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Chapter 8: Garage Sale of Death

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Jazz had a bemused look on her face, sitting at the table in the kitchen of FentonWorks. She was trying to tutor Dash, but, unfortunately for her…"Dash, you're impossible, you know that!?" She scowled angrily.

"Has anybody ever told you how pretty you are?" Dash asked, dreamily, unfazed.

'You, a million times today.' "No. Now pay attention already." She pulled out a textbook she borrowed from Danny so she could tutor Dash (who was in the same grade and classes as Danny).

The redheaded Fenton was trying to tutor Dash in Computers, which was the jock's weakest subject (though all the others except Gym needed a lot of work, too...). She was going to read, when Danny walked up from the Fenton's lab cheerfully. Danny greeted, "Hey, Jazz. Hey, Dash...GAH!" He jumped a few feet into the air (his arm went intangible momentarily) and stumbled away as Dash smirked at him. The halfa stammered, "Wh-wh-wh-what are you doing here...alone...with my sister...in this kitchen...with my sister...with no parental supervision...with my sister?" He growled slightly, eyes flashing green.

Jazz sighed, "I'm trying to tutor him, Danny. I hope you don't mind that I borrowed your textbooks." She froze when she saw Danny's angry glowing green glare that was directed at Dash. Jazz frowned, "What's with your eyes?"

Danny blinked and quickly shut his eyes tight. When he opened them, they were blue again. He gulped, "Um, I, ah...never mind that. Why are you trying to tutor him, anyway?" He glared at Dash, who was ignoring him and staring at Jazz dreamily. The teen halfa growled again, eyes flashing green again.

"He needs to get his grades up...and can you please stop making your eyes doing that? It's creeping me out!" Jazz shuddered. Danny quickly made his eyes normal again as Dash snickered. The halfa boy glared, picked up Dash's glass of water, and splashed it in the jock's face. It took a few moments, but Danny suddenly realized what he just did.

"Uh, oh..."

"FENTON!" Dash stood up angrily, attempting a punch. Danny shouted in fear and dived out of the way.

"If you're goin' to be like that, I'll just leave you alone." Danny glared slightly, eyes glowing green again, "But with a warning. Touch my sister and you're dead, Baxter." He kicked Dash, sending the shocked jock onto his back. Danny smirked smugly before walking down the stairs, back into the lab.

Jazz shook her head incredulously and thought, 'What was that all about? Why was his eyes glowing green? Maybe I'll ask mom and dad about it...'

Dash stood up and glared after Danny, mumbling under his breath, "Stupid Fenton...how'd he do that, anyway? So...want to come to my party on Saturday?" Dash held an invitation out to Jazz, who rolled her eyes.

Downstairs, Danny asked, "Dad? You in here?"

"Danny my boy! Can you hold this?" Jack handed Danny what looked like a vacuum cleaner, "It's the Fenton Weasel! It sucks a ghost within like the thermos, but it's got more suction. Anyway, I'll be right back." He ran upstairs.

Danny shrugged and boredly looked around. Suddenly, two things happened; the Fenton Portal opened and the halfa's 'ghost sense' activated. Danny put the vacuum down and stepped back nervously. Green mist flew out of the portal and formed into a white-haired ghost with green skin and a white lab-coat. He shouted, "I am Technus, the master of ghostly technology and sciences!"

"Oh, no you don't!" Danny shouted heroically, jumping into the air. As he flew up into the air, he transformed in to Phantom, green energy forming in his hands the instant he was in ghost mode. He continued his heroic cry, "You are not using the technology in this lab to take over the world!"

"Huh?" Technus was confused. He looked around and smirked evilly, "That wasn't what I was going to do, but...hey, I'm not complaining! Thanks, halfa."

Phantom slapped his forehead (his hand still glowing but not at the point where it could hurt to touch), "Ugh, I'm so stupid!" He sighed and put his hands together, releasing the ecto-blasts.

Technus pulled out an electrical staff, blocking the ectoplasmic beams easily. The blasts deflected towards the halfa, who ducked under them. Phantom thought, 'What now?' He released another blast, but Technus deflected it into the wall. The walls, roof, and floor of the lab were ecto-prove, which meant ecto-energy was absorbed. Of course, a ghost was able to phase through, but ectoplasm that was individual to a ghost (such as ecto-blasts and such) was absorbed.

Technus questioned, "Who are you, anyway?"

"You've never heard of me? I'm Phantom." The ghost boy replied, crossing his arms, "I protect the human world from ghosts like you."

"Oh, yes, I've heard about you...I guess I must defeat you before I can rule this world!" Technus laughed evilly.

"...Right." Phantom rolled his eyes and readied himself, "We'll see about that!" He took off through the air towards Technus, his legs fusing into a ghostly tail. He was expecting to easily punch Technus, but the electronically ghost used his electro-staff to smash him away. Phantom hit the wall and fell to the ground, reverting to Danny Fenton out of surprise. He then noted that Technus' staff used blue ecto-energy, which is why he de-transformed. Danny looked over to see the Fenton Weasel. Smirking, the halfa said, "I've been dumped on once in my own house today...and once is enough!" He ran over to the vacuum-esque ghost catcher and activated it.

"What? No! NOOOOOOOO!" Technus screamed as the Fenton Weasel sucked him inside. However, the Fenton Weasel sucked in a lot of other things—namely objects that were not supposed to be. Danny's eyes widened as the weasel readied to explode. Danny backed away and transformed into Phantom just as the vacuum exploded. Phantom's ghost form protected him from damage, but the lab was now in a mess.

Jack's voice was hear from upstairs, "I'm comin' back! I hope everything's the way it was before!" Phantom gulped and quickly went intangible, swiftly flying up and through the roof of the lab. Jack entered the lab and glanced around in confusion, before smiling, "Yup! Just as I left it!"

"His name was Technus?" Sam asked, curiously.

"Yeah. He can control technology, or so he says, and can also make electricity, supposedly...he was a bit tough with that staff thing, though." Danny shrugged, biting into his burger.

Tucker admitted, "Sounds like a cool ghost for once! I wonder if I can get my hands on that electric staff or whatever it is..." He looked thoughtful.

Sam ignored him, "Wait...didn't you capture him?"

Danny sighed, "I didn't have time. There was an explosion and my dad was coming down...I could just de-transform and be in middle of a huge mess! He'd totally ground me for the rest of my life! Besides, I...sorta' forgot." He smiled sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck. Tucker burst into laughter, almost falling out his seat.

Sam just sighed and rolled her eyes, "You've been doing this how long, now, and you forget to capture the ghost? Seriously?"

"Hey, give me a break! I was annoyed, ok? That staff hurt!" Danny shuddered.

"Sorry." Sam smiled sympathetically, "At least you 'temporarily' defeated him, right?"

"Hopefully...I wonder where he is, now?" Danny frowned thoughtfully.

In the corner of the Fentons' lab, there was a box of the pieces from the Fenton Weasel, which were covered in green ecto-goop. Blue electricity suddenly formed from the pieces, going up into the air and reforming Technus, who shook his head tiredly. That ghost boy defeated him, but only temporarily! Now, Technus would get his revenge, and take over the world!

Of course, that ghost boy was not to be underestimated…

Technus frowned in thought. This labs technology would help…but there wasn't enough to make one suit. And he couldn't take apart that Ghost Portal or he'd be stuck here! So, Technus went intangible and phased through the roof of the lab.

He had technology to possess…

Danny, meanwhile, sipped his orange soda, when Dash suddenly stalked over. The blonde jock angrily hit Danny on the back of the head, causing the halfa to cry out in surprise and drop his soda, which fell to the ground. Danny blinked down at it…and glared at Dash angrily, "Hey!"

"Listen up, Fenton! I don't like doing this…but your sister made me do it…" Dash sighed and pulled out a piece of paper, handing it to Danny.

Danny read it aloud, "'Da Dash Bash'? Um, Dash? Are you familiar with the chatspeak term…W-T-F?"

Dash blinked dumbly, "What does that spell? Wutef?"

"…Never mind."

"Anyway," Dash frowned, "this is the only way I could get her to go out with me, so you better come to the party, Fentonowski! I didn't like it, but I had to invite you. Be at my place tonight, 'k, loser?" He walked off after another venom-filled glare.

"Fentonowski?" Danny blinked. He looked at his friends with wide-eyed, "Had to?" He looked down at his invitation. "Invite? His place? Tonight?" He slowly began to smile, "Party?" He slowly began rocking back and forth (left and right, actually), breathing shallowly.

"What's with him?" Tucker asked, confused.

Sam rolled her eyes and sighed, "He's nervous."

Danny suddenly shouted, "NERVOUS? I'M NOT NERVOUS! WHAT GAVE YOU THAT IDEA!? Oh my God, I have to go shopping! I can't go to a party like this!" He dashed off.

Tucker remarked, dryly, "We've lost him, huh?"

Sam sighed. "Unfortunately, yes. He's never been invited to anything, so he acts like this every time he comes in contact with something that vaguely hints he might become popular."

Yes, it's true. Though Danny was a quarter-goth boy who hated the popular kids, he was still an average teen under that and, if the chance came up, he would jump at it to become popular. Of course, he always told himself he would never abandon his friends, but…he had never came this close before! Danny happily ran into the bathrooms and punched his fists into the air, "Whoohoo! Go Fenton, go Fenton, go Fenton…speaking of 'going'…I'm goin' ghost!" Danny quickly morphed; two light green rings encircled his waist, one moving up and the other moving down, transforming him into Phantom.

The ghost boy phased through the roof and flew loop-da-loops as he laughed. His destination? The central hub of all teenagerdom…

The mall.

Technus was in the form of pure electricity as he travelled through the power lines of Amity Park. He had a very effective idea: he would find some of the most advanced computer-technology and overshadow it. Using said computer, he would be able to call upon all the technology from the town to himself in order to create a very powerful body armor! With the very powerful body, he could take over the world and all it's inhabitants!

…You weren't supposed to know that…

The technopathic ghost frowned to himself, reforming a solid body as he looked around. He mused, "Where can I find some technology that I could effectively use to take over the world!?...I wasn't supposed to say that aloud…gosh darn it!" Technus shook his head. "No matter…"

The technology-loving ghost froze and went invisible when he saw Phantom fly by. 'He didn't notice me, did he?' Technus thought worriedly.

Luckily, the ghost boy did not notice Technus, who was not in range of the halfa's 'ghost sense'.

Technus sighed in relief, regaining visibility. 'That was close…hm…perhaps the ghost child will lead me to my goal?' So, with that thought on mind, the technopath quickly followed after our favorite half-ghostly hero.

"Man, the mall closes soon!"

Phantom landed in between two vehicles in front of the mall. Out of anyone's—except Technus'—view, Phantom let two light green rings appear around his waist. One moved up and the other moved down. Phantom was now gone, Danny Fenton in his place as he walked out from in between the two vehicles. With a smile, the ghost boy ran into the mall.

'Hm, interesting…' Technus mused. 'It seems the ghost boy has led me to the mall. What is he doing here?'

Technus waited patiently—he was a pretty patient ghost, after all—for Danny to come back out. Eventually, the ghost boy did leave the mall, carrying a weird white and black suit that was very cool looking. Technus was impressed.

'The boy's taste in clothing is very…um, what do they call it…hip! Hm…perhaps I should follow him…' Technus smirked and followed Danny carefully as the ghost boy hid behind a tree.

Technus watched with fascination as Danny cried out, "I'm goin' ghost!" Two light green rings appeared at his waist. One moved up and the other moved down, morphing Danny Fenton into Phantom.

Technus looked with slight awe, 'Hm…the ectoplasm in the halfa's transformation seems to be fairly powerful, especially for green energy. He has a lot of potential…'

Just as Phantom was about to fly off, Technus accidently got to close; Phantom's ghostly warning system activated. He groaned, "Aw, man! Not a ghost! Oh, well…"

Technus panicked, 'He sensed me!? Fiddlesticks! Hm…wait, I know!' He concentrated hard and a car suddenly glowed green, grew eyes and a mouth, and snarled angrily. The car gained a blue ghostly glow, and it's eyes were a crimson red. 'Perfect…'

Phantom spun around and gasped when he saw the Ghost-Car. He then smirked, "You know, from the very few times my parents let me drive, I'm pretty good…unfortunately, I'll have to put that aside and have my first car accident!" He flew towards the ghostly-possessed car, clenching green energy in his hands.

The car floated into the air. People began screaming as more and more cars floated into the air, attaching to it. Soon, with the original car as the head, there was a tall 'monster car' with arms and legs hovering there.

"…Oh, God…" Phantom gulped as the car glowered down at him. The ghost boy dodged as a violet beam of energy fired from the Ghost-Car Monster's hand towards him. Phantom raised his arms and swung them, creating a round wall of energy in front of him that caught a punch from the Ghost-Car Monster's right hand.

It roared and fired twin beams of red ectoplasmic energy blasts from it's eyes. Phantom cried out as the eye ecto-blasts tore through his shield and sent him flying into the ground, creating a crater in the parking lot. He groaned in pain and sat up, holding his head painfully. Phantom blinked in surprise.

'Hey, I stayed in ghost form…weird…' He shook his head.

The ghost boy guessed he was getting more powerful or something. Smirking, he stood up and jumped into the air just as the Ghost-Car Monster's foot tried to stomp down on him. Phantom formed his legs into a ghostly tail as he flew up to the same height as the car-bodied monster's head.

"Come on, is that the best you can do!" Taunted Phantom with a smug smirk.

The body of cars roared angrily again and put it's 'hands' together. They glowed with green ectoplasmic energy, firing a large ecto-blast. The blast hit Phantom and sent him flipping through the air. Phantom cried out in pain; he managed to turn intangible and phase through a nearby van. Out of sight, he de-morphed into Danny Fenton.

With that, the Ghost-Car Monster then stopped glowing. It's 'head' lost it's mouth, eyes, and any other signs of it being alive…and all the cars floated gently into their places.

Danny stood up and glanced out from behind the van. He sighed with relief, "Huh…that was lucky." He smiled and walked off.

Technus watched him go with a frown. 'Hm…it seems that he is more powerful then I originally thought…not much so, but that does not matter. Strange, though, that he didn't even register one hit on my car monster, but it still fell apart in the end…ah, of course! It wasted so much energy that it was unable to hold onto it's form…hmph, that ghost child was lucky this time, but next time he won't be…I, Technus, master of technology, shall follow him and…!...Why am I thinking that?'

Later that day, the trio were in Danny's room. Sam asked, "So, are you really goin' to that party?"

"Sure, why not? I mean, it's not like we had plans…right?" Danny asked, confused.

"Actually," Sam frowned, "we were going to all hang out at my house. For the first time. Ever. Remember?"

"Hey, that kinda' rhymed!" Tucker remarked.

Danny ignored Tucker and asked, "Wait, we were going to hang out at your house? But you never let us hang out at your place! Ever! At all!"

Sam shrugged, "Well, I just thought that…maybe it's time, you know, that you guys…look, I just wanted to do something different for a change." She awkwardly rubbed her arm, "I mean, you know…anyway," she crossed her arms and frowned, "you should probably get going if you want to get to that party."

"Are you sure? I mean, I could—!" Danny began.

"No, no! Go!" Sam stood up and grabbed Danny by the arm pulling him out of the room. Tucker followed with a confused look on his face. Sam dragged Danny down the stairs, out the front door of FentonWorks, down the front stairs, and shoved him lightly in the direction of the halfa's motor scooter that was tied up nearby, "Go to 'Da Dash Bash'."

"…Well, ok…" Danny looked suspiciously at her. He smiled, "See ya'!" He happily ran over to his motorized scooter, unlocked it, and jumped on. It then took off, riding off the sidewalk and moving down the street at a fast pace.

"What was that all about?" Tucker asked, suspicious.

Sam sighed, "Look, I can't tell him why I've been hiding where I live from you guys…so you can't tell him, 'k?" She glared at Tucker.

Tucker winced, "Ok, ok! Jeez…wait, you're going to tell me and not Danny?"

Sam smirked, "I'll tell him eventually. Well, at the very least, you'll end up slipping up and telling him, so…anyway, come on. My house isn't that far away, actually…" She ran off.

"…Hey, wait up!" Tucker ran after; he wasn't as fit as Sam, and he didn't want to fall behind too much!

Danny walked up the stairs to the front door of Dash's house; he couldn't help but think he forgot something…

He gasped in realization and slapped his forehead, 'Aw, crud! I forgot the suit!' He glanced around and transformed into Phantom, going intangible and phased through the ground. He flew quickly to his house while underground. He phased into the lab of FentonWork's, amused to see his parents trying to put the Fenton Weasel back together. The ghost boy, staying intangible, phased through the roof of the lab, then the roof of the kitchen, and finally into his room.

Phantom sighed in relief when he saw the 'cool suit'. He took it and, de-transforming, put it on while in human form. Danny jumped and, on the way up through the air, transformed quickly into Phantom again.

Phasing out, Phantom quickly flew through the wall and towards Dash's house. He smiled and landed at the front door, becoming fully visible and tangible again. Two light green rings appeared around his waist, one moving up and the other moving down, de-transforming him into Danny Fenton again. He knocked on the door.

After a pause, the door opened, with Dash standing there in a suit similar to Danny's but in his size and with a slightly different design. The blonde-haired boy blinked, "Wow, Fenton," he looked at his watch, "just on time, too!"

"Yeah, well, I thought that, if I were to ever be on time for something, it just had to be the biggest party of the year, right?" Danny smiled.

"Hm…just get in here." Dash sighed, stepping out of the way. Danny tried to enter as casually as possible. He blinked when he saw everybody wearing the same suit as his and Dash's, only in slightly different designs.

He asked, "Uh, so everyone's wearing this?" The halfa motioned to his own suit.

Dash chuckled, "Well, it wasn't mandatory, but nobody wanted to be caught not wearing one. Ok, Fenton, you just go and, uh, hang around the place. Is your sister coming?"

Danny frowned slightly, but managed to keep his eyes their human blue, "Uh, yeah, she should be. I actually didn't see her that much today, though…do you want me to go back and—!"

"No way, Fen-ton's o' Fun! You are staying right here, got it?" Dash glowered.

"Ok, ok! Jeez…what, is my sister bribing you?" Danny paused. "She didn't promise to date you, did she!?"

"Maybe she did. What are you gonna' do about it, Fenton?" Dash smirked.

"Listen, Dash, she's my sister. If you hurt her, I swear I'll—!" Danny began.

"Oh, Danny, you came!" A group of girls, lead by Paulina, walked over. Paulina was the one who spoke.

Danny inwardly groaned and thought, 'If there is a God…please spare me!' "Paulina…" He looked at the raven-haired 'beauty' with bemusement. "Uh…hi." The most popular girl in school actually looked rather modest, but still nice. "You, uh, look nice." 'Wow, smooth, Fenton. What about Sam, you idiot?'

As Danny forced images of Sam—one's that were clean, mind you!—into his mind, Paulina smiled at him. "You don't look so bad yourself, Fenton."

"Uh, huh…" Danny shook his head. "Hold that thought for just a moment, please." He turned to where Dash was, "Listen, Dash, Jazz is my sister. If you hurt her, I swear I'll—where'd he go!?" Danny looked around frantically.

"Um, he went out the front door when you weren't looking. Why?" Star, Paulina's best friend and 'satellite' (as Tucker called her as she always followed Paulina around), crossed her arms and raised an eyebrow in confusion. Her long blonde hair was even longer then Paulina's dark hair, and Star's olive green eyes looked almost like Phantom's, minus the glow, of course.

Danny groaned, "Oh, great. If I don't follow him, he'll hit on my sister. If I do follow him, he'll do another form of hitting…and by another form, I mean punching…me! How the hell do I get into these stupid situations!" He sighed and said, casually, "Sorry, ladies, but a her—I mean…normal…average guy who hasn't done a heroic thing in his life...is never not busy to talk. So…yeah." He quickly ran out the front door.

One of the girl's remarked, "That was weird."

"At least he had a valid excuse for leaving." Star shrugged. The girls stared blankly at her. "…He had a good reason to leave." More staring; Star slapped her forehead, "He, like, had a totally cool excuse for leavin' this fab' party."

"Now you're speaking our language!" Paulina happily spoke. She and the other girls laughed and walked off. 'That Fenton kid is so weird…kinda' cute, though, I'll give him that…'

Star shook her head, incredulous. 'Kwan's right, I probably am the smartest A-lister…I don't know whether to be happy or to feel cursed…'

Danny was glaring in determination as he rode his motorized scooter down the street, after what he recognized as Dash's car. Suddenly, the halfa's 'ghost sense' activated.

Technus, who was still stalking—I mean—following our favorite ghost boy, quickly concentrated on the closest technology nearby.

Mr. Lancer was smiling happily in hear house nearby. He thought, 'What better way to spend the day then a back shaving jamboree?' He chuckled at his internal rhyme; he grabbed a shaver nearby, but gasped as it tore itself from his grip. The shaver got a green ghostly glow and flew out the window, breaking it in the process. Lancer sighed, 'That's what I get for living in a haunted town…'

The shaver flew over to the invisible Technus, who smirked and aimed it with his technopathy. He gave it a 'life' of it's own, making it's only purpose as destroying Phantom. It then flew towards Danny, who was looking around in confusion.

Danny gasped when he saw the shaver flying towards his head…with it's blades much, much, much, much bigger then they were supposed to be! He groaned, "Aw, crap…if I wasn't in trouble already…" He ducked as it barely missed his head. It's cord wrapped around him, picked him up, and slammed him into the ground.

Technus smirked, but froze. His power to control technology made him able to sense it…and he could sense a lot of it coming from a nearby house. The house was rather large…and it happened to be Sam's.

Tucker looked around the mansion with awe. "This is your house?" He was in awe. The front entrance was like a palace!

Sam smiled sheepishly, "Yeah, well…wait 'till you see the basement."

Before Tucker could reply, his cell phone rang. He answered it, "'Yello?"

"Tuck! It's me, Danny! Help! I'm on Hartman Street and I—aw, crud! I'm goin' ghost!" There were the sounds of Danny morphing into Phantom heard. Phantom's voice was now heard, "Please, Tuck…need help!"

"Ok, dude! We'll be right there!" Tucker hung up and said to Sam, "Danny's in trouble—and he's right outside. He just doesn't know it." The techno-geek smirked.

Sam asked, "Should we help him?"

Tucker nodded, "He's our friend, Sam. He was excited by the party, but he still means well. That, and it's not like you can give up on him, can you?"

Sam hated to admit it, but Tucker was right. She could never stop lovi—I mean, kinda' liking Danny. She sighed, "Fine, let's go help our halfa." She smirked. The two friends ran out the front door.

Phantom dodged as the shaver tried another slash. It tried to stab his stomach, but shockingly, Phantom's upper and lower bodies split for a moment as his waist literally disappeared from all existence—not intangible or invisible or anything!—as the blade passed through. When the ghostly-shaver pulled away from where Phantom's waist should be, it reformed. The ghost boy grinned, 'Cool!'

Technus was pretty impressed. 'Hmph, he won't be able to stop me once I get all the technology in that mansion!' He phased into the Manson Mansion just as Tucker and Sam ran out the front door.

"Danny!" Sam shouted as the ghost boy was slashed in the stomach—she momentarily forgot to call him 'Phantom'.

Phantom cried out in pain, falling down…down…down onto the ground. Two light green rings formed at the halfa's waist, but he forced them to go away, keeping him in ghost form. Phantom stood up and shot a huge ecto-blast that destroyed the ghostly-shaver. He sighed in relief, but gasped as his 'ghost sense' went off again.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" An evil laugh was hear inside of Manson Mansion.

"Hey," Phantom realized, "that sounded like Technus! And he's in that large-looking house! Oh, well, it's not like it's somebody we know who lives there…I should still stop him though."

"Actually, D—Phantom…that's kinda'…my house…" Sam nervously confessed.

"…You can explain to me how that is after." Phantom's slash wounds on his stomach were now healed. He wrapped his arms around his friends, turned himself and them intangible, and flew them through the wall, finding themselves in Sam's room, where Technus was in the centre off, possessing the computer.

Sam shouted, "Hey, that thing was expensive!...Not that it matters, since I could easily buy a new one…but that's beside the point!

Technus ignored her and declared, "I, Technus, with all the advanced technology of this house—which is very, very nice, by the way!—will construct a body capable of extreme power! Then, I, Nicolai Technus, will RULE THE WORLD!" He laughed his evil laugh.

Phantom retorted, "Not on my watch, dude!" He flew forward, but the computer Technus was in slammed into his stomach, sending the ghost boy flying into the wall. Technology began flying towards him, forming into a large, sleek body until…it was a slightly large mechanical, dark black robot with some green designs.

"Now…I…will…rule!" Technus shouted.

"Danny, do something!" Sam begged.

"On it!" Phantom glared, but paused to add, "And it's Phantom in this form, remember?" He took off towards Technus, but was back-handed to Technus' left. Phantom went intangible, phasing into a closet.

Inside the normal looking closet was a bunch of gothic clothing…except for a picture of Danny Fenton on the back wall. Phantom raised an eyebrow at it, but shrugged and phased back out of the closet with glowing green hands. Phantom put his hands together and released a quick, but moderately powerful, ecto-blast that sent Technus into the wall.

Technus shouted, "You cannot defeat me, ghost b—oy…oy-oy…" He faltered for a moment, stammering. He shook his head and scratched his forehead in confusion, "What is wrong with me?!"

Phantom looked around and saw an upgrade disk. He gasped and thought, 'The upgrade disk…Sam hasn't upgraded the Portals L system yet!' "Oh, no you don't!" He pointed at the upgrade disk, "You are not using that upgrade disk to make yourself more powerful!"

Technus blinked and sneered, "I di-didn't think of that…pfft, tutoring…y-y-y-y-you should be a freakin' te-teacher!"

The ghost boy blinked and groaned, "Aw, man, not again…oh, well!" He dashed forward, legs fusing into a ghostly tail. He got the disk, but a blast of energy hit him, sending him flying into the wall. Phantom picked up what made up the blast, "Ghost toast?" Phantom chuckled at the rhyme, but quickly sprung into action again, tackling into Technus and catching the disk. He threw it to the ground and tried to blast it, but Technus hit him, causing the halfa's ecto-blast to go astray and send Tucker's beret flying.

"Hey!" Tucker protested.

"Sorry!" Phantom apologized automatically.

"Foo-foolish ghost ch-ch-ch-child! You ca-cannot stop m-m-me from ru-ruling this-this world!" Technus claimed, his system still malfunctioning his speech and movements slightly.

Phantom retorted, lamely, "Yeah, well…watch me try, then!" He fired an ecto-blast that knocked the disk out of the robots hand.

Technus glared angrily and cannons replaces his hands. Beams of violet energy shot from them. Phantom raised a round shield of green energy which absorbed the attack. Phantom dropped the shield and flew at Technus with a punch. Technus simply backhanded the ghost boy flying in between his human friends. Technus laughed evilly, "MUHAHAHAHAHA! You ca-can't even sto-stop me wh-when I'm not upgraded!" He picked up the disk and inserted it into the slot on his chest.

Phantom gasped, "NO!" He flew forward and attempted an awesome-looking jump kick. It probably would have been really effective—had Technus not raised a wall of red ecto-energy, which caused Phantom to kick it instead. Phantom brought his other foot up so he was 'standing' on the wall, then back-flipped off of the red ectoplasm just as it faded away.

Technus smiled as the upgrade was now complete! "Hmph, I'm glad I ran Portals L instead of XL, or I wouldn't have downloaded it so fast! I mean, the fact XL is new means it should be faster, but it isn't, of course." He snorted.

The halfa hero ignored Technus' mini-rant on new computer operating systems and he attempted a punch. Technus caught it easily and released a powerful shock of violet ectoplasmic electricity. Phantom cried out in pain as he was thrown to the ground in front of his friends.

Phantom begged them, putting his hands together and shaking them up and down, "Guys, you gotta' help me!"

"I dunno'…" Sam frowned thoughtfully. "Why not ask some of your popular friends for help?"

"Sam, what are you"—the goth girl nudged Tucker—"oh, uh, I mean…yeah! Why should we help you if you have the jocks on your side?"

"Are you guys nuts? Those guys aren't my friends!" Phantom stood up, waving his arms; behind him, Technus was speaking his plans of world domination aloud, oblivious to the trio at the moment. "In fact, I was leaving that party to go stop Dash from harassing my sister...but, um, I'm sorry for ditching you guys, anyway." Phantom rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly.

Sam sighed, "I guess we can forgive you…" Tucker nodded in agreement.

Phantom smiled, "Thanks, guys."

"Hey! Are you ignoring me!?" Technus shouted angrily.

"No." Phantom turned to the technopath and released a green beam of energy that hit Technus in the chest, knocking the suit back. Technus glared as Phantom added, "It's kinda' hard to ignore someone who talks non-stop…"

"Silence!" Technus shouted, "Fine, ghost child…if you continue to be persistent, let us finish this battle in the ultimate fight…to the death!"

"Um, dude, you're a ghost." Phantom pointed out, "You can't really die…I think…"

"Actually, naïve ghost child, us ghosts can be destroyed…not that it matters, as you shall never even come close to destroying me!" Technus sneered and went intangible, floating through the wall, a jetpack appearing on his back as he dashed off.

Phantom shouted, "Hey, get back here!" He went intangible, phased through the wall, and chased after the mechanical menace.

Sam ran out of the room, as did Tucker. They had to catch up to Phantom; they knew he would need some assistance. When didn't he need at least a little help?

Phantom slammed both feet into Technus, sending the mechanical voice into the ground. The ghost teen spoke, "I won't let you take over the world!"

Technus snorted, "Oh, really? How are you going to stop me, hm?" He sneered, "I am much too powerful!" Red beams shot from his eyes and collided with Phantom's stomach, sending him flying. The ghost boy hit the wall, groaning in pain. Instead of sliding down the wall, he was able to stick to it. 'Weird…' He didn't even need to focus his flying powers, he just had to focus on the wall.

Phantom shook his head and pointed at Technus, "I'm ending this, once and for all!" He bent his knees underneath him, braced his feet on the wall, and jumped off of it, flying through the air with his legs fusing into a ghostly tail.

"As if!" Technus retorted, his 'stomach' (a clothes dryer) opened up. Phantom, unable to stop, ended up inside of it. The door shut and Phantom screamed as he began spinning inside. Technus laughed manically as the door of his chest opened and the halfa teen was sent flying through the air. Phantom went intangible and phased through the wall, finding himself in Jazz's room. The redhead looked up from her book and gaped at him.

"Uh, s-sorry!" Phantom stood up and smiled nervously, "…By the way, you know Dash Baxter? He's, um, kinda' at the front door, so…just…thought I'd warn you…so…your…brother didn't have to…yeah…I'm gone." The ghost teen faded into intangibility and flew through the wall.

Jazz glanced out the window to see Dash, of course, at the front door. She sighed and smiled a little at the wall Phantom just phased through. She whispered softly, "Thanks, little bro'." She went to answer the door—if only just to slam it in Dash's face.

Phantom tackled into Technus, slamming him into…Dash's car. The blonde jock gaped at them in shock. Phantom glanced at him, meaning Technus was able to catch him off guard with a punch. The ghost teen slammed into the wall, hitting the ground painfully. Dash asked, "Wh-who...are y-you?"

"Phantom. Don't forget it." The halfa responded darkly, standing up and glaring at Technus.

"And I am Technus, ghostly technopath and electricity guru! Watch as I take over the world with me electronic fury! WHO'S YOUR DADDY!!"

"Dude, you are so lame." Phantom rolled his eyes. He flew up to Technus' head and said, "I mean, seriously, 'who's your daddy'? What the hell is that!? If you're going to be in this business of super-villains I need to defeat, can you at least talk like somebody in the FREAKIN' TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY!!" Phantom's eye twitched angrily as he angrily shook a finger at Technus, who stared at him with wide eyes.

When the door of FentonWorks opened, Dash shouted at Jazz, "You are so not worth being in danger like this!" He ran off screaming. Jazz frowned, a little hurt.

Phantom, up in the air, had his own problems. He dodged as Technus tried to punch. The technopathic ghost snarled, "How dare you doubt my hip and snazzy personality!"

"I'll show you 'hip' and 'snazzy'!" Phantom retorted, firing beams of green energy from both hands. The ecto-blasts sent Technus onto his back, luckily not hitting a building. Jazz, meanwhile, was watching from inside FentonWorks, making sure nobody would see her looking out from the window.

"GAH!" Technus stood up angrily as weapons folded out from his body, "PREPARE TO BE DESTROYED!" All the weapons fired at once; the attacks all hit each other, causing a massive explosion of red ecto-energy. Phantom couldn't help but notice that the attacks that had fired from Technus' weapons had all been either green, blue, or violet, but the combination of them all made a red explosion. Of course, that wasn't the first thought on his mind. The first thought was him registering the pain of the huge explosion.

Phantom cried out in pain, hitting the ground painfully. Once he was on his back, only half-conscious, two light green rings formed at his waist, one moving up and the other moving down, de-transforming him into Danny Fenton.

Jazz winced. 'I hope nobody saw that…'

"Ugh, I hope no-one saw that…" Danny grumbled, sitting up. He stared in fear as Technus' right foot slammed into the ground at his left. Technus' left foot then landed on Danny's right. Instinctively, Danny somehow managed to force himself into ghost form, the light green rings being somewhat painful, but it was worth it; he was able to go intangible at the last moment, phasing into the ground just as Technus tried to stomp on him.

"Get back here, child!" Technus shouted.

"If you insist…!" Phantom phased up through the ground and ecto-blasted Technus in the head, disorientating him to the point where a simple kick knocked him over. Phantom then was surprised when his friends rode up on their motor scooters. "Sam! Tuck!"

"Da—Phantom, can you get that disk out of Technus for me? Then maybe I can hack into his systems!" Tucker shouted.

"On it!" Phantom nodded seriously, turning to Technus. Green spectral energy surged to live in his fists just as Technus recovered.

Technus taunted, "Ha! You cannot harm me! This body has a healing factor, something that not many ghosts have!"

Phantom frowned. He didn't know his healing factor was that unique. It just seemed pretty…normal. Then again, being a halfa seemed to mean he had more of the rarer ghost powers…so he wasn't that surprised. Shaking his head, he spoke, "Yeah, well, at least I don't need a suit for that power!" He smirked.

"What! That's impossible! How could you have a healing power!?" Technus angrily fired a sharp-looking disk that made a cut in Phantom's arm, trying to see if Phantom would heal it. To the technopath's shock, the cut healed within seconds. Phantom winced a little at first, but smiled when the pain faded away after a few moments. "...!" Technus was speechless.

"Take a picture, techno-jerk, maybe it'll last longer!" Taunted Phantom, aiming a hand that glowed with green ghostly energy. However, instead of firing a blast, he used the fact Technus was distracted to use his telekinesis to forcefully remove the upgrade disk from Technus' chest.

"What—hey! Give that back!" Technus angrily demanded as Phantom held the disk up smugly.

"Oh, sorry! You didn't say the magic word!" Phantom retorted, quickly melting the disk with ecto-energy.

Technus screamed, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Phantom then smiled at Tucker, "Well?"

"Got it!" Tucker gave him a thumbs up. He pressed a few buttons and, with that, Technus' suit suddenly powered down. Technus phased out of it and the suit fell into pieces, revealing all the technology it had been made up of.

"No! I will not let you defeat me, Technus, the king of—!" Technus began.

"Long winded-introductions and failure speeches!" Phantom interjected, activating the Fenton Thermos and sucking Technus inside. Capping the white and green ghost-not-soup holder, Phantom smirked to himself, letting himself change back into Danny Fenton. He winced, holding his stomach painfully as he dropped the thermos on the ground. Luckily, it didn't land on the 'release' button.

Sam asked, concerned, "Danny? You ok?"

Danny nodded, "Yeah, I think so."

The goth girl glared angrily, "Good! Then I hope your little healing ability works well in your human form, 'cause you're gonna' get it!" She began chasing Danny.

"Hey, I thought you guys forgave me! Oh, come on! Sam, please! OW! That hurt! I'm goin' ghost!!" Danny quickly transformed just as Sam attempted to side-kick his ankle. The goth girl was surprised when Phantom's foot and the rest of his body detached from each other, her foot passing through harmlessly. "Ha!" Phantom grinned, but it faded when Sam held up the thermos. "Oh, crud."

"Relax, I'm not that cruel." Sam chuckled, rolling her eyes. Phantom sighed in relief and, de-morphing into Danny Fenton, landed beside her. "Besides, I forgive you. You just were excited for the party."

"Yeah, well, I shouldn't have ditched you guys. I promise I'll never do that again, ever." Danny smiled, "So, uh…what should we do now?"

"Party in the Op-center!" Tucker shouted, pointing up at the Fenton Emergency Operation Centre on the roof. The techno-geek happily ran into FentonWorks, went up stairs, and climbed the ladder into the Op-Centre.

Sam shrugged, "Well, we don't have anything better to do." She smiled as Tucker used the Op-Centre's technology to play a CD. It played slow music that was ok in both the ghost boy's and goth girl's opinions. Sam looked at Danny shyly, "So, uh…dance?"

Danny blinked, "Well, ok, but I must warn you, I haven't improved since the last time we danced!"

"At least this time you don't have to worry about me turning into a dragon." Sam quipped. The two laughed, but began dancing. Tucker watched this from the Op-Centre, a smile playing his lips.

"Lovebirds. Even after having a little fight. I seriously don't get why they don't just date already…" Unfortunantly, he forgot to turn of the microphone.

"We heard that, Tucker!

END CHAPTER

Notes/Trivia

Danny had enough money for a 'cool' suit for Dash's party already. Why? His parents are getting rather rich since ghosts are seen as real now…

The show never directly said that Sam told Danny that she was rich, though it was assumed she did, so…

I think this is Star's debut for this story…if you've read my profile, you'd see summaries for some future chapters that include Star as pretty important. Though, I might give her more appearances and small roles other then those, so be ready for 'em!

Speaking of Star, I am a firm believer that she is one of the smartest of the popular girls. Which is saying a lot of the A-list girls in the DP universe, I must say! Even in general our favorite female minor!character is really smart. I know, this is useless trivia…or is it? Also, I made Amazing!Star's eyes the same color as Phantom's…why? Oh, it'll be important, trust me…

…Once again, speaking of Star, she and Kwan are already dating by this time. She mentioned him with her thoughts here. Kwan, like his canon self, isn't all that bad underneath. Star is the same, by the way…

Not much else to say, really. I personally love the fight scenes between Phantom and Technus the most, as Phantom is beginning to improve in his fighting skills.

By the way, the street Sam lives on is 'Hartman street'…as in Butch Hartman, the creator of Danny Phantom. In case you're wondering, FentonWorks is on 'Butch Street'. Heh. As for Tucker…um, I'll think of his street's name eventually.

I wanted to include some telekinesis, so I had Phantom use it to forcefully remove the upgrade disk from Technus.

If you mix green, blue, and violet energy (or at least two of those) together, you can make red ecto-energy.

Technus revealed that a healing factor is a rare ghost power. In fact, the technopathic ghost can only have a healing factor if he's in one of those suits.

Ghost Bio: Technus: An evil ghost who can control technology and can also create pure electricity. Not much different from the show, as he wants to take over the world and stuff. He does not underestimate Phantom unless Technus himself thinks that he is more powerful then usual (like if he has a new really powerful suit or something); still, Technus can be a little arrogant at times. Like in the show, Technus shouts his plans to the sky sometimes, a habit he won't get out of…or will he? Nevertheless, Technus isn't powerless without technology, especially with his electro-staff (which is in the show: his debut in Attack of the Killer Garage Sale and much later in Secret Weapons…then…never, since Skulker stole it from Technus in the latter episode…and Technus didn't really need it as his new 2.0 form can make electricity on his own). Anyway, Technus will make more appearances then he did in the show—or, at least, he'll be mentioned more. In fact, Skulker mentioned Technus in the hunter-ghost's debut chapter…remember that? It wasn't something Skulker said aloud or directly-thought, but it was mentioned in my narration…

Ghost Powers Introduced: technopathy (Technus only), body splitting (when Phantom's waist split apart to let the blades of Lancer's shaver go through him and later when Sam tried to kick his ankles, which vanished in the same manner), wall walking (you know, from the episodes Teacher of the Year, Public Enemies, and much later in Forever Phantom? Yeah. Well, I noticed Phantom also sticks his back to walls in a way, so this power was introduced somewhat when Phantom was against the wall in the final fight with Technus. Yeah. I noticed this in the show when I watched Flirting with Disaster, one of my favorite of the Season 2 episodes)

Here's a question for the readers: are my fight scenes ok? I personally think they're the best part about my stories, but…what do you guys think?