Season 1 Episode 3
One of a Kind
"Shocking!"

One night, in the Amity Park warehouse at the wharf, rats scurried around the floor, eating crumbs of food, and squeaked as they ran off to hide. Suddenly, various grunts and hitting was heard from the other side of a wall, as a short, chubby ghost screamed and phased through as she crashed at a pile of boxes.

Dani, who was currently in her ghost form, phased her head and fist through the wall, glaring with determination and she flew out completely before she became solid, just as the ghost did while she hovered back into the air. She appeared as a short, somewhat round yet slightly slim woman with blue skin, freckles on her cheeks, and short black hair. She also wore gray overalls, a gray hat, light gray gloves, a light gray undershirt, and dark gray shoes. The ghost looked like some kind of delivery woman.

"Beware!" She said as she waved her hands dramatically. "I am the Box Ghoul! I have power over all containers, cardboard, and square!"

"Okay, can we hurry this up? I've got a test to study for." Dani said boringly as she crossed her arms.

"Study? There will no time to study." She then made several boxes float to the air with her telekinesis. "When you find yourself crushed underneath the forgotten possessions of…" She quickly glanced at one of the box's sticker addresses. "Elliott Kravits, of Arlington Heights, Illinois!"

The Box Ghoul smirked as her eyes glowed and she hurled the boxes as several items flew out straight at Dani. She didn't seemed to be fazed by this since she merely turned intangible as the items passed harmlessly through her while they crashed to the wall behind her.

Dani sighed as she turned solid again and rolled her eyes in annoyance. "I don't have time for this. Hey, Tina, let's go!"

Her best friends, Sam Manson and Tina Foley, kicked the door off its hinges as they jumped into the fighting scene. Tina had the Fenton Thermos and Sam had a biology book in their hands. The Box Ghoul gasped when she saw Tina spinning the ghost-sucking thermos on her finger.

"Goodnight, everybody!" Tina said out loud while she tossed it over her head and smiled before she aimed the thermos and activated it as a blue stream of energy emerged. Dani grabbed the ghost by her overalls and threw her into the stream as she screamed while she got completely sucked inside. Tina powered off the thermos and recapped it with a grin. "Perimeter secure."

"'Perimeter secure'?" Sam asked, sounding a little unimpressed as he cocked an eyebrow. "What are you, a navy SEAL?"

"Seals!" Dani said out loud as she landed beside her best friends. "Aquatic mammals that bark. They're canines, right?"

Sam examined his book with a dull look. "Wrong. That's zero for twenty-one."

"I'm no teacher, but I'm guessing that's an F." Tina said as she spun the thermos on top of her finger again.

Dani rolled her eyes and sighed before she hovered between both of her best friends. "Come on, guys! If you're going to be superhero sidekicks, you're going to need to be a little more focused." She said with her hands on her hips before she pointed at Sam. "You're supposed to help me study for the test tomorrow." She then pointed at Tina. "And you're supposed to be helping me catch ghost so I have time to study!"

"What? They're all right here."

Tina spun the thermos on her finger again, but unfortunately she accidentally dropped it off of her finger and it slammed to the ground on the release button, freeing all the ghosts the trio captured all night. They all cackled evilly as they flew around the room and phased out of the warehouse while the Box Ghoul laughed in triumph.

"Ha Ha! I am the Box Ghoul! You cannot hold me in the confines of a cylindrical container!" She said to the trio before she phased through the wall and escaped from them.

There was a moment of stunned silence before Dani and Sam both glared at Tina for her big screw up. "That's weird. According to my schedule, we should be done catching ghosts by now." Tina said, breaking the silence as she checked on her PDA.

As Dani continued to glare at her tech-loving friend, she and her friends were all unaware that Dani was being spied on by a ghost with a slim robotic high-tech suit who had new interest in her while she watched through her red binoculars from her wrist. She had electric green eyes, electric green flaming hair in a low ponytail, and jagged teeth. The 'skin' of her suit was an off-white and her arms have metal seams. She wore a black tank top and pants, a dark gray shoulder guard on her left shoulder, and a dark gray belt that slung across her chest. She also wore dark gray gauntlets that have technological features in the wrists, along with a gray utility belt that has a blue 'S' on the buckle. She wore gray boots with blue laces and a necklace with a white skull on it.

"Hmm…half-human/half-ghost. One of a kind." She said with a deep sinister voice before she removed her binoculars and smiled at the girl with somewhat hunger. "You'll make a fine addition to my collection." She turned to her cage of several ghosts cramped inside as they howled.

"Ha ha!" The Box Ghoul laughed as she flew in front of the cage.

The huntress ghost didn't even look behind her. "Touch the box, and your pelt will adorn my fireplace."

The Box Ghoul looked mildly afraid by this threat before she glanced at the cramped ghosts. "Beware!" And she quickly flew away.

The huntress ghost smirked largely as she looked through her binoculars again as she continued to stare at Dani with huge interest. In her mind, she planned on capturing her as one of her own since she was one of the most rarest species to ever exist on the phase of the earth: a human-ghost hybrid.


Theme Song:

(She's a phantom)

(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)

Young Dani Fenton, she was just fourteen
When her parents built a very strange machine
Designed to view a world unseen

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

When it didn't work, her folks, they just quit
Then Dani took a look inside of it
There was a great, big flash, and everything changed
Her molecules got all rearranged

(Phantom, Phantom)

When she first woke up, she realized she had snow white hair, and glowing green eyes
She could walk through walls, disappear, and fly
She was much more unique than the other gals
And it was then that she knew what she had to do
She had to stop all the ghost that were coming through
She's there to fight, for me and you!

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)


The next day at Fenton Works that morning, James Fenton came running into the kitchen with a cheerful look on his face while he held a magazine in his hands. "Oh my gosh, they said yes!" He exclaimed happily.

His father, Matt Fenton, was working on another ghost invention on the table while James' mother and younger sister, Jackie and Dani, were eating some of their breakfast cereals. All three of them froze what they were doing as they stared at James in confusion.

"Who said yes? The person you asked if you were a conceited snob?" Dani asked in a sarcastically excited way as she laced her hands close to her.

James frowned at his sarcastic little sister in annoyance. "No." He showed them the magazine again when his bright smile immediately returned. "Genius Magazine said yes! They got my letter and they want to put Dad on the cover!" James screamed loudly as he hugged the magazine close to his chest like it was the moment he has been waiting for his entire life.

Matt smiled slowly at his eldest son with a little interest. "Genius Magazine?" He asked.

"Genius Magazine?!" Jackie asked excitedly as she snatched the magazine from her eldest son's hand and examined it until she then frowned skeptically at her son. "Is it the model issue?"

James gave his mother a look as he rolled his eyes in annoyance. "Uh, Mom, Genius Magazine is for men geniuses, by men geniuses, and about men geniuses!" He clarified to her like it should have been obvious with his hands on his waist.

"So it is the model issue!" Dani pointed out with an understanding yet still sarcastic smile, until she frowned and recoiled in disgust. "Oh, gross! Dad's gonna be in a model issue?!"

"It's not the model issue!" James took the magazine from his mother and frowned at both of his parents. "But it is the perfect magazine to show that I have normal parents, instead of a couple of ghost-hunting freaks!"

"They're not ghost-hunting freaks." Dani rolled her eyes as she leaned back on her seat and crossed her arms.

"Hey, Dani, speaking of ghost-hunting!" Jackie said as she snatched the invention Matt was working on and held it up. "Check out the latest in ghost-hunting technology, the Ghost Gabber! Genius Magazine has to be interested in this. It takes the mysterious sound the ghost makes and translates them into words you and I use everyday." She then held the translation invention close to her daughter's face. "Go ahead, try it."

Dani stared at the device in hesitation and uncertainty. "Uh…uh…boo?"

"I am a ghost. Fear me." It said.

Dani glanced up at her family, who were staring at her with odd looks. "I better get to school!"

"I better get to school. Fear me." Dani smiled weakly at her family before she quickly bolted out of the kitchen in a hurry.

Jackie held the Ghost Gabber close to her as she stared at the device in confusion.

"That's great about the magazine, sport, but your mother and I are a team." Matt said as he set the magazine he was examining aside and smiled at James, who remained silent with his arms crossed. "I think that beside ever genius man, there's a genius woman."

"Who should be standing beside him on the cover of Genius Magazine!" Jackie added as she hugged her husband close. "The world needs to know the Fentons are a family of geniuses!"

Meanwhile at Casper High…

"I got a 'D'?!" Dani exclaimed in dismay.

She and her friends were currently in the library during study hall, but Dani was staring at her biology test she failed at miserably. Tina sat across from her while Sam worked on a computer.

"All this ghost-hunting is taking away from my study time!" Dani complained.

"So much for the Fentons being a family of geniuses." Tina said.

Dani briefly frowned at her friend with irritation before she turned her attention to her failed test. "I can't get a D in biology! My parents will kill me!"

"Not if you pull your grade up, by doing an extra-credit biology assignment." Sam said as he turned back to his computer and typed something. He then pulled up a picture of a white gorilla with a purple back, and revealed that its name was Delilah. "On this magnificent creature."

Dani walked up to her gothic friend and examined the picture with a cocked eyebrow. "A purple-back gorilla?"

"Yep. Extremely rare, only two left, both female. After this, they're gone forever, which is why you are going to prove she deserves to be set free."

"I don't have time for extra credit…or your agendas."

"…Actually, you do." Tina said while she held up her PDA as she smiled a little. "You just have to learn how to manage it better. I've decided to become your time manager, it's the least I could do after Sam made me let all of those ghosts out."

"Uh, I made you?" Sam asked as he frowned and cocked an eyebrow.

Dani sighed and crossed her arms. "I don't know…" She said unsurely.

"It'll be my job to keep track of your schedule, so you could do your school work and catch all those ghosts that Sam let loose." Tina added.

"Don't push it, Foley!" Sam growled behind his teeth as he glared even more.

"Do you remember what happened the last time I let you managed the thermos?" Dani said as she frowned a little from what happened last night: when Tina accidentally released all of the ghosts they have been catching all night.

"I've also scheduled, 'Remember: not to let Tina handle the thermos'." She said as she showed them her PDA.

Dani placed her hands on her hips and thought to herself before she looked at her tech-friend and shrugged her shoulders a little. "I suppose we could have a trial period."

"See? I've also scheduled some zoo time so we could check out that gorilla. Let's go." Tina said as she ran out of the library with Dani and Sam behind her.

After they left the library, the same robotic huntress ghost from last night phased into the library and hovered to a computer Sam was just using recently and examined the purple-back gorilla photo. "Hmm…so this is your prey, eh, ghost girl?" She asked herself as she smiled widely.

"Uh, excuse me, ma'am." A nerd girl said as she walked up to the ghost, making her growl at her menacingly while she glared at the nerd. "Are you finished with the computer?"

The ghost immediately fired multiple blue sticky webs as she pinned her to the wall upside down with her eyes covered in green goo. She screamed in fear before she stopped. "You thought you could sneak up on me?! Skulka?!" The girl only screamed again. "Ghost Zone's greatest predator?!" The nerd just continued screaming in fear. "Quiet, you're in a library."

She held out her wrist gun as she smiled somewhat carelessly when she fired another green goo to her mouth, preventing her from screaming anymore as she only muffled a terrified scream. Skulka then phased out of the library as Daph Baxter, the school cheerleader and bully, and another cheerleader walked into the room with books in their hands and they looked up at the nerd pinned and stuck on the wall, gagged and blinded.

"Whoa, you do that?" Daph asked her friend in amazement.

"Nope, but I can only stop and appreciate high-quality bullying." Her cheerleader friend said as she grinned at the nerd. The web and goop on the nerd girl suddenly vanished when she screamed and collapsed to the floor, much to the cheerleaders' great satisfaction while they smiled at each other.

Later on at the Amity Park zoo that night, Sam and his friends were currently overlooking Delilah the purple-back gorilla from the top of a watchtower, while the rare ape walked around her cage by her knuckles.

"There she is: Delilah. So gifted, so…majestic." Sam said as he looked through his binoculars before the gorilla scratched her butt.

While Sam was wide awake and completely interested in Delilah, Dani and Tina looked more exhausted and tired from staying up for so long. "Uh, Sam, we've been watching the gorilla scratch her butt for…how long?" Dani asked Tina.

"Six hours." She replied with a yawn as she checked her watch.

Dani yawned in drowsiness. "Time flies when you're majestically scratching your butt."

"It's only a matter of time before you find out something about Delilah nobody's ever learned. You should go try and communicate with her." Sam said as he turned to Dani, but found out that she was laying on the floor sleeping. "Oh, great. Tina, you're her manager, can you-" But then he found out that Tina has also fallen asleep as well when she yawned and stretched her arms out before she and Dani hugged each other subconsciously in their sleep. Sam sighed in annoyance as he rolled his eyes. "I'll do it, but first…" He smirked when he brought out his camera and snapped a photo of his best friends sleeping and hugging each other. "Girls hugging makes every yearbook funny."

Outside at the zoo, Skulka phased into a tiger's exhibit cage and looked through her binoculars to the watchtower. She saw Dani cuddling with Tina inside and sleeping, making this her perfect opportunity to nab what she came to the human world for. Unfortunately, she woke up the tiger when it growled and prepared to tackle Skulka while she turned around to see it.

"Oh, please…" She said while she gave it a look as she rolled her eyes.

Delilah tried to sleep herself, but then she suddenly heard various beating noises and roaring coming from the tiger exhibit, across from her cage. She then saw Sam standing near her cage before she began to chatter to him like she was trying to warn him.

"What is it, you wondrous being?" Sam asked the ape as he admired her up closely. Delilah approached him while she continued to chatter and then pointed at the tiger exhibit, trying to warn the boy that someone was stalking them. "Is something wrong?" The gorilla then tugged on her locked door like she wanted to get out fast, making the goth boy smile brightly, like he understood what she was trying to say. "You want out?"

Sam immediately ran up to the control panel for the gate before he slammed his fist onto the 'OPEN' button and the gate automatically opened. Delilah stampeded out of her cage as she growled and charged at the intruder. Skulka managed to trap the tiger in a blue net before she phased out of the cage and looked through her binoculars again at the tower, but then it warned 'gorilla attacking'.

"What? 'Gorilla attacking'?" Skulka asked in confusion until Delilah suddenly pounced on her without warning.

The gorilla slammed her fists on the ghost repeatedly until she blocked and kicked her off. Delilah recovered from her attack and growled at the ghost as they stood face-to-face.

The ape jumped on Skulka again and flipped her around in the air with her feet, before she shoved her over her head and Skulka slammed onto a cage. Delilah then bit on her wrist as it short-circuited a little, making the huntress ghost glare. She popped a mini gun out and squirted green goo on the gorilla's eyes, blinding her as she walked back while she chattered in surprise. Skulka rose to her feet and fired a blue net from her wrist, but even when blinded, Delilah managed to grab onto it, making Skulka's eyes go wide, and the rare primate began swinging the ghost around in the air. She punched rapidly on her wrist, until it snapped off and Skulka went flying up towards the watchtower. She crashed through the glass window and landed right next to Dani and Tina, who were still sleeping on the floor.

Dani's ghost sense went off as she breathed, making her shiver a little in her sleep while Skulka got up to her feet.

"Oh my gosh!" Sam shouted in shock when he walked back into the tower and witnessed Skulka's sudden appearance. Before he could even scream to wake up his friends, Skulka quickly shot green goo at the goth boy's mouth to silence him while he stared with wide eyes.

As her wrist short-circuited, Skulka towered over Dani and grinned with hunger, ready to nab the half-ghost girl in her sleep. "Now, for the ghost child…" She said to herself.

Before she could even do anything, Delilah managed to leap through the shattered window in the nick of time when she jumped right onto Skulka again as she slammed her head to a wall and then onto a desk. Skulka glared as she grabbed the ape by her arm and threw her a few feet away. As Delilah tried to regain her speed and was about to pounce again, Skulka turned herself intangible and phased through the wall.

The gorilla began to slam and pound her fists on the wall where the huntress ghost escaped from, enough to startle Dani and Tina awake. "AHHHH!" They screamed together, and then noticed that they were hugging each other. "AHHHH!" They released each other in disgust before they finally noticed that Delilah was pounding her fists on the wall. "AHHHH!"

"Gorilla! LOOSE!" Tina exclaimed in alarm with wide eyes.

"I got her!" Dani said as they got up from the floor. "I'm going ghost!"

White rings appeared at her waist and intersected her body as she changed to her ghost form. She flew towards the gorilla while she tried to get away from the ghost girl, but she caught her by her underarms as she phased her out of the tower and back outside.

"Alright, I don't know how you got out, but you're going back." She said before she phased the gorilla back into her cage. She flew out from the opened door and pressed the 'CLOSE' button, shutting and locking the door again.

Dani landed on her feet just as her friends arrived behind her. "Dani, I meant to tell you, there was a gho-" Sam began to explain, but got interrupted by his half-ghost friend.

"I wonder who let the gorilla go." Dani then fixed her green eyes at her gothic friend with a knowing look. "Sam…"

"Yeah, wait 'til we tell everybody that you let out a four hundred pound gorilla." Tina said as she smirked at him.

Sam gave the girls a skeptic and knowing stare as he cocked an eyebrow before he pulled out the photo of the two of them sleeping and cuddling together. The girls both stared at the photo with wide eyes in surprise.

"…Or we could just keep it our little secret." Dani said after a moment of stunned silence as she shrugged.

"Yeah, I mean, we really have no proof he did it, ya know." Tina added nervously.

"Nah, heh." Sam smirked cleverly at both of them, now that they were never gonna hear the end of this.

At Fenton Works in the living room that same night, a male reporter from Genius Magazine has just arrived to the house and was currently interviewing Matt Fenton with his wife and eldest son present as well.

"A few more questions, Matthew. Can you tell our readers what you're working on now?" The reporter asked as he held up a tape recorder.

Matt was about to reply the question until he got cut off by Jackie when she held out the Ghost Gabber in front of him. "Well, it's called the Ghost Gabber, and-" She began, until she got interrupted by her irritated son.

"Mom, put that thing away!" James demanded in annoyance. He smiled and tried to look more confident so he could convince the reporter that his parents were completely normal scientists. "He's actually working on a new form of self-generating energy. He's an amazing, intelligent man who's about to change the world!"

Matt smiled at his eldest son, looking a little touch by his words, before he turned his attention back to the reporter. "Connor, my primary focus these days…is ghost-hunting." He said with a casual smile.

Connor looked a little surprised by this before he cleared his throat. "Uh…forgive me. Did you say…'ghost-hunting'?" He asked in confusion.

James sighed in exasperation and rolled his eyes, since this was not going according to his plan to show everyone that his parents were just some regular scientists. Then Dani and her friends arrived as they entered the house, but of course Dani looked very tired since her hair was fizzled, and her eyes had bags and were very droopy.

"Danielle, look at you!" Matt said with concern, noticing his daughter's sleepy condition. "I'm not sure I like this…over-night zoo research."

"Dad, come on, we're just a couple of kids. In the zoo. At night. Alone…" Dani said, but faltered since the adults only stared at her oddly while James only glared at her with his arms crossed. "…We'll be in my room." She and her friends then walked up the stairs.

"We'll be in my room. Fear me." The Ghost Gabber on Jackie's lap repeated what Dani just said.

"Give me that!" James demanded as he snatched the device from his mother and shoved it under a couch pillow. He glared irritatedly at her, until he suddenly smiled like nothing stupid has happened. "Now where were we?"

Upstairs on the second floor, Dani and her friends walked across the hallway up to Dani's door to her bedroom. "Here we go, Dani, home in time for some well-deserved rest." Tina said before her PDA began beeping a 'William Tell Overtune' ringtone and she checked it. "But keep it quick, 'cause you got thirteen minutes."

Then Dani's ghost sense suddenly went off while she gasped in alarm. She looked up before she slowly opened her bedroom door, and the trio peeked inside cautiously. At first, there was nothing there, until Skulka suddenly appeared right in front of them as she smirked down and towered right over the half-ghost girl.

"Hello, ghost child." Skulka said darkly before Dani gasped in shock.

Before she could do anything, the huntress ghost immediately trapped her inside a blue net and dragged her inside her room, slamming her bedroom door locked in the process.

"DANI!" Sam and Tina exclaimed in unison.

Inside Dani's room, Skulka towered over her as her shadow loomed over her, satisfied that she has finally captured her target prey while she stared up at her in fear. "The human-ghost child in its natural habitat." Skulka said with her hands on her hips, calling her an 'it' like she was some kind of animal.

"Who are you?!" Dani demanded.

"I am Skulka, a collector of things rare and unique." She proved her point when she showed a small holographic projection of her cage, filled with cramped ghosts that she has captured in the past. "And you, ghost child...are that and more." She laughed evilly before she accidentally stepped on a rocket and smashed it into pieces.

Dani glared when this happened. "Hey, my rocket! I built that!"

"Pity though, I'd hoped you would put up more of a fight."

"Oh, don't worry..." Dani changed into her ghost form and phased out of the net as she hovered in the air, ready to fight her and also looked very angry that she just destroyed her rocket she worked so hard to make. "I will!"

Dani flew straight at him and punched Skulka to a wall hard before she smiled widely as she growled.

Outside the room, Sam and Tina were trying to pry open the door, but it was jammed shut and locked up tight. "That's the ghost from the zoo!" Sam said as he pulled on the knob.

"Dani?" Tina asked.

"No, the other one!" They both suddenly heard various beating and fighting noises inside Dani's room while they could also hear Dani herself grunting.

"Hello, what's going on up there?!" James called from downstairs, making Sam and Tina exchange nervous looks before they quickly ran downstairs. "You know, ghost-hunting is not the only thing my parents do, Connor, it's really a side-interest. What they're really into is-" He got cut off when they all suddenly heard loud thuds coming from nowhere.

"Ghost! Ghost! GHOOOOST!" Jackie shouted loudly as she stood to her feet in alarm.

Just then Sam and Tina walked down the stairs and into the living room. "Kids, get down! There's a ghost in the house!" Matt ordered urgently.

"Actually, there's two-" Tina began until Sam quickly elbowed her to correct herself. "-MUCH homework to be done for there to be a ghost here! I'll go get some snacks." She walked into the kitchen nervously while Sam smiled innocently at the Fentons and Connor with his hands behind his back.

"Y-yeah, Dani's upstairs-" Sam said before they heard more crashes and thuds were heard, coming from upstairs. "Uh…lifting weights?"

"She doesn't have exercise equipment up there." Matt pointed out, clearly looking perplexed before they felt more vibrations when they all flinched.

"My computer!" They heard Dani exclaimed from upstairs. "Oh, wait, that's James'."

"…That's why she's using her computer!" Sam said sheepishly as he shrugged.

When Tina ran into the kitchen, Dani suddenly came crashing through the floor/ceiling of her room and the kitchen, making a hole and demolished the table with a grunt. Skulka then landed in front of the girl with a provoked expression.

"Come, ghost girl! Time to see your new home!" Skulka said while Dani stared up at her with a surprised face. She grabbed her by her neck and phased her through the floor where she slammed her onto the basement lab floor.

Jackie, Matt, James, Connor, and Sam all ran into the kitchen and saw the demolished table in the center of the floor as Tina glanced between them and that.

"Uh…hi-yah!" Tina exclaimed as she quickly got into a karate pose, making it look like she was just practicing her karate moves.

"What's going on?" Connor asked before they heard and felt more crashing from below them.

"Sounds like…rats in the lab." Tina lied with a nervous smile.

"Ghost rats, I knew it." Jackie said like her suspicions were proven correct when she narrowed her eyes.

"Don't worry, we'll get rid of them!" Sam said as he and Tina ran out of the kitchen and made their way to the lab.

Connor the stared up at the second floor with interest. "I'd like to learn a little more about this Dani." He said before he walked over to the stairs.

"Uh, that's probably not such a great idea!" James protested in a panic.

"I'd like to see what she's doing up there, anyway." Matt said as he followed Connor to the stairs.

"Wait!"

Down in the lab, Skulka lifted Dani to the air by her throat. She struggled to break free from her grip while she kicked and waved her legs around madly as she tried to pry her fingers off of her neck.

"What are you doing?!" She demanded the huntress ghost.

"Bringing you back to my world, where I can put you on display." Skulka replied with a grin. She then showed her the projection of the cage with the cramped ghosts again, revealing that she was going to shove her inside and make her a part of her collection for all eternity.

Dani's eyes went wide with disbelief. "What?!"

Skulka then pressed a button on her wrist and activated the Fenton Ghost Portal. "Ha! At last!" She began to walk towards it with the ghost girl against her will. "Time to put you in your cage!"

"NOOOOOOOOO!"

Sam suddenly slid in between the portal and Skulka as he blocked her way. "No is right, Dani! Cages are wrong! How do you think Delilah feels being in a cage?!" He snapped angrily at Skulka as he narrowed his eyes at the ghost.

"But-" Skulka tried to reason, but the goth boy just kept on going.

"She's a beautiful animal, and deserves to roam free!"

"I-"

"Should be ashamed!"

While Skulka was distracted by Sam, Dani growled and kicked her square in the chin, releasing her and sent her flying across the lab. Tina yelped and tried to sprint out of the way before she could slam right on top of her. She landed on the ground, tripping Tina to the floor in the process. She turned and saw the tech-loving girl lying on the ground with her glasses knocked off her face, and her PDA on the floor next to her when it slipped out.

She picked up Tina's PDA in interest as she admired it. "That technology. So sleek, so…advanced!" She said before she looked at her wrist chip, that was destroyed when Delilah bit her back at the zoo. "I wonder…" She ripped off the busted chip on the ground and then placed the PDA on her wrist before it began to hum and glow.

"Hey! I've got three more payments on that!" Tina exclaimed to him, but she merely only got swept away on the face by Skulka.

The wires then connected the PDA to her suit and began to power her up as she began to glow. Dani flew straight at her to take her out, but she brought out a wrist gun and fired a beam at her. She blasted her to the wall, with her wrists and ankles bounded in green ectoplasmic energy shackles as she slid to the floor.

"Way to go, Tina, you just made the bad guy more bad!" Sam said sarcastically as he scolded at her.

"How was I supposed to know my PDA was ghost-compatible?" She asked defensively with a shrug.

Skulka grinned as she aimed her arm at Dani. "Say goodbye to this world, child." She said, making her go wide-eyed in fright. However, Tina's PDA suddenly began to ring in the same ringtone, confusing Skulka as she examined it. "What? 'Fly to library, get book on eating habits of purple-back gorilla'?" Jetpacks suddenly sprang out from her back and then she took off without warning unwillingly. "No, stop! The hunt is not over!"

She quickly turned herself intangible to avoid crashing through the ceiling as she flew straight through the living. Jackie looked around suspiciously when she thought she heard something while she walked up the stairs, but narrowed her eyes before continued up. Skulka flew straight out of Fenton Works and out of sight for the moment.

Dani herself looked a little surprised by this sudden turn of events before the energy shackles that shackled her hands and feet disappeared, freeing her instantly.

"What happened?" Sam asked as he helped his ghost friend up.

"Who cares? At least I got a minute to relax and figure this out." Dani said as she rubbed her shoulder.

"Dani, where are you?! Somebody here wants to see you!" They all heard Matt call from upstairs.

Dani cringed and yelped when she remembered that her room was trashed from her fight with Skulka. "My room!" She quickly phased through the lab ceiling and made it to her demolished bedroom as she changed back into her human form.

Matt then opened the door and gestured to Connor. "Dani, this is Connor, from Genius Magazine."

Dani quickly ran to her door before they could notice the huge mess in her room. "Don't you people ever knock?!" She snapped before she slammed the door on their faces and pinned her back against the door. "…James is going to kill me for that."

"I'm going to kill her for that." James growled to himself angrily behind his teeth.

"Brooding, messy, reclusive..." Connor listed off before he smiled brightly. "Now those are the signs of a true genius!" He then grunted to himself in frustration. "If only she were a man!"


The next day at Casper High, the trio walked up to the entrance to the school. However, Dani looked around frantically for Skulka, fearing that she was still trying to capture her for her little cramped display full of ghosts.

"Any sign of her?" She asked nervously.

"Nope. She hasn't bothered you for…thirty-eight minutes." Tina said as she looked down at her other PDA (unlike her last one, which was pink, this one was blue) and then she shrugged her shoulders a little. "Maybe she's hunting somebody else now."

"How many of those things do you have?" Sam asked, referring to her new PDA.

"Just two. Good thing I beamed all your info in here and backed it up. Global thinking, Dani, the sign of a quality time manager." Her PDA beeped, as it read 'go to class'. "Come on! You're late!" Tina shoved Dani into the school before she and Sam followed in as well.

Unaware to the trio after they left, Skulka phased through the steps and narrowed her eyes at where they walked off. "Soon, ghost girl. Soon." She vowed to herself.

After class, Dani and her friends walked to Dani's locker while everyone else walked off to their next class, leaving the trio by themselves alone in the hallway. However, the second Dani opened her locker so she could get her books, she was suddenly shoved back by green chains that flew out of her locker while they knocked her backwards, and they wrapped around her around her upper body and arms.

"DANI!" Sam and Tina shouted in unison.

Skulka then appeared from blue flames in front of Dani with a big grin on her face. "I have you now, child!" She shouted as she aimed her arm at her, until the PDA beeped again and she read it. "What? 'Go to the newsstand, and purchase magazine with article about purple-back gorillas'?" The jetpacks spring out again and she took off out of the school as she screamed in surprise.

The chains shackling Dani immediately faded away before Tina glanced down at her PDA with a perplexed face. "Hmm…I have the same thing on mine." She said.

"I think we'll blow that one off." Dani said as she rubbed her wrist.

Later on at the football stadium, the trio ate their lunch at the bleachers. Dani didn't have much of an appetite since she knew that Skulka was still out there and anything could have a surprise trap for her.

"Dani, eat something." Sam said.

"I can't eat now, she could be anywhere!" She said as she glanced around at the sky.

After Tina swallowed her yogurt, she picked up her milk carton. "Hey, this food was scheduled to be eaten." She said before she opened her carton.

However, the second it was opened, a blue orb suddenly popped out and grabbed Dani by her face, making her scream in surprise.

"DANI!" Her friends exclaimed again.

Skulka reappeared behind them and held out her arm again. "Now, girl. Once more, I, Skulka, shall-" She began, until she got interrupted again when the PDA rang before she read it. "'Take photos of gorilla'?" Her jetpacks sprang out again and she took off once again, and the blue grabber on Dani's neck immediately disappeared.

"Well, at least she's regular." Sam noted with wide eyes, looking very confused by why she kept on taking off every time that PDA beeped.

"Yeah, almost like her schedule!" Dani said like she was slowly beginning to understand something as she turned to Tina. "What's the next thing you have for me, Tin?"

She checked her PDA. "Gym, why?" She asked as she looked up at her friend in confusion.

Dani only smiled with an idea like she knew what was going on with Skulka.

In the girl's locker room, Daph Baxter, in her gym uniform, checked her blonde hair in a mirror. Dani, also wearing the school uniform, consisting of a white tank-top, still revealed her midriff, red shorts, a red headband, and white sneakers (like Tina, only she was wearing black sneakers), was about to open her gym locker, until she paused when she looked over at her rival and smirked.

"Hey, Daph." Dani said casually, catching the cheerleader's attention when she scowled at her. "I'm too weak and defenseless to open my locker. Can you open it for me?"

Daph roughly shoved her out of the way. "Out of the way, freak." She said rudely.

Dani and Tina exchanged looks before Daph opened her locker. Immediately, she suddenly got blasted back and pinned to the wall by blue goo while she got stuck to the lockers and even her eyes were covered with blue goop. Skulka hovered beside her, looking a little confused.

"Hmm…my sensors indicate your average human, destined for an average like after high school." Skulka said as she looked down at the PDA.

"FEEEETTTOOOON!" Daph gurgled behind the goo as she strained and struggled to shout angrily, making Skulka's eyes go wide when she realized she wasn't the girl she was after at all.

Dani and Tina peeked their heads from the corner, but Skulka noticed them when she immediately charged a blue energy ball at them. "I SHALL-" But the PDA beeped again as she read it again. "'The gorilla display at the Museum of Natural History'?" She made a look of boredom when her jetpacks sprang out from her back again and she took off.

"Why is she going there?" Tina asked as they looked up at where Skulka flew away.

"When Skulka put your PDA into her technology, she became bound to my schedule, she has to go where I was going to go next." Dani explained as she smirked at the fact. "Which means…" She looked down at Tina's PDA as it read 'visit gorilla display'. "It's time for the huntress to become the hunted. Come on, we're gonna do something a little ahead of schedule." She and Tina ran out of the locker room.

At the zoo that night, Skulka watched Delilah from behind as she scratched her butt through her binoculars, inside her cage. She was trying to wait for the ghost girl to show up since she still thought that this gorilla was her 'prey', but she has never even showed up yet.

"Hmm…where is she? According to this infernal device-" Skulka said as she looked down at Tina's PDA, which was on some kind of game, much to her complete frustration and irritation. "-which I cannot reprogram! The ghost girl was supposed to be here an hour ago!" She jumped behind the gorilla, which had her back towards her. "You were supposed to be the bait, you stupid animal!"

'Delilah' turned around and revealed that it was just only Sam and Tina under a fake gorilla costume. "Delilah's not stupid!" Sam shouted shouted at the huntress ghost offendedly as he glared at her.

"She's also not here." Tina added as she brought out her PDA. "Can I take a message?"

"You two! You'll pay for this!" Skulka exclaimed angrily before she brought several weapons and aimed at the teens.

Sam threw the costume off them. "I don't think so." Tina pressed the 'send' button on her PDA screen.

Skulka's PDA beeped and she read it out loud. "'Time for push ups'? What?!" Her weapons retracted back into her armor as she immediately began to fidget until she dropped down to the ground and did countless push-ups. "STOP! STOP! I CAN'T STOP!"

"I can help with that!" Dani said as she flew out from her hiding spot.

She charged straight at Skulka and punched her back towards the bars of the cage. She looked up and gasped before Dani flew up in front of her and began punching and kicking her mercilessly, until she got up and she flew right past the ghost. She brought out a shoulder gun and aimed at the girl as she gaped at her.

"Ah ah ah." Tina said cleverly before she began typing on her PDA again. "Ten eleven, polish armor." And then she sent it to Skulka when she finished.

The gun on Skulka suddenly turned into a rotating polisher and began to spin and rub against her face, blinding her as she shouted in surprise. "Quit fooling around, Tina!" Sam said, looking annoyed by her childish attitude.

"Power her down already! NOW!" Dani ordered her friend urgently.

"Relax, everything's under-" Tina said when she held out her trusty PDA, until an arrow suddenly shot out and it stuck onto a tree as it demolished the handheld device beyond use. "-control? Oh man, I had four more payments on this one!"

Skulka glared at the tech girl as she retracted her bow and polisher back in her armor.

"Tina, you're fired." Dani said as she glared at her before she turned her attention back to the huntress ghost.

"Very well, I planned on simply capturing you and letting you live the rest of your life in a cage, but now I will rest your pelt at the foot of my bed." Skulka declared as she glared.

Dani cringed and grimaced in disgust. "Eww."

"Okay, that's just gross." Sam said, equally as disgusted.

"Well, ghost girl…any last words?" Skulka asked darkly.

"Just this." Dani said as she smiled cleverly before she stood up to her feet. She simply tapped her hand on the top of her head, made a 'peek-a-boo' gesture with her hands and eyes, and then pounded her fists on her chest, much to the huntress ghost's confusion.

"What are you doing?!"

Dani then scratched her butt while she crouched like an ape. "Calling a friend."

Delilah the purple-back gorilla then appeared and jumped into action as she yowled and held up her fists. Skulka glanced up at the ape in surprise, but noticed too late when the rare primate suddenly slammed right on top of her.

"You learned her language?" Sam asked Dani in amazement.

"Well, sure. All she does is this." Dani said as she scratched her butt again.

The trio all watched as Delilah slammed Skulker on her back before they cheered. Then the ape punched her in the stomach, making them cringe and groan before Delilah uppercutted Skulka square in the jaw, making the teens cheer again. She then ripped off Skulka's arm, making Dani cover her eyes, Sam cover his ears, and Tina cover her mouth. Delilah yowled angrily when she finally lifted Skulka into the air and then threw her straight to the ground hard.

Skulka's ripped-off arm fell near the trio's feet. "But I still don't understand why a ghost needed a high-tech battle suit." Tina said with curiosity as she looked down at the arm and then back to her friends.

Delilah continued to yowl as he began tearing up Skulka's suit into pieces while the trio dodged the flying pieces of metal hurtling towards them and Dani hovered in the air. Finally, Skulka's head landed straight into Dani's arms when she caught it, and she noticed tiny green legs kicking from the end of the neck.

"Let me go! I am the Skulka! The Skulka! Do you hear me?! Fear me!" They heard a tiny, squeaky voice yell from inside.

"What the…" Dani said out loud in confusion with a cocked eyebrow.

She pulled out a tiny, green blobby ghost from the head and held him upside down as she dropped the metal head. The trio all stared at the tiny ghost blob in complete stunned silence and disbelief. All this entire time, this was the ghost that has been causing all this trouble for Dani and her friends?

"I am the greatest huntress in all of the Ghost Zone! You will all fear me!" 'Skulka' said dramatically in a squeaky voice while her hands trembled.

Dani smiled as she eyeballed her friends. "Thermos, please?" She said.

Tina pulled out the Fenton Thermos and shot out a stream of energy as Dani dropped the real Skulka inside the stream. It began to suck her inside while she tried to fight against the raw sucking energy. "You haven't seen the last of me! I shall capture you all! You shall all be mine! Mine! Do you hear?!" She then got completely sucked inside before Tina recapped the thermos.

Dani changed to her human form and landed on her feet with a smile. "Cool. Let's go home."

"But you didn't get anything you could use for your report!" Sam reminded her. "You're still gonna get a D."

"Oh, that's okay." Dani leaned down and picked up Tina's PDA as Delilah walked up behind her. "We stopped the bad guy, saved the gorilla, but that's all I've got done, then that's-" Dani then turned to the gorilla and noticed something that completely shocked her. "Oh, MY GOSH!"


The next day at Casper High School, Ms. Lancer read off Genius Magazine, with a cover that read 'She is a HE! Genius child of genius man discovers gorilla female actually a male', and a picture of 'Delilah', Matt, and Dani on the front cover, with a confused looking Jackie behind the gorilla in the background.

"'Brooding genius, Danielle Fenton, did what no other researcher dared to do: got close enough to this rare purple-back gorilla to realize Delilah was actually…a Sampson'!" Lancer read out loud to her entire class with wide eyes before she looked up at Dani with an odd look on her face. "Nobody at that zoo ever bothered to see if it was a boy or a girl?"

"It's weird, huh? Well, maybe they were respecting his privacy." Dani said while she shrugged with a bright smile.

Lancer approached her with her graded extra-credit report. "Well, Ms. Fenton, I have to admit, I'm impressed. You wanted to get your grade up so bad, you risked getting molded by a gorilla." She placed the paper on her desk and revealed her new grade was a…"C."

Dani stared down at her work in disbelief. "A 'C'?! I almost got killed by a gho…rilla, and all I get is a 'C'?!"

The teacher gave her somewhat of a clever grin. "Life's a big mystery, isn't it, Fenton?" Lancer walked to her door when the bell rang, and paused as she turned her head back to Dani. "Next time you want to get your grade up, try the library." And with that happy note, she walked out of her classroom for the day.

Dani glared furiously at where her teacher left while her friends walked beside her. "Well…at least it's better than a D, right?" Sam said, looking at the bright side, but that didn't exactly appear to help his friend at all.

"Oh man…if only I had something I could take this out on!" Dani exclaimed angrily.

"I am the Box Ghoul!" She shouted dramatically as the trio perked up in little surprised. They turned around and found the same comedic Box Ghoul from the warehouse hovering at the back of the classroom. "And once I empty you of your useless papers, your marvelous squareness shall be mine!" She then laughed evilly with her hands on her sides.

Dani smirked that she had found herself the perfect punching bag as she transformed into her ghost form with an anticipating smile. "Hello, misplaced aggression."

"You've got five minutes." Tina said as she smirked while she checked on her new PDA.

"Which is four more than I'll need." Dani then flew into action and gave the Box Ghoul a beating of her life as she shouted in pain.

"EH! OW! UH! BEWARE! AH! OH! OW!" The ghost exclaimed while Sam and Tina glanced at each other and shared the same smiles that they all had yet another great victory.