Season 2 Episode 1

Memory Blank

"The Episode You Won't FORGET!"

"Guys, come on! We're going to be late for school!" Sam Manson, the goth boy, said to his friends, but got no response from either of them. "Guys? Guys!"

His best friends, Dani Fenton and Tina Foley, were too busy admiring a giant truck in front, totally ignoring their male friend. "Isn't it everything I told you it would be and more?" Dani asked Tina admirably.

"You did not lie, girl. You did not lie." Tina said.

"The Ginormo 6000." They said in unison dreamily.

Sam walked up to the truck and stood then on his toes as he read off the paper inside the window. "'Seats made of owl leather'? 'Interior wood-paneling from the Amazon rainforest'? 'Twelve gallons to the mile'?! This car is an environmental nightmare!" He said before he smiled at Dani with an idea when he turned to her. "I know what you should do!"

Dani gave him a flat look, like she knew what he was talking about. "No." She said.

"You should totally haunt this place! Scare people away from here and make them buy something else!"

Dani placed her hands on her hips as she frowned even more. "No."

"Cut it out, Sam, it's a cool truck!" Tina said before she crossed her arms while she also gave him a frown. "Besides, this wouldn't be the first time one of your bad ideas got Dani into trouble."

Sam cocked an eyebrow in confusion. "What are you talking about?" He asked.

A few months ago, on their first school year, before Dani even became a half-ghost, she had taken her friends down to the lab of Fenton Works for them to see the ghost portal, all powered down when the parents thought it didn't work.

"Smile!" Sam said, before snapping a picture of Dani, holding her familiar-looking white jumpsuit with black gloves, boots, belt, and collar, but she didn't have time to grin.

She blinked out the stars and looked at her friends. "Okay, I showed you the portal, can we get out of here now? My parents could be back here any minute! Besides, they say it doesn't work anyway." Dani said.

Sam walked up to the Fenton Portal and stared at it. "Come on, Dani! A Ghost Zone? Aren't you curious? You've gotta check it out!" He said.

Dani walked up to it and smiled a little. "You know what? You're right. Who knows what kind of awesome, super-cool things exist on the other side of that portal?"

She slipped on her white jumpsuit and zipped it up, looking determined, until Sam frowned and walked up. "Hang on…" He rips off a logo with her mother, Jackie's, face on it. "You can't go walking around with that on your chest."

Dani turned to the portal and walked inside into the non-functioning portal as she looked around. She held up her hand, but accidentally pressed the ON button. Immediately, the portal lit up with green light and energy and she shrieked to the top of her lungs. Her hair became white, her blue headband becomes black, her white and black jumpsuit reverses in colors, and her icy blue eyes become a glowing, neon green. The portal was rearranging her molecules, fusing her human DNA with ectoplasm, thus transforming her into half-human, half-ghost, gifted with ghost powers.

As Tina mentioned, it was Sam who urged her to step into the portal, and his idea has changed his best friend's life forever, so technically he was responsible for changing her whole life with his little idea that she should check out the portal (also revealed in Origins).

"How was it bad I was there?" Sam asked his friends, looking a little offended. "If it wasn't for me, she'd be flying around with her mom's face on her chest."

"And has it ever occured to you what would've happened to me if I wasn't flying 'round?" Dani asked rhetorically as she crossed her arms.

"And you know how you can say thank you? By crushing a few trucks!"

Dani rolled her eyes. "So, even after I haunted a few cheerleaders, it's a bad thing, but when it comes to 'environmentally-threatening trucks', it's okay? Sam, I'm the good guy! So, unless these trucks are being used for evil, I can't do anything."

"Except wonder if it's got a GPS satellite guiding system." Tina said when she went back to admiring the truck again.

Dani followed her example again as she gazed at the vehicle. "And rims."

"Big, spinning rims." Dani and Tina said dreamily in unison.

Sam groaned in frustration and defeat. "Oh, I give up!" He groaned before he walked away with an irritated glare. "I just wish somebody would destroy these stupid trucks."

Unknown to him, from the sewer system on the street curb, one of Dani's old foes, Desiree, the wish-granting genie ghost, overheard his wish clearly. "Well, it's about time you made a wish!" She said before she flew out and smiled as her hands glowed pink. "And so you wished it, so shall it be." She fired her magic at a giant, mechanical cow on top of Daisy's Dairy Diner. The cow moved its hoof as it ripped from the bolts, and its eyes glowed red as it growled as it came to life.

"I wonder what this button does." Dani said before she pressed a button on the truck, but got shoved back by a hoof stepping on it as it demolished it flat. Tina and Dani stared up at the cow and back up to another truck. "Back off, fiend! Whatever you do, leave this truck alone!" The cow only mooed and lifted it hind leg up before it squirted out milk on the truck, Tina, and Dani, covering them completely.

"Oh man, I just became lactose intolerant!" Tina groaned out loud in disgust before they got squirted again.

Theme Song:

(She's a phantom)

(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)

Young Dani Fenton, she was just fourteen
When her parents built a very strange machine
Designed to view a world unseen

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

When it didn't work, her folks, they just quit
Then Dani took a look inside of it
There was a great, big flash, and everything changed
Her molecules got all rearranged

(Phantom, Phantom)

When she first woke up, she realized she had snow white hair, and glowing green eyes
She could walk through walls, disappear, and fly
She was much more unique than the other gals
And it was then that she knew what she had to do
She had to stop all the ghost that were coming through
She's there to fight, for me and you!

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

Later on that day, the trio walked to school, Dani and Tina were still covered in milk after Dani effortlessly managed to destroy the cow that ruined their favorite trucks they were admiring earlier.

"Good job beating the big cow, Dani." Tina said.

"Yeah, well hasn't stopped Sam from busting my chops about cruelty to un-living, plastic animals." Dani said with a look.

"I had to choose between fake cows and evil trucks, the cow won." Sam said before he saw a movie premiere poster on a bus stop booth, making him look excited. "Oh my gosh, I almost forgot! Trinity of Doom is this Friday! Femalien verse Terminatra verse Nightmerica! All my favorite female movie monsters in one film!" Sam held his hands close to his heart.

"So it's a chick flick?" Tina asked.

Dani looked down and realized that she was still covered in cow milk. "Oh, duh!" She said before she made herself intangible and allowed the milk to drip from her, cleaning her up.

Tina crossed her arms with a knowing look. "Hello…" Dani did the same for Tina when she placed her fingertip and turned her intangible before the milk immediately dripped from her. The techno-geek smiled at herself a little before they both turned their attention back to their goth friend.

"Not just a chick flick, the chick flick." Sam clarified before he looked back at the poster in excitement. "The three biggest female box office monsters battling it out in a big budget special effects bonanza! And since you promised we'd all go on Friday, I bought us tickets."

Dani made a genuine look of perplexity. "What? When did I promise you that I would–?" Her eyes widened. "Oh... that phone call." She then placed her hand on her forehead. "Oh, how do I explain this? Sam, I tried to tell you that I would consider it, but here's the thing: before you called, I–"

"Dani?" They turned and saw Dani's crush and Sam's arch-rival, Paul Sanchez, walking up to them with paper flyers in his hands. "You've never told me whether or not you'd go to my Queñcerito on Friday."

"That's because when you invited me before Sam, I honestly thought you were joking." Dani said as Paul handed her an invitation flyer.

"What?!" Sam exclaimed. "He called you before me?"

Dani shrugged. "I was trying to tell you, but you hung up before I could even finish."

"And that you forgot to invite me." Tina said to Paul.

"And remembered not to invite me." Sam scolded with his arms crossed.

Paul laughed like they were all just kidding around. "No, Manson, you're all invited!" He handed his flyers to Tina and Sam both.

"Yes!" Tina cheered in triumph.

"No!" Sam growled as he crushed the flyer a little.

"Seriously?" Dani asked Paul.

"Really." Paul said with a nod. "Dani didn't want to come if I didn't invite you two, but I especially want Dani to be there."

Dani looked a little surprised, yet a little touched at the same time. "You actually wanted to do this for me?"

"Of course. My papa is throwing the party at a country club, and it's happening on the same night as the meteor shower." He then leaned closer to Dani and whispered to her. "And I really want that ghost girl to be there! And since the ghost girl seems to show up wherever you do, I figured I had no choice, but to invite you and your loser friends!"

"Hey, we're right here, ya know!" Tina said offendedly.

"Yeah, I know." And Paul walked away, leaving the trio alone.

"The ghost girl? Oh, she'll be there Paul! If she can!" Dani called after him with a smile.

"Uh, guys. Movie Friday! Non-refundable tickets!" Sam pointed out as he glared and held out his crumpled invitation.

Dani looked crossed. "Sam, I said if I can. Paul invited me before you called, and I was trying to think about whether he was actually kidding or not. Well, I am aware that Paul just wants to see the ghost girl, but the point still stands."

"And I don't get to go if she doesn't go!" Tina added, pointing her thumb at Dani.

Sam remained silent as he glowered before Dani and Tina said in unison. "Pretty please with those dark licorice sprinkles with the black frosting you like with those little gummy bats on top?"

"Alright, alright!" Sam groaned as he rolled his eyes.

"WHOOHOO!" Dani and Tina gave each other a high five and ran off, but Dani came back briefly to Sam. "You know, Sam, those tickets are non-refundable, but you can probably exchange them for tomorrow or next Friday, I'm sure they won't have a problem. You up for coming to the party with us?"

"Yes, I'll be there." And she ran off again to school. "I'll be there...unless something were to happen to Paul and the party got canceled, not that I'd wish that."

After Sam walked off, Desiree appeared from pink smoke with a wide grin on her face. "Well, he did say wish." She admitted. She laughed evilly as she fired her pink magic on the poster of the female monsters.

Later that day at school in astronomy class, Mr. Lancer was explaining about the big meteor shower that would be happening on Friday, and it would be a once in a lifetime experience.

"Thousands of meteors will be visible in the skies of Amity Park, this Friday." Lancer explained as he pointed a wood chip at his globe. "People tend to wish on these 'falling stars,' without realizing that at the speeds they're falling, they could drill through your tiny skull like they were wet toilet paper!"

However, he paused and lost his glare when he noticed that the students only stared at him strangely as they blinked, remaining silent.

Sam groaned as he drew on his notebook. He has been planning on creating a logo for Dani if people were to recognize her as their ghost heroine some day, and he wanted to make her more marketable when people began to no longer see her as Inviso-Belle or as public enemy number one. He has drawn many logos over the months until he circled on a logo that looked like a D with a P inside, and the cutting ends that looked like they were speeding, much like a ghost.

"Papa says the stars are falling on my birthday, just for me." Paul said somewhat happily. "And I'm going to wish to meet the ghost girl, and if one of those mentors flies towards me, the ghost girl can save me!"

"Huh? Oh yeah, you know what I wish for? Extra arms for cheering more school spirit...and to wail on you, Fenton." Daph said as she smirked at Dani. "But that doesn't technically count as a wish, because I can do that anytime. Watch!" She punched Dani hard on her shoulder.

"OW!" Dani shouted as she rubbed her arm while she glared angrily at the cheerleader captain, who smiled proudly at herself. However, her ghost sense suddenly went off as she gasped when her eyes went wide in alert.

From the ceiling, a huge, dinosaur hybrid ghost, Femalien, roared as she crashed into the classroom and the students screamed in terror while they all ran for their lives. "Paul Sancheeeez!" She growled menacingly, directly at the prep boy.

"Uh...did it just say your name?" Daph asked Paul in confusion and fear at the same time.

"Neat!" He said happily.

"War of the World's, creature! Get away from my youthful charges!" Lancer exclaimed while he held up a fire extinguisher and then he slammed it on Femalien's back, but did no apparent effect. She roared and growled at the teacher menacingly, making him more fearful as he smiled nervously. "Well...I tried. RUN!"

He ran to a fire alarm and switched it, setting off the fire drills and warned the entire school that everyone had to run out of the school since a ghost was attacking the school. While all of the students ran out the school in fear, Dani hid behind a corner and white rings appeared as they transformed her into ghost form before she flew into action with a determined glare. At a different hallway, Paul ran across the hall as Femalien crashed from the lockers before she chased after him with Dani flying behind them and caught up to them. When Femalien was about to claw at the prep boy, Dani quickly flew up and grabbed the alien monster as they phased through the floor.

"Ghost girl, wait! I have an invite for you!" Paul said as he held up a flyer.

In another room, Dani slammed Femalien to the ground, but she growled when she whacked the ghost girl with her tail, sending her crashing onto the wall. Femalien roared and fired several tiny missiles from her wrist and Dani managed to dodge most of them with her reflexes, but one shredded on her shoulder, making her scream.

She held onto her injured arm briefly until she fired her ghost beam at the ghost dead on. Femalien fell onto the ground while Dani hovered over the monstrous ghost. "Alright, gruesome! What do you want?! Who sent you?" Dani demanded the monster.

"Saaaaam!" She growled before she disappeared into oblivion, leaving Dani confused that she said her best friend's name, like he was the one who sent her to kill Paul.

Unknown to her, Desiree hovered behind her with a smirk before she phased through the ceiling and out of sight.

"It said Sam?" Tina asked Dani the next day at the park.

They and Sam were all having a small lunch together. Dani discussed the problem from yesterday and especially how the monster said that Sam was the one who sent that Femalien creature to kill Paul at their school yesterday.

"Actually it was more like 'Saaaaam!'" Dani said with dramatic effect in her voice while she waved her fingers for emphasising, but then paused. "But you get the point."

"You can't really blame me for this, can you?" Sam said, looking completely offended that his best friend was accusing him of unleashing that monster.

"Well, it's got something to do with you, but don't worry. I saved Paul, so you don't have to apologize."

Sam frowned defiantly as he crossed his arms. "Good, 'cause I'm not gonna."

Dani pulled out the anti-ghost belt, the Specter Deflector, from her backpack. "Which is why you have to wear this Specter Deflector, and stay out of the way."

She clipped it around his waist before he glared at her again. "WHAT?!"

"Sam, something weird is going on, and you're clearly the cause of it! Maybe it's best for everyone if you just lay low."

"Yeah, Sam, you should just lay low." Tina agreed, doing the same hand gesture Dani did about laying low.

Dani's ghost sense went off again when she heard Paul screaming again with her enhanced hearing. "Paul, again?! This is going to have to wait! I'm going ghost!" She exclaimed as she stood on her seat and changed into her ghost form before she glanced down at Sam. "Stay here."

"Oh, I will, I promise." Sam said reassuringly and Dani flew away to help Paul, but he stood up as well and grabbed his backpack. "The same way you kept your promise about going to the movies with me Friday!" And he ran after her with a glare.

"Again, she didn't promise you anything!" Tina called after him. "Oh well, more for me." She then held up the bag of chips.

Somewhere in town, a cyborg ghost woman, Terminatra, ran at great speeds horizontally on the buildings as she chased after Paul on his motor scooter with his tux wrapped in plastic. She aimed her robotic finger and fired a small blast and sizzled a hole on the wrap covering Paul's tux.

"Hey, I just got this back from the cleaners!" Paul exclaimed to the cyborg woman before he drove off at full speed. Terminatra jumped from the buildings and cracked the road beneath her before she formed a jetpack on her back and flew after Paul. He braked his scooter a few feet away from a fountain, looking overwhelmed by all these monsters attacking him. "This is like the worst birthday week ever!"

Then Dani Phantom phased through the ground while she smiled with her arms crossed. "Well, let's see if you can change that a little." She said to him casually.

Paul immediately smiled with delight that the ghost girl has come to rescue him once again. "And now it's not!" Dani fired a beam at Terminatra, but she formed a hole on her stomach before she transformed her body into a white net. The prep boy quickly pulled out a flyer with an eager smile. "Wait, let me give you this. If I invite you, I can uninvite Dani Fenton and her loser friends."

Dani stared at him in surprised confusion. "What?"

She didn't have time to ask that when the cyborg woman wrapped herself around Dani and sent her flying by the fountain as teens scattered away. Terminatra electrocuted Dani as she shrieked loudly in agony, and then the cyborg slammed the weakened ghost girl into the water before she changed back into her human form. She then formed her robotic arm into another mode and prepared to fire a beam to finish Dani off.

"Leave her alone!" Sam exclaimed, catching her attention before she could even fire.

She turned around and saw Sam riding his motor scooter at full speed with a determined glare. He pressed the button on his Specter Deflector, which made him glow with protection before he slammed his scooter straight on the fountain wall that sent Terminatra splashing into the water.

Dani stared at the cyborg woman in silence until she glanced at the girl with her cybernetic eye. "Saaaaam!" She said eerily before she disappeared as red smoke, into oblivion.

As Dani rose to her feet, Sam chuckled a little while he straightened himself up. "Man, you're right. That Specter Deflector works like a charm." He said as he glanced down at the anti-ghost belt around his waist.

"Thanks for the save. Although, I wouldn't have needed it if it weren't for you in the first place." Dani said as she was about to grab Sam's hand, but then noticed the belt around his waist and quickly retracted her hand. "Uh…"

Sam frowned, both offended that she 'refused' his hand and was still blaming him for causing this mess. "Oh, I get it: I saved your butt and you're giving me grief?"

"Welcome to my world, remember? 'We change the menu to Recyclo Vegetarian' 'We should let the gorilla out' 'You should make your Halloween room like this so you could be desperate enough to actually steal the real thing'!" Dani recited before she crossed her arms and frowned back at him.

Dani reminded him that most of the dangers that had happened in the past were because of Sam trying to express his individual persona and beliefs, but she deeply never really liked how her goth friend never took the blame, no matter how much he was responsible for it. It was really beginning to irritate her a lot that Sam wouldn't take responsibility like he should.

Sam began to like Dani's attitude even less, despite all the good reasons she has been pointing out. "Anything else you want to blame me for? World hunger? The Ice Age? Puberty?" He listed off with his arms crossed.

"Sam, both of these monsters knew your name. Either there's another Sam involved in this or it's you." Dani said as she narrowed her eyes.

"How about a thank you? You think Paul would have saved your butt back there?!"

Dani stood up and placed her hands on her hips. "You are such a hypocrite, Sam!"

Sam laughed sarcastically while he rolled his eyes and head before he narrowed his eyes at Dani again. "Ohohoh, really? You really think that I'm the hypocrite here?"

Dani clenched her eyes tightly as her fists trembled. She suddenly leaned out towards Sam with her arms spread out, catching him off guard a little. "YES! I did say thank you and I would've told Paul if I actually wanted to be at his party or not! Now that he just had to say if he gave Dani Phantom an invite, he would uninvite us."

Sam narrowed his eyes. "Like how you kept your promise about going to the movies on Friday with me?"

Dani gave him a death glare. "And again, I never promised neither of you anything! I'm so sick and tired of you accusing me of something that I'm not responsible for. You can't just run away from taking your own responsibility! You need to learn about what you've done, like how I learn from my own mistakes, but you keep avoiding blame just to keep your own reputation in tacked! I thought that you of all people that I'm closest to would understand even better than I do!"

Sam only growled in anger before he walked back to his scooter. "I swear, Dani Fenton, there are times that I wish I've never even met you!" He hopped onto his scooter and drove off with a ticked off face.

Dani groaned to herself in frustration. "Nice move and pep talk, Fenton, you've just managed to tick off one of the only real friends you have!"

She pulled out her invite to Paul's fifteenth birthday party, and began to have second thoughts about the party. Despite how much she knew Sam was a hypocrite, maybe he did have a few points: Paul wouldn't have saved her back there, not to mention that all he ever wanted was to just see the ghost girl. He only invited her because of that, and Paul only loved the other half of herself.

She looked off to where Sam drove off. "Sam! Wait!"

However, her ghost sense went off again as she gasped. The water began to bubble pink before smoke bellowed from it and Desiree appeared, laughing in triumph, but there was something really off about her. "FINALLY!" She exclaimed like this was the moment she has been waiting for.

"Desiree? Y-you look...different." Dani noticed as she changed back into her ghost form.

"More powerful? Why, yes! The more wish I grant, the more powerful I get! Hahahaha! Oh, and only days away from the meteor shower where everybody will be making wishes!" She suddenly wrapped her tail around Dani and threw her several feet away.

She looked up at the genie ghost wearily. "What do you want?"

"You out of the way by Friday night...but it's not about what I want, it's about what your little friend wants, and he just wished he never met you!"

Dani eyes widened in realization. "Oh no…"

"And so he has wished it, and SO IT SHALL BE!" She fired her magic at Dani.

Dani screamed as she began to plummet into darkness and she began to forget everything about Sam Manson, everything they did together...and that he never asked her to walk into the portal the day she became half-ghost.

The next day at Casper High, Daph and Kwyn were currently stuffing three nerdy boys into a locker. "This could be a new record for us ladies, but there's still room for more." Daph said as she smirked at her friend. "Go get Mikey!"

Kwyn walked past Dani and Tina while the techno-geek played with her PDA. "So, what do you want to do tomorrow?" Dani asked.

"I don't know. According to my PDA, we're free every night through college." Tina said as she scrolled through her schedule, but saw they were absolutely free from everything.

Sam then appeared next to them. "Hey." He said to his friends with a smile and his arms crossed.

"Do I know you?" Dani asked with a look of confusion, like she has never seen Sam before in her life.

Sam scoffed when he thought that she was just kidding around, still grudging over the fight they had the other day. "Oh, very cute. You said I should take responsibility like you do, then I said 'I wish we never met' and now you're pretending we met. Piff! You're hilarious."

But Dani cocked an eyebrow, looking genuinely confused. "No, seriously, do I know you?"

"And more importantly, would you like to know me?" Tina said, also acting like she doesn't remember Sam either. "Hi, I'm Tina, Tina Foley. That's TF, as in too fine."

Sam recoiled in disgust. "Oh gross, are you actually hitting on me?" He asked, looking very creeped out. He knew that Tina would never do that to him, but only to other men she didn't know.

Daph and Kwyn then shoved Mikey into the locker with the other nerdy boys. "I wish somebody would show you ladies how this feels like!" He exclaimed to the spoiled cheerleaders.

From the vents, pink smoke fluttered from the gaps and they formed into Desiree as she readied her magic on her hand. "So, you have wished it so...you know the rest." She said as she broke the fourth wall.

She fired her magic at Mikey and he immediately transformed into a giant green monster as his clothes shred and he roared loudly, making Daph and Kwyn scream in terror. Desiree smiled even more before her body glowed and grew in power and size. The genie ghost then hovered right in front of Dani while Tina ran away with a fearful shout.

"Boo..." Desiree said with a knowing look.

"AHHHHH! GHOST! Get away!" Dani exclaimed as she shielded herself and trembled in fear, not remembering her at all.

The genie flew away, looking very pleased that she could no longer be interfered with by Dani's meddling. "No memory, no powers. Perfect." Desiree murmured to herself.

"That's Desiree! The wishing ghost!" Sam said with wide eyes. "Dani, you gotta do something!" He urgently grabbed her by her shoulders. "Why aren't you going ghost?!"

Dani pushed him away, looking completely overwhelmed. "Look, dude, I don't know who you are or what you're even talking about! All I know is I am out of here!" And Dani ran away, leaving Sam behind while he was very confused by why she has been acting so strange.

Meanwhile, Monster-Mikey roughly shoved Daph and Kwyn into the locker as he growled. "We're sorry! WE'RE SORRY!" Daph pleaded for mercy.

Mikey changed back to normal and slammed the locker shut, trapping the spoiled cheerleaders inside. "I rock!" He exclaimed in triumph and ran away past Sam.

Sam opened Dani's locker and saw a picture of her and Tina. However, the problem was Sam was supposed to be right in the middle, almost like Dani and Tina never even knew him, like he was completely erased from her life, just like what Sam wished for. He then realized why Dani was acting like she has never seen him in her life and why she wasn't trying to fight off against Desiree.

"Oh no! Last night, I wished Dani had never met me, and Desiree must've made it so we've never met!" Sam said to himself as he compared his photo from his scrapbook with the picture of himself with Dani and Tina, and the photo from Dani's locker. "Which means she never got her powers! Dani! You've gotta listen to me!" And he ran after his amnesic friend.

As they walked down to Fenton Works, Sam tried to convince Dani that he was her best friend and that they have known each other since the first grade, and that she had powers of her own. However, she wouldn't believe him, thinking that he was just acting crazy.

"Why won't you believe me?" Sam asked urgently.

"Believe what?" Dani asked as she frowned at him in frustration. "That I had superpowers? You and I are best friends, even though I've never met you, and you're the only one that knows it?"

"Yes! Isn't that crystal clear?!" But Dani only ignored him as she angrily stormed up to her front door and slammed the door shut, leaving him outside. "I gotta do something to get her to listen to me. But how do I get in a semi-thick head of a fourteen-year-old girl?" His eyes popped wide in realization and then frowned like it was an idea he wouldn't like one bit. "Oh, darn it."

Later in the pharmacy, Dani and Tina had a couple of ice cream cones until Sam (who now wore a blue baseball cap, blue jacket/hoodie, and beige sweats) came up to them, making them stare up at him in surprise.

"Hey, mind if I join you?" He asked with his arms crossed, not liking the clothes one bit.

Dani and Tina only stared dumbfoundedly at Sam, until Dani immediately dropped her ice cream and shoved Tina off their table hard, making room for Sam.

"He surrendered his individuality for a girl!" Paul said his friend, Skye, both looking happy. "I'm so proud of him!"

Sam sat beside Dani and pulled out his scrapbook and the picture from Dani's locker. "Okay, so this is the picture the three of us took before high school, from the eighth grade." He said as he compared the pictures to prove that they were almost exactly the same. "This is the same one you have in your locker. Notice anything?"

Dani frowned a little. "Yeah, you broke into my own locker, doctored an old photo of me, and then you come up to me that we know each other." She said before she gave him a sly grin. "Something tells me you really like me… or you're just being nuts."

Sam growled in frustration before he pulled her face closer to his scrapbook. "Focus!"

She examined the different photos of her with Tina and Sam, smiling like they were having a good time, and then saw one of them in her parents' lab. "Wait a minute, that's my parents' lab!" She began to flip through the book while she saw a picture of a ghost very familiar to her, only with white hair and green eyes, a picture of herself and Tina sleeping together while they hugged each other in their sleep (during the whole Skulker incident), and finally a picture of her by the portal, holding a white jumpsuit.

Dani looked at Sam as she slowly began to realize that this boy was telling her the truth. "Who...are you?" She asked.

"I'm Sam Manson, your other best friend! A few months ago, I convinced you to go into this!" He explained as he pointed a picture of her in her ghost form, smiling with her arms crossed while she hovered in front of the Fenton Ghost Portal. "You went in there, there was an accident, and you got–"

"Superpowers?"

"Actually ghost powers. But we had a fight and I wished we'd never met… and that ghost in the school made it happen." Sam then held up the Specter Deflector in his hands. "I was wearing this, which I think is why the ghost didn't affect me, but you don't have your powers anymore!"

Dani blinked a few times as she allowed his words to sink in, until they suddenly heard a large footstep that came from outside.

"Paul Sancheeeez!" They heard someone growl from the other side of a wall, catching their attention when they turned around in surprise.

Claws suddenly sliced through the walls, circled around, and the wall fell and revealed a nasty woman ghost with green, razor sharp claws, Nightmarica. Paul and Skye screamed as they ran away to find safety and so did everyone else as they ran for their lives.

"Dani, you gotta–" Sam said, but paused. He almost forgot that Dani didn't know how to fight ghosts and the fact that she didn't have her powers anymore. She whimpered and glanced around nervously, not really knowing what to do. Sam then made a look of determination. "Actually, I gotta!"

He strapped the Specter Deflector around his waist before he glared at the monstrous woman ghost. Nightmarica threw a person away as she growled and Paul tried to pry open an emergency exit, but it was locked up tight. Sam took Tina's beanie, made two eye holes with a knife, and placed it over his face. He quickly pulled out a Jack-o-Nine Tails out of his backpack and it circled like a blade.

He then threw it back, only to hit Tina right on her head. "OW! Watch where you're swinging that thing!" She cried.

"Sorry, Tina!" He said sheepishly before he threw the Jack-o-Nine Tails at Nightmarica. Just when she was about to claw at Paulm she got caught and then Sam pulled her in closer while she growled menacingly.

"That… might just be the coolest boy on the planet!" Dani said to Tina while she admired his bravery and moves.

"Or he's nuts… really, really nuts." Tina said while she rubbed her head where Sam accidentally smacked her.

Nightmarica broke free from the ropes while she roared into the heavens. Sam quickly reached into his backpack and pulled out the Fenton Thermos and activated it as he sucked her inside.

Dani and Tina walked up to him. "Does that happen a lot?" Dani asked.

"More than you remember." Sam said as he removed the beanie off his face.

Dani then made a look like she was beginning to believe him. "Okay, you got my attention."

Sam made a joyful look of relief. "Oh, finally!" He ripped off his brighter clothes with his goth attire underneath them the whole time, and even removed his cap. "Come on!" He dragged Dani out of the pharmacy with Tina following them.

Inside Fenton Works, the trio made their way down into the lab, where Sam already deactivated the Ghost Portal and readjusted everything the way he remembered.

Tina checked for any signs of Dani's parents coming down. "All clear, Dani!" She confirmed.

"Cool, how's it going over there?" Dani asked Sam while she stood in front of the inactive portal with her hands on her hips.

"Pretty good. I'm guessing if we set everything the way it was when it happened, it'll happen again." He said while he examined the photo of Dani by the portal and then dialed the coordinate knobs back to their original settings. He then turned to Dani. "Are you sure about this?"

"No, but you saw those things. Those monsters...ghosts! Those ghosts were attacking our school! Besides…" She then smiled a little as she stared at the inside of the portal. "I always wanted to go in here. Who knows what kind of awesome super-cool things exist on the other side of that portal?" Sam then tossed her the same white and black jumpsuit before he pressed a button on the console once the coordinates were all set. Dani zipped up her jumpsuit, ready to enter the portal. "Well, here goes everything."

"Wait a minute." Sam said as he held up a new logo. He pulled off her mother's face out and replaced it with his logo he has been working on for Dani.

"Uh, what is that?" She asked him.

Sam only smiled reassuringly. "Just trust me, okay?"

Dani looked back into the portal again before she walked inside while Sam watched in silence and anticipation. As he hoped, Dani blindly pressed the 'ON' button like before, and the portal suddenly lit up with green light and pure ectoplasmic energy, making Dani scream in agony to the top of her lungs. Sam and Tina shield themselves from the lights and force as Dani continued to shriek while her molecules once again became rearranged and her DNA also became coated and enhanced with ectoplasm.

She has regained her ghost half and her powers, but the only difference was her white D with a P logo, with speeding ends like a ghost.

Dani looked down at herself before she stared at her hands while she groaned and saw her hands flicker when she briefly saw her bones. She then leaned against the ledge of the active portal with a moan, until she collapsed onto her legs and held her hand on her face.

Sam ran in front of her and stared down at her. "Dani, are you..." He said before he picked up Dani by her underarms and then she phased right through them while Sam stared down at the mist bellowing away from his hands. "You're a ghost...again!"

Dani looked down at herself again with wide eyes. "You're right, I am a ghost! COOL! Is this cool?" She wondered.

Sam placed his hand on her chest at her new logo, which was a perfect match for her jumpsuit. "Oh, it's very cool."

"What's going on down there?!" They heard Dani's mother, Jackie, shout from upstairs enough to alert them when their eyes went wide.

"Oh man! Your mom! You've gotta change back to normal!"

"Change back? How?" Dani asked urgently as she narrowed her eyes.

"I don't know, you just think about it or something!"

Jackie poked her head to the upper level of the stairs before she stormed down until he turned at the portal and gasped. She saw her daughter, Dani, back in her human form, kissing Sam on her toes as she held onto his arms while Sam himself blushed in surprise. Behind them, the portal showed a heart symbol surrounding from behind them.

"I call that a fake-out make-out." Dani whispered after she removed her lips from his.

"Ye-yeah, I know." Sam chuckled as he blushed madly.

Dani released him before they turned to face a disappointed Jackie approaching them. "You're in a lot of trouble, missy." Jackie told her daughter before looking at Sam. "And who the heck are you?"

"Uh...I'm Paul?" Sam lied as he shrugged sheepishly.

"Then Dani Fenton is never ever allowed to see you, Paul." Sam only smiled at that.

On Friday the next day, at Casper High, the trio were currently at astronomy class when Sam kind of finished turning Dani back into being a half-ghost. However, she was still inexperienced with her powers very much like from the very beginning, so Sam suggested to himself that he should try to teach Dani how to use them along the way.

"So, now what?" Dani asked Sam as she leaned with her hand on the edge of his seat.

"I don't know. I'm sort of making this up as we go along." Sam said mostly to himself. While he spoke, Dani's arm turned intangible and then phased right through his seat as she fell onto the floor by her cheek with a grunt.

The whole classroom exploded with laughter while Sam stared down at her in stunned silence.

Mr. Lancer approached Dani with his usual stern scowl. "Ms. Fenton, I know astronomy can be dull, but I'd appreciate it if you'd not take a nap in my class!" Lancer snapped before Dani stood back up and rubbed her head. "And remember the meteor shower tonight, don't forget to watch, and wear a helmet. It's a once in a lifetime experience."

Lancer walked up to his desk before all of his students immediately rushed out of the classroom. Dani, Sam, and Tina stayed behind as they all eavesdropped on Paul and Daph' conversation.

"What are you going to wish for?" Daph asked Paul.

"I don't know, but I'm sure with everybody wishing at the same time, somebody will give me an idea." Paul replied with a smile and a shrug.

"Oh no, that's what Desiree wants: to grant all those wishes at the same time!" Sam said to himself in realization. He kind of got the picture of Desiree's goal after he witnessed her growing more powerful from granting Mikey's wish the day before. He then turned to Dani with a serious look. "This is bad."

"And this is worse." Dani said just before she phased completely through the floor and out of sight. Sam stared down at where his amnesic friend phased through. "Hey, why's there all this meat down here?"

That Friday night, at the country club, the students arrived at Paul's fifteenth birthday party.

"Let's get this party started!" Paul announced out loud to his guests.

The DJ began to play some upbeat music while all of the popular kids danced together with the rhythm.

Meanwhile, Sam looked through his binoculars on a hill while he stared at his arch-rival's big birthday party with Tina and Dani.

"Wow, he almost seems...human. I'm going to have to forget that." Sam said to himself with wide eyes. He then spotted a meteor flying right across the night sky, revealing that the meteor shower was already beginning. "A falling star! Alright, Dani, do your thing, and remember: nobody makes a wish!"

"Okay." Dani said reluctantly. "I'm going… to become ghostly!"

Sam gave Dani a blank glare. "It's going ghost."

Dani only shrugged it off. "Whatever." She closed her eyes and concentrated before white rings appeared. She screamed as she braces herself until she changed completely into her ghost form. She then glanced down and shouted in fright that her legs were a ghost tail. "Where'd my legs go!" She changed it back to legs and sighed in relief… only until her arms became ghostly tails and she shouted in fear again.

Back at the party, everyone stopped dancing and stared up at the meteor shower across the sky.

"Hey, everybody! Falling stars!" Paul announced with excitement before he clenched his eyes shut eagerly. "Close your eyes and make a wish!" Everyone did as they were told while they silently made their wishes.

"I wish I had one of those sweet monster trucks." Tina said to herself eagerly, back up on the hill.

"Do you pay attention? To anything? At all? Ever?" Sam asked sarcastically as he and Dani glared at Tina's big mix up.

Desiree phased from the grass several feet away. She smiled evilly and held out her hand as it glowed. She created a Ginormo 6000 truck that just appeared out of nowhere while the trio stared at it in surprised confusion.

"This doesn't seem very monstrous." Tina noted as she walked in front of it. Unfortunately, it suddenly came to life as a literal monster truck when it roared. Tina shrieked in fright before she immediately ran away while it chased after her across the hill, leaving Tina out of commission.

"Keep wishing, fools! Keep wishing!" Desiree exclaimed into the heavens as she grew in power and size again.

"What do I do now?" Dani asked Sam desperately with her hands close to her, not really knowing what to do next.

"You fight her, and then you use this!" He replied before he tossed her the Fenton Thermos.

She caught it in her hands as she stared at it skeptically. "For what? Soup?"

Desiree laughed evilly as Dani ran up and jumped over the steep drop to fly. However, she opened her eyes and began to wave her arms and legs around madly with a trembling yell, until she plummeted to the ground hard. The thermos smacked her on the head as well, disorienting her a little more.

"Dani, concentrate!" Sam called after her. Then, two bushes beside the goth boy suddenly came to life and grabbed each of his wrists, trapping him with their strengths as he tried to break free. "Who the heck wished for evil plants?"

Dani glaced around while Desiree grinned wickedly at the ghost girl. She did as Sam told her when she concentrated and then jumped into the air again. Dani briefly lost her balance, but she luckily hovered in the air with her hands on her hips. She smiled, until she flipped upside down.

"You? You're back? But how?!" Desiree cried in dismay.

"Dani! Use your ghost ray! You can fire a ghost ray out of your hand!" Sam called after her.

"Ghost ray, ghost ray!" Dani murmured urgently to herself. She held out her hand to fire a ghost beam, but the energy appeared on her feet instead. "Well, that can't be right, but it'll have to do!" She got in a lay-down position and thrusted her feet forward and shot a beam of green energy at Desiree dead on when she sent her flying away while she shouted. "Now? While she's off guard?" She opened the thermos, but then growled in frustration since she couldn't remember how to use her trusty weapon. "OH! I don't even know how to use this!"

Desiree recovered from Dani's attack when she came up and slapped the girl out of the sky, sending her tumbling back to the hill. Before she could even get up, the giant genie ghost squashed her down with her giant hand. Desiree then held out her hand as she granted everyone's silent wishes while they all appeared in the horizon and roared.

"You don't remember anything, do you?" Desiree asked rhetorically as Dani rubbed her head and stood up from being squashed like that.

"I don't need to remember everything to know I have to stop you!" Dani retorted confidently, until she unwillingly changed back into human form, which made her have second thoughts about what she just said. "Although, remembering would be nice." Desiree formed her hand into a hammer and got ready to finish her off once and for all.

Meanwhile, Sam looked away since he couldn't bear to watch.

Sam opened his eyes and gasped when he suddenly found himself in Dani's bedroom.

"What the?" Sam said as he glanced around. "What's going on?"

"I don't know, Paul."

Sam glanced and found Dani sitting on her bed, talking on the phone with Paul apparently. She looked a little skeptic, troubled, and uncertain.

"I would love to go to your party this Friday, but… not without my friends." She said before she frowned. "Especially after what happened when Daph invited me to her party!" Paul said something inaudible through the phone, which made Dani's eyes widen a little. "Wait, it's nothing like that? Are you sure?" Paul replied through the phone, but Dani's face twitched with uncertainty. "I'll… get right back to you on that. Thanks."

Dani then hung up her phone as Sam watched in awe.

"Dani?" Sam said. "Dani! It's me, Sam!" But she didn't hear him, thinking to herself.

Sam suddenly realized that this was the day he made the phone call to Dani, asking if she would come to the movies Friday. But he did fail to realize that Paul called her before he did.

Her phone rang again and she answered it. "Hey, Sam, what's up?" She said.

"Hey, Dani." Sam said through the phone. "The Trinity of Doom is this Friday. You and Tina really need to come and see this! It'll be totally awesome!"

Dani's eyes widened. "This Friday. Sam, it would be fun and I would come, but I–"

"Cool, I got it all planned out! I'll get the tickets!"

"What– Sam, you should wait until I…" But faltered when Sam hung up on her. Her face dropped into a glare. "...decide if I should go to Paul's party or not." She tossed her phone to the end of her bed and flopped as she moaned in frustration.

Sam shook his head and found himself back in reality.

Now he understood why Dani's been calling him out so much lately: she wanted to go to the movies with him all along, but she wanted to decide if she wanted to either do that or go to Paul's party (as long as Sam and Tina would be with her after what happened with Daph way back). Yet, he hung up on her before she could tell him about Paul's invite, and he impulsively bought the movie tickets without her approval. He even kept telling himself that she promised she'd go with him, but in reality, she really had never promised him anything.

He really was a hypocrite.

"Oh, Dani, I'm so sorry! You were right all along, this is all my fault. I wish I had never fought with you!" He muttered to himself, until his eyes popped open in realization and smirked with another idea. "And she's granting every single wish she hears!" He then faced Desiree and shouted directly at her as loud as he could. "I wish Dani and I have never had that fight! And I wish Dani, Tina, and I remembered everything and her costume stayed the way it is, because I really really like it!"

Desiree held out her hands as she prepared her magic. "So you have wished it, and so it shall BEEEE!" She shouted while she fired a beam at Dani and granted Sam's wish.

Dani suddenly froze when she finally began to remember everything about her real past and her real life, and even remembered everything about Sam and what they have done together. She remembered her own accident with the ghost portal that gave her her ghost powers, and even the past ghosts she once fought before: Skulker, Vladia Plasmius, Walker, and even the Box Ghost. She also remembered how to work all of her powers and that her heroine alter ego name was Dani Phantom.

With all of her real memories fully restored, Dani smiled as she changed back into ghost form, now fully experienced with her powers once again. She then glared as she aimed out her thermos while it charged up and fired a beam directly at evil genie ghost.

"No! Nooo! NOOOOOOO!" Desiree shouted until she got sucked into the device, despite her new humongous size. "I gotta stop granting every wish I hear." And Dani recapped the thermos with a victorious grin.

In the horizon, all the monsters Desiree created suddenly vanished into thin air. The bushes that were restraining Sam disappeared as well while he smiled that everything was finally returning to normal. The truck that was chasing Tina became normal again while it braked and the techno-geek safely screeched to a halt.

"YES!" Tina said, until it suddenly vanished without a trace, much to her dismay. "NO!"

After the last of the monsters disappeared, Dani twisted the thermos cap tight and smiled at Sam, who walked up to her. They both hugged each other, grateful that they remembered each other before they released each other with Sam clearing his throat awkwardly.

"I, uh, there's something you should know about, but it can wait." He said bashfully while Dani smiled at him knowingly.

Dani then realized that there was something different about her jumpsuit when she glanced down at her chest and noticed her new logo. "Did you do something to my costume?" She asked Sam as she dropped her thermos and pointed at her new white DP ghost logo.

"No, it's… always been like that." Sam lied as he shrugged a little and smiled at her reassuringly.

"Oh man, that was close." Tina said in relief when she walked up to her friends. Dani bent down to pick up her thermos, making Tina recoil a little. "Watch where you're pointing that thing, girl!" She only got a look of embarrassment from Dani while Sam stood there in silent confusion.

With everything returned to normal, Dani and Tina finally remembering Sam, and Desiree defeated, the trio sat on the hill together as they overlooked Paul's birthday party. Music blared in the distance and the teenagers danced to the music after the meteor shower finally came to an end.

"Uh, weren't we invited to that party?" Tina asked as she leaned back against the slope.

"Yeah, and now that everything's back to normal, he's sort of expecting a visit from the ghost girl." Sam said while he hugged his legs close to him. He faced Dani with a casual smile. "And Dani, now might be a good time to decide on what you wanna do right now."

"Yeah, you're probably right." Dani agreed with her legs leaning out to her side and hoisted herself with her hands.

In the end, she ultimately decided to go with Sam to see Trinity of Doom. They all watched the three female monsters battling each other on the big screen, when the cyborg woman punched the alien monster and then jumped up to avoid the badly-faced woman's claws.

"I never realized how different my life would've been if I hadn't met you." Dani said to Sam while Tina remained silent and watched the movie. "I gotta say, it's sort of cool to know."

Sam, however, looked down at the ground with a look of guilt. "Still, you were right all along. You tried to tell me the whole time, but I wouldn't listen. I'm sorry for being so ignorant around you."

Dani cocked an eyebrow. "An apology? From Sam Manson? Now, that's something I should get used to."

He looked up at Dani and smiled back. "And sorry about that stupid fight. Can we forget it ever happened?"

Dani smiled at him warmly. "So you have wished it, so shall it be."

Dani and Sam blushed at each other… until Tina narrowed her eyes at her friends. "Hey, I'm right here." She said to them. Sam and Dani only gave her confused and strange stares while they remained silent in embarrassment.