Season 2 Episode 12
Flirting with Disaster
"Out of this World TERROR!"

It was a bright, peaceful weekend at Amity Park while at the Amity Park Mall, where most of the students of Casper High School hangout aside from the Nasty Burger, Tina Foley was babbling about most of her technology at Food Court with her best friend, Sam Manson, but he looked more bored out of his mind and uninterested at what Tina was saying.

"And this chip here makes my PDA a GPS, and this chip here makes my GPS a GBA, and…" Tina said, but faltered when she finally noticed Sam's glare on his face. "I'm boring you, aren't I?"

"You're killing me!" Sam exclaimed in exasperation before he rested his cheek by his knuckles. "Why aren't we hanging out with Dani today?"

"She said she was busy." Tina turned her head when she saw her old crushes, Vincent Gray and his good friend, Skye, sitting at a table next to her and Sam. "Hey, Vincent! Skye."

"Foley." Skye said as he cocked a skeptical eyebrow at her.

"Manson." Vincent said dryly to Sam.

"Whatever." He said dully as he rolled his eyes.

"Where's your freaky girlfriend, Dani?" Skye mocked as he smirked.

"She's not my/his girlfriend!" Sam and Vincent protested in unison, making Skye recoil a little before they went into each other's faces aggressively. "And she's not a freak!"

"Uh, gentlemen, hello! Another good-looking girl right here!" Tina said while she gave them a flirting look before she sighed. "And people wonder why I love technology." Suddenly, her PDA went all staticy when it worried her greatly. "Honey, are you okay?!"

"So...where is Dani anyway?" Vincent wondered.

"Not that it's any of your business, Vincent, but she said she was busy." Sam said while Tina glanced straight above her before her eyes went wide in a sudden alarm.

"INCOMING!" She exclaimed before her best friend, Dani Phantom, crashed and demolished onto her's and Sam's table, surprising them before the technopathic ghost, Techna, hovered above the ghost girl in her new upgraded form she received from their last encounter with each other.

"Are you mad, child?! Picking a fight with me in my upgraded form?!" Techna shouted out loud with her arms crossed and smirked at her enemy.

"You upgraded into a mullet?" Dani asked sarcastically before she began to blast multiple ecto beams at Techna as she dodged a couple before she used some phones and other techs to make herself a ghost shield.

Dani halted her firing when she jumped onto a table, tilting it unintentionally as it spilled food and drinks all over Vincent before she flew up into the air to fight Techna. Vincent growled in frustration as he wiped some food off his face before he poured out his backpack for his ghost hunting gear, but all that came out were his textbooks, making him glower like he suddenly remembered something.

"Oh, that's right. Mom took my ghost hunting gear and locked it in his lab." He muttered bitterly. Ever since Dani exposed his identity to his mother during the whole Ghost Queen incident, Diane has done everything in her power to prevent her son from hunting down ghosts to ensure her only child's safety, which he wasn't too happy about himself.

Techna then fired a blue ghost beam at Vincent, making him trip and slip to the ground while he grunted in pain. Dani stared down at him with concern before she glared murderously at the technopathic ghost that harmed him. "I AM GONNA BREAK YOU IN HALF!" She exclaimed angrily as she charged straight at her.

"Temper, child! Temper!" Techna said as she disappeared, making her halt her flight. "There's that emotion of yours again." She appeared behind her as she turned around and she grabbed her by her throat. "And emotion, whether you know it or not…" Dani screamed as she electrocuted her and sent her sliding across the floor before she crashed into a pile of boxes as they collapsed on top of her. "Is your greatest weakness!"

Techna smirked at Dani before she phased into Vincent's mobile phone while he wasn't looking.

He growled angrily before he shoved the customers out of the way to give his least favorite ghost some payback. "Move it! Get out of my way!" He shouted, but then froze in surprise when he didn't find Dani Phantom on the boxes, but he instead found Dani Fenton, who changed back into her human form from weakness. Vincent's glare immediately disappeared as he smiled at Dani. "Oh, hi. Didn't expect to see you here."

"Uh...didn't expect to be here." Dani chuckled before Vincent helped her up to her feet as he smiled at her warmly.

"Oh, I'm gonna hurl." Sam muttered in disgust, not enjoying the friendly interaction between Dani and Vincent.

"Perfect! Rage, desire! Weakness I can use against her!" Techna said through Vincent's phone before she laughed evilly, ready to begin a new scheme for the ghost girl and her unknowing crush towards the angry ghost hunter.


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, Mrs. Falluca's whole freshman class at Casper High went on a field trip to Axion Labs for a tour, lead by Vincent's mother, Diane Gray, who regained her original status in the labs, but still lived in Elmerton (Amity Park's rundown sister city) since she and her son still didn't have enough money to regain their home at Amity Park. The whole building was under maintenance, now that it was recently brought and became a part of AI Vladco, a company owned by the richest billionairess in the country and Dani's archenemy, Vladia Masters (also known as the evil half-ghost villainess, Vladia Plasmius). Why Vladia bought the entire company of Axion Labs was way beyond Dani, but she knew it wouldn't be good for anyone but Vladia, but she didn't want to worry about that when her whole class made their way to a door, sealed shut and protected by a ghost shield.

"Now, class, it was very kind of Mrs. Gray to give us a tour of Axion Labs." Mrs. Falluca said to her students as Diane stood beside her.

"My pleasure, Mrs. Falluca. Uh, shields down, please." Diane said and the shield covering the metal door disappeared before the gate opened. Techna smirked inside Vincent's phone and turned off to make sure Dani doesn't see her. The whole class walked down the hall as they made their way into the labs, but Diane stopped Dani when she placed her hand on her shoulder. "Dani, could you hold up for a minute?" Dani stared up at her, wondering what was on her mind.

In the lab, all the students looked around at all the advanced inventions they have been working on since they first came into business. Tina walked up to an advanced-looking jetpack rocket as she stared at it in awe and amazement.

"Cool! This is the X-23 Booster Rocket, capable of launching a single person up into space in less than two minutes!" Tina explained before she walked up to a large computer hub in the center of the lab. "And this is the Cybertron Main Computer. It's the hub that links to the actual processing unit satellite which floats in space."

"Why would they put it in space?" Sam asked his techno-loving friend.

"For safety. Sam, a computer that powerful, could be used to control every other computer in the world!" Tina then shrugged a little. "Can't just let anybody get to it."

Vincent then took this time to wander off as he walked into a closet, only for Techna to phase out of his phone while she overshadowed the control console for the door. "Huh?" Vincent said when he turned, but before he could react, the doors slid closed as it locked him inside the closet. "Hey!"

Techna then phased into the Cybertron Main Computer hub, making Tina's PDA static again as she briefly examined it in confusion. "Weird." She turned her attention back to the students while she continued to explain the functions of the main computer. "That's why the only way to get into the main computer is through this hub...and through a ten-thousand digit security code."

"And you know this why?" Sam asked blankly as he gave her his signature dull look and crossed his arms.

"Sam, I'm a techno-geek! What do you think I do all night on the internet? Math homework?" Tina frowned as she placed her hands on her hips.

"I had always assumed so. Uh, perhaps I need to assign more?" Mrs. Falluca suggested as she gave Tina a small glare.

Outside the lab in the hallway, Diane was still having a chat with Dani, but she noticed that she has been acting a little anxious ever since she and her class arrived at Axion Labs.

"You okay, Dani? You seem a little nervous." Diane said.

"Uh...well, uh, kinda." Dani shuttered a bit nervously as she rubbed her hands a little and glanced up at the picture frame of her archenemy, Vladia Masters, Diane's new boss.

"Well, I know you're a good kid and I know my son likes you." Diane and Dani both laughed a little before Diane became more serious when she leaned a little closer to her. "Just do me a favor, keep your family's ghost weirdness away from my son, hm?" And with that happy note, she walked back into the lab.

Dani's ghost sense suddenly went off as she gasped before she narrowed her eyes in alert. Out of nowhere in the lab, Vincent crashed into the lab when he immediately blasted through the ceiling and descended from the hole in his hoverboard. He began to randomly blast his bazooka at stuff while he demolished them while the students ducked from his attacks.

"Everybody, single file! Run!" Falluca exclaimed to her students before they all began to run for their lives as they shouted while Vincent continued to attack and blast at them, even knocking down his own father narrowly.

Dani hid in the hallway and changed into her ghost form before she flew into the lab to fight Vincent, but he only remained silent and ignored her, which was incredibly odd when he flew away out of the lab. Dani noticed that Diane was recovering from one of Vincent's blast and she quickly flew out of the lab as well. She gasped in shock when she saw the damage her son supposingly did on purpose and frowned angrily as her son exited the closet, looking genuinely confused by the damage.

"Whoa! What happened here?" Vincent asked, but yelped when his mother only grabbed him by his wrist and roughly dragged him out of the lab.

Meanwhile, inside the main computer hub of Axion Labs, Techna hovered at the center as she looked at an infinite wall of multiple numbers and letters, blinking rapidly around her.

"A ten-thousand codex firewall, eh? Please!" Techna said mockingly as she cracked her knuckles before she began to press the codes, until she pressed the wrong one when it fizzled out, making her shout in frustration as she held onto her head. "Eh, this could take a while and that meddling ghost girl will be snooping around here at anytime! Unless I continue distracting her, and the boy will be the key!" She smirked when she pulled up a picture of Vincent with an idea.

At Elmerton in the Grays' apartment, Diane accused her own son of destroying most of the lab on purpose and caused a lot of havoc on a lot of students. However, Vincent told his mother that he would never harm an innocent human and he didn't even know about the attack on the field trip, but Diane wouldn't believe him.

"I'm telling you, it wasn't me!" Vincent protested.

"Well, it was your suit! So, what am I supposed to think?!" Diane retorted at her son as she continued to glare at him accusingly.

Vincent glared back angrily as he crossed his arms. "That somebody took it, and that I'm telling the truth! How about that?!" He snapped angrily before he stormed out of the laundry and into his bedroom as he flopped onto his bed. "It wasn't me...so who'd-" He suddenly heard beeping from his computer when he walked over and saw that it was a message from Dani. "'Vinc, are you okay'? Dani?" He smiled as he began to type a response. "I'm fine. Don't know what happened, but yeah."

At Amity Park in Dani's room inside Fenton Works, Dani was on a video chat with her best friends as they discussed about what happened at Axion Labs when Vincent did that unexpected attack during the tour of Axion Labs. Of course, Dani felt that there was something off about Vincent back on the field trip tour.

"Didn't it seem weird at all? I mean, usually he's all like, 'Where's the ghost?! I find that ghost, I'm gonna waste it!', but...he didn't say a single word." Dani told her friends.

"He spoke with his gun, Dani, remember?" Sam said through his video feed, still thinking it was totally Vincent who started that attack on their field trip earlier. Tina remained silent as she examined her PDA in confusion, since it was still acting very staticy and weird.

Then, Vincent's message suddenly popped up on Dani's screen. "'Dani, are you okay?'" Dani smiled at his message.

"What's that? Is that from Vincent?" Sam and Tina asked in unison on their separate video screens.

"Tina! Are you online again?!" Tina's father, Alex Foley, shouted from her side of the screen, making her panic before she immediately logged out of video chat.

Dani, too, logged off from her video chat with Sam and Tina before she began to type a response to Vincent. "I'm fine, but I don't know what to think. How about you?" She said out loud as she typed it down.


Vincent and Dani continued sending and typing messages to each other all night until that morning outside of Casper High, Sam and Tina noticed her looking worn out as she yawned in exhaustion.

"Long night?" Tina asked with a knowing look.

"Of flirting with disaster?" Sam finished as he frowned and crossed his arms in disapprovement.

"You should really give him a chance, Sam. I know he wants to waste Dani Phantom, but...did you know that he's a ninth degree black belt? That his favorite fruit is kumquat, because it's a funny word?" Dani said with a laugh as she smiled at the thought.

Sam rolled his eyes. "No, Dani, I didn't, because I never really got past the 'waste Dani Phantom' part!" He held out his arms for emphasizing that he still didn't trust Vincent one bit.

In the hallway of the school, Vincent walked with his friend, Skye, as he talked about Dani about what they messaged each other all night. "Did you know that she wants to be an astronaut, and that she bowls with a one-hundred and fifty average higher than her friends?" Vincent said to Skye.

"No, all I know is that her family's a bunch of ghost hunting freaks." Skye said until they stopped in front of Dani, who was staring at him when he insulted her family. "Oh, I'm sorry. By freak, I mean...nah, I mean it. See ya, Vinc! See ya, freak." He talked to Vincent nicely, but acted bitter towards Dani as he walked away to leave them alone together.

Vincent sighed about Skye's rudeness. "Oh, don't mind him."

"Him? Was there another boy with you? I hadn't noticed." Dani said as she smiled.

Vincent smiled cleverly at her. "Pretty cheesy, Sally Ride. You got lunch plans?"

At another hallway a few feet away from Dani and Vincent, Sam looked clearly angry by his friend's friendly interaction with one of her enemies who has been trying to waste her since the very beginning since he became a ghost hunter, and yet...Sam also had a hint of jealousy in his face.

"Is she nuts?!" Sam exclaimed to Tina.

"Ah, don't worry, Sam, this is the puppy love stuff. She'll come to her senses in no time, just watch." Tina said casually, but also indirectly saying that she didn't exactly trust Vincent either.

Sam took out a pair of binoculars as he already planned on spying his best friend and her soon-to-be boyfriend. "Oh, I was planning to."


The next couple of days have been quite a romantic time for both Dani and Vincent, but it surely made Sam more jealous and angry as he continued spying on this new couple. After school, Dani and Vincent both ate dinner together in a diner alone before Techna (still residing in the hub at Axion Labs) made the lights flicker off. The waiter gave then lit-up candlesticks to make their stay more romantic as they smiled at each other.

The next day, the two of them went to a baseball game together until they have been awarded two tickets to the carnival when Dani and Vincent both won as best couples. Later on that night at the carnival at the pier, they both rode on the ferris wheel together until it suddenly stopped and Techna made the buildings in the horizon spell out 'DF+VG'. Dani leaned her head against Vincent as they both smiled at each other warmly and romantically.

Sam continued looking through his binoculars as he stared at Dani and Vincent in jealousy. "Oh, of course that's where the ferris wheel stops! Why wouldn't it?" He asked rhetorically, but then got really annoyed by Tina's PDA staticing as she tried to fix it. "Can you turn that thing down?"

"No! Ever since that fight with Techna, this thing goes staticy in the weirdest times!" Tina exclaimed in frustration before she held it out to show Sam, but then Techna's face appeared as she laughed. "Oh no!" Sam and Tina saw the buildings make a heart symbol around the DF+VG and they realized that it was Techna doing this. "And now we know why, it's picking up Techna! Something in her new upgrade is making my PDA all wonky!"

"Like at the mall, and the labs, and the ferris wheel! She's pushing Dani and Vincent together!" Tina snickered a little at Sam's realization as he frowned in annoyance. "When you're done, we gotta get Dani."

"Let me get this straight, you wanna tell Dani that Techna is playing matchmaker? How do you think she's gonna react to that?" Tina then made a look of concern. "And that you've been spying on her and Vincent on their dates?"


The next day outside Casper High that morning, Dani was laughing hysterically as she leaned on a tree when Sam broke the news to her, but he hasn't told her the total truth about the fact that he has been spying on her yet.

"Are you done yet?" Sam asked as he frowned at her with his arms crossed.

"No." Dani said before she laughed a little more before she took a breather when she wiped a tear out of her eye. "Okay, now I'm done. You're telling me that you think Techna is trying to keep me up? Come one, Techna hates emotions!"

Sam rolled his eyes like it should have been obvious. "And hello! She's using yours against you! Like the dim lights at the diner, the stalled ferris wheel…"

Dani suddenly gasped as her eyes went wide in surprise and her smile dropped. "Wait!" She narrowed her eyes at Sam in suspicion. "How'd you know that?"

"I had a feeling that'd be her reaction that you've been spying on her." Tina said out loud to Sam with her arms crossed.

"Do you know when to shut up?" Sam growled at her behind his teeth.

After hearing what Tina just said, Dani glared angrily at her overprotective gothic friend when she had her fists at her sides. "You've...been...spying on me?!" Dani shouted angrily as Sam recoiled a little from her outburst. "You were, weren't you, Samuel?!"

Sam narrowed his eyes somewhat offendedly. "No, not you, I was spying on Vincent! Try to get into your head that Techna is pushing you together with one of your enemies, Danielle, like you've should've known since the first day he even became a ghost hunter!"

Dani snickered sarcastically when she rolled her eyes as she placed her hands on her hips. "Oh, really?" She glared back at Sam. "You don't think I already have that stuck into my head, and now you think that the only way a boy could genuinely like me as if it was part of a plot to get information out of me?!"

"Yes, exactly! All I'm saying is that you and Vincent being together is too dangerous, even for you to handle!"

"Yeah, it's only dangerous if I'm around him as a ghost, but as long as I'm human, I'm just an ordinary girl who actually considers wanting to go out with him! Trusting people and giving them second chances might not work for you, but it works for me!" Dani pointed her finger at Sam and then pointed her thumb at herself as she spoke out.

"Whoa, guys! Break it up!" Tina interrupted as she got in between her best friends, halting their argument when they both straighten up. She then turned her attention to Dani. "Look, I don't like the idea of Sam spying on you and Vincent together as much as you do, but he may have a point, girl. The dimmed lights and stalled ferris wheels he mentioned earlier...you think the universe wants you two to be together?"

Dani's glare disappeared as she rubbed the back of her neck, unaware that Vincent just arrived to eavesdrop on her conversation with her best friends. "Well, maybe...I don't know. I might, because I said I'm a girl who actually considers wanting to go out with him."

Sam and Vincent both gasped when she said that. "Uh, really? Cause Tech-"

Sam quickly covered for Tina when he suddenly noticed Vincent hiding behind Dani in the bushes. "Technically...because we just want you to be happy!" He said, but Dani glared at him again when she placed her hand on her hip. "Okay...for you, not for me, but if you genuinely like him and he genuinely likes you, then we'll just have to make space for him at our table!" Sam's eye twitched while he tried to hold back his uneasiness.

Dani, however, continued scowling at him skeptically since she wasn't buying his little decision. "Mmmhmm...and speaking of Vincent, I'm supposed to meet him before class, and you better not be behind my back again." She said as she pointed her thumb over her shoulder and then pointed at Sam before giving him one last look as she walked away.

Sam made a look of regret. "Oh, that went well."

Vincent walked up to Sam. "Did you really mean that?" He asked, not looking offended when he learned that he was spying on him and Dani.

"Uh…" Sam cleared his throat before he smiled uneasily at Vincent. "Yeah, sure! I just feel really bad for spying on you two, I guess the least I could do is give a chance." Vincent gave him a big hug as Sam cringed from the physical contact. "Human contact...crushing...goth indifference!"

Dani stormed up the sidewalk, still looking very miffed by the fact that Sam has been spying on her with Vincent the whole time. "Yeah right, Sam, you think I can't handle myself, but noooo...you just had 'keep an eye' on me incase something bad happens." She muttered bitterly to herself before she smiled and snickered. "And seriously? Techna is matchmaker? Please!" She suddenly heard a twig snap nearby when she froze and glanced around, but found nothing in sight. "Oh, it's nothing." Dani went back to frowning to herself. "Sam's probably being paranoid." She then heard jet turbines before she turned around and gasped when she saw 'Vincent' in his suit on his hoverboard with his gun aiming at her. "But it doesn't mean he's not right! Vincent's not in there, is he?"

"No! He's not!" Techna said through the suit while she controlled it from the hub as it pointed to the real Vincent walking down the sidewalk. "He's over there, in full view!" Vincent waved at Dani, who waved weakly back but glanced nervously back at his suit being controlled by a technopathic ghost. "You should run now."

Dani began to run away. "Hey, Dani! Sam and I just had the greatest conversation and I-" Vincent began, but she didn't stop to talk to him when she ran right past him. He gasped when he witnessed that his own ghost hunting suit was chasing after his new girlfriend-to-be. "That's my suit and it's after Dani!" He ran near a tree and dumped out all of his stuff out of his backpack, desperately wanting to help his friend. "Please, please let there be something I can use!"

He gasped when he heard his bazooka being fired as he grabbed a stick and frowned with determination before he ran off to save Dani.

"You were pushing Vincent and me together!" Dani exclaimed angrily to Vincent's suit Techna was controlling as she continued to run away.

"You're welcome!" She shouted through the suit before she fired beams at her again, but thanks to her quick reflexes and ghost hunting experience, she managed to jump as she avoided the suit's attacks before she somersaulted and got in a ready stance as white rings appeared at her torso. "Ah, ah, ah! Careful!" The suit gestured to a security camera nearby. "Secret identity, remember?" Dani halted her transformation when the rings disappeared. "I wonder who'll miss you more: the angry ghost hunter or the frustrated little goth boy who can't admit his feelings?"

Dani narrowed her eyebrows in confusion. "What are you-"

"Oh well! Nothing you need to worry about now, because you are through interfering with my plans!" Vincent's suit aimed its bazooka at Dani as she gasped in horror since she was completely outmatched and that there was nothing she could do without revealing her secret. "Yes, yes! So long, child!"

Suddenly, a milk carton was thrown at the suit's head when it splattered milk on impact, and the suit turn its head and saw Vincent with the stick in his hands.

"HY-YAH!" He shouted as he jumped into the air and swung the stick at the suit and whacked it off its hoverboard. "Dani, run!"

"But-" Dani began to protest.

"JUST RUN!"

Dani then made a determined face. "Oh, I'm running! Running to get help!"

Sam and Tina watched as she ran away to find a place to go ghost without being seen before they turned their attentions back to Vincent facing off against his own ghost hunting suit with nothing but a simple twig. His suit ran right at him as he hoisted himself into the air with the stick and sent a powerful kick to the suit's chin, sending it tumbling onto the concrete. Vincent spun expertly on the stick before he flipped in the air and landed in a defensive position as he glared.

"Whoa!" Sam said in somewhat amazement.

"He is a ninth degree black belt. She better not forget their anniversary." Tina commented to Sam. She faintly remembered the one time when Dani's parents had their anniversary, but Dani's mother forgot and angered her father, who was a ninth degree black belt as well.

Dani ran behind the building of the school, where she found a dumpster bin as she lifted the lid and quickly slipped inside before it slammed shut. She changed into her ghost form and emerged from the bin, covered in trash as she made herself intangible and they fell back into the trash before she flew into action.

Back in the fight, the suit fired beams from its bazooka as Vincent jumped to avoid it and slid across the lunch table and tipped it over like a shield. The suit's blast demolished a good chunk of the table and Vincent knew the table wouldn't last long. He quickly pulled out his keys and jumped from the table as his suit demolished the bottom half, and he flung his keys when they stuck onto its chest.

"Oh great, now I'm doomed and I can't get into my apartment." Vincent groaned under his breath.

Vincent's suit fired its beam at Vincent dead on, sending him collapsing onto the grass as he groaned in pain. He gasped when he looked up and saw his own suit towering over him while it aimed its bazooka and charged it.

Before it could fire, Dani arrived in the nick of time when she shoved the suit halfway down the city before she hurled it onto the roof of a clock tower. It turned to find her charging again as it fired a beam from its gun, hitting Dani dead on as she crashed into a wall of a building and she hung her head limply. The suit pressed the button on its wrist as the hoverboard automatically flew to its suit as it jumped on and charged after the ghost girl. Luckily, Dani recovered just in time to see the suit when she flew towards it before it blasted its beams from its bazooka as she dodged it and phased right through it. Dani fired an ecto beam and managed to hit the jet sled, making it explode before Vincent, Sam, and Tina ran out of the way while they yelped when the pieces of the board and the suit crashed onto the street.

Dani landed a few feet away and saw more closely that the suit was being worn and controlled by some robot Techna created. "Vincent's not in there." Dani said to herself before Vincent peeked his head out of his hiding spot to see the fight. "Which means I'M NOT HOLDING BACK!" Dani fired a ghost beam before the suit could charge its bazooka and destroyed its entire arm, along with its gun. She fired another ghost beam at its leg, taking it out when it briefly lost its balance before it regained its stance. "Say goodbye, punk!"

Dani fired one last ghost beam directly at the suit's chest, making a huge hole as the robot began to shut down when it hummed and beeped. Vincent gasped when he watched it collapse near her feet, and then it was about to self-destruct as Dani gasped and quickly flew away before the whole suit exploded. Vincent watched the pieces of his suit rain down until he held onto the top part of his now-damaged and unusable suit. Dani landed several feet away from Vincent and remained silent as he glanced back at her with a look of sadness, but also remained silent.

"HA! Demoralized! Now my plan can go forward!" Techna said in triumph after she watched the whole fight from the hub.

The school bell rung when it signaled that class was about to begin. "Uh, I gotta go!" Dani said quickly before she flew away.

"She was trying to do that to me! That could've been me! But...it wasn't." Vincent said to himself as he hatred toward the ghost girl grew when he became convinced that she really was trying to kill him mercilessly. Even though they both knew that it was only a robot controlling the suit, Vincent, as far as he knew, didn't believe that Dani Phantom even knew about the suit. His eyes then went wide when he saw a security camera that was videotaping the whole fight. "And now I can prove it!"

After school that night, Vincent arrived at Axion Labs to prove to his mother that he never attacked those students during the field trip a few days ago. Diane saw the whole fight and became worried that her own son was wearing the suit, especially when she saw the part that Dani Phantom was destroying the suit until it exploded, and she was very worried that her son could have been killed fighting that powerful ghost girl, but was relieved that it was only a robot and saw Vincent outside the suit the whole time.

"That could've been you!" Diane exclaimed when she pointed at the video footage and frowned at her son.

"No, because it never was me!" Vincent argued.

Diane's glare disappeared as she placed her hand on her son's shoulders, feeling guilty about blaming him for attacking the lab earlier. "I'm sorry I didn't believe you, son. You did do a good job protecting your friend." She then smiled warmly at her only child. "I guess I can let it go this time."

"You're only saying that, 'cause the suit's destroyed." Vincent glanced sadly at his damaged and unusable ghost hunting suit sitting at the corner of the room.

"Bingo!"

Later on at the same time, Dani, Sam, and Tina were all at Fenton Works inside Dani's room when they began discussing the puzzle they have pieced together from Techna distracting Dani by hooking her up with Vincent to the latter controlling Vincent's own suit with a robot. Dani sat on the edge of her bed, looking more sad about something else while Tina paced around the room and Sam sat on one of Dani's storage chests.

"So Techna must've been behind the attack during the tour! So that means she followed us into the lab, got into the Cybertron Main Computer hub, and that would also mean that she's probably trying to crack the code and get into the main computer in space!" Tina said, explaining the entire puzzle of Techna's big master plan.

"Which she could use to control every computer in the world!" Sam added with concern.

Tina stared at him blankly and knowingly. "You only know that, because I told you that." She then noticed the miserable look on Dani's face when she glanced down at her friend. "You okay, girl?"

"Oh, you should've seen Vincent's face. I'm sure he thinks I was trying to waste him." Dani said sadly.

"But you weren't!" Sam pointed out as he stood up.

Dani seemed to have gone over the fact that Sam spied on her, since she didn't glare at him and holding grudges against her friends wasn't in her nature. "It doesn't matter, if I wanna ask Vincent out, I'm gonna have to never tell him I'm Dani Phantom." She then glared with determination as she slid off her bed and walked towards her door angrily. "But first, we're gonna get rid of that virus called Techna once and for all!"

Before she could walk out of her room, her mother, Jackie, suddenly appeared with a bright look on her face. "Dani! Word on the street says you got yourself a boyfriend!" She said as she elbowed her and hugged her close before she glanced at her daughter's friends. "Uh, can you two leave so we could have a totally awkward mother/daughter chat?"

"Gone and gone!" Tina and Sam agreed in unison as they both immediately ran out of Dani's room.

Once both of Dani's best friends left, Jackie led Dani into the kitchen while they had bowls of chocolate ice cream as Jackie was about to begin giving some dating advice to her youngest daughter about dating a boy her own age.

"Does it have to be awkward?" Dani asked her mother.

"Yep! I'm gonna give you some motherly advice. Then, I'm gonna say something that'll make you cringe and run away in embarrassment!" Jackie said as she held her daughter close and gestured with her hand.

"Check! Advice first?"

"Oh alright, if you really like this boy, Dani, he should see for himself that you already love him, deep inside, and then let him know how much you love him. But you should wait for the right moment when he gives you something...like this." Jackie slipped off her glove, revealing a green class ring with a pearl on her finger.

Dani stared at it in confusion. "A class ring?"

"For a boy, a girlfriend's not a girlfriend until he gives her a class ring, Dani, and it could even say that you could be the girl I fight ghosts with...at least that's what your father did with me, so I don't know how appropriate that'll be for you."

Dani chuckled a little as she managed a smile. "I think you'd be surprised. I can really tell him I love him?"

"Only if he's the one right for you, I'm sure Sam'll give you the best kind of ring there is."

Dani's eyes went wide when she realized that her mother was actually talking about Sam. "I-I'm not going out with Sam, Mom!"

Jackie looked surprise before she immediately hid it by laughing loudly. "Of course you're not! You just see him as a friend! And the ring would have your name engraved…" Jackie slipped her ring off and handed it to Dani, who looked at it more closely and saw her mother's name engraved inside the ring 'Jackie'. "See, that was the embarrassing thing. Now, if you'll excuse me, it's time for pie!" Dani placed the ring back on the table while Jackie brought out some pie for herself as her daughter walked out of the kitchen. "Clueless."

Later on that same night, Dani met with her friends on the same hill overlooking Axion Labs as she prepared to prepare herself to battle Techna in space if she ever managed to complete the security code.

"Here." Dani said as she gave Sam a pair of Fenton Phones for both him and Tina.

"The Fenton Phones?" He asked as he stared at them in his palm.

"Yeah, once Techna leaves here, let me know." Dani the flew down to Axion Labs to stop Techna.

Sam and Tina glanced at each other before Tina grinned smugly at her gothic friend. "She really is clueless, isn't she?" She asked rhetorically, but Sam only frowned at her.

Dani phased underneath Axion Labs before she phased through the floor and found herself in the cafeteria room. "This isn't gonna be one of those awkward mother/son conversations, is it?" She heard Vincent ask his mother. She turned around and saw him and Diane having bowls of chocolate ice cream while they talked with each other.

"Probably, you really risked your neck to save that Fenton kid." Diane said as she held out a spoonful of ice cream while Dani hovered over the Grays invisibly.

"Yeah, I like her alot...maybe even enough to give up ghost hunting."

Dani smiled when he admitted that he loved her enough to actually give up ghost hunting to be with her. "Clueless one, this is Goth one, over." Sam said through her Fenton Phones, making her panic before she quickly flew out of the cafeteria room.

"Did you hear that?" Diane and Vincent asked each other as they glanced around after they both heard someone speak nearby.

"Goth one, this is Clueless one. Why am I 'Clueless one'?" Dani asked as she phased through the steel doors and made her way to the lab.

"Tell her!" Tina said.

"Shut it!" Sam growled at her.

Dani made it to the lab and it was almost pitch black with all the lights out for the night. Dani blinked her eyes as they glowed green when she used her enhanced ghost vision to scan around the dark room. In her view, everything was green to her, but it was still clear as day and she could even zoom her vision in and out at will until she found the X-23 Booster Rocket: the one she was gonna used to blast herself off into space if Technus made it to the main satellite computer.

"I'm in!" Dani said to her phone before she grabbed the Booster Rocket from its place, turning her arm intangible to keep herself from setting off the alarms. She then directed her ghost vision towards the computer screens and noticed them going static. "And from the looks of the computer, Techna is still in there."

The lights suddenly flipped on before Dani turned and gasped when she saw the Grays standing at the doorway, glaring at her. "YOU!" Vincent exclaimed angrily.

"Oh, suck me in a thermos!"

Inside the computer hub, Techna has connected her arms to the firewall when she linked the codes in and almost finished going through the entire code so she could finally transfer herself into the satellite and take over the world as she smiled with anticipation.

"Ten...night...eight…" She shouted.

"GET AWAY FROM THAT!" Techna heard Diane shout from outside, making the technopathic ghost halt her encoding in confusion.

"Eh? What is that rackus?! Security camera fourteen! Visual!" The security camera turned towards the Grays when Techna saw a screen as Diane fired her energy gun at Dani, who quickly flew up to avoid it.

"There's an evil ghost in that thing, trying to take control of your computer satellite!" Dani tried to explain to the Grays as she pointed at the hub.

"Yeah, and we're looking at her!" Vincent snapped angrily, not believing in her at all since now he was completely convinced that she was trying to kill him earlier when she destroyed his suit.

"And you expect us to believe you?!" Diane retorted just as angry as her son, possibly also angry at her for almost trying to kill her only son.

"No! I need more time!" Techna exclaimed.

"See why I need to hunt these ghosts?!" Vincent said as he held up his damaged ghost hunting suit while he continued to glare at the ghost girl. "They think they can do whatever they want, but somebody has to stop them!"

Techna smirked with another idea to distract Dani, and how to unknowingly have the hunter boy ally himself with the technopathic ghost. "An excellent idea!" Her eyes opened when electrical wires linked to the security camera screen footage as she sent an electrical surge fire from the camera and blasted at Vincent dead on while he dropped his suit.

"VINCENT!" Diane cried out in worry.

All of the broken pieces of Vincent old suit began to attach and merged themselves around Vincent's body as Dani and Diane stared in awe and concern. Before anyone knew it, he thrusted his arms up and fired a stream of electrical energy when his new suit became completed, and this time, his suit was upgraded and he was wearing an even more powerful version. It was now black armor with red linings and a transparent glass face shield. He was now the new upgraded and improved Red Hunter 2.0.

"Oh yeah! This is gonna be good!" Vincent said as he smirked at the ghost girl.

Inside the hub, Techna began to finish encoding the entire firewall. "Two...one...and done!" She smiled as she unlinked her arms from the hub. "Goodbye computer in Amity Park, hello fancy satellite in space!"

Outside of Axion Labs, Sam and Tina witness a satellite dish spring out of the lab as it transferred Techna into the main computer in space. While Sam gaped in worry, Tina looked down at her PDA as it went static again and a skull emblem appeared. Techna's master plan to becoming part of the main computer satellite came into completion when she became one with the satellite and now had the power to control every other computer in the world as her face appeared on the satellite.

"It's over, child!" Techna exclaimed as her face appeared on the screens of Axion Labs and she grinned at Dani. "You can't stop me now!"

"We'll see about that!" Dani said as she glared with determination.

Dani slipped the X-23 Booster Rocket on her back, strapped it around her belt, and took an oxygen-reusable space helmet while she didn't need a suit, since she knew that she had vacuum resistance and won't be affected by stardust or cosmic radiation in outer space. After she placed the oxygen helmet on her head, she flipped the jetpack on as the turbines began to fire and took off as she phased through the ceiling.

Vincent glared up with absolute hate as he watched her disappear. Not finished having some 'business' with her, he jumped to the air and summoned his new hoverboard that appeared out of thin air it looked like a black semi V-like board with red linings. He prepared himself to chase down the ghost girl, even though he probably didn't know or possible even cared that Techna was the main ghost villainess Dani was trying to tell him about. How he witnessed her destroying his last suit like she was trying to waste him was unforgivable on Vincent's part.

"Vincent, get out of that suit!" Diane demanded her son.

"I will...as soon as I get that ghost!" He told his mother before he rocketed upward as he summoned three cubes that fired beams, weakening the ceiling before he crashed through the ceiling at such speed. Diane watched in awe as her son disappeared to go finish off the ghost girl in space once and for all.

"WHOOOOOOA!" Dani yelled as the booster rocket propelled her to space, and Tina once said it could launch a single person into space in less than two minutes. She suddenly smiled excitedly that she was actually going up into space just like her number one dream of becoming an astronaut when she grew up. "HEY, I'M AN ASTRONAUT!"

From below, Sam watched as he witnessed Vincent propelling out of Axion Labs and chased after his friend while the grudgeful ghost hunter made his way into the sky. "Uh, Dani?" He said through the phone as his hair fluttered madly.

"WHOOOHOHOOOOO!" Dani was having the time of her life, despite the serious circumstances, when she flipped around and enjoyed her trip into space for the first time in her life.

"Dani, come in! Stay alert, you have company!"

Dani's smile dropped when Sam told her that another enemy was involved. "Company? What kind of company-WHOA!" The answer came when she dodged a red energy blast before she looked down and saw Vincent catching up to her.

"It's you boyfriend."

Dani propelled herself up into space as Vincent continued firing more beams at her with his cubes. "He's not my boyfriend until he gives me a ring!"

"What is this? 1955?" Tina asked sarcastically as she and Sam watched their friend and her date flying into space.

Dani and Vincent broke through the Earth's atmosphere as Vincent's new suit appeared to have self-sustainable oxygen supply. Once she was out of the atmosphere, she flipped her rocket pack off and floated in space as Vincent jetted right past her. He quickly turned off his board by pressing a button with his feet, but it only sent him floating away as he and Dani swam everywhere from the lack of gravity. Vincent glared angrily at Dani before he held his hand up and fired a hand-blaster at her, but the force was too strong when it sent him flying backwards as he screamed while Dani managed to push against the no gravity to avoid the blast.

Dani knew that Vincent was just the distraction when she saw Techna floating inside the satellite as she laughed evilly and began to blast around multiple technologies around the world, such as New York City, London, and Japan as she made a screen about herself, caused a traffic collision when she scared a bus driver and sent it crashing into a building, and created a multi-headed hydra version of herself while she scared people out of a computer lab.

Techna continued to take control of every technology in the world before Dani narrowed her eyes with determination and she switched on her pack to propelled after her. She began to rapid fire her ghost blasts at the satellite Techna was controlling, but none of her beams were powerful enough to pierce through the satellite's armor since they only reflected off the armor. Dani halted her flight and stared at the satellite in surprise, until Vincent suddenly swooped in out of nowhere when he caught her between his hoverboard as she gasped at him.

Vincent slammed his feet to a button and activated some form of an anti-ghost stinger between his board as it electrocuted Dani, making her scream in agony as Vincent only glared at her murderously and mercilessly as he watched the ghost who he thought ruined his life, exposed his identity to his father, and supposingly tried to kill him before getting the shock of her life. However, as she continued to strain in pain from the shock, she reflexively began to redirect the electrical current to her hands as she grunted and unknowingly held them up toward Vincent, whose glare disappeared as he gasped in shock when he saw her hands glowing. Dani unintentionally shocked Vincent back with her own ghost stinger she redirected from his own and they both shouted before they were pushed away from each other from the force as they flipped in space.

Dani regained her air before she gasped and stared at her hands letting off green mist. She then gazed at her boyfriend when she realized what she has done and saw him floating upside down in space, unconscious from her reflexive counterattack.

Now Dani was really angry at Techna for using her own emotions against not just her, but to Vincent as well, making his hatred grow towards to the point where he now saw Dani Phantom as a full-time villainess. She glared angrily before she flipped her rocket pack on and propelled after Techna again as she continued taking control of every technology in the world. She halted in front of the satellite as she turned the X-23 Booster Rocket from normal to overload, making it tremble as it gained a burst of power. Dani charged right towards Techna as she phased out of the rocket pack until she sent it flying straight into the technopathic ghost's mouth. Her smile dropped when she realized what Dani has done while she smiled before the entire satellite exploded into millions of pieces. Techna's goal for world domination was a failure when everything returned to normal as Techna's faces and monsters disappeared while everyone around the world cheered.

Piece of debris from the satellite explosion flew everywhere until one tiny piece bonked into Vincent's helmet, enough to wake him up before he glared angrily as he growled. He jetted around the debris to find the ghost girl, but after he saw that she was nowhere in his sight, he rocketed straight back to Earth as his suit glowed red from friction. Unaware to him, Dani was invisibly hitching a ride as she held onto the side of his hoverboard while she stared up at him with a look of hurt.


The next day outside Casper High, Dani was sitting on a table with both of her friends, but she had her arms crossed on the table while she rested her chin on them, looking like she was just heartbroken greatly after what Vincent almost did to her in space.

Although she really did actually love him, she didn't even know if she could tell him that she was Dani Phantom, especially after he almost tried to kill her mercilessly in space. Techna was right about one thing that she didn't want to admit to her friends: that her emotions really were her greatest weakness and that it was actually used against her to be with Vincent. Techna was trying to heartbreak Vincent enough that he would unknowingly assist Techna in world domination since she basically used his hatred towards Dani Phantom to kill her. Now Dani was having second thoughts about telling Vincent how she really felt about him, let along telling him the truth about herself.

"You sure about this? You don't look so sure." Tina wondered when she noticed Dani's miserable expression.

"Well, he did say he'd give up ghost hunting...for me." Dani said as she raised her head on from her arms. "I do like him as much as he likes me back, but…" Dani sighed before she rested her cheek on her fist. "Isn't it supposed to be that simple?"

"Clueless." Tina and Sam said in unison.

"Hey, Dani." Vincent said as he walked up to her. She glanced up at him and stood up to face him, but neither of them were smiling at each other like Vincent had something to tell Dani as well. "There's something I'd like to tell you."

"Actually, me first." Dani said as Sam and Tina left the table, feeling like this was a private conversation. Dani turned her head as she looked down while she rubbed her arms. "Look, Vincent...I know we got on a rocky start before and I've had a lot of fun with you these past few days, and don't get me wrong, you're a really great guy and I'm so glad I got to know you, but now...I believed both of our lives are a lot more complicated for us to be anything other than...friends."

Vincent stared at her before he glanced down as well, looking completely understanding. "Yeah, honestly I was going to say the exact same thing to you."

"You know, I've always thought that-"

"I always thought, too, Dani, but when you mention both our lives, there's something important I have to do and I don't want you to get hurt, because of it." Vincent then smiled when he placed his hand on her shoulder as he laughed a little and rolled his eyes. "Besides, it's not you thought I was gonna give you some lame class ring, right?"

Dani managed a smile and a small laugh. "No, definitely not." She planted a small kiss on Vincent's cheek, making him smile a little more while he blushed.

He then walked away as both of their smiles dropped and they became sad again. Dani looked down before she sat back at her table and buried her head underneath her arms. Behind a small building, Vincent began to change into his new upgraded suit when he mind summoned it and it materialized around his body before his suit appeared. He peeked through the corner and stared at Dani sadly and he noticed that he heard her sobbing quietly, hurting him even more as much as she was, even though they both have just agreed to be only friends. Vincent then glared as he prepared to find the ghost girl (who he has been unknowingly dating for a few days).

Sam walked up to Dani and sat next to her as he placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. She looked up at him with her eyes leaking tears before he gave her a small smile, but then without warning, Dani suddenly hugged him as she continued to sob quietly, making Sam's eyes go wide in surprise. "Uhhhh…" He said, speechless and loss for words as he blushed a little.

"You were right...you were right all along, Sam." Dani whispered between her sobs before she cried more.

Sam wasn't much of a hugger since he hated having physical contact, but this was his best friend hugging him for comfort when he reluctantly held up his hands and slowly wrapped them around Dani's back to comfort her. He then smiled and sighed as he rubbed her back.

"Ahh, clueless." He didn't know if Dani heard him or not since she didn't react to him calling her clueless while she continued to sob quietly on his shoulder.

"Dumped each other, huh?" A boy asked Tina as he and his friend walked next to her, witnessing the whole thing.

"Apparently." Tina answered.

"Goth boy making his move?" The other boy asked.

"Sorta doubt it." Tina then stared at the boys flirtatiously as they only stared at her blankly.

The boy then perked up in thought. "Do you think she likes redheads?"

Tina stomped in foot in frustration when she realized he was talking about Dani. "That settles it!" She pulled out her PDA and held it up high. "Are you seeing anybody?" She then hugged her trusty piece of technology close to her cheek.

In the skies of Amity Park, Vincent took off to the air on his new hoverboard, showing the town that the Red Hunter was back and ready to finish his hunt for Dani Phantom more for vengeance than for the good of the people. He still saw her as a menace to humanity, and now he wouldn't stop until he destroyed her once and for all and not even his own mother would stop his dedication.