Sunlight filtered through the curtains, which flapped in the wind. Danny opened his eyes and raised his head. Sam was gone, and the sheets were still ruffled as if there was someone sleeping in them. Then he remembered last night. Panic shot through him. Was Sam the precious thing that was taken from him?

Danny leaped from the bed and nosed Sam's door open. Once he was out, he ran around the house, checking every room for any signs of Sam.

When he made it into the living room, he was spotted by Sam's mom, who was reading the newspaper. "Does kitty need to go to the bathroom?" she asked, before picking up Danny and plopping him out the door and into the back yard.

"Thank you Mrs. Manson," muttered Danny as he jumped behind a bush, just in case someone was watching from the window. He transformed behind the bush, then phased through the fence by becoming intangible. He flew to Tucker's house.

"Tucker," called Danny, who was perched on Tucker's headboard, trying to wake the other boy up. "Tucker!"

Tucker yelped and sat up.

"Tucker," growled Danny. "Shut up and listen,"

"But I didn't say any-" started Tucker.

Danny hissed. "Quiet! I found out how I can change back- and that if I don't change back in four days, I'm a cat forever. We have to go find Feline Marxx in the ghost zone. He has Sam."

"Why did you let him take Sam?!" exclaimed Tucker.

"I didn't know he would take Sam," sighed Danny. "He said he would take something I love dearly. I guess... it was Sam.." Danny looked down at his paws, then set his determined gaze forward. "We have to go, now," he said.

"But how are we going to get into your basement without getting caught?" asked Tucker.

"Leave it to me," said Danny, eyes glowing with eagerness.

The pair left Tucker's without any problems, and once they were at Danny's house, Tucker hid in some bushes.

Danny ecto-blasted a window, causing it to shatter.

Jack and Maddie appeared in the doorway, their haste to open it had almost knocked it off the hinges.

"GHOOOOOOST!" cried Jack, setting his blaster upon the Danny-cat sitting on their doorstep.

The blaster made a whirring sound as it charged, preparing to unleash ecto-energy on Danny.

Danny gave them a cheesy grin and waved a paw. "Um... Meow?" he said, then set off down the street.

As planned, his parents chased him, and Tucker sneaked in. Jas was nowhere to be found.

Once Danny had given his parents the slip, he appeared in the lab next to Tucker.

"While they're gone, let's grab the Spectre Speeder and go," said Danny.

He and Tucker hopped into the Speeder, and Danny sat on the control panel, pushing buttons. "Hang on, Tucker," he said.

The portal opened and the Speeder shot forward.

"You stay in here and be looking around. I'll go outside and take a closer look," he said as he disappeared through the side of the Speeder.

Danny looked at his partial map of the ghost zone. "If he's not in any of these parts... he has to be somewhere out here," sighed Danny, looking at all the blank spaces on the map.

Danny poked his head back into the Speeder. "Follow me," he said.

Tucker nodded.

Danny flew off into the unknown, the Speeder right behind him.

Late that night, the Speeder pulled back into the Fenton's lab.

Danny sighed as he climbed out. "We've mapped a lot of the ghost zone today, but we didn't find Sam or Feline Marxx..." said Danny.

Tucker looked at Danny. "Tough break. There's always tomorrow." Then his stomach rumbled. "Um... we haven't eaten all day. Danny, I don't know about you, but I'm starving."

Danny nodded. "I'm hungry, too. We might have some food in our fridge...."

"Not the ham," groaned Tucker.

"No, not ham," muttered Danny. He led Tucker into the kitchen sat in front of the refrigerator, waiting for Tucker to open it.

Once Tucker opened the fridge, Danny hopped in and began digging around all the plates of leftovers and some strange experiments that had gotten stuffed in.

Danny nosed around until he found some good items, which he pointed out to Tucker. When they had finished going through the fridge they had come up with: 1 unopened package of hot dogs, 4 cups of assorted chocolate and vanilla pudding, 6 cans of soda, 3 sticks of beef jerky, and some carrots.

Danny led Tucker outside, phasing the other boy and their food through the wall. Once they were outside, Danny sighed and looked around. "Well... where are we going to sleep? We can't go back to your house... you're supposed to be sleeping over at mine..."

"The park?" suggested Tucker.

"Good idea," said Danny, and the pair headed to the park.

Once they were there, Danny sighed and jumped up onto a park bench. He blinked and looked down at his paws.

"Pudding?" asked Tucker, pushing an opened cup to Danny.

Danny smiled slightly. "Want me to cook those hot dogs?"

Tucker nodded.

Danny hopped down and gathered some dried leaves and twigs and set them in front of the bench. He fired a tiny blast at the pile, causing it to catch fire.

Tucker snapped off a branch and stuck some of the hot dogs on it. He held it over Danny's fire.

Once the hot dogs were finished, he gave three to Danny, who ate them eagerly. He ate the rest of the package himself.

The pair decided to save the jerky, the carrots, 3 cans of soda, and two of the pudding cups.

Danny ate his pudding cup, and lapped up a fair amount of soda with the help of Tucker before curling up and falling asleep on the ground beneath the bench.

Tucker soon fell asleep too, curled up on the bench.