius."
"Danny Phantom as I'm sure you know."
"I'm Dani with an I Phantom."
The Fentons returned to their loveseat while the halfas took their seats in the ones Danny made. Danny was in the middle with Dani on the left and Vlad on the right. This is going to be really interesting. Thought Danny as he turned the remainder of his parent's weapons into plastic replicas. That's all the ones I know. Those jumpsuits have all the extra pockets though. Dad probably has fudge in his but mom will no doubt have an extra few smaller weapons. I'm really hoping that I don't find out where she keeps them.
"Welcome back to this exclusive interview. Before the break we were joined by Danny Phantom, Dani with an I Phantom, and Vlad Plasmius. They have agreed to answer a few questions while the Fentons agreed to remain silent until we start taking calls."
"We wouldn't want to disrupt their interview like they did to ours." Said Maddie with obvious sarcasm.
"Excellent. Now my first question is for Danny Phantom. Why did you get the new clothes and what happened to the ones that you had before?"
"I still have my old ones. I'm actually wearing them right now. These are all just new pieces to it." He took off his left gauntlet to prove the point and sure enough there were his original gloves.
"That doesn't answer my question on why the new look."
"Some things are better left to remain a mystery. I can't tell you everything."
"I'll move on then. How about the next question goes to Vlad Plasmius?"
"Ask whatever is on your mind Ms. Hansen."
"How do you get here so fast from Wisconsin to fight the ghosts here in Amity Park?"
"The Ghost Zone can get you wherever you need to go extremely quickly if you know your way around and know where a few portals are. The rest is just flying."
"So how many portals are in the Ghost Zone?"
"There are millions of them my dear. Some stay there constantly while others open at random in both places. A human can easily get sucked into the Ghost Zone or a ghost can easily get sucked into the Human World if they aren't strong enough to fight the portals pull."
"Why do some of the portals open randomly while others are stable?"
"That none of us know even in the Ghost Zone. A few wise ghosts here and there have an idea though. We can predict where most will open and make sure to get any humans sucked in out as quickly as possible."
"And who exactly does that?"
"Juts ghosts that volunteer for it. That's all there is about it. I believe we should move on to another question Ms. Hansen."
"Of course. How about the next question goes to Dani?"
"Alright Kate ask away."
"How exactly do you look so much younger than the other ghosts? The only ghost that we've seen to be anywhere close to your age is that one who dresses like a pirate."
"You mean Youngblood. He's pretty awesome once you get to know him. Of course you all never do because you always shoot at him."
"We are defending ourselves!" Maddie had finally heard enough, breaking her silence she walked over to confront Dani.
"From what?! He's just a kid playing around!" Dani's balled up fists now were glowing a bright green.
Crap! She's not going to hold back! Danny flew in between the two and put a shield in front of Maddie that stopped her in her tracks. Vlad had put a dome around Dani to stop her from attacking Maddie.
"Ms. Fenton I suggest you sit back down. Danielle, calm down or you'll be fighting me."
Dani quickly backed down and stuck her tongue out at Maddie who sat back down next to Jack still fuming from their encounter.
"How about we continue the interview." Danny said while rubbing the back of his neck. He was glad that the whole situation was at least brought down to a safer level. He wouldn't likely allow Dani and his mom in the same room any time soon though.
"Good idea. May I ask how you all become so strong to be able to fight off large groups of ghost?"
"Training." All three said at once.
"Fast answer. How about we go to break again? When we come back we'll be taking calls from our viewers. Be sure to call in because this is your chance to ask your questions."
As soon as the cameraman signaled that they were clear Maddie was up from her seat again while Jack simply took out some fudge from one of his pockets.
"Who do you think you are you little piece of ectoplasmic filth?"
"I have a name lady!"
"You're just like any other ghost."
"You don't know any other ghost. I could waste you right here lady but I'm not."
"What afraid to ruin your little hero image?"
"Screw it. I'm wasting you."
With a swipe of her hand she sent out an energy wave towards Maddie who dodged to the side and took out on of her weapons. She pulled the trigger to fire and nothing happened. Quickly realizing that something was wrong she activated her hidden wrist laser (Danny smacked his forehead with his hand) and began to send her own blasts at Dani. Dani quickly summoned a reflecting shield in front of herself.
"Right back at you old hag!"
Maddie expertly dodged them all but couldn't react fast enough to dodge Dani's punch to her gut. Little brat used the blasts as cover to get close to me. Maddie dropped into a fighting stance realizing that all of her weapons were useless since they would just be redirected at her. Dani jumped up into the air going for a heel drop and Maddie raised her arm to block it. At the last second she grabbed Dani's leg and flung her to the ground with all her force along with Dani's own momentum. Dani let out a pained scream as she had landed on her arm and they could all see that it was clearly broken at the angle it was bent. Maddie gave her no time to heal and was quickly on her again this time stomping and kicking her. Dani simply curled up into a ball trying to protect her arm more than anything else. She finally managed to block out the pain enough and summon enough energy to make a shield around herself.
"Get out of there ghost!" Maddie continued to stomp on the shield while activating her wrist laser again to shoot the shield.
"Maddie that's enough!" Jack had grabbed her from behind and hoisted her away from the downed Dani. "She obviously stopped fighting!"
"I was defending myself!" Maddie was struggling against Jack's hold and it proved worthless.
"From what? She's just like any other little girl! She didn't even go all out on you! She could have killed you the second the fight started!"
Maddie finally remembered how the girl had fought earlier today how when her punches missed the ghost she was aiming for and how when they hit a building, how the place where her fist hit was cracked and started to fall off. Danny and Vlad had rushed over to Dani after Jack had grabbed Maddie.
"We should have stepped in."
"You saw it Daniel. Danielle wasn't even anywhere close to fighting for real. No one knew that she would've broken her arm." Vlad out a comforting hand on Danny's shoulder as he bent down to inspect Dani's injury. "Can you drop your shield dear?"
They only got a moan in response but the shield dropped when she recognized the voice.
"Just let the arm heal by itself."
Vlad and Danny were shocked by the response but decided that they would have to respect her request.
"I can't heal your bones, but we have to set your arm back into place. It got dislocated." Danny bent down to pick Dani up and carried her over to the loveseat.
"Daniel hurry up and give her something to bite down on." Vlad grabbed her arm while Danny started to activate his ice powers. "Just grab the pillow."
Danny decided to listen to Vlad as he grabbed the pillow and gave it to Dani.
"Hey Dani. I need you to bite down on this. It's going to help you a lot." Danny gave her the pillow and she listened to him knowing what was about to happen was going to hurt a lot.
Danny held Dani down while Vlad pushed the arm back into place with Dani biting the pillow in response along with letting out a muffled yell.
"Danny make a cast." Vlad took to pillow from Dani and set it back on the couch not caring about it being covered in Dani's saliva. "Now why can't we fix the fracture in your arm?"
"I want to show that witch of a woman that ghosts can feel pain and that we heal just like she does."
"You're half ghost but I see the point you're trying to make. We'll play along."
Danny finished making an ice cast around Dani's arm along with a sling.
"I'll make it normal in a little. It'll help numb the pain this way."
"My arm better not freeze Danny."
The three quickly walked back over to their seats while Kate just stared at the 3.
"Why didn't you just kill her?"
"We'll leave that for another day. I noticed you extended the break so we should start taking those questions now."
"Sure thing. Jack and Maddie went home by the way."
So it was a good idea to say that I would be out tonight. Gotta love hindsight.
"And were back. We had the difficulties during the break and had to extend it to take care of them. Jack and Maddie also had to go due to a family emergency. But now how about we take a few of your questions. We're going to try to get to as many questions as we can so try to keep them short."
A table had been moved in during the break and a speaker phone was set up on it. Kate pressed a button on it and the line came to life.
"Say your name and then ask your question please."
"Hello. My name is Smith Wesson. I was wondering why you guys protect this town?"
"I'll take this one." Danny said as he leaned closer to the table. "Well since we noticed that the ghosts were attacking here the most we just decided that it was the right thing to do with our powers."
"Well it clears it up so thanks."
"Next caller." Kate said as she pressed a button.
"Hi there. My names Action Revolver. I want to know how you guys died?"
He was met by silence and started to rethink asking it.
"If it's too personal I can ask another question."
"No its fine. It's just that it's kinda a hard question to answer since we're aren't dead."
"What do you mean? Don't you guys live in the Ghost Zone? You have to be dead right."
"Actually we're only half dead."
"How is that even possible?"
"Something half killed us and infused half our DNA with ghost DNA."
"So you all are half human and half ghost."
"You can call us halfas." Said Dani.
"So how did it happen?"
"Lab accidents my dear. They then gave us our powers and forms."
"I guess I should get back to the caller's questions. Let's move on to the next caller."
She pressed a button on the speaker phone and it selected a new caller.
"So you guys are like real-life superheroes then."
"Yeah."
"Alright so next caller. So I see that we're going to stop the introductions."
"So if you guys aren't full ghosts, can you change back to humans?"
"Yes."
Kate pressed the button again and another caller got selected.
"So who are you guys then?"
"What good would telling you do?" said Danny as he pressed the button to discontent the call.
"How old are you guys then?"
"We'll add that to the mystery." Danny did the same thing as he did before.
"Do you guys use your real names?"
"Same answer as before."
The next few questions continued just like this until Danny had finally had enough.
"Well since these questions don't seem to be stopping anytime soon. I guess that we'll be taking our leave."
"It's been a pleasure Ms. Hansen."
"Bye Kate." Dani hugged the young reporter as she stood up from her seat.
"It was a pleasure to interview you all. Just call ahead next time. I'm sure we can arrange an interview."
"We'll keep that in mind."
The 3 then phased through the ceiling and headed towards the roof.
"That plan was still crazy. You two can easily be found out."
"It hasn't been found out yet. I mean every time I ask to use the bathroom I come back looking like I just got into a fight. Danny Phantom also had just gotten into a fight and no one sees it. I tripped seems to always work."
"I found out quite easily Daniel."
"Well I had just gotten to you house and then Danny Phantom appears. I would have been more shocked if you hadn't made the connection."
"I'm concerned about you Daniel. Danielle I'm sure won't be recognized but you. To me it only seems like a matter of time."
"If they do find out I can always just erase their memories like before."
"I do remember that adventure you had with Freak Show. I had to take care of business of making sure they couldn't send the entire military against you while pleading your case to the Senate. Bunch of old fools."
"It couldn't have been that bad."
"Never mind that. We just need to be sure that nothing happens to you. I'll think of something tonight. Danielle you're not going back to school until your arm heals. I assume you'll be going with Danny to talk to his friends so I'll head back to the Mayor's Mansion." With that he teleported.
"I really need one of you to teach me that."
"Patience is a virtue Ms. Phantom." Danny said in his best sage voice.
"Let's just go explain all this to your sister and your friends. Wonder how they're going to take your advice."
"Crap. Well let's go to the park so I can call them."
"You can call them from here."
"Too late." He said as he teleported them to park.
"Just make it quick."
Danny pulled out his phone and called Tucker's number. He figured Tucker would be the best to call. He wasn't even sure it rang once before tucker picked up.
"Hey dude."
"Danny. I think you need to get over here right away."
"Fine. Where are you guys then?"
"Sam's game room in her basement."
"I'm bringing Dani with me so tell them that at least."
"I don't think that will call them down. I swear Sam is literally steaming."
"Are her parent there?"
"Nope. Left to some event before we got here."
"Alright I'll be there in a second. Stay away from the door."
"Sure thing." Tucker hung up the phone.
"Come on Dani." Danny then realized that the cast was still ice. "You're arm really is going to freeze off if I leave the cast like that."
He snapped his fingers and the cast went from ice to a regular one just like the chairs did in the interview room. She grabbed his hand and the next moment they were in Sam's game room and confronted by 3 very angry teenage girls.
"Hey guys." Danny said as he waved.
Tucker mouthed 'Go intangible'. Danny decided to listen to his advice and was glad for it. Jazz, Valerie, and Sam sent slaps in his direction but their hands phased harmlessly through his face. Gotta thank Tuck for that one.
"So I take you all didn't like how the interview went."
"You told everyone that you, Vlad, and Dani were halfas! How can we not be mad?"
"They'll never figure it out."
"What if they do? Did my little brother forget to factor that little detail into his plan."
"I did. I'll just wipe their minds with the Reality Gauntlet like I did after the whole Freak Show thing."
This seemed to calm the girls down and they all relaxed a little.
"It was still really stupid Danny." Said Valerie.
"I actually planned for this guys. Besides it'll be pretty fun seeing everyone going crazy trying to figure out who's a halfa and who's not."
"It will be pretty funny seeing Paulina going crazy trying to find out who the ghost boy is." Said Sam.
"Dani. What happened to your arm?" said Valerie.
"Danny's crazy mom did."
"How did she break your arm?"
"We kind of got into a fight after the second break. That's really why they extended it and why they left. His dad seemed to become nicer during the interview though."
"Good to see we won over at least one of your parents." Said Tucker as he elbowed Danny's shoulder.
"Yeah. Now we just need to convince the Maddie 'wouldn't change her opinion if the Earth depended on it' Fenton that all ghosts aren't evil without getting any of them killed by her for getting close."
"Any ghosts could take her Danny. I just fell on my arm funny. That's all that let her win."
"Sure thing Dani. You should probably head back home now."
"Guess I'll fly. It'll feel great after being teleported everywhere and after sitting for so long." She floated up and phased through the ceiling while waving them goodbye.
"Is it okay if I sleep over here Sam?"
"Sure. Just call and tell your parents. I don't want them launching a manhunt for their precious little boy."
"Yeah. The same precious little boy that they want to rip apart molecule by molecule."
"We can all just sleep down here. There are sleeping bags in the closet along with pillows and blankets."
"Now Danny has all night to explain what was going through his head when he came up with this crazy plan of his. Knowing what happened during the breaks won't hurt to add in either." Said Jazz
"We should probably get comfortable first. It's actually a pretty long story."
The 5 teens arranged themselves on the furniture and the floor for a long night. This is getting a bit to common. All of them listening while I explain something to them. I need to stop this sometime soon.
AN: This chapter was pretty hard to write actually. The interview part had me stumped for the longest. The chapters pretty long too. 5,000 words is not a piece of cake to write at all. Anyway enough of my complaining. Favorites, follows, reviews, and suggestions are all appreciated.