Author's Note: Just so you know…if the location is Jack and Maddie's house it will be called 'Fenton Works' while if its Danny, Sam, and April's house it will be called 'Fenton Household,' just to make things clear. Also I have some art I did of April Fenton/Spirit…if you want to check it out. I have a link to my deviant account on my profile so just go to the link there and it'll be hard to miss. Thanks!

Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or any related characters.

((April Fenton's Room))

A long silence, Carrie sat outside April's bedroom, her ear pressed against the door. After April had kicked her out she had decided to see what the two Fenton's would talk about. So far there had been very few noises coming from the bedroom and she was starting to get impatient. Then she heard a noise, a groan, "Awh man."

Carrie pressed closer to the door, 'What's going on in there,' she thought.

"You shouldn't be embarrassed about it Danny, I'm an expert…you just haven't had much practice," Carrie heard April say.

"I'm not embarrassed!"

"Please…I learned by watching the best."

"I just don't understand…it's never been this hard for me."

Carrie's eyes widened, 'What the hell?'

She heard April sigh, "Look do you want my help…just move that over…"

"Hush! I know what I'm doing!"

"Obviously not…God can you hurry up!"

A pause, then, "There! Ha! YES!"

"That's more like it…but…I'm afraid I'll have to do this now."

"NO! Not there! NOO!"

Carrie was nearly making out with the door at this point, trying to see through every crack she could. She wanted to know what the heck was going on in that room, 'It's times like this I could really use those ghost powers,' Carrie thought.

"Show me what you got."

"It never got this hard with Sam."

Carrie snapped. Her twisted, perverted mind couldn't take it any more. Carrie slammed the door open, her eyes shielded in case they were doing anything she didn't want to see, "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING!"

"CHECKMATE!"

Carrie dropped her hands and stared at the scene before her. Danny and April were sitting on April's bed, a chess board between them. April's white queen was positioned right in front of Danny's black king. Both teens looked at Carrie and she blushed, "Uhm…my bad. I thought you two were…uhm…never mind."

"EWWWW!" both teens said.

"CARRIE! YOU PERV!" April added, hurling a pillow at her friend.

((Cue Danny Phantom Theme Song))

((Amity Park City Limits))

Dan Phantom hovered just outside the city. His hands were gloved with the metal claws that had once created him. He stared at the city and a smirk drifted across his face. In his time this had been the last city standing…now it would be the first city to fall. Dan looked over his shoulder where a vast army of ghosts was gathering. No one, not even his old parents, knew what was coming. His hands fell to his hips where the Fenton Thermos was strapped to him by a black belt. He patted it, 'Soon Daniel. Soon there will be another Dan Phantom.'

Dan turned to face his army, it hadn't taken him long to get his point across to the other ghosts. The majority of Ghost Zone had come to witness the upheaval, and those that hadn't were now hiding as deep in Ghost Zone as they could get, 'No matter…they will be taken care of soon,' Dan thought.

A lone ghost flew over to him, it was the Fright Knight. "Sir, we are ready to move out."

Dan turned his back on the ghost army, "Good…let's show this town just how scary we can really be."

((Fenton Works))

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

The alarm was continuous and unceasing, washing the laboratory of the Fenton's basement with green light. Frankly it was irritating the hell out of the clumsy old ghost hunter known as Jack Fenton, who was trying to immerse himself in a new ectoblaster gun.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

Jack groaned and set his tools aside, he had installed that alarm many years ago and now he couldn't remember what it was supposed to 'alarm' him about. He peered at the flashing green light and then turned away; it was starting to hurt his eyes. He turned to the only person he knew he could call on, "MADDIE!" He screamed up the stairs.

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

"Jack? What's that noise? Is that the Fenton Massive Ghost Invasion Alarm?"

Jack glanced back over at the flashing light, a sticky note under it read: Fenton Massive Ghost Invasion Alarm. "Why isn't this label bigger," he pondered aloud. Then he realized what the beeping was telling him.

"MADDIE! CODE ECTO!"

Maddie Fenton came running down the stairs and noticed the flashing green light, "Jack you didn't touch anything did you dear?"

"I accidentally set off the Apocalypse Alarm one time and suddenly every alarm that goes off is an accident," Jack muttered.

Maddie ignored him and started typing rapidly at a large computer. She hit a few more buttons and then the screen displayed a gruesome sight: ghosts, thousands upon thousands of ghosts, were surrounding Amity Park and starting to head into every part of the city. She gasped at the sight and turned to her husband, "Suit up and I'll ready the Fenton Assault Vehicle! Oh…and call the kids…we'll need reinforcements on this."

"But I want to ready the Fenton Assault Vehicle," Jack whined. "It's not fair."

Maddie glared at him and he begrudgingly headed up the stairs. Maddie rolled her eyes from under her goggles, 'No wonder I never went though empty-nest syndrome,' she thought.

((Fenton Household))

The phone rang once. Then twice and on the third ring Sam managed to pick it up. She had been in the middle of a conversation with Danny, Tucker, Jazz, and Joseph in the kitchen (Valerie had left for an appointment at her doctor's office that she had forgotten about, what with the excitement and all). Danny was currently hearing the detailed story about older Danny's kidnapping. April and Carrie were in the kitchen as well, adding any details they had from their perspective of the story.

Sam held her hand to the receiver, glancing over her shoulder at the younger Danny. It had amused her to see him meet Joseph all over again…well in this case for the first time. It was funny that he had acted the same way when he had first met Joseph back in his freshman year of college. Sam shook her head, she didn't have time to flashback to Danny's overprotective nature of his sister at the moment, because she had to answer the phone.

"Hello?"

"Sammy?"

Sam scowled at the nickname, "Yes Dad?" She knew when her father-in-law used that nickname he either was a) buttering her up so that he could then apologize for something he had done or b) there was trouble involving ghosts. Unfortunately for Sam it was usually both.

"I won't beat around the bush Sammy. WE/HAVE/A/CODE/ECTO/AND/WE/NEED/YOU/AND/EVERYONE/ELSE/TO/SUIT/UP/AND/HELP!" he shouted in one breath.

Sam held the phone away from her ear as this happened and then brought it back, "What's happened that you would need everyone?"

"Didn't you hear me…CODE ECTO!"

"…Which means?"

"A massive ghost invasion of Amity Park! Jeeze what did they teach you in school?"

"WHAT!"

"Just be ready…Maddie's prepping the Fenton Ghost Assault Vehicle now…but the ghosts are already past city limits!"

"Can't you put up the ghost shield like last time?"

"Nope! We…tried…blasted things on the fritz. Ha. Ha. Ha."

"You used parts to build another of your weapons didn't you?"

Silence.

Sam groaned, "Dad."

"Yes," he said meekly, "Don't tell Maddie."

Sam rolled her eyes, "I think we have bigger problems to worry about right now than that."

Then there was a cry, "Ghost!"

Sam cursed, "Talk to you later Jack! We have ghosts!" She hung up the phone and ran for the kitchen.

((The Kitchen…A few minutes earlier))

Sam left to go answer the phone leaving the others to continue the story on their own. "And that's when he attacked. At the moment you're currently trapped in the thermos," April finished explaining.

Danny ran a hand through his hair, "Well we can't attack him head on. He's too powerful for that. April, we're going to have to work together of course…but if what you say is true I don't know how much that's going to help since you double teamed him before."

"Actually they tag teamed him. Dan would throw one aside and then the other would attack. What you SHOULD do is attack him at once," Joseph said from his analysis of the situation. Although Joseph didn't know much about ghosts and the supernatural, he prided himself as a master of tactician and plotting.

"Good point," Danny said. He liked Joseph more by the minute. At first he had been a bit wary because he hadn't even met him in his part of history yet. However he assumed if Jazz and his future self trusted him then he should too.

April sighed, "I think our main objective should be to get the thermos…find out where he's hiding it and then go after it."

"Yeah…all three of you would totally whip his ass," Tucker exclaimed.

"Tucker! There are young children present," Jazz hissed from across the table. Danny and April rolled their eyes causing Joseph and Tucker to laugh.

"But what will you do with Dan," Carrie piped up. Everyone looked to her.

Danny frowned, she had a point, if Dan could escape the thermos once he could escape again, "We might…we might have to destroy him once and for all."

"WHAT!" Everyone shouted.

"He exists outside time…it's not like I would be killing myself," Danny said.

"Still…Danny you aren't a killer," Jazz said, her face lined with worry at the words coming from her younger brother's mouth.

"I'm starting to think I don't have a choice," he muttered.

April opened her mouth to comfort her future father but just as she did a blue wisp of smoke floated out and she shivered, Danny doing the same thing. Both stood up and Carrie frowned, "Ghost!"

To answer her exclamation a tall female ghost appeared. She had pale blue skin and shining green eyes with a small black mole under her right eye. Her hair was wavy and black with streaks of red, blue, green, and purple running through it but that hardly concealed the large gold hoop earrings in her pointed ears. Her eyebrows were plucked and arched and she had a LOT of make-up on. Her outfit was a faded yellow and orange spaghetti strap sundress that came to her knees and she wore baggy black pants on with it with thong sandals. She smacked on some gum, her ghost slobber mixing with the heavy cherry lip-gloss on her lips. She had a belt around her waist that held all sorts of hair care products.

April groaned upon seeing the ghost, "Cosmica."

The fashion disaster ghost smiled, "I'm so FLATTERED you remember me," she said in a horrid southern accent. Danny winced at the sheer volume of the high, squeaky voice mixed with the harsh southern twang. ((No offense to any southern people…I mean I'm from the South myself…)). "Who is this," Danny asked.

"Her name's Cosmica. She has a passion for fashion…even if she has no fashion sense of her own. She is, however, considered the Ghost Zone's 'expert' on anything fashion. The first time we met she was after my hair (because I condition regularly)…that and revenge because I ruined her beauty salon from opening in Amity Park last year…"

"Ya' little twerp."

"…Because she was using make-up to control people. She has power over cosmetic devices and she may not look it but she's very powerful," April explained to Danny.

"I thought the Box Ghost was weird."

"Enough conversation dolls. Let's take care of those dead ends, shall we," Cosmica asked. She pulled from her belt two hair dryers and just as she was about to blast them, Carrie pulled out a small gun and blasted Cosmica, sending her flying out of the room.

"TAKE YO' FASHION MESS OUTSIDE!" Danny and April looked to Carrie who smiled, "Go get her."

Both teens smiled and then transformed into their ghost forms. They both flew out of the room as Sam came running in.

"Don't worry, Danny and April have it under control," Joseph said, noticing her worried look.

Sam shook her head, "No…she was just the first wave. Dan has started an invasion! Dad…Jack just called and said that the ghost have surrounded and begun to take over the city. We have to prepare."

"Crap."

((Outside))

Danny and April had followed Cosmica outside but found that she wasn't the only ghost flying around Amity Park. They stared in horror around them at the hoards of spooks and ghouls floating around their city. "This…this can't be happening," April murmured.

"It's like Pariah Dark all over again," Danny groaned recalling the event many fans would know as Reign Storm.

April clenched her fists, "We can worry about the other ghosts later…we need to find Dan."

Danny nodded in agreement, "I'm sure mom and dad and the others can take care of these guys."

April stared up at the sky as ghost after ghost flew over them, "Question is…how are we going to find him."

Danny opened his mouth then closed it. To be truthful he wasn't sure. He looked up at the sky as two ghost vultures flew down at him, very familiar vultures.

"April," one vulture asked.

The girl nodded.

The other vulture handed her a glowing letter and then both buzzards took off. April tore open the envelope and shared the letter with Danny. It read:

Dear Spawn,

Since I don't want to be too cliché I will keep the witty dialogue short. It's your dear pseudo-father Dan Phantom, I'm sure your mother has told you ALL about me. I hope you don't mind meeting me at your little soccer field at Casper High. Normally I would have no qualms to fighting you and destroying a few buildings while at it…but I figure I should let the other ghosts have a little fun before I destroy them. Please come…I don't know how long I can stand your father April…even if he is in a thermos.

Lots of…what's that emotion you humans have…love?

Dan Phantom

April crumpled the letter and ignited it with her purple ectoplasmic energy, her eyes blazing. Danny put a comforting hand to her shoulder, "Come on…we have a score to settle."

To Be Continued…

AN: Ah, Cosmica…sorry I just had to toss her in there. If you couldn't imagine what she looked like there is also a sketch of her on my deviant art account as well. I hope you enjoyed this chapter. To tell the truth this story is really almost over…although the Dan vs. Everyone else will probably take up one to three chapters. I haven't really decided. Just expect a LOT of action! Ciao!