Night hung heavily on the movie goers coming out of the cinema as Tucker and Sam came out as well, stretching and the like, Topaz rolling her neck while Talia was asleep on Cedric who carried her out as Sam mused. "I can't believe we sat through all three cyber zombie commando movies."

"I could've used a little less zombie, and a little more cyber. But that's me, I'm all about the cyber." Topaz and Cedric rolled their eyes before the four peered about the street, in search of something before Sam called out.

"Coast is clear, Danny!"

"Sweet!" Danny spoke as he returned to the visible spectrum beside Sam and Topaz as he continued. "No sign of Jazz?"

"No sign of Jazz, Baby-pop." Topaz answered as Danny breathed easy.

"Good, ever since Jazz found out I was fighting ghosts, she's been kind of-" They spoke too soon as a pink sedan, contrasting the teal car that Jazz had when the whole 'future self' went down and Jazz jumped out of it with slamming Danny into the wall as he gasped. "-a bit more pushy than before."

"Danny, are you okay?!" She slammed a Thermos into Danny's gut as she exclaimed. "You know you should never leave the house without the Fenton Thermos." She lowered her voice as she inquired. "What if there's a ghost around?"

"There's no ghost around." Danny answered as he looked back to his sister. "This is just a short time of relaxation and if there was, my ghost sense along with Topaz's and Talia's would go off." Two flame breaths and a cold one went off as Jazz pointed it out.

"Like that?" They peered up as Skulker flew overhead, casting a glance to them as Tucker exclaimed.

"Skulker?! He's hunting you again?!"

"Again?! As in more than once?!" Jazz exclaimed before Cedric shushed them and they did so as Danny spoke.

"Jazz, take it easy. There's a rhythm to these things." He counted it off as he explained with gestures. "Ghost attacks, we exchange witty banter, I kick ghost butt, and we all go home having learned a valuable lesson about honesty... or something such nonsense, that is usually what happens with me at times." Jazz wrote it down as she nodded.

"Attack. Banter. Kick butt. Lesson. Got it. So, why's he not attacking?"

"What!" He opened his eyes from the explanation to see Skulker flying away as he mused in confusion. "That's weird, he is always going after my skin, being the 'Greatest Hunter' in the Ghost Zone."

"Trust me, Baby-pop, dated the guy, did NOT turn out as good; hunts rather well, but lacks social skills."

"Okay, so let's check it out." Danny and Topaz changed before taking flight after the hunter as he made for Axion Labs, searching for something before he found it and pulled it out as Danny inquired, the label saying 'Bloodstream Nanobots', and startled Skulker. "Bloodstream Nanobots? What are Bloodstream Nanobots?" Skulker whipped about as he fired a net as Danny yelped. "Hey!" He struggled in the net as Skulker just floated on past as Danny actually just got angry with Skulker as he shouted after him. "Get back here!" He charged and erupted the net open as he continued. "You didn't even call me Whelp!" He charged after Skulker as the friends were being drove by Jazz as Sam questioned.

"Jazz, did it ever occur to you that Danny has been doing just fine without your help?"

"Exactly! So imagine how much better he'll do with it."

"I don't recall you being an expert in ranged tools and weapons, Jazz, you only excelled in close-range tools." Cedric pointed out as he kept Talia comfy before they pulled up close to the Labs and watched as Topaz and Danny pursued Skulker into the night air before Jazz leapt out with Thermos in hand as she exclaimed to trying to catch him.

"You just earned a one-way trip to thermos land, ghost!" But her handle of the Thermos was too uneasy as she was launched back with the force and beamed it up to Topaz and Danny gasping as they were both caught and pulled into the Thermos as Sam and Tucker gasping as Cedric rubbed his temple, the pair now in the Thermos as Jazz grimaced to the 'capture' as both friends glared at her before she asked. "Think I should work on my banter?"

"Start with your aim." Tucker pointed out as Danny huffed in the Thermos.

"How long is it going to take to get us out of here, I am all for strengthening the bonds of 'friendship' and 'companionship' with my team, but not this close."

"Yeah, I second that, this thing is tight... get your hand off my..."

"...Do you want me on the bottom right now?" Cedric groaned with rubbing his temples, the trio looking to him as he answered.

"One of the unaltered Thermos, I can get them out, but that will take a few hours, so bare with it for now, you two, we have a long night to go..." But the steal of those Nanobots was something that needed checking out, now if only Jazz understood that she was not so skilled with ranged tools as she wanted to believe herself to be...


Day came, but Tucker was laughing it up as Danny growled as the six walked down the halls of Casper, Topaz has never been so glad to savor the air. "It's not funny, Tucker!"

"Come on. Six hours cram inside the Fenton Thermos. It's totally funny." They paused as Danny spoke again.

"Yeah?!" Now, while knocking the books out of Dash's hands was a plan, he used his jock friend's muscles on the other hand. "Hey, Dash." The blond turned in confusion before Danny spoke. "He needs to get stuffed." Dash beamed and Tucker gasped as Dash stuffed into the locker and headed off as Danny leaned against the locker wall as the techno geek exclaimed.

"Oh, c'mon!"

"Is it funny now?" Talia raised a brow as she asked to Topaz gripping her own hips and waist as she asked.

"Is everything okay, Topaz Lain?"

"I'm just trying to make sure that I haven't changed in any size or form." She raised her hands in gap and frowned. "I'm... a few inches bigger? Does that...?"

"OK, moving on!" Danny exclaimed as he didn't want to hear it right now as both Sam and Topaz seemed to share looks of jealousy and envy before Sam started to fiddle with Dash's combination.

"I know you're annoyed, Danny, but look on the bright side." She leaned in and smiled when she got it and left the locker alone for Tucker to open. "-maybe that's the kind of mistake that'll get Jazz to stop interfering."

"Doubt it, actually." The locker opened and Tucker glanced for a second before the locker closed to Jazz arriving, exclaiming a 'Darn it!', as Jazz spoke up with laptop under her arm.

"Guess what I found out." The five looked uninterested as Danny spoke.

"If it has nothing to do with Bloodstream Nanobots, then we don't have a connection." But Jazz was not stopped as she exclaimed.

"I've done pain-staking research on last night's mystery ghost." She opened the laptop to a decent setup of analyzing the ghost as Danny answered the unasked question.

"Uh, you mean Skulker?"

"Lets just call him Ghost X." Topaz snorted as Jazz continued. "And based on my research, I would characterize him as a hunter of some sort." Sam dialed it in again to get Tucker out as she remarked in opening the locker.

"Oh! She's good. We didn't figure that out until he screamed 'I Am The Ghost Zone's Greatest Hunter'." Tucker fell out as Danny pointed out.

"But, Skulker didn't say anything, so technically for Jazz, she can call him 'Ghost X'." Jazz added to it as she pulled out a folder from her pack.

"Here's my composite sketch of Ghost X." Danny took it and they looked inside to a... rather accurate-looking model of Skulker on the right side and quips on the left. Topaz hummed before she spoke.

"Does the moronic blob justice, at least."

"And I took the liberty of crafting, I must say, some 'funny, witty' banter for your next encounter with him. Bye." She headed out as Sam took a look at it herself and read them out.

"See ya later, X; X marks the spot; You've been X'd!?" She stopped reading as she huffed. "None of these are funny."

"The only quips Daniel uses are on the fly, questioning puns. Jazz clearly lacks a real sense of humor within her genius mind." Talia mused as Tucker made it slightly worse.

"And nothing's funnier than her sucking you inside the thermos. You can't beat broad physical comedy like that with a one liner." Danny frowned, but Cedric cut him off as he tapped Kwan's shoulder, the jock turning with surprise from conversing with Star as Cedric spoke, gesturing to Tucker.

"Stuff him." Kwan nodded and plucked Tucker up before stuffing him into the locker, accidentally bending the door, but Cedric gave him a thumbs up as the pair headed off before Danny mused.

"But if Jazz 'thinks' I'm letting her help, maybe she'll stop interfering as much. Worth a shot?"

"Worth a shot."

"Anything is better than pushing her to the sidelines."

"We do need to be patient with her, but that is for later."

"Let's get to class before the bell actually rings for us." They headed off as Tucker huffed in his metal prison.

"Nobody's coming to get me, are they?" Cedric glanced down before he punched the side of the row, the door popping off and freeing Tucker as he fell again, needing to stretch again.

The day went to night as the team responded to a Lunch Lady attack at the local 'Mr. Meat' butcher shop as she shouted.

"Feast on my hot links of doom!" They confronted her in the store before Danny exclaimed.

"Okay, Jazz. Now!" Jazz slid in with the Jack O' Nine Tails in hand as she exclaimed.

"Stand back! I'm trained in this thing." The line lashed behind her as Tucker exclaimed to the incoming tool.

"Trained by her dad!" The Nine Tails grabbed Danny and he followed the swing as he clashed into the Lunch Lady, the links stopping before Jazz exclaimed.

"Wait, witty banter." She pulled out her notepad before she exclaimed. "Take that LUNCH-A-BELLE! And your evil weiners too!" She smiled as as Danny slammed into the wall, the Tails releasing him into a vat of hot chit-lins as the party looked to him as he rose from the vat before Cedric helped him out.

"Her handle of the Nine Tails needs some MUCH needed work."

"No... I have never used it myself before, so I guess...?" The next location was at Floody Water Park with Klemper as he froze the place over and was now hurling ice balls at them as he exclaimed.

"Won't anybody be my friend?!" Jazz charged with the Anti-Creep Stick, just a baseball bat as she batted the ice balls out of her path to Danny flying next to her running, Cedric was actually right about her possessing close-range capabilities.

"You're going up against him with the Anti-Creep Stick?"

"I know what I'm doing, Danny." She shouted as she batted more of the ice out of her way. "Give me your worst, Friendly Fiend. You haven't got the guts. Uh, guts?"

"Uh, yeah, see. The guts joke would have been better in the last fight." Klemper took a breath and blasted the ground into ice as Jazz stated to slip up and deliver a home run on Danny into the massive water slide, his impact bringing down the ice on top of the members there before Klemper ran away as Jazz exclaimed.

"I'm helping!" She paused in confusion as the members emerged from the ice, Sam and Tucker looking scornful while the other four were not so defeated as Danny spoke.

"It was working, but turning the ground into ice, Klemper managed to best me this time."

"Your ribs will be fine, despite the impact, and she was actually doing rather well with batting the ice away, her mistake was trying to close the gap with a ice-powered ghost."

"No, I got more grief from wannabe actresses." Topaz breathed as she heated up and melted the ice away as the team cleaned themselves off of the frigid landscape.

"I have learned to adjust to the cold as much as the heat, the desert can be both sweet and merciless." The next location was by the docks, the Box Ghost setting up shop there and they needed to purge him out as Sam and Tucker let them get buried under the crates while Danny wrestled with the Box Ghost while the trio tried to remove the crates by both force and strength before Jazz kicked open the door and shouted with Fenton Thermos in hand.

"Freeze!"

"Once again, right idea, but wrong fight."

"I got him! I got the Crate Creep!" Both stopped as Danny was ashamed of his own sister now, as the Box Ghost exclaimed with covering his face.

"Crate Creep? I am the Box Ghost! Who are you! No, seriously, who is she?" Jazz tried to be awesome, but her balancing sucked and she captured Danny once more, he not even surprised, leaving Cedric to breathe and smack the Box Ghost one before sucking him into his own Thermos as Jazz exclaimed to the trapped Danny.

"Whoops... Don't worry, Danny... We'll get you out of there... Eventually!"

"Honestly, this is hurting a lot."

"Surprised that your own fan is such a terrible person when it comes to other things?"

"If she tries to sing, I am giving her the boot." The members worked to organize everything while Jazz took Danny home as she still found the time to hum their success.

"That was a good night's work, Danny. We caught three ghosts."

"No, actually, you caught one ghost. Three times. All of them me!" Danny exclaimed, he didn't even know how she managed it in the first place as Danny continued with a huff, they pulling up to the RV. "Look, Jazz. I know you're trying to help."

"Trying?"

"And please don't be offended, but-" No sooner did he get the seat belt off, then a large hand snatched him up and brought him up to his father as Jack exclaimed.

"Danny, check this out!" Maddie was working on something in the GAV before jumping out to a device that read 'Ecto-Converter' on it as Jack continued. "Your mother and I have souped up the RV with an ecto-converter."

"Ecto-Converter?"

"It converts a ghost's natural ecto-energy into a constant replenishing fuel source." That's was kind of a waste of a converter as Jazz asked.

"Does it hurt the ghost?" Maddie laughed as she waved a hand at the question.

"Oh, Jazz! You know your father and I don't care about that."

"Yeah! If we hear it scream, then we know it's working."

"Which means, Jazz, it's in its alpha stages." Jazz nodded to the answer from Danny as the pair drilled down a sign that read 'Parabolic Reflector' on top of the GAV as Jazz hummed.

"Too bad there's no ghosts around, right, Danny? No ghosts here!" She playfully slapped Danny in the back as he spoke in a sing-song tone. "We know something they don't know."

"I get it, can we let it die now?" But Jazz just hummed before launching Danny into the Converter, it not hurting at all, but it certainly gave juice as the RV rocketed away, they screaming to the sudden boost before she mused.

"You really need to work on controlling your powers."

"That was not me controlling my powers, Jazz... that was me, fueling a ecto-converter with power, a little touch to a big boost..." He sighed as he turned in for the night, not even sure if he should call Cedric and tell him that Jazz needs a LOT more training before she is considered fit and ABLE enough to be hunting ghosts for real. But that was not the end of it as Skulker phased into the house and passed by Danny, his sense going off before Skulker headed down into the lab, clearly searching for some before Danny questioned to the hunter's surprise.

"And here I thought you weren't hunting me anymore." Danny floated there to fight the hunter off before Skulker spoke in demand.

"Where is the ecto-converter?"

"See, that's more like it! You make demands, I ignore them." But Skulker was not in a talking mood as he spoke in grabbing Danny by the front of his suit.

"Talk! Where is it?!" Danny pondered why would Skulker would be looking for an ecto-converter, specifically the Fenton's ecto-converter as he put a finger to his chin.

"Ecto-converter? Ecto-converter, hm, lemme think- oh, I know, in my hand." He answered before blasting Skulker away, the hunter swinging back around in tackling Danny out of the building, somehow causing Jazz to stir from her makeshift archive before they made it outside and Danny demanded from Skulker in dodging. "What do you want with the Ecto-Converter anyway? Or those nanobots you stole from Axion Labs?" But Skulker was not willing to reveal that knowledge as he fired a bola and ensnared Danny to one of the Op Center's satellite antennas as he shouted.

"I ask the questions. And since you won't talk, I'll just have to beat the answer out of you." His gauntlet expanded out five more blasters before Skulker demanded once more. "Where is it?!" The blast powered up, but before Skulker could, he was blasted away himself as Jazz arrived in the GAV as she exclaimed over the intercom.

"That's right, ghost! You better watch out! This baby's juiced up by the Ecto-Converter!" Danny waved his hands to dismiss it as, if Skulker was looking for it, then the last thing they would want is to give Skulker what he was looking for, but it was in vain as Skulker beamed with scoping the GAV out and locating the Ecto-Converter before he mused.

"I like your new helper!" He took to soaring toward the GAV as Danny shouted in disbelief.

"Jazz-" He powered free from the bola and righted himself before he took flight to stop the hunter. "-Stay away form Skulker!" But Jazz was bull-headed as she called out.

"You worry about Skulker, I'm going after Ghost X!" He fired once more as Danny exclaimed behind the hunter.

"THEY ARE THE SAME-" He was blasted when Skulker dodged and Jazz grimaced before Skulker made it to the back and ripped out the Converter, taking it into the sky as Jazz jumped out with Thermos in hand before Danny crashed and she exclaimed.

"Danny! Are you alright!? I-"

"No, no!" Danny huffed as he straightened up. "Here, let me save you the trouble." He pressed the Thermos button and got sucked in as Jazz peered about before casually walking away, she knew that she messed up somewhere, but her genius mind was not coming up with the answer, and that was going to divide the siblings before long...


"You want us to say something to her?" Tucker asked in Casper High, but where the party or rather half of the party were meeting was in a janitor's closet as Danny huffed back at the suggestion.

"I'm perfectly capable of talking to my own sister!" Danny answered before Topaz answered from on the other side of the door.

"Which is why you're hiding from her in a broom closet." Danny answered back.

"Am not!" But his reaction as Jazz approached the trio outside was evident.

"Danny? You in there?"

"HIDE ME!" Danny yelped as he dove into one of the trash bins and cowered in it before the door swung open as Jazz came in.

"Cool, secret meeting place!" Danny hid under as the trio watched as Jazz seated herself between Tucker and Sam as she explained it on her laptop. "So, I've pieced it all together..." She typed away in her explanation. "Ghost X is clearly using the technology he stole to build some kind of super weapon." Danny peered out from his spot as Jazz brought up... familiar notes of ghosts and the like as she continued. "So, I've compiled a list of his known associates." Technus was certainly not it, Box Ghost is too dull for such a thing, Ember IS STANDING RIGHT THERE as Topaz, and Vlad... Danny spoke up with furrowed brow before he stood up with it.

"Wait, where'd you get this?"

"From your computer!" Jazz answered as Danny jumped out in anger as he growled in rage.

"You hacked into my private files!? How'd you get the password!?"

"It's Paulina Fenton..." Tucker and Sam answered before Jazz spoke up.

"Actually, it was Nineteen-Zero-One-Thirteen Gem, REALLY threw me off actually than expected." She recovered before turning the laptop to show Vlad Masters and his alter ego of Plasmius. "How come you never told me Vlad Masters has ghost powers, AND he has a thing for Mom!?"

"Because it's none of your actual business!" Danny yelled as Sam and Tucker quickly chose to run for it.

"If you don't mind, we'll be over there doing the 'Glad I'm an only child' dance." They crawled out of the closet as Jazz spoke up to the ticked Danny.

"Danny, calm down." But he was pushed over the limit as he replied.

"Calm down? How can I calm down with you constantly butting your nose in where it doesn't belong!?" Jazz tried to stand her ground as she spoke.

"I was just trying to help."

"Nobody asked you to help!" Danny made to count off her flaws. "You're a lousy ghost hunter, an overbearing sister, and an annoying, obnoxious know-it-all with no respect for her brother's privacy! So stop helping!" Danny paused as a wide gasp echoed form outside the door, but the damage was done as Jazz was in tears before she ran out of the closet and away as he came out to a crowd glaring at him as he breathed and looked at them. "You ever get those days where your family is more or less butting in on your own business, I was just giving it honestly."

"And no one can deny him that." The crowd backed as Cedric walked over before he Gibbs slapped Danny and spoke. "But reality has a harsh way of treating people ousted from the activities of their families; Come on, Danny." He spoke as Danny followed. "Let's hope that Jazz will understand that you were just upset right now." They headed out and Danny headed home to sleep in, a pit in his stomach about something, but it only came up when his parents entered his room and inquired with Jack leading it.

"Danny, have you seen Jazz?"

"Huh? Jazz?" Danny stretched as he inquired back. "I haven't seen her since yesterday. Why?"

"Neither have we, we can't find her anywhere, she's gone." Danny grimaced as he whispered to himself.

"Oh no... is this my fault...?"


Up at Wisconsin, Vlad put it down to Klemper after the fool came soaring in, begging for a friend. "If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times, I will NOT be your friend!" Klemper started to tremble before the door bell up top rang and Vlad huffed with tossing the PJ ghost back into the Zone. "Oh, what now!?" He stomped out of the lab in reverting back, heading into the main foyer before opening the door to... Jazz Fenton, standing there and her ride the Specter Speeder which took him by surprise before Jazz broke down.

"Oh, Uncle Vlad." She snuffed before burying her face in her hands as she cried. "I've run away from home, my father's an idiot, my brother hates me, and I want to live with you!" She bawled before Vlad questioned the trail of speech.

"Wait, what was that?"

"I've run away from home?"

"No, no, after that..."

"My brother hates me?"

"No, in the middle!" Vlad recalled a similar moment when that happened in Colorado, between him and Maddie, as Jazz answered with a shrug.

"My father's an idiot...?" Vlad beamed as he spoke up.

"That's the one!" He beamed as he exclaimed. "Come to Uncle Vlad!" He beamed as he guided her in, making a note to stash the Speeder for both easy access and to hide it form prying eyes as, back in Amity Park, Maddie mused the situation before them as she spoke.

"It's not like Jazz to just... take off without saying anything!" Jack answered from his pacing.

"I know. She usually talks and talks and talks." He shrugged as he continued. "Big words I can barely understand." Maddie sat on Danny's bed as she asked him.

"Danny, can you think of any reason she might be upset?"

"Or why she might have taken the Scepter Speeder?" Danny started to think about it before he drew a logical idea.

"She's after Skulker..."

"What was that?"

"Um..." Danny paused before he explained. "I think I have an idea, but it involves a ghost named Skulker, she calls him Ghost X..."

"Dull name..." Jack answered.

"...But he recently dropped by to steal Bloodstream Nanobots from Axion Labs and the Fenton Ecto-Converter." Both hummed as he continued. "So, I think I can try to find her, but keep me updated here, I just need to be sure."

"Sure thing, honey, if you are certain of this..."

"I would not lie about this." He headed out as he beat himself over it as he headed for the lab. "I told her she was a lousy ghost hunter, so of course she decided to prove me wrong and hunt Skulker." He turned as he beat himself even more. "But if anything happens to her... I'll know it's my fault..." He finished as he soared into the Portal, but no sooner had Danny gone through did the phone ring and Jack check it out to see a six-o'-eight area code and more details as he mused.

"Six-o'-Eight Area Code, hey, that's Wisconsin, it's Vladdie!" Jack beamed as Maddie pushed the button to let the call through to a familiar voice as Jazz spoke through the line.

"Mom? Dad?"

"Hello? Jazz? Jazz, honey, are you alright? Why are you in Wisconsin?" Maddie asked as Jazz snuffled a bit before she explain it out a tad.

"I'm fine, I just can't be around Danny right now, so I'm staying with Uncle Vlad." Maddie yelped as Vlad lightly took the phone and explained it as well.

"Don't worry, Maddie and Jack, I think the two had a bit of a argument and both needed to clear their heads a bit, you know, 'chill in'."

"Out. It's chill out." Vlad looked questioned as he pondered it when Jazz said it.

"Really? That-That can't be right." Maddie's first reaction was rejection, but she calmed as she spoke to the phone.

"Vlad, can you promise that she will be safe and at ease while she is there?"

"Oh yes, I promise, I will look after her as if she were my own, farewell, Maddie and Jack." Jazz smiled as Jack beamed to Maddie's huff of easing up her own chi.

"What a great guy, good luck finding friends like that, huh?" Jack beamed as he was assured that she would be in good hands right now. "I'm sure she'll be fine." It could have got... very mature with Jack's next words before he exclaimed to getting the checker board, Maddie rolling her eyes as Vlad spoke to Jazz with the phone down.

"Well, that's that for now. I'll send for the rest of your things as soon as the lawyer draws up the adoption papers." He cleared his throat before he spoke again with a furrowed brow. "So, recently found out about my 'incident'?" Jazz was caught off-guard as Vlad explained. "Oh, please, Jasmine, Daniel need not say a single word to me about this event, I can tell that he was lashing out like any little brother would, but considering our 'ghostly' past times, you finding out about me was just a mere step in a different direction, he and I try not to be enemies, but he does play along to my own schemes at times."

"So..." Jazz asked with raising her hands up. "I have nothing against you at all, then my running away..."

"Is to clear your mind and air your feelings, no one is prefect, not even I." Vlad spoke as he took another drink of the tea prepared. "Besides, you are a curious little creature that I would not be surprised, but do play along, I feel like Daniel may come to see what's up." He chuckled while Jazz shrugged, if Danny and Vlad were on good terms, then she should just trust them in the very least.

The Ghost Zone saw Danny flying toward Skulker's island, hoping to get to the bottom of it and rescue Jazz form anything bad, but he didn't expect a door slamming him in the face as Skulker emerged with a lightning rod as he mused. "Excellent! All my tasks completed!" Danny yelped before he recovered and demanded.

"Where is she!?"

"What are you talking about, Whelp!?" Danny was not in the mood for game as he blasted at Skulker, the hunter dodging as the door behind him opened with Technus coming out, in a shower cap, a towel, and holding a brush as he ranted.

"Which of you fools stole my-" The blast meant for Skulker blasted Technus back through and the door closed before Skulker turned to the Demi in amuse.

"Hey! You're helping too!" But Skulker got a double boot kick to the face as he recoiled before musing again. "That's odd... No witty banter?"

"Not in the mood!" Danny answered with rage in his voice. "All I want to know is what you've done with Jazz!"

"I've done nothing with your sister, Ghost Child. Skulker hunts what he hunts, nothing more, nothing less!" He beamed as he lifted up the rod in hand. "Which is why I'm bringing this to my employer!" He then used it to zap Danny, stunning him for a containment unit to capture him and Skulker lifting it up as he continued. "You'll be a gift."

Meanwhile, Jazz walked through the halls of the castle in search of what she could further learn about her 'uncle', looking around before peering into the study, Vlad standing by the fireplace before tilting the right-most football statue, a hidden stairway revealed before he stepped on through, Jazz beaming before she glanced about before she rushed in, looking once more before she spotted the laptop and exclaimed her glee before she went ninja and landed in the chair before she started to work on piecing out the things that Skulker had stolen, the first step to making it better with Danny is actually using the real name, she thought hers were cooler.

"So... what do we have in here about nanobots and an ecto-converter?" She press enter and got photos of Maddie, the caption of 'delete later' there, but Jazz couldn't believe it as she exclaimed. "Oh, gross!" She shut the laptop in disbelief. "I will never be able to unsee this!" The click made her gasp as the fireplace reopened and she quickly grabbed the yearbook on the shelf, her first thought being that she was looking through the yearbook when the better was to just take it and read it elsewhere.

Vlad dusted himself off before noticing Jazz reading the yearbook, both confused and a bit upset that she was in the private study as he walked over and inquired. "Jazz, what are you doing in my private study?"

"Private? Why would you have a private study from someone you consider a daughter?" She gasped as she took in the photo of the friends, younger Vlad was quite a interesting guy. "Oh, and you were such a looker in college!" Vlad took behind as he peered at the same before she spoke.

"Indeed, though the skunk hair was a bit out there for me, besides Maddie had her heart out for Jack most of the time, though I can't deny those brief moments, it really felt different than most." They eased up as they hugged, Jazz eyeing the passage as it closed and later that night, she took to it, trying too hard to be in the quiet as she opened the passage and headed down. She gasped to the layout of the lab before she spotted something else.

"Dad's Ecto-Skeleton?" She walked over to it before glancing to the side as she found the other things taken, Skulker the one who took them, so why would they be here. "The Ecto-Converter and the Bloodstream Nanobots!?" She gasped as she exclaimed. "I was right!" She paused before she pondered it more. "But... no, I am not right, I thought they were being used to make a super weapon, why would all three be here in the first place?" She hummed and pondered it a bit more than expected as she continued. But Vlad found her and she didn't try to deny that she was curious about it and he admitted to keeping it a secret before the Ghost Portal activated and Skulker walked through with box and rod in hand as Vlad kept his cool, just a bad timing moment as Skulker spoke.

"Sorry to interrupt, I brought you the final piece of your 'superweapon'." Skulker tossed the rod to Vlad and he smiled as Skulker continued. "This one's on the house." He dropped the box and kicked it across the floor to the pair before Danny got back up and questioned.

"Jazz?"

"Danny?"

"What are you doing!?" Both inquired to the other in confusion as Vlad spoke.

"Well, that's a funny thing to see, neither of you went out to find the other fully and yet, here you both are, face to face in a dangerous place." He sighed dramatic as he spoke. "I'm torn! I love the idea that you've left your father for me, yet I'm suspicious of your motives now. Only one thing to do, I guess."

"Let us both go and let the courts figure it out?" Jazz asked as Danny beamed the same as Vlad just continued.

"Oh close." Soon, they were taken out to the football fiend behind the castle and Vlad turned on the lights to Danny still trapped and Jazz in the Ecto-Skeleton as she turned her head to the announcer's booth and asked.

"Uncle Vlad, is this necessary?" The big screen turned on as Vlad spoke with an evil glint.

"Why, Jasmine, you didn't expect me to take you in as my own without first testing your loyalty." Jazz blinked in confusion before Vlad continued. "I've improved Jack's Ecto-Skeleton using the lightning rod and Ecto-Converter as an endless power source. Meanwhile, the nanobots will control your breathing and heart rate."

"So the suit won't waste me?"

"No, so I can if you betray me! But that needn't happen, as long as you behave like a good, little adopted daughter to me." Danny exclaimed as part of the scheme.

"Let her go, Vlad! She's clearly just some clueless know-it-all who got in way over her head!" Jazz glared back as she spoke back to him.

"You're toast!"

"Oh yeah? You and what Toaster?" Danny sassed back as Vlad called out.

"And that's my que!" He pressed a button the fiendish remote in hand before the mix of ecto-converter and rod kicked into high gear while the box popped open as Danny spoke.

"Okay, on my signal, run!"

"You're not the boss of me! I'll run when I feel like it!" Both exclaimed fine before making a run for it, the Ecto-Skeleton outpacing Danny as Jazz spoke. "Back to being the faster one!" She bolted past as Danny took flight.

"That suit is really powerful, how the heck did Dad and Mom make it so in the first place?" He followed before Jazz slammed into something in mid air and Danny came to a jerking halt, still hitting the barrier, but with less damage as both were flung back and Danny peered up to Vlad's face as he exclaimed.

"I fixed the ghost shield too, it works on ghosts AND humans! You kids have fun!" The screen went dark as both looked at each other and got up before circling one another as Danny tried to make a plan.

"We're gonna have to fight, but we gonna need to make it look convin-" Anymore was cut off as Jazz uppercut Danny across the field and into the shield before he fell back down as Jazz spoke up.

"That's for humiliating me in front of the entire school!"

"Okay! I deserve that! And I'm sorry!" Danny spoke as he pulled himself back together as he walked over to the suit. "You were just trying to help, but please, just follow my lead!" Jazz punched again, launching Danny into the upper portion before winding up and punching him across to the other side before bolting to it, he freewheeling in the air before she went for the punch, it made contact with Danny's palm as Jazz grimaced before Danny slammed his other hand into the suit and made it go intangible before plunging her into the field, trapping her before he made to rant. "Will you...!" He stopped before he asked. "We were already fighting to make it convincing, weren't we?"

"Duh! You did want me to make it convincing." Danny blinked before he smiled.

"Well then, let's test out the Ecto-Skeleton's range, shall we?" Jazz winked before she ripped through the field and grabbed Danny, he rolled in the grip to then slam the suit into the ground before she rolled away, Vlad clapping at the fight going on as Danny and Skeleton found on equal grounds. "That thing is really enhancing the human's natural reflexes and skills, yeah?"

"Oh yeah, a real shame that it only took a lightning rod, an Ecto-Converter, and nanobots to make it actually usable in the long-term." Jazz answered as both exchanged blows, both grinning before Danny was sent flying and he charged his blasts.

"The Ecto-Skeleton can be affected by ghost powers just the same, but how well can it take some ecto energy blasts?" He fired and Jazz dodged before getting pummeled with a few and Jazz huffed.

"Man, this thing can really take a punch!"

"If so, then put your guard up!" Danny answered as he focused and Jazz flung her arms up before the ecto beam blasted, the Skeleton getting pushed back before Danny tired and he exclaimed. "Son of Bearbert...!" Jazz gasped before she exclaimed.

"Never take Bearbert's name in vain, come here!" Danny backpedaled as Jazz closed the gap and snatched Danny, lifting him high before he exclaimed in exhaust and fake defeat.

"Jazz, no! Don't! Please!" She hurled him into the shield and he fell, not getting back up as Jazz questioned in leaning in.

"Danny?" She noticed the popped eye before back as she played it and exclaimed. "Oh no, what have I done! Can you ever forgive me!?" Vlad came out as he spoke.

"Of course, I forgive you, Jasmine, and you too, Daniel." Danny popped his eyes open and sighed.

"Ah man..."

"Not to worry." Vlad answered as he pressed a button the the shield dropped and the power source shut down as he explained. "Now, I believe this now belongs to you." He handed the remote to Danny as Jazz questioned.

"So, that's it, we can go home now?"

"Oh, I have no reason to keep you here any longer, I just hope that you had a good time here."

"Actually, yeah, I had fun."

"Speak for yourself." Danny mused as he rolled his eyes. "I jumped the gun on Skulker because I believed that you went after him."

"Well, I could have, but I wanted to know more about what the objects were being used for, I jumped the gun in thinking that it was for a super weapon." Vlad chuckled as he answered.

"Considering the Skeleton, that IS a super weapon, in both the right and wrong hands." He spoke as he directed his hand to the castle. "Now, I believe you both have an Specter Speeder to take." Both nodded as Danny lifted Jazz out and both hugged Vlad to his shock and surprise, Jazz kissing his cheek as both thanked him.

"Thanks for looking after Jazz for a bit."

"Thanks for letting me stay over for a while, Uncle."

"I... I... Oh, cheese logs, I have truly become the uncle here, this is so out-of-place for me!" Both laughed before they took the Specter Speeder, The Ecto-Skeleton in the back as Jazz spoke.

"I messed up, didn't I?"

"Actually, I messed up." Danny answered as he explained himself. "I was so busy being angry at you, I... couldn't see that you really can help."

"But, just because I can, doesn't mean I should. Ghost Fighting's your thing, Danny, I'll always be there for you, just in different ways." Danny smiled as he leaned on her in thanks.

"Consider yourself reinstated into Team Phantom." Jazz blinked before she asked.

"So what about the Nanobots?"

"I know a guy..."


Valerie helped oversee the complete extraction of the Bloodstream Nanobots and took them off Cedric's hands as he spoke up with wiping his hands. "Consider yourself nanobot-free and normal big sister again, Jasmine."

"Thanks, Cedric, but what about Ghost-X, I mean Skulker?"

"Topaz and Talia are handling him just fine, in fact, I am expecting them..." The door to the lab opened and Topaz and Talia returned as Cedric chuckled. "Right on que, ladies."

"Yeah, he was not so tough, the guy could take a few rounds with me as a pure ghost, he lasted one round with me."

"Phrasing, Lain." Talia chuckled as Topaz stuck her tongue out before both came over and Talia spoke. "So, Cedric, you said that you had some place to show the Team?"

"Oh, yes, follow me..." That did do so as they soon entered the underground of Amity Park, the sewer system disgusting, but it was blocked out with oxygen masks before they arrived to an abandon section of it, located on the south side of Amity before Cedric rested a hand on the brick and it glowed with recognizance and it opened up like a series of blast doors before they headed in, it closing behind them before Cedric extended his arms to the base. "Welcome to Firebase Phive." It was huge, larger than the Fenton Lab as the party took it all in, rooms across the place, a large lobby, and even a hanger in the back as Cedric explained with the whole team following behind him.

"I worked to the bone to get this place up and running, depending on a series of ecto-generators that absorb the excess ambient ecto-energy from both the sent ecto-filtrator supply and from the very air of Amity, this base can go for years with Pariah's assault." He showed off the rooms as the team look like kids in a candy shop. "We have the armory where all of the stored weapons and defenses are kept for both training, missions, and emergencies, the sleeping quarters for members who would like to keep inside the base on stand-by, the greenhouse, using some of that ecto energy in being converted into solar radiation, tested it out and it is completely harmless to both humans, animals, and plants." Valerie was on a spazz as she bounced in place in glee, the trio surprised by her excitement as Cedric continued.

"We also have the lab, but that is for the members authorized to check it out, and lastly..." The blast doors opened to... the wide, empty space except for the mech at the side. "This is the hanger, this will be where the vehicles and crafts will be stored, sadly, the only thing you will find here is this..." He tapped on the metal hide. "The Iron Martyr, a light assault mech built to both resist the extreme changes in the Ghost Zone and providing a safe environment to operate in when working in deep space, I did my work and am quite thorough about it."

"Geez, Brainiac..." Topaz chuckled as she rubbed her head in disbelief. "I knew you were nuts, but this whole thing is crazy."

"You don't know the half of it." Cedric answered as he leaned on the mech. "I wanted to ensure that we could stand against any hostile attacks, but Pariah's attack was something REALLY unexpected, I also wanted to show this to the team when the C.A.T. happened on a notion, but I didn't get to, a delay on my part." He opened his eyes again as he spoke with a smile. "So... we have some free time, anyone want to check out and test themselves in the armory?" Honestly, it was a full military base down below and no one really questioned it right now as Cedric was somehow that guy who had money to burn, tech to test, and connections out of the state to get...