PREVIOUSLY ON THE PHANTOM TWINS…
A table then came out from the floor and on it was some sort of metal arm length gauntlet with five slots on top of it and sitting in front of it were four gems, a red one, a yellow one, a blue one and a purple one. Freakshow's eyes widened at it.
"The Reality Gauntlet!"
"Finally! I've been looking forward to this summer vacation forever" Danny said. "The five of us travelling together cross country seeing the sights. Starting off with Cape Canaveral Space Centre in sunny Florida…"
"Also in Florida, the new National Art Museum in San Francisco…" Dayla continued.
"The Comic Book Sci-Fi and Fantasy Convention in sunny San Diego…" Tucker continued.
"And Gothapalooza in the bleak Nevada Desert" Sam finished.
"By the way Andrew where'd you pick to go?" Danny asked. Andrew answered, "The same as Dayla, I've wanted to go to that art museum since it opened a few months back"
"Freakshow!" They all exclaimed.
"In the flesh. How's tricks?" He asked. He then got mad as he asked, "Had a nice few months while I was rotting in jail because of you?!"
He was then suddenly blasted off his feet by Danny and Dayla. Danny then said, "Actually yeah. We've been working on our aim"
Freakshow then used the Gem of Life and blasted the power at the barbed wire fence, it suddenly sprung up and encased them within a large cacoon together. Freakshow grinned at the result.
"And so have I. Say hello to the Reality Gauntlet" Freakshow said.
Sam then kicked the book out of his hands and then grabbed onto his arm that had the gauntlet on. He demanded getting annoyed, "LET GO GIRL!"
But she wouldn't, her hand then touched the yellow gem, Tucker then grabbed on and he touched the blue gem as he held on and then Andrew grabbed on and his hand was on the power source. They were all encased in a blue light and then were lifted into the air along with Freakshow. Danny and Dayla concentrated hard on their energy and broke free of the web, they both then flew up and grabbed onto the gauntlet.
Freakshow growled and threw them up in the air, they yelped and then landed back holding onto his arm for dear life. Danny then touched the red gem, Tucker touched the yellow gem, Dayla then touched the purple gem and Sam touched the blue gem. Freakshow smiled as he suddenly felt all the gems activate.
"You did it! You found the combination that activates all the gems, which means I control all reality!" Freakshow exclaimed.
"Guess again cue ball! As long as we're touching the gauntlet, we have just as much control as you do" Sam said.
"LET GO OF MY GAUNTLET!" Freakshow demanded as he swung them around trying to pry them off.
"Quick! According to the book, the gauntlet has a defense mechanism" Sam said to them as they were being shook around. "Think of a place to hide the gem you're holding"
They all closed their eyes and thought of where to hide each gem and then all of the gems suddenly disappeared from the gauntlet.
"NO! NOOO!" Freakshow screamed.
Two more balls of light crashed into the stage behind Sam, Tucker and Andrew. The smoke cleared to reveal a weak Danny and Dayla Phantom in pain, they both stood up and held their heads in pain but then the rings appeared thanks to the Reality Gauntlet and they suddenly changed back into Danny and Dayla Fenton.
They both then gasped and realised that they transformed in front of everyone, not just the audience but on live TV. All the students gasped in shock at them and they looked around to see news helicopters started to appear everywhere.
"Um…nobody saw that right?" Danny and Dayla asked hopefully but they already knew the horrible truth. The whole world now knows that Danny and Dayla Phantom are none other than Danny and Dayla Fenton!
"Our children is the ghost twins?!" Maddie asked.
"Okay. We'll zip in, get our stuff…" Danny began. Andrew cut him off and asked, "And then what? Run away from home?"
"Well choice do we have? The whole world knows our secret" He answered.
"However, if we can find Freakshow and get the gauntlet, we can change reality so none of this ever happened" Dayla said. They all then opened the front door and turned on the lights as they entered the house.
"Daniel and Dayla Fenton, in accordance with the federal anti-ecto control act, Article 1 Sub-section A you two are under arrest" Agent K said.
The communicator on the screen beeped, they both sighed believing it was their parents. Danny pressed the answer button as he said, "Here we go"
The screen turned on but it wasn't their parents, it was Freakshow! He grinned as he said, "Oh hello. I hope I'm not interrupting the worst day of your lives ever! But it seems, I need your help"
"You miserable freak! Why would we ever help you?" Danny asked in anger as they all glared at him.
"I'm sorry. Did I say need? I meant demand!" Freakshow laughed and then moved out of the way to reveal their families locked up in several train cages, they all gasped in fright at the sight.
"He's got my parents!" Sam exclaimed.
"He has all our parents!" Tucker corrected. Andrew then shouted, "Mum!"
"Mum! Dad!" Danny and Dayla exclaimed.
"Why look, I have something you want and you know the location of something I want" Freakshow said. "My gems which you five fools will retrieve if you ever want to see your families alive again! Oh an just to keep it dramatic, you have four days"
"Looks like we're gonna get that cross country trip after all" Andrew said. Danny then pulled out a map and said, "Starting at Florida. Auto Jack, take us to Cape Canaveral, Florida"
"According to Freakshow's book, they're activated by touch" Sam said as she looked through the book. Dayla then said, "So as long as nobody found it yet, maybe this will be easy"
The Gem of Life suddenly burned the boy's hand and he threw it howling in pain, the gem then landed on the nose of the space shuttle and spread its magical energy into it. The shuttle suddenly took off and changed into some sort of monster with sharp teeth, it turned around and started coming after the Fenton Jet with its jaws wide open.
"It's never easy. Is it?" Andrew asked
REALITY TRIP PART 2
They all screamed as the shuttle grabbed the jet within its mouth, Danny and Dayla changed into their ghost forms and used their intangibility to phase the jet out of its mouth, they both then phased out of the jet and fired a couple of ecto blasts at it. The blasts didn't do any damage however except make it madder, it charged right at them and then they were slammed onto the front window screen as it flew.
They both then smiled as they saw the Gem of Life sitting in one of the seats just inside, their smiles dropped when the shuttle threw them off and they smashed into the ground, Andrew landed the jet as they got out of the crater and flew after the shuttle, it tried to take a bite out of them but they dodged and then grabbed onto its tail, it roared as it tried to buck them off. It then activated its booster rockets and flew faster, Danny and Dayla struggled to hold on.
"I always wanted to ride on the space shuttle, just NOT ON THE OUTSIDE!" Danny screamed.
They both took a giant leap and landed at the front window again, Danny then phased in and grabbed the gem.
"YES!" They both shouted in victory.
With the power of the gem no longer controlling it, the space shuttle changed back to normal, but unfortunately since there was no driver it started falling and was on a one way ticket to crashing into the Fenton Jet along with Sam, Tucker and Andrew.
"We had to come here first" Tucker groaned.
Danny and Dayla phased inside and Danny jumped into the driver's seat, while Dayla took the passenger seat.
"Uh Danny you do know how to operate a space shuttle right?" Dayla asked nervously.
"Uh…well I've run this simulation a million times on my computer, it should be no different than that" He said also nervously.
He then started pushing buttons and throwing switches, he released the wheels and then pressed down on the pedals opening the wing span. He then pulled up on the wheel as hard as he could and just prayed for the best, just when they thought it was gonna hit it just missed by an inch and landed on the runway, Danny then immediately activated the parachutes and the shuttle came to a complete stop. They both then phased out of the shuttle.
"Ladies and gentlemen the eagle has landed intact!" Danny announced. Dayla added with a laugh, "I guess you can tick that off your bucket list"
Their victory was cut short when they heard the voice of Agent O, "Attention Daniel and Dayla Fenton AKA Danny and Dayla Phantom, give yourselves up!"
They both turned to see Agent O and K heading straight for them in their jets. Agent K fired a missile at the jet which hit dead on and the plane exploded.
"Nooo!" Danny and Dayla cried and turned hoping that the others were okay.
Suddenly from out of the smoke Sam, Andrew and Tucker came out on a Fenton Go Kart each, they both gave sighs of relief but then gasped as they saw Agent O and K coming after them again firing more missiles. They revved the engines and sped off avoiding and dodging the missiles, Danny and Dayla flew up to them and grabbed a hold of each of the karts and turned them all intangible and phased them into the ground.
"We've lost visual again" Agent O said.
"Don't worry they won't get far, we got sensors everywhere" Agent K said as they took off.
A few hours later, they phased out of the ground and just a few miles ahead police were stationed and keeping a look out for them. Danny handed Dayla the Gem of Life and Andrew handed her the power source gem, Danny then took out a Fenton Thermos and opened the lid.
"These are going in here so their ghostly energy can't get out" Danny said as Dayla put them in.
"Well that's two Reality Gems down, three to go and only 72 hours to find them" Dayla said.
"We'll never make it across the country in time on these things" Sam said.
Danny flew up to her kart and pressed a button, the wheels suddenly disappeared and the kart began to hover in the air.
"And now we will. Shall we?" Danny said.
Dayla sat with Andrew in his cart and changed into her human form, while Danny sat with Tucker in his one and changed into his human form, they both then activated the flying feature on their karts and took off to the air heading for their next location, San Francisco.
By midnight they made it to Texas and they stopped at an all-night restaurant, now they were just waiting for a certain meat lover named Tucker to finish eating.
"Can you hurry up Tucker? We're on a dead line, emphasis on dead" Andrew said.
"We have to eat Andrew and I'm a meat connoisseur in the land of barbecue and bacon fat" Tucker said as he was about to take a bite out of a chicken.
He stopped when they all suddenly heard Lance Thunder reporting on the TV, "A nationwide search continues for these ghost powered teenagers. If you have any information, please contact local authorities"
The TV showed the image and Danny and Dayla changing into their human forms and then the cook, waitress and customer all looked at them. They all then pulled out their mobile phones and started calling the police.
"Uh…sorry about this" Dayla said and then she fired three small ecto blasts and destroyed their phones.
"Hey! I still had minutes left" The customer exclaimed.
"You gotta watch those roaming charges" Dayla said as they left the restaurant.
They all got back on the karts and took to the air. Tucker then protested, "But Thursday's all you can eat night!"
"Not if we're in jail!" Danny shouted. "We're trying to save our parents remember? Wherever they are"
They were all unaware that Freakshow and Lydia was tracking their every move. Meanwhile somewhere at an old abandoned train station, all the parents sat around in their individual cages.
Jeremy walked over to the side of their cage and passed a message onto Kimberly, "This is Fenton's fault pass it down"
She moved to her end of the cage and whispered to Maurice, "This is Fenton's fault pass is down"
Maurice then whispered to Jack who was in another cage with Maddie and Jazz, "This is Fenton's fault pass it down"
"This is…wait a minute!" Jack shouted now mad. Maddie placed a comforting hand on his shoulder to calm him down, "Settle down Jack it's all right. This whole business about Danny and Dayla being the ghost kids has got me just as confused and baffled as you"
"Imagine, our own son and daughter has had ghost powers this whole time and has kept them a secret from us" Jack said. "But we love them. I wonder why they didn't trust us enough to tell us"
"Hmmm…let me guess" Jazz said. She then started to mimic them, "Hey Maddie let's destroy the ghost! No Jack let's dissect the ghost. I know let's catch the ghost and rip it apart molecule by molecule!"
She then crossed her arms and said sarcastically, "You guys are so understanding"
Jack and Maddie then looked down sadly realising what she meant, they were so prejudice and obsessed with destroying and dissecting ghosts, that they scared their own youngest children half the time.
"Your beloved children have only two days to return my reality gems, should they fail…well let's just say I've got plans" Freakshow said as he walked in front of them with his usual sickening grin.
"So in other words, we're just gonna sit around until you get your stones?" Jazz asked unimpressed. "Not much of a bad guy are you?"
Freakshow's grin dropped to a frown as he asked, "I beg your pardon?'
"Well you don't have any powers. Technically Lydia's a lot stronger than you and without her…" Jazz pointed out.
"I WILL NOT BE UPSTAGED BY GHOSTS!" Freakshow roared in anger, stamping his feet to the ground and his eye twitched at the thought.
Jazz smirked as she said sarcastically, "Wow! Jealous much?"
"Of ghosts? Untrue" Freakshow denied. "I love ghosts. I've worked with them all my life"
"By seeking to control them. That's ghost envy if I've ever seen it" Jazz said. Freakshow then got right in her face and shouted, "I DON'T HAVE GHOST ENVY!"
Lydia phased and landed on the ground. Freakshow then commanded her really annoyed, "Use the door like a person!"
Hey eyes just widened with confusion. By twelve pm the next day, they teens arrived at San Francisco. Although they were on a mission, Dayla couldn't help but be amazed by the sight of the bridge and the city. They then landed at the sight of the new art museum and then they all went inside.
"Okay we'll split into two groups. Andrew and Dayla you look around on the upper floors while Sam, Tucker and I will look around here at the lower floors" Danny said. "We'll meet back here in an hour"
They all nodded and went their separate ways. On the top levels, Dayla and Andrew looked around, Dayla then stopped in front of a painting of the ocean.
Andrew smiled and said as he pulled out a camera, "I know this is not the best time, but how about a picture?"
She shrugged and said, "Sure"
She posed in front of the picture and then snap! Andrew clicked the camera and the picture came out. He then looked at it in confusion when the picture cleared and he asked, "Uh Dayla you didn't fully learn how to duplicate yet have you?"
"It's getting there. Why?" She asked.
He showed her the picture and asked, "Then why are there two of you?"
She looked to her side and saw another copy of herself standing there, the copy then looked at her and then they both screamed. Andrew jumped and when he turned around there was another copy of himself standing there.
"WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON HERE?!" Both the Andrew's yelled.
"GUYS!" They heard Danny, Sam and Tucker shout. All four of them turned to see there were two copies each of Danny, Sam and Tucker. They all then shouted in unison, "Someone's touched the gem!"
Dayla looked around and saw people panicking that they were seeing copies of themselves appearing out of nowhere, she then looked over the balcony and saw the Gem of Ĝemeloj on the floor. She and her copy ran downstairs and raced for the gem, suddenly it was picked up by two little girls with black braids.
"Wow pretty gem" The first little girl said. The second little girl agreed, "Yeah pretty"
"Um…excuse me little girls. Can my uh…sister and I have that gem?" The real Dayla asked.
"No! It's ours stupid head!" Both the little girls said as the first one held it close to her.
"Oh no you don't understand. That gem is really important…" The Dayla copy began to say when suddenly both the girls screamed, "No! No! It's ours! Buzz off bullies!"
The Dayla copy then pointed to the air and asked, "Hey what's that?"
"Huh?" Both the girls asked as they looked where she was pointing. The real Dayla then snatched the gem away and changed everything back to normal. She then said to the now one little girl, "Sorry but I really need this gem"
The little girl then teared up and started crying, "Daddy! The mean girl took my gem!"
Suddenly a really tall buff man stood over her. Dayla gulped and stammered, "Uh hi. T-this i-is all a b-big misunderstanding"
"You upset my little girl. We're gonna have a violent talk" He said cracking his knuckles.
"Okay gotta go!" Dayla exclaimed and then turned invisible. She appeared back with Andrew and the others and said, "Let's get out of here!"
They grabbed hold of each other and then Danny and Dayla changed into their ghost forms and phased them all out of the building and back outside where the go karts were parked. Danny then handed Dayla the thermos and she placed the gem inside.
"Okay we better get to the Nevada Desert" Andrew said.
They all suddenly heard guns clicking behind them, they all turned and saw it was the local police and Agents O and K.
"Hey fellas. Anyone up to see some art work?" Danny offered.
"Surrender ghost kids and we promise that the experiments will be slightly less painful" Agent K said.
"How about no pain at all? Why is that never an option?" Dayla asked.
Danny and Dayla then blasted them back at their feet, causing Agent K and O to drop their net guns, Andrew and Tucker then picked them up and aimed them at the police and Agent O and K and fired several nets at them. The nets hit them all dead on and trapped them tightly, they all then got back onto the go karts and took off in the air once again. Danny and Dayla used their invisibility to give them some cover and then stopped as they started feeling weak and got on the go karts.
"I have to admit, seeing two of me was pretty cool" Andrew admitted. Sam laughed in agreement, "Same here. Two Goths named Sam that would totally cause my mum to faint"
They all then laughed hysterically as they travelled for Gothapalooza in the Nevada Desert. They arrived there at 11 PM and were about only five miles from where the event was happening, Sam was actually really excited about stopping here. Danny and Dayla jumped out of the karts and changed into their ghost forms, flying the rest of the way beside the others.
"Gothapalooza, the ultimate celebration of despair and darkness" Sam announced.
But they all gasped at the sight of their arrival, there wasn't Goths or darkness, but teddy bears, sunshine and flowers. Sam's jaw dropped at the sight as they all landed in front of the thousands of living teddy bears.
"We love you!" All the teddy bears said and then they all jumped on them giving them lots of hugs.
"Destroy them guys! Find the gem that did this and rip the stuffing out of every last one of them!" Sam screamed in anger as she ripped the bears off her.
"Somehow I don't think that'll be necessary" Danny said. "May I have the Gem of Form?"
"Say the magic word" The teddy bears all said.
"Die?" Sam asked sarcastically.
"Please" Danny asked. All the teddy bears then parted revealing the Gem of Form being held by one of them, Danny then took it off him and changed everything back to normal.
All the teddy bears turned back to Goths, scream bands, the sunshine, rainbows and flowers were all gone and replaced by the desert plain and moonlit darkness. Instead of being hugged by teddy bears, Sam was now being hugged by two Goth boys.
Sam sighed in relief and said, "I love the smell of anti-establishment in the evening"
"Three gems down and now one to go" Danny said as he put the gem in the thermos. Dayla then reminded, "And less than 24 hours to find it. I hope mum, dad and Jazz are okay"
"We'll save them Dayla. I promise" Danny comforted earning him a warm smile from his sister.
Suddenly everyone started screaming and running away, Danny and Dayla at the source of all the fear. It was a giant white tanker coming towards them, the tanker stopped and then fired a missile at them. They moved out of the way and the missile hit one of the cliffs. Agent O aimed the large gun at them again as they moved and fired another missile, they flew out of the way and then picked up Andrew, Tucker and Sam and flew off. They turned them all intangible and phased straight through a rocky cliff, Agent O and K both slammed their fists on the console for losing them again.
They all phased out of the rock side and smiled as they saw a truck driving down the road heading for San Diego, they flew down and phased them into the back of the truck that was filled with newspapers.
Dayla picked up one of the newspapers and said sarcastically, "Oh well this great"
She then showed them the front page that was titled, Ghost Kids and Friends Still Missing! On the front showed each of their pictures.
"Let's get some sleep guys, we should arrive by San Diego by tomorrow" Andrew said.
Meanwhile back at the Circus Gothica train, while everyone was sleeping Freakshow was pacing up and down talking to Jazz as she wrote down everything he said on a notepad. She was taking this opportunity to write down her thesis on ghost envy.
"Ghosts! Ghosts! Ghosts! You have no idea what it's like living in the shadow of ghosts all your life" Freakshow said.
"Oh I think I have some idea" Jazz muttered. Freakshow continued, "My parents loved ghosts more than me, my audience loves ghosts more than me and deep down I think I love ghosts more than me"
"Tell me about it" Jazz said. They both then said in unison, "Sometimes I wish I was a ghost"
Freakshow then smiled gently at her as he asked, "You really do understand me, don't you child?"
She looked over at her sleeping dad and heard him mutter in his sleep, "Ghosts…ghosts…ghosts…ghosts…"
"More than you know" She answered plainly.
By early the next morning, Danny, Dayla, Sam, Tucker and Andrew felt the truck stop. Danny and Dayla then phased them all out of the truck and they saw that they had arrived at San Diego, the truck moved then to reveal a large screen behind them showing Danny and Dayla's faces changing back and forth into their human and ghost forms. Suddenly they were all surrounded by tourists and paparazzi snapping pictures at them, Danny and Dayla then grabbed the others and phased them through the ground and into the subway.
"Okay we just need to find a train that's heading to the comic book convention without drawing too much attention" Danny said.
Suddenly a geek came up behind him wearing a Danny Phantom costume and exclaimed, "Dude! Great costume!"
He then left them and they all looked to see people dressed up as Danny and Dayla when they're in their ghost forms, Sam and Andrew.
"I think we found our train" Andrew said.
They all walked over and stood in line waiting to get on. Tucker then exclaimed, "What?! No Tucker's?! Am I not geek worthy?!"
They all laughed at his outburst, unaware that Agent O and K were at the top of the stairs behind them looking for them.
"Over there!" Agent K pointed. They ran down to who he was pointing at and they both grabbed them by their shoulders, "Okay spook kids! It's all over!"
But when the two they were grabbing turned around, it turned out to just be a couple of geeks dressed up as Danny and Dayla. The boy said, "Hands off! This suits handmade!"
"Yeah do you know how long it took us to make these costumes?!" The girl shouted really offended.
Agent O and K then looked at the train to see the real Danny and Dayla along with Sam, Tucker and Andrew waving at them as the train left the station. They both then left knowing where the train was going to stop, determined to capture them.
They arrived at the comic book convention, they all then looked around to see all different types of costumes geeks were wearing. Tucker groaned that he saw that there was still nobody dressed up as him.
"Cheer up Tucker. That just means you're one of a kind. Like…Frankenstein" Dayla said hoping to cheer him up.
Tucker groaned again. She then asked, "That didn't help at all did it?"
"No but points for trying" Tucker said.
"Well everything here looks normal" Danny said. Sam then asked, "Compared to what?"
"Uh…well you know what I mean" Danny said. "I don't think anyone's triggered the Gem of Fantasy yet"
"Well we better check it out inside and make sure it stays that way" Dayla said. "The longer we delay the less time we have to find the gem and save our families"
They all then went inside and then suddenly, there was a bright flash of light which could only mean that someone had activated the Gem of Fantasy. They looked around and then watched as they gem turned one geek into some sort of crystal monster, one into some sort of red armoured samurai and the female geek into some sort of warrior wolf right before their very eyes as they floated in the air.
"Awesome! The Gem of Fantasy turned three regular nerds into super heroes!" Dayla exclaimed. Danny then said, "They can help us rescue our parents"
"You two need to read more comic books. Those aren't super heroes, they're super villains" Tucker said.
The three villains beared their weapons or powers and charged straight for them. The evil samurai unsheathed his sword and then fired a red blast of energy straight at them, they all scattered and avoided the blast.
"We need to get that gem before these geeks do some real damage" Danny said.
Danny fired a blast at the crystal monsters hand and blasted the gem out its hand, Dayla then charged for the gem but the crystal monster tackled her to the ground and then threw her into a comic book stand causing the table to break and some of the comic books to fall on top of her. She sat up and then looked to see the comic books were about her and Danny.
"Hey! We never approved of this!" Dayla exclaimed.
Tucker, Sam and Andrew then charged for the gem, but they were suddenly blocked off by the female wolf. She said as she pointed her daggers at them, "You shall not pass so speaks Imprishe-Wolf!"
"That maybe the hottest geek I've ever laid eyes on" Tucker said.
She then changed into a more monstrous looking were-wolf before them and roared at them. Sam then asked, "How about now?"
Tucker shrugged, "Yeah. Still hot"
Danny then tackled the wolf to the ground and as she lay weak, she changed back to her normal wolf warrior appearance. People then started screaming and running around in a panic as the crystal monster slammed his fists to the ground. Danny and Dayla turned intangible and phased out of the centre through the roof, all three super villains broke through the roof and chased after them through the air.
The wolf pulled out two some sort grappling hooks that looked like paws and threw them at Danny and Dayla, the claws latched onto their legs and dragged them down, slamming them onto the roof of a building. They both sat up and then immediately rolled out of the way as the crystal monster was about to crush them, they both then grabbed them by its legs and dragged them up to a flagpole and tied it to it using the rope.
"Now we need to finish the rest of the Legion of Super Dweebs" Danny said.
Danny charged at the samurai and Dayla charged at the wolf warrior, they all crashed into each other and fell onto the roof hard, Agent O and K then landed in front of them using their jetpacks and panted heavily.
"Man! These cross country ghost chases are totally exhausting" Agent O panted.
They both straightened up and then fired their guns releasing four nets, each of the nets trapped them individually. Agent O and K then flew up in the air and blasted more nets at the crystal monster trying to catch it as it escaped the flag pole, the crystal monster flew out of the way and avoided capture. The samurai then cut its way out the net and leapt in the air and swiped down on their jet packs, the jet packs then frayed and went haywire causing them to fly around madly and then land on the roof hard.
Danny and Dayla then broke free out of their nets and then charged straight for them, but then suddenly Agent O and K fired their ecto weapons and caused them to drop the Gem of Fantasy, Dayla caught it and then they both moved out of the way as the monsters fell out of the sky and crash landed onto the roof. Agent O and K stood ready for when the smoke cleared to capture them, but when it cleared the monsters were back to normal geeks in costumes.
"Hey you're just geeks!" Agent K said.
"Technically we're…enthusiasts" One of them groaned.
Danny and Dayla flew back to the convention centre were Sam, Tucker and Andrew were waiting for them outside. They landed and then Dayla put the Gem of Fantasy inside the thermos.
"Nice work guys. We got all five gems now" Sam said.
"And Freakshow doesn't have any, which means once we find him we can beat him and take the gauntlet" Danny said.
They were all unaware that Lydia was floating behind them and she retracted her tracking tattoos from them as Andrew said, "We can save our families"
"And we can change reality so that nobody remembers our secret" Dayla added.
Suddenly they were surrounded by Lydia's tattoos, they screamed as they were encased by all of them and within a flash they were gone. They were transported to where the Circus Gothica train was and they groaned and fell to their knees as they felt pain from being transported. Danny and Dayla then looked up to see a grinning Freakshow standing in front of them.
"Well, well. Look what the bats dragged in" He said. "With my Reality Gems"
Danny held the thermos in his hands and stood up saying, "I don't think so!"
But just when he was about to do something, Lydia's tattoos snatched the thermos from his hands and brought it to Freakshow. They were all then tied up together by Lydia's tattoos and they watched as Freakshow opened the thermos and poured all the gems into his hands and tossed away the ghost catching device.
He then started placing the gems in their places on the gauntlet as he said, "The Gem of Life, the Gem of Form, the Gem of Fantasy, the Gem of Ĝemeloj and put them with the power source and thanks to you I now know how to activate the gauntlet"
He laughed evilly and then started putting the combination in. Sam cried, "Guys! Stop him!"
Danny and Dayla tried breaking free but the tattoos were too strong as they shouted, "We can't break free!"
Freakshow had finished putting the combination in, he was now in a red suited ringmasters outfit and held a cane with a crystal on top as he announced to the world, "Thanks to you, I am now Ringmaster of all Reality!"
He then used the gauntlet and changed the sky from day to a purplish night sky. He then chuckled evilly at the feeling of the power, he then grinned at the sight of their families still trapped within the cages.
"Let them go Freakshow!" Dayla demanded. "We brought you the gems, we had a deal!"
"The deal was bring me the gems if you want to see them alive again" Freakshow corrected. "Well here they are alive, for now!"
He laughed again and then used the power of the gauntlet and made them disappear, he then turned and used it to make Sam, Tucker and Andrew disappear. They then watched as they reappeared in carts on top of a large rollercoaster. On one part of it a giant Jack-In-The-Box kept popping in and out and released flames from its mouth, at the top of one of the hills, two giant stones kept opening and closing, guaranteeing to crush them as they came through and at the end of the rollercoaster was a broken track heading straight for a pool of hot burning acid.
Lydia flew up and flipped the switch, turning the rollercoaster on and they all screamed as they went down the hill and their doom was at hand.
"You lied to us!" Danny and Dayla shouted in anger.
Freakshow turned to face them and said, "Yes, yes I did. Goodie for me but it wouldn't be drama if I didn't give you two a sporting chance"
He then used the gauntlet and released them of their bonds. He then said as he gestured to around them, "And an audience! A big audience!"
They stood up and looked around and saw themselves on a large TV screen along with bleachers filled with people dressed up as clowns, they were cheering for Freakshow. They both then turned back to the rollercoaster and heard them scream as they did a loop-da-loop, not wanting to waste any more time, they took to the air and started flying straight for them.
Freakshow changed his cane into a microphone and announced, "Ladies and gentlemen! Freaks of all ages, may I direct your attention to the centre ring. Where Danny and Dayla Phantom, AKA Danny and Dayla Fenton, will attempt to rescue their friends, family and dear little Dayla's boyfriend from a ghastly doom of my own construction"
They landed on the rollercoaster and got ready for when the cart came round, but then suddenly Freakshow changed them into some sort of orange goo and they couldn't move. Everyone screamed as the cart charged right at them and hit them dead on, they splattered everywhere leaving nothing but puddles of goo on the earth.
"Only to be stopped by the Master of all Reality" Freakshow finished and then took a bow to his cheering audience.
"Nooo!" Andrew cried.
"Danny! Dayla!" Sam shouted. Tucker then exclaimed, "It can't be!"
"NOOOOO!" Jack shouted in shock. Maddie then reached out and cried, "My babies! Noooo!"
Jack then held onto her in a tight embrace as she cried into his arms at the loss of her children. Freakshow then asked the audience, "What's that? You want more?"
The audience cheered for their answer. Freakshow's grin grew wider as he said, "Well since you insist, I'll give you more. Much more"
He laughed once again and raised his arm wearing the gauntlet and sent a large amount of power into the sky, pulsing energy then travelled through the air and started changing the country. Tractors were changed into clown cars, farms were changed into circus tents, Mount Rushmore was changed into statue faces of Freakshow, the bridge at San Francisco was changed into a loop-da-loop rollercoaster and the White House was also changed into a circus tent.
"There! A kingdom fit for a freak and a freakdom fit for a king" Freakshow said happily.
As the rollercoaster kept going, the orange puddles reformed back into Danny and Dayla, they were a little weary but otherwise back to normal and very much alive, they both then gasped as they saw that their friends and families were about to be burned alive by the giant Jack-In-The-Box, they both then flew straight for them and just when they were about to be burnt alive, Danny and Dayla flew in front of it and combined their powers to form a giant shield in front of them, protecting them all from the flames.
"Danny! Dayla!" Jazz exclaimed happily. Jack then shouted in relief, "They're alive!"
"He has ghost envy! Use psychology!" Jazz called out as the rollercoaster continued.
"Psychology?" Danny muttered. They both then smiled as they thought of something, "That's it!"
Dayla then blasted the clowns head off and they both flew ahead at the giant stones, they both then blasted them to rubble which saved their friends and families for now. They both suddenly heard behind them, "Oh no. You two do not get to leave this world with a smile!"
They both turned to see a now giant Freakshow standing behind them, Freakshow then started swiping at them trying to grab hold of them as they flew around and dodged his hands.
"Why wouldn't we smile? Who cares if you're the most powerful human on earth?" Dayla said. Danny then said as he phased out of Freakshow's hand as he tried to crush him, "No matter what you do, we're half-ghosts and you're not"
"I'm the Master of all Reality" Freakshow said as they flew higher up. He raised his hand and then blasted the power of the gauntlet at them.
"Oh sure but can you do this?" Danny asked as they stretched their bodies and made circles around the blasts as they dodged it.
The crowd then started cheering for Danny and Dayla instead of Freakshow. Freakshow suddenly got angry and shouted, "NO! They're not the stars of this circus! I am! ME!"
They both spun around in circles and then disappeared as they said, "Ghost powers"
They both then reappeared and fired up some energy in their hands, "Ghost energy. Ghosts, ghosts, ghosts"
They fired their energy and made a smiley face on Freakshow's giant top hat. The crowd cheered even louder for their performers, Danny and Dayla smiled and waved to their audience.
Freakshow then got right up in their faces and screamed, "I WILL NOT BE UPSTAGED BY GHOSTS!"
The crowd then started booing him and throwing their food and drinks at his face. Danny and Dayla joined in as Dayla said, "Uh technically we're half-ghosts but still way cooler than you"
"ENOUGH!" Freakshow roared as he slammed them to the ground with his giant hand. They both groaned and looked up at him wearily.
"I may be losing control of the crowd, but I control all reality" Freakshow said. They both sat up and saw the Fenton Thermos just a few metres away from them as he continued "And if you two think being half-ghosts is so cool…"
He used the power of the gauntlet on himself and then suddenly he was changed into a giant, green, bat winged, sharp-teethed, four armed monster. He then said, "What do you think of me now that I'm all ghost?!"
He then roared into the air. They both smirked as they said, "I think this got a lot easier"
Danny picked up the thermos and activated it, the beam latched onto Freakshow and started dragging him down.
"What?! No! No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" He screamed as he was sucked into the small containment device, the Reality Gauntlet fell off his hand and landed on the ground in front of them as Danny capped the lid on tight.
They smiled in victory, but that changed when they heard the screams of everyone else and saw that they were soon going to fall into the acid, Danny and Dayla got and grabbed onto the gauntlet but then the gauntlet started glowing purple and before they knew it, there were now two Reality Gauntlets with the gems and all. Not taking time to wonder what was going on, they flew in the air and put the gauntlets on.
Dayla then used her gauntlet to change the broken track into a slide and Danny used his one to change pool of acid into a giant swimming pool. The rollercoaster cart slid down the slide and into the water, everyone then emerged to the surface all alive. Danny and Dayla landed on the edge of the pool.
"Are you guys okay?" They both asked. They both then waved to the other parents and said, "Oh hi Mr and Mrs Manson, Mr and Mrs Foley and Mrs Knight"
Lydia then flew up behind them and was about to attack them with all her tattoos, they both smirked and turned around and used the power of their gauntlets. They changed her into a fish, a hammer, an apple, a teddy bear and then back to normal. She then just screamed in fright and flew off.
Danny and Dayla then flew in the air and sent the power of the two gauntlets into the sky, changing everywhere and everything back to normal, the sun then shone brightly as they landed on the ground and changed back into their human forms.
They both then turned and heard Jack call out, "Danny! Dayla!"
They saw their faces and saw that they were angry as they came up to them. Maddie then said slowly, "Young man and young lady…"
"We're…we're sorry" Danny said as they both looked down. Dayla then started, "We really are. We wanted to tell you but…"
She was cut off when they were both suddenly pulled into a bone crushing hug by Jack. He let go of them and said now with a smile, "We're very proud of you kids"
Maddie then hugged them both tightly and said, "Oh my babies!"
She then showered them with kisses and then let them go. Dayla then said, "But we lied to you! Over and over for a really long time"
"If I were you guys I'd be furious" Danny said.
"Well of course you two lied to us, we never gave you a reason not to" Maddie said, her smile not dropping.
Jack kneeled down to their height and placed his hands on their shoulders, "All this time we've been yammering on about destroying and dissecting ghosts. I would have been terrified too if I were either of you"
"We love you two for who you are" Maddie said. They both smiled warmly at their parents as Jack said, "Whether you two are ghosts or something in between, nothing will change that we're family"
"And we both appreciate that" Danny said. Dayla then added, "More than you guys will ever know"
They all then pulled each other in for a group hug, they pulled apart and looked down at the gauntlet. With a sigh and a nod at each other, they knew what they had to do.
"Or will ever remember" They both said and then used the power of the gauntlet on them and wiped their memories of everything that happened in the last few days.
In another flash of light they were all back home and then Danny and Dayla got to work to change everything back to the way it was. Their last stop was the Guys in White headquarters where Agent O and K were at the computers. The alarms started going off.
"What is it?" Agent K asked. Agent O answered, "A massive spike in ecto energy"
They both looked up to see Danny and Dayla floating in front of them in their ghost forms with the Reality Gauntlets still on their arms.
"That would be us" Dayla said. The two agents aimed their weapons at them, but Dayla smirked and used her gauntlet to change their weapons into a tuba and a chicken.
Danny then threw the thermos to the ground at them as he said, "Here a gift"
The thermos broke releasing Freakshow, he roared in anger but then Danny used his gauntlet to change him back to normal. He was then grabbed and handcuffed by Agent O and K.
"Oh and from now on, you're gonna leave Danny and Dayla Fenton and their family alone" Danny said.
"Why would we do that?" Agent K asked.
Dayla activated her gauntlet and waved some energy at them as she said, "Because, they're not the ghosts you're looking for"
"They're not the ghosts we're looking for" They both repeated and with their job done, Danny and Dayla left.
They were now back at Fenton Works in their human forms, they were outside with Sam, Tucker and Andrew.
"Well that's everything" Danny said. "We changed everything back to the way it was before. Nobody knows we're half-ghosts except you three and Jazz"
"Now it's time to destroy these things for good" Dayla said looking down at her gauntlet. "By the way, why are there two gauntlets now?"
"I remember reading in Freakshow's book that if a pair of twins touched the gauntlet, the Gem of Ĝemeloj would activate and there would be two Reality Gauntlets with the gems, power and all" Andrew said.
They all suddenly heard the voice of Dash, "Hey Fentonio and Fentina!"
They both hid the gauntlet behind their backs as they saw Dash and Paulina in their swimsuits come up with them. Dash then asked, "What are you tow still doing in town?"
"Yeah weren't you and your friends taking a trip to Loserville? Oh wait, you're already there" Paulina teased and then she and Dash left laughing at them.
"Oh man that's right! Everything's back to the way it was" Danny said. Dayla then added, "Which means we should be getting ready for our vacation"
All their eyes widened at the thought. Sam then said, "Uh if its okay guys, pass"
"Yeah we've already been on one cross country trip together, I don't think we can handle another" Tucker said.
"I have to admit though, it was pretty awesome" Andrew said.
"Yeah you guys are right" Dayla said. "Well bro it's time to finish this"
They both changed into their ghost forms and then flew in the air, they threw their gauntlets into the air and then blasted them with their ecto blasts, completely destroying them gems and all. They both smiled knowing that it was all over and now they can enjoy a nice summer.
They both then heard Jack shout from his window behind them, "Hey!"
They both faced him as he continued, "Yeah you two! You both have got a lot of nerve floating around like that! When I get my hands on you, I'll tear you two apart molecule by molecule!"
He then grabbed the large Fenton Bazooka and fired at them, they both dodged the blast and then called out, "Have a nice summer!"
They both then took off to go for a flight, Jack then fired another two blasts which hit them in the bum dead on.
"OW!"
THE END!
DANNY AND DAYLA PHANTOM WILL RETURN IN SEASON 3 OF THE PHANTOM TWINS (COMING SOON)