DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN DANNY PHANTOM NOR SHEZOW
-Fenton Works-
"Can you believe him!" Sam spat pacing around the lab. "I think your logo is so cool!" Sam said in a bad imitation of Danny's and/or Gal's voice. "Maybe he should be her sidekick! Tucker are you even listening to me?"
"No, I'm trying get this portal fixed!" Tucker retorted from inside the portal's control panel. "You know the portal that we are going to use to send Danny's not-girlfriend back to her own dimension. Which I might add will be going along a lot faster if a certain someone would stop complaining about her irrational jealousy and help out once in awhile!"
"You're right," Sam conceded. "So what can I do to help?"
Tucker handed her a piece of smashed tech. "That's the piece that Shezap broke, I need you to find a replacement." Thanks to Sam spending more time in the lab than she does at home, she knew where the Fentons keep their spare parts and quickly got Tucker what he needed. "That ought to do it," Tucker said after plugging in the last components together. "SAM, PULL THE SWITCH!" he commanded in his best mad scientist voice.
"Great, now even Tucker is treating me like a lowly sidekick!" Sam grumbled as she activated the device, by pressing a button instead of flipping a switch. The ghost portal roared to life for a brief second before fizzing out. "Wasn't it suppose to do more than that?" Sam said sarcastically.
"Hm, that should have worked," Tucker said going over the schematics again.
"Oh great, just great! What else can go wrong?" Sam, in her frustration, kicked a stack of boxes in the corner of the lab, causing them to collapse on top of her.
"You asked for it," Tucker joked after digging her out from under the boxes. "Maybe now you'll learn never to kick a stack of boxes, especially if they were stacked by Danny."
Sam groaned trying to come up with a good comeback, when a certain device behind the boxes caught her attention. "Hey Tucker is that what I think it is?"
"Whoa, what was that doing there?" Tucker wondering why anyone would carelessly hide it in the corner, but then again this is the Fentons we are talking about.
"Who cares, with this we can put an end to Shespook and prove to Danny that we're not just a pair of sidekicks!" Sam said.
"Are you sure? I mean isn't bring the hero some kind of gadget and/or weapon he could use to turn the tide, pretty much what sidekicks do." Tucker argued. "Besides we still need to get the portal working."
"Are you going to keep talking or are you going to help me load this into the Specter Speeder?" Sam ignoring what Tucker was saying. Tucker simply shrugged as he proceeded to help her, there's just no talking to her when she gets like this.
Skulker sped over the Amity Park, engaging in an intense fire fight with Valerie and Danny in hot pursuit! While this is the norm, Danny couldn't help but feel that something was off. For one thing Skulker isn't fighting as aggressively as usually does. In fact it seems more like he's just trying to get away from them.
"Hey Skulker, what's wrong?" Valerie yelled. "I thought you're the ghost zone's greatest hunter, not the greatest marathon runner!"
"Valerie, what are you doing?" Danny demanded.
"Come on Phantom, surely you must have noticed," Valerie mocking him. Danny silently nodded but waiting to hear her out. "He's obviously retreating, and the only reason for a hunter to retreat after letting his prey know that he's there, is to lure them into a trap!"
Danny's eyes widen in shock, he couldn't believe that he missed something so obvious. "So why are you insulting him?"
"To provoke him of course. Make him spring his trap early, because then he'll be vulnerable and less likely to ensnare us!" Valerie explained. Danny was amazed and a little bit frighten by Valerie's hunter instincts. Hard to believe that almost year ago she was an incompetent novice who could barely stay on her board; and now she may very well have surpassed him! Danny finds the idea that Valerie might be better than him both scary and intriguing. "Heads up, Phantom!" Valerie screamed pushing him out of the way of some nasty missiles!
"Thanks," Danny said mentally kicking himself for being distracted.
"Thank me after we win!" Valerie said never taking her eyes off Skulker.
Danny also turned his attention to Skulker, who kept himself at a safe distance. Once again Danny go this nagging feeling that something wasn't right. "Hey Valerie wait for a minute!" Danny said grabbing her arm.
"What the...we're going to lose him!" Valerie protested.
"No we're not, look!" Danny pointing to Skulker who just seem to be waiting for them. "He's not attacking or trying to escape. He's not luring us into a trap, just leading us away!"
"Leading us away from what?" Valerie asked. "DANI!" the both realized at the same time!
Off in the distance Skulker watched as his two favorite preys were turning back around. "Looks like they figured it out. I suppose should give chase. Nah, I'm sure I bought the boss enough time." With that Skulker headed towards the nearest natural ghost portal not really caring how this all turns out.
Danny and Valerie sped back to where they left Dudepow and Dani. Once they got there; they found Dudepow with Johnny 13, Kitty, and the Bad-luck Shadow on a nearby rooftop. "Dudepow, where's Dani?" Danny asked.
"Don't know," Dudepow informed them of what happened up to this point. "So I was following her when these two, or is it three, got in my way." Dudepow pointing to the unconscious ghosts. "I was going to interrogate them, but I'm afraid I hit them a bit too hard, sorry."
"They're faking it," Danny blatantly said.
"What?" Dudepow feeling a bit confused.
"Dudepow, no offense but no matter how strong you are, there's no way for you to knock out a ghost without either intangible powers or a ghost gauntlet. So these two are faking it!" Danny charging his fists.
"Oh I want in of this," Valerie said sadistically. "I get to try out my new and improve, and more powerful, ghost tazer!" A rather sinister looking device formed on her arm spewing electricity!
"Ok, ok, we were faking it!" Johnny 13 confessed jumping back up. "We were ordered to keep you guys away from the girl!
"Yeah or else the boss was going to make Skulker eat us!" Kitty cried. "By the way, is that girl really a clone?"
"What boss are you talking about!?" Danny demanded even though he has a pretty good idea who.
"Uh, this girl ghost that we never saw before..." Kitty and Johnny took turns describing their boss.
"Shespook!" Danny and Dudepow said at the same time.
"She-who?" Valerie asked.
"The ghost we were hunting, in short she's an evil ghost version of Shezow." Danny informed her.
"Shezow!" Valerie gasped. "As in the Queen of the Glamazons, one of the most powerful superheroine in the world! And the one who for some reason has you in her comic latest comic!"
"Oh you're a fan. Do you want an autograph?" Danny teased.
"Uh NO! I outgrew comics a long time ago!" Valerie insisted, blushing with embarrassment.
"Well just so you know, Shespook has all of Shezow's super powers in addition to ghost powers." Danny informed her.
"Shezow, is that old crone still alive?" Kitty said in amazement, since Shezow was around when she was a child.
"So that's why she could break Skulker in half with one punch," Johnny gulped.
"Never mind that," Dudepow interrupted. "Where's Shespook?"
"We don't know," Johnny and Kitty insisted. "She just came out of the blue and demanded that we work for her. We were told only to meet up with her tomorrow. I swear it!"
"Tomorrow will be too late," Danny said. "We need to find her now! Dani's life may be in danger!"
"Then I guess we split up, cover more ground." Dudepow suggested.
"Works for me," Valerie agreed already lifting off on her jetboard.
"Valerie, I wasn't kidding about how powerful Shespook is. So please if you find him, contact us before you engage him." Danny pleaded.
"Whatever," Valerie retorted before flying off.
"She's not going to call is she," Johnny figured. Danny grunted in annoyance before flying off as well. "If it's any consolation, I really hope you beat that witch!" Johnny yelled after him.
"Man I wish I had my Dude-mobile," Dudepow complained as he jumped over to the next building leaving Johnny and Kitty there.
"So do you think Skulker would like us dressed in barbeque or buffalo sauce?" Kitty half joking about how Shespook said that she's is going to force Skulker to eat them if they failed.
"I heard he prefers teriyaki," Johnny sighed sadly thinking the same thing.
Meanwhile somewhere in the middle of town, local school boy and bully Dash was dancing in the middle of the street in his underwear. People witnessing this were laughing and taking pictures. "Huh what, what's going on?" Dash said after awhile feeling a bit hazy. Only to run away screaming after realizing that he's half naked in public. Among the crowd of witnesses, a little girl stood there laughing her guts out.
"I know I shouldn't laugh but that was hilarious," Dani said as Gai slowly rose from the ground.
"Yes, yes it was," Gai agreed. "But I'm guessing that you have history with that particular individual, which is why you chose him for my possession training."
"It's called overshadowing," Dani corrected him. "And yes, we do have some history, and yes he deserves it."
"Ah yes, overshadowing," Gai chuckled. "A most amusing and useful power."
"And the best thing about it is, while you're in another person's body, you are virtually undetectable. Not even our ghost sense can spot you." Dani informed him.
"Really, that's good to know," Gai grinned learning that there is a way to avoid detection. "So what's next?"
"Next is your graduation," Dani said rolling up an old newspaper. "Gai Hamdon, you have learned all that I have to teach. This diploma proves that not only have you graduated from Dani Phantom's school for halfas! But you are also the valedictorian." Dani proudly handing the newspaper to Gai, who graciously accepted it. "Speech, speech!" Dani cheered.
"First off, I'd like to thank my teacher," Gai said politely bowing at Dani. " For without her support, I never would have made it this far. And so it is with great honor to bestow this little gift to her, to show my appreciation and gratitude." Gai began charging up a massive amount of ecto-energy in his hand.
Off in the distance our group of heroes and sidekicks spotted a large explosion going off at the other end of town!