Season 1 Episode 19
The Million Dollar Ghost
"It's WORTH Every Penny!"
Madison, Wisconsin, home of one of the richest and most powerful billionairess woman in the world, Vladia Masters. But she was secretly known as Vladia Plasmius, the evil half-ghost who was bent on killing her old college gal, Jackie Fenton, for ruining her entire social life. Ironically, it was Jackie who technically was the catalyst that helped Vladia become filthy rich in the first place, but she didn't really seem to care at all.
However, she has also meet Jackie's daughter who was half-ghost just like her, Dani Fenton, or better known as Dani Phantom, her new archenemy. Vladia knew Dani wasn't as powerful as her since she was still technically a beginner with her powers, but she still has a strategic mind that could foil any her plans, thus making her a worthy and formidable opponent, but she viewed Dani's good-hearted personality as a weakness and she believed that Dani should be her daughter/successor. She also wanted to take her father, Matt Fenton, as her own, but with no more luck since she confessed her love to Matt, which he didn't take very lightly.
Inside her castle mansion, deep within was a secretly built ghost lab that Vladia created herself when she also constructed her very own Plasmius Ghost Portal, identical to the Fentons'. She was currently in the Ghost Zone, where she was staring down at purple glass box with a green key with a skull head as the handle.
"Ah, there you are: the legendary Skeleton Key. With it, I can open any door, travel to any realm, free any prisoner." Vladia said to herself with her arms crossed as she hovered slowly towards it with her evil grin. However, she froze her tracks when a giant red ghost with four clawed arms appeared out of nowhere as it roared, but Vladia remained unfazed since her amusing smile never dropped. "And you're the only thing standing between me and that."
It growled when it smacked its hands together as it supposingly crushed Vladia, but then it opened its palms and noticed that the woman was gone, much to its confusion. Vladia then appeared a few feet away as she grinned cleverly at the beast before it roared and breathed purple fire, but the evil ghost woman merely threw up a pink shield, just as the fire passed harmlessly around her while she crossed her arms.
The ghost finally grabbed her in its hands while it glared down at her, but she only laughed like the beast was only a big joke to her. "This is going to be a snap!" Vladia said somewhat amusingly before she disappeared into pink mist as the ghost examined its hands in confusion again.
Vladia reappeared at its stomach before she charged her hand with her pink ecto-energy and punched the beast, sending it flying several feet away. She then duplicated herself into four Vladias. Two of her copies fired ectoplasmic blasts at the monster ghost dead on before the third copy formed an energy-constructed rope when she lassoed and trapped the ghost as she pulled while it roared. The real Vladia saw her chance when she made a quick attempt to nab the key while it was unprotected.
However, the beastly ghost managed to break free from the pink ropes as it roared before stretched out its tail and whacked Vladia dead on. It sent her flying and shrieking back through her portal and into her lab in the real world. She crashed into the wall, just before her three copies flew through the portal as well and all shouted before they became one Vladia again.
The ghost stuck its head through the portal as it desperately tried to finish her off. "Very well, Behemoth, no more Ms. Nice Plasmius." Vladia said with a irritated scowl as she charged up her hands with her ecto-energy.
She stormed up toward the beast and prepared to strike it. However, she suddenly heard alarms blaring from her 'ecto-filtrator', which made her freeze in confusion before the Behemoth ghost returned its head back through the portal.
Vladia read off the warning on top of the filtrator. "'Change the ecto-filtrator'? Oh, fudge buckets!" She exclaimed in frustration.
She immediately turned herself intangible, just before there was a bright flash. Vladia's entire lab and castle mansion exploded into nothing but rubble and ruins before she turned herself solid again.
Vladia glanced around in distraught at her demolished home. "AH! My house!" The ghost woman exclaimed with wide eyes. "I can always buy another one, but the key!" She then turned towards her now useless portal, the one that has completely leveled her entire mansion. "I can't get that key without a portal! I'll need to find another working one-"
Vladia suddenly paused and grinned evilly as she changed into her human form before she pulled out a photo. It was a picture of herself with the entire Fenton Family during their college reunion. She shoved a somewhat startled Jackie away as she smiled lovingly at Matt, while Dani glared up at her.
"...I guess I'll just have to steal Jackie Fenton's!" Vladia said before she laughed evilly, ready to begin a new scheme for the entire Fenton family.
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)
Hundreds of miles away from Madison, at Amity Park in Casper High School, Dani was walking down the hallway with her older brother, James. They both felt pretty good about today, since nothing embarrassing and weird has happened to them yet.
"Thanks for driving me to school today, James." Dani said to him.
"No problem, Dani." James said.
"Yeah, sometimes it's nice to avoid the bus and quietly and anonymously slip into school."
Then suddenly alarms began to buzz, taking the Fenton siblings by surprise when they froze their tracks and glanced around. "Ghost alert! Ghost alert!" The intercom announced across the entire school.
James grabbed Dani by her shoulders with an urgent look. "Dani, hide!" He exclaimed.
"Why?" She asked in confusion with a cocked eyebrow.
"Um…" James smiled nervously and shrugged, since he almost forgot that his little sister still had no idea that he knew her biggest secret. "That's an excellent question."
Just then, Dani's best friends, Sam Manson and Tina Foley, approached the Fenton siblings. "What's going on?"
"Didn't you get the memo?" Sam asked rhetorically as he held up a memo paper and then gestured to the hallway. "The school's running ghost drills now."
"Ghost drills?" James asked as he cocked an eyebrow.
Sam pointed behind the siblings, to where their out of shape teacher and vice principal of the school, Ms. Lancer, walked down the hallway with a fake ghost mask over her face. "OooooOoooooh! I am a ghoooost!" She mimicked with her hands up dramatically.
James stared at his teacher skeptically. "Who's that supposed to fool?"
"GHOST!" James heard his mother, Jackie Fenton, shout, which clearly answered his question completely. She slipped in front of her children protectively, in the Fenton Peeler suit, ready for some action. "I got the memo! And I know there are ghosts around here!"
James' eyes went wide. "Mom, no!"
"It's not a ghost! It's an out of shape teacher in a mask!" Dani tried to reason, just as panicked as her brother.
"We'll see about that, kid!" Jackie said defiantly, not really listening to nor believing her own children. "Eat ghost peeler, spook!"
She immediately fired her weapon at Lancer, who screamed in agony. The peeler peeled not only her mask, but her shirt and skirt as well, revealing her white girdle, obese stomach, and pink William Shakespeare pattern undies. All of the students laughed hysterically at their semi-naked teacher before she tried to cover herself up with a portrait of George Washington while she glared at all of her hysteric students.
"I'll never respect her authority again!" A student exclaimed hysterically.
Dani facepalmed herself in frustration while James sighed in annoyance, both of them now embarrassed by their mother's impulsive actions. Jackie looked a little surprised by this herself. "...Wow, she is out of shape." She said as she glanced down at her children with a smile.
Lancer stormed up to the Fentons and glared at them menacingly, but mostly to Jackie since she was the one who made her the laughing stock of the entire school. "I can't give you detention...but someone named Fenton is staying after school!" She sneered coldly as she narrowed her eyes at Dani and James specifically.
"Oh, look at the time!" Jackie and James said in unison before they quickly ran away out of sight, leaving Dani to deal with Lancer while she frowned in annoyance.
After school at Fenton Works the following day, the Fentons (minus Dani) were all in the lab together. The entire room was completely trashed and messed with ectoplasmic goo all over the walls and floor, boxes were out of place, and trash cans were completely overloaded.
"All I'm saying is you might want to think twice before you just barge in like that, you really got Dani in trouble." James said to his mother.
"Oh yeah? You think she's in trouble now?" Jackie said as she gestured to the messy lab. Jackie has been constantly telling her daughter to clean up the lab, but she has been stubbornly forgetting to for months. "Look at this place! Dani hasn't cleaned the lab in weeks! The beakers are caked with goo and…" Jackie suddenly noticed the ecto-filtrator next to the portal, which was overloaded with ectoplasm and she narrowed her eyes. "Would you look at that, the ecto-filtrator hasn't been changed in six months! That can't be good!"
Just then, Dani arrived in the lab with her backpack loaded with heavy books. "And it'll be six more by the time I get done with all this extra work Lancer assigned me." She strained while she sweated a little from the weight. Dani dropped her bag onto the floor next to her before rubbed her sore neck while she frowned at her mother. "Mom, are you familiar with the term 'stay away from my school'?"
"Relax, sweetie." Matt said before he removed his mask hood off his head. "You know your mother loves you and she doesn't mean to make your life more difficult."
"The hunt is on for the ghost girl!" A newsman announced on the television when the news turned on.
"What?" Jackie and Dani asked in unsion, both looking confused by what the news just announced.
"As a result of today's false ghost alert at Casper High, the need for the competent non-Jackie Fenton ghost hunters in Amity Park has never been so obvious!" The TV then showed an image of Jackie in her peeler suit with a semi-naked Lancer covering herself from all of the laughing students.
"Hey, they said my name!" Jackie said happily until she became a little confused. "'Need for competent ghost hunters'? What the heck is that supposed to mean?" She pressed a button on the Fenton Peeler, only to get her face caked with ecto goo while she frowned.
The TV then showed a picture of Dani, in her ghost form, flying on screen. "Luckily, a mysterious benefactor has offered a million dollar bounty on the head of Amity Park's most famous ghost, Inviso-Belle, and has hired the best known ghost hunters to track her down."
"Three...two...one…" Dani and Matt said in unison as they smirked at each other.
"No one is catching that ghost kid but me!" Jackie declared, no sooner than they finished counting. While she shouted, she made a pile of boxes filled with ghost gadgets and devices topple and fall onto the floor. "And Dani, clean that up." And then she left the lab.
Dani, Matt, and James all smiled at each other.
Later that night outside of the Nasty Burger, Dani and Sam have arrived at where all of the hired ghost hunters would be gathering at.
"Dani, aren't you worried? These are the best known ghost hunters in the world." Sam wondered.
Dani scoffed while she smiled reassuringly. "They're the best known, they're not the best." She gestured to a duo, both wearing sixties garments, and a black and white striped tiger that shook constantly in fear. "Groovy Gang and Scaredy Cat."
The tiger then pounced onto the obese boy while it dug its claws into his skin, making him scream in agony. "AHHH! Like those are my internal organs, dude!" The boy, Francis, exclaimed until they both collapsed onto the concrete.
"Jinkies, Scaredy Cat. You're, like, maiming him." The girl, Andra, exclaimed.
Then Dani turned her attention at another girl and boy duo jumping in midair on their motorcycle and ATV respectively. "The Extreme Ghostbreakers." Dani said just before they landed on the ground, braked their vehicles, and high fived each other.
"You the man!" The girl, Stella, said to her partner.
"To the extreme!" The boy, Brenner, said with a smile.
"Right, that's totally extreme!" They revved their vehicles, but Stella toppled off her cycle as it drove away. Brenner stared down at her in confusion.
Dani then looked at a duo of two women, one white with short blonde hair and one African-American dark hair tied in a low bun, ghost weapons, and wore white business suits with sunglasses and coats that reached down almost like skirts with black belts, black gloves, and black shoes. "The government's all-female ghost fighting squad, Gals in White."
The motorcycle drove around them while it splattered tiny mud onto their suits as it drove away again. "We have a cleanliness breach in shoulder section ALPHA." The African-American agent, Agent K, said.
"I'll fill out suit cleaning from number 87B OMEGA. I'll call our immediate supervisor to requisition detergent and fabric softener." Her partner, Agent O, said before they dropped tiny cubes to the ground. "Lock the area down!" And the cubes form into a portable ghost shield over them.
Dani smiled as she turned back to Sam, clearly knowing she can deal with these 'professional' hunters. "It's a virtual who's who and who can't catch ghosts...which means she should be here any second now."
Everyone suddenly heard horns blaring as the Fenton RV suddenly drove in. The Extreme Ghostbreakers duo both quickly jumped out of the way before Jackie crashed into their motorcycle and ATV.
"Sorry about that!" Matt called from the passenger seat.
"Wow, you should be careful where you park those things!" Jackie exclaimed as she leaned her head through the door window from the driver's seat.
"See, Sam? I've got nothing to worry about." Dani reassured, looking completely confident.
Then Tina went up to them while she held up a white ghost costume. "And since you don't have anything to worry about, you won't have a problem with this." She said as she unfolded the costume, showing that it read 'BOO-YEA Tours'. Her friends stared at her strangely while she slipped it on over her head and her arms. "Thanks to Dani, we know the location of every ghost sighting in Amity Park. Tina Foley's Boo-Yea Ghost Tours is bound to be a hit. BOO-YEA!"
Then, the techno-geek yelped in surprise when she suddenly got blasted by green goo. Her costume got completely covered head-to-toe while she stared at herself in stunned silence. "In retrospect, maybe dressing like a ghost in a parking lot full of ghost hunters wasn't a great idea." Sam pointed out with his arms crossed while he frowned at Tina.
Some of the ghost hunters gathered around Tina as Jackie smiled in triumph. "I got her! Me! Jackie Fenton, Dani Fenton's mother!" She bellowed out loud, which made Dani cringe in embarrassment.
Tina removed her costume while she looked a little down. "I'm not gonna grow a third arm, am I?" She asked dully.
The ghost hunters all burst into laughter at Jackie's mix up that it was just a girl dressed as a ghost. While Dani facepalmed herself from her mother's goof up, they were all completely unaware that they were being watched by Vladia Plasmius, who was spying on them with her binoculars. Her ghost vulture lackeys were also present next to her.
"Dance, you big, dumb puppet. Dance." The ghost billionairess said to herself as she removed her binoculars from her eyes and grinned at the crowd sickly.
"I don't get it. If you want to steal the portal, why not do it now while the Fentons aren't home?" The first vulture wondered.
"Dismantling that portal will take time, and while tearing down the portal...I can tear down young Danielle's respect for her mother, assuming she has any. You know what to do!"
The vultures immediately went into action as they squawked loudly and flew towards the Nasty Burger parking lot. Dani's ghost sense went off as she gasped in alert with wide eyes.
The hunters shouted a little and ducked while they vultures flew over them, and then Jackie made a look of determination. "Stand back, everyone! I've got the home field advantage!" She shouted before she brought out her Fenton Fisher and began to chase after the amatuer ghosts.
"Like, that's not the million dollar ghost!" Francis pointed out as he placed his hands on his waist.
"Then we should sit back and watch this. This will be a riot!" Brenner said with a smile.
"And extreme riot, dude!" Stella added.
Jackie continued to chase the vulture ghosts all around the restaurant until she managed to cast her Fenton Rod at one of the vulture's talons as it squawked. "Got ya!" She exclaimed as she began to reel her in. However, she began to fly even harder when she dragged Jackie along. She slid on the concrete by her stomach while she held onto her line for dear life. "I think she's giving up!"
Unfortunately, the vulture ended up making her crash right into the Nasty Burger drive through and demolished it while the Gnal head got stuck on Jackie's head, disorienting her while she rubbed her head. "Welcome to Nasty Burger. Wow, you are the worst ghost huntress ever." The intercom said sarcastically, which made all of the ghost hunters break out into hysterical laughter again.
Dani, Sam, and Tina all looked concerned, not only about Jackie, but about these vultures that had just appeared, and Dani knew they looked very familiar to her.
"Dani, do something!" Sam said to her urgently.
"What do you want me to do? I can't go ghost here!" Dani pointed out, reminding her friends that they were still in a parking lot full of ghost hunters, even if they didn't appear to be any real threat. "Besides, it's not like anybody is in any real danger." Then two of the vultures suddenly snatched Sam and Tina and dragged them into the air as they shouted in surprise. "And...now there are."
Dani snuck past the hysteric ghost hunters and hid behind the building before she changed into her ghost form. She then flew into action as she passed behind the hunters unnoticed. Unfortunately, she accidentally setted off their ghost detectors when they immediately stopped laughing and stared at their devices that were beeping.
"Ghost!" They all exclaimed in unison.
"Oh, quit mocking me." Jackie mumbled while Matt held her up in concern after he managed to get the Nasty Gnal head off of his wife's head.
Dani flew at her top speed as she desperately tried to rescue her friends from the vultures, until Vladia suddenly appeared and grabbed Dani by her throat. She gagged from the woman's strength before she threw the girl onto a roof of a building.
"Plasmius! What are you doing here?!" Dani demanded her archenemy.
Vladia tapped her chin in a sarcastic way. "Hmm, let's see...your mother looks like a fool, there's a million dollars on your head. What do you think I'm doing here?!" She snapped back at Dani's clueless observation.
Dani growled as she glared at her until she charged with a shout, but Vladia smirked when she threw up a pink mirror shield and Dani crashed into it and tumbled in the air until she regained her balance. She then glanced down at the hunters who were currently trying to track her down. "So you hired these idiots to hunt me down?"
"Exactly. Every idiot, except your mother...she's a free idiot." Vladia formed a giant pink racket made with ecto-energy and then whacked it at Dani dead on as she shouted and crashed back onto a roof.
Dani leaned against the roof wall while she rubbed her head. "At least there's one thing my mother doesn't care about, is the money."
"DANI, HELP!" Sam and Tina cried in unison, catching Dani's attention. The vultures finally dumped them into a garbage bin, which only made Dani even angrier at the evil billionairess ghost woman.
"And as much as I would enjoy catching up on old times like when you tried to kill my mother and me, but shouldn't you be getting back to the love of your life and your child?" Dani flew after Vladia again as she fired pink ecto blasts, which she avoided while she smiled sarcastically. "Oh, that's right! My mother married the love of your life, and your child happens to be their daughter, leaving you bitter and alone!"
Dani tried to throw a punch at Vladia's face, but she merely grabbed her fist and electrocuted her as she shrieked in agony.
"Oh please, dear child, must I actually defeat you with one hand behind my back before you realize that you're outmatched." She said smugly while she continued to electrocute Dani, until she was about to change back into her human form, but her transformation halted as she groaned in pain and stared wearily at her archenemy when Vladia stopped her power. "Uh, uh, uh. We can't have you pass out and change back into Dani Fenton now, do we?" Vladia went up to her archenemy's face while she smiled at the girl with her sickening grin. "I've given you many chances, my girl, but today, this might be your mother's party, while you're the guest of honor. Tata!"
Vladia spun around once and hurtled Dani straight towards the ghost hunters as she screamed, catching all of their attentions. "It's the million dollar ghost!" Agent K exclaimed before she charged up her gun.
All of the hunters, including Jackie and Matt, prepared each of their anti-ghost weapons and aimed them at Dani as she flew closer to them. However, Scaredy Cat became incredibly frightened when it pounced onto Groovy Gang boy and dug its claws into him again, making him wail in pain.
"Like, how about a Kitty Krunch?" The Groovy Gang girl said as she held up a snacklet bag in front of her. Scaredy Cat then became determined when it jumped off and roared angrily.
Sam and Tina emerged from the garbage lin while they grimaced from the trash. "That settles it, Nasty Burger smells the same before and after it gets thrown away." Tina said, a little disgusted by the smell.
Sam looked up and saw Dani hurtling towards her doom. "DANI!" He exclaimed with wide eyes.
Dani tumbled to the ground before her parents, the Groovy Gang, the Extreme Ghostbreakers, and the Gals in White all surrounded her and aimed their anti-ghost weapons at her. They all charged up their guns, ready to fire for their own profit reward.
"Uh...I liked it better when they were laughing." Dani said to herself nervously as she glanced at the guns pointing directly at her head. Scaredy Cat then growled at her face. "Uh...boo?"
The cat immediately became frightened again and then pounced onto Agent K as it dug its claws into her face. "Ow, I have a skin breach on shoulder sector five." She muttered.
While the hunters were distracted by the cat, Dani quickly phased through the concrete and escaped from their sight. "Like, shouldn't we focus on the ghost kid? Like, before Jackie Fenton does something stupid and she escapes?" Andra asked the others.
"Where is she?! Where is she?!" Jackie shouted out loud while she knocked them all over with her gun in her hands.
Andra made a dubious look like her point was already made. "Like that?"
Dani phased several feet away from the ghost hunters. Jackie noticed her and charged up her gun as she aimed it directly at her, but the ghost girl quickly phased back through the concrete again and escaped. Jackie glanced at all of the ghost hunters, who were all glaring at her for allowing the million dollar ghost girl to escape. The obese ghost huntress then slouched in sadness and disappointment while she walked away in shame.
A few minutes later, Dani returned to Fenton Works with Sam and Tina and were currently in the lab. Dani finished explaining to her friends about her encounter with Vladia Plasmius and how she was the one who hired those ghost hunters to track her down. She was also fiddling around with the ecto-filtrator that was still getting overloaded with ectoplasm.
"Come on, Dani! You can't tell me the only reason your billionairess archenemy is here just to embarrass your mom." Sam said to her, not really believing that Vladia came all the way from Wisconsin just to humiliate Jackie and thought that she was onto something else.
"And make out with your dad." Tina added as she wiped some ecto goo off of her clothes when Jackie accidentally caked her with the goo after she mistaken the techno-geek as a ghost.
"Yes, that's exactly why she's here: to make my mom look like a fool!" Dani said with her hands on her hips as Jackie entered the lab, but Dani didn't notice while the ghost huntress overheard the rest of her daughter's words. "I mean, did you see the way those ghost hunters were laughing at her? How embarrassing! We're all gonna have to live with my mom's goof ups for the rest of our lives!" Sam and Tina noticed that Jackie was right behind them, looking sad and hurt. Sam cleared his throat and Dani's eye went wide in realization. "She's right behind me, isn't she?"
"Yes, I'm afraid she is. If you need me, I'll be upstairs...doing something wrong." Jackie mumbled sadly as she returned upstairs with slouched shoulders.
"Nice move. Whatcha gonna do next? Make your dad cry?" Tina asked sarcastically as she frowned at her best friend.
Dani groaned in frustration and guilt about what she just said out loud to her own mother. "Great! I just managed to do Plasmius' job for her!" She said as she gestured to where Jackie left.
"Well, there's only one thing that's going to make her feel better: catching a ghost." Sam said with a smile.
Dani then smiled as well with an idea. "You're right, but not just any ghost…" She changed into her ghost form and hovered over the floor. "Public ghost enemy number one."
In the kitchen, Jackie sat dejectedly by the table, still heartbroken from her daughter's words about how she kept on embarrassing her family with all of her lame and impulsive goof ups. "Oh, my daughter's right, I'm a loser! I couldn't catch a ghost, even if one sprang up right in front of me!" She grumbled to herself.
Dani phased into the kitchen in front of Jackie. "BOO!" Much to her surprise, Jackie only ignored her and continued to look down. "BOOOOOO!" She tried waving her arms and leaning side-to-side, but her mother still remained silent. "FEAR ME!" Dani dropped her arms, completely dumbfounded that her mother wasn't even spazzing out that there was a ghost right in front of her. "Hello!" She floated next to her, but Jackie looked away sadly. "Ghost!" She then hovered to the other side, upside down. "Right in front of ya!"
Jackie finally looked at her bitterly. "Oh, what do you want, ghoul? Come to gawk at the big failure I am?"
Dani hovered in front of her with wide eyes. "Quite the opposite...Jackie." She then smiled to herself, looking somewhat amazed. "Wow, I just called Mom by her first name."
Jackie glanced up at her in confusion. "You know me?"
"And fear you! That's why I've come to turn myself in!"
Jackie then frowned dejectedly again. "Ah, no thanks, ghost kid! I'm sick and tired of getting laughed at! I give up!"
Dani looked very surprised. "What?! But...you can't do that!"
"You're darn right she can't!" Dani heard her father, Matt, shout from behind her as she turned around and found him holding the Fenton Weasel. "Eat hot Fenton Weasel, ghost scum!" He turned on his vacuum-like device and began to suck Dani in as she shrieked and got sucked into the device.
She then got crammed inside the box while she looked genuinely surprised from the inside. "Okay...this wasn't part of the plan." Dani said from inside the box.
Matt smiled at his wife and held up the Weasel. "Jackie, you captured the ghost girl!"
She stared at him in confusion. "I did?" She asked until she smiled in excitement and held up the machine in victory. "You're right, I did! Me! Jackie Fenton!" She then held onto her husband and stared at him romantically. "Oh, you're the best husband ever!" She pulled him closer as they shared a kiss.
Dani could clearly hear the sounds of her parents kissing when she gagged from inside the device. "Oh, gross! Hey, I'm right here!" She exclaimed in disgust.
Meanwhile, Sam and Tina were riding all of the hired ghost hunters on a tandem bike, since Tina was running a tour guide business. Dani has asked her friends to keep all of the hunters distracted so they wouldn't try to interfere with Jackie's 'success'. They past by Casper High, feeling really exhausted from all of the pedalling and the weight.
"And if you look on your right, you'll see Casper High...whose halls...have been haunted." Tina panted between breaths while she sweated.
"I know we told Dani we'd keep these guys busy, but couldn't we have done it without exercise?" Sam asked sarcastically while he sweated just as heavily.
Meanwhile, Jackie drove the Fenton RV at top speed as she followed the direction, which was leading her to the location of where she would claim her reward for capturing the million dollar ghost.
"Jackie Fenton will show them who the competent ghost hunter is!" She declared determinedly before she floored at top speed again. A few minutes later, she arrived at an old alleyway, but she looked kind of confused by the location, but it was exactly where it lead her to when she examined it again. "Hmmm, funny place to claim a reward."
She then walked down the alley as she dragged the Fenton Weasel containing the ghost girl. "Please stop! You don't know what you're getting yourself into!" Dani tried to warn while the box tipped from the passing rocks along the way.
"I know exactly what I'm getting into: a bigger place in my daughter's heart!"
"Thanks, now I'm crushed by space and guilt. Look, you have to listen to me! All of this is a trap!"
"Oh please, ghost, why should I believe you?" Just then, a pink ecto-energy constructed cage suddenly appeared out of nowhere as it trapped Jackie inside, much to her surprise. "HEY!"
"Does that answer your question?"
Vladia Plasmius phased out from the wall, clapping her hands mockingly while she smirked sickeningly. Jackie immediately recognized her as the ghost who once tried to possess her at Vladia Masters' college reunion and almost tried to kidnap her husband. The obese huntress glared angrily at the ghost woman in disdain and hatred. "You! The Wisconsin Ghost!"
"Ah, very good." Vladia said as she placed her hands on her hips and smiled in satisfaction. "All of the pawns doing exactly what they're supposed to: leaving you two trapped and leaving your Fenton Portal unprotected, so I can steal it and make it a Plasmius Portal!"
"Wait a minute, you already have a ghost portal!" Dani pointed out, sounding a little confused. She has been in Vladia's ghost lab before in Wisconsin during the college reunion a couple months ago, where she was ambushed by a few ghosts Vladia planted.
"She has a ghost portal?" Jackie asked in confusion as she glanced down at the device and then back at the ghost woman in front of her. "You have a ghost portal?"
"Of course I have a portal!" Vladia said in annoyance, until she made a dubious look to herself. "Well...I did. It happened to have exploded me. Oh well, that's what happens when you forget to clean out the ecto-filtrator. Hmm, live and learn…" She then smirked at the obese ghost huntress again. "Or in your case, die and learn." Vladia then flew into the air and headed straight for Fenton Works while she laughed evilly, ready to steal the Fenton Portal which was her real ultimate goal.
"Oh no…" Dani said to herself. She suddenly realized that she, too, has forgotten to change the ecto-filtrator to the Fenton Portal and that it was gonna explode very soon.
At Fenton Works, Vladia and her vulture ghost lackeys have arrived at the lab where the vultures have began to unscrew the large bolts and tried to dismantle the entire Fenton Portal.
Up in the kitchen, James arrived, but he froze when he noticed that the house was completely dead silent. "Mom? Dad? Dani-" He called out nervously until his father, Matt, covered his mouth and pulled him close under the table.
"Quiet! There are ghosts about!" He whispered to his son urgently.
Unfortunately, two of the vultures phased into the kitchen and hovered above them. "Actually, 'ghosts' is a bit insensitive. We prefer the term 'Ecto-Americans'." One of them said.
Matt then stood up with James behind him as Matt pulled out a green pallet. He threw it onto the ground as green smoke billowed between them while Matt and James both disappeared in the puff of smoke. They both ran down the hallway of the house as fast as they could.
"Come on! We have to get to the weapons vault!" Matt exclaimed.
"We have a weapons vault?" James asked in confusion.
They both stopped in front of a large circular steel door. Matt went up to the console and typed in a passcode, but it wouldn't let him access the vault when the console said that the password was incorrect, much to his frustration. "Darn that woman! Your mother changed the password! There's no way in!"
"Or out!" The other vulture said when she and her partner used their talons to grab onto Matt and James' shoulder and they phased them both into the vault, trapping them inside.
"Oh great, we're stuck!"
"How can we be stuck? I mean, it's like Mom wouldn't forget to install a handle on the inside of the door, right?" James asked, but then he noticed there was no handle on the door, only a note as James read it out loud. "'Note to self: have Dani install handle on inside of door. Jackie'." James made a look of annoyance, now he and his father were officially trapped inside the vault.
Back in the alleyway, Jackie sat on the ground dejectedly, looking defeated that she was still trapped in the cage with Dani still trapped in the Fenton Weasel while 'the Wisconsin Ghost' was gonna steal her portal. She still felt like her daughter was embarrassed by her, so she was basically still heartbroken from before.
"Listen to me! We have to get to your house and fast!" Dani said to Jackie urgently.
"Why? So you can gloat while I lose my Fenton Portal and the respect of my daughter in one swoop?" Jackie asked sarcastically.
"You're gonna lose a lot more than that if your ghost portal explodes!"
"It's not gonna explode. I'm sure Dani changed the ecto-filtrator...I've told her five times."
"Does she clean the lab?"
"No."
"Does she clean her room?"
"No…"
"Would she...uh, I don't know, forget to install a handle on the inside of a weapons vault, or something?"
Jackie's eyes went wide when she finally realized that the ghost girl was telling her the truth. She then shot up to her feet in alert. "Great gallops of ghost goo! THE PORTAL'S GONNA BLOW!" She picked up the hose of the Fenton Weasel and released Dani while she hovered in the air. "Ghost kid, you gotta help me save my family and if you do, I'll set you free!"
"Uh...you just did." Jackie then facepalmed herself at her other big screw up. "Good thing my mom's a lousy negotiator. Jackie-man, that's cool!-you've got a deal!"
Dani phased through the ground and reappeared behind Jackie as she placed her hands on her shoulders and turned her intangible. "My tummy feels funny."
"It happens." And Dani flew right through the ecto-cage with her mother as they made their way straight for Fenton Works, to stop Vladia from succeeding her plans and to prevent the portal from exploding.
Meanwhile, Tina and Sam continued to pedal the tandem bike with the ghost hunters in the back as the teens pedaled harder to the top of a big hill and managed to make it to the very top before they stopped for a breather.
"And if you look...over here...you'll see the top of...this ridiculously big hill." Tina panted between her breaths as she sweated even more.
"Happy place! Happy place! HAPPY PLAAAACE!" Jackie shouted in the sky while Dani flew them across town and above the ghost hunters, catching their attentions when they all saw them both fly away. Jackie was hugging Dani tightly for dear life as they made their way to Fenton Works.
"It's Jackie Fenton and the ghost kid!" Agent K exclaimed in alarm. The Ghostbreakers pulled out some rocket scooters and took off as they performed some tricks and then landing on the ground and chased after Dani and Jackie. "That's our collar!"
"And these are my jewels!" Agent O said as she pulled out a jewel from her sleeves that expanded into a large saw blade and then she sliced the pole connecting the bike to the cart.
Sam and Tina yelped as they rode down on side of the hill at top speed while the cart of ghost hunters rode down the other with the Ghostbreakers. Agent K pulled out a flat blue device and threw it to the air as it attached itself to Dani's chest, electrocuting her and couldn't remain in the air when she plummeted towards the ground with Jackie. They slid on the grass while Jackie covered Dani under the dirt and she stood up to see one of Dani's gloved hands sticking out and she pulled her out of the dirt. Dani gave Jackie a flat look as she settled her down.
They both turned around when they saw the ghost hunters tumble out of their carriage before they surrounded the girls.
The Ghostbreakers then crashed into an empty cart, briefly dazed before they both popped out with bright smiles. "AWESOME!" They shouted in unison. They began to kick a hacky sack to each other until Brenner kicked it towards Dani.
Jackie moved in front of the ghost girl. "Look out for that hacky…" She shouted, until her eyes went wide and then got hit by the sack. Jackie got herself covered in green ecto-goo as she glowered in annoyance. "...sack." She then glanced back at Dani, who peeked over her shoulder with somewhat confusion. "Just so you know, I don't enjoy helping you."
"Then don't! I can take care of these idiots!" Dani said before she pulled Jackie close to her face by her jumpsuit. "Now go save our family!" Jackie gave the ghost girl a strange look and Dani realized what she just said. "Uh, I-I mean yours! Your family, not mine!" After Jackie ran off on her own, Dani floated up to Scaredy Cat. "Boo." She hovered in a laying position as the cat yowled in fright until it jumped onto the other hunters and sent them to the ground, enough to disorient them. Dani laughed hysterically before she caught her breath. "Oh man, this is just too easy!" She picked up all of the hunters in a huge pile and flew them to a garbage bin before she tossed them inside and slammed the bin shut. Just for a bit of humor, she picked up a stray dog. "Get the kitty! Get her!" Dani placed the dog into the bin and closed it up again before she immediately heard a dog and cat fight with everyone else inside.
"This reeks! To the extreme!" Stella exclaimed from inside.
Dani then turned her attention to the real problem at hand, now that all of the ametaur mercenary ghost hunters have been taken care of. "Now to stop Plasmius." She flew to the air and made her way back to her house, ready to finish off her archenemy and foil her plan.
Back in the Fenton Works lab, Vladia continued to watch her vulture lackeys slowly dismantle the Fenton Portal when one managed to get a bolt out, but dropped to the floor by its weight.
"I don't suppose you could move any faster?" Vladia asked her vulture minions impatiently with her hands on her hips.
"We're two thousand and eight years old! Be happy we're moving at all." One of them pointed out irritatedly to her mistress.
Then, out of nowhere, Vladia was wrapped up by a glowing fishing line that caught her by surprise. "What the?!" She turned around when she saw Jackie with the Fenton Fisher in her hands as she glared with absolute anger and determination. Vladia, however, only smiled amusingly like this was the moment she has been waiting for. "Oh, you've got to be kidding! I get to waste you in your own home? Oho, this is the greatest day of my life!" She gathered up her ghost energy as she increased her strength before she snapped the fishing line off her with ease. "Get her!"
The vultures obeyed her command and they immediately charged at the obese huntress.
Dani phased her head invisibly through the wall and saw that her mother was in trouble. "Mom!" She exclaimed as she phased out and prepared to protect Jackie. "I better-"
But it turned out she didn't need to help her out when Jackie immediately jumped into action. She brought out her Jack-o-Nine Tails and whipped it around as she snapped a vulture one dead on, swung the other around, and finally choked the last one by her neck. Jackie retracted the rope and blew the smoke off casually.
Dani watched the whole thing in amazement. "Whoa!" She said.
"Nobody's wasting Jackie Fenton while her family's in danger!" Jackie declared determinedly before she ran towards the portal. However, Vladia blocked her way when she hovered in front of her with her arms crossed and gave her a look like Jackie really was a clueless buffoon.
"Oh please, fool! Your family's in danger every time you pick up a butter knife! It's time somebody put you out of their misery." Vladia said smugly with her sick grin as she pulled on her glove. She then backhand-punched Jackie straight by her chin, sending her flying across the lab while she shouted until she crashed into a counter and her Ghost Gauntlets landed on her lap.
Jackie glared at the arrogant ghost woman determinedly. "I may be a goof, I might mess up...but when my family's at stake, the gloves are off!" Jackie then glanced at her hands when she saw that she has already slipped her Ghost Gauntlets on. "Well, technically they're on, but you get the point!"
Vladia then charged straight at the obese woman she has been trying to kill since the beginning, but Jackie glared angrily when she charged up her gauntlets and she raised her fist up. Vladia gasped in surprise before Jackie punched her straight at her chest, slammed her face to the ground with a double-punch, and uppercutted her right under her jaw.
"Whoa, she's all over this." Dani said while she looked mildly impressed that her mother was taking care of this very well on her own. "Which means…" She then changed back into her human form. "It's time to do my chores." She ran down the lab as Jackie slid Vladia across a messy table by her face while she wiped the trash off the counter. "Well the table's cleared…" Jackie then slammed Vladia's head to another table as she shattered a couple of glass ecto-caked beakers. "Beakers are taken care of…" Jackie threw Vladia across the lab when she slammed to the wall, until the ghost villainess glared and charged her hands before she fired an ecto-beam. Jackie quickly picked up a trash bin and held it out as the beam completely vaporized it instead before she dusted her metal-gloved hands. "And the trash has been taken out. Which means I have plenty of time for…"
Dani rushed to the ecto-filtrator to change it until alarms began to blare. "Fenton Portal to explode in thirty...twenty-nine...twenty-eight…" The intercom warned, making Dani panic as she quickly managed to get the filtrator out.
Dani glanced around urgently. "New filtrator! Where's the new filtrator?!" Jackie then held out a new filtrator before her daughter smiled weakly and shrugged her shoulders sheepishly. "I, uh...probably should've done this any of the five times that you told me to."
"I'm sort of glad you didn't." Jackie said before they traded ecto-filtrators.
Vladia recovered when she hovered in the air and charged at Jackie again, but this time Jackie blew on the used up filtrator while it sprayed ectoplasm all over Vladia's face as she rubbed her eyes. Jackie quickly grabbed Vladia by her jumpsuit, that was now all ripped up, her hair was all fizzled, and her face was all bruised. The obese ghost huntress then activated her ghost portal with a lever.
"It's not possible! You're an idiot, AN IDIOT!" Vladia exclaimed.
"Maybe so...but I'm the idiot to beat you." Jackie said with a clever smirk when she held the ghost villainess closer. She then threw Vladia to the air and punched her as she shouted and flew right through the ghost portal, into the Ghost Zone, before the portal powered down.
"That was awesome!" Dani shouted in amazement.
Jackie gave her daughter a look. "Aren't you forgetting something...again?"
"Portal will explode and five...four…" The intercom announced as they began to toss the new filtrator until they both smiled at each other.
They luckily managed to change the filtrator just in time. Jackie then took Dani up to the kitchen, where she showed her daughter a simulation on her laptop of what would happen if the ecto-filtrator has never been changed in time as their entire house exploded on screen.
"There, you see? That's exactly what would happen if you don't change the ecto-filtrator every six months." Jackie told her daughter.
"Why do you even have this simulation on your laptop?" Dani wondered.
"So I never forget to tell you why it's important to change the ecto-filtrator."
Jackie and Dani both rose from their seats as Dani smiled at her courageous mother. "I won't, and you shouldn't forget this: I'm really proud of you, Mom. I can't believe you beat that ghost back into the Ghost Zone!"
Jackie looked touched by her words when she hugged her close and they began walking down the hallway together. "Aww, thanks Danielle. So, from here on in…"
"I'll remember my chores."
"And I'll remember that my actions will have consequences to others...especially my family."
Both of the girls walked past the weapons vault, which James and Matt were still trapped inside of. "JACKIE! LET US OUT!" Matt called out in somewhat frustration from the steel door.
"MOM! COME ON! JACKIE! Man, that's cool." James said, sounding quite impressed that he, too, has also called his mother by her first name.
Inside the Ghost Zone, a battered and bruised Vladia flew straight into the void, completely shocked that Jackie Fenton, whom she believed to be just a fat and idiotic ghost huntress, was able to defeat her with incredible ease, but all this entire time she has just been underestimating Jackie's abilities as a ghost huntress.
"Unbelievable Jackie Fenton beat me! Me!" She exclaimed, until her humiliation immediately turned into glee when the glass box with the Skeleton Key hovered onto her back. She grabbed a hold of it with a smile that she has finally claimed the prized key she has been looking for. "And yet, here I am! Holding the key I've been searching for!" Vladia then chuckled a little as she grinned wickedly at nothing in particular. "Oh, Jackie Fenton and Dani Phantom, even in success...you both have failed!"
However, a shadow suddenly loomed over her, much to her confusion when she glanced up in curiosity. Vladia saw the same giant Behemoth ghost while it growled and then roared before it swallowed her whole. She knew that she was probably going to be stuck in the beast's stomach for a while, leaving her other plans with the key on hold.
"OH, BUTTER BISCUITS!" She exclaimed.
