The day started out rather well, but it was not that good as Jazz was 'tutoring' Dash on math methods, but he was more focused ELSE where.

"Okay, in algebraic terms, 'A' squared plus 'B' squared equals 'C' squared, where 'C' is the hypotenuse while 'A' and 'B' are the sides of the triangle." She looked up from the paper as she asked a simple question. "Got it?" But Dash just sighed as Jazz spoke again with a frown. "Dash, you have to focus! I'm doing a thesis on tutoring the un-tutorable, and you're disproving my thesis that nobody's un-tutorable!"

"You know, you're beautiful when you use the word-" He scratched his head in confusion as he tried and failed the word. "-untu-untu-un...uh...whatever that word is." He went back to staring as Danny came up from the lab, drink in hand with eyes closed before he spoke.

"Hey, Jazz." He opened his eyes and frowned to the quarterback at the table as he questioned. "Dash! W-what are you doing here?" His moment of panic surged through his body and he slipped through the table, knocking the homework and a book everywhere, the book landing on Dash's head as he yelled.

"Watch it, Fentonowski!" It was just an insult, but Danny still backed out of it as he spoke.

"Uh, sorry. I was just, uh, passing through." He headed through the basement door and closed it shut as Dash took off the book and reached into his jacket for something.

"Now that that twinkie's out of the way," He pulled out an invite and held it in hand to be sure. "You're coming to my party Saturday, right? It'll be a chance for you to see me in my rightful setting," Dash spoke as he handed the invite to Jazz. "King of Casper High."

"And a great place to work on my thesis on the effects of being mean to my brother and then asking me out." Jazz answered before looking at the invite with a hum before she continued. "I'll go, on one condition." Danny headed down to the lab to find his dad working on a... vacuum? The X-tractor was a vacuum too, so what made this one any more special?

Jack answered as he cut off Danny's walking. "Hey, Danny! Check out my latest innovation in ghost-grabbing technology, the Ghost Weasel! It collects ambient ghost energy and shoots it into the Ghost Zone." How does that even work, does it just... suck the energy out of the air or something?

"Does it work?" Danny wanted to test it himself, but Jack was two steps behind him on that notion.

"Why wouldn't it? Only one way to find out." It functioned just like a vacuum as it sucked up loose papers and the Thermos that got trapped before Jack struggled, the idea of just turning it off or putting it in reverse abandoning his mind. "Darn it! Better get the Fenton Unlodger." He placed the device down and handed the nozzle to Danny as he booked it elsewhere as Danny tried to call out.

"Dad, couldn't you just throw it into..." Before anymore, he flipped the 'REVERSE' button and the Thermos flew, slamming into the 'ON' switch for the Ghost Portal doors as he yelped. "Reverse?!" What came out of the portal was some sort of mad scientist ghost as he cackled aloud.

"Child! You have freed me, Technus, ghost master of science and electrical technology!" Danny mused 'yeah' before his hero complex kicked in.

"Oh no you don't!" He jumped into the air and turned into Phantom as he scolded Technus. "You're not going to use the technology in this lab to take over the world!"

"What?" The ghost took a look around before he declared. "That's a great idea! Have you ever considered tutoring?"

"Great, I just gave the ghost an idea... isn't that a villain thing?" Danny mused before he charged for Technus grimacing as a lightning rod formed in Technus's hand and zapped him with it as he spiraled backward before he continued. "You know what? I've already been dumped on once in my own house." He quickly picked up the nozzle of the Weasel and used it. "And that's enough for one day!" It switched on and sucked up Technus, but that was also the bad news as it started to suck up more papers and even lab equipment before the whole containment chamber exploded, Danny evading it with some intangibility, but the lab was covered in green goo and he held the nozzle head with a look of worry before Jack spoke up from upstairs.

"Danny, I'm coming back, and I can't wait to see the lab looking exactly as I left it." He quickly panicked as he dropped the nozzle and flew through the ceiling as Jack arrived, looking over the place before he spoke... with a smile. "Yep. Perfect." Jack didn't even notice how the lab was covered in green, or how it would lead up to a troubling situation...


Down at the Nasty Burger, it getting its name from a couple of vandals swapping the initial 'T' for an 'N', but that just gave the place a unique appearance as Sam spoke up. "So, Saturday night plans." On the inside, the four friends sat at one of the booths, Danny however, was staring off to the side as the goth friend continued. "I say we hit the amusement park. I hear the new roller coaster has a free fall that'll take three years off your life expectancy."

"No way. It costs forty bucks just to get in there, not to mention food and stuff." Tucker answered to the 'apparent' thing as Cedric just working on his data and had a 'kelvar' vest on with a glowing patch in the middle as Sam answered Tucker's doubt.

"Hey, if you're tapped out, I could lend you the cash."

"'Lend' means-" Tucker spoke with air quotes as he continued. "-'repay,' and 'repay' is out of my reach. Right, Danny?" The trio stopped, the data saved, as they looked to Danny was was still in drift land. "Danny? Hello?!" They looked to see that Dash was handing out invites to ALL of the kids that were in his group and even gave a wink to Paulina when she accepted hers before Danny groaned.

"Great. It's the hottest party of the whole school year, and Paulina's going, and I'm not, again."

"I don't understand what you see in her." Sam pointed out as Cedric gave an input.

"Sam, he is in 'crush mode', focusing on crush than friend, besides, we are not going to judge him too hard, Dash always throws parties for the high levels of popular interest, he always wants to flaunt his state to EVERYONE." Sam raised a finger in disbelief as Danny answered, heedless of the short verse.

"Are you kidding? She's only, like, perfectly flawless." Sam rolled her eyes as Paulina made her order about a 'Mighty Mini Meat Cheesy Melt' before she commented with sarcastic tone.

"You're right. She's a goddess."

"Oh, where are the flaws in that...?" Cedric pointed out as Tucker huffed about the party.

"Why don't we get invited to the really cool parties? We've got style, charm, good looks. At least I do, anyway." Tucker didn't notice that Cedric held up three fingers and shook his head as Sam stifled a chuckle to the 'apparent' insult at Tucker before she cleared her throat and spoke up.

"Dream on. On the social circuit, we're as invisible as Danny in his ghost mode. Not that it'll matter five years from now, but we have each other, right?" If only Danny could take that to heart as Dash slapped an invite into Danny's face as he angrily commented.

"Here! Your sister made me invite you." When Sam and Tucker tried to appease for any more, but Dash was not so gullible or he just lacked invites, as he pointed at Danny. "Just you! Show up, shut it, go home, and nobody gets hurt." He headed off as Danny smiled and the shift changed for him as a girl walked by with greeting.

"Hey, Danny!" Kwan was next as he cheered.

"What's up, Fenton? Party!" He hooted as he headed off as Paulina walked by and waved.

"See you Saturday, Danny."

"I'm...I'm invited!" Danny stammered before he hugged the invite and cheered. "I've arrived!"

"Swell. Send us a postcard from Popularity-ville." Sam answered as Danny headed off with a cheer.

"I will!" Sam sighed as Danny was out of sight before Cedric spoke up.

"Do you two know the likelihood of him actually 'staying' with the cool kids?" Tucker and Sam looked to Cedric as he sipped his drink and held up his hand again, in the form of an 'O'. "It is too weak and baseless that he doesn't even see it, he will return, he just has to be reminded the harsh world of selfish pricks and wannabe divas..."


Later on, at Casper, Danny milked it in as the trio followed before Tucker spoke up in disbelief. "Seriously, Danny. Ever since you got that invitation, you're all about the 'In' crowd."

"Come on, Tuck." Danny chuckled as he remarked. "That's ridiculous." He stopped and pumped a fist as he cheered. "Kwan! Looking good!" Kwan reacted to Danny's voice and he pointed at Danny and cheered, Valerie playfully rolling her eyes as she was talking with Kwan and didn't hate Kwan for getting another date.

"Fentonmeister! Woo hoo!" He hooted with raised arms as Sam commented the same disbelief.

"He's right, Danny. It's like-"

"Hey, Fenton!" They turned to Dash, standing with a magazine in hand with another two jocks, one of them Dale as he called out. "Come here!" Danny raced over as Sam finished her sentence.

"-we're not even here." Cedric huffed as he voiced his thoughts.

"One thing is for sure, he has a one-track mind, but I can forgive." Both looked at him as he continued. "He needs to both learn and know the difference between friends made with fame and money and friends who have bonded over the years." They slowly nodded as Danny met Dash and he commented with the magazine.

"If you're coming to my party, you have to look the part." He handed the magazine to Danny that was covered with high-end clothes that would make a definite spark or embarrassment. "This is what we're all wearing Saturday. Very high-end, very hip, very Dash. You do have one, right?"

"Huh? Uh, yeah! Oh, sure. I-I have two. That's how hip and high-end I am." Danny sweat dropped when he noticed that it was for guys, not girls so was it a trap?

"Well, wear one." Danny inwardly grimaced to Dash's small threat. "I might have had to invite you, but if you embarrass me, your sister's going to be doing her thesis on your bruises!" The trio of jocks headed off as the trio joined back with Danny as he moaned.

"Oh, man." He looked at the magazine with a sigh as he spoke. "This must cost a fortune! Where am I going to get the money by Saturday?"

"You know, I almost hate to offer-" Sam started, but was interrupted by Paulina as she called out.

"Hey, Danny!" They looked to find her on a blanket outside and with a stereo by her as she called out. "You wanna hear my new CD? It's really crunk!" Danny asked Tucker.

"Is crunk good?"

"It's Paulina." Tucker pointed out as Danny cheered.

"Crunk's good!" He headed over with a shout. "Be right there!" He sat down next to her as Sam huffed.

"Okay, this is getting really annoying."

"Well..." Cedric hummed as he checked the time and spoke. "I'll meet up with you guys later, I got some data crunching to do and some parts to refine." He headed off before Tucker questioned.

"What exactly is he talking about...?"


In the Fenton Works, Jack and Maddie made something for cooking, but that was trouble in the end as Jazz lowered her book and asked to the growling and other noises from the machines. "Mom, what are you making?"

"Hot dogs!" Jazz sweat dropped as Jack added to it.

"We invented a way to cook them ten times faster than a microwave." The gadget dinged and Maddie opened it to some terrifying, barking and growling hot dog creatures as Maddie quickly closed the lid as Jazz huffed in disbelief, a bit scared on how her parents had brought hot dogs... to life as she commented with some empty humor.

"Great. You've figured out how to put the 'Frank' back in 'Frankenstein.'" Danny walked in, and after a moment to think, he spoke up.

"Hey, Dad, can you spare me some cash? I-I need to buy some clothes for Saturday."

"Danny, Danny, Danny." Jack remarked as he continued. "You know, as inventors, your mother and I have plenty of money."

"But as parents, we understand that you should understand the value of money." She rubbed her fingers together in the universal sign of money. "You want money, you gotta earn it."

"You mean, get a job?" Danny asked.

"That, or sell something." Jack shrugged as he thought of somethings that would work. "Like your old comic books or some other junk you don't need."

"Uh, speaking of which," Maddie spoke up as Danny took in the goo-covered machine parts that were laying in boxes, that must have come from the basement. "that junk from the Ghost Weasel explosion needs to go in the shed, if there's room. That old barn hasn't been cleaned out in years." Jack countered as he hugged one of the boxes.

"This is not junk! Every single item in this box is of vital importance to me." Maddie rolled her eyes as she took a part out and showed it to Jack as she asked.

"Do you even know what this is?" He inspects the part before he answered.

"Not a clue. But I know it's important," He answered as he took the part, stashed it, and handed the boxes to Danny. "...so it's off to the shed." The shed in question was a large housing behind the apartments that the Fentons set up for all their needs as the pair of them hauled the boxes to it and they put them in, well, Danny put his down, Jack just dropped his as he mused on the state of it. "You know, maybe I should get rid of this junk." He then dusted his hands of as he remarked. "Ah well, that's a job for another day." Jack headed off, but Danny lingered before a smile slipped onto his face at the light switch.

"Saturday's another day." He turned off the light and closed the door as the parts glowed in the darkness before the next day...


The day came around and Danny decided to use the stockpile of parts to his advantage, prompting a 'garage' sale as he modeled one of the parts to his teacher. "It's a perfectly good vacuum motor, Mr. Lancer. Only used once!" Lancer took the part with a raised eye as Danny put down the offer. "Ten bucks."

"Looks to be in fine shape. This should fix my Hair Hornet very nicely." Lancer handed the money to Danny while Tucker was lounging on a lawn chair that they had before Danny questioned, altering the words to be less rude.

"Hair Hornet? The crazy vacuum cleaner-slash-hair clipper..." He mimicking a scissoring motion with his fingers as he asked. "...they sell on TV? Don't you often need hair for that, could it be...?" His eyes widened as Lancer glanced to his head first, but slowly lowered to his back as Lancer stammered.

"W-Well, that is..." Danny zipped his mouth and Lancer continued. "Still, that was quite a kind gesture, I know I'm... bald, but let's leave it on the notion of... some back hair in need of a trim." Danny nodded as Lancer headed off as Sam came over and handled some money to Danny, in support of his garage sale.

"Just sold a toaster. You know, I'm surprised your dad's letting you sell off all his stuff." She held up a remote as she mused. "He's such a pack rat."

"Yeah, well, he's been planning on getting rid of this junk for a long time. He won't even miss it, I hope."

Tucker, on the other hand, just relaxed with a sun reflector open to tan with. "I'm pleased with the turnout today. We're doing a really brisk business."

"Danny's business, not yours, Foley..." Cedric spoke as he managed the accounting, somehow getting Danny's handful and tallying it up with a brisk pace. "Twenty short if you want to be hip, but I think you need to be more knowing of what is going on, Danny." Sam spoke up to sway Danny over, Tucker standing up to join her side.

"You're still welcome to hang with us tonight. Mega-movie marathon at my place."

"Your place?" Danny questioned before he continued. "Wow. You never invited us to your place before."

"That's because we're usually fighting ghosts with you. I figured it's time-" The moment was ruined when Dash's voice called out.

"Hey, Fentina!" Danny headed off as Sam huffed.

"-for you to totally ignore me for about the billionth time this week." Cedric sighed as well as he rested a hand on her shoulder.

"We have to wait, I don't even think he noticed how Dash is STILL insulting him." Sam paused before nodding with Tucker as Dash explained his problem.

"Jazz has given me so much extra schoolwork that my computer's overloaded. Got anything to make it work?"

"Oh, sure do." Danny answered as he picked up a part for a computer and the software. "This motherboard and this Portals XL operating system will make it work like it's brand new!" He handed it to Dash and continued as he fished out another part of the deal. "Twenty bucks takes it all, and I'll even-" He pulled out an upgrade disc to join the bundle. "-throw in this upgrade disk, just install it FIRST before you tackle the homework."

"Done. See you tonight. And just because I can't believe I'm saying it," Dash poked Danny's chest as he spoke. "I will say it again. See you tonight." He then took the upgrade disc off Danny's hands and threw the money behind him as Danny caught it and cheered.

"Twenty bucks!" He pumped his hands in the air as he rushed over and took the box from Cedric as he continued. "I'm in! Oh, jeez. I better get to the mall before the shops close." He rushed over to Sam and Tucker as he gave them the task and gave not a word of counter. "You guys don't mind cleaning up for me, do you? Great! See ya!" He ran off as Sam huffed with crossed arms in disbelief.

"So now we're his clean-up crew, too?" She stopped as Tucker was gone too, heading off as he shouted back.

"See you tonight!" Sam growled before Cedric spoke up, cleaning up the mess of the sale.

"It will not take us long, and besides, Tucker is a tech moron, not a muscle fool." Sam chuckled as she agreed.

"Yep, Mr. TF is 'too fine' for his own plans..." They ensured that it was all done and worked with before night could fall over...


Tucker made his way to Sam's home before he rang the doorbell before the goth opened the door while talking on her phone, Cedric yawning as he was also waiting on Tucker to arrive as Sam finished on the phone, letting Tucker walk in. "Right. That's two medium, one pepperoni, and one veggie. Put it on my tab." She hung up and closed the door before turning her attention to Tucker. "Hey, Tucker."

"I hope they hustle. I'm starved." Cedric rolled his eyes as he didn't need the pizza, having had an earlier dinner before the doorbell rang and Sam opened it to a delivery boy carrying two pizzas as he spoke.

"Here's your pizza, Sam." Cedric took the pizza off the guy's hands as Sam thanked him.

"Thanks, Nate." She handed him some money, but he shortly exclaimed to the amount.

"Ten bucks? Thanks, Sam!" He headed off and Sam closed the door as Tucker was agape.

"You tipped the guy a ten-spot?"

"Whoops. Sorry. I thought it was a one." Cedric chuckled as the pair walked past Tucker. "Come on. We're watching movies downstairs." Tucker quickly followed and was at a loss as the home cinema that Sam had; giant movie screen, lounge seats, a popcorn machine, and even a soda fountain as he exclaimed.

"This is your downstairs?!"

"Score: Manson: 1, Foley: 0." Cedric commented as he set the pizzas on the snack bar before Sam asked.

"What? Too much?" The African tech-geek nodded as he walked forward and a 'un-huh' as she continued. "I know, I should have told you and Danny this a long time ago, but my family's kind of...filthy rich. Weird, huh?" Tucker dropped his pack in shock as he called out.

"Whoa! Time-out! You're loaded?" He faced Cedric and exclaimed the same. "And why are you NOT flipping out about it!?"

"It doesn't change Sam's place as a friend, so she is loaded, BIG deal..." Cedric smirked as he jumped over the counter, tying his jacket around his waist and working on the snacks as Sam explained how she was loaded.

My great-granddad Izzy was an inventor. He invented that machine-" She paused before twirling a finger in the air. "-that twirls cellophane around deli toothpicks."

Tucker flopped down in one of the seats as he exclaimed again. "You're the deli toothpick cellophane-twirling heiress? No way!"

Sam shrugged as Alex cracked open a pizza box and looked right at home with a toothpick in mouth. "Look, if this is too much for you, we can do something else."

"Are you kidding?!" On the other side of town, Danny was coming back with his new sweats as he looked down to the bag carrying the good stuff on his motor scooter.

"Popularity, here I come." It was too early for such a comment as his ghost sense went off and he glanced back to a soaring Hair Hornet bolting right for him, he saved by his helmet protecting his scalp, but the razor gunned for him again, causing him to drop the sweats when the cord wrapped around him and pulled him into the air before trying to attack him. He stopped it with a clasp with his feet on the cord, prevent it from escaping before it lunged at him twice which he dodged. "Whoa! Whoa! I just got my hair the way I like it! On my head!" He reacted while balancing himself before the buzzing razor turned into an actual razor blade and he panicked. "And I'm way too young to shave!" He wasted no time in transforming to fight the threat. "Going ghost!" He went ghost and slipped out of the cord's grip with a ghost tail instead of his legs as the razor blade slashed into the sidewalk and he flew above it. "Okay, it's a haircut, not a head-cut!"

The two charged at each other before he punched it out of the air and it bounced before turning into a pair of giant scissors and lunging for him again. While he did evade the attack, the moment he garbed the cord, he was along for the run through a building before forcing the scissors to stop and spun to launch the scissors out of there before gunning for his sweats, saving them from a passing car and landing to inspect before noticed the stray piece of cord on the sidewalk as he mused while turning back to human. "I know I should be concerned," He spoke as he got back on the scooter. "...and I will be. Right after the party." He rode off down the street. Back at Sam's home, Sam faced the perky nature of Tucker's questions to her state, Cedric just shaking his head as he had finished with servicing up some snacks and drink for the friends and himself.

"Tucker, are we watching movies or not?" Sam asked with annoyance before Tucker spoke up again, with popcorn and soda by him.

"Okay, okay. Just a few more questions. Could you buy a plane?"

"Yep."

"A yacht?"

"Yep."

"Um...a bowling alley?"

"Nope." He pressed a button on one of the remotes and the screen lifted up to a bowling alley of four lanes as she continued. "There's no place to put a second one." Her grandmother rode out in a motorized scooter before getting a strike and cheering.

"Yippee! Bubbe's hot tonight!" The screen closed back up as Tucker smelled the air.

"That's weird, because you don't smell stinking rich."

"That's a weird notion." Cedric pointed out as he turned to Sam sighing and sitting down. "Were you expecting sweat or something to mark how much a person has?" Sam spoke up as she swayed the path to a different direction.

"Will you stop it? That's the whole reason I didn't tell anybody."

"But I don't get it." Tucker complained as he ranted. "With all this money, why do you hang out with the three of me, Cedric, and Danny? If you flash a little of that bling bling, you'd be Miss Popularity!"

"I don't need popularity, Tucker, especially not if I have to buy it."

"You should tell that to Danny." Cedric just rolled his eyes as Tucker continued. "Can you believe people actually spent good money on that old junk from his parents' shed?" Sam partially agreed as she held up a glowing green remote.

"Well, I did snag this really cool remote for three bucks. And he did give Dash a pretty good deal on the computer stuff." And so they went to watching while at Dash's house, the computer worked like a charm, but when the jock headed off to get ready for the party, the screen went blank before a familiar, shade-wearing face appeared on it and cackled manically of what was to come...


Back at Fenton Works, Jazz opened the fridge for something to eat before scream and shutting it close when the hot dogs growled and snapped at her before she grimaced. "Great. Leftovers." Danny slid in, showing off the new sweats he brought as he asked.

"Well, is it the bomb? Is it fresh?" He held up two fingers for the last part. "Is it stoopid, with an 'o-o?'

"Oh, it's stupid. I'll give you that."

"Well, you'll change your tune when you see me at the party." He stopped as he noticed that Jazz wasn't dressed up, in fact, she was wearing the same look. "When are you changing?"

"Not changing. Not going." Normally, that provoked a panicked reaction, but Danny questioned it instead.

"So, you just lied to Dash and you would rather stay here than actually play nice. I mean, sure popularity is toxic, but this could be a chance to get noticed at least."

"Don't care. It's just a waste of time and resources and I would rather spend it doing actual work than just 'enjoy the party on party'." Danny sighed as Dash was going to kill him if Jazz didn't turn up, but... It would be a perfect time to test the waters in the first place, his head clearing up some from the initial rush of fame.

"Got it." Jazz looked surprised as Danny spoke. "I'm still going, but just to test the waters, if it is not up to snuff, then I can say I tried and an effort made." He didn't like it, but he did have a notion of...

"Code red!" ...And that was gone as Danny and Jazz looked at each other before she spoke.

"And... not staying." She walked away as Jack burst in and loomed over Danny as he ranted in panic.

"Somebody's raided the junk shed while we were away." He grabbed Danny and hoisted him up as he asked. "Danny, did you see anything?!"

Danny was not just going to say that he sold some of the stuff to get the sweats, so he lied with a suspicious tone. "Uh, no, no! Not a thing, but..." Jack released as he walked backwards out of the home."We should compare notes once I get home from the party. Bye!"

"Good plan, son! In the meantime, I'd better secure the lab." He opened the fridge with a shout. "Cover me, boys. Serpentine!" A chain of hot dogs wrapped itself around him which was questionable at best, but that was left for a later date...


Danny breathed as he arrived, some doubt lingering in his mind that he was in trouble, but he would first test the waters as he spoke to himself. "Okay, this is it. Don't screw it up. Look out, world, here comes Danny Fenton!" He rang the doorbell and frowned as Dash arrived, but not in the latest sweats, more like his usual look which was bad, questioning with confusion. "Uh, Dash?"

Dash leaned against the doorway as he spoke. "Oh, right, right. You're not really part of my posse, so you didn't get the email." Danny raised a brow as Dash explained. "You see, after buying that computer stuff, I didn't have enough money to buy the sweat suit, so I changed the dress code to loser chic!" Behind Dash were members that were dressed like him, Tucker, and Sam, a few tried Cedric, but they just didn't have the intensity of the guy as Danny mused, heading in.

"Oh, swell." He looked about as Paulina stepped on over and commented on the Sam look.

"You like it? It's so horrible, it's cool!" She noticed the clothes Danny had and remarked. "Eck, who dressed you, your mom?" Before she could walk away, Danny spoke.

"It WAS the 'latest' trend before Mr. Baxter decided 'loser chic', so as you do to me and everyone else, buzz off, Queen P." He headed off, leaving Paulina stunned as he sighed a deep huff. "I messed up bad..."

The trouble was not over yet as Technus yelled, recovering the connection in the computer. "Yes! It is time!" His face appeared on the screen as he called out. "Calling all mechanized spirits! Come to me, my minions! It is time..." The computer started to float to the beckoning call. "...to fulfill my destiny!" Green electricity surged from the computer as he laughed maniacally. It extended out of the window and spread across all of Amity Park, summoning electronics and appliances to the ghost as, at Sam's house, the duo watched an karate action movie before Cedric spoke up to the screen pausing and looping the action scene.

"Sam, it's not suppose to do that, is it?" Sam looked and groaned with annoyance as she remarked.

"Tucker, if you want to watch a part over again, could you please tell me first?"

"Me? You're the one messing with the remote." The remote flowed before floating upwards between them in midair before Tucker commented again. "I'm not schooled in the ways of the rich, but do all your remotes do that?"

"No. Well, my toaster does, but it's from Denmark." Cedric raised a brow on HOW things from Denmark would do such things as Sam exclaimed. "That stuff Danny was selling must have been contaminated with ghost stuff!"

"A type of protoplasm or something?" Cedric asked before yelping, the remote blasting both the popcorn and soda machines and blasting both popcorn and spraying soda all over the room as the trio stayed low before the remote phased through the ceiling the trio took to the streets as they watched a steady stream of tech soar through the air in a general direction.

"Looks bad. Probably a job for Danny Phantom."

"Probably." Sam hissed as she continued the train of thought. "And if I wasn't so mad at him, I'd probably care that it's going to interrupt his big jock party. Shall we?"

"Honestly, knowing our luck, it IS going to the jock party." Cedric pointed out as he continued. "Well, we got time, now let's crack down." They rushed off, Cedric surprised the both of them when he spoke into a mic in his ear. "Manual Code: Exorcist." His body was suddenly enveloped in steel and metal, a visor covering his face with a gas mask as well, Tucker geeking as Sam gaped.

"How long did you have that!?"

"A few days, took a bit to reverse-engineer Skulker's suit for the right gear and settings." Cedric answered in a more mechanized voice, the chest closing up to a glowing teal in the center and lining into the heels and the palms of the armor. "Let's not waste time, we need to get going!" He quickly snatched the pair and rocketed them over to the source of the tech gather. Meanwhile, Danny remained in disbelief as he took in the surroundings and scowled, everyone, even a few of the 'nerds' were here, this whole party was in spite of him and him alone as he shook his head and headed upstairs, dodging each attempt to make him the victim of a mess-up or a spill as he mused. "What am I doing? These people aren't my friends, even if they all look like them. Man, I wish Tucker, Sam, and Cedric were here. It's lonely being popular." As he sighed again, his ghost sense kicked in and he headed onward upstairs to find the source of the sense where it was directed to... Dash's room? "That's odd." He opened the door and gasped. Technus, now inside the computer that Danny gave Dash, was laughing manically as appliances and electronics floated around the floating monitor before merging together, smoothing out to create a robotic battle suit for the mad scientist power.

"I am Technus, master of all things mechanical! And once I complete my construction, you will all succumb to my awesome pow-" Suddenly, the face glitched and the head came loose as Technus painfully commented. "Ow! Ooh! Pow-pow!" He grabbed the head as he questioned. "What is wrong with me?"

Danny quickly noticed the upgrade disc and exclaimed. "The upgrade! Dash still hasn't upgraded the software, even though I TOLD him to!" He glanced between the suit and the disc before he spoke. "Oh, no!" Becoming Danny Phantom, he primed himself for battle. "You're not getting that upgrade disk and making yourself more powerful!"

"What? Another great idea! The heck with tutoring! You should be a teacher!"

"...I hate myself for just opening my mouth like that." Still, he wasted no time gunning for the disc, only to have Technus produce a toaster from his shoulder and fire at him before he could hold on to the disc, phasing into Dash's closet as he questioned to the sheer amount of letterman jackets and the large amount of teddy bears.

"Ghost toast? Jeez, how many letter jackets does one guy need? And these-" He picked one up and grimaced. "-I don't even wanna know." He dropped it before he charged out, slamming into Technus before the disc could be taken, crushing Dash's bed as the result before a karate-chop from the machine knocked Danny into the wall as the machine spoke in Technus's voice.

"You are a formidable opponent, but a little wet behind the ears. Perhaps you could use a little drying off?" He grimaced before a claw erupted from the chest and grabbed him. His struggle in vain as he was pulled into the dryer and given an express cycle before getting launched into the dresser, Technus taking the moment to pick up the disc with an exclaimed before Danny slammed into him and wrecked Dash's TV and stereo.

That was the worst plan as, while Technus was busted a bit, the upgrade disc flew high and ended up going into the drive, he then grinned with a evil growl as the installation completed before Danny charged again, slamming into the machine as both went intangible and through the wall, just as Dash entered the destruction of the room in surprise and blamed it on the one person who had headed upstairs, but was nowhere to be found in the part.

Meanwhile, the trio of friend met back up, having divided to pick up a Fenton Thermos for the job as Tucker yelled and mused.

"Sam! Cedric! I got the Fenton Thermos! You know, Danny's really got to start carrying this in some sort of lunchbox."

"Everything is gravitating here to Dash's house. Looks like whatever fun Danny's having will be coming to an end soon." Cedric shouted in surprised.

"Incoming Phantom!" They jumped as Danny flew by and slammed into a building before he noticed the friends in a daze.

"Hi, Sam. Hi, Tuck. Hi, metal man. Glad you could make it." He fell to the ground unconscious as the trio turned back to where Danny flew from to a titan mix of machines and technology emerging from the alleyway as it bellowed.

"I am Technus, master of technology and destroyer of worlds! Behold my awesome electronic fury!" It bent forward as it asked. "Who's your daddy?"

"Not you, that is for sure." Cedric answered as Danny regained consciousness and took the fight back up as he went on the attack, but nothing was working as the machine titan just smack him out of the air and to the ground as both Tucker and Sam stared him down, Cedric engaging to aid.

"Guys? Help!" Cedric joined the fight, but the blasts that he fired didn't phase the behemoth as Danny joined again, getting smacked again as Tucker and Sam just crossed their arms and turned their back. "Come on, guys!" He tried again and knocked down one more as he shouted, Cedric sharing the same fate, but using the buildings as a level point and not getting too much damage in. "Guys, come on, seriously!"

He tried once more and apologized for his behavior toward them. "I'm sorry I chose hanging with the popular kids over you guys. It was stupid and shallow and I'll never do it again!" Technus bashed him in the back and into the ground again before the pair smiled at each other and looked down to Danny.

"How can we be of assistance?" Danny got up as Technus was distracted by Cedric.

"He's running an old version of Portals XL."

"That piece of vaporware? It's the worst software ever." Tucker raised a point as he had a plan.

"Keep him busy. I think I know how you can beat him."

"That, I can do with some help." Danny flew up and insulted Technus, not the best plan, but it had to do. "Get back, you hunk of my dad's junk!"

"Could mere junk do this?" A remote and robotic finger emerged from the dryer before changing Danny's image as Cedric commented to what happened to the ghost boy with the press of a button.

"Too western..." The cowboy went away for the next. "Too shaped..." The model changed to a pointed elf blue shirt as Cedric just quoted. "Live long and prosper, old friend..." Danny had enough before he snatched the remote with a shout.

"Give me that!" He corrected his appearance before being grabbed by Technus's claw and slammed into the wall as he plead to the attempting Tucker. "Tucker, any time!" Tucker answered back as he worked his PDA overtime.

"I'm trying, I'm trying!"

"What's wrong?" Sam asked as Cedric gave Danny moments of peace before being swatted out of the air, but not to the ground as luck would have it.

"I'm trying to bypass the program, but I can't! He must have upgraded."

"What do we do?"

"We need the latest version of Portals XL," Technus focused on slamming Danny as Tucker continued his question. "...but where are we gonna get it this time of night?" Somehow, Sam had the answer as she spoke.

"Leave it to me." She pulled out her phone and dialed a number in as Danny grunts for an answer as he asked.

"Guys?" Somehow, unfazed of the giant robot attack going on, a delivery girl arrived on a scooter and handing Sam a disc.

"Here you go, Sam."

Sam quickly took the disc and gave her the money in return as she thanked the girl. "Thanks, Tracey."

"Wow! You have access to the latest technology after hours?" Tucker exclaimed as the girl just answered.

"Yep." Tucker tried to be flirty about it as he inquired.

"What else can you do after hours?" Technus finally hit Cedric out of the air as he pulled himself from the black top before glancing at the two and pointing at the girl.

"He is a deluded tech-wiz, don't give him the time of day right now, if at all." He jumped back into the fight as Tracy held up a form on a clipboard.

"Just sign the voucher, sir." Sam took that time to distract Technus as she spoke up.

"Uh, excuse me. I'm Sam. I don't believe I caught your name. Perhaps you should scream it really loud and shout out your motive." The machine looked down to Sam and could have done nothing more than stomp, but it acknowledged regardless.

"Hello." He then shouted to the world. "I am Technus! Manipulator of machines! Lord of all gadgetry! Wizard of integrated circuitry!"

"Go on." Sam asked as she picked up two power cords as she asked for more. "Isn't there more you'd like to tell me?" She plugged in the two together as Technus fell for the trap; hook, line, and sinker.

"Oh, yes! I am also master..." The machine somehow started to glitch as the speech was also tampered with. "of all..." It faded out as Danny asked.

"What's happening?" As it turned out, Cedric had taken the time to snatch a power cord out of the suit's body and Tucker had brought his connector cord along for his PDA accessing directly, the cords were compatible which was a shock, but not as shocking as Technus was to the SHUTDOWN command being given as Tucker filled them in.

"Portals XL is happening. Everybody knows that every new version of Portals XL has a gigantic hole in its security system."

"What?! No!" The glitch continued and the claw released as Danny cheered.

"Yes!" He quickly garbed it before pulling it to the one place where things would go wrong for Technus. "Process this!" He shoved the claw into the disc drive which caused errors to appear and it electrocuted the suit as Technus exclaimed in defeat.

"Wait! That doesn't go there!" The suit shut down and collapsed before shutting down, hunched forward as Tucker finished the ghost.

"And for my final trick..." Pulling the Thermos out, he tossed it to Danny who caught it and used it to absorb the mad scientist out of the suit as he screamed into the swirling vortex.

"Noooooo!" Technus disappeared as Danny capped it, the suit disassembling into a heap of electronics as Sam commented.

"Nice going, Tuck." Danny landed beside them with Cedric looking over the pile before shaking his head as Tucker voiced the victory, holding the upgrade disc up.

"Don't thank me. Thank lousy software." After that, Danny hauled everything back and refunded it all, apologizing as it was 'discovered' that several months of wear had accidentally broken some of the things at the sale, a 'professional' opinion from Cedric even supported this as the motor was actually made for a small vacuum, but it was able to overcharge at impossible times. No one actually questioned any of it, not even Lancer who still wanted a motor and was pleased to have gotten a substitute and a good one at that from a second sell that Cedric held at discount prices...


The next school day, the four worked down the halls of Casper as Tucker asked about the breakdown that Danny likely faced. "So, what's the damage from this weekend? Did you get in trouble for taking your folks' stuff?"

"Not really." Danny answered as he explained it and how dull his father was about the whole thing. "I hauled it all back to the shed yesterday while they were out. My dad's checking every piece for government surveillance devices."

"Sounds like you got off pretty easily."

"Well, I DID have to return those stupid sweats so I can refund everybody's money." He shrugged as he stopped walking and spoke to the trio. "And I still feel terrible about the way I treated you guys. Of all people, I should know how it feels to be invisible." Sam leaned about a locker as she asked.

"So would you say you've learned a lesson from all this?" Danny's answer came from Dash who opened his locker to a flood of teddy bears before yelling, somehow connecting it to Danny at once.

"Fenton!"

"Yep. That one person's trash, is another person's revenge." Cedric face palmed with a smile as the trio laughed, none the wiser to how the star quarterback had a locker full of teddy bears and who REALLY was behind it as Fenton answered the most simple question, what did he do at the party and he quote.

'I pointed out the flaws to the party, I avoided any messes nearly made, and I was upstairs briefly, but not in his room, I didn't even want to know what could be waiting in there...'