Epilogue

June 24, 2217

6:52 pm

My name is Daniel Fenton. I think there are only a handful of people still alive who know this, but I thought at some point, I should write it down. This may be the only written memoir I will ever have, and I finally have time to sit down and write it. I don't really know how to begin, or where to begin, but Sam said I may as well just write while I have a mind for it, so that's what I'm doing. I bet she'd laugh at me if she knew I babbled even on paper (you have no idea how hard it was to get ahold of this stuff).

The last couple of centuries have been... interesting. I guess that's the best way to describe it. There's been some good and bad, just like a normal life, just spread out over a longer period of time. I think the hardest part is just how tired I've gotten. I think I understand why a lot of those old superheroes in the comics would end up retiring after a few years. The feeling of saving lives is wonderful, but I have to say, the same old song and dance gets exhausting.

Unfortunately for me, I don't really have the luxury of getting too old or worn down for the job.

I guess I should sort of explain what's happened over the last century. I'm guessing most of what we did is going to be over-exaggerated by rumors and perspective. I'll start with the rift that opened in New York during our senior year of high school. Usually, the ghost zone portals that open naturally are small and close after a few minutes. This one didn't. It was miles wide, and it wasn't just ghosts that came out of the rift.

Ever since then, Fenton Works kicked into high gear, mostly because after The Gate opened (what we called the first and biggest one), several other ones opened as well. The Gate is anchored, so we've had to set up sites ever since to keep away anything that comes through with bad intentions. It's been enlightening, that much I can say.

Most of this is stuff that's already known, but what isn't is that we had a hand in the initial contact between us that the people of The Void (void walkers, rifters, ghosts, whatever the preference is) and it was because of us at Fenton Works that the first contact wasn't seriously bloody.

About fifty years after that, my dad died quietly in his sleep. Mom was pretty devastated, but she made it by alright. She turned out to be one of the most brilliant scientific minds the world ever saw. She invented so many ghost and demon fighting weapons that we ended up having to open up a new facility just to hold them all. She also improved on a lot of my dad's designs. She died about ten years later in a pretty massive conflict, sacrificing herself to save a school full of children in Amity Park.

Jazz married her boyfriend and became a hugely famous professor of physics at a major university. She helped my mom design a lot of the vehicles we used while we're in The Void. She ended up marrying a guy she met at Harvard named Jason West, who wound up being the leading authority on inter-species relations and language. He was our ambassador for many years until the cancer forced him to retire. He died a few years after when his liver shut down. Their kids carried on their work.

Valerie Gray was the leader of the New York division of Fenton Works. She headed up most of the demon and ghost fighting on the war front nearest The Gate. She and Jace ended up marrying later. Their kids, since they were stronger and faster than most human fighters, took the front lines in a lot of the early conflicts. They had a reputation for being fast, efficient, and deadly, even though we tried to scale down the number of casualties as much as physically possible. Overall, the number of conflicts was pretty low.

At first, anyway.

Then came the battle of Eerie in 2035, and we lost a lot of good people that day. Many people know it as the day two worlds converged, but it's not really that simple. In the middle lake Eerie, another rift opened that started a really bloody conflict. It was only after that we realized that it was partly our faults. Having two anchored ghost portals had basically poked holes in the fabric between realities (or that was how Jazz explained it to me, anyway) making it so that when two realities collided, instead of seeing ghosts, they were joined together by ripping holes in one another. The Gate in New York was a good example, but it was a stable rift and the people who lived in the reality it led to were peaceful, since they were all simply ghosts.

The reality that joined with ours at Eerie were nightmares. Val was there at the fight. She was the one who closed it from the other side, and we never saw her again. Now, sometimes the nightmares make it through to our world, but we banish them back each time.

Jace was a huge part of Fenton works for 150 years, even after Valerie was gone. He took some time away about a half century ago to seek out new knowledge, but it's been quite awhile since anyone heard from him. He may have gone underground since the anti-lahmpir movement some years ago.

Kat stopped fighting about twenty years ago. She's currently leading some of her people to a safe area away from the bat-shit crazy people who've been running around killing non-humans. I heard they wanted to put me on top of their "kill list" but so far they haven't really tried anything. We got a message from her a few weeks ago, so I'm pretty sure everything's still okay.

Zim and Dib have been with us since the beginning, and still are. Dib figured that if he wanted to age, he only had to lock up the time medallion for a few years and take it out when he wanted to stop. He's currently sitting (physically) at around 14, I think. But the kid is smart, I'll give him that. Zim, however, never really changed much, but the technology he brought was pretty helpful. He's still protecting the orb of earth so far as I know.

Tucker met a girl about four years ago named Makka. She's been fighting with us ever since, and they've both agreed they want to be married and have kids someday soon. He talked to Sam and I about it for a long time, and last week, he made it official when they got married. They broke the medallion at the wedding ceremony, so he's permanently integrated back into the flow of time.

As for me and Sam, we're still running strong together. Over the last two centuries we've gotten as close as anyone can possibly be, but we've agreed that until we figure out how to reinsert me back into the flow of time, we're not going to bother trying to have kids. It'd be too much of a hassle and heartbreak to explain to them why mommy and daddy are permanently horny teenagers. And even though I tried for about thirty years to talk Sam out of it, she's vowed to stay beside me until the day I start aging again.

And who knows, maybe by then, the world will stop trying to kill itself?

...God damn I hope so.

-Daniel J. Fenton

Danny Phantom

A/N: Let me just say that I LOVE each and every person for their reviews and support. Thank you all so much, it made this story that much easier to write. I hope to see you all on my next story, and bid each of you a fond farewell.

Special thanks to Invader Johnny, KP100, ArmoredSoul, and Thunderstorm101 for their frequent and helpful reviews. Thanks guys, you made my days. And thank you to everyone else for their positive feedback, I hope to write more fun stuff soon.

~Arcana