Accident: Month One (Danny Phantom)

Mystery Meat

Danny ate his breakfast as he heard the sound of his mother using a blow torch in the background. Next to him, Jazz sat, reading a therapy book as she wondered why Maddie thought it was a good idea to bring such dangerous equipment (the blow torch) into the kitchen.

So far, it had been at least a week since Danny's parents gave him the all clear to being helping them with ghost hunting. However, there were a few conditions. Condition one was that Danny had to at least maintain his B+/A- average. The second one was that he was at least home before 10:00PM. The final condition was that he tried to be careful and didn't do anything too rash.

It was fair set of conditions, but Danny found some of them a bit strict. He could understand the grades and being careful, his parents did want him to be able to reach his dreams, despite the fact he was now helping out with a really tedious task. The curfew one was originally decided to be 7:00PM, but Danny had managed to convince his parents to let him be out until the current time. How he managed to convince them involved a few pointers like the fact "what if I missed something" and "fights can drag on for a while".

Maddie ceased blow torching the latest invention, removed the visor, and wiped the sweat off her forehead. She smiled to herself knowing she had just finished the first version of one of the more simple inventions.

"There," Maddie said, "After a few test runs, it should be done."

Jack's attention from the comics in the newspaper was diminished at those words.

"It's done?" Jack asked.

Jack lit up like a Christmas tree and shot out of his seat and next to Maddie with excitement. Jazz tried to hide her panic as she watched her father fiddle with the unknown device. Danny on the other hand, was more focused on his breakfast.

"Our latest invention, the Fenton Finder, is done!" Jack proclaimed as he took the invention and eagerly turned it on.

The finder began scanning the area with GPS satellites just to point out Danny (in the rudest way possible AKA "You have to be a moron to not see the ghost in front of you"), who was ignoring the invention. The main reason for him ignoring it was that is served no purpose for him at all. Besides he could already sense ghosts. Maddie gave a small smile while Jack tried to keep himself from laughing.

Jazz began sweating, she needed to make a cover up fast.

"You know what," Jazz said as she got up and took the invention from Jack and gave it to Maddie, "It must be glitched! So why don't you guys just go improve the software? I am sure there were some other features you also wanted to add as well!"

Danny felt like face palming at that suggestion but instead glared at Jazz. He did NOT need his parents to know where he was 24/7. It was kind of disturbing to have his parents follow and track his ever movement and jump to conclusions whenever he decided to go somewhere with Sam and Tucker.

Jazz gave a sheepish smile, which made no impact on the atmosphere between the two.

"I did want to add a cellphone chip tracker so that we would always know where you guys were..." Jack pondered before having a light bulb in his head go off, "I will just go do that!"

Jack snatched the invention back and rushed into the lab. Maddie rolled her eyes at her husband's antics. She would prefer having a separate invention that tracked the kids' cell phones so that way they don't accidentally attack them. She really didn't want to scar Danny for life if they jumped on him, thinking he was a malicious ghost whenever his cellphone appeared on the screen. Not only that, she still had to make sure the keys that toggled between locating hybrids (she thought Danny was the only half ghost but she could never be too sure) and regular ghosts wasn't glitched in any way.