Amity Park, a safe place to live, if you don't mind the rampant ghosts and spirits that now flood the night as the six went on patrol, Danny contending with a ghost squid that roared and backed up with Danny getting close before firing jets of ink at him as he exclaimed in dodging. "Hey! Easy on the ghost ink, I just had this suit cleaned!" He glared at the ghost before he lashed out with the Thermos, absorbing the squid in and dealing with that before his phone rang and he picked up, the Fenton Phones currently in Cedric's care for some adjustments as Sam panted on the other end.

"Wolf thing... Big ghost wolf thing... was down by the Nasty Burger..." At that time, Sam looked over to the finishing Iron Exorcist as he had beaten the wolf down before absorbing it into his Thermos, as he capped and turned as he spoke, the suit not available to engage wireless connections to their group.

"I am not sure if I should speak, but I recall that you wanted to spend time with Danny and he with you?" Sam glowed red as she stammered, Danny still on the line as he glowed the same.

"N-Now is not the time." Danny huffed as he took over in exhaust.

"What a night..." He breathed as he continued with a rub to his head across the line. "Every time I turn around, there's another ghost." The phone rang and Danny cut the party chat short as he answered the next call to Tucker's frantic call.

"Danny, ghost snake, by the park!" On que, Tucker ran for it before his pack somehow tripped him up and spilled his tech gear on the stone walk before he remarked with exhausted eyes.

"I gotta stop carrying so much geek-gear, it's gonna be the death of me..." He glanced up with fearful eyes as the ghost cobra found him and he exclaimed in terror. "Literally!" The creature coiled to strike, but a coil of rope snatched the jaw as Talia arrived with one hand the coil gripping the snake and the other pulling hard to keep the beast in place before Valerie, taking the training on the field, soared in and fired, knocking the beast to the side as the Red Huntress exclaimed in confusion and huff.

"Where are all these ghosts coming from!?" The answer would have been simple if Danny called home to Jazz as she watched with Maddie as Jack pressed his thumb into a genetic scanner installed for the Ghost Portal, not sure HOW it was meant to be working in the end as he started.

"I told ya, this genetic lock was a great invention." He resumed pressing the button as he continued to explain to Jazz and Maddie. "It's a perfect way to prevent any unauthorized access to the Ghost Zone." Unfortunately, he was completely blind to the fact of him releasing ghosts from behind him with the two family members watching as well as, on the other side of the repeating opening of doors, ghosts were lined up and ready to get out of the Zone for a time as a motorcycle roared on coming up the lineup as the rear rider exclaimed, a red-eyed, green-haired chick that looked like a bad girl with ring, scarf, and jacket on, to her greaser-looking boyfriend.

"You sure we're gonna make it?"

"Ah, relax, will ya? Trust me." The boyfriend smiled before he exclaimed on the drive, looking down to the rocky ground. "Shadow!" A dark thing slipped from under the bike as the rider lashed out his hand in a command. "Keep the portal open!" The thing parted to form a full-fleshed shadow ghost as it lunged for the portal and made to hold it open, but it was clear that there was strain on the creature's body as the girlfriend exclaimed once more with concern.

"I don't know if using that stupid bad luck Shadow of yours is a good idea, Johnny." But Johnny dismissed the notion as he revved the vehicle faster, the ghosts jumping out of the way as Shadow finally released, slipping back onto the bike as it soared into the swirling vortex that divided the Zone from the other side the door made to close, the bike making it, but not without consequence as the girlfriend screamed from a bundle of hair getting caught and electrocuting her, she falling to the solid ground of the swirling vortex as Johnny pulled to a stop in terrified concern.

"KITTY!" He shouted as Kitty pulled herself up in dismay.

"I knew it! I can't maintain my form, I'm split between here and the Ghost Zone." Her form wavered as Johnny gasped with widened eyes before she quickly pulled off the jacket, scarf, and ring before empowering them as she explained. "I spread my energy into my stuff, get some girl to wear them so I can reform around her to make up for the body you just fried." He grimaced as he folded the stuff in hand as she continued in remorse. "I gotta go back into the Ghost Zone before I completely fall apart." She hissed before extending a hand out as she called out with fading back into the Zone. "Don't forget me, Johnny! Don't forget me!" Johnny readied up as he exclaimed to the fading girl that he got into peril.

"You got it, baby! I'll find you a new host. I promise!" He revved it and bolted toward the entrance as Jack continued to explain.

"Now that I've installed this genetic scanner, the only way to open the Fenton Portal is if someone in the family does this..." He pressed his thumb into the scanner, recognizing his print and opened the portal, the rev of Johnny's bike roaring past them, racing past them, as Jack exclaimed. "Suffering Spooks! Where's Danny!?" He smiled as he continued. "I bet he'll love this." Jazz moved on making a small excuse as she was NOT informed that Jack actually knew of Danny's ghost abilities, but neither knew that Maddie was still clueless.

"Oh, well, I'm sure wherever he is, it has nothing much to do with ghosts at all." Little did she realize that Johnny was lurking around still and quietly gasped before he grinned with a cracked tooth and a whisper.

"Hello, new girlfriend..." The time of trouble starting once more as Danny and friends would soon find their luck tested against the ghost who controls some bad luck, Johnny 13...


Night still hung over Amity as Tucker found his time being spent on talking to a girl he came across and inquiring. "I was kind of hoping we could hit a movie or something?"

"Okay." The girl replied, now if only Tucker DIDN'T try to push it further.

"Alright, but I'll have you know, I'm persistent..." He paused from his long rant before he spoke again. "Wait, did you say okay?" He quickly pulled out his tech as he continued. "Do you want to beam me your phone number? We can share ringtones." It was too apparent that he was desperate and he ruined it as the girl headed off with disgust.

"No thanks, techno-geek!" Tucker groaned before he exclaimed to the departing figure.

"I am not a techno-geek!" He shouted as he slammed his stuff to the ground before reacting in terror as he scooped up the gear in pleading. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" On the other side of town, Danny quickly arrived to where Talia and Valerie were fighting and the Red Huntress was launched into the wall, panting as Danny quickly caught her and shook off the rubble from his hair from taking the impact.

"Oh, come on!" He breathed as he continued. "We've been fighting ghosts for twenty-four hours, can't one be easy!?" The cobra freed itself and lunged for the pair, but Danny turned intangible and slipped behind with Thermos in hand, having grabbing it from Valerie's belt. "So long, Slinky!" The device blasted and captured the snake before he capped it and tossed it to Valerie who, just as easily, caught it before both of the ghost senses went off as Talia lightly groaned.

"Oh please, let there only be one more remaining..." The trio turned as a chopper roared out of the nearby alleyway and Danny took after it, none of them noticing that the ring glowed and the pale rider looked at it as a female voice came through.

"What's taking so long?"

"I'm trying to find the right girl for you to take over." The guy stammered as he continued in concern. "I mean, if I gotta look at her face for all eternity, I wanna make sure I like it, dig?" The call cut as the bike tore past a park before Danny had caught up, addressing the ghost and drawing the guy's attention.

"Um, sir? I believe you are speeding right now." The ghost shouted back in anger.

"I'll show you speeding!" He lashed out an arm from the handlebars. "Shadow, attack!" The very shadow erupted in a ghastly form of a ghost as it charged for Danny.

"What the...!?" Anymore was lost with a uppercut, knocking him down as the bike and rider slammed into the side of a building and drove up as the attacking thing slashed a street light, causing it to fall on Danny, giving him little time to roll away, but at the cost of his Thermos, destroying it and releasing his share of ghosts as he huffed in disbelief. "AUGH! Of all the rotten luck!" He grimaced with sitting up, pulling free the broken tech before he glanced up to the ghost just smiling atop the building before driving off with the ghost in tow as Talia and Valerie arrived as the Huntress helped Danny up.

"Are you alright, Danny?"

"No, I just lost my ghosts to some greaser-looking punk on a bike and his pet shadow." He gazed up to the spot where the ghost had been as he continued. "In any case, I better round up those ghosts, shouldn't take too long."

"Get going, I got some work to do at home... and no discharges on my bag lunches."

"I am actually fond of you eating what I cook when you come around." Valerie rolled her eyes in the suit to Talia's muse as the team hunted the ghosts down...


The following day had the team walking the way through an ongoing carnival at dusk. "And because of some stupid shadow, we had to spend another night rounding up the same ghosts again!"

"Still, a ghost biker with a sentient shadow..." Talia hummed with finger to her jaw as Sam asked Tucker for support.

"Maybe you could do a web search on shadow ghosts on your PDA." The tech guy made to do so before the device was snatched out of his hands and flaunted by Kwan as he teased Tucker.

"Check me out! I'm Tucker Foley, styling large with the latest in techno-geek fashion!"

"Dude, you do that a little too well." Dash pointed out from his position beside Kwan as the jock peered at the device before he yelped in fear and made a book for it, swiftly dropping the PDA into Tucker's hands.

"Techno-geek is contagious!" After a moment of surprise, Tucker frowned with him looking at the device before he shouted angrily.

"Alright, that's it!" He slapped the PDA into Sam's hand, knocking the popcorn that she was eating out of her hands as he continued. "Here, you take it, I'm sick of being labelled! By the end of the day, nobody's gonna call Tucker Foley techno-geek anymore!" He stormed off with the four following for company, Valerie messaging that she had a larger stack than expected, as they pass the older Fenton.

Jazz was close by, but she was trying to psychoanalyze the pictures of clowns that she found as she spoke. "Sure, he's smiling on the outside, but I can sense the tortured soul just below the surface."

"No, he's smiling on the inside too." The artist clown replied with a belch while, on the power lines up above, the punk ghost drove on as he pointed the ring to Jazz as he exclaimed.

"There, that's her! The kid of that big, fat idiot who fried your body."

"Hmmm, she'll do for now." He drove on before grinning to a parked truck and commanded.

"Shadow, truck!" The blob fired expanded into the ghost as the five passed the truck as Tucker TRIED to think of other ways to be recognized from being a techno-geek.

"Maybe I could be the funny guy or the smooth guy..." He continued his thoughts as he passed under a ladder and continued, heedless of what he just did. "...Or maybe..." He was cut short with ramming into a fist, wincing back to Dash's smirk and Kwan's exclaim.

"Check it out! He just walked under a ladder, into your fist!"

"Hey, maybe we should call him Bad Luck Tuck." Cedric raised a brow to the two jocks ready to pummel Tucker as the geek exclaimed in surprise before anger.

"What? No! I am not bad luck!" He backed up to the truck, heedless of what just entered it as the creature looked around before snatching the parking gear and ripping it off as Danny exclaimed himself.

"No, but I think I know what is." Tucker barely tapped the truck before it ran away, now free from parking as Danny exclaimed to the barreling vehicle. "Oh great! More bad luck!" His eyes flashed before he headed off to change. The truck busted the roller-coaster supports and launched one of the rides off the track, but Phantom was on the scene as he soared over, saving a plump guy who saved the two kids in front of him, the last kid ended up falling into the ball pit with relative safety before another scream rang out and Danny exclaimed. "Jazz!"

The ride was on a crash course with her, paralyzed in place at the incoming projectile before a chopper roared past, its rider snatching Jazz before the cart slammed into the fence and the guy came to a stop as Jazz spoke in surprise to the smiling biker.

"I... you..." She paused before smiling, thankful for the save as the guy smiled back as Danny rushed over as Fenton, the party joining as well.

"Jazz, are you alright?" Jazz got off the bike as she started to explain with frazzled hair.

"I'm fine, thanks to..." The rider gave his name as a moment of surprise and smile back.

"Johnny. The name's Johnny." Jazz blinked back as Johnny whispered at Danny as Talia narrowed her brow, Cedric noticing and nodding. "Shouldn't you be somewhere else?"

"No, got no cats to save, just got a biker on my hands." The pair looked ready to duke it out before Jazz intervened.

"Danny! Don't be rude!" Danny lowered his fists, but not his frown as Jazz shook Johnny's hand to the biker's surprise, not realizing that he was cold for some reason. "Hi. I'm Jasmine. Jazz." She glanced down before giving a disgusted sound as she took in her look in the handlebar mirror. "Wow! I look like I was almost run over by a roller-coaster." Johnny spoke again as he tried to be smooth.

"We..." He stopped before rephrasing as he glanced about before back to Jazz. "...Excuse me, I mean, I... think you look perfect, Kitten, but here..." He dug into his jacket before pulling out a green thing that quickly formed into a purple scarf and continued. "I bet you'd look great in this." Jazz took it in hand as both Fentons spoke, Jazz a bit pleased for the comment while Danny was defensive.

"Her/My name's not Kitten." She put it on and Talia looked ready to hurt someone when Jazz glanced to Danny suddenly before elbowing him as she swooned over Johnny. "But you can call me that if you want."

"Ride home, Kitten?" Without another word and excited, Jazz jumped on and put the spare helmet on before Johnny left the trio there in the dust as Danny growled.

"I am going to kill that guy."

"Best you do..." Talia hissed before running a hand over her face before continuing to explain it to both of them while Tucker was being 'praised' as Bad Luck Tuck and Sam's assurance in vain of him not being called techno-geek anymore. "That was Johnny Thirteen, a ghost whose own powers reside with his aid Shadow, bad luck is but one part of their strength."

"But there is more, correct?" Cedric asked as he crossed his arms as the three headed out, sending a text to Danny's two friends to head out soon.

"Johnny is a daredevil and a flirt, but he is balanced out by Kitty, his girlfriend, and that scarf is hers..." Cedric hummed as he spoke to the pair of them.

"Then we need to find out what has happened and I think we can start the search in the same place..."


Danny headed out with his two helping hands to see Johnny's bike in front of Fentonworks as he exclaimed. "He's here!? Oh, man, this can't be good." Inside, Johnny and Jazz conversed like old buddies as she asked.

"You do have a last name, right?"

"Yeah, but everybody calls me Johnny Thirteen, I kind of got this reputation for being... unlucky." Johnny answered as Jazz aided the part.

"Well, you were pretty lucky for me." Somehow, Johnny pulled out a red jacket as he remarked in handing it to her.

"Here, try this on." She pulled it on before getting a bit more interested in Johnny as the two made to kiss before both were interrupted by the opening and closing of the front door, Danny glaring at the pair as Johnny glared back before Cedric whistled and spoke.

"If looks could actually kill, Johnny would be eighteen under, that is a brother glare." He mused as the trio headed into the next room, waiting for Johnny's move as he turned to Jazz in asking.

"Hey, ain't you got a place in here where we can... uh, you know, be alone? Like a basement?" He asked with a smirk as Jazz replied just the same.

"As a matter of fact, I do. Come on." She took his hand and they headed down, Danny lingering before he nodded to the duo as they divided. Jazz showcased the lab while opening the Ghost Portal to Johnny's muse.

"Cool."

"No, it's not." Jazz said dismissively as she continued on. "But at least, my brother can't bug us here." That was a word too late as Jack's voice bellowed from up top, to the panic of both of them.

"Jasmine Fenton! You know you're not allowed to bring unauthorized personnel down here!" Danny smirked from his lean against the wall as both parents rushed down with Talia and Cedric on the other side as Maddie exclaimed.

"You know better!"

"You were about to let some strange punk activate the Fenton Portal?" Both Jack and Danny exclaimed before glancing at each other in surprise as Johnny defended himself.

"Hey, lay off! We weren't doing nothing, pops!"

"His name isn't pops!" Maddie and Danny exclaimed before giving each other a glance in confusion before Johnny continued.

"Yeah, whatever!" Johnny headed off as he remarked. "This place was getting a little too cramp for my style anyway." He headed up the stairs as Jazz called out.

"I'll walk you out, Johnny." She paused to scold Danny. "...And could you be any more like them?" She rushed out before the trio shouted to the top of the stairs.

"I AM NOT LIKE HIM!"

"This is awkward." Danny spoke as Maddie rolled her eyes before the parents turned to Talia as both asked.

"And who are you?"

"Talia... Talia Rahmat, I am Cedric's girlfriend..."

"And I am authorized to involve her, I am not like Johnny, okay?" Both looked at each other before Maddie sighed and spoke as she headed upstairs.

"Just don't stay too long, Jazz should know better before inviting someone down here." She headed up as Jack turned to Danny as he asked.

"What is this about, Danny?"

"We are looking into something that Johnny is up to, and it has something to do with the Portal." The four turned to the swirling green before Jack headed over to the terminal and checked it with Cedric helping as Talia and Danny stared for any more ghosts to surge out.

"I am running the scans, but I am not seeing..." Jack paused before he looked at something out of place. "Hold the fudge, there is a faint trace of ectoplasmal energy emitting from the Portal, that shouldn't be possible."

"What does it mean, Sir?"

"It means that somehow, a ghost got trapped in the portal itself..."

"Trapped...?" Danny turned as he asked. "You mean like..."

"A sub-particle, dimensional portal reversal?" Both Fentons spoke in confusion before glancing at each other again before Jack remarked. "Okay... that is really spooky..."

"What does that entail, exactly, Mr. Fenton?" Talia asked as Jack went back and explained it.

"It means that, during one of the brief closing of one of the portals, either on our side or the Ghost Zone, a ghost got either reckless or cocky and ended up getting electrocuted as a result." Jack brought up a display and pointed it out as he looked to the trio with him. "Fragments of the ghost are scattered across the portal matrix and it will be impossible to pull the ghost out or force it back into the Zone without it shattering to pieces for a short time, the reason why it hasn't gone fully back into the Zone is because its energies seem to either be leaking or..."

"...Be objects to use in our world..." Danny growled as he realized the meaning. "That guy... I am going to..."

"Hold up, Danny." Cedric stopped Danny short with an Exorcist grab, Jack awed by the sight of an ecto-plasmal armor emerging from the bracer. "We can't be sure, we need to run a bit more of a search before we can call it." He glanced over to Jack as he spoke with Talia by his side. "Sir, could we isolate the reading enough to get a form out of the ghost briefly on our side?"

"It will take time..." The man rubbed his jaw before he smiled. "...But give me a ice cream tub of fudge and my tools and I can get that reading out." They nodded as they headed up to rest, Jack smiling as he had a new project than just the Fenton Scanner...


The next day during school lunch, Danny explained the issue with Johnny and what happened at his house. "The weirdest part was that me and my parents were actually on the same page. I'm not like them..." He paused before asking about it. "...Am I?" Sam had an answer to that as she started, not aware of what the trio were doing with Jack to find out more about Johnny's plan.

"Let's see... You're stubborn, overprotective, your last name's Fenton, AND you hunt ghosts." Tucker just had to add to it as he spoke.

"The only thing you're missing is the hazmat suit and the wonder get." They soon took a seat at one of the tables where two other students were sitting before they exclaimed in terror.

"It's Bad Luck Tuck! Yo, we out!" The pair headed off as Johnny's little partner phased out of the shadows and opened its mouth in glee, surging over to the geek as Tucker exclaimed with raised spoon.

"I am not bad luck!" Shadow struck the extended hand, launching the spoon into a beehive up above and Cedric sighed as the bees stirred to the attacking utensil.

"Oh no... bees." The armor covered him as Talia went intangible with Danny grabbing Sam and doing the same as the school yard went into panic at the swarm of bees that burst from the hive and attacked everyone there, including Tucker.

The whole thing, just as quickly, was settled as several teachers came out and started what they could to drive the bugs away and apply the needed treatment for everyone attacked, including Tucker who was given the stink eye big time as he mused. "Suddenly, Techno-geek sounds like a term of endearment." At the same time, Jazz found her 'boyfriend' waiting on her as she asked.

"Hey, Johnny. What are you doing here?"

"What can I say, doll?" He mused over the thought. "No matter how hard I try, I can't stay away." The five of them headed down the street after the break before both Talia and Danny's ghost senses went off as both watched as Johnny rode with Jazz on his bike before both exclaimed in disbelief.

"Darn it, Jazz!" Danny took off after Johnny as Talia just watched him go Phantom before she shrugged and just followed Cedric along the way.

Danny pursued the pair up the mountain trail, but his presence was not so concealed as Shadow took to the air and Danny yielded to keeping Amity safe by dealing with the ghost over protecting his sister as the pair made it to the top and Johnny spoke again to her. "Jazz, I've been thinking and I know this is kind of quick, but..." He reached into his pocket before continuing. "How'd you like to be my girl?" He showed the same ring he had to Jazz who was in awe of it while Danny was fighting Shadow, blasting a ray which did blast through, but the shadow ghost just reformed as Danny exclaimed.

"Suffering spooks!" He repeated in terror as he jumped the gun. "Suffering spooks? Oh man, I am becoming my dad!" He screeched in shock at that fact, dropping his guard and letting the shadow consume him, trapping him in its body as he suddenly found himself in a struggling battle for freedom as he exclaimed once more, focusing on the fight now.

"Gotta break away from this thing." He gathered his power into his hands, charging a pair of ectoblasts to the thing's surprise before blasting, scattering it apart before it reformed away from him, glancing at his hands before he wheeled about to the clear stun the thing just faced. "Okay... so bright lights weaken it... Need some bright light." His eyes fell on a cinema down below before he smiled. "Oh yeah, that'll do." Down in the MoviePlex, Sam and Tucker were getting popcorn before the employee exclaimed with the tub of popcorn.

"One super large popcorn... I know you, you're Bad Luck Tuck!"

"And you're Minimum Wage Stan! But you don't see me broadcasting it." Tucker retorted as he snatched the popcorn from the terrified employee as Sam joined in.

"Hey, this is your fault for ditching the techno-geek label, maybe you need a new-new thing."

"A new-new thing?" Tucker narrowed his brow to the suggestion as Sam continued.

"Yeah! You should go Goth." He was not convinced, but Sam just pitched the idea. "Look, it says 'I'm Tucker, but I'm also edgy and dangerous'."

"Why the heck would I want to go Goth? Isn't that your thing?" Anymore was lost when Danny and Shadow flew into the cinema, going through the popcorn machine and causing it to erupt with popcorn in a total flood before the two emerged and he grumbled.

"You win, Goth me up." Sam took off the red beret and replaced with the black beret that she had pulled out to convince him, she pleased and he dismayed while Danny 'peered' about for his chasing foe, back turned to the thing getting close to trap him again, but it was in the trap when the projector started a movie, blasting the ghost with a bright light as Danny commented with a smile.

"Smile for the camera!" Shadow fragmented completely as Danny took flight over to the resting pair on the motorcycle as Johnny gave Jazz some time to 'think it over' before Shadow returned, beaten and battered to Johnny's mild concern before glee to the ring that briefly reflected Kitty before he spoke.

"So, Jazz, what do you say?"

"A ring? You want to go steady? That is so old school..." Danny arrived with perching on the branch overhead as he mused for something to break it up.

"I gotta do something." Suddenly, he grinned as Jazz moved to take the ring, he leapt out of the tree, changing back and belly flopping on the ground, surprising them as they gave shocked looks at him as he remarked. "Hi ya! Not interrupting anything, am I?" Johnny was one of utter loss, he was so close, but Jazz was fury as she stomped over to Danny and plucked him up as she hissed.

"Are you spying on us...?"


"Were you spying on them?" Maddie's words came as Jack and her scolded Danny for 'butting in' on Jazz and Johnny as the two glared at him just the same, well, Jazz was, Johnny was just bitter about the interruption.

Danny confessed as he spoke in reply. "Alright! Alright! I was spying on Jazz!" He answered to the hardened look of his parents as he continued. "And I'm really..." The two leaned in as Jack spoke in please.

"Good job." The titan whispered as Maddie joined in.

"Yeah, way to go, Danny." She continued as she explained. "And if you see Jazz with that hooligan again, you let us know." Danny was confused before the pair smiled to him before looking up to Jazz and Johnny smiling to the other before glancing at them, he driving off and Jazz turned to them as both shouted for believable evidence.

"AND DON'T DO IT AGAIN!" Before Jack leaned in with a whisper.

"But seriously, feel free to do it again." Danny was still at a loss, making a bluff was not his forte as they headed in, Jack glancing behind before he whispered once more. "I got something, your two friends of Cedric and his girlfriend just got here after some bees and we think we got something from the Portal." Danny nodded as they headed down and stopped before the Portal, Cedric on the ready as he was typing away with Talia nodding and keeping the connection stable as Danny spoke.

"So what are we..."

"LET ME OUT!" Danny and Jack jumped back as a pair of feminine hands seemed to slam into the portal, like it was a window, red eyes glaring back with frizzled green hair and the look of a bad girl, Jack composing himself as he cleared his throat.

"No can do, Missy, we're lucky that we were even able to format the Portal's frequency enough to get you to even appear, a ghost fragmented by the Portal making an appearance is not an easy task to even accomplish."

"And lucky we are, Mr. Fenton." Cedric answered as he went over the data and continued. "The Portal Matrix is a fickle thing to manifest, any calculations done wrong and you can kiss a city-wide blackout hello, at best..." Cedric continued as he trifled through the data-stream with such skill to the ghost's continued attempt of escape. "...However, this could be a problem, due to the ghost being trapped in the portal, it seems to be cycling more and more protoplasm out, it could be drawing from the items or the ghost herself, this could feedback badly."

"A actual ectoplasmic portal conversation?" Both hands on the data paused as they gazed over to the pair of male Fentons that had SAID the same thing at the same time, glancing at the two before Talia spoke.

"Okay, I can actually see the spook factor, that was scary, both of you." They turned back as both just shrugged and the ghost face-palmed in her glitching form. "Both of us will be TRYING to pull Kitty from the portal as best as we can, but that will involve an all-nighter, you do mind if we stay a bit, Mr. Fenton?"

"But of course, anything you need, I will be right there." Cedric nodded as Danny sighed, heading upstairs for the next day of school...


Danny grumbled a bit as he explained it to Sam, Tucker nowhere in sight for the longest time as they left the school. "This stinks! My sister is dating a ghost, I'm turning into my parents, and I have no clue what Cedric and his girlfriend are going to be doing, I couldn't even get down into the lab for their project." He huffed as he continued. "Could this get any crazier?"

"Hey guys." Danny paused as Sam just smiled at the spiky-haired, Gothic dressed Tucker, Danny finding his words again after a matter of confusion.

"What the heck are you turning into?" Sam answered as she walked over to the goth Tucker.

"We're changing his image."

"That's right, no more Bad Luck Tuck, I'm changing my image again." Tucker stated proudly as Danny pointed out the impossibility.

"Come on! You can't pull off Goth."

"Sure, he can." Sam stated as she continued. "Tucker, show him your disinfected scowl." Tucker pulled off a turn and frowned at Danny as Danny just returned the look with half-closed eyes before Sam huffed. "No, no, I can still see some hope." She took Tucker by the shoulders as she continued. "If you need us tonight, we'll be at Tucker's, darkening his outlook on the world." She turned back as she remarked. "Won't that be fun?"

"Yeah, we'll be at..." Tucker paused in fear as he seemingly whispered. "Wait, what are you going to be doing at Tucker's?" Danny rubbed his face as he turned and spoke to himself, certain that Tucker was going further into the dark at Sam's behest.

"It's just your friends, they'll be fine, Tucker will be back soon, but I need to check in on Cedric... I just hope that we can do something about Johnny." He headed out and got back to the house, pausing to make sure Johnny was nowhere in sight before going in and heading on down, pausing at the scene before him. The Portal was closed, but Cedric was sleeping at one of the tables, a PDA displaying 'COMPLETE' on it while Talia was resting in his lap, head on his shoulder with a hand to the chest. "O~k, not what I was really expecting from them."

He walked over and took the PDA in hand before looking it over. "What exactly did he do... with Talia's help?" He tried to get into the PDA, but it was encoded and Danny hummed before he turned to Cedric and shook him, stirring Talia as well as they groggily roused themselves and looked to Danny.

"Oh... Daniel... Is it already time...?" Talia yawned with a stretch as she walked around while Cedric hummed with the PDA in hand and looking it over before he nodded.

"We're good to go... we just need a Fenton to open the Portal..." Cedric yawned before he continued. "...And one of Kitty's items, that should be enough to pull her out of the Zone."

"Well, Jazz is protective of the scarf and jacket, she never lets them go, so the only piece that I could use would be..." Danny stopped and smiled as he looked to his friends. "...I got an idea, it's going to be a sleight of hand moment."

"Oh... this we need to hear..."

"What are you thinking, Danny?" Danny then whispered the idea and the duo accepted it as they watched him go back up and looked to each other before settling in a better place and snuggling on a beanbag there...


Jazz was furious at how her parents just forbid Johnny from coming and how Danny was just being nosy, but a piece of her mind seemed to be in riot, why...? Her anger left as she beamed to Johnny standing down below with a smile as she spoke. "Johnny, hi."

"Hey, Kitten. This a good time?" He asked as Jazz confirmed it.

"Yep, my parents are asleep, wanna come up and listen to some CD's or something?"

"Yeah... CD's." The pair snuck past the sleeping parents with Johnny's hidden smile as they entered the lab and stood next to the Portal as Johnny tried once more to pull Jazz in. "So, what do you say, kiddo? Wanna be my girl?" Jazz looked ready to accept as the ring was nearly on before a voice spoke.

"She's not anybody's girl!" Danny stepped out of the shadows of the stairway to the pair's surprise before both yelled at him.

"STOP SPYING ON US!"

"No, I won't, anymore you would if it were me!" He closed the gap, thankful to slightly hear the shift in the back, as he gripped Jazz's arms. "Come on, Jazz!" The jacket and scarf slightly slipped off and Jazz started to look dazed as Danny pushed it. "Think like the brain surgeon you keep telling us you're gonna be!" He gestured to Johnny as he continued. "...Does this seem right?"

Johnny glanced to the ring as its counterpart spoke up. "What's taking so long? Johnny, get me out of here!" Johnny scowled as he tossed the ring up and pocketed it as he stomped over to snatch Danny as the younger brother spoke.

"Don't you think I'm doing this because I have a reason?" Anymore was lost as Johnny grabbed Danny and pulled him close, releasing Jazz who was feeling dazed as the two scowled at the other as Johnny huffed.

"You know what, punk?" The scarf and jacket fell and Jazz came out of it with a muttered 'Danny?' as Johnny continued. "We've had just about enough of you!" He raised his fist just as Jazz realized what was happening now.

"Hey! Hands off the little brother!" Johnny frowned as he huffed.

"Ah, whatever!" Johnny tossed Danny toward a cabinet as he rolled in the air, slamming into the metal container with both feet as he spoke. "Then we do this the hard way..." He glanced down with a command, his ghost aura apparent now. "Shadow, shelf!" The ghost grinned in emerging as it lunged for the container, toppling it over Danny as Jazz called out.

"Danny!" Johnny saw his moment to get Kitty out, but paused in surprise, his pocket coming out empty.

"Where did...?"

"Hey, Thirteen and Shadow." Danny answered as he had rolled out of the shelf's path, in hand was the ring to which Johnny was surprised. "I am a punk, a punk invested in his family, and you may have crossed the line..." He smiled as he stood up, the ghost between him and Jazz. "...But, we were willing to help above all..." He glanced to the side as he shouted. "Cedric, CATCH!" He tossed the ring as Johnny shouted.

"Shadow, Fetch!" The ghost whizzed for it as Cedric called out.

"Talia, turn up the lights!" Both jumped out, the ring flying into Cedric's hand as Talia's hands glowed before she swept out, the floor flashing alive in light as Shadow howled to Johnny's panic.

"What!? NO! My powers!" He was tackled to the ground by Danny who had turned into Phantom with ectoblast in hand, Jazz ready to attack as well, but Talia shook her head as she slid over between them as the punk huffed in anger. "You were playing me...!"

"No, I would have been too late to even stop you, Johnny, but Cedric is a mind in of himself." Cedric brought up the PDA and contained the ring inside a blue orb before he shouted.

"Jazz, the Portal!" The older sibling was confused, but did so anyway, the green flaring back, both ghosts surprised as Cedric worked it, the device going into the DNA scanner as he typed away. "We only have one shot at pulling her fully out, keep them on lock-down!"

"Will do!" Johnny tried his best to escape, but the vice-grip kept him down while the light tiles kept Shadow away, but both were tiring out before Johnny gave Danny the boot, launching him into Talia as he commanded, both freed from the movement.

"Shadow, Ring!" The spirit shook its head and charged, Cedric glancing for a second before rolling out of the way, the spirit ripping through the console and snatching the ring as he exclaimed. "Got it!"

"You idiot!" Cedric shouted as the armor formed around him. "Don't you realize what you have just done!?"

"Getting my girl's ring back and gonna teach you punks a lesson." He was not expecting the metal fist to impact and knock him back as Cedric continued.

"Moron! Without the console and the program to boot, you just cut the link permanently, you just forcibly shoved Kitty back into the Ghost Zone with only twenty-five percent of her power!"

"What!?"

"Johnny...?" Kitty reached out beyond the veil before the doors slammed shut, Shadow screeching as Johnny punched the door in failure, he crumpling to the ground as Cedric stood there, Talia and Danny joining him as she spoke.

"...We can't let her suffer for this..."

"I'm suppose to be a hero, and, though I dislike him, I have no reason to leave his girlfriend in pain." Cedric gripped his fist before he spoke.

"Danny, lock your parents in their room, we are taking the Specter Speeder into the Zone, we are getting Kitty back." He nodded and flew off, explaining the situation to Jack who quickly woke up, Maddie still out somehow, as Cedric pulled up Tucker and Sam as he spoke. "I need... yikes, never mind, you look terrible as a Goth, Tucker, but this is fine." He walked over to the Specter Speeder as Jazz was just lost, Johnny looked just as confused with regret in his soul. "I need you two to be prepared, we'll be having some ghostly company soon and the more people the better, in case something goes wrong."

"Where do you want us?"

"The baseball field, just in case." The call cut and Cedric stomped over to Johnny before plucking him up from the ground. "I don't need to make it worse, but if we don't get her back with stuff on her, she will fragment and it will take a month for her to come back, now you will rein in your shadow, you will take the stuff back, and you will heed my words."

"Yeah... what are you going to do if I don't, punk!?"

"Do you want Kitty back or not!?" That snapped him out of it as Danny returned.

"We got clearance!"

"Good, now we go hunting. We have a limited window, so we need to make it count."

"Alright, alright... I care more for Kitty than this scheme..." Johnny looked up to the confused Shadow. "Shadow, return!" The ghost did so, entering Johnny's body, and Johnny flew out of Cedric's grip, only to return with his bike. "So, how are we going to get the portal open now?"

"The Speeder will do that for us." The trio jumped in and powered the Speeder up as Jazz, after a moment, climbed abroad as well and the ship rocketed into the Zone, Johnny close behind as Cedric brought up a display. "Her energy is weak, but we can get to her in time... and fast!"

"What's wrong, Exorcist!?"

"I got readings of several recognized goons, Walker's men are closing in on Kitty."

"Walker!? They're closing on my girl!? I don't think so!" Johnny revved away as the four looked to the trail with the Speeder following.

"Bad boyfriend material for you, Jazz, but he clearly got his motives straight."

"He saved me... though I should have questioned the whole thing, but it's just a blur after the jacket came on."

"Let's just save Kitty from Walker before that bitter ghost hauls her to prison."

"That we can do..." They flew on and Jazz took the helm, having gotten a crash course in driving the machine while Talia, Danny, and Cedric leapt out of the ship and charged, the goons quickly overpowered as they plowed through them and quickly rescued Kitty who was looking worse for wear as she was brought abroad the Speeder and stabilized partially before the mess was cleaned up and they headed back in as Johnny exclaimed.

"What are we going to do, I messed up and now she's..."

"Her core is... drawing on something else..." Cedric hummed before he went through it and stabilized her further to everyone's surprise as he nodded, the glitching form fading to a slow breathing. "She's in the clear, but her ghost core has experienced a trans-core mutation, it has shifted elemental properties on us."

Johnny dropped backward with Shadow resting with a sadden look. "That was..." He groaned as he clapped his face. "This is my fault, if I hadn't be so eager to just ride around town with my girl, I won't have gotten her caught up in the Portal, she wouldn't have been trapped there in the first place, and I wouldn't have almost lost her to Walker in such a low."

"Yeah, you didn't think it through, but I almost never think things through, I would have been headstrong about this stuff if I never had Cedric with me, but we need a cover and you just going away won't do for my parents... so..."

"So Johnny..." Cedric huffed as Johnny looked and eyes widened to the fist forming in Danny's hand. "I wouldn't clench my teeth..." With one solid right, Johnny was decked in the face before Danny roared in relief. Later, they all took a trip around Amity Park, as promised to Kitty by Johnny and to make up for him messing up, neither admitted it, but they owned their skin to the four's help, but there was still the room for punishment as the siblings had a believable story...


"I can't believe that kid broke into the house just to see you..." Maddie answered to the story as Jazz looked down while Danny and Jack were seated at the table. "It's so romantic... But you still can't ever see him again."

"I told you that punk was no good!" Both males looked at each other before Jack smiled with a pat on the back for Danny as Jazz spoke, playing with the story.

"Yeah, yeah you did, you both did." Jazz spoke as she walked over to Danny with a rub of his head. "...But you told me first."

"Hey!"

"I love you too." Danny nodded as Jazz headed off before Jack spoke up.

"Which reminds me, Danny..." Danny jumped a bit before he turned to his dad as Jack went on. "You've been such a model son lately, I got you a little surprise, a little piece of me, you can always carry with you."

"...I don't really find that comforting for some reason..." It then came to going to school as Jack bid Danny farewell.

"Bye, Danny, have a great day!" The GAV drove off to reveal that Sam, Tucker who was back to being a techno-geek, and Danny who was in a jumpsuit four times his size and a frown on his face as Sam spoke.

"Somehow, that doesn't seem possible." Also sadly, that was the time that Dash and Kwan came over in mockery.

"Good news, Tucker, we're gonna stop making fun of you and go back to making fun of Fentonio." They did so, or Dash did so as he mocked Danny. "Whelp! Freak! Geek!"

"Hey!" Anymore was lost as Cedric called out.

"Head's up, blond star!" Dash turned, terror filling him as a football went straight into him, knocking him down and Kwan looked uneasy as Cedric and Talia approached. "Do you want a ball as well, Kwan?" The football player shook his head as Cedric spoke. "Then scram and pull Dash with you, I don't like it when the rules are cracked, clear?"

"Cry-Cry-Crystal!" Without a word, the two vanished as Danny sighed and looked to Tucker.

"I need a new image, can I borrow some of your tech?"

"Get your own thing, man!" Danny sighed for the time of his school life of mockery, but he didn't worry too much, Jack did want to give Danny a new jumpsuit in his size, but it was something set on fire, he had to wait weeks for a new human hazmat suit...