It had all begun just like any other day. Danny Fenton walked to school with his best friends Sam Manson and Tucker Foley. He got shoved into his locker by Dash and then slept through English. During his next class, math, Skulker phased upwards through the floor and everyone in the room ran away in fright. Everyone except Danny and his friends, that is. Danny morphed into his ghostly alter ego, Danny Phantom, and flew out in front of the school with Skulker in tow. Skulker launched a dozen rockets from his shoulder plate at the halfa, who phased through them easily. "Ha, you missed!" Danny shouted.
"Wasn't aiming for you, ghost child." Was the reply. Danny turned around and screamed. That's when everything went wrong.
Jazz had been sick that day, so she hadn't gone to school. Her parents had just finished working on their latest invention, which looked like a digital map of the town. Her father took her confinement to her room as a perfect opportunity to blather on about this latest invention. He explained that receptors located along the town border sent an electromagnetic signal through the town once every five seconds. If the signal detected a ghost in the town, it caused a glowing blip to appear on the map over the ghost's location, sort of like a ghost radar. Jack and Maddie had realized that most of their inventions had targeted Danny frequently, so they had attached a chip on the tracking device with a genetic lock that caused it to disregard any member of the Fenton family during the scan. Therefore, it only saw one blip that appeared in front of Casper High. As soon as the ghost registered on the scanner, Jack picked Jazz up (while ignoring her angry protests), threw her into the Fenton Ghost Assault Vehicle, and jumped in with Maddie in order to try and catch the ghost.
The Fenton RV pulled up in front of the school just as Skulker chased Danny outside. It's occupants looked through the window and saw what appeared to be a robot with its head on fire launch a case of missiles at the infamous Phantom. The Public Ghost Enemy #1 turned himself intangible and the rockets went right through him. Unfortunately, the RV was parked about a hundred feet behind the ghost child, right in the path of the rockets. The last thing that the three Fentons heard was Danny screaming "NOOOOO" before a dozen missiles slammed into their RV.
Danny watched in horror as the Fenton RV was hit by the missiles. He watched as the deadly conflagration caused the five-ton vehicle to explode and launch ten feet into the air, flip over in mid-air and then land upside-down. He knew that there was no hope for his family, that they were long gone. He slowly touched down with his back facing the students of Casper High, who had by now evacuated the building. Sam and Tucker ran up and stood on either side of him, each of them putting a hand on his shoulder. Skulker landed in front of Danny.
"You have no one left who will care for you. You have no one to take you in and feed you, clothe you, put a roof over your head. Now you have no reason to refuse me, to join my collection and spend the rest of your life in a cage." The rest of the students slowly approached Phantom. They stayed within earshot, but were too afraid of his reaction to the whole scene to come any closer. Even Paulina was too scared to approach him. Only Sam and Tucker stood by his side.
"You killed my family, Skulker," Danny said in a monotone voice. His family? What's he talking about? Phantom's not related to the Fentons in any way! The rest of the students thought. "I have no thought in my mind now but to destroy you using my most powerful and destructive attack. Even though it will drain my strength completely and force me to revert to my human form, thereby exposing me. I don't care about preserving my secret identity anymore. I don't have any reason to hide it." He inhaled deeply and allowed a massive amount of power build up in his diaphragm. Before Skulker had time to move, before he even was able to react in any way, Danny unleashed his Ghostly Wail. The force of the blast was so great that his battle armor short-circuited. First the arm segments were blown away, then the legs, then the head and chest. The sheer power of the attack caused all of the buildings directly behind Skulker to be leveled. An entire city block lay in rubble.
Danny sank to his knees and changed back into Danny Fenton. He turned around to look at his shocked and confused friends. He turned to look at Mr. Lancer, at Principal Ishiyama, and at Valerie. He widened his gaze so that he could see all of his classmates. They looked at his broken form and saw all the pain that he had endured as the town hero, the one who was at once loved and hated, showing in his ice-blue eyes. "I'm sorry," he said in that same monotone voice. He looked down and a single tear fell landed on the ground in front of him. "I'm so sorry," He turned to face Sam, and looked into her eyes as he changed back into his ghost form. She too saw the pain that racked his gaze. However, she also saw the suppressed love that finally had the courage to shine through his glowing green eyes into her amethyst ones. Without another word he took off, never to be seen again in his hometown.