Summary: During Angel's stay at the School, she meets another hybrid, but what exactly is he a hybrid of? Angel cannot read his mind or use any of her other powers on him. So when he saves Angel from one of the scientists and they escape and find Angel's family, Max and the rest of the Flock are taken for an even more extreme ride by this boy who calls himself Phantom... During The Angel Experiment and before Phantom Planet.

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom (B.H.) nor do I own any of the Maximum Ride books (J.P.).

The excerpt is the actual text from The Angel Experiment. Do not sue me as this part belongs to Jame Patterson.

Fallen

By: Lunar Calling

--Excerpt from "Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment"--

Her mouth was so dry. Her head ached--everything ached. Angel blinked several times, trying to wake up. Above her was a dark brown plastic roof. A cage. A dog rate. A Kanine Kamper, size medium. Fuzzy thoughts pushed her brain as she struggled to a sitting position. She knew where she was--she would recognize that chemical, disinfectant smell anywhere. She was at the School.

'New new 'n' wings and new new wings girl new.'

Quickly, Angel turned in the direction of the thoughts. In a crate next to hers were two other children, younger than she. Their eyes, too big for their hungry faces, locked onto hers.

"Hi," Angel whispered. She didn't feel any whitecoats around--just the scrambled, incoherent thoughts of these kids.

'Mouth noise girl wings new new.'

The other children stared without answering. Trying to smile, Angel looked at them more closely. She thought they were both boys. One had rough, scaly skin--literally scaly, like a fish, but just in patches, not all over. Not a happy effect.

The other one just looked like... a mistake. He had extra fingers and toes, and hardly any neck. His eyes were huge and bulging, and the hair on his head was sparse. It made Angel's hear hurt just to look at him.

"I'm Angel," she whispered again, "Do you have names?"

'Noise noise bad girl wings bad noise.'

The two boys looked afraid, and they turned from her and edged farther back in their cage. Angel swallowed hard and was quiet. What had happened to Max and the others? Were they in cages too?

A door opened and footsteps sounded on the linoleum floor. Angel felt the caged boys trembling with dread, crazed, swirling thoughts of fear crashing in their brains. They huddled together at the back of their cage...

--End excerpt--

Hurried steps and the sound of something dragging were brought to Angel's ears. Going against all of her screaming instincts, Angel leaned forward in her too small dog crate to get a better look at what was going on outside of it. Two Erasers came hobbling in dragging something in between the both of them as a whitecoat trailed behind clumsily, trying his hardest to keep up. They all seemed to stop right in front of her cage, but then she let out a silent sigh of relief when they turned the opposite way to the cage that had been across from her. Angel heard a loud thump and a strangled cry while the whitecoat seemed to begin freaking out.

"Be careful you mutts! Subject XG-946 is our most valuable experiment. Ruin it in any way, shape, or form and the Director will have your heads!" As the whitecoat explain these things, his arms were waving above his head, even the one holding the clipboard. If she hadn't been in this predicament, Angel might have laughed.

"Cool it, Nerdy. It's just fine." As they all turned around to leave, the whitecoat caught sight of her and she immediately began backing up until she was pressed up against her cage wall. His eyes widened in morbid excitement and he leaned in closer.

"Oh my God--Harrison was right!" (1)

The Erasers stopped in their tracks and both seemed to roll their eyes. "Subject Eleven was brought in yesterday by us. She's here for more tests." And with that said, all three of them left her alone to her thoughts.

'She's here for more tests' rang throughout her brain and it made her nervous and scared. Her memory of the School was not that great as she had been a baby, but she knew and was informed by Max and Fang that it was horrible and the tests were usually inhumane. Suddenly there was a groan in the cage directly across from her and Angel finally understood the two boys' fear from earlier of her.

She saw that their cage was a size large which meant they were probably older, though the differences in the sizes were not that big. Angel watched as the person got on all fours, shook their head, and then leaned back until they were sitting as comfortably as they could in a dog cage. Angel saw that they were a boy and only about Max's, Fang's, and Iggy's age, which was around 14 years old.

His hair was a dark black, about the same as Fang's, but his skin was definitely paler, similar to Iggy's. He was thin and seemed almost breakable. The clothes on his form were just as badly torn and damaged as the ones on her body. Then suddenly, there was light and a ring formed around his waist before splitting into two, one traveling up towards his head and the other towards his feet. His appearance completely changed; his hair was now completely white, the exact opposite of what it was. Another stunner: he was glowing. His clothes transformed into a ripped and torn black jumpsuit with silver accents and a black 'P' inside of a silver 'D.' Angel could only wonder what that meant.

As she had been curious and wondering about him, Angel moved unconsciously forward and when her head hit the cage's door; metal bars. Although it was only a low thud, it sounded like a loud gunshot in the room and alerted everyone, even the strange boy. His head snapped up and his eyes locked with her own and Angel was lost in glowing green eyes.

--1 Week Prior--

Danny Phantom flew blissfully through the sky, a small smile on his face and his arms spread out wide, feeling the wind on his fingertips and through his hair. He would never let anyone see him like this, definitely not Tucker. As he thought about that, he changed his mind. He could probably trust Sam with seeing this. His contentment was cut off abruptly as he thought about his last thought. Lately things had been different, as in Paulina was not as beautiful as she once was. He could see what Sam was talking about when she said things like her personality canceled out her good looks.

Recently, he had been interested in another girl. That girl had been his only best friend that was a girl, Sam Manson. Though Danny may have been dubbed Clueless, though he still did not know why, and was a C average student, he was actually very observant and aware of his surroundings. And one of these things he noticed was his growing attraction to Sam. Also just like every time he thought of her as more than a friend, Danny scolded himself and frowned. He knew what telling her could do; it could completely ruin their friendship. Though morbid curiosity wanted him to tell her just to see what she would say.

As he contemplated his options, the cell phone in his pocket began buzzing loudly. Sighing, he grabbed it and quickly glanced at the screen to see who was calling him. 'Speak of the devil...' He thought ironically. "Hey Sam, what's up?"

"Hey Danny. Tucker and I were going to meet you at the park for a group patrol. You up for it?"

"Yeah, I was just patrolling the skies myself." Lie. "I'll meet you guys there." Saying a quick good-bye, Danny hung up his phone and then changed course to the park. Time flew by him--no pun intended--and suddenly he was at the park. Staying up high he scanned the ground for his friends before he went down. Previous experiences taught him well, but that's a story for another time. Finally he noticed Sam waving up at him and he gradually descended down towards her. "Hey Sam, where's Tucker?"

"His mom wouldn't let him leave. Apparently someone ran up the internet bill again." Sam smiled and rolled her eyes at their geek of a friend.

"Really?" Danny was only slightly nervous as he realized he would be conducting the patrol alone with Sam... Okay, screw that, he was completely nervous. Stupid hormones... That's when Danny noticed that Sam wasn't really paying attention, but staring off in another direction. "Sam? Something wrong?" He knew it wasn't a ghost because his ghost sense did not go off.

Without looking at him Sam responded back. "That guy over there keeps staring over at us."

Danny looked in the direction she was facing and saw the guy she was talking about. He didn't know that anyone else was in the park; he thought they had been alone. The guy was very different looking, very handsome too for some odd reason. He looked like he should be on the cover of a magazine, not in some small town's park. How strange... "Maybe he's new and has never seen a ghost before?"

Sam shook her head. "Gut feeling is telling me that is not the case."

Suddenly Danny had the feeling of eyes on his back and whipped around to see another man who looked similar to the one Sam was still eyeing. A glance around the place showed that men who all looked similar--in the way that they were all perfect looking--were popping up and surrounding them. Danny's eyes widened as he realized they were being circled and these men were closing in tighter. "Sam..." Suddenly all of them were directly three feet from the two of them, forcing Danny and Sam to go back-to-back.

One of the guys stepped forward out of the ring and addressed them. "Well what do we have here? A hybrid and his girlfriend?" Danny almost choked on the word "hybrid." How could they have known?

"What? What are you talking about?" Sam tried to play it off. She seemed a little convincing too.

The man glared at Sam as he replied. "You know what I mean, girl." He turned back towards Danny and spoke to him directly. "We need the hybrid."

Before Danny could even think to say a witty reply, all of the men, even their leader, began to transform into these grotesque wolf-men. Sam leaned back more into Danny in her surprise.

"Wha-What are you?"

The lead wolf-man laughed, his jaw stopping half way into forming a muzzle. "My name is Ari. We are Erasers and we are going to be your new nightmare." With that, he lunged at the both of them. Danny latched onto Sam and dove to the side and out of the way of the oncoming wolf-men. All of them seemed to growl at once as he eluded each and every one of them. And then suddenly Danny was knocked from behind and he fell forward, dropping Sam. Two of the wolf-men grabbed Sam and hauled her roughly to her feet.

"Sam!" Before he could do anything for her though, he felt a presence at his back. Danny whipped around and aimed a strong punch at one of the wolf-man's head. The thing shrieked before stumbling back. Danny then warmed his hands with ectoblasts and began firing at the creatures. As some fell, more came. There was always just too many and Danny could feel himself begin to tire.

Then that's when he heard Sam's scream. He turned back around to help her and that when he felt something hard and heavy hit the back of his head. Black began to creep in the edges of his vision as he saw the two wolf-men holding Sam toss her away. The last thing he felt was his body fall and hit the ground like a dead weight.

--Present Day--

Danny felt himself slowly coming to. The first thing that registered was that he was strapped to a surgical table again. Since he had been brought to this place he had been strapped down and forced through agonizing tests. His first procedure they placed a bracelet on his wrist. He later found out that said bracelet canceled out his ghost powers, though he could still transform between each form and gladly enough it did not stop his rapid healing.

An older looking man wearing glasses entered the room with a clipboard in his hands. Danny had encountered this man often and learned that his name was Jeb. He also noted that Jeb was a lot friendlier and cared more than the other scientists, if they could be called that. Jeb was currently looking over what was written on the clipboard before glancing up at the distressed teenager. "Well Danny, it seems as if your procedure went well." Oh, Jeb was also the only one to refer to him as Danny; as an actual person. To everyone else, he was Subject XG-946, the most valued experiment. "I'm sorry, but it's time to go back."

Walking over to Danny, Jeb carefully unlatched each of Danny's bindings. Jeb and everyone else knew Danny wouldn't do anything to him, so that is why Jeb was the only one who ever came to release him after a procedure, when Danny would be at his angriest. Once he was released, Jeb grabbed him by his wrist and guided--more like dragged because he had no feeling in his legs--him to the door where he knew two Erasers and another whitecoat would be on the other side. This how it had been since Day Two, because Day One they learned of Danny's hostility.

Once Danny was outside the door, his arms were grabbed roughly by the Erasers and he was then dragged down the hall and back through the corridors to his cage. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see Jeb watch him go in sadness. At least somebody cared about him...

Eventually his journey ended when he was in front of his cage. It was swiftly unlocked and he was thrown in roughly, which earned the sick Erasers a yelp from the boy.

"Be careful you mutts! Subject XG-946 is our most valuable experiment. Ruin it in any way, shape, or form and the Director will have your heads!" False care coated the whitecoat's words. As if that man really cared for him!

"Cool it, Nerdy. It's just fine." And as soon as they left him alone, Danny tuned out everything else. His head throbbed like crazy and there was absolutely no feeling in any of his limbs. The word "side-effects" flashed in his head and he groaned in annoyance and pain. Steadying himself on uneasy limbs, Danny tried to shake the headache from his head, but that only seemed to make it worse. So ever so slowly, he sat down as comfortably as he could.

Hoping he could possibly speed up his recover period, Danny changed into his ghost half. The minute the coolness spread over his body, he had already felt better. Nowadays Danny took comfort in the cold of his ghost form and spent most of his time awake in it. As he relaxed to the cool feeling, he heard a thud that seemed almost amplified. Snapping his head up too fast, Danny saw a young girl, probably five or six, with curly blond hair and blue eyes looking at him curiously. Because of his stupid mistake of moving too fast, drowsiness swept over him and he could only look at the girl for a moment.

'She's new...' Was one of his last thoughts before he let the darkness of sleep overtook him.

(1) - This is also a line from the book and belongs to James Patterson. Please don't sue!

So this is my first Danny Phantom/Maximum Ride fanfic. Hope you like it. It was kind of written on the spur of the moment type thing and I'm really surprised at how much I like it and how long it really is. Almost 3,000 words! Yay! Well I hope you guys enjoy it and leave some feedback. I'm always accepting criticism!

Lunar Calling