Season 1 Episode 18
Life Lessons
"The Hunt is ON!"
It was another nice and normal day at Amity Park as a school bus drove its way to Casper High, but it was very overloaded with students inside since they were all crammed together. Fortunately for Dani Fenton, she was currently in her ghost form as she flew above the bus just minding her own business while she flew to school, not being cramped in an overcrowded bus.
"One good thing about ghost powers: no fighting the school bus crowds." She said to herself.
Unaware to her, she was being spied on by one of her old ghost foes, Skulka, the Ghost Zone's 'greatest huntress' as she dubbed herself. Weeks ago, back way before Dani became a little more well-known by the citizens, she made herself a vow to hunt her down for the rest of her afterlife by hanging her pelt on her wall.
"There she is, the prey that got away. I hoped you've been enjoying your freedom, ghost child, because Skulka has returned to finish the hunt!" She exclaimed to herself before a gun sprang out from her shoulder and she charged it up with a grin. However, to her great confusion, someone else fired a red energy beam at Dani, sending her crashing into a water tower. "What?! A weapon was fired! But someone other than me!"
Skulka heard jet turbines when she glanced behind her and quickly ducked while a streak of blur flew above her head. It made its way towards the water tower and hovered right above a soaking wet Dani as she looked up.
As a matter of fact, Skulka wasn't the only hunter who dedicated her life to hunting down Dani. Floating above Dani on a hoverboard with an anti-ecto gun in his hands was Vincent Gray, in his ghost hunting suit.
Vincent was once a popular boy, but during the whole Cuja the Ghost Dog incident, his mother lost her job and thus the Grays became poor and because of this, the popular kids dumped Vincent to the outcast end of the social school grapevine. Then out of nowhere, Vincent suddenly gained anti-ghost weapons from a certain 'mysterious hostess' and he dedicated himself on hunting and destroying ghosts for the rest of his life, but his main target has almost always been Dani. He directly blamed her for his misfortunes, even though she was never directly responsible in the first place, but he was not a forgiving type of boy and was known for holding strong grudges. He also believed that all ghosts were evil, especially Dani.
"Thought I forgot about you, ghost?" Vincent said as he glared murderously under his mask. Dani stood up to her feet before he then fired a red beam at her. She quickly avoided it when she flew away while the beam destroyed a leg on the water tower instead.
"Nope, but I'll bet you forgot about that." Dani retorted with a smirk.
Vincent quickly flew away right before the tower could fall on top of him as it spilled water. Dani flew away as Vincent chased after her and fired more lasers at her. Unaware to either them, Skulka was watching them both fight, while invisible, like she was watching a tennis match.
"Hmm, they both seem formidable. Maybe I should hunt the boy." The huntress ghost said to herself before Vincent got blasted away while he shouted and Dani flew after him. "Of course, I have sworn a blood oath to have that ghost girl's pelt on my wall." Vincent then blasted back at Dani, sending her flying while he jetted after her.
Dani then fired her own ectoplasmic beam at Vincent's gun and blasted it out of his hands. "Look! I don't want to hurt you!" She said to him while she scowled at him.
"What makes you think you can?" Vincent snapped at her egotistically.
He pulled out another weapon when it expanded into multiple blasters and fired more red beams at Dani, who expanded her midsection into a ring while the beams flew right past her. She retracted her body back to normal before she fired another angry ghost beam, sending the hunter boy flying off again while she flew after him.
"Ah, I know what I'll do." Skulka said to herself with a grin when an idea began to form in her head. She watched as the clashing teenagers flew off elsewhere while she smiled with hunger. "I shall force a contest, between the hunter boy and the ghost girl! And to the winner, the honor of me using their skull as a tetherball!"
Vincent managed to steady his board, his suit worn out and his jet-shed smoking a little as he glared at Dani under his mask. The ghost girl then charged her hand with her ecto-energy, but before she could fire another ecto beam at Vincent, they both suddenly heard the school bell ring. They both froze in surprised confusion and glanced down at Casper High right below them.
"Later for you, creep!" Vincent shouted when he glanced back at Dani.
"I'll be waiting, punk!" Dani shouted back before they both sharply flew their separate ways.
Skulka took out her binoculars when she saw Vincent descend behind a row of bleachers as he retracted his suit and back into his normal attire before he quickly ran into the school. Dani quickly phased into the hallway and inside the ladies room, where she changed into her human form, before she rushed out to her first period class. Unfortunately, she and Vincent were heading to the same class when they literally ran into each other with grunts and they both sat hard on the floor.
"Watch it, creep!" Vincent snapped.
"You watch it, punk!" Dani snapped back.
Before they could do anymore insults at each other, their gym and health science teacher, Mr. Tetslaff, towered of them with his permanent glare. "Fenton, Gray!" He growled before they both stood before their teacher. "Congratulations, you two stragglers have been paired up for a special week-long health science project." Tetslaff held up a bag of flour with a diaper and a baby face sticker. "I now pronounce you man, wife, and child."
He tossed them both the sack as they caught it. They both glared at each other, now that they were stuck together with a ridiculous project, since they couldn't stand each other.
"If you kiss the bride, I'll smack you hard." Dani threatened as she narrowed her eyes at Vincent vexedly.
"What makes you think you can?" He snapped rhetorically while he glared at her as well.
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 class, every student of health science class was paired into a boy and a girl, and they have been charged with a baby flour sack as parents for the week. Dani managed to escape from Vincent, when she handed him the sack, and caught up with her best friends, Sam Manson, and Tina Foley (who have been paired up together for the same project).
"So, let me get this straight, we have to take care of a flour sack and pretend it's our baby?" Dani asked her friends while they all stopped their tracks.
"It's supposed to teach us about shared responsibilities." Tina explained. Then, a jock threw a baby sack into the air before another jock caught it while the trio watched in silence. "...well, some of us, at least."
"The only thing this is teaching me is how pointless this assignment is!" Sam said while he frowned at the sack in irritation.
"Not to mention dangerous." Dani added as she glanced back at Vincent, who was trying to stuff their baby sack into his locker. He missed it completely when it fell to the ground and he quickly picked it up like nothing has happened. "Now that I gotta spend a week with a begrudging ecto-hating ghostaphob."
"Don't worry, Vincent doesn't know your secret. And as far as he knows, you don't know his." The trio then walked down the hallway together.
"Besides, he can't be gunning you if he's too busy taking care of his floury sack of love." Tina said while she hugged her baby sack close to her. She then began to do a singsong voice, much to Dani's annoyance while Sam smiled at her amusingly. "~Dani, Vinc, and baby sitting in a tree. K-I-S-S-~" Then Vincent grabbed her hat and pulled it off her head, which made her pause. "Hey!" He then shoved it into her mouth to shut her up.
"You dropped your hat." Vincent said to her with an annoyed frown while he carried his sack.
Tina spat her beanie out of her mouth and placed it back on her head before she walked away in a huff. "Come on, Sam. Our child doesn't need to see this kind of act of negativity."
"What?! Tina, it's a flour sack!" Sam exclaimed as he ran after her, leaving Dani to deal with Vincent.
Vincent dropped their baby sack to the floor before he and Dani glared at each other aggressively. "I'll make this quick: I don't like you, and you don't like me." He clarified as he pointed between her and himself.
"Cool, I'm glad we worked that out." Dani said sarcastically as she crossed her arms.
"So, I took the time to chart out our responsibilities." Vincent pulled out a chart for their turns on taking care of their baby.
Dani frowned that most of it was her responsibility to watch over their flour sack. "And by 'our', you mean 'mine'?"
"Look, unlike you, I'm busy! So busy, my grades are in the toilet and I really need to pass this class!" Their baby sack suddenly began to cry before they both glanced down at it in confusion. "What is that?"
"You can't just set it down." Dani picked up the crying flour sack and saw the meter switch from 'calm' to 'cranky'. She immediately began to rock it back and forth like a real baby. "These things need constant motion."
Vincent then walked down the hall with a grin. "See? And it's the kind of parental attention that's gonna give me a good grade…" He glared at her threateningly. "Or else." And with that happy note, he walked off.
Dani glared at him for giving her all of the hard work.
The next day outside of the Nasty Burger, Dani was still having a lot of trouble calming down her baby sack since she was still rocking it back and forth rapidly while she hung out with Sam and Tina.
"I've been a parent for only one day, and I'm already down to a C minus!" Dani exclaimed to her friends with a troubled expression.
"Life could be worse, you could be that guy over there." Sam said as he pointed his thumb over his shoulder at the Nasty Burger mascot, that was brutally being attacked by a bunch of snot-nosed kids.
"Oh, Nasty Gnal! Let's get a family photo!" Tina said excitedly before she shoved her reluctant friends away from their table.
"You're taking this way too seriously!"
Up on the rooftop of the fast food restaurant, Skulka was overlooking the trio when she was ready to begin her plan. "Hmm, I'm going to need the right kind of bait to get those two back to battle." She said to herself before her cage of cramped ghosts appeared. She began to look over them, finding the perfect bait. "Too scaly, too frightening, you I plan on feasting on for dinner...yes, you'll do." Skulka then pulled out the comedic Box Ghoul.
"I am the Box Ghoul! And-" She began until Skulka suddenly silenced her with a metallic gag. The huntress ghost then pulled out a fishing rod while she grinned with hunger.
Back with the trio, while Dani continued to rock her crying baby with one arm, she used her free hand to take a picture of Sam and Tina by Nast Gnal with their flour sack.
"Want me to take a photo of you? Family photos help boost your grade." Tina offered Dani.
Dani handed the camera back to her friend before she settled the sack on her shoulder. "I would, but that would require the whole family. But Daddy is too busy with his job to pull his own weight and keep this kid QUIET!" She exclaimed in irritation while she patted the sack's back.
"Dani, you're scaring the baby!" Tina and Sam exclaimed in unison as they held onto their baby sack.
The techno-geek then grinned at her gothic friend amusingly. Sam made a look of embarrassment when he realized what he just shouted out loud. "Which that is not, that's a flour sack." Sam corrected himself sheepishly.
They suddenly heard a weird noise coming from Dani's baby sack. Her eyes went wide with confusion before she peeked the diaper up, until it only tooted a green puff of smoke right at her face. She recoiled from its nasty smell. "Oh, come on!" She exclaimed while she cringed her face in disgust.
Sam grinned smugly with his arms crossed. "Just be thankful it's only flour."
"Then why does it smell like beans?"
"It's the little touches that bring the baby to life." Tina said before she took her baby sack. "Here, allow me."
She then settled her backpack to the ground. It expanded into a baby table with extra napples and a mobile before Tina placed the sack on the table and began to change its diaper.
"Where'd you get all of this stuff?" Dani did think her tech-loving friend was taking this whole project too seriously, but she was mildly impressed by how she got all of this baby stuff in just one day.
"I announced the birth of our ten pound sack of joy on the internet. The online geek community can be very generous to its female members." While Tina spoke to Dani, Skulka began to reel the muffling Box Ghoul behind the trio down at the ground level a couple of times to catch Dani's attention.
It worked when her ghost sense went off while she gasped. She turned around and saw the Box Ghoul behind her right before she spat out her gag. "BEWARE!" She shouted before she got reeled up. The customers inside the building shouted in fear when they looked out the window.
"Oh man! Tina, can you watch the child for me?" Dani urgently asked her techno-geek friend.
"What do I look like, a babysitting service?" Tina asked sarcastically, until Dani handed her a five dollar bill, which immediately made her change her mind when she gladly took it. "Come to Auntie Tina and her babysitting service."
Dani then quickly ran to the back of the Nasty Burger, but she accidentally ran into Nasty Gnal as she fell backwards onto the concrete. "Watch it!" She snapped rudely before she ran off.
"Sorry, it was an accident!" Dani exclaimed, looking very irritated by how people have been treating her. "Jeez, is everybody being a jerk to me today?" Her white rings appeared while she changed into her ghost form before flew into the air and began to look for the ghost. "Now where is that lamo Box Ghoul?"
Unfortunately, she only found Vincent, who was back in his hunting suit and on his hoverboard, as he aimed his bazooka directly at her. "The only lamo ghost I see here is you!" He exclaimed before he fired his gun, which blasted Dani dead on and crashed into a drive-through Nasty Gnal.
"Oh, really? He's too busy to watch the kid, but when it comes to kicking my butt, he's front and center?!" Dani then began to charge at the grudgeful hunter boy while she charged up her fists with her ecto-energy. "Don't you have anything better to do?!"
She rapidly fired several of her ecto beams at him, which he dodged easily before he faced her again. "This is what I do!"
Vincent fired another beam from his bazooka and blasted at Dani dead on as she shrieked and fell to the ground. Skulka watched the whole fight in entertainment from the rooftop.
"At last, people hitting people. Is there anything more beautiful?" Skulka asked the Box Ghoul rhetorically as she held her up with her rod.
Dani continued to fire her ecto beams at Vincent that kept on missing him entirely, until he fired several grenades from his gun. Dani gasped when she paused in midair before she quickly turned intangible and the grenades flew harmlessly through her. Unfortunately, the grenades all ended up exploding on the ground as the citizens scattered out of the way from the explosions. Sam quickly jumped out of the way, just before a grenade exploded and weakened the stand of the Nasty Burger sign.
It creaked as it threatened to crush Tina, who wasn't moving because of her baby sack. "My baby!" She exclaimed in worry while she hugged her flour sack close.
"TINA!" Dani exclaimed with wide eyes.
She quickly flew to her best friend and turned her intangible, just before the sign crashed into pieces from impact. They both turned solid, completely unharmed.
"Thanks...but this is gonna cost you extra." Tina said to her friend while she narrowed her eyes.
"Bill me later." Dani said before she looked back up at Vincent, who was still in the air, glancing around from almost harming those people with his grenades. "Right now, I've gotta stop this fight before somebody gets hurt."
She turned invisible and flew between a couple of cars before she changed back into her human form. Dani looked up while Vincent went back to scouting for the ghost girl. He looked around with his binoculars, but couldn't find her since he only saw people running for their lives and Dani staring up at him.
"No ghost kid." He said to himself before tucked his binoculars away while he made a look of genuine worry and concern under his mask. "I better get out of here before this gets any worse." He then flew away, out of sight.
Skulka watched the hunter boy fly off on his board. She glared in frustration that Vincent and Dani have both stopped fighting each other, just for the safety of the people. "Oh, this is ridiculous, I could skin them both by now." She said mostly to herself while the Box Ghoul, who was nailed to the wall by her clothes, remained silent.
Dani walked over to her friends when everything cooled down. "I outta bust you for child endangerment!" Tina exclaimed while she roughly handed Dani baby sack back, until she cooed on her own flour sack again. "There, there, Mommy loves you. Yes, she does."
"Uh, Tina, point of information, it's a sack of white powder that you almost got killed over!" Sam said as he took their baby sack out of her hands and turned his back towards her. However, behind Tina and Dani's backs, he gave the sack a loving look before he rubbed the mark off its face with his thumb.
Tina stared at him in brief confusion until she turned to Dani and held out her hand. "I'm gonna have to charge you extra, Dani, as a repayment."
Dani rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Fine, whatever." She said as she handed her another five dollars. "Fine, whatever. Right now, I just want to find Vincent and give him our kid...and a piece of my mind." She made an irritated frown when her baby sack slumped forward. When she was about to walk away, she accidentally bumped into Nasty Gnal again, who just stood there in silence. "Please move!" She rudely shoved the mascot away, leaving a floury white hand mark on her chest. She placed her hands on her hips before she walked away.
"I can't carry this thing during my hang-free times!" Tina heard Paul argue with Daph.
"Hey, you preps have your mirrors, all I have are pom-poms!" Daph argued back while she waved her pom-poms in the air. They were both aruping about who would be watching over their baby sack.
Tina then walked up to them and caught their attentions. "Hi, I can't help overhearing, and I think I have the solution to your childcare dilemma." She offered.
At Amity Park's rundown sister city, Elmerton, Vincent returned to his apartment, where he went into his room for his own daily workouts.
Over the past few weeks, after he became a ghost hunter, he began training himself with his weapons and his martial arts skills. The walls of his bedroom were filled with article pictures of Dani Phantom (or Inviso-Belle in everyone's minds), his counters had beakers of ecto-samples. There was even a weapons wall of his multiple models of anti-ecto weapons he has been gaining from a mysterious benefactor, who seemed to be very interested in him.
Vincent used his hatred of the ghost girl to motivate himself into getting in shape enough to enact revenge on the ghost, whom he believed ruined his entire in-crowd and wealthy life. "You can run, ghost girl…" He said between grunts while he did some chin-ups as he glared vengefully at a picture of Dani Phantom. "But you can't hide!"
He froze when he heard someone knocking on his apartment door. "Vincent, it's Dani! And Junior!" She called from the other side. Vincent answered the door, revealing a really miffed Dani when she shoved their baby sack to his hands, much to his surprise. "You're taking the kid, now!"
Vincent made a look of surprised confusion. "But...m-my job."
Dani gave him a flat look while she placed her hands on her hips. "I know all about your stupid job."
"What?" Vincent noticed that one of his ecto guns was laying on the floor. He quickly kicked it away before Dani could even notice. "Who told you about that?"
"Like that matters to you, Gray. The free-ride's over, now get your lazy butt in gear and start pulling your weight!" And with that she began to storm down the hall with an angry scowl.
"Dani, wait!" Dani paused her tracks and scowled back at Vincent, who had a genuine look of plead. "Please, you don't understand! If I flunk Tetslaff's class, my mom will kill me!" Then the baby sack tooted flour into Vincent's face, making him grimace from the smell.
Dani grinned when that happened. "Great, then you might want to think about changing that diaper." She then walked away while Vincent returned to his room with the baby sack.
Unaware to him, he was being watched by Skulka, who was outside the apartment. She stared at the hunter boy with her infrared binoculars. "Hmm, clearly the sack is very valuable to both of them, which gives me an idea." She said to herself with a grin.
Back in Vincent's room, he continued to stare down at the baby until Skulka invisibly grabbed the sack. The hunter boy gasped in shock when he saw it flying by itself until it flew away. He glared when he brought out his bazooka gun, knowing that it was a ghost invading his home.
Dani walked down the hallway with a satisfied smile, until she suddenly froze when her ghost sense went off. She turned around and found her old foe, Skulka, hovering behind her with hers and Vincent's baby sack.
"Skulka?!" Dani exclaimed before she changed into her ghost form while she glared at the huntress ghost. "What are you doing?!"
"Framing you." She said simply before she shouted loudly at the baby sack.
Dani's eyes went wide. "Skulka, no-" The baby sack began to cry as Skulka tossed it to Dani, much to her confusion. She then phased through the ceiling, just before Vincent arrived in the hallway in his suit with his bazooka in his hands.
"Hand over the sack, ghost, and nobody gets hurt!" Vincent demanded as he charged up his gun.
Dani held her hand out defensively. "Wait! It's not what you think!" But Vincent wouldn't listen to her since he only fired several red goo at her as she dodged them and phased through the ceiling while Vincent followed her outside. "You don't understand! This is all a trick, by a ghost named Skulka!" Dani stopped in the air as Vincent made several missiles spring out from his bazooka gun. "Okay…"
The ghost girl descended gently down to the grass while the hunter boy followed her example, still aiming his bazooka at her. "Look, see? I'm putting the sack down, right here." She said calmly while she settled the flour sack onto the grass gently. "You don't want to hurt me, and you don't want to hurt this, right?"
After a few moments of silence, Vincent retracted his missiles back into his gun. He stared at the ghost girl with a look of surprised confusion underneath his mask. "But...why do you even care?" He asked her.
Skulka watched them and glared in frustration that neither of them were fighting like she expected them to. "No hitting? Why is there no hitting? I'm changing the rule to this hunt." She said to herself before she pressed a button on her wrist.
Four jolters suddenly sprang out from the grass as they surrounded Dani and Vincent, catching them both by surprise while they began to charge up with electricity. Vincent immediately became angry again when he faced the ghost girl, thinking that she was behind all of this. "I knew it! It's a trap!"
"No! It's not me, it's-" Dani began to explain, but they were both suddenly zapped painfully by the jolters while they shouted in agony until they both fell unconscious.
Several minutes later, Dani groaned in pain when she began to wake up. She found Vincent laying next to her before they both sat up when he regained consciousness as well. Dani then rubbed her head, until she soon realized that she and Vincent were both cuffed together by a blue, glowing handcuff.
"Greetings, prey." Skulka said, catching their attentions when they both glanced up at the huntress ghost. She grinned down at them with her fists on her sides. "Having failed to determine which of you is the superior challenge, I've decided to hunt you both...at the same time!" She began to laugh mechanically when she gestured to the island around them. Dani realized that she has kidnapped them and took them into the Ghost Zone on an island with a skull mountain at the end.
Vincent began to panic at the sight of the ghost that was towering over them, and the unknown world he was dragged into for the first time. "AHHH! UUUH! HELP!" He cried out in terror until he began to swing Dani around with his unusual strength while he gestured to almost everything. "What is this place?! Who's she?! What's going on here?!" He finally flipped Dani onto the ground when she landed on her back with a grunt.
Dani stood back up as she frowned at her grudgeful enemy. "Okay, in order: this is the Ghost Zone, that's Skulka, Ghost Zone's greatest huntress..." She explained while Skulka looked a little pleased by the last title. Dani then rubbed her aching shoulder while she scowled at Vincent. "And other then you...dislocating my shoulder, we're about to be hunted like animals."
Vincent gasped when he saw several of Skulka's weapons springing out of her suit. She aimed them directly at the unwilling pair. "I'm offering you a sporting head-start, prey...I suggest you take it." She said to them with a hungry grin.
Vincent screamed in sheer terror again, enough to make Dani flinch.
She dragged the hunter boy into the jungle with her in a desperate attempt to get away from Skulka. "Less freaking, more running!"
Dani and Vincent ducked from a net and leaped over a bola trap as Skulka continued to chase them. Dani held out her hands and tried to fire a ghost beam, but her energy suddenly faded away. She stared at her hand in confusion, but then glanced at that the handcuffs that was linking her with Vincent. She realized that they were apparently neutralizing all of her powers.
"Oh man, these handcuffs must be canceling out all of my ghost powers!" She said with wide eyes.
They both stopped in front of Vincent's primary bazooka gun. "My Ecto Grenade Launcher!" He said as he bent down to pick it up.
"No, don't! It might be-" Dani tried to warn, but too late.
He pulled on his main anti-ghost weapon, which was linked to a rope and it triggered something nearby. From the tree trunks, tons of darts were fired when the ghost girl and the hunter boy both immediately hit the dirt until it stopped.
"...booby trapped." Dani finished with annoyance before she gave Vincent a flat look. "See? That's why I took the time to explain the whole 'Ghost Zone's greatest huntress' thing."
They both perked up when they suddenly heard Skulka roaring loudly in the distance. Vincent quickly got back up to his feet in alarm. "Get up, she's coming!" He exclaimed urgently while he tried to pull Dani up with him.
Unfortunately, one of the darts managed to stick onto Dani's leg. Her body began to feel like she couldn't move at all, from the neck down, like the darts had some kind of paralytic poison in them. "I...can't...move!"
She then dropped to the ground, completely motionless, just before Skulka caught up to them with a large bazooka gun in her hands. "Spectral Paralysis Dart, the effects are only temporary...but this will not be." She said with a grin as she charged up her own bazooka gun.
Vincent immediately began to drag Dani across the forest in another effort to get away from Skulka. Her face got hit and scrapped on by a few rocks along the way. "Well, on the bright side-" She then got hit in the face by another rock with a grunt. "He's finally starting to pull his own weight."
Back at Amity Park, the entire health science students have asked Tina to watch over their sacks since either they were busy or because they didn't want to keep on watching a pointless sack of flour. Tina began a daycare, mostly for the money, as she walked down the sidewalk with a four-pushed stroller and she even had two phones beside both of her ears while Sam followed her.
"Flower Power Daycare, please hold. Flower Power Daycare, please hold. Flower Power Daycare...yes, we do accept your parent's credit cards." Tina said through her phones before she turned to Sam excitedly. "This babysitting gig is a real gold mine!"
"That's great, but aren't you worried that our own sack might get neglected?" Sam asked as their sack fell out of Tina's bag and on the sidewalk. The techno-geek was too occupied on her phone to even notice, proving Sam's point.
"No, why?"
Sam picked up the sack and began to rock it like a real baby. "Well, it's just that you seem so busy, and if you want, I could take him off your hand for a few hours."
"Him?" Tina smirked cleverly at her goth friend. "Now who's taking this way too seriously? You're bonding, aren't you?" She took their sack out of his hands as she placed it on a stroller with another sack.
"What?" Sam laughed nervously. "No, I am so not bonding. I just thought you could use a break that's all."
"Well, thanks, but no thanks. No better advertisement than a full caravan." Then she continued down the sidewalk with the strollers and began to talk on her phones again. "Flower Power Daycare."
Sam followed her with a nervous smile. "You're right, it's just a stupid school project. I don't care."
"Flower Power Daycare…"
Sam then glanced down at their baby sack while Tina continued answering her phones. He glared in annoyance that she was too occupied with caring for everyone else's baby sacks for their money instead of watching their own.
Back inside the Ghost Zone, Vincent shouted in fear as he leaped over a bush and continued to drag a paralyzed Dani with him while Skulka pursued them. Dani quickly tried to fight against the dart's affects in her body when she clenched her fist slowly and she tried to move again. Vincent then screeched to a halt at the edge of the island and they both looked down at the bottomless void of the Ghost Zone.
Skulka then caught up to them with a victorious grin, ready to hunt down the two teens she considered were her toughest prey. "No way out, whelps." She said.
"There is one way…" Vincent said mostly to himself in thought.
Dani realized what he was talking about when her eyes went wide. "Wait! Listen to me, don't-" She tried to warn, but was too late again.
Vincent tried to ignore her when he jumped over the edge with Dani as they both screamed and plummeted while Skulka watched over the edge. The hunter boy tapped his feet together which made his hoverboard spring out and stopped their free fall, and also made Dani land on her stomach with a grunt, and then flew away.
"Ha! She might've gotten my weapons, but she didn't get everything." Vincent said while he grinned under his mask. Dani rubbed her head from her little faceplant as she frowned at Vincent again.
Skulka activated her jetpacks and began to chase them again. Vincent tried to fly faster in an attempt to get away from her. "Look, can you slow down please? This is the Ghost Zone, I am a ghost, I can help us both." Dani said to him.
Vincent sharply turned his head and gave the ghost girl an egotistical glare. "Oh yeah? And why should I trust you?" Dani cocked an eyebrow when she pointed at the handcuff that was linking her to him, reminding him that they were stuck together and that he had no other choice. He sighed begrudgingly and rolled his eyes. "Fine, I'm open for suggestions."
"Head for a door, any door! Sometimes they're portals between the Ghost Zone and Earth." Vincent stopped at a random door and opened it, revealing a monstrous train riding right towards them, making them both jump and recoil in surprise. "NOT THAT DOOR!"
They quickly slammed the door shut before they became caboose food. "Well, maybe you should've been a little more specific, huh?"
They quickly opened a different nearby door. When they saw that there was no danger, they quickly flew inside and closed the door to hide, just before Skulka looked around for them.
She sniffed the air around her as she grinned. "I can smell how near they are. The sweat, fear…" She muttered to herself until she sniffed again, which made her make a confused look. "And beans? One of them has had a burrito."
Back at Amity Park, Sam has decided to go home for the day while Tina returned to her house. She entered her garage, which was filled with rocking beds, and had money taped onto them from each of their 'parents'.
"Okay, guys, nap time." Tina said before she began to settle them onto their respective beds. "Night, Alexandria. Sleep tight, Anna. Goodnight, Bianca, you're my favorite." She then felt inside a stroller before she gasped when she looked down and found that a baby sack was missing: her own. "Tina Junior?! My baby! Where's my baby?!"
To answer her question, Sam has apparently took their baby sack away from her as he places a wig similar to his own hair style in his own bedroom.
"Now I know how Dani and the girls feel." He mumbled until he went back to cooing on his own baby sack. "Oh, but you're so cute. If there ever was a weakness of my individuality, it'll be the sweetest little things like you!" He then hugged the sack closer.
Back in the realm of the Ghost Zone, Dani and Vincent have found themselves perfect hiding place in a peaceful jungle realm. Vincent retracted his hoverboard and they landed safely on the ground, now that they were away from Skulka for the moment. There was not even a single sign of any ghosts, so they were completely safe for now.
Dani began to move her arms and legs, and realized that she was no longer paralyzed from one of Skulka's Paralysis Darts. "I can move again. Thanks for the save back there." She said gratefully to Vincent.
"Yeah? Well, thank you for nothing!" Vincent snapped bitterly as he glared at her, making her smile drop. "It's your fault that I'm stuck in this freaky ghost world!"
Dani frowned as she picked up a rock and began to pound it on their handcuff, trying to break their indestructible cufflink. "Right, cause CLEARLY the maniac who CUFFED and DRAGGED us in here didn't have ANYTHING to do with it!"
Vincent sighed when he looked down sadly. "Man, I'm just getting paired up with all kinds of brats in my life, despite how they look on the outside."
Dani froze and stared up at him in confusion. "What do you mean by that?"
Vincent frowned bitterly at her again. "Nothing you'd know about, ghost. Some dweeb has been giving me all kinds of static at school, all because of this project we're both supposed to be doing."
Dani rolled her eyes when she knew that he was talking about him and herself indirectly. "Uh, maybe because you weren't pulling your weight?"
Vincent then picked up a rock and began to pound on their cufflink while Dani watched him with a skeptic look. "Or maybe because she has no idea what my life is like! A job, a second job-"
That made Dani stare at him in confusion again. "Two jobs?"
Apparently, she thought Vincent only had one job, which was hunting down ghosts for his own benefits. So, he gave Dani most of the responsibility for their sack just because he hated her, but she thought that he had no real job morality, besides ghost hunting to satisfy his long-term grudge.
"I gotta catch ghosts like you and raise money for college. I could've been paired up with anybody…" He said until he glared angrily again under his mask when he began to pound the rock on the cufflink even harder. "And I got stuck with insensitive...uncaring...DANI FENTON!" He smashed the rock into pieces at the Dani's name like she was being the jerk to him all this time.
Then, to their surprise, their handcuffs began to project an image of Skulka while they stared at the screen in confusion. "Greetings, panicking youngsters. As much as I'd like to follow the scent of beans throughout the infinite realms of the Ghost Zone...I believe I have something you want...right here." She said as she held up their baby sack with a smirk.
Dani and Vincent both gasped in shock. "We have to go back!" They both exclaimed in unison.
Vincent stared at the ghost girl strangely, confused about why she even cared about his own baby sack. "Even though I have no idea why that sack is so important." Dani said nervously.
Skulka then laughed mechanically that she has found their bait once again.
Back at Amity Park, Tina has quickly rushed into Sam's room and was shocked to see what he has done to their baby sack, and even after all this time that he has been continuously said how dull and pointless the project was.
"What have you done to our child?!" Tina demanded with wide eyes. Sam glanced up at her with wide eyes until she roughly snatched the sack back from his hands. "Give her back! It's obvious Tina Jr. needs a headstrong mother."
"No way!" Sam argued when he took the sack back and frowned at his best friend. "Keenith needs to be raised in a nurturing environment, not some overcrowded baby barracks!"
Tina's eyes went wide in worry when she remembered about the other flour sacks. "Oh my gosh! The other babies!" She kissed their baby sack. "Gotta go!" She then accidentally kissed Sam on the lips, which made them both recoiled and stared at each other in shock. "Uhhhhhh…"
"...That never happened." Sam said after a moment of stunned silence.
Tina gave him a sheepish yet nervous smile. "You got that right! Mommy's gotta run!" And she ran out of Sam's bedroom in a hurry.
"Don't forget to pick up milk!" And then Sam glowered in annoyance.
Back in the Ghost Zone, Dani and Vincent flew back into Skulka's Island while Skulka herself watched them hop off the hoverboard when Vincent retracted it back into his feet before they both began to look around.
"That's it, come to my trap." Skulka said quietly to herself, until the baby sack suddenly began to cry, making her jump and drop it in surprise. "What is this thing? And why won't it stop this infernal racket?!" She began to squeeze it tightly to silence it.
Luckily, Dani and Vincent heard it when they both sprang into action, just before Skulka slammed the sack to the ground and brought out her wrist gun.
"Silence!" Skulka exclaimed until Dani shoved her arm away before she could destroy their sack while Vincent grabbed it. They landed on the ground just as Skulka aimed her gun at them.
"Go high!" Dani shouted before Vincent brought out his hoverboard and they flew into the air as they avoided Skulka's beams.
"Go low!" Vincent shouted back before they dove to ground level as they dodged more attacks. They held out their cufflink as they tripped Skulka when she fell to the ground with a grunt.
They both hovered in the air while Dani gave Vincent an impressed smile. "Hey, I think we got this teamwork thing down."
However, Skulka then jumped up and grabbed the teens off of the hoverboard as she held them up high by their cufflink. "Just in time to get our butts fried!"
"Now, before I destroy you both…" Skulka began with a glare before she snatched the baby sack from Vincent and examined it with curiosity. "I must know what is so valuable about this package?"
Vincent frowned at the thick-headed huntress ghost. "It's not the package that's valuable, it's how you take care of it that counts."
"And sister, you're a terrible father." Dani added as she frowned at Skulka.
The baby sack then farted the funky bean-smelling flour onto Skulka's face, making her release the sack and the cuffed teens when she covered her face and shouted from the disgusting smell. Dani then spotted Vincent's booby-trapped Ecto Grenade Launcher gun within arms reach when she grabbed onto it.
"Hey, what are you doing?!" Vincent demanded.
"Giving Skulka a taste of her own booby trap." Dani replied with a smirk before she pulled on the gun and triggered the Spectral Paralysis Dart trap. The bushes fired darts when Dani and Vincent both quickly hit the dirt again while the darts spiked onto Skulka's mechanical body instead, making her scream.
"I can't see!" She exclaimed before her own robotic body began to freeze from her own trap she set up. "Can't...move!" She then collapsed to the ground with her arm stuck behind her back and the other above her head.
Dani and Vincent approached her, now that she was officially defeated once again. "Please, don't get up on our account."
Dani then reached through Skulka's suit, pulled out a key, and used it to make the handcuffs that linked her with Vincent disappear, setting them both free while Dani's powers began to return. They walked off with their baby sack, leaving a paralyzed Skulka all by herself and completely helpless.
"Okay, uh, n-now my nose itches. A little help here...anyone? P-please?" Skulka pleaded.
Dani only came back with the baby sack and made it fart flour onto her face again before she walked off again, leaving Skulka coughing from the bad smell.
Back at Amity Park, Tina ran back into her house and into the kitchen where her father, Alex, was baking some chocolate chip cookies.
"Hi, Dad." Tina greeted.
"Cookie, dear? Started them up for the big bake sale." Alex offered his daughter as he held up a tray full of cookies.
Tina took one of the cookies happily and took a bite. "Thanks, Dad."
"No...thank you, dear, for picking up all that flour for me." And he walked out of the kitchen with the tray. Tina spat out her cookie in surprise from what her father just told her.
The techno-geek turned towards a counter with wide eyes and found a pile of baby sacks with no contents at all. Now all of her classmates will have big fat Fs and they were all gonna kill her for sure.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" She screamed to the top of her lungs.
Back inside the Ghost Zone, after Vincent managed to recover his weapons from Skulka's booby traps, he and Dani walked to the edge of the island to begin their depart. The hunter boy held up the now dirty and teared up baby sack from it farting out too much flour.
"At least it stopped crying." Vincent said before he turned to Dani, who walked up next to him. "I guess I was kind of harsh on you before, especially to Fenton. I never thought a ghost would be anything but trouble."
"That's because you've never bothered to get to know one." Dani said before she held out her hand to him. "Truce?"
Vincent stared at her hand and back up to her before he frowned grudgingly and shook it. "For now. Get me out of this ghost world and we'll see how long it lasts."
"Zone, it's more of a zone." Dani then shrugged a little with a casual smile. "But if you insist..." She then turned intangible and phased into Vincent's body as she possessed his body. "But we're gonna have to do it my way though."
Dani then flew through the across the Ghost Zone until she reached the Fenton Portal, and she flew into the lab and phased Vincent through Fenton Works. She then made him fly back to his apartment room in Elmerton, where she landed him on his bed in his room and made him change out of his ghost hunting suit. She finally phased out of his body, which made him fall unconscious on his bed.
"Now to get out of here before he-" Dani said to herself quietly until she turned around and found a Nasty Gnal mascot costume lying on his bedroom floor. "Oh man, you've gotta be kidding me." She picked it up and examined it until she heard Vincent yawning when he was about to wake up. She quickly hid behind the costume and changed back into her human form.
"Huh? Who's there?!" He demanded.
"Uh, sorry, it's just me!" Dani revealed herself from behind the costume and his eyes widen in surprise. "The door was open and according to your chart it's my turn to take the baby and-"
Vincent gasped before he snatched his costume away from Dani's hands. "Give me that!" He glared at her threateningly. "And you better not tell anybody about this! I mean it! YOU BETTER NOT!"
Dani noticed a hand mark she left on costume, and she realized that the person she shoved out of the way was Vincent and he really has been busy like all those times he told her earlier. "I won't tell anybody...oh man, this has got to be the worst job ever. I didn't know this was the job you were talking about."
"That's because you've never bothered to get to know me." Vincent settled his costume on his bed.
Dani looked down while she placed her hands on her hips. "Yeah...and I'm supposed to be the good guy."
Vincent turned to her when he arched an eyebrow. "What?"
She laughed softly as he approached her with his arms crossed. "Nothing, nothing." Dani began to play with her fingers while she made a look of reluctance and guilt. "Look, Vincent...I-I know we've had a rough start ever since your mom...you know, and even this past week during the project." She then hugged her arms and rubbed them a little while she looked down. "But I'm so sorry I've been acting like a total brat to you...I hope that we could set aside the past and start over." Vincent's expression didn't change, but was listening to her every words when he only raised his eyebrows just barely. "Uh, I could...maybe first I could make it up to you?"
"You can start by not getting mad." Vincent held up their now ruined and dirty baby sack while Dani stared at it in confusion, even though she knew that they were gonna flunk Tetslaff's class.
The next day at Casper High in Tetslaff's classroom, the students had their now empty baby sacks, thanks to Tina's cheap behavior and that her father impulsively used their school projects to bake some cookies.
"Fenton, Gray, your flour sack is a disgrace." Tetslaff said as he held up their sack for everyone to see. "But...since it's not part of a cookie, I'm giving you a C."
Dani and Vincent smiled at each other for the first time. They have finally made their peace the other day, probably because Vincent accepted Dani's apology and admittance of her sincerity.
Tetslaff then turned his attention to Sam, who was the only one whose sack was completely unharmed. "Manson, for exemplary parenting skills and if questionable taste in hairdos, I'm awarding you an A." He said to the goth boy.
Sam smiled brightly before he hugged his sack, making it fart flour into Tina's face, who flinched from the bad flour smell.
"And as for you, Ms. Daycare…" Tetslaff growled angrily when he went aggressively to Tina's face, which made her cower in fear.
The following day after school, Tina has been forced to refund everybody's money and go out of business, much to her somewhat dismay. She handed the money back to the students by the Nasty Burger, who each gave her glares for her making them fail their project.
Once Tina was finished refunding everyone's money, she teared down the sign and began to roll it up before Sam approached her with his sack. "Cheer up, Tina, you can still visit Keenith on weekends." Sam said.
"Sam...it's just a flour sack." Tina said plainly.
She threw the banner away behind her, but accidentally smacked it on Nasty Gnal's head. "Hey, watch where you throw that thing! Show some respect, huh?" Dani said through the costume.
"Wait, Dani?" Sam asked as he and Tina approached her while she tossed the banner off of her head.
"Yeah. The other day, I was such a brat to...uh, the person who wore this thing, and I figured I'd give that person the day off."
Sam smiled in somewhat understanding. "Oh, you're not half bad, Dani, and maybe one day Vincent will see that the other half isn't either."
"I didn't say it was Vincent."
"You didn't say it wasn't. Wherever Vincent is, I'm sure he's finally enjoying himself."
Of course Sam was right since in the outskirts of town, Vincent was chasing after the Box Ghoul in his ghost hunting suit. He fired a few of his anti-ecto beams at the ghost, who shouted in fear as she dodged the teen ghost hunter's attacks while she desperately tried to get away from him.
"You're going down!" Vincent declared as he charged up his gun.
"You cannot catch me! For I am the Bo-AHH!" The Box Ghoul exclaimed, but she didn't get to finish her constant catchphrase when Vincent blasted her right on the butt. She cringed from the pain while she held onto her rear.
