Chapter 6:

Wanted Criminal

Danny was flying through the city chasing after Young Blood. The kid laughed as he flew through buildings and under trucks trying to evade him. "You can't catch me!"

"What is this, a game to you?!" Danny exclaimed getting frustrated. They went through an alley and once they were out Danny couldn't see him anymore. He looked all around him. "Where are you?" he said.

"Danny, he's on your right, on top of the building," said Tucker in the ear piece in his ear. He and Sam weren't far away. They had Danny's back ready to give him the thermos into the ghost zone when he had Young Blood.

Danny looked up and sure enough there he was. He chased after him shooting ectoplasm and ice at him. "Come back here!"

Young Blood pulled out a black sphere and pressed a button on it. "30 seconds Danny!"

Danny's eyes got wide when he realized it was a bomb. He flew faster. "Turn it off! You're going to kill everyone!"

"Try and catch me if you can!" Young Blood exclaimed going towards a skyscraper.

Danny shot Young Blood with the ectoplasm and knocked him off course. He managed to grab him. The kid was stubborn. He kept kicking him in the face. Finally Danny managed to grab the bomb but it slipped out of his hand and fell on top of the skyscraper. Young Blood was still fighting him. They crashed through a window of the building making people scream. They ended up falling out of another window.

"Danny, catch!" Sam exclaimed from down below. She threw the thermos as hard as she could and he caught it and withing seconds Young Blood was sucked inside.

"The bomb is still on the building. 10 seconds," Tucker said.

"Crap." Danny flew as fast as he could to the bomb and before he could turn it off it exploded.

The people in the building screamed. The top floor as destroyed. It was burning. People were running out of it in a panic. People nearby were running away screaming. The fire department and ambulances came. Tucker and Sam were among the people running. Sam didn't see Danny fly away. He was still up there. "DANNY!" she shouted. She tried to run back against the crowd.

Tucker grabbed her arm. "You'll burn if you go up there!"

"But Danny's up there!" she said feeling close to tears.

"Danny, can you hear me?! Danny!" Tucker said.

Danny was in the middle of the burning top floor. He heard the earpiece crackling then he heard Tuckers voice. He sat up. "I'm fine Tucker. Tell Sam to stop crying."

"I'm not crying!" he heard her shout.

He chuckled. "I'm okay baby." He looked at the mess around him. Stupid Young Blood. He could only hope there weren't any fatalities. If there was, he would help but feel like it was his fault. He surveyed the scene to see if he could find anybody. Then he saw a group of people huddled in a room surrounded by flames. He flew over.

"Danny Phantom!"

"Help us!"

He picked up two them. "Hold onto each other." They did and he managed to get all of them out and to the ground safely. "There you go." He looked around. The scene was surrounded by fire trucks and ambulances and news crews. It looked like most people had gotten out safely. Some people were on stretchers but they were clearly alive. He wished he could have stopped Young Blood. If only he had been faster…

There were news reporters nearby interviewing people.

"What did you see here?" they asked.

"Danny Phantom and some other ghost crashed through the windows."

"He threw the bomb at the building."

The head police officer came over. "What it seems like here is that Danny Phantom put hundreds of people in danger today."

"You think Danny Phantom bombed this place?" the news reporter asked.

"From what witnesses here say, he did. I saw it with my own eyes after all."

Danny flew over to them. He couldn't let this go unsolved. He wouldn't be accused of endangering this city. "No, that's not what happened at all. The other ghost had the bomb. He was going to bomb the place."

"No one saw the bomb in his possession," the police officer said.

"It was! I took it from him…"

"So you admit you threw the bomb at the building?"

"Well…yes…but it was an accident…!"

"If you were trying to save people wouldn't you have diffused the bomb first?"

"I…" As the conversation went on Danny realized it would have been smarter of him to diffuse the bomb before taking care of Young Blood. "Look, I wasn't trying to put people in danger. I swear!"

"The proof stands firm." The officer cuffed him. "Danny Phantom you are under arrest."

Tucker and Sam came over and saw the officer putting handcuffs on Danny.

"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you."

The two ran over. "Why are you arresting Danny?!" Sam exclaimed.

"Danny Phantom clearly bombed this building putting in danger the lives of hundreds of people."

"It wasn't Danny's fault!" Tucker exclaimed.

Another officer came over. "This is no matter for children like yourselves."

"We saw the whole thing! You can't arrest him!" Sam said.

He shoved them towards the car. "I'll be taking you two home and I'll make sure your parents know what you've been doing."

They watched the other police officer shove Danny into the car. "We won't let them get away with this Danny!" Tucker said.

This might be the end of Danny's glory days...