Several pirates from Youngblood's skeleton crew cheered wildly as two pairs of gloved hands came into view, latching onto each other. The view panned out as Danny struggled against Dani, their fingers intertwined as they pushed against the other. Dani smirked with an evil grin, her eyes glowing bright crimson red; Danny strained himself so as to not hurt her as he tried to get through to her.

"Dani, what are you doing!" he half yelled. "Why are you working with this guy!"

"She won't respond to you," Youngblood called out to him. "She only responds to my commands. She is under my complete control, and does everything I tell her to. Now, finish him!" he shouted to her.

Danny looked from him down at his cloned sister as her grin widened and her eyes suddenly shown brighter. She hopped into the air, released her grip on his hands and head butted him. He stumbled back as she did a back flip in the air and kicked him in the jaw. He jumped back and glared at her as he rubbed his chin.

"You never fought this hard when you worked with Vlad," he growled as he put up his arms to defend himself against any more of her attacks. She did the same, but instead of replying, she simply snickered with a wicked grin. The tension between them could be cut with a knife.

Finally, the second round broke out between them. Dani charged her namesake and threw a punch that was easily blocked when he raised his arm and hit her arm away. She spun and threw another punch in his direction but he ducked and slid out of the way. Angered, Dani threw several more punches and kicks in his direction, only to have him block them or dodge them.

"Common! Hit him!" Youngblood called out to her over the cheers of his crew. "I didn't invest in your assistance for you to lose!"

Dani threw one final punch, grunting as her fist flew through the air; only to have Danny grab her wrist. She gasped as he twisted her arm around and pressed it up against her back, pinning her to the floor. She growled and tried to get back up, but he pushed down on her arm, forcing her to comply.

"Perhaps you should have taken into consideration that I have more fighting experience than she does," he taunted Youngblood. "Now I just have to figure out how to give her back her free will," he added quietly so only he and Dani could hear.

"Ha! Good luck with that," Youngblood taunted him as he folded his arms. "She's just getting warmed up," he warned Danny. "The real fight has yet to begin."

Dani opened her eyes and stopped cringing as a wide grin spread across her face. Danny had her arms pinned, but her legs remained free. A big mistake on his part considering that he knew that she knew how to use her feet in combat. She brought one of her legs up and kicked him in the back, causing him to free her arm.

Now free from his grip, she braced herself on the floor with her hands and put her feet against Danny's chest. She energized the souls of her feet and blasted him away. She pushed off the ground and landed on her feet, looking around her shoulder to see Danny crash through the glass of an abandoned store front.

Youngblood flew up to Dani's side and placed a hand on her shoulder as she patted dust off hands. "That was more like it," he said. "Keep it up and that dude won't be bothering us for too much longer. Now, let's get out of here," he suggested.

They and the rest of the crew turned to fly away, but a flying hub cap whizzed through the air before hitting Youngblood in the back of his head, knocking his large hat off his head. He and Dani turned around and growled angrily. Danny stood in the entrance to the store he had crashed through; a store with a large showroom for cars. He held a handful of plastic hub caps and smirked as he prepared to throw another.

Dani seethed angrily but looked to Youngblood for a command. "Get him," Youngblood growled as he placed his had back on his head.

Dani charged through the air, letting out a screeching battle cry as she prepared an energized fist at her side. Danny threw the second hub cap at her only for her to swipe at it, shattering it to pieces as she charged him. He hopped into the air and decided to charge her as well. Upon leaving through the broken window he threw the rest of the hub caps at her, a good dozen of them.

Dani halted in mid flight and raised her hands, energized them before firing several small energy blasts from her fingers that sought out the whizzing hub caps like heat seeking missiles. They all struck their targets, shattering them into pieces. A thick cloud of smoke hung in the air for a moment before Danny flew through at top speed and caught her off guard, grabbing her around her waist before throwing her into the windshield of a brand new white Cadillac that had gone untouched until just now.

She growled up at him as he hovered over her. "Snap out of it Dani!" he yelled at her. "I don't want to hurt you; so if you could just come back to reality on your own," he almost pleaded.

Dani wiped blood away from her mouth before she spat off to the side. She hopped off the car and grabbed the front bumper as Danny descended to the floor a short distance away. He watched as she lifted the car up into the air by its bumper and hovered over him. She snickered down to him as she shifted her hands around for a better grip to hold it up over her head.

"Don't you dare hit me with that car!" Danny ordered her sternly; he even added a finger pointed directly at her.

She ignored him, laughing maniacally as she twisted her body and brought the entire vehicle up and over her head. Danny put his arms up and made an energy dome, but when Dani smashed the car on top of it, it had enough force to explode the energy outwards. The car itself exploded into thousands of pieces, sending shards of metal, glass and plastic in all directions.

When everything had settled down, Danny found himself laying face down in a crater in the ceramic tiles of the floor. The car crashing on top of him and the explosion from his energy barrier had taken its toll on him, his hair was a mess, his suit was torn, his skin was bruised and he had many cuts across his torso.

He tried to push himself up off the floor, but was smashed back into it as Dani charged in from above and smashed into his back with both feet, forcing him back down into the shattered ceramic tiles of the floor. "YAAAAH!" he screamed in agony; his eyes practically bugged out of his head. The sudden impact brought up more dust that quickly settled.

Standing over him to keep him pinned to the floor, Dani shot a weak beam of energy at a belt from the destroyed vehicles motor. It became infused with energy before it hovered into the air and raced towards her outstretched hand. She grabbed onto one end of the belt and whipped the other end around Danny's neck. She caught onto the other end and tugged tightly, causing Danny to begin to choke.

Danny grasped for anything within reach as his air supply was cut off. He gagged as the belt tightened. Dani snickered as she pulled back on the belt. She pushed her feet into his back, only furthering the agony she was putting him through.

Youngblood flew over and snickered as he leaned over and got right in Danny's face. "Well Phantom, it would seem you're in a tight spot," he punned. Danny glared up at him as tears began to stream from his eyes, not from grief, but due to the fact that he was slowly beginning to lose consciousness. "Don't worry, you'll live, but after you fall unconscious I'm out of here, and your sis is coming with me. Don't worry, I'm sure a life of piracy won't be so bad for her," he taunted him.

As Danny's air supply began to dwindle, his vision began to blur and his hearing became muffled. He was just barely able to pick up the sound of someone shouting his name. Dani and Youngblood looked up from their captive with confused looks before a sudden ray of pink energy shot them away.

Free, Danny grabbed the engine belt and tossed it aside as he gasped for breath. As he rubbed his neck, which now had a dark red mark across it, Valerie flew in. Her glider vanished and she rolled to a skidding stop next to him, landing on one foot and knee. "You alright?" she asked him, kneeling at his side as he caught his breath.

"Yeah," he confirmed with a cough. "Just a little winded."

They looked up at Dani and Youngblood who were angered by this new intruder. Youngblood's crew of six floated at their sides and seemed just as furious.

"What happened to Dani?" she asked, realizing that she had been the ghost trying to choke Danny. "This isn't like her."

"She's been shanghaied," Danny informed her. "Forced into being the first mate aboard Youngblood's ghostly pirate crew, and we have no way of figuring out how to give her back her free will."

"That's just great," Valerie grunted angrily. "Not only am I too old to see him, but now we've gotta contend with her trying to kick our butts!"

"Hey, she's better than we thought," Danny stated. "You saw what position she had me in," he reminded her.

"Your friends are becoming quite troublesome to our plans," Youngblood said, scolding Dani. "Alright Scallywags!" he called out to his half dozen crew members. "Take out the newcomer," he ordered them. The six nodded before they charged through the air with swords drawn.

"Time to thin out the herd," Danny said as he built up energy in his hands.

"Allow me," Valerie insisted with a sinister grin. "You need to save what energy you have left for Dani." Suddenly, six weaponized boxes that floated in the air materialized out of nowhere above her shoulders. All six fired rays of energy that struck the six pirate ghosts. They all yelled in agony as they were shot through the walls, passing through intangibly, leaving Dani and Youngblood by themselves, although from Valerie's perspective only Dani remained.

"Worthless morons," Youngblood grumbled. "You'll have to show them how it's really done, properly," he added with a grin. Dani snickered as she cracked her knuckles.

"Only Youngblood knows how to turn her back, so we have to capture them both," Danny informed the red ghost huntress. "And they're gunna fight us all the way."

"Dani will be easy enough…I can see her, so I'll take her," Valerie said. "But Youngblood; I can't see him, or hear him, so you'll have to take him out," she insisted.

"Works for me," Danny agreed. "That'll save me the grief of having to beat up on her."

"Your move, Phantom!" Youngblood said with a grin.

Danny nodded in Valerie's direction; she nodded back before she raised her arm and a triangular plate rose out of the back of her hand. She and Danny both fired energy attacks at their challengers, but weren't expecting Dani to get in the way of both.

She side stepped, putting herself between them and Youngblood. Only Valerie had aimed for her, but she made it so both fired at her. She raised her hands and with absolutely no effort, caught the energy attacks. They hummed and formed into sparking energy balls. She smirked before she fired them back.

Looks of shock spread across Danny's and Valerie's faces before they were hit with their own attacks that exploded on impact, blasting them back several yards across the floor. This counterattack had been enough to drain Danny of the rest of his energy; he reverted back to his human form and lay where he landed to rest.

Valerie crashed head first into a candy machine with a large glass dome. The impact broke the machine, allowing candy to pour out of the hatch and all over the girl. "Alright, time for Plan B," she grumbled. She stood and hopped into the air, allowing her glider to materialize under her feet. She looked around for the ghost girl to find that she had vanished. "Where'd she go?" she asked herself.

Her answer came in the form of a green light and a humming noise from behind her. She turned and her eyes widened when she found herself confronted by Dani as she hovered behind her, she had her hands clamped together at her side as she built up an energy ball. She thrust her hands forward, sending a powerful blast of energy into Valerie's gut.

She screamed as she was blown backwards off her glider by the explosion. She crashed into a wall, cracking and shattering concrete before she fell to the floor and lay motionless face down as bits and pieces of the wall broke off and fell around her.

After everything had settled and gone quiet, Dani descended to the ground as Youngblood flew over and hovered over Danny. Danny opened his eyes and growled as Youngblood looked down on him. "Weak effort Phantom," Youngblood said disapprovingly as he shook his head with disappointment. "I knew adding Danielle to my crew would be beneficial, but I had no idea it would have this much of an impact on you."

"You stole her free will," Danny sputtered. "I don't want to hurt her."

"You held back," Youngblood spat aggressively. "You want her back; you'll have to fight her. She'll be expecting a rematch, and just to make it interesting, we've kidnapped some of your friends. If you want any of them back, you're gunna have to fight for them." He turned towards Dani who looked on almost shamefully. He nodded to her before he took flight, phasing through the ceiling.

Using what little strength he could muster, Danny sat up using his arms to hold himself up. He looked up at Dani as she looked down on him. Her solid crimson eyes glared down at him with hatred before she too turned and phased through the ceiling.

"Dani?" Danny whispered. He heard moaning and rock shifting, "Valerie!" he called out. He found the strength to jump to his feet and ran to her aid. He helped her sit up with her back against the wall she had crashed into. "You alright?" he asked her.

His answer came when her helmet began sparking wildly. "YAAH!" she screamed as she grabbed for it, removed it from her head and tossed it aside. It clunked to the floor and sparked a bit more before fizzling out and dematerializing. "I think my suit is gunna need some repairs when we're done," she said with a sigh of relief.

"What do you think he meant by, he's kidnapped the others?" he asked her.

"I don't know," Valerie replied, shaking her head. "They must be in some sort of danger. It must be part of his plan to get you to follow them for a rematch. He seemed so proud of Dani; he might just be trying to get a good fight out of the two of you, you know? To prove something like, if she can hold you off then there is nothing you can do to ruin any more of his plans."

"Figures he'd find a difficult way of doing that," Danny scoffed. "There are simpler ways of drawing me into a fight."

"Well yeah, but think about it Danny," Valerie began to elaborate. "He's using Danielle because with her under his control, she will fight you at a level she's never used on you before, but you'll try to hold yourself back because you don't want to hurt her."

"And to make things worse, we don't know how to save her or any of the others for that matter," he sighed with disappointment. "Let alone where they are," he added.

"Perhaps we should start be seeing if there's still anyone around," Valerie suggested. She stumbled onto her feet with Danny's support and managed to keep herself standing under her own power. "We'll also need to find someone that can figure out how to bring Danielle back to reality. We might need to bring your parents in on this."

"Oh, mom's gunna kill me for letting Danielle go renegade again," Danny said as he grabbed his hair. They both suddenly went silent when they heard something move. They dove behind a potted plant that hadn't fallen over in all the fighting and looked around as Jazz came around a corner with her ecto-blaster out. "It's Jazz!" he shouted, jumping out of the plant. Valerie followed close behind.

"Guys, what the heck happened here!" Jazz shouted to them as they ran towards her, they were quite a distance away. She walked around the crater in the floor where Danny had been crushed by the car and came to a stop when she met up with the other two.

"You haven't been kidnapped," Valerie said sounding relieved.

"By those pirates?" Jazz asked, pointing her thumb over her shoulder. "No, although they did try to," she admitted. She finally took the time to look the other two up and down. "I didn't think those guys would do this kind of damage to two experts like you; what happened?"

"Youngblood happened," Danny answered. "He's shanghaied Danielle into his crew."

"I honestly didn't think that girl had enough gal to beat us down like she did," Valerie admitted. "It was incredible, if only we hadn't been on the receiving end of her attacks."

"Youngblood says she is under his control; we have got to find a way to change her back," Danny said nervously. "If Mom and Dad find out about any of this…" he began to say before Jazz cut him off.

"They will have gone out for dinner at this point," she informed him. "And we can change her back and rescue the others before they even find out," she reassured him.

"Girl, how do you know all of that?" Valerie questioned curiously.

"Because, I've found myself a stool pigeon," Jazz admitted with a sinister grin.

"YAAAAH!" yelled a ghost before he was tossed into a chair and instantly bound by glowing blue rope. The Box Ghost struggled against the bindings, but to no avail, the ecto-resin preventing the rope from breaking. As he grunted at his predicament, the view zoomed out to reveal Danny, Jazz and Valerie hovering over him like vultures in the Fenton's basement lab.

"Where'd you find this guy?" Danny asked his older sister.

"He was snooping around that new retail store," she answered. "You know, Boxes, Boxes, Boxes?" she reminded him.

Danny slapped his forehead while Valerie took the lead. "So, what does he have to tell us?" she asked.

"I'm not saying anything," the Box Ghost huffed, sticking his nose in the air. He jumped when Jazz got right in his face.

"You're gunna tell them everything you told me," she growled. She leaned back upright and glared down at him. "And you're gunna answer any more questions they may ask you," she mentioned. "Truthfully!" she added harshly.

"What do I get if I do?" the Box Ghost asked angrily.

"We let you go, scot free," Danny answered him smugly.

"Start from the beginning," Jazz advised him as she pulled up a chair and sat down in it backwards, folding her arms and leaning on the backrest. Danny and Valerie copied with their own chairs.

"If you don't hurt me anymore," the Box Ghost mumbled under his breath.

"We don't have time for your games dude!" Danny snapped. "Tell us what happened to Danielle!" he demanded.

"Alright, alright," the Box Ghost complied. "For months now, Youngblood has been planning on recruiting someone onto his crew, someone powerful enough to give you a run for your money," he explained.

"Someone that could keep me busy while the rest of his crew plundered and haunted as they pleased without me interfering," Danny figured based on what he had been told earlier.

"That's his plan in the long run," the Box Ghost confirmed. "He decided on the girl because your relation to her would cause you some concern. If his new recruit was someone that you wouldn't go all out on, it would help to ensure his victory because she wouldn't hold back," he informed them.

"That's how she was able to overpower us so easily earlier," Valerie figured. "We didn't go all out on her because we didn't want to harm her, but she wasn't in her right state of mind and so had no problem going all out on us."

"How was Youngblood able to convince her to join his crew?" Danny asked. "How is it that he controls what she does? Why does she follow his orders when she rebelled against Vlad so easily?"

"Those ear rings you saw her wearing," the Box Ghost reminded him. "They aren't for fashion. They emit an ultrasonic radio frequency that controls a special species of bacterium only found in the ghost zone."

"A bacteria?" Jazz asked. "He infected her? Made her sick?"

"Not a viral bacteria," the Box Ghost scoffed. "A ghostly, parasitic, bacteria that thrives on the gray matter of the human brain. Once inside the brain, the bacteria burrow in deep enough to the point that if those ear rings are within a close enough range, the host will be put into a state of slavery by controlling their thoughts and actions."

"Youngblood placed the ear rings on her," Valerie growled. "So as long as those ear rings are on her, they will allow him to control her every thought and action?" she asked. "That is just messed up."

"So you say this bacteria thrives on gray matter?" Jazz asked. "What are the long term affects?" she asked curiously.

"If you can remove the ear rings within a set amount of time, her immune system will be able to eradicate the bacteria easily enough," the Box Ghost answered. "In ghosts, no harm, no foul, but in humans; the longer they remain in her system, the greater chance of permanent brain damage," he warned.

This made all three teens gasp in horror. "That monster!" Valerie yelled. "I'll kill him!" she shouted ferociously.

"No need for her to have a fully functioning brain if he's controlling it," Danny figured. "The less independent thinking she's capable of, the more easily he's able to control her."

"How does this sort of stuff just fall into someone's lap?" Jazz asked no one in particular.

"He and his crew had to steal it from a rival ship," the Box Ghost answered.

"How is it that you, of all people, came across this information?" Danny asked him, curious of his sources.

"I was stowed away on his ship when he stole the mind control devices," the Box Ghost answered. "I heard him and that stupid parrot of his talking about what would happen after they've turned her."

"What were you doing stowing away in a pirate ship?" Valerie asked.

"The mind control devices were stored in this really cool looking box," he answered with a shrug of the shoulders.

"Alright, there's no doubt that this plan has been well thought out," Jazz admitted. "But that still doesn't explain how Jonny 13 got in on all of it."

"Youngblood hired him to act as a bounty hunter and find the girl whilst keeping you all busy so that he could turn her without your interference," the Box Ghost answered.

"Why not use Skulker for that job?" Valerie asked. "He is a "hunter" after all."

"He wanted someone to find her and bring him to her," the Box Ghost answered her matter-of-factly. "Not to have her brought back as a pelt; that would've put a huge damper in his plan."

"Well what about him sicking her on us?" Danny asked. "What about kidnapping our friends?"

"If you make a valuable interest," Jazz explained before the Box Ghost could answer. "You gotta make sure it was all worth it."

"It's a lure," Danny realized. "He's using them as bait. Make us chase after them. When we go to rescue them he's gunna sick Dani on us."

"And the longer it takes us, if at all," Valerie figured. "The less likely we are to succeed."

"And the happier Youngblood will feel that he's finally got the upper hand," Danny continued. "We can't let him think that. We can't let him get away with this."

"Well then I suggest you get going soon," Jazz suggested as she looked at the wall where a googley-eyed cat clock with a swinging tail ticked by hung. It currently read seven pm. "Dani's been infected for a little less than an hour; mom and dad won't be back until nine or ten, so you've got a few hours to bring her back."

"And if it takes longer than that?" Danny asked. "I mean, she's not gunna come back willingly unless we get close enough to destroy those ear rings."

"Not to mention she's got an entire pirate crew standing behind her," Valerie added.

"If it takes longer then I will cover for you," Jazz reassured them. "I've been doing it for over a year, I've gotten pretty good at it," she reminded them.

"Ok, so they probably won't get wind of this for a while," Valerie sighed with relief. "What about Sam and Tucker's parents?" she asked.

"Well, Sam and Tucker are out late all the time," Danny said, brushing it off with a wave of his hand. "They won't notice they're missing till tomorrow anyway."

"And Nicole and Becky's parents?" Valerie asked in a more serious tone, scowling at him and putting her hands on her hips. "I don't think they want their twelve year old daughters staying out too late."

"Nicole was staying the night with us," Jazz explained. "So her mother won't notice, but Becky was only staying for a few hours," she said when she realized her problem. "They might worry, but don't worry; if they call I'll come up with something," she reassured them.

"Umm, not to be rude or anything…" the Box Ghost interrupted them. "But, aren't you forgetting about something?" he asked them.

"Oh, right," Jazz said with a scowl. She reached down and untied him allowing him to float freely. "Happy?" she asked.

"Very," he replied smugly. "Now if that is all you need of me, then I will take my leave."

He floated there for a few tantalizing moments before things became awkward. "Umm, aren't you leaving?" Danny asked him suspiciously.

"I am," the Box Ghost muttered smugly. "BEWARE!" he shouted his signature phrase before he went intangible and phased through the wall.

"Here," Jazz said, shoving a pair of goggles into Valerie's hands. "Our parents were working on them earlier. They will allow you to see any ghost, no matter how invisible they are to the naked eye. Danny can still see Youngblood, probably because he's half ghost, but you can't. If they work, you should be able to see him."

"I'll wear them under advisement," Valerie said as she stuffed the newly designed Fenton Finders into her suit.

"Youngblood will be expecting you, so go in heavy," Jazz advised her younger brother. "I know you care about Danielle, but if you want to save her, you can't hold anything back. Just get close enough to destroy those ear rings and nature will take its course in giving her back her free will."

"We'll bring her back Jazz," Valerie reassured her as her helmet materialized around her head, magically repaired. "And the others."

"And we'll give Youngblood what he has coming to him," Danny added harshly. He grabbed Valerie by her arm and phased her through the ceiling. They appeared above the Op-Center and hovered while Valerie fiddled around with the tracking system built into the right arm of her suit. "Can you find her with that thing?" he asked her.

"I did once before," she reminded him. Her fingers flew across the key board while the display screen showed a small portion of the town. "I'm not picking up any ghostly activity anywhere nearby," she sighed. "I'll have to increase the range to pick up the rest of the town. If they aren't here, we'll be searching the hard way," she informed him.

"Geez, what is the range on that thing?" he asked.

"Remotely?" she asked. "About a ten mile radius," she answered. "When hooked into my dad's machines at Axion I can search the entire planet with our satellites." Suddenly, the tracking system began beeping. "Awesome!" she yelled with delight. "They're still in town, and you're not gunna believe where they are."

She turned slightly so Danny could see what was on the display screen. "Oh, well I could have thought of that!" he half yelled angrily.

On the large clock above City Hall, the large hand moved over the number two while the smaller hand remained near the seven. It was now seven-ten at night, and the deathly silence of the night was shattered by the explosion of a cannon going off. The face of the clock was suddenly destroyed as a cannon ball crashed through it from behind.

The view panned over to the harbor not far away; there currently sat two wooden ships docked at the pier. One, brown and glowing bright green while the other, black with tattered black sails. The two ships were docked parallel to each other so they could fire upon each other freely.

A cloudy overcast night sky hung over them, the hue from the moon unable to break through the night time clouds. The sound of cannon fire suddenly stopped and everything went silent in the night once more.

Youngblood and the rest of his pirate crew, minus Dani, stood out on their ship's deck with cocky grins and arms folded. Suddenly, a large black boot stomped down on the deck. A zoomed out view revealed the boot to be owned by a more humanized Captain Barbossa. Behind him were human versions of his own crew, the cover of the moon hiding them for what they really were.

"Ye are gunna return that which belongs to me," Barbossa demanded. "Or yar be face-in the consequences," he warned.

"Sure," Youngblood chuckled as he removed the red and blue box from his coat and tossed it to the older pirate captain.

It skipped across the wooden deck until it came to a stop at Barbossa's feet. Instead of bending over to pick it up himself, his monkey ran across the deck and grabbed it up before scurrying up his master's legs. Upon delivering the box to Barbossa's hands, he perched himself on his shoulder.

"Thank ye, Jack," Barbossa thanked the monkey before he appeared to weigh the box by raising it up and down. He shook it and no sound emerged. He flipped the lid open with his thumb and growled angrily. "Where be that which was once contained in the box!" he demanded to know.

"Why don't you ask my new first mate?" Youngblood replied, never changing his expression away from his cocky grin.

"Fine!" Barbossa accepted angrily, his rage causing his grip on the box to tighten. With his free hand, he unsheathed his sword and held it at his side. "Where be the scurvy dog?"

A sudden whizzing sound caught his attention. He glanced up and swung his sword just in time to deflect an energy ball that had been thrown at him from above. He growled and looked up at whomever had dared attack him. He searched and searched the sky, but his eyes never fell on his target.

"Look," a short and stubby pirate nearby said as he pointed up. "In the sails," he directed.

Barbossa and the rest of his crew followed his gaze to the black sails flapping in the night wind over them. Standing on the wooden beam that tied the sail to the mast stood a small silhouetted figure with glowing red eyes.

A closer view revealed that it was indeed Youngblood newest recruit, Dani. Her appearance had changed since her fight with Danny at the mall. The upper half of her phantom suit was torn and tattered. She was missing her entire left sleeve and glove, a golden bracelet wrapped around her wrist. Half of her right sleeve had been torn away but she still wore her glove. Her pony tail had been undone and so her hair now hung down to her shoulders and spiked outwards. She even wore a black and white bandana with a pirate skull and cross-bones stamped on the front. Her solid crimson red eyes the result of the gold rimmed ruby ear rings that allowed Youngblood control over everything she did.

The sight of the girl with glowing red eyes wearing the ear rings sent Barbossa over the edge. He growled harshly, barring his teeth as his anger causing his fingers to close around the box in his hand until it shattered and splintered into hundreds of pieces. Youngblood had used the contents of the box on the girl and Barbossa was going to make him pay for it.

"Attack her ya landlubbers!" he ordered his crew as he pointed his sword up at her. "Destroy the ear rings!"

"Destroy them sir?" another of his crew asked him, this one tall and lanky had what appeared to be a wooden eye.

"I'd rather see them smashed than being used on one of that kid's bonny lasses," Barbossa muttered. "You've made a terrible mistake recruiting her kid," he hollered over to Youngblood who still smirked with a cocky grin. "It's mighty bad luck to bring a lady aboard your ship," he mocked him before he turned his attention to the girl high above him and his crew. "Alright lassie!" he called up to her. "Come down or we'll come up after ya!" he warned her.

Dani smirked down at him as she built up energy in her hands and feet. She leapt from the mast, leaving trails of green gases trailing from her hands and feet as she fell. She fell quickly; forming her hands into fists, she compressed her energy and released it from her hands and feet just as she landed on the deck in the middle of a semi-circle of pirates. The energy from her hands and feet spread outwards in a circular formation, striking everything around the ghost girl.

"YAAAH!" several pirates yelled as they were overwhelmed and blasted away by the growing wave of energy. It spread outwards and sent many of them sprawling over the edges of the ship and into the harbor below. The energy itself continued to spread outwards, forming a circle of energy that completely enclosed both ships before dissipating into the night air.

While the sounds of random energy blasts and sword fighting echoed from above; Danny and Valerie silently snuck up along the docks until they came beside Youngblood's ship. They watched as a pirate fell from above and splashed into the water. "Well, I think we've found the place," Danny stated.

"This is good for us," Valerie informed him. "With them preoccupied, we can sneak aboard and free the others before we go after Dani and Captain Kid."

"No need to convince me," Danny said firmly. He grabbed hold of Valerie by her arm and phased her through the side of the ship into the lower deck. They became tangible and instantly were confronted with a slight problem.

They were on the bottom deck of the ship; across the room they had entered into was a large jail-like cage made of electrified green and pink energies. Inside lay Sam, Tucker, Nicole and Becky, bound and hog tied the way they had been captured; Sam was still wearing the Fenton Peeler she had been wearing at the mall. The problem they were facing; Jonny 13 sat in a chair next to the cage, snoring away loudly.

"This guy again?" Danny growled angrily.

"Shh," Valerie hushed him with a harsh scowl. They slunk across the wooden deck, the planks squeaking as they rushed for the energy cage. Luckily for them, they unknowingly stepped over a loose plank that would have made some noise had they touched it.

Danny energized his hands and placed them against two electric beams of energy that made the bars of the cell their friends were confided within. The two beams of energy were caught in his hands, opening a hole large enough for Valerie to jump through. She approached Becky, who was closest, and knelt by her side.

The young girl stirred in her sleep before opening her eyes to see the older girl kneeling by her side. The cloth in her mouth muffled her words, but Valerie puckered and placed her finger to her lips to silence the girl before she reached down and untied the cloth.

"How'd you find us?" the girl asked with no attempt to keep herself hushed.

"Shh," Valerie hushed her as she untied her hands, freeing them from behind her back before she scooted over to Sam who was the next closest. "We'll talk later," she whispered softly as she repeated her actions with the Gothic girl who stirred when she sensed the red huntress by her side. "We're busting you guys out of here," she whispered to the two of them after she untied the cloth around Sam's mouth.

"It's only been an hour," Sam coughed silently as Valerie untied her hands. "I wasn't expecting such a speedy rescue," she whispered.

"Well, time is of the essence," Valerie whispered as she moved over to Nicole who had long since been woken up and was waiting patiently for her turn to be untied. "With Dani working against us, we didn't have time to think of a full proof battle plan."

"Well, hopefully you have a plan for knocking some sense back into that puta," Nicole cussed silently. "I just jumped on board for this ghost hunting thing and we're not off to a really good start."

"We just have to remove those ruby ear rings and destroy them," Valerie whispered. "She'll return to her normal self when we do." She went to untie Tucker but like Jonny, he too was snoring away through the cloth tied around his face. "I think I'll leave him tied up until we get to safety," she sighed.

"Good idea," Sam whispered as she scavenged together a Fenton Thermos that has been tossed aside and an ecto-blaster. "We don't need him saying something that'll wake up sleeping beauty," she said as she eyed Jonny 13, still snoring away.

The four girls stepped through the hole in the energized cage that Danny had kept open; Valerie carried a sleeping Tucker on her shoulder. "After we get you to safety, we'll go after Dani," Danny informed them as they passed under his arms as he kept the hole open for them. "Without you guys they have no leverage over us."

"What are you talking about?" Sam asked harshly, whispering to not wake Jonny. "You're not doing this alone," she informed him, sounding quite annoyed that he'd consider having her sit on the sidelines. "I'm gunna give that kid a piece of my mind," she shouted.

Jonny snorted in his sleep and mumbled something, making everyone jump fearfully. The hairs on the backs of their necks stood upright as they waited to see if he had woken up; lucky for them, he hadn't. They all scowled at Sam angrily as she smiled nervously.

"If you haven't noticed, we're trying to be discrete here," Danny reminded her before he turned to walk back to where he and Valerie phased through a minute before. Although, he didn't miss stepping on the loose floor plank this time, prying up the other end directly underneath the chair Jonny 13 sat in.

The plank, located directly beneath the front left leg of the chair, brought it up. "Huh?" Jonny gasped himself awake. He tried desperately to balance himself but he fell back anyway. "OWW!" he yelled as he rolled backwards and smacked his head against the wall behind him. He sat up and rubbed the back of his head where he had hit it. "Oww, that smarts," he groaned. He stopped rubbing his head and looked up to see the teens trying to make their escape. "YOU!" he shouted angrily.

"Uh oh, cover's blown guys!" Nicole shouted fearfully.

"If you haven't noticed, we're trying to be discrete here," Sam mocked what Danny had just said. He smiled nervously and raised his hands in defense. "Good going, you just did Tucker's job, and he's asleep!" she yelled.

Jonny energized his hands and aimed at the teens before he fired a pulsating ray of green energy in their direction. Valerie retaliated by leaning forward on her glider slightly, materializing a blue energy shield that protected them all by deflecting the energy ray into the side of the ship.

As soon as the energy barrier dissipated, Valerie raised her arm and made a fist. The black outlining of her suit on the back of her hand rose to reveal a concealed energy blasting weapon, aimed directly at Jonny. Beside her, Danny raised his hand and aimed his palm in Jonny's direction and charged it with energy as he formed it into a ball. Next to him, Sam raised her arm and charged the Fenton Peeler's blaster as she too aimed for Jonny.

All three fired simultaneously, blasting Jonny into the energized bars of the cage behind him. "YAAAAH!" he screamed in agony as the energy surged through him. He soon fell to the floor as smoke rolled off his clothes and hair. He barred his teeth and growled as he looked up at the teens. "Shadow!" he shouted. His ghostly shadow rose from the floor beneath him and hovered over him, barring his teeth in anger. "Attack!" he ordered, pointing at the teens.

His shadow smirked devilishly before he took off across the room, his arms out in front as he lunged straight for Danny in particular. Danny grinned as he pushed off the floor and charged his attacker. "Time for round two!" he mocked the shadow ghost as he pulled back his arm for a punch.

He threw a punch only for the shadow ghost to catch it and push his fist into the floor with enough force to shatter the wooden planks. As Danny pulled his hand free, splintering more wooden fragments, the shadow ghost wound up a punch and nailed Danny in the jaw, sending him through the ceiling and into the upper decks.

"Well, round two sure didn't last long," Nicole sighed, eyes wide as she looked up through the hole Danny had made when he went through the ceiling.

Jonny's shadow went from looking up through the hole, to smirking at the remaining teens. He looked over his shoulder before he manipulated a hole into his stomach just as Sam came up from behind and punched at him, only for her fist to plunge through the hole. He raised one of his hands to eye level; his sharpened fingertips lengthened before he swiped at the blaster portion of the Fenton Peeler covering her hand, effectively destroying it.

"Crud," Sam gulped nervously.

Jonny's shadow raised his other arm and swiped at her, knocking her back. He then looked for his next victim and laid his eyes on the fearful Becky as she backed herself against the wall. He extended out his tail and wrapped it around her waist.

"YAAAH!" she screamed as she was flung across the room and crashed into the opposite wall. A Fenton thermos she had been carrying clanged to the floor next to her.

"Alright dude, you askin' for a butt whoopin!" Valerie snarled at him. Several electronic boxes materialized in the air above her shoulders before they charged and fired at the shadow ghost. He gasped silently, fearfully, before the energy blasts struck him sending him through the wall of the ship.

His natural tendency to destroy things on contact didn't help the structural integrity of the ship's hull. An enormous hole had been blown in it, a splash of water revealed to them that he had fallen into the water, that would slow him down a little but not for long.

"I'll keep this guy off our tails!" Valerie shouted to the others. "By now, Danny's confronted the guys on the deck," she informed them. "You guys take care of this punk," she said, snarling at Jonny before she hoped onto her glider and sped out the hole in the wall.

Sam and Nicole exchanged nervous glances with each other before they glanced at the sleeping Tucker on the floor nearby. Sam then held up the damaged portion of the Fenton Peeler, the blaster in her hand had been damaged beyond use. Nicole had the only functioning weapon; she aimed at the ghost punk as he stumbled towards them, a wicked sneer spread across his mug.

"I don't see much of a threat between the two of you," he chuckled. "A scared child, too nervous to fire her weapon," he mocked. Nicole gulped nervously and began to sweat bullets. "What can a scared little girl do to me?" he asked.

"More than you realize," a voice came from behind him. His eyes bulged out of his head before he shot around and found Becky standing behind him with a Fenton Thermos aimed in his direction. She pushed the button, activating it, sending a blue beam of energy at him at quickly engulfed him. He put up no fight as he was sucked into the device, too speechless to even mutter an echoing final word. "How's that for a scared little girl, huh?" she asked with a grin as she screwed the top back onto the thermos.

"Quite impressive actually," Sam said in approval as she and Nicole rushed across the room to her side, a snoring Tucker held up by Sam as she lay him across one of her shoulders. "I didn't think you had it in you."

"Neither did I," Becky said as her hands began to shake. "And, I'm scared of ghosts."

"Got caught up in the thrill huh?" Nicole chuckled. "Told yah you'd like it," she laughed as she punched her shoulder.

"I think I'm on board for this ghost hunting thing," Becky said, her enjoyment growing.

"Good, because with Tucker out of commission, Danny will need all the help we can give him," Sam informed the two girls as she raised her destroyed blaster to eye level, it let off several sparks. "Of course this suit is kinda useless as a weapon now," she sighed.

"Well, if these guys aren't that dangerous, then I can take them out," Nicole said as she held up her own ecto-blaster. "And Becky can trap them," she said as she looked over at Becky as she tossed the thermos up and down into the air before she dropped it. She scrambled to pick it up and held it behind her back as she grinned nervously. "If she can handle it," she added with a scowl.

"ARGH!" several pirate ghosts screamed and yelled as they fought up on the ship's main deck. Swords clashed and a few energy attacks were flung. Several of Barbossa's crew chased after Dani as she hopped across heads, jumping from person to person, playfully dodging swords and punches until she came to her target.

"You won't get away again Lassy," Barbossa shouted as he swung his sword. It sliced through the air, just missing Dani as she landed next to him. He swung again only for her to raise her hand, energized, and catch it. Her fingers wrapped around the metal blade and pulled it free from his hands. "Stealing another pirate's sword, that's cold, very cold of yah," Barbossa hissed angrily.

Dani tossed the sword into the air, flipping it before catching it by its hilt. She snickered as she brought it back and prepared to swing. She hissed and lunged for Barbossa. Suddenly, the deck exploded beneath her, sending large splinters of wood in all directions. Dani shielded herself from the debris by crossing her arms, but that didn't protect her when Danny smashed into her from beneath.

"YAAAAH!" they both screamed as they flew through the air. She let go of the sword and it flew through the air and out of view.

Dani hit the floor and back flipped into a fighting position. She growled and barred her teeth in anger. Danny fell back onto the deck and groaned in agony. "Whoa, so much for round two," he groaned as he sat up and rubbed the back of his head. He heard Dani growling and jumped to his feet, just dodging an energy blast from her. "WHOA! I think she may be getting better," he said to himself, his eyes nearly bugging out of his head.

"Grrr!" she growled through clenched teeth as her hands let off a green mist from her attack.

"Dani!" Youngblood suddenly called out. She gasped and looked in his direction where he was currently sword fighting with two of Barbossa's crew. "Get your sword and attack him!" he ordered her. "This is why I brought you aboard my ship," he reminded her as he grabbed one of the pirates by his arm and threw him into the other, forcing them to relinquish their swords as they clattered to the deck.

Dani did as she was ordered; she reached to her side but found she no longer carried her sword, only the sheath remained strapped to the belt loop of her suit's pants. She patted around for it aimlessly before Barbossa caught her attention by throwing her sword, sinking the length of the blade into the deck until only the hilt remained visible.

"Looking for something Missy?" he mocked her. She turned and scowled at the man before cocking an eyebrow. His sword, the one she had stolen from him, had become lodged through the center of his chest where his heart should have been after it was knocked out of her grip. He promptly removed it without hesitation and readied it once more, firmly. "What kind of pirate be ye if yar just gunna lose your sword?" he asked her.

Angered by his jargon, Dani swiped up her sword and dashed for the man, completely forgetting about Danny, leaving him to contemplate what had happened. He watched as they both engaged in slashing at each other with their swords, only for each swing and stroke to be blocked by the other. Being smaller, Dani hoped around the older man, doing back flips and even resorting to hovering to be on an even par with her foe.

"Well, I'll have a better chance at returning her to normal after I've eliminated the completion," Danny reminded himself. He turned to face the nearest pirate not currently in battle to find one of Youngblood's crew smirking in his direction as he slid the length of his sword's blade between his fingers. "Might as well keep myself preoccupied," he said with a grin as he got into a fighting stance.

"ARGH!" the pirate bellowed as he charged towards him. Danny was about to throw an energy ray at him when he charged past him and became engaged in battle with one of Barbossa's crew.

"What!" Danny shouted angrily. "It's like I'm invisible to these goons or something. Normally I'd use this to my advantage, but that's just irritating," he said with a scowl. He followed with his eyes as several more of Youngblood's crew rushed by him only for the sounds of swords clashing to emit from out of view. "That does it!" he shouted angrily.

He brought back his arm and charged a powerful attack before thrusting his arm forward, sending off several rays of energy. Beams of energy flew across the deck striking pirates from both sides. Bones exploded in all directions and body parts littered the deck. He jumped into the air as two of Barbossa's crew attacked him after realizing he was attacking them all. Avoiding their assault Danny wound back and fired another barrage of energy rays in Youngblood's direction. The kid pirate went wide eyed before he and several others were blasted away.

He soon descended to the deck again and picked up a sword that had been dropped by one of the others. He grabbed the hilt in one hand and the blade in another; using his paranormal strength he bent it into the shape of a boomerang and immediately flung it. It spun across the deck like the blades of a helicopter, sawing its way through the air before coming to rest in the side of Barbossa's head, knocking him off his feet leaving a startled Dani to contemplate what had happened.

She gawked at her fallen foe as her sword dropped to her side. "Time to remove those ear rings," Danny said in a low growl. She turned to face him as he stood some distance away, scowling at the young ghost girl. She growled at him and readied her sword once more. "Don't think for a second that I'm gunna let you continue down this path in life," he warned her.

"She doesn't think," someone groaned. Both Phantoms looked down as Barbossa stumbled to his feet. "She only ever does what she is told to do." He grabbed the hilt of the sword in his head and ripped it free, like something out of a slasher flick. He eye balled Danny and did not look pleased. "Be thankful that wasn't permanent boy," he warned him harshly as the side of his face magically healed itself within a matter of seconds.

"Sorry dude," Danny apologized, "but I'm not too fond of you pirates and it was the only way to get the two of you to stop fighting each other," he explained. "I just want to return my sister to the way she's supposed to be," he said eyeballing Dani as she looked back and forth between them, frantically trying to figure out which of them was going to attack first, or which she should attack first.

"Ahh, the same thing we want but for different reasons," Barbossa concluded with a wicked grin, revealing his severally unhygienic teeth. "We want the ear rings destroyed, you want the girl and I want her removed from my sight, we both get what we want."

"Alliance?" Danny asked as he charged his hands for an attack.

"Agreed," Barbossa said after a few seconds of hesitation. "Alright ya scurvy dogs!" he shouted to several of his crew members who were currently fighting off Youngblood. "Keep that thieving brat company while we work our magic," he ordered them.

"Work this old man!" Youngblood snapped at him. His hook reshaped itself into a slingshot so he could fire upon his attackers. As soon as they were out of the picture, he turned on Barbossa and took aim. He fired a barrage of red energy balls at the older pirate. He disappeared into a cloud of smoke, before Youngblood re-aimed at Danny who was a bit preoccupied dodging Dani as she swung her sword at him. "Curse that girl," he seethed angrily. "If she can't do the job, then I'll have to step in and do it myself," he growled as he lowered his weapon.

"The same goes for if my low-life of a crew is incapable of detaining a child," Barbossa growled from behind him. Youngblood gasped when he turned around and was faced with his foe again. Escaped from the smoke cloud, Barbossa attacked him with furiosity. Youngblood blocked by raising his slingshot again, catching Barbossa's sword.

"A child that is more ghost than human," Youngblood taunted him. He suddenly went intangible and phased through the older pirate, making him stumble forward. He turned and faced his foe again as they exchanged blows with their swords.

"We humans can be rather impressive actually," Barbossa taunted him.

High above the town, the thick cloud cover cleared away allowing the full moon to shine brightly. All of Barbossa's pirate crew suddenly underwent a change; their humanoid bodies gave way, morphed. Their skin and muscle disappeared, leaving behind bony skeletons and tattered clothing. Even they seemed surprised by the change but soon came to accept the change, smirking as Youngblood's crew suddenly began to withdraw in shock.

"Whoa," Danny gawked as he looked around the deck at Barbossa's skeleton crew. "Night of the living dead."

Dani took this moment to use his distraction to her advantage. She swung her sword but he jumped back to avoid being sliced through his stomach. Getting nowhere with attacking him like a pirate, she tossed the sword aside and tackled him to the deck. Danny grabbed her by her arms to hold her back as she tried to scratch out his eyes.

Running footsteps were heard coming before a hatch door in the deck swung open and Nicole and Becky jumped out with ecto-blaster and Fenton Thermos ready, Sam appeared behind them with a still unconscious Tucker sleeping on her shoulder. "Don't worry Danny, the cavalry has arrived!" Sam shouted heroically.

It was at this time that they got their first look on the skeleton pirate crews. Skeleton pirates from both sides glared at the girls and snarled. The color drained from all of their faces before they screamed bloody murder, this was enough to wake Tucker. "Wha," he said as he slowly opened his eyes. "What happened?" he asked as he raised his heavy eyes, the stars flying around his head doing nothing to prevent him from seeing what had scared the others. "YAAAAH!" he screamed at the sight of Barbossa's skeleton pirate crew. "I've woken up into a nightmare!"

Across the deck, Danny continued to struggle against Dani as she lashed out at him, his grip on her wrists the only thing keeping her from sinking her fingers into him. Getting nowhere, he decided to use her attack against her. Instead of pushing her back, he pulled her forward, shocking her. He then pushed back with all his might and made her hit herself with one of her hands.

"YAAAH!" she screeched as she grabbed for the side of her face where Danny made her hit herself. She stumbled back only to be kicked by Danny in the gut as he spun around and preformed a round-house kick. She flew backwards, knocking others off their feet before she crashed into the ship's mast.

She fell to the deck in a heap but recovered quickly. She looked up at Danny from across the deck and snarled. Her look of anger quickly changed to one of horror when Danny smirked and tossed one of the ruby ear rings into the air before catching it and crushed it. She looked to her side and realized her right ear lobe was leaking green blood. When Danny forced her to hit herself, he tore one of the ear rings out.

"Hmm, let's see how tough you are with one fewer of these things," Danny taunted her as he tilted his hand and released the ruby colored dust as it poured from his fist and wafted away into the night air.

"NOOOO!" Youngblood and Barbossa shouted in horror.

"Without both ear rings, he can't maintain control over her!" Barbossa shouted fearfully.

"You say that like it's a bad thing," Danny asked, cocking an eyebrow.

"Without my control, she's just like most other ghosts Phantom," Youngblood scorned him. "She'll become a renegade, attacking anything and everything she can until she is stopped forcibly," he informed him. "At least I could order her to stop; now, she follows her own orders."

This struck Danny like a lightning strike, his eyes widened as his attention shot back to Dani as she began to laugh maniacally. She looked down towards the deck so her hair blocked her face from view. "Thank you brother," she hissed. She looked up and her hair moved away from her face revealing that her once solid crimson red eyes had developed dark pupils. "Now my actions are my own."

"Good going Danny," Sam scolded him from nearby after she, Tucker and the two girls regained their composure.

"How was I supposed to know removing one ear ring at a time would make her even worse than before?" he retaliated.

"Alright scallywags, capture her!" Youngblood orders his men.

"Ye too!" Barbossa ordered his crew. "Remove the other ear ring!"

"ARGH!" pirates from both sides hollered as they raced across the deck towards the girl, swords drawn.

"Heehee," Dani snickered. Energy built up in the soles of her feet before she released it, rocketing herself across the deck to meet her attackers head on. She caught them by surprise, clothes-lining several of them and frightening others into running away fearing for their afterlives. Some fled beneath the deck while others jumped overboard.

"What is wrong with all of ye!" Barbossa barked madly. "Can't take out one little girl!"

"This little girl is mutinying," Dani snickered after blasting away the last of her attackers. "I'm taking command of this fishing vessel," she shouted triumphantly.

"Hey!" Youngblood shouted angrily. "This is my ship!" he yelled as he made a fist and shook it in the air.

Suddenly, Dani appeared at his side with an evil smirk spread across her face. "Not anymore," she sneered. She energized her fist and pulled it back as the energy in her hand began to pulsate and send off sparks.

"Huh?" Youngblood gasped before she thrust her fist forward, releasing a powerful blast of energy. "YAAAAAH!" he screamed as he was blasted across the deck. He crashed into the ship's mast smashing it, sending splinters scattering across the deck. Pirates from both sides scattered in all directions as the ship's sail fell onto the deck, trapping several of them.

A sword came up through the black sail, ripping it open enough for Barbossa to stand upright. "Will someone please get that ear ring off the girl!" he shouted his demand angrily.

Several pirates from his skeleton crew, as well as Youngblood's, glanced at each other nervously before they charged across the deck with swords drawn. Several stopped cold when they were confronted by Sam and Nicole. They shot quick glances at each other as they cocked the ecto-blasters they held before smirking confidently.

While they started an onslaught with the two pirate crews; Youngblood shredded the sail to his ship which had fallen on top of him. "She better think twice if she thinks she can mutiny and take my crew," he hissed. He heard someone cough and turned to face Becky as she held a charged Fenton Thermos on him.

"She should've made you walk the plank, but I think I'll send you to the brig instead," she taunted him before she pushed the button to activate the thermos.

"Curses!" Youngblood shouted angrily as he was sucked into the thermos, is voice echoing until it had vanished within the confines of the thermos.

Becky capped the thermos with a smile on her face. "One down, several to go," she said quite confidently as she glanced back at the others.

Shots flew in all directions as Dani waited for the oncoming assault that would never come now, they had all become caught up in fleeing from Sam and Nicole as they blasted them off the deck of the ship. She was beginning to grow impatient with the so called pirate crew. "I'm gunna need to find a new crew," she grumbled under her breath.

"Or maybe you just need to give up on the pirate business," Danny was heard taunting from behind her. Her eyes flared and she shot around to face him. "You're not making a very good captain for your crew."

"This coming from the captain of Team Phantom who couldn't even stop his sister from turning on him," Dani taunted him.

"And as Captain, I'm relinquishing you of your command," Danny shouted harshly. He pushed off the deck and charged her, catching her off guard with an energized punch that struck the deck, missing her when she jumped to dodge. He then twisted his body around his shoulder, landing a powerful kick to her stomach that sent her reeling backwards across the deck.

After knocking over several pirates from both crews, she stood and dusted herself off. "Much better," she snickered. "You're not going as easy on me as you were earlier."

"As much as I care for you Dani, I have to do whatever it takes to get that ear ring off you," Danny declared. "Even if it means going all out!" And with that declaration, he pushed off the deck again and charged her with energy building in his hands.

"Fine, all out it is then," Dani accepted his challenge. "But let's see if yours is enough." She pushed off the deck and charged him. Like him, she charged energy into her hands as well as her feet. A wicked grin spread across her face as she brought both legs up, both arms forward and unleashed a powerful wave of energy that comprised of all four attacks fused into one.

"WHOA!" Danny shouted, halting his charge in mid-flight. "YAAAAH!" he screamed as he was struck with the wave of energy she had released. The wave of energy was enough to blow up half of the ship before it sent Danny flying across half of the harbor in the direction of the nearby fairgrounds just outside town.

Upon the destruction of half of Youngblood's ship everybody else began to freak. "Abandon ship!" Barbossa called out to his crew. "Get back to the Pearl!" he ordered. "We're keeping to the code!"

Sam, Tucker, Nicole and Becky watched in confusion as Barbossa's crew scurried back to their ship while the rest of Youngblood's crew jumped ship, or at least what was left of it. They watched fearfully as Dani took flight and flew off towards the fairgrounds where she would continue her fight with Danny.

"Common dude, it's all up to you," Tucker said, as if rooting for Danny from there would help him in any way.

"How are we supposed to get down from here?" Becky asked as she looked over the edge of the flying ship. "We're a little too high to jump off."

Sam answered her question by rummaging through an old wooden chest that sat nearby. "Can you climb?" she asked as she held up a long rope tied into a large circle.

Over in the fairgrounds, Danny rubbed his head after Dani had blasted him off of the ship. He had hit the snow covered ground hard and was now lying in a small impact crater as the snow that had been lifted began to settle down. "Wow. She's gotten stronger. A lot stronger," he said as he looked back up into the sky and saw what remained of Youngblood's ship hovering in the distance.

He soon heard something rushing toward him. He jumped just in time to dodge Dani as she descended and stomped the ground, sending cracks radiating outwards and bringing up more snow. She sprung back up into the air and hovered over him with her arms crossed. "Face it Danny. You can't beat me," she mocked him.

"Have you lost your mind? I'm stronger than you and you know it," Danny yelled in response. "Now let's stop this senseless fighting and turn you back so you can rejoin the team."

"I AM NOT…GOING TO REJOIN…YOUR…TEAM!" she yelled as she charged up her hands and flew at Danny as fast as she could. Before he could react, she made a swift downward cut across his face, causing him to fly backwards into a cotton candy hut.

"She was never this good when we'd train together," he said to himself as he sat up off the ground. He looked up and noticed he had a beehive hair due made out of pink and blue cotton candy. He pulled it off his head and tossed it aside. "I've got to stop her now before things get out of hand." He stood up and flew out of the cotton candy stand and floated above it as he searched the area for Dani. "Now, where did she go?" he asked himself as he looked around frantically.

"Look behind you, you fool," Dani yelled out. Danny turned with a startled look as Dani threw a pulsating energy ball at him. It hit him in the stomach, blasting him back several feet into the wall of another food stand. His eyes shot open and glowed bright green as he gritted his teeth in anger. Now he was mad. "So big brother…how does it feel to be beaten up by a twelve year old girl?" she half yelled, mocking him as she shot another energy blast at him; but he wasn't going easy on her anymore.

With one arm, he deflected the blast away. It exploded upon hitting the ground on the other side of the park. He then took flight straight at her at full speed with his fists glowing with a green mist. "Sorry about this Dani…but you need some sense knocked into you," he yelled as his glowing fist made contact with his clones face.

The punch was hard enough to send her flying sky high. Danny took off as fast as he could to intercept her. He flew in front of her and prepared for a powerful kick.

Dani opened her eyes and screamed as Danny kicked her in the stomach. After he withdrew his foot, she clenched her stomach. Her mouth hung open and her eyes were wide in bewilderment. She looked up at Danny with a look of evil in her eyes, but he was gone.

"Where'd he go?" she asked herself. Then he answered her question by coming up from underneath her and grabbed her leg. She gasped moments before he started spinning her in a super fast circle. He released her, sending her to the ground. She was moving too fast to be seen. A black and white blur crashed through the ceiling of the control room for the roller coaster.

After crashing into the wooden floor of the control room, Dani sat on her legs and held herself up with her arms in a push-up position. She looked up and eyed the frozen levers that controlled the roller coaster, icicles dangled off them from the cold. She got up and activated the controls. She pushed a few buttons and pulled on a metal lever that controlled the speed of the ride, shattering the ice that covered it.

She put it in the highest speed and broke off the handle so it couldn't be stopped. "Let's see how he likes what I have prepared for him," she said angrily as she flew up through the hole that she made when she crashed through the ceiling. Floating above the building she looked up to see Danny flying straight at her. She still had the lever in her hands. She infused it with energy and got into a batting position. "Batter up," she yelled as Danny drew closer to her.

Unable to react in time, she hit Danny with the lever, sending him flying towards the roller coasters tracks. He landed on the tracks with his back to the direction the coaster would eventually be coming from. He had one foot on each rail of the coaster as he rubbed his face where she hit him with the lever.

"ARGH!" Danielle cried out as she flew at Danny as fast as she could. She held the lever like a sword and brought it down on Danny when she got within reach of him, but he thought quickly and formed an ice sword and blocked the attack.

With a few simple moves, he spun the lever out of her hands, sending it falling to the snow covered ground twenty feet below. She landed on the tracks a few feet in front of him. She stood in a battle ready stance as Danny held the ice sword in front of himself.

With a swift kick, she spun her entire body and kicked the sword out of his hands, shattering it on impact with her foot. She then charged her hands with energy and jumped at him.

Danny charged up his hands as well and caught her hands with his. They interlocked their fingers and squeezed the others hands as tightly as they could while at the same time holding back each other's power with their own.

"I don't see why you just can't give up Dani," Danny said to her as he struggled to hold her back. "I can make you change your ways. Just give me a chance?" he pleaded with her.

"This was my decision Danny," she said to him with her teeth gritted. "Maybe this will teach you to leave me alone."

Then using a boost of energy from her feet, she acted as a rocket and pushed against Danny. He held her at bay, but the force of her pushing was pushing him back as well, mainly due to the tracks he was standing on being covered with ice. Then she did a front flip over his shoulders while their hands remained intertwined. She landed on the rails behind Danny, pulling his arms backwards, over his own shoulders. Using her own arms as leverage, she bent forwards and threw Danny over her own shoulders, straight at the roller coaster that was hurtling at them.

"YAAAAAAAH!" he screamed as he flew at the fast moving coaster. He crashed into it head on. The force of the crash sent him flying off the tracks. He flew backwards several hundred feet and fell nearly twenty feet to the ground. He landed on his back, leaving another small crater in the ground and raising more snow into the air.

After the dust and dirt had settled, Danny slowly opened his eyes. He didn't have time to think about what happened though, because Dani had phased the roller coaster off the tracks and had lifted the whole thing into the air. "Dodge this," she yelled as she threw it at him. It flew at him like a missile.

Before it hit him, he put up an energy barrier in the shape of a dome. The flying projectile bounced off the top and crashed a few feet away from him. He sighed with relief as he let down the barrier, only to have Dani fly at him again. She punched him in the stomach. But instead of denting into the ground further, she simply turned them both intangible when she made contact with him. They both phased through the ground to come back up elsewhere.

Several energy blasts splashed into the harbor as Jonny 13's shadow raced across the surface, easily maneuvering around the energy blasts coming from one of many weapons that could materialize from Valerie's suit. She rode on her glider, skimming across the surface of the water as she gave chase to the shadow ghost.

"And I thought chasing a shadow was just an expression," she seethed with anger as she fired off dozen of shots. With such rapid fire, she had no time to aim properly; all of her shots missed, splashing down into the water. "No matter how hard I chase it, I can never catch it!"

Jonny's shadow looked back at the red clad ghost huntress and growled with a sinister grin before it took a sharp turn, dodging yet another barrage of energy blasts. Valerie nearly fell off her glider trying to copy the sharp turn, but managed to keep her footing before following the shadow ghost into the nearby fairgrounds.

It was easier for it to hide from her in here, what with all of the food huts and rides casting shadows all over the place in the moon light. The first place it tried to take refuge in was a closed hotdog stand; it phased though the wall and vanished from sight. Lucky for it, Valerie couldn't follow as easily.

"That's fine," Valerie said with a grin upon ending her chase outside the food stand. "I'll just blast my way in," she said as three floating boxes materialized above her shoulder. Suddenly the wall exploded outward and the hotdog cooker flew out at her, shooting off steaming hotdogs in her direction. "YAAAH!" she screamed as she dove for cover.

She hit the ground hard as the hot dog cooker flew over her head and crashed through a window to a popcorn stand; the heat from the cooker enough to pop any kernels still inside the stand. Valerie covered her head with her arms as popcorn began to multiply like rabbits, converging on the entire area.

Jonny's shadow emerged from the hotdog stand and hovered over the girl as popcorn flew in all directions. It smirked down at her and growled in a low hum. It flew off only to be chased after by a barrage of energy blasts. "Grrrr!" Valerie growled as she lowered her arm after firing after the shadow ghost. The blaster sank back into her suit on the back of her hand as she pushed herself off the ground. "You're not getting away that easily!" she shouted after it. The jet pack on her back fired and she was once again giving chase to the shadow ghost.

Choosing a new weapon to fight back with, a large bazooka-like materialized in her hands. She charged it and tried to take aim at the shadow ghost as it led her on a chase across the fairgrounds. She didn't want to waste a shot because it was moving too fast for her to get a good shot.

Before she ever got the chance to even aim properly, the shadow ghost led her in circles around and into the controls of several rides. It phased into the controls for the tilt-a-whirl and left it smoking and sparking. The ride lit up and began spinning uncontrollably. The brightness of the lights was enough to drive it off to the next ride. "Huh?" Valerie questioned as she followed him to the next ride.

The Ferris wheel stood in the center of the fairgrounds as several small explosions went off in the distance. Valerie followed the shadow ghost to the large control booth where it phased through and activated the large ride. The giant wheel lit up and began to spin.

"Whoa!" Valerie gasped, coming to yet another halt in mid-flight. "If this guy destroys this thing, it'll affect the rest of the fair," she realized fearfully. The Ferris wheel began to spin faster and faster, much faster than safety regulations would ever allow. Soon, all of the carriages began to blur together.

Jonny's shadow phased out of the control booth and hissed when it was overcome by all of the lights being emitted by the giant wheel. It growled angrily as it flew for the center point and phased through it. The entire wheel began shaking uncontrollably as the bolts and welds began to snap. Without any stable support, the entire wheel broke free from its struts and rolled freely across the ground at great speed.

"WHAAAA!" Valerie screamed as her jetpack rocketed her up. She flew across the circumference of the speeding wheel as it sped underneath her. Her path was suddenly blocked by Jonny's shadow ghost. It appeared rising over the curve of the giant wheel, its claw-like fingers outstretched and its mouth wide open in a large grin to reveal its fangs.

It slashed at her, making her lose her grip on her bazooka and sending her careening uncontrollably several hundred feet through the air. She was least expecting to crash into the top of the water slide. Her jetpack carried her down one of the several slides; without any water, the ride was rather bumpy for the ghost huntress.

She crashed into the inside walls of the slide, the tunnel bounced her around as she zoomed down the inside as fast as her jetpack would carry her. She was launched out of the bottom of the tube and crashed into the empty concrete pool. The high speed Ferris wheel sped by before it was heard crashing into something large and made of metal, possibly another ride.

She looked up as the shadow ghost hovered high over her; it looked down on her mockingly before it charged. "Eat lasers!" Valerie shouted as she raised her arm and made a fist, aiming for the oncoming shadow ghost. Six spheres on rods emerged from around her wrist. They began sparking with electricity and began glowing bright pink before they released a wave of light energy. The shadow ghost screeched in agony when it became engulfed in the light. "Huh?" she questioned herself as she began to go back through her thoughts.

He was scared off by the lights from the other rides throughout the park, of course, being a shadow he must have been weakened by them. He needed to hide in the shadows to regain his strength.

"Bright light weakens it," she realized. "Thanks for the heads up Danny," she growled. Apparently he had forgotten to tell her of that little detail about this special ghost.

Finally the shadow ghost had had enough and fled but not before Valerie had gotten back to her feet. Her glider rematerialized under her feet and she gave chase once more, this time using its weakened state to get ahead of it. She cut him off and blasted him with another wave of light energy. It screeched in agony and fled again only for Valerie to cut it off once more.

This continued a few times before the shadow ghost finally managed to find a safe, dark place to hide. After receiving another blast of light from the teen, it took refuge in a dark tunnel in the side of a rock face. Valerie flew in behind it only to find that the short tunnel was a dead end, and the ghost was nowhere to be seen.

"Darn it!" she cussed angrily. "I almost had him!" Suddenly he made his reappearance; he had formed to the inside of the tunnel, surrounding her with his entire body. "YAAAH!" she screamed as he enclosed his form around her, hiding her from sight.

It smirked victoriously before its grin was wiped off. It looked down at its stomach before it began screeching in pain again. It grabbed its head and appeared to pull on its horn-like appendages as bright pink light began emitting from its mouth and eyes. Its entire body soon began to emit pink light before it exploded.

Valerie emerged from the shadow's darkness; her entire suit glowing brightly. The red lining across her entire suit appeared to be glowing bright red. The shadow reformed itself at the back of the dead end tunnel, shielding its eyes from the light her suit was emitting.

"Perhaps it was something you ate," she taunted the shadow. It growled but she only snickered as the light she was emitting grew brighter. The shadow slowly backed away until it had reached the end of the tunnel. "You turn on anything that is off, and you break anything that is already on," Valerie recollected from what it did to the Ferris wheel. "You might want to find something to shield yourself," she suggested to it through a weak laugh.

The shadow ghost didn't seem to quite understand, but a weak glowing light from behind it caught its attention. It turned and realized that when it backed into the tunnel, it touched a flat pane of glass. Valerie snickered as she raised her hand and pushed an unseen button on the side of her helmet that suddenly darkened her mask.

From outside the rock face, Valerie flew out of the tunnel just before a giant beam of white hot light emerged from the tunnel, followed by the screeching agony of the shadow ghost. She looked back just as the shadow ghost fled the tunnel but not before the intensity of the light ripped it to shreds, leaving not a single trace behind. Even its screeches of pain echoed away until nothing but light remained.

Valerie looked up into the sky to reveal that the tunnel had actually been a house for a high powered search light used for the fair's nighttime light show. "Guess he'll be having a bright future after all," she punned with a slight snicker. "Now to find Danny and see how he's doing with Captain Dani." And with that, her glider's rockets fired and she sped across the fairgrounds.

Continuing from where their fight had left them, Danny and Captain Dani phased out of the ground. Dani appeared to have punched Danny out of the ground. After they turned tangible, he looked down from his position in the air. Dani flew up so she was at equal level with him. She began punching him rapidly in the stomach, her punches so fast, her arms appeared to be nothing but blurs.

She stopped punching and kicked him in the chin with her foot. He floated backwards a little as he held his mouth in pain. She flew up to him and floated a little above him. He looked up at her just as she charged a fist with energy. "Now leave me alone," she yelled at him demandingly before she punched him in the face sending him falling back to the ground.

He span in the air a few times before landing on his feet. Upon landing, yet another small crater formed around him and more snow had become uplifted. He stood up and watched Dani descend down to the ground in front of him. She stopped her descent about a foot above the ground. She crossed her arms and scowled at him.

"What makes you think you can make me change Danny?" she asked him. "Do you really think that I'll just let you remove this?" she asked as she pointed her thumb up at the remaining ear ring. "You're just wasting your time."

"I'm not giving up until that thing is destroyed," Danny said in a low growl as he took a defensive stance. "You're coming back with me, even if I have to tear your whole ear off!" he yelled just as his hands became infused with enough energy to make them pulsate and spark.

She eyed the energy in his hands and called his bluff by acting nervous, but the grin on her face told Danny she wasn't buying the light show. "Now Danny…let's be reasonable. You wouldn't want to hurt your little sister now would you?" she asked, seemingly nervous, but Danny knew better.

"To make you change your ways and to save you from a life of evil," he said with a stern face. "YES!" he said sounding very serious.

Dani gasped and prepared to fly away upon learning that he wasn't bluffing as she had believed, but Danny was too faster for her. He made two copies of himself that grabbed her by her arms and held her still while the original Danny walked up to her.

"NO!" she yelled as he reached out to grab the ear ring. "You won't take me alive," she yelled. She then spun in a circle; causing all three Danny's to collide with each other. The two holding her let go and fused back with the original Danny as he fell to the ground after being hit by his copies.

She took off into the air at full speed and flew away from the scene. Danny stood up and took flight after her. She was just as fast as he was so he was able to keep up with her, but he couldn't gain any new ground. He squeezed his hands into fists as he thought to himself, 'So close. Man I really need some help.'

"Leave me alone Danny," she demanded as she looked back at him. She fired an ecto-blast at him but he dodged out of the way with much ease.

"Not a chance Dani," he responded. "I'm going to remove that ear ring whether you want me to or not." He fired a blast at her, but she dodged it easily as well. She growled back at him, a big mistake because now she wasn't paying attention to where she was flying.

Suddenly she was hit by a red ecto-blast from above. She screamed as she crash landed on the ground. She stood up and looked up to see what hit her. Valerie floated just above her with a smoking gun at her side. Danny descended down next to her. "I was wondering when you'd decide to join," he said to her playfully.

"Well I'm not going to let you have all the fun," she said with a grin. She looked at Dani who looked back at her frightfully. "So…haven't stuck it to her yet huh?" she asked Danny, referring to the ear ring that still hung from her ear.

"I almost did, but she took off. That's when you decided to jump in," he told her.

"And you're not going to either," Dani yelled at them as she covered the ear ring with one of her hands. She tried to take off again, but Valerie shot her out of the sky with her gun. She tumbled to the ground after being hit.

"Think again Captain Brat," Valerie said as her gun continued smoking from the attack.

"Don't call me a brat!" she yelled at Valerie. She shot an ecto-blast at them but missed when they dodged out of the way. After getting to her feet, Valerie shot at her again, only this time, Dani was ready.

She went intangible so the blast went right through her. "HA! You missed me," Dani mocked her as she became tangible. She stuck her thumbs in her ears and rasp-berried at them.

A light bulb suddenly went off in Danny's head. He smirked at Dani before leaning in close to Valerie and whispered to her so only she could hear him. Valerie nodded along as he told her his plan. When he was done, she smirked at Dani as well. "Really!" she said, sounding interested.

"What are you about to do?" Dani asked nervously as a weak grin spread across her face.

Danny raised his hand and took aim at Dani. Valerie did the same thing with her own wrist ray. They both started firing rapidly at her, but again she went intangible.

"HA! You can't hit me if I'm intangible," she mocked them.

"Maybe so Dani," Danny said to her. "But if I remember correctly, this little trick worked on you back in gym class earlier today," he reminded her.

Dani's eyes suddenly widened with this realization. He was right, well partially, and she called him out on it. "You're forgetting Danny," she taunted him. "I was unable to hold my intangibility because I was in my human form," she reminded him. "With my ghost form comes more power and the ability to do this."

She put up her arms and suddenly became surrounded in a dome of ecto-energy that deflected all of their energy blasts back at them. "Duck!" Danny yelled as he tackled Valerie to the ground as their energy blasts whizzed by them and exploded with the ground.

"Oh man," Valerie groaned as she rubbed her head. "I really thought that was going to work," she admitted.

"After her!" Danny yelled angrily as he pointed towards the sky where Dani had taken off. She fled the scene, but they were right behind her.

Slowly, Dani began to lose power and was slowing down considerably. Her use of the ecto-energy barrier was enough to drain her energy significantly. She barely had any practice with it and was still learning how to conserve energy for such a technique. But she still managed to keep a lead over Danny and Valerie.

"Valerie, can't you fire some ghost catching nets at her or something?" Danny asked frantically. "We can't afford to let her get away again."

"You must have read my mind," she replied with a scowl as she pulled out a gun and fired three ghost nets at the ghost girl, but Dani heard Danny tell Valerie to fire them. She dodged out of the way easily.

'I've got to lose these two now,' Dani thought to herself. She looked down onto the fairground as they continued to fly over it. She looked left and right hoping to find a good hiding spot. "A-ha," she gasped when she noticed something out of the corner of her eye.

"Fire!" Danny said as Valerie shot three more nets at her. She looked back and saw the nets coming. She dodged out of the way of all three once again.

As she flew away, she looked back at Danny and Valerie. "You can't get me if you don't know which me to get," she taunted them. She then dove out of the sky and phased through the roof of a building in the middle of the fair grounds.

Danny followed close behind her and phased through the roof after her. Valerie couldn't do the same and so had to go around, luckily they were at the front of the building. She came around and through the front door just as Danny landed on the floor of the building just inside the entrance. "What did she mean by, 'You can't get me if you don't know which me to get'?" Valerie asked in confusion. They both looked around the building and quickly realized where they were.

"The House of Mirrors," Danny said with disappointment. "This is going to make things a lot easier," he said sarcastically.

"Gotta admit, she is one smart cookie," Valerie said as she looked around at the hundreds of mirrors that surrounded them.

Dani's reflection appeared in all of the mirrors in the room. Danny and Valerie suddenly realized they were surrounded by hundreds of Dani's. "You'll never find me now," she mocked them. She laughed as Danny and Valerie looked around frantically for the real Dani.

"We'll see about that," Danny said in anger. He shot an ecto-blast at one of the Dani's only to end up shattering a mirror into a million pieces.

"Ha-ha, do you have any idea how many years of bad luck you just picked up?" Dani laughed at him, sounding rather amused.

"Too bad I don't believe in those superstitions," Danny said out loud. Dani only continued to laugh at him. Growing angry, he tightened his hands into fists.

"How are we supposed to find her?" Valerie asked him. "If we go in there and search, she's gunna run and get away. And we can't destroy all of these mirrors one at a time. That'll take too long."

"Valerie, get behind me," he ordered her.

"What…why?" she responded.

"Just get behind me and cover your ears," he said as he used one of his hands to push her behind him. He then began to take in a deep breath.

Dani stopped laughing and all of the reflections grew nervous expressions. "Uh-oh!" Dani said sounding frightened.

When Danny exhaled, he unleashed his Ghostly Wail. The power of the attack began shattering mirrors instantly. After a few seconds, all of the mirrors in the building had shattered, leaving Dani standing in the middle of the room.

All of the glass shattering had cut her up pretty badly. Her eyes were closed tight and she was covering her ears with her hands, desperately trying to keep out the noise Danny was emitting. "Danny, please stop," she pleaded with him, but he kept up his attack. Another few seconds passed by and the wallpaper began to peel away. "AHHHHH!" Dani screamed as she dropped to her knees. Before too long the walls and the ceiling gave way from the magnitude of Danny's Ghostly Wail. The walls and roof flew away leaving them standing in the open. "DANNY!" she screamed out as she leaned forward so her forehead touched the ground. The sound was too much for her to withstand.

Grieving in pain, she gave out a blood curtailing scream as the force of Danny's attack shattered the ear ring into dust, blowing the particles away as well as what was left of the building they were in.

Danny finally let off his attack. The green sound waves disappeared and the sound subsided as he fell to his hands and knees and changed back into his human form. Valerie appeared behind him and kneeled down beside him. "What an attack!" she complimented. "She didn't stand a chance. You really showed her whose boss."

"That's what I'm afraid of," Danny said as he stood up.

Dani moaned as she wobbled back and forth before she collapsed the rest of the way to the ground. Loss of too much energy resulted in her transformation back into her human form. She had enough energy to open her eyes when Danny and Valerie appeared at her side. "Danny?" she whispered. "What happened?" she asked.

"You mean you don't remember a thing?" Valerie asked, sounding shocked and baffled.

"The last thing I remember was being attacked by Youngblood," Danielle admitted. She managed to find the strength to sit up, with Danny's aid. "What happened?" she repeated herself, this time sounding more worried considering the wounds all three of them had sustained.

"We'll tell you about it later," Danny chuckled. All three of them couldn't help but laugh together as the scene faded away into the near future.

A locker door is slammed shut by a heavily bandaged hand; the view turned to show the hand was Danielle's. She held a few books in her other arm and moved them to the front where she grabbed onto them with both arms. She was heavily bandaged all over, namely her arms and face, likely from all of the cuts sustained from the shattering mirrors. She looked rather bummed, but that changed when she was confronted.

"So, how goes Capitán Dani?" Nicole taunted her with a gleeful grin. Becky stood by her side and had the same gleeful smirk, but said nothing.

"For the last time, I have no memory of what happened, and I was excused for those actions," she reminded them harshly. "I wasn't of my normal state of mind; I was under someone else's control."

"Oh common, we're just teasing you," Becky reassured her, waving it off like a bad smell. "Besides, if it wasn't for you being Shanghaied, I don't think I would have found fighting ghosts to be so fun," she admitted.

"Yeah, you going renegado helped us come to a decision," Nicole added. "Granted, Sam and Tucker were also a great influence, but we've come to the conclusion that if you're gunna be fighting ghosts, you need our help."

"We're joining the team," Becky half shouted with excitement, catching the attention of many students visiting their own nearby lockers. She slunk back and tried to seem small to hide herself from further embarrassment.

"Dude, we were cool," Nicole scolded her for her outburst, further shaming her.

"Well, I'm glad you guys have agreed to this," Danielle admitted. "I mean, soon Jazz will be going off to school elsewhere and Danny and his friends won't be far behind her."

"We'll be the new Equipo Fantasma," Nicole cheered quietly as she brought Danielle and Becky into an embrace.

"Ugh, translation?" Danielle asked nervously.

"Oh," Nicole said realizing they didn't speak Spanish. "We'll be the new Team Phantom," she translated as requested.

"By the time it's time for us to protect this town when the others are gone, we'll have plenty of experience under our belts," Becky cheered, much more quietly this time.

"Until then, we'll be working alongside Danny and his friends," Danielle reminded them. "I'm still learning myself." Then a sudden thought hit her. "Because of how young we are, you guys will have to keep this a secret from your parents until the time is right," she advised them. "Otherwise, they could put an end to the whole plan."

"Not a problem," Becky said without hesitation. "My parents have been spending a lot of alone time together. I don't think they'll even notice if I sneak out for a few hours each night."

"And my mother hasn't set a determined curfew for me," Nicole admitted happily. "As long as I don't join up in a dangerous gang," she added.

"Well you're part of our little gang," Becky reminded her.

"And based on the stories I've been told of the things Danny has done, things could get pretty dangerous," Danielle added.

"I meant gang life!" Nicole snapped quietly so as not to draw attention. "And besides, if we'll be working alongside your brother I don't think we have much to worry about. At least I'm not."

"I just don't want a repeat of this weekend," Becky said shyly before a shiver went down her spine. "Zombie-skeleton pirates were not the perfect way to start this thing off…at least with me."

"Well with time some experience, and occurrences like that will probably become common," Danielle informed them.

"Hopefully with a little less ghostly mind control," Nicole whispered to Becky who nodded along in agreement.

"I think we should start out with a little easy experience rather than going for something big again," Becky suggested.

To make her wish come true, an easy fight presented itself by phasing through the row of lockers they were leaning against. "BEWARE!" he shouted to terrorize them.

"Excuse me," a little voice said, catching his attention. The ghost turned around to be confronted with a young girl in pigtails. "Are you the hall monitor?" she asked.

"I am not the Hall Monitor!" he bellowed. "I AM THE BOX GHOST!" he yelled, throwing his arms into the air over his head.

"HEY!" Nicole shouted angrily. "That's the guy that terrorized me and my mom when we first moved to this gringo town! He emerged from one of our moving boxes," she informed the other two.

"You guys wanted easy experience?" Danielle asked them with a grin as she folded her arms. "I give you, the box ghost," she introduced them to the floating specter. "He's more of an annoyance than a threat; no powers or weapons needed."

"Excelente," Nicole said with a wicked grin as she cracked her knuckles.

"Uh oh," the Box Ghost grunted nervously. "YAAAH!" he screamed as he was suddenly tackled out of view by Nicole and Becky. The sounds of hard punches hitting their target are heard as Danielle rested up against her locker by intertwining her fingers behind her head.

"Ahh, the sounds of the beginning of a new friendship in the making," she said with a sigh of relief. She closed her eyes and rested as the scene faded and ended with the Box Ghost shouting frantically for his attackers to stop so he could leave.