"What are you doing here?" Ember asked, her hand on the door while leaning slightly to the side.

"Don't act dumb. Why else would I come here? Do whatever you need to do, but you're going to show me what's on Skulker's island," Danny said.

"What, you scared of Skulker?" Ember said with a smirk.

"Please. I've turned his suit into scrap metal time and time again. I will, however, address how potentially dangerous his traps are. And you are my answer," Danny said crossing his arms.

"You think Skulker out of all people would make traps that could be dangerous?" Ember questioned, her eyebrows raised in disbelief. "Skulker? The same guy who claims to be the world's greatest hunter and can't even find a TV remote?"

"Better to be safe than sorry. Besides, if there's nothing serious, then you should have nothing to worry about," Danny said simply.

"Other than wasting my time. Fine," Ember said, putting her guitar around her body and taking to the air with the halfa.

During this time, Ember couldn't help but take a few glances at Phantom. Everything about him was just... off. He wasn't smiling. He wasn't carefree, he wasn't smiling. His eyes looked angry and his jaw was locked. It reminded her of Kitty when she was pissed off at someone. Only ten times worse.

"Stop looking at me," Danny said, his voice coming out in a low growl.

"You look so... strange," Ember said.

"I'm angry. What do you think?" Danny said impatiently.

"That's what's weird," Ember said.

"What, I can't get angry?" Danny questioned.

"More like I haven't seen you angry where you look ready to kill someone. That's our job," Ember said, sounding almost indignant.

"Ask me something. Can ghosts regenerate their tongues?" Danny asked.

"What do you..." Then it hit her. It made her snap her mouth shut immediately. "Look I know you're upset, but that's no excuse for being an asshole."

"No, it doesn't. However, dealing with all of your attacks on the city does. That certainly gives me the right to be an 'asshole,'" Danny said as he looked over to her in flight. And his look of anger was changed to something more familiar. Irritation. Well, that made her less feel like he was going to blast her if she said something out of line.

"Well, there it is," Danny said, pointing over at Skulker's island. Then he looked at Ember and jerked his head towards the location, signaling that she had to go first. Part of her was actually kind of excited to see Skulker get his butt handed to him. That would make being bossed around by Phantom around almost worth it. Almost. No one bossed her around. The person who tried usually got an injury because of it. Phantom was that one exception because she would go around nursing some injuries if she tried to make him 'learn.'

Ember floated onto the island before stopping about a meter from the land. Danny stopped next to her before looking at her.

"What's the matter?" he asked.

"Just remembered that there's a sensor to detect anyone that comes on the island without permission. At least if you try to fly in. He was at least smart enough to install that. I have to say that you might be out of luck if you want to get to him without him knowing," Ember told him, making Danny silently curse.

"Oh, but there is an solution. One Skulker could never account for," a voice inside Danny's head said. He didn't know if he somehow grew an extra personality or whether someone was just talking to him telepathically.

"And what's that?" Danny asked aloud, making Ember look at him strangely. Who was he even talking to?

"Transform back. The scanner is designed to detect ghosts, not humans. And 'realistically,' what human would be 'wise' enough travel to his island? The island of 'the greatest hunter of the Ghost Zone,'" the voice said, obvious finger quotes in their voice. It would've made Danny laugh if the situation wasn't as serious as it was.

"Are you serious?" Danny thought, suddenly wising up and knowing that whoever this was could hear his thoughts. "I don't how to use my powers out of my ghost form."

"Don't worry. I'll help you. Just this once. Then you're going to have to learn. In ways... easier than I did. Listen to my directions. Using your powers out of your ghost form requires a lot more focus than using them in it. Simply because your ectoplasmic DNA takes priority over your human DNA while you are in this form. That is why Walker's ghost jail can hold your ghost form, but not your human one even though you are half ghost. Each of your forms has their own advantages and disadvantages," the voice explained. It was weird how a voice so deep and echo-y could sound so knowledgeable on demand.

"How does that tie into using my powers without my ghost form?" Danny questioned.

"Well, with enough focus, you can simply will your ectoplasmic DNA to take priority over your human DNA, which in turn, allows you to use your powers in your human form. This can work the other way around with your ghost form. You ever find yourself trapped in a ghost shield? Will your human DNA to take priority over your ghost DNA, and simply walk out. Then immediately revert the priorities and wreak havoc," the voice said, a dark grin easing into its voice.

"You seem to know a lot about me. Is this something Plasmius knows how to do?" Danny questioned.

"He can do it well. How else can he make a clone of himself that looks human, and by all ghost technology is concerned, is human? With enough practice, you yourself will be able to do it. But for now, let's focus on the here and now. A lesson for another time, if you will. Now, transform back. I'll take care of the rest," the voice told him. Danny had his apprehensions about the whole thing, but he transformed back, it was not like he could transform back on demand and save himself.

"Here goes nothing," Danny said as he transformed back into his human form. Ember watched him, her eyes widening at the sight. Did he suddenly lose consciousness or something?

Danny's heart lurched for a second when he fell about a good meter, but almost immediately, he felt like he sort of took the backseat of his own mind. Then he was floating. In his human form. He looked at his hands before closing them into fists as he looked up at the island.

"What do you know?" he said with a smile.

"What are you doing?" Ember asked, tilting her head at him. Danny looked at her, and grinned. Suddenly, she was getting that feeling of the old Phantom again. And the others thought Phantom would stay like a vengeful person forever. She was definitely rubbing that in Kitty and Johnny's faces.

"An idea had just... came to me. I have an idea. Remain here," Danny said as he floated onto the island. Ember looked at him, expecting alarms to go off, but nothing. Absolutely nothing. How was he even doing that?

"This is awesome," Danny thought with a grin.

"I figured you would say something like that. It is certainly useful, that is for sure," the voice told him evenly. "To do this, you must have absolute will over your body's form. Right down to the atom. The closest thing you've achieved is a ghostly tail for extra flight speed. That's all. There is far more to learn."

"Just... who are you? And why are you teaching me this stuff?" Danny questioned. He couldn't see the voice, but he swore he saw a flash of white teeth in a smiling fashion that almost looked feral. Not in his eyelids, but just in his mind.

"Oh, we'll get to that at another date. Once I'm... relatively sure you can handle the truth," the voice said, mentally leading Danny over to the top of Skulker's island. "There's a machine that sends out a signal right on the forehead. Destroy it."

Danny looked where he told him to look, and there it was. A small red flashing beacon that wasn't bigger than the size of a button. It was really easy to miss. Danny smashed it with a punch and the pieces rolled down the statue quickly.

"Transform," the voice told him, letting go of his control and Danny quickly reverted back once he found out he wasn't in the backseat of his mind anymore. He recovered, and when he looked around, there was no alarm going off. No Skulker coming out with his suit ready. He still had the element of surprise. That was good.

"It's off. So can we just fly in?" he asked Ember.

"Mostly. The actual entrance is on ground level. I'm not exactly sure how many traps he put down there because it was never required for me to go on ground level, so given how over confident he is in his own hunting skills, too overconfident I might add, he might not have put any security around the door. Probably not even a lock," Ember told him.

"Probably is still something we have to be aware of, so make note of that. Let's fly to the door," Danny said as he turned and immediately floated down to the door. But stopped about halfway. He rolled his eyes at the simplicity of putting a bear trap at his front door.

"That's a pleasant way to greet guests. Oh, wait! It's very doubtful that he gets any since Ember! How could I forget?" Danny thought sarcastically. But he simply froze the trap before landing on it and shattering it. Ember then landed next to him. And rolled her eyes.

"A bear trap? Really Skulker?" she questioned aloud.

"Pleasant way to greet guests, don't you think?" Danny said dryly. Ember almost laughed. Probably would've if she wasn't talking to who she was talking to.

"Like he got any besides me," Ember said as she tried the door. "Locked. And we can't phase through it. He was at least smart enough to do that."

"With enough focus, you can simply will your ectoplasmic DNA to take priority over your human DNA. This can work the other way around with your ghost form." Danny remembered the what the person talking to him in his head said(which itself sounded insane), and he looked at his hands before clenching them tightly.

"Ok, I can do this. Concentrate. Just will your human DNA in front of your ghost DNA. It's not that hard. Right?" Danny questioned in his head as he closed his eyes tightly and tried to focus. Ember looked at him strangely.

"Do you need to go to the bathroom dipstick?" she questioned.

"Shut up. I'm concentrating," Danny said, trying to focus his DNA.

"Concentrate. You're not concentrating. You're think you're concentrating," the voice told him. "True concentration means you're thinking of nothing but what you're trying to change. Focus on nothing else."

Taking a deep breath, his mind tried to go back to all of those lectures in biology about how DNA looked. Then it became green. There was just the matter of making it turn back to it's original colorful thread. It was all about getting that color to change...

Ember had her arms crossed as she blew out a puff of breath and looking at the sky. Now she was just standing here, waiting for Phantom to finish... whatever the hell he was doing. She had half a mind to leave now. She showed him what he needed to know. It looked like he had the rest of it himself.

"You coming?" Danny suddenly asked. Ember blinked before she looked up and saw that he got the door open, making her eyes widen.

"How'd you..."

"Magic," he said flatly. "You can go if you want, but I get the feeling you don't particularly like Skulker. You don't seem as grudging to do this as I expected."

"If the ghost fighting doesn't work out, you could become a detective," Ember said dryly.

"I'll think about it. Now shush," Danny said, putting a finger on her lip to quiet her. She was about to yell her head off before the sounds of footsteps caught up with her. They both turned invisible at the same time, and then Skulker's metal boots came into view along with the rest of him. The sight of him reminded Danny of the missiles... Sam's scream of his name in panic... both her and Tucker flying through the air motionless...

With a snarl from his throat that made Ember jump, Danny lunged at Skulker with a punch to the center of his chest that made him recoil. Then it was followed both another one to his helmet that made him turn to the side before he wised up and activated his invisibility detection vision. It came on just in time to see an ecto-charged fist coming at his face again, the blow being powerful enough to send him flying in the room he just walked out of.

Ember's eyes were wide. She thought the growl came from some creature Skulker might've had as a pet, but no. It came from Phantom. That was kind of unbelievable.

Skulker groaned slightly as he managed to raise his head in time to see Phantom coming after him. And he did not look happy. He smiled. He wasn't expecting Phantom to attack him, but this would make the hunt interesting.

His missile launchers appeared on his back and fired a volley of them in his direction. They hit dead on and Skulker smiled even wider.

"His anger only made him even more careless. How disappointing," Skulker thought as he stood to his feet and began to walk down the hallway. But he felt a tap on his shoulder. Before he could turn around, he felt a fist wrenching through his armor. His eyes widened as the entire suit began to freeze completely. But his actual form didn't freeze.

"You're a fool if you think missiles will stop me from coming after you," Danny growled as he tossed Skulker's suit into a wall. The suit shattered into pieces as if it were made out of building blocks. Then Skulker was picked up with two fingers, green eyes staring at him with... it was no longer anger. It was deeper than that. Hatred.

"You took them from me," he growled. The blob knew exactly what Phantom meant by that.

"Quite an unfortunate miscalculation. They were... unworthy prey." What Skulker didn't understand is that he knew how to say the exact things that just worsened his situation. Now was one of many examples as Danny threw him into a wall and pinned him there with an ecto blast.

"Unworthy prey?! They were far more than that to me. And it's something you'll never understand because a pathetic little thing like you will forever be alone. But let me..." Danny's snarl of a voice quieted for a moment before he closed his eyes and opened them to where they were a blood red. He didn't notice the change in his eyes, but he noticed the shift in power. As well as his green energy was now red as he held it in his hands.

"...enlighten you." Skulker's eyes widened when his vision was filled with the red beam. Phantom's blasts had clipped his real form before, but pain... pain like this was never like that. His scream bounced off every wall in the room, and the pain only intensified as it continued.

Ember eased her way into the room, and her sight landed on Phantom's red beams that were blasting Skulker. Skulker's real form. She wasn't expecting this. She was expecting a regular fight where Phantom threw Skulker around a little, smashed his suit, and moved on. This... this is not what she was expecting not at all.

Then the beam stopped. Danny held up the now charred blob, who felt like the air itself was hurting his skin. The halfa then tilted his head at the figure.

"There isn't much you can do to a ghost. You are dead after all. But, I can leave you with something that you won't forget. Ember?" Danny called out, his eyes turning back to a normal hue of green. But they were as cold as ice.

"Um... what?" the rocker asked, walking into the room. Skulker couldn't even widen his eyes. It would hurt too much to manage it. But the situation still shocked him. He realized that even though they were no longer together and she really didn't like him, he didn't think she would team up with Phantom to do something like this. It was an atrocity on some many levels.

"You're good to go. Your guitar remains intact. I do need you to do one thing for me," Danny said as he made a clone of himself and the clone flew out of the room past her. "Tell everyone that you know I'm on an edge right now. There are moments when I don't want to hurt you and just get you out of my way. Then there are other days when I want to do the exact opposite. It all depends on the day I'm having. So I want them all to know that what happens to them when they attack the town depends on the day I'm having. I'm changing. For the better or worse depends on your point of view."

"Oh, I have to say that it's for the better," the voice suddenly said, the tone sounding somewhat ominous.

"So what are you going to do here?" Ember asked, wondering why he was still standing here holding Skulker.

"Oh, I'm going to give him a lesson that'll... stick," Danny said idly. "Trust me. You don't want to stay on the island considering what I have planned."

"I'll take your word for it," Ember said, floating out of the room. Then Danny looked to Skulker and threw him on the floor before freezing him in place.

"And now... we wait," Danny said, sitting his chair.

He knew it was a smart choice to freeze the hunter's mouth along with most of him because he more than likely would've been annoying. So he bid his time by throwing an energy ball back and forth between his hands. It was green again. It seemed like when he got angry, his energy turned red. It looked a lot more powerful than the blasts before, but he could seemingly only channel it when he was angry. It may have had do something with the death of his friends. Like his DNA, maybe he could learn to use it whenever he wanted to.

Then Danny looked up and saw that his clone flew into the room. Then he smiled at the sight of the device in his clone's hand. He grabbed it and his clone disappeared. The memory of going in through his parent's portal, grabbing the ectoplasmic bomb they had been working on, and exiting back through the portal was inserted into his head. It was ridiculous how laughably easy it was to take it when his parents claimed to have one of the best fortified places against ghosts. What a lie. But still. At least one of his parents' inventions was going to fit his purposes. That is, if it worked. Danny wasn't hopeful.

"Alright, I've gotten what I needed," Danny said as he placed the bomb on the ground and armed it for two minutes. More than enough time to fly out. Then he grabbed Skulker and flew out.

Floating in front of the island, Skulker was unfrozen in Danny's hand, causing the ghost to spit out water. Then he looked at Danny with indignation in his eyes.

"Let me go whelp!" Skulker exclaimed, struggling in Danny's grip. The halfa laughed at how small the ghost's voice was now. It was a good thing he could make things with technology. No one would take him seriously otherwise.

"Oh, I will. In a few minutes. Hopefully," Danny said, saying the last word under his breath. He waited for a few moments before shaking his head. Trust one of his parents' inventions...

He didn't even get to finish the thought before a loud boom echoed throughout the Ghost Zone as the floating island in front of the two ghosts was obliterated. Even though he had to dodge debris, he was still smiling.

"NO! Whelp, what have you done?!" Skulker exclaimed. Danny let him go before blasting him in the air. The pain came back to the small ghost immediately. He barely had the energy to float.

"You deserve far worse than to lose your home for what you did. You're finding some place else to live," Danny said coldly.

"My home! My inventions! My hunting is-"

"All a product of me losing my friends!" Danny yelled. Then he blasted Skulker again, making the small ghost convulse with pain. "Believe me. There's more I wish I could do to you. There's a lot more than you deserve. But this will do for right now. It'll have to." The halfa floated off back towards his home while an extremely injured Skulker didn't know whether to be angry or mortified at this turn of events. All he knew was that the whelp had to pay for this. There was only the matter of how. Unfortunately, he had no allies anywhere. Except perhaps... one.