Season 1 Episode 9
My Sister's Keepers
"Phantomation!"

At Casper High School, it was spirit week as Ms. Lancer jumped on a trampoline while she did a couple of moves. "CASPER! HIGH! SPIRIT!" She chanted between jumps, until she accidentally missed the trampoline when she face-planted on the ground hard near James Fenton's feet, who stood there and stared down at her oddly.

Lancer raised her head up and sighed with a smile on her face. "Ah, Spirit Week, I love it so. The pomp, the circumstance, and most of all the spirit sparklers!" She said while she showed James a photo of herself as a cheerleader. "Jameson, did you know I was a cheerleader when I went to school here?"

"Really? No clue." He said, looking a little weirded out as he slightly moved the photo away from his face. "Look, can I talk to you for a second, Ms. Lancer? About my sister, Dani?"

Meanwhile inside the school, James's younger sister, Dani, walked across the hallway, looking a little bored until her ghost sense suddenly went off as she gasped in alarm. She turned around when she found a green blob ghost sticking her head over the glass of an office door, that read 'Pablo Spector'. She quickly hopped into a locker as she transformed into her ghost form when she phased out of the locker and into the office.

"She's been acting really strange lately, like she's not herself anymore." James said to his teacher as they walked down the hallway together. "I'd talk to her, but I'm her older brother, and she's going to think I'm just being bossy. And if she doesn't get some help, if she doesn't talk to somebody, all that frustration she's repressing could come out the wrong way."

Inside the office, the blob ghost growled at Dani before they exchanged combat blows. Dani fired several ecto blasts at the ghost, but she dodged every one of her attacks as the ghost girl accidentally demolished a few stuff behind him and the wall instead. The ghost growled again before she phased through the ceiling, leaving Dani alone in the office.

She glared up at the ceiling as she changed back into her human form, just before Ms. Lancer and James entered the office. When they saw the entire mess in the room, Lancer glared at her as James looked more concerned, like his point has been proven right.

"Good one, Fenton, you let her get away, you idiot." Dani muttered to herself in frustration.

Lancer grabbed her by her arm and dragged her out of the office as she yelped in surprise.


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)


Later on, Dani, James, and Ms. Lancer were all present in Pablo Spector's office, which was a mess from the fight before while a man with fair skin, green eyes, and orange-red hair pointed in a U-shape with orange highlights, switched his thermostat. He also wore a business suit consisting of a red suit jacket over a white long-sleeved shirt with a black tie, red pants, and black business shoes.

"Is it always so cold in here?" James asked the man as he turned the thermostat from 'cold' to 'colder'.

"Of course! I find that cold temperature keep the mind icy sharp!" He said happily while his breath emitted from the cold. He straightened a photo, picked up his chair, and took his place by his desk with his hands laced before his. "And don't worry about this mess of an office either, stuff happens, right Jameson?"

James crossed his arms. "It's James, my friends call me James."

"Yeah, well your sister calls you fink!" Dani retorted with her arms crossed as her breath emitted. Her black hair was looking less wavy, unlike its usual optimistic wave style, but Dani's hair did have this tendency to go limp whenever she felt angry, sarcastic, and any other negative moods most of the time.

"Dani, I'm just trying to help. Come on, we used to talk all the time."

"Yeah, when I was eight and you weren't a fink!"

"That's more than enough out of you, Ms. Fenton." Lancer said as she glared at her, catching her attention. "Get to class while Mr. Spector and I decide what your punishment is." Dani gave her brother one last angry glare before she stormed out of the office with a growl. Lancer scowled at where Dani left before his smile returned when he placed his hand on the back of James' neck. "Unlike his sister, James is one of Casper's best and brightest. He'll be giving the keynote pep speech at our centennial Spirit-a-thon on Wednesday."

"Right on! That's why I'm here: to pump up the pep, one student at a time." Spector said as he gestured to a few photos of himself with some students, who were all looking horribly depressed while he remained absolutely chipper.

Lancer turned to his star-pupil. "James, Dr. Spector is a highly respected motivational speaker and teen therapist. He's agreed to...pump up the volume on that old Casper High spirit this week."

Then a short butler walked into the office, holding a small poster in her hands with an unemotional frown. "And this is my assistant, Bertha." James gave her a small wave, but she only stared at him while she sniffed her nose in silence. James faltered as he looked away awkwardly while he rubbed the back of his neck. "James, wait 'til you see what we have planned for the Spirit-a-thon! Right after your speech-show him, Bertha." Bertha held up the picture as Spector gestured to it. "We'll set off this domino chain that says 'Casper Spirit'. The dominos represent how each person's spirit affects the next person they touch! Slamming, huh?"

James stared weirdly at this man, who sounded a little too chipper and overconfident. "If by slamming, you mean weird? Then yes." James said to Spector.

"And the spirit sparklers go off after words, right?" Ms. Lancer asked hopefully.

"Oh, you bet they will." Spector promised before he hopped onto his desk with two sparklers in his hands while he waved and brandished them enthusiastically. "After all, what's spirit week without spirit sparklers?"

"You know, you're a little over-peppy, but my sister might benefit from talking to you. And she's so mad right now, she'll never listen to me." James said.

"Yes, well she'll listen to me…" Lancer said coldly as she narrowed her eyes.

Later on during school, Dani sat angrily and dejectedly next to Spector's office on the 'happy chair'. She then saw Paul Sanchez walking out of the office after his session, looking a little unhappy while Spector followed him with his over-peppy smile.

"So, you're saying my popularity is like completely dependent on my looks?" Paul asked unsurely to the therapist while he rubbed his arm.

"I'm not saying it's fair, sport, but if you feel like you need something like, a lot of hair gel, I'd say go for it. You're the only you you've got." Spector said to him happily before he turned his attention to Dani and smiled. "Dani, come on in."

Dani rose from her chair and followed Spector into his office. Paul only stood there, who was still looking a little unhappy, before he walked back to his class.

Inside the office, Dani sat angrily across from the woman therapist while she hugged herself from the coldness of the room. "I can't believe my stupid brother convinced Lancer to make this my punishment. And can we please turn up the heat in here? I can see my own breath!" Dani complained, looking at her breath emitting from the cold.

"Wow, you really do complain a lot." Spector complemented before he shrugged it off with a bright smile. "Hmm. Well, your brother did say you can be a bit of a baby."

Dani's eyes went wide with disbelief when the therapist told her this. "What?!"

"Sweetie, it's not your fault he thinks you're a loser."

Dani then narrowed her eyes in anger. "Wait, James called me a loser, too?!"

Spector held his hands up defensively. "Hey, those are his issues." He walked from her desk while he stood behind Dani. "I'm not saying you're a loser, Danielle, I think you're a great kid!" He suddenly placed his hands on her shoulders, making Dani perk up in surprise a little before she slumped a little sadly.

"Then why do I feel so miserable?"

"You know what I think?" Spector then kneeled before Dani and held up her chin, making her eyes go wide before she became somewhat miserable again. "You might be a mess, but 'mess' is just the beginning of 'message'! Now, go out there and be a better you!" Dani walked out of the office as the door closed.

Bertha, who was hiding behind the door the whole time, revealed herself after Dani left. "Marvelous." Spector said as he looked through a hand-held mirror. His face looked old and wrinkly, until his face glowed and the wrinkles disappeared in an instant.

"Why are you wasting your time on some messed up kid when we got a big to-do plan on Wednesday?" Bertha asked, looking a little impatient as she placed her hands on her hips.

Spector rubbed his cheeks. "Yeah, but Wednesday's still a couple days away. Teen misery is the nectar that keeps me looking attractive, and that Fenton girl is like a walking spa treatment!"

Bertha began to glow before she melted and morphed into a green ghost blob, the same one Dani once fought earlier that morning. "Hmm, then maybe I should up the ante." She began to shapeshift herself into a large green ghost hornet before she hovered over the floor.

In the hallway, Dani walked with her two best friends, Sam Manson and Tina Foley. She still looked extremely dejected and angry with her hair still limp from her negativity.

"Girl, you okay?" Tina asked in concern.

"I'm fine. I can't believe James told the shrink I'm a loser." Dani said angrily.

"Are you sure James said that? That doesn't sound like James to me." Sam said doubtfully.

"Hey, guys, what doesn't sound like James to you?" James asked when he came up to them. Dani only remained silent when she gave him a glare, but he gave her a knowing look. "Still mad?"

"Wow, you are the smart one." Dani said sarcastically with a fake surprised tone. She narrowed her eyes at her brother again while she placed her hands on her hips.

"Dani, I know you're angry, but I'm worried about you. Ever since the accident-" But his little sister interrupted him.

"Jameson, I know you think you're helping and I'm sure when I'm older I'll appreciate it, but right now, I don't."

James began to feel very irritated by his sister's sudden negativity when he placed his hands on his sides. "You have to talk to somebody, Danielle! You barely have any friends…" Sam and Tina both gave James an offended glare. "Besides these two, and you have absolutely no extracurricular activity."

"Unless you count the ghosts." Tina said quietly to Sam.

"Shut it!" Sam said tightly behind his teeth.

Dani threw her arms straight out when she leaned out towards her brother. "Well, maybe this is me now, huh?!" She retorted before she looked away and crossed her arms. "Not everyone's pumped up full of spirit all the time, ya know." Her ghost sense suddenly went off and her eyes widened. "Ghost sense? I don't see anything." She then began to shiver a little while she hugged herself.

James noticed this when he placed his hand on her shoulder. "Dani, you're shivering." He said with concern.

"Leave...me...ALONE!" Dani sprinted down the other hallway as she shouted, away from her brother and her friends so she could find a place to transform.

"It's worse than I thought!"

A girl suddenly ran up from behind him with a frightened look on her face. "A freakishly large hornet!" She exclaimed. She then shrieked in terror before she hopped into a locker and closed it, but her leg was left out while it trembled in pain. "OW! MY LEG!"

James gasped when he saw some of the students running away in fear, just as a the giant hornet ghost buzzed from the end of the hallway. She slowly turned her head towards James, which made him shouted in absolute fear as she buzzed to him and grabbed him while she licked his face.

Dani, in her ghost form, flew up and prepared to kick it off of her brother. "Back off, ghost bug!" She shouted as she phased it through the wall.

"Ghost bug? Wait a minute, that was a ghost? That was two ghosts?" James asked himself in surprise.

Dani and the hornet fly out to the courtyard as Dani knocked it to a tree, making a student underneath it recoil. "Somebody call for an exterminator?"

"My, you are clever, aren't you? Swap this, big girl." She said with her mouth drooling. She flew straight at her while she aimed out her stinger. Dani threw her arms up defensively before the stinger slashed through her forearm, ripping a chunk of her suit. She shrieked in agony and dropped the ground while she grasped her arm.

"I should've gone intangible, idiot! I'm not getting better at this, I'm getting worse." Dani noticed that the hornet was coming back around for a second time as she aimed out her stinger again. Dani quickly threw up an ecto shield before she collided with it and was sent flying away.

"Alright, pal, time for you to…" Dani said as she pulled out her thermos and aimed it, but then realized that the hornet was gone as she deactivated her thermos and glowered. "Gone. Great, another bad guy gets away." She floated off the ground while James saw her through a window in amazement, unaware to her. "Maybe James was right, maybe I am a loser."

She then flew away before James looked away from the window. "A ghost?" He said before he broke into a bright smile. "Wait'll I tell Dani!"

That evening at Fenton Works after school, Dani and James were both in the kitchen when James told his sister that he saw an actual ghost for the first time. However, Dani wasn't too keen on wanting to talk about it, so she told him that she didn't even see a ghost at all in the school.

"What do you mean you didn't see a ghost?" James asked her.

"It didn't look like a ghost to me, it just looked like a big bug. So I ran...like a loooser." Dani told him bitterly as she slouched on her chair.

James sighed in frustration. "I was right, you're not going to listen to me, are you?"

Dani crossed her arms and smiled at him sarcastically. "Nope."

"Then you leave me no choice...Mom! Dad! Can I talk to you about Dani?!"

Dani's eyes went wide while her brother smiled at her cleverly. "What? James, no!"

Their parents, Matt and Jackie, immediately slid into the kitchen while Jackie held up a new device in her hands. "Is something wrong with Dani?" Matt asked.

"Is there a ghost involved?" Jackie then asked.

Matt walked up to his youngest daughter with concern. "Is there something you want to talk about?"

"That involves ghosts?"

"I...I…" Dani stuttered, unsure of what to say, until she suddenly smiled with a good excuse. "Actually, yes. James thinks he saw a ghost today." She grinned smugly at her brother, whose smile immediately dropped. "Tell them, James."

"WHAT?!" Matt exclaimed when he immediately turned his attention to his son He leaped over Dani and landed beside James urgently. "Why didn't you tell us?!"

"It would've been a good chance to try out the portable Fenton Peeler: it tears ghosts apart atom by atom." Jackie said as she held out the device.

She pressed a red button with her thumb before the device engulfed her with a metal armored suit with a clear faceplate. However, Jackie suddenly lost her balance from the heaviness of the suit while she strained and fell right on top of the table with a grunt, demolishing it to pieces.

"Well, enjoy your chat." Dani said cheerfully as she got up and walked out of the kitchen.

James groaned in frustration again as he rolled his eyes, now that he has to deal with his parents and find a new strategy to understand his little sister better.


The next day at Casper High, James decided to have a little chat with Dani's two closest friends, Sam and Tina, since they were basically the only people Dani seemed to completely trust and she would always talk to them about her problems. James figured that if his sister trusted her friends, they were bound to know something that has been making her moody and depressed lately.

"Don't you think she's been acting weird lately? I mean, haven't you noticed how gloomy and negative she's been lately?" James asked Sam and Tina about his sister, while they exchanged each other wide eyes.

"James, we're Dani's friends, that means we keep her secrets from you." Tina said while she gestured to herself and Sam, until James handed her a twenty-dollar cash when she smiled. "Although…"

Sam took the money away from Tina and handed it back to James. "We've all got our own problems, James. I know you're worried, but Dani's okay. She keeps some things to herself, but it's not like she's doing anything criminal." He told him.

Meanwhile, while Sam spoke to James, Dani walked up to a drinking fountain to take a quick sip, until Bertha's ghostly hand phased through the wall as she looped her backpack strap on the fire alarm handle and retracted her hand back through before Dani could even notice. Just as she was about to walk away, her strap pulled the handle down, setting off the alarms, surprising Dani when her eyes went eye as did everyone else just before the sprinklers were set off.

After that little 'false alarm' incident, police cruisers and fire trucks were parked outside the school after everyone evacuated and were all soaked and wet from the sprinklers.

"A month's detention?! But I didn't do anything!" Dani exclaimed to Lancer, her wet bangs were hanging over her eye while the teacher glared down at her.

Spector suddenly appeared behind Ms. Lancer with his usual peppy smile. "Hey, Ms. Lancer, it was an accident." He told her cheerfully before he turned to Dani. "But we're gonna take that accident and make it an acci-don't, and learn from it so it never happens again!"

"But-"

"No buts. You could learn a little bit about school spirit from Mr. Spector here. When I was in school, I got the same advice, and look how I turned out!" Lancer said before she jumped enthusiastically into the air and did a pose.

Dani and Spector exchanged confused looks when they eyeball glanced at each other.

Later on in Spector's office…

"And this is supposed to help me how?" Dani asked stupidly to the shrink. She was wearing a blonde wig with pigtails and pink bows, and a pink baby dress and knee socks, and a slash ribbon that said 'Spirit!'

"We're going to help you overcome your fear of being called a baby." He replied as Dani sat down.

"I'm not afraid of being called a baby, I'm afraid of being called a loser."

"Ahh, and therein lies the problem: you care too much of what other people think."

Then Daph Baxter and two other of her cheerleading friends entered the room with boxes in their arms. "Where do you want us to put these banners, Mr…." Daph said, but got cut short when she noticed Dani and smirked. "Hey girls, look! It's the Casper High Spirit Baby!" She and her friends then broke into rude laughter.

"Of course." Dani said resignedly before she sullenly looked down in embarrassment. Spector touched her shoulder while his face glowed green and then his wrinkles disappeared.

After school at Elmer's Pharmacy, the African-American boy, Vincent Gray, and the Asian cheerleader, Kwyn, both got themselves some ice cream while they talked with each other a little downely about their sessions with Spector.

"I don't know, Mr. Spector says I worry way too much about material possessions." Vincent said.

"At least you'll have them, Spector says I'm going to grow old, broke, and alone." Kwyn said as they walked away past Dani, Sam, and Tina, who were sitting at their table for a snack.

Tina had a strawberry ice cream cone and Sam has a cube tofu cone with a cherry, while Dani had nothing. Normally, she would be joining her friends in licking her favorite ice cream flavor (which was chocolate), but she was way too miserable to even lick a drip of ice cream after what happened with her at Casper High, when Spector made her embarrass herself like that.

"Man, it was brutal making you wear that stupid baby dress. I could hardly watch." Tina said before she pulled out her PDA and showed a photo of Dani, in her baby dress, while some of the students laughed at her. "Though I did get some good digital pics."

"Hey! Who's side are you on, anyway?!" Dani demanded as she glared at her friend.

"Dani, come on, you know she's kidding around." Sam said.

"I…" Dani then buried her head under her arms as she sighed heavily, now feeling completely overwhelmed. "Yeah, I know...I just don't get it. Why am I so angry and depressed all the time?" She raised her head back up, looking genuinely confused. "That shrink was supposed to be helping me. But ever since I've been talking to him, I've been feeling worse."

James then approached up to his sister and her friends. "Hey, Dani, how's it going?" He wondered.

Dani glared at him crossly. "Like you care, just go away, James." Her ghost sense suddenly went off before she glanced to see Paul looking at his mirror as he messed with his hair and then the same blob ghost phased behind unawarely to the prep boy. "Gotta keep James busy…" Dani suddenly jumped to her feet and glared accusingly at her friends. "Yeah, well, if you're gonna take his side, then you hang with him, too! Here, take my seat!" Dani shoved her brother on her seat before she threw her arm to her face melodramatically. "You've already taken my friends!" And then she ran out of the pharmacy.

"Dani, wait!" James chased after his sister.

"Come on!" Sam said to Tina, alarmed, and he dropped his tofu cone while they both ran out of the pharmacy.

James made his way to the back emergency exit. "She went this way, I'm sure I can head her off."

James peeked his head through the door. He saw Dani standing there in a stance at the alleyway, but luckily for him, she didn't seem to notice him, and he witnessed white rings that appeared at her torso and intersected her body as she changed into her ghost form. James gasped in complete shock before he watched Dani fly away, leaving him confused and shocked at what his little sister just did and what she was.

"DANI?!" He exclaimed as she disappeared over the buildings. Tina turned around and found James when she tensed nervously before Sam turned to him as well. "Did you see that?!" He ran up to his sister's friends with a look of concern. "Tell me I didn't see what I just saw!"

"Uh, i-it's not what you think, James!" Tina said nervously until Sam shoved her ice cream into her mouth to shut her up.

"Of course it's not, ghosts aren't real." Sam said, trying to remain calm. "James, you sound so much like your mother."

James stared at them quizzingly, and then looked suspicious when he remembered what they told him back at their school. Sam once said about Dani that, She keeps some things to herself. He then remembered Tina once said that, We're Dani's friends, that means we keep her secrets from you.

James' eyes went wide in understanding when he realized that Sam and Tina saw exactly what he saw, but they were trying to cover for Dani since they would never betray her secret.

"...James?" Sam asked as he cocked an eyebrow.

"What?" James asked when he snapped back to reality until he smiled sheepishly. "Oh, oh, of course! My parents are such loons, it's rubbing off." He the glanced down at his watch. "Oh my gosh, is it that late? I better go work on my Spirit Week speech!" And then he ran off.

Sam and Tina both sighed in relief.

Back in the pharmacy, Dani flew invisibly above the shop where she saw the blob ghost approaching Paul from behind.

"Do you mind? I was here…" Paul said, but faltered when he turned around and saw a ghost right behind him, making him look nervous. "First?" The ghost roared at him, making him scream like a girl.

Dani then kicked her away from Paul to a sunglasses display, and she growled at her while she removed the glasses. "I know you need your makeup, but you're just gonna have to wait your turn." Dani said, but the ghost merely swapped her away into another display.

Bertha then fired an ecto-beam at her, and she narrowly managed to float to the air to avoid it as it destroyed a book display instead. The shoppers began to notice the fight when they stopped what they were doing and turned to the ghosts in shock, and they began to run for their lives. Dani dodged most of the ghost's attacks until she punched her to a wall of backpacks as she grunted.

"You're not very good at this, are you?" Bertha asked knowingly and unimpressed by her.

"Yeah, well maybe I don't need to be to beat you!" Dani retorted as she stood back up. Bertha smirked before she shifted into a green wolf and she pounced at her. She tried to get away, but the ghost managed to bite and rip a chunk of her ghost tail before she slammed into the corner. "Then again…"

"Hey, get away from her!" Tina demanded with a confident look, but she lost it when the wolf jumped and growled at her while it began to attack her and Sam. "Or don't. Seriously, it's open for discussion."

"No! You leave them alone!" Dani flew around in a circle and tackled the ghost wolf away from her friends as they tumbled across the floor. However, Bertha ended up on top of her when she pinned her to the floor with her paws on her hands and she strained to break free.

"Oh, look. The little loser ghost has a few baby helpers." Bertha cooed as she smirked down at the ghost girl.

Dani perked in surprise and her eyes went wide before they began to twitch from her rising anger. "Do...not...call...me...A LOSER!"

She managed to squeeze her feet underneath Bertha before she kick-threw her off and over her with a shout as the ghost crashed into a glass display, shattering a few mirrors. She flew into the air and fired an ecto-beam that turned white from her anger, but Bertha managed to dodge while it destroyed the display behind her instead. Everyone looked around at the now-wrecked pharmacy with displays all in shambles.

"Well, I think that's enough damage for one afternoon." Bertha said casually as she morphed back into her blob form with a smirk and then phased through the ceiling. "Ta-ta."

James watched the whole thing through the window before he turned his attention to Sam and Tina when Dani landed next to them, looking at the wreckage from the fight.

"I sure hope they're insured." Tina said as she rubbed her neck.

"Great, she got away again. Another ringing endorsement for the town screw-up." Dani said miserably before she flew away. Sam and Tina both exchanged unhappy and pitiful looks for their friend.

Dani phased out of the building and flew away while James watched her in awe with a whole new interest and worry, like he was finally beginning to understand why his sister has been acting so down more than usual.

At Fenton Works that night, Dani was in the kitchen alone while she sadly played with her dinner with her fork. Lately, in the past few days, she hasn't been doing a great job with fighting ghosts lately and she even had to embarrass herself while being dressed as a baby. She was beginning to lose some confidence about her double life, feeling insecure about her life as a normal highschool girl and as a ghost fighting superheroine.

James then entered the kitchen. Dani noticed him, but he didn't say a word to her since he only stared at her. "What?" She asked blankly.

"Nothing." James said simply with a shrug.

He walked up to her to examine her while she seemed unfazed by this, until he pinched her arm, which made her flinch as she dropped her fork and rubbed her arm. "What?"

"Nothing. Uh, so Dani, I know I've been kind of hard on you, but you know I think you're great, right?" James sat on the table close to Dani while she frowned and rested her cheek on her knuckles bitterly.

"Yeah, right. That's not what hear."

"Then you've heard wrong. Look, I know you think I'm pushy and I'm a know-at-all, I know you think I can be a jerk sometimes…" James faltered when he noticed that his sister was smiling at him dreamily while she listened to his words. "You know you can stop me at anytime."

"I know."

James rolled his eyes with a sigh before he smiled at Dani caringly. "All I'm saying is that I'm your brother and I care about you." He then placed his hand on her shoulder while she stared at him in silence. "And even if you don't think I'll understand, you can talk to me about anything."

Dani looked down and began to think to herself like she was considering to tell him about herself, that he supposingly didn't know (but she didn't know that he actually witnessed her biggest secret behind her back). "Um…"

They were both interrupted by a loud explosion, which startled them. They went to the overlooking of the living room, where they saw that Jackie has vaporized a good half of the couch with her new Fenton Peeler with Matt beside her.

"I'm just saying, if we can find that ghost at James' school, we're gonna peel that ghost like an onion!" Jackie said confidently.

"Well, we can't completely vaporize it, don't you want to at least examine the remains?" Matt suggested to his wife.

Dani and James watched their parents in silence, until Dani noticed that her brother had his arm wrapped around her. She shrugged it off and walked a few feet away while she placed her hands on her hips.

"I don't feel like talking about it." She said reluctantly.

"Yeah, I'd imagine not." James said resignedly before he smiled again. He walked over to his sister and kissed the back of her head before he walked away.

Dani looked surprised a little bit at first and slowly began to smile a little, until she perked up and made a look of disgust in second thought. "Oh, gross!"


The next day at Casper High, it was the day for the centennial for Spirit Week, but today wasn't really full of spirit, which was extremely odd.

"Uh, is it just me, or is this the worst Spirit Week in the history of Casper High Spirit Weeks?" Sam asked his friends rhetorically as he gestured to the hallway.

All of the students in the hallway were all looking horribly-depressed, like all their happy spirits have been drained all at once with their hairs frizzled and bags under their eyes.

"Another day, another twenty-four hours closer to a career of car washing." Daph said to her friend, Kwyn, miserably.

"At least you'll have a job. Apparently I'm gonna end up a hobo...I didn't even know they had hobos anymore!" Kwyn cried in despair.

"Didn't you know wrinkles can start emerging as early as your mid-twenties?" Paul asked Vincent, both looking just as miserable as the cheerleaders were while they walked past the trio.

"And to make it worse, we're all gonna have to sit through James's idiotic speech when he tries to put the 'I' back in 'spirit', or some other nonsense." Dani grumbled to her friends. She then noticed that James was running down the hallway with delight and a bright look on his face. "What the heck is he so happy about?"

"Don't ask me, I'm usually the sour one around here, but compared to everyone else, I'm the goth bird of happiness." Sam said with a small smile.

"Me too, and we're the only two people in this school who haven't had a session with Dr. Spector!" Tina said happily.

Dani then began to think about Tina's words when she allowed them sink in. Now that her tech-loving friend has mentioned it just now, Sam and Tina have never actually talked with Spector before and they, along with James, were still very optimistic. Now that she has also thought about it, all of the students who were completely miserable in the hallway actually did have a session with Spector, but each one came out unhappy, despite the shrink's little peppy talks. It felt like he was only giving them all fake advices to get them at their weak spots, ones that could make a teenager very depressed.

Dani then perked up when something suddenly clicked inside her head. "Wait a minute, let me see something." She said when she snatched Tina's PDA and pulled up the photo of herself in the baby dress.

"Uh...I was gonna delete that." Tina said sheepishly.

"Glad you didn't." Dani zoomed the photo close to her own face and saw her 'breath' coming out of her mouth. "Look at that. I kept thinking I was seeing my breath, that it was cold. But what if that's really my ghost sense? What if Spector is somehow making people more miserable?" Dani then narrowed her eyes like her suspicions have been proven correct. "What if...he's a ghost?"

"Only one way to find out…" Sam said with a smile when he began to form a plan in his mind.

Sam and Tina have both decided to have a session with Dr. Spector, to see if they can prove that he was actually a ghostly imposter in a human disguise. Several minutes later, they both exited her office, looking as miserable as the rest of the students were.

"I hate my life." Tina sighed.

"I hate your life more." Sam grumbled as they walked away dejectedly.

"Bu-bye! And remember, there's only an 'I' in 'misery' if you spell it that way!" Spector said optimistically (his face looked more older and wrinkled) and he closed his office door.

Fortunately, everything went according to plan when Spector took the bait. Dani phased invisibly into his office and witnessed a green swirl of energy and he breathed it in while his wrinkles vanished instantly and appeared more younger. He sat down on his desk with a satisfied sigh and smile.

"Man, that's good. I'm gonna miss this kids." He said to himself as he looked down at Sam and Tina's student profiles. "They're a waterfall of misery." Then Bertha, in her ghostly blob form, phased into the office and Dani immediately recognized the ghost that kept escaping her. "There you are, you hooked up the device?"

"Of course, and when the spirit sparklers go out vaporizing the only chipper kid left in the entire school, there'll be enough misery and anguish in that room to keep us looking young forever!" Bertha said happily while Dani listened in on their whole sadistic plan in horror.

And then the final bell rang, catching all of their attentions. "Well, there's the bell. Should we go hear a speech...and bum some more kids out?" They both became a single form of ecto-energy before they phased out of the office.

Dani turned visible as she landed on the floor. Her eyes went wide when she realized who they were after, and were planning to kill: the only optimistic kid left in the school. "James!" She whispered to herself in realization.

Later that afternoon in the Casper High gymnasium at the annual Spirit-a-thon, James stood at the podium. All the miserable kids were present, and even the cheerleaders weren't that optimistic either.

"Two...four...six...eight…" The cheerleaders chanted miserably in lackluster.

"Hey! What's the matter with you kids? You call that a cheer?" Ms. Lancer asked, looking unimpressed by how all the teens were acting. She then took a pair of pom-poms before she began to cheer and dance in enthusiasm. "We got the spirit! Yes we do! We got the spirit! How about you?!"

The students only stared at her in silence and depression while crickets chirped in the gym. "Okay…" James said unsurely on the podium, a little weirded out by Lancer's cheer and the absolute lackluster in the entire gym.

During the Spirit-a-thon in the gym, Bertha (who was back in her human disguise) and Spector were both walking down the hallway together. "After we destroyed everything, you up for a cappuccino?" Bertha suggested happily.

"Oh, that's a marvelous idea." Spector said.

However, his assistant suddenly got blasted away by a green ecto beam, surprising him a little. He turned ahead of him and found Dani, in her ghost form, hovering over the floor with the Fenton Thermos strapped to her back and her fist letting off green vapor.

"I figured it out finally. You feed on misery, don't you?" Dani said as she glared at the 'therapist'.

"I'm sorry, can I help you?" Spector offered with his fake casual tone, not apparently fazed by Dani's ghostly appearance.

"No, I'm sure you can't. You can't help anyone, except yourself." Spector adjusted his glasses close to his eyes before he tried to lunge for Dani, but she hovered over him and the 'shrink' glared. "You find that one thing that a kid's most afraid of." Spector turned around while he listened to her as he smiled amusingly with his arms crossed. "Their future, their looks, their confidence, their insecurities...and you pick at it and pick at it while your snippy little ghost assistant feeds on it."

"Hey!" Bertha protested, looking a little offended.

Spector clapped his hands happily. "Very good." He said before he opened his eyes, revealing them to be solid red before he was surrounded by purple smoke. "But I fear you've missed a few details!"

He turned himself into a wispy black ghost, that was essentially a humanoid shadow with an advanced mind of his own. He had glowing red eyes, sharp teeth, claws, and had somewhat flaming spiky black 'hair' and a ghostly tail. He even lacked a distinct identity compared to his disguised human form.

Spector then charged straight at Dani with energized hands, who yelled in surprise until Bertha, in her wolf form, tackled her as they both phased through a wall.

Back at the Spirit-a-thon, James was beginning to finish his speech. "...And in this, our centennial year, we pay tribute to the past with these ceremonial dominos. Each of which will fall into the next and finally tigger the ceremonial spirit sparklers!" James finished as he pointed up at the 'spirit sparklers' pointing directly at him, which were in actuality deadly laser guns, unknown to everyone.

Lancer cheered optimistically before she smiled at the students, but they all just continued to watch miserably in absolute silence. The teacher frowned at them in annoyance before she leaned down and began the domino chain.

Outside of Casper High, Wolf-Bertha pinned Dani to a tree as she grunted. "You thought you were going to stop us? You?! You're just a frightened little kid!" Bertha retorted.

She raised her claws up and prepared to swipe it, but Dani managed to turn herself intangible as she phased through the tree, just before the ghost scratched the tree trunk instead. Bertha looked around in confusion until Dani suddenly phased back through the grass and punched her dead on, sending her flying over the building and out of sight.

Then Spector suddenly appeared from behind her when he grabbed her with a headlock and then he dragged her towards the school. "Let go of me!" Dani demanded.

"Why would I do that? Your doubt, your misery, it's delicious!" Spector said before they stopped near a window and looked inside. "And the best part is, as soon as that silly speech is over and that last domino falls and the sparklers vaporize the speaker, we'll leave you here to take the blame!" The domino chain continued until, at the end, it would press a button that would activate the ray guns and kill James unknowingly to everyone. "And by the time I'm done with you, you'll be sure it was all your fault!"

"Man, I am so tired of you dumping on me...and I am so tired of dumping on myself." Dani looked through the window again and stared down at her brother, who was smiling innocently at the crowd. "James never did that, even when I was mad at him…" Her anger began to rise when she began to fight Spector's power. The misery-eating ghost stared at the ghost girl in confusion until Dani's eyes began to glow. "And I won't...let him DOWN!" White rings suddenly intersected her, but they didn't transform her since they only threw Spector off of her.

Dani glared angrily at Spector, who circled back around and smiled amusingly at the girl's sudden strong character. "Bertha! Sic her!"

Wolf-Bertha pounced from out of nowhere as Dani turned to her before she shifted into a green ninja. Dani gave her a flat and unfazed look before the ghost assistant landed on a tree branch, pulled out a pair of nunchucks, and swung them around while she showed off her fighting style.

"I so don't have time for this." Dani said boredly before she pulled out her thermos and began to suck Bertha in.

"No! NOOOOOOOOOO!" She shouted until she got completely sucked into the device. Dani recapped her thermos and shook it while she smiled cleverly at Spector.

He looked surprised at first before he glared angrily at the ghost girl. "You're through…" He growled before he lunged at Dani with his hands in front of him in an attempt to grab her.

Dani flew up and avoided him as she circled back around. "And you're done telling me what to do!" She shouted as she grabbed his tail. She dragged him and threw him straight into a trash bin before the lids slammed shut. Dani smiled for a few seconds until she suddenly remembered something else. "James!"

Dani quickly phased back into the school, just as the last domino falls onto a button and the spirit sparkler ray guns began to charge up with red energy, preparing to kill James while he stared up at them in confusion. Time slowed down for Dani when she invisibly zipped into the gym as she managed to grab onto and fly James out of the way, just in time before the ray guns fired lasers and destroyed the podium.

Dani phased her brother into a storage room and they turned solid as they landed on the floor. James stared down at her in awe while she began to smile a little...until Spector suddenly appeared from behind when he grabbed Dani by her shoulders. The shadow ghost dragged her into another room while she shrieked, and then pinned her to a wall as he held onto the ghost girl's face.

"Look at you." Spector said with a gentle villainous voice. Dani aimed her thermos, but he cocked an eyebrow and merely swiped it away while Dani felt the shadow ghost's powers at work. "What are you? A ghost trying to fit in with humans, or some creepy little girl with creepy little powers?"

James ran into the room as he glared at the ghost with his fists at his sides, looking angry and displeased that this ghost was trying to demolish his younger sister's confidence once again with his false words.

"Both...uh, n-neither! I don't know!" Dani stuttered out loud.

"You're a freak! Not a ghost, not a girl!" Spector exclaimed with a large smile while he absorbed some of Dani's energy before she collapsed to the ground as she wearily looked up at the ghost, disoriented. "Who cares for a thing like you?!"

"Excuse me." James said, catching Spector's and Dani's attentions while he narrowed his eyes directly at the shadow ghost. "I don't know this kid, but I hope it's okay if she gets a second opinion." He pulled out the Fenton Peeler and pressed the button before he became encased in metal armor. "This is weird."

Once the suit was finished encasing his body, a gun popped from the wrist and James fired a beam of green raw ecto-energy directly at Spector. The beam blasted over the misery-eating ghost dead on, which made him scream in agony as his black, shadow form peeled away, exposing his human disguise. He continued to peel into older and wizened versions of himself, until there was successfully nothing left, but an ancient old man with bad wrinkles and platinum white hair. His body let off smoke from the energy and was standing in a pile of ghostly peels.

"Talk about having nothing within." Dani complement as she stared at the ancient old man.

Spector felt his wrinkled face as his eyes went wide before he began to freak out about his true appearance. "AHHHHH, NOOOOOO! I'm nothing without my youth!" He exclaimed before Dani began to suck him into the Fenton Thermos as he screamed until he was completely inside. Dani could feel all of Spector's powers wearing off of her as her misery and depression she has been feeling since her first session disappeared.

James then powered down his Fenton Peeler suit and looked down at the device, looking a little impressed. "Hey, it worked…" He then cocked an eyebrow. "But it's still weird."

James walked up to Dani as she flinched nervously. "Uh...uh…" She stuttered.

James smiled at her, but then he made a blank face before he made a ludicrously fake look of fear. "Ahhhhhh! Ghost!" Dani only remained silent and stared at him oddly as he ran to the exit, but stopped when he turned to her with a smile. "You'd better go." And then he ran down the hall.

Dani sighed in relief before she accidentally walked into a pile of boxes with a grunt. "Oh, uh, right." She turned herself intangible and flew right through the ceiling while James watched her secretly.

"She can tell me when she's ready."

"Mr. Fenton, you're needed!" Ms. Lancer said as she ran up to him with pom-poms in her hands.

Lancer took James back into the gym, where he heard everyone chanting his name loudly. "JAMES! JAMES! JAMES!"

He smiled brightly that all of the students in the school were no longer depressed and miserable anymore, since he peeled the ghost imposter that has been draining them of their happiness, and that his sister has finally captured the ghost that was behind it all.

"Hey, he's okay!" Tina exclaimed happily.

"Ahh, everyone's mood has lifted, as though some gloomy malevolence has shooed away." Lancer said. James then spotted Dani, who was back in her human form, while she sat next to her friends before she waved at him with a smile, and then he waved back. "You're disappearing act worked marvelously, they've got their spirit back."

"They're not the only ones, Ms. Lancer...they're not the only ones." James said.

Later on that night after the Spirit-a-thon, James looked through his bedroom window and watched his little sister fly optimistically in the sky. Dani's eyes were closed while her hair waved and fluttered in the wind as she flipped and twisted in the air, enjoying her free night of flight. She then disappeared over the buildings while her brother smiled with his arms crossed.

James decided to himself that it was best for her if he never told her that he knew about her half-ghost status yet, unless she wanted to tell him when she was ready on her own terms or if absolutely necessary. He finally began to understand her struggles and would until then try to cover for Dani with her little secret, but also secretly behind her and her friends' backs for them unknowingly. But most importantly, James was really happy and grateful that his little sister was back to her old confident self again.