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DP and AB Crossover: Chp. 1

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Notes on Setting:

For the Danny Phantom universe, it's fairly simple, this just takes place after the series finishes. So yeah, Danny's identity is known, his parents know he's half ghost, and he's dating Sam. The Astro Boy universe… just don't even try to figure out which series it is. I took elements from the original manga, 60's black and white anime, 80's color anime, 2003 anime, and maybe even the movie and Urasawa Naoki's Pluto manga. In general, you needn't worry about knowing anything about any of the Astro Boy franchises, you learn about the world while Danny does. It would definitely help to have prior knowledge of Danny Phantom, though. No shipping except for what's canon.

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Chapter 1.

Danny winced, rolled over, and fought the urge to vomit. He had been in the Ghost Zone, chasing a particularly annoying phantom, when out of nowhere he felt a gut wrenching pull followed a blinding flash of light. Pull it together, pull it together, he thought. His brains felt like an egg salad sandwich that had gone through a blender. What was that thing he had crashed into? It had looked like a tear in a sheet of paper… no, no, that wasn't it. Danny cringed, cradled his forehead and attempted to think.

First of all. Where was he? The air was warm, and he felt the glare of sunlight on his back. There were wood planks beneath him the air smelled strongly of dust. Slowly, corneas stinging from the light, he opened his eyes to a squint and tried to make sense of what appeared to be a collage of loose bricks and broken boards. He sat up a little and looked around, ignoring how his stomach churned at these attempts.

He was in an old, decrepit house. Light shone through the holes in the wall and shattered windows onto a warped and dusty wood floor covered in ancient water stains. He had apparently fallen through the second story, and was lying in a jumbled pile of floorboards, old furniture, and loose papers. No wonder he hurt all over.

Was he still in the Ghost Zone? No, this is real, he thought as the painfully bright sunlight and light breeze told him. Danny really hoped he hadn't gone through another portal, the last time that had happened… huh?

His train of thought was interrupted by the distant sound of hurried footsteps. Oh crap! He tried to phase, but his stomach answered with a back flip. He desperately transformed back to human just as he heard a boy's voice call out from a connecting hallway. Danny couldn't understand a word of it, it sounded like some Asian language. Maybe… Japanese?! Had he gone through a portal to Japan??

The footsteps reached the door, and a kid wearing nothing but a black Speedo and knee-high red boots bolted into the room. His eyes widened at the sight of Danny sprawled awkwardly over a pile of debris. Belting out a panicked stream of Japanese, he rushed over and grasped at Danny's hands to help him to his feet. Danny stared dazedly at the boy while he patted him down for injuries and continued to ramble.

Not finding anything, he finally stood back and addressed Danny authoritatively, a serious look in his eyes. Danny, not understanding a word of what the strange, half-naked boy had said, hopelessly replied "I'm sorry, but I don't have any idea what you're saying."

To Danny's surprise, the boy glanced up and replied "English? You don't speak Japanese?"

"No," he said, looking shocked but a little relived.

"Then what on earth are you doing in an abandoned house in Japan?" the kid asked in bewilderment, waving a hand at their dusty surroundings.

"I'm not sure myself, actually," he answered truthfully.

The boy stared, but then smiled and laughed somewhat warily.

"That's a really strange thing to not know! But, I need you to listen: whatever your situation may be, you need to leave this property as soon as possible. You're in danger."

Wow. He sounds a lot older than he looks, Danny thought, and he's fluent and articulate in two languages. Weird.

"Danger?" Danny asked, watching the child curiously.

"Yes, this area is currently barricaded by the Metro City police."

There's something off about this kid, Danny thought absentmindedly. It's weird enough he's half naked and talks like someone twice his age, but there's something weird about his eyes and skin… he can't be a ghost. My ghost sense would have gone off ages ago.

"Barricade? Why?" he wasn't particularly worried about whatever they were barricading against. He had more than likely faced worse.

"A rogue construction robot," the boy answered.

There was a brief pause. "A robot!" Danny exclaimed.

"Yes…?" he replied slowly, unsure how to interpret this sudden outburst, "… we think it's a CPU malfunction, but he killed the rest of the worker bots on the crew. The police attempted to stop him, but he acquired one of their guns. They pursued him to this condemned city block."

Danny, suddenly more wary of his surroundings, realized how the room was oddly warm for the low angle of the sun. He ran over to the window and looked out. It was as the boy said; the block was completely broken down, with closely packed 3 story houses separated by a fence long since buried under litter and leftover construction materials. Heat and humidity hung in the air and cicadas hummed from their unseen perches in the rubble.

Was it summer? It had been February in Amity Park! Japan and the USA are both in the northern hemisphere; it technically should be winter here too! Danny frantically collected his thoughts. A robot… clearly intelligent, the boy mentioned it having a CPU and using a gun. He had gone through portals in the Ghost Zone to the past before. Had he just gone through one that led to the future? Except… Danny rubbed his forehead gingerly. It hadn't been a portal. It was a tear. A tear… a dimensional tear!?

"Sir."

Danny looked up at the boy, and nearly jumped at the seriousness of his expression.

"You need to leave," he asserted, "The robot has a gun and a faulty CPU. He is he could possibly shoot and kill you, even without intention."

"Then why are you here, telling me to leave?" Danny grated.

"The police asked for my assistance."

Yes, because helping the police is just something ten year olds do. Though, if it had a gun, he should probably leave… he'd have to go ghost to avoid bullets and he didn't want to do that in front of this kid.

"LOOK OUT!"

Danny snapped his head up in time to see the huge grey mech leap out from behind of concrete blocks, holding the largest gun he had ever seen in his life. The boy snatched the back of his T-shirt and yanked him down as a spray of bullets blew holes in the remnants of the window. Danny yelled as one of them swiped him across the hip just deep enough to smart like a bastard.

"You're hurt!" the boy cried, seeing bloody fabric.

"S' only skin deep," Danny said bluntly.

The boy looked up anxiously. "Oh no, he's coming," he muttered as the crunch of unnaturally heavy footsteps drew closer.

Swiftly, he grabbed Danny's wrist and effectively dragged the floundering teenager to the far corner of room, shoving him behind a couch and then running back to the window. What the hell is he doing? Danny thought, That monster is going to flatten him! He tried to scramble to his feet and transform, but the robot had already smashed trough the far wall like it was made of chewed-up Popsicle sticks.

The boy raised his hand and addressed the hulking machine in Japanese, a look of concern on his face. Holy crap, Danny thought in amazement, is he trying to negotiate with it?
He had at least briefly captured its attention, and it paused as the kid continued to talk gently in Japanese to the eight foot, three ton steel beast with a machine gun the size of a cannon. Unfortunately, it quickly lost interest and turned his gun on the boy. Danny's head reeled in pain from the deafening gunfire, but the boy, seemingly unfazed that a gun was being fired at him, simply leapt to the side of the bullets and continued to speak. The robot, annoyed by the dodge, cocked his gun to fire again.

Danny saw sudden flash of ferocity cross the kid's face, and he then proceeded to grab the muzzle and rip the enormous gun out of the giant's hand.

Danny blinked. Holy shit, did he just see that?

The robot roared with anger and swiped a massive hand and the boy, who dodged again. Holding the gun easily with one hand, he quickly removed the ammo, grabbed the other end of the gun, and bent it clean in half. The machine, now thoroughly enraged by the loss of his gun, balled a fist and attempted to smash him into the floor. The kid stepped into the oncoming attack, grabbed him at the elbow and shoulder and flipped the robot clear off the ground; driving it into the floor with an impact that smashed the floorboards and made Danny's teeth rattle.

Before the robot even had time to move, he scrambled up onto the steel monster, flipped up a hatch, and pressed a few buttons. The giant machine pushed an arm on the floor, attempting to get up, then gave a dying wheeze and collapsed back down, the kid still on its back.

The boy stood up slowly, looking sadly the down monster he had just threw against the floor like a discarded coat. "He wouldn't even talk to me. What on earth would make a high functioning robot act like that?" He hopped off the robot's massive steel back and walked over to Danny. "Are you ok sir?" he said, reaching out his hand to the dazed teen.

"How did you do that?!" Danny stuttered. The kid frowned in confusion and glanced back at the robot.

"Oh, you mean flip the construction bot like that?" he exclaimed, "I'm 1,000,000 horsepower, sir. I know I don't exactly look like it—"

"Horsepower?"

The boy examined Danny quizzically. "You do realize I'm a robot, right?"
Full name is Danny Phantom and Astro Boy Crossover, because I am not terribly creative.

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SparkfromEmber's avatar
If I had time I'd totally do a crossover with these two scrubs... they're awesome XD