Happy Birthday Kas!

Okay so the background here is that Leader thought of little vine stories and projects and things for Iambic Prose and me and Hollow were completely behind the idea. So when the idea to do Iambic Prose vines came up, well, I thought back to those wonderful conversations and added a touch of my own cynical and sarcastic wit.

For the Vine

:: (Pre Iambic Prose)

"DO IT FOR THE VINE!" Danny sighed, looking back at his friends with the look of a man who was walking to the gallows. How did he reach this point in his life? Doing something for a six-second video clip that would end in the rest of his death... Oh right, he had listened to Tucker.

He needed to stop doing that.

::

"Vines?" Danny knew by Tucker and Sam's expressions that he was in for a world of pain and trouble. "Do I even want to ask?"

"Seriously man, you need to get out more," Tucker sighed, pulling up the site and showing it to Danny, who only raised an eyebrow. "You get six seconds to record yourself doing something, anything, and then you upload it for views. It's like the bite-sized version of Youtube."

"...why?"

"This is why you don't understand technology!" Tucker ranted, throwing his hands up in aggravation, "You question every little new thing that happens! Can't you just do something stupid like the rest of your peers that you'll regret for the rest of your life?!"

"Yeah, I already have enough regret from stepping into an untested portal that leads to another dimension that contains the lingering spirits of dead humans. I'm good on regret." Pulling himself up from the table he was at he walked back inside towards the cafeteria. He didn't even make it five feet before Sam was standing in front of him, grinning dangerously. "...If you're trying to get me to sign my soul over it's sort of half-gone already."

"Come on, just once," Tucker wheedled, Danny staring between them before letting out a heavy sigh. He was too easy to sway when it came to stupid plans. "How about me and Sam do a vine first and then you do one, and to make it fun we each have to dare each other which vine to do, except you. You don't know how it works."

"Gee, thanks," Danny replied flatly, trying to escape Tucker's grip. He was surprised by just how strong it was. "Can I go dump my tray now?"

"Fine, but Saturday is Vine Day! Remember it!" Danny just waved him off, figuring since it was Tuesday Tucker would forget all about it by Thursday.

::

Danny was wrong. Tucker didn't forget, and now he might die because of it. Turning to Sam, who was standing beside him and filled with unholy glee he shook his head, "Sammy, this is cruel. Even for you."

"He accepted, all blame can be pushed onto him." Danny sighed and looked back to the top of the two-story building where Tucker was nervously standing, a three-foot pool filled with technology beneath him. "COME ON TUCKER! LET YOUR PRECIOUS TECHNOLOGY SAVE YOU THIS TIME!" Danny sensed his friend still had some leftover aggression from when Tucker refused to sign her petition to destroy technology factories in order to replant trees. "DO IT FOR THE FUCKING VINE!"

He needed new friends.

"TECHNO CANNONBALL!" Danny was really surprised that Tucker didn't think he would wind up in the hospital with a broken leg for doing something that stupid. He had tried to tell Tucker that he was a goddamn idiot but he was too happy that Sam had let him keep all the technology that had been in the pool. Danny was worried that he was the only sane one left among his friends, and as the half-ghost teenage superhero with a hero-complex that worried him.

::

"DO IT FOR THE VINE!" Danny only hid his face in his hands, watching as Tucker started the vine and then paused it after one second, Sam upside down in a tree holding a large analog clock with her hands. "Six hours, can you do it, Manson?!"

"Just watch me, Foley!" Sam shouted back, looking triumphant. While Danny retreated to the corner and called Andrew to talk to the last sane person in his life Sam and Tucker glared at each other for six hours, one second for each hour as Sam held the clock up, or down depending on how you looked at, to show her time. By the end of the sixth hour Sam fell straight out of the tree, Danny just barely flying over to catch her in time, carefully laying her out and supporting her head. "Pretty pretty unicorns."

"This is the stupidest thing you guys have ever done," Danny declared, Tucker only laughing as he uploaded the vine with glee, Danny shaking his head and using his ice powers to cool down Sam's overheated face. "Aren't you two supposed to be the responsible ones? When did I- When did this happen?!"

"When we realized you had become more mature than us," Tucker smiled, patting his friend's back. "Now it's our job to make sure you still do stupid teenager things and don't miss anything that life has to offer. You may have to be the hero and you may have to be the adult a lot but you don't have to grow up. At least not right away."

Danny blinked at the words, small smile coming to his face. His friends were really amazing, "Tucker...that's so-"

"By the way, you're next."

::

"DO IT FOR THE VINE!" Danny sighed as he pushed the library doors open, Tucker limping after him with crutches and a cast on his right leg and Sam stumbling and dizzy, holding his phone up at a slightly titled angle. Silently asking Vidya where Andrew was he immediately found him, the ghost looking confused and glancing between Sam and Tucker.

"What happened to them?" Danny only sighed, shoulders slumping. He really hoped Andrew was only mad at him for a maximum of a few weeks, he couldn't stand the thought of the ghost hating him for all eternity. Although...he really didn't mind his challenge vine that much. Floating in his ghost form he looked to Sam, who grinned and nodded.

"I'm so sorry that I don't regret what I'm about to do." Before Andrew could ask just what Danny was about to do he was dragged into a lengthy kiss that had him shocked, surprised, and blushing a bright green. When he released he saw Danny was an equally bright green. "I was forced into this but I've also wanted to kiss you for months. And now I'm going to flee for whatever is left of my life."

In a flash he was off, the events of the last six seconds finally settling in Andrew's mind. When it did he was immediately screaming and cursing in French, chasing after Danny with a bright blush. Tucker and Sam shared a high-five, their mission accomplished.

"You know," Tucker spoke up, "This was a really painful way to go about getting those two together. Couldn't we have just locked them in a ghost-proof closet?"

"This is Danny. The hard way was the only choice we had," Sam sighed, dizzily walking over to a couch as Tucker limped after her, the two watching as Danny and Andrew flew around the library, screaming things back and forth. "When do you think they'll realize they're screaming about being in love with each other?" Tucker hummed, looking at the time on Sam's phone.

"Given GW's stubbornness and Danny's cluelessness? I give it two hours." Sam nodded, smile slowly growing as she posted the vine they had just recorded, Tucker snorting. "Did you just make a fake Vine account for Phantom?"

"Let's see how badly Paulina screams when we show it to her on Monday."

Paulina faints. Sam gets it on camera. She keeps it until the day she dies.