The very next day, Skulker had made an appearance, but the PDA had saved the two halfa before he could harm or capture them. Now, our four heroes were walking up the steps of Casper High. However, they stopped mid-way and looked around.
"Any sign of him?" Danny asked.
"Nope," Tucker said and checked his new PDA. "He hasn't bothered you for...thirty-eight minutes. Maybe he's hunting somebody else now."
"I really wish so" Lina commented, leaving a sigh of relief.
"How many of those things do you have?" Sam asked, lifting a dark eyebrow.
"Just two *turns to Danny* Good thing I beamed all your info in here and backed it up. Global thinking, Danny: the sign of a quality time manager" his PDA beeped and read 'GO TO CLASS!'. He then pushed Danny and Lian into the school. "Come on; you're late."
As they all entered the school, Skulker phased up out of the steps. "Soon, Ghost Kids. Soon"
After a few classes, another one came to an end. Leaving Mr Lancer's classroom, our heroes headed for their lockers which happened to be at close proximately to one another. Danny went first, being the one closest while avoiding the other students.
As he opened his locker, a series of glowing chains jumped out of it and wrapped around Danny's torso and arms."
"Danny!" Sam & Tucker shouted in worry as Lina's eyes glowed red and her ghost senses went off.
Skulker materialized out of a blue mist in front of Danny. "I have you now, child."
Charing like a bull, she used her human body to body slam the ghost hunter by the side. It made him take a few steps to the side but barely did any damage. Lina's shoulder and arm ached, but she stood protectively in front of Danny while glaring at him with her red ghost eyes.
"Fine then. You first" Skulker said as his wrist ecto-blaster was pointed at Lina. Danny was about to try and protect her when the PDA beeped. "Go to the newsstand and purchase a magazine with an article about purple-back gorillas?" Skulker's jetpack activated and he flew up, crashing through the school's ceiling.
The chains on Danny dissipated.
Tucker checked his PDA. "Hmm, I have the same thing on mine."
"I think we'll blow that one, off" Danny commented, and Lina gave a nod, rubbing the sore spot.
Following the incident, sometime later on. Our heroes sat on the football bleachers, enjoying their break or at least trying to. Danny was more paranoid while Lina looked tired. She bit her apple with boredom, leaning on one hand that was supported on her wrist.
"Danny, eat something," Sam said, offering some of her food.
"I can't eat now. He could be anywhere" the boy said.
"Well, starving ourselves won't help us with anything," Lina said, looking at the apple that had a single bit.
Tucker, on the other hand, kept eating without a care in the world. "Hey, this food was scheduled to be eaten."
He opened a carton of milk, only for two glowing blue orbs pops out of it and wrap themselves around Danny's and Lina's head. Danny yelled from surprise while Lina started to struggle, trying to pull that thing off her; her apple had already fallen from her hand.
"Danny!/Lina!" they friends shouted from worry.
Skulker stepped on the bleachers with a proud smirk. "Now, kids, once more, I, Skulker, shall- *PDA beeps* "Take photos of a gorilla?"
His jetpack activated and he flew away. The restraints on Danny and Lina disappeared.
"Well, at least he's regular" Tucker commented.
"Yeah, almost like a schedule. What's the next thing you have scheduled for me, Tucker?" Dunny asked.
The nerd looked at his PDA. "Gym. Why?"
Danny looked mischievous while his friends exchanged a look, having no clue of the plan the male halfa had just formed.
In the boys' locker room, Dash was busy admiring his reflection in a mirror. "You are one smooth-lookin' dude" he flexed his arms.
Danny ignored him and turned to face the locker. However, he hesitated and instead turned to his bully. "Hey, Dash? I'm too weak and defenceless to open my locker. Can you open it for me?"
The bully shoved him aside. "Out of the way, loser."
As he opened his locker, an ectoplasmic goo shot out and trapped Dash in a bubble on the wall, his eyes covered.
Skulker landed and inspected him. "Hmm, my sensors indicate you're an average human, destined for an average life after high school" Dash screamed, but the sound was muffled. The ghost, then, turned and looked around the room, spotting Danny and Tucker peeking out from a row of lockers. He prepared to throw a ball of ectoplasm at them when his PDA beeped again, forcing him to look at the screen. "The gorilla display at the museum of natural history?" As per usual, his jetpack got activated, and he ended up phasing through the roof.
"Why's he going there?" Tucker asked.
"When Skulker put your PDA into his technology, he became bound to my schedule. He has to go where I was going to go next" Danny said and checked his friend's PDA. "Which means... *PDA reads: VISIT GORILLA HABITAT* "It's time for the hunter to become the hunted. Come on; I'm gonna go do something a little ahead of schedule."
Back in the zoo, Skulker had set camp and kept staying hidden on top of a tree. Through his binoculars, he kept watching at Sampson with a bored and annoyed expression.
He lowered his binoculars. "Where is he? According to this infernal device- *glances at PDA playing the game Pong*, which I cannot reprogram, the ghost kids were supposed to be here an hour ago" he jumped down in order to talk to the animal. "You were supposed to be the bait, you stupid animal."
'Sampson' turned around to reveal Sam and Tucker holding up a fake Sampson suit.
"Sampson's not stupid!" the goth spat back.
Tucker smirked and held up his PDA and stylus. "He's also not here. Can I take a message?"
"You two! You'll pay for this!" Skulker said as he aimed multiple weapons on his suit at them.
Sam threw off the Sampson suit while tucker was busy on his PDA. "Oh, I don't think so..."
Skulker's PDA rang and beeped, making the ghost look at it. "Time for push-ups. What?!" he tried to resist as his body automatically started doing push-ups. "Stop! Stop! I can't...stop!"
Suddenly, Danny flew out of nowhere. "I can help with that."
Using his momentum, he punched Skulker to the side. Only for Lina, in her ghost form as well, appearing and slamming her lifted knee on his back. The other Halfa quickly attacked again, taking advantage of his state and delivered another punch that sent him into the wall of the habitat.
Then, the duo took turns delivering punches in turns as pieces of metal fly off their opponent's armour. In Danny turn, he aimed another punch, but Skulker dodged it and instead aimed his ecto-blaster on his shoulder at Danny.
"Ah-ah-ah. 10:11, polish armour" Tucker said and sent the command.
Skulker's blaster turned into a buffer, and he started screaming as it polished his face.
"Stop fooling around, Tucker," Sam said.
"Power him down already. Now!" Danny shouted as Lina watched, ready to finish him off.
"Relax," Tucker said and waved the PDA around. "Everything's totally under- *An arrow hit the PDA and pinned it to the tree* -control? Aw, man, I had four more payments on this one."
"Tucker, you're fired," Danny said as Skulker put away his bow.
"Now it's not the time Danny" Lina scolded, seeing Skulker glaring at them.
"Very well. I planned on simply capturing you both and letting you live the rest of your life in a cage. But now, I will make sure at least one of you, rest your pelt at the foot of my bed."
"Okay, that's just gross" Sam commented as Lina shivered.
"Well, Ghost Kids, any last words?"
Lina was about to charge when Danny placed his hand on her shoulder. He then took a step forward. "Just this" he pat head, cover eyes repeatedly and then pounded his chest with fists.
"What are you doing?" the ghost hunter asked, being as confused as the other halfa who looked at her partner as if he had gone crazy.
Danny turned and started to scratch his butt. "Calling a friend."
Sampson suddenly flew in and crashed into Skulker.
"You learned his language?" Sam asked while Lina left out a small whistle, impressed.
"Well, sure. All he does is this" the ghost boy said and continued to scratch his butt.
Sampson continuously hit Skulker and ripped his armour apart, including his arms. Lina, Danny, Sam, and Tucker both cheered him on and winced at the hits. Sampson then throws Skulker, down on the ground.
"But I still don't understand why a ghost needed a high-tech battle suit" Tucker voiced out.
"Good question," Lina said.
As Sampson continued to rip Skulker's armour apart and threw pieces of it over their heads. Skulker's head armour was thrown, and Danny caught it. Two small green legs were kicking out from inside the head.
"Let me go! I am the Skulker! The Skulker! Do you hear me? Fear me!" the ghost said, but his voice was squeaky. Lina pulled on the legs to reveal Skulker's true form: a tiny green blob with a face and limbs.
"How can something so adorably small cause so much trouble?" Lina asked, watching him over.
"I am the greatest hunter in all of the ghost world. You will all fear me."
She placed her free hand in front of her mouth, trying to contain her laugher.
"Thermos, please," Danny said and looked at Tucker.
The nerd held the thermos before taking the cup off. The familiar blue beam was shot out of it, and Lina dropped the real skulker into it.
"You haven't seen the last of me! I shall capture you all. You shall all be mine. Mine, do you hear?!" he shouted before he was fully captured.
Tucker capped off the thermos as the two halfa landed on the ground in his human form.
"Cool. Let's go home" the boy said.
"Uhm Danny…"
"You didn't get anything you could use for your report. You're still gonna get a "D." Sam continued for Lina.
"Ah, that's okay *Kneels to pick up Skulker's PDA* We stopped the bad guy, saved the gorilla. If that's all I got done, then that's—" he was cut off when Sampson started to walk closer to him. Lina quickly took a step back, eyes wide and Danny turned also to look, only to be shocked. "Oh my gosh!"
The next day, Mr Lancer picked up the Genius magazine from his desk, the cover getting his attention. The headline: 'He is a SHE!' was above a picture of Maddie and Danny standing in front of the gorilla, whose hair is dressed up in a bow, with Jack peeking out from behind her. A caption in the corner read, 'Genius child of genius woman discovers gorilla male actually a female!'
The teacher opened it and started to read. "Brooding genius Daniel Fenton did what no other researcher dared to do. He got close enough to this rare purple-back gorilla to realize Sampson was actually a Delilah." He then looked at our 4 heroes. "Nobody at that zoo ever bothered to see if it was a boy or a girl?"
"That's weird, huh? Well, maybe they were respecting her privacy" Danny said.
"Well, Fenton, I have to admit I'm impressed. Wanted to get your grade up so bad, you risked getting mauled by a gorilla" he put his grade report card in front of him "C."
"A "C?!" I almost get killed by a gho-rilla and all I get is a C?!"
"Life's a big mystery, isn't it, Fenton? *bell rings* Next time you want to get your grade up, try the library" he walked out of the classroom, leaving our heroes alone.
"Well, it's better than a "D," right?" Sam asked while Lina placed her hand on his shoulder.
"Oh man, if only I had something, I could take this out on!"
Suddenly, they all hear the Box Ghost yelling at a box of files in the back of the classroom.
"I am the Box Ghost! And once I empty you of your useless papers, your marvellous squareness shall be mine!" he laughed.
Danny smirked and glanced at Lina, who took a step back and motioned for him to go. He turned into his ghost form. "Hello, misplaced aggression."
Tucker checked his PDA. "You have 5 minutes."
Danny kept smirking. "That's 4 more minutes than I need."
With those words, he quickly flew off and started to beat the Box Ghost while Lina, Sam and Tucker watched amused with a smile.
