Author's Note: The only "Princess Natasha" episodes I ever watched are those available at YouTube so, don't expect me to be canon compliant to any that take place after "The Princess and the Pin".

Chapter 26: Still Rotten

"Let me guess," Danny whispered to Alex. "Jerry wants you and your friends to keep an eye at Lubek, right?"

Rather than answering her boyfriend's question, Alex came up with one of her own since it didn't compromise any secrets. "Danny, did your school also show "Travel for Kids presents This is Zoravia"?"

"Will the coincidences never end?" Danny asked in amazement.

"I think not." Samantha answered as she and Clover approached them. "Do you recognize that brunette among Lubek's students?"

All of them did and Alex was the first to reply. "Princess Natasha?" She whispered.

"But how come Lubek doesn't recognize her?" Clover asked.

Having recovered from the double dump, Tucker approached Danny and the girls and answered Clover's question. "I did some research and it turns out she wasn't even born by the time Lubek left Zoravia." He explained.

"Did he never watch the Zoravia chapter of Travel for Kids?" Clover asked.

"If you were him would you have done so or encouraged others to?" Tucker asked.

Dash also took notice of the Princess of Zoravia. "Princess, I'm Dash Baxter, star quarterback of Casper High. How about we do some sightseeing together?" He then heard laughter from another Fountain Park student and frowned upon recognizing its owner from the last time they two schools had a football match against each other. "Something funny, O'Brien?" The jerk jock asked.

"Yes." O'Brien answered while still laughing. "That's no Princess. She's just a refugee girl…"

"Exchange student!" Natasha corrected O'Brien.

"Whatever." O'Brien dismissively replied. "She's no Princess. She came from the Kingdom of Zoravia and has the same name as that Kingdom's Princess but she's just a plain-looking girl while the real Princess Natasha is even more beautiful than her portraits suggest. I should know since I've danced with the real one during a school dance."

"Get real, O'Brien." Dash skeptically replied.

"It's true." O'Brien replied. "I even got one of her crystal shoes as a souvenir." He said and showed said slipper, shocking his classmates. "You still have that thing?"

Tucker then checked his PDA. "According to comments from when the event was posted on the web, this O'Brien guy danced with a decoy so ugly the punch must've been spiked for people to have fallen for the disguise."

'I hope so.' Natasha thought. 'Only then things would make sense.'

"We all had an exhausting trip." Lubek commented. "If you all excuse me, my students and I need to check in our rooms and sleep for tomorrow."

Later on, the spies were in their room talk to Jerry via compowder. "I don't get it, Jerry." Samantha commented. "Why would King Carl risk his own daughter to spy on Lubek?"

"Because of Lubek's former position as Head of the Zoravian spy agency, he'd recognize anyone who already was a Zoravian spy back when he left his home Kingdom, Sam." Jerry explained. "Not to mention the best Zoravian spies from that time were trained by Lubek."

"Talk about conflicting loyalty." Clover commented. "By the way, Jer, if the King needs a better-looking decoy to protect Princess Natasha, I volunteer. I have experience."

"Quite commendable of you, Clover." Jerry replied with a proud smile. "Unfortunately, you're in no position to do so without compromising your position as a spy this time."

"Jerry, do you have anything to do with Danny also being here?" Alex asked and he frowned. "No comments, Alex." He answered.

Meanwhile, Natasha and Maya were sharing a hotel room when the former's boofer phone rang. "Excuse me, Maya." Natasha told her roommate and she left for another part of their room. "Dad's calling."

"Okay, Natasha." Maya replied.

"Hi, Dad." Natasha said as she answered the phone.

"Natasha, I need you to spy on Lubek to figure out how he plans to interfere with my meeting with the President of the United States." King Carl said.

"Sorry, Dad, but I must wait until my roommate falls asleep." Natasha explained.

"Oleg shall assist you, Natasha." The King replied. "Good luck and goodbye."

Natasha then heard someone knocking on the door. "Oleg?"

Natasha's friend and fellow spy handed her a pill. "Natasha, zis is a sleeping pill." Oleg told her. "Make Maya drink vater vith this and she'll be asleep."

"Got it, Oleg." Natasha replied. A few minutes later, she met Oleg at the back of the hotel. He was waiting for her with a motorized scooter. Once they spotted Lubek leaving, they followed him. Unbeknownst to them, an invisible Danny Phantom was watching them. After they left, he joined Alex and her friends, who were using their jetpacks. "Girls, you won't believe it, but Princess Natasha is…"

"A spy, we know." Clover finished. "King Carl cannot send his adult spies because Lubek would recognize them."

"Can you extend your invisibility to us?" Samantha asked.

"To do so, at least one of you must keep holding me and the others must keep holding either me or the one the invisibility is already extended to." Danny explained and Alex quickly grabbed his left arm. Clover grabbed his right one and Samantha grabbed Alex's left one. "That'll do." He commented as he readied himself to make the four of them invisible. Once that was done, the girls increased the speed of their jetpacks to catch up with the Zoravians. "I wonder if the Rocketeer could fly this fast." Danny commented.

Eventually, the bad guys arrived at a place behind the White House. "Are you sure ze secret entrance is here?" Lubek asked an old woman.

"Quivers." The W.O.O.H.P. agents whispered. "Make us visible again, Danny." Alex asked her boyfriend.

"I didn't spend all that time sitting the first brat for nothing, Lubek." Quivers answered Lubek's question.

"Call him "Great One" or "My Liege", old wench." One of Lubek's soldiers told her.

"Don't talk to our mother like that!" Quivers' sons told the soldier.

"Silence!" Lubek demanded. "Have you forgotten vat we came here for?"

"No, Great One." The soldier answered. "We're here to abduct the President's daughter Madison so we can force him to kill King Carl, starting a war that'll lead the Citizens of Zoravia to elect you back into your rightful position as the King of Zoravia."

"Stop right there, Lubek." Natasha demanded.

"You and vich army vill stop me?" Lubek disdainfully asked, not believing Natasha and Oleg would stop them.

"We will." Clover declared as she and her friends revealed themselves.

"Lubek!" Quivers exclaimed in horror. "Those three girls are the spies who protected the first brat in the past!"

"And they've brought a friend." Danny said as he revealed himself.

"Danny Phantom?" Lubek asked. "Amity Park's ghost hero?"

"Exactly!" Danny replied. "How's it gonna be? Easy or hard?"

"Get them!" Lubek commanded his subordinates.

"Help Lubek's men!" Quivers ordered her sons.

"Yes, Sir!" Lubek's subordinates answered while Quivers' sons said "Yes, Mom!"

Samantha and Clover fought Quivers' sons while Alex, Natasha and Oleg fought Lubek's subordinates. Danny decided to go after Lubek and Quivers, thinking it'd be an easy victory since they're humans with no powers who couldn't have accounted for the possibility of a ghost showing up.

Or so he thought. Lubek drew a ghost weapon and shot Danny. "Lubek, how did you know Phantom would show up?" Quivers asked.

"After my Dad's ghost visited me once, it vorried me enough to buy ghost veapon from ze Fentons!" Lubek explained. "They'll be so glad to learn I've defeated zeir foe." He ironically commented.

Unbeknownst to the villains, Alex became so furious she used her jetpack to fly towards Lubek and knock him down with a kick. She was so fast the former King of Zoravia had no time to react. "Don't hurt me! I'm an old lady!" Quivers quickly shouted.

"Do you surrender?" Alex asked with a stronger tone than usual even when she's fighting bad guys.

"Y-yes." Quivers replied in fear and Alex tied her arms so she couldn't escape. Her sons became so depressed they were easily defeated and Alex's friends joined Natasha and Oleg against Lubek's subordinates.

'I'm the one with ghost powers and Alex did more of the fighting than I did?' Danny thought. 'Now she'll think I'm a dork.'

Some black vans with agent in black suits showed up and Jerry was with them. "Good job, girls. And Mr. Phantom." He commented and then noticed Natasha and Oleg. "And who are these two?"

"They're Zoravian spies sent to stop Lubek, Jerry." Samantha explained. "They helped us."

"Even then, they must come with us to answer questions." Jerry replied and directed his attention to Natasha. "Even you, Princess."

It was at that moment that Natasha realized there was no point in hiding anymore.

Inside a secret room at the White House, the heroes were meeting the President and his bodyguards. "So, why would Zoravia's Crown Princess be acting as a spy so far away from her father's jurisdiction?" The President asked.

"Mr. President, Lubek needed to be stopped for the sake of the Kingdom of Zoravia and, since we couldn't force your Government to hand him over, something else had to be done." Natasha humbly explained.

"Well, I usually take a dim view about foreign spies acting in my country but you and your fellow secret agent deserve your anonymity after saving my daughter and preventing the diplomatic incident Lubek would've caused." The President commented. "Albeit I'm not sure what to say about the use of kid spies. Teen spies are one thing but I wouldn't risk a kid."

"Actually, Mr. President, I am 39 years old." Oleg explained and everyone else but Natasha asked "What?"

"It is true." Oleg said. "I have a similar condition to Gotham City's former actress Mary Dahl, a.k.a. Baby-Doll."

The others weren't sure if they believed Oleg's claim or not but they still gave Zoravia the benefit of doubt. "So, what'll happen to Lubek?" Princess Natasha asked. "Will Lubek be sent back to Zoravia, Mr. President?"

"He will, Princess… after serving his sentence for his crimes in America." The President exclaimed. "The same goes for the other Zoravians caught with him."

"And vat about Quivers and her sons?" Oleg asked.

"Since they aren't Zoravian citizens, they'll be free to resume their lives after paying their debts to American society unless there's an extradition treaty between us and Zoravia by then." The President exclaimed.

"My father will be informed of your decision, Mr. President." Natasha stated.

"You and agent Boynski are free to leave now." The President declared.

The next morning, the Fountain Park High students were wondering about their Principal when they were called to the lobby where Jerry and some unnamed people in black suits waited for them. "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am Jerry, head of the World Organization of Human Protection." He said and then produced his identity card. "I regret to inform you that your Principal has been arrested for trying to break into the White House. Some of my agents will watch over you until you return to Zoravia, Illinois."

"What?" They (except for Natasha and Oleg) were shocked. "How could this be?"

While they were digesting the news, students from other schools were having breakfast. Danny, Jazz, Tucker and Sam were whispering to avoid being overheard. "So, Principal Lubek will finally face justice and it's all thanks to you?" Sam asked.

"Actually, Lubek bought a ghost weapon from my parents and the spies who were on his trail were more helpful than me." Danny hesitantly confessed.

"Why would he buy a ghost weapon?" Tucker asked. "You never ran afoul of him before."

"His father's ghost visited him once." Danny explained and then noticed his friends' reactions. "Yeah, I felt the same when I heard that."

"May I sit with you?" Alex asked as she approached Team Phantom.

"Sure, Alex." Danny answered to Sam's dismay. The spy talk ended since Danny's the only one in Team Phantom who already knew Alex's a spy.

After breakfast, all three schools went to the White House. At the same time, they noticed a limousine with the Zoravian flag on it. "Look!" O'Brien exclaimed. "It's King Carl and Queen Lena! But where's Princess Natasha?"

"She's standing next to you, O'Brien!" Dash teasingly shouted and then tried to approach Natasha. "So, now that your evil Uncle is out of the way, how about we finally…" He's then interrupted by Mr. Lancer. "Stick to our group, Mr. Baxter."

After that incident, they started the tour. "Would you believe that boy thinks you of all people could be a Princess?" A blonde girl asked Natasha.

"I think I did a very good job acting as one during that school play, Kelly." Natasha argued.

"A decent job for an understudy but nothing that could make sane people think you're a real Princess." Kelly replied. "Had Dash Baxter been talking about me, I could understand."

"Yeah." O'Brien agreed. "Sure, you're not as beautiful as Princess Natasha but you're ironically closer than Natasha here."

"Kids." A federal agent watching over the Fountain Park students caught their attention. "We're going to meet the King and the Queen of Zoravia right now." He said and they cheered.

Upon arriving at a room featuring the Zoravian visitors, Queen Lena addressed Natasha. "Natasha, dear, please join us for lunch."

"Yes, Mom." Natasha answered, shocking her classmates.

"Natasha, how dare you call the Queen of Zoravia "Mom"?" O'Brien angrily asked.

"Because she is Natasha's mother, and don't talk to my daughter with this tone, young man." King Carl replied.

"Impossible!" O'Brien exclaimed. "She was standing and watched while I danced with the real Princess Natasha."

"Greg, you danced with a decoy and I still can't believe you're too stupid to notice." Natasha told Greg O'Brien.

"Anyway, don't blame my daughter for not telling." King Carl told her classmates. "I wanted her to stay incognito until now."

Kelly was the first one to recover. "Your Highness, may I visit you the next time I visit the Kingdom of Zoravia?"

"All of you can." Natasha replied. "Just remember to call in advance."

The rest of the excursion went without incident and the Casper High students eventually returned to Amity Park. "No fair." Tucker moaned. "I was the other candidate. Why can't I take over after Dash surprisingly kept his word?"

"Because you renounced, Tucker." Sam reminded him. "The rules say there must be a recall election."

"And the worst part is that Dash says him not entering it counts as the not entering the next election part of our bet." Tucker complained.

"The part I find really hard to believe is nobody at Zoravia, Illinois realized Natasha is the Princess of the Kingdom they copy." Danny commented. "Even Dash figured it out and he couldn't figure out my secret in spite of that close call during the shrinking incident."

"True." Sam agreed. "It's like…"

Whatever she would say was interrupted by a tube sucking the three of them to a dark office where they met three girls and an old man. "Alex? Jerry?" Danny asked in confusion. "Did you decide to let my friends know…"

Jerry interrupted the halfa. "Phantom, I've only brought your friends here because we couldn't wait for a chance to bring you alone." He explained while his friends were shocked. "Plasmius has been sighted."

End chapter.

Answer to Leonardo (guest): Obrigado. A aposta foi entre o Tucker e o Dash, então tudo o que o Danny pôde ganhar foi o prazer de ver o Dash sendo derrotado. Os pais da Sam não tinham nenhum motivo especial. Eles só queriam se gabar do encontro pros amigos da alta sociedade. A princípio, eu gostei de ver o Vlad desmascarado e o Danny sendo aceito como herói. Na época, eu dava razão à Sam porque eu pensava que o Danny estava pateticamente tentando se convencer de que gostava de ser normal de novo, mas NeoMark me mostrou outra perspectiva. Até então eu nem sequer duvidava de que o Desastreróide realmente poderia destruir o mundo todo.