This is NOT up for adoption.
Jazz had been gone for two weeks now. Her freshman year at Yale had begun, much to her excitement, and she was already excelling in her classes like she always did. Back in Amity Park, nothing had really changed except her missing presence. Danny was kept busy fighting ghosts and his parents continued building inventions.
Danny was in his room dismantling the Ghost Gabber in his room again when the phone rang. His mother answered it, of course, but a moment later she called up the stairs that the call was for Danny.
He left the mess of pieces on his bed and ran downstairs so as not to risk his mother coming up and seeing it. As soon as he had hold of the phone, Maddie told him that Jazz was on the other end of the line and promptly walked back down to the basement lab. "Bring me the phone when you're done, sweety, so I can talk too!" she added just before disappearing.
Danny put the phone to his ear and walked into the living room to hover over and then fall onto the couch. "Hey Jazz. What is it?"
Danny could instantly tell that Jazz was out of breath, but also amused at something.
"Remember how you and our parents checked out the campus to make sure it wasn't haunted or anything?" Danny had disappeared with the excuse of needing a bathroom and then transformed to invisibly fly over the school while the Fenton parents used an assortment of scanning technology.
"Yeah, I remember. There was no ghost activity that we could find."
"Well, there is now!"
Danny squashed his immediate instinct to go help when he recognized that his sister's voice conveyed amusement and not fear. "So why do you sound so pleased?"
"I need to tell you the story. It started in my morning class, that things were acting weird. Completely normal by Amity standards of course. The lights dimmed, and papers on desks were starting to float around--definitely a ghost near by. Then we all hear screaming from down the hall of the building, so I run out and, of course, a ghost is in the hallway. Paper was flying everywhere, and the ghost was terrorizing students. So I run back in class to get my backpack with the Jak o' Nine Tails and the Fenton thermos in it, and while I'm digging them out, I start listening to what the ghost is saying." Unable to control herself any longer, Jazz burst out laughing.
"Jazz, what's so funny!?" Danny asked loudly, trying to get her attention again. Danny heard her take control over her breathing and resume the story.
"The ghost is screaming, 'Fear me! For I am the Paper Ghost! My wrath will give you paper cuts! OF DOOM!!!'" Jazz collapsed into laughter again.
Danny also couldn't help but laugh himself at the striking similarity to the inept Box Ghost. Not to mention that laughter is contagious, and the tone Jazz had used to mimic the ghost was so filled with laughter that it spread to him over the phone.
"So," Jazz panted after her laughing fit, "so I finally get out the Jack o' Nine Tails and go after the ghost. He saw me coming and tried to make a paper barrier; the only problem with that was that the wall was made of paper. I ended up chasing him through the entire building because he tried to find a supply room with more ammunition in it. He finds a box full of copy paper and starts ranting again, but then I capture him with the Nine Tails and it shocks him, causing all the released 'flat, four-cornered, paper-cut minions of DOOM' to fall to the floor in a big pile. I take the thermos lid off and point it at his head and he says, just like the Box Ghost, "That foolish, three dimensional chamber will not contain ME, for I am the Paper--!' and I capture him with the thermos!"
Danny was laughing again at Jazz's mocking tone of the Paper Ghost ranting.
She continued her story, finishing it off. "You can still hear him screaming through the thermos! Listen!" Apparently Jazz moved her phone to be next to the thermos, because Danny could indeed hear a voice undeniably similar to that of the Box Ghost screaming almost exactly the same things the Box Ghost did when he was trapped in one.
"Think he might be related?" Jazz asked after they both spent another moment laughing.
"I should ask the Box Ghost that next time he shows up." Danny gasped as his ghost sense went off, and Jazz heard him.
"Danny?"
"Speak of the ghost..." Danny said in the familiar modification of the common phrase that they used among friends and family.
Jazz heard, faintly, "I am the Box Ghost! Beware!" She started laughing again, but did hear Danny say that he'd put her on speaker phone on his cell and to wait just a moment. The call stopped with a click.
Danny transformed on the spot and flew up to his room to grab his cell phone and a Fenton thermos. Jazz picked up immediately and could hear everything much better when Danny activated the speaker phone function.
"Hey. Box Ghost!" Jazz heard him interrupt a rant about all things box-like.
That only set off another rant. "Phantom! You shall not win this time, in the face of my unbeatable cardboard minions!"
Danny cut him off early. "Do you know the Paper Ghost?"
"Paper Ghost? PAPER GHOST!? Of course I know him--he is even more fearsome than I! He is my cousin! FEAR HIM!! I sent him after that sister of yours--AAHHHH!!!" That was when Danny shot him with an ecto ray.
"Did you catch that, Jazz?"
"Yeah, I heard! I wouldn't believe it if it weren't so ridiculous."
Apparently the Paper Ghost took offense at her laughter because Danny heard his voice. "How dare You! Beware us!" Jazz shook the container vigorously to shut him up as she heard Danny use the thermos on the Box Ghost, much to his displeasure.
"This cylindrical container will not hold me, for I am the Box Ghost!"
"You tell yourself that while you're stuck in there," Danny told him to shut him up. "I'll come get the Paper Ghost this weekend, okay Jazz?" The change in sound quality meant Danny had both changed back into human form--his ghost voice was, well, ghostly--and that the speaker phone was off.
"That's fine. Remember to bring an empty container, too, to replace this one."
"See you in a few days, Jazz."
"BEWARE!!!" came from both containers at once, causing the Fenton siblings to laugh again.