Season 2 Episode 17
Kindred Spirits
"It Will Leave You Feeling All GOOEY Inside!"
"File 10406VM" Vladia Plasmius commanded in her dark lab.
A screen showed a video footage of Vincent Gray (in his old, original suit before Dani destroyed and Technus replaced it with an upgraded one) firing his bazooka at Dani Phantom, who was in her ghost form, and she charged straight at Vincent as she dodged his attacks and began energizing her hands.
"Stop." Vladia said and the screen paused. "Analysis." The screen began to scan Dani as it showed her heat signature and her x-rays. "File 10406VX." A screen popped up showing Vincent and Dani coming to each other aggressively before it paused. "Stop, analysis. File 1874IM, analysis." Vladia pulled up a file on Dani flying across the air before information appeared.
Vladia continued to open files about her archenemy, Dani, all about her likes, dislikes, personality, powers, fighting style, weapons, and pretty much everything Vladia managed to recover from the girl. "File 2416SM, stop. File 3299IM, stop, analysis. Conclusion?"
All of the computers loaded the information Vladia has completed until five images of Matt Fenton's faces appeared on the screens. "I'm sorry, sweetheart, inconclusive data. Experiment cannot be completed without mid-morph sample." He said happily as he showed the images of Dani in her human form and ghost form, but nothing in the middle.
Vladia scoffed. "Bah! The equipment I gave Vincent to fight ghosts has been monitoring Danielle for months, and I'm still missing the one piece I need!" She snapped her fingers before three containment chambers began to open, revealing a large female hulk-like ghost, a bed sheet ghost, and a tiny green orb as they lined up before Vladia as she hovered before them. "You know what to do."
"Yes, mother…" The three ghosts moaned before they flew away for their mission.
Vladia smiled a little. "Mother...I do so love that." She then turned her attention to the Matt Fenton on screen. "Now say it again, the way I programed you to."
"Jackie Fenton is an idiot, I am glad I serve you." He said happily before more screens of Matt began popping up. "Jackie Fenton is an idiot, I am glad I serve you."
Vladia cackled evilly into the heavens and prepared her next scheme against her archenemy, Dani Phantom, and for her mysterious ultimate goal.
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)
It was a quiet, peaceful day at Amity Park and the two best friends, Sam Manson and Tina Foley, decided to head to the mini golf course for a few competitive shots. Sam swung his golf ball as it made its made to the hole, only to be blocked by the windmill as it rotated and stopped it from going through the hole through it.
Sam frowned and slammed his club on the grass in frustration. "Darn it!" He exclaimed.
"Eighteenth hole, Sam. I beat you here, I win." Tina said as she walked past him with a smile, making him growl in annoyance. Tina's hole was right beside the last hole and just before she could tap it to the hole, the ball suddenly became intangible and the club swung right through it, making Tina gasp.
Sam smiled. "That's a one…" Tina tried again, but ended phased right through again. "And two...three…" She swung harder as it continued phasing right through while Sam smiled in victory. "Four...and five! Ha!"
Tina growled in frustration before she tried to reach for her ball, but it turned intangible again as her best friend, Dani (who was currently in ghost form), phased through the grass, holding the golf ball. "Boo…" She said as she smiled innocently.
Tina jumped and shouted in surprise before she frowned at her mischievous friend. "Dani, knock it off!" She said to her.
"Yeah, you were supposed to be here an hour ago!" Sam said in agreement before he smiled at Tina again. "By the way, that still counts."
Dani phased her head through the grass and out of sight as she dropped the ball and it rolled to their feet. "Sorry I was late." Dani said while she changed back to human form and walked out from behind some fake rocks and placed her hands on her hips, looking proud of herself for something. "But you'll be happy to know that the Ghost King won't...be…" She faltered when she noticed that neither Sam nor Tina were buying her excuse since they frowned at her skeptically. Dani rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly. "Okay, I overslept."
Sam scoffed in annoyance. "Dani, you have got to start being a little more considerate." He said to her.
"Yeah, girl. Lately, you've been treating us like sidekicks instead of friends." Tina said as she and Sam frowned at her again. "And when you get into a fight, we're the ones who take the beating."
"Oh, come on! Name one time." Dani challenged her friends as she crossed her arms.
Sam and Tina began to list all the times Dani has been a little inconsiderate with her friends and letting them get hurt a little while she managed to get away easily, but her friends...not so much. They began a few days ago when Skulka was stealing some money in a molasses factory, but Skulka fired some rocket missiles at the trio, but even though Dani turned intangible, the rockets made the entire factory explode molasses as Sam and Tina got covered from head to toe as they glared annoyingly at Dani, who smiled at them nervously.
Then there was the time when Dani asked her friends to help pull Cuja into the Ghost Zone. She suck her head out and panted happily before she licked Sam and Tina while Dani remained intangible, leaving her friends to be covered in dog saliva, much to their disgust. They glared at Dani again as she smiled nervously at them again.
Then finally, during the battle with the Lunch Man (who was in his gigantic meat monster form) raised a foot and threatened to stomp onto the trio, but even though Dani managed to fly out of the way, Sam and Tina were so luckily since they weren't as fast as Dani and that left them to get covered in meat.
"Okay, okay, I get it! I said one time!" Dani interrupted her angry friends. "I'll try to be a little more considerate." Her ghost sense suddenly went off as she gasped before she narrowed her eyes in alarm. "Starting tomorrow."
All the people in the golf course began to scream in terror as they ran for their lives, but one tripped over when the bed sheet ghost hovered above him, moaning like a stereotypical ghost. It turned and found Dani charging at it in her ghost form before she grabbed it and shoved it into a course setting.
"What kind of ghost haunts a miniature golf course?" Tina wondered in confusion.
"Well, there is a Box Ghost. Obviously, all the good haunts have been taken." Sam complemented.
There were various beatings happening inside the setting until Dani get thrown out as she shouted and tumbled back out to the course. The bed sheet ghost flew out of the setting, but Dani saw it coming as she flew up and began to punch its face before they spun around once, and then she finally punched it away as it crashed into a windmill, looking disoriented. Dani towered over the ghost and laughed that the ghost was wearing a bed sheet.
"Seriously, a bed sheet? What have you got under there?" She asked it as she grabbed onto the bed sheet and uncovered it. She gasped when it was a green skeletal ghost underneath as it glared at her. It growled when it pinned her to the ground.
"Change baaaack…" It moaned, confusing her on why it would want her to change back to her human form.
"What? Get off of me!"
She kicked the ghost off of her before she jumped back to her feet. The ghost howled as it flew straight at her, but she energized her hand as she fired a powerful ghost beam at the skeletal ghost, vaporizing it into oblivion. When she halted her power, she realized it unleashed a little too powerful as she destroyed part of the golf course as well.
"I gotta get out of here!" Dani muttered before she flew away and out of sight.
Sam and Tina ran to the big mess their friend left behind until the manager of the course came up to the teens, glaring at them. "Trashing the golf course, huh?!" She asked them in displeasement.
"But we didn't do it!" Tina protested as she held her hands up defensively.
The manager didn't look like she bought it as she crossed her arms and cocked an eyebrow skeptically at the teens. "Really? Anybody else you want to pin the blame on then?"
Tina and Sam looked up to the sky and saw that Dani was already flying far away, making them glower and slouch in annoyance. "No..." They moaned in unison.
Dani pulled out her phone as she flew her way back home and dialed in her friends' numbers. They answered, but they certainly weren't very happy that she abandoned them and left them to clean up the golf course by force for her trashing most of the course with nothing but a powerful ghost beam.
"Guys, I'm sorry, but if I stuck around, somebody could've figured out my secret identity." Dani said as she flew across Amity Park.
"Sorry doesn't get us out on having to clean up this golf course." Tina said through the phone.
"And sorry doesn't clean it either." Sam added more bitterly.
"I know, I know." Dani said as she phased into her house, Fenton Works, and into her room. She changed into her human form and continued talking on the phone. "And I appreciate it, but...uh…" She faltered when she suddenly noticed a little boy, around the age of an adolescent preteen, laying on her bed and reading one of her comic books. She walked over to him and frowned at this strange kid who snuck into her house and into her bedroom. "Can I help you?"
"Yes!" Sam shouted over the phone.
"No! Not you!"
"Not so loud." The boy said as he looked up from Dani's comic and smiled at her.
Dani noticed that this young boy looked almost exactly like her: he had black hair like hers with bangs over his face, but showed his face more than hers did, icy blue eyes and fair skin. He also wore a red beanie on his head, a blue sweatshirt/hoodie, red long plain sweats, and blue sneakers with white dots on the sides.
"I'm Daniel, your third cousin once removed." He said with a smile. "I ran away from home. Hey, you got any food?"
Dani stared at him with a blink before she held her phone up. "Uh...I gotta go."
"Of course you do!" Sam exclaimed in exasperation through the phone, enough to make Dani cringe from his outburst.
Later on, Dani brought up a lot of food from the kitchen and she sat by the edge of her bed, watching Daniel pigging out on all the food like he hasn't eaten in like two weeks. Of course, Dani didn't know that she had a 'third cousin once removed' named Daniel since she has met most of her family, but she has never known anything about having a cousin. Daniel chewed on his food he devoured before he belched loudly and sighed in satisfaction as he rubbed his stomach. His eyes went wide when he saw Dani's wall filled with NASA posters, Dani's certification as a junior astronaut, and a blueprint for a space shuttle.
"You wanna be an astronaut?" Daniel asked her, sounding excited when he sat up on her bed and he smiled brightly. Dani glanced at her space and NASA posters on her wall. "Did you know they only choose one hundred people…"
"Every two years to go into the space program./?" Dani and Daniel finished in unison, although Dani sounded more familiar with it.
"Yeah, I knew that, how did you?" Dani asked him as she narrowed her eyes at him skeptically.
Daniel didn't answer when he turned his head around and saw some of Dani's Dumpty Humpty CDs on her table next to her bed. "Dumpty Humpty, these guys rock!" He picked up a CD in amazement, sounding like was a big fan of the band his cousin was into as well.
Dani walked up to him. "Yeah, I know that, too." She snatched her CD out of his hand and frowned at the boy sternly. "You have enough to eat, Daniel?"
He nodded his head as he hummed. "Mmmhmm!"
"Then it's time to talk to my parents." Dani grabbed Daniel by his wrist and dragged him off of her bed.
"No!"
She walked him out to the hallway. "Look, you say you're my cousin, and...maybe you are, but we still have to call your parents."
Daniel narrowed his eyes and swatted Dani's hand away from his wrist. "I SAID NO!" And he ran back into Dani's room in a rush.
"Hey, come back!" She chased him back into her room, but her eyes went wide when she saw that he already escaped through her window, since he left it wide open. She looked surprised by how quickly he escaped in just one second as she blinked in confusion. "Man, he's fast." Dani changed into her ghost form and flew outside as she looked around for any signs of her cousin, but the neighborhood was pretty much empty and he was nowhere in sight. "Okay, he's a twelve-year-old boy, how far could he possibly have-" She paused when her ghost sense went off again, making her frown a little. "Oh, swell. After the bed sheet ghost, what's this gonna be? A spooky bat on a string?"
She suddenly heard a loud growling roar from above her as she looked up and saw a nasty-looking female hulk-like ghost charging right at her. She punched Dani out of the air as she crashed into the street, making a large crater. Dani rubbed her head and glared at the female hulk ghost while the ghost remained silent.
"Man, you look like what I do on a bad day, but I'm gonna make you look worse!" Dani exclaimed as she flew straight up to the ghost and tried to land a punch to her face, but she merely grabbed her fist and tossed her down the street, making her tumble down the road before she crashed into a car.
As she got up weakly to her feet, the she-hulk ghost stomped onto the car, demolishing it even farther and Dani took a deep breath, but before she could use her ghostly wail, the she-hulk grabbed her by her mouth and lifted her to the air. The ghost growled and she was about to punch Dani in the face, until Daniel suddenly appeared a few feet away.
"HEY! Leave her alone!" He demanded determinedly as he glared at the she-hulk ghost.
"Get out of here!" Dani exclaimed before she tried to pry the ghost's hand off her mouth as she strained.
"Forget it, I know who you are, and I came a long way to find you…" Daniel crossed his arms and stood his ground. "And I'm not leaving now!"
White rings suddenly appeared at his torso and intersected his body as he began to change. Dani's eyes went wide and gasped in shock when she realized that Daniel was half-ghost, just like her, and even his ghost form was the same as hers. His hair was now all white, his skin was more tanned, and his eyes were neon green like hers. He wore a one-piece jumpsuit with a white belt and his white collar was shorter than Dani's. The right half of his shirt was white and the left half was black, and the black took up most of the space, divided diagonally down the middle, and he wore a white left glove and a black right glove. His pants were black with streaks of white on the sides that go down to his white boots. He even had the same white DP ghost emblem on his chest, just like Dani's.
Daniel charged his fist with his ecto-energy as he growled and then fired a ghost beam at the she-hulk ghost, blasting her off the car and forced her to release Dani while she landed on the ground.
Dani glanced at Daniel, still looking shocked and confused. "How…" She began to ask him, but got cut short when the hulk ghost growled and leaped into the air. She punched the street as both of the cousins slid away from her blow as they got into defensive stances.
Daniel turned to his cousin. "You wanna ask questions, or do you wanna kick some butt?" He asked rhetorically.
They looked ahead and saw the she-hulk charging at them as she extended her claws and growled. Dani and Daniel both charged up both of their ecto balls and shouted loudly as they fired a combined ecto beam at the ghost, causing a large explosion of light. Smoke cleared away as Dani and Daniel stood there with their hands in front of them and the hulk had a large hole on her chest. Suddenly, the she-hulk ghost melted into green ectoplasm, much to the confusion of the Phantom cousins when they perked up in surprise and stared at the puddle.
"This day just keeps getting weirder and weirder." Dani muttered before she turned her attention to Daniel as she placed her hands on her hips. "And I have a lot of questions. When we get back, my parents are…" Daniel suddenly groaned as he held onto his face before he passed out and Dani caught him by her arms. "And...I guess we'll have to answer those questions tomorrow."
Unaware to her, Daniel peeked open his eye as he made a small smile like he was faking the exhaustion.
The next day at Casper High during lunch hours, Dani was discussing to Sam and Tina about meeting a young twelve year old boy named Daniel yesterday, who was apparently her cousin whom she has met nor ever heard of before. But that wasn't the part that concerned her, it was the fact that he was half-ghost just like her. Other than that, Dani also felt like she and Daniel had some kind of special connection with each other, but not just because they share ghost powers, but because they shared common interests like NASA and Dumpty Humpty.
"So I hid him in the guest bedroom in the OP Center, and he was gone before I left for school." Dani finished explaining with her cheek resting on her hand. She glanced at her friends when she finally noticed their glares. "Are you guys okay?"
"Girl, we rebuilt a miniature golf course from scratch yesterday. How do you think we are?" Tina asked bitterly and rhetorically as she leaned against the table. They weren't interested one bit about Dani's situation nor about this Daniel boy she kept on talking about, because they were still angry at her for abandoning them yesterday.
"Guys, I'm sorry."
Sam and Tina only looked away and crossed her arms, not accepting her apology. "Broken record."
"No, I am! I'm sorry! I was busy with a superpowered cousin I didn't even know I had!" Right on cue, Daniel suddenly phased through the table as he knocked Dani's lunch tray all over Sam and Tina, taking his cousin by surprise. Dani glanced around to make sure no one saw that while Daniel only smiled and waved his fingers at her.
"...and this must be him." Sam said bitterly as he and Tina glared at the ghost boy. They were both dripping food and were covered in their lunches from Daniel's surprise appearance.
"Can you excuse us for a second?" Dani told her friends and then gestured to Daniel to follow her before she stormed away. Daniel phased his head back through the table, changed into his human form before he walked out and joined his cousin, who had her arms crossed and didn't look impressed by his unexpected surprise appearance. "Look, you can't just come in here and use your powers like that." Dani placed her hands on her hips.
"Oh, come on!" Daniel complained before he smiled brightly. "It was funny! Maybe it'd be funnier if I messed up that girl." He turned his head and smirked mischievously at the cheerleader captain and school bully, Daph Baxter, who wiped some food off the back of Tina's head and tasted it.
"Bummer, today's apple juice day." She grumbled to Tina.
Now Dani looked impressed as she smiled and the cousins glanced back at each other. "Wow! You like NASA and you already hate Daph. Maybe we are related." She then became serious again as Daniel's smile dropped. "How about you tell me how you got those powers in the first place?"
Suddenly, both Dani's and Daniel's ghost senses went off as they gasped and glanced up in alert. The tiny green orb ghost phased into the cafeteria and flew cowards to the students. Everyone shouted in fear as the orb knock their foods and drinks all over them before they ran out of the cafeteria. Dani and Daniel yelped when they ducked their heads and the orb flew over them before it phased out of the school.
"Shall we?" Daniel asked his cousin.
"I-I still have questions…" Dani said reluctantly.
"Let's catch that thing. And after that, you'll learn everything." And with that, he ran off to transform.
After a moment of hesitation, Dani seemed to trust her cousin's promise that he would explain everything and answer all of her questions when she ran off to transform as well, leaving the cafeteria a complete wreck. The tables were flipped, food was splattered everywhere, and students were covered in different kinds of food.
Sam and Tina glanced at each other before they frowned while he crossed his arms and she placed her hands on her hips, both knowing what was coming for them next. "Three, two, one…" They said dully in unison and no sooner than they finished, the teacher and vice-principal of the school, Ms. Lancer, barged into the cafeteria and looked surprised by the mess.
"To Kill a Mockingbird, people! Who started this?!" Lancer demanded as she glared and placed her fists on her hips.
Daph smirked as she pointed at Sam and Tina and as usual, Lancer believed her, making them glower even more in annoyance. "We'll get the mop."
In the skies of Amity Park, the tiny orb ghost flew across town as Dani and Daniel both followed it in their ghost forms as they flew side by side with their spectral tails.
"Race ya!" Daniel called after Dani as he smirked.
Dani laughed as she smiled. "You are on!" She replied back before she gained some speed and flew in front of Daniel, who smiled more mischievously at her behind her back. They both swooped down the road and into the air as they continued to follow the orb ghost. Dani glanced back at Daniel as he flew behind her. "Huh?" She quickly picked up some more speed as she out flew her cousin while she skimmed across a building. She glanced over her shoulder again and saw that Daniel was nowhere in sight. "No sign of him, I am totally winning!"
"Are you?" Vladia said out of nowhere as Dani looked ahead and gasped when she saw her hovering in front of her with her arms crossed, smiling amusingly at the girl. "Are you really?"
Dani halted in front of her, surprised by her unexpected appearance. "What?! Vladia?!"
"Of course, foolish girl, who else?!"
Before Dani could even react, Vladia suddenly fired her ghost beams without warning, blasting her dead on and sent her plummeting down to the ground before she crashed. As she recovered from Vladia's surprise attack while she rubbed her arm, she gasped when her archenemy flew up to her and shouted with an energized fist, but Dani luckily jumped out of the way as she punched her first through the concrete instead. Vladia tried to punch Dani as she flipped over her, Dani flipped and leaped to the air while Vladia punched the street again and swing-kick and missed Dani completely. Finally, Vladia punched her archenemy by her stomach, sending her across the road and she rolled a little before she stood to her feet and glared at Vladia as they faced against each other several feet away.
"Are you at least gonna make some stupid crack about my mother, or a lame come-on about my father?" Dani mocked.
"No, dear girl, funny joke-around Vladia isn't here today." Vladia retorted before she raised her hand out and fired a ghost beam at Dani, who fired her own beams as they collided, but Dani was quickly losing from most of her energy she lost when Vladia punched her around.
She noticed that Daniel landed on the road behind her with his fists energized and she tried to plead for his help. "Help me! Do something!"
"Oh, I am." Daniel muttered to himself as he grinned mischievously while he raised his energized hands up.
Without warning, he fired his ghost beams straight onto Dani's back instead, making her shriek in agony when she got blasted by both beams from Daniel and Vladia before she collapsed onto the road. Daniel lowered his hands as they produced green mist before Dani changed back to her human form from weakness as she groaned in pain.
"I-I don't understand…" She looked up weakly and witnessed that Daniel descended and landed next to Vladia with his arms crossed while he and Vladia grinned cleverly at her. Dani suddenly realized that the ghost boy has been working for her archenemy the whole entire time.
"Did I do good, Mommy?" Daniel asked Vladia with a sweet child tone, yet his wicked grin remained on his face.
"You've done excellent, child, I could not wish for a better son." Vladia said to him, making him smile at her even more while Dani groaned as she drifted to unconsciousness. Vladia cackled evilly now that she has finally captured who she was after.
In the back of Casper High, Sam kicked open the door as he walked out with Tina as they both carried bags full of trash as they were forced to clean up the cafeteria by themselves, and they were even angrier at Dani for her blowing them off and left them the blame.
"As soon as I get rid of this trash, I'm gonna find Dani and give her a piece of my..." Sam growled behind his teeth, but then he and Tina both froze and gasped in shock.
They saw Daniel standing behind Vladia as she picked up an unconscious Dani bridal style before she flew into the air with Daniel following. Sam and Tina both realized that Dani's cousin was working for her archenemy, since they witnessed that Daniel wasn't fighting against Vladia and was following her lead instead. Now Sam looked more worried that his friend has been nabbed by her archenemy.
"Dani!" Sam said in concern.
"Oh man, I should've know that boy was bad news when he dumped all that food on us!" Tina exclaimed like her suspicions were proven correct as she dropped her trash bag to the ground and glared to the sky where the half-ghosts flew off.
"Uh...Dani did that, too."
"Yeah, but she's our friend, we have history."
"Manson, Foley, can you tell me why you're not still in the cafeteria?" Lancer demanded as she walked outside and frowned at her students.
"We have to help her!" Tina whispered to Sam.
"Why aren't we in the cafeteria?" Sam asked innocently before he thought to himself. "Um...because we're meeting Dani and totally ditching school."
"And there's nothing you can do about it...old lady?"
"OLD LADY?!" Lancer exclaimed angrily before Sam and Tina ran away and she tried to chase after them. "You two are in a world of trouble!" She paused when her waist suddenly cracked. "OW! My hip!"
At the cold, bleak Colorado Rockies inside Vladia's log cabin, Dani began to come back to her senses as she found Vladia floating in front of her. She shot awake and gasped when she also found herself in a lab and she was trapped in a Spectral Energy Neutralizer box while it disrupted her powers and prevented her from escaping. She then saw a TV screen near her and saw many footages of herself going ghost in each video clip and even a footage of Vincent wearing his original hunting suit as he fired his bazooka.
"You were the one who gave Vincent the ghost weapons and you've been using them to spy on me?! Okay, I've said it before and I'll say it again...you really are one seriously crazed-up fruitloop." Dani said as she glared at her archenemy.
"A fruitloop would not have been able to make her first millions with a series of invisible burglaries!" Vladia snapped as she showed her an article about mysterious invisible break-ins Vladia committed. "A fruitloop would not have thought to overshadow enough millionaires to become one of the richest women in the planet!" She showed an image of herself overshadowing a man as he sold Microsoft to Vladia and it became Mastersoft. "I. AM. NOT. A. FRUIT. LOOP! And I am not a villainess…" Unknown to either of them, Danny phased invisibly into the lab and eavesdropped on Vladia and Dani's conversation. "All I wanted...was love."
Vladia pressed a button and a containment chamber opened. The smoke cleared when Dani gaped in shock with wide eyes that it was a clone that looked exactly like her, sleeping peacefully.
"It's taken months, and the good clone still needs more time before it can accept your DNA." Vladia told her archenemy. Daniel stared at this 'good clone' in shock, but he remained silent and invisible.
"So those ghosts…" Dani asked, referring to the ghosts that have been attacking her since the golf course (the bed sheet ghost, the she-hulk ghost, and the tiny orb ghost), as the tiny green orb circled around her head once and flew next to Vladia.
"Bad clones, mistakes." The orb ghost expanded into a green blobby and dissolving ectoplasmic version of Dani in her ghost form before she growled before her eye fell out as it dissolved into ectoplasm on the floor. "And I would watch a hundred more failures devolve into ectoplasm to get the perfect half-ghost daughter."
"Oh yeah…" Dani rolled her eyes sarcastically with a chuckle before she glared at the ghost woman again. "Absolutely nothing loopy about that."
Vladia smiled at her amusingly as she placed her hand under her chin. "Are you under the impression you're getting out of this? I need a DNA sample of your mid-morph to complete my work."
Vladia snapped her fingers as the Dani clone formed into an orb again and it phased into Dani's head, making her gasp. Daniel witnessed this when he made a look of concern as the clone began to take control of her while she tried to fight it. "Get...out of me!" Dani shrieked before she slammed her head and her eyes glowed solid green as the clone took full control over her.
"And then you will be obsolete."
Back at Amity Park in Fenton Works, Jackie Fenton was working on a metallic box with a blowtorch and had a mask over her face until her phone suddenly rang. She removed her mask, but looked a little trouble since the torch kinds made her ears ring from the noises, so she couldn't hear really well.
"Honey, could you get that?!" Jackie shouted from her ringing ears.
Sam and Tina peeked their heads through the corner as Sam shushed at Tina to be quiet. Matt sighed as he walked into the living room. "I swear I wonder where Dani gets the ability to push things on her friends." He said before he answered the phone and held it to his ear. "Hello? Ms. Lancer?" Sam and Tina tiptoed quietly behind the Fenton couple as Matt gasped in shock. "They what?!"
Sam and Tina quickly ran down into the lab as Tina ran into the Specter Speeder. "Man, Lancer seems mad." She complemented.
"Well, maybe you shouldn't have called her 'old lady'." Sam said with a frown and picked up the Specter Deflector and the Booo-merang from the counter.
"The Booo-merang?"
"It's still keyed into Dani's ectoplasmic signature, remember?"
Jackie and Matt rushed to the entrance of the lab when they realized that their daughter's friends suck into their house. "Sam, Tina, get out of that thing!" Jackie demanded.
"What?! I can't hear you the roar of the rockets!" Sam slammed the hatch door shut before he glared at Tina as he whispered behind his teeth. "Could you activate the roar of the rocket's please?!"
Tina immediately thrusted the hover vehicle forward as the bookshelves slid open and reveal a runaway tunnel for the Specter Speeder. It flew straight into the tunnel as Jackie and Matt ran to the tunnel and glared angrily inside. "You kids are in a world of trouble!"
Outside in the backyard, the family pool sprang open as the speeder flew out of the ground and made its way to the air. Tina halted the vehicle and opened the windshield as Sam stood up and held up the Booo-merang. "Okay, find Dani!" He threw the device to the air while it began tracking their friend's signature before Sam sat back down and pointed ahead with determination. "Tina, follow that stupidly named tracking device!"
Tina smiled as she switched the speeder to full throttle and the vehicle flew out of Amity Park as they made their way across the state to find their friend who has been taken hostage by Vladia and Daniel.
Back at Colorado, Vladia has chained Dani into a containment chamber that was designed to force her to transform against her will so she could gather her mid-morph DNA to create a perfect clone. A hologram Matt Fenton switched on the chamber and dialed it to three and the machine began to shock Dani as she shrieked in agony and was about to transform, but even when she was being controlled by a clone, she was determined to not give Vladia what she wanted when she tried to keep her transformation at bay.
"Well?" Vladia asked the hologram.
"Subject is still resisting morph, dear heart." The Matt hologram said before turning the dial to six, making the chamber shock her even more as she strained with even more effort. In fact, her resistance was so strong, the chamber began to beep in alarm when it began to overload from her indomitable will. "Containment chamber beginning to overload." The console next to short-circuited before it broke apart. "Oops, has overloaded."
Dani grunted and shouted loudly as the chamber then exploded and Vladia protected herself in her pink ghost shield. She dropped her shield and cocked an eyebrow when she saw white rings appear in the smoke. Dani emerged from the smoke in her ghost form as she phased through Vladia's body and weakly attempted to escape.
"ARGH! I WILL-" She began to shout in anger, until she suddenly discovered Daniel floating behind her in his ghost form, making her surprised by his sudden appearance and smiled nervously at her son's unexpected presence. "Daniel...how-how long have you been floating there?"
"Am I an imperfection? A mistake?" Daniel asked his mother when he was in a brink of tears, looking hurt from what he overheard her say about the 'good clone' from her conversation with Dani earlier. Apparently, like that other ghosts that have been attacking Dani, the ones Vladia confirmed that they were bad clones of Dani herself, Daniel was also a clone of Dani, but only gender-swapped and about two years younger biologically, and pretty much the only one with a human half.
That made Vladia surprised when she stared at the boy. "What?" She then smiled and laughed as she hid her shock from her 'son'. "My dear child, I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about the other clones."
Vladia gestured her hand to the now useless containment chamber when the clone who possessed Dani flew out of the chamber and collapsed to the ground. As she tried to sit up weakly, her hands became ectoplasm and with a final scream, she melted into nothing but a puddle of ectoplasmic goop.
Daniel screamed at the horrible sight of what could happen to him. "I know, it's horrible, isn't it? That's why I need Danielle's DNA, to stabilize you...my greatest creation." Vladia said with fake honestly as she placed a comforting hand on his shoulder.
"Really? You will?" Daniel asked hopefully.
"Uh huh." Vladia then smiled deviously at the boy with another task for him. "But here's what I need you to do…"
Somewhere in the outskirts of Colorado elsewhere, Tina continued to follow the Booo-merang as it continued tracking Dani's ectoplasmic signature while they flew across the terrain below them.
"Where are we?" Sam asked.
"Somewhere near the Wyoming/Colorado border." Tina replied before she glanced down and smiled in amazement. "Hey look, there's a jackalope! And there's a mongoose!"
Sam placed his hand on her shoulder, catching her attention as he pointed ahead in alert. "TINA, DIVE!" They saw that they were about to collide with a passenger plane as they both shouted. The Booo-merang immediately over down when Tina thrusted the Specter Speeder downward as she dove from the sky as well before the plane flew right towards them. The speeder skimmed across a stream before Tina regained the vehicle's air and made her way back to the sky.
While Tina seemed to have enjoyed that, Sam was holding on for dear life when he clutched his hands to the chair with wide eyes. "Sweet! Can we take the same route back?"
Back at Vladia's cabin, Dani phased from the floor and landed in the main room as she began to look for a way out to escape from her archenemy.
"Now which way should I-" She began to ask herself until she suddenly got blasted by a green ghost beam from underneath her as Daniel growled and phased through the floor while he sent her flying into the air. She crashed onto the wall and collapsed to the floor with a grunt while Daniel landed a few feet away from her.
"You're not going anywhere!" He shouted before he fired another ghost beam at Dani, but she saw it coming when she shouted and quickly formed a ghost shield around her as she protected herself from his power. She dropped her shield and glanced back at the ghost boy. "Stop fighting! I know you're too weak to beat me." He began to form an ecto ball from his hands as he prepared to attack again.
"I'm not gonna fight you! Every time I fight a clone, they turn to goop!" Daniel glanced down and screamed when he saw a puddle of ectoplasm forming from his feet. After he reabsorbed his energy ball, the puddle reformed back into his feet before he looked up nervously as Dani walked up to him, now fully recovered. "But you're not mindless like those other clones. I don't want to hurt you."
"Then let my mother have your morph DNA, so she can save me!"
"She's not going to save you! She's using you! She thinks you're nothing but a mess she's not gonna clean up!"
That only made Daniel more angry as he gave her an angry unrelated scowl. "YOU'RE A LIAR!" He formed another ecto ball a thrusted his hands forward not Dani's stomach as he angrily fired an energy blast at her, sending her flying across the room as she shouted and crashed into a mirror as it demolished before Dani fell unconscious. Daniel walked over to Dani as his hands smoked from his attack and he glared down at his 'cousin'. "And I'm gonna prove it to you!" He then grabbed her and took her back to the lab.
A few minutes later, Dani groaned as she woke up and found herself back in the cloning lab in her human form, where she also saw the perfect clone of herself across from her. She also saw Vladia in her ghost form as she smiled evilly at her with her hands behind her back before Dani glanced down and saw Daniel, who was in his human form, standing by the console as he glanced up at her and gave her a brief glare.
"All secure, Mom." Daniel said as he smiled at Vladia while Dani remained silent and stared down at the young boy pitifully.
"I still don't know how I'm going to get her to morph." Vladia said, making her son's smile drop as she thought to herself for a second, until she smiled with a possible solution. "Unless...unless you could overshadow her for me, son. Force the transformation?"
Daniel's eyes went wide when he remembered what happened the last time a clone tried that. "But the last clone that tried that, melted. What if it's too much?"
Vladia held her hands up reassuringly. "Oh, it won't be."
Daniel glanced down doubtfully, fearing that the experience would cause him to melt like the other clones. "But what if…"
Vladia then got extremely irritated by the boy's hesitation and doubting as she snapped at him harshly while she glared at him beyond angrily. "YOU. EXIST. TO SERVE. ME! JUST. DO IT!" Dani gasped in shock when Vladia snapped at him like that.
Daniel was on the verge of tears until his hurt began to rapidly turn to anger and realization. Dani has been right about Vladia all along: she cared nothing for him and she only saw him an imperfect clone of Dani, and planned on getting rid of him once she got what she really kidnapped Dani for, a perfect daughter. What he actually overheard Vladia say about the bad clones earlier was all true, and she really did include Daniel as one of them and only cared about the 'good clone', and that she has been lying to him all this time that she would stabilize his DNA, but all she really wanted was to use Dani's morph DNA for the prime clone, not to help Daniel at all. He was just another one of Vladia's pawns.
Now Daniel was deeply angered by Vladia's deception when he glared angrily and resentfully at his former mother. "YOU ARE NOT THE BOSS OF ME!" He shouted out loud as he slammed the release button to set Dani free.
Vladia's eyes went wide from Daniel's action. "NO! NO!" She exclaimed in shock.
The cuffs restraining Dani undid themselves before she broke free through the glass as it shattered and landed on the ground. She got into a ready stance as she glared angrily at her archenemy, who backed away a few steps in surprise and slight fear.
Dani then turned her attention to Daniel when she smiled at him. "You're helping me now?" She asked.
Daniel smirked up at his cousin as he got into a stance as well. "You wanna ask questions...or do you wanna kick some butt?" He asked her rhetorically like the first day they meet and fought alongside each other.
Dani and Daniel both high-fived each other before Dani slammed her fist into her palm and smirked at Vladia before she began to transform, while Daniel snapped his fists over his head and beside his waist as he, too, began to change as well. Once they both transformed into the ghost forms with their eyes glowing green, they both ran up and fired a combined ghost beam, making the villainess ghost woman gasp in surprise before she got blasted across the lab and crashed into the chamber with the good clone. She collapsed onto the ground in weakness before the prime clone chamber fell right on top of her.
"Nice!" Dani chuckled to Daniel, looking mildly impressed as she crossed her arms while he had his fists on his waist.
"You're not so bad yourself, cuz." Daniel said as he smiled up at her.
Both of their smiles dropped when they turned their attentions back to Vladia, who grunted with effort as she pulled the clone chamber off of her and rubbed her head. She looked down at the unit and gasped when she saw that the prime clone was beginning to melt into ectoplasm from the collision.
"Prime clone, destabilized, lamp chop." The hologram Matt said as the ghost billionairess watched in horror while the clone began to degenerate into nothing. "Degeneration happening, sweetness." The clone gave Vladia one last pleading look before she completely dissolved into nothing but smoke. All those past months Vladia has been studying Dani for a perfect clone of her was all for nothing and her dream of having a perfect half-ghost daughter all for herself was a complete failure.
"No! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Vladia exclaimed into the heavens at the lost of her 'perfect half-ghost daughter'. Dani and Daniel only just stood there, blinking in confusion as they both remained silent and stared at the evil half-ghost woman.
Vladia then growled murderously as she directed her angry, vengeful eyes at Daniel, the young half-ghost boy she created by accident who turned on her to help her Dani instead and that he destroyed her 'prime clone' and ruined all her plans in making a 'perfect' family. Vladia rose to her feet and swiped her cape before she stormed to the boy with an intent to kill and destroy him with no qualms or hesitation, not seeing him as a real mindful child with his own personality, only an imperfect clone that disobeyed her orders.
Daniel looked surprised by this at first, and then he narrowed his eyes with confidence and determination as he prepared to fight against Vladia himself. "I've got this." He said as he charged up his hands with his ecto-energy.
Then Dani stopped him as she stood in front of him protectively, making him drop his energy. "You don't have to. Cover your ears and get behind me." She said as she walked in front of her cousin.
Once Daniel did as he was told, Dani took a deep breath and unleashed her ghostly wail straight at Vladia as she shouted with a ghostly moan/howl in it. She shouted when she got hit by her archenemy's sonic howling and flew backwards a little, and even her entire lab broke apart from the waves. Vladia tried to fight against the wail, but shouted as she flew straight across the lab and got pinned to the wall as Dani continued using her power.
"Systems damaged. Going critical. Losing coherence." The hologram Matt said over the wail. "And I never loved you, I love the Jackie program."
"Vladia!" A hologram version of Jackie said happily before the holograms both kissed on the lips, much to both Vladia's complete dismay and confusion.
Dani continued using her ghostly wail on Vladia as she cringed from her most powerful ability and changed into her human form. Finally, Dani halted her power and she looked very worn out as Vladia and all of her lab appliances collapsed to the floor. Dani has also destroyed the entire cloning lab to make sure Vladia would never attempt to create another clone again. Dani changed back into her human form from her energy loss and collapsed to her legs.
Daniel looked over her and then checked to make sure she was okay. "Are you okay, Dani?" He asked in concern.
"Out of power, but worth it to take this place down." She moaned before she hung her head down from exhaustion.
Daniel gasped when he looked up and saw that Vladia stood up to her feet and changed back to her ghost form as she stormed up to both the Phantom cousins, ready to kill them both. Daniel got over his fear of her when he stood between his former mother and his cousin protectively. "Get away from her, fruitloop!" He exclaimed as he charged his hands with his ecto-energy.
"I don't think so, boy. You don't dare use your powers again." Vladia said as she smiled and Daniel glanced down as a puddle of ectoplasm formed from his feet. He suddenly remembered that his unstable clone DNA couldn't handle him using his powers at once and he would begin melt. "And she's beaten. This is OVER!" Before she could even do anything, the Booo-merang suddenly flew into the lab as it smacked Vladia on the back of her neck, making her yelp. Dani and Daniel stared at the device as it fell to the ground, until Vladia picked it up and examined the boomerang device in confusion. "Oh, what stupidity is this?"
The entire lab suddenly began to tremble, making Vladia cock an eyebrow as she looked up and saw the Specter Speeder crashing into the lab. While Daniel managed to shove Dani out of the way with him, Vladia wasn't as luck when the speeder crashed into her and it moved out as Vladia collapsed to the ground from the collision. The windshield opened up when Tina jumped out of the speeder and buckled the Specter Deflector around Vladia's waist, forcing her into her human form and depowered her.
"Man, am I glad to see you!" Dani said happily to her friends.
"Of course you are, we're here to help you." Sam said sarcastically as he rolled his eyes and then noticed Daniel smiling in gratitude as well. "And apparently, so is your cousin."
The four of them then turned their attentions back to Vladia when she slowly began to wake up. "I...can't...focus my powers." She groaned in pain.
Daniel then walked to her and towered over her as he glared at her resentfully. "Which means I don't need my powers to do this." He said before he raised his fist up high, preparing for the final blow. "So, Mom…" He then punched her straight in the face hard, knocking her out cold when she fell unconscious to the ground. "Stay away from my cousin."
"Do you have any idea how much trouble we're in right now?!" Tina exclaimed. "And for what?! Not even so much as a-"
"THANK YOU!" Dani interrupted happily when she gave Tina a big hug and then hugged both her and Sam and headlocked them. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, you guys! I'll never take you for granted again! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
"Okay, girl, easy!"
"Yeah, apology accepted already." Sam said after Dani released them and Tina rubbed her neck from her friend's unusual strength.
"And I wouldn't have gotten out of this without you, Daniel." Dani said as she glanced at where her cousin was, but she realized that he was already gone. "Daniel? Where'd he go?"
"YOU ARE IN SO MUCH TROUBLE!" Jackie and Matt exclaimed angrily in unison at their daughter and her friends, who were sitting on the couch in the living room, after they have arrived back to Fenton Works, and were being scowled at by Dani's parents and Ms. Lancer, who was also present.
"Skipping school, stealing and wrecking the Specter Speeder…" Jackie listed off as she glared disappointedly at the trio.
"Calling me old lady." Lancer added as she glared at them coldly.
"Tina, Sam, when I call your parents, you are gonna be grounded…" Matt began sternly, until his eyes suddenly flashed green when he calmed down. "But there's no need to call their parents really, right?"
"WHAT?!" Lancer, Jackie, Tina, Sam, and even Dani all exclaimed in unison, completely taken aback by this.
"Now just wait a minute!" Lancer began sternly before her eyes glowed green and she calmed down as well. "No, he's right. I mean, you could always build a better and more cool version of your...ship thing, right?"
Jackie then wore her usual goofy smile at this suggestion from the teacher. "Hey, that's true! I'm gonna start building a cooler ship thing right now!" She said before she immediately ran down to her lab while Matt and Lancer glanced at each other in confusion.
Dani, Sam, and Tina all exchanged confused looks as well before they made their way to Dani's bedroom where Sam picked up a basketball, Tina was laying on the bed, and Dani was leaning against her window.
"I didn't know you could overshadow people from a distance, thanks." Sam said to Dani as he sat on the end of the bed, thinking that she was the one who got them all out of serious trouble.
"I...can't though, i-i-it wasn't me." Dani stuttered, looking as surprised as they were.
"And the best part is, I didn't have to waste any energy on your mom." Daniel said, catching Dani's attention when she looked out the window and saw him floating outside in his ghost form with his arms crossed. Apparently, he was the one who got his cousin and her friends out of trouble by overshadowing the adults, as a repayment for Dani saving his life earlier. "It's Danny...with a 'y'. And don't worry...you'll see me again soon." And with that, Danny flew away from the window before the trio looked at each other.
When Sam and Tina left Fenton Works to head home for the night after rescuing their friend from her archenemy, Dani ran out of her house and chased after them. "Tina! Sam! Wait up!" She called as she caught up to them, making them halt their tracks. "Did I say thank you?"
"Only about a million times." Sam clarified.
"Well, did I say I appreciate-"
"We're your best friends, girl, i-it's not necessary." Tina said reassuringly with her hands up.
"Well, seriously, guys. Thank you for-"
"ENOUGH!" Sam and Tina both shouted in annoyance, making Dani cringe from their outburst, but then she giggled at their irritation a little.
Up above the sky, Danny laughed in joy as he flew out of Amity Park, ready to enjoy his newfound freedom and was now finally free to do his own brand of good to the world after saying goodbye to his cousin, after thanking her for saving his life. He also promised to Dani herself that this wouldn't be the last time they would see each other again, and that he would return back to Amity Park to see and visit his cousin once again in a later time.
