A/N: the chapter happens during control freaks, and begins after the detention (with lancer) of them for being discovered in Circus Gothica. The incident of Danny skipping detention (and imprisoning lancer) occurred like 2 pm, the encounter in Circus Gothica about 9 pm there are seven hours more or less for the events happening.

The "fight" with Val was short, but to be fair she was injured and it wasn't really important. From here everything is going to be an AU I will try to see how it evolves.

For this chapter a few days had passed, Valerie suit was repaired (I made it self repairing), and she had recovered, although not completely to point it was a good idea to engage in a fight with a powerful ghost, but she has never tough deeply and she is still pissed from beating she took. She is currently training in the forest outside of amity park (venting her anger).

There will be an explanation of Val ending enjoying what happened to her in 3 or 4 chapters, so don't mention it.

The bad quotes are for the half cooked/impulsive plan that Val used and the consequences of it.

"No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy"- helmuth von moltke the elder

"Everybody does stupid things; it shouldn't cost them everything they want in life." Dr House

Library at Casper High

"I wanted to experience something horrific and unimaginable". (Holds up Circus Gothica ticket). "This isn't what I had in mind" (watches Lancer clip his toe. nails)

"We can always go to the circus tomorrow. That is, assuming we're not grounded and your parents let me within two-hundred feet of you."

"Guess we'll have to settle for the live web-cast of opening night." (Hiding PDA behind a book)

Freakshow appears on Tucker's PDA.

"Freakshow: Creatures of the night, unleash your dark side at Circus Gothica!"

"Unleash your dark side at Circus Gothica..." (Walks towards the door)

"And just where do you think you're going, Mr. Fenton?" (Jumps in front of Danny)

Danny's eyes turn red, he smiles and leaps into Lancer.

"Unleash your dark side at Circus Gothica..." (Walks into janitor closet)

Danny phases out and locks Lancer inside.

"Cask of Amontillado! (Bangs on door) Let me out, let me out!"

"Danny, what are you doing? We're in too much trouble as it is!"

"No such thing as too much trouble. Unleash your dark side at Circus Gothica." (Phases through ceiling)

"Man. We better follow him."

"(sarcastic) Oh no! But that would mean skipping detention and going to the circus! (Notices Tucker's stare) Hello? Irony" (grabs Tucker and runs off)

With Danny in the forest outside of amity park

Danny was flying to Circus Gothica to unleash his dark side. Given the fact that he was flying up to the forest (the circus was outside the city and passing the forest) where there is no ghosts and/or ghost hunters he could be forgiven for not noticing that Valerie was on the ground training in the same forest.

Valerie was training in the forest, in the provisional training grounds she created, it was more a cave where she put her personal belongings and road of obstacles and targets than anything else, but still in her opinion it was perfect. The place was so inside the forest so no one would bother her, and it had everything she needed to improve and get better. Hell it even had a small source to take a bath if she wished.

She created this place a few days after receiving the ghost hunter equipment, because obviously she needed to practice how to use it, yes the jet sled was "automatic" but the guns and the rest weren't, just because she could throw saw blades and press a button to shoot, that didn't mean she could hit the target, she needed to practice to do that. It wasn't like she could train in her house, not only for the lack of space but also because her father will have discovered her.

In the beginning she rarely came here, it wasn't that she didn't understand the need of training, but between school, work and hunting she just didn't have the time for training, and besides she was already good and didn't needed so much besides the target practice, right?.

JA, what a joke, the beat down that the ghost scum gave her the last time showed her that she needed to get better. fortunately her father trusted her and bought the excuse she gave him and didn't question her too much about her injuries, partially because he was more worried to get to hospital, but anyways, she was mostly healed

So she came here to train but this time she concentrated more on getting stronger and faster, rather than target practice. Who knew that running in to the woods was a good way of building stamina

She had been coming here after school and trained until night, every single day since she got outside of the hospital. She always practiced in her suit, she felt comfortable in it, it was incredible flexible and didn't limited her movements, hell it was almost like being naked, and best of all for some reason it didn't ended smelling of sweat like other normal clothes she used (she suspected that there might be some sophisticated technology or some shit like that, but she didn't really care), but most important of all:

For some reason she always felt faster, stronger and better at hitting the targets when she was using the suit. Hell, she even felt smarter when using it. In a nutshell the suit was like an extension of her, like a second skin.

She was distracted with her thoughts, when the ghost detector beeped.

Ghost signature detected

She removed her hood and looked at the sky to see the ghost scum, and was surprised to see with ghost it was.

"Phantom" hissing

If she learned something from the beat down he gave her was, not to be impulsive ant to think her options before acting.

"mmm… he hasn't seen me, I should probably hide, for the moment he is too powerful for me to fight him, I am still not completely healed from the beat down he gave me, granted I had a good hit on him and stabbed him but its nothing that a few weeks on the ghost zone couldn't heal… " and then it hit her, phantom was a ghost, a ghost healed slower than a human and that was if it was recovering in the ghost zone (at least according to the archives she read from her benefactor).

"wait a second for a ghost to heal properly it needs to spent time in the zone, but phantom has been seen in the town since the last fight I had with him, I am a human and still haven't healed completely, there is no way for phantom to be on better shape than me. Between the fact the injuries that I gave him and the ones that other ghosts have gave him (according to the footage from the news), right now if I attack him I will have the advantage, I could finally get rid of him"

Valerie plan was sound, you see ghosts heal slower that humans and need time (weeks) in the zone to heal any injuries they suffer, with was the reason you didn't see a ghost the next day after a fight, they needed time to recover. Under that assumption a ghost that was hit by a grenade, stabbed a few days ago and that had been seen in fights in the news recently, will be really tired and in danger of becoming ectoplasm goo unless he goes to the zone fast, like yesterday. So attacking him was a good and logical decision.

Sadly for Val, halfas heal much faster than ghosts or humans, they only needed to rest in their human half, which was the reason they reverted to their human halfs when they fall unconscious or are really injured.

Danny might have been fighting ghosts recently, but only a few, and Sam and tucker all but chained him to bed so he could rest, so was in a better condition than her. Not only that but stronger because their species becomes stronger after being gravely injured (similar to saiyajin but not so extreme).

"It could actually work, I mean I am still injured, but he is in worst shape than me, not to mention that I have the element of surprise".

Without more thinking, she took her bazooka and shoot before she lost sight of phantom.

The blast hit Danny and sent him crashing into the nearby threes and finally the ground. He groaned as he picked himself off of the ground and blinking at seeing Val in front of him.

"I am going to destroy you where you stand ghost" Valerie was confident that she will take him today.

"Jajaja, ah Val that is a good joke, didn't we have this exact conversation some time ago?" chuckling

"yes, but this time will be different ghost, I stabbed you last time and really hurt you, and there is no way in hell you could have healed in a few days" smirking at seeing phantom angry expression.

"Yes thanks for reminding me Val, maybe I should repay you the favor"

Before Val could respond Danny pounced her and tried to take her weapon and disarm her, but she didn't let it go.

"What the hell, you shouldn't be this strong, I am still not healed you should be really weak right now" said while struggling to keep her weapon

"Really? thanks for the info" he then hits her in her left leg where he hit her last time and she drops her weapon because of the pain.

"Ahhh!" she screamed and falls in the ground in pain.

Danny took advantage of that, created an ecto rope and proceeded to tie her legs and her hands behind her back. He then puts her down with her back against the ground, once done he removes her hood and while kneeling he stops her from struggling and makes her face him.

"Seriously Val, we danced this tune before, what made you think this was going to be any different?" curiosity in his voice

"You shouldn't have healed yet, you should be weak right now, this should be easy" said Valerie while wincing in pain and struggling to get free.

"so lets see you hunt me down without reason and even tough I have the right to retaliate, rather than hurt you back I offer you a truce, but when you are going to take my hand you stab me literally and metaphorically, then I gave you a beat down for you to stay out of my way, but rather than get the message, you wait when I am at my weakest and attack me again. You are really a slow learner, aren't you?"Chuckling

"But seriously val I warmed you that if you attacked me again, there will be consequences"

"Go ahead scum, do your worst I am not afraid" confident that she could take another beat down. The idea of him using a permanent solution never crossed her mind.

"You know Val I was going to unleash my dark side at Circus Gothica, but why wait until then?"

Danny got up from his knelling position and was preparing to launch and ecto ray to implement the "idea" of Sam to just break her legs, after all if she was confined to a wheelchair she couldn't hunt him, when suddenly he noticed how erotic Val looked right then.

Val was in her jumpsuit bound and helpless; struggling to get free but it did her no good. She had couldn't break her bonds, and no time or patience to try and loosen them by relaxing and flexing.

Seeing her in her jumpsuit tied up and completely at his mercy reminded him of the porn books, videos and pictures that he stole from Vlad (sue him he was a teenager)

"What are you waiting ghost? You think you are going to scare me with the suspense? Begin to bet me if you want but when I am back in health I will came for you" angry at the ghost for thinking he could scare her.

That broke Danny of his trance.

"You know Val, I was thinking of breaking your legs to take you out of the game" said Danny like he was speaking of the weather.

A chill run down her spine, for the first time Val realized that she was helpless, for the first time she realized the danger she was.

"I-I am not afraid of you phantom, if you do something like that I will report you to the police, it doesn't matter if my identity is discovered, everyone will know that you did it" trying and falling to hide the silver of fear it was forming inside of her.

"Relax Val I said WAS. After all it will be a pity that someone with such beautiful legs can't use them anymore" chuckling

Before Val knew what was going on, she found her head forcefully put onto the ground again. "G-Ghost, phantom, w - what are you doing?" asked a frightened and shocked Valerie, who was trying to pull herself from the ground and failing to do it.

At any other time she would be angry and starting to insult and curse the ghost, but right now she was too afraid and shocked to do so.

"W - What's going o - on phantom?" Val asked again, as she tried to remain calm, "What's g - gotten into you?"

"What has gotten into me?, it's a short story, we are alone and thousand miles away from civilization, you are a bitch that is has been hunting me and will never stop hunting me even if you don't have a good reason, all because according to you I am nothing more than an animal that should be put down."

"Not a good reason?, not a good reason?, you ruined my…"

"Ruined your life blab la bla, that is not a good one, so I will make both of us a favor" said Danny while ogling her body.

She was getting worried about the looks phantom was giving her and whatever sick plans he was forming.

"What are you planning to do with me?"

"Why Val? You are really slow, aren't you? I will rape you of course" chuckling

"R-rape me?" now she was really afraid "b-but you cant, you are a ghost and I am a human, a-and and ghost can´t have sex that easily they.. " shuttering unintelligible things

"Why not? It will give you a good reason and even the right to hunt me, for me, I will have my revenge on you, have some fun and it will let me unleash my dark side" happily explaining like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Val became horrified at the idea as Phantom was walking up to her. As he got near to her, she tried to fight the bounds she was in. As he got next to her, he ran his hand over her entrance, making her shiver.

Danny smiled at the fear that Val was showing, it excited him, he felt her need to fight, to get away from him and he liked it. Unknown to him this was due to his ability of "feeding from emotions" in this case fear.

"Now I think I should have some fun with you." Smirking ""

Rape Begins - Skip if you're sensitive to this sort of thing!

Valerie looked fearful as Danny was walking up to her. With the shock of what was happening, she didn't react in time as Danny lift by her hair, using force to push her against a nearby tree and began to kiss her.

However, when He forced his tongue into her mouth, and begun to play with the entrance of her pussy, before pushing his fingers into her, it took a few moments before her senses kicked in again and bite down onto Phantom's tongue. Whilst this had the effect she wanted, having him stop and back away a bit, it also made him angry.

"You fucking bitch!" Danny snapped at Val as he fought against the pain, as he slapped her hard and knocking her to the ground again.

Danny was happy that Val was going to be an easy girl, seeing that she just seemed to freeze in fear when he first kissed her, so he became really angry when she bite his tongue. Sure he appreciated a bit of a challenge from her, but to bite his tongue, that pissed him off big time. Val would pay for that.

As Danny saw Val getting back up off the ground, he took her by the throat as he used his free hand to play with her breast. However though, Val was trying to get free. Danny just smiled at this, he liked the fight Val was giving, and she wasn't giving him an inch. But with the grip on her throat, Val wasn't getting far though.

He then leaned in and whispered darkly into her ear, "I'm going to kiss you again, and if you try and do what you did last time, you'll regret it."

Danny then began to kiss her roughly, as Valerie tried to push him away from her.

(This can´t be happening to me, I can´t be having my first kiss with phantom or that I am going to lose my virginity like this, worse I can´t believe I am enjoying it). She was thinking

As Danny was kissing her, he had his tongue down her throat, and was using the hand that was playing with Valerie breasts to finger fuck her pussy. And as he did so, he made it so that he became relaxed and his hand become loses around Valerie throat.

This to Valerie was the perfect time to push Danny's hand away from her throat, and make her move to knock Danny out and go for her weapons.

However it wasn't to be, as she pushed Danny away once her throat was free, she saw him Danny smirk, it seem this was a game to Phantom, and this was just another part of it. It seemed that Phantom was only toying with her.

Before she could formulate a plan take him down, he hit her again and forced her onto her knees. Danny began to undress and Valerie paled as she realized what was about to happen.

"If you try and bite this, you'll wish that I just had beaten you like the last time." Danny warned her, as he let his suit fall on the ground, Valerie wished she wasn't getting raped that she had thought better than just attack him when she was completely alone in the woods. "This time I would make sure to break all your bones, your pain will last for weeks, making you begfor death for biting my cock off. Is that understood!?" Danny asked darkly to her.

Valerie only nodded in fear at this, before Danny forced his cock down her throat with his hands on her head. Valerie tried to swallow as much as she could, so that she wouldn't choke on it, but Phantom's hands never left her head, and he went faster. Every time his hands pushed her head harder and faster onto his cock and Valerie would have to swallow deeper, until she began choking on it.

The sick little perverted bastard, he was hard at what he was doing to her, was bigger than any sixteen year old dicks she had seen when the creepy stalkers send her pictures of their cocks by cell phone. She didn't know if it was a ghost thing or not, but he had a thick eight and a half inch long cock.

When she managed to swallow about the half of that monster cock, she started gagging and choking on Danny's cock. Her saliva streamed out of the corners of her mouth and down that erected shaft. There was so much saliva that it made a pool on his pubis.

Danny noticed this and he understood that Val wouldn't swallow it any deeper. She would need some time to get used to the size of his dick. Not wanting Valerie to die by his cock, to Danny it would be a mood killer, he let her head go. And as he did, Valerie pulled away from Danny's cock, and in doing so give a gulp of air.

As Valerie caught her breath, she couldn't believe what Phantom was doing to her, ignoring the fact that this technically necrophilia and rape, a ghost shouldn't be able to just cum like this, the "seed" they had was limited, and they exchanged ectoplasm during the coitus with was the reason that having sex was a risky business for them. That was the reason there weren't a lot of ghost children (again according to the archives she read from her benefactor).

But before she could think more of this, she found herself with her body bent over again with her breasts touching the ground and her hands still tied behind her.

Danny smirked as he looked at Val, he had no idea what she was thinking nor did he care. All he wanted was to fuck her. And he knew just the way to do so for the first time with Valerie, with an evil smile, with a little fight with her, he had bent her over the ground. He then took a nearby tree branch and stuck it up her ass, which caused her scream out in pain, and she begged as she tried to free herself.

"Please no, not that anything but that. I beg you Phantom, just stop I will stop hunting you, I won´t say anyone but please just stop, I beg you" crying and screaming from the pain.

But Danny didn't give her any thought what she wanted, he wasn't stupid he knew she wouldn't stop and besides if she was going to hunt him restless the least he could do was to give her a reason.

He moved the branch again to loose her ass a little. Making her scream in pain once again. Once he pulled the branch out of her, he explained, "Listen carefully Valerie, I'm going to fuck your ass, there is nothing you can do to stop me so I will give you an advice, relax and try to enjoy it, who knows you might ended up liking."

"Please no, not that, anything but that." Valerie was crying and begging him to stop. Whilst she had heard some girls saying that they liked being fucked up the ass (either cheerleaders were kinky or good liars), she wasn't an easy girl like them, so she had never done anything like that (or even normal sex), and she didn't want to start now. Phantom didn't strip her from her suit, maybe because he find it more arousing that way or he hasn't realized in his lust, regardless the suit was really flexible specially in under the waist and it prevented the branch of tearing her anus, short of like a condom. But still the branch was small and still hurt like hell, she was terrified of what phantom big member will do to her ass.

Once again Danny didn't listen to her, he didn't care if she wanted this or not. All he cared about right now was to fuck her in the ass, and before Valerie knew what happened she screamed in pain as Danny took her tied hands, and rammed his cock into her ass and begun to fuck her.

Danny was enjoying himself, Valerie was so tight and warm, this was different than his first time with Sam, it was more "wild" for lack of better word, but this wasn't the time to get lose in thought. He was holding onto Valerie' tied hands as he fucked her ass, holding onto her hands so he could fuck her even harder. As he did so Valerie kept on screaming, begging him to stop, even crying out for help - which wouldn't happen after all they were miles away from civilization.

However, as he was fucking her ass, Danny felt Valerie bite his free hand (or at least try it) to get free. This angered Danny, and as he pulled himself out of Valerie, before picking her up by her neck and slap her across the face before saying darkly, "What have I told you about biting me?"

"I'm sorry, but I… ahhhhh -" began Valerie before she screamed out in pain as Danny hit her again.

"I don't care the reason, you never listened to me why should I?, told you to relax and enjoy, if you didn't do it, that was your fault not mine. I was being gentle before but no more, I'm going to show you what happens when you hurt me."

Valerie felt a chill running her spine at hearing that.

He took a nearby branch and began to whip her. And so for the next hours, that's what happened… Danny whipped her for the first ten minutes and after getting tired he began to sodomize her again.

At first Valerie fought Danny, she tried to move but she was tied from her hands and legs, she couldn't do anything, the only thing she got was being whipped harder, and after a while the pain and tiredness made her to give up, not wanting the pain anymore and done whatever Danny told her to do.

Valerie was half unconscious when the torture stopped, cramped and in agony she could do nothing else but await his pleasure, she did not have long to wait. His hands opened her legs put the pants of her suit down and tear her panties (or what was left of them after being tear down by a branch and Danny´s cock).

(what was wrong with her?, she was bound and helpless, phantom had been whipping and slamming his cocks into her ass for hours. God, she really enjoyed it. How could she feel this way? She should be weeping and crying at what was happening to her, not anticipating it with a cunt dripping with lubrication for what was next.)

Then a cock surged into her pussy cutting her thoughts, she squealed in pleasure, as he took her first time.

Phantom was (probably) the same age than her and he was fucking her like an expert, his hands toying with her clit and boobs until she croaked into a climax.

But Danny wasn't ready to finish though not by a long shot; he pulled himself out of her before he rolled Valerie onto her back and mounted her, his cock sliding into her wet pussy in one smooth motion. Lying on her tied hands was uncomfortable, but her discomfort was quickly forgotten as Danny fucked her into another to a climax before filling her with his seed.

But because Danny was in his ghost form not only he lasted more, but also had a lot more of cum. So for the next hour or so he literally used her as nothing more than a cum dumpster.

Rape Ends!

"Seeing what the time is now, we'll part here Val, it was a good fuck and really enjoyed it but I have other things to do" and that was all Danny said as he put his suit back looking at Valerie.

She looked absolutely soaked and stuffed in cum/ectoplasm. In fact, he thought that Val looked more like a puddle than a person. Valerie's pussy and ass were both gaping, stretched wide open by Danny's cock, and stuffed with cum, the white/green cream also covering her legs, as well as her breasts, her belly and face. Hell her legs were spread wide enough to look painful.

"The ecto ropes will dissolve in a few minutes Val, I have to leave now. By the way Val, given the good fuck I gave you, I think you now have a good reason to hunt me, I will not hold you against you, but if you do I reserve the right to use your body again, and next time I will not be as gentle"

"And VaI don't think of going to the police, while I am sure they will believe you (considering my reputation) there is nothing they could do, except maybe make you famous as the phantom whore, and the ghost hunters like the Fenton's will be more interested in the effects of a human exposed the ectoplasm cum than helping you, while the GIW will try to remove your human rights to make you their lab rat for the same reasons" explained while flying and leaving her alone.

She was half conscious but she still could listen to him. Tough she didn't understand why she would go to the police after he did something so so… wonderful to her. she was left alone with her thoughts in the dark, in a puddle of cum. Soon she fall unconscious and the darkness claimed her.

Danny had already leaved and Val was unconscious. So there was no one to see when the suit that she was wearing began to glow momentarily changing color from red to black, and it will continue until the time Valerie regained conscious when it will return to normal.

Dusk, Circus Gothica big top

"Please welcome a performer who puts the "death" in "death-defying acts"... the Grim Reaper himself! (Gestures to high wire)"- Freakshow

A hooded figure wielding a scythe glides across the wire, causing gasps of shock, then balances on the blade, causing cheers.

Outside, Sam enters the big top by the "Cast only" entrance.

"What are you doing back here?" - Freakshow

"Whoa! Freakshow! This is so cool! Focus.. Uhm, I'm looking for a friend of mine who was acting kinda weird".

"Oh, that narrows it down to, oh, everyone in this tent! HA-HAW!"

The hooded figure approaches.

"What are you doing, dolt?! Get back out there and do your encore!"

The hooded figure pulls back their hood and is revealed to be Danny.

"Sam?"

"What's that? Was that-was that free will?! (Holds staff higher) Obey me, minion!"

"What? You're controlling him?"

"Get her."

Danny raises scythe and Sam screams.

Center ring

"Please welcome a brand new vict- talent to the high wire in her first...and final...performance. (Gestures to the high hire)"

Sam is perched precariously on the wire with a blindfold on that Danny slices off.] [Sam looks down and almost loses her balance.

"Sam?" said Tucker while he runs in

"Danny, listen, you don't wanna do this! You're being controlled!"

Danny raises his scythe and cuts the wire with an evil laugh. Sam screams as she falls and Danny returns to normal, leaping down and saving her. The crowd cheers.

"Danny, don't scare me like that!"

"How should I scare you?" controlled again

"Consider that a warning, girl." (Walks off)

"Jeez, Sam, you nearly gave me a heart-attack! Can we take time off from your gothapalooza and actually look for Danny?"

"That was Danny, under the hood, Freakshow's controlling him with some kind of crystal ball! C'mon!" she runs out

Sam and Tucker run right into the mob of parents.

"Sam! Shouldn't you be in detention?" -Mrs. Manson

"Uhm.. Lancer let us out?"

"Are we late for the protest?" Maddie

"I brought the Fenton Riot Gear". Jack

Jack pulls large gun from behind back and accidentally sets it off, blasting the Mansons' signs. Mrs. Manson glares at Mr. Manson.

"What? I didn't invite them." Mr. Manson

"Hey, isn't Danny supposed to be with you?"

"Not according to this restraining order he's not."

"Well he's not here and he's not at school, so where is he?"

Town

Museum alarm goes off and Freakshow's ghosts emerge, carrying various paintings. Danny emerges, decked in royal jewelry.

"Ecto-butts in gear!"

Danny fires ecto blasts at the ghosts' rears, causing them to cry out. The ghosts fly off.

"This party's just getting started!"

Police cars are flying up the road.

"Oh please!" fires ecto blast at the cars' tires

TV News

"In the wake of parental protest, Circus Gothica ringmaster Freakshow had this challenge to his critics" reporter

Goes to Freakshow, standing in front of angry mob.

"I invite you to attend a free performance for parents, police, and concerned authority figures. See the show and see for yourselves that we're harmless entertainment."

Cuts back to the reporter

"In other news, police got a break in the recent rash of mysterious burglaries as security cam footage revealed the ghostly culprits."

Goes to security camera footage of Freak show's ghosts and Danny stealing money. Danny sees the camera and blasts it.

"And finally, have you seen this out-of-shape teacher?"

Goes to picture of Mr. Lancer with 'MISSING' across the bottom of the screen.

"He was last sighted in the Casper High School library—"

TV switches off. Sam is sitting on her bed with her laptop by her. Tucker comes on screen.

"Sam, didja catch the news? We gotta do something to save Danny!"

"How ironic is it that I'm stuck under house-arrest while to a free Circus Gothica show?!"

"Only slightly less ironic than the fact that they were right about it being evil."

Sam drops a rope ladder outside her window and crawls out. On the ground, she runs into her grandmother.

"And just where do you think you're going, boobla?"

"You don't understand grandma! My friend is in trouble, and if I don't do something right away—"

"Ya know, I had a wild streak when I was your age."

Grandma Manson pulls out photo album and shows Sam a picture of herself when she was young. She's riding a scooter.

"Why are you showing me this?"

"Who knows? Maybe I'm old and babbling, or maybe you should sneak out and help your friend while I'm lost in my memories."

Sam smiles and kisses her grandmother on the forehead, then runs away."

She takes off clothes, revealing clothes like Sam's. "This is so wrong..." puts on wig like Sam's hair. "But I dig it!"

Circus Gothica big top

"I'm keeping a detailed list of anything I find objectionable, immoral, or obnoxious." Said Mrs. Manson while writing on clipboard.

Jack spits soda/popcorn all over them.

"He on the list?" Mr. Manson

"Right now, he is the list."

Outside

Sam is sneaking about the grounds when a bat-shaped shadow falls on her. She hides under the train.

"Sam?"

"Tucker?"

"Hey Sam. Is this a great Circus Gothica hat or what?" points to bat on beret

Sam gets up and slaps the bat away, mad.

"I'll take that as an "or what.""

Sam and Tucker jump on the train and go in through a top hatch in the caboose. They land in piles of gold, money, jewelry, paintings, etc. They look around and see Freakshow's staff.

"There's the crystal ball! Let's grab it and—"

Suddenly Sam and Tucker are blasted out of the caboose. Danny emerges with Freakshow. The train whistles sounds and the train pulls away.

"Danny! No!"

"Yes, yes, please scream. A shame anyone who might help you is busy enjoying my free show. HAAAH!"

Tucker and Sam chase after the train.

Big top

The tattooed ghost phases through the top and releases her tattoos upon the crowd. The crowd screams in terror.

"GHOSTS!" Jack/Maddie

Mr. Manson pulls back the tent flaps in an attempt to leave and come against a brick wall.

"We're trapped!"

"Okay, that's objectionable, immoral, and obnoxious." writes down on clip board.

Outside, Sam and Tucker look down upon the train from an overpass.

"We have to jump."

"You crazy? I can't jump."

"And I can't abandon Danny."

Sam and Tucker hold hands and jump together onto the train. They land and fall on their stomachs.

"Plus, I'll never hear the end of it if my parents learn they're right about him being evil."

"Stand backs everyone!"

Guns/phasers emerge from various parts of the Fentons' suits and fire in every direction while they make action poses. All of the tattoos are destroyed and the tattooed ghost is knocked away. Maddie lands in front of the Mansons.

"I ask you once again; YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH JUMPSUITS?"

The Mansons grin nervously and hold their hands up.

Outside

Sam and Tucker run along the train cars towards the front. Inside, Freakshow and the three remaining ghosts hear their footsteps.

"What are you waiting for? GO!"

The ghosts phase up in front of Sam and Tucker, and Danny phases up behind them.

"Danny, it's us, Sam and Tucker! You're best friends, remember?!"

"Tucker? Sam? I.. I.."

Sam and Tucker smile hopefully.

Shaking "I... *eyes glow* ..Am a.. Ghost. I have no friends."

Freakshow is now on top with them.

"Don't waste your breath, children. He's under my control now."

In the Big Top

"We owe you Fentons a debt of gratitude and an apology!"

"Save it for the bake sale, Thurston. We need to bust out of this tent!"

"Leave it to us!"

"If there's one thing we Mansons know how to do, it's whip and angry mob of parents into frenzy."

Soon, the crowd explodes out of the big top.

"Saddle up the Fenton RV! We'll head those spooks off at the pass!"

On top of the train

"Don't just stand there, finish them!"

The train approaches some scaffolding.

"Maybe you should try holding that thing up a little higher."

Freakshow raises staff and it is knocked out of his grasp as the train passes under the scaffolding. Tucker makes a grab for it but misses and it lands in Danny's hand.

"Way to go man! *walks up to Danny, hand raised* Now gimme five!"

Danny raises his hand and knocks Tucker away with a blast. Tucker hits the large ghost and is grabbed.

"Very good, drone. Now, bring me my staff. Come on, bring it"

Danny looks uncertainly at the staff.

"Fight it Danny! He's not holding the crystal ball anymore, you are!"

Freakshow grabs Sam and throws her aside, causing her to nearly fall off.

"Silence! Obey me, ghost! Give me my staff. Come on."

Danny looks uncertain again.

"I saw you up on that high wire, you were fighting him the whole time! Fight him now, Danny! You're not just a ghost! Fight him!"

"*groan* Quiet! *holds head* All of you! I need to think!"

"Stop her! Now!"

The train crosses onto a bridge, with a gorge below.

"Well, it's the crystal ball or your friend, Danny, your choice! *backs away from the approaching ghosts and accidentally backs off the train* I didn't mean that to be so literal! *screams*"

"Sam! No!"

"Sam? SAM!" Danny's eyes turn back to green breaking free of the mind control.

Danny jumps after her, letting go of the staff as he races after her. He catches her and brings her back up while the staff falls in some bushes safely.

"Danny.. Are you okay?"

"I think so. It's all a blur. I did some bad stuff, didn't I?" remembering his time with Val.

"Nothing you can't fix." Thinking he was referring to the burglaries.

They land back on the train.

"Good. Now maybe you can convince Tiny here to let go of me?"

The three ghosts' eyes also go back to normal.

"H-huh? Where are we?" Eye-patched ghost

"Are we free? Finally free?" Dwarf ghost

"Only one way to find out."

"The ghosts and Danny gang up on Freakshow, grab him, and phase into the train."

Inside

"Okay, uh, when I called you, err, "minions," it was really a-a term of endearment like-like "I love my minions!" "You know like the yellow minions of despicable me"

"You wanted a big haul? Try this on for size!"

Danny blasts the boxes/bags of gold/money above Freakshow and causes them to fall on him.

"Gah! Oh! That.. Quite.. Smarted.."

The train pulls to a stop in front of/among police cruisers that have blocked the track.

"So, what d'ya say we stick around and explain to the cops we were being controlled by an evil ringmaster?"

The ghosts phase out of the train.

"You know, I had a feeling that would be their answer". In another time or universe he would have just followed their example and phase out as well, but given what he had done right now he was angry and wanted to extract revenge.

He looks a freakshow with a look that sends shivers to him.

"You fucking bastard, do you know what you made me do?" grabbing and lifting him by his throat.

"Ggg… what I did?..Gg..I did just make you unleash your dark side, nothing more " said while trying to breathe.

"What?" Lowering his grip slightly for him to speak. "Explain" he demanded

"The orb can´t really force a ghost to do anything that goes against its obsession, after all everyone knows that is impossible. for example: if a ghost is obsessed with meat (lunch lady) then you could order said ghost to cook you a steak, but if you order it to make you a salad he will fight and could get free.

"So that is why all the ghosts you were controlling looked like criminals, they are or were, that's why you could control them that easily"

"Yes, that is why I could control them and of course they got free when the staff was destroyed in the fall. With you, I just ordered you to unleash your dark side, so it will have been easier to control you, I might have ordered you to steal, but you didn't objected too much, did you?. Think about it, didn't you enjoy it? To do what you wanted? To take what was yours" said while grinning thinking that if he could get him denying, he could make time until the police arrived, they would see them together and he could blame him. The police will protect him and phantom won't attack them because he was a good guy.

Sadly the next word he spoke surprised both of them.

"Yes" Danny said, surprised by his own answer. But the more he thought about it the more he realized that it was true.

He wasn't upset about skipping detention, given how many he has been given just because lancer didn't like him, skipping one wouldn't made a difference.

He didn't particularly care about the burglaries; amity park was the most haunted city in America, if banks didn't buy an ecto shield or some kind of protection against ghosts, that was their problem not his.

And anyways both of them were almost mundane compared to what he did to Val. But to be fair he had given her several chances and more than one warming, but she didn't listen. He remembered what he did to her and he feel a little guilty, but then he remember that she hunted him and wanted to KILL HIM. How she stabbed him and what she said of never stopping. He then realized that he was angry, but not for what he did to her.

He was angry for not being angry, ashamed, upset or even slightly guilty of what he did. That didn't mean he was happy of having being controlled or being blamed for something he wasn't responsible, one time with walker was enough.

He then increased his grip on freakshow and said.

"What I didn't like is how you made me attack my friends and blame for the burglaries, so this is what will happen. You would tell the police how you made them steal for you holding their families and how I freed them"

"W-what?"

"well no one will believe you if you said that you were mind controlling us (and I don't like the idea of anyone trying it), after all you said it yourself controlling a ghost is impossible, and besides given the problems you gave us, why not try to make me the hero? Or try to make the others look like the victims (with they are)?"

"But anyways, if you don't do what I told you and if you ever come back I will kill you" said in a cold and emotionless voice. "Do you understand?" increasing his grip again.

"Y.. , I understand" said while trying to breath and scared to death.

With that he just throws him to the ground and leaves him to the police, before leaving.

The cops bust down the door and Freakshow grins innocently.

A cop shoves Freakshow into the cruiser.

Outside

Nice work, kids. You caught that weirdo Goth punk thief red-handed!-Jack

"I'm just happy you're all safe!" Mrs. Manson

"More than safe, they're heroes!" Mr. Manson

"We're so proud of you." Maddie

"BUT YOU'RE ALL STILL GROUNDED!" the four of them

Mansons' house.

Danny, Sam, and Tucker are all in the library, being forced to study.

"Grounded, shmounded! *points at Sam* this is cruel and unusual punishment!" Grandma Manson

"I know, but it was the only way I could convince them to lift their restraining order on Danny." wearing the sundress from earlier

"At least Freakshow is in custody, the stolen goods were returned and I got something out of this mess." Showing the staff.

"Danny what are you doing with it?" a freaked Sam asked

"Relax Sam, I recovered before, freakshow thinks it was destroyed in the fall and no one knows about it"

"eeh, Danny why would you need a mind controlling ghost staff?" tucker

"to keep it safe and use it in case of an emergency"

"Danny that thing enslaved you" Sam

"yes, but I am not going to use it Sam. I will just keep it safe, trust me on this one" giving her the puppy dog eyes.

"argg, too cute, just stop please. All right we will keep it incase of an emergency" said Sam unable to resist his eyes.

"why do I feel like we're forgetting something?" tucker

Casper High

"Waiting for Godot, is anybody out there?!" sobbing "This is sooo wrong!" banging on door

The janitor opens door and pushes mop in "See ya Monday." closes door

Lancer jumps on the door and tries to pull it open, then continues banging on it.