Season 3 Episode 9
Frightmare
"You'll Wish it was Just a DREAM!"
It was a bright normal day at Casper High and Dani Fenton was currently in the cafeteria, grabbing her lunch with a bright smile after she'd gotten an 'A+' on her science test. She walked up to her table, until she noticed that her rival, Daph Baxter, was growling menacingly at her best friend, Tina Foley, like she was ready to pound her.
"Oh no, Daph's gonna destroy Tina!" Dani said with concern before walking up to the cheerleading captain. "Girls, wait! Violence is never the answer!"
Daph turned around to face her with a grin. "Well, look who's finally here. I've been waiting for you, Fenton." She said before she raised her hands up like she was about to wail on Dani as she braced herself, but then out of nowhere Daph pulled a seat for her with a more friendly smile. "No, seriously, we've been saving your seat for like ten minutes, where have you been, sis?"
Dani made a look of confusion that her rival is actually being nice to her. She looked down at Tina, who only smiled as a group of cheerleaders behind her began chanting for Dani. She then a newspaper about herself as the first girl to earn the title of a quarterback as she made a winning pass. She didn't remember ever trying out for the football team, let alone being allowed in. In fact, she couldn't even remember anything after waking up.
"'First girl quarterback, Fenton, throws winning pass'?" Dani read out loud, looking very confused. "Throws? Winning? Fenton?"
"Three seconds and you call a reverse?! You're the best quarterback Casper's ever had!" Daph exclaimed excitedly.
"I am? I-I-I-I mean, I am." Her ghost sense suddenly went off, making her frown as she knew there was a ghost nearby. "And speaking of comic book villains…" She looked out the window and saw her old foe, the Hallow Knight, floating above the sky on her horse, Nightmare, and her Soul Shredder sword in her hand.
"Dani! Outside! The Hallow Knight!" Daph cried out nervously.
Dani smiled nervously at the cheerleader as she shrugged her shoulders sheepishly. "Uh...why are you telling me?"
"Duh!" Daph said it like it should be obvious as she smacked her head and rolled her eyes. "Because you have ghost powers!"
Now Dani was very confused that she actually knew that she had ghost powers. In fact, nobody should know as the students began chanting for her to fight. "Go, Dani, go! Go, Dani, go! Go, Dani, go!"
"Uh...going ghost?" Dani said with uncertainty before she changed to her ghost form and the students cheered loudly for her. She smiled and phased out of the school and outside in front of the Hallow Knight. "Hey, Shallow Nut! Do you know the freezing point of metal?" She charged her hands up with ice energy before firing a beam of cold directly at the Halloween Spirit and froze her and her horse in a block of ice and plummeted to the ground. "I'm getting an A+ in science, so that was really a rhetorical question."
Dani uncapped her Fenton Thermos and sucked her inside the device before she collided with the street. She strapped her thermos onto her belt and flew back into the cafeteria as everyone cheered loudly for her again. She changed back to human form and took her seat on her table as Paul Sanchez and Skye sighed romantically at her and gave her loving looks.
"Sweet! Must be nice, Fenton. Being a superheroine and having a whole lot of boys all lovesick for ya." Daph said as she leaned against the table.
"Sounds like someone's tired of taking her cousin to all of the dances." Tina snickered to a cheerleader.
Daph frowned at the techno-geek in annoyance. "He's my mom's sister's stepson."
"Come on, girls, you know there's only one boy for me…" Dani said before she began looking towards a certain someone.
"I sure hope you're talking about me." Dani's other best friend, Sam Manson, said. Dani looked up at him and noticed his hair was tied up in a ponytail while he smiled down at her with his lunch tray on his arm. "Can you make room for your boyfriend?"
Dani smiled and allowed him to sit next to her. "Hey, I like what you did to your hair."
"Well, I don't like hiding my face for a special day like this, and it's your day. That's enough for me."
Dani smiled warmly at her friend and they began to perk their lips and leaned closer to kiss each other as everyone watched with cooing and anticipation. Before Dani and Sam could kiss…the image began to fade away and BAM!
Dani Phantom suddenly shot awake and sat up in shock as a weird helmet on her head suddenly broke apart. Turned out that perfect day Dani was having was all just a dream.
She panted heavily as she looked around in confusion. "A dream? Whoa…" She said to herself and realized she has been sleeping in the middle of the Ghost Zone on a floating rock with no memories of how she ended up there. "More like a nightmare!"
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)
Dani rose up to her feet and rubbed her head as she looked around the Ghost Zone, very confused on why she was just sleeping there. She couldn't seem to remember very clearly since sleeping very deeply can sometimes mess with people's memories before they went to sleep.
"How did I get all the way out here in the middle of the Ghost Zone?" She asked herself.
She suddenly got a flash memory of an army of green moaning ghosts with eyes stitched up and a faceless ghost with a body of the night sky and horns on each side of its head, but that was all she could remember.
"I remember its shape. Dark...ghost? Did I dream that, too?" Dani then looked down and saw pieces of the helmet she was wearing. She picked them up and examined them with a bad feeling someone tossed her in there to keep her out of the way of something. "Something tells me finding out how I got here isn't gonna half as scary as finding out who put me here."
She flew across the Ghost Zone until she found the Fenton Ghost Portal and returned to her parent's lab. She changed back into her human form and walked to the steps, but she noticed her parents weren't in the lab like they usually were.
"Nobody home." Dani said, and then cringed when she heard a click sound, but it was only a beaker. She sighed before she walked up the stairs and began walking in the living room. "Mom?! Dad?! Hello! James?! It's quiet...too quiet."
Unaware to her, the same green ghost she faintly remembered hovered from behind her in the kitchen and out of sight before she could notice. She walked up to the second floor and walked down the hallway.
"Mom? Dad?" Dani peeked into her parent's master bedroom, and saw her own parents, Jackie and Matt, sleeping peacefully on their bed, but wearing the helmets that Dani was once wearing, and she realized that they were trapped in their sleep. "NO!" She reached out to take them off, but only ended up getting her hands shocked when the helmets prevented her from removing them. "Ow! What are these stupid things anyway? Looks like a crown for a high-tech prince! Prince? James!"
Dani ran into her brother's room, but seaw that James was in the same suspended animation state as their parents with a helmet on his head. He was sleeping peacefully on his desk like he fell asleep while studying. She tried to take his off, but like with her parents, her hand ended up getting shocked again like before.
"Going ghost!" Dani shouted before she changed into her ghost form. "I'm going to the video tape."
She phased into the OP Center where she sat by three computer monitors and began typing on the keyboard. She pressed play for the first footage of security when she noticed a group of green familiar-looking ghosts moaned as they phased through the front door.
"Whoa! Rewind! What was that?" She asked herself as she pressed the rewind button and paused on two of them about to enter the house. "Hello. Looks like breaking an entry to me. Well...phasing an entry anyway."
Dani turned on some more security cameras from a few hours ago. One monitor showed her father, Matt Fenton, working on another device until the green stitched-eyed ghosts sprinkled some blue dust, making him fall asleep on his desk instantly. Two pairs of black night hands grabbed his head and slipped the same helmet on his head. The second showed her older brother, James, in his bedroom, who was reading his book, until a ghost appeared and sprinkled dust on him, making him fall asleep on his desk as a same pair of hands slipped another sleeping helmet on him. The last one showed her mother, Jackie, digging through the refrigerator in the kitchen. Dani switched on the fridge camera, showing her mother's face as she hustled an armful of food and even taking a piece of cake. Two more ghosts sneak behind her and sprinkled more dust on her and she took a quick big bite of her chocolate cake before passing out of the floor before the same pair of hands appeared with a helmet.
Dani was shocked at what she witnessed in the footages. "What's happening? Why attack the Fentons? Unless…" She said before looking out the window at the neighborhood. "They were putting the whole town to sleep." Her eyes went wide in realization and fear. "Sam!"
She quickly flew to Sam Manson's house and phased into his room, but was too late: he was currently sleeping peacefully on his bed with the same sleeping helmet on his head. Dani walked up to him and tried to take it off, but like usual, she only ended up getting herself electrocuted.
"OW! I have got to stop doing that!" She exclaimed in frustration. "Sam, I'll find a way to get this off you, I promise. Maybe Tina's equipment can shut some light at what's happening."
Dani made a stop at Tina's room, as she was in the same sleeping state with her helmet on on her bed. She sat by her friend's computer and began typing.
"Okay, let's see what's playing on Tina vision." Dani looks at a holographic projection of Tina as she typed on her computer until a black ghost suddenly appeared, making Tina jump, but it slipped the helmet on her head, making her fall asleep instantly. The recording ended like that, making Dani look in concern. "A whole new ghost and yet...she's kind of familiar." She turned back to Tina. "Thanks, Tin, I'll be right back."
Dani flew across Amity Park and looked around as she saw a sleeping man dangling on a cable with the same helmet, a teen boy who was riding his bike until was cast asleep with the helmet, and she stopped in front of a boy who was swinging, but sleeping on a pole of the swing set. She suddenly heard laughing from behind her, but when she turned, there was no one there. Dani continued to fly over her town, but realized that all the citizens, even their pets, were all fast asleep by all these mysterious headsets.
"Whoa, the whole town's asleep." Dani said to herself until her ghost sense went off. Two green ghosts were putting a couple of civilian's to sleep until they turned and noticed Dani floating in the sky. "Oh boy!"
Dani quickly fired a couple of ecto blasts at the ghosts, but they simply created holes in their chests and her attack went right through them. Then, they stretched their arms and caught Dani by her arms and began flying her somewhere else. "Let me go! Who are you?! What do you want?!" Dani demanded, but they remained silent as they continued flying her somewhere. "Strong silent types, huh? Okay, let's see how strong." She concentrated her ice energy all over her body and froze the ghosts in blocks of ice. "I don't know where you're taking me, but I'm pretty sure I don't want to go." She began to plummet to the ground with the ghosts, but she broke free as they crashed to the ground and disappeared to oblivion. "Heh, not that strong after all."
Dani landed in an alleyway and was about to walk to the sidewalk until… "Whoa!" She exclaimed before she quickly hid behind a wall and turned herself invisible as an army of the same green ghosts floated by as they moaned and once they were gone, she turned visible again. "A whole freaky ghost army run by a new freaky ghost? Why do I get the feeling Vladia's somehow behind this?" Dani asked herself with a suspicious look.
She flew to Vladia Masters' mansion and phased into her room, but gasped when she found her archenemy sleeping on her bed with the same headset and she shifted as she cuddled with her little Matt doll.
"Well, this is definitely a good news/bad news moment, but if Vladia isn't behind this, who is?" Dani asked herself until she turned around to find an army of green ghosts surrounding her. "Hey, guys, love your individuality." She fired a couple of ghost blasts and managed to destroy two as they crumpled to dust as they began to surround her even more. "Luckily, I'm already a student of your creepy ghost moves." Suddenly, fours hands grabbed her wrists and ankles as two ghosts grabbed her as they phased through the wall. "Pay attention, guys." She began to activate her ice power. "You'll see why I'm not even scared."
Dani stopped her cold power when she suddenly heard sinister chuckling coming from nowhere. The ghosts parted out of the way as a ghost appeared from dust with a body that looked like the night sky, purple horns and a scar across her right solid red eye.
"Ah, but you should be, ghost girl, and if you were smart, you would be." She said with a gentle voice and a sick grin.
"You!" Dani exclaimed with wide eyes as her memories began to flood inside her mind.
Back then during the other night, Dani was flying towards the same night-bodied ghost. "Look, I don't know who you are or why you woke me up." Dani said before she threw an ecto ball at the ghost.
However, she seemed unfazed as it created a large gap on her shoulder, but it regenerated instantly. "Don't worry, ghost girl. You'll get back to sleep, I promise." She said as she smiled at her.
"Is that all you got? Girl, you need to get yourself some new-" Dani fired a couple of ghost beams at her, but she merely disappeared out of sight as the beams phased right through her. "Uh...ghost powers."
She suddenly reappeared behind Dani. "I'll get by, would you like to see how?" Before Dani could react, she held out her hand underneath her face and she immediately fell asleep and she held onto her bridal style to prevent her from falling from the sky. Then she and her minion ghosts took Dani to the Ghost Zone as she placed a helmet on her head as the ghosts held her up by her arms. "Sweet dreams, ghost girl."
The ghosts then threw the sleeping Dani into the Ghost Zone where she landed on the same rock she woke up from.
"You were the one who sent me into the Ghost Zone!" Dani exclaimed, now restrained to a table by her wrists and ankles in Vladia's ghost lab as the same ghost she fought before towered over her.
"Yes, and I'm about to do it again." She said calmly.
"Who are you?! What do you want?!"
"I am Nyxie, the ghost of sleep. And what I want, I already have: your dreams, the dreams of everyone in this town. I travel from town to town, absorbing the energy from dreams. With billions of people in your realm, imagine the energy there is to harvest."
"Okay, okay, I get it already! Thank you...but do you get that I won't let that happen?" Dani then froze the restraints on her feet and hands and she broke free from her imprisonment and landed in a pose. "All that beauty sleep has left me rested and stronger; not a great idea."
Dani phased through the table as Nyxie looked surprised by this and began to look around. She suddenly got blasted by an ecto blast from Dani as she phased from underneath her and sent her crashing into a machine above the lab and then she got electrocuted as she shouted before he collapsed on the ground, slightly weakened as Dani smirked at her. "That'll teach ya to steal people's dreams."
"Stealing is such an ugly word. I prefer the term 'harvest' for energy." Nyxie said as she held out her hand, but nothing came out as she examined her hand in confusion while she cocked an eyebrow.
"Looks like you need it, you're running out of steam." Nyxie glared at her as she rose from the ground and Dani hovered in the air. "So what's the big deal about people's dreams?"
Nyxie smiled at her question. "Asked the ghost girl who dreams of the goth boy-"
Dani blushed in embarrassment. "Oh-kay, that was private."
"-dreams are the gateway to the subconscious."
As he spoke, the sleep ghost began to glow as her body was producing green fire all around her before she waved her hand while she shouted and unleashed a blue energy wave. Dani gasped before swing-kicking her foot and creating her own energy wave, but when their attacks collided, Dani was the one who was knocked to the floor. As she tried to get up, she was suddenly lifted from the ground from Nyxie's telekinesis as she shouted when she threw her across the lab.
"My army will keep the world asleep so that I would remain all powerful." She said to the ghost girl while she leaned herself against the wall for support.
"That's all you do? Put people to sleep? You sure you're not a teacher?" Dani asked before she shouted as she produced ecto-energy on her hand and swiped it at her body while she sliced through her in half. She turned around while grinning, but it dropped as she gasped when she regenerated herself.
"Sleepwalkers, form!" The air behind Dani materialized as the same green ghosts with stitched eyes appeared as they moaned. "As you will see, dreams also fuel my Sleepwalkers. We are...unstoppable."
"This is where I say 'dream on'." The Sleepwalkers charged at Dani, but she unleashed a powerful ecto beam that disintegrated all of them.
"Sleepwalkers, form!"
More of them appeared as they began to dogpile Dani into a crater. Nyxie smiled, but then it dropped when she heard her straining as she lifted all of them with her superhuman strength before she shouted as she fired ice rays from her eyes and froze all of the Sleepwalkers into a block of ice before she punched them as they shattered into pieces.
"You know with the whole town dreaming, I could do this all day." Nyxie said to her.
"Really? Me, too." Dani said as she glared determinedly and she charged her hands with energy while getting in a stance.
Nyxie smiled even more as her hand glowed. "Really? Well, I believe this is where I say 'dream on'!" Sleepwalkers appeared from the ground as they grabbed Dani by her feet. She was about to fire at them, but more grabbed her arms and a dozen more gathered around her, trapping her as she struggled against their strength. "Time's up, Dani Phantom. I promise your next sleep will be much deeper this time, and by deeper, I mean permanent nap time." Nyxie then formed a blue ecto ball in her palm, ready to kill the ghost heroine.
"Must be nice to have others to fight your battles, not so nice though when they lose." Dani eyes began to glow blue and then in a bright flash, all the Sleepwalkers were frozen and she used her repulsion field to break the ice that was surrounding her. "Time to hibernate!"
Dani charged straight at Nyxie as she tried to swipe her claws at her, but she evaded it and double kicked her in the chest, making her move back a little and she charged her hand with energy before she punched her fist straight through her body. She then used her ice power again as she froze Nyxie from the inside-out and she shouted as she became encased into an ice statue. Dani recharged her hands and fired another ecto-energy beam as it shattered Nyxie into pieces.
Dani snickered as she crossed her arms. "Sweet dreams!" She said before making a serious look. "Now to wipe out those Sleepwalkers. To battle an army, I'll need one of my own." After she phased herself out of lab to rescue her friends from their dream prisons, she was completely unaware that the ice began to melt as the air shimmered into Nyxie's form.
"You cannot stop me, ghost girl. I might be weakened, but once I recharge, your nightmare will truly begin!" She promised to herself before she disappeared without a trace.
Dani decided to make a stop at Tina's room as she watched her best friend snoozing with the headset on her head. She began to think to herself on how to remove the headset without it getting herself shocked to wake up her friend.
"Okay, so how do I get remove that headset without lighting myself up like a Christmas tree?" Dani asked herself until something clicked in her mind when she first awaken from her trapped sleep like something startled and shocked her enough to wake up. "Wait a minute, something obviously woke me up and knocked this thing off me, but the question is what?"
Dani suddenly remembered that it was her and Sam almost kissing each other in her dream that shocked her awake. "Whoa, yeah, that'll do it. Okay, so I don't have to risk getting shocked to remove this thing, I just need to shock Tina, inside her dream. No big deal, I've overshadowed Tina. Just slip inside and get inside her dream. No sweat. Look out, Tina, I'm coming in!"
Dani floated from the ground, turned herself intangible and phased straight into Tina's head as she appeared inside her dream. She discovered that she had the ability to enter other people's dreams by simply overshadowing them in their sleep and actually interact with their dreams counterparts. She gasped in amazement when she saw different cars and trucks everywhere with license plates in her name and even a helicopter and a large mansion.
"Nice, Tina, even your dreams have style." Dani said, looking somewhat impressed.
Dani then phased into the mansion as she turned invisible and peaked from a column wear she saw Tina sitting between two Skye's while wearing a yellow dress.
"Can I offer you gentlemen in a beverage? Say...chocolate milk?" Dream-Tina said before she pressed a button on her remote and a fridge appeared with shelves of chocolate milk. The two Skye's both walked to get some as Dream-Tina relaxed on her couch and looked at a maid who was currently dusting the walls. "That will be all, Fenton."
"Yes, ma'am." The maid, who happened to be Dream-Dani, said, wearing a maids attire.
"Wait! I'm the maid?!" The real Dani exclaimed in dismay as she cocked an eyebrow.
"And now for some ambiance." Dream-Tina said as she pressed her remote again and played some music as the Skye's smiled.
"Hate to crap your style, Tin...uh, actually, no I don't."
Dream-Tina was kissing the hand of a Skye until she felt a hand on her shoulder. "I can't neglect you, my pet." She turned around to kiss the other Skye, but then she suddenly realized it was actually Dani in her ghost form, looking very displeased with her hands on her hips.
"Seriously, girl, I'm your maid?" Dani asked her.
The real Tina suddenly sat up as she woke up in surprise as she shrieked loudly while her eyes glowed blue as her helmet exploded to pieces before Dani flew out of her head.
Tina shook her head to get rid of the sleepiness. "What happened? Oh man, I just had the worst nightmare ever!" She exclaimed as she slapped her hand on her head.
"Actually, you're now in a worse one. Come on, we gotta free Sam." Dani said to her, but before she could walk away, she turned back to her best friend with a skeptical look. "And, just so you know, I don't do windows." Tina only stared at her in confusion, yet had a feeling she would be toast later on.
Dani and Tina both arrived in Sam's room and Tina tried to remove the headset off him, but she ended up getting shocked, making her yelp and retreated her hand as she shook it.
"Whoops, I probably should've told you about that, my bad." Dani said sheepishly as she walked up to her. "Don't touch anything else. Now that I know how to do this, it'll only take a second."
Dani phased into Sam's head and appeared inside his dream. She looked around, but noticed that it was just the Casper High cafeteria, nothing out of the ordinary, and looked like it was a normal day at school. "The cafeteria? He, come on, Sam, I expected bigger dreams from-" Dani began to say.
She suddenly noticed Dream-Sam was sitting at a table with Dream-Daphne Baxter and Dream-Tina Foley as she also watched herself walking up to him, wearing a black shirt with a skull, black jeans, a purple headband and lipstick, and black combat boots.
"Can you make room for your girlfriend?" Dream-Dani asked as she sat next to Sam with her lunch tray and smiling warmly at him.
Dani looked confused that Sam was dreaming about her as a goth and that she was actually his girlfriend. "Girlfriend? And me a goth? His dream is just like mine." She began to laugh nervously. "Uh, his dream is just like mine. He...weird. And act nothing like a goth."
"I didn't know you like wearing black." Dream-Sam told Dream-Dani with a laugh.
"I'm not much of a goth, not to mention being one, but you're one, and that's enough for me." Dream-Dani said, staring at him romantically.
Dream-Sam smiled warmly as they began to kiss each other. The real Dani was shocked at the sight and walked backwards, but then she accidentally crashed to the salad stands, making a noise loud enough to catch Dream Sam and Dani's attentions as they turned around to see the real Dani Phantom lying on the ruined salad stands.
"Wait, you can't be in two places at once." Dream-Sam said to Dream-Dani, looking clearly confused.
The real Dani turned intangible and quickly phased into Dream-Daph's body as she overshadowed her. "Actually, Sam, I'm Dani Phantom." Dani said in Daph's voice before she rose to her feet and punched her fist into her palm. "Going ghost!" And changed into her own ghost form.
The real Sam suddenly shot awake as he screamed loudly as his eyes glowed blue and his helmet broke into pieces before Dani was catapulted out of his head and landed on his bed while she turned solid.
"That must've been some dream." Tina said as she grinned cleverly and had her arms crossed.
Dani crawled next to Sam as they exchanged looks before looking away awkwardly. "I don't remember!/didn't see anything!" Sam and Dani said in unison while they both blushed in embarrassment, earning a strange look from their techno-geek friend.
"What just happened?" Sam asked Dani.
"We have another stop to make, we'll explain everything on the way." She said to him.
They went back to Fenton Works where they stopped inside James's room as he continued sleeping on his desk. "Any objection to me waking up James?" Dani asked her friends.
"Nope. The more of us, the better." Sam replied.
"You guys stay alert, I'll be right back." Dani phased into her brother head, leaving Sam and Tina to themselves for the moment.
"So...what were you dreaming about?" Tina asked her goth friend while smirking like she knew something he didn't.
"Oh, you know, nothing specific. I was just sharing a glass of chocolate milk with two friends who look just like Skye." Sam said as he smiled cleverly with his arms crossed.
"Hey, that's what I-" Tina's smile then dropped when she realized what he was talking about, making her frown her in annoyance. "Oh, Dani told you my dream, didn't she? I'm pretty sure that violates the girl code."
James suddenly shot awake as he screamed loudly in shock as his eyes glowed blue and his helmet shattered before Dani flipped out of his head and landed behind him and next to her friends.
"Did I just dream that I was a professor at Yale and married to Daphne?!" James asked in shock with a hint of disgust in his voice.
"Yep, Daph's really coming in handy today. She's like the poster girl for nightmares." Dani chuckled as she glanced at Sam.
Sam stared at her in confusion before they both smiled as they looked away from each other while blushing. "Yeah. Nightmares." They chuckled sheepishly in unison.
As the sun began to set at the Amity Park pier, Dani, Sam, Tucker, and James all arrived in front of a mattress warehouse with their ghost-hunting gear in their bags. They looked up and saw a large antenna above the building. "A mattress warehouse, of course! That new antenna must be receiving the signals from all the headsets." Dani said before she, her friends, and her brother pinned their backs near the entrance as Dani held out her Boo-staff, ready to use. "Everybody cool with the plan?"
"Take out the army of Creepwalkers." James replied.
"Sleepwalkers."
"You call 'em what you want, I'll call 'em what I want. Then use Tina's PDA to destroy that giant antenna."
"And whatever it's connected to."
"Then we unleash the Fenton Thermos." Sam said as he pulled out his Fenton Thermos as Tina took it from him.
"And we nail him!" Tina finished confidently until suddenly a Sleepwalker appeared out of nowhere as it grabbed the thermos and crushed it like a soda can and tossed it aside and a whole group of Sleepwalkers surrounded Team Phantom.
"Okay, guys! Let's do it!" Dani shouted as she swung her leg and unleashed an ice wave that managed to freeze two Sleepwalkers. She spun her Boo-staff expertly as she ran up to them as she swung and destroyed one before she kicked and shattered the other.
Sam brought out his bazooka and fired at two others, but while he managed to create holes on their chests, they regenerated immediately. Sam yelped in surprise as he tried to walk back, but accidentally fired his weapon that made him trip as the Sleepwalkers grabbed him and lifted him in the air. James tried to fire his ecto gun at the ghosts, but missed them completely. Dani flew to the air she punched one away, froze the other before swing-kicking it into pieces. Sam shouts as he plummeted to the water, but Dani managed to catch him and settled him gently on the ground.
"You okay?" Dani asked her gothic friend.
"Huh, oh yeah." He said as he smiled.
"Cool." With that, she flew back into action.
Sam smiled even more at his heroic half-ghost friend. "Yeah, cool."
"Sam!" Tina called out, catching his attention. She threw him a Fenton Thermos as he caught and looked up as he saw Dani flying in the air with three Sleepwalkers following at her tail. She lured the ghosts near the ground as Sam, Tina, and James all sucked them inside their thermoses and recapped them before Dani landed near them.
"Nice teamwork, guys." She said to her friends and brother, before she made a serious face. "Now let's get Nyxie!"
Dani kicked open the doors as they all entered the warehouse, but she gasped at the sight in front of her. She saw a large machine with Nyxie inside, deep asleep in a chamber with energy swirling around her, and she looked even more larger than before.
"No...NO! Nyxie...she's huge!" Dani exclaimed as she hovered to her chamber. "She's absorbing dreams and getting more powerful, we have to stop her!" Dani tried to open it with her strength, but was locked on tight. She then tried to use her strength it to punch through the glass, but only succeeding in hurting her own hand. "Ow!" She then fired an ecto disk at the glass, but it didn't even make a crack and then made a large beam as it still didn't even melt it and she halted her attack. Whether she would admit it or not, she knew that none of her powers were enough to break through this indestructible glass.
"Dani, you need to stay focused!" Sam told her as she turned to him. "The longer Nyxie's in there-"
"The stronger she gets, I know! That's why I'm trying to break in and wake her up." Dani said, but then suddenly got an idea. "Wait a minute…'wake her up'. We wake her up, the same way I woke all of you!" Dani landed near her friends and brother. "Think about it, you all woke up by being surprised. If I beat her in her dream, it'll startle her awake, and-"
"We catch her." James finished for his sister as he held up a thermos.
"Dani, you can't go in the dream alone, you don't know what's in there!" Sam said and made a determined look on his face. "I'm coming with you."
"I...really don't have much of a choice, do I?"
Sam smiled cleverly. "No, not so much." That made Dani smile also.
"You kids have fun. I know I always said I want to be the girl in someone's dreams, but this isn't what I meant." Tina said to James.
"Tina, you and James stay out here and calibrate your PDA to shut down this...dream machine. That should stop the Sleepwalkers at least." Dani said to her before turning her attention to Sam again. "Are you sure you want to do this? I've never overshadowed anybody with a partner before."
"Can you...make room for me?" Sam asked as he shrugged.
Dani only smiled and nodded as she turned herself intangible. She then took Sam's hand as her intangibility power expanded all over her friend's body as he looked down at himself. "You okay?"
"Tingly, but good. Let's do this!" Dani and Sam both floated off the ground as Dani flew them straight into Nyxie's head and into her dream.
"Wow, those two are really-" James began.
"Creepy!" Tina interrupted.
James turned to her in confusion. "What?"
"I mean, Creepwalkers at five o'clock!" Tina pointed at the ceiling as a group of Sleepwalkers phased from the ceiling. Tina took out her mini blaster and fired a couple of beams as James fired his ecto gun at the ghosts while Tina climbed to the top of the machine to reach the antenna.
"I hope Dani and Sam are doing better inside Nyxie's dream." James said as he continued firing at the Sleepwalkers.
Inside Nyxie's dream, it's a dark, evil-looking setting as a large army of Sleepwalkers walked across a town and up to a castle as they circulate the castle and at the top of the tower was Nyxie laughing evilly at the night sky. Dani and Sam both peeked through a rock and stared at the sight.
"I gotta hand it to the girl, she's got a vision." Dani muttered to Sam, until lightning struck and they could've swore Nyxie turned directly towards them before she disappeared in a lightning flash. "Uh oh, did she just see us?"
They both gasped when they turned around and saw her hovering right behind them. "Ah, the ghost girl and her boyfriend. Once again, together in dreamland." She said as she grinned wickedly at them.
"Well, this is one dream you're gonna wake up from." Dani formed ecto-energy on her hands and fired a beam directly at Nyxie, hitting her dead on as she flew backwards until Dani flew behind her and fired an energy disk and sent her plummeting towards the ground.
Sam quickly ran up with the Fenton Thermos in his hands and fired energy at Nyxie, sucking her inside and recapped the thermos, but he suddenly got a weird feeling as Dani landed next to him. "Okay, that was definitely not right. That was way too easy." He said to his friend.
"Why didn't Nyxie wake up?" Dani asked.
The ground began to shake as they look behind them and found a larger version of Nyxie appearing from the rocks as she grinned at the teens. "Did you honestly think you could defeat me in my own dream? I am the queen of all dreams! You cannot win in my world!" She declared.
Dani then grabbed onto Sam. "Then we'll just have to take back the homefield advantage. Let's get out of here." Dani said before concentrating on exiting Nyxie's dream, but she looked down at herself and noticed she couldn't get out of her head with Sam. "It didn't work! I can't get us out!"
"I told you, I control all dreams, especially my own, and in my dream, you two shall remain forever."
Dani and Sam both tried to run away, but were blocked off by an army of Sleepwalkers. "Oh boy."
"Fight, Dani!" Sam exclaimed as he pulled out his bazooka with a determined look. They both fired their ecto beams at the Sleepwalkers, but they both ended up regenerating their holes and they marched straight up to them, unfazed.
"Your weapons and abilities no longer work." Nyxie said to the teens as she towered above them. "The dreams of your families and friends have made me and my army unstoppable. Now, you will join them and patrol the nights for eternity!"
Back at the warehouse, James continued firing his weapon at the Sleepwalkers, trying to buy Tina some time as she continued messing with her PDA on the antenna. James fired dead on at a couple of ghosts, but noticed they were becoming more invulnerable by the second as they continued flying straight towards the teens.
James shouted in fear before turning to Tina. "They're getting stronger!" He exclaimed in fear.
"Keep blasting! I need another minute!" Tina replied before returning to work and suddenly heard a blast. "James?"
She turned around and saw James being held by two Sleepwalkers as he waved his legs around madly, trying to break free from their grips. "Tina, keep going!"
She turned back to her PDA and began typed even faster as she sweated. "Come on, come on!" She kept on typing on her device until she finally pressed enter and smiled. "Got it!" The antenna began to shake at her response until a Sleepwalker grabbed her shoulder as she looked up at it in fear. "Uh oh." And they both lifted her in the air until the whole antenna exploded, making the Sleepwalkers holding Tina disappeared as she shouted and fell back onto the machine again. "James?"
Tina looked up and saw James being dragged up into the air by the Sleepwalkers, but then they disappeared as well, making him fall to the ground as he shouted. She quickly ran across the machine before it exploded on her and she used the force to jump higher as she grabbed onto James as they shouted, until they both bounced on piles of mattresses until they safely landed on the ground with grunts.
Tina looked up at the mattresses and smiled sheepishly at her best friend's brother. "It's a...uh…" She said.
"Mattress factory." James said dully.
Back inside Nyxie's dream, Dani and Sam backed away from her in fear as the Sleepwalkers grabbed onto them and she laughed evilly. "Only a miracle could save you now." Nyxie said as she grinned at the two of them.
The Sleepwalkers laughed in response until they suddenly disappeared without a trace as Dani and Sam witnessed them all vanishing out of thin air. "What happened?" Sam asked.
"Tina and James did it!" Dani replied as she smiled.
They both looked back up at Nyxie as she examined her hands shaking and she looked troubled. "I don't understand. Why do I suddenly feel weak?" She asked the teens in confusion.
Sam smiled cleverly. "Because this is now your worst nightmare." He said to her before Dani fired her ice beams at Nyxie as she froze her solid into an ice statue.
"Sam, would you do the honors?" Dani offered as she floated to the side.
Sam kneeled down while charging up his bazooka as he smirked. "My pleasure. Sweet dreams." And he fired a missile and it destroyed Nyxie in an instant.
Back in the real world, the real Nyxie woke up as she glared before she growled and broke free from her chamber. She materialized Dani and Sam out of her head as they kneeled on the floor. "I shall destroy you for waking me! Sleepwalkers, form!" Nyxie exclaimed, but looked surprised that none of them have appeared.
"Boy, somebody woke up cranky." Sam cooed while smiling cleverly as he crossed his arms.
"In your dreams, Nyxie! The antenna's gone and so is your dream machine." Dani said before she crossed her arms as well. "Everyone you put to sleep is waking up; you have no power."
Nyxie growled menacingly at the ghost heroine and was about to attack her and her gothic friend, until Tina sucked her inside her Fenton Thermos. "Consider this your wake up call." She said as she recapped the thermos as James remained and smiled with his arms crossed.
After a long night of fighting against an evil dream ghost, Tema Phantom then sat outside the warehouse as they watched the sunrise in the horizon of the lake after a long night of battling sleep ghosts while Dani remained in her ghost form. They knew that everyone was waking up from their helmets, so everything was back to normal for the time being.
"You really think everyone would believe this was all a dream?" Dani asked her friends and brother.
"I gotta say, Nyxie was an evil creep, but I wouldn't mind having my dream again. I could get use to that." Tina admitted.
"Me, too. Yale professor, what's not to love?" James said before he turned his attention to his sister and Sam. "What about you two?"
Dani and Sam both gasped and blushed, both unsure of how to answer his question. "Uh, I don't...really remember what my dream was about." Dani said sheepishly.
"Yeah, me neither." Sam said as he shrugged before they both smiled innocently.
"Really? That's too bad." James said as he looked back at the dawning sun in the distance.
"Oh yeah, well...dreams, gateway to the subconscious. Uh...I don't think so." Dani said as she shrugged it off.
"Yeah, dream on." Sam chuckled.
They both looked at each other and looked away while blushing and then they both smiled at each other while Sam placed his hand onto Dani's as she smiled more warmly. They two of them sort of knew that they both had the same dream of the two of them being together, but they each decided to themselves not to tell anyone, especially to each other.
