The day started out rather well as Sam exclaimed to her friends. "Guys, come on! We're gonna be late for school!" Sadly, it was a lost battle as Sam tried to get the attention of her two friends while the trio of Cedric, Talia, and Topaz just watched it happen as the goth did try. "Guys? Guys!" Danny broke the silence as he spoke to Tucker.

"Isn't it everything I told you it would be and more?"

"You did not lie, dude. You did not lie." They stood in the parking lot of a car dealership and looming before them was a titan of a monster truck as both beamed over it.

"The Gi-Normo Six-Thousand." Sam stomped over before reading over what made it so great.

"Seats made of owl leather? Interior wood paneling made from the Amazon rain-forest? Twelve gallons to the mile?!"

"That sounds like a murder on the basics of nature." Talia and Topaz nodded to Cedric's thought as Sam continued in her rant.

"This car is an environmental nightmare!" She jumped down as an idea came to her. "I know what you should do!"

"No." Danny answered as Sam tried to get him on board, maybe even the girls.

"You could totally haunt this place! Scare people away from here and make them buy something else!"

"No." Tucker joined Danny's side as he countered back.

"Cut it out, Sam. It's a cool truck! Besides, this would not be the first time one of your bad ideas got Danny into trouble."

"What are you talking about?"

"Might I remind of... the Portal?" Cedric answered as they thought back to it.


(FLASHBACK)

Sam had joined Danny, Tucker, and Cedric down in the lab as she cheered. "Smile!" She snapped a pic of Danny, holding a black and white jumpsuit with the icon of Jack on the front of it, in front of the latest and greatest failure of the Fentons, the Ghost Portal, a passageway into the Ghost Zone which was suppose to be the reverse of their world. It printed out as Danny blinked the flash out of his eyes as he questioned.

"Okay. I showed you the Portal, can we get out of here now?" Danny asked as the trio of friends walked over to him and his black-collar jumpsuit. "My parents could be back here any minute. Besides, they say it doesn't work anyway." But Sam was insistent as she walked over to the archway and mused.

"Come on, Danny. A Ghost Zone? Aren't you curious? You gotta check it out."

"He really doesn't." Cedric answered as he rolled a wrist, looking rather bare, but that was because he couldn't bring his BB gun down for protection, it had to stay home. Danny joined her and accept her interest, also it sounded cool too.

"You know what? You're right. Who knows what kind of awesome, super-cool things exist on the other side of that Portal?" He slipped on the jumpsuit, the boots and gloves black while the rest was white, and zipped it up, the sticker of Jack Fenton apparent on his chest before Sam stepped over to him.

"Hang on..." She took a hold on the sticker and tore it off, no one really questioning how the sticker even stayed on like it did with a zip there. "You can't go walking around with that on your chest." The trio watched as Danny turned to the Portal and walked in.

He looked around the interior of it as he ran a hand over the wall before he pressed something, eyes flashing to it as the 'on/off' controls as the Portal powered up, Cedric's call of concern unheard as Danny was electrocuted in his screaming and his body changed in the sudden green of the Portal, inverting his colors to white gloves, boots, collar, and hair while the suit turned blacked and his eyes were no longer blue, they were green...

(END FLASHBACK)


The five glanced to Sam as she remarked. "How's it bad I was there? If it wasn't for me, he'd be flying around with his dad's face on his chest." That was beside the point as they rolled their eyes to Sam's continued attack on 'authority'. "Know how you can say thank you? By crushing a few trucks!" She said as she gestured to one of the trucks as Danny countered with a valid reason.

"Sam, I'm the good guy! So unless these super-awesome trucks are being used for evil, I *can't* do anything."

"Except wonder if it's got a GPS satellite guidance system." Tucker swooned as Danny joined.

"And rims."

"Big, spinning rims." Sam turned away as she grumbled.

"Oh, I give up." She stomped off as the trio watched her go, mumbling under her anger. "I just wish somebody would destroy these stupid trucks!" In an instant, Talia's eyes turned red as she spoke.

"And so you have wished it, so shall it be!" Her hands glowed pink and she blasted it at the giant cow on the nearby 'Daisy's Dairy Diner', it coming alive before the red faded and she gripped her head as Cedric caught her in confusion.

"Talia...?" Danny and Tucker were still swooning over one of the trucks as Danny asked himself.

"I wonder what this button does." He pressed the button on the truck and no sooner did he, then the truck getting totaled and the pair bounced back to the angry- red-eyed titan of a cow as both got back up against another truck before Danny found his nerve as he protested against the beast. "Get away, fiend! Whatever you do, leave this truck alone!" The cow had other plans as it turned and primed its udders, Danny looking surprised before both were blasted with hot milk as Tucker groaned.

"Aw, man! I just became lactose intolerant!" Another blast doused them as Cedric narrowed his brow at what just happened, it seemed like... Desiree just accepted Sam's wish without resistance, something was very wrong...


The six friends headed down the street with Topaz joining the ranks of the soaked as Tucker beamed at them both. "Good job beating the big cow, guys."

"Yeah, well, it hasn't stopped Sam from busting our chops about cruelty to un-living plastic animals." Danny answered with some scorn as Sam returned volley.

"I had to choose between fake cows and evil trucks. The cow won." She stopped with a gasp as she spotted a promo of a new movie coming. "Oh my gosh, I almost forgot!" She rushed over and beamed with glee of the movie. "Trinity of Doom is out this Friday!" Cedric HAD heard of it before, the ultimate clash between the greatest killers in cinema history, from the alien hunter, always on the chase for the most excellent prize, the robot form the future on a rampage against humans, and to the nightmare-driven serial killer who roamed the dreams of her victims before the death in real life. "Femalien, Terminatra, and Nightmerica!" She beamed in glee as she was so excited. "All my favorite female movie monsters, in one film!" The five joined her in looking at it before Tucker spoke.

"So it's a chick flick?" Topaz spared no mercy for Tucker for how dare he mock Femalien, that's a classic, as she just slapped him across the back of the head, the 'Gibbs Slap' Talia and Cedric believed it was called as Danny remarked with looking at his soaked form.

"Oh, duh!" He turned intangible and the milk dropped off him in a puddle as Tucker voiced his want as well with crossed arms, disregarding the slap he just suffered.

"Hello?" Danny reached and turned Tucker intangible as well as the milk pooled out, Topaz rolling her eyes before she focused and the puddle grew as Tucker smiled with satisfaction before Sam busted their chops about the movie.

"Not just a chick flick, the chick flick." She clenched her hands as he beamed once more. "The three biggest female box office monsters battling it out in a big-budget special-effects bonanza!" She pumped before she turned to Danny as she spoke once again. "And since you promised we'd all go on Friday, I bought us tickets." She beamed in pride before another voice spoke.

"Danny?" The party turned to Paulina walking across the street to them as Sam donned a look of apprehension as the Hispanic cheerleader. "You never told me whether or not you were coming to my Quinceañera on Friday." Danny answered with confusion as he took the paper that she handed him.

"That's because when you invited me, I thought you were joking."

"And that you forgot to invite me." Another 'Gibbs Slap' for the geek as Sam, irked with Paulina, replied in quiet anger.

"And remembered not to invite me."

"Basically, it's just the status quo we have faced with the populars and not-populars, Sanchez." Cedric pointed as he continued. "You like to keep the status quo up, you know." She was surprised, but laughed it off as she answered.

"Oh, no, silly. You're all invited!" She shrugged with showing the invite briefly, reading 'Paulina's Party, 15th Birthday Meteor Shower' to which Talia looked pale as the invites were handed to the five of them as Tucker cheered.

"Yes!"

"No!" Sam growled as Paulina looked to Danny as he asked.

"Really?"

"Really." She gestured to them as she continued. "I knew Danny wouldn't come if I didn't invite you five, but I especially want Danny to be there." The look in her eyes was dreamily, as if she wanted it to happen as Danny stammered.

"Me?"

"Of course. My Papa is throwing the party at the country club, and it's happening on the same night as a meteor shower." She then quickly went on a tangent about the whole thing. "And I really want that ghost boy to be there. And since the ghost boy seems to show up wherever you do, I figured I had no choice but to invite you and your loser friends!"

"Hey, we're right here, you know." Tucker huffed.

"Yeah, I know." She was clearly unfazed by the notion as Cedric just shrugged to the idea with Talia looking still unnerved about it while Topaz hummed with tapping the rolled up paper to her chin. Paulina headed off as Danny exclaimed.

"The ghost boy?" He called out to her as he assured her. "Oh, he'll be there, Paulina! I promise!" Sam spoke otherwise as she directed their attention to the poster while gripping the invite tightly.

"Uh, guys? Movie? Friday? Non-refundable tickets?!" Danny retorted back with glancing to the invite.

"Oh, come on, Sam, we never get invited to these parties."

"And I don't get to go if he doesn't go!" Sam was firm in her standing before both went into a pleading notion.

"Pretty please with those dark licorice sprinkles with the black frosting you like with those little gummy bats on top?" They did this with curled hands and pinching motions before Sam caved and she groaned.

"All right, all right!" Both of the boys clapped as the trio just rubbed their temples in disbelief before bolted off and Sam got one last musing from Danny as he asked.

"You're coming to the party too, right?" She answered halfheartedly, as if to keep him happy.

"Yes, I'll be there." Danny was pleased as he took off again before Sam mused to herself, smiling to a small loophole. "I'll be there, unless something should happen to Paulina, and then the party got cancelled." She headed off with a smile as she finished. "Not that I'd wish that." She headed off, but Talia froze up again as the red returned with Talia's voice reverting to Desiree's sultry tones, Topaz and Cedric stopping as well from heading home to see Talia do just that.

"Well, she did say 'wish'." She laughed with mischief as she blasted the movie poster, unleashing three threats to Paulina's safety to cancel the party, the magic ending as Talia regained focus and dropped as Cedric rushed over as Topaz exclaimed.

"What the Zone was that!?"

"I don't know, but I do know this..." Cedric answered as he glanced to Topaz. "I think that the following days are going to be taxing Talia too much, we need to keep her under lock and key..." He lifted her up slowly as he finished. "I just hope that we can keep her as such... for who knows how long..." They headed off to school, hoping that whatever was going to happen, they could deal with.


Class started with Lancer commenting about the coming meteor storm. "Thousands of meteors will be visible in the skies of Amity Park this Friday. People tend to wish upon these 'falling stars' without realizing that at the speeds they're falling, they could drill through your tiny skulls like they were wet toilet paper!" Sadly, it just went over all of their heads as Sam huffed as she doddled in her book, making a ghostly figure before circling a unique mix of a slanted D, three points flowing behind it, and a negative space of a P, liking the look of it and that it stood for her best friend before Paulina spoke up with glee, clasped hands in dreamy notions.

"Papa says the stars are falling on my birthday just for me." She raised her hands as well. "And I'm going to wish to meet the ghost boy, and if one of the meteors flies towards me, the ghost boy could save me!" Dash, bring bored joined in as he ranted.

"Huh? Uh yeah, you know what I'd wish for? He flexed his arms as Danny just raised a brow to him. "Extra arms to catch more footballs!" He crouched down and glanced to Danny with a point. "And to wail on you, Fen-ton." He straightened as he just smiled. "But that doesn't technically count as a wish because, I can do that anytime." The raised palm turned into a fist as he finished. "Watch!" A textbook slammed into Dash's head from the top, Cedric its holder as Dash backed down as Cedric spoke, lifting the book with one hand.

"Baxter, I hope you have been playing *nice* and not trying to get on my nerves again, are you?"

"N-No!"

"Good." He headed off as Danny huffed in disbelief.

"Honestly, he is being too protective, he could have reigned in this school somehow." Suddenly, his ghost sense went off as the ceiling rumbled before something crashed through, landing and all seeing the beast as it was Femalien, from the movie poster, as it straightened up to everyone's panic as it was dressed in minor armor, black loincloth, tube top, ankle bands, metal neck brace while the right hand sported a jagged blade while the left had a blaster. The thing had growth-like hair in two pigtails, his jaw protruded tusks, and it was down right menacing as he hissed for one victim.

"Paulina!" Dash found his courage to ask as he was scared out of his mind about the whole thing, Paulina looking back at him for the question.

"Uh, did it just say your name?" Paulina acknowledged with glee, as if this was an average day for her.

"Neat!" Lancer, however, was not going to let it slide as he shouted with fire extinguisher in hand.

"War of the Worlds, creature! Get away from my youthful charges!" He got its attention, but in more rage as it growled with the extinguisher just barely doing anything before Lancer answered meekly. "Well, I tried." He beamed in the face of doom before shouting. "RUN!" He dropped the extinguisher and pulled the fire alarm as everyone ran for it with Femalien after them, Danny bracing behind some cover before both transformed. The rings formed Phantom while the Exorcist developed across the body before bolted for their target. Lucky, their target was focused on a certain popular as it crashed through the walls and charged, blades at the ready before both tackled it into the floor as Paulina exclaimed.

"Ghost boy, metal guy, wait! I have invites for you." But, the message was lost as they crashed into an office and Danny backed up, only to get the tail end of Femalien smacking him away and into the wall before the beast wrestled with Cedric as he exclaimed.

"This thing is pushing with some horsepower, no wonder these things were so tough to even injure in the movies." He pumped and turned the tables before smashing the beast into the floor as Danny recovered and soared over as he demanded, the blaster getting knocked away from launching darts at the Demi.

"All right, gruesome. What do you want? Who sent you?" A name slipped form the creature's mouth.

"Saaaaam…" Both looked astonished as the beast just faded away, neither noticing that Talia slipped in, eyes glowing red before flying away. A new problem arose and they had to talk to their friends about it.


They sat at the park with Valerie as Danny recounted the encounter as Valerie questioned. "So after you two beat it down, it said 'Sam'?"

"Actually, it was more like,-" He lifted his arms and tried to talk in the hissing sound that the ghost was using. "-'Saaaaam…'-" He lowered them as he finished. "-but you get the point." Sam didn't take it well as she look incredulous about the possible accusation.

"You can't really blame me for this; can you?" Danny answered back as he assured her, Cedric rubbing his jaw on the notion and how... Talia wasn't anywhere now which was strange, the two were a pair in the public eye.

"Well, it's got something to do with you, but don't worry." He beamed with his heroic duty. "I saved Paulina, so you don't have to apologize."

"Good. 'Cause I'm not gonna." But that was not the end of it as Danny fished through his pack and pulled out a familiar piece of tech.

"You're just gonna have to wear this Specter Deflector and stay out of the way." He affixed it to her waist as she exclaimed with offense of what exactly he was doing.

"What?"

"Sam, something weird is going on and you're clearly the cause of it." Danny huffed with scorn before calming down. "It's probably better for all of us if you just lay low." He motioned with his hands from high to low as Tucker joined in the agreement.

"Yeah, Sam. You should just lay low." He said with a mocking tone before getting a double Gibbs Slap to his head as Valerie beamed as the geek's forehead hit the table.

"That is actually really fun, let's doing it to him for any *wrong* phrases." Topaz gave a thumbs up as Tucker groaned before Danny's and Topaz's ghost sense went off and a scream was heard as Danny exclaimed.

"Paulina? Again?" He huffed as he primed himself again. "This is going to have to wait." He stood on the seat as he spoke. "I'm going ghost!" Both Exorcist and Topaz joined in changing as Danny gave an order. "Stay here."

"Oh, I will. I promise." Sam innocently assure them as they bolted for Paulina before she went scrounging for her backpack and shouted at them. "The same way you kept your promise about going to the movies Friday!" Tucker just beamed as he got more food. As for Paulina, she was being chased down by Terminatra who was running across the buildings in pursuit of the scooter-riding girl with a dress in hand as it fired a blast at her, getting the edge of the bag as the cheerleader shouted back.

"Hey, I just got this back from the cleaners!" She sped up as the cyborg threat jumped, wrecking the street before developing a rocket on it's back and continuing the chase as Paulina made it to the park and moaned in grief. "This is, like, the worst birthday week ever!"

"Well, let's see if we can't change that a little." Danny answered as he arrived with his partners as Paulina beamed in the arrival.

"And now it's not!" Danny turned with a blast to knock the cyborg out of the air, but it passed through a hole that form before the droid changed into a net of metal as Paulina ruined the moment. "Wait, let me give you this." She held up a invite as she spoke. "If I invite you, I can un-invite Danny Fenton and his loser friends!" Danny exclaimed.

"What?"

"Not cool, girl!"

"Heads up!" Exorcist dropped for Topaz and Danny getting caught, slamming into the fountain and getting electrode before Terminatra tossing the both of them into the fountain. Both reverted back as Terminatra reformed and somehow improved the mechanical arm as Exorcist groaned. "Why is it ever a Ten-Twenty Model, those things are hellish to even stop, even the Nine-Seventy was outmatched for a time."

The cupped metal turned to the pair with a white glow before another voice shouted. "Leave them alone!" Sam charged on the motor scooter before engaging the Specter Deflector, enveloping her before ramming into the cyborg, dealing crippling damage to the model before getting shocked even more as both looked at it and it looked back at the before it answered in a robotic tone.

"Saaaaam…" The metal skeleton was revealed before Terminatra, too, faded into nothing before Sam answered with glee as Cedric joined them.

"Man, you're right! That Specter Deflector works like a charm." Danny nodded as he got up and walked over with speaking, Topaz getting pulled out by Cedric.

"Nice save! Although, to be fair, I probably wouldn't have needed it if it weren't for you in the first place." He took Sam's hand, just to get shocked and toppled away as Sam huffed in disbelief.

"Uh, excuse me?" She answered in difference as he leaned forward and gestured to herself. "I save your butt and you're giving me grief?" Danny also was getting annoyed as he answered back.

"Welcome to my world, remember?" He pointed out Sam's points across the times. "'We should make the menu recyclo-vegetarian!', 'We should let the gorilla out!', 'We should sell all of your dad's stuff at a garage sale!' He crossed his arms as the pair glanced between the two as the fight started to boil over, their first 'fight'.

"Anything else you want to blame me for? World hunger? The ice age? Puberty?"

"Sam, both monsters knew your name." Danny arched his brows as he pointed out the common connection. "Either there's another Sam involved in ghost fighting or it's you." Sam growled as she retorted back.

"How about a 'thank you', huh?" She straightened as she crossed her arms. "You think Paulina would've saved your butt back there?"

"She would if she wanted me to come to her party!" Danny answered with standing up as Sam groaned loudly as she headed off with a passing jab.

"Danny, I swear. There are days I wish I had never even met you!" She sped off on the scooter as the three watched her go. Danny breathed as he groaned.

"Way to go, Fenton. You just ticked off one of the only five real friends you have." He had gestured down the way before pulling out the invite as Cedric patted his shoulder

"I guess we should have seen this coming, Sam is headstrong about her opinion, so it is not a first."

"Yeah, Dipstick, she is just upset with everything right now, let her cool off for a bit." Still, he looked at the flyer before he shouted after her.

"Sam! Wait!" Both Demi's senses went off and the three turned to the bubbling pink that was coming from the fountain before pink mist started to bellow up and a laugh echoed in the air before it formed into Talia's old form of a harem girl ghost, but larger than before as she exclaimed.

"Finally!"

"Talia?" Danny answered as he transformed with Topaz, the tension heavy somehow as he spoke. "You look different."

"More powerful?" She answered in glee with clapping her palms. "Why, yes! The more wishes I grant, the more powerful I get!" She resumed the evil laughter as she continued, the idea of the shower giving her utter delight to the fearful looks of Danny and Topaz, Cedric grimacing to the sudden turn. "Oh, and only days away from the meteor shower where everybody will be making wishes!" She pumped her fist before striking out, the party disbanding from the attack as Topaz exclaimed.

"Tal, what are you doing, this isn't you!"

"I am Desiree and what I want is you, Ghost boy, out of the way by Friday night." She beamed as she continued in leaning toward Danny. "But it's not about what I want. It's about what your little friend wants." She was thrilled with the change as she exclaimed in evil glee. "And she just wished she never met you!" Realization crossed Danny's face as he nearly yelped.

"Oh. Oh no!"

"And so she has wished it, and so it shall BE!" She unleashed a ray of pink at Danny and the world faded away to black as Danny screamed, all of the work done by Danny Phantom now gone, done in by the shout of rage among friends and, by extension, gone are the works of the Iron Exorcist...


The day started out as any other as a school bell rang and a trio of nerds were shoved into a locker by the hands of Kwan and Dash as Dash admired their handiwork. "This could be a new record." The football player looked ot his friend as he continued. "But there's still room for more!" He pointed down the way. "Go get Mikey." He suddenly donned a haunted look as he finished. "But be careful, HE could still be somewhere to break us." Kwan nodded as he headed off to get Mikey while Danny and Tucker spoke to each other.

"So, what do you want to do tomorrow?"

"I don't know." He strolled through the PDA to find nothing on it as he answered. "According to my PDA, we're free every night through college." Sam arrived with a beaming smile as she greeted the both of them.

"Hi." But Danny's answer threw her off.

"Do I know you?" Sam lowered her brows as she mused on the 'sarcastic' reply.

"Oh, very cute. I said I'd wished we never met, and now you're pretending we didn't meet." She scoffed as she continued. "You're hilarious."

"No, seriously, do I know you?" A pit dropped in Sam's stomach as Danny's answer was the same before Tucker joined in, she hoping that he would treat her the same.

"And more importantly, Would you like to know me?" He sprayed his mouth with breath fresher to her surprise as he introduced himself. "Hi. I'm Tucker. Tucker Foley. That's TF." He pointed to her as he finished. "As in 'Too Fine'." Sam shuttered as she exclaimed to the treatment.

"Oh, gross! Are you hitting on me?" The action down the way was a bit more chaotic as Mikey was shoved into the locker before he exclaimed.

"I wish somebody would show you what this feels like!" Dash and Kwan were proud of their act, but another made her presence known as she slipped from the vents and spoke with a smile.

"So you have wished it…" She beamed before trailing off in boredom, referring to some other force. "So, you know the rest." She blasted Mikey as he erupted into a reptile beast, Dash and Kwan screaming as Desiree grew in power and strength before soaring over to the trio, Tucker taking off as she towered over Danny who was shaking before uttering a single word. "Boo!"

Danny cowered as he yelped in fear. "Ghost!" Desiree took off as she mused.

"No memory, no powers. Perfect." Sam stepped over quickly as she exclaimed.

"That's Desiree! The Wishing Ghost! I thought she was a Demi now!" She turned to Danny as she ranted to him to do something as he stopped shaking to confusion. "Danny, you've gotta do something." But he did nothing as she forced him to turn to her as she pleaded. "Why aren't you going ghost?" Danny pushed her away as he vocally shouted back.

"Look, kid. I don't know who you are or what you're talking about." He gave a shrug before escaping in fear. "All I know is, I am outta here!" Mikey's monster form shoved the pair of jocks into a locker as Dash pleaded.

"We're sorry! We're sorry!" Mikey reverted back before slamming the locker shut as he cheered.

"I rock!" He booked it away as Sam took to opening Danny's locker, remembering the combo to it before finding a sight that cursed her heart to pieces.

"Oh no." She pulled off the piece of Tucker and Danny together, no sign of Sam or Cedric as he retrieved her book or 'DIARY' in regret. "Last night I wished Danny had never met me." She compared the two photos together as she was in disbelief. "And Desiree must've made it so we never met!" The compare was real as her photo had the four of them together with Cedric leaning on Danny as Sam was behind the two guys with hands on their shoulders, but the altered one only had them with a wide open space as she moaned. "Which means he never got his powers, Cedric was never our friend, and there is no Talia or Topaz, just Desiree here!" She exclaimed as she chased off Danny to get him to listen.

"Danny! You've got to listen to me!" She chased after him down to Fenton Works as he didn't believe her at all, even refused to hear a thing about Cedric as, without her being there, back in first grade, Cedric developed a authoritarian command, EVERYONE feared him and Lancer was shown HUNDREDS of times his folly as she pleaded to Danny to believe. "Why won't you believe me?" Danny answered back as he spoke in a incredulous fashion.

"Believe what? That I had super powers?" He pointed at her as she succeed in catching up. "You and I are best friends even though I never met you? And you're the only one that knows it?"

"Yes!" Danny headed up into the house as Sam pleaded to him from the bottom of the sloop. "Isn't that crystal clear?" The door slammed shut and Sam grimaced as she turned to think of some way to get him to listen to her. "I've gotta do something to get him to listen to me." She started to think of some way to get him to do just that. "But how do I get through the thick head of a fourteen-year-old boy?" An idea popped up and she groaned to it as she just sighed. "Oh, darn it." Sadly, she had to do it, her parents' way...


Danny and Tucker met at the pharmacy, having ice cream as Sam approached them. "Hi." She said with a half-hearted interest as she was no longer a goth, but instead a 'preppy, happy-go-lucky' girl in leg warmers, a white skirt with polka dots, turtleneck, a garish amount of makeup, and a pink bow on her head as she asked in the same tone. "Mind if I join you?" Both boys were flabbergasted that a portion of their ice cream dropped on the table before Danny chucked his and shoved Tucker off his seat as he beamed to Sam while Paulina and Star just looked gleeful to the change.

"She surrendered her individuality for a boy! I'm so proud of her!" Sam went to work as she pulled out the photos before directing Danny's attention to them.

"So, this is a photo I have of the three of us. From eighth grade. This is the same one you have in your locker." She was pleading in her mind to get him to understand what was going on. "Notice anything?"

"Yeah. You broke into my locker and doctored an old photo of me." He dreamily rested his chin on his hand as he continued. "You must really like me." He also had a second option. "Or you're nuts." He looked to her as he asked, though nuts should have been the answer if she claimed to know Tracer. "You're not nuts, are you?" Sam groaned as he stood up with pulling Danny over to see the photos.

"Focus!" He read through it to see what the big deal is before he stopped, recognizing the surrounding area of it.

"Wait a minute. That's my parent's lab!" Curious, he lifted the book and flipped through the pages, someone flying, him and Tucker sleeping at what must have been a zoo, and him standing in front of the Fenton Portal, that machine that didn't work. He whipped to Sam as he inquired, having also seen the face of Tracer, but less... marked up. "Who are you?" Sam replied as she explained it to him again.

"I'm Sam Manson. A few months ago, I convinced you to go into this." She pointed to the green swirl that was somehow contained in the Portal as she went on. "You went in there, there was an accident, and you got-"

"Super powers?"

"Actually, ghost powers." She lifted her arms as she went on. "But we had a fight, and I wished we'd never met and that ghost in the school made it happen!" She reached down and took off the Specter Deflector to show it to him as she spoke. "I was wearing this, which is why I think the ghost didn't affect me… But you don't have your powers anymore!" Any more was lost as a haunting voice bellowed.

"Paulina…" The wall suffering a sawing green claw before it toppled away to Nightmerica, husky woman dressed in black pants, striped sweater, and black fedora with a pair of metal claws adorning her hands. The place into a panic as Paulina was the target as Sam turned to get Danny going.

"Danny, you gotta-" She stopped before she decided to take the helm. "Actually, I gotta!" She clasped the belt on, activating it as she quickly snatched Tucker's beret and cut it up to closely resemble Valerie's Huntress mask with holes for her eyes before pulling out another device of Fenton works, the Jack-O-Nine Tails before she readied to whip it, accidentally hitting someone first as she apologized. "Sorry!" She lashed it out and grabbed Nightmerica, pulling her over to her and away from the panicking Star and Paulina as she grunted with effort as Danny mused in amaze.

"That, might just be the coolest girl on the planet."

"Or she's nuts. Really, really nuts." The nightmare attacker broke free from the bindings, but Sam was not so done in as she pulled out an active Fenton Thermos and blasted, capturing the ghost just as easily as Danny and Tucker walked over to her as she pulled off the makeshift mask.

"That happen a lot?"

"More than you remember." Danny agreed as, if a girl he just met could face off with an actual ghost and win, her word was in the very least true.

"Okay, you got my attention."

"Finally!" Sam cheered with ecstatic before ripping off the pink mess, revealing her goth clothes underneath, with only the sneakers, leg warmers, makeup, and bow remaining as she took Danny's wrist. "Come on." She dragged him out with Tucker following behind as they met back at Fenton Works during the night, Tucker keeping a look out for the Fenton parents as he spoke.

"All clear, Danny."

Danny nodded as he stood at the opening of the inactive Ghost Portal before he answered. "Cool." He looked over to Sam as he asked. "How's it going over there?" Sam turned the dials as he answered.

"Pretty good." She set them all to the two-o-clock position as she finished up. "I'm guessing if we set everything the way it was when it happened, it'll happen again." She paused as she turned to Danny. "Are you sure about this?" Danny rubbed his head as he answered.

"No." But he motioned on the side of concern. "But you saw those things, those -monsters, -ghosts!" He pointed behind him again as he continued. "Those ghosts were attacking our school." He breathed as he faced fully into the tech and machines before him. "Besides, I always wanted to go in here. Who knows what kind of awesome, super-cool things exist on the other side of that portal?" Taking the jumpsuit, Sam tossed it to Danny before he pulled it up to Sam activating the machine with the zipper going up. "Well, here goes everything." Sam stopped him as she spoke up with a sticker in hand.

"Wait a minute." She pulled off Jack's face before planting the new sticker on, the slanted D with a negative space form of the P as Danny asked in confusion.

"Uh, what is that?"

"Just trust me, okay?" Danny was assured as he glanced into the Portal and walked into it, looking around before resting his hand on some switch and then came the surge as he screamed, the friends bracing as Danny wailed in pain as Danny Fenton changed into Phantom with the ghost DNA merging with his before it came to a stop and he stumbled out in pain as Sam rushed over as she exclaimed. "Danny, are you-?" She tried to lift him, but he went intangible on her and she gasped as the wisps returned to Danny. "You're a ghost! Again!"

"You're right! I am a ghost! Cool!" He was confused as he asked. "Is this cool?" Sam rested a hand to her emblem on Danny, it now a white D on a black jumpsuit.

"Oh, it's very cool."

"What's going on down there?" Jack's voice bellowed as both flinched before Sam exclaimed.

"Oh man, your dad!" She yelped in urgency as she pleaded to Danny. "You've got to change back to normal!"

"Change back? How?" For once, Sam was hoping that Cedric could have helped in a short time.

"I don't know, you just think about it or something!" Suddenly, she hit gold on one detail she slightly remembered. "Wait, ghosts feel emotions less often, surge your happiness, joy, love, something, just surge it!" Jack peered down before stomping down the steps before looking around before gasping to Danny Fenton kissing a confused Sam Manson right in front of the Portal making a heart shape before both stopped and he whispered.

"I call that a 'fake-out make-out'."

"Yeah, I know." Sam answered with a blush before both stood up as Jack scolded them both.

"You're in a lot of trouble, mister! And who the heck are you?"

"Uh, I'm-" She stopped with a good one as she answered with it. "Paulina?"

"Then Danny Fenton is never, ever allowed to see you, Paulina." But Sam just beamed as she just removed Paulina as a possible problem when this was all over hopefully.


The following day, Danny and Sam conversed as he asked.

"So now what?" But, since he didn't have full control yet, despite the late training and management, his hand was going intangible.

"I don't know. I'm sorta making this up as we go along." He phased through the chair and toppled to the ground, causing everyone to laugh at him before Lancer towered over his fallen form as he scolded him.

"Mr. Fenton, I know astronomy can be dull, but I'd appreciate it if you'd not take a nap in my class!" He pointed a finger up as he finished up, Danny getting up from the position. "And remember the meteor shower tonight. Don't forget to watch. And wear a helmet." He answered proudly as he continued. "It's a once in a lifetime experience." As soon as he arrived to his desk, the students booked it, except Tucker, Sam, Danny, Paulina, Star, and Dash as the quarterback asked.

"What are you gonna wish for?"

"I don't know. But I'm sure with everybody wishing at the same time, somebody will give me an idea." Sam grimaced to the meaning as she remarked.

"Oh no. That's what Desiree wants! To grant all those wishes at the same time! This is bad." She turned to an annoyed Danny, slipping through the floor as he exclaimed.

"And this is worse." He paused before inquiring something. "Hey, why is there all this meat down here?"


They moved out to the Country Club where the most wishes were going to be made as Sam commented, from a pair of binoculars to the 'near-human' behavior of Paulina. "Wow. She almost seems human. I'm going to have to forget that." A shooting star soared by as Sam exclaimed in the plan. "A falling star! All right, Danny. Do your thing. And remember, nobody make a wish!"

"Okay." More started to fall as Danny shouted. "I'm… going to become ghostly!"

"It's 'going ghost'. Sam corrected, but Danny just expressed disagreement to the phrase.

"Nah." He transformed before getting into trouble with his body going all wavy while, down below, everyone started to wish.

"I wish I had one of those sweet monster trucks." Sam scolded the stuffing out of Tucker for NOT listening!

"Do you pay attention? To anything? At all? Ever?" Sam didn't get too much in before Desiree reappeared, conjuring a Gi-Normo Six-Thousand right by them as Tucker remarked.

"This doesn't seem very monstrous." Sadly, the truck came alive and attacked as Tucker booked it away with the beast after him as Desiree floated over the cliff face as she chanted in praise.

"Keep wishing, fools! Keep wishing!" She grew in size as Danny started to panic.

"What do I do? What do I do?"

Sam didn't leave much room for Danny to work with as she exclaimed. "You fight her! And then you use this!" She tossed the Thermos to Danny as he just questioned.

"For what, soup?" Honestly, it was a mess, Sam just questioned how they even were able to catch most of the ghosts in the first place. It was certainly a surprise for Desiree for Danny Phantom to have returned, but he was badly inexperienced and Sam was captured by evil shrubbery as the ecto blast that should have come from his hand, came out the butt which was messed up before Sam grimaced to how it all just turned out so wrong as Danny couldn't do anything now against an almighty ghost who getting souped up with wishes.

Guilt overwhelmed her as she spoke. "Oh, this is all my fault. I wish I had never fought with Danny!" Suddenly, realization hit her as she also should have realized what that entailed with Desiree about to mash Danny Fenton into paste. "And she's granting every single wish she hears." She leaned forward as she shouted. "I wish Danny and I never had that fight! And I wish Danny, Tucker, Cedric, Topaz, Talia, and I remembered everything and his costume stays the way it is because I really, really like it!" Desiree accepted that command as she held up her hands and commanded.

"So you have wished it… And so it shall be!" The aura filled Danny as the flashes of his life flew through him, he remembered everything... even the parts that he was just being a dorky teen as it faded just as quickly, but he regained his standing before blasting the Thermos as Desiree shouted. "No! No! Noooooo!" She was pulled fully into the Thermos and moaned as she spoke. "I am going to be feeling THAT in the morning." Just for safety, Danny capped it as the wishes that she had made disappeared, even the truck that Tucker wanted as Danny twisted the cap as Sam approached him, he paused before he pulled at his jumpsuit to the icon of a slanted D on it as he asked.

"Did you do something to my costume?"

"No. It's… always been like that." She shrugged innocently as Tucker also breathed in relief.

"Oh, man, that was close." Danny bent down to pick up the Thermos to Tucker flinching as he spoke. "Watch where you're pointing that thing!" The party resumed as it had also been as Tucker questioned. "Um, weren't we invited to that party?"

"Yeah. And now that everything's back to normal, she's sort of expecting a visit from the ghost boy." Sam turned to Danny as she spoke. "You should probably keep your promise." Danny held up a finger as he answered.

"Yeah, I probably should. But, I can't join the party, my invite is ruined and I recall that 'any damaged invite' is null on the premises, also I didn't take the invite when I was Phantom, so Paulina has lost her chance." The trio turned as the Exorcist arrived with Topaz and both... looked pissed as Sam slowly got up and offered the Thermos to him.

"I am sorry, Cedric..." The free hand gripped tight as Sam started to babble. "I know that this doesn't make up for the wish, and I am sorry for doing that to all of us..." Danny and Tucker watched in shock as Sam started to snuffle and wiped at her eyes in grief. "But most of all, I'm sorry for just being bull-headed, for trying to keep things my way, I am just as selfish as Paulina and I don't want to lose our friendship like that... never again." She clung to Exorcist who still stood still to her continued grief and sobbing before Topaz rested a hand on his shoulder with a sympathetic look, she was just pissed that she was dealing with her ghost life again before bailing once more.

"Hey, take it easy on her, X, she didn't mean for any of this to happen, I heard that you were close to ripping her whole life apart for mentioning your name." Cedric turned his head to the Demi, he remembering all of it; the scars, the torture, he had caused fear, terror, and upset among the school and no one was ready to face him, he could mastermind utter collapses of families and businesses, he was a villain in the sense of the word before he faced forward, eyes glancing down to Sam before reaching down, Danny bracing for trouble before Cedric pried her off and spoke.

"Samantha Lilith Manson... what you did was bull-headed and stupid, that I can admit." He breathed from the hiss from under the visor as he continued. "If I was still angry with you, I would forgo chivalry altogether and just slap you..." He shook his head as he continued. "But... I am also at fault, I put no mind to how Talia was feeling, how she was doing, I didn't clue in on how my wish for her Demi form was still part of her power and that the falling stars would actually destroy her human form to replace it fully with the ghost... I lost her, due to my own small wish." He lifted the Thermos in hand and gripped it as he spoke. "I will make it right by her, I feel the need to..." He clipped it onto his armor as he turned to the trio again. "You should get going, the movie starts in thirty, don't miss it..." Both took off as Danny rested a hand on Sam's shoulder and she turned to hold him as he answered.

"Let's go..." She bobbed her head in agreement, there was some healing to be done and Sam needed it, she just never realized how much her life meant to her without Danny to make it better...


The battle between the three was crazy as the trio watched it go down before Danny remarked, his thoughts the same actually. "I never realized how different my life would have been if I hadn't met you." Danny breathed as he continued. "I gotta say, it's sorta cool to know."

"Still. Sorry about that stupid fight. Can we forget it ever happened?"

"So you have wished it, so shall it be." Both blushed to each other before Tucker interrupted, both self-conscious as he complained.

"Hey, I'm right here!" Meanwhile, down in the abandoned sewer system of Amity's Southern End, Cedric injected EZ-65 into Talia, the color returning to her flesh before her eyes opened, the difference being that one was still as blue as the former side had given, but the other, hidden under the shroud of hair, was a diamond pink as she glanced to him with the monochromatic set before she asked.

"Cedric...?"

"Rest, Talia..." Cedric answered as he took her hand and held it tight, she squeezing back as he explained. "Freakshow's scepter left some lingering essence that your tucked-away hatred quickly used in connection to the meteor shower. You needed to be injected with Sixty-Five as it negates any lingering control that the scepter once held and purge you clean of all of the tainted essence, the scepter was full of the stuff over the years, both accidental and on purpose."

"Hmm..."

"Just rest and..." But, Talia didn't release as Cedric's eyes widened before he hummed back. "Alright, I'll stay, just give me a moment." He slowly pulled her into his lap and let her rest there, head on his shoulder and legs dangling over as she fell asleep soundly while Cedric just kept close. "Take your time... there is no rush..."