❛ Phantom Hazards ❜

11 | Teamwork

A/N: Look! I'm alive! Honestly I have a lot of chapters of these one Shots I've been working on but this one stumped me for the longest time because for the life of me I couldn't think up a scenario to go with how I wanted it to go. But I just decided to write and let it do it's thing. (Yes I know Tucker and Sam could go through the walls but maybe Walker stole some bars from the human world and used it to make some of his cells.)
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Summary: When Danny's friends are captured, Danny reluctantly teams up with a ghost to help him out.

Characters: Danny Fenton/Phantom, Johnny 13, Tucker Foley, and Sam Manson.

Type: Bonding? Team Effort

Words: 1,424
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"I hate you, you know that?" Danny growls, turning to the older ghost. Johnny laughs. "Hate is a strong word." Danny frowns but opts not to say anything back, instead looking towards the stone building ahead of them. "Hey," Johnny starts, "I don't want to work with you anymore than you want to work with me." "Doubt it." The halfa responds smartly.

Their eyes lock in a glare at each other, forest green against electric green, waiting to see which one of them looks away first. "Listen, this arrangement is only going to last as long as us breaking into Walker's jail, saving my friends and your girlfriend and then getting the heck out of there." Danny informs before breaking eye contact, jumping over the rock they were hiding behind and heading towards the jail. Johnny blanches. "Hey, kid! What are you- you're going to get us caught!" He cries exasperatedly. Danny says nothing; continuing forward and Johnny groans but reluctantly follows after the younger ghost.

Earlier that day, Danny, Sam and Tucker had gone into the ghost zone to visit Dora. The ghost ended up wanting to talk to Danny alone, but when he got back he saw Tucker, Sam and Kitty, who had gotten into a verbal fight with the two humans, were being dragged off to Walker's jail by some of his lackeys. Danny knew he would be outnumbered if he tried to fight them, and that they were too far anyway.

Danny had followed the ghosts and his friends and had run into Johnny 13, who had been doing the same thing. They formulated a plan, they'd work together to rescue their friends.

Danny didn't like it at first, but Johnny has broken out of Walker's jail many times and knows the place like the back of his hand. While yes, Danny has been thrown in the jail before, he had never explored it, so a team-up between the two boys seemed like a logical choice. Albeit a reluctant one on both parties' sides.

Johnny's boots crunch lightly on the ground as him and Danny peer around a corner outside of the jail. "So, what's the plan?" The younger whispers. Johnny whips his head around to stare at the halfa. "Me?" He demands. "I thought you had a plan!" Danny makes a nervous face and glances sideways. "Yeah, well I'm uh...Working on it?" He responds. Johnny sighs and bangs his head forward on the wall.

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Sam kicks forward at the cell's door and it rattles on it's hinges with a loud clang. "It's no use, Sam." Tucker reasons, leaning his head back on one of the cell's bars. "It has to break eventually." She insists, kicking the door again. Tucker winces at the loud noise, feeling the vibration travel across to his cell. Sam gasps, breathing heavily from the exertion and flops down onto the cement floor. "Just... just let me catch my breath." She says.

"You're an idiot."

Tucker and Sam look over at Kitty who's sitting up against the back wall of her cell. "There's no way it will break, that's the point of a jail." She finishes. "Maybe so, but these cells aren't meant to hold humans." Sam tells the ghost. "Hey! Be quiet!" A guard yells from down the hall and Sam grunts, annoyed. "Yup. We're going to be here awhile." Tucker says.
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The guard jerks forward to punch Danny but he ducks and sends and ecto blast into the ghost's chest, watching as he slams into the ground, out cold. Johnny finishes up the last guard with his shadow and they sneak into the entrance. "So, what way now?" Danny asks as they come to a crossroad of a hallway. "Hmm. Right, for the cells." Johnny responds and Danny nods. They walk down the hallway and press themselves up against the walls when a guard walks by, Johnny guiding them the whole time.

Danny turns a corner and is startled as he smacks into someone's chest. The halfa staggers back and shakes his head as he feels a small bump against his back. A quiet curse sounds from behind him and Danny recognizes the voice as Johnny's, the guard in front of him swinging his arm out to grab the front of Danny's suit. The guard brings his fist up to punch Danny but the younger ghost blocks it with a cry of 'Johnny, help me!'. The guard growls and pushes his fist forward. "You need to stay out of our business, ghost boy."

A dark shadow rises up from behind the guard and falls down, ripping the ghost off of Danny and bringing him to the floor. "We need to go!" Johnny yells and grabs Danny, pulling him past the fighting guard and shadow and down the hallway.
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Alarms start to blare throughout the building and Sam jerks up into a standing position. She runs over to the bars and peeks through them as the guards guarding their cells run off, leaving them unattended. "Hey, wait! Where are you going? Don't leave me with them!" Kitty yells at them. They're already gone though, and Kitty stomps her foot on the ground in unrestrained anger and annoyance. "Would you be quiet?" Sam growls. Kitty whips around to stare at the other girl and Tucker rolls his eyes. "Here we go again..." He mutters.

"I'm sorry, but who came back to life and made you Ghost Queen?" The ghost sneers. "Right now is our only chance to get out, so would you let me think for one second!" Sam snaps. Kitty crosses her arms and looks away, Sam going back to analyzing the room. "It's been a second." Kitty says. "What are you, five? Give me your hairpin." Sam tells her.

"My hairpin?" Kitty asks, but nevertheless hands the pin over. "Um. Sam, no offense, but if you want to do your hair shouldn't you do it at a later time?" Tucker asks nervously. "It's not for my hair, doofus!" She responds. Sam walks over to the cell's door and reaches her hands through the bars, inserting the pin into the lock and twisting it around inside. She puts her ear next to it, trying to hear over the still ringing alarms and a smile breaks across her face when it opens with a click.

She stands back and pushes the door open before running over and unlocking Tucker's. "Hey!" Kitty cries. "Aren't you going to let me out too?" She begs. "Danny would want us too..." Tucker admits and Sam sighs. "Fine."

The pin finds it's way into Kitty's lock and the ghost busts through the door and down the hallway when it opens. "Thanks!" She throws over her shoulder and disappears around the corner. "Don't know what good that did us." Sam says. Tucker shrugs before they turn and run after Kitty.
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A green and red blur darts past Danny, a hand pushing into his chest and nearly knocking him over. "What?" He asks, confused. Johnny turns and races after the blur, yelling, "Kitty!". Danny blinks at the space Johnny had just occupied before looking sideways as footsteps echo off the hallway's walls. "Danny!" Sam and Tucker cry in unison. The ghost boy falls to the ground with an 'oof' as they collide into him with a hug. "I'm glad you guys are okay!" Danny laughs.

Tucker and Sam get up off their friend and help him up. He brushes off his suit and points down the way he'd come. "We should probably leave before we run into Walker." He suggests. The humans murmur their agreements and the trio proceeds to run down the hall and out of the jail, on their way back to the Fenton's house to finally be done with this long day. After all, they do have school in the morning. Not that that's ever really stopped them before.
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