Reviews:

Akakiru: I certainly could have them meet him. But if I do, there's going to be a crap ton of sexual innuendos and such since he is the king of the Lust ring.

satoshy12: The thing about that is, Skulker isn't suicidal. He knows damn well if he attacked Charlie, Lucifer would absolutely destroy him. He was afraid of Pariah Dark, so he would absolutely be afraid of Lucifer too. That's even with his upgrades.

Bearticguy7: I think he might retain some human features but he would definitely change quite a bit. I'm thinking his hair would become flowing and ethereal like steam or wisps of frost slowly moving in the air, similar to a person's breath in below freezing temperatures. He may either resemble a skeleton made of ice with green glowing orbs of ecto energy for eyes or he might gain some yeti-like features, or some combination thereof. Or he might look like something else. I haven't decided yet, honestly.

Heidao: I'll be honest, I left the possibility of something else going on with Skulker open because I was worried people might prefer the status quo and may not appreciate him being powered up in any way. So it was partially a tool to guage the reaction it would receive.

Skulker watched and waited, as a good hunter often did, waiting for the best moment to strike. He couldn't attack too soon, otherwise he would have to face both the ghost child and Plasmius at once. A fight he was sure to lose despite his upgrades. But like the hunter he was, he had been watching and eavesdropping on them for days. He had strongly considered attacking them at that party, but ultimately decided against it. While his countermeasures were effective on demons, he didn't want to risk testing them on so many demons that were so powerful at once. Then Lucifer and his family showed up and Skulker knew trying anything would absolutely result in his death or eternal damnation.

Regardless, he knew Plasmius was leaving to head to the Ghost Zone today. This would be his chance to corner the ghost child while he was all alone without Plasmius to back him up. He watched Plasmius leave and followed the older half ghost to his lab. He watched Plasmius leave then destroyed the ghost portal behind him to make it harder for him to get back to help the ghost child. Plasmius would find a way back to Hell just like Skulker himself had, he was sure, but without his ghost portal it would be significantly harder for him. Skulker merely wanted to make sure that Plasmius wasn't trying to trick him by going through the portal to bait him into attacking the boy, only to come back through a few minutes later and rush to the boy's aid. He had spent two whole days watching Plasmius specifically to make absolutely sure it wasn't a clone that had gone through the portal.

"I will not have my hunt spoiled again." Skulker growled at the wrecked Ghost Portal. He knew that the ghost child and Plasmius had been preparing for this encounter all week. The child had new armor, and Plasmius had given some demons under his command anti-ghost weapons. But all of that was fine. It just made the hunt more challenging and would thus make it all the more rewarding once he claimed his trophy. In fact the presence of the demons just meant he would have even more trophies to put on display when this was all over.

He then ran a quick systems diagnostic on his suit to make sure it was in perfect working order. Once he was sure everything was indeed working as intended, he activated his scanners and tracking devices. "The hunt is on, Ghost Child." Skulker stated before taking off and flying out of the lab.

(Danny)

Danny was standing in a wide open area outside the city. He had an Exterminator weapon in a custom made scabbard on his hip. It was the same sword he had taken from that wasp demon the day Skulker first attacked him. His control over ecto energy wasn't as refined as Vlad's so he couldn't make nearly as advanced ecto constructs as him. So he needed something to fight back with if Skulker tried to attack him in close quarters, and this sword seemed about as good as any. He was also wearing a suit of armor designed by Vlad that was very similar to the armor part of the Fenton Ghost-Peeler. In fact the design was largely based on it. Except it didn't have any built in weapons like the Fenton Ghost-Peeler. Instead it was designed to work with Danny's ghost powers.

He was also sticking around the gang that Vlad had gathered together, all of whom were wearing hazmat suits and gas masks as a precaution for Skulker's anti-demon weapons and were wielding VladCo anti-ghost weapons designed and built by Vlad before Danny had even been sent to Hell by Clockwork.

The largest and most powerful was a sinner demon called John who was the de facto leader of the squad, meaning he was effectively third in command in the entire organization. Apparently he had been an American soldier in World War Two while he had been alive, but ended up going to Hell because he kidnapped and brutally tortured a man for several days before murdering him because the man had violated his adolescent daughter. He was wielding a very large anti-ghost bazooka with a rifle strapped to his back in case something happened to the bazooka. He also had a bandolier of ecto-grenades wrapped around his torso, a pistol on his hip as a side arm. He was probably the most heavily armed out of any of them.

Then there was a pair of Hellhounds, one was a male named Rex while the other was a female named Fox, they were apparently twin siblings. Rex was almost but not quite as big as John and had solid black fur while Fox was smaller and had more reddish fur that made her look more like her namesake despite her very clearly having the features of a wolf. Despite being Hellborn demons, the two of them apparently didn't like how chaotic Hell was, having faced quite a bit of hardship because of it, and joined because they wanted to see things get cleaned up a bit. Rex was wielding a large but otherwise fairly basic anti-ghost rifle and had a pistol on his hip along with a large combat knife practically long enough to be a shortsword on his other hip that would project an edge of ecto-energy to hurt ghosts and could be attached to the end of his rifle like a bayonet, while Fox had what essentially looked like a big minigun with six barrels with what was effectively an ectoplasmic double barreled shotgun strapped to her back.

Next was another sinner demon named Kate. Danny had asked how she had ended up in Hell but she claimed to not want to talk about it. He didn't press the issue. She was wielding what was effectively an experimental ecto-flamethrower with a combat knife as a side arm.

After that was an Imp named Roxanne who was wielding a basic rifle with a net launcher capable of capturing ghosts slung across her back. She was basically just a mercenary and would follow whatever orders or rules she needed to as long as she got paid.

Finally there was another sinner by the name of Hector. He was wielding a pair of pistols. Vlad had offered him a rifle since they packed more of a punch but Hector refused claiming to be better with pistols than rifles. Like Roxanne, he was essentially just a mercenary and was only here because the pay was good.

"So, when do you think this guy's gonna show up, boss?" John asked.

"Vlad's already left so it should be pretty soon. He's probably been waiting for an opportunity like this so I can't imagine he'll want to wait much longer." Danny stated.

"Hey, you think we can keep these new toys after we kick this guy's ass? I'm just dying to see the look on the face of some poor jackass committing crimes on our territory when he sees us pointing these beauties at him." Fox asked, hefting her minigun with a large smile on her face.

Danny shrugged. "I guess so. But they're designed for ghosts so I'm not entirely sure how effective they'll be on demons, so I'd recommend bringing your usual weapons and taking something small like the pistols on patrol and trying them out on a couple demons first just to make sure they actually work before carrying anything big like what you're using now. I mean they're moderately effective on humans, not quite as effective as they are on ghosts but they could still kill a human with a couple well placed shots, so they should do something. Still, it's better to be safe than sorry."

"Sweet!" Fox cheered.

"Don't get too excited, sis. We still don't know how effective they'll be. I agree with the Phantom. We should test them out before getting ahead of ourselves." Rex said.

"Oh come on, Rex. If they can kill a human they should be able to kill a demon too. Well, temporarily at least since they're not Exterminator weapons." Fox stated.

"Yeah, they should. As long as these pistols are at least as good as my nine mils, then I'm satisfied." Hector stated.

Rex rolled his eyes. "I'm still bringing my normal guns the next time we go on patrol."

Suddenly Danny's ghost sense went off. "He's here. Everyone get ready." Danny ordered, drawing his sword.

Suddenly all of the demons' demeanors changed as they readied their own weapons. Suddenly several grenades landed on the ground behind them before releasing a white mist meanwhile Danny was pelted by laser fire from behind. Seeing this, all of the demons turned and began shooting in the direction the grenades and lasers had come from. Skulker burst through all of their fire with his energy shield up as he flew towards Danny and tried to impale him with his wrist blades. Danny stepped to the side and slashed at Skulker with his exterminator sword, which failed to penetrate his energy shield.

"Hazmat suits and gasmasks! Those won't save you from my Holy Water fog grenades if I destroy them!" Skulker shouted before launching a salvo of missiles at the demons and Danny.

Danny split himself into clones and tried to shoot as many of the missiles out of the air as he could.

John managed to blast Skulker directly with his bazooka, Fox was pelting him with a continuous volley from her Minigun, Kate blasted Skulker with her ecto-flamethrower, Rex and Roxanne were blasting him with their rifles, and Hector was shooting him with both of his pistols. Yet Skulker's shield was absorbing the fire like it was nothing.

One of the missiles managed to slip past Danny and hit the ground between Hector and Kate before exploding, sending both of them flying back and compromising their hazmat suits. Kate screamed in agony as she landed in the middle of the holy water haze which immediately began seeping into her suit.

"Shit! Hold on, Kate!" John shouted before running over, grabbing her, and kicking the closest grenade away before dragging her out of the holy water fog which was lingering in the air.

While that was happening Skulker began opening fire with his lasers as well as his missiles, hitting Rex, Fox, Roxanne, and John thus compromising their suits.

John basically ignored the laser hits but growled in pain from the holy water fog now flooding into his hazmat suit.

"Fuck, fuck, fuck! Son of a bitch, that fucking hurts!" Rex shouted as he ran to get out of the fog.

Fox was cursing furiously and running to get out of the fog just like her brother.

Roxanne screamed in rage before dropping her rifle, pulling her net launcher off her back, and firing it at Skulker.

Skulker immediately started trying to cut and tear his way through the net only for Roxanne to press a button on the side of the launcher, causing the net to electrify. Skulker snarled in anger as his servos locked up and he struggled to move.

Taking a step forwards with his main body, Danny flew up into the air and blasted Skulker with as powerful a blast of ecto energy as he could manage in an attempt to knock out Skulker's energy shields. It worked last time so it should work again this time. And work it did. When all was said and done, Skulker was at the bottom of a massive crater and his shield had failed. The net keeping him contained had been destroyed by Danny's attack, unfortunately.

Flying up out of the hole, Skulker shot missiles and blasted Danny with ecto-lasers that melted holes in the exterior of his armor. It took about two shots from the lasers in the same location to get all the way through, but that was enough defense to buy Danny enough time to create a shield of his own to defend himself. He then had his clones start blasting Skulker. The demons who had recovered and gotten away from the holy water fog also started shooting again.

Skulker growled as his suit received quite a bit of damage. He then smiled maliciously before his stomach opened up revealing a glowing cross shape. Said glowing cross then unleashed a massive pulse of pure white light that blew all of the demons backwards and caused them to scream in pain.

"What did you just do?!" Danny demanded furiously.

"I unleashed a high powered pulse of holy energy. I told you I have anti-demonic countermeasures. You aren't the only one who found angelic weapons here in Hell, ghost child. We just utilize them in two very different ways." Skulker said in an almost mocking tone. He then chuckled. "I am the Ghost Zone's greatest hunter, and I know exactly how to take down my prey. Demons included. You made a mistake thinking you would be safer with them helping you, Ghost Child." He then fired even more holy water fog grenades, enveloping the entire area in a thick holy haze that caused Danny's crew physical agony.

Danny looked down in horror as he saw the haze below and heard his squad crying out in pain. He quickly had his clones grab the demons and fly them away.

Once they were far enough away from the fight and Danny set them all back down on the ground, Hector demanded, "What the fuck are you doing, Phantom? Bring us back to the fight!"

One of Danny's clones shook his head and said, "Sorry, guys… I honestly didn't expect Skulker to have weapons like this. And not knowing what else he has up his sleeve it's too dangerous to let you stay and fight. I'm not going to let you get hurt or killed on my account. I'll have to try to deal with him on my own."

"No way! It's our job to help you fight! I'm not going to let a kid like you just fight that psycho on your own!" John shouted up at Danny's clones.

"Yeah, what the fuck?! Who are we gonna follow if you get yourself killed?!" Kate demanded.

"Sorry, but you can't stop me. And if I die… Well… After what future me did, I'll probably just end up back here anyway…" One of Danny's clones said in a grim tone before all of them turned and flew back towards the battle.

Meanwhile, Danny had closed the distance to Skulker and was trying to engage him from close quarters with his exterminator sword. It was going better than last time since he had an actual weapon to use and his armor was protecting him to some degree, but it still wasn't going well by any means. Skulker was still bigger, stronger, much more skilled, and slightly faster than him. Suddenly Skulker's chest opened up revealing a device akin to a tesla coil before Danny was blasted with enough electricity to cause his armor to start heating up and knock him out of the air.

Danny's clones tried to swarm Skulker but he managed to blast them all to pieces with salvos of rockets and lasers. Meanwhile Danny was pushing himself back up off the ground.

"Now this is more like it, ghost child! There is nowhere you can run or hide that I can't find you, and there is no one coming to save you this time! Your only choice is to stand and fight me!" Skulker stated in a triumphant tone.

"I know. And I'll admit that I'm scared. But I'm done running! You want to hunt me down and claim my pelt as a trophy?! Fine! I'll show you just how dangerous I can be when I'm backed into a corner!" Danny said, gripping his sword and floating back up into the air. He honestly had no idea if he could actually win this on his own. But Skulker was right. Danny had no choice but to stand and fight. He just had to pray he could deal enough damage to Skulker that he would be forced to run and make repairs, thus buying enough time for Vlad to finish what he was doing in the Ghost Zone and come back.

They fought for several minutes with both sides accumulating more and more damage until Skulker forced melee combat again. Dany struggled to defend himself, using his exorcist sword to block Skulker's attacks. Eventually, however, Skulker managed to slip past Danny's guard and cleaved his left arm off at the elbow. Danny screamed in agony, clutching the stump of his arm close to his body.

Skulker caught the arm as it fell and chuckled malevolently. "My first trophy from you, ghost child! I'll be sure to mount it on my wall." He then pulled out a small cube shaped device and placed the arm in the air above it where it was held up by a glowing green energy field before being absorbed into the cube. Putting the cube away, he proceeded to punch Danny in the face with enough force he would have gone flying had Skulker not then grabbed him by the leg. His grip then rapidly increased in pressure until he crushed Danny's armor like a tin can, reducing the bones in his shin to powder.

Danny screamed in pain again only for Skulker to yank his still broken leg and throw him to the ground, causing his armored body to dig a decently sized trench in it. Skulker then blasted him with missiles, blasting quite a bit of the armor off of him in the process and leaving a crater in the ground.

Danny was barely conscious but he saw Skulker land nearby, so he struggled to force himself to his feet.

"There we go. You still have some fight left in you, boy." Skulker stated with a viscous smile as he walked towards Danny with his wrist blades extended.

"Stay… back… Stay back! GET AWAY FROM ME!" Danny screamed before instinctually unleashing a ghostly wail.

Skulker tried to widen his stance in an attempt to resist the force of Danny's ghostly wail but the ecto enhanced sonic wave started damaging the internal components of his armor. Eventually he could no longer withstand the force and was blown backwards.

Danny's ghostly wail continued for several more seconds before he eventually passed out and fell to the ground, turning back into his human form.

Pushing himself up off the ground, Skulker saw Danny laying on the ground unconscious and in his human form. He frowned at that. "Really? Is that it? Is that all you have? What a pity." He marched towards Danny only to be blasted off his feet from the side.

"Die you glorified bucket of bolts!" John shouted as he fired blast after blast from his anti-ghost bazooka.

"Get away from our boss!" Fox shouted as she fired her minigun at Skulker.

Several other members of Danny's gang shouted similar things as they all started firing upon Skulker.

Skulker got up again and laughed. "Oh look, my prey came back! Hahaha!" His hands then swung open at the wrists revealing two very large gun barrels. He then began firing almost blindingly bright beams of pure white light back at the demons. John's body was enveloped by pure white flames as one of the beams of light hit him and he could feel his flesh burning away. Meanwhile the same thing was happening to Roxanne. John gritted his teeth and tried his best to resist the urge to scream as he fired another shot with his bazooka that caused Skulker to stagger backwards, getting his aim off of them. With the beams of light no longer on them, the flames dissipated.

Skulker's stomach opened up once again, revealing the glowing cruciform shape in his circuitry before unleashing yet another pulse of pure white light that threw all of them backwards. "It is unfortunate I have run out of my holy water fog grenades as those were the weakest of my anti-demon weapons. Now it'll be too easy." Skulker stated.

John dropped his bazooka "Hey, Rex. Pass me your knife." John requested, holding his hand out to the hellhound.

"What? You want to fight this guy up close?" Rex asked, caught off guard by this.

"Just pass me the damn knife!" John demanded.

Rex unsheathed his knife and handed it to John. "Don't do anything stupid." Rex warned him.

"Kinda got no choice here, buddy. Hey you! You giant metal fuck! You want a fight? Well come on then! You and me, one on one! Right here and now! No guns, no help from my buddies here, just our knives!" John shouted at Skulker, activating Rex's combat knife causing a glowing purple edge to appear around it.

"No, you do have a choice. It's just that you're actively deciding to make a stupid ass choice." Roxanne stated.

"Yeah, this guy is a twelve foot tall pile of servos and hydraulics. What the fuck do you think that knife is gonna do? Tickle him?" Hector inquired.

"You're fucking crazy, John." Kate told him.

"Nah. I got this. Just trust me." John said before looking back up at Skulker and shouting, "So what do you say, you rusty pile of scrap?!"

Skulker extended his wrist blades. "You are challenging me, Skulker, the Ghost Zone's greatest hunter to a duel?" Skulker asked, sounding almost incredulous.

"Yeah, I am! That is, unless you're too much of a pussy to fight me like a man!" John shouted.

"Then I accept your challenge. Let's put your bravado to the test, shall we?" Skulker said before charging towards John with his wrist blades at the ready.

John charged at him as well, with Rex's combat knife at the ready.

John was completely outclassed in close quarters. Skulker was simply too big, too fast, and too strong for him. He had even ended up losing one of his boots during the relatively short melee and very nearly lost his other boot as well.

"Pathetic. The ghost child lasted longer in close quarters than this." Skulker said as he held John in the air by his throat before stabbing him through the gut and dragging his wrist blades up across his stomach, cutting two deep trenches through his flesh.

"Gah…! M-maybe… But I have… something… he didn't." John struggled to say through the pain and the fact his windpipe was being crushed.

"And what's that?" Skulker asked mockingly.

John then held up what looked like a boot-lace with a bunch of grenade pins tied to it. Skulker stared at the string in confusion before realization suddenly dawned on him. "Grenades…" John said with a pained smirk on his face underneath his gasmask before both he and Skulker vanished in a massive flash of green light.

Moments later the green energy dissipated and the remaining demons saw Skulker missing an arm, with his body in tatters. John was now little more than a skeleton laying on the ground. Skulker's ectoplasmic mohawk and goatee were now red instead of green and what remained of his armor looked pitch black instead of white. "You… CHEATED!" Skulker roared, raising his foot to crush John's skull under his boot.

Rex immediately grabbed John's bazooka off the ground and blasted Skulker with it, sending him crashing to the ground and causing even more damage to him. All of the rest of the demons used this as an opportunity to start blasting him to pieces as well. Skulker suddenly floated up into the air "CHEATERS! ALL OF YOU!" He roared, as the cruciform in his now ripped open stomach started glowing brightly. This time it wasn't a mere pulse of light but a continuous area of effect that forced all of them to the ground with enough force they could all feel their bones starting to crack.

"FUCK! I THINK… AGH! I THINK WE PISSED HIM OFF!" Hector shouted.

"NO SHIT, SHERLOCK! WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO?!" Kate demanded

"THE ONLY THING YOU CAN DO IS SUFFER AND DIE LIKE THE WORMS YOU ARE!" Skulker roared angrily.

Suddenly a green sword blazing with ghostly green fire pierced through Skulker's back and out his stomach, destroying the cruciform in the process causing the light to vanish in an instant. Skulker was then sent hurtling to the ground. Floating just behind where Skulker had previously been in the sky was what looked like a knight in black and gray armor with purple ectoplasmic fire blazing behind him. In his hand was the same sword that had just stabbed Skulker.

Said knight then flew down and used his sword to cleave Skulker's head off. Leaning down, the knight reached into what was previously Skulker's neck and pulled out a tiny red creature. Holding the creature up to his face the knight growled, "You have injured the crown prince."

"F-Fright Knight… W-what are you doing here?!" The tiny creature asked timidly.

"The new King sent me to save the prince and punish you for your crimes against the throne." Fright Knight stated with pure malice absolutely dripping from every syllable he spoke.

"N-new king…?" The tiny creature squeaked in terror, turning from red back to green.

"Vlad Plasmius. He has used his ownership of the Ring of Rage and Crown of Fire to claim the throne of the Ghost Zone. You not only assaulted and maimed the crown prince with the intent of claiming his pelt but just a few days ago, you attacked the king himself with the intent to do the same. Skulker, for your crimes against the throne, I sentence you to ten thousand years of living out your greatest fears." Fright Knight explained before raising his sword.

"W-wait, no! Please NO!" Skulker begged before Fright Knight stabbed him with his sword and he vanished.

Fright Knight then looked over at Danny and saw a couple demons already around his body. "Halt! What do you think you are doing to the prince?!" Fright Knight demanded, pointing his sword at them.

"He's missing an arm and is bleeding out. We know he's part human, so he's going to die if we don't stop the bleeding now. I'm going to cauterize the wound." Roxanne stated, conjuring a ball of fire to her hand.

Fright Knight stared at them for a moment before looking at Danny's missing arm and the slowly growing puddle of blood on the ground around him. He then lowered his sword. "Very well. You may proceed."

Not even a second later, the smell of burning flesh filled the air.

I'm not confident in this chapter. I feel like I introduced Fright Knight and Vlad claiming the throne in the Ghost Zone too early and that the way Skulker was defeated was a bit cheap even with Danny having lost an arm in the process. The problem is, I think I wrote myself into a corner. There was no way Danny could beat this version of Skulker on his own, and the grenades' doing so much to him was a bit of a stretch. I don't like rewriting stuff, especially after the majority of my readers have already read it. But in this case, if you guys really think I should rewrite it, please let me know.

Also, do you think Skulker should have found an artifact or made a deal with someone to get so strong or should it just be that he drastically upgraded his armor?