Danny let out a sigh of admiration as he commented, the friends on the top of the Fenton Works Op Center for a night of star gazing with him. "Ah! Clear skies and no moon. A perfect night for stargazing." Danny knelt with his telescope on a tripod, Sam held hers aloft while Tucker just rested at the support with a radio by his side, Cedric and Talia just gazing up with smiles before Sam broke the moment about the radio that was playing a song that felt like it was putting them to sleep.

"More like star snoozing. This music is putting me to sleep. Can't we listen to something else?" Tucker tried before he replied to no other station playing anything other than that slow melody.

"Survey says no." That was also interrupted when the ground shook and Danny's sense went off with Talia's before a massive ship surged from the ground, a ghost ship of a sloop, as it faced them with a prow before turning to its side, a crew of undead mutineers ranting and cheering as they fired grappling hooks, landing their shots on the Center as Talia exclaimed.

A crew of pirates!? What has the world come to get them!?" They didn't know as the pirates landed on the Op Center and Danny didn't care as he exclaimed.

"Survey says going ghost!" He went ghost with Talia as the Exorcist armor formed around Cedric once more before they stood ready to fight, Danny trying to taunt them before a hook slammed into the port side as the pirates glanced up to... a young child as he exclaimed.

"Avast ye! Aw man, what's the word?" The bony parrot must have been the guide for this child as he answered.

"Scurvy dogs." It squawked as the kid ghost cheered.

"Right. Avast ye scurvy dogs! Prepare to be boarded by Captain Youngblood and his skeleton crew." Cedric glanced to Talia.

"You know this one?"

"Partially, he is a ghost who is interested in being a kid; games, toys, usually harmless fun; but he is dangerous as he can only be seen by children and adults with childish minds and he IS a ghost, but child ghosts are rare as they embody hope for the Zone."

"I can only guess why..." Danny took the chance to address the 'captain'.

"Hey, isn't it past your bedtime, kid?" That didn't tide over with Youngblood as his hook turned into a slingshot and blasted Danny away as he exclaimed.

"Don't call me kid! I'm mature beyond me years." He then rasp-berried before the crew made the shield, Cedric and Talia going to work as well as Cedric... went into the fun of it, the party seeing the pop of surprise and joy in Youngblood's eyes.

"Curse you, sea salty criminals, the holy church will not have your villainy stand before us tonight."

"Arrr, you can do little to stop our plunder." They tried to stop the pirates, but their target was obtained as Youngblood cheered from the ship. "Fall back, me harties! We've got, uh. Got, uh." Again, he referred to his parrot. "What's the word?" With a squawk, the aide answered.

"Booty."

"Ha, you said booty. Haha." The pirates just started to laugh as Talia and Cedric rolled their eyes as Danny realized what the pirates were after.

"Hey. They're stealing my dad's ghost shield generator!" He gunned to get it back, but Youngblood just blasted him back with a peg leg cannon and sent him flying back onto the Op Center with ball in tow before the sloop turned and disappeared from sight before Sam spoke.

"Nice going, matey. You just got your butt kicked by Short John Silver."

"Hey, considering he just took my dad's ghost shield, you think maybe you could be a little sympathetic, like Tucker." He stopped as Tucker was laughing him as he questioned again. "Tucker?"

"He said booty." All the facepalms as Cedric turned to Talia.

"So, what do you think?" She ran her hand through the hair before answering, the pink reflecting through.

"Well, I think that this could be a plot, but I do think we should let it slide for now, until we can establish what is happening." He nodded as the event was only the precursor to a pirate battle of ghostly purposes...


The day came and the music seemed to follow Danny, but his family had this dreamy look on their faces that Danny was starting to slightly doubt that the music was just some soothing music as Maddie and Jack tinkered while Jazz just stirred her bowl of cereal before Danny reached to turn the music off, but that provoked a reaction from them as they shouted at him. "Danny!" He flinched as he explained it to them.

"Mom, Dad, FYI, when you're fourteen, easy listening isn't that easy. Could I please turn this off?"

"No!"

"You can't possibly like this music that much." He exclaimed to Maddie speaking as she settled back down with the look back.

"I do, dear. It relaxes me."

"And me." Jazz hummed with her face down before Jack added to it as he spoke.

"It's much more soothing than that other song I've been hearing all morning."

"Warning. Security breach. Ghost shield not operational." Danny glanced up to the alarm before he told Jack EXACTLY what it was.

"Um, that would be the warning signal."

"And it's interrupting with the cool, easy sounds of morning radio. So crank up the tunes, Jazzy-pants." She beamed as she turned it up and Danny grimaced to the increased volume before he paused in his heading out to school.

'Hold up, it's a slower tone and pitch, sure, but that's Remember without lyrics... What's Topaz's song doing on the radio now?' He headed out to Casper as he explained it to his friends there. "I don't get it. The ghost shield's gone and it barely registers a blip on the parental radar."

"My parents have been acting kinda flaky, too." Sam answered as they walked through the halls with Cedric and Talia on the wing, neither having really heard the music beforehand. "All they do is listen to that new age vapor drone that's playing on every station."

Tell me about it. My folks crank it twenty-four seven. Must be a generational thing." Then all three synced together as they ranted.

"And the worst part, I can't get it out of my head." The music started to played as they continued. "Wait, you hear it, too?" They looked up to the gymnasium, running a DJ audition as the trio beamed, Talia and Cedric looked like they were pondering the sound before Cedric grabbed Tucker and Danny while Talia grabbed Sam, holding them back some as Talia spoke to Danny.

"Is that who I think it is?"

"I think so, but it is a slower pitch, no words, just a soothing change of the song?"

"What's going on here?" Tucker asked as Cedric spoke.

"What we are listening to is Remember, you know, Topaz's song when she was fully committed to being remembered as the one and only pop star."

"But, why is it playing like that and why are all the adults falling into those trances?" Sam asked as Cedric hummed before he replied back.

"I don't know, Topaz hasn't been in for a while now and this music is setting off some alarms in my mind, but I wouldn't jump the gun just yet, Topaz can explain it when she gets back... if possible..." They nodded as they headed in to the set up booth for the DJ station as Mr. Lancer spoke.

"Since we announced our new school radio station, an anonymous donor has been kind enough to provide us with these promotional, and incredibly soothing, vinyl albums."

"Vinyl? What is this, the stone age?"

"I resent that, Foley." Tucker smiled nervously to Talia's raised brow as Lancer continued to the confusion of the students there.

"Of course, you kids should feel free to, as you might say, bust out your own freaky beats." Dash and Kwan exchanged looks as Lancer pulled off the headset. "As long as they're not too freaky or too, uh, beaty." Danny was held back some by Cedric as the two of them headed up, the jocks parting as Danny spoke at the idea of getting the music OFF the channel."

"Sweet! Where do I sign up to yank this stuff off the air?" He cut the record as the populars just glared at him as Dash spoke.

"Fenton, a DJ? Yeah right. Who would ever listen to you?"

"Just because I am not the *best*, doesn't mean I can't, at least, try, Dash." He shouted into the mic. "What type of music do we want?!" No one answered as he repeated. "Throw me a bone here, what do we want!?" Sam and Tucker was willing as they shouted.

"Good music!"

"Nice! Good energy." Danny beamed to have his friends on his side. "Now, let's hear Dash rally this crowd!" Dash missed shoving Danny out of the way as Danny just switched spots with him, putting him on the spot as he paused.

"Um..." He quickly got his energy back as he shouted. "What do we want?"

"Good music!"

"When do we want it?"

"Now!" That was a different voice as the people looked to where it came form, only to have Youngblood appear and send everyone into a panic as Danny shrugged with a smile.

"Being ignored does, occasionally, have its advantages. Going ghost!" He transformed as Cedric followed, getting the intangibility over him as they chased the pirates down as Youngblood shouted.

"Avast ye bilge rats! Bilge rats is right, isn't it?" The bird nodded as Youngblood continued to shout with some crew behind him. "Our plunder lies afore!" They made a heading of the Weight Room as the pair gave chase, Talia keeping Tucker and Sam safe as Danny exclaimed with the pair spotting their pirate foes stockpiling exercise equipment.

"Hate to break this to you guys, but you can't build muscle tone without muscle." The crew tried to fight, but Danny's dodging skills were unmatched as Cedric delivered one heck of a punch to each pirate as Danny confronted the kid pirate. "Another play date with Kaptain Kid." Youngblood didn't let him with pinning him to the wall with metal hooks as the ghost countered against Cedric.

"Ye blige rats are no match for the power of Captain Youngblood!"

"If you will not yield like your fallen rivals and members, then the church will bless you with no salvation in the dark times!" The two brawled with Cedric holding his ground while Danny tried to get himself free as Youngblood was launched and plucked up as the Exorcist spoke again. "What use have pirates with the devices to strengthen the body, tell me, Blood, lest you suffer the command of the Admiral, leader of the Holy Priests."

"Never! You... uh, you..." He shifted his eyes about for a good one before Cedric leaned in and whispered, both looking surprised as Youngblood exclaimed. "Oh, I like that one!" He cleared his throat before speaking again. "Never! You clerics are no match for a member of real seaside merit!" The peg leg lifted and fired, blasting Cedric back before he commanded to the crew. "Get the stuff and let's go." The crew snatched the treadmills and bikes, turning them intangible, and lifting them away as Youngblood followed suit before Danny pulled himself free, helping Cedric up with a large dent in the armor before he flew into the air, looking around to nothing as he grimaced.

"Oh great. Hide-and-seek again." He returned and met up with his friends as Cedric explained that the damage was superficial as they walked by more radios playing Remember before Tucker asked about the heist.

"So what do ghost pirates want with exercise equipment?"

"I can't help thinking it has something to do with this lou... no, toned-down music." No way in heck was Danny going to disrespect Topaz's song, it had her soul in it and she had it to remind her that she is no longer that lonely girl, left to be stood up and suffer a house fire, she found comfort in him as two trucks rolled down with teens after the first's ice cream and the adults after the second's music as Sam spoke up.

"We have to counteract it somehow. Send some real music out into the airwaves." She gasped before turning her gaze form up to Danny. "We should start our own radio station."

"And where would we get the equipment to do that?" Sam just pointed up as the four looked up to the Op Center before Danny chuckled and answered. "No way." Sam raised a brow and Danny groaned before they headed in as he exclaimed. "Mom, Dad! I really wanna use the emergency Ops Center to start a radio station." But he didn't find anyone in the kitchen where they were enjoying the radio, in fact, there was no one there as Sam cheered.

"That's a yes!" Danny shook his head as he lifted up the brochure that was sitting on the table with a note on it as he read.

"Your mother, sister and I are on a weekend getaway fun cruise. We're sure you will take charge and act responsibly. Love mom and dad." He pulled the note away to see the name of the cruise name with confusion. "M. Bersback Cruise Lines. Weird. They went on a fun cruise with Jazz? Who isn't fun in the least. You know what this means?" Sadly, no, they didn't as Sam and Tucker headed up and Sam kicked the door open as Sam exclaimed in glee.

"Cool. They left it open for us." But Danny was more focused on what was going on as he exclaimed.

"The music, the pirate ghosts, my parents, and now this cruise ship? Something weird's going on and we need to get to the bottom of it."

"So your family's takin' a cruise. What's the worst that could happen?" Talia delivered judgement as Tucker yelped as Cedric spoke.

"You just jinxed us all, I have no pity for you now." Cedric's words were true as, across the town, adults just packed up for the cruise line and leaving teens behind as Tucker exclaimed when they headed to Casper high to hear about it.

"Your parents ditched you too?"

"Yep, my parents are gone. And just because I like saying it, I'll say it again my parents are gone!" Sam cheered with arms up in joy, but Danny was all the more interested in WHAT was happening in the first place.

"It's like this cruise is attracting every adult in town. And my sister who thinks she's an adult."

"Think of it as the hand pushing the party on the air."

"Party? What party?" Danny questioned to Sam pulling out a piece of piece that she MUST have made a few hundred times, advertising the radio station, but the phrasing was going to kill him as Sam answered.

"Providing Alternate Radio To You!" She then went into cheer. "P.A.R.T.Y!"

"We ain't got no alibi!"

"Criminal..." Talia huffed as Danny exclaimed in disbelief.

"You already made up a logo?"

"And I got our first sponsor." Tucker held up a Nasty Burger bag as he exclaim with burger in hand. "Plus all the Nasty burgers I can eat!"

Cedric glanced to Danny who returned the look. "Remind me to cut Tucker's allowance and ACTUALLY get a meal out of it instead of all the burgers he can get." Danny nodded before he stole both paper and bag out of his friends' hands.

"This is serious, guys! There's something suspicious about this cruise!" He dropped them into the trash as he continued. "I can't focus on the *P.A.R.T.Y* with my parents out of town, it is just a radio station, and if anyone takes a chance, I want spines, Cedric."

"Oh..." He chuckled as he spoke, cracking his knuckles as both Sam and Tucker looked worried. "...That I can do..."

"So no, Sam, JUST a radio station, I can't focus on that with this going on." Danny headed off as Sam joined in refuting.

"I can." If only Danny didn't throw away the paper that the message gave a different tone to a pair of football player, known as Dash Baxter and Kwan Ishiyama, who quickly spread the word of a party at the Fenton house...


The night drew on as Danny made for the docks to find the cruise, seeing all of the faces of the parents... and Jazz aboard as he breathed.

"Still in port. Good thing I'm not too late." He went to dive in and figure out what is causing it before hitting something, drawing back as he exclaimed, Cedric and Talia also stopping when they watched him hit. "W-why can't I get aboard? It's like this ship has some kind of... ghost shield!" He exclaimed as another voice spoke up.

"Ye catch on quick for a land lover!" They turned to Youngblood with some of his crew before the bird corrected.

"It's lubber."

"Really? It's lubber? That makes no sense!" The crew went on the attack as Danny dodged, Cedric and Talia showing them what for as two were blasted and the third had his head spinning as Danny gripped Youngblood's coat.

"OK, peewee, talk. Tell me what you want with these people or I'll- I'll spank you or something!"

"I'd love to see you try!" Youngblood blasted Danny back and both readied to face off before their noticed something odd, the cruise was suddenly shifting form the ship to the sloop that belonged to Youngblood as Talia spoke.

"The ship! It's..."

"Arrrg! There's another radio station jamming our transmission. Weigh anchor and set sail! Smartly there, swabbies!" The three saluted before heading down, manning the cannons as Danny lightly sighed.

"Great, this pirate-playing punk can get people to follow orders, but I can't? Do I have bad charisma?"

"Easy there, Phantom the Bard, we have bigger problems to contend with." Cedric mused as Youngblood spoke to the question.

"You just need to know the right words. Watch, Fire!" The cannons fired and Danny dodged two before getting the third in the gut and crashing into barrels as both of his aides came over.

"Danny!" They lifted him up from the mess and found that, in their moment of distraction, the ship was gone as Danny moaned.

"Well, one thing's for sure, it's going to be awfully quiet at my house tonight." They returned to the house and Danny's eye twitched to the party going on before, without warning, he yelled. "CEDRIC, I WANT THEIR SPINES NOW!" All froze at the sound and they turned with fear as Cedric cracked his knuckles with a grin.

"Understood, nice and bloody or clean cut?"

"DO IT NOW!" Before Cedric could, Dash and Kwan rushed over and exclaimed in apology.

"F-Fenton! W-We can talk about this!"

"Y-Y-Yeah!" Cedric beamed as he flexed his fingers for the chance before Kwan yelped. "W-We were going to your house for the party, w-we didn't mean to make a mess about it!"

"One, there IS no party!" Danny growled and the air seemed to chill as Danny ranted. "The only party that is SUPPOSE to be happening is the P.A.R.T.Y station, Providing Alternate Radio To You!" He hissed as he lifted a second finger. "Two, even if I DID host a party, it would be done with some rules and not a wild mess." He struck a third one up as he finished. "Final, I am done being nice and, if I find out that you two had taken this further, I will take your spines myself." Dash made a face as if Danny couldn't do just that, but all witnessed as Danny rushed with inhuman speed, threw Dash into the floor with force, and gripped his arm with a near-twist of the arm as he ranted, his eyes flashing with anger. "DO I MAKE MYSELF CLEAR!?"

"Cr-Cr-Crystal, Fenton!" Danny released as Cedric had taken a moment to call Ken about the blimp before Talia answered with the jukebox plug in hand, but the music was still playing.

"The music isn't coming through here."

"Yeah, and I would like their spines when I'm done with them." Danny commented as everyone just stopped and sat down, in fear of what Danny Fenton will do to them for this breach of home. Cedric added to it, another reason why the teens didn't intend to say a single thing in his presence right there.

"If we find them fat on burgers, they will be easy-pickings." The trio headed up to the Op Center and opened the door as Sam exclaimed into the radio.

"You're listening to the PARTY, fiercely independent radio, one hundred percent free of corporal influence."

"Except for this, brought to you by Nasty Burger. Nasty is one letter away from tasty." Danny cut in as he spoke.

"And what's about to happen either way to the both of you." Both sweated as the look Danny gave was bad. "I can't believe I ever trusted you, radio station ONLY, instead you let a party rage in my own house."

"There's a party downstairs?!" The crack of knuckles told the pair EXACTLY what was going to happen as Danny huffed, glad to be human as he rubbed his temples.

"Yeah, and you're about to become scorch marks on the walls!" Sam waved as she exclaimed.

"Sorry, sorry, we were not trying to make a party go, we are just..."

"PAR-A-PHRAS-ING, Sam!"

"...But we have just been busy up here with the premiere broadcast!" She pulled out a labeled cover as Danny let the rage go to question the disc.

"You took a vapor drone promo disc?"

"They make great scratch fodder." She put it on and started to scratch the disc when something came up as it started... to speak.

"Leave your kids, come-"

"Wait a minute- play that backwards again, slowly." Sam did so as they listened as the message was heard.

"Leave your kids, come to the cruise." Their eyes flashed wide as the message was repeated to be sure. "Leave your kids, come to the cruise."

"Subliminal advertisement?"

"More like mind control."

"Using music to control people. Why does that sound so familiar?"

"Maybe because we know someone who is ABLE to do just that, AND explains what she has been doing lately." The whole place rumbled as the party glanced out to the bellowing clouds to the sloop arriving, on deck being Topaz in a pirate attire beside Youngblood and the crew, the party shocked, as the rock star Demi exclaimed.

"That's right, pop fans. Ember's back and ready to rock!" She strummed a chord and blasted the Op Center as the party covered their ears form the impact as another blast came and Sam toppled and found one of the brochures on the ground before she phrased it out.

"M. Bersback... Ember's back! That's not a clue, it's a billboard!" Which was confusing, why would Topaz use her old name to advertise the service?

"We really got to start paying more attention to these things." Danny got up as he exclaimed.

"Going ghost!" He transformed and took flight, phasing through the Center and charging the ship as Topaz or *Ember* exclaimed.

"Wasting your time, wannabe!" She pushed a button in the crow's nest, engaging the shield as Danny nearly slammed into it before looping and growling as Youngblood went taunting as a kid.

"Na na na na!" He glanced to his aide before he replied with a more pirate tone. "I mean, aurgh!" Danny went to blasting the shield as he exclaimed, feeling that he needed to play with the scheme here.

"What, is the music career going so poorly that you've had to pick up babysitting jobs on the side?"

"I guess you could say we have the same opinion of adults-"

"Hate 'em!" Topaz continued to explain it as she answered with strumming the chords.

"So, Youngblood here helps me haul away the over thirty so I can, you know, take over the world and stuff. And I provide him with a power source for his fleet of ships." Danny raised a brow before he asked.

"But it's just one sloop, does he even have any other ships?" Both exchanged looks and Danny frowned as he, at least, knew what was being done to the adults... they were being the human power source for the ship as Topaz continued, turning the conversation away from the sole ship.

"Problem is, with your radio station jamming my frequency, and I can't hypnotize any more adults!"

"But not for long!" Youngblood shouted as he commanded. "Attack!" The cannons fired on Danny and launched him back into the Center as he reverted and exclaimed.

"Activate the defense system!"

"How?!"

"I don't know! Just start pressing buttons!" Cedric dialed up Ken again for some new improvements while Tucker and Sam made to try to get any defenses up to stop the attack, but nothing came to be as the 'Go Fenton' sign was blasted, one of the lights in the house dropping to the surprise of the party-goers before the ship slammed into the Center, toppling all over, but in toppling, Sam scratched the record and inadvertently blasted the pirate ship with a sound wave as Danny saw the same thing as he exclaimed. "Whoa! Sam, what did you do?"

"Struck a blow for independent radio!"

"Well, don't just stand there! Throw it into heavy rotation! And work in a plug for Nasty Burger, I promised them twelve hits an hour!" Sam quickly went to work, scratching the record and blasting the ship backwards with sound waves as Topaz exclaimed on the sloop, her power unable to collect more through her music.

"We need more power! I can't lure more adults aboard if I can't broadcast my music."

"Then we'll have to bring them in the old fashion way, like pirates." The parrot went above deck and steered the ship to scour the town, the pirates taking to raiding any and every site for adults and parents as the teens at Fentonworks rushed out to the panic of their parents as Paulina yelped to the event going on.

"Hey, they got my parents!"

"Mine too!" Dash yelped too before Kwan cheered at the idea he had.

"Cool, party at Dash's house!"

"Like, what is wrong with you?" Paulina shouted as she shoved Kwan into Dash who shoved them elsewhere with his own shout.

"Hey, watch it!" It became a domino effect of yelling teens down below as the party watched it happen before Danny exclaimed.

"I need to get our parents back!"

"How? You can't get past the ghost shield on that pirate ship!" Sam asked as Danny had a plan now.

"Maybe Danny Phantom can't, but Danny Fenton CAN." Danny quickly retrieved a megaphone and returned before addressing the crowd below as he got their attention. "Listen up people! If you want your parents back, you're going to have to follow my lead!"

"Why should we follow you, Fentoad?"

"You're right, Dash. Let's follow the other kid that comes from a family of ghost hunters and knows how to work all their gear!" Dash frowned as Danny shouted. "No takers? All right then, who's with me?" They fell in line in cheer as Sam questioned it.

"Wow, Danny. How'd you do that?"

"Just have to know the right words. Cedric?" He nodded as he took the megaphone and called out.

"Okay, there will be two teams to tackle the pirates, the first will be the initial and front-line force, the second will be the back line, I will take control of the second, Fenton's in charge of the first, now, let's move out!" The cheers became a roar as Cedric called up Ken again. "It's me, get the blimp primed, but let's get some ecto-weapons and armor installed on that machine when you get here." They divided up as Danny addressed the teens that wanted the first shot at the pirates, organizing them in his living room.

"Paulina, you're good with makeup. I need you to disguise Tucker as an adult, so he can get aboard the pirate ship and disable it from within."

"Aye-aye, Captain..." She answered as she took Tucker's wrist before finished. "...though you still have no shot with me." Danny rolled his eyes as she headed out with Danny turning his attention to a walkie-talkie, connecting him to Sam still in the Op Center.

"Sam, keep scratching. It's our only current weapon against that ghost ship." He turned to Kwan with collecting a number of measures to fight the pirates. "Kwan, you're on defense. Protect Sam and keep her on the air." He turned and gave a Fisher to Dash as well. "Dash, you're with me on offense. We're going to spring the adults from the pirate ship."

"So I get to hit people?"

"Oh yeah!" Dash then snatched Danny's shirt before he replied in relief. "THANK YOU, I know this is a change, but I am not really expecting anything to change between us, Dash."

"Sorry, old habits." Danny nodded as he handed out more weapons as he called out.

"OK, people..." They took the arms in hands and donned orange jumpsuits to resist more of the pirates' power as Danny stood ready as the first line of battle, his suit the inversion of his hero suit. "Let's move!"


Tucker took his place in the appearance of a balding man with a cane as he, using a roundabout way, walked up to Fentonworks and shouted to get the attention. "Hey, you kids! Turn that music down! I'm an adult, you know! A strong able-bodied adult!" He was snatched up just as quickly by the pirates as Danny mused, lowering his binoculars to the bait being taken aboard.

"Hook, line, and sinker."

"But how do we get our offense up to the pirate ship?" Sam questioned as Danny mused himself on the place.

"I just have to think like a Fenton. Now if I were my dad, where would I put the secret control panel for the Ops Center?" He turned to the Center as he questioned it further, trying to narrow it down. "Some place I would see every time I come here." His eyes widened in realization before a smile as he headed back in and walking past as he spoke. "I'm hungry."

"Wha...?"

"That's exactly what my Dad would do, every time he puts any controls somewhere." He opened the Center fridge and beamed as he nodded. "Yep, next to the ham!" He pushed the button as the system went off.

"Defense system activated. Also the ham has spoiled!"

"That's hardly worth the mention." The Ops Center retracted its radar dishes before detaching and expanding out a blimp to lift the whole thing up as Sam commented.

"Now your dad's only the second biggest blimp in the family." Danny snickered as they ascended up to face off as Tucker was brought below deck to Topaz's exclaim, heedless that it was Tucker in the first place.

"Oh, fresh fuel! Strap the geezer in while I keep this crew motivated!" She played her tone as Tucker was seated close to his parents, to power the sloop before he whispered to try and get them to be aware again.

"Mom, Dad, it's me, Tucker! You're under a spell. And looking really trim. Maybe you guys should exercise more often." He then started to look for where the shield would be fix to. "Now if I was a ghost shield, where would I be?" He spotted it with a 'ah-ha', situated under the helm before Youngblood shouted from above deck, drawing Topaz's attention.

"Ship ahoy! All hands on deck." Topaz pushed open the hatch and gasped as a blimp was coming right for them as she spoke in surprise.

"What the blimp is...!?" Danny, on the other hand, steered the ship in as he commanded.

"Steady as she goes and... fire!" Sam scratched the record and blasted the ship with an antenna below the helm before the cannons fired back, only to hit plating as Danny engaged it before the blimp dropped, descending on the ship before smashing into the mast as Youngblood cut his way free as he shouted to the lifting blimp.

"Hey, quit it!" Tucker operated under the deck, none of the pirates seeing him as he engaged the shutdown of the shield as Danny took to the top and commanded with an assault team.

"On my signal... Now!" The team lashed out lines to swing onboard in boarding actions as they slipped thorugh the shield and Danny landed with the others as he spoke to fight on equal ground. "Now I'm going- OW!" He toppled as he remembered a tid-bit that Cedric had told him about. "Right, forgot... can't change, the ghost shield neutralizes the changes... it's an overcharge and the shield shuts it down." Thankfully Dash jumped in to save him before he got up to fight like a human as they tore through the ghostly ranks, even hearing Star go cheering in her busting.

"Ready? OK! We hate pirates, yes we do! We hate pirates, how 'bout you?!" Soon, the pair of Dash and Danny went back to back with a pair of pirates as Dash commented.

"You're one brave geek, Fenton. When I'm whaling on you tomorrow, I'll be whaling on a hero. But I will be whaling on you." Danny chuckled as he voiced.

"Well, nothing should really change between us, we just want to save our folks from these pirates, we got time otherwise." They pushed their foes back and took them down before Danny split his weapon and charged as Paulina tossed something.

"Danny!" He jumped and landed on the skateboard thrown and rode it as he crouched low and took out more of the pirates before a sound wave blasted him and knocked him into the squad as Topaz voiced with looking at them with Youngblood form the helm.

"The only one rocking this boat is me!" She blasted again and trapped them in a small dome before Youngblood pulled Danny out as he spoke with glee.

"Time to walk the plank, shark bait." He hurled Danny to the plank and forced him toward the edge as Danny glanced about for a way out before he spotted one soaring through the clouds from the right side as he faced the pair on the ship.

"If you think that this battle is won, then you clearly haven't taken into account what could happen next, I have resolved to do this, for both them who had joined me and those that I came to save." He leapt back as the shield fell, Topaz pausing to the meaning as she questioned.

"So, where's the splat?" What she got back was the sound of jets as the Exorcist soared upwards and landed on the deck with Danny rolling out of the carry with a smile as the Exorcist spoke to Talia as the second airship arrived, ecto-guns mounted on the machine as she was given her orders.

"Get those cannons and keep the crew distracted, the first wave and me will handle the topside, save the prisoners as well."

"Acknowledged, Exorcist." The link cut as the ship fired, volleys feuding as Cedric turned to his friend.

"This is the big reveal, are you sure you want to do this?"

"I need to expand my circle of trust, we need more on our side, besides..." Danny transformed, right before their eyes, as many toppled back in surprise as Phantom spoke. "...Youngblood is my target, I think there needs to be some hashing out with 'Ember'."

"Copy." The pair dashed in and pressed the pair of ghosts into trouble before Cedric blasted with a catch of the guitar before tossing it to Danny as he exclaimed, a plan of bring the ship further down.

"Looking for this?" Topaz glared before ripping her hat off as her robin-blue fire blazed alive.

"No one touches the guitar, real or not!" She surged the fire to attack Danny as he rolled across the deck before flying over to the mast, her glare still strong as she blasted once more, Danny dodging for the mast to catch fire in electric blue flames as both recognized what just happened as Topaz answered on accident. "OK, maybe not the best idea." She shrugged as she answered. "Oh well, bon voyage, catch you on my come back tour." She made to leave before Cedric tossed a pair of cuffs, she gasping as they clamped on before she got zapped with some intense electricity and she reverted back to Topaz in a matching pirate attire, the electrodes settling before Cedric caught her and spoke to his ally.

"I'll get her back up to speed, you handle Blood and the members before I return!" He jumped to the blimp with boosts as Youngblood tried to cut down Danny, only getting the mimic guitar by cutting it in half before Danny tossed the bottom, the length now as an makeshift sword as he taunted.

"Bring it on, snot nose." They exchanged blows until they made it to the top of the burning mast, the blade passing through him harmlessly, but he dodged away as the young captain spread fire across the mast as he landed before the dome as Dash gasped, Paulina stunned.

"Fenton, you're Inviso-Bill!?"

"I REALLY need a publicist, no, it's Danny, Danny Phantom." He blasted the dome and dissipated as he spoke. "This is the greatest secret I have, it started since the beginning of freshman year, and I am entrusting all of you in keeping this a secret, sure this will help me out if it was revealed, but not many people SHOULD know, I am taking a chance, please don't make me regret it, you guys." Within that moment, they saluted as Dash answered.

"Got it, Phantom, we'll keep the secret, we will help you out when we can."

"You MAY regret that when the other guy gets his moment with you." He headed out and Dash busted down the door before all gasped to the state of the place.

"Wow, looks like a PTA health club." Youngblood crawled from the flames before he gasped to the escaping parents and adults.

"Arrgh! Me prisoners are escaping!"

"Then what's powering the ship?!" Without warning, the whole thing started to drop as Cedric watched it happen before he exclaimed to his crew.

"Launch tethers, that ship is not dropping on our watch!" The airship fired its lines and the crew and forces were jostled before Danny got a call from Cedric. "We will try to get the ship into the harbor, but it will be your job in getting those people OFF the ship before the tethers give out!"

"Copy!" He then shouted. "Everyone, get to solid ground now! Any injured or in need, we will get you off the ship as well, move!" They quickly moved with Youngblood and his crew dazed before they got onto the dock, the tethers holding no more as Danny jumping with his family last as the sloop plunged down into the waters as the parents and adults came out of their trances, Jazz the first to remark.

"What happened? Where are we?"

"And why do I suddenly feel like I have buns of steel?" Maddie's response was out there as she shouted.

"At last!" She quickly just went lovely on her husband as she remarked. "I mean, I love you just the way you are!"

"Eewww!" Danny quickly ducked behind some barrels and reverted back before he toppled and breathed.

"Yikes... a bit short on breath? I must have been taxing myself too much somehow."

"Yeah, you're not looking too good." Dash answered as he helped Danny up from behind the barrels. "Some good cardio, some push-ups, we need to work on your stamina there, man."

"Let's make a list, I'm sure we can get better together... so, any punches?"

"Well, just one..." He released before slugging him in the arm and supporting him again. "That's for abandoning us in the middle of the fight, I get that you are a hero, but come on, stick around a bit more, won't ya?"

"I'll try next time, Dash, I'll try." He nodded as they moved to head out as Jack remarked to the same orange as his.

"Hey, nice jumpsuit, kid! You too! And you! And- wait a minute! Danny, did you use the emergency Ops Center while we were away?" Danny grimaced before he spoke

"It was a scary emergency for me and the others, we were not treating the sudden hypnotic control properly, so... sure...?" That was supported by the Op Center floating down as Sam called out from inside with her and Kwan waving at him.

"Hi Danny! Thanks for letting us use the Ops Center!" They glared at him as he looked to Sam and spoke.

"Yeah, now let's get that Center back into place..."


The clean-up was a mess, but Valerie did stop by to hear the story and learn why her father was now sporting a firm lower torso while she was pulling a late shift at the Nasty Burger, now knowing where those free burgers were going, as Danny hummed with cleaning up from the short party, apologizing to all of the goers for losing his cool. "So I'm grounded for a month while I clean up the damage from the party."

"Look at the bright side Danny, at least we brought some decent radio to this town." Danny gave a fifty-fifty notion as Tucker belched, he looking green as he groaned.

"Man, I got serious heartburn from eating all those Nasty Burgers!"

"That's what you get for just getting burgers without a shake or anything..." Valerie answered as Danny pondered it out, Cedric calling with an apology from Topaz who had accidentally forgotten that she had made some plans with Youngblood and wanted to keep the fact that she was a Demi out of his brain.

"Still, I can't help wondering why Youngblood didn't abandon ship?"

"Oh, didn't I tell you? After we escaped, I used my PDA to kick in the back-up power for the ghost shield in setting it in reverse. They're not going anywhere." That sounded rather amusing as Danny had his fan-club now his back-up and troop... once they recovered from the Sex Ed and Weapon Training that Cedric had planned for them, while under the waters of Amity, the last two ghosts were trapped under the bubble as the parrot pleaded.

"Let me out of here! Let me out!"

"Actually, it be more like 'Ahoy Matey! I'm marooned on this island!"

"Oh, shut your gob, you twit!" Who knows what will come along and pull them out of those waters soon as clearly, there was little else to be done for them there...