Danny's burst of ectoplasmic energy gave him the vantage point he had needed to notice Sam and Tucker's presence, something which it seemed neither Kitty, Ember, nor Jinx had noticed.

But flying over to them would mean leading the ghosts right to them, so he couldn't do that. Suddenly, he noticed Kitty was nowhere to be seen, and that Ember was flying at him again. "I could have been worshiped like a goddess, and you took that from me, Dipwad!"

"Still the same hack writing your insults, then?" Danny asked as Ember crashed into him. He deflected her blows as best he could, and returned with a blast of ectoplasm to the stomach, but it did little to slow her down. She went invisible, and before Danny could adjust his ghost vision to see her, she had kicked him in the face.

Danny found himself reeling, and when he regained control of his movment, it was too late as he seemingly slammed into a sharp point, despite being thirty feet above the school. "You tried to take away my Johnny, boy. I'm not happy about that!" And then Kitty smashed him in the face, right where Ember had kicked him, and sent him flying towards a tree. He blasted through the branches, some of them tearing at his ghost form, others breaking...

Danny shot upwards from among the leaves, damaging the tree. Yeah, Sam would lecture him on that later... "This is getting old, ladies," he said as the two ghosts came near him.

The three clashed again, and Sam and Tucker were probably amazed that his powers were holding out as long as they had. Danny smashed Ember in the face and at the same time kicked Kitty in the side, knocking them back, but they kept coming.

Kitty fired an ectoplasmic blast at Danny, which caught him in the chest and sent him flying towards Ember, who clasped her hands together and smashed him back to Kitty. The two started playing tennis with him! "Game, set, match!" Kitty yelled as she smashed him into the ground. Danny rode the dirt a while, digging a shallow ditch, and looked up in time to see Ember coming down at him fast with spike-heeled boots, and knew he didn't want to be on the receiving end of that. He flipped backwards out of the ditch and landed upside down, doing a handspring, and combining it with his ghost aura to hurl himself straight up, kicking the surprised Kitty and launching her into the sky.

"You can't let that psychopath win!" Danny yelled at them. Then he decided that while they were recovering, it would be a good time to go after Jinx, so he took of towards the roof of the school. "I have to get to her," he said quietly to himself.

"You think you can get to me before they get to you, child?" Jinx asked. She raised her hand and the amulet glowed, and suddenly, Kitty and Ember were infront of him. "Tear him apart."

"I've had enough of this." Danny said. The two ghosts femmes split up and flanked him from both sides, and Danny put both his hands out as if to stop them. But rather than any normal defense, their spirits started to warp towards Danny's center of gravity, balling up as green incandescence surrounded them. With a flash of light, Ember and Kitty were contained in a small orb.

"What the..." Jinx exclaimed.

"I figured if I can make a ghost shield that keeps things out, I can make one that keeps things in too. Danny reached for his thermos, but found it was not there. And not knowing that Tucker had brought the long range thermos, he decided to throw the two away, hurling the spherical prison containing Ember and Kitty into the bottom of Lake Amity... some seven miles away.

"Now, stand down, Jinx," Danny said, with a pitiful attempt to sound macho and super-heroey.

"Well. This is a problem. How 'bout I control you instead, then?"

Danny's eyes shot open wide. He hadn't thought of that!

Jinx raised her hand and the amulet glowed, and Danny felt his mind giving way to anger, even hatred, and his power grew... "OBEY ME, DANNY PHANTOM!" Yelled Jinx. "I promise I'll let you go once I get what I came for. But I do need a guide through your ghost world..."

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It was a guide that she wouldn't get however.

"Tucker!" Sam yelled. "She's trying to control Danny... Do something!"

"Right. Has Danny used that long range thermos yet?" Tucker asked.

"Yeah, against that 'Abe' guy a few weeks ago..."

FLASHBACK

Danny looked up at the ghost towering over him. "Um. Who are you? And please say you're benevolent!"

"I am ABE! The perfect ghost! I shall conquer the world of the living and subjugate it's leaders to my will! I am super strong, invulnerable, super fast, and I can shoot laser beams from my eyes! I can inhale and exhale at a capacity no mortal man can match!"

"So much for hoping you'd be a good guy," Danny sighed.

"You think you can beat me!" Abe pistoned a fist out so fast Danny didn't know what hit him until he peeled himself off the brick wall he'd been slammed into.

"Ouch. OK, Mr. Abe... Do you have any weaknesses?" Danny staggered forward, getting dangerously close to him.

"Of course. I am powerless against the letters C and D! But you will never find them fast enough to defeat me, because you will die soon!"

Danny looked down at the emblem on his chest. "I never liked this thing anyway," he said, peeling it off and sticking it on Abe's abdomen.

"What... NO!" Abe began to burst into flames, and then ran off, wailing in agony.

"Wait! Come back!" Danny yelled, taking out the long-range thermos. "It's a good thing my dad built this thing." Danny aimed it at the distant ghost, channeled his energy into it, and fired, stopping Abe in his tracks and sucking him into the thermos.

"No! I cannot be defeated!" Abe yelled as he was sucked in.

"That was easy."

END FLASHBACK

"Why did you ask?" Sam handed Tucker the thermos.

"You know one of these doesn't work until Danny charges it first. That was established in Episode One," Tucker replied.

Nearby, a wall fell to pieces.

"That can be fixed." Tucker insisted. Sam just glared at him.

Tucker extended the thermos, but rather than grabbing Jinx (which would have been impossible since she wasn't a ghost), he grabbed Danny with it.

"What!" Jinx bellowed again as her new guide was sucked away by the blue beam.

"AAAAHHHhh!" Danny yelled. "So this is what it feels like... AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHhhh!"

And then nothing...

Danny's eyes snapped open, his body reforming from the cylindrical shape it had assumed whilst in the thermos. The first thing he noticed was the ghost shield activated outside his window, the second being that it was indeed his window in his room.

"Hey Danny." A voice came from beside him. Tucker's.

"Tucker," Danny said, getting up and turning around. "What... where...?"

Tucker looked profoundly distressed. "It's been about ten minutes since your fight at the school. After I pulled you into the thermos Jinx disappeared and I brought you here."

"Thanks for the save. Where's Sam?" He hoped she was alright...

"She said she had to take care of something at her house." Tucker replied. "She wanted us to meet her there, after we assured your dad you were OK."

"Right. I still can't believe you told him that Wulf ate me." Danny laughed.

"I can't believe he believed it," said Tucker as they left the room.

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The two arrived at Sam's house a short while later, this time without the thermos or the Jack of Nine-tails. But Sam had kept the fishing line for the Fenton Fisher, and had asked them to bring the Fisher itself.

"Notice anything odd?" Sam said holding up a piece of the glowing string. Or more accurately, the string that should have been glowing.

"Um... It looks a bit dim," said Tucker. Sam and Danny smirked at him.

"I can't believe I didn't realize this earlier," Sam said. "The string only affects ghosts when the Fisher is running a charge through it. Right now it's just a high-tech piece of string."

"A very expensive high-tech piece of string," Danny corrected. "Where's the rest of it? It costs my dad a fortune"

Sam pointed to her window, which Danny and Tucker looked out. "Oh."

The wire was strung up throughout the alley ways outside Sam's window, criss-crossing and zig-zagging along other windows and fire-escapes.

"So your plan is..." Tucker started, when suddenly a transparent face jutted from Sam's, along with Danny's ghost sense cloud escaping from his mouth.

"Boo," the second face said in Ember's voice.

"AHH!" Tucker yelled, jumping into Danny's arms Scooby-Doo style.

"Sam!" Danny yelled, dumping Tucker to the side.

"Not any more!" Sam, now over-shadowed by Ember, bellowed, punching Danny. He recoiled, more in horror than actual pain. Not that it didn't hurt.

Suddenly, Paulina phased through the wall of his room. "High there," she said in Paulina's voice, but in a tone Paulina never used. Then it switched to Kitty's octave. "Remember me!"

"I'm going ghost!" Danny yelled, but before he could Sam blasted him in the chest knocking him into her TV, busting the screen and shocking Danny.

"I don't think so. This is going down in this room, kid!"

"There's more than one way to fight someone who's over-shadowed." Danny's body glowed briefly, but no visible transformation took place. Then he lashed out and punched Sam in the face. But rather than Sam's body taking the blow, Ember's head snapped out of her backwards, recoiling from the blow.

"What... HOW!" Ember-Sam yelled.

"Is your memory that short?" Danny asked. He had channeled his ghost energy in a unique method of transformation he had learned a while back, in which the ghost power rested just under the surface of his skin, lashing out when he willed, phasing through the flesh of a possessed person and hitting, harming the ghost within. Danny used this attack against Sam again, knocking her out of the window and into the mish-mash of strings below.

He then promptly gasped in horror as he noticed some of the wires were lacerating Sam. "Jinx you..." But before he could finish the thought, Kitty punched him in the face, enhancing Paulina's muscles with her own power.

"This goes down now!" She insisted, raising her hand and preparing to make a blast that would take Danny out of the fight.

"I don't get it. If Jinx just needs a guide through the ghost zone, why doesn't she use one of you?"

At that, Kitty hesitated just long enough for Danny to grab Tucker and phase through the floor, falling into the main level of Sam's house, and then he took off out the door...

His ghost sense went off again. But rather than a small cloud, it was like exhaling a gallon of evaporated water at once, which was painful, as Danny started hacking and coughing out the vapor... He looked up...

And wished he hadn't:

The sky was full of ghosts. Ghosts with red auras; red eyes. Ghosts under Jinx's control.

"Suffering spooks!" Danny yelled.

"This is bad," Tucker agreed.

"I'm not done with you yet!"

"Neither am I!" came the voices of Ember and Kitty as they launched themselves at Danny, still in the bodies of Sam and Paulina.

"Tucker, run!" And so Tucker did.

"Ah, crud. I'm GOING GHOST!"