(Open POV)
Outside Casper High school…
The sky is overcast and bleak, and a clock reads 1:00. There is a bright, orange pumpkin that has the words 'HAPPY HALLOWEEN' carved into it, with the bleachers nearby.
Suddenly, Danny's face lands in the pumpkin chin down, grunting in pain. The bottom part of the pumpkin shell is intact, but pieces of the shell and some pumpkin juice clutter Danny's face. Danny puts down a gloved hand and opens his green eyes, looking to the top-right corner in an expression of irritation.
Bleachers…
Danny is crouching down. An electric blue ghost eel is floating in front of Danny, his body cascading. The eel growls slightly. Danny stands up into a fighting stance and the eel has its body still cascading, and now it turns around to fly away.
Danny is assuming a fighter stance, standing on grass with some orange leaves on it. There is a picnic bench behind him, on a piece of concrete a foot tall. Casper High is nearby, behind a mesh fence. There is a banner hanging on it that reads 'Happy Halloween'. There are also two pumpkins, one with three identical circles for a face that is on the concrete next to the table, and another on the ground that has three identical triangles and a wide mouth on the ground next to Danny. Danny bends his knees down, clenching his fists and jumps up into flight.
Danny flies with his hair blown back and his arms both out and fingers open, a ghost tail cascading behind him. There is a street with a tree and a pole next to it and nearby is the ghost eel. The eel flies in that direction towards the tree; with Danny's glove reaching out from behind on the right side of the screen. Danny's gloved hands come in attempting to firmly grasp the eel's tail with a blue action shape added for emphasis as Danny grunts with effort.
The eel's tail is flying on the top-left corner, while Danny is flying in behind it, his hands on the tail. As they are both flying at the same speed, the tail slips out of Danny's hands. Danny looks down at his hands, which are in a cylindrical formation to show where the tail was, and reaches out his left handto grasp the tail in a fist, while his right hand flies off open-palmed to grab the tail as well. But the tail slips out of his fist again. Danny takes both of his aimless hands to clamp it down, but the eel's tail whacks him on the top of his head, forcing Danny to look down while his hands go down with it. Danny stops in mid-air, sitting with his knees bent, his right arm on the top of his head.
Amity Park…
There are buildings in the back and on the right, with streets to the left. The eel flies in front the bottom-right corner, seen from behind. When it is far back, it turns around to look at Danny mischievously.
"You're one slippery ghost eel, but I bet you don't know this trick!" Danny said, looking at Casper High campus. The school itself is in the far back, while the football field is in the front, with a mesh fence and a courtyard separating the two.
Danny is floating full-body, with his back arched forward in a fighter stance. Danny lifts his arms and bends his knees backward, his hands blazing with green ectoplasmic energy blasts. The force of the blasts knock him back as Danny is lying down in the air with his knees bent in front of him, lasers coming out of his hands.
The eel is smiling as the blast reaches it, the eel glows green for a second, just absorbing the blow without a second thought, with a purring growl. The eel then straightens its neck back, zooming in on its face as its solid green eyes change to a blazing solid red.
"Oookay. Maybe you do." Danny said, looking at the eel's red, blazing eyes. Two red lasers emanate out of them, toward him. The screen flashes with light.
Danny's left leg bent high and his right one bent low, both his arms outstretched in front of him, trying to brace himself for the impact. Danny screams in pain as the red laser blasts him and he is flying away. Danny is flung backwards on his back, as he gets closer to the school.
Casper High…
In a hallway, a banner is hanging that reads 'Hall-of-Ween' in yellow and orange letters. There are random decorations on the walls, from paper jack-o-lanterns, paper bed sheet ghosts, a skull head, and a bat. There are orange streamers on the top of the walls. There is a red-haired boy hanging up a purple poster and a brunette girl is pasting on some white thing. An Asian girl is carrying a purple poster, and a jock with a red-haired girl is holding up a ladder to an Asian boy to put up some orange streamers. There is a ladder to the right of the hallway.
Dash is holding a wet paintbrush with purple paint on it in his left hand, while he holes a white poster with the words 'Happy Halloween' painted in purple text on it. There are two bats on the top, while there is one pumpkin on the bottom, both orange. A purple can of paint is on the ladder next to him.
On the top of the paint can, it reads 'Quality Paint'. Paint is dripping off the side of the can. Dash's arm is dipping his brush into the can, letting it go to sink into the paint. Dash is admiring his job well done, holding the poster with both hands, the non-colored side in view. He turns to the wall to hang up the poster.
At a row of lockers, Danny phases through the wall in full ghost mode, head first, lying down. At the ladder, Danny slams his back into the ladder with the paint on it.
"Oof!" Danny yelled, while with a flash of light, he transforms back to human.
Danny falls to the floor. The can has been flung to the right. The can of paint falls on Dash's's back, drenching him in purple paint. Dash looks back at his jacket, and then he growls in anger. Danny is sitting on the floor with his knees bent up to his chest. One of his hands is planted on the floor while the other is on his head, with dizzy sparkles popping near it. Suddenly, Dash's arm grabs Danny by the shirt. Danny's arms go flying as he shouts in surprise. Dash is holding Danny by his shirt, staring down menacingly at him.
"Defacing my letter jacket?" Dash asked, looking at Danny. "That's a violation punishable by wedgie!"
Dash is holding Danny by his shirt. Danny is looking up in terror, with his two arms free.
"Grapes of Wrath, break it up!" Mr. Lancer said, angrily.
Danny and Dash both look up. Lancer has both his arms akimbo. There is a clipboard showing something in his right hand.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't 'suspend' you both for fighting on school property." Lancer said.
Lancer is on the right side of the hallway, with Danny on the left and Dash in the middle, both boys facing him. To the left of Danny is the ladder and the spilled paint next to Danny's feet, Dash's poster is on the wall behind them. Lancer is still holding a blue clipboard in his right hand.
"Uh…" Dash said, looking at Lancer. "…I'm a football star?"
"True." Lancer said, raising his blue clipboard in his right hand, looking down at it. "Still, I must at least 'pretend' to be fair, and you two need a more creative outlet…" Danny and Dash are exchanging looks. "…for your aggressions." Lancer looked down at Danny and Dash. "As you know…" He smiles with a roguish impression. "..every year one of the faculty puts together…" Lancer holds up his clipboard at Danny and Dash, causing the two to lean back. "…a haunted house party at the abandoned…" On the clipboard, there is a picture of an old, spooky mansion taped to it, and an orange pumpkin on it. A yellow sticky note has 'haunted house' printed on it in red text, with an arrow pointing left to the photo. "Townsend place." There is a picture of a smiling Lancer. An orange arrow pointing right shows 'My Turn' in purple text. "This year, it's my turn." He is holding up the clipboard in his right hand; Dash and Danny are looking blankly at him. Dash's poster is in the background with a pumpkin and a ghost. "And I am bound and determined…" Lancer stands up straight. "…to decorate it better than Ms. Tetslaff…" He points at the clipboard for emphasis. "…did last year."
Danny, Dash and Lancer jump up and look over at a large woman at the other end of the hallway. Her fist clenches. Ms. Tetslaff is a red-haired woman with a white shirt and a whistle around her neck; clearly the gym teacher.
"Fat chance." Ms. Tetslaff said, holding up a photo of herself in a pink dress, pearl necklace and with green skin and black eyeliner. "You'll never outdo my Franken-Gurkard-Stein monster."
Ms. Tetslaff walks away, revealing Tucker, Sam, and Jared behind her.
Tucker is on the left, Sam on the right, and Jared is in the middle. There are orange streamers and a paper skull on the wall behind them.
"Welcome aboard 'Team Lancer' gentlemen." Lancer said, leaning back. "Scariest room avoids detention." He leans forward pointing a finger at him, Dash crouches back. "Football star or not."
Tucker, Sam, Danny, and Jared are in front of the ladder. Tucker is on the left, Sam and Jared are in the middle, Danny on the right. Danny turns to face his friends.
"Scary?" Danny asked, lifting his hands. "Haunted house?" He clenches his hands into fists. "This is great!" Dash is standing behind him facing right but looking to the left at Danny. "I am going to… Danny crosses his arms, while Dash turns and puts his arms on his hips. "...totally kick his butt!"
At the lockers, Dash pops in behind Danny.
"You think so, Fen-tons-o-fun?" Dash asked, looking at Danny. "How about a little side-bet?"
"Oh no…" Jared said, looking at Danny and Dash. "This won't be good."
Danny is on the left, Dash on the right. Danny thrusts his arms back as he looks up at Dash with a smug look.
"Sure." Danny said, happily. "If I win…" He looks down and rolls eyes back, trying to think of something. "…you have to…" Danny looks up. "...run through the school parking lot in your underwear!"
"Okay." Dash said, on his knees. "And when you taste defeat…" He thrusts back and puts his hand in his jacket. "…you have to eat…" He thrusts out a pair of underwear with 'Dash' written on it, full of holes and smoking a trail of green, cartoony stink. "…THESE!"
On the underwear, 'Dash' is written on it more clearly, and a label in the back of the strap reads 'Tighty Whitey'.
"I knew why I didn't like it…" Jared said, looking over at Danny, Sam and Tucker. "It was that."
Danny is in front on the right, Tucker, Sam, and Jared are in front of the ladder, Tucker on the left and Sam on the right. All four scream in horror. Danny thrusts a hand across his chest, Tucker, Sam, and Jared put their hands to their mouths in shock. Tucker puts his hands down a few inches, Sam puts hers up, and Jared looks down at the floor in disgust.
"I don't know what's scarier. The underwear, or the fact he carries them around in his coat!" Tucker said, terrified.
(Jared's POV)
Fenton Works…
"What's the plan?" I asked, looking at a sketchpad with a skeleton penciled on it, with Danny's hand holding a pencil drawing on it and another hand on the left holding the pad. "You have to do something for Ruby's birthday. I mean for Halloween."
"What if we did something with… skeletons?" Danny asked, as he says this, he draws Dash being choked by the already drawn skeleton. We are in Danny's room. Danny is sitting on his bed with legs crossed, Tucker is sitting to the right on a swivel chair with his arms on the back rest and his legs on either side of the support beam, and I am lying down on the ground, playing Paper Mario:The Thousand Year Door on my Nintendo Switch. Danny shows the sketchpad to Tucker and I. "See? H-How scary is that?"
"On a scale of not to 10? Not." Tucker said, sadly.
"Skeletons? Really? We watch a lot of thrillers together." I said, frowning. "And skeletons are the best you've got. We fight ghosts all the time. This should be 'Child's Play' for you."
Danny tears out the page with his right hand, puts the pad down, and crumples it up. He tosses it into his garbage can. There is an overflowing trash bin next to Danny's dresser. The wad of paper lands on the pile and bounces to the floor, then bounces a second time.
"I know, Jared, I know." Danny said, standing up. "How 'bout this?"
There are rockets hanging from the ceiling. Danny thrusts up his arms. A blue ring sprouts from his torso. Danny goes ghost and is hovering over the bed. He puts his arms down and turns invisible, putting his feet together and sinking into the bed.
Tucker is looking skeptical. He lowers his left eyebrow. Tucker is still sitting on the right. I rolled my eyes and let out a massive sigh, knowing how cringey this is. To the left of Danny's bed is a nightstand with a lit lamp, three books, and a skateboard. A rocket hangs from the ceiling. The sheet raises itself and floats above the bed.
"Wheee-oooo…" Danny said, continuing to make sound effects like these throughout.
At the doorway, there is a basketball hoop over it and a TV set to the left with a sign that has an arrow pointing right on it. Sam walks in with her furry purple spider backpack.
Tucker is still sitting on the chair, I am still lying down on the ground, and Danny is still making fake ghostly moans while the bed sheet floats.
Sam walks past without flinching, "Lame."
As Sam passes, the sheet drops from a hanging formation to a standing-straight formation, turning to the left.
"It really is lame." I said, looking at the sheet. "And this is Little Red's birthday for crying out loud."
Danny's face becomes visible. He takes the sheet off his head with his left hand.
"Oh, man!" Danny said, and with a flash of light near Danny's chin, two rings appear as he turns back to a human. "Halloween's a week away…
Tucker is still sitting in the swivel chair backwards on the left, I am lying down on the floor in the middle of the room, and Sam has taken a seat on the chest in front of Danny's bed on the right, her left hand on the bed rail and her right one on her backpack strap. Danny drops down on the bed back in an Indian-style sitting position with his right hand on his chin and his left one on his knee on top of the sheet which is no longer neatly made.
"And I still don't have a…" Danny said, raising his arms, looking up. "…clue what I'm gonna do for my…" He puts his right hand back on his chin and his left hand back on his knee. "…haunted house room."
"Sam, think about Chuckie, Freddy Krueger, and Pennywise." I said, looking up from my Nintendo Switch at Sam. "Three good horror themed villains."
"Right." Sam said, moving her left hand toward her backpack, getting it off her back. She sifts through her furry-spider backpack with two eyes, a fanged smile and a pocket in the back. "And that helps lead to my point. Which is why I picked this up at the old bookshop where I…" She pulls out a light brown/tan book with a lot of orange rectangles on it and looks at it. "…like to skulk and lurk."
Danny is sitting on his bed. He thrusts his arm off-screen to grab the book, looking in astonishment. The book reads 'Chronicles of the Fright Knight' in large, orange letters.
"'Chronicles of the Fright Knight'?" Danny asked, opening the book to the first page.
There is an intricate black-and-white drawing of the Fright Knight riding a horse with bat wings and brandishing a burning sword. The text beneath it reads 'The Fright Knight, riding upon his ghoulish steed, the Nightmare, is notorious as the Spirit of (Halloween). With his ghostly broadsword he appears-'.
"Yup. He's no Jack Skellington." I said, looking at the drawing to admire the more details from within the book. "But Fright Knight is cool."
"He is. He's the age-old spirit of Halloween. Legend has it, that if his sword…" Sam said, looking at the sword. "'The Soul Shredder', cuts through you…" She is holding her arms on the bedstead. "…you get teleported to a dimension…" Sam lifts her left arm. "…where you live out your worst fear."
The book has another image of the Fright Knight riding his metallic unicorn with bat wings while brandishing the Soul Shredder, this time from the front. The caption reads '(The Fright) Knight'. Danny's hand turns the page. The next page is also a drawing, a map of some kind. On the top there is a banner that reads 'Fright Knight's Lair'. There is a large, spooky castle in the center on a floating rock island, with four other floating rock islands nearby. I looked at the castle for a better look.
"Wait a minute…" Danny said, reading the book, he looked up in surprise. "I've seen this before! Jared, load up your copy now."
"Right." I said, loading up an augmented reality copy of the 'Map of the Ghost Zone (in progress)' in red letters from my iPhone 15 Pro Max. I moved the hologram over with my hands to be next to the map in the book. "There you go."
"Jared. That is more detailed than my drawing." Danny said, looking at the image in the book. "But you do have a copy of my map."
"I do." I said, looking at Danny's map, which looks identical, save for the fact that it has no shading. Places on the map surrounding the Fright Knight's lair are labeled in red letters: 'Skulker's lair' on the top-right, 'Walker's prison' on the bottom right, and 'Klemper's realm' on the bottom left. "I kept the spoilers from you on this map on purpose."
"Thank you." Danny said, looking up. "Look familiar?"
Tucker and Sam are hanging on the bedstead, Tucker on the left and Sam on the right. They are looking down.
"It matches the map we've been making of…" Tucker said, while he and Sam look up. "…the Ghost Zone!"
"Why did you keep out spoilers?" Sam asked, looking at me.
"Because. We're still early on." I said, as Tucker and Sam are in the same poses with Sam's backpack at her feet. "And I know what's coming next."
Danny turns around, Tucker and Sam stand up straight.
"This is great! He's a ghost…" Danny said, happily. "…and he's the spirit of Halloween?" He picks up the book and looks in it again. "That means I can take the best ideas from…"
Inside the book is a head-and-shoulders photograph of the Fright Knight, the with text underneath: 'One slash of his ghostly sword, 'The Soul Shredder', and the victim of the cut is transported to an (di)mension to live out th(eir)- for all eter(nity).'
I placed the hologram back inside my phone and put it into sleep mode.
"This guy and fuse them…" Danny said, looking at a page of the book. " …into my haunted house room!"
(Open POV)
Amity Park…
A street has a normal sidewalk with a broken, metal gate and a jack-o-lantern. A pair of kids, one of them a bed sheet ghost with jeans and shoes and the other a girl in a witch's outfit with a green nose and a broom holding a treat bag walk past. There is a spooky-looking mansion with black trees and tombstones. Jared looked out of the window over at the house for a moment, before looking down at the floor again.
(Jared's POV)
Fenton Works…
An image from the book has the Fright Knight sitting on a throne. The picture gets thrust away downwards to reveal a model of the Fright Knight made with a bucket helmet and cardboard on a green chair, complete with a yellow inflatable sword.
"And by 'fuse'-" Sam said, looking at the room.
There are three hay-stuffed skeletons hanging on the right, two more hanging on either side of the green 'throne' with green buckets under them. On the left there is a makeshift brick fireplace with a paper fire taped on a stand with a pile of purple skulls lying next to it, and a white sheet resembling a ghost hanging on top with the word 'BOO' painted on it in orange letters. On the floor in front of the throne is a rug that looks like a skull.
"You meant…" Sam said, holding the book open and looking ahead as Tucker and I are in the middle looking blankly, and Danny, looking at the others with a smile. "'...totally rip off'?"
"You totally did, Danny." I said, looking at the head of one of the hay-stuffed skeletons, and then walking over to the three of them. "I can't believe he did that."
"Same." Sam said, looking at a purple rubber spider hanging, there are three near the throne, the left-most one bouncing on the string. "Did things change from how you remember them?"
"For this?" I asked, looking at the head of a green teddy bear, zooming out to reveal that it's head was torn off and put on a stand, with the green bear in the center, a purple bear on the left, and a yellow lion on the right. "I was hoping so with the horror movie drops. But unfortunately, it didn't happen."
Jasmine is in her room where it's all pink, with a red guitar next to her window. She picks up her decapitated stuffed animals.
"DANNY!" Jazz yelled.
"Ooo. You're in trouble." I said, looking at Danny, while walking over to Sam and Tucker. "Jazz is furious."
"Well…" Danny said, lifting his arms. "…it's not about being original…" He puts down his right arm and points with his left one. "…it's about not eating Dash's underwear."
The room has the throne and the fireplace. Danny walks away and he jumps in the air, goes ghost, and overshadows the Fright Knight model, which glows with a green aura.
The model is standing up with its arms in the air as the bucket head shakes around.
"I AM THE FRIGHT KNIGHT! TREMBLE BEFORE THE SOUL SHREDDER!" Danny said, with a gruff voice.
Danny takes out the yellow sword from the hilt and brandishes it, zooming out as he thrusts out the sword. It jiggles.
Tucker and I are standing while looking with a bored expression. The Fright Knight model jumps in on Tucker waving the sword.
"It slices." Danny said, with a salesman tone and bops the sword on Tucker's head, causing the sword to squeak. "…it dices…" He slams the end of the sword into Tucker's stomach, and lifts it up, bonking it on Tucker's head a couple more times. "...it creates your worst fear!" I am looking at the model while Danny thrusts the sword down near Tucker's sensitive area, the sword jiggles. He still with a salesman tone. "Now, how much would ya pay?"
Tucker has the sword in front of his face.
"For this thing?" Tucker asked, pinching the sword, it toots and a yellow musical note sprouts from it. "About 59 cents." He turns around, closes his eyes, and lifts his hand between himself and the sword. "Now if you'll excuse us…"
"Yup." I said, looking at the empty green throne. The model Fright Knight sits back down in it, Danny's ghostly form comes out and regains visibility, flying away. "We have something to do."
I looked at the fireplace in the back of the room. Sam is standing near the back with the book in her hand. Tucker and I lifted empty pumpkins for Halloween candy.
"We're a little late…" Tucker said, as Danny flies towards us from the right and changes back. "…to start scamming some free candy."
"Yeah. I dressed up like Little Red for a reason." I said, and Tucker and I turned around to face Sam and Danny as Danny landed on the floor. "It's her birthday. And I love her Volume 1-3 outfit."
Tucker thrusts out his PDA with a map on it with me looking down at my Ruby Rose Halloween outfit.
"Got our route planned out for…" Tucker said, while Sam and Danny are looking at the PDA. "OCP."
The map reads "Amity Park Route", featuring a blue line that zags past a lot of green rectangles next to a red zone.
"Optimum Chocolate Payload." Tucker said, pointing at the PDA. "You want to stay clear of the red zone."
Tucker puts the PDA down.
"You really do. There's nothing but fresh fruit and granola bars in the red zone." I said, holding my replica of Crescent Rose. "That part of town sucks."
"So, Tucker, where's your costume? Jared obviously dressed himself up as Ruby Rose." Sam said, looking at Tucker.
With one arm, he is holding the pumpkin basket, with the other, Tucker takes out a pair of glasses with a big nose and puts it on over his glasses.
"I decided to not be like Jared." Tucker said, looking at Danny and Sam who were exchanging glances. "Gotta travel light…" He turns the other way and points a finger. "…if you wanna maximize your haul." Tucker puts his hand down and starts to walk to the hallway with me "C'mon, baby!" Tucker runs toward the doorway with me and proceeds to open it. "Hit me and Jared with something sweet!"
On the other side of the door, the shadows of Jack and Maddie are on the door. Tucker opens the door up with glee, then suddenly looks up as a sound of a bazooka charging is heard.
Tucker looks surprised as a stream of green foam hits him, causing him to yelp in surprise and get knocked backwards towards me.
Jack and Maddie are at the doorway, both with their hoods up are smiling proudly and both holding bazookas. Jack jumps into the room, with a giant metal cylinder on wheels following in after him.
"Of all the things!" I said, looking at Jack's hooded face.
"Haha!" Jack cheered, as two windshield wipers clean his goggles as the lenses turn from green to blue. "Look at that, baby! The Fenton Foamer works…" He turns the other way. "…like a charm!"
Jack is holding the bazooka. Maddie walks towards Jack, holding a sensor device.
"I know!" Maddie said, looking up at Jack. "There was a ghost reading in this very room seconds ago…" She looks the other way to the ceiling. "…and now the room…" Maddie looks back at the device in her hands. "…is clean!"
Tucker, covered in globs of green foam, walks away with me. The foam bubbles continuously.
"Speak for yourself." Tucker said, grabbing my hand and looking backwards. "If anybody needs us…" He walks off with me, Jack and Maddie turn to watch us. "We'll be in a different doorway every 38 seconds."
"Yup. This is going to be a long Halloween night." I said, holding my trick and treat basket and my replica of Crescent Rose. "A really long night."
(Open POV)
Jack pokes his head in from above to talk with Maddie, pointing his finger.
"Aren't they a little old to be…" Jack said, and Maddie turns to face him. "…walking around in public in stupid costumes?"
Danny walks up to the fireplace, "Mom? Dad? What are you doing?"
Danny is talking to Maddie and Jack, Jack is carrying a bazooka attached to a metal barrel, Sam is off to the side with her book. There is a purple spider and a hay-stuffed skeleton nearby.
"Decontaminating the…" Maddie said, thrusting an arm out. "…area, son!:
"You know how ecto-storms always flare up around Halloween, Danny." Jack said, happily.
Danny is holding up a hand.
"This is all very riveting…" Danny said, putting down his hand and looks down. "…and by riveting I mean 'Dull' with a capital 'D'..." He looks up and points his thumb over his shoulder. "…but you guys need to leave before Lancer thinks you're helping me."
Danny looks at Jack and Maddie.
"Lancer? Hey, this isn't some sort of anti-detention project, is it?" Jack asked.
Danny looked at Sam who was further off.
"No! No, no, no!" Danny said, walking to the left with his arms raised, Sam follows and at the doorway, Danny is walking his parents to the door. "Um, I'm just starting to get interested in ghosts…" He thrusts out his arms. "…like my old man!"
Jack smiles proudly.
"Finally! If I didn't consider it a sign of weakness…" Jack said, and his lip wavers, his head turns around and water builds up in his goggles. "…I'd weep with joy!"
Jack continues to cry, little windshield wipers wipe away the tears as he walks out the door. The door slams.
Danny is standing bored. He strikes a pose, bending his back and knees while thrusting his arms out at his sides. With a flash of light, two rings appear on Danny's waist. At one of Danny's sides. His arm and body flicker black and white until a blue ring of light passes over it and changes to a black jumpsuit with a white glove.
Danny's feet flicker a little until another blue ring passes over them changing to black leggings with white boots.
Danny's back has a blue ring passes over it from bottom to the top, changing Danny's outfit to the black and white jumpsuit, also turning his hair white. He turns around with a smirk at the camera. He is now in a ready pose.
Sam is on the ground holding the book as Danny flies away.
"Decorated room…" Danny said, floating, looking downward and pointing behind his shoulder with his thumb. "…faked-out parents…" He lifts his chest up, holding his arms outstretched from his sides. "Only thing left to do is to check out what Dash's lame theme is…" Danny crosses his arms and closes his eyes. "…then spend the rest of the night gloating!"
Danny flies downwards to the ground. He looks at the model Fright Knight on the green throne. Danny swoops past and grabs the yellow inflatable sword. Danny looked at the spooky hallway, complete with a tattered rug, cobwebs, old picture frames, a purple sofa, and a lamp. He phases intangibly out of the door on the left, invisible although the yellow sword is still visible. Danny drifts to the back of the hallway and turns right.
Dash's house…
There is a door that reads 'Dash's Spa of Doom' in orange letters. There is a purple lantern coated in cobwebs to the right of it. Danny comes from the left carrying the sword and pauses in front of it, turning invisible and poking his head through the door. On the other side of the door, Danny's head makes it through from the other side.
There is a dummy in blue and white athletic clothes being crushed under a giant red dumbbell. Another dummy is being hanged by a jump rope yet is sitting down on the floor, another red dumbbell in the foreground.
A dummy has the tongue sticking out, a blue '7' on his shirt, on a bench holding a red dumbbell. Zoom out to reveal his shins have been removed.
Another pale dummy with a shirt that has a blue '4' on it and a blue baseball cap. It has X-ed out eyes and his tongue sticking out, with bones sticking out of his severed arms. It's sitting in a chair, with two red dumbbells on either side both with arms that have bones sticking out of them attached and grasping them, as if his arms fell off.
A treadmill has a skeleton made from bones drawn on cardboard wearing a red baseball cap is held by strings and is running on it, with it's arms in a 90-degree hanging down position.
There is a boxing ring with a jack-o-lantern next to it. Two identical skeletons on strings with blue shorts and boxing gloves are sparring, the left one attempts to punch the right one but the right one leans back to dodge. The right one punches the left one in the head. The left one suddenly lifts his arm really high above his head knocks the other skeleton's skull off, sending it flying away.
At the floor, two teal shoes on the right have bones sticking out of them. The skull lands next to them. Two legs in torn purple pants and white high-tops walk in from the left and kick the skull away. Dash is in a green letter jacket, a green baseball cap, with eyeliner and a fake scar on his cheek. He is smiling proudly with his arms akimbo.
Lancer is holding a pencil to his chin and a clipboard in the other. He begins to write on it.
"The Spa of Doom?" Lancer asked, looking around the whole room. "Quite impressive, Mr. Baxter."
There is a robot structure on a circular path. Someone that looks like a dorky, small kid with thick glasses and a bow tie is being chased by a bigger, beefier kid with red eyes, sharp teeth, and a towel. It runs on the track until it pauses to slap the dorky kid with the towel. It does this throughout.
"And I must admit, your knowledge of audio-animatronic technology…" Lancer said, turning around and writing on his clipboard. "…is very impressive." He looks at Dash. "What else do you have for me?"
The robotic stand and the dead guy on the bench is in the background at the far side of the room.
"A twenty-minute presentation about…" Dash said, turning around and walks to the left, Lancer followed. "…the horrors of Athlete's Foot!"
Dash and Lancer walk away. Danny invisibly creeps up behind them, holding the yellow sword, which is still visible.
There is a rain track with a giant red high-top with a pumpkin on top of it. Dash and Lancer walk up to it.
"Well, let's make it snappy." Mr Lancer said, sitting down on the seat from the right holding the clipboard and writing on it, Dash jumps in from the left. "My guests arrive at midnight, you know."
The shoe takes off. The shoe keeps moving left on the track, passing a tan punching bag.
"You will love the Tunnel of Fungus!" Dash said, and the shoe is far away from him and Lancer.
An invisible Danny is standing on the tracks, holding the yellow non-invisible sword. He turns visible again.
"Man, that is cool!" Danny cheered, looking down at his hands where the yellow sword is lying prone, and it deflates with a high-pitched hiss, falling over Danny's wrists. He looked at the deflated sword. "And man, that's not! I have to do something fast!" He looked at Dash's feral underpants in a glass case on a table. Next to it is a blue placard that reads 'Reserved for Fenton'. "….or it's Tighty-Whiteys…" Danny looked at the underwear. "…for dessert."
Danny holds up the limp sword in his left hand, and then looks up with a smirk.
Fenton Portal…
The limp, yellow sword has been disposed of on the floor. Danny looked at the portal and a part of the Ghost Zone where purple doors drift past as the screen moves forward. When there are no more doors, the screen pans down. Danny enters from very far, lying horizontally and holding a piece of paper.
Ghost Zone…
Danny is holding his map. On the left it reads 'Map' and on the right it reads 'Ghost Zone'. Danny looks left, then right. He holds the map up to his face and looked down at it.
The penciled drawings and labeled locations are the way they were before, 'Skulker's lair' on the top-right, 'Walker's prison' on the bottom right, and 'Klemper's realm' on the bottom left. The map pulls away to show a rock island with an ominous red castle on it, along with a few other red castles on other islands on the top-left, top-right, and bottom-right of the screen. Danny looks at the center castle. He is drifting toward the castle, his arms hanging, one of them holding the map in a fist. His form rotates as it moves forward.
Castle….
It also rotates as a bolt of lightning and it becomes straight-up.
"Desperate times…" Danny said, about to enter through a window. His face faces front and turns to face the back as he enters. "…call for desperate measures."
Danny is holding the map in one hand. As he drifts forward, his body becomes shrouded in shadow. In a room in the castle, there is a window, and a ray of light peeks in from the top. Danny comes in from afar from one side of the screen, then stops. He turns vertical, falling toward the ground, passing some chains in the foreground as he hits the floor. There are torches burning on the wall, and a staircase in front of him.
Danny is standing on the hexagonal tiled-floor, holding the paper in one hand, looking around, in a patch of green-yellow ghostly light. At the stairs, torches hang on either side of them, and many look broken and old. They turn to the left, then come back on the right to reach a doorway on the top.
At the staircase, there are some chains in the foreground. Danny drifts higher and higher following the stairs.
Danny has the paper in his left hand. He is looking with a stoic expression until he turns to the left in shock. An axe quickly swings, entering from the left and exiting right. This time, three blades swoop in from the right and exit left.
Danny is still floating and looking to the left. A blade passes overhead, he ducks with a grunt. He then stretches his torso longer so his legs are in place but his body is farther away. He yelps in pain, clutching his side. Danny looks down at his hand-covered side.
"Oh, right." Danny said, removing his hand, revealing a small gash in his side and a pool of green, ectoplasmic goo on his glove. "Rule number one." He thrusts back. "In the Ghost Zone…" Danny turns and clenches his fist. "…ghosts can be hurt. That explains why Jared didn't turn ghost and followed me in here."
Danny flies towards the stairs. He is still flying forward until he stops and looks straight ahead, shocked. Three more blades come from the left and swoop toward the right. As the blades swoop from the back to the front, Danny performs several flips on the stairs.
At the top of the staircase, a red wooden door opens. Danny performs one last back flip through the door as it slams shut and a blade cuts through it.
On the other side of the door, the blade is sticking out through the wood. Danny gets up from the floor and stands with his back to the door with a scared expression, his arms out at his sides keeping the door shut.
There is a hallway of skeletons, all holding spears and pumpkins. Two skeletons have spears and pumpkins. Another two skeletons with pumpkins and spears, the closer one with the head and the farther one with the legs.
Spikes suddenly sprout from the walls. Danny is scared as the spiked walls begin to close in. Danny's eyes blink. Danny is looking at the entire hallway with the red wooden door at the end of the hall. He looks ready to tackle this obstacle and takes flight. Danny flies through it as the walls close in. He was flying through the spiky room.
"Wait a minute! That's right!" Danny said, leaning on one side and looks toward one of the spiky walls closing in. "Ghosts can be hurt here…"
A flash of white light emits from Danny's torso. The walls of the room are about to collide, and a flash of light is seen from the gap. The walls slam shut. Danny Fenton walks out of the walls in a blue intangible form with a smile, looking back on the room.
"...but humans have it made!" Danny said, walking off with a carefree attitude.
There is a large room with torches. The tall doors open. Danny is a tiny speck compared to them. Danny blinks and looks forward, gasping. There are two skeletons littering the ground. Danny sees a glowing green sword placed upright inside a purple jack-o-lantern. This is the Soul Shredder Sam was talking about.
Danny walks toward the sword. Danny's legs pass several limp skeletons, one in the foreground and two in the background. He accidentally steps on a skeleton, the bones break to pieces and crunch underfoot. With Danny's top half, Danny looks down in careful shock and turns his head, continuing to tread forward.
Danny carefully approaches the glowing sword in the pumpkin, two skeletons are lying prone on either side. He stops and looks intently at the sword.
The green, glowing sword has a small pumpkin on the bottom of the hilt. Danny's face is behind the sword. Danny slowly lifts up a hand then grabs the hilt while bracing himself. His eyes shift about the room. Realizing nothing's wrong yet, he puts his empty arm down and relaxes. He then uses his other arms to grab the hilt of the Soul Shredder and pull it out. Danny struggles. At the base of the pumpkin, the sword gets pulled out vertically with some purple pumpkin residue on it. Danny pulls it out, grunting in effort.
There is a skeleton lying in the door as Danny stumbles backwards, carrying the weight of the Soul Shredder with one hand. The sword falls lower with weight, and Danny bends over, placing his other hand on the hilt to stabilize it and prevent it from dropping. Purple residue drips from the Soul Shredder.
Danny is looking down on the sword and lifts it up, looking at it in awe. He smiles, having retrieved his prize.
There are a couple of lying skeletons. All of a sudden, they produce a green aura and lift their heads, growling. Danny is holding the sword. He rolls his eyes back.
"This place gives me the creeps." Danny said, holding the sword upright with glee. "Which means it'll scare the pants offa Lancer!"
Danny is looking back, holding the sword. He turns around and saunters carelessly toward the exit with the sword waving in one hand like one would carry a baseball bat. Danny pauses and gasps in fear.
Danny is holding the sword and seemingly dwarfed by seven skeletons twice his height. The skeletons all crouch down to the floor, Danny jumps back with a yelp of surprise. Another skeleton crouches to the floor, obscuring all the other skeletons.
Danny falls through the air backwards and lands on his back, still clutching the Soul Shredder. The shadows of four skeletons encroach upon him.
There are five pairs of skeleton legs. The heads of the men look at Danny, who rose up.
"You guys need to eat more red meat." Danny said, while a flash of light comes from Danny's torso as his body flickers.
Two light-blue rings encompass his body, transforming him into Danny Phantom. He takes a fighter's stance, lifting one leg like a ballerina pose, and extending both his arms out with the hands hanging limp.
"Hi-ya!" Danny yelled, taking a second pose, this time holding the sword over head with his other arm extended crossing his body, his palm flat with all the fingers spaced.
The leg on the floor hasn't moved, but the leg in the air is now extended.
There are seven of the skeletons standing upright. They all raise their arms, bend their knees to the floor, and bow down. Danny is making his stupid pose with the bowing skeletons in front of him. He gets out of his pose and stands.
"Uh…" Danny said, looking bold and disciplinary. "That's right!" He closes his eyes and smiles, his nose high. "You know badness when you see it." The room starts to rumble and quake. Danny gasps in surprise. "What?"
There is the empty purple pumpkin on the altar. A column of green smoke rises from it and then spirals in a horizontal ring that gradually grows larger, encompassing the ceiling higher breaks into debris flying upward as if something or someone is breaking through it from the bottom.
The green cloud envelops the screen. A shadow of a flaming knight grows visible. Bats fly through the cloud as it begins to dissipate from the front, revealing the Fright Knight in the back with green smoke billowing in the background. He's everything Sam's book depicted him as, with his armor, flaming gauntlets, and purple cape and hood of fire. He raises his arms and yells out a cry of freedom.
At the Fright Knight's legs were the full body of the Fright Knight, his arms ready at his sides. Green smoke continues to billow.
The back of the sanctum has seven skeletons and Danny carrying the Soul Shredder in front of them, blocking the door. Danny's expression is of total fear, gaping. Danny is holding the sword. The Fright Knight is far off, standing in front of a ruined floor of debris. Green smoke billows.
"Fool!" The Fright Knight said, pointing a finger at Danny with an outstretched arm "You have…" He puts his arm back down. "…released me." He extends his hand towards Danny. "Return to me my sword, so my reign of terror can begin anew!"
Danny is between the Fright Knight's bowed legs in the foreground, still clutching the sword. The skeletons are still guarding the door.
"I-I can bring the sword back by midnight…" Danny said, his eyes rolling to the left looking at the floor.
Danny looked at Fright Knight's helmet.
"It was not a request, whelp!" Fright Knight yelled, crouching on one knee and braces his arms out. "It was a demand!"
The Fright Knight jumps up towards Danny who is looking up. The skeletons' feet are behind Danny. Danny quickly turns around and flies off right before the Fright Knight lands his fist where Danny was, creating an impact so forceful all the skeletons' feet are displaced and jump up.
Danny is flying up higher and higher with his ghost tail cascading behind him, holding the sword with both hands in front. The Fright Knight and his flaming purple cape are on the floor below him. Danny looks up and gasps.
Danny extends one of his arms to send a burst of ectoplasmic energy out. The blast reaches the window, shattering the glass. Danny flies through it quickly, using it as an improvised escape route.
Ghost Zone…
Outside the red castle of the Fright Knight, Danny flies from it holding the sword in both arms in a vertical position and flies away from the castle.
Castle…
Fright Knight looks at a small, orange jack-o-lantern. The gauntlet of the Fright Knight reaches down to grab it. He gets up from the floor and examines the pumpkin's face. He then tosses it to the left, as the pumpkin flies past. It lands with an impact that bursts it to pieces, releasing an explosion of green smoke. As the smoke clears, the Fright Knight's bat-winged unicorn-horned steed, the Nightmare, as Sam's book calls it. The Fright Knight jumps onto the saddle and takes the reins and he looks at the Nightmare bucking like a bronco and whinnying.
The Nightmare takes flight vertically until it flies away to the outside of the castle.
Ghost Zone…
Outside the castle, the Nightmare emanates from it as the screen pans left, the steed growing larger as it gets closer to the exit. The Fright Knight looks at a dark purple sky with a crescent moon obscured by a few clouds. The clouds drift over the full moon.
Amity Park…
At a row of Brooklyn-style houses, there are many trick-or-treaters in the street approaching the houses.
There are more costumed kids and more of the street, with a silhouetted tree and a jack-o-lantern. There's a pair of figures, presumably Jack and Maddie judging by the color. Cut to Jack and Maddie. Jack is still hooded; carrying a bazooka under one arm and his head is facing the back while his body is turned toward Maddie in the front. Maddie is hooded as well, both her hands holding an ecto-detection device, she's staring at the screen. There's a bazooka standing behind her as well.
"Whoa!" Maddie said, looking at a view of the ecto-detector's monitor. On a green grid diagram, a grid-version of an upside-down funnel sprouts. There is also a green compass rose on one side and two horizontal green lines on the other. On the ecto-detector itself are two red buttons, a green circle with three red lines, and a green rectangle with three sections. "Ecto-storm's flaring up."
Jack and Maddie are hunched over the small machine in Maddie's hands.
"Better alert the local townsfolk!" Jack said, standing up straight and produces a megaphone in the hand that isn't holding the bazooka under the armpit and announces commands in it.
Jack and Maddie are next to a silhouetted tree, Maddie still looking at her device and Jack shouting through the bullhorn.
"Code five!" Jack said, turning the opposite direction as the scene zooms out to show four costumes children, a witch and pirate on the left and a pink bunny and a clown on the right. "Code five! Code five!" He turns to his original direction. "This is not a drill!" Three more costumed kids, this time a pumpkin, generic superhero and a clown, all interrupted from their business to turn to face Jack. "Repeat…"
Four more kids, these are a Frankenstein's monster, a pirate, a generic spook with a purple cloak and a top hat, and a pink bunny with whiskers. There are five trick-or-treaters, one is the generic superhero, another the chicken, another a kid with a bed sheet on over his jeans, a fourth the generic spooky guy with the cloak and top hat, and the last one a black cat. A blond boy wearing a Robin Hood-like costume pops up.
"Weird costumes." The Robin Hood Kid said, turning to the other kids. "What are they, plumbers?"
All the children laugh. Jack looked at Maddie.
"Is, uh, is this thing on?" Jack asked, lifting the bullhorn to his mouth.
Ghost Zone…
Danny is is flying away quickly in a flight of fear holding the sword. He looks downward hearing a whinnying from the Nightmare. The Fright Knight is riding the Nightmare. As the horse flies, it moves its legs and flaps its wings. The Fright Knight generates purple eye beams.Danny is flying and holding the sword. The purple beams shoot off where he is, Danny flies a loop around it with the sword in one hand to dodge the blast. He swoops and away from the Fright Knight. The Fright Knight and the Nightmare looks down at terror-stricken Danny's face. Danny gasps as he spots the Fenton Portal. The shot rotates as it closes in on the Portal.
"Yes!" Danny said, excitedly. "Home sweet home!"
The Fright Knight and the Nightmare fall back in an attempt to stabilize themselves, then the Nightmare begins flying off again at its original speed.
Fenton Works…
Danny flies through the portal with the sword and lands safely, turning back toward the portal, hearing a whinnying. There is a box on the wall with two buttons, the top one a green button with the word 'Open' on top and the bottom one a red one with 'Close' one the top. Danny's gloved fist punches the 'Close' button. The button dings.
Danny looked at the Fenton Portal. As the shadow of the Nightmare closes in on the green swirly-ness that is the Fenton Portal, the black and yellow doors slam shut before the Fright Knight can reach it. Danny is still looking toward the portal. He turns around with relief.
"Phew." Danny said, lifting up the Soul Shredder with glee. The sword lets out a single spark. Danny takes flight with the sword and flies up and off. "Let's hope this is what Jared wanted me to do."
At the yellow and black striped doors, two pairs of black-gloved fingers glow with a ghostly glow. At the Fenton Portal, the hands pry the doors open and the Fright Knight yells a cry of effort. The Fright Knight has a determined look.
Old Townsend Place…
Sam is in Danny's haunted house room. She walks through it.
"Where is he?" Sam asked, looking down at the floor where her boots are.
A blue, intangible hand phases through the floor and becomes visibly gray again, tapping the back of Sam's leg twice gently. Sam turns around with a yelp of fear, looking down to see what prodded her.
Danny phases through the floor looking all blue and turning visible as he speaks, his hands behind his back.
"If you think that's scary…" Danny said, holding the Soul Shredder prone in both hands.
The sword sparkles a little. Sam walks up closer, looking at the sword.
"You went into the Ghost Zone…" Sam said, looking up at Danny in disbelief. "…and stole the Fright Knight's sword?"
Danny is holding the sword. He closes his eyes and looks up with pride.
"Stole, borrowed." Danny said, holding the sword downward in one hand and shrugs with the other. "Semantics…" He looks at Sam while holding the sword pointing toward the ground. "You and Jared worry too much."
At the floor, the Soul Shredder plunges into the floorboards, with some wood splinters flying up. Suddenly, the sword glows and the room becomes a spooky dark blue. Danny is looking at the glowing sword with some worry. He takes his hand off the hilt and walks backwards in awe, joining Sam while she gapes at it.
As the Soul Shredder glows, a ray of green light emits from the handles up through the ceiling. The roof of the house has a green ray of light that breaks through the roof, sending debris flying. The landscape around it becomes green as well.
Mansion…
A towering green mushroom cloud begins to develop over the house as the red sky flickers black and purple and red.
With a view of the mushroom cloud from below. The green ray feeds the cloud as it builds and surges. A bolt of lighting comes down from the cloud and reaches a green window.
Dash's Spa of Doom…
A couple dummies, one appearing to bench-press and one doing chin-ups get zapped by the ghostly lightning and begin to turn green as they are shrouded in the light. Dash looked over at Lancer. Dash in his purple and green outfit holding the door and Lancer in the doorway writing on his clipboard. Lancer finishes writing and leaves the room. Dash slams the door, confident of winning the contest, and turns around, walking with his eyes closed at a job well done. Then, he opens his eyes in complete shock, gasping.
Two green glowing zombies bursting with ghostly energy walk up from the side to look at Dash; both of them are making menacing poses. They are scaly, with red eyes and long claws, wearing blue and white gym clothes that are all tattered and torn up.
Dash has a terror-stricken expression. He screams in terror.
Danny and Sam are gaping at the sword, the energy stream coming from it. Sam turns around to listen to screams from across the hall.
"Zombies!" Dash said, terrified.
Sam and Danny look upwards.
"Maybe I should get this thing back." Danny said, sadly.
Mr.Lancer can be heard coming and Danny gasps with a blank expression on his face.
"Mr. Fenton…" Mr Lancer said, walking into the room with the clipboard. "It's time…"
Danny is standing next to the glowing sword with the ray of ghost energy. Sam jumps in front of him from the right, covering up the fact that he's a ghost. A ring forms around Danny's waist as he turns back into Danny Fenton. Danny looked over at Sam.
Danny peeks out from behind her, "Right after Mr. Lancer judges my room! Besides…"
Outside of the house…
There's a red sky and a giant green cloud overhead forming from a ray of green energy coming from the roof.
Lightning strikes a few times, causing the screen to flicker as the house is silhouetted, then next to a purple sky, then back to red.
Random field…
A bolt of white lightning strikes and an explosion of debris occurs, causing a green smokescreen. When the smoke clears, it reveals the Fright Knight on the Nightmare.
"Free!" The Fright Knight said, looking at the hooves of the Nightmare. "And once I regain possession of my sword…" He is looking at the view around him, through his helmet. "And then…" His eyes narrow. "…I will 'rule'!"
Amity Park…
At an empty neighborhood street, save for the Fright Knight and the Nightmare. The horse whinnies as the wings start flapping and ascending, panning up to show the crescent moon in the red sky. The horse turns around and flies away. Then swoops back and charges back with the Knight at the reins, closing in on the space between the Knight's eyes.
It's a red sky, a beam of green light is coming from the roof of the house, and rings of green clouds are coming out of the light in a target shape. The house has lightning strikes. The green clouds descend upon the house.
Mansion…
Sam, Danny and Lancer are standing in front of a fireplace as three ecto-powered zombies with torn sports attire come toward them, groaning their ghostly moans.
"Uh, Mr. Lancer?" Sam asked.
Three zombies come forward, one of them with a bone stub for an arm with a red skull on his white shirt, another with a red hat and a torn red shirt with a white Danny-esque design on it, and a third in a letter jacket similar to Dash's, with a 'C'.
At the fireplace, Sam holding is her book and looking a little frightened, Danny is also looking frightened, and Lancer with his clipboard looking a little bored.
"I don't know if it's…" Sam said, looking up at Lancer, and her teacher turns to look at her. "…safe in here."
"That's right, Sam." Danny said, running away to an open doorway and pushing the three zombies out and slams the door behind him with a 'There's nothing wrong' smile.
Danny then stands up straight and proud with his index finger in the air.
"'Nothing' is safe inside…" Danny said, bending over to pick up an object. "…Danny Fenton's…" He is now carrying a functional flashlight and shines it in his face for a creepy effect. "…'Room of Doom'!"
Danny raises his arm to show the room's scope. There is a rug on the floor in the shape of a skull, hay skeletons are hanging on the side, a purple rubber spider is on a string, the hay, cardboard and bucket Fright Knight is sitting on his green 'throne' on his cardboard altar, Sam and Lancer are standing in front of the brick fireplace made of a box on its side. Hasn't changed one bit.
"Enter if you dare." Danny said, with the light shining in his face, flipping the switch.
Lancer is looking bored with a lamp overhead. He looks up as the lamp flickers on.
A section of the floor has a fishing pole on a dingy green stand. Danny slides in on his knees and turns the rod's handle. The bored Lancer has the dim light above him. Four purple rubber spiders descend on strings near his head, Lancer remains unfazed. He looks over to the one closest to him and lifts up a hand to pinch it, the spider making a squeaking sound.
"I'll have you know, I don't fall for cheap theatrics." Mr. Lancer said.
At the roof outside, the beam of green light is still creating the green clouds overhead. A bolt of blue, ghostly lightning reaches a window on the mansion.
There is a box of purple spiders labeled 'Rubber Spiders'. Mr. Lancer is with some strings around him, the other spiders. The blue lightning comes in through the broken window and zaps the box, making it look all green and surrounded by light.
"And I don't scare easily." Mr. Lancer said, while a giant green spider's leg taps him on the shoulder.
Lancer has one eye open looking toward where the leg came from. A large black spider, with green skulls on the abdomen, green legs, an asymmetrical 7 eyes, and large green fangs looking at Lancer under the lamp. Danny is off to the side staring with an 'Uh, that's not good' expression while holding the flashlight. Lancer turns around and proceeds to write on his clipboard. Danny's eyes drift to Lancer while looking terrified, some glass shatters nearby.
"But you're off to a promising start!" Mr. Lancer said, terrified.
"All part of the show." Danny said, chuckling weakly, smiling, before turning back to the spider.