Even alive, subtlety had never been one of Technus' strong points. As if the sounds of people screaming and things exploding weren't obvious enough, he shouted and laughed manically as he rolled through the streets, causing a small earthquake wherever he went.

Danny started to groan as he realized his foe was heading for a car lot, then changed his mind and groaned instead at a familiar sight. The Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle careened through the streets, hot on Technus' treads. He set his silent passenger safely on the ground with an admonishment to keep out of the way and raced after his parents.

Leaning out the window to fire at the various car-bots, Maddie was the first to see Danny. "What are you doing here?" she called suspiciously.

"Trying to get rid of him!" the boy responded, flying closer to the window so they wouldn't have to shout. "Your weapons aren't going to work; those things are made out of ectoplasmically-charged reinforced steel."

Inside the RV, Jack said something, and Maddie pulled back to converse with him. They still didn't trust Danny as such, but they were considerably more open-minded about him. After a few minutes, his mother leaned back out. "What do you suggest?"

"Help me keep him busy until my friend gets his defenses down."

Maddie nodded and motioned to Jack, who grinned almost evilly. The car-bots were too big and heavy to move very quickly, which meant that the RV was not going at full speed. Throwing all pretense at safe driving to the wind, he shifted gears and shot forward, weaving around car-bots in a most unnerving manner to get ahead of Technus. Danny turned his attention away; his parents could take care of themselves. He needed to get rid of a few of those car-bots, at least. His ectoplasmic energy blast didn't work; telekinesis didn't work…

Or would it? Without stopping, he gestured at a mailbox and threw it into one the machines. The attack barely scratched it, but it gave him an idea. There were plenty of cars around that Technus had decided to ignore for whatever reason. Danny simply picked one up and hurled it at the nearest car-bot with enough force to actually knock it over.

Now, if only Kat would hurry.

Angel folded her arms and grumbled something about how Sweetheart was her bike, and she should be allowed to help. Well, maybe she couldn't fight, but she hadn't spent ten years as a Hollywood stunt driver for nothing. She ran over to find a decent car with manual transmission. Most of the vehicles had been abandoned with the keys still inside; fortunate, since hot wiring was not something she had ever learned to do. Finally finding one that suited her, she chased after the army.

She laughed as the Fenton RV broke away from Danny. Jack Fenton's driving put her to shame, at least on four wheels. "Ha! We'll see who's the better driver," she whispered. She threw the car into gear with reckless abandon and nearly killed the engine.

"Ah, crud!" she exclaimed, trying to recover. It had been years since she last drove anything on four wheels. She had always preferred manual transmission, but she was beginning to think she should have swiped that automatic. Still, driving a car was like riding a bicycle.

Not that she ever actually owned a bicycle…

Danny was getting tired. He had never lifted anything as heavy as a car before, and it was giving him a headache. Even worse, the buzzing in his head was back. He shoved it away and tried to concentrate on the fight. Technus had finally stopped in favor of trying to smash the Fenton RV as it circled around him, shouting something about foolish humans trying to stop him.

A red car swerved around one of the monstrosities, lost control, and slammed into a second. He smacked his face in chastisement for the oversight; he really should have known Angel would find a way to be in the middle of this. She slid out the driver side window and was about to get stomped on when Danny dove down to rescue her. "I thought I said stay out of the way."

She scoffed. "Make me."

The boy toyed with the notion of doing just that, but settled for setting her down on a roof instead. He ignored her protests and flew down to join his parents. "How's it going?" he called, lifting a car and hurling it at one of Technus' creations.

"How long are we supposed to this?" Maddie yelled back.

They were interrupted as a laser blast hit the ground right between them. Danny managed to escape relatively unscathed, but the Fenton RV was thrown onto its side. The humans jumped free as it was surrounded by a green glow and floated into the air. "Hey!" Technus exclaimed brightly as he finally figured out why it looked familiar. "Does this thing still have that nice Ghost Shield?"

"Bring that back, you-" Jack began. He was stopped from running after it by Maddie's restraining hand.

"Just what do you think you're doing?" she demanded.

"But he took the Assault Vehicle!" her husband whined.

The squeal of rubber on asphalt made all three of them turn quickly to see a black convertible slide to a stop mere inches away. "Get in!" Angel yelled. She wasn't wearing her helmet, but Danny decided to wonder about that later.

"Do I even want to know how you got down?" he asked as his parents piled in with her.

"I jumped," she lied. "Like the wheels? I don't." With a devious grin, she hit the gas and sped off for safety.

The ghost boy spared a moment for a happy smile and turned back to the fight just in time to be slammed into the ground. "I really got to start paying more attention…" he muttered, trying to recover.

Technus backhanded Danny into a wall and laughed. "You're no match for me, ghost child!" he shouted. "For I am Technus! Master of…What?" He broke off suddenly as all the car-bots began to spark.

"Still thy tongue err I cut it out, mine patriarch!" Electra's voice called from somewhere behind him.

Technus swiveled around on his base to face his daughter. "That's it! Go to your room, young lady!"

"Get thee to a nunnery, old man!"

Danny grinned and used the distraction to lift one of the car-bots into the air and throw at Technus. Heavier than a normal car as it was, and reinforced besides, it did a great deal more damage than he'd been doing previously. It took more effort to lift, but judging by the sizable hole it had made, this wouldn't take long.

Technus turned back and started to fire his laser at the boy, but the flying car-bot swung around and knocked it off. When Danny's next attack actually broke the upper half of his host from its base, he decided to cut his losses and run.

"Dad!" Kat called, gesturing towards a glowing hole in the air next to her. "In here!"

Technus smirked. "Until next time, ghost child, when I, Technus 2.0 shall-" He broke off and fled back to the Ghost Zone as Danny pulled out his Fenton Thermos.

The boy blinked. "Does…he…?"

Kat actually managed to keep a straight face for about five seconds before bursting into uncontrollable giggles. "I shouldn't be surprised," she confessed. "But I really didn't think that would work."

"He just…" Danny laughed. "He…sent himself…back to the Ghost Zone!"

"I am going to get an earful for that later."

"Are you sure?" Still laughing, the ghost boy drifted over to the pile of now-defunct machinery and picked through it until he encountered a somewhat beat-up, but still relatively intact, black motorcycle. "I don't suppose you'd fix this for Angel, would you?"

Kat shook her head and shrugged. "Sorry, Phantom, but I'm a programmer. I don't the first thing about fixing hardware."

"Well, at least, I got it back…" He looked in the direction Angel had gone with his parents. "Hey, could you go find her and tell I'm taking it back to her place?"

She tipped her hat and vanished. Danny righted the Fenton RV for his parents before flying off with Sweetheart in tow. By the time he reached the warehouse, he was more than happy to change back into Danny Fenton and collapse on Angel's cot. His head was pounding, and the buzzing noise was nearly overpowering. He only intended to close his eyes for a few minutes…