Summary: When the Phantom twins lose their father's anniversary gift, they end up breaking a few federal ghost laws. Now, they have to escape prison, and hopefully, save their parents' marriage before its too late!

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"Is that a rocket ship?"

The twins were standing in front of their father's latest invention, a chrome-plated vehicle with a clear glass windshield. Or, well, it looked like glass. Neither of the twins would have put it past their parents to have crafted the windshield out of transparent metal for additional 'features'. Glowing green lines were spread out across the chrome body, lighting up neon green to indicate... well, something. Danny was personally betting on 'hazard lights', while Dani was thinking them to be the weapon storage slots.

Jack Fenton patted the bonnet of the vehicle with a joyous, goofy grin. "It's the Spectre Speeder," he announced gleefully. "A completely functional, amphibious motorised vehicle that can fly effortlessly through the air and the sea! It's been outfitted with several weapons—" here, he opened the door and excitedly ushered the twins inside with one large hand, before stepping in himself, "— like the all-new Fenton Giga Ecto-Blaster!" He slammed his fist onto a large green button, which prompted the roof of the Speeder to open up and allow an enlarged version of Terrence's ectoplasm-shooting cannon to emerge.

Before the Fenton patriarch could continue with his enthusiastic introduction of the rest of the Spectre Speeder's capabilities, though, Maddie walked down into the basement, her hands on her hips as she stood outside the open door of the Speeder. "Jack," she called with the same warm voice she always used with her family, though something was underlying in her tone that made both twins instinctively back up against the other end of the front compartment. "Do you remember what day it is?"

The large man scratched the back of his head, perplexed. "Err, give me a second, Mads," he said, heading out of the Spectre Speeder and going towards their workbench, where a large calendar was hung on the wall. He squinted, reading the number that was circled there with a red marker, and then immediately turned back to his wife. "Ninth of May, Maddie!" he exclaimed innocently.

Oh. Oh no. Danny frowned.

Dad's forgotten their wedding anniversary again, hasn't he? Dani thought back.

Yup.

A slam on the bonnet of the Spectre Speeder made both the kids jump, the door suddenly slamming shut and the lock on the door activating. Impressively, the thick walls of the vehicle didn't even block out the brunt of Maddie Fenton's angered shouting. "Jack Fenton! Do you not remember what day it is?! This is the eighteenth time you've forgotten!" The woman's voice had grown hysterical, and to punctuate her statement, she slammed her fist down onto the bonnet again.

"Auto-Jack activated!" Jack Fenton's cheerful, recorded voice played over the speakers in the Spectre Speeder. "Heading into the Ghost Zone! Buckle up!" Before either of the twins could do anything to stop the chrome vehicle from moving, the Spectre Speeder lurched forward, and at speeds that some cars would envy, launched into the open portal, which immediately slammed shut behind them.

"Oh, good grief!" Dani exclaimed, scrambling towards the driver's seat as the seatbelt automatically locked in front of her. She put her hands on the steering wheel, trying to take control and swerve the vehicle back towards the now shut Fenton Portal. Unfortunately for her, the auto-pilot, or rather, the auto-Jack driving system, was still in control, and the fourteen-year-old girl was nowhere near strong enough to overcome the force of the mechanical system. "Dan, help!"

"On it!" Danny called, scrambling over and putting his hands on one end of the wheel, while Dani shifted her hands to the other. Together, the two tried to twist the wheel in one direction, but the wheel remained locked in place. "Does this thing even turn at all?!" the black-haired boy exclaimed in frustration, exerting as much force as he could until his face was red from the exertion.

Dani gave up, throwing her hands into the air. "Great. Let it never be said that Dad's not a genius, but dang it, he forgets that not all of us have his upper arm strength," she complained. She leaned back in her seat, sinking into the plush chairs with a grimace — Jack Fenton was a great inventor and father, but he... tended to forget things at times. A lot of things, like how things that applied to him usually didn't apply to others. "Better get strapped in, Dan. We'll have to figure out how to disable the auto-pilot somehow, but forcing the wheel is going to be useless."

Danny frowned as he got into the passenger seat, leaning forward to look at the glossy chrome panel that was right in front of his seat. A gentle touch lit it up with glowing lines that formed boxes and squares — switches and buttons — and he began looking around the board to see if he could find a button to deactivate the auto-pilot so that the twins could find their way back.

After searching quite thoroughly for five minutes, the Spectre Speeder drifting further and further into the green, purple and black-swirled realm, Danny finally found the stupid button, which had been right under his nose the whole time. AUTO-JACK was printed on the green button with his father's neon-orange jumpsuit colours lighting up his name. Resisting the urge to smack his head into the control panel, Danny hit the button and deactivated the thrusters, releasing the auto-pilot lock on the wheel. "Can you try it again, Dani?" he called.

The younger twin tested the wheel, and much to her delight, the wheel turned with her hand movement. "Great!" She slammed her foot down on the breaks, just in time to draw within sight of a large, grey building that was topped with barbed wire and floodlights. The Spectre Speeder skidded and jerked to an abrupt stop, nearly sending the twins flying out of their seats if it hadn't been for their seatbelts. "Ow." Dani frowned, seeing white figures moving towards them. "Uh, Dan, I think we have company," the girl said slowly.

Danny looked up from the control panel, seeing white ghostly figures surround the Speeder. "Uh-oh," he muttered quietly, tugging on the seatbelts and trying to figure out how to get them off.

"Taking off your seatbelt while still in the vehicle? That's illegal, punk," a Southern voice drawled. "Keep it on, it'll save your life one of these days."

Danny cringed. "Right, sorry," he muttered, raising both hands to show that he wasn't trying to fumble with the seatbelt anymore. "Look, sir," he said to the male voice, though he couldn't see where the voice was coming from, "my sister and I are just trying to find our way back. Can you point us to the big swirling portal that should be somewhere around here in a straight line?"

The white figures that were surrounding the Spectre Speeder suddenly melted together, twisting and swirling into a massive white figure garbed in a white trenchcoat and a black fedora. The massive ghost pushed his hat back, revealing a green-eyed, somewhat skeletal-looking ghost. "The name's Walker, kids, know it, fear it, obey it. The two of you own human-world items. That's a misdemeanour, punks!"

Dani cringed. "Sorry, Mr Walker, but we were kind of thrown in here with the Speeder," she tried to explain. "We're going to be out of here as soon as we can, I promise. I swear we didn't do this on purpose." She didn't expect it to work, considering that the same tactic never worked on Mr Lancer, but to her surprise, it seemed to give Walker pause.

"Not knowing the law isn't an excuse to be breakin' it, punks," Walker grunted, "but just so you two don't do it again, here." He snapped his fingers and a thick book that was at least the size of an old-school phone book popped into existence on the windshield of the Spectre Speeder. "A copy of all the laws near my realm. Better read 'em and commit them to memory. This time, I'll let you punks go, but next time I catch you two breaking the law again, you'll be getting much more than just a warning."

The massive white ghost paused. "And the portal you're looking for is in that direction," he added, pointing their way before the ghost's form twisted into a white cyclone and vanished.

Dani let out a sigh of relief. "Oh, thank goodness... I can't believe that worked... Wonder why it never works with Lancer." She shook her head, turning her attention to the wheel and twisting it to change their course, while Danny fiddled with the control panel to try and get the rule book on the windshield off. "I didn't know the Ghost Zone had a prison and laws."

"Yeah, I guess mum and dad aren't all that right after all," Danny mused quietly. "They've always said that ghosts are spirits of dead people, ghosts are incapable of sentient thought... but all that's wrong, based on what we already know." He exhaled slowly. "You know, I wonder if Vlad was kind of right. Our parents don't even know anything about real ghosts — can they accept us?"

Dani frowned, her hands tightening around the steering wheel as she began to guide them in the direction of the Fenton Ghost Portal. "I'm scared too, you know," she mumbled quietly. "But that doesn't mean that we're going to go to him either, Dan. He's a terrible person."

Danny nodded his head, operating a mechanical claw and navigating the book off the windshield and into a chute that deposited the book into his lap, making him grunt at how heavy it was. "Ow! This is heavy!"

"Oh wow, That's like... Filch's list of prohibited items from Harry Potter," Dani said as the Ghost Portal came back into view, open again after accidentally having powered down earlier. The Spectre Speeder was effortlessly guided back into the same place it had originally been before it had been set off, and Dani beamed, making sure to turn off the vehicle so that it wouldn't happen again.

"Nice job! Your driver's license is going to be easy to get after this," Danny praised his sister, finally finding the mechanism to unlock his seatbelt. He peered out the window. "Oh, mum and dad are still... fighting..." he trailed off with a frown.

No sooner had he said it did Maddie Fenton storm towards the stairs of the basement, and the twins scrambled to open the door of the Spectre Speeder and listen to what they were saying."

"—Mads, please don't leave!"

"You can't stop me, Jack!" Maddie snapped, fuming. "I'm heading to Arkansas for the divorce!"

The twins felt their hearts plummet into the pits of their stomachs in unison, the dropping feeling terrifying. They stared at each other, blue eyes wide, the same thought running through their heads.

Divorce?!

"— and now they're going to divorce!" Danny said, panicked, to his laptop as he and Dani sat in front of it. The laptop was placed open on their parents' workbench down in the basement lab, on a video call window with their friends. The poor boy was stressed, on the verge of pulling his hair out, as was evident with his mop of dark hair sticking out in every which way.

Dani's beanie was nowhere to be seen as the girl shifted and fidgeted in her seat, her brow furrowed together. "They do this every year," she said quietly, unusually quiet for the girl. "Argue, I mean. Mum and Dad never argue normally, but anniversaries, birthdays and Christmas are when they always get all up into each other. It's never escalated to that before, though." She blinked furiously, trying to prevent tears from falling. "I'm not sure what's going to happen this time."

"I... well, I honestly don't know, Dannies," Terrence admitted. "You guys know I don't have much contact with my 'rents. The best I can tell you is to try and help smooth their relationship over."

"Terr's got a point," Penny said, leaning back in her chair at her bedroom desk. "Pa didn't do that to Mum and look at how it turned out. They divorced and Mum ended up remarrying later on." She huffed a little. "I can try to help, but I don't know how much I can. Your parents aren't exactly conventional, in a sense... Not to offend, I mean," she stammered.

Danny shook his head, getting up. "Don't worry about it... we're both just a little wound up by this. Guess we'd better start trying to figure things out. Both our parents are going to be in Arkansas for a while, so maybe we should clean up first?" He sighed heavily as he surveyed the lab — it was a mess from earlier on. "Dani?"

"On it," the girl mumbled dourly as she got up, heading upstairs to find the vacuum and hope that their parents hadn't contaminated it with ectoplasm. "On the bright side, I guess we're free to practice with our powers until they come back... If they ever do." Her shoulders slumped, and Danny immediately hurried over to her, slinging an arm around her shoulder.

"Hey, it's going to be okay," he comforted. "We're going to find a way to get this smoothed over." With a squeeze, he saw his sister slowly form a smile, and the older of the twins grinned. "See? Things are looking better already. Now let's find the vacuum and clean up, m'kay?"

"M'kay," Dani mumbled with a small smile. "Thanks, Dan. You always know how to make things better."

Danny grinned at his sister. "I'm the older brother. It's my job to make everything better for you." Seeing his sister disappear through the basement door, he turned to the laptop. "Hey guys, I'm running short on battery power now and I should plug my phone in," he said, leaning on the counter to see them better. "And maybe end the call too. We're going to be pretty busy for the next few hours."

"S'okay," Terrence reassured him. "I'm about to log off anyway. Gotta check on the stock market and all that, you know? Rex says hi, and wants you to visit too," he informed with quite the cheeky grin before he ended the call on his end.

Penny laughed, looking back at Danny. "Hey, all power to you and Dani here," she told him earnestly. "If anyone can do it, you two can. Just don't do anything drastic without consulting us first. Have fun cleaning up, okay? Bye, and tell Dani she can come over any time to sleep over if she wants."

"Will do, Pen," Danny promised, waving goodbye as the Asian girl signed off as well. Turning to the rest of the lab, he sighed. "Let's get started." He paused, then transformed, using his flight and enhanced speed to collect the papers all scattered throughout the lab, stacking them and putting them aside. He proceeded to put things back in their place, using his intangibility to shove things into the cupboards without even needing to open them.

He turned a cupboard door intangible, putting metal tools into it. Accidentally, he overfilled the cupboard, and a box wrapped in blue and red paper fell out, bouncing lightly on the floor and skidding towards the open Fenton Portal. It teetered on the edge of the floor to-portal ledge, and as Dani opened the door, the sudden gust of wind sent it falling into the green portal, leaving behind a single tag.

Maddie, Happy Anniversary.

Dani picked it up as she came down the stairs, and reading what was printed on it, she paled. "Dan! We just sent Dad's anniversary gift to Mum falling into the Ghost Zone!" she yelped.

"I did what now?!" Danny exclaimed in horror, whirling around to see the portal ripple. "... oh no... oh no, no, no, no, no!" He fumbled for his phone, calling Penny and Terrence back hastily and leaving a voice message when neither picked up. "Guys, we need you to come over, ASAP!"

Five minutes later, Penny was in the Fenton lab-cum-basement, while Terrence was on a video call from his home desktop, and between the two, they were helping the Fenton twins get ready for their excursion to the Ghost Zone.

"So... are you sure that this is something we should do?" Penny asked as Dani strapped herself into the driver's seat, double-checking that her seatbelt was functioning. "You've never headed into the Ghost Zone like this before, you know." The Asian girl checked her clipboard with a hastily-written list that she'd composed while running to the Fenton house, and checked off the equipment that the twins had loaded in. "Okay, weapons, check," she muttered, "shotgun passenger — Danny?"

The older of the twins got in, shooting her a thumbs-up. "Just making sure everything's alright. I wish dad and mum left us a manual, but I can figure things out when it comes to the controls. You got the monitoring system hooked up, Terr?" he asked his friend on the PDA he'd affixed to the control panel, having plugged in a phone jack.

"It's linked to Penny's phone and my monitor," the boy affirmed with a nod. "Dannies, you two gotta be careful. We don't know how this could go wrong."

"If you two encounter any trouble at all that could ostensibly lead to trouble," Penny added, "I want you guys to come straight back. We'll figure out something about the gift after." She hugged her clipboard to her body and stepped back from the door as Danny shut it through the control panel. "Testing the mic— do you read me, Dan?" Her voice crackled through the speakers, loud and clear, just like Terrence's feed.

"Roger that, Penny," the half-ghost boy affirmed. "Let's go, Dani."

"Aye aye, Dan," the younger twin said, turning on the engine and getting the Spectre Speeder off the ground. "Hey, you think the government can take this as me doing required practice for my driver's license once I'm old enough?" she asked casually as she drove the Speeder into the portal, watching through the windshield as metal and chrome warped into swirling green depths. "Geez, that's always really spooky..."

"Second time's the charm," Danny muttered. "Did you bring Walker's giant Book o' Rules?"

"Nope — made the Spectre Speeder too heavy and it was flashing warning lights."

"Guys, focus on your task," Penny chided gently. "Those doors ahead, according to your parents' notes, lead to the lairs of ghosts. Look around and see if you can find where your parents' gift went. Terrence is charting its possible movement now, but it'll take a while, so try hunting yourself first. We'll get back to you if there's anything incoming."

Danny nodded, adjusting the phone and turning on the headlights of the Spectre Speeder. "Gotcha, Penny. Thanks a bunch, Terr." The bright lights lit up the area in front of them as Dani piloted the vehicle forward, guiding them further into the Ghost Zone and further away from the Fenton Portal until the bright green vortex was no longer in sight. "Should I transform and go out?"

"No, Walker's rules said that trespassing is a crime, remember?" Dani reminded him. "Let's just keep searching with the headlights."

After a few minutes of searching for the gift, nothing was coming up on Danny's radar, but Terrence spoke up immediately over the phone. "I found it, or at least, the trajectory according to the flow and current of the material and wind speed. It might be a bit off due to unforeseen factors, but the math should be spot on. I'm sending you your coordinates now, Dani, but please don't turn on the auto-pilot since I had to recalibrate it relative to my position. I'll keep updating when I get more environmental information."

Danny's control panel blinked green, indicating that he'd received the information, and he turned on the navigation. A sharp turn jerked him to the left, making him yelp in surprise, grabbing onto the armrests of his seat as Dani swerved to a sharp right to follow the coordinates sent to them by their blond friend, and he grabbed onto his seatbelt as he was suddenly pressed back into his seat as she hit the gas pedal, accelerating them.

Within minutes, the Spectre Speeder reached a screeching halt and Dani began navigating around in at a slower pace. "See anything, Dan?"

Danny looked around, his eyes narrowed as he searched for the wrapping paper, before his eyes lit up. "Yes! I see it! It's... in the Box Ghost's hands..." He groaned aloud. "Oh gosh no."

Dani parked the Speeder in mid-air and unstrapped her seatbelt, standing up and transforming. "Well, what are we waiting for? Let's go and get it!" she exclaimed.

"Police! Hands up and in the air!" A group of white, formless ghosts in white tactical gear suddenly surrounded both the Speeder and the Box Ghost, and they parted to let the large white form of Walker to pass through. He picked up the Box Ghost by the back of his overalls. "How many times have I told you that taking things that don't belong to you is a crime?" he asked, his Southern drawl enhancing his annoyance. "Last I checked, your name wasn't 'Maddie'. And you two punks; didn't I tell you that not wearing a seatbelt is a crime? And you, son, own a real-world item. I'm bringing all three of you in and confiscating your gizmos."

Danny quickly transformed, still strapped in, before raising both hands into the air. "We probably should have just flown, huh?"

"We needed the navigation," Dani muttered as the ghost warden waited expectantly for the two to leave the Speeder. "Great, fourteen and in the slammer... never thought I'd be a felon." She opened the door from inside and got out, followed closely by Danny behind her, both twins with their hands up in the air in surrender.

Walker scoffed, almost sounding amused as he grabbed both the twins together in his free hand. "Felony? Bah. This is just a misdemeanour. Now hold on tight, punks." He grew even larger, and the world around them twisted and warped as he teleported them into a compound of a tall stone fortress, with floodlights pouring down into the courtyard, barbed wire on the top of the walls, as well as a pink barrier covering the top of the walls. "Welcome to my prison, punks!"

The inmates in the courtyard looked up from what they were doing, and the Fenton twins both paled as Skulker stepped forward, a sneer on his face. Behind him, the Lunch Lady's meat-covered fists impacted each other in a threatening manner. Technus stood at the far end, the mad scientist ghost glowering angrily at the twins. Aside from them, more faceless ghosts also looked over inquisitively, looking quite intrigued at the reactions of the trio of ghosts, as well as the appearance of the twin phantoms.

Danny paled, as did Dani. "We're screwed."

"140 years, 5 months and 2 days," Dani muttered under her breath. "Really?

"141 years, 3 weeks and a day," Danny countered and shot her a glance. "You think?"

Dani shook her head, still trying to mess with the glowing green handcuffs that were wrapped around her wrists. "That's a long time for essentially driving without a license, don't you think?" she challenged as the two of them were herded into the cafeteria by Walker's white-uniformed prison guards — or at least, that was what Dani thought they were. "Oh gosh, our parents are going to kill me for getting a record before I can drive, aren't they? I'm so dead, so dead!" she groaned.

"Only if we get home before they split up," the older twin muttered. "...you think we'll be allowed to stay together if they divorce?" he asked wearily. "Or will they split us up too so mum and dad get equal custody?"

Dani flinched as she shook her head. "I don't want to think about that," she whispered back as the prison guards left and left the twins alone in the cafeteria. "Oh gosh, Dan, heads up. Tin can incoming at ten o'clock."

"Tin— what?" Danny began to say, only to be suddenly yanked up off his feet by the back of his glaring orange jumpsuit. "Gah! Skulker!" he hissed, seeing the metal fist and the flaming green hair. He swung out with both fists, arcing towards the metal hunter, only for his gloved fists to hit the metal. It dented the hunter's metal body, though, from the older ghost boy's visible cringe, he was obviously quite in pain.

The younger of the ghost twins gasped, shooting over to him. "Danny!" she shouted out, swinging out with a roundhouse kick to Skulker's shin, again, denting the metal enough to make the ghostly hunter fall forwards, thankfully releasing Danny before the Phantom could be squashed under his bulk. Before Dani could grab her brother and split, though, she was yanked back as well and held face-to-face with Technus' green face. "Get your face out of mine, Shrek," the white-haired girl growled, spitting in his face to make him release her.

Ignoring the shriek from the technology-obsessed ghost, she and Danny moved together so that their backs were together so no one could give them the slip. "So, what now?" she asked her brother with a wince as she raised her fists up, inadvertently tugging her wrists too far apart from each other. "We're at a disadvantage at this point — there's no way we can fight all of these spooks when we're handicapped like this."

Danny grimaced. "Well..." his eyes glanced from side to side anxiously as the ghosts surrounded the twins, clearly intending on starting a prison fight with the two phantom twins as their resident punching bags. "We might not need to fight. Remember Desiree?" he asked his sister in a soft voice.

"Yeah, but Desiree didn't already hate us," Dani retorted. "These guys do. Why would they want to listen to us?"

"Why indeed, whelps?" Skulker sneered.

Danny bristled, moving in front of his sister protectively. "Because if you listen to me, then maybe we might not need to be trapped here together where we'd kill each other."

This stopped the Lunch Lady and Technus from advancing, and even Skulker seemed intrigued. The metal hunter raised a brow as he pulled back a little. "Carry on, whelp... you've got our interest."

The boy gave his sister a triumphant look. See? I told you it could work, he teased gently. "Any of you guys heard of a... 'prison break' before?" he asked in a low voice, even though he couldn't see Walker's prison guards around.

Technus chortled. "Prison break? In Walker's prison? You only wish. He's the Ghost Zone's top law enforcer — the only reason we get to leave is when we're on parole or have finished our sentences. He's a good warden — a bit too good." The mad scientist ghost folded skinny arms over his chest, his cuffs having just enough slack to allow him to do that.

Skulker looked thoughtful at the statement, though, rubbing his fiery chin. "No, no. Go on, ghost boy. What kind of plan do you have?" he asked, narrowing his eyes. "What about a prison break?"

Danny looked at Dani. What else is the best thing we can do to stir up trouble in the cafeteria? We need to attract attention so that the guards all come rushing in.

Dani perked up, and she grinned quite mischievously, her green eyes gleaming. "Cafeteria food fight. We start a food fight, use the slop they serve as ammunition so none of us exhausts ourselves before the actual fight gets here. Now from there, the guards will come in to stop us, so we use that slop—" she made a motion like she was chucking something in an arc, "— and toss it right in their faces. Preferably in the eyes, so they can't see us when we follow up with a knockout blow. Once there aren't any guards, we split," she declared confidently.

"That's... actually not too bad of a plan," Skulker grudgingly said. "Very well then, I'll follow that plan, but if it fails, we're taking it out on you," he warned.

The Lunch Lady mentioned something about hoping the cafeteria wasn't serving meat so she wouldn't feel bad about wasting it, and Technus something about wishing the slop wouldn't get into his tech, but the Phantoms were more concerned about Skulker's threat to make them mincemeat if the plan failed. That only meant the two had to get out of there even quicker, or else their heads would be on the chopping block.

"I get you," Danny said quickly, nodding curtly. "Shall we get started, then? The faster we act, the less chance they have of suspecting something's up."

And with that, the crowd dispersed, and the twins quickly lined up as lunch was being served. The workers behind the counter just looked thankful that the scene hadn't devolved into an all-out prison fight, and they hastily served grey slop to the ghosts in line before moving on. The Phantom twins took their trays, setting them down at the edge of the room, opposite where Skulker was seated at the other end, so they could line up their shot better.

Ready? Danny asked his sister, reaching to grab a handful of the colourless slop.

Dani just nodded with a quiet grin. Let's get started. "Hey, Skulky!" she hollered, standing up. "Eat slop, tin butt!" She chucked her handful of slop at his face with a battle cry, jumping onto the top of the table.

The slop smacked a passing ghost in the head, splattering the unsuspecting spectre, which quickly made it retaliate with more slop that Dani quickly ducked under so that it hit yet another ghost instead. Soon enough, the room had devolved into an all-out prison food fight, slop flying everywhere as the ghosts began to cause a massive distraction.

Both the Phantom twins as well as Skulker hurried over to the doors, waiting for the doors to be opened by the prison guards, and not a few minutes later, the door opened, the white-clad guards filing into the room to try and stop the fight from worsening. A few lucky shots got the guards in the eyes and the twins took down some of them from behind, and Skulker physically beat down some unfortunate guards, searching for some keys.

"Keys!" Dani said, finding a pair on a fallen guard, and swiping them up, she unlocked Danny's cuffs before her brother returned the favour. Rubbing her wrists, she tossed the key over to Skulker. "Get out of here, tin man!" she shouted and pulling off the gaudy jumpsuit to reveal her normal black-and-white outfit underneath, she sprang into the air, followed by Danny as he ditched his own jumpsuit.

The Phantoms shot down the hallways, both knowing that they weren't free to go just yet. It wasn't long before they located Walker's office, and Dani proceeded to give the door a good kick with a loud vocalisation, knocking it down. "Where does he keep the confiscated items?" she asked.

Danny hurried in, looking around for a set of keys or any directions. His gaze swept across Walker's desk, now clean and tidy with only a few post-its under the glass surface of the pristine white desk. With one of them catching his eye, he quickly read it, marvelling at how easily things seemed to be falling into place for this escape. "It's just down the hall. Let's make a break for it and jump into the Speeder and go!" he announced, looking up at his sister.

Now with a destination, the Phantom twins darted out the hallway and flew down the hallway to get to the containment area for the confiscated items. Dani once more kicked down the door — she was getting pretty good at it, thanks to lessons from their mother — opening the entrance so that the twins were faced immediately with the chrome-plated body of the Spectre Speeder, the keys still in the ignition and the present on the driver's seat.

"Yes!" the girl cheered, hurrying over to the door as it opened for her, but before she could reach it, she was thrown back against the wall with a yelp.

Walker materialised from nowhere, turning his invisibility off, and growing to the maximum size allowed by the giant room, he grabbed both twins in his fists and held them against the wall of the room. "You two are really gettin' on my nerves," he drawled. "Can't a man just ask for some peace and order 'round these parts? Y'know what the Ghost Zone is like without order, punks? There's a reason ghosts don't keep pourin' outta that illegal portal you done built from your realm."

Danny stopped struggling, blinking a little as he considered it. "Wait, so the Ghost Zone actually does rely on your ghost police to keep order here?" he asked, sounding almost incredulous. His parents had always said that the Ghost Zone was endlessly vast, so he had figured that Walker's police force couldn't have been able to keep any order whatsoever.

Walker bristled, looking as offended as his blank features would let him. "Of course it does, son!" he snapped. "The Ghost Zone is a lawless place, but that's why I'm here. I keep this chaotic place in order. I don't like throwing people in prison, but it's the only way to keep people in line."

Dani raised a brow at him. "You ever consider that... I dunno, people don't like being given a rulebook the size of Yellow Pages and being expected to follow them?" she suggested. "You know... did you ever discuss this with them first?"

"Discuss it with them, pardon, what?" Walker arched a non-existent brow.

"Yeah, see, that's your problem. You're putting in all these laws without considering how things might work," Dani said. "Some laws can be good ideas — wearing a seatbelt is one of them, because it's safe — but when you go overboard with them, like... um, what was the one we talked about, Dan?"

"Not wearing stripes and polka dots together?" Danny suggested.

"No, the other one, not walking backwards or something. No idiot would wear stripes and polka dots together — that's a freaking abomination."

"Section 223, Article 31A, subpoint 3.2.1, rule 12: No walking backwards while eating ice cream on the second Tuesday of every month?" Walker offered.

Dani nodded enthusiastically, her ponytail bobbing. "Yeah, that one! Isn't that a bit extreme, Walker, sir?" she said. "What's wrong with doing that on Tuesday and not Monday?" She shrugged. "Y'know, maybe go through the rulebook with some other people and shave off the more... um, ridiculous ones, so that people won't be so upset with seeing them?" she suggested lightly.

"What? My rules aren't ridiculous!" Walker exploded, knocking the Spectre Speeder slightly and making it move back towards the wall. Instead of crashing into it, though, it phased partially through the wall. "... are they? Bullet? Bullet!" he yelled out of the room. "Are my laws inane?"

Dan, the Speeder! It's phasing through the wall of the room! Dani thought to her brother. Does that mean that human-things can pass through ghost-things?

Well, we can give it a shot, Danny thought back, contemplative. Taking advantage of Walker being distracted, he transformed back, as did Dani, and the two leaned back, sinking into the wall, much to their delight.

"Bullet — hey, what? Where are you two punks doin'?" Walker barked.

Dani slipped free and dropped onto the ground. "Thanks for listening to us, Mr Walker, sir!" she called. "Please consider what we said, yeah? I'm sure you're a good man, but you could just do with some revision of those rules. Bye!" She dove through the wall and hanging onto the Spectre Speeder, just in time to grab the open door and climb into the vehicle. "Dan, hurry!"

Danny ran after her, running up the Spectre Speeder's wings and jumping into the vehicle as the door slammed shut behind him. "Thanks, Dani," he said as he quickly moved into the passenger seat, strapping himself in and moving to quickly call their friends again. "Terr, Penny, can you hear me?"

"Roger that, Dannies!" Terrence called over the phone. "Everything alright? Your radio silence was getting us worried."

"We'll explain later, Terr," Dani said as she strapped in and began navigating the Spectre Speeder towards the Fenton Portal once more. "Coordinates home?"

"Just hit the Autopilot," their blond friend reassured her, and so she did.

The Speeder quickly accelerated, and they sped away from Walker's prison, even as the white-wearing warden called for his subordinates to ask about his laws. The twins looked at each other with a smile and gave each other a high-five with a holler of delight at escaping with the present intact.

"First home—" Danny said.

"— next, Arkansas!" Dani finished.

"As it turns out, Dani and I really didn't have much to worry about," Danny said, looking through his phone at Terrence and Penny through their conference call, with Dani looking over his shoulder. "Aunt Alicia got a divorce from crazy Uncle Uriah ten years ago — that's why mum went there. She was celebrating the ten-year anniversary. Mum and dad still love each other — mum was just a bit high-strung that day."

"The fact that the Box Ghost was hiding in the present when it got opened didn't hurt," Dani piped up. "Mum and dad went chasing after him merrily. But dad did get mum a pretty sweet gift, though. He had it all custom-made and everything."

"Glad you two are fine, in that case," Penny said with a smile. "By the way, did anything ever come about of Walker?"

Dani and Danny shared a glance. "Well," the older of the twins said, "he had one of his ghost workers send us a package by hand. It contained a whole new rulebook only a quarter of the original, and a letter saying that our prison sentence would be pardoned for the time being as thanks for letting him know about the situation, and to let him know if his rules are still being ridiculous."

"We're working on reading through the new rulebook now and so far, everything's pretty reasonable," Dani added. "It's nice to know that he took that advice to heart."

Terrence hummed. "Wow, you guys are really doing something, huh? Saved that one Desiree genie last time, and now you're making reforms? Next thing you know, you'll reform Skulker!" He laughed, and so did the other three, knowing that the idea of that was ridiculous.

"Maybe," Danny said with a grin. "Maybe. Not being hunted anymore would be nice."

"We can dream," Dani said with a snicker.

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