The Odd Trio—Prelude

Amity Park at night, around 10:30. A trio of teenagers are walking down the street. Danny Fenton's hands were shoved into his pockets as he walked forward, dejectedly. Behind him were Tucker Foley, adjusting his trademark red ballcap as he fiddled with his PDA, and Sam Manson, who rolled her dark eyes laconically.

"Man I can't believe I flunked the test...AGAIN!" Danny moaned.

"Well, Danny, if you actually study then you'd do better." Sam said.

"Sam, if Danny took all his time to study, then who would fight all the ghosts?" Tucker responded as his PDA blipped loudly.

"Yeah, Tucker's right, how can I fight ghosts and study?" Danny complained.

Sam sighed. "I know, I know...Whatever."

Tucker and Danny laughed, suddenly Danny gasped and his breath turned cold.

"Ghost time eh?" Tucker asked.

"Yep" Danny said.

Sam looked at her watch, "Gee, they're late tonight."

"Late or not, they're about to get sent home." Danny smiled, "GOING GHOST!"

Suddenly two bright blue glowing bands appeared around him as his eyes started glowing a bright green. Suddenly as they moved, he phased into a black suit with a large silver D on the front, his hair turning snow white.

Danny Phantom Took flight and shot off in the direction his breath came from.

At a Karate School, the glass burst open. A ninja-like figure appeared.

"The fools! They think they know the way of self defense!" The ghost yelled.

"It's time to teach Ninja-boy here a lesson in invasion!" Danny smiled to himself as he shot at the ghost, full speed.

The Ninja Ghost didn't seem to see him, but as soon as Danny got close, the ghost suddenly swung around, grabbed Danny's arm and sent him into the school.

As Sam and Tucker ran up to the fight, they saw the Ninja ghost swing the Phantom into the building.

"Danny!" They yelled.

Danny went intangible and phased through the walls as he flew in the air. He collected himself and flew back.

"Hey, where'd he go?" Danny asked as he noticed the Ninja Ghost was gone.
Tucker and Sam, who were looking where Danny was sent through, looked back.

Danny sighed. "Aw man."

The next day...

It was a busy day as usual at Casper High School. In the busy hallway, a boy with purple hair was carrying a camera filming while his girlfriend is walking with him. She was a Japanese girl, typically shorter than the boy, with darker purple hair. She was only fourteen, almost fifteen, but still very pretty.

"And here, we have the teenagers practically ignoring the director and his girlfriend," The boy joked, "Because they apparently don't view out-of-town freshman as any sort of threat."

"Tommy." said the girl in an embarrassed sigh. "Must you do that every time?"

"Can't help it, Kimi. I'm the director. Plus, it helps this program some." Tommy responds, "Besides, it wasn't really going anywhere anyway."

"Well, Tommy," Kimi said with a sigh, "The film doesn't really have a theme!"

"Of course it does!" Tommy said, "It's supposed to be a documentary on what American high school students do when they're still at school but not in class."

"Usually," Kimi said, "they're in transit, trying to get to class."

"Yeah, but you gotta do something while you're in transit." Tommy said, "How many times do either of us stop to talk to our friends while we're on our way to class. It's the whole reason they give us fifteen minutes to make it there!"

"You're right," Kimi said, "But nobody's talking to anybody else. Is this a school or a morgue?"

Elsewhere in the hall

"Man, I can't believed I got my butt kicked by that stupid ninja ghost!" complained Danny as he slammed his locker. Sam and Tucker were close by. "I mean, do I always have to be so unlucky!"

"Don't sweat it Danny, that guy looked like he was a little tough." Tucker remarked.

"Yeah, Danny, you shouldn't let yourself feel down just because of one defeat. I mean, you got defeated before and you never let it bring you down before..." Sam said.

Of course, Danny and Tucker weren't listening. They are gawking at a pretty little Asian girl who is chatting with a purple-haired boy with a camera. Sam let out an annoyed sigh.

"Great. What is it with you guys and women?" Sam said annoyed. She goes between the two and knocks both of their heads together, snapping them out of their gawking.

"Huh? What were you saying, Sam?" asked Tucker, groaning while feeling his head.

Sam sighed. "You two were gawking at that girl when it's pretty obvious that her boyfriend is standing right there." Sam explained.

"Well, we are fifteen year old boys, Sam," Danny grinned.

"That kid?" Tucker said cockily, "He isn't that tough looking. I could take him."

Sam glared at Tucker for a moment and then, effortlessly, shoved him down.

Danny looks and sees the boy carrying the camera as the girl walked over to him and gently put her arm around him. "Oh right. I guess."

"Hmm. They don't look very familiar, let's see who they are." Sam said as she drags Danny and Tucker over to the new kids.

"Oh well," Tommy said as he put the lens cap back on the camera, "I guess this one was a bust. Are there any other high schools in Amity Park?" "Nope," Kimi said, "Just this one. The town is too small." Suddenly three high-school students walked right up to them.

"Uh hi…" Tommy said looking up, "Didn't think anyone would noticed us."

"Well, we did." The girl said, said rolling her eyes. She had bluish-black hair, and a black Dumpty-Humpty hoodie on, complimented by rather baggy pants and boots, and her purple eyes were bracketed by dark eyeliner and mascara.

"You guys don't go to this school, do you?" She said.

"Eh, no…" Tommy said nervously, "We go to Jim High."

"It's in Los Angeles," Kimi explained.

"L.A., huh? Sounds interesting," Sam remarked, "So what are your names?"

"Man, where are my manners today?" Tommy smiled weakly, "Uh…my name's Tommy Pickles, and uh…this is my friend Kimi Finster…and uh…this is my camera…I named him Roman."

"You named your camera?" Tucker asked incredulously.

"Tucker…" Danny said, rolling his eyes, "My name is Danny Fenton and these two are my friends Tucker Foley and Samantha Manson."

"You can just call me Sam." She added, "So, what's brings you two here? Are you transferring students or something?"

"Not really. We're doing a documentary for high school students to find out how other schools do things," Kimi explained, "And since you three introduced yourselves to us first, maybe you could show us around."

"Sure!" Danny said, "You guys will really like it here…well, you won't like the cafeteria food, but other than that…"

"Eh, cafeteria food is the same wherever you go." Sam said, "I happen to think that it's all made by the same people and then shipped out to different schools. I don't eat it because it makes you stupider!"

"I don't eat it either, I'm trying to keep my girlish figure." Kimi joked, cocking her hips to the side. Sam laughed.

Suddenly, without warning, Danny's pants went ghost. His pants fell to the floor and went back to normal, much to his embarrassment. As Tommy and Kimi gasped, the students in the hall stopped and laughed at the sight. Danny gulps and pulled his pants up, hoping a teacher or someone he knew didn't see him.

"What the heck?" Kimi asked surprised.

"Uh, that sometimes happens." Danny said, embarrassed.

Just then, Danny's breath turned cold.

At the same time, Kimi suddenly felt her Ninja Sense shoot up her spine and emanate out of the sides of her head. Kimi looked around, worriedly. Danny is the only one who notices this. Unfortunately, Kimi noticed Danny's breath.

"What's with you?" Kimi asked nervously.

"Uh…uh…nothing. What's with you?" Danny asked, equally nervous.

"Ok, good. Uh…uh..." Kimi said.

Tucker and Sam looked quizzically at Kimi as Danny chimed in.

"Uh…yeah, right! Gotta go! Bye!" Danny said, bolting off.

"Yeah me too." Kimi said, bolting off as well.

As the two ran off, Tucker quickly turned to Sam.

"Oh man! Danny forgot to take the thermos with him!" Tucker whispered to Sam.

"Well, we better get it to him quick before he gets his butt beat like last time." Sam said, whispering back.

"Well, it's nice meeting you," Sam said, "and we hate to run, but…uh…"

"We better get to class!" Tucker said, "Never hurts to be early!"

"Yeah, bye!" Sam said as she and Tucker bolted off after Danny.

"Well, more time to film." Tommy remarked as he continues his filming.

Danny ran into the bathroom, and made sure no one else was in there.

"Going Ghost!" he said as he phased into ghost mode again.

Kimi also ran into a different girls' room where she removed her coat and revealed her Ninjetta costume.

At the same time, at a dojo, two blocks away.

People are running out of the Dojo screaming as the Ninja Ghost grabbed the sensei and held him above his head. "You call yourself a MASTER! Don't make me laugh!" He cackled as he carried the teacher into the air.

"Hey Kung Phooey!" A voice called. The ghost turned to see Danny, flying in the air, "You got a problem with the way he teaches, send in a complaint slip."

The Ghost glared. "You again! It was foolish of you to challenge me the first time!"

Then the Ninja Ghost tossed the teacher at Danny. "YAAAAUUGH!" The teacher yelled as he sailed through the air.

Danny caught him and set him on the ground safely. Suddenly the Ghost Ninja kicked Danny into a wall. The wall crumbled on him.

The Ninja Ghost laughed. "That was too easy...again."

Suddenly The Ninja Ghost was kicked from behind and knocked down. A white ninja figure spun around, pulled out a sword, and landed on her feet.

Ninjetta stanced herself, brandishing her katana.

The Ninja Ghost got up and looked at her. "Who are you?" He Growled.

The girl smirked as she stood up, her red ribbons whipping around in the wind. "If you don't know, you don't deserve to, spook."

The Ninja Ghost gasped. "That outfit...that stance...you're a member of the Spider-Clan aren't you?"

Ninjetta was confused. "The spider clan!...What the…?"

Before she could finish the Ninja Ghost charged at her.

"I DESPISE THE SPIDER-CLAN! Their best warrior, Shakinako, is the reason I'm a ghost in the first place." He yelled as he charged brandishing his own katana.

"Ah crap!" Ninjetta gulped as she leaped out of the way.

"Great," Ninjetta thought to herself, "of all the Ninja specters for me to fight, it just has to be the enemy of the guy who originally had these powers!"

The two Ninjas clashed in a blade lock as Danny went ghost and got out of the rubble. "Man, that smarts." He said, rubbing his head.

He looked down and saw Ninjetta battling the ghost.

"Oh great," he moaned, "There's two of them. No matter, I've got to take care of that ghost." With that he charged at him.

The Ninja Ghost seemed to look back. Then he smiled and, just as Danny got close, went transparent and seeped into the ground. Danny couldn't stop in time. He charged headlong into Ninjetta sending them into a bunch of garbage cans. Both got up favoring their arms.

"What's your problem?" Ninjetta snapped, "I had that guy all taken care of!"

"ME? What about you? Who the heck are you anyway? This is my town.!" Danny growled.

Ninjetta grunted. "I don't have time for this." She raised her arm and flexed her wrist, shooting out some webbing to a nearby building.

"Hey! You didn't answer my question!" Danny yelled.

"Yeah," She said before she swung off, "And I'm not going to."

With that, Ninjetta sling-shotted off with amazing speed. Danny gasped.

"Whoa," he said in amazement, "I can't even fly that fast!"

Just then Tucker and Sam ran up with the Fenton Thermos. "Danny you forgot this!" Tucker said as he tried to catch his breath.

Sam Gasped as she saw Danny was holding his side. "Danny, what happened?" She ran and caught him as he started to fall.

"Ow" Danny winced as She caught him "Some Ninja girl was here. I was trying to stop the ghost but, then she started fighting him, and we ended up hitting each other." Danny said.

"You mean Amity Park has another superhero running around?" Tucker said as Danny reverted back into his human state.

A few minutes later...

Danny, Sam, and Tucker just finished their latest class at their high school and headed towards lunch.

"So who was that Ninja girl anyway?" asked Tucker.

"I don't know," Danny said, "But from the look of that ghost's face, he does, and they aren't too friendly." Danny remarked.

"Well, whoever she is," Sam said, "She's probably here because of the Ninja Ghost. I say you two should team up and take him out together." Sam remarked.

"But she sort of just…appeared out of nowhere, and then she left like really quickly." Danny remarked, "I mean she shot some sort of rope out of her arm! And them, MAN! Did you see how fast she swung off? She's faster than I am."

"Well, This is interesting to say the least." Said Sam.

Elsewhere in a large corporate building, a man in a button down shirt sat nervously in a chair, speaking to someone behind a desk. The man behind the desk however was hidden in the shadows.

"According to this, our products are selling huge. It's only a matter of time before we may be the largest corporation on the planet," replied the man, putting a manila folder stuffed full of papers on the desk.

"Save the selling rates. Tell me, have your men found them?" asked the figure.

"Well, yes, one. But why do you need the Spiritual Jewels? To sell?" asked the man.

"You just don't get it do you?" The figure sneered, "These Spiritual Jewels you stupidly suggested to sell may be the key to taking over the world. They are scattered in three places so no one would uses them."

"Uh, forgive me for being naïve, sir, but use them for what, exactly?" the man asked sheepishly.

"A legend tells of a demon so powerful that it had to be trapped in a bubble in what is now believed to be the space-time continuum. He was supposedly more powerful than any other mythological demon! If these jewels converge in one spot, it will release him upon humanity, and he will be at the mercy of the one who freed him!"

"But if he's just a mythological demon, then why are we trying to find these jewels that lead to him!" the other man said, "He may note even exist for all we know!"

"Oh he does, and we will find these jewels! Do I make myself clear?" boomed the figure.

"Yes sir. Geez, you sure are strict, aren't you, Mr. Matthews?" asked the man nervously.

Mr. Matthews smirks and leaned forward from the shadows to reveal a cruel looking man in a business suit.

"That is why I am known as...the Shadow Man." remarked Stan Matthews evilly.

As the last bell rang at Casper High School, Sam and Tucker were making their way down the halls.

"Man I'm so glad today's over." Danny said, "Hopefully, I can go home and just crash."

"I wouldn't count on it," Tucker said, "not with that Ninja Ghost running around."

"Don't remind me." Danny sighed.

Sam walked up with Kimi and Tommy close behind.

"Hey guys," Sam said, "They sat in on one of my classes."

"Really?" Danny said, "How'd that go?"

"It was sophomore AP trig," Kimi said, "We were lost."

"And to top it all off," Tommy complained, "these two creepazoids in letterman jackets kept launching spit wads at us."

"That's Dash and Kwan for you." Sam said, "They're a couple of Grade-A bad eggs."

"Man, if your school is like this, imagine what the other schools are gonna be like." Tommy grumbled.

"Aw c'mon Tommy," Danny said, "You just had a run in with the school bully that's all…"

"Hey Fentina!" Dash called.

"Oh great," Danny muttered. Suddenly a gigantic wad of wet toilet paper smacked him in the back of the head.

"Looks like little Fenton is hanging out with the new dorks," Kwan joked as they walked up to the group.

"Watch it, dude," Kimi said, "You're barking up the wrong tree."

"Oooooh," Kwan said as he bent down and talked diminutively to Kimi, "Shortie here wants to act tough."

"I'm happy with my current height, mountain man," Kimi sneered, "At least I don't get brain damage from bonking my head on doorways like you do."

"Yeah…well…" Kwan stammered, "At least I don't…uh…"

Dash came to Kwan's rescue.

"Look, Teeny-Weenie," He said pointing his finger in her face, "I don't know where you come from, but you better watch it, because this is OUR turf!"

"Yeah!" Kwan agreed.

"And if you're gonna talk like that around here," Dash continued, "then you better have the nads to back it up…oh right…you're a girl!"

Dash and Kwan started laughing derisively. Kimi was starting to lose her temper.

"Hey!" Tommy said stepping in front of Dash, "You leave her alone!"

"OH!" Dash said, "You gonna do something about it, Lover boy?"

"And what if I do?" Tommy stood firm.

Dash and Kwan looked at each other and grinned.

"SWIRLIE TIME!"

Dash and Kwan grabbed Tommy and ran off to the bathroom with him.

"Hey!" Danny said as he, Sam, Tucker, and Kimi ran after them.

Danny sprinted off ahead of them and as he did, went intangible.

"Lemme go, you creeps!" Tommy yelled as Dash and Kwan forced him over a toilet.
Danny phased through the bathroom door and spotted the two bullies trying to shove Tommy's head into the toilet bowl.

"On three!'" Dash said, "One…two…"

Suddenly, Danny grabbed Tommy's leg and phased him into intangibility with him, pulling him out from underneath Kwan and Dash. The two bullies slipped from under their captive and both went screaming, head first, into the toilet bowl. Before Tommy could notice, both he and Danny reverted back to normal.

Dash and Kwan tried to pull their heads out of the bowl, but their heads were two big to come out at the same time.

Seeing that he was out of danger, Tommy breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thanks, Danny," He said, "I owe you one."

"Don't mention it," Danny said grinning, pointing to the two football players trying to dislodge their heads from the toilet bowl, "Would you like to do the honors?"

"Don't mind if I do!" Tommy grinned as he flushed the toilet.

Dash and Kwan screamed as their heads were swirled in the murky waters of the toilet bowl.

As the five walked out of the school, Kimi, Sam and Tucker noticed that Danny and Tommy were wearing huge grins on their faces.

Kimi was the first to speak up about it.

"You guys are smiling from ear to ear!" What happened?

"Oh nothing," Tommy said as he and Danny tried not to crack up, "We got away and that's all that matters

"That Dash guy is such a creep!" Kimi growled, "Does he always have to be such a big jerk?"

"Always." Sam remarked, "It's like his entire ethos just to be a complete butthead."

"So anyone want to hit the movies or something?" Tucker asked checking out his electronic organizer.

Just then, a weird-looking van pulls aside the five and an orange haired girl came out.

"Jazz? What do you want?" asked Danny.

"Who is this?" Kimi asked.

"Jazz, Danny's sister." Sam explained.

"Dad wants me to pick you up. One of his friends is visiting and he wants us all to be there." Jazz explained.
"But I just met some new friends." Danny begins to say.
"Well, take them with you. Come on!" said Jazz impatiently.
Danny sighs, and then turns to Tommy and Kimi. "Want to hang out at my house?"
"Sure." Tommy shrugged, "This could give me a chance to see where one of the students lives."
"Uhm, we should warn you." Jazz said, "You might see some really weird things. Like things you're not used to seeing"
"No sweat. Can't be any crazier than my dad's inventions…" Tommy began.

Suddenly a very wet Dash and Kwan ran out of the building.

They didn't look too happy

"FENTOOOOON!" Dash screamed in rage as he ripped the wet toilet paper from of his head, "You and your friend are DEAD!"

"…But right now, I'm not really one to argue!" Tommy said, as he, Kimi, Danny, Sam, and Tucker piled quickly into the van.

Of course, when they got there, Tommy saw that he was wrong.

Tommy and Kimi looked around in astonishment as the whole house was filled with strange looking gadget. In the basement, Danny and Jazz's father, Jack, was working on a new invention with his wife, Maddie, assisting him.

"Excellent! If this invention works, it could solve all our ghost problems!" Jack Fenton said proudly.

"But Jack, you say that every time." Maddie said.

"But this time I mean it, Maddie!"
"See what Jazz warned you about." Danny told Tommy
Maddie looked up from her work to see the group walking into the basement.

"Oh, Jack, Look." She smiled, "Danny brought home some new friends."
"Mom!" said Danny annoyed.

"Relax, son. It's good to see you bringing in some new faces." Jack said. "So, are you going to introduce us?"
"This is Tommy," Danny said pointing to him and then to Kimi, "And this is Kimi."
"Hi." Kimi said, looking nervously around.
"Superb!" Jack said, "This'll give me a chance to show your friends exactly what I'm working on!"

"Dad…c'mon…not now!" Danny asked.
"You're right, son. I have an old college friend coming to help us. I can tell you right after she gets here. Which should be right about..." Suddenly the doorbell rang, "Now!"

Jack charged upstairs to the front door, and opened it. A white-haired woman in goggles and a yellow lab coat stepped in.

"Nora, it's good to see you again!" Jack said hugging his friend.

"Likewise, Jack." Nora said hugging him back, "It's good to see you again."

"So who's the old bat?" Tucker asked snidely. Sam belted him in the gut. "Ouch! What!"

"Everyone, this is one of my friends, Dr. Norene Wakeman." Jack began, "She's a scientist down in Tremorton. Nora, this is..." Of course, Jack was interrupted once more.

"Maddie, Daniel, and Jasmine, your family, I see. You described them specifically in the last letter." Dr. Wakeman said, walking over to the Fenton kids, "My Daniel and Jasmine, how much you've grown since the last time I saw you!"

"Jazz, the name's Jazz." She corrected, rolling her eyes.

"And I go by Danny," the younger sibling said.

"Oh, I must apologize then!" Dr. Wakeman, "Now that I know you two better, who are all of your friends?"

"Well, this is Sam, and Tucker, and Tommy and Kimi." Danny introduces his friends once more."

"Wonderful!" Dr. Wakeman smiled. "This is perfect! I hope you don't mind but I brought my daughter along, I think you kids would get along great!"

"Well, let her in. We could use a new face." Maddie smiled.

"XJ-9! You can come in now." Dr. Wakeman calls out to outside.
"XJ-9?" asked Sam and Kimi puzzled.

"My daughter of course." Dr. Wakeman smiled.

To everyone's surprise, walking right through the door was a blue-colored robot that was paying more attention to reading a teen magazine than she was to anything else.
"Yeah mom?" asked XJ-9.

"Mom!" said Tommy, Kimi, Danny, Sam, and Tucker all at once, freaked out a bit.

XJ-9 moved the magazine out of the way and noticed they were staring at her. "Mom." She sighed. "I told you to ready them BEFORE calling me in! This exactly what I wanted to prevent!"

"Whoops...sorry dear." Prof. Wakeman said as she patted her daughter's arm.

XJ-9 blushed a deep bright blue. "MOM! Stop!" She pulled her hand out. Then she walked up to the teens and put her hand out. "Hi, I'm Jenny." She smiled.

However, none of them took her hand immediately, all of them were too stunned. XJ-9 started to look hurt.

Kimi finally snapped out of it, smiled, and shook her hand. Soon the others did too.

"Amazing!" Tucker said in astonishment as he shook her hand, "It's a fully independent working android!"

Jenny blushed again, "Ah stop, you're embarrassing me!"

Kimi suddenly felt her Ninja Sense shoot up her spine again. Something was wrong. Suddenly danger sirens started blaring. 'Great.' She moaned.

Everyone ran out the door to see a small flying saucer hover over Amity Park.

"A spaceship!" Dr. Wakeman said.

"Do you think it's a ghost spaceship?" Jack asked.

"Oh please." Jazz moaned as she pinched her eyes together.

"Uh…I have to…uh…use the bathroom!" Kimi said, trying to make up an excuse to leave.

"Yeah!" Danny said, also trying to excuse himself to turn into the Phantom "And I've gotta hide!"
But before Kimi and Danny could bail, Jenny stanced herself for a fight, grinning deviously.
"Don't worry kids," Jenny said, "This is my area of expertise. I'll handle this!"

Suddenly she jumped up in the air, firing off rocket boosters out of the soles of her feet.

Everyone stared wide-eyed as Jenny shot off toward the saucer.

"Jeez!" Kimi thought, "I can't go that fast!"

The saucer started firing laser beams at her, but Jenny dodged each and every one. Jenny then flew up underneath the saucer and punched out its rocket engine.

Everyone on the ground watched in amazement as Jenny grabbed the side edge of the saucer and started swinging it around and around in circles. Suddenly, she let it go, throwing it far off into the sky. It disappeared from sight rather quickly.

"Back where you came from, bugs!" Jenny yelled, "And don't ever come back!"

"What...was...that?" Sam asked shocked.

"Oh...well...I should have explained." Dr. Wakeman said, "When I built her, I had originally intended for her to be a Global Defense Unit. But then, it began to be more of a labor of love, and pretty soon, I started to refer to her as my 'baby'. I figured, why not make her a real teenage daughter! That way she is a fully functional teenager, a daughter and companionship for me, and a superhero when needed. Therefore her full name on her registration certificate is Global Defense Unit XJ-9 Wakeman." Dr. Wakeman giggled.

"And you named her Jenny for short?" Tucker asked.

"No," Dr. Wakeman said, "She named herself that. I suppose it makes her feel more like a member of society."

Jenny soon returned, gently returning to the ground.
"See, easy as pie." She said, "Maybe too easy. They might be back."

"I don't think they will," Sam said, "You just killed their engine and sent them hurtling into outer space!"

"Yes, but I sent them on a direct course back to their planet." Jenny shrugged, "They should crash-land back there in the middle of the Capitol Square in about sixteen earth years."

"Sixteen years?" Wakeman said, "Are you sure it was a direct course?"

Jenny sighed, "Okay, okay, I sent them looping around a few planets in the meantime, but it was all in fun, Mom! Honest!"
Danny and Kimi, who were both still standing there, were still gawking, wide-eyed at Jenny.

Suddenly Danny's pants went intangible again and fell. He was snapped out of his stupor and yanked them back up embarrassedly.

"Eh…sorry." He said.

"Danny, if you can't learn to control your pants better," Jack chided, "I'm going to make you wear the Fenton Belt!"

"No!" Danny said, "Not the Fenton Belt!"
Wakeman sighed. "Jenny...how about you take Danny and his friends out on the town for a while?"

Jack smiled as she pushed them out. "Yes, you kids have fun until dinner, well see you then!"

Elsewhere...

The Ninja Ghost is by the dock, fuming angrily. He may have avoided captured the last time, but the ninja girl made him furious.

"It has been centuries! Centuries since my death at the hands of Shakinako! And now this girl seems to be his successor!" he raged, "Well, this time I will have my revenge. My death will no longer go unavenged! I must kill the one responsible, or in this case, his successor."

"Nothing shall get in my way!" fumed the Ninja Ghost angrily.

"And I believe I can assist you in your cause." hissed a mysterious voice.

"What! Who goes there!" demanded the Ninja Ghost angrily.

"Relax," The voice hissed again, "First off, I mean no ill will toward you, I assure you. Second, I overheard your ranting and I'm here to assist you."

"How could you help me?" asked the Ninja Ghost doubtfully.

"What if I were to tell you I know of a way to not only get revenge on the ninja girl, but a chance to have a ruling seat, taking over this planet as well?" asked the voice.

"I'm listening." The Ninja Ghost said, quirking his eyebrows.

"Listen well then. Allies of mine are looking for specific items but one of them is out of their reach. A little something called the Fenton Portal. Inside the Fenton Works building is where it is. The ghost boy you defeated twice has used it to send unruly ghosts such as yourself them back to this 'ghost zone'. We would get it ourselves, but with their defenses, I do not think we could be able to get it. But you can go through walls. With your help..." said the voice.

"What makes me think you won't use it to imprison me?" asked the Ninja Ghost suspiciously.

"My dear Ninja warrior! I am a woman of my honor!" said the voice, "Besides, this may be your one and only chance to perfectly exact revenge on the Ninja Girl without that pesky Ghost Boy getting in the way, if you catch my drift."
The Ninja Ghost thought carefully. Then he nodded.

"Very well." The Ninja Ghost said, standing up, "I shall get you this Fenton Portal. What does it looks like?"

A thin, robotic arm extended from the shadows and handed the Ninja Ghost a schematic of the Fenton Portal.

"Is this too complicated for you to read?" The voice asked.

"Dear woman," The Ninja Ghost said, "I have been around since the third century. I can read everything."

With that, the Ninja Ghost cackled and disappeared in an evanescent vapor.

The evil voice chuckled evilly as it came out of the shadows.

"Perfect. Once the Fenton Portal is ours, the plan to rule the planet will be perfectly fail-safe! Nothing can stop me now!" hissed Queen Vexus evilly as she too, began to cackle evilly.

Later, in town

The new friends were walking down the streets talking and smiling.
Kimi looked at Jenny. "So, Jenny, uh, what's it like being a..."
Jenny smiled. "A robot? It's fine and all, no problems...except..." She sighed.

"Except what?" Danny asked.
"Danny!" Sam glared.
"What?" Danny asked confused.

"It's fine...it's just...I've always wanted to fit in. I mean...I do have friends and all but I just want to be a part of the IN crowd." She looked off longingly.

"Jenny," Kimi said, "You don't want to be in the IN crowd. What's really important is having real friends who accept you for what you are, rather than what you try to be."

"You know," Jenny said, looking back at her, "You're absolutely right, Kimi."

"BEWARE!" A voice yelled out.
"Ah no." Danny moaned as his breath went cold again.

Suddenly a rather fat ghost appeared.

"I AM THE BOX GHOST! BEWARE!" He yelled.

"Great." Kimi sighed. Kimi ran off down an alley with Tommy following behind and jumped up the building to change. 'I'm not letting Jenny take all the credit this time.' She thought.
'I better take care of this.' Danny thought as he, Sam and Tucker snuck off too.

Jenny glared at the Box Ghost. "Look you...I don't know who you are but you've scared my new friends away."

The Box Ghost didn't seem to be listening as he was looking at a garbage dumpster. "I shall be haunting YOU from now on!" he wailed.

Jenny sighed irritably.

"Time to take out the trash!" Jenny said as her arm opened up, revealing a laser gun.

Suddenly Ninjetta swung in and landed in front of Jenny.

"Hey garbage boy!" she yelled.
"WOW! You're Ninjetta!" Jenny yelled in shock.
Ninjetta was amazed. "You've heard of me?"
"Yeah, You're like, ALL OVER the teen magazines!" She smiled.
"Really?" Ninjetta said, "Didn't know I was so popular."

Just then Danny flew in. He glared at the Box Ghost. "Alright you, I'm in a good mood so I'll give you the chance to get out of here."

"I AM THE BOX GHOST!" he hollered.

"Man is he dumber than usual or what?" Tucker asked Sam as they ran back up.

Danny flew at the Box Ghost. At that same time, Ninjetta and Jenny flew in too.

The Box Ghost gasped and disappeared. Ninjetta and Danny rammed into each other again and Jenny accidentally rammed them into a wall. In the pileup, Ninjetta's mask flew off.

Jenny caught it. "Oh my gosh." She flew over. "I am SO sorry I didn't...hey!" Her eyes started to scan Danny Phantom. "Danny?" She asked.

Danny gasped. "Uh...what are you talking about? Danny? Who is this Danny?"

"Don't play games with me," Jenny sighed. "I have a computer memory, my scanning system registers your vital signs as Danny's."

Ninjetta stood up. She realized that she didn't have her mask on. She cupped her hand over her nose and mouth and walked up to Jenny.

"I'll take that," she said in a muffled voice as she took her mask back.

Suddenly, Jenny scanned her

"Oh my Gosh!" Jenny said excitedly, "and you're Kimi!"
"KIMI!" Everyone else except Tommy gasped.

"Eh...hi..." Kimi said sheepishly as she removed her hand from her face.

Back at the Fenton house, the Fentons and Dr. Wakeman were making dinner, using their various inventions.

Suddenly a shadow loomed over their front door as a dark figure slowly approached.
The doorbell sounded slowly.

"Who could that be? Are we expecting anyone?" asked Jack puzzled.

"Yes, remember?" Maddie said opening the door, "Professor Membrane couldn't make it today, so I invited over…"

Maddie turned around and nearly jumped out of her skin.

"Gaz, sweetie," she said, clutching her heart "You really ought not to look so down, You about scared the living daylights out of me."

"Apologies." Gaz said, the expression on her face not changing, "May I?"

"Of course, of course!" said Maddie happily, "Come right in. May I take your coat?"

"Thank you," Gaz murmured as she took it off, handing it to Maddie, "I apologize for father not being able to show up today. He's busy…like always…idiot."

"Isn't she just a ray of sunshine?" Jack muttered to himself.

"A friend of yours?" Dr. Wakeman asked as she came to see who it is.
"Actually, she's the daughter of a friend of mine, but she's a friend nevertheless." Maddie said.
"I'm actually glad you invited me over." Gaz said, "You know I'd love to help out with this little project of yours."

"Mom?" Jazz said as she came downstairs, "have you seen my… YAAAAAAAAAUGH!"

Jazz screamed with fright as she took sight of the dark-looking woman standing in the kitchen.

"Sorry," Gaz said, "I seem to get that reaction a lot."

"So, how long are you staying?" Maddie asked Gaz, "Our son and his friends are out but they should be back in time for dinner."

"Yes, my daughter XJ-9 has gone with Danny and a few of his friends." Dr. Wakeman said, "Oh…what were their names?"

"Well," Maddie explained, "there's, Sam and Tucker of course, and then Tommy and Kimi, I think their names were…"
At the mention of Tommy and Kimi's names, Gaz's eyebrow raised in interest.

"Tommy and Kimi?" she said, "This wouldn't be Kimi Finster would it? Little Japanese girl, about yeh high?"

"You know her?"

"We've…met." Gaz smirked.

Maddie didn't seem to notice.

"Good, Good!" Maddie said, "Nice to know that we are all friends around here."

"Quite." Gaz said with a smile, "Well, maybe I could stay after all."

Amity Park Museum of Natural History

A night watchman was walking the beat as he walks around checking up on a rather large jewel in a case. Satisfied that there's no one around, he walked on to check on the other priceless artifacts in the museum.

As soon as he was out of sight, a small black shadowy figure slunk down from the ceiling. As it came to the floor, it collected itself and crouched down into a more humanoid shape. It looked around warily to make sure there was nobody else coming. Silently, the black figure slunk over to the large jewel case, slithering more than it did walk. As the figure peered up over the pedestal, her eyes glowed with an eerie evil smile.

Her arm rose slowly, in a serpentine fashion, producing a makeup compact. The figure flipped it open and blew the powder out gently, so as not to set off any wind-sensitive motion alarms. As the powder cloud surrounded the case, a net of laser beams weaved around the jewel's case—except for the top of it.

Slowly, the figure backed away from the case. Suddenly, she ran for the case and jumped high in the air, over the laser trip beams, landing on top of the case, with the poise of a jungle cat.

She held out her hand and formed her fingers into long, sharp claws. Using her claws, she slowly cut a circle out of the top of the case, lifting it off carefully. Gently, she reached her hand in, stretching and extending it much farther than humanly possible as she slowly picked up the jewel. As she grasped it, her hand seemed to slowly "swallow" it. When she opened her hand again, there was nothing.
Suddenly, it bounded off of the case and landed back onto the floor, making not a sound at all. The figure slunk back into the shadows, back up the ceiling, and back out of the window she had cut open the same way she had the glass case.

Once on the roof, the figure opened her hand again, producing the gem. She looked it over and grinned devilishly.

"Perfect." Assassina said quietly with a hiss, "The first Spiritual Jewel is ours."

Meanwhile, our heroes had a problem of their own.

"Kimi!" gasped Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Jenny.

"Danny?" asked Kimi.

"Danny?" asked Jenny and Tommy.

"Kimi?" asked Sam.
"Sam, me Tucker, and Jenny. And repeat." said Tucker. "There, we're all even."

"Tucker!" Everyone said.

"Aw, you messed it up!" Tucker cried.

"Danny? YOU'RE the Ghost Boy?" asked Kimi.

"Well, look who's talking, Miss. Ninja Girl!" snapped Danny.

"Wait, wait, hold on. This is obviously another case of misunderstanding." Jenny said calmly.
"No misunderstanding here!" Danny said, "She butted in where she doesn't belong!"

"I was trying to stop a villain, is that so wrong?" asked Kimi.

"Yes!" Danny cried, "This is MY town, and they're MY villains!" protested Danny.

"Now hold on!" Tommy said, "You two are on the same side. At least it shows you have a common interest, and that's fighting crime and all the forces of evil. And, so what if you didn't catch the bad guy? That's because each of you were trying to do it for yourself, instead of working together."

Danny and Kimi stopped.

"You know, Tommy?" Danny said, "You're right. I mean, normally I can take the Box Ghost myself easily, but the three of us couldn't even catch him working against each other."

"Right," Jenny said, "So. We're all still friends?"

"You know it," Danny smiled.

"Well," Kimi said, cracking a smile, "We all know each other's secret identities now, so I guess we're sort of bound to each other."

"Speak for yourself," Jenny grinned back, "I don't have a secret identity to worry about."

"Besides, we have something else a LOT BIGGER to worry about." Sam fretted.

"And that is..." Kimi, Danny, and Jenny said together.

"Oh, nothing. Just a bunch of big, scary robots about to attack the town, that's all." Tucker said pointing to the sky.
The three heroes looked up to see three giant insect-like spaceships hovering over the town is an ominous attack formation.

"Oh my gosh!" Jenny said, "Those look like Cluster warships! But that can't be! Cluster Prime is Earth's ally now!"

"Cluster Prime?" Kimi asked incredulously.

"That sounds like some sort of breakfast cereal!" Danny said.

"Nevermind. I'm going to take care of this, right now!" Jenny said, getting ready for battle.
"Hold on, Jenny. I'm backing you up." Kimi said, strapping her mask back to her face and drawing her katana.

"Well, it may not be ghosts." Danny smirked, "But they're evil, and they're attacking my town, and that's good enough for me!"

"Let's do this!" Ninjetta yelled, throwing her fist in the air.

"Yeah!" Jenny and Danny yelled, their fists meeting hers.

Back inside the huge office building, Stan Matthews stood at his window, puffing his cigar surveying the city.

Suddenly there was a knock on his office door.

"Enter." Matthews said sternly.

"Excuse me sir," a man said poking his head in timidly, "you're...eh...son…is here."

Matthews puffed out some smoke and turned to the man. "Good...send him in."

The doors flew open and in walked none other than Joxer the Clown.

"Well, Daddy-dearest, I've brought something for you!" he chortled, shoving the intern on the ground.

"Hey, watch where you're going punk!" Joxer said as he suddenly snarled at the intern.

Suddenly, a black serpentine arm reached out and picked the intern up off of his feet.

"You really ought not to get in Joxer's way," Assassina hissed, "He does have a very notoriously short temper, and when he has a short temper…"

Assassina held up her other arm and shape-shifted it into a large kama blade and held it up to the intern's neck.

"Well," Joxer chuckled with a grate in his voice, "Sucks to be you, doesn't it?"

"Enough!" Stan Matthews said in an assertive tone, "Enough of this foolishness! Alan, please tell your lady friend to put him down."

Assassina dropped the intern on the ground.

"You survive to live another day." She grated at him, "Now crawl. Crawl away like the insignificant maggot that you are!"

The intern fearfully crawled away on his rear away from Assassina and Joxer.

"Alan, must you always try to kill my bottom-feeders?" Matthews said shaking his head, "You know you're costing me a FORTUNE in covering up things like this up EVERYTIME you show up son."

"I apologize, father," Joxer said soberly, then suddenly flew into a hysteric dementia, "You know, you just get those manly urges, and you just gotta kill something!"

"Well Alan, did you get it?" the elder Matthews asked.

Joxer smiled. "But of course father." He turned to the black ninja standing next to him. "Assassina, if you please."

Held out her hand and reverse-"swallowed" the gem, producing it in the palm of her hand.

Suddenly, Assassina clutched it quickly.

"Someone's here!" she said, "someone else has entered the room; I can feel their presence."

"Oh what," Joxer mocked, "Do you have the Schwartz or something?"

"Silence," Assassina said before turning her direction to the corner of the room, "Apparition, I know you are here, I can see you. Show yourself."

"Dear girl, you've ruined all the fun," Vlad Plasmius said as he appeared into view.

"Ah," Stan Matthews said, "I see you've met my business partner's alter ego. Alan, Assassina, This is Vlad Masters; he's a multi-billionaire who I deal with quite regularly. You're looking at his supernatural form, Plasmius."

"Dear child," Plasmius spoke to Assassina grinning evilly, "I believe you have something that I own partial stock in."

"Plasmius," Assassina spoke firmly, "While my host may be a mere child, I myself am three times as old as you are. So before I relinquish anything to you, know that I am your elder and you shall address me as such."

"I'd listen to her if I were you, old man," Joxer said glaring Plasmius down.

"Please," Plasmius scoffed, "I haven't time for this."

Assassina brought back the kama.

"You had better make time, Apparition." She said, "And before you dare to scoff at this, know that I am just as otherworldly as you, and this will strike you."

Vlad backed off a bit. "Very well then, Assassina." He said, "If you are as powerful as you say, then you would be more fitting an ally than an enemy."

"That's more like it." Assassina said, withdrawing her weapon.

"Now that that's settled," Matthews said, stepping in between the two, "Assassina, if you please, my dear."

"Of course," Assassina said, "I will always respect a gentleman."

"Now then," Matthews said, handing the stone to Plasmius, "I believe this is yours for the time being. I'm sure you know what to do?"

Vlad smiled evilly as he held the gem in his hands. "Yes. At last I'll be able to exact my revenge on that idiotic Jack Fenton and his son!"

Plasmius turned to Assassina.

"You said you can respect a gentleman," Plasmius said, "And with that I thank you."

Plasmius took hold of his cape and bowed to Assassina, and as he did he disappeared in a swirl of vapor.

Assassina glared at Where Plasmius had stood.

"Respect and trust are two entirely different things, Plasmius." She growled, "And hollow sucking up unfortunately doesn't win points with me."

As the Cluster robot freighters loomed over Amity Park, Jenny and Danny charged them. Suddenly out of large bays in the spaceships flew out swarms upon swarms of large robots. Danny and Jenny stopped.

"Oh crap." Danny said, "That's a lot of Cluster Bots"

Jenny turned to Danny with a horrified expression on her face.

"Those aren't Cluster Bots." She said.

"What?" Danny exclaimed, "But you just said…"

Jenny interrupted him.

"Cluster drones look like beetles," Jenny said, "These guys aren't beetles, they're…"

"Praying Mantises!" Danny yelled as they closed in on them.

Jenny's arms opened up and out of them came two large laser guns, and Danny's hands started to glow with a bright green haze, as they got ready to battle. Suddenly as the Mantis robots converged, Jenny and Danny started firing lasers and ectoplasmic energy blasts at them. As they were hit, the Mantises exploded violently. Then the robots behind the first wave started firing energy blasts of their own at the heroes.

Danny growled hard as one hit him. Thankfully it didn't hurt him in ghost form, but it knocked him quite far. Danny flew back up into the fray, avoiding more energy blasts as Jenny fired off her own, taking out three at a time.

Danny cupped his hands together, creating a large red energy ball.

"Hey you overgrown horseflies!" he yelled as he shot the ectoplasmic grenade at them, "Eat this!" The large blast reverberated across the field of enemy robots, blasting a huge hole in their offense.

"Awesome shot, Danny!" Jenny said.

"Jenny, look out!" Danny yelled a warning at her.

Jenny turned back to the fight to see a Mantis charging at her, actually making it through her barrage.

Jenny stopped, jumped in the air and kicked the robot's head off. It crashed to the ground.

"Thanks Danny." She called back.

Suddenly a Mantis grabbed Danny's arm with its large claw.

Danny swung the Mantis around and kicked it hard—square where it's butt would be.

"Get your big grubby claws off me!" He yelled, as the Mantis' arm separated from the rest of him, still attached to Danny. The robot turned around, it's eyes glowing a bright red. Danny yanked the arm off of his and held it at the Mantis.

"Don't make me use this!" he warned. Suddenly a red-and-while flash whizzed between him and the Mantis.

The Mantis started acting strangely, twitching and sparking, before it suddenly broke apart into two clean pieces.

"Eh, warned ya." Danny said as he threw the arm away.

Ninjetta swung by again, jumping on top of a Mantis and slicing it apart with her katana in one single, fluid motion. She bounded off of the Mantis and onto another one, slicing its head off. As Ninjetta jumped off, she noticed that the droid's body stayed hovering in the air, frantically searching around for its head.

As she jumped onto another on, and sliced it in half, she bounded back to the headless Mantis and sliced his arms off. She then webbed the neck and pulled hard on the Mantis' body.

"Whoa there, big fella, Sit still!" She quipped as the Mantis started to buck. But Ninjetta yanked hard on her web again and shot another string at his feet, subduing him.

"I said, sit still!"

Now Ninjetta had a flying platform to stand on as another gang of bugs came to her. She brandished her sword and held out her hand, waving her fingers.

"Bring it." She growled.

As the Mantises attacked her she jumped up. Ninjetta swung around, slicing apart two of them as she roundhouse kicked another, knocking its head and arms off. Quickly, she switched legs and grabbed another Mantis' neck, kicking it three times before sending it into another one.

Another Mantis flew for her legs, but she jumped up, and sliced through the robot with her katana. She kicked the hunk of metal off of her sword and slashed another apart. Ninjetta flipped out of the way as two more crashed into each other below her. She impaled the two of them and sliced the sword out of their bodies before swiftly kicking it into three more attacking Mantises. As she came back down onto her platform, she slashed apart another attacking drone.

Ninjetta sheathed her sword and shot off webbing at six more robots before jumping off of her platform, down to a rooftop below her. She yanked hard on the web and pulled the robots down as they smashed into the street below.

Tommy, Sam and Tucker had taken cover inside the Nasty Burger.

"This is so awesome!" Tommy yelled to Sam and Tucker as he filmed the whole thing.

"Yeah, this is pretty intense!" Tucker agreed, "Those three really make a great team!"

"Uh guys!" Sam said pointing to the sky, "I hate to be a buzzkill, but I think the home team is in trouble!"

Danny and Jenny moved back to back to each other. They were surrounded, but still blasting away.

"This isn't working!" Jenny said, "We're totally out numbered!"

"I have an idea!" Danny said. He blasted off another large energy beam, and grabbed Jenny, flying back to the ground.

"Your idea was to retreat!" Jenny said.

"Cover your ears!" Danny said.

"What?" Jenny exclaimed.

"Cover your ears!"

"I don't have ears!"

"Well cover whatever you hear with!" Danny yelled.

Jenny shut off her sound receivers as Danny turned to the crowd of robots.

"Hope this works," He said to himself as he took in a deep breath.

Suddenly, Danny let out his loud, guttural Ghostly Wail, causing a harsh wave in the air, knocking back all the robots—and Ninjetta. As Ninjetta flew backwards she shot off some webbing toward a light pole and hung on for dear life.

"Could you give a girl a little warning first!" She screamed as the wail reverberated through her.

As the robots all got brushed back by the Wail, they crashed hard into their ships with harsh explosions.

As Danny finished his wail, Ninjetta and Jenny took advantage of the situation. Ninjetta jumped back up onto a roof and shot off large streams of webbing at the ships. Jenny flew up and grabbed the webbing, wrapping it around all three ships, before grabbing them and flinging them off into space, as soon as they were far enough off into the atmosphere, Jenny's chest opened, producing a very large gun. She fired off at the webbed cluster of Cluster ships, obliterating them.

Ninjetta and Jenny landed back onto the ground next to a breathless Danny, high-fiving.

Suddenly, Danny dropped to his knees and phased back to normal.

"Danny!" Jenny and Ninjetta cried as they turned around.

"I'm alright," Danny said, "That attack is just really energy-draining."

As Danny caught his breath, he stood back up and phased back into his ghost form again.

"I hope nobody saw that!" Danny said looking around.

"I'm not picking up many vital signs above ground," Jenny said, "Just you, Ninjetta and your friends. They all must be in shelters or something."

"Danny!" Ninjetta said as she ran up to him, "Are you okay?"

"I think so," Danny said.

"That was amazing, Danny!" Ninjetta said, "I've never seen anything like that!"

Suddenly there was a loud explosion off in the distance. Danny gasped and looked off toward the east side of town.

"Oh no!" he cried! "Home!"

Danny flew off quickly in the direction of the blast.
"Danny! Wait up!" Jenny cried as she flew after him.
"Wait for me!" Ninjetta cried as she swung after them.

Tommy, Tucker, and Sam ran out of the Nasty Burger.
"Hey! What about us?" Tucker asked.

"We've gotta help Danny!" Sam cried as she, Tommy and Tucker took off for Danny's house.

As Danny flew up to his house, a horrible sight took him. The Fenton Works shop and the top half of the town house had been completely blown apart. Danny quickly flew inside to see Jazz lying on the floor. Danny gasped hard and flew down to check her.

"Jazz!" Danny yells, "Jazz! Wake up! Speak to me! Please!"

Jazz stirred stiffly and regained consciousness.

"Danny?" she said lightly, "Danny, is that you?"

"Jazz are you okay?"

Jazz moaned, clutching her head, "Man," she said, "My head is THROBBING!"

"Where are Mom and Dad!" Danny said frantically.

"I don't know!" Jazz said.

Danny picked Jazz up and flew her down to the street to meet the others as Jenny and Ninjetta arrived.

"Sam, Tucker, Tommy!" Danny said to them, "Keep an eye on Jazz and try to keep her awake!"

"Got it, Danny!" Tucker said before the Heroes flew and swung back up into the house.

"What happened here?" Ninjetta exclaimed as they looked at the wrecked house.
"And where's the creep who's done this?" Jenny demands.
"Why right here, XJ-9." hissed a voice.

The three turned around to see the evil robot, Vexus, hovering in midair holding Danny's parents in a sort of force field.

Vexus' arm was open, and holding her own laser gun at the Fentons.

"Vexus! I should have known you were behind this!" Jenny yelled furiously, "That spaceship attack was just a ruse!"

"Actually, dear girl," Vexus said, "It was more of a means to get you out of the way permanently. But I can't help it if my drones are incompetent."

"But where did you get a hold of Cluster warships?" Jenny said, "There's no way you could have stolen them, you're Cluster Prime's Public Enemy Number One!"

"Cold storage, my dear girl," Vexus chuckled, "Only I knew where they were."
"Let them go!" Danny yelled at Vexus.

"Touchy, touchy," Vexus said, "You don't seem to be in the position to be calling orders, Ghost Boy."

"Ah-HA! I was right! There is a ghost among us!" Jack said triumphantly.
"Silence!" snapped Queen Vexus.

"Let them go, Vexus," Jenny said, "I might not be able to defeat you myself, but With my new friends, we'll be sure to send you back under the asteroid you crawled out from!"

"Don't be so arrogant, XJ-9!" Vexus screamed at her, "While you may have found new friends, I too, have made dangerous new Allies!"
"That's it," Danny said, charging his energy beams, "Less talk, more fighting!"

Suddenly Vexus fired a blast just in front of Danny's feet.

"Don't be foolish child!" Vexus hissed again, "I possess no program that allows me to feel sympathy or remorse, so I can and WILL destroy your parents without a second thought! Now, young half-human, change back to normal and surrender, or you'll know just how it feels to be orphaned!"

"Don't do it! She is going to do it eventually!" protested Ninjetta.

"I will if you so test me." Queen Vexus continued.

Danny hesitated, and then looked back at his parents.

"Wait," Maddie said, "What do you mean, 'his parents'?"

"Looks like I have no choice." Danny said sadly to Ninjetta and Jenny. He then turned to his parents floating in the force field.

"There's something I have to tell you," Danny called to them, "Or rather, show you."

"Danny, no!" yelled Jenny and Ninjetta.

Danny phased out of ghost form just as Sam, Tucker, Tommy, and Jazz ran up to the room. Suddenly they ducked behind the doorframe to keep out of sight.

"Oh my gosh!" Jack yelled, "That ghost has metamorphosis powers! He changed into our son!"

"You idiot! That is your son!" snapped Queen Vexus.
"Are you sure he doesn't have metamorphosis powers?" asked Jack.

Maddie just stared at Danny in shock.

"I'm afraid not, Jack." She said sadly, "That IS Danny."

Suddenly the floor shook violently as the Ninja Ghost and Skullker phased up through it carrying the Fenton Portal.

"Yes, we got it!" boomed the bounty hunter ghost. He sees Danny and smirks. "Well, we meet again, Ghost Child."

The Ninja Ghost turned to see Ninjetta standing next to Danny and Jenny.
"You!" he boomed furiously. He brandished his sword and charged Ninjetta.

"Watch yourself, girl!" yelled Jenny as she pushed Ninjetta out of the way. She opened up her arm and fired a laser at the Ninja Ghost, but it just went through him. The Ninja Ghost glared at Jenny and tried to slice at her. Jenny jumped out of the way just in the nick of time, but the Ninja Ghost came around and kicked her into the wall.

"Foolish robot, getting in my way!" growled the Ninja Ghost.

He turned to Ninjetta. "Now, you die!"

"I suppose saying I'm sorry wouldn't help some?" Ninjetta asked. The Ninja Ghost charged towards her again, and slashed at her with a loud "HaaaiiiieeeeYaaa!"

Ninjetta dodged the sword and jumped onto the wall

"I thought not." She said.

As Jenny picked herself up off the ground, a horrible thought occurred to her. Normally, during a fight, her mom would be yelling at her, telling her to be careful, but she hadn't heard a thing from her.

Jenny looked around fearfully; she didn't see her mom anywhere in sight.

She stood up and turned to Vexus.

"Where's my mom!" Jenny demanded.

"Oh, right," Vexus grinned, "I'd completely forgot. I held the "dear" doctor in a special place. I won't guaranteed her safely...but I might be able to keep her out of harms way for the time being…if you surrendered as well."

"Never!" snapped Jenny.
"Your funeral." Vexus said, but then stopped, "Oh, my mistake! It's Dr. Wakeman's funeral!"

Vexus launched off into a hysteric laugh as she started to fly off.

"Wait!" Jenny said. Vexus stopped.

"I—I surrender." Jenny said dropping to her knees.

"There's a good girl." Vexus cackled, "Unfortunately, I only make deals like that with humans, so ours is null and void. I shall accept your surrender, however!"

With that, Vexus tossed The Fentons down—on top of Danny.

Suddenly the sky clouded up as a mysterious ghostly figure descended. The Ninja Ghost Threw Ninjetta across the room and stopped as Plasmius came down to the party he was holding the Spiritual gem.

"Plasmius!" Danny said.

"Well done!" Plasmius mocked, "Give the boy a prize!"

"Who are you?" Ninjetta demanded, since she was the only one that hadn't surrendered.

"Really, you're a Kurenai, a female Ninja," Plasmius said, "you're supposed to be smart and quick thinking, and you come out with a stupid question like that?"

"Hardly smart," Vexus said, "She's clearly been defeated, and yet she refuses to surrender."

"As I thought," Plasmius said, "incredibly stupid, as all children are."

"What do you want with us!" Jack demanded.

"Well, I'll deal with you two later," Plasmius said, "But first I have a little surprise for our little 'heroes'! Ready? FREEZE!"

Plasmius held the Gem out and suddenly it shocked Danny, Jenny and Ninjetta. They were all frozen in place, unable to move.

Tommy tried to get up to run to Kimi, but Sam grabbed him.

"Perfect! It worked!" Plasmius said evilly.

"How dare you!" The Ninja Ghost growled, "You stole my revenge!"

The Ninja Ghost charged Plasmius, but Plasmius just shot him down with an ectoplasmic blast.

"What have you done!" Maddie demands.

"I got them out of the way, just in case the decided to rescind on their little agreements of surrender." Plasmius said charging an energy blast in his hand, "Now then, Jack Fenton! The hour has come for me to do to you what I should have done twenty-one years ago!"

"No!" Maddie said, stepping in front of Jack. Plasmius stopped.

"Dear, dear sweet Maddie," he said angrily, "It pains me to see you defend this repugnant tub of lard. It'll pain me even more to have to destroy you along with him!"

With that he readied both of his hands to destroy the Fentons.

Suddenly, a different ectoplasmic blast hit Plasmius hard, knocking him to the ground.

"What?" he seethed, "How can that be? Daniel Fenton is frozen!"

"You have much more to worry about than Daniel Fenton, spook!" Gaz said, as she held what looked like a large laser gun in her hand.

"Gaz!" Jack said, "You found the Fenton Ecto-Disruptor!"

"Yup." Gaz said, taking aim at Plasmius, "And I'm about to disrupt this guy's plans!"

With that, Gaz shot Plasmius once more, causing him to lose control of his ghost powers.

Plasmius phased back into Vlad Masters.

"VLAD MASTERS!" The Fentons said shocked.

"Well, I suppose an explanation is needed, hm?" Vlad said sheepishly.

"No, V-man," Jack said, socking the palm of his hand with his fist, "I read you loud and clear!"

With that, Jack Fenton grabbed Masters and flung him out of the hole in the side of the building. Thinking quickly, Vlad phased back into his ghost form and went intangible before he could impact the ground.

"Anybody else wanna piece of this?" Gaz said, pointing it to the Ninja ghost and Skullker, who were retreating rapidly with the Fenton Portal.

Gaz tried to take careful aim to shoot them out of the sky
"Actually," Vexus said, charging Gaz "I do!"

Gaz shot the blast at Vexus, but the robot dodged, and smacked the gun out of Gaz's hands.

Vexus lunged for Gaz, but Gaz dove out of the way.

"Fine," Gaz said, "That's the way you wanna play it? I can play just as dirty."
Suddenly, Gaz removed her coat to reveal an Irken PAK attached to her back as four large metallic spider-legs extended from it.

Vexus attacked again, but Gaz was ready for her.

One spider leg punched Vexus across her face as another swept her legs down. The other two impaled Vexus' legs as Gaz made another spider-leg ram Vexus' face into the floor.

Vexus got up and tried to fire her gun at Gaz, but Gaz used another leg to impale the gun, destroying it.

Vexus grabbed one of the spider legs and yanked it forward, tripping Gaz, but another leg recovered for her, and the other two swatted Vexus against the wall.

Vexus flew up in the air, out of Gaz's reach.

"You little spider-legged cretin!" she said to her, "You may have won this round, but you shall not be so lucky the next time we meet. I shall destroy you! You and XJ-9!"

With that Vexus flew off after Skullker and the Ninja Ghost.

"Coward." Gaz grated simply.

"Gaz!" Maddie said, "What in Heaven's name are those things sticking out of your back?"

"Long story," Gaz said.

"C—can you put them back into your back?" Jack said, "Spiders make me nervous."

Gaz smirked and held the legs above Jack's head, wiggling them.

"Ooooh," she said, "They just saved your butts! Do they still make you nervous?"

Jack shuddered with disgust.

As Gaz retracted her legs, Jazz, Sam, Tucker and Tommy came out of hiding. Tommy ran to Ninjetta while the other three walked up to Danny.

"Dad…" Jazz said, tears welling up in her eyes, "Is Danny….is he dead?"

"I don't know, Jazz," Jack said, holding his boy, "but he feels freezing."

Sam turned and cried into Tucker's shoulder.

Suddenly, Danny, Jenny and Ninjetta woke up. Danny flailed wildly, and Jack dropped him.

"Danny!" everyone yelled. Maddie and Jack hugged their son.

"Wait a minute," Jack said. He held Danny in front of him, "Please tell me you're not a ghost that's metamorphosized into my son!"

"No, Dad," Danny said, "It's me."

Kimi woke up slowly, holding her head.

"Ooooohh," she moaned.

"Kimi you're okay!" Tommy yelled.

"Kimi!" The Fentons said.

"Thanks, Tommy." She said, "Thanks a lot."

"S-sorry, Kimi," Tommy said, "But we—I just didn't know if you were dead or not."

"I suppose it's alright Tommy," Kimi said as she stood up, "What about Jenny?"

Jenny was sitting down on the floor, with a look of shock on her face, except that her eyes had gone dark. She'd shut off.

"Great," Tucker said, "Now we have to figure out how to turn her on!"

"Oh that's easy," Danny said, "I bet it's her belly button."

He pressed her belly button, and Jenny's eyes flickered back to life.

"That tickles," Jenny giggled.

Suddenly Sam growled with jealousy. Everyone looked at her.

"Uh, sorry," Sam said, "I don't know what came over me."

"Now let me get this straight," Maddie said, "Danny, YOU'RE the Phantom?"

"Danny Phantom!" Tucker added.

"Why didn't you tell us?" Jack said.

"Well, I---uh…" Danny stammered.

"Mr. Fenton, I know you and Mrs. Fenton are shocked that your son is half-ghost and didn't tell you until now," Sam said, "but the only reason he didn't tell you is, well, you're both ghost hunters and things might have gotten a bit crazy if you figured out."

"And besides," Tucker added, "You know what they say, 'It takes one to fight one.'"

"I suppose you're right," Maddie said, "But you still could have told us."

"You mean, you're not mad?" Danny said.

"Well, we're not exactly thrilled that our son wants to be a superhero," Maddie said, "But no, we're not mad."

"Well that's all well and good," Jenny said worriedly, "But we still don't know where my mom is!"

"My guess is that robo-hag Vexus still has her," Gaz said, who had been relatively quiet the whole time.

"Gaz?" Ninjetta said, "What are you doing here?"

"My dad knows the Fentons." Gaz explained, "He couldn't come tonight, so I came in his place. Lucky I did too, I was the one that fought all those goons off."

"They got away with the Fenton Ghost Portal!" Jack said.

"And that's only half our problems," Ninjetta said, "That Plasmius guy had a gem that incapacitated Danny, Jenny and I, and we have to find out what it is."

"You think it has something to do with the reason they stole the portal?" Jenny asked.

"Maybe," Ninjetta said, "Whatever the case, we've got trouble."

Elsewhere, Stan Matthews sat in his office, still with Joxer and Assassina. Stan puffed on his cigar and blew out some smoke.

"Can your friend please show her face son?" he said, I'd like to know who I'm working with here."

Assassina just glared and her mask moved off revealing Savannah's face.

Just then Vlad appeared in a cloud of smoke. The elder Matthews smiled. "I assume it was a success?"

Vlad bowed. "You assume correctly. The machine is all set upstairs. Anytime you are ready, we will commence with our operation." With that, he disappeared again, an the same swirl of smoke.
"Excellent." Stan smiled.

A few minutes later, Assassina, Joxer the Clown, and Stan Matthews in his full Shadow Man suit, entered the large black room where the Portal was operating.

A small army of robots were standing in front of the Portal, most of them resembled a number of Danny's ghost enemies.

"I trust you've briefed the ghosts on their mission?" Matthews asked. Vlad nodded. "Good." He said, "Activate the portal."

Vexus smiled as she plugged herself into the portal and ordered it to open.

Suddenly, a multitude of ghosts poured out of the portal and took to their fighting machines.

The Shadow Man walked down the line of robots as any General would with his army.

"Now as you already know," he said, "these robot suits were designed to allow you to use your ghost powers BUT keep you immune to being trapped again so long as you are in them. Now, in order to keep them, you will do what I say is that clear?"
All of the ghosts nodded.

"Excellent." The Shadow Man said, "Now go wreak your havoc, but remember, you had better come back with those gems! Move out!"

The Shadow Man watched as his troupe made out for Los Angeles.

"Soon, I will have the remaining Spiritual Gems, and the World will be mine!" he said before launching into a maniacal cackle.