Danny Phantom The Reality Screwup

Chapter 10 Attack of the Killer Garage Sale Part 1

Author's Note: And here's another chapter done. Hope you enjoy!

The next two days would go easy for Danielle which she was grateful for. Part of that was due to it being a holiday weekend, and the other was, thankfully, no ghost attacks. Finally, it would reach Monday and Danielle would find herself down in the lab helping her dad. Something she sometimes just did out of boredom. But also, because she found herself having a genuine interest ever since she became part ghost herself.

"Wrench," asked Jack.

"Wrench," replied Danielle, as she handed her dad the wrench in the toolbox next to her before returning to screwing something herself on the device they were working on.

"Screwdriver," Jack would ask after a minute.

"Screwdriver," Danielle replied, as she handed him a spare.

"Sandwich," said Jack, a few minutes after that.

"Dad... I'm not handing you a sandwich," said Danielle, as she sighed a second before putting her head on one hand and looking at her father incredulously.

"Sorry, baby girl," said Jack, as he reached over his daughter for the aforementioned sandwich, "I didn't actually mean for you to hand me my sandwich. I just-"

"Got so absorbed in the work you couldn't help it," finished Danielle, "Yeah I know, Dad. Happens to me whenever I really get into a game."

"That's my girl," said Jack, as he took a bite of his sandwich, "A chip off the old block."

Danielle would roll her eyes at her dad's antics but would continue with the work on the device. "So this device is going to be called what again," asked Danielle, after a moment of silence.

"The Ghost Weasel," replied Jack, in his ever-cheerful tone he had, "It'll grab ambient ghost energy and shoot it into the ghost zone."

"Why do you want to shoot the energy back into the ghost zone though," asked Danielle, as she stopped working to look over the plans, "Wouldn't you rather study it or something?"

"Ghost energy can be harmful to humans, sweetie," said Jack, as he finished his sandwich, "So finding a way to quickly get rid of it is essential for our line of work. Well, until me and your mum can finish the Fenton Ecto-Purifier. Then maybe we can use it as an energy source for our stuff."

"I see," said Danielle, as she returned to screwing some more screws, "But... Why make it look like a vacuum cleaner, Dad?"

"Ease of convenience," said Jack, as he too returned to working on the device.

After that the two would work in silence, mostly. The sound of screwing and wrenching the only sounds in the lab as they worked. After about thirty minutes though, Jack would exclaim, "It's done!"

"Phew," said Danielle, as she wiped some grease from her forehead, "That was harder than I thought it would be."

"But worth it," said Jack, as he put the strap of the device around his shoulder, "Thanks for helping me out, baby girl."

"No problem, dad," replied Danielle, with a smile, "Should we test it out?"

"Of course, let me jus-" Jack began to say, before he was interrupted with Danny walking down into the lab, "Hey Danny! Check out our latest innovation in ghost-grabbing technology: The Ghost Weasel! It collects ambient ghost energy and shoots it into the ghost zone."

"Our," Danny would reply first, at first confused until he saw his sister standing next to Jack, "Oh, Danielle helped you with it. Does it work?"

"Why wouldn't it," shouted Jack, a little insulted, "Me and your sister worked on it together, of course it would work... Though... Only one way to find out." Saying that, Jack would begin to move his finger towards a button on the machine.