Season 2 Episode 8
The Ultimate Enemy: Part 1
"It's Time to SCREAM!"
Ten years into the future, the entire world was a desolate, deserted planet, filled with nothing but ruined and destroyed buildings of cities, nothing but cockroaches scurrying across the rumbles and debris, and there was not a single human life and not a sign of nature anywhere. There was no sun shining, no rain, no life or animals in sight: only ruins of cities being destroyed by one monstrous and powerful ghost as lightning flashed in the endless darkness above all the destruction. The only safe haven on the entire Earth from all the evilness happening outside on the entire planet was Amity Park, protected by a strong ghost shield, which was powered by multiple towers that circled and surrounded the entire upgraded city from the evilest threat that has ever touched upon the entire globe.
Despite all the disasters outside the shield of Amity Park, the residences seemed to just continue on with their normal lives, completely ignoring the isolated outside world. Cars have been advanced into hover vehicles and buildings have been remodeled much higher. Most stayed the same like Casper High School as the defender of Amity Park, twenty-four year old Vincent Gray, now with a solder-like hairdo and more muscular from his life of fighting ghosts, flew over the building on his hoverboard.
"HI!" A couple of kids called after their defender as they waved and he flew away.
Vincent merely gave them a smile and saluted to the kids before he jetted across the futuristic city. He came to a stop at one of the towers that was powering the ghost shield as he settled his board aside on the ledge and opened a panel while he examined it, showing that it was completely fine and operational.
"Ghost Shield Tower Nine, one-hundred percent operational." Vincent said into his watch communicator, revealing his mother, Diane Gray, now an old woman with an eye patch and missing an arm.
"Great, son, check the last tower and get ba-" She began to order her son, but then Vincent's watch suddenly went static and he lost contact with his mother.
"Mom? Mother!"
Then the screen showed two bloody red evil eyes, but didn't reveal the face. "Hello, Vincent." A sinister female voice said through the watch.
Vincent look surprised at first before he narrowed his eyes in disgust and anger. "You, again?! I don't care how powerful you are, ghost, you can't break through the shield!"
"...Until today." The eyes suddenly went wide when an extremely powerful and loud ghost scream/howl was heard throughout the entire city of Amity Park.
Vincent immediately clapped his hands on his ears tightly, as did all of the other citizens in the entire city as it trembled from this raw force of sonic frequencies. Windows of the buildings and cars' windshields shattered to bits and the entire ground vibrated from the loud howl. Vincent glanced at the panel in front of him and gasped when he saw it dropping and losing power rapidly and the entire tower began to explode. Vincent quickly grabbed his jet sled and jumped over the ledge and off the balcony before the explosion reached him, but the force made him lose his air when he was about to hurtle through the glass building in front of him. He quickly pressed on his watch as his sled automatically caught him before the window shattered.
Vincent sat on his board and gasped as he watched the rest of the ghost shield towers exploding like a domino chain. As soon as they were all destroyed, the ghost shield that was engulfing the city began to displace. The citizens froze in their places as they watched their ghost shield that has been protecting them for years disappear before their eyes in horror and left the entire city of Amity Park completely defenseless. Lightning struck in the sky as alarms blared loudly across town before everyone ran for their lives and they quickly ran into some protective domes into the parts unknown as they tried to hide from the biggest ghost threat they have ever seen.
Vincent watched the panicking crowds hide into the domes before he glanced back down at his watch. "Like the new power? I call it: my ghostly wail." The evil female voice said, revealing that she was the one who began that howling that set the entire city into a massive panic.
The ghost hunter suddenly heard something coming his way when he turned, only to get blasted back by a purple gemstone that was hurtling right towards him. Vincent plummeted out of the sky as he tumbled to the ground, near the Nasty Burger 2, all bruised from the unexpected attack.
Vincent opened his eyes weakly, and then went wide-eyed when he saw the attacker before him. "You?"
It was the Hallow Knight herself, hovering over the ghost hunter with her arms crossed. "Yes, me...and I serve a new mistress now." She said sinisterly before she unleashed another purple gemstone straight at Vincent, but he quickly pressed on his watch and his board swooped in. He quickly hopped on board and flew away as the stone exploded on the new Nasty Burger.
"I gotta get to Mom."
Vincent rode down the city and up a building as he evaded the Halloween Spirit's gemstones while she chased him by his tail. Vincent jetted straight to Fenton Works just as the Hallow Knight fired another large stone at it destroyed the OP Center's antenna and created a hole. Vincent used the hole as a route when he flew straight across the house and into the lab where his mother, Diane, was while alarms blared.
"Mom, the Hallow Knight's here, which means she can't be far behind! What do we do?! What do we-" Vincent began to asked his mother fearfully before he was cut off when they heard the same ghostly howling.
Diane looked straight into her son's eyes. "Vincent...run!" She told him.
The entire floor of the Fenton Works lab began to crack as green light emitted right from the gaps in front of the Fenton Ghost Portal. The entire floor exploded as a ghostly woman emerged out while torrents of green flames erupted around her while she held out her fists straight out her sides.
The Grays stared at her in horrified silence as she landed in front of them and came into view.
The ghost woman had long, white flaming hair the blazed across her knees (possibly up to her ankles), blood-red eyes that were thirsty for destruction, fangs for teeth and pointy ears, green/blue skin, and dark purple lipstick. Her entire figure and structure was slim and lean, but she looked more tougher and more powerful than she looked. She wore a matching black and white two-piece jumpsuit that revealed her midriff, consisting of a shirt that is white in the front and black in the back with a black v-shaped collar and black elbow-length gloves. She also wore black pants with a white belt and black thigh-high high-heel boots with white endings, and even had a white and gray cape with pointed ends. And the extremely worst part was, she has a black DP ghost logo on her chest.
This ghost woman was undoubtedly twenty-four year old Dani Phantom. In her teen years, she was once a great heroine of Amity Park, who dedicated her life into protecting her hometown from ghost attacks. But now ten years later in the future, she was now the most evil and most powerful ghost on the planet, known as Dark Dani Phantom, or as people would dub her now as Dana Phantom. How she inexplicably went from a helpful, friendly heroine to a sociopathic, heartless villainess was beyond everyone's understandings as far as they knew.
"Hello, Vincent." Dark Dani said with a sickening grin, and her voice was much more deeper and evil. Vincent gaped fearfully at her with wide eyes. "...and goodbye." She raised her hand out to the Grays and fired a powerful green ecto beam as Fenton Works exploded.
Time suddenly paused when an image of Dark Dani Phantom appeared on screen in the Ghost Zone. A ghost child with a purple cloak and a scepter in her hand flew in front of the image of older Dani.
"Now do you understand?" A voice asked in the shadows.
"Yes, Dani Phantom grows up to be the most evil ghost on the planet." The ghost said in a calm and soft voice as she shifted into adult form. She turned around, revealing her blue face with a scar running across her eye with an annoyed scowl. "What do you want me to do about it?"
"You're the Mistress of Time, Chrona, isn't it obvious?"
"In order to save the future, Dani Phantom must perish!" The second voice said as he flew out of the shadows, revealing to be a council-like ghost with one eye. Both of them were very concerned about the future before them, and wanted to rid Dani Phantom out of the world to ensure the safety of the human world and the Ghost Zone.
Theme Song:
(She's a phantom)
(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)
Yo, 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)
In the present time at Amity Park, the end of the semester was underway and arriving for all of the students of Casper High when their vice principal and teacher, Ms. Lancer, arranged an assembly in the auditorium while all of the students were present as Lancer walked onto the podium on stage.
"Your future is not carved in stone, people, but it may be carved with a number two pencil." Ms. Lancer said through the microphone as she held up a simply pencil in her hand.
"Oh, please." Tina and Sam both moaned in boredom as they slumped on their seats.
"Quiet! This is important!" Dani said quietly to her friends, making them look kind of surprised that she was interested at what Lancer had to say.
"As most of you have probably forgotten, you will be taking the Career Aptitude Test on Saturday." Lancer explained before she gestured to Dani's brother and her star pupil, James Fenton, who was sitting brightly on a seat next to the vice principal. "Do well, like Mr. Fenton here who got-"
"The highest score in the history of the CAT." Dani muttered under her breath as she spoke along with Lancer and rested her cheek on her fist.
"-and a successful future will be assured!" The screen showed images of race car drives, millionaire homes, and other possible jobs for the teens. She then scolded when she gestured to an out-of-shape redhead, who was snoozing on her seat. "Fail, like Irvine 'third-degree' Burns here who got the lowest score in the history of the CAT, and you will be doomed to a career...at the Nasty Burger." An image of the fast food restaurant, Nasty Burger, showed up on screen behind Lancer.
"Hey, working at Nasty Burger takes brains, you know!" Irvine protested with an offended scowl as she stood up and turned her attention to the crowd of students. "If those Nasty secret herbs and spices in our Nasty sauce are overheated, it could cause an explosion that take out a whole city block!" The teens only remained silent as they stared at her dully, not really interested in her warning. "Oh, who am I kidding? My life is over." And she walked off stage with slumped shoulders.
After the miserable Nasty Burger employee left, Lancer held up the CAT answers booklet in her hand. "These aren't just the answers to the test, they're the answers to your future." She placed the booklet inside a briefcase as she locked it up with a key and handcuffed the case to her wrist to keep it from escaping her possession. "Remember, it's your future, do you want fries with it?" With that happy note for her students, the vice principal and teacher walked off stage while James stared at her oddly.
"Dani, are you okay?" Tina asked her best friend when she noticed the stunned expression on her friend's face. "Dani?"
Back in the Ghost Zone, in an unknown and unseen realm, Chrona watched the image of Dani's stunned face and the two one-eyeballed ghosts were with her as well, much to her annoyance.
"What are you waiting for? Now's the perfect chance to take her out!" The first eyeball ghost ushered Chrona, wanting her to kill Dani now to ensure the safety of the future from the destruction Dark Dani has caused (or that Dani would cause eventually).
"That's the problem with you Observants. All you do is observe." Chrona said calmly as she shifted into a child and glared annoyingly at her employers.
"You know our oath, Chrona: to watch." The second one said.
"But never act, which is where you bring me in to do your dirty work." The time ghost changed into an old woman before she switched the image to where it showed Dani currently at Fenton Works, in the kitchen while she studied for the test. "She turns evil, because she's under pressure for some test? Fine, then perhaps it's time for a test of my own."
In the kitchen of Fenton Works back in the real world, Dani was sitting at the table, covered with books as she tried to study with a sample Lancer handed everyone after the assembly.
After all her past ghost fights the past months, it has really cut her off from her study time, not that she was really interested in the least, but after hearing that she had to work at the Nasty Burger by force if she failed, it was a really unexpected turn for her as she tried to make sure her future was to become an astronaut, and not some loser fast food employee.
Her older brother, James, arrived in the kitchen as he looked over her shoulder to see the sample. Before Dani could bubble an answer on the sample, James made a noise like he was about to tell her that wasn't the right answer, making her choose another, but he warned her again. Dani did this a few times more, and each time James stopped her while she became even more nervous and irritated.
"OKAY! I GET IT!" Dani exclaimed, finally couldn't handle being corrected by James anymore when she threw her arms into the air in exasperation, enough to make her older brother recoil from her sudden outburst of anger. "You're brilliant, I'm dumb, and I'll never be able to get as high of scare as you. So far, I'm not even qualified to scrape the grease off the Nasty grill." Dani flicked her pencil away.
"All I want is for you to succeed, Dani, and doing well on the test can help." James said to his sister. "There are three things I've learned in life…"
"Study hard, do your best, and…" Dani and James said in unison while Dani slumped in boredom.
"DUCK!" Dani stared at her brother in confusion until a metal boomerang suddenly flew into the kitchen and smacked Dani right in the back of her head.
"OW!" She exclaimed as she held onto her head and picked up the weird-looking boomerang. "A boomerang?"
Her parents, Matt and Jackie Fenton, arrived in the kitchen as their daughter threw the boomerang out of the kitchen. "I call it the Booo-merang. It locks on a ghost's unique ecto-signature and seeks it out wherever it goes." Jackie explained before the Booo-merang flew back into the kitchen and smacked Dani on the back of her head again as it landed in Matt's hand.
"Although why it's keying into Dani is way beyond me." Matt said as he examined the boomerang device in confusion, still not knowing why it kept on keying onto his own daughter.
Jackie then noticed the sample in front of Dani on the table. "What's that, Danielle? One of those stupid CAT tests? I failed that and I didn't turn out to be a cat." Jackie and Matt then both walked out of the kitchen to leave their children alone.
Dani growled in frustration and stress. "Oh, I GIVE-" She began to shout out loud as she angrily shoved her books off the table.
"TIME OUT!" Chrona said out of nowhere.
Time froze as Dani's books floated in midair while Dani shoved them aside and James was in a verge of a sneeze, but he and his sister both froze like a pause button has been pressed on them. They remained absolutely still when Chrona appeared in the kitchen with a little ghost boy with blue skin, blue overalls, a pick funnel shirt, a pink lunch lady hat, and short black hair, and he was currently asleep.
"Ah, good. Parents gone, she's alone with her brother." Chrona said with a smile before she inspected the Fenton siblings.
She pulled out a medallion designed like a gear with a CH emblem on it before she placed it over the ghost boy's neck when he woke up and looked around in confusion. "Huh? Wha? Where am I?" He wondered.
"Amity Park, before you were born." Chrona pointed at Dani frozen in time as she shifted to an old woman. "That girl there is part ghost, and my employers believe her to be a threat. Would you be a dear and dance a little dance for us?" The boy glared at Dani in agreement before the time ghost pressed on her staff. "TIME IN!" And she disappeared without a trace.
Time resumed itself when the books dropped to the floor. "-UP!" Dani finished angrily.
"-CHOO!" James sneezed in his hand.
Dani's ghost sense suddenly went off as it alerted her. "A ghost? Here?" She suddenly rose from her seat and faced her brother. "NOW GET OUT OF MY ROOM!"
James stared at her in confusion with an arched eyebrow. "We're in the kitchen." He pointed out, until he saw the little ghost boy behind her, and he realized why she said that while she panicked a little from her slip up. "But...i-if that's your attitude...I don't want to see you...or anything you might do in here in the next several minutes!" And he walked out of the kitchen as casually as possible.
Dani seemed a little confused by him. "What's with him?" She turned and gasped at the unfamiliar, yet familiar-looking ghost boy hovering above her as he glared. Dani changed into her ghost form while she stared at this new ghost in confusion. "More importantly, what's with you?"
"I am Box Lunch! Son of the Box Ghoul and the Lunch Man!" He screamed dramatically like his mother would.
That made Dani's face grimace in disgust. "Umm...eew!"
"And now, you will face the death of my box and lunch based DOOM!" He began to summon the boxes of food from the shelves and the fridge of the entire kitchen as he made them into his suit, much like how the Lunch Man would when he became the meat monster, but his wasn't that threatening. "And now-and you probably knew this was coming-BEWARE!"
However, Dani only charged into action straight at Box Lunch, knocking the boxes off of him as they phased out of Fentons Works and towards the Nasty Burger. Lancer was eating her lunch with the briefcase containing the answer booklet to the CAT still cuffed to her as Sam and Tina approached her.
"Shouldn't you two slackers be studying for the CATs?" Lancer reminded her students.
"I've already studied." Tina said proudly.
"I'm sure we'll do fine." Sam added confidently.
"The test answers in this briefcase may indicate otherwise." Lancer said smugly as she held up her briefcase. "Enjoy your Nasty Burger...while you're still on this side of the counter." She then laughed at her own joke, but Sam and Tina exchanged unimpressed looks, not finding that joke funny at all. Until then, Lancer's burger suddenly flew off her plate and splattered ketchup, mustard, and pickles onto her face, surprising her greatly when her eyes went wide. "Fast Food Nation!"
Inside the restaurant, the customers' foods and lunches began to float in midair while the people gasped and looked up in bewilderment as they flew out of the building. Above the Nasty Burger, Dani and Box Lunch were facing off against each other as the food from the restaurant circled around the little ghost boy.
"Prepare to taste defeat!" Box Lunch said threateningly before he suddenly became nice. "And perhaps a nice side salad with that?" Apparently, he has also inherited his father's mood swings.
"Pass." Dani said dully with her cheek resting on her hand.
"Then feast on my empty calories of DOOM!" Box Lunch hurled the floating food straight at Dani, who merely had her arms crossed as she turned intangible and allowed the lunches to fly harmlessly through her.
"Oh, come on! If you really are the son of the Box Ghoul and the Lunch Man-ew!-then you know how this ends." Box Lunch only flew above her as he slammed her out of the air and she phased into the Nasty Burger before she crashed onto a table, enough to make all of the customers run out of the building, screaming for their lives.
"Let's get out of here!" An employee exclaimed when she and her partner were about to run out, only to be blocked by Irvine.
"No! You can't leave! As a duly-deputized Nast-ronaut, you took an oath to protect the Nasty sauce from overheating at all costs!" She exclaimed as she pointed at the Nasty Burger since vats at the corner of the kitchen that was currently at normal green.
"At minimum wage, I don't think so!" The boy employee said before he and his partner ran out of the Nasty Burger for their own lives while Irvine poked her head from the door and scowled.
"You can kiss Employee of the Month goodbye!"
"That's right!" Dani said when she overheard Irvine about the Nasty Burger sauces. "She said at the assembly 'If this stuff gets too hot, kaboom!'" She smiled with an idea as she picked up a tiny sauce packet from the utensil counter.
"Prepare for-" Box Lunch began, but then Dani suddenly flicked the packet onto his forehead, much to his confusion as he stared at it. "Huh?"
"Hey, Box Lunch...BEWARE!" Dani fired a tiny ghost beam from her finger as she heated up the packet on his forehead. The packet began to swell up from being overheated while Box Lunch clenched his eyes tightly as he braced himself.
Dani quickly turned herself intangible when it exploded with great force, it sent Dani flying out of the restaurant while the explosion took out a good portion of the Nasty Burger. With the crowd, Lancer held up her briefcase to shield herself before Dani flew straight towards her and phased through her case and landed next to Sam and Tina (who was eating a burger, despite everything that happened), with her hair, face, and jumpsuit covered in different kinds of sauces from the explosion. Irvine walked out, also covered in sauce, looking very shaken up by the unexpected incident.
"Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance! RUN!" Lancer exclaimed in fear before everyone immediately ran for their lives away from the Nasty Burger, leaving Dani and her friends alone.
"Dani, who was that ghost you were fighting?" Tina asked Dani as she helped her up to her feet.
"That was Box Lunch, the son of the Box Ghoul and the Lunch Man." Dan replied with a chuckle.
"Yikes!" Sam and Tina said in unison.
"Actually it's more of an 'eww!'. I don't know what's going on…" Dani suddenly spotted the medallion she noticed Box Lunch was wearing during their whole fight. "But this medallion might give us a clue." She was about to lean down to pick it up, until she suddenly noticed something stuck on her back. She reached behind her and removed it before she examined it, and immediately recognized that it was the answer booklet to the CATs. It must have gotten stuck onto her back when that explosion made her phase through Lancer's case. Dani's eyes widened in shock. "Oh my gosh! The answers to the CATs!"
In the Ghost Zone, Chrona and the Observants watched the whole thing from Chrona's realm. "Now watch this, she'll make the right choice, and you'll see you have absolutely nothing to-" Chrona began reassuringly.
Dani smiled happily and thrusted the booklet in the air. "HELLO, GREAT FUTURE!"
"You're not...actually thinking about peeking at the answers, are you?" Tina asked, not sounding exactly impressed by her reaction and looking as concerned as Sam was.
Dani changed back into her human form and smiled down at the booklet. "Of course I am, are you?"
Back in the Ghost Zone, the ghosts saw the whole thing while Chrona frowned at the ghost girl's terrible decision. "She's stolen the test answers!" The first Observant said.
"She's clearly going to cheat!" The second one said.
"She has your time medallion!"
"She has your time medallion!"
"You said that twice." Chrona pointed out as she shifted into a child.
"Destroy her now, Chrona!" The first Observant demanded the time ghost urgently.
"I know what I'm doing." Chrona placed her hand on one of the gears as it showed an image of Skulka with Techna's face on her chest and Skulka's robot body had a new form with new upgrades. "She put the answers to the test in her hands, and she made the wrong decision…"
On the main image screen gear, it showed that the explosion Dani created earlier also knocked an active stove on the sauce vat as its heat began to overcook the herb and spice sauces as the meter dialed up to the yellow area. Chrona pressed the button on her staff as the screen showed Dani fighting off against the Skulka-Techna ghost, then showed Dani facing off against her evil future self, Dark Dani, indicating Dani was going to battle against her own evil future self soon, then showed Fenton Works tumbling and collapsing down over Sam and Tina as they braced themselves. Finally, the image showed James, Jackie, Matt, Lancer, Tina, and Sam all bound and gagged by green energy since they were tied up to the overheating sauce vats until it exploded and killed all of them while Dani watched in absolute horror.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Dani screamed at the death of all of her friends and family, the people she loved and cared about all gone.
"Her future is sealed." Chrona said.
The next day at Casper High, the trio walked down the hallway as Tina and Sam continued to convince Dani to return the answers to Lancer since they knew cheating was wrong and expected more from her.
"So, are you going to return the test answers or not?" Sam asked Dani.
"I will! I'm just...waiting for the right moment." She said, but sounded a little reluctant.
"Like maybe after the test?" Tina said with a clever grin, making Dani glare at her in annoyance. "Right, you're not actually thinking about cheating on a test that you're convinced will determine your future."
Unaware to the trio, as they walked past the teacher's lounge, Lancer overheard their last conversation before she made a look of suspicion like some was up. She returned into the lounge where she unlocked the briefcase and peeked inside. She gasped in absolute shock with wide eyes when she realized that the CAT answer booklet was gone.
In the hallway, James was talking with some of the boys as they all took no interests in his decision about which college to take when he graduated. "So it's between Harvard, Stanford, and Yale, and I can't make up my mind." James said, but the boys remained silent before they walked away from him. "So...see you after school? No?"
"Mr. Fenton, may I speak with you after school?" Ms. Lancer asked her star pupil solemnly as she approached him, making James stare at her in wonder.
After school that day, Dani, Sam, and Tina have arrived back to Fenton Works and into Dani's bedroom. They began to inspect the mysterious medallion Dani managed to recover from her battle with Box Lunch at the Nasty Burger, before he oddly disappeared like he has never even existed.
Tina plugged her PDA to the medallion and began to work her magic while her friends watched in silence. "I can't seem to hack into it, it's really high-tech." She admitted as they stared down at the medallion.
"Yeah, like it's from the future or something." Sam said with a look of somewhat amazement by the odd-looking accessory.
"Well, speaking of the future, I think it's time I start preparing for mine." Dani said as she held up her backpack where the test answers were currently in.
Sam frowned at her, unimpressed. "You mean cheat?"
"I didn't say cheat."
"You didn't say not cheat." Tina added while she frowned as well since she didn't like this idea one bit either.
Dani facepalmed herself. "Guys, as much as I would love studying, I've been busy fighting ghosts. Besides, if you guys think this test is so meaningless, why do you even care if I cheat? Why don't I just study the answers?" Sam and Tina only blinked and remained silent. "No answers? Well, that's all the answer I need." She placed the test answers booklet on her desk and stared down at it reluctantly, ready to peek at the answers.
"Aren't you going to say something?" Tina asked Sam quietly.
"I'm her friend, not her dad. She wants to cheat, she can cheat." Sam said, but not liking this just as much and really wishing he would stop her, but he knew that nothing was going to change her mind, since Dani was just ignorant and stubborn that way.
Dani began to hesitantly peel off the seal while her best friends watched in anticipated silence. Just before she could open it completely, her ghost sense went off when the Skulka with Techna's face on her chest appeared right into her room with wide grins.
Sam and Tina sighed in relief, but they made fake looks of concern and fear. "I mean, oh no! A ghost!" They said in unison.
Dani changed into her ghost form and flew at Skulka, but she merely swiped her hand and smacked her away as she crashed into the wall. She opened her eyes as they glowed green and glared up at this new Skulka hovering above her.
"Who are you?!" She demanded.
"I am Skulk-Techna 9.9, the future ghost world's greatest huntress." Skulka said.
"With its greatest techno villainess as her operating system." Techna added with a grin.
"Skulka and Techna together?!" Dani said, looking surprised and amazed at the same time.
"Is that an eww or a yikes?" Tina wondered as she cocked an eyebrow. Unfortunately, the answer came when multiple claws sprung out of Skulk-Techna's back while they both grinned.
"Definitely a yikes!"
Dani quickly turned intangible as she avoided a claw and flew her friends out of her room and returned. She evaded more claws as they crack the door and floor, and Dani jumped to avoid the third until one arm swapped her to the floor as she grunted. She shrieked as she rolled out of the way from another claw and quickly jumped as the other demolished her desk, until the last one managed to grab Dani by her throat and Skulk-Techna held her close.
"Say farewell…" Skulka said.
"Ghost child!" Techna finished before the made a claw spin rapidly like a saw blade and slowly moved it close to Dani's face.
Suddenly, Skulka's wrist began to beep when she glanced at it in confusion. "What? Someone's hacking into the system? Again? I thought we fixed that!"
"We did, it must've accidentally synced up with somebody else's PDAAAAAAAA!" Techna screamed before their jetpack suddenly sprang out as they released Dani and phased straight through the ceiling.
Sam and Tina, who had her trusty PDA in her hand, reentered the room. "Wow, I can still hack into her systems with my handheld computer. I don't know if that's exciting or depressing." Tina admitted.
"Come on, follow me!" Dani said as she phased through the ceiling to follow Skulk-Techna.
"We'll walk." Tina and Sam walked out of her room.
While Dani chased after Skulk-Techna in the sky, they flew over Casper High, where Ms. Lancer was talking with James after she suspected that Dani has stolen the answers to the CAT when she overheard her conversation with her friends during their school hours, much to James' surprise.
"So, you're saying Dani stole the test answers? How?" James asked, looking mildly surprised that his sister would even do something selfish like that.
"I don't know...unless your sister suddenly gained the ability to turn invisible and reach through solid objects." Lancer said as she held up her empty case where the booklet should have been secured in.
James gulped nervously when she mentioned her powers and, in a way, she was right unknowingly as far as she knew. "But Ms. Lancer, you still have no proof Dani took the test answers!"
"Fair enough, she has up until the test to return the answers. BUT!" Lancer suddenly went up to James' face, who stood there in stunned silence. "If she cheats, I wouldn't just fail her...I'll destroy her future!"
Back in the sky, Skulk-Techna continued flying around town out of control with Dani following her. "What are you waiting for?! Activate the purple-back gorilla override!" Skulka ordered Techna.
"Don't tell me how to do my job!" Techna snapped.
Dani fired an ecto blast dead on at Skulk-Techna, sending her plummeting to the ground as they both shouted and crashed into the Nasty Burger, near the sauce vats. Skulka narrowed her eyes with provoke before she jetted out of the restaurant, but unfortunately she made the stove move even closer to the sauce vats while they overheated even more when the meter reached between the yellow and the red.
"Activating Phantom Palm Pummeler!" Techna said with a grin.
Skulka fired a beam from the palm of her hand directly at Dani, sending her flying backwards a little. She then fired at her again, making her briefly turn back to human as she fell a few feet before she regained her air when she changed back to her ghost half.
"You're shorting out my powers?!" Dani asked Skulk-Techna in shock.
"Indeed, the pummeler may not work on you in the future...but we had a feeling it would work on you here." Skulka said with a grin.
"The future?"
"Ohoh, I love it! You're much less powerful than that other Phantom we have to deal with!" Techna cackled.
"What are you to talking ABOOOOUT?!" Skulk-Techna fired another beam at Dani, changing her back to human and she screamed as she plummeted to the ground, but then she luckily managed to grab a flagpole when it broke her fall and she dangled over it. "Wow, that flagpole thing works? Heh, I thought for sure it would-" Unfortunately, it suddenly snapped and Dani fell again. "BREEEEAK!" She bounced off a roof cover of a floral shop and landed in a pile of garbage-filled bags with a grunt. "I guess I don't have a future as an Olympic gymnast."
Skulk-Techna suddenly unleashed a metal cuff that snapped around her waist before it electrocuted her as she shrieked and fell onto her back, her face was now bruised while Skulka descended near her. "You don't have a future, period!" Skulka said as she glared at her.
"Not anymore!" Techna added angrily.
"I wouldn't bet on that!" Tina said when she and Sam arrived as they ran down the road just in time before Tina aimed her PDA directly at Skulk-Techna and hacked into her systems again while she short-circuited her suit.
"Oh poop." Skulka and Techna groaned in unison before they began to fall from the air before Skulka grabbed a flagpole like Dani did.
"Wow, that flagpole thing he-AHHHHHH!" Techna screamed when the pole snapped in half like what happened to Dani last time and crashed onto a light post while the same medallion Box Lunch was wearing before hung limply from her neck.
"Nice one, guys!" Dani said to her friends.
"Come on, Tina!" Sam said before he and Tina began to tug onto the cuff that was restraining Dani as they tried to pry it off. "Let's see...if we can get this thing off!"
The medallion on Skulk-Techna fell off and landed on the ground when she immediately began to glow and disappear, and with Dani, Sam, and Tina touching her, they were teleported out of Amity Park along with her.
In an unknown location of the Ghost Zone, the same place where the time ghost lived, Skulk-Techna flew through one of Chrona's portals while Dani, Sam, and Tina all shouted as they were dragged along with her into the realm. After they landed on the ground, the cuff restraining Dani's waist opened up as it freed her and the trio looked around at this new location they have been sent to.
"Where are we?" Tina wondered when they saw gears and heard a lot of clocks ticking all around them.
"I don't know. The Ghost Zone, I think, but...no part of the Ghost Zone I've ever seen." Dani admitted as they looked out the window.
They were definitely in the Ghost Zone alright, since they would never forget the look of the void, but this part of the endless dimension looked like a clock tower with gearheads turning and ticking outside, and Dani has definitely never been there before. And it was also like they had no idea what time it was, like they were in the main center of time: the very beginning, the very end, and it was like they were in every time at once.
"It happened right after her medallion fell off." Sam said.
"Then I think I know how to get us back!" Tina said when she noticed a hanger of hundreds of the same medallions they have been seeing all day since the Box Lunch incident. She slipped a medallion on around her neck and cheered when she expected to be teleported back home, but saw that nothing happened when her smile dropped. "Nothing, huh?"
"No, but nice bling." Sam walked up to the time-viewing screen.
Dani walked up to Tina and examined the medallion around her neck. "I don't like this." She mumbled.
"You're going to like this even less!"
Tina and Dani walked up beside Sam, who was watching the time-viewing screen in front of him. What they saw before them was the future, ten years later, and saw a evil-looking ghost woman, who was Dani's evil future self, Dark Dani Phantom (or Dana), firing powerful beams of energy at everything and everyone as the humans ran for their lives in terror while she fired multiple story buildings. What scared and surprised Sam the most was that she was actually enjoying the chaos and terror she was upbringing the city until she made a water tower explode and caused a huge green fire. Dark Dani looked around at the horror she has bestowed on the humans and laughed cruelly with a sickening, wicked grin.
"I think I'm seeing your future...and you're kind of a brat." Sam said to Dani before they continued to watch.
They saw upgraded helicopters, tanks, and police cars all surrounding Dark Dani while she continued to smirk evilly as she hovered above them and took a deep breath. She then unleashed a powerful sonic scream that sounded like a ghost howl with green waves: the ghostly wail, and made all the armed vehicles on the ground and air fly away as they crashed elsewhere. Dark Dani halted her power and smiled evilly again.
"Okay, you're really a brat." Sam corrected himself when he narrowed his eyes at his friend.
"Wow!" Dani said as she gently shoved Sam away, very amazed at the amazing ability her evil future self just used. "What is that, some kind of ghostly wail? What an awesome power! And I look totally hot!"
"Dani!" Sam and Tina said in unison as they gave their friend correcting glares.
"...If it weren't being used for evil...and I don't really like the fangs."
Tina turned back to Skulk-Techna, who was unconscious, as she began to mess around her PDA again. "Let's see if this future gir; knows anything about…" She muttered to herself, until Skulk-Techna flew up into the air and was suddenly hurtled into the time portal. "I didn't do that!"
"I did." Chrona said simply, catching the trio's attentions when they looked up and saw her descending above them. "I've sent her back to her own time, or...should I say forward to her own time. You see, for me, time moves backwards and forwards, and...oh, why am I bothering? You're fourteen."
"Who are you? Where are we?" Dani asked the time ghost.
"Introductions? Fine...I am Chrona, Mistress of Time. I've been charged with the task of eliminating your future so that never happens." She pointed at her time portal and showed Dark Dani lifting up a tank with ease as she threw it a great distance away before the citizens ran for their lives when she began to fire more ecto blasts without even caring for their innocent lives.
Dani stared up at Chrona with disbelief. "You've gotta be kidding me! Name one evil thing I've done!"
Chrona grinned before she showed her an image of James sneaking into his sister's room and dug into her backpack and, to his complete shock and disbelief, he pulled out the CAT answers booklet, proving that Lancer was right all along that Dani has stolen the answers to cheat on the test.
He gasped in complete horror and shock. "Dani's a cheater!" He exclaimed in disbelief before he collapsed to his knees and tears sprinkled out of his eyes.
"Bet you can't find two!" Tina challenged, but Chrona then showed them Dark Dani standing around the destruction she has caused as she flew away to do some more destruction.
"How about two thousand?" Chrona clarified with a small glare.
Dani has finally heard enough from this time ghost telling her that she was destined to become evil when she glared at him. "I don't have to sit here and explain myself to you! I'm going ghost!" She cried out before she transformed into her ghost form and charged at the time ghost without thinking much.
"TIME OUT!" Chrona said as she aimed her staff at Dani before she reached her, and she immediately froze and time reversed like a rewind button when she returned to the point where she began to transform.
"I'm going ghost!" She suddenly realized what just happened to her as her eyes went wide. "Whoa! Serious deja vu." She changed back into her ghost form as she brought out her Boo-staff before she spun it and flew straight back at the time ghost again.
"TIME OUT!" Time slowed down just as Dani was about to swing her staff at Chrona, who moved out of the way before she pressed her staff again. "TIME IN!" Time returned to normal when Dani accidentally slammed into a bell and flew back as she cringe and the time ghost continued to replay her slamming to the bell while she pressed on her staff again. "I could do this all day, but...I have a schedule to keep." She slammed on her staff and this time, Dani fell to the ground as Chrona grabbed a scythe from one of her statues and charged at the ghost girl.
"DANI! LOOK OUT!" Tina and Sam warned their friend in unison.
Dani managed to fly out of the way before Chrona's swipe of her scythe sliced one of her gears in half, and she quickly aimed out her staff when time froze and Dani paused in mid air.
"Wait, how is it she can freeze time for Dani and not for us?" Tina asked Sam, but got no response when she waved her hand in front of his gaping face. "Sam?" She then noticed that he, too, was frozen in time. She then glanced down at her medallion and realized the reason that she didn't get frozen in time was because Chrona's medallion was protecting her from her powers. "I knew these medallions were good for something! It's like a get out of time free card!"
"Time's up, ghost girl!" Chrona said as she raised up her scythe to finish off Dani, but Tina suddenly snatched the scythe off her hands before she could swipe at her, surprising her a little.
"Sorry, but no sudden death overtime in this game!" She managed to get two time medallions for her friends before she threw one of them each around their necks when Sam unfroze as he blinked in confusion and Dani flew away from Chrona.
"Whoa! What happened?!" Dani exclaimed as she flew above her friends.
"We evened the playing field, just get the bad guy!" Sam said to Dani as he held up his medallion and pointed his thumb at Chrona.
"You three have seen too much, you must be eliminated before you permanently alter the time stream." Chrona said, before she began to duplicate herself into different time periods (like the French Revolution, Ancient Egypt, the Viking Era, the future, and the Vietnam War). The real Chrona smirked at the teens. "Nowhere to run, children."
Dani glanced back at the time portal, showing the desolated Amity Park, ten years in the future. "Nowhere but the future!" She exclaimed before she grabbed both of her friends and flew them all through the time portal.
Chrona continued to grin as she shifted into her child form. "Let's see if you have what it takes to face that future."
In the bleak future, Dani, Sam, and Tina teleported into the empty streets when Tina and Sam landed on the road and Dani flew in the air with her Boo-staff in her hand. There wasn't a single human life anywhere as the trio walked ahead with Dani hovering above them and they stared at all the destruction that would be bestowed on Amity Park in ten years.
"Man, if this is what we have to look forward to, I'm definitely not taking the CAT!" Tina said, looking a little frightened by the dark future.
"How do you think this all happened?" Sam asked Dani, but he had a feeling they already knew the answer.
"I don't know, but based on what we just saw...I have a really bad feeling I'm the one responsible." Dani said when she now finally began to realize that she really was gonna turn evil in ten years and that Chrona was actually telling her the truth.
Future Vincent Gray suddenly popped out of the rumble on his hoverboard as he aimed his bazooka over his shoulder at Dani. "You got that right, ghost!" He snapped before he fired a beam below her and it exploded while she disappeared in the smoke.
Dani phased through the road and hovered in front of Vincent. "Vincent! Listen to me!"
But the older ghost hunter glared at her, since he possibly mistaken her as the evil Dark Dani Phantom. "You can't fool me this time, Phantom!"
Vincent fired more beams of energy at Dani while she flew into the air and evaded his attacks. He charged at her and hopped off his board as Dani flipped over it, but ended up getting caught in a pink net as she tumbled to the road. Vincent then aimed his gun directly at Dani like this was the moment he was waiting for for about tens years as he glared.
"Been waiting a long time for this. Goodbye and good…"
Tina and Sam suddenly slid between Vincent and Dani, preventing him from firing and destroying their friend. "Vincent, no!" Tina exclaimed with her arms spread out.
"Don't shoot!" Sam pleaded as Vincent lowered and powered down his gun.
The older ghost hunter stared at Sam and Tina in complete shock, bewilderment, and confusion like he was not expecting to see either of their presences at all. "S-Sam...Tina? I-it's not possible! This is a trick! YOU CAN'T BE ALIVE!" He exclaimed with wide eyes, suddenly overwhelmed with shocked confusion.
Tina dropped her arms in disbelief at what he just shouted out loud. "Wait, not alive? That's our future? I'm definitely not taking the CAT!" She exclaimed, now feeling really frightened about the future now when her eyes went wide.
"The CAT...that was the last time I saw you alive! The big explosion at the Nasty Burger, y-you, Sam, Dani's family…" Vincent suddenly perked up when he went wide eyed in self-realization before he immediately glared angrily at Dani again as he charged up his bazooka again and prepared to kill her. "AND IT WAS ALL YOUR FAULT!" He suddenly got swept away by a green ecto-energy wave as he shouted in surprise.
The trio glanced up in surprise and they saw Dana Phantom in person as she hovered right above them while she saved Dani's life to ensure she still existed. "Actually, that was me...and you, eventually." She said sinisterly as she grinned evilly at her younger past self, who only stared up at her in complete shock and confusion at her evil future self.
TO BE CONTINUED...
