I do not own Danny Phantom or the Danny Phantom theme song. Sheds a tear.
Clockwork didn't make a big production this time as he started the next vision.
Fade in on a Casper High hallway. Tucker Foley, Sam Manson, and Danny Fenton walk down the hall together. Each carries a box that says, "Save the Frogs!" and has a picture of a frog crossed out by a no symbol.
"Ugh, I remember this. It's the time I traded bodies with Poindexter." Danny said loud enough that everyone heard. Danny, Sam, and Tucker realized they skipped the first time they met Technus, but they weren't that worried about it since they had so many encounters with him.
"Poindexter?" Nathan pondered, "Wait, do you mean Sidney Poindexter?!"
All the students and most of the adults tensed up. Anyone who had ever went to Casper High knew about Sidney Poindexter. Danny just gestured over to a young nerdy looking black and white ghost on the other side of the barrier. "Hi there," Sidney waved to the shocked crowd.
Danny: So, why exactly are we breaking our backs here, Sam?
Danny's voice brought everyone's focus back to the screen.
Sam: Frogs' rights. We have to stop dissecting frogs in our school biology labs. And at today's assembly, (They stop walking.) I'm gonna demonstrate a humane alternative. (Tilts her box forward.)
Tucker: (Reading the top of Sam's box:) "I Can't Believe It's Not a Frog Cadaver?"
Sam puts down her box and takes out an oozing mechanical frog.
Frog: (Croaks. Robotic voice:) Please remove my detachable three-chambered heart. (Croaks.)
"Ew gross." Paulina and Star shrieked. "I am not touching that."
Many of the nerds thought it looked pretty cool, and couldn't understand why the two girls were freaking out.
Danny's ghost sense suddenly goes off. Sam's box on the ground begins to glow green and shake, then erupts a cloud of green smoke. Out of surprise, Sam tosses away the frog, which lands on Tucker's head and he struggles to remove it. The green smoke then materializes into the Box Ghost.
Danny: Oh great. Him again.
"Hey!" The Box Ghost yelled at Danny with his arms crossed.
"Well what do you expect?" Danny questioned the Box Ghost. "Your obsession with boxes is even stranger than the Lunch Lady's obsession was before she explained it. How are you supposed to explain yours?"
"I can't." The Box Ghost said glumly.
That got everyone's attention, and even the ghosts, turn to look at him. Jazz's interest was peaked the most. "What do you mean? Why can't you explain your obsession with boxes?"
The Box Ghost just shrugged, "I can't explain because I don't remember where my obsession with boxes came from. I believe I got amnesia at some point when I was alive cause I don't remember much from my human life. But since even I don't understand where my obsession with boxes started, it makes it really hard to move on."
Danny as well as many others found that sad. He had to have an even harder time than most ghosts moving on if even he doesn't know where his obsession came from. Jazz found it sad as well, but she had her head in her journal trying to think of ways she could help ghosts when even they didn't comprehend where their obsessions came from.
Box Ghost: (Waving hands around.) I am the Box Ghost, (Glowing green.) and I will have my corrugated cardboard vengeance!
Danny goes ghost, and the Box Ghost levitates the trio's boxes in the air. Meanwhile, Sam pulls the frog off of Tucker's face, leaving him covered in green slime.
Tucker: Oh, gross!
Paulina and Star clung to one another and nodded along with Tucker's statement. "See, even he thinks it's gross and icky."
"That may be true," Danny started in. "But I think we should give the frog cadavers another try."
"Why do you say that?" Kwan asked Danny.
"Because of what happens next." Danny says and points at the screen.
Danny: You guys get to the assembly. (Sam and Tucker run off.) I'll get this moron sealed up tight.
The Box Ghost causes one of the boxes to open and numerous scalpels rise up out of it. They fly at Danny, but he turns intangible and they stick into the wall of lockers behind him.
Danny: (Feeling his chest.) Huh. Maybe Sam has a point.
"After having the scalpels turned on me like that I sure don't want it to ever happen again. So after almost being impaled, I feel like I have a better understanding of what those poor frogs go through." Danny shivered, and thought 'at least they are already dead and don't have to worry about it possibly happening to them while they are still living.' Then that brought the question of whether he was truly still considered living back into Danny's mind. Danny shook his head, trying to focus back on the screen. Even if he was considered dead, he still felt pain.
The audience was quiet, thinking about what Danny had said. The frog cadavers were certainly looking more appealing.
The Box Ghost slams into Danny, sending him through the lockers and through several more rooms before he finally tumbles into the backstage area of the school's auditorium. Upon landing, he changes back to human.
Danny: Oops.
"Again?" Dash questioned. "You're luck Fenton."
Box Ghost: (Phases through wall.) Tremble before the might of the (His hands start to glow green.) Box Ghost, (Causes a box onstage to glow and levitate.) as you are devoured by... (Reading label on box.) Uh, oh yeah. Costumes and props from the Broadway classic, My Fair Lady!
The box opens and a bundle of clothes rises up out of it. The bundle hurls itself at Danny, knocking him backwards. He ends up under a pile of clothes.
Box Ghost: (Laughs evilly.) Beware! (Phases out through the ceiling.)
"He got away?" Dale questioned. "Seriously?"
"My my little badger." Plasmius said. "It's a good thing you've gotten better or you never would have stood a chance against me. Sadly, it would have worked in my favor if I had met you then. I could have won you over to my side easily, son."
Danny refused to comment, but he couldn't help the growl that came out or his eyes glowing brighter.
"Son?! He's not your son! He's mine!" Jack yelled at the Wisconsin Ghost, and moved to stand in front of Danny.
Plasmius clenched his fist, "Well I'll just have to remove you from the picture."
The humans gasped, and then gasped again as Danny flew through the first barrier into their section as he tried to ram his way through the second barrier to get to Plasmius. Of course it didn't work, but that didn't stop Danny from trying to get through the second barrier. "You stay away from my family!"
"Oh the scary eyes." Plasmius pretended to be scared. "Whatever shall I do? Face it Daniel, you can't stop me."
As Plasmius continued to mock her son, Maddie found some of the things the ghost was saying to sound oddly familiar. She didn't have time to think about that though as she tried to calm her son down. Nothing seemed to be working though.
Eventually Wulf sighed, and made his way through the barrier into the crowd of humans who backed out of his way. They knew that for him to have crossed the barrier meant that he meant them no harm, but he was still intimidating to be near. Wulf ignored the humans as he came up behind Danny, and grabbed him by the back of his suit as he proceeded to drag him back to the front of the room.
"Let me go Wulf." Danny struggled.
Wulf refused to listen, and he continued to hold Danny by his suit as Clockwork resumed the vision.
The humans really hoped they learned about those two soon because as time went on they only had more questions.
Cut to Sam walking up to a podium onstage in front of a closed curtain.
Sam: (Into the mic) Fellow students, something sick and disgusting is taking place right here in our school, and I'm about to show you what it is.
The curtain opens up behind her to reveal a large "Save the Frogs!" sign. The students in the audience pause, then immediately point and laugh. Sam turns around and sees Danny, who stands up from the pile of clothes wearing a pink-and-white dress, a matching hat with a wig of curls, and makeup. Danny glowers when he realizes the situation.
Even though they had already seen this, the students couldn't help the few chuckles that escaped their mouths.
Tucker: (Cheering) Whoo! Take it off! (Sam glares at him.) No, seriously. He should take it off. That's weird.
Now everyone was laughing at what Tucker said. They just couldn't help it.
Cut to theme song.
As the song started, the band geeks began to play along and students sang along to the chorus since that was all they knew so far. Danny, still hanging from Wulf's mouth, tried to shrink into his suit to hide his embarrassment.
Fade onto Sam, Danny, and Tucker walking down a Casper High hallway, where students still laugh at Danny.
Sam: Thanks to your little dress-up parade, my "Save the Frogs!" presentation was a total bust.
Tucker: And speaking of bust, did you see Danny in that bra? Puce is not your color, pal.
Danny rolled his eyes. Was that really what was bothering Tucker? Not the fact that the ghost got away.
The trio walks up to a locker covered in yellow caution tape. Danny carries a piece of paper.
Danny: Yeah, and now because that idiot Box Ghost trashed my locker, I've been assigned a new one. (Reads paper.) Locker...seven-two-four.
Sam and Tucker gasp and look dramatically fearful. Tucker points behind Danny at the rusty, worn-down locker 724. They all walk towards it.
The people in the crowd all shiver. Locker 724.
Danny: Guys, what's wrong? You look like you've seen a ghost. (Chuckles.) Or something really scary that we don't see every single day.
That got a few snorts and eye rolls from the crowd. It was crazy to think that ghosts were such a natural occurrence in their lives that they can joke about it like that.
Tucker: Hello?! Locker 724? How do you not know the legend of locker 724?
Everyone who had ever went the Casper High was wondering the same thing.
Danny opens the locker. A gold-framed mirror hangs in the back, which Danny touches. The mirror begins to sparkle as Danny speaks.
"Uh, anyone else notice the mirror sparkling when Danny touches it?" Dash asked.
He received several nods in comfirmation.
"So that must be why I was able to finally get out." Poindexter mumbled to himself.
Danny: What's the big deal with 724?
Dash Baxter suddenly slaps down the hat-wig from the My Fair Lady costume onto Danny's head.
Dash: You left something behind, Fenton.
Dash and two of his jock friends laugh while Danny glares at them.
Dash: Let's see if it fits in your new locker, with you inside!
Dash grabs Danny and shoves him in his locker, then slams the door shut. Dash and his friends walk away laughing.
Dash winced, "Sorry Danny."
"Dash, if you apologize for every little thing you've done to me we are gonna be here a while. Look if you're willing to forgive me, then I'm willing to forgive you."
Dash gave a small smile and nodded.
Danny smiled back, "Alright, then don't worry about apologizing anymore."
"Okay Fenton."
Tucker: I was gonna tell you the locker was cursed, (Opens the locker.) but I think you figured that out.
Danny: (Falls out of locker and stands up.) I'll show you cursed. Cover me.
Danny grabs Sam and Tucker and hides behind them. He goes ghost, and flies invisibly down the hallway, then overshadows Dash. Danny then slams Dash's head into a locker twice before dunking it into a janitor's mop bucket, where he leaves Dash's body. He flies away from the crowd surrounding Dash and pops back into human form. He high-fives Tucker, while Sam glares at him.
"Mr. Fenton, I realize you and Dash have made up but that does not mean that this is exceptable behavior." Mr. Lancer said, looking disappointed at his student.
"Yeah, I realize that. I'm sorry, and I've learned my lesson after everything that happens in this vision."
The crowd gave him a questioning look, waiting for an explanation.
"Lets just say karma came and kicked me in the butt so hard that I got kicked out of my own body."
That explanation just left the crowd even more confused, but that's all Danny would say.
Sam: (Admonishing) Danny.
Tucker: Relax, Sam. (To Danny:) It's about time you used that Phantom advantage for some ghostly get-back.
Sam sighs in disgust and walks away, and Tucker and Danny follow her. A ghostly voice (belonging to Sidney Poindexter) speaks from within locker 724.
Poindexter: Bullies. (Green light glows from within the locker.) Bullies!
"Well that's not creepy at all." Valerie said sarcastically as she floated on her board above the crowd. Damon Grey knew that he would have to have a chat with his daughter soon.
Fade to the Fenton Works' kitchen. At the table, Maddie is working on the Fenton Ghost Gloves, Jazz is reading a book, and Jack is eating breakfast. Danny walks into the kitchen.
Jack: So, Danny! What's this I hear about you getting a new locker?
Danny: Oh, uh, hehe. Uh, no big deal, really. Uh, nothing for you and Mom to get obsessive about.
Jack: (Angrily:) Why? Is it haunted?!
Maddie: Don't worry, son. You'll barely even notice us while we're staking out that locker during normal school hours.
Danny just groaned.
Jazz: (Looks up from book.) What?! (Goes over to cover Danny protectively.) No! Danny is at a very critical stage in the development of his peer groups. (Lets go of Danny.) He's already considered a clumsy nerd. The last thing he needs is you two confirming it.
Danny: Nice defense, Jazz. Total confidence-builder.
Jazz looked over to her brother with an apologetic look on her face. She hadn't meant for it to sound like that. Thankfully, Danny gave her a smile back to let her know he didn't hold it against her.
Jack suddenly grabs the Ghost Gauntlets away from Maddie and puts them on, bumping them together and swinging his fists around to showcase them.
Jack: And the best part is, thanks to the new ghost gloves, when that ghost comes out of that locker, I can spar with it mono à ghost-o.
He punches a column of pipes and it breaks down. Jack raises his arms victoriously, and more pipes crash down from the ceiling.
Jazz: (To Danny) Don't worry. Maybe girls will talk to you in college.
Danny rolled his eyes thinking 'I'm not even sure it will happen then. It's likely that will show up to hunt ghosts there too.' On a different note, "Hey mom, dad. Thanks for making those ghost gloves. They come in handy later in my past selves future."
Maddie gives her son an akward hug. "Of course sweety."
"Hey Wulf, can you put me down now please? It's not comfortable or easy to receive a hug when you're hanging from someones mouth."
Wulf chuckles to himself, but he lets go of Danny.
(Walks away, and Danny glowers.) Cross-fade to Danny glowering into his locker at school. He glances over to Dale and another jock picking on a marching band student with a tuba.
Dale: Hey, Tubby the Tuba. (Grabs the student's shako.) Nice shako. (Twists shako in student's ear.)Does it remove earwax, too?
Danny slams his locker door in anger and walks off. The locker begins to glow green again as Poindexter speaks from within.
Poindexter: Bullies.
Dale tosses the shako to his friend.
Jock #1: Go long!
He throws the shako down the hallway as Dale runs down it, but Danny's locker door suddenly flies open and smacks Dale in the face. He falls on the ground, dazed, and the shako lands on his head. Cut to a boy with glasses pushing a projector on a cart. Paulina suddenly stops the cart with her foot and leans on it.
Paulina: (Flirtatiously) I'm so fascinated by AV equipment. (As Kwan sneaks up behind the boy) Can you show me how it works?
Kwan secretly ties the boy's shoelaces together.
"Hey!" The same boy yells in indignation.
Poindexter: Bullies!
A stream of green ghostly energy comes out of Danny's locker, slides up across the ceiling to the opposite wall, and causes a trophy to fall off a trophy shelf onto Kwan's head. He stumbles around and knocks into a fire extinguisher case. The case opens up and the extinguisher tumbles out, spewing foam at Paulina, who screams as it knocks her backwards. The green energy finally unties the boy's shoelaces back to normal. The boy looks around and shrugs, then keeps walking. Fade to the Casper High cafeteria at lunchtime, and to the popular kids' table.
"See Sam, I told you it wasn't me."
Dale: And all of a sudden, this locker door flies open and nails me.
Paulina: (Brushing foam out of her hair.) I'm gonna be brushing this stuff out of my hair for a week!
Kwan: It's like, this school is haunted.
"Might as well be with as many ghosts we get coming around." Dale said.
Pan to Tucker, Sam, and Danny at another table.
Sam: Apparently, someone's been busy.
Danny: It wasn't me, I swear!
Danny suddenly turns invisible and goes to overshadow Dash, who is just sitting down between Kwan and Dale. He causes Dash to dump his tray of food on Paulina, then leaves his body. Dash shakes his head clear and scratches it in confusion. Danny then goes back to his table and turns visible again.
"Heeey." Paulina pouted. "How could you do that to me Danny?"
Danny wisely didn't answer.
Danny: Now that was me.
Sam: Danny, I don't think you should be using your powers like-
Sam suddenly sees Mr. Lancer standing in the cafeteria doorway.
Sam: Lancer. I'll be right back! (Runs off.)
"Uh, where's she going?" Ember questioned.
The ghosts around her just shrugged.
Tucker: Don't listen to her, Danny. It's about time somebody struck a blow for Sidney Poindexter.
Danny: Sidney who-dexter?
Tucker: Sidney Poindexter. (Takes out PDA and taps on it.) Locker 724 was originally owned by a Poindexter back in the fifties.
"I didn't know that people would remember me." Sidney said to himself, feeling slightly happy that he hasn't been forgotten.
Cut to Tucker's PDA screen, which says that Poindexter attended Casper High from 1954-1958. Fade to a black-and-white flashback version of Casper High, where students dressed in 50's-styled clothing are walking in the hallway. Poindexter adjusts his bowtie in the mirror in locker 724, then closes the door and walks down the hallway.
Tucker: (Voice-over from the present) Poindexter was the victim of more cruel pranks (A bully sticks a "Kick Me" sign on Poindexter's back.) than anyone in the history of Casper High School. (Cut to a group of boys directing another boy to pick on Poindexter.) Apparently, picking on him was a graduation requirement. (The boy kicks Poindexter from behind while he's smelling flowers, then laughs. Cut to Poindexter being shoved into his locker.) He got stuffed into his locker so many times, (Fade back to Tucker in the present.) it's believed his spirit still inhabits it to this very day.
"Looks like the techno-geek was right." Star whispered.
Sam walks back up to the table, carrying a box of frogs.
Danny: Sam, what are you doing?
Sam: (Suspiciously) Nothing. (Setting box down on the table bench.) Certainly not trying to smuggle frogs out of the bio lab while Lancer isn't looking.
"That's stealing Samantha." Jeremy scolded this daughter.
Suddenly, Danny is pelted in the face with several hamburger patties.
Dash: Hey, guys. (Cut to Dash holding patties, surrounded by several jocks.) What do you say we "meat" my new locker neighbor?
Danny wipes off the patties and glares at Dash, his eyes glowing green. Sam holds him back.
Sam: Easy, Danny. Take it easy.
Danny: (Sighs.) You're right, Sam. I-
Danny suddenly gets pelted by more patties, cheese, veggies, and finally a giant loaf of bread that lands on his head.
Again Dash felt like apologizing, but he remembered what Danny said. Meanwhile, Danny's parents were trying to stay calm.
Dash: (Walking away.) Enjoy your sandwich, neighbor.
Danny: That's it! (Takes bread off of head.)
Tucker: Hmm. I wonder how Dash would feel if he had a frog in his throat.
Danny: Or twelve. In his pants. (Looks at box of frogs.)
Sam: (Picks up box.) Oh, no. You're not gonna exploit innocent amphibians for some juvenile revenge scheme.
Danny's eyes look indifferent, then glow green with mischief as frogs jump in their reflection. Cut to Dash opening his locker in an empty hallway, then pan to Danny as Phantom holding the box of frogs. He turns invisible, then yanks open the back of Dash's pants.
Dash: Hey!
Danny yanks Dash's underwear up and over his head, and dumps the frogs into his pants. Dash's head tears through his underwear, and he cries out in pain as he hops down the hallway.
Dash: Wh-ow! Ow! O-ooh! (Repeatedly:) Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!
Danny chuckles to himself. Cut to locker 724, which begins to glow green as Poindexter speaks from within once more.
Poindexter: Bullies! (Suddenly phases halfway out of the locker door.) Hey! I'm free! Finally, the doorway's been opened! (Notices Danny laughing.) You think that's funny, buster?
Danny: (Notices Poindexter floating next to him.) Huh? What? You can see me?
"Who else would he be talking to genius." Youngblood said as he stuck his tongue out.
Again as last time, adults and teenagers alike looked around trying to figure out who had said that. And like last time they couldn't find the culprit. Danny's shoulders shook as he tried to hold in his laughter. He couldn't wait for them to see when he had met Youngblood.
Poindexter: Yeah, that's right, bub. Now leave that poor kid alone.
Danny: (Turns fully visible.) What? Oh. (Laughs.) Oh, man. That's good. Man, do you ever have it backwards.
Poindexter: Don't hand me that jazz, Clyde. You're the bully from where I'm standing.
"Sorry Phantom," Poindexter looked down in shame. "Looks like I messed up. You were just trying to fight back against the bullies."
"Yeah, but I messed up as well. I started enjoying it so much that I didn't realize that I had become a bully myself."
Danny: (Points at his feet.) Uh, floating.
Poindexter: Uh, okay. Floating. Let's see how (Raises arms and hands begin to glow green.) you like getting bullied.
Poindexter causes the lockers in the hallway to glow green. His eyes turn solid red, and school supplies fly out of the lockers. Cut to the cafeteria, where lunch trays suddenly smack into students' faces and food flies all over the room. Cut to a science lab, where Mr. Lancer is searching around for the frogs Sam stole.
Mr. Lancer: I know those frogs were here somewhere.
The beakers and other science equipment in the room suddenly break and shatter.
Mr. Lancer: Great Gatsby!
Cut to Maddie and Jack walking up to the front doors of the school. Jazz cuts them off before they can go in.
Jazz: How many times do I have to tell you? There's nothing weird going on in this school!
"Sorry Jazz," Danny stated messing with his sister. "But there's always something weird going on at the school."
Maddie and Jack share a disbelieving look. Suddenly, a crowd of students runs out of the front doors, screaming in fear.
Jack: Move, Maddie, move!
Jack and Maddie run into the school, Jack wearing the Ghost Gauntlets. Jazz slaps her forehead in annoyance. Cut back to the hallway, where school supplies are flying through an intangible Danny.
Danny: Look, you don't understand.
Poindexter: I understand a bully when I see one.
Poindexter shoots a ghost ray out of his eyes, which hits Danny, sends him through a wall through a library, and lands him in another hallway. Danny, still intangible, flies back and looks around sticking out of a wall of lockers. Meanwhile, Sam is rounding up loose frogs and putting them back into the box.
Sam: There you go, little fellas.
Danny and Poindexter come to a stand-off in the hallway around Sam.
Poindexter: Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, bully. (Danny turns visible.) I'm Sidney Poindexter, (Tucker walks up next to him. Gesturing to Tucker:) and wherever there is a single nerd in need, I shall be there.
Tucker: Hey, who're calling a nerd?
"Yeah." Tucker grumbles. "And what the heck does put an egg in your shoe mean?"
Danny flies at Poindexter, but he turns intangible and Danny flies into Tucker instead. They crash into some lockers and fall to the ground. Poindexter turns tangible again.
Tucker: That's the guy who used to have your locker. In your face, Mr. Skeptic.
Poindexter: In his face? (Pulls out an ink pen.) Swell idea.
"You just had to give him that idea Tucker." Danny glared mildly at Tucker, who looked at Danny sheepishly and chuckled.
Poindexter causes the pen to spray ink in Danny's face. He laughs, but then Danny turns intangible and flies into him, sending them both through the floor and into the basement. Danny, weak from the attack, transforms back into his human self automatically.
Poindexter: Holy socks! You're the halfa!
Many of the humans in the crowd whispered to each other, "The what-a?"
Danny: The what-a?
The crowd couldn't help the sense of deja-vu they got at that.
Poindexter: The halfa. Everybody in the Ghost Zone talks about you. You're half a boy, half a ghost. The halfa! You have all our powers on the human plane. An- (Suddenly angry.) And you're using your powers for evil?
Danny: No! Look! Just listen! I-I took over Dash's body because-
Poindexter: Hey, wait. You can take over a person's body?
The ghosts all did face palmed. How did he not know he could do that?
Poindexter: Jeepers creepers, I would flip if I had your powers. I wonder...
The humans did not like the way he said that. What was going through his mind? What was he planning?
Poindexter turns intangible and flies into Danny's body, which starts glowing green and shaking as Danny struggles to resist.
Even though the humans had seen Danny overshadow another persons body, they couldn't help but scream at another ghost trying to take over Danny's body. The ghosts were shocked. Why had they never thought of that? Then again that was kinda like taking over another ghost, and none of them had ever done that. Just the thought of attempting to take over another ghost made them feel sick.
Danny: Hey! What are you doing?!
Poindexter: Giving you a taste of your own medicine, bully.
Danny: Listen to me! Dash- isn't-
Danny's face and body begin to distort into weird positions, which are accompanied by strange sounds, until a sudden calm comes over his body.
The things happening to Danny's body make both ghosts and humans feel sick and creeped out. But Danny's body suddenly going calm freaks them out even more than when he was thrashing around. It wasn't natural. Even Danny and Poindexter where freaked out watching Danny's body and face contort since they hadn't actually seen this happening as they fought for control of Danny's body.
Poindexter: You might use your powers to pick on innocent kids...
Danny's ghost half intangibly floats up out of his body and through the ceiling.
Jack and Maddie felt like they were about to pass out, yet they couldn't look away. Vlad was more than a little unnerved at what he was seeing considering that as a halfa this could happen to him as well. Many of the ghost were thankful they were already dead because they were certain that they would have had a heart attack had they still been alive.
Poindexter: (Now possessing Danny's body.) But I sure as sugar won't.
Danny's ghost half floats into locker 724 and into the mirror. On the other side, a locker door opens up to show students walking in a black-and-white fifties' version of Casper High in the Ghost Zone. A jock walking by doubles back to look into the locker.
'50s Jock #1: Hey, Poindexter.
Danny looks in the mirror behind him in the locker to see that he now looks like Poindexter. He screams. Fade to black.
Before the vision of the past started back up, Cujo growled and slowly, cautiously, made his way over to Danny. The crowd held their breath as they waited for some sort of confirmation that it was really Danny even though they knew it was him. Cujo sniffed Danny's hand before jumping into his arms and licking his face. Danny laughed. The crowd exhaled in relief. Jack and Maddie wrapped their son in a hug.
Fade onto Jack and Maddie running down a Casper High hallway, followed by Mr. Lancer. They come up to Tucker and Sam, who still has the box of frogs.
Maddie: Is it true? Did you kids just witness a ghost attack?
Jack: Fear not, young ones. (Raises electrified Ghost Gauntlets in the air.) These gloves are made for grabbing!
Poindexter (in Danny's body) phases up intangibly through the floor behind Maddie. Tucker sees and gasps, then goes over to block Poindexter from view as he turns tangible again.
"Thanks for covering for me Tuck, even when it's not me in my own body." Danny said as he slung his arm around Tucker's shoulder. Tucker just smiled back and rolled his eyes, "What would you do without us?"
Tucker: Uh, no ghost here, Mr. and Mrs. F.
Mr. Lancer: Only a girl trying to create a diversion for her own needs.
Danny and Tucker snort, "Great distraction Sam. You'll have to teach us how you were able to do all that." They said, playfully mocking Mr. Lancer for thinking a student could have done all that.
Sam: Right. Right. No ghosts here.
The adults run off.
Tucker: Watch it, Danny. Your parents almost caught your intangible act.
Poindexter smirks in satisfaction of not being suspected. Fade into the Ghost Zone Casper High, where Danny (in Poindexter's body) is walking down a hallway.
Danny: Where am I? It's like I dropped into Grandpa Fenton's yearbook.
A male teen comes up to Danny, making him stop.
Teen #1: Hey, Poindexter. (Points at Danny's chest.) You got a spot on your shirt. (Flicks finger up to hit Danny in the nose.) Ha! Made you look! (Walks away.)
Students in the hallway laugh as Danny glares and turns to keep walking, only to be tripped by a girl in a poodle skirt.
Poodle skirt girl: Have a nice trip, Poindexter. See you next fall. (Walks away.)
While Danny is still on the ground, a punk male teen in a leather jacket grabs the back of his pants and pulls his underwear up to lift him into the air, giving him a wedgie.
Punk: Hey, don't you know there's a dress code, Poindexter?
Danny turned and looked at the crowd of ghosts. "Hey speaking of, where are the rest of the 50's ghosts Poindexter?"
Sidney gives him a blank stare. "You're kidding me. You do realize that they're not real right?"
That got everyone's attention, and Clockwork paused the vision. "What are you talking about?" A jock asked, and gestured to the screen. "They are right there. Obviously they're real."
Poindexter just shook his head, "No they're not. They don't even exist. It's part of the curse of my locker. The whole student body is just a figment of my imagination."
"Uh, what?" Even Jazz was at a loss.
"My locker is cursed, this is just part of the curse. I am forever living my worst nightmare, my school days. Forever being bullied, it's a vicious cycle. It's also the only reason I didn't go crazy since I couldn't get out of the ghost zone to actually stop bullies in the real world to appease my obsession. I could do it there."
"Even though it wasn't real? You helping other bullied classmates wasn't real, it's not actually happening." Jazz said.
"I think it has to do with me wishing I had done something when I was alive." Poindexter just shrugs. "Even now, I never do anything when they bully me. Only when they bully others do I step in. Usually I just get bullied more."
Danny ponders a couple things. "So your lair in the ghost zone is a replica of Casper High from the 50's with your locker there being a portal or gateway into the real world connected to locker 724 in the real world?"
"Abs-itively(if this is how you spell how he says it)." Poindexter nods. "But it's really finicky. You never know when the portal will open and how long it will stay open. I think it only worked that time because of you."
Before any more could be said, Clockwork, who had just turned into an old man, started the vision again.
He lets go of the underwear and it snaps over Danny's head. Danny rips it off and runs to go through the front doors of the school. only to struggle to keep himself from falling as he realizes there's no ground as the school is floating in the Ghost Zone. He falls-
Danny's family, friends, and schoolmates panic as Danny (as Poindexter) disappears for a moment.
-but catches himself on the front step and tries to pull himself back up.
Danny: I got to get out of here!
"Yes, get out of there Danny!" Paulina shouts. Many others shouted out similar comments to the screen, forgetting this had already happened for a moment.
Cut to Sam, Poindexter, and Tucker walking down a hallway. Tucker is now carrying the frogs.
Poindexter: Ooh, ooh! Spiff diddly dee, man. So this is what it's like to have friends.
"Uh what?" "Do you know what he said?" "What does spiff diddly dee mean?" Questions flew through the crowd.
Sam: You sure you're alright, Danny?
Tucker: Danny?
"Okay, how did you not realize it wasn't me? He didn't respond to my name." Danny looks to Sam and Tucker.
"We thought something was strange about you, but we couldn't figure out what exactly was wrong." Sam said.
Poindexter: Oh, me? Yeah, right. I'm right like Ike, Mike.
Sam: Why does your voice sound so weird?
Poindexter: Uh...puberty?
Tucker: What happened to Poindexter?
Poindexter: Oh, that square? (They stop walking.) He flew the coop. Permanent-like.
Poindexter continues walking as Sam and Tucker stay behind, staring suspiciously at him. Cut to Dash hitting a vending machine.
Dash: Come on! Give me my soda!
Poindexter: Hey, let me help you out there, pal.
Poindexter phases an intangible hand through the side of the vending machine as Sam and Tucker walk up. He fumbles around until the machine clicks and dispenses a soda. Dash takes it and drinks it.
"Poindexter!" Danny reprimanded Sidney.
"What?" Sidney said defensively. "I thought he was a victim of bullying, not the bully."
Dash: (Crushing the can.) Thanks, Fenton.
Poindexter: Eh, no problemo.
Dash: What, are you going through puberty? (Sam and Tucker share a questioning look.) Uh, you know, I'm a little tight on quarters. Think you can get a few more sodas for me and my pals?
Poindexter: Hehe, you betcha. (Winks and phases a hand into the machine again to dispense more sodas.)
Sam: Danny, that's stealing.
Poindexter: (Gathering the sodas in his arms.) Eh, I'm sure that poor kid lost more than his fair share of quarters to the vicious bullies in this school. It's time somebody evened the score. (Passing out sodas to Dash and his friends.) Hey, everybody! Egg creams on me.
Kwan: I don't know what the heck an egg cream is, but thanks!
"Still not sure what an egg cream is." Kwan reiterated.
"I'm pretty sure it's just another word for soda." Tucker said, overhearing Kwan.
Sam: Well, this is new.
Fade to Danny walking up to locker 724 in the Ghost Zone Casper High.
Danny: This is how I came in. (Opens locker.) There's got to be a way back!
Danny touches the mirror inside. Cut to the present-day locker 724, which glows green and flies open. Danny looks through the mirror to see what's happening.
Danny: (In the mirror) Huh?
He sees Poindexter (in Danny's body) continuing to pass out sodas to a bunch of students. Danny then notices Dash.
Dash: (Toasting his soda.) Here's to Fenton! (The students cheer and raise their sodas.)
"Again, I wasn't even there for my fifteen minutes of fame." Danny whispered to Sam and Tucker.
"Well," Tucker said. "At least you get to see it now."
Danny: What the heck?! (Sam and Tucker walk by the locker.) Tucker! Sam! It's me, Danny!
Kwan: (Comes up to Poindexter.) Hey, Fentonmeister! We're short one for touch football. Are you in?
Poindexter: Posi-lutely abs-itively.
Kwan: Posi-lutely? (Laughs.) When did you get a sense of humor?
Dash, Kwan, and the other students lead Poindexter away as they continue to cheer. Poindexter suddenly notices that locker 724 is open and rushes ahead to close it quickly. On his side of the mirror, Danny is thrown back from the force across the hallway. A jock comes up to him.
Danny chuckles, "A little nervous there Poindexter?"
Poindexter huffs and crosses his arms.
'50s Jock #2: Hey, Poindexter. What's black and blue and can't touch the floor? Hehe.
Danny: I...give up.
'50s Jock #2: (Picks Danny up off the floor.) You! Ha!
Danny braces for impact before he gets punched.
"Oh, that's gotta hurt." The crowd winces.
Fade to the present-day Casper High football field, where two groups of students are huddled up separately, one of which includes Poindexter and the jocks.
Dash: Okay, Fenton. After the snap, I'll hand the ball off to you. (Poindexter salutes and runs off, laughing crazily.) (To the rest of the group:) Leave him wide open for punishment.
"Guess I wasn't all that popular after all." Danny rolls his eyes.
The group breaks its huddle and lines up for the snap. Cut to Casper High in the Ghost Zone, where Danny is hanging by his shirt from a ceiling fan, struggling to get down. His shirt finally rips and he falls to the floor, then runs over to open locker 724. He puts his hands on the mirror inside.
Danny: Have to contact them somehow.
A nerd in the back couldn't help but laugh. "Contact from the other side."
He emits a green energy that transfers through the mirror and into the present-day version of the locker. The energy then travels as a ray down the hallway and outside to the football field, where it begins to carve a message into the turf at Sam and Tucker's feet.
"So that's what it did, cool." Danny said.
Sam thinks, "To bad we didn't notice it. I don't remember seeing anything."
Meanwhile, the two groups of students are lined up for the football snap. Dale snaps the ball to Dash, who winks at him and Kwan as a signal for them to give Poindexter space. Dash then hands the ball to a confused Poindexter. Sam and Tucker wince in anticipation of the impending tackle.
Sam: Well, it was nice knowing him.
Tucker: Think I can have his computer?
"No, you cannot have my computer." Danny frowns at his friend.
"Worth a try." Tucker responded.
The green energy finishes writing the message in the turf, which reads, "TUCKER, SAM, OPEN LOCKER 724." Meanwhile, the opposing team tries to tackle Poindexter, but he goes intangible and phases out of the pile of players to run the ball in for a touchdown. Dash and his friends look astonished.
Dash: Fenton's got game! Who knew?
Poindexter does a little touchdown dance of celebration. Sam and Tucker look happy and relieved he didn't get hurt, and look down at the ground at their feet. However, before they have a chance to see Danny's message to them, Jack and Maddie run up, wiping out the message with their feet.
"Mom! Dad!" Danny groans. So close.
"Sorry sweety."
Jack: There's a ghost in here. I can feel it in my boots! And I'm not leaving this campus (Holds up Ghost Gauntlets.) 'til these gloves grab some ghost.
"Haha, no wonder you could feel it in your boots dad. You were standing on my message."
Jack smiles at his son, "I knew my senses weren't leading me astray."
The Fenton Finder that Maddie is holding begins to beep, and she turns it towards the source: Poindexter in Danny's body. The Fenton Finder reads, "GHOST!" and shows Danny's image.
Maddie: A ghost? That can't be right. Hmm. Looks like we'll be staking out the school all night. Don't wait up.
"I wonder what would have happened if she had believed it." Sam pondered, "Would you have returned to your body if she had somehow extracted Poindexter, or would you have still been stuck in the Ghost Zones version of Casper High leaving your body as a shell in the real world?"
Danny shivered at the thought, "I have no clue Sam, and I'm glad we didn't have to find out."
Jack: In that case, I need to use the little ghost hunters' room. (Hands Tucker the gauntlets.) Hold these gloves, son. Where I'm going, there's no need for that much power. (He and Maddie run off.)
Dash: Party at Fenton's house! (Students cheer.)
Poindexter: Hot dog! Where does he live!
Kwan: It's your house, bonehead. Is he hilarious or what?
"Huh, he was being serious when he asked that." Kwan realized.
Sam: Free soda, a touchdown, and the opportunity to trash a classmate's living room. How easily the letter jacket and pom-pom set is swayed.
Tucker: I don't know. Danny seems a little...off.
Danny threw his hands in the air, "Thank you Tucker."
Sam: (Looks at the "Save the Frogs!" badge on her shirt.) Although, the residual popularity effect could work to our advantage. (Runs over to Kwan, waving the badge.) Oh, Kwan! You simply must wear one of these "Save the Frogs!" badges. It's all the rage.
Danny rolled his eyes, "You mean your advantage Sam."
Sam just looked pleased with herself.
Kwan: I don't know...
Poindexter: (Taking the badge.) Hey! Boss badge. Can I have one?
He puts the badge on his shirt. The other popular kids begin to crowd around him.
Dash: Hey, I want one!
Paulina: Me, too. I can wear it with my old army lime green baby tee!
Kwan: (To Sam) Give me one, yo! I started this trend.
Sam: Hang on, folks. (Her and Tucker begin to run away.) Plenty more in my locker where that one came from.
Cut to locker 724, glowing green. Just as Sam and Tucker walk by, the locker door flies open, scaring them both.
"Thanks for giving us a heart attack Danny." Tucker said.
"No problem." Danny responded teasingly.
Danny: (From inside the mirror) Sam! Tucker! In here!
Sam: Poindexter?
Danny: No! It's me, Danny! Poindexter took over my body and sent me into this bizarro spirit world.
Sam and Tucker share a disbelieving look. They both cross their arms.
Sam: Prove it.
Danny: In second grade, Tucker threw up in your lunch box, but he told you Ricky Marsh did it.
Tucker waves his hands to stop Danny as Sam gasps.
Sam: What? I kicked him off the monkey bars for that! (Points at Tucker, who smiles guiltily.) It was you?
"I still haven't gotten you back for that yet." Sam glared at Tucker.
"I'm gonna get you back for that as well Foley!" Ricky Marsh called out from the crowd.
Tucker continues to smile guiltily along with his past self.
Tucker and Sam stop in realization and look back in the mirror.
Sam and Tucker: Danny?
Danny: (Trying to get through the mirror.) The mirror acts as some kind of portal, but I can't phase through it. (Sighs in defeat.) Serves me right. I'm only in here because I was acting like a bully. Now I'm in here and I'm gonna get bullied for the rest of eternity!
"Didn't realize how true that statement was." Danny mumbled to his friends and himself, thinking about what Poindexter had said early about being cursed to be bullied for the rest of his after-life.
Sam: You might not be able to get out, but that doesn't mean Poindexter can't get back in.
That got the audiences mind working.
Tucker: I doubt he's in a big hurry to go back where he came from.
Danny: (Thinks and gets an idea.) I know how to get him in here. Here's what you need to do.
Fade to Sam running and pulling Poindexter by the arm down the hallway.
Sam: Danny! Come quick! A bully is shoving a poor, defenseless nerd inside his own locker.
Cut to Tucker standing indifferently with his hands behind his back in front of an open locker 724. Sam stops running and Poindexter skids to halt.
Poindexter: Tucker! I'll save you! (Goes ghost.)
"Why do you assume it's me getting shoved in a locker?" Tucker asks, looking over at Poindexter.
"I don't know, I just did." Poindexter throws his hands in the air.
Tucker thinks for a moment before smiling at Poindexter, "Well it's good to know that you would have had my back."
Poindexter: Hey, there's no nerd getting shoved inside his locker.
Tucker casually walks forward, then produces the Ghost Gauntlets from behind his back. Poindexter screams, and Tucker grabs him with the gauntlets.
Tucker: There is now.
"Sorry Poindexter, but we wanted our friend back."
"No hard feelings Tuck. Can I call you that?"
"Sure buddy."
Poindexter floated there, slightly shocked. He had a buddy.
Poindexter: Noooooo!
As Poindexter yells, Tucker shoves him into the locker and through the mirror to a waiting Danny, who pulls him out on his side of the mirror into the hallway on the floor.
Danny: You've had your fun. Now I want my body and my life back.
Poindexter: (Stands up.) Forget you, bully! You're not going anywhere.
Poindexter flies at Danny, but is shaky and ends up hitting him with his backside.
"Well," Tetslaff said questioningly. "That's one way to hit someone."
Danny crashes into a wall, and Poindexter flies at him again, this time more confident and stable.
Poindexter: Haha! (Turns intangible.) I'm doing it!
Danny narrowly dodges the attack, and Poindexter phases through the wall.
Danny: You may have my powers, but you sure don't know how to use them. 'Course, I don't know how to use them, but at least I know how not to use them better than you do.
Poindexter phases back out of the wall and tries to hit Danny mid-air, which Danny dodges.
Danny: You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses. (Ducks as Poindexter tries to hit him.) You couldn't hit a guy with glasses. (Ducks another hit.) In fact, you couldn't hit the broad side of a barn!
Poindexter: (Frustrated) Hold still.
The school bell rings, and students come out of classrooms and crowd around Danny and Poindexter.
Students: (Chanting) Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight! Fight!
Poindexter tries to hit Danny as he continues to duck, then tries to hit him again, the momentum of the swing making him spin.
Dash leans over to Kwan, "This is just sad."
Kwan nods his head, "Yeah."
'50s Jock #3: Hey! Get a load of Poindexter. He's fighting the halfa!
Greaser: Hehe! Look at him stand up to that weird-haired ghost boy.
Danny: I'm not a bully!
"And my hair isn't weird!" Danny shouts at the screen as he pats down his hair, momentarily forgetting that the guy could actually hear him.
Poindexter takes the opportunity of distraction to punch Danny into locker 724, the door closing on him.
Poindexter: Now, if you don't mind, I'm gonna live it up some more in your body.
The locker opens and Danny steps out, holding the mirror above his head.
Poindexter: What?!
Danny: One false move, and I smash your door back to my world.
Poindexter: You wouldn't. You'd strand us both here.
Danny: (Lowers mirror.) Try me.
"Okay if the locker is the actual portal than why were you freaking out?" Danny asks.
"Back then I thought the mirror was the portal. It wasn't until after that I realized it wasn't just the mirror, but the locker itself."
Poindexter reaches for the mirror, and Danny pulls it back.
Poindexter: I've got a better idea. I can make you. With your powers, I can make you do anything.
Poindexter turns intangible and phases into Danny, who drops the mirror and glows green.
Danny: That's what I was hoping you'd do.
His face once again distorts into weird positions, and he falls on the floor. Danny, now back in his own body, phases out of Poindexter and flies into the air.
Poindexter: (In his own body) Huh? No!
"Never so relieved to be back in my own body."
Danny flies into the mirror. Poindexter picks it up, yelling at it.
Poindexter: I'll get out of here, buster brown! And when I do, you better watch it!
A group of students walks up behind him.
'50s Jock #3: Hey, nerd! Nice job standing up to the halfa.
Greaser: Who'd have thought you had it in you?
Poodle skirt girl: You wanna grab an egg cream?
Poindexter smiles and puts the mirror back in his locker.
Poindexter: Of course, I could hang here (Closes locker.) for a little bit. (To students) Hey, the heck with the egg cream. Who's up for a diet soda? Whatever that is!
Sidney sighs, "If only that had lasted."
Valerie heard him, "How long did it last?"
"Only two days."
"Sorry man." Then she realized what she had just said. She had apologized to a ghost! No one else noticed Valeries inner turmoil however.
Cut to Mr. Lancer carrying a box of frogs in the present-day Casper High. Right as he passes locker 724, Danny falls out of it (back in his human form), knocking them both to the ground. The frogs begin to hop away out of the dropped box. Mr. Lancer runs after them, passing Sam and Tucker leaning on some lockers.
Mr. Lancer: No! Come back!
Sam: (Sarcastically) Oh, dear. Whatever will we do? (Danny walks up to them, looking down.) Good one, Danny.
Tucker: Yeah. But how do we know you're really Danny?
Danny: Because I used my powers for the wrong reason and became exactly the kind of person I hate. It got me into a load of trouble, and I'm not gonna do that again.
Sam: Now that's the Danny I remember.
Danny: (Takes mirror out of locker.) Just one more thing to do. Danny throws the mirror on the ground, shattering it.
Mr. Lancer: (Off-screen) Fenton! (The trio turns to look at him.) That's school property. Cut to Mr. Lancer wearing a "Save the Frogs!" badge standing in front of a crowd of students also wearing badges and holding signs for the frog campaign.
Danny: I can explain! (Hesitates.) Actually, I really can't.
Mr. Lancer along with many other adults feel pity for Danny. He couldn't explain without giving away that he was a ghost, so he took the fallout instead. Again Mr. Lancer question just how many times this has happened. How many times had he gotten in trouble for something just because he couldn't explain?
Mr. Lancer: I'm holding you responsible for this and the escaped frogs, but seeing how (Looks at Dash.)upstanding students like Dash Baxter have made their opinions known, I'm willing to overlook the frogs. Miss Manson, you could learn a thing or two from them about activism. (Sam frowns.)
Sam crossed her arms, "I'm the one who started it."
Mr. Lancer regrets his past actions and words once more.
Mr. Lancer: Still, (Holds up a pencil and notebook.) that leaves the matter of your locker. I'm going to have to assign you a new one.
Fade to a "Band Room" sign over a door, which Danny's new locker is next to. Danny closes his locker as the tuba player from earlier walks by. Dash and Kwan then walk up behind him.
Kwan: Hanging with band geeks, Fenton?
Dash: No amount of free soda's gonna fix that.
Dash and Kwan are both slightly regretting their words as well when they think of how cool it had been when the band geeks started playing the theme song. Maybe they weren't so bad.
They walk away, and two band kids, one of which is named Lyle, walk up to Danny.
Lyle: Hi. I'm Lyle. Wanna help me clean my spit valve? (Holds up his instrument.)
Danny: (Sighs.) My fifteen minutes of popularity is up, and I wasn't even here for it.
Sam stands next to him, holding a mechanical frog.
Sam: Yeah, but at least it wasn't a total loss. (Looks at frog.) Looks like this baby's gonna get some use after all.
"Yes, but after checking them out they still need a little work before they can be used." Principal Ishiyama says.
Suddenly, the Box Ghost swoops in and takes the frog out of Sam's hands, flying above them.
Box Ghost: Aha! I am no longer the Box Ghost. I am now the mechanical frog ghost!
"Can you change obsessions?" Mikey wondered out loud.
"No." Danny responded, "But that doesn't mean none have tried."
The frog crackles with electricity and the Box Ghost drops it onto Tucker's head out of fear.
The crowd laughs. That is the second time a mechanical frog has fallen on Tucker's head.
Box Ghost: Uh, I've changed my mind! I am once again the Box Ghost, who will have nothing to do with mechanical amphibians. (Raises arms.) Beware! (Phases through lockers.)
Danny: Now there's a guy who knows exactly who he is.
The frog on Tucker's head croaks and the screen closes in on it. End
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