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Chapter 5 - Hunters

As Danny flew out of his

house, his ghost sense went off, and he found a horse ghost that he had met

multiple times already. Danny flew down to greet the horse. 

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"Hi little horsie."

Danny greeted in Gholric. He made a few steps closer as the horse looked him in

the eyes. "Are you able to speak?" Danny asked as he reached a hand out

to the equine.

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The horse shook their head

no and flew off in a gallop. Danny flew after the ghost horse and followed it

past a few blocks. The horse looked back and neighed in alarm.

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"What's wrong?"

Danny asked as he turned around to find a humanoid ghost flying behind us. "Are

you the one who is scaring my friend?" Danny asked the robot looking ghost.

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"You could say that.

I'm no longer after the horse anymore now that I have you." The spirit said

as he raised an arm and a gun came out of the arm. The robot spirit blasted at

Danny and caught him in a net.

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"Hey!" Danny exclaimed in

English. "What'd you do that for?" Danny asked as he grabbed the net and ripped

it out.

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"I'm a hunter kid. I hunt

exotic and rare beasts, and you, a halfa child, are both." The spirit said in

English as well. "It would be inappropriate if I fought you without introducing

ourselves." They stated as he went into a bow. "You may call me Skulker. What

may I call you besides Prey?" He said in a vicious tone.

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"You may call me

Phantom." Danny introduced himself. "I'm new. Is this some sort of game? Or do

I really have to fight for my life?" He asked as he prepared to attack

Skulker. 

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"You really have to fight

for your life, Phantom." Skulker told the young ghost child that a new weapon

came out of his shoulder. The weapon blasted and hit Danny in the chest. 

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There was a hole in his

suit and a burn mark where the blast hit. "Ow! Take this asshole." Danny cursed

as he blasted the robot with a large blast of ecto-energy before lunging

forward after it. The blast blinded Skulker and Danny landed an energy powered

hit to both of the weapons that were out of the body. Danny flew backwards

after landing the attack.

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Skulker just smiled and

did a combo from the other side of his body. Danny dodged the net and caught

the blast with his own ecto-blast. "Good job there Phantom." He complimented

the child on his ingenuity. That was before he tried the same tactic as before. 

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Skulker flung the blast

to the side and found that Danny wasn't behind it. Danny then appeared behind

Skulker and with one well aimed blast took out both of the weapons again. Danny

laid both hands on Skulker and pushed some energy into the technology with the

intention of short circuiting it, which worked as a jet pack came out and

blasted Skulker off. Danny opened a portal to the Infinite Realms for him to

fly into. 

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"Excellent work there

Master." Danny was startled at hearing that his teacher appeared behind him.

"Good job changing your tactic on that second attack." Aranea said as he flew

in front of Danny.

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"Do you know anything

about this Skulker?" Danny asked, out of breath from his fight. 

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"No. Would you like me to

check him out?" Aranea asked as he used a portal to pull out a towel for Danny.

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"Yeah, and the immediate

area around the portal. I don't want to be surprised like that by another one

if they mean harm to my friends and family." Danny told Aranea, who nodded in

agreement and went off to do their job. Danny went back to finding more ghosts,

hoping to not fight any of them.

=+

Kim and Ron were entering

the lab that said it was owned by Vlad Co., and they were meeting with Vlad

Masters himself. Ron was excited to meet him, but Kim was wary. She didn't tell

Ron that she suspected that Mr. Masters was half ghost like Danny. Wade was

going to keep an eye on the scanners around me to find ghost energy. She didn't

think he was a villain, but she and Wade agreed that his business dealings were

too convenient to be all done without power. 

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"Greeting Kim Possible

and… I'm sorry, but I don't know your name." Mr. Masters said before moving on.

"Anyway, I'll take you to where the theft happened." He said, ignoring Ron as

he tried to introduce himself.

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"Not that I don't want to

figure out who stole your laser, but wouldn't this be more suited to the local

police?" Kim asked the gray haired man. 

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"I believe that a ghost

has stolen my laser and I heard from a source of mine that you fought a ghost

recently." Mr. Masters told the redhead and her partner. "I used to be a

paranormal scientist that studied ghosts and was always a little paranoid, so I

put up an ecto-energy sensor in all my labs, and they went off at the time of

the attack. The ghost took out the cameras, but I have a short clip of the

ghost who did it." He said as he laid them to a screen that showed Shego on it.

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"That's not a ghost,

that's just Shego." Ron spoke up, this time getting the attention of Mr. Masters. 

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"You've dealt with this

specter before?" Mr. Masters asked, surprised.

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"Well, yeah. Ron's right

though. Shego's not a ghost, she's a human that has superpowers. No

intangibility or flight or anything." Kim told the CEO

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"If you say so, but my

ecto-sensors did go off, that I'm certain." Mr. Masters said as he led the two

teens to the scene of the crime.

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The scene had ripped

wires and broken pipes surrounding a large hole. Kim took out her communicator.

"Hey Wade, can you scan around for any energy signatures that match what Shego

uses?" She asked her computer kid.

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"Sure Kim." Wade said and

a prehensile wire camera came out of the communicator and scanned the whole

lab, including Mr. Masters, and found traces of Shego's energy on all of the

broken ends of the wires and pipes. "Got something. It was definitely Shego.

I'll look for Drakken's lair now." Wade said as he hung up.

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"Well Mr. Masters, now we

will get to finding your laser as soon as we can." Kim told the gray-haired

man, who was talking on the phone with someone excitedly. "Mr. Masters, we

can't promise that the laser will come back in perfect condition or at all.

When we go to retrieve things, there is usually a fight." She explained to the

man, who just nodded and gave her a signal to stand there. Kim didn't like

that. 

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After Mr. Masters hung up

his phone, he spoke up. "That's no problem, I was planning to dismantle it soon

anyway it was time to do some checkups." He waved off her concern. "Now, I

wanted to talk to you about another job that I am more than willing to pay you

for. I would like you to catch some ghosts for me in Amity Park." Mr. Masters'

grin looked feral as he looked at the duo.

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"I'm sorry sir, but we

don't hunt ghosts." Kim told him.

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"Yeah, you should call on

the Fenton Works people. They are the resident ghost hunters in the area." Ron

spoke up and Kim cringed internally.

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Mr. Masters' smile didn't

waver, but his eye twitched. "Apologies, but that cannot happen. Jack Fenton

was the cause of an accident I had in college and will not cooperate with him

at all." He said in a strained voice. "Are you sure you cannot catch some of the

ghosts in your area?" He asks in a voice that meant it as a demand.

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"Sorry again, dude, but

the ghost hunting is relegated to either Fenton Works or the new resident ghost

hero Phantom." Ron said, pleased with himself that he didn't reveal Danny's

identity. 

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"We have no way to

contact him though." Kim added as Mr. Masters led them out of the building

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"Shame to hear that. If

you do, could you pass on the job offer?" Mr. Masters didn't seem surprised to

hear about a ghost hero.

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"We can, but we can't

guarantee that he'll accept." Kim told him as Her and Ron left the building and

got ready to head back to Middleton.

=

Kim was sitting on her

bed looking at a Club Banana catalog and sighing. 'I really want this jacket,

but I don't have enough money for it. Maybe I can get Dad to get it for me.'

She thought to herself. 

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"Kim, I have bad news."

Wade popped up on Kim's computer

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"No kidding. I cannot

afford this jacket." Kim said in exasperation. 

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"I know. I pulled up your

bank account. You're broke, but that's not the bad news." Wade said to the

redhead.

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"Apparently, the bad news

is that my friend who runs my website is hacking into my account." Kim got a

look of utter shock and then suspicion. "Have you peeked at my diary?"

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Wade gasped in

indignation. "Of course not! Anyway, the bad news is that I got a similar

reading from Mr. Masters yesterday that I got from Danny. Mr. Masters is a

Halfa." Wade revealed.

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"That could be major

bad." Kim said in worry of her friend.

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"Not as bad as when you

used the boys' room by accident." Wade tried to lighten the mood.

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"Wade, nobody saw that."

Kim said with a look of surprise, then turned angry. "You have been looking at

my diary!" She was going to yell at him but got a group call from Danny.

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"Good luck telling the

Fentons. Bye." Wade quickly hung up to avoid being yelled at.

+

Danny is looking at his

B- on one of his homework papers while he was on a call with Tucker, Sam, Ron

and Kim. "What should I do? I've never gotten a B- before." Danny conferred

with his friends.

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"Dude, I don't see what

the big deal is. You're most definitely passing the class." Ron spoke up.

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"Danny sort of has an

inferiority complex when it comes to grades." Tucker told the two new friends.

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"Yeah, that happens when

you have two parents with doctorates and an older sister who's already taking

college classes." Sam added to what Tucker said.

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"Jazz is already taking

college classes? Dang, sorry Danny." Ron apologized to his half dead friend.

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"You could try extra

credit? Lancer I think listed some options online that you could take." Kim

suggested.

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"That sounds like a good

idea. I'll check what's available." Tucker said as he hit a bunch of buttons on

his keyboard. "All that's left is to Research and Observe the Purple-Backed

Gorilla at Casper Zoo."

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"Gorillas! Where?" Ron

exclaimed in fear and hid somewhere under his camera.

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"What was that about?"

Sam asked, confused as to why Ron acted that way.

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"Ron has had a fear of

anything Primate since he went to a summer camp. Camp Wannaweep." Kim explained

to the others.

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"Don't mention that awful

place." Ron said as he came back into frame. "I don't want to be reminded of

that place."

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"Well, I guess that it is

good news that that camp was shut down after finding out the lake was toxic, as

well as all the other camps it shared the lake with." Tucker said, doing some

research on the place.

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"Anyways, I'll do the

research on the Purple-Backed… Zoo creature. Do any of you want to come with me

to observe it?" Danny asked, knowing that Ron wouldn't come. He got

affirmatives from everyone even if Ron's was forced through Kim. Danny looked

up the extra credit options and accepted the Purple-Back option. "Anyone else

have anything to say? While we're here and all?"

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"Actually yeah, I was

looking at a Club Banana catalog and realized that I needed a job. Anyone have

any ideas?" Kim asked the group, who took a few minutes to think of

something. 

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"Maybe my parents could

hire you." Danny offered to the redhead. "You are going to fight any of the bad

ghosts that you encounter anyway. Might as well get paid by the resident ghost

hunters." He explained his reasoning. 

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"Yeah, and they already

accept that you and Ron go off to do missions, so I don't think they'll fire

you for that." Tucker said to get them to agree.

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"I'll think about it. I

need to go down for breakfast. Signing off." She said as she hung up. Everyone

hung up quickly after her for the same reason.

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Danny groaned as he

stretched his still sore body from yesterday's fight with Skulker. He stretched

his body before going down to get his own breakfast. He walked downstairs to

find his parents sitting at the table with Scylla and Charybdis. There was a

plate already set up for Danny as he sat down across from them. Danny got the

suspicion that something was going on. 

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"We're sorry for every

'Molecule by Molecule' comment, son, but that doesn't give you the right to

stay out all night." Jack said as Danny started to eat.

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"He wasn't out all night.

He came back only a few hours after he left." Scylla told them.

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"We just didn't tell you

because you were still coping with all the ectophobic comments you made."

Charybdis added to what Scylla said as they ate some fruit. 

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"Yeah, I got into a fight

with a Spirit and went along with the patrol after I won that fight." Danny

told his parents. Maddie looked worried while Jack looked proud at the won

comment. "It wasn't that bad. And I only won through short circuiting his technological

suit." He explained to his parents to even out their emotions. 

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"Yes, he only got hit

once." Everyone was startled when Aranea appeared in the kitchen. "After that

he adapted quickly and won his first one on one fight. Short circuiting the

suit still counts as a win." He said to his protege. 

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"Did you do the job that

I asked of you already?" Danny asked, knowing it would be a few hours. 

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"Yes Phantom. There were

plenty of Ghosts and Spirits around the area of the portal. Although, my introduction

might cause you harm in the future. I can give you or your parents the files on

them if you wish." Aranea offered as he pulled out a stack of files out of his

cloak.

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"Yes. Work with my

parents as they work to put together a database of all the ghosts you met. Can

you organize it from how you feel I could go against them? That seems like a

good idea for a first organization for the database. We can go with allies and foes

later." Danny told his mentor and parents and finished eating. 

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"Very well, Phantom. I'll

work with your parents to organize the profiles in a fashion as to how I think

you can take them in a fight. That is a good first edition before meeting

them." Aranea said with a small smile on his face.

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"Very well, we'll do that

with Aranea as you are at school." Maddie said as her son and his emotional

support octopi left for school, meeting Tucker and Sam at the front door.

=

Danny, Tucker, and Sam

were walking up to the school, finding Kim and Ron waiting for them. "Hey Kim,

Ron." Danny greeted them. "What are you doing out here?" He asked as they

walked up to them.

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"We just wanted to talk

to you before we went into the school building." Kim said to the raven-haired

boy.

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"I don't know what is up

with Kim, but it has to be big. She has been fidgeting the whole time we were

waiting for you." Ron explained, earning a glare from Kim. 

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"It's sorta about the

mission we went on yesterday. It was for Vlad Co." Kim told Danny, who

froze. 

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"What'd you find out?"

Danny asked to the confusion of the others. 

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 "Wade found out

that Mr. Masters had an ecto-signature as he went over some scans we got

yesterday when Shego and Drakken stole a laser from him." Kim explained to the

halfa child.

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"I don't really know what

she is talking about, but he also said he had ecto-sensors that said Shego was

a ghost." Ron said to the group, which surprised team phantom. 

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"That's true. He kept on

insisting that she was a ghost. He also wanted us to catch some ghosts for him

and when we directed him to Fenton Works, he said Jack caused his accident."

Kim said after Ron moved to stand with Tucker and Sam. 

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"We should probably fill

them in on everything we learned yesterday. It felt like so much longer." Danny

said and both of them did exactly that. 

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"That's crazy!" They each

said, if only a variation of it.

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"We know. But with what

Wade found, it could definitely be true. And I don't think he'll be friendly."

Kim told them as the bell rang for them to hurry into their classes. 

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"We'll talk more about it

after school." Danny said as they all went into the school building.

=

Danny, Tucker, Sam, Kim,

and Ron were sitting at their table at lunch. They wanted to go to the roof,

but it would be suspicious if they didn't show up for lunch every day.

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"When are we going to the

zoo?" Tucker asked, pulling out his PDA. 

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"I was planning after

school, I don't really know their hours." Danny informed him while reviewing a book obtained from the school

library on the Purple-Backed Gorilla. 

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"I'm fine with that.

Better to do it sooner than later." Kim said, leaning over to look at what

Danny was reading.

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"I'm free after school as

well. Sam, Ron, are either of you free for after school?" Tucker asked as he

typed the time into his PDA.

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"I'm free. I'm not

psyched that we're going to see… the animal I will not say, but I'll still go."

Ron said, having a hard time to even say 'Gorilla'.

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"I can't. My parents are

forcing me to go dress fitting. We're not even going anywhere; they just don't

like what I wear." Sam ranted shortly.

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"Sorry about that Sam.

Maybe we can go shopping to find you some clothes you like tomorrow?" Kim

offered in sympathy to her goth friend.

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"Uh, Thanks Kim. I'd

appreciate that." Sam told the redhead, not expecting her to try and comfort

her.

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"Okay, so that's four

going to the zoo after school. Are we stopping to eat anything before we go?"

Tucker asked as he finished typing out the details. 

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"Ooh, if we do, can it be

Bueno Nacho? I've wanted to show you my new creation I made there." Ron said,

bouncing in his seat.

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"Fine, I'll just get some

nachos." Tucker said with a grimace, the food did not sit well with him.

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"I heard that they were

going to start selling salads." Kim said, trying to not escalate the situation.

"You could try that if you want."

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"Yeah, I heard that they

were more or less forced to have vegan options on their menu." Ron said. Danny

and Tucker were looking at Sam with glares.

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"Wasn't me this time."

Sam defended herself and her best friends believed her since she would always

take her credit for her work.

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"Okay, we have the plan.

I'm gonna go feed and water Scylla and Charybdis." Danny said as he got up from

the table.

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"No problem, we can

just eat in your bag." Scylla said in a whispered Gholric. 

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"Yeah, just put your

bag under the table." Charybdis suggested and Danny followed.

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"I guess it's settled

now. They are just going to eat in my bag." Danny told his friends.

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"That's right. They're

small enough to do that now." Sam said as she finished her food. "Should we

talk about what we were talking about before school now, since I won't be

available?" She asked, stacking her tray with Danny's.

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Kim and Danny did exactly

that. They said that Vlad Masters was the person who was in the proto-portal

accident and that he may have gotten his vast fortune through using his ghost

powers. Wade chimed in and said that he couldn't find any illegal dealings when

buying out businesses and Danny said that Vlad could have possessed the people

to 'legally' do business. It was one power that Danny didn't really want to

test, being inside someone and controlling them.

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"Dang. And that

revelation was right before the Dragon Royalty? A lot must have happened

yesterday morning." Tucker started. "I mean, you learn that you may have found

someone like yourself then get attacked by Medieval warriors before you can

even process it. And now you find out that he hates your father. Wow." Tucker

finished.

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"Yeah. It sucks for me,

but what if he decides to attack my dad. Hey Wade, did you get a good enough

scan to get his ecto-signature?" Danny asked Kim's computer kid. 

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"Sorry Danny, I was

looking for Shego's energy signature, I was lucky to find out he even had

ecto-energy on him." Wade told the raven haired half ghost.

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"That's fine. I know that

you all were on a mission." Danny assured him. "We just have to tell my parents

and hope everything will be fine until we know more. Maybe I'll have Aranea go

look over this Vlad Masters after he's finished with the database he's working

on with my parents." Danny explained as they all finished eating their food.

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"Database?" Both Tucker

and Wade asked in unison as Ron left to put the trays up.

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"You'll both get access

to it soon. I had Aranea gather some information on the Ghosts and Spirits that

are in the immediate area after I had a fight with a hunter Spirit." Danny then

explained his fight when Ron came back.

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"Spankin. How did you get

behind Skulker that second time you charged in?" Kim asked after hearing the

story. 

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"I just used invisibility

and intangibility to fly behind him. It wasn't anything special. If anything, I

think Skulker was going easy on me to see how I would fight." Danny said,

making a fist on the table. "It's almost time to leave for our next class, I'll

talk more about it if any of you want later." He said after looking at the

time.

=

Danny, Tucker, Kim, and

Ron arrived at Bueno Nacho after Sam left to meet her parents. 

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"What do you all want to

eat? I'll go up and order." Tucker offered as they found a booth.

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"A Naco my good man." Ron

said.

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"A salad." Both Danny and

Kim said, they blushed and the others laughed as Tucker left to get the food.

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"So, Danny, why didn't

you mention earlier that you fought a ghost?" Kim asked in a sickly-sweet voice

to hide her worry.

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"I was going to tell you

before school, but you had something to say." Danny tried to defend himself.

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"Why didn't you say

anything while we were on call? Either of you." Ron pointed to both Danny and

Kim. "Kim, you had known about everything you said outside of the school but

didn't say anything."

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"It's better to say these

things in person." Kim told her blond friend.

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"Yeah, and I was focused

on my grades when we were on call." Danny agreed with Kim. 

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"Maybe so, but we would

have gone through everything so much faster." Ron countered and neither Kim nor

Danny could refute that. 

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"I didn't want to worry

everyone while we weren't in person to check if I was okay." Danny said to the

two of them. "I already worried my mother, and she was right in front of me.

The only thing that cheered her up was getting her hands on data on various

Ghosts and Spirits." He explained as he saw Tucker coming back.

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Tucker passed out

everyone's order and they paid him back. Kim had to cover Ron for part of his

price. They talked lightly as they ate.

=

Danny, Tucker, Kim, and

Ron arrived at Casper Zoo's habitat for the Purple-Backed Gorilla, which was

barren of any people or personnel watching it. The gorilla was in a cage in the

center of a bunch of seats with a sign saying his name was Sampson. 

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"That's horrible

treatment for such a beautiful creature." Danny said, feeling upset for the

animal.

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"You're right Danny. But

we can't do anything right now." Kim told her raven haired friend. "Why is such

an endangered creature in Amity Park anyway?" She asked, confused why it wasn't

in a specialized facility.

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"According to the book I

was reading at lunch, the one who discovered them was a resident of Amity Park

and wanted one to always be here." Danny explained. "Especially now, as they

are near extinction. As there are only two left, both male." He pulled out the

book he was referencing. Danny had to dodge a rock thrown at him from the

cage. 

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Everyone looked at

Sampson's cage and found out that gorillas could glare. 

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"Told you Kim, all

monkeys are evil." Ron exclaimed as he hid behind Kim. 

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"He's a gorilla, not a

monkey." Danny corrected, which seemed to make Sampson look pleased. Danny

walked up to Sampson's cage and stood a few feet back. "May I know why you

decided to throw a rock at me, please?" He asked and to the astonishment of

everyone in the current group, Sampson laid back and spread his legs. They

didn't see what they expected.

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"How did the Zoo miss

that?" Kim asked as Danny wrote down that Sampson was actually Delilah. "I

mean, it should have been obvious." 

=

After Danny talked to zoo

personnel about his discovery, the group started to leave after all of the

personnel had left when Danny's ghost sense went off. "Kim, tell Wade that

he'll need to erase or cut off the cameras around here."

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"Hello again Phantom."

Skulker lowered himself in front of the group of teenagers as Kim was doing

what Danny said.

"Hello Skulker. How

have you been? Sorry about before, I'd rather like my life." Danny told the

spirit as he transformed and got ready to fight. Everyone else hid themselves

in case any of the personnel saw them together.

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"I've been good. Don't

worry about protecting yourself. I am trying to kill you. It also wouldn't be

so exciting if you were an easy catch." Skulker said as he steadied a laser

on the ghost boy. 

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When it fired off, Danny

matched it with his own ecto-ray and blocked the blast from hitting him. 

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"Impressive."

Skulker complimented.

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"Thanks. I didn't even

know that would work." Danny said to his enemy. "Will you harm my

friends after killing me?" He asked, worried about his friends.

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"They are allowed to join

the fight as well, you know." Skulker switched to English for the humans in his

presence. Not giving him a real answer.

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"Good to know." Kim

yelled as she jumped onto Skulker and punched him with the ecto-gauntlets. The

punches didn't seem to be doing anything to the hunter spirit. 

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They have not been doing

anything, but they were quite the distraction for Danny to rush in and blast

Skulker point blank in his chest. Kim then decided to jump off right before the

blast went off. The blast left a hole in Skulker's chest to reveal that it was

a suit. Tucker then came out with the Fenton Thermos and sucked him in, but

Skulker resisted as his suit repaired itself.

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"Good teamwork. Truly,

but you'll need more than that if you want to stop me." Skulker said as if he

punched Danny away. 

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'You two can come out

whenever you want.' Danny thought to Scylla and Charybdis as he did the same

trick he did yesterday but only went invisible and blasted off an arm with the

laser cannon coming out of it. Danny then used his telekinesis to pull it

behind him as he flew away. 

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Skulker followed after

Danny as Tucker tried to use the thermos again, but only on the broken part of

Skulker. This prevented the growth of a new arm. "Phantom! Keep attacking his

side." Tucker yelled out as he kept on using the thermos.

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"On it!" Danny yelled

back as he turned around and flew back at Skulker and blasted again at the

wounded area of his body. It worked and took off his head that got sucked into

the thermos screaming.

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Skulker's body then fell

limp and crashed onto the ground. Tucker was about to suck up the body, but Kim

stopped him. "We could have Wade or the Fentons' scan it and learn more about

ghost technology." Tucker nodded and put away the thermos. 

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"Plus, if we sucked up

his body right after his head, he might get his power back and break out of the

thermos." Ron spoke up after leaving his hiding spot. 

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"Ron and Kim's right.

Scylla, you and Charybdis take this body to Fenton Works and tell them to scan

and study the tech when they have time." Danny told his ectopi, who hadn't

joined the fight for whatever reason that he'll be asking about later.

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Scylla and Charybdis took

the body and arm and flew off, turning invisible as they did so. Danny turned

back into a human and grabbed his stuff and the group left the scene

quickly. 

=

The group made it to

Fenton Works to hear loud noises coming from the lab. They made their way down

to find Maddie and Jack working on Skulker's body suit. The chest compartment

was open, and its innards were laid about the lab. 

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"Hey mom, dad, how do you

like the present?" Danny asked as he stepped between Kim and Tucker, getting

flashes of them vivisecting him. Tucker grabbed his arm.

-

Kim saw Tucker grab

Danny's arm and put an arm in front of him. "Yeah, Danny worked hard to protect

us after he attacked us at the Zoo." She said, mostly to Danny, but directed at

the ghost hunters.

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Scylla and Charybdis came

and landed on Danny's shoulders. "Sorry for not helping with Skulker. We

were running from him when you found us." The ectopi explained in unison,

leaving Danny to wonder how special these two were. Danny tried to pat them on

top of their heads, but it was awkward with being between Kim and Tucker and

Tucker holding onto one of his arms. 

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"We love it. It's going

to take a while to figure it out, if at all, so you all probably shouldn't be

down here." Maddie said to the group of teenagers.

-

"Yeah, also, we gave that

Wade kid access to the Ghost and Spirit Database, so just talk to him about

that." Jack told them as he fiddled with an arm cannon. 

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"Okay." Danny told them.

"Hey, would it be possible to hire Kim and Ron as ghost hunters? They need a

job and they're gonna be with me for a bunch of ghost fights anyways, plus you

know about their hero work all over the world." He tried to get their attention

for his friends.

-

"We'll need to talk to

their parents before we make that call." Jack told his son.

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"Yeah, I don't know how

they allow their children to go globetrotting and would like to talk about that

with them, I want to know how to cope with your hero work Danny." Maddie said

to her son as she picked up a glowing piece of technology that looked like an

arc reactor

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"You can talk to my

parents this weekend during dinner if you want." Kim offered, liking her

chances of getting that jacket. "You'll have to lockdown the lab during that

because of my little brothers, they'll destroy everything in here." She said to

her friend's parents that her friend was doing his best to hide behind her.

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"Jazz and I'll make sure

of that if they don't." Danny told her, just now realizing that he was behind

her and Tucker.

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"You and I'll do what?"

Jazz said as she came down to the lab, noticing Danny hiding behind Kim. 

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"Lock up the lab for

dinner with the Possibles." Tucker answered for his best friend

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"Oh, yeah. We'll

definitely do that. Don't want another portal accident here." Jazz reminded her

parents as she came up from behind Danny and hugged him. "

safe.>" She whispered into her brother's ear. 

+

Both Fenton parents froze

at that statement as the kids left the lab. Maddie had tears in her eyes and

Jack handed her a tissue to her. "We won't let that happen again." Jack told

his wife as he held her close to his body.

-

"Oh God!" Maddie

exclaimed as she pushed herself away from her husband. "We weren't studying

this as tech, but as a ghost to dissect." She made the realization. "What if

Danny was testing us on how we treat Ghosts and Spirits by sending us this body

suit of a spirit?" She asked Jack as she looked over the body once more. 

-

Jack was frozen at that

question. He was in the mindset of dissection while looking over the body. It

was just technology from what he saw, and he didn't put it together that it

came from a 'living' spirit. "I-I don't know Mads. I didn't even think that

this came from something that could be considered living." He told his wife as

tears started to form in his own eyes.

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"We really need to change

our way of thinking, or Danny will stay afraid of us no matter what." Maddie

said resolutely and her husband nodded along.

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