"You upset Aggie." He said through gritted teeth.

Danny looked confused. "Aggie?" "Agatha" Norman supplied. "A gentle spirit normally, but she's a malevolent storm when she gets mad. And some Dracula ghost made her MAD!"

Vlad smiled. "No, I'm afraid a certain prison-guard Ninja did that. I was busy…pulling some strings." He chuckled. Danny was now positively enraged.

"YOU OVERSHADOWED SOME INNOCENT-"

"THE NINJA IS NOT INOCENT!" Danny and Norman turned to see a beet red Hannibal McFist. "He has kept my master from rising to his full glory for nearly 800 YEARS!" Danny huffed.

"I don't know who this 'Ninja' is, but I pretty sure I'd like him over you!" He said. Hannibal sneered at the teen.

"Says the punk who's only half way alive!" Danny opened his mouth to retort when-

"GUYS! Stop! You don't understand!" pleaded Norman. Rain had begun to fall, so forceful was the spirit's rage. "Agatha is too powerful. She could level this forest! She could kill someone!" he leaned forward as he spoke, straining against his bonds. McFist folded his arms and looked at the boy.

"That was the idea." He said calmly. Norman and Danny looked horrified. Vlad floated over and draped his arm across Danny's shoulders despite the Ghost Boy's squirming attempts to avoid physical contact.

"And it would be such a shame if your father got hit in the chaos, wouldn't it." he purred into Danny's ear. Danny bit Vlad's hand, causing the older Ghost to yelp and retract his hand to cradle his bleeding palm. Plasmius glared at Danny.

"The real shame would be if my mom got hit!" Danny said. Vlad frowned, as if the thought had just occurred to him. Norman watched the exchange slightly confused.

And that was when he noticed it. A small metal beetle on the side of Danny's chains. Pulsing.

"I thought you said this kid was half ghost! Why hasn't he transformed?" asked Hannibal, voicing Norman's thoughts. Although Norman had a theory.

Danny glared at Vlad, waiting for the man to confirm his suspicious.

"Oh, I rigged your Equipment with anti-ghost tech as a precaution, McFist. Say, where's that southern boy gone?" Vlad queried. McFist shrugged. Norman and Danny exchanged confused glances. Norman had to shut his eyes for a moment afterwards, the sight of the Halfas still taking its toll on his vision. Vlad and McFist began discussing the 'southern kid'. With their attentions distracted, Norman caught Danny's eyes. He glanced to the beetle on Danny's chains and then back at Danny. Danny followed his gaze, and found the metal bug too. He turned and grinned at Norman.

The rain came down harder.

Very carefully, Danny scooted lower against his tree, freeing more of his arms. With a quick glance at the two mayors (Vlad had transformed back to Masters) he slowly began reaching for the bug, half-heartedly listening in on the conversation.

"…Said there was a dream demon that could…"

Danny's fingers brushed the beetle.

"…he would be a clean slate, and I -"

Danny's hand closed around the metal bug. He glanced Norman's way, triumphant, and crushed the machine in his palm. His chains sparked, then lay quiet. He immediately turned intangible and melted into the tree, grinning at Vlad's furious face. Danny floated up to the top branch and transformed. He smiled, feeling the familiar ghostly energy run through his veins, empowering him.

His moment of victory was cut short by a soul wrenching scream. The Ninja! Danny thought.

He dove down to where Norman was and intangibility-ed him out of his binds and the two of them race to the source of the storm.

XXX

Randy felt as though his blood was acid and that acid was melting and on fire and searing with hot poison. But mostly he felt pain. Pain as the yellow volts raced through his system, pain as his body was tossed by the force, pain as he landed on his side and heard ribs crack, and pain when the lightning girl zapped his ninja scarf to tatters. He wasn't sure which hurt him the most. He had a lot emotional attachment to that scarf. And his side was ON FIRE!

"Please … stop …it (pant) wasn't (pant) me…" he gasped. Out of the corner of his eye, Randy saw Howard trying to reach him, the Goth chick and the tech geek holding him back. He looked up at what appeared to be a glowing yellow stick figure with a spiky Mohawk growling at him. Crap. His vision was going. Randy's eyes were watering from the heat and the burns. His mask and suit were torn and singed in several places. The air itself smelled burnt. The girl growled. "Don't. LIE TO ME!" and blasted him again.

Randy felt himself fly high into the air, his body going numb in the cold wind and rain. He reached that point where you hover for a second, and caught a glimpse of a glowing green blob in the corner of his eye. Hey, an alien, Randy thought, getting slightly delusional. Then he began to fall, and he heard the girl's hands forming another ball of electricity that was sure to finish him off. I'm going to have such a talk with the nomicon on preparation if I survive this, he thought vaguely. Randy felt his eyes close, heard the crack of a released lightning bolt, someone screaming what sounded like 'ackie!' and saw a flash of green before darkness consumed him.

Danny was flying as fast as he could. He round the corner and set Norman on the ground. "Find Sam and Tucker and Explain! I'll try to contain Agatha!" he shouted over the thunder and rain. Norman nodded, then took hold of Danny's foot as he was about to float away. Blue eyes met green, and Norman pushed down the headache from the double vision. "Don't hurt her too much, Phantom!" Norman said. Danny nodded and flew off into action.

Agatha was much worse than she sounded. She was now completely electricity, her figure crackling and flickering just like a jagged candle flame. She was in the middle of powerful winds, which were billowing up around her in a funnel cloud to generate the thunderstorm. Her eyes glowed toxic yellow, and her entire body sent of lightning bolts every few seconds. But that wasn't the worst part.

The worst part was the dark figure she was currently tazering to death. He was literally smoking. Danny watched in horror as he landed on what was most certainly his ribs, and shakily raised a pleading hand out to Agatha. Agatha sparked and blasted him, sending his thin form soaring into the tree tops.

Danny didn't hesitate; he shot out into the open and cried out.

"Hey Aggie!" Agatha turned and stared at the Ghost Boy with venomous eyes. Danny gestured down at Norman, who was currently making his way down to them. He saw Agatha's expression soften. That was enough.

Danny summoned a ball of ice, and coated it in ecto beams, and sent it straight at Aggie. The Ball hit her square in the chest, shorting out her voltages and freezing her. The cold worked like a charm. Its biting touch quenched her heat and rage, and slowly, Agatha reverted back to her human appearance. She fell like a stone, and Norman caught her, but the impact sent both of them to the charred ground.

Danny's job was harder. This Ninja was falling at pretty high speeds, and from the way he hung limply, Danny figured he had fallen unconscious. Or the guy was dead. He hoped it was just unconsciousness.

Danny flew straight into the Ninja's path of decent and snatched him out of the air, holding onto his waist. The two of them fell hard into the earth, creating a small but long crater as they skidded to a stop.

Danny lay there for a few moments, assessing the damage. Bruised knee, sprained wrist, and a couple scrapes, nothing serious. The Ninja was another matter. His side was bleeding and scorched and there were definitely cracked or broken ribs. His suit was smoking, ripped and charred, and part of his mask was burned off. Danny couldn't help but notice the familiar purple hair sticking through. It was like his entire body had received a really bad third degree burn. Like, black spots in some places bad. But what surprised Danny is that, like himself, the guy was already healing. The burns were fading slowly, scarring, the bleeding was getting less and less. Even the suit was….stitching itself back together?

Danny slowly stood up, stiff, and grabbed the Ninja's arm pulling it around his shoulders. He placed his other free arm around the ninja's waist for support, and slowly carried him back up to his friends.

XXX

Norman was the first to see him. He was sitting on the ground, Agatha resting in his lap, her head on his shoulder. Dipper and Sam were next to them, band aids in hand, patching up whatever needed patching. Tucker and Howard were further off, looking through wreckage and rubble. Norman saw Danny, still as Phantom, trudge over the hill. He gasped.

"You found him! Is he…?"

Danny nodded. "He's alive."

Mabel then came into view. "I can't find anyone, it's like we're the only ones here-AAAAHHHH! DANNY PHANTOM!"

"Oh, boy." Muttered Danny. He felt the ninja stir slightly, rolling his head up to find the source of the loud noise. But he still wasn't strong enough, and his head fell back down limply. Danny awkwardly readjusted and straightened the Ninja so he was standing as much as possible. And turned to see Mabel right in front of him.

"Aaaahhahahahahahah! Phantom, thank god you showed up when you did! I don't know what we would have done without you! Are you available!?" she squealed. Then she noticed the Ninja hanging limply against him. "OH MY GOSH! Is he okay?" Danny straightened.

"He'll be fine! I think. Go help those two boys on the hill. They seem to be looking for someone." He said with authority. Mabel's eyes widened.

"Oh no! Danny! And that other guy!" she turned on her heel and ran to aid Howard and Tucker in what both of the latter knew was a fake search. Danny tightened his hold on the ninja, keeping his body up, and walked over to join Dipper, Norman, Sam and a Dark haired girl he'd never seen before; at least, not calmed down. Sam turned and saw the two heroes, and immediately jumped up to help. She took the ninja's other arm she and Danny carefully lowered him onto the ground a few feet from where Norman was.

Howard wandered over; trying to think of a way to help Randy without letting the other teens realize it was him. Danny noticed his awkward expression. He came up to him.

"Your friend is really brave. He's fine He's healing on his own already. Don't worry," said Danny as Howard opened his mouth to speak. "Don't worry. His secret is safe with me. He should be coming around soon." Howard nodded, gulped and leaned towards Phantom.

"You had better not say a word; because it's not the ninja you'd have to worry about. It's me. And I could eat you whole." Danny smiled.

"But you probably couldn't keep me down." He cracked. Then he floated up and over to where Norman was cradling Agatha. He lowered down slowly onto his knees beside them.

"Is that her?" he whispered.

Norman nodded, gently pulling strands of hair out of her face. Dipper and Sam were cleaning scrapes and wounds on Norman as he fretted over his friend. Danny noticed Dipper kept shooting him glances. He glanced back at Howard and the still unconscious ninja, and having found Howard's attention distracted, he quickly changed back into Fenton. Dipper watched in awe.

"Uh, hey man…"he said feebly. Danny met his gaze. "Sorry, for…you know…being suspicious. It's just it seems I'm always being outdone by…magic and uh…supernatural stuff. So...i apoloigize if I got defensive. I see now that you are here to help." He said. Danny glanced at Sam, and they both smiled.

Danny turned back to Dipper. "Its okay, Dipper. Just, don't tell Howard and Randy yet, yeah?" Dipper nodded in agreement.

Just then the ninja limped over and Danny stood up. Dipper and Sam just stared, unsure of what to do. Norman waved, face still covered with concern.

Randy looked at his new friends, but he didn't see the ghost who saved him.

"I'm sorry I was unable to protect you and the other con-goers on my own. That ghost was I force like none I have ever had to fight before. If you see Danny Phantom, tell him I'm very grateful. Tell him thank you. Oh, and one more thing-"he paused for dramatic effect. "…smoke bomb!" and with that, the ninja disappeared in a cloud of red smoke. Several minutes later, Randy came stumbling in from under one of the collapsed tents, arm on his side but looking to be in much better condition that the ninja had moments ago.

Danny looked back at Agatha, his ghost sense stubbornly pointing out the obvious. "Yeah, I know!" he muttered to himself.

Agatha began to stir. She opened her large eyes to see several unfamiliar faces. She tensed.

"Agatha, it's me." Said Norman. Agatha swiveled her head and met Norman's eyes. Her whole demeanor relaxed. She turned back to Dipper, Danny and Sam. Immediately she recognized Danny as the ghost who shot her. He looked different, but he was radiating ghostly energy.

"YOU SHOT ME OUT OF THE SKY!" she yelled at him. But her voice grew hoarse and she immediately broke into a small fit of coughs. Norman steadied her. Danny softly touched her shoulder, bringing her attention back to him.

"I didn't want to. You were hurting an innocent man. The ninja was being overshadowed by a ghost named Vlad Plasmius." He told her gently.

Agatha's eyes flashed, now glowing a toxic yellow. Danny pulled back his hand.

"Plasmius! He's the one who took me from my home! He's the one who said those horrible lies. HE-"

"Agatha." Said Norman sternly. Agatha sat up and turned on him. "What?"

"You're scared and getting angry." Agatha looked down and saw that her body was crackling slightly, tiny lightning bolts playing across her skin.

"I am scared. I'm scared something else will happen and I'll be hurt again. She took a deep breath.

"He must be part of it all..." She said softly, fear creeping onto her face.

"Who's a part of all of what?" Randy had joined the group. He was still smoking slightly, and his clothes were somewhat tattered, but he looked like he'd just be caught in the fray and had taken temporary shelter. And his art of healing had brought him back to about 70%, and he only needed to feel at 68.9% to think straight. He wanted to get in on what the juice was going on.

Danny took a deep breath. "Um… a bad ghost overshadowed this ghost, Agatha, and convinced her that the ninja was a terrible person so that she'd completely waste him and a certain evil sorcerer could be set free." Randy paled. Agatha shuttered. Then trembled. Norman watched as she suddenly started vibrating uncontrollably.

"I remember now…" she said. Everyone froze, anxious for information, "…I was kidnapped…and put to sleep…but I wasn't completely asleep….I heard things…" she turned and pointed a quivering finger at Danny, who leaned back slightly in surprise.

"….they said…said you would be rewritten….and made a son to Masters…and a pawn to the Fist…." At this point Danny paled. Agatha turned to Norman.

"…said you…were valuable…as more than just bait…." She pivoted and focused on Dipper, as if trying to place him.

"…said the twins…and the uncle….held the key…the…machine…"

She turned once more, her finger now pointed at Randy.

"…said …said the sorcerer would wake up….by Phantom's hand…and Norrisville…." She turned to Sam, "…and Amity…would be the first to fall." Agatha was shuddering uncontrollably at this point. She closed her eyes and huddle against Norman, shivers running up and down her spine, a silent tear escaping her eyes.

He he he…the mayors have deeper webs than seen upon first glance. He he

This has taken a pretty serious tone. I want to keep a balance and keep it humorous and lighthearted as well, so if anyone wants to see some of these shows' comic relief characters make cameos, leave a comment. Also, this is a pretty ambitious story, especially with juggling 8+ characters, so I might switch to character POV chapters, still in third person, just a bit more focused.

Tell me what you think and leave a comment. Happy Thursday!