In the docks of the hometown of our heroes, no soul can be seen during the past 7 at night. The sea itself was peaceful and the warehouses are built in rows, hosting many boxes and items for the locals or those away.
In one of those buildings, the Box Ghost phased through a wall and crashed into a pile of boxes. Danny phased through to just in front of the wall, and they both turned visible.
"Beware! I am the Box Ghost!" the small loud ghost said and gestured for the boxes all around them. "I have power over all containers cardboard and square"
"Okay, can we get this over with? I've got a test to study for" Danny asked.
He had been out with Lina for hours, hunting down ghosts while also trying to multi-task with his studies for tomorrow's test.
"Study? There will be no time to study * hands begin to glow green and he raises boxes into the air* when you find yourself crushed beneath the forgotten possessions of *Reading off a shipping label* Elliot Kravitz of Arlington Heights, Illinois!"
He turned to Danny, his eyes and the floating boxes glowing green, and sent the boxes and their contents flying at him. Danny simply turned intangible and the contents hit the wall behind him.
Leaving out a sigh, he turned tangible again. "I don't have time for this! Lina!"
Suddenly, Lina appeared behind the box ghost with her eyes glowing red and her hands folded in front of her chest. The Box Ghost turned in shock.
"Boo," she said and punched him on the cheek.
The small ghost flew and landed on some boxes, knocking them on him in the process.
"Hey Tucker, let's go!" Danny ordered.
Tucker and Sam kicked down the door and jumped into the room, Tucker carrying a Fenton Thermos and Sam a biology textbook.
"Good night everybody!" the dark-skinned pre-teen said as he took the lid off the thermos and activated. Lina grabbed the Box Ghost and threw him into the beam of the thermos. He screamed and got sucked in. "Perimeter secure" he cupped the thermos.
"Perimeter secure? What are you, a Navy Seal?" Sam asked as Danny landed next to Tucker while Lina floated next to her.
"Seals: aquatic mammals that bark. They're canines, right?" the male Halfa asked.
"Wrong" the Goth replied after checking the textbook. "That's zero for twenty-one"
"I'm no teacher, but I'm guessing that's an 'F'" Tucker said as he spun the thermos on his finger.
"Come on, you guys. *Flies up in between them* If you're gonna be superhero sidekicks, you're gonna have to be a little more focused. *To Sam* You're supposed to be helping me and Lina study for the test tomorrow. *To Tucker* And you're supposed to be helping us catch these ghosts, so we have time to study!"
"What? They're all right here" Tucker said as he kept spinning the device.
"Tucker careful" Lina warned him as she turned back to human and went to grab the thermos.
"What? I am careful"
On cue, the thermos fell off of Tucker's finger and onto the ground. The word "RELEASE" appeared on its side screen and the cap busted off to release multiple ghosts in business suits, who phase-out of the building. The Box Ghost was also released and flies into the air.
"Haha! I am the Box Ghost! You cannot hold me within the confines of a *Mimics the shape of a thermos with hands* cylindrical container" he phased through the wall.
"I should have seen this coming" Lina said and facepalmed.
"That's weird. *Checks PDA.*According to my schedule, we should be done catching ghosts by now"
Danny glared at him as he turned back to human and Lina placed her hand on his shoulder. "Go home to study and rest Danny. I will stay a few more hours and try to catch at least some of them"
"Lina, you also have to study"
"I had and I believe I am good enough for this test *Danny is about to protest but she cuts him off* Seals, mammals that bark, Thick layer of fat to protect against cold waters. Eat fishes and sometimes penguins. Prefer artic areas but can be found in warmer seas"
Sam had flipped the book open and scanned the page. "That is actually correct"
"Fine, fine" the male Halfa said and gave her the thermos.
"But don't stay up too late or Mom and Dad will start questioning"
"You got that"
Lina watched them leave and she fixed her grip on the thermos before turning ghost. Once in her form, she looked around before flying up and through the roof. Unaware to her and the others, someone had been watching them.
Skulker, a notorious rare ghost collector and a ghost himself had been watching them through his binoculars for some time now. "Half-human, half-ghost. Only two of this kind, one male and one female. They'll make a fine addition to my collection" He flew after Lina, making sure to follow and observe her by distance as she fought a ghost. "She is different than him. I need to find out why"
And so his stalker time started as he followed her around for the next few hours, observing her how she fought and tried to trap ghosts.
Fenton Works' kitchen, Next Day.
The family was all gathered there, well almost all. Maddie was working on an invention wit Lina watching carefully by her side. Jack and Danny was sitting around the table eating cereal. Suddenly, Jazz jumped into the archway.
"Oh my gosh, they said yes!" she exclaimed and help us a magazine.
"Who said yes? The person you asked if you were a conceited snob?" Danny mocked her and Lina suppressed a chuckle.
"No, Genius Magazine said yes! They got my letter and want to put mom on the cover!" she screamed and hugged the magazine.
"Genius Magazine?" Maddie exclaimed shocked.
"Wow. Congrats Maddie" Lina exclaimed, giving a smile to the woman.
Jack Snatched magazine from Jazz. "Genius Magazine?! Is it the swimsuit issue?"
"Uh, Dad, Genius Magazine is for women geniuses, by women geniuses, and about women geniuses" Jazz corrected.
"It is a pretty nice Magazine actually" Lina added.
She was introduced to it by Jazz, obviously, and she liked it. It had nice role models and even though Lina was not exactly an inventor herself, she found it quite fascinating the whole work. Maddie had tried to teach her and apparently, Lina was natural but never truly followed it.
"So it is the swimsuit issue" Danny frowned. "Oh, gross! Mom's gonna be in the swimsuit issue?!"
Lina facepalmed and left out a sigh, sometimes questioning the IQ of the males in the family she was adopted in.
"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" Jazz explained, holding the magazine.
"They're not ghost-hunting freaks" Danny and Lina argued.
"Hey, Danny, speaking of ghost hunting," Jack said and grabbed the invention Maddie was working on. "Check out the latest in ghost-hunting technology: the Ghost Gabber. Genius Magazine has to be interested in this. It takes the mysterious sounds a ghost makes and translates them into words you and I use every day. Here, try it" he held the Ghost Gabber in front of Danny.
"Uh, uh...boo?"
"I am a ghost. Fear me" the machine said in a female voice.
Lina and Danny exchanged a look before the former decided to interfere. "Oh, look at the time. We better get to school"
She jumped from her seat and Danny stood up
"Yeah, we'd better get to school" the other halfa agreed.
"We'd better get to school. Fear me"
Danny smiled suspiciously, then left with Lina hot on his trails.
"That was a weird close one" she whispered to him who gave a nod as they made their way to the stairs and up in their rooms.
Casper High Library
Danny, Lina and Tucker were sitting at a table looking at Danny's graded test and Sam was at a nearby computer. Poor Danny got a 'D' at the day's test, something that didn't sit well with him.
"All this ghost hunting is taking away from my study time" he complained.
"So much for the Fentons being a family of geniuses" Tucker commented and earned a punch on the forearm by Lina.
She had managed to get a B+ despite staying up half the night to capture the ghosts they lost. She had managed to get most of them and immediately fell asleep when she touched the bed. She suspected that if she had managed to revise, she would have written better, but she didn't mind.
"I can't get a "D" in biology. My parents will kill me"
"Not if you pull your grade up by doing an extra credit biology assignment" Sam butted in and pulled up a web page about a gorilla that said "Extremely Rare: Sampson. "On this magnificent creature"
Danny stood up and walked to the computer. "A purple-back gorilla?"
"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 don't have time for extra credit...or your agendas"
Tucker held his PDA with pride.
"Oh no," Lina commented and lowered her head on the table, knowing what would come next.
"Actually, you do. 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" he said.
The two halfa left out a sigh. "I don't know about all this," Lina said.
"It'll be my job to keep track of Danny's schedule so he can do his schoolwork and catch all those ghosts that Sam let loose. It will also allow you, Lina, to get some rest and also fix your grade"
She glared at him. "My grade is fine, thank you"
"Yeah and remember what happened when I let you manage the thermos?" Danny reminded.
Tucker started to tap on his PDA. "And I've already scheduled "Remember: not to let Tucker handle the thermos"
"I suppose we could have a trial period"
"See? I've also scheduled some zoo time so we can check out that gorilla. Let's go"
As our heroes left the library, Skulker phased through the wall and floated over to look at the web page about the gorilla on the computer. "Hmm, so this is your prey, eh, Ghost Kids?"