Fenton Works was covered by the Ghost Shield. The city was still in its dome. Inside the shield, Vlad was casually leaning against the Specter Speeder, which was parked in the street. Danny, in human form, walked out of the house and up to Vlad.
"You wanted to talk to me?" Vlad said casually.
"You're putting innocent people in danger. It stops. Now." Danny said sternly.
Vlad gave him a smug look. He wasn't really taking this seriously.
"Really?" Vlad laughed a little. "You know what I'm up to? Your tiny teen mind has pieced together the rest of my plot?"
"That you stole the Ring, woke the Ghost King, gave it to Kurai to hide it and now you're waiting for your chance to steal it back?" Danny said.
"That's pretty good. It's almost as though I barely consider you a threat." Vlad said.
Danny groaned. His eyes glowed green.
Vlad shook in mock fear. "Oh, there's that temper of yours again. What ARE you going to do?" He leaned in dangerously close. "What if you family sees us?"
Danny fired ectoplasm from his finger, taking out a streetlight. It was completely dark.
"Oh, sugar cookie." Vlad said.
Danny fired some more ectoplasm, the glow lighting up his face. The blast hit Vlad, knocking him out of the Shield. Danny ran out after him, transforming as he left. Vlad got up, only to be kicked by Danny. He crashed into a billboard.
"Sneak attack, very good, Daniel." Vlad transformed, and flew away from the billboard. "You're getting more like me with every battle."
"I AM NOTHING LIKE YOU!" Danny shouted.
Danny flew up and rammed Plasmius. They landed on the Casper High football field, coincidentally.
"Oh, you're not? Using your powers to get back at people you don't like?" Plasmius stood up. "Throwing the first punch? You're more like me than you know."
He hit Danny across the field. He landed near the Soul Shredder.
"Oh yeah?" Danny stood up. He looked angry. "Well, if that's the case, then instead of asking you to give the ring back, I'll make you!"
He put his hand on the handle. Plasmius flew over.
"Daniel, NO! The sword is a signal!" Plasmius said.
"A signal?" Danny pulled the sword out of the ground. "A signal of what?"
The ground began shaking. The dome above their heads began to crack. Pieces of it fell near people, who ran screaming. Danny and Plasmius turned intangible to avoid them. The students still waiting on the lawn-and Danny and Plasmius- watched as the dome crumbles away- revealing a terrifying sight. Not only had the dome trapped the town, it had transported it into the Ghost Zone! The Skeleton Armies, inert up till now, sprang to...afterlife and marched down the streets. The Soul Shredder shook in Danny's hands, and then flew out of them into the Fright Knight's. The Knight had brought an even more unwelcome visitor- Pariah Dark himself, in all his creepy Scottish-Viking-thing glory.
"Of surrender!" Pariah Dark said.
Danny and Plasmius were frozen in their tracks. Taking advantage of this, Pariah fired red ectoplasm at them, reverting them back to their human forms. They collapsed, unconscious. He loomed over them, clutched them into his fist...
Nearby was a public TV screen with the words 'Amityvison' on it. It showed Jack and Maddie, who looked like they meant business.
"Citizens of Amity Park! This is Jack and Maddie Fenton!" Jack said.
"Hi everybody!" Maddie said.
She waved and smiled. She was the Fenton Works basement, and her face became serious again.
"Malevolent spirits have pulled our entire town into a dimension known to us humans as- the Ghost Zone." Jack said.
Jazz was working at a computer. I'm launching the Ghost Zone probe now." Jazz pressed a red button. A device flew out of Fenton Works and headed into the unknown fathoms of the Zone. "I'm also increasing the Ghost Shield's radius to protect the city."
Jazz pushed a lever up, which expanded the Shield beyond the Works. As the Shield expanded, it pushed all Skeletons backwards. People ran screaming into the shield. The Skeletons chasing them also crashed into the shield.
"The fact that we are currently in an alternate form of reality would be a lot cooler if it weren't for the fact that we are all in mortal danger." Jack said.
The ghost shield now covered most of the city.
"The Ghost Shield's cranked to capacity, and our probe of the Ghost Zone is operational." Jazz said.
Kurai frowned. She ran, presumably to help Danny, doubled over in pain.
The Skeleton Armies were trying to break through the Shield.
"For your own safety, please run under the Fenton Anti-Ghost Shield where our daughter Jazz will be serving tea and cookies! And boys-" Maddie pulled Jazz onscreen. "She's single!"
Jazz pushed her mother away. "Mom!"
Jack came onscreen. "But more than anything, know this: This is not my fault! I repeat, this is not my fault!"
On the Fenton Works roof, Khione flew out.
Pariah fired ectoplasm at one screen, smashing it. He directed his attention back to the two halfas.
"They're ghosts AND humans, just like my treacherous daughter!" He readied his ectoplasmic blast. "Is there no end to this day's surprises?"
Just as he was about to fire, someone came to ruin his fun.
"Father! Surprise!" Khione blasted him with a blast of cold energy, using her ghost powers for the first time.
"Daughter! Miserable wretch!" Pariah shot a laser at her from his working eye.
Khione put her hand in the air and activated the Ring of Rage, ice and fire swirling around her hand and her entire body.
"The Ring! Give that to the King NOW!" Fright Knight shouted.
He attacked her and cut her with the Soul Shredder. Khione's eyes went vacant and she began to scream.
"DANNY!" Khione yelled as she was seeing his death.
Fright Knight took the Ring of Rage off her finger.
The still-activated Ring's power knocked Khione away from the Fright Knight in a circular swirl and she flew into the Ghost Shield, which shocked her until she transformed back into Kurai and slipped into the shield, passing out.
"This... Is... Not... Over!" Fright Knight said.
As he said this, he attacked the shield with his sword. Pariah loomed over him.
"Actually, my loyal servant, it is!" Pariah Dark said.
Pariah smiled evilly. As it turned out, he was able to retrieve the Ring. He put it on. Having now acquired both items of power, the power rushed to him in a very dramatic scene. There was a white flash... And Pariah Dark reached full power.
During the power up, Danny and Vlad were blasted through the Ghost Shield until they were next to Kurai.
The Fright Knight bowed at the sight of him.
"Come. We have plans to make." Pariah Dark stomped off, with the Fright Knight close behind. Each of his steps were marked by a pool of fire. "For soon this... Human world... Will also be mine!"