#meanwhile tucker and the rest of team phantom is freaking out

[brekitten]

The Therapist

There's a new therapist at school.

Normally this wouldn't really bother Peter at all, since he's never gone to see a shrink in his life and doesn't ever plan on it, but there's something... off about this woman.

She seems unassuming enough at first glance. Red hair, green eyes, bright red lipstick. But there is something in her eyes, something that Peter can only describe as a predator looking at its next prey, when she looks around the school at all of the teenagers milling about. Heck, even the way she walks makes her seem as if she is a predator stalking her prey.

It could always be some kind of power move, Peter reasons. He's met people like that before, who try to intimidate everyone around them into thinking that they are superior, that they are the apex predator and anyone who dares to cross them would pay for it dearly.

But his Spidey Sense went crazy around her.

He tries to brush it off as paranoia. He'd pulled an all-nighter last night in the lab with Tony because neither of them had been able to sleep, and he hadn't been sleeping well even before that. (Funny, how it had all started the night after he first bumped into the new therapist in the halls.) So his Spidey Sense is probably out of wack because he's tired. Simple as that.

But it seems like everyone in the school is depressed. Even Ned, who can't even muster up the energy and enthusiasm to talk about Legos or Star Wars or even the weather. It worries Peter.

Because it all started when that therapist came to the school.

He can't ignore it forever, he knows that. There is only so long his Spidey Sense can tell him that she is danger danger danger before he finally listens. He has to do something to help everyone.

So he researches.

And he falls into the rabbit hole of ghosts and ectoplasm and secret government organizations and the little, unassuming town of Amity Park, Illinois.

He doesn't sleep that night.

When he comes to school the next morning, Dr. Penelope Spectra looks him dead in the eyes, and smiles.

[new-revenant]

Danny makes some little animal stick figure desktop pets, with Tucker's help, mainly to help with homework, act as autocorrect, and serve as something cute. He notices after a few weeks that they can interact with different things in different ways (think of the stick figures from animation vs animator) and is impressed. He decides to bring the six with him in his phone on a class field trip to Gotham and excitedly shows Sam and Tucker the evolved code. While there and walking around the sticks were just messing around in Danny's phone when they manage to accidentally air drop themselves into Tim Drake's laptop. Tim somehow doesn't notice until he's back at the cave and connects his computer to the bat computer and accidentally uploads the desktop pets to it, Danny at this point also realized his desktop pets were gone. At this point Danny and Tim are both low-key freaking out for different yet similar reasons.

omg they accidentally created a computer virus! And it’s probably a ghostly one too all things considered. Maybe it’s just some blob ghosts that infected the code, or Technus. Team Phantom might be blaming Technius at first haha.

And Tim is going to suffer, this I swear. Why are these weird, stick figure things messing the Batcomputer? He tries to fix everything and delete the little animals before anyone else shows up…but an 1 hour later, when Batman calls everybody to the Batcave, they find Tim is now a sobbing mess, whining about how the Batcomputer got hacked by stupid stick figures. Who hear that of course and decide to blast music right into his ears. The rest of the Batman try-and fail-to fix it. It definitely isn’t a normal virus, and could be something magical, but they aren’t too sure. Meanwhile, Team Phantom has been trying to figure out where Tim lives. Now Danny, as Phantom, is floating around Wayne Manor. He really hopes they don’t sue him after this.

[pinkroboticunicorn]

Danny Phantom and the Dynamite Punch Girls.

Chapter three: Break in.

Sam Madson and Tucker Foley stood there in shock and awe as the whole wall to the GIW's HQ was blasted open on the first floor, leaving chunks of rubble on the ground.

The carnage was thanks to Ash Silver the half dragon Princess who ripped a hole with her giant claws allowing Tucker Foley, Sam Manson, and the rest of the heroes to enter, and enter they did.

Ace Diamond was fast and quickly taking out guards with his super speed, running around taking on the guards with ease, of course Charlotte Baron the Wizard was busily casting spells to keep the guards at bay while holding her dear precious book to her chest, and finally Ash Silver created a path towards the elevator using her fire breath.

“What is going on here!?” Agent Wolf questioned.

“You! Operative! Explain!” Agent Alpha ordered.

“Sir! We were just attacked by some super powered individuals!” Operative K said.

“Sir! They're making their way to the laboratory!” Operative O said.

“I see. Agent Orchid did warn us about this happening, I just didn't think it would happen so soon.” Agent Alpha said with a slightly raised brow.

“It's obvious that these people are under ghostly possession! We need to neutralize them and help them!” Operative O suggested.

“Agreed! Get those freaks under control!” Agent Alpha commanded.

Meanwhile Agent Wolf was on the phone and in contact with Agent Orchid.

“They're here, boss.” Agent Wolf said secretly.

“Of course they're here! I predicted that they'd follow us! Ha Ha Ha, thankfully she's not far behind, bring her in for me won't you? Separate her from the others, especially her little tight knit team.” Agent Orchid ordered over the phone. 

“Yes madam, as you command!” Agent Wolf said with a bow.

Meanwhile....

Sam and Tucker were trying to get through the fighting, and towards the elevator, there they could find the floor Danny is on and rescue him, easy plan if only they actually knew which floor he's on, too bad Sam or Tucker doesn't have any weird mind powers.

“Looks like you're stuck.” Teddy Casper said as she approached them.

Sam and Tucker looked at Teddy rather strangely. 

“Who are you? And who are your friends?” Sam asked.

“Well firstly my name is Teddy Casper, secondly we are the Dynamite Punch Girls! But not Ash Silver, Ace Diamond, and Charlotte Baron, they're a part of a different group that happened to follow us.” Teddy explained. 

“Alright. Dynamite Punch Girls, uh nice name? Anyway, we're on a mission.” Tucker exclaimed.

“Yeah, and we thank you for the distraction, but we're definitely gonna grab our friend on our own.” Sam said.

“You're not gonna face against Lady Orchid on your own, are you?” Teddy questioned with a worried tone of voice.

“Lady Orchid?” Sam and Tucker questioned.

“I'll explain once we get into the elevator.” Teddy said.

Immediately Teddy Casper began to lead them to the elevator, it was quite the trip as they shoved past GIW Members who were still fighting with Ace, Ash, and Charlotte, following behind Teddy, Sam, and Tucker were Leo Plasma and Blake XJ who kept the Operatives off of them, Blake used her ice breath to fend them off, and Leo used their electricity to shock them away.

It was a long lasting effort but the five of them finally made it to the Elevator, and down they went into the lion's den.

“Wait! How do you know where to go?” Tucker asked.

“We put a tracking device on Lady Orchid, why?” Teddy asked.

“Who is that anyway?” Tucker questioned. 

“And who are you?” Sam questioned. 

“Well, I'm Teddy Casper, the ghost.” Teddy introduced herself.

“I'm Leo Plasma, the superhuman.” Leo said. 

“And I'm Blake XJ! The robot!” Blake smiled. 

“We're the Dynamite Punch Girls.” Teddy explained.

“That's cool, so you're like a team of superheroes?” Tucker asked.

“Yep. And we're from another Dimension, the other three outside fighting aren't with our group, but they came with us to fight Lady Orchid.” Teddy explained.

“You keep talking about this mysterious and strange Lady Orchid, like she's dangerous or something.” Sam said.

“She is dangerous.” Leo responded. 

“Lady Orchid always had an unhealthy fascination with ghosts, it turned from general interest to obsession in just a few weeks, it was to a point that she wanted to have ghost powers, but short of just death in general it just wasn’t going to happen, then... one day she met a ghostly individual who had all the answers she seeked.” Teddy explained.

“Really? Who?” Sam asked.

“Me! You see I’m technically a ghost, an artificial ghost, I was made in a lab using ectoplasm, ect-energy, human DNA to tie me to a human body, and D-17.” Teddy explained.

“So you’re half a ghost?” Tucker asked.

“Well... it’s a lot more complicated than that, I’d say a human with ghost powers.” Teddy said.

“So basically half of a ghost.” Sam said.

“...... I mean....” Teddy sputtered.

“Yeah, Teddy is half ghost, the other option is way too complicated anyway...” Leo sighed.

“Yeah whatever!” Teddy said.

“So what happened when you met Lady Orchid?” Tucker asked.

“Bad things!” Teddy responded with a frown.

“Lady Orchid took Teddy and tried to experiment on her, tried to find the SOURCE of her powers, she was relentless with her experiments, it took some time to find Teddy, but when we did, we kicked Lady Orchid’s butt!” Leo explained.

“It was absolutely crazy! She tried to dissect Teddy! But it didn’t work cause ghost powers, but she had special tools to keep Teddy in her grasp, then when we bust in to save her, all chaos broke loose and she tried to fight us! And just as she was losing she opened a portal to somewhere and escaped! She said something about meeting her NEW friends on the other side, we didn’t know what she meant until we saw her capture that ghost boy and fly off with a smug smile on her face!” Blake explained.

“Yeah, exactly that.” Leo said.

“So... basically what you’re telling me is... Lady Orchid is going to try to do the same thing to Danny!?” Sam questioned.

“Yep! Pretty much!” Teddy nodded.

“Not if we stop her first!” Leo said.

“She’s too dangerous to face off with alone, so on our signal we’ll distract her while you get your friend.” Blake said.

“Agreed.” Sam said.

[pinkroboticunicorn-creative-work]

Danny Phantom and the Dynamite Punch Girls.

Chapter three: Break in.

Sam Madson and Tucker Foley stood there in shock and awe as the whole wall to the GIW's HQ was blasted open on the first floor, leaving chunks of rubble on the ground.

The carnage was thanks to Ash Silver the half dragon Princess who ripped a hole with her giant claws allowing Tucker Foley, Sam Manson, and the rest of the heroes to enter, and enter they did.

Ace Diamond was fast and quickly taking out guards with his super speed, running around taking on the guards with ease, of course Charlotte Baron the Wizard was busily casting spells to keep the guards at bay while holding her dear precious book to her chest, and finally Ash Silver created a path towards the elevator using her fire breath.

“What is going on here!?” Agent Wolf questioned.

“You! Operative! Explain!” Agent Alpha ordered.

“Sir! We were just attacked by some super powered individuals!” Operative K said.

“Sir! They're making their way to the laboratory!” Operative O said.

“I see. Agent Orchid did warn us about this happening, I just didn't think it would happen so soon.” Agent Alpha said with a slightly raised brow.

“It's obvious that these people are under ghostly possession! We need to neutralize them and help them!” Operative O suggested.

“Agreed! Get those freaks under control!” Agent Alpha commanded.

Meanwhile Agent Wolf was on the phone and in contact with Agent Orchid.

“They're here, boss.” Agent Wolf said secretly.

“Of course they're here! I predicted that they'd follow us! Ha Ha Ha, thankfully she's not far behind, bring her in for me won't you? Separate her from the others, especially her little tight knit team.” Agent Orchid ordered over the phone. 

“Yes madam, as you command!” Agent Wolf said with a bow.

Meanwhile....

Sam and Tucker were trying to get through the fighting, and towards the elevator, there they could find the floor Danny is on and rescue him, easy plan if only they actually knew which floor he's on, too bad Sam or Tucker doesn't have any weird mind powers.

“Looks like you're stuck.” Teddy Casper said as she approached them.

Sam and Tucker looked at Teddy rather strangely. 

“Who are you? And who are your friends?” Sam asked.

“Well firstly my name is Teddy Casper, secondly we are the Dynamite Punch Girls! But not Ash Silver, Ace Diamond, and Charlotte Baron, they're a part of a different group that happened to follow us.” Teddy explained. 

“Alright. Dynamite Punch Girls, uh nice name? Anyway, we're on a mission.” Tucker exclaimed.

“Yeah, and we thank you for the distraction, but we're definitely gonna grab our friend on our own.” Sam said.

“You're not gonna face against Lady Orchid on your own, are you?” Teddy questioned with a worried tone of voice.

“Lady Orchid?” Sam and Tucker questioned.

“I'll explain once we get into the elevator.” Teddy said.

Immediately Teddy Casper began to lead them to the elevator, it was quite the trip as they shoved past GIW Members who were still fighting with Ace, Ash, and Charlotte, following behind Teddy, Sam, and Tucker were Leo Plasma and Blake XJ who kept the Operatives off of them, Blake used her ice breath to fend them off, and Leo used their electricity to shock them away.

It was a long lasting effort but the five of them finally made it to the Elevator, and down they went into the lion's den.

“Wait! How do you know where to go?” Tucker asked.

“We put a tracking device on Lady Orchid, why?” Teddy asked.

“Who is that anyway?” Tucker questioned. 

“And who are you?” Sam questioned. 

“Well, I'm Teddy Casper, the ghost.” Teddy introduced herself.

“I'm Leo Plasma, the superhuman.” Leo said. 

“And I'm Blake XJ! The robot!” Blake smiled. 

“We're the Dynamite Punch Girls.” Teddy explained.

“That's cool, so you're like a team of superheroes?” Tucker asked.

“Yep. And we're from another Dimension, the other three outside fighting aren't with our group, but they came with us to fight Lady Orchid.” Teddy explained.

“You keep talking about this mysterious and strange Lady Orchid, like she's dangerous or something.” Sam said.

“She is dangerous.” Leo responded. 

“Lady Orchid always had an unhealthy fascination with ghosts, it turned from general interest to obsession in just a few weeks, it was to a point that she wanted to have ghost powers, but short of just death in general it just wasn’t going to happen, then... one day she met a ghostly individual who had all the answers she seeked.” Teddy explained.

“Really? Who?” Sam asked.

“Me! You see I’m technically a ghost, an artificial ghost, I was made in a lab using ectoplasm, ect-energy, human DNA to tie me to a human body, and D-17.” Teddy explained.

“So you’re half a ghost?” Tucker asked.

“Well... it’s a lot more complicated than that, I’d say a human with ghost powers.” Teddy said.

“So basically half of a ghost.” Sam said.

“...... I mean....” Teddy sputtered.

“Yeah, Teddy is half ghost, the other option is way too complicated anyway...” Leo sighed.

“Yeah whatever!” Teddy said.

“So what happened when you met Lady Orchid?” Tucker asked.

“Bad things!” Teddy responded with a frown.

“Lady Orchid took Teddy and tried to experiment on her, tried to find the SOURCE of her powers, she was relentless with her experiments, it took some time to find Teddy, but when we did, we kicked Lady Orchid’s butt!” Leo explained.

“It was absolutely crazy! She tried to dissect Teddy! But it didn’t work cause ghost powers, but she had special tools to keep Teddy in her grasp, then when we bust in to save her, all chaos broke loose and she tried to fight us! And just as she was losing she opened a portal to somewhere and escaped! She said something about meeting her NEW friends on the other side, we didn’t know what she meant until we saw her capture that ghost boy and fly off with a smug smile on her face!” Blake explained.

“Yeah, exactly that.” Leo said.

“So... basically what you’re telling me is... Lady Orchid is going to try to do the same thing to Danny!?” Sam questioned.

“Yep! Pretty much!” Teddy nodded.

“Not if we stop her first!” Leo said.

“She’s too dangerous to face off with alone, so on our signal we’ll distract her while you get your friend.” Blake said.

“Agreed.” Sam said.

[phantomphangphucker]

Ectober Day 2 - Homecoming - We Welcome Back The Lords Of Chaos

Danny, Sam, Tucker and Valerie - lovingly known as the defect quartet - may have been held back one year but there’s no way they aren’t starting off their last year with dramatic bullshit. Because, honestly, they're tired of wearing masks and the lies. Besides, they’ve all moved to the Ghost Realm anyway, so what does it matter.

Danny lounges across the arms of a high backed chair, lazily swirling a half-filled wine glass of ectoplasm. Sighing up at Sams’ bedroom ceiling, “so we’re really doing this huh?”.

Tucker huffs from where he’s sprawled out on the floor, “might as well dude. It’s our last year to really throw Casper High through a loop”.

“And sources say, all the fuckers we should have graduated with last year will be there”.

Danny tilts his head down to look at Valerie, who’s repairing an ecto-blaster, chuckling at her, “is that your way of saying you spied on everyone?”.

Valerie just smirks making the halfa laugh, as Sam comes in the room. Everyone looks to her and takes in the deep red and orange knee-length dress made of felt leaves, dark purple under-bust corset; the arm sleeves long flowing sheer black and decorated in gold filigree. Black hair short and spiked, with leaves sticking out in places; her ever-present combat boots on, grapevines for shoelaces.

All three make a point of whistling.

Valerie kicks Tucker, “your turn to get dressed up, techno geek”.

Tucker grunts, “ladies first”. While Danny laughs, “Tuck fuck, you’re the one who’s going to enjoy this most. Parading around your royal ass for chics to fawn at”. Making Tucker groan as he rolls over and pushes to get up, “y’all are never going to let me live down that shit are you”.

“Nope”.

“Not a chance”.

“Wouldn’t think of it”.

Tucker just flips them off as he leaves the room.

Danny downs the rest of his glass and flips in the chair to be sprawled out on his stomach; chin up on the armrest and feet touching the floor. Blowing cold air at Valerie who sends him a dirty look as he speaks, “you’re not gonna take long are ya?”.

“I’m a girl”.

“But you’re well, you”.

“Asshole”, Valerie smacks him over the head with the butt of her gun, “but no, unlike you lot I’m not going all ghost royal to freaking homecoming”.

Sam rolls her eyes as she does her make up, “wait for prom, this is just basic lazy day royal garb”.

Tucker comes back in seconds later, a white intricately pleated kilt with gold trim and belt. Simple chain mail t-shirt and white robe, tied closed loosely with a silk rope. Topped off with a large bronze necklace etched with snakes and jackals, and wearing no less than fifteen gold, silver, and iron bracelets and rings; embedded with gemstones.

Danny, raising an eyebrow, “fucking speeding dressing? Is that a challenge?”.

“Dude no”, Tucker continuing to speak as he puts on a pair of sandals, “you can make your clothing appear instantly and out of thin air. Meanwhile, I simply calculated the highest rate off efficiency based on my clothing and accessories. You know, a real skill”.

Valerie snorts as she stands, tossing the ecto-gun on the bed, “I don’t know Tucker, creation and teleportation of damn ghost clothing sounds like a far superior skill. And less geeky”. Tucker makes a show of looking offended before pulling out black eyeliner and green eyeshadow; joining Sam at her vanity.

Danny flings over the chair, standing up as Valerie leaves to get dressed. Danny walks over to the vanity and squeezes his two friends' shoulders, “we are going to freak everyone out, now hand me an eye darkness stick”.

Sam snorts, handing Danny an eyeliner pencil, “drama queen”.

“King actually”.

Sam just rolls her eyes while Tucker points at her, “he’s right though. No one will be surprised by you, miss ooky spooky, but the rest of us? Just chaos”.

Danny snickers as he leans over them, pulling down at his eyelid as he lines his eyes, “poor Mr. Lancer’s going to have a never-ending stream of heart attacks this year and we’re starting it off today with a showy flashy bang. I’m surprised we even got Val to go along. The quartet’s truly complete”.

Sam smirks as she finishes off her lips with a metallic purple, gold shimmer layered over top, “I just want to see Paulina’s face. She couldn’t even afford Tucker’s outfit”.

“Isn’t she, like, a small-time model now or something?”.

“Yeah dude, for cars I think? Course she only stuck around Amity for your ghostly spandex covered ass”.

Valerie leans on the doorway after reentering, “well it is a great ass”.

Danny slaps his ass and winks exaggeratedly, “you mean it’s deadass drop-dead gorgeous”. While Sam and Tucker both turn their heads to take Valerie in, being the only one who isn’t some kind of ghost royalty. Knight was close enough to garner looking fancy as shit though. Having been knighted by all three of them.

Red titanium breastplate, waist plate, shin plates, and forearm plates; breastplate etched with black images of battling hellhounds, the rest etched with blood blossoms. Over top of a sheer black near floor-length pleated sleeveless dress, a dark cherry red silk knee-length long-sleeved pencil dress underneath that. Long curly hair pulled into a low ponytail and laying forward over her shoulder. Simple black titanium band rings on every finger and black dress shoes.

Danny makes a show of swooning as he hands her make up bag over. Which she uses to bop Danny on the nose with, as he leaves to change.

Shaking her head as she trades seats with Sam, who goes to sit on her bed and paint her nails black. Valerie only somewhat seriously asking, “so just how excessive is he going to look?”.

Sam chuckles, not even looking up, “good luck getting him to not wear a velvet cape”.

“My god what have I signed up for”.

Tucker snorts, “generalised suffering and ringing in the year of mischief”.

Danny dramatically swishes the vines covering the doorway out of the way, near shouting, “more like singing in the mighty reign of the defect quartet! Humanities rejects!”.

Valerie points towards his voice, “hey now, I still live in the Mortal Realm...mostly. I haven’t totally defected from normal human soci-”, cutting herself off as she turns around and gapes.

Danny’s standing there in a Superman pose, floor-length black crushed velvet cape with white plush lining; clasped together by two large green skulls, images of flames etched in pale green, and connected by a loosely hanging large blackened silver chain. Over top of a silk dark purple surcoat with black satin swirling embroidery, black leather double belt decorated with black spikes, and long-sleeved fine silver chainmail under it all. Black clawed titanium gauntlets and segmented knee-high boots of the same metal; both embedded with emeralds, rubies and onyx stones, at every joint and the cuffs. The whole ensemble finished off with a black leather choker, a green skull centrepiece with a large black obsidian ring hanging from its mouth.

Sam and Tucker start laughing at Valerie’s still gaping facial expression, while Danny slumps exaggeratedly, “What? Too much?”.

Tucker laughs hard, thankful his make up is already set, “dude! We’re going for street royal! Not ‘we’re going to the opera house’!”.

Danny sticks his arms out to the side slightly and looks down, “this is street royal”, plucking at the cape collar, “this cape is barely one step up from civvies”. Making Valerie finally lose it and start laughing her ass off. Wheezing, “you! You’ve been! Been here too long!”.

Tucker points at Danny’s shoes, “at least go for low top shoes and wrist-length gloves”.

Danny rolls his eyes and alters their length, before sticking in decent sized emerald earrings and giving himself black leggings, “happy?”.

Valerie shakes her head with a smile, “this school year is going to be a mess”.

Danny smirks, “perfect then. They have the audacity to hold these royal and knightly asses back a year then they deserve it. Plus”, pointing at everyone in turn, “how has no one figured shit out yet. Like this is getting sad, and it’s not like any one of us actually need the acceptance or even tolerance of the mortal world”.

Everyone sighs, “would still like it though”, before shrugging, “screw the lot of ‘em otherwise though”.  

Tucker points at Danny, “really says a lot when even Mr. ‘Oh-Ancients-what-if-they-don't-accept-me?’ no longer gives a damn”.

Danny shrugs, “kind of hard to care when my folks and your folks, and maybe Val’s, are the only ones I’ll ever really be seeing again. And they’ve all accepted our crazy bullshit”.

Sam groans as she sticks her nails in Danny’s face for him to freeze-dry, “and lucky me, I get to be the odd one out in the acceptance train. But hey, it’s not like I ever actually cared. Not to mention Nana Ida is leaving the four of us everything”.

Valerie coughs, nearly messing up her dark grey lipstick, “wait, I’m included now?”.

Sam rolls her eyes, “duh. All of team Phantom is and you’ve officially joined the chaos”.

Danny smirks as he flops back down in the chair, “there’s no way out and nothing but dead ends. But rejoice! For death is only the beginning”.

Valerie squints at him as she finishes, “that's way more ominous than you think it is”. While Tucker gets up and rummages through Danny’s bag, lifting up their assorted headgear. Tossing it to each of them and smirking at Danny’s ‘simple’ three-peaked green crown covered in obsidian stones, “well at least this one doesn’t float, or burst into flames, or give off mist, or give off the horrifying wails and moans of the dead”.

“I’d like to actually be able to hear the music, Tuck”.

Danny adjusts his ‘small’ crown and admires everyone else. Sam in her silver elven like crown wrapped in ivy vines and leaves. Tucker’s golden band of coiling snakes and rubies. Valerie with a blackened silver headband with titanium black ram horns, green skull wrapped in vines with a snake winding through its eyes at the centre. Nodding curtly, “alright, y’all ready to go freak all our former and current classmates out?”. All three of them give devilish grins so Danny continues, “well then, it’ll be a pleasure doing this song and dance with you all”, nodding at Sam, “Botany Lordess NightShade”, nodding at Tucker, “Ranatheo Pharaoh T Duulaman”, nodding at Valerie, “High Dread Knight Rufescent”.

The three of them nod back, “Phantom, High Ghost King”. Before everyone bursts out into laughs as they hop into Sam’s pumpkin carriage drawn by three black horses with flaming manes. Deciding to save Danny’s skeleton procession and fanciful Litter, as their ride for prom.

They all agreed to arrive fashionably late, since being tardy was something all of them were well known for. So it seems no surprise to them that things have already gotten started by the time they get there. Danny’s the first to hop out and holds the carriage door for everyone else. A dude smoking outside going bug-eyed at them and coughing, though the quartet completely ignores him.

Tucker, snickering at Danny, “dude, you’re the highest royal of us all. The fuck you doing?”.

Danny smirks, “gotta take care of my underlings Tuck. And y’all are mortals after all”. All three of them flip him off before the defect quartet head inside sneakily; all of them seriously wondering how long it will take for anyone to notice them.

Valerie makes her way over to the food stand, which honestly seemed like a dumb idea to have in the same room as a high school dance. Munching on some cheesy snacks, there really wasn’t a Ghost Realm equivalent to this level of greasiness and synthetic cheese, when someone taps on her shoulder. Turning around to see Star with some curly-haired brunette. Star speaking with shock, “oh! Valerie?!?”. Valerie just waits and smirks into her drink as Star opens and closes her mouth before speaking, “why? How? Armour?”.

Valerie laughs, takes a sip of her drink and eats a few more cheesy snacks before responding, “yup, it’s the last year and none of you noticed just how weird we were. So we decided fuck it, let’s really be straight strange. And the armour is a status thing, Star. Kind of came with the whole getting knighted thing”.

The brunette speaking up while Star just stares, “you know, I heard there were some unusual people in this town but, uh, this is a bit above and beyond”.

Danny laughs from behind the two girls, “you really have no idea Brittney. There’s no place stranger”, making both girls jump.

But Star quickly collects herself, recognising Danny’s deep and rather unique voice before turning around and stopping. Rubbing at her eyes as Danny and Valerie laugh. Brittney nearly whispers, “how do you know my name?”.

Danny smirks and shrugs loosely, cape bunching up. While Valerie speaks, “oh don’t mind that. Danny knows everyone’s names”.

Star looks back to Valerie while pointing at Danny, “okay...What is going on here? Those are, that is a lot of precious gems”.

Danny waves her off, “these are my less decorated clothing. Probably the most dressed-down I’ve been in a solid month”, chuckling, “ah the joys of being royalty”.

Star chokes and it looks like they’ve finally started to get other people’s attention. Multiple girls are poking at Tucker’s finery, Sam looks to be arguing with some popular girls who took Paulina’s place after she graduated. Dash, Kwan and Dale slowly walking over while eyeballing Danny. “The Hell Fentit?”.

While Sam slips over, escaping the clutches of the younger A-Listers, “hey now, is that any way to talk to your future king”.

Dash scoffs, “Fenturd is no one’s king. What are you four pulling?”.

Danny laughs and pats Dash’s head, Dash goes to whack it away but goes through Danny’s intangible arm. Making Danny laugh even harder, smirking down at the stunned Dash, “I’m everyones king in death Dash. Well, if you become a ghost that is”.

Dale squeaks, “you’re a ghost!”.

Tucker tosses his arm around Danny as the two laugh, the jocks and girls changing to glaring at Tucker. Dash muttering, “what the hell”.  

Tucker chuckles, “naw he ain’t flat out dead. None of us are. Ghost royals all the same though”, plucking at his gold bracelets, “comes with plenty of positives I’d say”, before flicking sand at Danny, who flicks snow back.

Sam glares and shoves her head in between the two boys, “how dare you leave me out”.

Danny points at her as she flicks leaves at them, Danny speaking with a shit-eating grin, “we’d never leaf you out”.

Star slowly looks back to Valerie, “when the heck did you all acquire powers and what’s up with the king thing?”.

Valerie chuckles as Star and Brittney join her in leaning against the food tables, Valerie replying, “like I said no one noticing was getting annoying so we’re not even bothering to hide it anymore”.

Danny sticks his head close and smiles, “if you recall, there was a point in time where the trio went from just the losers three to the weirdo trio. Quite a time that was. Ghosts popping up all of the sudden. The mad man king of ghosts stealing our town into another dimension only to be defeated and dethroned. Only for a certain someone to find out they were the rightful heir to said throne”.

Tucker joins in, “dude yeah, crazy shit. And then the school goes on weird field trips only for another certain someone to find their look-alike in an ancient museum while some crazy evil ghost awakens. And then of course, as things always happen, turns out that look-alike is the rebirth of the ancient ghost pharaoh and thus heir to the throne”.

Sam smirks, “and who could forget the time this dumb town decided to destroy all the plant life only for some crazy powerful ghost lord of plants to turn everyone into mindless zombies and fertiliser. Only for said ghosts to pick a certain someone as their queen and mother to all plants. Before, obviously, getting defeated”.

Valerie shrugs and smirks at Star, “and then what certain someone turns out to be a freakishly skilled fighter and ghost hunter, and friends with the aforementioned certain someone’s. A certain someone who only needed to share their secrets to unlock the door to knighthood”.

All four grin while everyone around just gapes at them, everyone in the room having gone silent shortly after Danny had started speaking.

Dash blinks before blurting out, “that’s bullshit”.

Danny rolls his eyes and snickers, “is that the ‘how dare you do better in life than me’ kind of ‘that’s bullshit’ or the ‘you are lying’ kind of ‘that’s bullshit’?”.

Dash glares at him and crosses his arms, “the second Fentoad. You four are weird but that’s it”.

The four exchange glances and snicker.

Star shakes her head and puts on a smile, “well whatever, you’re all here so things can actually start now”.

Valerie raises an eyebrow while Danny asks, “wait what?”.

Star nods to someone and suddenly a banner drops down reading ‘Respect, Protect And Never Forget. The Defect Quartet!’, and the music starts up in genuine, playing weird intense songs that are decidedly not normally played at any dances. Balloons and streamers start going off all over the place; most people breaking out into erratic dance, everything from the monster mash to the creep. One person appears to be doing a mash-up of the chicken dance and cotton eye joe. Anyone not dancing wildly in the whirlwind of streamers and flashing lights is leaning against the gymnasium walls watching the chaos.

Danny makes a show of looking like he’s about to faint, “they love us, they really really love us! Catch me”, before going to fall over.

All three others speaking in unison, “no”, as Danny just collapses on the floor.

Sam points at Dash who just finished doing the wiggle, “don’t you jerks hate us?”.

Dash shrugs, “Danny’s the only one I could pummel that would still stand up to me. Not to mention he never seemed to actually get injured”.

Danny blinks and tilts his head, still laying on the ground, “you actually noticed that?”, laughing, “sweet Ancients someone did actually notice something!”.

A couple of people who were just standing around come up, “plus you four are basically a staple of the school and town”.

“Your bullshit is Amity Parks hazing ritual”.

“You’re our mascots”.

Danny flings himself up and yanks the other three in for a tight hug, “guess we have to frequently visit our mortal lair now! Haha! The mortals have accepted their fate!”, before dragging them all onto the dance floor and all four of them break into weird ghost dances. The most ridiculous or over the top ones they can think of.

Danny’s bouncing around on his palms, cape dragging all over the floor and surcoat folding over his face. Sam is stomping and swaying her hands through the air like she walking through vines and pretending to have a seizure. Tucker looks to be doing a version of the robot that involves swords, bracelets jangling loudly. Valerie looks like she’s fencing while doing ballet, occasionally clanging on her breastplate for the sound effect.

The four bursting into an erratic mock fight as Freaks by Timmy Trumpet comes on. People laughing and eventually joining in. Danny notes that even Mr. Lancer, Mr. Lewis, Mrs, Testlauf and Ms. Trent seem to join in.

Danny shimmies his way over to Mr. Lancer, who’s now panting, elbowing the teacher who’s now shorter than him, “thought y’all would get back at us by making things as weird as possible huh? Try to shock us for a change?”.

Mr. Lancer waves him off, “as some would say, ringing in the new year and your last one”, standing up fully, “and yet you all still managed to startle everyone. What even is this Daniel?”.

Danny laughs exaggeratedly, “y’all only have the tip of the iceberg on our oddness. Literally in my case”, Danny swishes his cape out, snow falling out of it, as Danny goes back to the dance floor,

While Mr. Lancer is extremely confused, and then startled by Valerie coming up from behind and stomping her feet; making a show of standing ridged before bending over in laughter. Patting Mr. Lancer’s shoulder as she stands, “Mr. Lancer, you really should have expected us, especially Danny, to pull some shit. Out weirding him is honestly impossible. But hey, that’s the High King of Ghosts for you”.

Mr. Lancer coughs, “what?”, while Valerie winks and walks off. Mr. Lancer looks around, Samantha’s lifting a teacup made out of a leaf with a vine, Tucker seems to have a magically appearing red carpet of bandaging appearing in front of his feet and Mr. Lancer’s pretty sure he sees brown snakes winding around him in places, Valerie seems to be showing off a green and red board sword - where did that even come from? - to Mia, and Daniel is seemingly hopping around and changing the colour of the floor every time he lands. Mr. Lancer is officially both in awe and fear of what this year is going to be like. Watching as the Defect Quartet, which he honestly thought was a pretty insulting name for the group, all collapse in a heap on the ground; Daniel throwing his cape over the other three dramatically like a large blanket, while the music quietens down.

Star and Kwan, the previous years' homecoming queen and king, take the stage. Star grabbing the mic, “okay now that we’ve had a chance to adjust to the strange and bizarre again. It’s time for this years homecoming king and queen!”.

Star waits for the cheering to stop, though some are booing too, expected honestly. Clapping her hands, “so the votes were cast by everyone as they entered, meaning!”, Kwan holds up two envelopes that Star points at, “we don’t even have to wait!”.

People cheer and hold up cups while Star opens a pink one and Kwan opens a blue one. Meanwhile, Sam mutters about gender roles, stereotypes and colours.

Star smiling down at the paper and lifting up her head, “the homecoming queen is...Valerie Gray!”.

Valerie sticks her arms out to the side speaking as people cheer, “the fuck? I’m only here, like, half the classes?!?”.  

Jesse elbows her above the metal, “but you have literally saved people's lives and not to mention basically taught everyone how to work ectoweapons”.  

While Kwan leans into the mic, grinning like an idiot, “and the homecoming king is...Danny Fenton”.

Sam, Tucker and Valerie slowly look to Danny with expressions of mock horror, while people cheer. Danny blinks once, twice, three times before going stiff and pitching sideways, laughing and shouting, “you poor innocent fools!”.

Valerie sighs and grabs Danny’s arm, pushing up his cape to do so, and drags him with her towards the stage. Danny points behind him at Sam and Tucker, “chant as we rise”.

Sam and Tucker shrug and start stomping their feet, “before the armies, start the chaos. ‘Cause these boring skies will be no more”.  

Dash snorts at Dale, “they are really going all-in on this act, aren’t they? Kind of makes me miss Highschool”.

“It’s only been a couple of months dude”.

While Danny bends forward to let Kwan awkwardly put the puffy homecoming king ‘crown’ over Danny’s actual crown. Valerie doing the same as Star tries to situate the tiara in between the horns. Star muttering at her, “this is absurd”. Making Valerie and Danny smirk.

Star and Kwan step to the side and bow at the crowd while Danny does silly hand waving; Valerie being more normal about it even if light is bouncing off her armour.

Star and Kwan hop down off the stage as Valerie grabs the mic and points at Danny, “the Zone were you all thinking putting him up here?”.

Multiple people shout at them about how they basically defined the town and school, were a vital part of the atmosphere and culture. And that Danny was basically the epicentre of it all.

Danny laughs and leans over the mic, looking at Valerie, “face it Val, I’m the perfect collection of blood, guts and other assorted candy store viscera”, before turning to the crowd, “Imma tell y’all a story. ‘Cause unholy guacamole, you have no clue”.

Valerie looks at him and snorts, “origin story time?”.

Danny just smirks before speaking, “you see, it was many years ago. Before you or I, but not really ‘cause I was here and so were most of you. I decided this reality wasn’t for me, space was always my shit. Hence why I get called space boy so much. Anyway, so I tried to aim for a better world. And then what happened? I accidentally opened a hole into the realm of the dead! And you know what I did? What I goddamn did? Waltzed in and screamed ‘Honey! I’m home!’”, clapping his hands before pointing them out at everyone, “and now I’m here with you fucks again, in a town known for its ghostliness. Which I am absolutely the epicentre, or whatever, for. So y’all want atmosphere, I’ll give ya atmosphere”, snapping his fingers making green mist appear in the air, “this year is going to be a dissection of weird for all to see!”, Danny leans against the podium, posture instantly becoming more serious, well sort of serious anyway, “but really, the lot of us genuinely debated whether to even stick ‘round Amity”, Danny laughs as multiple people gasp and some shout “no!” and “never leave us!”, most people just going along with the quartets dramatics at this point. Danny smirks as he continues, “this silly mortal plain can barely handle us, we are in league with the dead after all. But fuck it, this town’s dead enough for our asses and y’all clearly accept our shit”. Resulting in a bunch of cheering, even if most people are incredibly confused.

While Danny nods at Valerie to speak, letting her step up to the podium with a dramatic bow. Valerie chuckles and smiles at him before turning to the crowd, “so obviously I’m the least odd of the quartet. I’m also the only one that isn’t straight up accidental ghostly royalty”, Valerie shrugs, “up to you whether you believe any of us about our bullshit. But just keep in mind, we have been ‘away from town’ all summer. Take a good guess as to where. Anyway, let’s have a wild year and remember”, Valerie leans forward almost menacingly, metal wrist guards clanging on the podium, “this is your final chance to take us down”.

Danny throws his arm around Valerie, “and you call me ominous!”, turning to the crowd, “is our lives nothing but strange or just hard to believe? Question our behaviour but it’s never what you guess. So just let go of what you don’t know. You laugh at us and you laugh with us. But we can be anything you don’t want anyone to be”, snorting and laughing, “because we are humanities defects!”.

Valerie pushes him off the stage and grabs the mic, “he’s a drama queen, obviously”.

While multiple people whisper about how it seemed like the quartet are the ones who came up with their name, which honestly tracks.

Danny shouts from the ground, “KING!”, before springing up and adjusting the fake crown over top of his real one and smiling wide at everyone, “best boil my blood and gouge my eyes, for I’ll never learn to hold my tongue”.

Valerie shakes her head as she hops down from the stage, going with Danny for a dance, “you ominous bastard”.

Danny laughs as he takes her hand in his, “ah sweet sweet normalcy”.

While Tucker and Sam dance, snakes and vines weaving in a dance as well.

Mr. Lewis watches from the sidelines over the rim of a paper coffee cup, “you know, I thought aliens were the weirdest shit I was ever going to see”, shrugging, “but hey, at least no ones tried to kill me yet”.

While the defect quartet roamed the dance, confusing every person they talked to or stood next to or so much as looked at.  

End.

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Danny Phantom Chapter 5

Chapter 5: A Shocking Development (Disclaimer! I own nothing of Danny Phantom!) Danny was walking up to his room as Maddie was watching him. “So son, anything exciting happen?” She asked. “What?” He asked. “Anytrhing special happen today, out of the ordinary?” Asked Maddie. “Nothing that I know of, why?” Asked Danny. “Well, your father and I were ghost hunting, and I could’ve sworn that someone was helping us out and they had your voice,” she said. She showed him footage from the news about Danny helping them out. “So let me ask you again,” she said, “Anything special happen?” “I’m…. The phantom,” Danny mumbled. “What?” Asked Maddie. “I’m the phantom, ok?” Danny said, “I’m the phantom.” “How?” Asked Maddie. “I turned on that machine and then it activated and somehow, I got ghost DNA,” he said, “I can fly, disappear, and I have super strength.” He looked down to the floor. “The truth is out now,” he said. “Amazing….” She said, “You could be the missing link between man and ghost!” “Wait… you’re not mad?” Asked Danny. “My future son in law has ghost powers and he’s saving people, how could I be mad?!” She asked, “I am concerned that you didn’t tell me sooner, but I’m more proud.” She gave him a hug but he phased through. “Sorry,” he said, “I’m still getting the hang of all this.” “As for your father, I won’t tell him about this yet,” she said, “But I think it would make things better if you told him soon.” Danny smiled. Maddie went upstairs. “Oh, and could you clean off that ghost plasma in your room?” She asked. Meanwhile in the hospital, Nicolai was still stuck in his room. The electricity was starting to build up. He had visions of what happened at the party and saw Joe in almost all of them. He then came to a conclusion. Joe was the cause for his transformation. He barged the doors down. One of the doctors saw him. “One of our patients is out, we gotta stop hi….” He said before he was electrocuted. Dozens of guards tried to stop him but none prevailed. He took off his mask and his face was looking more green and his hair was crazy looking. “Your time has come Joe,” he said. Danny was doing some work in the lab. Jazz saw him. “Who works in the lab?” She asked. “I’ll tell you who works in the lab,” he answered, “Young men who get rewarded for telling their mother the truth.” She sighed. “Once again Danny boy, you’re not off the hook for telling the truth,” she said. “I know, I’m off the hook for telling the truth the first time,” he said mocking her, “Sing a new song would ya?” “So what are you hiding?” Jazz asked. “What do you mean?” Danny asked. “Come on, you can tell Mom but you can’t share it with your future sister in law?” Asked Jazz, “I’m just looking out for you.” “Jazz I appreciate your concern but I promise its nothing to freak out over,” said Danny, “I’m fine.” “Cut the bullshit,” Jazz said, “I know you followed Mom and Mr. Fenton when they followed that ghost, and I know you go to Tucker’s house for some strange experiments. Danny you gotta tell me what’s going on.” “I told you its nothing to worry about,” said Danny. “Well I think I might just follow you around until you spill it out,” said Jazz. “Alright, but you can’t follow me forever,” Danny said. He went into the men’s restroom. “Ok you got me there,” she said. There was a party going on and Joe was hosting it. Nicolai was watching them. “Lights out Joey….” He said. He killed the power. “The hell?” Asked Joe. Nicolai went through the doors and people were scared. “What is that?” Asked someone. “Not ‘what’,” Nicolai answered, “Who!” Danny was at Tucker’s lab with Sam looking at the news. “Wait, turn that back!” Sam said. They were looking at Nicolai invading a party. “Looks like a strike team is heading to the area now,” said Tucker. “Well they might be surprised once I go after that person and catch him first,” Danny said, “Going ghost!” He transformed and went to action. He stared at Joe. Two of his friends went after Nicolai and he pushed them both out of the way. He electrocuted Joe. Emily tried to intervene. “No, don’t hurt him!” She said. She touched him and got electrocuted. “No…. I didn’t mean it…” Nicolai said before turning to Joe once more, “YOU DID THIS TO ME!!!!” He threw him out the window. “Sucks to be you,” Nicolai said. “Nicolai….” He said. “Nicolai is dead thanks to you,” Nicolai said, “I’m out for revenge!” “Wait, it was just a practical joke,” Joe said. “A practical joke that turned me into this freak!” Nicolai said, “Because of you I can’t have a normal life.” “Wait, are you gonna kill me?” Joe asked. “No, I’m not gonna kill you,” Nicolai said, “I’m just gonna hurt you, really….. really….. bad.” Danny was en route to the party. “I’m almost there,” Danny said. He got a close look at a jet and saw a symbol. “Tucker, didn’t you say this was some kind of strike team?” He asked, “Its not!” The symbol was revealed to be The Peacekeepers Symbol. “Oh shit,” Sam said. Nicolai was about to attack Joe again. “I hate you all!” He said. Webs stopped him. It was Arachnid Girl. “Hold it right there static man,” she said. “This is between me and him,” Nicolai said. He tried to shock her but his hands were webbed together. He channeled up energy and broke free. “Whoa, that’s a cute trick Technus,” Arachnid-Girl said, “Maybe you could charge up my phone while you’re at it!” Danny went incognito to watch the fight. Arachnid-Girl got close to him and recognized his face. “P-professor Nicolai?” She asked. “Nicolai?” Asked Danny. “I’m not Nicolai anymore thanks to him,” he said pointing to Joe escaping. “Look I don’t know what happened but I can help you,” Arachnid-Girl said. “You wanna hold my hand?!” He asked. He shocked her and pushed her away. “None of you get it!” He said, “I’m not Nicolai anymore looking like this, I’m…. What was that name you gave me?” “Static boy?” She asked. “No the other one…. Technus,” he said, “Yeah, I’m TECHNUS!!!” He caused a surge and everybody ran. Someone called on Arachnid-Girl’s communicator. “What’s going on down there?” asked someone. “I got readings of two enhanced, but I only caught one of them,” Arachnid-Girl said. She spotted Danny. “Hold on,” she said. “Danny get outta there!” Tucker said. “Its fine, she can’t see me,” Danny said. “I can see you,” she said. “She can see me,” he said. Danny revealed himself of her. “Hi, I’m Danny,” he said. “Did he just say ‘Hi I’m Danny’?” Sam asked as Tucker nodded. “What are you doing here?” Arachnid-Girl asked. “First off I’m a big fan of you and The Peacekeepers,” Danny said. “Much appreciated, but who are you?” She asked. “I’m The Phantom,” Danny said. “The Phantom?” Asked Arachnid-Girl. “I’m a new hero,” Danny said, “But I’m here to stop that electric guy.” “Look I appreciate the offer but I’ve handled this kind of thing before, and I don’t think your mom would want you getting hurt,” Arachnid-Girl said, “So pick up any toys you left and go home.” “You don’t….” Danny said before being webbed up. “Trust me, this is for your own good,” she said chasing after Technus. He got free by phasing through the web. Technus was going around hurting people. “You didn’t think I was special, you didn’t think I worked hard enough!” He said, “Well let’s see how you like joining MY party!” Arachnid-Girl spotted him. “Nichoal, stop!” She said. She tried to web him but he electrocuted the web and pushed her back. Her left web shooter was damaged. “Shit,” she said. He punched the ground and electricity surged through. Arachnid-Girl noticed two people about to touch something that had electricity. Thinking quick she used her working web shooter and made two webs to pull them away. “Today’s my special day,” Technus said, “Now I’m gonna light my candles!” He shot electric bolts at Arachnid-Girl and she dodged them. “Nicolai please stop!” She said, “You can’t just go around hurting innocent people!” “No one is innocent!” He said, “NO ONE!!!!!” One of the bolts hit her damaging part of her costume and she almost crashed into a wall, but Danny caught her. “You again…. wait, you can fly?!” She asked. “And phase through objects,” Danny said. “Looks like we’re working together,” Arachnid-Girl said. Technus absorbed electricity from a neon sign and used it to his advantage. Arachnid-Girl distracted him while Danny looked for something to stop him. She was wearing electric proof gloves in order to punch him. “I hope these work,” she said. She landed a punch right on his face. “You’re just like the rest of them,” he said. He shot an electric wave at her and she dodged. He started to short circuit because of the water he was in. “That’s it,” Danny said. He went for a water hose and sprayed it at Technus. Technus decided to vanish from the area and flow through an electric current. The hose ran out of water and he was gone. The crowds cheered for Danny and Arachnid-Girl. “Well, looks like I owe you for your help, Danny Phantom,” she said. “That has a nice ring to it,” said Danny, “I’ll see you around.” He flew back to the base. Arachnid-Girl pulled out her communicator. “Its really important to me that Michael never finds out about this,” she said.