Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, the characters, or the series that solely belong to Butch Hartman, Nickelodeon, and Viacom International. I just own my characters that I create unless I say otherwise.


The Ballard of Captain Youngblood

Time passed by quickly. Tucker fully recovered from his injury with some rehabilitation and was out of the hospital. However, the African boy was no longer afraid of medical places, thanks to Mariko's mother, Dr. Harumi Watanabe doing what she could to make him feel comfortable.

Right now, it was night time as the teen quartet were on the roof top of Fenton Works as they were looking at the stars with telescopes.

"Clear skies and no moon." Danny said after a comfortable sigh. "A perfect night for star gazing."

However, there was a radio with them as it played a certain music that had no lyrics as Sam comments

"More like star snoozing. This music is putting me to sleep." she glances at Tucker. "Can't we listen to something else?"

Tucker turns the dial on the radio to find another station. However, it was in vain as they discovered that they all played the same music.

"Survery says, no." Tucker replied with annoyance.

"Here. I'll help remedy this." Mariko said as she connected a portable speaker system to her smartphone.

"Thanks Mariko." Sam said in gratitude.

Before the Japanese girl could select a song, an earthquake began as the teens were alerted. Suddenly, Danny's ghost sense went off. Then, from below the ground, a pirate ship emerged as they saw its shadow looming over them ominously. As it turned right, ghostly skeleton pirates were seen as fired grappling hooks from the cannons to a post on the ops center. Once they made it to the rooftop, ready to attack...

"Survey says, GOING GHOST!"

Danny transforms and confronts the pirates while Mariko pulls out her tessen fans from her boots, ready to fight. However, before either of them could make a move, they see the hook slam onto the ship which caught everyone's attention. Then, from the shadows, the captain turns out to be a child in a pirate costume with a peg leg, a hook, and a pirate captain hat. The child had green hair, buck teeth and glowing green eyes.

"Avast ye...oh man, what's the word?" he asks a skeleton parrot that accompanied him.

"Scurvy dogs" the parrot replied before squawking

"Right! Avast ye scurvy dogs! Prepare to be burdened by Captain Youngblood and his skeleton crew!" the kid named Youngblood shouts.

Danny flies up to Youngblood, completely unamused.

"Isn't it past your bedtime kid?"

In response, Youngblood's hook mechanically turns into a slingshot before red energy forms, creating a sort of string. Once Youngblood pulls back the string and creates an energy ball, he fires it at Danny. However, Mariko throws one of her tessen fans as it intercepts the blast, blocking it. The collision of two projectiles explode while the weapon falls to the ground, still intact.

"Don't call me, kid! I'm mature beyond me years!" Youngblood counters

However, Youngblood blows a raspberry which contradicts his claim. While they were distracted, the zombie, skeletal pirates find a device that was labeled "Ghost Shield Generator" before one of them cuts it from a radio tower of the ops center, letting it fall into the hands of its comrade while Youngblood was observing the theft.

"Fall back me hearties!" Youngblood shouts. "We got the..." he pauses. "We got the..." he asks the skeleton parrot. "What's the word?"

"Booty." The parrot replies after a squawk.

Youngblood laughs before he says

"You said "booty"."

While the other pirates laugh, Danny tries to catch the thief that had the console in his hands

"They're stealing my dad's Ghost Shield Generator!"

As Danny flies towards the ship, Youngblood stops him by forming a cannon on his peg leg and fires at Danny, which knocks the ghost boy down. The child returns to his ship before it disappears from view.

"Are you okay?" Mariko asks, helping Danny up.

Danny nods at the Japanese girl in response. However, Sam had a smug smirk as she said

"Nice going matie." she points in a direction. "You just got your butt kicked by Short John Silver."

"Hey! Considering that he took my dad's Ghost Shield, do you think you can a little sympathetic like Mariko or Tucker here?"

They hear laughing as they look at the African boy

"Tucker...?"

"He said "booty"."

Danny narrows his eyes in annoyance.


The next day, Danny's family were in the kitchen while they listened to very same music that played since last night, much to Danny's chagrin when the ghost boy entered.

He tried to turn the radio off, but his parents and sister stopped him

"DANNY!"

The boy pulled back his hand, like he got caught trying to take a cookie from the cookie jar. Danny sighed before he said

"Mom, dad, FYI; when you're fourteen, "easy listening", isn't that easy. Could I please turn this off?"

"NO!" his family shouts.

This surprised Danny as he asked

"You can't possibly like this music that much?"

"I do, dear." Maddie replies as she sat down. "It relaxes me."

"Me too." Jazz adds while resting her head on the table.

"It's more soothing than that other song I've been hearing all morning." Jack comments.

Meanwhile, an alarm was blaring in the house that only Danny noticed

WARNING! SECURITY BREACH! GHOST SHIELD NOT OPERATIONAL!

"Yeah, that would be the warning signal." Danny replies.

"And it's interfering with the cool, easy sounds of morning radio." Jack says before he glanced at Jazz. "So, crank up the tunes Jazzy-pants!"

Jazz increased the volume to maximum, much to Danny's irritation before he walks out of the kitchen.


At Casper High, things were nothing out of the ordinary as the teen quartet were walking down the halls

"I don't get it." Danny says with a shrug. "The ghost shield is gone and it barely registers a blip in the parental radar."

"My parents have been acting kind of flakey too." Sam comments. "All they do is listen to that new age vapor drone that's been playing on every station."

"Tell me about it." Tucker adds. "My folks crank it 24/7. Must be a generational thing."

"Even my parents were listening to it since this morning." Mariko explains.

"And the worst part is..." they said in unison before covering their ears. "I can't get it out of my head!"

The teens glance at one another before they hear a familiar music in the halls as they ask in unison

"Wait! You hear it too?"

They see the sound was coming from the gymnasium. There were signs that said "DJ Auditions Today" at the entrance. Upon entering, Mr. Lancer was inside the announcer booth with Dash and Kwan accompanying him.

"Since we announced our new school radio station" Mr. Lancer said through the microphone. "An anonymous donor was kind enough to provide us with these promotional and incredibly soothing vinyl albums."

"Vinyl?! What is this, the stone age?!" Tucker said.

However, they hear a voice shouting

"AHOY!"

Then, Youngblood and his crew suddenly appeared in the gymnasium. The sight of the ghosts was more than enough to cause panic among the students. Even Mr. Lancer fled the booth in terror.

However, one teen in particular took cover to transform. Once fully transformed, Danny confronts the ghosts.

"Avast ye bilge rats!" Youngblood shouts before he glanced at the parrot and asks. "Bilge rats is right, isn't it?"

The parrot nods in response before the pirate child shouts

"Our plunder lies afore!"

They phase into the weight room and began to forcefully remove treadmills and exercise bikes. However, Danny cuts off their escape.

"Hate to break it to you guys, but you can't build muscle tone, without muscle!"

Danny defends himself from the zombie ghost pirates, including ripping the arms off of one of them before using them as blunt weapons to smack them in the back of the head. After the pirates were knocked down, Danny confronts Youngblood as he said

"Another play date with captain kid!"

Taking it as an insult, Youngblood launches several hooks at Danny which pins him to a wall. As the ghost teen struggled to free himself, Youngblood shouts to his minions

"Grab the stuff and let's go!"

Using intangibility, the pirates phase the equipment out of the weight room. After Danny finally frees himself, he tries to pursue the thieves.

Only to find them gone, once again.

"Oh great! Hide and seek again!" Danny moans.


Throughout the city of Amity Park, the music was playing through radios everywhere. The teens were heading to Fenton Works at the end of the school day.

"So what do ghost pirates want with exercise equipment?" Tucker asks.

"I can't help think it has something to do with this lousy music." Danny comments.

While they were walking, ice cream trucks passed by with several crowds of people following them in hot pursuit.

"This is too bizarre." Mariko says with worry.

"We have to counteract it somehow." Sam says. "Send some real music out into the airwaves."

Suddenly, the goth girl gets an idea as she gasped

"We should start our own radio station!"

"And where will we get the equipment to do that?" Danny asks.

Sam simply points to the rooftop of Fenton Works, specifically at the ops center. Danny chuckled as if she was joking before he holds up his hands and replies

"No way!"

Sam just rose an eyebrow with a smirk.

They make their way inside Danny's house.

As the the teens enter the kitchen, Danny shouts

"Mom! Dad! I really want to use the emergency ops center to start a radio station!"

However, there was no response. Danny sees the kitchen empty, save for a brochure on the table with a note attached to it.

"That's a yes!" Sam shouts, raising her hand up.

Danny reads the note that was on the brochure

"Your mother, sister, and I are on a weekend, getaway, fun cruise. We're sure you will take charge and act responsibly. Love, mom and dad."

Removing the note, Danny reads the title of the brochure which said "M. Bersback Cruise Lines". It causes him to be confused.

"Weird. They went on a fun cruise with Jazz; who isn't fun in the least?! You know what this means!"

Sam just grins while Mariko had a feeling in her gut that something wasn't right.

"I'll be right back." Mariko said before running off.


The Japanese girl runs into her house as she calls out

"Okāsan! Otosan!"

(Translation: Mother! Father!)

Mariko finds her house empty as well. Being a kunoichi, the Japanese girl looked around to see if there was even a small detail that was out of the ordinary. So far, she hasn't found any sign of an attack or break in. However, on the table in the kitchen, there was the same brochure with a note written in Japanese that was similar to the one attached to the brochure at Danny's house. Upon reading it, Mariko had a worried look as she thought.

"Something's wrong! They never go on a cruise by themselves, except for their wedding anniversaries."


Back at Fenton Works, Sam kicks the door open as Danny and Tucker cringed, waiting for something bad to happen. However, nothing occurred as Sam shouts with glee

"Cool! They left it open for us!"

Inside the ops was like a command center. In one area, there was the DJ equipment needed to start the said radio station. However, Danny was suspicious.

"The music, the pirate ghosts, my parents, and now this cruise ship?" he says looking at the brochure. "Something weird is going on and we need to get to the bottom of it."

"So your family is taking a cruise." Tucker says. "What's the worst that could happen?"

Unfortunately for Tucker, almost every adult in Amity Park were packing up for the cruise as the parents each had the brochure. Even Tucker's and Sam's parents were leaving as well.


The next day at Casper High, nearly every teens parents left them as they each possessed the same brochures.

"Your parents ditched you too?" Tucker asks Sam.

"Yup. My parents are gone." Sam replies in a relieved tone. "And just because I like saying it, I'll say it again, MY PARENTS ARE GONE!"

However, Danny wasn't the least bit amused, nor was Mariko as the ghost boy

"It's like this cruise is attracting every adult in town." he ponders while adding, "And my sister who thinks she's an adult."

"My parents' wedding anniversary isn't until two months from now." Mariko points out. "Taking a cruise this early is far too odd."

"Think of it as the hand of fate pushing...the party on the air." Sam assures.

"Party?" Mariko asks in confusion

"What party?" Danny asks, equally confused.

In response, Sam pulls out a piece of paper that has a hand drawn logo. It read "Danny Fenton's Providing Alternative Radio To You" as Sam read it out loud to her friends.

"P-A-R-T-Y!" Sam chants

"We ain't got no alibi!" Tucker chants.

"You've designed our own logo?" Danny asks.

"And I got our first sponsor!" Tucker adds while holding up a bag from The Nasty Burger. "Plus all of the nasty burgers I can eat!"

"Clever, but I don't think that you should announce in the way you just did." Mariko says with a concerned tone.

"Why do you say that?" Tucker asks.

Mariko points at the logo in Sam's hand as Danny noticed it as well and understood what she meant.

"I'm starting to get what you mean." He says

"What's wrong with the logo?" Sam asks, offended while putting a hand on her hip.

"Nothing." Mariko replies. "It's just that the way you've created it, those who have...below average I.Q. will misinterpret it...badly."

Sam looks at her design as she understands what Mariko meant.

"You know what, good point." Sam says. "But you really think it's pretty clever?"

"Mm-hm." Mariko says with a nod.

"This is serious guys!" Danny says as he regains focus. "There's something suspicious about this cruise."

"Sorry." the other three said in unison.

"I can't focus on the P.A.R.T.Y. with my parents out of town." Danny says.

As they walked away, the two individuals with "below average I.Q." overheard it.

"Did you hear that?!" Kwan said with excitement "Party at Fenton's!"

"Sweet!" Dash shouts as he gives Kwan a high five.

"Crash and trash!" the jocks say to each other in unison.


It was night time when Danny was in phantom form as he hovered towards the harbor where the docks were located. He sees the cruise ship and a long line of adults getting onboard. He noticed that his family was there, along with Sam's and Tucker's families. Danny also noticed that Kenji and his wife Harumi were there as well.

"Still in port! Good thing I'm not too late!"

Danny tries to get in closer, but he's blocked by an energy barrier as he soothed the pain on his head.

"Why can't I get aboard? It's like this ship has a..."

Realization hits Danny like a bolt of lightning

"Ghost...shield!"

Then, he hears a familiar child voice shout

"Ye catch on quick for a land lover!"

Danny turns around to see Youngblood and his zombie ghost pirates

"It's land lubber." the parrot corrects

"Really? It's lubber? That makes no sense!" Youngblood complains.

The pirates charge at Danny but the ghost hero easily dodges them before he reaches Youngblood and grabs him by the coat.

"All right pee-wee! Start talking or I'll...spank you!" Danny demands

"I lub to see you try!" Youngblood snarked with a pun.

He fires a red optic blast at Danny, forcing the teen to release him. However, they both notice that the cruise ship was fading out into the same pirate ship that appeared days ago. Youngblood was worried at the sight as the shield went down and the cloak was no longer active

"Argh! There's another radio station jamming our transmission! Weigh anchor and set sail!"

The pirates behind Danny salute Youngblood before they return to the ship and carry out their command.

"How do you get them to listen to you?" Danny asks

"You just have to know the right words." Youngblood replies.

However, Danny sees cannons loaded and aiming at him.

"FIRE!"

The pirates fire the cannons at Danny. He dodges two of them but the third hits him, knocking him into a stack of barrels. Danny shook off his shock to see the ship gone once more.

"Well, one thing's for sure; it's going to be awfully quiet at my house tonight."

However, Danny's cell phone started going off. Checking his call ID, he sees that Mariko was calling as he answers

"Hello?"

"Danny-kun, are you home?!" Mariko asks through the other line off frantic

"No. Why?" Danny asks, completely worried in that tone of hers.

"Get to your house quickly! You are not going to believe this!" she says.


Danny arrives at the Fenton Works as he and Mariko were standing at the entrance. A party was going on in the house; one he knew nothing about. The boy understood why Mariko called him with that warning.

"Not getting invited to a party is one thing, but not getting invited to a party...AT MY OWN HOUSE?!"

"I swear I didn't have anything to do with this." Mariko says as she closed the door.

"I know you didn't. Otherwise you wouldn't try and warn me."

Danny disconnects the stereo, thinking that the music source was there. Only to find that it didn't work as both teens noticed.

"Where's that music coming from?" Danny asks

Mariko looks around before she and Danny gasp in shock, realizing where the source truly is as they look at each other and shout in unison

"THE OPS CENTER!"

Danny and Mariko rush inside to see Sam and Tucker using the DJ equipment with headphones on as the African boy was looking through other music records.

"You're listening to the P.A.R.T.Y.! Fiercely independent radio!" Sam announces through the microphone for the radio station that they set up. "One hundred percent free of corporate influence."

"Except for this!" Tucker says with a burger in his hand. "Brought to you by The Nasty Burger! Remember, nasty is only one letter away from tasty."

"Wait!" Danny intervenes. "You guys have to stop the broadcast! The party downstairs is getting out of control!"

"There's a party downstairs?!" Sam and Tucker ask with excitement.

"You mean, you don't know?!" Mariko asks.

"Uh no! We've been kind of busy with the premiere broadcasting!" Sam explains.

"Is there a way to review video footage?" Mariko asks Danny.

"Over there." Danny replied while pointing to a console. "Why?"

"I got a hunch on who did this." Mariko says as she took a seat to review the surveillance footage.

It didn't take long for the Japanese girl to discover that it was Dash who picked the locks of the door while the A-Listers and the other teens watched. She saved the footage on disc as proof while Sam pulled out a Vapor Drone record; something that did not go unnoticed by Danny.

"You took a Vapor Drone promo disc?"

As Sam placed the disc on the player, she says

"They make great scratch fodder!"

When Sam scratched the disc, the teens hear a message of some sort as Danny commands his friend

"Wait a minute! Play that backwards again, but slowly."

Sam obeys as she did it slowly this time. They clearly hear the message that said

"Leave your kids. Come to the cruise. Leave your kids. Come to the cruise."

It worries them all as Sam took off her headphones.

"Subliminal advertising?!"

"More like...mind control." Danny comments in suspicion.

"Mind-controlling music? Why does that sound familiar?" Tucker asks.

Suddenly, another earthquake occurred as the pirate ship returns. This time, the pirate crew had another member who was a woman with a guitar, had skull boots, robin's egg color hair with the ponytail on fire, and neon green eyes as she strummed the chords of her instrument.

"THAT'S RIGHT POP FANS! EMBER'S BACK AND READY TO ROCK!"

Ember strikes a chord which releases a sonic attack as it blasts the ops centers and the entire Fenton Works building. Sam checks the brochure before she realized that it was practically a warning slapping them in their faces.

"Ember's back!"

"Who's Ember?" Mariko asks.

"One of Danny's enemies." Tucker explains. "In fact, she was the one who..."

Sam interrupts Tucker by throwing a record disc at the African boy's head

"Ow!"

Ignoring the commotion between his friends, Danny transforms before flying out to confront his enemies. However, Ember activates the ghost shield as she says

"Wasting your time wannabe!"

It blocks Danny from getting onboard the ship. Soon, Youngblood taunts Danny

"Nana nana na!" he notices the parrot next to him. "I mean, ARGH!"

Danny blasts the shield to try and destroy it, but his energy blasts had no effect on it.

"What. Is the music career going so poorly that you have to pick up babysitting jobs on the side?!"

"I guess you can say that me and him share the same opinion of adults." Ember said.

"Hate them!" she and Youngblood say in unison.

"So Youngblood helps me haul away the over-thirties so I can, you know, take over the world!" Ember said as she strums her guitar. "And I provide him with the power source for his fleet of ships."

Below the deck, the adults were listening to the music, completely hypnotized, as they were exercising mindlessly as overseers watched them.

"The problem is, your radio station jamming my frequency and I can't hypnotize anymore adults!"

"But not for long!" Youngblood adds before turning to his crew. "ATTACK!"

The pirates fire their cannons at Danny, knocking him into the ops command center before he transforms back to his human form

"Activate the defense system!"

"How?!" Sam, Tucker, and Mariko ask

"I don't know! Just start pressing buttons!"

The teens press so many buttons, but none of them activate any defense systems as the pirates blast a sign that said "Go Fenton". The shockwave of the impact causes an overhead lamp in the living room to fall, narrowly missing the partygoers. The ship slams into the ops center. When Sam placed her hand on the disc, she accidentally releases a sonic blast from the satellite dish of the ops center, causing the ship to be struck and forced back as the pirates were knocked off-balance.

"Whoa! Sam! What'd you do?!" Danny asks in shock.

"Struck a blow for independent radio." Sam replies proudly.

"Interesting. Using music as a weapon of our own against them." Mariko comments, completely intrigued.

"Well don't just stand there, throw in the heavy rotation!" Tucker shouts. "And work in a plug for Nasty Burger." he adds holding a bag from said restaurant. "I promised them twelve hits an hour."

Sam scratches the disc as she unleashed another sonic blast, forcing Youngblood's ship back further and causing damage in a process

"We need more power!" Ember shouts. "I can't lure more adults aboard if I can't broadcast my music!"

"Then we'll have to bring them the old-fashioned way, like pirates." Youngblood's parrot said.

As the parrot steers the ship, the ghost shield lowers, allowing the ghost pirates to kidnap the remaining parents and other adults from their homes. The partygoers see the commotion when they heard the screaming.

"Hey! They got my parents!" Paulina says.

"Mine too!" Dash shouts.

"Cool! Party Dash's house!" Kwan shouts.

"Like, what is wrong with you?!" Paulina grimaced while pushing Kwan.

Soon, the teens started getting into a heated argument as Danny and the others watched in horror.

"I've got to get our parents back!"

"How? You can't get past the ghost shield on that pirate ship." Sam says.

"Maybe Danny Phantom can't, but Danny Fenton can." Danny said with a certain smile.

Realizing what it meant, Mariko tells Danny

"I'll be back shortly Danny-kun. I need to go get my stuff."

Danny nods before Mariko goes down the fire escape to get to her house quickly as she slipped past the crowd unnoticed. Then, Danny gets their attention as he used a megaphone.

"Listen up people!"

The teens look up the roof to see Danny, Sam and Tucker as the ghostly hero said

"If you want your parents back, you're going to have to follow my lead!"

"Why should we follow you, Fen-toad?!" Dash asks

"You're right Dash, let's follow the other kid who comes from a family of ghost hunters and knows how to work all of their gear!" Danny counters.

Dash just glanced away, not wanting to admit that Danny has a point.

"No takers?! All right then, who's with me?!" Danny asks as he raised his fist into the air.

The other teens cheered as Sam noticed with impression.

"Wow. How did you do that?" she asks

"You just have to know the right words." Danny replies.


Inside Fenton Works, Danny had the teens gathered near the stairs. Before he could give instructions, the boy noticed that Mariko returned, clad in her black ninja garb and armed to the teeth with her weapons. The other teens, more specifically Dash, noticed as he approached the Japanese girl from her right side.

"Hey. Looking good there babe."

In response, Mariko had an annoyed look before she punches Dash in the chest without having to look as the jock stepped back while he yelped

"Ow!"

As Dash rubbed his chest to soothe the pain, Mariko gets to the top of the stairs with a jump before she stood next to Danny.

"Okay. Paulina! You're good with make-up. I need you to disguise Tucker as an adult so he can get aboard the pirate ship and disable it from within." Danny commands.

"Aye aye captain!" Paulina replies with a salute. "But you still have no shot at me."

"Maintain focus, will you?!" Mariko snaps.

Paulina glares at Mariko before she takes Tucker to carry out her task.

Using the walkie talkie, Danny communicates with Sam in the ops center.

"Sam. You keep scratching! It's our only weapon against that ghost ship."

Sam does so in the ops center to keep the pirate ship at bay while Danny starts handing out some Fenton gear to the other teens.

"Kwan! You're on defense! Protect Sam and keep her on the air!"

Kwan activates a Fenton fisher with a smile while Danny approaches Dash

"Dash! You're with me and Mariko on offense!" he hands a Fenton fisher to the blonde jock. "We're going to spring the adults from the pirate ship!"

"So I get to hit people!?" Dash asks with a certain grin.

"Oh yeah!"

Right when Dash was about to grab Danny, he hears the sound of knuckles cracking as his eyes widened in an "uh oh" manner. Looking back, he sees a glaring Mariko with her fist in her hand, as if she was subtly warning him.

"Sorry. Just old habits." Dash quickly said.

Soon, all of the teens were armed and clad in orange jumpsuits, save for Mariko who was lifting her mask and hooded cowl to put them on. Paulina noticed with jealousy as she asks

"How come Mariko gets to wear her own outfit?"

"Paulina. Just stop." Star said.

Ignoring the commotion, Danny barks

"All right people! Let's move!"


Outside, Tucker, disguised as an elder adult approaches Fenton Works as he pretends to be an adult to lure the ghost pirates.

"Hey, you kids! Turn that music down! I'm a strong, able-bodied adult, you know!"

The pirates heard and took the bait as they capture Tucker and take him to the ship. Mariko and Danny see that the first phase to raid the ship worked.

"The fish has swallowed the bait." Danny says

"It's time then." Mariko comments.

As Danny and Mariko entered the ops center, Sam asks

"How do we get our offense to the ship?"

"I just have to think like a Fenton." Danny replies. "Now if I were my dad, where would I put the secret control for the ops center?"

Suddenly Danny smiled as he opened the fridge.

"Yep! Next to the ham."

He pressed the button labelled, "Emergency Ops-Center release button" as an alarm went off.

"Emergency Defense System Activated! Also, the ham is spoiled!"

Suddenly the ops center transforms and converts into a dirigible airship with the balloon that had Jack Fenton's face on it as it lifts into the air.

"Wow! Now your dad is the second biggest blimp in the family." Sam comments.

Inside the pirate ship, the pirates bring Tucker below deck as they force him to exercise while Ember watched as she strummed her guitar chords. She noticed as she says

"Ooh! Fresh fuel! Strap the geezer in while I keep this crew motivated!"

As they did, Tucker sees his parents as he tried to reach out to them, but no avail. He soon focuses on the task that was given to him as he ponders

"Now if I was a ghost shield, where would I be?"

He sees the device. Suddenly, Youngblood's voice can be heard from above.

"SHIP AHOY! ALL HANDS ON DECK!"

Ember arrives on deck to see the dirigible approaching the pirate ship as the pirates ran for cover.

Inside, Danny was piloting the airship with a determined look in his eyes.

"Steady as she goes. And fire!"

Sam scratches the disc which released a sonic blast, striking the pirate ship. The pirate fire their cannons to counterattack, but Danny pressed a button to raise special shield plating to deflect the projectiles. Soon, the airship rams into the pirate ship, causing one of the sails to fall from the impact. Youngblood cuts a hole in the fabric to escape.

"Hey! Quit it!" the child shouts.

The pirates were unaware that Tucker sets the countdown to shut down the ghost shield as Danny, Mariko, and the other teens were getting ready to board Youngblood's ship.

"On my signal..."

Mariko pulls a kunai dagger as the ship gets in range.

"NOW!"

The teens throw the cables of their weapons which attach to several posts of the pirate ship. They land on the deck while the Japanese girl's kunai is retrieved as the energy cable retracts it before she holsters it and draws her katana. All the while, Paulina looks at her with jealousy and asks herself

"Why does she have better gear than us?!"

Danny was about to transform, but refrains from doing so due to the ghost shield being active. He decides to fight the pirates as a human while the teens were in a brawl with the rest of them. In one area, Star was holding a bo staff as pirates rush towards her to attack.

"Ready?! Okay!" Star uses the staff to strike the pirates. "We hate pirates, yes we do!" she strikes more of them flawlessly. "We hate pirates, how about you?!"

However, Star missed one as it tried to sneak up on her to attack, but Mariko noticed it as she knocked down her opponent. The Japanese girl holsters her sword and draws her kunai in one fluid motion as she yells

"STAR! GET DOWN!"

Star does a perfect split to duck, giving Mariko the perfect opportunity to throw her weapon. It pierced the skeletal pirate in the chest as the energy cable was attached to it. The Japanese girl jumps over the pirate, slides underneath it as the cable wrapped around it. With a jump and tight pull when she was in front of it once more, Mariko sends the pirate flying and spinning like a shuriken, knocking down the other pirates as they disappeared like the other ones did.

"You've so got to teach me that move!" Star says as she was helped up by Mariko

"I'll think on it." Mariko replies.

She goes to another area of the ship to help Danny fight more pirates. The Japanese girl drew her katana after holstering her kunai to clash swords with the pirates as she was now back to back with Danny.

"Is this your idea of a date, Danny-kun?" Mariko playfully asks.

"You prefer dinner and a movie?" Danny asks with a flirty smile.

"Mm-mm. This is much more fun!" Mariko playfully replies

When Danny charged at the pirates, Paulina sees him as she held a skateboard before tossing it.

"Danny!" Paulina calls

Danny gets on the skateboard as he knocks his opponents down, causing them to disappear in a puff of smoke. In another area, Mariko kicks a pirate in the head before she is suddenly surrounded by seven more. Drawing her blaster and then spin cocking it, Mariko snarks

"Great! Now I'll never remember all your names!"

One by one, the Japanese girl shot each pirate with her blaster while dodging their attacks. However, once the energy was depleted and needed to recharge, she holsters her weapon and draws her tessen war fans to fend off the others.

Suddenly, Ember strikes a chord on her guitar, launching a blast at Danny which knocked him into the other teens.

"The only one rocking this boat, is me!"

She strikes another cord causing an energy field to surround the teens. Mariko tries to free them by drawing her katana and strikes the energy field, but it did no damage. Then, Youngblood grabs Danny with his hook.

"Time to walk the plank, shark bait!"

Once Youngblood forced Danny to fall off the plank, the ghost shield finally shuts down. However, it was eerily quiet as Ember asks

"So, where's the splat?"

Then, she and Youngblood were horror-stricken as Danny Phantom flies up to them before blasting them. Ember drops her guitar as the ghostly hero catches it before she noticed

"Looking for this?" Danny taunts

Ember's eyes began to glow red with rage as the fire of her ponytail ignited into literal flames before launching a flaming assault at Danny. However, he dodged it before flying to the sails as Ember tried to blast him again. Unfortunately, she missed again as the sail started to burn. Youngblood was horror-stricken, seeing his ship catching on fire.

"Okay. Maybe not the best idea. Oh well." Ember glanced at Youngblood. "Bon voyage kid!" she levitates into the air. "Catch you on my comeback tour!"

Ember disappears before Youngblood turns his hook into a sword and cuts the guitar in half. However, Danny was undeterred as he prepared himself.

"Bring it on, snot nose!"

As Youngblood and Danny were fighting, Mariko sheathed her katana before drawing her tessen fans. This time, she was able to disintegrate the energy field with a few slashes. However, Paulina noticed Danny Phantom fighting as she said in a loving tone

"Oh look! It's the ghost boy!

However, the Japanese girl jumps onto the sail post while Youngblood and Danny didn't notice. As Youngblood reconfigured his sword and peg leg into cannons, he felt someone grab him on the head and lift him up.

"Hey! Put me down!"

Danny sees Mariko holding the child pirate by the head as he struggled to get loose. The Japanese girl had an unamused look as she said to Youngblood

"Normally I never do this to a child, but in your case, I'll make an exception."

"What are you..?!"

Youngblood was interrupted as Mariko quickly got one knee, bends Youngblood over her thigh and with her hand, she starts spanking him on his butt rapidly as Danny winced at the sight while the pirate child shouts in pain

"Ow! Ow! OOWW!"

After about five seconds, Mariko positions Youngblood at arm's length away from the post while standing up. Then she drops him as he yelled

"NO FAIR!"

He lands on his back on the deck with a thud as Youngblood groaned in pain.

"I'll admit, that was pretty funny but unnecessary." Danny comments.

As Danny approached Mariko, the Japanese girl accidentally lost her footing as she fell. Instantly, before Mariko could draw her kunai and save herself, Danny swooped down and caught her as he carried her, bridal style.

"I'm no damsel in distress, but I appreciate the save." Mariko said in gratitude with a flirty smile under her mask.

All the while, Paulina gritted her teeth in anger and her fists shook with rage when she saw Danny holding Mariko. After landing and setting Mariko down, Dash asks

"Hey! Where's Fenton?"

"He's safe! I...rescued him at the last second." Danny Phantom replies. "So, ready to get your parents back?!"

They charge below deck as Dash breaks down the door. He sees the exhausted adults groaning.

"Wow! It's like a PTA health club!"

Youngblood was slowly getting up as he rubbed his aching butt before he noticed the adults running for their lives to escape

"Argh! Me prisoners are escaping!"

"So what's powering the ship?" the parrot asks in worry

Suddenly, the pirate begins to fall as everyone screamed. However, Danny Phantom had an idea as he shouts

"Everyone huddle together! NOW!"

Suddenly, Paulina hugs Danny as she said

"With you? It's my dream come true!"

Danny dislodged himself as he said

"Seriously! You need to wrap your mind on someone else!"

Paulina could only glare as she thought

"It's because of that witch, isn't it?!"

Everyone huddled together as Danny's eyes turned neon green completely as he turned himself and everyone intangible while the pirate ship fell into the harbor. Exhausted, Danny's intangibility negates as everyone fell onto the pier. They slowly regained consciousness

"What happened? Where are we?" Jazz asks

"And why do I feel like I suddenly have buns of steel?" Jack asks equally confused as he tries to glance at his rear.

"At last!" Maddie shouts before she clears her throat. "I mean, I love you just the way you are." she says while hugging Jack

"Ew." Jazz comments in disgust.

Meanwhile, Danny took cover behind some barrels to transform back. Then, he emerges from them as he asks

"Is everyone okay?"

Right when Dash was about to punch Danny, Mariko intervenes as she grabbed his arm and twisted it behind him as the jock hissed in pain.

"What do you think you're doing?" she grimaced angrily

"Fenton went AWOL on us, remember?!"

Mariko rolled her eyes with a scoff before she flips Dash onto his back as the jock cried

"Ow!"

"You obviously didn't hear what Phantom-san said recently." Mariko said with her hands on her hips.

Hearing the commotion, Jack says

"Wait a minute! Danny? Did you use the emergency ops center while we were away?"

Suddenly, Sam shouts

"Hi Danny! Thanks for letting us use the ops center to help rescue our parents!"

"Danny?! What's going on?" Maddie demands.

"Maddie-sama."

Maddie sees Mariko approaching her with a disc in her hand as the Japanese girl said while lowering her hood and mask.

"Perhaps, I can help explain what has happened."


"This is all Fenton's fault!"

Apparently, Mariko explained the reason that the ops center was used for the rescue mission. She also showed the video disc of Dash and the other teens breaking into their house and partying in there. To say the least, the Fentons were furious at that, but the Japanese girl informed them that Danny had nothing to do with it. So basically, Dash and all of those who attended the party were grounded for a month and forced by their respective parents to clean up the mess while paying the Fentons compensation for any damage done to their home.

"Mariko dies for this!" Paulina shouts as she too was forced to help clean up while dusting crumbs into a dustpan

"Paulina! Put a lid on it!" Star shouts with an annoyed glare. "We broke into their house, so we're the ones responsible for this mess!"

The guilty partygoers were busy cleaning the house, Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Mariko were busy cleaning the ops center as a "small" punishment for using it.

"So, I'm only grounded for a week." Danny said

"Well, on the bright side, at least we brought back decent radio to this town." Sam said with a smile

Tucker let out a belch before he said

"Man! I've got serious heartburn from eating all of those nasty burgers."

"Will you be okay?" Mariko asks

"Yeah, I'll be fine." Tucker replies

"Still, I can't help wonder why Youngblood didn't abandon ship?" Danny asks in curiosity.

"Didn't I tell you?" Tucker asks before holding up his PDA. "After we escaped, I used my PDA to tap in the backup power of the ghost shield and set it in reverse."

Danny smiles at Tucker's tactic.


In the bottom of the harbor, the pirate ship remained sunk as the ghost shield was back online while the parrot was desperate to try and escape

"Let me out of here!" the parrot begs. "Let me out!"

"Actually, it be more like Ahoy matey! I'm marooned on this island!" Youngblood corrects.

"Oh shut your gob, you twit!" the parrot says with a glare.


A few days have passed as Danny was at the park with Mariko.

"Hi-ya!"

The Japanese girl began to train Danny in ninjutsu. She started him off with the basics of the martial arts that she's trained in. To say the least, the ghost boy was catching on quickly.

"Try keeping your shoulders down when throwing a punch or blocking." Mariko says.

"Um, remind me again why you want me to do this?" Danny asks

Mariko smiled before she replied

"Danny-kun, personally I don't mind splattering Dash-teme all over the wall, but in case I'm not around, I need you to be able to defend yourself."

Then she adds

"Plus, on a bright note, since your opponents have no martial arts training of any kind, you could use it to your advantage."

Danny thought of it for a moment. The boy found it logical that while his enemies had ghost powers of their own, they lacked martial arts training so with Mariko training him, it could help him turn the tide of battle more easily in his favor, especially against his archenemy.

"Okay. Again!" Mariko barks.

Soon, Danny resumed practice on the ninjutsu basics that Mariko started him off with as the Japanese girl watched.


Whew! Took me a while to create this one. I'd say it's one of the hardest chapters I've done. Stay tuned for the two part event when the war between the ghost zone and the earth begins.


A/N: Since Dash was the one responsible for throwing that party at Danny's house, it was pretty unjustified that Danny got punished for it while Dash got off scot free.

A/N #2: Think of Mariko spanking Youngblood the same way Beerus spanked Gotenks in "Dragonball: Battle of the Gods" which was pretty funny in my opinion, and Youngblood was a little brat.

A/N #3: Picture Mariko using Scorpion's Chain Reaction fatality from Mortal Kombat 11, but she sends the pirate flying instead of splitting him in two.


Batrenz: Sorry I took long. Had a lot of thinking for this one.

Guest #1: How's this?

Guest #2: Glad you liked it.

Dreams Come True 996: Well, it would be unfair to go through torture the way Tucker did after forcing yourself to face your fears. Plus, you'll see what I have in mind for those two

NiteOwl18: Glad you liked the chapter with Spectra.


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