The room had such an obvious silence, it was almost deadly. Danny and Toby warily looked out the window to see the dark clouds swirling around outside and the violent thunderstorm that had been created. It looked like nothing Danny had ever seen before. He was terrified enough of it, so he couldn't imagine what Toby was feeling. Danny was sure the entire thing happened because of the bottle that he found on the beach earlier that day breaking. It couldn't just be a coincidence.

"It's okay…" Danny managed to quietly say as he continued softly patting Toby on the back, trying to make him as comfortable as possible. Danny looked around the room and saw everything blown around and couldn't believe it.

Suddenly, the door to the house burst open with a terrified woman screaming "TOBY!" Danny turned around and saw Toby's parents in the doorway. Both of them were clearly terrified of what happened as well.

Toby's mother ran over to Toby and pulled him out of Danny's arms. She picked him up and cuddled him close to her. Even though she obviously wanted to say something, she didn't.

Her husband looked at her in a nervous way, then went over to Danny and pulled out his wallet. He started shoveling through it until he found a twenty dollar bill. He handed the bill to Danny but didn't say a word. Danny gently took the money and shoved it in his pocket.

Even though there were now four people in the room, everyone was dead silent. Toby's parents had come home because they were so frightened for him and needed to make sure that he was okay.

Moments later, a loud engine was heard outside and the sound of it coming to a sudden halt. A high-decibel screeching sound was heard, and soon afterwards the door burst open and Danny's father was standing there.

"Danny?" Jack yelled, looking fairly panic-stricken himself. "Are you all right? What happened?"

"I…I don't know," Danny lied.

"Mrs. Goonbaker, I'll be taking my son home now," Jack said walking over to Danny. "Thank you for letting him baby sit for Toby. I'm sure they both had a great time."

Jack walked Danny out to the Fenton RV with his arm around Danny's shoulder. Jack and Danny hopped in the RV as Jack drove out of the Goonbakers' driveway and back towards their own hotel.

The Goonbakers stayed quiet after Danny and Jack left. Neither of them said a word until Mrs. Goonbaker caught something on the floor. She looked down and saw the glass shards of the bottle that had smashed on the ground.

"Honey, what's this?" Mrs. Goonbaker said, picking up one of the glass shards?

Meanwhile, Danny and Jack were riding in the Fenton RV back to their hotel. The entire ride was silent, especially since Jack needed to pay all the attention he could. He couldn't get distracted by the fierce bolts of lightning that kept flying across the sky, temporarily illuminating it.

When they finally pulled back into the hotel, Danny and Jack ran inside as fast as they could. When they passed through the revolving door, they ran to the elevator and pushed the button to go to the floor their room was on. Even though they were inside, they still ran as fast as they could to their room. Jack inserted the key card into the slot to his room while Danny pulled out his key card and put it into the slot to his.

Both of them went in their rooms. Danny ran inside and saw Sam and Tucker staring out the window at the furious lightning as it streaked across the sky. But as soon as Danny opened the door to their room, they both turned around from the window and screamed "Danny!"

Both of them ran over to Danny and immediately, looking like they were terrified of what was going on as well.

"What's going on!" Sam asked with obvious fear in her voice. "What's with the lightning?"

"Yeah, the meteorologists didn't say anything like this!" Tucker added.

"Well, I don't know where to start," Danny said, pretending to be scratching the back of his head. "You see, when we were playing Nightfire earlier today, I noticed that the bottle I found on the beach was sticking out of Tucker's pocket, so I…"

"Wait a minute!" Sam interrupted. "What was the bottle doing in Tucker's pocket?" She turned towards Tucker. "You didn't take it out of the lifeguard tower, did you?"

Before Tucker got to answer, Danny continued. "Anyway, I took the bottle out of Tucker's pocket without him noticing, and I still had it in my pocket when I went to baby sit Toby earlier tonight. Long story short: Toby found it and it ended up smashing when I tried to take it back from him. When the bottle smashed, that cloud came pouring out."

"So, the bottle broke?" Sam said. She turned towards Tucker. "Tucker, this is all your fault! Why did you take that bottle back after we gave it to the lifeguard!"

"Hey, don't blame me!" Tucker said defensively. "Danny was the one who broke it. Besides, how do we even know that the bottle smashing is the reason behind this?"

"Oh, you're right Tucker!" Sam said sarcastically. "It's all a coincidence, isn't it!"

Tucker didn't say anything. "Fine! If you're going to be like that, I'm going to bed!"

Tucker hopped into his bed and didn't say a word. He pretended to fall asleep instantly, even though it was quite obvious he was still awake.

"Maybe Tucker's right," Danny said a short while later. "Why don't we just hit the sack and hope that when we wake up in the morning, the cloud will be gone?"

Sam agreed. Both of them crawled into their separate beds and tried to get to sleep, even though the violent lightning made it difficult.

It was a few hours later when Danny woke up. He adjusted his eyes to the light when he opened them. He pulled himself out of bed and quietly walked over to the window, trying not to wake up Sam and Tucker. The good news for him when he went to the window was that the lightning stopped. However, he was confused when he saw a large amount of people grouping together in the streets, and they appeared to be pointing to something in the sky.

Danny's heart sank when he saw what everyone was staring at. There was a massive, dark cloud that was covering a huge chunk of the sky. Even though it wasn't doing anything other than floating there, everyone was terrified of it. It was obvious to them that it wasn't your average, everyday rain cloud.

"Was that what was in that bottle?" Danny quietly asked himself as he stared at the cloud. "Well, no one here knows about my ghost-half except for my parents, Jazz, Sam and Tucker. Maybe this is my chance to show the people that I'm not here to cause trouble. I'm going ghost!"

Danny once again transformed into his ghost half, but he tried to do it as quietly as he could. As soon as he was morphed into his ghost half, he went intangible and passed through the walls of the hotel. When he became visible again, everyone began screaming and pointing to him as he flew through the air towards the black cloud.

"Hey guys," Danny said, waving to everyone pointing at him down below. "I'll be your weird-cloud-destroyer today!"

Saying this, Danny started charging up an ectoplasmic blast in his hand. He took aim and fired it at the black, swirling cloud when he was only a few yards away from it. As he fired it, he watched the blast go to the cloud and strike it.

Danny was hoping the blast would penetrate or destroy the cloud, but that didn't happen. In fact, the cloud seemed to just deflect the blast as if it were nothing.

Danny couldn't believe it. He stared in shock as he watched his blasts time after time have absolutely no effect on the dark cloud.

"What's going on?" Danny asked himself. He looked down and saw that everyone seemed confused and upset that he wasn't able to do anything to destroy the cloud.

Danny was now extremely nervous. Not only did he not have any great idea on where the cloud came from or what its origins were, but he also now didn't seem to know what could destroy it. Danny realized it was pure conjecture that the bottle and the cloud were related, but whether or not they were, Danny knew the cloud couldn't be a good thing. What made it all the more worse was that now Danny had no idea how to attack the cloud or how to make it go away.

"How am I supposed to destroy this thing?...," Danny weakly thought to himself as he stared at the menacing black cloud in the sky.