Last time on Danny's Mansion: Danny and Sam had reunited and captured two ghosts that would have given them a hard time. Now the two of them are off to find their friend Tucker who is currently talking to a face in a toilet.
Will Danny and Sam find Tucker? Will they capture more ghosts along the way? And why would Tucker be talking to face in a toilet? More importantly, who communicates through a toilet?
Let us find out.
Tucker was standing in front of the communication toilet, looking at the image of Professor Oltergeist's face displayed on the surface of the toilet water. He tried to listen to the old man but the image in front of him was hard to ignore. It wasn't every day that a person would be having a conversation with a man through the white seat's bowl.
"Tucker, I need you to find Danny and Sam and bring them to the closest bathroom as soon as possible," said the professor. "I may have discovered what the source is for all of these ghosts being in this house," he added.
Tucker stayed silent throughout the entire thing as he tried to absorb the information given to him while also trying to hold in his need to use the toilet.
"Do you understand Tucker?" asked the professor after not getting any reply.
"Yeah, I got it professor," answered Tucker. "But can you shut off for a minute?" he asked.
"Why dear boy?" asked the professor.
"I really need to use the toilet," answered Tucker.
"Number one or number two?" asked the professor.
"The first one," answered Tucker.
"Okay lad," said the professor as the watery image of his face vanished from the most important chair in any house, second to the recliner in front of a big screen plasma TV.
Once he was sure the image was gone, Tucker went about his business.
As for Danny and Sam, the two young ghost hunters were walking through the corridors of the mansion. Ever since they got out of the trophy room, the young couple had been trying to figure out where they were. Simply put the two of them were hopelessly lost, which shouldn't be so surprising since Danny still had a hard time understanding how he ended up in the attic when he was clearly falling down when he and his friend fell for that booby trap that separated them.
When he told Sam about that, she was understandably not convinced that Danny fell into the attic. However she couldn't deny that nothing in this mansion made a lot of sense thanks to Professor Oltergeist's contradicting sentences, weird inventions, and the layout of the mansion. So Sam had to keep an even more open mind than before.
They came across a locked door, which Danny phased through thanks to the Intangilizer. He opened the door so that Sam can follow him but as soon as she entered the room, Sam let out a surprised gasp when she saw that the room was actually a spiral staircase that led up. Danny turned around to see the staircase and raised an eyebrow.
"This place just gets weirder and weirder as the night goes on," commented Danny.
"Are we even sure it's still night?" asked Sam.
"I'm not sure," answered Danny.
"Well check the Intangilizer," suggested Sam.
"Why?" asked Danny.
"To see what time it is," answered Sam as if that was the most obvious thing.
Danny looked at it and noticed that there was no clock on the Intangilizer.
"Uh Sam," started Danny. "It doesn't tell time," he added.
"Seriously?" replied Sam as she grabbed her boyfriend's arm to look.
"Guess the Professor forgot to install that important piece," said Danny.
"Well then, I guess we'll just have to move on," said Sam as she turned towards the staircase. "Let's go," she added as she headed up the staircase.
"Might as well," said Danny. "It's not like we have anything better to do," he added as he followed Sam.
As the two teens walked up the stairs, back at the bathroom, Tucker had finished his business and washed his hands. He was surprised to see that the water facet worked but he couldn't complain given how most of the night was mostly filled with him running away and screaming in terror as ghosts pop up everywhere.
After washing his hands, Tucker exited the bathroom and closed the door behind him. He began to walk towards his left so that he could find Danny and Sam. He moved slowly as if trying to avoid making any noise that could draw the attention of a ghost towards his location. A small part of him wanted to play some tunes on his PDA, but the cowardly yet very logical part of his brain, aka his common sense, told him not to play any music since he wanted to avoid confrontation with a ghost.
Sadly for Tucker, his inner debate with his brain distracted him from paying attention to his surrounding as another trap door activated causing Tucker to fall down into what appeared to be a weight room. There were a lot of gym equipment but they were covered in dust, hinting that no one had used the room in quite some time.
"Why do I always fall for the booby traps?" whined Tucker.
After asking that question, Tucker heard the sounds of giggling which caused him to become worried. He looked around hoping to find the source of the giggling but couldn't see anyone. This problem would most likely be because of the fact that the room was barely lit due to the lights not working and the windows were covered with curtains. The only source of light would be the moonlight that shone through the gaps in the curtains, but it wasn't enough for Tucker to see anything effectively.
Suddenly the lights turned on, which caused Tucker to jump because he was positive that there was no power in the mansion, let alone the room he was in. Instead of landing back on the floor, Tucker was suspended in the air much to his shock. It turned out that the techno-geek was held up in the air by a male ghost. The ghost looked like a gym coach, and this coach moved Tucker towards what looked like a treadmill.
After being placed on the treadmill, Tucker saw the ghost standing in front of him. Tucker wanted to back away from the ghost but he soon discovered that the treadmill was starting to move.
"Start running you lazy bum!" yelled the ghost coach.
The sound of the ghost's voice reminded Tucker of his gym teachers which caused him to start running so that he wouldn't upset the ghost coach.
"Put more effort into it boy!" yelled the coach.
"Somebody help me!" cried out Tucker as he continued to run on the treadmill.
Back in the staircase that Danny and Sam were in, the two lovebirds were busy heading up the stairs but it doesn't look like they were making any progress. It felt like they were going around in circles, but that didn't make sense because they've been going up the whole time. As they continued their way up, Danny left a mark on the wall because he was a little bit curious. As Danny and Sam continued on their way up, Danny left another mark on the wall to keep track of how far they've gone. After making about five more marks, Danny realized something.
He and Sam were going around in circles because each of the marks he made was underneath each other.
"How in the world is this even possible?" Danny asked himself.
While Danny tried to make sense of the situation he and Sam were in, back in the gym things were not going so well for Tucker. His unwanted ghost coach had just got him off the treadmill and had the poor boy doing pushups. Given Tucker's overall out of shape body, the poor techno geek was having a hard time getting himself back up.
"Come on boy!" yelled the coach. "Push!" he yelled again.
"Somebody help me…" whimpered Tucker as he continued to struggle with his push-up.
"Stop your crying!" yelled the coach.
"I'm not crying…" started Tucker. "I'm whining, there's a difference," he added.
"Eyes on the floor!" yelled the coach. "Just keep pushing!" he added.
"How many was that?" asked Tucker.
"Zero!" yelled the coach.
"Is that in jock numbers?" Tucker asked just before he dropped onto the floor. 'I am so weak,' he thought to himself.
Back in the staircase that Danny just realized that he and Sam were trapped in. Danny was sitting on one of the steps as he tried to make sense out of what was going on. Sam on the other hand was still going around in circles without even noticing that Danny was sitting on the steps and that she had passed him seven times.
Noticing that his girlfriend was still going, Danny decided to tally up how many times Sam walked right past him. In a way, the dark haired boy found this amusing because it was something he expected from an old cartoon.
Finally Sam stopped when she noticed Danny sitting. She looked at Danny and then behind her before looking back at Danny.
"How?" asked Sam.
"Not sure, but I'm starting to consider just having this place demolished once all of this is over," answered Danny.
"But we've been going upstairs the whole time," started Sam. "How can we be going around in circles?" she asked.
"Like I said, not sure," said Danny as he got up.
Before either of them could figure out what to do next, the sounds of barking could be heard. Danny and Sam looked around to find the source of the barking. The barking got closer as the two prepared for the next ghost that would give them trouble. Suddenly the barking stopped causing the two of them to wonder if they were imagining the whole thing. Danny and Sam looked at each other in confusion until a small bark was heard below them. The young couple looked down to see a little green puppy looking up at them and wagging its tail.
"It's a puppy," said Danny as he kneeled down to pet it.
"It's a ghost puppy," Sam corrected her boyfriend. "It's got glowing green fur," she added.
"True, but maybe he can help us," replied Danny.
"He?" questioned Sam. "How are you sure it's not a girl?" she asked.
Danny didn't answer Sam as he turned his attention towards the puppy.
"Bark once for boy or bark twice for girl," Danny told the puppy. It barked once before running around Danny. "Now we know," he told Sam.
"That's nice Danny," said Sam. "Now how about we focus on trying to get out of here?" she continued.
After hearing Sam's voice, the puppy stopped in front of Danny and Sam. The two of them were wondering why he stopped, but they were shocked to see the puppy grow into a dog the size of a pickup truck.
"Didn't see that coming," commented Danny.
Before either Danny or Sam could do anything the ghost dog grabbed both of them with his mouth and phased them out of the staircase that they were trapped in. About ten seconds later, Danny and Sam found themselves in a hallway. The ghost dog dropped them onto the ground with dog drool covering them. Sam felt disgusted with their mode of transportation and tried to wipe the drool off of her. Danny was also disgusted but when he turned around, he saw the ghost dog revert back into his puppy form. The puppy barked happily as he ran around Danny's legs causing the dark haired boy to smile.
"Well it's not exactly the most ideal way to travel but at least he got us out of there," commented Danny. "Good boy Cujo," he praised the dog.
"Cujo?" asked Sam as she continued to wipe the drool off.
"What, you were expecting something like Rover?" joked Danny.
Before Sam could say anything, she and Danny heard the high pitched scream of their friend Tucker. They turned their attention towards the hallway as Tucker ran out of the farthest door on the right and into the middle door on the left. Three seconds, a ghost dressed as a gym coach exited from the same door Tucker exited from and go into the same middle door. Suddenly Tucker exited from the door closest to them on the left side and entered the middle door on the right. The ghost exited from the far door on the left and entered the door closest on the right. Tucker and the ghost continued doing this for a good three minutes while Danny, Sam, and Cujo watched. Poor little Cujo got dizzy trying to keep up with the dark skinned human while Danny and Sam started to get annoyed.
Finally Sam had enough of this and tossed a Fenton Flasher into the air. Danny saw this and scooped Cujo into his arms and turned around. As soon as the ghost exited from the middle door on the right, the grenade went off, blinding the ghost so that Sam could suck the ghost up in her Specter Sucker.
A second later, Tucker emerged from the door on the far left and saw Danny and Sam.
"Guys!" yelled out Tucker in excitement as he ran towards them. "Thank the technology gods you guys are here," he added.
"Technology gods?" repeated Sam in confusion.
"I think he's snapped," suggested Danny as he turned around with Cujo in his arms.
As soon as Tucker saw Cujo, he paled because he noticed that Cujo was a ghost. Danny set Cujo down and the little puppy ran around Sam's legs barking happily. Sam smiled at the little guy and kneeled down to pet him.
"There's a ghost next to you Sam," whimpered Tucker.
"Yeah, so?" replied Sam as she continued petting Cujo.
"Shouldn't you be sucking him into the vacuum?" asked Tucker as he backed away from Cujo.
"Tucker, Cujo helped us out," started Danny. "There is no way we're going to suck him up," he added. "Besides, I always wanted a puppy," he finished.
"But it's a ghost!" yelled Tucker in fright.
"Nobody's perfect," replied Danny.
Tucker wanted to say something about the ghost puppy but stopped when he saw how happy Cujo was around Danny and Sam. He was still freaked out, but didn't have it in him to argue about the subject. Suddenly he remembered what the professor asked him to do.
"Guys, the professor wanted to tell us something," said Tucker.
"How do you know?" asked Danny.
"He told me," answered Tucker.
"How?" asked Sam as she stood up. "He didn't give us anything to communicate with us," she reminded the techno-geek.
"He told me when I saw his face in the toilet," said Tucker.
Danny and Sam turned to look at each other before taking a BIG step back, away from Tucker. Cujo looked up at Tucker and after hearing what the dark skinned boy said, took several steps back to put some distance between him and Tucker.
"Guys!" yelled Tucker in frustration.
Ghost tally
Danny: 10
Sam: 14
Tucker: still zero, but at least he got a workout
Author's note: Sorry for not updating sooner, but between a couple of online college classes that require a lot of focus on the assignments and putting up with a deranged DP fan girl on deviantart, who basically trolled on nearly every DxS fanart she could find, I've been having a hard time thinking of how to keep my stories going.