Season 2 Episode 11
Secret Weapons
"Beware the Twisted BROTHER!"

One night at Amity Park in the movie cinema, there was a marathon of all three Cyber-Zombie Commando as Sam Manson and Tina Foley walked out of the theater, they were pretty exhausted as they yawned and stretched themselves as they stood outside the building.

"I can't believe we sat through all three Cyber-Zombie Commando movies." Sam said to Tina as he smiled wearily.

"I could use a little less zombie and a little more cyber, but that's me; I'm all about the cyber." Tina said as she laced her hands behind her head and stretched a little.

Sam's smile then dropped as he silently told Tina to be quiet when he placed his hand on her back. He glanced down both ends of the street like he was expecting someone to drive by, but the street was almost completely empty during the night. "Coast is clear, Dani."

"Sweet!" Dani Fenton's voice said from right beside him before she turned visible, looking relieved as she smiled at her friends. "No sign of James?"

Sam smirked in approval. "No sign of James."

"Good! Ever since James found out I'm fighting ghosts, he's been kind of-" Suddenly from out of nowhere, Dani's older brother, James, parked his car and immediately jumped out as he tackled Dani to a wall of the theater as she grunted from his strength. "-pushy."

Before Casper High's end of semester, during the whole Dark Dani Phantom incident, James had confessed to Dani that he has known her secret all semester since the Spector thing, but then after winter break, he began to act more overprotective and meddling towards his sister, now that they were back in school for a new semester.

"Dani, are you okay?" James asked his sister worriedly before shoving the Fenton Thermos at her stomach, making her grunt again as she frowned at her brother in annoyance. "You know you shouldn't leave the house without a Fenton Thermos!" He then leaned closer, ignoring her glare. "What if there's a ghost around?"

Dani frowned at her brother in annoyance. "There's no ghost around! If there was, my ghost sense would go off!" But right on cue the second she finished, her ghost sense went off as she gasped.

James cocked an eyebrow as he crossed his arms. "Like that?"

The four of them heard jet turbines in the night sky when they looked up and saw Skulka, the Ghost Zone's greatest huntress, soaring across town with her jetpack. She merely gave the ghost girl a look as she cocked an eyebrow. However, she oddly didn't seem to have any real interest in her, which was unusual since the second she would see Dani, she would immediately try to hunt her down.

"Skulka?! She's hunting you again?!" Tina exclaimed to Dani, who was frowning up at her old foe.

"Again? As in more than once?!" James asked everyone in a slight panicked voice as he turned to Dani even more worriedly.

"James, take it easy." Dani said reassuringly as she smiled confidently, trying to calm him down. "There's a rhythm to these things: ghost attacks, we exchange witty banter, I kick ghost butt, then we all go home having to learn a valuable lesson about...honesty or some such nonsense."

James pulled out a notebook and began to write down everything Dani told him. "Attack, banter, kick-butt, lesson; got it. So...why's she not attacking?"

Dani's smile dropped as she suddenly perked when she noticed something odd about Skulka. "What?" She looked back up and saw her disappear above some buildings without giving Dani a second look, much to her complete confusion. "No attack? S-she's ignoring me?"

Normally, Skulka would try to hunt down Dani to 'hang her pelt on his wall' as she would dub it, but tonight she was more occupied and focused on something else rather than the ghost girl. She flew to Axion Labs as she phased into the building, through the steel doors, and finally reached another room. She brought out her x-ray vision binoculars and began scanning down the room through the locked up shelves with many kinds of containers. She froze when her gaze stopped at a container labelled "Bloodstream Nanobots". Skulka smirked as she phased her arm through the door and pulled out the Nanobot container and held it up high.

"'Bloodstream Nanobots'?" Dani asked from behind Skulka, making her jump in surprise and nearly dropped the jar. She turned and found her in ghost form with her arms crossed, looking confused. "What are Bloodstream Nanobots?" Instead of answering to her, she only aimed her wrist and trapped her in a blue net, and she merely hovered right past her, completely ignoring her and remaining absolutely silent. Now Dani was really confused by this huntress' sudden change of attitude. "Hey!" She burst out of the net as she glared at Skulka. "You didn't even call me 'whelp'!" She then charged after her.

Meanwhile, James drove his car with an excited look on his face with Sam and Tina sitting in the back. They were both not really looking forward to helping Dani, since she has been doing fine on her own most of the time lately, and not only that, but James, being inexperienced and new at this whole ghost fighting thing despite being well-meaning in helping out, Sam and Tina both were getting the feeling that Dani's brother was going to only get in the way and mess something up rather than help.

"James, did it ever occur to you that Dani's been doing just fine on her own? Without your help?" Sam asked James as he frowned, emphasising on 'without'.

"Exactly! So imagine how much better she'll do with it!" James said excitedly, ignoring Sam's warning.

He braked his car in front of Axion Labs as they all looked up and saw Skulka phasing out of the building with Dani chasing after her. James immediately took action as he unbuckled himself with a thermos in his hand and hopped out of the car.

"You just earned the one way ticket to Thermos Land, ghost!" He exclaimed before he activated the thermos, but not being prepared for the sudden blast of energy, he lost his balance and tripped to the ground as he completely missed Skulka and ended up sucking in Dani instead as she screamed and sucked into the device.

James stared at the thermos and turned back to Sam and Tina, who glared angrily at his big mix up. James chuckled sheepishly when he realized his mistake. "Uh...think I should work on my witty banter?"

"Start with your aim!" Tina clarified as she narrowed her eyes even more at Dani's inexperienced brother.


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)


The next day at Casper High, school began with a whole new semester as Dani, Sam, and Tina walked down the hallway. Tina couldn't seem to stop snickering about Dani getting sucked into her own thermos by her brother the other night, making her friends frown at her in annoyance.

"It's not funny, Tina." Dani said as she gave her best friend a look.

"Oh, come on! Six hours crammed in the Fenton Thermos? It's totally funny!" Tina said as she smiled at the thought.

Dani smirked mischievously as they stopped in the middle of the hallway. "Yeah?" She held out her hand and merely slapped some books out of a Daph's hands, catching her attention when she turned around and glared at her while she growled. "She did it." Dani pointed at Tina, making the cheerleader immediately grab the techno-geek by her shirt as she yelped and she shoved her into her locker while she angrily slammed it shut before she stormed away.

"Oh, come on!" Dani leaned beside the locker as she grinned smugly with her arms crossed while Sam seemed to enjoy that small get back a little.

"Is it funny now?"

Sam began to find the right combination on the locker with his ear on it as he tried to let Tina out. "I know you're annoyed, Dani, but look on the bright side…" Sam said before he heard a satisfying click in the locker and he smiled. "Maybe that's the kind of mistake that'll get James to stop interfering."

The locker opened up, but before Tina could even notice and hop out, James suddenly arrived up to them out of nowhere with a bright smile on his face as he slammed the locker shut again. "DARN IT!" Tina cried in frustration.

"Guess what I figured out!" James said excitedly, but he didn't wait for an answer when he ignored their uninterested blank looks as he pulled out his laptop and opened it while it showed a ghost file on screen. "I've done painstaking research on last night's mystery ghost."

"Ah, you mean Skulka?" Dani asked as she gave him a knowing and amusing smile.

James closed his laptop as his smile never dropped. "Let's just call her 'Ghost X'...and based on my research, I characterize her as a huntress of some sort."

"Oh, he's good." Sam said sarcastically as he tried to unlock the locker where Tina was locked in again. "We didn't figure that out until she screamed 'I am the Ghost Zone's greatest huntress!'" When he finished, the locker opened and Tina fell out of the locker with a yelp and onto the floor while Sam only stared down at her.

"Here's my composite sketch of Ghost X." James pulled out a file from his backpack and handed it to Dani, who took it and examined it, but saw it was just a poorly drawn version of Skulka, and it was terrible. Dani knew that James, being more academically and mentally smart, was not very creative in art nor puns when she has noticed quickly from the other night. The trio gave James unimpressed looks as Tina got to her feet and cracked her back.

"And I took the liberty of crafting, I must say, some funny witty banter for your next encounter with her. Bye!" He said with a cheery grin before he walked away, leaving his sister and her friends alone for now.

Sam took the file from Dani and began examining the puns he wrote on it, but he frowned when he realized that they were not that creative. "'See you later, X'? 'X marks the spot'? 'You've been X-ed'? None of these are funny!" He exclaimed.

"And nothing's funnier than him sucking you into the thermos. You can't follow broad physical comedy like that with a one liner." Tina said to Dani, making her frown in annoyance again.

She shoved Kwyn's books out of her hands, making her turn around and glare while Dani remained silent as she pointed at Tina, making the cheerleader shove the techno-geek back into the locker again and slammed it shut as she stormed away.

Dani then smiled with an idea. "But if James thinks I'm letting him help, maybe he'll stop interfering as much. Worth a shot?" She asked Sam.

"Worth a shot." He said as he shrugged a little before they walked down the hallway to their next class, but they completely forgot about Tina still being locked inside the locker.

"Nobody's coming to get me, are they?" Tina guessed from inside the locker like she knew she was going to be stuck in there for a while.

Later on that night, in a butcher meat shop, the Lunch Man ghost has invaded the entire store as Dani (in ghost form), Sam, and Tina faced off against him from their little ghost patrol.

"Feast on my hot links of DOOM!" The Lunch Man shouted angrily as he took control of some chains of sausages as they hovered behind him.

"Okay, James...NOW!" Dani called out.

James immediately slid in between his team and the Lunch Man with the Jack-o-Nine Tails in his hand, spinning like a saw blade as he frowned with determination. "Stand back! I'm specially trained in this thing!" He shouted as he began to attack.

"Trained by his mom!" Tina exclaimed as she and Sam braced themselves for another one of James' big mix ups.

Unfortunately, it did come when he accidentally swung his Jack-o-Nine Tails and it ended up grabbing Dani instead as he thrusted her forward, sending her slamming into the Lunch Man, but then Dani splashed into a vat of chin-lits and grease. "Wait! Witty banter!" James pulled out his notepad and read off from it. "Take that, Lunch-a-Bill, and your evil weiners, too!"

James smiled brightly, but Dani slowly emerged from the vats, covered in grease as she glowered in annoyance at her older brother.

Later on, Dani, Sam, Tina, and James all arrived at the Floody Waters water park, that was now covered in ice as Klempa, the friendly icy ghost, threw several ice balls at all of the teens. "Won't anyone be my friend?!" She exclaimed as she continued throwing more icy rocks at them.

James frowned determinedly as he pulled out the Fenton Anti-Creep Stick before he ran at him while he batted the ice to bits to shield himself. Dani flew up beside him while she stared at him in confusion. "You're going up to her with the Anti-Creep Stick?" She asked skeptically.

"I know what I'm doing Dani. Give me your worst, Friendly Fiend! You haven't got the guts!" James shouted at the ghost as he continued batting, but then smiled at his sister. "Huh, guts?"

"...yeah, uh, see the guts joke would've been better in the last fight."

Klempa breathed cold air as she covered the entire ground in a thick layer of slippery ice just when James ran right over it and began to lose his balance.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, WHOA!" James yelped as he spun around and Dani braced herself as he accidentally swung his bat directly at his sister, sending her crashing onto the ice-covered Terror Mountain ride and collapsed before the ice cracked and shattered on top of her, Sam, and Tina. Klempa then flew away to escape while James turned around and smiled brightly. "I'm helping!"

James's smile dropped when he saw his sister and her friends emerging from the ice, bruised and scratched from the sharpness of the icy blocks, and they were all glaring at James as he smiled innocently at them.

Then later on, the trio all went to the warehouse at the lake of Amity Park. Sam and Tina were trapped under a pile of crates while Dani and the Box Ghoul wrestled each other as Dani overpowered her. Then like before, James kicked open the door with the Fenton Thermos in his hands.

"Freeze!" He said as he aimed out the device.

"Once again, right idea, wrong fight!" Dani shouted to her brother as she continued to overcome the Box Ghoul.

"I got him! I got the Crate Creep!"

Dani and the Box Ghoul halted their wrestling as they stared at him oddly while they floated there. "'Crate Creep'? I am the Box Ghoul! Who are you?!" Dani facepalmed herself in embarrassment while the Box Ghoul shouted at him dramatically, but then made a blank look when she glanced at the ghost girl. "No seriously, who is he?"

James jumped unsteadily onto a box as it wobbled and he lost his balance again as he activated the thermos. Dani rolled her eyes, unfazed by what was coming next when she accidentally got sucked into the thermos again by James. "WHOOPS! Sorry, Dani! We'll get you out of there...eventually!"

After that long night of their disastrous ghost patrols, James drove Dani back to their home of Fenton Works. Although James was in a good mood like he hasn't done anything wrong, Dani looked very miffed with her arms crossed, disappointed that her plan wasn't going exactly how she imagined it as her brother was still messing up her ghost fights with his constant meddling.

"That was a good night's work, Dani. We caught three ghosts." James said, feeling proud of himself.

"No, actually you caught one ghost, three times, all of them ME!" Dani exclaimed in irritation before James parked his car right beside Fenton Works as Dani sighed and looked up at her brother. "Look, James...I know you're trying to help…"

James cocked an eyebrow as Dani unbuckled herself. "'Trying'?"

"And please don't be offended, but-" She got cut short when her mother, Jackie, dragged her out of James's car.

"Hey, kid! Check this out!" Jackie said when she dragged her daughter up to the back of the Fenton RV just before her father, Matt, finished installing a mechanical device to the engine. "Your father and I have upgraded the RV with an Ecto-Converter!"

Dani cocked an eyebrow. "Ecto-Converter?"

"It converts a ghost's natural ecto-energy into a constant replenishing fuel source." Matt explained with a smile.

"Does it hurt the ghost?" James asked his father as he walked up beside his sister.

Matt laughed like his son was joking around. "James! You know you mother and I don't care about that." He then climbed to the top of the RV.

"Yeah, if we hear it screaming, then we know it's working!" Jackie said as she followed her husband to the roof of the RV where they began to screw in a new radar dish to their vehicle.

"Too bad there's no ghost here!" James said out loud innocently before he smacked Dani on her back, making her yelp and frown at him. "Right, Dani? No ghosts here!" He began doing a singsong voice. "~We know something they don't know!~"

"I get it. ~Can we let it die now?~" Dani said in annoyance with the same singsong voice as she glared at her brother irritatedly.

James hummed the same tone before he slapped his sister again, but this time he slapped her too hard when he smacked her right towards the Ecto-Converter as she held out her hand to break her fall and it landed on the device. Unfortunately, Dani could feel the device transferring her ecto-energy into itself as Dani quickly removed her hand, but too late when the engine began to revive. On the roof, Jackie and Matt noticed that the entire RV was shaking, but before they could react, the vehicle suddenly drove straight through the fence as the parents screamed and held on for dear life. Dani and James watched them drive off when their parents crashed into something, making them both cringe.

"You really need to work on controlling your powers." James criticized to Dani, only making her glare even more in irritation.

After Jackie and Matt were pulled out and recovered from their little accident, everyone went to bed for the night. Skulka phased into Dani's room as she slept like a log on her bed, and then her ghost sense went off when she breathed. Skulka made sure Dani was still asleep, since like the other night, she was not interested in kidnapping Dani in her sleep as she merely phased through her room floor and into the lab. She began to open drawers and swipe beakers into pieces like she was trying to look for something the Fentons had that she wanted.

"And here I thought you weren't hunting me anymore." Dani said when Skulka turned her head and saw her floating in front of her in her ghost form. Apparently, she has been awake the entire time when her ghost sense went off.

"Where is the Ecto-Converter?" Skulka demanded to the ghost girl.

Dani then smiled at her mockingly. "See? That's more like it! You make demands...while I ignore them."

Skulka grabbed her by her jumpsuit as she glared at her again. "Talk, girl! Where is it?!"

"Ecto-Converter...Ecto-Converter...hmm, let me think...uh-OH! Here it is! In my hand!" Dani smirked before she held out her hand and charged it up with ecto-energy as she fired a ghost beam at Skulka dead on, sending her flying a few feet away. She regained his air and charged at the ghost girl before she slammed into her as they flew out of the lab.

In James's bedroom, he fell asleep on his desk next to his computer files of the ghosts he has encountered that night, drawn in his terrible art expertise and very uncreative names.

Dani and Skulka both phased through his floor and ceiling, enough to wake him up. "Dani?" He asked drowsily.

Outside Fenton Works, Skulka tried to punch Dani when she dodge her blow and swung-kicked her in the back, sending her flying a few feet away. "What do you even want with the Ecto-Converter away? Or those Nanobots you stole from Axion Labs?" Dani demanded the huntress ghost.

Instead of answering her questions, Skulka fired a rope at Dani, sending her spinning around one of the OP Center's antennas while she shouted until she hung upside down. "I ask the questions and since you won't talk, I'll just beat the answer out of you!" She said as she activated her wrist gun and aimed at the girl. "WHERE IS IT?!"

Before Skulka could even fire, she suddenly got blasted by a beam of energy as Dani looked down and saw James driving the Fenton RV. "That's right, ghost! You better watch out! This baby's juiced up by the Ecto-Converter!" James said out loud through the bullhorn, not really knowing what he just did.

Dani waved her hands to tell him to be quiet, but too late when Skulka grinned as she pulled up her x-ray goggles while she scanned the RV and found the converter at the engine, just what she was looking for. "I like your new helper." She then flew towards the RV.

Dani broke free from the rope. "James, stay away from Skulka!" She shouted as she flew after the huntress ghost.

"You worry about Skulka, I'm going after Ghost X!" He said determinedly before he fired another beam at Skulka, but missed her completely and blasted Dani away instead. James gasped as Skulka flew behind the RV and ripped out the Ecto-Converter right out of the engine with her mechanical claws and flew away with the device. Dani crash landed in front of the RV as James ran out with the thermos in his hand. "Dani, are you okay? I-"

"No, no!" Dani said as she stood up and cracked her back. "Here, let me save you the trouble." She pressed on the thermos before she got sucked into the device as she shouted. James glanced around, a little baffled and confused before he walked away as he held the thermos close to him.


The next day at Casper High, Dani, Sam, and Tina all met inside the janitor's closet as they discussed about Skulker, but they were more concerned about James most of all, since all he has been was more of an annoyance and a meddler than help for them lately.

"You want us to talk to him?" Tina asked Dani.

"I'm perfectly capable of talking to my own brother." Dani replied.

"Which is why you're hiding from him, in a broom closet." Sam pointed out as he gave her a knowing frown.

"Am not!"

"Dani? You in there?" James called from the other side of the door.

"HIDE ME!" Dani immediately jumped into a garbage bin as she tried to hide from her brother.

James entered the closet with his usual bright smile and his laptop in his hand when he found his sister and his friends. "Cool secret meeting place." He sat in between Sam and Tina as he opened his laptop and typed on it as Dani peeked through the bin and watched. "Okay, so I pieced it all together. Ghost X is clearly using the technology she stole to build some kind of...super weapon. So I compiled a list of her known associates and, according to Dani, they could team up someday and go up against her."

Dani stared at the screen as James went through familiar ghost files, because they were actually the files she created and James never even saw her files.

How James suddenly also told all of them that she was afraid the ghosts could gang up against her made her immediately suspicious when she rose from the bin and frowned at her brother. "Wait, where'd you get that and how'd you know that?" She demanded

"From your computer and from your digital diary." James replied as he kept on smiling, but not really knowing or thinking about what he really just did.

"You hacked into my private ghost files and my private personal diary?!" Dani jumped out of the bin and stood in front of her brother and friends with her hands on her hips, clearly angry about the fact that James just hacked into her computer without her knowledge. "How'd you get the password?!"

"It's Dani Sanchez." James, Tina, and Sam replied blankly in unison. Obviously, James knew about Dani's big-time crush on Paul Sanchez, so it was apparently no brainer on piecing together one of Dani's passwords.

"Seriously, Dani, it's not that hard to figure out." Sam said to his friend before he turned his attention to James. "Plus, you should've thought twice before you read your own sister's diary, James. They do get quite sent over the edge in a pretty violent way and trust me when I tell you this, Dani is not an exception."

"How come you never told me Vladia Masters has ghost powers and she has a thing for Dad?" James asked as he pulled up a file about Vladia, ignoring Sam's warning. "And why do you think I'm such a meddling, disrupting know-at-all?"

"Because it's none of your business and because you are one!" Dani exclaimed angrily as she closed his laptop and then grabbed him by his shirt.

"Oh-kay, if you don't mind, we'll be outside doing the 'glad I'm an only child who doesn't read my sister's private diary' dance." Sam said nervously as he and Tina crawled out of the janitor's closet, both feeling a sibling spat coming on.

"Dani, calm down." James said as he gently removed her grips off of his shirt.

Dani turned her attention back to him as she glared at him angrily again. "Calm down? How can I calm down with you constantly budding your nose in where it doesn't belong?!"

"I was just trying to help you, so I became desperate to prove it to you, Dani."

"BY READING MY OWN DIARY, JAMESON FENTON?!" James cringed and cowered at Dani's sudden outburst while students began to gather around the closet, unknowingly to the siblings as Dani continued. "And no one asked you to help! You're a lousy ghost hunter, an overbearing brother, and an annoying, obnoxious know-at-all with absolutely no respect for his sister's privacy, going as far as reading her own personal diary, so STOP HELPING!"

The students suddenly heard a loud slap from inside the closet, making them gasp in shock when they realized that Dani has slapped James right in the face. Sam was right about one thing, Dani can get quite sent over the edge when someone would have the guts to read her own diary, even if it was her own brother, and can get pretty violent.

James's eyes narrowed as tears leaked while he rubbed the side of his cheek where Dani slapped him hard. He brushed past his sister while she watched him run away past the students as he tried to hold back a sob. Dani walked out of closet before the students glared at her as she made a guilty look on her face, regretting at snapping at James and slapping him hard out of anger.


The next day at Fenton Works as the weekend morning dawn approached, Dani snoozed on her bed as she snored until both of her parents, Jackie and Matt, walked into her room and she woke up from the light pouring from the hallway lights.

"Dani, have you seen James?" Jackie asked her daughter.

"Huh, James?" Dani asked with a yawn as stretched her arms out to rid the drowsiness. "I haven't seen him since yesterday, why?"

"Neither have we! We can't find him anywhere, he's gone!" Matt exclaimed with a concerned and worried look on his face, making Dani concerned herself at her parent's news that James has disappeared. Dani guessed she has really crossed the line when she finally snapped at James at school the other day.


Meanwhile at Madison, Wisconsin, at the castle mansion of one of the richest billionairess women in the world, Vladia Masters (who was secretly the half-ghost villainess, Vladia Plasmius) was currently in her ghost lab as she held up Klempa by her PJs.

"If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times: I. WILL. NOT. BE. YOUR. FRIEND!" Vladia snapped, making Klempa whimper nervously at the half-ghost woman. A doorbell suddenly rang when her eyes went wide and she threw Klempa back into the Ghost Zone in irritation. "Oh, what now?!" She stormed out of the lab as she changed back into her human form and walked across her castle until she reached the front door and answered it.

To her surprise, she found a sad-looking James Fenton standing at her doorway with the Specter Speeder parked outside behind him. "Oh, Aunt Vladia! I ran away from home, my mother's an idiot, my sister hates me, and I want to live with you!" James cried before he buried his face into his hands.

"Wait, what was that?"

James uncovered his face when he glanced back up at Vladia. "I've ran away from home?"

"N-no, no, after that."

"My sister hates me?"

"No, no, in the middle!"

James then shrugged. "My mother's an idiot?"

That made Vladia smile in satisfaction at the sound. "That's the one! Come to Auntie Vladia!" The rich business woman then happily urged James into her castle as he picked up his bag and walked inside with her.


Back at Fenton Works, Jackie and Matt were still in Dani's room as they discussed about their son's mysterious and unexplainable disappearance while Dani was still in bed in her PJs.

"It's not like James to just...walk off without saying anything." Matt said as Jackie paced around the room and then stopped.

"I know, he usually talks and talks and talks...big words I can barely understand." Jackie said looking mildly impressed by her son's large vocabulary she herself could barely process.

Matt then sat next to his daughter, somewhat thinking that she might have something to do with James running away. "Danielle, can you think of any reason he might be upset?"

Jackie then leaned closer to Dani with a look of suspicion. "Or why he might've taken the Specter Speeder?"

Dani looked down as she thought to herself. "He's after Skulka." She said quietly.

"What was that?" Jackie and Matt asked their daughter in unison.

Dani stuttered nervously as she jumped out of bed and pulled out a pair of clothes from her opened dresser. "I-I-I mean, I'm so upset about him leaving, I'm going to skulk him. Gotta go! Bye!" With that, she ran out of her room, leaving her parents a little confused by what she just said.

Dani briefly stopped in the bathroom where she got changed quickly and ran down the stairs as she tied her headband onto her head. "I told him he was a lousy hunter, so of course he decided to prove me wrong and hunt Skulka!" She said to herself as she ran down to the lab before she changed into her ghost form. "If anything happens to him, it's all my fault." And she flew through the portal into the Ghost Zone to find her brother.

After Dani left, the phone in the living room began to ring when Jackie ran down the stairs as she examined the area code calling them. "608 area code?" She read out loud before she smiled happily as Matt came up to her. "Hey! That's Wisconsin! It's Vladia!"

Matt pressed the answer button when he put it to speaker phone. "Mom? Dad?" James's voice said through the phone.

"Hello? James? James, son, are you alright? Why are you in Wisconsin?" He asked his son.

James sniffed with the phone by his ear, still looking shaken up from the other day. He was currently in the tea room with Vladia, who was sipping on her tea as she enjoyed James's unexpected company. "I'm fine, Dad, I just can't be around Dani right now, so I'm staying with Aunt Vladia."

"WHAT?!" Matt sounded very distraught over the phone as Vladia took over the phone from James.

"Oh, think nothing of it, Matthew. He just needs time to, as the young folks say, chill in!" Vladia said to Matt on the phone.

"Out. It's chill out." James corrected.

Vladia covered the phone while making a look of confusion. "Really? Th-that can't be right."

"ABSOLUTELY N-" Matt began to protest over the phone, but got interrupted by Vladia.

"Absolutely?! Terrific! I'll look after him as if he was my own! Ta ta!" Vladia hung up the phone as she smiled at James, who smiled uneasily back at the woman.

Jackie and Matt stared at the phone in silence. "What a great woman!" Jackie said when she broke the silence and was relieved that her son was safe with her old 'friend'. "Good luck finding friends like that, huh? I'm sure he'll be fine."

Matt only sighed as he crossed his arms. He still had mixed feelings about Vladia after she confessed her feels toward him and asked him to dump his own wife, but he guessed his son could stay there only for the weekend. "Well...I suppose." Matt said finally.

Jackie then pulled herself to Matt in a hug while she stared up at him romantically as she rubbed his chest with her finger in a circle. Matt then smiled at her romantically as well. "In the meantime, Danielle's busy skulking, Jameson is safe in Wisconsin. Which means we have the house to ourselves...I'll get the checkerboard!" With that she ran off to find the board game.

Matt frowned since that was not exactly the same thoughts he had, because that was not his idea of alone time with his wife.

Back at Wisconsin, Vladia stood up from her table and dusted herself a little. "Well, that's that for now. I'll send for the rest of your things as soon as the lawyer draws up the adoption papers." She said to James before she walked away, chuckling to herself softly.

James, however, smirked behind her back like he was playing her the whole time and that he wanted to be at Vladia's for his own benefit. "That's right, keep laughing, Cheesehead...we'll see who laughs last." He said to himself, and then smiled brightly at what he just said. "Oh! That's good! My witty banter is improving!"


In the Ghost Zone, Dani flew straight towards Skulka's Island in hopes of finding her older brother there with her Boo-staff in her hand. Suddenly, Skulka appeared from one of the floating purple doors when Dani slammed into it.

"Excellent, all my tasks completed." Skulka said, holding up a lighting rod in her hands.

Dani shouted as she flipped through the air before she regained her air. "Where is he?!" She demanded the huntress ghost as she glared at her.

"What are you talking about, whelp?"

Dani fired a ghost beam at Skulka, who quickly flew up while the beam headed straight towards the door Skulker came out off earlier. Techna, the technopathic ghost (who was wearing a towel around her waist, a shower cap, and held a back brush), flew out of the door. "Which of you fools stole my-" She began to demand, but then got blasted back into her lair with a yelp and the door closed.

Skulka grinned at Dani. "Hey, you're helping, too." She only received a whack to the chin from Dani's Boo-staff when she sent her flying backwards as she flipped and regained her air. "That's odd. No witty banter?"

"Not in the mood!" Dani exclaimed with her staff strapped behind her back and her hands on her hips as she continued to glare angrily at Skulka. "All I want to know is what you've done with James!"

"I've done nothing with your brother, ghost child. Skulka hunts what she hunts, nothing more, nothing less." Skulka then grinned as she held up the lightning rod she stole from Techna. "Which is why I'm bringing this to my employer." She fired electricity from the rod straight at Dani when she zapped her as she grunted in pain. She then threw a tiny tiny cube that expanded and trapped her inside as she fell unconscious before Skulka held up the cube in triumph. "You will be a gift."


Back in Vladia's castle mansion, James walked down the hallway while looking around until he hid in a corner and peeked into Vladia's study room. He witnessed her pulling on a golden football statuette on top of the fireplace when it split itself in half and opened up like a secret passage gate as she walked in and the gate closed. James smiled that the coast was now clear and began to sneak around the study in stealth mode, and then he found Vladia's laptop on the table. He smiled before he flipped onto the seat like a ninja and began to type for any information he could find on Vladia's secret plan.

"So...what do we have in here about Nanobots and an Ecto-Converter?" James muttered to himself before he pressed the enter button. He only found multiple pictures of his father, Matt, on the laptop's home page (proving to James that Dani's file on Vladia about her having a thing for their dad was indeed a fact), greatly disgusting James when he frowned. "Oh, gross!" He slammed the laptop shut as he faced away with his eyes clenched tightly. "I will never be able to unsee this!"

He gasped when he heard the fireplace opening up and realized Vladia was coming back. He quickly picked up the yearbook and pretended to read it as Vladia walked in and dusted her sleeves, but her smile dropped when she noticed James nearby.

She walked up to him with a frown. "Jameson, what are doing in my private study?" She asked him suspiciously.

"Private?" James asked casually as he looked up at Vladia and smiled innocently. "Why would you have a private study from someone you consider a son?" He gasped as he looked back at the yearbook and saw the picture of his parents and Vladia in their college days. "Oh, and you were quite the looker in college!" Vladia looked over his shoulder at the picture. "I wonder why this never happened." James scrunched the picture a little as it hide Jackie as it showed Vladia beside Matt instead.

Vladia smiled even more at James for 'hating' his mother. "Ah, James, you sweet, perceptive child. Oh, come give your Auntie Vladia a hug!"

James jumped from his seat and gave Vladia a big hug. However, he smiled behind her back that she was falling for his trick, and he remained silent when he watched the fireplace close up. If there was something suspicious going on with Vladia that Dani didn't know about, it had to be in there.

Later that night, James snuck out of his room and made sure there was no sign of Vladia anywhere as he flipped, somersaulted, hid, and tiptoed across the hallways in ninja mode until he made his way back into Vladia's private study room. He glanced back to make sure the coast was clear before he pulled on the same statuette as the fireplace opened up when he gaped with his mouth open. He walked through the fireplace as he slowly walked down the stairs and until he reached the bottom, he looked around and gasped in awe.

He was in Vladia's secret ghost lab, and it looked much better than his own parents' and it even had its own ghost portal at the end of the room.

James then turned and found a very familiar suit-like device in the corner of the lab. It was his mother's old Ecto-Skeleton: the suit that can enhance a person's abilities one-hundred fold, but at a cost the neuro-receptors were glitchy and dangerous since it could drain the user of his or her life force the more it was used. It was the exact same one Dani once used to fight back against the power-hungry Ghost Queen when Amity Park was once cursed into the Ghost Zone, but she luckily managed to defeat her and restore her hometown back to its former glory. However, after the suit nearly costed Dani her life force after she won the battle, the Ecto-Skeleton mysteriously disappeared. After James learned everything about Vladia, he now had a pretty good feeling she stole it right out from under Dani's nose after she supposingly 'saved' her life when she fell unconscious from the suit's side effects.

"Mom's Ecto-Skeleton?" James asked himself as he walked over to it, and then he turned his head and found the Ecto-Converter and the Bloodstream Nanobots Skulka stole from the Fenton RV and Axion Labs respectively. "The Ecto-Converter and the Bloodstream Nanobots?" James smiled when he realized that Vladia has been sending Skulka to steal these items, and confirming that Vladia was the true mastermind behind all this. "I was right, she is building a super weapon!" James then did a victory moonwalk dance backwards in triumph. "I'm right! Uh-huh! That's right! I'm right! It's my birthday!"

"And what exactly were you right about, Jameson?" Vladia asked from behind him, making him pause his little victory dance. He turned around nervously and saw the woman glaring at him suspiciously with her hands on her hips.

"Uh...how...cool a mom you'll be!" James smiled nervously, hoping she would buy it.

Vladia, however, still didn't look convinced. "Mmhm, and you just happen to figure this out here, in my secret lab?!"

"Which is much cooler than anything my mom could ever hope to build."

Vladia then took it as a complement when she looked around her well-built lab. "Yes, it is, isn't it? Well, perhaps I'm being a bit harsh. After all, I have no reason to suspect you of any deception." That made James lose his smile when his twitched his eye with uncertainty. Then suddenly, the portal flashed brightly as Skulka walked into the lab with the lightning rod and Dani, still trapped in the cube and unconscious. Vladia then glared at James. "But now I do!"

"Sorry to interrupt." Skulka said to Vladia before she held out the rod. "I brought you the final piece of your super weapon." She tossed her the rod before she smiled sinisterly. "And this one's on the house." Skulka dropped the cube containing Dani and kicked it in front of James just before she began to wake up.

"James?" She asked as she looked up to him wearily.

"Dani?" James said.

"What are you doing here?" The siblings asked each other in unison as James kneeled down to her level.

"You two know each other?" Vladia asked as she glanced between Dani and James.

"Yes/No...no/yes...sort of!"

Vladia sighed, looking hurt while Skulka remained silent. "Oh, I'm torn. I loved the idea that you left your mother for me, Jameson, yet...I'm suspicious of your motives now. Only one thing to do, I guess."

"Let us both go and let the courts figure it out?" James asked hopefully with a shrug while Dani remained silent and smiled.

However, Vladia only smirked at the siblings. "Oh, close…"

A couple minutes later, James and Dani found themselves in the center of a dark and empty football stadium just outside of the castle. Dani was still trapped inside the cube (since she probably couldn't phase through it) and still had her Boo-staff strapped to her back and James found himself inside the Ecto-Skeleton. The siblings both glanced around at the empty fields when Vladia switched the field lights on.

"Aunt Vladia, is this really necessary?" James asked, wondering what she was planning as he stared up at the announcer's room where Vladia was. The large screen overlooking the fields turned on as it revealed Vladia, grinning evilly.

"Why, Jameson, you didn't think I'd take you in as my own without first testing your loyalty." She said, making James blink in confusion that she still wanted him as her son. "I've improved Jackie's Ecto-Skeleton using the lighting rod and Ecto-Converter as an endless power source. Meanwhile, the Nanobots will control your breathing and heart rate."

"So, the suit won't waste me?"

"No, but I can if you betray me! But that won't happen unless you behave like a good little adopted son to be."

"Let him go, Vladia! He's clearly some clueless know-at-all who got in way over his head!" Dani shouted out loud to her archenemy.

That made James glanced down as he glared angrily at his little sister. "You're toast!" He growled behind his teeth.

"Oh, yeah? You and what toaster, bro?"

"And that's my cue." Vladia said before she pressed a button on her remote. James yelped when he felt the Ecto-Skeleton activating itself with the Ecto-Converter and lightning rod powering up the suit, and the cube encasing Dani vanished with a pop before she rose to her feet.

"Okay, on my signal, run." Dani told her brother.

"You're not the boss of me! I'll run when I feel like it!" James snapped bitterly as he placed the suit's hand on its chest.

Dani's fists trembled in irritation before she thrusted her hands out. "FINE!"

James crossed his arms as he stood straight up. "Fine!"

Dani began to run across the field as James caught up with her. He smirked at her cleverly before he picked up speed and ran twenty times faster than his sister. Dani skipped to the air and flew after him, until they both slammed into an invisible wall as they both shouted while it shocked them a little before they tumbled onto the grass with grunts. They both sat up as they looked up at the screen showing Vladia.

"I've fixed the ghost shield, too. It works on ghosts and humans, you kids have fun." She said as she waved weakly at them before the screen blacked out.

Dani and James glanced back at each other before they glared and stood up to their feet. They circled around a few feet apart, ready to fight each other, brother versus sister.

"We're gonna have to fight, but we're gonna have to make it look convincing-" Dani said, but only to receive and hard punch from her brother as she slammed back onto the shield when it shocked her again and she collapsed to the ground with a grunt.

"That was for humiliating me in front of the entire school!" James retorted as he glared.

Dani got to her fours as she weakly recovered from her brother's sudden blow. "Okay, I deserved that and I'm sorry." She got to her feet as she walked up to James, who stood there very still. "You're just trying to help, but please just follow my lead!"

James merely punched her right under her chin as he sent her into the air and she slammed into the shield again as she shouted. While she fell back down to the ground, she opened her eyes weakly and went wide-eyed when she saw her brother raising a fist and then punched her hard again, sending her flying across the fields, shrieking.

James ran across the fields and caught up with Dani, but she managed to see him just as he tried to land another punch her again. This time, she quickly used her fast reflexes to grab onto the suit's fist and halted his blow with her strength. James made a worried look as a provoked Dani reached out with her other hand and dug her fingernails into the titanium armor and turned it intangible with James inside, and she flew him into the air before slipped the suit into the grass before turning it solid, with the exception of the top.

James strained to break free from the ground until he gasped when Dani placed her hands on the glass dome. "Will you listen to me for once in you life, Jameson?!" Dani exclaimed as she got to his face with a unrelenting scowl.

He frowned at her. "Duh, I am listening to you, Danielle! You told me to make it convincing." James said quietly to his sister as he smiled cleverly. That made Dani calmed down when she pulled her head back in surprise while James gave her a wink.

Dani smiled until James broke free from the ground and grabbed his sister by the face and lifted her into the air. Inside the announcer's box, Vladia clapped her hands with excitement that her archenemy was losing and James was 'proving' that he was her worthy son.

"James! No! Don't! Please!" Dani acted out with fake plead before he spun her around until he threw her into the air as she shouted until she slammed onto the shield again and then collapsed onto the ground.

James ran up and kneeled to check up on her. "Dani?" He asked. He saw her open an eye to show him she was okay before she closed it again. James then began his act to keep Vladia on his side. "Oh no! What have I done?! Can you ever forgive me?"

He glanced up when he saw Vladia walking up to him with her hands behind her back. "Of course I forgive you, Jameson, now that you've proven your loyalty." Vladia said as she grinned at her 'unconscious' archenemy.

However, Dani woke up and waved weakly at Vladia as she smirked and phased through the grass. James smirked cleverly at the woman when he raised the suit's hand up. "Guess again, fruitloop." He then fired a beam at Vladia, sending her flying across the fields with a scream before she crashed onto a row of bleachers.

She sat up and glared murderously at the boy who has been deceiving her the whole time. "Oh, so that's how it's going to be, eh?" She then pulled out the remote that controlled the Ecto-Skeleton and the upgrades she implanted inside it. James' smirked dropped as he backed away in slight fear when he realized Vladia was going to waste him, possibly even kill him with no second thoughts. "Have you forgotten that with a press of a button, I can end your resistance once and for-" Before she could even use the remote, Dani phased through the bleachers and snatched the remote from her hand, sparing her brother's life. "Oh, cheese logs." Vladia bent down and peeked through gap of the the bleachers, but only found Dani aiming her energized hand at her as she smirked before she fired an ecto beam, sending Vladia flying and shouting into the air again.

James just stood there and watched as the billionairess villainess crash landed onto the grass a few feet away from him before Dani hovered next to her brother, both of them staring at Vladia. She sat up as she rubbed her head before she looked up at the siblings. "You-you-you-you tricked me! Both of you!" She exclaimed angrily.

"Barely." Dani scoffed with her hands on her hips before she mimicked what James acted out before. "'Oh no! What have I done?' Heh...what was that?"

"'James! No! Don't! Please!'" James mimicked what Dani acted out earlier also before the siblings both broke into laughter.

"Oh, you think you know everything, hm? Tell me, boy, did you expect this?!" Vladia snapped as she rose to her feet and changed into her ghost form with a smirk. "Haha! Surprised?!" Her smiled dropped when she suddenly noticed that James and Dani were both gone, leaving only a sticky note on the Ecto-Skeleton. She hovered up to it and read the note closely when it said 'No. Not surprised'.

"Self-destruct initiated. Activating in five, four, three, two, one." The voice in the suit announced as it counted down while it beeped red.

Vladia's eyes went wide. "Oh, butter nuts!" And the suit exploded right in front of her.

Dani flew James out of the fields after Dani managed to use the remote to deactivate the human-ghost shield while she recovered from the explosion of her super weapon she worked so hard to perfect. Just for humor, James also set Vladia's lab on self-destruct as her entire mansion exploded, so she would have to buy another new mansion.

The Fenton siblings quickly made their way to the Specter Speeder as James drove Dani (who was back in her human form) and himself back home to Amity Park after a long night of foiling Vladia's plans to making a super weapon.

"I messed up big time, didn't I?" James asked, looking guilty for running away on his own to handle the situation all by himself.

"Actually, I messed up. I was so busy being angry at you, I...couldn't see that you really can help." Dani said with guilt as she glanced at her brother.

"But just because I can, that doesn't mean I should. Ghost fighting's you're thing, Dani. I'll always be there for you, just in different ways."

Dani smiled warmly as she leaned against him with a small hug. "Consider yourself a reserved member of Team Phantom." She then frowned at him. "But if you ever read my diary again, I will hand you over to Skulka and you'll hear from me."

James's smile never dropped when he could tell that was only an expression. "Don't worry, I should've known better. I won't read your diary again. And speaking of the expression, don't you still need to go and find Ghost X...I-I mean Skulka? I can totally cover for you."

Dani only leaned back as she enjoyed her ride back home. "Nah. I'd rather ride home with my big brother, if that's okay." James smiled warmly when she said that. "Besides, I'm sure Mom and Dad are enjoying their alone time."


Back at Amity Park in Fenton Works, Matt and Jackie were both playing checker as Matt placed a red chip at the end of the board, officially winning the game against his wife.

"Hah! Yang me!" Matt cheered in triumph. Jackie only scowled in frustration before she swiped the checkerboard away in defeat. "Nobody likes a sore loser, Jackie!" He began doing a victory dance that was kind of annoying Jackie a little. "I won! I won! That's right! It's my birthday!"