At Casper High, The trio were walking down the hall.
"So, are you going to return the test answers or not?" Kurai urged.
"I will! I will. I'm just...waiting for the right moment." Danny said.
"Like, maybe, after the test?" Tucker chuckled.
Danny frowned at him.
"Yeah, you're right." Tucker said. As they passed by the teacher's lounge. "You're not thinking about cheating on a test that you're convinced will determine your future."
The door to the teacher's lounge opened, and Lancer looked after them quizzically. Shutting the door again, he went to the sofa and set the briefcase down on the coffee table. He pulled out a key and unlocked the briefcase, and gasps upon finding it empty.
Several Casper High girls were angry as Jazz talked.
"So, it's a choice between Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, and I can't make up my mind!" Jazz said. The girls all turned and walked away, and Jazz's smile dropped. "So...see you after school? No?"
Lancer walked up to Jazz. "Ms. Fenton, may I speak with you after school?"
Jazz looked alarmed.
xxx
In Danny's room, the trio were sitting in a circle on the floor around Clockwork's medallion. Tucker connected a pair of wires from it to his PDA.
"I can't seem to hack into it. It's really hi-tech." Tucker said.
"Yeah, like it's from the future or something." Kurai said ironically.
"Well, speaking of the future, I think it's time I started preparing for mine." Danny Picked up his backpack and stood.
"You mean cheat." Kurai said.
"I didn't say cheat." Danny said.
"You didn't say "not" cheat." Tucker pointed out.
Danny facepalmed. "Guys, come on. I'd love to have spent the last month studying, but I was fighting ghosts! Besides, if you two think this test is so meaningless" Danny pulled out the answer packet and held it up. "why do you even care if I cheat? Why shouldn't I open this up and study the answers, huh?"
Kurai and Tucker looked at each other.
"No answer?" Danny Put the packet on his dresser. "Well that's all the answer I need." He looked down at the packet, hesitating.
"Aren't you going to say something?" Tucker said to Kurai.
"I'm his friend, not his mom." Kurai gave Danny a dirty look.
Danny was still hesitating. Finally he went for the seal and peels it up, but was interrupted by a blue light behind him. Tucker gaped and Kurai gasped. The robot ghost appeared. It was a combination of Skulker and Technus, with Skulker's head in the typical head spot and Technus's face embedded in its chest.
Sam and Tucker sighed in relief. "I mean... Oh no, a ghost."
Danny transformed and leapt at the ghost, who easily backhanded him into the wall. He slid to the floor and glared up.
"Who are you supposed to be?" Danny said.
"I am Skulktech 9.9, the future Ghost World's greatest hunter!" Skulker said.
"With its greatest technovillain as his operating system!" Technus said.
"Skulker and Technus together?" Danny said.
"Is that an ew or a yikes?" Tucker said.
Several claw-ended arms sprung out of Skulktech.
"Definitely a yikes." Danny said.
Danny barely missed getting slammed by a cluster of arms. Going intangible, he snagged Tucker and Kurai and flew the out of the room, then returned through the door. Skulktech knocks him around for a bit, then grabbed him by the neck and held him up.
"Say goodbye," Skulker said.
"Ghost Child!" Technus said.
They lift a claw arm, which began to spin like a scalesaw. Suddenly their gauntlet started beeping the tune to Reveille.
"Someone's hacked into the system? Again?! I thought we fixed that!" Skulker said.
"We did! We must have accidentally synced up with somebody else's PDA!" Technus said.
Skulktech went intangible, and their jets fired off. Dropping Danny, they took off through the ceiling. The door opened and Tucker and Kurai came in.
"Wow. I can still hack into his operating system with my handheld computer. I don't know whether that's exciting or depressing." Tucker said.
Danny leapt to his feet. "Come on, follow me!" Going intangible, he flew up through the ceiling.
Kurai transformed and ghosted Tucker through the ceiling.
The three flew after Skulktech across the evening sky.
xxx
Below, at Casper High, Jazz and Lancer were talking.
"So you're saying Danny stole the C.A.T. test answers? But how?" Jazz said.
"I don't know." Lancer held up the briefcase. "Unless your brother suddenly gained the ability to turn invisible and reach through solid objects?"
Jazz cringed. "But Mr. Lancer, you still have no proof Danny took the test answers."
"Fair enough. He has up until the test to return the answers. But if he cheats, I won't just fail him. I'll destroy his future." Lancer said.
Xxx
Back in the air, Danny was still chasing Skulktech.
"What are you waiting for? Activate the Purpleback Gorilla Override!" Skulker said.
"Don't tell me how to do my job!" Technus said.
Khione zapped them with an ectoblast, and they fell from the sky to crash into the ruin of the Nasty Burger. The heating element was still on, the meter inching higher. They blasted off again.
"Activating Phantom Palm Pummeler!" Technus said.
Their hand opened, sending out a bluewhite ray that caught Danny and knocked him off course, smoking. It hit him again and he reverted to human form, then fell a short way before going back to ghost form.
"You're shorting out my powers?!" Danny said.
"Indeed. Pummeler might not work on you in the future, but we had a feeling it would work on you here." Skulker said.
"The Future?" Danny said.
Technus laughed. "Oh, I love it. You're much less powerful than that other Phantom we have to deal with!"
A third blast hits him, turning him human.
Khione caught him and pulled him to safety.
"What are you talking about?" Danny said.
"You don't have a future, period!" Skulker said hitting him with a claw and zapping him.
"Not anymore!" Technus said.
"I wouldn't bet on that." Tucker said.
Kurai and Tucker came running up, Tucker running the override on his PDA. A red laser hit Skulktech and they shorted out, falling. As they fell they caught themselves on a flagpole.
"Aw poo." Skulktech said.
"Wow, that flagpole thing-" Technus tried.
It snapped and they fell, crashing to land doubled over a lamppost. We saw the CW medallion around their neck.
Danny was still trapped in the cuffed arm "Way to go, guys!"
"Come on, Tucker, let's see if we can get this off!" Kurai said.
Kurai grabbed the cuff and Tucker grabbed Kurai as they tried to wrench it open. Skulktech's medallion fell off and to the ground, and they started to glow bluewhite. The glow raced along the arm, enveloping the trio, and they all vanished.