"Not another food fight!" Sam screamed, crouching down with her hands protectively curled over her head.

She wasn't the only one screaming. Food and utensils were flying around like a tornado around Dash's body and it looked like all Phantom could do was dodge.

That's all any of them could do at the moment.

"We have to move," Danny grabbed her elbow and hauled her up. "Where's Tucker?"

"It's every loser for himself, stupid!" Sam said.

Right. Not Sam.

"You're a real hero, you know that Dash?"

She, that is he, tried to pull his arm out of Danny's grip. "Shut up!" He shrieked with Sam's voice, high pitched and panicked. "Just leave me alone!"

This wasn't Sam, but it hurt seeing her look so vulnerable.

"Stay with me," Danny said. "Let's go outside."

Then Sam was nodding, a determined frown clearing away the panic. "Follow me!" She said.

And he knew, at least for the moment, that he was with Sam again. He released her arm but then she grabbed his hand, and she dragged him towards a wall. "It's safer than going through," she said. "We should hug the walls and go around."

But then she froze up again and flinched as an overturned table came flying towards them.

Danny tackled her and they laid flat on the ground for a moment, safe enough as the table landed titled against the wall with a pocket of space beneath it.

"It worked out like a shield," Danny chuckled. "Weird luck, huh?"

She stared up at him with wide eyes and he scrambled to get off. "Uh, Dash or Sam?"

She flinched, then scowled at him. "Ugh, it doesn't matter! Let's just go."

She grabbed his hand again, this time squeezing painfully, and they ran side by side until they made it out of the building.

oOo

Phantom knew how to tell Sam and Dash apart now. Her body flickered with a faint glow when Dash was in control, a grey aura hanging over her body and tucking back inside as they flipped back and forth.

It was easier to spot from far away.

It wasn't exactly the same as the green core of a ghost, but maybe it would work the same. Then he could just reach out and tug him out of her…

But he needed Dash's body nearby. Needed them beside each other. Otherwise wouldn't Dash end up kind of like Phantom? A ghost while his body still lived?

Wouldn't he deserve that though?

"C'mon baby ghost, I thought you were a hot shot around here?" Pointdexter kept trying to taunt him into violence. "Is it even true that you fought a dragon? Those just tall tales?"

It would feel good to kick Pointdexter and Dash through a window.

But that wouldn't exactly be the heroic thing to do.

So? Why play hero?

Dash's panicked gasps as Phantom choked him against the lockers replayed itself in his mind's eye. He heard those ghosts in the mirror wailing at the cold. At the pain.

It didn't feel good to be the villain.

"What's the plan after this, Pointdexter?" Phantom said. "Your cover is blown! You can't keep pretending you're Dash Baxter."

Most of the students below then had made it out of the cafeteria, Fenton and Sam/Dash included.

"Then I'll be myself now!" Pointdexter shouted. "I'll make new friends, hell I can skip town and start over. I can-"

Phantom tapped on his Fenton Phones. "Yeah? All by your lonesome?"

There was a bit of static on the line, then Tucker's voice came through. "No one got hurt. I found Sam and Danny in the parking lot."

The fight was slowly going out of Pointdexter. His little tornado of food junk was losing momentum, and he regarded Phantom with disappointment. "Of course not alone," he said. "But… I mean, you don't want to slug it out? At least a little?"

"Phantom? What's the plan?" Tucker said.

Pointdexter mimed throwing a few punches in the air, like a kid pretending he was a boxer.

"Did you want me to go with you?" Phantom said, trying to address them both.

Pointdexter grinned. "Why? Do you like me?"

He flexed Dash's stupid muscles and winked.

His anger had completely evaporated, it seemed, and with it his hold on everything floating around the cafeteria. Gravity re-claimed lunch trays and pudding cups, forks and burger patties.

Sam's voice came in on the Fenton Phones. "Danny says I should try to hug him? He thinks Dash's soul- or whatever- will be drawn to the body. Help me get close."

"I like you a lot," Phantom said. "Why don't we get out of here, huh? Aren't you tired of messing around with humans?"

"Where are we meeting you?" Tucker said.

Pointdexter laughed at him. "It's too bad, but I already got myself a boyfriend!"

"Wh-what boyfriend?"

"Danny Fenton!" Pointdexter grinned. "We been getting to know each other real well while you were gone."

And without really deciding too, Phantom shot an ecto-blast at the ghost.

"Finally," Pointdexter cheered. "Let's duel like cowboys!"

oOo

Students and teachers stood around in the parking lot, panicked and confused.

"Should we call the cops?" Someone said.

"Phantom is taking care of it!" Paulina retorted.

Tucker and Sam had gotten a hold of Phantom through the Fenton Phones and Danny cursed himself for leaving his at home.

"What's he saying now?" Danny said. "Can he talk Sidney down?"

Sam made a face. Or maybe it was Dash. "He's trying to flirt or something."

Then Tucker gasped. "Oh shit. Oh shit."

They both stared at him.

"What?" Danny said.

"We need to get you to Fenton Works," Tucker said. "Like, yesterday."

"Get me to Fenton Works?"

Then all the windows at Casper High seemed to shatter at once and teachers were trying to calmly heard everyone away from the building.

Sam grabbed his hand and they were running, Tucker hot on their heels.

"Let's take my car!"

She led them to Dash's car and removed her boot, using it to break the driver's side window. "Hey!" She shrieked. "You're paying for that when this is over!"

Then she rolled her eyes. "Where are your keys? Spare keys, c'mon."

Danny shared a look with Tucker.

"Real freaky," Tucker said.

She found a spare key in the glove box and impatiently waved them into the car.

They climbed in, Tucker in the front with Sam/Dash and Danny in the back.

"Dude, you should duck down or something," Tucker said. "Seriously, hide."

"Why am I hiding?" Danny said.

"That weirdo ghost wants to kidnap you," Sam said.

"Oh…" He carefully ducked down in the backseat.

"Stall him for now then tell him we're at Fenton Works," Tucker said. Into the Fenton Phones again, he was talking to Phantom. "I guess we can use Danny as bait?"

Wow. Well, at least he was useful for something.

"Why the hell does he have the hots for Fenton?" Sam growled.

Then she started laughing. "Wow, Dash! Oh my god!"

"Hey, stay focused on the road," Tucker snapped. "Could one of you just stay out of the way or something?"

"I don't know how this shit works!"

"Maybe one of us should drive?" Danny suggested.

"Shut up, Fenton," Sam snapped. "Everyone just shut up! Everyone."

Then she giggled a bit, but kept her mouth closed.

The rest of the drive was spent in awkward silence.