Season 1 Episode 12
Teacher of the Year
"A Lesson in Fear!"
In a virtual reality game called Doomed, one of the most popular computer games in Amity Park, a random female player, who wore a techno-attire suit with a gun in her hands, ran through a purple hallway until she reached the end of the gates as they opened while she panted. She glanced back behind like someone was after her, and then she ran desperately up to a silver key that hung on a tree. A more huge and muscular man with a purple face, red eyes, and a black spiky suit with purple linings stomped from the building with two handguns. He fired beams at the random player dead on and vaporized her into oblivion as her gun dropped next to Dani Fenton and Tina Foley's avatars, who were both currently hiding behind a virtual rumbled wall.
Dani and Tina's avatars were wearing the same techno-styled suits like the other random avatars. Tina's was a yellow one with orange linings with shoulder pads and exposed her midriff, and wore a yellow head cap with two pointed spikes on each side, and her bifocal glasses had yellow shade lenses instead. Dani's was blue with darker blue linings with shoulder pads and black thigh-high boots, belt, collar, and elbow-length gloves, and had a pair of blue see-through goggles, and even had blue lipstick.
"That's the trouble with these online video games: too many unqualified random players?" Tina said sarcastically as she typed it on her computer in her bedroom with her username 'Fryer Tin'.
At Fenton Works in the lab, Dani was wearing some kind of helmet wired to the computer while she typed on with her username 'Ghost Girl' (for two obvious reasons: one being that she was a ghost girl herself, and that she was also from a family of ghost hunters).
"I know what you mean, nobody but us has a clue." Dani replied while she typed it to her avatar before she peeked over the rumble and stared at the giant, muscular player. "Except for that Chaos guy, that guy's unstoppable, even for us."
"Was unstoppable, watch this." Tina said with a smirk as she pulled out her gun. She then ran out of their hiding spot while she aimed out her weapon towards Chaos. "Hey, Chaos! Game over, nitwit!" She fired her gun, but Chaos immediately jumped to the air without even looking before he fired his gun back at her feet. He sent her flying back over the rumble next to Dani's avatar.
Dani frowned at her in annoyance while Tina stood up with her suit scorched up a little. "When will you look before you leap? He's still not stopped."
Both of the girls shrieked as they quickly ducked to avoid Chaos's beam attack before they ran out of their hiding spot and sprinted together as they avoided more of his attacks. They ran into an abandoned building and they pinned their backs to the wall to hide again.
However, Chaos smirked when he threw a grenade bomb into the entrance as it beeped. "Dani, I just you to know...I accidentally killed your gerbil in the sixth grade." Tina confessed to Dani.
Dani stared at her with wide eyes. "What?" She asked, but the bomb exploded as it smoked the building and vaporized their avatars.
Chaos laughed before Tina's computer said 'Fryer Tin: game over'. "Oh man, smoked again!" Tina complained as she buried her head in her arms in frustration.
Dani narrowed her eyes in frustration as well. "Darn it! I really thought this stupid helmet as my game controller would give me an edge!" She removed her helmet and threw it across the lab in frustration, but she accidentally pressed the 'open' button of the Fenton Portal with it.
The portal opened before one of Dani's old foes, Techna, flew out of the vortex as she cackled evilly and Dani's ghost sense went off when it alerted her.
"Once again, I, Techna, mistress of all things electronic and beeping, am free once again to conquer this world!" She announced to the heavens while Dani gawked up at her.
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)
"To conquer this world!" Techna shouted until she hovered up to Dani's computer and stared at the game with new interest as the Chaos guy fired more blasts. "Although, that world looks more entertaining, and the fashion sense is far superior. Perhaps, it is there that I shall be queen!"
She was about to fly into the computer until Dani shoved her away. "Oh no, you don't!" She said determinedly.
The technopathic ghost glared at the girl before she jumped off her chair and changed into her ghost form. She then charged at Techna, but she pulled up a green electric shield and she got shocked when she impacted it while she wrapped it around her as it continued to shock her. However, it also destroyed the computer in the process.
The ghost stared at the busted computer in disappointment. "Oh, that stinks." Techna said before her smile returned. "No matter, I shall return!" She flew up to the top of the lab and turned back to Dani. "So long, ghost girl!" And she phased through the ceiling and out of sight.
The electric shield disappeared before Dani collapsed onto the floor with a grunt. "Oh great, constantly getting zapped in Doomed is bad enough, and now I have to track down that loser?" The Fenton Ghost Portal powered down when Dani rose back to her feet while she sighed heavily. "I'll have to deal with him tomorrow." Her eyes suddenly went wide before she nervously glanced up at the clock (with a smiling ghost) on the wall when it read five thirty in the morning. "It is tomorrow! I've been up all night!" She then yawned in exhaustion. "Oh well, one sleepy day at school and one lame ghost freed. What's the worst that could happen?"
Of course, Dani shouldn't have asked herself that. In Ms. Lancer's classroom that morning, she was snoozing like a log on her desk while she snored and drooled all over her test.
"Pencils down! All tests turned in!" Lancer announced to her students until she walked up to the sleeping Dani. She slid her test paper from under her as it dripped with her saliva before she sighed. "Ah, teaching, always rewarding."
Later on that night, Dani flew around Amity Park in her ghost form with the Fenton Phones in her ears while she and her friends went out for patrol. Before they went on their patrol, Dani explained to Tina and their other friend, Sam Manson, about Techna escaping from the Ghost Zone.
"Last time Techna fused a monster out of the junk from my mom's shed, be on the lookout for runaway appliances." Dani told her friends through her earphones.
"Copy, the objective is to defeat the boss and power her down to level zero." Tina said while she drove her motor scooter down a sidewalk.
Dani walked down the side of a building vertically like the wall was actually a floor, since gravity didn't affect her the same when she was in ghost mode. "Uh, lever zero is a no man's land, Sam, it's a glitch in the Doomed program. If you get knocked in, you're stuck there."
"I cannot begin to tell you how interesting that is." Sam said sarcastically as he rode his motor scooter down another sidewalk.
"If you were game-savvy, you'd know that." Tina said smugly through the communicators with a grin.
Sam glared offendedly before he began to tell her off. "Oh really? Well, let me tell you something-" He suddenly froze on his scooter when he looked up and saw several appliances flying right over to the park with wide eyes. "Hold it, I've got something! Fast moving garage sale heading east toward the park!"
At the center of the park, all of the appliances began to circle around Techna as she laughed mechanically. "Yes! Come to me, beautiful technology! And together, we shall build a new body worthy of my greatness! Something sleek, stylish, and totally modern! Yeah, baby!" The appliances fused around the techno ghost as she formed herself into a gigantic version of Chaos.
The trio overlooked the whole on top of a hill while her suit crackled with electrical currents. "Look familiar? Techna saw me playing Doomed last night, and now she's trying to look like Chaos." Dani said as she glanced between her friends.
"The way you play Doomed, she shouldn't be hard to beat." Tina said with a grin.
Dani gave her a flat look. "Ignoring that. Okay, Tin, here's what we'll do: you distract her with an L2 throttle maneuver, and I'll power up in engagement battle mode."
"What about me?" Sam asked.
Dani gave him another flat look. "You stay here, Sam. You probably don't know the moves we're talking about here." She and Tina got up to their feet.
"And besides, you'll only get in the way, because we're the bad girls of the game, and you boys would only try and hold us back." They ran down the hill while Sam glared at his female friends offendedly like they practically just called him useless. Tina revived her scooter and charged straight to Techna with a determined glare. "Time to show her what five bolts of womanly battery power can really do!" Techna pulled out a tire and threw it at her, but she quickly dodged it in time before she began to circle around her feet, much to her confusion while she looked down. "I got her distracted! Hit her, Dani!"
Dani flew right at him and double-punched him underneath her chin, sending her falling onto the ground with a grunt. She then got back up and smacked her away, sending her flying and shouting while she fell through a tree and landed next to Sam with a grunt.
"So much for battle mode, huh?" Sam retorted with a smug grin as he crossed his arms.
Dani briefly cocked an eyebrow at him before she tried to ignore him. "Okay, this calls for advanced mode with an intangibility bonus!" She turned herself intangible as she flew to Tina, who was evading all of Techna's ghost beams. When Dani touched her, she made her phase through the beams before they became solid again.
"Yeah, girl! This is better than Galmon of Doom in level nine!" Tina said until one of Techna's beams managed to pop a hole onto one of Tina's wheels, making them freeze, before she fired pink eye beams straight at the girls.
While Tina braced herself, Dani quickly gestured her hands as she quickly created a green shield in front of them before it reflected the beam right back at Techna, and she fell onto her back again. "Cool!" She then glanced down at her hands letting off green mist, a little surprised by what she did. "How'd I do that?"
"No!" Techna exclaimed as she rose to her feet again. "I, Techna, am getting tired of getting beaten by you!"
Dani smiled cleverly as she hovered next to Tina. "Yeah? Well you, Techna, are gonna have to learn some new video game moves if you want to beat us!"
"You're right." Techna looked down at herself in understanding. "I have all of the style, but none of the substance. I must acquire these new skills, and I know exactly where I can do that!" She then pressed a button on her suit before she immediately exploded into pieces while her head landed near the trio.
"You won! Great job, Dani!" Tina exclaimed with a smile.
"What are you talking about? She self-destructed!" Sam pointed out.
"Eh, whatever." Dani said as she changed back into her human form before she leaned on the busted head carelessly. "I'm here, she's gone, and that means my work here is done." However, a green streak flew from the mouth of Techna's head and made its way into Dani's Fenton Phone, which made her ghost sense go off. She looked kind of startled at first when she glanced at the head, but then she shrugged it off.
"Cool, so what do you wanna do?" Sam asked.
Dani and Tina smiled at each other excitedly.
Later on, Dani and Tina both returned to their homes when they immediately went onto their computers and played some more Doomed together.
"Okay, Tina, just like in the park." Dani said.
"I'm all over it." Tina said before they readied themselves for level nine.
Chaos jumped in as the level started and Tina's avatar revived her hover scooter and rode right towards him. Chaos fired his handguns at her as she dodged every one of them. Dani was in her hiding spot, until a jetpack appeared on her back and she jetted herself into the air and straight for the guy. However, he noticed her and fired his gun dead on at Dani, and then tripped Tina off her scooter as she fell right on top of Dani before they vaporized. Chaos laughed, and it was game over again.
"Oh man! It was like he was three steps ahead of us!" Dani exclaimed in frustration before she looked up at the clock when it read five thirty in the morning again. "Oh great, another all nighter." And she walked out of the lab, yawning in exhaustion.
After she left, she was unaware that a green streak flew out of her Fenton Phones and formed into a grinning Techna. She then phased into the computer and entered the game, with her new look that had three tentacle legs and a clear glass brain, and she laughed evilly.
That morning at Casper High in Lancer's classroom, she walked around her students after she graded all of their tests.
"By large, I'm pleased with the test results. I know the poetry of the nineteenth century is enough to put one to sleep." Lancer said before she held up a paper with a big 'F'. "This, however, borders on sarcasm." She placed the failed test paper on Dani's desk, who was very worn out from playing Doomed in the last two nights in a row.
The final bell rang before the students all rushed out of the classroom and Dani was about to leave herself until her teacher stopped her. "A word, Dani." Ms. Lancer told her before Dani sat back on her desk as she stared at her least favorite teacher. "Danielle, when a teacher looks at a student, she hopes to see the reflection of her own abilities. When I look at you, I see my own F." Lancer leaned her hands on Dani's desk with a look of seriousness. "I don't like to fail, do you?"
"M-Ms. Lancer, I can explain-" Dani stuttered, but she got interrupted by her teacher.
"Ahahaha! I need no explanations, I need results! So...you know what I'm going to do?"
Dani smiled hopefully at her teacher. "Pass me so you don't look bad?"
Lancer laughed a little at her joke before she immediately became serious again. "No." Dani's smile dropped as her teacher straighten up with her hands behind her back. "However, I am going to give you the opportunity to do better. I'm making you retake the test."
"But it's only one stupid test."
"One stupid test that counts for one quarter of your final grade." Dani blinked at her in confusion, not really understanding what she was even talking about. "That's twenty-five percent, in case you're flunking math as well. You have three days to study for the make-up. Get it?"
Dani slumped on her desk. "Got it."
Of course, Dani disobeyed Ms. Lancer's orders and she went with Tina to the Internet Café to play some more Doomed instead.
"I got it! If you crack the safe in the Mega Mart, you get an extra life!" Dani exclaimed as her avatar turned the knob on a safe and it opened, revealing a heart and a silver key inside.
"That extra life will come in handy when Ms. Lancer kills you for flunking again." Sam said as he walked up to his friends with a smug grin and his arms crossed. They both turned away from their computers and glanced up at their goth friend.
"What's he doing here? He doesn't even play computer games." Tina said smugly.
That made Sam glare at her irritatedly. "Oh, and what did you expect? Because I would love to play computers games to obsession? And because I'm lacking in what? Opposable thumbs? One-track mind? Stupid beanies?"
"Hey!" Tina touched her red beanie, looking a little offended.
"As much as I hate to admit it, Sam's got a point. I probably should be studying." Dani admitted miserably. "Tina?"
"I'll stick with goofing off. We're gonna need all the ammo we can get if we want to defeat Chaos." Tina went back to playing on the computer while her avatar picked up a large bazooka gun.
Dani smiled amusingly with her hands on her hips. "Chaos is nothing compared to Lancer. I mean, imagine if she caught me in here."
"Yes, imagine that." Lancer, who came out of nowhere, said with a disappointed scowl while Dani cringed at her unexpected appearance and turned to her, and she now knew that she was in trouble again.
In the Doomed world, Techna admired herself and her new form in level one. "My last form was unstable, and I was unable to conceal myself from those annoying children, but this new body is much more-How do the kids say it today?-far out! In this new body, they shall never know it's me...Techna!" She shouted.
"Yo, newbie, look out!" Tina warned as she jumped in and fired her gun at a blue monster and it vaporized into nothing.
"Excellent! You are quite the game-player, bespectacled one!"
"Thanks, I know a few moves." Tina twirled her gun in her fingers, but she accidentally swung it away while it crashed somewhere.
"Perhaps you could teach me this 'moves' of which you speak, hmm? Then I could become as hip and far out as you!"
Tina cocked an eyebrow at this girl's terrible slang. "'Hip'? 'Far out'? Wow...you really do need help." She then smiled, not knowing who she was really talking to. "Fortunately, you came to the right place, step into my office." She walked through a portal while Techna followed her and they end up in an orange-brown world at a deserted bridge. "This is level two: the Bridge of Doom. To survive this level, you need stealth, cunning, and lightning fast reflexes." They heard beeping from a distance as a monster truck drove straight at them. "Watch and learn."
She threw a grenade at the truck, but it only bounced harmlessly off the monstrous vehicle. "That was informative, but let me try something!" Techna grabbed Tina and she flew them both straight towards the truck. She turned them both intangible and phased right their the vehicle and landed safely on the bridge.
Tina looked impressed. "Awesome! I've never seen that power in this game before!"
Techna secretly cocked an eyebrow with new interest. "You mean...I have powers here that you don't? Interesting…"
Later on, Tina and Techna made their way to level three at a violet Japanese world. "Okay, doing good so far. You keep this up, and you can help me defeat Chaos. I'll show you the ropes." Suddenly, grappling hook came out of nowhere and chained to the ground near them.
"Are these the ropes of which you speak?"
"No, those are Shallowan Whoosho Warlords!" Three samurai-like enemies slid down the ropes as they drew their swords and prepared to attack.
Meanwhile in the real world, Lancer drove Dani in her car. She discussed her troublemaking student about her stubborn video game obsession that has been keeping her awake for at least two nights in a row, which was making her fall asleep during class and failing her tests.
"Playing internet video games is hardly the stuff of human drama, Danielle." Lancer said as she looked out the windshield.
"But it's fun." Dani protested with her arms crossed, looking a little dejected.
"Fun is relative. When I see a student pass through the portal of Casper High for the last time, brimming with a knowledge that it takes to make it in the outside world. To me, that's fun."
Dani frowned at her teacher. "Then you need to get out more."
Lancer frowned back at her student. "And you need to stay in more." She then smiled up at something ahead. "And here are a couple of people who will make you do just that!"
Dani's eyes went wide as he pulled up to Fenton Works where her parents, Matt and Jackie, were outside, looking very disappointed at their daughter. "My parents?!" She rolled up her window to hide from them, but unfortunately she knew she was in big trouble.
Back in the Doomed world, a Warload swung his sword at Tina, who avoided the attack when she back-flipped into the air and landed on her feet. She then fired beams from her hands and vaporized all of the Warloads to oblivion.
"Now what exactly is the purpose of this 'skill contest'?" Techna asked Tina.
"To defeat all foes, reach level thirteen, and retrieve the seven silver keys to the Apocalypse." Tina explained as she showed her a projection of all of the seven keys.
"And what happens after that?"
She then showed an image of the globe as a web engulfed it. "Gain ultimate power and access to the worldwide web."
"Very well. Then, I, Techna, shall use my ghost powers and newfound gaming prowess to win this game and spread my intellect to every machine in the world!" Her smile dropped by her long introduction, not to mention she just gave herself away. "My...that was a long speech."
Tina recoiled and her eyes went wide in shock. "What?! Techna?!"
She smirked at her. "Bingo, puppy! Game over!" She then fired her beam at her with a laugh, sending her flying away while she shrieked. "That was fun."
Tina typed on her computer in her room, looking worried that she had just unintentionally taught the villainous technopathic ghost how to play Doomed, and how she could win every machine. "Oh no! Techna is in the game, and she can use her ghost powers!" She watched the ghost phase through a tree. "I gotta stop her before she gets to the Internet!" She made her avatar chase after her while she slammed into a tree.
Back at Fenton Works inside the living room, Ms. Lancer and her parents began to talk about Dani's little problem and James was also present as well.
"Lazy, unfocused, ill-prepared, lethargic." Lancer listed off from her note as she described to Matt and Jackie what their daughter was like while she took the test in her class. "Need I go on?"
"Mom, I-" Dani began to explain.
"That's enough of your sass talk, missy!" Jackie said as she glowered and gave her youngest daughter her unimpressed glare.
"What do you suggest, Ms. Lancer?" Matt asked the teacher.
"Dani will pass, I know she's capable, but I'd like her to spend her after-school hours in my office, studying until I administer the makeup exam." Lancer suggested to the parents.
"But I/she has stuff to do after class!" Dani and James exclaimed in unison.
"How do you know that?" Dani asked her brother in confusion. James only smiled at her nervously while he shrugged his shoulders.
"Ah, but consider this: if you fail, you may be held back a year. If it's boring once, imagine taking it again." Lancer pointed out with a smug grin.
"Get this straight, Danielle!" Matt said crossly to his daughter. "You are a Fenton, and Fentons get As...or in your mother's case, B minuses."
"Solid B minuses." Jackie added solemnly before they both frowned at their child again.
"Until you retake this test and pass it with flying colors, we are forbidding you of any access to all electronic devices."
Dani slumped in disappointment until her phone rang and she pulled it out of her pocket. "It's Tina." She said, only for her mother to snatch it out of her hand.
"She's busy!" Jackie exclaimed angrily before she crushed the phone to bits with her gloved-hand.
Back in the virtual world of Doomed, Tina battle cried as she tried to punch Techna, but she swapped her away and she crashed into a wall before she vaporized. Immediately, Techna began to grow even larger after she disappeared.
"Interesting, I seem to grow stronger and with each vanquished foe!" She said to herself.
Tina was still in her room, trying to call Dani while she messed with her controller, but couldn't reach her (since Jackie literally destroyed her phone), so she called Sam instead. "This is bad, she's figuring the game out! Why won't Dani answer?" Tina asked worriedly.
"Maybe she's busy, could use a hand?" Sam asked through her phone.
"Fat chance, it's every girl for herself." Tina kept making her avatar fight Techna, but she kept on deflecting her attacks as she vaporized again.
"Every girl, huh?" Chaos suddenly appeared in the game and his purple face faded away to reveal Sam's, revealing that he was Chaos all along.
Tina stared at her computer in complete shock with wide eyes. "What?! You're Chaos?!"
"If you were game-savvy, you'd know that." He retorted smugly when he repeated what Tina joked to him before.
Tina slumped on her chair in somewhat embarrassment.
The next day at Casper High after school inside the gym, the trio were shooting a few hoops while Sam continuously mocked Dani and Tina that he was the one defeating his female friends the whole entire time. Of course, Dani was also very surprised by this fact when Tina broke the shocking and disappointing story to her.
"I'm 'Ghost Girl', I'm 'Fryer Tin'! We don't need your help, because you boys would only get in our way!" Sam mused again while he smirked cleverly at them and then crossed his arms.
"Alright, alright! We get it, will you knock it off already?!" Tina exclaimed, sounding very annoyed and irritated by his mocking before she shot the basketball, but it bounced off the edge of the hoop.
"I can't believe it was you dusting us all this time! Why didn't you say something?" Dani asked while she still stared at her goth friend with disbelief.
The basketball rolled to Sam's feet. "I tried to, but between the condensation and the cockiness, I barely had time for anything else." Sam said as he picked up the ball, spun it on his finger, rolled it down across his arm, and then tossed it over his head with one hand, making a score while he spoke.
"...Well, the main thing is, Sam can help me fight Techna while you're out of commission." Tina said to Dani, but then she noticed that her gothic friend cocked an eyebrow with a skeptic frown. "I mean, I can help Sam!"
Dani sighed as she looked down at the floor miserably. "What a mess, it's my fault Techna is out there while I'm stuck studying the world's dullest subject." She muttered to her friends.
"Just leave everything to us, Dani." Sam said confidently before he wrapped his arm around her neck. "Techna may have the power, but we've got the moves." He spun the basketball on his fingers again and threw it in the air with one hand as he made another hoop score without even looking. "I've got lots of cheat codes and secret power-ups in my arsenal...of course, you girls must know all of those, too, right?" He smirked at them while Dani and Tina both exchanged glances. "Weird, most of the guys do. Maybe you two need to communicate better."
"Danielle Fenton! My classroom, now!" Lancer announced from the doors.
Sam and Tina wished their friend good luck on her makeup test before they both returned to their homes to prepare themselves for a face off against Techna in Doomed.
At noon in Lancer's room, she was writing something on her notes while Dani sat on her desk with her book. But like usual, her eyes were very droopy from her long nights when she briefly fell asleep while she unintentionally turned intangible. She dropped her head and it phased right through, which made her yelp in surprise until she bolted herself up and turned solid again before Lancer could even notice. She stood up from her seat and walked up to her teacher's desk.
"Going somewhere, Miss Fenton?" Lancer asked when she looked up from her notes.
Dani leaned back while she cracked her back with a stretch. "Just stretching my legs." She said and then noticed her notes. "Oh, writing your brother, huh?" She stared at her in confusion. "You have a brother?"
Lancer picked up a frame with a man with red, curly hair and a red buttoned-up shirt with floral prints, but oddly had a large chest. "I haven't seen him in ages, can't afford the plane fair. You know, this would be an excellent time for you to say 'Gosh, Ms. Lancer! I never realized being a teacher could be so difficult!'."
Dani shrugged a little with a careless look. "I'm fourteen, I don't really care."
Lancer sighed as she rolled his eyes. "Yes, yes, of course." She then stood from her desk and walked out to the hallway with a somewhat peeved look on her face. "Gonna go get some air."
"I gotta cross teacher off my 'What I want to be when I grow up' list." She glanced at Lancer's computer, looked back at the door to make sure she wasn't in sight, and rushed to it and quickly pulled up Doomed to check on her friends' status with the online ghost fight. "You guys there?" She typed when she saw her friends' avatars fighting against Technus.
"What are you doing online?" Sam asked as 'Chaos'.
"Just checking in, how's it going?"
"We're keeping Techna in check, but she's getting stronger! It's just a matter of time before she masters the game." Tina said.
"Wish I could help, studying is a drag."
"Is it, Dani?!" Lancer asked angrily with a mug in her hand, making Dani turn away from her computer in surprise.
"Ms. Lancer! I-I was just taking the-"
"Taking up my valuable time! And I thought all girls acted mature and responsible, but apparently, I was wrong! There are no cheat codes in school, Danielle, or in life! But if you don't care, why should I?" And with that, she walked out of her classroom again, looking very miffed.
Dani looked a little guilty, admitting to herself that her teacher did have a point right there. She examined her desk and saw her photo frames of her students, her graduating from school, and her weird-looking brother. She stared at the computer until she powered it off and picked up a poetry book before she sighed like she was gonna somewhat regret this.
"Here we go." She said to herself before she walked out of the classroom and into the hallway, where Lancer sat on a bench. "Um...in the poem, The Tiger, why does he rhyme words 'I' and 'symmetry'?"
"The poem was written in the early eighteen hundreds. I'm sure there were multiple ways to pronounce that word." She explained.
"And...it's Blake, right? William Blake?" Dani sat next to her while her teacher began to smile that she was actually interested.
"Actually, yes. There was actually other poems he wrote that use the same form of rhyme scheme."
"Really? Which ones?"
Meanwhile in Doomed, Tina and Sam both fired beams from their hands at Techna, but she kept on turning herself intangible and they phase harmlessly through her.
"Not bad for girl with no moves, huh?" Techna mocked.
Sam and Tina, each in their own bedrooms, desperately kept on fiddling around with their controller sticks as they controlled their avatars. They were both determined to take down the technopathic ghost with Dani still out of commission before Techna flew up and their avatars crashed into each other.
Back in Lancer's classroom, Dani read her book and she even took some notes with a look of determination, to ace her makeup test so she could makeup her mistakes while Ms. Lancer watched her constantly. She had to do it more focused and a little fast so she could help her friends save the Internet from Techna before she could take over the worldwide web.
Back in Doomed, Techna fired a beam at Sam and Tina, hitting them dead on as they flew backwards. The ghost landed near a big box with a button, making her look interested in it.
"Oh no! She found a Power Plus Cube!" Tina exclaimed in worry.
Techna pressed her tentacle to the button before her body began to glow. Her legs became spider legs and gained a spider rear as the box disappeared and Techna grew larger than ever. The two friends were now more worried and they really wished that Dani was there with them.
Techna laughed evilly. "Farewell, children! For I, the new improved Techna, have reached the next level!" She shouted to the heavens before she walked into a level portal with Sam and Tina right behind her in pursuit.
Back in Lancer's classroom, Dani closed her book, ready to take the makeup test when she sighed. "Well, it's now or never, and it better be now." Dani said to herself before she glanced up at the clock that was currently reading three o'five in the afternoon. "I got less than an hour before Techna reaches the last level."
Dani took her seat on her desk just as Lancer placed the testing sheet in front of her and walked away. Dani began to write down everything she has been able to memorize and then about half an hour later, she was finally finished when she handed her teacher her test. While she began to grade it, Dani perspired as she anxiously awaited for her final grade.
"Ninety-one." She said as she wrote a '91' on her makeup exam.
Dani smiled that she has actually aced her test. "Ninety-one? Ninety-one?! I aced it?!"
"Mmm, just barely, but...yes, you aced it."
Dani pumped her fists into the air. "YES! I knew I could do it! Hey, I did. I did know I could do it." She smiled at her teacher again in gratitude. "Thanks."
"Yes, well, don't think this means I won't be keeping an eye on you, Fenton." Ms. Lancer gave her a skeptic arched eyebrow.
"Don't think this means you wouldn't have to!" Dani then ran out of the classroom while she shouted gleefully in triumph like she has just won an election. "I ACED IT!"
Lancer then glanced at her 'brother's' picture frame and picked it up. "Ah, the old 'I don't get to see my brother' speech gets them every time...why don't they ever realize that's me dressed as a man?"
Dani managed to quickly fly her way back to Fenton Works and turned back to normal when she rushed into the kitchen, where her parents were working on another invention.
Dani slammed her test on the table, showing her folks her ninety-one. "Hello, not an idiot, see ya!" She said to them before she immediately ran into the lab while Jackie and Matt smiled at their daughter's hard work on a ninety-one.
"I should give her her phone back." Jackie said as she held up Dani's demolished phone she just broke without even thinking.
Dani quickly placed her helmet controller on her head and logged into Doomed. "You guys, I'm here!" Her avatar appeared in level one while she smiled that she was finally back in business. "And I aced the test."
"Girl, that's great! You get a hundred?" Tina asked while she tried to grab a key, until Techna blasted her away. The ghost cackled evilly as she took the silver key instead.
Dani's avatar ran to a hiding spot with a gun in her hand. "No, I got an A minus...a solid A minus."
"We're in level thirteen! Techna has five of the seven silver keys! Two more, and she's queen of the worldwide web!" Tina and Sam flew after Techna as they approached the Apocalypse gate, where the two other silver keys were.
At level one, a couple of blue troll monsters fired beams from their axes before Dani quickly jumped out of the way into another hiding spot. "It'll take me forever to reach level thirteen!"
Back at level thirteen, Tina and Sam fired beams from their hands, but like always, Techna kept on turning herself intangible while their attacks phased harmlessly through her. "She's using her ghost powers, I can't stop her!"
Dani's eyes went wide. "Ghost powers?!" She then groaned before she slapped her hand on her forehead for not realizing a little sooner. "Agh! I'm such an idiot! Techna used her ghost powers in the game so...why can't I, right?!"
Dani sat up after she removed her helmet before she changed into her ghost form and phased into her computer. Her avatar began to glow before white rings appeared and intersected her as Dani overshadowed her own avatar. Her avatar appearance was now black with green linings with white elbow-length gloves, belt, collar, and thigh-high boots, and her lipstick turned green, and even her goggles turned green.
Dani looked down at herself. "Alright, I'm in! This better work…" She said to herself before she flew from her hiding spot and took off. The monsters fired at her before she turned herself intangible and their beams past harmlessly through her. "Excellent! I'm learning all over the place today!" She flew into a level portal into level two while she smiled excitedly. "Sweet! My powers are the ultimate cheat code!" Dani phased through the monster truck before she flew through another level portal.
Meanwhile at level thirteen, Techna has placed her five silver keys to the Apocalypse gate with only two more to go before she could win and the worldwide web would be hers for her to take over.
"Haha! Two more key and I, the new improved Techna, shall be the hip, modern ruler of the world!" She shouted into the heavens.
She laughed, until Sam blasted her right off the gate. The ghost glared at the teens before she turned her attention to the two keys left. She rushed over to them while the monsters, Tina, and Sam all fired their blasts at her, but she continued using her intangibility power. She picked up the monsters and pulverized them into oblivion before she took a key.
"HAHA! I, Techna, am totally frying your bacon!" She shouted out loud.
"Well, that's the one thing she hasn't upgraded: her catchphrases." Tina said sarcastically to Sam.
A level portal opened when Dani flew into level thirteen to join the fight. "Haha! You are no match for me! For I am Techna, mistress of-"
"Mistress of long-winded introductions!" Dani interrupted, making her look more worried when her eyes went wide. Sam and Tina both smiled at their friend's timely arrival while she hovered next to them and glared down at the technopathic ghost villainess. "Do you ever stop talking about yourself?!"
Chaos's face faded into Sam's while he looked at Dani. "Do something, Dani! We're one key away from a catastrophe...oh, and congrats on the A." He said as he smiled at his friend.
Dani smiled a little as she prepared an energy beam. "Heh, thanks."
Dani fired an ecto beam at Techna, who threw up a shield before it deflected her beam as it fired right back at her and sent her flying away. Techna laughed as she leaped for the key, but Sam fired a beam at her, sending him onto the ground with a grunt before she shrunk in size a little.
"She's vulnerable, keep hammering her!" Dani ordered her friends.
Tina quickly threw a grenade underneath Techna before it exploded and she shrank down a few sizes more until she flew out of sight. "Do you think she gave up?" Sam asked when they all landed on the ground next to each other.
"Negative!" Dani's eyes went wide in alarm. "INCOMING!" Techna came hurtling down on a giant flaming rock towards the trio with a provoked and miffed glare.
"Tina, remember that mega cheat I told you about?"
"Time to bust it out?" Tina asked as she narrowed her eyes in understanding.
"Time to bust it out. Hold Techna off until I get back."
After Sam ran off from the fight, Dani and Tina both fired beams at Techna and they missed her completely before she fired a beam back, making the girls scatter off their feet as they shouted and Dani ended up in a mouth of a purple overgrown flytrap. Techna then fired lasers rapidly from her eyes as Tina ran, dodged, and jumped over her attacks while she quickly made her way towards the silver key.
Meanwhile, Sam ran into a purple tiki world before he picked up a small tiki and threw it straight into a larger one's mouth when it glowed brightly. "Here goes everything!" Sam said to himself before he jumped right into the mouth and it flashed brightly.
Back in the fight, Tina made one large leap for the silver key, but Techna suddenly jumped in her way. She yelped as she flew backwards until her avatar vaporized into nothing.
"Tina!" Dani exclaimed before she gathered her energy and made the flytrap explode into nothing but a mosh. She flew up and landed in front of her technopathic foe, who was right near the last key.
"The game is over! Victory is mine! Any last requests, child?" Techna said as she reached up for the silver key.
"Um...yeah." Dani smirked before she crossed her arms and held her chin up high. "Could you take out the trash, Sam?"
"WITH PLEASURE!" Sam shouted out loud. Techna turned her head around in confusion, until she was suddenly stomped on hard by a giant tiki monster version of Sam's avatar, that was carrying a large spear.
Dani hovered in front of him and looked mildly impressed. "Not bad, for a boy."
"Ignoring that." Sam picked up a damaged and disoriented Techna in his hand with a smile. "Care to lend a hand?"
Dani then flew and pulled out the background as she created a hole before Sam tossed the injured and short-circuited Techna inside an empty realm.
"What? Where am I?" She asked wearily.
"It's level zero: it's a glitch in the program. One way in, no way out." Dani explained as she grinned at the technopathic ghost smugly.
"Now listen here...young whipper snapper! I, Techna, am hip and funky fresh, and-" But she didn't get a chance to finish her long-winded speech when Dani released the hole and it closed up, trapping her inside the glitch.
"Totally out of date."
Tina's avatar reappeared back in the game just as Dani descended next to her while Sam remained silent. "Good thing I've updated my anti-virus program. Did I miss anything?" Tina asked Dani.
Dani smiled at her friend. "Just the most awesome display of gamesmanship ever."
Tina then grabbed the last silver key and held it up high. "Hey, guys! We got the seven silver keys to the Apocalypse! All we have to do is open the door, and we win the game!"
She walked up to the gate as she slowly placed the key in place while her friends watched eagerly...until someone suddenly blasted at all three of them from out of nowhere, vaporizing them right out of the game as the key dropped to the ground.
Tina recoiled back in confusion in her room. "Huh?"
"Huh?" Sam asked, looking equally shocked when his eyes went wide.
Dani suddenly shot out of her computer, back in her human form, before she crashed into the wall of the lab and collapsed onto the floor. "Huh? Who on earth could've done that?!" She wondered in shocked confusion.
Ms. Lancer's avatar appeared as she picked up the last key and looked at it in triumph while Lancer played Doomed from her classroom computer.
"Haha! Once again, I have the seventh silver key, and I am victorious! Me, Ms. Lancer!" She shouted to herself in triumph, until she paused short and slumped a little in somewhat embarrassment. "I've gotta stop doing that."
