Episode #30
Transcripted by Dennis Dunjinman
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PART TWO
Fade in to the novel, The Fright Before Christmas 2. The book opens, inside is an
illustration that’s completely different from the last one, the Nutcracker’s
leg outstretched with toe in the air, ready to squash Danny, who’s
back is bent forward and just stares. Zoom in and rotate as the scene morphs
into live-action.
Cut to Danny looking scared and
shrouded in the shadow. He turns intangible, zoom out as the giant boot
squishes him, debris flies all around. Danny, still intangible, phases out from
under the foot and flies off-screen.
Cut to over the city, an intangible
Danny flies up. He becomes visible once more.
Cut to the Nutcracker, he turns and
lifts a hand. Then he lunges. Cut to Danny, leaning back and gasping as the
Nutcracker’s hand grasps him tight, Danny yells in pain.
Cut to the wall of a building near a
window. The Nutcracker’s hand slams Danny back-first into the wall, upside
down. Cracks appear in the bricks, Danny grunts with effort, his arms out.
Cut to a rather blocky purple car
parked on the street. Danny falls on the car with his back on the roof, all the
windows shatter and the car alarm goes off. A shadow
grows upon him as the boot of the Nutcracker steps on him and the car.
Nasty
insurance claims, eh? Blame it on the ghost boy, I say!
Cut to a brick wall. Danny falls back-first into it, bracing himself for impact as a
gaping hole is made and chucks of debris fall out. Danny leans down, tired.
Zoom out. The boot of the Nutcracker squishes Danny straight through the wall,
making an even BIGGER hole.
Cut to an ice-covered street with a
purple car parked. Danny falls on his back on the street, grunting in pain. He
uses his hands to sit up as the arm of the Nutcracker with its hand in a fist
comes up.
Cut to the Nutcracker. It raises an
arm and charges a pink ectoplasmic ray, leaning forward to blast it. Cut to
Danny, looking determined on the ground. He lifts his legs and uses his arms
for ballast to stand up, flying off before the blast hits and lifts up a bunch
of rocks from the street.
Cut to the shoulder of the
Nutcracker. Danny flies from behind it with his fists forward and legs in a
tail, pan right as he goes off-screen. The Nutcracker’s other shoulder goes to
the left as its hand lunges forward, the Nutcracker with an angered expression
following.
Cut to a bunch of buildings. Danny
flies up, with one hand cupped, it starts to glow green, he blasts and lifts it
up.
Cut to more buildings, the
Nutcracker stands straight and marches forward. As the green beam lands on his
shoulder, some toys get displaced. A robot, a submarine, a soccer ball, a truck
and a box of some sort all fall away.
Cut to Danny flying fast in a
background of grey, his hair is blown back, he charges blast after blast,
alternating hands and grunting each time.
Cut to the Nutcracker marching
forward and not flinching, the blows land on his right arm as an owl, a
skateboard, a car and a drum fall. Near his left armpit comes
a plane, a football, a clown head, and a stuffed monkey. From the center of his
chest comes the monkey, the football, the plane and a
box of crayons, and a green wooden block. From his right hip a Rubik’s cube,
two missiles, a tape recorder and a basket ball backboard/hoop, from his right
armpit once more come the familiar block, crayon box, plane, football, clown head, and stuffed monkey.
I
can’t say the prop designers are lazy, but they seem to re-use objects over and
over again. I’ve seen that monkey and clown-head three times. Whatever, those
toys NEVER get out of style.
Cut to Danny rather determined, his
green hand blazing. He thrusts forward to blast another beam.
DANNY: You think this can stop me?
Cut to the Nutcracker, walking
onwards. Several missing parts are on his chest and arms. Green beams land on
him.
DANNY: This bear or this train?
As if on cue, a toy train and a pink
teddy bear fly out from the place Danny blasted.
Cut to Danny, flying fast with his
hair blown back, his arm on front blazing a zapper.
DANNY: I’ll just fire (alternates arms) away 'til--
Danny stops and stands up straight,
the scene becomes the sky, he blazes a ball of energy above his head high.
DANNY: --no
pieces remain!
Danny bends over and throws the
ball.
Cut to the crippled Nutcracker. It
stands there with no emotion as the ball comes closer, pulsing with ectoplasmic
lightning.
Prepare for impact! In a burst of
green light, toys fly out and clear away, the same toys from before, not a
pretty sight.
Cut to the streets, there’s a happy
toy clown on the ground, a radio too. A robot head falls, A
pink bear lands as well, one leg falls off. A football descends and bounces. A
dented toy rocket, an orange cone, too. Pan right to show more, a plane with
one wing gone, colored letter blocked litters upon the snow, a red
image-clicker crashes down too. Danny falls from the sky and lands on his
boots.
DANNY:
Nothing to add?
Danny walks forward. Cut to another
shot, Danny walks onscreen, seen from the back, he turns around with curiosity
as Ghostwriter begins talking.
GHOSTWRITER:
Danny asked.
Cut to Danny looking at side view as
Sam, Tucker and Lancer walk into the street toward Danny, looking down sadly.
GHOSTWRITER: Then the answer,--
Pan to the right, Tucker and Lancer
are still visible. They stop. Jasmine walks near a snow-covered purple car and
bends down into a smoking pike of colored debris containing a smashed purple
toy car, a train, a lone
GHOSTWRITER:
--showed up in the form of Sam, Tucker and Lancer.
Cut to the ground, Bearbert is
decapitated with stuffing out all over. Jasmine has her hands on the bear’s head, pan up as she picks it up onto her knee.
GHOSTWRITER: And Jazz standing silent, her eyes
filled with tears,--
A tear drops from Jazz’s eye.
GHOSTWRITER:
--mourning the bear--
Jazz takes a long blink, and looks
to the left with anger.
GHOSTWRITER:
--she had loved all these years.
Cut to Tucker and Sam, Sam holding a
smoldering box looking down on is with disbelief, Tucker with his smoldering
yellow car looking down at it, depressed.
GHOSTWRITER: And Tucker and Sam felt that--
Danny walks over, putting his hand
on Tucker’s car looking at his friends with regret, they look at him irritated.
GHOSTWRITER:
--crushing blow, too.
The items stop smoking. Tucker lifts
a hand to wave Danny away, Danny lifts both hands to
guard himself.
TUCKER: Danny, don’t.
Tucker’s eyes open. Sam holds the
box in one hand and puts down her other one, turning to Danny. Danny turns to
Sam, taken aback.
SAM: (irked)
What’s your deal?
Sam storms off. Jasmine leans into
the scene irate as well, pointing a sharp finger at her ghost brother. It’s
after TUE, she can tell.
JASMINE: I don’t even *know* you!
Tucker and Jasmine turn and storm
off, leaving Danny alone.
Cut to Danny. He blinks and his eyes
look behind him.
Cut to a street. An Asian girl is
looking over a broken red car, chicken head and baby doll head. Also seen near her are a hair brush, a yellow-and-green-striped
box, a wheel, an airplane with a blue stripe and broken wing. A
blonde-haired teen cries and hugs his mom. A boy in a red baseball cap holds up
a broken vehicle to his father, bending down with his hands on his knees to
examine it. A woman in the far distance observes the wreckage.
GHOSTWRITER: It seemed the whole town--
Begin panning right to show more of
the street, a tall boy in red holds up a pronged tripod in his hand. A large,
dark-skinned man in an orange coat raises his arms, yellow mittens on his head.
His son miserably holds a crushed wrapped gift. An aged woman bystander also
holds a red box. Also on the floor are a
GHOSTWRITER:
--had come out to proclaim:
All the people look toward the
camera with angry glares, the man putting down his hands and clenching fists.
GHOSTWRITER:
--that Christmas--
Cut to a woman in pale blue holding
a broken yellow radio with wires coming out of it, an angry man with a green
shirt and red scarf looks frustrated with arms akimbo, another far away with
crossed arms, a leg is seen in the foreground. Danny is looking rather shocked
and helpless in the center. On the ground is a smashed blue toy with buttons and
bent antennae in two pieces.
GHOSTWRITER: --was ruined!
Danny turns around, still looking
down at the woman on the ground holding her radio. He flies off.
GHOSTWRITER:
The ghost boy to blame.
Cut to an aerial shot of
Cut to Danny, flying cheerless and
alone, his fists out in front of him, his tail cascading in the back. He looks
down, swooping the other direction off-screen.
Cut to outside a house, Danny lands
near a window, walking up with his palms leaning on the pane.
GHOSTWRITER: Save for one little boy--
Cut to a spherical ornament on the
wooden floor, its dark turquoise with purple stripes, and a light blue circle
in segments, with a small gold hook. It lets out a *ping* sparkle. A hand
reaches down to pick it up. Pan out to show the young boy
sitting on the floor, in his Santa hat, smiling. Danny looks from
outside the frosted window.
GHOSTWRITER: --in his little red hat.
The boy looks to the window and
waves.
GHOSTWRITER: He thought Danny was cool.
Cut to the frosted window, with
Danny looking inside. He smiles and waves.
Cut to the boy on the floor, holding
his ornament, still waving and smiling.
GHOSTWRITER: So we’ll have to fix that.
Cut to Danny, still continuing to
wave. Soon, he puts his hand down on the pane, his mouth small and concerned.
Cut to the boy under a huge, trimmed
tree filled with round balls of pink, blue and purple. They look like shiny crunchberries. The room fades to purple as the tree begins
to emit a heavy aura of white light. Pan up to the top of the tree with the
five-pointed gold star on top. The tree sprouts solid, angry red eyes and a
jagged mouth. As is stops glowing, the tree closes its eyes and roars loudly,
its tongue and throat visible.
Who
here wished for evil plants? It wasn’t Sam this time. And Undergrowth doesn’t
come in for a whole ‘nother season. Of course, Christmas trees aren’t rooted to
anything, so it’s not likely these would be his.
Cut to the boy on the floor, the
tree in the foreground. Danny looks up in concern and terror from the window.
The boy turns his head. A green branch springs from the tree, displacing a
couple glass balls like the one he was holding. More debris fall as the green
branch becomes a three-fingered hand.
Cut to the base of a tree. Two green
branches sprout from the bottom and land on the floor, becoming legs. It lifts
itself up and snaps the tiny, thin trunk.
Cut to the Room. The tree looks down
upon the child, roaring loudly and positioned like a raptor. The boy gets up,
runs and screams, panning right as the tree chases
him.
Cut to Danny outside, he gets up
from the window and turns away from it to the street, screams are heard. Pan right to show two trees, one seen from behind stomping, the
other chasing a woman looking back with her hand in front of her, screaming.
As those two trees walk off-screen, another tree runs after a small boy in the
far distance from the left, with its hands out about to grab him. A fourth tree
a little closer is chasing a teenage girl from the right, also trying to grab
her.
Cut to the Fenton’s kitchen, the
small TV is showing a tree running after a red-haired teenage girl. The other
girl from before is still running with her hands out in front of her, the tree
chases on. The TV flashes to an image of a red-haired female newscaster holding
a sheet of paper and an over-the-shoulder reading “Tree Terror”, a red box with
a scary monster tree on it.
FEMALE NEWSCASTER: The siren is wailing, the ghost trees
attacking! Lock up your homes, I suggest you start packing!
Pack
up? But we’ve just settled down for the holidays! It’s like issuing a tornado
warning during a holiday. I remember an Israeli war was fought on a holiday
when everyone was off-guard, too. Meep!
Pan out to show Jack and Maddie from
behind, watching the screen. Jack’s not in his red hat anymore, but Maddie’s in
a red coat.
JACK: Christmas is ruined!
Cut to Jack and Maddie. Maddie looks
incredulously at Jack, Jack lifts a hand to point at his wife.
JACK: And you’re not the cause.
Jack puts down his hand, Maddie
crosses her arms.
MADDIE: I sure hope the Ghost Shield won’t
stop Santa Claus.
Jack looks irked at Maddie, holding
his arms akimbo. Then his eyes pop open with realization, he turns and quickly
rushes off.
Cut to a button pad with two green
buttons, the top one reads “Ghost Ray” the bottom one reads “Ghost Shield”. Jack’s
black-gloved finger presses on the latter, it beeps.
Cut to the top of FentonWorks, with
the trussed black antenna. A green force field sprouts out in a cyclone shape,
and falls down in a circle.
Cut to the house. The force field
continues to descend and protect FentonWorks.
Cut to the street. A crowd of trees
plunge arms-first into the shield while moaning, they pile up against it.
Wow.
How dumb can they get? Well, more trees stopped by the shield, less chasing
innocent bystanders.
Cut to the TV, showing a man getting
chased by a tree toward the camera. Jack Fenton leans toward it, listening
intently with shock and alarm. He presses a button on the control panel, the
channel changes to another news station. A man with red hair and a green suit
is holding a stack of papers, the over-the-shoulder a red box. Jack puts his
hand away.
MALE
NEWSCASTER: It’s tree watch Day 1!
Hope there isn’t Day 2.
Cut to a full shot of the TV image.
The man is holding his papers and a wire is in his ear. Over the shoulder a red
box with three reddish trees on it, text reads “Tree Watch Day One”.
MALE
NEWSCASTER: Let’s go to Lance
Thunder,--
The over-the-shoulder changes to
Lance Thunder in a blue suit and white-red striped scarf, holding a microphone,
looking in terror at the trees surrounding him. The newscaster in the studio
turns to the Over the Shoulder and holds his earpiece.
MALE
NEWSCASTER: --our weatherman, who--
Cut to Lance, holding his mic.
LANCE
THUNDER: --can’t believe I quit (turns his head and lifts a mitten) acting
(steps back a bit nervously as trees
close in on him) to work in this place.
Lance pops with sudden realization
and reports calmly.
LANCE
THUNDER: There’s chaos here, Bill. (looks up in horror
and starts yelling) *NOT THE FACE*!
Trees close in from in front of Lance;
his head turns to the left.
LANCE
THUNDER: *NOT THE FACE*!
The trees completely obscure him,
the broadcast turns to static. Pan out to show Jack and Maddie watching TV.
Cut to Jack and Maddie. Jack turns
to Maddie, Maddie looks up at Jack.
JACK: Anybody seen Danny?
Cut to the doorway of the kitchen,
an uncaring Jasmine waves down her arms and strolls in past her parents and walks
off-screen toward the camera.
JASMINE: Like I even care.
Jack turns to Jasmine, Maddie looks
saddened, then annoyed at her daughter.
MADDIE: What’s wrong with you, Jasmine? (leans out and
raises both her arms high) Your brother’s out there!
Maddie turns to Jack and pulls up
her hood with a serious expression.
MADDIE: Hold down the fort, Jack.
Cut to Maddie, and Jasmine looking
dejected with her arms crossed. Maddie leans off-screen and grabs two
double-sided axes, spinning them and suddenly stopping.
MADDIE: I’ll go after our tot! (turns the other
way) Those trees will not (turns and
jumps out an open window headfirst, Jack is in the foreground) stop me!
Cut to outside the window, Maddie
flies through. Jack comes up and has his hands on the pane, looking down.
JACK: Oh man,--
Cut to Jack.
JACK: --that
is hot!
Cut to Danny on the streets,
blasting away at trees closing in on all sides. Danny turns to the back and
blasts at another tree. He turns to the right and holds out two hands in front
of him to blast another as the trees close in and fill the screen as they are
too close to the camera.
Cut to an evil ghost tree with arms
up, roaring. It leans its tip back and clenches its fists, sending an array of
spikes against a black action background.
Cut to Danny, looking in fear as
trees roar in the background. Danny closes his eyes and blocks his face and
chest by crossing his arms and putting his forearms up with fists tight,
turning intangible as the spikes phase through him.
Cut to Maddie running with two
double-edged axes against a turquoise action background. She is screaming a battle
cry but her lips aren’t moving. Soon, she jumps up with one knee in front and
one leg in back.
GHOSTWRITER: While his mother moved forth,--
Cut to another turquoise background.
A lot of ghost trees are seen rimming the bottom, Maddie jumps over them
twirling her axes, landing in the fray as the trees raise their arms. Shreds of
tree fly.
Cut to Danny standing in a
back-bent-over battle stance looking to a crowd of trees. Danny holds out an
arm and fries one of them, then turns to the right and fries another, leaving
it a smoking barren-branched tree.
GHOSTWRITER: --Danny faced my attack.
Danny turns toward the camera and
sends another green zapper off-screen. Then he takes a few steps to face the
camera at front view, blazes both glowing hands in front of him, and fills the
screen with green energy.
Cut to a black screen. An axe slices
through it, revealing Maddie chopping the tree down grunting with effort, with
a couple more behind her. She swings her second axe the other way, grunting
again, and finishes the tree off, it falls away. She then turns behind her to
face the other trees, swinging one axe to decapitate that conifer, swinging the
other to chop the decapitated part in half as it falls away. She then turns to
the front.
MADDIE: Danny! Danny, (turns to the left and walks forward) where are you?!
She walks towards the camera. Cut to
a fray of trees. Maddie runs through them.
GHOSTWRITER: But he couldn’t shout back.
Cut to Danny landing on his back
with his limbs out on the snow-covered street, grunting with pain.
GHOSTWRITER: Every tactic he tried would be
destined to fail.
Danny gets up on his hand groggily
and uses the other to blast an approaching tree. Another one grabs him by the
suit on his chest in two arms, Danny turns in shock to face the tree as it
lifts him up and off-screen.
Cut to another array of trees. Danny
lands on his hands and tumbles across the street, landing on his hands and
knees and grunting in pain as the trees roar behind him. Two trees step from
either side into the foreground, a third lands behind hem and fills the scene.
Cut to an aerial shot of Danny on
his knees and hands, near a small iced-over section of the street, in the
middle of a ring of trees crowding endlessly. They all roar as three trees from
different parts of the ring close in on him.
Cut to Danny, still on the ground,
looking weak with the trees in the background.
MADDIE: (offscreen)
If you hear me,--
Danny’s eyes look behind him.
MADDIE: --just scream!
Danny perks up a bit, but isn’t
smiling.
DANNY: Yeah!
Close up on Danny, he looks up and
smiles.
DANNY: With
my Ghostly Wail!
Cut to Danny in a bowing position
and smiling on the ice-and-concrete ground, with the evil trees in the back
still roaring. He pivots to the right on one hand, one knee and one foot, with
his fist tight, and a determined look. He gets up on both his feet with both
his arms out with loose fists. He then takes a deep breath, leaning his head
back and puffing up his chest.
Close up on Danny. He lets out a Ghostly
Wail. Green sound wave rings come out from his mouth. Zoom out to show all of
Danny and the two rows of trees around him.
Cut to a row of roaring trees with
arms up high. The Ghostly Wail’s sound waves come in from the left and knock
them down from the left to the right, blowing all the needles and ornaments off
and leaving bare tree skeletons of barren branches.
Cut to another row of trees. They
prove no match for the Ghostly Wail as the sound waves close in them the same
way and they get blown away, left as skeletons of trunks and branches. Pan left
to a row of trees facing the camera and roaring, with Danny in front of them
all, sounding out his Ghostly Wail to the right. He then turns to face his back
to the camera and crumbles all the trees down as green circles sprout and grow
in front of him, leaving the trees fallen, barren trunks. Soon, Danny turns to
the left with his eyes closed tight, panning left to show more trees being left
bare as the Ghostly Wail comes toward them.
Cut to Danny with his arms up, still
wailing. Some trees are far off. As he continues, parts of his red jacket form
on him.
Cut to an aerial shot of a wave of
trees all seen from the back. The Ghostly Wail’s green sound waves come from
the top-right corner and deck them all, stripping them of all needles and
ornaments, leaving them bereft of anything and are
fallen tree skeletons now. Pan down-left, another wave of trees are deck in the
same fashion.
Cut to three trees seen from behind,
filling the screen’s foreground. All of them get knocked away, revealing Danny
Phantom in a red jacket sending a full-blast Ghostly Wail at them, the green
rings of sound coming from Danny’s mouth.
Cut a little closer to Danny, there
is nothing but dead trees left behind and some pillars of smoke. Soon, during
the Wail, he falls on his knees and hands due to fatigue, his face looking
down. A flash of light and a ring appears around the boy, he turns back into
Danny Fenton. Danny looks up. The pillars of smoke stop smoldering.
Cut to an aerial shot of Danny
Fenton crouched on the ground surrounded by a few large, dead trunks. Zoom out
to show the snow and all the destruction in the street in a huge ring around
Danny.
Cut to Danny, still with his hands
and knees on the snow. He blinks and turns to the right as some debris flies,
his mother comes out with her two axes.
MADDIE: Danny! Thank heavens! (jumps out of the
pile and walks closer to her son) You had us all worried.
Cut to Maddie and her two axes.
MADDIE: When your dad saw the news we stopped (relaxes her arms and lowers the axes) squabbling
and hurried! (puts
down the axes) It’s Christmas Eve, son.
Maddie walks offscreen. Cut to Danny
on the ground as Maddie walks toward him with the axes, Danny stands up.
MADDIE: Home is where you should be.
Maddie and Danny turn away from the
camera and walk away, Danny walking all dejected and sullen with Maddie’s hand
with one axe on his back.
MADDIE: Let’s
get back to the house and I’ll make you some tea.
Fade back to FentonWorks underneath
the cover of the green, cylindrical force field. Zoom in.
GHOSTWRITER: The ghost shield deployed,--
Cut to the swirling Fenton Portal.
GHOSTWRITER: --Danny turned to this thought.
Pan left to show Danny Fenton, his
eyes turn behind him.
GHOSTWRITER:
To take on the spirit--
Cut to Danny, he turns around with a
look of determination, he transforms into Danny Phantom.
GHOSTWRITER:
--he knew who had wrought--
Danny takes off flying offscreen.
GHOSTWRITER:
--this holiday mischief--
Cut to a front shot of the Ghost
Portal. Danny flies into it.
GHOSTWRITER:
--and left him the blame. Come on now, dear boy.
Cut to the Ghost Zone. Danny comes
out of the Fenton Portal, which is a swirly green inside a purple rim. There
are four purple doors in the background. Pan right as Danny flies straight,
three more doors appear.
GHOSTWRITER: Here’s where you call me “lame”.
He
calls YOU lame? Duh. You’ve been sitting in a library
typing this whole time as Dennis sat in her dungeon (really her mother’s office
on her compy since Dennis’s was taken away) transcribing your misadventure this
whole time. We clearly have no lives. Especially you, if you have to write on
Christmas Eve and not attend any get-togethers.
Cut to Danny flying with two arms in
front and a tail in back by a green action background.
DANNY: Give it up! You can’t hide.
Cut to the Ghost Zone. Danny flies
in seen from behind, pan left to show the Ghostwriter’s library lair, Danny approaches
it.
DANNY: I know just where to find you.
Cut to inside the library,
Ghostwriter is looking outside his reddish-paneled window at Danny approaching.
GHOSTWRITER: But I’m still in control.
Pan right. Ghostwriter turns to his
keyboard and types rapidly.
GHOSTWRITER: Allow them to remind you.
Cut to Danny flying fast, his hair
blown back, on a green action background. He holds his chest upright and blazes
both his hands with green energy, sending out two blasts of energy filling the
screen.
Cut to the doors of the
Ghostwriter’s library. With some yellow sparkles, this doorway changes into two
reddish wooden doors with a spoon on the left and a fork on the right, standing
atop a floating rock island. Danny’s ectoblast hits the door head-on and envelops
the screen in green light and wood debris.
Talk
about barging in! Usually Dennis just pushes the door open with a hand when she
barges in uninvited and says “Barge”, but that’s one powerful explosion that’s
bound to have many eyes upon you as you enter what’s left of the room.
Cut to the inside of the doorway,
the red wooden doors being blasted apart and smoldering with debris strewn
everyplace. The Ghost Zone is visible with two
purple doors in the distance. Danny lands with his arms out and his knees bent,
standing up straight and walking inside, turning the left, then the right,
walking closer to the camera until he ends up offscreen.
DANNY: “Them”?
Cut to Danny walking, the green
Ghost Zone in the background. Danny blinks and looks surprised, blinking a few
times.
GHOSTWRITER: Danny asked. Then he shuddered and
trembled.
Cut to Danny looking upon a room
full of his foes, from left to right is The Box Ghost, then Technus, in front
of Technus is Johnny and Kitten, in front of them is Captain Youngblood in
pirate form, near Youngblood is Spectra in her supermodel form. Pan right. The
Lunch Lady is floating behind Spectra with her hair flailing, Sidney Poindexter
is standing in front of her with his hands akimbo, next to him is Walker, in
front of Walker is Bertrand in his assistant form, next to Bertrand is Ember
with her arms crossed, and last Skulker with his hands on his hips. There’s a
trimmed Christmas tree seen behind
GHOSTWRITER: The door had brought him where all his
foes were assembled.
SKULKER: We’ve been waiting for you. (smiles)
GHOSTWRITER: Skulker said with a grin.
Cut to The
Box Ghost, standing next to a tree.
THE BOX
GHOST: Now our holiday party can (smiles and rubs his palms together)
finally begin!
Cut to two overhead lamps. They
flash on brightly.
Cut to three more overhead lamps.
They activate and shine.
Cut to a gold-trimmed Christmas tree
near a red window. The screen becomes an action-magenta as two beams of light
illuminate it and it sparkles with lots of gold sparkles.
Cut to Danny looking to the right
astounded in the doorway, with two trees on either side, in the foreground is
Skulker’s boot on the left and Ember’s boot on the right. Danny turns to the
left.
Cut to Skulker holding a cup, Ember
holding a miniature cooked fowl on a platter, and
SKULKER: Eat, drink, (widens his eyes and lifts his cup) and be merry! (puts his arm
closer to him to show Ember)
EMBER: (lifting
the platter slightly) Have some warm Christmas goose!
Pan left. Poindexter is smiling
smugly next to
THE BOX
GHOST: For surely you know of our (turns to the left and raises his arms out
slightly) annual truce.
Cut to Danny, smiling. Zoom out to
reveal this was an image on the Ghostwriter’s screen,
his arm is resting on the keyboard. A fist slams down next to it. Cut to
Ghostwriter hunched over on his keyboard.
GHOSTWRITER: The truce? It’s still holding?
Ghostwriter stares down at his
keyboard and puts his fisted hand in his hair.
GHOSTWRITER:
I thought they’d dispend it! (looks at his screen and lays his hand out) To beat on
their foe--
Close up on Skulker.
SKULKER: Oh, this truce, we defend it!
Cut to an aerial shot of the whole
room. The two glittering trees are in the foreground, Danny is seen from behind
with his foes in front of him in the order of Box Ghost, Johnny, Technus,
Kitten, Youngblood, Model Spectra, Lunch Lady, Sidney Poindexter, Bertrand,
Walker, Ember and Skulker. Behind them are a buffet feast and several wrapped
boxes.
SKULKER: We don’t fight on Christmas.
Cut to
BERTRAND: One day of tranquility!
Cut to Spectra with arms crossed,
and Kitten with one arm akimbo.
SPECTRA: Come sundown (arches an eyebrow) tomorrow…
Cut to Kitten, Lunch Lady, Spectra,
ALL: We resume all hostility!
Just
a short note on relationship building, note that Walker and Sidney are still
side-by-side as they were in Reign Storm, and Kitten and Spectra are adjacent,
and Ember and Skulker are alone on the other side of the room. Plus, both The
Box Ghost and Lunch Lady get speaking roles in this episode. This just goes to
show you how The Ultimate Enemy and the far-off Girl’s Night Out were later
built.
Cut to Danny in the open, not-busted
doorway.
DANNY: Every ghost (raises his right arm) holds this truce?
Cut to Skulker.
SKULKER: It’s a fact!
Pan over to Kitten, Lunch Lady,
Spectra,
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: Well, the Ghostwriter broke it!
Cut to the same crowd. Lunch Lady is
looking at
EMBER: That is really uncool!
Cut to Danny walking past Christmas
trees and red blinded windows, stopping in front of The Box Ghost, Johnny and
Skulker. He lifts his arms in a shrug.
Had
this been Livin’ Large, The Box Ghost would be
replaced with Youngblood, who is also present but relatively unseen here.
DANNY: I’m trapped in his story! (shirts his arms
behind him) The guy’s off his nut!
SKULKER: He ought to know better.
Cut to The Box Ghost.
THE BOX
GHOST: (pounding a fist) Let’s go kick his butt!
Um,
what about not fighting on Christmas, guys? It’s like you break your own rule
just to punish another person who IS breaking Da Rules! But since
Cut to Danny, smiling. Zoom out to
reveal the image on Ghostwriter’s screen; both his hands are curled on his
keyboard keys. Cut to Ghostwriter sitting in his circular keyboard with four
visible screens.
GHOSTWRITER: Uh oh. The ghosts changed their--
Cut to the doorway of Ghostwriter’s
library. It pounds open and crumbles into wood debris with a plume of green
smoke coming from it. Danny Phantom runs inside, followed by Skulker stopping
on the right, The Box Ghost floating in on the left, and Ember, Johnny,
Youngblood up top, Walker and Lunch Lady from left to right, front to back.
Cut to Ghostwriter, taken off guard.
GHOSTWRITER:
*Crud*!
Zoom out, he looks down to his
keyboard and types rapidly.
GHOSTWRITER:
I have *got* to type faster!
Dennis
probably should, too. She’s trying to get her WPM score up and improve her
annoying mass typing skills. I’m really close to the top of the post count
ladder now.
Cut to Danny, Skulker on the right,
Ember on the left, and Walker directly behind Danny.
DANNY: It’s over, (holds up a hand to point a finger) you hack!
Close up on Ghostwriter and his
typing fingers near his chin.
GHOSTWRITER: I don’t think so, (eyes look up and smiles evilly) young master.
What
are you talking about?
Danny
Phantom is no master!
Clearly
the first rhyme he had,
But
why not plaster, or oil of castor?
Cut to the Ghostwriter’s red monitor
on a dark shiny screen, as Ghostwriter talks, the text comes up in green on the
screen after an ellipsis “…”
GHOSTWRITER: The truce they enjoyed--
Cut to the angry ghosts in the
doorway, with Danny in front, Ember and Johnny on the left, Skulker on the
right, Youngblood, Walker and Lunch Lady floating on the top back.
GHOSTWRITER: --it was fun while it lasted.
Everyone gets shocked and taken
aback as they are overcome by a pinkish aura.
Cut to a worried Ember and Box Ghost
floating behind her, they both grin evilly and lift fists.
Cut to a scared Danny, his eyes
looking behind him as The Box Ghost’s and Ember’s fists with a pink aura land
on him from the left, knocking him off-screen and yelling in pain.
Cut to a bookshelf. Danny lands on
it with heavy impact, back to the shelf, knees bent, hands out at the sides of
his head, pink smoke coming from the place of impact. He grunts in pain and
lands on his butt on the floor, lifting both his arms out and zapping a
powerful green ectoblast within the pink aura.
Cut to an aggressive Ember and Box
Ghost in the pink aura, Danny’s green blast knock The Box Ghost away and he
yells, Ember turns her head to see him.
Cut to Johnny in the pink aura
crouching over his hands in front, his shadow a puddle on the floor. Zoom out
as Johnny raises his arms and his bad luck Shadow follows, a frightened
Youngblood gets grabbed by the Shadow in both hands and is tackled off-screen,
Youngblood screams.
GHOSTWRITER: Then Youngblood got pummeled,--
(Cut to Skulker crouching behind
Ember, both within the pink aura. Skulker raises his arm as Ember turns her
head to face him)
GHOSTWRITER: --then Ember got blasted!
As he says this, a pink-purple laser
gets fired from Skulker’s battle suit’s arm. Ember is forced off-screen.
Cut to Technus 2.0 in his ghostly
form holding an electro staff while in a pink aura,
pan left and zoom out to show the ball on the end with the four nodes firing
pink lightning.
Cut to
GHOSTWRITER: They battled eachother with--
Cut to Danny in a pink aura, a pink
aura covered Spectra jumps in from the left and Bertrand jumps in from the
right, both tackling Danny.
GHOSTWRITER: --all weapons handy.
Cut to a small counter with a
picture of a white-haired Ghostwriter with a plae
green tie holding a fruit. There is also a vase and an ashtray.
GHOSTWRITER: A framed 8” by 10” of my--
The Box Ghost’s pink-aura covered
hands both grasp it.
GHOSTWRITER:
--half-brother, Randy?
The Box Ghost takes it offscreen.
Cut to the Lunch Lady overturning a
grandfather clock, squashing Bertrand.
Y’know,
back in Fright Night, Danny holds a grandfather clock and smashes it onto the
Fright Knight. It’s two in a row!
GHOSTWRITER: A clock,--
Cut to The
Box Ghost looking over his shoulder, Johnny comes in from his blind spot and
cracks a candlestick over his head, The Box Ghost wincing in pan.
GHOSTWRITER:
--and a candlestick,--
Cut to the Ghostwriter gleefully
typing on his keyboard.
GHOSTWRITER: --those I won’t miss. (looks behind
himself in pondering) I wonder what else?
Cut to Danny retreating into the
frame, being pushed arm-to-arm by
DANNY: I know! (puts down
Danny stands up straight to smash
the orange into Walker’s face, citric acid splashing everywhere, Walker raising
his arms now being blinded by the pain.
Note
to the reader: When smashing oranges, wear goggles to protect from citric acid
splashes. This rule was much regretted in Ned’s Declassified when the boys
smashed an orange on the table, when they weren’t wearing eye protection.
Cut to Ghostwriter, smiling. Zoom
out as he hunches over the keyboard and types rapidly.
GHOSTWRITER: Young Danny thought quickly and picked
up an orange.
Cut to Ghostwriter’s back screen.
The lines he just spoke are shown in green text. As he speaks, new lines appear
on the third line.
GHOSTWRITER: He threw it at
Cut to Ghostwriter at the keyboard.
He closes his eyes in annoyance.
GHOSTWRITER: Oh, *CRUD*!
Close up on Ghostwriter, eyes open
GHOSTWRITER: Nothing rhymes with orange!
Silly. Any rhymer on the DPOF knows that “door hinge” is a close
enough match to get away with. Not sure what
Cut to Skulker holding The Box Ghost
off the floor in one hand, about to punch him with the other. As the pink aura
fades, their eyes pop with realization that they are free.
Cut to Poindexter, in pain, and
being sat on by someone. Zoom out to reveal Lunch Lady is sitting on his back,
arms crossed and smiling. The pink aura fades away, and their eyes pop as well.
Cut to
Cut to Ghostwriter at his keyboard,
shocked. Zoom in on his face.
Cut to Danny in a turquoise action
background. He pulls his fist back and his palm in front, then thrusts his fist
forward and balls his palm into a fist.
Cut to a solid green onomatopoeia
screen. On it is the word POW! In purple action letters
rimmed in white. It pops closer on the screen and the screen flashes
black a little.
Freeze frame. Cut to Ghostwriter bracing himself for pain on a blue freeze frame.
Zoom out and turn to reveal Danny at side view landing a punch on him.
Cut to Danny with his arms out on a
purple-pink freeze frame. Zoom out and rotate to reveal him landing a foot on
Ghostwriter’s face, Ghostwriter looks jostled.
Cut to Ghostwriter’s pained face in
a light green freeze frame. Zoom out and rotate to reveal him being bent over
backwards with his hands flailing in the air as Danny swoops a punch on his
chest, illustrated by a pink action guideline and impact point.
Cut to two of
Cut to Ghostwriter in the
foreground, looking up. Danny flies onscreen with two hands up on either side
blazing with green energy, his body a ghostly tail.
DANNY: Roses are red, Violets are blue.
Cut to Danny looking down upon
Ghostwriter, the two guards with the sticks are in the background. Danny turns
suddenly with both arms in front, sending out beams.
DANNY: Once these fry--
Cut to Ghostwriter’s circular
keyboard with the seven screens, one segment is missing a screen. Danny’s two
beams hit it on the two keyboards in the back.
DANNY: --I’m
guessing this lame poem is…--
The keyboard shatters to bits, parts
fly off and a pillar of smoke smolders from it.
Cut to Danny, satisfied with two
arms blazing green in front of him. They stop glowing as he scrunches them
back, a confused expression on his face.
DANNY: --through?
Danny grabs his head.
DANNY: *Nooooooo*!
Cut to
GHOSTWRITER: Danny screamed.
Zoom out to reveal a panicking Danny
with his hands still on his head.
DANNY: I’m still talking (puts down his hands and looks at them) in rhyme!
Cut to Ghostwriter, his gray scarf
is blowing in the wind.
GHOSTWRITER: I would have forewarned you if given
the time.
Ghostwriter’s sweater and coat fill
the screen as he stands up)
Cut to Ghostwriter being restrained
by the two guards, bits and pieces of the glass keyboard are strewn on the
floor.
GHOSTWRITER: There are two ways to finish this poem--
Skulker walks in from the right,
GHOSTWRITER:
--just two.
Close up on Ghostwriter.
GHOSTWRITER: I’d tap out the end-- (eyes look to the right)
Cut to a shot of Ghostwriter with
Skulker and
GHOSTWRITER:
--But I can’t, thanks to you!
Walker and Skulker walk Ghostwriter
off to the left.
GHOSTWRITER: So now you’ll guide this story--
Danny slumps over, dejected, then he
falls on his knees and hands, sullen.
GHOSTWRITER:
--of the ghost who hates Christmas.
Cut to Danny. Smoke billows next to him;
he picks up a piece of the keyboard and looks at it sadly.
GHOSTWRITER: Think you can do it all mopey and
listless?
Cut to the Ghost Zone, Ghostwriter
is standing with his hands behind his back in the Ghost Zone Police Department van;
both guards are keeping a close watch on him.
GHOSTWRITER: You think this ends here?
Ghostwriter sits down on the bench
in the van, his legs rise up and aren’t on the floor.
Cut to Ghostwriter in the van.
GHOSTWRITER: You’re about to get burned! (turns to the right)
This story’s not done till the lesson is learned!
Ghostwriter turns to the left, chin
up and with his eyes closed, laughing maniacally, moving his shoulders up and
down. The van doors close on him, showing him through the window with iron
bars. Pan left as the van drives away and upwards through the infinite realms
of the Ghost Zone.
Ooh!
Danny got totally burned!
His
mercy from the poem has been spurned.
Ghostwriter’s
crazy, so he’s been carted away
I
don’t know when he’ll see the light of day.
Cut to Danny kneeling on
the floor, one hand on the ground and the other holding the keyboard fragment.
Kitten is standing on the left, Johnny and The Box
Ghost on the right, all of them look sad at Danny’s plight. Ember walks in from
the left and
Cut to Kitten, Johnny
and The Box Ghost, scrawny Danny stands up straight.
He lifts his arms and takes flight; the others watch him and wait.
Cut to a full shot of
the Ghostwriter’s library. Danny flies out slowly, a ghostly tail cascading
behind him.
Fade to Earth. The night
sky is pretty, with stars and a full/crescent moon visible. Over the skyline of
DANNY: (VA)
With the keyboard all busted, the curse takes its
toll.
Cut to a stoop of a
house. There’s a reef hanging on the door, and lights rim the doorway. Danny
walks up with his hands down and somewhat apathetically.
DANNY: The story continues,--
As he thinks this, the
lights on the door all fizzle out. Danny’s arms jump as his head thrums down.
He looks at the blackout-ed door. He then walks away
somewhat frustrated with his loose fists at his sides.
DANNY:
--but I’ve no control.
Cut to an aerial shot of
the sidewalk. Danny is barely seen from top view, as his silhouetted form
passes by a house, each rim of lights on the door and windows fizzles out.
Cut to inside a house,
looking at a frosted window. Danny puts his fingers on the pane and peeks inside.
Cut to outside the
frosted window, Danny’s hand is curled on the pane. Inside is a miserable
Tucker sitting at a table in a dark room alone, all the other chairs are empty,
his head resting on his crossed arms. In front of him is an empty plate with a
fork on it, a glass of water, a green gravy bucket, and a leg of some poultry
with parsley sprigs and some bones next to it.
That
doesn’t look so bad. I mean, he’s old enough to stay alone at home without his
parents. And they saved some for him. I guess he’s feeling sad at Danny being
gone or something. Meep!
Cut to Danny peeking through the
window. He dejectedly creeps off. Pan out to reveal Tucker staring at his empty
plate, his head resting on his crossed arms. His eyes then pop open. He turns
to look out the window.
Cut to the window, Danny is seen
walking away looking down on the ground with his hands in his pockets. Tucker
runs to the window to watch Danny walking away, his fingers are
on the pane.
Cut to Tucker. He looks down to
fiddle through an off-screen pocket and pulls out his cell phone, using his
thumb to dial.
Cut to the phone. Tucker’s thumb is
on the buttons. A picture of Sam sitting on a park bench and holding a red
compact in one hand, lifting a finger “wait a second!” with the other. Text on
the bottom reads “Dialing SAM”, and bards appear as if it’s loading.
Cut to a pile of broken toys and boxes
of all sorts, on the top is Bearbert with an eye out and stuffing showing. At
least he’s not decapitated anymore. Fade the toys in the foreground out, focus
on Danny looking upon them far away, his hand in his pocket. There’s also a
barren tree skeleton standing near him. Danny turns right and walks off.
Cut to a far aerial shot of the vast
expanse of the street. Fallen bare Christmas trees are buried in the snow.
Danny walks in front of a roc in the street and stops.
Cut to Danny standing with his head
off-screen. He sits down on the rock with his elbows on his knees. His right
arm hangs over as his left arm holds his face.
Cut to Danny’s point of view of the
street. Bare trees are seen standing at various lengths away, the closest one
in the right edge has two orange glass ornaments still hanging on it, blowing
in the breeze. The second-closest tree falls over and crumbles.
Cut to Danny with his face hanging,
his hand holding his temple near his eye. He closes his eyes and looks down in
shame. Tucker walks in full snow attire from behind him. Zoom out to show
Tucker hanging an arm around Danny and putting a leg on the rock, Danny looking
up to see him, and Sam is standing behind Danny in her black coat holding
Danny’s red jacket in two hands, Tucker puts down his leg as Sam wraps the coat
around her friend, Danny takes one arm and grabs the collar.
TUCKER: Dude,--
Cut to Danny in the jacket, his arms
aren’t in the sleeves. Tucker sits down next to him with his arms crossed.
TUCKER: --like,
it’s Christmas. So why are you here?
Sam walks in front of Danny and sits
down next to him. Danny turns to her.
SAM: Outside, with no friends or family
near?
Danny looks forward.
DANNY: It’s my fault. (throws out his arm and drops his face into
his hand in shame) All my fault--
Cut to the pile of presents, the
trio is sitting on a rock very far away.
DANNY: --what
happened tonight.
Two broken presents at the foot of
the pile begin to glow and start to levitate offscreen.
DANNY: I
spoke out in anger and acted in spite.
A busted box from the back of the
pile floats up.
Cut to Danny with his arms not in
the coat, his face in his hand. Sam is on the left and Tucker on the right.
DANNY: I started this all when I picked--
Tucker and Sam look at him.
DANNY: --that
first fight.
Tucker and Sam look forward, Danny
lets his hand out from under his face.
DANNY: But
I’d give all I have (looks up sadly) to
set everything right.
Danny looks forward, his eyes pop.
Cut to three scrunched-up presents
floating in mid-air, a green box, a blue box, and a round red box. They turn
around really fast with green action-lines, and with some pink spikes they are
all repaired and tied up nice.
Pan right to five other packages
turning around the same way. They turn out undamaged, boxes of light blue,
green, dark blue, pink and a round yellow one.
Cut to Sam, Danny and Tucker looking
up in disbelief and wonder, Danny is pulling his coat on with his left arm on
his right shoulder. Sam turns left and Tucker turns right in awe as five
good-as-new packages levitate from behind them.
Cut to an aerial shot of the street.
Sam is now standing up. Three fixes presents float up in the foreground. Danny
and Tucker stand up, too.
SAM: The gifts?
The three gifts float off to the right.
Three more pass by in the same direction.
SAM: They’re
not damaged?
One box drifts so close to the
camera the screen turns black.
Cut to the night sky. Many gifts go
off in a stream away from the camera. Pan down to show Danny, Tucker and Sam
from behind as the gifts go up vertically in two streams.
TUCKER: They’re flying through the air!
Cut to a rooftop. Shapes of shadows
pass over the house. Pan out to reveal a stream of gifts flying over the house.
Pan up to show the stream flying over the whole town.
DANNY: (offscreen)
Back where they came from?
Cut to Danny, Tucker and Sam seen
from the back, looking at the marvel of gifts flying in streams to two
different parts of town.
DANNY: But who would--?
The Box Ghost’s lower half falls in
from the top.
THE BOX
GHOST: *Beware*!
Cut to Danny from behind. His ghost
sense goes off. He turns halfway and transforms into Danny Phantom. One of his
hands has a green sphere of energy. Danny growls as he turns around and thrusts
his hand out, the energy sparkling, only to lower his hand in surprise as the
energy fizzles off.
Cut to The
Box Ghost with his hands out at his sides. He’s wearing a red Santa hat. Standing
behind him is Desiree.
THE BOX
GHOST: The Box Ghost shall conquer
this--
Zoom out to show everyone, from left
to right, Kitten, Johnny’s shadow behind Johnny, Youngblood in front of Johnny,
Desiree behind The Box Ghost, Technus next to Desiree, Spectra in black form in
front of Technus, Sidney in front of
Spectra, Lunch Lady behind Sidney, Bertrand in front of Lunch Lady, Skulker
behind her. All are wearing red Santa hats.
THE BOX
GHOST: --holiday doom!
For
the sake of this, note that
The Box Ghost lowers his arms, Lunch Lady raises one of her yellow-gloved ones.
LUNCH LADY: We just couldn’t leave you--
Cut to Lunch Lady with both hands up
near her shoulders, palms flat.
LUNCH LADY: --to suffer in (puts her hands together) gloom!
She puts her hand down. Skulker
holds up a hand with a weapon on top of it from off-screen, filling the shot. Pan right to reveal him.
SKULKER: Tomorrow you’ll see what (puts the gun back in his suit) this
baby can do!
Skulker puts down his arm and
smiles.
SKULKER: But *all* ghosts share the truce,--
Cut to Danny in a front shot.
SKULKER: (offscreen)
--even half-ghosts,--
Danny smiles.
SKULKER: --like
you.
Not
to let a general “Anti Misuse/Overuse of Vlad” club member allow him into this
equation though he’s not present in the episode, there are enough fan fictions
out there depicting what holiday depressions or mischief that man went through
during the course of this episode, or some other Christmas where Danny was
still 14 as every year. Meep!
skyechan here just wanting to point out this next little
bit is my favorite BGM section in all of DP. Kudos to Mr. Moon for Christmas-y
tune crossed with the DP theme! Awesome job.
Cut to an empty shot with two Santa
hats seen, a pink glowing hand rises into the shot. It sweeps over panning
right, showing that The Box Ghost and Kitten are in the background. Pan down to
show Desiree holding both her glowing pink hands in front of her, smiling. Two
purple beams of magical energy come out from her hands.
Cut to a fallen tree skeleton in a
snow bank. A small beam of energy infuses into the tree. It levitates off the
ground up straight as two wooden boards cross each other and hold it up; it
lands on the ground safely. With a few balls of pink-purple light passing over
the tree in both directions, it becomes fully covered in green needles and
decked with ornaments again, sparkling. Another beam of purple energy goes over
to the right, panning right as many more trees become pretty again as it
passes, presents still coming around in lines.
Panning stops when the purple beam
of magic passes by seven repaired trees, all sparkling. Spectra
in the black form comes in and takes the leftmost tree, flying away with
it. Skulker falls in, crouches down and picks up the right and front-most tree,
he flies off with it. Youngblood and Sidney come in and take the next most
front tree, flying off with it. Lunch Lady comes in and takes the one left
alone on the left. Kitten and Bertrand fly in simultaneously, Kitten takes the
tree in the front, Bertrand the tree on the right. They fly off with them. The
last tree is taken by the Model Spectra, who flies in and flies off with that
tree.
Just
as a nitpick, those of you who actually took the time to read that paragraph
get to realize that there are two Spectras taking trees, the first being the
black one and the second one being the Doctor’s Disorders Spectra. Looks like
duplication at its finest.
Cut to a pile of toys, containing a
rabbit, a red jet, a Gameboy, a basketball, a baseball, a Transformer, a bus, a
Barbie doll, a green construction vehicle, and a red, opened box. They all
float off to the right by themselves, followed by a Creature of the Lagoon
action figure, a football, army men, and a gray jet plane. More are a Rubik’s
cube, another baseball, a UFO, a shiny silver action figure with a sword,
colorful letter blocks, and a black thing that envelops the whole screen.
Cut to a blue dreidel
spinning fast, glowing with a thick green aura. Sam’s palm lifts up for the dreidel to land on, it spins and lands on Gimel. A Nun is visible on the side.
More
dreidel fun from Dennis,
She
knows what those are.
A
Gimel means you win,
Take
all the candy bars.
Nun
means nothing,
You
don’t take nor give,
Someone
else takes a turn,
You
live and let live.
Cut to Sam looking down happily at
the blue dreidel in her hand. Danny walks in from the
left. Sam looks up. Danny lifts his arms and takes flight. Sam turns with
wonder and covers the dreidel with her free hand,
Tucker walks in from the left. They both smile, then they turn to look at each
other. Sam turns and runs off to the right, Tucker follows her.
Cut to one last tree with two
streams of gifts lifting up beside it, and some left-behind gifts are seen in a
snow bank. Danny swoops in and take it from the top, Sam and Tucker run after
him and take it from the sides, Danny lifts them all in the air.
Cut to the sky, five streams of
presents at varying distances are flying to the left. The Box Ghost is seen
carrying a tree, flying left as well. Continue panning left to show one stream
of presents falling into a chimney as others just pass by.
Cut to a house. There are greens
stockings on the chimney and a red chair visible. Skulker phases through the
wall and places a tree in that corner, then phases away through the wall again.
Zoom out and rotate. Tucker’s parents, Angela and Maurice, walk
up to the tree. They turn around suddenly as a rustling is heard, looking down
as a rather large supply of packages fall from the fireplace.
Cut to a rather mad looking Lancer
sitting in a red chair with a railroad mark down his cheek. Cut to a farther
shot of him to show his arms crossed and under a brown lamp. A sizeable amount
of packages fall out the fireplace, with one stocking hung on it. Lancer’s eyes
pop. He turns in his chair to look.
Cut to a blue package with a tag on
it among the others. Lancer’s arm lifts the tag to read it.
Cut to the tag. It is green and red
with a horn with a red bow on it blowing, it reads “To: Mr. Lancer From: Mr.
Lancer.”
That’s
sad. You gave a gift to yourself and didn’t even refer to yourself by your full
name? Just “Mr. Lancer”? You don’t have a first name,
do you?
Cut to Mr. Lancer. He is smiling. He
turns his head in surprise.
Cut to Mr. Lancer looking at a set
of model train tracks on the floor. A model train choo choos and emits puffs of
smoke as it travels along the tracks next to Lancer’s red chair, newspaper rack
and generic tree. Lancer smiles.
Cut to Lancer kneeling next to the
fireplace by his pile of gifts. The train fills the screen as it passes by in
the foreground. When it’s gone, Lancer looks to the left with a tooth-filled
grin.
Cut to a gray door. A blonde-haired
boy in a red Santa Hat opens the door from the inside. He puts down his arm and
opens his mouth, smiling.
Cut to inside the boy’s house. He
steps back and looks up as Danny, Sam and Tucker bring in the tree tip-first
through the door. The boy turns his head as they pass. The boy bounces and
claps his hands a couple times, then runs to the left where the teens are.
Cut to the top of the tree. Danny
flies up and raises the boy in his two arms, the boy is holding a five-pointed
golden star. Danny floats up straight, the boy puts the star in place. When the boy lets go, the star twinkles.
For
those of you who think this is the boy that thought Danny was cool earlier
before the tree invasion, this isn’t the same boy. That boy was a brown-haired
one, this one’s a blonde.
Cut to Danny holding the boy at the
top of the tree in front of the three-sided window. Tucker and Sam are looking
at the holiday cheer. Danny floats in place down a little.
Cut to Danny holding the boy. The
boy’s arms are both held up high. He puts them down and looks happily at Danny.
Cut to a stream of gifts floating
about an electrical wire. Pan down to show Technus 2.0 next to a junction box
on the pole, he charges up a hand full of green lightning and applies it to the
junction box. He then turns his head with a tooth-filled smile.
Cut to Technus leaning on the pole
from behind. Houses in front of him all illuminate from left to right with
colored Christmas lights. Pan right to show down the street the whole place is
lighting up.
Cut to Danny, Tucker and Sam walking
toward the camera on a fully-lit street, there’s a reef hanging behind them.
They stop to admire the work they all did. Snowflakes fall in front of them.
Cut to an aerial shot of Danny,
Tucker and Sam. Zoom out to show they are alone in the empty street, snowflakes
fall in front of the screen.
Fade back to FentonWorks, the green
Ghost Shield is still up. Pan down to show everyone running toward it, Sam,
Danny and Tucker followed by Model Spectra, Technus, Skulker, The Box Ghost,
Desiree, and Johnny. They all stop in front of the house.
Cut to the street. Sam walks onscreen
from the left, shrugging.
SAM: I just saw it happen,--
Sam turns to the left and puts her
hands down. Tucker walks in.
SAM: --but
still can’t believe--
Sam raises her arms and shrugs
again, smiling. Danny walks up.
SAM: --your
enemies helped you repair Christmas Eve!
Pan out to reveal all the ghosts,
Danny turns around. The crowd from right-to-left is Lunch Lady, Skulker,
Bertrand, Kitten, Johnny’s shadow,
LUNCH LADY: It’s all back to normal--
Danny takes the green paper bag,
Lunch Lady stands up straight.
LUNCH LADY:
--but your house, my dear.
Skulker takes the red sack and holds
his red hat.
SKULKER: Your ghost shield--
Skulker removes his hat to put on
Danny and drops the bag into Danny’s hand.
SKULKER: --prevents
us. (puts down
his arm)
Cut to Danny, he slings the sack
over his shoulder and holds with both hands, the green paper bag is gone.
DANNY: I’ll take it from here.
Danny transforms back into Danny
Fenton without a coat. He looks up with a smile.
If
the ghosts couldn’t go through the shield, how did they get to
Plooooottttthollllllllleeeeee! Unless they were so
desperate to help out Danny they used Vlad’s or somehow managed to quickly find
a natural portal…
Cut to a green book. On the yellow
label reads So My Brother Ruined Christmas in red letters. Zoom out to
reveal Jasmine sadly reading it on the sofa. Pan left. Jack is sitting on the
other side of the sofa with his face in his hand and the other arm on his knee,
bored. Maddie is in front of the fireplace holding a weapon on the coffee table
and soldering. Jack puts down his hand and both Jack and Maddie look up.
Cut to the door. Two green banners
on either side read “Merry” and “Xmas”. The door opens by itself, revealing a
silhouetted figure in front of the ghost shield.
Cut to another shot. Maddie pops up.
MADDIE: Ghost!
Zoom out to reveal her picking up
the gun and blazing it. Jack comes in from the side and pushes his wife’s
weapon away, blocking her.
JACK: No, it’s Santa!
Jack claps twice.
Cut to the silhouette in the
doorway. Two beams of light illuminate it; it’s Danny with his Santa hat and
red sack.
DANNY: (VA)
They’re both sort-of right.
Cut to Maddie, Jack and Jasmine
standing in the living room.
DANNY: (offscreen)
I know I’ve been kinda--
Danny walks in with the red sack.
DANNY: --jerk this whole night. (puts down the bag and fiddles through it) So
I snuck out--
Danny takes out a lavender bowl and
holds it up, Jack smiling with his hands ready to take it.
DANNY: --and
found this!
Cut to Jack. He reaches to the
right, takes the bowl, removes the lid and starts pouring
the tan slurry in his mouth.
DANNY: It’s all of your favorites.
Cut to Danny, he goes through the
sack.
DANNY: And here Mom.
Danny pulls out a yellow gift and
presents it to the camera.
DANNY: For you.
Cut to Maddie. She lifts her hands
with the yellow gift, her hand on the red ribbon.
Cut to Jack, holding the bowl and
chewing.
JACK: M, m, m, m, m, avrits!
Pardon
Dennis for asking, but what is an avrit? It doesn’t
show up on the dictionary site, nor does it show any proper alternate
spellings.
Cut to the room. Maddie is holding a
new blue jumpsuit like her own, Jack is holding the bowl of tan slurry with
both hands, and Jasmine is looking at them with a smile. Danny approaches her.
She turns to Danny.
DANNY: And, Jazz?
Danny takes out Bearbert Einstein
all repaired. Jasmine goes ecstatic.
JASMINE: Hey! (takes the bear) It’s Bearbert!
Danny puts down his arms, Jasmine
hugs the bear to her face.
JASMINE: He’s
safe and he’s sound!
Jasmine relaxes her arms and turns
to Danny.
JASMINE: Gee, thanks little brother.
Close up on Jasmine.
JASMINE: I knew you’d come ‘round.
Cut to the fireplace. Jack and
Maddie walk in from the left, Jack’s arm around his wife.
MADDIE: Aw, Danny. You’re smiling.
Maddie and Jack look at each other.
MADDIE: That
matters the most.
Jack leans on Maddie, Maddie
snuggles Jack’s arm.
MADDIE: We’re
all here together, not fighting some--
Jack’s head looks up and alarmed.
JACK: (raising
his arm and pointing) --*GHOST*!
Maddie looks up with alarm and
gasps.
Cut to the window, not with sections
like before. Outside the shield is a red sleigh piled high with ghosts, led by
green ghostly reindeer. The Box Ghost flies into the spot for the rein rider,
the Fentons all come to look out the window.
Cut to the sleigh full of ghosts
behind the shield. In the back Are Bertrand looking back, Poindexter looking
down, Skulker and Technus looking forward, Kitten with both arms supporting her
chin looking out, Model Spectra looking forward, Youngblood looking down. The
Box Ghost whips the reins and turns to the Fentons, waving as the reindeer cart
off the sleigh.
Cut to outside FentonWorks, the
shield is still up. The green reindeer take flight with everyone in tow, but
only The Box Ghost, Youngblood, Spectra, Skulker, Johnny and Bertrand are
visible. Jack opens the door to the house and comes out with a bazooka
charging, running into the street. When he escapes the shield, he fired a green
beam of anti-ghost energy.
Cut to the back of the sleigh. It’s
red, but there’s a green skull on the back. Bertrand, Johnny, Skulker, Technus,
and the Black Spectra are seen from the back, as it flies away the green beam
from the bazooka narrowly misses them. Another shot is fired and Jack runs into
the shot, seen from behind, and firing four more times. Maddie runs in and
grabs Jack’s bazooka.
MADDIE: (gasps)
Jack! No! (lowers
the bazooka) Put the gun down! That’s Santa you’re shooting!
Jack looks at her, lowering the
bazooka.
JACK: Are you mad?
Jack tucks the bazooka under his
armpit and raises a hand to the sleigh that got away.
JACK: That’s
the ghost who all evening was looting (puts
a hand on Maddie’s shoulder) our Christmas from us!
Maddie clenches fists.
MADDIE: Then it wasn’t the Ghost Boy?
Jack stands up straight and smiles as
Maddie produces a gun of her own and cocks it.
MADDIE: Let’s tear *him* apart!
Jack raises a fist in agreement.
JACK: Now you’re talking!
Jack and Maddie turn and run off.
JACK: You’re toast, boy!
(Pan right to Danny, in a coat,
looking at his parents)
DANNY: (VA) And that’s
when I thought:
Danny turns toward the camera.
DANNY: (VA) Maybe this is the moral:
Cut to a street. Jack and Maddie run
down in toward a running sleigh in the distance, snowflakes fall in front of
the screen.
DANNY: (offscreen)
In the same way my folks love their old Christmas
quarrel,--
Cut to the sleigh full of ghosts
being pulled by the ghostly reindeer, The Box Ghost at the reins, the Model
Spectra standing and the black Spectra below her, Technus and Shadow in the back,
Desiree in the front, Johnny and Kitten with each other, Skulker in the back,
Youngblood looking over the back and waving. The blonde boy Danny helped is
also there. Snowflakes fall in front of the screen.
Wow.
Two Spectras. Just like the tree grabbing part. And
they also kidnapped a small boy. Does his mother agree with ghosts giving him a
ride?
DANNY: (offscreen)
--everyone celebrates in the way of their choosing.
(Cut to Danny, standing blankly next
to his red sack in front of the shielded house. Snowflakes fall.
DANNY: (VA)
I was so busy whining--
Sam runs past, followed by Jasmine,
looking back. Tucker runs after them, throws a snowball from one hand to the
other and is about to toss it when he braces himself for the impact of someone
else’s snowball.
DANNY: --I
started abusing the ones I love most and I ruined their cheer.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: (VA)
I’ll try to be better,--
Fade to Danny in the same position,
smiling. He is in front of a house and not the shield.
DANNY: --come
Christmas next year.
Zoom out and rotate to the book.
Danny is just a circular picture rimmed with red and white and green mistletoe
with red berries. The text on the bottoms reads “I’ll try to be better come
Christmas next year.” with the I in a red box. There
is another circular photo on the next page. Pan over to it.
The page displays Danny standing
between Tucker and Sam, holding his arms around them. Sam is
holding her arms around Danny and Jasmine, Jasmine in holding Sam. The
text below reads “The End”.
SAM: Uh, nice sentiment, but what are you,
a greeting card?
TUCKER: Yeah. Why’re you talking in rhyme?
JASMINE: Such a dork.
DANNY: We’re not talking in rhyme?
Everyone backs away from Danny as he
raises his arms high in joy.
DANNY: (gleefully)
*WE’RE NOT TALKING IN RHYME*!
The book closes. The cover reads “The
Fright Before Christmas 2”, and Ghostwriter’s hand
is on it.
So,
Ghostwriter still had the book after he was arrested and saw the story unfold
in front of him? Talk about characters taking a life f their own, they finished
the story for him. That’s nice of Danny, now if we went and finished my story
for me…
Cut to Ghostwriter sitting in his
cell, with the book in his lap. He looks to the left.
Cut to a full shot of Ghostwriter’s
cell. He is sharing it with some sort of horned green monster. The monster
snorts out puffs of smoke. It turns to Ghostwriter and inches closer to him on
the bench, Ghostwriter turns the other way.
Cut to the bench. Ghostwriter
strafes backwards but stops at the bars, where
Ghostwriter crawls into a fetal
position and screams.
GHOSTWRITER: Get that thing away from me!
Iris out.
-End Title Card Screen-
END PART TWO
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END THE FRIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS
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