Danny walked up to where his friends stood in front of their open lockers.

"Hey, guys, I know this is gonna be really weird but can you cover for me today?"

They both stared at him, exchanged a look between the two of them, and looked back at him.

"I'm sorry, why would we do that, Dash?" Sam questioned.

Danny facepalmed. "No, sorry. I'm not Dash. I'm Danny. I need to go figure out where Dash went. He wasn't in my room when I climbed in the window."

"You climbed in Danny's window?" Tucker asked slowly.

"Yes. Because I'm Danny."

Sam squinted at him. "You don't look like you're overshadowed. Is Danny really in there?"

"Yes!" Danny hissed out. "It's not overshadowing. It's some kind of freaky Friday body swap bullshit. And I can only assume Dash is in my body but I have to figure out where that is."

"What about right behind you?" Tucker pointed.

Danny turned around and stared down at himself. His face had an expression on it that looked like a mix between anger and confusion. Like he was freaked out.

"Fenton." Dash ground out. "What is going on? And why did your body sink me all the way to the bottom of your house into your parents weird torture chamber?"

"That's where you were?"

"You didn't look anywhere else in the house for him?" Sam hissed at him.

Danny threw his arms up in the air. "How am I gonna explain why Dash was in the Fenton's house at seven in the morning?! It's not like he's exactly welcome to just walk in."

"But why did I sink through the floor?" Dash waved his hand in front of him to get their attention again. The three of them looked back at him. They went back to talking amongst each other.

"How did this even happen?" Tucker asked. He looked past Danny at Dash who was frowning at them. "Like, was it one of your parent's weapons? Did Desiree do something?"

Danny smacked his forehead and groaned. "That must've been it."

"What did you do?" Sam looked up at him with a stern expression.

"I was walking home from school when he caught me somewhere. He messed around with me for a bit and when I left I kinda mumbled that… I, y'know, wanted him to know what it was like to be in my shoes."

"So you said the W word." Tucker crossed his arms and tsked. "Will you ever learn?"

Danny rolled his eyes. "Well how are we gonna fix this? He can't exactly-"

The three of them looked at Dash again. He had a deep frown on his face and his arms were crossed over his body. "I don't know what you guys are talking about but can we go back to the part where I sank through the solid floor?"

Danny fiddled with his fingers nervously. "I, uh, would rather not."

Dash threw his hands up into the air. "What if it happens again? What if I sink into the ground below the school and I can't breathe? What then?"

"I-"

Danny stopped talking as a bright ring appeared around Dash's waist. His eyes opened wide and Dash looked down at it as if he was about to explode.

Before they could separate, Danny picked Dash up off the floor and stuffed him in Tucker's locker and shut the door. His mouth was pressed into a thin line and he held his hands in fists at his sides, his shoulders hiked up.

Sam gestured at the locker with a look on her face and Danny shrugged. "I didn't know what else to do. And I knew he'd fit in there."

"What the fuck?!

Danny's own echoey voice came through the locker as Dash took in what had happened.

"You're dead?!"

A couple students were walking by and staring at them and the commotion. Danny's mouth opened into an O shape.

"I, uh- no. You- you're dead! You nerd!" He knocked a fist into the locker. The students walked away and Danny shook his hand out.

"We gotta find Desiree." Danny whispered.

"We might as well bring him with us now." Sam hooked a thumb over her shoulder and pointed at the locker Dash was in. "We might need him to help us."

"Yeah, I hate to admit it but-"

"Is this some kind of revenge scheme?" Dash wailed, interrupting Tucker. "Did I stuff you into one too many locker's and kill you? Are you going to steal my living body because I ruined yours?!"

Tucker stifled his laughter and Sam smacked him on the arm. Danny sighed. "We gotta tell him."

"Dash-"

A bright light came through the slats in the lockers and Danny went to open Tucker's locker again. Dash fell out onto the floor and he looked like plain old Danny Fenton again.

"Did I kill you?" He whimpered. Danny sighed.

"No, you didn't kill me. Let's go outside and talk about it."

He pulled Dash up off the floor. The four of them started walking towards the exit of the school.

"Did you like, sell your soul?" Dash asked once they got outside. "Make a deal with the devil and get some kind of ghost powers out of it?"

"What?" Sam scrunched her face up at him. "No. Danny?"

Danny sighed and shook out his hands. "Okay. Okay. During freshman year I was in an accident with my parents ghost portal that kept me out of school for a couple days. It turned on while I was inside it."

"Inside it?" Dash whispered. "So you are dead?"

"I, uh, sort of. It changed me. I died but I think it also revived me at the same time." Danny ran a hand through his hair. "Ectoplasm merged with my DNA and it turned me into a half ghost."

"Half ghost?" Dash frowned at him. "How is that possible? Are you sure you're not just dead?"

"He's dead on the inside." Tucker said. Everyone looked at him. "He's depre-"

"We don't exactly know how this happened. Why Danny ended up like this." She interrupted Tucker and shot a look at Dash. "But no one can find out."

"Why not?" Dash asked. "I'd be flaunting this all over the place if I were you. Everyone loves Phantom. You'd have an in with the in crowd."

"It's a little more complicated than that when people want to capture and dissect you or keep you in captivity forever and destroy you."

"No secret, no Phantom." Tucker nodded.

"Hm." Dash looked down as he thought about it. "I guess that's fair. No Phantom would kind of suck."

"Yeah. So it has to stay between us." Sam said as she leaned towards Dash threateningly. "Got it?"

Dash backed up and nodded his head. Danny had to admit that Sam wasn't quite so intimidating from his current height so Dash must be feeling the heat from her for the first time.

"First things first, we need to find Desiree. But how do we-"

There was an explosion from down the street and they looked and saw literal flying monster cars. They were chasing someone down the street.

"How much do you wanna bet that's our ghost?" Tucker smiled as he pointed down the street.

"This is our chance. Sam?" He walked over to her and held his hand out. She pulled a wrist ray out of her backpack and dropped it into his hand. He attached it to his wrist while she pulled out two thermoses.

Dash stared at them with wide eyes as Tucker pulled out his lipstick blaster from his pocket. "You guys are gonna go fight her?"

"Correction." Sam walked up to Dash and shoved a thermos into his hands. "We are gonna go fight her."

"Me?!" Dash squeaked out. "I've never done this before."

"Sorry but you're the only one of us that's able to fly." Tucker said over his shoulder as he started to walk away. "You're gonna have the easiest time capturing her in a thermos."

"But-"

"This is the only way that we're gonna get our bodies back, Dash." Danny turned to stare at him. "If you do this just this once then you don't have to do anything ghost related ever again."

"But I don't know what I'm doing! I've never done anything like this!" Dash waved his hands in the air. "I don't even know how to do your transformation thing. It just happened before!"

Danny started thinking. How would he describe the transformation process?

"Feel in the center of your chest. There's a kinda… Cold? Feeling? I usually have to tug on that when I want to transform."

"Come on, guys." Sam said from ahead of them where her and Tucker had walked away. "Figure it out on the way. We don't want to lose her."

Danny started following her and Dash did a moment later.

"This like, ball of ice that you have in your chest?" Dash asked.

Danny nodded. "Yes. Try pulling on it. That's my ghost-"

The transformation ring appeared around Dash's waist and it passed over his body. Dash smiled as he looked down at himself. He floated up into the air.

"Whoa-oa this is so cool." His feet dragged their way up and flipped him upside down. "How do I prevent this from happening though?"

"You just have to focus on keeping yourself upright. Your center of gravity-"

"Why hello, ghost child! I hope you've been enjoying your wish that I gifted to you!"

Desiree was suddenly floating in the air above them. Danny scowled at her and Dash recoiled. Danny looked around them but didn't see Sam or Tucker. He looked back up at her and aimed his wrist ray at her.

"You know, not all wishes should be taken so literally."

"But what other way would best get it across?" She smiled at them.

"Maybe having him just go through a couple difficult situations that are similar to mine? Not body swapping us."

"Oh, but where's the fun in that." She floated onto her stomach and laced her fingers underneath her chin.

Danny looked down and saw Sam and Tucker in the bushes ahead of him. They made shooting motions at him and he understood.

"Cat got your tongue?" She asked as he looked back up at her.

"Not quite." He aimed and shot her in the face.

She screamed and careened backwards. Sam and Tucker were shouting behind her shooting her with their own weapons.

"How do we undo her spell?" Dash shouted.

"We just have to pull her into the thermos!" Danny yelled back to him as he shot another blast at Desiree with the wrist ray. "That usually undoes most of her magic!"

Desiree turned around and hissed at Sam and Tucker. "Ill mannered children! You dare shoot me?"

Dash floated up into the air and uncapped the thermos. He flew up to her and she suddenly turned around.

"You think I'm afraid of you, novice? You don't know what you're doing."

"I just have to do enough to get rid of you." He fumbled with the thermos.

"Ha!" She laughed. "You can't even hold onto your containment device. How do you think-"

Dash's last fumbled ended with the thermos pointed at her and his hand squeezing the capture button. She screamed as she got sucked into the thermos. Dash floated back to the ground with a big smile on his face. He landed on the ground and looked up at Danny.

"I did it!"

Danny blinked and suddenly he was staring up at Dash. He was back in his own body again.

Danny could tell when Dash realized he was back in his own body. He blinked a couple times and looked around them. He looked down at Danny and let out a relieved sigh.

"Glad that's over." He said.

"Yep." Danny capped the thermos. "Good job by the way. I don't know how you managed to catch her by almost dropping the thermos but it worked."

"Yeah." Dash chuckled nervously, rubbing a hand on the back of his neck. "Sorry for everything, by the way. If I'd realized you were Phantom-"

"Bullying is bad even if you don't like the person!" Sam shouted from behind him. Dash cringed.

"It just put a lot of things into perspective once it happened to me. Like, I know you didn't have any other option besides shoving me in the locker so I understand why you did it but it sure was cramped in there."

Danny nodded. "It's a lot easier to get out of them now that I have ghost powers though."

"Don't encourage him!" Tucker shouted.

Danny rolled his eyes. "You'll keep your mouth shut though?"

Dash nodded. "Can't rat out my hero, right?"

He smiled up at Dash. "Right."