Danny and Mario engage in shady activity in order to reach the next Crystal Star.
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The Thousand Year Door: Emerald Star
Danny, Mario, and the others were on one knee outside the Great Boggly Tree shortly after defeating Skulker and the Magnus Von Grapple. The Punis were gathered in front of them.
"For defending our tree from the evil X-Nauts, I hereby knight you Heroes of the Punis," said the Puni elder. She tapped their heads with the Puni emblem and said, "Sir Danny Phantom of Amity Park. Sir Vlad Plasmius of Madison, Wisconsin. Sir Mario Mario of Toad Town. Lady Goombella Chestnut of Goomba Village. Sir Koops Shellshock of Petalburg. Lady Flurrie Gust of Boggly Woods."
"I would like to give Sir Mario the Puni emblem as to bring him and his partners luck in their travels," said the elder as she gave Mario the emblem.
The Punis cheered as Danny and the others left and Petuni said, "Come back to play sometime!"
"We will!" said Danny.
The Mario Gang only had to dodge enemies and travel through the forest and sewers to reach the Thousand Year Door, where Danny and Vlad lost their powers.
"You know, this is starting to get really annoying," said Vlad.
"I know what you mean," said Danny.
Mario went over to the platform and held up the map. The familiar lights and almost no gravity appeared as well as the Emerald Star in the circle to the right of the Diamond Star's one in a circular line. The Map started glowing and soon it was all over.
"My, that was almost as good as the stage lights," said Flurrie.
"Where's the next star Mario?" asked Danny.
"It's weird, it looks like it's floating in the sky," said Mario.
"We better go ask the professor," said Goombella.
They went back to Frankly's house and he said, "Well it looks like the next Crystal Star is in the floating city of Glitzville."
"Floating city?" questioned Danny.
"Oh, I've heard of that place, it's just one big tourist destination," said Goombella.
"Sounds like this star will be the easiest to get so far," said Danny.
"What could possibly go wrong in a place like that?" asked Vlad.
"Well the problem is getting there," said Koops, "Frankly, how do we get there?"
"You'd need a ticket for the blimp, but to get one you need certain… connections," said Frankly.
"What connections?" asked Vlad.
"The Pinta Syndicate," said Frankly.
"Syndicate? You mean the mafia?" said Vlad.
"Yes, exactly," said Frankly.
"We have to make a deal with the mob!" sad Flurrie.
"Don't worry, I know how to deal with people like this," said Vlad, "Where is there base located?"
"I don't know, but a lesser group called the Snailers would, their base is located behind my house somewhere," said Frankly.
"Right," said Vlad, "Mario, Daniel, Goombella, Koops, Flurrie, go to the inn, I'll handle everything."
"Don't worry, something tells me Vlad would be good with this," said Danny, "We'd better get some rest."
Everyone agreed and separated from Vlad to go to the inn.
When they got there they got the room they had before, but the innkeeper was still angry at Mario and it took a lot of convincing, and greasing of palms, to let her let him stay there.
It wasn't long before Vlad got back with a special ticket that could get him and as many people he wanted on the blimp, but it was too late to go to Glitzville so they stayed the night at Rougeport.
Unfortunately there was too much going on in Danny's mind for him to sleep, so he went outside and stared at the water from a bridge that connected the second floor of the inn to the badge shop.
In the streets of Rougeport he saw shady dealers, regular people, and a couple of pintas running around. Above him he saw the stars and Glitzville, both glowing brilliantly. A little to the left of Glitzville he saw the moon, but there was something weird about it.
"Are they building colonies on the moon in this world?" asked Danny to himself. "Living somewhere in space must be awesome," said Danny, letting his interest of space fill his thoughts.
"I wonder how Sam and Tucker would like it," said Danny, "Tucker would probably be excited since it would be like a sci-fi movie. Sam probably wouldn't like it because of the lack of plants." This, unfortunately, reminded him why he went outside in the first place. "Sam, Tucker, I hope you're alright. There's only one way Skulker could have gotten in here, I just hope he didn't harm them."
"Danny, they're fine," said Wanda, who had just appeared, "Skulker and all your other enemies did threaten them, but immediately entered the game when they saw you."
"The other ghosts are in here too!" shouted Danny.
"Er, well… That is to say…" said Wanda, realizing she just goofed up.
"How many of them are here?" demanded Danny.
Wanda sighed and said, "Ember, Johnny 13 and Kitty, Youngblood, Walker, and Technus. Also your cousin-clone Dani."
"They're all here, Dani too," said Danny, "Where are they?"
"If only I knew," said Wanda.
"This is just getting worse and worse," said Danny.
"I'm sorry," said Wanda.
"It's not your fault," said Danny, but he saw that Wanda had left.
"Tomorrow we go to Glitzville, I wonder what will happen there," said Danny as he went back to his bed.
"Daniel! Wake up darn it!" yelled Vlad in Danny's ear the next morning.
"Vlad? What time is it?" yawned Danny.
"Seven fifty," said Vlad, "The blimp leaves in ten minutes and won't be back for four hours after that."
"Oh no!" said Danny as he quickly ran out the room with Vlad following.
"There you are," said Mario when Danny got to the blimp station.
"We were about to leave without you," said Goombella.
"Sorry, I was up late last night," said Danny.
"My, that isn't good for you," said Flurrie.
"I know," said Danny.
"Come on, let's-a go!" said Mario.
Vlad showed the ticket to the ticket fish and the group was on the blimp heading towards Glitzville.
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