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Trying his best to put the rough day he had just had behind him, Danny ran to the front of the Deathbringers' Lair and flew out of it.

In the course of a single day, Danny had gone to his friends' memorial service, spoken on their behalf, had his family kidnapped, went to a lair deep within a dark abyss, fought off three ghosts (it looked like it would have been four) and managed to set his family free.

Danny got home a few minutes later. He beat his family to the portal, which was good because it gave him time to act natural like nothing had happened. He dashed into his room and transformed out of his ghost half and was back to his normal teenaged self. Moments later, he heard something coming through the portal.

Acting like he had been in his room the whole time, Danny ran down into the basement and saw his family coming out of the portal. All of them looked very exhausted and worried after what they had just been through.

"Hey, guys," Danny said very casually. "What took ya? I've been home from the memorial service for a while."

"Danny!" Jack yelled. "You know that ghost that keeps popping up and causing trouble? He was just in that place with a bunch of ghosts the kidnapped us on our way out from the memorial service."

"What happened?" Danny asked, pretending to sound oblivious.

Jack and Maddie started explaining how they were in the Deathbringers' Lair (except they didn't know the ghosts were called Deathbringers) and how the notorious ghost around town was the one who rescued them.

"Imagine that," Danny said. "If he saved you, then maybe he's not a bad ghost after all."

"It's a trick, I'm telling you!" Jack yelled. "Danny, watch out for that ghost! He's just trying to make us think he's good when he's really plotting to take over the world!"

Danny sighed. He knew reasoning with his father wasn't going to help, so he just left it there. Danny's parents walked out of the room, but Jazz stayed in there and looked at Danny sympathetically.

"Danny…" she started.

Danny smiled knowing he was finally going to get thanked for risking his life to save his family in the Deathbringers' Lair.

"What were you thinking?!" Jazz suddenly yelled, all sympathy in her voice dropping. Danny's face, too, dropped.

"What?" Danny yelled. "I just saved you guys! What are you getting mad at me for?!"

"Danny, do you have any idea how much you could have been hurt?!" Jazz yelled. "I'm amazed you're not still in that place getting cooked for dinner."

Danny just sighed. Apparently, he wasn't going to get thanked for saving them after all.

Only a short while later, Danny was hopping on the bus to go back to school. He knew he was probably going to see some of the Deathbringers there after how he humiliated them all at their lair, desperate for revenge.

But to Danny's surprise, school went very normal. He went through the entire day without his ghost sense going off once. He was stunned, yet relieved by it.

Meanwhile, at Danny's house, things weren't going so easily or as uninterrupted. Down in the basement, a ghostly hand slipped its way through the walls. Then a ghostly head popped out. It was Gippy; he had found his way into the basement.

When Gippy was completely in the basement, he went tangible and started walking over to a pile of junk in the corner. Then, he noticed something very mysterious that seemed to be glowing from under the junk.

"Huh?" Gippy asked. "What's that?!"

Gippy started picking up all the metal and loudly threw it to the side. When he saw what was making the glowing sound, a dopey open-mouthed expression wrote itself onto his face.

"Can it…be?!!!" Gippy asked excitedly as he saw what was glowing.

"Hey! What's going on down there?!" yelled a voice down into the basement. It was Jack.

"Uh-oh," Gippy said.

Jack came thundering down the basement and saw Gippy standing there. Jack gasped.

"Ghost!" he yelled. Jack promptly pulled out a giant bazooka and aimed it at Gippy. "Freeze and I won't hurt you so badly!"

Gippy started wailing so loudly it caught Jack by surprise. He stumbled backwards and fell flat on his butt while Gippy was still screaming his head off.

And not wanting to be hurt at all, Gippy went intangible and ran out of the house through the same wall that he got in from. When Jack was stumbling back onto his feet, he was brimming with victory.

"Yes!" Jack yelled as he threw his arms up. "Score one for the big guy! Jack: 1. Ghost: Zero! Zilch! Nada! Nihil!"

Danny got home a little while later. As soon as he walked into the house, he was greeted by his dad getting right into his face while having the biggest smile on his face that Danny had seen in a long time.

"Uh…hi?" Danny said.

"Danny, guess what happened?!" Jack yelled. "I was just going down into the basement, and there was a ghost there, and I pulled out the gun, and the ghost got so scared of me it ran away! Ha! I am the mightiest ghost hunter in the world!"

Danny didn't know how to respond. "Er…that's great, dad."

Danny started edging his way away from his father and walking up the stairs. Jack continued rambling on about how he had successfully scaring off a ghost. Not wanting to listen to it at all, Danny went up to his room. But as soon as he put his hand on the doorknob, his ghost sense went off.

Danny let out a slight gasp, but didn't spend another second before morphing into his ghostly counterpart. He opened up the door and was surprised at what he saw.

Danny was now staring at the hooded figure that appeared when Sam and Tucker got killed.

"You!" Danny yelled.

"Ah…so we meet again," the cloaked figure said in his raspy and Dr. Claw-esque voice.

"Who are you and what do you want?!" Danny yelled. "Are you one of the Deathbringers? Because if you are, you can cut the act now. I know who all of you are."

The cloaked figure looked even colder. "Danny, stay out of the way of the Deathbringers. Your life is not worth the risk that they pose."

"I'm not even going to consider listening to you until you tell me who you are," Danny said coldly. "Now tell me who you are or get ready to fight."

Danny put up both of his fists and they both started glowing with green energy.

The cloaked figure just laughed slightly. "You really don't want to fight me, kid."

"What the?..." Danny said, not understanding what the cloaked figure was getting at. "I've beaten you before! You can't beat me!"

"Oh, really?" the cloaked figure said. "Do you want to see if I'm stronger than I was before?"

Danny looked like he was struggling between whether he should or shouldn't accept the cloaked figure's challenge. But since he didn't respond right away, the cloaked figure apparently took that as a "yes".

"No?" the figure asked. "Then quit trying to sound tough. If you know what's good for you, you'll just let me take care of this situation."

"Let you take care of the situation?" Danny yelled. "I don't even know who you are. If you want me to trust you, take that hood off your head!"

The cloaked figure instead turned around and went towards the window. "Danny…don't die."

After making this statement, the cloaked figure jumped from the window and started flying away. Danny ran over to the window and looked out and saw the ghostly cloaked figure as he flew away.

"Man…who is that?" Danny asked himself.

The rest of the day slowly wore on. A while later, Danny was sitting in his room and playing his Playstation and just trying to get a little bit of time to himself.

"Heh," Danny remarked as he played the game. "You call yourself a phantom? You're even easier to beat than Melanie."

"Danny!" Maddie yelled from downstairs.

Danny let out an exasperated sigh and replied. "Yeah, mom?"

Maddie was heard walking up the stairs and soon appeared in the doorway into Danny's room. "Danny, you remember what tonight is, don't you?"

"Refresh my memory," Danny bluntly remarked.

"Tonight's Jazz's award ceremony!" Maddie said excitedly. "Tonight is the night Jazz is going to get all those awards for all the hard work she has done! Isn't that exciting."

"More exciting than you could ever imagine," Danny said in not caring way. "Look, would it be okay if I didn't go tonight?"

"Actually, I was coming up here to ask you if you would mind staying home tonight. I just don't want you to be embarrassed by going there and not winning any awards," Maddie said, sounding like she really cared.

"Oh yeah," Danny said sarcastically. "I'd be very humiliated if I went to an upperclassmen's award ceremony and didn't win anything."

"Well, we think you'd be happier at home than going there," Maddie said, "so we're all letting you have the house to yourself tonight."

Danny's eyes widened with happiness and excitement. "You really mean it?"

"Yeah," Maddie said. "Would you want that?"

"Heck yes!" Danny said excitedly and full of energy. "That'd be awesome!"

"Great!" Maddie said. "We'll be leaving in a few minutes and you'll have the house to yourself until 10:00."

"Sounds great," Danny pleasantly said.

Smiling, Maddie walked out of the room and down the stairs, leaving Danny pumping his arms with excitement.

"Oh, yeah!" he yelled. "I'm going to have the house all to myself. No mom, no Jazz, no dad, no nothing. I'm going to be all allllllooooone."

Danny instantly resumed playing his Playstation. "And my first order of business alone shall be beating this punk."

While Danny was happy to be alone, he didn't notice his ghost sense going off. Right behind him, Gippy was intangible and poked his head through a wall. He had heard the whole conversation Danny had with his mom. He heard Danny was going to be all alone that night.

Then Gippy started laughing surprisingly evil to himself.