TFP DP Crossover Chapter three K.O's and boxes

~~~~~~TFP~~~~~~

Smokescreen approached the panic stricken ghost boy who was hovering over a blood covered Miko.


Miko had filled him in on her plan on getting Phantom to the base, but her version of 'persuasion' was far from the word's true definition. But of course he agreed to her plan, adding his ideas here and there to improve it. Smokescreen was ninety-eight percent sure that it would work flawlessly, and when it did, he hoped it would win the gratitude of his idol, Optimus Prime. Today they set their plot into action, Miko had grabbed her stuff along with a backpack which held the key items needed if they wanted their plan to be a success. Besides, even if he wanted to back out of the plan he couldn't because she had some dirt on him, meaning she had a photo that she was planning on showing Prime if he didn't corporate. Needless to say, the photo was quite embarrassing, apparently she took it a few days ago when Bee challenged him to video game.

Speaking of the yellow scout, Smokescreen was supposed to meet up with Bumblebee for patrol later so he had time to kill. Miko had packets of fake blood to cover herself in which were once stored in her closet and waited along with Smokescreen in hopes of spotting the ghost. To their unbelievable luck he was in sight, he wasn't too far away neither so he was most likely doing a patrol of his own. The Japanese girl immediately laid down in the middle of an abandon road being sure to lie at an odd angle and mustered the best blood curdling scream that could win five stars in a horror movie.

Apparently in was convincing enough to lure the ghost teen to come and investigate.

So here he was now, sneaking up on the unsuspecting target, after all, there was a reason why Bumblebee was the scout and Arcee was the most stealthy one on team prime. Those two could sneak up on a bot in a matter of seconds, but as for Smokescreen...

SNAP!

Smokescreen slowly looked down towards his Pede in dread and saw he had stepped on a dead tree branch that had somehow managed to find itself on the lifeless road. Great, a stick, how cliche. Smokescreen thought sarcastically but the only thing he could say was "Oops". Phantom immediately whipped around and spotted him, he looked startled. Scrap! the plan's failing! what do I do now?

In a blind panic his fist shot out towards the hovering kid and making contact with his face. Phantom fell backwards; whatever was keeping him airborne ceased as he crashed landed on the ground on his back. 
Smokescreen felt his cooling fans hitch as he realized what he just done, the kid's eyes remained closed and he didn't even move. Miko however was staring at him with a look that stated 'really?'. "Great Smokey, when I told you to knock him out I meant by flicking him on the head or something, not full force with your fist." Miko scolded, but even she couldn't mask the amusement in her voice as she dusted herself off a bit and walking over. 

The rain was getting heavier and thunder roared in the skies above, all of the fake blood that was covering her was no longer there thanks to the shower of water pouring from the sky. Miko grabbed one of the snapped branches and began to prod Phantom in the stomach with it. 

"Do you think he's dead?" He asked hesitantly while watching with care for any signs of life, he just felt awful as his tanks churned with unease. 

"Uh, aren't ghost already dead?" Miko questioned back, she didn't even bother to take her eyes off her poking subject.

Smokescreen thought about it for a second, "good point." Well now he felt dumb. Miko's prodding ceased once an icy gasp escaped the boy's lips followed by a barely audible groaned that only he could pick up because of his adjusted audio receptors. "Well I'm taking that as a sign he's alive." Smokescreen sighed with relief "come on, lets load up and get outta here." Miko nodded her head excitedly in agreement, her soaking wet pigtails swished back and forth as she did so while her clothes clung to her sides. 

I don't think Bulkhead would be too happy if Miko got... What did humans call it again? oh that's right, 'sick'. He mused silently before allowing his armor to shift to vehicle mode. Miko half dragged half carried the unconscious ghost into the back of his cab before settling in the passenger seat, Miko sure did like to ride upfront.

"Hurry up and get comfortable, I'm supposed to be meeting up with Bumblebee so we can do patrol." He informed her.

Miko rolled her eyes and huffed and proceeded to buckle herself in "yeah, yeah I'm going, shesh! besides your gonna have to hide ice breath here cause I don't think Bee's gonna be too happy once he finds out you K.O.ed a human." She pointed out, she then proceeded with trying to remove the excess water from her clothing in hopes so she could get warmer "and Smokey turn on the heater, I'm freezing over here."

Smokescreen did so as he continued to mull over her words. Aw scrap, she's right! Bee's gonna be ticked, his 'protect humankind' meter was way up there next to Prime's... Not to mention the others... And Optimus... Just imaging their team leader's disappointment in him made him wanna bow his helm down in shame. "Is he even human?" he asked.

"Probably not, but isn't that what ghost are? dead people?" 

Smokescreen remained silent for a few nano seconds before going back to the problem at hand. "Um... maybe we could say we found him that way? Or! we could say that we spooked him and he fainted?" Smokescreen suggested before chuckling a bit "ha ha, spooked get it? cause he's a ghost."

"Dude, that was a bad pun that even he wouldn't have found funny." she said jabbing a thumb towards Phantom, after that, the trio sat in silence.

Which only lasted for like ten minutes.

After that things started to get well- weird. Phantom kept making weird noises on the backseat in his unconscious state. The sounds varied from what sounded like giggles, 'meh's', stuff that sounded like disoriented song lyrics, and gibberish followed up by the occasional 'Fruit-loop'. The two friends just summed it up as a weird state of 'La La land' for the deceased. Just sitting- or in Smokescreen's case driving- and listening to the strange rants was an experience they didn't want to endure again unless they had to or they were recording it for future black mail. Miko turned around in her seat and watched the weirdness continue to unfold "ya know, if ya tuck your toes and fart, it smells like cotton candy." Phantom slurred in a sing-songy voice before smiling. Miko felt her eye twitch.

"Yo Smokescreen, he's gonna wake up in a few minutes, we need to switch to plan B." Miko bent over and reached for her backpack and unzipped it, pulling out what looked like a grenade. 

"Uh, Miko? it's not like I don't trust you or anything but what is plan B? and what is that!?"

She continued to fumble around with the device before answering "it's just a little something I 'borrowed' from Fowler." she said simply as her finger rested on a pull cord.

"Okay cool, question: what does it do and is it dangerous?"

but before she could reply a loud groan sounded from the backseat, Phantom sat up and began to rub his sore face "Ugh... Where's the truck that hit me?" 

Scrap!

"Smokescreen hit the brakes!" Miko called. The brake pedal slammed down immediately, but due to the roads being wet they swiveled into a complete circle, Phantom fell out the backseat and landed on the floor with a loud 'thud' while Miko clung onto the door handle with a huge grin on her face as she felt her heart jump in her chest and the adrenaline kick in.  

As soon as he came to a halt Miko opened up the passenger door, and in a split second, pulled the cord on the grenade thing, chucked it into the back of his cab and made a run for it before closing the door shut. 
Smokescreen froze and could of swore he felt his spark stop as he waited for the grenade to go off. This is how my lights go out? by a little flesh-ling dropping a grenade in me? but I have a destiny to full-fill! I haven't kicked enough con tail-pipe yet! oh good bye you cruel, cruel world!

But the explosion never came; instead as soon as the flashing red button turned green a stream of smoke flew out of the canister. Phantom began to cough in the back seat, oh yeah I kinda forgot about him for a second... "What the heck?" he managed to cough out raising a hand towards his face trying to avoid the polluted air, but it was no use, he had already breathed in too much of it in and his vision was getting blurry along with a foggy mind, but he did manage to see a blurry yellow spot approaching before his vision swam back into darkness. 

"Oh no, Bee's here..." Smokescreen said in horror as the Urbana drove to a halt in front of him.



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To say Bumblebee was ticked off was an understatement. To say that he was happy with what Smokescreen had done would of been a total lie. Bumblebee exited the tunnel to enter the entrance of the base, transforming quickly to his bi-pedal mode and walked briskly to the medical bay with a unconscious person in his servos. He had checked him over as best he could but the teen is a deceased person after all, so he couldn't entirely be sure (how do you even do a medical check on a ghost anyway?) so Bee had decided it was best if Ratchet went over Phantom due to his field of expertise. 

"Ratchet come quick!" Bumblebee called out for the medic as he entered the med. area, to his relief Ratchet was there. His famous cantankerous expression present at the fact of being bothered. "I'm bit busy right now Bum-" Ratchet was immediately cut short as he saw what the scout was carrying in his hands, his features softened a bit when his optics landed on the limp creature. 

"What happened?" He asked taciturnity as he pulled out a scanner and raised it over the boy, it let out a few faint beeps as it listed off the readings. There was a pulse; fast but barely detectable. Ratchet scowled in annoyance for his lack of knowledge, he had no idea if it was normal for him to be like that. Even though he learned a bit more about the human body when Rafael was infected with the dark energon, Phantom was an entirely different case due to his ectoplasmic origins.

"Smokescreen happened." Bumblebee grumbled angrily, his door wings lowered to display his irritation, he carefully placed Phantom on the Medical berth, which in retrospect made him look even tinier seeing as the berth was cybertronian sized.

Ratchet let out a scoffing sound. That newbie could be so dense sometimes, along with his annoying ingratiating behavior. "He should be fine" the old medic concluded "all we can do now is wait for him to hopefully wake up. And I would like to ask how did this happen in the first place?"

Bumblebee's voice box let out a low beep that sounded awfully like a growl. "Smokey told me he found him that way at first; but when he started waking up, apparently Miko managed to get a chloroform gas grenade and used it to keep him asleep so they could transport him to the base easier. After she activated it she exited Smokescreen's vehicle mode and was standing in the rain when I pulled up." 

Bee really didn't want to talk about it, his fellow comrade had violated a Autobot protocol when he harmed Phantom; he really hated seeing others get hurt, it felt like his spark was being ripped from his frame when Raf was critically injured. And now if he focused too much on the subject he was sure he was gonna end up breaking something much to Ratchet's displeasure, and the medic's wrath was not one to be reckon with.

"Hi Bee, you came back earlier then I expected" a familiar voice called out catching the scout's attention, turning around to face the newcomer. 

Bumblebee's bright turquoise blue optics beamed with happiness as his ward scampered over with a smile on his little face, he carried his laptop along with him and his eyes shone with cheerfulness. Bee beeped in greeting before lowering himself and allowing the human child to climb into the palm of his hand. "Hello Raf, we ... Found Danny Phantom." He beeped uncomfortably. 

The little twelve year old's brown eyes enlighten with excitement. "Really? where is he?" Rafael asked pushing his glasses up a bit on the bridge of his nose. Bumblebee jerked his head towards the med-bay, causing Raf's smile to turn into a frown "oh no, is he okay?" 

Bumblebee nodded quickly to reassure him. The sound of a motor entering the base distracted the two briefly, the flashy red, white and blue race car pulled into to view. The 38 decal printed door opened as the fifteen year old known as Miko came out, her expression was glum and avoided eye contact walking towards the haven area free of Auto bot pedes or better known as the catwalk. Bee still had no idea why they called it that; there were no fuzzy earth creatures known as cats walking around up there. Though, he secretly wanted to have one of the cute fluffy creatures around that most humans found 'endearing'.

The sounds that followed afterwards was the sound of metal shifting into place to reveal Smokescreen. He too had the same glum demeanor as he walked over to an empty section of the base. 

Yeah, you screwed up big time Smokey. Bee thought regrettably, shaking his helm in a scolding manner and letting out a computerize sigh.

~~~~~~DP~~~~~~ 


Danny was barely aware of what was happening around him. He could feel himself laying on a flat uncomfortable, cold surface; as well as his hair feeling damp. The air around him smelt a bit dusty and he could hear electrical equipment running some where close by. Where am I? he questioned himself mentally, for some reason his brain was acting sluggish and was having trouble recalling past events. Danny hesitantly opened his eyes; he had to blink a couple of times when they came into contact with a light fixture hanging above him. Danny sat upright and stretched his back to get the kinks out of it, he could hear voices talking some where in the area. And now that he was more awake, he began to take in his surroundings. 

Well for starters, the place looked like it was in a cave or something, but there was flooring installed. There were insanely large computer monitors which were lit displaying stuff he didn't understand and would explain where the humming noise was coming from. It looked he was in some kind of silo.   

He realized that he was still in ghost form, which meant he hadn't reverted back yet from whatever adventure he endured earlier. Danny froze as his mind began to tell him he was in some type of lab area; given the monitors and the equipment lying around along with frighting familiar objects that looked like they were made for cutting some one open, he barely aware of the fact that his breath caught in his throat.

Come on you have to relax, Danny chided in his head, your not gonna get cut open Fenton, otherwise you would of been cuffed to the table with ectoplasmic restraints which is a good sign right?

But the voices; he had to figure out where there were coming from. Danny slowly pushed himself up into a standing position, taking a deep breath he floated out of his designated area of rest and went to find answers.

Carefully he peeked his head around a corner, his eyes widening a bit as he did. "Ah crud" Danny whispered with a frown. And just when I thought my summer vacation was gonna be normal, it gets screwed up.

In the center of the room stood the robots he encountered earlier in the week; aside from the candy cane colored one, having a discussion of which he was guessing about him. "Maybe now is not a good time." Danny decided taking a floating step back, not realizing he was being watched from above...

"Hiya!" 

A girlish shriek escaped his lips as he rocketed into the air in surprise before reading a ecto blast to defend himself from the threat. To his relief and yet annoyance, it was that same girl he rescued as well. What was her name again? Michu...no...Miku? nuh-uh... Mika? nope... what was it? It sounded like some weird dog name...

"Uh dude, did you just scream like a little girl?" she asked, an infuriating smirk dancing on her lips as she arched an eyebrow, she pulled her towel closer for warmth and her hair appeared a bit damp also.

"I uh-no!"  he replied quickly while lowering his hand as it extinguish into nothingness, but the feeling of embarrassment stung brightly on his cheeks as he ducked his head. Her grin stretched wider as she leaned on the railing to the catwalk, watching him float a foot away just outta of reach.

She then shrugged in a uncaring way "well at least your awake, Smokey kinda thought he knocked you into a comma or something, now he's getting his ear talked off by Prime." 

Danny floated there dumbfounded for a moment as the gears began to turn in his brain as the puzzle pieces began to fall into place. Danny's facial expression formed into a scowl as the image of a fist hitting him in the face replayed itself in his mind. Any dark revengeful thoughts were cut short as the sound of loud footfalls echoing closer meant his ears, whoever approached remained unknown to him since his back was turned. Miko-that's what her name was!- began to wave; Danny swallowed down a gulp and turned around to face the newcomers.

"Miko, is everything alright? we heard a commotion." asked Optimus with concern, behind him stood his comrades he saw a bit earlier but he didn't know any their names yet. Danny had a feeling he was gonna find them out anyway. 

The one american flag colored one in the back caught his eye, the robot had a look of relief on his face and he smiled at him, why that little- he better not think were all buddy-buddy now. Danny shot a quick glare him in return. 

Miko nodded jubilantly "Yup! and that 'commotion' you heard was a dying animal known as his vocals."

She broke out into a fit of snickers as his face became redder with embarrassment, "was not!" he hissed through clenched teeth. 

Optimus Prime dipped his head a bit in greeting "I would like to welcome you, Danny Phantom to the Autobot base. And these are our comrades; Ratchet, Arcee, Bulkhead, Smokescreen and Bumblebee." with each listed name one of the Autobot's would either nod their head or give a slight wave, Danny smiled a bit in acknowledgement, until he saw the grim look on Optimus' face "Though, I believe I must apologize on our teammate's behavior of bringing you here without your permission first."

Danny shook his head "it's not your fault Optimus. Besides, you don't come off as the type of guy for kidnapping people, but I can see why you call him Smokescreen with the smoke-bombs and all." Danny grinned up him, Optimus and the other's sizes were a bit intimidating (maybe not Arcee's size though) but they seemed like good people-er cybertronians wasn't it?  

Optimus managed a small smile at Danny's reply, but the creaking on the metal steps caught Danny's attention; two boys stood there, the youngest one with chestnut colored hair and square frame glasses resting on the bridge of nose stood shyly behind the older one who had raven black hair and stormy blue eyes staring into his neon green ones. Danny blinked, umm, who are they? 

"And I'll would also like to introduce you to our human allies." The tall red and blue mech continued as he motioned them over. "This is Jack and Rafael, who are under the protection of their guardians Arcee and Bumblebee, as well from the rest of us." At the mention of 'Jack' Danny got a funny feeling inside of him. Jack? his name is Jack like my dad? talk about an awkward situation. It would almost be like calling this guy 'dad' which is just...weird.

Danny floated over to the stairway before awkwardly rubbing the back of his neck "uh hi " he said with a small wave. Jack grinned and offered his hand which he accepted with a firm shake. Danny glanced down at Rafael, who still stood nervously by Jack's side, Danny offered his hand as well. "Hi I'm Danny Phantom, but you can just call me Danny." 

Rafael smiled at that and gave a slight nod, he seemed less nervous now "Hi, and you can call me Raf, it's what all my friends call me." 

Optimus's smooth baritone voice called out again "and you've already met Miko, her guardian is Bulkhead." He said motioning to her as she grinned and waved a bit.

Danny was about to smile back when Jack whispered in his ear "she was Smokescreen's accomplice, she came up with the whole kidnapping you idea." Danny frowned in response.

"But a problem poses at hand." Optimus Prime continued grimly "I believe that you are in danger Danny as you pose a threat to Decepticon cause."

Now it was Danny's turn to arch an eyebrow "you mean those physco idiots that were trying to shoot me down the other night?"

The Autobot leader nodded "indeed, now that Megatron knows of your existence and the power you possess, you have possibly become a target for his malicious intentions."

Danny snorted a bit "this 'Megatron' is really starting to sound like a evil fruit-loop I know. Does this 'Megatron' guy have plans for world conquest? really messed up in head? would do anything to have things go his way? and is just down right evil?" 

The Autobots let a chorus of 'yep's and 'mm-hmm's while Optimus vaguely nodded.

"Yup, defiantly sounds like the guy I know." Danny announced crossing his arms. But the moment of silence was cut short when a crash sounded through out the base. Every cybertronian life form readied their weapons as their fist turned into the familiar dangerous looking guns that he saw on the battlefield. The lights flicked a bit and the humans edged closer to each other; who knows what kind of threat was lurking down those now eerily looking halls? 

Danny readied his energized fist as he slipped into a mid air fighting stance. Something flew quickly into another entrance way inside the hall; then another something, and another and another and another before a glowing something flew into the same room. What the heck?

Danny motioned for the others to follow as he floated over to investigate, the steady metal footsteps some how comforted him a bit as they walked into the unknown. The room was dark once they reached it, and the glow from their choice of defense just wasn't cutting it, but they could make out one thing: glowing. Red. Eyes.

Ghost!

Decepticon! 

ran through their minds.

Arcee walked over as her hand skimmed the wall until it came into contact with something, with the flick of her wrist the room was showered in light. 

The sound of weapons preparing to fire was drowned out by one of the most annoying sounds that Danny have ever heard in his life.

"I am the Box Ghost! beware!" 

"Oh gosh, no." Danny groaned as he face-palmed. There floating in the room surrounded by gravity-less boxes was the ever irritating Box Ghost, pale blue-skin, overalls and all. The Autobots on the other hand were a bit confused, but their guns didn't falter on the possible threat. 

The Box Ghost gasped in shock when he spotted Danny "you! what are you doing here?"

Danny waved the question off "that doesn't matter right now! the real question is, what are you doing here? how did you even get in here? I mean come on! this is probably a high in security base and you just waltz in stealing their boxes! how the heck did they not notice you?"

The boxes began to swirl around like they were caught in a vortex as the blue ghost clutched his fist in anger "it doesn't matter how I got here! for I am the Box Ghost! tremble in fear at the might of my power over all containers, cardboard and square!"

Arcee lowered her blazing guns "is he serious?" she questioned.

Danny nodded "sadly, this is as serious as he would ever get."

"I am the Box Ghost! and I will have my corrugated cardboard vengeance, and you or that symmetrical container of doom will stop me!" the Box Ghost bellowed, his hands raised as they began to glow a toxic green; boxes and containers flew at Danny which he dodged easily. Swiftly turning around, Danny lunged for the Box Ghost and kicked him in the gut, but for a chubby looking ghost, he could sure move quickly as Boxy levitated more boxes and using whatever was inside of them to attack the ghost teen. 

Team prime stood there and watched, they couldn't really help Danny out because one, the two ghost were battling it out in a storage closet which meant there was barely any room to maneuver, and two, both ghost were flying back and forth like ping-pong balls, they can't risk firing a a wrong blast and ended up hitting Phantom. Besides, it looked like he had it handled.

Danny fired an ecto blast hitting the Box Ghost right in the stomach area. "arhh!" he yelled as he hit one of the side walls momentarily stunned.

Danny's hand immediately reached towards his hip but only grasped open air, Danny glanced downwards and gasped "where's my thermos?!"


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"What do you think this thing does?" Miko asked as she inspected the smooth silver canister with green details and white cap, her fingers tapped it bit and listened. Nothing.

"Uh Miko, where did you get that?" Raf asked worriedly, watching the girl as she continued to tamper with the device while the towel still draped her frame.

Miko grinned brightly at him. "Danny had it, I took when he was unconscious."

Jack groaned falling backwards to land on the couch. Hadn't that girl ever learned to never mess with someones personal belongings?  

Raf stepped closer to Miko to see what she was doing better "but why did you take it?" he asked once more.

"Well I got kinda hungry until I noticed his thermos thingy, I thought maybe he was keeping some soup in there for lunch or something." She replied, her eyes still interested in the device."But there's nothing in here! talk about a cheap stake." letting out an annoyed huff she shoved the canister in Raf's hands and walked over to the railing closer to the dim lit hall the bots disappeared down. "Huh, I wonder what's going on down there..." Miko trailed off as an idea sparked in her head. She ditched the towel and ran down the stairs and made a beeline for the eerie hall. 

Jack jumped off the couch immediately and ran after her "Miko get back here!"

Raf not wanting to be left alone dashed after them "guys wait up!" he called running as fast as his short legs would carry him.


~~~~~~DP~~~~~~ 


Danny ducked another flying box to the head and rocketed upwards. His opponent's daze had obviously cleared as continued to throw things at him at a rabid pace. "I am the Box Ghost! you can not defeat me! With the power of the use of boxes, and the occasional use of bubble-wrap" he said the last part mostly to himself "I shall defeat you and whoever stands in my way!"

Danny could feel a migraine coming on, the Box Ghost's dialog was so repetitive then the fight itself. Another box flew by and Danny hurriedly reached out for it. Once in his grasp Danny flew at his enemy and dunked the box on the other ghost's head "it looks like it's boxing day for you Box Ghost!" he smirked at his pun. The Box Ghost's head ripped through the card board as it popped out from the bottom. Another pun came to mind and he had no problem saying it out loud "looks like you need start thinking more outside the box." A chorus of groans came from his audience in response. 

Man, I could really use that thermos right about now. Just then Bulkhead called out to him "is this what you looking for?"

Danny turned around and saw Raf standing in the green mech's hand, and in the boy's hold was he long lost thermos. Therm-y! he felt himself cheer on the inside, but instead hid it by flying over "yes thanks!" he said happily once it was handed to him.

"What are you ever gonna do with it?" asked Bulkhead.

Danny offered him a grin like the Cheshire cat "you'll see" came the vague answer.

The Box Ghost was trying to make a run for it once his red eyes saw the halfa's trapping mechanism. "Oh no! you shall not trap me in the canister of foreboding!" he cried.

"Nuh uh uh, Boxy" the child chided "your taking a one way trip to thermos land; where it will meet all your ghostly needs." Danny uncapped the cover as his thumb pressed down on the capture button. A swirling blue vortex came out causing the bot's to take a step back in surprise. "Nooooooo!" the about to be prisoner howled, and in a flash of light he disappeared into the depths of the device, as well as the light as Danny recapped the lid. 

"That was so cool!" he heard Miko call out somewhere from behind the Autobot's.

The teenager just shrugged in response "it wasn't that big of a deal, that idiot was just a minor threat after all."

"how did you?..." Ratchet trailed off as he tried to process what he just witnessed.

"Its a ghost thermos, weaken the ghost enough and you can trap them inside. The special metal inside is ectoranium to prevent a ghost from just going intangible and escaping." Danny explained with a shrug, hoping that the show and statement would impress them "simple really." The white haired teen hovered into the air in front of the still surprise Autobots, finding himself rubbing at his neck again.

"Soooo... About that Decepticon problem" Danny began "how can I help?"