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Me: Oh no…

Danny: What?

Me: The door's open and someone outside has a lawn mower that sounds like nyan cat.

Danny: …

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EXILE, Chapter 3

(Danny's P.O.V)

"Here," I heard someone say as they shoved something in my face.

I opened my eyes and looked up groggily. Valerie was standing over me with a box of cereal in her hand.

"What?" for a moment, I was confused.

"Ghosts eat- don't they?" Valerie replied.

"Oh…yeah," I took the cereal from her and sat up.

She passed me a bowl, some milk and a spoon too. "Now hurry up and eat," she said sternly, "I've got to get to school and I'm not leaving you here alone. No matter what you think Phantom, I still don't trust you."

My eyes widened, School! I thought suddenly, I forgot about that!

"Are you alright Phantom? You look…worried," Valerie observed. There was silence, then she quickly added, "Not that I care, of course."

"Oh, it's nothing," I said, pouring my cereal.

"Just hurry up and finish your breakfast," Valerie's concerned tone was gone. "I'm going to go and get dressed," she added.

By the time I had finished eating, Valerie still wasn't ready. Girls, I thought.

I had left my room really quickly yesterday, so I didn't really see what I packed. I did know that I had my phone though- I called Valerie on it. I also remembered my iPod because of the song that was playing on it when I turned it off.

I bent down and picked up my backpack off the floor. I opened it up and immediately sensed that something was wrong. My iPod wasn't in the pocket I put it in. It was on top of everything and the headphones were tangled instead of wound up neatly around it.

I switched it on and a video came up which me, Sam and Tucker made about dumpty humpty a few days ago. It was a stupid video really. We were just messing around and dancing to a song. No one was meant to see it. But someone obviously had, otherwise the song Too Close for Comfort would have come up when I switched it on. After all, it was the last thing I listened to.

Logically, Valerie was the only possible suspect. No one else knew I was here. So why hadn't she questioned the fact that a video of Danny Fenton was on Danny Phantom's iPod? What else did she see in my bag? Did she recognise my clothes? No one else I knew ever wore the same outfit as me. Well, they did once at Dash's party, but you had to come dressed like that.

Suddenly, my ghost sense went off. I shivered and looked around the room. Nothing was there. I got up off the sofa, putting my bowl down on the coffee table and picking up my backpack. I took off and phased threw the wall, out into the street.

Skulker was hovering a few feet away. When he saw me he cried out, "It's about time you showed up, whelp! Now be prepared to become my new bedroom rug!" He fired his wrist ray at my head.

"Uh...ew?" I replied, dodging it. I fired an ecto-ray back at him. It hit his right mechanical foot and it broke off, falling to the ground far below. It landed with an extremely loud clanging noise.

This was unfortunate for me because my parents happened to hear that clang.

They looked up and saw me. My dad pulled out an ecto-foamer and yelled, "We won't lose you this time Phantom- This baby's charged up with 150 shots!"

He fired three. One of them hit my right shoulder. The acid in the foam ate away at a patch of my hazmat suit and burnt me. I cried out in pain.

"Quick Maddie, he's weakened. Fire the net!" Dad shouted to mum.

But Skulker was there first. He launched the net at me, trapping me in ghost-proof string. I tried to escape, but it was too strong. He reeled me in, like a fish, and held me up to his face. "I've finally caught you, ghost child. My collection of all things rare and unique is growing." He pressed a button on his wrist which sent electricity travelling up through the net, shocking me until I was unconscious.

(Valerie's P.O.V)

It took me longer than I thought to get ready for school; my hairdryer broke and there was no hot water. After putting on my usual orange skirt and yellow t-shirt, I walked back into the living room to find Phantom gone. His backpack was nowhere to be seen, too.

I went over the sofa where he slept the previous night. His cereal bowl was on the coffee table and his backpack was gone. I found this strange- he'd shown no sign of leaving before and he told me that he was out of options. Something must have happened to him.

I shrugged. Phantom was strong enough to look after himself. I picked my own backpack and headed out the door, the down to the lobby and towards school. The only thing I'd forgotten to ask him was what he was doing with Fenton's iPod. I decided that it wasn't that important. Ghosts usually steal things. But even so, there was still a nagging idea at the back of my mind that I couldn't quite put my finger on.

(Sam's P.O.V)

The doorbell rang with its usual tune. I opened it to find Danny's parents standing there.

"Oh hey, Mr and Mrs Fenton," I said.

"Hi Sam," Maddie spoke first, "Have you seen Phantom?"

"We came so close to capturing him," Jack added darkly.

"Um…no," I half lied. True, I hadn't seen Danny since yesterday at the end of school, but I was sure wherever he was out fighting ghosts somewhere. Not that I'd tell his parents that.

"Did you know that Phantom is our son?" Maddie asked.

My eyes widened. Had he told them? Did they find out themselves?

I decided to lie again. For all I knew, he could have been in trouble. Not that that was fair of course, it was my fault he had become half ghost in the first place, "No I didn't! Wow! I wonder why he never told me…"

"Does Tucker know?" Jack asked me urgently. He sounded angry and frustrated. I wondered what was wrong with him.

"Uh…no. At least I don't think so," I replied innocently. "But if I did know that Tucker knew, wouldn't I have to know what he knew in order to know myself? I couldn't know something without knowing what it is I needed to know," I pointed out.

Danny parents stared at me with blank faces. Finally, his mum spoke, "We have to go now, Sam. Thanks for your help anyway."

"Oh, O.K then, bye!" I called out as I watched them go down the stairs leading to my house.

I shut the door. Something wasn't right about Danny's parents when I saw them. There was a new emotion in their voice when they talked about him. I stood thoughtfully for a moment, wondering what is was. Then it hit me. All that anger and frustration they were showing – it was hate. Could it be that their hate for Phantom had extinguished their love for Danny?

I had to call him. I ran upstairs to my room and grabbed my phone. Someone picked up after a few rings, but it wasn't Danny.

"Ah, the Ghost-Boy's goth friend. How nice to hear from you," I recognised Skulker's voice.

"Skulker!" I said angrily, "what are you doing with Danny's phone?"

"I'm afraid your little buddy has run into a problem. That problem, of course, being me."

He hung up.

At least there was only place Skulker could have taken him – his island.

I worked out what I had to do in my head. Get Tucker and Jazz, use the Fenton portal without Danny's parents finding out and ultimately rescue Danny. Plus, I had to find a good excuse to skip school.

Yeah, today was going to be really easy.

Danny: Cliffy!

Me: You're going to say that every time, aren't you?

Danny: Yep. Unless it's the last chapter in the story. Should we tell the readers the challenge?

Me: OK! Right then guys, here it is:

Hayden's Danny Phantom/ Tron: Legacy crossover challenge!

Today I was watching Tron and to be honest, there wasn't much of a plot. But still I'd just finished watching DP and I started to imagine all of the characters in those awesome light-up outfits that the programs and the users wear inside the video game (Danny's being green, Sam's purple etc.). Then I though how awesome it would be to have a crossover where Team Phantom find themselves inside the game because of one of Technus' evil plans. I instantly knew that I couldn't write this myself – I had too much going on. So I'm leaving it down to you guys to come up with something!

Rules: It has to be over a chapter long (one-shots are far too quick) and it has to take place before the end of the Tron film (because everything blows up at the end). Also, at least one super-mega-awesome light up motorbike fight has to take place. No PP by the way.

Me: If you're doing it, please mention it in your review, and then PM me when the first chapter's up. Oh and I don't want the review just to be about the challenge. You came here to read EXILE, so that's really what the reviews are supposed to be about. Please mention something to do with my writing when you say "Hayden, I accept your challenge!" This chapter's been the longest yet, it just doesn't seem that way because the writing's so clumped together, just to let you all know.

Danny: Thanks for reading guys and good luck!