On any normal day, a jewel robbery during the night would have been done by human hands, not able to phase through the glass itself as Danny poked his head in and remarked. "And I thought the merchandise is flying off the shelves is just an expression." He blasted the air to see what ghosts he was dealing with, but they were not there, not fully as a dwarf, a brute, some chick in an eye-patch, and a cloaked spirit as he exclaimed to them. "Woah! Who are you guys?" He didn't get an answer as the dwarf barreled over and started to pull at Danny as he exclaimed.

"Hey! I'm not a hat person! Especially if the hat is a dwarf!" He tore the ghost off and it slammed into the front window case and set off the alarms before Danny made to fight the others before getting confronted by the brute. "Okay, all things considered, maybe the tiny hat guy was better." The brute snatched him and hurled him at the eye-piece ghost who just rubberized out and slingshot him back to the cloaked figure as it parted to an exposed, spiked body of a girl, but more exactly to the number of tattoos that just came alive and attacked Danny as he exclaimed.

"Oh, come on, this is not fair at all!" He was forced back before he powered up a ecto-blast and lashed out, blasting the tattoos at the ghosts and bringing them down to the ground as he ranted. "You know, it's ghosts like you that give ghosts like me a bad name." He paused as a police drove up and the tattoos returned to the draping ghost before she took off, the others following and dropping the jewelry on Danny as the officers that arrived exclaimed.

"Freeze, Inviso-Bill!"

"Although it's hard to come up with a worse name than that." He turned intangible and slipped down, leaving the jewels behind as the partner cop spoke up to an idea as they approached the dropped goods.

"Hey. Want to take this stuff and blame the ghost kid?" A sigh came as the first officer spoke.

"You're under arrest."

"Awww..." Little did anyone know that this was but one string of trouble about to go down in Amity, by the hands of a greed-obsessed ringmaster...


At the Manson house, Sam rested with peace in her darkened room before a beam of light roused her up and she grimaced as her mother, Pamela Manson, exclaimed with the unveiling with her husband, Jeremy Manson. "Good morning, sunshine! And how do we greet the brand new day?"

"With a smile on your face and an attitude of gratitude!" Sam groaned as she rolled away with pillow shielding her as she groaned.

"I'm a creature of the night, doomed to a family of morning people."

"Uh, Sam, sweetie, I thought maybe we'd try to mix it up a little with wardrobe today." She somehow produces a pink sun with yellow floral print as Jeremy joined once more.

"Nothing says 'Hey world, look at me!' like floral prints."

"Okay, but I need to add just one little personal touch." To that, she turned the dress black and cut it short, to the horror of her mother as the day started just as well with breakfast, her grandma watching the TV as the woman on the TV spoke.

"Up next, is your teenage daughter moody, surly, is her outlook on life blacker than her eyeliner?" Sam blinked before glancing to her parents who glanced back with suspicion as the TV continued. "Take an active interest in your child. Know who her friends are. Learn to recognize a bad influence when it walks in your door." Danny, likewise, walked in with CDs as he exclaimed to Sam.

"Hey Sam, I got that Morbid Anti-social Youth CD you wanted." Sadly, the parents just glared at him as he spoke. "What? Have you heard 'My Parents Reek'? That cut rocks!" They glared once more before he just frowned at them. "It's music, ease up..." Any more was lost as the TV suddenly had a ad for something big as a red spiral consumed the screen and a pale, eerie-looking man looked back as he remarked.

"I... am Freakshow, ringmaster of the Circus Gothica..." He shoved the specter in hand toward the screen as a skeleton appeared with juggling skulls as the man remarked. "...where your nightmares come alive. Circus Gothica..." A creepy clown was seen as it howled in demented laughter. "...where the clowns never smile." It showed a heavily pierced man as Freakshow continued. "Circus Gothica. Come and get your freak on... with real freaks. Circus Gothica! Coming to Amity Park. Cross over... to the dark side." He wielded the staff close as Danny fell into a trance as he remarked.

"Cross over to the dark side..." His eyes lowered as they glowed red before Pam turned off the set as she spoke.

"Now there's some evil mind pollution we won't be seeing any time soon, sweetie." Sam stepped over as Danny was still for some reason.

"But we already bought our tickets." Both of her parents raised their brows to the sound of it as Sam just assured them with a sigh. "We'll be fine, it's just harmless entertainment, right Danny?"

"Cross over to the dark side..." He repeated as Sam just huffed.

"Hilarious." She took his wrist and hauled him away as she spoke. "Can we leave now, or do you want to stay and corrupt my grandma?" Both went through the door as Ida Manson spooked the pair of parents.

"Cross over to the dark si-i-ide." She huffed as she assured them. "I'm just kidding, lighten up!" Danny still stood as Sam, after closing the door, stomped over to him.

"Will you quit messing with my parents? That's my job!" The haze disappeared as Danny spoke.

"What?" He rested a hand to his face as he spoke. "Um, sorry, Sam, musta got a little spacey." He rubbed his head as he finished. "I was up pretty late last night."

"Just watch what you say around them, they already think I'm on the road to troubled teenhood." She started to walk, but the direction was different as Danny spoke.

"Where are you going? School's this way." He answered with pointing backward as Sam gleefully answered.

"The Circus Gothica Train pulled into town last night, I'm cutting first period to watch the opening ceremony at the train station."

"Sam..." Danny narrowed his brows as he spoke.

"Take it easy, Tucker's got first period free, he's covering for me." The horror of such a thing just screamed bad idea to Danny as Sam took off, likely having paid Tucker in advance to get the chance as Danny called out to her.

"Don't blame me if you get caught!" His ghost sense went off as he turned to the dwarf booking it, zooming under his legs as Danny peered up to the sky to see the other three. "And speaking of getting caught." He took after them with a call, the dwarf joining in flight. "I'm goin' ghost!" He jumped from the ground, to trash can, to truck and jumped with a boom into Phantom as the cops were also after the four before Danny arrived with a call. "Opening a new bank account? Don't forget your free toaster!" He fired an ecto blast and made the dwarf release the heavy sack, which slammed into the police cruiser and crashed it into a fire hydrant as the partner called out in anger.

"Curse you, ghost kid!

"Oh great, more fans." He took after the ghosts once more before stopping, the red orb on the Circus Gothica billboard capturing his mind before he shook it off and resumed the pursuit to find that he lost them and now overlooked the expanse of both the Circus and its accompanying train and a horde of goths as he huffed. "Terrific. The crooks got away, I'm late for school, and... I've never seen so many goths out in broad daylight." Some of the goth opened mini umbrellas as Sam called out to him.

"Well, look who decided to slum it with the troubled teens." Danny landed as he answered.

"What? I'm not in trouble." Sirens were heard in the distance as Sam continued with a smirk.

"Oh yeah, you're an upstanding citizen. Need to hide from the law?"

"No." But, still, he hid behind some iron drums and reverted back to join Sam in whistling as the cops rushed past with a call.

"Come back here, Inviso-Bill!" They smiled to each other before one of the train cars opened with a ramp as the man known as Freakshow stepped out into the light as he mused.

"Greetings, fellow outcasts. I am Freakshow, your master of ceremonies. Are you ready to smile, relax, and forget all your troubles amid the pleasant diversions of the circus?" He got a definite answer as the goths shouted.

"NO!"

"Then you've come to the right place!" He stepped off the ramp and went among the crowd as he continued. "Prepare to be disturbed and appalled by a small sample of the bizarre and abnormal world of... Circus Gothica!" He gestured back to the car as an arrow fired and embedded itself in a nearby pole, the first performer stepping out like a spider to the goth's gasps and surprise as she crept across the rope, followed by a skull-juggling man on a ball, a heavily-pierced woman bound in a spiked, iron wheel and ending with a man that towered over all as the goths cheered, but Sam was ignorant to Danny falling into a trance once more with the red swirl of the crystal ball that Freakshow held as Sam exclaimed in glee.

"This is the greatest moment ever. Nothing could ruin this for me!" That was a moment in vain as another crowd appeared, at the behest of the Manson's

"Parents of Amity Park! We urge you to boycott this morbid assault on the morals of our children!" The goths boo'd at the crowd as Sam hissed.

"What are they doing here?! Why can't they have day-jobs like regular parents?!" Freakshow took the chance as he exclaimed with landing on a crate among the crowd.

"Don't let the rantings of the closed-minded norms beat you down. Show them your true colors! And when I say 'colors', I mean 'all black'. Make them see you for who you are." The words echoed in Danny's mind as he repeated.

"Make them see us for who we are..." His eyes changed from the swirls to red pupils as he followed the command of the ringmaster. "Hey everyone!" He shouted with waving arms. "Over here! We're Danny Fenton and Sam Manson! We cut school and we're proud of it!" That rallied the goths to cheers as Sam facepalmed to a goth spraying Danny's shirt black as he spoke to the resolved youth.

"You're one of us, now." Sadly, that also involved the parents as the Mansons were concerned.

"Sam?" Once more, Sam facepalmed as she knew where this was going, still not cluing in on what was happening...


She was not disappointed as Principal Ishiyama lectured the pair of teens and the opposing parents in her office at Casper High. "Some might call this little act of rebellion a cry for attention, but I call it a cry for detention." She chuckled as she continued. "Isn't that clever?"

"Nice job, Danny. Maybe I should have cried 'Hey! It's Inviso-Bill!'" Sam hissed at Danny as he replied, confused of what even just happened and why was his shirt now black.

"I'm sorry! I don't know what came over me back there."

"Bad judgment, that's what!" Jack Fenton huffed as he waved his arm beside his son. "Next time, think before you act!" A small gun emerged from the suit and squirted the Mansons in goo as Jack spoke again. "That's... not right, what even...?" Sadly, the flame was lit as Pam sassed back as both Jeremy and her were glowed in the goo.

"...Obviously, the apple doesn't fall very far from the over-bearing, orange-jump suited tree!" That didn't sway over as Jack shouted.

"YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH JUMP SUITS?"

"Jack, let me handle this. YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH JUMP SUITS?" That was just as bad as Pam made her stand against the pair.

"Samantha, I forbid you from seeing this boy or any of your other troubled friends."

"My friends are perfectly normal!" That couldn't be said as Mr. Lancer opened the door for Tucker, in a Sam attire arrived with a grimace before Ishiyama just rested a hand to her face as she groaned.

"This is so wrong."


Night came as Freakshow revealed his real colors in the tent. "Slaves! Center ring!" The tall man revealed himself as the dwarf on slits as the juggler surged out of the body to be the brute, the spider reverted to the rubberized ghost and landed to joined as the pierced woman removed her body to revealed the pierced, tattooed ghost as they stood in line as Freakshow spoke with specter in hand. "For generations my family has controlled ghosts with this; untold power and all they could think to do was to entertain the masses, whereas I have found a much more profitable use for you minions." He dug through a chest of jewels, gold, and money that the brute brought forward as Freakshow peered into the orb again. "And as soon as the newest member of our cast joins us, this entire town will be mine for the taking." He continued with a smile. "Also, there is another here that will make this plan all the more greater, but she resists the power so strongly, the Djinn, find her and make her serve." The next day dawned and it found the trio in the library, Cedric, Talia, and Topaz sorting through the books as a additional time of work as Sam moaned with the ticket of Circus Gothica in hand.

"I wanted to experience something horrific and unimaginable. This isn't what I had in mind." Lancer was clipping his toenails there as Cedric did warn him not to do it in the library, but he didn't listen as Danny joined in the muse.

"We can always go to the circus tomorrow. That is, assuming we're not grounded and your parents let me within two-hundred feet of you." Tucker also followed as he was hiding a PDA behind his 'reading'.

"Guess we'll have to settle for the live web-cast of opening night." Freakshow appeared on the device as he exclaimed.

"Creatures of the night, unleash your dark side at Circus Gothica!" That unleashed the trance once more upon Danny as he repeated.

"Unleash your dark side at Circus Gothica..." Talia paused before she touched her skull, Cedric looking at her with concern before slowly helping her to the floor as Danny made to head out, Lancer recovering just as quickly as he inquired to the attempted leave.

"And just where do you think you're going, Mr Fenton?" The red pupils returned and Danny overshadowed Lancer as he spoke through him.

"Unleash your dark side at Circus Gothica..." He walked the teacher into the janitor closet and locking it with a spare key inside as Lancer recovered and shouted from his prison.

"Cask of Amontillado! Let me out, let me out!" Sam recovered to scold her friend.

"Danny, what are you doing? We're in too much trouble as it is!"

"No such thing as too much trouble. Unleash your dark side at Circus Gothica." He left the five in the library with phasing through the ceiling as Tucker mused.

"Man. We better follow him."

"Oh no! But that would mean skipping detention and going to the circus!" Tucker stared to the sarcastic comment as Sam finished. "Hello? Irony." She snatched Tucker's wrist and bolted off. Cedric lingering as he spoke, the flicker of red in Talia's eyes as she groaned, Topaz commenting on the change.

"Man, and I thought I was good, I don't know what the big deal is, it's just a..."

"It's... the scepter..." Talia moaned as Cedric propped her up as the haze lifted. "I... remember once that I was a part of Gothica, but I was spared from it with freedom, but somehow... I can feel its power, its siren call."

"I think that, due to your own control of hypnosis, Topaz, you are immune to this sudden element, but Talia..." Cedric frowned as he just held her. "..I don't think I can let her go right now, I need to keep her grounded." Topaz nodded as she glanced to the door where the duo escaped.

"Dipstick... You were not prepared this time... I'll get you back if Sam can't..." The pair left with eager nature as dusk soon saw the rise of another performance by the Circus Gothica as Freakshow exclaimed.

"Please welcome a performer who puts the 'death' in 'death-defying acts'... the Grim Reaper himself!" High up, a cloaked figure walked the tight rope to the shock of the goths watching before balancing with one hand on the bladed scythe as the cheers filled the air, Sam sneaking in to find Danny before she was discovered. "What are you doing back here?" Sam turned to meet Freakshow's gaze as she was ecstatic to the meeting as she spoke to herself.

"Woah! Freakshow! This is so cool! Focus..." She spoke up as she asked the ringmaster. "Uhm, I'm looking for a friend of mine who was acting kinda weird."

"Oh, that narrows it down to, oh, everyone in this tent!" He laughed it up as the Reaper came over to Freakshow exclaiming. "What are you doing, dolt?! Get back out there and do your encore!" The hood came off as Danny Phantom spoke in confusion.

"Sam?"

"What's that? Was that- was that free will?!" Freakshow exclaimed as he commanded. "Obey me, minion!" The trance fell over Danny once more as Sam realized its meaning and exclaimed herself.

"What? You're controlling him?" But Freakshow left no room for resistance as he commanded.

"Get her." Danny slashed to the soft scream of Sam before the next performance was made as Freakshow reappeared in the center ring as he exclaimed. "Please welcome a brand new vict- talent to the high wire in her first... and final... performance." On the high wire, Sam stood terrified with blindfold on before Danny slashed it off with scythe in hand, she glancing down to the height as she kept her balance somehow as Tucker rushed in to find her up there.

"Sam?" Sam, however, tried to get through the skull of the controlled as she pleaded.

"Danny, listen, you don't wanna do this! You're being controlled!" Her voice fell flat as the rope was cut and Sam fell down to her end, but Danny reverted back before jumping down to save her. The crowd cheered, but Freakshow growled as Danny landed with hand to his face as Sam begged to him. "Danny, don't scare me like that!" But he fell under the control once more as he growled.

"How should I scare you?" He backed off as Freakshow hissed a threat.

"Consider that a warning, girl." He headed off as Tucker exclaimed as he joined Sam.

"Jeez, Sam, you nearly gave me a heart-attack! Can we take time off from your goth-a-palooza and actually look for Danny?"

"That was Danny, under the hood, Freakshow's controlling him with some kind of crystal ball! C'mon!" Tucker followed Sam as they rushed out to get help, but they stopped to the crowd of protesting parents, more exactly the Mansons as Pam spoke to her daughter.

"Sam! Shouldn't you be in detention?"

"Uhm.. Lancer let us out?" Lancer, himself, shouted from his cell as Cedric couldn't get him out without the key and the trio were trying to find it as the Fentons also arrived.

"Are we late for the protest?" They were decked out for the attack as Jack exclaimed.

"I brought the Fenton Riot Gear." The large cannon discharged and destroyed the Mansons' signs as Jack mused again. "That's... not the right setting, it's suppose to be foam..." He tinkered with the weapon as Pam glared at her husband as he answered to the glare.

"What? I didn't invite them." Jack noticed Sam and Tucker and asked a valid question.

"Hey, isn't Danny supposed to be with you?"

"Not according to this restraining order, he's not." Pam answered with a piece of parchment before Maddie mused in confusion, Damian part of the crowd as well while Valerie just watched it happen on the Nasty Burger set.

"Well, he's not here and he's not at school, so where is he?" Sadly, that answer was simple as Danny joined the ghosts in robbing the local museum with Danny the taskmaster as he blasted them with a shout.

"Ecto-butts in gear!" That caused them to yelp from the treatment as Danny just grinned to his controlled fun. "Danny This party's just getting started!" He kept with them as the police arrived to Danny's continued resistance. "Oh please!" He blasted the tires as soon as it was all abuzz on the sets.

"In the wake of parental protest, Circus Gothica ringmaster Freakshow had this challenge to his critics:"

"I invite you to attend a free performance for parents, police, and concerned authority figures. See the show and see for yourselves that we're harmless entertainment."

"In other news, police got a break in the recent rash of mysterious burglaries as security cam footage revealed the ghostly culprits." It showed a feed of Danny and the ghosts robbing the places before destroying the cameras recording it as it finished up with asking about Lancer. "And finally, have you seen this out-of-shape teacher? He was last sighted in the Casper High School library-" The TV was shut off as Sam turned to her laptop connecting to Tucker as he exclaimed.

"Sam, didja catch the news? We gotta do something to save Danny!"

"How ironic is it that I'm stuck under house-arrest while to a free Circus Gothica show?!"

"Only slightly less ironic than the fact that they were right about it being evil." Sam glared about that fact, but didn't linger on it as she dropped a rope ladder out her window and moving to get to the Circus, but was stopped by a familiar face as her grandma inquired.

"And just where do you think you're going, Bubeleh?"

"You don't understand, grandma! My friend is in trouble, and if I don't do something right away-"

"Ya know, I had a wild streak when I was your age." She pulled out a photo album and showed Sam a picture of when she was younger, riding a scooter as Sam inquired.

"Why are you showing me this?"

"Who knows? Maybe I'm old and babbling, or maybe you should sneak out and help your friend while I'm lost in my memories." The goth smiled as she planted a kiss on her grandma's forehead and headed off as she closed the book and took off her top to reveal she was in the same attire as her granddaughter as she beamed. "This is so wrong..." She slapped on a wig as she just continued. "But I dig it!" Going on with the free performance of the Circus, the parents were not made aware of the possible trap as Sam snuck onto the grounds of the train before she yelped to a bat-like shadow, hiding under as it could have been Freakshow, but it was just Tucker as he asked.

"Sam?"

"Tucker?" The tech-wiz crouched down as he greeted her.

"Hey Sam. Is this a great Circus Gothica hat or what?" Sam got up form under the train before slapping the thing off his beret as Tucker answered the question. "I'll take that as an 'or what'." They scaled to the top of the caboose and landed among the gold and jewels stolen before spotting the scepter as Sam exclaimed.

"There's the crystal ball! Let's grab it and-" They didn't get the chance as they were blasted out of the caboose and gasped as Danny soared out with Freakshow joining him before the train blew its whistle and started to pull away as Sam yelled as the pair took off for the train. "Danny! No!"

"Yes, yes, please scream. A shame anyone who might help you is busy enjoying my free show." He laughed as the tattooed ghost went to work scaring the crowd, the tent also trapping them in with brick as Tucker and Sam somehow got to the high rise of some metal beams so they could jump onto the train.

"We have to jump."

"You crazy? I can't jump."

"And I can't abandon Danny." They held tight before jumping getting onto the train as Sam breathed. "Plus, I'll never hear the end of it if my parents learn they're right about him being evil." While the Fentons took care of business at the tent, Sam and Tucker started to get going across the train, but their steps alerted the five on board as Freakshow commanded.

"What are you waiting for? GO!" They headed up as Freakshow purred to his captive in the back. "Not long now, Djinn, soon, you'll be back to where you belong." The three remaining ghosts blocked the pair's continued mission and Danny appeared behind them as Sam and Tucker turned to him as Sam pleaded to the ghosts getting closer, for Danny to come to his senses.

"Danny, it's us, Sam and Tucker! Your best friends, remember?!" The moment was tension before Danny somehow regained focus as he asked.

"Tucker? Sam? I... I..." They beamed as Danny tried to fight. "I..." Suddenly, the control took over once more as he answered with evil intent. "..am a.. ghost. I have no friends." Freakshow had arrived as he called out with scepter in hand.

"Don't waste your breath, children." They turned to him scaling onto the train's top as he mused. "He's under my control now." Suddenly, the air roared a boom of jets before something crashed into the train, denting the previous roof completely and stood up, Sam and Tucker dropping in panic as the figure that emerged from the scorching flame spoke.

"Freakshow..." Cedric had arrived in the Exorcist and the look in his eye shouted murder. "...This is your last stop before Hell." Freakshow didn't believe that as he shouted.

"Don't just stand there, finish them!" The ghosts made to attack, but the dwarf was SMASHED into the car by Cedric's grip, the brute suffered a bad punch into the chest before digging up metal of the train, and the rubber ghost just got twisted up like a pretzel and couldn't get out of it before Phantom made to stop him as well. "You think you can actually win, child? You're dreaming and this is a nightmare." Danny made to charge, but Cedric just backhanded him, a shock-wave erupting from the impact as Cedric answered.

"Yeah, YOUR nightmare." Freakshow made to escape, but a line caught him and ripped him over to Cedric as the teen snatched Freakshow by the neck and ripped the staff out of his hands. "I wonder how much your neck can take before I get you into a brace." Sam's eyes widen on how willing Cedric was with attempting murder as she stood up.

"Exorcist, don't do it, don't be the villain, we know you better than that, don't stoop to his level, you're better than him!" Cedric cast a glance to her and she felt her heart drop that there was no measure of kindness under the visor as Danny stumbled over with a knee down as the three ghosts captured Tucker somehow before Cedric tossed Freakshow forward of the train with force as the Iron Exorcist answered, both hands gripping the scepter.

"This madness, your career, is THROUGH!" He lifted it high before smashing it into the metal, the orb shattering and the fragments falling into the gorge below that they were passing as Danny was the first to recover, the red disappearing from his eyes as Sam rushed over to him.

"Danny.. are you okay?"

"I think so." He rubbed his jaw as he felt it cracked for a second there, despite his ghostly power. "It's all a blur. I did some bad stuff, didn't I?"

"'Nothing you can't fix." They turned to Tucker as he pleaded.

"Good. Now maybe you can convince Tiny here to let go of me?" Thankfully, the ghosts also were freed as the eye-patch ghost, it just being a patch instead of an actual eye-patch, inquired in amaze.

"H-huh? Where are we?"

"Are we free? Finally free?" The dwarf asked as Danny answered.

"Only one way to find out." The ghosts ganged up on Freakshow and dropped him down to where all the loot was as Cedric quickly found the section he was looking for, his suit lighting up the dim car to reveal Talia, struggling to resist the lingering effects of an attempted mind control, before he bent down and lifted her up, holding her close.

"I'm sorry I didn't get here sooner." The visor hid his face well, but not well enough as tears started to flow from under the visor. "I am never letting you go again..." Meanwhile, Freakshow pleaded with the four ghosts about to ruin him.

"Okay, uh, when I called you, er, 'minions', it was really a-a term of endearment like-like 'I love my minions!'"

"You wanted a big haul? Try this on for size!" Danny blasted the pile behind Freakshow and toppled the whole thing on him as the train started to come to a stop of a police road block before he quickly inquired. "So, what d'ya say we stick around and explain to the cops we were being controlled by an evil ringmaster?" Instead of flying away first, the ghosts answered.

"I can't really say that."

"We're gonna be seen as crooks, sorry, I ain't taking the chance, kid."

"And Lydia is still on his side, we got to split." The trio quickly left as Danny breathed.

"Ya know, I had a feeling that would be their answer." He phased out of there as well to join up with Sam and Tucker, Cedric taking another route away to get Talia to heal while the police and authorities found Freakshow and all of his 'loot'.

The whole thing was locked down and Freakshow was carted off as the parents of Fenton and Manson praised their children's bravery... and foolishness. "Nice work, kids. You caught that weirdo goth punk thief red-handed!"

"I'm just happy you're all safe!"

"More than safe, they're heroes!"

"We're so proud of you."


"BUT YOU'RE ALL STILL GROUNDED!" Was the collective answer as Tucker, Danny, and Sam were forced to study as Ida scowled to the behavior.

"Grounded, shmounded! This is cruel and unusual punishment!" Somehow, Sam got another sundress and now wore it as she answered her grandma.

"I know, but it was the only way I could convince them to lift their restraining order on Danny."

"At least Freakshow is in custody and the stolen goods were returned." Danny lightly tapped his jaw and felt no pain now as Tucker questioned.

"So why do I feel like we're forgetting something?" They did as Lancer pleaded from being trapped in the closet still.

"Waiting for Godot, is anybody out there?! This is so wrong!" He sobbed as the door opened to the Janitor pushing his mop in with a neutral face.

"See ya Monday." The door closed and Lancer pounded at the door for it to open before Cedric arrived and breathed with the crack of the neck.

"Here we go, I hope you will avoid the door." Lancer quickly ducked as Cedric slammed a fist into the door and popped the door knob to pieces on both sides, the door swinging open as Cedric glanced to his fist and hummed. "Well, that's a new one, busting locks with shattering knobs, mm-hm."

"There and Back Again! Thank you!" Lancer straightened as he spoke. "Now, I need to teach Mr. Fenton how to..." Cedric lifted the PDA and Lancer watched the video brought up, Phantom broadcasting from a secret location and apologizing for the recent deeds done, admitting that he was only under mind control, but it was still him, so he had no reason to lie about it, but expected everyone to understand the facts before jumping the gun, even apologizing to Lancer for trapping him in a closet while in the trance, that cleared the water for them all as Phantom was a force for good, not evil in any way...