Chapter 7: Being Beaten to the Punch
Master Fung, his four Xiaolin warriors and Danny Phantom stood on the opposite side of the field and Vlad Plasmius along with his allies Wuya, Jack Spicer and his Jackbots on the other.
"So you are behind the schemes that have been happening around here?" asked Omi to Vlad.
"For someone as bald as you I am surprised you manage to catch on so quickly" replied Vlad.
"Of course Vlad is behind this" said Danny as he turned to the four Xiaolin warriors and Master Fung, "Vlad does this quite often."
"You should heed Daniel's word" said Vlad, "I'm getting quite good at it as I have made some friends of my own."
"Well this time you won't be coming around these parts anymore" said Clay.
"That's where you are wrong you see" said Vlad, "it was me who was your 'anonymous source' who made you think that Daniel was the thief. It was also me who bought those pieces of the Golden Knight and all I had for you four and your master to do was just bring the rest to me and so that my two new best friends can have their minion."
"Well you're still not going to get away with this" said Kimiko.
"You people want a fight?" asked Vlad as he split himself into four Vlads, "Then let's fight."
"So what should I do?" asked Jack to Vlad as he and his clones were firing his ghost beams at the four Xiaolin warriors and Danny.
"Get the rest of the pieces of the Golden Knight that are back at the temple in Amity Park" replied Vlad, "and oh, Skulcker will accompany you."
"Will do" said Jack as he started up his two mini helicopters and started up his way toward the temple.
"Jack's heading toward the temple" said Raimundo as he was dodging a ghost beam from one of Vlad's clones.
"Don't worry" said Danny as he started to float up to chase Jack Spicer, "I'll stop him."
Before Danny could even get close to Jack who was heading toward the temple, a blast from nowhere almost hit Danny, but he recovered and recognized that Skulcker was right behind him.
"Hello welt" said Skulcker as he gave an evil smile and started to ready his weapons at Danny, "looks like I'll have your skin as a pelt sooner than I would have guessed."
As Skulcker fired his rockets at Danny, Danny then used his ghost shield and deflected the rockets and the rockets were deflected back at Skulcker who turned intangible. Skulcker then fired a rope around Danny's waist and then pressed a button on his suit and gave Danny a good shock causing him much pain. Danny then had enough of this and began to swing Skulcker around and around; finally, he lets go of Skulcker and fires a large ghost beam at Skulcker sending him flying toward the wall.
"Sorry Skulcker" said Danny, "I can't stay and fight with you, but I got to stop a thief."
"Come back here welt" said Skulcker as he was trying to get himself off the wall.
As Danny was finally catching up to Jack Spicer, Jack turned around and noticed Danny was not far behind.
"Jackbots" said Jack on his communicator and came to his side, "take care of the ghost boy."
"Uh oh" said Danny as the Jackbots were coming toward him with drawing their new and improved anti-ghost guns and sharp objects, "this looks like trouble."
As the Jackbots were coming toward Danny, some of the Jackbots fired several anti-ghost lasers at Danny. Danny dodged most of them, but when one laser managed to hit Danny's sleeve, Danny held his arm in pain, but managed to recover from the attack and fire a ghost beam at the Jackbot destroying it. He then fired some more ghost beams at the other Jackbots that were coming toward him along with turning intangible as one of the managed to charge at him, but fired a ghost beam destroying that one. As Danny was about to head back in the chase against Jack, Skulcker grabbed Danny by the neck and threw him to the wall.
"I'm not finish with you welt" said Skulcker as he readied more of his weapons at Danny.
"This is just not my day" said Danny as he dodged the attacks from Skulcker's weapons.
"It's also going to be your last day welt" said Skulcker as he used some sort of mechanical machine gun at Danny.
Danny then had enough and fired a large ghost beam at the mechanical machine gun destroying it. Skulcker then just readied another weapon which was another bazooka and fired a large beam from it at Danny sending him crashing through a window and crashing against the wall of the room and onto the ground.
"Face it welt" said Skulcker as he pointed his weapon through the destroyed window, "this time I shall have your skin as a pelt and of course my client and his allies shall be happy as well."
"That's what you think" said Danny as he recovered from the attack and fired another large ghost beam at Skulcker's weapon destroying it and leaving the scene to find and chase down Jack Spicer.
"Run welt, run" said Skulcker, "but you shall fail to stop this Jack Spicer's goals and mine as well."
As Danny was quite far behind of Jack Spicer this time, Jack had finally arrived at the temporary temple in Amity Park where the remaining pieces of the Golden Knight were held.
"Good thing this Skulcker character kept that ghost boy busy" said Jack then he noticed some Guys in White agents guarding the entrance, "just what I need. Hmm, maybe there's something in my arsenal that should get rid of those two."
"Anything strange out of the ordinary?" asked the first agent to his partner.
"No" replied the second agent, "nothing quite suspicious."
Suddenly a strange grenade from the sky fell down to the ground right at the feet of the two agents and some sort of strange gas came out of the grenade, making those two agents sleepy and fell down to the ground.
"What a bunch of saps" said Jack as he landed, "now I just need to acquire those pieces of the Golden Knight and head back to the field."
As Jack entered the temple and knocked out some of the other agents for the Guys in White along with the monks, Danny had arrived too late and noticed the two agents for the Guys in White unconscious.
"I'm too late" said Danny.
"And it's too late for you as well welt" said Skulcker as he was racing toward Danny giving Danny a good punch and sending him flying toward the column of the temple.
"Hey Skulcker" said Jack as he was leaving the scene with the pieces of the Golden Knight, "thanks for keeping the ghost boy at bay for me."
"Anytime" said Skulcker as he held Danny right up on the column and was about to give Danny a good punch in the face.
"Time in" said a familiar voice to Danny and Clockwork appeared just in the nick of time.
"What the?" asked Skulcker as he turned around and noticed Clockwork, "Who are you?"
"Let's just say I'm an interventionist here to stop you" replied Clockwork as he used his time staff and fired a large ghost beam at Skulcker sending him right into the ghost zone.
"Clockwork?" asked Danny as he regained consciousness.
"You better head toward that field" replied Clockwork as he used his staff and disappeared back to his tower.
"Let's just hope I'm not too late this time" said Danny as he started to try to follow Jack Spicer.
