Author's Note: I am trying to make this story as stand-alone as possible, but the curse of established fanon strikes as always. I tried to make footnotes, though, with little + symbols (since easy edit deletes asteriks)...

But now it deletes plus-signs as well. Curses. Either way, I have footnotes.

"Kitty," Said Ember. "Your boyfriend is really weird."

"At least Johnny did cause me to commit suicide," retorted Kitty acidly.

That was the WRONG thing to say. Ember grabbed her guitar and smashed Kitty in the face with it. Kitty retaliated by firing a tornado of ectoplasmic power at Ember, who, once recovered, switched her guitar to play a flaming tune, and burned Kitty. Kitty defended. With an ecto-shield, but her jacket caught on ecto-fire and she tore it off and threw it into the still-open portal.

Meanwhile, Jack came to. "SUFFERING SPOOKS!" He gasped, "A ghost catfight! In my lab, no less!"

So focused on destroying each other, the two phantoms engaged in the battle didn't even notice he was awake. Kitty jumped on Ember and started pounding her in the face, but was thrown off when Ember's flaming hair whipped into her face and wrapped around her neck, choking and cutting her off from her supply of afterlife-giving nitrogen. Then she proceeded to pound Kitty in the stomach with her gothic punches.

Suddenly, the two became aware of a new presence in the room. The stopped their relentless assault on each other and looked at the new comer. She war a black battle-dress, if any dress could be described as suitable for battle. Her skin was pale like a ghost, but her lack of an aura and the heat she generated made it clear she was very much alive. Oddly, her hair was pink.

"I don't suppose either of you are the woman killed by my idiot companion Mammoth."

The ghosts shook their heads. Then a wicked smile twisted onto Jinx's face.

"Either way," the pink haired sorceress said, "I've never used this before," referring to the amulet Navan had sold her. "So I guess a little practice wouldn't hurt."

Kitty and Ember found themselves slowly losing their grip on reality, gradually losing control of their bodies. "What are you doing to us?" Kitty asked?

"You'll be fine when I'm done. Care to tell me who the local superhero around here is?"

The two were in perfect agreement on this; Kitty wanted revenge for Danny humiliating Johnny. Ember was furious that the ghost child for causing her to lose her fanbase.

"DANNY PHANTOM." They said simultaneously. Jinx smiled. It was time for some fun.

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Danny saw the green and black creature blur towards him and darted upward, going intangible and phasing through the ceiling. He grabbed the thermos from his room on the way up and darted sky ward. The time was around four in the afternoon, the season autumn. So the sun was low and about to wane, and the buildings had plenty of shadows where Danny could hide—if he wasn't currently glowing.

That didn't really matter, though, because Shadow Johnny was right on his ectoplasmic tail, so close that Shadow's aura was lashing out and trying to take a bite of it. Danny turned and fired several ectoplasmic beams at Johnny and then flipped in mid air, stopping and attempting to punch him in the gut as he flew on skyward. This might have been quite effective, too, if Johnny had not stopped and blocked Danny's punch.

"How's this for closer to the vest, kid?" Johnny said, and punched Danny in the chest, knocking him at least a mile laterally. Danny was finally stopped by friction when he skidded across the roof of an Amity Park skyscraper.

Danny got up from his collapsed position, his chest aching. If his ghost form had ribs, he was sure that punch had broken some of them. A flash of bright Darkness caught his eye, and suddenly a faint speck in the sky began to grow rather depressingly larger until Johnny was there.

"Nice, punch." Danny said. He really wanted to star a dialogue, because he wasn't to keen on taking another blow like that one.

"Thanks. But don't think I'm done with you." The Shadow Aura flared around Johnny's altered ectoplasmic body.

"Great." Danny let his green ghost aura flare to life as well. He'd learned a lot about his powers since he'd last fought with Johnny, but he still didn't know exactly how powerful Johnny was in this new form. Judging by that punch, he figured he'd need help winning this one.

The two clashed again, this time with Danny ready. The two exchanged attacks briefly, then parted. As Danny passed, he twirled around, raising his right leg and planting a kick into Johnny's shoulder and neck. The symbiote-enhanced ghost reeled from the blow, but recovered quickly and fired dark green ectoplasmic energy blasts at Danny.

"Whoa!" yelled Danny as he dodged them. Then he returned fire. Most of them missed Johnny and hit the roof of the building, but three of the 13 that he shot at Johnny hit their target… To absolutely no apparent effect.

"Want to try again?" Johnny's voice, deepened ever so slightly by his union with Shadow, taunted.

"Yeah, I do," Danny shot back. Lifting his hands, Danny directed his energy to form an ecto-ball as bright as he could muster above his head, and hurled it at Johnny. He stood in the shadow of the structure that housed the elevator on the roof of the sky scraper, while Danny hovered over the edge of the building…

The energy ball was less than three feet from Johnny when suddenly he faded into the darkness around him, and re-emerged from a connecting Shadow on the other side, his dark aura burning around him. Danny tried to defend against the blow, but was knocked down and off the building by the sheer force of Johnny's strike. He summoned more of his ghost power as he fell, keeping him alter. He was upside down, and so was Johnny as he perused the ghost boy.

The two met in the air and started trading blows again, spinning around. Danny could see the ground, and see that the explosions he had caused on the roof and created quite the panic inside the building. So, of course, as human beings are incapable of a controlled, calm, orderly evacuation, there was a stampeded of people on the ground. Danny did NOT want him and Johnny to crash into said people once they reached the ground…

Danny's power grew as his determination did, and he began to have the upper hand. Johnny turned upright and began spinning to kick. Danny dodged by circling, and together this sent the two into a spiral. As they plummeted ever closer to the ground, Danny got more intense.

"STOP!" He yelled, and caused a mini explosion around him, knocking Johnny back and halting his downward motion. The same action knocked Danny into the building, shattering the glass walls and tearing through some cubicles and computers. Brave workers who were still working, or just those who were trying to get a glimpse of the fight gawked as Danny landed, bounced once, and stopped in the middle of the floor, gradually getting up…

Just in time to dodge a series of black energy darts that Shadow Johnny had hurled into the building, destroying several computers and scaring the crap out of the now-fleeing white-collars.

"Johnny. Stop it now, you're going to end up hurting someone other than me!"

"Like I care," replied Johnny.

Danny was enraged. "I CARE!" Danny bellowed, throwing the ectoplasmic equivalent of a Kamehameha at Johnny. The entire building shook as the enourmous green-white beam tore through the offices, and glass exploded everywhere. In tragic irony, Danny was doing far more to potentially hurt the bystanders than Johnny, who was now unconscious in a crater somewhere north of Nowhere, Kansas, Shadow stripped from him by the intense light of the attack.

Thinking quickly, Danny went intangible and hurled himself at the ground, stopping above the fleeing employees and hastily creating a ectoplasmic energy shield above them, stopping he shards of falling glass and metal from landing on them. Danny was quick, too, and many lives were saved. But not quite quick enough, as several of the fleeing workers suffered cuts from glass that had been blasted down quickly by the explosion, and one man had a shard of steel imbedded in his lower spine, making him a paraplegic.

Danny's only consolation was that nobody was killed. And that, if he had been nearly any other superhero; if he had possessed nearly any set of abilities other than the one's he did, he probably wouldn't have been able to save anyone… Especially if he had "Pinky's" power…

Danny turned around and surveyed the damage. "Geez, after this damage, I'll be so cooked if someone discovers my identity."

He realized he was quite tired too, so he reverted to normal to save energy. There wouldn't be anyone here until after the cops were long gone, and they hadn't even gotten there yet.

That blast and subsequent ecto-shield had taken it out of him. So he was ready to go medieval on someone when he heard ominous footfalls behind him that coincided with his ghost sense triggering.

He turned around to see Kitty and Ember, their eyes glowing red, standing behind him not three yards away. Then another woman showed up, this one very much alive but with equally red eyes and a red glowing object in her hand, landed from a hovering position.

"You're that sorceress Jinx. Savior+ warned me you might show up." Danny was somewhat fatigued, but Kitty and Ember weren't really trouble. Ember didn't have her guitar, so no music spells. "If you were going to attack me by controlling ghosts, you might have picked a stronger pair," Danny smirked. "I'm going ghost!" And so he did.

"Stronger ghosts would have made this too easy for me," Jinx replied. Danny didn't think she was bluffing, so either she overestimated the strength of Kitty and Ember… Or she new something Danny didn't.

Suddenly, Jinx glowed red, and thrust her right arm up in an "uppercut" motion, and when she did, red aura's exploded into being around Kitty and Ember, and they leapt into the air and began raining red ectoplasmic blasts on Danny.

Note to Self, Danny thought, that amulet enhances a ghost's powers…

Meanwhile in Kansas:

A small pink dog darted into a small house in the middle of Nowhere, and panicking, he began to spew random gibberish that conveyed his raw fear but little else.

"Courage, what's wrong?" asked a kindly old woman with a thick Scottish accent.

The dog began screaming in random gibberish again, but this time he made motions with his forepaws that indicated something had smashed into the ground nearby.

"A meteor?" She asked. The dog nodded wildly in confirmation.

Then the dog threw himself on the ground and began twitching.

"There was someone IN the meteor?" the woman asked.

The dog again confirmed her extrapolation. Then she grabbed her hand and started pulling, and he led her out to the impact site. But by the time they got to the 20-foot-deep crater, Johnny was already gone.

For more about my fanon history of Ember, see chapters 7,8, and 9 of my fic Time Phantom.

For more about Danny's previous experience with "'Pinky' Noel 'Savior' Collins" read Danny's Inferno by Legend Maker.