Season 1 Episode 4
Attack of the Killer Garage Sale
"Technology and Terror Collide!"

In Fenton Works one afternoon, James Fenton was currently in the kitchen while he tutored Daph Baxter, the most popular girl in Casper High and the cheerleader captain. However, she was too distracted since she was more interesting in admiring James himself more closely because of his handsomeness, despite the fact that he was actually the older brother of her favorite victim, Dani Fenton.

"Okay, so in algebraic terms, A squared plus B squared equals C squared, where C is the hypotenuse and A and B are the sides of the triangle. Got it?" James explained as he wrote his notes for the cheerleader on a piece of paper. He looked up at Daph when he finished, but then got annoyed when he noticed that Daph was only staring and sighing at him heavenly. He rolled his eyes, showing that he was not really interested in her at all. "Daphne, you have to focus! I'm doing a thesis on tutoring the untutorable, and you're disproving my thesis that nobody's untutorable!"

"You know, you're pretty attractive when you use the word unt-un-uhhhh...whatever that word is." Daph said heavenly, but wasn't real bright enough to say the word 'untutorable'. James only rolled his eyes in annoyance again.

Just then, James' younger sister, Dani, walked into the kitchen from the basement with a glass of water in her hand. She was just minding her own business since everything seemed very good and nothing bad has happened yet.

"Hey, James-" Dani began to greet her brother, but she got cut short as her eyes went wide when she saw that her school rival was sitting in her kitchen while the cheerleader glared at her. "Daph! What are you doing here?"

She nervously settled her glass hand on the table and placed her free hand on her hip. Unfortunately, her nervousness accidentally triggered her power of intangibility when her arm turned transparent and phased through the table, making her yelp in surprise while she knocked some of the books onto Daph.

Daph glanced up at the book on her head before she glared angrily at her favorite target. "Watch it, Fentina!" She threatened menacingly.

Dani began to walk backwards slowly and nervously with her hands up defensively in front of her. "Uh, s-sorry, I was just...passing through." She quickly ran back to the basement and slammed the door behind her.

Daph removed the book from her head while she frowned at where Dani left. "Now that little twinkle's out of the way, you're coming to my party Saturday, right?" She pulled out a flyer from her backpack that said 'Da Daph Bash!' and handed it to James as he examined it. "It'll be the chance for you to see me in my rightful setting: Queen of Casper High."

"And a great place to work on my thesis on the effects of being mean to my sister and then asking me out!" James said as he frowned at her. He glanced back down at the flyer in thought before he smiled. "Hmm...I'll go...on one condition." Daph looked a little surprised about what he had to offer.

In the lab, Dani walked down the stairs and saw her mother, Jackie, working on yet another invention that obviously involved hunting ghosts.

"Hey, Dani, check out my latest innovation in ghost grabbing technology: the Ghost Weasel." Jackie said as she held up a vacuum-like device in her hands. "It collects every ghost energy and shoots it into the Ghost Zone."

"Does it work?" Dani asked her mother.

"Why would it? Only one way to find out." Jackie flipped the device to 'on' and it immediately began to suck, but its wind and force was so strong, it sucked up the Fenton Thermos off the counter and it plugged it into its wind opening. Jackie strained as she tried to pull it out, but it wouldn't budge. "Darn it! I better get the Fenton Unlodger." Jackie handed Dani the vacuum device before she ran upstairs to find what she was looking for.

"Uh, Mom, couldn't you just throw it into-" Dani said as she leaned over to pressed the 'reverse' button and then the Weasel spat the thermos out, but it unfortunately ended up flying across the lab and pressed the 'on' button for the ghost portal when it opened. "-reverse?!"

Green mist poured out of the portal before it formed into a tall green-skinned ghost with white hair that was combed back. She also had red eyes covered by rectangular black sunglasses and jagged teeth. She wore a white collared shirt and black tie, a light blue-gray lab coat with a green belt, and green gloves. Her coat also tapered off into a wispy ghostly tail.

"Child, you have freed me!" She shouted to the heavens as her hands glowed green. "Techna, ghost mistress of science and electrical technology!"

"Oh, no you don't!" Dani said with a frown and settled the Weasel down before she changed into her ghost form and jumped into the air. "You're not going to use the technology in this house to take over the world!"

"What?" Techna looked around the lab in confusion before she broke into a grin. "That's a great idea! Have you ever considered tutoring?"

Dani then charged at her, but then she summoned an electrical rod out of nowhere as she grinned and shocked her away. "You know what? I've already been dumped on once in my own house." She landed on the ground and picked up the Ghost Weasel as she aimed it at the scientist ghost. "And that's enough for one day!"

She flipped the device on and it started sucking in Techna as she screamed and got sucked inside the containment device. However, the device began to suck in everything else like beakers and scrap metal, until it finally exploded and all of the ectoplasmic remains of Techna splattered all over the lab equipment.

"Uh oh…" Dani said nervously as she looked around the mess, holding the only intact end piece of the Ghost Weasel left. "This is bad."

"Dani, I'm coming back!" Jackie called from upstairs, catching her attention when she glanced at the entrance to the lab. "And I can't wait to see the lab looking exactly as I left it!"

"And that's worse!" Dani dropped the end piece as she turned intangible and quickly phased through the ceiling to avoid getting into trouble, just before her mother entered the lab with the Unlodger.

The obese huntress looked around and saw ectoplasm all over her lab equipment, but instead of getting angry, she just smiled. "Yep, perfect."


Theme Song:

(She's a phantom)

(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)

Young Dani Fenton, she was just fourteen
When her parents built a very strange machine
Designed to view a world unseen

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

When it didn't work, her folks, they just quit
Then Dani took a look inside of it
There was a great, big flash, and everything changed
Her molecules got all rearranged

(Phantom, Phantom)

When she first woke up, she realized she had snow white hair, and glowing green eyes
She could walk through walls, disappear, and fly
She was much more unique than the other gals
And it was then that she knew what she had to do
She had to stop all the ghost that were coming through
She's there to fight, for me and you!

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)


On a Thursday afternoon at a fast-food restaurant called the Nasty Burger (which was apparently the prime hangout for all the Casper High school students), the trio were discussing on their plans for their upcoming weekend. Dani, however, was more focused on something else while her best friends, Sam Manson and Tina Foley, were talking about their weekend plans.

"So, Saturday night plans, I say we hit the amusement park. I hear the new roller coaster has a free fall that'll take three years off your life expectancy." Sam suggested excitedly.

"No way, it costs forty bucks just to get in, not to mention food and stuff." Tina denied as she leaned against her booth seat.

"Hey, if you're tapped out, I can lend you the cash."

"Lend means 'repay', and repay is out of my reach. Right, Dani?" Tina got no response since Dani continued staring at something, not really paying attention to either of her friends. "Dani? Hello?"

Sam and Tina noticed that she was staring at Daph Baxter, who was handing out her flyer invites to her party for the popular teens as they cheered for her biggest party, and she even gave one to Dani's major crush, Paul Sanchez.

"Great, it's the hottest party of the whole school year, and Paul's going and I'm not...again." Dani said miserably.

"I just don't understand what you see in him." Sam said as he frowned in annoyance. He never really told her that Paul was just a rude, shallow boy during their freshman dance, even since Paul only agreed to go out with Dani just because he wanted to make Sam jealous. He didn't want to tell Dani the truth anyway, because she would just get defensive as usual.

"Are you kidding? He's like...perfectly flawless." Dani stared at Paul heavenly as she rested her cheek on her knuckles.

Paul walked up to the cashier by the counter and looked up at the menu. "Okay, uh, let me get the mighty meaty cheesy melt." He said before he made a look like he had second thoughts. "Um...how meaty is that?"

"That would be mighty meaty." The cashier replied.

"Well, can I get it on a might-less meaty?"

The cashier began typing in his order on his register. "That's one mighty mini meaty cheesy melt." Paul only smiled brightly.

Sam looked at Paul in annoyance, and even looked a little...jealous. "You're right, he's a god." He said under his breath as he eyeballed Dani.

"Why don't we ever get invited to the really cool parties? We got style, good looks...at least I do anyway." Tina asked.

"Dream on. On the social circuit, we're just as invisible as Dani in her ghost mode. Not that it'll matter five years from now, but...we have each other, right?"

Dani was about to say something to him, until Daph suddenly slapped a flyer straight into her face. "Here, your brother made me invite you." She groaned begrudgingly. She noticed that Tina and Sam smiling at her hopefully, and she knew what they were wondering. "Just you. Show up, shut it, go home, and nobody gets hurt." With that happy note, she stormed away as she gave Dani one last glare.

Dani smiled at her invite as a student walked by. "Hi, Dani!" He said.

The same Asian cheerleader walked up to the trio's table with a bright look on her face. "What's up, Fenton? Party!" She shouted as she skipped away.

Paul then walked behind Sam and waved his fingers at Dani as he smiled at her. "See you Saturday, Dani." He said before he walked away, making Sam look more surprised than angry.

"I'm...I'm invited!" Dani said like she was completely speechless before she hugged the invite close to her heart. "I'VE ARRIVED!"

"Swell...send us a postcard from Popularityville." Sam said miserably as he rested his cheek on his palm.

"I will!" Dani ran out of the restaurant excitedly while she waved the flyer around madly and laughed joyfully.


The next day outside Casper High on Friday, the trio walked around the courtyard together, but Sam and Tina were looking concerned at Dani, who has been kind of ignoring them most of the time since she has been a little more occupied with the popular kids lately.

"Seriously, Dani, ever since you got that invitation, you're all about the in-crowd." Tina noticed.

"Come on, Tina, that's ridiculous." Dani chuckled before she noticed the Asian cheerleader a few feet away. "Kwyn! Looking awesome!" She gave her the double-pointing fingers.

The Asian girl, Kwyn, turned around and pointed back as she smiled brightly. "Fenton-mista! WHOO!" She shouted back excitedly.

"She's right, Dani, it's like-" Sam began to tell her.

"Fenton! Front and center, now!" Daph called as she scolded while she hanged out with a couple of her other cheerleader friends.

Dani immediately rushed over to her, leaving Sam and Tina alone again as they stared dully at where she ran off. "-we're not even here."

Dani walked up to her rival. "If you're coming to my party, you have to look that part." Daph handed her a book as she examined it. "This is what we're all wearing Saturday. Very high-end, very hip, very dash. You do have one, right?"

"Huh? Yeah, oh sure, I-I-I have two. That's...that's how hip and high I am." Dani shuttered uneasily, like she was totally lying, which she in fact was.

"Well, wear one, I might have had to invite you, but if you embarrass me, your brother's gonna be doing a thesis on your bruises." With that other happy note, she stormed away as her friends followed suit, leaving Dani alone while she looked very lost.

Sam and Tina walked up to her. "Oh man, this must cost a fortune! Where am I gonna get the money by Saturday?"

Sam looked a little uneasy as he pursed his lips. "You know, I almost hate to offer-" He began to say hesitantly, only to get interrupted by his rival, Paul.

"Hey, Dani! You want to hear my new CD? It's really krunk!" He called after her, waving his CD in the air. He was sitting by his usual tree with a blanket spread out underneath him and a radio next to him.

"Is krunk good?" Dani asked her friends.

"It's Paul." Tina said simply with a shrug.

Dani immediately smiled brightly. "Krunk's good." She turned her attention back to her crush. "Be right there!" She ran to Paul's blanket and sat next to him as she gave him her signature cheeky grin while she tensed her shoulders.

"Okay, this is really starting to get annoying." Sam said irritatedly to Tina while she remained silent, but was on the same page as him.

At the Fenton Works kitchen that night, Jackie and her husband, Matt, were working on a new device while James read his book, but he got startled and distracted when the device began to rattle and hum, confusing and annoying him by this.

"Dad, what are you making?" James asked his father.

"Hot dogs." He said somewhat proudly.

"We invented a way to cook 'em ten times faster than a microwave." Jackie explained.

Matt opened the compartment of the device, revealing the cooked hot dogs. However, the device apparently had a serious side-effect when it brought all of the weaners to life as they began yapping rapidly while the family stared at them with wide eyes before Matt quickly closed the device back up again. Apparently, it was not the best idea to cook food with an ectoplasmic-powered device, since they would just end up mutating food into eating the eater instead.

"Great, you figured out how to put 'Frank' back in 'Frankenstein'." James groaned as he scolded at his parents and sat back down.

Dani ran into the kitchen. "Hey, Mom, can you spare me some cash? I need to buy some clothes for Saturday." She asked her mother.

Jackie smiled down at her. "Dani, Dani, Dani...you know as inventors, your father and I have plenty of money." She said as she hugged her daughter with her arm.

"But as parents, we understand that you should understand the value of money: you want money, you gotta earn it." Matt finished for his wife as he rubbed his fingers together for emphasising.

"You mean...get a job?" Dani asked both of her parents with wide eyes.

"That or sell something, like your old comic books, or some other junk you don't need anymore." Jackie added with her hands on her hips.

"Speaking of which, that junk from the Ghost Weasel explosion needs to go in the shed." Matt said as he pointed at the boxes full of scraps covered in ectoplasm. He then frowned in somewhat annoyance when he fixed his attention directly to Jackie. "If there's room. That old barn hasn't been cleaned out in years."

"It is not junk, every single item in these boxes is a vital importance to me." Jackie protested as she hugged a box close to her.

Matt pulled out a random piece of scrap from the box as he pointed at it with a knowing look. "Do you even know what this is?"

Jackie examined it before she snatched it from her husband. "Not a clue, but I know it's important. So, it's off to the shed." She handed a couple of boxes of junk to Dani, who peeked over them with confusion in her eyes.

Dani and Jackie made their way to the old barn shed in their backyard, Jackie opened the door and they walk inside as she turned on the lights, showing hundreds of busted devices, beakers, and other lab scrap. While Dani placed her boxes down gently, Jackie only dropped hers enough to cause a vibration that made her daughter jump a little in surprise.

"You know, maybe I should get rid of this junk." Jackie admitted as she looked around, but then she smiled and clapped her hands together to dust them. "Oh well, that's a job for another day."

As she walked out of the barn, Dani was about to follow her mother until she looked back and smiled with an idea that was forming in her mind. "Saturday's another day." She said to herself before she switched off the lights and closed the door behind her.

Unaware to her after she left, the junk with the ectoplasm began to glow eerily.


The next morning on Saturday, Dani and her friends began a garage sale as she decided to sell some of her mother's junk away from the shed. Jackie did admit she should clean it out, so Dani decided to sell them to some of the people so she can buy some new clothes for the party, like a favor sort of. Luckily, it was a pretty good crowd that early morning when their neighbors gathered around at the garage sale.

"It's a perfectly good vacuum motor, Ms. Lancer. Only used once, ten bucks." Dani offered as she showed her the motor.

"Looks to be in fine shape." Lancer said as she examined it closely before she handed her ten bucks. "This should fix my living room very nicely."

"Living room?" Tina asked as she relaxed back on a bench. "The crazy vacuum cleaner heirs use to polish their bling-blings? Don't you need a house for that?"

Lancer cocked an eyebrow before she smiled down at Tina sarcastically. "Good one, Ms. Foley. I'll remember that on Monday, when I'm grading tests." She then walked away as she gave her one last glare.

"Just sold the toaster." Sam said as he handed Dani some cash before before he glanced at all of the junk they were selling. "You know, I'm surprised your mom's letting you sell off all her stuff. She's such a pack rat."

"Yeah, well...she's been planning on getting rid of this junk for a long time. She won't even miss it...I hope." Dani said before she sounded a little unsure of herself.

She didn't know whether her mother would even care that her junk was missing from the shed, or if she would explode like an atomic bomb when she discovered that all of her 'possessions' were missing.

Tina then opened a reflective mirror and sunlight poured over her face while she sunbathed a little. "I'm pleased with the turnout today. We're doing a really brisk business." She admitted as she relaxed and enjoyed the sun.

Dani did a headcount off of all the money she earned, but still looked a little troubled. "I'm still twenty bucks short of what I need for those sweats." She said.

Sam rubbed his arm nervously as he looked down. "You're still welcome to hang with us tonight. Mega-movie marathon at my place." He said to his friend reluctantly.

Dani looked a little surprised by her friend's offer. She and Tina have never been invited to Sam's house before, despite the fact that they have known him since pretty much their whole entire lives. "Your place? Wow, you've never invited us to your place before."

"That's because we're usually fighting ghosts with you. I've figured it's time-"

"Hey, Fentina!" Daph called from the edge of the counter.

Like Dani has been doing for pretty much two days in a row, she rushed to her, leaving Sam alone again as he narrowed his eyes in annoyance. "-for you to totally ignore me for like the billionth time this week." Tina remained silent, but was completely on the same page as her gothic friend was.

Dani walked up to her rival with a bright smile. "Welcome to Dani Fenton's garage sale, we got motors, batteries, and plenty of junk to empty a rat's nest and make your junk work again. You need something?" She asked as she placed her hands on her hips.

"James is giving me so much extra schoolwork that my computer's overloaded. Got anything to make it work?" Daph asked with her usual glare.

"Sure do!" Dani leaned under the table and picked up an operating system box and a computer chip. "This motherboard and this Portals XL operating system will make it work like it's brand new." Daph gave her a skeptical look when she cocked an eyebrow with her hands on her hips. "Twenty bucks takes it all, and I'll even throw in this upgrade disc." She then held up the Portals XL 3.0 upgrade disc.

"Done. See you tonight, and just because I can't believe I'm saying this, I will say it again. See you tonight." She snatched the disc from her hand and tossed her twenty bucks as she stormed away and Dani caught it.

"Twenty bucks! I'm in! Oh jeez, I better get to the mall before the shop closes." Dani rushed up to her friends. "You guys don't mind cleaning up for me, do ya? Great, see ya!" And with that, she ran down to get her scooter so she could ride herself to mall.

Sam glared again as he crossed his arms. "So now we're her cleanup crew, too?" He asked Tina, but he turned to see that she was running away to escape some more work.

"See ya tonight!" She called before she disappeared down the sidewalk.

Sam made a look of annoyance. "Why do I hang out with girls?"

When nighttime has finally arrived, Tina made her way up to Sam's house and rang the doorbell. Sam answered the door while he talked on his phone since he was currently ordering himself and Tina some pizza for their movie marathon night.

"Right, that's two medium, one pepperoni and one veggie." He said through the phone as Tina walked in before he closed the door. "Put it on my tab." He turned off his phone and smiled at his friend. "Hey, Tina."

"I hope they hustle, I'm starved." Tina said just before the doorbell rang again.

Sam answered it while the pizza delivery woman from 'Crusty's' stood there with two boxes of pizza. "Here's your pizza, Sam." She said with a smile.

"Thanks a bunch, Nat." He said as he happily took the boxes and handed her a cash.

"Ten bucks? Thanks, Sam." She then walked away before Sam closed the door.

"You tipped a girl with a ten spot?" Tina asked, looking a little surprised by what she just heard.

Sam's eyes went wide a little. "Whoops, s-sorry. I thought it was a one." He said as he smiled sheepishly before he began to walk down to his basement. "Come on, we're watching movies downstairs."

He lead Tina to his basement, but when they walked inside, Tina gasped in complete surprise since it looked almost nothing like a basement. There was a giant, flat screen TV, two comfy red chairs, a few arcade consoles, a popcorn machine and a soda machine. The entire basement looked like something a millionaire's basement should look like, more like a movie theater.

"This is your downstairs?" Tina asked with a dumbfounded expression as she looked around.

"What? Too much?" Sam asked as he sets the pizza down on a counter.

"Uh huh…" She began walking around as she continued to admire the entire room.

"I know, I know. I should've told you and Dani this a long time ago, but my family's kind of...filthy rich." Sam chuckled softly, looking kind of nervous for some reason. "Weird, huh?"

Tina's eyes went wide when she froze her tracks as she dropped her backpack to the floor, now looking even more confused and surprised at the same time. "Whoa, time out!" She turned to her gothic friend with her eyebrow cocked. "You're loaded?"

"My great-grandma, Izzie, did say she was an inventor." Sam began twirling his finger downward in a circular motion as he continued to explain where his family got all this money. "She invented that machine that twirls cellophane around deli toothpicks."

Tina hopped onto one of the red comfy chairs and relaxed with a bright smile on her face. "You're the deli toothpick cellophane twirling heir? No way!"

Sam opened a pizza box as he kept on wearing his uneasy expression on his face. "Look...if this is too much, we could do something else."

"Are you kidding?"

"I can't think of a better way to spend a Saturday night then with a shiny, clean living room." Lancer said to herself. She was currently standing inside her living room with her new vacuum cleaner that was plugged into the wall.

He flipped on her vacuum, which was powered by the same motor Dani sold to her. However, it suddenly glowed green and it began to suck up papers, antiques, and other junk from her counters until it even began to shake violently while Lancer lost her grip on it. It unplugged itself from the wall and crashed through the window while Lancer watched in confusion as it flew across the neighborhood street.

Meanwhile, Dani rode her motor scooter down the street as she held onto her new sweats she brought from the mall just in time for Daph's party.

"Popularity, here I come." Dani said as she admired her new high-end sweats.

She suddenly gasped when her ghost sense went off, making her look up before she saw Lancer's vacuum flying straight at her. She yelped before she ducked her head as it ripped her helmet off instead, making her halt her scooter. It flew straight back to her and even though she ducked again, it wrapped its plug end around her waist while it dragged her along, making her drop her sweats and scooter as she flew to the air. Dani used her feet to stop it from sucking her face while she dodged her head as it tried to rip her face off.

"Whoa, whoa! I'm not dirty!" Dani exclaimed before it shifted into a giant garbage disposal. "And I'm sure I'm not made to be sliced!" The vacuum slammed Dani to the sidewalk as it raised itself up to cut her in half. "Going ghost!"

She clenched her eyes tightly as she concentrated before she then glowed and she changed to her ghost form while she glared with her eyes glowed green. The disposal swiped at her, making her yelp as she merged her legs into a ghost tail and she quickly escaped its grip as it sliced on the sidewalk instead while it sliced off its own plug off.

"Okay, it's house cleaning, not body ripping!" Dani exclaimed as she waved her hands out for emphasising.

It changed back into a vacuum and it flew straight at her again, but she managed to punch it, enough to dent it and it tumbled on the ground. Dani shifted her tail back into her legs as the vacuum flew up and was about to suck at her, until she elongated her midsection and leaned away enough to avoid getting cut in half. She managed to grab onto its cord, but she ended up getting dragged along with it. They phased through a wall of a story of a building before a boy was heard shouting in surprise.

"SORRY!" Dani yelled as she crashed through the window and got dragged back outside.

Dani then strained as she tried to pull onto it to make it stop. She then spun it around rapidly as her growl became a shout before she hurtled it to the other end of the neighborhood.

Dani frowned at where the razor flew off to as she blew her bangs off her face and smiled cleverly with her eyes still narrowing a little. Her smiled then faded when she heard beeping and realized that her new sweats were about to get run over by an upcoming truck. She quickly swooped down and snatched the sweats off the road just as the vehicle passed by.

She checked to see if it was okay before she exhaled in relief. She then looked down at herself with surprised eyes. "Man, ever since I had these powers, I've been like a magnet for the weird and the scary." Dani said to herself before she glanced down at a glowing piece of cord right beside her. She changed back into her human form and grabbed her scooter as she strapped her helmet back on her head. "I know I should be concerned and I will be, right after the party." Dani scootered the rest of the way down the street back home, leaving the eerie glowing cord behind.

Back at Sam's place, Tina kept on asking and bragging about Sam's wealth, but he wasn't too keen on wanting to talk about it while he leaned against the counter full of snacks.

"Tina, are we watching movies or not?" Sam asked, looking really annoyed and uninterested already with his arms crossed.

"Okay, just a few more questions." Tina said, still looking very eager. "Could you...buy a plane?"

Sam rolled his eyes. "Yep."

"A yacht?"

"Yyyyyy-ep."

"Uh...a bowling alley?"

"Nope." Sam pressed a button on a remote and the walls opened and scattered out of the way, revealing a personal bowling alley right underneath his house. Tina stared at the alley in shock and looked very dumbfounded while Sam shrugged casually like it was completely normal for him. "There's no place to put a second one."

Then an old man on a motor scooter, who could seemingly be Sam's grandfather, rode his transport vehicle to a lane and rolled a bowling ball down and knocked down the pins down with a strike. "Yippie! Bubbies hot tonight!" He cheered as he threw his fist in the air.

Then the walls retracted and closed up like nothing has happened. Tina sniffled the air around her as she made another confused look. "That's weird...you don't smell stinking rich."

"Will you stop?" Sam said with irritation as he took his seat on a chair and crossed his arms while he leaned back. "This is the whole reason I didn't tell anybody."

"But I don't get it. With all this money, why hang out with me and Dani? If you flash a little of that bling-bling, you'd be Mr. Popularity!"

Sam cocked an eyebrow at her skeptically. "I don't need popularity, Tina, especially not if I have to buy it. I prefer to make some real friends, not fake ones who only care about themselves and talk about their money twenty-four seven."

"You should tell that to Dani. Can you believe people actually spent good money on that old junk from her parents' shed?"

Sam smiled a little as he held up an eerie glowing green remote. "Well, I did snag this really cool remote for three bucks, and she did give Daph a pretty good deal on the computer stuff."

In Daph's bedroom, she was currently on her computer and she looked amazed by how fast her computer was running after she bought the system from Dani's garage sale that morning.

"Maybe Fenton's not such a loser after all." Daph admitted before she snickered to herself. "As if, but this thing runs like a race car!" Her watch suddenly began to beep while it warned her that it was almost party time. "Whoa, getting late. Better shower and change before the early birds show up."

After she left her computer alone, it suddenly powered off on its own until a green face with a sinister wide grin showed up and cackled just like Techna, the technopathic ghost.

Back at Fenton Works, James walked into the kitchen for a little late night snack. However, when he opened the fridge, he heard yapping with the hot dogs his parents accidentally brought to life before. James yelped in surprise and quickly slammed the fridge back shut.

"Great, leftovers." He groaned as he furrowed his brows.

"Well?" Dani asked as she slid into the kitchen in her new high-end sweats, consisting of an aqua blue headband, a black tank-top with an unzipped white jacket with aqua blue stripes on the sleeves over it, revealed her midriff, white baggy sweats and plain white sneakers. "Is it the bomb? Is it fresh? Is it stoopid with an 'OO'?"

"Oh, it's stupid, I'll give you that." James said, not looking really impressed by his sister's new hip-hop style with his arms crossed.

"You'll change your tune when you see me at the party." Dani noticed that her older brother hasn't even changed yet. "When are you changing?"

"Not changing, not going."

Dani began to panic. "What?! But you're the reason Daphne invited me in the first place!"

"Not caring."

"CODE RED!" They heard Jackie shout in alert from another room.

"And not staying." James walked out of the kitchen just before their mother suddenly rushed into the room, looking extremely alarmed and urgent.

"Somebody's raided the junk shed while we were away!" Jackie grabbed her daughter by her shoulders urgently. "Danielle, did you see anything?!"

"Uh, no, no, not a thing, but we should compare notes once I get home from the party." Dani said nervously as she backed away from her mother.

"Good plan, kid! In the meantime, I better secure the lab." Jackie opened the fridge. "Cover me, boys! SERPENTINE!" The hot dogs emerged from the fridge as they wrap themselves around the obese ghost huntress.

Dani arrived in front of Daph's house and took a deep breath.

"Okay, this it is, don't screw it up." She said to herself before she smiled confidently. "Look out world, here comes Dani Fenton." She rang the doorbell and Daph answered, but instead of wearing high-end sweats, she was wearing what Dani normally wore, much to her surprise and confusion. "Uh, Daphne?"

"Oh, right, you're not really a part of my pazi, so you didn't get the email. You see, after buying that computer stuff, I didn't have enough money to buy the sweats, so I changed the dress code to 'loser sheek'." Daph explained as she gestured to her friends dressed as either Dani, Sam, and Tina while they chatted away.

Dani frowned in annoyance. "Oh, swell." She walked into the house and looked around until Paul walked up to her, dressed like Sam.

"You like it? It's so horrible, it's cool." He said, looking down at his clothes.

Dani examined him and noticed his hairdo when she cocked an eyebrow. "Wait, Sam doesn't put his hair up in a knot."

Paul then noticed that she was wearing the high-ends. "Eck! Who dressed you up? Your dad?" Dani tried to explain to her crush, but Paul just walked away like he didn't even notice that they just talked a second ago.

Up in Daph's room, Techna on the computer screen continued to grin as she laughed. "Yes, yes, it is time! Calling all mechanized spirits, come to me, my minions! It is time to fulfil my destiny!" She shouted to the heavens as the monitor short-circuited and hovered into the air.

From every house in the neighborhood, drills, toasters, washers, dryers, and other devices began flying out of their places and made their way to Daph's house.

At Sam's house, he and Tina were watching a kung-fu movie until the screen began to replay itself over and over again, catching Sam's attention before he fixed his eyes on his friend.

"Tina, if you want to watch a part over again, can you please tell me first?" Sam told her.

Tina cocked an eyebrow. "Me? You're the one messing with the remote." She pointed out. The remote on the table suddenly glowed green and hovered into the air, surprising both of them when their eyes went wide. "Uh, I'm not schooled in a way of the rich, but do all of your remotes do that?"

"No. Well, my toaster does, but it's from Denmark. That stuff Dani was selling must've been contaminated with ectoplasm!"

The remote blasted a stream of energy at the popcorn machine as it spilled popcorn all over the place. Then it malfunctioned the soda machine when it spewed different soda flavors everywhere as Sam and Tina duck to avoid them. The remote flew through the ceiling, making the two friends run out of the house. They both looked up and saw different electronic items and tools floating in the air, across the neighborhood together.

"This looks bad. Probably looks like a job for Dani Phantom." Tina said to her gothic friend.

"Probably, and if I wasn't so mad at her, I'd probably care that it's going to interrupt her big prep party. Shall we?" Sam said to Tina, making her smile before they ran off to find their friend and her trusty weapon.

Back at Daph's party, Dani tried to search for at least of teen that would at least talk to her, but found it hard to do since everyone just kept on ignoring her.

"Hi, I'm Dani, do you guys…" Dani said to a group of teens, but they walked away like they didn't even notice her. "Hey, aren't you in my fifth period…" A boy walked past her like the invisible person they all believed she was. Finally giving up, Dani sadly walked up to the stairs and glanced back down at the in-crowd. "What am I doing? These people aren't my friends, even if they all look like them." She then sighed miserably. "Man, I wish Sam and Tina were here, it's lonely being popular."

She walked down the hallway as she exhaled, but she suddenly noticed that her ghost sense went off as it billowed into Daph's room, showing her where the ghost was. "That's weird." She muttered in curiosity.

Dani opened the door into Daph's bedroom and gasped at the sight of the computer monitor floating in the air, as well as several other electronic tools, gathering around it until it formed into a robotic form of Techna.

"I am Techna! Mistress of all things mechanical! And once I complete my construction, you shall all succumb to my pow-" She shouted to the heavens before she began to glitch and malfunction. "Pow-pow-pow...ah!" She quickly held onto her head and looked troubled. "What is wrong with me?!"

Dani noticed the upgrade disc she gave to Daph at the garage sale on her bed. She realized that the cheerleader hasn't even upgraded the computer software yet.

"The upgrade! Daph still hasn't upgraded the software. Oh no!" Dani said as she glared at the robot and changed into her ghost form. "You're not getting that upgrade disc and making yourself more powerful!"

"What?" Techna asked in confusion until she grinned. "Another great idea! To heck with tutoring, you should be a teacher!"

Dani flew straight towards her, but a toaster sprang out of her shoulder and blasted green energy at her. It sent her flying across the room as she phased herself into Daph's closet, which was filled with pom-poms, cheerleading uniforms, and colorful, plush teddy bears.

"Ghost toast?! Jeez, how many pom-poms does one cheerleader need? And these?" Dani asked herself as she picked up a teddy bear, quietly realizing that Daph was a lot more creepier than she thought and not as tough as she appeared to be. "I don't even wanna know."

She flew out of the closet just when Techna was about to grab the disc, but Dani double kicked her and the bed broke in half from her enhanced strength. She then smacked the ghost girl to the wall, knocking the pictures off the wall while they shattered.

"You are a formidable opponent, but a little wet behind the ears. Perhaps you could use a little drying up!" Techna said before a claw emerged from her chest, grabbed Dani as she yelped, and pulled her inside her dryer chest. She shrieked as she spun around inside before she catapulted her out and she accidentally demolished Daph's dresser.

Dani shook off her dizziness before she growled and glared angrily at the robotic ghost. Techna grabbed the upgrade disc with a chuckle until Dani roughly shoved her away while her growl became a yell and smashed him to a TV with stereos. However, she accidentally helped Techna place the disc into the disk player before she uploaded it and then she smiled. Dani gasped at this and glared again before she shoved and phased her through the wall with a scream.

Daph entered her room after hearing a series of ruckuses. Her eyes went wide when she saw that her entire room was a complete disaster. She glared angrily when she suspected who could have done this to her own bedroom. "Fenton...YOU'RE SO DEAD!" She exclaimed furiously.

At a nearby alleyway, Sam followed the levitating junk just before Tina arrived when she took a slight detour to get the Fenton Thermos from Fenton Works.

"Sam, I got the thermos!" Tina said as she ran into the alley. "You know, Dani's really gotta start carrying this with some sort of lunch box."

"Everything's gravitating from here to Daph's house. Looks like whatever fun Dani's having will be coming to an end soon." Sam said with a mildly pleased smile while he placed his hands on his waist.

They suddenly heard a familiar grunt before they watched as Dani flew right between them while she shrieked and then she slammed hard onto a brick wall with a grunt. "Hi, Sam. Hi, Tina. Glad you could make it." Dani said wearily to her friends before she collapsed to the ground and fell unconscious.

They heard large footsteps coming their way when Sam and Tina turned around. Their eyes went wide in shock as a gigantic robotic version of Techna stomp out from a narrow alley and into view while she sent out electrical currents.

"I am Techna! Mistress of technology and destroyer of worlds!" She announced to the heavens with a grin. "Behold, my awesome electronic fuelry! WHO'S YOUR MOMMY?!"

Dani managed to recover from her blow before she glared determinedly as she flew straight at the robotic ghost. She tried to land a punch on her chest, but recoiled as she held onto her arm and briefly fell to the ground. She quickly recovered again when she tried to land a double-kick and then did a series of mini-punches, but she didn't even make a dent on her armor. Techna merely stood there before she smacked from on top of her and sent her crashing onto the ground between her friends, who both gawked down at her.

"Guys, help!" Dani shouted urgently before she flew back into action as she charged at Techna again. Sam and Tina only turned their backs on her with their arms crossed and glared since they were both still mad at her for ignoring them for the past few days. She got knocked close to the ground again, but regained her air. "Come on, guys!" She flew back up, but got knocked down again. "Guys, come on, seriously!" She began to dodge several of Techna's attacks while she continued to plead for her friends' help. "I'm sorry I choose to hang out with the popular kids instead of you guys, it was stupid and shallow, and I'LL NEVER DO IT AGAIN!"

Dani finally got punched to the ground near her friends while they smiled at each other in satisfaction and approval before they glanced down at their friend. "How can we be of assistance?" Sam asked.

Dani quickly got to her feet and had a troubled look on her face. "She's running an old version of Portals XL."

That made Sam cringe a little while Tina began to think of an idea to herself. "That piece of vaporware? It's the worst software ever."

"Keep her busy, I think I know how you can beat her!" Tina said to her friend.

"That I can do!" Dani said before she flew back up in front of Techna and pointed at her. "Get back, you hunk of my mom's junk!"

"Could mere junk do this?" Techna bellowed before she brought out a remote from her chest and aimed it at the ghost girl. She pressed a button and Dani changed into a ninja, with another press she changed into a showgirl, and then into an Indiana Jones.

Dani glared at her in annoyance. "Give me that!" She snatched the remote and pressed a button to return herself to normal. Techna immediately grabbed onto her with one of her mechanical arms and she pinned her against the wall as she grunted. "Tina, anytime now!"

"I'm trying, I'm trying!" Tina exclaimed while she tried to work on her PDA, but looked extremely troubled.

"What's wrong?" Sam asked.

"I'm trying to bypass the program, but I can't! She must've upgraded!" They were both oblivious that Techna was mercilessly slamming Dani against the building repeatedly while she grunted each time.

"What do we do?"

"We need the latest version of Portals XL, but we're we gonna get it this time of night?"

"Leave that to me." Sam pulled out his phone and dialed in a number.

Techna slammed Dani into the building again as she grunted. "Guys!" She exclaimed down to her friends, trying to ignore the pain.

Then a man pulled up to the teens on his scooter. "Here ya go, Sam." He said as he handed him the software.

"Thanks, Terrance." Sam said as he gave him the tip.

"Wow! You have access to the latest technology after hours?" Tina asked him in amazement.

"Yep." He said proudly.

"What else can you do after hours?"

He frowned and held up a clipboard to Tina. "Just sign the valture, ma'am."

"Uh, excuse me!" Sam called up casually to Techna, catching her attention when she looked down at the goth boy in confusion. "I'm Sam. I don't believe I caught your name. Perhaps you should scream it really loud and shout out your motive."

"Hello, I AM TECHNA! Manipulator of machines! Lady of all gadgetry! Witch of integrated circuitry!"

"Go on, is there more you'd like to tell me?" As he spoke, Sam held up a couple of plugs before he plugged the cords together while he smiled brightly.

"Oh yes, I am also mistress-" Techna suddenly began to glitch and malfunction once again while her head twitched and short-circuited. "Of all...ohoooohhh..."

"What's happening?!" Dani shouted down to her friends while the claw that was still restraining her began to short-circuit as well.

While Techna was distracted, Sam has plugged the technopathic ghost's robotic body into Tina's PDA while she forced her to shut down the software. "Portals XL is happening. Everybody knows that every new version of Portals XL has a gigantic hole in its security system." Tina said, like it should have been obvious.

"What?! NO!" Techna shouted when she began to glitch even more.

The claw restraining Dani finally released her as she smiled. "Yes!" She hissed under her breath before she quickly grabbed the claw and smirked widely at the technopathic robotic ghost. "Process this!" She then shoved the claw into her disk slot, causing her to short-circuit even more.

"WAIT, THAT DOESN'T GO THERE!" Techna finally powered down when her robotic body went limp while the trio watched.

"And for my final trick…" Tina said as she held up the Fenton Thermos before she threw it up to Dani, who caught it in her hand.

Dani uncapped the thermos and began to suck in Techna from the robot suit as she screamed and tried to escape the raw energy. "NOOOOOOOO!" She got completely sucked into the device while her voice echoed before Dani recapped the device.

The robot then began to shake before its body parts immediately fell into pieces when it then became a pile of harmless junk. The computer monitor beeped the words 'ERROR'.

"Nice going, Tina." Sam said as Dani landed next to her friends as they all had their hands on their hips with yet another great victory over a ghost.

"Don't thank me, thank lousy software." Tina said brightly as she held the disk while Dani remained silent while she smiled at her tech-loving friend.


On Monday at Casper High School, Dani, Tina, and Sam walked down the hallway together and made their way to their next class. They began to talk about what Dani has done during the rest of her weekend.

"So, what's the damage from this weekend? Just get in trouble for taking your folks' stuff?" Tina asked her friend.

"Not really, I hauled it all back to the shed yesterday while they were out. My mom's checking every piece for government surveillance devices. She got a little paranoid and even train those weenies to guard the shed twenty-four seven." Dani explained with a reassuring smile and a small chuckle.

"Sounds like you got off pretty easily." Sam said.

"Yeah, well I do have to return those stupid sweats so I can refund everybody's money. To be honest, I've always suspected Daph always has her ways of humiliating and embarrassing me, even in the most begrudging times." Dani then stopped her tracks and made a look of shame while she looked down at the floor. "And I still feel terrible about the way I treated you guys. Of all people, I should know how it feels to be invisible."

Sam leaned against the lockers and smiled at his friend. "So, would ya say you've learned a lesson from all of this?"

Dani smiled as she looked over her shoulder. She saw that Daph (who was back in her cheerleading uniform) was about to open her locker, but all that poured out were her multiple colorful, stuffed teddy bears that were from her closet. Apparently, Dani just decided to get back at her arch-rival for embarrassing her by exposing the cheerleader's teddy bears she once found in her bedroom closet, just to make things even a little for both of them.

"FENTON!" Daph screamed angrily in rage.

"Yep, that another person's trash is another person's revenge." Dani said before she and her best friends broke into laughter from her little side joke.