Summary: Wanting to escape the town that changed so much since the reveal of his ghost side, Danny flies to Gravity Falls, Oregon where no one could possibly find him. There, he meets with a familiar face that he hasn't seen in a long, long time. But of course, he couldn't stay hidden for long. Although, he was found by someone that he didn't expect.

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom or Gravity Falls. They are owned by the lovely and talented Butch Hartman and Alex Hirsch.

Note(s): So this is a story to replace the other GF/DP crossover I made years ago, I think it was called Secrets of Summer, and this time the story will take place a year AFTER the season finale of both Phantom Planet and the Weirdmageddon saga. Instead of the focus of Dani, it will mostly focus on Danny himself. Dipper and Mabel WILL be in this story but will be in laster chapters, along with Dani. And yes, expect some Danny/Wendy loving, sorry for those that ship Danny/Sam, it's just...not my cup of tea. So if you're a shipper of Danny/Sam, this isn't a story for you. Anyways, enjoy the story~!

Sometimes we all have a moment in our lives that we want to take back.

For one Daniel James Fenton, it was the moment that he revealed that he was the ghost hero/menace of Amity Park, Danny Phantom.

Even though that he was relieved that his family and everyone in town had reacted in a positive way, it didn't mean that things were going to be good.

With Tucker Foley, one of his best friends and partners in the Phantom Team (as his sister would put it), being the youngest Mayor of Amity Park, the now seventeen year old wasn't exactly free all the time now. Danny understood, honestly he did, with the responsibility they both had it was hard for them to meet up like they used to. Although, the halfa was happy that the African American techno-geek found his calling and wasn't considered a loser anymore. Tucker had even offered Danny to be co-mayor with him, considering that Danny does protect it all the time. But the raven haired male declined, saying he wanted more...freedom outside of politics and of course Tucker understood, and told him that he still had his back.

Jazz herself was in college now, studying into parapsychology and mechanical engineering (being just like her mother) and surprisingly was going into a school that was in some sort of techno city state that was practically far from Amity Park. But she still kept in contact with Danny on video chats and always helped Danny with research when needed, particularly when there was new ghosts coming into town. She has even told told Danny of her time at San Fransokyo and that she made quite the friends and that it made her miss Danny and Tucker a lot. There were also times that Jazz and he had some deep talks, such as their future careers besides ghost hunting and...relationships. Which was a lot considering that Danny was lamenting on his newly made romance with a certain goth girl.

Sam Manson.

The best friend turned girlfriend strangely enough wasn't busy. In fact, she had glued herself to Danny's side ever since saving the planet from the giant ghost meteor that almost destroyed them all, no thanks to Vlad. Danny would've thought that Sam would've moved to bigger things like protests of those that were still skeptical on Danny Phantom or even going into her usual ways of getting into mischief to either go into some goth event or something to do with her ultra-recyclo-vegetarian diet. But...it was mostly of the fact she was just...there. Being around Danny during his meetings with the Amity Park Council with Tucker, being around Danny during his school time and surprisingly showing up Paulina and the popular girls of their new relationship and the weirdest of all...she was mostly lagging behind during their ghost patrols and fights. The only time that she wasn't glued to his side was when he was going home to rest or training with Clockwork and Frostbite in the Ghost Zone.

It was like Sam wasn't Sam anymore. What happened to the girl that he had come to really like other than a friend. In fact, she wasn't being his friend at all these days.

But it wasn't the worst of it.

The Guys In White were now being even more on Danny's case and they have been getting Danny into court ever since his reveal. Apparently being a vigilante of the ghost kind was a crime. Luckily, both Jazz and surprisingly Valerie (she and Danny are on good terms now, even now when Valerie is dating Tucker) had looked into many law books and such to win Danny's case for now.

Plus, his popularity has grown with BOTH his life as Phantom and Fenton. Meaning that he hasn't had that much privacy anymore, and with Sam's goading it was almost impossible to breathe something.

He just...wanted to get away.

I wish that everything was like the way before. At least that was normalcy. Danny thought as he closed his eyes and tried to feel like this was all just a dream.

"You know Danny. It pains a mother to see her baby boy looking so down,"

Maddie hummed as she was looking up from her tinkering of fixing one of her husband's ghost inventions as Danny was poking at his dinner idly.

Danny blinked as he snapped from his train of thoughts and glanced up at his mother, then smiled tiredly, "Ah, sorry. I was just...thinking, that's all,"

"Thinking of what, sweetie?"

It was times like these that Danny sort of appreciated of her being a mother for once and not the obsessed science-y ghost hunter. He especially bonded with her more since two years ago with their mother and son bonding vacation together while escaping Vlad. Danny learnt then that he should spend more time with family, because, well, he loved them despite their craziness.

"I...was thinking of taking a break," Danny finally said after he thought about it.

"Well, you are on summer vacation sweetheart, so of course you're on a break," Maddie chuckled as she moved her goggles up from her eyes, but softened once she saw that Danny wasn't smiling still, "A lot on your plate huh?"

"A lot more," The raven haired male paused, then bit his lower lip and sighed, "I'm...just kind of glad that you and Dad are cool with me being part ghost,"

"You're our son, Danny. Of course we still love you. I'm just sorry for all the times we've accidentally said we'd rip you apart molecule by molecule," The female Fenton scooted closer to him and wrapped her arm over his shoulders and pulled him close to a hug.

"Besides, if anything we should be mad at that goth girl!" The booming voice of Jack Fenton bellowed as he was stepping into the kitchen, kissing his wife's cheek and then ruffled his teenage son's hair, "She was the one that made you into the ghost boy,"

"Jack," Maddie chided to him with a frown as Danny smiled weakly.

Danny didn't have the heart in him to argue with his father. If anything, he did have a point. At first, Danny and Jack did fight over this matter that Sam had egged Danny into going into the Ghost Portal and caused the accident that gave him his powers, but he still doesn't regret it. Being Danny Phantom gave him purpose, a meaning to do good and help people.

"How's talking with the Ghost Hunters Association, Dad?" Danny asked, changing the subject instead.

Jack sighed as he rubbed the back of his head, "Ahh, not so good, son. Me and your mother would be kicked out, but thankfully I had talked about how you actually hunt down the bad ghosts and such better than we do and they considered to leave the matter alone for now. They are still being swayed by the GIW so this isn't over,"

"Of course it isn't," Danny sighed as he leaned against the table, leaning his cheek onto his hand, "It's never ending with those jerks,"

Both Jack and Maddie looked at each other for a moment and then back at their upset son.

Maddie then thought about it for a moment, on how to help her son. She knew that Danny would be relieved once he leaves for college himself and be away from his hometown and the drama, but that was next year after another summer. Danny himself still was deciding if he should go for his NASA dream or not, and with everything going on, he couldn't focus on his future.

It was then Maddie remembered something.

"Oh, Danny if you're looking for a place to go to get away from it all, I just know the place,"

Jack saw his wife's look and then remembered one part of her bumpkin family having friends and gulped, wanting to stop her, but noticed that his son was perking and looked interested. Oh boy..

"Maddie..."

"Jack, this is perfect!" She chided to her worried husband then looked back at Danny, "So, you interested?"

Danny looked surprised at this indeed, "Really?" He said and then raised a brow, "What place?"

Danny, in his ghost form, was flying high in the setting skies; passing over the pine trees below.

"The place you're going to is Gravity Falls, Oregon," Maddie told her son, "You remember that place right? You went there every summer since you were a little boy, and always wrote to a friend of yours from there. I wonder why you stopped writing to her before high school..."

"Ah, Danny shouldn't go there. Doesn't your family live there too?" Jack whines a bit with worry, but Maddie shrugged him off.

"He'll be staying with a family friend don't worry. You remember Mr. Pines, don't you dear? He used to look after us each time we visited," Maddie chuckled, "I can call him up and ask if you can stay with him once again for the summer. It's gonna be so much fun!"

That was that and with just a few bags on him (his Dad had insisted to use the Fenton Shrinker Box to place his stuff in for easy carry, sort of like Hermione Granger's magic bag) he soon was making his way there.

He had already told Tuck that he was going, and the young Mayor was understanding of the trip and wished him luck. Danny was sure also that he had told Valerie while Danny's parents emailed Jazz about it.

But telling Sam was a different story.

Apparently when Danny said he would be going on a 'discovery trip' by himself, she was livid. Danny held his ground against his girlfriend and calmly said he just needed some time alone, and that he'll see her at their senior year of highschool in the fall.

"So, what? You're just gonna up and leave Amity Park like that?! What about the ghosts of this town? Who's gonna keep them in line?!"

"Sam, Valerie has it got it covered. She's the town's most reliable and strongest ghost hunter and even if she gets overwhelmed, my parents could help out as well,"

"Could you be even MORE irresponsible?! Danny, there's no way you could just LEAVE like that! What if Vlad comes back? Or a different disaster happen!"

"Look, I'll be back after the summer. It's not like I'll be gone forever. Anyways, I should get going..."

"Danny, don't walk away from me! We're not done talking,"

"Well I am. Sam, I really have to go now!"

And well, Danny didn't stick around to see Sam's wrath and be on her warpath. Hopefully she could cool down before he gets back. Thankfully, he didn't tell her exactly where he was going, but it wouldn't take long before Sam will go badgering either Tucker or his family about his location for the summer. But Valerie assured Danny that she'll not let the goth girl break Tucker on telling, and his parents (especially his father) weren't going to cave in either. It was strange that his parents rather preferred Valerie than Sam, despite Danny pointing out that Jack had made Danny a ring for Sam two years ago.

But at any case, Danny knew that Amity Park is in safe hands.

It wasn't like Danny didn't want Sam to come with, it was just he needed a breather for a while.

And apparently that's in Gravity Falls.

"Wendy!"

Forest green eyes looked up from her reading to see both Soos and Melody walking to her, smiling.

"Oh, hey guys what's up?" The redhead waved at them with an easygoing smile.

"You gonna be working at the Mystery Shack again this summer?" Melody asked softly as Wendy then gave a shrug.

"I dunno. I should really think about...college and stuff, ya know? Even though my dad says it's a waste of time," Even Wendy herself didn't think she'd be college girl material, but she wanted to leave Gravity Falls and explore the world and all, "And besides, you two seem to be making the Shack well with just you two,"

"About that," Soos hummed as he then gave his happy go lucky smile, "Since both Mr. Pines' are coming back for a while, me and Melody might take a vacation together before we...er well," He then showed his and Melody's hands, showing the engagement rings on there.

"Oh dude that's awesome!" Wendy gaped at them but looked happy for them, "Guess this is pre-Honeymoons, huh?"

"In a way," Melody hummed, nodding her head, "And well, we got a call from Mr. Stan that he's got a guest coming over to visit for the summer to stay in the Mystery Shack and well, we can't really be there-"

"Say no more," The red head waved off then winked, "You wanted me to see to this guest huh?"

"I heard he's your age," Soos piped up, making Wendy raise a brow.

"O...kay?"

Melody coughed, "W-well anyways, we're actually on our way to visit Soos' Abuelita to tell her the news. We'll see you later?"

Wendy nodded and waved to the happy couple and then sighed, rubbing her head as she then adjusted her cap. Softening her gaze, she removed the blue cap with a pine tree on it, and touched it fondly.

How she missed her friends that were the Mystery Twins, and the adventures they went through. Highschool was still such a drag since the summer ended last year, and his friends haven't been hanging out with her for a while now. Robbie and Tambry have been more 'couple-y' than ever and had planned a trip together somewhere on another state, and the other boys were doing their own thing now (apparently they wanted to make some stupid movie together). This just left Wendy alone, wondering what her summer plans would be.

It was then that she suddenly felt a shadow over her for a quick second and looked up, seeing something whoosh by and heading to the forest...right where the Mystery Shack would be located.

'That's weird' Wendy thought, 'That's not any bird I've seen before,'

The thought of Dipper telling her to follow it flowed into her mind, and before she knew it, she ended up letting her boots rush to follow the flying creature, ignoring how she almost bumped into things and people. It's been so long since anything weird happened in this town, and Wendy had to admit (despite the Weirdmageddon incident last summer) she had missed the action. Wendy was cursing a little that she didn't have her trusty axe in case this things was dangerous or anything and soon found herself stopping when the creature landed. Looking at it closely, Wendy realized it was a human. Or...looks like one. With snow white hair and dressed in some tight black and white suit.

'Woah...' Wendy thought as she hid herself behind a tree and narrowed her eyes.

The figure was scratching their heads and turned slightly for Wendy's view, showing it was a boy. Slight glow of a tanned skin and glowing green eyes. Somehow, Wendy found herself entranced by the being, almost blushing slightly as she thought he was kind of good looking for some dangerous entity. Then she remembered, it would be dangerous, like Bill Cipher or something. Biting her lower lip, Wendy was sweating, wishing that she had Dipper and his Journals to read on what this guy was. It would've made things much easier, rather than her usual tackle and kick tactic.

It was then she had to step back, but froze when she stepped on a branch, hearing the crunch. 'Gah! What a cliche!'

She then glanced over to see the figure was gone, and panicked immediately.

'Oh man, did it hear me? Or did it get scared off? Where did it go?!'

She looked around frantically, preparing herself for a fight anytime, but then blinked when someone came face to face...well, the face was upside down, their toxic green eyes staring back at Wendy with curiosity and wonderment. Wendy felt like she couldn't breathe as she stared nose to nose with that face, blinking her crossed eyes as the face floated back-

"Wait! Floating!" The redhead yelped out loud as she was soon bringing her fist up and tried to punch the guy's face, but then felt herself fall forward, and something wrapped around her to stop her from faceplanting on the grass.

"Woah, careful there," The voice of the being spoke softly, and Wendy blinked as she was placed to stand straight again as the figure floated in front of her again, "Hi, you okay?"

The redhead scoffed as she was keeping her guard up, "Who are you!? W-what are you?!"

The being blinked it's eyes and then tilted their head, "Wow, heh, wasn't used to people not knowing me," They coughed and then smiled, "Hi, I'm Danny Phantom,"

"Danny...Phantom?" Wendy felt a little weird about the name, like she's heard it before but couldn't quiet place it, "So...you're a...ghost?"

"Well half ghost," Danny corrected as he then stepped down the ground and soon two bright blue rings surrounded his middle, whooshing up then down his figure as the white hair turned to midnight black, his eyes now a baby blue and clothes were a normal raggedy kind of a red t-shirt and tennis shoes, jeans and a demin jacket, "See? I'm human too,"

But Wendy was busy gaping at the male and then was looking...well, overwhelmed, "Danny?"

"Er, yeah?" The ravenet said slowly, nodding his head, "That's my name. Well, heh, my name really is Danny-"

"Fenton," Wendy pointed out then was shaking her head, "It's me, Wendy. Wendy Corduroy? Remember? W-we used to be friends long time ago,"

"Friends...?" Danny looked thoughtful for a moment and then looked a bit apologetic, "E-er, sorry, I...don't remember,"

Wendy's eyes flashed with a little hurt, but then had the facade of coolness then nodded, "That's...normal. I mean, dude, it's been ages. I guess you stopped in highschool," 'Not that I should care, it's a long time ago. Still, we were close friends back then. Man, haven't had thought about this guy for a long time,'

Danny's eyes widened then groaned internally. His mother DID mention that he had a friend when he was smaller when his family took him here.

"Ah! R-right. Sorry I...heh, memories have been foggy. Anyways, yeah, Wendy, nice, er, seeing you again,"

"Uh-huh," Wendy chuckled lowly but then turned, "Anyways, what'cha doing here, ghost boy?"

"I, uh, actually am here for my summer vacation. I'm staying with a Stan Pines in his Mystery Shack," Danny explained.

"Oh!" The redhead clicked her fingers, "Then you're the guest that Soos and Melody mentioned that was staying over,"

"Er, who and who?"

"Nevermind. C'mon Casper, I'll show ya where you're staying," Wendy nodded her head and walked away, hands in her pockets as Danny soon rushed to walk next to her, "You didn't bring any luggage with ya?"

"Ah! I did, actually. It's...kinda in this box," Danny pulled out a metal square that fit into his palm.

Wendy squinted her eyes, "That tiny little thing?"

"It actually expands into a bigger box and stored everything in it,"

"Wow. That's...pretty cool,"

"Thanks. My dad made it,"

"Really? Wow, must mean your dad is some tech whiz inventor huh?"

"Well, he has his moments," Danny shrugged, as he smiled at the thought of his goofy dad.

Wendy grinned, "Think your old man could make me one too?"

"Sure, but...you travel?"

"I want to. Maybe I could even use it to hide a dead body~" Wendy winked teasingly, making Danny chuckle and soon the two were laughing light and carefree, despite the dark joke.

'This is actually nice' Danny thought, as they walked together out of the deep forest and heading to the dirt path that lead to the Mystery Shack. He had to thank his Mom later of telling him to go on this trip, already he was feeling better. Maybe this is what he truly needed. A break from the never-ending same cycle. Away from all the drama, and get back into feeling of, well, fun and adventure like he used to. Although, he still knew he had to call everyone and tell them that he got to Gravity Falls safely. Danny was looking around for a moment, then spotted something on the way.

"Hey, what's that?"

Wendy paused as she looked at where Danny was pointing, then froze. Standing in the middle of the forest, birds sitting on what seemed to be a stoned statue of a triangle'd being with one eye, a top hat and a bowtie.

"That's...just nothing. Let's keep moving," Wendy was walking quickly away, not seeing if Danny was following.

Danny stood in front of the statue curiously, tilting his head to the side. Suddenly he gasped, feeling cold air escape his lips but...it wasn't usually the blue mist. It was actually reddish yellow mist instead. Frowning, Danny wanted to investigate it, but heard Wendy's name calling him, and turned to look at where she was waving frantically to follow. Shrugging, he soon followed after her, not realizing that a sudden small crack was seen at the edge of the statue, and birds flew away into the skies.

'Huh, why do I feel like that this summer isn't gonna be a normal one?'

Not only did Danny think this, but Wendy did as well.

But the two just kept walking, lost in their thoughts and wondered what was the shady feeling they were getting.

End of Introduction...?

Thanks for reading everyone, and I hope you enjoy this and that this was kinda better than Secrets of Summer. It would be a great appreciation for reviews and the likes if this story should be continued or not :D See you in the next chapter and Happy 2018 guys~! :D Bye~!