Season 2 Episode 19
Reality Trip: Part 1
"Are We There Yet?"

Summer has finally arrived at Amity Park that morning, and everyone was preparing for their last day of school for their little summer fun. At Fenton Works, Dani Fenton was readying herself as quickly as possible since she accidentally overslept and was almost late for her last day of freshman terms at Casper High.

"Oh crud! Of all days to oversleep!" Dani groaned as she pulled a drawer open and grabbed a hairbrush. She began to brush some knots out of her hair before she tied her blue headband on her head once she was done. "Can't have Lancer keep me after on the last day of school, so…" She smiled as she transformed into her ghost form and phased out of her house and hovered in the air. "I'll just take the aerial route."

Dani's mother, Jackie Fenton, was taking a shower to clean herself up, but she gasped when she glanced out her window and saw Dani Phantom floating there several feet away.

"You, ghost kid! When I get my hands on you, I'll tear you apart MOLECULE BY MOLECULE!" Jackie exclaimed angrily before she suddenly pulled out an ecto bazooka and fired a beam at Dani, but she quickly dodged it and flew away.

"Which is the perfect example of why I won't be going ghost during my Fenton family vacation."

"LISTEN TO ME WHEN I'M TALKING TO YOU!"

"IT'S SUMMER! Starting at three thirty, I don't have to listen to anyone for a long, long time!" As Dani made her way to Casper High so her summer can finally begin, she flew over the Amity Park Penitentiary.

Inside, an old foe of Dani's, Freakshow, was cuffed to a chair with a light shining on her. So far in Dani's ghost hunting career, Freakshow was by far the only human villain she has ever encountered (not counting Vincent Gray, because she mostly saw him as an anti-hero, since he hunted ghosts more for his own personal reasons than heroic rights, even though he did see himself as a hero). Freakshow once ran a gothic circus, but lost all her rights since she was arrested for masterminding robberies by controlling ghosts with a mythical staff. She also once tried to control Dani Phantom so she could make her her personal slave, but thanks to her friends, she managed to fight back and defeat Freakshow by turning her into the authorities. Of course, she was transferred to some of the authorities that couldn't really be trusted almost at all: the Gals in White.

The two main agents of the Gals in White, Agent O and K, approached the former ringmaster in front of them. "I hope you've been enjoying your stay with us, Freakshow." Agent K said with a smirk.

Freakshow looked up at them before she smiled at them mockingly. "Oh, the Gals in White: top secret ghost catchers who can't actually catch ghosts!" She retorted.

Agent K grinned as she pressed a button on her remote and the lights flipped on. It revealed one of Freakshow's only remaining minion that remained loyal to her, Landu the tattooed man ghost, floating in some kind of suspended animation inside a liquid-filled chamber in the middle of the room.

"Care to revise that last statement?" Agent O asked rhetorically.

"Landu!" Freakshow said in concern.

"No longer under your control." Agent K added.

The former ringmistress glared at the agents bitterly. "What do you want?"

"You knowledge of ghostly items. Anything you care to tell us about this?" Agent O asked as she pressed a button on her remote. From the floor, a bronze, arm length gauntlet with four slots emerged with three different colored and type of gem: a red ruby square gem, a yellow topaz diamond gem, and a blue sapphire circular gem.

Freakshow made a look like she actually recognized it. "The Reality Gauntlet!" She then hid her recognition when she smiled innocently. "Never heard of it."

"We know how you envy ghosts…" Agent K said.

"And we believe this to be an object of enough spectral power to eradicate ghosts forever...perhaps, including this one!" Agent O said as she pulled a photo of Dani Phantom from her file.

"Oh, that Reality Gauntlet! I believe I've heard of it after all." Freakshow said as she grinned mischievously. Agent O pressed on her remote and undid the cuffs linking the ringmistress to her chair. "Now then, the Reality Gauntlet…" She walked up to the gauntlet and inspected it with interest. "Hmm...I don't know that much about it, but...I believe these things play a key role." She pointed at the gems underneath the gauntlet before she glanced at the agents. "Uh, may I try it on?"

"I suppose so." Agent O said before she muttered to her partner. "Doesn't work anyway."

"Joy!" Freakshow slipped the gauntlet onto her arm before she picked up the red gem as the agents watched in silence. "Each of these gems has a power. The red one is the Gem of Life: it can make anything come alive." She placed it on its correct slot before she held up the yellow gem. "And this is the Gem of Form: it can transform anything into anything else...uh, so I've been told." Agent O gave her a look of suspicion before she finally picked up the last blue gem. "And this...is the Gem of Fantasy: it can make your dreams real. These gems, if touched in the proper sequence, will allow the wearer to control all reality! But the gauntlet is useless without its power source." Freakshow smiled at the agents while they stood there in silence until the ringmistress pulled out one of her earrings. "...which I just so happen to have right here!"

"Freeze, Freaks!" Agent O exclaimed as she and her partner were about to pull out their guns. Apparently, one of Freakshow's earrings was an orange ruby triangle, which was the power source for the Reality Gauntlet, and now the Gals in White have realized their mistake.

She placed the Power Source gem on its slot as she activated the Gem of Life. "Have a little taste of the Gem of Life!" She fired a red beam from the gauntlet and the Gals in White's guns suddenly came to life as they wrapped themselves around the agents, trapping them. "Now that's what I call living!" She then frowned as she examined the gems. "Blast! If only I knew how to activate all the gems, I could control all reality! Still…"

Freakshow pulled a card out of Agent O's jacket and slipped in onto a panel as the chamber containing Landu opened as it hissed smoke. He awakened from his suspended animation and bowed before his mistress before he threw up his hood.

"That concludes our demonstration, now if you'll excuse us…" Freakshow said as she and Landu made their way, leaving the agents alone while they flew over town. "What shall we do with our newfound freedom? Movie? Dinner? Make myself ringmistress of all reality?!"

Freakshow laughed mechanically as they both flew over Amity Park, ready to begin her new scheme to not just take over the world, but to also to get her revenge on the one ghost girl who ruined her career and foiled her plans before: Dani Phantom.


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)


That afternoon at Casper High, the last bell finally rang as students cheered and ran out of the school with their new summer freedom from education. They applauded near the stage where their favorite band, Dumpty Humpty, will be playing at the school's out concert tonight. Dani Fenton and her best friends, Tina Foley and Sam Manson, walked out of the Casper High, each holding their own paper flyers and smiling about their new summer out of school.

"Finally! I've been looking forward to this summer vacation forever. The three of us traveling together cross country, seeing the sights." Dani said as she stared at her space flyer. "Cape Canaveral Space Center in sunny Florida…"

"The Comic Book Sci-Fi/Fantasy Exo in sunny San Diego…" Tina said, looking at hers.

"And Gothapalooza in the bleak Nevada Desert." Sam finished as he examined his own.

"But tonight, we rock out at the Dumpty Humpty concert." Dani said as they stopped near the stage.

Then Dani's older brother, James, wasn't looking where he was going when he accidentally bumped into his sister, making them drop their books and papers.

"Geez, Dani, watch it!" James snapped as he rubbed his head.

"Geez, James, watch it." Dani said as she rubbed her head, but then glanced down when she noticed some of her brother's books as she picked them up. "'Ghost Envy for Dimwits: ghosts are not the boss of me'? What is this?"

James kneeled down to pick up his books and papers as he explained to his little sister. "My college entrance thesis on ghost envy. College might be a year in a half away, but you can't be too prepared. In fact, did you know that ghosts often-"

Dani interrupted him when she shoved his book into his face. "Don't know, don't care, not listening! From now on, it's no more pencils, no more books...and going ghost so our parents can't tear me apart 'molecule by molecule'." Dani did some finger motions like separating a piece of air for emphasising as James walked away to leave his sister and her friends to themselves.

"Which reminds me, how did you convince my parents to let me spend an entire summer with your parents?" Sam wondered to Dani in confusion.

Dani smiled as she had a flashback about before school started. Sam's parents, Patrick and Jessica, were in the living room as Dani invisibly floated behind them and overshadowed Patrick. "You know, I think the Fentons are wonderful. Sam should take a cross country trip with them." Dani said through Sam's father before she phased out of him and possessed Jessica. "And I agree with you, let's never speak of this again."

"Let's just say I...finally got under their skin." Dani said before her ghost sense suddenly went off as she gasped and looked behind her, only to find that her friends have disappeared. The students all ran away, screaming before Dani looked up and gasped when she saw her old enemy, Landu, bringing his tattoos to life as they began to wreak some havoc on the teens. Dani heard the yelps of Sam and Tina when she turned around and saw them being dragged away into the air by two green bat tattoos.

"Remind me again, why do we hang out with a kid who has ghostly enemies?" Sam asked Tina rhetorically.

"Because...you have a crush on her?" Tina asked as she smiled nervously, only to earn a glare from her gothic friend.

Dani quickly ran up to the empty stage as she slipped under the curtains to hide herself. She transformed into her ghost half and phased to take action. She saw Paul Sanchez being attacked by three of Landu's tattoos as he shouted in fear tried to bat them away. She fired blasted at them with her ghost beams from her fingertips and vaporized them into oblivion. Paul stared at her heavenly as she smiled down at him before she flew off to find her friends. Sam and Tina have been dragged near a train station a few miles away from the school, and the bats wrapped their wings around the two friends to hold them still as they landed on their stomachs with grunts. They looked up and saw a familiar human enemy of theirs, Freakshow, towering over them with a grin with her new Reality Gauntlet.

"FREAKSHOW!" Sam and Tina exclaimed in unison at his unexpected return for vengeance.

"In the anemic flesh. How's tricks? Had a nice few months while I was rotting in jail, because of you!" Freakshow snapped before she suddenly got blasted away from a green ecto beam.

Sam and Tina smiled at Dani's timely arrival. "Actually, yeah, I've been working on my aim!" She retorted to the former ringmistress. Freakshow grinned as she fired a red beam at the barbed fence below her when they suddenly came to life and wrapped around her body like a giant cocoon.

"And so have I! Say hello to the Reality Gauntlet!" She then activated the Gem of Form as it glowed. "Which is twice as powerful now that I've activated the Gem of Form!" She fired a yellow beam at a couple of train oil cars as they transformed into two giant identical metal monsters.

At first, Dani was worried, but then she noticed that they weren't doing anything since they just stood their, remaining absolutely still. Dani glanced between Freakshow and the monsters in confusion before she slipped out of the fence trap and hovered in front of them.

She giggled a little like it was a joke. "What are they going to do? Rust on me?" She retorted.

Freakshow's smile didn't drop when she activated the Gem of Life. "And Freakshow said, 'let there be LIFE!'" She fired a red beam at the metal monsters, making them come alive.

One of them roared as it tried to smash Dani from the air, but she managed to fly away in time, until the other one grabbed her and squeezed her a little, making her grunt before it threw her to the ground. She tumbled and stopped at Freakshow's feet, her face all scratched and bruised and a little disoriented.

The ringmistress stared down at her in confusion. "Hmm, that's odd. I commanded it to squash you." She murmured to herself before she glanced at her gauntlet. "I need more practice."

Meanwhile, the Gals in White rode down the train tracks and witnessed the two active metal monsters as they roared. "The gauntlet is active! Bad news." Agent O said.

"Very bad. And when we file a report, I'll be affixing blame to you." Agent K said to her partner as she pulled out a pair of handcuffs.

Agent O then took out her own cuffs. "Not if I affix it to you first! FREEZE, FREAKS!"

Freakshow noticed the agents and smirked. "Freeze? If you insist!" She said as she fired a yellow beam to a cloud in the sky and it formed into a giant man made of snow. It plummeted from the sky and slammed on top of the Gals in White and the metal monsters, covering them in snow and demolishing the monsters. "Now where were we? Ah, yes." Freakshow grabbed Dani by her collar as she merely gave her a flat look. "I was gonna ruin your life the way you ruined mine! HAHA!" She laughed as she raised her gauntlet while she charged it up to kill her. However, Dani glared as she activated her Boo-staff and swung it straight from under her jaw, making her release her as she flew near the tracks. She groaned as she rubbed her chin in pain. "I think she broke my jaw."

Dani towered over her as she held out her staff and glared angrily at her. "I'll break more than just your mouth." She said dangerously calm, until Landu suddenly phased through the ground and punched Dani away, sending her landing next to her friends as the trio glared at the ringmistress.

"Looks like our showdown is going to require a bigger audience." Freakshow held out her hand with her gauntlet as the front of her train pulled in on its own and it whistled. "A much bigger audience." Freakshow laughed as the bats released themselves from Sam and Tina and flew back onto Landu's legs. Freakshow gave the trio one last evil grin as she gave her train bat wings as it whistled and flew away out of sight.

Dani stood to her feet as she deactivated her Boo-staff and stormed back to her friends. They wrapped their arms around each other as they prepared to fly. "Dani, what about Freakshow?!" Sam asked her as he frowned a little.

Dani looked at the pile of snow as the Gals in White popped out at the top and shivered from the intense cold. "Oh, let the brat-sicles handle it, I'm on vacation." Dani said as they took off to the air. "Besides, two words…"

"DUMPTY HUMPTY! DUMPTY HUMPTY!" The teens chanted that night of the concert as they prepared for their school's out rock out. Dani looked very eager for her summer to officially begin with her favorite band, Sam and Tina were more occupied on reading about this Reality Gauntlet Freakshow used against them.

"'The Reality Gauntlet consists of four gems, which-'" Sam read out loud as he examined the book, only to get interrupted by Dani as she placed her hand over the section.

"Guys, come on, it's summer. As is no more pencils, no more books…" Dani said.

"You may want to take a look at this book, especially the author." Tina said.

Dani took the book from Sam and examined the author that wrote the book before. "'Frelicia Malak Showenhower'?" Sam then folded up the page of the book and covered up most of her last name, revealing that the author's nickname was Freakshow. "Freakshow! Well...I don't care, Sam, because as of right now, Freakshow is not my problem." Dani shoved the book back to Sam before music began playing as everyone cheered. "Oh, I love this part! This is where the band comes out of a giant egg!"

Smoke billowed up as they concert began, but unfortunately the egg suddenly came to life when it opened its mouth and spewed real yolk and the band popped out with shocked expressions.

The audience gasped in shock at the sight before Freakshow appeared on stage with a wicked smile. "Are you kids ready to have a great summer? Because Dumpty Humpty had a great fall!" She cackled evilly.

Landu also appeared as he nabbed Sam and Tina out of their bleachers and flew them down to the stage. Dani glared at the stage in exasperation. "Will this vacation ever start?!" She looked around to make sure no one was looking at her, since they were all gawking at Freakshow before she slipped underneath the bleachers and transformed out of sight.

"Ah, the only thing better than an audience is a captive audience!" Her gauntlet glowed yellow as she strapped everyone to their seats with seatbelts, trapping them when they gasped in fear.

Dani flew up in her ghost form and charged at her enemy. "Show's over, Freakshow!"

"Au contraire. That's French for 'I'll bet this hurts'!" She raised her gauntlet as it glowed red and she punched Dani dead on, sending her flying several feet across the stage.

Meanwhile at Fenton Works in the kitchen, Matt and Jackie Fenton began packing their things for their trip as James sat by the table near his parents. "But I can't go on this trip! I need to write my thesis on ghost envy!" James complained a little. "If only I could find someone that fits the bill."

Jackie glanced at the TV and saw Landu on screen, alerting her. "GHOST!" She exclaimed.

Matt gasped as he jumped onto the table while James shielded himself. His papers flew up to the air as James rested his cheek on his fist and he sighed in annoyance. "That was easy." He muttered.

"It's ghost-based chaos at the Casper High School's Out concert, where notorious ghost kid, Dani Phantom, is fighting for her afterlife!" Lena Thunder announced on the news as she showed an image of Dani facing off against Freakshow with a determined glare.

Back at the ruined concert, Freakshow used her Gem of Life on a set of drums as she transformed it into a giant spider. She commanded it to attack Dani while she gap in worry.

At the Gals in White HQ, Agent O and K were watching the whole fight on their TV. They were still shivering since they didn't exactly recover from the whole 'snowman incident'. They were wrapped in blankets and had their feet placed in buckets of warm water. "Let's roll...roll...ro-AHCHOO!" Agent O sneezed loudly.

Back in the fight, the spider drumset fired a spew of silk from its cymbals and collided with Dani dead on and sent her flying towards a football post, creating a web and sticked Dani onto it as it bounced a few times. She struggled with effort to break free, but remained stuck as she glared angrily at Freakshow.

"Any last words? Might I suggest, 'Ah! Freakshow, don't hurt me!'" Freakshow mocked.

Landu continued holding onto Sam and Tina until Tina acted quickly when she tugged his hood over his face, making him release them and sent him flying, muffling as his Mohawk spike stuck to a billboard behind him.

"Leave her alone!" Sam exclaimed as he charged at the ringmistress and thrusted his book at her head, sending her to the ground as she grunted.

Freakshow picked up the book from her face and stood up as she examined the saved page. "I see we have the same taste in authors." Sam kicked the book out of her hands and grabbed onto her gauntlet. "And in gloves! Let go, boy!"

Sam placed his hand on the Gem of Form as Tina joined the struggle and accidentally placed her hand on the Gem of Fantasy. The three of them began to glow as they flew up into the air while Dani gathered her energy and snapped from the web. She flew to her enemy and friends as she, too, grabbed the gauntlet as well, making Freakshow strain as she threw them into the air, but they grabbed onto her again. Tina placed her hand on the Gem of Form, Dani placed hers on the Gem of Life, and finally Sam placed his hand on the Gem of Fantasy.

Freakshow smiled when she felt all of the gems being activated and that the trio has found the combination. "You did it! You found the combination that activates all the gems! Which means, I control all reality!" She exclaimed before their world around them began to waver.

"Guess again, cueball! As long as we're touching the gauntlet, we have just as much control as you do!" Sam said as he glared.

"Let...go...of...my...GAUNTLET!" She threw the trio up into the air again as they shouted and grabbed her gauntlet again.

Sam glanced at his friends between him as Freakshow tried to shake them off. "Quick, according to the book, the gauntlet has a defense mechanism. Think of a place to hide the gem you're holding!"

Dani concentrated hard as the Gem of Life disappeared from its slot, Sam did the same as the Gem of Form disappeared without a trace as well, and finally Tina thought deeply as the Gem of Fantasy vanish before the Reality Gauntlet began to lose its power.

"No! NOOO!" Freakshow exclaimed with wide eyes.

The gauntlet suddenly exploded in the air as everyone in the crowd shielded themselves from the flash before Sam and Tina fell onto the stage. The spider drumset returned to normal as the seat belts holding down the audience disappeared as well. At first, everyone cheered until they looked up and gasped when they witnessed Freakshow landing on the stage. She looked at her gauntlet and saw her three empty slots, minus the power source which remained on its rightful place.

"BLAST! The gem's are gone! We must fly...but dramatically!" Freakshow said to Landu before he used his tattoos to wrap themselves and flew away until they were out of sight.

Sam and Tina watched as the freaks disappeared until they cringed when someone else crashed onto the center of the stage. Dani groaned in weakness as she stood to her feet and changed back to her human form. Dani's eyes went wide and she gasped when she realized that she has just transformed in front of the audience in bright light. She glanced around as the audience gasped in complete shock when they just witnessed the girl's transformation. She looked up and saw that a news helicopter captured the whole thing and even the Gals in White flew above and witnessed who the ghost girl really was. Everyone began to mutter inaudibly in surprise as Sam and Tina exchanged nervous looks that their best friend's secret identity has been exposed to the whole world.

"Uh...nobody saw that, right?" Dani asked nervously, but she knew the horrible truth: everyone now knew that Dani Fenton and Dani Phantom are one and the same person as she glanced desperately at the crowd.

"HOLY SWEAT SOCKS! Dani Fenturd is...Dani PHANTURD?!" Daph exclaimed in complete shock as she head her head, making her realized that all this time she has been unknowingly harassing her heroine idol.

"And she's totally infatuated with me! This makes things so much easier...for me." Paul said with delight.

Everyone continued muttering in shock as they walked up onto the stage and began to surround Dani as she looked at them in fear. Sam and Tina made determined looks as they jumped in front of their friend protectively with Tina holding up a stool while Sam spun a microphone. "Back! Back, savages!" Tina demanded.

"Well, uh...it could be worse." Said said unsurely as he glanced to Dani.

"Really? How?" Dani asked sarcastically as she frowned.

"NOBODY MOVE!" The Gals in White ordered the teens as they flew around Dani.

Back at Fenton Works in the kitchen, the Fentons were watching the whole thing while Matt and Jackie were completely shocked at what they have just witnessed. They have just seen the ghost girl transform into none other than their own daughter.

"Our daughter is the ghost girl?!" Matt exclaimed in overwhelming shock with wide eyes, and Jackie looked just as shock as her husband.

James quickly jumped in between his parents and the TV with a nervous look on his face. "Now, now, let's jump into any insane conclusions!" He said reluctantly, until he glanced and found Sam's parents, Patrick and Jessica Manson, and Tina's parents, Maria and Alex Foley, standing at their doorway with their hands on their hips while they glared at the Fenton family. Apparently, they have all seen the ghost girl transform into their daughter, and they all wanted to have a serious chat with her family.

"YOU!" Jessica shouted.

"YOU!" Jackie snapped back before they went face to face aggressively as they glared at each other.

"We were watching Extreme Nanny Makeover, when we found out your daughter was a GHOST!"

"Why are you yelling at us?! You're spooky, ooky bat son as to be behind this!"

Maria went in between them to break the clashing parents and shoved them away from each other gently. "Now, everyone, it's okay to point fingers as long as nobody's pointing them at my daughter." She said calmly.

"Okay! Maybe Dani is the ghost girl, but it's not as though our ghost activities have ever put your families in any danger!" Matt said with a sigh, trying to keep his temper on normal level as he glared at the parents with his arms crossed.

They suddenly heard something coming through the vents as they turned around and gasped as Landu's tattoos flew out and wrapped themselves around the Foleys and the Mansons as they glared at the Fentons again. "Until now." Jackie corrected sheepishly as she shrugged. The Fentons then got wrapped up as they hugged each other and disappeared.

Back at the concert, the Gals in White circled around Dani and her friends, now that they have finally learned the identity of the ghost girl they have been tracking down since they first moved to Amity Park.

"You're coming in for questioning, young lady." Agent K said to her.

"And experiments...lots and lots of really painful experiments." Agent O added harshly as they continued circling around the trio.

"I don't think so! Tina, Sam, grab hold of me!" Dani told her friends as they held onto to her. "I'm going ghost!" She changed into her ghost form and flew to the air as the crowd began to cheer for their half-ghost heroine.

"DANI! DANI! DANI!" They chanted out loud.

"Girl, you're a rockstar!" Tina said as she looked down at the chanting audience.

Suddenly, Dani unwillingly changed back to her human form in midair. "WHO CAN'T DO ANYTHING!" She exclaimed before they plummeted back to the stage as they shouted and crashed onto the stage with grunts, and they sat up from the impact. "That Reality Gauntlet explosion must've messed with my ghost powers!"

The Gals in White agents both landed on the stage, ready to capture the trio. "I can get us out of here." Sam said determinedly before he grabbed Dani and dragged her to the edge of the stage. "MOSH PIT!" He threw Dani over the crowd as they surfed her across the aisle. Sam quickly grabbed his book before he and Tina followed their friend.

"She's lost her ghost powers!" Agent K said.

"Get her!" Agent O exclaimed.

They jetted off the stage to follow the trio, but the crowd quickly hid them as they crawled out of the crowd and ran to the football locker room and pinned their backs to the wall. Hands suddenly emerged from the doors as they grabbed onto the trio and pulled them into the room and slammed the door shut as the agents flew by. Inside the locker room, lights flipped on, revealing Paul Sanchez, Daph Baxter, Kwyn, and the other popular jocks and cheerleaders who bullied Dani and her friends in the past before as they smiled at her.

"You're...helping me?" Dani asked the in-crowd, slightly taken aback by this.

"Well, duh! You've only been helping us for, like...ever!" Daph admitted as she smiled gratefully at her former rival.

Paul suddenly grabbed Dani and pulled her in when he kissed her on the lips, making her muffle in surprise as she waved her arms around frantically. He brought her back up as she stood there with a loving/surprised look on her face. "Dani Sanchez. Hey, I finally wrapped my mind around it!" He said as Dani continued to stare out absentmindedly.

Sam looked like he was about to punch Paul for kissing her right on the lips, even though his ex-girlfriend, Gabri, once kissed him on the lips without warning. "Oh-kay, I'm feeling relieved and nauseated at the same time." He said to Tina as he glowered and crossed his arms.

Back outside, the agents used their metal detectors as they scanned the area for any signs of Dani nearby. "She couldn't have gone far without her ghost powers." Agent K said to her partner.

The jocks, cheerleaders, and preps all walked out of the locker room casually as Dani and Tina, disguised as cheerleaders, hid their faces with pom-poms, and Sam was disguised in a quarterback uniform as they walked into the woods, undetected as hoped. Once they were far enough away from the Gals in White, they removed their pom-poms and helmet from their faces.

"I want that back by Monday, minus the goth sweat." Paul said to Sam as he frowned at him.

"We don't sweat, WE SIMMER!" He argued angrily before Dani grabbed his arm and dragged him away so they could out of their disguises.

The trio finally made it back to Fenton Works as they all hid beside the house so she could gather her things, but mostly to run away and go into hiding now that the entire world knew what she really was.

"Okay, I'll zip in, get my stuff…" Dani said to her friends.

"Then what? Run away from home?" Tina asked, not really liking the idea of her best friend going on the run from the entire world.

"Well, what choice do I have, Tina? The whole world knows my secret! BUT! If I can get get the gauntlet, I can change reality so that none of this ever happened." The trio all entered Fenton Works as Dani flipped the lights on. "Believe me, it's better for everyone if I just…" She looked ahead of her and saw something that caught her up short. "Uh...disappear?"

There were armed women surrounding the trio, aiming and charging their guns. She saw Agents O and K leading them as they aimed their guns as well. Dani immediately knew that the army behind them were undoubtedly a part of the Gals in White was well. Two of them suddenly grabbed onto Sam and Tina and held them tightly and securely.

"For those still counting, that's three times we've been grabbed today." Sam said, looking slightly irritated by the fact.

"Humans are secure, take down the ghost child!" Agent O ordered her women as she pointed at Dani.

"Where are my mom and dad?! What have you done with them?!" Dani demanded the agents as she glared angrily at them, thinking the agents have probably kidnapped her family.

Unaware to everyone in the room, Landu invisibly phased into the house and sent three of his bats to the trio as the flew into their shirts, but they didn't feel a thing before he flew away.

"Danielle Fenton, in accordance with the Anti-Ecto Federal Control Act, article one, section one, subsection A...you're under arrest." Agent K declared.

"I'm only gonna say this once...let my friends go and GET OUT OF MY HOUSE!"

"Or what?" Agent O challenged the girl.

"Or this!" Dani ran up to the wall as she lifted the curtain, revealing a button encased in glass. She broke the glass with the mini-hammer and slammed her palm on the button, setting off alarms as they blared loudly.

"Fenton Works Anti-Creep Mode activated! Our special today is fudge...I mean, pain." Jackie's voice said all over the house as the Gals in White all looked around in alarm.

Two large grapple arms suddenly emerged from the walls as they grabbed onto the women holding Sam and Tina hostage, making them release the teens before the arms slammed them together to knock them out. "Fire ecto-weapons!" Agent K ordered her women and they fired their guns at the trio. As they braced themselves, a clear shape of Jackie's face popped up in front of them and protected the trio from the Guys in Whites' attacks.

"What's going on?!" Sam exclaimed over the commotion.

"The house attacks anything using ecto-energy! I'm going ghost!" Dani said before she changed into her ghost form, but the weapons suddenly began aiming at her, so she quickly changed back as the weapons immediately seized aiming at her. "Darn! If I go ghost, the house will think that I'm an enemy! RUN!"

The trio began to run across the living room until three guards jumped into the air in an attempt to tackle them, until the TV opened when it fired three rockets that opened and pinned the guards to the wall and electrocuted them a little. Another grapple arm emerged and began to toss, swing, and slam the guards around mercilessly as they shouted.

Sam glanced back to Dani. "Where are your parents?"

"Probably looking for me...or a scalpel to dissect me with!" Dani said with slight fear at the thought.

Dani and her friends made it to the stairs as they ran up the steps, until a guard suddenly appeared as she aimed her gun at the teens. "FREEZE!" She exclaimed.

Dani halted her friends midway up the steps as she smirked. "Okay!"

Suddenly from the walls, cutouts of Jackie and Matt slammed right onto the guard, making her tumble down the stairs as the trio moved out of the way in time to see her collide with Agents O and K. After Dani made a brief stop in her bedroom and packed up all her needs inside her backpack, she led her best friends into the master bedroom, where she removed a rug from a metal circle that has been hidden in her parents' room.

"Three to the OP Center!" Dani called out before a tube engulfed over them and sucked them all up to the center. They emerged from the refrigerator as they all coughed from the smoke.

"Man, your mom really needs to get rid of that ham!" Tina said, disgusted by the same spoiled ham.

Outside Fenton Works, the Gals in White shot come grappling hooks as they began to hoist themselves up to the OP Center. "Time to lock up for the night!" Dani said when she began to press some buttons. She really has gotten used on how to work Fenton Works and the OP Center as much as her parents do.

The windows were suddenly blocked by metal barriers, preventing the guards from entering through the glass and capturing the runaway teenagers. Dani looked up and saw that they were burning a hole on the roof with a laser to break in, but she quickly ran to the fridge and pressed the button next to the spoiled ham. The entire OP Center began to tremble as the Gals in White froze. All the satellites and radar dishes retracted into the center, and exploded as the Fenton Blimp, tossing all the guards off before it took off to the air.

"The Fenton Blimp? What are we going to do, bore them off our tail in a low-speed chase?" Sam asked Dani sarcastically.

"Not quite." Dani said with a smirk before she picked up the ham, revealing another button underneath and pressed it.

Outside, Agents O and K flew up to the blimp in their jet-suits, now that their army was out of commission. "We're gaining on it!" Agent O said out loud.

"Of course we are, it's a blimp!" Agent K pointed out. Suddenly they watched the blimp lose its balloon and shifted and expanded into a Fenton Jet instead as its turbines began to fire. "...and, now it's not."

The jet thrusted forward in great speed as Dani struggled at the tilter while Sam and Tina held on for dear life, and they noticed that they were hurtling straight towards Casper High. "We're gonna destroy the school!" Tina exclaimed.

"I don't know what to do!" Dani exclaimed.

"Do something!" Sam shouted urgently.

"Wait!" Dani pressed the Auto-Jackie button before she ran off the driver's seat and sat next to Tina as an inflatable version of Jackie emerged from the tilter and grabbed onto the wheel.

"This is Auto-Jackie saying, please buckle up and pass the fudge." She said.

The trio buckled themselves up before the Auto-Jackie tilted the wheel and avoided crashing into the school as Dani, Sam, and Tina all shouted loudly. The jet then thrusted up to the air and blasted straight out of Amity Park, but unfortunately the Gals in White have caught up to them in their own jets. They were seriously determined to capture Dani Phantom and wouldn't stop until they succeeded, even if it would meant arresting her friends as well.

"It's after five, why can't they quit like every other government employee?!" Sam asked, looking even more irritated by these agents that are just acting like opportunistic, meddling women.

Dani changed into her ghost form before she ran off her seat and held onto the glass. She concentrated and strained as she made the entire jet invisible from the agents, and they noticed that the jet was about to disappear.

"We're losing visual! Activate White Fang tracking device!" Agent O ordered on the intercom.

"'White Fang'?" Agent K asked, sounding unimpressed by the name.

"I don't name this stuff." Agent O then fired a tracking device underneath the jet and it attached itself to it before the jet disappeared completely.


The next morning after the trio left Amity Park and were now officially on the run from the entire world and the Gals in White, Dani continued keeping her invisibility on the jet like she has been doing overnight, thanks to her enhanced stamina.

"Dani, we've lost them yesterday, you can stop now." Sam said before Dani dropped and halted her power on the jet. She groaned as she changed back to her human form and collapsed from exhaustion.

"We should contact your parents." Tina suggested, making Dani stand to her feet.

"And tell them what? 'I'm sorry I lied to you, so please don't tear me apart molecule by molecule'? Besides...if they have anything to say to me, they can always contact me." Dani said sadly at the thought that her parents wouldn't accept her and try to destroy her. Then, her heard beeping and she sighed, thinking it was her parents trying to call her. "Here we go."

Dani typed on the keyboard, but the person who appeared on screen was none other than Freakshow herself instead. "Oh, I'm sorry, I hope I'm not interrupting the worse day of your life...ever! But it seems, I need your help." She said through the screen.

Dani glared angrily at her enemy ringmistress. "You miserable freak! Why would I ever help you?!"

"Oh, I'm sorry, did I say need? I meant demand!" Freakshow laughed evilly a little before she gestured out and revealed Dani's, Tina's, and Sam's families all held hostage by Freakshow, trapped in her cages of her train, making the trio gasp in shock.

"She's got my parents!" Sam exclaimed in worry.

"She's got all our parents!" Tina pointed out as she frowned at him.

"Mom! Dad!" Dani exclaimed in worry.

"Why look, I have something you want and you know the location of something I want: my gems. You three are to retrieve the gems if you ever want to see your families alive again! Oh, and just to keep it dramatic, you have three days." Freakshow told the trio before she laughed evilly and the screen went static when she lost connection.

Dani turned to her friends with a look of concern that Freakshow has given them a deadline. "Three days?! We don't even know where to start looking!"

Sam pulled out his book and read it while he frowned at Dani. "You know, school being out or not, you really need to read more. We're the ones who the gems, remember?" Sam reminded her, saying that they used the defense mechanism on the Reality Gauntlet to hide the gems from Freakshow. "Which means they're safe and sound at Gothapalooza...at least, that's where I hid the Gem of Form."

"Except I was thinking about the Sci-Fi Convention, where I hid the Gem of Fantasy." Tina pointed out.

"And I hid the Gem of Life at the Space Center." Dani added.

"Looks like we're gonna get that cross country trip after all."

A map rolled down as Dani pointed to the Cape Canaveral, Florida, their closest destination for their first Reality Gem. "Starting here."

"This is Auto-Jackie setting a new course for: Cape Canaveral, Florida." Auto-Jackie announced before it steered the jet towards their closest destination.

A few hours later as the evening came close, they arrived in the skies of Cape Canaveral as they approached the space center, while during a tour, a little girl found the Gem of Life and picked it up, thinking it was some kind of moon rock.

"No fair! Why do we get to go to your place first?" Tina pouted stubbornly to Dani.

"Does it even matter? We're not here to have fun, we're here to look for the Reality Gems." Dani pointed out as she shrugged as the jet flew towards the space center.

"Which, according to Freakshow's book, are activated by touch. So, as long as nobody found one yet, maybe this will be easy." Sam said, but he spoke too soon.

The gem the girl was holding began to burn her hand, making her shout as she dropped the gem onto the space shuttle. The shuttle glowed before it took off on its own and came to life hile it gained a monster expression and flew straight towards the Fenton Jet with its mouth wide open.

Sam glanced at his friends as they all shared unfazed glances with each other. "...it's never easy, is it?" He asked rhetorically.

TO BE CONTINUED...