Down by the docks, all was rather quiet before it was not as a spectral figure crashed into a pile of boxes with Danny Phantom following in with a determined look before both turned visible and the other ghost spoke in a dramatic tone as he gestured to the boxes. "Beware! I am the Box Ghost! I have power over all containers cardboard and square."

"Okay, can we get this over with? I've got a test to study for."

"Study? There will be no time to study-" Conjuring the boxes to him, the Box Ghost continued to rant. "-when you find yourself crushed beneath the forgotten possessions of..." He pauses to read the label on one of the boxes. "Elliot Kravitz of Arlington Heights, Illinois!" Turning back, the Box Ghost launched the boxes at Danny, the contents also flying at him, but he just turned intangible and let the things hit the wall before he shouted after a sigh.

"I don't have time for this! Hey Tucker, let's go!" The warehouse door was busted down as Sam and Tucker charged in, Cedric just strolling behind them as Tucker was armed with the Thermos while Sam was carrying... a biology textbook, Cedric looking just the same as Tucker shouted with opening the Thermos.

"Good night everybody!" He blasted the thermos beam and Danny, in a dash, snatched the Box Ghost by the overalls before hurling him into the beam, he screaming into the capturing object before Tucker capped it and spoke. "Perimeter secure."

Sam raised a brow as she asked. "Perimeter secure? What are you, a Navy Seal?" Danny landed beside Tucker as he questioned.

"Seals: aquatic mammals that bark. They're canines, right?" Sam rolled her eyes before she cracked the book open and answered.

"Wrong." Sam closed the book from the pinnipeds page and replied. "That's zero for twenty-one."

Tucker spun the Thermos as Cedric crossed his arms on how poorly Danny managed between fighting ghosts and studying for a biology test. "I'm no teacher, but I'm guessing that's an 'F.'"

Danny groaned as he spoke up. "Come on, you guys." He flies in-between the pair as Cedric just looked over everything and back to Danny. "If you're gonna be superhero sidekicks, you're gonna have to be a little more focused." The third friend rolled his eyes as Danny selected Sam first. "You're supposed to be helping me study for the test tomorrow." Then turned to Tucker for his aid. "And you're supposed to be helping me catch these ghosts so I have time to study!"

Tucker was still spinning the thermos as he commented. "What? They're all right here." The Thermos slipped and dropped to the ground, the word 'RELEASE' flashing on the screen before the cap burst open, releasing a number of ghosts in suits out that took flight away and the Box Ghost as he ranted again and gestured the shape of the thermos in hand.

"Ha ha! I am the Box Ghost! You cannot hold me within the confines of a cylindrical container." He phased through the wall as Tucker paused, heedless of what he had just done on accident.

"That's weird." He checked his PDA with a screen that read 'FINISH CATCHING GHOSTS 9:00 PM' as Cedric massaged his temples with a hand. "According to my schedule, we should be done catching ghosts by now." Danny glared at Tucker for his mishap as, unaware of them, someone was observing them from a distance.

"Half human, half ghost." The darkness and shadows hid the figure, but none could really hid the ghastly glow that the figure possessed, skin like metal and hair blazing of robin-blue flames. "One of a kind. He'll make a fine addition to my collection." The Box Ghost arrived to take a cubic prison of ghosts behind, but the figure replied without even a turn. "Touch the box and your pelt will adorn my fireplace." The ghost paused before he yelled.

"Beware!" And he flew off, the figure looking back to the target in his sights.


Day come again as the Fenton family enjoyed a breakfast in the kitchen, or they were when Jazz came in and exclaimed, magazine in hand. "Oh my gosh, they said yes!" Danny looked up from his cereal with Jack with Maddie taking her eyes of the invention she was working on to look at Jazz as Danny spoke.

"Who said yes? The person you asked if you were a conceited snob?" He asked with a slight mocking tone.

"No, Genius Magazine said yes! They got my letter and want to put mom on the cover!" She screamed in joy and hugged the magazine as Maddie asked.

"Genius Magazine?" Jack snatched the magazine and looked at it before he too asked.

"Genius Magazine?! Is it the swimsuit issue?"

"Uh, Dad, Genius Magazine is for women geniuses, by women geniuses, and about women geniuses."

"So it is the swimsuit issue." Danny countered before he frowned and shook with a slight disturb. "Oh, gross! Mom's gonna be in the swimsuit issue?!"

Jazz took the magazine and spoke again. "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."

"They're not ghost-hunting freaks." Danny replied, there was no way that they could be, their devices just have not been used the right way, but with ghosts coming, those tools could be used for the right situation. Jack jumped in as he made to display the latest they have made.

"Hey, Danny, speaking of ghost hunting," The device that Maddie was working on was grabbed and Jack showed it. "Check out the latest in ghost-hunting technology: the Ghost Gabber. Genius Magazine has to be interested in this." He leaned over to Danny and continued. "It takes the mysterious sounds a ghost makes and translates them into words you and I use every day. Here, try it." That was a bit stupid, but Danny hasn't met too many ghosts that could speak in a different language before and he was not sure if it did, but the look in his dad's eye told him to at least try. He paused before he had a good one and spoke, drawing out the last word.

"Uh, uh...booooo...?" A woman's voice replied back.

"I am only half-ghost. Fear me." Danny raised his brow before he spoke.

"'Fear me'? An actual translation?" Jack shrugged before Danny spoke again while Jazz and Maddie were confused. "I'd better get to school."

"I'd better get to school. Fear me." Danny smiled meekly and leaves to get his stuff together as Jack looked at the Gabber, could it have been translating what Danny was actually thinking into the words, but the 'fear me' didn't really match as Maddie spoke up, looking 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." Jack weighed that before he dismissed the Gabber for now and proudly stood by Maddie.

"Who should be standing beside her on the cover of Genius Magazine!" He then made a small speech and felt like a American flag should be flying behind him with a finishing move of pulling Maddie close. "The world needs to know that the Fentons are a family of geniuses." Sadly, that was not fully to be as Danny exclaimed at school.

"I got a 'D?!' In the school library, Danny and Tucker were looking at the graded test of Danny's while Sam was on the computer, Cedric reading through a number of books on machines, devices, and methods of assembly, but groaned to the lack of good techniques for his bracers. "All this ghost hunting is taking away from my study time."

"So much for the Fentons being a family of geniuses." Danny groaned again as he replied.

"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..." The trio looked to the goth girl as she pulled up a web-page for a 'Extremely Rare: Sampson' gorilla. "On this magnificent creature." Danny headed over before inquiring.

"A purple-back gorilla?"

"Yep. Extremely rare. Only two left, both male. After this, they're gone forever." Cedric raised a brow as he joined the looking before Sam continued his 'liberation' speech on Danny. "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." Cedric hummed as, sure it was part of Sam's 'freedom for all things living' spiel, doing a project on some endangered could actually help Danny a great deal.

Tucker supported this as he was holding his PDA. "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." Sam glared before Cedric added to it.

"Tucker, was it not YOU spinning the Thermos on your finger, and not Sam's fault that you didn't have a solid hold on it?" That shut him up as Danny sighed.

"I don't know."

"It'll be my job to keep track of your schedule so you can do your schoolwork and catch all those ghosts that Sam... that I let loose." Tucker corrected as Danny pressed the matter.

"Remember what happened when I let you manage the thermos?" Tucker tapped across the PDA before he replied again.

"And I've already scheduled 'Remember: not to let Tucker handle the thermos.' He showed it as a blinking reminder, Danny giving a pause to his words before he agreed to the plan.

"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." The four headed off and the figure appeared in before looking at the article and musing.

"Hmm, so this is your prey, eh, Ghost Boy?"

"Uh, excuse me, sir?" The figure paused to a small nerd kid by the name of Mikey behind him, rewarding the surprise appearance with a scowl. "Are you finished with the computer?" He didn't go far before he was blasted into the wall and trapped by a ghostly net, blinded too with ectoplasm as as well as he wailed, the figure ranting.

"You thought you could sneak up on me, Skulker?" A wail came back. "Ghost world's greatest predator?" Another wail before Skulker spoke again. "Quiet, you're in a library." Ectoplasm covered Mikey's mouth who wailed in muffled volumes before Skulker took off and left Mikey to be found by Dash and an fellow footballer named Dale, the energy soon disappearing with Skulker's presence leaving the area in pursuit...


Night fell over the Amity Park Zoo where Sampson, the purple-back gorilla, was located as the four observed, or three as Danny and Tucker groggily helped Sam some as Sam commented, still fully awake, Cedric had gone for two hours still trying to improve his equipment, but it was in vain, so he gave up and yielded to a nice slumber through the watch in an observation tower. "There he is: Sampson. So gifted, so...majestic." Sampson scratched as both Danny and Tucker lean on the desk they were sitting at and as bored and tired as they come.

"Sam, we've been watching the gorilla scratch his butt for, um, how long?" Tucker yawned before replying.

"Six hours." Danny shared the yawn before he continued.

"Time flies when you're majestically scratching your butt."

Sam returned volley as she still looked through the binoculars she had in hand. "It's only a matter of time before you find out something about Sampson nobody's ever learned!" She turned around to continued to lecture Danny. "You should go and try to communicate with him." She frowned to the slumbering Danny on the floor, how he slipped off the desk and onto the floor without a sound was a mystery as she groaned. "Ugh, great. Tucker, you're his manager, can you-" She stopped as Tucker was also asleep and she turned to Cedric who was also asleep, but he had been for a while as she watched Tucker turn off and curl up to Danny in sleep as she sighed. "I'll do it. But first..." Pulling out a camera, she took a picture of Danny and Tucker with a laugh. "Boys hugging makes every yearbook funny." However, in the habitats, Skulker had phased into the tiger's and had his binoculars scoping on Danny before the tiger stirred and growled at Skulker who disregarded the threat as minor.

"Oh, please." Sampson was not heedless as the sounds of growling and fighting caught its attention and it started to pace before noticing Sam and making distressed noises to alert her to the threat.

"What is it, you wondrous being?" Sampson pointed to the tiger habitat with continued grunts to her confusion. "Is something wrong?" The gorilla headed to the door and hung to it as it still grunted in distress. "You want out?" Sam did so as she opened the habitat, Sampson rushing out. Skulker finished with dealing with the tiger, hanging it in a net before focusing back to Danny, after phasing out of the habitat, before a display popped up to Skulker's confusion.

"What? Gorilla attacking?" It was at that moment that Sampson attacked, knocking him out of the air and attacking before Skulker caught one of the punches and kicked Sampson off. The gorilla was not deterred as it attacked once more, spinning Skulker in the air before launching him and biting into the wrist, it mechanical rather than ghostly flesh. The 'top predator' blinded the attacking force with ectoplasm before firing a net to subdue the creature, but the net was snatched from midair and he was spun around before being flung into the tower with a snap of the net, the ghost sense activating, but the pair still slept as Sam arrived and shouted to wake them up.

"Oh my gosh! Ahhh-" But Skulker stopped the attempt with ectoplasm to the mouth before he mused.

"Now for the ghost child." Skulker was met with a fist as Cedric had woken up to Skulker crashing.

"Who the heck...!?" Cedric dodged as more ectoplasm was fired when the gorilla charged in and tackled Skulker to the table, the ghost launching Sampson off before phasing through the wall, the gorilla slamming into it before pounding on the wall. "Sam, we are going to talk after this!" Sam nodded as the racket woke up Danny and Tucker who screamed three times, one for waking up to a start, the second to holding each other, and the third to the rampaging gorilla in the tower.

"Gorilla! Loose!"

"I got him! I'm going ghost!" Phantom took flight and grabbed Sampson before phasing through to the habitat. "Alright, I don't know how you got out, but you're going back." Phasing the gorilla in, he flew outside and closed the door through the control panel as Sam and Tucker rushed over, Cedric always in the back as Sam started, the ectoplasm gag gone.

"Danny, I meant to tell you, there was a gho-"

"I wonder who let the gorilla go... Sam?" Tucker agreed with Danny's belief.

"Yeah. Wait 'til we tell everybody at school you let out a four-hundred-pound gorilla." Sam was unimpressed as she revealed the photo that she took and the pair backed out.

"Or we just keep it our little secret."

"Yeah, we really have no proof she did it, you know."

"No." Sam smirked before they headed out, Sam lingering in the back to Cedric's questions.

"That ghost..."

"I know, but I didn't know what was going on, one moment I was going to check on Sampson a bit closer and the next, he was going crazy about something in the tiger habitat, that ghost phased out and was looking at the tower."

"I wonder..." Cedric mused with a rub of the jaw. "A poly-mesh composite armor, it felt like iron to the punch, and looking at the tower..." Cedric hummed as he continued. "We could be in trouble..."


Back at Fenton Works, Maddie, Jack, and Jazz sat on the couch with Connie, a journalist for Genius Magazine, who had a tape recorder in hand as she asked.

"A few more questions, Maddie. Can you tell our readers what you're working on now?" Jack cut Maddie off as he held out the Ghost Gabber.

"Well, it's called the Ghost Gabber, and-"

"Dad, put that thing away!" Jazz shouted as she directed the conversation ELSEWHERE. "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."

"Connie, my primary focus these days is ghost hunting."

Connie frowned to Maddie's words as she asked. "Um, forgive me. Did you say ghost hunting?" Jazz sighed as the four entered the house, with Danny looking rather exhausted from his short sleep. Maddie speaking up to his state.

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

"Mom, come on. We're just a bunch of kids. In the zoo. At night. Alone." To the number of stares, Danny just sighed and continued. "We'll be in my room." The four headed upstairs as the Gabber spoke.

"We'll be in my room. Fear me."

"Give me that!" Jazz howled as she snatched the Gabber and stuffed it under a pillow before directing her attention back to the interview. "Now where were we?" With the four, they soon arrived to Danny's room as Tucker spoke.

"Here we go, Danny. Home in time for some well-deserved rest." The PDA beeps and he checks it before continuing. "But keep it quick, because you've got thirteen minutes."

"That there is murder, Tucker." Cedric pointed out as Danny's ghost sense kicked in, the four turning to the door as he opened it and turning visible was the strange ghost that was at the zoo.

"Hello, Ghost Child." Anymore was lost as the figure fired a net and Danny was pulled in sharply, the door slamming shut as the trio shouted.

"Danny!" Danny was confronted by the imposing figure as he spoke, his friends trying to open the way.

"The human ghost child in its natural habitat."

"Who are you?" Danny demanded to the ghost's reply.

"I am Skulker." He held up a cage of trapped ghosts as he continued his speech. "A collector of things rare and unique. And you, Ghost Child, are that and more." Laughing, Skulker stomped on a model rocket, provoking a reaction.

"Hey, my rocket! I built that!"

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

"Oh, don't worry." Danny transformed and phased through the net as he shouted. "I will!" He punched Skulker to the ghost growling while the trio tried to open the door in vain.

"That's the ghost from the zoo!" Sam shouted to Tucker's confusion and Cedric pulling in vain, somehow the door was bound.

"Danny?" Sam and Cedric spoke at the same time.

"No, the other guy." A loud crash sounded from the room before a voice drifted up from downstairs.

"Hello? What's going on up there?" The trio grimaced before, giving up on the door, headed down to prevent anyone from coming up as the voice's owner, Jazz turned her attention to the interview. "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-" A loud crash came and Jack went off like an alert or alarm.

"Ghost! Ghost! Ghost!" Sam and Tucker quickly came down, Cedric glancing both ways before heading down to the lab.

Maddie spoke up as well as she went on the protective side. "Kids, get down! There's a ghost in the house."

"Actually there's two-" Tucker started, but an elbow form Sam made him rethink that as he started again. "-much homework to be done for there to be a ghost here." He headed for the kitchen with a plausible excuse. "I'll get some snacks."

"Yeah, Danny's upstairs." Another crash came and Sam scrambled for an excuse. "Uh, lifting weights?"

"He doesn't have exercise equipment up there." Danny entered the conversation as he yelled from above, another crash following.

"My computer! Oh, that's Jazz's."

"That's why he's using his computer." Sam's excuse was still weak, but it was nothing for Tucker as he made it to the kitchen, only to have Danny crash thorugh and destroy the table as Skulker landed in front of him.

"Come, Ghost Boy. Time to see your new home." Snatching Danny, Skulker phased the both of them through the floor and to the lab, Danny yelling along the way as everyone reached the kitchen to see Tucker and the destroyed table, so he did the only thing that WOULD have made sense...

...He struck a karate pose beside it. "Uh...hi-ya!"

"What's going on?" But Connie's answer was not to come as another crash was heard and Tucker followed with the excuse.

"Sounds like rats in the lab."

"Ghost rats. I knew it." Jack answered with furrowed brow before Sam and Tucker bolted past.

"Don't worry, we'll get rid of them." The four of the members moved elsewhere than following the pair of friends.

"I'd like to learn a little more about this Danny." She headed for the stairs as Jazz called out.

"Uh, that's probably not such a great idea!"

"I'd like to see what he's doing up there, anyway." Maddie added as she followed suit with Jazz calling out.

"Wait!" Down in the lab, Skulker had dealt with Cedric rather swiftly, the young teen hitting a table as Danny demanded to the slightly-dented robot, Cedric had gotten some VERY good shots in.

"What are you doing?"

"Bringing you back to my world, where I can put you on display." Danny exclaimed to the cage of ghosts Skulker had in hand.

"What?!" The cage disappeared and Skulker pressed a button on his wrist that somehow activated the Portal, Cedric shook his head as he tried to get up.

"Ha! At last." Skulker exclaimed as he moved toward the portal. "Time to put you in your cage."

Danny let out an answer to that decision. "Noooo!" Somehow, Sam managed to slide right in front of the portal and lectured Skulker, arms out to block the way.

"No is right, Danny. Cages are wrong. How do you think Sampson feels being in a cage?"

"But-"

"He's a beautiful animal and deserves to roam free!"

"I..."

"Should be ashamed." How the heck had Sam managed to surprise Skulker in such a way, no one will ever understand as Danny took the moment of surprise to slam Skulker across the room with a kick, Tucker yelled as he escaped out of the flying ghost's way, dropping his PDA which Skulker took notice of when he sat up and picking it up.

"That technology: so sleek, so...advanced." Glancing at the control panel on the wrist and back to the handheld device. "Mmm, I wonder..." Gripping the panel, he ripped it off and dropped it, replacing its spot with the PDA, the device sparking and the wires that dangled from the old set up started to wave about.

Tucker yelped to Skulker's action as he stood behind him. "Hey, I got three more payments on that!" That was not the time as the ghost smacked Tucker away and glanced back to his wrist with a single word.

"Marvelous." The wires latched onto the PDA, causing Skulker to glow. Danny tried to combat him, but Skulker fired a new blaster from his wrist, trapping Danny with ectoplasm on his arms and legs as he he hit the wall, Cedric rushing off within the moment to Sam scolding Tucker.

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

"How was I supposed to know my PDA was ghost compatible?"

"Uh... no one did..." Cedric pointed out as Skulker pointed the blaster at Danny.

"Say goodbye to this world, child." The PDA, however, beeped and he checked it with a exclaimed 'What?' before reading it. "'Fly to library? Get a book on eating habits of purple-back gorilla?'" Somehow, it affected him as his jet-pack engaged and he exclaimed in surprise as he soar upward. "No, stop. The hunt is not over!" He phased through the house as Jack paused as he questioned to the slight echo.

"What just..." He shrugged before continuing up the stairs as down in the lab, the bindings disappeared to Sam questioned what just occurred.

"What happened?" Sam asked as she helped Danny up with Cedric.

"Who cares? At least I got a minute to relax and figure this out." That notion was dashed as Maddie's voice sounded from above.

"Danny, where are you? Somebody here wants to meet you."

"D'oh! My room!" He quickly phased through to his room and reverted into human form as Maddie opened the door in introduction.

"Danny, this is Connie, from Genius Magazine."

"Don't you people ever knock?" Danny answered as he slammed the door closed and grimaced as he leaned against it. "Jazz is going to kill me for that." In the hallway, Jazz angrily stated.

"I'm gonna kill him for that."

"Brooding? Messy? Reclusive?" Connie spoke before coming to the apparent conclusion. "Now those are the signs of a true genius. Oh! If only he were a woman." That was far beside the point, but no one questioned it as that was just the start of Danny's trouble with the hunter ghost known as Skulker...


The next half-hour, the four friends headed through Casper before coming to a stop as Danny looked around and asked. "Any sign of him?"

"Nope." Tucker answered as he checked his PDA for the time. "He hasn't bothered you for...thirty-eight minutes. Maybe he's hunting somebody else now." Cedric hummed at the thought as Sam raised a brow to the PDA in hand.

"How many of those things do you have?"

"Just two." Tucker turned to Danny as he continued. "Good thing I beamed all your info in here and backed it up. Global thinking, Danny: the sign of a quality time manager." The device beeped with the display of 'GO TO CLASS!' as he pushed Danny along. "Come on, you're late." The trio headed behind Danny as their attacker mused as he appeared from the steps.

"Soon, Ghost Boy. Soon." Following the party of four, they continued on their day, heading from Lancer's class to Danny's locker, but upon opening it, he was suddenly trapped by glowing chains as they flung him as the trio called out in surprise.

"Danny!" Skulker formed from a blue mist that followed in front of Danny as he spoke.

"I have you now, child." He aimed another ecto-blaster at Danny, but the PDA beeped, breaking the moment as the ghost spoke. "What?" He check and read it out. "'Go to the news stand and purchase magazine with article about purple-back gorillas?'" His jet-pack activated and he crashed through the ceiling as the chains disappeared, Cedric deciding to raise two fingers with a raised brow as the chains disappeared and Tucker checked his PDA to see the same thing.

"Hmm, I have the same thing on mine."

"I think we'll blow that one off." Danny answered as they headed outside to get some space and sat down on the bleachers to eat, Danny a little unsettled as Sam spoke up to his unease.

"Danny, eat something."

"I can't eat now. He could be anywhere."

"Hey, this food was scheduled to be eaten." Tucker answered as Sam and Danny looked at him as he grabbed a milk carton and opened it, only to have a blue orb pop out and latch itself onto Danny's head as he yelled as he was restrained. Sam and Tucker yelling as Cedric just ate his lunch with minor regard.

"Danny!" Skulker appeared once more as he stepped on the bleachers and started.

"Now, boy, once more, I, Skulker, shall-" The PDA beeped and he checked. "'Take photos of gorilla?'" His jet-pack activated once more and he blasted off as the restraints disappeared before Cedric spoke, pointing at Sam.

"Your habit is supporting us in some way, Sam." Danny paused in thought as Sam turned back to the disappearing ghost and mused.

"Well, at least he's regular."

"Yeah, almost like a schedule." Danny answered as he turned to Tucker. "What's the next thing you have scheduled for me, Tucker?"

Tucker checked and answered with raised brow. "Gym. Why?" The glint in Danny's eye spoke of mischief as they headed out, Danny smirking as he found Dash... modeling in the mirror of the boy's locker room.

"You are one smooth-lookin' dude." He just flexed as Danny fumbled with the lock of his own locker, suspecting something so he paused and played the weakling, despite the fact that he lifted a four-hundred pound gorilla at the zoo.

"Hey, Dash? I'm too weak and defenseless to open my locker. Can you open it for me?" Cedric just face-palmed as Dash did so with insult and a push on Danny.

"Out of the way, loser." He opened the locker and paid for it with getting slammed into with a blast of goo and trapped in a bubble against the wall and blinded as Skulker landed and inspected before lecturing.

"Hmm, my sensors indicate you're an average human, destined for an average life after high school." Dash screamed in muffled noise as Skulker noticed the trio peeking from around the lockers as he primed a ball of ectoplasm to throw. "I shall-" The PDA beeped an he checked to Cedric raising four fingers to the action. "'The gorilla display at the museum of natural history?'" The jet-pack activated and he blasted through the ceiling again as Tucker asked in confusion, not cluing in.

"Why's he going there?" Cedric explained the reason.

"The moment that Skulker hooked up with your tech in his suit, he became bound to Danny's schedule, he has to go where you wanted Danny to go for Sam's agenda."

"Which means..." Danny spoke as he checked the PDA and it flashed with 'VISIT GORILLA HABITAT'. "It's time for the hunter to become the hunted. Come on, I'm gonna go do something a little ahead of schedule." They headed off to make the plan, Cedric rolling his eyes at Dash who collapsed to the ground in confusion.

"That was some bad cheese in there, why did you even try that?" He shook his head as he chased the pair as Dash pulled himself together, but still clueless...


Night fell over the zoo as Skulker watched Sampson from the Habitat with his binoculars as he growled. "Where is he? According to this infernal device-" The device in question was playing Pogo for some reason. "-which I cannot reprogram- the ghost boy was supposed to be here an hour ago." He leapt down and scolded the animal. "You were supposed to be the bait, you stupid animal." He wasn't too bright as Sampson turned, only to reveal Sam and Tucker using a fake 'Sampson' suit as Sam scolded back to Skulker's surprise.

"Sampson's not stupid!"

"He's also not here." Tucker followed as he held up his PDA and a stylus with a smile. "Can I take a message?"

"You two! You'll pay for this!" He aimed a number of weapons at them as Sam threw off the suit and Tucker did his tech.

"Oh, I don't think so..." He pressed SEND and Skulker checked his PDA to find a new message.

"'Time for push-ups.' What?!" The weapons were tucked away as Skulker started doing push-ups with a vain attempt of resisting. "Stop! Stop! I can't...stop!" Danny flew in as Phantom as he answered to Skulker's problem.

"I can help with that." He slammed into Skulker and bashed him into the wall of the habitat, riddling him with punches and flinging... metal off the armor before Skulker could counter, dodging and aiming a blaster as Danny before Tucker struck again.

"Ah-ah-ah. 10:11, polish armor." He sent the command and the blaster turned into a buffer before working on his face as he screamed against it as Sam scolded Tucker.

"Stop fooling around, Tucker."

"Power him down already. Now!"

"Relax." Tucker answered as he waved his PDA about. "Everything's totally under-" That was too early as an arrow pierced his PDA and pinned it to the tree as Tucker finished and screeched. "-control? Aw, man, I had four more payments on this one."

Danny only had three words as Skulker put the bow that fired the arrow away. "Tucker, you're fired."

"Very well." Skulker spoke up as he made a change in his plans. "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."

"Okay, that's just gross." Sam spoke up as Skulker continued.

"Well, Ghost Boy, any last words?"

"Just this." What Danny did next was confusing as he patted his head, covered his eyes with a flapping motion and pounded his chest before Skulker asked for clarity.

"What are you doing?" Danny gave the answer as he was scratching his butt.

"Calling a friend." Sampson suddenly made his presence known as he crashed into Skulker to Sam's exclaim of disbelief.

"You learned his language?"

"Well, sure. All he does is this." Danny answered as he scratched his butt as Cedric joined them, looking rather more rough than wear as he spoke.

"Stop that, there is completely no more reason for that." Sampson went to town on Skulker as the trio cheered and wince to the damage going down before Skulker was thrown down, an arm missing as Tucker asked as Cedric started collecting the parts of the whole thing, it was not armor, but rather a suit.

"But I still don't understand why a ghost needed a high-tech battle suit." They ducked as more pieces came flying before Danny caught Skulker's head, empty in the eyes, but a pair of small green legs kicking and flinging as a squeaky voice came out for the head.

"Let me go! I am the Skulker! The Skulker! Do you hear me? Fear me!" Danny was not sure how he should feel about, but he still pulled on the legs to reveal the true form of Skulker, a tiny green blob with a face and limbs, at least it explained why the suit was used, he was not that threatening without it. "I am the greatest hunter in all of ghost world. You will all fear me." Danny replied differently.

"Thermos, please." Tucker pulled out the Thermos and activated it as Danny dropped Skulker into its beam as he yelled.

"You haven't seen the last of me! I shall capture you all. You shall all be mine. Mine, do you hear?!" Tucker capped it as Danny landed and breathed as he revert back to human.

"Cool. Let's go home."

"But you didn't get anything you could use for your report." Sam spoke up as she spoke about Danny's failing grade. "You're still gonna get a 'D.'"

"Not so..." Cedric answered as he pulled a twig out of his hair and the trio looked to him and his pack as Sampson came closer. "Danny, could you get Skulker's PDA, it could have some data I can use and turn your head one-eighty?"

"Uh, sure...?" Danny answered as he bent down to pick it up as he spoke. "I don't see why that-" The moment he turned his head, he realized and exclaimed in surprise. "Oh my gosh!"


The following day, Danny Fenton brought a magazine from Genius Magazine for Lancer as he did raise a brow before picking up and flipping to the page with the corner folded, not sure what to make sense of the cover. "'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 was actually surprised as he looked to Danny. "Nobody at that zoo ever bothered to see if it was a boy or a girl?"

"That's weird, huh? Well, maybe they were respecting her privacy."

"Well, Fenton, I have to admit I'm impressed. Wanted to get your grade up so bad, you risked getting mauled by a gorilla." He placed the report in front of Danny and the letter was apparent as he spoke. "'C.'"

"A 'C?!'" Danny exclaimed before calming down. "Well, I almost did get killed by a gho-rilla, so I can accept the 'C.'"

"Life's a big mystery, isn't it, Fenton?" The bell ringed and Lancer headed out as he commented. "Next time you want to get your grade up, try the library." Danny nodded as he looked at the curved letter as Tucker and Sam joined him, Cedric was given 'leave of absence' with full credits to him somehow.

"Well, it's better than a 'D', right?" Danny nodded, but he was still a bit ticked as he growled.

"Oh man, if only I had something I could take this out on!" Suddenly, they heard the Box Ghost yelling as he was directing his view on the cabinet of files.

"I am the Box Ghost! And once I empty you of your useless papers, your marvelous squareness shall be mine!" He laughed on the plan, but Danny grinned as he switched to Phantom.

"Hello, misplaced aggression." Tucker checked his PDA and smiled back.

"You've got five minutes."

"Which is four more than I'll need." Danny bolted for the Box Ghost and flew into a fury as Box Ghost yelped to the beat-down he suffered, even getting off a 'Beware' as the battle continued. Sam and Tucker smiled to each other on how well Danny was handling the matter...

...Little did they notice the mechanized suit of armor that soared through the air somehow past the window and spiral into the air...