Everyone stood frozen on the campground, staring at the nemesis they thought they had escaped as he and his ghost partner stood there, both with looks of victory.
"Mom. Dad." Danny instructed, quietly. "Get everyone inside the cabin and stay there."
Sam stepped up behind him in protest. "Danny, we're not…"
"Now!" Danny ordered in a harsh whisper. "Wulf can protect you guys in there."
"Oh, can he?" Freakshow commented in overhearing what the young ghost-hero was trying to tell his family. "And who's going to protect you from this?"
In immediate response, Lydia threw her cape back and several of her tattoos shot from off her body, heading straight for the boy.
Seeing what was happening, Danielle ran up behind her cousin. "Danny, look out!" She shouted as she grabbed his arm and swung him out of the way of the oncoming assault.
Danny was thrown off balance from the pull and fell over on his front. He spun his head around, only in time to see his little cousin get hit by the blow that had originally been meant for him.
"Danielle!" He cried out as she was thrown back quite a distance and landed on her back, hard on the ground.
Before she could even sit up, the tattoos that had hit her dead on suddenly laced together and wrapped around the girl's body and Lydia was holding onto the other end of the lacing. "What the...Hey!" Danielle exclaimed as the animal shapes pinned her arms to her body and tied her ankles together.
Lydia yanked her end of the intertwined tattoos and Danielle was pulled away from the others, landing on the ground near Freakshow and out of the way of him getting to his goal.
The girl strained against the binding tattoos but they only tightened around her even more. "How many things can these stupid tattoos be used for?" She yelled in frustration.
Freakshow walked up to the girl's tightly bound figure on the ground as she continued to struggle. "Clever trick you pulled back there, girl, with the device that stopped Lydia's powers and all." He said to Danielle, who could only look up at the ringmaster from her defenseless position. "Pity for you it didn't last for very long."
"Hey! Leave her alone Freakshow!" Danny demanded, getting to his feet. "Your score is with me."
"On the contrary." Freakshow said, matter-of-factly, "Had she and her dog friend not interfered, our little score would already have been settled."
"Couldn't help it." Danielle said cheekily up at Freakshow. "Wulf and I just love getting our noses into any illicit clown's business."
Lydia glared as if scolding Danielle for talking to her master in such a way and kicked her in her stomach, effectively silencing her and making her roll over a bit about a foot away.
Danny couldn't help but take a jerky and concerned step towards his cousin as he saw her recoil from the pain in her stomach.
Freakshow smiled evilly down at the tied teenager at his feet and then turned to Danny, taking a few steps towards him and the others who backed away from his approach. The criminal stopped about half way and looked at Danny's bandaged injuries, smiling again. "I'll bet those still hurt. Don't they, boy?"
Danny glared at the pale-faced ringmaster in response as his parents pulled out their weapons from behind him.
"You're not laying another finger on our son." Mr. Fenton called out, aiming his Fenton Bazooka at…
Wait a minute. Where did Lydia go? Everyone started to panic in realizing that Freakshow's ghost-assistant had disappeared.
After frantically looking around, Lydia suddenly phased up through the ground behind the Fentons and Danny's friends. She threw her cape back again and sent the rest of her menacing little minions forth.
They zoomed around Danny's peers in a whirlwind similar to the one the cloaked woman had trapped Danielle in back in the cave. Before the Fentons could do anything with their ghost-hunting gear, the little tattoos started to swoop in from the mobile wall, grabbing their weapons one-by-one until they were once again left with no way of defending themselves. Or Danny.
The animal shapes that had taken their weapons flew back to Freakshow and dropped them at his feet while the other tattoos continued in their confining whirlwind formation around Danny's loved ones.
Wulf now sprang into action and leapt from the porch, charging straight at Lydia who was busy controlling her body-art to maintain the circular chamber. The great dog let out a roar of rage, but just before he pounced on her, Freakshow had taken the Jack-O-Nine-Tales gadget he had just obtained and launched its cord at the giant dog. The cords wrapped around Wulf's neck and Freakshow yanked the tube-like handle of the Nine-Tales, pulling the spectral canine right out of his intended path. The white cord then sent an electric surge through him.
Wulf let out a doglike yelp in pain from the sudden jolt and collapsed to the ground.
"Wulf!" Both Phantoms said in unison in seeing their ghostly ally fall.
Danny started to rush to help him as Freakshow reached inside his coat, pulling out a small circular device. He tossed it in Danny's direction and it landed only a few feet in front of the boy when he was half way to his fallen friend.
Just as Danny looked down to see it there, Freakshow pulled out the remote for the Ghost Trap and pressed a button in the direction of the device. The transparent, blue wall of the Ghost Trap suddenly appeared around Danny and the boy felt himself getting scrambled up inside from the effects of his powers becoming completely useless.
"No!" Danny cried out, banging on the walls of the dome, even though he knew he couldn't breach them. He was still in his ghost form, so he couldn't escape it. "I hate this thing." He said, continuing to try and break out.
Freakshow laughed his usual hysteric cackle in seeing Danny's desperate reaction and slowly began twisting a knob on the remote.
To everyone's shock, the dome around Danny began to shrink around its prisoner. Danny started to panic in realizing that the space around him was getting smaller. He desperately pushed against the inside of the walls as if trying to make it stop closing in around him but the shrinking eventually forced him down to his knees as the Ghost Trap continued reducing the space he was restricted to. The dome only stopped shrinking when Danny had no choice but to bend down to his knees to keep from having to crane his neck from the cramped space.
Freakshow laughed even more as he approached the Ghost Trap, pulling out a, by now, all too familiar, dark sack.
"He's got the sack. He's got the sack!" Tucker said urgently to everyone else inside the tattoo field, pointing a shaking finger at the black bag of what he knew contained.
Danny tried to withdraw from the dome wall that Freakshow was approaching, but he was already limited in space and couldn't go far.
"That's right, ghost-boy." Freakshow said when he saw the fear in Danny's eyes. "That fire may have destroyed the circle I made, but I still have some Blood Blossoms left."
Sam nearly gasped at simply hearing the name of the dreadful substance as Freakshow lifted the last of the red flowers out of the sack.
"It's not enough to make another circle, but I already know how much grief the vapor causes you." Freakshow was now in very close proximity to the Ghost Trap and was holding the last of his anti-ghost remedy at the ready. "Just dropping these inside the dome will still give off the vapors and fill up that dome in which you have no escape from. Need I say more on what will eventually happen?"
He laughed as if he just told a funny joke before Danielle shouted forcefully from behind him. "If you so much as attempt to touch him with those again, I'll blow your hands off!"
Freakshow looked back at the tied girl who had managed to get up to her knees, despite the tattoos being wrapped around her.
He simply laughed at her look of determination. "And how exactly do you plan to do that, I wonder?"
"Dare to test me?" Danielle said darkly with a glare.
The pale-faced criminal looked at the Fentons' weapons that he had confiscated, then to the family itself that was trapped behind the moving wall of green animal shapes they were unable to bypass. He then glanced over to the now weakened dog-ghost and then to Danny Phantom who tried pushing his back against the dome wall in another desperate attempt to break free. Freakshow then finally looked back to young Danielle, his reassurance of himself growing even more at how helpless everyone seemed in being able to stop him from achieving his objective.
Freakshow shook his head at the girl with another cackle. "Considering I seem to have the upper hand, even over you and your pet ghost," he said as he started to elevate his hand that contained the Blood Blossoms over the blue dome, "you may as well just say goodbye to Danny Phantom."
The old circus leader looked down at his ghost-boy nemesis and started to slowly rotate his open hand downward to allow the deadly flowers to fall through the wall and into the Ghost Trap.
Danny's friends and family started to turn away and cover their ears, knowing what would happen as soon as the Blood Blossoms hit the ground inside the dome.
Before the destructive essence left Freakshow's hand, two narrow rays of identical green energy hit the back of his hand in unison, forcing him to accidentally throw the Blood Blossoms up and away from Danny. The flowers nearly hit Lydia instead in fact and she screamed fearfully as she dodged out of the way.
The pale-faced man grabbed his now singed hand, moaning in pain before looking back at Danielle, completely flabbergasted. Lydia and the Fentons seemed just as surprised as Freakshow was at what had just happened. Danny was the only one who really knew that Danielle had just shot the plasma rays from her eyes.
"Which one, Freak-Face?" The female-hybrid said darkly as her eyes returned from the resulting green glow from the released plasma ray to the original blue.
Danny looked at her with a cocked eyebrow. "It's Freakshow." He corrected.
Danielle just rolled her eyes. "Whatever, they both start with the word "Freak" which is what he is." She said as if annoyed, nodding toward Freakshow.
After a second, Danny cocked his head to the side, seeing her point.
Tucker was the one who admitted if vocally. "Can't argue that one." He said, and everyone couldn't help but giggle at the comment. Including Danny.
Freakshow, still holding his injured hand, glared at the girl that just insulted him, but still with a trace of confusion written all over his face. "What do you mean 'which one'?" He inquired of her. "There is only one Danny Phantom."
Danielle smiled and started to build her ecto energy up. "Depends on how you look at it, I guess." She said, closing her eyes in concentration. With a burst of energy emitting from her whole figure, she broke the green bindings around her and the tattoos instantaneously dispersed, having no choice but to return to their respective placing on Lydia's body.
Everyone stared wide-eyed after seeing this happen, except for Danny who was smiling up at the ghost-envious ringmaster as if he knew something he didn't, which was exactly the case.
Danielle stood up and started walking towards Freakshow determinedly. "But in my view," she began. "Either way," She stopped half way to him. "You're still wrong."
Freakshow circled around the Ghost Trap, looking both confused as well as maybe a bit doubtful as Danielle started to smile the same way as Danny was.
Her smile broadened even more in seeing the look on Freakshow's face. "Allow me to show you why." She said with a bow as if presenting herself to do something spectacular. That's when she stepped backward into a ready stance, closed her eyes and the white ring of power expanded from around her waist.
Everyone except Danny stared completely stunned as the ring split and moved across the teenager's figure, transforming her into her, previously unknown, ghost-powered form. By the time the change was complete, Freakshow looked ten times as surprised as everyone else.
Danielle shot her eyes back open, looking at the pale man with now, glowing, bright green eyes that reflected the same spirit as the boy she had been created from.
"Meet yours truly: Danielle Phantom." She said with a mocking smile, simply enjoying the shocked expression the villain was giving her. "Dani for short. With an I." She clarified, quickly.
"No. This can't be possible." Freakshow said, shaking his head and backing away a few steps.
"What? You thought that Danny Fenton and Vlad Masters were the only ghost-hybrids in the world? Or did you just think it wasn't possible for a girl to be one?" The ghost girl asked, putting her hands on her hips and giving Freakshow a look.
"Actually, he just wishes he had the powers." Danny explained from under the dome of the Ghost Trap. "He has Ghost-Envy."
Jazz giggled at this, followed by the rest of the captives.
Freakshow growled at everyone trying to get them to stop before shouting his ghost-partner's name. "Lydia!"
In immediate response, Lydia flew passed her master, blocking Danielle's path to help her cousin and sent the last of her tattoos as well as a number of the ones from the whirlwind after Danielle and they started making the swarming twister around her as well, just like they did back at the cave.
Freakshow, thinking the girl was trapped just as the rest were, smiled evilly at her. However, his expression changed to confusion when he saw the ghost-hybrid just look around at the green entities that surrounded her and cocked an eyebrow at Lydia as if in boredom.
"You know, you really need to get yourself a new power. This whole tattoo thing is way disturbing." She said, sounding annoyed and frustrated rather than scared or even defiant, like the ringmaster had been expecting.
Danielle charged up her hands with the green glow of the plasma ray that she now had regained complete control of and then extended her arms out, spinning her whole body upward into the air like a helicopter. The emission of energy this motion let off hit the flying tattoos and they all completely disappeared. "And that strategy has gotten really old by now." She added, while remaining afloat a few feet above the ground with her hands still charged.
That whirlwind wall trick may have kept the Phantom-clone down back in the cave, when her powers had been dysfunctional, but now that she had them back, she had become a force to be reckoned with. Lydia must have realized this too, because she looked quite startled after Danielle so easily defeated the source of her special power.
The ghost-girl took advantage of the hesitation by flying towards the cloaked ghost, grabbing her by the cape with one hand in passing, and swung her up and over her head while in midair, throwing her, underhanded, right at Freakshow.
Lydia collided with the ringmaster and they were both forced several yards towards the lake behind them and away from where Danny was trapped inside the blue dome.
Immediately after, Danielle flew to the Ghost Trap. "Danny, are you okay?" She asked, peering through the wall at him in concern, putting her hands on the outside of the circular confinement.
"Yeah, thanks." Danny nodded. "I'd be better if I didn't feel so cramped, though." He said, trying to push out on the inside of his imprisonment again.
"I'll get you out of there." Danielle reassured, straightening up.
Freakshow started to laugh in overhearing this. "I don't thinks so, girl." He said as Danielle looked in his direction. He and Lydia had untangled themselves from the ground and Lydia was now hovering next to the ringmaster who, by now, was sitting up on the grass. "You need the remote in order to deactivate that Ghost Trap." He pulled out the mentioned remote and wiggled it in his fingers as if taunting the ghost-girl with it. "And I still have that." He finished with an evil grin.
Danielle cocked an eyebrow at the pale-faced criminal, folding her arms and put a gloved hand on her chin as if in thought. "Hmm. You're right. That would be a problem." She said sarcastically, but then Freakshow's confidence faded when he saw the young girl smile. After scoffing. Then she shrugged and added, "If I wanted to keep the stupid trap in tact, that is."
She pointed a finger at the small device on the ground that was generating her cousin's small prison and shot an ecto-ray at it without even looking.
The circular generator for the Ghost Trap exploded, leaving nothing but a small mess of metal and sparking wires that were sizzling with green smoke from her plasma ray. Without the portable generator to maintain the blue dome, the Ghost Trap holding her cousin dissolved to nothing.
"Wha…? No!" Freakshow cried out, standing up as his last means of confinement around his teen-ghost enemy disappeared before his eyes.
Danny stood up, now able to stretch his legs from being cooped up inside the cramped cage. Then he looked at his young clone. "Why didn't you just do that before?" He asked, smiling.
Danielle just scoffed, shaking her head. "You know what I'm gonna say, right?"
Danny rolled his eyes, amused and started quoting what the girl used to always say to him two years ago in a time like this. "Do you wanna ask questions…?" He began, lazily but still smiling even more.
"…Or do you wanna kick some butt?" The hybrid-clone finished for him with a nod, smiling mischievously in Freakshow's direction.
Danny looked over at the clown-faced criminal with the same exact expression. "I'll go with the second." He responded as Freakshow looked fearfully between them.
Then, the two Phantom partners stood back-to-back, just like the first time they had fought together.