Season 1 Episode 8
Prisoners of Love
"Captivating Chaos!"

It was quite a normal day at Amity Park in Fenton Works...well, for Dani Fenton, as normal as you can get when you live with a family of obsessive and eccentric ghost hunters. Dani walked down to the lab while she read from a book and she looked a little confused. Her mother, Jackie Fenton, was busy working on some kid of new hovering vehicle.

"Mom, can I asked you a question?" Dani asked as she looked up from her book.

"About the Specter Speeder? Sure!" Jackie said cluelessly before she immediately shoved her daughter into the cockpit as she dropped her book in the process.

"Mom, that's not what I-"

Jackie showed her the multiple buttons on the dashboard console and a tiller as a wheel. "This little baby has state of the art spirit plane exploration technology, and it's got a super-size cup holder." She pressed a button and a large cup holder popped out from the dashboard.

Then Jackie's husband and Dani's father, Matt Fenton, walked into the lab as he approached his wife with an uneasy smile. "Jackie, hun." He said, making Jackie hop out of the speeder before she stood in front of him. "It's getting awfully late. Is there something you might have forgotten about today?"

Jackie blinked cluelessly at him like she had absolutely no idea what he was talking about. "Uh…"

"Something significant? Having to do with today's date of...September ninth?" Matt gestured to the calendar pinned to the wall, where a picture of Matt and Jackie marrying was pinned to September ninth.

"Ninth, ninth, ninth. Ninth! Ninth?" Jackie still looked extremely clueless as she scratched the top of her head. "Nope, still not catching the drift."

"Our...anniversary, dear? Oh well, guess it just slipped your mind…" Matt's face trembled as he glared in frustration and anger underneath his goggles. "For the EIGHTEENTH YEAR IN A ROW!"

Matt then angrily slammed his fist on the back of the Specter Speeder, with Dani still inside, and it suddenly thrusted into 'drive' and the vehicle began flying forward, oblivious to the arguing parents. The Fenton Ghost Portal suddenly activated by itself as Dani shouted in surprise and tightly clenched her eyes shut before the speeder flew through the portal and into another world while she continued to shriek loudly.

She nervously looked around and discovered that she was in the Ghost Zone for the very first time (not counting the time when she was possessed by Cindy Poindexter). She saw the entire green void of ectoplasm and countless floating purple doors scattered everywhere, and the whole interdimensional world seemed to go on forever. Dani then saw several random ghosts that howled as they flew around the Specter Speeder.

And then a giant white ghost woman suddenly appeared and towered over the speeder as she glared at the vehicle that flew directly towards her. Dani turned around and yelped with wide eyes when she noticed the giant ghost before she quickly pulled on the tiller, stopping the speeder.

"Trespassing in an unauthorized vehicle, that's against the rules." The warrant-like ghost woman said to her in a Southern accent.

She had white skin, black hair, and electric green eyes. She wore a white undershirt with a black tie, a long white jacket with a black belt, black leggings and white heels, and she even wore a black top hat.

"Uh, sorry, I-I didn't know. I'm from...out of town." Dani stuttered nervously to the ghost.

"Ignorance is no excuse for breaking it, princess. I see your face around here again, you and I are gonna have a problem."

Dani saluted to her with a fearful smile. "Y-yes, ma'am." She quickly pulled the lever into 'reverse' and the Specter Speeder flew away, backwards, before the warrant ghost disappeared into green mist.

The speeder vehicle made it back into the lab like nothing has happened while Jackie and Matt continued to argue with each other. They were both still oblivious to the fact that their new vehicle just flew into the Ghost Zone with their daughter inside of it.

"Now get this straight into your head, Jackie Fenton, there are more things important than hunting ghosts!" Matt shouted angrily before he pounded his fist on the end of the speeder again. He then stormed out of the lab with his fists tensed at his sides.

Dani exited the vehicle, but she was trembling and hyperventilating from her first experience with the Ghost Zone for the first time. "I know, I know, I'm just as freaked out about your father's reaction as you are." Jackie said to her daughter as she stared at where her husband stormed off.


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, a taxi pulled up to the house as it beeped. Matt, who was still pretty miffed that his wife forget their own anniversary for the eighteenth time in a row since she was focused more on ghosts most of the time, walked out of the house with his suitcase. Jackie was holding onto his suitcase while he dragged her down the steps.

"Matthew, please don't go! I just got a few more things to work on the Specter Speeder and then I'm done!" Jackie begged as she released his suitcase.

"We discussed this, Jackie, remember? Visiting my brother? The divorce?" Matt said as he cocked a knowing eyebrow. Jackie blinked at him in confusion again, clearly not remembering the discussion they had. He then walked into the taxi before he rolled down the window. "There's a casserole in the freezer right next to the ectoplasmic residue samples!" And he rolled his window back up and the taxi drove its way down the street.

Jackie began to chase after the taxi desperately. "Wait, wait! How will I know which is which?!"

Dani walked out of the house and looked completely shocked about what she just overheard her father say before he left. "Divorce? What?!" She said with wide eyes before her older brother, Jameson (or as he liked to be called James), walked past his sister and out of the house with a backpack like he was going for an outing. "James, did you hear that?"

"What? Dad yelling at Mom? Relax, he'll get over it." James said calmly and reassuringly to his sister with a small smile.

"Yeah, but I've never heard him so mad."

James rolled his eyes. "Of course he's mad. And if I'm right, Mom will once again cluelessly do nothing to apologize to him."

Jackie then walked up to her children with a determined frown on her face. "That's where you're wrong, Jameson, I have been a little preoccupied with ghosts lately." She admitted as another taxi pulled in while she carried a bag in her hand. "So I'm traveling to your uncle Austin's in Spittoon, Arkansas to apologize and give your father the greatest anniversary gift ever."

She opened the taxi door and threw her bag inside, but accidentally onto the driver's face before he floored the vehicle and drove off without Jackie. Jackie gasped before she chased after her ride while Dani and James watched her oddly.

"Wish me luck! CALL ME IF YOU SEE A GHOST!" Jackie exclaimed to her children before she disappeared down the street.

"James...are Mom and Dad gonna split up?" Dani asked her brother, now looking even more worried and concerned about what was going on between both of their parents.

"I was...wrong?" James asked, looking more surprised and confused at the same time, ignoring his sister's question.

"James?" Dani poked James on his shoulder, but got no response since he only stood there, looking extremely stunned. "James!"

"Wait...she's going to Arkansas? To apologize?" James began to sweat and panic a little like he has never been wrong before in his whole life, until that very morning. "I was wrong?!"

Later on in the middle of the night, James currently was in the kitchen while he began going over his books and memoirs after he became absolutely restless to see if he was wrong about anything else. He tried to find proof his mother would never apologize, considering her obsession with ghosts that kept her from paying any attention, even to her own family. His hair was frizzled, he had a coffee cup in his hand, and had bags under his eyes since he apparently stayed up all night, studying. Obviously, James had this really big phobia of being wrong, and he would go completely bonkers since he was more of a perfect boy who preferred to be right by his own personal theories.

"I don't understand, every piece of evidence indicates Mom will never be self-aware enough to realize she made a mistake!" James said to himself restlessly as his coffee hand trembled while he studied a few papers. "If I'm wrong about this, what else could I have been wrong about?" He suddenly heard a vacuum sucking from another room. He narrowed his eyebrows in annoyance when he knew who it was. "DANI, KEEP IT DOWN, WOULD YA?!"

Dani was currently in her ghost form as she vacuumed up a wall, trying to clean up their house. "Hey, I'm trying to make this place spotless so Dad will have a clean house to come home to!" Dani called back.

James angrily rushed into the hallway with a few papers flying everywhere. "Well, I need to concentrate!" Dani quickly changed back into human form behind her brother and landed on the ground. She smiled weakly while he only groaned irritably. "I'll be at the library." And he then walked away, leaving his sister home alone for a while.

Dani gave a flat look at her brother as she changed back into her ghost form before she phased through the floor and into the lab. When she phased into the lab, she looked around and discovered that the lab was completely trashed with junk everywhere on the floor.

"Oh my gosh, this place is a mess! If Dad comes back and sees the lab like this, he'll be even angrier at Mom." She said to herself as she descended herself over the trashed lab.

Dani sighed miserably before she held up an energized hand and fired a green energy beam from her finger and a few trashes flew while they landed perfectly into a trashcan. The ghost girl grinned when she noticed this before she saw another pile of trash, and she fired more beams from her fingers as it flew to the air while it landed perfectly into a trash bin.

When she found the perfect advantage on cleaning up faster, Dani began to fire more energy beams from her fingers as multiple items flew around the lab, and returned perfectly where they belong in their rightful places: from boxes stacked, books on shelves, beakers on counters, to working utensils back on desks.

Dani finally blasted a present into the air, but gasped when she accidentally made it fly through the Fenton Ghost Portal with a bright flash.

She then saw a note softly descend onto the ground. Dani walked up to it and picked it up while she read the note out loud.

"'Let this gift repair the bridge to our love. Happy anniversary...Jackie'?" She glanced back up at the portal with wide eyes and she realized that she has just knocked her father's anniversary gift her mother was going to give him to apologize. "Oh no…"


Above the fields and woods of Spittoon, Arkansas, a plane flew in the sky with Jackie as one of the passengers with the hillbillies.

"Uh, excuse me, will we be landing soon?" Jackie asked the pilots.

"Oh, shoot, shortcake, there ain't no airport in Spittoon." The copilot man said in a Southern accent. He tossed the obese ghost huntress a parachute before he suddenly shoved her right out of the plane as she plummeted out of the sky. "Thank y'all for flying Air Greer!"

Jackie screamed as she fell from the sky, but she deployed her parachute as she descended more softly towards the fields.

Meanwhile, Matt was with a man with red hair and overalls, who could have been his brother, Austin Fenton, while he chopped some wood with a hatchet. "I've been out here for nearly a decade, Matt, and as you can see, I'm incredibly happy!" He said with a sour look on his face.

"I'm so not sure, Austin. Just because it works for you, doesn't mean it works for everybody." Matt pointed out, sounding a little unsure.

"You're an intelligent man, Matthew, runs in the Fenton family." Austin then picked up armfuls of logs above his shoulders as he frowned again. "You really gonna spend the best years of your life being ignored by some fool who believes in ghosts?"

They suddenly heard crashing and shouting in the woods, catching both of their attentions when their eyes went wide in surprise. Austin dropped his logs as he and Matt ran to where the sound came from, and they found someone dangling inside a piece of cloth on a tree.

"Ghost!" Matt exclaimed before he quickly pulled out a weapon and blasted it at the cloth, making it rip. To Matt's complete surprise, Jackie suddenly fell right through the parachute and crashed upside down by a tree, dazed and bruised from the shock. "Jackie?" Matt immediately walked up to his wife to make sure she was okay.

Austin sighed in boredom that his least favorite sister-in-law was at his home. "I'll get the antiseptic." He said under his breath before he walked to his log house.


Back at Amity Park at Casper High the next day, Dani walked down the hallway with her best friends, Tina Foley and Sam Manson. She discussed to them the situation her parents were involved in, and she was worried that they might get divorced, from what she overheard her father say the day before both of her parents left to visit her uncle Austin.

"You should've seen them fighting, my folks never fight...well, they fight ghosts, but that's a different story." Dani said to her friends.

"Dani, relax." Sam said as he placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Nobody gets divorced over not getting a gift."

"But it's the thing my mom's gonna use to apologize! They're...right on the brink! I'm telling ya, anything could set them over the edge!"

"Dani, you're fine." Tina said reassuringly to her friend. "I mean, it's not like your dad actually said the word 'divorce'. I mean, if he actually said the word, then you'd have to worry."

"Said the word." Dani suddenly stopped short when she began to panic. "Oh man, he did! HE SAID THE WORD!" Her hands trembled at the horrible thought.

"Tina, say something to calm her down." Sam said as he scowled at her.

"I...uh...um…" Tina shuttered unsurely. "Well...did he say it twice?"

Dani was finally done panicking about her parents splitting up when she made a look of determination. "That settles it! I'm gonna go into the Ghost Zone and get that present back!" She declared confidently.


Back at Spittoon on Austin's porch, Jackie was sipping glasses of lemonade while Austin whittled a stick with a knife, and Matt stared out at the horizon, deep in his thoughts. Clearly, Austin didn't really like Jackie, even if she was his brother's wife, because he considered his sister-in-law as a clueless fool who believed in ghost, but it was currently unknown how she really felt about her nephew, James, and her niece, Dani. But he really just wants what's best for his brother, Matt.

"Well?" Austin said impatiently to his sister-in-law as he continued to whittle his stick.

"Well what?" Jackie wondered as she settled her glass of lemonade down.

"You've been sitting here sipping lemonade for an hour!" He stopped whittling his stick while he narrowed his eyes even more at Jackie. "If you're gonna apologize to my brother, I suggest you start apologizing!"

Matt glanced at his brother and then to his wife in silence. "Uh, I-" However, Jackie's stomach suddenly began to rumble from her drinking too much lemonade. She rose from her seat and held onto her stomach. "Hold that thought!"

She was about to enter Austin's cottage to go to the bathroom. "Ain't no bathroom in there!" She was about to run off the porch. "Ain't no outhouse out there!"

Jackie then decided to run off into the woods to find someplace to go while Matt watched in a little confusion. "You know, in her own way, she really is trying." He admitted to his brother.

"I don't understand why you need her, Matthew." Austin began to whittle on his stick again. "Look at me! Been single ten years, and I'm a calm, sensible, independent man, and-" He suddenly heard bushes crackling in the distance and he glared angrily out in the distance. "HEY! Don't you whiz on that, Jackie Fenton! THAT'S RHUBARB!" Austin immediately calmed down again when he turned back to his brother. "I've never been happier."

While he returned to whittling, Matt looked at where his wife ran off to and began to look even more unsure of himself.


Back at Amity Park in the Fenton Works lab, Dani walked in front of the active Fenton Portal in her ghost form with a pair of headsets. Unlike how determined she was at school, she looked very unprepared for her first actual voyage through the Ghost Zone (since the last few times were accidental). She was about to enter a world of spooks, creeps, and it was even the world where her enemies she once defeated in the past resigned.

"I so don't want to do this." Dani said with a sigh.

"You get in, get the present, get out." Sam said simply with a confident smile. "Easy as putting icing on a cupcake."

"Plus, with this mini webcam, I'll be with you every step of the way." Tina added as she showed her PDA. It showed Tina herself since Dani was looking right at her. "But first…" She began to play a game on her PDA, much to her friends' annoyances when they exchanged blank glances.

"You'll monitor the webcam?" Dani asked Sam.

"I'll monitor the webcam." He said.

With everything all set, Dani flew right through the Fenton Portal and into the Ghost Zone for the second time, but for the first time in a real mission to find the present. Dani looked at all the floating purple doors and the green endless void of ectoplasm surrounding her.

"Wow! This place is amazing!" Sam said, sounding a little amazed through Dani's headset.

"No, it's not. It's creepy...and it goes on forever." Dani said as she flew even deeper into the interdimensional void. "I don't even know where to start to look!" Dani then approached one of the purple doors and peeked her head inside, where she found a little girl watching static TV. "Uh...hi. H-have you seen a-a present...uh, a-about yeh big?" Dani tried to gesture the size of the present.

However, when the girl turned her head, it rotated a hundred and eighty degrees while she glared and growled at her angrily. "Get. Out. Of. My..." She said as she grew into a large red monster ghost while Dani's eyes went wide in surprise. "ROOOOOM!" She roared loudly, making Dani's hair flutter from the force.

"Sorry! SORRY!" Dani shrieked fearfully before she quickly bolted out of her room and slammed her door shut. She pinned her back to it while she breathed heavily. "Oh man, every one of these doors goes into another ghost's lair? I'm never gonna find that present! My folks are gonna get divorced and it's gonna be all my fault."

The door Dani was pinned to began to descend downwards while she spoke and she ended up on some graveyard with random tombstones. Dani gasped when she that the graves were trembling, until green skeleton ghosts suddenly burst from the dirt while they roared and howled eerily. They tried to reach out for her when she yelped and floated away, knocking down the door behind her. Dani was almost regretting entering the Ghost Zone by herself since her heart was pounding a millions beats per second.

"Relax, Dani, we all just have to stay focused." Sam said through her headset.

"Right, Tina?" Sam asked, looking down at Tina's PDA, but got no response. "Tina?" He turned around and found Tina inside the cockpit of the Specter Speeder.

"I can't believe Dani didn't want to take the Specter Speeder! This thing rocks!" Tina said with amazement as she messed around with the buttons and the tiller.

"She can cover more ground on her own."

"But it's got a cup holder!" Tina pressed a button and the super-size cup holder sprang from the dashboard again. She then noticed a button with a ghost on it with curiosity just as Sam joined her. "Hey, what's this thing do?"

Tina pressed the button before a green scope projection fanned out, surprising Sam and Tina a little. "Real world items detected." It said.

Tina smiled in amazement. "Cool, it's a scanner."

"Real world items?" Sam asked as he and Tina gave each other grins as they shared the same idea.

Back inside the Ghost Zone, Dani continued to fly through the void, looking around helplessly. "Dani, I think we can guide you to the present!" Tina said through her headset.

"There's a doorway coming up on your left, take it." Sam informed her.

Dani did as she was told when she approached another purple door and flew inside, where she saw several items floating everywhere in midair. "Huh, so this is where all that stuff ends up." She said as she smiled a little when she found where the present was being kept.

"YES!" Dani looked above her when her old annoying comedic enemies, the Box Ghoul, hovered several feet away from her. "It all ends up in the possession of the BOX GHOUL!" She said in her own dramatic way.

Dani sighed in annoyance as she gave her a dull look. "What are you doing here?"

"I am the Box Ghoul! Where do you think we go when you release us from your round cylindrical trap?!"

"You mean the Fenton Thermos?"

"...I AM THE BOX GHOUL! And beware, for I am merely one of your foes who resides in this realm! In fact, you might say...we're a package deal!" She began to laugh mechanically with her arms in the air.

Dani groaned in annoyance again with her hands on her hips. "Ugh. Look, I'm looking for something important right now, and I don't have time for any of your box puns."

She suddenly heard sirens wailing, surprising her when she glanced at the source with wide eyes.

The Box Ghoul looked as surprised as she was, only more nervous like she knew what was coming. "FLEE! Lest you be hermetically sealed and shipped to your doooom!" Green lasers were fired while the Box Ghoul attempted to flee away, but she got caught dead on as her wrists became restrained with green energy.

"Hey, what's going on?!" Dani asked, now getting more worried again. More green lasers are fired and, before she could react, she got blasted dead on by one while her wrists and ankles became restraint with green energy as well.

"Possession of unauthorized recording equipment. That's against the rules." The same warrant-like ghost woman Dani saw the other day said. She towered over Dani and removed her headset. "...or at least, it is now."

"Wait! This is all just a big misunderstanding, you have to believe me!"

The ghost leaned closer to her with a strict glare. "There may be chaos in the Ghost Zone, but there will be order in my prison. You should've heeded my warning, princess, now you and I have a problem. And if you mind me asking you, princess...what is your name?"

Dani gulped nervously. "Phantom, ma'am. Dani Phantom." The warren ghost only smiled sinisterly down at her.

Dani and the Box Ghoul were then both placed inside an arrest transport van that had a logo 'GZPD' as it sped off to its prison destination. The inside of the ghost police van was stained with ectoplasm.

"Great, my folks are splitting up, my brother's a total basket case, and now I'm going to ghost jail. This may be the worst day of my life." Dani said mainly to herself, looking miserable by how things were turning out for her and her family.

Then the back of the transport van opened as a police guard ghost hovered beside it and Dani gasped at the high-security purple prison, filled with multiple other police ghosts. What was worse, was that there were many familiar ghost enemies that Dani once defeated in the past. There was Skulka, Dracus, and Techna (in her old robot form) all wearing prisoner attires.

"Well, if it isn't the little pipsqueak who helped us get locked up in this stinking place! Welcome home." Skulka said with a grin and had her arms crossed.

"...This is the worst day of my life." Dani corrected herself.

"IamtheBoxGhoul!" She shouted again.

"WILL YOU SHUT UP?!" Dani glanced back nervously at her old foes.

Skulka grinned and cracked her knuckles with anticipation, happy that she has finally gotten her chance of some payback from her past defeat with Dani.


Back at the Fenton Works lab in the real world, Sam and Tina sat together in the Specter Speeder when they lost connection with Dani, which worried them greatly. Tina tried to recontact Dani with her PDA, but she couldn't seem to reach her since the warrant ghost took the headset from her.

"Dani? Dani, talk to me!" Tina said into her PDA desperately, but still got no response.

"It's no use, she can't hear us." Sam said helplessly, looking equally as concerned.

"Then we'll just have ta...go in after her!"

Sam stared at her in disbelief with wide eyes. "Are you insane?!"

"Dani, you down there?!" James called from upstairs as Sam and Tina hid inside the speeder. "Sam?! Anyone?! I was hoping someone would go over every excruciating details of my personal journal to look for minuscule errors!"

Sam buckled up before he placed his hands on the tiller with a determined glare. "I'll drive."

And then he thrusted the controls forward as the Specter Speeder blasted into the Fenton Portal, just before James giddily ran down the stairs, but he found out that no one was in the lab. "Hmm, I thought I heard someone down here." His eyes then went wide in shock again. "Oh no! I was wrong again!"


Back in the Ghost Zone as the Ghost Zone Police Department, Dani sat in an empty room, all chained up to a chair in a prisoner's attire (but unlike the other ghosts', her shirt wasn't a buttoned-up one, it was instead a plain long-sleeved shirt with black and white stripes). The warrant ghost paced around the room, reading off her rules book.

"Dani Phantom: trespassing, loitering, creating a disturbance, and possession of real world contraband." She listed off out loud.

While she spoke, the same anniversary present Dani was looking for levitated right past her. She tried to reach for it, but she couldn't because of her shackles that were keeping her still.

"Excuse me, ma'am, but-but-" Dani stuttered nervously before she grabbed the collar of her shirt.

"Name's Walka, Miss Phantom. Know it. Fear it. Obey it." She said threateningly before she lifted her up from her chair. "I am your judge, executioner, jury, executioner, jailer, and if necessary, you executioner."

"Uh...you said 'executioner' three times."

Walka dropped her back onto her chair. "I like that part of the job."

Dani lifted her chair up while she tried to walk over to the present and began to reach for it. "Well, you see, uh, Ms. Walka, uh, the truth is I-I'm actually trying to remove my contraband. So, um, if I could just grab it and go, I promise I'll-"

Walka used her foot to lean the chair back, forcing Dani to sit back down. "I'd love to let you go, princess, but I can't. That'd be against the rules, but seeing that this is a first offense, I'm willing to be lenient…" Walka closed her book before she suddenly pointed her finger accusingly at the ghost girl. "ONE THOUSAND YEARS!"

Dani stared at her in shock and horror.


Back at Spittoon, Jackie ran to a trio of hillbillies, who were all spitting brown spitties into a bowl in the center of them.

"Excuse me, ladies, do you have a bathroom?" Jackie asked the women, but they only stared at her in confusion while they continued to chew. "Outhouse?" The women continue to stare at her before she tried to use a slight hillbilly accent. "Place I can whiz?"

"Can't you use Austin's rhubarb?" The fat one suggested before she spat.

"What? Are you nuts? In the mood he's in? Didn't you hear about the dee-vorce?" The other woman said before she spat as well.

"Divorce? Austin must've gotten to Matt, and word is pleading down the Southern grapevine. I don't have a minute to lose!" Jackie said to herself before she turned to the women again. "But first, which way was the rhubarb again?"

The women pointed all pointed in the same direction before Jackie held her stomach and ran off to where they directed her to. The fat hillbilly smiled and showed her rusty, dislocated, yellow teeth.

"Jazzy, get your teeth fixed!" The last woman with the bandana demanded. "You're giving the rest of us a bad name!" She then spat while she scowled at her.


Back in the Ghost Zone Prison, it was lunchtime in the cafeteria for the ghosts.

"Chow time! Move it out, ghoul!" A police ghost ordered Dani as he roughly shoved her into the cafeteria.

She saw a table where Techna, the Box Ghoul, Dracus, and Skulka were all sitting together. They all gave her angry glares and their eyes hungry with a desire for revenge from her past defeats.

Dani chuckled nervously while sweating a little. "Wow, pretty much everyone who hates me all at one table...just like high school." The ghosts rose from their seats before they began to surround her, ready for some payback with her. "Sorry I can't catch up on old times!"

Dani backed away from her enemies until she bunked into the food line. "Can I get you anything dearest?" The Lunch Man ghost, Dani's first major ghost she has ever fought, offered while he filled up a tray. "Coffee? Pudding?" He then turned to his evil side while he smirked at the girl. "And extra helping of DOOM?!"

Dani yelped before she tried to fly away with the Lunch Man behind her tail, until Dani collided with Skulka's chest. She shoved her away with her chest while the ghosts surrounded her and began to shove her around roughly. Techna then swatted Dani several feet and she ended up on the Lunch Man, who headlocked her with his ladle.

"Payback time, ghost child!" Skulka said before she pounded her fist into her palm and they began to approach her to finish her off.

"WAIT!" Dani shouted, making the ghosts cease their attacks while the Lunch Man continued to headlock her still. "I'm not the enemy here! I mean, yeah, I sent you all back to the Ghost Zone, but I didn't lock you all up here, did I?" She groaned when the Lunch Man briefly tighten his grip on her.

"IT IS TRUE! She did not package us in this box of iron! I AM THE B-" The Box Ghoul shouted dramatically, until Skulka smacked her away in the face to shut her up.

"Go on." Skulka said when she turned her attention back to Dani.

"If we all work together, we can all bust out of here, and could always kick my butt later." Dani said as she shrugged a little.

"The enemy of my enemy is my friend...for now." Skulka nodded at the Lunch Man before he released Dani and she collapsed onto the floor while she rubbed her neck from the headlock.

"Okay, here's what we do…"

Elsewhere in the Ghost Zone, Sam continued to drive the Specter Speeder throughout the Ghost Zone in search for their friend while Tina worked on something with her PDA.

"Face it, Tina, we're lost." Sam said.

"If I could just calibrate the scanner…" Tina said while she continued to type.

"You put way too much faith in technology, let's just get out and ask that man for directions." Sam looked out the window and he spotted a familiar ghost man floating by. "Hello there?" The goth boy tapped on the glass dome to get the ghost's attention.

However, the ghost man suddenly began to glow before he began to transform into the same giant blue dragon ghost, the one Dani fought during their first freshman dance. "I want to go to the ball!" He roared at the teens, making them recoil in fear.

"Drive, Sam, DRIVE!" Tina exclaimed as she grabbed onto his shirt urgently.

Sam immediately thrusted the tiller forward and slammed his foot onto the accelerator. The Specter Speeder then blasted away in an attempt to get away from the ghost dragon while it followed them at their tail.

Back at the Ghost Zone Prison, the prisoner ghosts chatted while a fight was going on. Dani suddenly got thrown away from the crowd before she crashed into the food line and got herself covered with green ectoplasmic food all over her.

"Oooh...my ghost leg." She moaned in fake pain.

Skulka walked out of the crowd and scoffed. "My prey ceases to amuse me." She said smugly.

"Another one for the infirmary." A police ghost said to his partner before they hovered over to the ghost girl.

Dani then glared when she quickly punched one away, and kicked the other away while she grabbed the green pole he was carrying. "NOW!" She shouted before she threw the pole weapon into Skulka's hand.

Skulka fired energy lasers from the pole at the other police ghosts on the second floor, binding them with energy rings. "ATTACK!" She shouted before the other ghosts charged at the other police goons and rioted with them all at once.

They were thrown to walls, pinned to floors by the Box Ghoul, got their heads collided with each other by Techna, and got their heads dumped from vats full of ectoplasmic soup by Dracus. A prisoner removed one of the goon's mask, revealing his ugly face which made him shriek in horror and fly away.

Dani jumped out and flipped on the tables with amazing agility before she landed back-to-back with Skulka while the guards surrounded them. The ghost heroine and the huntress ghost gave each other winks and thumbs ups before they sprang into action with shouts. Dani gave a guard a good uppercut punch to the chin, kicked another in his torso, and punched the last one in the face, enough to make his teeth fall out. Skulka slammed two of the guards' heads together, punched one in his chin, and slammed one's head onto the ground with a double laced fist.

Dani turned around and saw a line of police guards with binding poles and shields. They each fired simultaneously as they restrained some of the random prisoner ghosts with energy rings before they immediately thrusted their shields in front of them.

The Lunch Man then hovered in front of them with a tray of apples. "Can I offer you gentlemen some apples?" He offered kindly. They exchanged confused glances before they shook their heads no, but that made him turn to his evil side again when he glared at them angrily. "Then dine on my FURY!"

He brought his hands together as he created a giant chicken leg while everyone gawked at it. The guards shattered away before she tossed the chicken and it demolished the wall and all the ghosts chased after them. After dealing with the guards, all the prisoners ran towards the exit as Dani ran the other way.

"You're going the wrong way!" Skulka said, making her freeze her tracks before she turned to see all of the ghosts gathering at the exit.

"Yes, sweetie, you're supposed to riot with the guards here…" The Lunch Man said before he turned to his evil side. "And face your doom out there!" He then turned polite again and held up a pie. "Pie?"

"No thanks, I have some unfinished business with the warrant." Dani told the ghosts.

The Lunch Man only shrugged and smiled a little. "Okay." And he joined the ghosts as they all escaped into freedom while Skulka stayed behind for the moment.

"Good luck, child. I look forward to hunting you on the other side." She said to her with a grin.

"Thanks...I think." Dani said, looking a little unsure.

Back out in the Ghost Zone, Sam continued clutching his hands on the controls while he desperately tried to out-fly the ghost dragon that was chasing them. Tina clutched her hands onto the seat and held on for dear life.

"Can't this tub go any faster?!" Tina exclaimed with wide eyes.

"I'm trying, but we're also looking for Dani, ya know!" Sam retorted back.

The ghost dragon outside knocked the vehicle a little bit as it tilted and the teens grunted before they regained their balance. The speeder's scanner suddenly fanned out, catching their attentions. "Real world item detected." It said while it pointed to the right.

"Oh, finally!" Sam said with relief, knowing that they have finally found Dani's location. He steered to the right and the dragon continued pursuing them, until they began to head straight for the gates of the Ghost Zone Prison.

"Sam, watch out!" Tina yelled in alert with wide eyes. They both began to scream while they braced for impact, but it never came when they merely phased through the gate. The dragon slammed right into it as Sam and Tina made their way into the prison.

"File that one under 'would've been nice to know we could do that trick in the first place'." Sam said with wide eyes, looking a little bewildered by what just happened when they just phased through the gate like that.

Inside Walka's office, she slammed her fist down on her desk while she tried to call through her microphone. "Guards, what's going on down there?! Somebody answer me!" She demanded.

Then out of nowhere, Dani (who was finally out of her prisoner uniform) kicked open her door and got into a ready stance. "How about saying please? Saying please is a rule." She said with a glare.

"It is?" Walka was about to check her rules book again, until Dani slammed it shut right on her finger.

"It is now." Dani then spotted the present that got her into this mess in the first place, which made her smile in relief. "The present!" She jumped on Walka's desk happily as she lunged for the present.

Walka, however, grabbed onto her ankle and slammed her hard on the floor hard before she pinned her foot onto her stomach. "Now let me acquaint you with a few rules, princess. Rule one: you cross me, you pay the consequences. Rule two: just because you're a ghost girl, doesn't mean I can't crush you with an inch of your afterlife. Rule three-"

And then the Specter Speeder unexpectedly arrived when it phased right into Walka's office, taking Walka and Dani both by surprise by their sudden and unexpected arrival.

"Sam! Tina! How'd you get in here?!" Dani wondered in shock.

"Check it out, real world stuff just phases through everything in here." Tina said with a smile while she gestured at the world around them.

"In the Ghost Zone, we're the ghosts." Sam added.

"'We're the ghosts'?" Dani repeated before she smiled when she realized that her friends were telling her that real world items, including humans, could phase through everything in the Ghost Zone. "So...maybe it's time to stop fighting like a ghost, and start fighting like a kid!" She changed back into her human form and phased through Walka's foot, surprising her at what she just did. She then got up to her feet as she casually walked right through Walka and grabbed the present from the air. "I'll take that."

"Why. Can't. I. Touch you?!" Walka exclaimed between each desperate attempt to grab Dani, but she only continued to phase right through her while she casually walked away, unfazed.

"Forget it, Walka, this is the Ghost Zone. I'm not just a ghost, I'm also human, which means your rules will never apply to me." Dani opened the hatch door into the back of the Specter Speeder and walked inside while she gave Walka one last victorious smile before she closed it shut again. Sam then drove the speeder through the wall as they made their way back home to the real world.

Walka got onto her knees in defeat. "NOOOOOOOOOOO!"


That night at Spittoon, Matt was sitting outside on his brother's porch while he drank a glass of water, until Jackie came up to him, wearing overalls.

"Why, hey there...handsome young thing." Jackie said in a slight hillbilly accent before she held out a bouquet of flowers.

"Jackie, what on earth are you doing?" Matt demanded with a small frown.

"Sweet talking you, proving I can step away from work and pay attention to our relationship." Jackie glanced at the women she talked to earlier as they gave her a thumbs up. She then pulled out a notecard from her overall pocket and cleared her throat. "You've got a smile that shines like swamp gas in the moonlight, your mind twinkles like the moon off a bumper of a pick-em-up truck, and...oh, this is stupid!"

Matt narrowed his eyes at his wife. "What's stupid? Something besides ghosts?"

"No, but pretending to be someone I'm not is." Jackie dropped the flowers and held onto her husband's hands. "Look, you know I can be a fool and you know I can forget things, but the one thing you know more than anything, even more than that ghosts exist and that your brother's a bitter old bat, is that I love you!"

Matt looked very touched by his wife's words when he smiled at her. "Oh, Jackie."

"And I wanted to give you...give you…" Jackie suddenly remembered that she has forgotten to pack up the present that was in the lab before she left. She slapped her forehead in frustration for being an idiot again. "Oh, crud."

Matt figured it out already when he gave her a blank look. "You forgot the present, didn't you?"

Austin walked out of his cottage with his arms crossed. "Told ya she was a fool." He said as he glared at his sister-in-law.

"Well, I-I, uh-" Jackie began to explain.

"No, she didn't!" Dani shouted, making all of the adults look up when they saw Dani and James both parachuting from the sky and landed safely on the grass. Dani approached up to her mother with the present she worked so hard to recover from the Ghost Zone. "She kept it at home so the...uh, mosquitos wouldn't get it?"

Jackie leaned close to her daughter and smiled in gratitude. "Good girl, you're getting a raise in your allowance for this." She whispered to her.

Dani made herself a look of confusion. "I have an allowance?"

Jackie then ran to Matt while she held up the present. "Happy anniversary, dear, and I'm sorry. Next time, I'll try to be better about things in the future."

Dani then walked up to her parents as did Austin and James. "So...does that mean you guys aren't getting a divorce?" Dani asked hopefully.

Matt and Jackie gave their daughter looks of surprise and confusion when she asked them that. "Divorce?! Who said anything about us getting a divorce?" Matt asked her.

And then beeping was suddenly heard before a huge pickup truck drove from the bushes with hillbillies on top of it as they cheered and played music.

"SURPRISE!" Matt and Jackie shouted in unison to Austin. Matt then turned his brother around to his cottage just as a banner that read 'a decade of divorce' rolled down and everyone cheered even more.

Austin looked dumbfounded. "A party...for the tenth anniversary of my divorce!" He said as he turned to his brother in awe. Tears began to form in his eyes until he smiled and sobbed in joy. "YOU REMEMBERED!"

"Well, of course, I even convinced your ex-wife to come." Matt said as he leaned close to him while he gestured to a woman inside a pool tank full of water, sitting on a platform.

"Get set to get wet, yuppie!" Jazzy shouted before she threw a ham straight at the target, and she hit it dead on when the woman splashed into the pool. Hillbilly music began to play while they all danced to the rhythm.

"Well, aren't you gonna open the present?" Jackie asked her husband.

Matt ripped the wrappers off, but all that came out was the Box Ghoul. "I am the Box Ghoul!" She exclaimed dramatically, shocking the couple while they stared at her.

"They weren't ever going to get a divorce! It was all just a huge misunderstanding!" Dani said to James with a chuckle, who was reading from his book like he usually did.

"But...Mom doesn't apologize! Mom doesn't understand what a goof she can be! These are constants." He said as he placed his free hand on his side.

The Box Ghoul hovered beside the Fenton siblings. "BEWARE!" She shouted at them before she flew away.

"GHOST!" Jackie and Matt shouted as they chased after the ghost.

James then sighed when he smiled and closed his book. "Sweet normalcy. I'll take being right and embarrassed over being wrong every time." He said to her before he held up a pan of pie for his little sister. "Want some rhubarb pie?"

"Love some." Dani said.

Then a hillbilly woman came up to the siblings. "I'd stay away from that if I was you…" She said to them cautiously before she spat a spittle out and then she winked.