Unfortunately for Danny, Sam, and Sasuke, the Zabuza that they were fighting wasn't as kind to them as the clone that had lured Tucker, Sakura, and Naruto away from the group. Instead of pausing and allowing his foes to encircle him, Zabuza simply turned around and thrust five kunie directly at the three of them. Sasuke jumped out of the way as Danny held Sam and made the two of them intangible. The kunie phased right through them and stuck into the pavement of the bridge.
"Ha! Is that all you got?" Danny taunted.
"In about five seconds you'll be wishing that this was all I could muster," Zabuza replied.
"What the-" Danny was suddenly punched in the back of the head and flung forward. He flew a couple of feet and landed face-first on the ground. Sam spun around to see one of Zabuza's ecto-clones. She tried to shoot the Fenton Peeler at it, but it jumped away…
…right into the trajectory of Sasuke, who was holding a kunie. Sasuke easily struck down the clone and it destabilized to ectoplasm before their eyes. Danny stood up and fired his own ectoblasts at the original Zabuza, but the Demon of the Mist dodged and threw an anti-ghost shuriken right back at the halfa. Danny summoned a dome-shaped ghost shield, but instead of simply bouncing off, the shuriken struck the shield and got stuck with one of its four blades poking through the shield. The ghost shield shattered and Danny caught the shuriken as it fell.
"Sasuke, catch!" Danny cried as he inexpertly threw the shuriken into the air. Sasuke jumped, caught it, somersaulted in mid-air, and launched it right at Zabuza at the same time as Sam fired shot at him with the Fenton Peeler. The two attacks converged on Zabuza and created a large explosion.
When the smoke cleared, Sasuke, Sam, and Danny slowly went over to the small crater that had been created where Zabuza had been standing.
"Is he…gone?" Sam asked.
"Not quite yet, children!" Zabuza spat as he phased upwards out of the ground and hit Danny in the chest with an ectoblast of his own. Sasuke charged at him but Zabuza simply ducked and sent a kick up into the genin's gut. Sasuke went flying and landed next to Danny. Sam tried to do a leg sweep but Zabuza jumped and drove a kunie into her arm. The force of his thrust caused the weapon to pierce her armor.
"Aaah!" She yelled as the kunie pierced her skin. Zabuza hit her chest plate with a windmill kick that caused her to land right on top of Danny.
"Ow," the halfa groaned as the weight of his girlfriend's armor threatened to crush him.
"Oh, just go intangible, you big baby," Sam joked weakly, just before she passed her pain threshold and blacked out. Danny grinned slightly and followed her instructions as he phased down into the ground.
"It's time to end this!" Sasuke roared as he threw an anti-ghost kunie at Zabuza.
"Please. You honestly think that that will stop me?" Zabuza laughed as he caused his head to become gaseous and form a hole where the kunie was aimed. The weapon passed through the hole.
Danny silently rose up from the ground behind Zabuza just as Sasuke had thrown the kunie. When Zabuza dodged the attack, Danny quickly threw his hands up and clamped them shut on top of the blade that was hurtling towards him. The point of the kunie paused less than an inch away from Danny's face. The halfa grasped the handle of the kunie in his hand and prepared to strike.
"You're out of options," Zabuza ranted. "There's nothing left you can do. The ghost child's run away, the girl is wounded, and you can't defeat me thanks to my powers. My ecto-clones are taking care of your friends. You've lost, Sasuke. You're out of options. Give it up." Sasuke gave a small grin.
"That's where you're wrong, Zabuza. A good shinobi is never out of options. Right, Danny?"
"Right!" Danny replied as he drove the kunie deep into Zabuza's back.
"What? But how?" The Demon of the Mist shouted as ectoplasm spurted from the wound.
"What do you mean, how? We beat you fair and square," Danny replied. "In my sister's words, you've just earned a one-way ticket to thermos-land. Have a nice day!" He ended in a falsely cheery tone as he sucked Zabuza's ghost into a Fenton Thermos. As soon as the specter was gone, the green mist started to dissipate. Once it did, the three were able to see their friends a few hundred feet away.
"Hey, guys, over here!" Naruto shouted.
"Hi! We beat Zabuza!" Danny called back.
"Awesome! We need your help though, Tucker's hurt!"
"Sam too!" Danny retracted Sam's Fenton Peeler armor, picked her up bridal style, and flew her over to the other three. Sasuke followed not far behind.
"We should get them to my house, my sister should be able to patch them up," Danny suggested.
"Sounds good." Naruto stood Tucker up and slung his arm over his shoulder. "Let's go!" He jumped away and disappeared, and Danny followed carrying Sam. Sasuke and Sakura took the rear, and the four of them all headed to FentonWorks.
"Whoa, what were you guys doing out there?" Jazz asked when they appeared, battered and bruised, on the stoop.
"Not now, Jazz. Sam and Tucker need help." Jazz stepped aside to let the four carry the two wounded inside and lay them down on twin couches that were located in the family room. She then closed the door and ran to get a first aid kit.
"You're lucky," she commented as she wrapped bandages around Tucker's torso. "These wounds aren't deep at all; they've just lost a lot of blood." She held up the boy's bloodstained shirt just to prove it.
"I bet the Fenton Peeler's armor protected them from the brunt of the attacks," Sakura speculated.
"Yeah…" Naruto agreed. Danny held Sam's arm up so that Jazz could dress her wound as well.
"So are you ready to tell me what happened?" Jazz asked. Just then, Sam's eyes fluttered open.
"Wha…where are we?" She tiredly asked.
"Shh," Danny cooed as he tucked a strand of hair behind her ear. "Sakura, Sasuke, Naruto, and I took you and Tucker back to my place so Jazz could treat you."
"Did we win?"
"Yeah. We won."
"That's awesome, dude," Tucker added as he, too, got up. He cringed suddenly and sank back down into his recumbent position.
"Oh yeah, you might not want to get up for a little while," Jazz advised.
"Thanks for the timely warning," Tucker quipped as he put a hand to his stomach.
"So I'm guessing you were fighting Zabuza?" Jazz guessed.
"Yeah." Danny held up the thermos and rattled it slightly. "It's all over now."