Inside the Dead Zone

Chapter 1: The Usual Evil Scheme

Vlad Masters, a.k.a. Vlad Plasmius had made up his usual evil scheme of trying to steal something quite sacred from the Ghost Zone. But this time, he was bringing some backup with the help of Skulker, Technus and the Fright Knight.

"Where are we actually heading off to again?" asked Skulker who was flying beside Vlad.

"Some of my probes that I have sent to the Ghost Zone awhile ago have detected a new zone has appeared" replied Vlad, "there I have suspected there is some sort of magical mystic guitar that would have me be able to absorb its power and control life itself."

"Why not just go try to find the Grim Reaper and steal his scythe?" asked the Fright Knight.

"Sorry, but this mystic guitar that I have been hearing about is quite more powerful" replied Vlad, "it'll also have me be able to defeat a certain ghost boy named Danny Phantom."

"Just where the heck are we heading anyway?" asked Technus.

"Looks like we're here already" replied Vlad as he landed on a floating platform full of various skulls which the sign displayed the "Dead Zone".

"Isn't that sign unnecessary?" asked Skulker as he observed the entrance, "I mean we're already ghosts."

"Hmm, this floating volcano wasn't always here before" said Technus as he noticed it floating right on the platform, "it must have been added quite recently."

"Well, come on we don't want to have that mystic guitar waiting" said Vlad.

"Are you sure about this?" asked Skulker as he was getting nervous, "We don't know who we're up against."

"Oh come now Skulker, I'm pretty sure we can be able to find a way to reason with them" replied Vlad.

As Vlad, the Fright Knight, Skulker and Technus landed right in front of the large door near the volcano, the door opened right up and a strange light appeared with two strange figures.

"Unwelcome guests, give us some reason why we shouldn't use our army" said the strange tall figure in some sort of a Spanish accent.

"You better give whoever is there a reason" said the Fright Knight.

"I'm Vlad Plasmius" said Vlad as he stepped toward the two figures, "and you two might be?"

"The name is Sartana of the Dead, and this is my grandson Django of the Dead we are new arrivals here to this, uh Ghost Zone" replied Sartana.

"And these three are my associates, Skulker, Technus and the Fright Knight" added Vlad.

"So just what's the real reason why you have come to my new domain?" asked Sartana.

"We have come for a deal" replied Vlad.

"Uh, wasn't it for one of their mystical guitars?" asked Skulker who whispered it to Vlad.

"Ex nay on the guitar aye" replied Vlad in a soft voice.

"So really, what's your real reason of coming to my domain, why shouldn't I just be able to use my entire army of the dead on you?" asked Sartana to which with one pull of the string of her ghostly guitar sprouted up an army of skeletons surrounding Vlad and his three associates, along with the entrance to the volcano shutting behind.

"Uh, we have come to recruit you and your grandson-Django for a little problem that we keep on having for quite some time" replied Vlad as sweat ran down his forehead knowing that he couldn't take Sartana's mystical guitar.

The scene then immediately switches to Danny falling asleep in Mr. Launcer's class.

"Mr. Fenton, would you please try to keep yourself awake in my class?" asked Mr. Launcer as he noticed Danny was still quite tired from the usual ghost hunting he had often done with Sam and Tucker.

"Alright, fine" grumbled Danny.

"Now, I hope to have your assignments of a foreign nation by tomorrow" said Mr. Launcer as the bell finally rang for the end of the day, "Mr. Fenton, before you leave, I really hope you have my assignment already done for tomorrow, because if you don't, it's certainly going to look bad on your record."

A few minutes later, Danny was then walking with Sam and Tucker and he was quite nervous on the assignment that Mr. Launcer was prepared to retrieve than about fighting ghosts.

"Just what sort of country am I going to choose to do a report on its culture?" asked Danny, "What country are you two doing?"

"I'm doing my report on Medieval Europe" replied Sam.

"I'm sticking with ancient Egypt" added Tucker.

"So have you choose what sort of country you're going to do your report on?" asked Sam.

"Not sure" replied Danny, "and the assignment is due tomorrow. I just hope that nothing else comes up that would prevent me from doing the assignment."

But before Danny spoke too soon, his ghost sense went off and he noticed some of his fellow students along with even Dash Baxter running from the scene screaming.

"Get out of the way Fenturd!" cried Dash as he pushed Danny aside, "There's ghost skeletons on the loose!"

"Skeleton ghosts, is that the best that Vlad can come up with these days?" laughed Danny as Dash raced off from the scene.

Danny immediately then was covered by his two friends as they allowed Danny to change into his ghost mode and head off to fight this menace. As Danny arrived on the scene of the fight, he noticed that there were not the usual ghosts he often fought. They were instead some sort of Mexican skeletons causing various problems from damaging parked cars to scaring people off.

"Vlad must have gone literally south of the border to pick you guys up to help him with his evil deeds, am I right?" asked Danny to the ghost skeletons.

The ghost skeletons then leaped at Danny and gave him several good punches sending him crashing against the wall. As he then recovered from the attack, he noticed there was a smaller skeleton ghost leading the pack.

"Hello Danny Phantom, we have heard a lot about you" said the skeleton ghost boy.

"And who might you just be?" asked Danny as he got up.

"The name is Django of the Dead" replied Django as he then prepared to use his fists which were really ecto-energy, "and we have been assigned by our new friend Vlad Plasmius to stop you for good."

Django then fired a blast of ecto-energy from what use to be his hand to which Danny attempted to dodge. He then tried again, this time succeeding in hitting Danny sending him right into a trash bin.

"Oh you're going down for that" said Danny as he managed to get up.