Yup! finished this chappie today cause it's my Birthday (June 13)and this is my gift to you ^^, this chapter feels a little rushed but hopefully you guys like it, there isn't really alot of action going on in this chapter either :( oh yeah I forgot to mention for the last chapter when Danny did a sonic boom, just imagine a starry version of Rainbow dash's sonic rainboom with ecto plasm and ice. And I gotta work on my other fanfic TT, it hasn't been updated in a while.
Danny Phantom belongs to Butch Hartman and Transformers belong to Hasbro.
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~~~~~~TFP~~~~~~
Everyone remained quiet when the child disappeared into the night, Optimus had called out a bit too late since the boy was most likely out of hearing range. Bumblebee watched on in silence as Optimus called Ratchet over the requesting for a bridge.
Bumblebee was actually a bit surprise that they were victorious for the energon spoils, it was hardly ever they won the fight when energon was involved, mostly it was because they were either outnumbered or some bot fired an unlucky shot thus blowing up the mined fuel.
The transportation vortex swirled into existence as it appeared not to far away from the carts of energon. The group of Autobots walked over to haul them through, there were four carts in total filled to the brim with the substance, Bulkhead, Arcee, Smokescreen and himself all grabbed a cart to push.
The sudden sound of rocks tumbling caught Bee's attention as his helm snapped up to see Miko clambering down the rocky hillside to join them, a small smile was gracing her lips as she fell into stride with Bulkhead.
Everyone walked through the ground bridge, Arcee went through first while Optimus remained abaft to the group to ensure that everyone made it through safely. After the quick flash of bright white light, the base came into view as well as the faces of those who remained behind. Bee took notice of the complete surprise on Ratchet's faceplate "I'm taking that the mission was a success." Ratchet asked, but it was more of a statement then a question. After everyone made it through safely, Raf shut down the ground bridge from his laptop and grinned happily when he saw his guardian was alright aside from the scratches and dents.
Optimus Prime nodded "indeed Ratchet, though with the help from an unexpected source."
Ratchet raised an optic ridge at that, implying for some one to elucidate. That someone was Miko as she ran to the front of the group "you should have seen him Doc bot! he totally kicked the cons tailpipes after delivering a punch to Megatron's big ugly grill!" announced the Japanese girl excitedly, recalling the battle vividly.
Ratchet became more puzzled, especially of the part regarding the Decepticon leader. "Him? him who?"
Miko hadn't really expounded all that well in Bumblebee's opinion, she had left out a lot of information especially on the part on how she got captured in the first place.
Arcee stepped forward and retold what happened during the battle, leading up to the part where Miko got captured causing the girl to pout. The femme paused gaining a suspenseful feeling over the room before continuing reaching the part when 'he' appeared.
"I couldn't really get a good look at him since the clouds rolled over the moon, but I could see something with a white glow to it." Arcee crossed her arms over her chassis, the others nodded in silent agreement stating the same thing. Arcee told the rest of the story. Ratchet remained silent as he contemplated the information. It was unheard of for humans to have supernatural abilities that were reported, he would of waved it off as if they imagined it but all of them saw what happened.
"So what happened when he saved Miko?" Ratchet asked.
Now that Bumblebee thought about, what did happen with Miko? everyone shrugged in response "why don't you ask her?" he suggested through whirs and beeps. Bulkhead nodded before asking Miko if the glowing teenager said anything that might be important.
Miko rocked back and forth on the balls of her heels "well he did mention his name." Miko answered hesitantly, by the looks of it she wasn't for sure if the information would be helpful.
"And that is?" Smokescreen voiced the question everyone was thinking out loud.
"His name is Danny Phantom."
The base took on a awkward silence once the answer sank in, now everyone can stop referring to the boy as 'him'. Optimus was the first to break the uncomfortable silence. "Take the energon to the energon vault, we will continue this discussion afterwards." Optimus advised to his soldiers and scout who nodded in turn as they did as they were asked.
They returned shortly after their task was done and Optimus walked out of the med bay as Ratchet finished running diagnostics on the Prime to ensure he hadn't obtained any internal injuries. Upon noticing their return, Ratchet motioned for him to come over to scan him as well, knowing there was no use in protesting, Bee walked over anyways and sat down on the medical berth that the medic was currently hovering over.
The holographic light from the scanner ran over him, the feeling it gave off when it scanned through felt like little ice particles dancing through him in a ticklish shiver.
Bumblebee's gaze shifted from Ratchet to Optimus as their leader addressed them.
"Given the circumstances that transpired today, I believe it is best if we find Danny Phantom." Everyone nodded in agreement except Arcee.
"Wait, so were bringing another human to the base?" skepticism edging her tone.
Optimus held her in his gaze "I believe that Phantom would serve as a valuable ally, but he could be in danger, knowing Megatron would no doubt be searching for him already, for now, our objective is to find him before the Decepticons do and convince him to join our side. "
Ratchet finished up his scan on him and Bumblebee happily leaped off the berth. "Alright, your free to go, nothing but a few dents and scratches." Ratchet waved his next patient over who happened to be Arcee.
"I'll contact agent Fowler in the morning and see if he has any Intel on Phantom, Rafael-" Prime directed his gaze at the youngest human on team prime.-"Can you find any information on him in the meantime in case contacting agent Fowler wields no results?"
Raf nodded his head in confirmation, "sure, but it is getting late and my parents may be worrying about where I am." Concern laced his tone as he glanced at the time displayed on one of the monitors, it read ten fifty-nine; way past curfew.
"Very well, Bumblebee, please ensure that Raf and Miko make it home safely." Optimus said to his yellow and black scout.
Bee gave him a thumbs up "sure thing, come on Raf, Miko." Bumblebee chirped in response. He transformed into the Urbana 500 Camaro while his armor shifted into place. He opened his passenger door; Miko ran over and hopped in the back seat before pulling the front one forward. Raf settled in the passenger one and buckled in, he shut the door before rolling the window down.
"Bye guys, see you tomorrow." His charge waved to the group.
"Bye Bulkhead!" called Miko leaning closer to see her guardian. She was some what upset that Bulkhead wasn't the one taking her back to her host parents house, but since Bulkhead had yet to be scanned for injuries, Bumblebee was selected to go in the ex-wrecker's place.
Jack on the other hand didn't need to be home so soon since June; Jack's mom, knew of their existence. Bumblebee drove out through the main entrance, entering the quiet dessert of Nevada.
The drive back to civilization was quiet, which was surprising since Miko was with them, instead she was staring into the night, deep in thought.
Bumblebee decided to break the silence, even if it was with the electronic beeps and chirps that came from what was left of the scout's voice box.
"Hey what's wrong with Miko? she is normally not this quiet, actually hardly ever quiet." The series of beeps and clicks filled the cab snapping the children out of their daze. Raf turned around and peered at the girl in question, she appeared to be thinking about something.
"Miko, Bee wants to know why you haven't said a word since we left the base, is something bothering you?" Raf asked. Her highlighted pink tipped pigtails swished from side to side as she shook her head.
"Nah, I'm just thinking about D-P."
D-P? Bee thought silently what does that stand for?
Raf seemed to pick up on his guardian's question as he voiced it, if not only for his own sake given the bug-eyed expression he wore. Miko let out a small groan "uh duh, Danny Phantom." She replied like in was the most obvious answer ever. "Anyways, you should of seen the way he took out all those cons, he was like some kind of superhero! he can fly, go intangible and shoot weird green energy blast, If I had those powers I'll be able to help the Autobots demolish Decepticons." Determination blazed vividly in her hazel eyes at the the thought.
Raf nodded before a question came to mind "what if there were downsides to them?"
Miko paused in her dream world and thought about it. "Well if there were, I'm pretty sure I can handle it." She said with a shrug. "I am a Wrecker after all." Miko grinned brightly aiming a thumb to her chest as she did so.
"We're here." Bumblebee called out to them, beeps and buzzes filled their ears.
Raf translated before looking out the window; Miko's host parent's house met his eyes. An audible groan from the backseat filled the yellow and black racing striped muscle car. "Were here already? scrap, well bye guys I'll see you tomorrow."
Raf leaned forward with the seat so Miko could climb out. The yellow and black passenger striped door swung open allowing her departure, Raf waved goodbye and she mimicked the gesture. Trotting up the steps of her house and entering using the spare key she had and disappeared from sight when the door closed behind her. Raf closed the door before readjusting his seat. Bumblebee drove off to their next destination which was Raf's house.
After getting there, his charge got out, bid each other goodnight and departed their separate ways, Raf waved drowsily as a yawn escaped his mouth, he went inside to get some much needed sleep.
The drive back to base was uneventful, when he arrived Arcee was gone, most likely taking Jack back home he thought as he transformed into bi-pedal mode, gaze shifting to take in his surroundings. Ratchet was still in the med bay putting his tools away, Optimus was on monitor duty, Bulkhead was no where to be seen, but if he had to guess the former Wrecker was either in the wash racks or possibly in recharge. Something white caught his optic, he looked to his left to see Smokescreen leaning up against the wall, he had a pout on his faceplate while staring staring at the floor.
What's his problem? the scout silently wondered, maybe he should go over and see? and that's exactly what he did. "Hey Smokey, what's up?"
'Smokey' a nickname that he and the children came up with since a lot of the Autobot residences had one. Smokescreen looked up at him "that 'Phantom' kid is what's up." Smokescreen huffed in an annoyed tone.
This left Bumblebee confused. "Phantom? what did he do to make you upset?"Bee asked, unconsciously cocking his helm to the side, his door wings perked up a bit as he waited for the other mech's answer.
"He stole my gig that's what!" Smokescreen threw his arms up in exasperation. Complete silence settled between them, only the sound of the monitors running occupied the air.
"Smokescreen...-" he drawled out "-what in the pit are you talking about?" Bee asked him slowly, he was starting to question if his friend was delusional.
"He's able to walk through objects without a phase shifter! that was my signature!" Smokescreen whined lifting up said phase shifter that was still on his arm.
Bumblebee didn't know what to say, Smokescreen is complaining about something so small, he was making a mountain out of a mole hill as the human term says. "You know what? I'm gonna go recharge. Smokescreen, I think you need therapy or something." and with that Bee left to his quarters, he was tired and Smokescreen was adding to it, he climbed up onto his berth and curled up for some sleep.
~DP~~~~~~
Light filtered in through the windows, landing on the sleeping fourteen year old's closed eyes, he twitched slightly before rolling over in attempt to avoid the waking world. Birdsong filled his ears, he unconsciously reached for his pillow and covered his ears.
Danny silently cursed his advanced hearing as the birdsong continued loudly to his ears. He sat upright in bed, yawning as he did so. Danny's eyes hesitantly opened to meet black and soft golden light. He raked his fingers through his messy raven-black hair until it became his usual spiked hairdo. Getting up from the comfort of his bed he walked over to his personal bathroom to brush his teeth and rid himself of morning breath. Danny got dressed in his usual attire, made his bed and sat on it.
He felt like he was forgetting something, eyes drifting across the room to land on the cell phone still charging. That's right! he still had to call his friends in Amity. After getting up and grabbing his cellphone, he sat down once again on the bed and dialed Sam's number, she would most like be up right now taking care of her plant's.
It rang five times before Sam finally picked up. "Hello?"
"Hi Sam, I made it to Jasper."
"Hi Danny, that's good to hear, how are you fairing without us?"
Danny shrugged, even though his friend couldn't see it. "I'm alright, a little tired but alright, how about you? is Tucker there?"
"I'm good, no Tucker isn't here right now, he's having breakfast at his house at the moment. By the way have you been practicing those training exercises I've been training you? you better not have been slacking off." Sam said, her voice stern.
"Yeah I have. Alright Sam I have to go, I wanted to check up on you guys to see if you guys were alright, but I haven't eaten anything yet and I'm starting to become lightheaded, tell Jazz and Tucker I said hi." Being half ghost meant he burnt quite a lot of energy faster, so when he did eat he had to eat a bit more then his normal portion.
After saying their goodbyes they hung up, something was hitting his nose and it smelled delicious. Must mean Mom is up he thought, placing his phone is his pocket he opened his room door and descended down the flights of steps.
Danny's mother was in the kitchen making what appeared to be french toast, and since he didn't see anything glowing yet, he felt it was safe to assume that his mom remembered the 'not adding ectoplasm' information from yesterday. "Good morning mom." Danny addressed her, she turned around to face him.
"Oh good morning sweetie, sleep well?" Maddie asked from her place at the stove, she reached over and grabbed a plate from the open cup board, while with her other hand used the spatula to scoop out the french toast.
Danny nodded as he sat down at the table, he looked around and noticed something "hey um, where's dad?"
"Oh your father is tinkering with something in the basement, he gonna come up when he's done. Would you like some french toast?" his mother offered showing him the plant she had. Danny nodded as his stomach rumbled with agreement causing the teen to blush a light shade of pink. Maddie laughed good naturally before placing the plate down in front of him. Danny gave her a quick thanks as he poured some maple syrup over his breakfast, grabbing a fork that was on the table he dug in, placing the warm substance in his mouth, the flavor danced on his tongue as the corner's of his mouth twitched upwards forming a grin. Another mouth watering meal, mom's on a roll!
After breakfast was over and thanking his mother a billion times on how great it was, Danny headed out to explore the neighborhood, since he did the town yesterday it seemed only fair if he did the neighborhood also.
Danny walked on shoving his hands into his pockets. He had only seen little of Nevada so far and that was including that time when he came here with his friends with the whole 'reality gauntlet' thing.
After awhile he heard the familiar rumble of a motorcycle, he turned to see a garage with the motorcycle he saw yesterday with the same guy. Huh, I guess this is where that guy lives. Danny mused as he continued his walk. It was sweltering out but it didn't really bother him because of his ghost core was ice. The cryokinesis inside of him cooled him in small bursts cooling him off instantly.
He hated really hot elements like volcano temperature hot, last time he experienced that kind of heat it felt like he was melting. But of course if he didn't use his cryokinesis ability every so often, the coldness would take over him and make him a shivering mess or worse.
Danny shook his head to clear his thoughts, he didn't leave the house to think about that right now. A sudden blare of a car horn entered his sensitive ears causing him to jump, but a sudden soreness made itself known on his side causing him to hiss in discomfort. Danny grabbed the bottom of his shirt and pulled it up; to reveal a bruise that was two times bigger then his hand. How the heck did I get that? he wondered as he inspected the bruise, prodding it slightly only to cause himself to flinch.
Danny's eyes widen as memories flooded into his head: being shot at, giant robots, girl in that silver monstrosity hand who he saved afterwards, getting blasted at again, getting dog-piled on and saving the good team's leader. Yup, that pretty much sums it up to why he is sore... All over, how did he not notice?
Danny sighed, it was probably best if he went home and rested until his healing abilities kicked in, and that is what he did.
~TFP~~~~~~
Raf was typing away on his laptop, searching for information on Danny Phantom. Bumblebee stood behind him watching the screen search through the webpages in flashes of white. Earlier that morning Bumblebee picked Raf up quite early, around seven forty nine to be exact, Raf called him up saying he would like to get to the base early so he could have more time to do his research and if anything turned up, he could tell them right away.
"Hey I think I found something Bee." Raf announced to him as he scrolled through the information, "is this the guy you saw last night?"
Bumblebee looked at the picture his friend pulled up, it was a little blurry but you could still make out the features of the person. Bee nodded "Yup that's him." Raf smiled at his success, he began doing an image search until he found a clearer picture, but it still wasn't the best quality, it showed Danny Phantom in combat with some kind of floating robot with a flaming neon green Mohawk. The other Autobots began to gather around as Raf called them over.
"After all the researching I did, I found this website to have the most helpful information, it's a blog titled 'Phantom stalkers united forever'." After receiving the expected weird looks from everyone except Optimus, Raf continued "from what I've found out, he is actually a ectoplasm entity or otherwise known as a ghost, which would explain his abilities, last name and the fact that he glows."
Jack arched an eyebrow "wait a minute, are you telling me thatghost actually exist?" he asked "like in the haunting houses and goes 'boo!'?."
Raf nodded in confirmation. "There are also links to news articles like robbery, kidnapping the mayor of Amity Park Illinois, and some of them say he led ghost attacks, but the information on those are sketchy. But quite a lot of the articles state that Phantom is a hero, and is mainly favored by the younger generation of the town. There are residential ghost hunters that tend to hunt him down, there's the Red Huntress, the Guys in White and the first ghost hunters to start it all, is the Fentons." He pulled up a picture of the couple in spandex standing proudly in front of their altered RV.
Jack's eyebrows scrunched up "I think I seen that vehicle before..." He muttered to himself.
Rafael continued "he doesn't seem to like news crews; every time he spots them he leaves, so I'm guessing he is a bit shy when approached, except in battle when it comes to protecting the innocent, it also says that he has... 'a witty battle banter'?" Raf adjusted his glasses when he finished, he turned away from his laptop to face his friends. There wasn't a lot of Intel, but hopefully Agent Fowler found something.
Optimus nodded as he took in Rafael's explanation. "The task still remains, we need to find Danny Phantom, if anyone see's him try to coax him to meet us at the base, we need to find him before the Decepticon's do."
Team Prime nodded simultaneously at their leader's request. Bumblebee glanced warily at Smokescreen, the rookie had a small smirk on his face as his optics stared into nothing. Please don't tell me he's gonna do something stupid. Bumblebee thought pleadingly as he remembered Smokescreen's reaction from last night about the boy's intangibility ability.
"Does this mean were going on a ghost hunt? sweet!" Miko exclaimed in enthusiasm fist pumping the air and bouncing with her uncontainable energy. "Come on Bulk, lets go catch us a ghosty!" She said as she walked over to her green guardian, waiting for him to transform so they can get started. But when he didn't she started tapping her foot in annoyance.
Bulkhead sighed "Miko, I don't think its a good idea for you to come with me, you might distract me and I may end up losing him if I spot him." That wasn't the only reason he didn't want to take her, Bee could tell that the ex-wrecker didn't want to lose her again like last night.
Miko groaned and walked away in a huff, heading back towards the catwalk. Optimus then called out for them to roll out and split up, if Phantom was around that area last night, then he may not be so far away.
"You guys go on with out me, I'll catch up" Smokescreen said with a smile, Bumblebee stopped mid step when he heard this, Smokescreen hardly ever wanted to stay behind at base, especially willingly. That just added to Bee's suspicion that the other mech was up to something. But he didn't have time to think about it now, the search for the ghost was about to begin.
It had already been four days since their encounter with Danny Phantom and they haven't seen a trace of him since, but the search still continued anyways when they weren't searching for relics, energon, Decepticons, or helping Agent Folwer with something.
Bee watched Raf type away at his computer some more before leaving the base, it was his and Smokescreen's turn to do patrol and he was gonna meet up with him. Smokey has still been acting weird but he hasn't figured out why yet, but he has seen him chatting it up with Miko making his anxiety go up a bit, the two of them together plotting could only end up terrible in the end.
~~~~~~DP~~~~~~
Danny's healing abilities had finally kicked in and the bruises was barely noticeable or hurting, but before that he was grounded cause he didn't want to put more strain in the soreness of his muscles. But in that time he was helping his mom around the house and resting here and there, and now to celebrate his fast recovery process he decided to head out and fly. It was mid afternoon when he headed out, his parents was busy in the basement working on the ghost equipment that they brought along, Jack and Maddie were planning on heading out for another search for 'paranormal sightings' so they were making sure that their weapons were in top condition.
By the sounds of it, they were planning on staying out for a while, giving Danny just enough time to spend his time exploring and flying.
So here he was, flying through the grey sky. Hmm, it looks like it's gonna rain. He thought glancing warily upwards at the gathering clouds; many shades of grey and blue could be seen. Lighting flashed across the sky a fair distance away, and that's when he heard the scream. His head shot towards the direction the sound came from, the scream sounded like someone was in pain, whoever it was needed help!
Danny flew faster until he reached the destination; there in the middle of the road was appeared to be a girl, she looked familiar but that didn't matter at the moment, she had scratches of red on her skin and was laying in a puddle of what appeared to be blood, his eyes widen and his pupils shrunk at the sight, he could feel bile rising up in throat but he swallowed it down, some one was bleeding and was in dire need of help!
"Holy crud! what happened? are you okay?" Danny asked worryingly hovering over her as his eyes darted over her searching to see if there were anymore wounds.
Thankfully the girl was still conscious and looked up at him, she was breathing in deeply as her eyes met with his. He watched her carefully as he tried to think of what to do as the rain began to softly fall, he's never been in this kind of situation before and his heart was racing.
But before he could continue to think of what to do he noticed something, as the rain fell and landed on the girl the scratches began to disappear. Then it hit him, this wasn't an injury, it was fake!
Snap!
Danny's head whipped around shooting higher into the air as he heard something snap along with a faint 'oops', standing there was one of those giant robots from a few nights ago. He didn't know what to do or say, but before he could, a fist met him in the face causing him to see stars only to fade to blackness, but before he faded one thought came to mind:
That idiot knocked me unconscious!
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