Allo, I'm back!
And to the reviewers!
Donteatacowman: I'm glad you liked it :) Does this one live up a bit more to the legacy? ;) lol. I'm not sure if it';s correct now either. I'm used to having to say "someone and I" that I figured it went like that too. But I can see why it may not work out right. Still, do you mind if I leave it? I like Dora correcting him. Thanks for the review!
Kiomori: I'm glad the intros weren't boring ;) I wonder how they recieved them too. I think I know how I want things to end for Lance, and it's not a sad/depreaving ending. You can be the judge of Dany's driving ;) Have fun reading!
Trinity Fenton-Phantom: Hee, I'm glad the intos were funny for you :) You're going to see 'em all! I'm going to have a lot of fun with all of them :D
Little bit 1o1: lol. Hope you laugh as much with this one! Lance is seriously going to have high bloodpressure by the end of this, I brt ;D
peppyment: Yeah! I've gotta use that! 'Course I'll have to make sure Frostbite's either not there or too busy, but it's a good idea! Hope you don't mind me using it :)
To Roses 'n Horses, Random Reviewer, and NinjaSheik: Thanks for the support! Here's the next update!
Thank you all for the encouraging reviews! I hope you like this chapter as much as you did the others!
My writing is really poor in this story, I realize. I may go over it to fix it later. I don't know. It's more for entertainment and stress relief than good writing, anyway.
Okay! I don't own Danny Phantom. Just this little fun story.
Have fun! See ya at the bottom!
*Edit 10/26/11*
Chapter 3
A Ride Through the Zone
"PHANTOM!"
"I'll kill you for this!"
"Please slow down, Sir Phantom!"
"Whelp! If you crash—!"
"Yahoo! Go faster, Phantom!"
"SHUT UP, YOUNGBLOOD!
Danny just laughed in delighted excitement and followed Johnny through a rocky tunnel. He corkscrewed around some stray rocks, causing the ghosts to shout loudly again. Lance was looking like a ghost himself and was currently starting to break the camera handle. There was no "oh-crap" handle, so he was forced to hold onto his seat one-handed. Sadly, that too wasn't holding up too well.
"Slow down, dipstick!" Ember shouted. She wasn't by a handle so she was desperately clinging to Skulker's arm, the metal suit groaning from the pressure. "You're going to crash!'
The Speeder narrowly avoided an incoming rock, making all the passengers gasp.
"I won't crash," Danny disagreed, rolling his eyes. "You all should know I am an excellent flyer."
"That's when you're flying, not when you're driving!" Skulker pointed out, watching the Ghost Zone with unnaturally wide eyes.
"Is there really a difference in this thing?"
"YES!"
"But it's 'flying' too."
"It's bulkier than you are, Whelp," Skulker growled. "You are skinny and agile which makes you a fast flyer. This is not skinny. You don't know how to handle it!"
Danny frowned at his words. He smirked. "We'll see about that, now won't we?" Johnny led them into a rock field and instead of slowing down, Danny sped up.
The Speeder was instantly filled with curses, shouts, screams, and death threats as it smoothly—but barely—dodged the rocks in the rock field coming towards it. Danny would have rolled his eyes at their backseat-driving, but he was too excited to do so. Lance felt his bladder ready to explode, but the voice in his ear piece was yelling excitedly for him to capture everything at once.
Two rocks suddenly began to move closer together in front of them, creating a very small gap that was steadily shrinking. Johnny slipped easily through it, but Speeder was a larger than his bike. Danny looked thoughtful for a moment before he pushed the gas pedal harder. The passengers screamed, but they made it through the gap just as the rocks closed behind them.
Danny had a very wide grin on his face. "This is kind of like avoiding asteroids in an asteroid belt! There's more like that, right?"
All the ghosts groaned.
Danny laughed. "You can consider this revenge for all the crap you put me through for two years, if it makes you feel better."
"It doesn't!"
He shrugged. "I tried." Johnny led them out of the rock field and Danny allowed the Speeder to slow down slightly.
"What about Dora?" Ember demanded, pointing a finger at the wide-eyed princess. "She's your ally and never did anything to you!"
"I beg to differ."
"That's right!" Youngblood exclaimed, holding up his hook. "She captured his mate that one time!"
Danny raised an eyebrow and looked at him through the rear view mirror. "Mate?" he asked in confusion.
"He means she kidnapped your girlfriend, dipstick, now eyes on the Zone!"
"What?" Danny shouted, ignoring Ember and glaring at Younblood. "She wasn't—isn't my girlfriend! We're just friends!"
"Aw," Desiree cooed. She pointed a finger at Danny's flaming face. "He's embarrassed. Look! He's blushing!"
"I am not!"
"Eww!" Youngblood moaned. "Phantom really does have a mate!"
"I do not have a mate—er, girlfriend!"
"Hmm. I'll have to change my strategy," Skulker said thoughtfully. He began messing with the computer on his arm, making future plans.
"You leave her alone!"
"Ooh! He's protective too!"
"That's got nothing to do with it, Desiree!"
"He must have had a crush on her for a long time," Ember commented, smirking. "Even I saw it when I first met the dipstick."
Danny growled and jerked the Speeder to the right, causing the passengers to yelp in surprise. "Shut up! We are just friends! Why can't people get that?" he shouted, his eyes flashing dangerously.
"...Someone's in denial."
Danny glared hard at them.
"Lance!" the boss cried. "What are you waiting for? Ask him about his girlfriend!"
Lance gulped. He would much rather not, but it was his job... "M-Mr. Phantom," he began shakily, "W-who are they t-talking about? You have a girlfriend?"
Danny let out a frustrated groan and dropped his head onto the steering handles.
"EYES ON THE ZONE!"
Danny jolted back upright and pushed down on the steering, the Speeder doing a nose dive just in time to dodge two rocks and a door. He pulled back up sharply an inch from the ground and rose above the outstretching hands in the ground.
He smiled a little as the passengers breathed out sighs of relief. "Well, that wasn't so bad."
"Do you even have a license?" Ember demanded, kicking his seat.
"Hey!" He glared at her. "No, I don't."
"You don't?"
"Nope."
"Are you not old enough?" Dora asked, messing with her hair nervously.
"I'm old enough, I just never got the time," Danny replied. He gave them a significant look. "Guess whose fault that is."
Ember, Skulker, Youngblood and Desiree just shrugged.
Lance coughed, catching Danny's attention. "Is there a driving license for Ghosts in this...place?"
Danny's eyes went wide and he coughed. "Uh, yeah, there is."
"No there's not!" Youngblood shouted.
"Shut up, Youngblood!"
"The girlfriend, Lance! Ask about the girlfriend!"
"Uh, and about your, um, girl...friend?" Lance asked hesitantly.
Danny sighed in a long suffering way. "We're just friends," he said quietly.
"Uh, right."
"Ask more about her!"
"Um, is she human or ghost?"
"What?" Danny frowned at him.
Lance began twitching nervously. "D-do you pr-prefer g-g-ghost or h-human girls?"
Danny blinked.
Ember laughed. "Probably humans. He hangs out with them more than us!"
Danny rolled his eyes. "That's not true. I hang out with a ghost at least once a day."
"Ghost fights don't count, dipstick."
He shook his head. "I don't just fight, you know. Or, you would if you would stop trying to take over the world for five seconds and just hang around peacefully."
Ember snorted and crossed her arms. "Yeah right. You're too busy with your human friends to have any ghost ones."
"Oooh! Is she jealous?"
I am not asking that, Lance decided.
"What's wrong with having human friends?" Danny demanded.
"Nothing, nothing."
He frowned at her before rolling his eyes. He shrugged. "I never thought about it, actually."
"Ask him if he's ever had a girlfriend!"
Lance groaned. He was asking too much as it was!
"Hey," Danny said, looking behind him. "Where are we going?"
"EYES ON THE—"
"Yeah, yeah," he cut them off, rolling his eyes and facing forward again. "Eyes on the Zone. You're a bunch of babies."
"Or maybe your driving just sucks," Youngblood commented.
"What?" Danny demanded, turning in his seat again to glare. "My driving does not suck! I haven't even crashed—"
"LOOK OUT!"
Danny gasped and jerked the Speeder to the right. The large rock that had been hurtling towards them passed through the frame, just missing Desiree by an inch. Within seconds, the rock was gone and they all breathed a sigh of relief.
Danny sighed before grinning into the mirror. "Technically, not a crash."
The ghosts groaned unhappily.
Lance stared at the spot where the rock had "pierced" the Speeder with wide eyes. "Wh-what just happened?"
Danny followed his gaze and smiled sheepishly. "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. In here, humans are the ghosts. Real World items and humans themselves pass right through things. If the Specter Speeder were to crash, you would be alright."
Lance gaped at him. That only made him feel marginally better about the speed they were traveling. Now he had a problem with being called the 'ghost'…
"That's all well and good for the human," Ember griped, "but what about us? We aren't going to pass right through things."
Danny grinned. "True. What's your point?"
"So slow down!"
Danny shook his head. "Johnny is going fast too," he reminded. "If I slow down, I'll lose him and have no clue where I'm going."
"I could lead you then, Sir Phantom," Dora said, frowning.
He frowned too. "I like this better. Besides, I'm not going to crash."
"You don't know for sure, though," Desiree pointed out.
"I doubt I will."
"Yeah, but—"
"Houston! Asteroids!" Youngblood cried, pointing out the front window.
The ghosts groaned to each other and Danny grinned with excitement. He sped the speeder up. "Hold on!" he shouted.
Danny pouted.
The ghosts grinned.
And Lance nervously sped the speeder up a little more to keep up with the large blue dragon.
Danny sighed and lifted the camera up, twisting in his seat to film the ghosts behind him. "Are you all happy now?" he demanded. He didn't bother with a seatbelt since Lance was practically driving at twenty miles per hour. Dora had to stop and wait every so often.
"Yes," Desiree said, fixing her hair.
Ember smirked. "Definitely, Dipstick."
Skulker shrugged. "I don't care whether you drive or not, Child." They all rolled their eyes at that.
Youngblood pouted, though. "It was going great until you had to crash, Phantom," he accused.
"Shut up, Youngblood!" the ghosts yelled.
Danny sighed. "It wasn't a crash. The Speeder wasn't even smashed."
"No, but we were nearly knocked out of this thing," Ember pointed out, scowling. "Twice."
"Three times," Desiree corrected.
"Whatever."
"But you weren't," Danny said.
Desiree smirked. "Forget it, Phantom. You're not driving anymore."
Danny sighed again. He rubbed his neck and grinned, a little sheepishly. "Yeah. I usually get that, actually."
Ember's eyes narrowed. "What?"
"You think this was my first time driving the Speeder?" He smirked. "I drove it once before and was banned from driving ever since. I'm surprised you guys even let me drive it as long as I did. You shouldn't have let me at all. Shame on you."
"WHAT?" the ghosts shouted.
Danny laughed at their horrified faces.
"You only drove it once before?"
"You could have made us crash, Whelp!"
"Dipstick!"
"Couldn't you have gone faster for your second time, Phantom?"
"SHUT UP, YOUNGBLOOD!"
Danny just laughed harder, the camera shaking from his mirth.
Lance was still focused on driving through the Ghost Zone, but he felt himself grinning. Phantom apparently had a sense of humor and a playful side. Not malicious like the other ghosts, but more like a teenager's innocent-ish pranks.
He hoped there were bathrooms where they were going, however. His bladder wasn't teenager-proof.
Yeah, it's very short, but it was starting to get repetative to me. Sorry. I want them to get to the wedding real soon anyway. Next chapter will be longer, I think.
Oh, and let me know if there is anything you want them to find out/talk about or scenarios you want to see or whatever in this story. I'm open for suggestions.
And besides the Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady, there really aren't any pairings. Mild DXS maybe, but no more than the show before the third season (which I've barely seen)
That's it! See you in four or so days! Thanks for reading and please leave a review!