"This mother board and this Portals XL operating system will make your computer work like it's brand new." Danny said to Dash the next day at a garage sale in front of his home.
"Twenty bucks takes it all and I'll even throw in this upgrade disk." He finished holding up a disk case that read 'Portals XL Upgrade v3.0."
"Done." Dash said taking the motherboard, operating system, upgrade disk and throwing Danny twenty dollars.
"See you tonight and just because I can't believe I'm saying it I'll say it again, see you tonight." Dash told Danny with a scowl on his face and walked away.
"Wouldn't even be like this if his sister hadn't made me invite him and given me so much extra homework that my computer crashes." He grumbled to himself as he walked.
"Just sold a toaster." Sam said when she walked up to Danny and gave him fifteen dollars. "You know, I'm surprised your dad's letting you sell off all his stuff, he's such a pack rat."
"Yeah, w-well he's been planning on getting rid of this junk for a long time. He won't even miss it, I hope." Danny nervously said.
"I'm pleased with the turnout today." Tucker said from his reclining seat, putting his arms behind his head. "We're doing a really brisk business."
"We? All you've done is sit there and relax." Sam said annoyed.
"I'm not 'doing nothing', I'm supervising." Tucker defended.
"I'm still ten bucks short of what I need for those sweats." Danny said counting the money he had.
"You can still hang with us, we can have mega-movie marathon at my place." Sam offered cheerfully.
"Your place? Wow, you've never told us where you live, let alone inviting us there before, and we've known you since we were seven." Danny said amazed.
"Well I figured it's about time- "
"Mr Fenton, a word if you please." Mr Lancer called out interrupting what Sam was about to say.
"Hang on a second." Danny said to Sam before walking a short distance over to Mr Lancer.
"-for you to totally ignore me for the billionth time." Sam finished, sighing.
"You wouldn't happen to have any vacuum motors, by chance?" Mr Lancer asked Danny once he came up.
"Sure do. I think it was around about… here!" Danny said looking over the table for Ghost Weasel's vacuum motor.
"It's in good condition too, only used once." He said showing Mr Lancer the motor,
"Hmm, it does appear to be in fine shape. How much?" Mr Lancer asked after appraising it.
"Ten bucks." Danny answered before Mr Lancer gave him the money and took the motor.
"This should fix my 'Hair Hornet' very nicely." Mr Lancer said satisfied.
"Hair Hornet? The crazy vacuum cleaner slash hair clipper they sell on TV? Don't you need hair for that?" Tucker asked, pointing at Mr Lancers shiny and clearly hairless head.
"Funny, I'll be sure to remember that Mr Foley, when I'm grading your tests." Mr Lancer said irritated before walking off.
"Alright ten bucks, I'm in!" Danny cheered.
"Oh geez, I need to get to the mall before the shops close. You guys don't mind cleaning up for me do ya? Great, see ya!" Danny said to Sam and Tucker as he ran by them down the street.
"Oh, so now we're his clean-up crew?" Sam rhetorically asked.
"*sigh* Might as well get started Tucker." Sam said looking to the chair that used to be occupied by Tucker.
"See you tonight, and don't forget to send me your address!" Tucker called out as he ran down the street.
"What fine gentlemen." Sam sarcastically said to herself.
That night tucker was walking down the street with his eyes glued to his PDA's map.
"Let's see 543…544…Ah-ha! Here it is, 545 DeLisle Street." Tucker said counting off the house numbers before turning to look at Sam's house which could only be described as a small mansion.
"Woah…" Tucker said in awe, walking up the stairs and ringing the doorbell.
When Sam opened the door she was talking on the phone so she just held the door open for Tucker to walk inside. "Right that's two mediums, one pepperoni and one veggie."
"Put it on my tab." Sam said, hanging up the phone and shutting the door. "Hey Tucker."
"Hey. You know when you invited us over, I never thought your house would be this… big." Tucker told Sam still slightly shocked.
"Just be thankful my Grandma was the one who chose this place." Sam said before slightly frowning. "My parents would've gotten something way bigger and flashier than this."
Sensing Sam's discomfort (and/or his stomach's), Tucker changed the topic by asking, "I sure hope those pizza guys hustle, I'm starved."
No sooner than Tucker finished talking, the doorbell rang and Sam opened the door to a pasty faced teen in a 'Crustys Pizza' uniform.
"Here's your pizza Sam." The teen said handing the pizzas to Sam.
"Thanks Nate." Sam said tipping him.
"Ten Bucks! Thanks Sam!" The teen, Nate, said before leaving.
After Sam had closed the door Tucker asked, "You tipped him a ten?"
"Whoops, thought it was a one." Sam answered awkwardly. "Come on we're watching movies downstairs."
Once Sam had led Tucker downstairs he found his jaw dropping at the fact that the entire room was one big personal theatre with snack bar, reclining chairs, couch and wide screen TV attached to the wall.
"This is your downstairs!" Tucker asked in shock.
"What, too much?" Sam asked plainly, putting the pizzas down.
"Uh huh." Tucker answered jaw still on the floor.
"I know I should've told you and Danny this a long time ago but my family's kind of… filthy rich." Sam finished quickly. "Weird, huh?"
"Woah, time out." Tucker said, snapping out of his dazed look around. "You're loaded?"
"My grandad Izzy was an inventor, he was the one that invented the Re-Genetic-Ator." Sam explained.
"You're the heiress to the greatest invention in both the technologic and medical worlds?!" Tucker exclaimed, jumping into one of the reclining chairs. "No way!"
"L-look if this is too much for you, we can always do something else?" Sam nervously offered, opening one of the pizza boxes.
"Are you kidding?!" Tucker excitedly asked.
"I can't think of a better way to spend a Saturday night." Mr Lancer said to himself, unknowingly finishing Tucker's sentence.
"Then with a back-shaving jamboree." He finished pulling off his shirt to reveal what could only be describes as a very furry carpet stuck to his back.
He picked up the Hair Hornet and switched it on, the vibrations waking Technus up from inside of the device.
"Urgh, I have got to be careful about spreading my power, you can't take over the world when you're passed out from exhaustion." Technus groaned.
He then used his power to look outside the device to find out what was happening and saw Mr Lancer was about to start shaving.
"What the…?! I don't think so!" Technus exclaimed before using his power to control the shaver (causing it glow green in the process), making the razor blades extend and pull itself up and out of Mr Lancer's hands and the wall socket.
"You dare try to use me, Technus master of all things beeping, to shave your hairy back?! Well how do you like this!" Technus exclaimed before sending the shaver flying around Mr Lancer and when it left, smashing out a window, there was now a hash tag symbol shaved into his back.
Mr Lancer looked out the now broken window at his flying/talking shaver go down the street and said to himself, "That's the last time I buy anything second hand."
Danny was walking down the street towards his home, brand new high end sweats in a shopping bag and he said to himself looking at them, "Popularity, here I come."
Nearby Technus was flying by when he noticed Danny and said to himself. "Well what do we have here? That ghost twerp all alone with no over-the-top vacuum cleaner to save him this time."
Danny's ghost sense, tasting like popping candy going off in his mouth, alerted him to Technus' presence before he even saw him.
He quickly looked to his left to see the shaver flying directly at his head and quickly ducked in time for it to sail harmlessly over his head.
The shaver turned around and flew at Danny's torso which he dodged again but this time the power cable wrapped around his chest, pulling him to the pavement and dropping his bag.
The cable held Danny to the ground as the shaver's blade's regrew into long blades again and started to try and stab Danny.
Danny wormed, wriggled and struggled in the cables grasp as he dodged each of the shaver's stabs, some by a hairs breath.
"Whoa, easy, I just got my hair the way I like it! On my head!" Danny said holding his hands out.
After the shaver pulled back from one last stabbing attempt Technus began reconfiguring, it moving the metal around until turned into a big shaving blade.
"And I don't really need a shave!" Danny exclaimed looking down razor sharp blade.
"Hahaha, round two, you lose!" Technus laughed, pulling the blade back for a downwards slice.
"I haven't lost yet, Transform!" Danny shouted out, blue-white rings turning him into his ghost form.
"Lame." Technus said sending the blade down towards Danny.
Danny dodged to the side holding the cable up so that when the blade landed, it sliced through the cable holding him down and not himself and jumped a safe distance away.
"Cut me some slack, I'm still brainstorming idea's." Danny said landing in a crouch and smirking at his pun.
Technus reconfigured the blade back into a shaver and went back to his original plan of trying to stab Danny by flying at him very long razor blades.
When Technus flew in close enough Danny moved to punch the shaver out of the air.
But Technus moved out of the punches way, causing him to only scratch Danny's upper left arm.
Danny's opposite hand quickly moved to cover the wound and looked back to Technus.
"Say, ghost child. Isn't that important?" Technus asked pointing to the street.
Danny looked over and at some point during all the chaos, the bag that held his new high end sweats had somehow ended up on the street and was about to be run over by a car.
Panicking Danny leapt over the road and grabbed them just before they were run over.
Once he landed on the other side of the road quickly got into a fighting stance, ready for Technus' next attack but saw that the shaver had disappeared.
After looking around the empty street for any sign of Technus he figured that he had ran off.
He changed back to human and checked the bags contents, sighing with relief to see they were undamaged.
He then looked to the ground at the piece of the shavers' power cable that had been cut off, lose the last of its green glow.
"I know I should be concerned, but it's not like waiting a couple of hours will hurt anybody." Danny said to himself before running quickly home.
As he ran, a slight stinging in his arm reminded him of the cut Technus gave him.
Danny looked to his arm as he ran and saw while it was bleeding slightly, it wasn't very deep.
"Better put some Band-Aids or bandages on that before I get changed." He muttered to himself.
Meanwhile hiding behind a building, watching Danny leave, Technus said to himself, "Okay, maybe getting payback inside a shaver wasn't my brightest spark of genius."
He then flew off in a different direction than Danny's saying, "I'd better find some way to better control all my technological minions, lest I end up like before."
After flying for a bit he passed in front of a small mansion and stopped sensing one of his 'technological minions' was inside and had what he needed to control all the others.
Peering inside one of the top floor windows he saw Dash working on a computer that had a motherboard with some of Technus' power inside.
"Man, I can't believe Fenton was right. This thing's running like a race car!" Dash said to himself.
"Maybe he's not such a loser." He added, snickering at his 'joke'.
An alarm on Dash's watch went off and he looked to it and said, "Woah, that time already?"
"Better shower and change before the early birds show up." He added getting up and going to the bathroom.
Once Dash had left his room Technus flew in, eyeing the computer and said, "Yes, this will do nicely."
Using the shavers severed power cable, he plugged into one of the computers ports and the computer screen turned green with a red mouth and eyes as Technus cackled with laughter.
Back at Sam's house Tucker was bombarding Sam with questions about being rich and she complained, "Tucker, are we watching movies or not?"
"Okay, Okay, just a few more questions, please?" Tucker pleaded from his reclining chair, popcorn at his side.
"Fine, three more and that's it." Sam sighed, conceding.
"Could you buy a plane?"
"Yep."
"A Yacht?"
"Yep."
"Hmm, a bowling alley."
"Nope." Sam answered before pressing a button on the wall that caused the wall behind Tucker to go up revealing a bowling alley with an old lady about to bowl.
"There's nowhere to put a second one." She explained as Tucker looked behind his chair.
The old lady, when she heard Sam looked around and said, "Oh, hello bubbelah."
"Hi Grandma. Didn't realize you were still playing." Sam apologized.
"That's okay, but could you close the wall?" Sam's grandma asked before looking down the lane and saying in a serious tone "I'm just three bowls away from a perfect game."
Sam pressed the button on the wall again making the wall dividing the bowling alley and basement cinema room come back down.
Tucker sniffed the air and commented, "That's weird you don't smell stinking rich."
"And that's exactly why I didn't tell anyone, you would've treated me differently." Sam said exasperatedly as she sat down in the other reclining chair.
"I still don't get it, if you flashed some of that bling, bling, you'd be miss popularity and have loads of friends, so why do you hang out with Danny and me?" Tucker asked.
"Because if I did that, I wouldn't have any real friends. The same thing happened at my old home, all the other kids and their parents just wanted to get close to me because of my family's money." Sam explained sourly.
Sam's expression softened when she continued, "If my grandma Ida hadn't convinced my parents to move here, I would've never gotten true friends like you and Danny."
"Oh, makes sense." Tucker said slightly shocked at Sam's past.
Before teasingly adding, "You must be really glad that you moved here of all places."
"Tucker, will you stop with those jokes about me and Danny, they're starting to get old." Sam growled.
"No they're not. Besides, who said anything about you and Danny?" Tucker asked with a smirk and a raised eyebrow.
Sam, surprised that she had fallen into a trap, quickly added, "B-besides I don't really need or want to be popular, especially if I have to buy it."
Snickering at catching Sam off-guard, Tucker said, "You should tell Danny that, can you believe people spent good money on that stuff from his parents' garage."
"Well I did snag this cool remote for three bucks and he did give Dash and Mr Lancer pretty good deals on what they bought." Sam said holding up a universal TV remote.
At the Fenton's kitchen, Jazz walked up to and opened the fridge, looking for a drink.
But when she opened it she was met with barks from the living hotdogs and she screamed, quickly closing the door.
"Great, leftovers." Jazz moaned.
After she had said that, Danny slid into the kitchen in his new sweats and asked, "What do you think? Is it the bomb? Is it fresh? Is it 'stoopid'? With an 'O', 'O'?
"It's definitely stupid, with one 'U'. Even though this does mean we've got less junk in the garage" Jazz answered crossing her arms.
"Ha, ha, joke now but you'll change your tune when we get to the party." Danny laughed sarcastically, walking to the fridge.
"WAIT! Don't…" Jazz tried to warn Danny but was too late as he opened the fridge door and the hotdogs started barking at.
"Uhh, you guys wouldn't happen to know where the Pepsi is?" Danny asked the hotdogs when he couldn't find what he wanted, as if it was normal.
The hotdogs then came together to make the shape of an arrow pointing to where the Pepsi was.
"Thanks." Danny said, grabbing a can, patting each of them on the head and closing the door.
When he saw Jazz's shocked expression he asked, "What?", as he opened the can.
"H-how did you…train them like that?!" Jazz asked shocked
"No clue, they just seem to listen to what I say. And Dad." Danny answered, shrugging.
"So when are you changing?" Danny asked looking at her everyday clothes and taking a drink.
"Not changing, not going." Jazz stated, having calmed down slightly.
"Phtt, What! But you're the only reason Dash invited me!" Danny exclaimed, spit taking away form Jazz.
"Not caring either." Jazz added, wiping off some of the back splash.
Suddenly Jack shouted out from the garage, "Code Red!"
And before Jazz could say, 'Not staying either' Jack ran into the kitchen, towering over Danny and Jazz exclaiming, "Someone raided the garage while we were away!"
"Kids, DID YOU SEE ANYTHING?!" Jack asked shaking their shoulders
"Uh, nope." Danny and Jazz said nervously, moving out of Jacks hands.
"How about we all compare notes once I get back from the party, bye." Danny quickly said, slipping away and out of the house.
"Good plan son, in meantime I'll secure the lab." Jack said to the already left Danny.
He then opened the fridge and shouted to the hotdogs, "Cover me boys, SERPENTINE!"
The hotdogs leapt out of the fridge and wrapped around Jack like ropes, leaving Jazz to walk upstairs with a hand on her forehead and saying exasperatedly, "I think I need a lie down."
Danny walked up the stairs of 389 Bullock Avenue, taking deep breaths.
"Okay, this is it, don't screw it up. Look out world, here comes Danny Fenton." He said psyching himself up before pressing the door bell
A few seconds later Dash opened the door… wearing Danny's everyday clothes.
"What the heck are you wearing?" Dash asked confused.
"What am I… why are you dressed up like me?" Danny exclaimed, more confused than Dash.
"Ohh, right, right. You're not a part of my pa-sse so you didn't get the email." Dash realized.
"You see after buying that junk from you, I didn't have enough money to buy the sweat suit, so I changed the dress code to loser sheik." he explained gesturing to the party-goers behind him dressed as ether Danny, Sam or Tucker.
"Oh, great." Danny dully said.
"Where's your sister, Bazz?" Dash asked looking around.
"It's Jazz and she said that…uh… she's putting on her make-up." Danny quickly made-up, annoyed that Dash didn't even bother to remember her name properly.
"Eh, whatever." Dash said, letting Danny in.
Danny began walking up to other party-goers, trying to start up a conversation with them by saying;
"Hi, I'm Danny do you guys…?" or, "Aren't you in my fifth period?"
But resulting in them ignoring him and walking away.
"*sigh* What was I thinking? These people aren't my friends, even if they all kinda look like them." Danny sighed, walking upstairs.
"I wish Sam and Tucker were here, It's surprisingly lonely being popular." Danny said, before realizing, "It's also kinda lonely being a hero too, guess Sam was right about not pushing them away."
"Yes, it is time!" Technus proclaimed from Dash's room, having finished setting the computer up as a control centre. "Calling all mechanized minions, come to me! It is time to full fill my destiny! Hahaha!"
A wave of green energy, emitted from the computer, passed over the town causing all the devices Danny sold (containing Technus' power) activated breaking out of where they were stored damaging other items and structures around them.
And at Sam's house, causing the same scene from a movie to play over and over.
"Tucker, if you want to watch the same part over again, could you please tell me first." Sam asked groaning.
"Me? You have the remote." Tucker pointed out.
The Universal remote beside Sam glowed green before floating up into the air.
"I'm not schooled in the ways of the rich but do all of your remotes do that." Tucker asked nervously.
"No. Well, my toaster does but it's from Denmark." Sam asked nervous as well.
The remote began shooting bolts of electricity at the snack bar causing the popcorn machine and drink dispenser to malfunction and shoot food and coloured drink everywhere.
Sam and Tucker ducked for cover to avoid getting hit as Sam said, "The Sprite Danny fought earlier must have done something to all the stuff Danny sold."
"What makes you think it was Technus that did all this? It could've been some other technology controlling creature." Tucker suggested, but upon seeing Sam's blank stare that said, 'What else could do this?" he amended, "Okay fair point."
The remote flew upstairs with Sam giving chase, yelling to Tucker, "Come on! We need to follow that remote!"
"At least we'll know where all those lost remotes end up." Tucker said to himself, following Sam outside.
Sam and Tucker came to a stop outside as they watched the remote get swept up in a river of appliances.
"This looks bad, probably a job for Danny." Tucker said, before turning to Sam realizing, "You know, if Danny's going to be a hero, he's going to need a superhero name."
"Probably… the bad part not the name part." Sam agreed.
"And if I wasn't so mad with him, I'd probably care that this is going to interrupt his big jock party." Sam said, sounding pleased and Tucker smirking in agreement.
"Shall we?" Sam rhetorically asked before following the river of technology with Tucker.
Danny had just reached the top of the stairs when his Ghost Sense, tasting like popping candy, went off.
"What the…" Danny wondered before hearing Technus' laughter come from Dash's room.
Danny opened the door gasping at the sight of the floating computer with shaver plugged into it and the face appearing on the screen.
"You again, can't you just give and save us both some trouble?!" Danny shouted entering the room.
"Ghost twerp! Are you always going to show up when I don't want you?!" Technus retorted, "No matter, you're too late to stop me now!"
Shortly after he finished saying that, the first of the appliances came flying through Dash's open window and began merging together with the shaver and computer forming into a black metal robot with green highlights… and a washing machine in its stomach.
"For I am Technus! Master of all things mechanical, and once I complete my construction, you will all succumb to my awesome pow-wer-er-pow-pow-what is wrong with me!" Technus exclaimed randomly glitching and jerking.
Danny, wondering the same thing himself, noticed the upgrade disk for Portals XL on Dash's bed and realized, "Dash hasn't upgraded the software yet and it's effecting Technus."
"Well there's no way I'm letting you get that upgrade disk to make yourself more powerful!" Danny told Technus, pointing at him and transforming as he did.
"Huh?" Technus said. Glancing at the upgrade disk before saying, "Another great idea! Forget tutoring, you should be a teacher."
Danny leapt at Technus ready to do a flying kick, but a toaster popped out of Technus' shoulder and shot glowing green toast at Danny's chest, causing him to fly in the opposite direction.
Just as Danny was about to hit a door, he phased through it, leaving the toast to scorch and slightly crack the wall before harmlessly falling to the floor.
"Huh, toast projectiles and here I thought that only happened in cartoons." Danny groaned sitting up in a pile up purple and pink teddy bears with a letter jacket draped over his head.
"Geez, how many letter jackets does one guy need?" He asked, removing the jacket before looking at the teddy bears and saying, "And I don't even wanna know what the deal is with these."
Danny charged out of the closet, phasing through the door, tackling Technus just as he was about grab the upgrade disk and crashing into the desk at the head of the bed.
He then got back handed off of Technus into the adjacent wall, cracking it and knocking the picture frames off their hooks.
"You are a formidable opponent, but still wet behind the ears." Technus said getting up.
"Perhaps you should dry off." Technus continued with a tentacle claw coming out of the washing machine door in his stomach.
The arm grabbed before Danny could regain his bearings and pulled him in screaming, before the washing machine started up, spinning around.
Danny closed his eyes in concentration and phased out of the washing machine. But because he was spinning, the momentum caused him to fly out and crashed into a dresser with a thermos he accidently grabbed on the way.
"Ugh." Danny groaned, using a hand to help steady himself and brushed against a white, silver and green thermos he brought out of Technus.
"Wait a minute, that's my parent's thermos." Danny realized before his attention got diverted by Technus when he cried, "Haha!"
In the short moment Danny was regaining his focus, Technus had grabbed the upgrade disk, put it in a disk slot on his chest and upgraded.
"This end's now ghost twerp!" Technus exclaimed pointing at Danny.
"Your right about that, I don't think Dash's room can take any more." Danny said glancing and the damage their fight had done.
"So let's take this outside!" he shouted, clipping the thermos to his belt and leaping at Technus, pushing and phasing him outside.
A second later Dash came in to investigate the sounds he heard, took one look at his damaged room and instantly went to, "YOU"RE A DEAD MAN, FENTON!"
Sam and Tucker continued running down the street long after the river of technology disappeared from sight and through a back alley.
But had to stop to let Tucker catch his breath.
"Are we… still going… the right way?" Tucker asked, hands on knees and gasping for air.
"Yeah, they were all gravitating towards Dash's house. Which means that any fun Danny's having should be coming to an end." Sam answered, not sounding remorseful.
"How can Dash…. not know that you live…. in his neighbourhood?" Tucker asked standing up straight but still gasping for air.
"Because I take a different route, I try to avoid people finding out, he's Dash, take your pick." Sam offered, listing them off from her fingers.
Suddenly there was a crash and a screaming Danny then flew down the alley way back first, passed between them and slammed into the wall behind them upside down.
"Hey Sam, hey Tuck, how's your night been?" Danny woozily asked before collapsing on the ground.
Sam and Tucker looked down the alley way Danny came in just as Technus' robot, now two storeys high, walked in and proclaimed, "I am Technus, master of technology and future ruler of this world! Behold my awesome electronic fury, Who's your Daddy?!"
"Wow, for a future ruler, his way of talking is seriously outdated." Tucker quipped in monotone, looking up at the giant metal robot.
Danny, having recovered, jumped up at Technus a gave him a big punch in the centre of his chest.
Which only resulted in him getting a sore hand and Technus not moving before Danny came back down to the earth.
He then tried again only instead of punching he phased inside and said, "Let's see what a little ghost in the system can do."
But when Danny grabbed one of the many cables strewn about, he received an electric shock that sent him flying out, landing back on the ground groaning, "Apparently not a lot."
He craned his neck to look at Sam and Tucker and asked, "Guys? Little help?"
"Not until you apologise, right now." Sam answered.
"Really?" Danny exclaimed rolling out of the way of Technus stepping on him. "Now?!"
"Can't it wait?!" Danny asked getting up.
"Nope." Sam and Tucker answered, crossing their arms.
After barely missing being stepped on by again, Danny said, "Okay! I'm sorry for pushing you guys away and for choosing to hang with the popular kids over you, it was stupid and shallow and I'll never do it again!"
As he said apologized he avoided being stepped on, shot at and grabbed by mechanical arms, although when he finished apologizing he final got hit by a kick from Technus that sent him rolling to Sam and Tucker's feet.
"How can we help?" Sam asked, sounding pleased.
"I think he's using the software I gave Dash to control all of that." Danny said, gesturing to the giant robot.
Tucker got a thoughtful look on his face while Sam said in disbelief, "That's what you sold Dash? That vapourware has got to be one of the worst software ever."
"I think I have a way to beat him, but you need to keep him busy." Tucker told Danny.
"That, I can do!" Danny said leaping up onto Technus' head and covering his eyes.
"Guess who?" Danny asked cheekily.
"Ghost Twerp!" Technus shouted, trying to get Danny off his head by shaking it and grabbing at Danny.
"Gotta do better than that you hunk of my Dad's juuuuuuuuunk!" Danny screamed as Technus rapidly spun his head, throwing Danny off.
"Could mere junk do that?!" Technus shouted, sending the tentacle claw out to grab Danny.
"Any time, Tucker!" Danny shouted, holding onto the mechanical tentacle as it slammed him into a building.
"I'm trying, but I'm having trouble bypassing the program!" Tucker shouted back, tapping away on his PDA.
"It must be because he upgraded the software!" Danny grunted as the tentacle slammed him into the building again.
"Then what do we do?" Sam asked, wincing as Danny got slammed again.
"We'll need the latest version of Portals XL, but where are we going to get it this time of night?" Tucker answered, sounding worried.
"Leave it to me." Sam said, pulling out her phone and dialling a number.
"Guys?!" Danny said after being slammed into the building for the hundredth time.
Suddenly a crate fell from the sky, severing the cable holding Danny against the wall.
"What the…?" Danny, Tucker and Technus asked shocked.
"Instant delivery service." Sam simply answered, putting her phone back into her skirt pocket.
"That's a thing?" Technus asked.
"Oh yeah." Sam answered, glancing to Tucker who opened the crate and was gesturing to Danny what to do. "By the way I'm Sam, I don't believe I caught your name. Perhaps you should scream it really loud and shout out your motive."
"Hello. I am Technus! Manipulator of Machines! Lord of all Gadgetry! Wizard of Integrated Circuitry!" Technus shouted out oblivious to Danny plugging a cable into the back of Technus' head.
"Go on, isn't there more you'd like to tell me." Sam asked seeing Tucker plug the other end of the cable into his PDA.
"Oh yes! I am also Master of all-wer-wer… What's happening to me?! Technus asked, voice becoming glitchy and slurred.
"Portals XL's happening." Tucker answered having executed a shutdown protocol from his PDA.
"Every new version always has a gigantic hole in its security system." He explained like it was obvious.
"What? NOOOOOO!" Technus cried out as his giant robot body lost power and fell apart as its original pieces.
"Nice job guys." Danny said as he and Sam walked up to Tucker.
"Don't thank me thank lousy software. But what's stopping him from controlling them again?" Tucker asked.
"Oh yeah, don't worry I've got that covered." Danny said, grabbing the thermos on his belt and pressing few buttons.
"Just adjust it for only energy absorption and…" he finished off by pointing it at the junk pile and turned it on, causing green electrical energy to flow out of the pile and into the thermos.
"And done." Danny said, capping the thermos before looking around and saying, "Though it looks Technus got away."
"Not exactly." Sam said, walking up to a little green light in the pile.
"Before Tucker showed up at my house I looked through the section on Sprites again, and while I still can't understand much, it had a diagram of a Sprite and they're actually… this size." Sam explained grabbing the green light, which actually turned out to be a smaller version of Technus that Danny first met only his eyes where bigger and he had little wings that looked like a bent CD.
"Let me go!" Technus shouted, his voiced sounding slightly higher, as he wriggled and squirmed in Sam's grip.
"When interacting with other creatures they must be able to make a bigger form." Sam reasoned, holding Technus out to Danny and asking, "Do you mind?"
"Sure." Danny answered smiling and reopened the thermos, letting Sam drop Technus in and closed it up again, transforming back to human.
"Glad that's over." Tucker commented, having unplugged his PDA and put it away.
"Yeah." Sam agreed, before asking in shock and worry, "Danny what happened to your hands?!"
"Huh?" Danny asked, looking at one of his hands and seeing that they were bruised purple and red. "Oh, guess that's happens when you keep punching metal."
Sam grabbed his hand, looking over it herself and said, "You need first aid."
"I'll be fine, besides I need to get all this stuff back to my parents' garage and I can heal faster than normal, see." Danny said, showing her the slowly but definitely diminishing bruise.
"You should still have those treated, come on I've got a first aid kit at my place." Sam argued, walking back to her place while dragging Danny along.
"But-" Danny began but was silenced by one of Sam's don't-ague-with-me glares. "G-got it."
As they began walking back, Tucker snickered quietly behind them.
Once they had reached Sam's house, Sam took Danny downstairs and they were sitting on the coach as Sam saw to his injuries (he had taken his cap and jumper off).
"Honestly Danny, don't you know how to wrap a bandage properly?" Sam asked redoing the bandage on his arm from his second encounter with Technus.
"Yes. It's just harder to do on yourself than someone else." Danny defended.
"Of course it is. Black suits you." Sam commented on Danny's black shirt, lightly blushing.
"Huh? Oh thanks, but I might stick with my usual shirt." Danny thanked, lightly blushing himself.
"So which movie do wanna watch?" Tucker asked, suddenly popping up behind the couch, surprising Danny and Sam and causing Sam to accidently tighten the knot on the bandage.
"How about you both keep watching the one you were watching earlier, I still need to put all that stuff back so I don't mind missing it." Danny offered as Sam finished with the bandage on his arm.
"That's stuffs not going anywhere and no one ever goes in that alley so watching one movie won't matter." Sam argued, moving onto his hands. "Besides, you still owe us big time."
"Yeah, I guess you're right." Danny agreed, before apologizing again, "And I know I already said this but I'm sorry for the way I've been treating you two, I of all people should know what it's like to be invisible."
"It's alright." Sam said packing the first aid kit up and getting up to put it back behind the snack bar as Tucker finished, "Yeah, all is forgiven."
Tucker then moved to a chair and asked, "So Danny, you shocked to know that Sam's loaded?", with Sam subtly listening from the snack bar.
"Loaded?" Danny asked confused.
"You know, loaded, as in rich. How else was she able to call in that package like in Call of Duty and have a cinema in her basement?" Tucker clarified.
"Oh, well not really. I mean, Sam's still Sam." Danny answered, shrugging.
"That's it? I was hoping for a bigger reaction." Tucker said disappointed.
"Just watch the movie Tuck." Sam said, smiling as she pressed 'play' on the DVD player and sat back down with her friends, watching the movie.
*shudders* Does anyone else think it's weird that in a series about ghosts and monsters, it's a teachers insanely hairy back that gives me nightmares?
Anyway with this chapter done TSPH has gone past the 20,000 word mark, so I thought I'd take a moment to thank everyone for reading, reviewing, following and favouriting TSPH and to celebrate;
Five Second Dance Party!
*cue dancing music*
Okay that's enough dancing. So please keep sending in reviews (I love hearing your feedback) while I get to writing the next chapter (hopefully without getting writers block again).
Oh, and fun fact, the name of the streets Sam and Dash's houses are on, are actually the last names of the voice actors who played them.
Reviews:
ImJustAwkward: Yes, but I've only skimmed over them, I haven't actually read them so I wouldn't really know if they're similar or not.
Luna Lilyth: Thanks, and I'm basing these sprites off the ones found in 'The Spiderwick Chronicles'.
So Please R&R and I'll see ya later.