The Ghost Zone swirled and bellowed as doors that lead to lairs and worlds floated about, but while the ghosts and spirits were commonplace in the Zone, the mechanical tub that is the Specter Speeder was not as Sam and Tucker sat inside it while Danny Phantom, their friend, was outside fighting, though it couldn't be considering fighting if Danny's strength failed to keep the buck-toothed, PJ-wearing ghost away as he exclaimed in another struggle with the ghost, on the closest piece of rock to the Speeder. "Get off me, Klemper!"

"But I just want to be your friend!" The ghost smiled and that is why it was a problem right now, they ran into Klemper in a previous run in the Ghost Zone and, since then, they had often been hounded by the friendliest ghost ever, only wanting friends and believing to get them through the most common action for them, which is for Danny, had been fighting as he exclaimed to the pair inside the craft, Cedric and Talia taking the backseat in the Real World to refine and make more Fenton tech, with Jack's permission, Jazz and Valerie unable on account of some rising pop star.

"Will someone please remind me why this was a good idea?" Sam was admiring the pair of headphones that Danny gave her and Tucker before she looked to the ghostly hero being hugged.

"Hey, you're the one who wanted to map out the Ghost Zone." Danny rolled his eyes with struggling as Tucker added to it with a clear unhappy look about the headphones.

"You're also the only one that doesn't have to wear these stupid Fenton Phones." He touched the green earpiece before focusing to his PDA that had pulled up a track from an artist called 'Ember' and it blared music through it, Sam grimacing to the music as Tucker continued, smiling to the song. "Good thing they also work as wireless earphones, because these things are a fashion 'don't'." Tucker finished as he looked at the pair on him with some scorn before Danny exclaimed from the vice-grip on him.

"They're not supposed to look good." Danny answered as he struggled to escape Klemper's grip. "They're supposed to filter out spectral noise so we can communicate." Danny continued with Klemper flopping on him when Danny pulled himself free for but a moment as Klemper was still stuck on him before the ghostly hero shouted. "Like when I say things like HELP GET THIS THING OFF ME!" But Sam just admired the earphones in the side window and mused.

"They're not stupid. I think they make great techno-goth earrings." Danny voiced his reply as he struggled still.

"Really?" He mused to that thought. "Hey, maybe I should give a pair to Paulina." He rasp-berried as he continued. "Nah, I like them better on my goth." His mouth was gripped by Klemper as Sam readied a reply while Tucker was jamming out to the Ember song before the later portion clicked and she spoke up.

"Wait, wait, what did you say about 'your goth'!?"

"Nothing!" Danny exclaimed as he finally got free and made to fly, but he was pulled back down and Klemper blasted him with a breath of ice, freezing Danny before he broke free with his ecto-blasts and, spotting a refrigerator door, soared for it with Klemper in pursuit before he landed with hands on the handle and pulled, Klemper soaring through into a blizzard area of the zone before Danny slammed it shut and destroyed the handle, leaving Klemper to be friends with someone else right now as he headed back over to the Speeder as Tucker's offbeat singing echoed to Sam's dismay and overshadowing the music.

"Ember! So warm and tender!" Danny phased through and reverted back to Fenton as he blew into his hands and rubbed them, but it did little to warm him up as he questioned with a shiver.

"Can a ghost get frostbite?" Sam joined as she answered with intent.

"Oh, here. My hands are warm." She took her hands off the wheel and wrapped them around Danny's own before both looked at the bundle before at each other and averted with a blush on their faces, giving weak smiles when they looked at each other and slowly seemed to slip into comfort with getting close before Tucker ruined it with his jamming and horrible singing.

"Ember! Go Ember!" This creeped the pair out before looking down to their hands and released as Danny stammered, holding his hands up.

"Uh… I think I'm gonna need my hands for this." He placed his hands over his ears as Sam took to driving, flipping the Speeder around and heading out with a pound of its three boosters with the music still blaring with it's female voice resounding from the metal hull of the vehicle, even as it disappeared through the portal behind them.

"You will remember my name…" As it turned out, it would get a bit worse or better when it was discovered that Ember McLain was making an appearance in Amity...


The music seemed to follow to Casper High as Tucker played it through in a new look of black shirt that had a blue flame in the spelling of 'Ember' inside it, a purple beret with a 'e' in blue fire as Danny exclaimed in disbelief. "I don't get it! This Ember McLain comes outta nowhere and suddenly she's the biggest thing since MP3s!" He arched his brows in questioning for a word that would work. "It's so-" Sam cut him out as she remarked in a slight angry tone.

"Infuriating how mindless pre-packaged corporate bubble gum is preventing true musical artists from being heard?"

"I was gonna say 'weird', but, uh, okay." Danny answered with a shrug and a smile as Sam beamed back as Tucker answered.

"Ember's not just about music." They cleared the hall, only to find more of the apparel to Tucker's glee. "She's an expression of my unique individuality." The 'individuality' was lacking as the students they found were sporting merch by the dozens, ranging from posters, beanies, t-shirts, and blazers. They spotted Valerie and she was part of the event with pieces of papers or flyers hanging from the wall as well before Sam pointed out with sarcasm for her friend.

"Oh yeah, you're one of a kind!" Danny beamed as she popped a hip with hand on it as she continued her sentence. "Every single one of you!" Paulina approached the trio in a Ember-themed appearance of her attire, taking in the Fenton Phones on Sam before remarking with sass.

"Nice earrings. Sale at the eighty-nine cent store?" She commented rudely as Sam countered back as Danny just smiled, eyes switching over to Sam as the smile fell to a neutral look of question.

"For your information, Paulina, they're a gift." Danny slightly jumped as Sam gestured to him. "Danny gave them to me."

"Don't put me on the spot like that..." Danny quietly mused as Paulina questioned.

"Really?" She pointed at the pair as she continued. "He gave you earrings?" She then scoffed as she continued the insult, causing their eyes to widen and mouths drop in shock. "I always knew you two losers would end up together." Sam shouted as Paulina walked away.

"We're not losers!" Danny came to her side as he added to it.

"We're not together." Tucker broke the tension as he continued to sing off-key to the ONE song that must be the whole stick for Ember, shifting in place as he chanted.

"Ember! Go Ember! Ember! Remember! Ember! Go Ember!" Both Sam and Danny shouted at him with rage as he cringed from the call out.

"Will you keep it down?!"

"Hey, check it out!" Dash mused from the side as he leaned toward Kwan and remarked with thumb pointed to the pair that shouted at their friend. "The lovebirds are ganging up on Foley!"

"We're not lovebirds!" Both shouted at the jock before glancing to the other in shock, forward, before arching their brows again. They cleared out some before Talia and Cedric made their appearance again, meeting Sam and Danny while Tucker headed off in chant as the Demi genie mused, her entrance into the school quite a surprise as Danny and Sam thought she only came for the after-school sessions, not realizing that Cedric had made a full biography for her to attend and the two are often seen as a pair.

"For what is it worth, you two are lovebirds in recent days, but I believe that this 'Ember' is getting to you."

"Not surprising." Cedric cast a glance around before he continued to the memorabilia that filled the school. "The school changed overnight with this 'rising' pop star." He rubbed his chin as Talia swept her hair away a bit, the flicker of green the same as Sam's while Cedric had on a pair of headphones, like the type DJs wear, with small earbuds unlatched from the rims of the piece and in Cedric's ears. "It's almost as if something else is going on that we just don't see..." They exchanged looks before Talia spoke again.

"In any case, we just wanted to be sure you two were okay, it seemed that the comments were getting under your skin."

"We're okay, Talia." Sam spoke as she glanced to Danny as he glanced back. "I guess we never really discussed it, but if we did, do you think our relation as friends would be affected as well?"

"I believe so, but that is for the two of you to decide, we can't share insight on such a matter with you two if you are not ready."

"Says the girlfriend of the detailed and thorough friend." Talia snickered as Cedric playfully rolled his eyes to Danny's monotone voice while Sam huffed the same before the scientific friends spoke again.

"We should get going, class is going to start." They headed off, but found the whole room changed with tri-monitors, some techno devices to be placed on the head and Lancer waiting in silence in front of the blackboard that read 'LEARNING IS HIP!' on it before he spoke as the bell rang, going through the motions of two fingers and smile with palm up before glancing to the machine that was set up.

"As you know, the Northwestern Nine Standardized testing starts in two days, and because my bonus is proportional to your grades, we have installed the CramTastic Mark Five." It looked like it was connected to all of the monitors that read 'STAND-BY' as Lancer explained it to the confused and terror of a few students. "The latest in state-of-the-art subliminal study-aid technology. Let the learning begin!" Lancer pressed a red button on the side of the machine and the screens fizzled before suddenly playing music with a pop star with flaming blue hair in a black one-strap top, blue-purple guitar slung on her shoulder and mic in another hand sung on the screens.

"Eeeember!" She sung into it with mic higher before zooming in on her face, detailing the make-up and pale look she had. "So warm and teeennder! You will remember my name! Yeah!" The music played as the class broke into cheer as Sam, Danny, and Talia lifted their helmets off their heads while Cedric rested a hand to his headphones and listened with one of the big pieces with a look of curiosity before Lancer, surprised by the turn, turned to the machine in rage and pressed the on/off button, cutting the feed on the screens and ejecting the disc of Ember's music, holding it up in anger before the beat of a drum was heard and everyone looked around for the source before Lancer exclaimed to who it could have been coming from.

"Foley! Turn off that blasted PDA!" Lancer threw the disc, knocking the PDA out of Tucker's hand as he exclaimed.

"It's not me!" He pointed out the window with a thumb as the people follow the direction. "It's coming from outside!" The majority of the students rushed over as, from the street, a flat-bed truck rolled over and halted in front of the school, amps on the truck with a banner set up with 'EMBER', the amps blaring before, from a violet plume of smoke, came the rock star herself, skull boots, black leather pants, single black strap top, holding her guitar in hand with one hand and a strap on her while the other hand was raised high in the air in a fist before another smoke plume brought the drummer responsible for the sudden drum solo.

The hand fell with the smug look and blazing robin-blue hair as two more appeared on the platform with a member on an axe and the other with another guitar before the song started up and played into sync as the fist raised again and she played with a call in her song. "Yea~ah! Oh-oh-ah-Oh-oh!" The axe supported as the school swarmed out and cheered as Ember called out to the crowd that poured out. "Hell-o Casper High!" Ember shouted with a pumped fist as she continued into the mic set up in front of her. "Tell me who you love!" The crowd chanted her name like a prayer being answered and pumping fists.

"Ember! Ember!" They continued, heedless to the roaring flame that flared from Ember's own hair as she called out.

"That's it, babies! Say my name!" She shouted before continuing. "Are you ready for a little youth revolution?!" The crowd drew closer as Danny looked confused, Sam looking miffed, Talia raising a brow, and Cedric who was still listening to the big headphone before Tucker jumped out and leapt over nothing, but quickly being picked up into a mosh pit as he called out.

"We love you, Ember!" He cheered with both hands raised.

"That's because I fill a void in your empty lives!"

"You're right, Ember!" Suddenly, Danny's ghost sense went off and Talia's breath flared like fire and Danny looked around warily as Talia and Cedric shared a glance to Danny's concern.

"Uh-oh." Danny didn't know where the ghost could be, but his thoughts were cut when Lancer, finding his way to a raised position, stood on top of a fire hydrant and bellowed on a bullhorn and raised finger at Ember.

"Attention, freakishly dressed teen idol! I order you to cease and desist!" His hand clenched in a fist as Ember shouted back.

"Desist this, grandpa!" She tampered with a dial on the guitar and switched it to a purple swirl before strumming it out once, a purple wave rolling over the crowd before they turned to Lancer with glowing red, somehow mind-controlling them to attack him as he exclaimed.

"Pride and Prejudice!" Danny exclaimed the same as he realized the meaning, Cedric still trying to isolate something on the headphone while Talia looked ready to join.

"Ember's the ghost?" He exclaimed mystified before he bent down ready. "Oh my gosh!" The shock slipping to determination as the ring formed and divided on him, bringing Danny Phantom to the fight as he readied to jump on the steps. "I gotta save Lancer!" He paused as he mused, that sounded a bit awkward. "Wow, this is bittersweet." Determination back on, he leapt into the air as Talia spoke as well.

"Desires be known!" With raised hand, the ring formed and slipped away, the former harem girl now in a attire that would remind one of the ancient sword dancers as her hair gained a long orange-yellow streak over the portion at her face. "You will not harm that man!" She followed suit as the crowd rushed Lancer, Danny making it in time to turn Lancer intangible, saving him from a small crowd and Talia projecting a shield before forcing it over the students that lingered for a rush, they looking dazed and stumbled as Danny looked back to the confused teacher as he spoke, turning his head toward Ember's stage.

"Now to knock the pop princess off the-" He came to a skidding halt when he suddenly found that McLain was gone, not even her truck was there as he exclaimed. "-charts?" Indeed, Ember was gone as the students were freed from their controlled states as Sam made her way over to Tucker, he looking dazed and confused, but smiling still before he looked around in confusion and annoyance.

"Hey! No encore?" He yelped to Sam's uninterested look in desperation. "What's that all about?" His shoulders slumped as he headed off, the remaining four still lingering as Talia questioned with changing back.

"I have heard of hypnotism, but that one's power clearly has it more directed than most."

"Yeah..." Cedric answered as he worked with a dial on the headphones. "I'm picking up an ecto frequency on the Fenton Headset that seems to control any that listen to it, the fact that it is currently able to control the teens here is a sign of something more in store."

"But why wasn't Sam affected?" Danny questioned as Sam narrowed her eyes.

"Why wasn't Cedric affected then, Danny!?"

"Manson, calm down..." Sam straightened up as Cedric spoke. "I'll try to figure it out, meanwhile, you guys need to keep order in our band, we have already lost Valerie and Jazz is nowhere in sight as of late." Cedric lowered his hand as he continued. "Get going, I just want to be sure..." They nodded and headed off as school was let off while Cedric tampered with his Headset once more before Talia asked.

"Can you stop the control?"

"I can isolate it and purge it from everyone, but I am going to need someone's aid." Cedric paused from his tampering before pulling out a phone, flipping it open, and dialing a number. "Hey, it's me... Yeah, we got something to work with..." Cedric hummed as Talia watched before her 'boyfriend' nodded and continued. "I'll make the adjustments, but I need to confirm something... you know McLain?" He nodded before he finished. "Got it, see you soon." He hung up and breathed before he turned to Talia and spoke. "Let's hope that he can get the goods together for the job..." They headed off to take a moment from the short, but hectic time of Ember's appearance...


The next day saw Lancer sorting through magazines that advertise Ember McLain with a fire of hate for her disruption of school and town life. "Ember… Ember… Ember… If I see one hint of that woman in school today, I'll-" He scowled with narrowed eyes before stopping as more Ember merch littered the halls in front of him with students branding her merchandise before he exclaimed. "Chicken Soup for the Soul!" Sadly, the fed also affected poor Tucker as he was dressed in the Ember t-shirt, his face was done up with matching makeup, and his beret was replaced with a wig that was robin-blue and like fire as Danny and Sam walked up to him in concern while holding a few books on hand before Danny started the conversation.

"Tucker, you're starting to scare me. And I fight ghosts!" Tucker defiantly commented as he patted his wig about the matter.

"It's an Ember thing. You wouldn't understand it." Sam cut in as she pointed out the horrible truth of the pop star.

"Uh, you do realize she's an evil mind-controlling spirit from another dimension?" Tucker held up a finger as he countered back with a point back and a smile.

"Yeah, but you said the same thing about Paulina." Danny looked over to Sam as he confirmed that notion.

"You know, he has a point." Sam rolled her eyes as Paulina suddenly rushed over, now looking like the Hispanic cosplay of Ember herself which was scary as she ranted to everyone in the hall with excited fists.

"Hey, everyone! Ember's giving away free concert tickets at Bucky's Music Megastore!" She paused before commenting with the finger toward Tucker. "Nice hair!"

"Thanks." Tucker replied in kind, Danny and Sam surprised as Cedric and Talia watched the interaction with a bit of shock themselves. "Nice hair!" He pointed back before a horde of the students charged for the entrance with most in Ember apparel and chanting.

"Ember! Ember! Ember! Ember!" Lancer made a stand as he positioned himself between the door and the students as he tried to stop the madness.

"You people aren't going anywhere except detention!" He barely breathed out the last word before he was trampled by the overeager students. Talia and Cedric watched as Tucker was held back some by Sam and Danny as he tried to get to the same place in glee.

"Must- have- Ember- tix!" Sam spoke up as Tucker's sudden adrenaline was impossible to halt completely.

"We're going to have to deprogram him!" The pair paused in getting dragged to notice that Sam was holding Danny from behind while Danny held onto Tucker. They released with a pair of whistles and Tucker would have gotten away, if Cedric and Talia had let him as Cedric strong-armed Tucker and lifted him up with use of the Exorcist arms, lifting him to the classroom. Sam tied Tucker down as Danny wedged the helmet over the wig before the CramTastic started up to Cedric's input as graphs, charts, and text flashed past for Tucker's bound figure. "This is where the healing starts." Tucker started to slip into watching the information fly past for him as the four headed off as Danny finally asked again as to why they were not affected.

"I still don't get why we're not affected by Ember's music." Danny asked as he turned his hand intangible and started to search for something in his locker as Sam shrugged while Cedric and Talia watched them just the same.

"Maybe because of your ghost powers and my-" She continued as she thought about it before Danny asked in cutting into the thought.

"Individuality or intelligence?" He quickly found the Fenton Thermos that he stored and gestured to the thought with his other hand as it returned to color as Sam replied with please in her tone.

"I was gonna say 'utter disdain for anything popular', but okay." She blushed before she asked to the slight surprise of Danny's look. "You really think I'm smart?" The look shifted to joy as he leaned forward to reply, but another presence made himself present as he spoke, Mr. Lancer looking a lot worse from the trampling.

"Not so fast." Indeed, between a torn shirt, scratches, a shiner, and somehow blackened tooth, Lancer has seen better days as he spoke. "You four lovebirds may be the only students left in the entire school-" Danny and Sam protested to it as Cedric and Talia remarked.

"We're not lovebirds!"

"It's becoming a running gag!" Lancer lifted his hands as he continued.

"But that's not going to stop me-" He reached down to take the wrists of the protesting members as he continued to lecture them. "-From giving you an education." He moved to sweep them away as Danny and Sam shared a look and clasped hands before Danny turned them intangible and slipped away while Cedric and Talia just followed before Lancer arrived and gasped, turning around to find that two were missing before he exclaimed as Cedric and Talia found their place and got to work, also keeping Tucker company while they waited for Cedric's mystery client to come through on something. "Lord of the Flies!" He cried out while falling to his knees. "They're slipping right through my hands!"

Across town, Bucky's Music Megastore stood tall as crowds of fans swarmed it for the big-time pop star while Sam and Danny flew their way over, Sam taking in the height and sights before finding herself at a loss of breath with how the sun just caught Danny's ghostly look, his confidant smile and found herself blushing once more, heedless of the change of observing before Danny spoke up with raised brow.

"Are you okay, Sam?" She snapped out of it before she stammered.

"Huh? Oh!" She giggled nervously with a blush as she commented. "It's just really nice up here, that's all. Flying's nice." She giggled in nervous tension again as Danny's eyes seemed to pop before he turned away with a blush and smile of his own before the two shared in a dreamy share of glances before slamming into the massive cutout of Ember McLain and falling onto the rooftop as the moment was shattered and Sam said as much. "Falling stinks." They collected themselves before heading down into the massive room below, the room was packed with fans as Ember's music, still the same song, played throughout to the cheer.

"Ooh, Ember! So warm and tender! You will remember my name!" From the tower of video screens came Ember McLain from more violet smoke as the crowd went wild, she reaching behind her to show off several tickets before she tossed them to the crowd, more floating down from the tables behind her, with many other things of merchandise, as she called out to them.

"Tell- me- who- you- love!" She threw her hands up as the crowd chanted once more, some holding up blue CD cases as tickets rained over them.

"Ember! Ember! Ember!" She grinned to the praise as she leaned back with pride, the hair blazing more alive as Danny and Sam phased in and took in the praise and crowd down below as Danny remarked.

"Something tells me they're not gonna love seeing their idol sucked inside the Fenton Thermos, also found Jazz." He glanced over to Sam as she made a plan, both taking a moment to find the 'scholarly' student now matching Ember's look except the hair.

"I think I can distract them." The chants continued through the store as Ember's hair blazed ever stronger before the crowd below gasped to a whistle, to Sam vandalizing one of the cutouts with a red marker set of glasses, mustache, and goatee, taking a moment to admire what she had done before calling out. "Hey everybody! Look, it's Ember McLame!" This enraged Ember, but also pointed out a problem to her current power, the chants and praise slipped away and her hair diminished as she remarked.

"Oh great." She straightened up as the hair returned to its usual appearance as she continued. "A critic." She perked up as she slung out her guitar. "Maybe you'll like my new song better!" She turned up one of the dials as the three crescent shapes lit up and her hand glowed violet-pink before Danny struck, blasting her as he exclaimed to her.

"Hey! Do you take requests? How about 'Beat It'?"

"How about I just lay down a few power chords instead, dipstick!" She strummed out a stream of green, skulls lining it, as Danny made to use the Thermos, only to get blasted with the Thermos thrown to hang from the cutout's ear before she laughed and teleport out of there with blue flames as Danny flew over to the crowd's cheer before he phased through the rooftop where Ember waited as he countered to her comment.

"'Dipstick'?" He smiled falsely to the insult with a short 'Ho ho' before getting serious again. "Funny." He soared over and gripped hands with Ember to take her down through force as he continued. "Who writes your insults? The same hack who writes your songs?" He glanced down to the streets below to the chanting people and the hair flared once more to Ember's smile, Danny quickly losing the advantage as he gasped. "Chanting… makes you stronger… You lured me out here on purpose..."

"You got that right, baby pop." Ember closed her eyes in glee as she continued, flinging him away with a single hand. "And the more kids chanting, the stronger I get!" Danny soared before slamming into the huge cutout, toppling it over and wearing a look of concern on how that thing could have fell all the way down and crushed someone as Ember zoomed over with guitar in hand as she continued to explain her power to Danny's gasp of both power and energy Ember now possessed. "And if you think I'm strong now, just wait until midnight! When my concert goes global." Her eyes narrowed as she continued. "And the whole world's chanting my name! Then you'll all be my slaves!" She strummed out a red stream at Danny, knocking him down to the cutout's legs before Sam emerged from the stairwell with Thermos in hand.

"Get away from him!" She rushed over as Danny reverted back to Fenton, staggered over how powerful the blast was as Sam placed herself between Ember and Danny as the ghostly pop star mused.

"Aw, teen love!" She donned an upset look as she continued. "They say it never lasts, but nothing distracts teenagers more than hormones." Sam's eyes popped as she slightly understood the meaning as Ember continued with narrowed eyes and glanced down to her guitar. "And I need to keep you busy for the next eight hours…" She twisted the dial once more as she remarked with the glowing pink of a heart on her guitar. "I have more than just music for you." She glanced up as she continued with hand raised to strum out another chord. "Now that they're chanting my name, my music CAN affect you!" A wave of pink with hearts laden in it surged over the pair as she exclaimed. "How about a love song?" Sam made to stand her ground, despite her shock, but she was swept off her feet while Danny, his body trapped between the cutout and the wave, suddenly got the full power in his face with pink swirls appearing in his eyes as Sam flew overhead and slid to the head of the cutout, dangerous over ongoing traffic before the effect slipped away, but the pink swirls faded to a dreamy look on Danny's face as he turned to Sam with the look as Sam was really confused of what just happened.

"Huh?" Ember commented as she made her departure.

"Well, I think I'll leave the new couple alone." She waved goodbye as she finished. "Ciao, babies!" She laughed as she phased back down into the store in escaping as Sam questioned what she meant as she remained kneeling on the cutout to keep from falling or causing the cardboard from falling.

"'New couple'?" Sam was skeptical to what that meant as she looked over to Danny. "What the heck is she talking about?" It was that moment that Danny started to move again, but toward her as he climbed onto the cutout. "Uh, Danny?" Sam questioned as she raised a hand in the air for a moment. "Now would be a real good time to go ghost and fly me out of here." Yet Danny somehow didn't hear her as he just crawled closer toward her, the weight now shifting to the head as it started to wobble forward as Sam started to get scared and called. "Danny, wait!" She shouted as she reached her hand out to stop him. "What are you doing?" But he still came closer as he commented with a dreamy tone, traffic roaming down below as the cutout started to wobble a bit more.

"Wow. I just never realized. you're really pretty when you're about to fall off a building." Sam started to panic as she exclaimed.

"Danny?" Eyes casting downward to what could be a dangerous height. "Get back!" The cutout tilted once more as she yelped. "Danny!" She could hear the panicked voices from down below of what could happen if Danny didn't stop whatever he was now doing as she begged Danny to cease this sudden behavior. "Danny, stop! Don't come any closer!" Her words somehow got through, but with the wrong answer as Danny had taken the time to stand up as he remarked with the dreamy tone.

"But you're over there and I'm over here." He rested the extended hand to his chest before pointing at Sam again. "I wanna be over there!" FINALLY, Sam clued in on what was happening as she swore she had seen that love-struck look before.

"Wait, I know that look. That's that same, longing puppy-dog stare you give Paulina!"

"Who's Paulina?" Danny asked to Sam, now pleased to hear such a thing from Danny, huffed as she spoke.

"That's a pleasant side-effect." But with Danny creeping over, the cutout tilted once more with Sam snapping out of it to the dangerous reality she was now facing as Danny, in the love-struck behavior, just reached out and stepped closer before the whole thing tilted further forward and Sam screeched as she slid off, hands gripping the head before she faltered and released, falling to what could be her end...

Thankfully, it was not her time to go as a beefy hand snatched her still-outstretched hand as a man dangled from a rope ladder from the helicopter that read 'SWAT' on the side of it. Danny was also taken by a pair of SWAT members as Sam took in the arriving forces that came to 'detain' the rampant students and people as Sam huffed to the turn of events, no doubt being thrown in with the rest of the kids as Mr. Lancer arrived to proclaim with a megaphone what was happening down on the streets below with vans driving up and loading the students up.

"Attention, students! By authority of the Emergency Mass Grounding Act - You are all under house arrest." Lancer continued on top of the bus he was broadcasting from with not a megaphone, but rather a bus radio broadcasting the message as he continued. "You will now be returned to your homes to await parental punishment. And, as for your precious Ember, she's going down!" A shadow suddenly enveloped the teacher as he looked up and yelped with a jump to the side as the cutout finally fell, smashing the bus to pieces with some collateral damage to the area around it as Danny somehow pulled himself up, still on the cutboard when it fell, as Dash and Kwan cheered.

"EMBER! We love you" They hugged each other in joy at their idol, meanwhile Cedric and Talia watched it happen with a hijacked signal as the young man sighed.

"Somehow... I saw this coming." Talia nodded as Cedric turned off the setup and got to work getting everything right for the big moment...


Fenton Works soon had a SWAT van drive right up and the pair of kids were hurled into the house as Jack exclaimed, confused as Danny looked love-struck while Jazz was mimicking some seventy's female rock star. "What is the matter with you kids?" Maddie added to the question as she exclaimed.

"You need to be preparing for the Northwestern Nine testing tomorrow!" Danny replied in his drunken stupor of love.

"How can I study?" He closed his eyes as he mused. "All I can think about is Sam." Jazz was confused to this as she exclaimed.

"What's wrong with you? Why aren't you thinking about Ember?"

"Well, I'm thinking about putting you both in the Fenton Stockades." Where those were located was in the basement, separate from the lab and Maddie remarked in counter as the Stockades... was just a Iron Maiden with the word 'Fenton' in front of it as she opened it with the four down there in the medieval-adorned place.

"Jack, we can't lock the kids in some medieval containment device." Jack huffed as Jazz was defiant while Danny... was still starstruck in a daze as Jack spoke.

"Oh, all right." He answered with a turn of disapproval and crossed arms to Maddie's crossed look for such treatment. "We'll just *ground* them like every other parent." On the other hand, Jazz exclaimed as Danny just lingered in his daze.

"I'm going to Ember McLain's midnight concert tonight-" She spoke with grabbing Danny's arm and moving to walk past the two adults as she continued while Danny didn't help much within the daze. "-and there's nothing you can do about it!" Maddie stopped the action as she snatched their collars, or rather Danny's collar and Jazz's top as she exclaimed, holding them back and somehow snapping them out of it for a few minutes.

"You and your brother are not leaving this house, young lady!" Jack reentered the conversation as he used a sing-song tone as he poked his jaw in a suggestively thought.

"Fenton Stockades!" That didn't tide over with Maddie as the only one going into the Stockades was Jack as he exclaimed from the device, not getting hurt one bit from the device. "I meant them!" He scowled from his new containment as both of the kids were escorted to their rooms and Jazz fell to depression with the number of Ember memorabilia covering her room before a drumbeat played and she sprung up as she peeked out the window with a smile as a van advertising Ember's concert drove past, motivating the students and teens to rebel and escape to chase after the van, well, all except a few like Danny who was... meditating with a collection of items that was used in a shrine to Sam as he hummed to the number of things before him with crossed legs and index and pinky fingers pressed together with closed eyes.

"Sam…" As if on cue, Sam scaled up the side of the building and looked to Danny through the barred window before Danny breathed once more as Sam raised a fist to the window. "Sam…" She tapped on the glass, causing his eyes to open before he exclaimed with a turn of the head. "Sam! You snuck out to see me!" He hunched his shoulders and closed his eyes in a dreamy trance as he mused. "Oh, this is just like Romeo and Juliet-" Then he gestured to himself and smiled with a gleeful look as he continued. "-except I'm the one on the balcony and I can understand everything we're saying." Sam spoke up as she hissed behind the glass.

"Danny, open up!" She growled with an angry turn as Danny got off the bed and walked over to open the window, Sam standing on the rungs of a ladder she set up before she climbed in from Danny opening the window before she dropped onto the floor with a pained yelp as Danny started.

"You want me to open up?" With that, Danny started to 'open up' with him leaning over and looking at her fallen form. "Okay. Um, one time, when I was five, I really wanted a puppy, but my parents-" Sam quickly cut him off as she yelled.

"Will you knock it off!" Danny slumped in a absent look as Sam stepped away to explain the plan, still looking at Danny as she exclaimed. "We have to stop Ember's concert before she takes over the world!" She stopped from continuing with extended arms overhead as she took in the number of things that must have been a shrine to her. A barely visible picture of her, a stick of her violet-pink lipstick, a joint of her and Tucker, studded bracelet, the time when she had shaved her head partially with a plaid top and choker, a lock of her hair, a pic of her doing the 'bunny ears' on a wary Danny, a piece of gum that she chewed, a message that called for Danny's help, and an unreleased picture of her time at the dance. In essence, she was creeped out by the personal things that she was looking at as she spoke. "Okay, even the part of me that's kind of liking the attention is really freaked out by this." Danny joined the conversation once more as he came from behind and praised her.

"It doesn't matter!" He took her hands and admired her on as he exclaimed. "Just so long as we have each other." Sam finally yelled at Danny, lucky that Jack and Maddie were not aware of what was going on at all.

"Snap out of it!" She reversed the grip as she looked at him with a bored look on his face. "You don't feel that way about me and I don't feel that way about you." Danny looked down before he smirked to a point.

"So why are you still holding my hands?" Sam huffed as she lifted the hands and threw them down as she made to stomp off as Danny continued. "And why are you still wearing those Fenton Phones I gave you?" She turned to give a rebuttal as she exclaimed with lashing out, frustrated with how this whole thing has turned out.

"Danny, they're not even real earrings!" She threw her hands in the air as she continued to shout. "They're just some stupid communicators that-" She stopped in realization. "-filter out ghost noise!" That made Danny question as he asked Sam about its meaning.

"Does this mean that we're breaking up?" His love state faded some as Sam went off in explanation as to why they were important as she beamed.

"Don't you get it, Danny? That's why I haven't been affected by Ember's music!" She took them out and held them in hand as she continued. "I've been wearing the Fenton Phones the whole time!" The love state resumed as Danny pointed at Sam and asked to her confusion.

"So we're not breaking up?" Sam replied with arched brows as she exclaimed.

"How can we be breaking up? We were never together!" She huffed as she snatched Danny's hand and made to head out. "We're gonna have to deprogram you like we did Tucker!" She, just as quickly, stopped in her tracks and leaned back in realization. "Oh my gosh! Tucker!" The pair hurried out and got to Casper High, quickly finding Tucker who was in the worst state ever as he was shaking with teeth chattering as he spoke to the pair's arrival and concern.

"Twelve… hours… of… intensive standardized test prep." Sam quickly took off the helmet as she apologized.

"Tucker, I'm so sorry!" Danny just smiled as he leaned over in admiration and love struck.

"You're beautiful when you're wracked with guilt." Sam was undoing the rope bindings as she remarked.

"Not now, Danny." Tucker looks to Danny and sprung up as he exclaimed.

"Man, it's about time!" He hugged the both of them with Sam confused and frightened of the reaction while Danny was still in his love drunk stupor. "I always knew you two would end up together!" Sam shoved the both of them away as she exclaimed once more, Tucker rather sad to being scorned while Danny didn't care in the state.

"We're not together! Ember put him under some kinda spell!" She shouted with a lift of the arms as Tucker was confused as he asked with the dazed Danny there, pointing out the question.

"So you don't want to end up together?" Sam shrugged with a fist to her forehead as she answered.

"I don't know!" She threw her arms out as she continued. "Maybe! But not like this!" She pleaded with the tech-head as she continued. "Tucker, please! We have to break the spell!" Tucker's answer came as he plucked the CramTastic helmet up and planted it on Danny's head as he gave a reasonable answer.

"Let's crank up the story problems and we'll see him in twelve hours!" The clock, on the other hand, disagreed as it read eleven forty-five and Sam pointed that out as well.

"We don't have twelve hours." Sam pointed at the clock while Danny dazed on before lowering it with an explanation of what is going on. "Ember's concert starts in fifteen minutes. She gets her power when people chant her name." She spread her arms out in panic as she continued. "And with a whole world-wide audience, she'll be unstoppable!" Tucker followed the thought as he took the helmet off Danny and chucked it before starting to push them on their way as he exclaimed the same, now out of Ember's spell.

"Then we better bolt down to that show and crank down the volume!" Sudden, Tucker slipped in a whiz state as he quickly spoke as they made it through the halls. "The volume of a sphere is equal to the square of the race of the base times pi times the height." He snapped back to reality with an exclamation. "Wow, that thing really works!" His tone turned annoyed as he continued his rant. "And I spent the first nine years of my school life actually reading?" Downtown was where the concert was being held, hosted in a big arena and being watched closely as the trio arrived, unseen so far with three Thermoses, charged by Danny while his parents were not looking as the new ones were not ready and Cedric was nowhere in sight right now, as they made for the back entrance, the slumbering security guards giving them ample chance to get inside with Danny's powers of intangibility before making their way to the control room and Sam turned to Tucker as she spoke.

"Go kill the power. We'll stand watch." Tucker rushed over as Danny dazed right back to Sam's raised brow before she asked. "Uh, can you watch something besides me?" Danny snapped out of it for a moment before pulling out a picture of Sam to her disappointment as Tucker mused as he looked over the switches and dials as he looked over all of it for the switch to cut the power.

"Okay, cutting off the power." He switched one that read 'PA System' before suddenly speaking in test format. "Electrical power equals electrical current times electric potential." He shook his head before putting a hand to his head. "Man, I gotta stop doing that!" Unfortunately, the switch he flipped before his rant was for the 'PA' System' which stood for 'Public Address System' and it just came on to Ember and a pair of security guards hearing the last statement as she jumped into the room from a door that read 'STAGE ONE' before pointing down the way to the guards' exclamation, surprising that they were Dash and Kwan in the first place.

"We love you, Ember!" She cringed with annoyance to the cheer before cracking an eye to them as she remarked.

"I heard you the twelfth time." She focused once more as she remarked with hands on hips. "Now bag 'em and gag 'em!" The pair headed off to the unaware trio, Danny and Sam getting grabbed while Tucker was dragged away by a third member as he continued his test speak. Out in the stadium, it was jam packed to the brim as the guards showed off the capture with Sam and Ember looking annoyed, Danny looking concerned with Tucker being dragged right in as well as the countdown started to one of the control men's exclaim with hand to his headset.

"On the air in five, four-" Ember leaned over to the captured trio as she mused.

"Later, dipsticks." Sam was angry as Ember continued. "I gotta go rock my world. And when I say my world,-" Her eyes widened with glee as her hair blazed with boldness. "-I mean my world!" She walked off as Sam tried to get Danny to do SOMETHING.

"Danny, stop her now!" Danny refused as he exclaimed with defiance and closed eyes.

"I won't leave you, Sam." The band on stage performed a short intermission for the main event as Sam exclaimed.

"Forget about me!" Danny argued back.

"I can't! I won't!" The trio stopped on stage before the lights went out and Ember appeared center stage, how as her hair was clearly ablaze as she cheered with pumped fist in the air.

"Hell-o, Amity Park!" She dropped it with a shout. "Tell me who you love!" The crowd cheered the same thing, empowering Ember even more.

"Ember McLain! Ember McLain!" They cheered as the hair blazed even more as the concert was being broadcast across the world as she started to sing and play, reaching to the Netherlands, within the Land of the Rising Sun, across the arid lands of Arabia, and even down in the Outback, all chanting Ember's name as Sam exclaimed with one final course of action to snap Danny out of it.

"I hate to do this to you, Danny." She looked at him with a serious look. "But if I can't break Ember's spell, I'm going to have to break your heart!" She was not going to like it, but it was the only way as she twisted out of the grip and faced Dash as he exclaimed.

"What are you looking at?" Before she could lock lips with him to break the spell, suddenly another voice spoke through the Fenton Phones.

"So you have wished it, so it shall be and by desire made clear." Sam had leapt just as a green mist consumed the trio and Sam made contact, opening her eyes to...

...KISSING DANNY! She quickly backed off as she exclaimed. "Wha...!?" This was not the stage, she was surrounded by clouds, her fear filling as she was not sure where she, Danny now dazed, and Tucker were now before another voice spoke while the echo of Ember was heard down below.

"Honestly, what is with us with heading into the threat headlong without an actual plan in mind?" Sam turned to a door opening and, dressed in a coat, gas mask, and goggles, there was little that could be pulled from with the blue tips as Sam exclaimed.

"Cedric!"

"Get in!" With that, they were pulled into the interior of the mystery place before coming to a setup as Cedric took off the heavy attire. "Hate to drop this on you guys, but I'm going to need a second player on guitar, a keyboard user, and vocals."

"Whoa, back up, why are you asking about a band and where are we?" Tucker questioned as Cedric turned to him and answered.

"Simple, we are on a blimp that I called for, modified with a number of ecto-protection details, the plan here is to hijack Ember's signal and undo her mind control, all of us here wearing gear that will prevent Ember from taking control of any of us." He gestured to the back as a plumb-looking grease monkey came out with a pair of Fenton Phones on. "Meet my mechanic, call him Ken, he likes it better than Kent and he's from Kentucky."

"Yeah, screw your logic as well." Ken answered as he turned to the trio. "Not only do I got some mad construction skills, I can play a good beat to counter that diva's power, though her being a ghost is a great 'if' right now." Cedric nodded as he walked over and turned to the trio from beside Ken.

"We only get one shot at this, are you guys ready?" Sam groaned as this was not part of the plan at all, but she thought about it, removing her hands from her face. Cedric had a plan and he was more careful with them than a on-the-fly moment, so she trusted him and, while she was hoping that Danny would be back to normal, maybe Cedric factored that piece into this whole thing as Tucker spoke with a smile, pulling out his PDA again.

"I am totally going to wreck that mic with my epic..." Cedric just gave the 'neutral face of displeasure' before Tucker sighed. "...I got the keyboard, it shouldn't be too hard." He tampered off to the set up and started to rig it up as Cedric turned back to Sam and questioned.

"Are you ready to handle this?" Sam paused before she looked up and answered.

"Ready as I'll ever be." Down below, Ember breathed in the chanting as her song was coming to an end with her total control.

"That's right, say my name!" She cheered in victory before the power felt depleting a bit as a piano chorus played high above before a voice sung, Sam adorning a wonderful midnight gown as she sung the verses.

"Right from the start, you were a thief, you stole my heart, and I your willing victim." The piano continued as Sam sang, a bit uncomfortable about it as she just sung to focus as the blimp came into full view. "I let you see the parts of me that weren't all that pretty and with every touch, you fixed them." She glanced to where Danny should be and mused in ponder in the song. "Now you've been talking in your sleep. Oh, oh. Things you never say to me. Oh, oh. Tell me that you've had enough of our love, our love." She pumped out the next verse with a boom of the drum from the keyboard and claps. "Just give me a reason. Just a little bit's enough. Just a second - we're not broken, just bent. And we can learn to love again." She looked up, as if the sky was apparent to her at that moment. "It's in the stars. It's been written in the scars on our hearts. We're not broken, just bent. And we can learn to love again." Ember scowled as the beat was interfering with her control.

"Oh yeah, how's a blast of rock sounding to you, dipsticks!" She dialed it in as she fired a blast, but watched in surprise as the fiery blast just slid over the blimp somehow as she yelped. "What!?" Danny appeared at the second mic, his attire a button shirt and slacks as he called out in the love stupor and in rhythm of the music.

"I'm sorry, I don't understand where all of this is coming from. I thought that we were fine." Sam sang with a 'Oh, we had everything' as Danny continued. "Your head is running wild again. My dear, we still have everything and it's all in your mind." More words from Sam as she hummed the new verse with a 'Yeah, but this is happening' before Danny rested a hand to his chest. "Now you've been having real bad dreams. Oh, oh. You used to lie so close to me. Oh, oh." The next part was sung together as the control over Danny faded to the true feelings they were feeling for each other.

"There's nothing more than empty sheets between our love, our love. Oh, our love, love, love." They sang together as they just fought back Ember's power, her blasts doing nothing to the protection as Cedric smirked to how well the plan was working while taking a moment to keep recording. "Just give me a reason. Just a little bit's enough. Just a second - we're not broken, just bent. And we can learn to love again. I've never stopped. You're still written in the scars on my heart. You're not broken, just bent. And we can learn to love again." They switched between each other in the next bridge. "Oh, tears ducts and rust.", "I'll fix it for us.", "We're collecting dust, but our love's enough.", "You're holding it in, you're pouring a drink." "No, nothing is as bad as it seems.", "We'll come clean." They went into the chorus once more. "Just give me a reason just a little bit's enough. Just a second we're not broken just bent and we can learn to love again. It's in the stars, it's been written in the scars on our hearts. That we're not broken, just bent and we can learn to love again. Just give me a reason, just a little bit's enough. Just a second we're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again. It's in the stars, it's been written in the scars on our hearts. That we're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again." It faded out to Sam singing the outro. "Oh, we can learn to love again. Oh, we can learn to love again; oh, oh. Oh, that we're not broken, just bent and we can learn to love again." The piano faded out and the light dimmed over Sam as Cedric called, cutting the recording as he spoke into the headset he had on or rather the connected Fenton Headset through a wireless plug.

"Hello, Amity!" The crowd cheered, most still for Ember while some had looked up to the blimp. "That was one of our triple song challenge for one Ember McLain. It's what you guys down below would call a 'battle of the bands'." Ember growled that her spotlight was taken away as Cedric continued. "Now, welcome to the stage, a tech-wiz who believes himself a gift of man, down to sing." Danny and Sam nearly bolted out, half-dressed, to stop Cedric from allowing Tucker to sing, but the guy looked ready, cleared his throat and Danny, quickly getting dressed and with guitar in hand, slid in as Tucker started as the guitar played with a series of 'oh's' from Danny with a drum beat.

"Am I wrong for thinking out the box from where I stay? Am I wrong for saying that I'll choose another way?" Tucker gripped the mic as he continued to sing, what they believed to be a terrible voice actually very good when he knew how the song went as Sam came out, a bit surprised to have found Talia close by as she was adorned in a belly dancer attire and working on her moves as Tucker sang. "I ain't trying to do what everybody else doing. Just cause everybody doing what they all do. If one thing I know, how far would I grow? I'm walking down this road of mine, this road that I call home." The pair jammed as Tucker sang on from behind the keyboard. "So am I wrong for thinking that we could be something for real? Now am I wrong for trying to reach the things I can't see?" The next part was given another series of ooh's at the end of the next lines as Tucker sung. "But that's just how I feel, that's just how I feel. That's just how I feel. Trying to reach the things that I can't see." Danny took over as he sung, Sam actually feeling her goth heart pound to his voice, when... when did she start feeling like this? She was confronted with the obsessed side of him earlier, but this was a real genuine side of him... like the first song.

"Am I tripping for having a vision? My prediction: I'mma be on top of the world." He rocked the axe with a smile as it felt real enough for him. "Walk your walk, and don't look back. Always do what you decide. Don't let them control your life. That's just how I feel, oh. Fight for yours, and don't let go. Don't let them compare you, no. Don't worry, you're not alone. That's just how we feel." Tucker took over once more as he sang into the mic with Danny doing a lingering sound.

"Am I wrong 'Am I wrong'. For thinking that we could be something for real? 'Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah oh'. Now am I wrong 'Am I wrong'. For trying to reach the things that I can't see? 'Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah'." Tucker hummed in glee that he knew that he was mildly tone-death, but he could hear his attempt and it felt amazing, to hear that voice coming through to him, maybe that mint that Cedric gave him before the first song was the key, what did he call it...? He shrugged mentally as he sang. "But that's just how I feel. That's just how I feel. That's just how I feel. Trying to reach the things that I can't see." Danny sung once more as he took over once again.

"If you tell me I'm wrong, wrong. I don't wanna be right, right. If you tell me I'm wrong, wrong. I don't wanna be right." Danny breathed as Tucker added several hey's to the next lines of his. "If you tell me I'm wrong, wrong. I don't wanna be right, right. If you tell me I'm wrong, wrong. I don't wanna be right." It drew out to a drum beat and claps with a few more hey's before Tucker took over into the quiet.

"Am I wrong. For thinking that we could be something for real? Now, am I wrong. For trying to reach the things that I can't see? But that's just how I feel, 'ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ooh'. That's just how I feel 'ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh ooh' That's just how I feel. Trying to reach the things that I can't see." They went into chorus once more as they just sung it out, Ember's attempts giving her more frustration as the pair just sang as a team. "So am I wrong 'am I wrong'. For thinking that we could be something for real? 'oh, yeah, yeah, yeah oh'. Now am I wrong 'am I wrong'. For trying to reach the things that I can't see? 'oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah'." The African-American breathed as he felt eyes once more, but he disregarded them from the short pep talk that Cedric gave him of 'Don't let them control you here and now'. "But that's just how I feel. That's just how I feel. That's just how I feel. Trying to reach the things that I can't see." They gave a 'woot' as the song came to an end as Ember dropped to her knees as she couldn't manifest her power to keep going in trying to knock the huge blimp to the ground as the crowd cheered, only some still to Ember, but it was dying out like her hair as Cedric shouted.

"Thanks for giving us that awesome performance, you two, but we are not done yet!" Cedric turned as he shut off the mic as he spoke to Danny. "Grab Ember when this one comes to an end, I have some time on my hands." Danny nodded before he turned and, without warning, locked lips with Sam, surprising her as he parted and spoke.

"I'll be back."

"Yeah..." Sam answered in a stupor as Phantom took form and headed out as a heavy strum from Cedric's guitar came as he sung with Talia taking center stage with her swift and devoted dance to the beat of the song.

"Like a gift from the heavens, it was easy to tell, It was love from above, that could save me from hell, She had fire in her soul, it was easy to see, How the devil himself could be pulled out of me."

Tucker played it as Cedric continued his praise, he the only one seeing the blush that Talia was holding.

"There were drums in the air as she started to dance, Every soul in the room keeping time with their hands, And we sang..." Cedric breathed before he let loose the chord. "Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay, And the voices rang like the angels sing, We're singing... Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay, And we danced on into the night, Ay oh ay oh, Ay oh ay oh, And we danced on into the night." He fell back to the guitar rocking.

"Like a piece to the puzzle that falls into place, you could tell how we felt from the look on our faces. We were spinning in circles with the moon in our eyes, no room left to move in between you and I. We forgot where we were and we lost track of time, and we sang to wind as we danced through the night, And we sang..." He pumped a fist as the echo of the guitar was resounded from the keyboard as Danny dropped down to the disbelief of Ember as she just watched as the blimp pounded out the music.

"Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay, And the voices rang like the angels sing. We're singing... Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay, And we danced on into the night. Ay oh ay oh, Ay oh ay oh, And we danced on into the night. Ay oh ay oh, Ay oh ay oh, And we danced on into the night. Cedric then ripped it into a guitar solo without a single issue as Talia just danced to the beat before it faded to a series of claps, Sam and Tucker confused as to how Cedric managed it before he sang again.

"Like a gift from the heavens, it was easy to tell, it was love from above, that could save me from hell. She had fire in her soul, it was easy to see, how the devil himself could be pulled out of me. There were drums in the air as she started to dance, every soul in the room keeping time with their hands. And we sang..." He went into the chorus once more as the guitar and music picked up.

"Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay, And the voices rang like the angels sing. We're singing... Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay, And we danced on into the night. Ay oh ay oh, Ay oh ay oh, And we danced on into the night. 'And the voices rang like the angels sing'. Ay oh ay oh, Ay oh ay oh, And we danced on into the night. Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay, 'Ay oh ay oh'. Ay oh ay oh ay oh ay, 'Ay oh ay oh'. Singing ay oh ay oh ay oh ay, 'Ay oh ay oh', And we danced on into the night..." The music came to an end as the crowd cheered before Danny cleared his throat to Ember's surprise.

"Exit stage left!" The Thermos fired as Ember screeched into the smoked blue as Danny capped it as the rest of Ember's band disappeared from sight as the crowd just cheered for the tri-performance as Danny flew back up and was met with Cedric, giving a fist bump to the Demi as he spoke, mic off for the moment.

"You did good, Phantom, you did real good, now get your butt in gear, you have already made the first move." Danny paused before Cedric turned and declared. "Thank for coming to this battle, we'll see you later!" The blimp headed away as the cheer filled the air as Danny turned back and wrapped his arms around Sam when she tackled him with one.

"Danny, that was awesome!" Her eyes popped before releasing with a blush, her mind still stolen by the sudden kiss. "Uh, I guess Ember's spell hasn't quite worn off." Tucker answered otherwise as he questioned.

"You were never under Ember's spell." The reaction to that was an elbow to Tucker's gut as Danny just smiled before he realized something.

"Oh wait... the testing..." Only Sam and Danny wore worried looks as Cedric took the Thermos from Danny and nodded as he moved on something, dropping the trio off for the scolding for a short trip...


Lancer huffed as he scolded at the class of students that failed the testing with the Principal there as well. "These standardized test scores are the worst in school history." He said with a hand on a stack of papers before him with the black board scribe with 'Homework Due Monday!' and 'Learning is hip!' as he continued to everyone wearing a CramTastic helmet as he continued. "No doubt due to the rampant late-night carousing prior to test day." However, he held up three sheets of paper that were marked with 'A's' on them as he continued with a smile. "However, three students' perfect score did manage to bring the entire school average up. And that's good news for my bonus." Ishiyama spoke next as she listed the trio that managed to do the feat, unaware of them being part of the same band that knocked Ember off the charts of control.

"Therefore, Tucker Foley, Cedric Trace, and Talia Rahmat are excused from this afternoon's mandatory CramTastic session." Tucker cheered as he lifted the helmet off his head as Cedric and Talia did the same with smiles as Tucker listed off.

"Yes!" Tucker pointed a finger to the class as he spoke. "This would an example of irony: a literary device employing the incongruity between what might be expected, and what actually occurs." Valerie huffed in disbelief as two girls crowd over to Tucker in praise.

"Tucker, we love you!" They headed off with Tucker's wrapping his arms around the pair of girls and heading out as Cedric and Talia locked fingers and waved good-bye.

"Take care and make sure you get it right this time, you guys."

"We know that they will, but still luck for them." Cedric playfully huffed as the pair left, Sam and Danny the only ones to see Cedric kiss Talia's cheek before Sam asked.

"I don't suppose you could release Ember and get us out of this?" Danny shook his head as he answered, knowing the danger, but he trusted his friend.

"Nope. Besides, she's a little busy right now." He answered with a head leaning back, neither of them knowing what Cedric was up to, but if it had anything to do with giving Ember a Demi form too, then they were in some trouble.

Still, faith in their friend had yet to fail as the pair headed out to the hidden home of Cedric...


"Are you positive about this, this sort of element is not native to the Zone..."

"We have to try in the very least, her power is rather hollow and we could use another hand to the mix."

"And if it doesn't...?"

"We have seen the effects of Element EZ on the lesser ghosts, they barely hold together, we need to use the serum on the more human-like figure, otherwise, these two weeks have been nothing short of troubling."

"...Alright, let us proceed."

"Yes; Injecting Serum EZ-65 'Demi Morph' into subject 'Ember McLain', stand by." No one knew what was happening, but change was indeed coming to Amity, not many knew of it though...