Season 2 Episode 3
Pirate Radio
"It Will SHIVER Your Timbers!"

It was a quiet, peaceful night in Amity Park. There was no moon in the sky and stars began to show themselves as a meteor shower occurred, and showed the Milky Way. On the rooftop of the Fenton Works OP Center, Dani Fenton and Sam Manson were looking up at the sky with their telescopes, watching the shooting stars. Their techno-loving friend, Tina Foley, sat behind them while she relaxed and enjoyed the fresh night air with a radio next to her.

"Ah, clear skies, no moon. A perfect night for stargazing." Dani sighed as she watched more shooting stars fly across the sky through her scope.

Sam then heard some weird, clam and majestic music that was playing on their radio. "More like star snoozing." He groaned in annoyance as he turned around and glanced at Tina with his fists on his sides. "This music is putting me to sleep. Can't we listen to something else?"

Tina turned the knob to play that other stations, but they all oddly seemed to be playing the same relaxing music. "Survey says...no." She said with a dull frown.

The ground suddenly began to shake, making the trio freeze in shock before Dani's ghost sense went off. They all looked down just as the saw a giant ghost-like pirate ship phasing through the road in front of Fenton Works. The ship was green and had a skull emblem on its sail as it flew in the air instead of using water obviously. The ship turned while it revealed a crew of skeletal, zombie-like ghost pirates all roaring and laughing. The ship's cannons then fired grappling hooks and anchored onto the roof of the OP Center, before the pirates ziplined from the ropes and surrounded the surprised trio.

"Survey says: going ghost!" Dani shouted as she glared determinedly at the ghosts. She swung her arms into the air as she changed into her ghost form. She then hovered in front of the pirates and got into a fighting stance. As they drew their swords, Dani gestured her fingers for them to attack her while she grinned. "Come on, boys...hit me with your best shot."

Then from the shadows on the ship, a hooked hand poked onto the deck edge, surprising everyone when they all looked up. Then a young ghost girl with pale skin, green eyes, freckles on her cheeks, and green hair hovered into the air. She wore a big black captain's hat with a green skull and crossbones emblem on front. She had two gold earrings, and had a hook for a left hand and a peg leg for a left foot, and wore a gray jacket with a black belt over a striped green shirt, and green pants. On her right foot was a black boot.

"Avast ye...oh man, what's the word?" The kid ghost asked her parrot in confusion.

"Scurvy dog." She replied sourly before she squawked.

"Right!" The kid ghost smiled again and looked down at Dani. "Avast ye, scurvy dogs! Prepared to be boarded by Captain Youngphasma and her skeleton crew!" Her crew looked more silly than scary since either their eyes would droop down and their heads would spin in a three-sixty degree turn repeatedly.

"Hey, isn't it past your bedtime, kid?" Dani asked as she flew in front of her, looking unimpressed that her new ghost enemy was just some small ghost kid.

Youngphasma glared at her as she held out her hook and it shifted into a catapult. She pulled it back, creating a red ecto-ball in the process, and shot it dead on at Dani's chest as she sent her flying backwards.

"Don't call me kid! I'm mature beyond me years!" She exclaimed offendedly before she raspberried immaturely with her hands beside her head. Her crew sliced the Ghost Shield Generator off the OP Center's antenna and another caught it in his arms. "Fall back, me harties! We got the…" She paused and made a dubious look. "Got the...what's the word?"

"Booty." The parrot said.

Youngphasma laughed a little. "Ha! You said booty." And the rest of her crew laughed at the little joke.

Dani then noticed the pirate ghosts with the shield generator. "Hey, they're stealing my mom's Ghost Shield Generator!" She exclaimed as they flew back into the ship.

Dani tried to go after them, until Youngphasma held out her peg leg and shifted it into a cannon. She then fired a cannonball at her gut, sending her falling back next to her friends while the cannon crashed near her feet. Before Dani could even recover from the blow, the ship began to fly away, just as it disappeared in a flash of light.

"Nice going, maiden, you just got your butt kicked by Young Emma Swan." Sam chuckled sarcastically as he smiled down at his ghost friend with his arms crossed.

Dani stood back up and frowned at her goth friend. "Hey, considering she just took my mom's ghost shield, you think you could be a little more sympathetic, like Tina?" She asked rhetorically, until she heard Tina laughing behind her. She glanced at her friend in somewhat confusion. "Uh, Tina?"

"She said booty." Tina said, referring to the parrot's joke earlier.


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)


The next morning at Fenton Works, the Fenton family were all in the kitchen together for breakfast. However, Dani's parents, Matt and Jackie, and her older brother, James, seemed very distracted and very relaxed while they listened to the same music that Dani and her friends were listening to last night.

Matt and Jackie were working on some inventions, but they were both smiling and daydreaming absentmindedly from the song. James smiled blissfully while he lazily stirred up his cereal and rested his cheek on his fist, enjoying the song as much as his parents were. Dani was the only one who was unaffected by this music, since she was glancing between her family and the radio with an odd look.

She then tried to reach for the radio to switch it to a different station. "DANI!" Her parents and brother exclaimed almost immediately. She quickly retract her hand away from the radio, a little startled from her family's outburst.

"Mom, Dad, FYI, when you're fourteen, easy listening isn't that easy. Could I please turn this off?" Dani begged somewhat desperately.

Jackie, Matt, and James then held the radio close to them, like the song was the most important thing in the world to them. "NO!"

Dani stared at them in confusion. "You can't possibly like this music that much."

"I do, dear. It relaxes me." Matt said with a sigh while he went back to listening to the music.

"And me." James added with his head on the table and held up his hand until he plopped it back on the table.

"It's much more soothing than that other song I've been hearing all morning." Jackie said while she frowned irritatedly at nothing in particular.

"Warning! Security breach! Ghost shield not operational!" The Fenton Works intercom announced as the alarm blared. Jackie and Matt, however, didn't seem to notice nor care about the warning alarm like they usually do. Whenever they hear some kind of security alarm in their house, they would immediately go into action, but oddly not this morning.

"Uh, that would be the warning signal." Dani pointed out to her folks.

"And it's interfering with the cool, easy sounds of morning radio. So, crank up the tunes, Jameson!" Jackie said to her eldest son. He gladly leaned over the table to turned the radio's volume up.

While Jackie, Matt, and James all continued to enjoy the music, Dani gave her family another strange look and then the radio before she walked off to get ready for school.

Later on that morning in Casper High, Dani walked with her best friends down the hallway. They began to discuss about this new morning radio that has been playing on every single station, and it seemed to be the biggest hit for their own parents. Not only that, but being occupied with the music now seemed much more important to Dani's parents than even caring that their own ghost shield has been stolen by some ghost pirates the other night.

"I don't get it. The ghost shield's gone, and it barely registers a blip on the parental radar." Dani said to her friends.

"My parents have been acting kind of flaky, too. All they do is listen to that new-age vapor drone that's playing on every station." Sam said with a hint of annoyance in his voice while he rolled his eyes at the thought.

"Tell me about it. My folks crank it twenty-four seven." Tina said before she shrugged a little. "Must be a generational thing."

"And the worst part is, I can't get it out of my head!" The trio exclaimed in unison while they covered their ears, until they heard the same music in the school. "Wait, you hear it, too?"

They looked at the gymnasium in front of them and saw a sign that said that there was a DJ audition happening in the gym. The trio smiled at each other before they entered the gym and saw a line of students going up to the podium on top of the bleachers. The school teacher, Ms. Lancer, was playing and enjoying the same exact music that has been playing in every station.

"Since we announced our new school radio station, an anonymous donor has been kind enough to provide us these promotional and incredibly soothing vinyl album." Lancer said through the microphone.

"Vinyl? What is this, the stone age?" Tina asked sarcastically.

"Of course, you kids should feel free to-as you kids might say–'Bust out your own freaky beats'!" Lancer then frowned at the students currently in line. "As long as they're not too freaky or too, uh...beating."

Dani excitedly shoved Daph Baxter and her friend, Kwyn, out of the way when she heard that. "Sweet! Where do I sign up to yank this crud off the air?" She asked her teacher as she slipped on a pair of headphones and removed the scratcher off the vapor disc.

"Fenton, a DJ? Yeah right, who'd ever listen to you?" Daph retorted sarcastically while she frowned at her rival.

Dani frowned at the cheerleader. "I'll show you who'll listen." She then leaned to the microphone. "What do we want?!" The students outside remained absolutely silent as they ignored her. "Uh...this is the part where you say 'good music'. What do we want?!"

"Uh...good music?" Sam and Tina both said reluctantly.

Daph then shoved Dani aside as she smiled at the microphone. "What do we want?!"

"GOOD MUSIC!" The crowd of teens chanted loudly.

"When do we want it?!"

"NOW!" Youngphasma shouted from out of nowhere, catching everyone's attentions when they all froze with bewildered wide eyes.

Everyone then glanced up and saw the ghostly pirate kid appear out of the air with her entire ghost crew, which made them all scream and run away for their lives. Even Daph and Ms. Lancer immediately bolted out of the podium in sheer terror, leaving Dani all alone.

"Being ignored does occasionally have its advantages." Dani admitted to herself with a smirk while she removed her headphones. "Going ghost!" She quickly changed into her ghost form and phased out of the podium, ready for action as she glared down at the ghostly pirate crew.

"Avast ye, bildrats!" Youngphasma shouted, until she made a look of doubt and quickly glanced at her parrot. "Uh...bildrats, right?" The parrot ghost nodded her head. "Our plunder lies afore!" They all phased into the weight room, where Dani followed them into. She witnessed them remove all the exercise bikes and treadmills from their bolts while they tossed them into a pile.

"Love to break this to you, boys, but you can't build muscle tone without muscle." Dani said while she grinned at them with her arms crossed.

The pirate ghosts roared as they charged at the ghost girl, but she hovered over one, which made him crash into a wall. She ducked her head from another, and the last one swung his hook at her while she leaned out her midsection to avoid it, making him spin around a little. Dani pulled on his arms, making them rip off from their bones in the process, and then used them to swap the ghost away into the other disoriented pirates.

Dani then hovered in front of Youngphasma, still unimpressed. "Another play date with Captain Kid."

Youngphasma glared and aimed his hook before she fired four more at Dani, pinning her to the wall with her wrists and ankles bolted tightly. She strained to break free, but the hooks wouldn't budge before she glared at the ghost kid, who briefly smirked at her amusingly.

"Get the stuff and let's go!" She ordered out loud, somewhat urgently. The crew did as they were told when they immediately grabbed the exercise equipment and phased through the ceiling. Youngphasma gave Dani one last smile before she followed her crew out of the school.

Dani finally managed to break free from the hook traps, by making them shatter from her strength. She rubbed her wrists before she followed the ghost pirates out of the school. However, when she looked around outside of the building, but discovered that all of the pirate ghosts have already disappeared without a trace: no ship, no crew, no Youngphasma.

"Great, hide and seek again." Dani murmured to herself glumly.

After school that afternoon, Dani walked with Sam and Tina back to Fenton Works for the day. Along the way, they passed by some adults, who were all listening to the exact same music they have been hearing all day. The adults seemed to be enjoying this music a little too much, since they were too distracted to even work.

"So, what do ghost pirates want with exercise equipment?" Tina wondered in curiosity.

"Call me Ms. Skeptical, but I can't help feeling it has something to do with this lousy music." Dani admitted out loud. Down the street, the teens were chasing an ice cream truck while the adults chased the other ice cream truck that played the same vapor drone music. "But there's also something...familiar about this music...like I've heard it way back before today." Dani looked down, like she tried to remember where she heard this music, but then she shrugged it off. "I guess I must be imagining things."

"We have to counteract it somehow, send some real music into the airwaves." Sam said, until he paused with a smile. Another one of his own ideas clicked in his head when he turned to his friends excitedly. "We should start our own radio station!"

Dani cocked an eyebrow and placed her hands on her hips, looking skeptic about his plan. "And where exactly will we get the equipment to do that?" Sam smiled even more when he pointed up towards the Fenton Works OP Center right above him. Dani laughed nervously when she realized what he was talking about. "No way."

Sam only gave her a smug look as he cocked an eyebrow at her with his arms crossed.

Dani then immediately ran into the kitchen with her friends behind her. "Mom, Dad! I really want to use the Emergency OP Center to start a radio station!" She called out, only to realize that her folks weren't even in the kitchen: only a brochure on the table with a sticky note attached to it.

After a moment of silence, Sam smiled again and raised a hand up. "That's a 'yes'!" He said.

Dani ignored him when she picked up the brochure and read the note out loud. "'Your father, brother, and I are on a weekend getaway fun cruise. We're sure you will take charge and act responsibly. Love, Mom'." She removed the note and examined the brochure picture of a cruise ship with a weird name. "'AM. Bersback Cruise Lines'? Weird...they went on a fun cruise with James, who isn't fun in the least? You know what this means…"

The trio then made their way up to the OP Center when Sam kicked open the door. "Cool! They left it open for us!"

They saw a DJ station at the corner of the room with multiple buttons to every activity in the OP Center, even Dani barely knew how it even worked. She has rarely ever been up in the OP Center before, but all she knew was that the center was more than just for location ghostly activities.

Dani was still more suspicious about everything that has been happening since the night the ghost pirates stole her mom's ghost shield generator. "The music, the pirate ghosts, my parents, and now this cruise ship? Something weird is going on and we need to get to the bottom of it." She said to her friends with seriousness and suspicion in her voice.

"So your family's taking a cruise, what's the worst that could happen?" Tina asked rhetorically.


It was unknown if it was fortunate or unfortunate, but either way, Tina spoke a little too soon.

Every single parent and adult in Amity Park began to pack their things for this fun cruise the next day, leaving their brochures behind for their kids, and took taxis straight for the AM. Bersback Cruise Lines. It was like this 'fun cruise' was even more important than caring for their children. To the teens at Casper High, however, it was more like the best day of their lives, now that their parents were gone and left their children alone, unsupervised.

"Your parents ditched you, too?" Tina asked Sam as they both held onto their brochures their parents left behind for them.

"Yep, my parents are gone...and just because I like saying it, I'll say it again: my parents are gone!" Sam said gleefully as he raised his fist into the air in triumph and joy, like this was the moment he has been waiting for his entire life.

"It's like this music is attracting every single adult in town...and my brother who thinks he's an adult." Dani said while she began to think to herself.

Dani was currently the only one who remained suspicious about what was happening, which was a little odd and ironic. It was mostly Sam who was the serious and suspicious one of the group, while Dani and Tina were usually the more ignorant ones.

"Just think of it as the hand of fate pushing the PARTY on the air." Sam said reassuringly with a small shrug before he crossed his arms.

Dani stared at him in confusion. "Party? What party?"

Sam smiled when he pulled out a flyer logo for their new radio station that read 'Dani Fenton's PARTY: Providing Alternative Radio To You!'. "Providing Alternative Radio To You! ~P-A-R-T-Y!~"

"~We ain't got no alibi!~" Tina chanted with Sam while they pinned their backs together.

"You've already designed a logo?" Dani asked in disbelief.

"And I've got our first sponsor." Tina pulled up a Nasty Burger bag and held up a hamburger in her hands. "Plus, all the Nasty Burgers I can eat!"

Dani narrowed her eyes as she snatched the logo flyer and the bag away from her best friends, looking even more serious than she could ever be. "I'm being serious, you guys! There's something suspicious about this cruise." She threw the PARTY logo flyer and the fast food bag into a trash bin. "I can't focus on 'the PARTY' with my parents out of town!"

"I can." Sam said while they walked down the hallway.

After the trio left, the school cheerleader captain, Daph Baxter, and her best friend, Kwyn, walked up to the trash can. Daph pulled out the flyer logo while they examined it and then they smiled brightly.

"WHOO-HOO! Party at Fenton's!" Kwyn cheered, although she misunderstood it as she gave Daph a high five.

"Crash and trash!" They shouted in unison with evil looks before they began to spread the word.

That night at the Amity Park pier, Dani flew above the M. Bersback cruise ship in her ghost form and looked down at the passengers. She saw hundreds of adults just walking into the ship with no one asking for their tickets. She also found Tina's parents, Sam's parents, and her own family standing on port, with distinguishable happy frozen expressions, which showed some sort of oddity for Dani.

"Still in port. Good thing I'm not too late." Dani said to herself before she tried to fly straight towards the ship to get everyone out. However, she suddenly bumped her face into an invisible wall that was somehow preventing her from boarding the ship. Dani rubbed her cheek from the small impact, a little surprised. "Whoa! Why can't I get aboard? It's like this ship has some kind of…" Her eyes went wide in realization when she realized that the ship was covered in a green dome, which the adults were walking right through with no problem. "Ghost shield!"

"Ye catch on quicker, for a land lover!" Youngphasma said from behind Dani. She turned and found the young captain ghost kid floating behind her with her parrot and three of her crewmen.

"It's lubber." The parrot corrected.

Youngphasma frowned in annoyance. "Really? It's lubber? That makes no sense!" Her pirate crew charged at Dani as she dodged around to avoid them. She flew to the captain ghost kid herself and grabbed her by her overcoat, but she didn't seemed fazed by this.

"Alright, peewee, enough games! Talk! Tell me what you want with these people or I'll give you a time out of your afterlife!" Dani demanded with a serious look on her face.

Youngphasma laughed at her threat, looking mildly impressed. "That's good...and they say I'm a brat! And I'd love to see you try!" Her eyes began to glow red before she fired red ecto eye rays straight at Dani's chin, which made her scream a little and was forced to release her. She halted her power and smirked while her eyes let off vapor.

Before Dani could do anything else, she glanced down and witnessed the cruise ship shifting back and forth until it settled on Youngphasma's pirate ship, where all of the adults were being lured in. She immediately realized that the 'AM. Bersback Cruise Line' was actually Youngphasma's ship in reality.

Youngphasma panicked a little when she noticed this as well. "AARGH! There's another radio station jamming our transmission! Weigh anchor and set sail! Prepare the cannons swavies!" She ordered out loud to her pirate helpers. Her crewmen saluted before they flew back down to the ship and slowly began to prepare their cannons.

"Oh great, snoot-nose punk can get others to follow orders, but I can't?" Dani asked herself rhetorically.

"You just gotta know the right words. Watch...FIRE!" The ship immediately fired three cannonballs.

Dani barely managed to dodge two, until the last one smacked her straight onto her stomach, sending her crashing into a pile of barrels. Just as she sat up and rubbed her head, she gasped in surprise when she saw a completely empty dock where the ship, along with Youngphasma and the adults, used to be.

"Well, one thing's for sure, it's going to be awfully quiet at my house tonight." She said to herself.

Unfortunately, when Dani returned home to Fenton Works in her human form, she was completely shocked and bewildered to see that all of the students were dancing and having a party in her own living room. Apparently, everyone misunderstood Dani's PARTY as an actually party, or it could have been another one of the cheerleader's plots to make her more miserable, but either way, there was music, food, drinks, and everything party related.

"Not getting invited to a party is one thing, but not getting invited AT MY OWN HOUSE?!" Dani cried out in dismay as she held her head. She ran up to the radio, where she assumed the source of the music was, at the side of the wall and unplugged it. However, she realized that the music wasn't coming from the radio at all. "Wait, where's that music coming from?"

Up in the Emergency OP Center, Sam and Tina were playing some music on the DJ stand. They both wore some headsets and played some music discs they have managed to collect, doing some DJing together.

"You're listening to the PARTY! Fiercely, independent radio! One hundred percent free of corporal influence." Sam announced through his microphone.

"Except for this, brought to you by Nasty Burger. Remember, 'nasty' is only one letter away from 'tasty'." Tina added through her own mic.

Dani immediately ran into the center as she approached her friends. "Wait! Guys, you have to stop the broadcast, the party downstairs is getting out of control!" She told them urgently.

"There's a party downstairs?!" Sam and Tina asked in unison with excited expressions. They also looked impressed as well, like she has finally managed to throw herself a party, despite their unpopularity.

Dani stared at them in confusion. "How could you not know?"

"Hello, we've been kinda busy with a premiere broadcast!" Sam pointed out, like it should have been obvious. He then leaned down and picked up a vinyl promo disc. It was the same one that they have been hearing pretty much since the ghost pirates first appeared and that all of the adults were extremely addicted to.

Dani glanced at the disc then at Sam with wide eyes. "You took a vapor drone promo disc?"

Sam placed the disc on the player and then the scratcher on top of it. "They make great scratch fodder."

He began to twist and scratch the disc as it began to play not a song, but some kind of a hidden message. "Leave your kids, come to–"

That caught Dani's ear when she noticed this and stopped Sam. "Wait, wait a minute! Play that backwards again, slowly."

Sam did as he was told while the trio listened to the disc's mysterious message more clearly. "Leave your kids...come to the cruise…" The trio's eyes widen in likely surprise. "Leave your kids...come to the cruise…"

The entire house was built to understand and locate ghosts, so since they couldn't exactly hear the hidden message in the song with their own ears, they could hear it perfectly when it played in Fenton Works. Now, there was no doubt that this music was involved with the adults leaving for the cruise, not to mention their strange behaviors.

Sam removed his headphones, looking a little surprised and confused by what he just heard. "Subliminal advertising?" He asked somewhat rhetorically, like he didn't want to believe it.

"More like mind control." Dani said with her hands on her hips, like all of her suspicions were proven correct.

"Using music to control people...why does that sound so familiar?" Tina wondered out loud, trying to remember a ghost who could control people with music.

The whole building suddenly began to shake and tremble while the trio froze in surprise. From outside, the sky became dark, just as Youngphasma's pirate ship descended from the clouds. Dani and her friends quickly looked out the window and on deck was a familiar enemy from the past: it was none other than Amber McLain himself, the mind-controlling rockstar ghost who once tried to take over the world.

Amber was wearing a pirate getup attire while he smirked down at Fenton Works and played his guitar with Youngphasma hovering beside him. The trio stared at them in bewildered and stunned silence.

"That's right, pop fans! Amber's back and ready to ROCK!" He announced as he strummed his guitar and fired a wave of energy directly at Fenton Works, loud enough for Dani and her friends to cover their ears. The rockstar ghost strummed again, this time enough to make the trio topple to the ground.

When Sam fell onto the floor, he found a cruise brochure and examined it more closely. "AM. Bersback...Amber's back! That's not a clue, that's a billboard." He said, looking a little frustrated that he didn't think of it sooner.

"We really need to start paying more attention to these things." Tina noted to herself and her friends.

"Going ghost!" Dani shouted as she stood up and changed into her ghost form. She phased through the ceiling and flew straight towards the pirate ship.

"Wasting your time, wannabe!" Amber restored with a smirk before he pressed a button and activated the ghost shield, making Dani slam right into the anti-ecto barrier with a grunt.

"Na na na-na na!" Youngphasma mocked immaturely, until she glanced at her parrot skeleton assistant. "I mean, arrgh!"

"What, is the music career going so poorly, you've had to pick up babysitting jobs on the side?" Dani retorted to Amber while she fired her ghost beams at the ghost shield rapidly.

"I guess you could say me and her share the same opinion of adults." Amber said.

"Hate 'em!" He and Youngphasma said in unison.

Amber strummed his guitar while he continued explaining. "So, Youngphasma helps me haul away the over thirties so I can...you know, take over the world and stuff. And I provide her with a power source for her fleet of ships."

Down below deck, the hypnotized adults (and James) were all exercising on the equipment the pirates stole from Casper High while they listened to the same music. Like Amber mentioned, their physical prowess provided the power for the ship when it lit up the fire engine. Jackie, however, was being motivating into working out on the treadmill by a skeleton ghost holding out a bread out of reach instead of Amber's music.

"Problem is, your radio station is jamming my frequency, and I can't hypnotize anymore adults!" Amber exclaimed to Dani in anger.

"But not for long! ATTACK!" Youngphasma ordered her crew.

The pirate crew immediately fired their cannons directly at Dani. She braced herself until she got hit hard when she flew backwards towards the Op Center. She phased through the OP Center's ceiling before she changed back into her human form while her friends gawked at her.

"Activate the defense system!" Dani exclaimed.

"How?" Sam and Tina both asked her in confusion.

"I don't know...just start pressing buttons!"

The trio all began to press random buttons in the OP Center, but none of them seemed to activate any defense systems. They only made an alarm blare outside, start a rooster compass, and bring up a sign that said 'Go Fenton!', but Youngphasma's ship fired a cannon and destroyed it. Back at the party, the trembling from upstairs made the chandelier light shake and break from its chains. Luckily, the teens who were dancing underneath it managed to jump out of the way while they shouted in surprise before they were smashed.

The ship then flew straight towards Fenton Works and collided with it, which made Sam trip off his feet and unintentionally scratch the vapor drone disc. A sound wave emanated from a signal dish and shoved the ship away from the OP Center, which caused most of the crew to lose their balance on deck.

"Whoa! Sam, what did you do?" Dani asked him in shock while she looked out the window and turned to him.

"Struck a blow for independent radio." He replied with his arms crossed.

"Well, don't just stand there, throw in a heavy rotation! And work in a plug for Nasty Burger, I promised them twelve hits an hour." Tina said as she held up the Nasty Burger sponsor bag. Sam went back to the DJ stand and rotated the vapor drone as it sent out more soundwaves straight towards Youngphasma's ship, shoving it further away from Fenton Works.

Inside the ship deck, Youngphasma and Amber all flinched from the momentary tremble while they made sure the adults were still powering up the ship.

"We need more power! I can't lure any more adults aboard if I can't broadcast my music!" Amber said.

"Then we'll have to bring them the old fashioned way...like pirates." The parrot said. The parrot phased out to the upper deck as she steered the wheel with her talons, making the ship fly away from Fenton Works and travel down the neighborhood.

The ghost shield disappeared and allowed the pirate crew jump out of the ship while they phased into homes, churches, and everywhere where the adults were and nabbed all of them and flew them back to the pirate ship against their own will. All of the teens immediately ran out of Fenton Works when they finally noticed the commotion and stopped outside the street. They witnessed their parents being taken hostage by the ghost pirates and disappeared into the ship.

"Hey, they got my parents!" Paul said out loud in worry.

"Mine, too!" Daph said.

"Cool, party at Daphne's house!" Kwyn cheered happily.

"What is wrong with you, cheerleader?" Paul asked sarcastically as he roughly shoved her into Daph.

"Hey, watch it!" Daph exclaimed as she shoved Kwyn to a jock.

He looked at a random student and glared while he only smiled, but then pushed him away. A domino effect apparently happens when arguments and fighting began between all of the teens. Dani, Tina, and Sam all overlooked their arguing classmates since it looked like things weren't going very well.

"I've gotta get our parents back!" Dani said to her friends.

"How? You can't get past the ghost shield on that pirate ship!" Sam pointed out as he gestured towards the ship, which had his ghost shield currently activated.

"Maybe Dani Phantom can't, but Dani Fenton can." Dani smirked when she began to form an idea of her own. She took out a megaphone and the students covered their ears from the loud high-pitched screech. They immediately halted their arguments and looked up at the trio on the roof. "Listen up, people! If you want your parents back, you're gonna have to follow my lead!"

"And why should we listen to you, Fentoad?!" Daph retorted out loud rudely.

"You're right, Daphne, let's listen to the other kid who comes from a family of ghost hunters and knows how to work all of their gear." Daph frowned and remained silent while she allowed her rival's words to sink in. "No takers? Alright then, who's with me?!" Dani threw her arm into the air before all of her classmates cheered in agreement and support.

"Wow, Dani, how'd you do that?" Sam asked her, looking amazed that her pep talk has actually worked to make all of the teens listen to her for once.

"You just gotta know the right words." Dani took Youngphasma's advice from earlier to help her with this time of crisis.

All of the teenagers crowded inside the living room of Fenton Works. Dani stood at the second floor, where she began to give her classmates their jobs and positions. Everyone awaited for her orders to getting all of their parents back safely and finally stopping the pirate ghosts once and for all.

"Okay, Paul, you're good with special-effects makeup. I need to you disguise Tina as an adult so she can get aboard the pirate ship and disable it from within." Dani began when she started with Paul and Tina.

"Aye-aye, captain...but you still have no shot at me." Paul said with a salute before he dragged Tina out of the room to begin disguising her.

Dani brought out at a radio linked to the OP Center, where Sam was currently in. "Sam, you keep scratching, it's the only weapon we have against that ghost ship." She then walked up to Kwyn and handed her a deactivated cylinder while she held an armful of them. "Kwyn, you're on defense. Protect Sam and keep him on the air." Kwyn activated her device, which expanded into a Fenton Fisher. Dani then approached Daph and handed her a device. "Daph, you're with me on offense. We're gonna spring the adults from the pirate ship."

"So, I get to hit people?" She asked gleefully.

"Oh, yeah." Daph suddenly grabbed Dani by her shirt, which made her panic a little. "Not me!"

Daph immediately released her. "Sorry, a little of habits."

"Alright people…" Dani continued to hand all of the teenagers a cylinder device that had a grappling hook, grabbing, and sword setting. Pretty soon, all of them wore orange jumpsuits with black gloves, boots, belts, collars, and tightly-strapped backpacks. They were all ready for some action when Dani activated her Boo-staff, spun it expertly above her head, and settled it beside her. "Let's move!"

Once everything was all set, Tina (disguised as an old woman with a cane) walked in front of Fenton Works, where music played from inside. "Hey, you kids, turn that music down! I'm an adult, you know! A strong, able-bodied adult!" She acted out while she waved her cane in the air, just as couple of ghost pirates flew above her when they overheard her words.

They glanced at each other before they immediately swooped down, snatched her off the ground, and flew her to the pirate ship while she shouted in surprise.

Dani watched the whole thing through her binoculars. "The fish has swallowed the bait." She said through her earphone as she removed the binoculars off her eyes.

"But how do we get our offense up to the pirate ship?" Sam, who was still up in the OP Center with their other classmates, asked through his walkie-talkie.

"I just have to think like a Fenton. Now, if I were my mom, where would I put the secret control panel for the OP Center?" Dani glanced up at her house in thought. "Someplace I would see every time I come here…" She then perked her eyebrows and grinned with a knowing look.

Dani quickly went into the kitchen and opened the fridge door, where she spotted an emergency ham and an emergency button for the OP Center. She always saw that spoiling ham every time she opened the fridge, and the ham hasn't been eaten years, so obviously her mother used it to remind herself that this was where she would get the OP Center to the air.

"Yep, next to the ham." She said before she pressed the emergency button next to the ham.

Alarms immediately sounded and the entire house flashed red. "Defense system activated! Also, the ham has spoiled!" The intercom announced.

The OP Center trembled with all of the teens in inside while, from outside, satellites and radar dishes retracted into the center, unplugged itself from the roof, and then a large blimp balloon inflated above with Jackie's face on it. The blimp then took off to the sky and made its way up towards the pirate ship.

"Wow, now your mom's only the second biggest blimp in the family." Sam said to Dani sarcastically, who only glanced at him in silence.

Back on the ship in the under deck room, the pirate ghosts brought Tina before Amber.

"Oh, fresh fuel. Strap the geezer in while I keep this crew motivated." Amber said before he began to play his guitar to make all of the adults exercise faster.

Tina then saw her own parents exercising in a trance while she did the biking. "Psssh! Mom! Dad! It's me, Tina! You're under a spell...and looking really trim. Maybe you guys should exercise more often." She said to them quietly, even though they weren't really listening. Tina then began to glance around for the source of the ghost shield, so she could disable it and allow Dani to fight on the ship as Phantom. "Now if I was a ghost shield, where would I be?" She spotted the stolen ghost shield generator right near the engine. "Ah-ha!"

"SHIP AHOY! All hands on deck!" Youngphasma called from outside, catching Amber's attention when he stopped playing and narrowed his eyes in alert.

The rockstar ghost peaked through the overdeck trapdoor. His eyes went wide and gasped when he saw the Fenton Blimp hurtling right towards the ship. The entire crew shouted and ran for their afterlives as the blimp advanced towards the deck.

Dani steered the blimp with a determined look on her face. "Steady as she goes...and...FIRE!" She ordered.

Sam scratched the vapor drone disc and sent out another energy wave at the pirate ship, knocking it back as the crew toppled on board. After they managed to steady, they fired a few cannonballs at the blimp. However, Dani quickly pressed a button activated the shield and the bottom of the blimp unleashed some steel that deflected the cannons away. The blimp then collided with the ship, knocking a sail over on top of Amber, Youngphasma, and most of the crew.

Youngphasma used her hook to cut through the fabric, looking rather annoyed. "Hey, quit it!" She exclaimed.

Back in the under deck room, Tina made sure no one was looking when she snuck beside the ghost shield generator. She then pressed in a code to deactivate it as it counted down from sixty seconds. Back outside, Dani and the rest of the teens (minus Sam and Kwyn) were on top of the blimp with their gadgetry in their hands, ready to attack and invade the ship.

"On my signal...NOW!" Dani shouted.

She thrusted her weapon as a grappling hook and so did the rest of her classmates, when their devices stuck onto the ship. They jumped from the blimp and swung right through the ghost shield as they battle cried and kicked most of the crew out of their way.

Dani landed on the ground and prepared to transform. "Now, I'm going-" She began, until she suddenly got electrocuted from the ghost shield as she shouted. She dropped to her legs and held onto her stomach in pain. "Can't change...ghost shield…"

Daph jumped in front of Dani protectively and fired her Jack-o-Nine Tails at the group of ghost pirates that were heading their way. It grabbed onto them and electrocuted them while she vaporized them into oblivion. Pretty soon, all of the teenagers on board the pirate ship were swinging from the sail ropes, sword-fighting the crew members with rodlike devices, and vaporizing all the ghosts to oblivion.

Skye settled his device to a rodlike setting as well and hit two of the crew pirates dead on, vaporizing them. Dani recovered from her little shock when she stood up, activated her Boo-staff, and spun it around expertly as she charged at the rest of the ghostly pirate crew. She was shown to be a very skilled staffswoman from days of training when she slid onto her knees, avoided a pirate's sword, swung her staff at his legs, vaporizing him, and then bashed her staff at another.

Dani then clashed her staff with a pirate's sword before she pinned her back to Daph's. "You're one brave geek, Fenton. When I'm wailing on you tomorrow, I'll be wailing on a heroine...but I will be wailing on ya." Daph said to Dani before the girls went back into action.

Dani spun her staff again and charged as she shouted with her staff ready. "Dani!" Paul shouted as he tossed her a Fenton Skateboard. She quickly hopped and mounted the board as she spun and stabbed the last of the pirate ghosts to oblivion with her Boo-staff.

Before Dani could reach the overdeck hatch door, she suddenly got blasted back by a sonic soundwave, knocking her backwards off of her skateboard. She collided with her classmates and they all grunted as they fell onto the deck floor like bowling pins. She looked up saw Amber and Youngphasma smirking down at the teenagers.

"The only one rocking this boat is me!" Amber said before he strummed his guitar again, this time trapping Dani and all of her classmates in a pink ecto-bubble. They all began to punch at the bubble to break free, but to no avail.

Captain Youngphasma then phased her hooked hand through the bubble and grabbed Dani by her jumpsuit. She phased her out as she lifted her up with her abnormal strength. "Time to walk the plank, shark bait!" She said to Dani's face.

Youngphasma dragged Dani to the plank and threatened her to trip her to her doom, since she was dangling hundreds of feet in the air. With the ghost shield still deployed, she couldn't transform into a ghost nor use her powers at all. When Youngphasma inched closer with her hook out, Dani moved back too much when she tripped and plummeted towards the earth while she shrieked.

Inside the deck room, the generator finally counted down to zero and the ghost shield outside finally deactivated.

"So, where's the splat?" Amber asked as he and Youngphasma peeked over the edge of the plank.

However, Dani Phantom hovered above them with her hands all charging up with her energy while she glared angrily at them. She then fired her ghost beams at both of them, knocking them backwards onto the ship and Amber dropped his guitar in the process, which Dani caught.

"Looking for this?" Dani asked mockingly as she held the guitar before she slammed it on the deck hard, demolishing it beyond use.

Amber glared at the ghost girl furiously as he stood back up, removed his pirate hat with his hair blazing, and his eyes glowed red with provoke. The rockstar ghost blazed some of his blue fire at Dani, who flew up to avoid it. Amber then blazed more fire while Dani flew away again, and the rockstar ghost accidentally set the sail on fire instead.

"Okay, maybe not the best idea." Amber said while he stared up at his mistake before he smiled at Youngphasma. "Oh well, bon voyage, kid!" He flew into the air and smirked even more. "Catch you in my combat tour." He then disappeared with a laugh as his hair flamed around him until he vanished without a trace.

Dani flew up to where Amber disappeared, but she knew that the rockstar ghost wasn't the main threat at the moment, since he was merely just a mercenary. Youngphasma shifted her hook into a sword before she jumped at Dani, who activated her Boo-staff and swung at the kid as she knocked her away. They both landed on the ground and they held out each of their weapons.

"Bring it on, snot nose." Dani challenged the pirate ghost kid. They both flew up to the burning sail pole and began to do their little sword/staff play as they countered each other attacks. Youngphasma then swung her sword at Dani's waist while her body split in half and merged again. "HA!"

Youngphasma then shifted her sword and peg leg into cannons, which made Dani's smile drop. She fired a few blue cannonballs at Dani as she flew away to avoid while they landed on the sail pole instead. The fire blazed larger when it surrounded Youngphasma, enough to distract her. Dani quickly flew to her classmates, who were all still trapped in the ecto-bubble.

"Look, it's the ghost girl!" Paul said with delight as he stared at her romantically.

Dani fired a beam at the bubble, making it disappear and setting everyone free. "Hey, where's Fenton?" Daph wondered.

"She's safe! Uh...I, uh...rescued her." Dani replied with her arms crossed before she smiled excitedly at Paul. "She sure is hot, you should totally make out with her." The prep boy only blinked in confused silence.

Dani lead her classmates to the under deck room, where she kicked open the door right off their hinges with her strength and a loud shout. They found all of the adults, tired from their exercises and finally free from their traces, now that Amber was gone. Most of the grown ups were panting and rubbing their heads from both exhaustion and confusion, like they couldn't remember anything.

"Whoa, it's like a PTA health club." Daph commented about the adults on the exercise equipment.

Just as Youngphasma crawled out from the roaring fire, she witnessed all of the adults and teenagers escaping from the fuel room. "Aargh! Me prisoners are escaping!" She exclaimed.

"Then what's powering the ship?" The parrot wondered, until the ship immediately began to descend and lose altitude. It plummeted straight towards the lake below while everyone screamed for their dear lives.

"Everybody huddle together! Now!" Dani called out loud to everyone as her hair fluttered madly.

Paul immediately hugged and cuddled his cheek to hers, much to her discomfort. "With you? It'd be my dream come true." He said flirtatiously.

"Seriously, you need to wrap your mind around the idea of 'Paul and Dani Sanchez'."

All of the adults and teens immediately huddled with Dani as they hugged to each other tightly. Dani's eyes glowed solid green and she turned herself, along with everyone else holding onto her, intangible as they floated safely off the ship and descended gently to the pier. The ghostly pirate ship impacted with the water and sunk underneath with Youngphasma still onboard.

As soon as they were hovering above the pier, Dani grew weak from using so much of her energy when she stopped her intangibility act. They all turned solid again and immediately dropped onto the wharf pier as they all grunted from impact.

James sat up, looking a little disoriented. "What happened? Where are we?" He wondered, not remembering anything.

"And why do I suddenly feel like I have buns of steel?" Jackie asked while she held onto her hips.

"AT LAST!" Matt exclaimed happily as he threw his arms to the air, but then he noticed that his wife was staring at him strangely. "I-I mean, I like you just the way you are." He and Jackie hugged each other tightly.

"Eww." James said, slightly disgusted.

Dani quickly hid behind some crates and she changed back into human form. She walked out of her hiding spot to rejoin everyone else. "Is everyone okay?" She asked, only to receive a punch on the shoulder from Daph. "OW! What was that for?!"

"Abandoning us in the middle of a fight!" Daph snapped angrily at her face. "That's the last time I'll ever listen to you, Fen-toenail!" She stormed away, past Jackie and Matt.

"Hey, nice jumpsuit!" Jackie said to Daph, until more teenagers walked past her. "You, too, and you, and…wait a minute." Jackie then frowned suspiciously when she glanced at her daughter. "Dani, did you use the Emergency OP Center while we were away?"

Dani swallowed hard and laughed nervously while she perspired a little with a weak smile. "Uh...hehe, whatever would give you that idea?" She asked innocently, until the Fenton Blimp descended behind her, hundreds of feet away.

"Hi, Dani! Thanks for letting us use the OP Center!" Sam called to his friend as he and Kwyn waved from the window. Jackie, Matt, and James all crossed their arms and frowned at Dani sternly in disappointment. She glared towards the blimp, now that she was in big trouble, and Sam's smile dropped when he realized his mistake. "Oops."


The next morning, Dani's parents have forced her and her friends to clean up the entire house, which was still trashed from the misunderstood party the teens threw at her own house.

"So I'm grounded for a month while I clean up the damage from the party." Dani grumbled while she broomed the floor.

"Look on the bright side, Dani, at least we brought back some decent radio to this town." Sam admitted as he picked up a trash bin and walked away.

Tina poured some junk into the trash before she burped and held onto her stomach like it was aching. "Man! I got serious heartburn from all those Nasty Burgers." She said sickly.

"I can't help wondering why Youngphasma didn't abandon ship." Dani wondered out loud.

"Didn't I tell you?" Tina smiled when she pulled out her PDA and showed her what she did. "After we escaped, I used my PDA to kick-in the backup power on the ghost shield and set it in reverse. They're not going anywhere."

Dani smiled at her quick-thinking friend.

At the bottom of the lake of Amity Park, the pirate ship became a shipwreck and the ghost shield was deployed. Like Tina said, she set it in reverse and prevented Youngphasma and her parrot from flying out and were officially trapped inside.

The parrot complained as she headbutted against the shield. "Let me out of here! Let me out!" She cried while Youngphasma just hovered behind her in confusion.

"Actually it'd be more like 'Ahoy, matey! I'm marooned on this island!'" Youngphasma said.

The parrot then frowned at the captain ghost kid in annoyance. "Oh, shut your gob, you twit!"