Season 3 Episode 6
Urban Jungle
"Meet the ROOT of all EVIL!"

It was a nice, normal day at Amity Park. Inside Sam Manson's greenhouse in his backyard, a fly flew around the room until it landed inside a venus fly trap's mouth as it clamped shut.

"Take it easy, de Milo, it's your third fly this morning and you know you're watching your cholesterol." Sam said to the fly trap as he watered his plant. He began to walk around his greenhouse as he picked up a basket to harvest. "Hm, I'm feeling international today."

He picked an orange from an orange tree. "Thanks, Sunny." He said before he then picked a branch of grapes from a grape vine tree while he spoke in French or Italian. "Merci, Pier." He finally picked some Japanese onions from a pot as he spoke in little Japanese. "Domo Arigato, Yoshi. Nice when countries can come together for a mutual cause. Namely, my lunch." He dumped all his fruits and veggies into his lunchbox for school.

Sam has always enjoyed harvesting his plants since he was an ultra-recyclo vegetarian, so he was quite the nature lover. And it would kill him if he ever ate any meat, as opposed to his best friend, Tina Foley, who would be caught dead eating vegetables and ate meat instead.

Speaking of Tina, she and their other best friend, Dani Fenton, entered the greenhouse. However, Dani was wearing a coat and shivering down to her spin, despite the fact it was quite warm outside, but her teeth were chattering like she was freezing for some odd reason. "Hey, Sam, ready for school?" Tina asked her gothic friend.

Sam, however, narrowed his eyes like they did something wrong. "Close the door! Cold air is not good for the plants: the humidity opens their pores." Sam ran up to his door and closed it shut before he turned to Tina with a grin as he crossed his arms. "It can help you sweat off a few inches, too, Mrs. Pie For Breakfast."

"And that's wrong why?"

"I-i-i-it's like a meat locker to me, can you turn up the heat?" Dani asked Sam rhetorically as she continued to shiver while she hugged herself to keep warm.

Sam looked confused by his friend's sudden cold sensation in such a warm season. "What's with you? It must be ninety-five degrees in here." He pointed out.

"I don't know. Ever since I got up this morning, I just can't seem to get warm."

Dani touched Tina as she shrugged, but then the techno-geek felt a sudden coldness when she shivered from her friends contact. "Brrrr! Man, I've heard of ghosts sending chills up your spine, but this is too weird." Tina said after she stopped shivering.

"I bet I'm just coming down with a bug."

A fly flew across Dani's face as it approached the fly trap again as it took a bite out of it, much to Tina's amazement. "Awesome! A veggie that hates veggie as much as I do!"

"Let's go, guys." Sam told his friends before looking sternly at his fly trap. "No dessert for you tonight, mister." And then he walked out of his greenhouse with Tina following behind him.

Unaware to the trio, as Dani followed behind while she shivered, she left behind a trail of blue cold air when it swirled around the venus fly trap and froze it solid.

As the trio made their way to school, they all watched the construction workers bulldoze, dig up, and saw down a lot of trees, flower meadows, and anything else related to nature. The newest mayor of Amity Park, Vladia Masters, had no care for nature like at all, so she only cared about her business and her money since she made all the construction workers tear down anything that was all nature. This has really sent Sam over the edge since he was more down-to-Earth than his friends were.

"Ugh, urban blight. So thrilled to live in the twenty-first century." Sam sighed sarcastically as he gestured to all the construction around them.

"Me, too. That new arcade in the new strip mall, next to the new hot dog place, looks awesome...and new." Tina said in a completely different view, much to Sam's dismay as they all stopped their tracks.

"I know. Besides, Sam, there's nothing wrong with a little...p-p-p-progress." Dani said as she shivered again.

"Yeah, Vladia's new beautification campaign is very progressive." Tina looked up at the billboard about Vladia bulldozing a tree that showed she only cared about construction and had nothing to do with nature.

"No, just progressively worse. Seriously, messing too much with nature can be a dangerous thing." Sam said sternly as he crossed his arms and narrowed his eyes at the thought.

Before a construction worker could even saw up a fallen tree a bulldozer just knocked down, the entire ground below them began to quake as everyone froze in startle. Dani's ghost sense went off as she gasped before she looked down at her feet and saw the ground beginning to crack open while plants emerged from them. Then a huge purple monstrous plant suddenly grew out of the ground as its mouth opened, revealing a dark purple brain with eyes and then vines wrapped around it before leaves swirled around it like a cocoon.

The trio all watched in horror and awe as it leaves cocoon exploded into a giant green plant-type ghost as it roared angrily into the heavens. She had thorns on the top of her head, red eyes full of anger and even a moss-like cape and had mushrooms and vines all over her body.

"Flesh dwellers, you have caused pain to my children once too often!" She roared as she elongated her arm and picked up a fallen tree as the construction worker ran away, screaming in fear. "Now you, too, shall feel pain...the pain of OVERGROWTH!"

She roared again as she sent three vines out of her body while they either wrapped around or stuck through a few construction trucks and lifted them to the air before she continued to roar.

"Anybody got a weed whacker?!" Tina exclaimed nervously as everyone stared up at Overgrowth the plant ghost in fear.


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)


Everyone continued to look up at Overgrowth, the new plant ghost, in awe and in fear.

"Pitiful human race! Your progress has destroyed acres of my children! Now I shall destroy YOU to make room for my new offspring." She roared to all of the citizens before her.

"I completely dig where you're coming from, but there are better ways to go about this: start if off profit, organise a petition." Sam said a little nervously to the giant plant ghost. However, she roared angrily as she threw one of the truck with nothing but her might at one of the under-construction buildings, and it collapsed while workers scattered out of the way. Sam then smiled sheepishly as he shrugged innocently. "Or...you could destroy things."

Overgrowth roared again as she slammed another truck onto a building.

"Going...g-g-g-ghost!" Dani stuttered as she made a determined look and changed into her ghost form. She flew into the air before she hovered beside the evil plant ghost. "Sorry, I don't have much of a green thumb!" She fired an ecto beam at one of Overgrowth's arms as she roared and hissed in pain. "And now, neither do you!"

A vine then wrapped around Sam and Tina as it held onto them tightly. "DANI!" They exclaimed in unison as the truck fell out of the air and was about to crush on top of them. Luckily, Dani quickly dove down and flew them out of the way before the truck crashed onto the ground.

Overgrowth's arm then grew back before Dani flew at her again as she charged her hands with her ecto-energy. "Overgrowth, huh?!" She blasted her other arm off, but it immediately grew back and then she created a hole in her chest. "Looks to me like you're underground!" She then blasted off her head, but it immediately reattached itself as she glared at the ghost girl.

"You can't destroy a being who's able to regenerate herself!" Overgrowth shouted before she summoned five monstrous-looking plants and sent them after her.

Dani quickly flew down the street before she skimmed up a building and twisted and flipped in the air as she avoided the plants' teeth. She charged back to Overgrowth as she created a large ecto ball and prepared to throw it at the plant ghost.

"Can't regenerate if she's a pile of ashes!" Dani suddenly stopped in mid air when she immediately began to shiver again. She dropped her energy ball and hugged herself tightly. "So…c-c-c-c-cold." And then the plants managed to catch up to her when they wrapped their vines around her and dragged her back to their master.

Sam and Tina both tried to make a run for it as they screamed, but Overgrowth managed to catch them with her vines as she lifted the trio up close to her.

"Such limited lifeforms. Although instant destruction is an option, {growl/hisses} I feel a replanting would be more...productive." Overgrowth grinned before the top of her head splitted in half and yellow spores poured out as they flew out and surrounded the trio.

"Sleep spores!" Dani said.

"At least they're full of ginkgo biloba." Sam moaned tiredly as he began to fall asleep.

Dani's eyes began to droop as she tried to fight off against the spores' effects. "Rejoice...for a new era is taking the root." Overgrowth said and the last thing Dani saw was vines slowly making her way towards her as she fell asleep.

A few hours later, Dani and Tina woke up and found themselves tied to a large tree in the center of town as vines pinned them to the trunk. They also noticed that their entire town was covered with vines and living plants.

"Holy hibiscus! The whole city is a...giant overgrown backyard!" Dani exclaimed before two monstrous plants surrounded the girls and bared their teeth as they growled.

"I never eat my vegetables, why is it fair they get to eat me?!" Tina asked rhetorically with fear in her voice.

Dani then strained as she tried to use her strength to snap free from the vines holding her arms and waist, but they were unusually too strong even for her. "Oh man, no good! These vines are like...steel cables...with sap!"

Both of the girls then heard Overgrowth chuckle softly as she grew right in front of them with a wicked grin. "Yes...the Growth is far stronger than any meat creature, no matter how powerful they think they are." She said as she went up to Dani's face.

She growled angrily as she charged up her ecto-energy to blast at her, but then two flowers sprang out when they covered her hands. She felt her powers being suppressed, which made her gasp in shock. "These ghost plants are blocking my ghost energy! I can't go intangible either!"

"Perhaps one day you will see that this is what nature intended all along." Overgrowth nuzzled a couple of her ghost plants as she growled/hissed. "Mankind is merely a temporary weed in the garden of life...a weed that can be removed."

Dani began to shiver again before she glared up at the plant ghost defiantly. "Dani Phantom bows to no plant!"

"'Bow'? We can't even wiggle our fingers!" Tina exclaimed.

"Your pessimistic, but accurate friend is right. Observe your once proud progressive metropolis." Overgrowth said with a grin as she gestured her hand out to the rest of the town.

There was a giant brain-like plant that sent out vines that attached themselves to a human's neck. Once that happened, their eyes glowed green and their skins began to look like that they were beginning to crack. They also began to act like mindless zombies like Overgrowth was doing her own way of overshadowing and/or mind controlling.

"The Mine Vine enables me to control the inhabitants' every movement." Overgrowth said as most of the citizens began to chop down telephone poles like trees while others planted seeds within the Earth for her to grow with her power. "Why should I burden myself with the destruction of your city when I can have its own citizens do if for me? Once the way is cleared, my children will be planted and grown anew! My consciousness, my will, shall spread throughout the globe and the concrete shall become real jungles!"

Overgrowth began to laugh mechanically at her evil master plan.

"You can't win! If I can't stop you, someone...w-w-w-will!" Dani shouted defiantly at the plant ghost while her mysterious shivers returned.

"Really? Such as?" Overgrowth challenged the ghost girl.

Then they all suddenly heard the Fenton RV driving out of the vines like crazy with Jackie Fenton at the wheel and Matt on the passenger seat. "Get your filthy roots off my town, you horticultural terror!" Jackie demanded angrily out loud before she smiled at her husband. "Thanks for writing down the word 'horticulture', sweet face."

"I didn't want you to mispronounce id during a battle cry, hun, first impressions are very important." Matt said.

"And I married you anyway."

The Fenton RV then gain a giant saw blade as it began cutting through the vines until a tree suddenly popped out and catapulted the vehicle into the air. Two vines grabbed onto it and teared it into two as Matt and Jackie jumped out of the vehicle, but Jackie landed on her stomach while Matt got in a pose. Matt shouted as he began cutting through moving vines with gardening tools until one managed to attach itself onto his neck when it began taking control over him.

"No, Dad! He's been taken over by the Mind Vine!" Dani exclaimed as she watched him and then her mother being controlled, but nothing happened when she only grabbed onto the end in confusion.

"I don't see what the big deal is." Jackie said as it tried attaching to different parts of her neck and even her forehead, but nothing happened. "Nope. Nope. Still feeling fine and-" The vine then went inside her ear and it seemed to do the trick. "Oh, there we go! Mmmmm...chlorophyll." Her eyes turned green as she became controlled.

"NO! Not them! LET THEM GO!" Dani exclaimed angrily as she glared at the plant ghost.

"He's controlling everyone! After us, there's nobody left!" Tina exclaimed as they watched everyone, most of which who they knew personally, walking down the streets mindlessly like zombies.

Dani continued to shiver, but then suddenly realized that someone else was missing. "W-w-wait a minute...where's Sam?"

"Ah, yes...the male." Overgrowth said as she turned around just before a large purple rose emerged from the ground. "Every garden needs a caretaker."

The purple rose bloomed open and Sam, now under Overgrowth's control, emerged from the opening, suspended by some vines. His hair was frizzed, appeared a little longer, and had a few leaves sticking out. He was shirtless with a couple of vines wrapped around him in different positions around his chest, arms, and legs, he wore green shorts that were tattered at his knees, a green glove on his right hand and multiple vines wrapped on his left arm, and barefeet. His eyes were glowing solid green and his face looked like it was cracking (like the other mind controlled citizens).

He also seemed to have gained plant-like powers as well like Overgrowth has transferred and shared some of her power into him. Sam wore a blank glare as he stared mindlessly at his friends with his arms sticking out.

"Sam!" Dani cried with worry in her eyes.

"Green's a good...color on you." Tina said nervously.

"His love of vegetation makes him the perfect choice to work alongside me." Overgrowth said to the girls as she played with Sam with her vine fingers, while he only stared out mindlessly under her control. "I can show him the ropes...or vines, so to speak."

Sam then glared with his head hanging limply to the side from his neck, and his fingers were tensed up as vines wavered behind him. "Flesh-walkers, your bodies are needed for work." He said in a deeper voice before he held out his hand as he raised his head up, making it crack a little while he sent out a Mind Vine straight towards Tina.

"Great, veggies and work, my two least favorite-" Tina began to complain with a frown until she yelped in surprise when the Mind Vine attached itself onto the back of her neck as it began to control her.

"TINA!" Dani exclaimed.

"And nourishment." Sam added before he held up his hands above him and summoned a very hungry monstrous plant as it made its way to eat Dani.

Dani began to shiver even more as her body suddenly began to glow blue while the monstrous plant moved closer and closer while it opened its mouth. Then out of nowhere, the vines, flowers, and tree that were securing the ghost girl tight all froze solid while she stuttered a lot.

"B-b-b-b-b-b-BACK OFF!" She exclaimed loudly as she broke free from the vines while they shattered into pieces. Overgrowth and Sam both gasped in shock with wide eyes before Dani tried to fly away from them.

"STOP HER!" Overgrowth ordered her new second-in-command/caretaker.

Sam opened his solid green eyes before he lunged out with his supporting vines as he shouted loudly and held out his hands. He then appeared right in front of Dani as he grinned and she stopped in mid air with wide eyes. "Sam?"

She glanced down at the vine that was suspending Sam in the air while he continued to smile sickly at his friend. "Join us, Dani, the Growth is family." He said as he sent out a few vines with his mind from behind him while he spoke to her.

"Already got one, thanks, and I'm still working the b-b-bugs out of it!" The vines wrapped around Dani's wrists as she spoke. She began to glow blue as she frozen the vines solid before she broke her arms free as the vines shattered. She then flew straight into the air in a hurry. "At least they can't reach me up here, no such thing as flying plants!"

Unfortunately, Overgrowth suddenly formed right in front of her as she immediately halted her flying. "I AM EVERYWHERE!" She shouted out loud.

Dani stared at her in awe before she took off the other direction. She knew that she was completely outmatched because of this cold sensation that has been keeping her from fighting, so she had to retreat and take refuge. "She might be everywhere out here...b-b-but I know one place she's not!"

An Overgrowth duplicate suddenly appeared right in front of her, making her yelp in surprise as two more of them surrounded her. She fired her ghost beams at the vines and quickly flew right through them. Dani felt the cold sensation returning as she shivered and hugged herself tightly while icicles oddly began forming on her body.

"T-t-t-t-too cold...can't stay airborne." She chattered before she began to lose altitude and plummeted out of the air. She shrieked as she phased through the road and into the sewers until she splashed into the water with a grunt, and the water was suddenly covered under a thick layer of ice. Dani's gloved hand punched through the ice with a shout before she pulled herself out as she panted heavily. "What's happening to me?"

She turned around and gasped in shock with wide eyes when she saw Sam approaching her with his vines suspending him. "Become, Dani, become part of the Growth!" He said with a grin.

Dani pulled herself out and immediately began to sprint down the sewers while Sam sent his vines straight after her. She luckily grabbed onto a ladder as the vines passed right below her. She climbed up the ladder and peeked through the manhole as she shivered even more and saw her home, Fenton Works, a block away from her.

"H-h-have to...g-get inside." Dani stuttered as she climbed out of the hole while her face literally turned blue and walked to her house, hugging herself.

The manhole behind her suddenly exploded with vines as she froze her tracks and turned around as more vines emerged from the holes. They formed into duplicates of Overgrowth as they all roared/howled and fired large thorns at the ghost girl, who ran to her front door and phased through as the spikes stuck to the door. She phased through the floor just as the vines entered her house and scattered all across the entire building. Dani tumbled into the lab with a grunt before she weakly got to her legs as icicles formed on her hair while she continued to shiver. She then weakly looked ahead and saw the active Fenton Ghost Portal right in front of her.

"The Ghost Zone! My only chance!" She said to herself as she got to her feet just before the vines entered the lab and she quickly ran towards the portal. One grabbed her by her ankle, but it immediately froze solid and she snapped out of its grip while it shattered.

Sam suddenly appeared from above when he blocked her way, making her gasp in shock as she froze her tracks. "Stay, Dani. Stay and rule with me." He said to her with a look of plead in his eyes before he grinned sickly again.

"I always thought you ruled, Sam, just n-not like this." As Dani spoke, Sam's glare soften as he stared at his friend. "I'll...b-b-be back and I'll...s-s-save you and everyone!" After a moment of silence, he finally glared angrily as he growled before he sent his vines straight towards Dani. She turned intangible and phased through the vines as she ran towards the portal. "I PROMISE!"

And Dani jumped through the Fenton Portal, leaving Sam to glare at where she left before his vines engulfed the entire lab.


Never in Dani's entire ghost fighting career has she ever retreated from a major ghost battle, but she knew she couldn't fight Overgrowth with this odd cold sensation overtaking her entire body. So she had little choice but to seek refuge in the Ghost Zone until she can find a way to take back her entire town.

Inside the Ghost Zone, Dani flew across the void as she continued to shiver like Antarctica as more icicles coated over her body. She had absolutely no idea why this was even happening to her, but if she couldn't find help soon, she feared that she would freeze into an ice statue if she couldn't find a cure for this cold sensation soon.

"Only one person who can help me. Hope I manage to...s-steer myself in the...r-r-right direction." Dani shivered as she closed her eyes and continued flying towards her destination.

She opened her eyes and gasped when she found herself hurtling towards a ice pillar, but she was unable to stop herself as she crashed straight into it. She tumbled down until she landed on soft snow with some grunts before she immediately fell unconscious. Dani has managed to make it to the Far Frozen when a hover vehicle approached her with an old friend of hers, Blizzard, riding on it as while of her people drove her.

"Object located, madam. Shall we blast it to bits to prove our superiority?" Her servant asked her leader.

Blizzard immediately recognized Dani when her eyes went wide with concern. "This is no mere object! It is a friend in need." She said as she exited off her vehicle and picked up Dani bridal style. "We shall return to the city at once."

Several minutes later after her crash landing, Dani groaned while she began to regain her consciousness. Her eyes popped open when she found herself floating inside some kind of recovery liquid chamber filled with warm water and a breathing mask, and she was even in her bra and undies.

She glanced around in confusion until her old ally, Blizzard, approached to her chamber with a small laugh. "Good morning, Sleeping Beauty." She said to her old friend with a bright smile.

"Blizzard! Hey, wait a minute, where am I?" Dani asked before she looked down at herself and tried to cover up herself. "Where are my clothes?"

"This is a medical facility in the realm of the Far Frozen, and you are floating in a de-icing chamber. You clothes are in the wash, there were a lot of brrs in your shirt. As for what happened, I'm afraid you're going to have to tell me, Beloved One."

"Well, what I can tell you isn't good: Amity Park, my home, completely overrun by Overgrowth, a psycho freaky plant ghost."

Blizzard pulled up a holographic projection of Overgrowth the plant ghost herself as she made a small grave look on her face. "I have heard-tell of this Overgrowth, a powerful ghost she is. Capable of regenerating herself and producing numerous kill offspring. Nearly impossible to defeat."

"Yeah, tell me about it. I tried to stop her, but...I don't remember much once this cold sensation started taking me over."

Blizzard then smiled like she just brought up some she forgot to tell her about: the one reason why she retreated from Overgrowth in the first place. "Ah yes, the cold sensation…" She walked to a screen that showed Dani's body as a blue light blinked at the center of the chest. "Your central core reading indicates extreme cold as if your body is self-generating it. I sensed it within you the last time we met."

"How is that possible?"

Blizzard only laughed like it should have been obvious to her before as she walked back up to Dani with a smile. "You become invisible, pass through solid objects, and you make beams of energy from your hands and you, young lady, ask 'How is this possible?'"

Dani made a look of amazement and shock when she realized what was happening to her. "You mean...this is a new ghost power?"

"Precisely. Though new to you it may be, rest assured it is an ability very familiar to my people. We are quite well-train in its use." As she spoke, Blizzard demonstrated her power as she created a snowball before it shifted into an ice diamond. She then created an ice statue of Dani with an ice beam. "Of course, there are more practical uses for it as well." She then formed the diamond into an ice sword before she sliced the top half of the statue with a shout as it shattered on the ground.

Dani made a look of excitement about this new power. "Teach me!" She then looked down at herself with a small look of embarrassment when her smile dropped. "Uh...when my clothes are ready." Blizzard nodded her head in agreement.

After Dani regained her clothes and was out of the de-icing chamber, Blizzard took the ghost girl into an arena while all of the Far Frozen people watched them from their seats. Dani's shivers unfortunately returned again since she began to tremble madly again like before.

"Why are there so many of your...p-p-p-people watching us?" Dani shuttered.

"HA! It is not every moon that my people get an opportunity to see their leader train one as legendary as you, O Beloved One." Blizzard said with a smile.

Dani gave her a knowing look. "You mean they're hoping I'll mess up, huh?"

"Indeed, these people live in a frozen wasteland, they take their comedy where they can get it. Now then, lesson one: stop shivering."

"I-I-I-I-I-I can't!"

"This is because the cold is contained within you, and ever since you acquired your ghost abilities, you have only been letting it out in small amounts."

Dani cocked an eyebrow. "Like when?"

"Every time you since a ghost is nearby."

"My g-ghost sense? It's been a part of this freeze power all along?"

"But now you must learn to let it out all at once. Now then, concentrate, let the energy build until it has nowhere to go but out."

"Okay, h-here goes everything." Dani closed her eyes tightly when she began to concentrate as her entire body began to glow blue. Then with a loud shout, she made an explosion of ice energy before she slipped onto the ice and looked down at herself. "Hey, wow! It...it worked! I feel normal again! No more cold feeling! Way to go, Blizzar-" But when she looked up to her mentor, her smile dropped when she realized that she has accidentally froze her solid while she gave her a thumbs up. Dani made a sheepish look as she held up a finger. "Uh...can I get some hot chocolate over here?"

After Blizzard got herself thawed out, she wasn't angry at Dani since this was her first time training with her new ice powers. She needed to train fast on this new ability because everyone in Amity Park were counting on her to save them very soon, especially Sam, even if he was now Overgrowth's new second-in-command, and Dani's new ice abilities could come in handy during her fight.

In her next lesson, Blizzard made Dani fire some icicles at some of the targets as she demonstrated how to make them and made several bullseyes, making her audience cheer for her. She then gestured to Dani that it was her turn now. She focused her cold energy to her hands and deeply imagined them being icicle missiles before she fired some. However, unlike Blizzard, the icicles missed the targets completely when they flew straight towards the crowd as they gasped and shouted in pain while they spiked at them, making Dani cringe in embarrassment.

After most of the Far Frozen people returned with bandages from their little icicle incident, Blizzard's next lesson for Dani was to freeze flying disks with her icy eye beams. One disk was catapulted into the air and Blizzard froze it with her icy eye beams with no problem. Another disk shot into the air as Dani tried to focus her cold energy into her eyes, but nothing happened as she saw it flying away. She finally managed to fire some ice beams from her eyes, but it only ended up freezing most of the crowd solid.

"Great, we're not going to sell any snacks now." Blizzard said in frustration as she walked away while Dani only stared at her in silence.


The next day at the Far Frozen, Dani's training with Blizzard was finally over and she was ready to both return her hometown to take it back from Overgrowth and rescue her best friend from her control.

"Well, I guess this is goodbye, for now." Dani said to Blizzard before she smiled at her in gratitude. "I don't know how I can ever thank you and you people enough."

"You can thank us by using your new abilities to rid your world of the evil ghost vermin that infests it." Blizzard as she frowned sternly at the thought of her town being in danger.

"Yeah, but…" Dani then looked down at the snow in doubt. "What if I can't beat her? If I can never go home again? Maybe I can just...stay here with you?"

"NO!" The people of the Far Frozen exclaimed in a panic. Although they really did like Dani genuinely, they didn't want to be used as her target practice again.

"Fear is natural, Dani Phantom." Blizzard said as she placed her hand on her shoulders with a confident smile. "Charging into battle despite the fear is what makes someone a hero, a heroine must always believe that she will win, and your new abilities just may help." She removed her hand before Dani looked down at her hands as they glowed blue with her new cold energy. "Be mindful, you control the power, it does not control you." She then held out her hand.

Dani smiled as she took it. "Thanks." Her smile dropped when she forgot that her hands were still charged with her ice energy, thus she accidentally froze Blizzard's hand as she smiled nervously. "Uh sorry." She then turned to the people of the realm and held up her hand. "Bye, everyone!"

They all only screamed in a panic before they ran away in fear, much to Dani and Blizzard's confusion. Dani and Blizzard both looked at each other before they smiled one last time in goodbye, until Dani finally took off and left the Far Frozen to make her way back to Amity Park to take back her town from Overgrowth.


In the dark lab of the Fenton Works lab, the ghost portal reactivated as Dani hovered back into her parents' lab to finish off what she retreated from. She noticed that it was pitch black before she used her ecto-energy to light up the entire room and found several vines wrapped inside.

"If the lab looks like this, I can't imagine the rest of the town." Dani said to herself with worry in her eyes before she phased through the ceiling.

She was unaware that a couple of ghost plants saw her leave. Dani phased out of Fenton Works and her eyes went wide in surprise and worry when she saw large vines and Overgrowth's plant children everywhere on the buildings and streets. But what scared her the most was that there wasn't a single sign of human life.

"Dani." Sam's deep voice said out of nowhere, making her gasp as she turned around. She began to fly towards the source of her friend's voice as she looked below her at the abandoned and deserted town before her worst fears.

"This place is deserted, no signs of human life anywhere. I better find Tina or-" She said to herself, but suddenly she immediately stopped in midair as her shivers returned and she hugged herself tightly before she made a determined look. "I control the power, the power doesn't control me." She began to concentrate before she stopped shivering.

"Dani." Dani perked her head up when she heard Sam's voice again. She flew up to the center of town that was surrounded by hundreds of large purple closed flowers and in the very center was a large tree with purple leaves. "Welcome back."

Dani turned around and saw Sam emerge from the tree bark with vines supporting him. His plant attire has gone through a change the last time Dani escaped from him. He was still shirtless, wore dark green gloves on each hand, a dark green cape with a high collar, dark pants that were tattered at his ankles, dark green boots, and a vine wrapped around his unusually longer hair and stuck out like thorns, his hair was still frizzly and had a few long locks hanging over his face. The only features that stayed the same were his eyes that were still solid green from being under Overgrowth's control and his face still looked cracked.

Sam smiled wickedly down at his ghostly friend. "I thought you were gone for good." He said.

"Sam, we have to get you out of here."

"No, I like it here. Overgrowth has made all things new." He moved out more outside as a few vines wrapped around him and he hugged them while they nuzzled him. "They need me, I am their new father."

"What?! You won't even babysit your cousins! We have to get out of here now, where's everybody else?"

Sam didn't say a word as he snapped his fingers and the large purple flowers rose to the air. To Dani's shock and horror, they all opened up to reveal Matt, Jackie, James, Tina, Daph Baxter, Paul, Skye, Ms. Lancer, and everyone else she knew, all unconscious in some kind of suspended animation and all tied up to the plants. Dani's eyes went wide at the sight before her while Sam merely smiled with his hands behind his back.

"Our friends?! Our families?! What are you doing?!" Dani demanded as she turned to her vegetized-friend.

"They will be used as nutrients for the children, all that matters now are the children." He said as he faced her with his sickening grin.

Dani then suddenly heard growling from out of nowhere when she turned behind her. From behind the buildings, Overgrowth emerged from the Earth as she roared into the heavens, now looking a hundred times larger than before.

"And you will make a fine meal for them, too!" She growled before she brought up her hand and swatted Dani out of the air, sending her shouting across the vine fields until she landed on the vines with a grunt.

As she weakly pulled herself out of the thorny vines, she looked behind her and flew into the air just before Overgrowth unleashed her vine fingers at her. She elongated her fingers again as Dani used her ecto-energy to slice and cut through the vines while they snapped in half. She then fired an ecto ball with a yell and blasted the plant ghost's arm out. However, she regenerated it back as she grinned. Then three large cacti monsters suddenly emerged from the vines as they began to swat Dani around like a fly until she crashed onto the vines.

Sam wrapped her up with his vines as he approached her. "You must take root, become one with us." He said with his sick grin.

"Stop! Please! Sam, listen to me! You can't let her win!" Dani pleaded before the vines began dragging her underneath themselves while she muffled and Sam only stood there and watched as his friend disappeared underneath the vines.

"You have done well, my son!" Overgrowth said, catching Sam's attention before he turned around to face her. "You shall have the honor of feeding her to the children when she is rip."

Sam narrowed his eyes and smiled at where Dani was dragged down. "Yes, mother." He said softly.

Underneath the vines, Dani grunted and strained to break herself free, but then she gasped when she began to remember Blizzard's words.

Blizzard (Voiceover):
Now then, concentrate, let the energy build until it has nowhere to go but out.

Dani then closed her eyes as she listened to her mentor's words, and began concentrating on all of her cold energy inside of her that began to manifest themselves since she first woke up that morning, and began to build up when it nearly froze her to death.

"Let...me...GOOOOOO!" Dani shouted as her eyes glowed blue and then in a bright flash, the vines were coated in ice as Dani rocketed herself out of her hole.

Overgrowth and Sam both gasped in shock when they saw Dani floating several feet away, with her body and eyes glowing blue now that she had full control over her new ice abilities. She was ready to use this new advantage to stop Overgrowth once and for all and set her hometown and her best friend free from her nature reign.

"Bundle up, cause it's about to get chilly." Dani said before she unleashed an ice wave at Overgrowth as it froze her in a block of ice, but she immediately broke free with an angry roar.

"GET HER!" She commanded her 'son'.

Sam narrowed his eyes before he charged at his friend as he shouted and with a wave of his hand, he fired large thorns at her. Dani pulled up an ice shield as the thorns bounced off before she melted her shield and flew off of the vines. Sam then whipped some of his vines to grab onto Dani, but she froze them with every vine he threw at her while she continued to charge at her mind-controlled friend. Sam narrowed his eyes and then charged again as they both shouted. Sam unleash a vine while Dani fired an ice beam before they exploded on impact. The smoke cleared to show the two friends fighting against each other in hand to hand combat as they punched and blocked each other's blows, Sam swung his leg below while Dani backflipped away and then they finally laced their hands together and tried to overcome each other.

Dani's body began to glow blue while Sam's began to glow more clear as they strained and their hands trembled from their strengths. "Sam, snap out of it! You're being controlled! FIGHT IT!" Dani exclaimed as she tried to reach into her friend.

"The Growth is my family now, and since you won't be my queen…" He began until he noticed Dani glaring even more as she growled and began to easily overcome him. Sam's eyes went wide as he strained even more with effort.

"I'm so sorry about this, Sam."

Dani grunted when she kicked him hard straight on his stomach, sending him tumbling across the vines as he grunted until he stopped near Overgrowth.

Sam held onto his stomach and rubbed his head before he looked up at his 'mother'. Overgrowth growled angrily at the ghost girl for hurting her 'son' as she charged straight towards her. Dani avoided her punches while she smacked the ground instead before Dani fired her ice beams at her and froze her up again. She broke free from her ice case as she growled and tried to swat her, but she flew to the side just as two vines grabbed onto her.

"Watch out! The weatherman predicted a cold snap!" Dani said out loud as she froze the vines from the inside-out before she broke free while she shattered the vines.

Overgrowth shouted as she shrunk after Dani destroyed her vines. Dani realized that her vines and coldness were her weakness. Sam once told her that cold air was bad for the plants before this whole mess began, and she finally knew how to beat her.

"Hey, cabbage-face!" Dani retorted as she began to charge up her fists with cold energy before the plant ghost growled at her insult. "Haven't you heard that cold air is bad for the plants?" Dani phased into the ground where she began to freeze up all of her roots.

"NO! MY ROOTS!" Overgrowth shouted as she began to shrink even more. Dani continued to fire her ice beams onto his roots until all of the vines and Overgrowth's children on the surface were encased in a block of ice, weakening her even more. "No! You cannot do this to my children! NO! This is my domain! My offspring will inherit the Earth!"

Dani emerged from the vines and smiled with her arms crossed. "Sister, I don't know if you realize this, but you're a horrible mother." She then punched Overgrowth on her stomach, kicked her straight to the jaw, and finally uppercutted her across his cheek as she sent her tumbling on her iced-up vines. "As a duly deputized protector of Amity Park, it's my sincere hope that you've enjoyed your butt-kicking experience."

She then formed a snowball with her ice beam and combined it with her ecto-energy before she threw straight at Overgrowth's chest. There was a big momentary flash from the impact before she regenerated it as she roared. But before she could attack Dani again, her chest began to glow and her eyes went wide in surprise.

"HUH?! NO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!" She began to flash even more as Vegetized Sam gasped in horror. Finally, Overgrowth exploded into nothing but vines, her goal for world domination was foiled and has finally been defeated.

All across Amity Park, the ice melted as the vines and Overgrowth's children withered dead with their 'mother' overthrown. All the residences of the city began to wake up from their slave-like states as the Mind Vines released them from their trances. They all groaned in pain, not remembering anything that has happened and they were even confused by all the withered plants that were scattered across town.

Sam was back in his normal attire and free from Overgrowth's control (and lost his power over the plants even) as he rubbed his head, not remembering anything he has done either. "What happened?" He asked before he stuck his tongue out and gagged in disgust. "BLEH! My mouth tastes like I had nine thousand shots of wheatgrass, without the wheat!"

Tina stood up as she rubbed her head as well. "And I had a nightmare that I was trapped in a giant salad bar." She said before she shivered at the thought. "Garbanzo beans."

Sam and Tina then both saw Dani approaching them as her body glowed blue aura. "Hey, are you guys okay?" She asked them.

"Dani, what happened to you?" Sam asked when he noticed that her body was glowing before the aura around her disappear while she looked down at herself briefly.

"Let's just say I have a whole new respect for nature." She then held out her hand as she created a small ice diamond, showing her friends her new ice power she was finally able to control without shivering like Antarctica anymore.

Sam walked up to her, looking amazed by her new ghost power. "Whoa! You can do that now?" Dani remained silent when she handed him the diamond while he stared at it in confusion. "What's this for?"

"I'm just...glad you're okay." They both smiled at each other warmly, but then Tina kind of ruined the moment when she drove in with a lawn mower, much to her friends' confusions. "Tina, what are you doing? Five thousand dollars to cut someone's lawn?" Dani narrowed her eyes and placed her hands on her hips.

"All I need is one lawn and we'll be rolling in green stuff!" Tina exclaimed in excitement.

"Why do I get the feeling I've just done that?" Sam wondered as he narrowed his eyes a little, having some faint memories of when he was controlled by some plant ghost.

Speaking of the menace, Sam suddenly felt the ground beneath him quake a little as he looked down in confusion and then saw a small smudge version of Overgrowth emerge from the ground.

"I am regenerating! I will take over-" She began, but then screeched when she saw Tina approaching her with the lawn mower as she chop her into pieces before she rode up to her friends, who were smiling down at her.

"That one's on the house." Tina said before the three of them burst into laughter at her little joke, and Dani was also happy that everything was once again back to normal...for now, anyway.