"YOU WONT TOUCH HER AGAIN!" Danny yelled at Dash, furious. Being shoved into lockers, run up flag poles, all of the humiliation heaped upon him, he could handle. But not Sam. Never Sam.

Dash slammed him against the lockers he'd been slamming Sam against, "Stop playing the hero, Fenton. Your too weak loser. " Dash sneered. Danny snapped. He slammed out an open palm, and caught Dash in the chest, throwing him back several paces.

"Stop playing the hero?" Danny asked him, contempt dripping from every word, "And what? Let everything come crashing down? Too weak? Yeah, sometimes I am. But I still fight. I fight every day to protect everyone, and I NEVER get any reward for it."

"Protect people? You?" Dash scoffed.

Danny glared. Then reaching inside himself, he let white rings wash over him. The school gaped. Sam and Tucker gasped in shock, not believing what they were seeing. Tucker stood protectively in front of her to Danny's side after helping her up.

"Yeah. Me. " Danny continued, "I'm failing, worse than you half the time, because I'm up all night fighting ghosts. Most of the time I don't get any sleep. I don't get my homework done, because I have to protect the town or worst case scenario, save the world!" He walked up to Dash, poking him in the chest, "I cut class, because no one else can help." He then backed off and walked around the crowd.

"I've been burnt, broken, beat up, tortured, called evil, hunted and threatened BY MY OWN PARENTS, and got up the next day and done it again." As he made it back to his spot in front of Dash he glared at the jock. He then pulled off a pure white glove, and rolled up his black hazmat suit, revealing a nasty cut on his arm. The reason he had been wearing a hoodie that day became painfully clear.

Tucker frowned slightly, disappointed that he or Sam hadn't been informed that he was hurt that bad. But between class and this...he never really got a chance to tell them.

"And then I come to school. I'm a loser, a wimp." He reached inside of himself again, letting the white rings turn him back to human, "I'm the one you take it out on when you want to." He said pointedly looking back to Dash, "I'm the ignored. The one who's failing gym because I won't use my powers to cheat. Do you know how easy it is to cheat for me?" He said looking towards the crowd.

"But I don't." He looked over to Dash, eyes flashing green, "I could have gotten you back for everything so many times! And I haven't done more than minor pranks! Because of my friends. ONE OF WHOM, YOU WERE JUST SLAMMING AGAINST THE LOCKERS!" He yelled, gritting his teeth, not able to control his eyes turning green once more, but this time staying that way, "They get less credit than I do." He gave a hallow chuckle, eyes turning blue again, "At least when I'm Phantom, I get some credit from people." He said with a frown. As to prove his point, he shifted again to his ghostly persona.

"But them? They never get any. Most people don't even know they exist! And you know what? Their the only reason I'm still me! And I did cheat once, you know? On the C.A.T. and through a freak accident I lost them. I couldn't take it. I snapped. AND I DESTROYED THE WORLD! I saw it all, I went ten years into the future to try and stop him, and I couldn't. If it hadn't been for the ghost of time giving me a second chance, NONE OF YOU WOULD BE ALIVE!"

"And you thank them by calling them geek, loser. By stuffing them into lockers. You do the same to me!" He sighed and then let the white rings change him once again to human, smiling at everyone's shell-shocked faces. "But I still fight. So yeah, Dash. I play hero. And I always will. No matter what you do, no matter what anyone does, I will still protect people. Because I will do anything in my power to protect those I care about. Because my friends believe in me."

He shrugged and looked back to Sam and Tucker who smiled at him, "You are the only reason I keep going. The only thing that makes it worth it. I know I don't say it, but thanks guys." Danny turned back to Dash.

"So I'm a loser. So be it. It's better than popularity, I've found. But I promise you this," he stalked over to Dash, "If you EVER hurt my friends again, you'll have one very angry halfa after you. And I keep my promises." He then turned and walked to Sam, making sure she wasn't hurt.

Then, with glances at his friends, they all walked out the doors, leaving behind one very confused Dash Baxter, one very guilty Edward Lancer, one clueless Paulina, and one student body that had just had their view of power turned upside down. But through all the silence and confusion a camera dropped inside a bag.

"I'm gonna be famous!"

(Hey guys! Thanks for reading. Please leave a review if you liked it! I was originally planning on just doing a one shot with this, but if you guys like it I might make it longer. Thanks again!)

~ ArcticFox