Okay, yeah I know I should be working on my other stories instead of writing new ones, but I was hit by a runaway plot-bunny after watching Wreck-It-Ralph the other day. I've also recently bought the soundtrack off iTunes and I have to say, Henry Jackman is a WONDERFUL composer. The man's brilliant.
For those who have NOT seen it, DON'T READ THIS. It's one gigantic spoiler. It takes place AFTER the events of Wreck-It-Ralph.
It's also takes place in between D-Stabilized and Phantom Planet.
Vanellope, would you care to do the honors?
Vanellope: Aye, aye Captain! CHOPSUZI DOES NOT-IN ANY FORM-OWN WRECK-IT-RALPH NOR DANNY PHANTOM. *bows*
Thank you, Vanellope. Now, ONTO THE STORY!
Vanellope: YAY!
Danny sighed. This was going to be a long night. Technis had escaped from the Ghost Zone and somehow weaseled his way away from him once again. Danny was currently flying over the city in search of him. His Fenton Fones crackled with an incoming message.
"See anything yet Danny?"
Danny brought his hand to his ear and turned his microphone off mute.
"Nothing yet, Tucker. What about Sam and Jazz?"
"Nope," came Sam's response.
"All clear here. Over," reported Jazz.
Danny rolled his eyes at his sister's dorkiness.
"Alright. How about we finish this circuit and meet back at Fenton Works?"
"Okay."
"Will do."
"Roger. Over and out."
Danny rolled his eyes again. His sister is still taking this too seriously.
Twenty minutes passed before his Ghost Sense went off. Danny looked around wildly, trying to spot the source. Seeing nothing, he looked down, only to see the most obvious of places. An arcade. Danny facepalmed before calling the rest of the Team and letting them know.
"Guys, I think I just found him. I'm at the video game arcade on the East side of the city. I'll call if I need help."
"Okay."
"Roger that. Over."
"Really? The arcade? Aww, maaan! Just don't trash it! That place has some great games!"
"Don't worry Tuck, I'll just draw him out."
And with that, Danny swooped down and phased into the building. He peered around for a moment before noticing one of the games was doing something strange.
Danny slowly approached Hero's Duty and watched as a very short man and the game's main character, Sergeant Calhoun were dancing at some kind of rave party.
"What the heck?" Danny mumbled in confusion. Well, if Technis is in this arcade, this must be the game he's in. There's no way a game would do that normally, right?
Danny quickly phased into the game, landing in the middle of the rave party on his rear and quickly becoming a target for Sergeant Calhoun's rifle.
"Who are you, and how did you get in here? This is a private party," she said coldly.
"Uhhh…" Danny was saved from answering by the short man, as he stepped in front of him in a submissive posture.
"Honey, now hold on a second. What if he's from a new game and just got lost?" he said consolingly.
Calhoun studied Danny for a moment with cold blue eyes before lowering her rifle with an exasperated sigh.
"Fine, I'll give him a chance. But you'll have to question him."
As the short man turned around, Danny noticed he had a golden hammer hooked onto his tool belt. The man smiled kindly.
"Well, hello there. My name is Fix-it-Felix Jr. from the game Fix-It-Felix Jr. Who are you and what game are you from?"
Danny raised his eyebrows. Fix-It-Felix Jr.? Isn't that that old game that got some kind of upgrade?
"Um, I'm Danny Phantom, and I'm not from a game. I'm from the real world," Danny said unsurely.
Everyone gasped in shock. How could someone from the real world get in a game? Soon guns were trained on him again.
"How did you get in a game?" Calhoun demanded behind her rifle.
"I phased in," he said pointing back at the first-person shooter bot behind him, "Through the screen."
Felix scrunched up his face in confusion at the window before looking back at Danny.
"You're not human," Felix stated slowly, "are you?"
Danny shook his head, eyes flicking to Felix before resting back on Sergeant Calhoun's rifle.
"No, I'm not. I'm a ghost." Everyone gasped and backed up a bit. "And right now, I'm tracking a ghost criminal. He has the power to control and manipulate electronics. That's why I'm here. I sensed him over the arcade and flew down to find him. I've gotta catch him fast before he does any damage, and WILL YOU PLEASE STOP POINTING GUNS AT ME!" Danny explained, his voice rising at the end as his eyes glowed entirely with an angry green light.
The soldiers complied and backed away from him more. Danny's eyes returned to just his green irises glowing and exhaled.
"Sorry, but I really hate guns. I get enough of it from Skulker and Valerie," Danny sighed. "Not to mention my parents," he mumbled as an afterthought.
Unfortunately, Felix heard him and his eyebrows shot up in shock.
"Why in the world would your parents shoot at you?!" he exclaimed.
Danny winced. Nobody was supposed to hear that.
"Well… My parents are ghost hunters, and…" he hesitated a moment before continuing, "they kinda… don't know I'm a ghost."
Sergeant Calhoun laughed, holstering her firearm and grabbing Danny off the floor by his shoulder.
"My kind of kid," she grinned.
Felix was still staring off into space in shock. The boy's own parents shot at him? Well it was no wonder he hated firearms. Who wouldn't in a situation like that?
Danny brushed himself off and ran a hand through his white hair in an attempt to fix it.
"Well, thanks for the chat, but I have to get going. I don't want him to break anything."
Danny began to float up to leave, but then paused and turned back to the partygoers with a sheepish expression.
"Uhh… How do I get out of here?"
Felix took the incentive and turned for the plug, waving for him to follow.
"C'mon, I'll show you the way to Game Central Station."
Danny trailed behind him, floating about a foot off the ground. The rave party resumed as they left the room and boarded the train. It really wasn't a long ride, and when they got there, Danny's eyes nearly bugged out of his head. It was an enormous structure, with the appearance of an actual train station. Danny was blown away.
A large man, surpassing his own father's height, with a little girl on his shoulder lumbered up to Felix.
"Hey Felix! Who's this?" the man asked with a grin, exposing a gap in his front teeth.
"Yeah, who's the new guy? Is he from some bonus level or something? I've never seen him before," commented the girl as she slid down the man's enormous hand and ran up to Danny. He could see that there was candy stuck all over her raven hair.
"He's not from a game, Vanellope. He's from the real world," replied Felix in a hushed tone.
Both Vanellope's and the large man's jaws dropped, their eyes focusing on Danny's glowing form. Danny lowered himself to the ground and waved timidly.
"Hi…"
Vanellope snorted.
"If he's from outside the games, then how'd he get in here? It's not like he has super powers or anything," she challenged, eyeing Danny.
"Actually," Danny spoke up, "it's exactly like I have super powers or something."
He then floated up from the ground and lit a ball of ectoplasm in his hand with a grin. Everyone's jaws dropped simultaneously.
"Oh my gosh! Are you some kind of superhero?" She paused, eyebrows drawing down and backing away with a frown. "Or maybe you're a supervillain?"
Danny frowned and dropped back to the ground, dissipating the energy from his palm.
"No, I'm not a villain. Why does everyone think I'm evil just because I'm a ghost?" Danny asked rhetorically.
Vanellope adopted a sheepish grin and apologized before turning back to her colossal friend.
"Hey Ralph, whattya say we show 'im around?"
Before Ralph could reply, Danny interrupted.
"Actually I can't. I'm tracking a criminal who's able to manipulate electronics. I gotta catch him before he breaks anything." Then as an afterthought, "Or tries to take over the world using video games again."
"He can do that?" inquired Felix and Vanellope in unison.
"He almost did it with 'Doomed,' an MMO I used to play all the time," Danny added offhandedly. "But then I jumped into the game and stopped him with my friends." He then peered at his watch and gasped. "Oh man, I gotta hurry up and find Technis before he does too much damage! Any of you guys notice weird stuff happening in any games?"
The assembled party, minus Vanellope, shook their heads no.
"I saw some weird dude with green skin and sunglasses fly into Pac-Man a little while ago."
"That's him! Which way?"
Vanellope indicated to her left and Danny zoomed past her with a hurried 'thanks.' She turned back to her friends.
"So, is he really from the real world?" she asked skeptically
"Affirmative. He popped right out of the first-person shooter bot in the middle of our party."
Vanellope laughed and jumped back onto Ralph's shoulder.
"C'mon Stinkbreath, let's go to Pac-Man. I wanna see this kid in action!"
Ralph grumbled under his breath about living in a dump before making his way to the Pac-Man train. Danny had just flown through the power cord instead of taking the shuttle, so they were free to do so.
Meanwhile, back with Danny…
"Ghost Child! How did you find me? I have been ultra sneaky in my infiltration of this arcade!" cried Technis in his usual annoying nasally voice.
Danny just folded his arms and waited for him to finish his monologue before smashing an uppercut into the distracted ghost's chin.
"You never do know when to shut up, do you Technis?" he quipped, throwing an ecto-enhanced punch into his gut.
"You will soon see child that I, TECHNIS, MASTER OF ALL THINGS ELECTRONIC AND BEEPING, am in my element! You cannot defeat me in video game world!"
Danny just rolled his eyes and re-ignited his fists in blazing green energy before lunging at the Ghost-of-Long-Windedness.
Little did the brawling ghosts know, Ralph and Vanellope's shuttle rolled in, depositing them about three minutes walk from the fight.
"I can hear 'em over there, Ralph!" the candy-coated racer exclaimed, pointing to the center area where the ghosties typically resided.
Ralph followed the sounds of fighting and soon arrived at an interesting scene. Danny was being strangled by power cables that somehow came out of the walls, whilst a mad cackling emanated from an outdated-looking person with green skin, sunglasses, and a trench coat who appeared to be the cables' puppeteer.
Ralph released a strangled roar before clobbering the puppeteer with his massive fists. Vanellope on the other hand went to Danny and 'glitched' the restraints from him. Danny crumbled to the ground, his breathing ragged. Vanellope helped him stand while looking him over.
"Are you okay?" she asked.
Danny rubbed his neck and squeezed his eyes shut. Technis really was stronger in here.
"Yeah, I'll be okay," he rasped.
Danny then turned back to find Technis on the ground with Ralph standing over him, his fists raised. Danny's eyebrow raised. He then drew his Thermos from his hip and, aiming at the downed ghost, Danny sucked him in, capping and stowing the device once again.
"Well, I guess that's that," Danny muttered as he lowered himself to the ground.
The halfa looked up to find a perturbed Ralph and a mischevious Vanellope. The sugary president moved closer, her mischevious grin expanding. Danny backed up into a wall, forgetting about intangibility.
"So," the girl purred, "now that the bad guy's locked up, do you wanna come with us?"
"Uh, actually I… gotta go send him back to the Ghost Zone," he said, jerking his thumb at the window to the real world. Vanellope's lips pursed in a pout.
"Oh c'mon! Please? Please, please, please, please, pleeeeaaaaassssssseeeeeeeeee eeeee?" she begged.
Danny looked to Ralph for help, but the giant just shrugged. He turned his attention back to the little girl in his personal space.
"Vanellope, I need to put him back in the Ghost Zone. It's really cramped in this thing," he shook the thermos for emphasis, "and I've gotta get 'im home before he wants more than revenge."
Vanellope deflated with a scowl.
"Fine," she said, waving him off. Danny smiled before lifting off.
"I'll be back tomorrow night!" he called as he sailed through the screen.
Vanellope turned back to Ralph and grinned triumphantly.
"I knew I could get through ta 'im," she stated in self-assurance.
Ralph just shook his head at her silliness before following her back to Game Central Station.
Okay, so I know it's a shoddy ending, but I'm thinking of doing an epilogue. Tell me what you think in a review! :)