Season 1 Episode 17
Lucky in Love
"Heart Aching Terror!"
It was a hot, sunny day at Amity Park when the teens of Casper High slipped into their swimsuits and made their way to their favorite water park, Floody Waters, to cool themselves down. There was also a new waterslide called Terror Mountain as the three best friends, Dani Fenton, Tina Foley, and Sam Manson were all waiting in line.
Dani wore a blue tank top (since she gets sunburns very easily) that revealed her midriff, red swimming shorts, held her hair up in a ponytail, and was barefeet. Tina had a yellow-and-orange tie-dyed one-piece swimsuit and, because she apparently couldn't swim very well, she had floaties around her waist and on her arms, had her beanie removed, and was also barefeet. Sam, since he was more of a 'creature of the night', wore a black beach hat with a clear face shield, sunglasses, had his hair tied in a tiny knot, and a black bat-themed cloak over his purple swimming shorts, and barefeet.
"Man, I love the water! Boys, bathing suits, and the occasional opportunity to administer mouth-to-mouth resuscitation." Tina said before she rubbed some more lipstick on her lips and then pursued them.
Dani rubbed her forehead with her arm before she brushed her bangs off her face from her sweat. "Whoo, jeez it's hot." She said with a sigh before she glanced at her gothic friend, who was wearing a black cloak despite the hot temperature. "Aren't you sweating, Sam?"
"Regular people sweat. Goths, we shimmer." He said somewhat darkly.
Dani then took a whiff of him before she cocked an eyebrow. "I...think you're overcooked."
Sam lifted up his cloak, sniffed his underarm, and recoiled a little. "Whoo! I reek!" He then smiled again when he wrapped himself in his cloak. "Well, yet another reason to get out of the sun." He then walked away, leaving Dani and Tina by themselves for a while.
Then, the cheerleader captain and Dani's arch-rival, Daph Baxter, and her friend, Kwyn, came up to the girls with water guns. "Watch our place in line, will ya?" Daph said with a smirk.
Both Dani and Tina crossed their arms while they frowned and stood their ground at the spoiled cheerleaders. "Okay, Daph, can you please not do this until we're actually at school? And besides, how can I? I'm in front of you." Dani said defiantly.
"Not anymore!" Daph and Kwyn smirked even more when they aimed their guns and then fired water at Dani and Tina dead on, sending them flying and shouting until they splashed into a water fountain.
A statue sprayed water on top of Dani's head while she sat there, looking a little embarrassed and startled at the same time. "Well...this is humiliating."
"But oddly refreshing." Tina said as she enjoyed the coolness of the fountain's water.
Then Dani gasped in alert when her ghost sense went off. "But this isn't! We've got company, Tin."
She then saw a familiar ghost enemy she once fought in the past, Jessie 13's shadow ghost. It roared and everyone else ran for their lives while they screamed in terror.
"It's Jessie 13's shadow! I need to find a place to go ghost!" Dani said to Tina before she ran out of the fountain to find a place to transform.
"You do that, I'll stay here in case any of these men need mouth-to-mouth." Tina said before she rubbed some more lipstick on.
Dani found the restrooms and quickly ran in. However, she got shoved out by the social school preps, Paul Sanchez, and his friend, Skye (the dude with the short, blonde hair and hazel eyes).
"Hello, men's room!" Skye said as he pointed at the sign that clearly showed that it was the boy's restroom.
"I'd tell ya to go to the ladies room, but...I don't think you'd qualify." Paul said with a clever smirk before he fist-bumped Skye.
Dani scowled at Paul, despite her huge crush on him. She then ran off again and hid behind a map of Floody Waters and changed into her ghost form before she flew into action.
"Hey, tall, dark, and formless! Remember me?!" Dani shouted out loud, catching the shadow ghost's attention.
It immediately punched her right in the guts, making her grunt and hug herself from the pain. It then slammed her to the side of Terror Mountain, and punched her through it, slammed her head onto another wall, and then onto the ground before it roared angrily at her face, making her hair flutter madly.
"...I'll take that as a yes." Dani said, who was unfazed by all the beatings the ghost did to her. The shadow smiled when it flew her straight towards the picket fences, ready to impale her. "Come on, slick! Let's see how well you mix with water!"
Dani dragged the shadow ghost into the water pool of Terror Mountain and flew out as the shadow became nothing but a muss of black goo in the water. The ghost girl then spotted an emergency flush before she used her foot to twist it and the drain flushed the shadow into the sewers.
"Enjoy your trip to the sewers! Oh, and if you see Monday's meatloaf, say hi for me!" Dani called after the ghost sarcastically with a clever smile.
Unknown to her, Paul peeked his head through a small outhouse and smiled at Dani before she changed back into her human form. She jumped over the fence, until the Hispanic prep boy suddenly went up to her face with a bright smile making her gasp in surprise.
"Dani?! You're the ghost girl?!" Paul asked her excitedly.
Dani stared at him, surprised and scared, now that she has accidentally exposed who she was in front of Paul Sanchez.
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 after the park got evacuated, news reporters went to Floody Waters, discussing the recent ghost attack (and that they believe Dani caused it, thanks to Walker the warrant ghost's meddling before in the past).
"Amity Park racked today by another random ghost attack by the pasty face ghost las known as...Inviso-Belle." A newsman announced in front of the camera while Dani ran behind him, urgently up to her friends.
Apparently, everyone didn't know their new public enemy number one ghost's name was, so they just decided to call her Inviso-Belle, which was not the most catchy nickname.
Dani briefly stared at the newsman in confusion before she turned to her best friends, looking very panicked. "Guys, we've got trouble!" She said to them urgently.
"I'll say, Inviso-Belle?" Sam said, looking baffled by the media's poor naming skills.
"Yeah, you need a publicist, girl." Tina said, also not looking impressed until she noticed Skye walking by. "And you...need mouth-to-mouth."
"Dream on, freak!" Skye scowled as he walked away.
Dani rolled her eyes. "It's worse than that! Paul saw! He knows I'm half-ghost! I finally get to see him in a swimming suit, and I can't even enjoy it!" She exclaimed as she slouched in disappointment at the last thought.
"Paul Sanchez…" Sam said in an angry falsetto, looking very disgusted and by even saying the prep boy's name while he glared at nothing in particular. Sam really had this nasty rivalry with Paul because of his prep status with his spoiled, careless dependence and Sam was a goth and had his well-meaning, caring independence, which made the boys complete opposites. "I just had a nasty run-in with him in the bathroom." Sam then clenched his fists tight angrily. "He's the rudest little…"
"Dani! Sam! Whatever your name is! Hi!" Paul interrupted as he ran up to the trio (he didn't know Tina's name, much to her dismay when she looked down).
Paul was about to run up to Dani until Sam suddenly blocked his way while he stood in front of Dani protectively. He glared angrily at his rival like nobody's business.
"Listen, you shallow troll! I don't know what you think you saw, but if you do or say anything to hurt Dani…" Sam said menacingly while he pointed at his rival.
Paul scowled at him while he placed his fists on his sides. "Oh, please don't get your bat wings in a bundle." He then smiled again when he waved at Dani. "Dani, why'd you run?" She peeked over Sam's shoulder, still freaked out from him witnessing her transformation. "I know I freaked you out that I discovered your secret, but...I won't tell."
Dani began to relax a little as she stared at him hopefully. "Really? Y-you won't?" She stuttered, looking a little confused as well.
"Oh, come on!" Tina exclaimed while she gave Paul a suspicious scowl. "How can we trust you?"
"You can trust me, because...it's my secret now, too." Paul promised before he held up Dani by her chin while he gave her his charming, loving eyes. She could feel her cheeks beginning to blush madly from his touch. "Which makes it our secret."
"Oh, great. Please excuse me while I find a nice, dark place to throw up." Sam groaned mostly to himself as he walked away in disgust at the interaction between Dani and Paul.
"So...you think it's cool that I've got these powers?" Dani asked with a spark of hope in her eyes.
"Cool...no." Paul said as he looked down...until he looked back to her with a bright smile. "I think it's hot! See ya!" He then walked away with a wave.
Dani stood there, dumbfounded by what he just said. "I'm hot? I'm hot?!" Dani began to smile brightly in realization that Paul was actually beginning to like her. "I'M HOT!"
Then Dani's happiness was cut short when Daph sprayed water on her face with her water gun, right to the ground. "That outta cool you off...oh, and this isn't water, if you catch my drift…" Daph smirked.
Dani then frowned in disgust when she knew exactly what Daph was talking about. "Okay, that's just raw boy power right there."
The next day at Casper High, the trio walked down the hallway together (back in their usual attires). Dani had her hair wrapped around her mouth and nose, in fear of anyone noticing her now that Paul knew her biggest secret.
"Is anybody looking at me funny?" Dani asked as she frantically glanced around at the teenagers in the hallway.
"Yeah, but that's because you look like you're eating your way out of your hair, lighten up a little." Tina said calmly.
"How can I lighten up?" Dani unwrapped her hair around her face with fear in her eyes. "Paul knows I'm half-ghost! I mean, he says he's gonna keep the secret, but how can I trust him? He's a boy, boy's can't keep a girl's biggest secret!" She paused before she smiled weakly at Sam, who was leaning against a row of lockers while he gave Dani his signature flat look. "...uh, except for you, you're different."
"Well, the good news is, Paul's kind of dim, and as long as nothing else weird happens, maybe he'll forget all about it." Sam said with a reassuring smile.
Dani's ghost sense then went off as she gasped before she glanced at her other friend. Tina leaned down to a drinking fountain to get herself a sip, but then it stopped working, much to her confusion. The shadow ghost suddenly burst out, making the techno-geek fall onto the floor in surprised fear.
"So that's where the town sewage goes!" Sam said before he smiled cleverly at Dani. "I knew it."
The shadow ghost then flew right past the two and Dani narrowed her eyes with determination as they glowed green. The students screamed as the shadow ghost flew right over them, possibly looking for something, until Dani flew above it in her ghost form.
"You're making it really hard for me to keep a low profile!" The shadow only smiled when it duplicated itself before they slammed onto Dani, making her tumble across the hallway until she crashed onto a science classroom door. She phased into the room while she looked around until she found a magnifying glass and phased through the ceiling outside while the shadow ghost followed her.
"Looking for me?" Dani said while she hid the glass behind her back. She then brought it out and fired a tiny ghost beam with her finger. The glass shined brightly with green light as the shadow wailed in agony until it disappeared into pieces.
Dani blew the green vapor emitting from her finger before she phased back into the school. She phased into a locker, where Sam and Tina stood guard while she changed back into her human form until she emerged out with a smile.
"Good job, Dani." Paul said as he walked up to her.
"Where'd you come from?" Dani wondered as she hopped out of the locker and closed it behind her.
"Ms. Fenton, there you are. You were due to smack the erasers five minutes ago, where were you?" Ms. Lancer demanded with a handful of stacked erasers on her hand.
"I...I was...uh…"
"She was with me! We're dating now!" Paul said out loud happily with his chin up high.
All of the students in the hallway gasped in complete shock and silence after they heard that Paul Sanchez was actually going out with an invisible outcast, even most of them dropped their books to the floor in surprise. A girl with a locker shrine of Paul Sanchez cried in complete dismay after she lost her chances of getting together with him.
Paul ignored their shocked faces when he wrapped his arm around Dani and hugged her close to him. She blushed madly, now that she has finally won the heart of the man of her dreams.
"Well, that certainly ups your street cred, Ms. Fenton. Ms. Foley, you're not dating anybody, you can smack the erasers together." Lancer said before she tossed Tina the erasers as chalk particles fogged on her face. "You two lovebirds enjoy lunch."
Dani and Paul walked to the cafeteria together while Paul still had his arm around Dani's neck and she placed her hand on his hand. Sam glared angrily at this new couple as Tina stared at him with confusion and fear at the same time.
"Are you okay?" She asked her angry goth friend.
"Of course I am, why would I not be okay? Look how happy she is!" Sam exclaimed as he leaned closer to her while he still glared angrily, and his loud voice made her trip to the floor.
The goth then growled in absolute rage when he punched a locker, strong enough to make a dent before he stormed down the hall. Tina stared at the dent and then glanced back at where her angered friend stormed off. Even though Sam hated Paul, she couldn't help but wonder if Sam actually was showing some...jealousy.
In the cafeteria during lunchtime, Dani and Paul stared at each other lovingly. Dani had her fingers laced underneath her chin while she admired Paul's attractiveness. Paul rested his cheek on his knuckles as he admired Dani's beauty. Dani was extremely happy that she has finally got the heart of the man of her dreams, and that he even accepted her as a half-ghost.
"I'm really glad you're cool with this, Paul...but everyone's kind of staring at us." Dani said, looking kind of uncomfortable by all the students, who were staring at this new couple.
"That's because you're with me now." Paul said before he held her chin up to him. "And I'd like to ask you, how would you like to come with me to a bowling party on Friday night?"
Dani's eyes went wide as she began to smile. "Really? With me? Like a date?"
"Not like a date, a date."
The girl with the Paul Shrine locker sobbed very loudly before she ran off in despair.
Dani then managed to get out of her nerves enough to place her hand on Paul's cheek like any girl would and for once, he didn't swipe it away while he continued to hold her chin as they stared into each other eyes. At another table, Sam stared at this new couple (but mostly at Paul) with absolute hatred as his fists trembled, his eye twitched, and he tried his best not to strangle Paul by his neck. Tina scouted away, a little frightened by her very tempered friend like he was a bomb that was about to go off.
Daph Baxter then walked over to Dani and Paul with a sour look and slouched shoulders like she couldn't believe that this was happening. "Well, as much as it pains me to say this, Fenton. Now that Paul likes you, you're officially a cool kid." She said to her begrudgingly.
"Officially? Like a club?" Dani asked when she smiled again.
"Not like a club, a club!" Daph then leaned closer to Paul and whispered to him. "She really is kinda dim, isn't she?" Paul only smiled innocently before she handed Dani a packet that read 'A-List'. "Here's your membership packet." She then pulled in a nerd girl in front of her. "And this is Mikaela, she'll be doing your homework for now on."
"Hi, Dani." She said.
"Don't talk to her, you're nowhere near cool enough!" Daph roughly shoved Mikaela away before she handed Dani a pass. "And here's your hall pass. After the hall monitor stamps it ten times, you get a free frozen yogurt. Welcome to the A-List, bra...I-I mean, uh, gal."
"Fenton's cool now? I thought we didn't have room for new members." Kwyn said, looking a little overwhelmed by what was happening.
Daph placed her hand on her shoulders, looking about as sad and miserable as she was. "Kwyn, my BFF of mine, I have some bad news…"
The cheerleader captain then painfully forced Kwyn to sit in between Sam and Tina, now an unpopular kid. They all did not look too happy about this themselves. "I was told I have to sit here now."
"You'll never take Dani's place! Never!" Tina declared while Sam only rolled his eyes and remained silent, yet annoyed.
As the days went on, it has been pretty much the best week of Dani's high school life, while for Sam and Tina, it has been kind of a nightmare for them, now that they had to suffer with a former popular cheerleader, who was acting like she was a little too fun.
Dani placed a picture of Paul holding her bridal-style and laughing over a picture of her with Sam and Tina. Kywn even replaced her picture of herself with Daph with a picture of herself hugging a reluctant Sam and Tina.
In the meadows of Amity Park, Paul ran across the flowery fields with Dani as they held hands. Kwyn did the same with Sam and Tina, and even though Tina seemed to be enjoying it, Sam was more irritated. Paul then swung Dani off her feet as they spin in a circle and smiled at each other happily. Kwyn also did it to Tina, until after a few swings, she accidentally catapulted her into crashing somewhere while Kwyn flinched.
When Dani and Paul were setting up a picnic together, they were both suddenly interrupted by the Box Ghost, and Dani transformed into her ghost form and easily took care of him. After she beated him up and sucked him into the thermos, Dani flew and sat next to Paul in her ghost form before she kissed his cheek as he smiled warmly. Meanwhile, Kwyn threw a football right to Sam, but ended up slamming it right onto his face when he got knocked to the ground with a grunt. Tina laughed at that until the cheerleader smacked her with the football as well, sending her to the ground.
Friday soon arrived, in the afternoon outside Casper High, Tina peeked her head from a wall. Her face was all battered and bruised from all of Kwyn's 'games' and she was checking to make sure Kwyn wasn't anywhere in sight.
"Any sign of the villainess of fun?" Sam asked sarcastically.
Tina walked out proudly with her hands on her hips. "Nope, we are officially Kwyn-free. Which means I can focus on the satellite." She settled her eyes on Skye, Paul's old friend, who was sitting on a lunch table, reading a comic book.
"Satellite? His name's Skye."
"Yeah, but he used to be Paul's satellite."
Sam smiled a little in somewhat understanding. "Oh, right, the marginally attractive boy who usually orbits around the popular boy."
"And now that Paul's hanging out with Dani, he's like us: weak, unpopular, and right from the picking!" Tina immediately rushed up to Skye with a bright smile. "Hi, I'm Tina, and I-"
"Where have you been? You should've made your move on me hours ago." Skye interrupted with a frown before he immediately handed his books to Tina. "Here are my books, I like to bowl on Friday. And if you try to hold my hand before our third date, I'll break yours in half." And with that happy note, he walked away.
Tina looked a little confused by this at first, until she immediately broke into a smile. "Awesome! I got a date tonight!"
Sam then came up to her with his flat look. "If that's your relationship by default, then count me out." He said.
"Hey, new best friends!" Kwyn called as she came up to them with a bright smile.
"You two have fun." Tina said before she walked away with Skye's books, leaving Sam alone with the cheerleader.
"Tina, don't leave me here alone with…" Sam tried to call after her, but then he cringed when he forgot that Kwyn was standing right next to him.
The former popular cheerleader's smile dropped, looking a little hurt yet understanding at the same time. "You and Tina don't like me very much, do you?" Kwyn asked the goth boy.
"Who? Us?" Sam gave her a nervous smile while he shrugged sheepishly. "Who gave you that idea?"
"It's okay, I know I don't fit in with you guys, and I don't fit in with the popular kids anymore." Kwyn then sighed sadly and was about to walk away. "I guess it's chess club for me."
Sam sighed like he was going to regret this and then stopped her. "Kwyn, wait! I can't believe I'm asking this, but...I'm going to a goth poetry slam tonight. It might not be your thing, but if you want to come, you can."
The cheerleader's smile returned. "Is this like a pity date?"
"Not a date, but plenty of pity."
"Sweet!" Then Kwyn dragged Sam elsewhere while he yelped in surprise.
That Friday night at the Amity Lane Bowling Lanes, most of the kids at school went to the bowling alley for the party. Dani aimed her bowling ball as she held it up with one of her eyes closed, trying to angle it just right, until she rolled it down the lane and knocked down all the pins with a strike.
"Magnifico! Five in a row!" Paul said, looking impressed as she sat down next to him.
"I have the highest average than my friends, it's all about observation." Dani said, looking proud of herself.
Meanwhile, Tina looked very miserable at the alley, because all she has been doing was caring Skye's stuff like an assistant rather than a date. Skye then handed her his drinks as he glared at her. "Hold this, don't spill." He threatened her before he went off to bowl.
Paul took his bowling ball when it was his turn. He rolled it down the lane with such bad accuracy, he made it roll into a gutter instead, making a few jock guys laugh at his little gutterball.
"Preps." One of the muttered mockingly.
"Oh, Dani, I'm embarrassing myself." Paul said, feeling a little bashful until he turned to his new girlfriend and smiled at her with his charming grin. "Could you give me an hand? An...invisible hand?"
Dani cocked an eyebrow when he practically asked her to use her powers to help him make a score. "But that's cheating!" She said, until Paul kissed her in the forehead, making her feel lightheaded enough to change her mind. "...or creative point scoring. Be right back after your strike!"
She quickly ducked behind a bowling player and changed into her ghost form (much to the player's confusion) before she phased through the floor, just as Paul rolled his bowling ball down the lane. Dani's hands phased through the lane and caught the ball while she sent it straight to the pins, giving him a strike.
Paul threw his arms up in triumph. "Yes! I did it!" Dani then came back up to him in her human form as he took her hands and smiled at her. "Thanks, Dani, you're the best." And then he kissed her on the cheek, making her blush even more.
She giggled softly while she smiled. "It feels good to be the best."
Meanwhile, at the Skulk 'n Lurk, a bookshop of goths, Sam took Kwyn to the poetry slam, more for pity than for a date like he promised. Kwyn was looking very chipper than all of the goths in the room, much to Sam's annoyance.
"Please glare indifferently at our next guest, the Beholder." The emotionless goth host said on the mic.
"Darkness, eternal, I wait for your kiss, in the nothing, I see your bleak smile." The goth grumbled on stage.
"Oh, cool! Me next!" Kwyn said excitedly as she ran up to the stage.
"Oh no!" Sam mumbled before he slammed his head hard on the table in frustration and embarrassment.
"And now, a little poem I like to call 'the fluffy cloud that all look like pom-poms'!"
The goths glared at her unemotionally, but angry by the name of her poem. Just as Sam knew what was going to happen next, the host kicked them out of the store. "And stay out!" He shouted before he went back into the store.
Sam glared at Kwyn while she smiled weakly at him with a shrug.
Back at the Bowling Lane, Paul took Dani out to the back of the building for some romantic alone time with her. She laughed when he twirled her around until he took her hands while she giggled softly. Paul then held her by her chin again and they stared at each other.
"Dani, there's something I'd like to tell you right here right now." Paul said softly.
Dani blushed again as she eyeball glanced away bashfully. "Okay…" She said before she glanced her eyes back to him. "What?"
"If you like me...kiss me." He pursued his lips for a kiss.
Dani smiled even more as he began to pull her face close towards him. "I am the luckiest girl in the world!" She closed her eyes and was about to kiss the man of her dreams...but sadly, her dream come true came to an end when her ghost sense went off, alerting her as she gasped.
Paul noticed this and gasped as they both saw a pair of headlights shining at them as it approached them. Then, a familiar motorcycle screeched to a halt and on the vehicle was an old ghost rival of Dani's, Jessie 13.
Jessie looked really ticked off at the couple for some reason. "Listen here, princess punk, you stay away from my boyfriend, dig?!" She said to Dani angrily.
Dani looked confused by what she was talking about, but Paul frowned when he walked up to her. He then glowed before he fainted while the ghost who took his place was Jessie's boyfriend, Kyle, who was frowning at her back for some reason.
"Beat it, Jessie! I'm Dani's man now." He snapped as he crossed his arms.
Dani caught the Hispanic prep boy by his arms, but she was completely overwhelmed with confusion. Dani has been fighting against Jessie 13's shadow ghost lately ever since Floody Waters, the day Paul discovered her powers. After she witnessed that Kyle has just phased out of Paul, it turned out Dani has been really dating Kyle the entire time, when he took control of the boy she had a major crush on, and she realized the situation she was really in.
"Kyle? Jessie? Paul?!" Dani exclaimed worriedly until her eyes went wide in shock. "Oh man, I'm in the middle of a love rectangle!"
The Hispanic boy began to wake up when he groaned in Dani's hands. Kyle noticed that Paul was about to wake up before he quickly flew back into his body and possessed him again.
'Paul' opened his eyes, now revealing to be red, and he stared flirtatiously at his new 'girlfriend' while he held her chin. "Now then, where were we?" He asked before he tried to kiss Dani, but this time she cringed nervously.
"Uh...um...this is all a huge mistake." She shuttered nervously.
"Yep, your last one!" Jessie said with a scowl before she whistled out loud.
Back inside the Bowling Lane, Tina slouched miserably by her table, but then she perked up in surprise when she saw the same shadow ghost at the end of a line where the pins were and phased through the wall. The shadow made its way outside as it glared at Dani before it unsheathed its claws.
Dani narrowed her eyes. "I'm going ghost!" She exclaimed before she changed into her ghost form and flew in front of the shadow. However, the shadow wrapped its tail around Dani's waist, spun her around rapidly while she wailed until it catapulted her away in a distance before it followed after her.
'Paul' narrowed his eyes at Jessie, who was smirking up at Dani, but then glanced desperately at her boyfriend. "Come on, Kyle, quit womanizing and come back to me! I-I wasn't looking in the eyes!" She said sincerely.
"Yeah, right!" Kyle snapped, not believing her in something.
The shadow began to chase Dani to the building's antenna on the roof and she hovered on one side as the shadow attempted to grab her, but she flew to the other side while she smiled until they began to fly around the antenna at rapid speeds until the shadow wrapped itself on it as it struggled. Dani gave it a clever smile before she flew off, until it managed to snap the antenna off and unwrap itself as it then threw it at Dani, but luckily her body splitted in two when it passed right through her and ended up demolishing a roof of a parked car.
"Optional sunroof, nice." Dani said to the shadow, making it growl and tried to attack as she flew above and behind it.
When it turned to attack her again, it suddenly got shined by a bright light as it wailed in agony until it faded away. Dani shielded herself from the light while she opened her eyes just as her friend, Tina, adjusted the roof's spotlight away.
"Do your thing, girl! I got your back!" Tina said.
"GET DOWN HERE, FOLEY!" Skye demanded loudly, making Tina exhale miserably.
Meanwhile, 'Paul' tried to run away from Jessie when she drove her motorcycle after him, until she grabbed him by his wrist. She pulled him along before she placed him behind her. "Alright then, let's take us elsewhere, huh?" Jessie said as she began to pick up speed.
Then Dani flew after them when she snatched 'Paul' from the motorbike and flew to the park before she placed Kyle down as he smiled gratefully. "I knew you'd come back for me." He said before he tried to kiss her, but Dani cringed in disgust.
He opened an eye when he saw an angry Jessie driving up to them. She growled and threw her head back in frustrated defeat. "Alright, whatever!" She pressed a button on her bike handle before a portable ghost portal immediately opened behind her. "You want him, princess?! You can keep him! I am so out of here!" She then drove her scooter above them while they ducked until then she flew straight into the portal before it closed.
"She can ride in and out of the Ghost Zone whenever she wants now?" Dani asked Kyle while she stared at where Jessie disappeared.
"Eeh, she stole some doodad from your mom's lab, the last time she here, and then she wired it to her bike." He explained with a careless shrug before he stared at her flirtingly. "But is that really want to talk about right now?"
Dani frowned at him as she removed his hands from her shoulders. "No, we're gonna have to talk about something a little more important."
Dani then flew 'Paul' across town and took him into the Fenton Works lab. She demanded Kyle to tell the story of this little quarrel he seemed to have with Jessie and why he possessed Paul, the boy Dani had a major crush on, to go out with her instead.
"Look, Dani, I didn't want to cause you any trouble." Kyle said through Paul honestly while he sat on a chair.
"You're about eight shadow attacks too late, what's the story?" Dani demanded while she hovered in front of him with her hands on her hips.
Kyle then sighed in defeat. "Okay, you win." He then looked back up at her. "It's like this…"
Kyle (Voiceover):
Ever since Jessie modified her bike so it could come here, I've been asking her to take me here.
About a week ago, Jessie rode into Amity Park on her motorcycle with Kyle sitting behind her. Kyle looked at the town and was amazed by the buildings towering a little, vehicles driving in the streets, and people walking around.
The city sights were amazing, but…
Kyle then turned to face his girlfriend, but then gaped dumbfoundedly when he saw the Jessie was staring at a few human boys that were walking by, making Kyle narrow his eyes in jealousy.
Unfortunately, Jessie was kind of taking in the sights, too.
Jessie then rode her motorcycle down the street with Kyle behind her as Jessie then stared at a car full of men while Kyle looked even more jealous.
And by sights, I mean every single boy in town.
Jessie continued to stare at the men as they braked in a stop sign, and then Kyle noticed they were about to crash to a meat truck. He quickly turned them both intangible as they phased right through with meat products on them. Kyle glared at Jessie, not taking her looking at anymore boys when he finally flew off her bike and into the air as he disappeared above the buildings. Jessie snapped her fingers when her shadow emerged before she ordered it to follow her boyfriend as it began to follow him to Floody Waters.
Kyle landed on a letter of a sign and he saw Dani, Tina, and Sam in their swimsuits before he smiled down at them.
I remembered how much Jessie couldn't stand you, so you were the perfect girl to make her jealous.
While Sam walked away from Dani and Tina, Kyle hovered above him in stealth mode as the goth boy entered the men's room.
I was going to overshadow your friend, the spooky pal in black…
Kyle paused his story as he stared up at Dani with a smirk. "You like him, don't you?" He asked her.
Dani arched her eyebrows in surprise when he asked her this. "Who? Sam? Well...I...uh…" She stuttered, until she hid her stutter when she narrowed her eyes again, wanting him to continue the story.
'Paul' cocked an amused eyebrow like he knew something about Dani she didn't.
Back in Kyle's story, he peeked over a toilet stall as he looked over and saw Sam washing his hands, preparing to possess him.
However, as Sam dried up his hands, Paul suddenly appeared when he rudely shoved him away from the sink as he and his satellite friend, Skye, smirked heartlessly at him. Like how Sam said before, how he had this nasty run-in with him in the men's room.
Sam made a look of disbelief at his preppy rival before he glared and stormed away out of the bathroom as he growled angrily. Paul and Skye then checked on their reflections, correcting their 'attractiveness' while they ignored Sam's rage like he wasn't even there a moment ago.
Kyle smirked before he flew into Paul's body instead as he overshadowed him.
I ended up in this body, go figure.
"...But the good news is, you like him, too. Jessie's furious, I'm more handsome, you're popular, and everybody wins." Kyle said as he looked at the bright side of things.
"Except Paul." Dani reminded him. She knew that Paul couldn't just stay possessed by a jealous ghost any longer. "You do realize you're going to have to stop this, right?"
"Maybe, or maybe Paul Sanchez…" Kyle said in Paul's voice as he smiled mischievously and cleverly up at Dani again. "Might slip up and tell the whole town that Dani Fenton is the ghost girl."
Dani stared at him with wide eyes. "...uh, that's Inviso-Belle."
'Paul' then stood up from his seat as he continued smiling at her. "See you at lunch tomorrow...girlfriend." And then he walked out of the lab.
Dani made a look of regret and worry, now that she stuck dating Kyle (who refused to set Paul free) and he was even willing to expose her secret to Amity Park if she ever dumped him.
The next day at the Nasty Burger, Sam and Kwyn sat next to each other at a table, but Sam still looked pretty angry about last night when Kwyn made the goths kick them out of the store like that.
"Sam, are you sure you aren't miffed? Cause you still seem pretty miffed." Kwyn said when she noticed his glare.
"Why would I be miffed? Just because I can't sit at my regular table…" Sam said before he stared at Dani and 'Paul' sitting next to each other. Kyle leaned his head against his new 'girlfriend' and Dani smiled weakly at her gothic friend. Sam glared at them in anger and jealousy when he crushed a napkin dispenser with his bare hands. "And I can't go to my regular bookstore anymore!"
Kwyn perked up a bit with a smile. "So we're cool then?" Sam only remained silent when he sharply got up from their table and walked away. Kwyn then turned behind her and noticed Skye, who smiled at her nicely. The cheerleader smiled back and waved her fingers at him. "Hey, Skye!"
Sam walked up to Tina, who just got two burgers, two fries, and two sodas for herself and Skye (under Skye's orders, of course). The techno-geek turned around and noticed that her goth friend just walked up to her.
"Hey, Sam, how are things with Kwyn?" Tina wondered.
"Just...fine." He replied reluctantly before he smiled casually. "How are things with Skye?"
Tina looked just about as reluctant as he was. "Oh...never better."
There was a minute of silence, until…"He/She's driving me crazy!" Tina and Sam exclaimed in unison, both looking frustrated by their dates with the former popular kids. They began to babble about how Kwyn got Sam kicked out of his bookstore and how Skye was treating Tina like a servant rather than a date. "You've gotta help me!" They stared at each other until they broke out into laughter.
"Seriously, Sam, we have to ditch Kwyn and Skye, they're like gums stuck to the bottom of our desks." Tina said.
"Yeah, but I'm afraid we're stuck with these losers until-" Sam began, until he got interrupted.
"Sam, Tina." Skye said, catching both of their attentions.
They noticed that Kwyn and Skye were holding each other hands and they stood before them with smiles. Sam and Tina both stared at them in confusion, a little taken aback by this.
"Skye and I were just talking. And we decided we might be less cooler than Dani and Paul, but we're way more cooler than you two." Kwyn explained.
"Tina, I hope we can still be friends…" Skye said to her.
Tina immediately gave Skye the tray with a smile before she and Sam quickly bolted out of the fast food restaurant, now that they were both finally freed from both Kwyn and Skye, their little brief nightmare dates. The cheerleader and the prep boy were a little surprised by this at first, until Skye shrugged it off and smiled at Kwyn.
"That was easy." He said to his new date.
"They're in denial, I learned about that last night at the bookstore." Kwyn said happily.
A few blocks away from the Nasty Burger, Sam and Tina finally stopped in front of a house before they gave each other looks of relief.
"That was easy, now everything's back to normal." Tina said with a smile.
"Almost, we still don't have Dani, who's having such a wonderful time with Paul!" Sam growled when he became angry by Paul's name again as he ripped a mailbox's flag off with no strain.
The next day outside of Casper High, Dani called her friends to meet her there so she could explain that Paul was being controlled by Kyle. She was completely losing it now like she was dumbfounded that she couldn't even see it before.
"I'm losing my mind! I mean, Paul's fairly high maintenance!" Dani exclaimed.
"Really? I hadn't noticed." Sam said as he glowered his eyebrows in annoyance.
"And worse, he's being controlled by a ghost with a crush on Dani!" Tina said, looking surprised that a ghost would actually be in love with her best friend.
"Tina, Kyle doesn't have a crush on Dani, he's using her to make Kitty jealous." Sam then turned his attention to Dani. "I've got an idea about how you can get rid of him, but it's kind of radical."
"DANI!" Kyle called out in Paul's voice. He peeked his head through the corner and glanced around for his 'girlfriend'. "Anybody seen my Dani?!"
Dani quickly turned herself invisible to hide from him. "Radical's good, let's hear it."
Later on, the trio went to the Fenton Works lab as they activated the Fenton Portal and Dani walked to it in her ghost form after Sam explained to her his plan on getting rid of Kyle.
"Well, here goes nothing. I hope you're right about this, Sam." Dani said before she flew into the portal.
"Remember, Dani, be cool. Play it close to the vest." Sam said.
Inside the Ghost Zone, Dani managed to find Jessie, who was leaning on a solid ecto-wall with her motorcycle leaning right near her.
"You have got to take Kyle back!" Dani exclaimed before she grabbed Jessie by her coat and went right to her face, looking like she couldn't handle Johnny flirting with her anymore. "He is suffocating me! I need my space! YOU'VE GOTTA HELP ME!"
"Alright, alright, calm down!" Jessie said with irritation as she pushed her away and readjusted her coat. "You know, you might've needed to play that a little closer to the vest."
"Okay, here's my plan…"
After Dani explained her plan to Jessie, they both returned to the real world when Dani then took 'Paul' out on another picnic in the park together. "Wow, Dani, I didn't think you'd be so thoughtful." Kyle said.
"Anything for you, my man, and you're totally worth fighting Jessie for." Kyle sighed romantically while Dani smiled that her plan was working before she continued her little act. "In fact, I'd punch her a hundred times more and a hundred times harder if she ever showed her sorry face again."
"Is that so, princess?" Jessie asked, standing right in front of them with her hands on her hips.
"Jessie?" Kyle asked when he began to smile.
"Hey, Kyle, I've come to get you back...by force, if necessary."
Dani narrowed her eyes before she jumped off the blanket and to her feet when she faced off against Jessie. "Bring it on, runt!" She snapped before she changed into her ghost form. Jessie tried to punch her, beginning her part of their act, while Dani dodged her blows. "My turn!" Dani then punched Jessie straight into her nose, hard.
"OW!" Jessie glared at Dani before she leaned closer. "Hey, I thought this was a pretend fight."
"Then pretend that didn't hurt." Dani uppercutted Jessie right into her jaw, sending her flying into the air.
Jessie then got seriously provoked when her body glowed green before she tried to double-kick her as she plummeted down, but Dani planarly slid away without moving her feet while Jessie stomped on the grass. She tried to land a punch on Dani, but she merely phased through the grass and while Jessie looked around, confused. Dani phased behind her and smacked the back of her head, which made her yelp before she glared at her.
"Careful, Dani! Don't hurt her…" Kyle begged as he watched the girls fight.
Jessie and Dani then wrestled with each other when Jessie landed on her back and kicked Dani as she flipped and landed on the ground in a stance. She charged straight at Jessie and kicked her hard to the ground as she grunted.
"No! Not her face…" Kyle muttered with plead.
Dani then pinned Jessie to the grass with her foot while she smirked and Jessie, who smiled up at her. "Looks like you beat me again, sis." She said.
"That I did, and now...I'm gonna finish you off for good." Dani said before she energized her hand and raised it to the air while her eyes glowed green, threatening to kill Jessie. "See you in oblivion, Jessie!"
Jessie gave Kyle one last look as she leaked a fake tear. "Goodbye, Kyle, I'll miss you." And then she braced herself as she clenched her eyes tightly.
Kyle witnessed Dani about to seemingly destroy his girlfriend when 'Paul's' eyes began to leak tears. "NOOOOOOOO!" Kyle cried out loud as he flew out of Paul's body and he fell unconscious from being controlled for so long. He made a look of fury when he charged and rookied Dani off of his girlfriend before he held her close. "Don't you dare harm one speck of hair on Jessie's head! I LOVE HER!" He glanced down at Jessie. "You know that, right? That I'll always love you?"
"I love you, too, Kyle." They both got to their feet before they hugged each other when they reconnected their relationship.
Kyle then glared angrily at Dani and stood in front of his girlfriend protectively. "And anybody who tries to hurt my Jessie, has to deal with me!" His eyes glowed red with anger.
"Whoa, whoa! I don't want to get in between you two!" Dani said as she held her hands up defensively. "Look, Kyle, y-you're a great guy, but I am nowhere near as cool as Jessie...and you two are obviously made for each other."
Jessie gave Dani a thumbs up before Kyle took her hands and they stared at each other. "Well, she's right, we were made for each other."
"You, uh, wanna finish this conversation back home?" Jessie asked before they hopped onto Jessie's bike and opened a ghost portal as they rode into the Ghost Zone while Dani followed them before they parked on a rock.
"And so you don't come back…" Dani said before she suddenly fired an ecto beam at Jessie's portal-making handle, destroying it to prevent Jessie from entering the real world on her own ever again.
Jessie glared offendedly at Dani. "Hey, what gives?! That wasn't part of the deal!"
Kyle cocked an eyebrow in confusion. "Deal? What deal?" He demanded as he then looked suspicious.
Jessie lowered her eyebrows, knowing that she was once again in hot water with her boyfriend. "Me and my big mouth…"
"Should've played that one a little closer to the vest." Dani said with a clever grin. She flew back through the portable ghost portal and back at the park before it closed. The ghost girl helped Paul up when he began to regain consciousness, and he got to his feet while he rubbed his head from being possessed for so long. "Excuse me...do you know who I am by any chance?"
"Yeah, you're the ghost girl who saved my life...twice, apparently." Paul said as he smiled gratefully while Dani began to have hope that he really did like her. "Inviso-Belle, right?"
Her smile dropped before she grimaced in annoyance, really hating that ridiculous nickname. "I really need a publicist." She then flew away, leaving Paul by himself.
The Hispanic prep boy sighed romantically after she left.
The next day at Casper High, Paul turned his locker into a Dani Phantom Shrine (or Inviso-Belle in everyone's minds), rubbed a picture of her before he closed his locker shut and leaned against it while sighing heavenly. He really has developed a massive crush on the ghost girl who apparently saved his life twice (well, both times from being possessed at least).
He walked past Tina, Sam, and Dani as they all stared at him. "Hi, Paul." Dani said with a small wave.
"Why are you even talking to me?" Paul asked her rudely, not remembering anything about their recent week-long dates, since he was possessed by Kyle the whole entire time, and he walked away in disgust.
The girl with the Paul Shrine cheered in triumph, now that he has dumped Dani.
Dani sighed sadly before she turned to her friends. "Great, Paul's still in love, but with the wrong me!"
"Welcome back to the fold, fellow loser." Sam said with a glad and somewhat relieved smile.
Kwyn and Daph then came up to the trio with their usual glares. "Hey, Fenton, I'll be needing that membership packet back!" Kwyn said, back to being her old mean, spoiled popular self again.
"Or better yet, we'll be beating it out of ya after school, Fentina!" Daph sneered with a smirk before the cheerleaders walked away as they snickered.
Dani then sighed that she was no longer popular until she smiled at Sam and Tina, who were both glad to have their best friend back. "Well, it's good to be back among friends, although the popularity thing was fun while it lasted." Dani admitted with a small shrug.
"You know what the real rotten thing is?" Tina said as she dug through Dani's backpack and pulled out her hall pass with only nine stamps. "You were only one stamp away from that free frozen yogurt!" Mikaela then walked by the trio with a book in her hand. "Hey, Mikaela!"
"Don't talk to me! You're nowhere near cool enough." She snapped rudely without even looking at her as she walked away in disgust. Tina made a look of confusion while she stared at her oddly, as did Dani and Sam.
