Danny Phantom What Happened Next

By ~PrennCooder

Chapter 15: Rivals and Lovers

The vulture ghosts looked at each other. "Nobody you know." They said simultaneously. As the vultures charged at Danny, they released their talons and the girls began to fall. They screamed. Lucky for them, Danny was agile enough to swoop down and grab an arm of each of them. He set them gently on the ground.

Star smiled at him and Paulina gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Now for you two." Danny flew at a rapid pace toward the ghost birds. Danny readied a plasma blast in each hand—ready to hit the ghosts. But he missed.

"Ha-ha!" One vulture taunted.

The two vultures split up and flew around in different directions, forcing Danny to keep turning his head to see where the other one was going. He fired many blasts, but the vultures were just too fast. They laughed at him, and he was getting pretty mad.

"Is this what you call a battle, ghost boy?" One of the vultures teased.

Danny angrily threw another blast. Suddenly the vultures froze and a look of fear crossed their faces. Danny looked behind him and there were a pair of girls on hovering metal surfboards. One suit was red and one suit was yellow. Both had helmets to hide their identity, but Danny knew exactly who they were.

"Get outta this lab!" The girl in the red ignored Danny and went straight for the vultures.

"I'm getting just a little bit sick of your faces!" The girl in the yellow yelled at the ghostly birds whom she had recognized from before.

"Great. Now we're outnumbered and outwitted." One of the vultures looked at the other.

"Let's get outta here!" The other vulture panicked. The two vultures tried to make a break for it and the girls blasted them with green goop and they fell to the ground and wailed loudly. The yellow suited girl tied them up with a special ghost rope she had. The vultures couldn't break it but they still squirmed.

The girls laughed. "Don't even try, boys. Besides, there's no actual resistance to ecto-waste." Said the girl in the yellow suit.

The red suited girl swung the tied up birds over her shoulder and flew way dramatically. The yellow suited girl turned to Danny.

Danny Phantom smiled. "Thank you for saving me." He said sincerely.

She glowered at him. "Don't think you'll be getting off that easily. I heard that you're the one that they wanted to fight."

"So? They're not going to harm anyone now, and that's what matters."

"My point is that there wouldn't be a problem if you weren't around. Look at this place!"

Danny looked at the room surrounding him and aide from the small clumps of people there were ectoblasts and plasmablast residue all over the walls, ceiling and floors. And there were a few holes too.

"And now there won't be any more trouble because I'm taking you in." the yellow suited girl took him in a sudden headlock just long enough to tie him up with the unbreakable string and gad him and blindfold him. There was something on that gag cloth that made him all woozy. He didn't even get a chance to react before he was out cold.

There were many mixed reactions from citizens as they watched their hero get carried out of Axion labs by the yellow suited girl.

She waved to the red suited girl who was standing outside waiting for her to follow.

As soon as the yellow girl was clear away from Axion labs, she thought about the next step in her plan. She looked down at her arms and she was holding the ghost boy. He looked all tired an innocent with his face relaxed and eyes closed.

The girl remembered what her friend had told her only a few hours ago—how Danny Phantom was a hero and he would never hurt anybody. And there he was, all bound up and ready for delivery to her father. She had been waiting so long for this moment.

But on the other hand, there he was, a possibly innocent kid who was only trying to do the right thing. What is the right thing to do, anyways? The girl lost flight and landed her metallic hover board on the ground where she clicked her feet together and it disappeared back into her suit. She walked into an alleyway, still carrying the ghost boy.

What she couldn't get out of her mind was the decision to watch closely at what the ghost boy does before judging him. She loosened the knots on the string just enough so he would be able to slip his hand through when he wakes up. She hid him in a dumpster and closed the lid, then pretended to faint onto the ground.

It was not long before the red suited girl realized her companion was no longer following her. She retraced their path and found her friend lying in the alley seemingly unconscious. "Cecelia!" The red girl gasped.

"Ohhhh what…happened?" She pretended to be waking up while her friend rushed to her aid.

"Do you think you'll be allright? Do you want to fly with me? Did that Phantom trick you into going here so he could beat you up?"

"No, no, Valerie. I didn't exactly see how he got away." Cecelia knew that was true. "But he didn't harm me at all." Cecelia made that clear. "He used that gag thing on me and I passed out." Cecelia knew that was a lie, but how else could she explain it without Valerie getting mad at her for setting the ghost boy free?

"Hmm." That was all Valerie said.

She and Cecelia hopped on their hoverboards and flew off to the Government Guys in White lab. They entered with the bounty and walked through the lab until they came to Dr. Hazel's office. The pair of doors slid open and Dr. Hazel welcomed them.

The girls took off their helmets and Valerie thudded the two ghost vultures on the table.

"Well done, girls! Wow, two real ghosts!" Dr. Hazel had some professionalists come in and unbind the vulture ghosts and keep them in cubicles that rendered their powers useless. "What's the situation on Danny Phantom?" Dr. Hazel asked in a serious tone.

Cecelia looked up at her father. "We don't have him."

"Actually, he got away." Valerie corrected. "We had him for a few moments but then, well, he..."

Dr. Hazel was upset. "I just received a call from your father, Valerie, about all the damage Danny Phantom caused for Axion labs. They don't have the money to keep paying for these…disasters that he causes."

"Dad, it wasn't Danny's fault entirely." Cecelia pointed out. "Those two vulture ghosts came into the cafeteria demanding a battle with him and they kept teasing him, and well, he missed when he tried to hit them."

Dr. Hazel paced. "Cecelia, you know that's the ghost Damon Gray wants. I'm almost finished with the Equator and I want to test it on Danny Phantom."

"Why him, dad?"

"Because Damon wants the crime stopped!" Cecelia's father snapped.

"I'd better go." Valerie slipped out of the room quietly.

The other technicians took the birds into another room for examination.

Cecelia's father frowned at her. "Please don't tell me you've been fooled by the flimsy show he's been putting on? Tell me what you think of him now."

"Danny Phantom…well he…he saved Paulina and I. I've been thinking about it for many days now and I'm beginning to think he's not such a bad guy. I've been putting all of the pieces together. At first I thought it was a setup, but then I remembered the incident at Axion labs where he saved Valerie and I—"

"There was a previous incident at Axion labs?" Cecelia's father eyed her suspiciously. She hated it when he did that. "How come you didn't tell me that you've actually met Danny Phantom before?"

Cecelia hesitated and looked downward, purposely evading her father's eyes. "I thought you might get mad." She said quietly.

"Oh, Cecelia I'm not mad. If anything, I'm upset that you don't trust me like this. Tell me what happened."

"Well I basically just did. He saved us. That's it. And there wasn't a catch either. It's like he was doing this all out of the goodness in his heart."

"All ghosts are evil, Cecelia! How could you even think that a ghost's work could be used for anything besides that? It was a ghost who killed your mother, remember!"

Cecelia was almost ready to start tearing up. Her father noticed and tried to calm her down.

"I'm sorry to just go off on you like that. It won't happen again. You know I love you and I'd do anything for you. I said the same thing for your mother, too. I loved her very much. And she loved both of us. I think if she were here somehow, she'd want you to avenge her death."

"You don't get it, dad!" Cecelia broke away and tears started rolling down her cheeks. "Danny Phantom didn't kill my mother!"

Cecelia's father looked at her all forlorn.

"I don't want to do it anymore! I don't want anyone to hurt Danny Phantom!" She began to sob and she put her face in her hands.

Mortimer Hazel kept a distance away from his daughter. He didn't know what to do. "What has made you think this way?" he demanded to know.

"My friends. I consider Danny Phantom a friend too. All this time, he's been trying to fix everything and we've been getting in his way. Well, I won't let that happen anymore." Cecelia determined fiercely. Her stern eyes cut through the watery tears and glared right back at her father.

"I don't even know whose daughter you are anymore." He stared hard at her. "Give me your bracelet that activates your suit."

Cecelia hesitated.

"Now!" her father bellowed. She complied. "You want to do it this way—fine. You're done." He said coldly. He turned his back on her and she opened the door.

Cecelia gasped. She wasn't expecting to see Garth Lloyd standing there. "You didn't hear all of that, did you?"

Garth put a friendly arm around her for comfort. "Let's get you back to school, little sis." Garth and Cecelia got into his car and they drove back to Axion labs where the field trip was still going on.

Meanwhile, back at the Guys in White lab, Dr. Hazel was having a private word with Valerie. "You will bring me Danny Phantom, won't you?" he asked her.

"You bet, Mr. Hazel." Valerie looked at Cecelia's suit while Dr. Hazel was inspecting it. "What are you looking for?"

"You told me you had the ghost kid but he got away. Well, here it is. A white hair." Dr. Hazel handed Valerie the single hair that could only have come from Danny Phantom's head. "Put this in your tracker and you'll be able to find him."

"Thank you, Dr. Hazel." Valerie took the hair and smiled.

Garth made sure that Cecelia had found her group before he left. "Over there, I see Sam." Cecelia pointed.

"Tell her I said hi." Garth said as he walked back to his car.

"You like her, don't you?" Cecelia figured out.

Garth didn't answer.

Cecelia went over to her friends Sam and Tucker. "Hey guys." They looked at her odd because they knew the whole truth. But since Cecelia didn't know that they knew, she was confused as to why they weren't being friendly. "Where's your friend Danny? I'd like to talk to him."

Sam and Tucker exchanged worried glances.

"Uh Danny went home." Sam said.

"Yeah, he's pretty sick." Tucker added.

"Oh shoot! I was sitting next to him for the whole bus ride!" Cecelia didn't want to catch what Danny had.

Sam and Tucker took a few steps away. "Then we'd best keep a distance, huh?" Tucker said nervously. Soon Sam and Tucker were so far away that Cecelia could not distinguish them from the crowd that was the students of Casper High.

As Sam and Tucker were avoiding Cecelia, they also kept an eye out for Danny.

"What do you think she did to him, Sam?" Tucker was worried.

"I don't want to think about that. Let's just find Danny."

"How do you suggest we do that?"

"We should probably go to his house and get the Fenton Boo-merang. I think it's still tuned into Danny's ecto-signature." Sam said. She noticed Valerie enter through the doors. Sam might have been the only one who saw Valerie rejoin the crowd. "Tucker, you fake sick to a teacher. I'll keep Valerie busy. Why do I get the idea she's somehow behind this?"

"Rodger." Tucker said. He went over to Mr. Lancer. "Mr. Lancer, I feel wooooozy." Tucker put his hand on his forehead and wobbled around.

"Hmm." Mr. Lancer stared at the nerdy boy.

"I have to go hooooome." Tucker moaned.

"And just what are you sick from?" Mr. Lancer asked doubtfully. He didn't believe Tucker for a moment.

"I have…bowel…swine…cancer…cardiac…flu."

"Wow, that's a long complicated name!" Lancer suddenly believed. "Call up your mother and have her take you home before you get everyone else sick! And more importantly, me!" Mr. Lancer shoved Tucker out of Axion labs.

As soon as Lancer was out of sight, Tucker dropped his disguise. With quick, ninja-like moves, Tucker glided to the brick wall where he leaned dramatically. He flipped open his phone and speed-dialed Sam. "I've made it out safe and I'm on my way to the Fenton's house. What's your position?"

"Quit fooling around, Tucker!" Sam whispered harshly. She couldn't risk being caught with a phone or it might get confiscated. Sam was attempting to catch up to Valerie. "Wait, Tucker, your parents are out of town and the Fenton's house is twenty minutes away!"

"I realize that." Tucker said. A car door opened and Sam heard it from the other end of the line. Then came a whooshing sound and the loud cry of car horns.

"You called up Mr. Fenton, didn't you?" Sam asked bluntly.

"Yup." Tucker said proudly. "Hey Sam, I gotta go." Tucker hung up.

As Sam approached Valerie, she put on a forced smile. "Hey, Valerie."

"Oh hi Sam." Valerie said uninterested.

"Look, I'm sorry for being mean to you before. It's just that, well, Danny is my best friend and I've always been a little protective of him."

"So I've noticed."

"Are we, ya know, cool, now, sorta?"

Valerie warmed up a little and she maybe even smiled. "Yeah, sure."

After the field trip was over, the kids all got picked up by their parents. All except for Valerie, who was deciding to preceed to her destination on foot.

Sam knew she couldn't simply follow Valerie because that would be way too obvious. What to do, what to do.

Back at the Fenton's house, Tucker had been searching in the Fenton secret lab for the Boo-merang. Tucker had been searching frantically for hours. "Finally, I've got it!" Tucker said heroically as he stuffed the Boo-merang into his backpack.

On the way up the stairs, he looked on the couch where Jack Fenton had fallen asleep.

"Tucker, what exactly happened to Danny?" Danielle stood in the way of Tucker leaving the house. "I don't believe that ridiculous story you told my parents about you and Danny "switching lives" for a night. And where do your parents think you are?"

"Take it easy, Danielle." Tucker said wearily. "Danny's been kidnapped by Cecelia and Valerie—probably per request of their fathers." He whispered close to her.

Danielle gasped. "Well, we knew it was only a matter of time before something like this happened."

"Yes, I know, I just didn't believe they'd actually carry through like that."

Danielle stepped out of Tucker's way and he proudly made his way outside. "Just wait a minute now. I'm coming with you."

"No, Danielle, it's too—"

"Dangerous? That's Sam's line! And besides, anything I do, my brother can too." Danielle smiled. "I'm coming with you."

Tucker surrendered.

"We'll need to take the Specter Speeder if we want any chance of finding Danny before the sun goes down." The two of then went downstairs.

"But what about your parents?"

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