Warning, I am not huge fans of Sam and Tucker so I'ma make them bad friends.

A few months prior.

Danny noticed the silence from his friends since they came back from the Ghost Zone, they had just spoken to Clockwork about important matters. He had noticed that Sam and Tucker stood in front of Danny with blank looks in their eyes; Danny recognized those looks. Those were the looks that Danny knew meant that they needed to talk. The white-haired boy flew about his basement to clean up the mess that the Spector Speeder had made before he faced his friends.

With a gentle smile, Danny told them they could talk on the way to school, but they never said anything until the trio was close to the school's library. It was a bit uncomfortable for him, nothing he could do about it until they spoke up.

"Danny," Sam said with a weak voice.

Danny opened the library door to let them inside. "What's up?"

Tucker refused to look Danny in the eyes, but Sam looked him dead in the eye, but she wouldn't stop fidgetting. "We can't do these activities anymore."

Stunned, Danny blinked before sighing in fake relief. There is something they weren't saying, "that's all?"

Faintly, Danny could see Star not far beside him. She had looked in his direction with a soft smile. Normal. He gave her a soft smile as well before facing his friends again. Star he likes out of all the A-listers, mainly because she is nice.

Now it was Sam and Tucker's turn to look owlish, "huh?"

Danny laughed lightly as he sat on one of the soft seats that were in the library. "I mean, this would keep you the two out of danger, and I am all for it." The bell rang and Danny felt a chill go past his lips, he knew it wasn't anything dangerous, but he had a plan. Cujo is not a threat."Can you tell Lancer that I forgot something at home for me?"

Danny knew they were hiding something, but he was glad that he was able to use his ghost sense as an excuse to leave. When the two had agreed, Danny rushed off and turned to a corner. Instead of changing and going after Cujo to put him back in the ghost zone, he changed after turning invisible before he followed Sam and Tucker.

"Why didn't you tell him we were breaking up with him," Tucker asked in a hiss. He glared at anyone who looked in their way. He was pissed, Danny noticed, and he was taking it out on anyone that wasn't Sam.

"You heard what Clockwork had said," Sam hissed back. "If he loses his emotions then Dark Dan is back. He is too dangerous to be around. Especially if that happens."

Tucker nodded as he sat in his seat. "I guess that makes sense. If Dan gets out then it's the end of the world."

"You don't say," Sam said sarcastically.

"But...I actually kind of want nothing more to do with him, Sam." His hand grasped hers and pulled her close to him. Danny was becoming very hurt by this, but he needed to know what was going on. "I love you, Sam, and if he is in the picture with us then we will be dead faster than we could blink."

Was that what they thought of him? A death trap? Since when did Sam and Tucker have feelings for each other? Didn't Tucker have a thing for Star? What about Sam? She had not indicated liking anyone, let alone Tucker.

"I know, Tuck, I love you too." She was silent for a moment before her eyes looked into Tucker's green ones, "how about this? We'll pretend to be his friends for a bit longer before we run away from that freak of nature."

Tucker sealed their plan with a kiss. "Deal."

Danny had left not long after that and took his rage out on the box ghost.

Present

Star Strong sat in her homeroom class trying to wake herself up some, not that it would work with the teacher babbling pointless facts about the subject they were on. The lesson that Lancer was giving was just a substitution for melatonin for her, so she decided to look around the room to find something interesting.

She noticed rather quickly that many others were also having a hard time staying awake with Lancer teaching them about some guy who left the face of the Earth and began to live in the wild. The title was a bit unoriginal as it was called Into The Wild. Star liked the story at first, but once Lancer opened his mouth her interest left her. He has a way to make anyone dislike something just by babbling about it.

Her eyes grazed a boy with pitch-black hair and sky blue eyes as he glowered at the front of the room. Star thought he looked like someone had given the poor guy a slice of toast, a food he disliked. A small smile spread on her lips as she watched as his friends poked and prodded him about something, but when he glared at them they were quick to shut up. It wasn't unusual anymore; not after the first week of Danny doing it to his so-called friends.

Surprisingly, Danny had quickly become someone people feared when he glares at them. Star saw that he didn't like the outcome, but she knew from the look of relief that he got afterward that it was handy to have. The blonde had noticed that Sam and Tucker had gotten much closer towards each other and often left Danny behind. The words she had heard when she was behind them in the library a couple of months ago made her cringe. She remembered seeing Danny behind the two; as if they hadn't noticed he was there; with tears welling in his eyes.

Sam and Tucker did love their friend, but they had mentioned that they couldn't keep doing whatever activity that Danny does any longer. Especially when way too many problems were coming up as often as they did. It bugged her because she knew that Danny had heard them from beside her if the way his head hung low was any indication. It was the last time she saw Danny smile or even act kindly to anyone unless they were hurt or being hurt.

It wasn't unknown that Danny would leave class and come back with wounds, but Star never had seen one on the teen's face. She quickly noticed that Danny had a cut under his eye and it was bleeding kind of bad. How had no one not even notice? Well; it was actually quite small, but still. Dash wouldn't have done something so visible to his victims, so who or what caused the wound on Danny.

Was Danny fighting in a gang? Was he getting mixed with the wrong people? Star wants to mother the harmed boy so badly.

When she noticed that Lancer had gotten up and gone into the hallway- she felt that luck was on her side for once-, she took that moment to rush over to Danny with a bandaid in her hand- it was so not girly, pink and cute kitties are just as manly. When she reached him she gave the bandaid to the quiet boy.

Her deep blue eyes looked at his outfit she saw he doesn't wear that white and red shirt anymore. Danny had traded it in for a black shirt with a light grey trim and oval, over the shirt was a dark blue flannel that was left unbuttoned. She no longer wore her white and orange backward nine shirts anymore, Star traded it for something similar to what Danny used to wear.

"Uhm," Danny rasped, "thanks?" He rose a brow at the blonde.

His voice sounded dry and scratchy as he spoke and Star flinched, "did you even drink anything today?"

Danny didn't answer, but she somehow knew that he didn't and sighed. When she heard his stomach growl she gave a small smile. Star handed him her water bottle as well as her huge red apple, knowing that she was an A-lister she knew he would be kind of hesitant to take the treat and drink of water. Thankfully, he decided to trust the kind blonde. His calloused hand grasped the space-themed metal bottle with the first smile he had in a long time. Just as she had it back in her hand the teacher came in, not even noticing that Star wasn't in her seat. The two shared the apple after Danny cut it in half with a pocket knife.

"Class," Lancer said in a clipped tone, "in a week we will be taking a trip with the Fentons into the Ghost Zone. The mayor had insisted that at least one class should be able to see how ghosts live their afterlife. Until the trip, all of your classes will be on hold while you learn all you can on ghosts and ghost safety."

All the students' in the room cheered, even Star herself was mentally dancing, but she noticed that the trio wasn't. Sam and Tucker had gone stiff as they looked between Danny and his parents. Danny just looked angry and annoyed. The smile that was once on his face was long gone. This gave her a feeling that she should be wary of the trip if Danny was looking that way at his parents.

"Are you okay, Danny," Star asked lightly. Danny looked over towards her, seeing the trust and worry in her dark blue eyes, it made him feel compelled to tell her that his parents never even been in the Ghost Zone before. Before Danny could answer Jack Fenton screamed and charged towards Danny with his nose buried in some tracker. He stood in front of his son with excitement, but it dimmed when he saw his son. Always his son.

"Mads," Jack called towards his wife, "it's still locked on Danny-boy."

Maddie sighed and walked out of the room, but she stopped as she looked at the students, "classes will begin tomorrow. Wear the clothes you don't care about getting damaged."

Lancer pinched his nose, "you all are allowed to go home to get rest."

Getting up Star walked to her seat and grabbed her things, taking the last bite of her apple. She was disappointed that Danny hadn't been able to respond to her and she had to leave school so early. She wanted to go to her culinary class, it was something she was good at that wasn't math. It was her little secret from the A-listers, so they don't bully her as much as they do already.

Pulling her bag on her shoulders, Star began to make a mental list of the things that she could do instead. The twins could be picked up, make a good dinner for once, then she could take her sisters out to her best friend to babysit before dinner. It was simple for a rich girl, but she enjoyed the simple life.

"Strong," Sam yelled from the other end of the hallway. Her black combat boots clapped against the white tiles of the school floor.

"Hi, Sam," Star said lightly as Sam was now in her personal space. "Something wrong?"

"Keep," the black-haired girl hissed, "your A-lister hands off of Danny. He doesn't need you to bring him in a bad mood like you just did."

Behind Sam came Danny and Tucker coming to rush closer to the two women, Danny with a deeper scowl than what she left with, but she noticed that it was directed at his two friends. "Hey, Danny."

"Star," Danny mumbled as he looked away from her. The sound of her voice pulled the headache back a bit, but Sam was making it worse.

Star smiled and glared at Sam, who was now holding hands with Tucker, "why would you assume he was in a bad mood because of me? From what I noticed in the past couple of months he had been in a bad mood for a long time. I also noticed that you two haven't included him in your after school activities."

Sam growled, but Tucker went wide-eyed as he looked into Star's deep blue eyes and back to Danny; who was also staring with an amused look in his eyes a brow raised as well. Tucker's grip on Sam loosened so much that she was able to escape and throw a punch at Star. The blonde didn't even dodge it, however, neither girl noticed the black blur that stood in front of the blonde with a hard set glare on his face. Sam's small fist was now being held in a crushing grip in his larger one. Star bit her lip as she wanted to not get involved, but she had a bad feeling about the situation.

Danny was glaring heavily at the goth before him, the sounds of her bones breaking satisfied him a little. How dare Sam try to harm a civilian? She knew better...or did she. Star was right in saying that they never hung around him any longer, not since she and Tucker told him they wanted nothing more to do with hunting ghosts' with him. He didn't mind that, it kept them from harm's way, what angered him was when he was invisible hearing them talk about him. Their words hurt him so much.

"He is too dangerous to be around anymore."

"I actually kind of want nothing to do with him anymore, Sam."

"We'll pretend to be his friends for a bit longer before we run away from that freak of nature."

He hated those words.

"Danny," a soft voice broke his thoughts, "let her go. You're hurting her."

Those gentle fingers unwrapped his vice grip from Sam. Once his fingers were removed from Sam he walked away, not before shoving Tucker into a locker. Star watched at the dark-haired teen stomped off. She knew something was wrong, and she wanted to help.

That night Star learned that Sam and Tucker had gone missing, Sam's parents lost eight-teen million dollars from their bank.