Chapter 2: Targeting the Santas

After the encounter with this Jack Frost character, Danny and his two friends went to the mall to do any last minute shopping. Danny's little "flu" problem was still quite bothersome for Sam and Tucker. Whenever anyone of them was close to Danny, they felt quite warm in their winter clothing. Even Danny was sweating like crazy from his forehead and his sweat began to drip down from his body and onto the ground.

"Danny, something is seriously wrong with you" said Sam as she notice this.

"Yea" said Tucker, "someone could slip over that wet floor."

"Sorry guys, after a few months after I faced Undergrowth, I began to develop these strange flu-like symptoms and what is worse is that I even had a flu shot" added Danny.

"This sounds serious, I think you probably need to see a doctor" said Sam.

"But if I do that then I'll be exposed as Danny Phantom" said Danny, "you know how these doctors do these sort of blood tests."

"But everybody is going to still going to notice your flu-like symptoms" said Sam, "and everybody else is certainly going to be worried."

"Well, as long as this Jack Frost character is still around, I may have to take those chances" said Danny.

"By the way, why does this Jack Frost really want to destroy Christmas?" asked Tucker as the three were passing a imposter Santa Claus who had a line of children ready to take requests for suppose Christmas list they prepared.

"I don't know" said Danny then he looks back at the imposter Santa, "but I sure think the children would be disappointed if this Jack Frost makes his first attack against some of these phony Santas."

"Ex nay on the phony aye" said Sam to Danny as they were close by the line of children who were prepared to hopefully get want they wanted from Santa.

But of course Danny spoke too soon as he heard a familiar laughter the first time he encountered this Jack Frost. Jack Frost came gushing right into the mall sliding through the various crowds of shoppers thanks to his ice powers. He then stopped right at the first phony Santa to which Danny and his two friends had encountered.

"You are a strange fellow" said the phony Santa to Jack Frost, "by chance are you this Inviso Bill everybody has been talking about?"

"Something like that" lied Jack then he used his ice powers and freeze the phony Santa right on his chair.

The phony Santa was just doing his job for the mall and attempted to try to get up, but he was stuck like glue.

"Hey, you're not Inviso Bill" said a small boy to Jack Frost.

Jack then gave an evil glare to the small boy and he squirmed away along with the other children who were afraid of him. The icy villain then walked toward the phony Santa and was about to rip off his fake beard.

"Please don't do this, you'll traumatize the children" cried the phony Santa who was trying to get out of his position.

"Hey, what the heck do you think you are doing?" asked a mall officer as he notice Jack Frost doing his evil deed.

"Why don't you put yourself on ice" replied Jack as he used his ice powers and froze the mall officer's feet to the floor.

The mall officer couldn't do a thing to free himself from his situation as it was the same for the phony Santa. Jack Frost happily ripped off the beard from the phony Santa and the children all glared in such shock and astonishment.

"That's right kids, I Inviso Bill or should I say Danny Phantom say this Santa is a fake and I'm determine to de-beard and expose every fake Santa" said Jack as he made an evil laugh.

Jack Frost dashed off to find other phony Santas to which he can ruin the Christmas joy of the children of Amity Park. Jack dashed through several shoppers who were quite busy and he finally made it to another phony Santa and his phony elves who were giving out candy to the children.

"Time to frame Inviso Bill or should I say this Danny Phantom or whatever the fellow calls himself" said Jack as he began to approach the second phony Santa.

"My, you seem to be a strange fellow" said the second phony Santa then he handed Jack a candy Cain, "want one of these?"

"Sure" replied Jack as he gave an evil smirk.

As Jack took the candy Cain, he also froze the second phony Santa's arm and then immediately de-bearded the phony Santa in front of all the children.

"Hey, what the heck do you think you are doing?" asked one of the phony elves, "Come on boys, let's get him."

Before the phony elves could apprehend Jack Frost, the icy villain used his ice powers on the floor, making it quite slippery for the group of phony elves who all fell to the ground and slipped right into the pile of candy causing a big mess.

"Tell the tale that Inviso Bill did this to you all!" said Jack as he gave an evil laugh and left the scene.

While Danny and his two friends were still going through the mall, Danny notice that there were a lot of children quite upset running around crying along with their parents trying to calm them down.

"Inviso Bill ruined my Christmas!" cried one small girl as she hugged her mother.

"Okay, this is getting quite weird" said Sam, "I just don't know how this Jack Frost fellow could be able to frame you just like that."

"Yea, I know" said Danny, "I hope I don't run into villains like this all the time. The last villain who attempted to frame me for ruining Christmas was this Ghostwriter villain and he's still sitting in Walker's prison."

"So what do you think we should do about this Jack Frost?" asked Tucker, "We can't just let him ruin Christmas and blame you for everything."

"You're right" said Danny as he could see Jack Frost dashing about throughout the mall from down below, "you guys cover me. I have some unfinished business with this Jack Frost."

Danny raced behind some large plants where it was quite difficult for anyone to spot him even for a security cameras throughout the mall. Danny changed into his ghost mode and quickly raced toward where Jack Frost was about to de-beard another phony Santa as his new record was around six just about now.

"Ah, lucky seven" said Jack as he stopped to see the seventh phony Santa giving out presents to the children, "it's time Christmas finally came to an end."

"Oh no you don't" said a voice behind him.

Suddenly before Jack Frost could make his move to de-beard the phony Santa, Danny zoomed right toward Jack. He then turned invisible and took Jack Frost right outside the alleyway of the mall where Sam and Tucker quickly followed Danny to that location.

"Kid" said Jack, "you are really ruining my fun."

"Well your so-called fun is hurting children who are trying to celebrate Christmas" said Danny.

"Okay kid, you are just asking for it" said Jack as he flared up his icy powers giving a blue aura around him, "it's time that you met your match."

Jack then pointed his finger right at Danny and before Danny could do anything, Jack used massive amounts of his ice power and manage to freeze Danny right in a block of ice. Danny's two friends were in shock and astonishment that their friend was frozen. Then Jack notice the two.

"You two must be his collaborators" said Jack as he began to approach the two, "you two would make wonderful hostages for me."

Before Jack Frost could make his move against them, Danny's "flu" caught up with him as the ice cube to which Danny was locked in began to melt quite rapidly. Jack turned around and notice it.

"This can't be good" said Jack.

"I think you should leave my friends alone along with this holiday" said Danny as he gave Jack Frost a good punch sending him flying right into a trash can.

Jack then bursts out of the trash can with his ice powers destroying it. He was quite steamed for someone with ice powers so he decided to flee the scene as he heard sirens in the distance.

"We're not finished here" said Jack to Danny and his two friends as he used his ice powers and sped off into the distance scheming to plot his next move.

Danny changed back to his human self as he went right into a dumpster as the police arrived. But the police weren't the only ones who arrived; Jack Fenton arrived on the scene along with Maddie.

"Oh great, it's you two again" said the head officer to Jack.

"We heard rumors from terrified children that Inviso Bill was behind all of this mess at the mall" said Maddie as she was ready with her usual anti-ghost weaponry.

"Yea" said Jack, "he's my top ghost to catch, even bigger than this Spirit of Christmas since he's trying to take him out."

"Well, we'll think about hiring you two for mall security" said the head officer.

"Oh great" said Danny as he was getting out of the dumpster.

"Say son, why were you in that dumpster?" asked Jack.

"Uh, hiding from Inviso Bill?" replied Danny.

"Works for me" replied Jack then he turns to Maddie, "come on Maddie, let's catch this Inviso Bill by staking out the mall."