SECRET WEAPONS
It had been a week since Danny and Dayla had fought with Dan and Day Phantom, they had taken the make-up test for the CAT's and both their parents, friends and Jazz were so proud that they passed with top scores. So to celebrate Danny, Dayla, Andrew, Sam and Tucker were at movies watching the Cyber Zombie Commando movie marathon on this quiet Sunday evening.
The final movie had just finished and Andrew, Sam and Tucker walked out of the cinema yawning and feeling tired from watching all three films.
"I can't believe we sat through all three Cyber Zombie Commando movies" Sam said.
"Out of all three of them, the first one is definitely my favourite" Andrew said.
"Well I could've used a little less zombie and a little more cyber, but that's just me. I'm all about the Cyber" Tucker said.
Sam then shushed them and then looked around. She then said to her right, "Coast is clear guys"
"Sweet! No sign of Jazz?" Dayla asked as she and Danny turned visible.
"No sign of Jazz" Sam confirmed.
"Good! Ever since Jazz found out we're fighting ghosts she's been kind of…" Danny began to say when suddenly, Jazz pulled up in her car in front of them and tackled Danny and Dayla to the wall.
"Pushy" Danny finished.
"Danny, Dayla are you two okay?" Jazz asked. She then shoved a Fenton Thermos into Danny's hands and asked, "You know you shouldn't leave the house without a Fenton Thermos! What if there's a ghost around?"
"Jazz! There's no ghost around. Besides if there was our ghost senses would go off and let us know" Dayla assured her.
But then suddenly both their ghost senses went off and she asked with her arms crossed, "Like that?"
They all looked up in the sky and saw Skulker flying through the air, he just looked down at them.
"Skulker? He's hunting you two again?" Andrew asked.
"Again? As in more than once?" Jazz asked with slight panic.
"Jazz take it easy! There's a rhythm to these things" Danny said. "Ghost attacks, we exchange witty banter, we kick the ghost's butt and we all go home having learned a valuable lesson about honesty or something such nonsense"
She then pulled out a notepad and pen and started writing, "Attack, banter, kick butt and lesson got it!"
"So quick question though, why is he not attacking us?" Dayla asked as she noticed him just continuing his flight.
"What? No attack? He's ignoring us?" Danny asked.
Skulker flew straight for Axion Labs, he phased in through the roof and then phased through two doors down the hallway and entered the medical lab. He then activated his x-ray goggles and looked through the closets, he grinned as he found what he was looking for; a bottle of some sort of product called Bloodstream Nanobots. He phased his hand through and pulled the bottle out.
"Bloodstream Nanobots?" He heard the voice of Danny and Dayla behind him, making him jump and almost dropping the bottle.
Danny and Dayla were in their ghost forms as they confronted the hunter. Dayla then asked, "What are Bloodstream Nanobots?"
He remained silent and turned around and trapped them both in a net, sending them straight into the ground. They both struggled against the net and surprised to see Skulker just fly past them completely ignoring them.
"GET BACK HERE!" They both demanded as they broke through the net. Danny then exclaimed, "You didn't even call us whelps!"
They both then flew after him, meanwhile Jazz was driving towards Axion Labs with Sam, Tucker and Andrew in the backseat of the car.
"Jazz did it ever occur to you that Danny and Dayla have been doing fine on their own, without your help?" Sam asked.
"Exactly! So imagine how much better they'll do with it" Jazz said.
She pulled up as she saw Danny and Dayla chasing after Skulker as they phased out of the building, with determination she got out of the car and grabbed the Fenton Thermos ready to capture Skulker with it.
"You just earned yourself a one-way ticket to Thermos Land ghost!" She shouted but when she activated the thermos to capture him, she lost control of it and fell backwards.
The energy of the thermos accidently locked onto Danny and Dayla and with a scream from both of them, they were sucked into the thermos. Jazz cringed at her mistake and earned herself glares from Sam, Tucker and Andrew.
"Think I should work on my banter?" Jazz asked sheepishly in embarrassment.
"Start with your aim!" Tucker exclaimed.
The next day at school Danny, Dayla, Sam, Tucker and Andrew were walking through the halls. Every few seconds Tucker could not contain his laughter over Danny and Dayla being trapped in the Fenton Thermos last night.
"It's not funny Tucker" Dayla said frowning.
"Come on! Six hours crammed in the Fenton Thermos is totally funny!" Tucker exclaimed.
"Yeah?" Dayla asked with a mischievous smirk. She stopped in front of Dash and then shoved the books out of his hands when he wasn't looking. He growled at her, but then she pointed at Tucker and said, "He did it"
So Dash grabbed Tucker and shoved him in his locker and then locked the door and left. Danny and Dayla smirked as he complained, "Oh come on!"
"Is it funny now?" Dayla asked. Danny couldn't contain his laughter and said, "Sorry Tuck but you had that coming"
Sam then started unlocking the locker. Andrew then said, "I know you're both annoyed guys but look on the bright side, maybe that's the kind of mistake that'll get Jazz to stop interfering"
Sam smiled as she finished unlocking the locker and opened the door, but just when he was about to jump out the door was shut and locked again by Jazz who ran up to them.
"DARN IT!" He shouted from inside the locker.
"Guess what I figured out?" Jazz asked in excitement. They all looked at her with slight annoyance as she opened her laptop showing Skulker as she continued, "I've done pain staking research on last night's mystery ghost"
"Uh you mean Skulker?" Danny asked as they all gave her amused smiles.
"Let's just call him Ghost X" Jazz said as she closed her laptop. "And based on my research I would characterise him as a hunter of some sort"
"Oh she's good!" Sam exclaimed sarcastically as she unlocked the locker again. "We didn't figure that out until he screamed 'I AM THE GHOST ZONE'S GREATEST HUNTER!'"
Tucker fell out of the locker and onto the floor. Jazz then pulled out a file and gave it to Dayla, "Here's my composite sketch of Ghost X"
They all looked at the picture and had to admit, it wasn't a really good drawing. Even Dayla could probably draw a better sketch than this, but they didn't say anything, but just looked at her with a look that said 'really?'
"And I took the liberty of crafting, I must say some funny witty banter for your next encounter with him. Bye" She said and then left.
Sam took the file and started reading the jokes she wrote with a frown, "See you later X? X marks the spot? You've been X-ed? None of these are funny!"
"And nothing's funnier than her sucking you two in the thermos, you can't follow broad physical comedy like that with a one liner" Tucker said.
Danny frowned and then shoved Kwan's books while he wasn't looking, he turned around and growled at him, but he pointed to Tucker and then Tucker was once again shoved inside the locker and locked in.
"But if Jazz thinks we're letting her help, maybe she'll stop interfering as much. Worth a shot?" Danny asked.
The other's shrugged and agreed, "Worth a shot"
They all then left, forgetting about Tucker in the locker as he asked, "Nobody's coming to get me are they?"
Later that evening they began their nightly patrol. They started at a butcher shop where once again, Lunch Lady was causing trouble with the meat products.
"FEAST ON MY HOT LINKS OF DOOM!" She screamed as she took control of chains of sausages.
"Okay Jazz now!" Day shouted.
Jazz stood in front of the spinning the Jack O Nine Tails in her hand exclaiming, "Step back! I'm trained in this thing!"
"Trained by her dad!" Tucker exclaimed as they braced themselves.
Jazz flung the rope backwards, but accidently activated it and grabbed Dayla and Danny with it! She then flung them forward right into Lunch Lady.
"Wait! Witty banter" Jazz whispered as she pulled out a notepad. "Take that Lunch-a-bell and your evil hot dogs too!"
The rope let them go, sending them crashing into the wall and right into a large pot of chit-lins. Danny and Dayla emerged covered in the stuff, glaring in annoyance at Jazz. The next location was Floody Waters, everywhere was covered in ice and the source of all the ice and water frozen solid was floating right in front of them throwing rocks made of ice at them, Klemper.
"Won't anyone be my friend?!" Klemper cried as he continued to chuck the ice rocks at them.
Jazz sprang into action, she grabbed the Fenton Anti-creep Stick and started charging towards him, using the bat to defend herself against the ice rocks.
"You're going up to him with the Anti-creep Stick?" Danny asked as he and Dayla flew beside her.
"I know what I'm doing Danny" Jazz said. "Give me your worst Friendly Fiend! You haven't got the guts! Huh guts?"
"Uh yeah see, the guts joke would have been better in the last fight" Danny pointed out.
Klemper then took a deep breath and covered the entire ground in a thick layer of ice. Jazz yelped as she lost her balance and started slipping on the ice, she slipped and spun three times and then accidently hit Danny with the bat knocking him straight into Dayla and crashing straight into the wall of the frozen water at one of the water slides. They both fell to the ground and the impact caused the ice to break and fall over them and Sam, Tucker and Andrew.
Klemper fled the scene while Jazz turned around and exclaimed, "I'm helping!"
She then saw all five of them emerge from the ice, a few bruises were now on their faces and they glared at her, she smiled sheepishly and put the bat away. Their final stop for the night was the warehouse at the Amity Park docks, Sam, Tucker and Andrew were trapped underneath a pile of boxes as Danny and Dayla were fighting the Box Ghost.
"FREEZE!" Jazz shouted as she kicked the door opened and aimed the Fenton Thermos at the Box Ghost.
"Once again: Right idea, wrong fight!" Dayla exclaimed.
"I got him! I got the Crate Creep!" Jazz exclaimed.
Box Ghost stopped fighting and asked in confusion, "Crate Creep? I am the Box Ghost! Who are you?!"
Danny and Dayla face palmed themselves as this as he then asked, "No seriously who is she?"
Jazz jumped on an unsteady box and prepared to catch him, but the box wobbled causing her aim to be off when she pushed the button. Danny and Dayla just sighed as they were caught by the beam and captured inside the thermos.
"Whoops! Don't worry guys! We'll get you out of there…eventually" Jazz said.
Jazz drove her car towards home, Danny and Dayla just sat there in silence crossing their arms and just glared into the distance while she just smiled.
"That was a good night's work guys, we caught three ghosts" Jazz said.
"No actually you caught two ghosts Jazz, three times and all of them we're us!" Dayla shouted in annoyance.
Jazz pulled up at their house and parked their car in the driveway, they all undid their seatbelts and then Dayla nodded to Danny to talk to Jazz.
"Look Jazz we both know your trying to help and please don't be offended but…" Danny began to say when he and Dayla were suddenly pulled out of the car by Jack.
"Hey kids! Check this out" Jack said as he placed them down in at the back of the RV where Maddie was finishing screwing something square and metallic in the engine. "Your mother and I have upgraded the RV with an Ecto-converter"
"Ecto-converter? What's that?" Dayla asked.
"It converts a ghost's natural ecto energy into a constant replenishing fuel source" Maddie answered.
"Does it hurt the ghost?" Jazz asked.
Maddie giggled and said, "Oh Jazz, you know your father and I don't care about that"
"Yeah! If we hear it screaming then we know it's working" Jack added and then they both climbed onto the roof and started attaching something to the roof.
"Too bad there's no ghosts here. Right guys?" Jazz asked knowingly as she slapped Dayla on the back. They both just looked at her with annoyance as she said, "No ghosts here"
"We know something they don't know" Jazz whispered in a sing-song voice.
"We get it. Can we let it die now?" Danny and Dayla asked in annoyance and a sing-song voice in unison.
Jazz just hummed in the same rhythm and then slapped Danny on the back, however she accidently slapped him too hard and sent him straight towards the back of the RV. As he held out his hands to stop him from falling, one of his hands landed on the Ecto-converter. He could feel a bit of his ecto energy going into it as his hand glow and it started up the RV, they all then watched as he pulled his hand away as it took off with a screaming Maddie and Jack still on the roof, it broke through the fence and headed down the street.
"You really need to work on controlling your powers Danny" Jazz said.
They both just gritted their teeth even more annoyed with Jazz than before. Later that night, Danny and Dayla were both fast asleep in their rooms, Skulker phased into Dayla's room and floated past her, unaware that her ghost sense went off. He then phased through her floor and into the lab, he looked around and then started emptying boxes, looking through draws and breaking the equipment on the desk looking for something.
"And here we though you weren't hunting us anymore Skulker" Dayla said.
He turned and saw her and Danny floating in front of them in their ghost forms ready to fight him.
"Where is the Ecto-converter?" Skulker demanded.
"See that's more like it! You make demands and we ignore them" Danny said.
He then flew up and grabbed them both by their collars and demanded again, "Talk! Where is it?!"
"Ecto-converter? Ecto-converter? Um let me think. Dayla have you seen it?" Danny asked. She smirked and said, "As a matter of fact yes! It's right here, in our hands!"
They both then fired up their hands with ecto-energy and blasted Skulker off them, who quickly recovered and then charged right into them sending them flying straight out of the lab intangibly, they all phased right through Jazz's room who was fast asleep at her desk. She suddenly heard the noise of them phasing through her room and woke up.
"Danny? Dayla?" She asked.
They all flew above the Ops Centre, Skulker then tried punching Danny who dodged it, and Dayla then kicked Skulker away from them in the back.
"What do you want with an Ecto-converter anyway?" Dayla demanded. "Or those Nanobots you stole from Axion Labs?"
Skulker didn't answer as he fired two ropes at their feet and attached them to one of the antennas on the Ops Centre, they hung upside down and tried to break free of their bonds.
"I ask the questions! And since neither of you will talk, I'll just have to beat the answer out of you two" Skulker said with a grin and aimed his guns at them. "WHERE IS IT?!"
Skulker was suddenly blasted away from them, they all then looked behind them to see Jazz in the RV aiming the large blaster on the roof right at Skulker.
"That's right ghost! You better watch out, this baby's juiced up by the Ecto-converter!" Jazz announced over the speakers.
Danny and Dayla waved their arms around for her to keep quiet, but it was too late. Skulker grinned as he used his x-ray goggles to see that the Ecto-converter was in the engine.
"I like your new helper" Skulker said as he started heading towards her.
Danny and Dayla broke out of the ropes and then Danny shouted, "Jazz! Stay away from Skulker!"
They both then started flying after him. Jazz yelled back, "You two worry about Skulker, I'm going after Ghost X!"
She fired the blaster again, but this time Skulker moved out of the way and allowed the blast to hit Danny and Dayla instead. Jazz gasped at this as Skulker went behind the RV and ripped the Ecto-converter out of the engine with a claw and then flew off. Danny and Dayla crash landed on the ground as Jazz came out of the vehicle with the thermos in hand.
"Danny! Dayla! Are you both alright?" Jazz asked as she ran up to them, they both stood up in pain. "I…"
"No! Here, let me save you the trouble" Dayla said as she pushed the button on the thermos and once again her and Danny were sucked in. Jazz just looked around and walked back inside the house.
The next day at school Danny, Dayla, Sam, Tucker and Andrew all met up during lunch to speak about who else? Jazz. They told them all about what happened during the night as they sat in the janitor's closet.
"You two want us to say something to her?" Tucker asked.
"We're perfectly capable of talking to our own sister" Danny said.
"Which is why you're both hiding in the janitor's closet" Andrew pointed out.
"We are not" Dayla objected.
"Danny? Dayla? You guys in there?" They heard Jazz ask outside the door.
"HIDE US!" They both shouted in fear and then jumped into individual empty rubbish bins.
Jazz opened the door and smiled as she saw them all, even Danny and Dayla as they peaked from their hiding places. She then sat down in between Sam and Tucker and opened her laptop.
"So I pieced it all together. Ghost X is clearly using the technology he stole to build some kind of super weapon" Jazz said as she opened some files that showed some of their enemies, she then stopped on an image of Vlad Masters in his ghost form. "So I compiled a list of his known associates"
"Wait. Where'd you get this?" Danny asked as he recognised the files.
"From your computer Danny" Jazz answered.
Danny and Dayla came out of their hiding places and stood in front of them clearly angry at Jazz as Dayla asked, "You hacked into our private ghost files?!"
"How'd you get the password?" Danny then asked.
Everyone then answered dryly, "It's still/It's Paulina Fenton"
"Seriously Danny, it's not that hard to figure out" Sam said.
"How come you guys never told me Vlad Masters has ghost powers and he has a thing for mum?" Jazz asked.
"Because it's none of your business!" Danny and Dayla shouted as Danny shut the laptop.
"If you don't mind, we'll be outside doing the glad I'm an only child dance" Sam said as she, Tucker and Andrew walked out.
"Guys calm down" Jazz said.
"Calm down? How can either of us calm down when you're constantly butting your nose where it doesn't belong?" Dayla asked sarcastically.
"I was just trying to help" Jazz pleaded.
"Nobody asked you to help!" Danny then shouted, outside the room some of the students heard the shouting and listened in. "You're a lousy ghost hunter, an overbearing sister and an annoying obnoxious know it all with no respect for her sibling's privacy so stop helping!"
"We don't need to be by our side twenty-four seven! It's really annoying!" Dayla then shouted.
All the students gasped at what they said, tears began to fall out of Jazz's eyes and then she ran out of the room crying. As Danny and Dayla came out of the room, all the other student's glared at them making them feel really guilty about what they said to her. Early Saturday morning, Danny and Dayla were still asleep in their rooms. Jack then opened the door and shook Danny awake.
"Danny have you seen Jazz?" He asked.
Danny yawned and rubbed the sleep out of his eyes as he sat up and answered, "Jazz? I haven't seen her since yesterday. Why?"
"Neither have your mother and I. We can't find her anywhere, she's gone" Jack said.
Danny's eyes widened, now scared and worried about his older sister. Meanwhile Maddie went to Dayla's room and woke her up gently shaking her.
"Dayla honey have you seen Jazz at all?" Maddie asked as she sat up in bed.
"Hmmm? Jazz? Last time I saw her was yesterday. Why do you ask?" Dayla then asked.
"Because Jack and I haven't seen her since yesterday either. We have both looked everywhere and can't find her, she's gone" Maddie asked really worried.
Dayla gasped in fright and wondered what could've happened to Jazz, they all then went to Danny's room to see the same facial expression on Danny's face. The answer to where Jazz had gone was in Wisconsin at Vlad's castle mansion, Vlad was down in the lab in his ghost form holding a whimpering Klemper by his collar in front of his ghost portal.
"If I told you once, I told you a thousand times! I will not be your friend!" Vlad shouted in anger right in his face.
Klemper continued to whimper as Vlad threw him into the portal and back into the Ghost Zone. Suddenly he heard the doorbell ring and growled in annoyance.
"Oh what now?!" He shouted.
He changed back into his human form and headed out of the lab, he went to the front door as the doorbell rang again and was completely surprised to see Jazz standing there with a suitcase sitting beside her and the Spectre Speeder parked in the driveway. He could tell that she had been crying since her eyes were red and her face was still covered in tears.
"Oh Uncle Vlad! I run away from home, my father's an idiot, my sibling's hate me and I wanna live with you" Jazz cried.
"Wait. What was that?" Vlad asked. Jazz then answered, "I've run away from home"
"No after that" Vlad said. Jazz then asked her crying now ceased, "My sibling's hate me?"
"No in the middle" Vlad specified. Jazz then asked, "My father's an idiot?"
Vlad smiled and said, "That's the one! Come to Uncle Vlad"
Jazz picked up her suitcase and followed him inside as he placed a gentle hand on her shoulder. Meanwhile back at Fenton Works, Maddie and Jack were still really confused as to why Jazz may have left, but Danny and Dayla had a pretty good idea where she might have gone.
"It's not like Jazz to just take off without saying anything" Maddie said.
"I know. She usually talks and talks and talks big words I can barely understand" Jack said.
"Kids can either of you think of any reason she might be upset?" Maddie asked. Jack then asked, "Or why she might've taken the Spectre Speeder?"
"She's after Skulker" Danny whispered but a little too loudly.
"What was that?" Maddie and Jack asked.
"Uh what he meant was…He was so upset about her leaving that he was going to skulk her" Dayla lied nervously.
"Uh yeah that's what I meant, so we're both just going to skulk her. Gotta go bye" Danny said and then he and Dayla ran out of the room leaving a confused Maddie and Jack in Danny's room.
They both ran to the bathroom and quickly changed out of their pyjamas, they both then ran straight down to the lab.
"We told her she was a lousy ghost hunter and that she was really annoying, so of course she decided to prove us wrong and hunt Skulker!" Dayla exclaimed as they changed into their ghost forms in the lab.
"If anything happens to her, it's gonna be our fault" Danny said and then they flew into the portal.
Meanwhile the phone rang and Jack and Maddie ran straight downstairs, they both looked at the number on the screen and Jack smiled as he recognised the area code on the number.
"608 area code? Hey that's Wisconsin, it's Vladdie!" Jack exclaimed.
Maddie answered the phone and put it on speaker, they then heard Jazz, "Mum? Dad?"
"Hello? Jazz? Jazz honey are you alright? Why are you in Wisconsin?" Maddie asked.
Jazz sniffled from her crying and answered, "I'm fine. I just can't be around Danny and Dayla right now, so I'm staying with Uncle Vlad"
"What?" Maddie asked completely shocked. Vlad grabbed the phone off Jazz and said, "Oh think nothing of it Maddie, she just needs as the young folks say chill in"
"Out. It's chill out" Jazz corrected.
"Really? That can't be right" Vlad muttered in confusion.
"Absolutely…" Maddie began to protests but was cut off as Vlad smiled and said, "Absolutely? Fantastic! I'll look after her as if she were my own. Ta!"
And with that he hung up the phone and smiled at Jazz who returned a smile back. While Maddie was still a little annoyed that she was with Vlad, Jack just smiled.
"What a great guy! Good luck finding friends like that huh? I'm sure she'll be fine" Jack said.
Maddie sighed and said, "I suppose"
Jack then looked at her romantically which she returned as he said, "In the meantime, Danny and Dayla are busy skulking, Jazz is safe in Wisconsin and we have the house to ourselves…"
"I'll get the checker board!" Jack exclaimed, he then ran off to get it while Maddie frowned for that's not what exactly she had in mind for alone time.
Vlad finished his cup of tea and stood up as he said, "Well that's that for now. I'll send for the rest of your things as soon as the lawyer draws up the adoption papers"
As he left the room Jazz could hear him laughing under his breath, she then looked at him with determination.
"That's right keep laughing, we'll see who laughs last" Jazz said. "Ooh that's good! My witty banter is improving"
Meanwhile in the Ghost Zone, Danny and Dayla flew at top speed towards Skulker's island. As they came up closer, a door suddenly opened and slammed right into Danny and Dayla knocking them back and then Skulker came out holding Technus's lighting rod in his hand as he shut the door.
"Excellent! All my tasks complete" Skulker said with a grin.
They both growled at him and demanded, "Where is she?!"
"What are you talking about whelps?" Skulker asked in confusion.
They both fired a combined ecto blast straight at him, he dodged it and the blast headed right for the door he came out of as Technus came out with a towel around his waist.
"Which of you fools stole my…" Technus started to ask when he was cut off as he was blasted back into the door.
"Hey! You're helping too" Skulker said with a grin.
He was suddenly kicked in the chest by Danny and then punched in the face by Dayla, sending him back a few feet.
"That's odd. No witty banter?" Skulker asked as he straightened up.
"We're not in the mood! All we wanna know is what you've done with Jazz!" Danny demanded.
"I've done nothing with your sister ghost boy. Skulker hunts what he hunts, nothing more, and nothing less. Which is why I'm bringing this to my employer" Skulker said as his grin widened when he showed them the lightning rod.
He then fired the weapon at them, they both screamed in pain as they were electrocuted, Skulker then threw a small blue see through cube at them which enlarged and trapped them inside as they fell unconscious. Skulker grabbed the box and held it on his shoulder in triumph.
"You two will be a gift" Skulker said.
Meanwhile Jazz was walking through the halls of Vlad's mansion looking for anything suspicious, she then saw a door that was slightly opened and peaked through. There she saw Vlad standing in front of a large fireplace within what she could guess was his private study room, she then watched as he tilted the golden football down a bit and then suddenly the fireplace opened to reveal a secret passageway, he entered and then the fireplace closed. She smiled and then walked in the room very sneaky like, she then smiled even wider as she saw a laptop at the desk.
She then walked over and started typing away as she asked, "So what do we have in here about Nanobots and an Ecto-converter?"
As soon as she hit enter, she was completely grossed out to see many images of Maddie pop up on the screen.
"Oh gross! I will never be able to un-see this!" Jazz exclaimed in disgust as she shut the laptop closed.
She gasped as she suddenly heard the fireplace open, thinking quickly she grabbed Vlad's college year book off the shelf and sat down on the lounge chair pretending to be looking at it as Vlad walked in. As he noticed her there, he frowned a little bit.
"Jasmine what are you doing in my private study?" He asked.
"Private? Why would you have study from someone you consider a daughter?" Jazz asked innocently. She then looked at the picture of Vlad, Maddie and Jack together in the book. "Ooh and you were such a looker in college"
"I wonder why this didn't happen" She said as she folded the picture over Jack, indicating a relationship between Vlad and Maddie.
"Ah Jazz you sweet perceptive child!" Vlad exclaimed now smiling. "Oh come give your Uncle Vlad a hug"
Jazz put the book down and hugged him, she then smiled in determination as she saw the fireplace close. Twenty minutes later, she snuck through the hallways as quietly as she could and went back into the private study room, she then opened the fireplace and walked down the staircase of the secret passageway. She gasped in amazement as she now found herself inside a secret lab, she looked around and saw standing in the room was one of the Ecto-suits that Jack and Maddie had built during the whole Pariah Dark incident.
"Dad's Ecto-suit?" Jazz asked and then saw beside it on the floor was the Ecto-converter and the Bloodstream Nanobots. "The Ecto-converter and the Bloodstream Nanobots? I was right! He is building a superweapon!"
She then got excited and started a victory dance and exclaiming, "I'm right! That's right! It's my birthday! I'm right!"
She stopped as she felt someone behind her who was really angry. She turned to see it was Vlad standing there with his arms crossed as he asked, "And what exactly were you right about Jasmine?"
"Um…how cool a daddy you'll be" Jazz lied with a weak smile.
"Hmmm and you just happen to figure this out here, in my secret lab?" Vlad asked more suspiciously.
"Which is much cooler than anything my dad could ever hope to build" Jazz said keeping up her act.
"Yes it is isn't it? Well perhaps I'm being a bit harsh" Vlad said with a smile. "After all I have no reason to suspect you of any deception"
Jazz's eye twitched at that, there was a sudden flash of light behind them and they both gasped when suddenly Skulker came in holding the lightning rod in one hand and the box containing the still unconscious Danny and Dayla in the other one.
"And now I do" Vlad said as he glared back at Jazz.
"Sorry to interrupt, I brought you the final piece to your super weapon" Skulker said.
He tossed the lightning rod to Vlad who caught it and then grinned. Skulker then said, "This one's on the house"
He dropped the box and then kicked it over to them, Danny and Dayla then woke and sat on their knees.
"Jazz?" They both asked as their eyes opened fully.
"Danny? Dayla?" Jazz then asked. They all then asked each other, "What are you doing here?"
"You three know each other?" Vlad asked.
"Yes/No. No/Yes. Sort of" They all answered in unison.
"Oh I'm torn. I loved the idea that you left your father for me Jasmine. Yet I'm suspicious of your motives now. Only one thing to do I guess" Vlad said.
"Let us all go and let the courts figure it out?" Jazz asked hopefully.
"Oh close" Vlad said with a grin.
A few minutes later Jazz found herself in the Ecto-suit on a large football field in the backyard of Vlad's mansion, beside her still trapped in the box was Danny and Dayla. The lights flicked on as Vlad pushed the button on a remote within the box stand.
"Uncle Vlad is this necessary?" Jazz asked.
The large screen flicked on to reveal a grinning Vlad saying, "Why Jasmine you didn't expect me to take you in as my own without first testing your loyalty. I've improved Jack's Ecto-suit using the lightning rod and Ecto-converter as an endless power source, meanwhile the Nanobots within you will control your breathing and heart rate"
"So the suit won't waste me?" Jazz asked.
"No, so I can if you betray me. But that needn't as long as you behave like a good little adopted daughter to be" He answered.
"Let her go Vlad. She's clearly some clueless know-it-all who got in way over her head" Danny said.
"Yeah and instead of helping she just made things worse" Dayla added.
That made Jazz really angry as she said with a glare, "You're both toast!"
"Oh yeah? You and what toaster?" Dayla asked sarcastically.
Vlad pushed the button on the remote and Jazz could feel the Ecto-suit activating, the box trapping Danny and Dayla suddenly disappeared releasing them. They both stood up and got ready to run away.
"Okay Jazz on our signal run" Danny said.
"You're not the boss of me Danny! I'll run when I feel like it" Jazz snapped.
"FINE!" They both shouted getting really frustrated with her. Jazz then snapped back, "Fine!"
Danny and Dayla began to run towards the other end of the field, Jazz then began to run and because she was in the Ecto-suit she was running ten times faster than them, Danny and Dayla then picked up their speed by flying and just when they were about to leave they were suddenly stopped by a ghost shield and they all screamed as they were electrocuted a little and flung back to the ground.
"I fixed the ghost shield too. It works on both ghosts and humans, you kids have fun" Vlad said and then the screen went blank.
They all stood up and started circling around each other. Dayla then said, "We're gonna have to fight, but we're gonna need to make it look convincing"
They both were suddenly punched really hard by Jazz, sending them straight into the ghost shield which once again electrocuted them a bit and they fell back to the ground hard.
"That was for humiliating me in front of the entire school!" Jazz snapped at them.
"Okay! We deserve that and we're both sorry" Dayla said as they stood up in pain. Danny then said, "You we're just trying to help but please, just follow our lead"
Jazz punched them both again, sending them into the shield again and as they fell Jazz then delivered two punches at them and they both screamed as they were sent flying across the field. Jazz then ran in front of them at top speed and prepared to punch them again, but she was stopped as they both grabbed her robotic fists and then Dayla grabbed onto the helmet and made the suit intangible and stuck it in the ground pinning her arms in it as she made her tangible. She struggled to get out of the ground, Danny and Dayla then walked to the front and got right into her face.
"WILL YOU LISTEN TO US FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE?!" They both screamed in anger.
"Duh! I am listening to you two. You guys told me to make it look convincing" Jazz said with a smile.
They both calmed down and saw her wink, they both then smiled back but then she grabbed them both and held them in the air by their wrists but they kept up with the act as Vlad smiled in excitement within the box stand.
"Jazz no!" Dayla pretended to beg. Danny then added, "Don't do this to please!"
They both then faked a couple of screams as she flung them into the ghost shield again and they both landed on the ground and pretended to be unconscious. Jazz kneeled down and thought she really hurt them, but they both winked and then went back to pretending to be unconscious.
"Oh no! What have I done?! Can you two ever forgive me?" Jazz faked cried.
Vlad then stood in front of them with a grin as he said, "Of course I forgive you Jasmine now that you've proven your loyalty"
Danny and Dayla then woke with a smirk and waved as they both phased into the ground. He then looked at Jazz who held her robotic hand in front of him and said, "Guess again fruitloop"
She blasted him right into the stands, he sat up now really angry at her. He pulled out the remote and pointed it at her, she looked at him in fear now.
"So that's how it's going to be huh? Have you forgotten that with the press of a button, I can end your resistance once and for…" He began to say when suddenly Danny phased through the stands and grabbed the remote off him.
"Oh cheese logs" He finished.
He then peaked through the stands and then suddenly he was blasted by Dayla with an ecto blast, he screamed as he was blasted into the air and landed on the field hard. Danny and Dayla then floated beside Jazz as he sat up in pain.
"You…You tricked me! All of you!" Vlad snapped.
"Barely! Oh no what have I done?" Danny acted again with a smile and a laugh. "What was that?"
"Jazz no! Please!" Jazz then mocked and then Dayla mocked, "Don't do this please!"
They all then laughed. Vlad stood up and grinned, "Oh you think you know everything? Tell me girl, did you expect this?"
He changed into his ghost form and asked with a laugh, "Surprised?"
But when he looked at them, he noticed that they were gone and on the Ecto-suit was a small note stuck to it. He flew up to it and read, "No. Not surprised"
"Self-destruct initiated. Activating in five, four, three, two, one" The computer said on the suit.
"OH BUTTER NUTS!"
The suit exploded and Danny carried Jazz as they all flew out of there. A few minuted later they were all in the Spectre Speeder, Danny and Dayla were now in their human forms as Jazz started the long trip back to Amity Park.
"I messed up didn't I?" Jazz asked.
"Actually we messed up" Dayla said. Danny then continued, "We were so busy being angry with you, we didn't realise you really can help"
"You're not that bad a ghost hunter Jazz" Dayla then said.
"But just because I can help, doesn't mean I should. Ghost fighting's your thing guys. I'll always be there to help you two, just in different ways" Jazz said with a smile.
They both smiled back at her and gave her a small group hug as Danny said, "Consider yourself a reserve member of Team Phantom"
"You've earned it Jazz" Dayla said as they let go of her.
"Don't you guys still need to fight Ghost X…I mean Skulker? I can totally cover for you two" Jazz asked.
"Nah. We'd rather ride home with our big sister if that's okay" Dayla said.
"Yeah. Besides I'm sure mum and dad are enjoying their alone time" Danny said with a small laugh.
Back at Fenton Works, Maddie laughed as she won the checker game against Jack. Jack then in frustration smacked the board away.
"Nobody likes a sore loser Jackie! I won! I won! That's right! It's my birthday!" Maddie exclaimed as she did a little victory dance in front of a very annoyed Jack.
THE END
NEXT TIME ON THE PHANTOM TWINS:
Technus is back once again! This time he has a plan to take over every computer in the world. Plus are Danny and Valerie getting closer? Are Dayla and Andrew getting closer as well? Find out next time on The Phantom Twins in: Flirting with Disaster.
AUTHORS NOTE:
I know your probably not gonna like this piece of bad news, I have tried to make The Fright Before Christmas work but unfortunately I couldn't so I'm skipping that episode. I'm really sorry about this and please don't hate me for it.
I will continue to do my best with the Phantom Twins.
Mikaela2015