They were at the concert, where an audience of kids are chanting "Dumpty! Humpty!" Spotlights shine down on a giant egg in the center of the stage. Back in the stands, Danny was looking excited, but Kurai's attention was focused on a large book.
"The Reality Gauntlet consists of four gems, which-" Kurai said, scribbling in her red book.
Danny put his hand over the page. "Guys, come on! It's summer. As in no more pencils, no more books..."
Tucker pointed at the book. You might want to take a look at this book. Kurai copied a lot of the information from Freakshow's notes."
"Well- I don't care, Kurai. As of right now—" Danny gave her back the book. "Freakshow is not my problem." The band started playing. "Oh, I love this part! This is where the band comes out of a giant egg."
Smoke hissed out over the stage then parted to reveal the giant egg. Two red eyes opened on it and it opened like a fanged mouth, the insides draining out.. The band members popped out gasping, and the audience gasps in return. Freakshow shimmered into view in the spotlight onstage.]
"Are you kids ready to have a great summer? Because Dumpty Humpty had a great fall!" Freakshow Laughed.
Lydia flew out into the stands and snagged Tucker and Kurai.
"No! Power disrupting again?!" Kurai shouted.
"Will this vacation ever start?" Danny Looked around, he ducked under the bleachers to go ghost.
The Gauntlet was glowing yellow. "Ah, the only thing better than an audience is a captive audience." Freakshow gestured, and seatbelts fastened everyone down to the bleachers.
Danny flew up and towards him.
"Show's over, Freakshow!" Danny said.
"Au contraire. That's French for, "I'll bet this hurts"." Freakshow punched Danny out of the air with the Gauntlet.
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In the FentonWorks kitchen, where Maddie was backing a case of ectogear, Jack was rifling through the cabinets and Jazz is sitting at the kitchen table with two huge stacks of paper. On the counter, a TV was playing live footage from the crashed concert.
"I can't go on this trip. I need to write my thesis on ghost envy. If only I could find someone that fits the bill." Jazz Looked at her father meaningfully.
Jack looked down and saw Lydia on the TV. "Ghost!"
Maddie gasped and leapt over to sit on the table and watch the TV, scattering Jazz's papers everywhere.
"That was easy." Jazz said.
"It's ghost-based chaos at the Casper High School's Out Concert, where notorious ghost kid Danny Phantom is fighting for his afterlife." Lance Thunder said.
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Back at the concert, Danny and Freakshow faced off on the stage. Freakshow used the Gem of Life on the drumset, turning it into a spider-like creature. Laughing, he sent it after Danny.
As it bore down on him, the Guys in White were sitting and watching the newscast, shivering in blankets with their feet in hot water baths and thermometers in their mouths.
"Let's roll-roll-" Agent O sneezed.
xxx
Back at the concert, the drum spider shot a web at Danny, which sent him flying and stuck in the football goalpost, leaving him trapped like a fly in a spiderweb. He struggled to free himself but was stuck.
"Any last words? Ah, might I suggest, 'Ah, Freakshow, don't hurt me.'" Freakshow said.
Behind him, Lydia still had Kurai and Tucker. Tucker pulled her hood down over her face, and she flew away screaming, crashing into the Ravens sign above the bleachers and sticking to it by one of her headspikes. Freed, Kurai turned into Khione and attacked Freakshow.
She hit him with RAN-GU and he fell back, giving her a chance to grab the glove. Tucker and Danny also managed to show up there and grab the glove too. Tucker touched the Gem of Form, Danny touched the Gem of Life, and Khione touches the Gem of Fantasy in their effort to stay aloft, evidently activating the Gauntlet.
"You did it-you found the combination that activates all the gems! Which means I control all reality!" Freakshow said. The world around them began to waver.
"You mean we control all reality!" Khione grinned
Freakshow Attempted to shake them off. "Let...go...of...my...Gauntlet!" He threw them again, but they all managed to grab back on.
Khione turned to Danny and Tucker, as Freakshow continued to try to dislodge them. "Quick, according to the book, the Gauntlet has a defense mechanism. Thinks of a place to hide the gem you're holding!"
Danny closed his eyes in concentration, and the Gem of Life vanishes. Khione and Tucker did the same for the Gem of Form and the Gem of Fantasy respectively.
There was a blue-white explosion. Tucker and Khione lying on the stage. They sat up, looking around. The drum spider crawled back to its original place, transforming back into a regular drumset, and the seatbelts trapping the audience disappeared. The crowd began to cheer, then gasped as a red fireball crashes into the stage. Freakshow emerged from the smoke.
"Blast! The gems have gone." Lydia phased through the stage to stand beside him. "We must flee! But dramatically!"
Lydia's tattoos detached and swirled around them in a blur, flying them away. Tucker stared up after them, and then another fireball hit the stage behind them. The smoke parts to reveal a smoking Danny Phantom and Khione, and they both struggled to their feet, disoriented, and reverted to Danny Fenton and Kurai Hikawa. They gasped, looking around, as realized they had just exposed themselves to hundreds of people. The crowd, staring back, gasped too. Looking up, the two Saya both the news helicopter and the Guys in White with jetpacks had also witnessed the transformation. Everyone began talking at once, and Danny and Kurai backed up nervously.
"Um, nobody saw that, right?" Danny and Kurai chorused.
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Back in the Fentons' kitchen, Jack and Maddie were staring at the TV in shock.
"You didn't see that, right?" Jazz said.