The chaos of the Ghost Zone was rampant, or rather calming down as Walker brought down his 'order' on those that have escaped his prison, but were finally getting rounded up as one inmate shouted to the trio of pursuing guards, one being Walker's second-hand of Bullet. "You'll never take me alive, coppers!"
"You're a ghost." Bullet answered in exhaust as the prisoner tried once more.
"Well, you'll still never take me!" That bluff was in vain as the criminal was captured in a net as Bullet made his report on a wrist comm, the pair of guards smirking with their catch.
"That's the last one, Walker. All the escaped prisoners have been rounded up."
Back at the prison, Walker replied into his radio. "All but one..." He turned around to an isolation cell, dour guards in front of it, as Walker spoke to its resident. "...Which brings us to you, Wulf." Walker answered with disdain as a reluctant guard opened the cell with a lever, what stood on the other side was a bipedal canine of black fur and green attire, leaping over the five before the claws extended out, it slashing the air to create something as one of the guards yelled.
"He's tearing a hole out of our dimension! He's gonna escape!"
"No, he's not. That would be against the rules." Walker pressed a button that was on his wrist and before Wulf could walk through, he was electrocuted and fling back as the portal that lead into Amity Park wavered before fading away to Walker's muse. "That's a nifty little power you have, Wulf. The ability to claw into the real world at will. It's one of the reasons I need you." The creature got back up as Walker continued his spiel. "You want that collar off, don't you?" The beast gripped at the silvery gadget around its neck as it glared at Walker as Walker pressed on. "I have one more perp to catch." He pulled out a mugshot of Danny Phantom in the prison attire. "Half kid, half ghost." Wulf sniffed it before inquiring, its language being Esperanto.
"Vi deziri detrui lin?"
"Destroy him? No." Walker answered as he stepped away to explain it to the confused wolf ghost. "I want revenge. And I need him alive for that. And since this 'Danny Phantom' set my prisoners free, I wanna turn his world into the prison he escaped. Take my crew. Cause as much havoc as you can and sniff this kid out for me." The guards beamed to the suggestion as Wulf was still puzzled on it as Walker turned back to Wulf with a frown that slipped to a smile. "And you'll be free of me forever. Do we have a deal?" Wulf, finally getting the chance, beamed back as the canine did exactly as Walker required and that was to get the crew into the Real World and terrorize the place as voices cried out.
"Ghost!" Hordes of ghosts tore through Amity Park, none knowing where they were coming from, the people ran for it in panic and terror, the team glancing at the whole mass and the mess being made.
"Oh man! I've never seen this many ghosts attacking at once!" Sam exclaimed as Cedric joined in with surprise himself.
"I have heard of incursions, but this is an exodus of spirits!"
"Where are they all coming from!?" Talia added as Danny lifted up the Fenton Thermos, upgraded, but may not be enough.
"I'm gonna need a bigger Thermos!" He was tackled by an attacking specter as Tucker gasped.
"And a paramedic!" The team could only partially jump into the fray as they were able to deal with individual ghosts, not a horde of ghosts on the rampage...
The following day was no better as the students watched the latest development on a TV screen as the new reporter made the report of the new program going on. "This was the scene at Amity Park last night as ghosts - that's right, ghosts - caused hundreds of thousands in damage. I'm Shelli Rakimata, and this is Ghost Watch. Day 2." The TV was shut off as the Mayor of Amity made a speech.
"Now, I know you kids are scared because ghosts are scary, scary things,..." The students really didn't seem terrified as the mayor continued. "...but I came to your school, not because this is a great photo opportunity,..." He paused with a turn and a smile for the cameras to flash on him. "...but because you children are our future... voters." He laughed as if it was funny in the first place with more photos, Tucker and Danny glancing to each other briefly as the Mayor continued. "And now, I'd like to turn this over to Principal Ishiyama, who's here to inform you of some exciting rules and restrictions."
"This is going to end badly." Danny grimaced as Talia joined in the chat.
"Daniel, it is just them trying to limit our interactions with those ghosts... they were familiar, though..." She shook her head as Ishiyama took to the stage. "Besides, we know that Ishiyama is Kwan's mother, so we need to give her a chance." That was a tidbit that not many people actually knew, that Kwan is Ishiyama's son and he is better than Dash because she seems to know when he is really causing mischief and confront him later about it, Valerie nodding as well with the trio as Cedric racked his mind for the similar appearance of the ghosts as the principal started.
"Due to the continuing and escalating ghost threat, here's the way we're going to limit your freedom: One, students are to have no contact with these spirits." Lancer joined her on stage for the rules as the first rule was apparent for MOST people, no one wanted to be dealing with ghosts right now. "Two, all students will be escorted directly to their homes after school." An escort was kind of a fool idea, they wouldn't even have anything to keep the students safe from the ghost as Ishiyama took on a serious face. "And three, by order of the Mayor's new security advisor, a nine o'clock curfew."
Sam exclaimed in hushed disbelief. "A curfew!?"
"An escort!?" Tucker pondered the same before Danny asked the big question of who could be behind that.
"OK, who's the idiot security advisor that came up with those lame ideas?" His eyes glanced to the door as it slammed open with the appearance of two familiar people, his parents who were decked out in ghost weaponry as Cedric answered his question.
"Does that answer your question nicely?" Danny nodded as Jack shouted with a megaphone.
"Fear not, young ones. We're here to make sure this school is prepared for any ghost emergency." Maddie strode forward with a megaphone herself.
"You must be cautious. At any time one of these ectoplasmic malefactors-" She paused when she spotted Danny and greeted him while still on the megaphone. "Hi, sweetie!" She went back to warning as Danny just flushed red. "-could appear out of nowhere." Danny huffed as he asked.
"Time to sit in the back where nobody can notice us?"
"Time to sit in the back where nobody can notice us." Valerie, Cedric, and Talia glanced at each other as Jazz watched the trio do just that before the four spoke to each other.
"Wow, I get that the Fentons want to keep us safe, but there is a time and place to be greeting your kid."
"Danny is Mom's favorite, she has a soft spot for him ever since he was a kid." Jazz answered as it fell into a short discussion of equipment.
"Okay, pushing the notion of overeager and common-sense lacking parents here, we need to figure out what is going on and what those ghosts want."
"Indeed, I know them from somewhere, but I can't quite recall, and how did they get into Amity Park, the Portal should have been closed in the first place." Heedless to them, a tear was made backstage before a wolf head emerged and sniffed the air before pulling back to Walker, Wulf pointing into the tear it had made as Walker confirmed.
"Alright, Wulf. You know what to do. Sniff out the people he's been in contact with." Wulf jumped through as Bullet came up and continued the thought that Walker left out.
"While we take over everybody Wulf sniffs out." Walker smiled at the plan, but took on a serious look to mean business about the overshadowing.
"I don't care if he knows Wulf is there, but the rest of you, I want hidden." They quickly passed through the portal before it closed while, Danny and his friends sat in the back before his ghost sense went off, Talia's as well as he grimaced once more.
"Oh no. You have got to be kidding me. Here? Now?" Without warning, a large canine ghost landed on the stage and sent everyone into a panic as he howled and jumped away in search for Danny, the confusion giving Walker and his goons a chance to overshadow Ishiyama, first to be sniffed out, and the trio of popular kids of Kwan, Paulina, and Dash as the crowd hurried outside, Sam and Tucker pausing as Sam inquired.
"Where's Danny?"
"I think he's trying to go ghost, but there are too many people around." Tucker explained as Danny was hiding out, Valerie had given him a brief salute as she joined the crowd, nothing she could do as the Huntress without causing more problems, and Cedric and Talia were not so able to either as the number of people just could break the moment and give them away as Danny's sense went into overdrive.
"There's so many ghosts in here, my ghost sense is going crazy." Before he could figure it out, he was grabbed by the face and slammed into the floor, the canine ghost looming over him with a single word.
"Servia!" Danny KNEW that was not English whatsoever just as someone 'saved' him.
"Get away from him!" The ghost was knocked into the wall with a minor wound as Jack remarked with a bit of dismay at the marksmanship that Maddie displayed.
"Hey, I wanted to do that! When did you learn to shoot that good?"
"What, you think I sit home and invent new cookies all day?" Danny sweat-dropped on the notion of 'inventing' cookies as Jack pleaded.
"Speaking of which, can I have another one of those butterscotch caramel hipple doodles?" She did so, while the ghost glanced behind the crowd to the mono-eyed, devil-tailed enforcer and two of the swats hovering behind the crowd, the panic still apparent for no one to notice them, so the wolf turned intangible and leapt through the wall as the enforcer called out.
"He's making a break for it!" The ghosts took flight after the escaping spirit while Walker, in Dash's body, mused on the possibility of the two hunters in front of him.
"I wanna keep an eye on these two. They may be of use to us." Jack made a break to chase, but he slammed into the door as Maddie opened it with a pull. "Well, SHE might." Danny made a glance outside the auditorium to catch a glimpse of the ghost that pinned him, looking scared as it ran for it again, he going to go after it, but slammed into Lancer who exclaimed in terror, having only gotten out to evade the initial attack.
"Bridget Jones' diary, Fenton! Stop your screaming, and get over there into the safe area!" He was pushed back into the auditorium and the teacher closed the door, only to get overshadowed by another one of the guards as arrangements were made and the pair of Fentons walked home as Jazz spoke to Danny about it, while ghosts flew high above Amity, the ghost sense going off often.
"All I'm saying is mom and dad are gonna be very busy, and I have a lot of homework to do, so I'm not gonna be able to keep an eye on you all night. I'm going to have to trust you to stay in your room and be so quiet, it's like you're not even there." Danny breathed as he pointed out.
"I know, you know, so what are you getting at really, Jazz?"
"I'm just saying that... if you were to go after these ghosts, you know to make sure that Mom and Dad don't catch on for now."
"I have to tell them sometime, but I first need to figure out what is even going on." They walked into the house to be shocked as Jack announced the 'first ghost group' in Amity Park.
"The first official after school meeting of the Amity Park Ghostkateers is now in session." It was never good that the members were Jack Fenton, Maddie Fenton, Dash Baxter, Paulina Sanchez, and Kwan Ishiyama. Danny's sense kicking in again as a ghost flew past, but Jack was more focused on 'dubbing' the members. "I dub thee Ghostkateer number one." The look that Dash gave was... unsettling, like he was peering into his soul, Dash normally doesn't have that type of glance to him or that evil smile as Danny made to dismiss himself away.
"Um if you need me, I'll be in my room being so quiet, it's like I'm not even there."
"Come on, Danny. Join us in singing our Ghost-kateer battle song." And then, the two broke into song which was even more unsettling as Danny KNEW that it was never made beforehand as Danny and Jazz quickly got to their rooms and pondered what else could be done right now, but one thing was sure, they were not planning anything in the Fenton household as of right now. The following day still had the pair on protection duty as Maddie called out to the students, unaware of the ghostly watch being given. "Alright, kids. Hurry up and eat your nutritious meals." She paused as Danny and his friends arrived. "Hi sweetie! Here's a nutritious bagged lunch." The bag on hand was handed to Danny as Maddie called out once more. "Jack, hit it!"
The GAV arrived and activated a shield surrounding the lunch area as Jack jumped out as he exclaimed. "This portable ghost shield only has enough power for fifteen minutes, so chew! Chew like the wind!" The six friends bantered as it was clear that Danny was in panic mode to which Sam asked to the dwindling sandwich.
"Danny, you okay?"
"Why would I not be?" He answered with sarcasm as he put the sandwich down and dove into the yogurt. "Just because the town's on high alert and my parents are at my school?" He ate so fast that he suddenly gripped his throat with a moan. "And I'm chewing so fast, I think I just swallowed my spork." The five watched as Danny phased his hand through his stomach and pulled out the spork. "There we go. All I know is as soon as I get five free minutes, I'm gonna toss that blabbering hairball that started this back into the ghost zone!"
"I SAID KEEP CHEWING!" They did so to Jack's shout before Tucker cut in with his own input.
"I don't think it was blabbering. I think it was Esperanto." Both Sam and Valerie spoke at the same time in confusion as to what was just said.
"Esper-wha-wha?"
"Esperanto. An artificial language from the eighteen hundreds. Now its only purpose is to give geeks a secret language to talk to other geeks." This was displayed with another geek coming over in greeting before speaking in the language that Danny heard.
"Hey Tuck. Kiel estas ĝi iri?"
"Vi scias, same kiel ĉiam!" The geek squealed in glee as the five friends looked at Tucker as he continued. "I couldn't tell what that ghost was screaming, but he looked scared. Like he wanted help."
"But do you actually understand Esper-anto?" Valerie pointed out before Tucker thought about it before shrugging, her head hitting the table. "Just our luck, he knows how to speak it, but doesn't understand it."
"I think we can actually understand that ghost just fine, but we need the Fenton Ghost Gabber." Cedric pointed out to Danny near-exclaiming.
"O~h no, that thing will just say what I say and..." He stopped as he realized it himself. "...translate anything said by a ghost, it never clues in on humans, just ghosts and hybrids."
"So I should watch what I say around such a device?" Talia raised her brow with a smirk as the friends chuckled a bit, their ghostly watcher leaping into the closest tree to the GAV before jumping, claws extending out and performing a drill-attack, dicing through the shield that reformed before phasing into the vehicle before both ghost senses went off and Danny grimaced once more.
"Oh no. Here? Again?"
"But we're chewing like the wind inside an anti ghost zone. Where could the ghost be?" To that, the RV exploded and the party turned in surprise, the shield dropping to the destruction and blast.
"Survey says, behind us." Sam answered as the wreck fell in front of Jack and he weeped before the canine dog emerged and hovered in the air in front of everyone, all also witnessing as a electric field electrocuted the creature and it glanced back to the enforcer and two of what Danny recognized as Walker's goons as one questioned the use of a device on the enforcer's wrist.
"You're using the collar? Walker said-"
"Walker isn't here!" The ghost countered as the escapee made a break for it as the ghost shouted. "Get him!" The chase began as Danny glanced to his friends.
"If anybody asks where I am, lie." He ran for one of the trees, far from sight.
"Sure, no problem." Cedric answered as he armored up with Valerie. "Sam, Tucker, and Talia, keep a low profile, we are going to keep the bonehead out of trouble."
"You got it." The three said with thumbs up as Danny went into his catchphrase with nearing the tree.
"I'm going gho-" He stopped to find Jazz hiding as well as she exclaimed.
"Danny. Hi. Are you hiding here?" Danny gave a shocked look before he spoke.
"Actually, no. Can I change here?"
"Sure, I'll just go hide over there." She hurried off to another tree as Danny breathed and started once more.
"Okay. Now I'm going ghost." He transformed into Phantom and took flight, flying after the chasing prison gang as Jack primed something special, scoping on Danny on accident as he mused.
"One blast and you'll find yourself teleported back to that empty, little dimension you call home."
"Danny..." Jazz said to herself and, like any protective sibling, 'accidentally' knocked Jack's aim off with a apology. "Uh, oops." The shot went wide and Danny dodged it, but the two guards were not so lucky as they were hit and were tossed right back into the Zone through a vortex to Danny's exclaim.
"Whoa! Portable ghost portal? Oh great." Future thoughts tossed to the side, Danny picked up the pace as the enforcer ghost pulled out a laser gun and caught the wolf ghost by the tail, pressing the button on his wrist as Danny mused to himself. "You're big, you're hairy, and you're a ghost. But if Walker's goons are after you, you can't be all bad." He zipped past the ghost, wrapping him up with the plasmal cord that still held the wolf's tail before severing it with a ectoblast, snatching the lingering pieces with little harm to himself as he shouted. "Go, ghost stinger!" He thrusted the green energy through the violet color, electrocuting the enforcer as he faded away, Valerie snatching the gun as the two human ghost hunters landed, in case of the hound's nature as it glared at the hero as Danny spoke to get on the ghost's good side. "Friend. Uh..." He held out a hand to the creature. "Friend?" Both tensed as the thing sniffed Danny before... giving him a lick, both facepalming as Valerie spoke.
"Man's best friend once again, what is it with you and becoming friends so easily with canine ghosts?"
"If I knew that, I would be able to tell you, but my parents wouldn't even let me have a pet, let alone a hamster." The moment was ruined when Jack emerged from the bushes with a shout.
"Alright, nobody move!" The Fenton Ghost Fisher he pulled out was all tangled up as he exclaimed with a glance to them. "As soon as I get this thing untangled, you two..." He paused in confusion as he spoke again. "...four beasties are going down?" He worked to untangle it still as Danny assured the canine wolf ghost.
"Don't worry. He's not much of a threat. Now if my mom were here, then we'd be in trouble." Both armored humans paused as a targeting laser lined up on the ghost's forehead with a few more words.
"Cu vere." Danny peered to the tree where the laser was coming from before Maddie fired, the four scattering as Danny called out, Valerie and Cedric following suit in flight.
"Oh. Man. You are SO not getting anything for Mother's Day. Come on." They made their get-away as Valerie mused in surprise at the size of the crater just made.
"That... is a lot more destructive than what my weapons can do, don't they know that Danny is Phantom?"
"Honestly, Jack has an inkling from the sound of it, but never actually saw Phantom in action before and Mrs. Fenton is a different story altogether here."
"Yeah, I want to tell them fully, but I just have a pit in my stomach about it all the time... I'm afraid to tell them fully right now."
"But if Walker is making a move on Amity, then we need to be honest with our tales, it would do us little good if we don't explain things out." Cedric pointed out as they headed to Tucker's place, the meeting point for all of them. Tucker voiced his complaint about it just fine.
"I think this is a really bad idea."
"Well he can't stay at Danny's. Not with it being Ghostkateer central." Sam pointed out as the six surrounded the ghost as Danny continued, Cedric having grabbed the Ghost Gabber before anyone noticed.
"Besides, you're the only one of us who sort of understands him, and we need to get that collar off."
"Besides, you're the only one of us who sort of understands him, and we need to get that collar off. Fear me." The Gabber repeated to Danny's glare as the members seemed to be holding in chuckles, but not for long as Sam reached for the collar, only for the wolf ghost to snap at her, she getting flung back into her chair as Tucker pointed out.
"He said not to touch that."
"Really? I must have missed the subtext." Sarcasm at it's finest as Talia added to it.
"So, what are you doing to do, Daniel?"
"So, what are you doing to do, Daniel? Fear me." The Gabber spoke and Talia raised a brow before chuckling to Cedric's beaming smile as Danny huffed with an answer.
"I gotta get my Fenton Thermos out of my locker." He headed up to go through the roof and to the school. "In the meantime, see if you can find out what Walker's up to." He disappeared as the Gabber spoke.
"In the meantime, see if you can find out what Walker's up to. Fear me." Still, it was funny as Tucker turned to focus on the giant wolf creature.
"So, What's Walker up to?" Tucker tried with Esperanto. "Kio estas Walker?" To this, the wolf answered.
"Li provas meti vian amikon en malliberejo!" To this, Tucker would have laughed, not understanding a single word of what the creature said, but the Gabber saved the day.
"He is trying to put your friend in prison! Fear me." The tension built as Valerie spoke.
"Oh, that is not good at all."
"Prison, but why is Walker attacking here, he has his prison in the Zone unless..." Sam gasped as she realized the meaning. "He's trying to turn Amity Park against Danny, he's making Amity a prison for Danny!"
"That will limit Danny's actions greatly, he will be viewed in a negative filter." Cedric continued the thought before he inquired. "But where is he starting, if he was being subtle, then we need to find out where he is before he has the chance to fully see the plan through." He turned to Tucker and asked. "See if you can get a name out of our friend here and the collar itself."
"Uh, o-okay." Tucker cleared his throat and spoke. "Kio estas via nomo kaj kiu estas la celo de la kolumo?" The ghost replied just as easily, flexing its claws and gripping the collar for a moment.
"Mia nomo estas Wulf, altvalora kaptito de la prizono de Walker, kaj ĉi tiu infera kolumo certigas mian tutan obeon!" Once more, the Gabber plays its part.
"My name is Wulf, a high-valued prisoner of Walker's prison, and this infernal collar is to ensure my total obedience! Fear me."
"Which means we need to get that collar off before Walker has the chance to use it for termination." The five nodded as they got to work, Wulf a bit skeptic about the help, but yielded to their aid as Tucker's tech skills helped greatly while Cedric and Talia kept Wulf calm, Sam and Valerie having pulled out a scrapbook and filled in the gaps of who's who there...
Danny flew on to Casper High and got to his locker to grab the Thermos to deal with the ghosts. "Here we go." His sense went off before he stopped to the sound of voices, Dash in charge of it as he zoomed of to the room where this discussion was happening.
"Okay, listen up!" Danny peered inside to find Dash at the front, Mr. Lancer, Principal Ishiyama, Paulina, and several other members of the school listening to him while the room was lit up with blue flames. "Is everybody clear with the plan?" Paulina answered, just as part of this weird 'cult' thing as anything else.
"Yes, yes, it should all go down tomorrow after the town meeting." Danny couldn't help himself, but asking in opening to himself before the crowd inside.
"Meeting?" He reverted back to human as he stepped over, pretending to be a passerby who overheard that statement. "What town meeting?" That caught the glares of those there, Danny surprised when Kwan closed the door and he glanced to find that everyone had red eyes all the sudden before he was grabbed and lifted by Dash, slammed into the black board, but it wasn't Dash for long as the jock toppled to the side and a grinning, white face with green eyes gleamed back as Danny exclaimed to the face in shock. "Walker!"
"Gotcha, punk." He laughed with evil intent as most lost their ghostly oppressors as Danny demanded to the sudden reveal.
"Lemme go!"
"How does it feel? No place to run. No place to hide. I'm gonna turn your whole world against you, and by the time I'm done, you're gonna BEG for the safety of my prison..." He leaned in close as the warden finished. "...In the Ghost Zone, where you belong."
"The only thing I'm begging for..." Danny exclaimed once more as he took to being Phantom once more and blasted Walker off. "...Is for you to try some mouthwash!" He took flight away as Walker exclaimed.
"Don't just stand there gawking at me! Get him!" Few stood ready as Dash was overshadowed once more, Danny getting out into the open for a full confrontation, his sense going off before he turned to the Walker-possessed Dash who growled at him before he slammed into the host, tackling him straight down into a car, totaling it before being knocked away by a possessed Lancer, recovering to blast him away and fly once more to a possessed Ishiyama firing a grappling gun at him and shocking him, but it was nothing as he gripped the cord and flung the possessed person into a water tower before he was grabbed by a possessed Paulina who screeched at him.
"You can't get away from me!" They flew a bit as Danny mused with neutral displeasure.
"Wow. I waited all puberty for a girl to say that to me and now it's a complete bummer, wrong girl and wrong time." He hauled her into a billboard before he landed on the side of a building where Kwan faced him with some fancy moves with a baton as Danny just answered it once more. "Come on, show some actual class, twirling the baton doesn't make you good at it..." He blasted the possessed Kwan off before smashing into him. "...It makes you rather predictable." He took flight once more as the five chased after him as he spoke to himself. "One on five, not good odds here, I need to get to someplace safe." He remembered a good one and adjusted for the larger-than-life housing with the dish before zooming down to the basement. "Ghost shield... Ghost shield..." He found it and activated the shield, trapping him in, but keeping them out as they slammed into the shield and he peered out to them, reverting back to Fenton as the small gang gazed at him, he closing the binders a bit as the possessed principal inquired, they heedless to the still watching eyes.
"Should we go after him?"
"No, no." Walker answered in Dash's body. "It's that anti-ghost dome. We can't get in, but he can't get out." He smiled to the finalized part of the plan. "And by tomorrow, this place will be under complete lock-down." He phased out of Dash as he finished up his speech. "I gotta put the final phase of my plan into action, and tie up some loose ends." He flew away while Dash was possessed by the second-hand while Ishiyama was possessed by one of the guards, Danny pulling out his phone as he called Valerie, Cedric may have something on his hands.
"Valerie, we got a problem, Walker is going to do something at town hall and is heading somewhere to tie up some 'loose ends', what's going on over there?"
"We're getting the collar off right now, Danny. Tucker and Cedric are doing what they can while that other guy's weapon is still in my hands." With a thud, Valerie turned to find that the collar was off as Wulf exclaimed with joy.
"Mi libera!"
"I'm free. Fear me."
"Of course your free. You-" Wulf clasped a claw over Tucker's mouth and point, the small band looking out to Walker's completely unaware attention as he spoke.
"You've outlived your usefulness, Wulf. Goodbye." He pressed a button and the device looked like it was going to discharge, Wulf glancing about before he pretended to be hurt by it, hiding to the side to make it believable. He screamed as the collar discharge for a small amount before Walker disappeared and Wulf leapt out the window, shattering it, as Valerie spoke.
"Danny, do you copy? Our canine friend just busted through a window, and..." Anymore was lost as Tucker's parents arrived to enforce the curfew.
"Nine o'clock. Curfew time. Lights out, phones off, technology down, computers off." Valerie agreed as Tucker's mom continued the thought.
"It's too dangerous to take you home, Sam. You'll have to stay here with Tucker's other friends."
"And so we know you kids are safe, your mom and I'll stay in the room with you." Tucker's mom pulled out two sleeping bags out from behind her as Sam mused.
"Alright, next time we take the extra-dimensional fugitive to my place." Cedric glanced to Valerie and wrote a question, she replying just the same as he nodded to the answer, Damian was informed prior to the meet up and couldn't drop by to pick her up for the time being, especially with all of these ghosts all over the place.
Outside, Wulf took a look at the picture of the four friends before he smiled and bolted down the walk with hood over his head to keep him undercover...
Danny, restless for an attack, dozed off and jumped up as he pondered. "I fell asleep?" He looked outside to find that the shield was still up with a breath. "At least the shield's still up." He glanced over to the clock and gasped to the time. "And it's ten eighteen!?" Sam greeted him just as well with Tucker, Valerie, Cedric, and Talia to the exclaim.
"Morning, Sleeping Beauty."
"How'd you guys get in? The shield's still up." Danny inquired as Tucker pointed out the obvious.
"Hey, it's a ghost shield, not a human shield." Talia joined in as she explained it as well.
"And my human form passed right through it, it didn't stop me one bit for being a Demi." Danny nodded before he remembered what was happening and started to explain what was happening.
"Walker's overshadowing everybody around me. I think he's trying to turn everyone in town against me."
"Wulf confirmed as much when we helped him out."
"Wulf?"
"The ghost werewolf that spoke in Esperanto? Ring a bell?" Danny nodded as Tucker filled in the gap once more with something recent.
"Well, that would also explain this." He turned on the TV to show a town meeting as the Mayor started his speech.
"We only have one piece of business today: Defeating the ghosts that infest our town. And to do that, I'm calling for a vote to ceding all ghost policing and security decisions..." He held up a picture of Maddie as he continued. "...to Maddie Fenton..." For a split second, his eyes glowed red before he flinched and retracted his decision for another. "...I mean Jack." He held up a picture of Jack as he commented on him. "Jack Fenton. The completely competent Jack Fenton." Jack must have called out briefly before glancing to his wife as the Mayor continued his spiel. "And we've located the ghost responsible for all the terror inflicted on our town." He held out a terrified picture of Danny Phantom for the people to see. "This one." The people gasped on the other side while Danny shut off the set in terror as Tucker pointed out the obvious.
"You know, I have to say. As far as evil master plans go, this one's pretty thorough."
"It's not funny, Tuck. I'm getting my butt kicked all over the place." Danny listed off the places where he was getting kicked around. "At school, at home, and now this? I'll be public ghost enemy number one!" They didn't know how to help as Tucker walked over to Danny's pack before pulling out the Thermos and offering it to Danny who was at a loss.
"Here you go, buddy. You're gonna need this."
"Are you nuts? If I leave this house, I'm dead." Sam joined in as she explained.
"Danny, you've got to do something. If you don't, who will?" His eyes landed on Valerie and Cedric with Talia and they had answers.
"Danny, I know I could stand toe-to-toe with ghosts now, but I can't right now, my dad wants me back at home and if I'm not back, things will get more problematic for me."
"Not to mention, Walker is gunning for you, we don't even know who among the populace are being overshadowed without a sensor or something." Cedric pointed out with Talia nodding. "We can help, but we can only help with the ghosts, if people see us, there is going to be trouble." Danny nodded as he breathed.
"Then... I got one choice, confront Walker and his goons at City Hall..." He turned into Phantom and took flight. "I'll meet you guys there, let's hope that we can do something about this..."
Down at City Hall, the Mayor continued as he called for order. "Order! Order! All in favor of declaring martial law, and allowing the completely competent Jack Fenton to mobilize a massive ghost hunt, please say-" Danny intervened as he spoke with swagger.
"I... might be too young to vote, but I'm casting one anyway!" The people started to panic, thanks to the broadcast as Danny tried to get some order in the room. "You people have to listen to me. I'm on your side." The Mayor backed up to the support of policing force while Jack exclaimed to the floating being.
"You're not fooling anybody, ghost kid! You are going down!" He quickly pulling out the Fenton Fisher... that was still tangled up as he grumbled. "As soon as I untangle this thing!" Danny mused to himself about the state of things and suspected that if Walker was overshadowing anyone, his parents could be on the list.
"My parents might be overshadowed, but this should harmlessly push the ghosts out of them..." He fired a blast, knocking them back as he didn't have a clear idea of how to knock ghosts out of people in the first place as panic really set in. "...Or they could not be overshadowed, and I could have totally ticked them off." Maddie quickly attached a laser to her wrist and fired at Danny from the stage as the laser cut through parts of the ceiling as Danny took cover, only to be grabbed by Walker and pulled under, Wulf gasping when he arrived to witness it before unsheathing his claws for action as Jack made to go through the weapons.
"Ghost bazooka. Fenton fisher." He plucked up one of the device, confused to its nature. "Whatever the heck this thing does." Maddie grabbed it as she exclaimed.
"Jack, what are you doing?"
"Getting ready to hunt some ghosts. I'm gonna tear that ghost kid apart into a million different-" He paused before he asked Maddie what the problem was. "What?"
"Jack, I love you, but we don't have time for this. Who's a better shot?" Jack answered honestly.
"You are." He answered, looking down the sights.
"Who's better with the weaponry?"
"You are." He turned to look at her about it.
"Who's a ninth degree black-belt?"
"You are - You are?" He stopped assembling the weapons before he picked up the Bazooka and handed it to her. "Here. I'll get the Ghostkateers."
"And that's why we make a great team." She fished out a cookie and dropped it into Jack's hands. "Here's a cookie." She headed off with Jack stuffing his face while Danny was confronted by Walker and his crew, the warden now in the Mayor, with Kwan, Lancer, Paulina, Dash, and Ishiyama there as he exclaimed.
"Walker! I should've guessed you'd end up in the guy that makes the rules!"
"Shouldn't you be running?" Walker inquired with smile from the Mayor's body, but Danny smiled back as he held up the Fenton Thermos.
"Shouldn't you?" Panic set in for them as they scattered, Paulina attacking with a slide, but Danny countered with a blast, hitting Paulina directing and forcing the ghost guard out as the popular girl stammered in her senses returning.
"What? Huh?" She screamed to the guard that loomed over her and made a grab for her, if he hadn't been sucked up by the Thermos as Danny exclaimed in success.
"One down, four to go."
"You saved me. So, you're, like, a friendly ghost?"
"Yeah. With some friendly advice: RUN!" Kwan charged and slammed into Danny, knocking the Thermos out of his hand before Danny got up, pinned by Lancer and Kwan before forming blasts in his hands and evicting the ghosts in them. They regained their senses, but they were more terrified as they screamed at each other, then Danny before booking it out of there as Danny searched for the Thermos. "Where's the Thermos?" The guards made to attack him in their true forms, but a pair of portals opened on them, tossing them back into the Zone, Danny glad for the aid, only to realize that it was his own mother behind the captures as she marked the hits and reapplied her lipstick before firing at Danny, Ishiyama pulling Danny out of the way, only to pull out the Thermos from behind her.
"Looking for this?" She pointed the tool at Danny, only for Wulf to come in for the save as the second-hand shouted from Dash's body, his name Bullet from what the friends told Danny about from Wulf's own interview.
"What are you doing?"
"Amiki, friend." Danny smiled to the broken English as Wulf charged off and ripped both the guard and Bullet out of the two's bodies and tossing before Maddie rushed over to portal them too, Danny glad for the aid before the Mayor grabbed him and hauled out of there as Danny exclaimed.
"What are you doing?"
"There's all types of prisons, kid..." Reporters started the broadcast of the day, unaware of one techno-geek's work linking up with someone's own device as Walker had Danny in a vice-grip of 'holding the Mayor hostage' as he continued with a smirk, the doors flying open for the people to see the situation. "...I'm making sure your prison is the town you live." Then he used the Mayor's voice to make it the more convincing. "Help! Help me! Help!" He fell back into the building with the door slamming shut as he smirked in victory in Walker's voice. "Now they'll never trust you."
"They might not..." The Mayor turned in surprised as Talia, in her ghost form, spoke with a ectoblast in her hand and aimed at the possessed Mayor with both hands focused forward. "...But WE do." She fired and knocked the Mayor off Danny, into Wulf's claws that were going through him before Wulf then ripped the Mayor and Walker apart, Danny catching the official as Maddie, somehow making it back on stage, exclaimed.
"Get your hands off of our duly elected leader, you odd manifestation of ectoplasmic energy and post-human consciousness!" She said quickly as she took aim and fired, but Wulf, who was holding Walker in hand, stepped in front of the blast and both were kept in the suction as Danny cried.
"Wulf! No!"
"Friend! We'll meet again!"
"So will we, punk!" Walker threatened, unaware of what was even being done. "Feared on Earth and wanted in the Ghost Zone? You've lost, ghost kid! LOST!" They were sucked in, but Talia and Danny glanced to the side to Maddie leveling the Bazooka at their faces from the side.
"By the authority invested in me by the city of Amity Park, I sentence you both back from once you came!"
"Oh man, I have got to start paying more attention in these fights."
"You don't say..." The Bazooka was knocked out of Maddie's hands by a blast as the Exorcist landed, having got in the same way as Talia, through the back door, and spoke.
"You don't get to judge them for what they had to do, but you can take a rain-check." He fired another blast and Maddie toppled over as he spoke. "Stasis blast, good for keeping restless spirits and humans under control and the Bazooka ran out of a charge, says so on the note." There was a note on the side as he smiled behind the guard as Danny bid his mother farewell.
"With that, I bid you a fair farewell." He took both of his friend's arms and flew out of there with them as Maddie shouted, unable to move for the moment.
"You haven't seen the last of me!"
"Duh, I'll see you at dinner." The pair chuckled as the front page was on the frenzy with news of Danny kidnapping the Mayor, but every station across Amity was given a front-row seat of Walker's exposure and his threat to Phantom, it was only a few seconds, but it was enough as suddenly, the 'ghost' responsible for the attack was called into question greatly, even the Fentons were thrown into a loop as to the meaning and were just as clueless as to its meaning...
The following day, Casper was abuzz with gossip as Dash complained with the shocked look on Paulina's face as well. "I can't believe I was controlled by a ghost! I can't remember anything for the last few days!"
"I told you to wear a helmet before practice." Kwan's reply was met with a tray of food to the head as Dash countered, more to be the last word in.
"I remembered how to do that!" He 'HA' heavily at Kwan before striding away with swagger as Tucker mused the same idea, Talia still finding the time to be by Cedric's side as Valerie breathed as well to the change.
"Man. You think that was hard to find a place to go ghost during school hours before!" Sam read the paper and exclaimed her own thoughts about it.
"So even with everybody thinking you're a bad ghost..." She turned with wide eyes as she asked Danny. "...you're still gonna try to be the hero?"
"Well, somebody's gotta. Hey, if not me, then who's gonna protect this town?" He picked up his milk carton as he continued to explain. "Besides, it's not like I can ignore a scream for help."
"HELP!" The party turned to Lancer being chased by Maddie and Jack as they shouted about ghosts as Lancer pleaded in running. "The Adventures of Huck Finn! How many times do I have to tell you people, I am not a ghost!"
"Except, that one." They laughed it up as they just watched the chaos happen, Danny found out that Cedric willing added a camera to the suit for a safety function and was glad for it as it proved his innocence off the bat, so he couldn't really blame anyone for trying something, he would still be the hero with his friends...
