It was mid-afternoon in Amity Park, and a certain malicious spirit was hovering over the city. After managing to escape from the ghost zone, Ember was contemplating her next attempt at world domination through the power of music. But she knew that if any of her plans were to work, she would have to deal with the halfa known as Danny Phantom.

To this end, she had gotten her guitar upgraded by Technus during her last hiatus in the ghost zone. There were now two more settings on her pink and purple guitar; a symbol of two hands wide open that would force the target to reveal information to Ember and a symbol of a person collapsing to the ground that would drain ectoplasm from ghosts (or humans with ghost powers). Also, the guitar's durability was increased, making it harder to break and a more effective melee weapon.

So far Ember's plan was to find the goth girl who ruined her first attempt at a new world order, corner her when she was alone and use the new truth revealing power on her guitar to find out anything on the ghost kid that could be used to her advantage. Ember then spotted her target on the streets of the city and followed her; careful to avoid being seen by her quarry and any of the humans below.

Ember followed the girl for hours. Ember's target was spending the afternoon hanging out with her two best friends: a spectacled techno geek in a red beret and a seemingly normal boy with a mess of black hair, who Ember recognized as the halfa's human identity. It wasn't easy, but Ember managed to keep herself from attacking so that she could follow the girl and wait for the right opportunity to strike.

Eventually Ember followed the girl to her house. Ember felt that the perfect time to squeeze info about the halfa would be after the goth decided to go to bed: that way nobody would be bothering them for a couple hours.

Sam Manson entered her bedroom at around 8 p.m. after a day if hanging out with her two best friends and having dinner with her parents. she was planning to do her homework and surf the internet until it was time for her to go to bed. While she was thinking all this, she was unaware of the spiteful spirit who had been observing her all afternoon.

At around 11 p.m., Sam had changed into a silk black night gown and said good night to her parents when Ember floated down from the ceiling into the bedroom and blasted her with the new truth-telling power of her guitar.

"all right goth girl, first thing's first: what is your name?", asked Ember.

"Sam Manson", replied Sam.

"First, lets sit down," said Ember. Sam and Ember both sat down on Sam's bed. "OK Sammy, now tell me what you know about the ghost kid."

So Sam told Ember about Danny. She talked about the portal accident that gave him his powers (along with the story about the Desiree incident where it was revealed that Sam was indirectly responsible for giving Danny his powers). She also gave a brief summary of his ghost battling activities up to that point, and opinions on who she considered to be Danny's greatest threat.

After about 90 minuets, Ember got the impression that The goth girl had feelings for the ghost boy. "You really like him, don't you?" Ember asked.

"Yes," Sam answered.

"I meant as more than just a friend," Ember clarified.

"I know," Sam replied. "But he doesn't even see me like that. There are other girls who get that attention from him. Like this bubbly latina who annoys the crap out of me, or the hunter that wants to kill him."

Ember blinked in astonishment. "OK, your gonna have to explain that to me," she said.

And Sam told Ember what she knew about Valerie. About how the belligerent african-american girl who acquired ghost hunting weapons blamed Danny's ghost half for ruining her life, but came to have feelings for his human half.

Ember had heard rumors in the ghost zone about a female hunter in a red suit who went around blasting ghosts on some sort of hoverboard-like object. But based on the stories she had heard, most of this hunter's exploits consisted of trying to destroy everyone's least favorite halfa and bullying around the box ghost, and everyone did that.

"Fascinating. Tell me, what would happen if this Valerie found out Danny's secret?" Ember asked.

"Well, Tucker said it best that if she found out she would shoot first and ask questions never," said Sam.

"Really?" replied Ember with a devilish grin. The outlines of a plan were forming within the mind of the undead rocker. "all right Sam. You are going to go to sleep now and when you wake up, you won't remember any of what you have told me."

"all right," said Sam, and then she fell onto her pillow and drifted into unconsciousness.

Ember opened a window, threw her guitar out, then jumped on it and flew of into the night. She then looked back at Sam's house. "You've been very helpful to me Sammy," Ember thought to herself. "When I take over the world, I'll make it up to you,"