PART FOUR

Fade in on Fenton Works. A lot of people are congregated outside, looking on in fear. Jazz steps outside, bringing cookies (but no tea...). One guy takes one.

Pan up. Valerie flies straight into Danny's room. She drops Vlad into a chair, Danny on the bed, and then retracts her outfit and hoverthing. She now seems more beat than before.

Valerie:(extremely worn out) Maybe I'll just rest...for a second.

She faints. Soon after she does, Vlad wakes up. He sees Danny and Valerie, both out cold. And his first thought?

Vlad: The Ring!

Close-up on Valerie's hand.

Vlad: It's gone!

He hears Jack and Maddie coming. He turns invisible as they open the door.

Jack: Ah, y'see? I told you they were up here! What do the kids call it...hanging out!

They close the door. Soon after they do, Danny wakes up. He sees Valerie and gasps. Vlad, invisible, phases away through the floor.

Cut to the basement. The mystery of the missing tea is solved, along with the mystery of where Sam and Tuck have been all this time.

Sam: I'm getting worried.

Vlad phases out behind them.

Sam: We haven't seen Danny or Valerie in hours.

Jack: Ah, they're fine.

Jack emerges from the steps. Gradual close-up on his face as he talks.

Jack: They've been up in Danny's room. Alone. for hours.

Sam drops her teacup, breaking it. (I can read Sam's mind once again, and once again I won't tell you what I see. But it is pretty cramped in there.) She and Tucker run upstairs at top speed. Jack just shrugs.

Cut to Danny's room. Sam and Tucker burst on in, much to Danny's surprise.

Sam: Danny! You're okay!

Cut to Valerie, still out cold.

Sam: Whoa. What happened to her?

Danny: You name it. Fright Knight, Ghost King, Vlad-

He puts his hand on her forehead.

Danny: All of my enemies. Everything I thought I could handle, but couldn't.

He removes his hand. Sam and Tuck come closer.

Tucker: Dude, you can't blame yourself for this. It's not your fault.

Danny's expression changes from worried and guilty to angry.

Danny: Maybe not. But it is my responsibility.

He stands up and transforms. He grabs his friends, intangifies all of them, and phases through the floor into the basement. Down there, many 'authority' figures are gathered, including Sam's parents (authority...hah.), Mr. Foley (if his name turns out to be Axel I'm going to flip), the Mayor, and the police, among others. Also there are Jack and Maddie, standing by some big thing covered in tarp.

Maddie: And while the Ecto-Skeleton can enhance your natural abilities one-hundred fold-

She pulls away the tarp, revealing the finished Ecto-Skeleton.

Maddie: Using it could be fatal.

Cut to Jack.

Jack: Which is exactly why I'll be using it. Because if the suit's going to be killing anyone, it's gonna be me.

This is a really funny sequence. Maddie slaps Jack to the ground, taking his place on the screen.

Maddie: You're already weak from the first time you used the suit. I'll be going in.

Jazz slaps her mother offscreen.

Jazz: Forget it, Mom. Danny needs both of you. I'm doing this.

Mr. Manson slaps Jazz offscreen.

Mr. Manson: I'll do it!

His wife slaps him offscreen.

Mrs. Manson: I'll do it!

She is slapped offscreen. The cycle continues as we cut to our heroes.

Danny Phantom: I thought I was going to have to blast everybody with a ghost ray, but this is much more efficient.

Sam: What? Danny, no, you can't!

They land on solid ground.

Danny Phantom: I'm the only one who has a chance to save our lives.

Tucker: Somebody oughta tell her that.

He points offscreen. As it turns out, Valerie, in hunter garb, has awoken, survived the slappy sequence and, as it seems, just knocked out the mayor. Danny attracts her attention.

Danny Phantom: I'm afraid I'm gonna hafta ask you to step away from the suit!

Valerie drops the mayor.

Valerie: Back off, spook. I don't know how you got inside the Fenton's Ghost Shield-

Pfftness.

Valerie: But this is my fight.

Danny Phantom: No, it's not. Not anymore.

At this point, Mr. Gray walks in, holding some tools. He drops them and gasps as the scene sinks in.

Mr. Gray: Hey! What's going on in here?

Sam and Tucker sneak out of the basement behind him, leaving Dan and Val to deal with this themselves. Close-up on the two.

Valerie: You're not the boss of me!

Without warning, Danny whips her hood off. She screams.

Danny Phantom: Nope. But he is.

Close-up on Mr. Gray.

Mr. Gray: Valerie?

Cut back to the duo. Valerie looks about ready to burst.

Valerie: AAAA! You're dead for this, you hear me? DEAD!

Wait, if she thinks he's dead, than how can she...ah, whatever. She whips out some ectoguns. Bad idea, Val. Valerie's got a gun, and what does her daddy do? He grabs her away and tries to hold her down. Danny flies up, grabs the suit, intangifies, and flies the suit through the roof, leaving father and daughter to themselves. Cut back to them.

Mr. Gray: You've been battling ghosts? All this time? Are you okay?

Valerie: I'm...i'm fine.

Seemingly satisfied, he puts her down. But this tranquility can only last so long.

Mr. Gray: Then you are in SO MUCH TROUBLE!

Pwn ^^. Cut to the roof. Danny is up there with the Ectoskeleton. He flies up to the top, takes off the glass covering, and detransforms. He jumps in. (From this point on, Danny is in the Battlesuit, until I say so.) The hatch closes behind him. He grabs the controls.

Danny: Activate neural receptors...

The neural receptors activate. Something pops up on a screen- a picture of a battery.

Danny: Initiate powerup sequence...

He pulls back on the controls. The suit begins charging. The battery's gauge goes from 88% to 90%. He pushes down on what looks like a gas pedal (dude, where's my Battlesuit? ^^). Within time, he is fully connected with the Battlesuit. The battery continues to fill...

Danny: Yeah, there we go.

Behind him, Sam and Tucker open up the door onto the roof or...whatever it's called. Danny glances over.

Danny: I can see you over there, you know.

The two humans push the door open wider, then run over to him.

Sam: Danny, please.

Danny: C'mon, guys. You didn't think it was always going to be as easy as shoving the Box Ghost into the Fenton Thermos, did you? I'll be back.

Tucker: Your mom used the word 'fatal'.

They look really helpless now. As Danny says the next line, the Battlesuit makes the body movements that he would have made.

Danny: Guys, I'll be back.

They look up at him. Danny, suddenly realizing that this may be the last time he sees his friends (alive, at least) he figures it's time for one last statement from Sam. He bends down to her. And the clicheness begins...

Danny in Battlesuit: But...if there's anything you wanted to say to me...now might be an excellent time to do it.

Sam looks up at him.

Sam: Uhh... I-

...And ends. Before Sam can say 'love you' or a more long winded version of the words, a winds blows at her, cutting her off in a very overused plot device. The three look up. The red clouds above them form together to make Pariah's ugly face.

Ghost King's Ugly Face: Humans! Hear my decree!

Whatever his decree is, we'll never know. Cut back to the trio.

Danny: Well, that's my cue.

Close-up.

Danny: Tuck, I'll need you to drop the Ghost Shield on my way out, okay?

Cut to Tuck and Sam.

Tucker: Okay. Be careful, dude.

He runs off, but Sam stays. She takes what might be one last look at the guy she l- *cough* is friends with. He smiles at her. Satisfied, she runs off, however unwillingly.

Inside the suit, Danny transforms. The entire suit is affected by the transformation-it goes silver and black, with the emblem on the front. Sam gives him the thumbs-up, looking at him with that face again. (Enough already!). Danny takes off, going faster that he could before, blowing his friends back. His ghost trail is blue instead of green. Cut to some of the students. They cheer.

Paulina: Go get 'im, Inviso-Bill!

Danny Phantom: (annoyed) It's not Inviso-Bill! It's Phantom! DANNY PHANTOM!

As he flies close to the Ghost Shield, Tuck uses the PDA to temporarily knock it out. Danny flies through. He is now out of the safety of his town, ready to kick some Pariah buttock. As he flies out, he looks back on the town sadly. But he can't look for long.

This is where EXTREEME COOLNESS begins.

We pull back. We see ten...no, twenty...no, fifty...one hundred...one thousand...five thousand, maybe, Skeletons blocking the way to the Keep. (They must've blown most of their CGI budget on this shot). They look armed and ready. The ones closest to the Keep are riding skeletal dragons. Together, they look like more than a match for Danny (and a plot of grass...reminds me of that one SpongeBob ep). But does he give up? Nope! Cut to Danny.

Danny Phantom: Maybe if I tried to pick these guys off one at a time...

Well, I sure hope not. He'd never win. Anyway, the finger of the battlesuit opens up, pushing out a tiny blue ectoplasmic ball. It lands in front of some ghosts, then explodes, sending up a VERY COOL blast, getting rid of many Skeletons. They look miffed now.

Danny Phantom: Ha ha! One hundred fold, huh?

Cut to Danny.

Danny Phantom: THAT doesn't reek!

Danny, happy with his newfound power, forms a full-sized blast on his hand and fires it, making all the little skeletons fly up in the air...hee hee. However, the effort weakens him considerably. His battery is down to 98%, but goes right back up.

Danny Phantom: Whoa. Okay. Gotta be smart about how much of my own power I use at once.

He looks down. Some Skeletons are preparing to shoot arrows at him. He puts up a ghost shield (also very cool looking) to deflect the arrows.

Danny Phantom: STILL NOT REEKING!

He fires more blasts at the Skeletons. Finally, as he lands on the land, and bunch of Skeletons tackle him (HUT!), forming a very large pile. But powers can solve this too: With effort, he makes all the Skeletons on top of him explode. He is weakened even more, however. Before the Skeletons can take him again, an anonymous ectobeam shoots down, annihilating some of the Skeletons. It came from the Specter Speeder, driven by Sam and Tuck. Close-up on Sam.

Sam: In general, I'm pretty opposed to violence, but I'm willing to make an exception in this case.

Danny is horrified to see them.

Danny Phantom: Get out of here, guys! It's too dangerous for you to be here!

Tucker: We're not staying. We're just making a delivery.

Special Delivery for Danny Phantom: Every ghost he knows, and a few he doesn't! They come out of the bottom of the Speeder in a very cool scene. Sam and Tuck then fly away from the scene, not to come back for a while. Close-up on Danny.

Danny Phantom: How did they cram all of you into the Spectar Speeder?

Ember: Hey! Ever been inside your stoopid Thermos? Compared to that, it was the Taj Mahal in there!

Skulker: Less talking, more FIGHTING!

Weapons pop up from every conceivable place on his body. The Box Ghost pops up.

Box Ghost: Beware! For my place of employment has given me a new weapon!

He holds up a relatively harmless piece of bubble wrap.

Box Ghost: The Bubble Wrap- OF DEATH!

Klemper uses his ice breath on some of the Skeletons, freezing them. The Box Ghost wraps them in his Bubble Wrap (OF DEATH!), and Klemper pushes them off the land. Cut back to the two, who say both their catchphrases.

Klemper: Now will you be my friend?

Box Ghost: NEVER!

The Dragon Ghost, ridden by Poindexter, spews flame at the skeletons. Ember takes out a skeletal dragon with a power chord. She misses the next one, which is smashed by Skulker a second later anyway. He turns around to face Danny and Ember.

Skulker: Now, go! Defeat him! So I will be free to hunt you another day!

Danny Phantom: (sarcasm) Guy really knows how to motivate ya.

He obeys Skulker. He flies into the Keep. He reaches the doors to the throne room.

Danny Phantom: Well, this is it.

He blows the doors open. Standing right there is Pariah Dark, in all his...you know what I'm going to say. Danny groans angrily. Cut to Pariah.

Ghost King: A little ragged round the edges, eh, child?

Where do they find these voices, they're AMAZING! Anyway...cut to Danny.

Danny Phantom: Whaddya say...

He flies closer.

Danny Phantom: We ditch the snappy patter-

Aw, I liked the snappy patter.

Danny Phantom: And get right to the part where I kick your butt!

Ghost King: Very well, I accept your TERMS!

He flies towards Danny. He puts up a shield (not as impressive as the first...) to stop him. His power is now at 40%, and his strength is limited. He is now very tired and such. (You can tell I'm eager to get to the end of this). He fires ectoplasm at Pariah, which knocks him into his throne. He is now weaker than ever. Pariah gets up.

Ghost King: Having that much power, it's a burden, isn't it, child?

He throws his mace at Danny. He jumps up to dodge it, but it just comes back around. (That's a cool mace! I need one to go with the ACME Danny's TV). It hits him in the back and comes back to its owner's hand. Once that's over with, Pariah kicks Danny.

Action Card: WHAM!

Danny flies into the wall. He gets up, sweating.

Danny Phantom: The power isn't the burden. The burden is in how I use it. And I've been using it poorly lately.

He focuses very, very hard. After a bit of focusing, for the first time, he is able to generate clones. Say hello to Dannies 2, 3, and 4! Danny now has 25% power. The Dannies then fly at Pariah.

Action Card: ZARK!

The Dannies hit Pariah with beams from all directions. Angered, Pariah swings his mace at Danny 4, making him disappear with no speaking lines : (. One of the Dannies gets Pariah in the back, knocking him over. The three remaining Dannies walk up to him.

Dannies 1, 2, 3: Now leave my town ALONE!

They punch Pariah.

Action Card: WHAM!

Cut over to Amity Park. Sam and Tucker land the Specter Speeder in front of Fenton Works. They look up at the sky, which, for one fleeting moment, flickers to a normal sky instead of a Ghost Zone sky.

Tucker: Whoa.

Cut back to the fight. Danny 3 is hit by a beam, making him disappear.

Ghost King: Surrender, child! You can't possibly win!

Cut to Danny 2 (I'm 100% sure it's Danny 2)

Danny 2: I don't have to win.

His hands charge. He fires his blasts at the wall, revealing the Sarcophagus (uggh! Evil word! EEVIL WORD!) of Forever Sleep.

Danny 2: I just have to make sure that you lose!

Danny 1 flies up and holds the Sarcophagus open for Pariah. Ooh, Pariah looking a bit scared now! Danny 1 fires a bit of ectoplasm, knocking off the Crown of Fire. Danny 2 catches it ('nother cool shot here).

Ghost King: No! NO!

He throws it aside, then flies up and, with extreme difficulty (he's a big guy), pushes Pariah into the Sarcophagus. Danny 1 closes it. Danny 2, all worn out, retracts back into Danny 1, who we can now call just Danny.

Two whitish-blue ovals of light surround the Sarcophagus, as well as Amity Park. The Sropg-ugh, coffin is shaking wildly (aww, Pawiah no wanna go beddy-bye!). Danny groans, almost at his limit.

10%...9%...8%...

Pariah still doesn't wanna sleep.

7%...6%...5%...

Danny is now sweating from exhaustion. He slumps down. Just as he is about to die and Pariah is about to break loose, unleashing all heck on both worlds, an anonymous black-gloved hand turns the Skeleton Key in the lock, sealing Pariah back in. (He was a good character while he lasted.)

Ghost King: No! Nooo!

After he is locked in, the Ghost Zone sky over Amity Park reverts back to a normal sky. The residents cheer. The Skeletons still in town turn brown and crumple to dust.

Back at the Keep, Danny looks over. The black-gloved hand belonged to Vlad Plasmius, who is standing with the Fright Knight and all the other ghosts. Cut back to Danny.

Danny Phantom: I don't understand...

Plasmius: What? That I used two 14-year-old pawns to turn a knight, and topple a king?

Here, Danny's eyesight begins to waver as he loses consciousness.

Plasmius: It's chess, Daniel. Of course you don't understand, but-but then you never really did.

Danny loses consciousness completely. A second later, we hear a voice.

Voice: Danny?

Danny's eyes open. The first thing he sees is Sam, who was the voice.

Sam: Danny?

His eyes open fully.

Danny:(subconsciously) Huh, huh...what?

He looks around. He is in his room, on his bed. Standing around him are his family, Sam and Tuck, and Valerie and her father. Valerie is in bandages, including a cast on her left arm. Vlad comes out from behind Mr. Gray. He has detransformed, as has Danny, obviously.

Vlad: You gave us quite a scare there, little badger.

Cut to Jack.

Jack: Vladdie said he'd found you just outside the dump after the town flickered back to reality. He saved your life.

Maddie: Things might have been wierd there for a while, but if Vlad saved your life then I say, 'bigons'.

Note to self: Look up 'bigons'. Note from Zcat6: The word is "bygones," as in "let bygones be bygones" - a phrase that encourages one to leave unpleasant memories in the past. ;)

Jack: And you will always be welcome in our home, V-man. You can stay in Danny's room!

Vlad walks over.

Vlad: (Lying through his teeth) Too bad you lost your Ecto-suit, Jack.

Jack: That's okay, V-man. Those pants made me look fat.

Optimal thing for Jack to say ^^.

Danny tries to get up, which causes him intense pain. Sam pushes him back down again. She smiles. He smiles a dazed smile back.

Cut to the Fenton's AWESOME TV screen. Another Tiffany Snow broadcast is on, though no newsmedia is heard.

Tiffany: Well, the worst ghost crisis in the history of Amity Park is over.

Cut to the street. Two people are picking up Skeleton Army bones.

Tiffany: Cleanup continues-

However, they needn't be. A bulldozer (or is it a backhoe?) and truck are picking up a bigger pile.

Tiffany: And a sense of normalcy has returned.

Cut to the Box Store.

Tiffany: And while we may never know exactly what happened-

Cut to the inside. The owner of the store looks upset.

Box Store Owner Guy: Where's my bubble wrap?

OF DEATH? In the hands of a psychotic ghost : ). Cut to the football field. Some students are putting the football-score-things back up.

Tiffany: One thing's for sure. Inviso-Bill-

Dash, who is with the students, gives a thumbs-up. Cut to the broadcast again. A picture of Danny is onscreen.

Tiffany: Or should I say, 'Danny Phantom'-

Danny's pic disappears, it is replaced by a pie chart. It shows 'Pro, 64%, Con, 36%.

Tiffany: Has gone from villan to hero in the eyes of many in our town-

A pink ray fires at the TV, smashing it. It was fired by Valerie, who is apparently right-handed.

Valerie: (With total despising) That depends on who you're asking.

Mr.Gray: Valerie? Was that the Ecto-Gun?

She hides the gun behind her back.

Valerie: No!

Fade in to Casper High, then cut to the inside. It's another day, and Danny is still angry. He slams the door to his locker shut.

Tucker: Dude, you have to let it go.

Danny: I can't! What was that all about?

Close-up on Danny.

Danny: The ghosts are all off rebuilding their homes, but the Ecto-Skeleton is gone! And what about Vlad? Did he make some sort of pact with the Fright Knight? I-I-I-

Sam puts her hand over his mouth.

Sam: Danny, you beat the big bad guy, and you saved the town. That's enough for one day, dontcha think?

He gives her one of those soft smiles that he looks so cute doing...sigh. Dash just had to ruin the moment by rearing his ugly head.

Danny: Almost.

He walks up to Dash, unafraid.

Dash: You've got a lotta nerve just walkin' up to me in broad daylight, Fenton!

Danny: Actually, I wanted to say...I was sorry. I pulled some pranks on you, and-

Dash looks kinda surprised.

Danny: Well, with all the weirdness in the last few days...I'm sorta thinkin' that just because I can do something doesn't mean I...should.

Truer words have never been spoken. I should show this to some terrorists sometime. (Don't worry, I was kidding!)

Danny: So...apology accepted?

Dash smiles evilly.

Cut to the Nasty Burger. Dash is leaning against the door.

Dash: Apology accepted.

Apology accepted my spleen. His 'acceptance of apology' is hanging Danny by his underwear from the flagpole. Poor Danny.

Interesting thing that may or may not be a Goof: In this scene, Danny is wearing Tighty Whities. What happened to his boxers?

Whatever he's wearing, it tears, and he falls to the ground.

Danny: AAAAAAAAA! AA!

Cut to the inside of the Nasty Burger. Sam and Tuck are sitting at a table. Valerie comes on over to the table just as Danny hits the ground behind them.

Valerie: Looks like everything's back to normal.

Sam, Tucker: Looks like.

Valerie: Although...Y'know how I said I didn't really like Fenton? I kinda like him now.

Ooh, Sam looks appalled! This probably would've escalated into a girlfight if it weren't for the fact that a. Tucker was there and b. This is a TV-Y7-FV show. Instead, they just snipe at each other.

Sam: Yeah, well I-I mean, we like him too. And we're watching you.

The last sentence is a little sharper than the rest of the dialogue.

Valerie: I accept your challenge!

Sam: Then you leave us no choice.

Sam, Tucker: NATHAN!

Valerie screams and runs away, knocking the table over.

Goof: Before, the three were inside the building. Now, they're outside.

Nathan runs up, geeky as ever, holding flowers and chocolates.

Nathan: Valerie! Come back! Why won't you say yes?

The scenes 'circles' out on Nathan's face. The ending card is shown.

The episode has ended.

END OF PART FOUR

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