OPERATION: Save the Halfa!
By Strix Moonwing
Strix Mooniwng: Happy New Years everyone! Since its New Year's night, I have to stay up to midnight and since I was bored I decided to update. As my New Year's resolution, I vow to update my stories faster then ever! Hope you enjoy!
Dedication: I dedicate this new chapter to my new kitten, Boomerang or Boomy. He's so sweet and cute!
Disclaimer: I do now own Danny Phantom, but I do own Boomerang and all his awesomeness!
Chapter 5: Boomy VS The Tofu Monster
1. Improve Halfa's diet.
Skulker slashed a big check mark next it and continued to look at the rest of the, "Things I have to Do to Save the Halfa So I Can Hunt Him" list. Okay, so the improve the Halfa's diet hadn't gone as planned, but he still got a full day of meat! That was good….right? And thanks to the Lunch Lady, the halfa and his friends would get a full week of……er….something meat looking.
That was the point, right?
"Okay, what do we need to do know?" asked the Ghost Lady, looking over Skulker's shoulder. She spotted the list. "What in the name of prime ribs is that?"
Skulker hid the list and growled, "None of your business!" He looked at the next thing on the list.
2. Clean up his territory.
He narrowed his eyes and growled in rage when he realized what that meant….HE HAD TO CLEAN THAT BRAT'S ROOM! Of all the embarrassing things he'd had ever done, this was going to be the most embarrassing!
Skulker got up and sighed. If he had to do it, he'd do it quickly and without anybody seeing him doing it. He started to fly off, but the Lunch Lady stopped him.
"Where do you think you're going?" she asked.
"As I said before….NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!" He growled. The Lunch Lady quickly grabbed the list from him and read it. Then she started laughing.
"HAHHAHAHAHA! You…HAHHA….have to….AHAHAH…clean that kid's room? HAHHAHA!" she hollered, laughing between words.
"GIVE ME THAT!" He took back the list, crumpled it into a ball, and ate it. Then he glared at the laughing Lunch Lady and glared. "Are you done?"
"Hold up a second, dear." She said, before exploding into another round of laughter that lasted two minutes. She at last wiped the tears of laughter from her eyes and said, "Okay, I'm done now."
"Good. Then you can come and help me!" He growled.
The Lunch Lady looked shocked. "Me? Cleaning? Sorry, but I'm the Lunch Lady! Not the Janitor Ghost! I have no idea how to clean…only cook."
"Then do you know any ghost that can?"
"Well…….there is one."
"You have got to be kidding me." Muttered Skulker, not believing who the Lunch Lady wanted him to get help from.
"I AM THE BOX GHOST!"
"This is a joke!" growled Skulker at the Lunch Lady. "Me? The greatest Hunter in the universe get help from," He pointed at the Box Ghost. "HIM?"
The Lunch Lady placed her hands on her hips and glared at Skulker. "What? He's good with storing stuff. He can help."
"HELP WITH WHAT!?" shouted the Box Ghost, he lowered his voice and asked, "No, I'm serious. What's going on?"
Skulker was silent. It was embarrassing enough to have to need help….but what was really embarrassing was what he need help with! Luckily, it was the Lunch Lady that answered for him.
"Skulker, here, isn't allowed to hunt the Halfa Danny because he's an endangered species. The only way to be able to hunt him is to help repopulate the Halfa species, since there's only three known alive." The Lunch Lady explained.
"………." The Box Ghost just stared at her in confusion.
Skulker sighed and said, "To destroy the Halfa, we have to help the Halfa. Got it, you idiot."
It took a couple of seconds before this small piece of information reached the dim ghost's brain. When it finally did, he had to take another few seconds to decipher what he was saying.
Finally, by miracle, he was able to understand what Skulker had said. He replied, "WHY SHOULD I, THE BOX GHOST, WANT TO HELP THE HALFA! HE IS MY ENEMY AS HE IS YOURS!...I THINK!"
Skulker growled impatiently and said, "Because if I can't hunt him, then she can't torture him with meat, and if she can't torture him with meat, then you can't annoy him with boxes! Got it?"
"No…no boxes?" he whimpered.
"No, now are you with us or not? I don't have all day; I still have three more things to do on the list."
"I, THE BOX GHOST, AM WITH YOU! BEWARE!"
"This is going to be a long list…….."
At Fenton House…..
"Danny! Jazz! Come in the kitchen now!" screamed Jack Fenton, from inside the kitchen. He smiled in excitement as his two kids entered the kitchen. He noticed that Danny had a greenish look on his face.
Hmmm…probably just hormones.
"What's the matter, dad?" asked Jazz, sitting down at the table.
"I'm glad you asked!" Jack said, "I want you and Danny to be the first to see this new invention I've working on!"
Danny groaned and held his stomach. "Uhh…dad, can it wait until later?" He shuddered as his stomach let out a grumbling, probably complaining about the school lunch.
Jack clapped his son on the back, almost knocking him over, and said, "Nonsense! Why wait until later when it's been tested when you can try it out now, without being tested?" He ran over to the shelf and got an item that was covered with a white cloth.
"Kids, be prepare to witness the greatness of….THE GHOST GABBER POINT TWO!" He tore the cloth off and revealed a newer version of the first Ghost Gabber.
Both Danny and Jazz raised an eyebrow. "And…what's the difference?" asked Danny.
"This one deciphers what a ghost says in more detail…..and it's shinier." He blinked and thrusted it into Danny's face. "Try it!"
Danny sighed and muttered, "Boo."
The Ghost Gabber. 2 started to vibrate and lights blinked on and off on it. A monotone female voice said, "Boo…" then the machine shuddered and a man's rough voice came on it.
"Boo? What do you 'beepin' mean boo? What the 'beepin' 'beep' are you? A 'beepin' idiot!?" Before the machine could say more, Jack quickly turned it off.
Jazz had Danny's ears covered, but his eyes were still wide with shock at what the machine had said to him. Both he and Jazz stared at Jack in disbelief.
Jack rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment and said, "Heheh….uh…I guess I shouldn't have let it next to the television when Maddie and I were watching the Dane Cook marathon. Hehe…sorry?"
Jazz uncovered Danny's ears and watched as he fell to the ground in shock. She turned to her father and said, "Dad, would it hurt to make something that didn't have anything to do with ghost?"
To her surprise, Jack replied, "Well….there was this one invention I made in college."
"An invention? A non-ghost invention?!" asked Jazz in delight. "Do you still have it?"
"I guess I could show you…." Jack said as he headed to the basement.
Danny crawled back into sitting position on the table, only to be dragged back on his feet by Jazz. "Come on Danny!"
"Knock, knock!"
Maddie looked up from the experiment she was working on, in the living room. "Jack, kids! May you get that?" she called out. There was only silence.
"Knock, knock!"
She sighed, and set her tools down. Look's like she would have to answer the door herself. She opened the door a crack and peered out. There were two men wearing long, ugly brown coats and some black bowler hats that completely covered their faces.
"Uh…hello? Can I help you?" she asked.
The shorter of the two, lifted his arms and shouted, "I AM THE BOX…" He was quickly punched by his partner, who whispered, "Shut it!"
The one that had punched the short one turned to Maddie and said, "Er…good morning, human female! And congratulations! You have won the "Best Mother of a Halfa" reward!"
Maddie raised an eyebrow. "I don't remember entering a "Best Mother of a Halfa' contest….and what's Halfa?"
The tall man started to laugh. "Hahhah…well of course you don't! But you won, and that's all that matters, right?" He pushed her out the door and handed her coupon. "Now here's your prize and…..goodbye!" With that he grabbed his partner and closed the door inside the Fenton house, leaving Maddie alone outside.
Maddie got an angry expression on her face and growled, "Now wait just a sec….oh, is this a couple for a free manicure? I'm in!" With that she started to head to the nearest beauty salon.
Inside….
As soon as Maddie Fenton was gone, the Box Ghost and Skulker quickly got rid of their ridiculous disguise. Skulker growled and turned to the Box Ghost. "Why actually did we have to disguise ourselves when we could have just gone invisible?"
"BECAUSE, I, THE BOX GHOST…" Skulker slapped a hand over the Box Ghost's mouth and said, "Forget I asked. Let's just get this over with."
The two headed upstairs and began to look for Danny's room. Skulker was checking out a hall closet when he heard the Box Ghost scream, "I FOUND IT!"
Skulker ran into the room where the Box Ghost was screaming from, looked inside, and said, "I don't think this is the Halfa's room."
The Box Ghost frowned and asked, "Why would you think that?"
The room was pink and had stuffed animals all over it. The Box Ghost picked up a loose bra and inspected it. "Hmm…I wonder what a Halfa would need this for?"
Skulker growled and grabbed the Box Ghost. "Let's go!" He dragged the idiotic ghost to the room next to Jazz's room, which turned out to be Danny's.
As soon as Skulker and the Box Ghost opened the door to Danny's room, they fell to ground, gagging and barely able to breath due to the stink that fouled up the atmosphere in his room.
Luckily, Skulker was able to kick the door shut, blocking anyway for the stink to escape. "I…….think we…need to get prepared."
A couple minutes later, both Skulker and the Box Ghost walked into Danny's room, fully equipped with gas mask and air fresheners. After using about ten cans of pine fresh air fresher and opening the window, they were able to breathe without the gas masks on.
"When was the last time that kid cleaned this room?!" Skulker said, looking at the mess. Clothes were everywhere, along with garbage, homework, rotten food, and stuff that couldn't be identified.
"I think something died in here." Stated the Box Ghost. He watched a cockroach crawl across the floor and screamed, "I AM THE BOX GHOST! BEWARE!" A pair of dirty underwear hit him in the face.
"Shut up and start picking up this stuff!" Skulker growled, grabbing a pile of clothes and setting it inside a box. "Stupid whelp….he better not complain the next time I try and slay him. Ungrateful, little….." He looked up and saw that the Box Ghost wasn't doing anything.
"Hello? Didn't you hear me? I said help!" snarled Skulker.
The Box Ghost didn't reply. All he did was stand….er… float there without moving. He didn't even look at Skulker. This unnerved Skulker, for some reason. He decided to investigate.
"What are you looking at?" He asked. The Box Ghost turned his head to face him and had a look of terror on his face. He gestured Skulker to be silent and come closer. Skulker floated next to the Box Ghost and saw the Box Ghost point towards a darkened corner. Skulker glanced in that direction and gasped.
There, creeping in the corner, was the most horrible, disgusting, scary, freaky, terrible, hideous thing he had ever seen. He could barely look at it without gagging. Most people would have fainted dead away at the sight of it. It was….it was….
Rotten tofu salad…..
Oh, you thought we've seen the last of it, haven't you? Oh no…its still here. Apparently, Sam also made Danny a tofu salad too, but unlike Tucker, who tried to dispose of it immediately, Danny….poor clueless Danny…decided to just leave it in his room. There it rotted for months, until it got hold of some ecto-plasma. After consuming this, it started to mutate into something horrible.
And now it found some prey…..
A strange gurgling sound came from it as it slithered towards the two misfortunate ghosts. Finally…some prey for his master. "Pppprrrreeyyyy."
Both Skulker and the Box Ghost got a WTF look on their faces and started to back away. The tofu salad crawled closer to them. "pprrrreeyyy…nneeeeeedd preeeyyyyy."
Skulker got out his gun. "No body makes prey out of me! Get lost!" With that he blasted the tofu salad into the closet, where the Box Ghost quickly locked it in.
"BEWARE TOFU! FOR I AM THE BOX GHOST!"
"Keep that up, and you're going in with it."
Meanwhile….
While Skulker and the Box Ghost wee dealing with their tofu problem, Jack was showing Danny and Jazz his first non-ghost invention in the basement.
"You see, kids," He began, "back when I was young and naïve like Danny here, I came up with this idiotic idea to make an invention to save world hunger…or something stupid like that." He got out a weird looking device. "So I came up with this."
Danny and Jazz stared at it. "What is it?" asked Jazz.
"I call it the fudge-Doubler." Jack answered. He put a sandwich inside the machine and it started to beep and blink with activity. "You see, the idea was that it would multiple anything I put in it. Food…clothes….anything!"
"So what went wrong?" asked Danny.
"Well….:" began Jack. The machine stopped clicking and another sandwich popped out. Danny grabbed it and took a bite. He chewed it and paused, before crying out, "Oh my gosh! Its fudge!"
Jack smiled and patted Danny on the back. "And that's why it's called the Fudge-Doubler. Makes copies of everything, but makes it into fudge….lots and lots of fudge."
Jazz leaned over and whispered in Danny's ear. "So that's where he gets all the fudge!"
Meanwhile….
After the tofu incident, Skulker and the Box Ghost got most of the room pretty decent looking. The only places left to clean were the closet, where the killer tofu was currently being kept, and under Danny's bed. And since neither wanted to face the tofu, they decided to do the bed.
Skulker peeped under the bed and sniffed. "Ew…smells like something died down there."
"REALLY? WHERE!?" shouted the Box Ghost, zooming under the bed. A few seconds later, he shouted, "BOX!" He came up with an old dusty shoe box in his hands.
"Give me that!" growled Skulker, grabbing the old box and saw some writing on it. He began to read it. "Here lies Boomy…Danny's dead gerbil that I accidentally killed….Danny, if you are reading this, then it's my science project….ignore the first part. Signed Tucker."
"OPEN IT! OPEN IT!" shouted the Ghost Box, jumping up and down in excitement at finding a mysterious box.
Skulker shrugged and opened it. The box started to glow an eerie green glow. Both Skulker and the Box Ghost leaned forward to have a closer look at what was inside the box. Suddenly a green haze came from it and took the form of…..
A gerbil.
A ghost one to be precise.
"I'm taking that this is Boomy." Commented Skulker, looking at the cute little green gerbil. It started to sniff around. Skulker let out a grin. "You know, this guy's kinda cute….I wonder if I can hunt you?"
Suddenly Boomy blinked and started to grow. His fur grew longer and his paws grew razor sharp claws. After a couple seconds he was so big that he reached the ceiling and his eyes glowed blood red. He looked at the two ghosts and growled.
"BEWAREEEE!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAHHHHHH!" screamed the Box Ghost as Boomy made a lunge at him. Both he and Skulker screamed and ran into the closet to hide from the wrath of Boomy the ghost gerbil.
However…they forgot about the other thing with a wrath that was currently in the closet…..
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! TOFU!" screamed the two as they flew out of the closet with the monster tofu right behind them. The monster tofu saw Boomy and growled.
"Pppppprreeeyyyy!" it screeched lunging at Boomy, who started to try and eat the tofu. The two started an all out fight, destroying most of the room that Skulker and the Box Ghost had worked so hard to clean.
"Okay, this is getting too weird for my book!" shouted Skulker, dodging the bits of rubble and tofu that was flying. "This room is clean enough! Let's go!" With that, Skulker grabbed the Box Ghost and they flew off.
As soon as Skulker and the Box Ghost left, Danny walked into his room, drinking a Caprisun. As soon as he walked in, he saw the ghost gerbil and the monster tofu fighting and destroying his room.
The two stopped fighting and stared at him.
He stared at them.
They stared back.
Silence.
He pointed at the ghost gerbil. "Uhhh….Boomy?"
Boomy nodded.
He then pointed at the tofu monster. "Tofu salad that Sam made me?"
"Pppppprreeeeeyyyy massssttttterrrrr."
More silence.
Danny looked at the Caprisun in his hand and turned it over, watching as its contains dripped to the floor. "Carry on…"
Danny slammed the door shut and walked away with the sounds of the fight still going on behind him. Jazz walked past him and heard the sounds. She glanced at Danny with a questioning expression on her face.
"You don't want to know…"
Strix Moonwing: Hehehe, yeah, I had to add the tofu salad! I'm sorry if you don't get the Dane Cook joke, let's just say that he's a comedian that says alot of cuss words, but he's stinkin' hilarious! Well, I hope you liked it and I hope that you have a great New Year's night! Please review!