Yo Guys! Geo here and HAPPY NEW YEAR! yes I'm kicking 2024 off with a bang by updating a story i've been meaning to update! and yes One Helluva Loud House will be next I promise but anyways this Chapter is set to introduce everyone's favorite Ghost boy but I warn you it won't end on a happy note so without any furthur delay enjoy the chapter cause we worked hard on it!
"I can't believe this!" Lincoln groaned angrily in his bedroom. It had only been a day since his encounter with Professor Pester and was turned into the town pariah by him.
'At least Lynn believes me…but we need to find a way to expose that phony for the fake he is!' Lincoln thought angrily while balling his fists, desperately wanting to take his anger out on something. "All I can do now is hope school won't be terrible." He muttered as he punched the wall. 'I just jinxed myself, didn't I?'
*School*
Lincoln and Lynn hopped out of Vanzilla. "Have fun at school kids…and Lincoln?" Rita spoke.
"Yeah mom?"
"...try to keep a…low profile." She told him uneasily before quickly driving away, just barely keeping the van's speed low enough to avoid a ticket.
Lincoln rolled his eyes and gave an annoyed sigh as Lynn grabbed his shoulder.
"You okay bro?"
"No. Everyone's definitely gonna hate me." He said, looking down.
"…"
"What, you're not gonna say they won't?" He asked as Lynn gave him an uneasy look.
"And jinx it to probably make it worse?" She responded as he started to look sad.
"…*Sigh*…fair point…let's just get this over with." He said as they walked into the school seeing a hoard of students in the hallway who all stopped talking and saw them.
Lincoln had never felt more like a deer caught in headlights in his life as he felt everyone's eyes on him.
Before Lincoln could even open his mouth everyone present immediately started to point and laugh at him, making him try to make himself look smaller.
"What a freakin' loser!" He heard someone who had greasy looking black hair say, standing next to Chandler and Trent, both of whom were also mocking him.
"You wouldn't see me do something that crazy!" Another voice said, making Lincoln facepalm.
"I heard he tried to ruin the place on purpose!" A snobby girl voice stated as Lynn clutched her fist and turned to the voice who said.
"Alright, Vana! Shut your mouth my brother did not ruin anything on purpose!" She growled at the popular girl with long red hair and wearing a pink shirt and skirt, who just looked at them smugly.
(Sorry you were gone a while and your icon vanished so I went to get food)
"Oh please! Lynn, your brother is obviously a problem. I mean, he ruined the greatest store ever!" Vana smirked. "And besides as far as I know he's just a mindless brute like you!" She said in Lynn's face.
"At least he never got plastic surgery. What 12 year old has a chest that big?" Lynn jabbed back as vana rolled her eyes.
"Oh please! At least I dont look like some grossout jock that takes steroids!" vana smirked as Lynn saw red and was about to jump the girl only for lincoln to hold her back.
"Lynn! Stop! She's not worth it!" he told her as Lynn calmed down and walked off. "You got Lucky Glamma!" Lynn shouted as she and lincoln made their way down the hall.
"Don't worry Lynn at least it can't get any worst" Lincoln sighed as he began to hear Music and saw Rusty pushing a cart which had a small tv on top which played a video of him dressed as a bug eyed clown doing a stupid dance.
"Crazy boy, crazy boy
Hey Look it's the crazy boy
Jumpng up, Jumping down
And he's dressed as a funny clown!
Wacky, goony, goofy, spoony
High as a plane or a balloon-y
Crazy boy, not a ploy!
As he ride, ride, ride, ride, ride
It's a crazy boy, not a schmazy boy
He'll eat your toys, then punch Roy
Sloppy, sloopy, gloppy, gloopy
Happy-happy, hoopy-hoopy
Dopey, doffy, screwy, blue-y
Gooey, chewy, fooey, dewey
Absolutely bus-a-looey
Crazy, lazy, crazy, crazy boy!
A flat tire is no problem
Because it's only flat on the bottom
A flat tire is no problem
Because it's only flat on the bottom
So let's go!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Wacky, goony, goofy, spoony
High as a plane or a balloon-y
Sloppy, sloopy, gloppy, gloopy
Hoola-hoopa, hoppy-hoopy
Dopey, doffy, screwy, blue-y
Gooey, chewy, fooey, dewey
Absolutely bus-a-looey
Crazy, lazy, crazy, crazy boy!
Crazy!
Boy!
Crazy!" the Song sang as LIncoln's mouth was dropped onto the ground as he had a horrified look on his face.
"Crazy Boy T-shirts,Mugs and merch! Get your Crazy Boy Merch right here folks fresh off the press! I made these overnight so get'em while ya can!" Rusty exclaimed as he rewound the song and played it again, all while kids throughout the hallway ran up to him with their cash and wallets in their hands.
"..." Lincoln said nothing as he was too shocked at the fact that Rusty would capitalize on his situation. '…Actually considering how he normally is, I really should've seen this coming.' He thought while snapping out of his stupor and glaring at his 'friend'.
"I got this one, bro." Lynn spoke as she walked off screen while rolling up her sleeves and in the span of three seconds-
*WACK PUNCH! SMASH! CRASH! BOOM!*
-Lynn walked back to Lincoln, dusting off her hands.
"There we go! You better head off to class bro before the bell rings." She told him. "Lynn yo-"
"Off. To. Class." She said, ignoring the massive scene of non-fatal carnage behind her.
"Uhhhhh Okay?" He said uneasily as he hurried along.
"Ugh, everything hurts." Rusty groaned as Lynn threw one of his Lincoln mugs at him like a baseball. "Now everything hurts worse!"
*The twins*
"This is completely unbelievable!" Lola complained as Lana ignored her as she read her magazine.
"Yeah sure, sis." Lana said uninterested in Lola's numerous complaints.
"This attitude towards us is entirely unacceptable! And it's all Lincoln's fault!"
"Actually wierd-la! It's perfectly acceptable!" an obnoxious voice exclaimed as a cupcake was thrown at Lola's head.
"YEEEEEEAH!" an equally obnoxious group of brats exclaimed.
"Oh go take a dive in a dumpster, Mertle!" Lola growled as her rival and her cronies sauntered up to her.
"Oh please! As far as I'm concerned, you're just as crazy and as bad as your weirdo brother!" Myrtle said as Lana closed her magazine and stepped in front of her.
"Say that about our bro again and you'll be sorry!" Lana snarled, making Myrtle and her cronies flinch and run off scared, whining for her mommy.
"Stuck up brat." Lana grumbled as she grabbed the cupcake from Lola's head and happily ate it.
"Mmmm boisonberry!" she smiled as Lola sighed. "I can't belive this Lana! This is all Lincoln's fault for ruining mr upchukk's shop and now everyone thinks we're just as nuts as he is!" Lola frowned placing her bag in her locker as she saw Lana reading the magazine again.
"Ugh! Lana, are you listening to me!?" she snapped.
"HUh? Oh sorry Lola I'm just reading about the monster sightings on lake eddy!" Lana said, showing her sister the article she was reading. "See? It talks all about the Lake Eddy turtle monsters! They're calling the terrorpins!"
"Lana, that's more ridiculous than Lincoln's claims!" Lola scoffed in disbelief
"But the magazine! Says they're real, Lola! And since Mom and Dad are taking us to Lake Eddie next weekend! I bet you twenty bucks I'll find them!" Lana said with a high level of confidence.
"HA! Deal!" Lola said as they shook hands only to hear the sound of thunder strike outside and the sounds of someone banging on a window the twins looked over and saw Lucy standing outside soaking wet.
"What the heck are you doing out there?!" Lola exclaimed as she opened the window and pulled Lucy inside, almost immediately gagging from the smell around her.
"I was thrown into the trash and locked outside." Lucy sighed with noticeable tear stains on her cheeks. "Who did this to you?" Lola asked, cracking her knuckles.
"It was Eugene and his jerk friends…" Lucy spoke as Lana handed her a few paper towels she kept under her hat and used them to dry her faceoff.
"Aren't they high schoolers?"
"Lana, that moron's failed the fifth grade for 9 years in a row. He makes the special ed students look like Lisa." Lola told her twin.
"…This is all Lincoln's fault." Lucy growled as the twins jumped when they heard the rain speed up and a bolt of lightning struck the school, knocking out the power and engulfing them in darkness. "…Does this mean school is canceled?" Lana said hopefully as the lights flickered back on. "Aw dang it!"
*Leni*
Lori, Leni, Luan and Luna were all on their way to the mall. After what had happened with Lincoln and the 'Professor Pester' incident, the eldest Loud sisters decided instead of going to school, they would spend most of the day at the mall.
"I literally can't believe that little twerp ruined possibly the best day of our lives!" Lori growled at her phone as she saw people constantly mocking them on social media. "Yeah, of all the times for the little dude to lose his marbles." Luna chimed in.
"I'm just glad I can make puns again." Luan said with a hefty sigh while also thinking of how to pay back her siblings and father for the egging on that occurred that day.
"Don't you think people are kind of being totally a bit harsh on him?" Leni asked.
"No, not really." Luna yawned
"Don't care enough right now." Luan sighed while still in her thoughts.
"They should be harsher on the twerp." Lori growled while blocking people who were mocking her online.
Leni gave a sad sigh and began to browse on her phone until she saw some amazing news.
"EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" She screamed in joy, making her sisters cringe as Lori hid her phone to avoid it possibly cracking from the high tone.
"LENI WHAT THE HELL!?" Lori exclaimed as she nearly swerved off the road and into an 18-wheeler.
"There is ringing in my ear." Luan said, completely dazed and staring off into space.
"What the hell was that for, brah?!" Luna shouted angrily.
"Oops! Sorry guys but I have some great news, they're rebooting that old 90's show 'Phantom Knight'!" Leni exclaimed.
"Wasn't that show canceled 'cause the star was seeing a 15 year old?" Luna asked.
"That was a false conviction, the teen admitted she lied for money and his popularity skyrocketed after. But whatever, are you literally serious?!" Lori asked.
"Yeah! The director, Mr. Bumm Bee Shoun is making it along with the original star Vlad Masters!"
"I thought it was 'Vladimir Masterson'." Luan spoke after shaking her head for a good minute to stop the ringing.
"He shortened it. That's totally a mouthful. Anyway, it says they're gonna be at the mall today looking for extras for the show!" Leni smiled as Lori rolled her eyes and shook her head.
"Let me guess you want to try and get a role?" She asked. "Lori, we all know you're totally gonna go down there and do the exact same thing."
"*Gasp* Leni, how could you say such a thing? Do you really think I have such an ego I'd try to upst-"
"Lori, just drive. You're not fooling anyone here." Luan said with a glare. "Ugh, fine. Don't see me interrupting your pity monologues."
"Yes you do. To everyone. And besides, we all know you had a silly school girl crush on Vlad when you were a kid."
"I was literally six!" she argued with a red face.
"Lori, I know people say I'm the stupid one, but you were thirteen." Leni said with an innocent, yet smug look.
Lori said nothing as she just simply sped up in embarrassment and anger.
*The mall*
The sisters had pulled up into the Mall parking lot and saw a mob the size of a small town was swarming the place.
"Guess Phantom Knight was more popular than I thought." Lori said with wide eyes
"Oooh I wonder where we can go to see the director?" Leni asked as Luan and Luna both made their way through the crowd and into the mall as Leni was trying to see around it.
"Ugh! Can't see!" Leni groaned as Lori sat on the nearby bench texting Bobby all while Leni tried to push through the crowd only to nearly crash into someone. "Sorry." Leni said as she looked down at the young teen she had bumped into. He had messy black hair and somewhat pale skin, and was wearing a blue hoodie with a white shirt, some blue jeans and a pair of black and white sneakers.
"Uhhhhhh…" Leni spoke, feeling her cheeks slowly turning red as the boy held out his hand for her to take. "Sorry about that." He chuckled nervously with his own face turning a little red as he looked up at her. "S-Sorry, I wasn't really paying attention." Leni said
"It's uhhhh…It's fine." He said, looking away from her.
"LENI!" She heard Lori cry out for her
"Over here Lori!" Leni called back as she turned back to the boy and smiled. "Gotta go, see ya around!" She said before running off to her older sister.
"Leni, where were you?" Lori asked, crossing her arms. "Trying to get to the front, why?" She asked as Lori facepalmed. "No I mean….ugh forget it let's just get this over with." She groaned while grabbing Leni's wrist. "Mean what?" Leni asked, genuinely confused.
Lori and Leni finally managed to squeeze their way to the front of the crowd where Leni saw the boy she bumped into earlier on the stage along with the director ... .who was just Professor Pester wearing groucho marx glasses and a blonde toupee with a black sweater vest and beret. "Welcome! Welcome!" He said in a very cheesy french accent as the crowd began to clap and cheer.
"I am zhe great Director Bumm Bee Shoun! And I am here to reveal to all of you zhe cast of zhe new Phantom Knight reboot! Vith zhe help of zhe original ztar! Mizter Vlad Mazterz!" He announced, his accent sounding more Getman than French in some places, as he gestured to an open doorway where a rather tall man in a suit with neatly combed graying hair tied back into a ponytail stepped out.
"The director kind of looks familiar, don't you think?" Leni said to her older sister
"Not really, why?" Lori spoke not even looking at the stage. "He does! He kind of looks like that candy guy!"
"They're probably cousins or whatever." Lori said, still texting on her phone.
"Now zhen mizter Mazterz, if you vould?" The director said, handing the microphone to the former star, who cleared his throat and took it from the OBVIOUSLY masked man.
"Thank you Mr. Shoun. Niw then, ever since the orginal Phantom Knight show was canceled in the late nineties my life had…hit a snag, if you will, but when Mr. Shoun here gave me a chance to get back my former gl….I mean bring back this glorious show, I took it because his reboot is near and dear to my heart and after all the previous attempts to bring the show back resulted in a few…tragic accidents…and lawsuits… this time we aim to make sure everything happens on schedule." He declared, prompting people to clap at his speech
"Yez! Now zhen let uz introduze zhe new Phantom Knight himzelf! Everyone zay ello to…Danny Fenton!" The director exclaimed as Danny stood up and gave a shy wave to the crowd who clapped for him. "Ooh, I bumped into him earlier!" Leni said as Danny spotted her and slowly blushed as she waved at him.
"Now zhen young Fenton, tell zhe crowd what zhis role meanz to you!" Bumm said, holding the mic to Danny's face. "Uhhh-"
"Vonderful!" He said, cutting the young boy off before he could even finish his first word. "Now zhen everyone muzt go avay vhile ve begin to film! Ve vill be opening up zhe extras auditions later in zhe day!" The 'director' told everyone who groaned in disappointment and began to disperse, aside from those who wanted autographs.
*Backstage*
"Ugh finally those insipid fools are gone!" Pester growled, removing his wig and going over to a wall and pulled a lever revealing a massive tub of glowing green liquid. "You really need to work on that accent, were you supposed to be a French director or a German schultz?" His movie star scoffed at him
"Oh please! As long as those fools think I'm a real director, then our plan will go off without a hitch! All you need to do is make sure your little understudy has an..'accident' just like all the others." Pester told Vlad who simply rolled his eyes. "Are you certain we need to do this dance again? If we go through with this reboot and it proves a success, we could use the earnings to fund your little…'projects'." he said as Pester pressed a button on the console causing the massive tube to glow. "Of course we do! After all, if it wasn't for me, nobody would even know you were responsible for all of those accidents. After all you just play your part Vladimir and I shall play mine!...And besides, I noticed that annoying brat's sisters were here and I don't need ANOTHER child discovering my plans. I'm just lucky almost everyone in this state are bumbling moron!s" Pester spat out before clearing his throat and fixing the groucho marx glasses to his mask.
"Now zhen shall ve?" He said as Vlad facepalmed. "...Very well just unleash the things when I give the signal." He told him while leaving the 'director' to put on the rest of his costume.
"Soon!" Pester said looking at the tube as a skeletal hand touched the glass, longing for escape.
*Lincoln*
Lincoln groaned as he tried to eat his sandwich in quiet only to be pelted with a rotten orange.
"Hey crazy boy! Look out, the sky is falling!" Chandler laughed as he threw another orange at Lincoln's head as Lincoln tried to ignore him. 'If one more person throws something at me…' He thought just as a certain clown haired ginger decided to toss a grapefruit at him
"Get your crazy boy grapefruits! Ripe for throwing!" Rusty shouted, holding up a grapefruit as Lincoln took a deep breath, packed his stuff up and walked towards him. "Hey, Crazy Boy, how's it go-what're you doing?" He asked as Lincoln grabbed him by the collar and dragged him out into the empty hallway, not once even slowing down from his weight being dragging behind him.
*bang! Crash! Boom! Crash! Smash blingbling! Boom BANG!*
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Rusty screamed in pain as Lincoln casually walked back inside dusting his hands off, leaving the entire room more silent than a funeral as he sat down and pulled his lunch back out as if nothing happened. Everyone then turned their heads to the cafeteria doors as Rusty very shakily poked his head inside.
"Whoever is the owner of the white sedan, you left your lights on." Rusty spoke as he walked back inside…now shoved into a vending machine, his head sticking out of broken glass and his legs dangling out from the little flap at the bottom as he waddled/limped his way into the cafeteria.
Rusty sat down on a bench and began to cough up bags of Doritos and a Snickers bar, making everyone around him leave for other tables. "I think I need ti call my parents."
*30 minutes later with Leni*
Leni was standing in line for auditions after Lori and the others had all gone off to do their own thing, Lori obviously to chat with Bobby, the other two Leni didn't have a clue.
"I totally hope I can get that part!" Leni exclaimed happily as she stepped onto the stage.
"Alright now, young lady, why don't you tell us your name?" The director spoke with a fake, cheesy grin.
"Hi, my name's Leni!" She said excitedly as she tripped over the microphone cable, sending it flying as it bounced atop the heads of a few people, ricocheted off the nearby wall, smacked poor old Mrs. Cramdilly across her forehead sending her flying out through the window and landing on top of the car of the Spokes family, the impact of which launched Rusty(who was checked out of school by his father), now free of the vending machine, into a fire hydrant however as Rusty stood up on shaky legs his father's car rammed into him and the fire hydrant which then proceeded to explode and causing the nearby telephone pole to fall on top of the car causing another explosion as Rusty pulled himself out of the pile he noticed poor old Mrs. Cramdilly being helped up by another driver, only for the old woman to be sent flying into him when Flip's truck sped by and rammed into her, the high projectile old lady slammed into Rusty, making them both tumble down the street and into a garbage truck which then proceeded to crush both of them as it turned a corner and fell off a randomly placed cliff and fell into a massive gorge filled with cactus which then proceeded to get hit by a large asteroid and then explode in a fiery explosion before being struck by lightning.
"...We're….okay." Poor Old Mrs. Cramdilly weakly called out in intense pain as the microphone cable broke and allowed the microphone to slowly roll over the cliff and down to them, resulting in a mushroom cloud explosion covering the sky.
"...Less….okay." Poor old Mrs. Cramdilly called out weakly as the camera zoomed back to the mall as everyone had shocked, surprised and horrified looks on their faces.
"...zat…was…INCREDIBLE!" The director shouted as he shook Leni's hand. "You got ze job!" He declared at the top of his lungs for everyone to hear, making the crowd gasp and cheer loudly for Leni who gave a confused look.
"But…what about poor old Mrs. Cramdilly?"
"Ehhhhh she'll be fine." The director waved off, not even caring to fake sympathy for her as he snapped his fingers. "Get this girl to her trailer, I am going to make her a star!" Bumm B. Shoun exclaimed as his midget assistants (really the ruffians wearing wigs) all carried her off on their heads away from the stage.
*Later with Lincoln*
Lincoln gave an annoyed sigh as he was covered in trash after Chandler and his goons threw him in a dumpster after lunch ended.
"You okay, Lincoln?" He heard Liam ask him as he saw him, Zach, Clyde and Stella all walk up to him concerned for him. "Do I LOOK ok?" He snapped as he rubbed the back of his head. "Ugh seriously all of this just because no one wants to believe I tried to stop some weirdo from taking over the town!" He sighed as Clyde, Stella, Zach and Liam all gave uneasy looks. "You guys don't believe me either, do you?" he asked as they looked away.
"Well…..you gotta admit, Lincoln, it DOES sound kinda…..crazy." Clyde told him nervously as Lincoln rolled his eyes just as Lynn ran out of the school and locked eyes with him. "LINCOLN! MOM CALLED SHE SAID THERE WAS A FIRE AT THE MALL!" Lynn shouted. "What?! Wait, why is she calling about a fire at the mall?" He asked as Lynn gave a terrified look. "...Lori, Leni, Luna and Luan skipped school and went there!" she said as she noticed Lincoln clenching his fist as he took off running for the mall.
"Lincoln, wait!" Clyde shouted as they ran after him.
'PESTER! HE"S BEHIND THIS I KNOW IT!' Lincoln thought angrily.
*10 hour prior*
We return back to the mall where Leni was now sitting in an actor trailer. "Wow! This is totally exciting, I never thought I'd be chosen to be in a tv show!" Leni smiled as she heard a knock at her door and saw it was the boy from earlier that she bumped into. "Hey, what're you doing here?" She asked. "Just coming to see my new co-star." he chuckled nervously as he held out his hand.
"I'm uhhhh…I'm Danny, Danny Fenton!" He smiled as she took it and shook. "I'm Leni Loud" Leni smiled, missing the faint blush appearing on Danny's cheeks. "So did you watch Phantom Knight when you were a kid too?" She asked, snapping him out of his stupor. "Huh? Yeah! I did. Seriously, I'm surprised I was picked to be the new star of the reboot!" Danny smiled. "Though, it's not going quite like I thought it would. We haven't even started recording episodes and I'm already getting fan mail AND hate mail…mostly hate mail, though." he said meekly.
"Why would people send you hate mail?"Leni asked as Danny gave a sigh and rubbed the back of his head.
"Apparently they're upset that this reboot is gonna take another highly popular show's time slot on the channel and that it might replace it for good." He spoke crossing his arms.
"…That…that's stupid." Leni spoke as Danny shrugged. "Yeah I know, but hey, it is what it is." He chuckled….until he felt a chill go down his spine and a faint blue puff wafted from his mouth. 'Uh oh..' Danny thought.
"Uhhhh Leni? My phone is vibrating. I gotta go!" he said quickly as Leni waved him off. "Okay bye Danny, see you at rehearsal!" Leni smiled as she saw him running away and felt her stomach grumble. "I wonder if this place has a mini fridge." She said to herself as she looked out the window and saw Vlad looking at a nearby wall and pressing a brick in causing a door to appear. 'What the heck?' She thought with a look of surprise as she left her trailer and went over to where he disappeared and felt the wall trying to find the brick.
"Which one was it?" She muttered before pushing one in and opening the door and making her way inside an abandoned storage room in the mall.
"Whoa!" Leni whispered as she went down the darkened hallway and could hear Vlad speaking. "Excellent, the plan is underway. Come tomorrow the world will know my name once more!" She heard him say as she saw him typing away on a laptop.
"Things should go smoothly if that stupid 'director' does his part." He grumbled while balling his hands into fists before taking a deep breath as Leni tried to back away only to knock something over as Vlad immediately looked in the direction the noise came from and snapped his fingers all while Leni found herself being bound by a massive see through octopus who pulled her over to Vlad.
"Well it looks like my little bird has flown too close to the sun!" He smirked as Leni gave a terrified look and was struggling to escape as Vlad looked at the monster.
"Take her to the balcony and keep her out of the way!" He ordered as it gripped her tightly and shot towards the ceiling just as Vlad's phone rang. "Our new star saw too much and is being dealt with."
"Very well, I have also released the specimen. This mall will very soon be rendered an unhabitable wasteland after experiencing his unholy might! MWAHAHAHAHA"
*Danny*
"Oh crap. Oh crap. Oh crap." Danny whispered to himself as he looked for a secluded spot as he could hear people screaming in fear as he closed his eyes and a white ring flickered into existence around his waist before slowly engulfing him, his eyes turning a ectoplasmic green, His skin gaining a much more pale complexion and his white turning a phantasmal white all while wearing a Black suit with silver lining and a White letter D on his chest.
"Time to get…Uhhhhhh…Ummmmmm Forget it Work on the catchphrase later!" He grumbled as he turned invisible and flew off through the mall, following the trail of screams that got louder through each floor of the mall until he saw a horde of…flying crates.
"…O…K I was expecting something…actually scary. Danny said as the boxes were placed on the ground and a large hulking figure appeared before him from the large shadows, with a pair of menacing red eyes glaring at him as the figure stepped out…
"BEWAAAAARE!"
…only to reveal a fat bum in a beanie and overalls that was floating with a shoebox under his arm.
"...What?" Danny said flatly.
"I AM THE ALMIGHTY BOOOOOOX GHOST! FEAR ME AND MY SHOEBOXES OF UNFATHOMABLE TERROR!" He shouted as he tossed a few empty shoeboxes at Danny, who very easily dodged each and every one of them.
"What…What the hell is this?" Danny said flatly and with an overall dumbfounded look.
"IMPOSSIBLE! YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN ABLE TO AVOID MY SHOEBOXES OF UNFATHOMABLE TERROR!" He shouted overdramatically as Danny rolled his eyes and punched him in his face, instantly sending him flying out of the mall. "That…was a complete disappointment." Danny sighed as Box Ghost growled and flew off forcing Danny to follow him.
"C'mon, Tubby, give it up before you hurt yourself!" Danny called out as the spectral attacker came to a complete stop in a clothing store.
"Tu-Tubby?" He said with tears in his eyes
"Oh great…." Danny sighed as the Box Ghost turned to him with pure anger with his teeth bared
"NOBODY CALLS ME TUBBY!" He screamed as he zapped a nearby electrical box and threw it at Danny, electrocuting the young boy who didn't dodge in time and subsequently fell to the floor.
"HAHAHAHA! TAKE THAT!" Box Ghost shouted as a few sparks popped out of the wall and landed on a nearby clothes rack, setting it ablaze.
"WHOA!...Hold on there!" Danny said as he held his hands up. "Question, have you heard of…..uhhhhh the 'Face Punch' syndrome?"
"THE WHAT?"
"Why are you still yelling?"
"THIS IS JUST HOW I TALK."
"…Anyway…it's where you beat yourself up by…thinking about it?" Danny said, unsure if his opponent would be stupid enough to believe the utter bullshit he was spewing.
"REALLY!? IS THAT ACTUALLY A THING!?" He exclaimed as the Box Ghost found himself being punched in the face…by his own fist. 'Oh my God, he is.' Danny thought as the Box Ghost recoiled from his own fist punching him in the stomach, followed by his other fist uppercutting his jaw and chopping himself in the throat as he spun himself around and slammed himself against the burning walls before diving headfirst into the floor, crashing into the store below where he somehow grabbed his own foot and swung his body back and forth across the floor over and over.
Box Ghost slowly stood up as he felt his arms giving himself an atomic wedgie that tore his overalls and revealed his undies.
"NO PLEASE…HAVE MERCY!" He begged as his lef literally detached from his body and kicked his own ass, sending him crashing through the entire building and through the air all the way to Lake Michigan…where he immediately exploded in a mushroom cloud.
"...Well! That was easy, and that's one problem solved!" Danny said, pocketing his recording phone as he then noticed the fire was spreading to the rest of the Mall. "Oh yeah…forgot about that…" He said as he heard a screech from the roof. "I'll let the fire department deal with this when they get here." He said as he noticed the roof was falling apart as he heard a loud scream.
"That sounded like Leni!" He exclaimed before zipping upwards.
*Speaking of Leni*
"Let me out of here!" Leni exclaimed as she was now tied up in an old metal school chair as she looked around the dark room and only saw a large TV monitor in front of her that flickered to life and revealed Vlad Masters with a sinister grin. "I'm so sorry this had to happen so early, my dear."
"...Mr. Masters?...what's going on?" Leni asked terrified for her life. "Well my dear, you see after that scandal back in '03 my life hasn't been exactly….the same, if you will. I lost my endorsements, my money and my home, my friends…my family. Even after that bitch admitted she lied, none of them still wanted anything to do with me…not even my children." He admitted with a sigh. "But you see, I figured the best way to regain both my fame and what was left of my vast wealth, I decided to reboot my old show. However…every time I did so…THEY would upstage me!" He growled as Danny phased into the room while invisible and stood near the back wall.
"...Wait, they?" Leni said, raising an eyebrow. "Those understudies! All those brats wanted what was rightfully mine!" Vlad growled, balling his fists and slamming them onto a table on his end of the screen meanwhile Pester and the ruffians were the ones who were filming everything.
"Vlad! Wrap it up! The mall is on fire and we need to leave!" Pester whisper-shouted as Vlad ignored him. "All of those false replacements wanted to take the fame and respect I deserved after all the shit that damn bitch put me through!" Vlad yelled before he calmed down.
"...So I did the only reasonable thing anyone could think of…I made sure they…faced the proper consequences." He spoke with a wicked smile as Leni paled in fear.
"You….you killed them?" She gulped. "Oh my dear, 'killed' is such a strong word. I prefer the term….'murdered'."
"That means the same thing!" Pester growled at him before starting to cough from the smoke as The ruffinas began to panic and opened the nearby window. "Ugh! This plan was a bust when that lousy ghost set the place on fire!" Pester said as the ruffians all jumped out the window and pulled his dark pinkish purple cadillac out of the bushes. "Jump in, boss!" one shouted as Pester climbed onto the windowsill and jumped out the window….only to land face first onto the concrete.
"...uuuggghhh…." He groaned as he pulled himself off the ground and climbed into the car as it quickly sped off. "Wait, you can talk?!"
'I've got to get her out of here!' Danny thought as he could feel the heat and smoke rising from under the door.
*10 mins earlier with Lori*
Lori was in the food court texting on her phone when she could smell the faint smell of smoke. "Luna, do you smell that?" She asked as Luna stopped eating her fries and sniffed the air.
"Yeah….it kinda smells like smoke.." She said as Luan sat down next to her and smelled it as well. "Ok which one of you farted?" She said, making Lori growl until she saw a cloud of smoke in the air.
"Uhhh guys?...I THINK THERE'S A FIRE!" Luan yelled with wide eyes as the other two looked in the same direction as her just as fire alarms went off, shortly followed by the sprinkler system.
Soon everyone began to panic and tried to make their way outside, with many trampling others in their race to get out.
"Leni? Where's Leni!?" Lori exclaimed looking around as a small explosion was heard from the back as the fire began to spread even more.
"LENI!" Lori yelled as Luna grabbed her arm. "Lori, we gotta go! Leni's probably outside!"
"Leni gets lost on her way to the bathroom, do you HONESTLY think she managed to get out?"
"…Yeah, I got nothing to say to that." Luna said as she and her sisters were being pushed out by the crowd.
*Now*
'There has to be a way to do this. But first I gotta deal with that spectral sushi.' Danny thought as he aimed for the fire hydrant on the wall and zapped it causing it to ricochet off the wall and hit the ghostly octopus as Danny grabbed it and pummeled it into the ground knocking it out as it sank down through the building.
'Well, that took care of that now to save Leni!' Danny thought as he listened to Vlad's monologue go on for a few minutes longer.
Leni was struggling in her chair as Vlad gave a chuckle. "Struggle all you want, but when the fire engulfs the entire mall, you will be nothing but a memory!" He smirked as Danny hid behind a corner and saw a button labeled 'intercom'. Reversing his transformation, Danny slowly made his way to the button and pressed it, turning the intercom on for everyone outside to hear (unaware that the fire damaged the wires) before he went back to his hiding spot and kicked down a nearby crate with all of his strength.
"LENI! YOU IN HERE?1!" He shouted. "Danny!" She cried out in response as Vlad's face in the TV turned to face the box.
"WHAT!? HOW DID YOU FIND THIS PLACE!?" He growled as Danny gave a smirk and shrugged. "Fuck you that's how." He said smugly as part of the ceiling fell down next to him as the flames got more erratic as Danny ran over and untied Leni.
"Don't worry, Leni! I'll get you out of here!" He said Leni gasped. "DANNY WATCH OUT!" She screamed as she tackled him to the ground as Vlad tried to swing at them with a fire axe.
"THIS BURNING BUILDING WILL BE YOUR TOMB!
" Vlad screamed, his face covered in black splotches and his eyes bloodshot from the volume of ash and smoke in the air.
Danny managed to push himself up and dragged Leni to the nearest door.
"HURRY LENI BEFORE THINGS GET WORSE!" He screamed while slamming the door behind him.
Danny just barely was able to dodge the ax that was thrown at his head.
"YOU LITTLE BRAT!" Vlad roared as Danny took off running the other direction as Vlad followed all while Leni was trying to make her way out the mall but the heavy smoke and fire was blocking her path and making it near impossible to see.
" I gotta get out of here!" Leni cried as she tried to make her way to the exit only for a pile of debris to land itself on top of her, making her scream in pain and agony which was heard by anyone else still inside, including Danny from the upper levels.
"Leni?" He said in a worried tone as he ducked under another axe swing by Vlad as Danny ran towards the large tube the director had left behind, the green liquid inside violently boiling over and burning through the floor around it.
"Why won't you just DIE ALREADY!" Vlad yelled as he swung the axe right into Danny and was shocked when he turned invisible and the ax slammed into the tube. "What!?" He gasped as the liquid inside the tube exploded and splattered all over Vlad and coated the floor around him. Vlad screamed in agony as the liquid ate away at his skin and clothes while the floor began dissolving into goo as Danny took off into the air just as more debris fell on top of Vlad and buried him alive.
"...LENI!" Danny shouted as he quickly flew down and blasted away the debris and picked up Leni and carried her outside.
*Lori*
The crowd of people had managed to get outside safely, aside from those who had tragically been trampled in the panic or those still trapped inside. "I don't see Leni anywhere!" Lori exclaimed as Luna held her hand.
"It'll be okay, sis! Leni's…..she…she she just has to be fine!" She reassured as Leni gasped and pointed to the side of the building. "Guys look!" She said as several people saw Danny (now in his human form) running out of the mall with Leni on his back, looking heavily injured and covered in gashes and soot. "CALL AN AMBULANCE!" He screamed.
*Half an hour Later*
"Holy crap!" Lincoln panted with a look of horror as he stared at the half collapsed mall.
The firemen had managed to put out the fire and many ambulances were able to take those who were injured from the fire while others took those who hadn't been fortunate enough to keep their lives that's when he noticed Lori, Luan and Luna as they gave Leni to the paramedics and they loaded her into an ambulance.
Before he could say anything he saw Vanzilla pull up and Rita immediately jumped out and ran over to Lori and the others. "Where are they taking Leni?! What happened?!"
"Mom! We don't know…..we…we just don't know…." Luna said as she noticed Lincoln running over.
"Guys!" He shouted as he immediately hugged Luan, who didn't say anything and just instinctively hugged back tightly.
"...Loreli Marie Loud! You still didn't answer my question about what happened to your sister!?" Rita asked again in a panic as they heard Danny clear his throat. "Ummm I-I think I can explain that ma'am…it was Vlad Masters, he snapped and tried to kill everyone in the mall so he can 'save people' all so you can get his fame back." He explained as Lori gave a smile. "Mom this is Danny he….he carried her out…he saved her…I hope." Luna said…not sure of the extent of the damage that had been done to her older sister.
Before Rita could thank him, the media news team had arrived to cover the accident.
"This is Katherine Mulligan, reporting live from the Royal Woods Mall with the latest scoop!" She said before shoving her microphone in Lincoln's face.
"So tell the viewers at home, crazy boy Lincoln Loud, how do you plead to your now recent arsonist charges because the viewing public are already blaming you?" She said as Lincoln's eyes twitched.
"Oh come on! I LITERALLY JUST GOT HERE!" He screamed angrily, making her step back from his high tone of rage as she looked back at the camera. "Well folks we can also add emotional unstable to that list of charges as well, anything you'd like to say?" She said as Lincoln, without any hesitation, snatched the mic from her hands and squeezed the mic tightly, making her cameraman throw his headphones off, as well as the people recording in the van until the ball looked more like a crumpled ball of tinfoil.
Lincoln then casually threw the now destroyed Mic at her feet and dusted off his hands. "Uhhhhh…back to you..Hilly." Kathrine said as she and her crew sulked off back to their news van at a very fast fear fuelled pace.
*1 hour Later*
The Louds and Danny were at the Hospital waiting room wanting to know more about Leni's condition. "So, you saved my sister…you think she'll be ok?" Lincoln asked Danny.
"…When I found her, most of her body was crushed by the ceiling…I don't know." Danny sighed as two doctors walked out of the ER.
"Doctor Princess! Doctor Palmer! Will Leni be alright?" Luan asked them as they both looked at each other and gave the family grim looks. Your daughter has a few ruptured organs, several broken bones throughout her entire body…and…"
"What? What happened to my baby?" Rita asked fearfully.
"…I'd recommend making your house wheelchair accessible for if and when she returns home." Doctor palmer said as Lynn Sr. fainted and fell into Lori's arms and Rita began to cry.
"...However there is some good news…if the surgeons are able to help repair any damage, with a few months of therapy Leni might be able to walk again, but….I'm afraid at the moment it's impossible to tell, we're still not through with going over the extent of damage done to her body." Doctor Princess explained as a nurse called them back inside the ER as Danny sighed. "...I should've been faster" He grumbled as Lori placed a hand on his shoulder. "No it's not, you did your best and you still saved my sister's life!" She smiled.
"That's right, son…we're eternally grateful for what you did." Rita said, wiping her tears as Lisa held some smelling salts under her fathers nose, waking him back up.
"...Ugh my head, I had the strangest nightmare…my sweet little Leni-bean was in the hospital and we were told she was gonna be crippled for life." He said.
"Not a nightmare dad, that just happened," Luan told him, making him go wide eyed and start hyperventilating as he fainted once again this time into Lynn jr's arms.
"...It's going to be a long night." Rita sighed before she looked at her three older children. "But as for you three! I can't believe you would skip school and then THIS happened!...you're grounded, all three of you, for 2 months!"
"What?!"
"Oh come on!"
"Isn't going through this punishment enough?"
"...no…because if you didn't skip school…then Leni might not be fighting for her life right now!" Rita exclaimed as she staretd to cry again as she stormed off outside to Vanzilla as Lori looked down in disappointment and regret. "...Guys…she's right, we shouldn't have skipped school just because we were afraid of people mocking us." Lori spoke as Luna crossed her arms.
"Well we wouldn't have had to if SOMEONE didn't make u-" She began to say only to be cut off by a loud gravel like cracking noise as they all saw it came from their brother, more specifically, his clenched hand.
"Luna, I swear to GOD! If you try to blame me for what happened to Leni!" Lincoln snapped, still angry from the reporters as he squeezed the armrest of the chair he was sitting in.
"...whatever." Luna grumbled as he stormed outside as Lori gave a sigh and looked at Danny. "Sorry you had to see that we've been…going through it lately. If you want, when my dad wakes up, we can give you a ride home." She offered as he sheepishly rubbed the back of his neck.
"Uhhh sure I'd like that." Danny chuckled nervously.
Lori briefly smiled before her face turned back into a frown.
*Sweetsopolis*
Pester and the Ruffians were back in their lair as the good doctor was holding an ice pack to his head.
"Oh that moron Vlad! Seriously, everyone knows that the first rule of Villainy 101 is to never monologue, it's how your plans get ruined! Seriously you'd never catch me doing that!" He grumbled. "I mean, look at him. He started monologuing and BAM! The moron is six feet under and burned to a crisp!" He ranted to the Ruffians
"Uhhhh Boss would a nice cup of tea and a hoagie make you feel better?" One asked as he held up a tray of the stuff he mentioned as Pester sighed and rubbed his temples.
"Ya know what? Sure I could eat, and besides, I already have my next evil plan in the making…but first, nourishment! Wait, you talk too?"
"Well yeah we all talk you just keep forgetting we can!"
"Oh…..yes I suppose I do." Pester said as he reached into his desk and pulled out his phone and dialed a new number.
"Yes hello operator?...get me Bibster Stiffmanson! And tell him…it's time!" Pester smirked as he pulled out a folder labeled: Project: T.U.F.F.
*Elsewhere*
The smoldering half destroyed mall was still somewhat smoking, but the fire was all but put out camera zoomed it close to show the base of the massive tube Pester had brought was now dented and burnt while firefighters were still rummaging through the debris, looking for any more bodies.
"Such a waste of life." One firefighter muttered morbidly as he rummaged his hands through the charred rubble and ashes close to the destroyed tube. "What's that?" He muttered as he saw a small flash of light.
"Hmmm what's this?" He muttered as he reached down and was about to grab it, only for a skeletal hand, barely held together my sinew, to shoot up and grip his throat tightly. The firefighter gasped for air as a charred skeleton rose up from below and dug the pointed ends of its bony hand into his throat, coating it in blood as the mans struggling grew worse.
"What the Hell!" Another other firefighter said as he pointed at the skeleton currently holding his co-worker. The sinew covered skull turned to him and suddenly its empty sockets lit up with two crimson dots.
The firefighter in his grip soon stopped struggling as his body started to shrivel up and crumble to dust, leaving only his clothes and belongings. "What the hell? What the fuck?!" The second fireman picked up a fire axe and swung at the skeleton.
Only for the blade to shatter against the skull as the skeleton grabbed him by the neck and lifted him off his feet. The firefighter screamed in fear and pain as he felt his entire body being slowly and painfully drained all while the skeleton holding him appeared to be regenerating more sinew and muscle tissue.
The skeleton released the firefighters dust filled clothes and just stared at his hands as his skin soon slowly. began to reform.
"...so….this is the true power….of Pester's…ectoranium?" He muttered in a dry, gravel-like voice as he felt his face, noticing that it hadn't regenerated completely.
"...That…boy" he growled as he flashbacked to his fight with Danny and the shock at seeing him turn invisible.
"..he did this to me…he made me…into a FREAK!" he growled as he could his skin slowly reforming across his body.
"They…want a reboot?...hehe….well who am I to deny what the fans want?!" He growled as the clouds in the sky moved allowing the moon to shine down onto him revealing his partially regenerated body. His muscles glowed an eerie emerald color while his skin regrew as white as the moon itself, and his hair partially formed back, as dark as the shadows beneath him.
The half regenerated corpse began to float upwards and let out a deep menacing laugh as numerous other skeletal hands shot out from the rubble and began to glow the same eerie green color.
Oh Dear Looks like a New Villain has been born and ready to haunt Royal woods! and he's not the onl one! With Leni in critical condition and the Louds currently all angry at each other things just HAVE to get better right?...anyways Will Leni be okay? will Lincoln be able to expose Pester and what exactly is Project T.U.F.F? that Pester is planning with one Bibster stiffmanson? find out Next time! also guys We added a few easter eggs scattered throughout the chapter see if you can find them!
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