Season 2 Episode 13
Micro-Management
"Small in Size: Large in TERROR!"
It was a calm, beautiful day at Amity Park as everything was at peace for the moment. Dani Fenton and her best friend, Tina Foley, were currently jogging around town for their gym class since their big physical fitness test was underway. They were both wearing their gym uniforms, consisting of a white T-shirt with a CH school emblem on their chests, red shorts, and white sneakers. Unfortunately, despite how lean and slim they both looked and especially from their ghost hunting experiences, Dani and Tina weren't exactly the fittest and strongest ladies in the gym, they were panting heavily and sweating from their fatigue impairing them.
"So...how's...the four minute...mile coming, Tina?" Dani asked her friend between pants.
"Nine minutes...and counting, girl." Tina panted heavily as she checked on her stopwatch around her neck. Then their male goth friend, Sam Manson, caught up to them while smirking as he ran backwards to show off his in shape body since he appeared a lot more fit than both of his friends. "This is just embarrassing."
"I know! How are you two gonna pass the president's test on physical fitness if you can't even pass me?" Sam mocked as they all ran into an alleyway.
"So what? I have superpowers, why should I even care?" Dani asked Sam sarcastically.
Then suddenly an energy blast was fired at their feet as it knocked all three of them off their feet as they yelped in surprise. Dani and Sam landed on the ground while Tina's butt made its way into a trash bin, until they looked up and saw Skulka, the Ghost Zone's greatest huntress, flying above the trio with her jetpack.
"Hello, ghost child! I saw you running and thought, 'Hey! I should give her something to run from!'" Skulka said as Dani got to her feet. She then fired a weak ghost beam at one of Skulka's jet turbines when she sent her flying out of control as she shouted.
"Ha! Let's see the president do that!" Dani exclaimed, smirking at Sam while he remained silent.
She changed into her ghost form and flew after Skulka as she crash landed in a dumpster bin. She saw Dani coming her way, but she fired another beam of energy right at her, sending her flying out of the bin and crash into a wall. She then demolished her other jet turbine and then went on and blasted her arm and leg off, making her lose her balance as she fell to the ground.
Dani landed a few feet away from her while she grinned with her hands on her hips. "Hey, Skulka, without your suit, you're pretty powerless. Maybe you need to learn to rely on your natural abilities." She said smugly with her arms crossed before Sam caught up to her.
"Tina, hurry up!" Sam exclaimed before Tina arrived as well with the Fenton Thermos in her hand, but she panted in exhaustion from all of the running.
Sam snatched the thermos out of her hand and fired it at Skulka. "No! NO! NOOOOO!" Skulka shouted when she got sucked into the device.
Sam then smirked at Dani when he handed her the Fenton Thermos and crossed his arms. "And speaking of natural abilities…"
Dani stared at Sam until a few minutes later, the trio made their way back to the Casper High gym. Dani was back in human form while she struggled on some pull-up bars. Tina leaned on the pole beside her, sweating from all the running she had to do.
"I think...I liked fighting Skulka...better!" Dani strained when she managed to do a pull-up with a lot of effort before she hung limply on the bars. "How many was that?"
"One." Tina answered.
Sam then came up to the bars right beside Dani when he did five chin-ups with little to no effort before he then did a backflip and landed perfectly on his feet with ease.
"Hey, Dani!" He said more mockingly as he ran off backwards again just before Dani yelped and fell from the bars with a grunt.
"Ouch." Dani groaned while Tina only stared at her in confusion.
Theme Song:
(She's a phantom)
(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)
Yo, Dani Fenton, she was just fourteen
When her parents built a very strange machine
Designed to view a world unseen
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
When it didn't work, her folks, they just quit
Then Dani took a look inside of it
There was a great, big flash, and everything changed
Her molecules got all rearranged
(Phantom, Phantom)
When she first woke up, she realized she had snow white hair, and glowing green eyes
She could walk through walls, disappear, and fly
She was much more unique than the other gals
And it was then that she knew what she had to do
She had to stop all the ghost that were coming through
She's there to fight, for me and you!
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
Meanwhile in the Ghost Zone at Skulka's Island, after she became humiliated by her defeat with Dani earlier, she began to style herself in a brand new upgraded suit. Her new suit now had hand blades in her arms, new types of guns, and missile launchers to prepare herself to finish her hunt with Dani Phantom.
"Rocket launcher, laser-a-ray…" She said to herself as many of her weapons sprang out of her new suit before she showed a holographic projection recording of Dani from a few hours ago.
"Maybe you need to learn to rely on your natural abilities." The holographic Dani repeated.
"Let's see how her natural abilities match up to this not natural abilities!" Skulka then fired a rocket at the hologram before she laughed evilly, ready to finish her hunt.
Back at the Casper High gym, the students were doing all of their physical activities like push-ups, sit-ups, jogging, and some were sitting on benches as they watched. Most of the students were kinda or very worn out from using so much of their natural energy when most of the student flopped from their exercises in exhaustion and some even accidentally ran into each other. Dani grunted with effort when she tried to climb a rope, but only made it halfway as she let her exhaustion get the best of her while she plummeted onto the mat below her miserably.
"You know, I don't get why I'm so good with a staff." Dani muttered to Tina.
"Listen up, people! This has to be the worst display of physical fitness I've ever seen in all my days at Casper High!" The gym teacher, Mr. Tetslaff, bellowed while he looked displeased by Dani and Tina's poor physical fitness before he took a large bite out of his one foot submarine sandwich.
"Apparently, somebody doesn't own a mirror." Tina said to Dani, only for the gym teacher to throw a weight ball straight at her guts, sending her to the floor with a grunt.
"And apparently, somebody doesn't have a sense of humor." Dani said as she rose to her feet and cocked an eyebrow at her friend.
She cringed as Tetslaff blew loudly on his whistle right beside her ear as he glared at the two of them. "According to my reports, the only thing funny here is...HOW MUCH YOU'RE BRINGING DOWN YOUR CLASS AVERAGE!" He shouted loudly while Dani and Tina stared oddly at his outburst. "So...I'm gonna assign you ladies fitness buddies. Manson!" Sam immediately flipped up to his teacher before he stood there front and center with his fists on his hips. "You have Foley."
"Uh...um...I think I'm coming down with something." Tina lied weakly and nervously, not really looking forward to having Sam as her fitness partner.
"Yeah, a severe case of ab crunches." Sam retorted when he lifted the ball off her guts, spun it on his fingers and punched it away. He then dragged Tina across the gym floor and out of sight.
Dani giggled at Tina's misfortune, but unfortunately her laughter was cut short when she glanced up and saw her arch-rival and the school cheerleader captain, Daph Baxter, standing right in front of her as she smirked down evilly at her. "Baxter! You're gonna have to whip Ms. Fenton into shape." Tetslaff said.
"Cool! Is broken in half considered a shape?" Daph wondered as she grabbed Dani by her shirt while she made a look of fear.
At Fenton Works after school that day, James Fenton was working out in the living room as he used some kind of virtual reality helmet while he punched and kicked at some virtual ghosts. He was wearing a black T-shirt instead of his signature black long-sleeve shirt for his workout, and was wearing pairs of mechanical gloves and boots for kicking and punching in the game.
"And one and two! Keep moving!" He said to himself in a rhythm between punches and kicks while he moved around the living room as his mother, Jackie Fenton, was working on a new large ghost weapon on the couch, but looked annoyed by her son.
"Jameson, keep it down! I'm trying to calibrate the Fenton Crammer!" Jackie called after him as she held up the new weapon and inspected it.
"The Fenton Crammer?" Her husband, Matt, asked when he walked beside her.
"It shrinks ghosts in size and hopefully threat level."
Matt cocked an eyebrow, looking skeptical about the name as he crossed his arms. "Uh huh, then why don't you call it the Specter Shrinker?"
"Because that's exactly what ghost would expect me to call-AH!" James suddenly kicked the Crammer out of his mother's hands, surprising her when she yelped while he continued working out.
"And three! Still moving! And five!" James said in his rhythm as Jackie quickly rushed off the couch and caught the Crammer before her son exercised up to her. "That's right! Keep moving!" He got interrupted when his mother stopped him when she held the weapon away from him.
"Ah, no, no, no, careful! That helmet's for battle training, not exercise, mister!"
James chuckled a little before he removed the helmet off his eyes and wiped some sweat off his forehead. "Sorry, Mom, virtual ghost hunting is the perfect way to keep my cardio up."
"Well, if anybody needs me, I'll be working on the Crammer in the OP Center." Jackie took the rest of the pizza box and made her up the stairs to the second floor.
James turned to his father and smiled. "Speaking of cramming." He and Matt laughed at the little joke.
Their smiles dropped when they heard Jackie shout from upstairs. "I HEARD THAT!"
Outside in the backyard, Sam was making Tina do some push-ups with his foot on her back while Dani leaned on the fence and watched her friend's little workout in amusement.
"Come on, Foley, keep going!" Sam mocked childishly as she strained to lift herself up, but gave up when she slumped her stomach back on the grass.
"I can't! Your boot weighs a ton!" Tina exclaimed before she glanced up at Dani. "How 'bout a hand, Dani?" Dani merely sat her drink aside on the fence and clapped her hands together, making Tina frown in annoyance. "Oh, you're hilarious."
"Hey, when you have superpowers, you can afford to be." Dani said with a shrug before she leaned back against the fence carelessly with her hands behind her head. "Besides, why should I care about some stupid fitness test?"
"Because if you fail, I fail!" Daph exclaimed angrily when she appeared from the other side of the fence, making Dani's smile drop as she glanced up at her rival.
"And if she fails at gym, that would blemish her steller D minus GPA." Tina said as Sam moved his boot off her, allowing her to raise back to her feet while she dusted herself off. However, Daph leaped over the fence and stormed over to Tina when she grabbed her head and shoved her back to the ground with her unusual strength as the techno-geek grunted.
Dani leaned closer to Tina. "You don't have superpowers, you don't get to be hilarious." She said quietly before Daph grabbed her by her hair and lifted her back up as she shouted.
"And...that's our cue to run!" Sam said.
"What do you mean 'our cue'? I'm not running anyw…" Tina said, but faltered when Sam pulled out a brand new PDA as he smiled cleverly. "Why do you have the Smart Tech 5000? It's not even on the market yet!"
"The real question is, are you fast enough to get it from me?" Sam began to run away as he held out the PDA and leaped over the fence.
"Come back! Give me! Give me! Give me!" Tina began to chase after her goth friend as she, too, leaped over the fence, leaving Dani to deal with Daph.
"Pff, losers." Daph scoffed after they both left as she held onto Dani's hair while she held on to keep her from pulling on it any more. "And speaking of losers…"
Dani gasped when her ghost sense went off. "Oh no!" She said with worry.
While Daph continued smirking at her, Dani saw Skulka hovering above them in her new suit. She fired a few rocket missiles as she gasped and quickly made herself and Daph intangible. The rockets exploded on the grass as it made a huge crater and Daph fell unconscious as Dani turned them both solid again while she looked up at Skulka. Daph began to come back to her senses as she groaned.
"I gotta get away from Daph...AH! GHOST!" Dani said to herself before she pointed at Skulka when she swooped down towards the girls. "RUN! RUN! IT'S A GHOST!"
Dani jumped out of the crater while Daph continued laying there before she cringed and yelped when Skulka fired a beam and chased after Dani.
Meanwhile, in the OP Center, Jackie was about to take a bite out of her pizza, until she froze when she heard her daughter out in fake fear. "RUN! RUN! IT'S A GHOST!"
"Sounds like Dani is in some mortal danger from some ghost!" Jackie said before she slammed her pizza slice on the counter when she smiled with excitement and grabbed the Fenton Crammer. "I get to play with my new weapon! I mean...uh, save Dani!" Unaware to her as she ran towards the window, her pizza slice stretch when it hung limply over the edge of the counter.
Back outside, Dani ran into an alleyway until she spotted an opening and quickly hid there as Daph came running through the alley as she shrieked to the top of her lungs as Skulka jetted after her. Dani slid from her hiding spot and changed into her ghost form before she flew after her enemy. While Daph continued trying to outrun Skulka, Jackie opened the window at the top of the OP Center before she scanned the area and found Skulka chasing after a cheerleader.
She smirked as she flipped the Crammer to 'cram' and charged up the weapon before she fired a ray at a trashcan and a mailbox and shrunk them in small size. Dani noticed this when she hovered above where she saw the objects shrink before she continued to fly after Skulka. Daph tripped over nothing before she looked fearfully at Skulka as she aimed her wrist gun at her. Dani charged at the huntress ghost, but somehow she knew she was coming when she grabbed her by her face, spun her around and pinned her to the road. Jackie suddenly fired her Crammer at Dani as it shrunk her, surprising Skulka when she turned around, only to get shrunken as well.
Daph ran up to where the ghosts disappeared and smiled. "Awesome!" She exclaimed, but her smile dropped when Jackie obliviously shrunk her as well. Daph glanced around in confusion until she turned turned around and looked up when she saw a giant empty soda that was even bigger than her. Daph looked down at herself and realized what has happened to her. "I'm...I'm puny! NOOOOOOO! I DON'T DO PUNY!"
Skulka glanced down at her tiny hand and looked up in confusion at the now giant world around her. "What is this? What did you do?" Skulka demanded the ghost girl.
Dani stood up and looked down at herself until she glared offendedly at the huntress ghost. "I didn't! She did!" She said while she pointed directly up to the OP Center where her mother, Jackie, was as she continued to glance around for more ghosts and even impulsively shrank all three of them.
Skulka then brought out her claws as Dani turned back to her while she grinned at the girl. "Big or small, I'll still have your head in my trophy room!"
Dani laughed a little. "Nice image, here's a better one." She fired her ghost beams at Skulka, sending her flying and crashing into the soda can next to Daph before Dani hovered above her. "We have to move now!"
"Dani Phantom! If I wasn't so terrified, this would be so cool!" Daph exclaimed happily that she finally got to see her heroine in person, but terrified by the 'small' circumstances they were currently in.
"Uh...thanks?"
Dani quickly grabbed Daph when she flew her over a curb before Skulka recovered from Dani's surprise attack and chased after the girls. She fired missiles at them both as Dani quickly swooped Daph off the ground and the rockets exploded (in their size, it was actually the size of firecrackers), and Dani quickly flew Daph up the fence while she continued screaming as she flew them both through a hole to the backyard. Skulka followed them into the backyard, but lost sight of Dani when she brought out her goggles and spotted the ghost girl flying across the grass at top speed as she made her way to Fenton Works while she carried Daph with her.
"Oh man! We're dead! DEAD!" Daph panicked out loud.
"No, we're not! We just have to get into Fenton Works and unshrink ourselves!" Dani said before a large gust of wind knocked Dani backwards a little before she continued to fly. Suddenly, she glowed green when she felt like she was losing the ability to fly as she and Daph lost air and tumbled onto the soil. "Oh-kay, that's not normal. Must've have been the wind shear." The girls then continued by foot as they made their way to Fenton Works slowly from their size.
Skulka saw the whole thing when she witnessed this and noticed that she suddenly couldn't fly anymore as she cocked her eyebrows in confusion.
"Hmm...she seems to be losing her ghostly power." She said to herself before a large bird grabbed her with its talons and dragged her away. Skulka tried to turn intangible to escape, but she immediately became solid again before she looked down at herself. "So am I!" She then grinned when she realized something else. "But my suit works fine! Advantage Skulka!" She fired a couple of disk cuffs at the bird's legs as they were latched together, making the bird squawk when it released Skulka, who activated her jetpack and made her way to Dani.
Meanwhile with Sam and Tina, Sam was on top of a brick wall with the Smart Tech 5000 PDA hooked up to a fishing line of the Fenton Fisher. He was teasing Tina into jumping up and reaching for the latest PDA model when she jumped to reach for it, but missed every time Sam reeled the line up and down whenever she jumped.
"You...can't make me do this forever, you know!" Tina panted in exhaustion as she leaned onto her knees.
"I don't need to make you do anything, you're making yourself. You want this, don't ya? Don't ya?!" Sam mocked his best friend with a smirk.
"Yes! Yes! YES!"
"Then jump, geek girl! Jump!" He reeled up the PDA again when Tina jumped up to grab it again.
The same bird the Skulka cuffed managed to peak its links off and freed itself before it swooped down and snatched the new PDA out of the fishing line and flew away with the device. "Hey! Come back with that PDA!" Tina now began to chase after the bird.
Back with Dani and Daph in the backyard, since Dani somehow couldn't fly anymore (but she probably thought it was just because of the strong gusts of wind, due to their tiny size), she climbed to the top of the grass as she overlooked the distance back to her house while Daph remained on the ground.
"How much farther?!" Daph called out to the ghost girl.
"Ten feet! Or at this pace, ten years." Dani replied while she saw how far the back door was in her small size. She suddenly heard jet turbines when she turned around and saw Skulka as she laughed and fired rockets at her.
Daph climbed up the grass next to Dani, not really noticing the rockets screaming towards them. "Is it really that far?" She then noticed the danger, making her shriek in fear. Dani thought quickly when she fired an ecto beam at the grass, making them fly up into the air to shield the girls as the rockets exploded and it sort of worked, but fortunately for Dani and Daph the force of the explosions made the girls fly straight across the backyard and right in front of the backdoor.
"Hang on, I'll use my powers to phase us through the door." Dani grabbed the cheerleader by her wrist and ran towards the door, but they both ended up slamming against the door with grunts. "Oh-kay, can't blame the wind this time. Something's wrong…"
Suddenly, a knife planted itself right next to Dani's face, narrowly missing her as her eyes went wide in shock. She glanced up and saw Skulka grinning as she used a machine to throw more knives at the girls. Dani quickly grabbed Daph and moved her out of they way before a wave of knives stabbed at where the cheerleader originally stood.
"She's closing in, we gotta find another entrance!" Dani exclaimed as she began firing her ghost rays at the huntress ghost.
Daph looked around until she found something nearby. "Over there! There's a mouse hole!" She said before she began to run towards the hole she just found.
Dani stopped and stared at her in confusion. "We have mice?" She didn't even know that her family house even had mice invading Fenton Works, but she immediately shrugged off her confusion and caught up Daph as they both sprinted quickly towards the hole.
"FLY!"
"I can't!"
"WHAT?!"
"Just run! It's good for your heart!"
The girls both slid across the soil and they made their way into the mouse hole as they avoided another wave of knives. It was pitch black in the mouse hole as Dani used her ecto-energy to light up the place with her hands while they looked around to find an exit hole into the house. The hole looked very old since it was filled with cobwebs and had a lot of cheese all over the place.
"What kind of mouse hole is this? Where's the matchbox sofa and a coffee table made from a spool of thread?" Daph wondered as she criticized the creepy, dark mouse hole.
"You watch way too many cartoons, sister." Dani commented as she gave the cheerleader a knowing look.
Dani and Daph eyes went wide when they heard growling coming from behind them when they turned and Dani light up a giant, angry mouse that wasn't exactly happy to see some ametur intruders in its home. They both backed away slowly until they heard robotic motions from behind as the girls turned and found Skulka grinning at them. The girls became surrounded by the huntress ghost and the angry mouse as they moved them to the center of the hole.
"GET BACK!" Dani shouted while she tried to fire some ecto beams at both Skulka and the mouse, but her energy in her hand suddenly fizzled out. While Dani stared at her hand in confusion, her other hand began to lose light as well, and now she realized what was happening to her when she made a worried look. "Oh man! That shrink ray must've shorted out my powers!"
"Maybe you need to rely on your natural abilities!" Skulka mocked when she repeated what Dani said to her earlier as she aimed her weapons at the ghost girl.
"Will you just LET IT GO?!" While Dani shouted at the huntress ghost in annoyance, her ecto-energy finally dimmed out when everyone was left in total darkness.
"I CAN'T SEE!" Daph cried in a panic.
"Daphne, get down!"
"Say farewell, GHOST CHILD!" Skulka shouted before she lit up a flare to light up the mouse hole again, but she only found the cheerleader standing in front of her, but the ghost girl was nowhere in sight.
"Where'd Phantom go?!" Daph asked frantically.
"Hmm...I was hunting the ghost child, but I could just as easily mount your tiny head in my trophy room." Skulka grinned as she aimed her wrist gun at the cheerleader captain.
That made Daph's face grimace in disgust. "Eww!"
"Eww is right." Dani said from behind her. Daph turned around and saw the giant mouse behind her, and she realized that Dani has managed to access some of her powers to use her overshadowing ability, allowing her to control the mouse. "GET BACK!" She swung the mouse's tail and whacked Skulka away, sending her crashing into a wall several feet away.
Daph grabbed hold of the flare as she smiled at the mouse in amazement. "That's so awesome! You took over the mouse!" Then her smile dropped when the mouse began to convulse and fight for control.
"Not...for long!"
With a final push, the mouse forced Dani out of itself body as she flew across the hole and tumbled near the wall. Back under its own control, the mouse growled at Daph, making her yelp as she ran up next to Dani for protection, even though she knew that her heroine was getting weaker and weaker every minute. Dani then spotted the exit hole into the house as she got up and snatched the flare out of Daph's hand.
"RUN! GO!" Dani shouted when Daph immediately ran towards the exit hole before Dani then ran to pick up a piece of cheese and ran past Skulka as she tossed the cheese on her lap. "Uh, girl, hold this...and this." She placed the flare on a cheese hole and ran off, leaving Skulka confused.
The mouse growled as it crawled up to Skulka before the flare dimmed, leaving her in total darkness. "This does not go well." She muttered.
Dani and Daph both ran out of the mouse hole and they looked around to find themselves in the kitchen. Now that they were inside Fenton Works, all they had to do was find the Fenton Crammer to unshrink themselves back to normal, but the only problem was that the device was in the OP Center, the highest point of Fenton Works. Skulka was right about one thing though: now that Dani was losing all of her power from the shrink ray, they were gonna have to use their natural abilities instead of Dani's powers if they wanted to get themselves out of this mess.
"Okay, just follow my lead and…" Dani said, but faltered when she heard crying from behind her as she turned around and saw Daph sitting on the floor with her face buried in her hands, sobbing hopelessly. "Daph?"
"I can't do this! I can't! Everything's bigger than me!" Daph cried in despair.
Dani walked in front of her. "Daph…"
"And you! You're losing your powers! We're doomed! DOOMED!"
Finally, Dani heard enough of the cheerleader crying like they have already lost when she snapped angrily in front of her face, making her recoil in fear. "DAPHNE! STOP!" She grabbed Daph by her cheeks as she glared at her demandingly. "LISTEN TO ME!" She released the cheerleader and straighten up before she took a deep breath to calm herself down with her hands on her hips. "Why'd you come to Fenton Works?"
"I'm Dani Fenton's fitness buddy. I was suppose to help her, because she was too puny, weak, wimpy, and scrawny and-"
Dani heard enough when she interrupted her. "Ah, ah, yeah, yeah, yeah! Okay! Yeah! Can you just get to the point already?"
"She's not strong enough to pass a fitness test."
Dani stared at her for a moment before she sighed like she was going to regret doing this, but she knew that she had no other choice. "Well, and I can't believe I'm saying this, but I need your help, because I'm not strong enough to do this alone. So…" She smiled when she offered her hand to Daph. "Fitness buddies?"
Daph managed a small smile before she took her hand and Dani helped her up. However, Dani's feet suddenly began to glow as the girls glanced down in confusion before rings appeared and changed her thigh-high boots into her normal red sneakers, much to Daph's confusion while Dani's eyes went wide.
"Hey, what happened to your feet?" Daph wondered as she cocked an eyebrow.
"Uh...they're special high speed ghost shoes?" Dani stuttered nervously.
They suddenly felt a tremor on the floor when they gasped in surprise before a foot almost stomped on them, sending them slamming against the wall. The girls looked up and saw Dani's older brother, James, doing his usual cardio exercise with the virtual helmet.
"And one! And two! Keep moving! Keep sweating!" He said in a rhythm as he punched and kicked in the air.
James then took a breather when he removed his helmet and shook the sweat off his head, but his sweat droplets began to rain down towards Dani and Daph. The girls shouted when they scattered out of the way and ran across the kitchen to avoid James's giant sweats as they ran underneath the kitchen table. Dani and Daph then stopped for a breather as they panted heavily and leaned against their legs, but their break was cut short when they saw Skulka riding on the mouse like a horse as she rode out of the mouse hole with her newly tamed mouse.
"TO THE HUNT!" Skulka announced before she whipped on the reels his rodent steed and chased after the girls.
Meanwhile out at the park, Tina was doing some chin-ups to get the new PDA away from the bird that snatched it, but she ended up getting peaked by its beaks every time she tried to grab it. Sam only stood there with his arms crossed as he smirked.
"Seven!" Sam said as Tina did a chin-up to grab the latest PDA.
"OW!" Tina exclaimed as she retracted her hand and waved it before she reached again.
"Eight!"
"OW!"
"Nine!"
"OW! Could you stop counting and help me?!"
Sam only shrugged carelessly like it was none of his business. "Sorry. No pain, no gain."
Back at Fenton Works, Dani and Daph both ran across the kitchen together while they tried to outrun Skulka as she continued to chase them both on her newly tamed rodent steed.
"Keep running, ladies! I'm about to make mouse meat out of you!" Skulka called to them as she grinned with anticipation.
"It's mincemeat, bonehead!" Dani corrected as she glared at her irritatedly and continued to jog.
"Not this time, it's not!"
Although Dani and Daph both managed to make a sharp turn into the living room, the mouse was running so fast, it couldn't make a sharp turn as well. It slid across the kitchen floor and crashed onto the wall, along with Skulka as she shouted and then they both collapsed on the floor in a daze.
Then the mouse and Skulka glanced up when a shadow suddenly loomed over them as a giant Matt Fenton towered over them, glaring at the rodent with a broom in his hand.
"You filthy animal! You are not leaving mouse droppings all over my wife's clean kitchen!" He said as he raised his broom into the air. The mouse and Skulka both scattered out of the way just before the man slammed the broom where they stood, making dust fly around as a dust bunny tumbled its way towards Dani and Daph.
"DUST BUNNY!" Dani exclaimed before they both managed to jump to the air high enough to avoid it as they landed perfectly on the ground.
"Whoa, nice air." Daph complemented the ghost girl.
"Thanks." Her smile dropped when she suddenly felt her legs tingling before she glanced down and saw her black pants fade into her regular blue jeans. "Oh great. I'm losing so much power, I'm reverting back to-"
Daph noticed that her pants have changed when she pointed at them and cocked an eyebrow. "Hey, what's with your pants?"
Dani tensed nervously. "Uh, it's...casual Friday?"
Daph scratched her head in confusion. "Today's Tuesday." And the suddenly another dust bunny rolled in onto the girls while it dragged them both across the living room floor as they shrieked loudly before they were dropped off on some kind of grass. "Oh man! We're back outside!"
Dani rubbed her thumb on a piece of grass, but realized that they were fake. "Wait, this isn't real grass."
Suddenly, several golf balls with ghost logos on them were thrown to the ground right in front of them as the floor shook like earthquakes to them. They looked up nervously and Dani suddenly realized it was one of her mother's weekly golf practices.
"Jackie Fenton on the eighteenth green of the Ecto-Invitational. If she sinks this, it's all over but the ghost hunting." She muttered to herself as she grinned and prepared to hit the balls for the hole.
"Where do we hide?!" Daph asked in a panic again with her hands clenching on her hair.
Even though she would never speak about it in front of her mother, Dani always knew that she was a terrible aim, even at golf. "Have you ever seen her play golf?! The only safe place is the hole!" Dani exclaimed before they ran towards the hole.
Jackie began to swing at the golf balls at random places as they began to roll right towards the hole. While Dani helped Daph climb down the hole safely, her hand suddenly flickered from her human hand to her ghost glove when her power made a short flicker, making her retract her hand in surprise and she dropped Daph until Dani lost her balance as they both fell into the hole. The girls then watched as all the golf balls rolled right over the hole and missed it completely.
"Man, is everybody in this family bad at sports?" Daph wondered as she smiled. Dani glared at the cheerleader offendedly for her indirectly insulting her and her entire family, although Daph didn't notice her glare.
Meanwhile, at the Amity Park Recreation building, Tina and Sam walked out of the first aid room with both of Tina's hands bandaged like clubs from her being pecked by a bird multiple times, but she was glad she finally had the new PDA in her hands.
"I can't believe I got pecked at by a bird, but at least I got my PDA." Tina said as she smiled at her latest achievement, by her smile dropped when it broke into two and she realized that it was made of nothing but cardboard, shocking her greatly. "It's...fake?!"
"But you have to admit, it was a great way to get you into shape." Sam admitted as he looked at the bright side.
"I guess so, but since my hands are all bandaged…" Tina smirked at her goth friend. "I'm probably gonna need help going to the bathroom."
Sam froze as he called out in disgust. "TAXI!"
Back at Fenton Works, Dani and Daph both made it to the stairs as they did chin-ups up each step until they stopped for a breather.
"Yeah! We did it!" Daph exclaimed confidently, but then she realized that they only made it halfway up the staircase and still had a few more steps to go.
"But we're not nearly close enough." Dani said before she suddenly felt another transformation flicker happening when she glanced down and tensed. She saw her white rings change her shirt into her regular one as it revealed her midriff, only it was still black with white sleeves with her collar, and still had her DP emblem.
Daph became even more confused about why Dani's costume kept on changing ever since they arrived inside the house when she narrowed her eyes. "How many costume changes have you been in a go through? What is this, Vegas?!"
Then Skulka appeared when she descended in front of them as she glared irritably at the girls while they stared up at her in fear. She fired tiny rockets at them as they quickly jumped out of the way and continued up the steps in a fast pace. They finally made it to the second floor when they quickly ran into Dani's bedroom and they both strained as they pushed the door closed. Before Skulka could even fly into the room, she slammed right into the door the second it closed.
"Very well!" Skulka said before she jetted away to the front door of the house.
The girls both ran across Dani's desk as they made their way to the window. There was a wire that connected straight up to the OP Center.
"Hurry! Out the window and up to the OP Center!" Dani told Daph before the cheerleader immediately jumped onto the wire and began to rope-climb up to the Center. Dani turned around and noticed that Skulka wasn't trying to fire tiny rocket missiles at her door. "Skulka's not following us...unless she's coming up around the back." She made a look before she looked down and saw her jetting straight up the building. While Daph continued to climb for dear life, Dani spotted her bag of chips on her desk, making her smile with an idea before she pulled her bag out to the window as she smirked down at Skulka. "Hey, Skulka! Still think your abilities beat mine?!"
She poured her chips over the edge as the chips rained down at Skulka, making her grunt with each whack and looked a little disgusted by the taste.
"Lime and vinegar?! Who eats those?!" She exclaimed before she fired some of her missiles at the chips and blasted them into pieces until she cringed when the pieces continued to rain down at her. She looked up and saw the bag floating right down at her when her eyes went wide. "Oh for crying out loud!" She got caught inside the bag and was dragged back down to the sidewalk.
Skulka then used her blades to slice her way out of the bag as she roared angrily to the heavens. Dani has just caught up with Daph to the OP Center until she heard Skulka shouting and she realized that she was gonna come back very soon.
"We don't have much time!" Dani exclaimed to Daph before she swung off the wire and landed on the edge of the Center.
Daph followed her example as she, too, swung off the wire, but she lost her balance when she yelped and was about to fall until Dani quickly grabbed the cheerleader by her hand while she held her over the edge. Daph looked down to see how high up they were from their small height and glanced back at Dani in fear.
"I got ya! One...two...THREE!" Dani shouted before she managed to pull Daph safely back onto the ledge.
Her hair suddenly popped when Dani cringed and she nervously turned around and saw her reflection on the window. The back of her hair now had black and white streaks up to her headband, minus her bangs which remained all white.
"Oh man, I'm one makeover away from blowing my secret identity. Good thing Daph is a total moron." Dani muttered to herself
Skulka recovered from the bag when she made her way up to the OP Center at top speed with a provoked glare. The girls both quickly ran up to the window and they strained as they pulled it open with little effort.
"We did it! What do you think we just benched? Proportionally?" Daph wondered.
"I don't know, Daph, I'm not that good at math." Dani said.
Then Skulka appeared behind them, making them jump a little as she glared at them. "Soon you not be good at breathing either!" She growled angrily. When the girls both thought that they were doomed, a miracle happened when the same mouse from earlier suddenly jumped out the window and bit onto Skulka's wrist, clearly angry that the ghost tamed it. "Get off of me!" She then rocketed away.
Dani and Daph both smiled before they jumped into the OP Center and allowed the window to close shut. They glanced around until they finally found the Fenton Crammer laying unharmed on the counter, the device that got them into the mess in the first place, and their one way ticket into returning to normal size before Dani's identity was revealed to Daph.
"That's gotta be the device!" Dani said.
"And that's how we're gonna get to it!" Daph said as she pointed at the pizza that hung some cheese limply over the edge of the counter, making a perfect rope for them to use.
They quickly slid down a wall railing before they ran up to the pizza and Dani began to climb up first before Daph allowed her to climb a few feet before she followed her. Just then, Skulka and the mouse crashed through the window and all thanks to the giant normal-sized rodent, Skulka's jetpacks were now damaged and unusable.
"Thank you for opening the window for me, your services are no longer needed." Skulka said with a grin as she aimed her wrist gun at the mouse and fired some green goo at it, sending it sticking onto the wall while it squeaked. Skulka then made her way to the pizza rope and stared up at the girls who were desperately climbing up it. "You'll never be able to climb fast enough to save yourselves!" She began to climb up after them as she laughed evilly.
Dani finally made it to the top of the counter as she stood up, but then she completely changed back to normal with the exception of her eyes, which were still green. She felt her face and glanced down when she noticed that Daph was about to pull herself to the top as Dani quickly ran into the inside of the Fenton Crammer.
Daph managed to pull herself up, but then noticed that Dani wasn't anywhere. "Hey, where'd you go?" She wondered in confusion as she eyeball glanced around.
"I'm in here!" Dani called as she waved her hand out before she pointed behind the device. "I need you to pull the trigger, quick!"
Daph peeked inside and luckily for Dani, it was dark enough so she couldn't see her. "You okay in there?"
"Just flip it to uncram and push the TRIGGER!" Dani made her eyes glow green in anger, enough for Daph to cringe from her scary eyes before she ran off. Dani then blinked her eyes as they returned to their normal blue when the last bit of her ghost energy has finally been shorted out.
Daph quickly pulled the switch to 'uncram' while she grunted with effort as Skulka pulled herself up to the counter. "You can't escape me! I'm faster than you!" Skulka declared as she made her way up to the Crammer while Daph struggled to pull on the trigger. Dani hid behind the device when Skulka came up closer to her. "And you're weak! WEAK!"
Daph finally managed to pull the trigger when the device fired at Dani dead on as it returned her to normal size and she regained her ecto-energy when she changed back into her ghost form.
"Actually...I'm a lot stronger than I thought!" Dani said as Skulka looked up at her.
She grabbed the huntress ghost in her fist as she grunted from her strength. Dani glanced at the open freezer in the middle of the room before she held Skulka on her palm and flicked her straight into the freezer as she shouted, freezing her hunting when it came into another great failure for the Ghost Zone's greatest huntress. Dani closed the freezer shut and then smiled at Daph, who smiled back before the ghost girl picked up the Crammer and fired a ray at the cheerleader, returning her to normal size.
Daph laughed in joy when she looked down at herself, no longer helpless and puny. "Way to go, Phantom! I knew I could count on you!" She said with gratitude.
"Yeah, well...without my powers, that made one of us. So...thanks, I couldn't have wished for a better fitness buddy." Dani then shrugged her shoulders a little. "Maybe you're not that bad after all."
Daph smiled with her hands on her hips. "Thanks! Hey, what you say we hang around here...and stuck Fentina's head in the toilet?!" That made Dani take everything back when she scowled at the spoiled cheerleader. "You know, just for giggles?!" Dani flipped her thumb at the switch back to 'cram' before she shrunk Daph back into her short size as she shouted. "I DON'T DO PUNY!" Dani only remained silent while she gave her an unimpressed scowl.
The next day outside Casper High at the fields, Dani, Tina, and the rest of the students (all in their gym uniforms) prepared themselves for their physical fitness test as they got in a starting position at the starting line while Tetslaff tested them.
"On your mark, get set…" Tetslaff announced before he blew his whistle.
Dani and Tina immediately took off ahead of the others as they ran to the pull-up bars and began doing some chin-ups with little effort.
"One...two...three...four...FIVE!" Dani and Tina said in unison before they backflipped and landed perfectly on their feet until they ran up to the ropes and began to climb.
"Ha! Just like climbing the wires up to the OP Center!" Dani said out loud. Apparently, she told her friends everything that has happened to her and Daph when they took a wild adventure in giant land with a desperate huntress ghost chasing after them.
"Or chinning up to a killer bird's nest on a tree branch of empty lies!" Tina exclaimed, clearly not happy that the latest PDA she has been after turned out to be a fake.
The both leaped over the wall and landed back down on the ground before they continued to jog until they reached the finish line when Tetslaff pressed on his stopwatch and examined the girls' record.
"Well, it's not record time, but...it's good enough to pass." He said proudly.
"Thanks." Dani and Tina panted as they leaned against their legs.
The gym teacher then turned his attention to their fitness buddies, Daphne Baxter and Samuel Manson, and handed them medals. "Good job whipping these ladies into shape."
Daph glanced at Sam and narrowed her eyes at him. "You do realize this is the last thing we'll ever do together." She said knowingly.
Sam rolled his eyes in agreement. "Count on it! Does this thing come in black?" Sam asked his gym teacher, making her stare at him in confusion.
"Well, ghost beaten…" Dani panted.
"Test passed…" Tina added, just as exhausted as her best friend.
"And...self-worth restored. Ready?"
"Yeah." Both of them moaned as they fainted to the ground from pure exhaustion.
On the bleachers, Dani's parents, Matt and Jackie, were having their lunch while they watched their daughter pass the fitness test like a true Fenton would, and soon to become an in-shape ghost fighter like themselves and James.
"I'm so proud! Our girl finally has the physical prowess of a sixty year old president! Here's to you, kid!" Jackie cried as she weeped with joy and held her glass of root beer into the air.
"Here, Jackie, let me freshen up that root beer." Matt said as he scooped up some ice from the ice bucket.
He poured the ice into Jackie's drink with one of the ice cubes encasing Skulka in a block of ice when she was trapped in the freezer for too long overnight. Jackie began to drink her rootbeer while Skulka was about to get eaten. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"