(Open POV)
Ghost Zone…
It is littered with purple doors and ectoplasm and ghosts floating everywhere.
Specter Speeder…
Sam, Tucker, and Jared are inside watching Klemper tackle Danny to the ground below the Speeder. Danny is straining under the weight of the ghost's hand in his hand. He opens his eyes.
"Get off me, Klemper!" Danny said, angrily.
Klemper has his shaking in Danny's.
"But I just want to be your…" Klemper said, smiling gleefully. "…friend!"
Klemper is holding Danny's torso, as Danny turns to face Sam, Tucker, and Jared inside the Specter Speeder.
"Will someone please remind me…" Danny said, while Klemper pulls him into a hug. "Why…" Sam is holding her hair back so she can admire her earphone, which Danny's voice is coming out of. "This was a good idea?"
Sam lowers her hand.
"Hey, you're the one who wanted to…" Sam said, raising a palm. "…map out the Ghost Zone."
"And you're the one that wanted to send the map of the Ghost Zone to Uiharu and to Yui." Jared said, drinking some Mountain Dew.
Sam lowers her hand and looks over at Tucker and Jared. Tucker is talking into his PDA wearing green earphones and Jared lets out a sigh.
"You and Jared are also the only ones that don't have to…" Tucker said, putting a finger on his green earphone and looking at it. "…wear these stupid Fenton Phones."
Tucker presses a button and an image of a green disc rotating flashes on-screen. Music begins to play. Sam has the music coming out of her earphones covered by hair. She looks bothered and puts her hand to it. Jared rolled his eyes, knowing the significance of this song.
"Ember... you will remember…" The music said, throughout the Specter Speeder.
Tucker is looking at his PDA happily.
"Good thing they also work as wireless earphones, because these things…" Tucker said, looking at them with scorn. "…are a fashion…" He puts his hand on his earphone. "'Don't'."
"They don't look as good as the Augma or the AmuSphere." Jared said, looking over at the Fenton Phones. "Those are fashionable. These, not so much."
Danny is talking behind Klemper.
"They're not supposed to look good." Dany said, and his voice was strained while Klemper hugged him tightly. Danny has his hands pushing Klemper's head and his feet are wiggling wildly. "They're supposed to filter out spectral noise so…" He places feet on Klemper's chest trying to pull his hand away. Klemper, concerned, doesn't want to let go. "…we can communicate." Danny is flung backwards as he lands on his back with Klemper on top of him. Danny tries to push him up. "Like when I say things like…" He shouts as Klemper wiggles his tiny legs. "…HELP GET THIS THING OFF ME!"
On the side mirror of the Specter Speeder, Sam is looking into it, pulling back her hair to admire her earphones as Jared is still drinking his soda.
"They're not stupid." Sam said, with one hand on the driving control while looking in the mirror. "I think they make great techno-goth earrings."
Danny has his arms vibrating under Klemper's weight. Klemper's hand is on his head.
"Really?" Danny asked, smiling. "Hey, maybe I should give a pair to Paulina."
Klemper shoves a hand over Danny's mouth, silencing him. Sam has both her hands on the driving control, Tucker has his hand in the air and the other on his earphone, and Jared is drinking his Mountain Dew. Sam looks back shrugging, Tucker dances in his seat, and Jared did a face palm.
"Yes, Danny." Sam said, raising a hand. "That's what I'm saying." She crosses her arms, disappointed. "Give a pair to Paulina."
Klemper is holding Danny nice and tightly while Danny has both his hands and feet on Klemper's head, attempting to pry himself off. Danny finally stretches all his limbs and breaks free. Klemper looks shocked when Danny turns to him angrily. Danny flies off. Klemper turns and follows, also angry.
Danny's hand and ghost tail is on a green action background. Klemper claps his hand on Danny's tail. Danny's eyes widened. He screams as he is pulled away.
Ghost Zone…
Klemper is pulling a wide-eyed and shocked Danny on screen. Klemper lets go when Danny turns to him. He takes a breath and opens his mouth to shoot out blue mist.
Danny has his arms out, frightened. The mist forms into a cloud on Danny and spreads into an ice block with a Danny shape inside it. Two energy hot spots form where Danny's hands are. They increase in intensity, causing the ice to crack. Danny stretches out with his green ghost rays still firing when all the ice breaks off. He opens his eyes with an angry expression and raises his glowing green hands.
Among the doors Klemper's floating near includes a refrigerator door with some magnets and papers on it, and he looked over at the door. Danny looked at Klemper as green blobs drift past nearby the purple doors. Danny rushes off. Klemper turns around, confused. He flies off after Danny.
Danny's hands are reaching the refrigerator door. Danny gets closer to the door and flies into the room before latching his hands on the handle, with both his legs on the door while looking back.
Danny opens the door, revealing several snow-covered mountains and a dark, cloudy and overcast sky inside. It's snowing. On the inside of the door are several purple bottles of questionable materials.
Danny is holding the refrigerator door open. The snowy tundra is inside and the door holds the purple bottles. Klemper flies in head-first. Danny turns his head as Klemper passes. He then slams the door shut with both hands.
Snow floor…
It is snowing and Klemper lands on his hands and knees. He looks up, confused at the full expanse of empty snow-covered mountains and a dark overcast sky while it snows heavily.
Klemper is looking up at a penguin standing in front of him. He looks at the penguin and smiles and leans to the penguin.
"Will you be my friend?" Klemper asked, frowning as the penguin squawks and turns around, walking away.
Ghost Zone…
Danny is looking at the closed refrigerator door. He lets out a green ghost ray and fries the handle so it disappears, turning away from it as his hand smolders green a little. He flies up and off.
Specter Speeder…
Sam is irked with both hands on the driving control, Jared is looking down at the floor, while Tucker is pumping both his hands, moving them in his seat.
"Ember!" Tucker yelled, singing off-key while the music plays and he points his fingers. "So warm and…" He puts out his palms. "…tender!"
Danny phases intangibly through the bottom of the seat, resuming color and changing back to Danny Fenton. Danny looks confused as Sam leans toward Tucker. He blows on his hands and rubs his palms together.
Danny begins to shiver a little, then looks to his right as he continues to rub his palms, "Can a ghost get frostbite?"
"I know an immortal can't." Jared said, looking between Danny and Sam. "Sam, warm Danny up."
Sam lifts her hands.
"Oh, here." Sam said, wrapping her hands around Danny's. "My hands are warm."
Jared looked down at Danny and Sam's hand bundle. Danny and Sam are looking at the hand bundle like there's something significant about it. Danny hunches over uneasily as Sam leans toward him. Both of them look away from each other and blush. They look toward each other and give weak smiles.
Tucker is pointing his hand and waving them while raving.
"Ember! Go Ember!" Tucker said, singing off-key.
Tucker chants those lines throughout. Danny, Sam, and Jared are creeped-out. They look down uneasily.
"Uh…" Jared said, sadly. "I don't want to expose the ghosts here to Tucker's singing."
Sam and Danny release their hands suddenly, with Danny narrowing his eyes in a weak smile.
"Same." Danny said, holding up his hands. "I think I'm gonna need my hands…" He puts his hands on his ears. "…for this."
The Specter Speeder is floating in the Ghost Zone. Sam is driving, Danny and Jared are covering their ears, and Tucker is still pumping his arms and chanting. Tucker mutes as the music plays once more and the Speeder is turned around. The three boosters on the back glow, panning right as the Speeder blasts off back through the portal.
Ghost Zone…
"You will remember my name…" The music said, throughout the Ghost Zone.
When the music stops and the Speeder is gone, two Victorian-age ghostly gentlemen pop up. The right one speaks.
"What on Earth is that ghostly wail?" A ghostly gentleman asked.
(Jared's POV)
Casper High…
Music is playing throughout the school. The bell rings.
"Ooooh Ember... you will remember…" The music said, throughout the school.
Tucker is playing Remember on his PDA. He appears to be wearing a black T-shirt and a gray wristband. Tucker is walking dreamily, with a black T-shirt with a blue flame reading 'EMBER' in purple letters and a purple beret with an 'e' inside a blue flame.
I looked over at Danny, Tucker and Sam. Danny is holding his backpack strap and putting out a palm, I am listening to the Puella Magi Madoka Magica soundtrack, and Sam is holding a book in front of her with both hands, looking scornful.
"I don't get it!" Danny said, looking at Tucker's shirt. "This Ember McLain comes outta nowhere …" He looked over at Tucker. "…and suddenly she's the biggest thing since MP3s!" Danny arches his eyebrows. "It's so…"
Sam interrupts Danny. Danny looks disappointed.
"Infuriating how mindless…" Sam said, talking matter-of-factly. "…pre-packaged corporate bubble gum is preventing true musical artists from being heard?"
"And it's preventing true music artists like Zwei Wing from being heard." I said, rolling my eyes.
I then looked between Danny, Tucker, and Sam, with my AirPods in my ears.
"I was gonna say 'weird', but, uh…" Danny said, shrugging and smiling. "…okay."
"Ember's not just about music. And Zwei Wing is just music." Tucker said, looking at a hallway spattered in purple Ember posters. The four of us walk in from around the corner. "She's an expression of my…" The four of us stop, and Danny, Sam, and I look wide-eyed in shock. "…unique individuality."
"Unique individuality." I said, looking at an entire hallway of kids wearing various pieces of Ember-related apparel and admiring them, along with more posters on the walls and lockers. Various students wearing Ember apparel, including Valerie, Dash and Kwan. "Ha! That's unique individuality to a T. When everyone is bandwagoning."
I then spotted a disappointed Sam.
"Oh yeah, Jared's right…" Sam said, looking to the left, before speaking sarcastically. "...you're one of a kind!"
I began laughing while staring at Danny, Sam, and Tucker. Danny looks at Sam, pleased. Sam puts a hand on her hip.
"Every single one of you!" Sam said, sarcastically.
Paulina is in black Ember apparel from behind, looking annoyed. Everyone looks at her, Danny with a smile and Sam with a nasty look.
Sam has the Fenton Phones sticking out. They sparkle. Teens pass by Paulina as she arches her eyebrow.
"Nice earrings." Paulina said, smiling nastily and puts out a finger. "Sale at the 89 cent store?"
Danny is still smiling.
"For your information, Paulina." Sam said, stepping up next to Danny with a smug smile. "…they're a gift." She motions to Danny, who pops and looks absolutely scared. "Danny gave them to me."
Sam puts a hand on her hip while Danny sweats with a weak smile.
"Really?" Paulina asked, pointing at Sam. "He gave you earrings?" Paulina is pointing to a smug Sam and a helpless Danny, causing the popular girl to scoff. "I always knew you two…" She turns away from them, making both widen their eyes and open their mouths in shock. "…losers would end up together."
Paulina walks away, Danny is looking upset, Sam is looking boiling mad, and I let out a sigh.
Sam is leaning forward, "We're not losers!"
Danny is holding out his palms, "We're not together."
Tucker is pumping his arms and chanting. Danny is surprised, Sam is just miffed, and I looked down at the floor. The music plays in the background.
"Ember! Go Ember!" Tucker cheered. "Ember!" He shuffles to the side. "Remember!" Tucker slides back. "Ember!" He slides back to the side. "Go Ember!"
Tucker cringes and stops as Danny, Sam, and I crowd our heads in on him to scold him.
"Will you keep it down?!" Danny and Sam exclaimed, at the same time.
"Hey, check it out!" Dash said, leaning to Kwan and points a thumb away from him. "The lovebirds are ganging up on…" He jabs Tucker. "Foley!"
Danny is miffed and Sam jumps up towards Dash.
"We're not lovebirds!" Danny and Sam said, at the same time.
Danny and Sam exchange looks, then look forward in shock, then arch their eyebrows in unison.
(Open POV)
Classroom…
The door closes and a bell rings.
"As you know, the Northwestern Nine…" Lancer said, in front of a blackboard reading 'LEARNING IS HIP!'. "Standardized testing starts in two days…" He smiles and puts out a palm. "…and because my bonus is proportional to your grades…" Lancer looks to the right. "…we have installed the…" He looks at a complicated rectangular prism device with a TV antenna over it along with lights, switches, buttons and dials. "CramTastic Mark Five."
Every student is wearing a helmet with four prongs with a keyboard and three computer screens on every desk. The screens are blinking 'STAND BY' in green letters.
"The latest in state-of-the-art…" Lancer said, looking at a blond, bespectacled boy looking into the screens. He turns around and looks about warily and confused. "…subliminal study-aid technology." He is by the machine holding up a finger. "Let the learning…" Lancer leans over to press a red button on the device. "…begin!"
The screens are reading 'STAND BY'. They fizzle with static and show Ember with her hair in flames holding a purple and blue guitar and a microphone.
"Eeeember!" Ember yelled, holding the microphone up higher. "So warm and teeennder!" The image of her face fills the CramTastic screens. "You will…" She looks forward with her green eyes. "…remember my name! Yeah!"
The song continues in the background. The front of the class has everyone cheering. Danny and Sam are holding their helmets, shocked. Danny holds his helmet off his head while Sam moves it away.
Lancer is stunned and he angrily turns to the device and points at another button. The button is by his finger. It's a red one that reads 'ON/OFF'. He presses it, illuminating the 'OFF'.
The same blond boy from behind is cheering with the Ember images on his screens. Everyone stops in their tracks as soon as the image flicks off.
The disc drive ejects, revealing a blue disc that reads 'LIVE! Ember'. Lancer removes it from the drive not even bothering to hold it by the edges properly.
Lancer is miffed and holds the disc. He holds it up, gritting his teeth. Then he looks confused as a drum solo starts to play in the background, shifting his eyes.
Everyone in the CramTastic, including Tucker in Ember apparel. Tucker shifts his head.
Lancer is thrusting out the disc.
"Foley!" Lancer said, retracting the disc. "Turn off that blasted…" He throws the disc. "PDA!"
Tucker is holding his PDA. He drops it when the disc flies toward him and ricochets off his monitors.
"It's not me!" Tucker said, protesting and turning to the right pointing with a thumb. Someone takes their helmet off. "It's coming from outside!"
At a row of open windows with a yellow sky, everyone rushes up to them as the drum beat continues.
(Jared's POV)
Outside Casper High…
A truck with a sound-stage on it drives up in front of it, with large amps and a black banner reading 'EMBER' in purple letters. It stops with a skid.
At the banner, the amps blare with the drum solo. A riff is heard and with a flash of light, the stage fills with billowing purple smoke.
A part of the purple cloud dissipates, revealing a pair of gray boots with skull designs on them on a pair of skinny legs in tight black pants. Top half of Ember in person is holding her guitar with her bare hand and her strap and holding up her hand with the black gauntlet on it in a fist. Her hair is flaming.
Another part of the stage has another flash of light and cloud of purple smoke, a blue-skinned drum player is playing purple drums with the word 'EMBER' on it. He is wearing a red collared shirt that's frayed at the sleeves, bracelets, a backwards baseball cap, sunglasses without legs and has a horrible bite radius.
Ember has the drum player in back. Two more purple clouds go off and reveal two other backup members, one a guy with long purple hair under a bandanna with a frayed white-and-red shirt, a red skirt, jeans and giant shoes playing a purple axe. The second one has an earring, a green Mohawk, a black belly shirt with shorts and tall boots, and is playing a green guitar in the shape of a skull.
The foot of the drum player is thumping the pedal.
The guy in the green Mohawk is strumming his skull guitar.
Ember is holding up a hand. She leans into the shot, strumming her guitar to reveal the green Mohawk guy.
"Yea-ah!" Ember said, singing.
The other backup player is playing his purple axe. He leans the neck forward, playing it.
There is an overhead shot of the whole band. Ember stands up straighter.
"Oh-oh-ah…" Ember said, singing. "…Oh-oh!"
There is an aerial shot of the band playing in front of Casper High. Cheering is heard as students pour into a crowd from three different sides of the building.
I am looking at the entire crowd of cheering teens. Ember and her band are in front of the cheering teens in the foreground.
"Hell-o Casper…" Ember said, pumping her hand. "…High!" She puts down her hand on the neck of her guitar and leans into her microphone. "Tell me who you love!"
The crowd of teens are chanting and pumping their hands up and down, "Ember! Ember!"
Ember opens her hands as her hair begins to surge into more intense flame as I look at the fire, then at Ember.
"Ember…" I said, my eyes glowing blue.
"That's it, babies! Say my name!" Ember said, looking at the crowd. "Are you ready for a little…" She narrows her eyes. "…youth revolution?!"
Danny is confused and Sam is miffed on the stoop. The crowd cheers and rushes forward. Tucker runs from the doorway in between his friends, jumping into the crowd as if into a pool, but the crowd's not there and he falls off with three red stars of painful impact. Danny, Sam, and I look concerned.
"Jared, what's wrong?" Sam asked, looking over at me.
"It feels like I'm being ripped apart." I said, looking at Ember and her band far off with the crowd a sea in front. Tucker is held up by the crowd in a mosh-pit style to watch her. "Inside and out. And she's really pissing me off."
Tucker is in the mosh pit.
"We love you…" Tucker said, holding up both his hands. "Ember!"
Ember has her hand curled into a fist, "That's because I fill a void in your empty lives!"
I looked over at Danny and Sam, Sam is bothered by this, my eyes continued glowing blue, and Danny is unaffected.
"You're right, Ember!" Tucker said, excitedly.
Sam looks at Danny and I in surprise when his ghost sense and my ghost sense goes off.
Danny's eyes shift warily, "Uh-oh."
At a fire hydrant in the middle of the crowd, Lancer puts his hand on it and climbs up onto it. He is towering above the sea of cheering teens, holding a bullhorn and holding up a finger.
"Attention, freakishly dressed teen idol!" Lancer yelled. "I order you to cease…" He puts up an arm. "…and desist!"
"Desist this…" Ember said, looking down at her guitar with her adjusting one of the dials. "…grandpa!"
The dial is on a red musical note. On it are a purple vortex, a blue flame, a pink heart and a green skull. Ember clicks it to the vortex.
Ember is leaning over with her backup band playing behind her. She raises her arm and strums once, a purple vortex of sound coming out from her strings, over the audience. It expands in a wave outwards.
"Crap." I said, looking over at the anticipating students. They close their eyes with bliss as the wave passes over them. They open their eyes, all red and glowing. "This is bad."
I am looking at Lancer from the back. Six kids turn around towards Lancer and look at him with demonic red glares. I looked at two angry teens, then at three more. I then looked over at Lancer.
"Pride and Prejudice!" Mr. Lancer said, terrified.
Ember is with the green Mohawk guy playing in the background. I then looked over at Ember, with my arms crossed.
"Jared, Ember's…" Danny said, mystified. "…the ghost?" Danny is shocked, bending down. "Oh my gosh!"
With a flash of light, a ring forms around Danny and he begins to transform. The rings pass to reveal Danny's black jumpsuit. I looked down at Danny's foot. The ring passes over it to turn it into a white boot. I then looked at one of Danny's arms. The ring passes over it to turn it into a white glove.
Danny Fenton has the ring around him, rotating and zooming into the shot on the stoop as he transforms, ending on a close-up of his face. I looked up at Danny Phantom standing on the stoop.
"I gotta save Lancer!" Danny said, bending down, asides. "Wow, this is bittersweet."
Danny is still bent. He jumps into the air and flies off. I looked over at Lancer on the street with his bullhorn as a crowd of kids walked toward him all zombie-like. Danny flies up into the sky, observing from overhead.
Lancer is confused and scared. He crosses his arms in front of his head to brace himself. Danny flies in to put his hands on Lancer's back, turning the two of them intangible. A small mob of zombie students rush through them. As soon as they are gone, Danny opens his eyes to check behind him, resumes color, and flies off. After Danny is gone, Lancer resumes color as well.
Lancer warily opens his eyes, then puts down his arms to see what's going on. Danny is flying, looking over his shoulder.
"Now to knock the pop princess…" Danny said, turning his head forward. "…off the…"
Danny stops suddenly and sees an empty hole in the street surrounded by students.
"…charts?" Danny asked.
All the students are in a ring around absolutely nothing.
I looked over at four kids. One of them has a hand on his head; the other one has a goofy smile. Yellow sparkles pop as both of them don't remember what happened. The red-head in the letter jacket and the boy in sunglasses with purple hair walk off to reveal Tucker in his Ember apparel, also smiling but confused. He tilts a little until Sam walks up, concerned. Tucker's a little disappointed.
Tucker looks annoyed.
"Hey!" Tucker yelled, looking confused. "No encore?"
I looked over at Sam as Tucker walks up with his hands cupped in desperation.
"What's that…" Tucker said, slumping his shoulders. "…all about?"
"All I know is that she is really pissing me off." I said, crossing my arms. "Music is more of Symphogear's thing. Not hers. And she's really crossing their territory."
(Open POV)
Casper High…
Lancer is walking through the halls sorting through a stack of magazines. Three girls are in the halls by their lockers. Lancer's magazines has one where the first reads 'I ROCK' with the caption 'NEW SMOLDERING SOUND' depicting a picture of Ember holding up the evil fingers. Lancer takes it away.
"Ember…" Mr. Lancer said, while the next magazine reads 'MUSIC NEWS: EMBER!' depicting Ember with her guitar on a background of purple flames. "Ember…" He takes it away. The next magazine says 'HOT: Here's Ember' depicting Ember holding her guitar. "Ember…" Lancer removes this one. The next one shows Ember's face and reads 'CHART: Ember is on FIRE!'. He is looking down at his magazines with narrowed eyes. "If I see one hint of that woman in school today…" Lancer looks up suddenly. "I'll…"
Two kids are wearing extra-large black shirts with Ember's face on them. Three kids are wearing that shirt, plus a boy wearing a white shirt of Ember's boot with blue flames and a girl wearing Ember's one-strap shirt, gauntlet and a black skirt with blue flames. She also has a blue ponytail sticking from her black hair. Ember posters are everywhere.
"Chicken Soup for the Soul!" Mr. Lancer said, worried.
Tucker is smiling and wearing his Ember T-shirt over his yellow shirt. He also has Ember's eyeliner and in place of his beret is a blue flaming thing with a purple 'e' on it. He has his hands behind his back, pleased. Danny and Sam walk up with Jared, holding two identical periwinkle textbooks. They look confused at Tucker's new hair.
"Tucker, you're starting to scare me. And I fight ghosts!" Danny said, worried.
"I thought I saw merchandise with VTubers." Jared said, looking at a defiant Tucker. "But all this. This is too far."
"It's an Ember thing." Tucker said, patting his new wig with his hands. "You wouldn't understand it."
Sam is holding her book in her arms, "Uh, you do realize she's an evil mind-controlling spirit from another dimension?"
Tucker is holding up a finger.
"Yeah…" Tucker said, pointing and smiling at his comeback. "…but you said the same thing about Paulina."
"You even said the same thing about Paulina when you were a dragon." Jared said, as Tucker is pointing at an indifferent Sam with Danny and Jared in the middle. Danny and Jared look back at Sam as Tucker removes his finger. "That wasn't the best school dance."
"You know, they have a point." Danny said, sadly.
Paulina is in an Ember outfit down to the eyeliner and the blue ponytail springing from her head. The quartet looks surprised.
"Hey, everyone!" Paulina said, her fists clenched in excitement. "Ember's giving away free concert tickets at Bucky's Music Megastore!" She suddenly looks at Tucker, pointing with glee. "Nice hair!"
"Thanks." Tucker said, pointing both his fingers at Paulina. "Nice hair!"
A crowd of students are rushing and cheering, most in Ember apparel.
"Ember! Ember! Ember! Ember!" The crowd cheered, chanting throughout the school.
Lancer steps in front of the exit and guards it, spreading his hands.
"You people…" Lancer said, holding up a finger. "…aren't going anywhere except detention!"
The last word comes out strained as the crowd pushes through Lancer out the door.
Row of lockers…
Tucker is straining and perspiring as Danny has both his hands clamped on Tucker's arm and Sam and Jared are helping Danny by holding Danny's waist. Tucker is strained.
"Must- have…" Tucker said, opening his eyes. "Ember…" He smiles. "…tix!"
"We're going to have to deprogram him!" Sam said, angrily.
"Yup…" Jared said, letting out a sigh.
Danny, Sam, and Jared exchange nervous glances as they are pulled in short bursts. Then they look down at themselves. They put their arms behind their backs and whistle.
Classroom…
Tucker has the CramTastic helmet on his head, displacing his wig. Danny is standing next to him. Sam and Jared are tightening a rope around Tucker so he can't escape. Jared looked over at Danny, Sam, and Tucker. Sam and Jared drop the rope. Danny looks a little sorry for Tucker.
Tucker is looking at the CramTastic screen. It fizzles, then blinks thrice showing random charts, graphics and text about nothing important.
Sam has her arms crossed, "This is where the healing starts."
"And it's the opposite effect of the Skasis Paradigm." Jared said, happily. "This isn't a universal god maker. This is only breaking the hypnosis."
Tucker's glasses have Reflections of the CramTastic screen are shown in them. They cycle, showing random graphs, equations, spheres and right triangles.
Casper High…
At a row of lockers, Danny and Sam walk up with Jared.
"I still don't get…" Danny said, placing his hands on his locker and turns it intangible. "…why we're not affected by Ember's music."
Danny plunges his hand inside as if he's searching for something. Sam shrugs.
"Maybe because of your ghost powers…" Sam said, moving her eyes up to think. "Jared's ghost powers, and my…"
Danny is leaning by his locker with the intangible arm inside. He interrupts.
"Individuality or…" Danny said, taking the Fenton Thermos out of his locker, resuming color in his arm as he points up with his other hand. "…intelligence?"
"Intelligence…" Jared said, looking at Sam's pleased look. "That works."
"I was gonna say 'utter disdain for anything popular'..." Samsaid, blushing. "…but okay."
Danny is holding the Fenton Thermos, looking quite surprised at a blushing Sam.
"Danny, I know you said it first. But you really think I'm smart?" Sam asked.
Danny leans forward. Jared turns himself invisible as Lancer has a torn shirt and a scratch on his arm. Danny and Sam are shocked to see him.
"Not so fast." Lancer said, while he has a shiner, more scratches and a blackened tooth. "You two lovebirds may be the only students left in the entire school…"
"We're not lovebirds!" Danny and Sam said, at the same time.
Lancer lifts his hands.
"But that's not going to stop me…" Lancer said, moving his arms down.
Jared looked over at the bodies of Danny and Sam, Danny is holding the Fenton Thermos. Lancer's hands grasp them by the arms.
"From giving you an education." Lancer said, swiping Danny and Sam away.
A bruised Lancer is dragging Danny and Sam by the arms, with Danny still holding his thermos.
"Go invisible." Jared said, looking at a beleaguered Danny and Sam, while he is still invisible. Danny, Sam, and Jared exchange glances and smiles. "Do it now."
Jared is looking at the area between Danny and Sam. Danny and Sam grasp hands and both turn invisible.
An invisible Danny with green eyes, looking smugly at the still visible thermos in his hand and his wrist in Lancer's. He becomes intangible and retracts his arm, freeing himself.
Lancer is walking with an invisible Danny and Sam behind him, Danny looking smug and Sam looking happy. Danny holds the thermos visibly. As Lancer walks off, Danny and Sam turn to the left. Danny bends down and flies off with his ghostly tail with Sam, flying to the left with Jared flying behind them.
Danny, Sam, and Jared are flying towards a wall covered in Ember posters. Danny, Sam, and Jared fly invisibly through the wall.
A bruised Lancer is walking through a doorway. He looks down at his empty hands with widened eyes, opening his palms with shock. Lancer is looking back into the hallway littered with Ember posters. He gasps.
"Lord of the Flies!" Lancer yelled in the hallway with his arms raised. "They're slipping right through…" He kneels on his knees. "…my hands!"
Amity Park…
There is a tall cardboard cutout of Ember with her arms crossed. A large building with signs reading 'BUCKY'S' and 'music mega store' beneath. Banners hung on either side of the doors read 'EMBER' and in the center is a banner with Ember's picture. A large crowd has formed outside.
Danny Phantom holding Sam and the Black Pearl is flying behind them as they fly over the city with a yellow-orange sky. Sam has her mouth open as she admires the city below. She looks down.
"Now I know how Nanoha does it with Fate and Hayate." Jared said, looking down below to see the yards, orange trees, wires, an igloo with a dog dish and a bone, but mostly autumn trees. "This is beautiful."
"It is." Sam said, looking down, then over to Danny, gasping.
Danny has the sun shining all over him, rotating and zooming in slowly.
Jared is looking between Danny and Sam as Sam gazes dreamily at Danny. Danny looks at Sam. But looks confused at her.
"Are you okay, Sam?" Danny asked, looking at Sam, suddenly looking nervous and awkward.
"Huh? Oh!" Sam said, giggling nervously and blushed. "It's just really nice up here, that's all. Flying's nice."
"It really is nice, Sam." Jared said, while Sam giggles nervously again. "You know, there is a nice spot of the TARDIS. You can just open the TARDIS door and sit down on the doorway. With well, the view of the Earth below you. I should start doing that."
Danny looks serious as his eyes pop open in surprise, then turns away, smiling and blushing.
The two awkward teens are looking at each other in a dreamy fashion. Suddenly, the giant, cardboard face of Ember pans in from the left, causing Jared to stop and the two lovebirds to slam their faces and bodies against it and ruin the moment. They peel off.
Ember's cardboard boot…
Both Danny and Sam land on their backs, raising the dust. And Jared floats down and lands himself to the ground.
"Falling stinks." Sam said, annoyed.
Bucky's Music Megastore…
There is an arch that reads 'BUCKY'S' with a banner over it reading 'EMBER' in big, purple letters. Two giant cutouts of Ember are on either side of the door, one looks like it is strumming the guitar and the other looks like it is looking over the crowd with an evil look. Teens all over the ground and on the various floors and balconies crowd and cheer as Ember's song plays in the background.
"Ooh, Ember! So warm and tender! You will remember my name!" The song said, being played throughout the building.
On the ground floor where teens are cheering, a tower of video screens all fill up from the bottom row, left to right, showing a collective picture of Ember singing on her microphone. On a top balcony, two men in yellow security shirts stand on either side while spotlights shine down on the floor from the ceiling.
On the balcony, a purple plume of smoke erupts, clearing to reveal Ember standing there.
With the crowd below, they are breaking out into cheering screams. There are more teens, one of which is Jasmine wearing a black top, glove, bracelet and choker matching Ember's, with matching eyeliner and two pink earrings on one ear just like Ember's.
Ember is looking over the whole store. Her cutouts are still standing and her banner is still hanging over the archway. She is holding her guitar upside-down behind her back, with yellow slips of paper in her hands. Behind her is a table with what appear to be either CDs or more papers on it. She holds out her arms to reveal the yellow papers to the crowd.
Ember is holding a fan of six yellow tickets in one gloved hand Five more tickets are in her other hand. She is on the balcony with one security guard. Ember leans back, throwing all the tickets down into the air, with her hands up and her smile open and wide. The tickets sailed down through the air.
"Tell- me- who- you..." Ember said, throwing up her arms. "…love!"
Ember looked at the cheering crowd below. Several of the crowd members are holding up blue jewel cases for CDs as yellow tickets rain down upon them.
"Ember! Ember! Ember!" The crowd cheered, throughout the entire building.
Ember is holding her hands tightly on the edge of the balcony, smiling with the adoration. She leans back, holding out her fists as her body begins to glow all green and her blue hair surges to life. Ember is glowing with a heavy green energy with her flaming hair standing as tall as she is. It dies down for only a second to flare up with twice the height it was before.
There is a poster on a brick wall showing Ember holding her guitar by the neck in one hand while screaming into the microphone, surrounded by blue flames. It reads 'EMBER LIVE!'. Danny, Sam, and Jared phase invisibly through it. They resume color shortly.
Danny and Jared look down with determination.
"Something tells me they're not gonna love seeing their idol sucked inside…" Danny said, looking between Sam and Jared. "…the Fenton Thermos."
"We need a distraction." Jared said, happily. "I'm just glad there aren't any Noise. Now that would be a bit ironic."
"It would. You told me they showed up sometimes whenever the Queens of Music performed." Sam said, looking at Danny and Jared with a plan. "I think I can distract them."
Ember is looking down with her flaming hair.
The whole store with all four of the floors contains cheering teenagers worshiping their idol and shouting 'Ember!' throughout. Ember's picture is on the screen below the balcony on which she stands, her hair flaring up to nearly four times her height.
The cheering crowd is pumping their fists. Their cheering stops as they all gasp and look to the left.
Sam is hanging on the hair frond of a cardboard cutout of Ember, holding a red marker in her hand as red markings of glasses, a mustache and a goatee have been drawn on Ember's cardboard face. Sam leans back, admiring her 'art'.
"That's brilliant." Jared said, looking at Sam with her marker on the cutout. "Best distraction ever."
Sam shouts down to the crowd below.
"Hey everybody!" Sam said, angrily. "Look, it's Ember McLame!"
Jared looked at an angry Ember with a waning fire ponytail. It shortens to a tiny flare. She looks up at it with disappointment.
"Oh great." Ember said, standing up, her hair resuming its standard level of length. "A critic." She perks up. "Maybe you'll like my new song…" Jared looked down at Ember. "…better!"
Ember's gloved hand is turning one of the dials on her guitar to a symbol with three purple crescents. The crescents light up in sequence and beep.
At the ceiling, Danny and Jared fly up. Danny charges up a green energy beam in his hands and launches the combined ghost ray. Jared tossed a coin up in the air and launches a Railgun.
Ember is on the balcony with her gloved hand glowing a sparkly pink. As she is about to strum, she is suddenly knocked away by Danny's energy blast and Jared's Railgun, looking to the left as she is flung away, shrieking.
Danny and Jared flies down towards Ember.
"Hey! Do you take requests?" Danny asked, looking at Ember. "How about 'Beat It'?"
"Yeah. 'Beat It' because you don't have a 'PERFECT SYMPHONY'." Jared said, looking at Ember. "You literally want to 'Ink Me Up' because the Earth is Symphogear's home turf. So stop causing a 'Muck Warfare', Ember."
"You're on board with the song puns, Jared." Danny said, smirking. "Nice."
Ember is floating up into the shot as she holds her guitar at the ready.
"How about I just lay down a few power chords instead…" Ember said, raising her hand with a pick to strum. "…dipsticks!"
Ember strums her guitar and a green sound-wave with skulls lining it comes out panning right as a power chord is sounded out.
Danny and Jared are floating in front of Ember's banner. Danny has a strap on his suit and reaches out behind him to take out the Fenton Thermos, trying to screw off the lid. But as Danny does.
"If only this was a 'Rainbow Flower'." Jared said, and he and Danny looked increasingly concerned as the power cord with skulls knocked them away with the Fenton Thermos flying in the other direction. "I wish Hibiki and the others were here."
A shocked Sam is still hanging on the Ember cutout. She turns to the left as the Fenton Thermos's strap catches itself around Ember's ear.
At the ear of the cutout, the Fenton Thermos hanging like an earring next to Ember's two pink ones.
The real Ember is floating near the ceiling. She straightens up and giggles evilly as she strums again, this time her blue hair wraps all around her in a flame spiral as she vanishes from view. The spiral thins away into nothing.
"Where's Ember?" Danny asked, flying in with Jared just as Ember is gone.
"I don't know." Jared said, turning around with Danny as they looked for her. "She could be anyway."
The crowd of teens is still cheering on their teen idol, who has clearly given them a sweet show of special, ghostly effects.
Amity Park…
At the roof of the building with a purple sky, there are various roof props, including vents and a door that likely leads to a staircase. Danny and Jared phases through the roof and up top, resuming their color. Ember is floating in front of Danny and Jared, her guitar hanging behind her back.
"'Dipsticks'?" Danny asked, smiling falsely. "Ho ho." He returns to serious. "Funny."
"It really is funny. You're not getting your 'Glorious Break', Ember." Jared said, flying off with Danny.
"I am going to break out." Ember said, miffed.
Danny flies up, linking his fingers with hers in an attempt to wrestle her down. Their hands shake with effort.
"Who writes your insults?" Danny asked, looking at Ember. "The same hack who writes your songs?"
"Danny! Careful!" Jared said, and Danny looked down to the side. "It's a pretty big drop!"
There is a crowd cheering outside Bucky's Music Megastore. The Ember banners and picture are still up. They scream 'EMBER!' throughout.
On the roof, Jared is watching Danny and Ember fighting next to the giant Ember cutout. The whole place is in shadow for a split second as Ember's ponytail flares up once again.
"Jared, you've been making song puns the entire time." Danny said, watching the inferno of Ember's hair. "Why?"
"It's my way of coping, Danny." Jared said, while Ember is grinning ear to ear.
"I get that, Jared, but you could seriously help." Danny said, still clasped in Ember's fingers to push her down, and is looking increasingly unsure.
"After the Reichenbach Fall. I don't want to fall down another rooftop." Jared said, as Ember pushes her arms forward, with Danny barely able to defend as he becomes more worried, grunting with effort. "Sorry. It's just the chanting…"
"The chanting, Jared, that's it." Danny said, perspiring under the effort. "Chanting…" He blinks, looking at Ember. "…makes her stronger…"
"You got that right, baby pops. And the more kids chanting…" Ember said, looking at an overwhelmed Danny. She flings him away to the right with only one hand, turning around as her hair flares up. "…the stronger I get!"
Danny is flying through the air, yelling. He is upside-down as he looks from the ground to behind him, panning right as the cutout comes into view. He hits the back of the head, snapping a rope that keeps it up, grunting in pain. The cutout falls over, revealing Danny looking down at it.
On the edge of the roof, the cardboard cutout lands face-down with the hips keeping it on the roof, the torso, arms and head hanging off it.
"Shit." Jared said, looking at the feet of the cutout as they stumble as they settle with dust clouds rising. "There really is no 'PRACTICE MODE' here."
"Really?" Danny asked, shocked, looking below, and his eyes turned to look behind him.
"And if you and the Black Pearl think I'm strong now…" Ember said, as Danny and Jared gasped while she and her flaming hair floating in front of Danny. She floats up a few feet. "...just wait until midnight! When my concert goes global. I will be stronger than the two Symphogear wielders!" Ember's eyes narrow. "And the whole world's chanting my name!" Ember is floating above a scared Danny and Jared. "Then you'll all…" She raises her arm. "…be my slaves!"
"More strong than Tsubasa and Kanade." Jared said, looking down at the floor. "They'll lose."
"They'll lose, Black Pearl. And there's nothing you can do about it!" Ember said, as she says her last word, she strums another power chord, unleashing a red sound wave that knocks Danny and Jared away screaming.
At the crease between the cardboard cutout's legs, Danny and Jared scream as they land in that crease with his back to the ground. A flash of light emits from the crease as he lands.
At the door on the roof, it opens, revealing Sam with the Fenton Thermos.
"Get away from them!" Sam yelled, running off towards Danny and Jared.
Danny and Jared are lying on the ground between the legs of the cutout, on their backs. A blue ring of light forms around their waists, changing them back into Danny Fenton and Jared Shay with some last sparkles fizzing out.
On the hips of the cutout, Danny and Jared get up out of it.
Danny has one hand on the thigh of the cardboard and the other hand on his head, sparkling with confusion. Jared used his electromagnetism to try and keep himself steady and from falling to the ground.
Ember is floating, looking over to the left as Sam walks into the shot. Ember faces Sam as Sam turns to her, holding out the Fenton Thermos.
"Sam…" Jared said, and Ember has a dreamy look.
"Aw, teen love!" Ember said, looking rather upset. "They say it never lasts…" She looks at an angry Sam with the Fenton Thermos, the Fenton Phones, and Danny and Jared are sitting inside the space between the cutout's legs, confused and awkward. "…but nothing distracts teenagers more than…" Sam's eyes pop open wide. "…hormones." Jared looked over at Ember. "And I need…" Ember narrows her eyes. "…to keep you busy…" She looks down. "…for the next eight hours…"
Jared looked over at Ember's guitar where Ember picks at a dial. The symbols show a red version of two conjoined eighth notes, a pink heart, a green skull, a purple wave of three crescents, and a blue fist. The dial is on the wave where Ember left it. She switches it to the heart, which begins to glow.
"I have more than just music for you." Ember said, smirking. "Now that they're chanting my name and not Zwei Wing's…" Jared looked down guiltily. "…my music and not theirs. She raises her hand. "…CAN affect you!" Ember strums her guitar casually, raising her leg as a pink wave full of hearts surges from her strings with a power chord. "How about a love song?"
"It's not a 'FIRST LOVE SONG!" Jared said, looking at a shocked Sam with the thermos.
As the wave passes over Sam and fills the screen with pink, she braces herself for impact, screaming as she is blown away.
Danny is in the full force of the love wave. His eyes open revealing pink circle loops as Sam flies over him, continuing to scream.
At the head of the cutout hanging precariously over the edge of the roof. Sam is shouting and sliding on it with the Fenton Thermos in hand. Jared looked over at Sam on the cutout over a crowd outside the store and rushing traffic in the street below.
"Jared, what's wrong with Danny?" Sam asked, stopping on her hands and knees, looking down with absolute terror as the cutout began to shift under her weight and Jared's weight of the impact.
"It's a love potion." Jared said, using his electromagnetism to keep himself from falling. "That's what Ember hit him with."
Danny is in the pink wave with his eyes all pinked out. He blinks as his eyes resume their blue color, with sparkles flowing up as he gives an absent, rather goofy and dreamy grin.
"A love potion?" Sam asked, looking at Danny.
Danny turns to face Sam with two rivers of hearts flowing upward. Danny with the heart, blinking dreamily.
"Why did Ember hit Danny with a love potion and not me?" Sam asked, shocked, lowering her eyebrow nervously. "Huh?"
"Well, I think I'll leave the new couple alone." Ember said, floating, holding her hand up to say goodbye. "Ciao, babies!"
Ember crouches down and turns an intangible blue, phasing through the roof in a blaze of fire as her evil laughter echoes throughout.
Sam is on her hands and knees while Jared is using his electromagnetism to keep the cutout from teetering.
"'New couple'?" Sam asked, looking skeptical. "Jared? What the heck is she talking about? Did Ember hit us with a love potion?"
Danny is in the crease between the legs with his two heart rivers still flowing. He crawls closer to the corner of the crease and climbs onto the cutout.
"Sam, I can't keep this up for long." Jared said, looking at a confused Sam teetering. "I can try. But not this high up in the air. There aren't any stabilizers like on a plane!"
"Uh, Danny? Now would be a really good time to…" Sam said, lifting her hand. "…go ghost and fly me out of here."
Danny doesn't listen. Jared turned ghost quickly and flew over to the roof and used his ghost powers to hold the cutout steady. Sam is on the edge of the cutout as Danny, against all rhyme and reason, climbs closer from Jared.
The legs of the cutout are beginning to tip over slowly with the extra weight.
"Jared, keep it steady as long as you can!" Sam said, scared. "Danny, wait!" She reaches out her hand. "What are you doing?"
Danny is crawling with a dreamy, empty stare with the sky dotted in a sea of hearts.
"Wow." Danny said, dreamily. "I just never realized…" He is crawling toward Sam at the edge of the cutout over flowing traffic below. Horns honk. "…you're really pretty…" Danny stops crawling. "…when you're about to fall off a building."
"Danny, stop it." Jared said, as Sam is still scared. "This is getting dangerous!"
"Danny?" Sam asked, looking down below. "Get back!" The cutout begins to sink down. "Danny!"
There is a crowd on the ground outside Bucky's Music Megastore, all gasping in terror as they see the tipped-over cutout of Ember hanging off the building.
"Sam, keep on trying to get through him." Jared said, keeping the cutout as steady as he could with his electromagnetism. "You can't give up now!"
"Right." Sam said, her hair blowing in the breeze, and she looked over at Danny with a begging face. "Danny, stop!" She is on the edge as Danny is stepping toward her with sparkles popping around him. The goth raises her hand. "Don't come any closer!"
Danny has his hair flung back by wind. He puts his hand forward.
"But you're over there…" Danny said, lowering his eyes dreamily as he puts his palm near his chest. "…and I'm over here. I wanna be…" He points at Sam. "…over there!"
"Wait, I know that look. That's that same, longing puppy-dog stare you give Paulina!" Sam said, terrified.
Danny is smitten by sparkles.
"Who's Paulina?" Danny asked, crawling forward dreamily.
"At least he's into you." Jared said, looking at a pleased Sam.
"Yeah. That's a pleasant side-effect." Sam said, pleased on the edge as Danny, slumping his shoulders, takes another step closer.
Jared loses his grip a bit and the balance further tips to Sam's side.
"Jared! Don't loosen it!" Sam yelled, suddenly flicking back to painful reality and screams.
"Sorry…" Jared said, strengthening his grip on the cutout again with his electromagnetism to stop the cutout from falling.
Jared looked at the dreamy Danny with the sparkles. Danny puts his palms up forward, curling his fingers once. He takes another precarious step and the cardboard tilts more.
Sam panics as she begins to slide off, panning right and screaming. Her outstretched arms are the only things hooking her on the edge of Ember's hair. Then she falls off.
Jared thought of the view below Sam as she screams and falls and falls. Sam's feet fall below her and her arm is in the air. The fanboy then thought of Sam's raised hand as she screamed throughout.
"I got you!" Jared yelled, catching Sam by the wrist.
"Jared, you barely made it." Sam said, as she was caught by Jared.
Sam and Jared looked at a rope ladder dangling from a white helicopter that read 'SWAT' with a yellow police badge on the side. Danny is still standing on the cutout, but two agents flank him by standing on either side of it with another rope ladder dangling near them. Another helicopter hovers nearby.
"I know. It's better it was me than a SWAT agent." Jared said, holding Sam by the wrist as she hangs.
"Yeah…" Sam said, looking disappointed by this new turn of events.
There is a full crowd of Casper High students. Three SWAT vans with flashing red lights pull up.
"Attention, students! By authority of the Emergency Mass Grounding Act…" Lancer said, over a megaphone.
A SWAT agent is next to the back of a van with open doors. He throws kids inside as they come down the line.
"You are all under house arrest." Mr. Lancer said, through a megaphone.
Lancer is standing on top of a school bus talking through a school bus radio coming from the front window. A police car, a SWAT van, a road block and a SWAT agent are standing by.
"You will now be returned to your homes to await parental punishment." Mr Lancer said, smirking. "And, as for your precious Ember, she's going down!"
Lancer looks up suddenly as a shadow starts enveloping him. He screams in terror. He is on top of the bus. He jumps to the right off-screen just in time, dropping the bus radio. The Ember cutout drops down into the shot, breaking the school bus in two and causing more collateral damage to the police car. The SWAT agent runs away. When the dust settles, Dash and Kwan in their purple Ember jackets and black Ember shirts slide into the shot.
Cutout of Ember's face…
Danny Fenton climbs up on Ember's pony tail holder, with sparkles showing his dazed confusion.
"EMBER!" Dash and Kwan yelled, throwing up their arms. "We love you!"
Dash and Kwan hug each other while admiring the cutout.
Fenton Works…
Police sirens wail as a SWAT van with blinking red lights drives up to the house and stops.
At the front door, two booted legs kick the door open. They step down, chucking in Jasmine, Danny, and Jared on their stomachs with Jasmine still in her Ember outfit, with them looking at a confused Maddie and Jack. They grunt in pain at landing and open their eyes.
"I'm sorry." Jared said, looking up at Jack and Maddie. "For not keeping them out of trouble."
"You're sorry?" Jack asked, looking angry. "What is the matter with you kids?"
Maddie went into lecturing mode, "You need to be preparing for the Northwestern Nine testing tomorrow!"
A dreamy Danny is on the floor with sparkles popping around him.
"How can I study?" Danny asked, closing his eyes. "All I can think about is Sam."
Jasmine is looking confused.
"What's wrong with you?" Jazmine asked, looking at Danny. "Danny? Why aren't you thinking about Ember?"
"It's a long story…" Jared said, looking down at the floor. "I don't like it."
"Well, I'm thinking about putting you three…" Jack said, putting his fingers on his chin. "…in the Fenton Stockades."
Fenton Stockades…
The inside has a metal door with spikes and a small square hole for the eyes. Maddie peeks in through the eye hole and opens the door, revealing an open shackle on the stair case and a lock on some drab chest.
"Jack, we can't lock the kids in some medieval containment device." Maddie said, sadly.
The whole dungeon has a spiral staircase that leads down to the floor. Shackles hang from the ceiling. A lock is on some chest. Jared is behind a dreamy Danny with green sparkles and a defiant Jasmine in an Ember outfit is another doorway. Maddie is looking into the Fenton Stockades, Jack looks annoyed with his hands on his hips.
"Oh, all right." Jack said, while Maddie turns to look at him with her hands on her hips as he turns away with disapproval and crosses his arms. "We'll just ground them like every other parent."
"It's just a concert. And it's not a Justin Timberlake one." Jared said, looking between Danny and Jasmine.
Jasmine's arms are crossed, Jared smiled, and Danny's too infatuated with his green sparkles to care.
"I'm going to Ember McLain's midnight concert tonight…" Jazz said, grabbing Danny and Jared by the arm, and walked past Maddie. Danny opens his mouth dreamily. "…and there's nothing you can do about it!"
As they almost leave, Maddie holds up her arms and catches her children and Jared by the back of the neck.
"You, your brother, and your best friend…" Maddie said, holding Jazz, Danny, and Jared, snapping the three of them back to reality for a minute. "…are not leaving this house, young lady!"
Jack is pointing his finger at his face suggestively.
"Fenton Stockades!" Jack said, with a singsong voice.
Maddie scowls and slams Jack inside. Jack's face is in the square eye-hole of the Fenton Stockades from the outside. Jack is locked in the rather high-tech-looking medieval containment device.
"I meant them!" Jack yelled, his mouth filling the eye-hole and he scowled.
Jazz's room…
Jazz, still dressed as Ember, is laying on her bed. She looks sad, but perks up when she hears rock music playing outside the open window. She gets up and looks outside where an Ember van is driving down the street, blasting Remember.
"Yeah! Whoaaoooaaaoooaa!" The song said, throughout Jazz's room.
Jazz is in her room looking out the window. She bends down and grabs a grapple gun from under her bed, shooting it out the window until it snaps taut. She jumps out.
Amity Park…
The Ember van is driving in the street. Dale peeks out the window smiling as Jasmine swings past on the grapple rope. As she leaves, Dale climbs out and slides down the water pipe out of his room.
There is a skyline with houses and a tree. The flaming top-part of the Ember van drives past. At the stoop of a house, teens, some dressed in Ember merchandise, chase after the van, cheering.
Danny's room…
"I still can't believe he made that." Jared said, looking at various pieces of Sam memorabilia. "I just want this love potion to wear off."
Danny is on his bed with all the scraps in his Sam Shrine. His legs are crossed and his index and pinky fingers are up. He breathes in.
Jared is snacking on some chocolate chip cookies, trying his best to cope.
"Sam…" Danny said, mediating.
On cue, Sam peeks in through Danny's barred window. She looks at Danny and Jared.
"Sam." Jared said, while Sam knocks on the glass. "Finally."
"Sam…" Danny said, meditating.
Danny's eyes pop open. He puts down his arms and turns to the right with more green sparkles following him.
"Sam! You snuck out to see me and Jared!" Danny cheered, hunching his shoulders and closes his eyes dreamily. "Oh, this is just like Romeo and Juliet…" The sparkles stop as Danny points a thumb to his chest. "...except Jared and I are the ones on the balcony…" Danny smiles gleefully and shrugs as the sparkles resume. "…and I can understand everything we're saying."
Sam has her fist on the glass.
"Danny…" Sam said, muffled, and she turns to Danny angrily. "…open up!"
Danny walks to the window to open it.
Outside, Sam has a ladder set up to Danny's window and is standing on the rungs. Danny slides his window open to let Sam in.
Sam climbs inside as she falls onto the floor, "Ow!"
Danny puts out his palm.
"You want me to open up?" Danny asked, leaning as he looked onto the floor. "Okay." He puts a finger on his face to think. "Um, one time…" He puts out his hand. "…when I was five…" Danny clasps his hands together dreamily. "I really wanted a puppy…" Danny points up a finger in a mimicking lecture. "…but my parents…"
Danny is behind his bed. Sam pops up to yell at Danny.
"Will you knock it off!" Sam yelled, as Danny slumps his arms in an absent look.
"Danny, focus." Jared said, as Sam stepped away. "This is getting ridiculous."
Jared and Sam explain the plan, standing next to the Sam Shrine.
"Danny, we have to stop Ember's concert…" Jared said, stepping towards Danny and grabs Sam's hand. "...before she takes over the world!"
Sam looks down at the Sam Shrine on Danny's bed and at the various pieces of Sam memorabilia. Sam is cringing.
"Okay, even the part of me that's kind of liking the attention is really freaked out by this." Sam said, sadly.
Danny walks in behind Sam and Jared and happily talks in front of the goth.
"It doesn't matter!" Danny yelled, taking Sam's hands and admires her with green sparkles flaring up everywhere. "Just so long as we have each other."
Sam yells out.
"Snap out of it!" Sam said, looking at a dreamy Danny holding her hands. Sam grabs his wrists and pushes his hands away as Danny looks to her, bored. "You don't feel that way about me and I don't feel that way about you."
Danny looks down, then smirks, "So why are you still holding my hands?"
Sam is holding Danny's hands by the wrists. She holds them up and throws them down, groaning with exasperation. Danny looks a little sad as she walks away. He points toward Sam as the sparkles come back.
"And why are you still wearing those…" Danny said, looking at the Fenton Phones in Sam's ears. "…Fenton Phones I gave you?"
Sam is walking away and turns around to give a rebuttal.
"Danny, they're not even real earrings!" Sam said, throwing up her hands shouting. "They're just some stupid communicators that…" She opens her eyes suddenly with a realization look. "…filter out ghost noise! Jared, it's like when you have resistance to any mental manipulation!"
"Yup." Jared said, looking at a dreamy Danny with green sparkles. "If I try to interfere, I get a slight headache."
"Does this mean that we're breaking up?" Danny asked, sparkles clear.
Sam is smiling.
"Don't you get it, Danny?" Sam asked, spreading her hands. "Jared gets it! That's why I haven't been affected by Ember's music!" She takes the Fenton Phones out of her ears and holds them in her hands. "I've been wearing the Fenton Phones…" Sam looks at the Fenton Phones in her hands. One sparkles. "…the whole time!"
"Yup." Jared said, looking between Danny and Sam. "You have. I didn't want to take them from you."
"Thanks."
Danny points to Sam as the green sparkles resume. Sam looks confused.
"So we're not breaking up?" Danny asked.
Sam arches her eyebrows angrily, "How can we be breaking up? We were never together!"
"Maybe someday you two will be." Jared said, looking between Sam and Danny. "For now. No."
"We're gonna have to deprogram you like…" Sam said, grabbing Danny by the hand and drags him to the doorway as he resumes his dreamy sparkling with Jared following them. "…we did Tucker!"
"Sam, it's been twelve hours." Jared said, while Sam stops in her tracks, skidding her boots. "And we left Tucker in the classroom studying standardized test prep. We traumatized him for a while."
"Oh." Sam said, looking over at me with sudden realization. "Oh my gosh! Tucker!"
Dark classroom…
Tucker is still bound to a chair by ropes in his Ember shirt, wig and make-up. The wig is crushed under the CramTastic helmet. His teeth are chattering. A concerned Danny, Sam, and Jared walk in.
"Twelve... hours... of... intensive standardized test prep." Tucker said, sadly.
"Tucker, I'm sorry for forgetting you." Jared said, taking the helmet off Tucker's head. "I had to make sure things played out as they should."
"Tucker, I'm so sorry!" Sam said, worried.
Danny smiles and he leans over in admiration at Sam and green sparkles, "You're beautiful when you're wracked with guilt."
Sam is holding the ropes and putting them aside, "Not now, Danny."
Sam, the now free Tucker sitting in the seat, Jared is leaning against the desk, and the dreamy, sparkling Danny. Tucker over at Danny.
"Man, it's about time!" Tucker said, standing up and hugging Danny, Sam, and Jared close by the necks. Sam is confused and frightened, Jared is laughing a lot and breaking down, and Danny is undisturbed and sparkling. "I always knew you two would end up together!"
"They'll end up together someday." Jared said, happily. "I know they will."
Sam shoves Tucker, Danny, and Jared away. Tucker looks sad at being scorned, Jared calms down from laughing, and Danny doesn't care.
"We're not together!" Sam said, explaining what happened. "Jared's right, Ember put Danny under some kinda…" She lifts her arms. "…spell!"
Tucker is confused, Danny is still dreamy and sparkling, and Jared rolled his eyes.
"So you don't want to end up together?" Tucker asked, pointing between Danny and Sam.
Sam shrugs and puts a fist on her forehead.
"I don't know!" Sam yelled, putting out her arms. "Maybe! But not like this!"
"Maybe after the world is saved and the secret is out." Jared said, smiling.
Tucker, Jared, please!" Sam said, looking between Tucker and Jared. "We have to break the spell!"
"True love's kiss could break it or jealousy could." Jared said, looking at Tucker and dreamy, sparkling Danny, stiff as a cutout.
"Not true love's kiss or jealousy." Tucker said, reaching down and puts the CramTastic helmet on Danny's head. "Let's crank up the story problems and…" He turns away from Danny with his hands on his hips. "…we'll see Danny in twelve hours!"
The clock reads 11:45.
"We don't have twelve hours." Sam said, pointing up at the clock with a sparkling Danny with the CramTastic helmet sparkling. "Ember's concert starts in fifteen minutes." She puts her hand down. "She gets her power when people chant her name." The goth spreads her arms in panic. "And with a whole world-wide audience…" Jared is looking at Sam. "…she'll be unstoppable!"
Sam is looking at Tucker, Danny, and Jared. Tucker takes the helmet off Danny and chucks it away, putting his hands on Sam and Danny's back as she pushes them to walk away. Danny, Sam, and Jared look wary of him.
"Then we better bolt down to that show and crank down the volume!" Tucker said, popping into green sparkles and talking quickly. "The volume of a sphere is equal to the square of the race of the base times pi times the height." He snaps back to reality. "Wow, that thing really works!" The tech wizard looks annoyed. "And I spent the first nine years of my school life actually reading?"
(Jared's POV)
Arena…
Lights in the parking lot around it are all lit. There is a residential zone right next to it and empty streets leading to it. On the hill behind it is a sprawling section of the city only being built. Drumming is being played inside the stadium.
There is a billboard of Ember with her face and name written on it. A sign below reads 'Entrance' and a line of teens cheering and coming in supervised by a beefy man in a yellow security shirt. People are saying things like 'Yeah' and 'All right!'
There is a security guard and his eyes shift as the line of teens walk past him. An intangible Danny Fenton, Tucker, Sam, and Jared float up from the ground and resume color even though Danny and Jared are not touching either of them. Tucker, Sam, and I are holding Fenton Thermoses, Danny has his strapped to his back. We run out of sight.
At a back door, another security guard is sleeping in a chair and snoring as the trio runs up. Danny grabs Tucker and Sam's forearms and phases them through the door and I phase myself through the door.
Control station…
There are two chairs and lots of cables. Tucker and Sam walk in with Danny and I behind them.
"Go kill the power. We'll stand watch." Sam said, looking at Tucker.
Tucker runs toward the control terminal.
"Can't believe this adventure is almost over." I said, looking between Danny and Sam.
"Same." Sam said, while Danny breaks out into the sparkles again and gazes dreamily at her. "Uh, Danny, can you watch something besides me?"
Danny pops back to reality, if only for a moment before taking out a photograph of Sam and gazing at it. Sam looks disappointed.
Tucker has left his thermos in the seat next to him. Sam and Danny are in the hall behind him.
"Okay…" Tucker said, putting a finger to his chin and the control board has dials and switches reading "MIN-MAX" on them. Across the board, there are more switches and controls until there is a big red switch reading 'PA SYSTEM'. Tucker flips it with his thumb. "…cutting off the power." He flicked another switch. "Electrical power equals electrical current times electric potential." Tucker shakes his head back and forth and he puts a hand on his head. "Man, I gotta stop doing that!"
There are three amps above the stage.
"Man, I gotta stop doing that!" Tucker said, on the amps.
Arena…
Ember is on stage adjusting her microphone stand while Dash and Kwan in security jackets are standing by. All three look up warily.
There is a door backstage reading 'STAGE 1'. Ember opens the door and jumps inside with Dash and Kwan following. She has her hands on her hips next to Dash and Kwan. Ember points her gloved hand toward the left.
"We love you Ember!" Dash and Kwan said, at the same time.
Ember cringes with annoyance at her cheering security guards. She looks at them with one eye.
"I heard you the twelfth time." Ember said, putting her hands on her hips. "Now bag 'em and gag 'em!"
Dash and Kwan rush off.
Sam and I are holding our Fenton Thermoses next to a dreamy, green-sparkly Danny with his strapped on his back. Kwan reaches out and grabs him suddenly, as Sam, Danny, and I hang on the guards' forearms wrapped on our necks.
At the control terminal, a third security guard, Dale, is dragging Tucker on the floor by his hand.
"If a train moving at 25 miles an hour…" Tucker said.
The arena is totally packed. On the stage is a giant back-board in the shape of purple flames that reads 'EMBER'. A couple of riffs go off and the whole arena dims.
Backstage…
Dash and Kwan are showing their capture to Ember. Sam and I look annoyed, Danny is rather concerned. Ember also looks annoyed. Dale steps in holding Tucker.
There are two men and one woman at a control station with headphones.
The man in the blue hat and purple shirt turns around and holds his headphone. The screen below him reads 'ON AIR LIVE' with a 6. It counts down.
"On the air in five, four…" The control man said.
Ember is leaning in with her guitar to Sam, Danny, and I.
"Later, dipsticks." Ember said, while Sam and I looked angry at her. "I gotta go rock my world." I rolled my eyes in annoyance. "And when I say…" She widens her eyes, pleased. "…my world…" Ember's hair is blazing, boldly. "I mean my world!"
Ember walks away.
"Crap. This is the 'Superb Song'. Or Ember's swan song. Whatever." I said, looking between Danny and Sam.
"Danny, stop her with Jared now!" Sam said, worried.
Danny closes his eyes defiantly, "I won't leave you, Sam."
A backup member's blue hands playing some seriously rocking tunes on a keyboard. There is a boot with a torn pant leg pounding on the base pedal of the drum-set.
A blue-skinned backup member is strumming a pink axe with a gray pick.
The axe player has a bandana, a red plaid skirt and a torn shirt on with sunglasses. The drummer has a red baseball hat, a torn red plaid shirt and spike bracelets and a horrible bite radius. He pounds on the drums with his drumsticks. The keyboard playe has a green Mohawk, a scar on his face and his keyboard is decorated with a purple flame decal and a pile of three skulls in front of it.
"Forget about me!" Sam said, angrily.
"Sam's right. We have to forget about her for a moment. We need to stop Ember." I said, rolling my eyes.
Danny is now arguing with Sam and I.
"I can't!" Danny yelled. "I won't!"
All three members of the backup band are onstage. The whole stage blacks out for a second to reveal Ember, alone in the spotlight. The crowd erupts in cheers.
"Hell-o, Amity Park!" Ember said, raising her fist before dropping it and shouts out. "Tell me who you love!"
The crowd is cheering, "Ember McLain! Ember McLain!"
They continue throughout the arena nearby. Ember is smiling as her hair flares up violently.
The front of the crowd has a crew member with an 8-ball shirt operating a TV camera with the number 3 on it.
There is a van reading 'ACTION NEWS' outside the arena as drums sound and the song begins. A giant satellite on top of the van sends out blue rings of signal into the airwaves.
There is a satellite in space with two solar panels and four dishes, broadcasting signals in various parts of the world.
"Yeah!" Ember said, singing and a green television in a wooden room with two dials on it. Ember's image fizzes onto it. "Oh-oh-ah-oh-oh!"
(Open POV)
Netherlands…
Two identical blonde men in lederhosen dancing on a rug with flowers on it in front of a white couch. Outside the window are the mountains.
"Ember! Ember! Ember! Ember!" Lederhosen Men said, in Dutch accents.
Kyoto, Japan…
Five women in colorful kimonos with their hair tied up are watching TV and bowing. Two are standing and three are sitting. There is a sword in its sheath on the wall and two wooden sandals on the floor by a lantern.
"Ember! Ember!" The geishas said, in Japanese accents.
Saudi Arabia…
A crowd of cheering Arabic people are assembled outside some small building watching Ember's concert on TV. A barrel is next to the building and an Aladdin-style sultan palace is in the scenery behind them.
"Ember! Ember! Ember!" The Middle Easterners said, in Arabic accents.
Australia…
There are five Aboriginal peoples present, one with a giant earring with gray hair appears to be a father of four smaller ones. They are painted with white markings and wear basic loin coverings and headbands. Three of them hold spears. A kangaroo is randomly sitting next to them. They appear to be watching a TV with a cord protruding to who knows where. Two of them shake their spears and cheer.
"Whoo-hoo!" The aborigines said.
(Jared's POV)
Arena…
Sam and I are next to a dreamy, sparkling Danny.
"I hate to do this to you, Danny." Sam said, looking at Danny with seriousness. "But if I can't break Ember's spell…" She is unsure of what she'll do next. "I'm going to have to break your heart!"
Sam pushes Dash away and turns around to me before taking my arms.
"Sam? What are you doing?" I asked, when Sam jumps into the air and hugs me with one of her boots flying up as she kisses me passionately. "Sam!"
Dash looks totally confused.
Sam is still kissing me and Dash blinks. Sam and I part away to reveal a green sparkling Danny.
"Sam…" Danny said, looking at Sam. "…how could you?" He closes his eyes angrily. "How?" Danny started yelling. "Hey, get away from her!"
"Sam, why did you do that?" I asked, stepping back towards a wall, disgusted and shocked. "Ugh! You didn't have to do that! I'm with Clara, I thought you knew that."
"I know." Sam said, also disgusted and shocked, steps back into the wall. "Ugh! You're too childish for me!"
Dash, Kwan and Dale are with Sam, Tucker, Danny, and I. Dash screams and runs away with Kwan and Dale following.
Sam is looking behind her back next to Danny. She turns to him and tries to explain herself.
"Danny, I'm so sorry…" Sam said, crossing her hands. "I…"
"Same. I'm sorry. I just…" I said, looking down at the floor. "I didn't know Sam would do that! It was supposed to be Dash!"
Danny looks down.
"You and Jared?" Danny asked, pointing to Sam, smiling. "But we were…" He looks at a shocked and worried Sam, blinking and a smiling Danny looks down again. I looked up at Danny and Sam, briefly. "But... we weren't…" Danny drops his hand, Sam looks down. "…were we?"
"No, Ember did that." Sam said, leaning her head forward. "It's just, this is so hard because part of me... part of me really liked this and…"
Danny looks down. He turns to Ember looking with determination.
Danny is angry with Sam and I next to some amps.
Ember is strumming as she sticks out her tongue, "Bleh!"
Danny's eyes blaze green in anger.
"Ember…" Danny said, growling.
Sam is putting her hand on Danny's elbow, "Danny? Are you okay?"
Danny closes his eyes. The green glow fades away.
"No. I feel like my heart's been ripped out." Danny said, looking at Ember. "But I know who I can take it out on!"
"Same. We both have our own girls. And Ember did that!" I said, angrily.
Danny and I are going ghost.
Sam has Danny and I in our flying stance next to us. Danny and I jumped away from SAm, blowing up all of Sam's hair.
Sam from the ground, uses her hand to push back her hair, smiling.
The band plays from the stage.
"Oh, Ember!" Ember said, singing with her hands on the microphone. "You will remember!" She looked at her audience. "Ember!" She is holding the microphone again. She opens her eyes to looks around. "One thing remains." Ember looked at her audience again. "Oh, Ember!" She looked at her band as the crowd cheers. "So warm and tender!" Ember is putting down her hand as she looks around. "You will remember my name!"
The crowd is cheering and several are wearing Ember apparel. One is holding a sign with green letters reading 'Remember'. Ember is playing her guitar. Her hair flares up again.
Ember is with her band as her hair flares up to be as tall as she is. Suddenly, Danny and I fly in a loop and knock her away. She screams.
Some spotlights shine on Ember flying upside-down into a television with her picture on it, cracking the screen and turning it purple. Sparks fly.
On the stage, Danny and I floated in.
"Hey, No-Hit wonder! Mind if we jam with the band?" Danny asked.
"I did karaoke with the seven Symphogear wielders once." I said, looking at the crack in the sparkling television monitor. "You, me, and Danny Phantom singing together could be fun!"
Ember raises a gloved hand, then peeks out of it with messy hair, red bruises and messed-up face paint. She flies out.
Ember's guitar is taking flight. It stops in mid-air as Ember lands on it, surfing away. She dives down.
Danny and I watch Ember surf past and land just hovering on the stage.
Ember raises her guitar and her hair is flaming wildly.
"Get this straight, dipsticks!" Ember said, touching her guitar setting dial. She changes it from skull to fist, which lights up as it activates. "I don't do duets or trios!"
Ember raises her fist, glowing green with energy. She strikes a flaming power chord, panning right as a green wave with a fist at the front surges forward.
Danny and I at the edge of the stage. The fist impacts him head-on. Danny and I scream as we go flying into the air.
The crowd is standing up on what appears to be pavement. Even the tuba player has a white Ember T-shirt and his tuba is covered with a smorgasbord of Ember stickers. Paulina is also there in the audience. Danny and I landed on our backs in a blank spot between teens.
Danny and I are on the ground, with Danny putting his hand on his aching head.
"Ow…" I said, rubbing my forehead and Danny and I groaned. "Gah…" I opened my eyes and looked at the stage. "Shit."
Danny and I turned an intangible blue and phases through the ground.
On the stage, Ember's backup axe player and drummer are playing as Ember steps up to the microphone again with the spotlight following her.
On the floor of the stage, Danny and I phased up through it. Ember opens her mouth to sing until Danny's glove peeks in to swipe it away from her as her. Her eyes pop open suddenly with stage fright.
Ember is looking angry.
"Sorry!" Danny said, holding the microphone stand in both hands. "No vocals in this number!" I looked at Danny and did a face palm. "Have you considered taking up mime?"
Ember jumps up into the air.
Danny is crouching with the microphone stand as Ember jumps in. Ember sweeps her guitar at Danny to knock him off his feet, but he jumps over it. They clash microphone to guitar.
Danny blocks Ember's guitar slice with the stand.
Danny is clubbing Ember with his microphone stand. Ember is blocking Danny with the guitar at her back.
Ember is attacking Danny and he is taking cover with the stand over his head, blocking the guitar.
Danny leans back in the turquoise action background bringing his stand back like a bat and screaming his head off like a maniac.
Ember brings her guitar back to bat it, also screaming like a maniac.
On the stage, as Ember and Danny both jump in, clashing their instruments in a way that produces a bright, astounding wave of blue light. They hold it as long as they can until there are both flung away.
On a part of the stage, Ember lands on her skull boots crouched low.
Danny's foot touches the floor. Ember jumps up again.
Ember screams as Danny holds up his stand. Ember clubs Danny with her guitar, causing him to fall backwards and the floorboards to bust up under the force of the smash.
On stage, Danny lands on his bottom with two bent halves of a microphone stand. He looks at them as the bottom half smolders.
"I'll let Danny handle it." I said, looking down at Ember's boots. "I didn't want to kiss Sam, but Danny needs to vent."
Ember drops her guitar on the ground as it smokes blue. Ember's hair in a question mark shape ending next to her head. She holds her fists over her head and charges pink energy, throwing her hands forward into two energy beams, screaming her head off.
Danny is on the floor, looking up in shock with his broken pole. The beams impact Danny and I, but we remain unharmed. Danny and I are inside a swirling, conical pink vortex, obviously trapped.
Jasmine and Paulina are in the crowd.
"Mindless teenage rebellion and a killer light show?" Jazz asked, looking at Paulina. "Is this an awesome concert or what?"
They pump their fists as everyone breaks out cheering again.
"Ember! Ember! Ember!" The crowd cheered, throughout the entire arena.
Ember is looking at a shocked Danny and I inside the vortex with her guitar on the floor.
"Hear that?" Ember asked, motioning to the audience. "They're chanting my name…" She raises her hands in strength. "...all over the world! I'm more popular than Zwei Wing!" She put her hands on her hips and lifts one hand and lets it blaze with pink energy. "The revolution will be televised!"
"Damn it! She's stronger than a Karma Noise." I said, and Danny and I are in the vortex.
"You're right. She's too strong. If we could just stop the crowd from chanting." Danny said, looking at the crowd pumping their hands in the air. "What do we do?"
"We need something horrible that will break the spell." I said, looking over at Danny. "Symphogear is too harmonic. We can't rely on them. We truly do need something horrible."
"Like…" Danny said, looking at Sam and Tucker backstage. "Sam kissing you, Jared!" Tucker had a dreamy smile as Danny and I looked at him. Danny's smirking and holding a microphone and I began to break down, laughing with relief. "Or worse." Danny prepares to chuck the microphone. "Tucker, sing! Take the mic and sing!"
Danny chucks the microphone and Tucker has his arms out to catch it.
"Danny's right, Tuck!" I said, looking at an unsure Tucker that was holding the microphone. "Sing Ember's theme song!"
"Wait, the two of you want me to sing?" Tucker asked, looking between Danny and I. "You both said I stink! Jared, you said I didn't sing as good as your friends from S.O.N.G!"
"Did we say that?" I asked, and Danny and I were in the vortex. "I didn't say you didn't sing as good as Symphogear. You're way better at singing compared to Hibiki, Miku, Tsubasa, Kanade, Chris, Maria, Shirabe, Kirika, and Serena! "
"Oh, uh…" Danny said, laughing and shrugging. "Jared's right! We-we were kidding!" He points his fingers. "You rock!" Danny lifts his arms. "You rock out loud!"
"You got this! You're awesome at singing, Tuck!" I said, excitedly.
"You got that…" Tucker said, holding out the microphone. "…right! I do sing better than Symphogear!"
On stage, there are two identical pink axe players, both of which along with the drummer and Ember have stopped playing. Danny and I are still stuck in the pink vortex. Tucker runs in and slides on his knees into the spotlight.
"Ember!" Tucker said, squawking off-key. "You will remember!" He is holding up the microphone. "Ember!" Tucker bows his head and holds up a finger. "One thing remains!" He raises his hand and waves it. "Ember!" Tucker puts his hand on his heart. "So warm and tender!"
The crowd is cheering 'Ember!' throughout the arena.
"You will remember my name!" Tucker yelled.
Suddenly, the entire crowd loses its focus as it is swamped with green sparkles.
One acne-faced red-hair boy puts a finger to his chin, "Ember?"
(Open POV)
Netherlands…
The two dancing Dutch men. They dance and cover their ears doing it.
Kyoto, Japan…
The Japanese women all cover their ears. One of them in a purple kimono with flowers reaches up for the samurai sword and chucks it at the TV.
"Hi-yah!" The Geisha said, angrily.
Saudi Arabia…
The Arabic crowd has them all scream and cover their ears.
Australia…
An Aborigine and a kangaroo are jumping on top of a cracked TV set. The gray-haired man with the earring is pointing his spear at it.
(Jared's POV)
Stage…
Ember runs up desperately.
"What? Wait!" Ember said, as her hair reduces to nothing. She raises her hands. "No, stop!"
Danny and I are standing like pencils in the pink vortex. The whole thing vanishes instantly. Danny and I run off.
Ember has her hands on her chin and a very, very small bun ponytail.
"No!" Ember said, running towards the audience. "Tell me who you love!" She looks at the disinterested crowd. "Come on, say it!" Ember falls onto her knees. "Say my name." She's crying out. "Say my name!"
Ember falls over next to Danny, holding the Fenton thermos in his crossed arms.
"That's it." I said, looking at Danny as Ember's eye twitches. "She's all yours."
"The only thing we're saying here is…" Danny said, thrusting out the thermos as it charges up blue. "…goodbye!"
The thermos blasts a blue capture beam. Ember is on the floor. The beam takes her. She shrieks as she is pulled up to it.
"What did you think of Ember?" I asked, while Danny is with the thermos.
Ember screams as she flows up the beam into the thermos.
"She wasn't bad." Danny said, as the thermos smokes blue, and he caps it. "But her song got annoying after a while."
Danny and I are onstage. We looked at Ember's backup band. The drummer vanishes with a blue pop, leaving the drum set. The axe player pops away. The keyboardist does, too, but leaves the keyboard behind. There are no skulls in front of it.
Danny turns forward and looks down.
"Uh, o-okay…" Danny said, turning and raises a palm. "…y-you can stop now."
Danny has a hand on his hip looking down at Tucker on the floor, still screaming into the microphone.
"Ember!" Tucker yelled, and Danny and I flew off over him. "One thing…"
Tucker stops suddenly as his eyes pop open.
Tucker stands up. His wig is removed somehow as he turns.
The crowd covered their ears. They all start cheering again.
Sam is backstage as Danny and I swoop in and change back to Danny Fenton and my human self in mid-air. We share a hug.
"Danny, Jared, that was awesome!" Sam said, while she, Danny, and I are hugging.
"It was." I said, happily. "Glad that worked."
Sam's eyes pop open. She steps back and blushes dreamily. Danny blushes, too.
"Uh, I guess Ember's spell hasn't quite worn off." Sam said,looking at Danny.
Tucker is without his wig, pointing his finger at Sam, ruining the moment, "You were never under Ember's spell."
Sam jabs Tucker in the stomach with her elbow. Tucker holds his shoulder as yellow and red stars pop around him. Danny is smiling. I started laughing, knowing that this adventure was a success.
(Open POV)
Classroom…
"These standardized test scores are the worst in school history." Lancer said, having his hand on a stack of papers.
Principal Ishiyama is standing next to Mr. Lancer. The black board behind him reads 'Homework Due Monday!!' and 'Learning is hip!' Everyone is in CramTastic helmets.
"No doubt due to the rampant late-night carousing prior to test day." Mr. Lancer said, holding up a loose-leaf paper with red pen reading '100 A+'. "However, one student's perfect score did manage to bring the entire school average up. And that's…" He perks up. "…good news for my bonus."
Mr. Lancer looks at Principal Ishiyama.
"Therefore, Tucker Foley is excused from this afternoon's mandatory CramTastic session." Principal Ishiyama said.
Tucker is with Danny and Sam looking at him. All of them are wearing CramTastic helmets. Tucker lifts his hands and throws off his helmet.
"Yes!" Tucker said, pointing his finger. "This would an example of irony: a literary device employing the incongruity between…" He points to the right. "…what might be expected…" Tucker puts down his hand. "…and what actually occurs."
Two girls in glasses, a red-head and a blonde, lean in with their fingers clasped adoringly.
"Tucker, we love you!" The girls said, excitedly.
Tucker wraps his arms around both as they all walk off.
"I don't suppose you or Jared could release Ember and get us out of this?" Sam asked, looking at Danny.
"Nope. Besides…" Danny said, leaning his head back. "…she's a little busy right now."
Ghost Portal….
There is a collection of floating islands of ice and snow surrounded by two rings of purple doors. Ember is walking forward with Klemper.
Klemper pumps up and down, "Ember! Ember!"
Ember has her arms wrapped around her making her appear cold and miserable.
Ember covers her ears, then puts her arms down as she screams shrilly, "Stop saying my name!"
Klemper continues chanting Ember's name throughout. All the floating ice islands as a wisp of wind with snow loops past.