In the morning Vlad made some coffee to wake up. Danny was making breakfast when Scar walked through the door and reported. "Commander Danny." Scar did a fake salute and snapped to attention. "There's something in the dungeon swearing up a storm, sir."
"Darn it. I forgot about Dan." Danny ran down the stairs with Vlad close behind. Scar eyed the coffee pot curiously.
She picked it up and sniffed it. "Whatever it is it's not that bad smelling. Well, if humans can take it so can I." She smiled and chugged the whole thing down. As she was in her monster form the boiling hot water had no effect on her. The coffee beans infused in the water in the other hand...
Scar dropped the pot and started shaking. "COFFEE!" She shouted and ran down to the lab leaving flames in her tracks.
"Get me out of here!" Dan was saying. He was tired of always being trapped in some inclosed space.
"Ok. Ok. Just stop rocking it." Danny said. Scar flew in and ran into Vlad. She got up and ran around the lab at top speed.
She was trying to talk to them but she was too energetic too be understood. "HeyDannyVladDanwhatsgoingon?It'slikeeveerythingissoslow.ItslikeIneeedtorunaroundanddostufflikeruninthestreet.IthinkIwillokguysbye!"
Scar phased through the wall and ran into the streets.
"What'd she say?" Danny asked.
"That is a kid on a sugar rush." Dan said.
"How would you know that?" Danny asked.
"I, I mean, we, had one, once. Remember your 12th birthday?" Dan pointed out.
"But she ate a whole box of fudge by herself last night and nothing like this happened."
"You don't think... she drank my coffee, do you? That was premium Jamaican Blue Mountain. It costs a fortune to be shipped in!"
"But you probably overshadowed someone to deliver ten pounds to your house and didn't pay a cent for it," Dan chuckled. "Vlad, what makes you truly evil is that you're evil about even the little things..."
While Vlad simmered, Danny made a decision. "I'll get Tucker and Sam to help find Scar. Vlad, you watch Dan."
"Daniel, I am not your servant. What would make you think that..." Danny took out a piece of paper and wrote down something. He gave it to Vlad. Vlad looked at it "Bribing me with Maddie's private email account? Very good, Daniel. You remind me of me more and more every day. Perhaps someday you could be my son."
"Oh, give it a rest Vlad," Dan said. "And get me out of this thing!"
"Just promises me you won't let him out of your sight."
"Very well."
Danny took off after Scar and Vlad began to leave the lab. "Where are you going!" Dan asked. "You didn't let me out yet!"
"Daniel told me to keep an eye on you, not to let you out."
"Vlad!" Dan rammed the stockade. Vlad had already left and silence filled the room. "Like I didn't get enough quiet at Clockwork's place."
In Clockwork's tower, Clockwork was thinking he was better off with Dan then with Julian. Dan's constant battering of the Fenton Thermos, calls to Clockwork, his sneers and jibs had given the ghost of time a headache, but that was nothing compared to Julian's chronic toadying.
"Can I get master a drink?"
"No."
"A cookie, perhaps? I bake a fresh batch this morning."
"I don't eat. Ghosts don't need food."
"Mend your cowl? It's beginning to look a little shabby?
"It has always looked like this. It will always look like this. This cowl, like myself, is impervious to time. Why don't you sweep up a little?"
"I already did, Master?"
Clockwork realized that his lair was spotless - annoyingly spotless. He waved his staff and the dust and cobwebs reappeared. "Knock yourself out." Clockwork suggested.
"Can I check on Master before I start?"
"Who, Scar, no."
"What if the master needs something? I can't help her." Julian said. "Please."
"No!" Clockwork was getting annoyed. "You can't use my time screen to watch Scar."
"But what if..."
"Nothing will go wrong. I know everything."
That's when the cars started flying in Amity Park. "Oh, dear. I'll be all week cleaning up this disaster." Clockwork grumbled.
"I must go to stop her from getting hurt," Julian said
"No, Julian, In her condition it's' going to take someone a lot more powerful than you to get her attention." Clockwork dissolved into a clock face with rapidly revolving hands. When the hands reached Twelve again Clockwork reappeared with another man beside him.
Julian's hands started to glow.
"Julian, stand down." Clockwork ordered. The ghost boy lowered his fists but they didn't stop glowing. The stranger walked over to them. He was an athletic looking middle aged man in an black jumpsuit with white gloves, boots and collar. On his chest was a white 'D' with a black 'P' inside.
"Well, if it isn't Julian Plasmius." The stranger said, pleasantly. "Clockwork, isn't he supposed to be 30 years in the future?" he said looking at Julian.
"Since you programmed the Time Medallions wrong they ended up thirty years in the past instead."
A look of alarm flashed on the strangers face, "You mean Scar has been loose for thirty years!'
"Calm yourself. I have been keeping an eye on those two. You, yourself, are thirty years in the past. I have need of your great strength. Scar has gotten into some kind of stimulating beverage and has become overstimulated. You need to calm her down before she causes too much more damage to your home town."
"Great. The past is in danger, now."
"No, it's not. You know I wouldn't allow that.."
"What about my younger self. I don't have time for this." he realized something funny and laughed "Get it? 'Time'? See, you're the master of time and I said I didn't have time of it."
"I foresaw that pun, Danny, now the past needs you. Unless you want to say anymore puns."
"No. It was a one time thing." The ghost grabbed one of the time medallions and hung it around his neck. Clockwork waved his staff and the screen showed Scar accidentally turning cars over. The ghost jumped through the screen into the human world.
"Why did you do that?" Julian asked. "He will hurt the master, I know it."
"We've been through a lot. I trust him."
"Clockwork, We need to talk." One of the Observants said. Clockwork flew over to them but, Julian stayed behind. He turned a dial on the screen.
"Don't touch that!"
"Aw, man!"
Cars were calmly driving down the roads until Scar flew by knocking them upside down with her speed.
Sam and Tucker were at the park when Danny flew above them. He landed behind a tree and turn into a human. "Guys, we have a problem. Scar drank coffee."
"So?" They asked.
"She's a ghost and she was already hyper enough to begin with. I need your help to find her."
"What can we do?" Tucker asked.
"I'll take the sky, Tucker can take downtown. Sam gets uptown. Ok?"
"Right!" Danny hid behind the tree again and turned back to a ghost. Tucker got his scooter and drove downtown. Sam sighed and ran for uptown.
Scar was laughing hysterically as she buzzed around town. Sam caught sight of Scar passing by in a blur. "Danny, fast moving hyperactive ghost at 35th and Main." She said into her cell phone.
"I'm on it." Danny said.
Scar was causing a small amount of damage in her caffeinated rampage.
Sam saw people were running, except one forty something year old man in a black jacket. "Why isn't that guy running?" Sam thought. All the guy did was walk into an ally. Sam ran across the street and into the ally. The man was gone and Sam saw another ghost fly away.
Scar landed in the middle of the street and grabbed a car. She lifted it over head "Let'sseeDannydothat!" She said quickly and dropped it.
Danny found Scar and landed in front of her. "Scar, calm down."
"HeyDannywhat'sup. I'mnotdoinganything. Heycanyouliftacar? Ican."
"Uh, great. But I need you to slow down." Scar couldn't answer because she was blasted into a building by another ghost's ray. Danny looked and saw a ghost floating up there wearing a jumpsuit with his insignia on it. "Who are you?" Danny asked. "What do you want?"
The ghost said nothing, but when Scar began to stir he shot her again with his ghost powers. She collapsed with a grunt.
"Leave her alone!" Danny shouted and fired a double-fisted ghost ray at the stranger. The ghost deflected it with ease, then swooped in close to Scar. "I think she'll be all right."
Scar stirred and opened her eyes. She snarled when she saw the stranger standing over her. "You! How did you get here?" She demanded.
"I walked. How do you think I got here!" It said.
"I guess that blast knocked you out of that caffeine rush." Danny said, as he tried to slide in between Scar and the stranger. "At least you're talking slow enough for me to understand what you're saying."
"Why are you here?" Scar asked. "I'm miserable enough already. I don't need you around to make my life worse. Why are you in the past?"
"Clockwork thought you needed help so I popped by for a visit?" he asked.
"I think you overstayed your welcome." Scar hands glowed and slashed the time medallion. It fell off and the ghost disappeared.
"Why did you do that?" Danny asked. Scar picked up the medallion.
"I just hate that guy." Scar rubbed her shoulder. "He's the one who gave me my scar."
Danny just watched her leave.
The school bell rang a few hours later and Danny landed behind the school. He turned from ghost to human and joined Sam and Tucker. Danny looked guilty about something.
"What wrong now, Danny?" Sam asked.
"I think I saw my future self."
"You mean Dan?" Tucker asked
"No, I mean my new future self."
"What was he, I mean, what will you be like?" Sam asked.
"He wasn't here that long but Scar said that they met, that they fought and that he give her her scar."
The entered the hallways and saw Scar passing out T-shirts with the pictures of Danny Phantom on them that she took . She was in her human disguise and was raking in the money. Everyone wanted to be apart of the Phantom craze. Danny got close to Scar and said "We need to talk."
"Sorry folks, I need to talk with my assistant." Scar said to the crowd. The crowd dispersed and Paulina walked up to Danny.
"You helped?" She asked.
"Of course he did." Scar said before Danny could say otherwise.
"Thanks, Danny!" Paulina said and ran off.
"Paulina spoke to me and wasn't shooting me down." Danny said shocked.
"Well, we did start a new trend." Scar said.
"Anyway, were did you get the material to make those T-shirts?" Danny asked.
(Flashback)
Scar phased through the wall and smashed the security system. In front of her T-shirts and other stuff. She walked over to the shirts and lifted 100 pounds worth of shirts. She turned intangible and phased through the roof and flew away.
(Real life)
"Internet." Scar said.
"Ok. Me, Sam and Tucker are going to the Nasty Burger after school. Want to come?"
"Ok. I think I saw enough of school yesterday. This must be what prison is like." Scar picked up the few remaining T-shirts and handed them to Danny. "If the super-heroing gig doesn't work out you can always become a super-model." With a laugh she teleported back to Fenton Works.
"Let's see if I can have a normal day of school." Danny told himself as he stuffed the T-shirts into his locker. Then his ghost sense went off. He walked into an empty room and saw the Box ghost talking to the boxes. Danny sighed and closed the door. He unscrewed the thermos and walked over to the sad excuse for a villain.
Back at the Fenton Works saw that Vlad was again reading some newspaper while Dan was yammering in the stockade. Scar was, frankly, exhausted from the mornings excitement, so settled down in on the rug in front of the TV and reached for the remote with her big, taloned paw. After a moment of fumbling she realized that a universal remote meant something other than one that could be used by any person or creature.
Morphing into her ghost form, Scar crawled onto the couch the turned on the TV. One boring channel after another flew by until suddenly she turned, transfixed by what was seeing. A bulbous headed man in an elaborate hunting outfit had fired a shotgun into the face of a talking duck causing his bill to spin around his face like a pinwheel. The duck turned to a tall rabbit next to him and sputtered "You're des-s-s-spicable." This was followed by a walking helmet plotting to destroy earth because it was blocking his view. Scar laughed and laughed at the antics of these strange, insane beings until she fell asleep.
She awoke hours later to the sound of a door slamming. A young women a couple years older than Danny had come and dumped a small suitcase and a backpack on the floor. She had long straight red hair pulled back with a headband. Hearing the rattle of a coffee cup in the kitchen she walked through the living room, not noticing Scar lying on the couch.
"Uncle Vlad?" Jazz exclaimed warily, remembering the last time the two meet. It hadn't been pleasant. "What are you doing here? Where's Mom and Dad?"
"Ah, Jasmine. What a surprise I'm sure this is. It's a long story but the short version is that I'm the victim of a cosmic practical joke."
Scar had walked in behind Jazz. "Uncle Vlad, who is this?" She asked
"My name is Scar Phantom. If you wanted to know you could've asked."
"Wait, Phantom? Are you a ghost, too?" Jazz walked over to Scar "Why do you have a scar? Who ever gave it to you must have also giving you some emotional scars as well."
"If by that you mean persuade me to want to destroy all humans, then, yes, it did."
"What that noise from the basement?" Jazz asked. She walked down the stairs with Scar close behind. Jazz saw the Stockade and looked inside. She saw Dan.
"If it isn't my old sister, Jazz." Dan said.
"Who are you?" Jazz asked.
"Oh, sis, I know it's been a while but I can't have changed that much?"
"Except your waist line." Scar said to humor herself
"You're that ghost how nearly destroyed Danny's future." Jazz said.
"I am Danny's future, or was if Clockwork hadn't interfered."
"Don't worry," Scar said, "Thanks to the Specter Negator, he's even less of a threat to you then normal."
"I will kill you." Dan said to Scar.
"You and what army?" Scar said.
"How long is he going to stay here?" Jazz asked.
"Just the week," Scar said. "It's my good deed so I can go home. Say, what time is it? I promised to meet Danny after school."
"A little after three," Jazz said looking at her wristwatch.
"Oh boy, I'm late." She grabbed Dan. "And you're coming with me."
"He a six foot tall, muscular ghost with his hair on fire." Jazz stressed.
"One, he hair is fire not on fire. And two, I'll just change his genetics to make him look human." Scar explained.
"Oh, no. Not again." Dan was tired of having his genetics changed all the time. Scar put her hand on Dan's shoulder and he glowed again. When Scar was done Dan was back in his human disguise.
"Crap." Dan sighed,
"Watch your mouth." Jazz said.
"Your not my boss." Dan said
"I'm your sister."
"O-o-o, feel the terror." Scar looked at Dan. "Your childhood must have been rough."
"You could say that."
"Lets go!" Scar grabbed Dan, turned intangible and flew to the Nasty Burger.
"You forgot to take a jacket!" Jazz said. "You could catch a cold!" bur they were already gone.
Jazz walked back upstairs and pulled out a chair across from Vlad. "Ok, I'm got the time, let's hear the long version why you're here..."
"Why am I being dragged there?" Dan asked.
"Because you've been stuck in the house or the RV since you got here. I think you need to get out more." Scar said. They landed behind the Nasty Burger. She glowed and she changed into her human form. "Come on, Dan." Dan followed her through the front door.
"I hate this place." He said.
"I hate you." Scar said. Scar looked around and saw all the people eating and laughing. It brought back memory she wished hadn't. "Hey, there's Danny." She spotted Danny talking to Sam and Tucker.
"... only took me five minuets to take him down. Oh, hi, Scar." Danny said. He looked at Dan. "Did you have to bring him along?"
"I think he needs to get out more." Scar replied. "Also I like making him upset."
"And annoyed." Dan added.
"Danny, who is this guy?" Sam asked.
"Can we sit down first?" Scar said. She sat next to Sam and Tucker while Dan sat next to Danny.
"You two look so much alike you could be brothers," Sam was saying. "Wait a minute. Is this ... Dan?"
"Yeah."
"What!" Tucker's outburst made everyone else in the Nasty Burger look at them for a minute before returning to their own problems. "Why did you bring him here?" Tuck whispered.
"Because of Danny boy here and the old geezer, I have to watch Dan for a week."
"What!" Sam whispered "Why would you do that?"
"Because I want to go home and I can't if I don't get on Clockwork's good side."
"How do we know he won't try to kill us?" Tucker asked
"Listen you two," Dan said. "if I have any powers at all I would have killed you by now. But..." he showed them the Specter Negator, "because of this thing I can't. So enjoy you life while you can. As soon as this blasted thing is off I'll..."
Scar grabbed him from across the table and pulled him to her face.
"A certain ghost should be quiet before a certain ghost ends up a dog, Dan, or should I start calling you Rex?"
"Let him go, Scar." Danny said. She let go hesitantly. Dan sat back and fixed his collar.
"Does Jazz know?" Sam asked.
"Yeah, I introduced them." Scar said sitting back a putting her arms behind the chair.
"You're getting comfortable in the human life aren't you?" Dan said.
"If I must say, I was made normal but now I'm a ghost."
"Same for both Danny and Dan." Tucker said.
"What do you mean 'made'?" Sam asked.
"I don't have to answer to you, Sam Manson!" Scar got up and ran out the door.
Danny looked at Dan. "Great! Now I have to take you home!"
"What did I say?" Sam questioned.
"Our big, bad villainess is a little touchy about her childhood," Dan answered. "She should have done what I tried - to destroy my past." Dan sighed and stared at the Specter Negator for a moment. "You know, it comes to me that you don't have to have ghost powers to do evil..."
"Come on, laughing boy," Danny grabbed Dan and pulled him from the booth. "You've had your fun. Time to go home."
Evening was quiet in the Fenton Works. Vlad had been coerced into paying for pizza since no one volunteered to cook, or even acknowledge the ability to cook. Now everyone was siting around the living room. Vlad was on his cell phone checking on up the scheme to keep the Fenton adults distracted in China. So far the made-up ghost convention had gone well. Jack had given a speech that actually sounded important on ectoplasmic self-organizing, before he had set fire to the hotel with a demonstration of his Fenton Ecto-Toaster. Vlad ordered that any videotape of either event be sent to his Wisconsin headquarters.
Scar, in her monster form was taking up one end of the room, watching more cartoons. Danny was sitting on the couch by himself while Dan was over in one of the armchairs messing with the Specter Negator, shuddering from time to time as the devices security features shocked him. Jazz, coming out of the kitchen with a bottle of soda decided it was time to hit up Danny with an idea she had.
She sat down on the couch beside him and offered him a hit from her drink.
"Wow," she said. "I can't believe our parents let us be on our own for a while."
"It was scam to get them out of the house," Danny reminded her, "so we could babysit you know who over there."
"Still it's like the first time in I don't know - ever - that we've had the house to ourselves."
"Mmmmm"
"I was thinking we ought to have a party. I've never been able to have a party. I'm embarrassed to have my friends come over because Mom or Dad will do something crazy. I feel like a pariah in school. Just once I'd like my friends come over and not having something horrible happen. What do you say, party on Saturday?"
Danny looked at Jazz for a moment before hollering, "Are you nuts? I've got two of my worst super-villains here and some crazy person who thinks she worse than either of them! A party? With these people in the house? No way. Never!"
"But Danny. It won't be that bad. Vlad's not going to do anything. Mom and Dad think he's watching us. If anything were to happen he'd be instantly blamed."
"Jasmine, you're confidence is thrilling," Vlad said, looking up from the magazine he was reading, "but sadly misplaced. If I were planning to do anything harmful to you, you can be assured that I would find a way to pin the blame on someone else. However the only reason I'm even here is because that - uh - threatens to kill me if I leave."
"There's Dan. Remember he tried to kill all of us once," Danny went on.
"Specter Negator." Jazz replied. "It's doing a good job of negating his ghost powers. What could he do?"
"Oh, you don't want to know what I could just as I am," Dan snarled.
"Well we could always put him in a thermos until the party is over..." Jazz suggested.
"Well there's still her- - It's a little hard to hide an eight foot tall monster with scales, flaming tail and six inch talons..."
"Hey," Scar objected. "I'm right here. And I don't always look like this. I can do human any time I want."
"See," Jazz said, "It's all set. I'll start telling people tomorrow."
"No! No! Jazz, no party! I can't believe I'm saying this but we can't risk having anybody in this house will them are around!"
"Oh, all right." Jazz agreed.
"Good" Danny stomped off.
After a moment Jazz turned to Scar and asked, "Ever hear of a surprise party?"