Danny and Sam sat downstairs in the kitchen nervously. Danny's parents were due home any minute, and there was no way of knowing what Frost had or hadn't said about Danny. They also knew that she had been tracking Danny's ghost-signature on radar since they had left Amity Park. If she said anything, then this would be the moment of truth.

"12:45," Danny checked the clock, "Should be back soon," Sam looked at her best friend; the suspense was killing him. She put a hand on his shoulder.

"Hey, parents may never understand...but they do love their kids," Danny smiled at this, but he still looked nervous. They heard the door open.

"HA!" they heard Jack shout, "We did it! We beat Frost, we beat Frost!" he started laughing and acting like an overexcited little kid.

"Dad," Danny walked over to meet them, still nervous, "things...went well?"

"Couldn't have been better, Danny!" his dad grabbed him, "Frost claimed that she was following a ghost that was in our car! Shows what she knows! Now, Frost not only owes us $10,000 for trespassing, the judge ruled that there are no grounds for her to hunt and destroy ghosts! The house is ours, as are the ghosts!"

"Great! So she didn't mention specific about the ghost that was supposed to have come with us?"

"Well she did say something about my going to regret this decision, because if I had stayed away she would've said who it was," Jack stared into space, "But the important thing is, we beat Frost! We beat Frost!" he started dancing with Maddie while Danny breathed a sigh of relief and headed upstairs with Sam.

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"Paranormalics," as agreed, Tucker called Danny and Sam that evening on the video screens, "CIA department. Exists to 'protect all U.S. citizens from, and permanently eliminate, the threat of beings and creatures of a paranormal nature or whose origins lie within the ectoplasmic realm.'"

"Did you find anything about Frost?" Sam asked.

"Sarah Frost. Age 43. Formerly a member of the French Secret Service. Removed from office for using state funds to build ectoplasmic weapons. Now head of Paranormalics. Characteristic traits; paranoia."

"So you think that those tunnels have something to do with these guys?" Sam asked.

"It led right to their headquarters," Danny said, "Volpe was working for the air force, and I doubt he supports these guys now. They must've taken over that place when he died."

"Any idea why Frost was tracking you from Amity Park?" Tucker asked.

"Probably because I'm Public Ghost Enemy #1," Danny said resentfully, "Remember?"

"Oh yeah. Well then, I dunno why you guys are still worried. Your dad took care of that Frost lady. What can happen now?" Danny happened to have the T.V. on down in the basement. A news bulletin suddenly came up.

"We repeat, two unexplainable robberies have been committed in town," a news reporter stood by. Frost was with him, "The items stolen are $100,000 in cash, half from the bank and half from the mayor. These robberies occurred with every entrance to the room locked. Along with the police, investigations by the government agency Paranormalics have gone underway. With me now is Sarah Frost, leading director of Paranormalics. Ms. Frost, why is your department involved in such a civil case?"

Frost looked serious, but the gleam in her eyes showed this was just what she wanted, "The mysterious circumstances of these robberies have lead to the suspicion that paranormal forces may be involved. Our department has been struggling for years to raise awareness of the threat of ghosts."

"Ms. Frost, have you found any evidence supporting your claims?"

"These ectoplasmic samples were found within the safe," she held up a bag containing a glowing, blue, transparent substance, "and our technology was alerted several times to the presence of paranormal beings. We had been tracking one coming up here from Amity Park with the Fenton family."

"You think that the Fentons brought a ghost to our town?"

"Not intentionally, but from what I've read about Mr. Fenton in Dr. Wakeman's work…"

"Again, $100,000 missing, evidence points to paranormal beings. We'll return you to your regular programming and cut in as further developments present themselves," the show came back on.

"I've gotta get down there," Danny started up, "Frost is up to something."

"Are you crazy!?" Tucker shouted, "We know Frost did see you; she's practically begging for you to show up!"

"She's trying to make it look like there's justifiable cause for her to hunt down ghosts in this place," Sam interrupted, "We have to do something, but..."

"But what?" Danny looked at her funny.

"I think it might be good if, just this once, we let your parents handle the ghost problems," Sam said, "If Frost can prove or get substantial evidence that a ghost was even present she'll be able to get all the power she needs, or at least the right to sue for it again."

"You want us to trust my parents with this!?" Danny shouted, "Have you forgotten that my dad is the guy who charges into everything without thinking and can't even tell I'm a ghost with all his equipment?!"

"There's your mom," silence.

"…I'll take a look down there. If I'm not back in five minutes or if another news flash shows up sooner, then you can get my mom and head down to investigate. Tucker?"

"Yeah?"

"If you can, find out more about Paranormalics," Danny went ghost and flew up out of the house and down to the town. He went invisible before landing on a rooftop. Police had set up roadblocks and policemen and Paranormalics agents were moving around all over. He noticed several Paranormalics agents heading off behind a butcher shop when they were certain nobody was looking. Staying invisible, Danny followed them. Five of them were by the museum. One of them was working on the lock to the window that led to the basement, one of them was holding a small object that looked like the bomb Frost had used on Danny the other night, and three of them had mirrors. Once the lock was opened, they slowly slid down into the basement. Danny followed by phasing through the wall. The bomb was laid down in the middle of the room and set for two minutes, the one who picked the lock having de-activated the security cameras. The mirrors were laid parallel in front of a box lying on a table. Red lasers were just barely visible being refracted off the mirrors. One of the ones who had laid down the mirrors walked up and opened the box, pulling out a bag of priceless gemstones. He then pulled out an ectoplasmic laser and began firing around at random.

"OK, let's go!" they quickly left the room, taking the mirrors with them. Danny looked down at the bomb. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1...

"Not again," it detonated, leaving Danny the only thing in the room that was injured. The noise, however, alerted the security guard upstairs.

"Who's down here!?" he shouted when he got through the door. His eye caught Danny, "Hold it right there!"

"Wait, I can explain..." Danny had to phase through a bullet before flying out to escape, pulling a piece of the bomb off from his shirt and putting it in his pocket. He had just managed to get outside when...

"Look!" "In the sky!" "Is it a ghost!?" random people were shouting out; Danny was no longer in invisible form. Paranormalics agents were taking two routes; half were heading into the museum, and the other half had their weapons aimed at Danny; Frost was in the former group, but not before giving Danny a look.

"This is not my day," Danny readied himself for battle.

---

Paranormalics agents were all over the basement, running tests and scanning walls for ectoplasmic samples.

"Some rare gems from a tomb in Africa are missing," the security guard who saw Danny said, "I can't believe what I saw with my own two eyes. That kid flew right up through the ceiling!"

"He was no kid," one of the men set down his scanner. The bomb had let off ectoplasmic material all over the place, and the scanner read that clearly.

"I think you and the police better leave this to our department, sergeant," Frost said slyly, "We have a ghost on our hands."

---

Danny had little trouble fighting the agents the other night as he had caught them by surprise behind a dark old mansion, but now, as this was what they were ready for, he was finding it much harder to fight. They were definitely trained commandos, while Danny, despite having fought and defeating a lot of ghosts, had never had a combat lesson in his life. He almost got fried by the lasers three times and was hit by the force of ectoplasmic bombs at least twice. Now that Frost's scans were finished, her men had come to reinforce the ones already outside.

"This is definitely not my day," he barely avoided another laser before kicking the guy back into three other soldiers. He managed to fight off some more, but he was too outnumbered to win a fight like this. He retreated to catch his breath and make a strategy. It happened that the place he stopped to rest was right where Frost was standing.

"Admiring your handiwork?" Danny asked grimly.

"Danny, you should be more grateful," she smiled mockingly, "I did keep your little secret to myself when your dad was arguing with me. I never imagined the ghost terrorising Amity Park would be his son!"

"And now you can't admit defeat so you're setting it up to look like the town's haunted."

"I'd like to thank you for helping me with that," Danny looked down in shame at this comment, "You don't really think you can stop me, do you?"

"I can try," an explosion interrupted the conversation.

"Ms. Frost!" someone shouted, "We've got another gh..." the voice was silenced. Volpe flew up to Frost and Danny, holding all of Frost's ectoplasmic samples.

"It seems we're on the same side after all, Ghost Boy," Volpe smirked, "Though you make the mistake of trusting humans like that foolish girl."

"That girl is my best friend, and..." Danny noticed that Frost had disappeared, "Oh, great! Now look what you..." Volpe was gone as well "...did?"

"You!" a townsperson had seen Danny and alerted the Paranormalics agents, "Freeze!" Danny made a quick retreat to the left.

---

Volpe quietly flew in the alleys of the town, the samples in his hand. A sudden punch to his face came out from a wall. A human/ghost hybrid stood over him. She was about Danny's height, with white skin, green flame-like hair flowing up, and wearing black flowing robes.

"Who are you?" Volpe asked. Instead of getting an answer, he had to dodge another punch. Their battle took them up to a rooftop. Dodging a punch, the ghost girl jumped up and kicked Volpe hard in the arm, sending the stolen samples falling to the ground where a Paranormalics agent found them. Danny was also watching the fight. Volpe was losing, and the last thing Danny needed was for Frost to get away with her plans tonight. He kicked the newest of his problems off Volpe, letting him get away.

"Hi," Danny said sarcastically to the ghost girl, "I'm Danny Phantom. And you are...?" she calmly stood up before turning into vapour, reappearing, and landing a kick right into Danny's stomach, knocking him into a fire escape on the back on an apartment, "Silent but deadly," Danny said, dazed, "Got it," he pulled himself together. The girl was just standing there calmly. Danny just stared at her in awe. Big mistake. Without warning, she suddenly showed up right in his face. Danny couldn't see what happened next. He could definitely feel that he was being hit all over. She wasn't giving him anytime to phase through her attacks. The last he saw before everything went black was his flying further and further away from her fist.

---

"Danny?" Danny started to open his eyes. He could vaguely see the concerned face of Sam, "Danny? You OK?"

"Huh...what happened?" Danny slowly sat up, holding his head. He wasn't in ghost form anymore. His parents' van was in front of him, his mom talking to a policeman. They were in an argument.

"Wait...don't tell me that..." Sam looked grim. She pointed over to a store that had a ton of T.V. monitors, all showing the news. A reporter was talking

"The readouts from the scanners, the ectoplasmic samples, eyewitness reports...all signs point to the explanation of Paranormalics; our town is haunted. Paranormalics chief Sarah Frost has identified one of three sighted ghosts as the same one that has terrorised Amity Park, which she claims followed ghost-hunter Jack Fenton on his way to the Old Kane Manor just outside of town. This raises controversy over a hearing earlier today where Paranormalics were forbidden from hunting ghosts and from taking the property of Mr. Fenton. The judge and jury will re-assemble tomorrow to re-discuss the case; for now, Mr. Fenton appears to have a mild risk of property loss."

"If you want to say 'I told you so,'" Danny said, "I wouldn't mind," Sam put a hand on his shoulder; she didn't say anything.