Odd Trio Episode 1

Chapter 1 - Heroes Unite

Los Angeles Historical Museum

Kira Finster and her stepson Chuckie were browsing around the museum. Chuckie had been doing a school report for history class on feudal Japan. He'd first wanted to ask Kimi, but for some reason she'd never been around anymore. Kira was only happy to help along with whatever she'd learned about her home country's history in school herself. Later on, Kira decided to give Chuckie a more hands-on experience by taking him to the museum to check out the Japanese culture section.

"Wow," Chuckie remarked as he came upon a Samurai suit of armor, "This is actually pretty cool. The placard says it was worn by a Shogun in the royal army in the early 1800's."

"Right," Kira smiled, "So based on what you know; was that before or after the Meiji Restoration?"

"Before, right?"

"Very good, Chuckie-chan." Kira said, "You'll have no problem passing this report."

"You know it, Mom." Chuckie said, "Maybe pretty soon, I'll learn more than Kimi!"

Kira smiled again, "Perhaps you will, sweetheart," she said, "perhaps you will."

"Wow! Look at this! I never knew the Japanese made THIS!" Chuckie said excitedly as he ran off to a display holding a large gem.

Kira walked up to it.

"Odd," she remarked as she read the placard, "they didn't make it, it says it was found outside of Kyoto in 1917."

"Weird." Chuckie said, "It says that the guy who found it claimed he had horrible nightmares every night after it, and that he blamed this stone. They'd found him in his bungalow, three months later, after…he killed himself…eew."

"That's silly," Kira smiled, "How could a gem give you nightmares?"

Suddenly, the ground began to shake. Kira and Chuckie gasped as the vibrations caused the gem to fall off its display in the case.

"Earthquake!" Kira said, "Chuckie, get under the doorframe!"

Kira and Chuckie ran to the large doorway, but suddenly, the ground cracked open and out came the Ninja Ghost, Skullker and the Fright Knight, suited up in mechanical combat gear.

"Oh God!" Chuckie screamed as he and Kira clutched each other. Everyone else ran off screaming, but Kira and Chuckie were too scared to move.

"How can a gem give you nightmares, dear lady?" the Fright Knight thundered, "Allow us to demonstrate!"

Skullker aimed his weapon at the case holding the gem and blasted it open, while the Ninja Ghost bounded over to it and grabbed it.

"Finally," The Ninja Ghost said, "We now possess the second Spiritual Gem. When focused correctly, it possesses the power to make a person dream their greatest fear, and you my dear lady will be the first test subject!"

"Enough!" a voice boomed as Plasmius appeared into the room.

"We have bigger and better malefactors to use this against!" he yelled, "Do not waste it on such a worthless target."

"Hey!" Chuckie said.

"SILENCE, BOY!" Plasmius yelled, a crackle of lighting filling the room. He then turned to the Ninja Ghost.

"Give me the Gem. As for those two…" He said before turning around and smiling evilly at them, "Do with them what you see fit."

With an evil cackle, Plasmius disappeared in a cloud of smoke as the mechanized creatures advanced on the defenseless Kira and Chuckie.

Kimi: Ninja power!

Jenny: Teenage Robot!

Danny: Going Ghost! 3...

Jenny: ...2...

Kimi: ...1

Together: Odd Trio!

When we are together, we are the Odd Trio!

Three young superhero powered teens,

Working together as a fighting team,

They and their friends are doing things their way,

Helping out the world to save the day.

They stick together like birds of a feather,

Champions alone but unstoppable together

Ninjetta, Danny Phantom, XJ-9,

Their here to save the world from crime!

They'll never stop until their work is done,

They may be three but they work as one,

They do coolest things as a team,

Hard to believe that they're still in their teens,

Their powers my not be fully developed, But they'll save the day for you and me! Odd Trio!

Back at the Fenton household, Jack and Maddie sat their guests down as Danny, Kimi and Jenny paced across the floor worriedly.

"This is just great." Danny said, flabbergasted. "Now that the Fenton Portal is in the wrong hands, there's no telling what they could do with it!"

"Well the only logical explanation seems to be that they're going to release all the ghosts onto humanity." Maddie said.

"Right," Jack said, "And we've got to be ready for each and every evil one!"

"Uh, Dad," Danny said, "Not all ghosts are evil. I mean, look at me!"

"Right," Jack said, "Sorry son."

Danny sighed harshly.

"It's bad enough I have to take those guys on, on a daily basis," Danny said, "But if Vlad and that Vexus chick release them…"

Danny banged his fist on the counter.

"I'll never be able to take all of them on alone!" Danny said.

Kimi and Jenny stopped.

"Danny," Kimi said, "You're not alone."
"Yeah," Jenny said, "We're all in this together. I mean Vexus has my mom! We have to save her!"

"And That Ninja Ghost seems to have some sort of personal vendetta against me." Ninjetta said, "And regardless of that, I'm can't just stand idly by and let these fiends get away with this. You guys are my friends, and as long as you two are fighting, I'm fighting too."

"Right." Sam said. "Despite whatever conflicts or differences you may have had before, when you three worked together as a team, your enemies fell easier than if you'd worked alone. Not only that, all your enemies have seemed to band together."

"She has a point." Ninjetta said, "Our foes have teamed up. We'd never be able to take them on by ourselves, but if we work together, we can do anything!"
Jenny smiled, "So are we a team, or what?" She said excitedly.

"I'm in!" Kimi said, sticking her hand out. Jenny placed her hand on top of Ninjetta's.

Danny smiled back at them

"We got ourselves a team!" Danny said and he placed his hand in the circle too.

Gaz started laughing silently, pinching her eyes.

"What?" Kimi asked, "What's so funny?"

"Well, this is heartwarming and all," Gaz chuckled, "really it is. But I mean come on. Not only was that the corniest, most clichéd start of a group I've ever seen, you're a Robot Girl, a Ghost boy, and a Ninja? And you all can't be older than what, 14?"

"Uh…" Jenny said, "Actually, I'm supposed to be 15. Almost sixteen."

"Yeah," Danny said, "I'm fifteen too."

"Whatever," Gaz said, annoyed by the interruption and corrections, "My point is you guys are three teenage freaks of nature. You're the oddest trio I've even seen."

"Well aren't you just a bright ray of sunshine?" Danny said, unknowingly repeating his father.

"Hey!" Ninjetta said, "The Odd Trio…I like the sound of that!"

"Yeah," Jenny said, "it's sort of got that Neil Simon feel to it."

"Oh please," Gaz said, rolling her eyes.

"Odd Trio? I've heard better names." Jazz said, rolling her eyes. Suddenly The Odd Trio frowned at her. Jazz smiled nervously.

"But hey, if that's what you want to call yourselves," Jazz said, "who am I to argue?"

"Now that all that's settled," said Danny, "We have to find Skullker, Vlad and that Ninja Ghost so that we can get that Portal back."

"And we have to save my Mom!" Jenny said.

"But even the best of heroes need powerful weapons from time to time," Gaz said, pulling out the Fenton Ecto-Disruptor.

"Sorry, Mr. Fenton," Gaz said, "I sorta pocketed this one. Hope you don't mind."

Jack raised an eyebrow at her.

"Of all the people to invite to dinner," he said, "we had to get a guest with sticky fingers."

"I'd have brought it back" Gaz said, "…eventually…"

"Jack honey," Maddie said, "We have a few more important things to worry about than your little ecto-disruptor. Dr. Wakeman is being held captive by a robot, our house has a big hole in the side of it, and…our son…is the Phantom!"

"Our son is the Phantom?!" Jack said, "When did this happen?"

"I already told you!" Danny said, "Now can we get back on track, please!"

"Of course, Danny my boy!" Jack said, "Since there are so many ghosts involved, this gives me the perfect chance to field test the invention I've been working on. It's called the Fenton Ultrasonic Exorcist! Using high-pitched waves of sound, it can blast the ghost clean out of any possessed human being! Or…robot in Jenny's case."

"Uh…Mr. Fenton, I don't think that these ghosts can possess a robot." Jenny said.

"Only one way to find out," Danny grinned as he suddenly disappeared.

"Hey!" Jack said, "Danny! Where'd you go?"

"I don't know," Jenny said, "but he'd better not…"

Suddenly Jenny's eyes turned a bright glowing green.

"Wow," Danny said, speaking out of Jenny's voice module, "It's cool in here, there's a bunch of circuits and wires and junk!"

"Stop that!" Jenny said, "Get out of me this…"

"Wow, Jenny," Danny said, "You've got quite a playlist in your brain, can I download some of these songs off of you…wait…except…is that Chip Skylark!?"

"EEEWWW!" Sam and Gaz said, shrinking back in unison.

Jenny gasped.

"Heh, heh…you weren't supposed to see that," She said blushing bright blue again.

"Come on Danny," Kimi said, "That's enough, stop possessing Jenny."

"Okay, fine!" Danny said as he seeped out of the robot.

Suddenly, Tommy's cellphone rang.

"Hello?" he said, picking up. His head jerked back and his eyes widened as he listened to the frantic person on the other line.

Suddenly, Kimi felt her Ninja Sense shoot up her spine. Something was wrong; something's happened. Whoever the caller was had bad news.

Tommy looked over to Kimi.

"It's for you," he said worriedly, "It's Lil. She's hysterical!"

Kimi quickly took the phone.

"Lil?" she said, "What's wrong?"

Tommy, Danny, Jenny and everyone else looked on worriedly as Kimi repeatedly told Lil to calm down and tell her what was wrong.

"It's your mother and Chuckie!" Lil said, "Something's happened to them! They were at the museum and it got attacked or something and they're in the hospital now!"

"Oh my GOD!" Kimi said, suddenly turning just as frantic as Lil, "Are they okay? Are they hurt?"

"I don't know Kimi!" Lil cried, "I don't know!"

"Okay," Kimi said, "get to the hospital, I'll be there as soon as I can!"

"Hospital?!" Tommy said as Kimi hung up and tossed the phone back to him, "Kimi what's the matter?!"

Kimi's face was pulled back in absolute horror.

"Something's happened" Kimi said, getting a waver in her voice, "I have to go."

Without another word, she tied her mask back on and ran out the door, launching a web from her wrist.

"Come on!" Tommy said, "We'd better follow her!"

With that, Tommy, Sam, and Tucker took off after her. Danny and Jenny started, too, but Jack stopped them.

"Just a moment, you two." He said, "There could be trouble. You never know what kind of ghosts are hanging around in hospitals just waiting to strike!"

"Dad, c'mon!" Danny said.

Jack turned to his son.

"You're going to need this." He said, "Trust me."

"WHAT?!" Vlad Plasmius boomed as the Fright Night, Skullker, and The Ninja Ghost stood before him.

The three ghosts began to flinch, and Skullker shoved the Ninja Ghost forward.

"Milord," The Ninja Ghost said, Bowing to his knee, "We tried to do your bidding to dispatch the witnesses, but there…there was…uh…."
The Ninja Ghost trailed off.

"What Possible excuse could you have for not destroying the witnesses?" Vlad screamed at him.

"Milord…" The Ninja Ghost bowed again.

"And Stop calling me that!" Plasmius roared, "It's getting annoying."

"Eh…Eh…Sempai-dono…?"

Plasmius rolled his glowing red eyes,

"Will you just come out with it," He snarled, "And tell me what happened?"

"There was…a… a little girl, Sempai-dono! No more than 13 years, sir. She tried to stand in between our victims and us and suddenly...there as a bright flash and….she…she struck us all with tremendous speed, Sempai-dono. All at once."

Plasmius didn't say a word. He stared straight ahead, a look of shock on his face.

This expression stayed on his face for quite a while as The Ninja Ghost looked upon him curiously.

Suddenly, a wide, evil grin slowly spread across Vlad's face as he began to lightly cackle.

"She's back." He grated simply.

Ninjetta landed harshly on the roof of the hospital. In her rush, she almost fell as she frantically tried to scramble for the nearest parapet to change behind. Suddenly she noticed a small metal door on the roof. She was relieved when it opened as she lifted it. She checked inside the small crawlspace in the roof to make sure no one was there and climbed in.

On top of another building, a dark figure slithered into view.

"Yes, Ninjetta," Assassina hissed, "Walk right into death's arms."

Kimi quickly pulled her street clothes out of her backpack, put them on over her costume and removed her mask, ribbons and armor before sneaking out into the building.

She ran up to the nearest nurse's desk, frantic.

"Nurse!" she said, "can you please tell me where Kira and Chuckie Finster are?"

The nurse was rather surprised.

"Sweetheart, this the top floor!" she said, "What are you doing wandering around up here?"

"Nevermind that!" Kimi said, starting to yell, "Just PLEASE tell me where Kira Finster and Charles Finster, Jr. are!"

After a quick tap on the computer, the nurse returned her answer.
"Kira is in room 338, and Charles…he seems to have been discharged already."

"Chuckie's been discharged?" Kimi asked quizzically.

"That's what the computer says." The nurse said.

"Thanks." Kimi said as she raced to the stairwell.

"Wait!" the nurse said. Kimi stopped with a screech of her shoes.

"Aren't you going to take the elevator?" the nurse asked Kimi.

"No time!" Kimi said, "Stairs are faster!" and she bounded through the doorway to the stairwell.

The nurse smiled and shook her head.

"Kids," she sighed, "They're so much more energetic these days."

Kimi quickly jumped over railings, webbing across the staircases with amazing speed, reaching the third floor in practically no time at all.

Swinging the door open to the hallway, she charged down the hall to room 338.

As she ran in, Chuckie was sitting at his step-mom's bedside. He had his arm in a cast and sling, and there was a patch over his eye. Kimi ran up and hugged him, painfully jarring his arm.

"YEEEAAAAOW!" he screamed, "Kimi, watch the arm!"

"Oh, God, oh God, I'm sorry," Kimi said, still hysterical. She looked over at her mom. Kira looked a little worse for wear herself. She had a bandage wrapped around her head, and her arm was also in a cast, propped up in traction.

Kimi started to feel the tears coming in her eyes.

"She's just sleeping right now, Kimi," Chuckie said, "she was in surgery for an hour."

Suddenly, a wave of anger and frustration washed over her. She slammed her fists on the table, cracking it. Chuckie jumped.

"Holy Jeez!" Chuckie exclaimed.

"What happened?" she snapped, turning back around at Chuckie, "Who did this? Tell me who did this!!"

"I don't know!" Chuckie said, "They came up out of the ground!"
"Out of the ground?" Kimi said, incredulously.

"Yeah!" Chuckie said, "the ground cracked open and these big guys in glowing metal suits came out and mugged us! I tried to help fight them off Kimi! I really did, I swear, but they were too big and I was scared to death!"

Kimi remembered how Skullker and the Ninja Ghost came up out of the floor at the Fentons' house. She would have bet anything that they and their accomplices may have something to do with this.

Kimi backed off a little, "It's okay, Chuckie. It's not your fault. I know you were scared, I probably would have been scared too."

"No kidding!" Chuckie said, "I bet even Tommy would have been scared!"

"But how did you escape them?"

"I don't know, Kimi!" Chuckie said, "I got knocked out, and so did Mom! Paramedics woke us both up. The guys who jumped us were nowhere to be found!"

Suddenly, Tommy, Danny, Sam, Tucker, and Jenny came in.

"Kimi what's going on!?" Tommy said as they saw Chuckie and Kira.

"Chuckie, Are you alright?" he asked, "What happened?"

"We got mobbed by these BIG glowing guys that came up out of the ground!" Chuckie said.

"Glowing? Out of the ground?" Tommy said, taken back in alarm.

"Ghosts." Danny said to himself scrunching his eyebrows.

"Wow." Jenny said, looking over Kira and Chuckie, "Looks like you guys were lucky to make it out alive."
It wasn't until Jenny spoke that Chuckie realized that there was a 6-foot-tall blue and chrome robot standing in the room.

"HOLY JEEZ!" He said, backing up. He tripped over and broke the table that Kimi had cracked earlier, "She's a…she's a…she's…a…A ROBOT!"

Kimi grabbed him again and pulled him to his feet. "Chuckie! Calm down!" she said, "Her names Jenny and she's a friend. This guy is Danny and all his friends."

"Well it's great that we're all friends here," Chuckie said, still surprised by Jenny, "But she's…she's."

Jenny nodded and smiled dryly at Chuckie, "I'm a robot! We've established that!"

At the main admissions desk of the hospital, a familiar girl walked in. She was wearing very chic black leather clothing with deep, dark shades and black knee-high leather go-go boots. Her hair had been pulled back into three ponytails, and she wore what looked to be a rather cocky smile on her otherwise pretty face. Any male within sight of her dropped what they were doing and watched intently as the girl passed by.

The nurse behind the desk looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Uhm…can I help you?" he said.

"Yeah," She said, leaning on the desk with her right elbow and she lowered her shades and looked over them, "I'm looking for a Chuckie Finster."

"Are you a relation?"

"I'm a friend of his sister's, you could say." She said, suddenly turning pouty, "I just came to check up on poor little old Chuck to see if he was okay."

"Right," The Nurse said, "Well, Charles Finster was discharged today."

Savannah leaned back and crossed her arms.

"Come again?" she said, getting a bit of an attitude.

"He was discharged this afternoon." The Nurse explained, "All he had was a broken arm and a sprained wrist. His mother however was also injured, and she suffered more serious injuries. He'll be in the room with her, in room 338."

"Thanks, Tiger." She said as she winked at him and walked off towards the elevator.

Back in the room Kimi sighed.

"Well did you tell the police what happened?" she asked.

"Yeah, I did," Chuckie said, then stopped.

"Do you think it was Ninjetta?" he said before turning to Kimi.

"Huh?" Kimi said.

"I bet it was Ninjetta," Chuckie said excitedly, "I bet she's the one that saved us!"

Suddenly, a wave of remorse washed over Kimi. She knew she should have been the one to save them, but she didn't. She let her Mother and Brother get attacked and possibly killed.

It almost happened again. She almost lost the rest of her family because she was careless.

She left her city unguarded and someone she knew got hurt. Maybe someone did chase the ghosts away, but it wasn't Ninjetta. She knew that.

But it should have been.

"I---I don't think it was, Chuckie," Kimi said sadly.

"Oh come on!" Chuckie said, "Who else could it have been?"

"I don't know," Kimi said turning away to hide the tears welling up in her eyes.

She started for the door, but suddenly stopped.

"Well excuse me." Savannah said with a smirk, "just where do you think you're going?"

"Savannah!" Kimi exclaimed, half in surprise, half in anger.

"Hey Savannah," Chuckie said confused, "Uh…what are you doing here?"

"Well," Savannah said, "Your sister and I have to have a talk."

Suddenly, faster than anybody could notice, a black tendril shot forth from Savannah's sleeve, socking Chuckie in the face, knocking him out.

"And it unfortunately doesn't involve you, nerd!"

Danny, Jenny and the rest jumped back in surprise. Suddenly, even more tendrils came out grabbing Danny, Sam, Tucker, Jenny, Kimi and Tommy.

"Sorry kiddos," Savannah grated evilly, holding them up against the ceiling, "but I'm afraid that you're unwanted baggage as well!"

With that, Savannah flung them through the large window. As they started to plummet towards the lower roof of the hospital, Danny grabbed Tucker and Sam and went intangible. Kimi grabbed Tommy and Jenny grabbed them, setting the two of them down on the roof.

"Jenny!" Kimi yelled, "Get Tommy out of here! She's going to…"

"Look out!" Jenny yelled.

Before she had time to react, a flying Assassina dropkicked Kimi. The impact walloped Kimi so hard that she flipped head over heels twice before painfully landing on the roof.

"Kimi!" Tommy and Jenny yelled.

"Get out of here!" Kimi bellowed.

Assassina grabbed one of Kimi's ponytails and yanked her up, grabbing her by the neck with the other hand.

"Come on, girl," Assassina said, "Where's your fighting spirit? Are you not going to try to defend yourself? Oh sorry, you're not in that stupid white costume."

Assassina's arm extended higher as she picked Kimi up and choke slammed her to the ground.

"It's cool though," Assassina continued, "I look MUCH better on Savannah. She is prettier than you after all."

"Yeah," Kimi grated, "I get that a lot."

Assassina lunged for Kimi again, but Kimi jumped up onto the wall and sprung off of it landing behind her. Quickly, Assassina formed her hand into a giant flyswatter shape and smacked Kimi to the ground.

"Pathetic." Assassina said, "Just pathetic. You're not even putting up a fight! You have got to get over this costume hang-up. Here sweetheart, I'll do you a favor."

Assassina's arm extended again as she grabbed Kimi and flung her up onto the hospital's higher roof. She jumped up onto the side of the building and ran straight up the side.

As she jumped on top of the roof, she formed her arm into a katana.

"Heeeeeeeeeere Ninjy, Ninjy, Ninjy!" she hissed cruelly, "Come out come out where ever you are. I won't hurt ya—much!"

Suddenly, from behind a heater register, a white blur came across and clobbered Assassina hard in the jaw. She reeled back as Ninjetta came back with a right-cross, and whipped around with a spinning dropkick. Assassina staggered to her knees but held her ground as she glared Ninjetta down. Ninjetta drew her sword.

"THAT was for calling me Ninjy," she said, "you happy now, Sassy?"

"Oh you have no idea!" Assassina said dryly as she formed her arm back into a sword and charged Ninjetta.

Ninjetta swung around and blocked Assassina's blade merely inches away from her head. A harsh clang resounded as the blades clashed and bounced off of each other as Assassina went for Kimi's left side. The blades diced furiously as Assassina slashed towards Ninjetta's right, and then back to her left. Ninjetta thrusted towards Assassina's chest, but Assassina blocked that and went for Ninjetta's head again. Sparks spit off of the blades as they clashed over Ninjetta's head, but she stood her ground and bit back at Assassina's blade with furor, pushing her back. Assassina recovered and tried to go for an opening for Ninjetta's side, but the White Kurenai swung her blade low and beat off Assassina's blade once again. The two spun around and clashed again, as Assassina blocked Ninjetta's thrust to the throat. Ninjetta reeled back, but lunged again, as the blades clashed once more. Ninjetta swiped again, but slung Assassina's blade tip to the ground. Taking advantage of the momentary opening, Ninjetta spun around again and swiped at Assassina's side, but the villainess swung low, blocking Ninjetta's shot. Ninjetta lunged for Assassina's head, but Assassina clashed back, locking the two blades. They muscled off of each other, the both of them reeling back.

"Bad form Ninjetta," Assassina said as she shook her head, "That strike was out of anger."

"This whole fight is out of anger, stupid." Ninjetta cut back, "You were behind those ghosts attacking my Mother and Brother at the museum, weren't you? You and Vexus and that Plasmius guy are in this together!"

"No kidding, Sherlock," Assassina mocked scathingly, "But you only have things half right."

Ninjetta stopped.

"What do you mean?"

"I love this," Assassina grinned devilishly, spinning her blade and pointing it at Ninjetta, "You really don't know just how much trouble you're in, do you?"

"Not as much as you're going to be in!" Ninjetta said, readying her sword and stancing herself.

Assassina lunged for her again, but Ninjetta jumped out of the way and swung back at Assassina's head, Assassina spun her blade up and met Ninjetta's with a harsh clash, once again serving up a small fireworks display as the blades bounced off of each other. As Ninjetta reeled back, Assassina swiped again. As Ninjetta tried to block, her stance was off kilter, and Assassina knocked Ninjetta's blade aside and spun around, swiping at Ninjetta again. Ninjetta ducked underneath Assassina's blade but the evil Ninja swiped her blade down low. Ninjetta popped up quickly jumping over the deadly swath of Assassina's blade, but Assassina swung upward. As Ninjetta blocked, she used the momentum from Assassina's blade and swung it up close to her face.

Assassina forced the two back into a blade lock before muscling Ninjetta back. As Ninjetta reeled back, Assassina swung her bade around again for Ninjetta's head. As Ninjetta deflected it, Assassina came back and slashed her blade for Ninjetta's throat, and then for her head once again. Ninjetta blocked, and grit the two blades into a lock again. Before Assassina could react, Ninjetta booted Assassina in the gut and cut her a hard right across her chin. Assassina stumbled backwards.

"You little tramp!" Assassina growled, "That was a dirty move!"

"Turnaround is fair play," Ninjetta smiled.

"Fair enough," Assassina said, lunging for Ninjetta again.

As Ninjetta blocked the strike to her head, she didn't see Assassina's other hand swell into an oversized spiked gauntlet.

Assassina rammed Ninjetta to the ground. Suddenly she formed her other hand into another spiked gauntlet and pounded Ninjetta again, Ninjetta swung around and kicked Assassina in the face. Assassina flew back and landed hard on the rooftop.

"It's over Assassina." Kimi said, drawing her sword again, "So why don't you just run back to the bed you crawled out from under and get the heck out of my town?"

"Now why would I wanna do that?" Assassina growled, "You're so much fun to play with, Kimi. Speaking of which, I got a new toy."

Assassina produced the second gem in the palm of her hand and aimed it at Ninjetta.

"The Gem!" Ninjetta gasped.

"No," Assassina corrected, "Not THE gem, A gem. Say cheese, Ninjadork!"

Ninjetta howled in pain as the ray from the gem pierced into her heart. An aura of pain surrounded her and seemed to constrict her as she dropped to her knees in agony.

When Ninjetta looked up from the ground, she didn't seem to see anything. She was still in pain, but she was staring into a deep void, when slowly image of Tommy faded into view.

"Tommy!" Kimi called to him, "Tommy help me!"

Tommy started to run for her, but as he did so he tripped hard. Suddenly, he was flipped over as what looked like large tendrils came out and grabbed Tommy's legs. Tommy gasped and tried to wrestle free, but more came out grabbing Tommy by his arms, and shoulders. Tommy tried to wrestle free, but it was no use, whatever grabbed him started to envelop him. Kimi struggled to her feet and tried to run after Tommy as it started to drag him away. Tommy, held out his hand for Ninjetta to pull him to safety, but as fast as she ran, she just wasn't close enough to reach Tommy's hand. Tommy started to scream as the murky cocoon around him suddenly wrapped harder around him. More tendrils reached up and grabbed the top of Tommy's head and started to envelop him further, but suddenly, he was sucked hard down into the ground. Kimi tried to reach for his hand, but she kept missing her grip on it. In a split second, he was gone.

"Tommy!" Kimi yelled, "Tommy! NO!"

Kimi looked up and saw all her friends and loved ones getting enveloped by the same greedy blobs: Lil, Phil, Susie, Angelica, Dil…they were all crying out, screaming for help.

Kira was beginning to be swallowed by one as Chuckie tried to fend it off. Suddenly it completely enveloped Kira and grabbed Chuckie.

Kimi dashed over to them as fast as she could and grabbed Chuckie's hand before it was too late.

"Chuckie!"

"I've got Mom! Kimi! Help! Pull us to safety!"

Kimi started to pull.

"Hurry Kimi! I can't hold on much longer!"
"I'm trying Chuckie! Stay with me!"

"Kimi!"

"I'm not going to let you go!"

"Kimi!"

Suddenly Chuckie's hand was ripped away from Kimi's by a tendril. It started to wrap around her arms and legs as she watched in horror as Chuckie was completely swallowed.

"CHUCKIE!!" she screamed, tears pouring from her eyes, "MAMA!!! NO! NOOO!!!!!!"

"Yes," Assassina cackled, "Feel the power of the gem, unearthing your worst fear! Witness the most hellish nightmare you've ever had! Feel your sadness torture you until you beg for Sweet Death to come and take you!"

Assassina relinquished the focus of the Gems power off of Kimi, and she fell to the rooftop, a blank and horrified look on her face. Assassina picked Ninjetta back up and formed her arm back into a katana. She held the blade to Ninjetta's throat.

"Hm-hm…but why let Death have all the fun," Assassina chuckled wickedly, "When I'll get more pleasure out of doing it myself! Sayonara, Ninjetta!"

"I beg to differ!"

Assassina turned to see Danny and Jenny standing in front of her. In Danny's arms was a large black gun, aimed straight at Assassina. Danny pulled back a slider on the bottom, and a faint, high-pitched tweet sounded as the gun charged. Assassina's eyelid quivered as the small sound annoyed her.

"What the..?" Assassina glared.

"Say cheese, Ninjadork!" Danny smirked as he pulled back on the trigger.

Suddenly, a loud sonic screech blasted from the Fenton Sonic Exorcist. The force of the recoil threw Danny back into Jenny.

As the sonic wave hit her, Assassina screamed in pain and dropped to her knees. Her suit began to jerk back and forth on her, squirming and writhing in pain. She threw the unconscious Ninjetta down to the rooftop as she tried to cover her ears.

"Whoa!" Jenny yelled over the screech of the gun, "What's the deal with her suit?"

"I donno!" Danny yelled back, "The sound is making it spazz out!"

As Assassina wailed in agony, she searched around frantically for something—anything—that she could throw at the gun that Danny was holding. She grabbed Ninjetta again and tossed her at them with all the strength she could muster. Danny, Jenny and Ninjetta crashed hard to the rooftop as Assassina regained her bearings.

The clouds that had gathered during the heat of battle were now raining down on the Odd trio as two of them struggled to their feet. Danny looked around. Assassina had vanished.

"Where'd she go?" Danny said as he searched around for Assassina.

"Never mind that!" Jenny said picking up Ninjetta, "Something's wrong with Kimi!"

They looked at the still-unconscious Ninjetta. Her eyes were still wide open, staring blankly ahead, her eyebrows scrunched up into a horrified expression. Her irises had a vacuous look to them as Kimi stared straight into a pitch-black void.

Kimi tired to search around, but the monster had swallowed her too. The screams of pain fear, and anguish were now hauntingly silent as Kimi looked around. She tried to move, but she couldn't, as if she were completely paralyzed. She thought to herself that this had to be a dream, but she couldn't stir to wake herself up from it. The darkness was overpowering, as it seemed to move in on her and encompass her. She was alone. Everyone that she'd seen, she couldn't save them. They were gone. She'd lost everything that ever mattered to her. Kimi tried to look around, but all she saw was black. She didn't even see herself. She couldn't even feel herself.

Suddenly she felt a harsh motion, as if she were falling. The velocity ripped through her as her entity started to panic. She seemed to feel like she was falling faster and faster until…

Suddenly, Kimi's eyes opened to the real world as a large bolt of lighting split across the sky.

Kimi jumped back in screaming horror and grabbed a sai out of her boot, pointing the tip of the blade at herself.

Jenny gasped and tackled Ninjetta before she had a chance to stab herself. Kimi screamed in panic and started to thrash wildly.

"Kimi!" Jenny yelled as she tried to restrain the girl.

"Please forgive me!" Jenny said as she smacked Ninjetta across the face.

Kimi stopped and stared straight forward, still in shock. Suddenly, she collapsed in an unconscious heap.

"Oh God!" Jenny cried in horror, "I knocked her out!"

"I think that was overdoing it just a bit, Jen." Danny said.

Elsewhere...
Lightning crackled across the sky with a boom of thunder as Stan Matthews stood at his window, slowly puffing on a cigar.

Joxer sat in front of his father's desk bored as he played with a spiked yo-yo.

"You know Daddio," Joxer sighed, "Things just ain't fun when Assassina's not around, and here you are standing at a friggin' window like a gargoyle. You're boooring, old man."

Alan turned to Joxer with his eyebrows raised.

"It's what all evil geniuses do, my boy." Alan smiled as the smoke fumed from his mouth, "Just be patient, son. Our lovely assistant..."

"…Assassin…"

"Whatever. She'll be back soon enough," Stan said, "and then you'll get to have your fun."

"You're still a boring old coot." Joxer smarted off.

Stan was beginning to lose his patience.

"Well what do you expect me to do son?" Stan said as he turned around to face Joxer, "Play 'I Spy' with you?"

Suddenly, another crackle of thunder accompanied a flash of lightning and a fierce draft blew in from the window. Joxer and Stan turned to see a dripping wet Assassina crouching on the windowsill.

"Oh, please continue," she said sarcastically, "I do so LOVE touching father-son moments."

"Wonderful, more sarcasm." Stan said as he puffed on his cigar, "I think too much of Ronald McSchizo here is rubbing off on you."

"Who, me?" Assassina said in a pseudo-innocent tone, "Why Stanny, baby, I've always been like this. I invented sarcasm."

Stan chuckled to himself.

"You know, for a calculating killer, you are quite charming." He said, "I presume things went well, my dear?"

"Yes," Assassina said, "The Gem works like a charm. It had Ninjetta screaming like a little baby when I left her."

"Wait, wait," Joxer said, "You had Ninjetta to her knees with pain, and you didn't KILL HER?!"

"Why should I?" Assassina said, "The Gem's power possesses the victim, putting them into a trance where they experience their greatest fears."

Assassina sat down and grinned.

"And there's only one escape," Assassina smiled and snickered.

Joxer began to cackle evilly.

"Baby, you're the best!" he said.
"Oh I know I am," Assassina said glaring at Joxer, "but if you ever call me 'baby' again," She formed her hand into a large cleaver, "I'll decapitate you."

"The woman puts up a very convincing argument, eh son?" Stan smiled.

Suddenly, there was a rather timid-sounding knock on the door.

"Enter!" Stan said as the intern from earlier slowly peeked his head in. He gasped and flinched harshly when he saw that Joxer and Assassina were still there.

"Uh…uh…uh." He stammered.

"OUT WITH IT, BOY!!" Joxer yelled.

Stan held his hand in front of his son.

"Alan, please," he said.

"Well," Joxer said, "he's just standing there like a dufus, whaddaya want me to do?"

Stan Matthews rolled his eyes.

"Well, Wilson?" he said to his intern, "Is there any news?"

"Yes sir," Wilson answered trepidly, "We've found the location of the third gem. It's In Tremorton, just north of here."

"Excellent," Stan said, as he sat down to his desk, "With this third and final Gem, we shall finally have the power to release the Demon Asteroth from his prison!"

"Asteroth?" Joxer said, "Jeez, I coulda come up with a better name than that."

"Alan!" Stan said, "Now is your chance to have your fun! Go to Tremorton and retrieve the gem. Take a few ghosts along, just incase the rest of our heroes decide to interfere."

"And should anyone get in my way?" Joxer grinned devilishly.

"Well, Alan." Stan Matthews grinned back, clasping his fingers together, "You remember that each one has to focus its power at least once to activate it before freeing Asteroth?"

Joxer chuckled.

"I like how you think, Dad," Joxer cackled as he launched off to the door, "You're not such a boring old coot after all."

Stan sat back and grinned evilly.

"Soon, the last gem will be ours." He said, "Then, Asteroth will be released and all will bow down to me!

The SHADOW MAN!"

Elsewhere...

"Kiiiiimiiiiii……Kiiiiimiiiii…"

A voice wafted through Kimi's head softly as she stirred. Her eyelids were heavy, as if she'd been sleeping. As she gently moved her head, a jolt of pain reverberated through her head.

"Kiiimiii…...waaaake uuuup…."

As she stirred again and began to slowly open her eyes, she moaned softly:

"Oooohh…"

"Kimi?" Tommy said, "Kimi are you okay?"

Wait a minute…Tommy..? Then…

Kimi opened her eyes all the way and saw Tommy, Danny and Jenny's faces hovering over her.

Tommy!

Kimi's heart leapt when she saw him.

"Tommy!" She yelled, as she threw her arms around his neck and held him tight, "Oh Tommy! Tommy! I had such a bad dream! I thought I lost you forever!"

"Kimi…" Tommy gasped, "Kim…I can't breathe…you're choking me…"

Kimi let go of him.

"Oh…oh, sorry…" she said, "So if you're here…then…Chuckie…Mom…?

Kimi looked around, she was back in her room, at her house, in her bed. She was safe again.

"They're back at the hospital." Tommy said, "Chuckie had to be readmitted for a while because Savannah broke his nose."

Kimi winced.

"But other than that, he's okay?" Kimi said. Tommy nodded.

"…what about Mom?"

"You mom's fine Kimi." Jenny said, "That creepy ninja chick didn't even touch her…er…no offense…I mean, you're a cool ninja chick…"

Kimi smiled.

"She did wake up in all the ruckus though." Danny said.

Kimi sat bolt upright in bed.

"She didn't see me change, did she?"

"No," Danny said, "you changed on the roof remember?"

"Oh…" Kimi said, "Right…I guess my short-term memory hasn't come all the way back yet…but everyone…everyone else is okay?"

"Yeah, Kimi, everyone's fine." Tommy said, "What's the matter? What's this bad dream you had, Kimi?"

Kimi lay back down somberly.

"Oh God Tommy, it was horrible…" she said, tears starting to form in her eyes, "It was like you and all my friends and Chuckie and Mom were all getting swallowed by these weird…like…tentacle things!"

"Whoa," Tommy said, "That IS weird."

"And, I…I tried to help. I tried to stop them and save everybody, but I couldn't…and I lost them…I lost everyone who was ever important to me, and there was nothing I could do about it…like…like…like Dad!"

Kimi collapsed back into her pillow, crying. Tommy leaned over and hugged her gently.

"What's she talking about?" Danny asked, "What happened to her dad?"

Tommy sighed.

"I'll tell you guys later." Tommy said, but suddenly, Kimi sat up and interrupted him.

"No…" she sobbed, "It's okay. I'll tell them.

"You see, a couple years ago, back when I'd first gotten my powers, I was just using them for fun. I decided a good way to make a quick buck was to enter a kickboxing tournament. I figured if I were really this strong and agile, I'd have no problem winning. Of course, I couldn't let Mom and Dad know about this, they were a couple of worriers to begin with, and so I always had Dad drop me off the library every day, so that they'd think I was studying. From there I'd walk about a block to the gym where they had these tourneys, and then at the end, I'd run back to the library, where Dad would be waiting for me.

"But one night, it was pouring down cats and dogs, and the my tournament match ran late. Dad was waiting outside for me already under the canopy as I ran up…"

Chas stood underneath the canopy at the front door of the library as Kimi ran up.

"Where have you been, sweetheart?" he said, "You realized that the library closed at six today?"

"Yeah, I know," Kimi said, "I'm sorry Dad, but I just went to the grocery store down the street to read a magazine until you came to get me, and I lost track of time."

"What grocery store?" Chas said, "Kimi, the nearest one isn't for four blocks! And besides that it's raining, and worse, it's night time."

"Come on Dad!" Kimi said, "Nobody's going to mug me."

"You don't know that, Kimi." Chas said as they started to walk off to the car, "Listen, you're a very young girl, and there are a lot of bad people around at night that may want to hurt you. You know I'd never forgive myself if something bad happened to you!"

"Dad, nothing bad is going to happen!"

"But I was very wrong. Something bad did happen. When we walked back to the car, a man jumped out from behind a large truck. He was holding a gun straight at my dad, demanding money…"

"C'mon, c'mon, Pops. Just gimme your wallet!" The mugger said. He was shaking violently, but he was determined to get his loot.

"Wait!" Chas answered, "My wallet has my driver's license in there! I can't drive home without it…Look, I'm just going to pull my wallet out, and hand you my money, see?"

"Hey! Hey! Not so fast old man! Easy!"

"But you said you wanted my wallet!"

"Leave my dad alone!" Kimi said stepping in front of Chas.

"Hey! Get out of here girlie!" the mugger said, "Shut up and get back behind your old man!"

"Look," Kimi said, "My dad doesn't have any money, and he's not gong to hurt you, but I have $100. Here, you can take mine!"

"Get your hands out of your pockets, little girl!"

"No! Take my wallet!"

"Get your hands out of your pockets!"

"Please, just take my wallet!"

Suddenly, the mugger cocked his gun.

"NO!" Chas screamed as he jumped in front of Kimi and pushed her out of the way.

"When he shoved me, everything went so slowly…I heard the gun go off, but it seemed like forever before anything actually happened. But…I saw Dad get shot…It hit him right in the chest… and he fell to the ground screaming…I didn't understand what was happening right then…but…he died right there in my arms…"

"Daddy!" Kimi cried, "Daddy!"

Suddenly, the mugger turned tail and ran, leaving the little girl with her father.

"Daddy, Please get up!" she said, tears streaming down her face, "Daddy please! I want to go home! Daddy, get up! Take us home! Please!"

Kimi collapsed in a crying heap on Chas's shirt.

"It was my fault!" Kimi said, crying, "I thought I could handle the situation, but I couldn't. If only I'd just done the right thing and let Dad give him his wallet, he would be alive right now! But no! I thought I was invincible, and I got too headstrong.

That mugger was going to shoot me, but Dad pushed me out of the way. Maybe If I had just kept my mouth shut, none of this would have happened. It's all my fault!"

"Kimi…" Tommy said, "Listen, I told you, it's not your fault."

"Yes it is!"

"Kimi," Danny said, "I know I don't really have a right to tell you how to feel, but you shouldn't beat yourself up like that. All you were doing was trying to protect your dad from getting hurt."

"But I shouldn't have done that." Kimi said, "And even if I did, I should've been the one who got killed. I deserve it."

"No you don't!" Danny said, "Listen Kimi, You didn't know what that guy was going to do."

"That's the whole reason I should have just kept quiet."

Danny sighed.

"Look, I know you regret what you did," Danny said, "but we all have things we regret doing. I regret that I kept lying to my parents about who I was. I should have just told them the truth before all this happened. I know that's not the same thing at all, but still. Your Dad loved you, that's obvious enough by how he saved your life."

"Yeah, that's right," Tommy said, "And I'm sure that if your Dad were here, he'd still be proud of the person you've become. I mean heck Kimi, you're NINJETTA! You're the greatest superhero this town's ever seen!"

"Tommy, I'm the only superhero this town's ever seen." Kimi said.

"Yeah, but you're still a heroine." Jenny corrected smiling, "And besides, I'm sure your dad is proud of you, Kimi. You should honor his memory by continuing on and doing what you believe in. You can't dwell on the past like that and beat yourself up, or else it could destroy you in the now and later."

Kimi looked down at the floor. She knew they were right, but at the same time, she knew she was responsible.

"Okay, guys." Tommy said, "I think we've done enough. Let's leave her alone."

Meanwhile in Tremorton…

"Hey Brad look at this! OOOO-OOOO-OOOO-OOOO-OOOO! Look at this!" A smallish eleven-year-old boy said he grabbed onto a shelf and jumped up to see a display at the local museum.

His older brother Brad grabbed his shoulders and settled him down

"Easy Tuck," Brad said. "We don't need you breaking everything in sight. You've had way too much sugar today as it is."

"Aww. I was just looking around," Tuck complained, "I wasn't going to break anything. I was just looking at that shiny jewel-thingy."

Brad smacked his forehead; "Why in the world did I get roped into taking you to the MUSEUM of all places?" He said.

"Because I have a book report due on dinosaurs, that's why," Tuck said, "And since you like driving so much, Mister I-Just-Got-A-Fancy-Car, Dad made you take me here."

"That was a rhetorical question Tuck." Brad said.

"What's rhetorical mean?" Tuck asked.

"It means…"

Suddenly, there was a harsh rumble heard down the hall as a number of museum-goes ran past Brad and Tuck screaming. The boys looked up to see big glowing robots coming towards them. Their large claw-like hands reached out for them.

"It means RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!" Brad yelled as he grabbed Tuck and turned around to run. Before Brad could take his first step however, he was met face-to-face with Joxer.

"Boo." He said quickly.

Brad and Tuck jumped back screaming and toppled to the ground at the sight of the white-and-black faced clown.

"Ah-HA!" Joxer cackled, "I just loooove li'l children. They go great with some fava beans and a nice bottle of Chianti! HA!!"

Suddenly, the robots surrounded Brad and Tuck who were lying on the ground. Joxer walked up and stood over them.

"You know," he said, "It just occurred to me…" suddenly he got in their faces and screamed, "YOU TWO ARE IN MY WAY!!"

"Uh…uh…we're sorry…uh…Mister Clown…sir…esquire…"

"And do you KNOW what I DO with people who get…" Joxer's eyelid twitched a bit, "IN MY WAY?!?!"

Brad and Tuck tried to shake their heads as best as they could, but the rest of them was shaking even worse.

"Miss Ember," Joxer said, snapping his fingers, "I wanna rock."

One of the robots' fists smashed through the glass that held the gem and pulled it out.

"ROCK!" Ember said as she handed it to Joxer.

"Thank you sweetheart," Joxer said, "We should get together after the show."

"In your dreams, dipstick!" Ember said.

"Right, well, all unexpected romantic rejections aside…" Joxer said, "Lemme show you EXACTLY what I do to PEOPLE that GET IN MY WAY!" Joxer said as he pointed the gem at the two boys.

Suddenly, two guards came up, pointing their guns at Joxer and the Ghostly Robots.

"FREEZE."

Joxer rolled his eyes and sighed.

"Like THEM!" he said, "THEY'RE getting in my way!"

Joxer pointed the gem at the guards.

"Hey Blue Boys!" he yelled, "Let's ROCK!"

A Large beam shot out at the guards. As it hit them, they started to scream in agony, as there was a tremendous flash of light and energy. When the flash subsided, all that was left of the guards were two large, scorch marks on the wall.

Joxer blew off the smoke that was billowing from the end of the Gem.

"Oh my God!" Brad exclaimed, "Wha—what did you just do?"

"DUH!" Joxer said, "I wiped them off the face of the planet. Would you like a demonstration?"

Joxer stood over Brad and Tuck and pointed the Gem at them.

Brad and Tuck scrunched themselves up, and clung to each other for dear life, crying for mercy.

Suddenly Joxer stopped.

"OH," He said, smacking his forehead, "Silly me. Right, the Teenage Robot is supposed to swoop in and save the day isn't she? Can't disappoint the writers, now can we?"

"So…so you're not going to kill us?" Brad said.

"What? WHAT?!" Joxer laughed, "Of course I am, dear boy!"

Suddenly, his face turned serious. He cracked his knuckles.

"I just have to do this the hard way now."

Suddenly, a long black tendril came out and snatched the Gem from Joxer's hand.

"Enough," Assassina said, "We have what we came for."

"Sassy," Joxer said, "How long have you been standing there?"

"Long enough." Assassina said, "Your father sent me here to make sure you didn't screw up."

"He WHAT?!" Joxer raged, "Why that low-down, no-good, dirty-double-crossing…"

As Joxer continued to swear his father out, Brad and Tuck's eyes were nearly bulging out of their heads. Brad quickly covered Tuck's ears. Tuck returned the favor.

"Sorry, Joxy," Assassina said as her hand "swallowed" the gem, "Don't shoot the messenger. He just thought you were taking too long, that's all."

Joxer screamed in frustration.

"Let's go!" he said with a wave of his hand.

"But…what about these kids?" asked one of the ghosts, "They're witnesses!"

"Ah," Joxer said, "I'm not in the mood to kill 'em now. Just pick 'em up and take them with us. I have to have a talk with my Daddy-Dearest about ruining my fun."

"Sempai-dono": In Japanese, the suffixative honorific –dono shows the highest form of respect and humility; usually reserved for royalty and commanding military officers, and the term "Sempai" is what one would use to address his higher-up, so in reality, "Sempai-dono" is pretty much the exact same as saying "Milord" in English.