Fanfic / Danny Phantom Vs American Dragon Jake Long: The Novelization

Whoever wins, someone's childhood dies...

Danny Phantom Vs American Dragon: Jake Long: The Novelization is a crossover fanfiction by NeoMark of Danny Phantom and American Dragon: Jake Long, based on the DEATH BATTLE! episode of the same name.

Aligning himself with the Dark Dragon, Vlad Plasmius uses a staff that pits the two heroes against each other. While trying to stop him, Danny and Jake become hostile and competitive with each other due to the spell. Now the two must work together to stop him and the Dark Dragon's return.

Sequels involving Kim Possible, Stitch and Ladybug, should any of them appear on Death Battle, was promised.

Can be read here.

A direct sequel based on the DBX episode Ben 10 vs Danny Phantom was released and can be found here here.

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This story provides examples of:

• 100% Heroism Rating: All the ghosts in the Far Frozen idolize Danny. Jake envies him for it.
• Abhorrent Admirer:
  • Tucker is this to Trixie and Spud is this to Jazz since neither girl is interested in them. Spud gives up when he remembers he's with Stacey while Trixie gives Tucker a fake phone number just before he goes back to Amity Park.
  • Vlad gains two in a pair of ugly old witches who become attracted to his human form. He ends up running from them since he's too low on power to change into his ghost form and his Ghost Vultures refuse to help him.
• Achilles' Heel: Dragons have two; a weak point behind their left ear and Sphinx Hair, with the Dark Dragon being the only exception to the latter.
• Actually Pretty Funny: Jake warns Danny that if Sam continues to disrespect him, he's going to glue her hair to the pillow. It takes a moment, but Danny ends up finding the idea funny.
• Adaptation Expansion: This takes the fight from Death Battle and expands on it, giving it backstory for why Danny and Jake are willing to try and kill each other, and saving Jake's life.
• Alien Blood: Green ectoplasm is briefly shown flying out when Jake's dragon claws slash at him.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Jake admits Haley can be a bit of a pain, and her unreciprocated crush on Danny isn't something he approves of.
• Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: Jake boasts this word-for-word when he summons his clones to counter Danny's. He's partially right as his clones do get the upper hand against Danny's, although Danny ultimately comes out as the stronger combatant in the end.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Shackles Jack says he won't be imprisoned in the Mugwomp Cup again. Danny agrees since he traps the evil Civil War ghosts in the Fenton Thermos instead.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Vlad works alongside Eli Pandarus and the Fright Knight to set the Dark Dragon free.
• Big Bad Wannabe: Huntsboy 88 and 89 are looked down on by Jake since, despite having access the entire Huntsclan's weaponry, they're too incompetent and immature to be considered threats.
• Big Brother Instinct: After Jake brings up how he's protective of Haley, Danny tells him about Danielle and how he wants to find her and make sure she's safe. Jake describes this trope to Danny with how they're willing to risk anything for their little sisters.
• Big "NO!": Both Danny and Jake anticipate this as the Dark Dragon is defeated and even mime along with it.
• Boastful Rap: Jake's Trash Talk to Danny takes the form of this. Danny returns fire while overshadowing him.
• Boisterous Weakling: Huntsboy 88 and 89 talk big but completely fail to back it up as they're easily intimidated by genuine threats like Shackles Jack.
• Bond One-Liner: Danny gives one after he captures Jake's ghost in the Fenton Thermos during their first fight.
  Danny: Time's up, pal!
• Boomerang Bigot: The Huntsman becomes one of the magical creatures he hates so much when he's turned into a ghost after Rose destroys the Huntsclan.
• Breath Weapon: As befitting a dragon, Jake breathes fire. Spud openly says his fire is strong enough to destroy a house and blast apart stone with force equal to at least 31 tons of TNT.
• Brought Down to Normal: At the end of the story, Vlad is too low on power to transform into his ghost form and is forced to runaway from two infatuated ugly witch hags that chase him.
• Brutal Honesty: Jake doesn't bother sugarcoating to Danny how pathetic Huntsboys 88 and 89 are.
• Bully Hunter: Jake and Danny don't get along at first but neither of them can stand a bully and defend each other from Dash and Brad.
• Bullying a Dragon: Sam goes through this twice.
  • She tries to give Jake Long the "If You Ever Do Anything To Hurt Him" speech because she doesn't trust him around Danny, but Jake isn't intimidated because there's not a lot she can do to physically hurt him, considering that she's a normal human while he's a dragon.
  • She makes the mistake of provoking some pixies. Lao Shi orders her to eventually apologize to them or things will get worse for her.
• Butt-Monkey: Tucker goes through some unfortunate stuff during the story. He's kidnapped, his attraction to Trixie is unreciprocated, has his PDA traded away without his consent, and just when he thinks he got Trixie's number, he finds as soon as he gets back to Amity Park she wrote "1-800-YOU-WISH".
• By the Power of Grayskull!: Both the main characters have theirs.
  Danny: "Going Ghost!"
  Jake: "Dragon Up!"
• The Cavalry Arrives Late: Kim and Ron arrive in New York right after Danny and Jake have managed to seal the Dark Dragon away again.
• Celeb Crush: Danny has a massive one on Kim Possible, which Jake learns about and makes fun of him for it.
• Clingy Jealous Girl:
  • Sam is this to Danny as she doesn't like any girl getting close to him but makes an exception for Haley since she's too young for him.
  • Haley, meanwhile, understands why Danny would have a crush on Kim Possible but it doesn't mean she has to like it.
• Combat Pragmatist: The Fright Knight doesn't mind taking out Lao Shi with a cheap shot while he's distracted by fighting Vlad.
• Combo Platter Powers: Danny's ghost-related powers include being a Flying Brick, overshadowing, invisibility, intangibility, cryokinesis, creating ecto-copies of himself, fire blasts or mold shields of ectoplasmic energy, and a powerful scream called the Ghostly Wail. His powerset is more varied than Jake's and is a factor in his win as it allows Danny to match or directly counter Jake's own abilities.
• Comedic Underwear Exposure: Danny gets back at Brad Morton for pushing him and harassing Jake by making his pants intangible, exposing his pink underwear with red teddy bear prints all over, which makes everyone at the skatepark laugh at him.
• Continuity Nod: This story takes place after the end of American Dragon: Jake Long and after the penultimate episode of Danny Phantom, so aspects are brought up from both.
  • Jonathan is aware of his children's abilities.
  • The Huntsclan destroyed by Rose's wish in "Homecoming" became ghosts.
• Crime of Self-Defense: Sam scolds Jake for using his powers to trip Dash when he was threatening him but Jake doesn't care and just fires back that it was self-defense.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: The Dark Dragon easily beats Vlad Plasmius, the Fright Knight, and Eli Pandarus upon being freed.
• Cute Monster Girl: Veronica possesses the upper body of an attractive girl that Tucker takes notice of, and the lower body of a spider that makes him lose interest.
• Demonic Possession: Overshadowing allows Danny to enter and take control of people or items. He uses this ability to great effect against his opponent in the fight's climax, which is noted to be an advantage against Jake since the American Dragon has no actual counter or immunity to possession.
• Didn't Think This Through: Huntsboys 88 and 89 release Shackles Jack's gang under the assumption the ghosts would be grateful enough to obey them.
• Dirty Coward:
  • Huntsboys 88 and 89 act cocky when they think they have the upper hand, but run away screaming when Shackles Jack's gang turn on them immediately.
  • The ghost vultures hide from the Dark Dragon in a dumpster and decide to stay there when a powerless Vlad is pursued by two ugly witch hags that are interested in him.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Lao Shi is NOT amused when Vlad admits he's helping the dragon for treasure and to take Maddie from Jack.
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: Jake gets a little jealous when he learns how much the Far Frozen idolize Danny.
• Dumb Jock: Both Dash Baxter and Brad Morton are this as they got held back in school, twice in Brad's case.
• Everyone Can See It: Danny is the only one who doesn't notice Haley's obvious crush on him.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Sam's parents are elitist snobs but, according to her, Eli Pandarus is such "a greedy jerk" even they "aren't too crazy for him". And she says that before learning he's a villain.
  • Sam refrains from acting like her usual jealous self around Haley, seeing as she's a small girl, as well as a dragon whose grandfather is present.
  • Tucker usually flirts with any pretty girl he meets but loses interest in Veronica upon finding out she's half-spider.
• Evil Is Not a Toy:
  • Lao Shi doesn't believe Vlad's plan to control the Dark Dragon will work, and he doesn't even know what Vlad's plan is. He's proven right.
  • Shackles Jack and his gang are released by Huntsboys 88 and 89, but quickly turn on the duo, who had no plan if the ghosts refused to obey them.
• Evil Is Petty: Lao Shi outright calls Vlad this when the latter reveals he's willing to help the Dark Dragon just to satisfy his greed and fixation with Maddie.
• Exact Words: The Dark Dragon uses this to justify not honoring his deal with Vlad by pointing out that Danny and Jake were technically the ones who set him free, not Vlad.
• Fangirl: Haley becomes one to Danny after being impressed by him while helping him and Jake deal with the Dark Dragon.
• Fantastic Racism:
  • Even in death, the Huntsman still hates magical creatures despite becoming one.
  • Frostbite and his tribe don't like dragons since they're creatures of fire while his tribe are creatures of ice, not helped by the fact they're being harassed by Prince Aragon, who can turn into a dragon. Downplayed as they still let Jake into their village when Danny vouches for him.
  • The Dark Dragon REALLY hates humans and plans to raze all their cities to the ground.
• Fire-Forged Friends: Their experiences turn Danny Phantom and Jake Long from reluctant allies to good friends.
• Fire/Ice Duo: Danny and Jake form on, since Danny has ice powers while Jake has a fire breath attack due to his dragon heritage.
• Foil: Danny and Jake are both teenagers who take normally imaginative forms to combat evil. However, while Jake defends magical beings from humans, Danny uses his ghost powers to protect humans from various spirits.
• Friendly Rivalry: Danny and Jake become competitive but ultimately still friends in the end.
• From Bad to Worse: After Shackles Jack and his gang are released, the Fright Knight shows up, and the spell that makes Jake and Danny want to kill each other gets stronger.
• The Gadfly: Trixie gives Tucker a fake phone number before he leaves and admits she wishes she could see the look on his face when he realizes it.
• Greed: Part of Vlad's motivation for freeing the Dark Dragon is the promise of wealth.
• Half-Human Hybrid: Both Danny and Jake are half-human, half-supernatural being (ghost in Danny's case and dragon for Jake).
• Hand Blast: Danny's "Ghost Ray" is a blast of ectoplasmic energy that has similar aspects to a laser beam, though he can also fire them from his eyes, fingers, and backside.
• Harmless Villain: Danny and Team Dragon see Huntsboys 88 and 89 as about non-threatening as the Box Ghost.
• Hate Plague: The spell cast on Danny and Jake makes them develop a murderous dislike towards each other.
• Henshin Hero: While Danny and Jake have powers in their human forms, both teens need to transform into their supernatural forms to gain the full benefits.
• Hopeless Suitor: Haley has a huge crush on Danny, who is oblivious to her feelings and she's too young for him to notice in any case.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: Lampshaded by Jake when he sees the Huntsman's Villain Decay.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Jake and his little sister Haley.
• An Ice Person: Danny and the Far Frozen use ice based powers, which contrasts Jake's fire.
• Identical Twin ID Tag: When Sarah and Kara they wash out the hair dye they've been using and such, Kara asks her sister why they thought it was a good idea, and she lampshades that it was to make it easier for people to identify them.
• Ignored Expert: Lao Shi's warning that Vlad can't control the Dark Dragon is proven true when he turns out to be immune to Sphinx Hair and Soul Shredder.
• Improbable Weapon User: Danny uses the Fenton Thermos to capture Jake's ghost after vaporising the American Dragon's body.
• Instant Turn-Off: Tucker loses interest in Veronica after seeing her spider legs.
• Intangibility: Thanks to his ghost powers, Danny can do this to avoid attacks of earthly origin, though similar ghost powers can still affect him. However, this proved less than effective against Jake, who had proven he could interact with and attack ghosts.
• Invisibility: Danny's invisibility proved to be an advantage as Jake couldn't detect him even with the Eye of the Dragon.
• It Only Works Once: Vlad attempts to put Danny and Jake under the spell again once it's broken, only for it to not work. He's told too late that spell very rarely affects the same two people twice.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
  • Jake is cocky, slightly rebellious, vain, and often shirks his responsibilities. However, he's ultimately caring, loyal, and brave.
  • At times, Lao-Shi can be a harsh and disciplinarian taskmaster, especially towards Jake, but only because he knows the challenges his grandson will face. He's also shown to have a caring side, especially to his family and Fu Dog.
  • Fu's a chronic gambler, womanizer, and full of obnoxious puns and one-liners. That said, he's a devoted member of the team and always there to provide Jake with some emotional support and advice.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • His rivalry with Danny aside, Jake is right to disapprove of Haley's crush on Danny as she's too young to date and Danny wouldn't be interested in her anyway even if he did notice her feelings because she's too young for him, plus he lives too far away for a relationship to work.
• Kamehame Hadoken: Danny has used this super ecto-blast that disintegrated a skeleton ghost and part of a mini-golf course. At the end of his first battle with Jake Long, he even does the hand motions of the trope before firing off the blast to completely disintegrate Jake's physical body.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: At the end of the story, Eli Pandarus decides to never team up with Vlad or the Fright Knight ever again after the Dark Dragon incident turned into a complete disaster.
• Legacy Character: Jake is an interesting aspect; he is the latest in a long line of mystic defenders of magical beings. However, since his mom, the non-dragon daughter of the last dragon defender, moved to America, Jake is officially the first American dragon, thus the title.
• Long-Distance Relationship: Since this takes place after the series finale, Jake and Rose are officially together but she is still living in Hong Kong with her family.
• Loophole Abuse: The Dark Dragon's deal with Vlad is that he would reward him with either treasure or power if Vlad set him free with the skull of a dragon the Dark Dragon once killed that has magic. Vlad wasted that magic in an attempt to get rid of Danny and Jake, but their intervention allowed the Dark Dragon to break free. Since technically Danny and Jake were the ones to set him free, the Dark Dragon says that he doesn't owe Vlad at all. Vlad argues it is a technicality, but the Dark Dragon ignores his argument.
• Magic Versus Science: This aspect is expanded a bit from the Death Battle episode. Due to Danny getting his powers via science and Jake being descended from a race that uses magic, their reactions to things common to the other are established. Jake expresses a level of discomfort around the Fentons' technology, finding himself unwilling to even enter the Specter Speeder. Meanwhile, Danny is a bit on alert when in Magus Bazaar, not only for the presence of magical creatures but the admittance he's had some negative experiences with magic in the past.
• Mistaken for Thief: Much like in the episode, Jake mistakes Danny for being the one who stole the skull.
• Mythology Gag: Upon meeting Jonathan, Danny wonders if he's a werewolf. This is one of the unused plans for the series.
• No-Sell:
  • As powerful as Jake's fire breath is, Danny can tank a ghost-dragon breath blast magnitudes more.
  • Vlad's plan to put the Dark Dragon under his control through Sphinx Hair amounted to nothing as the Dark Dragon has become so powerful that he's immune to that weakness.
  • The Fright Knight discovers the Soul Shredder doesn't work on the Dark Dragon since he states he fears nothing.
  • Subverted with the weak spot behind his ear, which actually disorients the Dark Dragon when hit. Combining Danny's ecto-blasts and Jake's fire also does noticeable damage.
• Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Danny calls the Dark Dragon out for not really caring about making the world better for magical creatures, and just using it as an excuse to gain power for himself.
• Oblivious to Love: Danny never figures out Haley has a crush on him even when she has a heart-to-heart with him, much to Sam and Jake's frustration at his cluelessness.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Both Danny and Jake realize something is wrong after their battle since they were MUCH more aggressive with each other than they normally are. People comment on how oddly hostile they are in the other's presence.
• The Power of Friendship: What finally breaks Danny and Jake free from the spell is the two coming to see each other as friends.
• Precocious Crush: Haley starts developing one on a clueless Danny, much to Jake's dismay.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: In Chapter 13, the Dark Dragon reminds Vlad and Pandarus, "This... better... work...".
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: As befitting their fire and ice contrast, Jake is the impulsive and reckless Red Oni to Danny's careful and strategic Blue Oni.
• Sequel Hook: In the final chapter, Kim gets an ominous message on her site saying, "Soon... it's your turn".
• Shipper on Deck: Jake offers to help Danny be less weak-kneed around Kim Possible if he hopes to get her interest.
• Shipping Torpedo: Even after becoming friends, Jake doesn't approve of Haley crushing on Danny.
• Shout-Out:
  • A powerful evil dragon released from being a Sealed Evil in a Can and refusing to honor the agreement he made with the ones who freed him due to a technicality? Where have I heard that one before... Later, the spell needed to imprison the Dark Dragon again is cast over the phone.
  • Two teenage heroes starring in a crossover start off antagonistic with each other but eventually become friends, even doing a Fusion Dance of sorts in order to beat the Big Bad. Did I describe Danny and Jake or Ben and Rex?
• Skewed Priorities:
  • Lao Shi is more offended Jake lost a fight to Danny Phantom rather than the fact his grandson could've died had it not been for Clockwork's interference.
  • Due to her Precocious Crush on Danny, Haley gets distracted from freeing her grandfather when she hears that Sam and Tucker are Danny's friends, and Jazz his sister, prompting her to ask about things like his favorite ice cream flavor.
  • When Danny and Jake are fighting again, Fu Dog is more concerned about how Jake is "getting sloppy with his left".
• Something We Forgot: Our heroes completely forget about Vlad once the Dark Dragon is dealt with. In fairness, he's left powerless at the hands of two witches who take a liking to him. Danny is the only who thinks they forgot something, only to dismiss it when Jake says it probably wasn't that important.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Thanks to Clockwork planting a DB crystal on Danny, Jake doesn't remain dead after the fight is over.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute:
  • Danny considers Brad Morton to be an even dumber version of Dash since he was held back twice in school instead of just once.
  • At Magus Bazaar, Danny runs into a harpy that's just as snobby and unpleasant as Paulina. He doesn't waste any time in rejecting her.
• Symbiotic Possession: To give themselves an edge against the Dark Dragon, Danny overshadows Jake but lets the teen dragon retain control over his body and fight the Dark Dragon while Danny uses his powers through Jake.
• Take That!: The story doesn't seem to like Sara and Kara's season 2 designs much.
• Taught by Experience: It's brought up that Danny doesn't have any formal martial arts training like Jake but compensates with his slightly superior combat experience. However, Jake has gotten better at fighting ghosts ever since going to Amity Park, so Shackle's Jack's gang is less of a challenge for him this time around.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Danny and Jake's partnership is extremely strained, partly because the spell they're under makes them want to fight each other.
• Tempting Fate: After being betrayed by the Dark Dragon and abandoned by his allies, Vlad asks, "How could this get any worse?!" His answer comes in the form of two ugly witch hags who become romantically interested in him, and he's forced to flee since he's too weak to transform into a ghost.
• Totally Radical: Jake has a habit of speaking like this, such as calling himself the "Am-Drag of New York City", much to Danny's confusion before the fight truly began.
• Touch the Intangible: As magical beings, Jake, Haley, and Lao Shi are capable of harming otherwise intangible ghosts. This allowed Jake to hurt Danny with physical attacks even when Danny was intangible, but it's pretty much a minor counter-option that he had against the ghost boy.
• Trash Talk: Both Danny and Jake taunt each other with banter, puns, and boasts during their first fight and later.
  Danny: (after phasing through a thrown stone slab) Hahaha! Wanna try something else? I don't want this to drag-on!
  Jake: Ah yeah! I'm the Am-Dragon of the NYC, and you, ghost kid, ain't got nothin' on me!
• Trauma Button: The Fenton Thermos is this to Jake since Danny used it to trap his ghost spirit after killing him in their first fight and restoring him with the red gemstone.
• Unskilled, but Strong:
  • As opposed to Jake having martial arts training from his grandpa, Danny has no such training. His being overall stronger, though, combined with his slightly greater amount of combat experience and No-Sell powers, gave him the win regardless.
  • Compared to Lao Shi, Vlad's skill and experience aren't quite sufficient as he has only had his ghost powers for 20 years, while Lao Shi has 30+ years of martial arts training and combat experience in defending the magical community from threats as the Chinese Dragon. It's shown in their fight when Vlad is caught off-guard by the Blue Dragon's duplication and Touch the Intangible powers. He only wins thanks to the Fright Knight's help.
• Villain Decay:
  • After Rose's wish destroyed the Huntsclan, the Huntsman eventually returned as a ghost but no longer has his followers because those who also became ghosts, resenting him for their fate, decided to spend their afterlives in isolation. He could've zigzagged it with his ghost powers but, because of his hatred of all things magical, he refused to use them. Jake even lampshades how the Huntsman went from the magical world's Public Enemy #4 to someone making threats that he can't keep.
  • The entire Huntsclan has been reduced to Huntsboy 88 and 89, who are nothing but a joke to the heroes due to their incompetence, stupidity, inability to properly work the Huntsclan's tech, lack of training, and cowardice.
• Villain Forgot to Level Grind: Averted, as the Dark Dragon has apparently been training while trapped in order to get his revenge.
• Villain Team-Up: Vlad makes a deal with the Dark Dragon to set him free, while plotting to betray and enslave him. Pandarus later joins the team.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Jake and Danny become this by the end of the story since they've developed a friendly rivalry.
• Wake Up, Go to School & Save the World: Both Danny and Jake are teenage superheroes who regularly have to face the villains as well as deal with/manage the typical everyday and mundane problems that come with adolescence.
• Weak, but Skilled: Jake has had a considerable amount of martial arts training under his grandfather, but his overall power pales in comparison to Danny's. Indeed, Danny and his clones gain the upper hand in most of the melee combat because of this. Jake's skills let him keep up with Danny for a while, but he is eventually overwhelmed by the halfa's power.
• Weredragon: Unlike Aragon, Jake, Haley and Lao Shi are dragons who can shapeshift at will.
• Willfully Weak: The Huntsman refuses to use the powers his status as a ghost grants him due to his hatred of magical creatures, allowing Danny to easily trap him in an ice prison.
• You Are What You Hate: Now that the Huntsman is a ghost, he's technically one of the magical creatures that he so hates and wishes to destroy, with his refusal to use his ghostly abilities just further cementing his Villain Decay. Jake even notes when the Huntsman says that he refuses to use the abilities of a "spectral monster" that he was always a monster, he's just in a universe full of them now.

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