The light vanished into the sky, people at the festival look up at it. Kuri, Danny and Tucker rushed over. "Sam!" They shout.
"People are gathering!" said Tucker.
"Sam was...!" cried Danny.
The two looked around and saw Kuri watching. "Kuri!?"
"What are you doing here!?" said Tucker. "Were you... watching us!? You know something, don't you!? Oh no, was it your allies who took Sam..."
"Tucker!" Danny stepped in front of Kuri.
"Danny!?" said Tucker. "Why are you sticking up for her?"
"Calm down, Tucker!"
Kuri clutched her necklace, turned, and ran away.
"Hey!" Danny saw a key hanging from the chain on Kuri neck. "What?" she thought. "A key!"
"If you're too aggressive," said Danny, "we won't even be able to hear what information we can get from her."
"But...!" said Tucker. "Sam! So suddenly, without any warning... She was taken away in the blink of an eye!"
Danny ran off after Kuri.
Xxx
Danny entered his house.
"Danny?" said Maddie. "Weren't you with Kuri? Where is she?"
"I wouldn't worry..."
"Danny?" Maddie said.
"I don't know!" Danny said. "She said she's staying at a friend's house!" Danny walked away.
Danny looked out the window. "Rain..." The doorbell rang. He walks over to the door and opens it. Tucker stood outside. "Tucker!?"
"Come with me, Danny," she said. "That girl..." He followed him out and found Kuri sitting alone. "Kuri!?" He took her inside and tucked her into bed. "She probably didn't want to go home..." said Danny. "And while she was wandering around, she ended up here..."
They watched Kuri sleep. "Maybe it's best if she stays here." said Tucker. "
"This girl is frightened, since she's guarding abnormally against her surroundings. Knowing she has no hostility eases my mind completely. I don't think Kuri is an enemy." Danny said.
Xxx
Kuri ran through the darkness. "Papa...Papa, where are you?"
"If anything should happen... You will do it somehow."
She looked up at Clockwork as they walk through the city of crystal.
"Danny Phantom is invincible."
"Papa?!"
"Fledgling..."
Xxx
She opened her teary eyes. "Papa..." she said. She buried her head in her pillow.
Danny and Tucker watched her with concern.
Danny approached her. "Did you have a sad dream?"
Kuri's eyes widen. "Yes."
They saw a key hanging on Kuri's necklace. Kuri jumps back and covers her neck.
"Is that your house key?" said Danny. "That thing now...!" he thinks.
"Without this, I can't return home," said Kuri. "It's an important key..."
"Where is your house?" said Tucker.
"I don't know..." she said. "It was far away... And it was close..." Kuri looked up at him. "Say... Is Danny Phantom strong?"
"Yeah," said Danny. "Invincible."
"Maybe he'll save my dad..." she said.
She lay down on the bed. "Danny..." Tucker watched her.
"Kuri was carrying something that looked just like a key," said Tucker in hushed tones.
"I know, I saw it," said Danny. "It seems she came here to seek my...I mean, Danny Phantom's help. Let's keep an eye on her a little longer. Okay?"
Danny gazed at her.
"Cheer up, Danny." Tucker said.
Xxx
Tucker was playing chess. "Don't worry Danny. We will get Sam back. This Dominion must be another Faction of the Ghost Zone. If we have to we'll just go down there and kick all their butts. Sam is fine. She's strong. We'll get her back."
He headed out of the room.
"Something about those people... And Sam was like that, too." Valerie said.
Paulina looked at her. "They're not ordinary people," he said. "I smell a secret."
Valerie yawned as she walked to school in the morning. Danny passed by her.
"Hey."
"Oh!" said Danny. "Good morning!"
"Danny..." he said. "Something about that Danny Fenton... He acts so different."
"Umm, excuse me!" said Valerie. "Is this the way to the Club Room?"
"Going to Astronomy Club?" said Danny.
"Yes!" said Valerie.
"Hang in there." Danny said.
He shook Valerie's hand.
"It's like an electric shock." Valerie thought.
Danny smiled. "I'm sure you will do fine."
Valerie stared up at him.
A group of students played soccer on the field.
One swings his leg into the air toward the ball, and his shoe scraped against Danny's forearm as he blocked him.
"Sorry!" said Kwan. "Are you all right?"
"Yeah, fine," said Danny.
"Go to the nurse's office!"
Danny walked off the field.
Valerie passed by.
"What... Danny?" She thought.
She watched as Danny swept his hand over his scraped, bleeding arm.
The scrape and blood vanished.
"He healed the injury... by himself!?" thought Valerie. "Is he not human...?"
"I think... Danny could be an alien..." She held her book bag over his shoulder. "No way, that's impossible..."
Xxx
Dan walked through the hall of the castle on the Dominion. He approached a stream of light rising into the air. "Whenever I look at it," he said, "this reactor has tremendous power."
"Dan," said Ahri. "As you instructed, we are using the energy of this reactor without worry, producing ghosts and sending them to that planet."
"Breathing life into mere droids," said Dan. "Your alchemy is splendid, Ahri."
"Dan," said Ahri. "I understand we've captured Sam. Your methods are always too forcible. What do you intend to do? It's dangerous."
"I do as I wish," said Dan. "Are you going to order me?"
"Come on, Ahri," said Fright Knight as he entered the room. "We have sworn our loyalty to Dan."
Fright Knight knelt before Dan. "Dan, I will follow your methods," he said. "Sam is imprisoned."
"Pariah," said Dan.
A figure in a black cloak, hunched over a crystal ball, appears behind him.
"As you desire, Dan," said Pariah. "There is utility value in that."
"As long as our goal has not been achieved," said Dan, "we'll keep her alive. We still have a long way to go."
"Dan. I am next." A woman with short blue hair and a braided ponytail steps forward. "Leave this to me, SkulkTech."
Xxx
Tucker was playing chess.
"Tucker is very good at chess." Dash said.
"She defeated the National Champion." Kwan said.
Tucker walked into the bathroom and heard Star scream.
"Tucker the water supply in the office is broken." Mr Lancer said.
Tucker listened closely to hear the flow of the water, and went outside to the water pipe in the backyard.
Mr Lancer followed her and joined a man with a shovel.
"There." Tucker said.
Water was spouting forth from a broken and bent pipe. Both are amazed that Tucker was able to find it.
SkulkTech stood aside and watched Tucker. Tucker noticed her and was suspicious.
Xxx
Tucker floated on his back in the swimming pool. "I wonder who that person was... I can't clear my head of it... When I'm not concentrating on something, my thoughts go in bad directions. Sam..."
"Hey!" Danny swam over with Kuri. "You have a membership here too?"
Kuri floated on her back.
"Well dad taught me to swim and play chess." Tucker said.
Xxx
Later Tucker was at the World Chess Tournament.
"Hello. I'm SkulkTech." SkulkTech said. "SkulkTech. I play chess using my electronic database."
"Huh I do too?" Tucker said. "I do that too."
"Interesting." SkulkTech said. "So like a friend of Danny Phantom. Now, tell me where the Fledgling is!"
Danny and Kuri rushed outside.
"Who is the Fledgling?!" Danny demanded.
Suddenly the crowd rushed at them and they were all ghosts. Two of them grabbed Tucker.
"Danny!" said Tucker. "Attack! These things aren't people! They're ghosts pretending to be people!"
"Going Ghost!"
Danny blew up several of them with his ghost ray, but couldn't risk hitting Tucker.
Tucker blasted the ghosts holding them with the lipstick blaster.
"Trying to beat me!?" said SkulkTech. He lifted a manhole cover off the street, and water shot up into the air.
It encircled Tucker and lifted him off the ground. Water poured around his head and into her mouth. "I can't breathe!" she thought.
"Tucker!?" Danny blasted SkulkTech.
The water continued its hold on Tucker. "The water didn't free him!?"
"Heh heh..." Ahri appeared before them. "You'll never be able to undo SkulkTech's ball of water like that," she said.
Danny opened his hands to attack Ahri.
"Tucker!"
Ahri rose into the air with Tucker. They both disappeared in a bright flash of light.
"Tucker!?" screamed Danny.
Kuri looked up at Danny.
"Danny Phantom is invincible."
"TUCKER!"
Kuri stared into the sky.