Season 2 Episode 18
Double Cross My Heart
"Double the ROMANCE! Double the TERROR!"
On a quiet, calm night of Amity Park, a harmless tiny ghost cackled as it flew around the night air of Amity Park. A random woman walked out of her house for her night stroll around town, until suddenly Skulka, the Ghost Zone's 'greatest huntress', phased through the road in front of the woman (now back in hwe original suit and normal size from her last encounter with her 'primary target'), catching her by surprise when she froze in her place and gasped. Skulka looked through her binoculars and saw the small cackling ghost flying away into the air.
"Well, it's a minor prize, but any prize is good prey." Skulka said with a grin before she jetted away to chase the ghost, but briefly returned to the paralyzed woman for some humor. "Boo." The woman ran away in fear as she screamed. Skulka then flew after the tiny ghost as she flew above town and caught the ghost with a green rope. As the ghost struggled, Skulka smiled at her capture.
"The element of surprise, the hunter's best friend." She said with a grin before she suddenly got blasted by a couple of missiles when they knocked her back a few feet, and forced her to release the ghost. "And the huntage's worst enemy!"
She saw a white advanced jet plane rocketing right towards her: it was none other than the Gals in White. About several months ago, they have been to Amity Park after a mysterious benefactor (who was really Vladia Masters) hired them to capture the ghost girl, Dani Phantom, for some reward they never earned. After Amity Park became known as the most haunted town in the country, the Gals in White have officially moved in to deal with this ghost threat, but mainly to eliminate a certain ghost kid they considered a challenge.
"Decoy ghost liberated, what about the unfriendly?" Agent O asked her partner.
"Any prey is good prey. Unleashing White Lightning Side Winders." Agent K said as she flew the jet.
Skulka glared determinedly when she flew straight towards them and fired a couple of missiles of her own at the jet, but they managed to evade both of her rockets by leaning and flipping the vehicle in the air. They fired more rockets at Skulka, making her scream before she braced herself until they blasted her backwards and destroyed her jetpack. Agent K smiled when she saw that the ghost was now vulnerable when she halted the jet in the air and hovered above Skulka. She fired some tractor beam and began to pull Skulka into the jet against her will.
"What?" Skulka exclaimed as she struggled to break free from the beam, but was clearly stuck. "I can't break free!" Knowing that she had no other choice, she pressed on her wrist as she beeped. "Auto-reject in three, two, one." The real Skulka (the tiny green blob) catapulted out of her suit as it was pulled into the jet before it took off once it acquired what the Gals in White were looking for.
"Target ghost obtained." Agent K as her partner inspected the ghost suit of Skulka.
"True, but her suit is hardwired." Agent O said before she turned on a screen as it was static at first. "If we can access its database…"
"It may help lead us to our primary objective…the brat known as Dani Phantom." The screen finally cleared as it showed an image of Dani Phantom, grinning courageously.
Despite the fact that Dani has saved Amity Park countless times and the citizens finally recognized her as their heroine, the Gals in White still believed that she wasn't anything more but a menace to humanity, and the fact that they wished to destroy any ghost they find. However, they found that the ghost girl was a completely different story, since she looked more stronger and a lot more powerful and clever than any other ghost that have invaded Amity Park.
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 in Amity Park at the Nasty Burger, Dani Fenton and her best friends, Sam Manson and Tina Foley, decided to have some lunch at their favorite prime hangout. Of course, Dani was more into staring lovingly at her old crush, Vincent Gray. They were once on a mutual relationship and began dating once, but Dani had decided it was best for both of them if they remained friends (hurting them both). But despite that, it didn't stop them from harboring feelings for each other.
"Dani, if you're going to drool, would you mind not doing it over my tofu soy-melt?" Sam asked sarcastically to his love-staring friend.
Dani only sighed heavenly at Vincent while he worked on the cash register for some extra money for college, because of his mother's wealth crash several months ago. He once worked as the restaurant's ridiculous mascot, but finally managed to find an opening as a cashier instead.
"Drool on a tofu soy-melt isn't drool, it's seasoning." Tina said as she held onto her hamburger, but Sam only frowned in annoyance as he scooted his tray away from Dani. As Vincent gathered his things to leave for his shift, Tina then frowned at her friend. "Seriously, Dani, you need to let go. It was over between you and Vincent before it really began. You said so yourself to him before, remember?"
Before Vincent could walk out the door, he noticed that Dani was staring at him when he cocked an eyebrow. She smiled and waved at him, making him smile back before he left the restaurant.
Dani's smile then dropped as she looked down at the table. "Yeah, I know, but it's not easy. I mean, do you guys realize what it's like to like someone you can't be with?" She asked her friends.
Sam spewed his grape soda he was drinking and he cringed while he wiped his lips when Dani asked this question. Tina cocked her eyebrows amusingly at her gothic friend. "Do ya, Sam? Huh, do ya?" Sam only threw his drink at her face to shut her up.
Sam crossed his arms and gave her his signature goth stare. "All I know is you'll never catch me going googly-eyed over some…" Sam began to tell off, but faltered when he saw a girl standing at the entrance to the Nasty Burger that caught his eyes. "Oh my…"
He stared at a teenage girl with short spiky, white hair gelled and combed to the back of her head, sunglasses over her dirty green eyes, lightly fair skin, and red lipstick, a black neck choker, and golden hoop earrings. She wore a black long-sleeve shirt with a white open sleeveless vest/jacket, revealed her midriff, white ankle-length skinny pants with a belt that had a golden buckle, and black capris flats for shoes.
The Casper High teacher and vice-principal, Ms. Lancer, walked into the restaurant and next to the new girl until she smiled brightly when she found the trio. "Ah, there you children are!" She said as she approached up to them while the new girl followed her like she was introducing to them. "This is Gabri, an exchange student visiting us from...Hungary?"
Tina must have mistaken 'Hungary' for 'hungry' since she offered the new girl, Gabri, her half-eaten burger, which she gently refused away. "No thank you, I have already eaten." Gabri said in a calm and polite Hungarian accent. Sam snickered a little at the little joke while Dani only sighed in annoyance as she rolled her eyes and took a sip out of her soda. "Yes, but there's so many opening lines you can use when you're actually from Hungary."
"Great, you're getting along and I don't get paid for overtime. You kids have fun! Bye!" Lancer said happily as she walked away to leave the new girl to hang out with the trio.
"So, d-did you actually eat?" Sam wondered as he smiled at her.
"Yes, but not here. I doubt there is anything I would like to eat here. I don't eat anything with a face on it, because I'm ultra-recyclo vegetarian." Gabri said as Sam was about to take a bite out of his tofu soy-melt sandwich.
He paused and smiled brightly when she said that. "Ultra-recyclo vegetarian?" Dani glanced between her friend and the new girl until she narrowed her eyes, not really liking the friendly interaction between Gabri and Sam.
Gabri took Sam's hand and whiffed it, making her briefly go wide-eyed but smiled. "Tofu soy-melt. Excellent choice, Mister…"
"Manson, Sam Manson! It's short for Samuel, but my friends call me Sam! You can call me Sam, too! Why am I still talking? I am such a spaz."
Gabri did a hand movement as she scoffed. "Pssh! I find it charming."
Gabri sat next to Tina, making her cringe a little. Gabri and Sam both stared at each other lovingly as Sam began to fall in love with this new girl. Dani frowned even more in annoyance when she was about to take another angry sip of her soda, when her ghost sense suddenly went off as she gasped, alerting her.
"Well, I'd love to stay and chat, but, uh, we gotta go...Sam!" Dani said as she stood from her table and ran off with Tina following her.
The same cackling ghost from the other night phased into the fast food restaurant, making all the customers and employees scream in terror as they ran out of the building. Sam and Gabri got caught by surprise when they noticed that everyone was running away until they saw the ghost floating above them.
"Ghost?" Gabri asked in confusion.
"Welcome to Amity Park." Sam said nervously as he shrugged a little.
Dani and Tina both ran up to the girl's bathroom, but they realized that they needed ten cents to get in. "Dime, please?" Dani asked as her held her palm up. Tina flicked her a dime when she caught it and smiled. "Thanks!" She slipped the coin in the slot and quickly made her way into the bathroom and closed the door.
Dani changed into her ghost form and phased out of the bathroom as she flew over Sam and Gabri while the new girl stared at the ghost girl with some interest. "Now there is a ghost who knows hair." She said when she compared Dani Phantom's hair with her own.
Everyone hid underneath their tables while the cackling ghost phased through the ceiling as Dani followed its example and ended up floating above the Nasty Burger. However she looked around and noticed that the ghost was gone without a trace.
"Where'd you go?" She asked herself, until a blast suddenly skimmed over her hair. She looked ahead and saw the Gals in White charging towards her on their hover vehicles. "The Gals in White?"
"You need our help?!" Tina called to her friend from below.
"Nah, I can handle these losers." They both fired beams from their vehicles as Dani quickly manipulated her body to avoid their attack. She then began to run across the roof as she evaded more lasers until she somersaulted and flew back into the air. "Loser you got better." Dani fired a couple of ghost beams at the agents, but they brought up their force fields and deflected her attacks.
"Commence attack protocol Z, in accordance to standard rules of engagement. Section two, paragraph one." Agent O said to her partner.
"Second edition abridged?" Agent K replied back.
"Second edition abridged."
They both pulled out their pens as they formed into guns when they clicked them on. Dani quickly formed a ghost shield around herself to brace herself. But the beams of the pens managed to penetrate her shield when they shocked her painfully as she yelped.
"A lot better." Dani corrected herself again as her body smoked from their blows.
The Ga;s in White both circled around the sky as they made their way back towards the ghost girl while they unleashed all of their weapons and every gun they had in their vehicle. They fired multiple beams straight at Dani, who formed her midsection into a ring to allow the beams through her, created a mirror shield to deflect them, and finally turned intangible as they passed harmlessly through her.
"But I got better, too!" Dani said as she formed a ball of energy in her hands.
She then threw it at the agents before it exploded in a bright flash of light. Both of the agents got flash-blinded when they shouted and shielded themselves from the light until they fell off the hover vehicle and splashed into someone's pool while their hover vehicles crashed somewhere.
Dani then made a hasty retreat when she flew to where Gabri was walking down the neighborhood with her best friends. "Now to rescue Sam and Tina from the clutches of a smarmy exchange student." She said to herself as she hovered behind them and overheard their conversation.
"Nice PDA, where'd you get the enhanced graphics?" Tina asked as she watched the new Hungarian girl mess around with her more advanced PDA.
"I can...how do you Americans say it? 'Beam you' the upgrade software, Europe is always six months ahead of technology curf." Gabri explained before she pulled Tina's beanie over her eyes. "And we wear our beanies just so. It's very goth."
"You're a goth? But you're in white." Sam pointed out to her.
"In Hungary, white is the new black." Sam snickered again as they walked the rest of the way down the street.
Dani stayed behind as she frowned at the interaction happening between Sam and Gabri, and she just felt skeptical about this new girl.
Later on at a motel at the edge of town, Agent K cracked a safe and opened it up to get herself a mere chocolate bar. She then walked to her partner as she continued to collect information from Skulka's suit after they transformed their entire room into some kind of research lab.
"Agent analysis status?" Agent K asked her partner.
"Still unable to access data bank, but the news it tightening." Agent O said as she pulled up a map of Amity Park.
"We've traced the Phantom from the town of large to something called 'Nasty Burger', apparently the prime hangout for Casper High."
The next day at Casper High, Tina kept on bumping into students with her beanie covering her face, but mostly her eyes since she couldn't see where she was going. "Oh sorry, my bad." Tina said as she ran into another student before she bumped into Dani when she approached her. "Excuse me."
"Will you wear your hat properly?" Dani asked in exasperation.
"What? Gabri thinks it's cool."
Dani rolled her eyes sarcastically at the mention of her name. "Who cares about Gabri?"
"Guys!" Sam called to his friends as he approached them with his books in his hands.
"Give ya three guesses." Tina said as she wrapped her arm around Dani's neck.
"I've been looking for you."
"Where? In Gabri's locker?" Dani asked him sarcastically with her hands on her hips.
Sam frowned offendedly, not really liking his friend's sudden sarcasm. "Whoa! Thank you, Jill Hostility."
"Look, I'm sorry, Sam, I'm just saying that Gabri-"
"That Gabri what?" Gabri asked from behind her, making Dani jump a little at her sudden appearance.
Dani smiled nervously as she giggled a little. "Uh...hi, Gabri."
"By the way, nice shirt."
Dani glanced down at her shirt. "Uh, not too much red messing up the whole white thing for you?"
"It totally works for you, I could never pull off such a look myself."
Dani managed a small smile. "Really? Thanks."
Gabri did the same hand movement gesture she made before as she scoffed. "Pssh! Sam, would you care to show me around school?"
"I thought you'd never ask." He said as he linked his arm with hers before they walked down the hallway together.
"You know, she's not a bad girl once you get to know her." Tina admitted.
Dani made another skeptical look as she looked down at where Sam and Gabri walked off to, still not feeling right. "I still don't trust her." She said, mostly to herself.
Tina then decided to adjust her beanie back on her head as she made an amusing face. "Oh-oh-oh, now I see what's happening here." She pointed an amusing finger at Dani's chest, making her cock an eyebrow. "You're jealous, aren't ya?"
Dani's eyes went wide in shock. "What?! No, I'm not jealous!" She glared back at where she saw her best friend and the new girl walked off until her ghost sense went off as she gasped and glanced down at the hallway. An ectopus ghost phased through the floor, making the students scream in fear as they ran for their lives. The ghost flew down the hallway as Dani ran off. "We're on this later!"
She ran into the girl's restroom and changed into her ghost form before she phased out and flew after the ectopus ghost across the hallway and through a wall. Dani phased her head into a classroom, only for the ghost to swing its arms as it swatted her in the face multiple times, disorienting her a little. The ectopus then phased into the school pool and dived in before Dani followed in as well. As a ghost, she could breathe perfectly fine underwater since ghosts didn't really need oxygen. Suddenly, the Gals in White appeared from deep in the pool in their scuba suits as they fired torpedos from their guns at the ghost girl, but she managed to dodge in time.
"Firing ghost depth charge, prepare for the Great White Whale." Agent O said through her communication mask.
"Wait, those are only for-" Agent K tried to warn, but too late when her partner pressed a button and unleashed a tiny explosive container to the bottom of the pool.
Above the water, Lancer walked into the swimming pool room with a book and a bread in her hands as she smiled. "Ah, the perfect way to spend lunch: Shakespeare by the pool and dry, white toast." She said to herself until the water in the pool exploded like a geyser as Dani rocketed upward from the force while she phased through the ceiling. Lancer frowned in annoyance that her dry toast was now soaking wet when she squeezed onto it, but then her eyes widened when she noticed the agents in her now empty pool. "Hunt for Red October!"
"...deep waters use." Agent K finished wearily.
Later that night, Dani and Tina met up with each other in an alleyway while Dani explained her suspicions about this Gabri girl and her connections with the Gals in White attacking her.
"Think about it, Gabri shows up, so do the Gals in White, she's got the whole white hair, white clothes thing...so do the Gals in White. And what's the phony accent and that 'pssh!' thing?" Dani said to Tina as she mimicked the hand gesture Gabri always did.
"So you're saying Gabri's a spy?" Tina clarified in confusion.
"And I'm saying that maybe I should an invisible eye on her and Sam."
Tina looked surprised by that suggestion as Dani walked ahead and peeked through the corner. "What?! I don't know, you're gonna spy on Sam?"
Dani saw Gabri and Sam walking close by as they held hands and approached the alleyway. "Hey, it's for his own good."
Dani turned herself invisible and flew away. "It's a bad idea!"
Gabri then walked up to her with Sam. "Shouting angrily into the sky." She said as she pulled Tina's beanie over her eyes again. "Very Euro-goth, I like it."
The new couple walked off again just before Dani readjusted Tina's beanie and flew after her friend. "It's still a bad idea!"
As the night went on, Gabri first took Sam to the pond where she skipped a rock across the water surface. She gestured to Sam for his turn and he snickered a little before he threw his rock across the surface water. Dani invisibly peeked her head out of the water just as Sam's rock phased through her face, making her frown in annoyance.
Then, Gabri and Sam went to the cinema movies and watched a romance movie together. Sam and Gabri smiled at each other as Sam wrapped his arm around Gabri's neck and hugged her close before she grabbed some popcorn. Dani phased into the screening room as her head accidentally casted a shadow on the screen, catching Sam's attention when he looked back, but she luckily flew out before he could even notice, but did leave him a little suspicious.
Finally, the two of them went to the Amity Park Mall at the food court with a platter of spaghetti between them for dinner as Dani invisibly levitated above them.
"Oh man, if they share a strand of that spaghetti, I'm gonna hurl." Dani muttered to herself as she scolded in disgust by the thought.
Elsewhere in the mall, the Ga;s in White were walking out of a store with shopping bags. "Why do they call it a 'white sale' when none of the clothes are white?" Agent O asked her partner, until their watches beeped in alert when they warned that a ghost was near their area.
They ran up to the edge of the second floor mall with goggles and they began scanning the entire mall in infrared vision. They looked up to the ceiling and saw Dani Phantom's figure floating above the mall, and even with infrared vision, she can still be seen while invisible since she still gives off heat.
"The box is in the hen house! Silencers on!" Agent O said before both of the agents activated their wrist guns and fired beams directly at Dani, who noticed too late when she got blasted out of the mall as she phased through the ceiling.
Sam and Gabri slurped on some spaghetti strands and, luckily for Dani, they didn't share a strand as they heard some noises when they looked up.
Back with the Gals in White, they pressed on their wrists before armor emerged and engulfed their bodies in some new suits. "Intangibility suits deployed." Agent O said.
"Operation Irving Mist is go!" Agent K announced before they turned intangible and jetted out of the mall to follow the ghost girl.
Outside the mall, Dani shrieked as she flew straight into the air and turned solid again. She regained her air and shook the dizziness out of her head. "Close, but you'll never catch me now." She said to herself hopefully.
"Guess again, princess." Agent K retorted, making her glower in annoyance as she and her partner hovered in the air and aimed their guns at her.
Dani was really getting tired and exasperated that these women were still trying to hunt her down, despite everything good she has done the past months. "What's the matter with you two?! I'm not doing anything bad! Why can't you just leave me alone?!"
"An unauthorized entity of scale seven ectoplasmic power?!" Agent O exclaimed like it was an offense to the law of the government.
"A prepubescent spectress operating freely?! Unacceptable!" Agent K added.
Dani looked a little offended. "Hey! I have totally hit puberty!" She protested as she dug into her collar to her arms and pulled out a white piece of hair. "See that?! That's totally an armpit hair!" She suddenly glanced back at it in disbelief. "I really need to remember to start shaving."
However, the Gals in White were unfazed by this when they fired their guns at her, blasting her dead on and sent her tumbling across the parking lot of the mall between grunts. She finally flopped onto her stomach, a little disoriented before she quickly hid behind a car and changed back into her human form. She crouched deeper when she watched the Gals in White fly by and out of sight.
"Could this week get any worse?" Dani asked herself as she stood to her feet before she heard snickering coming from a few feet away from her.
She saw Sam and Gabri walking out of the mall and under a light post. The Hungarian girl then grabbed Sam's hand when they both stopped into the spotlight. "Wait, Sam. There's something I need to tell you right here right now." She said to him.
"Oh-kay, what?" Sam asked bashfully as he smiled at her.
Gabri placed her hand on his cheek. "You have tiny strand of spaghetti hanging from your lip...right...here." She suddenly tiptoed up to his height and she kissed Sam on the lips as he muffled in surprise.
Dani gasped in complete disbelief and shock at the unexpected sight before her with wide eyes. Sam looked very surprised at first until his eyes got droopy before he pulled Gabri closer to him as they continued to kiss passionately. Dani didn't want to see anymore when she looked away while she suddenly felt like her heart was breaking in half for some reason.
"Okay, now it's officially worse. I'm beginning to think that spying is better left to soulless government drones." She said to herself before she changed back into her ghost form and, with a tear leaking from her eye, she flew away back home to leave her best friend with his new girlfriend.
Sam's eyes suddenly popped open when he perked up and pulled Gabri away softly. "Whoa! Easy there, sister! Don't you think we're rushing this a bit?" He asked her.
"Ah, yes, yes! I forget. The American boys like to...take it slow." Gabri said like she just realized her mix up.
"I just have...things to figure out."
"Of course, I respect this."
Gabri then held onto Sam's hand. At first, Sam stared down at their hands before he smiled at her warmly. But as they began to walk home for the night, Sam's smile dropped when he made a look of confusion and uncertainty at the same time about his relationship with Gabri. He wasn't sure if he should really go deeper with her or not, even though he really did like Gabri a lot, but he just felt a little...uncomfortable.
The next morning after Sam returned home from his date with Gabri, he was in his bedroom, shirtless, as he sat near his window on the ledge while he stared out to the neighborhood, thinking to himself as the sun began to dawn. Sam then walked from his window as he approached his dresser with some of his photos. They were pictures of himself with his two best friends when they were all little, smiling and having some fun, until Sam picked up one of himself and Dani when they were younger: the one where Sam hugged Dani as she smiled cheekily. Sam smiled warmly at the good old times he used to have with Dani when they first met.
He then got ready for school and played with his breakfast cereal in the kitchen, looking confused about his relationship with Gabri, still unsure if he really wanted to go steady with her.
Then, his grandfather, Ian, rode his scooter to him. "Hey, Samuel! Word on the street says that you got yourself a girlfriend!" He said to his grandson.
"Well, I-I, uh…" He stuttered nervously, but got interrupted.
"Here's the thing, Sam, I want to give you some awkward grandfatherly advice, then I'll say something that'll crush your individuality and make you run away in embarrassment!"
"Okay! Can you get to the point, please?"
"Oh, alright. If you really do like this girl, Samuel, you should let her know and give her something...like this." Ian placed a golden class ring with a pearl on top on the table.
Sam cocked an eyebrow in confusion. "A...class ring?"
"A girlfriend's not a girlfriend until you give her a class ring, Sam. It could also say that you could be the kind of woman I could bowl with...at least it did with me and your grandmother, I don't know how that would work for you honestly."
Sam chuckled a little as he picked up the ring. "I could give you a few reasons why. I can really give her this?"
"Only if she's special, I'm sure Dani will love it."
Sam eyes went wide in shock. "It's not for Dani!"
Ian looked surprised at first, but then laughed hysterically. "Of course it's not! You two are just best friends...could've fooled me. And they even had it engraved…" Sam looked more closely inside the ring and saw that it had Dani's name engraved in semi-cursive. "See, that was the embarrassing thing, and don't let your parents know about this. They'll just get in the way like they usually do. Now, if you'll excuse me, it's time for me to bowl. Puppies hot tonight!" And with that, Ian scootered away to leave his grandson alone.
Now Sam looked really confused about his relationship with Gabri as he stared at the ring.
Later that day at Casper High, Dani, Sam, and Tina were all having their lunch together outside. Dani was staring at Sam since she was still kind of recovering from her 'experience' she saw him to with Gabri the other night.
"So...how are things going with Gabri?" Dani asked Sam casually, not really smiling.
Sam took a bite of his salad. "She's fine, I guess. Needs a little translator for her accent, but she's cool." He said.
"That's great...I guess." Dani tapped her foot nervously, feeling like she should tell Sam she was spying on the two of them as casually as possible. Tina noticed how hesitant she was looking. "So...do anything fun with her?"
"I wouldn't do that." Tina warned.
"Why is that any of your business?" Sam asked, looking annoyed that her questions were all about Gabri. Dani came close to him as she narrowed her eyes at him, creeping him out a little. "What are you doing?"
"I don't know." Dani said as she sat back down across from him, next to Tina. "Just, uh, checking for pimples, dimples...spaghetti sauce." She narrowed her eyes at 'spaghetti sauce' as she stared at Sam.
"Spaghetti-" Sam looked confused while he processed her words, until he gasped when he realized what she was trying to tell him as he glared at her. "Were you spying on me?"
"I told you it was a bad idea to spy on him." Tina said to Dani.
"Nice." Dani said to her sarcastically as she frowned at her big mouthed friend.
Sam heard this as he rose to his feet and glared angrily at his friend. "You used your ghost powers to SPY ON ME?! YOU'VE REALLY CROSSED THE LINE!"
Dani rose to her feet as well as she went face to face with Sam angrily. "Look who's talking! You've been spying on me when I went out with Vincent before, remember?! How do you think I felt, happy?! Plus, I wasn't spying on you, I was spying on Gabri! She's so obviously working with the Gals in White!"
Sam laughed sarcastically as he crossed his arms and rolled his eyes. "Oh, oh, so that's it. The only way a girl could like me as if it was part of a plot to get you?! Huh, ego much?"
Gabri then appeared behind Sam. "Hey, Sam, would to like to-" She began to ask, but got cut off by him before she could even finish.
"Whatever it is, yes!" Sam angrily dragged Gabri with him as he stormed away from his table. Unaware to him, he left behind the class ring his grandfather gave him earlier that morning.
Dani glared at where Sam stormed off while Tina looked a little shaken from their little argument. "I think I can guess the answer, but how'd it go last night?" She asked Dani casually before her friend sat back down next to her.
"Well, I got hit in the face with a rock, Gabri kissed Sam, and the Gals in White attacked again! So, there's gotta be a connection between them and Gabri!" Dani said as she held her arms up.
Tina suddenly stopped her when Dani mentioned something that caught her attention. "Wait, hold up! Gabri kissed Sam?"
"Yeah, but apparently that's none of my business." Dani took a large, angry sip from her milk carton before she crushed it and threw it behind her. She then buried her face underneath her arms.
Tina then smiled and placed a hand on Dani's back. "Tell you what, since you get attacked every time you get close to Gabri, I'm gonna tag along with Gabri and Sam. I'll be your mole."
Dani smiled in appreciation as she looked up at her friend. "Really? T-to protect Sam?"
"That, and Gabri rocks! Plus, you're my best friend, so I gotta watch your back, too, right?" Tina pulled her beanie over her eyes like Gabri showed her before she walked off down to the street, but she couldn't even see that she was walking straight towards a manhole when she fell inside with a yelp, making Dani cringe.
She then glanced down at the table and noticed the class ring Sam must have left behind when he stormed away in anger. She cocked an eyebrow as she picked it up and examined the inside, but since she held it upside down, to her it said '!UED', but didn't realize it was actually her own name engraved.
"Who the heck is Iued?" She asked herself cluelessly in confusion.
"The purple back gorilla information we accessed traces back to an assignment you gave in your class." Dani heard Agent K say nearby. She ran and hid behind a tree where she saw her and Agent O talking with Ms. Lancer.
Apparently, the Gals in White managed to hack into Skulka's suit when they found a purple back gorilla schedule that was hidden inside her database. It was when Dani was doing her purple back gorilla extra credit assignment several months ago, way back before even the people thought she was public ghost enemy number one, when she was still a heroine in the shadows. They were also trying to find out who Dani Phantom really was, since they have led themselves to Casper High when they suspected that the ghost girl was actually a student in disguise. All Dani knew was that if the Gals in White learned who and what she really was, they would either try to kill her or dissect her in a lab (and she had a very big fear of dissection for many obvious reasons).
"And what makes you think I wanna cooperate with the Feds?" Lancer challenged the agents with a blank glare.
"Because ghosts are a constant threat to your student body." Agent K said.
"And because we're with the government, and have access to your tax records." Agent O added.
That changed Lancer's mind when she smiled nervously. "What do you wanna know and how fast do you wanna know?" She asked them.
Dani hid behind the tree again. "This is getting too close for comfort. I need to lay low for a while and let Tina do her thing." She said quietly to herself.
The next day at the Skulk 'N Lurk bookstore for goths, Gabri skimmed her finger on a couple of books on a shelf until she found one with 'Edward Gory' and slid it out and showed it to Sam.
"Edward Gory, excellent choice, even his name is Gory." Gabri said to Sam as they smiled at each other, until Tina suddenly cutted in between them, kind of ruining their moment.
"Hey, guys! Thanks for letting me tag along. I hope I'm not getting in your way too much." Tina said happily.
"Of course not."
"Yeah, of course not, you asked to tag along." Sam said as he smiled at his best friend, until he glared up at the ceiling. "Unlike some people I know who BETTER NOT BE HERE NOW!" Sam thought that Dani was still spying on him and Gabri invisibly while he glanced around for any Phantom activities.
"Shouting angrily into the sky, it reminds me of home." Gabri said as she wiped a tear with a tissue, which creeped out Tina a little when she tensed her shoulders a little and cringed.
Later on that day, they all went to the miniature golf course for some putt-putt, and it was Gabri's turn when she was about to swing on her golf ball.
"YOU'RE COOL, GABRI!" Tina shouted, loud enough to startle the Hungarian girl into hitting the golf ball too hard when it bounced off from the windmill fan and into Sam's mouth as he grunted.
Sam glared at Tina with his arms crossed, who cowered a little. "Classic American humor, yes?" Gabri asked while Sam remained silent skeptically at his new girlfriend.
Then, they all went to the Nasty Burger for dinner as Tina pigged out on her burger, making her mustard and ketchup fly everywhere near Sam and Gabri, both staring at the techno-geek in little disgust about her way of eating.
"And my fly was down the entire time." Tina said with her mouth full like she was just finishing up a story.
She accidentally spat some ketchup onto Sam's eye, making him yelp a little. "Ah! Tina!" He said in exasperation as he wiped his eye before he smiled nervously at Gabri, who was drinking her soda. "I'm so sorry for thi-"
Gabri suddenly belched loudly at Sam's face, disgusting him a little before she laughed hysterically at Tina's story while she pounded her palm on the table. "Her fly was down entire time!" She exclaimed hysterically before she laughed until she immediately stopped and made a look of confusion. "What is fly?"
Finally, they all went to Sam's house where they watched a romance movie in Sam's basement. However, Tina was playing on her PDA which irritated Sam and distracted Gabri from even watching the movie before the techno-geek noticed Sam's glowering face. "Oh, does this bother you?" Tina asked him.
"Pssh, of course not." Gabri scoffed with a smile.
Then, Tina's phone began to ring and she realized that Dani was calling her. "I gotta take this." She then walked away from Gabri and Sam to talk to her other best friend in private.
"So do I apparently." Sam said sarcastically with his arms crossed.
Tina answered her phone and held it up by her ear as she smiled. "Yo, girl, what's up?"
"Tina, anything to report?" Dani asked through her phone. She was currently in her room back at Fenton Works, waiting with anticipation for any news about Gabri.
"Well, I brought this great graphic novel at the Skulk 'N Lurk, I was two in a par at the putt-putt course...oh, and Sam has some kicking surround sound." Tina peeked back into the room as she heard the surround sounds blaring.
"I-I-I mean, anything about Gabri?"
"If Gabri's a spy, she's really cool to be a spy."
Then Gabri appeared to Tina. "Tina, my friend, movie's over. You up for bowling?" She offered politely.
"Gotta go!" And Tina hung up her phone.
Back at Fenton Works in Dani's room, she removed her phone from her ear while she sat miserably on her bed. "Oh great, now I'm losing both of my best friends." She mumbled to herself.
The next day at Casper High after gym class, Dani was in the girl's locker room to change out of her uniform. She was trying to find some words to talk to Gabri about her connection with the Gals in White and confirm her suspicions, but seemed to have a lot of trouble finding the right words.
"Gabri, I know you're not who you seem to be and...no." Dani said to herself as she placed her gym shoes into her locker, but groaned before she tried again. "Gabri, I know you're up to something and...oh!" Dani slapped her forehead in frustration. "Come on, Dani, find the words!"
She slammed her locker shut and suddenly saw Gabri leaning right beside her after she appeared out of nowhere. "Dani, I wish to talk to you if you are done talking to yourself." She said to her.
"Oh...I-uh-I on, uh...sure, Gabri." Dani laughed nervously as she sat down on a locker room bleacher and stared up at the Hungarian girl. "What's up?"
"I am not blind, you do not like me."
"Gabri, that's not-"
"Eh, let me finish. You do not like me, because you want to protect your friend, Sam, and...I respect this."
"It's not...just that…"
"You like him more than just friends?"
That made Dani reluctant about how to answer that question when she looked down with uncertainty. "Well…"
Gabri sat next to her. "You hesitate, which means you are unsure. I am not, and I'm going to ask him out." Dani tensed a little when she looked a little nervous. "I wish we can...how do you Americans say...uh, 'hangout'." She then hugged Dani. "I'm glad we had this talk." She gave her two kisses on the cheek, shocking her a little before Gabri walked away.
Dani frowned and rose to her feet. "I know who you are, I know what you're up to, and…" Dani faltered when she noticed that Gabri was already gone. "And...I picture this chat going differently."
After school as the final bell rang, the students all walked out of the building while Dani walked out alone. She glanced up and spotted Tina and Sam both walking with their new friend, Gabri. Sam turned around and glared at Dani briefly, before he made a sad expression as he looked away, and Tina did the same thing when she gave Dani the same look and looked away sadly. Gabri, on the other hand, smiled back at Dani as she waved at her before she walked off. Dani gave out a weak wave before she sadly walked back home alone.
At Fenton Works that night, both of Dani's parents, Matt and Jackie, were talking to a couple of people in their kitchen. "Our daughter...hanging out with Dani Phantom?! Well, that is preposterous." Matt said in disbelief.
"Dani, get over here!" Jackie called for her daughter.
Dani walked into the kitchen and gasped when she saw the Gals in White inside her house. "We've managed to trace this PDA to Tina Foley." Agent K said as she pulled out a familiar-looking PDA. She recognized that it was Tina's original PDA, the one her old foe, Skulka, stole from her for her suit since the very first day they met and their first encounter together, when she was doing some extra credit for biology several months ago. "We figure the ghost must be an associate of hers."
"Have you checked, uh...Daphne Baxter?" Dani wondered, trying to be as casual as possible.
"Affirmative, she's too much of a social prep to be the ghost kid. And you...you're too prepubescent." Agent O said as she examined Dani's body figure.
Dani glared at the agents offendedly. "Are you ladies that blind?!"
"And it's not that Manson boy...which leaves the Gabri kid we saw them hanging around with."
Agent K's eyes went wide like something just clicked in her mind. "Of course! How did we not see that? She's got white hair and so does the ghost girl! Come on!" She exclaimed before she and her partner drew out their ecto-guns and they ran out of the house.
"Hey! If you ever need a Gal in Orange, Jackie Fenton's your girl!" She called after them proudly while Matt remained silent as he smiled at his wife.
Dani began to think to herself like she just misunderstood something she has been thinking about the whole time. "Wait...Gabri can't be a spy for them if they're going after her with guns blazing..." She muttered to herself before her eyes went wide when she realized something else. "And Sam and Tina are right in the line of fire!"
At the Amity Park Observatory, Tina was looking through a pair of binoculars as she looked up at the starry night sky. Sam and Gabri stood a feet away while Sam looked more like he just wanted some time alone with Gabri instead of Tina always ruining their moments together.
"Cool, it's a new moon! You guys wanna take a look?" Tina asked as she turned to Sam and Gabri.
"Later, perhaps. I wish to have a word with Sam...in private." Gabri said as she took Sam's hand and walked him away several feet from Tina before she faced him. "I will not mince word, Sam. I like you and I would like to go steady."
Sam smiled brightly. "With me?" He asked his new girlfriend.
"With you...and not with your losing friend, Tina."
His smile dropped as he cocked an eyebrow. "It's loser."
"Then you agree!"
Tina then came up to them with a smile. "You guys really need to see-" She began, but got interrupted by Sam when they glanced at him.
"No, I don't agree. Tina may be annoying, but she's one of my best friends, she's part of the package." Sam said to Gabri as he frowned and crossed his arms.
"Uh, am I interrupting something? Gabri? Girl? Hello?" Tina waved her hand in front of Gabri's face while she glared underneath her sunglasses as her anger began to rise.
"Girl, do you ever stop talking?!" She snapped in a normal American accent as she glared at Tina, making her smile drop from her outburst and change of accent. "Do you even know how obnoxious you are?! With your stupid jokes?! And your lame old technology?! IDIOT!" Her eyes went wide when she realized her mistake as she glanced nervously at Sam. "Uh, I mean...pssh, it's nothing, ah…" But she made a look of defeat when she knew that she was busted and now Sam and Tina both knew the truth. "Oh, darn it."
Sam's eyes were wide when he realized that she wasn't Hungarian at all and that she has been lying to him ever since they first met each other at the Nasty Burger. "Wait a minute...you were faking it?! The accent and liking Tina, just to get on my good side?!" Sam asked in disbelief.
"Oh, come ON! You're a boy, hello! I mean...I really like you, but...come on!" Gabri gestured to Tina, making her glare at her offendedly. That only made the goth boy angrier when he crossed his arms and narrowed his eyes as he glared even harder. Gabri scratched her cheek like she knew what was coming next. "We're through, aren't we?"
"Oh, beyond!"
"Oh well." She then noticed a pair of jocks walking onto the balcony as they chatted inaudibly with each other. "Jocks! Better adjust my pitch." Gabri slipped on a leather jacket as she ran up to the jocks. "Hey, boys, you dig sports?"
"Can I slap her in the face for you?" Tina offered as she and Sam both glared at Gabri with their arms crossed.
They suddenly heard a rocket swooping right towards them when they yelped and ducked from the missile while Gabri and the jocks scattered out of the way as they shouted before the missile destroyed the edge of the balcony.
"Thanks, but I think that's covered." Sam said to Tina. They both gasped when they looked up and saw a white jet hovering over the observatory and realized that it was the Gals in White.
"Commence operation white noise while heats!" Agent O announced before they switched on their targeting system. They first aimed at Sam and Tina, then the jocks who were running towards the exit, and finally settled onto Gabri.
Sam turned to his ex-girlfriend. "Gabri, although I think you're the world's biggest brat, RUN!" He shouted after her.
"Huh?" Gabri looked up and noticed the jet as it fired beams directly at her, but she luckily jumped to her feet and avoided the attack. She shrieked to the top of her lungs as she ran across the balcony while she evaded more beams firing right at her.
Meanwhile, Dani flew around town in her ghost form while she tried to find her friends and Gabri so she could protect them, but she didn't even know where they were 'hanging out' as she stopped in mid air. "Now where-" She began to ask herself, until she suddenly heard beams being fired. She turned around and saw the Gals in Whites' jet attacking the observatory on the hill. "Oh no, I'm too late!" She immediately flew to where the agents were attacking.
The Gals in White continued to fire more beams at Gabri as she desperately tried to outrun them, but then she tripped over when a force from the last blast made her slide across the balcony. When she stopped underneath a giant Earth statue above the door, the jet fired two missiles as they destroyed and weakened the poles holding the globe statue in place.
"Gabri." Tina said when she witnessed this.
Gabri looked up when she saw the globe was about to fall right on top of her, but Tina rushed to her in the nick of time while she grabbed her and moved her out of the way before it crushed them both before they tumbled a little.
"Tina, you saved my life!" Gabri said to her in relief.
"Yeah, but I despise you now." She said as she adjusted her beanie before they both continued to run from the jet's beam attacks.
"We got the ghost girl on the run!" Agent K said with a smirk.
However, they heard someone tapping on their glass windshield when they turned their heads in confusion and saw the real Dani Phantom smirking at them with her hands on her hips.
"You ladies looking for me?" She retorted before she flew beneath the jet and phased the agents out of the jet as they shouted. The jet lost altitude when it crashed next to the observatory while Gabri, Sam, and Tina all watched.
"This town is too crazy for me, I'm going back to Michigan!" Gabri said, a little overwhelmed as she removed her sunglasses and ran away.
"Don't you mean Hungary, Gabri?!" Tina retorted after her while Sam remained silent.
"MY NAME IS ELIZA!" Eliza ran into the building in terror, never to be seen or heard from again.
"Girls, I'm only going to say this once, stay away from those kids!" Dani demanded the Gals in White as she held them by their collars.
"Or what?" Agent K retorted.
The answer came when she hurtled the agents in front of their HQ building as they shouted and landed on the ground while they got covered with mud. Dani dusted her hands and smiled with another great victory and flew away, leaving the agents in hot water with their angry commissioner.
"O! K! Is that a cleanliness breach? Are your suits completely black with filth?!" She thundered angrily to her agents.
"Uh...uh, did you know in Hungary that, uh, black is the new white?" Agent O asked with a nervous smile while her partner remained silent.
The next day outside Casper High after school, Dani met up with Sam and Tina, looking guilty for what she did, and for the fact that she misunderstood Gabri as being a part of the Gals in White.
"So, I'm sorry. I never should've betrayed your trust by spying on you and your...girlfriend." Dani said before she pulled out a class ring she thought Sam was going to give Gabri. "And you left this at lunch a couple days ago, when you threw a fit."
She handed Sam the ring as he stared at it, but then scoffed when he briefly rolled his eyes. "Agh! She's not my girlfriend. I dumped her as soon as I figured out that you were right about her being a phony." He explained before he looked a little down. "Apparently, that is the only way a girl can like me."
"That's not true." Tina said to him.
"That's totally not true!" Dani agreed as she smiled and placed her hands on her hips. "There are a million reason a girl can like you. I mean, you're smart, you're fun, you're cool, you're handso-" She faltered her words when she noticed that Sam was blushing while Tina stared oddly between them. "Why am I still talking? I am such a spaz. Still friends?"
Sam waved his hand the way Eliza would do as he scoffed. "Pssh, the best." He said with a smile.
"You think I can use that 'pssh' thing to pick up boys?" Tina wondered, doing hers as well. She then noticed Paul Sanchez and Skye walked by before she pulled her beanie over her eyes. "Excuse me, gentlemen!" She walked over to them and did the 'pssh' thing, making the boys yelp in disgust before they slapped her, making her shout as her friends cringed.
"That's a no." Sam and Dani said in unison before they laughed for a little bit.
Sam held out the class ring. "Can you hang on to this for the time being?" He asked Dani before he dropped it on her awaiting palm.
Dani inhaled deeply through her nose before she sighed from her mouth as tossed the ring into the air and she caught it with a grin. She walked away while unknown to her, Sam smiled warmly at her as he sighed through his nose and blushed, making his feelings very clear to everyone now: Sam Manson has a secret crush on Dani Fenton.
