Chapter One:
The Day That Never Comes, Part 1
Feels Like Failing
Fenton Works, the kitchen.
2 Years after Phantom Planet, Thursday 14, 3:23 PM UTC
"I woke up hobbled, with a cold feeling in my stomach. Something cold and heavy, like an awful snowball pressing against my guts. I know that feeling. Is not my ghost sense, is my Danny sense. Something that tells me that this is gonna be one of those days where I regret I ever got out of bed.
"The school was a total anguish, where I learned nothing but a few new words, namely anguish, hobbled and another one that means leisure or something like that, and between Dash being a dick, Tuck's lousy attempts of hitting on Star using his Mayor status and Sam out of town I decided I couldn't take it so I escaped and left a duplicate behind. And who would notice the difference? Once I went to Hawaii for a week and left a clone and neither my parents or my friends notice the difference, not even Sam, so I thought it would work this time too, and it did, after all he was gonna be with his head on the desk sleeping uncomfortable as I always do.
"Once I got home I slept till Tucker knocked my door, and complained about me not taking him with me. He told me he noticed that it was a clone because because it actually paid more attention to class than I ever did. Luckily he is a politician and I got him to shut up with a ten dollar bill and a beer."
- Jazz! Where is my mom?
- She's with dad.
- And where is dad?
- They're in Seattle. They left like a week ago. How come you didn't notice that?
- Hello. Nobody expects me to notice anything. That's your job. Besides I once left to Hawaii for a month and none notice anything till you saw I was tan from one day to another.
"Good thing about the Fenton house, no one sees anything."
- Right.
- What are they doing there anyway?
- They left for the whole month for a Ghost Hunting convention.
- I thought dad was banned from those?
- Only in seven states. There are still other forty three states where dad is allowed to walk without a tracer tied to his ankle.
- Ok, and where are you going to so fancy?
- I have a date.
- Wait, you are having a date twice in a week? That's why you put on that ugly blouse with the golden happy face?
- What's wrong with it? Is a nice top.
- It sure is, sweetie.
- Hey, don't condescend to me.
- Anyway, after three seasons of seen you having no social life whatsoever, even worst, having a worst social life than I… I have to ask, who is this addict to punishment you are seeing?
- He is not an addict to punishment… as far as I know, and that's none of your business.
- Oh, so you can show concern about me and middle in my business but I can't do the same for you?
- You are worried about me?
- No, you're right. I just feel gossipy and wanted to know what happened.
- Yeah, just what I thought. Now, I know this goes against pretty much everything you guys stand for - says looking at Tucker - but please don't do anything stupid while I'm gone.
- What? Name one time we've done anything stupid while having no supervision of any kind?
- Do you want the list in alphabetic order or chronological? Let's see…
Fenton Lab.
Four Years Ago.
- C'mon Danny. Think of all the cool stuff there is in the other side of that portal - says Sam convincing Danny to walk into the ghost portal that gave him his powers.
- Fine, but if anything happens to me, stay the hell away from my funeral.
Danny walks into the Fenton Portal pressing the "On" button and getting his ghost powers.
Six months ago
- Yo, you know I can do this. I can definitely jump over the edge of this fence and pause, then jump back on my feet - states Tucker, doing said stunt.
- That's a nice trick - says Danny - but I bet I can do that too - says jumping over the fence, slipping and hitting his head against the concrete.
- I knew this was a bad a idea - claims Sam.
- Then why didn't you say anything? - asks Danny squirming in pain.
- I just didn't think you were stupid enough to do it or fail when doing it.
The Nasty Burger, Parking Lot.
Two Months Ago.
- So all you gotta do is walk on each one of this parking post or whatever it name is as quick as you can and you'll get twenty bucks for each post you pass. - Says Danny explaining Tucker his new game.
Motivated for the money, Tucker walks on the posts but fails when stepping on the second post, smashing his balls against the iron post with all his weight.
- How much money was that?
- Well you didn't really make it to the second post and your other foot never truly left the first so… none.
The Mall, Parking Lot.
4 of July.
- Ok, you put your foot the Cabelir - says Danny to Tucker - and you put your other foot in this Impala, excellent.
- Ok, now what?
- Now I light a rocket right into your but.
- Oh - Wait! What?!
Firing a ghost ray from his fingertip, Danny lights a rocket straight into Tucker's but.
The rocket gets sucked in his but for about five seconds trying to get deeper while he squirms trying to get it out, until it explodes in his ass, burning his pants which he takes off immediately.
- Sam, did you get that?
- All in HD, sweetie.
- Why did you that for?
- That was for eating my yogurt, you fucker mother! That's right, I saw the tape, and did I said fucker mother instead of motherfucker?
- Yes, you did.
Fenton Works.
This morning, just a few hours before going to school or… why should Danny and Tucker never quit, ditch, miss or get late to school.
Tucker is pulled in a shop car with a giant slinger on the Emergency Ops Center by a clone of Danny.
- Can you explain me this again?
- Simple. We'll use the Fenton Slinger to throw you on the air with the shop car. Once you're floating, my clone is going to grab you using his invisibility and take to the roof of the house in front to make it look like you flied all the way through with the slinger, and we get a thousand views in YouTube.
- I don't think this plan was thought all the way through…
- Ok. One, two, three, go!
- Wait, I wasn't ready! - yells Tucker in the air, holding to the shop car which falls on Danny.
Tucker quickly gets up and runs as fast as he can trying to escape from the pain getting to Danny's doorstep, pulling out his pants and sitting in fetal position.
Back to the present.
- Now, what do all these scenarios have in common?
- They all happened either in a parking lot or this house - says Tucker. - Which actually means we shouldn't be here in the first place.
- You were all alone, and you did stupid things, so as I said, don't do anything stupid - says leaving the kitchen.
- You know what I don't understand? Why your first instinct was to take off your pants? In all my career as a superhero, when I'm in great physical pain, I've never thought to myself: "Ok, I know what's gonna make the pain go away. I'm gonna take off my pants and sit on fetal position."
- Yeah, I was wondering the same thing.
- And?
- I haven't come up with an answer yet. Do you think she's finally got a boyfriend? - asks Tucker.
- Hahaha, that sounded so stupid the second it came out of your mouth. Have you seen her Facebook page? Never gonna happen - says Danny grabbing two Fenton beers from the refrigerator for him and Tucker.
- So, what do we do now?
- Well, we can either watch my ghost dog lick his junk all day till he finally eats his balls or loses the taste for it, whatever comes first… or we can play Gods Among Us – says Danny tossing Tucker his beer, and taking a sip while watching Cujo lick his junk. - So, Injustice?
- Injustice, yes please. But shouldn't you be training or something?
- Ha! That is so cute. At this point, you still think I still need to train. I don't need to train to be awesome. Besides, you know my enemies are so pathetic that I can beat them with one hand and you guys always get my back.
- Get your back? You wouldn't even call the team unless you are lost in the Ghost Zone or the Mall.
- That only happened once and I got high with wrong medicine. And is not my fault I got so damn good at hunting ghosts that is not even cool 'cuz I can't even say it without sounding cocky anymore.
- You just got lazy, and you know that this kind of stories in comics always end with the character learning that is not good to get cocky and lazy and get their ass handed to them real hard.
- Thanks god this isn't a comic bock. Besides, I'm not cocky, I just said I sound like that, and I think I can allow myself some time for debauchery.
"Debauchery. That's the other fancy word I learned today at a the two hours of school I had."
- You've been saying that for a month now.
- Not truth, this is the first time I use the word debauchery - says taking a drink. - I just learned that today.
- Fine, just don't get all bitchy when you get your ass handed to you and I say "I told you so".
- You're starting to sound like my girlfriend.
- Well somebody has to do that while Sam is gone.
- She paid you to do that, didn't she?
- Three hundred dollars and a baklava.
- At least you ain't cheap.
- Speaking of that, when is she coming back from camping with her parents?
- She said she'll be here tomorrow for our anniversary or maybe she said next week? I don't know, I couldn't understand. It was raining or something - says taking another drink of his beer and laughing with Tucker for Sam's misfortune. Going camping with her parents and getting caught in an awful rainstorm was something that they never wished for her but they would laugh about for sure.
- Well, I did warn them that this time of the year has awful storms - states Tucker walking upstairs.
- Yes, you did. And they can't sue you for that. Be careful where you walk, I think Cujo's marking his territory down there - warns Danny floating up to his room.
- You could have give me a lift, you know? - yells stepping on invisible dog crap.
Ghost Zone, Technus' House.
3:50 PM UTC
- Technus, they're here - says Skulker stepping on Technus' lab.
- Excellent. - States Technus, shutting down his computer screen with his chair-keyboard. - Take them to the armory.
- Are you sure they're ready?
- Ready? For what I want… they're just what I need - answers with a wide smile. - Now, get going. We must attack the city as soon as possible.
- I'll see they're ready for the attack - says teleporting himself out of the lab.
- Soon my friend, the world shall be at our knees.
Amity Park, Fenton Works
4:25 PM UTC
Danny beats Tucker's rebel armored Catman with his dictator Crimson Chin by the tenth time in a row.
- See? What did I tell you. He might be the goddamn Catman, but he is no match Crimson Chin.
- He is if he has prep.
- Tuck, we've been through this plenty of times. There is not enough prep for Catman to beat Crimson Chin.
- Ey, I read more comics than you.
- Yet, I've read enough to know that that's just bad writing, and the Chintonite powered armor was the worst argument of all. The only one who is a match for him other than Nega-Chin is…
In that moment, Technus' symbol appears on Danny's TV. screen, interrupting his conversation with Tucker, followed by his face in a live broadcast.
- Attention citizens of Amity Park. I, Technus, am sending this message straight to every computer or television screen, cellphone and any other way of communication to tell you that you have two options: either you willingly surrender the city to me and take me as your new ruler and overlord the good way, or you can send your pathetic hero in a vane attempt to stop the inevitable and watch him perish in the process. And since I know that you won't take the easy way, I'll tell you where you can find me. - A map of the city appears pointing his location at pier 36, all the other of the city. - You have an hour to answer. If you don't your city shall be destroyed. - Technus finishes his transmission leaving a countdown behind.
- It is me or he just challenged you to a fight for the city on TV.?
- Yeah - replied Danny with indifference.
- Honestly I always thought that when something like this happened it would be a little bit more dramatic.
- Yeah well, he is Technus. Everything that comes out of his mouth sounds stupid.
Danny grabs his Fenton Thermos and flies out of the windows.
- All right, I'm going ghost!
- Sure, I stay here behind in the sidelines as always. Call when you get tired for carrying your ego and me to give a ride.
- Roger that.
- Do you even have a plan of attack?
- I always have a plan of attack.
- And what is it?
- Attack.
With that said, Danny flies at top speed at the meeting point where his enemy wait for him leaving a white wake of steam on his path.
4:34 PM UTC
Danny arrives at pier 36 with a strawberry milkshake from the Nasty Burger.
- Ok Technus I'm here, show your ugly face so I can slap the green out of you - utters out loud taking a sip of his milkshake while a blue wisp of mist comes out of his nose. - Oh please; attacking me from behind? - says turning around and hitting Technus with a ghost ray with his free hand while finishing his drink. - C'mon Technus, you are better than that. Well, actually no, you are not.
- I see you got my message and came here to fight me, just as I planned - says, floating up.
- Really? That's your plan? Fight me? Then I guess this is the part when you gotta ask your self: "did I really think this plan all the way through?" Besides, you could have just texted me or send me a tweet, you know?
- Perhaps, but I wanted the entire city to watch this moment. Smile for the cameras - says focusing the pier's security cameras on him.
Unexpectedly, Danny gets caught within a pink ghost shield where he gets surrounded by eight anti-ghost bombs with a ten seconds countdown.
- Any last words?
- Yes, why did you make bombs that look like park meters?
- I told you they look like park meters - claims Skulker from the distance.
- You shut your mouth, they don't!
- Wait, who is that-?
The bombs explode before he could finish his question in a pink burst of ecto-energy.
The pink smoke clouds slowly dissipates exposing Danny inside a white force field of his own.
- You used anti-ghost bombs so I can't phase through the explosion? Very tricky, I'll give you that - says Danny on his knees, recovering from the explosion and getting back on his feet. - But if that's all you got, then you have a big problem - preached manifesting his ghost tail.
But before he could move any further, Technus electrocutes him with a lightning bolt from his Lightning Rod.
- Ah-ah-ah. Moving on that condition of yours is no good for your health, child.
- What are you now? A doctor?
- You should listen to him, even a broken clock is right twice a day, you dipstick.
- Dipstick?
Danny's ghost sense goes on, and sees Ember appearing behind Technus in a blue blaze, with a new silver seven strings V-guitar, along with the Fright Knight who was wearing a new armor with bat design, a pumpkin belt, and a longer flaming cape that falls from his shoulders, with protrusions on them and pikes on the bottom, covering all his body, wielding a new long sword and shield that matches his armor design. Spectra in a new sexier and, somehow more frightening and ominous body with long black and dark blue gleaming flaming hair, almost touching her shoulders, wearing a side stripe, open back slit black dress with a smoky base and black stay-ups.
Skulker in a new cyber armor, taller than the old one, with feline and predatory traits, black and green scheme color, having a flesh look on the green parts, with black clawed lion paws for feet and clawed hands, a black and green skull for head with jagged and sharp teeth and pronounced canines, bursting into a very long and flowing green flaming hair that falls all the way down on his back, fusing with a slender backbone looking whip-tail, longer than his body, a green glowing skull on its chest as well as skull shaped shoulder pads and knee pads with fangs and pendulum blades protruding from his forearms and calves, wearing a vest made out of a ghost lion's skin and skinny ragged leather pants.
And Prince Aragon who had changed too, having a more muscular build and grown much taller; wearing a dragon-like armor with his amulet placed in the middle of his chest, wearing a ghastly ragged old cape.
"As soon as the they show up, I got this strange feeling, like a knot in my stomach, something I could only describe as a cold thing right where my stomach should be. A cold feeling going through my whole body."
-So, who is ready for some rock? – asks Ember, playing a very fast riff in her new guitar.
- Six against one? Doesn't seem a fair fight… for you.
- We'll see about that,- answers Technus - destroy him!
The Fright Knight sends a massive energy wave from his new Soul Shredder, created by Technus from the remains of his old blade, previously destroyed by Danny.
Instinctively, he splits his body in half letting the energy pass through unharmed.
Skulker tries to whack him as soon as he reforms his body.
- Ok, I'll the first to admit that you look really cool in that armor - states Danny, dodging his blows with considerable difficulty.
- Thanks, I asked for the premium pack to get the extra blades in my arms and legs.
- Well congratulations, now you look like a shredder. I guess dressing up every morning must be an adventure now. Ruining your pants one leg at the time. But, do you really think you're gonna win just because you bought new clothes?
- No, we are gonna win because now we are stronger than you and - Wait a minute?! Do we have to pay for these things?
- What? No! Why would you-? Just kill the boy - yells Technus.
"There is that word again. "Boy". God, how I hate that word, they always call that like that. I hate people calling me that way. Just thinking of it makes me feel so angry… Even though it's been two years since I've saved the damn world, people still refers to me as a child, calling me things like wonder boy, or marvel kid. Even my own parents treat me like that.
"I'd usually ignore that but now… I feel a throat choking anger… I feel like I want to crush their throats. Boy, I am so not on the mood for that."
- I am not a boy! - yells Danny enraged, punching and blasting Skulker in the chest with a white ghost ray.
The attack leaves a deep dent and a big scorch in Skulker's armor, but as soon as it was damaged, it immediately began to repair itself.
What his eyes see, he could only describe it as if it was regenerating, healing itself.
- Wow, your armor is… healing? - Asks Danny amazed for what he sees.
- Impressive, eh? What you're looking at is a state-of-the-art organic technology armor with a built in regenerative healing factor.
- I hate that thing… and I want one of those.
- And I can do more than heal now. Much more - states shooting him with his new burning plasma cannon in his right arm.
Danny quickly flies at him avoiding his attack by phasing into the ground and reappears in front of Skulker breaking his cannon and punch him in the face, but as soon as he hits him, he moans in pain and realizes his hand was scorched.
- You thought these flames were just prop? No, no. You touch it you get burned.
- Wasn't that what happened when you were Ember's boyfriend? You dated a hot rock star chick and got burned? - Skulker gets mad at his comment and kicks him in the head, sending him inside a nearby warehouse.
- Wow, this body… is amazing. It has so much power and strength… I never thought I could be this powerful - declares astonished by the power of his new armor, stirring the flames.
- See, that's your problem. You are too hot headed now, you need to chill out. - Danny fires a cold energy blast from inside the warehouse, but Skulker uses his flaming hair to cover his armor in fire and repels his attack by bursting into a very large skull shaped green flame.
- Wow… that was… wow… just awesome - admits Danny amazed by Skulker's new power as he walks out of the green flames. - You've been thinking on combustication lately?
- I don't know about him, but I sure have been thinking of yours - states Ember unleashing a pink flare from her guitar.
Sensing her presence behind, he quickly turns around ducking her attack, firing a ghost ray.
Playing a different chord, she summons a burble-like blue ghost shield that revolves his ghost ray around her and redirects it back to him, with more power and blue instead of green.
Quickly, Danny phases down the floor, avoiding his own attack and assaults Skulker from below releasing a powerful streaming beam of energy with a single hand.
- Ha, I bet you didn't see that coming?
"Ha. Doing that always makes me feel better. Is just… satisfactory.
"Unfortunately, that feeling leaves as soon as it comes. Then I feel it again, that cold thing in my stomach.
"I feel how my chest is pierced by cold blades, how I began to lose the air and I can't get it back.
"How I'm incapable of breathing. How a cold hand inside me holds my lounges.
"I feel my throat choking… I feel pain as I've never felt before. But above everything, I feel… desperate… and miserable.
"Is there when I realize who's behind me."
Using her invisibility, Spectra stabs him in the back with her twelve inch long metal claws protruding from her nails, piercing his lounges.
- I bet you didn't see that coming.
Spectra twists her left hand inside him breaking three of his ribs and collapsing his lounge.
Danny is overwhelmed by a pain like no other. So brutal that brings him to his knees.
As he falls he began writhing in pain, bleating and groaning on his own ghost blood, while Spectra sighs and moans, ravished by an orgasmic pleasure she hasn't felt in years, as she gashes his inside, feeding on his pain the same way she does with his misery with a red glow on her body.
- Aaaaaaaaahhh… doing this to you feels so god! - yells stabbing him over and over collapsing his right lounge.
Incapable of breathing, in pain and despair, he thinks of something drastic to break free of Spectra's deadly grasp.
Phasing his hands through his chest he holds Spectra's hands and shocks her with a ghost stinger.
The attack affects them both, hurting their bodies. Immediately she takes off her hands from his body, allowing Danny to began to heal his wounds.
- Oh, looks like you know how to play rough. I like that on a man. If only you were one.
"If I could feel something other than pain… I'm sure I would be up set for that… But in retrospective, maybe zapping her from the inside of my own body won't make it to the top ten of my best ideas…
Which makes what I'm about to do even more stupid… or maybe less of it. So remember kids… if you have a serious internal bleeding and a collapsed lounge…even if you have ghost healing, always go to the nearest hospital, because you won't heal fast enough to get your air back… and the alternative… is an stupidity."
With his hand still inside his chest, he cauterizes his inner wounds to stop the bleeding of his lounges to help his healing process, releasing a silent scream by the awful burn he gives himself.
- It looks like somebody's being reading 50 Shades of Gray lately, like way too much. - Claims Ember with a wide smile on her face.
- Like you didn't enjoy that.
- Well, it was quite exiting for sure.
In a quick movement, Danny grabs Spectra's face and shocks her again with a ghost stinger and immediately fires a powerful plasma ray while still holding her face.
- He's recovering way faster than I expected. - States Technus, watching the fight from above with the Fright Knight and Prince Aragon, glaring at Danny who throws Spectra at Ember who quickly disappears.
- That could only mean your bodies are not causing the desired effect - points out Aragon.
- Should we go in and…?
- No. We stick to plan. You and the purple crusader stay here for overwatch while those hotheads weakening him, and then we take him. But just in case, Fright Knight, prepare to bring the nightmare.
- Aye. - In a purple burst, the Fright knight disappears.
- I'm confused. I thought this plan was a two ways plan.
- It is. You just have to see the other way around.
- Looks like you are not the only one who can heal fast - says Danny to Skulker, feeling cocky again, with his wound completely healed and unscratched.
- I was wondering who can take the more damage before he can't heal anymore. Care to wager? - asks pulling out three green laser claws from his knuckles.
- Bring it on! - yells Danny with his fists smoldering.
- Fists against claws? It seem like I have the edge here - says Skulker dodging every single punch from Danny with ease.
- Claw jokes. How original. Still, I still like my odds better - replies Danny barely dodging his blows.
- You should quit it, child. I have all of your movements programed into my new armor. Which means I know all about your fighting style, all of your techniques and movements. Each one of your strategies and attacks I see them happening right before my eyes a trillion times, so fast, that I can see how it's going to end, and let me tell you… this is not gonna end well for you - states striking Danny in the chest. - And you know what the best part is?
- That this is an awful prophecy dream? - answers in pain.
- That this is just the top of the iceberg. And believe me, this a helluva iceberg.
- A helluva iceberg indeed - states Technus. - Thanks to these new weapons and bodies created by me, I made us harder, better, faster, stronger.
- I feel like I've heard that before in a song – states Danny.
- Think that twice. We are now stronger than, faster than you, smarter than you but we are evil! - states Technus.
- Evil? Really?. No way. You really have a thing to tell the obvious. Now, why don't you just yell me what you plan is so I can get this over quickly.
- Plan? Our only plan is to beat you. Beat you like you've never been beaten before. Our plan is to defeat you.
- Yeah, well, we'll see about that.
Holding Skulker's arm, Danny calls for a massive amount of energy, bursting in a repulsion field that sets him free and damages Skulker's armor.
- If you were really smarter, you wouldn't waste your time in monologues when you could kill me - says taking high.
- Soon! Take him down! And this time, I want him down for good - yells Technus.
Danny flies as far as he can, until he crashes with an invisible force field.
- Ha. You thought we wouldn't foresee you trying to flee? – asks Skulker
- What is this? – inquires Danny, sore.
- It's a unilateral shield, codified to work only with your ghost signature.
- What?
- In simple terms, it means you can get in but you can't get out – explains Skulker, opening his right forearm into four sections, shooting a dozens of ghost missiles from it.
Danny phases through them, but as soon as he is tangible again, he gets struck by a pink lightning from Ember's guitar and a blue ghost ray from Spectra.
- Not so cocky now, eh? – asks Ember.
Skulker pulls out his new anti-ghost missile launchers from his shoulders.
– Try to dodge this.
Danny eludes the barrage of anti-ghost missiles, but theses ones follow him wherever he goes, forcing him to create an ecto-shield, yet, he gets severely hurt in the explosion.
- See? None of your old tricks will work now - states Skulker.
Spectra fires another blue plasma ray, while Skulker attacks him with a pink anti-ghost ray at the same time, creating a blue and pink explosion that knocks him out and turns him into human.
Rapidly, Spectra grabs his failing body and licks his wounded face with her thick snake tongue, waking him up.
- Agh, why did you do that for? - asks disgusted while going ghost - That is downright, the most disgusting thing that has ever happened to me, and I was inside a phlegmatic elephant's nose, twice.
- That's a lie.
- No, it's not.
- Let's be frank, sweetie. I'm sexy and I know that. I'm just hot. Way too hot for you! - yells turning her whole body into black fire, burning Danny with her touch.
- Well, that is something I'm not going to argue with her - says Skulker to Ember who quickly gives him a dirty look, while still playing her guitar.
- What? Girl, look at that body.
- At least she has one.
- Seems like a touch too much, doesn't it?
- God-freaking-damn it hurts! It's like… bleach or something.
- Yeah, baby. Now suffer. I want you to suffer like you've never suffered! And in case you couldn't listen to me over your screaming, I'll say that again, I want you to suffer!
Feeding on his pain, Spectra grows stronger than him, breaking his arms bare handed, and carving her nails deeper in his flesh.
- Get off me, fuckface! - Danny attacks Spectra with a cold blast from his eyes making distance between them.
Moving hastily, Skulker hurls himself at Danny, sliding his left arm blade to his hand to slay his chest. He quickly avoids the attack, circling him and trying to hit him in the face, but getting his arm twisted instead. Danny tries an elbow strike to hit him in the face with his free arm, but he blocks the attack again, knowing his movement even before he did, and twisting this other arm too.
Danny harness his energy to strengthen himself and break free, irradiating green ghost energy from his body, but Skulker absorbs it through his hands to empower himself instead.
- My ghost energy…! Are you…?
- Absorbing it? Yes. I'm absorbing it, turning it into my own, and growing stronger than you.
- I can't… I can't break free… - says struggling to free his arms, while getting weaker by the second.
- Right now you are thinking of using your intangibility, but lem'me tell ya, it's not gonna work with me. Is hard phase when you have no ghost energy to do it - states predicting Danny's actions.
- Yeah well, that's not my only trick.
- Oh, I know. Now you're thinking on using your cold powers, but you're forgetting now I'm immune to them! - says blazing his hands and burning Danny's. - Now you are thinking about duplicating your form, and now you think of blasting me in the chest at blank-point range, but you are too weak for any of those tricks.
- Well, if you can predict all of my movements and tricks, then I have have to use some others, and I'm sure there are some tricks sure you haven't seen before.
- And what could that possibly be?
Danny turns his hands into ghost tails, escaping from Skulker.
- What the-?
- Look ma, no hands. Now here is something else you probably didn't know I can do - he claims farting a large streaming and stinky ghost ray from his butt on enemy's face.
- My god! What the fucking hell is wrong with you?! - yells, covering his mouth and nose - You're rotting in the inside Fenton, you know that? Is that… did you eat a burrito before coming here?
- No.
Twenty minutes before the battle or… Danny and Tucker's eating burrito competition.
- Ha, I knew I'll finally beat - says Danny hardly swallowing half a burrito with the right hand while playing with the other.
- You just eat half a burrito more than me.
- Is more than I.
- Whatever. Just wait a few hours for the venganza del burrito.
- Looks like somebody's been paying attention during spanish class.
- Nah, I got that from a movie.
Back to the present.
"La venganza del burrito. And Sam thought that eating twice my weight on mexican food before a fight was gonna the death of me."
- I see no reason why should I stay in the line. I'm gonna go and slash his head off right now – states Aragon.
Pulling out his claws from his hands and feet, Aragon attacks Danny from behind, but he dodges him thanks to his ghost sense and reflexes, getting only a superficial wound on his back.
- All right, enough is enough! - yells Danny, with his whole body covered in green ghost energy.
Taking a deep breathe, Danny uses his ghostly wail with power enough to destroy half the city of being there. Aragon transforms into his new dragon form, which looked more malevolent than his old form and somewhat metallic, with four arthropod-like mandibles on his mouth and a "X" hole on his chest with a great green dragon eye within, in order to withstand the attack, while Ember summons a burble ghost shield for her and Spectra.
- Perfect – states Technus, watching the fight from the sidelines - just what I needed to hear.
- Damn it Technus, aren't you gonna help, or what? This is your goddamn team and your goddamn plan. You should be doing something. - Claims Spectra.
- Oh, but can't you see I already have, my excessively breasted friend? I was just waiting for my call.
- Excessively breasted? You are the one who made my body and gave me these tits, you pervert.
- I didn't see you complaining at all when I showed you your new body and you'll have nothing to complain about when I show you this.
A second before Danny uses his power for the second time, Technus activates his latest invention. Pressing a green button in the palm of his right hand, his invisible ghost shied turns blue.
In that moment, the air began to tar and breathing became heavy for Danny.
- What the hell happened? –ask Danny confused, with a high-pitched voice. - Why do I sound like ghost Cosmo?
- That would be my greatest invention of all. A machine that nulifies your greatest power, your Ghostly Wail - states Technus with the same squeak voice. - See even with this these new powers and bodies we have, we would have loss either way because of that ghostly wail of yours, so in order to defeat you, I had to limit your power by getting rid of it.
- You did what?! How did you that?
- You see that unilateral shield wasn't truly meant to hold you in here. It had a mayor purpose, it reduces the voice of whoever is inside to a single pitch making your power useless. I call it the "Perfect Pitch."
- Wait a minute, are you saying that you could eliminate his ghostly wail since the beginning of the fight? Then why did you wait till this moment to do that? - asks Skulker, with his armor healing back from the first impact.
- Because, if he did, I wouldn't be able to do this. - Changing her guitar's function and playing a different chord, Ember uses her own weaker, yet, very powerful version of Danny's ghostly wail on him.
- Wow. Let me see if get this straight - says Danny behind a ghost shield. - So while your friends get hot new bodies, outfits and powers, you only get a new guitar to play covers of my ghost powers? - asks Danny sarcastically behind his shield that quickly breaks at the power of her attack. - You know, when I heard you started working as a stripper in the ghost zone, I thought your career hit the bottom and that was a low as you can get. Now I see I was wrong. Playing covers of my powers, that is as low as you can get.
Angry with his comment, Ember uses her ghostly wail one more time, with more power, pushing Danny against the ghost shield behind him.
- Good, not so bad for a copycat. But while you may have taken my ghostly wail away, you are about to find out… that I am not an easy to limit man. Damn, with this Cosmo voice, that was less dramatic than I intended it to be.
Danny channels his ghost energy outside of him, forming a white aura as he crosses his arms in an X form, and fires an incredibly powerful white energy wave from his right hand, at Skulker, severely damaging his armor, and another one at Ember who quickly disappears in a blue blaze.
With cupped hands over his head, he concentrates his ghost energy to create a powerful white energy ball he uses against Aragon who shields himself with a red ghost ray from his wings hidden eyes.
- You got eyes in your wings? That is so cool and so gross. Now you'll get to see your defeat better than your teammates
- I got more than that - states while he exhales a gigantic purple flame.
Instinctively, he creates a cold energy wall with a hand gesture that withstands the attack till he gets assaulted from above by a purple flaming meteor made entirely of crystal, with a red flaming wicked smile and eyes, that burned him like no other fire ever did.
Confused, Danny gazed and saw before him a black winged horse, Fright was its rider and a hellish storm followed him.
A tornado made out of red ecto-energy starts spiraling around as the sky darkens above them and purple thunders began to beat upon the sky.
- Damn it, I wish I could switch places with Sam right now. - States, seeing how The Fright Knight's ecto-storm grows in power and size every second, turning everything in the ducks into a nightmarish monster as purple lightning starts falling everywhere. - I got the feeling that I'm never gonna hear the end of it.
While distracted, Aragon assaults him from below so fast he was a barely visible black and red blur, with a new demonic looking hybrid transformation with dragon features in his face, including the mandibles, hands, feet, and his wings protruding from his arms. Wings so sharp he could use them as blades, cutting him in the stomach.
Danny covers his bleeding wound while with his left hand, while firing at will ghost rays at Aragon and the Fright Knight with the other, but this one uses his shield, which was designed by Technus to absorb almost endless amounts of energy and empower him with it while Aragon evades the effects with his new improved and impressive speed, aerial reflexes and agility.
- Have you ever stare at the face of fear and seen that of the ones you hold most dear? - asks the Fright Knight, pointing at Danny with his shield, opening it to reveal a purple cat eye from which he fires a spinning purple energy wave.
Soon, Aragon attacks with a red dragon-like flame coming out of his mouth, while Spectra and Skulker fire a pink ghost ray and Ember an electric bubble from her guitar.
Rapidly, he freezes the dragon flame while barely dodging the other attacks by manipulating and stretching his body, with his wound almost healed, but he gets hit in the back by another purple meteor from the Fright Knight and then by a ghostly wail from Ember, getting caught inside the Fright Knight's ecto-storm.
- Ooooh, this is not gonna end well - sates, seeing his dire situation surrounded by hundreds of monsters inside the tornado.