"So remind me again why exactly we're breaking our backs here Sam?" Danny asked as he, Tucker and Sam carried big boxes with 'Save the Frogs!' plastered on one of the sides, down the empty halls of Casper High.
"Frog's rights. It's MTI's next report, we have to stop dissecting frog's in our school's biology lab and I'll also be demonstrating a humane alternative at this morning's assembly." Sam said with a determined look before asking, "Didn't I already explain this?"
"Yeah, but when you're carrying boxes of something called 'I can't believe it's not a frog cadaver' you tend to forget what you're doing." Tucker explained, reading the name off the boxes label.
He then pulled a fake frog that looked very realistic from his box and said, "These things must've cost a lot, I thought you didn't like being rich?"
Sam snatched the frog from Tuckers hands, put it back in his box and answered, "I don't like how people usually treat me when they know I'm rich. Besides, I might as well use it to save the environment, rather than just sit on it or waste on random expensive stuff, right Danny?"
Danny, who was looking ahead dazed, became more alert and stuttered "Huh? Oh…yeah…"
"Are you okay?" Sam asked concerned before snapping, "And don't say you are, last thing we need is to go through the whole giant robot, tiny Technus thing again."
"*sigh* It actually has something to do with that." Danny sighed, before explaining, "With ghost's, all I have to do is break the gateway and they disappear, but with creature's like Technus, I can't just keep them locked up in the Fenton Thermos forever, and I can't just let them go, they're bound to cause trouble the second I open the lid."
"Not to mention Sprites are probably the only creatures that can conveniently fit inside the Thermos." Tucker added as they stopped outside a door with the sign 'Mysterious Truth Investigations' taped on the glass.
"Actually my parents fixed that problem." Danny chuckled, putting his box down to open the door.
"After I returned all their stuff and refunded everyone's money, my dad searched every piece for government surveillance equipment and one those pieces happened to be the Thermos' Matter Compressor." Danny explained laughing as he opened the door and carried his box inside.
The classroom they entered was given to them by the school once they had officially formed their club. Though it couldn't even be called a proper classroom since somewhere between designing and building the school, it ended up being one-third the size of a regular classroom and not big enough to hold any sort of class.
But it was big enough for the trio's use. So after cleaning it up, they had begun to adjust it to their needs by putting some desks near the blackboard where they could do their schoolwork and they had also brought in some bean bags for relaxing in. The bookshelves and cupboards lining the walls were mostly empty because they hadn't had the time to fill them yet.
"'Well there's your problem'. I thought it was missing a piece." Tucker quoted laughing putting his box next to Danny's in the clubroom.
After putting her box down and laughing with Danny and Tucker, Sam looked up at the clock exclaimed in shock, "Oh no! Is that the time? The assembly going to start soon!"
Sam ran to the door, picking up a folder containing what she needed for the presentation from a desk along the way, but stopped, groaning, "Ugh, we still need to get two more boxes."
"I can get them, you and Tucker get to the assembly." Danny told her.
"Thanks Danny, come on Tucker let's go." Sam said.
Tucker, who looked like he was thinking hard, asked as they stepped outside, "Anyone else get the feeling that we're forgetting something big."
"Don't think so." Sam answered looking through her presentation folder before closing it before walking down the hallway saying, "Let's worry about it later, we need to get going"
"Right…" Tucker said unsure as he followed Sam away from Danny.
After Danny had given them a quick wave before they turned around a corner, hands suddenly came out of nowhere and dragged him off.
At the school's assembly Mr Lancer was talking to the students about there being no such thing as ghosts while Sam was next to the stage with Tucker, about to go on for her presentation.
"You remember what to do with the slides and curtain?" Sam asked.
"Yeah..." Tucker answered, still deep in thought.
"Tucker, focus. You can figure out what you forgot later." Sam scolded.
"And now Ms Manson will be giving you a short presentation." Mr Lancer said from the podium.
"That's my cue." Sam said before starting to make her way onto the stage.
Tucker walked up to a nearby computer to work the projector when he noticed Dash, Dale and Ricky walk out from behind the curtain on the opposite side of the stage, grinning.
But before he could think about, Sam addressed everybody, "Fellow students, something sick and disgusting is taking place right here in our school. And I'm about to show you what it is."
That was Tucker's cue to pull the curtains back while Sam stepped to the side and held her arm out.
Everyone then started laughing a couple of seconds after the curtains where pulled back (with the A-listers laughing the hardest), confusing Sam.
She looked behind her and hanging from wires in front of her 'Save the Frogs' presentation was Danny dressed in a 19th century dress complete with a wig and make-up and not looking happy.
"Oh…it's April Fool's Day today." Tucker remembered, having moved next to Sam.
"Thanks to those stupid jocks, my 'Save the Frogs' presentation was a total bust!" Sam complained, leaning against her locker, which was conveniently next to her friends and their clubroom, as students laughed at Danny when they walked by.
"And speaking of busts, did you see yourself in that bra? Beuce is not your colour dude." Tucker said to Danny.
"Well thanks to Dash I'm now the laughing stock of the entire school." Danny said annoyed as another group of laughing students passed behind him when he opened his locker to put some books in.
"Hey Fenton! You forgot this!" Dash said, walking up shoving the wig and hat from earlier onto Danny's head with Dale and an orange haired jock named Buck.
Danny turned to glare at them with Sam and Tucker as they laughed and Dash said, "Guess you're as cursed as your locker, huh Fenton!"
"Cursed? What the heck are you talking about?" Danny asked confused.
"You don't know? Well maybe you need a closer look!" Dash said picking Danny up and shoving him inside his locker right up to the back with the mirror.
Dash slammed the locker door shut and walked off laughing hard with his jocks.
"What was he talking about your locker being cursed?" Sam asked as Tucker let Danny out.
"No idea. But I'll show him a curse, cover me." Danny said with an angry look on his face as he pulled Sam and Tucker close to each other to cover his transformation.
Danny pushed them apart once he finished transforming and invisible before running down the hallway to catch up with Dash.
Once he had caught up to Dash we went in front of him and held out his leg, causing Dash to trip and land head first into the janitors dirty washing up water.
He then went into an empty classroom, changed back to human and walked outside up to his friends, who had also followed after Dash and saw his dive into the janitors bucket.
Danny hi-fived Tucker while Sam scolded, "Danny."
"Relax Sam, it's about time you used those ghostly powers for some payback." Tucker said smiling.
"Ugh, let's just get to class." Sam groaned, walking away as Danny and Tucker followed.
Unbeknownst to them, when they passed by locker 724 (Danny's locker) a voice came drifting out saying, "Bullies…. Bullies…."
The next morning Danny walked into the kitchen with Sam and Tucker, who had come over for breakfast, where Jack was eating breakfast, Jazz was reading a book and Maddie was working on some mechanical gauntlets.
"So kids, what's this I hear about a cursed locker?" Jack asked when they came in.
Danny said nervously as he Sam and Tucker sat down to eat breakfast. "Hehe, no big deal really. Nothing for you and mum to get obsessive about."
"Why… is it haunted?!" Jack exclaimed.
"Cursed locker or not, we still should stake out the school, there's been an awful lot of reports of paranormal activity from there." Maddie said before adding reassuringly, "But don't worry son, you'll barely notice us while we're staking out your school during normal school hours."
Having heard the conversation while reading, Jazz quickly put down her book and said, "What, no! Danny is at a very critical stage in the development of his peer groups. He's already considered a clumsy nerd, the last thing he needs is you two confirming it."
"Way to boost his confidence Jazz." Sam said, giving Jazz a hard stare with Danny silently agreeing.
"So…. What's with the fancy gloves Mrs F?" Tucker asked trying to divert the conversation.
"Oh these things, they're 'Ghost Gloves'. They allow to touch a ghost, even if it's phasing. I'm just rebuilding them." Maddie answered.
"Rebuilding them? What happened to the originals?" Danny asked confused.
"They got destroyed in that lab explosion, the police still haven't given back all our research yet. Do you know how hard it is to find actual mermaid scales? It's very easy to confuse them with merman scales." Jack grumbled.
"Don't worry, maybe girls will talk to you in university." Jazz said to Danny
"Hey!" Sam exclaimed annoyed.
"Besides Sam." Jazz amended getting her book and walking away, leaving Danny in a sour mood.
Later at school, the jocks never got the memo that April Fool's Day had already ended and were still picking on other kids.
"Hey Tuby the Tuba! Nice Shake-O, is it good for playing ball too?!" Dale said as he and another jock with a red tennis cap called Alroy, threw a squat tuba player's, named Tommy, hat back and forth.
Nearby at Danny's locker, the same voice from earlier heard what was happening and ominously said, "Bullies…"
"Go Long!" Alroy shouted to Dale and threw the hat with Dale running after it.
Dale was so focused on catching the hat that he didn't notice Danny's locker swing open until he ran head first into it, causing him to land back first on the floor dazed as the hat land on his head.
Just around the corner another student, from the AV club, called Michael was carting some equipment when Ricky stopped him by putting his foot against it and menacingly said, "Nice gear."
Behind Michael, Buck was snuck up behind him and tied his shoelaces together.
The voice from Danny's locker could tell this was happening as well and moaned, "Bullies….!", as he sent energy from Danny's locker to cause a trophy in the cabinet next to them to fall on Buck's head, which caused him to stumble back into a fire extinguisher which caused it to spray foam into Ricky sending him flying backwards, before the energy undid and redid Michaels shoelaces properly.
Confused at the whole event Michael just shrugged and went on his way.
During lunch in the cafeteria the jocks where retelling what had happened to them.
"…and then all of a sudden, this locker door flies open and nails me." Dale said, demonstrating his point by punching his hand.
"You think you got it bad? I'm still getting foam off me." Ricky complained pulling a glob of foam off his head and flicking it away.
"It's like the school's haunted or some'in." Buck said, rubbing his head from the trophy falling on it.
"You guys don't think it's that crazy Lunch Lady Ghost do you?" Qwan asked nervously, despite not having pulled any pranks.
Nearby at another table, the trio were listening on their conversation.
"Apparently someone's been busy." Sam said looking at Danny with a raised eyebrow.
"It wasn't me, I swear!" Danny said before turning invisible and running over to the jocks table and knocking Dash's food tray onto Alroy before Dash could sit down, leaving Dash to scratch his head in confusion.
Danny quickly returned and became visible again saying, "Now that was me."
"Danny, I don't think you should be using your powers like…." Sam started to scold but gasped when Mr Lancer walked into the cafeteria.
"Lancer, I'll be right back." Sam said running out a different door to the cafeteria.
"Don't listen to her Danny, it's about time someone struck a blow for Sydney Poindexter." Tucker said encouragingly
"Sydney… who-dexter?" Danny said confused.
"Sydney Poindexter. I did some research into what Dash said about 724 being cursed and apparently your locker originally belonged to a poindexter back in the 50's. Sydney was the victim of more cruel pranks than anyone in the history of Casper High School, apparently picking on him was a graduation requirement, he got stuffed into his locker so many times it's said his spirit still inhabits it to this very day." Tucker explained.
"Really? Makes sense Dash would know the history of bullying." Sam said as she came back with a box of living frogs.
"Sam, what are you doing?" Danny asked eyeing the box.
"Nothing. Certainly not smuggling frogs out of the bio-lab before dissection while Lancer isn't looking." Sam answered putting the box under the table, looking guilty with her hands behind her back.
Suddenly a bunch of meat patties collided with the side of his head.
"Hey guys, why don't we meat our table neighbours." Dash said holding up some more meat patties with Dale, Buck and Alroy backing him up.
Danny wiped the meat off his face and angrily glared at the jocks with his eyes glowing green.
"Easy Danny, take it easy." Sam said trying to calm Danny down before someone noticed his eyes or he did something reckless by putting a comforting hand on his shoulder.
Danny glance at Sam and held his gaze with her for a few seconds before taking a deep breath and calming down from Sam's touch.
"You're right Sam, I'm-" Danny started to thank but was interrupted by more meat patties, cheese, vegetables and finally the top of a bread roll slamming into his face.
"Enjoy your sandwich neighbour." Dash said walking out of the cafeteria with his jocks snickering and following behind him.
Danny then stood straight up causing Sam, who's hand hadn't left his shoulder, to let go and all the food to fall off him as he exclaimed, "That's it!"
"Hmm, I wonder how Dash would feel with if he had a frog in his throat." Tucker thought aloud with a devious look on his face.
"Or twelve, in his pants." Danny said, looking towards the box of frogs under the table.
Knowing what he was thinking Sam picked up the box and held it protectively against her and told Danny with a hard stare, "Oh no! You're not going to exploit innocent amphibians for some juvenile revenge scheme."
After looking at each other for a few seconds Danny suddenly realized, "Yeah, guess you're right, that be cruel to the frogs. Good thing there's a substitute"
Out in one of the hallways, Dash was getting books out of his locker, not knowing that Danny was just down the hallway invisible with a box of 'I Can't Believe it's not a Frog Cadaver' with a sinister look on his face.
He went up to Dash and gave him an atomic wedgie, before pulling his pants back and dumping the entire box's worth of realistic, fake and slimy frogs into his pants.
"AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH!" Dash screamed, head having popped through his undies and running down the hallway with his hands on the back of his pants, trying to get the fake frogs out.
While Danny chuckled at the sight, Dash ran past locker 724 where Sydney gave one last ominous, "Bullies…." Before his upper half, with his glasses, bowtie and coloured black, white and grey, phased out of the locker's door.
"Hey, I finally opened the gateway!" Sydney cheered, but began glaring when he heard Danny's laughter.
Sydney floated over and asked, "You think that's funny, buster?"
Danny stopped his laughing and looked over to Sydney and asked surprised, "Huh, you can see me?"
"Yeah that's right, bub. Now leave that poor kid alone." Sydney demanded.
"What? Oh, Hahaha, oh man that's good. Man do you have it backwards." Danny laughed.
"Don't hand me that jazz, Clyde. You're the bully from where I'm standing." Sydney said.
"Uh, floating." Danny corrected, pointing out that they were both a few centimetres off the ground.
"Uh..oh..yeah..okay..floating, floating." Sydney stuttered in agreement.
"Let's see how you like getting bullied." Sydney menacingly said, raising his hands that started glowing.
Danny looked around worriedly as all the lockers began shaking before all their contents went flying out, and floated above Sydney.
In the cafeteria, Sydney's power had a blacklash effect causing the food to fly off students lunch trays and attack them, along with the lunch trays.
"Not again!" Qwan moaned, running away.
In the schools bio-lab, Mr Lancer muttered to himself, "I know those frogs were here somewhere."
Sydney's power then reach the lab as one by one the beakers and other glass containers shattered.
"Great Gaspy!" Mr Lancer exclaimed.
Outside the school's front door, just as Maddie and Jack were about to walk in, Jazz ran in front of the blocking their path and told them, "How many times do I have to tell you, there is nothing weird going on at this school.
Suddenly the doors burst open and the students that were in the cafeteria came running out screaming.
Getting a strong impression that something paranormal was happening, Jack and Maddie ran in with Jack shouting, "Move, Maddie, move!"
Leaving Jazz at the front door to face palm while muttering, "Darn it."
"Look, you've got the wrong idea!" Danny shouted.
"I know a bully when I see one!" Sydney shouted back before sending all school supplies at Danny, sending him flying backwards and phasing through the wall behind him, landing roughly on the ground.
Danny got back up, groaning slightly, and went back to the hallway he was just knocked out of.
"Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, bully." Sydney said when Danny came back, before introducing himself, "I'm Sydney Poindexter, and where ever there is a single nerd in need, I shall be there."
"Wait, aren't you the guy who used to have my locker?" Danny realized before adding, "Why do I have a feeling Dash would rub it in my face that I share a locker with a geeky ghost."
"In your face? Swell idea!" Sydney said, pulling out an old ink pen and pointing it at Danny before causing it to splatter ink all of his face.
As Sydney began to laugh, Danny phased the ink off and shoulder charged Sydney, who was off guard laughing, into their locker and causing it to swing open.
When they both fell back to the ground, Danny accidently transformed back to Fenton.
"Holy socks! You're the 'Halfa'!" Sydney exclaimed when he saw Danny transform.
"The… whata?" Danny asked confused.
"The halfa. Your halfa human and halfa ghost, everybody from the Ghost Zone to the Spectral Plane talks about you. You have all our ghostly powers on the Human Plane, but you're still alive and you don't need a gateway." Sydney explained.
"And….and you were using your powers for evil!" Sydney realized.
"Look as I keep trying to tell you-" Danny tried to explain before Sydney interrupted.
"You might use you powers to pick on innocent kids." Sydney said, using his power to lift his mirror up and send it flying towards Danny.
Danny raised his arms to protect himself, but when the glass of the mirror touched his arms, he glowed green for a second before disappearing in a flash of green light.
"But I sure as sugar won't." Sydney finished with a victorious grin.
ARRRGGH, NOT MEAT AGAIN!
Right so, sorry for making you wait for this one, but when I realized that the time this takes place and how close we are to April 1st, it seemed too good of an opportunity to not miss.
Now I've got some bad news…. Actually bad is to strong of a word, it's more like… sad?…. No, let's go with 'Not so good'. Anyway the next chapter is going to be very different from how 'Splitting Images' ends and the two after that are going to be completely original, as in not an episode from the TV show, but if it was it would probably be called;
*Cue organ music and bad Dracula impression* "It Came From the Deep End"
So, it's going to take me a while to write them. I know what's going to happen in them and how they end, I just have to add in some minor details and write it all down so I don't know when I'll be able to publish them. I might also use the time to get ahead on the next few chapters to set up a sort of buffer.
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