Wow, this brings back some memories. This is my first time doing a DP multi-chapter fic in YEARS. Hopefully, I've gotten better. I think I have, and boy do I hope so. Years ago I came here bearing Mary Sues, bad spelling, and otherwise cruddy fics. Why didn't any of you tell me darnit?! XD
Anyways, this is a plot bunny adopted from Firefury. It's an AU fic having to do with the Ultimate Enemy. I don't think Firefury is expecting the crazy stunt I'm gonna pull with this thing though. It's got quite an odd premise to it as you'll see eventually. I don't wanna give away much more than that, so I'm gonna shut up now and let you guys read. Please enjoy. Honest critique is appreciated, especially since I'm a bit rusty in this fandom.
Disclaimer: I don't own DP. I didn't create it either. Nick and Butch are two people/companies I am not. I just wrote this fic using a plot bunny Firefury was kind enough to let me adopt.
His Replacement
By Netbug009
Chapter 1
The heat continued to rise, and so did Danny's fears. He was unable to fully focus on his fight with his future self, distracted by the possibility of everybody he cared about soon being blown to pieces. Yet, at the same time, that same worry is what made him stronger.
Soon it was over. Soon his thermos closed on his old future. But his foe's last words had hit him hard. Was he really too late? No... No! His eyes widened as the sauce was getting ready to blow.
"No!"
His body may has well have moved on it's own. He ran towards his loved ones, leaping into the air. Flying to move more quickly.
To this day, the events are still hard to recall for the survivors. Danny flying towards them, their release from the bonds, and the explosion all happened only seconds apart if even that long.
They stood, the bonds slipping off of them to the ground as they got a better look at the fiery inferno they had almost been caught in. Looking at one another, and seeing they were all accounted for, they sighed in relief, but only for a moment.
Of course, all accounted for was the status of the captives alone. But... where was the hero?
That's when they gasped in terror. He couldn't have... could he?
As if a sign to confirm their worst fear, a burnt piece of fabric moved up to Jack's shoe, blown out of the inferno and pushed to them slowly by the wind. The cloth was black in color. He looked at it sadly, silently, and full of guilt for his behavior towards the hero. He moved his thumbs on the surface of the remains of a hero's outfit.
His eyes almost immediately grew wide.
The fabric was not truly black, but it simply looked black from the ashes. The place his thumb had been moved from was now red. He dusted it off the rest of the way and say a white piece of fabric with a red circle in the center. "Maddie! Look!"
So began mass grief in Amity Park. After all, the townsfolk were going to wonder about both Danny's going missing at the exact same time. Once Maddie and Jack fully understood their son's secret life themselves via Sam, Tucker, and Jazz, the city was told the truth. The truth was that the ghost some of them had hated was a human child, and the human child some of them had been jerks to was a hero. Few faces left the assembly without guilt covering their faces. On the faces of the popular teens of Casper High, this guilt was even more so.
Of course, that wasn't the biggest problem.
Ugh. That did not come out as good as I was hoping it would. And I have a horrible feeling in my gut that something in this does not fit the time line the story has. Still, you guys get the gist of the situation we're starting with, right?
Another (and I hope BETTER) chapter soon.