{Greetings from beyond the screen my fellow readers and writers SL17H3R here with a new chapter. As I stated in the last chapter this is the apology chapter for being late.}

Date/ Time/ Location: Monday, September 17, 2018/ 9:45 P.M./ Amity Harbor

Danny(POV)

I fly past one of the many ships and warehouses of the docks. I've been chasing a particularly troublesome ghost, calling himself the Box Ghost. Originally I thought he was dangerous after seeing him control some nearby boxes(I thought he could empower them with his energy) however my fears were quickly replaced with annoyance when he only threw the boxes at me. The Box Ghost used my brief moment of distraction to escape. That's why I'm phasing inside one of the warehouses.

Box Ghost turns to face me in an over dramatic fashion, "Beware! I am the Box Ghost!" He gestures to boxes around him, "I have power over all cardboard containers and square."

I frown and face palm, "Okay first off rectangular would be more accurate, second can we get this over with? I've got a test to study for."

Box Ghost narrows his eyes, "Study? There will be no time to study," his hands begin to glow green and he raises the boxes into the air, "when you find yourself crushed beneath the forgotten possessions of…" he leads in closer to read off a shipping label, "Elliot Kravitz of Arlington Heights, Illinois!"

He sends the boxes towards me but I simply turn intangible to allow the boxes to hit the wall behind me.

I sigh before yelling, "I don't have time for this! Hey guy, let's go!"

Tucker and Sam kick down the door and rush into the room, with Tucker carrying a Fenton Thermos and Sam holding a glowing book over her left hand.

Sam raises her right hand and a purple sphere surrounds the Box Ghost much to his shock.

Tucker opens the thermos, "Good night everybody!"

Tucker activates the thermos as I reposition myself slightly above the Box Ghost and kick him into the beam of the thermos. He screams as the sphere disappears and he gets sucked in.

Tucker caps the thermos, "Perimeter secure."

Sam scoffs, "Perimeter secure? What are you, a Navy Seal?

I land next to Tucker, "Seals: An aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae. Seals inhabit seacoasts, and are found principally in the higher latitudes of both hemispheres. There are several noticeable species, such the command seal, sea lion, leopard sea and elephant sea."

Sam checks the textbook, "Correct," she closes the book, "That's twenty-one correct answers."

Tucker smiles while spinning the thermos on finger, "I'm no teacher, but I'm guessing that's an A."

"Come on, you guys," I fly in between them, "If you're gonna help me, you're gonna have to be a little more focused," I point to Sam, "you're supposed to be helping me study for the test tomorrow," I then point to Tucker, "and you're supposed to be helping me catch these ghosts so I have time to study!"

Tucker begins to spin the thermos on his finger, "What? They're all right here."

The thermos processed to fall off of Tucker's finger and onto the ground. The word "RELEASE" appears on its side screen and the cap bursts off to release multiple ghosts, who quickly phase out of the building.

Even the Box Ghost is released and flies into the air, he taunts us with, "Ha ha! I am the Box Ghost! You cannot hold me within the confines of a," he mimics the shape of thermos with his hands, "cylindrical container."

Be then phases out through the wall.

I don't even look at Tucker, "You didn't upgrade the thermos like I suggested, did you?"

I legitimately had a dream about this very scenario. My suggestion was to add three additional buttons to the thermos; a small button on one third and three thirds(holding it with both hands) and a third would be on the opposite side of the thermos but would need a finger from both hands to push it down.

Tucker backs away from me slightly with both of his hands up, "Hey, I got a lot of shit on my plate, some things were going to be pushed back," I sigh and nod, he checks his PDA, "but in all seriousness, according to my schedule, we were suppose to stop catching ghosts right about now."

I nod again but Sam is the one to say, "You're right unlike us you have parents that actually care about you."

This was the truth, Sam's guardians don't give a fuck about she's does as long as it doesn't conflict with their public image. My guardians, if you could call them that, can forget about Jazz and I for days at a time, their record is 3 months. While Tucker's parents are so cool that we've considered telling them about what we're really doing out here. It's also so we can use them as an alibi.

I grab a hold of both of them and fly us back home. Tucker at the back alley and Sam at her front door.

Meanwhile

A metallic figure looks through a set of high tech binoculars with a red cross-hair sight focused on the halfa's face.

This is Skulker, Ghost Zone's greatest hunter. The cage of ghosts behind him is evidence of this.

Skulker hums to himself, "Half human, half ghost," he lowers his binoculars, "All one of a kind. He'll make a fine addition to my collection."

A familiar form of the Box Ghost flies up to Skulker's cage of ghosts, "Ha ha!" he laughs.

Skulker doesn't even turn around, "Touch the cage and your pelt will adorn my fireplace."

The Box Ghost pauses for a bit before yelling, "Beware!" then fling away.

Skulker just looks back at the halfa through his binoculars.

Date/ Time/ Location: Tuesday, September 18, 2018/ 6:37 A.M./ Fenton Works

Danny(POV)

Maddie has been working on a new invention, Jack is eating cereal and I made myself breakfast. Jazz then jumps into the kitchen from the archway.

She's holding up a magazine, "Oh, my gosh, they said yes!"

I'm still sitting at the table before I mock her, "Who said yes? The person you asked if you were a dewb?"

Jazz playfully glares at me, "No, Genius Magazine said yes! They got my letter and want to put mom on the cover!"

She then screams like a banshee while hugging the magazine.

Maddie tilts her head to the side and asks, "Genius Magazine?"

Jack snatches the magazine from Jazz and asks, "Genius Magazine?! Is it the swimsuit issue?"

Jazz scoffs in discuss, "Uh, Dad, Genius Magazine is for women geniuses, by women geniuses, and about women geniuses."

I frown a bit and quietly say, "So does this magazine give credit to the men from a team of scientists or does it exclude them," I then quietly continue, "these women could have felt so disrespected that they created the own magazine," I scoff to myself, "how am I kidding I have no clue about their origin and I shouldn't assume."

Jazz scoffs and swipes the magazine from dad, "It's not the swimsuit issue! But it is the perfect magazine to show that I have normal parents instead of a couple of ghost-hunting freaks."

I snort getting Jazz's attention, "Jazz I'm pretty sure normal families don't have ecto mutated hotdogs in their fridge, by the way don't open the bottom right drawer."

Jazz shutters at the thought of facing those abominations again.

Jack then suddenly interjects with, "Hey, Danny-boy, speaking of ghost hunting," he then grabs the invention Maddie was working on, "check out the latest in ghost-hunting technology: the Ghost Gabber," he turns to Jazz, "Genius Magazine has to be interested in this," he then turns to me, "it takes the mysterious sounds a ghost makes and translates them into words you and I use every day. Here, try it."

He holds this Ghost Gabber in front of me.

I just glance at him before I pull all of my energy into my core before saying, "Boo?

The Ghost Gabber doesn't speak.

I glance at Jack again and say, "You should probably test that thing with an actual ghost," I then stand, grab my bag and say, "I got to get to school,"

I walk away as Jack looks down at the Ghost Gabber.

I then walk past Maddie as she looks through the magazine, "That's great about the magazine, sweetie, but your father and I are a team. I think that beside every genius woman, there's a genius man.

I open the door as I hear Jack say, "Who should be standing beside her on the cover of Genius Magazine! The world needs-," I close the door behind me and start up my moped.

I've actually considered taking some motorcycle classes.

Time/Location: 3:27 P.M./Casper High.

"I can't believe this, Albert gave me a "D?!"

Sam, Tucker and I are in the school library. Tucker and I are sitting at a table looking at my graded test, while Sam is at a nearby computer.

I groan, "At least it's not like all this ghost hunting is taking away from my study time."

I focus what little ectoplasm into my right eye, two figures come to life within my field of vision. It's two Phantom studying in midair. I figured it out last night before I went to bed, if I send most of my ectoplasm into my duplicate, my duplicate can divide himself into two, I pretty much create two ghost duplicates and one human body. I suppose I could just divide my ectoplasm between two duplicates but I never really thought of that until now. Yeah I still get a headache whenever I reabsorb them, but that's a worthy price.

As for my mood, in biology class we had to do a report on how we believed a prehistoric animal would act. Through the luck of a lottery I got the Tyrannosaurus Rex. I argued a few points; 1st T-Rex was both a predator and scavenger, 2nd T-Rex could see something while it was moving, 3rd T-Rex had parental instincts and 4th T-Rex didn't roar.

Many top predators go out to hunt and are opportunistic scavengers, such as lions so is it unreasonable that a top predator like T-Rex won't be both. The eye socket of T-Rex is twice the relative size of an eagle, so it's not unreasonable for a T-rex to have better eyesight. With the prey to predator ratio is at best 2 to 1 which means a predator requires more energy to raise than a prey not to mention any decent survivor would take out a potential predator. T-rex didn't need to roar, it needed to communicate with others of its species over a long distance, so it would require the ability to hear and produce infer sounds like elephants, it would actually sound like the Jaws theme.

Unfortunately for me my Biology teacher Mr. Albert is a complete douchebag.

Tucker then scoffs, "So much for the Fentons being a family of geniuses."

I glare at him, "Tuck, we both know it isn't like that. Not to mention Jack and Maddie will kill me."

"Not if," we hear Sam's voice from the computer chair, "you pull your grade up by doing an extra credit biology assignment…" she pulls up a web page about a gorilla that says Extremely Rare: Sampson, "On this magnificent creature."

I get up and walk up to the computer, "A purple-back gorilla?"

Sam nods, "Yep. Extremely rare. Only two left, both male. After this, they're gone forever. Which is why you are going to prove he deserves to be set free.

I give her a deadpan look, "Extra credit or your agendas. And the two points; first if all there are is two males then there's no hope for them in the wild and second if they were in the wild then they would be targeted by poachers."

Tucker walks up while holding his PDA, "You just have to learn how to manage it better. I decided to become your time manager. It's the least I can do after Sam made me let all those ghosts out."

I can feel Sam glare at Tucker.

I sigh, "I don't know."

Tucker waves me off, "It'll be my job to keep track of your schedule so you can do your schoolwork and catch all those ghosts that Sam let loose."

I can feel Sam glaring at him even more.

I raise an eyebrow, "Remember what happened when I let you manage the thermos?"

Tucker smiles while tapping on his PDA, "And I've already scheduled 'Remember: not to let Tucker handle the thermos."

He shows me the screen with the blinking reminder.

I sigh, "I suppose we could have a trial period."

Tucker smiles, "Cool? I've also scheduled some zoo time so we can check out that gorilla. Now let's go."

3rd(POV)

As the trio leave the library, followed closely by the halfa's duplicates. The ghost known as Skulker then phases through the wall and floats over to look at the web page about the gorilla on the computer.

Skulker hums to himself, "So this is your prey, eh, Ghost Boy?"

A young nerdy student known as Mikey walks up to Skulker completely unaware of what he's capable of, " Uh, excuse me, sir?" Skulker reacts to this with a scowl at him, "Are you finished with the computer?"

Skulker shoots a series of ecto-blasts at Mikey, trapping him in webbing upside-down on the wall with his eyes blindfolded by ectoplasm. Mickey wails in fear.

Skulker yells in response, "You thought you could sneak up on me, Skulker?" Mikey continues to wail, "Ghost world's greatest predator?" Mikey doesn't stop yelling wails, "Quiet, you're in a library."

Skulker shoots ectoplasm onto Mikey's mouth muffling his wail. Skulker phases out through the wall, just as Dash and his friend, Dale, walked in through the door.

They stop to look at the trapped Mikey.

"Whoa, you do that?" Dash asked in an impressed tone.

Dale declines, "No, but I can always stop and appreciate high-quality bullying."

The ectoplasmic webbing suddenly disappears and Mikey screams as he falls to the floor.

Time/ Location: 9:36 P.M./ Amity Park Zoo

Danny(POV)

Sam, Tucker and I watch the domed gorilla habitat, where the purple-back gorilla, Sampson, from the observation tower.

Sam says while looking through her binoculars, "There he is: Sampson. So gifted, so...majestic."

With my enhanced vision I watch as Sampson scratches himself.

Danny, "Sam, we've been watching the gorilla scratch his ass for, um, how long now?"

Tucker yawns, "Six hours."

I yawn, "Time flies when you're majestically scratching your ass."

Sam continues to look through her binoculars, "It's only a matter of time before you find out something about Sampson nobody's ever learned!" she turns to us, "You should go and try to communicate with him."

I sigh, "Sam, I've only got three hours of sleep so either get me something to keep me awake or let me sleep."

Sam groans, "Ugh, fine," she hands me her credit card and says, "order some Ryder Delivery for us."

My dad had taken one of Tucker's suggestions, the idea was an extremely fast delivery service to dad and the man for lack of a better word delivered. Employees would go get the order, take it to the address and their drone would deliver it. The drone is from the Ryder Corporation and can be directed to the customers location with the app.

Sam looks over to see Tucker yawns and curles up to fall asleep.

Sam sighs, "'Fine I'll do it myself."

Danny can't help but to start to fall asleep. Sam on the other hand makes her way to Sampson's enclosure.

Meanwhile Sampson is in his habitat still trying to get comfortable when he hears something from the tiger habitat. Skulker phases into the tiger habitat and observes the halfa through his binocular. Danny's head hit the table with a loud thump and his head immediately shots right back up. The sleeping tiger wakes up and growls at Skulker.

Skulker looks at the tiger with disappointment, "Oh, please."

Sampson in the meantime, hears the growling and roaring noises and starts to run towards the edge of his enclosure, he then notices Sam outside his habitat. He makes distress grunting noises to alert her.

Sam questions, "What is it, you wondrous being?"

Sampson comes over and continues to grunt at her, pointing at the tiger habitat.

Sam looks in that direction to hear the fighting, "There's a fight."

Sampson goes to his habitat cage's door and hangs off of it, still grunting in distress.

Sam's eyes widen, "You want to stop the fight?"

Sam goes to the habitat's control panel and hits the 'Open' button. The door opens and Sampson runs out.

'Whoever it is going to get a massive surprise.'

With the tiger hanging from the ceiling by Skulker's net. Skulker quickly phases out of the tiger habitat and looks through his binoculars. The binoculars' target screen then flashes the words "GORILLA ATTACKING!" in green blinking letters.

Skulker asks himself, "What? Gorilla attacking?"

Sampson suddenly jumps on him and knocks him down, then starts hitting him. Skulker blocks one of the hits, then kicks Sampson off of him. Sampson once again attacks Skulker, grabs him by the legs and spins him in the air, he slams Skulker into the ground, then lands on his chest, processes to bite his wrist armor. Skulker then shoots ectoplasm onto Sampson's eyes from a small wrist blaster, causing Sampson to back off and hold his face. Skulker then goes to shoot a net at him, but Sampson grabs it mid-air and twirls Skulker around again. The net eventually snaps off of Skulker's wrist, and he crashes into the observation tower. Tucker is still sleeping, but Danny is now wide awake and when his ghost sense goes off, he instinctively transforms. Sam kicks in the door.

Danny hears the very familiar voice of Sam, "Oh my gosh! There's--"

Danny turns to see the large figure of Skulker shot and covers Sam's mouth with ectoplasm.

Skulker turns to Danny, "Now for the ghost child."

Danny shifts into a defensive stance when Sampson comes flying through the window and knocks Skulker into the desk. Skulker throws him off of himself then phases out through the wall as Sampson starts to charge at him. Sampson then starts pounding at the wall, which wakes up Tucker, who screams.

He then sees Sampson and screams, "Gorilla. Loose!

Danny yells, "I got him!" he then flies after Sampson, picking him up by the arms and phasing him through the wall outside into the air.

Danny looks down at Sampson, "Alright, I don't know why Sam let you out, but you're going back."

He phases Sampson into the gorilla habitat, then quickly goes outside and shuts the door via the control panel. Sam and Tucker walk up behind him.

Sam begins, "Danny, did you that ghost?"

Danny, "Yeah is that the reason you let the gorilla go?"

Tucker then asks, "Wait there was a ghost?"

Danny finally turns to them, "So what happened?"

Sam then begins to explain.

Date/ Time/ Location: Wednesday, September 19, 2018/ 6:29 A.M./ Fenton Works.

Within the Fenton Works' living room, Maddie, Jack, and Jazz are sitting on the couch across from Connie, a journalist for Genius Magazine. She is sitting in a chair holding a tape recorder up.

Connie asks while pointing her tape recorder at Maddie, "A few more questions, Maddie. Can you tell our readers what you're working on now?"

Jack cuts off Maddie while holding the Ghost Gabber out, "Well, it's called the Ghost Gabber, and--"

Jazz quickly yell, "Dad, put that thing away!" She then turns to Connie, "She's actually working on a new form of self-generating energy. She's an amazing, intelligent woman who's about to change the world.

Maddie then speaks up, "Connie, my primary focus these days is ghost hunting."

Connie frowns, "Um, forgive me. Did you say ghost hunting?"

Jazz sigh just as Danny, Tucker, and Sam come in through the front door. Danny looks exhausted.

Maddie, "Danny, look at you! I'm not sure I like this overnight zoo research."

Danny blows a raspberry, "Mom please, we're just a bunch of kids, in the zoo, at night, alone," this everyone stares at him before he looks back at Tucker, "Hey Tuck could you warm up some of the extra pizza in the fridge?"

Tucker nods, "You got it man," he salutes before rushing off to the kitchen.

He then turns to Sam, "Sam could you please boil up some coffee, I think I may need it."

Sam nods, "Yeah with three cubes of sugar?"

"Yeah thanks," he says with a smile before turning to the group, "I'll be in my room."

As Danny heads up stairs Jack suddenly gets a horrified look on his face, he had eaten the pizza last night.

The Ghost Gabber snaps him out of his thoughts with several beeps.

Jazz yells, "Give me that!" she takes the Ghost Gabber and hides it under a pillow, "Now where were we?"

As Danny goes to his door his ghost sense suddenly goes off and as he opens his bedroom door and Skulker turns visible in the doorway.

Skulker, "Hello, Ghost Child."

Skulker fires and traps Danny in a net and pulls him into his room, the door slamming shut behind him.

Skulker standing over him as Danny remains in the net.

Skulker, "The human ghost child in its natural habitat."

Danny asks, "Who are you?"

Skulker proudly states, "I am Skulker," he holds up his cage full of ghosts, "a collector of things rare and unique. And you, Ghost Child, are that and more," he says before laughing and stomps on a model rocket.

Danny, "Hey, my rocket! I built that!"

Skulker frowns, "Pity, though. I'd hoped you would put up more of a fight."

Danny glares, "Oh, don't worry," he goes ghost, channels his ectoplasm into the shape of a sword and slices the net, "I will!"

Just as he launches a kick at the hunter he hears, "Hey Danny there's no pizza!"

Thinking fast and giving his relatives a reason not to come upstairs he yells, "FUCK!"

His kick lands on Skulker's chest, sending him into the wall and with a loud thump. However with a Skulker growls in with a feral grin he launches himself at the halfa. The battle had begun. Moving forward with a right hook he hits nothing but air, for Danny leaned back onto his hand and kicks Skulker up into the ceiling. Danny continues his momentum with a handspring, just as Skulker lands with a thud.

Skulker glares up and just as quickly as he fell he gets up and swings at him. But the first isn't one sided, Skulker has the equipment advantage. However Danny has noticed that Skulker has only used a single net and that proceed the fight.

Back downstairs they hear a loud crash from Danny's room, then the voice coming from downstairs.

Jack is now sweating bullets, he didn't think his 'son' would get this angry.

Jazz tries to ignore her brother's freak out, "You know, ghost hunting isn't the only thing my parents do, Connie. It's really a side interest. What they're really into is--"

They then hear a loud crash from upstairs followed by a yell, "I'm so sick of Nasty Burger!"

Sam sighs before quietly cursing, "Damn it," but it was loud enough for Maddie, Jazz and Connie to hear and look at her with a disapproving stare, "I'll order him some chicken," she says before pulling out her phone and placing a Ryder Delivery order.

Tucker smirks and says, "Being a doting wife--" he is cut off when Sam elbows him, "--you know it's true."

Sam then yells, "And you know that won't be for a few years," they hear another loud crash, "remind me to force him to get a minimum of six hours."

Maddie then scoffs, "Don't you think it's a bit early to be planning that far ahead?"

There's another crash from upstairs followed by Danny's voice, "My computer! Oh wait, that's an old one."

Sam smiles and then chuckles darky, "I've kept my competition away from him for too long to not ahead."

The women quickly develop a horrified looks on their faces.

Suddenly the sound of a door opening echoes through the house and Danny's voice is heard, "I'm taking a shower!"

Meanwhile Danny attempts to grapple his opponent only to be grabbed and pinned to the ground. However Danny phases through his grip and through the door.

In the kitchen the shape of Danny phases down through the table and floor, followed closely behind the figure of Skulker. Danny quickly duplicated himself to keep his parents off his back.

As Skulker flies down to the lab he says, "Alright, Ghost Boy. Time to see your new home."

It had barely come to Tucker and Sam that Danny had duplicated himself to combat the hunter. Without a second thought Sam cast a spell on Tucker and herself to avoid detection. They quickly run down to the lab.

Connie then turns the interview in an unexpected direction, "Now then, I've interviewed all the members of the Fenton family, except for one. I'd like to learn a little more about this Danny."

She then begins to walk towards stairs.

Jazz then speaks up with, "Uh, that's probably not such a great idea!"

Maddie with suspicion in her voice, "I'd like to see what he's doing up there too."

She too begins to walk towards the stairs.

Jazz, "Wait!"

Meanwhile in the lab, Danny got slammed into the floor of the lab before getting raised in the air by his throat.

Danny, "What do you think you're doing?"

With a sadistic smile Skulker says while holding up his cage of ghosts, "Bringing you back to my world, where I can put you on display."

Danny, "What?!"

The cage disappears and Skulker presses a button on his wrist that turns on the nearby Ghost Portal.

Skulker starts to walk towards the now open portal, "Ha! At last, time to put you in your cage."

Danny yells, "No!"

Sam suddenly slides between Skulker and the portal, holding her arms out to block him, "No is right, Danny. Cages are wrong. How do you think Sampson feels being in a cage?"

Skulker seems to be confused, "But--"

Sam interrupts him with, "He's a beautiful animal and deserves to roam free!"

Skulker seems to be shocked, "I…"

Sam interrupts him again with a point, "Should be ashamed."

Danny takes advantage of Skulker being distracted, he mists out of Skulker's grip before quickly challenging ectoplasm into two fingers before launching a piercing blast into Skulker's chest. The blast makes a hole in his chest and sends him across the room towards Tucker, who yells and rolls out of the way before Skulker lands. As he sits up, Skulker sees Tucker's dropped PDA next to the fallen Tucker and picks it up.

Skulker in awe, "That technology: so sleek, so...advanced," he looks at his old control panel on wrist, then back at PDA, "hmm, I wonder…"

He yanks the busted, outdated control panel off of his armor and drops it on the floor, then replaces its slot with the PDA. The PDA begins to spark and the dangling wires wave around.

Tucker stands up and yells, "Hey, I got three more payments on that!"

Skulker smacks Tucker away with his hand and looks back at his wrist before whispering, "Marvelous."

The dangling wires connect to the PDA, causing Skulker to glow. Danny flies at him, but Skulker fires a new ecto-blaster from his wrist back at him. Danny hits the wall, his arms and legs bound by ectoplasm.

Sam the yells, "Way to go, Tucker. You just made the bad guy more bad!"

Tucker tries to defend himself, "How was I supposed to know my PDA was ghost compatible?"

Skulker points his wrist at Danny, "Say goodbye to this world, child," the PDA beeps and he looks at it, "What?" He then reads the PDA, "Fly to the library and get a book on eating habits of the purple-back gorilla?"

His jetpack suddenly pops out and turns on, blasting him towards the ceiling.

Skulker yells out as he flies up, "No, stop. The hunt is not over!"

He phases through the ceiling and invisibly passes up through the living room. Jack, climbing the stairs with the others, turns around as if he heard Skulker, frowns, and keeps walking. Skulker phases completely out of Fenton Works. Back in the lab, the ectoplasmic bindings on Danny disappears.

Sam then helps up Danny, "What happened?"

Danny scoffs, "Who cares? At least I got a minute to relax and figure this out."

Maddie's voice is then heard from upstairs, "Danny, where are you? Somebody here wants to meet you."

Danny's duplicate has since returned to his room and has begun to get dressed, "Oh great," he whispers to himself before walking to the door in only a pair of pants.

Maddie opens the door to let herself in, "Danny, this is Connie, from Genius Magazine."

The door is stopped by Danny's foot in mid-swing, "Ever hear of knocking?" He slams the door with his foot and whispers to himself, "Jazz is going to kill me for that," before putting on his shirt.

In the hallway Jazz unknowingly echoes her brother's last words, "I'm gonna kill him for that."

Connie then begins to list, "Brooding? Messy? Reclusive? Now those are the signs of a true genius. Oh! If only he were a woman."

The door to the room is then open to reveal a partially destroyed room.

Danny's voice then comes from behind the bed, "So Connie what does Genius Magazine need from me."

They are initially confused until Danny stands while holding a box.

Connie clears her throat, "I was hoping you could answer a few questions?"

Danny shrugs, "I think I have time for a couple."

Connie holds up her recorder, "First off why did you destroy your room?"

Danny shrugs, "Honestly I've been needing to replace a lot of stuff and when I heard that there was no pizza I decided to take my anger out on the things that need to be replaced."

Cookie then asks, "I see, so what's it like to grow up with a woman genius?"

Danny quickly quips, "You call her a genius, I call her mom."

This causes everyone to laugh.

"But in all honestly," Danny's voice becomes sobber, "it's difficult."

This gets everyone's attention but Connie asks, "What do you mean difficult?"

Danny sighs, "Connie, my dad is able to lift things those idiot jokes at my school could only dream of and is a genius in his own right. Then there's my mom: smart, athletic and beautiful to boot. And at the end of Jazz's freshman year she had five scholarships already lined up. But then there's me," this causes the silence to become very awkward, "the black sheep of the family."

Connie then asks with a raised eyebrow, "What do you mean by the black sheep?"

Danny sighs heavily, "It's always the same, you either follow in your family's footsteps or you're the odd man out. I mean I'm the one who can't get a decent grade on a book report on a prehistoric animal, all because my teacher is a douchebag. So yeah I'm kind of like the black sheep of the family."

"Danny," Sam's voice comes from downstairs, "Ryder Delivery is here, get your ass in gear."

Maddie and Jazz look a bit disapproving however Danny chuckles and says, "Sorry but no more questions, I got to get to school."

Danny walks over to the door, grabs his backpack and leaves.

Date/ Time/ Location: Wednesday, September 19, 2018/ 7:15 P.M./ Casper High

Outside the steps of Casper High, where Tucker, Danny and Sam stop near the top.

Danny looks around, "Any sign of him?"

Tucker checks his PDA, "Nope. He hasn't bothered you for... twenty-five minutes. Maybe he's hunting somebody else now."

Sam, "How many of those things do you have?"

Tucker, "Just two," he turns to Danny, "Good thing I beamed all your info in here and backed it up," his PDA beeps and reads 'GO TO CLASS!' He then pushes Danny into the school, "Come on, you're late."

Sam and Tucker follow after Danny. Skulker phases up out of the steps.

Skulker, "Soon, Ghost Boy. Soon."

Danny, Sam, and Tucker leaving Mr. Lancer's classroom. As students leave the hallway, Danny opens his locker. A series of glowing chains jump out of it and wrap around Danny's torso and arms. A blue mist escapes from Danny's mouth.

Sam and Tucker yell, "Danny!"

Skulker materializes in front of him.

Skulker, "I have you now, child."

Skulker aims a wrist ecto-blaster at Danny. In response Danny challenges his ectoplasm into a pulse destroying the chains before raising his hand as if to fire his own ecto-beams.

Suddenly, Skulker's stolen PDA beeps and he questions, "What?" He reads the message on the PDA, "Go to the news stand and purchase a magazine with an article about purple-back gorillas?"

Skulker's jetpack activates and he flies up, crashing through the school's ceiling.

Tucker checks his PDA, "Hey, I have the same thing on mine."

Danny raises an eyebrow, "Does that mean he has my schedule?"

Tucker looks shocked, "Oh God he does."

Sam then face palms, "I thought you would realize that before the fact."

Danny steps in front of her and says, "Woah Sam let's calm down for a bit," when she's about to protest but Danny cuts her off, "I mean neither of us thought of it either."

Sam is a bit shocked by this before she takes a calming breath and says, "Yeah you're right," she then turns to Tucker, "Danny's right I didn't consider that."

Sam the same to her next class without another word.

Tucker looks at Danny and asks, "That's all I'm going to get from her isn't it?"

Danny shakes his head, "Yeah pretty much."

The two of them then begin to walk after their goth friend.

What Danny said was also the truth, 'please' and 'sorry' were the only white Sam rarely said.

Time: Lunchtime

Danny(POV)

We sit in the football field bleacher, Tucker and I are sitting back to back from each other while Sam is sitting on the seat below them.

"Danny," Sam gets their attention, "eat something."

It was true her words I hadn't eaten yet and the lunch lady Gertrude had made Tucker and I our own lunches. For Tucker he got a Triple Meat sandwich and I got a Turkey sandwich.

I answer while looking around, "I can't eat now. He could be anywhere."

Tucker swallows his food so loud that Sam and I could hear him only for him to look at us, "Hey, this food was scheduled to be eaten."

Tucker opens a can of soda only for a glowing blue orb to shot out of it and wraps itself around my head.

I yelp before challenging my ectoplasm into my eyes.

I hear Sam and Tucker yell, "Danny!"

Skulker steps on the bleachers, "Now, boy, once more, I, Skulker, shall--" his stolen PDA goes off and Skulker reads, "Take photos of gorilla?"

His jetpack activates and he flies away and I finally fire my optic beams completely obliterating the trap.

Sam then asks, "Doesn't that confirm your theory?"

I nod, "Yeah, it does but I think we should now test if we could use this to our advantage. Tucker what's the last thing on my school schedule?"

Tucker checks his PDA, "Gym. Why?"

I smile mischievous at that.

Time/ Location: 3:36 P.M./ Casper High Gym

Gym class was too bad, I mean it's the only class that Dash and the other jokes don't dare to bully anyone. Why? Because Coach Tetslaff would run them exclusively twice as hard. Her motto is, 'If you pay the crime then you have to pay the time.' She says it both shames the perpetrator and punishes them.

As I'm about to open my locker I suddenly feel my core give off an unusual vibration, so I turn to Dash who is admiring his own reflection in a mirror in the locker room.

Dash flexes his arms, "You are one smooth-lookin' dude."

'Perfect,' I think to myself.

"Hey, Dash?" He glances at me through the mirror, "My locker won't open, think you're up for the challenge?"

Dash walks over, before shoving me out of his way, "Out of the way, loser."

As I push Tucker behind the wall of lockers I think to myself, 'I mean there's no point in not reinforcing his beliefs, I doubt his mind would be able to comprehend the truth.'

As soon as Dash opens my locker, an ectoplasmic goo trap shoots out and traps Dash's entire body in a bubble against the wall.

Skulker flies out, lands and inspects him, "Hmm, my sensors indicate you're an average human, destined for an average life after high school."

Dash screams, muffled by the goo. Skulker then turns to see Tucker and I peeking from around the wall of lockers. He then prepares to throw a ball of ectoplasm at us.

Skulker yells, "I shall-" his PDA beeps and he reads, "The gorilla display at the museum of natural history?"

His jetpack activates and he flies up through the ceiling.

Tucker then questions, "Why the fuck is he going there?"

I break it down for him, "When Skulker put your PDA into his technology, he became bound to my schedule. He has to go where I was going to go next." I then check Tucker's PDA, "Which means..." I read the next entry to see it says VISIT GORILLA HABITAT, "It's time for the hunter to become the hunted." I stand and say, "Come on, it's time we do something a little ahead of schedule."

Time/ Location: 7:37 P.M./ Amity Park Zoo

I've been watching Skulker watch Sampson in his habitat through his binoculars from a tree for the past hour and forty-three minutes. As for the real Sampson, he was put to sleep by Sam, where I noticed something interesting.

Skulker growls while lowering his binoculars, "Where is he? According to this infernal device-" I watch as he looks his stolen PDA only to see a game of Pong, "-which I cannot reprogram-" he yells in anger, "the ghost boy was supposed to be here an hour ago," I watch as he jumps down from the tree and yells at Sampson, "You were supposed to be the bait, you stupid animal."

I watch as 'Sampson' turns around to reveal Sam and Tucker holding up a fake Sampson suit.

Sam yells, "Sampson's not stupid!"

Tucker then says, "He's also not here," he holds up his PDA and stylus, "Can I take a message?"

Skulker then gets anger, "You two! You'll pay for this!"

He aims multiple of his weapons at them, they point from out of his suit.

Sam throws off the Sampson suit and surrounds her hands with pink energy.

Tucker, "Oh, I don't think so…" Tucker presses his stylus on his PDA. Skulker's PDA beeps and he checks it.

Skulker reads, "Time for push-ups. What?!" He tries to resist as his body automatically starts doing push-ups, "Stop! Stop! I can't...stop!"

That's my cue I fly down and yell, "I can help with that."

I punch him into the wall of the habitat. I continue to punch him five more times, sending pieces of metal fly off his suit. However Skulker dodges my sixth punch and aims an eco-blaster on his shoulder at me.

As the blaster charges Tucker says, "Ah-ah-ah. 10:11, polish armor."

He then sends command to the stolen PDA.

Skulker's blaster turns into a buffer and he starts screaming as it polishes his face.

Sam slaps him upside the head, "Stop fooling around, Tucker."

I yell in his direction, "Power him down already. Now!"

Tucker scoff, "Relax guys," he begins to wave PDA around, "Everything's totally under-" an arrow pierces his PDA and pins it to the tree, "-control? Aw, man, I had four more payments on this one."

I turn back to Skulker as he retracts his wrist mounted crossbow, "Tucker, you're fired."

Skulker glares at me, "Very well. I planned on simply capturing you and letting you live the rest of your life in a cage. But now, I will rest your pelt at the foot of my bed."

Sam scoffs in disgust, "Okay, that's just gross."

Skulker then asks, "Well, Ghost Boy, any last words?"

I glare back at him, "Just try it."

I launch myself at him while enhancing my fist. Skulker attempts to fire all of his blasters at me however I cross my arms and create a circular shield. Each blast reflects off of my shield and I then increase my speed. I slam into him and created several cracks in his chest.

Skulker growls, "Why you!"

He points his right arm at me, a crossbow unfolds out of his left arm and fires at me. I turn myself intangible unfortunately for me the damn bolt pierces my right shoulder but I continue to rush him. I channel my ectoplasm into my left hand to create a blade and slice his left arm.

"Arg!" He yells out, "Damn it whelp!"

As I circle back around he raises his right arm and an ecto-blaster unholds out of his arm. I in response pull my the bolt out of my shoulder, I fire a pair of ecto-beams out of my eyes causing him to disengage unfortunately for him I jam the end of the bolt into the barrel of the blasters. As I fly past him I hear an explosion.

Over the next several minutes I carefully with disassemble his armor. I end the battle by kicking his head off the body. I land on the ground just as Tucker asks, "But I still don't understand why a ghost needed a high-tech battle suit."

Sam immediately starts to heal me.

Skulker's head hits the ground like a missile and we see two small green legs are kicking out from inside the head.

"Let me go!" We hear a squeaky voice, "I am the Skulker! The Skulker! Do you hear me? Fear me!"

We realize this is the real Skulker.

I pull the legs to reveal Skulker's true form: a tiny green gremlin with a face and limbs. We are all shocked.

As I dangle him by the legs he tries to order us, "I am the greatest hunter in all of the Ghost Zone. You will all fear me."

I look at Tucker, "Tucker thermos, please."

Tucker pulls out the thermos and activates it and I drop Skulker into its beam

Skulker gets sucked in, "You haven't seen the last of me! I shall capture you all. You shall all be mine. Mine, do you hear?!"

Tucker caps off the thermos just as Sam finishes healing me.

Danny, "Epic. Let's go home."

Sam, "But what about this mess?"

Tucker then says, "If you guys could help me get this stuff to the entrance, I could get it out of here."

So we do, we help Tucker move the machines to the entrance of the zoo. Tucker give us the okay to just leave there with the machines.

3rd(POV)

Time/ Location: 10:37 P.M./ Fenton Works

As Jack and Maddie finish their work for the day, Maddie thinks about what her 'son' said earlier today. However she doesn't know what to do about it, she regretted talking to Jack he didn't see anything wrong with Danny and taking to Jazz didn't help for her solution would have to have a family sit down.

As she walks upstairs she hears something. Readying herself she sneaks past the corner to see the silhouette of Danny's girlfriend Sam walking up the stairs. Immediately she believes that she was going to seduce her son, she follows her upstairs.

Slowly opening the door she watches Sam undress into what seems like a sports bra and spandex shorts. She watches as Sam walks over to Danny's bed and pulls up the covers.

Just as Maddie is about to burst into the room she hears her son.

"Sam?" He asks with sleep present in his voice.

Sam begins to get in with him, "Go back to sleep Dan-Ah," her soft yet loving voice is cut off by a pair of arms, Danny has pulled her into the bed, then hears, "Hey. Hold on. Watch your hands. Ugh fine."

Maddie continues to watch as the covers drape over them.

She watches as what seem like Danny's arms wrap around Sam's feminine figure before pulling her in close, closer than she and Jack often sleep together. She watches as their feet intertwine and the two of them fall asleep.

Date/ Time/ Location: Thursdayday, September 19, 2018/ 2:45 P.M./ Casper High

That very night I called Connie from Genius Magazine to tell her about a headline and the next day they already have a magazine out. The headline reads, "He is a SHE!" The cover shows Maddie and I standing in front of the gorilla(whose hair is dressed up in a bow), with Jack peeking out from behind her. The other captions in the corner reads, "Genius child of a genius woman discovers gorilla male is actually a female!"

During that call with Connie I sent her my finding in essay format. I had place the original magazine on Mr. Albert desk.

Mr. Albert picks up the magazine from his desk, opens it and, "Brooding genius Daniel Fenton did what no other researcher dared to do. He got close enough to this rare purple-back gorilla to realize Sampson was actually a Delilah," he looks up from the magazine, "Nobody at that zoo ever bothered to see if it was a boy or a girl?"

I nod, "I know right. As it turns they were respecting her privacy."

Albert stands, "Well, Fenton, I have to admit I'm impressed," he walks over to my desk, "You wanted to get your grade up so bad, you risked getting mauled by a gorilla," he places my graded report on Danny's desk, "B."

I lean back in my chair and say, "A "B" I almost get killed by a gorilla, and all I get is a "B?!"

Albert then says, "Yes but during these last few days I realized that I unfairly grade your book report," he places my regraded book report with an "A" now on it," Oh," the bell rings and he begins to leave the classroom, "next time for your own safety, try the library."

As the rest of the class leaves Sam walks over to me and says, "Well, it's better than a "D," right?"

I chuckle and say, "Yeah you have a good point, now I'm so excited I need something to take all this energy out on!"

My ghost sense goes out, Sam, Tucker and I suddenly hear something behind us.

We turn to see the Box Ghost yelling at a box of files in the back of the classroom, "I am the Box Ghost! And once I empty you of your useless papers, your marvelous squareness shall be mine!" He then begins to laugh.

I transform and flat into the air, "Hello, misplaced aggression."

I then hear Tucker say, "You've got five minutes," he must have checked his PDA.

"Which is four more than I'll need," I off and starts fighting the Box Ghost.

The Box Ghost yells in pain, "Beware!"

{And that's the chapter. I hope you guys enjoy. As I stated before I won't be posting for two weeks, think of it as a hard reset.}