Last time in Danny's Mansion; the team had just gone through a quick but dangerous training course on how to use their gear. Through what can best be described as dumb luck, they succeeded in passing and have reentered the mansion. With one of the hallways on the second floor locked, the team took to the other and divided up to search the rooms. Their mission is a simple one, capture all the ghosts in the mansion and solve the mystery as to why they have gathered in his one mansion.
Will they figure what is going on? What ghost will they face? Who will capture the ghost? Will they find anything useful? Did Danny remember to fully charge his cell phone? Will North Korea realize that they are clearly out matched in every way possible against South Korea and the USA? What does that question have to do with the story?
We're about to find out.
Inside the room Sam had entered looked very plain; a single bed in the center, a drawer, and a ceiling fan. There was a closet facing the bed as well. However, there was a massive pile of clothes scattered all over the floor.
'Whoever had this room wasn't one for cleaning up,' thought Sam as she began inspecting the room.
As Sam looked through the old clothes, a pair of glowing red eyes watched her from within the closet. The owner of those eyes watched the Goth girl with curiosity and felt the need to give the girl a hard time.
The ghost phased out of the closet and slowly approached Sam while her back was to the ghost. Sam was sorting through the clothes, trying to find anything that might be useful to her in her ghost hunting. So far she had found nothing after sorting through three piles of clothes. The ghost got closer to her like a hunter about to pounce on its prey.
As Sam continued to search through the clothes, she came across a small round object. It looked like a silver ball with a few glowing green lights. She gave it a brief look over before throwing it over her shoulder.
The ball suddenly let out a massive flash of light behind Sam's back. Since she wasn't looking at the ball, Sam was able to see the shape of a ghost that vaguely looked like an octopus. The ghost tried to cover its eyes, but it was too late. It was blinded by the flash of light and Sam quickly turned around and activated her Specter Sucker.
The ghost never knew what hit it as it was being sucked into the vacuum the Goth girl was using. Sam watched as the ghost vanished into the vacuum right before her eyes. Sam turned the vacuum off before she did a fist pump.
"Oh yeah!" cheered Sam. "Who's the Goth girl?" she continued as she did a slight moonwalk, which was quiet hard with combat boots.
Over at the room right across from the room Sam was in, Danny was looking over the many random toys that filled the room. From what Danny could tell this room may have belong to a child. There were toys of pirates, cowboys, army soldiers, and even some robots. One of the most surprising toy robots was something Danny didn't expect.
"No way," said Danny as he picked up the toy.
The robot had a mostly white body with a dark blue chest. On the back was four large pieces that looked like crossbones. The chest had a small skull and crossbones marking. In its right hand was a pick sword that looked like a cutlass sword and a small pistol in the left hand. The head had a yellow V shaped crest with the skull and crossbones in the center.
"The Crossbone Gundam," said Danny in amazement. "How did anyone get one of these in America?" he wondered. "I seriously doubt there is internet access in this place, and even if there was; who would even bother shipping it all the way here?" he continued to ask himself as he admired the toys.
What Danny didn't know was that a small ghost boy, dressed like a pirate, was passing right behind him and left the room.
"Wow, it's even in great condition too," Danny commented. "I wonder how much it sold for," he wondered while being totally oblivious to the ghost that got away because he was too busy admiring a toy robot.
Over at the end of the hallway and in the room that Tucker and the Box Ghost went into, the aforementioned techno-geek with an embarrassing scream was hiding under the bed. Since he entered the room, Tucker dove underneath the bed and has since been shaking in fear as he hid from the ghost he saw in the hallway. He kept on eyes glued at the door expecting a ghost to pass through the door or one of his friend to come and protect him.
What Tucker didn't know was that he was not alone underneath that bed. The Box Ghost was also under the bed right next to Tucker. He was invisible and was looking at the door as well, wondering why the young human was looking at the door.
"Is there any reason why we are looking at that door?" asked the Box Ghost.
"I'm trying to make sure that ghost doesn't follow me," answered Tucker.
"Why would the ghost go through the door?" asked the Box Ghost.
"Because everyone uses a door to enter," replied Tucker.
"I don't," said the Box Ghost.
"What, you use the window?" retorted Tucker.
"No, I just go through the walls," replied the Box Ghost.
"That's stupid, only gho…." started Tucker until he turned to face the Box Ghost.
The Box Ghost waved at Tucker.
"Beware," whispered the Box Ghost.
Tucker screamed in his usual manner as he scrambled to get out of the bed and run out the door. Well, he would have run out the door, but he forgot to open the door and knocked himself out cold. The Box Ghost winced at the sound of the impact that Tucker made before leaving the room by phasing through the floor.
"That had to hurt," commented the Box Ghost before he left.
While Tucker was in dreamland, Danny and Sam exited the rooms they were in. Danny still had the Crossbone Gundam toy in his hand.
"So any luck in catching any ghosts Sam?" asked Danny.
"Yeah, I caught this green octopus ghost," answered Sam. "What about you?" she asked.
"No luck on my end," answered Danny.
"What's that in your hand?" asked Sam pointing at the toy.
"Oh this, I found it in the room," replied Danny as he showed Sam the toy. "Can you believe it, someone had a Gundam here," he added.
"Whoa, is that the?" asked Sam.
"Yeah, a Crossbone Gundam," confirmed Danny. "What are the odds?" he asked.
"Danny, that is so cool. Those things are coolest Gundams by far," said Sam.
"Yeah, I've been thinking of getting a model kit of either this one or upgraded version," commented Danny.
"I'm still bummed that the Crossbone Gundam hasn't been made into an anime series yet," said Sam. "It would be a great series," she added.
"I know Sam, but you can still read the manga online," said Danny as he went back into the room to return the toys.
After placing the toy back, Danny returned to the hallway where Sam was still waiting.
"Think we should check on Tucker?" asked Sam.
"Might as well, you know how he is when we leave him alone in places that scare him," answered Danny as the two of them headed towards the room Tucker was in.
Inside the room Tucker was in, the dark skinned boy was beginning to regain consciousness. He slowly got back on his feet and checked himself for any injuries. Finding none on his body, Tucker reached for the door knob. Too bad for him, he was too close to the door and it was flung open thanks to Danny opening the door. Tucker was knocked by the door and onto the wall with the door planted onto his front. Danny and Sam entered the room hoping to spot Tucker, but had no luck in seeing him.
"Strange, do you think Tucker went into another room?" asked Danny.
"I doubt it, he's probably hiding under the bed," answered Sam as she checked. "Don't be making any comments about my butt," she warned her boyfriend in a teasing manner.
"There goes about a dozen comments," joked Danny as he helped Sam look for Tucker.
As Danny moved away from the door, Tucker fell onto the floor from behind the door. The young couple heard the sound and turned to see Tucker on the floor in pain.
"Found him," called out Danny.
Tucker regained consciousness after his second time being bested by the door to see his friends looking down on him. He quickly got back up and tried to hug one of them, however Sam punched him in the chest so that he would back away from her, he fell on his butt. Tucker almost forgot that Sam hates to be hugged by anyone with the sole exception of her grandmother and of course Danny.
"So, any reason why you were hiding behind the door Tucker?" questioned Sam.
"I-I-I-I wasn't hiding…" stuttered Tucker as he looked around the room to see if the Box Ghost was still around. "You guys hit me with the door," he added.
"Well that does explain the slight thud sound we heard after I opened the door," commented Danny.
"Yeah wait a minute, you did hit me with the door Danny?" questioned Tucker sounding shocked. "That is so not cool dude," he added angrily.
"Well I wasn't expecting you to be behind the door," Danny defended himself. "Besides we're supposed to be looking for ghosts remember," he continued.
"Thanks to Sam," grumbled Tucker.
"Hey don't get mad at me!" snapped Sam. "The greatest chance for an adventure just offers itself to us and you expected me to say no?" she added.
"Yes, because some of us have better things to do," argued Tucker.
"Like what?" countered Sam.
"I could be going out with Star tonight instead of being here," argued Tucker.
"Yeah, a date that will never happen," retorted Sam as she turned away from Tucker and exited the room.
"It can so happen!" yelled Tucker. "You agree with me right Danny?" he asked his friend.
Danny didn't reply to Tucker's question.
"DANNY!" yelled Tucker.
"Sorry dude, I just don't see it," said Danny. "Star would never date you. In fact, she pretty much hated you ever since you placed those cameras in her locker, her bedroom, and her bathroom," he explained. "You pretty much gave off the impression of a stalker that her parents had issued a restraining order on you," he added as he was about to leave the room.
"Come on, Star was flattered by what I did," argued Tucker.
"No, she was disgusted and asked Sam to kick you between the legs with her new spiked toed boots so hard that you would have internal bleeding," replied Danny.
"You're joking right?" asked Tucker.
"Tucker, you do remember that Sam didn't speak to you for three weeks right?" asked Danny.
"Yeah," replied Tucker. "Why is that important?" he asked.
"You do realize that Sam and Star are cousins right?" asked Danny as he left.
"WHAT!?" yelled Tucker in shock.
After that startling revelation, the three teens were out in the hallway again planning their next course of action.
"Well since we're not getting anywhere with anything, how about we just stick together?" suggested Sam.
"Sure, that would be a better idea," commented Danny. "We'll be able to spot anything out of the ordinary," he added.
"And not get distracted by a toy," Sam added with a small grin.
"Yeah, that was pretty stupid of me," admitted Danny as he rubbed the back of his head while giving his girlfriend a smile.
"You can be such a dork Danny," teased Sam. "An adorable dork, but still a dork," she continued.
"And that's one of the reasons why you're with me," replied Danny.
"Yes it is," admitted Sam.
"You two lovebirds done yet?" whined Tucker.
"We're not lovebirds," joked Danny and Sam.
"Whatever," commented Tucker. "I say we just up and leave. No more of this ghost hunting nonsense," he added.
"Forget it Tucker, we're here to help the professor and that's what we're going to do," said Danny.
"Well you can count me out," said Tucker as he turned around and headed for the nearest door. "I'm getting out of here," he added as he opened the door. "And there is nothing you can do to…AHHHHHHH!" he continued until he fell into the massive room sized hole that was behind the door screaming like a little girl once again.
Danny and Sam looked down the hole that Tucker fell into and couldn't see him.
"That is either one deep hole or one very dark floor," commented Sam.
"What kind of twisted haunted mansion is this place?" asked Danny just before he spit down the hole.
There was a small splat sound that echoed from the bottom followed by a yell of disgust from Tucker.
"Really Danny?" commented Sam. "You had to do that?" she asked.
"I couldn't help myself," pouted Danny. "So how are we going to get him out of there?" he asked.
"No idea," answered Sam.
Inside the dark hole that Tucker fell in, the young technology obsessed boy was busy coughing due to Danny's spit accidently landing in his mouth. He was lucky that he landed on something very soft therefore suffering no major injuries.
After finishing his coughing fit, Tucker tried to feel around for anything that resembled a light switch. After fumbling around for about ten seconds, Tucker had finally found something that resembled a lamp. He found a chain and pulled it causing surprisingly enough a large amount of lights to turn on.
Tucker found himself inside of a room that seemed to have an Arabian look. There were pillows of different sizes, silk blankets and curtains as far as he can tell. However, what lay in the center was a small bottle on top of a podium.
Tucker slowly walked towards the podium and picked up the bottle. He looked it over for a moment before setting it back on the podium and turned away.
"Like I'm gonna just open some random bottle," commented Tucker. "With my luck a ghost would pop out and try to suck me dry of energy," he added as he started to walk away.
However, Tucker slipped on one of the pillows, hitting the podium, and causing the bottle to fall onto the one spot that wasn't covered by pillows, and shatter to pieces. Green mist floated out of the shattered remains of the bottle and started to take form. Tucker backed away in fear as he watched the ghost begin to appear before him. What Tucker saw left him stunned by the appearance of the ghost.
The ghost was a woman, a very beautiful woman. She had long black hair that covered her right eye, full lips, and an hour glass body that ended with a blue ghost tail. Her skin was green and her one visible eye was red. She wore golden bracelets and a blue top to cover her breasts. If Tucker had to guess she was a harem girl before she died, and a very beautiful one at that.
The ghost woman looked around her surrounding before noticing the in opinion badly dressed dark skinned boy looking up at her. She noticed the look in Tucker's eyes and some other things about him before turning away from him. She knew that this boy had freed her, but she felt no need to play the role of wish granting genie to someone so pathetic. She would rather find some other humans to mess with.
"Hey wait a minute!" yelled Tucker after he got out of his stupor. "I freed you, where are my wishes?" he demanded.
"Foolish child, do you think you can order me to grant you your puny little desires?" challenged the ghost. "I am Desiree, the ghost of wishes and I decide who I will grant wishes for," she declared. "Now be gone with you. The sight of you is an eyesore," she said as she moved her left hand towards Tucker.
Tucker found himself enveloped in an aura of bright purple energy and was flung out of the room and back up to the hallway Danny and Sam were still at. The young couple moved to the sides as Tucker landed between them.
"Tucker, what happened down there?" asked Danny.
"The most beautiful woman I had ever laid my eyes on just threw me out," replied Tucker in a soft tone. "Why! Why has she forsaken me!?" he yelled in sorrow.
"Probably for the same reason my cousin gave me when she asked me to castrate you," commented Sam.
Ghost Tally:
Danny: 0
Sam: 1
Tucker: 0
Author's note: Well that ends that chapter. So far Sam is the only one who caught a ghost. Danny capturing the ghost cobra didn't count because it was training. Originally I was going to let Danny catch the first ghost, but I decided against it because I let him catch the one during the training exercise. Plus I figured it would make more sense for Danny to be the one who got distracted.
As for the bit about making Sam and Star cousins; originally I was going to make them twins much like I planned in a different DP story I thought about starting, but changed it to cousins instead. I wouldn't read into that part because it was only going to be mentioned in this chapter.
The Crossbone Gundam action figure is an actual toy and I decided to add that because it is in a way the perfect combination of three things Danny, Sam, and Tucker like. The Crossbone Gundam comes from the Gundam meta-series which has many anime shows, it is a technological marvel (with some realistic science used to make the concept of giant robots believable), and nearly all Gundam related shows, manga, and video games have space battles. It also has one extra piece that matches one ghost from the DP, the pirate motif.