Second chapter by Alluring Alliteration. I did make a few adjustments, just to Rogue's accent, cause I have actually had a southern accent before, and a few typos. 899 words and 2 1/3 pages.

Danny Phantom: X-man

Chapter 2

A teenage boy with messy black hair was lying on his bed in Amity Park. At the moment, he was asleep. A phone rang next to his bed and the boy reached over to grab it.

"Hello?" he asked, opening light blue eyes as he sat up.

"Danny!" said a girl on the other end of the phone. "You have to come to the park, Youngblood's causing trouble and I don't think Tucker and I can get him by ourselves!"

Danny groaned.

"Fine, I'll be there in a second." He hung up the phone. Clenching his fist, he called his familiar battle cry:

"I'm goin' ghost!" A silver ring appeared around Danny's waist. It split in two, one ring going down to his feet, the other going up to the top of his head before they both disappeared. As they went, they transformed his blue jeans and red-and-white t-shirt into a familiar black Haz-Mat suit with white gloves, boots, belt, and DP symbol. His messy black hair had turned pure white, and his light blue eyes now glowed green. Danny Fenton had now become Danny Phantom.

Danny flew out the window and towards the park. When he arrived, he saw the all-too familiar ghost. The young 'pirate' was flying around the park, waving a broken tree branch like a sword and firing random ecto-bursts at nearby trees and buildings. Danny sighed.

"Yo, Youngblood!" he called. "Why don't you go play somewhere else? Like, oh… the ghost zone maybe?"

Youngblood just laughed, and zoomed away.

"Catch me if you can, Phantom!" he called over his shoulder.

Danny shot after him, firing ecto-blasts as he went. Youngblood dodged them, still giggling.

"Thermos!" Danny yelled as he flew past Tucker and Sam. Catching the one they threw him, he managed to corner Youngblood and suck him into the thermos.

Mission accomplished, Danny thought. That was pretty easy. Usually only the box ghost is that simple to capture.

Suddenly, a shout came from behind Danny. He turned around just in time to see a fist sprouting metal claws coming at him. Acting instinctively, Danny turned intangible, and the metal 'claws' went straight through him. The man stumbled a bit but recovered his balance quickly. He obviously hadn't been expecting his claws to go straight through Danny. Danny jumped backwards before the man could swing again, and looked at his attacker. He was sort of rough looking, with wild black hair and very long sideburns. Since the man obviously wasn't a ghost, he had to be one of those 'bounty hunters' that Vlad had called in. Inwardly, Danny groaned.

Just what I need, he thought sarcastically. Another bunch of people trying to kill me. Yay.

Suddenly, a girl a bit older than Danny ran forward to stand between them. She held gloved hands palm out in front of each of them.

"Logan, stap!" she addressed the metal-clawed man, speaking with a slight southern accent. "The Professor sai' we were suppos' ta talk ta him! What were ya thinkin'?"

The rough looking man-Logan the girl had called him-glared at Danny.

"He was attacking the townspeople, Rogue!" he growled. "Shooting some kind of energy everywhere for no reason! I couldn't just stand there!"

"I was not!" Danny protested. "I was fighting Youngblood! He was the one attacking people, not me! Those ecto-blasts were fired him, but he kept dodging."

"Yeah right, bub," Logan scoffed, sheathing his claws. "You weren't fighting anyone I could see."

"Actually, I could see him," Rogue said, turning to Danny. He noticed that while most of her hair was dark brown, one lock at the front was as white as his own. "He was a kid, right? Dressed up like a pirate, with a bird? A skeleton bird?"

"That's the one," Danny agreed with a glare at Logan. "Only Kids and teenagers can see him, for some reason. I wasn't attacking anyone, okay?"

"Okay," Rogue agreed. "We believe you. We just came to ask you a couple questions, that's all. I'm sorry Logan jumped the gun like that. Here," she said, sticking out her hand for Danny to shake. "I'm Rogue, and this is Logan, which you probably already figured out. Are you the one named Inviso-Bill? No offense, but that's a pretty stupid name."

Danny made a face and shook her hand.

"I know its stupid- 'cause that's not my name. No matter how many times I tell them, people just keep calling me that, and it's getting pretty annoying. I'm Danny. Danny Phantom."

Rogue smiled.

"That's cool."

Danny glanced around and saw that the park was completely empty except for the three of them. The regular people had fled at the first sign of a ghost attack, and Sam and Tucker had obviously left once they knew he was safe. Danny frowned. That was strange. They wouldn't normally just take off unless… He gasped and turned quickly back to Rogue.

"What time is it?" he demanded. Rogue looked at her watch.

"Exactly four o clock," she said. "Why?"

"I'm late for something," he told her. "Look, you said you wanted to talk. Could you two meet me back here at seven tonight?"

"Sure," Rogue told him, "but I'll have to bring the others in our, uh, group."

"Oh, that's fine," Danny told her, relieved. "See you then." He flew quickly home, hoping he wasn't late.