FLIRTING WITH DISASTER
It was a bright Saturday afternoon at Amity Park Mall, Sam and Andrew were sitting in the food court really board by Tucker's constant talking over his PDA.
"And this chip makes my PDA a GPS and this chip makes the GPS a GBA and…I'm boring you two aren't I?" Tucker asked after he saw their glares.
"You're killing us! Why aren't we hanging out with Danny and Dayla today?" Sam asked.
"They said they were busy" Tucker answered.
Andrew sighed at the thought of Dayla, ever since the incident with Pariah Dark his crush on Dayla has grown more and more, what he didn't know was that Dayla was also starting to feel the same way as well about him. Sam noticed his look and smirked, she knew Dayla had a crush on Andrew and could easily tell that he also felt the same way. She kind of felt the same way about Danny. They all then watched as Valerie and Star sat down at a table next to them with trays of food.
"Hey Valerie" Tucker said cheerfully and then began glaring at the blonde girl as he said, "Star"
"Foley. Knight" Star said back. Valerie then said, "Manson"
"Whatever" Andrew and Sam said.
"Where's your loser boyfriend Danny and your freaky girlfriend Dayla?" Star asked.
"He's/she's not my boyfriend/girlfriend and he's/she's not a loser/freak!" Valerie, Andrew and Sam snapped.
"Uh ladies hello? Another good looking guy right here" Tucker pointed out. He then sighed and said, "And people wonder why I love technology"
Suddenly his PDA suddenly went all fuzzy and he picked it up asking it, "Sweetie are you okay?"
"So where is Danny and Dayla anyway?" Valerie asked.
"They said they were busy" Andrew answered.
Suddenly Danny and Dayla came crashing into their table in their ghost forms, people began to scream at the sight of Technus floating above them.
"Are you mad children? Picking a fight with me in my upgraded form" Technus said with a smirk.
"You upgraded to a mullet?" Dayla asked.
They both then started firing ecto blasts at him, he dodged them all and then took control of some technology creating a shield in front of himself as they continued to throw the blasts at him. Dayla flew up and Danny then jumped onto the table Valerie and Star was sitting on and jumped into the air, he accidently made all of Valerie's lunch fall right on top of her. She growled in anger and then pulled out her bag to get her ghost hunting gear out, but when she tipped it out, there was only her homework in there.
"Oh that's right. Dad took my ghost hunting gear and locked it in his lab" Valerie muttered.
Technus fired again, the blast this time hit at Valerie's feet and caused her to fall over. He then looked at Dayla and smirked and fired a blast at Andrew who just managed to dodge out of the way, but the blast hit the already broken table and a piece flew and hit Andrew on the head.
Danny growled and shouted, "I am going to break you in half!"
"Save a piece for me bro!" Dayla called as he charged straight for Technus, she then followed after him.
"Temper children! Temper! There's those emotions of yours again" Technus said as he teleported out of the way. He then appeared again and grabbed Danny and Dayla by their throats and then continued, "And emotions whether you two know it or not…"
They both screamed as they were electrocuted and then sent crashing into a huge pile of boxes and they all fell onto top of them, burying them.
"Is your greatest weakness!"
Technus then teleported away and hid himself inside Valerie's phone as she got up. Andrew rubbed his head and then ran straight for the pile of boxes as Valerie started heading there as well. At first Valerie was angry but it died down when she saw Danny and Dayla in their human forms, groaning in pain.
"Oh hi Danny. Didn't expect to see you or your sister here" Valerie said with a smile.
"Uh didn't expect to be here" Danny said returning the smile.
Andrew then helped Dayla up and asked, "Are you okay Dayla?"
"I'm fine. I should be asking you that though, that was some nasty hit you got on the head" Dayla said.
"Oh don't worry. I'll heal" Andrew said with a smile. Dayla returned it.
"Oh I'm gonna hurl" Sam said at the sight of Danny and Valerie.
"Perfect. Rage, desire, and weaknesses I can use against them" Technus said and then laughed within the confines of the mobile phone.
The next day the whole freshman class was on a field trip to Axion Labs, curtesy of Valerie's dad Damion Gray. The whole lab was now under new management since Danny and Dayla's arch enemy Vlad Masters AKA Vlad Plasmius had officially bought the place.
"Now class, it was very kind of Mr Gray to give us a tour of Axion Labs" Mr Felucca announced.
"My pleasure Mr Felucca. Shields down please" Damion commanded the computer and the green glowing shield deactivated from the door and they opened.
All the students walked inside the labs and Technus grinned on the screen of Valerie's phone and then shut the screen off to make sure he was undetected by Danny or Dayla.
Damion placed a gentle hand on Danny's shoulder and stopped him from going any further as he asked, "Danny could you hold up for a moment?"
All the students started looking around the lab, Tucker then awed at the sight of two types of advanced jet packs in the middle of the room.
"Cool! These are the X-23 Booster Rockets, either of them a capable of launching a single person in space in less than two minutes" Tucker said. He then walked over to some sort of large computer hub and said, "And this is part of the Cybertron Mega Computer. It's the hub that links to the actual processing unit that floats in space"
"Why would they put it in space?" Andrew asked.
"For safety. Andrew a computer that powerful could be used to control very other computer in the world. You can't just let anybody get to it" Tucker answered.
"Wow. That is one powerful computer" Dayla commented.
Valerie walked into another room of the lab, Technus then phased out of her phone and into a keypad and locked her inside the room. He then phased into the computer hub, Tucker's PDA then went static a little bit.
"Weird" Tucker said as he looked at his PDA. "Anyway that's why the only way to get to the main computer is through this hub and through a ten thousand digit security code"
"And you know this why?" Sam asked.
"Sam I'm a techno-geek. What do you think I do all night on the internet? Math homework?" Tucker retorted.
"I have always assumed so. Perhaps I need to assign more?" Mr Felucca suggested sending Tucker a glare.
Meanwhile Damion asked Danny, "Are you okay? You seem nervous son"
"Uh well uh kind of" Danny answered as he nervously looked at the picture of Vlad Masters.
"Well I think you're a good kid and I know my daughter likes you" Damion said and then they both laughed nervously. He then asked very seriously, "Just do me a favour. Keep your families ghost weirdness away from my daughter hmmm"
He then walked away and then suddenly Danny's ghost sense went off, inside the labs Dayla was checking out some of the other inventions when suddenly her ghost sense went off. Suddenly Valerie started attacking the lab in her ghost hunting suit, she flew around on her jet sled and started blasting everything and everyone began to run and scream. Danny and Dayla hid behind a wall and changed into their ghost forms, but when they were ready for a fight Valerie just looked at them from her shoulder and flew off completely ignoring them.
Damion then entered the room after getting up from being knocked over by a blast and before he could see them, they flew off out of sight. Damion gasped at the sight of the destroyed lab and now was really angry as he saw Valerie come out of the locked room.
"Woah! What happened in here?" She asked and then yelped when Damion started dragging her away.
Meanwhile Technus was in the computer hub grinning like a mad man as he said, "A ten thousand code X firewall eh? Please!"
He then started pushing all different types of codes but he got it wrong and growled in frustration.
"This could take a while and those ghost children will be snooping around here at any time, unless I continue to distract them and the girl will be the key. The ghost girl I won't have to worry about so much, but the boy him I can definitely mess around with" Technus said as he pulled up an image of Valerie.
Later when Valerie got home, she had been arguing with her dad non-stop telling him that it wasn't her in the suit.
"I'm telling you dad it wasn't me!" Valerie pleaded.
"Well it was your suit! So what am I supposed to think?" Damion retorted.
"That somebody took it! That I'm telling the truth! How about that?" She retorted back and then went into her room in a huff.
She laid down on her bed really confused about what happened today. She then asked in her head, "It wasn't me. So who was it?"
Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard a message notification come up on her computer. She saw it was from Danny and read, "Val are you okay?"
She smiled at that and replied, "I'm fine. Don't know what happened but yeah"
Meanwhile Danny was in his room talking to Sam and Tucker on the web cam about what happened today while Dayla was in her room. He then asked, "Didn't it seem weird to you at all?"
"I mean usually she's all 'Where's the ghost? I find that ghost, I'm gonna waste it!' But she didn't say a word" He finished.
"She spoke with her gun Danny remember?" Sam asked and frowned at that part.
The sound of Tucker's PDA going static again sounded from the computer, suddenly a message notification came up and Danny smiled as he saw it was from Valerie.
"Danny are you okay?" He read.
"What's that? Is that from Valerie?" Sam and Tucker asked.
"Tucker! Are you online again?" They could hear Mrs Foley shouting so Tucker logged off and then Danny turned off Sam.
"I'm fine but I didn't know what to think. How about you?" Danny replied.
Meanwhile in Dayla's room, her computer suddenly came on and Andrew was calling her on the webcam. Dayla smiled and answered it.
"Hey Andrew" Dayla greeted.
"Uh Dayla hi! Sorry for some reason my computer started calling you through the webcam" Andrew said.
"Probably a glitch" Dayla laughed. Andrew laughed a little back and then said. "Well today was definitely weird"
"I know. Usually Valerie would have chased us on sight as soon as she saw us, but this time she completely ignored us" Dayla said.
"Don't worry about it so much. Anyway I actually wanted to ask you something" Andrew said. "If you're not busy tomorrow night, maybe you'd like to catch a movie?"
Dayla blushed a little, "Uh a movie?"
"Yeah. But you know just you and me?" He asked.
"Um sure. Seven okay?" She asked back. He nodded and said, "Seven's good"
Danny and Valerie had chatted really late during the night, Dayla even called up Sam to tell her about her going to the movie's with Andrew. The next morning they were both at school and Danny yawned as he felt a little tired.
"Long night?" Andrew asked. Sam then frowned and added, "Of flirting with disaster?"
"You should really give her a chance Sam. I know that she wants to waste Danny and Dayla Phantom, but did you know she's a ninth degree black belt? And that her favourite fruit is cumquat because it's a funny word?" Danny asked.
"No Danny I didn't, because I never really get past the waste Danny and Dayla Phantom part!" Sam exclaimed.
"Sam she's really not such a bad person. Aren't you always telling me it's what inside that counts?" Dayla asked.
"I suppose you make a point" Sam sighed.
"Hey Dayla all set for the movies tonight?" Andrew asked.
"Yeah. I'll see you at my place" Dayla said.
Meanwhile Valerie was walking in the hallway with Star talking about Danny, "Did you know that he wants to be an astronaut? That his sister Dayla wants to be an artist? That he bowls with a one hundred and fifty average?"
"No all I know is that his family is a bunch of ghost hunting freaks" Star said and then stopped when she saw Danny in front of them.
"Oh I'm sorry by freak I mean…no I meant it! See ya Val, see ya freak" Star said and then walked off.
"Oh don't mind her" Valerie said still smiling.
"Her? Was there another girl with you? I hadn't noticed" Danny said.
Valerie laughed a little and asked, "Pretty cheesy Neil Armstrong. You got lunch plans?"
Although Sam smiled a little at the interaction between Dayla and Andrew, she frowned at Danny and Valerie together.
"Is Danny nuts?" Sam asked.
"Ah don't worry Sam. This is just the puppy love stuff, he'll come to his senses in no time. Just watch" Tucker said.
"Oh I was planning to" Sam said determined.
Technus watched on the screens that night as Danny and Valerie ate together at a diner, he clicked on a code and then suddenly all the lights went out but they both smiled as the waiter placed a couple of candles at their table. He then watched as Dayla and Andrew were coming out of the cinema's after finishing the movie and then they both went to the arcade, he pushed a code at the game they were playing and then suddenly Andrew won the whole stack of tickets in the claw machine. When they went to the counter, Andrew got the giant panda and gave it to Dayla who smiled and then they both blushed a little.
On Saturday, Danny and Valerie were at a baseball game and during it they won two tickets to the carnival and they both just smiled at each other romantically. Dayla and Andrew went to the mall and checking out the music store, they both then won two tickets to the carnival in a raffle which they both laughed and smiled at each other and when they found out that Danny and Valerie had won tickets as well, they all went together.
Dayla and Andrew went on a haunted house ride and when she jumped at Freddy Crouger popping out, Andrew held her close and she laid his head down on his shoulder, Technus saw this and then pressed a code to make the ride stop, but they didn't mind at all. Meanwhile Danny and Valerie were on the Ferris Wheel when it stopped as they were halfway in the air, they both just smiled and then Technus clicked on another code and suddenly made all the lights in the city spell, "DF+VG". Valerie smile grew wider and then she placed her head on his shoulder. Sam watched from the distance, really jealous.
"Oh of course that's where the Ferris wheel stops! Why wouldn't it?! Could you turn that thing down?" Sam asked getting really annoyed at the static noise coming from Tucker's PDA.
"No! Ever since that fight with Technus this thing goes static at the weirdest times" Tucker said.
Suddenly the face of a laughing Technus appeared on his screen. Tucker then exclaimed, "OH NO! And now we know why! It's picking up Technus! Something in his new upgrade is making my PDA all wonky"
"Like at the mall, the lab, the arcade and the Ferris Wheel! He's pushing Danny and Valerie together and he's pushing Dayla and Andrew even closer!" Sam exclaimed.
Tucker then started laughing. Sam then said annoyed, "If you're done, we have to tell Danny, Andrew and Dayla"
"You want to tell them that Technus is playing matchmaker? How do you think they're gonna react to that?" Tucker asked.
The answer came when they told Danny and Dayla, Andrew hadn't arrived to school yet but Danny and Dayla started laughing hysterically at Sam's news.
"Are you done yet?" Sam asked with annoyance.
"I am" Dayla said calming down. Danny then said, "No"
Danny laughed some more and then finally stopped. He then said, "Okay now I'm done. You're telling us that Technus is trying to hook me up with Valerie and Dayla with Andrew? Come on! Technus hates emotions"
"And hello? He's using yours against you!" Sam pressed.
"Dim lights, stalled Ferris wheels, winning at the arcade? Danny do you think the universe wants you two to be together?" Tucker asked.
Unaware that Valerie was listening to Tucker's question as Danny answered, "Well maybe. I don't know. I might"
Sam and Valerie gasped at that and just when Tucker was about to mention Technus again, Sam saw Valerie in the bushes and lied, "Well technically…because we just want you to be happy. If you like her, we'll just have to make space for her at our table"
Sam's eye twitched a bit. Andrew then came along and then hid behind a tree as he heard Tucker ask, "What about you Dayla? Do you want to be together with Andrew?"
"Well to be honest yeah. Only Sam knew this, but ever we first met I started liking him and now I like him even more than just a friend and I have a really good feeling he likes me back" Dayla answered.
Andrew smiled and sighed, he did like her back the same way and now he knew that nothing could stop him from telling the truth.
"Good for you Dayla. You deserve some happiness in your life" Danny said.
"Yeah you do Dayla. Are you gonna tell him?" Sam asked. Dayla nodded and answered, "I'm planning to tomorrow during lunch time"
"I better go. I'm meeting Valerie before class" Danny said and then left. Dayla then said, "I gotta go too. Mr Lancer wanted to see me before class at the field"
She then left as Valerie then came out of the bushes and asked Sam, "Did you mean that?"
"Uh…yeah sure. If Danny likes you and you like Danny, then the least we can do is give you a chance" Sam said nervously. Andrew then came out and pretended he didn't hear anything.
She then pulled her into a hug and she muttered, "Human contact. Crushing Goth indifference"
Danny laughed as he and Dayla headed for their locations, "Technus as matchmaker! Please!"
They both then suddenly heard a rustling in the trees and turned around but saw nothing was there.
"Huh it's nothing. I swear I heard something" Dayla wondered as they turned back around.
"Don't worry Dayla, Sam was probably being paranoid" Danny said.
They both then heard something come out of the trees and gasped as they turned around to see Valerie's ghost hunting suit floating in the air on the jet sled, aiming an ecto blaster right at them.
"But it doesn't mean she's not right! Valerie's not in there is she?" Dayla asked the suit.
"No she's not. She's over there in full view!" Technus pointed out controlling the suit to where Valerie had just arrived.
Valerie smiled and waved at them, they returned the wave nervously and then looked back at Technus.
"You should run now" Technus suggested.
They both then started running as Valerie began to say, "Hey guys. Danny Sam and I had the greatest conversation and…"
She was cut off when she noticed them still running and then gasped as she saw her suit flying after them.
"That's my suit! And it's after Danny and Dayla!" She shouted.
She then ran into some bushes and tipped out her bag hoping to find something to help her protect them, but when she couldn't find anything she picked up a long stick and charged after them.
"You were pushing Valerie and me together!" Danny shouted as they continued to run. Dayla then shouted, "And you were pushing Andrew and me even closer!"
"Your welcome!" Technus shouted back and then began firing blasts at them.
They both jumped and dodged the blasts, they both then in front of the school building and were about to transform when Technus pointed to the security camera, "Uh, uh, uh! Careful! Secret identities remember?"
Danny and Dayla stopped their transformations. Technus then asked, "You know ghost boy I wonder who will miss you more. The angry ghost hunter or the frustrated little Goth girl who can't admit her feelings"
"What are you talking about?" Danny asked. Dayla then whispered, "Clueless"
"Oh well! Nothing you need to worry about now, because you two are through interfering with my plans!" Technus exclaimed angrily.
He aimed the gun and prepared to fire, ready to deliver the finishing blow and there was nothing Danny or Dayla could do to stop it without risking their secret!
"YES! YES! So long children!" Technus exclaimed.
Suddenly the suit was hit in the face by a carton of milk, the suit turned its head around toward the source which was Valerie. Valerie then using her skills in karate, leapt in the air and wacked the suit off the jet sled with the stick in her hand.
"Danny! Take Dayla and run!" Valerie shouted.
"But…" Danny began to protest, but Valerie cut him off and said, "Just run!"
"Oh we're running! Running to get help!" Danny shouted as he and Dayla ran.
Tucker, Sam and Andrew watched knowing that they were going to go transform, they then watched as the suit got up and started charging at Valerie who then used the stick to leap up and delivered a powerful kick sending the suit back down to the ground, she flipped and landed on the ground in a defensive position.
"Whoa!" Sam and Andrew exclaimed.
"She is a ninth degree black belt. Danny better not forget their anniversary" Tucker said.
Danny and Dayla ran behind the school and jumped into the large rubbish bin, they both then transformed and burst out of there with rubbish all over them, they both then quickly phased the rubbish off them and started heading towards Valerie and the suit.
The suit took aim and began firing blasts at Valerie, she jumped behind a lunch and flipped it to use a shield, the blasts broke the table in half and the suit kept on firing. Valerie then pulled out her house keys and jumped into action, she leapt in the air and threw the keys right at the suit, but it didn't too much damage as they keys just stabbed the chest.
"Oh great! Now I'm doomed and I can't get into my house" Valerie muttered.
Valerie was suddenly hit dead on with a blast and sent straight to the ground, she looked up to see the suit now towering over her ready to deliver the finishing blow when suddenly it was grabbed by Danny and Dayla and thrown straight into a building. They both then charged straight for it, but the suit took aim and fired a couple of blasts hitting Danny and Dayla dead on and sending them straight into a building.
The suit then activated the jet sled and jumped straight on it, it began to charge straight for them firing blasts at them, Danny and Dayla turned intangible and avoided the blasts and the suit. Danny then fired an ecto blast right at the jet sled's engines, completely destroying it and sent the suit crashing to the ground. Valerie jumped behind the bushes near the school to avoid the debris while Sam, Tucker and Andrew scattered in different directions.
Danny and Dayla landed in front of the suit as it started slowly to get back up. Dayla then said, "Valerie's not in there"
Unaware that Valerie was watching them, Danny then said, "Which means we're not holding back!"
Danny then fired an ecto blast and destroyed one of the suits arms, Dayla then fired and destroyed its right leg, it stood up.
"Say goodbye punk!" They both shouted and then fired a combined ecto blast right in the chest.
Valerie gasped as the suit fell, Danny and Dayla then saw a countdown and immediately got out of the way and then the suit exploded. The pieces fell out of the sky and there was nothing left of the suit but the top body part, she walked over and picked it up. She then looked up as Danny and Dayla landed back on the ground giving them a sad look.
"AH HA! Demoralised! Now my pan can go forward!" Technus exclaimed as he watched from the camera of the helmet.
The school bell rang and Dayla said, "Uh we gotta go"
They both then flew off. Valerie looked down at the suit and suddenly felt angry as she thought of something.
"They were trying to do that to me! That could've been me! But it wasn't" Valerie said. She then looked at the security camera and exclaimed, "And now I have proof!"
Valerie went to Axion Labs straight after school and showed her dad the broken pieces of the suit and the security footage from the school.
"That could've been you!" Damion exclaimed. Valerie then said, "No! Because it never was me!"
Damion gave her a gentle smile and said, "I'm sorry I didn't believe you. You did do a good job protecting your friends, I guess I can let it go this time"
"You're only saying that because the suit is destroyed" Valerie pointed out. Damion then smiled and said, "BINGO!"
That night, Team Phantom were all in Danny's room discussing everything that has happened at school. Danny was sitting on his bed really looking down.
"So Technus must've been behind the attack during the tour, which means he's trying to crack the code and get into the main computer in space" Tucker said.
"Which he could use to control every computer in the world" Sam finished. Tucker then said, "You only know that because I told you that"
"Hey Danny are you okay?" Andrew asked.
"You should've seen Valerie's face. I'm sure she thinks we were trying to waste her" Danny said.
"But you weren't" Sam pointed out. Danny then said, "It doesn't matter. If I wanna ask Valerie out, I'm gonna have to never tell her that we're Danny and Dayla Phantom"
"He has a point guys, she can never know our secret. But first things first, we have to get rid of that virus called Technus once and for all" Dayla said.
"Let's go guys" Danny said but just when he was about to head out the door, Jack came up.
"Danny! Word on the street is you got yourself a girlfriend! Ah can you four leave so I can have a totally awkward father/son chat?" Jack asked. "Oh and Dayla, your mother actually wants to see you for a second in our room"
"Gone and gone" They all said and then left leaving Danny with Jack.
Jack and Danny went down to the kitchen and got themselves a bowl of ice cream each.
"Does it have to be awkward?" Danny asked.
"Yep! I'm gonna give you some fatherly advice and then I'm gonna say something that makes you cringe and run out of the room in embarrassment" Jack said.
"Advice first?" Danny asked.
"Alright. If you really like this girl Danny, you should let her know and giver her something like this" Jack said as he placed a class ring on the table.
"A class ring?" Danny asked. Jack continued, "A girlfriend's not a girlfriend until you give her a class ring Danny. It also says I could be the girl I fight ghost with! Or at least it did with your mum, I don't know how appropriate it is for you"
Danny smiled with a laugh and picked up the ring, "You'd be surprised. I can give her this?"
"Only if she's special. I'm sure Sam will love it" Jack said.
Danny frowned and exclaimed, "It's not for Sam!"
Jack laughed and said, "Of course it's not! You guys are just friends. I even had it engraved"
Danny looked at the inside of the ring and saw it indeed had Sam's name engraved on it. Jack then said, "See that was the embarrassing thing. Now if you'll excuse me, it's time for pie"
Danny left the room, Jack chuckled lightly and muttered, "Clueless"
MEANWHILE DURING DANNY'S TALK WITH JACK
Dayla knocked on the door to her parent's room and said, "Hey mum, dad said you wanted to see me"
"Hi honey! Sit down and we'll talk" Maddie said.
Dayla sat down on the bed. She then asked, "This isn't one of those awkward mother/daughter talks is it?"
"Absolutely. Word is that you and Andrew have been getting closer than ever. You really like him don't you?" Maddie asked with a smirk.
"Yes. I really do. Is it weird to fall for your friend?" Dayla asked.
"Not at all sweetheart. I fell in love with your father and he was my friend when I met him and then I ended up marrying him" Maddie answered with a gentle hand on her chin. "It's natural Dayla and if you really like Andrew and he likes you, then you tell him"
"Mum. Can I just ask you something?" Dayla asked. "Just saying like I may not be the safest person to be going out with, what do I do?"
"Well if he really likes you back, he's willing to take that risk to be with you" Maddie answered. "And if he's not, then he might be the boy for you. But I know that he likes you back"
Dayla smiled and said, "Thanks mum. I gotta go. Love you"
"I love you too sweetheart" Maddie smiled as she left.
They all stood on the hills outside Axion Labs, Danny and Dayla were in their ghost forms ready to go. Dayla reached into her pockets and pulled out five sets of Fenton Phones and handed three of them to Sam.
"Guys take these and put them on. Once Technus leaves the building let us know" Dayla said.
Danny then pulled the ring out of his pocket and gave it to Sam while saying, "Oh and hold this please Sam"
Danny and Dayla then turned invisible and intangible and flew inside Axion Labs.
"He really is clueless isn't he?" Andrew asked.
Sam looked at the mirror and saw the engraving inside, but it was upside down and it spelled Wes.
"Who the heck is Wes?" Sam asked.
Danny and Dayla phased into cafeteria and suddenly heard Valerie ask, "This isn't one of those awkward father/daughter conversations is it?"
They both turned to see them sitting at a table eating ice cream. Damion then said, "Probably. You really risked your neck to save those Fenton kids"
"Yeah. Dayla's a really good friend and I like Danny a lot. Maybe even enough to give up ghost hunting" Valerie said smiling at the thought of Danny.
Danny smiled. They both then heard from the their Fenton Phones, "Ghost girl 1 and Clueless 1, this is Goth 1 over"
Danny and Dayla quickly flew out of the cafeteria, hoping Valerie or her dad didn't hear anything.
"Goth 1, this is Clueless 1. Why am I Clueless 1?" Danny asked.
"Tell him!" Tucker pressed. Sam then said, "Shut it!"
Danny and Dayla phased into the labs and grabbed the X23 Booster rockets as Dayla said, "We're in guys and from the looks of the computer Technus is still in there"
They both suddenly heard the door open and both gasped as they saw it was Valerie and Damion who was holding a blaster and aiming it right at them.
"YOU TWO!" Valerie shouted in anger.
"Oh darn it!" Danny and Dayla exclaimed.
"30 SECONDS TILL I HAVE CONTROL!" Technus exclaimed from the computer.
"Get away from that!" He heard Damion Gray shout.
"What is that ruckus? Security camera fourteen" Technus commanded and then a screen showed up and showed him what was going on.
He could see Damion blasting a blast at Danny and Dayla in their ghost forms, they both dodged the blast and floated in the air.
"There's an evil ghost in that thing trying to take over your computer satellite" Danny tried to explain.
"Yeah! And we're looking at them" Valerie snapped. Damion then asked sarcastically, "You expect us to believe you two?"
"We're telling the truth!" Dayla exclaimed.
"No! I need more time!" Technus exclaimed.
"See why I need to hunt these ghosts? They think they can do whatever they want, but somebody has to stop them!" He heard Valerie say with rage.
"An excellent idea!" Technus grinned.
He sent an electrical surge of his powers and blasted Valerie with them, all the broken suit pieces then came together and attached themselves to her and before anyone knew it she was now in a more powerful ghost hunting suit. The suit was now black and red and you can now see Valerie's face through the mask.
"Oh yeah! This is gonna be good!" Valerie exclaimed with a grin.
"3…2…1 AND DONE! GOODBYE COMPUTER IN AMITY PARK! HELLO FANCY SATELLITE IN SPACE!" Technus exclaimed.
They all watched including Sam, Tucker and Andrew as the large satellite appeared from the roof and transferred Technus to the processing unit in space which the satellite changed its appearance to Technus's face.
"HA! HA! HA! IT'S OVER CHILDREN! YOU TWO CAN'T STOP ME NOW!" They all heard on the large computer screen.
"We'll see about that!" Danny and Dayla shouted in determination.
They both then put the booster rockets on and then grabbed the space helmets and put them on, they then turned on the rocket and turned intangible as they blasted off to outer space. Valerie jumped in the air and then suddenly underneath her was a brand new jet sled that had a pointed edge.
"Valerie! Get out of that suit!" Damion demanded.
"I will. As soon as I catch those ghosts" Valerie said and then blasted her way out of the building.
Danny and Dayla yelled as they flew at top speed in the air. Danny then screamed in excitement, "HEY! I'M AN ASTRONAUT! WOOOHOOOO!"
Down below Sam, Tucker and Andrew watched as Valerie flew after them at top speed on her jet sled.
"Uh guys! Guys come in! Stay alert. You two got company" Sam said through the Fenton Phones.
"Company? What kind of company?" Dayla asked.
The answer came as a blast went straight past her shoulder, they looked back to see Valerie catching up with them.
"It's Danny's girlfriend" Sam said.
They both continued to head for space as Valerie continued to send blasts at them. Danny then said, "She's not my girlfriend until I give her the ring"
"What is this? 1955?" Tucker said sarcastically.
As they broke out of Earth's atmosphere, Danny and Dayla turned off their jets and allowed the gravity of space to take control, they floated around as Valerie sped past them. She then turned off her jets and was floating around like them, she then gained some control and fired a blast from her arm straight at them, but the blast was so strong that it pushed her away from them. Danny and Dayla just managed to push against the gravity out of the way of the blast, they both then gasped as they saw Technus rotating around the Earth taking control of every single piece of technology around the world, causing chaos such as traffic collisions, scaring people away from computers as he popped out of them and placing his face around the globe.
Danny and Dayla turned their jets back on and charged right at him, they both sent ecto-blasts at him trying to destroy his satellite body but they couldn't break through. Suddenly Danny was grabbed by the front of Valerie's jet sled and then she went back and grabbed Dayla by the throat, she then pushed on a button on the sled and sent an electrical current straight onto Danny, he screamed as he was electrocuted and then she started raised her arm and prepared a finishing blast for Dayla as she continued to squeeze her throat.
Through Danny's struggles, he lit his hand with ecto energy and blasted Valerie right off him, causing her to let go of Dayla as they were all pushed away from each other. Danny then gasped as he looked at his hands and saw Valerie now unconscious, now he was really angry.
Dayla then thought of something, "Danny! If we set our jet's to overload and allow Technus to absorb them, KABOOOM!"
Danny nodded. They both then flew straight for Technus, they stopped a few feet in front of him and then set their jets to overload, their jets started to shake and then a huge burst of power came from them and then they flew straight at Technus, they turned intangible at the last second and phased the jets off their back and watched as he ate them and then they watched as KABOOOM! Technus exploded and without him, everything around the world went back to the normal.
The debris flew everywhere, a piece then hit Valerie on the forehead and woke her up, she growled and straightened herself up, she then flew around looking for Danny and Dayla but they weren't there and so Valerie started heading back down to Earth unware that invisibly Danny and Dayla had hitched a ride under her jet with her.
The next day at school during lunch, Danny was getting ready to ask Valerie to be her girlfriend as they sat outside, Sam gave him the ring. Dayla was feeling really nervous herself about talking to Andrew about her feelings.
"Danny are you sure about this?" Andrew asked.
"Well she said she'd give up ghost hunting, for me" Danny said with a sure smile. "Besides I like her and she likes me back. Isn't it supposed to be that simple?"
"Clueless!" They all said together.
"Danny?" He heard Valerie ask as she touched him on the shoulder.
He smiled and stood up and said, "Wow! I'm glad you're here, I wanted to ask you something"
"Actually me first" Valerie said. Knowing that this is a conversation between them only Dayla, Sam, Tucker and Andrew left the table.
"Danny, I had a lot of fun these few days but my life's way too complicated right now for us to be anything other than…friends" Valerie said looking down.
"Just friends? B-but I thought…" Danny began when she cut him off and said, "I thought too. But there' something important I have to do and I don't want you to get hurt because of it. Besides it's not like you were going to give some lame class ring right?"
She gave him a kiss on the cheek as he nervously said, "Yeah right"
Valerie then left, Danny looked down at the ring feeling hurt and then sat down at table holding his face in his hands, Valerie went behind the building and changed into her new ghost hunting suit and before leaving she looked back at Danny once more sadly. Dayla and Sam came over and placed comforting hands on his shoulders.
"Danny I'm sorry" Dayla said. "Hey keep your chin up, I know the right girl is out there waiting for you. You just have to find her"
Danny gave her a small smile, he then gave the ring to Sam and asked, "Can you hang onto this?"
Sam nodded and sighed with a smile, "Oh clueless. Hey Dayla you ready?"
"I don't know Sam, I was feeling ready yesterday but now I'm not so sure" Dayla answered.
"Dayla just because I didn't get to go out with someone, doesn't mean you should miss out. Go for it sis" Danny encouraged.
Dayla smiled and gave her brother a tight hug, she then walked over to Andrew and asked, "Hey can I talk to you a minute?"
"Sure I was gonna talk to you too" Andrew said with a smile.
"Andrew from the day we first met, I started to like you and as time moved on I started liking you more than just a friend, I'm not sure if you feel the same way about me and if you don't that's okay and I hope we can still be friends because I don't want to ruin our friendship" Dayla admitted.
At first she was fearing that it was rejection, but was completely taken by surprise when he pulled her into a hug and said, "Dayla Fenton, I do feel the same way about you. When I first met you, I liked you as well and then ever since the Pariah Dark incident I liked you even more. I was afraid that I wasn't going to see you again, but when you came back I was so happy to see you were alive. So yes I really like you, more than just a friend"
They pulled apart and Dayla started crying tears of joy, she then went for it and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He then gently lifted her chin and then they kissed each other on the lips, they then pulled apart after a minute and just smiled at each other.
"So boyfriend and girlfriend?" Andrew asked with a smile. Dayla giggled and answered, "Definitely"
Danny and Sam saw and both just smiled at the sight, meanwhile Tucker was watching from the other side and then two geek girls came up to him.
"Valerie dumped Danny huh?" One of the girls asked.
"Apparently" Tucker answered.
The second one then asked, "Goth girl making her move?"
"Doubt it" Tucker answered.
He then smiled at them both flirtatiously. The first then asked her friend, "Do you think Danny likes brunettes?"
Tucker frowned and then asked his PDA, "That settles it! Are you seeing anybody?"
Valerie flew across the air, on the hunt for any ghosts in Amity Park especially Danny and Dayla Phantom. The Red Huntress was officially back in action.
THE END
NEXT TIME ON THE PHANTOM TWINS:
Tucker and Danny are at risk of flunking Gym Class unless they pass the President's test of Physical Fitness so to help them out, Ms Tetslaff assigns them fitness buddies. Sam and Andrew are to train Tucker while Danny is stuck with Dayla along with Dash Baxter! But when Skulker attacks and Jack Fenton shrinks Danny, Dayla and Dash with his new weapon, they must get themselves back to normal without revealing their secret! Will Skulker win this time? Will Danny and Tucker pass Gym? Will Dash discover their secret? Find out next time on The Phantom Twins in: Micro-Management!
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HAPPY NEW YEAR 2017!