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Chapter 27: All Electric

Skulker only laughed. It was his turn to hit Danny with a weapon of his own. The jolt from Skulker's suit sent Danny flying into a wall. He groaned with pain. Skulker grinned and prepared a shot to tranquilize Danny so he wouldn't resist being kidnapped.

"Hold it right there." A ghost girl appeared and Skulker was taken by surprise. "You leave my brother alone." She commanded.

"Who are you?" Skulker asked surprised.

Danielle's hands glowed just like Danny's. Danielle grinned mischievously. "Do ya really need to know? I'm going to kick your butt anyway!" Danielle fired ectoblast after ectoblast at Skulker. She then launched a plasmablast when he was down. She showed good shield skills when he attacked her.

As Skulker was lying on the ground, his suit was smoking. Danielle's hands smoked too. "Had enough yet?" she asked him.

"You're forgetting something." He said. That duplicate of Skulker disappeared and another one took its place.

Danielle sighed with annoyance. She looked back at the table where Sam, Tucker, Garth, Cecelia and Valerie were just sitting there. "Do something, guys!" she said to them as she began to fight off this this new Skulker duplicate.

Sam and Tucker stood up and Tucker pulled out the Fenton thermos and his PDA. Two Skulker duplicates approached and confiscated anything that could be used against them. They crushed the PDA.

"Hey!" Tucker said angrily.

"Sit back down!" one of the Skulkers commanded to the teens.

As one Skulker fought Danielle—and eventually caught her in an unbreakable headlock, another Skulker swung Danny over his shoulder, and two Skulkers guarded the table where Sam, Tucker, Cecelia, Valerie and Garth sat, the rest of the Skulkers tied up the restaurant patrons in a sort of hostage situation. The citizens and the restaurant staff were now blindfolded and bound with some anti-ghost rope.

"Okay, now this is bad." Tucker said.

"Does this happen often?" Cecelia asked.

Sam and Tucker nodded, and then shook their heads in a "no".

Valerie let everyone else learn her mood. "I'm not just going to sit here while that ghost destroys everything!" she stood on the table and made her suit appear. At top speed, she prepared to ram into a Skulker and kick her way to beating him. However, when she kicked him, she discovered that metal really hurts. "Ow!" she said in pain. Her right arm was instantly bruised. She backed away slowly as the angry Skulker approached her. She put her left hand over her face and closed her eyes. But there came no attack.

Instead, there was a gigantic dragon crushing Skulkers one by one. Valerie gazed upon the height of the great brown dragon who was now squished inside the confines of the greasy—and crowded—Nasty Burger. Valerie got a little light headed and she closed her eyes. Cecelia was there to catch Valerie and then she set her down on a booth. Valerie had fainted.

Meanwhile, Sam and Tucker were attempting to confuse the single Skulker that was holding the Fenton thermos.

Sam and Tucker stood on either side of Skulker. Skulker had to keep looking back and forth to try to figure out which one was going to strike next. The two friends both screamed, "Chaaarrrge!" at the same time and jumped on Skulker. Being the slow-witted ghost that Skulker is, he was knocked to the ground and Tucker took back the thermos. He sucked Skulker into it. Sam and Tucker cheered in victory.

Garth picked up a Skulker and started pressing buttons on the suit until the bondages on the citizens disappeared. "Get out of here!" Garth told them and they all obeyed. Then Garth crushed the Skulker he was holding. Garth turned back to human form when he saw that only two Skulkers remained.

Tucker couldn't use the thermos on the Skulkers that were holding Danny and Danielle because then they'd get trapped in the thermos as well. Tucker put the thermos away. He looked at his friends to see if they had any ideas.

The two remaining Skulkers chuckled.

Garth had an idea. He pushed Cecelia forward though she was resisting. She was scared. "What are you doing?" She asked Garth with fear.

Garth did not say a word but pointed to his hands and made a zapping sound.

Cecelia got the hint. She closed her eyes and concentrated on her hands. Eventually, the glowing electricity appeared in her hands. She opened her eyes and looked at each of the Skulkers. They laughed at her. The Skulker that was holding Danny also grabbed Cecelia by the arm.

Skulker stiffened as Cecelia's electrical energy belted through his suit like a conductor. His suit was fried, and he had no choice but to eject himself from it. Danny fell to the ground and he was free. He easily picked up the pint-sized Skulker and put him into the thermos. "I will be avenged!" shouted the tiny villain. The other Skulker, which was a duplicate, disappeared and Danielle was thus released.

The six friends cheered and counted it a win. "Hooray for Team Phantom!" Sam said.

And then they remembered about Valerie. "Should we tell her about my secret?" Garth asked the group.

"I don't think it's wise." Sam said.

"She'll probably overload." Cecelia said.

"She might feel that you've been lying to her." Tucker said.

"She might want to shoot you." Danielle said. "We should remove her ammo before you say anything because we've all seen how trigger happy she can be."

They all looked at Danny for the final ruling. "I actually think it would be best to tell her. That is, if we decide to make her a permanent member of Team Phantom. In which case, I'll need you all to vote."

"I say yes because she's an excellent ghost hunter and tracker, plus she has the suit which holds information like a computer. And with the suit, she can also fly and be intangible just like a ghost." Cecelia said.

"I'll agree to that." Garth said. "So that's a yes from me."

"I think she could be quite a valuable member." Danielle said.

"I'm going to have to say no." Sam said. She was prepared to argue her case. "Well, she has an advantage: the suit. And once she learns Garth was hiding a secret too, she'll feel betrayed and angry and might end up hating us all. It might be too much for her." Sam crossed her arms and looked at Danny because she was waiting for him to agree with her.

"I'm willing to take that risk." Danny said. "So you're overruled."

Sam rolled her eyes.

Everybody was now waiting for Tucker to make up his mind. "Since I haven't got a reason to say no, I'll say yes."

Danny smiled proudly. "Let's wake her up."

Danielle brought over a pitcher of water. Garth and Tucker tipped Valerie upright. Cecelia took Valerie's weapons off the suit.

Sam pulled Danny aside. "Danny, I hope you're not letting your feelings towards her affect your judgment on whether or not she would be a positive asset to the team." She whispered.

Danny looked down. He realized she was right about why he was so eager to get Valerie involved in the team. But Danny's childish pride got in the way of him admitting it out loud. He looked at Sam. "I hope you're not letting your jealousy get in the way of your judgment."

Now it was Sam's turn to be corrected. She looked down. She knew Danny was right about that.

"Sam, you can't honestly tell me that Valerie won't be able to help us." Danny said.

Sam agreed to that. "I'm also saying that she might not be as good as you're hoping she will be."

"And I'll be watching out for that. I'll try not to be so biased if you try to stop being so jealous."

"Okay."

They both looked over where their friends were walking up Valerie in the middle of the now deserted restaurant. They walked over to her.

"Heeey, why am I all wet?" Valerie asked angrily as she tried to mop up the cold water on her face with a napkin.

"Valerie, we have something to show you." Danny spoke for the team.

"What is it? A towel?"

"No. Watch Garth." Danielle said.

Garth's eyes changed from normal to the eyes of a creature not human. He had a forked tongue and he increased in size. A dragon stood where Garth was.

Valerie's eyes widened as she studied the creature. She wanted to gasp or scream but she was too shocked to even so much as open her mouth. She felt the blood rush to her head—as if she were going to faint again. She held her forehead with one hand and held onto the table with the other hand to steady herself.

The silence was making Sam impatient and restless. "Garth is half-dragon ghost." She pointed out the obvious.

Garth changed back to human form quickly. "Valerie are you all right?" He reached to help her but she smacked his hand away.

Valerie lowered her eyebrows. "Are there any other surprises I should know about?" She asked them grimly.

"No not really." Danielle said calmly.

"We wanted you to know everything because we want you to be a full-fledged member of our team." Danny said.

Valerie looked down and her firey mood was dissipating. She no longer felt faint. She looked up at Danny standing in front of her all strong and handsome as always. "Well…why?" She asked Danny softly.

Danny smiled down at her and he helped her stand up. "Because you're brave and strong and you're good with weapons and you're and excellent ghost hunter and you have great aim. Need I go on?"

Valerie smiled. She frowned again when she thought about it all in her mind.

"Don't you want to be a part of all this?" Danny asked her.

Valerie looked at all of their faces and she didn't want to disappoint them, especially not Danny or Cecelia. "I…" Valerie searched deep inside her mind but she couldn't find the answer. She wanted more than anything to be with Danny and also help destroy evil ghosts, but she still couldn't merge the two together in her mind. She just couldn't see it. She didn't want to lie to them, and she knew they were all waiting on her answer. "I'll need some time to think about it." She told them all. "For now, I'll just be going home. Catch ya later." She collected her things and walked out of the Nasty Burger.

Danny was disappointed. He wanted so badly for her to say yes. "I guess I miscalculated." Danny said quietly.

They all went back to their homes.

The next morning, Danny woke up and his sister Jazz was making breakfast for the family.

"Good morning Daniel." Jazz looked over her shoulder to Danny while she was still frying the bacon and eggs.

"Good morning, Jasmine." Sleepy Danny pulled up a seat at the table and he got a good look at his nineteen-year-old sister. She looked so professional with those new rectangular glasses she had. And her short haircut made her look even older than just a college girl.

"Breakfast is ready!" Jazz called as she turned off the stove. She separated everything into five neat little plates of food.

Jack and Maddie came up from the basement and pulled up seats at the family table. Danielle, who had been playing video games in the living room, groaned unpleasantly because she knew she'd have to pause the game long enough to consume a well-balanced breakfast. She took a seat next to Jazz.

Jazz served the meal and Jack Fenton immediately dug in like always. Jazz ate her food at a petite and ladylike pace. Danielle wolfed it all down in three bites and then excused herself from the table and went back to the living room.

There came a loud bangling sound from the basement.

"Oh, that must be those ghost chickens again." Maddie stood up and picked up her plate. "They must have gotten out again."

Jack followed his wife down to the basement and then Jack came up long enough to throw on a plateful of seconds. Then he went back down. Danny and Jazz could hear their parents yelling unpleasant things at the ghost downstairs.

When Danny was done eating, he looked at his sister Jazz and smiled, "There's nothing like a normal Fenton family breakfast, right?"

Jazz laughed in agreement. "I'm glad this happened after all of the creepy relatives went back home."

Danny stood up to put his plate in the sink. "Well, there's one creepy relative still here." Danny teased.

"Hey!" Jazz smacked him upside the head. "I'll have you know that I'm going to be a college professor one day!"

"And I'm the leader of my own super-team. Beat that!" Danny said to her.

She knew he was only joking, which was why she laughed back. "I miss Team Phantom." She confessed.