Hey guys! Wow, it's been a while since I did the last chapter of this story ^^; Anyways, this is when Clockwork starts doing the three tests. This will be done a little differently than in the original Yu-Gi-Oh, because this is Danny Phantom and not Yu-Gi-Oh. Review please!
Kwan began rubbing his head from the fall as Dash came in with a concerned look on his face. He checked his friend's eyes to make sure they weren't red like last time and luckily, they weren't. He sighed in relief and helped Kwan up on his feet, who looked at him with utter confusion. Something suddenly kicked in Dash's head.
"Pal, where's Danny?" Dash asked.
"Why are you asking me? I don't even know how I got here!" Kwan responded in a panicked voice. "Not to mention my nose hurts."
"You'll be fine, but I think that ghost kidnapped Danny."
"Are you sure and what ghost?"
"Yes, I'm sure! Danny was tackling with you, while you were being controlled!"
"Oh shoot!"
The two boys ran from the bathroom, meeting Sam and Paulina, who questioned if Kwan was back to normal or not. They saw his eyes weren't glowing red anymore, so they assumed he was back to normal. Though, there seemed to be bigger problems coming their way.
"Danny's gone! I think that ghost took him!" Dash said.
"Oh no!" Sam panicked.
"An' thies ies wher' I coome ien!" Paulina cried out excitedly, digging into her leather purse. Everyone glanced at the purse as she pulled out some kind of radar in the shape of a thick iPad. Everyone stared at her with widened eyes.
"What do you have in that thing?" Dash asked quietly.
"You actually have a radar in your purse?" Sam asked with furrowed eyebrows.
Paulina smiled so deviously as the trio just sighed and shrugged at the same time. Dash asked, "so, can you use it to find Danny?"
"Soore. Danny poot a trockin' d'viece oon hiems'lf an' toold me too oose t'ies ief he dietched oos," Paulina explained, then got out four Specter Deflectors, throwing three of them to her friends. "He olsoo s'id foor oos to poot t'ese oon!"
Dash, Kwan, Sam, and Paulina put on their Specter Deflectors, Dash and Kwan not being sure what the belts were supposed to do. Paulina signaled for everyone to follow her as she used the radar in her hands to track down her friend. She stopped outside of the theater, then dug inside her purse, pulling out some lip balm and placing some on her lips. She looked at Sam, handing the lip balm.
"No thanks," Sam replied. Paulina shrugged, then looked back at the radar.
"Thes' soys Danny ies oon the roof oof t'e t'eat'r," Paulina said, looking at the roof of the theater.
"Oh boy," Sam responded sarcastically, then grabbed Paulina's lip balm, putting some on her lips.
Danny Phantom's hands began to glow green with ecto energy, flying straight for Clockwork, who just pressed a button on his staff and disappeared. Danny made a grr sound, being frustrated that he can't get to the jerk, who almost killed his human partner. He followed the coldness he felt toward the roof of the theater, then found Clockwork, who had a hold of Jazz.
"Don't even think about it, ghost boy," Clockwork smirked.
"I thought you said you weren't going to use the 'damsel in distress' maneuver!" Jazz complained.
"I never said I thought against it, just that I was tempted and sometimes my temptation gets the better of me."
"If that's the case, can you drop me off at Walmart, so I can find a Bella Swan t-shirt?"
"Let her go, Clockwork! It's bad enough you're involving my human partner in this!" Danny shouted angrily.
"I'm afraid I can't. I need to make sure you don't start being unfair and attacking me before I explain what my tests are like you did moments ago, so..." Clockwork replied, using his staff to open a portal and retrieving a metal shock collar, placing it around Jazz's neck before letting go of her. "You try attacking me or not passing the tests and the girl dies."
"Excuse me! I have a name, just so you know! And, for your information, I'm a grown woman!" Jazz glared, crossing her arms.
"Now, for the tests. The first one will test your skills in combat. Though, you won't be going against me," Clockwork explained, opening another portal and releasing five ectopuses, who were green ghostly octopuses flying in the air with waving tentacles.
"Oh please!" Danny said, rolling his eyes, before flying toward the ectopuses, hands glowing green.
"Na-ah-ah," Clockwork responded with a smile on his face, reaching into his cloak and pulling out two big metal wristbands, which flew to Danny and clamped on each wrist. He gasped, watching his ecto energy disappear into green smoke. He shot a glare at Clockwork. "You have to only use brute strength. No ghost powers, besides flying, allowed."
"This sucks," Danny responded as the ectopuses pinned him to the ground.
"Danny!" Jazz cried out, running to the ghost boy until Clockwork pressed a button on his staff to keep her from running any farther. The age-changing ghost placed her back to her original spot, making her have to watch her brother's alter ego get tackled by five green octopus ghosts.
Clockwork kept his smile, seeing the ghost boy struggle with the four ectopuses. Danny kept having to punch one after the other, but they kept coming back and tackling him. He had to pull them off and kick them from time to time. He was breaking sweat from this tiring workout. There had to be a way to defeat these octopus freaks that were strong by the numbers. On the positive side, Danny could still fly.
Just then, Danny flew up, taking two of the ectopuses, then swung them with their tentacles at the three other ectopuses one by one. Then, Danny threw the other two in the air before landing on his feet. He wiped the sweat off his brow, showing a smirk. This was actually fun. Jazz was in danger, but Danny was having a blast fighting these guys. He remembered fighting them before during some sort of training in his past. He decided to worry about that later.
The ectopuses began flying toward him and Danny smirked, jumped up, then punched one, before kicking the other four, two smashing into the other two behind them. Then, Danny flew higher in the air, then punched all five of them at once to the ground behind the theater. The five ectopuses were all knocked out cold and Danny collected them, throwing them in front of Clockwork.
"Anything else?" Danny asked with a smirk.
Clockwork applauded, then pressed the button on his staff, which freed Jazz from her frozen state. He then created a portal to return the ectopuses where they belong. Danny stood on the ground, arms folded, as Clockwork gave him a serious look. He knew this wasn't over and Clockwork had more tests for him to pass. Whatever the next one was, it was probably not going to be easy.
The metal wristbands were released from Danny's wrists and returned to the inside of Clockwork's robe.
"I hope you don't try to interfere again. Do we make ourselves clear?" Clockwork asked Jazz, who shot a glare in reply.
"It doesn't help her brother is sharing a body with me. Excuse her for being so worried about my life!" Danny shouted in sarcasm.
"Somebody's a little edgy today," Clockwork said with a mocking smile.
"Let's see, you tried to kill my human partner and his sister, you tried to kill my human partner a second time, and now you're holding his sister hostage! I have absolutely NO REASON to be pissed!"
"Fair enough. Still, it is time for the second test."
"I'm ready," Danny glared as Clockwork chuckled in reply.
Meanwhile, outside of the theater, Dash, Kwan, Paulina and Sam just finished running around the theater building to find some sort of ladder or escape route that could help them up the roof. Alas, there was non. The four panted, being out of breath from all the running they were doing. There had to be a way to get to the roof of the building, but what? Everyone seemed to be out of ideas and time was ticking for Danny, in their minds.
"Well... this is fantastic," Kwan complained sarcastically. "How are we supposed to be Ghost Busters if we can't get to them?"
"You wouldn't happen to have suction cups in your purse, would you?" Dash asked Paulina.
"Whot om I, Burt Gummer!?" Paulina asked with glaring eyes as her friends shot her a look, then her eyes widened. "Oh."
"This isn't the cartoons, Dash. Suction cups wouldn't be able to hold us on something that's rough, maybe glass or smooth metal, but this is a theater, not an office building. It also would take alot of stigma to do so, if the cup was big enough to hold our own weight," Sam said. Everyone stared at her with blinking eyes. "I watch Mythbusters."
"So, what do we do now?" Kwan asked.
"Hm... I think I have an idea. I just hope Danny's folks aren't around," Sam thought as everyone gave each other glances.