The Million Dollar Ghost
Episode #19
Transcripted by Dennis Dunjinman
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Prologue
Fade into a shot, there is a white
sign that reads in red letters “Wisconsin 60 miles”. By the road there is a
wooden fence. A red barn is seen. Quickly pan right to show Vlad’s
Fade to the door. There are plants
on either side growing, and unlit torch holders on either side. The door on the
right is open with a small crack. Zoom in.
Fade in to the foyer of Vlad’s
castle. The walls are decked in green and the furniture is decked in gold. On
the left is a picture of a Packers player with the number 66 standing over a
doorway. There’s a green and gold rug on the floor. There are two curved gold
stairways to the upstairs, and a wooden green door with gold doorframe between
them. Upstairs shows a portrait of the late
Fade in to a dark, magenta place. A
needlessly complex machine is seen hanging from the ceiling. Pan down to show
Vlad’s lab, it’s a purple-pinkish color. Counters with vials and flasks and
control panels are arranged in a segmented circle. His portal is seen green,
swirly and open, shaped in a pentagonal shape. Unlit red lights are on either
side of the portal. Zoom in on the portal.
Fade to a straight shot of the
portal. Rotate and zoom in.
VLAD: (offscreen) Ah, there you are.
Fade to a glass rectangle prism case
floating in the Ghost Zone. It is glowing with a heavy green aura. The glass is
magenta. Inside is a green skeleton key with a skull on the top. It is resting
on a purple tasseled pillow on top of a white pedestal.
VLAD: The
legendary Skeleton Key.
Cut to the Skeleton Key. It sparkles
once.
Cut to Vlad Plasmius,
his arms crossed. A portal is seen behind him.
The
Plasmius Portal is right next to the Skeleton Key?
Did Vlad have to program those coordinates to prevent extensive mapping and
searching? I wonder how he did that.
VLAD: With
it, I can open any door,--
Close up on Vlad. Purple doors drift
past him.
VLAD: --travel
to any realm, free any prisoner.
Cut to the Ghost Zone. The tiny box
containing the Skeleton Key is floating off in the top-right corner, leaving a
lot of empty space. Vlad float-strafes into the bottom left
corner and seen from the back. A ball of purple light
and several rings of purple coming out appear between him and the box. The
light morphs into the shape of a large monster. The monster then comes into
full color, it’s red with a gray chest, has four arms
with claws and black, white-gem-studded bands. Its mouth is full of sharp
teeth. Its upper two arms are out in a flexing position and the bottom pair is
raised just over its chest. It has no legs, only a cascading tail in the back.
It roars, and then looks down at Vlad with all four fists clenched.
Cut to Vlad from above, arms
crossed.
VLAD: And
if you’re the only thing standing between me and that…
Cut to Vlad from behind, looking
upon the face of the Behemoth that fills the screen. It claps two of its hands
together, squishing Vlad.
Cut to the Behemoth. The upper two
arms are together, the lower pair is out at its sides in fists. The Skeleton
Key’s box is floating behind it. It looks at its hands and smiles triumphantly,
only to change to a look of confusion as it relaxes its lower arms and opens
his upper ones.
Cut to the Behemoth’s hands. They
are empty, and only have four fingers. Pan left to an empty part of the Ghost
Zone. Vlad fades back into the visible spectrum, arms crossed.
Close up on Vlad. He raises the left
eyebrow and lowers the right one.
Cut to the angry Behemoth. It bends
down and then the screen zooms out, the monster leans forward, opens its mouth
wide, and a large purple beam comes out.
Mouth
beams? I’ve seen eye beams before, but mouth beams are more ridiculous.
I
guess you don’t play very many RPG video games or watch anime. ^-^;;
Cut to Vlad. He bends down with one
fist clenched and the other arm out downward, and he charges a small bolt of
pink lightning, which fizzles. He sweeps up, leaving a curved rectangular pink
shield in front of him, turning his body away and crossing his arms. Zoom out.
The wide purple beam hits the shield, and bursts into purple and blue flames on
it. Around it the beam continues. The beam then stops blazing, and Vlad’s
shield shrinks and goes away with a pop.
Cut to the Behemoth, the lower arms
are up with angry “I can’t believe that didn’t work!” fists, and the upper pair
has its claws brandished. It reaches out offscreen with the upper pair,
bringing Vlad over to it. It looks down at Vlad trapped in the cylinder the
monster’s hands make, only Vlad’s head and shoulders are visible.
Vlad laughs with evil amusement.
Cut to Vlad in the monster’s hands.
VLAD: This
is going to be a *snap*!
Vlad’s shape turns all white. It
lifts up in a flame that swirls in a circle and vanishes with a pop.
Cut to the monster looking in
defeated disbelief at his hands in the cylinder shape. He opens them up on
either side, looking down at them in close observation, rolling his red pupils
on his black eyes on the right, then the left.
Cut to a section of the monster’s
lower body, one arm is relaxed and visible. A flash of white light appears and
takes Vlad’s shape; Vlad’s color comes back into the visible spectrum. He bends
down and charges his left hand with pink energy, turning sharply and uppercutting the monster. The monster roars as it is thrust
upwards by the force of the punch.
Cut to the monster with all its arms
out and down. It keeps going upwards and offscreen.
Cut to Vlad, with one fist behind
him and the other bent in front of him. He bends down a little as pink sparkles
appear around him. Pan right. A black ring grows bigger and separates to two vertically,
revealing a second identical Vlad with sparkles. Pan right more as two rings
sprout again the same way and reveal a third identical Vlad. Pan right more and
the same action occurs a fourth time.
Cut to the Ghost Zone. The Behemoth
is being knocked back and growling. It puts down its ghostly tail, clenches all
four fists, and roars.
Cut to a part of the Ghost Zone
littered with doors. One Vlad comes up from afar with a pink, glowing whip. A
second Vlad comes up closer; it just has its chest hunched down. A third Vlad
comes up from the left higher and between the lengths of the first two, its fists
are up. It blazes the fist in front of him with pink and lowers the fist behind
him. A fourth Vlad is only seen in the foreground by its chest up.
The four Vlads
spring into action. The first Vlad swirls its lasso and throws it offscreen.
The second Vlad shoots off eye beams. The third Vlad shoots off a hand beam,
and the fourth Vlad also uses eye beams.
Cut to the Behemoth with a narrow,
serious stare. All its fists are down and clenched. A single pink blast hits
him on the forehead, he turns to the right with the upper right hand covering
his face, and the other arms have their fists released. Another blast hits it
on the stomach; all its arms are thrust in front of it as its stomach is
knocked back. Then, several loops of a ghostly pink lasso restrain it and all
its arms. It thrusts back and cries out in pain.
Cut to Vlad. He blinks and looks
down.
Cut to the box holding the key, it’s
in the lower right corner. Zoom in on it.
Cut to three of the Vlads. The one on the top is using both hands for a pink
plasma ray. The second Vlad is using eye beams. The bottom Vlad is holding the
pink ecto-energy rope. The third Vlad pulls back the subdued Behemoth as it
silently cries out in pain, the top part of it pulsing with pink energy but the
tail part is okay.
Cut to a smiling Vlad not doing
anything. He lifts his legs up and flies downward offscreen.
Cut to a green speed background.
Vlad flies downwards with open palms in front of him. His cape blows in the
wind.
Cut to the key on the pillow. Rotate
and zoom in. The key sparkles once.
Cut to the Behemoth with arms tied
by the pink lasso. Zoom out as it tears the rope apart, all four arms out,
roaring. It bends down and turns to the right, turning downward to flip up its
ghostly tail. Pan right to the tail.
Cut to Vlad smiling with evil glee
as he flies swiftly downward against a green speed background. Zoom in on his
face.
Cut to the box holding the key. Zoom
in on it slowly as the Behemoth’s tail whips in from the left and hits dead-on.
Cut to a surging turquoise action
background.
Cut back to the pentagonal Plasmius portal. Thin beams of light shoot out. Vlad shoots
out with its limb behind him.
Cut to a lab table. Vlad lands on
his hands and chest and slides across it with his tiny legs in the air, arms in
front. Beakers fall off the table. Vlad grunts in pain.
Cut to a wall of the lab with a
counter nearby. Vlad lands on his behind with his hands in the air. With some
green smoke coming from below him, he lands his legs on the floor and his fists
as well.
Cut to the swirly green portal, it’s
octagonal like the Fenton Portal now. Three other Vlads
shoot out, all facing each other in a triangle like way, all of them shout in
pain.
Cut to the Vlad on the floor.
Debris, puddles, and papers litter the floor, a torn pipe is seen. The three
other Vlads fly into the sitting Vlad’s chest area, a
flash of light coming out of his chest and soon enveloping the corner in pink
light. Vlad brings down his hands and relaxes.
Cut to the pentagonal Plasmius Portal with two red lights on either side. The Behemoth’s
head pops through the tiny portal, as if trying to squeeze through. It relaxes
its neck and looks forward, growling.
Cut to Vlad, standing up. A flask is
seen on the counter next to him.
VLAD: Very
well, Behemoth. (lifts
his hands and starts blazing them) No more Mr. Nice Plasmius.
Cut to Vlad’s lab. The Behemoth’s
head is still plugging the portal. Vlad walks over with two blazing hands down
at his sides, stopping in front of the monster and bringing them up.
Cut to Vlad with his arms up and
blazing pink. He leans back to raise them over his head.
Cut to a flashing green light, the
rotating alarm kind. It dings. Zoom out to reveal a device with a black screen
that reads “Change Ecto-filtrator” in green letters.
Below that is a gauge with four sections, under the green one reads “empty” in
red letters, the section turns to light red, redder and deep red where the
black arrow is pulsing. Below the deep red section reads
“full” in red letters. There is also a clear, cylindrical container with
green ectoplasm and some bubbles. As the alarm rotates, the screen turns from
normal purple to green.
Cut to the lab, all green from the
light. The Behemoth is looking at the tiny device, with some surprise; Vlad is
looking at it in surprise next to it. As the lab turns from green the purple to
green again, the monster flashes a cheesy smile at Vlad.
Cut to the Behemoth in the portal.
It roars, then pops back into the portal as the lab flashes from green to
purple.
Cut to Vlad, looking at the ecto-filtrator. The container bubbles as the light flashes the
lab from green to purple.
VLAD: “Change
the ecto-filtrator”?
Vlad walks closer and turns, raising
his arms.
VLAD: Aww, (lowers his arms with frustration) *fudge
buckets*!
Vlad closes his eyes and becomes
intangible. The screen fills with white.
Cut to outside Vlad’s castle. An
explosion comes from the middle of it and it surges upward, breaking off parts
of the house. It’s left only with the lower floor and two small streams of smoke
smolders as debris falls.
Cut to a cloud. It dissipates to
reveal an intangible, frustrated Vlad standing in the ruined lab filled with
debris, an exposed wire and a fallen shaft is seen in the foreground. Vlad
becomes visible again, he lets his arms relax as he looks around. Zoom out to
show the whole, ruined place in a middle of a field surrounded by trees,
there’s a small puddle of water near some other debris. Some smoke smolders.
VLAD: Aah!
Close up on Vlad, looking up.
VLAD: My
house!
Cut to a part of the lab with broken
pipes, a still-okay metal doorway, and many fallen chunks of ceiling. Smoke
smolders from the debris pile. Pan up to show an open ceiling with the second
floor barely there, smoke smolders from the floor up top.
Cut to Vlad, holding his cheeks with
his fists. He looks down and releases his fists.
VLAD: I can
always buy another one, (puts his arms
down and turns to the right) but the *key*!
Cut to the lab. It’s all busted and
only half the wall is still there. An exposed wire fizzles a little lightning.
A broken pipe drips.
VLAD: (offscreen) I can’t get that key--
Pan quickly right to show that the
portal is half-blown away, the rest an open wall to outside. Smoke smolders
from a tip from what is left of the shell. There’s a small room behind the
portal, but it’s half-blown away and filled with cracks.
VLAD: --without
a portal!
Zoom in on the portal. Small beams
of blue lightning fizzle inside it.
Cut to Vlad, arms hanging in
exasperation.
VLAD: I’ll
need to find another working one--
His red eyes pop wide with
realization. He squares his shoulders and smirks, a black ring going over his
body and changing him to Vlad Masters. He looks into his suit, lifts the left
side with his hand and uses the other arm to reach inside and pull out a
photograph. He looks at it with a toothy grin.)
Cut to the photo. A rather charred
banner in the back reads “20
Talk
about a doctored photo, this may have not happened in BR but I’m sure that’s
how Vlad must remember it with his unphotographic
doodle memory. I guess that’s why he carries it in his suit, Maddie over him adoringly
as a good friend and Jack being pushed away on the other side. Also, while
Jasmine is standing next to Vlad without a care, Danny is standing next to Jack
and looks rather suspiciously. I question when between Vlad’s reveal to Danny
and leaving the reunion this picture was taken.
Close up on Vlad, looking down.
VLAD: I
guess I’ll just have to take Jack Fenton’s!
Cut to the photo again, just the
part with Maddie with Vlad holding her toward him with his hand on her arm,
Jasmine just looking with a casual smile. Vlad laughs manically offscreen
throughout. Pan left to the part where Danny looks at him with irritation and
Jack is being pushed away. Zoom in on Jack’s face.
The screen fades to black.
OPENING THEME HERE
(Possible cut to commercial)
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PART ONE
Title Screen is shown. Depicted is the Ghostwriter,
eyes red and with an evil grin on his face, dressed in a Santa outfit carrying
a sack of evil toys such as dolls and nutcrackers. Buried within the menacing
toys is a distressed Danny Phantom attempting to escape from their clutches.
The caption in the bottom left reads, "HO-HO-HORROR!"
Fade in to
DANNY: (offscreen) Thanks for driving me to
school today, Jazz.
Cut to Danny and Jasmine walking,
panning left as they walk. Danny is holding a red book under his arm, Jasmine a
purple one. People are at their lockers in the background.
JASMINE: No
problem, Danny.
Danny raises the arm that doesn’t
have the book out a little.
DANNY:
Yeah, sometimes it’s nice to avoid the bus--
Danny flings his arm back, closing
his eyes, there are no more people behind them.
DANNY: --and
quietly and anonymously--
Danny puts his hand down and his
eyes roll to Jasmine, passing a purple door among the lockers.
DANNY: --slip
into school.
Anonymously? Without a name, you slip into school? Well,
while Dennis isn’t old enough to drive and her sister doesn’t have a car or a
license, she manages to have a quiet bus ride anyway.
Danny and Jasmine blink and look up
in surprise as the screen flashes normal to red over an over.
P.A.: Ghost
alert.
Cut to a P.A. box on the ceiling.
Two red alarm lights flash.
P.A.: Ghost
alert.
Cut to Danny and Jasmine, along with
some other students looking up in surprise. One is holding a book with a hand
to a locker, another is a girl who has turned her head to look, a third just a
boy looking up, a fourth being a husky boy in a sweater with an alien head, his
arm at his side. Jasmine looks at Danny, Danny looks at her.
JASMINE:
Danny!
Jasmine drops her purple book and
grabs her brother by the shirt, he turns forcefully and his shoes are turned just
above the floor.
JASMINE: Hide!
Cut to Danny, being held by
Jasmine’s hands.
DANNY: Why?
Cut to Jasmine, looking confused.
JASMINE:
Um… (looks down
with a fake smile) That’s an excellent question!
Cut to Danny being held by Jasmine.
She releases him, and he lands on the floor safely, both turning to the left as
if nothing happened. Zoom out. Tucker and Sam walk up, seen from the back.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY:
What’s going on?
Cut to Tucker and Sam.
SAM: Didn’t
you get the memo?
Sam holds up a piece of lined paper
with “Memo” on it in red letters in her right hand, motioning to it with her
left.
SAM: The
school’s--
Sam looks up and shrugs, Tucker
looks at her and smiles.
SAM: --running
*ghost* drills now.
Cut to Jasmine.
JASMINE: “Ghost
drills”?
Cut to the four. Tucker is on the
left looking bored. Sam is looking “sigh” with her
arms akimbo. Danny is holding his red book under his arm looking at his friends
in disbelief. Jasmine is on the right seen from the side with one arm down and
the other akimbo, looking at Tucker and Sam with more disbelief. Sam points her
right finger. Tucker, Danny and Jasmine turn to the right.
Cut to Lancer walking the halls as
onlookers look at him with incredulity. Lancer is wearing a hideous purple
horned mask and is holding his hands above his head.
LANCER: Oooooh…
Cut to Lancer.
LANCER: I
am a ghost!
You
forgot the “fear me”.
Cut to Jasmine. She points up a
finger.
JASMINE:
Who’s that supposed to fool?
Jasmine suddenly blinks with
unpleasant surprise and closes her hand.
JACK: (offscreen) GHOOOOST!
Cut to Jasmine and Danny. Jasmine
retains her pose; Danny is on the left looking with shock to the left with his
red book under his arm and his palm open on his other hand. Jasmine leans
backward and gasps as Jack wearing the Fenton Peeler slides backwards from the
left onscreen, covering his children. He is holding the memo in his left hand.
He turns right and points his right hand, Danny turns
behind his father with his arm crossing over his chest.
JACK: I
just got the memo!
Close up on Jack in the helmet.
JACK: (eyes shifting) And
I know there are ghosts around here!
Cut to Jasmine behind her father’s
arm.
JASMINE:
Dad! (closes
eyes) No!
Cut to Tucker and Sam, looking
shocked. Danny walks up in front of them with his book and his hand out in
front of him.
DANNY: It’s
not a ghost! (half-closes
his eyes and closes his palm) It’s an out-of-shape teacher in a mask!
Cut to Jack, looking down, his eyes
to the left.
JACK: We’ll
see about that, son. (clenches
his eyes shut and yells) EAT GHOST PEELER, SPOOK!
Action Jack quotable. MDG is full of these; they used sound
clips from this episode as action dialogue in that game. Keep on the lookout
for more.
Cut to a turquoise action
background. Jack’s hand is on the handle of the peeler. His thumb gets off two
red buttons and presses a button on the back, which beeps. A ball of green
light surges from the space. It shoots out a huge beam, the screen flashes
white.
Cut to Lancer in his hideous mask,
his arms out in shock. Three teenage onlookers witness without a care. The
green beam hits Lancer and causes him to glow green all over, he tenses his
arms in front of him.
LANCER: *Nooooooo*!
Cut to Lancer’s hideous mask. Lancer
screams throughout as it peels off his face and is blown away in shreds. Pan
down to his shirt, it tears off him and reveals his hairy, not-so-manly chest
covered in an undershirt. Pan down to his plaid pants. They peel away and
reveal boxers with William Shakespeare’s face all over them. The green light
dissipates and he stops glowing, revealing his fat, his white undershirt, his
pink boxers, and his hairy legs with support socks. He stops screaming.
Cut to Lancer looking completely
shocked, looking down on his de-clothed self. Four teens, one on each side,
laugh heartily. Lancer reaches to the left offscreen and holds a golden-framed
portrait of George Washington in a red military-style coat. He holds it in
front of his underpants, full of fury.
I
wonder where the school got that picture. And why George is wearing a red coat
even though he’s a patriot. Meep?
Cut to a crowd of five laughing
teens. From left-to-right, a girl with a red ponytail and a blue shirt laughs
with her hand by her mouth. A red haired boy with a striped yellow shirt and a
green backpack giggles. A spiky-blond boy with round glasses is laughing with
his fists by his chest. An African-American boy with a baggy red sweater and a
green do-rag laughs. A rather obese red-haired girl in a purple shirt with a
cat’s head on it laughs.
BLONDE BOY
IN GLASSES: (pointing a finger) I’ll
never respect his authority again!
Cut to Danny and Jasmine, standing
next to Jack’s rather large, peeler-covered arm. Danny’s face is buried in his
palm. Jasmine looks up in futility with a “Please let this be
over” pose. She opens her eyes and sighs.
Zoom out to show Jack. He is looking
with his peeler-arm down, hand still on the trigger. Danny puts his hand down
and looks at his father, dejected.
Cut to Jack.
JACK: Wow, (looks down and smiles) he *is* out of
shape.
And
you aren’t? Or are we supposed to think that square is your natural physique
and you’re big-boned with lots of muscle?
Cut to Jack, his eyes looking down
to the left. An irked Lancer walks up from the right holding the portrait.
Jack’s eyes turn to him.
Cut to Lancer.
LANCER: I
can’t give you detention, but someone named “Fenton” is staying after school.
Cut to Danny, Jasmine and Jack,
looking with concern. Danny has a red book, Jasmine regained her purple one.
JACK and JASMINE:
(exchanging glances) Whoa!
Both take out non-watch-covered
wrists and look at them.
JACK and
JASMINE: Look at the time!
Jack and Jasmine smile and rush
away, leaving Danny, whose hair is blown back with the wind.
He flips his head and shrugs. Zoom in on his blank “Augh,
not again,” expression.
Fade in to FentonWorks. Zoom in.
Fade in
to a top view of the lab. It’s a mess. A microwave on a counter is coated in
green goo, the Fenton Portal has green goo leaking out of it, barrels on the
floor are overturned, papers are all over, wires and pipes are all over the
place, more green puddles are around. Jack is sitting on a swivel chair,
holding a device in one hand and his other one on the messy counter, looking
rather irked at Jasmine and Maddie. Jasmine trying to reason
with Jack and Maddie looking with her hood up and arms akimbo. Zoom in
as Jasmine reaches her arms out.
JASMINE: All I’m
saying is--
Cut to
Jasmine, shrugging. There is a bright green stain on the wall behind her.
JASMINE: --you might
want to think twice before you barge in like that. (puts
down her arms and raises an eyebrow) You really got Danny in trouble.
Cut to
Jack. He is holding a device similar to the Fenton Peeler in his hand.
JACK: Oh yeah,--
Jack raises
a fist, pointing his thumb over his shoulder.
JACK: --you
think he’s in trouble now!
Cut to
an overturned beaker, spilling out green goo. Zoom out to reveal a whole
counter of messy beakers with goo, some paper with scribbles on it, and a
calculator-like device.
Cut to
another beaker, the top rimmed with green, gelatinous slime. Zoom out to show
many beakers and flasks in a similar condition.
Cut to
an old banana peel hanging over an overflowing trash can. Zoom out to reveal
the trash can has an old, non-eaten sandwich with lettuce and a tomato in it,
along with an eaten-to-the-core apple. Papers litter the floor. On the side of
the trash can is more of that green stuff, some of it on the floor, and a whole
lot of it on the wall.
Looks
like Nickelodeon forgot to clean up after their sliming frenzy and blamed it on
Danny. For shame, Nick.
Cut to
the lab, with good-covered beakers in the foreground, green-stained walls in
the back. A hanging wire has more goo on it. Maddie has her arm running across
her waist, Jasmine is looking incredulously at both the beakers and Jack, and
Jack is holding the Peeler in one hand and looking at the floor.
Jack
raises a hand high and looks irked, Jasmine turns away from him.
JACK: Look at
this place!
Cut to
Jack. There’s another stain on the wall. Jack gets up.
JACK: Danny
hasn’t cleaned the lab in weeks, and the beakers are caked with goo and--
Jack
pauses, looking intently to the left.
JACK: (whispers) --would you look at that.
Cut to next to the Fenton Portal.
There is a device leading from the portal with a status bar that is fully
green, next to that an ecto-filtrator device that
looks exactly like the one on Vlad’s Portal. Goop starts seeping onto the
floor.
Cut to the status device with the
full, green bar. On the top reads a sign “Full” in green letters, and on the
bottom “Empty” in green letters. Goo seeps out of the cracks.
JACK: (offscreen) The ecto-filtrator hasn’t
been changed--
Pan right toward the device that
reads “Ecto-Filtrator” in green letters, the dial on the
bottom showing the arrow pointing in the second reddest section, the cylinder
bubbling.
JACK: --in six months! That can’t be good.
Cut to a shot of a clean corner of
the lab near the stairs. Danny walks in from the right, perspiring and
straining with his purple book bag over one shoulder, both hands on one strap.
There are four books inside, two red, one blue, and one purple.
DANNY: And it’ll be six more by the time
(looks up) I get done with all this--
Danny looks toward the backpack,
hunching his back.
DANNY: --extra work Lancer assigned me.
Cut to Danny in the foreground.
Maddie, Jasmine and Jack in the chair look at him. Danny drops the heavy purple
backpack on the ground with a loud thud! The flap falls and shows five books
this time, two red, one purple, one blue, and one olive green.
DANNY: Dad,--
Cut to Danny, rubbing the back of
his neck with his hand. He looks up.
DANNY: --are you familiar with the term (glares and drops his arm) “Stay away from my school”?
Cut to Jack and Maddie. Jack is
holding the peeler, looking completely clueless. Maddie is leaning in front of
him.
MADDIE: Sweetie,--
Maddie leans forward and lowers her goggle’s “eyebrows”, Jack looks
questioningly toward her.
MADDIE: --relax.
Cut to Maddie, another green stain
is behind her.
MADDIE: (pulling off her hood)
You know your dad loves you, and he
doesn’t mean to make your life more difficult.
A news theme plays, and a woman
starts talking. Maddie rolls her eyes behind her to see where the sound is
coming from.
WOMAN: The hunt is on for the ghost boy!
(Cut to the Fenton family. Jasmine
is on the left with her eyes looking behind her, Jack looks up and rolls his
eyes in the same direction, Maddie is seen from behind but has her head over he
shoulder, and Danny looks up in surprise.
DANNY and JACK: *What*?
Cut to a slime-covered TV on a
slime-covered counter with many slime-coated beakers on top. News is on.
Harriet Chin is the news anchor, holding a stack of papers with a yellow box
over the shoulder reading “Eye on Amity” in black letters.
HARRIET: As a result of today’s false
ghost alert at Casper High-
Cut closer to the TV screen.
HARRIET: The need for competent,--
TV image fades to Casper High, Jack
is in the Fenton Peeler armor, smiling and with the gun smoldering green smoke,
Lancer looking annoyed with his pink boxers and other undergarments being
blocked by the portrait of George Washington in the red coat, students that are
grayed out are laughing hysterically, one of them is actually on the floor
laughing.
HARRIET: --non-Jack Fenton ghost hunters in
Cut to Lancer looking angrily with
his eyes back, four students are laughing at him.
HARRIET: --has never been more obvious.
Cut to Jack, holding the Peeler.
He’s smiling.
JACK: Hey, they said my name! (leans back, confused) Need for
competent ghost hunters? (looks up
and thinks) Hm, (looks down at the peeler and points
his finger at it) what is that supposed to mean?
He pushes a button. It beeps and the
Peeler sends out a burst of green goo, completely covering his face. He
straightens up as the goo drips onto him the gun smoldering green goo.
Cut to the TV. Harriet is onscreen.
HARRIET: Luckily, a mysterious benefactor
has offered a million dollar bounty on the head of--
Onscreen shows a picture of Danny
Phantom, flying forward in a yellow sky. His fists are forward, his hair blown
back, his tail cascading.
HARRIET: --
Cut to Danny, Maddie and Jasmine.
Jasmine is on the right with her arms crossed looking rather unsure, Danny has
his arms crossed too. Maddie and Danny both turn their heads from the TV screen
look at each other with smug glances Jasmine rolls her eyes toward them and
smiles.
DANNY and MADDIE: Three,
two, one...
(Cut to two stacks of boxes filled
with inventions and junk, possibly the inventions that are
junk. Jack rushes onscreen blazing a bazooka.
JACK: Nobody’s catching--
A stack of boxes fall down as Jack
turns to the right and crouches.
JACK: --that ghost kid but me!
Jack walks offscreen. The boxes in
the other stack start to rattle. They fall down, glass is heard shattering.
Jack pops in from the right, pointing a finger at the pile.
JACK: (quietly and quickly) Danny, clean that up. (rushes offscreen)
Cut to Maddie, Danny and Jasmine.
They all look toward each other, smiling.
Fade in to the sign of the Nasty
Burger. Zoom out to show the whole joint, a banner is over with doorway and
windows reading “Welcome Ghost Hunters” in red letters. Danny and Sam are under
the banner. A van is seen on the side, reading “Groovy Gang”, along with a
tall, blonde man, a short, red-haired woman, and a white tiger.
SAM: Danny, aren’t you worried?
Zoom in. Cut to Sam and Danny, both
of them with their shoulders slumped.
SAM: These are the best (thrusts out an arm) known ghost hunters (shrugs) in the world!
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: Sam,--
Danny giggles and leans his head
forward, smiling and eyelids hanging.
DANNY: --the “best-known”, (turns around to the right) they’re not the “best”.
Cut to a street. The aquamarine van
is there, with orange flowers painted on it and “Groovy Gang” on it in purple
letters. Next to it stands a blonde man with jeans and a green hat, and a
necklace with a peace sign on it, some ghost technology is at his waist. Next
to him is a shorter, red-haired girl with a purple dress with a pink tie and
pink socks and round lenses, she has another ghost-related device at her waist.
Next to her is a white tiger cowering and shivering in fear.
Cut to a closer shot of the three.
DANNY: (offscreen) The
Groovy Gang and Scaredy Cat…
Mystery Inc., with Scooby Doo…
The tiger’s eyes shift left and
right. The girl looks bored, the man smug. The cat panics, jumping onto the
girl and clawing into her chest, her arms flailing.
The credits lists these characters are named, but
the episode doesn’t name them. What do I do to refer to them?
Spell the Mystery Inc. group member names backwards…?
*shrug*
Cut to the Groovy Girl’s chest.
Scaredy Cat’s claws are lodged inside.
GROOVY GIRL: Ah!
Zoom out to show the head and arms
of Groovy Girl, she is clearly in pain, her eyes clenched and chin up.
GROOVY
GIRL: Like, those are my internal organs,
dude!
The cat whines again, and they both
fall offscreen.
Cut to the Groovy Dude.
GROOVY DUDE: Jinkers, Scaredy
Cat! (turns to the left and shrugs) You’re like, maiming her!
Cut to the street, some shrubs
obscure the buildings behind them. Two motorized vehicles rev and jump out from
behind the trees, sailing in the sky across the clouds, with a lens flare
effect. The one on the left is clearly a man in full black armor, helmet and
green goggles with a gray and green backpack, he’s on a motorcycle. The one on
the right is a girl with a blonde ponytail blowing behind her; she’s dressed
like her male companion and is on an ATV. Both are wearing green wheels under
their shoes.
I’ve never noticed this, but when you look at them,
they look very close to Danny Phantom, for they are both in black, have a while
waist band, and wear white roller skates with white bike gloves. The color
keying most likely isn’t coincidental.
DANNY: (offscreen) Extreme Ghostbreakers…
The Extreme Ghostbusters…
The Ghostbreakers’
vehicles rev and let out clouds of exhaust, zooming forward and offscreen.
These
characters are also named, but I can’t reveal those in the transcript without
proper introduction. Conjectural titles it is!
Cut to the Nasty Burger. The male Ghostbreaker skids up and turns to the right, the female
one right behind him. They high-five.
MALE GHOSTBREAKER: Sheyah!
Close up on the male Ghostbreaker.
MALE GHOSTBREAKER: You da
man!
Cut to the female Ghostbreaker.
FEMALE GHOSTBREAKER: Actually,
idiot, (leans her face into her hand, balancing on her elbow)
I’m a girl.
Cut to the two Ghostbreakers.
The female Ghostbreaker puts her hands back on the
handlebars.
MALE GHOSTBREAKER: Right! (pumps fist) And that’s so--
Zoom out. The male revs his as the
female gets ready on the handlebars. Exhaust comes out of the male’s motorcycle.
MALE
GHOSTBREAKER: --EXTREEEME!!
The male Ghostbreaker
rev up his front wheel in the air, and it speeds off without him. He lands on
his back; the girl looks down at him on her ATV. The male gets his head and
chest up by his hands, and the girl looks forward, her ATV revving.
Cut to someone’s white pants and
suit, he is holding a gun in he black-gloved hand. Pan up to show an African
American man, he has triangular sunglasses and a wire in his ear. He loads his
gun and raises it.
DANNY: The government’s ghost hunting
squad,--
A Caucasian man in similar garb to
the first walks up from the left.
DANNY: --Guys in White.
The government’s extra-terrestrial hunting squad,
Men in Black…
Cut to a farther shot of the agents.
The male Ghostbreaker’s motorcycle revs, comes in
from the left, circles around the Guys in White, bringing up mud and zooming offscreen.
Unlike
the other hunters, these agents are not named. They are listed as “Operatives”.
Although later episodes do name the poor guys. Woot.
Cut to the chest of the Caucasian
agent. Small patches of mud splash onto his shirt. Zoom out to reveal both agents
with shirts dotted with mud; the African-American agent is holding his gun
vertically.
CAUCASIAN AGENT: (looking down at his
suit) We have a
cleanliness breach in Shoulder section Alpha.
The Caucasian agent turns his head
to his partner.
AFRICAN-AMERICAN AGENT: I’ll fill
out suit cleaning form #87B-Omega.
Cut to the Caucasian Agent.
CAUCASIAN AGENT: I’ll call
our immediate supervisor to requisition detergent and fabric softener.
Cut to the Guys in White.
CAUCASIAN AGENT: (both agents reaching
into their suits) Lock the area
down!
Pan down. The agents drop two
glowing, bright-cyan cubes. When they land, they begin to glow.
Cut to a far shot of the Guys in
White. A half-spherical light-blue force
field forms around them.
Cut to Danny and Sam. They are both smiling;
Sam has one arm on her hip.
DANNY: It’s a virtual “who’s who” (looks at Sam and raises his hand for emphasis) of who
can’t catch ghosts.
Danny’s fingers curl up, his eyes
wide open with realization.
DANNY: Which means he should be--
Sam stops smiling, Danny slumps his
arm down and makes a *sigh* expression.
DANNY: --arriving any second now.
Horns are heard honking. Danny looks
to the right, Sam straightens up and looks with him.
Cut to the Nasty Burger. Danny and
Sam are just standing in a far corner. The Extreme Ghostbreakers
are there, the male with his motorbike and the female standing next to her ATV.
They both turn and jump in surprise screaming, then
quickly jump to the left offscreen as the Fenton Ghost Assault Vehicle runs
their vehicles over.
Cut to Maddie, hood-down, sitting in
the passenger seat of the Assault Vehicle.
MADDIE: (raising her hand to
her mouth to call out) Sorry about that!
Zoom out to Jack in the driver’s
seat, hands on the wheel. Maddie puts her hand down.
JACK: Wow.
Cut to outside the Assault Vehicle.
Jack leans out the window, his elbow leaning over a green headlight.
JACK: You should be careful where you
park those things.
Cut to Danny, seen from the back
with his hands on his hips, smiling as he looks at his parents’ Assault
Vehicle. Sam is looking toward the RV as well.
DANNY: I’ve got nothing--
Danny turns to Sam, with one hand
out and the other on his hip, Sam smiles.
DANNY: --to worry about.
Pan slightly to the right. Tucker
walks up with a small white sheet in his hands. Sam and Danny stop smiling,
Danny puts down his arm.
TUCKER: Good. (unfurls
the white sheet) Then you won’t have a problem with this.
Tucker unfurls the sheet once more,
it says “BOO-Yea
Cut to Danny and Sam with
incredulous looks.
Cut to Tucker from the front. He has
his arms in the sleeve of the costume.
TUCKER: Thanks to Danny,--
Tucker puts the costume on over his
head, fitting in his left arm, then using his white-sheeted hand to put on his
right arm.
TUCKER: --we know the location of every ghost sighting
in
He slips the whole costume over his legs;
it reads “Boo-Yea”.
TUCKER: Tucker Foley’s Boo-Yea Ghost Tours is bound
to be a hit. (reaches
out with his arms toward the camera) Boo-Yea!
A blast of green, glowing goo
completely covers Tucker from the left. He shouts out in surprise and braces
himself for the impact. He lifts his goo-coated hands and looks down at them.
Cut to Sam with her arms crossed.
SAM: In retrospect, (leans back her head and lifts a palm out) maybe
dressing like a ghost (looks straight again, pointing a
finger downward) in a parking lot full of ghost hunters (lowers her eyebrows and crosses her arms again) *wasn’t* a
great idea.
I’m sure ghost hunters can tell the difference
between a real ghost and a phony. After all, the Groovy Gang, based on Mystery
Inc. from the Scooby Doo stories, was all about
discovering phonies. In fact, the one time they were looking for actual haunting
while thinking it fake, the situation gave them a curveball, the zombies were
real. Meep!
Cut to the lot. Danny and Sam are
standing next to the Fenton Assault Vehicle. Jack walks up with a gun in the
air, smiling. The male Ghostbreaker, the Groovy Girl
and the African American agent walk up looking angrily at Jack, the men holding
weapons of their own. Tucker is seen as a green lump of goo, with his hands out
and looking at Jack.
JACK: I got him! (points a thumb at himself) Me, Jack
Fenton!
Close up on Jack.
JACK: Danny Fenton’s father!
Close up on Danny. First he looks
worried, and then his eyes droop down and look bored and disappointed.
Cut to Tucker, pulling off his
goo-coated ghost costume. The Male Ghostbreaker
observes him from the left, the African-American agent from the upper-right,
and the Groovy Girl from the right. All of them look as if the ghost was
mocking them. When Tucker is seen, the ghost hunters look with some worry at
the boy.
TUCKER: I’m not gonna grow a third arm,
am I?
If you did, then you wouldn’t be a superhero like
Danny. You’d be a mutant like the X-Men or something. And while people like
superheroes, they hate mutants. Be lucky ectoplasmic goo doesn’t affect humans.
The ghost hunters all break out
laughing, the agent holding up his gun, the Groovy Girl with her hand on her
head.
Pan out
and left to reveal Danny. He lifts his hand to cover his face.
Cut to a
shot of Sam and Danny face-palming through some red goggles. It fizzles a
little, then shows a whole shot of the crows at the Nasty Burger, Tucker in the
center with Jack, Male Ghostbreaker, Groovy Girl and
Guy in White near Sam and Danny.
Cut to
Vlad Plasmius, looking through a pair of red,
pentagonal binoculars.
VLAD: Dance, you big, dumb puppet, (puts down the binoculars) dance.
It’s not nice to call people names behind their
back, Vlad.
Cut to a
shot of Vlad on a building holding his binoculars in one hand. Vlad’s three
ghostly vultures are roosting there, two on the left and one on the right.
VULTURE #1: I don’t get it. (turns head
toward Vlad) If you just wanna steal the portal-
Cut to
the vulture.
VULTURE #1: Why not do it now while the Fentons aren’t home?
Ah, but only 3 of the four Fentons are accounted
for. After all, where’s Jasmine?
Cut to
Vlad.
VLAD: Dismantling that portal will take time. (lifts
his hands up) And while tearing down the portal, (clenches his raises
hands into fists) I can tear down young Daniel’s respect for his father. (eyes pop wide open) Assuming he *has* any.
Close up
on Vlad, his eyes narrow.
VLAD: You know what to do.
Cut to a
front shot of Vlad and the three vultures on the building. They flap their
wings, make bird calls, and take off toward the camera, flying downwards. One
of the vulture’s heads fills the screen. The shot rotates and the scene pans
left as the vultures close in on the Nasty Burger where the crowd is assembled.
Cut to
two vultures swooping down. A third vulture comes in from the top right and
fills most of the screen in the front.
Cut to
Danny, face covered by his palm. Hr quickly removes his hand in surprise as his
ghost sense goes off.
Cut to
an aerial shot of the Nasty Burger. Everyone is scared as a vulture’s legs in
the foreground close in. Everyone screams and runs off in different directions.
Cut to
Jack by the Assault Vehicle, running away from the vultures flying over him, a
bazooka in hand. He ducks down suddenly as the vultures swoop overhead and call
out. He stretches his arms out at his sides as Groovy Dude, Scardey
Cat and both Guys in White approach from the right.
JACK: Stand back, everyone!
Cut to
Jack.
JACK: I’ve got the (turns to the left and hunches over) home
field advantage.
Pan out.
Jack lifts up the Fenton Fisher, the background becoming a turquoise action
background with the Assault Vehicle behind him.
Cut to
the legs of Groovy Dude in the foreground, a ghost-hunting gadget at his hip.
Groovy Girl is barely visible beside him. Jack runs up and away from the camera
from the left, a Guy in White steps up next to Groovy Dude on the left as Jack
chases the calling vultures. Pan right to show Groovy Girl in
the foreground from the back, having another gadget at her hip, and the other
Guy in White on the right while Jack turns right and follows the vultures offscreen.
Cut to Groovy Girl. The Female Ghostbreaker
is on the right.
GROOVY GIRL: Like, (throwing arms forward) that’s not the
Million Dollar Ghost! (puts her fists on her hips)
Pan
right to the Ghostbreakers.
FEMALE GHOSTBREAKER: Then we should (shrugs, holding a gun) kick
back and watch this. (moves right hand and curls
the fingers) It’ll be a riot!
The Male
Ghostbreaker takes one hand off his gun and does a
sign language Y.
Yep. He puts out the thumb and pinky finger, not
index. Therefore, it’s a Y, not a surfing sign.
MALE GHOSTBREAKER: An extreme riot, dude!
The
Female Ghostbreaker puts her hand on her hip, the
Male Ghostbreaker turns to her.
FEMALE GHOSTBREAKER: I’m a *girl*…?
Male Ghostbreaker puts his hand back on his gun.
MALE GHOSTBREAKER: Right.
Cut to a
top view of two vultures flying and calling. They fly offscreen. The sidewalk
pans down as Jack runs down it carrying the Fenton Fisher.
JACK: All right, ghosts!
Cut to
Jack, running right as the scene pans right.
JACK: Prepare to become the Fenton (lifts the Fenton Fisher over his
head) Catch of the Day!
Action Jack Quotable #2. There’s two more to find.
Jack
thrusts forward and the Fenton Fisher is heard casting off.
Cut to a
Purple Action Background. The hook on the Fenton Fisher comes from the left and
goes up to the center, zooming in on it.
Cut to
two vultures flying to the right. The hook wraps itself around the rightmost’s left leg. It turns its head around to examine
it, and then is pulled downward to the left as the scene pans down with it. It
calls.
Close up
on Jack, both arms reaching out. He leans back into the shot and starts reeling
in.
JACK: Gotcha!
Cut to
the Vulture being pulled downward, flapping wings and straining to keep itself flying. It is pulled offscreen, the somehow with all
its might, flies back on its course.
Cut to
Jack, looking up with pride as he reels in the ghost, but yells out as he is
pulled forward, his mouth filling the screen, and is pulled offscreen.
Cut to
the street leading to the Nasty Burger. Jack is being dragged by the vulture
with his belly to the street, getting some bad asphalt burn as the vulture
flies away from the camera toward the establishment.
Cut to
Jack, sliding on the ground in a Purple Action Background, hanging on to the
Fenton Fisher. Pieces of asphalt are flying away as debris.
JACK: I think he’s giving up!
Cut to
Jack from the side landing on the street, holding the Fenton Fisher. He slides
until he lands face-first into the Nasty Burger drive-thru speaker, losing his
grip on the fishing pole in the process.
Pan up
to the head of Nasty Nat, rattling. The four cardboard arms of the statue are
holding a sign in the shape of a burger that reads “Menu” in black letters. It
falls offscreen with spots of red, orange and yellow for emphasis.
Cut to
Jack, whose head is covered by the Nasty Burger head.
DRIVE THRU: Welcome to Nasty Burger.
Pan out
to reveal the Drive Thru speaker. Jack rubs his Nasty Nat-covered head.
DRIVE THRU: Wow. You’re the worst ghost hunter *ever*.
Cut to
Jack lying by the drive-thru with the Nasty Nat head on. In the foreground
looking on him, left-to-right, is Caucasian Agent,
Groovy Girl, Female Ghostbreaker and Groovy Dude.
They all turn away from Jack and laugh hysterically, Groovy Girl’s hands in her
head, Female Ghostbreaker’s hands on her chest.
Pan left
to Danny and Sam, overseeing the humiliation.
SAM: Danny!
Sam
raises her arms up high and turns left to him. Danny puts a hand on his face
again.
SAM: Do something!
Glad to see Sam cares about Jack enough to get
Danny to help him.’
Cut to
Danny with his face buried in his hands. Tucker is looking at him from the left.
DANNY: (removing his hand) What do you
want me to do? (turns to Tucker) I can’t go
ghost here! (drops arm and turns back in place) Besides--
(Cut to
Tucker, Danny and Sam)
DANNY: --nobody’s in (lifts his arms in consolation) any *real*
danger yet, right?
A
vulture calls. Two of them swoop down from the right and grab Tucker and Sam by
their claws, flying to the left past the Nasty Burger sign. Tucker and Sam
scream in terror.
Close up
on Danny.
DANNY: And, now they are.
He looks
to the right, and walks to the left offscreen.
Cut to
Danny running past as in the foreground, Male Ghostbreaker
is laughing his hand on his helmet and looking down, Groovy Girl is laughing
with her hand on her head, Groovy Dude is laughing, leaning back with his hands
on his stomach. Pan left. Danny looks at the ghost hunters cautiously as they
laugh, tiptoeing on his course. Scaredy Cat and the Caucasian
Agent as also laughing as Danny walks behind the corner of the Nasty Burger.
Cut to
Danny running up from behind the Nasty Burger. He stops as a ring of light
forms around him.
Cut to
Danny’s legs. The ring passes over him and sinks into the ground, becoming
white boots and black pants.
Cut to
Danny’s fists high in the air. Rings pass over each one and dissipate, leaving
white-gloved hands in their wake.
Cut to
Danny from behind as the rings pass over him. Zoom in on the back of his neck,
his hair is now all white. Rotate the shot to see Danny’s face. Zoom out to
show all of Danny Phantom. He bends his knees low and takes off flying with his
spectral tail up and toward the camera, offscreen.
Cut to
the laughing ghost hunters again. Scaredy Cat is leaning with his head on the
ground and his tail in the air, hand on his head. The Caucasian Agent is
bending over laughing with hands on his knees.
Pan
right as Danny Phantom swoops behind and past the ghost hunters, Groovy Dude
and African-American agent holding a gun up, Groovy Girl with her hands
together, Female Ghostbreaker holding a gun in one hand
and the other hand on her cheek. Maddie is looking concerned down at Jack, who
is still on the ground. The Agent, Groovy Girl and the
Ghostbreaker’s devices beep, being the Agent and Ghostbreaker’s watches and Groovy Girl’s device in her
hands. They and the Fentons look in surprise.
Cut to
the three ghost hunters with beeping devices.
GHOST HUNTERS: *Ghosts*!
Cut to
Jack, still on the ground. Maddie is comforting him with her hands on his
shoulder.
JACK: Aw,--
Jack’s
eyes look down in dejection, Maddie looks at him, worried.
JACK: --quit mocking me.
Cut to
Danny, flying on a purple action background with two fists up and a look of
utmost determination, a ghostly tail cascading under him.
Cut to a
purple action background. Danny is in the foreground, seen from behind. The
shot zooms in to Sam and Tucker being held in the talons of the two vultures.
Cut to
Danny flying. Zoom in on him. He stops flying and starts gagging as a
black-gloved hand grabs him by the neck and chokes him, Danny’s tongue sticking
out. He is pulled offscreen with many puffs of smoke.
Once again, Danny Phantom is held by neck.
Poor Danny.
Vlad does this to him…what? Over 5 times in the entire
series?
Cut to a
shot of the city, with one building still only a few girders being on
construction. Danny falls in from the right and falls away from the camera,
landing on the roof of a building on his back and arms, debris flies as he
lands.
Cut to
Danny. He lifts the top of his body on his hands and bends one of his knees up.
Close up
on Danny
DANNY: Plasmius!
Cut to
Danny’s head from behind in the foreground. Vlad is seen floating above him,
his cape blowing in the wind and one finger on his chin.
DANNY: What are you doing here?
Cut to
Vlad. He tilts back his head and taps his chin.
VLAD: Well let’s see, (puts his finger forward) your father
looks like a fool, (uncurls a second finger) there’s a million dollars
on your head, (puts down his arms and leans forward a little) What do you think I’m doing here?!
Y’know, if Danny couldn’t smell the stink of Vlad
coming, that’s all right with Dennis. There are too many occasions where Vlad
stink is all over everything, even when it’s not Vlad.
Cut to
Danny in a fighting stance. He bends his knees and takes flight to the right
with his ghostly tail, and flies closer to the camera and offscreen.
Cut to
Vlad. He leans back a hand and then thrusts forward with it,
the palm starts to glow pink. Zoom out. The pink energy becomes a pink square
of glass. Danny slams face-first into it, his arms slam up on it. He grunts in
pain and slides off of it.
Cut to
Danny, tumbling in the air. He slowly regains his stability and floats in
place, his arms and legs out.
Cut to
Danny. His eyes open. He turns quickly to the left and looks down.
Cut to
an aerial shot of the street below. The Guys in White are scanning a turquoise
car with two metal detectors, Groovy Dude is carrying a panicking Scaredy Cat
in his arms while Groovy Girl looks at him with her hands on her hips, the Ghostbreakers skate past on skateboards holding high green
butterfly nets.
Butterfly nets? Clearly the Ghostbreakers
forgot that they were looking for ghosts, not fairies.
DANNY: So you hired these idiots?
Cut to
Vlad.
VLAD: Yes.
Vlad
raises a hand with curled fingers and looks at it.
VLAD: Every idiot--
Vlad
closes his eyes and his hand starts glowing pink.
VLAD: --except your father.
Cut to a
farther shot, Danny is seen from the back, floating in a fighting stance. Vlad
is far off in the same position, a pink glass flyswatter materializes in a
flash of white light.
VLAD: He’s a *free* idiot.
Vlad
thrusts his glowing hand forward, turning right. The flyswatter hits Danny and
he falls offscreen.
Cut to
Danny, falling back again. The screen pans left as Danny lands on his back on
the roof of a building again.
Cut to
Danny. He gets up, leaning on one hand, one knee is bent upwards, and he buries
the side of his face in his other hand. He takes his hand away and turns to the
left, looking down to a voice from offscreen.
TUCKER and SAM: (offscreen) Danny, help!
Danny gets
up quickly and rushes off.
Cut to
the ledge of the building. Danny puts his hands on the ledge and looks down,
gasping. Zoom out. Tucker and Sam, being held by the talons of the vultures,
scream as they fly closer toward the camera. The vultures release the kids, and
they scream as they fall offscreen.
Cut to a
dumpster, the top is up, it’s filled with refuse. Tucker and Sam land
feet-first into the mess, displacing many cans and other trash items, flying
out of the dumpster. The lid slams down on them.
Cut to
Danny with hands on the ledge, looking down. He looks up to the right.
DANNY: As much as I’d enjoy catching up, (bends his hands and takes
off with many puffs of smoke) Plasmius,--
Cut to a
purple action background. Danny flies with with his
fists up and his ghostly tail cascading below him.
DANNY: --shouldn’t you be getting home to the love of your life?
Cut to
Vlad in a purple action background with two glowing fists. He lunges one arm forward
and sends out an energy beam, then lunges the one in the back forward, the
screen turning white with energy.
Cut to
Danny, flying.
DANNY: Oh,--
Danny giggles,
and he swoops around Vlad’s energy beam, getting closer to the camera. He stops
in a fighting stance, more beams blast off behind him.
DANNY: --that’s right! Dad *married* the love of your life.
Danny
flies offscreen.
Close up
on Danny.
DANNY: You’re bitter and alone!
Danny
moves away from the camera, bringing one hand back. He turns to punch, but his
gloved hand is caught by Vlad’s black-gloved hand. Danny screams as it glows
and convulses with pink electric energy.
Zoom
out. Danny is being held by Vlad, convulsing in the shock and screaming. Vlad
is floating carelessly with a hand behind his back.
VLAD: (leaning back his head) Oh please, Daniel.
Vlad leans
his head forward, Danny’s screams fade away.
VLAD: Must I *actually* defeat you with one hand behind my back, before
you realize, you’re outmatched!
Cut to
Danny. Two blue rings form around his body and change his chest, arms and head
back to Danny Fenton, the pink electricity subsiding where Danny is Fenton.
Suddenly, the electricity stops charging, and Danny sighs with fatigue, the
rings closing down and turning his human parts back to Danny Phantom. He leans
forward without any energy left, pink sparkles pop around him.
Cut to
Danny from the side, being held by Vlad. Vlad looks at Danny and waves a
finger.
VLAD: Ah, ah, ah!
Vlad lifts
his arm out, raising his chin and smiling, eyes closed.
VLAD: We can’t have you pass out, and change back into Danny Fenton,--
Vlad
puts down his arm and looks down at Danny.
VLAD: --now can we?
Cut to
Danny from the side. Vlad’s head comes in from the right, meeting up with his.
Vlad’s eyes are closed.
VLAD: This might be your *father’s* party, (opens his eyes) but *you’re*
the guest of honor!
Cut to
Vlad holding Danny in the sky.
VLAD: Tah!
Vlad
thrusts across his body and casts Danny off, Danny flies, face and hands
forward, screaming as the scene pans left.
Cut to
Danny. He is now seen from the back, falling toward a collection of ghost
hunters by the Nasty Burger.
Cut to
the Caucasian Agent, standing in front of the Fenton Assault Vehicle.
CAUCASIAN AGENT: It’s the million dollar ghost!
Zoom out to reveal the Male Ghostbreaker, holding a bazooka.
MALE
GHOSTBREAKER: Whoa! Do you know how many extreme jockstraps I could buy with a
million dollars?
I’m
guessing those are fairly expensive. But please, don’t waste your money. Don’t
you need food?
Cut to Danny, falling with his face
toward the camera. He’s screaming.
Cut to Maddie, holding a souped-up ghost rifle. She loads it and aims it by her eye
as it charges.
Zoom out to reveal Jack. He charges
and aims his rifle.
Cut to the Male Ghostbreaker.
He kicks up his skateboard, takes it in his hands, and unfolds it. It becomes a
weapon with ten beams, five on each side.
Cut to Scaredy Cat. He meows in
panic and jumps onto Groovy Girl, who braces herself and screams.
Cut to Groovy Dude, popping into the
scene.
GROOVY
DUDE: Like, how ‘bout a--
Groovy Dude holds up a yellow bag
that reads “Kitty Krunch” with three yellow stars a
purple cat head on it, waving it back and forth so it crinkles.
GROOVY
DUDE: --Kitty Krunch?
Close up on Scaredy Cat. His eyes
narrow and glow reddish with determination. He jumps offscreen.
Cut to the Nasty Burger. Scaredy Cat
lands on his paws, leans down, and then gets up and roars.
Cut to Danny, falling and screaming
in flash-motion. The screen pans down and left.
Cut to the chest of the African
American agent. He reaches into his suit and takes out a green pen, and a laser
sprouts from it, extending into segments. Zoom out as he holds it up, his
finger in front of it.
Cut to the Caucasian agent, using an
automatic dust roller on his suit. Zoom out as he thrusts it out, it also
sprouts a laser shooter and extends into segments.
Cut to the dumpster. Tucker and Sam
lift the lid up, Tucker with one hand, Sam with both.
TUCKER:
That settles it. (turns
to Sam) Nasty Burger smells the same before, *and* after the fact.
I
wonder what “the fact” is. That patrons eat there, and it smells so bad, it
smells like a garbage dump?
Sam looks up to the left, worried.
Close up on Sam.
SAM: Danny!
Cut to a street. Danny lands on the
bottom of his palms and tumbles over backwards, grunting in pain and landing on
his back in front of the ghost hunters, Groovy Girl, Male Ghostbreaker
and Caucasian Agent pointing guns at him, Scaredy Cat glaring at him. Guns are
heard charging as Jack and Maddie approach into foreground.
Cut to Danny from above, with five
guns pointed at him.
DANNY: You
know, (zoom in slowly) I think I liked
it better when they were laughing.
Fade to black.
-Cut to
commercial-
END OF PART ONE.
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