Danny and Ben flew through the Ghost Zone and continuously scanned each area for any sign of a hostile ghost who might hold a grudge against either one of them. Ben was constantly drawing his custom made Ecto-equalizer Pistol and checking behind him each time, he looked for any hostiles. Danny on the other hand didn't bother looking anywhere but in the path he was traveling. They kept coming closer to where the rift had appeared when they heard a faint song being played on an electric guitar by one of Danny's early foes, a rocker ghost named Ember McClain. Ben and Danny tracked the sound and found Ember rocking out on her guitar, "So that's Ember?" Ben asked Danny who nodded, "Man she sure can rock out loud."

"You got that right kid!" Ember turned and struck a power chord on her guitar and a giant fist-shaped sound wave headed right for them.

"Look out," Danny screamed as he and Ben jumped out of the way.

"What?" Ember mocked them, "No encore? How lame is that?"

"Time for the headliner," Ben grabbed an electric guitar from his pack and shouted, "ROCK ON BABY!" He sliced his hand across the strings and sent a skull-shaped shockwave flying in Ember's direction.

Ember sent up a defensive chord in hopes of protecting herself from the resulting onslaught of high-pitched sound, but when Ben's chord hit her barrier, it exploded and let loose a blast that sent her flying into a nearby asteroid. "I've heard of Power Metal, but this is just ridiculous."

"Can I help it if I can rock out loud?" Ben shrugged. He leisurely retuned his guitar and asked, "Hey, Ember, you had enough?"

"Not even, roadie," Ember shouted back, "I'm just gettin' tuned up," She let loose another power chord aimed at Ben.

Ben strummed his guitar and said, "Feel the thunder, and ride the lightning." He wind milled his guitar strings and a lightning bolt shot out of the neck of the guitar and slammed through Ember's power chord. The tremendous force of the lightning bolt slammed into Ember. "Take over Danny." He said.

Danny flew at Ember and blasted her with a long stream of Ectorays and Ectobombs which she managed to dispel with a majority of until she was caught by surprise as Danny blasted her in the face at point blank. This made Ember unforgivingly angry and caused her hair to grow into a blazing inferno, "That's it, I was just going easy on you, but now it's time to shred your bones to dust, GRRRAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!" She began unleashing a massive tidal wave of power chords in Ben and Danny's direction.

Ben began shredding defensively in order to deflect Ember's chords and blasted her back with his Death Chords and sending her into an enraged torrent of converging shockwaves that ate away at the floating landmass underneath Ember's feet. She flew into the air looking for another landmass to fight from, when she was hit in her left side by the new alien in town, Xenoghost. Out of my way, pathetic underling, It growled as it flew off in opposite direction.

Danny and Ben looked in shock at the new ghost and looked at the direction it came from and saw that Skulker in pursuit of the alien phantom. "Get back here you." The mecha-hunter ghost shouted at his quarry, "I have a place on my wall with your name on it. So make it easier on yourself already."

I sense that you're tired of chasing me, Xenoghost laughed, but I want to have a little more fun. So let's make our chase more interesting with a new player. To Skulker's surprise, a second ghost-alien hybrid began crawling out of Xenoghost's back hissing at its onlookers.

"It's so official, Danny," Ben said, "We're in for an all out battle royale."

"You two stay out of this," Skulker growled, "This ghost is my quarry, so back off." He took out a large gun and declared, "Let's do some real hunting."

Oh, the Xenoghosts snarled in unison, so it's a scrap you want. They growled in unison, Well consider that request granted. Their wings grew into spiked claw-like growths; sharp blades made of bone grew out of their wrists, their ridged tails became smooth and sharp bone spikes grew out of the tip off their tails, and the ridged fins on their heads grew into one large fin that spanned along the length of its head. Now, they growled, who should be ripped apart first?

Ben raised his arm in a fist at the alien, and waved them toward him, "I'll take you both on," He challenged, "here and now!" The arm of his battle suit morphed into a small, yet powerful arm cannon, "Now," He shifted into a combat stance, "bring it!"

Sounds fun to me, The first alien hissed, let's see what you've got, shall we?

"Let's dance." Ben declared as both he and the alien shot toward each other as Danny launched himself at the second alien.

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The other group was busy with their own problems, they'd found not only Frostbite but they'd also run into his territory during a time of battle between Frostbite's race, the Far Frozen, and the Infernal Ones, a race of beings who harnessed the power over fire, and their leader Moltorak, a great and powerful reptilian ghost who along with Frostbite was one of the oldest beings in the Ghost Zone. The two races had been at war for centuries and it seemed as though nothing could silence their war.

Sam looked around and saw the reptilian soldiers commanded by Moltorak and asked the giant frozen werewolf, "Why can't your races just come to a truce?"

"We've tried on numerous occasions to end this endless series of battles." Frostbite replied, "But alas, Moltorak always finds a reason to fight for control of the land of the Far Frozen."

"I wish Danny were here." Jazz said looking out over the battlefield, "He'd probably be able to end this senseless fighting."

"There no doubt in my mind that Moltorak would succumb to the words of the Great One." Frostbite sighed, "But from the look of the situation below, there may be no hope at all for this age old war to end soon."

Sam looked at the fortress across the battlefield and began to form a plan. "Maybe there is." She announced.

"What're you talking about Sam?" Tucker asked.

"Yes," Frostbite asked, "what do you mean by that?"

"Gather around guys," Sam grinned, "''cause we're gonna put this war on hold, permanently.

---

In the blazing heat of the halls of the Infernal Ones' Citadel, the High Warlord Moltorak sat on his throne. He gazed out through the main window of his throne room and admired the ever growing progress made by his reptilian army, "Ah, it does soothe me old 'eart to observe 'ow me great army 'as suppressed those accursed frozen fools for all these long and treacherous years."

The door of his throne room barged open and one of his soldiers along with Sam and Tucker entered the open room and disturbed Moltorak's train of thought. "Me lord," the soldier said kneeling as if to beseech his master, "the burning plains of the Infernal Lands ring out in a chorus upon the very utterin' of your name, they do."

"Silence," Moltorak commanded, "why are these two strange'uns in me glorious throne room?" His yellow eyes narrowed and his bared at the lack of an answer. He rose from his rock throne and gripped the hilt of his sword, "Answer me now," he slowly drew his sword, "or suffer me unyielding wrath."

"Lord Moltorak," The soldier whimpered, "these two are messengers of, the Great Savior, Danny Phantom 'imself, they are."

The reptilian Warlord could barely believe his ears, he turned to the two human and asked them, "Is that right?" He sheathed his molten, runed sword, "Well, don't stand there gawkin', answer me!"

"Great Lord of the Infernal Ones," Sam piped up, "the words of your noble warrior are true." She knelt in the same manner as the soldier.

"Then it is not you who should be bowing in my presence," The reptile warlord knelt down to Sam's level, "It is I who should be bowing in your 'umble presence, I should."

"Well, that's an interesting new twist." Tucker grinned.

Sam elbowed Tucker in the ribs, "You're supposed to be humble towards royalty you idiot."

"What is it the Great One wishes to discuss with us on such short notice?" Moltorak asked.

"It has come to his attention," Sam stated trying her best to sound official, "that the war between the Infernal Ones and the Far Frozen has gone on for far too long, and all existing hostilities should be laid to rest."

"It's about time that this idea you speak of 'as been brought up," Moltorak said, "for far too long, indeed, 'as this accursed war raged, and claimed the eternal souls of many of mine and Lord Frostbite's men."

"But from what Frostbite told us," Tucker chimed in, "you were also being relentless."

"War, my boy," Moltorak sighed, "does peculiar things to one's mind, that it does. I've wanted to pull out for so long now."

"Frostbite's thinking the same thing," Tucker said.

"Are you being serious?" Moltorak gasped.

"Yes," Sam interjected, "Frostbite just wants this war to end. He doesn't want to fight anymore."

"Well, if that's the case," Moltorak said, "then let it be so."

No more than two hours passed until Tucker, Sam, and Jazz, who'd elected to stay with Frostbite, witness the signing of the peace agreement between the Infernal Ones and the Far Frozen. Once the negotiations had concluded, Frostbite drew his frozen rune blade and held it ceremonially as did Moltorak with his molten rune blade and they declared, "Let it be known that from this day forth, our two races shall be bound together, not in battle but in brotherhood." They lowered their swords and drew blood from their left hands and mingled their blood in order to seal the proclamation, and everyone cheered.

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Danny and Ben had been fighting against the Xenoghosts and Skulker for a better part of fifty minutes to an hour and they were able to hold their own against the triple threat. They had taken heavy hits from the spectral monstrosities and technical bounty hunter but they pressed onward against all three of them. The alien duo had made a series of gashes in Ben's armor, but they hadn't struck any fatal blows, Ben on the other hand was dealing massive damage to the aliens. He slammed into one of them and ripped its arm off, "How does it feel to be disarmed, you freak?"

Brilliant use of brute force, The alien snarled, but I still have a trick or two up my sleeve. Within seconds, its arm regenerated. Now, It hissed, shall we continue?

"Waitin' on you, oldster." Ben smirked.

Danny and Skulker went all out against each other, locked in combat and not letting their opponent get the upper hand. Their fists collided and Skulker chuckled, "Stand down, Ghost child. You're on my list of prey at the moment."

"Why do I care Skulker?" Danny snapped, "I've just gotten a good reason to come here after a weekend in the woods spending time with good friends and making a new friend, only to come back…" He dodged a blast from the hunter's weapon, "…and find that a new ghost has trashed Vlad's lab, and tore its way into the Human World and back to the Ghost Zone…" he ducked under Skulker's arm blade as the hunter made an attempt at cutting off the ghost boy's head, "…and draw me, my sister and my friends in so that we could investigate why…" Skulker threw a punch at him and missed knocking him out Danny dealt him a punch at Skulker's chest knocking the wind out of him, "…my Ghost Scent nearly froze me to death."

"Will you just shut up and fight?" Skulker growled. "Once you're out of the way…" He dodged a Ghost Ray aimed right at his face, "…I'll be able to claim that thing as part of my collection before another hunter comes to claim it as his rite of passage."

"What are you talking about?" Danny grunted.

"None of your concern, ghost brat," Skulker roared, "just be quiet and fight."

---

Frostbite searched through the archives looking for any mentions of a monster matching the description of the Xenoghost in the history of the Ghost Zone. "There's nothing in this realm's history about this Xenoghost."

"Great," Sam sighed heavily, "I guess we came all the way across the Ghost Zone for nothing."

"I think I know why the Xenoghost doesn't show up in any of the 'istory book for this realm, I do." Moltorak said as he entered the archives, "It's because it don't originate from this realm at all. It's totally alien, it is."

"The only mention of creatures similar to the Xenoghost is in what was once the Aztec Empire." Moltorak's captain of the guard. "The Xenomorph aliens, a result of a bloody sacrificial offering of human females to appease creatures who the Aztecs considered to be Gods, also known as the Predators."

"So they're the alien equivalent of Skulker?" Jazz asked.

"More like Skulker's an amateurish ghost equivalent of the Predators, he is." Moltorak replied.

"How's that even possible?" Tucker asked.

"The true difference between Skulker and the Predators," The captain said, "is that the Predators kill their prey, mount their quarry's skull on the wall of their lair, and use Xenomorph blood to mark themselves as a rite of passage."

"That sounds painful." Tucker said jokingly.

"Especially," Frostbite said as he looked through the Aztec records, "since the serpentine Xenomorph aliens, once they've reached adulthood, have highly acidic blood. The acid can eat through most anything once it's exposed to oxygen, interesting."

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Ben and Danny had switched off rivals, now Danny was practicing his multiplying against not two, but three berserker class Xenoghosts. So Ghost Boy, the first Xenoghost growled.

How does it feel to be fighting an alien ghost hybrid? The second Xenoghost snarled

"To be honest it's more fun than dangerous." Danny said as he multiplied into four clones. "Now let's go." The clones said in unison.

Skulker and Ben were getting more of a fearsome brawl out of each other, "My, my," Skulker smirked, "you're much more of a fighter than the ghost child." He let loose a full chain off of his automatic ghost rifle.

Ben used his left arm as a shield to catch the shots, "That's what I get for reading on all of the world's different fighting styles." He laughed. His right arm produced a ghost hunting weapon similar to the ancient Hawaiian war club, the only difference between the two variations was that the ghost fighting version had a titanium-steel infused frame lined with Anti-ecto energy infused tiger shark teeth, which could cut through anything on a ghost. "Let's see what a hunter can do against mana."

The two hunters ran at each other and hunting blade met war club and a loud clash echoed through the empty battle ground. Skulker laughed in satisfaction at the young boy's fighting style, "Archaic, yet effective. Where did you read about read about this?"

"City library," Ben said, "while I was doing research on the ancient Hawaiians and their culture."

"It's always a good thing to look into the ancient world for education on survival in the modern world." Skulker smirked. He pushed Ben off of him, drew out his hunting pistol, and fired off several shots in Ben's direction. The Pahoa's edging was able to slice through the shots like a hot knife to butter.

Danny threw himself on the original Xenoghost and grabbed its spikes tearing them off and being sprayed with a fine acidic mist that caused him to kick the alien ghoul off of him. The Xenoghost fell to a floating island below the fray and regenerated its back spikes. Foul play is lower than I expected you to go, Ghost Boy. It growled.

"Well that might've upset it a little." One of Danny's clones chuckled as it flung two Xenoghosts into a separate island.

The left arm of Danny's costume dissolved slightly due to the alien's blood. Let me bring you down to my level for a more even fight. The Xenoghost roared as it changed forms again. Its head opened into two separate side growths and a center horn, its wings grew slightly larger, its tail spikes were reduced from five to two, a shorter spike mounted on a small growth on the top side of the tail facing away from the creature's body, and a larger spike at the tip of the tail. The Xenoghost's heel claws had sunken into the feet and its fingers had been become two medium sized claws that could tear through flesh on each hand. Now behold my power over gravity! It let out a powerful roar that pulled Danny down to his opponent's level; Let's see how much of a fight you can put up against me when you've been grounded. The Xenoghost growled.

"Chew on this," Danny shouted as he let out a barrage of Super Ghost Rays at the alien. The beams hit the Xenoghost, but it didn't move. Danny was overwhelmed, "Let's see how you like this." He unleashed a giant ball of Ectoplasmic energy that erupted into a giant beam of light that tore into the island and destroyed everything in its path. The blast shook the island apart after Danny managed to jump to the safety of an island lower in the realm. "I don't think his skin was thick enough to absorb a blast like that." Danny said breathing heavily.

The smoke cleared and but the creature was still unscathed, That's what you think, It growled. It let loose a smaller blast at Danny. Let's see if you can withstand that.

Danny braced himself for the ball of spectral energy that shot right for the island and exploded on impact. The shockwave resulting from the collision knocked Danny off the island and into the air. "Man," He said rubbing his head, "I didn't expect that to happen." He wheezed.

Is that all you've got? The Xenoghost asked, I thought that Danny Phantom could take more of a beating than that.

Danny breathed heavier and heavier, "If that's what you thought," He said, "than think AGAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNN!" He unleashed the full unrivaled force of his Ghostly Wail and caught the alien by surprise.

The effects of the attack caused Danny's clones and the other aliens to dissipate. The Xenoghost on the other hand had suffered the loss of its lower body and a wing, I guess the rumors about you weren't rumors after all, It growled. You've not… disappointed me thus far, Ghost Boy. It slowly began to regenerate its missing body parts, you've earned the right to live and continue your acts of heroism in both the Human and Ghost Realms. It flew off into the endless void, I look forward to… seeing you in the future, hopefully we can fight some more.

Skulker was being out foxed by Ben, who kept slicing off any weapons that he activated with his club's serrated shark teeth. "I thought this would be interesting," He groaned, "but now I'm being humiliated by a human child with no ghost powers and absolutely no traces of Ectoplasmic energy in his system. It seems as though my hunt will continue another day." He rocketed off back to his lair to lick his wounds.

"Well that was easy." Ben said lightheartedly twirling his club and heroically laying it over his shoulder. He looked at Danny and quickly suggested, "Let's go find our friends."

"Good idea." Danny laughed. And with that the two heroes flew off into the far reaches of the Ghost Zone.