The next video posted on the Amity Park trio's website was posted after a small international incident. Many were expectantly waiting for the point of view of the teenagers instead of just news reports, they were not disappointed. Sam started the video off, instead of nondescript warehouses they usually filmed in she seemed to be in an alleyway, a bustling street sounded off to her right. Her clothes were made up of lighter colours then usual and her hair was completely pulled back into a small bun. "Hi guys, today we're filming from a large city in Ohio. I will not be saying which city, since we prefer making the GIW jobs harder, and this video will not be posted until we're far out of the city."

"To make sure we aren't noticed today, we'll be wearing these awful disguises." Turning the camera, Sam showed Tucker and Danny, in human form, standing on her left. Danny wore a blue hoodie and a red NASA ball cap. Tucker was wearing a yellow tank top and a book bag, instead of his normal beret he was wearing a beanie. Overall, they looked marginally different then they normally do, and would be easily recognizable if looked at close enough.

Danny tugged at the edge of his sleeves, "It's not like I'll overheat with my ice core, but do you really think this will help disguise us? You know people do wear different clothes sometimes Tuck…"

Tucker waved the other two's doubts away with a hand "Nonsense, these'll work. We just got to complete the looks." With that said, he took out sunglasses and slipped them on. Sighing, Sam also put on a pair. Danny reluctantly pulled the hood of his sweatshirt overtop of his hat, giving him the classic disguise of many comic book heroes. At a look from Tucker he reluctantly put on his own pair of sunglasses. They could now be considered normal teens going out on a sunny day, or the squad of outlaws they were attempting to look the part of normal citizens without being noticed.

As the two boys started to head out of the alley, Sam gave the camera one last look. "This is going to be a disaster." She proceeded to follow her friends into the busy summer street.

At some point between when the last clip ended off Danny had been handed the camera, he gave a bemused thumbs up before turning it around. In the near distance Sam and Tucker approached some sort of small canteen, a few people glanced at them, but they were quickly overlooked. After what seemed to be a small argument Tucker ordered, and Sam handed the cashier the money to pay for it. The cashier watched the two of them with an odd expression for a moment before shrugging and going to get their order. Whether she recognized them, or if it was weird for two random teenagers with matching sunglasses on to order a bunch of ice cream, was unclear.

Danny met up with the two on their way to a fountain, the camera was set across from them as they sat down on its ledge. Danny's pure and unrestrained happy smile as Sam passed him a huge cone of ice cream was blinding, Tucker snickered into his own cone.

Sam settled in with her own but glanced back over to where the halfa was practically devouring his mint chocolate chip, to the point that it was splattered over his face. "Danny?"

"Hm, yeah?" He distractedly pulled his legs up until he was precariously sitting crisscross while balancing on the edge of the fountain. Also placing his sunglasses atop his hat.

"When was the last time you actually had ice cream? And I mean, actually calmly eating it without it being somehow infected by ectoplasm and bringing it to life."

Tucker at this point had stopped his own ice cream consumption to look at the ghost for an answer as well. Danny looked up to the sky as if looking for an answer from a divine source, before settling to look at his cone in scrutiny. "Have we not had ice cream at your guys houses?"

The goth teen slowly turned to fully face her friend "No Danny, I do not believe we have. When have you last eaten ice cream?" This time it was said with such calm deadly force Danny started looking truly worried.

He laughed nervously holding his ice cream protectively in his hands, as if someone was going to take it away. "Umm, probably not since last summer, maybe, I think I had ice cream then. Actually no, uh, before the accident?"

Sam froze, speechless. Tucker choked, though he seemed to recover quickly. "YOU HAVEN'T HAD ICE CREAM THE ENTIRE TIME YOU'VE BEEN HALF GHOST?!" Danny looked to the side with a bashful expression.

Slapping her hand not holding ice cream down beside her, Sam stared accusingly at the half ghost. "It's been two years Danny, two years!"

Danny curled in on himself, nervously rocking back and forth. "I don't know! I've been busy, and for a while I didn't want to eat cold food after my ice core acted out so bad on me. Plus, that one time with the possessed ice cream monster I just haven't-"

"Oh my Ancients, Danny. I cannot believe this."

Tucker shook his head back and forth solemnly, taking a lick of his own precious desert. "That's just wrong dude, just wrong."

Sporting a faux innocent expression Danny smiled apologetically at the camera, deciding the best course of action was to continue eating his ice cream. The other teens quietly grumbled under their breaths but went back to finishing their own before it melted. The video skipped ahead to where they had all shifted and finished their ice cream, enjoying the warm summer breeze.

Danny returned the sunglasses onto his face and lent back, balancing on his arms, his hood ended up falling down in that same moment "Its nice being able to relax for a little bit, even with us being chased down." The other teens hummed in agreement, all was quite peaceful, until someone randomly approached them.

"Hey, are you Danny Fenton?"

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It is to be noted that at this time in the day, the trio's video was still in the making and not yet being released to the public. However, other videos did start to trickle in as others noticed three strange sunglasses wearing teenagers that looked very similar to those that were currently being hunted by the government. If you were to put some of them in chronological order, it could end up appearing something like this.

The first video was on TikTok and showed a college student sitting at a table beside a canteen. "Alright so I was just sitting here enjoying my coffee, right? A normal day, and suddenly I see these guys." The camera turned around and zoomed in on the three figures sitting at a fountain in the near distance. They were oblivious to the fact they're being filmed.

"I don't wanna like draw attention to them but seriously? Just sunglasses?? Who are these three trying to fool?" The video was tagged with the soon to be popular hashtag of #FoundThePhantom.

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Another video came when a minorly popular YouTube vlogging channel started a livestream. The smiling face of the main vlogger waved to the camera "Hey guys, Amanda here. Today I'm here with Tyler and Lily, we're hanging out in the park." Tyler waved at the camera, but Lily remained distracted by something else.

"Usually we don't start any livestreams without warning, but today is a special case."

Tyler took the camera from Amanda talking excitedly "We can't be a hundred percent sure, but we may have accidentally found three special wanted teens." He turned the camera to where Lily had been staring at. A group of three teenagers, that looked suspiciously similar to the famous ones from Amity Park, sat on the edge of a nearby fountain. Finishing off ice cream and relaxing in the nice summer day.

Lily spoke softly and continued watching them, "I swear, I heard one of them yell something about the one in the hoodie being half ghost earlier. That alone is pretty solid evidence, unless they're really weird cosplayers or something."

Amanda stood up from her previous crouched position "There's only one way to find out. Come my friends, we approach." She started a steady pace towards them, Lily trailed after her. Tyler kept behind them with the camera, he seemed excited but also started silently muttering under his breath.

"If we get beat up by an angry half ghost, or protective friends, at least we'll get it on camera."

The brunette vlogger finally stopped in front of the fountain, taking a breath and looking specifically at the boy in a hoodie. "Hey, are you Danny Fenton?" The supposed Fenton froze, as did the two friends beside him. Lily curiously came up beside Amanda to see the exchange better, Tyler did too.

The girl sitting in the middle who looked a lot like Sam Manson, turned to the boy on her other, taking off her sunglasses. "You know, I told you this wouldn't work Tucker."

Tucker took off his own sunglasses and looked down at them, disappointed. "But the power of sunglasses…"

Tilting her head, Lily raised an eyebrow at them, "So, you are Sam, Tucker, and Danny from Amity Park?"

The blue-eyed boy took off his sunglasses, smiling nervously. "Uh yeah, we are. You're not going to call the GIW are you?"

Sam and Tucker tensed slightly looking ready to grab their half ghost and run at a moment's notice. Amanda and Lily began shaking their head vehemently, but Tyler cut right in. "Heck no we won't. Like I respect most laws and everything, but the laws with ghosts are just complete wack. So, for you guys, vive la revolution."

Amanda shrugged helplessly "I agree with all those points, but we're also live streaming this right now. Sorry about that."

Sam waved it off, no longer concerned. "It's fine, our disguises, which I say lightly, we're always destined to fall. It'll take them a while to find anything and in the meantime?"

Tucker had already pulled out one of his devices, "I'll fill up their alert system which should keep them busy for a few hours."

The calm facade Lily had been trying to preserve throughout the entire encounter finally crumbled, and she started some seriously excited chatter. "Okay, but I'm actually such a huge fan guys, its not even funny. Seriously you guys are awesome-"

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Videos started overlapping as more and people found the escapees in town, but basically there was a huge increase of Phantom related content popping up over most social media sites. It only took twenty minutes for online users outside of the Ohio town to catch wind of what was happening.

The camera was shaking slightly with excitement, showing a high school student giving the peace sign. Behind them Danny stood with the two other teenagers from Amity Park, surrounded with a buzzing group of people. The audio picked up his mumble of "I guess this is pretty much a QA now?"

Someone spoke loudly from the crowd "Hey Danny, since your half ghost does that mean you don't need normal things to upkeep your body? Like food or oxygen?"

The poor blushing boy rubbed his neck, not quite used to this sort of attention in person. "Well I still need to sleep and eat, but since I can absorb ectoplasm that can also work as food for me if I have large enough amounts of it. In ghost form I'm pretty sure I don't need to breathe at all, at least from what I can tell. In human form, well, I haven't completely tested, but I can definitely hold it longer then I could before."

Another person from the crowd spoke out, looking to be shaking in excitement. "Can we see some of your powers?"

Danny glanced around at everyone "Uh, sure. Is everyone here okay with that?"

A flurried amount of yelled yeses from the group answered him. He took a moment to cover his sensitive ears, before nodding. "Okay, I'll just…"

The half ghost cupped his hands, summoning a sphere of green ectoplasm that hovered over them. Stretching out his arms he manipulated the energy in front of him, never quite touching it, pulling it longer as it completely ignored gravity. Eventually he made the ectoplasm pull up above him into the shapes of stars and miniature planets, some even had little moons orbiting them.

The crowd oohed and awed, clearly enjoying the live show, a hint of green blush tinged Danny's cheeks again. Sam chuckled "This little dork has spent hours practising purely to make small models of satellites, the solar system, and constellations." There was a resounding screech of wanting to see more, Danny paused with wide eyes, before smiling and obliging.

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A clip on Instagram had another teenager talking with Danny, Sam and Tucker slightly behind them. Tucker was carrying their own camera. There were less people following the trio as they walked down the sidewalk but still over half a dozen trailing behind them, with new members of the group joining when finding them.

"-and they were roommates."

Tucker turned to Sam, placing a hand on his chest "Oh my gawd they were roommates."

Danny coughed out a laugh, and a lot of muffled wheezes were heard from the others behind them. Sam just rolled her eyes at him, smiling lightly.

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What looked to be a middle schooler stood in front of the camera, giving it a thumbs up before running over to the half ghost. "Hey, hey Danny! Can you make something explode?"

Danny stared looking horrified at the boy in front of him "You want me to what?! I don't think people would like that considering views on ghosts…" Many of the surrounding people protested that, no, they would very much like to see that.

Walking up to his friend, Tucker made a calming gesture. "Now Danny, hold on. I think you need to give the people what they want." The halfa looked over to Sam, as if waiting for her to refuse, but she only shrugged.

The citizens took this as a sign, and another middle schooler rushed to his friend's side. A large watermelon was held out before him, ready for sacrifice. Danny sighed, looking around their group at waiting faces. "Alright, alright."

The sacrificial watermelon was placed on top of a garbage can, the crowd of people stood in a semi circle of sorts behind Danny. A few store owners came out to see what all the fuss was about and stood watching as well.

Danny summoned an ectoblast at the tip of his finger, sending it hurling towards the middle of the target. The watermelon exploded epically, sending fragments high into the sky. He jokingly blew off his finger in classic cowboy style, it was the most powerful finger gun humanity had ever seen. The people cheered; Sam looked down at the scattered pieces of watermelon. "We should probably clean that off the street."

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It hadn't been far after the first few encounters when a local news outlet had heard of, and eventually confirmed the fact that the three runaway teenagers were in their city. They even got footage.

At the bottom of the screen ran a flag of breaking news; Daniel Fenton, Tucker Foley, and Sam Manson spotted in local Ohio city.

The video on screen showed the three conversing with a few college students, the camera recording from a distance making it to far to hear what they were saying. They were all smiling broadly, laughing as Tucker launched his arms out dramatically explaining something.

"The three teenaged fugitives Sam Manson, Tucker Foley, and Daniel or Danny Fenton or also known as Phantom, we're spotted in Ohio's own city, Northenville. These three have, as everyone knows, been lately making quite a stir to the nation bringing things to debate such as America's laws relating ecto-entities and the fact that there are now serious claims of a type of half ghost hybrid existing. The group of teenagers claim that is what Daniel is, but citizens are reminded we can not be certain everything they say is true.

"The government is has recommended everyone to keep their distance from these possibly dangerous individuals, Daniel has very dangerous abilities and officials are not certain if he would in certain situations take hostages if others are near him. Please remember to enforce caution while the government handles this."

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The news coverage brought more attention to the trio, and some of that attention wasn't a good thing. A few people at the edges of streets would star at them with disgust or fear, but eventually two had started approaching them. People still following them had been gently pushed further from them as to not harm anyone if someone started fighting. However, they hadn't expected the two adults storming towards them to be familiar.

"Samantha Manson!" Pam and Jeremy Manson marched straight up to their daughter, looking about ready to strangle someone.

Jeremy pointed his finger violently at Sam. "How dare you run off with these- these hybrids and hooligans. We forbade you from every seen this Fenton spawn again, and you go with him when he turns out to be contamination. A monster on the earth!"

Sam stared, unaffected, up at her parents. "Danny, I want you to freeze them."

"What, I can't just-"

Pam grabbed her daughter by the wrist, tugging her backwards. Jeremy looked sternly at their child. "You are coming home immediately young girl."

"And you!" Jeremy stood off to the side, pulling out his phone, while Pam turned her ire to Danny. "How dare you infect our daughter with lies and tricks. You were a no-good delinquent to begin with, filling her head with sickly things. You, your whole family, are outcasts, scum, the worst of filth. You made Samantha this way, you broke our perfect girl!" Danny slowly curled more and more into himself, flinching at her raised voice. Tucker glared at the rude adults, placing himself slightly in front of the half ghost.

Sam planted her feet solidly, dragging their slow approach to a halt. "No, you broke me!" She slapped her mom's hand off her, enticing a gasp from Pam. "Danny ice!"

This time Danny did not hesitate, his eyes turned an icier glowing blue and his hands were encased with blue energy. That energy shot out to the Manson parent's feet, freezing them solidly to the ground, but not seeming to hurt them.

"It's about time you listen to me for a change!" The next five minutes weren't the yelling match they were before, instead it consisted of Sam giving a complete verbal beatdown to her parents while they couldn't run away. The topics ranged to the Fentons, politics, expression of self, provocative authorities, mentally overwhelming parents, and ghost rights. It was inspirational for teenagers, especially edgy teens out there, but overall the rant was cherished for a long time by many.

In the end Sam stormed away from her frozen parents, Danny and Tucker quickly following. Although the group following did respect their privacy, many followed the retreating Amity Park citizens farther down the street in the way they were headed.

Pam and Jeremy were left fuming in ghost ice on the street, Jeremy angrily typing into his phone for help.

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"Okay everyone," Danny looked over the people who had continued following them "I think it's time to separate for now. Some form of government will probably get here soon, and we don't want you all getting in trouble." Sad but understanding sighs came from the group, as they said goodbye and started dispersing.

A couple of them waved to the camera, still held securely in Tucker's hands before starting away. There were plenty of heartfelt goodbyes said, and though they had worried, Sam seemed to have calmed down as well, she actually gave one girl a hug. One of the final fans went up beside Danny to quickly thank him, but before she could continue the screaming started.

White suited GIW agents crashed down into the streets, jet packs strapped to their backs and ecto-guns whirring in their hands. A van pulled up and out stepped Agent L, triumph in his eyes. "Surrender now Phantom, or else you will be harmed." Before Danny could do more then spin around to see them, a shot fired, barreling straight towards the unarmed civilian who had been speaking to the half ghost.

The shot was stopped inches before it would have hit her in the face, exploding onto a green shield thrown up by Danny. He held the shield while Sam checked her over "Are you okay?" the teenager managed a shaky nod. "You've gotta get away from here now." The fan ran in the opposite of the government agents, quickly being helped into a store by a kind owner, who quickly locked the door behind them.

Another blast hit the half ghost's shield, and he glared at him with bright green eyes. A low growl escaped his throat and both humans beside him tensed, not looking scared of him but preparing for the situation about to unfold. "You dare try shooting at an innocent bystander!"

An agent closer to them, shot at them again, snarling. "Like you haven't done worse, ghost!"

"No," Danny spoke softer, though it still seemed to spread across the entire silent street. "I will never hurt them, but it seems you on the other hand, do."

Spreading his arms out and blinking the shield out of existence, the halfa sent a large blast of ice hurling towards the agents. Knocking some to the ground, but freezing all of them solidly to the ground, a tad more violently then the Manson parents earlier.

Tucker dodged the shots fired at them from the frozen agents, watching as Danny transformed into ghost form. "What's the plan?"

Danny covered them with a bigger shield this time, smirking back at them. "Hardcore parkour."

Covering her face, Sam groaned. "No, Danny, no."

"Alright fine, you're no fun." The half ghost wrapped his arms around Sam and Tucker, launching off from the ground. A few stray blasts were shot at them as they flew away, but they were easily dodged.

The three flew over top of the city, buildings close underneath them. At some point some competent GIW agents had managed to break free of the ice and continued following them on jet packs, but they were quickly left in the dust. Setting down at the edge of town, Danny briefly talked to the camera.

"Alright people, that's it for now. It was fun meeting you all here, but we'll see you later I guess…"

In front of them appeared a swirling green ghost portal, and out stepped a blue skinned ghost. Most idly thought he looked like a vampire, while some recognized him as The Wisconsin Ghost. "Vlad?"

"Honestly Daniel, I leave for less then a month and this is what happens?"

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AN: So a warning for the future, Vlad's still going to be an asshole but more bearable and a little less evil. I hope you're all doing okay considering quarantine and stuff happening right now. Also important; happy May the fourth everyone!!