I know, I know, I really shouldn't be making any more stories. But, if you remember, I just updated Ghost Bug. I also sent the next chapter of A Hopeless Cause to my beta reader, and soon following will hopefully be A Fruit Loop's Reign. I am also working on the next chapter of An Accidental Accident. Trust me; I'm doing my best to update as fast as possible.

Now, I thought of this when I was looking up Danny Phantom pictures on my iPod when I was trying to fall to sleep tonight. I saw a pic of what Sam would look like if she was in Tron. It got me thinking. It was that picture (whose creator's name is escaping me right now) and the episode Teacher of the Year that compelled me to do this story. I hope you guys like it!

Sucked In

A FanFic by Pheek

Chapter 1: Sucked In

Danny's POV

"BEEP-BEEP-BE-BE-BE-BE-BEEP!" the cursed alarm clock screamed.

Ugh. School. I slowly crawled out of bed and downstairs. I yawned as I poured my cereal, most of it missing the bowl. Not noticing the now messy table, I went into the fridge to grab the milk. Half way through trying to pour milk into the bowl, I noticed that there was no milk coming out. After shaking the jug a few times in my grogginess, I finally noticed a note written by my dad to my mom that read:

Maddie-

Make sure to get more milk the next time you are out.

-Jack

P.S. Any chance you can get some fudge, too? It tastes great with milk.

P.S.S. Can I have a cookie?

Scoffing, I put the milk, note and all, back in the fridge. I dumped my bowl of cereal into the garbage and set it on the counter next to the sink- still oblivious to the fact that most of the cereal was on the table.

Giving up on the idea of cereal, I shoved a power bar in my mouth instead. Now that 'breakfast' was taken care of, I got dressed, brushed my teeth, and smoothed my perpetually messy hair down. Upon getting all of this done, I grabbed my backpack full of half-done homework and shuffled out the door. On my way to an alley, I saw that my sister had already left. Being that she had some big tests coming up, she had been getting to school earlier than needed- at least in my opinion.

Once getting into the alley, I switched into my ghost mode and began my flight to school. It didn't matter how tired I was, the brisk morning air hurtling toward my face at a hundred and twelve miles per hour always woke me up. I landed by a tree behind the school where I changed back. I walked to the front of the school where I met up with Sam and Tucker, just like every other morning.

"Where were you last night dude?" Tucker asked, "Sam and I thought you were meeting us up at Centro Ville in Crashers, when we didn't see you, Sam and I had tried to take down King Centro by ourselves, and trust me, it is not a two person job."

"Yeah," Sam added, "Even with the cheats it was impossible. Where were you? Did you have ghost trouble?"

I nodded to them. "Sorry guys, I tried getting on, but every time I was about to log on, my ghost sense appeared. First Ember, who I had to chase around town for an hour or so, and then Skulker, who decided to try out some new inventions. It must have been two am by the time I finally caught him. After that, it was a mixture of the Box Ghost and Klemper who were periodically attacking until about four am. I'll try to get on again tonight, though. By the way, Sam, you despise popular things, why do you like Crashers so much?"

"Well," she began, "I know that it's the most popular computer game out there right now, but it is also pretty awesome. Plus, it will eventually be outdated like Doomed, and I will still play on it then, so in the end I'll be doing something unpopular."

I let out a small laugh as she smiled in spite of herself. Tucker and I were both shaking our heads as we walked into school.

"Ding-ding-ding!" the school bell rang, signaling the beginning of lunch. While silently declaring war on all bells and alarms, I walked out of the classroom. All around me, I heard people talking about Crasher; jocks and geeks alike. I met up with Sam and Tucker at the lockers. We raged on about the teachers and homework as we made our way to the lunch room, and then to our regular table outside.

"So, when and where do you guys want to meet up tonight on Crashers? We still have to take down King Centro, so, do you guys want to try to meet up there again a sixish?" Tucker asked.

Both Sam and I nodded, followed by me saying, "I'll do my best. I'll probably be done with patrol by then, but as you guys know, my enemies don't really care when I have plans." This got a suppressed laugh out of both of them.

"Now," Sam began, "what's the new strategy for taking down King Centro?"

Just as Sam said this, a big clump of the popular kids walked by, and heard Sam's comment. Dash, being the leader of the clique, asked, "Wait, you losers play Crashers?"

"Duh," we all replied. We all weren't that scared of Dash and his group. A couple of years ago, Tucker and I would be:

A. In a coma-like state due to Paulina's 'radiating beauty'. (Which we both saw through now, well, at least I did…)

B. Running do to fear of getting beat up.

C. Cowering under the popular kids.

Sam on the other hand would have been:

A. Standing up for Tucker and me.

B. Standing up for Tucker and me.

C. Standing up for Tucker and me.

She never really cared about their popular status. She was just like that.

"Look, all I'm getting at is that you guy could join us. Working together, I'm sure we could beat the King and win the game," Dash said. After Dash said this, the three of did a double take between a ourselves and the four popular kids standing in front of us.

When we didn't reply, Paulina said, "Look, if you don't want to, then I guess you guys are more of losers than we thought."

"Yeah," Star said, "We already got a few of the other losers-I mean geeks, to join forces with us, so are you in?"

Kwan just nodded throughout the whole thing. We then all did another double take, and made an agreement. "Fine," Tucker said.

"But why should we trust you?" Sam inquired, "You guys don't really come across as game players, how do we know that you won't slow us down?"

"You're just going to have to take our word for it, Gothy," Paulina said snottily. Sam growled back.

"Be at the Centro Ville Square at six or not at all. We are only inviting you so that we can have more troops," Dash said.

"Don't be late, losers," Star said as they were walking away.

We all then sat in silence for a second and then Sam said, "They are the last people I thought would be playing a video game. Especially Paulina and Star."

"Should we go?" I asked.

"Well, being that they are as popular as they are, there should be a good number of people there. The chances of taking down the king of all Crashers is high. I mean, the three of us were able to take down all the minor Crasher Kings by ourselves, but trying to take down King Centro is probably going to be a harder task than the three of us can handle. This just might be our chance to do it. So, we might as well," Tucker said.

"I guess your right Tuck. Might as well," I said.

"Fine," Sam reluctantly agreed, "It just doesn't make sense to me why Paulina and Star have taken an interest in video games. They didn't do this even when Doomed was popular, so how is this any different. Plus, the A-listers aren't really ones to ask for help. I think something's up, guys. They aren't acting like themselves."

"I think you're over-reacting, Sam," Tucker remarked.

I nodded in agreement, and then, just as I was about to say something, the bell rang signaling the end of lunch. I really hate alarms and bells.

For the first time in a week, I was finally able to get on to Crashers, and on time, too. I quickly traveled through the digital world to Centro Ville Square. That's when I saw the group that the A-listers had collected. It was huge. Our whole school must have been on. The Square must have had to expand to fit all the gamers. I quickly wove through the crowds and found Sam and Tucker. Using my head piece, I said, "Well they sure did get a lot of kids."

"Look who finally decided to show up," Sam said. She positioned her character so that her hand was on her hip. The 'fashion sense' in Crashers was fairly close to Doomed. Her avatar's body was covered in a black jumpsuit with purple wires running down the sides the whole suit, with a purple S on the front. She also had on a pair of black gloves with buckles on the wrists. Her feet were covered in her signature combat boots. Her head was covered in a pure black helmet with green tinted glass covering her eyes.

One of the cool things about Crashers was that it used the Web-Cam on your computer and put your face on you character. It was pretty neat. Doomed did something similar, except the face wasn't live; instead it was a picture that you uploaded. That you could turn on and off.

"Yeah, isn't it funny how you decided to show up now and not when it is just two of us," Tucker said. He had a helmet on his head that seem to resemble his beret, except it was green. His torso was covered by a green body with brown cords running over it. He had a pair of brown gloves and boots on. He also had a big T on his chest.

"It's not like that!" I said defensively, throwing my virtual hands up. The body of my avatar was white, and it had blue cords running over it. I had a blue helmet on with glass that covered one eye that helped me aim. My hands and feet were covered in blue boots and gloves. Obviously, my chest had a large D on it. I wanted to do the DP insignia as a joke, but Sam and Tucker said it was suicide.

We waited for about a minute and then we saw, what seemed to be Dash shoot up into the air and say, "Alright people. We already know our goal today, so I don't need to repeat it. Everybody just follow me through the doors so that we can start the quest and kill the king of all Crashers, Centro!" He then shot back down to the ground and walked through the doors. We followed him, along with the rest of the school. We all ended up in a big courtyard once everything loaded, and were ready to be briefed by the game on what we were about to take on and all that crap.

But instead of being briefed, King Centro appeared in front of us. At first, I thought it was a glitch, but then I saw that all my weapons were gone and I was unable to use any of my game powers. Then, King Centro began to talk- that's really when I knew it wasn't a glitch- he boomed, "It appears that the next group of gamers is about to try to take me down, well guess what? Game over."

And that's when it happened. A pair of hands reached through the computer screen and brought me into the game. I instantly entered the body of my avatar. Everything was just like how it was when I entered my character in Doomed, accept for the fact that I couldn't get out. Looking over at everybody else, I saw the same thing happening.

After all the characters had been entered, all hell broke out. People everywhere were being sucked up into the clouds. I grabbed Sam and Tucker who were obviously still dazed by entering their avatar. I pulled us into an ally and down a trapdoor Sam had told me about a while back. I set them down and went ghost. Now in ghost mode, I ran out into the chaos. People all around me were being taken. The only people who stayed safe were the ones on the edges.

Inching along the edge, I saw the four A-listers who invited me and Valerie. Valerie had obviously already snapped out of the initial shock of getting pulled in and must have pulled the four to safety. "Valerie!" I yelled.

She stared at me for a second, obviously taking a second to calculate what I was doing here, and screamed through the chaos, "Phantom? What are you doing here?"

"Yeah, I'll explain why I'm here later. I know a safe place, common!"

"Why should I trust you?"

"Do you really have a choice?"

"Fine, help me with them." I then grabbed Kwan and Dash and she got Paulina and Star. She then followed me into the alley. Valerie was obviously still slightly dazed, because she fell to the ground as soon as we got into the alley. I had to then pull the five of them into the hidden room beyond the trap door. When I flew back out, I saw that the whole terrain had changed. We were now in what appeared to be and large grassy field of some sort.

After taking in my surroundings, I flew back into the hidden room that was now under a tree stump rather than a trap door. Back in the room, I took in the room. There seemed to be quite a bit of supplies, including a few weapons. I then set myself on a barrel and waited for them to wake up. This was going to be a very long day.

How did you guys like it? Good? Bad? Ugly? I won't know unless you review.

Like all my other stories, I am going to do a trivia question. You just put what you think is the answer in you review. If you answer correctly, you will get your pen-name posted in the beginning of the next chapter.

This issues question is:

What is the name of the episode that Technus makes his first appearance?

I need a name, not a description. Good luck!

Also, if you have any questions on how Crashers works, ask through your review and I'll be sure to either PM you or put the answer in the next chapter.

Please review.