Danny phased into his house after the party, and he saw his mother and father, who had big smiles on their faces.
"What's with the smiles?" Danny asked them.
"We got good news for you, Danny," Maddie said.
"Dani had finally woken up, and it seems that the energy we discovered the last year was the morphin' grid," Maddie explained.
'The morphin' what?" Danny asked.
"The morphin' grid, Danny," Jack said.
"The morphin' grid is the source of energy that Power Rangers use to morph into the rangers. It seems that the morphin' grid could wake up Dani because of its powers," Maddie explained to Danny.
"Now that we know that this is the morphin' grid, we are going to use it to make a Power Ranger team that well deal with the ghost if you're not there," Jack said.
"You're going to make a Power Ranger team? And how did you that was the morphin' grid?" Danny asked his parents.
"We learn about the morphin' grid from a person from Grid Battleforce who told us what it was, and they decided to help us make these a new ranger team," Maddie explained to Danny.
"What is the name of this Power Ranger team?" Danny asked them.
"We call them Power Rangers Phantom Force," Jack said.
"Phantom Force?" Danny was confused about the name.
"Rolls off the tongue, does it, Danny?" Jack asked.
"It's an okay name," Danny answered.
Jack threw a wrist device and a key to Danny, which he barely caught. Danny was puzzled about what this was and why his dad would give this to him.
"This is the Phantom Morpher and the Phantom Key, and you can use it to become a Phantom Force Ranger if something happens," Jack explained.
"Why are you giving this to me, dad?" Danny asked.
"I'm giving you this because if something happens that your powers can't handle, then you can use this as a backup," Maddie explained.
"Alright, mom," Danny said as he put the wrist device in his pocket.
Danny and Dani went upstairs to talk about what had happened before Dani woke up from her coma.
Danny and his cousin went into his room, and Danny began to tell Dani about this week.
"Wow! So there are peanut clones on an island with a father that loves them. I'm kind of jealous of them," Dani said.
"Yeah," Danny answered.
Dani looked at a picture that had Danny and Penny together. Danny's arm was around Penny's waist.
"Wow, your girlfriend is really pretty," Dani said as she looked at the picture.
"Yeah, she is really pretty," Danny said with a blush.
"You must like her, don't ya cuz?" Dani teased.
"Like her? No, I love her," Danny said with a smile on his face.
"Wow, you got it bad, cuz," Dani teased.
"Yeah, she is funny, smart, spunky, and beautiful," Danny told his cousin of what he loves about Penny.
"I can't wait to meet her, cuz," Dani said as she went to the door.
"I know my Penny is going to love you when she sees you," Danny mentioned.
"Alright then, I'll see you in the morning cuz," Dani left Danny's room.
The next day
Danny was on cloud nine as he got ready for his first date with Penny since Ember's 'prank' to mess with them than dealing with MORE clones and stopping the evil clone of Dr. Carver from invading with his army of peanut people,
'Wow,' Danny thought, putting on one of his nicer dress shirts, 'how weird is my life that evil peanut people do not faze me.
Danny shook his head. Checking himself over in the mirror, he found his parents and Danielle stroking Vlad's former cat behind the ears while it sat in her life.
Cats loved his sister.
Dani smiled at him "you look nice," she complimented "guess the tabloids are going to have to find a new couple to mock."
"Yep," Danny said with a dopey grin, "you know what to do if a ghost shows up that you can't handle."
Dani sighed, exasperated "yes, I call for backup," she said before muttering, "you get captured by a ghost one time."
"The way I heard it from Henry, he chased you across five states before he captured you," Danny reminded, having heard the story a few dozen times over the years.
Dani's mature answer to that was to stick out her tongue. Danny laughed, messing with her hair. "I'll be back by curfew," he promised, "keep an eye on her."
"Hey, I'm a good cat owner," Dani quipped, a smile on her face.
"I was talking to the cat," Danny quipped back before he flew off. He had a date with his perfect match.
Danny and Penny were walking out of the restaurant. They were close to each other, her arm around his waist and hers around his shoulder as Danny led his girlfriend to a carriage. Penny's eyes widened.
The driver smiled at them. "Mr. Fenton Miss. Proud," he said, opening the door.
"Danny, you shouldn't have," Penny said happily that her boyfriend had made such a nice romantic gesture.
"After what we went through, I want to spend as much time as possible with you," Danny told her, helping her get into the carriage getting in after her.
Penny smiled, placing a kiss on Danny's cheek before the carriage pulled away driving to the park
After the carriage ride, Danny and Penny walked around the park together holding hands, just happy to really be back together after Embers 'prank.'
"I'm glad you're back, Penny," Danny said, hugging her.
"I'm not going anywhere," Penny told him, hugging back; the teenage couple leaned in about to kiss when Danny heard a whistling sound getting louder and louder.
It almost sounded like
Acting fast, Danny held tight onto Penny turning the two of them intangible as an arrow passed through Danny and Penny's torso.
Danny frowned "ok, I don't know who the Hawkeye wannabe is, but you've messed with me on a wrong night," Danny said, going ghost looking around. He saw green eyes surrounding them coming into the light, revealing more versions of him wearing Nighlock samurai armor.
Oh great, Danny thought, annoyed more clones.
Can't Vlad think of any other plan?
While Danny and Penny were on their date, Sam and Tucker were at his house playing Smash Bros. Well, more like Sam with Link had sent Samus flying off the arena again.
After the twelfth defeat in a row, Tucker dropped the controller in annoyance. "I'm the techno-geek. How are you so much better at video games than me."
Sam shrugged with a victorious smile on her face "no one can do everything," she told Tucker, "want to go again."
"You're on," he said, starting another round.
"So how do you think Danny and Penny's date is going," Tucker asked, trying to blast Link with a missile, but Sam flipped over it, hitting him with a boomerang.
"I'm sure by now they have a romantic carriage ride through the park," Sam said, having paid for the date so Danny and Penny could have a wonderful time together.
Danny at first had tried to refuse, but Sam had put her combat boot-wearing foot down, saying that Danny moping around and getting angry had driven everyone crazy, and he either took the money now or Sam went behind his back and paid for it.
Tucker smiled "good for them," he said while trying to get the smash ball. He was about to break it before Sam used her move to get it and deal damage on him.
"Any last words, Tucker" Sam asked playfully as she was about to finish him again.
Before Tucker could think of anything, the Nighlock detectors installed in their watches went off, becoming serious they turned off the game.
Tucker pushed a button on his watch in a flash. His Steel Spector suit was on the beret on his head, turning into his helmet "ready to go."
Sam nodded "born ready."
Danny frowned "ok, I don't know who the Hawkeye wannabe is, but you've messed with me on a wrong night," Danny said, going ghost looking around he saw green eyes surrounding them coming into the light, revealing more versions of him wearing Nighlock samurai armor.
Oh great, Danny thought, annoyed more clones.
Can't Vlad think of any other plan?
"Penny gets to safety call for help," Danny told his girlfriend Penny nodded about to run off before another arrow shot through the air and cut her off "sorry, but I think your friend is better where she is," his voice called from somewhere in the trees.
Danny growled, annoyed the other clones circling like sharks in the water.
Danny needed to get Penny out of here and keep these guys away from civilians until backup came. So Danny fired a blast at the clone in front of him, who didn't even move the blast going right through him.
Ok, that wasn't normal.
"Uh Danny, since when can intangibility block your ghost rays," Penny asked.
"It can't," Danny said, grabbing Penny pulling her out of the way as one of Danny's clones ran at her, throwing a punch. Danny spun her around, blocking the punch. The clone brought up an armored knee aiming for his stomach.
It was a feint.
Danny leaped back, bringing up his arm to block a punch, grabbing onto his arm pinning him down.
"You're fighting like Kim," Danny figured out; the clone smiled at him "not exactly."
Two things happened at once. First, another arrow was sent flying at him. Second the clone Danny was holding down shrunk.
Danny acted fast, making a duplicate. He caught the arrow and fired a ghost ray into the trees, scaring away some birds.
The other clone, the one who shrank, suddenly grew up kicking Danny and his duplicate in the face sending them flying back together
As he landed, another clone ran at him, hitting him with a green shield batting Danny through the air into a park bench.
"Danny," Penny cried in worry and fear before the clone that hadn't done anything yet grabbed her from behind, holding her by the neck.
Danny saw this, and his eyes turned green. "I wouldn't if I were you," he said with his other hand vibrating impossibly fast red lightning surging around it "take a single step, and I end her"
"And Archer ends you," one of the clones near the back said
Great, a clone of him was acting like the Reverse-Flash, an archer, a guy who made shields, and a shrinker who knows what the other two could do.
Danny needed a plan
"Look, I don't know how Vlad is doing this, but I can help you get free of whatever mind control he's got you under," Danny tried pleading, hoping their conscience would make them hesitate.
Instead, all they did was laugh at him "do you think our father would be stupid enough to use the same plan again" the Speedster asked.
"Nor are we like that reject Danielle and her generation," the shrinker said
"Our father raised us taught us over the weekend, and we grew in our pods his view on the world," the shield maker said, "and we took to it like fish to water."
"You guys disgusting," Penny said. "Vlad's twisted and selfish. He made you the same way."
Speedster clone laughed "maybe, but we're not the ones whose life's about to flash before their eyes."
"Neither am I," Penny said, stunning speedster Danny when she'd shot him with a Fenton lipstick sending him back before the other clones could react. Danny rushed forward, making a duplicate. His duplicate flew off with Penny bridal style in his arm while Danny crossed arms, sending a massive wave of energy sending the clones flying.
Speedster clone recovered, first hitting him with a hypersonic punch to the stomach. Then, the two other clones rushed forward, hitting him with twin kicks to the stomach and ribs, nearly bringing Danny to his knees.
Danny held strong and didn't back down.
"That was foolish," the speedster clone said, "you're all alone now."
Green blasts shot down from the sky, hitting the shrinker and the shield maker, knocking them back.
Landing around Danny were Sam Tucker, Henry Buzz Luke, and Dani "it looks like your math is off cause now it's seven to six"
"Seriously, more clones," Dani said, "as if I didn't have enough brothers."
Dani looked to the four other phantoms "no offense, guys, you know I love you."
"None taken"
Speedster Danny spat in disgust, "if we came from the same genetic stock as you," lightning flashed around him shield Danny glowed red before he morphed into a dark green power ranger with black spiky outlines and a red visor the shrinker GREW until he was the size of an elephant.
The two in the back changed too the one on the left his skin turned grey, and his eyes glowed a harsh purple the one on the right morphed too this one dressed in a white bodysuit with black stripes and cat-like yellow eyes behind a domino mask.
"Fortunately, we come from superior genetic stock," the Speedster said
"It appears someone informed Vlad of the multiverse," Luke said rhetorically, "and he has taken full advantage of the infinite piles of the earth."
Buzz scoffed, covered in his ghost flames, "really hadn't noticed."
Henry looked to Danny "what's the plan, cousin" he asked.
"Tucker, there's an archer somewhere in the woods who knows if he has powers or not," Danny said "be careful knowing Vlad. He may get powers, or Vlad gave him some while making him"
Tucker nodded, flying off with his jet pack.
"The rest of us will take these guys down hard. They're not mind-controlled, and they think just like Vlad," Danny said, "the speedsters are going to be the toughest to beat."
"Therefore, he shall be my opponent," Luke answered.
The Speedster laughed "you know it's stupid to plan in front of your enemies."
Luke, instead of answering, rushed forward, swinging a green energy blade at the Speedster. "I prefer to think of it as confidence in our strength."
