A/N

I'm sorry for the delay in posting. I have one excuse: school.


Chapter 9. Agree to disagree.

"You let her escape you incompetent metal fool!" Walker shouted at Skulker. The hunter was not impressed. He was merely waiting for Walker to stop his rantings, with his arms crossed and a bored expression on his metal face. Luckily his armour wasn't too damaged from the Banshee's attack. He had managed to escape in time. Walker had been saved by his goons. Something he was still fuming about. "If you had paid more attention you would've known that Ghost Child was around!"

"We are in Scotland!" Skulker retorted incredulous. "How was any of us to know that whelp would meddle again? We both thought he was still in Amity Park." Inwardly Skulker was thinking why he ever sided with Walker in the first place. He hated the warden and the warden hated him. But for now they shared a common goal and as soon as that was reached Skulker would make sure the Walker got what was coming for him.

"I doesn't matter." Walker ignored Skulker completely. "My guards have located the Banshee and soon she will once again be locked away in my prison, together with that Ghost Child. Where they belong."

"You have a plan?" Skulker asked. He didn't like being bossed around, but Walker had the manpower to capture the Banshee and for now that would be enough.

"Yes, you will distract Phantom and his family and my men and I will take care of the Banshee. Binding her on the spot. Then I shall establish word domination both in the Ghost Zone and the Human World. Finally law and order will reign in both worlds!"

"Wait a minute." Skulker stepped forwards. "We had a deal! I would get the Banshee as a trophy!"

"You can have her after I got what I want."

It wasn't that Skulker hadn't seen it coming, but he was still mad at being betrayed like that. "I will not allow you to use the Banshee to get world domination!" He summoned his arm mounted gun, but Walker was faster, having anticipated the attack, and blasted him with an ecto-blast.

"I guess you didn't read the terms and agreements." Walker grinned evilly as he fired another blast of ecto-energy at the hunter. Skulker dodged by flying up and fired a blast of his own. Walker avoided with ease. "And you will go back to prison as well." He said as three ghost guards phased into the half destroyed office room. The guards pointed their bats at Skulker, awaiting their boss's orders. Finally, everything worked out as the ghost warden had planned it. Walker grinned as he watched his men hold Skulker at gun point. That nasty hunter would go back to prison, the Banshee would be his to use as he pleased and, as a bonus, that Ghost Punk would be punished as well. The day couldn't get any better.

Skulker glowered. "I never should've trusted you, Walker."

"Indeed, that was foolish of you. As if I would ever work together with a lawbreaker like you. That would be against the rules." He snapped his fingers and the guards shot electricity out of their bats at Skulker. The hunter ghost howled out in pain and fell on his knees, his body smoking. "Now, do what I told you to do and maybe I will shorten your sentence."

Skulker growled. "Never." He jumped up, too fast for Walker or his goons to register. Skulker took out the goons with three quick blasts and lurched at the ghost warden with a menacing glance in his green eyes.


"So are we all clear on the plan?" Danny, in ghost form, asked. He looked around the room, at his parents, sister, friends and Willow. Willow was still recovering from her psychology session with Jazz and had chosen a spot as far away removed from Jazz as possible.

"I still don't understand why I can't come along?" The Banshee huffed offended.

"Because you are mentally unstable and thus unpredictable." Jazz explained for the umpteenth time. Willow snorted something in Gaelic and crossed her arms.

"Alright. That's settled then." Danny continued. "Sam, Tucker and I will go after Walker and his goons. Mom and Dad you go after Skulker."

"He! What about me?" Jazz asked indignant. "I can help too you know."

"You can babysit me." Willow mocked, fully aware that they wouldn't lose her out of sight this time. Now it was Jazz's turn to cross her arms.

"Fine. We can work on your anger management."

Willow groaned. "Fine. Whatever."

"Alright, everybody." Danny clapped his hands together and hoped that the two females wouldn't kill each other while he was away. "We have some ghosts to catch."


Danny, Sam and Tucker scanned the forest for any trace of Walker or his goons. They'd come to the conclusion that Walker would've gone back to the sawmill to regroup. That was where they were heading first. It was the best lead they had so far. Skulker, Danny thought, would've gone after Willow himself. It was a small blessing that Jack had smuggled the Fenton earphones with him too Scotland. Jazz had lectured him about their ghost-free vacation until Willow had phased into the room and everybody realized that vacation was never going to happen anymore.

"Mom, Dad, can you hear me?" Danny asked into his earpiece. A little static followed and then his mother answered.

"Loud and clear, sweetie."

They had agreed that his parents would stay at the cabin and follow Danny a little later. On the other side of the earphone, Danny could her leaves rustling and twigs snapping so he figured they had started to follow him already. Willow and Jazz would contact them as soon as they spotted either Skulker or Walker.

"Any sign of either ghost?" Danny asked. Tucker gave a small yelp when a bunny fled away before his feet. Danny and Sam simultaneously rolled their eyes. The earpiece cracked again and his Dad answered this time.

"Not a trace. You?"

"Nothing yet. But we are nearing the sawmill and…" Danny trailed off when they saw green and pink ecto-blasts flash into the air in rapid succession, coming from the direction of the mill.

"And what?" His mother asked, sounding slightly concerned.

"I'll call you back." Danny grabbed his friends and flew them towards the sawmill. A blast of ecto-energy shot through the roof and a moment later both Walker and Skulker were being thrown out through the same window. Both ghosts trying to strangle the other. Even thought that seemed a little pointless to Danny. Walkers' goons phased through the walls and joined their boss, blasting the hunter ghost with rays from their bats. The three friends just stood there and stared at the scene before them.

"You think we should…help them?" Tucker asked, unable to look away as Skulker blasted Walker into the ground.

"Nah." Danny answered as Walker got up and lurched himself towards Skulker. The hunter fired a shot, but missed and the warden was on top of him in seconds.

"We can't just let them murder each other." Sam watched as Skulker grabbed Walker by the throat and threw him against the sawmill with a loud thud.

"Their ghosts, Sam. They're already dead." Tucker commented, suppressing a snicker as Skulker got a kick in the holy parts. The hunter ghost roared and blasted a goon against a tree with his arm mounted gun. Two other goons were blasted into trees before Walker had recovered. The warden fired an ecto-ray and blasted the arm mounted gun to smoking bits.

"I think we should just wait until they're done and then suck them both into the thermos." Danny crossed his arms and grinned. "My job has never been easier."

"What are you gawking at Ghost Child?" The deep voice of Skulker roared and the blasting of ecto-rays died down as the five ghosts turned towards them.

"Nice going, Ghost Child." Sam hissed under her breath as one gun and three bats were pointed their way. Danny acted quickly and pushes his friends out of the way, before Skulker's ecto-energy could burn them to smithereens. The blast left a big smoking hole in the soil.

"Don't just stand there! Get them!" Walker barked at his guards. The goons, shared a confused look before firing their bats. Danny dodged them all by making a somersault, jumping up and flying away. He fired his own blasts in rapid succession, knocking the three guards unconscious before Sam and Tucker sucked them up into their thermoses. Walker roared in outrage and fired two ecto-rays out of his hands. The shot hit home and Danny was thrown against a tree.

"Someone practiced." He grunted as he pushed himself of the bark. "But so did I." He shot a powerful blast at the distracted Walker and pushed him against the sawmill.

Walker cursed and wiped the smoke from his chest. "Why you little,"

"Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of my ecto-blasts!" For empathize Danny fired another shot and Walker was pressed into the wall again, leaving a spider web of cracks. Meanwhile Skulker was flying of and disappearing in the shadows of the trees.

"Danny! Skulker is escaping!" Sam yelled, getting his attention. Danny immediately shouted into his earpiece.

"Mom, Dad! Skulker is escaping, go after him! I'm a little busy!"

"Will do, Danny." His mother answered.

A bright pink light flared up beside him and Danny dodged; de blast incinerated a small tree. Sam fired her wrist-ray hitting Walker in the back. Danny grinned, his girlfriend was probably trying to save the trees. The ghost warden turned around, growling.

"Attacking in the back, that is against the rules!"

"No, it's not!" Danny hit him in the back with an ecto-blast.

"It is a little unsporting, dude." Tucker commented. Danny glowered at him, but didn't see Walkers fist nearing. It connected with the side of his face with a sickening crunch. Danny fell to the ground, cradling his broken jaw. Green ectoplasm was leaking from his torn lip and the scratch on his cheek.

"Danny!" Sam's yelling brought him back to reality in time to avoid begin punched in the face again. Walker's fist dug into the earth, leaving a small crater where Danny's head had been seconds before. Danny swung out his leg, kicking Walkers legs from under him. The warden shouted and fell to the floor, where an ecto-blast, curtesy of Sam's wrist-ray, hit him in the side. The ghost warden was hit again by Tuckers wrist-ray.

"I'm glad you decided to join us, Tucker." Sam said sarcastically. Tucker glared at her.

Danny hovered above Walker as the warden scampered to his feet.

"Talk, why Willow? Why are you trying to capture her?"

Walker laughed. "She really hasn't told you? Figures."

"You didn't answer my question."

"I don't answer to the likes of you, Phantom." Walker hissed. "But I will tell you a little story about your little Banshee friend."

"I told you before, you do not get to talk about my friends like that!"

"Just hear me out, punk." Walker grinned. "For example, did you know that she once sided with Pariah Dark?"


Danny felt his heart skip a beat as the words spun around in his head. Behind him Tucker and Sam gasped.

"You're lying!" Danny charged up an ecto blast and flung it at Walker. The ghost dodged, with a growl that quickly turned into grin.

"Believe what you want, punk, but I'm telling nothing but the truth."

"Because, lying would be against the rules?" Sam arched her eyebrow.

Walker nodded in agreement. "As a matter of fact, it is."

Danny grabbed the ghost warden by the collar and punched him against the building. "Talk." He growled. Part of him wanted to believe Walker was lying, but another part of him knew Willow hadn't told them everything. She might not be able to lie, but she is champion in avoiding the truth, Danny thought bitterly.

Walker grinned as he peeled himself of the wall, casually brushing off his suit. Danny charged up another ecto-blasts. His palms enveloped in a blinding green light. Walker wasn't very intimidated.

"Very well, punk. But you better listen." Walker took a breath, he didn't need, and began his story.