Author's Notes:

Hi, guys! First off, I would like to thank jeanette9a for the helpful hints and tips!

I've finally finished chapter 2! Sorry for the wait. I know you're excited to read it, so here it is!

Chapter 2: Skulker's Test

Danny's POV-

Danny Fenton was walking back to his house for dinner. He didn't feel like flying right now, because he didn't want phangirls to see his alter-ego, for he wanted to be alone so he could to sort his thoughts out at the moment.

That day had been sort of rough for him. For one thing, he had failed a history test in school, and his parents were not going to be happy. He had stayed up late in the past few weeks catching ghosts, and he hadn't had time to study. Another reason was because Dash, the bully, and his 'sidekick', Kwan, had been hounding him more than usual. It was probably because he got a bad grade on a quiz or something. What ticked Danny off about it was that he could've stopped them at any time with his ghostly enhancement, but he couldn't or else it would blow his secret.

Danny was fed up with being picked on and mobbed by bullies and fans. He was sick of fighting ghosts, even though it was his duty to protect the people, and he wanted a break for just one day, for once.

And just as he thought that, his ghost sense went off. Three guesses who showed up. No one other than Skulker, of course, would harass him at this time of pondering.

"What do you want, Skulker?" said Danny in a weary voice.

"Same as always, Ghost Child. You are just so helplessly one of a kind that I have no choice but to capture you and hang your pelt above my fireplace!" Skulker shouted, as always.

"Why not just hang it over you head? It's fiery enough," Danny said as a weak comeback.

"You know, I only said I wanted your pelt just now as a joke. That's not really what I came here to do," explained Skulker. "I'm actually going to assess your determination."

"What on earth do you mean?" Danny said in confusion.

Instead of answering, Skulker took off into the air, saying, "Come and get me if you can, Ghost Child. I'm going off to haunt hunting gear shops!"

"Oh, no you don't!" Danny exclaimed. And with that, he willed his usual white rings to form and transform him into Phantom. He took launched himself after Skulker. He had no clue what he was playing at, but his was going down.

Skulker just kept on flying in a straight line using his ghostly power and his rocket boosters as extra speed. He knew Danny Phantom was one of the fastest ghosts he'd ever met, so he had to make sure he couldn't catch him.

What Skulker was trying to do to Danny was test his willpower and fortitude to catch ghosts. He wanted to see how far Phantom would go to capture a ghost so it wouldn't terrorize the humans. He was going to fly as far as he could before Danny gave up and decided it wasn't worth is.

Skulker was wrong. He flew all the way from Amity Park to California. Danny followed him the whole way at 167 mph, (Danny's speed went up as time moved on.)

Neither of them was totally exhausted by the time they got to California. Danny was truly determined to capture Skulker once and for all.

When the fuel in Skulker's rocket boosters finally went out in near California and his ghost power was diminished was when Danny could catch up to him and suck him in the Thermos. Danny had too little strength left to go home, so he glided on towards a tiny town for a breather. He floated downward into an alley in between a store and a house, where he changed back to Fenton and lied down on a pile of old newspapers to rest.

Timmy's POV –

When Timmy got to the nearest dot that indicated a ghost, he put his tracker down and looked around. When he didn't see anything, he wondered if the ghost was invisible.

"Hey, guys," he called to his fairies. "I wish for the power to see invisible ghosts."

The two lifted their wands again and made it so.

Timmy looked around with his new sight. He walked towards an alley, where his tracker detected a ghost. He peeked in. All he saw was what looked like a homeless boy napping on a pile of articles.

The tracker beeped in Timmy's hand after he picked it back up again. It was beeping to tell them that a ghost was right in front of them. Timmy looked again, but saw no ghost.

"That's weird. Why doesn't it work?" said Timmy to Wanda.

"I'm not sure, Sport, because your vision and tracker work fine," she answered.

"What about that boy over there?" Cosmo pointed out. "That's where the tracker points."

"Cosmo, you idiot, that's not a ghost, that's a boy!" Wanda scolded. "I don't know why our tracker isn't working."

Suddenly, the boy jerked. Wanda's naggy voice had awoken him. He groaned and sat up. When he opened his eyes and looked around, he spotted Timmy and two balloons.

"Uh, hi," the boy said quietly to Timmy.

"Hi," Timmy answered back. "Why were you sleeping in the alley?"

"Um, I got lost," said the boy. He started to stand up. His shaggy black hair looked like he was just on a spinning table. His white shirt and jeans looked surprisingly clean, but a little wrinkled from his nap. He had electric blue eyes, like Timmy's.

"Where were you going?" asked Timmy.

"Home."

"Where do you live?"

"In Amity Park, Minnesota," the boy replied.

"What? That's a...long ways away."

"Yeah, I...uh...flew here."

"What's your name?" Timmy asked, wondering why he didn't ask that before.

"Danny. Yours?"

"Timmy Turner."

Danny looked around. "Where are we exactly?" he asked.

"Dimmsdale, CA."

Danny looked Timmy up and down. He sure did like the color pink. "I better go and find my...uh...parents," he said. "Bye." He started to walk away, and then remembered that he'd better call them before they start worrying too much. He had to come up with a story saying why he was all the way in California. "On second thought, can I use a phone?" he asked Timmy.

"Sure, you can come over to my house if you want," said Timmy, glad to have the company besides Cosmo and Wanda.

"Thanks a bunch."

"Come on." And Timmy walked back over to his bike, and quietly whispered to his fairies before Danny got there, "I wish for a two-person bike."

When Danny rounded the corner Timmy was waiting for him. Timmy put a helmet on and then handed Danny another. He took it and asked, "Why do you have two helmets if you didn't know you needed them?"

"Uh...I just had and extra in case mine broke," Timmy said quickly.

They both hopped on and pedaled back towards Timmy's house.