"Don't panic, just breath."

"Don't panic? I'm a ghost, Sam!"

They managed to get Kimmy back to Danny's house and up to his bedroom where she was now pacing back in forth in her ghost form. Danny and Sam stood close on standby and Tucker took a seat on Danny's bed when she stopped in front of a mirror hanging the wall near Danny's closet and took in her appearance for what was probably the hundredth time. It was a strange feeling looking into her now glowing green eyes; it felt like she was in another body, but this body was hers, too. It was so hard to explain something she could barely comprehend herself. She sighed and turned to her friends, "I'm sorry. It's just, I was finally getting used to the fact that I was just a human with ghost powers. Now I'm actually half ghost and I…"

She trailed off and slid to the ground, hugging her knees. They all felt for her, from both sides. Danny knew exactly what she was going through. When he first went full ghost, he went into full on panic mode and was out of commission for at least a week, so really, she was doing better than he had. But Sam and Tucker were always there to pick up the pieces for him, and now all three of them would be there to help Kimmy through this. Sam was the first to go to her, taking a seat on the ground next to her and uncharacteristically wrapping an arm around her shoulders. Green eyes looked up at her and she smiled reassuringly, "Don't worry. We've all already done this before. We can help you."

Kimmy looked between her and the boys, who were giving her encouraging smiles from Danny's bed. She smiled too and Sam helped her to her feet. She held Kimmy's hands in hers and Kimmy looked around herself, "How do I – whoa!" She felt it in her center of gravity and a burst of energy brought her back her human self. She looked in the mirror and frowned. She looked awful. Her hair was a mess and her eyes were bloodshot with deep purple circles underneath. As a human, she was weak and she merely assumed it was from her body adjusting to her newfound powers. But she was also a little shocked to find that she now had a full head of solid white hair, just like her uncle. She wrapped her fingers around a piece of it and stroked it nervously. There was no way she was going to be able to hide this. She would have to come up with some reason why here hair was suddenly white as a sheet.

"I kind of like it, actually." Danny tore her from her thoughts and she found him standing with Sam.

"Yeah, I do too. It suits you." Sam said, placing her hands on her hips. Kimmy wrapped her arms around Sam unexpectedly and Sam's first reaction was to push her off, but she hugged her back. The boys mocked them, making loud "awe" sounds about how cute they were before they wrapped their arms around the girls. And for a moment, Kimmy was truly happy.

The moment didn't last long, however.

"Is it just me, or is this the worst spirit week in the history of Casper High spirit weeks?"

The next day, Sam motioned to the seemingly undead students that were roaming the halls of their high school. The entire school had deep bags under their eyes, their hair was untamed, and it was as if they were all in a constant state of depressive paranoia.

"And to make it worse, we're all gonna have to sit through Jazz's idiotic speech when she tries to put the 'I' back in spirit. Or some other nonsense."

Danny had another session with Ms. Spectra that morning and his bad mood had worsened since then. They started down the hall to their class just as Jazz came skipping around the corner with the biggest grin on her face and Danny scowled at her in disgust, "What the heck is she so happy about?"

"Don't ask me." Sam said, "I'm usually the sour one around here. But compared to everyone else, I'm the goth bird of happiness."

"Me, too." Tucker laughed, "And we're the only two people in the school who haven't had a session with Dr. Spectra."

The thought hit Danny like a brick to the head and he silently cursed himself. How could he have been so stupid? He stopped walking and Tucker nearly ran into his back as he spoke, "Wait a minute. Let me see something." He reached for Tucker's PDA and started sorting through photos until he came across the one he was looking for, one of him dressed the baby getup, and started to examine it more closely.

"I was gonna delete that." Tucker chuckled nervously.

"Glad you didn't. Look at that." He had Sam and Tucker look over his shoulder at the screen as he explained, "I kept thinking I was seeing by breath, that it was cold. But what if that's my ghost sense? What if Spectra is somehow making people more miserable? What if she's a ghost?"

"Only one way to find out." Sam smirked.

"Find out what?" Kimmy approached them and the three of them were taken aback by her appearance. She'd also had another session with Ms. Spectra and since then she'd only gotten weaker. The ghost jaguar had thrown her for a loop yesterday, but spending some time with Danny, Sam, and Tucker had helped. Now, however, she looked worse than she had before. She didn't look much different than the other kids at the school. Her now fully white hair was pulled up in a messy bun, and her clothes were sagging off her. The bags under her eyes were so deep her freckles were starting to wrinkle. This only gave more proof to Danny's theory and this made him antsy.

"We need to do something. And fast." He said, "Kimmy's not going to last much longer if I'm right, and neither is the rest of the school."

They set off to execute their plan after sending Kimmy down to the gym with the rest of the students for the spirit week assembly. She was in no position to fight and Danny just hoped that she'd be okay by herself while Sam and Tucker went in for a joint appointment with Ms. Spectra and Danny waited outside as Danny Phantom. He waited impatiently for his friends came out a twenty minutes later looking absolutely disheveled and completely hating their lives. This spiked Danny's confidence in his theory and when Ms. Spectra returned to her office and closed the door he followed her, sitting invisibly in the corner of the room so that he could eavesdrop without her knowledge. And, just as he suspected, there was a ring of raw energy hovering around the chairs that Sam and Tucker had just been sitting in. The councilor breathed it in and Danny watched as her skin tightened, her hair gained more volume and became silky-smooth, and her whole body seemed to perk up. She sighed in ecstasy and took a seat on her desk, glancing at the files and mumbling to herself about missing the kids of Casper High. Danny moved closer to peek over her shoulder and see was she was looking at. There was a whole stack and he could see Dash's and Paulina's, among others, but there were five files spread out before her: his, Sam's, Tuckers, Kimmy's, and Jazz's. He furrowed his eyebrows and tried to make sense of the situation. He knew she was feeding off their energy - he more miserable they were, the better. He'd been right and they were all in danger. A new presence phased through the wall and Danny recognized it as the ghost he and Kimmy fought at the Pharmacy.

"There you are." Ms. Spectra said, her face lighting up like a child on Christmas morning, "You hooked up the device?"

"Of course," The ghost replied with a dismissive hand, as if it was so simple a task that anyone could do it, "And when the spirit sparklers go up, vaporizing the only chipper kid left in the entire school, there'll be enough misery and anguish in that room to keep us looking young forever!"

Danny was in shock. They were planning to kill Jazz. He had to do something and he was running out of time. The bell rang and the two ghosts disappeared in a flash of green light into the hall. Danny let his feet hit the ground and tried to recover from his discovery. His sister and the entire school was in danger and he had close to no time to figure out how to save them. He took a deep breath and went after Ms. Spectra and her ghost assistant, finding them walking down the hall just outside the gym. With anger boiling in his chest, he sent a green-hot energy beam at Ms. Spectra's assistant. The small man went flying backwards back towards the office and Ms. Spectra laid eyes on a very livid Danny Phantom floating just in front of her with his hand still smoking from the blast, "I figured it out, finally. You feed on misery, don't you?"

"I'm sorry. Can I help you?" Ms. Spectra tried playing dumb, uncaring that her assistant was lying injured several feet behind her.

"No, I'm sure you can't."

A sly smirk grew on Ms. Spectra's face and she returned her dark glasses to her eyes. She obviously felt that Danny posed no threat to her and she made a move at him, reaching out with her perfectly manicured nails that he avoided easily, "You can't help anyone except yourself. You find that one thing that a kid's most afraid of – their future, their looks, their confidence – and you pick at it and pick at it while your snippy little ghost assistant feeds on it."

The ghost assistant stood weakly, adjusting his suit jacket and vest, dusting himself off and growling at Danny's accusation. Ms. Spectra gave a round of applause, crow's feet wrinkles forming at her eyes from how big her smile was, "Very good. But I fear you've missed a few details."

Danny took a step back when he was suddenly greeted with glowing red eyes. A ring of purple and green fire engulfed Ms. Spectra's feet and her form started to melt into a deep black shadow. She was absolutely terrifying and Danny felt his already cold blood turn icy in fear. She charged at him with claws glowing green with raw energy and Danny screamed. He blocked his face in preparation for the hit, but he was caught off guard when the jaguar ghost tackled him from the side and sent them both through the wall of the school where he had Danny pinned to a tree.

"You!" he exclaimed, remembering him from the Pharmacy and now realizing that they'd all been the same ghost all along.

"You thought you were going to stop us?" the jaguar taunted, "You? You had to bring your little ghost girlfriend to save you last time. You're just a frightened little kid."

Danny had enough. He was still weak from his sessions with Ms. Spectra but with everything he had, he forced his body to go intangible just as the jaguar lifted his paw ready to strike. Danny disappeared into the tree and the jaguar put three deep claw marks into the bark. Confused, the ghost looked around for its prey and Danny came flying out of the ground to send a sucker punch right into the cat's jaw, sending it flying back over the school building. He floated midair to watch the ghost disappear into the distance, stupidly not watching his own back and leaving it open for Ms. Spectra to grab him round the neck. He struggled against her as she took him back towards the school and forced him peer through the window into the gym. He demanded she release him but she merely laughed in his face, "Why would I do that? Your doubt, your misery, it's delicious. And the best part is, as soon as that silly speech is over and the last domino falls and the sparklers vaporize the speaker, we'll leave you here to take the blame. And by the time I'm done with you, you'll be sure it was all your fault."

In the gym, Mr. Lancer had already started the domino chain, with Jazz standing on the stage watching them fall with a calm composure. Danny could see Sam, Tucker, and Kimmy sitting in the crowd, looking just as miserable as the rest of the student body and he took a deep breath, "Man, I am so tired of you dumping on me. And I am so tired of dumping on myself. Jazz never did that. Even when I was mad at her. And I won't let her down!"

With a burst of energy, he forced Ms. Spectra to let go of him. She was quick to regain her composure, however, and called out for the jaguar, "Bertrand, sic him!"

Danny dodged the jaguar that appeared from the school building, but he was suddenly unimpressed when the ghost shapeshifted into a ninja. He rolled his eyes as Bertrand showed off his nun chuck skills and pulled the Fenton Thermos from his back, "I so don't have time for this."

He pulled him into the Thermos and turned to Ms. Spectra. She was obviously angry and charged at him, but he was quick to counter attack, dodging her claws and grabbing hold of her ghost tail and slamming her in a nearby garbage dump. He had a small moment of glory before he remembered why he'd been doing this and he flew through the wall and into the gym. The lasers on either side of Jazz were heating up and Danny was flying as fast as his powers would allow him, unseen by human eyes. He managed to grab ahold of his sister just in time and fly her out of danger, setting her down in a deserted hallway behind the gym.

Once they were there, Jazz just stared at him in shock and he smiled at her. But the moment didn't last long as Ms. Spectra had escaped her temporary prison and grabbed him from behind and pulled him into the next room. The ghost slammed him up against the wall and held his face painfully. He reached for the Thermos but she knocked it out of his grasp and out of reach, "Look at you. What are you? A ghost trying to fit in with humans? Or some creepy little boy with creepy little powers?"

"Both. Uh…neither. I don't know!" Danny tried to stay focused, but the ghost's powers of feeding on misery were overpowering and he could feel himself slipping.

"You're a freak! Not a ghost, not a boy. Who cares for a thing like you?"

Danny could feel her feeding off him the longer she held on to him. He managed to wiggle free and landed on the ground with a loud thud but now he could hardly move. She was quick to get back in his face and there was nothing he could do. He was weak and she was strong from feeding off the entire school. He knew he was a goner when a familiar voice stopped Ms. Spectra in her tracks.

"Excuse me." Jazz said, "I don't know this kid, but I hope it's okay if he gets a second opinion."

She held up what Danny recognized as their dad's newest invention, the Fenton Ghost Peeler and hit the red button on the back, engulfing herself in a white armor and blasting the ghost without hesitation. Ms. Spectra screamed in agony at the effects of the weapon, layers of age peeling off her by the second until she was nothing but skin and bones. Without all those layers, she was powerless, and Danny could feel his strength returning. He stood and held out the Fenton Thermos, capturing Ms. Spectra once and for all.

Danny held the Thermos with a satisfied smirk on his lips as Jazz approached him. His heart started pounding, praying that she didn't recognize who he was. In realization, she pretended to run away in fear, stopping at the door and glancing over her shoulder at him with a smile, "You'd better go."

She disappeared around the corner and Danny let out a breath he didn't even know he was holding. With a smile, he turned to leave and was met with a stack of boxes to the face. He rolled his eyes at himself and flew out of the room, landing in the hall outside of the gym and returning to his human form. He stepped inside and found that with Ms. Spectra gone, everyone had gone back to normal. He could hear his name being called and he followed his ears to the left where Sam, Tucker, and Kimmy were waving him over. They were all smiling again and Kimmy looked like a normal teenage girl again with hair as white as snow. She smiled at him and he returned the favor, taking a seat next to her. As he did, his hand grazed hers and they jerked away from each other, blushing at the touch. When the students started to chant Jazz's name, they looked up and saw Mr. Lancer bring her in, safe and sound. Everything was right with the world again.

Later that night…

"Danny, are you sure about this?"

It was late and Danny had talked Kimmy into letting him teach her how to fly. They were out in the park near the school and had already taken some time to get the hang of transforming back and forth between human and ghost. It didn't take too much energy and when she felt comfortable with her glowing green eyes and long blue hair, they moved on to flying.

"Yes, I'm sure!" Danny chuckled and grabbed her hands, "Okay, just think about being weightless. You're a ghost, you're as light as a feather."

"Wow, that's deep."

"I know, but it worked, didn't it?" he smirked and she furrowed her eyebrows at him before looking down. They were flying – she was flying. She squeaked and was quick to jump into his arms. He laughed and flew up a few feet more before gently prying her away from him, letting go of her in confidence so that she was floating all on her own. She slowly peaked one eye open and then her face brightened. Her freckles glowed bright with her excitement and she flew in a back-circle, coming back with a ghost-tail. She looked a little shocked and Danny laughed at her expression.

"Don't worry, you get used to it." He gestured to his own and she smiled and followed him way up above the city. With the wind blowing her newly blue locks behind her, she glanced over at Danny flying next to her and felt her heart thump. He looked down at her and she looked away, feeling a deep blush rise in her cheeks. He frowned a little. Unknowing to her, he felt the same thump of his heart and in knowing she was looking at him he felt his ears grow hot. They made eye contact again and smiled at each other before she closed her eyes and feel backwards into a free fall, flying off into the hills with Danny following right behind, the happiest he'd been in a long time.