This is basically a redo of my anti-mary-sue oneshot, only this one is interjected into the canon of the story.

Review plz :D

Chapter 38: The Dangers of Mary-Sue

One day Danny Fenton went to school and there was somebody waiting by his locker before first period had even started. She had long blond hair and blue eyes and she was very sexy.

"Hi! I'm Mary-Sue Angelica Fuffyhair! I'm new here and I'm a goth but, I'm very happy and very nice, unlike that Sam Manson I've heard about. She's uber mean. Danny, you and I should be best friends!"

Danny's eyebrows rose. He was so totally confused.

"You don't remember me?" Said Mary distraught.

"Um…I think I'd remember meeting someone…someone like you." Danny laughed awkwardly.

"Well you should! You and I lived on the same street when we were six all the way up until I moved during eighth grade. But now I'm BACK! For no apparent reason! But seriously, you should remember me. We went to the same schools and everything. We even had the same birthday and we had the same bike and we both had older annoying sisters. You and I also both wanted to be astronauts and we both loved motorcycles…"

"I get the point." Danny said quickly. He had this vague memory of a little blond girl who used to follow him around all the time. Whenever she'd ask him about things that he liked, he'd answer her, but then she'd say something like "Oh I like that too!" And Danny avoided her as much as possible.

"Hey what class do you have next?"

"Uh, chemistry…maybe…"

"No WAAAYY! Me too! Isn't that WEIRD?" She said with a smile. "Come on!" She dragged him onward to the classroom even though it was her first day and she hadn't ever been to the classroom before.

But Mary-Sue led the way.

In chemistry class, Mary and Danny sat together, and she like totally made him ignore all of his friends. Tucker, Cecelia, and Sam were even waiting for Danny before walking to lunch together.

But Danny had already walked to his lunch table in effort to evade Mary. But soon she spotted him, "Hi Danny!" (Like it's easy to spot the average-looking kid with black hair and blue eyes when the majority of the population of Amity Park has black hair and/or blue or blue-green eyes.) Mary sat down right next to Danny so that her arm brushed up against his shoulder.

Soon Danny's REAL friends found him sitting at their usual table and they sat down with him.

"Danny have you been avoiding us?" Sam asked blatantly.

Tucker elbowed her because that was a rude thing to say. "Gee, Sam. Danny doesn't have to hang out with us all the time. Maybe he has other friends…" This was Tucker's way of hinting.

"Hi, guys! I'm Mary-Sue and I'm new here! You probably don't remember me, but I remember you! Hi Tucker! You used to have a crush on me."

"No I didn't." He said quickly.

"Yes you did. Gosh, you were so cute when you were younger." Mary sighed happily.

"Gosh, I'm sure you remember me too." Sam said with heavy sarcasm.

"Unfortunately, yes." Mary's voice suddenly turned grim. "You were the meanest, skinniest, most self-centered little freak I've ever met." Mary growled.

Sam growled at Mary in an unearthly tone. "You're a horrible little b—"

Tucker put his hand over Sam's mouth and chuckled awkwardly. "Heh heh, you know Sam! Always saying what she means!" He tried to keep Mary and Sam from verbally attacking each other again. But it wasn't working.

"I HATE YOU SAM MANSON! You're like the devil in Pauley Perette's body!" Mary shouted viciously.

"I—unfortunately—never did anything to you! So you have no reason to hate me you b—"

"Sam doesn't mean it!" Tucker joined the catfight.

"Oh yes I do!"

"Oh no you don't." Mary and Tucker said at the same time.

"Funny how we agree." Mary smiled flirtatiously at Tucker.

"Ughh." Tucker recoiled.

Valerie walked over to the table and pointed her finger right at Mary. "Gosh! I remember you." (She seemed to be the only one.) "You're Paulina's cousin. I remember Paulina's seventh birthday specifically. You came over to her house all the time and you wanted to be just like her."

Paulina conveniently walked by.

"Hi Paulina!"

"Oh hi, Mary." Paulina said with disgust. "You just think because you're pretty like me and self-oriented like me AND a cheerleader like me that you can just dance in here and suddenly become the most popular girl in school like me? Nu-uh." She walked away cussing in Spanish.

"Um, I'm lost here. Who are you exactly?" Cecelia said. Danny, Sam, Tucker and Mary all turned to look at her.

"Well for your information, chub bucket, I'm Mary-Sue and I used to be Danny's best friend forever."

Cecelia took a deep breath and stood up to go punch Mary in the face for calling her chubby. Danny held Cecelia back and it took much effort.

"So, yeah, Danny and I should pretty much date now." Mary said confidently. "Danny and I go so far back it's so hilarious that it's not even funny."

"Ahem, I'm dating Danny." Cecelia said confidently.

Danny tried to ignore Mary and focus on his real friends. He looked at Tucker, which was the one who started to talk now.

"So are we cool to go to you-know-where after you-know-what?" Tucker asked casually.

Danny, Cecelia and Sam all face-palmed.

"What?" Tucker was confused.

"Ooo! You guys are all going to the Nasty Burger after school! COOL! I'll be there." She said as the bell rang.

Oh my gosh, she actually got up by herself this time and didn't wait for Danny to walk to class with her!

Danny pulled his real friends aside and told them, "Okay, thanks to Tucker,"

"Sorry!" He squeaked.

"Our meeting will be held at my place instead of the Nasty Burger."

Everyone agreed and then they dispersed.

After school was over, Danny and his friends—Tucker, Sam, Cecelia and Garth all met up at Danny and Danielle's house for a Team Phantom meeting in the living room.

"…Okay guys, so the main issue today I'd like to talk to you about is Skulker." Danny said to the group. "He hasn't been hunting me in a while, so everybody be on the lookout for him—"

They heard footsteps coming and they jumped when they heard, "Oh hi Danny!"

Danny half-heartedly hoped it was Skulker.

But no, it was worse.

It was…Mary-Sue!

"How did you know we were here?" Cecelia demanded.

"How did you get in my house?" Danny said exasperated.

"Oh, I walked home with you guys." Mary invited herself onto the couch most of them were sitting on.

"You mean you followed us." Cecelia said.

"We're having a private meeting here! Don't you even have the manners to ASK to join our group?" Sam bellowed.

Mary stared at her blankly.

"Aw come on, you're not little Ms. Perfect that you can just be friends with everyone you meet." Said Garth. "This is NOT how you make friends."

Mary looked downward in a pout. "But I AM perfect."

"Nobody's perfect, Mary." Sam sneered. "I can be selfish, rude, and judgmental, and I think my ideas are always best, but I have to learn to listen to other peoples' ideas because they might have accounted for something that I left out. But even with all of that, I'm still a good person. And I've got good friends here who will vouch for me in case you don't believe me, because I know you don't."

"W-w-what are you implying?" Mary tried to keep her cool despite having been insulted, sort of.

"And sometimes I'm not as brave as I should be." Danny confessed.

"And I tend to be a little narrow-minded and I overestimate what I can handle." Cecelia contributed.

"I can be ice cold sometimes without even knowing it. I also blow off my friends when I get upset." Garth said.

With each confession, Mary's face looked more and more alarmed.

"And I'm certainly not perfect. I'm not very strong but I try my hardest and make do on what I have." Danielle said.

"Me? Oh yeah. I'm the last one left." Tucker said. Everyone looked at him, waiting to hear his flaw. "Well, guys, it might surprise you, but I'm not the ladies' man I always made myself out to be."

"No kidding." Said Sam under a cough.

"See, we've all got something that makes us human." Danny said.

"Except you, of course." Cecelia said to Mary.

Mary's eye twitched as she looked at each of them. "Im-p-p-erfection!" She stuttered. Then she ran out the door screaming "Aaaaahhh! Imperfection! Imperfection! I can't TAKE IT ANYMORE! AAAhhh!" And there was a large crashing sound.

Not one of the seven friends ever got up to investigate.

"Maybe a bird took a poop on her." Garth said.

"Maybe she got lucky and hit a car." Said Sam gothically.

"Or she got abducted by aliens." Tucker said with a smile.

"Guys, come on, get real. That was definitely the sound of an explosion." Danielle said. "So she must have blown up."

Everybody started to laugh.

From that day forth, none of them ever saw Mary-Sue Angelica Fluffyhair ever again, ever, and her disappearance was never explained ever, but all the friends knew it that they wanted to forget her. Forever.

And thus was the end of the Mary-Sue.

Danny's life was slowly forming into a cycle now that everything was getting back to normal. It all started on his Valentine's Day date with Cecelia where he hung out with her and then flew her home where they kissed passionately on the couch. That was the worst possible time for the Box Ghost to attack, right? Well, the Box Ghost didn't seem to care about Danny and his youthful infatuations.

Immediately, Cecelia went from being Danny's cute girlfriend to a ghost-fighter. And together, Danny and Cecelia scared away the Box Ghost. Danny looked at Cecelia and he realized that she had definitely been improving on her aim and the use of her powers because she had horrible aim before.

On another day in late February, a similar situation happened. Danny and Cecelia were hanging out at Nasty Burger after school and Lunchabel decided then and there to take over the restaurant. Danny desired only justice, which is part of what makes him a hero.

And sometimes, late at night, when Danny was in that mindset between asleep and awake, he would fantasize what his life would be like if a few more people knew his secret.

How would Dash and Paulina take it? How would Danny's parents take it? And how would Danny be treated?

Danny would enjoy exploring in the ghost zone too. And he'd get to do just that once Garth finally acquires a lair for them. (Garth had been telling his friends that he'd get around to it but he never actually did.) Danny couldn't wait to have his own ghost lair! He'd be just another resident ghost in the ghost zone. Well, it wouldn't completely his own, because he'd be sharing with his sister and Garth. And they'd have Team Phantom meetings there so they would never have to worry about their parents eavesdropping on their conversations.

The team had kind of envisioned the lair as a sort of apartment house that they all will hang out at or sleep over from time to time and none of them would actually live there. It would be sorta like a clubhouse.

There was just so much going on right now. He was confused whether or not he admired Valerie more or feared losing her friendship more. He was beginning to feel like his human life was overpowering his ghost life. He and Cecelia had been spending time together every day, whether it was with training or dating. Danny was also stressed about midterms.

And to top that all off, in his most vulnerable points he felt this strange headache. But it wasn't a real headache. It comes and goes. He wondered where it was coming from. And then Danny would have some awful nightmares about Wenn and the Tossi attacking the ghost zone. Danny would sometimes wake up screaming.

He wanted to find a happy place, and he thought of Cecelia. Danny needed a lot of love and comfort right now. He tried to take solace in the fact that he never had to fight anything alone—Cecelia, Danielle, Tucker, Sam, and Garth were always by his side.