Season 2 Episode 4
Reign Storm: Part 1
"The Queen of All Shows!"
The Ghost Zone, an endless void of ectoplasmic energy, and home to millions of spirits, familiar and unfamiliar. Ones that the great half-ghost heroine, Dani Phantom, defeated everyday and every night to return them to where they rightfully belong to prevent them from controlling the whole world.
Ghost crows squawked as they flew around trees and landing on branches.
Meanwhile, Dani Phantom's archenemy, Vladia Plasmius, was outside in the Ghost Zone with an evil grin on her face when she has recently acquired the legendary Skeleton Key she has been searching for. Now that she has finally gotten what she wanted, she flew straight across the endless void of ectoplasm and towards a giant, red castle in the center of the Ghost Zone, which was home of the Hallow Knight, the spirit of Halloween. It was the same castle Dani snuck into once to steal the knight's sword, the Soul Shredder, for a Halloween contest.
Vladia flew into the castle, down across the eerie hallways of the castle until she came to a large door, and opened it. She found the Soul Shredder sheathed inside a purple pumpkin, a large sarcophagus above a staircase, and on the opposite side of the sword was a green ring with a skull insigne on it, being held in a red transparent ball by a immobile skeleton.
"Here we are." Vladia said to herself as she flew in front of the sarcophagus before her. "Praia's Keep, home of the Hallow Knight, and before that, the Ghost Queen." She placed the Skeleton key on the skeleton's nose (which was actually a keyhole) and twisted it. The red dome encasing the green ring melted away and the ring fell onto Vladia's palm before she slipped it onto her finger. "And here I am, Vladia Plasmius, with all of her power at the palm of my hand!"
The evil half-ghost thrusted her finger up into the air to summon some power, but all it did was fizzle and nothing spectacular happened. Vladia's eyebrows arched in surprise as she stared down at the ring in confusion, until she turned her attention to the sarcophagus and saw a frame of a crown at the top.
"Ah, of course! The Ring of Rage only works when one wears the Crown of Fire!" Vladia said as she hovered in front of the sarcophagus.
The evil woman gently placed the Skeleton Key into the key slot and slowly unlocked it, hoping to acquire the crown from the inside, all for herself. The ghost crows outside the castle apparently sensed what was happening inside when they cried and flew away in a hurry, somewhat in fear.
The sarcophagus slowly opened, revealing a large, well-built ghost who had a white face with a red outline and long green hair. She had green eyes, with a black scar on her right eye and a black eye patch over her left eye, and she had two gray horns on the sides of her head, the left of which was broken in half. Her armor consisted of black full-bodied armor, with gray shoulder guards and boots. She also wore gray gauntlets with green spikes on the cuffs and knuckles. She wore a green belt over a gray metallic skirt, which had a metallic circular buckle with a green center and a gray cloth hanging down from it. A sword was fastened to her belt, and she had a green shoulder strap that crossed over her right shoulder. The ghost also wore a cape, which was black on the outside and red on the inside and was fastened to her armor by two green skulls.
"Separately, they're nothing, but together...they give you power unimaginable!" Vladia said to herself with a wider grin. However, her smile dropped when the Ghost Queen opened her eye and stomped out of her sarcophagus. She placed her fists at her sides as she glared down at the ghost woman.
"WHO DARES?!" She thundered with a loud voice.
Vladia hovered up to her nervously. "Oh, Plasmius. Vladia Plasmius. Uh, have I mentioned I'm a huge fan of your work?"
The Ghost Queen only narrowed her eye even more before she, without warning, blasted the ghost woman straight out of the castle.
She unsheathed the Soul Shredder from the pumpkin before it exploded into the Hallow Knight herself. "The Hallow Knight lives!" She shouted in triumph, until the queen threw her sword, almost cutting her helmet as it sliced onto the wall.
"To serve me." She said dangerously calmly with her fists on her sides again.
The Hallow Knight looked surprised by her sudden appearance. "Queen Praia! You're up!" She bowed before her mistress, sounding kind of shocked.
"And perhaps it's time to remind you and that intruder who rules this place!"
Outside of the castle, Vladia drifted above the castle with her jumpsuit all torn from the explosion. She was now looking regretfully nervous that she has unintentionally released the Ghost Queen herself, all for her crown of absolute power.
"I've got to get out of here before she…" She said to herself, until Praia suddenly appeared right in front of her in a much larger size, making her recoil a little in fear. "Finds me!"
Praia grabbed her with her iron fist, squeezing her enough to make her flinch from his strength. "You have freed me from my sarcophagus, and thus woken me from the forever sleep." She forced Vladia to pull her hand out as she examined it, but she noticed that the ring was missing. "You're not the one who woke me! YOU ARE A DUPLICATE!" The duplicate decoy of Vladia disappeared from her fist. "So, where…"
She then frowned in realization and anger when she realized where she really was. The real Vladia with the ring was back at the castle with the the Hallow Knight, who removed her sword from the wall.
"Oh, surely you and I could work out some sort of deal." Vladia eagerly offered the spirit of Halloween.
"A deal?" The Hallow Knight asked the villainess half-ghost with interest, until Praia fired a red ghost ray at both of their feet.
They both dodged as Vladia floated close to the hole on the roof. "Call me, we'll talk!"
Vladia then flew out of the castle at her top speed with a large grin on her face. However, Praia fired another powerful energy beam directly at her, which made her gasp before it blasted her dead on. The strong blast sent her flying away as she changed back into her human form and hurtled across the Ghost Zone.
In the real world at the Fenton Works lab located at Amity Park, Jackie and Matt Fenton were currently working on some giant pairs of metallic pants. Jackie plugged in a cord to the pants before she pushed a button to jump-start the pants, making them stomp rapidly against the floor while the ghost-hunting couple watched.
"Yes! The Fenton Pants are charged and operational!" Jackie exclaimed happily before they examined the inside of it. "I'm telling you, Matt, when the new Ecto-Skeleton is finished, it'll be able to beat back any ghosts, no matter how powerful!"
Matt examined the inside, looking more concerned and worried. "Yeah, but the interface is still glitchy and dangerous, Jackie. We need to work the bugs out before–" Matt said with doubt, until Vladia Masters suddenly flew straight through their Fenton Ghost Portal and slid across the lab floor, her clothes all tattered, her face bruised, and her hair all frizzled. She clutched and hid the Ring of Rage in her fist before Jackie and Matt rush up to their old college friend, looking surprised and confused at the same time. "Vladia Masters?!"
"Jackie...my fat old friend...help me!" Vladia pleaded weakly as she slowly raised a hand towards Jackie before she drifted into unconsciousness from weakness and pain.
Jackie gaped at her old friend worriedly. But unknown to everyone but Vladia, there was a much bigger danger coming their way and there could be only one heroine who could be powerful enough to stop it…
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)
At Casper High, during Vladia's 'unexpected arrival' at Fenton Works, Dani Fenton was outside, leaning against a tree. She was looking very bright and and confident about herself, just as her best friends, Sam Manson and Tina Foley, approached her.
"You seem pretty happy today." Sam said to Dani.
"Why shouldn't she be? Last night, she shoved Amber and Skulka back into the Ghost Zone." Tina pointed out.
"And I still had time to finish Lancer's totally useless book report." Dani added before she pushed herself from the tree and placed her hands on her hips. "Nothing could spoil this day."
"Think fast, Fentina!" Daph Baxter shouted from behind with a grin before she threw a football straight at Dani's gut, making her grunt as she fell onto the sidewalk.
Sam and Tina stared at Dani with concern as she wearily raised her head up. Daph and Kwyn both walked past her while they snickered cruelly. Dani rolled over a little and glared at the cheerleaders with a growl. She then fired a tiny ghost beam from her fingertip, burning the bottom of a 'no stopping anytime' sign and it fell to the sidewalk. The cheerleaders were not seeing where they were going, since they were busy laughing, when they both tripped over the pole and fell onto the sidewalk with grunts.
Dani walked up to them with a smirk as she picked up the sign. "No stopping anytime, nitwit." She mocked before she slammed the sign in front of their faces, making them glare up at her.
Later on in the hallway of the school, Dani was going through her locker after the day was over while Sam and Tina were both waited for her to finish up. Sam was not very thrilled by what Dani just did to Daph and Kwyn that morning. He hated it when she would use her ghost powers for personal satisfaction and karma.
"You realize you're playing with fire." Sam said to Dani with an unimpressed blank face.
Dani turned to her goth friend with a reassuring smile. "Well, sometimes I have to use my powers for the greater good." She said casually before she pointed at Daph, who was about to open her locker.
However, when Daph finished her combination, she failed to notice that it was bulging out a little, like something was stuffed inside. So when the cheerleader captain's locker opened, rolls of toilet paper suddenly fell right on top of her as she yelped and then frowned in annoyance. Kwyn stared at her best friend with some concern as she placed her hand close to her mouth.
"And come on, how good was that?" Tina chuckled from Dani's little prank.
"Nice, using your powers to stuff toilet paper into a locker, she's gonna find out it's you." Sam warned with a knowing look.
"Have you seen her grades?" Dani chuckled as she pointed her thumb over her shoulder at Daph.
"Never gonna happen." She and Tina said in unison as they double-pointed at each other.
However, Daph was proven smarter than Dani thought when she examined the toilet paper more closely and noticed that there were pictures of Jackie Fenton's grinning faces on them. "Hey...this is Fenton Wipe!" She exclaimed out loud before she fixed her eyes on Dani and glared angrily.
"Never is karma's doorbell." Sam said smugly with his arms crossed. "Ding-dong, it's for you." Dani quickly rushed down the hallway in fear to get away from Daph.
In the cafeteria, two geeks, one being Mikaela playing with a random band geek, were playing with some cards together. "Ha! I blast you with my Ball of Infinite Exposition!" The band geek said with triumph as she place a card down on the table.
"Oh man! You bored my character to death!" Mikaela complained as she rested her cheek on her palm.
Dani suddenly bolted into the cafeteria, trying to find a hiding spot until she spotted the band geek's tuba next to her, just before Daph ran to the entrance. "FENTON!" She shouted angrily, but then found that Dani was nowhere in sight, so she ran off down the hallway in search for her rival.
Dani peeked her eyes over the tuba while she hid under the table and made a look of relief that Daph was gone. However, she noticed that she wasn't under the table alone when she saw Vincent Gray crouching next to her.
They frowned at each other a little. "Find you own hiding spot. I've got dibs under the nerds playing nerd poker." Dani said while she pointed her thumb over her shoulder.
"Ease up, Fenton. You're not the only one who needs to hide, ya know." Vincent pointed out.
Just then, to prove Vincent's point, a nerdy girl ran into the cafeteria near the geek table while she held a photo of Vincent himself. "Vincent, where are you?! It's only three years until senior prom, WHY WOULDN'T YOU SAY YES?!" She cried in despair. Apparently, the nerd girl had a massive crush on Vincent for some reason.
"Three years? We could be here a while." Dani said as she smiled at Vincent, who smiled back.
"Wanna check over our book reports?" Vincent asked her, which made her smile a little more.
Dani and Vincent have finally made their peace, during their whole baby responsibility project/Skulka incident. Ever since then, they have gotten a chance to get to know and understand each other a little better. Basically, they slowly began to view each other as good friends, despite the fact that Dani knew that Vincent wanted to waste her (as Dani Phantom) out of vengeance for an accident she was never directly responsible for in the first place.
After school that day, Dani and Vincent both ran down the neighborhood, trying to get away from Daph Baxter and the nerdy girl respectively. They ran into an alleyway, where they found Sam hiding behind a garbage bin like he, too, was hiding from someone who was targeting him.
Sam pointed at Dani, but she apparently knew what he was silently asking. "Hiding from Daph." She answered.
He then pointed at Vincent. "Hiding from Nancy." He replied as he saw the nerd girl, Nancy, sprinting down the sidewalk until she disappeared. Vincent glanced back down at the goth boy. "You?"
Sam pointed his thumb. "Son!" They heard his father, Patrick Manson, cry out as he ran down the sidewalk and held up a semi-formal garment for Sam, which he obviously refused to wear. "Please just at least try it on!" He continued his way down the sidewalk in search of his only son.
Sam, Dani, and Vincent all peeked over the bin after Patrick was gone. "Come on, over there! We can all hide at my house." Dani said when she noticed that her house, Fenton Works, was only a block away.
They ran towards her house while Vincent followed Dani and Sam from behind. "So, what's up with this? Why are you helping him all of the sudden?" Sam asked Dani, referring to Vincent.
"Well, he hid me from Daph earlier today, I'm just returning the favor." Dani said before they finally approached the steps of Fenton Works and walked up towards the front door.
"Well, be careful. The last thing you'd want to do is invited your archenemy into your own house."
Sam opened the door, and Dani suddenly gasped in complete shock as her jaw dropped. She found her archenemy, Vladia Masters herself and in person again, sitting in her own living with a blanket wrapped around her. She smiled sinisterly at her teenage archnemesis while Matt held up a teapot, James read a book next to the billionairess, and Jackie played some chess with her old college 'friend'.
"Ah! Hello, Danielle!" Vladia greeted as she moved a chess piece up the board.
Sam looked equally as shocked as Dani was, even though he has never officially met Vladia in person before, but Dani always talked about her with her friends. "...too late!"
Dani recovered from her shock when she glared at Vladia and stormed over to her. "You?! What are you doing here?" Dani demanded the evil billionairess.
Matt frowned under his mask as well when he poured some of his tea all over Vladia's lap while he missed her teacup completely on purpose. She yelped in surprise as she cringed from the hotness. "AH! OH ohoh!" She exclaimed as she hugged her lap.
"Totally valid question." Matt said as he held up his pot.
Like his daughter, Matt was definitely not happy to see Vladia again as well. After Vladia tricked them both into her log cabin a few months back, she confessed her feelings for Matt and tried to hit on him. She even asked him to dump Jackie so he and Dani could stay with her, despite the fact that he and Jackie had a stable family relationship, much to Matt's complete disbelief. After that, Vladia has lost a lot of respect and trust from Matt, and has caused a big rift in their friendship. Matt now felt very indifferent and suspicious every time he was around Vladia.
"Still steaming?" Vladia asked Matt.
"You have no idea!" Matt growled angrily at her face as he glared under his goggles. The billionairess only stared at the love of her life in stunned silence until he walked away to refill his teapot.
Vladia turned back to Dani when she remembered the girl's demand and placed her cup down while she tried to look casual. "I was just...you know, passing through. And then I saw that marvelous battle suit and thought, 'Since I can't just destroy Jackie and take it, I suppose I'll steal its secrets right out from under her nose'!" Vladia leaned towards Jackie while she finished and pointed at the obese huntress.
Jackie made a look of confusion at her 'friend', who smiled widely in a moment of silence. Finally, the two women broke out into hysterical laughter as they hugged each other in a sisterly manner. The four teens only blinked in confused silence until they stopped laughing to catch their breath. They wiped their tears from their eyes, just before Matt arrived back with a refilled teapot.
"I swear, I'm such a gosher." Vladia said to Jackie before she held up her empty teacup out to Matt. "More tea please." However, Matt narrowed his eyes again and poured the tea onto her head instead, which made her cringe from the steam. "Not there! OHOH!"
The billionairess frowned at Matt in annoyance with her face dripping with steaming hot tea. He only gave her another glare and stormed away in disgust while Jackie followed her angry husband to calm him down.
"I don't know what you're up to, Plasmius." Dani said suspiciously while Vladia wiped her face with a red handkerchief. "...actually, I do. You just told me."
Once her face was all cleaned up, Vladia suddenly went right to Dani's face with her eyes narrowed. "That's right! And say a word, and I'll share your secret with..." Vladia said threateningly, until she noticed Vincent as she walked over to him with delight. "Ah! The young Mr. Gray."
"You know me?" Vincent asked the billionairess woman in confusion.
"How do you know him?" Dani asked, looking equally as confused.
Before Dani could get an answer, a loud ear-piercing beeping alarm suddenly began to blare above the fireplace, alerting everyone when they froze. Matt and Jackie immediately ran into the room, where Jackie opened the head of her head statue, revealing a button, and pressed it. Her family photo switched to a radar-like screen, showing hundreds of ghosts heading straight towards the Fenton Ghost Portal at rapid speed.
"Galloping Goblets! It's the Ecto Exodus Alarm!" Jackie exclaimed in alert.
"The Ecto Whatty-what?" Dani, Sam, and James all asked in unison.
"The Ecto Exodus Alarm! An alarm that only goes of if we're about to face a massive ghost invasion!" Matt explained to the teens with urgency in his voice as the ghosts on the screen moved even closer towards the Fenton Ghost Portal.
"Stall them!" Dani said to Sam quietly before she ran off to the lab to take care of the upcoming ghost invasion heading their way.
Jackie was about to rush off the lab herself, until Sam casually held out his leg with his hands behind his back. "Um, oops!" He said, just before the obese ghost huntress tripped over his leg and landed on the floor with a grunt.
Matt was about to run to the lab. "Whoops!" James exclaimed as he casually dropped his book he was reading earlier. His father slipped on it and shouted while he slid straight into the closet until it closed behind him. Sam stared at James strangely, who smiled at first, and then turned away awkwardly while he rubbed the back of his neck.
Vincent made a determined look when he was about to reach for his backpack, where his ghost-hunting gear was stashed in. However, he gasped in surprise when he realized that his pack was gone while he felt his chest for the straps.
"Looking for your ghost-hunting equipment?" Vladia asked casually.
Vincent turned to the woman and saw her holding up his backpack by its strap while she smiled down at the boy. "Ghost-hunting? How do you know about my ghost-hunting equipment?" Vincent demanded the billionairess in confusion as he narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
Vladia dropped his pack into his hands before she placed her arm around his neck and held him close. "Please, walk with me." They both walked out of Fenton Works together.
Meanwhile, in the lab, alarms were blaring when Dani ran into the lab and jumped into the air as she transformed into her ghost form. She flew in front of the active ghost portal, preparing herself for the upcoming invasion.
"Okay, here we go…" Dani said to herself as she narrowed her eyes with determination.
However, the only ghost who peeked out of the portal was the comedic Box Ghoul himself. "BEWARE!" She shouted her usual catchphrase while she waved her hands dramatically.
Dani was surprised at first, but then she snickered like this was just a joke. "Are you kidding me? Just you?"
Unfortunately, her relief was cut short when someone fired a beam of energy right above the Box Ghoul's head and blasted Dani out of the air. She slid across the floor until Skulka, the Ghost Zone's greatest huntress, pinned her down with her foot and held out her wrist gun directly at the ghost girl.
"Skulka?!" Dani exclaimed with wide eyes.
"I told you there was a way out of here!" Skulka said to the other ghosts at the portal. Amber McLain, the shadow ghost, Walka, and an ectopus stuck their heads out of the portal with looks of fear in their faces, until several hundred ghosts bursted out of the portal, straight out of the Ghost Zone and into the human world. "Go! Go! GO! GOOOOOOOOO!" All of the ghost flew straight out of Fenton Works as they swirled around the clouds above the house.
Dani glared before she grabbed Skulka by her ankle and dragged her to the air as she phased right out of Fenton Works while she tossed her away. Just when she was about to throw a punch at Skulka's face, the blue dragon ghost used its claws to grab her as it growled with its mouth drooling.
On its back was Cindy Poindexter, the nerdy bully-victim ghost who once tried to possess Dani way, way back. "I know this may sound a bit fishy, Phantom, but Skulka isn't the bully here." Cindy said while she frowned at the ghost heroine.
"Bully? What are you talking about?" Dani asked as the dragon ghost released her before she stared at all of the ghosts glaring down at her. "What are you all trying to run from?"
"Her name is Praia Dark, the queen of all ghosts!" Amber replied.
"And while we may be in a hurry, we'll always have time for this." Skulka added as she and the other ghosts grinned at Dani with anticipation while the huntress ghost cracked her fist.
Before Dani could even react, Skulka punched Dani straight at her chin, Dracus delivered a punch to her stomach, and Amber strummed a beam from his guitar straight at the ghost girl while they mercilessly kicked her around for some payback. Then all of the ghost surrounded her and began to circle around her while she shrieked and attacked her all at once. Then they finally blasted her out of the sky as she slammed onto the street in front of Fenton Works and changed back into human from from energy loss.
With Dani out of the way, all of the ghosts then went their separate ways across the sky of Amity Park.
Sam ran out of the house and approached his injured friend. "Are you okay?" He asked, only to get a look from Dani. "Sorry, standard question." He bent down and helped her up to her feet. "What was that all about?"
"I don't know, but I think Vladia Plasmius just became the least of my worries." Dani said.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Amity Park, Vincent, in his ghost hunting suit, flew across the neighborhood with Vladia sitting behind him on his own hoverboard.
While they flew, Vladia explained to Vincent that she was the Vladia who gave him the ghost-hunting equipment, the first day he became poor and lost all his popularity. The billionairess hoped that ghost-hunting would help him solve all of his ghost problems, mainly to help him avenge his former perfect life. Even though Vincent couldn't see it clearly, Vladia apparently gave him the suit for something else other than just for him, but more for herself since her permanent sinister smile never left her face.
"So the equipment is to your liking? It functions properly?" Vladia asked the boy.
"Heck, yeah! It's like you designed it just for me!" Vincent said as he descended his hoverboard close to a roof of a building. Vladia hopped off before he retracted his board into his feet. The hunter boy then turned towards the wealthy business woman and removed his hood, still looking very confused. "Why would you do that? I'm like fourteen."
"You're also the most capable ghost hunter I have ever seen!" Vincent began to smile when she continued to compliment him. "You're strong, you're fast, you're smart, and most of all...you're motivated!" The woman smirked darkly at the last description of the boy.
Vincent seemed really touched by her words. "Really?"
"Of course. Why else would I say such a thing? I would have to be some sort of...oh, diabolical villainess to manipulate you like that." Vincent stared at her strangely in silence, until they both broke out into laughter. "Oh, I kill me...or Jackie!" She flinched from her little slip-up. Vincent blinked at her oddly, until the woman regained her cool. "And that, my son, is the reason why I can trust you with this."
Vladia pulled out the Ring of Rage and showed it to Vincent, who cocked a skeptic eyebrow. "A ring?"
"Not just any ring. It's been past down from ghost hunter to ghost hunter for generations."
Vincent took the ring and slipped it on his finger. "I don't...know what to say." With the ring on his finger, his arm briefly glowed and showed his skeleton until it returned to normal.
The billionairess then held onto his hand with fake concern. "Don't say anything, son, but please. Let's keep it our little secret."
Before Vincent could say anything else, from far away in the distance, they both suddenly heard a ghostly moan, which alarmed Vincent when he turned around sharply and narrowed his eyes. "What's that?"
"Probably Jackie goofing up again." Vincent slipped on his mask while Vladia smiled at the hunter boy. "I believe you have a job to do…"
Vincent reactivated his hoverboard before he turned back to Vladia and made a look of determination underneath his mask. "I wouldn't let you down, Ms. Masters!" And with that vow, he flew across town towards the source of the ghostly moan, leaving Vladia by herself on the roof.
"Oh, of that...you can be sure." Vladia walked to the edge of the building with her arms crossed and changed into her ghost form. Her cape billowed in the breeze while she grinned evilly and stared off at the eerie dark sky. "And young Danielle will be so busy protecting you, stealing that battle suit will be a snap!"
She kicked a gargoyle's head off the edge as it crashed into the sidewalk below, leaving a big crater.
Meanwhile, in the Ghost Zone at Praia's castle, the Hallow Knight has gathered hundreds of skeleton army ghosts for the Ghost Queen herself. They all lined up before the Halloween spirit herself.
"Are your army's assembled?" The Hallow Knight asked three commander ghosts. They all saluted in confirmation. "Then, on my orders–"
"On MY orders!" Praia snapped with her thundering voice as her second-in-command turned around in surprise. The queen then turned her attention to her entire army as well. "Go to that world, bring the ring to me, and to those who stand in your way...show no mercy!"
The Hallow Knight and the three skeleton commanders all bowed before their queen. The entire army of skeleton ghosts then began to chat in unison, now that they were all prepared to invade the human world, to retrieve the stolen Ring of Rage for Praia Dark.
The next day, back in the human world at Casper High, Dani and her friends were in the cafeteria with their lunch trays in their hands. Dani looked very worn out from her night of all of the ghosts escaping from her ghost portal.
"You okay?" Tina asked, but only got a look from Dani. "Sorry, standard question. Late night?"
"Of course it was a late night. Every ghost I know, and about a million I don't, ARE LOOSE!" She exclaimed while she narrowed her eyes in frustration. An ectopus ghost then phased beside the trio and laughed as it stole Dani's lunch while it phased back through the floor. The trio stared at the floor in confusion until Dani glanced back at her friends. "Not to mention I couldn't sleep, because my archenemy was in the guest room next to me."
"My parents sleep in a bedroom next to me. It's not the same, but...I can't sleep either." Sam said as he shrugged his shoulders.
"Hey, Dani." Vincent greeted as he walked up to her with his lunch tray.
"Hey, Vinc." She said as she turned to him with a friendly smile.
"'Hey, Vinc'? Isn't that the same Vinc that's usually on a jet sled, trying to waste Dani?" Tina asked Sam sarcastically. They were apparently surprised that Dani was actually becoming friends with the boy who has been trying to kill her, much to their great concern and scowling.
"Yep, and apparently next week, we're having cookies with Skulka." Sam said, equally as sarcastic.
"You might wanna...bag lunch it outside. This isn't exactly the safest place for you right now." Vincent told Dani somewhat nervously before he walked away.
"What makes you say that?" Dani wondered in confusion.
Unfortunately, her answer came when Daph Baxter and Kwyn came up behind Dani with their cruel smirks, ready to do some more bullying with their favorite victim. "Hey, Fenturd! No teachers around to protect you, no nerds around to hide you." Daph said mockingly with her hands on her hips.
"Hey! I resent that! I'm plenty nerd!" Tina protested offendedly as she approached the cheerleader captain boldly.
"Oh, shut up, techno-geek." Daph swung Tina's lunch tray all over her face while she shoved Tina away as she yelped in surprise.
"Daphne, take a hike, will ya? I'm way too tired to put up with you!" Dani said as she frowned at her arch-rival in annoyance, until she smiled sarcastically with her arms crossed. "Besides, shouldn't you be failing a test, kicking a kitty, or beating up somebody weaker than you now?"
Daph smiled at her even more before she glared. "Come to think of it, YEAH!"
When she was about to punch straight into Dani's face, she quickly clenched her eyes shut and concentrated as she turned her chin intangible. The cheerleader captain's fist phased harmlessly through her transparent chin. Dani opened her eyes, just as her chin changed back to normal, while Daph stared at her fist in confusion.
Dani then zapped a small ecto beam from her finger, straight at Daph's sneakers as she melted and glued her shoes on the floor. The cheerleader tried to punch her again, but Dani easily dodged it and Daph began to shout when she was about to lose her balance from her shoes being melted. Vincent quickly took this opportunity to drop his lunch tray on the floor, pretending to be surprised, and then kicked it right in front of Daph, just before she slammed her face onto the tray. She looked up with her face all covered in ketchup, her eyes covered with pickles, and french fries sticking out of her hair like antennas.
The students cheered for Dani and Vincent while they smiled at each other before he walked away to get another tray. Everyone else ceased their cheers when they went back to their usual business.
"Sweet!" Tina said, impressed as she and Sam walked up to Dani.
"Is it? I know Daph's a shallow brat, but what if she saw something?" Sam asked, referring about what would have happened if Daph caught Dani using her powers in front of her and everyone else.
"She's not gonna see something." Dani said reassuringly before she narrowed her eyebrows. "Besides, I'm tired of getting kicked around all the time." She then crossed her arms. "Maybe it's time I do a little kicking back." Sam's glared turned into a look of concern when she said that.
Meanwhile back at Fenton Works, Jackie and Vladia were both in the lab together as Jackie worked underneath the top-half of the incomplete Ecto-Skeleton, the one she was working on before Vladia suddenly arrived.
"Vladia, my girl! Can you hand me that watchamitjigit?" Jackie asked.
Vladia walked up to Jackie with the tool she asked for and handed it to her. "Here you go, ol' chum." She said before she leaned on the suit, looking really anticipated to steal it from Jackie so she could use it for her own uses. "Any idea when this suit might be finished?"
Jackie pushed herself out from underneath to face her old 'friend'. "Quit pushing me, V-girl, I'm working on it as fast as I can."
The obese ghost huntress returned to work, until Vladia suddenly heard neighing coming from the ghost portal. Her eyes went wide in worry when she knew who it was trying to break in. "Can we...pick it up a little bit?"
Matt ran into the lab after he felt the sudden tremor. "What was that?" He wondered.
"Could be me." Jackie said as she pulled herself out from underneath the suit. "I made nachos for breakfast this morning."
Then the Hallow Knight and her steed, Nightmare, busted the ghost portal gate open as one half flew across the lab. Vladia merely scooted out of the way and allowed it to smack into Jackie instead while she wasn't looking. It sent her crashing into the wall with a surprised grunt/yelp.
"Jackie, look out. The door." Vladia said jokingly, looking very pleased to see Jackie's misfortune.
"Go and find the queen's ring!" The Hallow Knight ordered as she held out her sword. Several ghost skeletons all ran out of the portal and began to phase through the ceiling and floor of the lab. Vladia only stood there and watched as they began to invade the town.
"Jackie, we have to shut the portal!" Matt said to his wife, who was still pinned down by the door.
"Yeah, I'll get right on that!" She said as she narrowed her eyes.
Matt then tried to jump to the lever to deactivate the portal, but the Hallow Knight quickly grabbed him by his wrist, preventing him from stopping her army, and held him up while he grunted.
"Hey! Let go of the man I love!" Jackie and Vladia demanded in unison while Jackie finally managed to pull the door off of her.
The obese huntress then stared at Vladia strangely in confusion. "Like a dear friend." She corrected herself before she pointed at the Ecto-Skeleton urgently. "Is any part of that suit operational?!"
"Well, the pants part...but it's not calibrated yet. Using the suit could kill you." Jackie explained unsurely.
Vladia must have hoped that the 'killing' part was true since she smiled at her former friend casually. "Well, maybe you should try it first. After all, it is your battle suit." The Hallow Knight fired a beam from her sword directly at the women until Jackie quickly shoved Vladia out of the way and pinned her to the wall.
"That it is, V-girl! It's time to kick a little butt!" She said before she then hopped right into the pants. "And these are just the pants to kick it in! Neural receptors engage!"
Jackie activated the pants as the neuro receptors expanded through her arms and back. Once she was ready, she then jumped in front of the Hallow Knight and her steed. She fired another beam at her, but she began to run around the Halloween spirit with such quick speed, she could barely see her. The huntress was moving faster than the speed of sound before she began to kick on the knight ghost's hand rapidly, forcing her to release Matt when he dropped to the floor.
"The kick is up!" Jackie exclaimed when she finally kicked the Hallow Knight hard, and sent her flying straight out of Fenton Works and across town. "And it's good!" Jackie stood straight with her hands on her hips while Matt and Vladia approached her. "Haha! Nobody can touch me while I'm wearing the Fenton…" However, Jackie suddenly began to feel really weak when the pants began to drain her life force. She held onto her head in weakness. "Ecto-Skeleton...weakening...me…"
Matt managed to catch his weakening wife as she collapsed into his arms with a moan. "Jackie! The suit's draining you like a battery!" He exclaimed with concern before he turned to Vladia for her assistance. "Vladia, help me get these pants off Jackie!"
"Nope, sorry! That's all you!" Vladia said as she tried to walk away as casually as possible to leave Jackie suffering within the pants. However, that only made Matt glare disapprovingly at the ruthless woman even more.
Outside at the streets of Amity Park, a massive crowd of ghost skeletons marched across the street of town and began to invade the entire town. They threw trash bins, trucks, and smashed windows of buildings while they continued to search for the Ring of Rage for their rightful ruler, Praia Dark. All the residences of Amity Park began to scream as they ran for their lives in fear.
On top of some buildings, all of the ghosts, the ones who escaped way before the skeleton army, overlooked the chaos underneath them. "Those poor humans. They're being overrun by ghost bullies!" Cindy said to the other ghosts, pitying the panicking humans down in the streets.
"Oh, who cares about them?!" Amber snapped grudgingly before he pointed down at the skeleton army that were turning the whole town upside down. "That is the Ghost Queen's crew! She's on her way here!"
"Which means we have to camouflage ourselves, and do you hear that?" Skulka said as she looked down at the group of terrified humans running down the street below them. "That is confusion and panic. Which means it's the perfect time to find our hiding places." All of the ghosts smirked in agreement.
They all began to seek refuge in all of the restaurants and shops across town, even kicking out the customers and employees by force. The Lunch Man found himself a place at the Nasty Burger, scaring the employees out, the Box Ghoul found a box store, refusing to give a couple of terrified customers a lot of boxes, and Amber found a music store as he used his sonic waves to force the rockstar customers out of his 'new home'.
Skulka finally threatened all of the hunter customers out of a hunting store, just as Cindy phased in. "This is not the square, Skulka, we're pushing those people out of their homes. We're no better than the Ghost Queen." The nerd girl said to the huntress ghost.
"Nobody lives here, it's a store." Skulka pointed out before she fired a crossbow, pinning Cindy to a wall by her shirt.
"This seems oddly familiar."
At Casper High School, the entire building was unaware that a huge crowd of ghost skeletons were marching their way towards the campus.
In the hallway of the school, the trio discussed with each other when Tina expressed her concern that Dani shouldn't be hanging out with Vincent anymore. Sam and Tina were both very worried about her companying with a grudgeful boy, who has been trying to destroy her since the day he first became a ghost hunter.
"Sam, please tell Tina she's nuts." Dani said, like she was genuinely confused by Tina's concern of her befriending Vincent.
"I don't feel like I'm nuts." Tina said with a shrug.
"And I don't think she is either." Sam said, agreeing with Tina on this matter with his arms crossed as he scowled disapprovingly at his best friend. "Vincent is one of your enemies, Dani. Don't you think it's smart to be letting him this close?"
Dani scoffed and rolled her eyes with her hand on her hip. "I can handle it. Besides, he's not so bad once you get to know him."
"Thanks." Vincent said from behind with a smile after he overheard most of their conversation. "You're not so bad yourself, Fenton." Sam and Tina then turned their backs to Vincent while they scowled bitterly, still not trusting him one bit. "What's up with them?"
"They're really good friends...and they're just be overprotective." Dani narrowed her eyes directly at her friend while she emphasised.
Now Vincent looked really confused by Sam and Tina's hatred towards him. "Of what? It's not like we have anything to hide."
Dani smiled at her friends while they only frowned even more, until her ghost sense suddenly went off as she gasped in alert. "Whoa! I gotta jet!" She ran away from her friends, but when she ran down the corner, she bumped into Daph, who immediately grabbed her by her shirt with a glare. "Daph!" Dani glanced out the window and saw the ghost skeletons marching across the courtyard. "Uh, look...this is really bad timing, can we reschedule?"
"Don't think so, Fenturincess...unless you think you can make me." Daph said with a cruel smirk. Dani only glared at the cheerleader captain when she blinked and her eyes glowed green.
Before Daph knew it, Dani overshadowed her when she screamed and ran down the hallway. Vincent, Sam, and Tina noticed this when they watched her slam right against some lockers rapidly, until she finally became dazed and collapsed onto the floor, unconscious. Dani phased out of Daph's body and flew towards a staircase as she turned visible again and appeared out of hiding while Vincent, Sam, and Tina stared at her strangely.
"And there's more where that came from, Baxter! So watch it!" Dani acted out, pretending to be tough before she glanced back at her friends and ran back down the corner again. However, she froze and gasped when she found Vladia Plasmius standing right in front of her with her hands on her hips.
"It feels good to use your powers on your enemies, doesn't it, Dani?" She asked with a sickening grin, comparing Dani to herself that they were more alike than the girl would even care to admit.
Dani glared angrily at her archenemy while she transformed into her ghost form and fired an ecto beam, blasting Vladia dead on as she phased through the wall. "Actually yeah, it does." She flew after Vladia, ready to battle her.
"Where's she running to all the time?" Vincent asked Sam and Tina, confused by why Dani kept on disappearing, like she was in a big hurry for something serious. "Only girls I see running off like that have a job...or a boyfriend." He fixed his skeptic eyes on Dani's gothic friend.
"She doesn't have a boyfriend, Vincent!" Sam snapped as he turned to him and glared with his fists clenched tightly at his sides.
Vincent only gave him a clever look. "Mmmhmm, right."
Sam's glare disappeared and became a look of perplexity. "What are you talking about?"
Vincent pointed his finger at the goth boy, like he already knew something was going on. "You like her."
Sam then made hand gestures above his head, like Vincent was just kidding around. "Uh...hello! She's my best friend!"
"I'm sure she is, but if you like her, I mean, like her like her, make a move." Sam blinked in silence while Vincent smiled even more. "Because if you don't, somebody will."
Before Sam could say anything, Tina's PDA suddenly beeped as she pulled out and turned it on. It showed the breaking news for Amity Park while everyone else in town watched from their own televisions.
"This is Terrance Snow with Action News, and this is the Ghost Emergency Broadcasting System." The newsman announced to the residence of Amity as he showed some footages of the ghost skeletons throwing vehicles into the air. "Amity Park is in a middle of a massive ghost attack, and now here's Lena Thunder with the ghost weather."
"As you will see, we have random ghost activities in restaurants, malls, and this box store." Lena announced as she showed some images about all the stores that were invaded by ghosts who were trying to find refuge, until she showed a footage of the ghost skeletons marching. "If you look to your west, you'll see a huge wave of ghost skeletons heading from the center of town toward Casper High."
Meanwhile, at the Fenton Works lab, Matt managed to get Jackie out of the pants of the Ecto-Skeleton, but she was still drained from it almost absorbing her life force. They both heard the news that a massive wave of ghosts were marching straight towards Casper High, where both of their children were currently at.
"We have to...have to…" Jackie groaned in weakness as she held her face.
"No Jackie, you're still wiped out from the Fenton Pants. I'll get Dani and James!" Matt said before he ran out of the lab to pick up both of his children from school early.
"That...works...too."
At Axion Labs, Vincent's mother, Diane Gray, was listening to the whole news about the ghost invasion. "All parents are advised to immediately pick up their children and RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES! Not the hair! NOT THE HAIR!" Lena exclaimed as the ghost skeletons invaded the newsroom and toppled her to the floor, until the TV went static. Diane gasped in worry when she realized that her son was in serious danger.
Back at Casper High at the football stadium, Dani Phantom landed in front of Vladia Plasmius as Dani glared angrily at her archenemy while Vladia only smiled. The ghost girl then flew straight towards the woman to attack, only to have her archenemy grab her by her throat as she gagged...again. Vladia did have this odd tendency to grab Dani by the neck almost every time they fought.
"Calm down, Danielle! I'm not here to fight you, I have other things to worry about!" Vladia exclaimed as she threw Dani to the ground, who stared at her with stunned eyes.
They both suddenly heard neighing when they turned and gasped in alert. The Hallow Knight charged towards the half-ghosts on her horse with an army of ghost skeletons following behind her. She tried to slice at them with her sword, but they both flew out of the way while she sliced a part of the football post instead. Dani landed back on the ground and began to open fire her ectoplasmic blasts at most of the ghost skeletons, vaporizing some of them easily with one blast.
One suddenly came up to her and was about to stab her with a sword, until Vladia blasted it away with an ecto blast, saving the girl's life. "You're helping me? What do you want, my dad's cell number?" Dani asked sarcastically to her archenemy as she tossed a skeleton over her head, activated her Boo-staff, and swung it at another one into pieces.
"No!" Vladia said while she blasted a couple skeletons, until she smiled at Dani hopefully. "But really, if you wanted to give me his number–"
She got cut off when the Hallow Knight grabbed suddenly her by her collar and held her up close. "The queen's prize! Return it!" The Hallow Knight demanded, since she knew that she was the one who stole the Ghost Queen's ring in the first place when she accidentally woke her up for her crown.
"I don't have it!" Vladia then smiled hopefully again. "But if you join me, perhaps together–" She got cut off again when they were both blasted by a red beam.
They all saw Vincent Gray, in his full battle suit, jetting straight towards the fight with his Ecto Grenade Launcher all charged up. "Guess what, everybody! The best ghost hunter in Amity Park is here! And that means you're about to get your butt handed to ya!" Vincent shouted out loud to all of the ghosts.
"He really is quite good at this." Vladia admitted to Dani while she stood up and dusted herself from Vincent's little surprise attack.
"He also thinks we're the enemy." Dani pointed out as she frowned at Vladia knowingly.
That made Vladia's eyes go wide in somewhat agreement and worry. "Good point!"
Just as Vincent flew past Dani and Vladia, he left behind a few grenades behind to obliterate them, but they managed to jump out of the way before they exploded. Up above the hill, all of the students overlooked the ghost battle happening down at their school stadium while they watched with interest.
"Dani, please be careful." James begged quietly with worry.
And then out of nowhere, all of the parents arrived at Casper High in their cars. They immediately braked their vehicles to pick up their children and protect them from the massive ghost wave.
"Doesn't anybody in this town drive a compact car?" Sam asked with a bit of sarcasm.
"Kids, have you seen Vincent?" Diane asked Sam and Tina urgently as she exited her car.
Sam and Tina eyeball glanced down at the fight, where Vincent was currently involved in, along with Dani and Vladia. "He's with Dani!" They both said in unison.
"Kids, have you seen Dani?" Matt asked them as he hopped out of the Fenton RV.
"She's with Vincent!"
Matt stared at them in confusion, since he has technically never met Vincent yet formally. "Who's Vincent?"
Back at the fight, Vincent grabbed Dani by her jumpsuit and held her up close. "Alright, ghost, what's going on?!" He demanded.
"That." Dani replied as she pointed her Boo-staff at the three skeletons charged straight for them.
Vladia hovered in front of them protectively as she duplicated herself into three and fired multiple beams at them. She vaporized all of them into dust before she merged back into one and turned towards Dani and Vincent.
The hunter boy stared at the ghost woman with some confusion under his mask. "Uh...thanks?"
"Your welcome." Dani got out of his grip as the two half-ghosts hovered in front of the grudgeful ghost hunter. "Look, I know this is gonna be hard for you to believe..." The Hallow Knight suddenly tackled Vladia out of the air. Dani stared down at them, until she pointed her staff at the knight spirit, showing that she was the main enemy, at least for the moment. "But that woman is the problem right now, and we could really use your help."
Vincent got to his feet on his board while he glared at her bitterly underneath his mask. "I still don't trust you, or your spooky friend."
"You don't have to trust me, just fight with me!" Dani held out her free hand to him. He stared at it in silence, until he reluctantly took her hand and shook it, agreeing to a temporary alliance. Dani Phantom smiled at the Red Hunter in thanks.
The two of them then flew down to take down the knight ghost together. The ghost girl spun her staff expertly while she battle cried and batted the Hallow Knight off of Vladia with a shout. The hunter boy then charged towards the Halloween spirit as he charged his gauntlets up with red energy before he uppercutted her by the chin, sending her flying several feet away. Finally, Vladia flew to the air and fired an ecto beam at the Hallow Knight, finally knocking her to the ground.
"Fool! All I wanted to do was to seize the ring and return it to Praia's Keep, but now you leave me no choice…" The Hallow Knight said as she stood up and held out her Soul Shredder. "By the authority vested in me by my lady and liege…" She raised her sword up and stuck it to the ground. A huge wave of energy blast out while everyone watched in awe, and the skeletons all across town immediately froze at their spots. "I claim this town, now and forever, under the banner of Lady Praia, THE QUEEN OF ALL GHOSTS!"
The raw energy then swirled as it fired straight into the air, towards the sky, from the sword until it finally expanded from above town. Dani, Vladia, and Vincent stared up at the sky as the energy created a dome, like a prison that surrounded the entire town of Amity Park, completely cutting the entire town off from the outside world.
TO BE CONTINUED...
