THE PHANTOM'S REALM
CHAPTER TWO: THE CRASH
Currently Mr. Lancer was waiting in the Fenton living room for his class to arrive. The arrival time wasn't for another 15 minutes so it was only Jack, Maddie and Jazz in the room with him while Danny, Sam and Tucker were up in Danny's room preparing.
Lancer was a little concerned for the classes safety, going into a place full of the being that stirred trouble in Amity, but the Fenton's had promised it could do no harm, and they were professionals of course. Besides that, many of the children had said if they got into trouble Danny Phantom would be there to get them out of it.
Danny Phantom. That name was just all over the place. You didn't hear the words 'Ghost' or 'Amity Park' without Phantom's name popping up somehow somewhere. The town ghoul was a very popular subject for children, teens and adults alike. Debates about whether he was good or bad, what other powers he has, how powerful he really is and etc. Despite usually being on the sidelines when the debate on Phantom's intention came up, Lancer appreciated how much he did for the town, knowing that no matter how 'professional' the Fenton's were or how dangerous The Red Huntress looked that nobody did better than Phantom.
There was another name that kept on coming up all over Amity. The name was Danny Phazer, who became pretty big pretty fast. Danny Phazer was a person that made him known by writing short stories. Not novels or poems just short stories on various topics like Evil, Life & Death, Fears and Arch Enemies etc. and people love them. They're being sold in shops and stores all over Amity and Casper High's library. Some classes even had to read them for assignments the teachers assigned. Danny Phazer was truly an artist and even the kids in HIS class read them just for fun. And that was saying something.
Lancer broke out of his thoughts as the door exploded open and in walked the 'A-List', or at least that's what they called themselves. Dash, Kwan, Paulina, Star, Sarah and Gilligan had just busted into the house and made them comfortable in the Fenton living room. Not long after the group of 'nerds' came consisting of Mikey and Nathan and their sisters Michelle and Nancy. Then came the other people that nobody really paid attention to; Jimmy, Steve, Emma and Hailey. They were basically the 'by standers' of the class, meaning they were pretty much left alone. Valerie came in to the house in a much more polite manner, knocking beforehand. Now they were due to leave in 10 minutes and they were just waiting on the 'Freak Trio' as the school calls them.
They didn't have to wait long because they came down 5 minutes later dressed and ready.
Danny was wearing a solid red T-shirt with a white stripe across the chest and although it was baggy, it was unusual to see him in something besides his white T-shirt with red trim. He still had on his baggy blue jeans and regular sneakers. Then there was his hair, still unruly as ever and blue eyes looking anything but excited.
Sam came down next and she was dressed different too. She had on her usual combat boots but she was wearing black sweatpants with a purple stripe going down the left leg. It went perfectly with her black hoodie that was a little big for her with the Danny Phantom logo on the front.
Tucker followed the 2 down the stairs and he wasn't dressed much different aside from the fact that his yellow sweater was replaced by a yellow jacked with the Danny Phazer signature in red ink.
Just like Danny Phantom had his signature white D with the black P inside, Danny Phazer had a symbol too. Danny Phazer always, always signed his name at the end of his stories in bright red ink, making sure the 'D' in 'Danny' and 'P' in 'Phazer' were at least an inch bigger than the other letters in his signature.
Danny, Sam and Tucker stood there as they waited to be escorted through the Ghost Zone. They also laughed at the class while they looked at their different outfits. Sam wasn't known for being a Danny Phantom Phan, and nobody really knew Tucker was a Phazer fan. They also didn't realize that Phantom and Phazer were both Fenton.
That's right, not only was Danny Fenton Danny Phantom but Danny Phazer as well. Danny had started writing to get some emotions out, per Jazz's advice, and somehow he managed to become a hit. But he was worried people would think there was more to the 'Freaky loser' they see everyday if they read his stories so he adopted the alias of Phazer. The even better thing was nobody figured out that Fenton, Phantom and Phazer were the same person.
"Okay class," Lance spoke up, earning everyone's attention before continuing. "We are going into the Ghost Zone now so please make your way down to the Fenton's Lab where we will depart." Lancer ordered.
Danny, Sam and Tucker lagged behind the others as the teens piled into the lab, not exactly eager to leave for the field trip. By now most Ghosts were probably aware they were coming into the Zone so they had to be really careful.
The kids were finally herded down to the basement and they all stood around patiently as Jack and Maddie pulled a cover off their latest invention that would supposedly take them through the Ghost Zone safely.
"We present to you, the Fenton Specter Speeder 2.0!" Jack shouted as he pulled the cover off.
Under it was a large floating school bus but with changed color scheme. The yellow was changed to silver and the black was changed to neon green and most of the kids gasped at the high-tech vehicle but Danny and his friends merely sighed, knowing that in THAT thing they would attract a lot of attention. Unwanted attention.
Soon everybody was loaded on the bus with Maddie and Jack in the front, Lancer behind them the A-List towards the front, geeks & by standers (and Valerie) in the middle and the Trio on the last seat of the bus.
"Get ready for the ride of your life kids!" Jack shouted as the bus flew into the Ghost Portal leaving a waving Jazz behind.
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"I hope they change course soon. We're close to where we moved Pariah's Keep to." Danny muttered.
"Dude, relax! You locked him up." Tucker reminded him as Sam smiled and nodded.
"So? His army still patrols the grounds around it along with the Fright Knight. Remember?" Danny replied, getting more worried by the minute.
"So what? The worst that'll happen is we run into the army, and they're weak without a King. What we really have to worry about is going into Walker or Skulker's territory." Tucker tried to reason.
Danny slightly calmed down at that point but was still shaking a little bit. Sam rolled her eyes at the halfa and Tucker shook his head in amusement at Danny's attitude towards the situation. He was only amused because he knew that whatever happened they would be okay as long as they stayed in one group.
Without warning the Fenton Specter Speeder 2.0 jerked forward, broke down and started falling out of the sky. All the kids, minus the Trio, were freaking out. They were yelling, screaming and Mikey kissed Paulina, probably to get that off his bucket list. Jack and Maddie were trying to control the bus while Lancer was yelling at them to calm down.
Sam just clutched her backpack, Tucker whipped out his PDA to try to take over the bus and pilot it from there and Danny phased through the bus, transformed into Phantom and flew the bus safely to the ground.
Before he got caught, however, he phased back in and transformed, extremely lucky nobody noticed his disappearance in the chaos.
"Children! Get your belongings and exit the vehicle calmly!" Lancer ordered.
But of course nobody cared and grabbed what was theirs and ran in a frenzy to get off the bus. Once off the bus everyone ran into his or her respective groups, The A-List, nerds, by standers with Valerie and the Trio. Lancer was also in a huddle with the Fenton's trying to discuss what was best to do in a situation like this. Until a voice everyone knew spoke up.
"I know how to get us out of here." Everyone turned to see Danny Fenton, standing between his two best friends, holding his hands behind his back shyly. Weak, freaky, geeky, loser Danny Fenton had just admitted he knew the Ghost Zone.
"How would you know?" Maddie hissed. She wasn't too happy that Danny had been in the Ghost Zone before, let alone without them.
"Once I knocked your anniversary present from dad in here and came in to get it. I remember the way out from then." Danny explained.
"What makes you think we'll listen to you at all?" Dash asked, as obnoxious as ever. The A-List nodded, and everyone else looked at him with a 'what-the-hell-is-wrong-with-you' look.
"Because nobody else knows how to get anywhere in here, let alone home." Danny answered sarcastically. Everyone but Sam and Tucker blinked. Had Fenton just used sarcasm? That was new.
"Well I say I could do a better job than you, Fentonio." Dash bragged. Everyone looked at him expectantly except the Trio who rolled their eyes.
"Okay then Dash, you tell me where to go." Danny said expectantly as he crossed his arms and smirked when Dash started muttering and pointing in random directions, all of them wrong.
"That way?" Dash stated, although it was more of a question. Most of the people, all but the Trio and the adults, started walking in the direction Dash had. They didn't get far though.
"Okay. You guys go to Razz's lair and get attacked by his animals. We'll go home." Danny stated as he turned around and prepared to start walking but Star's voice called out to him.
"Animals? Razz? What did you just say?" She asked clueless.
"Razz is a Ghost who can control and talk to Ghost animals. He's probably a level 7 out of 12 ghost and his lair is in the direction your 'competent' leader is taking you." Tucker explained, reading off his PDA.
The students slowly came back to where they were when they exited the crashed bus until everyone was in one big group again. Most of the students were trying to figure out when they started listening to Danny Fenton, of all people, and his Freak Trio.
"Look, we passed Frostbite's Land and Dora's Kingdom so we could go back to them for some help. Or we could keep walking and hope we find Clockwork's Tower so he can send us home." Danny stated. Although most of the kids had no idea what he was talking about they nodded anyway.
"Well if we try and find Clockwork we might run into Skulker or Walker." Tucker started.
"But if we try and make it to Frostbite's from here Walker or Skulker might find us." Sam continued.
"We could try and get to Dora's and get her help in getting to Frostbite's though.'' Danny concluded.
The Trio smiled at each other at their work before turning back to everyone else's confused looks.
"What are you giving them names for? These Ghosts aren't sophisticated enough to have homes and names and statuses like your saying. Besides no Ghost would help a human, they're all evil Ecto-plasmic slime." Maddie spat angrily.
"No they're not! They're just as advanced as us and probably even further. They have homes and names and titles and ranks and levels and everything." Danny replied, as calmly as he could.
Everyone just sat in shock as Danny talked back to his mother, about Ghosts being evil no less. This was definitely out of character, as far as they knew.
"Forget it. We have to go now and we should reach Dora's by tomorrow." Danny said as he turned around and he, Tucker and Sam took the lead.
The kids hesitantly followed behind and the adults took up the rear.
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The had been walking for 3 hours and Paulina and Star had already complained about the distance four times to Danny, who tried his best to remain patient.
"Danny!" Paulina and Star shouted from the middle of the group of kids. Danny sighed and turned around.
"Yes?" Danny said as softly as he could. He really wanted to just walk away and get to Dora's as soon as possible but he knew he couldn't just leave them here alone.
"How much longer do we have to walk?" Paulina shouted with Star nodding in agreement. Everyone groaned except for Danny who closed his eyes and turned around.
"We can take a break in a half hour." Danny said with a sigh. Everyone groaned, not really wanting to walk further. But alas, the group continued onwards.
"Tell me again why I'm listing to you?" Dash called angrily. The adults, who had long since stopped trying to bring authority to the group of teens, merely sighed. This was the third time he had asked that.
"Because you almost lead yourself to be Ghost lion bait whereas I can lead us home." Danny stated for the third time.
Finally the time came for the group to take their break and everyone, save Danny, Sam and Tucker, had sat down right away.
"How long until we get to Princess Dora's Kingdom?" Sam asked the young halfa.
"We usually would have been there by now but with their pace not until tomorrow after noon." Danny replied as he pointed at their exhausted classmates.
"We still need to walk for another 3 hours before we reach a place I feel comfortable with." Danny continued.
"Which place is that?" Tucker asked curiously.
"Mars and Venus' Space Station." Danny explained, letting a fond smile creep onto his face at the mention of the Ghosts of Space.
Yes, Ghosts of Space. You can't have a Ghost of Time without a Ghost of Space. After all the two go side-by-side.
"How do you have friends in such high places?" Sam asked amazed. She had known there were Ghosts of Space but she didn't know Danny was close with them.
"I'm not sure. They're good conversationalists though. They say more than Clockwork does and they're not as angry as Death." Danny replied casually.
"Death? Like the Grim Reaper?" Sam asked, again amazed.
"Yea but he hates that title so he prefers 'Death' or 'Reaper' or 'Jeff'." Danny replied looking around, making sure nobody else caught the conversation.
"Jeff?" Tucker asked incredulously.
"I didn't even want to know. Maybe because it sounds a bit like 'death'?" Danny guessed.
Sam and Tucker blinked. They knew he lived a hectic life, with three identities and all, but to just sit and chat with Death?
"How often do you and Death talk?" Tucker asked as casually as possible. Which was not very.
"We have coffee every Sunday." Danny replied with a shrug, ignoring his friends' blank stares. Death was an okay conversationalist. He talked more than Clockwork but not as much as Mars and Venus but a lot of what he said was he being angry that people were negative towards him. Not afraid though. He loved it when people were afraid of him, something about 'increasing his powers'.
Tucker and Sam just shook their heads, promising to quiz Danny later, to rid the last few minutes from their brains.
"Any other good friends we wouldn't know about?" Sam asked sarcastically, not expecting an actual answer. He shocked them both by replying.
"The Ghosts of Bonnie and Clyde. They're pretty cool when they're not robbing stuff. Michael the Arc Angel, he's okay once you get past the preaching." Danny said with another shrug, almost as if oblivious not everybody had those opportunities.
"When?" Tucker asked exasperatedly.
"Well, Walker is after Bonnie and Clyde so whenever they get caught I bail 'em out. Before you ask, no I haven't gone mad; I just know they're not as bad as they pretend to be. So we've gotten pretty close. I see Mike on Sunday's while the mass is going on." Danny answered him. Getting over the fact that Danny had address an actual Arc Angel as 'Mike' so casually, Tucker spoke.
"'Not as bad as they pretend to be'? What does that mean? Why help criminals? Not exactly helping your image, dude." Tucker continued.
"I don't know how it was when they were alive, but here they steal for attention. They want to be noticed. Just like Ember, Johnny and Kitty. That's the same reason they do bad stuff. Now I'm a good friend to Ember, Johnny, Kitty, Bonnie and Clyde." Danny explained.
"When did you get so mature?" Sam asked surprised.
"Not sure. But if you're going to be a hero you have to know who the villains are and which ones are really bad." Danny answered. Sam and Tucker just smiled and shrugged.
"Okay guys we have to get going again. We need to get further before we can stop for the night." Danny called, as Sam and Tucker got up from the floor.
The entire class groaned in unison, not wanting to move yet. They were all sitting around talking about ways to get out quicker, or what they thought would happen and even if they'd see Danny Phantom in here.
"Come on kids, if Danny says it's time to move then we move!" Jack boomed. The adults had opted to just walk behind the group and make sure everyone just follows Danny rather than actually take charge since nobody else knew what they were doing.
"Yes, Mr. Fenton." The class groaned out as they stood from the ground dusting themselves off.
"Okay guys just a while longer." Danny said as he started walking between Sam and Tucker.
The class immediately followed, not wanting to be left behind. The class walked for a good hour before Danny came to a sudden stop, causing everyone else to do the same.
"You guys all at something the last time we stopped didn't you? You all packed something right?" Danny asked as he turned around to face everyone.
"Like, of course we did. We didn't know how long we'd be here so we ate while we could." Paulina spoke up; her tone still had the 'I'm-better-than-you' attitude.
"Just checking. We can't stop for the night for another 2 hours so I was just making sure. Ma-Mom, Dad, Mr. Lancer, did you guys eat anything?" Danny asked.
He silently cursed himself almost saying 'Maddie' rather than 'Mom', something he had been doing a lot lately. As much as he regreted it, he couldn't say he loved his parents as much as he used to. They were pretty neglectful of his human-half and tried to dissect his ghost-half so he wasn't too fond of either of them; his mom especially ever since he had saved Danielle and Youngblood from her. She had been shooting at them despite the kids not doing anything aside from chasing each other through the skies. After she attacked Danielle, he lost all respect form her. He still had enough respect for his father to at least call him 'Dad' but if they didn't get out of here soon, who knew how long that would last.
"I ate some Fudge!" Jack replied proudly and Maddie and Lancer nodded, showing that they had also eaten.
"Fudge? Can I have some? I mean, ah, BEWARE!" The Box Ghost warned as he seemingly appeared from nowhere. Lancer and the class moved away quickly, The Trio face-palmed and Jack yelled the obvious.
"GHOST!" He called, as he shot at it with his Fenton Wrist Ray.
The Box Ghost held up his hands as a poor defense. Danny felt bad for him, so he closed his eyes and put a reflective shield in font of the blue-overall wearing ghoul and the blast ricocheted off and went into the air.
"Dad! Calm down, nothing bad is going to happen." Danny said, trying to calm his father as he walked towards him.
"Dearie, are you alright?" Lunch Lady said, as she floated up from the floor and next to the now-relaxed blue ghost.
"Yes. But you humans will pay for trying to harm me, The Box Ghost!" He screamed as he held up his hands, charging cubes. Most flinched away, but Danny remained calm.
"Look dude, I can see you're on a date. Do you really want me to ruin it for you?" Danny asked, his eyes glowing green for a split second. Only Sam, Tucker and surprisingly Jack noticed.
"He's right we are on a date and besides, we're on our way to the Museum of Ghostly History. I've been waiting to see the exhibit on Phantom since forever now." Lunch Lady agreed with a smile. Danny hid a gag at the mention of 'date'. He still had nightmares about Box Lunch.
"Phantom exhibit? Danny can we go see it?" Paulina swooned, getting a collective sigh.
"Fine. I will let you and your humans go for now. But BEWARE Phantom-" He started, trying to be menacing but Danny cut him off.
""Yea, yea. We got it so bye." He said quickly, hoping nobody else heard 'Phantom'. Luckily only Sam, Tucker, Jack and Lancer did; still that was two too many.
The Box Ghost and Lunch Lady quickly floated off into the distance before they got Phantom mad. Everybody in the Zone knew that you did not get Phantom mad.
"So is that a yes on the Phantom exhibit?" Paulina practically begged.
"No. We're not going. Besides I don't even know where it is." Danny lied. He knew exactly where it was. He had been there to open it. After all he is Phantom.
Paulina whined in response, as did many others, but Danny just walked up on ahead, praying that his class wouldn't see the Museum on the way to Dora's Kingdom tomorrow. It wasn't noticeable if you weren't looking for it but he knew a few kids would be looking so he could only hope for the best as he walked on, leading his class to safety. By risking running into danger.
ALRIGHTY GUYS I DON'T OWN DANNY PHANTOM!
HOW WAS THIS CHAPER? GOOD? BAD? AWESOME? AWFUL? LET ME KNOW IF IM DOING SOMETHING WRONG!
ALSO ANY IDEAS FOR PAIRINGS I SHOULD HAVE? THAT ISN'T DANNY/SAM. NOT BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE THE PAIR, BUT BECAUSE THERE IS ALREADY SO MANY STORIES ABOUT IT. IT'S JUST TOO OVERDONE.
YEA, YEA 'JUST LIKE GETTING STUCK IN THE GHOST ZONE' I KNOW, BUT I NEEDED SOMETHING TO DO.
ALSO I'M WORKING ON A DANNY PHANTOM & WIZARDS OF WAVERLY PLACE CROSSOVER SO YOU CAN CHECK THAT OUT. I HAVE THE FIRST 2 CHAPTERS PUBLISHED.
OKAY THAT'S IT FOR NOW AND I'LL START WRITING CHAPTER 3 AS SOON AS I CAN.