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"We go ghost hunting."

It was not Valerie who answered. It was Danny. He had spoken almost robottically. He had spoken as if someone was telling him to. Tellling him to.

"What?" Paulina asked.

"We go ghost hunting. Valerie is very good, escpeially when she's aiming at me."

"Aiming at you? What is going on here?" Dash asked.

"Valerie? What does he mean?" Paulina asked, clearly confused. Though that wasn't uncommon.

"I'm... not sure," Valerie asked, also confused. What was Danny talking about? Yes, she went ghost hunting, but Dany had never actually been involved in ghost hunting. Unless you count the time when a little pirate named Youngblood had kidnapped Amity Park's parents. Danny had expertly led the attack to get them back, but had been rescued by Danny Phantom when the pirate had pushed him overboard. Oh! And there had been that time when someone had stolen her super suit and had attacked Danny. But other than that, Danny Fenton was rarely seen around ghosts.

"Hey! You still have to answer the question," Dash said. "We'll get to Fenton later."

"Well..." Valerie was in a tight spot. She didn't want to tell anyone and disappoint Vlad Masters. He had given her the gear after all. Then, had supplied her with everything she had needed during the fight with the ghost king. But then when her suit was stolen and destroyed, she had gotten a new one, one that her father didn't know about. It was one of the reasons why she couldn't be with Danny. She didn't want him to get hurt. Yeah, she still liked him as more than a friend, but no matter what, she had continue acting like she didn't like him.

Valerie couldn't quiet remember when she had started liking Danny, except that he had always been there for her. Whether the teens knew it or not.

"Come on!" Dash urged.

"Alright!" Valerie had decided. Whether or not this would hurt her, or Vlad Masters, at least Danny would know. "I go ghost hunting! I'm the girl in the red on the mechanical sled! Happy now?"

Silence. Dash and Paulina were shocked. Tucker, Sam, and Jazz looked guiltily at the floor. They had known about Valerie. Danny had told them.

"That was you?" Paulina asked.

Valerie nodded.

"Man! You're awesome!" Dash exclaimed.

"I am?" That wasn't the sort of response Valerie had expected.

Tucker, Sam, and Jazz hadn't expected it either. They didn't know what to expected, but it wasn't that.

"Yeah! The way you shoot those ghosts! You're almost as good as Danny Phantom!"

Valerie steemed inside. "Don't ever compare me to that ghost," she said dangerously.

Dash, sensing trouble, decided to change the subject. "Alright. It's Fenton's turn to answer now."

"Where do you go during ghost attacks?" Valerie asked, puzzled by the way Danny had been absent everytime a ghost showed up. She even bet that he had never seen Danny Phantom fight a ghost live, only on the news hours after it had happened.

"I fight them," Danny replied.

"What? When? I've never seen you," Paulina questioned.

"That's because I'm-"

There was a knock on the door. Jazz got up and crawled over the seats to open the door, hoping it was the police or fire deparment saying they were going to help them out and tow them to a local gas station. But Jazz was both surprised and suspicious when Vlad Masters appeared.

"Hello, Jasmine," he said, smiling evily.

Jazz narrowed her eyes, keeping her eyes on his every move.

"Vlad Masters? The eccentric billionaire?" Paulina asked.

Vlad smiled at her.

"Mr. Masters!" Valerie exclaimed, climbing to the front to see her "employer".

"Valerie!" Vlad said, smiling. "How nice to see you! What in the world happened here? I was taking a walk and saw your vehicle. Of course, I had no idea that it was your's. Do you need any help?"

"Yeah we do!" Dash spoke up.

Sam glared at him, as did Jazz. "That's okay. We're perfectly fine-"

"Nonsense!" Vlad cut in. "You can all come to my house while your van is repaired. It should only take a few hours. Come on."

Vlad opened the door wide so that everyone could climb out. But the moment Jazz's foot exited the van, the entire thing disappeared, all of it's inhabitants included. It reappeared into the Ghost Zone. Vlad Masters was no where to be seen. All arond them were millions of clocks. Clocks going forward, backward, stopping, going, doing everything a clock normally isn't supposed to do.

"Where are we?" Dash asked, climbing out behind everyone else.

"Like I know," Paulina said, looking around.

Sam, Tucker, and Jazz looked at each other, each silently getting what the other was thinking. Don't tell them anything.

"I know where we are," Danny said, his voice now happy and boyish.

Sam slapped her forehead with her hand, Tucker shook his head, and Jazz made motions with her hands that clearly said to not say anything.

"Where?" Dash asked.

"We're at Clockwork's!" Danny said, giggling.

"What's a Clockwork?" Paulina asked.

"He's a ghost!" Danny said, smiling goofily.

"A ghost!" Paulina exclaimed.

"Yes," said a raspy voice. "One that needs to know something very important and urgent if the world is going to be saved."