Chapter 2: The Blackmail Begins

As the sun was about to rise up for the next mourning, Ben was sleeping in the bed in the inn's suite. Ben was having some sort of a dream where he was always painting himself the hero and some sort of strange alien or other bad people whom were humans as the people he defeated. Then suddenly Ben felt someone massaging his back and his shoulder. As he woke up he was shocked to see Danielle right in his room and sitting right on his bed.

"What the heck are you doing here?" cried Ben as he was still in his pajamas.

"Just getting you up for the day" replied Danielle as she made some sort of strange smile toward Ben.

"Look, I know what you saw the other day was just your imagination" said Ben.

"I know what I saw and I know what your special device does" said Danielle as she grabbed the arm that had the Omnitrix.

"You're starting to really creep me out" said Ben as he took his arm away from Danielle.

"Tell you what" said Danielle as if she were trying to hypnotize him in some sort of strange way by looking straight into his eyes, "I'll let you show how it's like in being a boyfriend for the duration of your stay in this small town or I'll—"

"Or you'll what?" asked Ben to Danielle.

"Or a 'police man' would start to question why you have such a strange device on your arm" replied Danielle to Ben.

"Are you blackmailing me?" asked Ben, "And how are you going to be able to tell a police man that?"

"I would be the one to overshadow him" replied Danielle as she changed herself into her ghost mode which Ben then had a scared face on him.

"S-so-so you are related to the Fentons?" asked Ben to Danielle as he knew the D symbol was one and the same with the jumpsuit Danny Phantom wore.

"I'm sort of a clone of Danny Phantom you might say" replied Danielle.

Then Ben had a strange feeling in his stomach and he knew it wasn't an emotional one either.

"I can't believe I just met him and his family a few miles back" said Ben as it looked like he was about to throw up.

"Well" said Danielle as she changed back into her normal human self, "I better go," as she heard that Grandpa Max and Gwen were getting up. "See you around boyfriend."

She then turned invisible and vanished from the room itself. Ben's face was getting greener from the revelations that Danielle could very well be a clone of Danny Phantom; Ben's grandpa entered the room and noticed that Ben wasn't feeling so well.

"Ben, are you coming down with some bug or something like that?" asked Grandpa Max.

"I hope he isn't" added Gwen as she entered the scene, "you know what happen the last time he caught a cold. Weird stuff happened to the aliens on this Omnitrix."

"It's no problem grandpa" said Ben then he thought of a quick lie and getting back to normal somewhat, "I just had a little car sick from your fast driving."

"Hmm, well I think you'll be okay" said Grandpa Max who really knew something else was wrong, "but let's head down for breakfast."

Meanwhile at an abandon place in the small town, Ember and Young Blood were trying to communicator with Vlad Plasmius whom was still at his mountain resort.

"This better be important" said Vlad as his image came up on the communicator to Ember and Young Blood.

"The Tennysons are in this town" said Ember.

"We have already made ourselves noticed" said Young Blood.

"But there is a problem" said Young Blood's parrot.

"What sort of problem?" asked Vlad.

"He's too difficult to fight" replied Ember and showed Vlad her guitar, "look what he did as that diamond-like creature to my guitar!"

"And look at how he dented my wooden leg" complained Young Blood as he showed it to Vlad.

"Alright, alright" said Vlad, "you two made your point."

"So you'll help us?" asked Young Blood.

"Not exactly" replied Vlad, "but I am sending some of your pirate friends in Young Blood to aid you along with to help Ember repair her guitar."

"Thank you sir" said Young Blood to Vlad.

"Just make sure you draw the Tennysons out into the scene and capture Ben Tennyson and his Omnitrix" said Vlad as the computer image of him was turned off.

A few minutes later the ghost pirates arrived in the abandon building with Ember and Young Blood.

"Okay" said Young Blood's parrot to the ghost pirates, "you know how the Tennysons are drawn out by trouble. Go and cause some."

As Grandpa Max and his two grandchildren were finished eating their breakfast at the cafeteria, Ben noticed that strange girl-Danielle sneaking around the foot trays in stealing some food.

"Say Ben" said Gwen as she noticed Danielle, "isn't that your girlfriend?"

"Would you please quit it" replied Ben as he was trying to not draw any attention.

"Look" said Grandpa Max, "maybe we can invite your friend to go on some site seeing tours."

"Uh, I don't think that's such a good idea" said Ben.

"Why not?" asked Grandpa Max.

But before Grandpa Max could get an answer from his grandson, the inn manager came to the Tennysons with some urgent news.

"What's wrong?" asked Grandpa Max to the manager of the inn.

"You're not going to believe what's going on at the local grocery store" replied the manager, "but ghost pirates are attacking everything in sight."

"Time to go Ghost Freak" said Ben in a soft voice as he dashed around the table and hid under the food buffet.

"So, you're going to use that special device again boyfriend?" asked Danielle whom happen to be under the food buffet as well.

"Uh, I'm going to need my privacy" replied Ben as he changed himself into Ghost Freak, "so see ya."

Ben as Ghost Freak traveled toward the scene where Young Blood's ghost pirates were wrecking havoc.

"Okay" said Ben to the ghost pirates, "just who are you ghosts?"

"Looks like the one with the device is here" replied one of the ghost pirates.

"Get him" said another.

As the ghost pirates lunged at Ben, Ben used Ghost Freak's ghostly claws and slashed at the pirates sending crashing into some aisle in the grocery store.

"Just who hired you guys to hunt me and my family down?" asked Ben.

"Let's just say he's pretty rich" replied one of the pirates.

"And he's quite well known" added another.

"Plasmius" said Ben as he finally came to a conclusion, "I should have known he would hire ghosts to do his dirty work."

"And looks like we're going to get paid for it" said a ghost pirate as he grabbed Ghost Freak and threw him against some cans.

As the ghost pirates were moving in on Ben, it looked like it was all over until several ghost beams came out of nowhere knocking the ghost pirates down to the ground.

"Leave him alone" said Danielle as she showed up on the scene in her ghost mode.

"Who the heck is this?" asked one of the ghost pirates.

"Don't know" replied the second one, "but she's going down."

"You want to bet?" asked Danielle.

Danielle then launches her fist against the ghost pirate sending him crashing into some of his comrades. She then fires another ghost beam at another ghost pirate who was trying to make a move on Ben.

"Okay" said Ben, "maybe going Ghost Freak wasn't such a good idea."

"This is too much for us" said a ghost pirate.

"Yea, let's get the heck out of here" said another.

As the ghost pirates fled the scene, Danielle then fled toward the girl's restroom and changed herself back into her human self while Ben went to the boy's restroom as the time on the Omnitrix ran out.

"What happen here?" asked Grandpa Max as he and Gwen arrived on the scene while Ben and Danielle emerged from their restrooms.

"Uh, a pirate attack?" responded both Ben and Danielle.

"Well" said Grandpa Max, "maybe your friend over here can join us for the day. Let's get going then."