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Danny sighed as she walked through the front doors of Amity's public Library. With her junior year drawling to an end the teachers had been piling on more and more work in preparation for both Finales and the State tests. Lately it seemed as if even the tasks of dealing with Ghost attacks, nigh constant these days, had fallen to the wayside of the town's attention as everyone geared up to send off another batch of young adults into the world.

To be honest the entire mess of societal obligations every younger member of the town had heaped upon them was staggering in its breath, enough to send many into a mental breakdown. Beyond the typical tasks of laying down the foundations of their entire futures weighing heftily on many a shoulder, the almost unspoken need to prove themselves better than others in the eyes of the world just because they all hailed from the quaint little town of Amity Park, also known as the leading cause of supernatural disasters worldwide.

Something that already put them at a severe disadvantage to their peers from other population centers on all fronts. Just to get the same job or into the same collage they had to be better than any other candidate by far to be considered. While it might be true that Amity Park had the highest concentration of ghosts, over the years more and more of them have been moving on to greener pastures with the defeat of the king at the halfa's hands, even more had left when Plasmius went missing almost a year ago.

The rest of the world hadn't been happy with the influx of ghost activity that they now had to deal with, many becoming bitter to the town that was first plagued with them, and the town in turn showed an increasing iciness to anyone bearing the name Fenton. Though things were kept civil with the help of increased production of many Fenton anti-ghost products. All of the town's major buildings were protected with shields, created to withstand even the strongest of attacks, and keep any ghost out. Their technology had boomed to produce better more durable and easily fixed or replaced devices. Almost everything now ran on holographic screens, computers, billboards, watches, radios, even street lights and signs were holographic. To be honest Amity Park had changed a lot with the times necessity. If you took a picture of the town today and showed it to someone three years ago they would think that they were seeing their home 200 years in the future.

While the advances and precautions were admirable, their reason for existing was not. At this point while Amity was nowhere near unprotected from their supernatural criminals, the fact remained that the rest of the world was not as lucky. The first city to start adapting FenTech over the horribly ineffective GIW's solutions was the capitol, then a flood of major urban centers followed. The worst of the problem lay with lower population centers reluctance to use technology developed in Amity Park by the very family who released Ghosts into the living world to begin with.

Overseas it was even worse, many foreign countries had fallen back on religious leaders over the supernatural dealings, refusing the help of technology to ward off the otherworldly offenders.

Suffice to say things were only getting harder as the years went on and the number of ghosts increased outside of Amity Park. Though luckily the Guys in White were no longer in operation, now that their unethical modus operandi had been exposed. Most divisions of law enforcement now had specialized units to deal with the paranormal. Though Amity still relied on the Fentons and Danny Phantom to keep them safe.

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Hours later Danny looked up to see the evening sun dappling through the Library windows, the sky turning a lovely cornucopia of oranges, pinks, purples, and reds. Stretching out her tired and stiff limbs she stood and quickly sorted everything away. After leaving the books she had utilized on the front counter she started making her way home.

Feeling re-energized as she walked down the futuristic streets of Amity Park with the knowledge that she had completed her work needed for next week she looked forward to a hopefully clear weekend as she wanted to get some r and r before the last month of school truly got rolling. Well that and Jazz had just gotten home the night before from collage, more convinced than ever that their parents were mad scientists. As such she was resolute to try and correct their crazy.

Hearing the sound of Skulker's booster jets she groaned as she simply unscrewed the lid of the thermos and took aim. One good thing about her ghost-self being female meant that Danny Fenton could be seen handling ghosts with skill without anyone being suspicious. She re-tightened the lid as she walks up her front steps, opening the door to a loud bang.

"I'm home!" Waiting five seconds then giving up she closed the door and headed up to her room, deciding to release Skulker later less she be drawn into whatever crazy invention her parents were making now. With a heavy sigh she divested herself of her backpack and headed to the bathroom with some sweats.

Studiously ignoring the mirror, looking at her body, or clothing in general, she started up the shower. With deft motions she maintenanced the male body as quickly and thoroughly as possible, before getting out and drying off.

Wearing her clean sweats and glad to have gotten rid of the sweat gathered during gym today she headed back downstairs to get started on dinner for her and Jazz. It was starting to look like one of those times where her parents would be down in their lab for days engrossed in science, so she would just leave them with a plate of sandwiches.

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The next month flew by in a haze, Danny spent most time split between studying, doing projects, chores with Jazz, and ghost fighting. Both of her friends were busy too, though they studied and fought together occasionally mostly their group was focused on preparing for collage. Not that Jazz was any help, fresh off her first year as a psych major she was determined to put to use what she had learned in the months away from Amity Park on more than just the older Fentons, seeing as how they were still locked up working in the basement lab.

As the finale days of her junior year drew to a close Danny was relieved to see the back of Dash Baxter and most of his gang of A-listers. The only one not to pass senior year was Paulina yet again. The twenty year old still far more invested in fashion and boys to actually graduate. Though rumor had it that her parents were forcing the Latina to summer school this year in hopes that she would be done with high school by Christmas.

That of course didn't stop the popular bullies from tormenting everyone else as much as possible before they walked out of Casper High doors forever. Danny in particular was shoved into more lockers, tripped, shoulder slammed, and teased more than ever in the last week than all of tenth grade year.

With the sweet smell of summer in the air Danny was ready for the changes the next few years would bring.