"Okay, we're live." The video feed filled with Tucker's face, he winked at the screen, before turning the camera away from himself. Sam stood in front of the camera with her hands on her hips, grey concrete walls stretched out behind her, making it unclear where they currently were.
She gave a thumbs up to the camera, glancing briefly to her right. "Right then, hello people. I'm Sam Manson and behind your view is Tucker Foley." A small wave was made in front of the camera. "You probably know us from those news reports saying we're supposed to be arrested." Two snorts were audible off screen. "Maybe that's not the best introduction, but currently we're traveling with our friend who is now the cause of a nationwide manhunt because for some reason after two years the government decided to smarten up."
Tucker laughed, "Not even that. In fact, the Guys In White were at the Fenton's house screaming for Danny to un-possess himself, because that is totally what's going on here. Apparently they didn't actually plan for a ghost's method of escape even though they were trying to arrest a ghost? I'm pretty sure those guys are kind of for show at this point."
Sam clapped her hands together, glancing off to the side again. "Now, before we can fully get into the dramatic tales of wrongful accusations of the government, the terrifying incidents of mind control, the fact that there are shapeshifters and some of them are trolls. Also, how ghosts are complex beings with societies and governments, most are completely sentient! We need to introduce the last runaway of this expedition." Tucker coughed loudly, trying to cover up his laugh.
"Now, the one I'm sure you've all been wanting to see, and ironically the most wanted person in the room. Danny Fenton aka. Danny Phantom." Sam held her arms out in presentation for a couple of seconds, when nothing happened, she groaned.
Behind the camera Tucker failed to hold back an exasperated sigh. "Danny, for the love of- that was your cue and you know it."
A mumble from off screen responded to him, "Meh, I'm busy."
"Okay that's it."
The camera turned to a raven-haired teenager sitting crisscross on the ground, completely bent over a laptop. Sam casually walked back into frame and slapped the back of his head. "Ow."
"Oh shush, I've seen you get thrown into pavement, make a crater, and immediately continuing. Honestly, we had this planned out."
"Wait, wait! I need to check something." Danny continued typing, failing to hide his increasing amusement. Angles changed as the camera was set down on something, Tucker soon appeared on the other side of Danny. He continued with both full humans watching over his shoulders curiously.
With a final dramatic click the three teenagers stared down at the laptop expectantly, silence stretched on as they stared in disbelief at its contents. Tucker started practically giggling, Sam put her hand over her mouth "Oh ancients." Tucker's laughter only grew louder and Danny, Danny slammed his head into the keyboard.
Sam put her hand on Danny's shoulder. "What were you expecting?"
He lifted his head from the laptop and threw up his hands in exasperation. "I don't know! I didn't think they'd actually do it." Danny looked up to the camera, a smile born from pure exhaustion marring his face. "Apparently I am now on America's Most Wanted list."
A loud popping noise sounded as confetti rained from the ceiling, Tucker smiled and clasped his hands together. While the two other teens stared at him with dead sleep deprived eyes. "I'm so proud of you," Tucker wiped a nonexistent tear from his eye "My little halfa, all grown up and being blamed for dozens of crimes." Sam looked ready to smite him down, Danny just groaned and put his head in his hands.
Tucker held up his hands in surrender when Sam's gaze met his, and completely changed his tone by adapting a reporter voice as he looked back at the other teen. "How do you feel about this Danny? Are you upset?"
The half-ghost lifted his head up again, any high school and college student could immediately feel themselves deeply relating to him, he looked, ironically, completely dead. Danny's mouth split into a grin as he tilted his head. "Honestly, no. I'm not upset for myself anymore, I'm upset for the other guys on the list who are probably some of the most feared people in America and the world. But here comes this teenager, just completely messing up the whole system. Unless I became a crime boss some time when I was sleepwalking?" Sam shook her head. "Okay, see, I didn't. Totally unfair to them. Besides, I knew they were going to pull something like this eventually, if they found out about my identity that is."
Sam looked just about ready to smack both boys beside her. "You're really not setting yourself in a good light here. Really you two, the entire point of this is to prove his innocence."
Danny started to gesture wildly with his hands as he spoke, "Sam no. It's not that I sympathize with the bad criminals, though I definitely don't sympathize with the government either. Let's be honest though, this entire situation is ridiculous. 'OH LORDS ABOVE! HE'S A HALF GHOST SOUND THE ALARM!' Like, listen, guys. I'm sorry I seem like such a threat, really, but I'm just a weak two-year-old ghost. There are ghosts that have passed through here centuries old, so much more powerful than me-"
Tucker, who was mimicking holding a microphone, interrupted him, "Then for the sake of the viewers, how did you beat them Danny? Besides working hard."
The young halfa placed his hands together, as if he were about to start praying, and promptly hit himself in the forehead with them. He then proceeded to get up and start rapidly pacing around. "Okay, so, I only managed to beat back some of those powerful ghosts with a lot of help from others. But then again, I know for a fact that some ghosts literally look at me and all humans and think 'Wow look at all those insects I could crush so easily.' I'm not joking! Seriously there's ghosts I've seen that are, like, millenniums old, and maybe some of them existed before any human civilizations. Some are considered gods or deities in some cultures!
"We've seen ghosts that can create and control hundreds of self-created minions and knock humans into deeper than coma sleeps. One that could have an entire city overrun with controlled plants in hours and take control of all humans in that city at once. Ancients, come on guys! Remember the one time the King of the Ghost Zone came by and dragged the entire city of Amity Park into that parallel dimension. I really should not be the concern here guys!"
Finishing his rant, Danny took a large breath, before faceplanting on the ground. Tucker, still snickering, picked up the camera again and pointed it back at the figures of Danny lying on the ground while Sam lightly kicked him in the side. The ghost teen continued mumbling angrily into the floor, "So they decide hey, instead of stopping some of the ghosts with massive power that are against humans, let's hunt down little old Danny who's actually been trying to protect humans for the past years he's been half dead."
Sam crouched beside her fallen comrade and looked down at him with sympathetically. "Well halfas are an endangered species, definitely never been officially experimented on before."
Tucker helpfully added his own thoughts, "Endangered? More like nonexistent in the first place. There's only a few of you guys, you'd definitely be very important chance for research if you were captured."
Danny lifted his head from the ground with narrowed eyes "Thanks you two, for being oh so supportive of me."
Lifting herself back upright, Sam kicked the halfa again. "Oh please, we all know the real prominent reasons the Guys In White want to capture you, besides the fact that they utterly hate you."
The half ghost finally lifted himself up off the floor "I know, I know. They may cover it up by abiding the law but that's not really the case for them."
Sam put her arm around Danny's shoulders and smiled at the camera, specifically the government personnel who would be watching. "We could carry on explaining the dozens of situations that this boy has been blamed for, but we've decided to wait."
Crossing his arms, Danny joined staring into the viewers souls. "Alright government, you say I've got major crimes to my name. Tell me, what are they? What ridiculous things led up to this? Name the crimes, and we'll clear my name. Simple as that."
Tucker jostled the camera slightly, before coughing. "Uh, speaking of the government, our own personal hunting group has arrived."
Surprising to most, the two teenagers did not appear scared by this. Sam only seemed to grow more amused, and Danny soon looked like a kid in a candy shop. The half ghost almost seemed to bounce in excitement, "Finally! We didn't even cover our location, and we're livestreaming today. Come on guys, it's been six hours since our last encounter and we're not even half an hour out of Amity Park yet." He proceeded to take off deeper into the room to gather their things.
Sam looked to Tucker behind the camera "So, after this we'll actually make an effort to hide our location for a bit of time?"
Tucker came handed the camera to Sam as he gathered up the forgotten laptop into a bag. "Yep, gotta keep them on their toes. Wait, Danny, they've only got one recording of your transformation, don't they?"
Within seconds Danny had appeared back in front of the camera, handing off duffel bags for both other teenagers to put on. He shrugged, "Oh yeah, and that transformation was from exhaustion."
"Well then," Tucker smirked "Why don't you give the viewers a show?"
The camera focused on him as Danny nervously smiled at the camera, he mumbled softly to himself, "Going ghost." White rings sprung up around his waist and spread over the rest of his form. Leaving behind a green eyed, glowing ghost.
He gave a wave to the camera "And, here's Phantom." Danny stood there awkwardly for a few seconds, before doing tiny jazz hands, and turning invisible.
The view flipped over again to see Sam and Tucker at a selfie like angle, they also gave small waves to the camera. Sam smiled, "Later children."
Tucker snapped his fingers into finger guns "Bye fam."
The ghost teen soon joined them in the visible spectrum, floating between them and holding up a peace sign. "Well I guess we've got to head out now. You know, people with guns and weapons waiting outside for us."
Conveniently, at that very moment a shout pierced the general silences from outside, something along the lines of, "Surrender Phantom!"
The trio of misfits only smiled back to the area it came from, not looking overly concerned when sounds of blaster fire filled the air. Danny looked at the screen and winked, the screen filled with an unearthly green before filling with static.
The video stopped, the viewers around the world who had been sent to this mysterious website sat in shock. Needless to say, the video was circling the world's screens within hours. Government authorities could not stop its rising popularity, and many took the short vlogging styled video as some sort of sacred text. There, of course, had yet to be any official statements regarding the entire situation besides the fact that Daniel Fenton aka. Danny Phantom and accomplices were highly wanted and were to be sent into government custody.
Many were left to make their own opinions with the information they had, as many situations call for, but let's just say the government wasn't being looked upon in the best light. In the Guys In White headquarters, higherups were scrambling around and lacing out plans, currently ignoring the calls from the greater government for information. Many were left in wait, either for another mysterious video, or something else. A sense of foreboding pressed upon everyone as they waited for what was going to happen next.
Edited 05/30/2020