Chapter 8: One of a Kind
Shadow: Now here's by far the most technological episode so far. You wanna know why… because…
Dani: Quit giving them spoilers. I wanna do that. But before I can do that I have to give you a brief recap. Okay so last time the team met Haru before they helped save his village from the Fire Nation. We learned that Haru was one of the 14 members of Team Avatar. And Jazz and Haru kissed… don't forget we learned that Sam had a crush on Zuko and Zuko found Katara's necklace.
Shadow: Good now we can continue but before we do so…
Aang: I have to say that this chapter will be different from the Danny Phantom episode namesake because Danny doesn't go to school. And Skulker will make his official appearance in this chapter.
Shadow: I wanted to do that.
Dani: I dibbed doing that.
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Danny, Aang and Katara were walking around the village they were currently in looking for the ghost that the people were talking about.
"So why are we doing this again?" Katara asked.
"Well you were awake and I wanted to go out on a late night stroll with you to find the ghost but then Aang decided to tag along." Danny thought but he said. "What kind of people would we be if we allowed a ghost to terrorise these people? And also you guys were the only ones who were awake."
"I'm good with the three of us doing this mission." Aang said. "The three unique benders, the last airbender and bender of the four elements, the last waterbender of the Southern Watertribe and the only Phantom Bender all on a mission to protect people."
"What about Sam?" Danny asked.
"She's a DemiGhost." Katara said. "She doesn't count."
"True." Danny said.
What the three of them didn't realise was that there was a ghost hovering just out of Danny's sensing range monitoring them.
"Hm… so the halfa isn't the only one of a kind." Skulker said. "This makes the hunt a lot better."
Danny, Katara and Aang then reached the location of the ghost and they were prepared but not for this ghost.
"BEWARE I AM THE BOX GHOST MASTER OF ALL THINGS SQUARE AND CARDBOARD! BEWARE!" Box Ghost yelled as he made boxes start floating.
The three humans immediately knew that Box Ghost wasn't a threat and began laughing.
"Okay, I can't breathe this is the horrifying ghost that has been terrorising this town." Katara said.
"He calls himself the Box Ghost." Aang said.
"This won't even be exercise." Danny said before he uncapped the Fenton Thermos and sucked the Box Ghost in.
Danny then closed the Thermos.
"Well at least we got a few laughs out of tonight." Danny said.
"Yeah." Katara said.
They then saw Danny's ghost sense go off before they saw a metal ball land right in front of them.
The ball the released some green gas into the air before Danny, Katara and Aang fell down unconscious. But as they were falling unconscious they saw a figure walking up to them.
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"Wake up halfa." Danny heard a voice saying as he started to wake up.
Danny looked around him and noticed someone standing in front of him but his vision was still blurry.
"Uh who… where…?" Danny asked before everything became clear. He was in some kind of trophy room that was glowing… and he was… chained to the wall.
Danny then saw a metal ghost in front of him.
"Ahh!" Danny yelled. "Who are you? Where am I?"
"I am Skulker the Ghost Zone's Greatest Hunter and you are in my lair in the Ghost Zone." Skulker said. "And you and your little friends are my prey."
Danny looked next to him and saw an unconscious Aang and then he turned and saw an unconscious Katara… but her head was bleeding. And that made Danny's blood boil. He assumed Skulker had hurt Katara, but the simple truth was that when she fell unconscious her head hit a rock.
"What do you want with us?" Danny asked with anger evident in his voice.
"I will skin the three of you. I will take your pelts. I will mount your heads on my wall, I will use your pelt as a bed rest, I will stuff the airbender and make him a trophy, I will make the girl my rug…" Skulker gloated all the things that he could or would probably do but he didn't get to finish because the last this he said broke Danny.
"What!?" Danny asked as his eyes became red, his white hair set ablaze and his skin became blue.
Then within a moment Skulker saw an attack that he had never seen coming. The attack was so powerful he was sent flying.
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Danny (Normal in control Danny) then noticed the room was destroyed and that he, Katara and Aang were all freed.
"Hu… must have had a rush of adrenalin." Danny said "But I need to get out of here now before Skulker comes back."
Danny then grabbed Katara and Aang before he flew out of the room… but Danny stopped when he saw the atmosphere. It was all green. There were green and purple swirls of energy in the sky, there were floating land masses everywhere, there were also floating doors but the thing that really scared Danny was that there were ghosts and a hell of a lot of them.
Danny then shook off his shock when he heard Skulker from his place so then Danny shot forward so that he could get away.
Danny then flew into a ghost forest when he was a good while away from Skulker's island and then he set Katara and Aang down to rest.
Danny then activated the shoot mode of the Thermos and he shot out Box Ghost, Lunch Lady and Lydia… all of which had been stuck in there since he got the Thermos.
Danny then flew back to his friends so that he could decide what to do.
Eventually after a few minutes they awoke.
"Danny? Where are we?" Katara asked.
"Ghost Zone?" Danny said.
"Wait what?" Aang said.
Danny then explained what his parents explained to him about the Ghost Zone.
"So we're in the home of the ghosts?" Aang asked.
"How do we get out of here?" Katara asked.
"I don't know." Danny said.
"Maybe the Skulker dude knows where we can find has a way back to our world." Aang said.
"Well then we're gonna have to take it." Danny said.
"Assuming that we can survive him." Katara said.
"Well let's try and get some rest so that when we face him we will have a greater chance against him." Aang said.
"I found a cave on this island… we should stay in there instead of staying in the open." Danny said.
They all went into the cave then Danny went and got some fire wood.
He then created a fire… by throwing an ecto blast at it but it didn't really help to warm them up much.
"Wow it's so cold here." Katara said.
"But you grew up in the South Pole." Aang said.
"I was in clothes meant for cold conditions and right now I am in clothes for warm seasons… and also something about the ghost zone just makes the cold unnatural."
"You know I heard that when people cuddle closer together they can keep themselves warm." Aang said. "Danny maybe you could cuddle Katara to keep her warm. You and I don't need it… seeing that I was in an iceberg for 100 years and you are naturally immune to ghost cold."
Danny and Katara then blushed but Danny did end up cuddling with Katara. Katara then shot Aang a look that said 'thank you.'
Aang then grinned back.
"Lovebirds." Aang whispered quietly.
Aang knew both Danny and Katara head that and since they didn't complain or anything Aang the smiled.
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Danny then awoke at the same time that everyone at morning… well what looked like morning. The Ghost Zone was certainly brighter than it was earlier.
Danny then noticed a blanket around him and… Katara and then he noticed Aang had a sheepish grin.
Realisation then dawned on Danny and by the look on Katara's face she had the same realisation… they had just slept together for the entire evening.
Aang then began laughing because their faces were so red that they could pass off as firebenders.
Aang began to wonder what Sokka would do if he were here. He'd probably threaten Danny or laugh at Danny.
"You guys do realise you're still in that blanket right?" Aang said through his laughing and then the two teens' blush deepened.
Danny and Katara then stood up awkwardly… with their hands accidently touching every once in a while.
"Okay Mr and Mrs Phantom… what's the game plan?" Aang asked.
"Find Skulker and make him take us back home." Danny said.
"You'll have to defeat me to do that whelp." Skulker said as he appeared blocking the cave entrance.
Skulker then made a lot of his weaponry appear.
"Come on Skulker… you wouldn't hit a bunch of unarmed kids?" Aang asked.
"Not but I'll shoot them." Skulker said before he fired missiles at them.
Danny then ran in front of Aang before he put up a large ghost shield in front of them, but the shield broke after the missiles hit.
Danny then created glasses out of his ecto energy constructs.
"You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses would you?" Danny asked before Skulker grabbed the glasses and hit Danny with them. "You hit a guy 'with glasses' that's… well played."
"Danny I found a way to escape." Katara called.
"Cool." Danny said. "Then let's get out of here."
Danny then turned into his ghost form before he grabbed Katara and flew deeper into the cave. Aang then created an air scooter before following.
"A chase… perfect." Skulker said with a smirk.
"Danny, just go deep enough into the cave then we'll be able to escape." Katara said.
They continued going deeper and deeper until they saw a cavern wall.
"Guy's just keep going… Danny transform into your human form." Katara said.
"Are you crazy?" Danny asked.
"I think if we keep going we'll splat." Aang said.
"Trust me." Katara replied.
Danny and Aang then complied before Danny transformed into his human form.
The two males were expecting to crash but they felt something else… they felt like they were passing through a solid object.
They all opened their eyes and found themselves back in the open ghost zone.
"Okay so in the Ghost Zone, humans are the ghosts." Danny said. "Good to know."
"Okay so we just saw how powerful Skulker is… how in the name of the spirits will we take him down?" Aang asked.
"I got an idea… we don't have to beat him all we have to do is try to get him out of his suit and threaten him." Danny said.
"How will we do that?" Katara asked.
"Well for one I don't think that Skulker is really that metal body we saw." Danny said. "I think he might actually be a body within a metal body. If we can get him out then the playing field will be equal. All we would need is for me to distract him while one of you two pull him out… somehow."
"Danny, do you think that will work?" Katara asked.
Danny shrugged but he knew that was the only plan they had at the moment.
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Danny was standing on a lone platform, which was floating around, waiting for Skulker.
Skulker then landed on the Platform behind Danny and looked at him.
"Finally decided to accept fate hey ghost child?" Skulker asked with a smirk.
"No I'm planning to threaten you." Danny said.
"You should be in your ghost form for that." Skulker said.
"It's seen a bit of "mileage" and you got the tech armour of destiny." Danny said before he pulled out his flask of water to attempt to bend and created an ecto glass. "Would you like a drink?"
"Stalling me won't change anything whelp." Skulker replied.
"No, no, no threatening! No drink? You sure? I'm having one." Danny said as he poured himself a drink of water and began drinking.
"I will have the three of you as trophies. I also have weaponry more advanced than anything you will ever know. What do I have to fear?" Skulker asked.
"Team Phantom." Danny said then he noticed the confused look on Skulker's face. "It's what we call ourselves, 'Earth's Most Unique Heroes' type thing."
"Yes I've met them." Skulker said.
"Yeah. Takes us a while to get any traction, I'll give you that one. But, let's do a head count here: There's Katara the Watertribe girl, Aang the living legend who starting to live up to the legend and me, the half ghost teenage superhero and protector of well Aang." Danny said as he sipped his water. "And you big fella, you've managed to piss off every single one of us."
"That was the plan." Skulker said.
"Not a great plan." Danny said. "You see when the other two come, we'll come for you."
A whole bunch of weapons then appeared out of Skulker's suit and he pointed them at Danny who didn't flinch.
"I have weapons." Skulker said.
"We have the Avatar." Danny replied.
"Well seeing as you are here alone I assume they wondered off." Skulker said starting to get irritated.
"You're missing the point. There's no version of this where you come out on top." Danny said. "Maybe your weapons are you much for us but it's all on you. Because if we can't protect ourselves you can be damn well sure that Team Avatar will avenge us."
"How will your friends have time for me when they are busy morning your death whelp?" Skulker yelled in rage before he pulled out a mean looking energy sword and stabbed it into Danny.
But Danny didn't even flinch. There was no wound or anything so Skulker tried again.
"This usually works." Skulker said.
"Well, performance issues..." Danny said before he shrugged. "Not uncommon, one out of five maybe..."
Skulker then angrily made his tangibility match Danny's before he angrily grabbed him by the neck and lifted him into the air.
"I've had it with these games whelp." Skulker said angrily.
"Oh Metal Head by the way…" Danny said. "Know the fight."
Danny then turned intangible and sunk into the ground before a large blast of air hit him in the back.
Danny then shot out of the ground, in his ghost form, with his hands glowing with ecto energy before he shot Skulker in the chest.
Danny then slapped Skulker into the ground before Aang and Katara then stuck their hands into Skulker before they both pulled out a little green blob that they presumed was Skulker.
"So you must be Skulker." Danny said. "Now time to make a few negotiations."
"We want to get back home and you don't want Aang to send you through multiple tornados." Katara said. "So tell us how we can get back home."
"Okay, okay. There's a PDA in the arm of my suit that will hack any technology and create portals between worlds." Skulker said in a tiny squeaky voice. "You just have to enter where you want to be taken and the portal will drop you there."
Danny then broke off both arms from Skulker's robot body before he searched them for the PDA thing.
Danny then found it and used it to create a portal.
"Okay it's been a pleasure doing business with you Skulker." Aang said before he tossed him a good while away.
The three humans then jumped into the portal and brought Skulker's arms with them.
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Back in the human world Sokka, Sam, Tucker, Jazz and Ty-lee were searching for their three missing companions before a portal opened above Sokka and out fell the three missing kids.
Fortunately for them they had a Southern Watertribe boy to land on unluckily for Sokka he was that boy.
Danny then got up and threw the metal arms to Tucker.
"Merry Christmas." Danny said.
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Shadow: Wow 8 chapters.
Dani: I'm overwhelmed.
Aang: This chapter was defiantly different from the Danny Phantom episode.
Shadow: Now the 10th episode is coming soon and you won't guess who will appear in that chapter. Vlad Plasmius and some other characters.
Dani: Vlad… why him? Why on the tenth?
Shadow: Hey CA15 only noticed that he was coming on the 10 chapter when we started writing this bold part.
Aang: And besides Dani the quicker Vlad arrives.
Dani: The quicker I come into existence.
Shadow: And the quicker you get your love interest and make Danny flip.
Dani: Who is it?
Shadow: Sorry but I have to wait for him to kiss you to confirm who it is but it's kinda obvious… all I can say is that he is an Avatar character. I wonder if Danny will mind having his TWELVE year old daughter dating some other guy from this show.
Aang: SO what will happen next time? Read, Review, Favourite and Follow to find out… and also guess what movie CA15 got the whole Danny and Skulker talking montage from.