Tucker began walking away from Danny and closer to Sam. Danny grit his teeth as he stormed after his friend.
"Tucker, that bottle is nothing but trouble!" Danny insisted when he was a merely a few feet from Tucker. "I want you to go back up to that lifeguard tower and put it back where you found it."
Tucker scoffed at that. "What's your problem, Danny? I told you, I'm not going to actually open it, I just want to study it to see if we can figure out what it is."
"Studying on vacation, huh?" Danny said loudly with an obvious tone of annoyance in his voice. "Look, my day's been ruined enough with Jazz wanting to take us to a museum. I don't want you making it harder by…"
"Cool it, Danny," Tucker said, putting his hand in front of Danny's face. "Look, I'll just look at the bottle tonight, and then tomorrow we can put it back. No bid deal, okay?"
Danny saw no point in arguing. He just let Tucker do what he wanted. Danny just hated that Tucker was being so stubborn. After all, it was thanks to him that Tucker got to be here at all, so the least Tucker could've done was respect him. But, of course, he didn't.
Only about an hour later, Danny and his two friends walked off the beach and headed back up to their hotel. However, once they got there, they soon realized they were bored and had nothing to do. Nothing was on the limited amount of cable channels their television got, and they weren't in the mood to play through Star Fox 64 a tenth time on the built in Nintendo 64 system.
As soon as they got up into the room, they all slumped on their beds and stayed quiet. None of them knew what to do, until Tucker broke the silence. He went over to his luggage bag and started pulling something out. It appeared to be a black box with a few messy wires attached to it. Sam and Danny sat up when Tucker pulled it out.
"Tucker, what's that?" Sam asked.
"This?" Tucker asked as he completely pulled the box out. "This is just my Playstation 2. I brought it with me just in case we got bored."
Sam and Danny's faces dropped.
"A PS2!" Danny yelled. "While we were here living off of those blocky pictures in Pilot Wings 64, you were keeping a Playstation 2 all to yourself?"
"Hey, I wasn't just keeping it to myself!" Tucker insisted. "I just forgot I packed it. Besides, I didn't even bring any good games, anyway."
"Really? What games did you bring?" Sam asked.
"Uh…only God of War, Nightfire, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas,…" Tucker started.
"Never mind!" Danny yelled angrily. "Just plug in that PS2 so we can stop paying seven dollars an hour for a Nintendo 64 game."
Without saying a word, Tucker began plugging the Playstation2 into all the ports that it needed to go in. While he was working on it, Sam and Danny began thinking.
"Sam, when do you think that PS3 is going to come out?" Danny asked. "I feel like I've been waiting forever for it to come out."
"I have no idea," the Goth admitted.
A moment later, Tucker finished plugging all the cables in. He opened up the case that had Nightfire in it and popped the disc into the console. A few seconds later, the main screen popped up on screen.
"Okay, we got three controllers, which is just enough for all of us to play at the same time," Tucker said, putting a multitap into the first port. He quickly added three more controllers so everyone could play.
Before long, everyone had chosen the characters they wanted to play as, they all agreed on what mode to play on, and they agreed on where to play. The game commenced, and the room became a very eerie silent, except for the James Bond theme playing in the background.
It was an every-man-for-himself situation, and the three kids knew it. They all became so wrapped up in the game that they completely forgot about anything else. All they were thinking about was how much they wanted to fight the other players and put a bullet in their avatar's head.
Danny, however, was able to use this to his advantage. When he stole a look at Tucker's screen and saw that Tucker was trying to follow Sam as he aimed at her with a sniper, he didn't waste a second. He quietly slid his hand right behind Tucker and saw the mysterious bottle sticking out of one of the pockets. He slowly pulled the bottle out of Tucker's pocket and put it in his own. It worked; Tucker didn't even notice.
Danny was trying to continue playing the game until his ghost sense went off. He gasped, then dropped his controller and ran towards the window.
"What would a ghost be doing here? There shouldn't be a ghost portal anywhere close!" Danny yelled. Suddenly, a white ring appeared around his torso, and almost immediately afterwards the ring split into two. The two white rings started moving simultaneously in opposite directions, upwards and downwards, on Danny's body. As they elapsed over Danny, Danny's casual beach shirt changed to a black jumpsuit, same as his swimming trunks. His raven-black hair turned snow white and his pale blue eyes turned a glowing green.
Now Danny Phantom, Danny went intangible and flew out of the hotel. As he was flying, he saw a little boy playing in the streets, and there was a ghost that saw him and was charging straight for him.
The ghost was just about to attack the little boy until Danny fired some ectoplasmic energy at the ghost and sent it flying into the ground. At that moment, all of the bystanders screamed in panic and fled the streets.
The angry ghost looked up and saw Danny hovering in mid air, ready to attack again.
"Hey, why don't you pick on someone your own size?" Danny said as the ghost first looked at him.
The ghost sprung up from the ground and quickly tried to attack Danny, but Danny was able to jump out of the way just in time. He fired more energy at the ghost, but the ghost was just able to dodge a lot of them and then catch Danny off guard by blasting him with some energy.
Danny got sent flying backwards and crashed into a wall, but by now he was used to it. He got up without too much trouble and continued fighting.
By now, several people in the streets were hiding and didn't want to even watch what was going on. They were way too frightened to watch the battle, mostly because they had never actually witnessed a ghost before.
Danny and the ghost continued to fire shot after shot at each other, until Danny realized no one was in plain sight. (except for the little boy he was trying to rescue, who was still staring in awe) From there, Danny went all out and didn't show the ghost any mercy. In less than twenty seconds, it was down.
Danny pulled the Fenton Thermos out from his jumpsuit and saw it was set to RELEASE.
"Hmm, guess this is where the ghost came from?" Danny said. "Good thing Jazz didn't make sure I didn't bring any ghost stuff with me. I guess I accidentally released that ghost by accident. Oh well, no biggie."
Danny instantly began sucking the defeat ghost into the Fenton Thermos and slammed the lid on it, sealing the ghost in.
Danny reverted back to his human form when no one was looking, and saw that the child he was trying to rescue had hidden since he last checked for safety. When the little boy came out from hiding, he saw the Ghost Boy was gone and Danny was standing there.
"Where'd that other guy go?" the boy asked.
"What other boy?" Danny said, pretending to be oblivious. He didn't even want a little boy to know that he was part ghost and could go ghost whenever he pleased.
The little boy was about to ask something, until he heard a woman shriek.
"TOBY!" yelled a desperate sounding woman, sounding as if she were in great despair. "Toby, are you all right!"
A woman in her early thirties ran over to the boy and picked him up, looking like she was ready to burst into tears. She had thin blonde hair and a thin structure. "Oh, Toby, thank heavens you're all right!"
Danny started smiling. The boy had to be Toby, and the woman had to be his mother. Danny was happy to see that people were finally happy and able to rejoice from his work, instead of running away, screaming.
As the mom continued to embrace her child, Danny's father, Jack, came bolting onto the streets. He looked like his adrenaline was sky-high and he was ready to burst like an active volcano.
"Where's the ghost!" Jack yelled. Even though he was on vacation, he was still in his tight, orange jumpsuit. "Danny, did you just see that ghost around here? Grrrrrr…I should have had that ghost, but noooooooooooooooo, Jazz just had to tell me not to bring any ghost weapons! Now that ghost is on the loose and…"
Jack looked and saw that Danny was giving him an "it's-okay" look. The woman was still holding Toby in her arms and giving Jack a look as if she was saying he was crazy.
"Oh…is this your son, sir?" the woman asked Jack.
"Huh? Wha? Who's son?" Jack asked, not paying attention. It took him a moment to realize that she meant Danny. "Oh, yes. Danny. Yes, he's my son. Why?"
The woman once again looked like she was just ready to burst into tears. "Your son saved my little boy's life from that ghost just now!"
"Really?" Jack said, his eyes lighting up. " 'Atta boy, Danny!" Jack yelled, putting his arm around Danny's shoulders and tightly squeezing them. "I knew you wouldn't disappoint me!"
"Uh, it was really nothing," Danny managed to choke out. "I was just doing what I do."
"Well, in that case," the woman said with a smile starting to spread across her face, "my husband and I were going out to dinner tonight, but we've had a lot of trouble finding a babysitter. Your son certainly looks like a responsible young man. Would he be interested in babysitting my Toby tonight?"
Danny tried to say something, but he was cut off by his father. "Of course Danny would be interested!" Jack yelled. "Danny would make a great babysitter! He'd have no trouble with it!"
"Well, actually…" Danny tried to say. Jack, however, continued to stampede over him.
"What time should I drop Danny off at your house?" he asked brightly.
"6:30," the woman responded with a pleasant smile on her face. "I'm so happy that you'd be willing to take the time to baby-sit Toby. I'm sure you two will have a blast!"
Jack finally let Danny go and started talking with the woman. He got her address and the directions to her house. Danny had stared warily at the two parents as they discussed the plans.
"Well, this is just great," Danny thought to himself, starting to feel a bit of rage bubble inside of him. "First, Tucker goes completely against what I tell him to do, and now THIS! I don't know a thing about babysitting! What am I supposed to do?"
After what seemed like the longest time, Jack and the mother of Toby finished talking. Jack walked over to Danny, brimming with pride and excitement.
"Well, son, it's all settled," he said. "You're going over Mrs. Goonbaker's house tonight to baby-sit her son at 6:30."
"Mrs. Goonbaker?" Danny asked, getting a little nervous just by the name.
"Yapp!" Jack said. "I'll be driving you there. I'm sure you two will have loads of fun together!"
Danny could only let out a faint laugh at the idea of having to baby-sit a four-year old. He rescues Toby from a ghost, and then he's forced into babysitting him later that night. Danny began to imply that this vacation wasn't going to be everything that he hoped for. Unfortunately for him, his problems were just getting started.