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"You have successfully taken Wind, Earth and Water. What is your plan now?" Light questioned.

Darkness stroked his glowing crystal and nodded. "Now all I must do is retrieve the other three elements."

"Would you like us to do that?" Ember asked, gently strumming her guitar and staring at her master with haunted black eyes.

"I have another plan. This child didn't think twice of blasting his enemies, but I daresay he would be much more hesitant to strike a mere human."

"You're going to send a human to retrieve the elements?" Light asked in disbelief.

"Do not question me!" Darkness roared and slammed Light with dark energy. She fell to the floor and shrieked with agony as black electricity crackled along her form. Ember winced and shrunk back, focussing her eyes on her guitar.

"I will be gone for a few moments," Darkness growled. "And in that time I expect you to remember your place, Light."

The swirling black and purple portal opened and the dark element disappeared.

...

Dash slammed his locker door shut and glanced at Kwan. "So, are we set for the football game this weekend?"

Kwan grinned confidently. He tucked his football underneath one arm and said, "Of course! Those jerks won't know what hit them. Are you ready to stuff Fenton in his locker for your pre-game pump-up?"

Dash laughed and started walking down the hallway. "It's tradition! And somehow every time Fenturd manages to get out."

"I guess you'll just have to step up your game this year," Kwan teased. Dash was about to retort when he saw a flash of purple light coming from an empty science room.

"Dude! Did you see that?" Dash exclaimed.

Kwan frowned in confusion and turned to look through the window of the dark classroom. "See what? No one's in there."

Dash shoved Kwan aside and threw the door open. Kwan rolled his eyes and followed his best friend and fellow jock. They stood in the middle of the deserted classroom and Kwan arched an eyebrow. "I give up man. What am I supposed to be looking at?"

Dash ran a hand through his blond hair in puzzlement. "I thought I saw this weird purple light..."

"The coach was right. You are getting too many bonks on the head."

"Not as many as you! I bet you lost at least five brain points!" Dash retorted.

"Brain points? Really dude?"

"Not the smartest of humans...but I suppose you will do," an eerie voice mused from shadows. "I'm not particularly picky. All you humans look the same to me."

Dash stumbled back and hit the door, the knob digging into his back. "Dude..."

Kwan gaped at the black-cloaked ghost that floated above their heads. He aimed a hand glowing with strange energy at them. "I see it now."

That was the last thing he said before his body vibrated with pain and everything went black.

...

Sam glanced at Danny and noted he was a bit out of sorts. He was frowning at his pudding and had a troubled look in his blue eyes. "What's up Danny? What did the pudding do this time?"

Danny rolled his eyes. "Funny. See, today is the last day before the big football game tomorrow..."

"Please don't tell me you actually want to go," Sam asked with slight disgust. "Those football jerks don't deserve your support."

"Give me a break Sam. I'm just saying Dash hasn't come by to give me my traditional stuffed in a locker before the big game routine."

"That is serious," Tucker said with wide blue-green eyes. Sam snickered and quickly turned it into a coughing fit as Tucker tried to keep a straight face.

"Whatever," Danny snapped and slumped back in the grass. They were the only ones out in the courtyard that day because everyone else was prepping the football stadium for the big game and decorating the gym for the after-game party.

"Fenton!"

"Ah. And I was starting to get a little worried," Danny muttered and turned around wearily. "Alright Dash, let's get this over-oh man."

Tucker blinked and stared at Dash's black eyes. "Hmm. Either Dash got contacts or Darkness got him."

Sam craned her neck to peer behind Dash and hummed thoughtfully when Kwan now had purple eyes. "That really isn't his colour."

"This is serious!" Danny hissed and hastily transformed into Phantom. Tucker stared at the golden gloves, boots and symbol and white suit with shock before shaking his head.

"I'm guessing you blended your powers together successfully."

"What was your first clue Sherlock?" Sam snapped as she scrambled to her feet and let fire blaze in the palms of her hands.

"No!"

Sam sighed with irritation and lowered her hands. Danny glared at her. "Darkness sent humans because he knew I wouldn't want to harm them! And since he's right, we have to find another way to snap them out of it."

"They harm you on a daily basis," Tucker pointed out.

"And I get my ghostly revenge. But now I'm putting my personal feelings aside and I'm going to help them."

"Alright," Sam muttered.

She gave a yelp of surprise when she was knocked over by a blast of black energy. Tucker jumped back to avoid his blast and sent up a wall of ice. "Looks like Darkness tricked them out." He raised an eyebrow at Danny, who was trying hard to keep up his shield of golden light as Dash bombed him with black spikes. "Now what do you suggest?"

Danny frowned in thought. How was he supposed to get the darkness out of them? "The Fenton Extractor! It sucks up any ecto-plasma infections that be passed on to a human by ghostly means!"

"And you want me and Sam to go get it, right?" Tucker asked.

"You got it."

Tucker sighed and pushed his ice shield forward. It rammed into Kwan and knocked him down. The techgeek grabbed a dazed Sam by the arm and dragged her down the courtyard. "Come on Sam! We need to get going!"

Danny retracted his shield and carefully unleashed two golden ropes made out of shimmering light. He wrapped them around Dash and then was about to tie up Kwan when the beta jock slammed a force of dark energy into him. He collapsed to the ground and groaned. That was some powerful stuff. And it wasn't even Darkness!

"I think I'm in way over my head," Danny muttered and created arrows of light and shot them forwards. They caught into the sleeves of Kwan's jacket and pinned him to a tree. Dash broke free of the bonds and rammed after Danny.

"The elements!" he shouted and tackled Danny to the ground. The halfa went intangible and slid out of the jock's tight grasp and floated in the air.

"I hope Sam and Tucker get here soon. There's only so much I can do without hurting them severely."

...

Sam and Tucker raced for Fenton Works and burst through the front door. "We are really lucky the Fentons aren't home," Tucker commented as they tore down the stairs and came upon the lab.

"Come on Tuck. We need to find the Fenton Extractor!" Sam rifled through a pile of weird, green glowing devices and quickly pulled her hand back when one of them started humming loudly.

Tucker blinked and stared around the ectoplasm-scented lab. "But I don't know what it looks like."

Sam paused and glanced at Tucker. "Neither do I. Guess and check?"

"Works for me." Tucker snagged a circular device from the metal lab table and pushed a button. It instantly crackled with green energy and blasted the wall. Tucker flew backwards from the force and he groaned.

Sam stared at the burn mark in the wall and clucked her tongue. "It's not that one. Cool though."

Tucker quickly placed the thing on a bench and spotted a small gun, the size of a plastic water shooter. He picked it up and noted it was aluminum, with pulsating pink lights, a green button and the Fenton symbol on the side in green. "I need something...ghostly to try this out on."

Sam thought for a moment and spotted a discarded book covered in green ectoplasm. She picked it up gingerly between two fingers and held it up. Tucker pushed the button and a pink beam of light shot out of it, encasing the book in a pink bubble. Sam watched in amazement as the green slime melted away from the book and made a puddle by her boots. "Fenton Extractor?"

"Fenton Extractor," Tucker confirmed and got to his feet.

...

"Where are they?" Danny cried and fended off another black blast. He was tiring out pretty quickly. He didn't think Darkness could give humans such power. And it didn't help that he was not giving it his full power. As jerky as they could be, he wouldn't be able to handle the guilt if he harmed Dash and Kwan.

Kwan sent a barrage of black spike hurtling for him. Danny avoided them with his intangibility and shot back golden arrows of his own. Kwan stumbled back and Dash slammed a wall of dark energy towards Danny.

Danny quickly shoved back a golden wall of his own and watched the two collide with each other. They sparked and fizzed wildly before disappearing. "Wow."

"Danny!"

Danny turned around to see Tucker and Sam rushing towards him with the Fenton Extractor in their hands. Sam held Dash and Kwan back with a wall of fire while Tucker bent down and aimed.

"Here goes nothing!" he cried and pushed the trigger.

Danny watched intently as Dash and Kwan were encased in the bubble. They hollered in confusion for a few seconds before Dash angrily powered up his hands and burst the bubble clean open.

"I don't think it worked," Tucker muttered and stuffed the Extractor into his baggy pocket. Sam quelled the urge to slap the techgeek and whirled around to Danny.

"Now what?"

Before Danny could answer a familiar voice called out to him, "Danny! Where are you?"

"Jazz?"

Dash and Kwan growled with annoyance at the interruption and turned around. The red-haired Fenton was jogging across the grass, books clutched to her chest. When she saw Danny Phantom with a costume change, Sam with her hands glowing with fire and two jocks with different coloured eyes, you can bet she was caught off guard.

Dash channelled some dark energy and shot it towards Jazz. Danny widened his glowing green eyes with horror and sped after the projectile. "Nooooo!"

But he didn't make it.

It slammed into Jazz and knocked her off of her feet. It cracked and sparkled and her body flashed with black and purple electricity. Danny frantically ran up to his screaming sister and grabbed her by the shoulder. He yanked his hands back as they were shocked from the black power.

"Jazz!"

The crackling stopped and Jazz lay limp on the ground, breathing shallowly and her face pale. Danny slowly turned to see Tucker and Sam holding Dash and Kwan off with their respective powers.

Danny snarled viciously and his eyes glowed red for just the briefest of moments. Anger coursed through him and he catapulted forward, tackling Dash to the ground and holding him by the front of his stupid jock jacket. "You are going to pay!"

Dash screamed in agony as white and golden light sparked though him. Danny charged up the voltage and Sam widened her violet eyes in panic as the jock began to convulse. "Danny!" She rushed forwards and yanked Danny forcefully off.

Danny stared at the twitching Dash before his eyes returned to green. Sam had not noticed the change in eye colour. He slumped to the ground. "What have I done?"

Sam put a comforting hand on Danny's shoulder. "He messed with your sister and you got mad. It's perfectly natural."

"I almost killed him," Danny whispered. Regret and shame fired in his veins as he realized he had done the very thing he had been trying to avoid. He had harmed an innocent civilian under the control of a ghost.

Dash moaned in pain and slowly opened his eyes. Danny was surprised to see that they were blue again. "W-what's going on?"

"Everything's fine," Danny whispered. "We're going to take you to a hospital, alright? And...I'm really sorry."

"S'ok," Dash muttered. He didn't know what Phantom was apologizing for or why his head felt like a pound of bricks. All he wanted to do now was to sleep.

Sam glanced up and smiled slightly when she saw that Tucker had Kwan trying to blast his way out of a twisted maze of ice and crystal. "Danny...you know what you have to do."

Danny glanced up and took a shaking breath. "Okay...okay."

He flew forward a bit unsteadily and grabbed Kwan by the back of his jacket. He charged the beta jock with some light energy and tried to make the voltage as small as possible. Kwan still shrieked with pain and went limp when the golden light crackled away, but Sam leaned forward and noted with relief that his eye colour was back to normal.

Danny put the other jock by Dash and retrieved his moaning sister. Tucker called the ambulance and five minutes later he could hear the sirens coming towards them. "We better get out of here."

Danny glanced at the three teens on the ground before nodding and changing back into Fenton. The trio ran back to the school doors.

You're going to pay Darkness. You're going to pay for making me harm two innocent-but jerky-jocks and for having harm come to my sister. You're going to pay for making me feel like crap. But most importantly, you're going to pay for making me feel like Dark Dan for that one instant.