At the Nasty Burger, The Skeleton Armies were patrolling outside. Inside, a completely calm employee was flippin' patties. That is, he was flipping, until the patties flew into the air and formed the Lunch Lady Meat Monster. She roared.
"Lunch, anybody?" Lunch Lady said in a calm voice.
The employee screamed.
At the local Box Store, a couple ran in, looking terrified.
"We need boxes, and lots of 'em!" Man said.
The Box Ghost flew in through the ceiling. "Never!"
The couple hugged each other, screaming.
At the Guitar Palace, Ember was standing at the counter.
"Hey, kids." Ember was standing on a counter in front of a small crowd. "Here's a little ditty I like to call: GET OUT OF MY NEW HOME!"
Ember played a power chord, smashing the windows. All the people ran out of the windows.
"She rocks!" A running guy said.
At the Hunting Goods, Skulker was inside, weapons drawn.
"Away, humans! This is Skulker's lair now!" Skulker said.
He retracted his weapons and sat on a camp chair. The guys in the store (fat men in camp gear) screamed and ran. Poindexter came up through the floor as they run, intangible.
"This is not on the square, Skulker." Poindexter became tangible and flew over to Skulker. "We're pushing these people from their homes. We're no better than the Ghost King."
"No one lives here, it's a store." Skulker said.
He took out an arrow shooting thing and shot it. Dozens of arrows came out and they pinned Poindexter to the wall.
"This seems oddly familiar." Poindexter said.
At Casper High, the Skeleton Armies were closing in on it.
"Kurai, please, tell Tucker he's nuts." Danny said.
"I don't feel like I'm nuts." Tucker said.
"And I don't think he is either." Kurai said. "We've got to do something about this before the Ghost King shows up."
"Pfft. I can handle it." Danny said.
His ghost sense went off. Kurai's went off as well. Her ghost sense was steam coming from ears.
"Woah! I gotta jet!" Danny ran off- and right into Dash. He grabbed Danny by the collar. "Dash!" Danny noticed the Skeleton Armies outside the school. "Uh, look, this is really bad timing, can we reschedule?"
"Don't think so, runt. Unless you think you can MAKE ME!" Dash said.
Danny's eyes glowed green with anger. The next thing we know, Dash was slamming himself against the lockers, yelling. He fell to the ground, exhausted. Danny- who was overshadowing him- flew out of Dash's body and into a nearby hall. He walked out of the hall, completely human. Kurai and Tucker stared at him.
"And... There's more where that came from, Baxter! So... Watch it!" Danny said.
He quickly ran around the corner, just in time to see Plasmius at the end of it. How lucky.
"It feels good to use your powers on your enemies, doesn't it, Daniel?" Plasmius said.
Angry, Danny transformed into Danny Phantom. He fired an ectoplasmic blast at Plasmius, knocking him through the wall.
"Actually, yeah, it does." Danny Phantom said.
He flew off after him.
xxx
A beep came from Tucker's PDA. It sounded like news media.
There was Action News on Tuck's PDA. It showed Tiffany Snow, the news-lady, with a screen by her with a ghost on it and the letters 'GEBS'- Ghost Emergency Broadcasting System.
"This is Tiffany Snow, with Action News." Tiffany said. "And this is the Ghost Emergency Broadcasting System." The screen changed to view the Skeleton Armies. "Amity Park is in the midst of a massive ghost attack. And now, here's Lance Thunder with the Ghost Weather!"
As she said that, the screen showed a Skeleton overturning a car. Tucker and Kurai were now watching the PDA.
"As you can see-" Lance Thunder, a blond man who was a weatherman before the whole ghost thing started, was standing in front of another screen with little ghost pictures on it. "We have random ghost activities in restaurants, malls, and this box store." The screen behind him changed to show the Box Store.
xxx
In FentonWorks Lab, the same broadcast was playing.
The screen behind Lance showed the Skeleton armies marching. "If you look to the west, you can see a huge wave of ghost skeletons heading from the center of town-Towards Casper High."
Jack was still weak, but now out of the pants. "We have to...have to..."
Maddie put a hand on his shoulder. "Jack, you're still wiped out from the Fenton Pants. I'll get Danny and Jazz."
She ran off. Jack was clutching his head.
"That...works too." Jack said.
The broadcast was still playing.
"All parents are advised to immediately pick up their children and RUN!" Lance shouted. "RUN LIKE THE WIND! " The Skeleton Armies attacked Lance. "Not the hair! NOT THE HAIR!"
Xxx
On the Casper High Ravens football field. Plasmius was standing there dramatically. Danny Phantom touched down opposite him. Danny tried to fly up- but was stopped by Plasmius through choking. He lowered him down to the field.
"Calm down, Daniel! I didn't come here to fight you, I have other things to worry about!" Plasmius said.
He threw Danny to the ground. A horse neighed, signaling the arrival of the Fright Knight and his posse, the Skeleton Armies. The Fright Knight, attempting to hit Plasmius, chopped a wing off one of the football post things. Danny touched down, his hand smoking. He fired a blast that hit two Skeletons, and quite a lot more at the Skeletons who overtook him. Just as one Skeleton was about to slice through him, a pink blast of ectoplasm destroyed it. Danny turns around to find that Plasmius was the one that fired it. His hand was smoking.
"You're helping me?" Danny continued to fight off skeletons. "Whaddya want, my mom's cell number?"
Plasmius was Also fighting Skeletons. "No! But really, if you wanted to give me her number..."
He shouldn't have stopped to say that. In the moment that he was defenseless, the Fright Knight grabbed him.
"Where is the Princess?" Fright Knight demanded.
"Princess?" Danny said, confused. "Who?"
"Princess Khione." Fright Knight continued. "The Ghost King's daughter and guardian of his prized Ring of Rage."
Danny looked astounded and betrayed. Was Khione a bad guy?
"We don't know where she is." Vlad said quickly. "But, if you join me, perhaps toge-"
"RA-JE!" Both were knocked away by a sudden blast of silver blue light. The Fright Knight looked up to see Khione, flying down.
"Princess! Surrender and give the King his ring!" Fright Knight demanded.
"Not on your life, Punkin!" Khione snapped. "ARE-TO!"
Spiritual chains bound the Fright Knight and he struggled.
"So she's not a bad guy?" Danny questioned to himself.
"Khione has never been on the Ghost King's side." Plasmius pointed out. "Where have you been?"
Xxx
All the kids' parents drove up. They all had big Jeep-type cars- with the exception of the Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle, of course. That's an RV.
"Doesn't anybody in this town drive a COMPACT CAR?" Tucker said.
Jack got out of one of the cars and ran over to the kids.
"Where's Danny?"
"He's with Kurai." Tucker said.
"Who's Kurai?" Maddie asked.
xxx
"Are you really a good guy?" Danny asked Khione.
To protect his two pawns, Plasmius duplicated himself to create a kind of shield. The duplicates fired pink blasts at the Skeletons, sending them back to whence they came. They then morphed back into one Plasmius.
Fright Knight sent an attack at Danny, and Khione countered with one of her runic attacks.
"Uhh...Thanks?" Danny said.
"You're welcome." Khione said, and created a Lotis Barrier to protect them. "Look, I know this is going to be hard to believe-" Behind them, Plasmius was tackled by the Fright Knight. "But that guy is the problem right now, and I could really use your help."
The Fright Knight and Plasmius were knocked to the ground. Fright Knight stood up, brandishing his sword.
"I still don't trust you," Danny said. "You have too many secrets."
"You don't have to trust me." Khione extended her hand to him. "Just...fight with me!"
Danny thought about it for a second, and then the two shook hands. Khione smiled triumphantly. She flew off, Danny close behind. Danny fireD a blast at the Fright Knight. Khione punched him in the face, and Plasmius got up and fired as well. The Fright Knight was knocked to the ground, but he was not defeated- not yet. He began getting up.
"Fool! All I wanted to do was seize the Ring and return to Pariah's Keep!" Fright Knight shouted angrily. Danny, Plasmius and Khione grimaced. "But now, you give me no choice." Fright Knight was now fully up. "By the authority vested in me by my Lord and Leige-"
He held up his sword, which seemed to have burst into flame. He stuck it into the ground. When the ground and sword made contact, a green wave of ectoplasm sweeped through the town. When the wave hit the Skeleton Armies, they froze in their tracks. The Fright Knight stepped away from the sword, which sent a column of ectoplasm into the sky.
"I claim this town now and forever under the banner of Lord Pariah- The King Of All Ghosts!" Fright Knight declared.
Khione gasped. Not part of the plan.
The column reaches a certain point, and then a large ectoplasmic dome closed itself over the town. Danny was horrified by the sight, as was everyone else. The vapors in the ectoplasm came together to form an image-Lord Pariah.
Khione made a choked sound, the ice and fire swirling around her, brighter and brighter...then winking out as she fell from the sky.
"KURAI!" Danny lunged for her and caught her and touched down to the ground clutching her broken body to his chest.