Season 1 Episode 5
Splitting Images
"It Came from Locker 724!"
It was quite a nice and normal day at Casper High while Dani Fenton, Sam Manson, and Tina Foley were all carrying heavy boxes down the hallway that read 'Save the Frogs!' with a slash on a frog.
"So, why exactly are we breaking our backs here, Sam?" Dani asked him, kind of confused on why they were carrying these heavy boxes.
"Frog's rights, we have to stop dissecting frogs in our school biology labs, and at today's assembly, I'm going to demonstrate a humane alternative." Sam answered as they stopped in the middle of the hall.
"'I can't believe it's not a frog cadaver'?" Tina read out loud from his box's sticker with confusion in her eyes.
Sam placed his box down and opened the box before he pulled out a robotic frog in display as it oozed green slime and it croaked. "Rib! Please remove my detachable three-chamber heart! Rib!" It croaked robotically while Sam smiled brightly.
Dani cocked an eyebrow in confusion, a little weirded out by this manmade frog. "Um...wow. That's very...helpful." She said with uncertainty before her ghost sense went off as she gasped and her eyes went wide.
One of the boxes began to glow before green smoke exploded from the opening, making Sam drop his frog onto Tina's head while she yelped in surprise. As Tina struggled to pull the frog off of her head, the smoke formed into one of Dani's old ghostly enemies, but actually a comedic one anyway.
"Oh great, her again." Dani said as she narrowed her eyes in annoyance.
"I am the Box Ghoul! And I will have my cardboard vengeance!" She shouted as her body began to glow.
Dani changed into her ghost form before the Box Ghoul made several boxes float into the air. Sam managed to help Tina pull the frog off her head, all covered green slime.
"Oh, gross!" She exclaimed in disgust as the ooze dripped from her head and arms.
"You guys get to the assembly, I'll get this moron sealed up tight." Dani said to her friends.
After Sam and Tina ran away from the fight, the Box Ghoul made several scalpel knives fly out of a box and hurtled them straight to Dani. She managed to turn intangible as they passed harmlessly through her and stuck to the lockers behind her.
"Huh, maybe Sam has a point." Dani admitted as she held onto her stomach.
The Box Ghoul suddenly did a rough rookie on her, making her fly right through the lockers as she dented them. Dani flew from wall-to-wall across classrooms until she ended up in a backstage of an assembly stage and landed roughly on her back, and she accidentally reverted back into her human form.
"Whoops." She said.
The Box Ghoul phased into the backstage as she grinned and made a box float beside her. "Tremble before the might of the Box Ghoul as you are devoured by…" She said, but faltered as she checked the box's sticker. "Uh, oh yeah. Costumes and props of the Broadway classic, My Fair Lady!" She hurled a bunch of costumes at Dani, knocking her backwards and got piled underneath them. She reached her hand out for help while the Box Ghoul laughed evilly. "Beware!" And then she left the school just like that.
At the assembly, Sam made his way to the podium with a confident look on his face. "Fellow students, something sick and disgusting is taking place at this school, and I'm gonna show you what it is!" He announced through the microphone before the curtains opened, revealing the 'Save the Frogs' logo.
However, the students paused what they were doing when they noticed something off behind him, and they broke out into laughter. Sam noticed this before he turned around to the backstage and found out what it was. Dani managed to dig herself out of the pile, but found herself wearing a black tuxedo, a monocle, and a top hat. She glowered her eyebrows in embarrassment when she realized the situation.
"Woohoo, take it off!" Tina cheered out loud, making Sam glare at her before she grimaced. "No seriously, she should take it off. That's weird." Sam only frowned in annoyance.
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)
After Dani's little costume incident at the assembly, the students continued snickering and laughing while she and her friends walked down the hallway. She was looking down in embarrassment while Sam was very miffed about how things turned out in his assembly during one of Dani's unexpected comedic appearances.
"Thanks to your little dress-up parade, my 'Save the Frogs' presentation was a total hit rock bottom!" Sam said to Dani irritatedly as he glanced down in frustration.
"And speaking of bottom, did you see Dani in those boxers? Navy blue is not your color, gal." Tina said to Dani.
They all then stopped at Dani's now-damaged and unusable locker. "Yeah, and now because that idiot Box Ghoul trashed my locker, I've been assigned a new one." Dani said before she looked at her new locker form. "Locker...742."
Sam and Tina suddenly gasped in horror before Tina pointed at the locker she was talking about across from them. Locker 742 was some rusted up locker and it looked like it hasn't been used for years. Dani walked up to it, looking a little confused by her friends' sudden fearful reactions.
"Guys, what's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost...or something really scary that we don't see every single day." Dani said with a chuckle as she shrugged her shoulders.
"Hello! Locker 742?! How do you not know the legend of locker 742?" Tina asked, and she even sounded like it should have been obvious.
Dani finally opened the locker. There was a mirror hanging inside and even a few cobwebs as she gently touched the mirror, and somehow it felt a little...off. "What's the big deal with...locker 742?"
Then someone suddenly shoved a top hat on her head as she cringed in surprise. "You left something behind, Fenton." Daph Baxter, the cheerleader captain, mocked before she and a couple of her friends laughed from behind her. Dani glared angrily as she turned sharply at her arch-rival and she growled with hatred. "Let's see if it fits in your new locker...with you inside!"
"HEY!" Dani yelped in surprise when Daph and one of her friends grabbed her and tossed her into her new locker. The cheerleader captain slammed it shut before they walked away, laughing at her misfortune. Even though they were cheerleaders, they weren't above using massive bullying techniques that the boys would normally do.
"I was gonna tell you the locker was cursed, but I think you'd figured that out." Tina said as she opened the locker before Dani fell out with a grunt.
Dani stood to her feet and glared angrily with her fists at her sides, finally ready to give Baxter a piece of her mind. "Trust me, you haven't even seen a curse yet! Cover me."
She shoved her friends as she blocked herself from everyone while she changed into her ghost form and turned herself invisible. She flew across the hallway and phased straight into Daph's body, making her scream in surprise and glow green when Dani possessed her entire body. She made the cheerleader captain slam her head into some lockers a couple of times (while her friends stared at her in confusion) before she slammed her head into a janitor's water bucket, and Dani finally phased out of her body. She flew over the crowd that was gathering around Daph and changed back into her human form behind them.
Dani walked over to her friends and high-fived Tina, who was impressed by her little get back. Sam, however, looked more annoyed and unimpressed by her ignorant actions. "Dani!" He said in admonishment with his arms crossed.
"Relax, Sam." Tina said before she elbowed her best friend playfully. "It's about time you used some of that Phantom advantage for some ghostly get-back."
Sam only grunted in annoyance as he walked away with his friends following behind him. After they left, they were unaware that locker 742 began to glow eerily. "Bullies...bullies…" A girl's voice moaned from inside.
At Fenton Works the next morning, Dani walked into the kitchen, where she found her father, Matt, working on a pair of mechanical gloves with a torch wand, her older brother, James, reading his book as usual, and her mother, Jackie, eating some cereal for her breakfast.
"So, Dani...what's this I hear about you getting a new locker?" Jackie asked her daughter suspiciously as she leaned closer.
"Oh, uh...no big deal really. Uh, nothing for you and Dad to get obsessive about." Dani said nervously as she rubbed the back of her neck.
"Why? Is it HAUNTED?!"
"Don't worry, kid, you'll barely even notice us while we're staking out that locker during regular school hours." Matt said as he continued working on the gloves with his torch wand.
James glanced up from his book with wide eyes when he heard what his father said. "What? NO!" He exclaimed as he ran to his sister and hugged her protectively close to him. "Dani is at a very critical stage in development in her peer groups." He released Dani while he ignored her blank face. "She's already considered a clumsy nerd, the last thing she needs is you two confirming it!"
"Nice defense, James. Total confidence builder." Dani said sarcastically as she rolled her eyes.
Jackie suddenly snatched the gloves away from her husband as she slipped them on and pounded them together as fists. "And the best part is, thanks to the new Ghost Gauntlets, when that ghost comes out of that locker, I can spar with it mono a ghost-o." She said as she swung her fists around before she punched a column of pipes. She raised her hands in victory, until more sets of pipes fell from the ceiling while smoke billowed up in the process.
"Don't worry, maybe boys will talk to you in college." James told Dani as he walked away, which only made her scowl in annoyance.
Dani wore the same glowering look all the way to Casper High when she made it to her new locker, which was rumored to have been cursed, but she still didn't even know why.
She suddenly heard some jocks laughing as she turned her head around to them and cocked an eyebrow. "Hey, Tubby the Tuba, nice shako. Does it remove ear wax, too?" The jock, whom she believed his name was Dale, mocked as he removed a shako off a band geek's hat and began twisting it into his ear as he smirked.
"Jerks." Dani muttered as she glared at them in disgust.
Despite how much she hated bullies and how they picked on innocent kids, Dani decided not to get involved when she slammed her locker shut and walked away to class. Unaware to her, the locker began to glow again the second she left. "Bullies…" The same girl's voice moaned.
"GO LONG!" Dale's jock friend shouted.
He threw the shako overhead as the geek tried to catch his hat, but too far when Dale ran down the hallway to catch it. But then out of nowhere, locker 742 suddenly opened up and it nailed Dale right in his face, making him collapse to the ground with a black eye and missing tooth. The locker closed like nothing has happened while he leaned against the lockers, disoriented, and the shako then landed right on top of his head.
Meanwhile, near a trophy case not far away, a nerd girl was pushing a projector with a cart, until Paul Sanchez stopped her with his foot as he gave her his flirting eyes.
"I'm so fascinated by AV equipment, can you show me how it works?" Paul asked flirtatiously.
However, he seem to be involved with making a fool out of the nerd while he distracted the nerd girl and Kwyn, the other school cheerleader and Daph's best friend, tiptoed quietly behind the nerd. Paul used his charm as a distraction while Kwyn snuck up and secretly tied her shoelaces together.
"Bullies…" The same girl's voice said from the cursed locker as a trail of green energy crawled from the locker, to the ceiling, and finally to the trophy case as it ended up on a trophy.
It suddenly toppled on top of Kwyn's head, blinding her before she stood up and tumbled backwards as she shouted a little to pull the trophy off. However, she ended up accidentally knocking a fire extinguisher from its case when it sprayed directly at Paul, sending him flying away from the cart as he yelped.
The energy then moved towards the girl's shoes as it untied her laces and tied them back to normal before it disappeared. The nerd girl glanced around in confusion at what just happened, but then she just shrugged it off and continued towards her destination.
In the cafeteria during lunchtime, the in-crowd began discussing these odd turn of events when they tried to make some nerds suffer. But then it was like every time they bullied or at least tried to bully a nerd, they get a piece of their own medicine by some invisible force like some kind of spirit that was trying to keep those who mean harm to a nerd away.
"And all a sudden, this locker door flies open and nails me." Dale described as he punched his fist to his palm for emphasising, looking surprised and confused by the fact. Daph arrived up to her table, looking concerned for all her friends.
"I'm gonna be getting this stuff out of my jacket and hair for a week!" Paul cried in despair, who was busy trying to use a rolling hair-remover on his jacket to get some extinguisher off, and even his hair was covered in a few smudges.
"It's like...the school is haunted." Kwyn said nervously.
At Dani, Tina, and Sam's table, they were overhearing the in-crowds' conversation while Dani smirked at them. Even though she had no idea what has been going on either, she believed they totally deserved what they got for bullying innocent nerds and students. Sam and Tina seemed more concerned about the strange events that has been happening to the popular kids.
"Apparently, someone's been busy." Sam said as he gave Dani a questioning glare. He thought that his friend has been using her powers to get back at the popular kids again.
"It wasn't me, I swear!" Dani said defensively, but her smile never dropped when she turned to Sam and became intangible.
She then flew over behind Daph and phased into her body as she possessed her. Dani made her dump all of her lunch all over Paul, who gave her a flat and glowering look. Dani phased out of her body and flew away, leaving Daph shaking her head before she scratched it in confusion. Dani landed back to her table as she turned solid like nothing has happened. Tina smiled at her little get back, but Sam was still unimpressed that she was still abusing her powers.
"Now that was me." Dani said as she pointed her thumb at Daph.
Sam glared at his friend. "Dani, I don't think you should be using your powers like-" He began but faltered and gasped when he saw their teacher/vice principal, Ms. Lancer, walking into the cafeteria. "Lancer! I'll be right back." Sam left the cafeteria, leaving Dani and Tina by themselves to chat for a moment.
"Don't listen to him, Dani. It's about time somebody struck a blow for Cindy Poindexter." Tina said to her friend.
Dani cocked an eyebrow in confusion. "Cindy Whodexter?"
"Cindy Poindexter." Tina must have realized that Dani wasn't very familiar with the name at all, so she pulled out her PDA and began to explain the history about this girl Dani has never heard of before. "Locker 742 was originally owned by a Poindexter back in the fifties..."
As Tina explained, they had an imaginary flashback about the fifties of Casper High. A girl wearing large glasses, a shirt, braces, and a poodle skirt with an overall was checking her long, black ponytail in a mirror before she slammed her locker shut with a smile.
Tina (Voiceover):
Poindexter was the victim of more cruel pranks than anyone in the history of Casper High School.
Cindy walked down the hallway confidently until a girl smacked her back, placing a 'kick me!' paper on her back. She glared at the girl before she walked away while she rubbed her shoulder.
Apparently, picking on her was a graduation requirement.
Outside the courtyard, a girl pointed at Poindexter, who was sniffing some flowers and minding her own business, telling the little boy to pick on her. He kicked her into the bush before he laughed cruelly at the nerd girl, with apparently no qualms at all.
She got stuffed into her locker so many times…
A jock then stuffed Cindy into her locker before he slammed it shut with a smirk.
"It's believed her spirit still inhabits it 'til this very day." Tina finished somewhat dramatically and solemnly.
"Wow...they sure made her spirit cramped." Dani said, who still had her eyebrow cocked during the whole story. Sam then returned with a box of hopping and croaking frogs as she stared at them in confusion. "Sam, what are you doing?"
"Nothing. Certainly not trying to smuggle frogs out of the bio lab while Lancer isn't looking." Sam said nervously as he settled the box down onto his seat before he smiled innocently with his hands behind his back.
Then someone suddenly threw several meat patties straight onto Dani's cheek as she yelped. "Hey, girls, what do ya say we meat my new locker neighbor?" Daph said mockingly with her cheerleaders as she smirked at Dani with a handful of patties.
Dani wiped the patties off her cheek. She glared and growled menacingly at her rival while her eyes glowed green from her rising anger.
Sam placed his hand on her shoulder before her eyes returned to normal. "Easy, Dani. Eaaaasy, girl." He said softly, trying to calm her down.
Dani took a deep breath and turned to him. "You're right, Sam. I-" She began until the cheerleaders threw more patties, cheese, and lettuce on her cheek before Daph then threw a bun on her head, making her grunt. She narrowed her eyes in irritation, trying her best not to explode like an atomic ecto-bomb.
"Enjoy your sandwich, neighbor!" The cheerleader captain mocked again while she and her friends walked out of the cafeteria.
Dani finally rose from her seat, swiping the food off her face as she glared angrily at her rival, finally believing that the little sandwich insult was the last straw. "OKAY! THAT'S IT!"
Tina stared thoughtfully at where Daph left. "Hmm...I wonder how Daph would feel if she had a frog in her throat." She suggested for her friend as she turned to her and narrowed her eyes with a mischievous smirk at the thought.
"Or twelve...all over her body!" Dani eyeballed the box of frogs beside her.
Sam knew what she was thinking about when he immediately held the frog box close protectively and narrowed his eyes at her sternly. "Oh no! You're not gonna exploit innocent amphibians for some...juvenile revenge scheme!" He said defiantly.
Dani gave him a flat look before she smiled mischiefly as her eyes glowed green.
Out in the empty hallway, Daph opened her locker as she stuffed her book inside as she smiled without a care in the world. Several feet away from her, Dani was in her ghost form as she held onto the box of frogs. She smirked mischievously as she turned herself invisible, ready to humiliate her like she deserved.
Daph's locker suddenly slammed shut on its own, making her recoil in shock. "What the-" She said before something pulled on her hair and she tumbled backwards from the lockers in pain. "Ow, ow, ow!" She then suddenly spun around. "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! WHOA!" And then the box of frogs hovered above her by itself before it spilled frogs right on top of her, as did their slime coating before she stopped spinning. Daph screamed in horror before she sprinted down the hallway. Dani giggled immaturely at her arch-rival's misfortune.
Daph ran by locker 742 as she sobbed loudly before it began to glow again. "Bullies…" The same girl's voice moaned until the same girl from Tina's story, the spirit of Cindy Poindexter, phased through her old locker and smiled in relief. "Hey, I'm free! Finally! The doorway's been opened!" She then frowned when she noticed Dani giggling before she hovered right in front of her. "You think that's funny, busty?"
Dani immediately stopped laughing while her smile dropped before she noticed Cindy floating right in front of her. "Huh? What? You can see me?" She asked in confusion.
"Yeah, that's right, baby. Now leave that poor kid alone." She pointed her thumb over her shoulder.
Dani cocked an eyebrow. "What?" She then smiled when she realized that the nerd ghost was talking about Daph as she turned visible. "Oh!" She laughed again like she was just joking. "Oh man, that's a good one. Do you have that backwards a little?"
Cindy narrowed her eyes more. "Don't hand me that jazz, Claudia! You're the bully from where I'm standing."
Dani pointed out that her feet were not even touching the ground. "Uh, you mean floating."
Cindy's eyes went wide in realization when she allowed her words to sink in. "Uh...okay, yeah, floating!" She then narrowed her eyes again as she raised her hands into the air while they began to glow. "Let's see how you like getting bullied."
Dani glanced around and saw the lockers beginning to glow green from Cindy's power as her eyes turned solid red. School supplies then suddenly exploded out of the lockers as they flew around the air madly from Cindy's telekinesis. Inside the cafeteria, everyone was enjoying their lunch, until their lunch trays suddenly smacked onto their faces, covering them in food and even juice boxes squirted at their faces. The students all began to run and scream in fear as they tried to run away from all the flying dishes.
In the biology lab, Lancer looked underneath the counters, trying to find some of the boxes of frogs, but he was completely unaware that Sam has stolen them from underneath his nose. "I know those frogs were here somewhere…" He said to himself. Then suddenly, every single breaker and lab equipment exploded and shattered into pieces from nothing, shocking the teacher greatly when his eyes widen. "GREAT GATSBY!"
Outside the school, Jackie (who was wearing the new Ghost Gauntlets) and Matt have arrived at the school and were about to enter the building, until James blocked their way in.
"How many times do I have to tell you? There is nothing weird going on in this school!" James said with a frown as he gestured his hands for emphasising.
His parents both shared disbelieving looks while they glanced at each other. However, a huge crowd of students suddenly burst out of the doorway, screaming in terror, confirming the Fentons that there was probably a ghost attack occurring in the school.
"Move, Matt! Now!" Jackie said as they went into action as they ran into the school. James slapped his forehead in frustration and annoyance.
Back in the hallways, Cindy continued making the school supplies fly around while she directed them to Dani, who was intangible as they passed harmlessly through her.
"Look! You don't understand, I'm not the bully here!" Dani tried to reason as she held her hands out defensively.
"I understand a bully when I see one!" Cindy snapped before she fired a green beam of energy from her glasses. She blasted Dani dead on, despite that she was intangible, and sent her flying through a wall as she shrieked. Dani flew through the library and into another hallway before she landed on the floor with a grunt.
"Oh…" Dani narrowed her eyes with provoke. "Big mistake!" She charged back through the walls and into another hallway as she flew back to finish her business with Cindy.
Meanwhile, Sam managed to round up all the frogs Daph dropped when she ran around the hallway from Dani's little prank. "Here ya go, little fellas." He said as he placed the last of the frogs into the box just as Dani arrived with Cindy on the other side of Sam.
"Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, bully!" Cindy snapped at Dani, making Sam turn to her with a frown as Dani turned solid above him. "I'm Cindy Poindexter!" She then gestured to Tina, who came up behind her. "And whenever there is a single nerd in need, I shall be there!"
"Hey, who you calling a nerd?" Tina asked the nerd ghost, looking a little offended.
Dani lunged to grab Cindy, but she quickly turned herself intangible as she only flew right through the ghost nerd and grabbed Tina instead. Dani couldn't slow herself down when she sent herself and her friend both crashing into a row of lockers as they collapsed to the floor. Cindy returned to normal as she smiled cleverly at the ghost girl.
"That's the girl that used to have your locker!" Tina exclaimed when she recognized the ghost from her story before she smiled at her best friend. "In your face, Ms. Skeptic." Dani only frowned at her as she tensed her shoulders.
"In her face?" Cindy repeated before she pulled out an old ink pen from her pocket with a smirk. "Swell idea." She then squirted black ink from her pen and sprayed it all over Dani's face.
"You did not just do that!" Dani growled as she glared offendedly.
Cindy only laughed hysterically when Dani narrowed her eyes even more before she turned intangible and charged at the nerdy ghost again. She tackled her through the floor and into the boiler room as they crash landed on the ground with grunts. Cindy rubbed her head while Dani weakly got up to her fours from the impact of the crash, and then she automatically changed back into her human form.
"HOLY SOCKS!" Cindy exclaimed in complete shock after she just witnessed Dani's transformation. "You're the halfa!"
"The what-a?" Dani asked in confusion.
They both got up to their feet. "The halfa. Everybody in the Ghost Zone talks about you! You're half-a girl, half-a ghost: the halfa! You have all our powers on the human plane! And-" Cindy immediately paused when she became angry again as she glared at her, like she just realized something. "And you were using your powers for EVIL?!"
Dani's eyes went wide from what she just snapped. "What?!" She walked over to her and tried to explain everything to her. "NO! Look, please, just hear me out! I-I took over Daph's body, because she-" She then got interrupted by Cindy.
"Hey wait, you can take over a person's body?" She then smiled in amazement. "Jeepers creepers, I would flip if I had your powers!" She then began thinking deeply to herself. "I wonder…" She then turned herself intangible before she flew into Dani's body as she began to possess her.
"Wait, what are you doing?!" Dani exclaimed as she tried to resist.
"Giving you a taste of your own medicine, bully!"
"Just listen to me! Daph...isn't-" She began struggling even more and strained as she grasped her head and stomach. "Get. out. of me!" She suddenly perked when she then calmed down and she began to glow.
"You may use your powers to pick on innocent kids…" Dani's ghost half flew out of her body as she screamed and tried to reach for her body, but flew straight through the ceiling. Dani's eyes then turned gray when Cindy took full control over her body and she smirked. "But I sure as sugar won't!"
Dani's ghost continued to scream as she got sucked into locker 742 and through the mirror. Dani got cramped inside the locker when the locker opened and it revealed a jock (who looked like he was from the fifties) before he smirked at her. "Hey, Poindexter." He said mockingly.
Dani stared at him in confusion before she turned to the mirror and realized that she now looked like Cindy as she screamed in surprised horror.
Back at the real Casper High in the hallways, Jackie, Matt, and Lancer ran down the hall until they found Tina and Sam, who was currently holding the box of frogs he took from the bio lab earlier.
"Is it true?" Matt asked his daughter's friends urgently. "Did you kids witness a ghost attack?"
"Fear not, young ones, these gloves are made for grabbing!" Jackie declared as she raises her electrified Ghost Gauntlets in the air.
From behind the adults, Cindy, who was still possessing Dani's body, phased through the floor. Luckily, Tina gasped when she noticed and quickly ran up to hide her 'friend' behind her back before the adults could even notice.
"Uh, no ghost here, Mr. and Mrs. F." Tina said nervously.
"Only a boy trying to create a diversion for his own needs." Lancer said as she narrowed her eyes at Sam with the crate of frogs she was looking for.
"Right, right. No ghosts here." Sam said nervously as he eyeballed sideways.
The adults then left the teens alone as they ran down the hallway again before Tina leaned close to 'Dani'. "Watch it, Dani! Your parents almost caught your intangibility act." She whispered quietly.
Cindy smirked that Dani's friends haven't suspected a thing.
In the fifties Casper High, Dani (somehow looking like Cindy since she basically sent Dani's mind out of her body while she possessed her) walked down the hallway and looked around. She looked confused and nervous as she stared at the students from the past.
"Where am I? It's like I dropped into Grandma Fenton's yearbook." She asked herself with worry in her eyes.
Suddenly, a fifties boy teen came up to her face. "Hey, Poindexter, you got a spot on your overalls." He said as he pointed at her chest. She looked down, but he flicked his finger onto her nose before she held her face. "Haha! Made you look!"
After he walked away, Dani glared at him and was about to walk down the hallway again, only to be tripped to the floor by a girl with a poodle skirt. "Have a nice trip, Cindy. See ya next fall." She mocked with a smirk before she walked away.
Dani suddenly remembered that Tina once told her that Cindy Poindexter was the victim of cruel pranks and bullying in Casper High history. Her spirit must have been trapped not just inside the locker, but inside the mirror into another world, trapping her in eternal torment. The students began to laugh at 'Cindy' as she glanced around at them, frightened, before she quickly got up to her feet and ran for the exit door. Unfortunately, there was no ground when Dani tried to regain her balance. She almost fell off until she managed to grab onto the edge and pulled herself back into the school.
"I've gotta get out of here!" Dani exclaimed.
Back in the real Casper High, Sam and Tina walked down the hallway with 'Dani' while she has a bright smile on her face, like she has never walked with two best friends before.
"Ooh, ooh! Spiff diddly dee, man! So, this is what it's like to have friends!" Cindy said excitedly through Dani, much to Sam and Tina's confusions.
"Are you okay, Dani?" Sam asked, but got no response since 'Dani' continued looking around at how much the school has changed before she became a ghost.
"Dani?" Tina asked, finally catching her attention.
"Oh, me? Oh, yeah! I'm right like ike, Mike!" Cindy said confidently as she swung her arm.
"Why does your voice sound so weird?" Sam asked when he noticed the strange accent his 'friend' was jabbering with.
Cindy made an uneasy look. "Uh...puberty?"
"What happened to Poindexter?" Tina asked.
"Oh, that square? She flew the coop, permeant-like."
'Dani' then walked proudly down the hall before Sam and Tina exchanged some suspicious looks. She then walked up to Daph while she angrily pounded her fists on the soda machine, which already ate her coins, but appeared to be jammed up.
"Come on, give me my soda, will ya?!" Daph exclaimed.
"Hey, let me help you out there, gal." Cindy said as she walked up to her with a smile.
She phased Dani's hand through the soda machine as she began working on the kinks. She then heard a satisfying click when she smiled and then a soda can dispensed from the opening. Daph took a few satisfying sips before she sighed after she finished it up.
"Thanks, Fenton." The cheerleader said as she crushed the empty soda can with her hand.
Cindy shrugged a little like it was nothing. "Eh, no problemo."
Daph noticed the tone of her voice. "What, are you going through puberty?" Sam and Tina exchange questioning looks about their 'friend', knowing she would never do a favor for her rival. The cheerleader captain then thought to herself for a second. "You know, I'm running a little tight on quarters. Think you could get a few sodas for me and my friends?"
'Dani' winked at her in agreement before she phased her arm through the machine again. She managed to dispense more sodas and took an armful of them.
"Dani, that's stealing." Sam said. Even though he narrowed his eye, he was still pretty confused by the way she has been acting.
Cindy sighed as she rolled Dani's eyes. "Eh, I'm sure that poor kid lost more than her fair share of quarters to the vicious bullies in this school. It's time somebody evened the score." She then turned her attention to the students. "Hey, everybody, egg creams on me!" She began to pass out the soda cans to them as they smiled in appreciation.
"I don't know what the heck an egg cream is, but thanks!" Kywn said as she accepted the soda.
"Well...this is new." Sam noted to Tina, who made a look of agreement.
Back in the fifties Casper High in the spirit world, Dani opened locker 742 and looked at the mirror inside.
"This is how I got in, so there's gotta be a way out." She said to herself as she touched the mirror.
The real world locker 742 opened as Dani peeked through the mirror. She gasped when she saw Cindy in her own body passing out soda cans to all of the popular kids. She immediately knew that Cindy was trying to make herself popular (in Dani's view).
"Here's to Fenton!" Daph said, toasting her soda in the air, as did everyone else.
"What the heck?!" Dani exclaimed in confusion on how Cindy managed to make herself popular by just handing out sodas. She then noticed Sam and Tina walking passed the locker when she tried to get their attention. "Tina! Sam! It's me, Dani!"
Kwyn then hugged 'Dani' by her shoulders as she smiled. "Hey, Fenton, the boys are one short for touch football. Think a girl can have what it takes to fill in the team?"
"Posi-lutely abs-tively." Cindy agreed confidently.
"'Posi-lutely'? Haha, when did you get a sense of humor?"
The popular students cheered as they were about to lead Cindy through the hallway while they cheered. But then she noticed that her old locker, locker 742, was opened as Dani managed to open it by herself when her eyes went wide. She quickly ran toward the locker slammed it shut before anyone noticed, while she catapulted Dani away from the locker in the process. She crashed to a row of lockers before another fifties boy towered over her.
"Hey, Poindexter, what's black and white and can't touch the floor?" He joked as he smirked at her.
"I-I give up." Dani said nervously before he lifted her to the air by her collar and held out a fist.
"You! HAHA!" Dani clenched her eyes closed tightly as she braced herself before she got punched in the face hard.
Back in the real-world Casper High outside in the football stadium, the boy jocks on one side were huddled together with 'Dani' present as well. They found it kind of funny that a girl would want to play football, but they allowed her to join them only briefly.
"Okay, Fenton, after the snap, I'll throw the ball to you." A jock said to her.
Cindy saluted and ran off while she laughed crazily like she has never had this much fun before. The jocks then smirked as they turned to Daph, who was smirking sinisterly as well.
"Leave her wide open for the punishment." She told them with her hands on her hips.
Back in the fifties Casper High, Dani struggled to get her shirt out from a fan and managed to get free, but her shirt ripped a little as she face-planted on the floor. She ran back to the locker and touched the mirror again.
"Have to contact them somehow." She said as she emitted some energy from herself and, on the other side of the mirror, the energy flew from the locker. It traveled across the school and outside to the football stadium where it began to carve a message on the grass, right below Sam and Tina's feet.
In the football line up, Dale snapped a ball to a jock. They all looked at Daph, who winked at them to continue the plan, and they gave Cindy the football as they all gave her her space and she looked at the ball and the jocks in confusion. Sam and Tina winced with anticipation that their friend was go for the impending tackle.
"Well, it was nice knowing her." Sam said, clenching his eyes tightly.
"Think I can have her computer?" Tina wondered, also having her eyes shut.
The green energy finally finished writing a message for them that read 'TINA, SAM, OPEN LOCKER 742'. Out of the field, the opposing team then tried to tackle Cindy as they dogpiled around her. However, she luckily phased out of the pile (fortunately, nobody actually seemed to notice) and she ran down the field while she made it to the end for a touchdown before she cheered for herself.
"Fenton's got game! Who knew?" Daph said, looking a little astonished.
Cindy slammed the ball on the grass before she did a victory dance. She bounced her butt a few times before she spun around and stroke a pose as she pointed and cocked an eyebrow. Sam and Tina both sighed in relief that their 'friend' didn't get squashed alive. They both glanced down, but before they could read the real Dani's message, Jackie and Matt suddenly appeared when they wiped the dirt over the words and ran in front of the teens.
"There's a ghost here. I can feel it under my boots!" Jackie said as she looked around. "And I'm not leaving this campus 'til these gloves grabs some ghosts."
Matt had the Fenton Finder in his hands as it beeped and he turned it towards his 'daughter' minding her own business. The device read 'GHOST!' and that 'Dani' was a ghost they were looking for.
"A ghost? That can't be right." Matt said in confusion. "Hmm...looks like we'll be staking out the school all night. Don't wait up."
"In that case, I need to use the little ghost hunters' room." Jackie tossed Tina the Ghost Gauntlets. "Hold these gloves, kid. Where I'm going, there's no need for that much power." And the Fenton couple ran off, leaving the teens alone again.
"Party at Fenton's house!" Kwyn shouted as the students cheered.
"Hot dog! Where does she live?" Cindy asked, kind of forgetting that she was possessing her.
"It's your house, bonehead. Is she hilarious or what?"
Sam and Tina began to talk about their 'friend's' strange behavior when they looked more skeptical that she was, in fact, different. Dani hasn't really been the same ever since her fight with Poindexter about a few moments ago.
"Free soda, a touchdown, and the opportunity to trash a classmate's living room?" Sam listed off. "How easily the letter jacket and pom-poms set is swayed."
"I don't know, ever since that fight with Poindexter, Dani's been acting a little...off." Tina admitted as she eyed her 'friend'.
Sam then looked down at his 'Save the Frogs!' badge and grinned with an idea of his own. "Although, the residual popularity effect could work to our advantage." He then ran into the field and caught up to the in crowd while he held up the badge with a bright smile. "Oh, Kwyn, you simply must wear one of these 'Save the Frogs' badges; it's all the rage."
"I don't know…" Kwyn said hesitantly as she rubbed her neck.
Cindy then snatched the badge from Sam's hand and looked at it with excited eyes. "Hey! Boss badge! Can I have one?" She asked as she clipped it on and the other popular kids began gathering around her.
"Hey, I want one!" Daph said.
"Me, too. I could wear it with my old army lime jacket." Paul said.
Kwyn turned to Sam again and smiled. "Give me one! I started this trend!" She complained.
"Hang on, folks. Plenty more in my locker where that came from." Sam said as he and Tina began to sprint into the school to head for his locker.
As they both walked down the hallway, they were about to pass locker 742 when it suddenly opened, startling Sam and Tina into scream in surprise.
Dani peeked her head through the mirror. "Tina, Sam, in here!" She called from inside.
"Poindexter?" Sam asked.
"No, it's me, Dani! Poindexter took over my body and sent me into this bizarre spirit world!"
Sam and Tina exchange looks with each other before they frowned skeptically and crossed their arms. "Prove it."
"In second grade, Tina threw up in your lunch box, but she told you Reesie Marsh did it."
"What?!" Sam narrowed his eyes as Tina waved her hands in front of her nervously. "I kicked her off the monkey bars for that!" He turned sharply to Tina and glared at her while she smiled weakly and sheepishly at him. "It was you?!"
Sam and Tina both gasped in shock when they realized it really was their friend, and it explained why she has been acting so funny since the fight: Cindy was possessing Dani.
They leaned closer into the locker with wide eyes. "Dani?!" They said in unison.
Dani then tried to go through the mirror, but she couldn't since it acted like it was off. "The mirror acts like some kind of portal, but I can't phase through it." She sighed in defeat as she looked down in regret and shame. "Serves me right. I'm only in here, because I was acting like a bully. Now, I'm in here and I'm gonna get bullied for the rest of eternity!"
"You might not be able to get out, but that doesn't mean Poindexter can't get back in." Sam pointed out with a grin.
"I doubt she's in a big hurry to go back to where she came from." Tina added doubtfully.
Dani thought to herself deeply until she grinned with an idea. "I know how to get her in here." She said, making her friends listen in more closely. "Here's what you need to do…"
After Dani explained her whole plan, Sam quickly ran back outside to grab Cindy when he dragged her across the hallway. "Dani, come quick! A bully is shoving a poor, defenseless nerd inside his own locker!" Sam said with fake worry.
Cindy made a look of determination as she slid in front of locker 742. "Tina, I'll save you!" She said before she changed into Dani's ghost form. She then looked around in confusion when she saw that there was no sign of any bullying, and saw that Tina was perfectly fine since she only stood there with her hands behind her back. Cindy frowned and placed her hands on her hips. "Hey, there's no nerd getting shoved inside his locker."
Tina walked casually up to Cindy with her hands behind her back...until she suddenly brought them out, revealing the Ghost Gauntlets. She quickly grabbed Cindy, who was possessing her best friend, by her shoulders while she yelped in surprise.
"There is now, Cindy!" She said as she smirked at her.
"NOOOOOOO!" She screamed as Tina shoved her into the cursed locker, where Dani was waiting, before she dragged Cindy through the mirror and back into her own world. Cindy tumbled onto the floor and looked up at Dani with her eyebrow cocked.
"You've had your fun, Cindy! Now I want my body and my life back!" Dani said with her hands on her hips as she glared down at her.
Dani rose from the ground and glared back. "Oh, forget you, bully! You're not going anywhere!" She flew straight at her, but was still a little shaky about controlling Dani's powers when she whacked Dani with her backside instead, and sent her crashing into the end of the hallway. She flew straight toward her again as she smiled brightly. "Haha! I'm doing it!" Dani managed to jump out of the way just before Cindy phased through the wall.
"You may have my powers, but you sure don't know how to use them!" She then made a look of doubt to herself. "Of course...I don't know how to use them either, but at least I know how not to use them better than you do!" She then made a look of frustration. "That sounded so much better in my head."
Cindy then phased out of the wall and tried to land a punch on Dani's face, but she merely sidestepped as she grinned cleverly while Cindy tumbled onto the ground. "You wouldn't hit a girl with glasses." Dani joked before she easily ducked Cindy's other punch. "You couldn't hit a girl with glasses." She ducked another blow as she continued to mock her poor combat skills. "In fact, you couldn't even hit the broadside of a barn."
Cindy groaned in frustration. "Hold still!"
The school bell rang as the students walked out of their classes and they notice the fight between the two girls. They all gathered around with interest as 'Dani' glared at 'Cindy', who only smiled calmly and casually with her hands behind her back. "Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!" They all chanted. Cindy tried to punch Dani again, but she merely ducked again, and the second time her punch made her go spinning out of control.
"Hey, get a load of Poindexter! She's fighting the halfa!" A girl said as she admired her bravery.
"Yeah, look at her standing up to that weird-haired ghost bully." A boy said with a small chuckle.
"I'M NOT A BULLY!" Dani exclaimed offendedly at the students of the fifties.
Cindy took this opportunity while she was distracted to double-punch her straight in her chin and sent her flying into locker 742.
"Now, if don't mind, I'm gonna live it up some more in your body!" She said with a smirk. However, Dani jumped out of the locker and held up the mirror over her head, surprising Cindy when her eyes widened. "What?!"
"One false move, and I smash your door back to my world."
"You wouldn't, you'd strand us both here."
"Try me." Cindy tried to reach for the mirror slowly, but Dani pulled it away and threatened to smash it, making her cringe a little.
Then she suddenly smiled with an idea. "I've got a better idea, I can make you. With your powers, I can make you do anything." She then turned intangible before she flew straight into Dani and glowed green.
"That's what I was hoping you'd do."
Cindy's body began to fidget in weird positions before she landed on the floor and the real Dani phased out of Cindy's body, no longer possessed by the ghost.
"Huh?" Cindy said when she suddenly realized that Dani has tricked her into leaving her body. "NOOOO!" Dani quickly flew back straight into the mirror and returned to her own world. Cindy picked up her mirror and glared at it angrily. "I'll get out of here, buster brown! And when I do, you'd better watch it!"
"Hey, nerd!" A jock said to her, making her gasp and she feared that she was going back to being bullied again. However, he only smiled at her in amazement instead. "Nice job standing up to the halfa."
"Who'd thought you had it in ya?" Another asked, also looking quite impressed.
"Want to grab an egg cream?" The poodle skirt girl asked.
Cindy looked between them and the mirror until she smiled as she placed her mirror back in her locker and closed it. "Of course, I could hang out here a little bit." She said to herself before she walked up to the teens with a bright smile. "To heck with egg cream, who's up for a diet soda? Whatever that is?" The fifties teens only exchanged confused glances.
Back in the real Casper High, Ms. Lancer walked down the hallway with the box of frogs she managed to recover and was about to return them to the bio lab. However, locker 742 opened and the real Dani Fenton suddenly tumbled out as she landed on top of her teacher with a grunt. She fell onto the floor and dropped the box as the frogs hopped away down the hallway.
"No, come back!" Lancer exclaimed as she ran after the frogs while she ran past Sam and Tina.
"Oh dear, whatever will we do?" Sam asked in fake concern before he smiled at Dani, who was looking down in guilt. "Good one, Dani."
"Yeah, but how do we know you're really Dani?" Tina asked suspiciously.
"Because I used my powers for the wrong reason and became exactly the kind of person I hate. It got me into a load of trouble, and I'm not gonna do that again." Dani said as she removed the mirror from locker 742.
"Now that's the Dani I know." Sam said proudly, happy that she has learned her lesson and that she was no longer possessed by a chippy bully-victim nerd girl from the fifties.
"Just one more thing to take care of…" Dani raised the mirror over her head and smashed it to the ground, shattering the mirror to prevent Cindy from interfering with anyone's lives again.
"Danielle! That's school property!" Lancer exclaimed, sounding unimpressed. The trio looked behind them and saw Lancer and the popular kids with 'Save the Frogs!' badges, all of them part of the frog campaign.
"I can explain!" Dani then kind of hesitated as she thought to herself. "Actually, I really can't."
"I'm holding you responsible for this and the escaped frogs, but seeing how upstanding students like Daphne Baxter have made their opinions known, I'm willing to overlook the frogs." Lancer then fixed her attention to Sam. "Mr. Manson, you could learn a thing or two from them about activism." Sam frowned a little when she told him that before Lancer pulled out her clipboard. "Still, that leaves the matter of your locker. I'm going to have to assign you a new one…"
Dani stared up at him in silence.
The next day, Lancer reassigned Dani's new locker, which was unfortunately located next to the geeky band room. So now she would have to spend her mornings watching band geeks walking in and out.
"Hanging with band geeks, Fenton?" Kwyn mocked with a smirk.
"No amount of free soda's gonna fix that." Daph snickered before they walked away while they giggled cruelly.
Two band geeks then came up to Dani. "Hi, I'm Lisa. Wanna help me clean my spit valve?" She asked as she held up her instrument, showing it covered in her saliva. That only made Dani cross her arms and scowl at them with her signature brooding glare. The geeks stared at her nervously as they backed away from her slowly in fear.
Dani's glare then dropped as she sighed miserably. "My fifteen minutes of popularity is up, and I wasn't even here for it!" She complained as her friends approached her.
"Yeah, well it wasn't a total loss." Sam said as he held up the mechanical frog while he smiled a little. "Looks like this baby's gonna get some use after all."
The Box Ghoul appeared out of nowhere when she swiped the frog out of Sam's hand and held it into the air with a cackle. "Aha! I am no longer the Box Ghoul! I am now the Mechanical Frog Ghoul!" She announced to the heavens. The frog began to crackle with electricity, making her drop it in startled fear while it landed on Tina's head, who narrowed her eyebrows in annoyance. "Uh...I've changed my mind. I am once again the Box Ghoul, who will have nothing to do with mechanical amphibians! Beware!" And she phased through the lockers, out of sight.
"Now, there's a gal who knows exactly who she is." Dani said to her friends with a small smile before the robotic frog on Tina's head croaked.
