Danny kept himself awake as he readied up for the day, Tucker wanted to head to the water park for some 'picking-up chicks' time, but he was more interested in the recent attack, Sam had shortly assured him that she was looking into it and was bringing her tech to the water park, planning to stay out of the water for the time being as Danny got dress in jeans, a dark-green shirt, and open hoodie with his usual shoes before sweeping his bag to get dressed in the park, both his folks bid him luck with Jazz as Danny continued on to the world as he looked about before joining up with his friends as they approached the entrance and continued on as the gate member let them pass, the park in full swing as all three readied in their swimwear and met at the snack bar that was set up for the summer. "So, Sam, you have anything on the figure or the person it was carrying?"
"Nothing so far." Sam mused as she tapped on the keyboard, checking over the angles. "Nothing about this figure matches with the Ghost Database and the girl in the arms is not matching either, I can try to scramble some colors across the picture and image, but it is going to be impossible to be sure." Sam shook her head as she continued, closing the device as she turned to Danny. "I don't know what to tell you guys, but this is a new threat on Amity, we need to figure it out." However, they were soon found by the A-lister football players as their lead shouted.
"Hey, Fenton!" Danny glanced back and grimaced as Dash had found them and approached as the others looked at the same as the jock made his standing. "About time I found my favorite punching bag, I got all the summer to have my fun, Fenton." Sam moved to stop it when the laptop was taken and tossed behind and Dash continued. "Now, get ready for the first..."
"Drop it and you may still have your arm intact." All stopped as Dash turned to a semi-built teen with a pair of shades on him and with a teen musician, both in swimwear under covering clothing. In the teen's hand was Sam's laptop as he continued, gesturing from the hip as he continued. "I give you ten seconds to leave the guy alone before this gets messy." Dash released Danny's shirt as he gestured to the sides that the other players moved to contain as he started.
"You don't get it, this is between me and Fenton, no one else will get in the middle of that unless they are asking for some damage."
"Go dunk your head in the pool." The teen gestured to the huge pool as he continued, unimpressed with the jock's size. "Maybe it will help cool your hothead of a balloon." Dash was steamed and Danny nearly went to save the guy, but the swing was quickly caught with the teen's leg gripping it before the guy rolled toward the pool and released, somehow tossing the top jock, Dash Baxter, into the water as the teen stood back up, the girl chuckling as the teen spoke. "Anyone else want to be forced into the water?" None of the A-listers took the challenge as they quickly rushed away, leaving the pair to stand in silence before they both walked over and the teen returned the laptop to the goth. "I believe this is yours?"
"Hey, thanks." Sam was gleeful at the proper gentleman as she cleared her throat. "Though I think that you have made yourself the top target on Dash's list."
"Let me worry about that." Danny was not sure, but something was off as the pair took a seat, the girl looked very familiar to him, like change the skin to pale white, add a rocker attire, and give her a crazy guitar and flaming hair, and she would be a dead ringer for Ember. "Now, we haven't introduced each other, have we?"
"Name's Tucker Foley and I am the guy for dating advice." The geek tried to play it smooth, but the girl rolled her eyes, crushing his hopes as Sam was next with a smile.
"Manson. Sam Manson. Don't listen to the geek, he has better luck with his tech than with girls." Tucker yelped a 'Hey' as Danny just continued to stare at the pair, the more he looked, the more it felt... strange with the both of them, something was wrong as he glanced away and opened his mouth a bit and the wisp of frost flew out and his eyes glanced to the girl and her breath exhaled with... fire!? He nearly stated for her to be a dragon ghost like Princess Dora before yelps of help emerged in the park as some crazy ghost was rampant through the place as Danny quickly spoke.
"Get to cover, I'll go get some help!" They did so as he dashed off to find a good place to change as he spoke in his dash. "I'm going ghost!" Soon, his appearance changed to his combat persona of Danny Phantom, iconized with the signature D and P on his suit as he zoomed out to fight, hoping that what he spotted was real and not a part of his mind playing tricks...
Abram and Ember took cover as she started it off. "Darn it, that kid was giving me the stink eye big time."
"Not a problem right now, Miss McLain." She nodded as the young man tampered with his glasses and they hummed to a dark-green color as he spoke. "The ghost is a ectoplasmic aberration, projected on a scale far surpassing telekinetic prowess for lesser spirits, meaning that there is an ectoplasmic spectral presence somewhere in this aquatic playground."
"Uh, English, Professor?" Ember questioned with a raised brow.
"It's a fake, it may fight and affect the land around it, but it is nothing more than a projection, a manifestation of someone else's mind. the power being slightly more than they can handle." The glasses turned with Abram's gaze as if to trace a line to the projector. "This is a new one, must be a ghost with some small ability over water, but can't control it, too much here."
"Want me to torch the punk?" Abram shook his head and he turned to look at Ember in their crouched hiding spot.
"Not wise, we have to use a different method if we want to deal with Phantom and his other half, whoever it is." Abram glanced past and searched the park of shrieking patrons and employees as the hero dealt with the monster. "Hit, there is an ectoplasmic presence near the showers, but we don't possess any sort of capture unit that can both take the ghost and cut the link both projection and host." Ember turned to look at Sam as the goth quickly pulled out something familiar and she nodded as she manifested her guitar into existence before turning the dial. "You have a method?"
"Yeah, I just need to keep the connection, hopefully no one notices... though to be fair, I should have been noticed when I created my guitar." Ember started to strum a short section and Sam quickly fell under the spell, her violet eyes changing color as she shook her head to repel it. "There is some resistance, but it is going to be a piece of cake."
"Direct her over, it's the large white structure with the blue roof, by the coaster." The rocker nodded as Sam jumped up and charged for the showers, Tucker close behind as he shouted for a explanation, nothing to be solved as Ember closed her eyes and let her short control be her eyes and she lead both of them to the place where a ill-formed ghost was having a mental breakdown and Sam used the Thermos on the spirit, no defenses up from the breakdown so it was sucked in with no trouble as the aberration disappeared, the hero looked confused before bolting for the two as Ember stopped and breathed.
"Ow... I think doing it in my human form was a lot more draining than in my ghost form."
"It's okay, at least we know now, right?" She nodded as the shades returned to normal and both stood up as the Sam and Tucker returned with their friend, impossible as he had gone for help, the puzzle wasn't too difficult to solve, but Abram let it slide for now as He rushed over in concern. "Is everyone okay?"
"Yeah, but Sam's not looking too good." Tucker commented as Sam shook her head again. "She went chasing after something and found something else in the showers."
"Ugh... Tucker, the proper term is ghost and we saw one in the showers." The goth shook her head a bit more as she continued, Ember's influence fading off. "I don't know what happened, but it felt like someone put me under their control and sent me running for the ghost in the first place, the timing of the capture must have also affected the big ghost."
"Yeah, it did." Fenton said as she leaned on him. "One minute it was clashing with Phantom, and the next it just disappeared without a trace, whatever the ghost was, I'm sure my folks can check it out." He lead the way out as he continued. "Let's go, it's been a crazy pool time." The pair remained watching before Ember glanced at Abram and asked.
"You think we should hit now?"
"No, he is on guard, he knows something is up, but he has to tend with his friend first and not in public, he has to find us in private and confront us about it." Abram lightly removed the shades and continued with blue eyes. "So, what other ghosts could we make use of, Ember McLain?"
"I know a few, but we need some bait, some good bait."
"Well then..." He smirked at the thought. "I guess we have a lot of planning to do and you can possibly spread the word in your way." Ember smiled as well as the plan was starting to turn, the cogs rotating for the next idea to come...
Danny knew something was off as Sam rested in his room with Tucker, she was struck with a familiar ghostly power and it slightly drained her, she wasn't sick, but he knew, the power was Ember's, but where did she come from, she didn't rock the park nor appear any way close, so he returned to the Fenton Computer and started to go through the archive, all of the ghosts he had encountered and met all filed in before he opened Ember's file and it still was 'UNDEFINED' as to her whereabouts. His trip through the Ghost Zone after the whole thing yielded nothing as Dora herself told him that there shouldn't be any other dragon ghosts in the Zone, only her brother and her have the amulets to transform and they don't have the senses that Danny has, so he was stuck at a crosswalk.
Who was the girl he met at the park and who was the guy next to her that showed skill and understanding. These questions roamed his head before he decided to search for another, getting into the Fenton Speeder and heading into the Ghost Zone, his folks gave their approval to search for answers as he zoomed through and into the void that was the Zone, looking for someone in general before giving a whistle, the howl of a creature getting his attention as a werewolf ghost in inmate clothing and chains came bounding for him before stopping on the hood of the Speeder and Danny started. "Hey, Wulf, glad to see you're still doing good."
"As you too, friend, what Wulf do for you?" The ghost spoke in broken English as Danny spoke in explanation.
"I need some help finding Ember McLain, she has gone missing in both the Zone and in my world, but she recently did something in Amity's water park, can you help?"
"Wulf will help, McLain's disappearance very odd to start with, Kitty and Johnny go to search as well." Just his luck, if Johnny 13 and Kitty were looking for her too, then they might have headed through the Ghost Portal to Amity, but they couldn't do too much damage as he turned the Speeder around.
"Got it, if you find anything, Wulf, you know where we can meet." He saluted as the werewolf did the same as they parted ways, the search of Ember growing bigger than expected.