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Chapter 3 –Ghost Ray

"Code White! We have a major ecto-outbreak. Scanners show readings greater than that of the Ghost King. " A man with dark skin, wearing a white suit stood staring at a computer screen deep in a not-so-secret government facility. His agent partner came over to see what he was looking at.

"How is that even possible?" the lighter skinned agent asked, but his question was ignored.

"Searching for previous outbreaks of this magnitude." The dark skinned agent typed away at the computer. He wasn't sure what he was looking for but he thought he remembered hearing about something like this that happened back before he was an agent. "There. A similar outbreak occurred 10 years ago in… Wisconsin?"

The two agents looked at each other confused. "Interesting things actually happen in Wisconsin?"

"Apparently…"

"So who do we know that was in Wisconsin 10 years ago that we can question possibly painfully and not have the city enraged?" The two stood there thinking for a short minute before turning around to see a large poster on the wall.

The poster was of the Mayor of Amity Park grinning, winking and pointing, with the large writing 'You can't say VLAD without MASTER!' scrawled across the top.

The two GIW agents smiled evilly at the poster, knowing exactly where their first stop would be.

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"Are we seriously going to do this?" Ember floated up in the sky with her arms crossed pouting.

"We don't really have a choice." Skulker said as he looked out through his visual scope. "She wants to see what the ghost child can do. At least she won't interfere this time."

Ember smiled and held up her fist. "Which means we can wail on the dipstick as much as we want."

"Indeed… My scanners show that our prey is down in that large shopping center."

"You mean the mall? Well anyway... Wait here. I got first dibs."

"Now hang on. I think I should get first crack at him."

Ember raised an eyebrow at her boyfriend. "Fine then we'll Rock-paper-scissors for it."

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"Was that movie cool or what?" Sam had a huge smile on her face as the group walked out of the theater.

"Totally! That one part when they… And then that other part… man that was awesome." Tucker and Ann high-fived one another.

Sam and Tucker continued walking away but Ann stopped. "Hey guys," she said looking back at the theater, "Shouldn't we wait for Danny? He left in the middle of the movie but never came back."

Sam shrugged nervously, "He must have had something come up."

"Yeah, I'm sure he'll catch up with us later." Right as Tucker said this, a blue blast of ectoplasmic energy hit the ground not far from where they were standing, charring the pavement. The three teenagers looked up and saw two ghosts battling it out in the skies above. Sam and Tucker exchanged a nervous glance before turning back to look at Ann. They were surprised to see a huge smile on her face.

"No way! Finally!"

Tucker came up and grabbed her wrist, nodding to Sam. To Ann he said, "We should probably run."

Ann just pulled away, "Why? That's Danny Phantom up there right? From what I heard he never lets humans get hurt."

"Uhh…" Tucker wasn't sure how to respond to that.

"Either way," Sam said stepping in. "It only makes his job harder if we stick around."

High above, Danny let lose more ecto-blasts at Skulker. This was the second weirdest fight he had ever had with the ghost hunter; the first being the one where he got help from a gorilla. Something was different about Skulker. There was a distinct lack of threats and witty banter, which could only mean he was up to something. The last time they had fought without talking was when Vlad Plasmius had paid the hunter to steal something.

But why would Skulker come after me at the movies? Danny wondered. He hit Skulker with one of his ghost rays sending him spinning away through the air. "What's the matter, Skulker? You're not fighting as well as you used to. Get in another fight with your impossible girlfriend? Or is this about that other ghost you've been trying to find?"

Skulker stabilized himself with his rockets. He turned back still saying nothing and fired several blue energy discs. The discs flew right past Danny missing him completely.

"Ha! What was that? You're aim is worse than your fighting." He said smirking at the attacker. Skulker returned the glare.

"Maybe I wasn't aiming at you."

Shocked, Danny turned around to see the blue energy flying straight towards his friends. "No!" He exclaimed. Quickly he turned and flew towards his friends, but there was no way he could reach them in time.

"Watch Out!" Ann yelled out to Sam and Tucker, who had their backs to the fight. She grabbed them both by the arm and pulled them out of harm's way. The energy discs narrowly missed them. Sam and Tucker gasped and looked up at Ann who was glaring angrily at the sky. She kept watching the fight out of the corner of her eye but turned her head towards the two of them, "I think you guys are right. We should go." They nodded and the three of them ran.

Danny saw his friends run for cover then turned angrily to Skulker. "You leave my friends out of this."

"Why don't you make me, whelp."

He was caught a bit off guard by Skulker's unusual attitude, but he let it pass and threw an ice blast at him. Skullker phased through the ice and flew down and right past Danny.

"What?" Danny turned confused until he saw Skulker was headed straight at Sam, Tucker and Ann. "Oh no you don't!" He turned and started to follow but was hit from behind by a wave of sound.

"Why don't you take me on, Dipstick?" Ember floated over with her guitar at the ready. Danny stared at her wide eyed.

"Ember? Why are you here?"

"I figured my boyfriend could use some help. Plus it's fun to wail on you," she said while adjusting the dial on her guitar.

Danny just floated there for a moment. "Wait… You and Skulker?"

"Surprised?"

"More like grossed out."

Ember just shrugged, "Well don't worry you won't have to think about it for long. And neither will your friends." She strummed a chord and sent a pink fist at him. Danny dodged and turned his head just enough to see Sam, Tucker and Ann fleeing from Skulker.

He turned back to Ember, "Jeeze what is it with you guys lately. Whatever happed to those good old one on one fights where I kicked your butts and everybody went home happy?"

"Maybe we suck at Rock-Paper-Scissors… or maybe we've just realized it's more fun to wail on you with some help." Her eyes wandered down to look at Skulker with a fond smile crossing her lips. Danny saw this and flinched feeling even more grossed out. He started the fight again, purely so he could avoid any more awkward moments.

While Danny was busy fighting off Ember, his friends were running from Skulker. "Please tell me you have the thermos…" Tucker asked as calmly as is possible while running for his life.

"Why do you want soup at a time like this?" Ann asked running just behind him.

Sam was up ahead of the two of them, "Would you guys shut it and keep running!"

Ann screamed from behind them. Sam and Tucker turned to see Skulker grab her and fly past them. Ann struggled against his grip "Let me go you… Sorry excuse for a toaster!" she yelled. Skulker lifted his other hand and shot some green goop over her mouth to silence her.

Turning back to Sam and Tucker he said, "Tell the ghost boy if he wants to see his friend again he will… umm…will… uhh…"

Sam raised an eyebrow, "You've never made a ransom threat before. Have you?"

"Uh… not really, No." Skulker said looking a little embarrassed.

Tucker put his hands on his side, "Pathetic Dude."

"Not as pathetic as this!" Skulker yelled out triumphantly while he shot a laser that zapped Tucker's belt causing his pants to fall down revealing a pair of white boxers with yellow smiley faces all over them.

"Hey! Not Cool!"

"No, But this is!" the yell came from above them. Skulker, Sam, Tucker and Ann all looked up as a snowball hit Skulker in the face. Danny flew down and landed next Sam and Tucker. "Let her go Skulker!"

Skulker wiped the snow from his face. "I don't think so ghost child."

Ann glared up at the failure of a hunter that had its arm wrapped around her middle. Careful to avoid the notice of the Danny and his friends she raised her hand up to touch Skulker's arm. Her hand momentarily glowed pink and Skulker yelped out in pain. The arm holding her released its grip; Ann would have yelled out if her mouth hadn't been covered.

"No!" Danny yelled. He leapt forward and barely caught her before she hit the ground. He set her down on her feet then turned angrily back to Skulker only to find that the ghost was gone. "Darn it! He got away again." Ann made some muffled complaints from beside him. Danny turned to her and laughed, "Here let me help you with that." He grabbed the ectoplasm and pealed it away.

"Wow! You're really are amazing! You saved me… but I gotta ask… Why did that ghost call me your friend?" She already knew why but wanted to see what he would say.

Danny rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "Uhh he just does that to say I'm too friendly with humans," he lied. "Well umm.. glad you're not hurt… and now I gotta go." He turned and flew off into the sky.

Sam and Tucker watched Ann's reaction but she didn't seem to have one. She shrugged and looked at the two of them. "Yeah I got to get going to. See you guys at school on Monday." She waved to them and hurried off.

Sam and Tucker let out a sigh of relief. They decided to head over to Danny's house to find out what Skulker was up to.

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Ann leaned against the wall in the shadow of some back alley; her green eyes glowing in the dark. She had been waiting for nearly 10 minutes before two ghosts phased up through the ground and landed in front of her. "It took you long enough." She said scowling at them.

Ember stared at the ground while Skulker nervously fidgeted with his hands. Skulker was the first to look up at her. "You said you wouldn't interfere." He said this less like a bold complaint and more like a fearful question.

Ann raised an eyebrow at the ghost hunter. "I also said to keep fighting until one of you was trapped in that thermos thing you told me about."

"He didn't have it with him." Ember shrugged.

"That's No Excuse!" Ann yelled. She sighed and touched her hand to her head suddenly feeling tired. Not yet. I won't go back to sleep yet. She straightened up and glared at the two of them. "I also didn't tell you to try and kidnap me. What was that about anyway?"

Skulker lowered his head. "You said you wanted to talk to the ghost child alone… I thought.."

"You thought that if you told him to come alone that I'd get that chance?"

Skulker nodded. Ann sighed.

"Even if you had, he never would have come alone. That boy is not as stupid as you seem to think. Neither are his friends." She ran her hands through her hair thinking. Her mind was getting fuzzy. She had been out of her ghost form yet still using her powers and it was tiring her out.

Two white circles appeared around her waist. The rings split. One went up, the other moved down. She felt the warmth drain from her body as she returned to her death-like state. Her black skirt grew in length down to her knees and became split and ragged. It flowed around her appearing like black and green ghostly flames. The black T-shirt slimmed into a smooth white blouse, the lining of which shimmered with the same green flames as the skirt.

Ann marveled at how similar Danny Phantom was to her; from the feel of his powers down to the shining white hair and glowing green eyes. She lifted her hand and gazed at the smooth black glove, thinking. She turned back to look at her two friends. They didn't dare make her angry but they also knew she wouldn't really do anything to them.

Ann sighed again, "Sorry about getting mad… Do me a favor and go find me Kitty and Johnny. They're up next. Tell them to come whenever I'm nearby but if they do anything to blow my cover Johnny is going to need a new bike."

Skulker nodded and took off. Ember was about to do the same but she turned back to give Ann a hug.

"Don't push yourself. You've still got that other half ghost, even if you can't get the dipstick." Ember reminded her. Ann nodded and smiled. Ember returned the look before turning to follow after Skulker.

Ann remained in the alley thinking about what Ember said. "Maybe I'll stop by Vladdy for a visit." She would have stayed there longer but a human rounded the corner and saw her. It wasn't good for her to be seen yet so she went intangible and dropped into the ground.

Jazz stood there in shock. She had been following the Fenton Tracker that she had stored in her purse. Normally she wouldn't have bothered except that her parents had been running around town going crazy because of some new ghost signal. Not to mention her brother Danny had been complaining about sensing ghosts too often with nothing happening.

The tracker had shown the ecto-signatures of Ghost X and Ember Mclain but when she had peeked around the corner she saw with them a human. A young girl. What had really shocked Jazz was the white rings that had split over her body. There was another half ghost like Danny!? Besides Vlad Masters?!

Jazz turned and hurried back towards her house. "I've got to tell Danny."


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