The day of Amity Park started once more for the school going crowd, though most were confined in the few buses that drove them to the schools, one going to Casper High stuffed to the brim, but one student was not so troubled by that as he flew on high up with a remark. "One good thing about ghost powers: No fighting the school bus crowds." Sadly, he was not so trouble-less as he believed as another presence made himself known from atop a roof, its metal body and flaming green telling enough as he spoke with lowering the binoculars.

"There he is, the prey that got away. I hope you've enjoyed your freedom, child, because Skulker has returned to finish the hunt." A blaster emerged from his shoulder and he primed to fire on Danny before another weapon discharged, launching Danny into the nearby water tank to Skulker's surprise. "What? A weapon was fired? By someone other than me?" A jet sound came from behind and whizzed past as a red-and-grey blur before hovering down to a soaked Danny, the Huntress primed with a gun in hand as she mused.

"It's time for your daily chase, Phantom, I told you that I would make you go running someday." She fired and Danny quickly dodged as he yelped.

"Easy, Huntress, that could be called collateral damage!"

"It's fine, that thing wasn't even hooked up right!" Val zoomed away from the toppling tank when she hit the supports and the two feuded in the air, heedless to Skulker's observing as he mused.

"They both seem formidable. Maybe I should hunt the girl." Val was blasted away, her board rather tanky to the ecto-blast blast as Skulker continued. "Of course, I have sworn a blood oath to have that ghost boy's pelt on my wall." Danny was blasted away as Skulker followed suit as Danny called out, having knocked the first gun out of Val's hands.

"Look, I don't want to hurt you!"

"What makes you think you really can!" She quickly pulled out another gun from her pack that expanded out before firing, Danny dodging with getting the blast to slip through a hole that he formed before blasting Valerie upward in a two-fisted ecto-blast with him in pursuit as Skulker made his choice while floating invisibly.

"I should force a contest between the hunter girl and the ghost boy. And to the winner, the honor of me using their skull as a tetherball!" Valerie came to rest a few feet in the air with Danny joining, he priming one final blast to stop his rival from going any further in her beaten state of a battle suit, but paused when a bell rang and both looked down, to find Casper high as Valerie exclaimed, a smirk behind the mask.

"Later for you, Phantom!" Danny smiled back.

"I'll be waiting, Huntress!" Both sped off in opposite directions as Skulker confirmed who was within the suit that folded into her bracelets and shoes before booking it into the school, Danny finding a restroom and changing back to Fenton as he dashed out just the same before they ran for it to their class, both realizing too late their course as they slammed into each other and Valerie recovered to sass Danny in front of Health Sciences.

"Watch it, punk!"

"You watch it, creep!" Both paused before pointing at each other.

"Didn't we just have this conversation earlier?" Outside the school, they were rivals, but in school, they were Danny Fenton and Valerie Grey, two teens that can't really stand each other for longer than a minute as the door opened and Tetslaff exclaimed to their heads whipping toward her.

"Fenton! Gray! Congratulations! You two stragglers are paired up for a special Health Sciences project." They glanced to each other before back as Tetslaff reached inside to pull something out. "I now pronounce you man, wife, and child." She tossed a flour sack wearing a diaper to the pair of them, both holding it before Danny moaned in disbelief.

"I am so not kissing the bride!"

"What makes you think you can!" Both mused 'We certainly had that conversation before' as their project was soon going to be used against them in what Lancer would call 'the Most Dangerous Game'...


At least they were not alone in taking care of a flour sack baby, but Danny didn't abandon the sack to Valerie as he met up with Sam and Tucker, taking care of their own while Valerie followed a short distance. "Let me get this straight: We need to take care of a flour sack and pretend it's our baby?" Tucker added to it as he confirmed it.

"It's supposed to be something about shared responsibility." Sadly, that couldn't be said for the rest of the school as Dash primed his assignment like a football.

"Kwan! Go long!" He threw it to Kwan, he ran like he was going for the goal as Tucker finished.

"Well, some of us."

"The only thing it teaches me is how pointless this assignment is." Danny glanced to Valerie as she glanced back.

"Not to mention dangerous. Now I've got to spend a week playing house with a ecto-hating rival."

"Hey, I'm not that bad!"

"I know, but no one else does." Valerie raised a finger before nodding as Sam spoke.

"Don't worry, Danny. Valerie wouldn't tell your secret, and as far as you go about it, you won't tell hers." She made to walk away with Tucker, Valerie, and Danny quickly catching up as Tucker just started to singing softly.

"Besides, she can't be gunning for you if she's taking care of your little floury sack of love!" He did so while hugging the flour sack. "Danny, Val and baby sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S—HEY!" Valerie had snatched the beret before stuffing it into Tucker's mouth, speaking with a look of disapproval.

"You dropped your hat." He spat it out into his hand as Tucker huffed.

"Come on, Sam! Our child doesn't need to see this kind of negativity." He soon left with that trail of speech as Sam exclaimed after him.

"What?!" She went after him as she shouted. "Tucker! It's a flour sack!" This left Valerie and Danny alone as Valerie breathed with a hand to her face and spoke.

"I'll make things quick for both of us, Danny! I don't like you, and you don't like me!" Danny huffed back to follow the trail of speech she had while still holding the sack.

"Cool! I'm glad we worked that out fairly quickly, actually!"

"So, I took the time to chart out our responsibilities." Danny leaned in to the mostly blue circle of his time with a small piece for Valerie of their 'baby care' as he spoke.

"And by 'our', you mean 'mine'. Also, when did you make this?"

"Look. Unlike you, I'm busy. So busy my grades are in the toilet... if I wasn't getting tutoring from you guys and I really need to pass this class. Also, don't question my skills." The flour sack would have started to cry if Danny wasn't carrying it in the first place and cradling it as Danny spoke again.

"So what...? You get to be 'Miss Worker' and I have to be a stay-at-home father?"

"Yeeeess...?" Valerie tensed on the meaning as Danny raised a brow, searching the halls for a brief moment before he inquired.

"You mean to tell me that you have a job, besides ghost hunting?"

"Well, um..." She mumbled as Danny turned with surprise.

"First hours into this assignment and you are already keeping secrets from your spouse, shame on you, SHAME!" Danny moved away as Valerie looked heartbroken on the manner for some reason before slinging her pack on and walking away.


Later at the Nasty Burger, the sack had started to cry and, while Danny was successful in keeping it calm for the most part, he just can't for very long as he spoke to his friends, Talia and Cedric nowhere in sight yet and Topaz was getting some home-schooling in. "I've been a parent all of one day and my grade is probably already down to a C-minus."

"Life could be worse. You could be that guy." 'That guy' was Nasty Nat, mascot for Nasty Burger, who was currently being tormented by four terrible boys before Tucker exclaimed.

"Oooh! Nasty Nat! Let's get a family photo with him." Somehow, Tucker pushed the three of them toward Nasty Nat, the boys running away as Sam exclaimed.

"Taking this way too seriously!" They were not so alone as Skulker observed from the rooftop before he went into a monologue for a plan.

"Hmm. Going to need the right bait to lure those two back to battle." He turned to a cage materializing from the air as he went through his options. "Too scaly; too frightening; you I plan on feasting on for dinner—Yes!" He reached in and pulled out the Box Ghost who he caught on a brief moment. "You'll do."

"I AM THE BOX GHOST. I—" Any more was lost when he was gagged and Skulker pulled out a fishing line. Danny took a few pictures for Sam and Tucker with Nasty Nat while the flour sack just cried, he just puzzled as to how well the project needed to be soothed before Tucker asked.

"You want me to take one of you? Family photos boost your grade."

"That would require having the whole family. But sadly, Mommy is too busy with her 'unknown' job to pull her weight here and help keep this kid quiet!" Both Sam and Tucker jumped to the defense of their sack.

"Danny! You're scaring the baby!" Tucker beamed as Sam quickly corrected herself.

"Which that is not; that's a flour sack." The sack seemed to fart and Danny checked to get a face full of green gas as he exclaimed.

"Oh come on!"

"Just be thankful it's only flour."

"Then why does it smell like beans?" Danny moaned as Tucker walked over as he spoke.

"It's the little touches that bring the baby to life. Here. Allow me." He took the sack off Danny's hands before dropping his backpack which suddenly turned into a changing table to the surprise of both as Danny inquired from his shock.

"Where'd you get all this stuff?"

"I announced the birth of our ten-pound sack of joy on the internet. The online geek community can be very generous." Unbeknownst to them, the Box Ghost was being bobbed from the rooftop, Danny's ghost sense finally kicking in as he turned to find the Box Ghost dangling from some fishing line, gagged before he spat it out and exclaimed.

"Beware!" He was pulled back up as the customers inside finally realized that it was a ghost that was being bobbed and started to panic as Danny exclaimed.

"Ah man! Can you watch the kid for me?"

"What do I look like? A baby-sitting service?" Money said otherwise as Danny handed a five dollar to Tucker and his tone changed. "Come to Uncle Tucker and his baby-sitting service." Danny made to run to the back of the Nasty Burger, away from the crowd, but stopped short as Nasty Nat was there too and he had nearly ran into him... or her from the sound of the voice.

"Sorry, I was... hiding out here, be careful next time." Nasty Nat hurried away as Danny called out.

"Yeah... sorry about that." He breathed as he spoke. "Well, at least we have some manners, this week could have been filled with jerks." He transformed into Phantom and took flight as he looked around.

"Now where's that lame-o Box Ghost?" His muse stopped when Valerie appeared in her suit as she retorted back.

"Only lame-o ghost I see here is you!" She aimed at him and fired a rocket, blasting him into the drive-through Nasty Nat robot as it spoke in a monotone voice, head bobbing from the slam.

"Welcome to Nasty Burger. May I take your order?" Danny got up before retorting.

"Too neutral sounding, bad for actual business." He blasted it, finishing its destruction, before glancing to the flying Valerie. "Oh, she's too busy to watch the kid, but when it comes time to kick my butt, she's front-and-center?" He flew after her as he exclaimed. "Don't you have anything better to do than just hunting ghosts?" He fired a few shots, but her dodging skill had greatly improved as she wheeled about before aiming at him again.

"This is what I do!" She fired and knocked Danny out of the air while Skulker watched.

"At last! People hitting people. Is there anything more beautiful?" Danny got back in the air and fired a few more blasts, but Valerie dodged and fired at the soaring Danny with rockets, he turning intangible, but the volley riddled the ground and also got the Nasty Burger signpost, where Tucker was conveniently standing under, but instead of running when the post started to fall, he exclaimed.

"My baby!"

"Tucker!" He soared down and gripped Tucker by the shoulder, turning both intangible as the sign crashed and shattered to pieces as Tucker spoke in thanks.

"Thanks! But this is gonna cost you extra."

"You can bill me later. Right now, I've gotta stop this fight before anyone gets hurt." He turned invisible before bolting for a pair of parked SUVs, turning back to Fenton as Valerie flew overhead, Danny pausing as he spotted something and picked it up. "Nasty Nat? Where is the owner of the suit?" Valerie, peering about with some binoculars, found no Phantom, but Danny was by the suit as she grimaced behind the suit's mask, but she just monologued.

"No ghost kid now. I better get out of here before this gets any worse for either of us."

"Oh, this is ridiculous. I could have skinned them both by now." Skulker growled as he watched Valerie take off with Danny walking back over to his friends, Tucker yelling at him as the sack was returned.

"I ought to bust you for child endangerment." He then cuddled with his own sack in glee. "There, there now. Daddy's here. Daddy loves you, yes, he does."

"Uh, Tucker... Point of information, it's a sack of white powder you almost got killed over!" Sam spoke as she stole the sack away, but she didn't keep the angry vibe on as she lovingly looked at the sack and cleaned it up a bit as Tucker spoke again to Danny, both unnerved with Sam's sudden affection to a sack of flour.

"I'm gonna have to charge you extra, Danny. Hazard pay, and all." Danny huffed as he slapped another five dollar into the geek's hand.

"Fine. Whatever. Right now I just want to find Valerie and give her our kid. And a piece of my mind!" He frowned before breathing and turning to leave, this time running into Nasty Nat before he spoke. "Could you please move, I need to talk to someone." He lightly walked past Nasty Nat and the mascot had its arms hang low before walking off, Tucker looking at the dollar before a commotion was going on.

"I can't carry this thing during football practice!" Paulina sassed back as they were in their sports attire of football player and cheerleader.

"Hello? You have protective padding. All I are have are pom-poms." Somehow, Tucker found his mission as he greeted the pair.

"Hi. I couldn't help overhearing you, and I think I have the solution to your child-care dilemma." Meanwhile, in Elmerton, Valerie was going through her paces, evidence of both Phantom being guilty and innocent littering her room with weapons, samples, and even a makeshift wanted poster as she was performing chin-ups on a piece of pipe that hung from her ceiling as she panted, knowing the truth, but still liking the idea of a rival.

"You can run for now, Phantom, but you can't hide forever." Sadly, her training was cut short to persistent knocking as Danny was outside her apartment as he called out.

"Valerie? It's Danny. And Junior." Valerie rushed over and Danny shoved the sack over to her when she opened the door. "You're taking the kid. Now."

"But! M-My job...!" Danny glared at her as he spoke.

"All I know is that it is your turn, and since I don't know what your job actually is, I can't find it in my heart to care, Valerie. You set it up, Grey..." She quietly kicked a gun out of sight as Danny continued. "...Now you NEED to live with it." He paused before he breathed again. "Look, we are partners here, I can't just watch over a sack of flour forever, you are expected to take care of it too."

"I..." Valerie sighed as she spoke. "I-I understand, Danny, sorry for putting you under the bus, but I need a good grade, if I don't succeed in Tetslaff's class, my dad will kill me!" The sack rumbled before farting in her face as Danny spoke.

"I realize that, we have helped you greatly through the classes, but just this once, you need to help out and first part of that is changing that diaper, I'll be back to pick up the kid so I wouldn't be gone for long, Val." He headed off as Valerie nodded and headed back into the apartment, both heedless to the hunter who was scoping out the object in question as he mused.

"Clearly the sack is very valuable to both of them. Which gives me an idea..." He turned invisible and headed over, Valerie making the mistake of holding the sack up before it was snatched out of her hands, arming herself at the possible ghost that just stole the assignment, Danny cluing in as quickly as Skulker emerged with sack in hand.

"Skulker!" He quickly changed to Phantom as he continued. "What are you doing?"

"Framing you." He then yelled at the sack, ignoring the 'Skulker, no!' from Danny before tossing it, crying, to the hero before taking off upwards as Valerie emerged from her apartment as she shouted in her Huntress suit.

"Hand over the sack, ghost, and nobody gets hurt!"

"Wait! It's not what you think!" But she didn't allow anything to be said as she fired, Danny dodging before phasing out of the apartment, soaring far with Valerie, taking the window in flying out on her board, was in hot pursuit as Danny called out with flour sack in front of him. "You don't understand. This is all a trick. By a ghost named Skulker."

"Skulker?" Valerie mused as her weapon said otherwise. "What is going on, but first..."

"Okay..." Danny flew on down and landed as Valerie flew down too before Danny turned and continued. "Look, see? I'm putting the sack down, right here." He slowly put the sack on the ground as he calmly told Valerie the state. "You don't want to hurt me, and you don't want to hurt this, right?" Valerie cocked the weapon for it to return to its usual appearance as Valerie asked.

"Hard to believe that right now, but I know you, Danny, you are honest to a fault, this is not a trap on your part, I know you too well now, you are not my enemy, but my friend and rival." Danny beamed as he returned.

"Thanks, now we need..." Far on the rooftop, Skulker scoped it out with dismay as he exclaimed.

"No hitting? Why is there no hitting? I'm changing the rules of this hunt!" He pressed a button on his wrist as strange electro-prod emerged from the ground and Valerie exclaimed in surprise.

"How did we even...! It's a trap!"

"Well, it was not my doing, it's...!" Both were shocked and fell unconscious...


Danny stirred from the shock treatment to find that the sky was dark green with violet specks dotting it and the Red Huntress was right beside him before he pulled himself up with Valerie groaning as well before he raised a hand to rub his head, but stopped short to find that his left and her right were handcuffed together before Skulker made his presence known. "Greetings, prey. Having failed to determine which one of you is the superior challenge, I've decided to hunt you both at the same time!" He laughed madly as they were stuck on his jungle island, but a few seconds finally got something out of Valerie as she... screamed in fear with both of the prey standing up.

"AAAH! UHHH! HELP! What is this place?! Who's he?! What's going on here?!" She did so with surprising adrenaline of swinging Danny around and flinging him in her panic of gesturing everywhere before Danny pulled himself up and answered, being a little more gentle than how she just treated him.

"Okay, in order: This is the Ghost Zone; that's Skulker, the Ghost Zone's greatest hunter; and other than you dislocating my shoulder, we're about to be hunted like animals." Valerie gasped as the ghost in front of her suddenly was adorned in more weapons than she cared to actually believe, like he was a robot or something.

"I'm offering you a sporting head start, prey. I suggest you take it."

"NOOOOOOOO!" The pair of them booked it away as Danny shouted.

"Less freaking! More running!" They ducked under a net and jumped over a bolas before Danny tried to fire back, but nothing as he glanced to their handcuffs and realized what was happening. "Oh, man! These handcuffs must cancel out all of my ghost powers! I'm as helpless as an animal here!" They came to a stop when Valerie spotted one of her weapons.

"My ecto-grenade launcher!"

"No! Don't! It might be—" The warning came too late when she grabbed and pulled, the weapon tied to a blue rope before a tree compartment opened and fired many darts at them, both dropping to the ground before the volley stopped and Danny breathed. "Booby trapped. See, that's why I took the time to explain the whole 'Ghost Zone's greatest hunter' thing, though we can talk later." Both heard the roar of Skulker as Valerie got up as she exclaimed.

"Get up! He's coming!" Sadly, that was in vain as both noticed a dart sticking out of Danny's butt as he exclaimed.

"I... can't... move." He dropped short as Skulker arrived with a smile.

"Spectral paralysis dart. The effects are only temporary. But this will not be." He pulled off a large two-handed gun from his shoulder before Valerie started to haul out of there, Danny slamming into several rocks as Valerie, just as easily, pulled them along as he mused.

"Well, on the bright side, she's finally starting to pull her own weight." On the other side of the dimensions, Tucker was somehow running the most successful 'flour baby day care' to date as he was answering a few phones at a time.

"Flour Power Day Care, please hold. Flour Power Day Care, please hold, Flour Power Day Care. Yes, we do accept your parents' credit cards." He lowered the phones from his ears before speaking to Sam. "This baby sitting racket is a real gold mine!" Sam voiced otherwise.

"That's great, but aren't you worried our own sack might get neglected?" The sack in question toppled as Tucker answered as he was just dialing the PDA in hand.

"No. Why?" Sam quickly picked up the sack and cradled it as she spoke.

"Well, you're just so busy, why don't I just take her off your hands for a few hours?"

"Her?" Tucker spoke up as he glanced to the Goth mothering over a sack of flour. "Now who's taking this way too seriously!" He took it from her as he pointed out. "You're bonding, aren't you?"

"What? No! I am so not bonding. I just thought I'd give you a break, that's all." She smiled weakly as Tucker replied back.

"Well, thanks, but no thanks." He brought up a phone as he replied to more people. "No better advertisement for business than a full caravan." Sam mused in following as she dismissed it.

"You're right, it's just a stupid school project. What do I care?" Tucker, on the other hand, was oblivious to the growing plan of Sam's while Valerie screamed in exiting some brush while Skulker was in pursuit still as the paralysis started to wear off on Danny as he slowly gripped a fist before both came to a stop at the edge of the island and looking down to the abyss of green, Skulker exclaiming with gun out.

"No way out, whelps!" Valerie said otherwise.

"There is one way out!" Knowing the meaning, Danny moved to say otherwise.

"What?! No! Listen to me!" But she didn't listen as she flung herself with Danny downwards with Skulker peering over as well before she straightened and clicked her boots, the hover board coming alive as it stopped their fall and she sped off on the board with Danny on the back of it as she exclaimed.

"He might have got my weapons, but he didn't get everything!"

"Except for the missiles and guns on the board, Val, how does that even work?"

"Uh... I have no idea, really, I should have listened to Cedric about that." They didn't waste too much time as Skulker took flight after them before Danny pulled himself up fully and stabilized with her soaring.

"Could you slow down for a moment? This is the Ghost Zone, and we have been trying to chart it for some time. I can help us both here."

"Why should I trust you on that idea?!" Danny pointed at the cuffs as he mused back

"It's Cedric's idea to chart the place, I can only make drawings of places, not actual directions."

"Fine. I'm open to suggestions."

"Head for a door. Any door! Sometimes they're portals between the Ghost Zone and Earth." Valerie quickly stopped in front of one and opened it to a old-style locomotive charging right for them as it erupted into a mouth of jagged teeth and flames as Danny exclaimed. "Not that door!" Both closed it shut as Danny mused. "How did we not identify that door in the first place?"

"Then maybe you should be a little more specific, huh?!" Danny nodded as they went to another door and flew in, closing it just as Skulker flew close before smelling the air for their scent.

"I can smell how near they are. Sweat. Fear. And..." He paused on the last scent with confusion. "...beans. One of them must have had a burrito." Back in Amity Park, Tucker was returning home with his whole set up as he exclaimed in joy.

"Okay guys, nap time." He plucked each other up and set them in rocking cradles that were marked with dollar bills. "Nighty-night, Alexander. Sleep tight, Andrew. Pleasant dreams, Benjamin. You're my favorite! I mean, of course, except not counting—huuuuh!" He stopped as he found no more sacks available for nap time as he stammered in fear. "Tucker Junior!? My baby, where's my baby!?" Where that flour sack was came to be in the possession of the other half of the assignment who was currently adorning it to match her appearance with a wag, eyes, and lipstick as she cuddled over it.

"Aren't you adorable? You are now! Yes, you are! Now!" Back on the side of the Ghost Zone, Danny vaguely recognized the place as Wandering Isles, a peaceful section of the Ghost Zone where isles of land freely roamed the Zone and often entered the main Zone to compile into larger masses, one of many as they soon settle down and the board returned to Valerie as Danny moved a bit to get feeling back together before he spoke.

"I can move again. Thanks for the save back there, though I really should have given more detail about this whole craziness."

"Yeah? Well, thanks for nothin' much." She answered as she pointed at him with some rage. "It may not be your fault I'm stuck in this freaky ghost world, but I am not okay with this whole thing, okay!?" Danny answered back as he sat down, settling the handcuff on a larger rock before Danny plucked a good one off the ground.

"Right." He started to bash the chain, pounding to every word of interest he said. "Because clearly the maniac who cuffed and dragged us in here didn't have anything to do with it."

"Man, I'm just gettin' paired up with all kinds of jerks in my life!"

"I can't be that much of a jerk... right?" Valerie gave a glance before she answered.

"No, but you didn't know it was me when we were... recently interacting."

"Recently? I know I am dumb and clueless at times, but are you saying what I think you're saying?" Danny answered as Valerie plucked up a second rock and joined in hammering the link.

"Yeah, I actually do have a job besides ghost hunting."

"Two jobs?" He asked with sympathy as Valerie continued, using her rage in the swings.

"I gotta catch ghosts like you and raise money for college! I coulda been paired up with anybody, but I got stuck with you, insensitive..." She struck harder as she shouted. "...uncaring..." She struck again in a yell. "...Danny Fenton!" The rock crumbled to pieces as the handcuffs somehow activated and a hologram played out before them in surprise as Skulker spoke on the screen.

"Greetings, panicking youngsters. As much as I would enjoy following the smell of beans through the infinite realms of the ghost zone, I believe I have something you want right here." To both of their horror, Skulker held up the flour sack as both exclaimed.

"We have to go back!" Skulker laughed evilly as the transmission cut as Danny spoke.

"Looks like we are going after the hunter, seriously, if I didn't often hear Lancer shout book covers, I wouldn't even know what this situation would be called."

"The heck does Lancer shouting book covers have anything to do with this!?"

"Because, Valerie, this..." He smiled as he finished. "This is the Most Dangerous Game, it's time for the hunter to become the hunted."


Back in Amity Park, there was a little less of a situation with Tucker and Sam as the geek exclaimed in disbelief of what happened to their project, in the hands of the counterpart of the pairing. "What have you done with our child?!" Sam glanced up for a second before Tucker stomped over and stole the sack away as he exclaimed with putting a beret on the sack's wig. "Give him back! It's obvious Tucker Jr. needs a strong father." Sam retorted as she stole the sack away.

"No way! Lilith needs to be raised in a nurturing environment. Not some overcrowded baby barracks!" Tucker gasped as he exclaimed.

"Oh my gosh! The other babies! Gotta go!" He kissed the sack first. "Bye!" Then kissed Sam, leaving them both stunned of what just happened as Tucker drew it out. "Uhhh..." Sam recovered before she answered.

"Tha-at never happened!"

"You got that right!" Tucker backpedaled out of there before turning with a shout. "Daddy's gotta run!" He bolted as Sam yelled after him.

"Don't forget to pick up milk!" Back in the Ghost Zone, Danny shook as Valerie cast him a glance as she questioned.

"Are you okay?"

"Just... got the sudden urge to punch Tucker in the mouth, is that bad...?"

"No... I don't think so." They flew over to the island and landed, the board returning as Valerie questioned. "Shouldn't you be asking me NOT to mention that you got shot... in the butt... with a dart?"

"Honestly, it's going to be a running gag, like the lovebirds comment." In the distance, Skulker mused.

"That's it, come to my trap." The sack baby had other plans as it started to cry, surprising Skulker into dropping it and picking it back up as he exclaimed. "What is this thing?! Why will it not cease it's infernal racket?!" He squeezed it as if to strangle it as Val and Danny quickly spotted him and made a beeline for him, just as he threw it down and readied a blaster with a command. "Silence!" But the shot went wide as Danny shoulder-checked the shot and Valerie quickly grabbed the sack before leaping away and made a break for it when Skulker fired at them.

"Go high!" Valerie motioned the hover board to activate and they took off to the missed shot and evaded a few more before Valerie shouted.

"Go low!" They dove down and dodged a few more before tripping Skulker, knocking him off his feet as Danny commented with a short hover.

"Hey, I think we're finally getting this teamwork thing down!" They didn't mused for long before Skulker jumped and grabbed them by the link as Valerie exclaimed, the board not recognizing her disappearance for some reason and dropped.

"Just in time to get our butts fried!" Skulker inquired the purpose of the sack as he snatched it away from Valerie.

"Now, before I destroy you both, I must know what is so valuable about this package."

"It's not the package that's valuable, it's how you take care of it that counts!"

"And dude! You are a horrible mother!" Danny sassed, just as the sack released some massive gas into Skulker's face, blinding him before Danny spotted another one of Valerie's weapons and reached for it as she exclaimed.

"Wait, what are you doing!"

"Giving Skulker a taste of his own booby trap!" He pulled and red spikes flew at them, but Danny made sure they were low enough as the projectiles hit Skulker fully with his yelp before he exclaimed.

"I can't see... I can't move..." His body started to freeze up before he toppled to the ground paralyzed as Danny spoke to the now-stuck ghost.

"Please, don't get up on our account." Danny obtained the key to the cuffs and deactivated them from the pair, Valerie picking up the sack before the pair made to walk away, but stopped for a short moment to give Skulker another whiff of beans about a itchy nose.

On the other side of the dimensions, Tucker was returning home to his mom baking cookies as he greeted her. "Hi, mom!"

"Cookie, dear? Just made 'em fresh for the big bake sale." He picked one up and thanked her.

"Thanks, Mom."

"No, thank you, Son, for picking up all that flour for me." Just as quickly, he spat it out and looked to find that the day-care had failed, all of the sacks he was taking care of were now just cookies as he cried out.

"Nooooooooooo!" Back in the Ghost Zone, Danny and Valerie emerged from the undergrowth and Valerie huffed in dismay on the state of the flour sack, ruined for the most part.

"At least it's not crying. I guess I was kinda harsh on you before. I just never thought this was going to be the type of day we were going to have today."

"Trust me, that guy was much more tame right here, mainly he is after my pelt."

"You mean to kill you?"

"Nope, I mean to skin me of my skin and hang it somewhere in his trophy room." Valerie shook as she groaned out a response.

"Eww..." She shook her head as she continued. "Okay, so let's get out of this ghost world and we'll see how long it can last before we try being rivals again.

"Zone. It's more of a zone." They shook hands before Danny continued. "But, if you insist..." He quickly turned invisible and overshadowed her as he continued. "We're going to have to do it my way, though!" With that, he flew the both of them out of there as Danny found that Valerie was actually pretty chatty, liek a excited puppy.

'Did you really just...!'

'Yep, overshadowed you, it's a power I don't use all that often, but I do use it in needed measures, I'm sure you remember Paulina going both weird AND lovey-dovey on me?'

'Oh my gosh, what happened both times, this is hanging over her head for a lifetime!' They passed through the portal and took to the sky of Amity after passing through the flooring of Fenton Works.

'Sure, the first time was a slight mishap with a friend, they were jealous of me having ghost powers and WISHED for them, the wish was made with selfish reasons, but at that time, Paulina was dating 'Tucker Foley'.'

'Oh yeah, possessed by a boy, big time victory for me, what was it like...!?'

'A lot of Spanish yelling and my friend and I arguing before I checked for the source of the wish.' They made it to Elmerton as Valerie continued.

'Second time, second time! What happened then!?'

'It was recent, but a mostly-friendly ghost was trying to make her boyfriend jealous and ended up possessing Paulina and blackmailing me into dating her, you were not there, but it involved a biker and his shadow.'

'OH MY GOSH, that greasy-looking ghost from that one night!?'

'You got that right, now...' He landed on her bed and deactivated the suit as he finished. 'Get some rest, you look exhausted.' With that, he phased out of her and made to walk away. "Now to get out of here before she—oh, man! You gotta be kiddin' me!" He spotted the mascot suit of Nasty Nat and mused. "Wow, I was being too hard on her after all." Valerie started to stir and, on reflex, Danny hid behind the suit before reverting back to Fenton as Valerie sprung up.

"What?! Who's there?!" Danny revealed himself as he made an explanation, in case she forgot about everything.

"Uh, sorry. The door was open and, uh, according to your chart, it's my turn to take the baby, and—" Valerie gasped as she sprung off the bed and snatched the mascot.

"Gimme that!" She pulled it away as she threatened him. "And you'd better not tell anyone, I mean it! You'd better not!" Danny glanced to the hand-print that he left on the suit and replied.

"I won't tell anybody!" He stopped before he spoke with sympathy. "Wow, this is like the worst job ever. I didn't know this was the job you were talking about."

"That's because you didn't bother to get to know me all that well." She answered as she put the costume on the bed as Danny agreed.

"Yeah. You're right. And I'm supposed to be the good guy." Valerie paused before she spoke back.

"You're right, you are suppose to be one of the good guys, but being good doesn't mean that you know everything. That is beyond us, all of us." Danny nodded as he asked.

"So, uh, is there anything I can do to make it up to you?" Valerie glanced down to the ruined flour sack and held it up as she spoke.

"You can start by not getting mad." Danny raised a brow before Valerie corrected. "Oh, right, you were there about the whole thing, so..." Danny lightly took the suit and smiled.

"I think I'll give you a bit more space, besides being a mascot isn't that hard, it's the troublesome folks that are REALLY the problem." Valerie smiled back at how willing Danny was willing to help her...


Tetslaff was not so kind as she shouted. "Fenton! Gray! Your flour sack is a disgrace. But seeing it's not part of a 'cookie', I'm giving you a 'C'." Both beamed as Tetslaff continued. "Manson, for exemplary parenting skills, if questionable taste in makeup, I'm awarding you an 'A'." She cleared her throat as Danny and Valerie turned to the last pair, the grandeur of what even just happened was unsettling. "An 'A-plus' goes to Trace and Rahmat in true, uh..."

"Indian style, Tetslaff..." Cedric answered, clearly doing a remarkable impression of a sultan while Talia just coddled her sack with familiarity, Topaz roped in as well as a bard, her shock still there as Tetslaff continued.

"...In true Indian style, of course..." Sam hugged her sack as the last target was made with a poof of gas toward him. "As for you, Mr. Day Care...!" Later, Tucker sobbed as he handed back refunds to everyone who ever trusted his babysitting service.

"Gonna miss you, Alexander! And Andrew! And especially you, Benjamin!" The partners disbanded and Tucker pulled down his banner as Sam walked over with Lilith in a snuggle sack as she spoke.

"Cheer up, Tuck. You can still visit Lilith on weekends."

"Sam, it's just a flour sack." He tossed the banner, only to hit someone as they exclaimed.

"Hey! Watch where you're throwin' that! Show a little respect." The banner had hit Nasty Nat since the refunds took place in the parking lot of Nasty Burger, but the voice surprised the pair of them as Sam exclaimed.

"Wait, Danny?" Sam walked over with Tucker behind her as Danny huffed as he explained it.

"Yeah. The other day I was such a jerk to, to, uh, the person wearing this thing, I figured I would give that person the day off."

"Aw, you're not half bad, Danny. Maybe someday Valerie will figure out the other half isn't either."

"She knows, but don't tell her that you know that she is Nasty Nat right now, she would kill me if you tattled."

"You didn't say it wasn't. Relax. I'm sure she's finally enjoying herself." On the other side of town, Valerie was having quite a time chasing down the Box Ghost, the elusive ghost just as problematic as Danny told her about as she exclaimed with gun in hand.

"You're goin' down!"

"You cannot catch me! For I am the Box— owww!" Meanwhile, Valerie laughed as she thought about it.

'Danny's right, this is going to a running gag, getting shot in the butt!'