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Grim Reaper Boogie by Evolutionary Spider

Chapter 1: The Bully Bop

Danny heard rather than saw the people chasing after him. As he skid around another corner he was tempted to use his ghost powers to phase through, but knew he couldn't with so many people around. He turned to look back and groaned as he saw that Dash and his cronies were still hot on his heels. The blond quarterback was covered with today's casserole surprise and gave him another glare promising payback. 'I really need to master my phasing powers,' thought Danny. As he looked forward again he yelped before he ran smack dab into what felt like a brick wall.

He fell backwards with a thud and looked up in a dazed confusion. His eyes blinked out the blurry form of a boy dressed all in black. Before he could do anything else, he saw the boy disappear in front of him. Danny didn't have a chance to think before he felt himself being roughly picked up and pushed against a row of lockers.

Danny closed his eyes and waited for the punch to his face. When it never came, he slowly opened one eye in apprehension. Both his eyes quickly widened in surprise however, when he saw that someone was wrestling with Dash on the floor. Dash gained the upper hand and managed to hit the other boy twice in the jaw. The other boy used his legs to toss Dash over him and jump back upright. Dash quickly got up and stood ready to fight again. A crowd slowly began forming around them and cheering them on.

Danny blinked in confusion when he recognized Dash's opponent to be the same boy he'd crashed into. He stood looking at both of them, wondering who would attack first. Dash yelled out just as he charged forward and punched the other boy in the gut. The crowd groaned slightly, believing that it was over. Nobody ever got up after a hit like that from Dash.

Sam and Tucker pushed through the crowd and stood by Danny's side watching the scene in front of them. Dash stood smirking over another boy who was on all fours, holding his stomach.

"Hey man, what'd we miss?" asked Tucker.

The African American boy held up his PDA as he saw the smirk on Dash's face towards his mysterious opponent. Tucker started to record the scene in front of him and aimed his PDA at the other boy. Before Danny could answer, they all heard a low chuckle come from the strange boy.

The boy picked himself up, his deep laughter growing louder as he raised himself. Everyone, including Dash, looked on in shock at the weird smirk on the other boy's face. His black and blue bangs covered his eyes, but Danny's breath caught in his throat as he saw a brief glimpse of the other boy's eyes glow green.

Suddenly the other boy lunged forward and quickly punched Dash hard enough to send him flying into the lockers. The crowd winced as Dash's body made a sickening crash against the metal. The injured boy groaned softly as his body gave way and slowly slid down. Several of the students started to run away as they heard the yelling of teachers coming closer.

"Let's get out of here," said Sam, as she and Tucker turned to run off. Both stopped in surprise when they noticed Danny push through the fleeing crowd towards Dash. They looked on in surprise as Danny bent down near the injured boy.

"Uh Dash? Dash?"

"Fenton?" said Dash groggily, not really looking at him.

"Yeah, Dash it's me. Are you okay?" asked Danny.

Dash simply fell unconscious to his words. Danny's eyes widened in surprise when he realized that he'd seen correctly and he tentatively ran a finger near the lapel of Dash's jacket, the tip touching a small trace of green goo. He'd first noticed it when Dash had punched the other boy in the gut, but he hadn't been sure at the time. Danny looked up to see some of the football players come closer, but none mentioned the disgusting slime on the boy. They pushed him out of the way and helped their friend get up.

"Buzz off Fenton," said Rick angrily. Danny recognized the boy from his home economics class.

"Hey, I was just trying to help," said Danny defensively.

"Some help. You know if it hadn't been for you, Dash wouldn't have gotten hurt in the first place."

"What? But I-I didn't do anything," said Danny taken aback.

His words were ignored however, as some of the teachers began yelling at Dash's friends for not stopping the fight. The school nurse began fussing over the injured Dash and looked very worried. Danny looked on to see Mr. Lancer whispering vehemently to the strange boy, before roughly grabbing him by the arm to his office. Danny was about to walk away when he saw the new boy turn his head to look back at him. Danny caught the odd gaze and felt a shiver run through his body.

"Are you alright man?" said Tucker as he put a hand on Danny's shoulder.

"Yeah Danny, you look really worried," said Sam as she looked on between Danny and the new boy being dragged away.

Danny sighed as he looked down, "There's something about that guy that just...doesn't feel right."

"Yeah he survived a fight with Dash and totaled him," said Tucker as he walked away. Danny and Sam looked at each other before walking alongside him, "But you're right, there's definitely something weird about him. His vitals indicate he wasn't even trying against Dash."

Sam raised an eyebrow as she asked, "How do you know?"

"I'm glad you asked," said Tucker with a smile.

Tucker reached into his pocket and pulled out his trusty palm pilot. He punched in a few commands and then held the screen forward for them to see it. Danny and Sam came closer to him.

"Ok so this is the video I took of the fight."

All three looked on as the fight was replayed, Tucker froze the video at the moment when the new boy punched Dash in the stomach. He pressed another button and the image looked infrared. Tucker entered in a new command and the palm pilot beeped in response. A list displayed itself in front of the image. Arrows pointed out specific parts of both boys.

"Wow, Tuck. Where'd you learn to do this?" asked Danny impressed.

"I've been tinkering around with a biographic medical program. I can record video images around me and use the program to analyze them." At the strange looks the other two gave him, Tucker simply shook his head, "Never mind, let's just say it's a good thing I did because now we can find out what's going on with the new kid."

Sam rolled her eyes before reading off the list for Dash, "High levels of adrenaline and endorphins. Muscle response at 46. Heartbeat 145 over 90? Body heat at 50 °F?" Sam looked up in confusion as she asked, "How is that even possible?"

"It gets weirder. Look at the other guy's stats," said Tucker as he pointed to the other list.

Danny's eyes roamed over to the other list.

"Adrenaline and endorphin levels at 32. Muscle response at 100. No heartbeat or body heat found in organism?" read Danny in alarm. "What does it all mean?"

Tucker scratched the back of his head as he thought for a moment, "Our brains use adrenaline and endorphins to regulate sensation and pain perception. This guy didn't have the same levels as Dash so that means that the fight didn't even make him break a sweat."

Danny looked back at the list, "What about the rest? Why did Dash's body go out of control, while this guy's just...?"

"Dead?" offered Tucker.

Danny nodded in response and Tucker put his PDA back into his pocket.

"I don't know. Something about this kid made Dash's survival instincts kick in, but at the same time he lowered Dash's body temperature."

"No heartbeat or body heat?" Sam said aloud. Both boys turned their attention to her. "Maybe he's a ghost or a zombie, with the way his vitals are, it'd make sense."

"True, but aren't zombies practically brain dead. This guy was still thinking in the ole noggin," said Tucker as he tapped his own head for emphasis.

"Yeah and my ghost sense would have gone off if he was a ghost," added Danny.

Danny turned and looked back remembering everything that had happened.

"When I ran away from Dash and his goons I crashed into the new guy, but he disappeared right in front of me. Then just as Dash was about to bash my face in, this guy steps in and fights with him out of nowhere and at one point I thought I saw his eyes glow green. He even left a small green stain on Dash's jacket, but only I could see it."

He looked back at the scene seeing the deep dent in the lockers, "He's not a zombie or a ghost. He's something much stronger…"

End of Chapter 1

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