Last time in Danny's Mansion; the trio had come face to face with a ghost who refers to himself as the Ghost Writer, whose abilities were tied to his laptop which he used on our heroes. After he dispensed Sam and Tucker, Danny managed to use the Ghost Writer's own abilities against him. The end result was a humiliating defeat by Danny and the Ghost Writer's capture. As the trio returned to the main entrance, a ghost bear attacked them leading to Sam wrestling said bear while Danny, who was distracted by his girlfriend's fighting prowess, and Tucker attempted to stun the bear. Danny managed to capture the bear, save his girlfriend, and make a few bear puns while doing it. Finally they were suddenly transported back into Professor Oltergeist's lab through means of teleportation by chandelier.
What does the professor have for our heroes? Will they figure out how to use them? Will Sam wrestle another ghost animal or use a mystical martial arts style based on one of her voice actor's many female characters? Will anyone explain how they were teleported by a chandelier of all things?
We shall see in this next exciting chapter of Danny's Mansion.
The three teens faced the professor still confused as to how they were transported back to his lab from the mansion. Professor Oltergeist was sitting a chair looking at the teens and trying hard not to chuckle at their confused expressions.
"Well children, I see that all of you made it back in one piece after being transported by the Tele-delier. That's good," said Oltergeist.
"The Tele-what?" replied Danny and Sam in a unified confused tone.
"It's a little invention of mine that can instantly teleport a person anywhere in the mansion back into my lab by taking apart their molecules and instantly beam them into my lab," explained the professor. "I've mostly tested it on items, so that was the first time I ever did it on a human. Let alone three humans, but at least all of your parts are in the correct spots," he continued before turning around to type on his computer. "I think," he whispered.
"Every time he finishes a statement like that, I feel like I should being running away in terror," Danny whispered to Sam.
"No kidding," agreed Sam.
"Anyway, I figured you kids have collected quite a bit of ghosts, right?" suggested the professor. "Of course you all have," he continued. "Well, I have a storage container ready for you to empty out your Specter Suckers," he said as he flipped a switch.
Danny and Sam gasped in surprise as a large metal box with a tube popped up from in front of Tucker. Tucker let out a cry of pain as the tube was facing him, and hit him between his legs. The poor boy fell backwards and hit the ground clutching his family jewels. Danny and Sam winced as they watched their friend roll to his left and right feeling sorry for him.
"When…does the hurting….stop," whimpered Tucker as he continued to lie on the ground.
"Sorry about that lad," apologized the professor. "I forgot where I placed the container," he said. "I'm sure nothing important was damaged," he added.
"Aside from Tucker's chances of having kids in the distant future," commented Sam.
"Sam, be nice," Danny scolded Sam as if she were a little child.
Sam crossed her arms and turned her face away from her boyfriend. She did that to hide the fact that she was smiling because she liked pretending to be childish around Danny. Danny also knew this as he kissed Sam's cheek before he helped Tucker back up.
Professor Oltergeist chose to ignore Danny and Sam's usual flirting with each other and turned his attention back to the containment unit. He walked up to it and hit the power button to activate the containment unit so that the teens could release the ghost into the device.
"Now all you three need to do is insert the head of the Specter Sucker into the tube and flip the reverse switch to release the ghost into the container," instructed the professor.
"Sounds simple enough," said Danny as he did what the professor instructed.
Everyone watched as the ghosts that were trapped in Danny's vacuum were being placed inside the container. The professor was excited to see how many ghosts Danny had capture, but he was most surprised when he saw the Ghost Writer in the container as well.
"Amazing lad!" cheered Oltergeist. "You managed to capture that blasted Ghost Writer," he said. "I've had a hard time trying to get into his room thanks to his constant meddling with reality thanks to that cursed computer of his," he explained. "And his writing was horrible I might add," he added.
"I feel for you on that Professor," agreed Danny.
After Danny had finished depositing the ghosts from his vacuum, it was Sam's turn as she released the ghosts she caught into the container.
"Oh, that's quite the haul you have young lady," commented Oltergeist as he observed the ghosts that were currently in the container. He continued to look until he spotted something among the ghosts. "Is that an Ectopus?" he asked.
"A what?" replied Sam as she pulled the head of the vacuum away from the container.
"An Ectopus, a fairly common type of ghosts that I have been trying to research for quite some time," explained the professor. "My, this is indeed a fortunate find, yes indeed," he continued. "Thank you Sam, you have just saved me many years of futile searching," he told the Goth girl.
"Don't mention it professor," said Sam as she waved his gratitude off.
"Oh but I must," said the professor. "You see, these Ectopi may look dumb at first glance, but I believe they hold a surprising level of intelligence. After all, they show a resemblance to actual octopi," he continued. "I don't suppose you three could also try to find more of these ghosts for me?" he questioned.
"Well, we are helping you capture these ghosts," said Danny. "So I don't see why we should just skip these ghosts over," he added.
"Oh splendid!" cheered Oltergeist. "I can see that your parents raised a promising ghost hunter," he complimented Danny.
"Thanks…I think," said Danny as he scratched his head trying to figure if that was a compliment.
"Now, let's see what your friend has captured," said the professor.
Tucker looked nervous because unlike his friends, he didn't catch any ghosts. Since he spent most if not all of his time running in terror, Tucker had nothing to show.
"Well, I didn't exactly catch any ghosts…" said Tucker before he gave a nervous laugh. He suddenly remembered something. "But I did find this," he said as he pulled out the key to show to the professor.
The professor looked over the key and let out a small gasp of surprise before grabbing the key.
"I was wondering where I put that thing," said the professor as he headed towards a locked door. "This is the key to my experimental doodads," he said as he unlocked the door.
'Did he just say doodads?' thought Danny in confusion.
'Is he really a scientist?' wondered Sam.
Professor Oltergeist opened the door to reveal a collection of objects placed on the walls of the small room that the door revealed. He looked through his experiments and found three items that should be useful to the teens. He took them out and walked towards his desk to place the items down.
"This is indeed a great night," said the professor. "I have three brave youths helping me capture these ghosts, an Ectopus to research, and one of my missing keys was recovered," he listed. "Now, I believe these items would be very useful to you three," he told the teens.
The trio looked at the items on the desks in confusion. On that desk was a silver watch like device, a PDA, which Tucker looked at with an expression of joy, and a pair of sunglasses.
"How are these supposed to help us?" asked Sam as she picked up the sunglasses.
"Oh they may look like ordinary objects, but they are quite useful," replied the professor. "Those glasses are capable of seeing the ectoplasm signatures of ghosts that are invisible to the human eye," he explained to Sam.
"That sounds useful," commented Sam as she tried them on and turned to look at the ghosts in the container. She saw a large mass of ghost signatures bunched into one small area. "Wow, these are good," she added. "But are you sure those ghosts won't be cramped in there?" she asked.
"Oh don't worry, I had that container made to be much more spacious than it actually looks," said the professor.
"How did you do that?" asked Danny.
"Oh well you see….." started the professor.
The professor explained to the trio how he invented such a container, which took about two hours and forty minutes to explain. It took so long because the professor kept getting sidetracked as he babbled on about his youth, his love life, and how a colleague of his died in a horrible pregnancy experiment. It didn't help the trio to hear that the professor's colleague was a man.
"….And that's how I did it," finished the professor.
The trio had shocked expressions on their faces after hearing what may have been the most disturbing thing any of them had ever heard.
'I should have just kept my mouth shut,' thought Danny.
'I am SO going to hurt Danny for asking that question,' thought a very angry Sam.
'That was so very wrong,' thought Tucker.
"Any who, that's enough talking about the past," said the professor much to the trio's relief. "The next item is a Ghost Detection Assistant or GDA for short," he said as he handed it to Tucker. "I know how you like your PDA Tucker, so I figured you would be able to use this with ease," he told the techno-geek.
"Thanks prof." said Tucker as he started going over the GDA's features.
"As for you Danny, I left the best of the three for you," said the professor as he held up the watch to Danny. "I present you the Intangilizer," he added.
"The Intangilizer?" repeated Danny.
"What's so special about that?" asked Tucker.
"I'm glad you asked Tucker," said Oltergeist. "You see this device mimics a ghost's ability to phase through solid objects," he explained. "With this placed onto your wrist, you'll be able to phase through walls just like a ghosts," he added. "However, I can't get it to phase through floors or ceilings," he admitted.
"Well, that still sounds impressive Professor," said Danny as he took the Intangilizer and placed it onto his left wrist. "So how do I turn it on?" he asked.
"All you have to do is press the button on the center," answered the professor.
"Okay," replied Danny as he pressed the button.
The Intangilizer started to glow a dull green like a normal watch. Danny didn't feel any different as he looked himself over.
"You sure this thing works?" questioned Danny.
"Try walking through the desk and we'll find out," said the professor.
Danny looked at the desk and shrugged his shoulders, not seeing any harm in doing that. The worst that could happen is that he just bumps the desk. As Danny walked towards the desk, Sam and Tucker watched him. Danny reached the desk, took on step forward and saw his foot move right through the desk. Danny let out a small yelp in surprise before pulling his foot back. Still surprised Danny tried to walk through the desk and was amazed as he successfully walked right through the desk with no issue. He looked at his friends and they were just as amazed as he was.
"Danny, that was so cool," said Sam as she walked towards her boyfriend.
"Yeah dude, give me five," said Tucker as he moved towards Danny to give his best friend a high five.
Just as the two boys' hands come close to touching each other, Tucker fell right through Danny. The techno-geek let out a cry of pain as his face hit the floor.
"Oops, forgot to turn it off," said Danny as he moved away from Tucker and turned the Intangilizer off. "Sorry buddy," he apologized as he helped Tucker up.
"No big deal dude," said Tucker.
"Well, I say it's a good thing the Intangilizer works," said the professor. "Now you won't have to worry about trying to find any keys to locked rooms. Especially since there are no keys to any of the rooms," he explained.
"No keys," repeated the trio in surprise.
"Yes, it is quite embarrassing but I had lost all of the keys to the mansion," admitted Oltergeist.
"All of them?" asked Sam.
"Yes, all forty two keys," answered the professor.
"There are forty two rooms in that mansion," said Tucker.
"Oh no," assured the professor. "There are only twenty one rooms, they all just happen to have a copy in case I lose the originals," he told them.
"And yet you lost the copies too," remarked Sam.
"Yes I did," said the professor.
"How is that even possible?" asked Danny in stunned disbelief.
"Nothing is impossible my dear boy," replied the professor.
"Then please explain to us how you managed to lose forty two keys," requested Sam.
"Now that is impossible!" declared Oltergeist.
Danny, Sam, and Tucker gave the professor blank looks after hearing him just contradict himself without missing a beat to Sam's request.
Ghost Tally:
Danny: 4
Sam: 6
Tucker: 0
Author's note: that marks the end of this chapter. So it took so long, I had those examines from my college classes, writer's block for this story, brainstorming and writing the next chapter to Hunting Ground of Chaos, and I started writing the first chapter to my new Danny Phantom/Kamen Rider crossover story.
I also got caught up with discussing some things with CMR Rosa, who asked if I was going to do a sequel to my previous story If you Don't Fight, you Don't Survive. I told him/her that I wasn't and he/she asked for my permission to make their own sequel, and I said yes. I know most people would be against such a thing, but I believe that the story still has some life in it for a sequel which was why I left it with an open ending in case I wanted to make a sequel. Still, I do plan on being involved with the sequel's writing as an editor to CMR Rosa's sequel to my story.
So most of my summer will be me juggling three stories, one of which is actually very close to being done, and editing someone else's story that is based off of one of my own.