LIFE LESSONS
It was Monday morning and another day at school, while everyone was all cramped onto the school bus Danny and Dayla were flying through the sky on their way to Casper High in their ghost forms and with their backpacks on their backs.
"One good thing about ghost powers, no fighting the school bus crowd" Danny said.
"No doubt about that" Dayla said.
Both were unaware however that Skulker was watching them at this very moment, hungry with anticipation to hunt them down once and for all.
"There they are. The prey's that got away, I hope you both have enjoyed your freedom ghost children because Skulker has returned to finish the hunt" Skulker said and grinned as a weapon sprung out of his shoulder and aimed right at them.
But just when he was about to fire, Danny and Dayla were both blasted back by a blast and were thrown right into a water tower, causing a hole in it and water to come pouring out.
"What! A weapon was fired! By someone other than me!" Skulker exclaimed in shock.
He then heard the noise of a jet coming right towards him and quickly ducked down to hide as the object zoomed right past him. The object stopped right in front of Danny and Dayla and as they looked up they saw who it was that blasted them, it was Valerie in her hunting suit!
"Thought I forgot about you two ghosts?" Valerie asked sarcastically.
Valerie fired another blast with her gun and Danny and Dayla quickly flew out of the way and allowed the blast to destroy the legs of the water tower.
"Nope. But I bet you forgot about that" Danny replied.
Valerie quickly moved out of the way just as the water tower was about to fall on top of her, Danny and Dayla then began to fly away at top speed, Valerie chased after them and activated her jet sled to fire random laser shots at them. Skulker watched the free of them fight with interest, especially now towards Valerie.
"Hmmm they all seem formidable. Maybe I should hunt the hunter girl" Skulker said with wonder.
He then watched as Danny and Dayla blasted her back with ectoblasts the other way. Skulker then said while turning invisible, "Of course I have sworn a blood oaf to have those ghost children's pelts on my wall"
Valerie blasted them back, Danny then blasted the gun right out of her hand with an ecto blast and they both stopped in mid-air for a second.
"Look we don't want to hurt you" Dayla said. Valerie then snapped back, "What makes you think either of you can!"
She pulled out a smaller gun which extended into a larger one, she then fired right at Dayla who then split her stomach like a circle and allowed the blast to go right through her. Danny then fired another blast and forced Valerie back.
"Ah I know what I'll do. I shall force a contest between the hunter girl and the ghost children and to the winner, the honour of me using their skull as a tetherball" Skulker decided with a wide grin as he followed them invisibly as they fought all the way to Casper High.
Just when Danny was about to fire another blast, all three of them stopped when they heard the bell ring for the start of the day at the school.
"Later for you punks!" Valerie shouted. Danny then shouted back, "We'll be waiting creep!"
They all flew off in separate directions, Skulker watched as Valerie hid behind the bleachers at the football field. She pushed a button on her suit and everything retracted in her bracelets and shoes, she then ran off for class. Danny and Dayla phased into the building and went into the janitor's closet, they both transformed and ran towards class. They were all busy running to Health Sciences, that they didn't notice each other. Dayla did and managed to stop just in time, however Danny and Valerie ran right into each other and fell backwards on the floor.
"Watch it punk!" Valerie snapped as she sat up. Danny then snapped as he sat up, "You watch it creep!"
The door to the class suddenly opened to reveal Ms Tetslaff who then said, "Mr Fenton! Miss Grey! Congratulations, you two stragglers have been paired for a special week long Health Sciences project. I now pronounce you two man, wife and child"
She handed them a flour sack that had a smiley face and a nappy on it. Danny then said sarcastically, "I am so not kissing the bride"
"What makes you think you can?" Valerie snapped back.
"As for you Miss Fenton, you will be paired up with the new student that has just started today. Come in and I'll introduce you" Ms Tetslaff said and allowed all three of them in the classroom.
Danny and Valerie sat down at their desks next to each other, while Dayla stood up the front with Ms Tetslaff.
"Andrew Knight will you please come to the front" Ms Tetslaff asked.
Dayla watched as a boy came up to the front, he had light brown hair and light green eyes, he was wearing black jeans with black tennis shoes, a dark brown t-shirt and a black jacket, he was sightly taller than Dayla.
They both just looked at each other and couldn't stop staring for a second until Ms Tetslaff interrupted a said while handing them their flour sack baby, "This is Andrew Knight. Andre Knight this is Dayla Fenton who will be your partner for this project. I now pronounce you both man, wife and child"
"Uh nice to meet you" Dayla said shaking his hand. He smiled and said, "Nice to meet you too"
Later after class Dayla and Andrew were walking around together holding the flour sack, they met up with Sam, Tucker and Danny in the hallway and saw everyone from their class holding a sack. Danny managed to escape Valerie for a moment to talk to them.
"So let me get this straight, we have to take care of a flour sack and pretend it's our baby?" Danny asked.
"It supposed to teach us about shared responsibility" Tucker answered. They all then watched Dash and Kwan throw their baby sacks to each other like it was a football game, Tucker then added, "Well some of us"
"Oh sorry guys. This is Andrew Knight my partner and new student. Andrew these are my friends Sam and Tucker and this is my twin brother Danny" Dayla introduced.
"You two are twins? I was wondering why you both looked alike, that's pretty cool" Andrew said.
"Hi" They all said and then Danny asked, "So where did you move from?"
"New York. My mum and I moved down here last week" Andrew answered.
"New York! I love that place! I remembered one time we went on family vacation there and I really loved visiting the art gallery" Dayla said. Andrew smiled and said, "Me too. I also like the Museum of Natural History but nothing beats the art gallery there"
Andrew and Dayla laughed a little bit but then found each other unable to stop staring at each other again, they both then looked away and blushed a little.
"Okay she has got to be the cutest girl I have seen" Andrew said in his head.
"Okay he has got to be the cutest boy I have seen" Dayla said.
"Hey Dayla can you hold the sack a second, I'll be right back, I just need to put something in my locker" Andrew asked.
"Sure" Dayla answered and took the sack from him, Andrew then left.
"I tell you what, the only thing this assignment is teaching me is how pointless this is" Sam said with a frown.
"Not to mention dangerous, now I gotta spend a week playing house with an ecto-weaving ghost hunter" Danny said looking at Valerie.
"Don't worry Danny, Valerie doesn't know who you and Dayla are and as far as she knows, you both don't know who she is either" Sam said.
"Besides she can't be gunning for either of you if she's too busy taking care of her little sack of love. Danny, Val and baby sitting in a tree! K-I-S-S…" Tucker began teasing but was cut off when Valerie took his hat and shoved it in his mouth.
"You dropped your hat" Valerie said with a glare.
Tucker pulled his hat out of his mouth and placed it back on his head. He then walked away with the sack saying, "Come on Sam. Our child doesn't need to see this kind of negativity"
"What? Tucker it's a flour sack!" Sam shouted in annoyance as she left with Tucker.
Andrew then came back and asked, "Hey Dayla do you want to show me around school? We can talk about how were gonna do this project together"
"Sure thing. I'll talk to you later Danny" Dayla said and then left with Andrew.
Valerie dropped the sack in front of them, both of them frowned at each other. Valerie then said, "I'll make this quick. I don't like you and you don't like me"
"Cool I'm glad we worked that out" Danny said sarcastically.
"So I took the time to chart out our responsibilities" Valerie said as she produced a poster that showed who would take care of the baby.
Danny glared as he saw most of it was Danny's responsibility. He then snapped, "And by our you mean mine"
"Look unlike you I'm busy. So busy my grades are in the toilet and I really need to pass this class" Valerie said.
They both suddenly heard a crying sound coming from the sack. Valerie then asked, "What is that?"
Danny quickly picked it up and began to immediately rock the sack back and forth like it was a real baby while saying, "You can't just set it down, these things need constant motion"
"See and it's that kind of parental attention that's gonna get me a good grade or else" Valerie said as she walked off.
Danny just glared at Valerie with annoyance. While Valerie was walking in the hallway, Dayla caught up with her and asked, "Hey Valerie how's it going?"
Valerie smiled and answered, "Pretty good, just really busy that's all"
Valerie walked off and then Andrew asked, "So is Valerie another one of your friends?"
"I'm not sure yet honestly" Dayla answered.
"So how do you want to do this assignment?" Andrew asked. Dayla then answered, "I figure that we each take the baby each night to our place and then share responsibilities of taking care of it together during the day when we're at school"
Andrew nodded and said, "Cool. I'll take the baby tonight then"
"Oh by the way my friends and I like to meet at Nasty Burger after school. Do you maybe want to come and join us?" Dayla asked.
"Sure" Andrew answered. The bell rang and everyone went off to their next classes.
After school that day Danny, Dayla, Sam, Tucker and Andrew were all sitting down at a table outside at Nasty Burger. Danny was trying his hardest to calm his flour sack down but nothing was working as he continued to rock the sack back and forth.
"I've been a parent for only one day and I'm probably already down to a C-" Danny said.
"Life could be worse, you could be that guy in the Nasty Nit costume" Sam said as she gestured to Nasty Nit who was getting attacked by a bunch of kids.
"Ooh Nasty Nit! Let's get a family photo with him" Tucker said as he dragged them all towards the giant bug costume guy.
"You're taking this way too seriously!" Sam exclaimed in annoyance.
They were all unware that Skulker was on top of the roof watching them. Skulker pushed a button on his wrist and made a large cage appear filled with all different kinds of ghost every shape and size.
"Hmmm I'm going to need the right kind of bait to lure those three back to battle. Now let's see, too scaly, too frightening, you I plan feasting on for dinner…. Aha! Yes you'll do" Skulker said with a grin as he pulled out poor Box Ghost from the cage.
"I AM THE BOX GHOST AND…." Box Ghost began shouting but was cut off when Skulker gagged him with some sort of mechanical gag and attached him to a fishing rod.
Sam and Tucker stood with Nasty Nit while holding the flour sack in a purple carry bag, Danny took the picture of them all while still trying to calm his one down.
"Want me to take a picture of you guys? Family photos help boost your grade" Tucker asked.
"No thanks Tuck. Andrew and I have already got this assignment down" Dayla answered.
"I would but that would require having the whole family, but mummy is too busy with her job to pull her weight and keep this kid quiet!" Danny shouted.
"Danny! You're scaring the baby!" Tucker and Sam shouted. Tucker smirked as Sam pulled back and said nervously, "Which that is not, it's a flour sack"
"He kind of does have a point though. I mean Dayla and I are sharing equal responsibilities when it comes to this assignment, maybe just try talking to this Valerie about it. I used to help our neighbour's children back in New York" Andrew suggested.
"Hey you mentioned that you moved here with your mum. What about your dad?" Sam asked.
"He died when I was little, it's been me and my mum ever since" Andrew answered with a bit of sadness. Dayla put her hand don his shoulder and said, "I'm sorry. That's got to be rough, I couldn't imagine what it would be like without my dad"
"Thanks Dayla. Anyway I better get home and I've got first night with the baby so I'll see you tomorrow Dayla" Andrew said.
"Okay see you tomorrow" Dayla said as she handed the sack over to him and waved as they left.
They all then heard a noise coming from Danny's sack, Danny opened up the nappy and then he suddenly cringed back in disgust as green gas came from it and smelled disgusting.
"Oh come on!" Danny said in disgust.
"Just be thankful it's only flour" Sam said. Danny then asked, "Then why does it smell like beans?"
"It's the little touches that bring the baby to life" Tucker said. "Here allow me"
Tucker grabbed Danny's sack and then dropped his backpack to the ground, which suddenly turned into a change table along with extra nappies and a mobile. All of them looked at Tucker with wide eyes as he began to change the nappy.
"Okay where did you get all this stuff Tucker?" Dayla asked.
"I announced the birth of our ten pound sack of joy on the internet. The online Geek Community can be very generous" Tucker answered.
Danny and Dayla's ghost senses suddenly went off and they turned around to see the Box Ghost being hung there by rope. Box Ghost spat out the gag and exclaimed, "BEWARE!"
He was then pulled back up and everyone in the restaurant began screaming in fright at the sight of the ghost.
"Oh man! Tuck can you watch the kid for me?" Danny asked.
"What do I look like a baby sitting service?" Tucker asked with a frown. Danny quickly pulled out five dollars which Tucker accepted happily and said while hugging the sack, "Come to Uncle Tucker and his baby sitting service"
Danny and Dayla ran to the back of Nasty Burger, while looking back they didn't notice Nasty Nit standing there and they ran right into him and fell backwards to the ground.
"Watch it!" Nasty Nit said rudely and then ran off.
"Sorry it was an accident!" They both said with annoyance. Danny then said, "Geeze everyone is being a jerk today"
They both transformed into their ghost halves and flew up into the air and floated above Nasty Burger looking around for the annoying Box Ghost.
"Now where's that lame old Box Ghost?" Dayla asked.
Valerie suddenly appeared in front of them with her ghost hunting equipment on and holding a large weapon at them. She then said, "Only lame old ghosts I see here are you two!"
Valerie fired the missile which hit them both dead on and sent them crashing into the order box of Nast Burger instantly breaking it. They both stood up and watched as she flew around.
"Oh she's too busy to watch the kid but when it's time to kick our butts, she's front and centre!" Danny said with annoyance.
They both flew up and began firing ecto-blasts at her sled as Danny asked sarcastically, "Don't you have anything better to do?"
Valerie dodged the blasts and then turned around aiming the weapon at them again while shouting, "This is what I do!"
Skulker watched as the blast from her weapon knocked them both to the ground with a wide grin. He then said still holding the Box Ghost, "At last people hitting people! Is there anything more beautiful?"
They both got back and up and charged at Valerie sending more ecto blasts right at her, Valerie dodged them and fired six more shots, Danny and Dayla quickly turned intangible but the blasts hit the ground and almost hit the people around Nasty Burger including Tucker and Sam. One of the blasts destroyed the pole holding the Nasty Burger sign up and it began to fall right near Tucker who screamed, "MY BABY!"
"TUCKER!" Danny and Dayla both shouted and they flew right down and held onto Tucker.
They turned him intangible just in time and allowed the sign to fall right through them, they all turned tangible and Tucker let out a sigh of relief.
"Thanks! But Danny this is gonna cost you extra" Tucker said with a frown.
"Bill me later. Right now we gotta stop this fight before somebody gets hurt" Danny said.
They both then turned invisible and flew in between some cars and transformed back into their human halves. They both came out and watched as Valerie scanned the area and then flew off. Skulker watched and then groaned, "This is ridiculous I could've skinned them all by now"
Danny and Dayla walked back to Sam and a frowning Tucker who then said, "I ought to bust you for child endangerment!"
He handed Danny's sack back to him and then held his one close while saying sweetly, "There, there. Daddy's here, daddy loves you"
Sam crossed her arms and said with annoyance as she grabbed the sack off him, "Um Tucker point of information, it's a sack of white powder that you almost got killed over!"
Sam then looked at the sack and smiled as she rubbed off some dirt that was on its face. Tucker then said, "I'm gonna have to charge you extra Danny. Hazard pay and all"
"Fine whatever!" Danny said as he gave Tucker another five dollars. "Right now I just want to find Valerie and giver her our kid and a piece of my mind"
"I'll come with you Danny" Dayla said and they both began to leave but only to run right into Nasty Nit again.
"Please move!" Danny said while shoving him out of the way.
Nasty Nit put his hands on his hips and then walked off, Tucker kept looking at the money he got and then smirked as he got an idea watching Dash and Paulina fight over who was going to watch over their sack.
"Hi I couldn't help over hearing and I think I have the solution to your problem" Tucker said.
Meanwhile Danny and Dayla had arrived at Valerie's place and walked into the apartment building. Valerie was in her room doing chin up on one of the pipes while glaring at a wanted poster of Danny and Dayla in their ghost forms.
"You can run ghost kids but you can't hide!" Valerie exclaimed.
She stopped when she heard someone knocking on the front door and Danny calling, "Valerie it's Danny and Dayla and junior!"
Valerie opened the front door. Danny then said while shoving the sack into her arms, "You're taking the kid now"
"But my job!" Valerie objected. Danny then said, "I know all about your stupid job"
"What! Who told you about that?" Valerie asked.
"It doesn't matter. The free rides over now get your lazy butt in gear and start pulling your weight" Danny demanded and then walked off.
Valerie then looked at Dayla hoping she could help her. She shook her head and said, "I'm sorry Valerie but this is the whole point of the assignment. You both need to work together and share responsibilities of taking care of a baby, true Danny could've been calmer about it but you do need to start pulling your weight in this"
Dayla then walked off with Danny. Valerie then tried one more time, "Guys wait please! Danny you don't understand, if I flunk this class my dad will kill me"
The sack then made another farting noise and sprayed green gas right in Valerie's face. Danny then said, "Great! Then you might want to think about changing that diaper"
Danny then walked off, Dayla walked back for a second and said, "I'm sorry"
Valerie then said as she walked back in the room, "Don't worry about it. At least you're showing you care"
Valerie closed the door and then Dayla left to join Danny. They were all unaware that once again they were being watched by Skulker just outside the building.
"Hmmm clearly the sack is very valuable to all of them" Skulker said and then grinned. "Which gives me an idea"
He turned invisible and intangible and phased into the building, she gasped when suddenly the sack was snatched out of her hand and began floating in the air, and she then watched the sack disappear from the room and then grabbed her ecto-gun with fury. Meanwhile Danny and Dayla were walking down the second floor when their ghost senses went off and they turned around to see Skulker holding Danny and Valerie's flour sack.
"Skulker!" Danny and Dayla exclaimed and then they transformed into their ghost forms.
They floated up to him and then they both asked, "What are you doing?"
"Framing you both" Skulker answered.
He then brought the sack right up and screamed in its face causing it to start crying.
"Skulker no!" Danny shouted.
Skulker grinned and tossed the sack, they both caught it and then Skulker turned invisible and phased out of the building. Valerie then came running down the hallway in her ghost hunting suit and weapon in hand.
"Hand over the sack ghosts and nobody gets hurt!" Valerie warned while aiming her weapon at them.
"Wait! It's not what you think!" Dayla exclaimed, but Valerie wouldn't listen and she fired her weapon at them.
Danny held onto the sack and they both turned intangible and phased out of the building, Valerie then followed behind on her jet sled and continued to fire shots at them.
"You don't understand! This is all a trick by a ghost named Skulker" Danny shouted as they stopped.
Valerie pushed a button on her gun aiming more missiles and other weapons at them, Danny then placed his arm out to calm her down while saying, "Okay"
They both floated down to the ground, Valerie followed them and put her jet sled into her feet away but still aimed the weapon right at them.
"Look I'm putting the sack down right here" Danny said as he gently placed the sack down on the ground.
"You don't want to hurt us and you don't want to hurt this right?" Dayla asked calmly.
Valerie then lowered the other weapons on the gun and asked, "Why do you even care?"
Skulker watched and was disappointed when he saw that they weren't fighting at all.
"No hitting! Why is there no hitting?" Skulker said. "I'm changing the rules of this hunt"
Skulker then pressed a button on his wrist and then Danny, Dayla and Valerie suddenly found themselves surrounded machines that were sparking with electricity.
"I knew it! It's a trap!" Valerie said with anger.
"No it's not us! It's…." Danny began to say but they all screamed when all the machines hit them with electricity and then everything went black.
They all groaned as they woke up and suddenly found themselves lying next to each other, they all sat up and they found themselves handcuffed to each other by glowing handcuffs. Danny was attached to Valerie's left hand while Dayla was attached to Valerie's right hand, they all stood up and found Skulker standing in front of them with a wide grin.
"Greetings prey. After failing to determine which of you the superior challenge is, I decided to hunt all three of you at the same time!" Skulker said and then laughed evilly into the air as they discovered that they were in the Ghost Zone on Skulker's island!
"AGHH! HELP! What is this place? Who's he? What's going on here?" Valerie screamed out flinging Danny and Dayla everywhere as she panicked, causing them to be flung over straight to the ground.
They both stood back up and Danny began, "Okay in order this is the Ghost Zone, that's Skulker Ghost Zone's greatest hunter and other than you dislocating our shoulders we're about to be hunted like animals"
"And this is all because he can't decide who to hunt" Dayla then added.
Skulker activated his weapons on his suit and then said, "I'm offering you a sporting head start prey, and I suggest you take it"
Valerie screamed again, Danny and Dayla then pulled Valerie along as they began to run away while exclaiming, "Less freaking more running!"
They all ran together dodging nets and other rope traps that Skulker sent at them. Danny tried to create an ecto-blast with his free hand but it cancelled out immediately. He then looked at the handcuffs and said, "Oh man! These handcuffs must cancel out all our ghost powers!"
"Oh come on!" Dayla groaned as they continued to run.
Valerie then stopped them all as she saw her weapon lying on the ground in front of them. She bent down to pick it up while exclaiming, "My ecto-grenade launcher!"
"No don't! It might be…" Danny began to say but was stopped when Valerie picked it up anyway. It was attached to a rope which activated a switch.
A hole opened out of the tree and it suddenly launched thousands of darts at them, Danny and Dayla pulled Valerie down and dodged the darts.
"Booby trapped" Danny finished with annoyance. Dayla then said, "See this is why we took the time to explain the whole Ghost Zone's greatest hunter thing"
They all then heard Skulker's battle cry, Valerie stood up and shouted, "Get up! He's coming!"
But for some reason they couldn't move, they both looked to see they both got hit by a dart each in their legs.
"I…can't…move" They both said in unison as they fell to the ground completely paralysed.
Skulker then came up holding a weapon at them as he said, "Spectral Paralyses Darts. The effects are only temporary but this will not be"
Valerie began to run again dragging Danny and Dayla along with her, they both got hit with rocks and branches as she ran from Skulker.
"Well on the bright side, she's finally starting to pull her own weight" Danny muttered.
Meanwhile back in Amity Park, Tucker's babysitting service was rising at a high rate. The entire class had asked Tucker to take care of their flour sacks, but Sam was getting annoyed at him that their own sack was getting neglected.
"Flour Power Day Care please hold. Flower Power Day Care, yes we do accept your parent's credit cards. Hey Sam this baby sitting gig is a real gold mine" Tucker said as he put down the phones.
"That's great but aren't you worried our own sack might get neglected?" Sam asked as she watched their sack fall out of the carry bag and onto the ground.
"No why?" Tucker asked while Sam picked up the sack and began rocking it and then answered, "Well it's just that you seem so busy and if you want I can take her off your hand for a few hours"
"Her? Now who's taking this way too seriously? Your bonding aren't you?" Tucker asked with a smirk as he took the sack off Sam and placed it in a carriage along with another one.
"What! No! I am so not bonding. I just thought you could use a break that's all" Sam answered nervously.
"Well thanks but no thanks. No better way of advertisement than a full caravan" Tucker said and then continued on his way.
"You're right it's just a stupid school project. I don't care" Sam lied as she looked at the sack and then frowned her eyebrows in annoyance at Tucker.
Back on Skulker's Island in the Ghost Zone, Valerie screamed once more as she continued to run dragging Danny and Dayla along the ground. Danny and Dayla suddenly felt some of their body moving again and was at least able to stand up as Valerie stopped at the edge of the island.
"No way out whelps" Skulker said with a victorious grin.
"There is one way out" Valerie said looking down.
"What! Listen to me don't…" Dayla began to protest but Valerie jumped off the ledge.
"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" They all screamed as they fell.
Valerie then kicked her heels and suddenly her jet sled activated and came out, stopping them from falling any further. Danny and Dayla landed on the back of the sled holding on as Valerie sped off through the infinite Ghost Zone.
"HA! He may have gotten my weapons but he didn't get everything" Valerie exclaimed as Danny and Dayla stood up on the sled.
Skulker activated his jet packs and began to chase after them, Valerie went faster and faster in an effort to lose the hunter.
"Look could you slow down for a moment? This is the Ghost Zone, we are ghosts and we can help each other" Danny said.
"Why should I trust either of you?" Valerie asked with frustration. Danny and Dayla raised their eyebrows and pointed out that they were handcuffed to each other.
Seeing she had no other option she said, "Fine. I'm open for suggestions"
"Head for a door, any door. Sometimes they're portals between the Ghost Zone and Earth" Dayla explained.
Valerie stopped at a metal looking door and opened it, revealing a monstrous train shooting flames from its mouth.
"NOT THAT DOOR!" Danny and Dayla both screamed and slammed it shut.
"Well maybe you both should be a little more specific" Valerie said sarcastically.
Valerie moved to another door and opened it, once they saw there was no danger in that one they immediately flew in and slammed the door shut losing Skulker in the process. Skulker stopped and smelled the air for them.
"I can smell how near they are. The sweat, the fear….and beans. One of them has had a burrito" Skulker said with slight disgust at the smell.
Back in Amity Park Tucker had brought all the flour sack to his home garage, where he had automatic rocking baby carriages ready for him to place the sacks in and hanging above each one was a dollar bill he had earned from every one.
"Okay guys nap time. Night Alexandra. Sleep tight Andrew. Good night Benjamin, your my favourite" Tucker said as he placed each individual sack in the cribs.
He then reached over for his sack but gasped as he couldn't feel it there, he then looked to see that it wasn't in the carriage at all.
What he didn't know that while he was busy taking care of the other sacks, Sam snatched their one away and took it home with her. She placed a wig that looked like her hair and put make-up on it and hugged it tightly as she cooed, "Aren't you adorable? You are now. Yes you are"
Back in the Ghost Zone Danny, Dayla and Valerie floated down to a flat piece of land and Valerie retracted the jet sled. Danny and Dayla moved their arms and legs and smiled as the paralysis was finally over and they could move again.
"We both can move again, thanks for the save back there" Dayla said.
"Yeah well thank you both for nothing!" Valerie said bitterly. "It's both your faults that I'm stuck in this freaky ghost world"
Danny picked up a rock and tried breaking his handcuffs. He placed his on a large rock and began smashing the smaller rock on the chain while saying sarcastically, "Right because clearly the maniac who cuffed and dragged us here didn't have anything to do with it"
"Man I'm just getting paired up with all kinds of jerks in my life" Valerie said looking down.
"What do you mean by that?" Dayla asked. Valerie then answered with bitterness, "Nothing you two would know about. Some dweeb has been giving me all kinds of static at school all because of this project we're both supposed to be doing"
"Uh maybe you weren't pulling your weight?" Danny suggested. Valerie then picked up another rock and tried breaking the cuffs while saying, "Or maybe he has no idea what my life is like! A job, a second job…"
"Two jobs?" Danny asked. Valerie then continued, "I gotta catch ghosts like you guys and raise money for college. Even his sister has no idea what I'm going through, but at least she cares and talks to me nicely. I could've been paired up with anybody for this project and I got stuck with insensitive, uncaring, DANNY FENTON!"
She broke the rock on the last part and they all looked up when their handcuffs lit up and showed an image of Skulker on a video screen.
"Greetings panicking youngsters. As much as I'd like to follow the scent of beans throughout the infinite realms of the Ghost Zone, I believe I have something you want right here" Skulker said and held up Danny and Valerie's baby sack.
They all gasped in fright and shouted in panic, "We have to go back!"
Valerie looked at them both strangely and then Dayla said, "Even though we have no idea why that sack is so important"
Skulker laughed evilly at them. Back in Amity Park Tucker marched right up to Sam's bedroom and frowned as he asked, "What have you done to our child?"
He snatched the sack away and said, "Give him back! It's obvious Tucker Junior needs a strong father"
Sam then snatched it back and protested, "No way! Lilith needs to be raised in a nurturing environment and not some overcrowded baby barracks"
"OH MY GOSH! The other babies! Gotta go!" Tucker exclaimed in a panic and then kissed Sam full on the lips!
They both stared at each other with wide eyes. Sam then broke the silence and said, "That never happened"
"You got that right! Daddy's gotta run!" Tucker exclaimed as he ran out the door. Sam then shouted, "Don't forget to pick up milk!"
Back in the Ghost Zone they all went back to Skulker's Island, unaware that Skulker was watching their every move from behind some bushes.
"That's it come to my trap" Skulker said quietly. The sack then started crying, Skulker then held it up with annoyance and tried squeezing it to stop it while shouting, "What is this thing! Why won't it stop this infernal racket?"
They all heard the baby crying and immediately sprang into action, they flew down and snatched the sack just as Skulker was about to shoot it with his weapon, Dayla held onto the sack tightly as they all landed on the ground and Skulker prepared to shoot them.
"Go high!" Danny yelled out and then Valerie took to the air dodging the blasts.
They flew around dodging each blast that Skulker sent their way.
Valerie then yelled, "Go low!"
Valerie flew down low and her and Danny used the chains on their handcuffs to trip Skulker over. They floated in the air as Dayla said, "Hey I think we finally got this teamwork thing down"
Skulker then jumped up and grabbed them by their handcuffs yanking them off the jet sled and held them in the air.
"Just in time to get our butts fried" Valerie exclaimed.
"Now before I destroy you all" Skulker said and then grabbed the sack off Dayla. "I must know what is so valuable about this package"
"It's not the package that's valuable, it's how you take care of it that counts" Valerie said. Danny then added, "And dude, you're a horrible mother"
Skulker looked at the sack up close, but it suddenly farted and sprayed green gas right into his face. He dropped them all and held his eyes and nose as he shouted in disgust. Danny then saw Valerie's gun and smirked as he reached over to pick it up.
"Danny what are you doing?" Dayla asked. Danny answered, "Giving Skulker a taste of his own booby trap"
He pulled the gun and then ducked them all down as the trap activated and heard Skulker scream as all the darts hit him everywhere, they looked up to see him covered in darts.
"I CAN'T SEE!" Skulker shouted and then was suddenly frozen on the spot as he said, "Can't…move"
He then fell to the ground with one arm stuck behind his back and one arm above his head.
"Please don't get up on our account, we'll just go" Dayla said as she grabbed the key and unlocked all their handcuffs. Valerie then picked up the sack and they all began to walk off.
"Okay now my nose itches. A little help? Anyone? Please?" Skulker begged. Danny then came back and allowed the sack to fart in Skulker's face once more before leaving.
Back in Amity Park Tucker came home to find his mother baking cookies.
"Hi mum" Tucker greeted. Mrs Foley then offered, "Cookie dear? I just made them fresh for the big bake sale"
Tucker picked up one of the cookies happily and said, "Thanks mum"
"No thank you son for picking up all that flour for me" Mrs Foley said.
Tucker's eyes widened in shock, he spat out the cookies and saw all around the kitchen that all the flour sacks were opened and emptied of their continents.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
Back in the Ghost Zone, they had all just came out of the jungle and Valerie sighed at the sight of the flour sack, it was ripped up and dirty.
"At least it stopped crying. I guess I was kind of harsh on you two before. I never thought a ghost could be anything but trouble" Valerie said.
"That's because you never bothered to get to know one" Danny said. Dayla then added, "Yeah remember the saying never judge a book by its cover"
"Truce?" Danny offered as he held out his hand. Valerie shook his hand and said, "For now. Get me out of this ghost world and we'll see how long it lasts"
"Zone it's more of a zone. But if you insist…" Danny began and then overshadowed Valerie as he finished, "We're gonna have to do it our way though"
They both flew through the air and left the Ghost Zone through the Fenton Portal, then they phased out of the building and flew all the way to Valerie's home. Danny then sat on Valerie's bed and deactivated her suit and then phased out of her body, which Valerie passed out.
"Now to get out of here before she…" Danny began but was stopped when Dayla tapped his shoulder and pointed to the floor where they saw the Nasty Nit costume.
"Oh man you've got to be kidding me" Danny said as he picked up the suit.
They both heard her yawn and waking up, so they quickly transformed back into their human halves as she sat up.
"Who's there?" Valerie asked.
"Ah it's just us" Dayla answered. Danny then said, "Sorry the door was opened and according to your chart, it's my turn to take the baby"
Valerie then noticed Danny holding the costume and then shouted as she snatched off him. "Give me that! And you better not tell anybody! I mean it! You better not!"
"We won't tell anybody. If there's one thing we're both good at is keeping secrets right Danny?" Dayla said.
"Yeah absolutely. Wow this is the worst job ever, I didn't know this was the job you were talking about" Danny said.
"That's because you never bothered to get to know me" Valerie said as she put away the costume.
"Yeah you're right and I'm supposed to be one of the good guys" Danny said.
"What?" Valerie asked in confusion.
"Nothing. Look maybe I can make it up to" Danny offered. Valerie then said as she showed him the sack, "You can start by not getting mad"
The end of the week came and Sam, Dayla, Danny, Andrew and Valerie laughed when they found out what happened to everyone else's flour sacks as they sat in class.
"Fenton! Grey! Your flour sack is a disgrace, but since its not part of a cookie I'm giving you two a C" Tetslaff announced which Danny and Valerie smiled at.
"Knight and Fenton for excellent parenting skills, showing equal responsibilities and great teamwork between each other, I'm awarding you both an A" Tetslaff announced.
Andrew and Dayla high fived each other.
"Manson for exemplary parenting skills and if questionable taste in make-up I'm awarding you an A" Ms Tetslaff announced. She then glared at Tucker while saying, "As for you Mr Day-care…."
Later that day after school, Tucker was forced to refund everyone's money and go out of business which almost made him cry as he gave every single dollar bill he had earned. He moped in front of the Nasty burger as he teared down his sign.
"Cheer up Tuck, you can still visit Lilith on weekends" Sam said as she still held onto the flour sack.
"Sam it's just a flour sack" Tucker said plainly.
"I'm so glad we passed this class" Andrew said. Dayla then laughed as she said, "Good thing we didn't try Tucker's babysitting service"
"I have to go and help my mum at home, I'll see you on Monday guys" Andrew said as he left.
Dayla couldn't stop smiling at him for some reason, but then quickly blushed as she looked away.
Tucker frowned as he threw the banner away but it hit Nasty Nit in the face and they heard Danny yell in the suit, "Hey! Watch where you're throwing that! Show a little respect will ya?"
"Danny?" They all asked.
"Yeah the other day I was such a jerk to…uh the person who wore this thing I figured I should give that person the day off" Danny said.
"Oh you're not half bad Danny and maybe one day Valerie will see that the other half of both you guys isn't so bad either" Sam said.
"I didn't say it was Valerie" Danny said. Sam then said, "You didn't say it wasn't"
"Well wherever Valerie is, I'm sure she's finally enjoying herself" Dayla said.
On the other side of Amity Park, Valerie was in her ghost hunting suit chasing down the Box Ghost. Box Ghost screamed as he was flying away from her, she fired random shots from her weapon right at him.
"YOU'RE GOING DOWN!" Valerie shouted.
"YOU CANNOT CATCH ME! FOR I AM THE….AGHHHHHH!" The Box Ghost screamed as he was hit dead on by a blast.
THE END
NEXT TIME ON THE PHANTOM TWINS
Danny and Dayla now have a bounty on their heads! All the best known ghost hunters are trying to capture them for the price of $1 million dollars! Vlad's up to something as he now needs a new portal to get to the Ghost Zone. Will Danny and Dayla find out what Vlad is up to and avoid being captured by Ghost Hunters? Find out next time on The Phantom Twins in: The Million Dollar Ghosts.
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