Reality Trip
Episode #37/38
Transcripted by Dennis Dunjinman
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PART ONE
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Prologue
Fade in to
FentonWorks. One of the upstairs windows is open.
DANNY: (offscreen) Oh, *crud*! Of all the days to oversleep…
Cut to
Danny’s mirror. There’s a poster of a rocket going by two planets next to it.
On the counter are a book, a baseball, and a model of the space shuttle. Danny
reaches his arm in from the bottom. He beds up as he is seen with his other
hand by his shirt collar trying to put it on. His hair is completely rumpled.
He grunts with effort as he straightens up and pulls his shirt down, looking at
himself awkwardly in the mirror.
Close-up
on Danny. He puts
his hands on his head and ruffles his hair until it’s neat.
Danny doesn’t comb his hair? I guess it’s
always been perfectly messy.
DANNY: Can’t have
Lancer keep me after on the last day school,--
Danny puts
down his arms and looks to the right with a smirk.
DANNY: --so…
Cut to the
floor by his bed. Danny legs with shoes on lands. With a flash of light by his
knees, a ring expands and moves up his body. Pan up as Danny
is transformed into Danny Phantom, both his arms far out at his sides.
Cut to an
overhead view of FentonWorks. Steam is coming out one window. Danny blasts off
invisibly from the one next to it. Pan right to Danny regaining color and
floating in the air with his knees bent.
DANNY: I’ll just
take the *aerial* route!
Cut to the
other window. Jack is in the shower with a pink, floral shower cap and a rubber
duck in hand. He is scrubbing his back with a brush, stopping as he looks out
the window and gasps.
Cut to
Jack in the foreground, looking through the window at Danny floating far away.
Cut to
Jack in the window. He comes up in the window with his rubber duck, waving his
brush as steam pours out.
JACK: You! Ghost
kid!
Cut to
Jack.
JACK: I get my
hands on you, (tightens his grip on the
duck) I’ll tear you apart--
Jack
squeezes the duck so it squeaks as he yells.
JACK: --*molecule by molecule*!
Cut to
Jack in the window. He puts down his things and aims and charges a long
ecto-bazooka, blasting it and being knocked back to the shower.
Cut to
Danny in the air, looking down scared. He dodges narrowly to the right with his
hands out at an obtuse angle as the blast grazes his back and explodes into
nothing. Danny flees, swooping down and around to the right.
Cut to
Danny, flying and looking back,
DANNY: Which is a
perfect example of *why* I won’t be going ghost--
Danny
looks up and brings his arm up, happier.
DANNY: --during my Fenton Family (looks back) vacation.
Cut to
FentonWorks with Jack in the window. Zoom out.
JACK: Listen to
me when I’m talking to you!
Cut to a
sky with clouds and blazing sunshine. Danny flies in with his arms up at his
sides in celebration.
DANNY: It’s summer!
He tilts
downward, looking back.
DANNY: Starting at 3:30--
He puts
his arms out in front and flies toward the camera.
DANNY: --I don’t have to (tilts
upward) listen to anyone--
Camera zooms
out.
DANNY: --for a long, long time.
Continue
panning right. Danny turns away as he flies over houses, buildings and an
urbanized hill in the distance. There’s a heavy metal barbed wire fence with an
outpost and a main building. Etched on the wall next to the
gate reads “AMITY PARK PENETENTIARY”. The sun is still blazing, but it’s very
dark.
Cut to a
dark room. The lights turn on with a loud click. Freakshow is sitting in a
chair hunched over in an interrogation room, shackles bind his wrists and
ankles. A spotlight shines on him from overhead. Two Guys in White agents, one
with a folder walk up.
Cut to the
two agents. Agent K is holding the folder marked “CLASSIFIED”.
AGENT O: I hope
you’ve been enjoying your stay with us, Freakshow.
Cut to
Freakshow’s bound wrists. Pan up to his face, eyes closed and facing the floor.
He looks up discerning. Then he mockingly clasps his hands together by his
cheek and looks away.
FREAKSHOW: Ooh!
Freakshow
looks forward with a smile and one hand out.
FREAKSHOW: The Guys in White.
He curls
his fingers and closes his eyes.
FREAKSHOW: Top-Secret ghost catchers (leans in, trying to insult) who *can’t* actually catch ghosts!
Cut to the
agents. Agent K has his folder open. Agent O presses a button on a remote with
a loud BEEP to the left without flinching.
Pan left.
A silhouetted figure is floating in a darkened tank. The lights turn on with a
loud, dramatic click. The ghost is revealed to be one of Freakshow’s minions,
the girl with spiky hair, tattoos and the red cloak.
Cut to her
high-heel boots. Bubbles are floating up. Pan up across her body from her
panties to her black wristbands, her skull clip on her cloak and to her head
with piercings, asleep.
Just an observation for the Great Skull Hunt,
Cut to
Agent K.
AGENT K: Care to
revise that last statement?
Cut to the
agents, O with the remote and K with the open folder. Freakshow is in the
front, leaning forward as his shackles jangle.
FREAKSHOW: *
Freakshow looks
annoyed at his minion being intruded.
AGENT O: No
longer under your control.
Close-up
on a tight-faced Freakshow.
FREAKSHOW: What
do you want?
Cut to
Agent K looking in the file.
AGENT K: You
knowledge of (closes the file in one
hand) ghostly items.
He puts
the file at his side and takes out a remote.
AGENT K: Anything you care to tell us about (presses a button, it beeps sharply) this?
Cut to the
floor with a trapdoor gate. The trapdoor divides in half and bends aside,
revealing a chute. A counter with an ornate gauntlet and three gems comes up.
Pan up. The gauntlet has four holes on the back, a square hole, a rhombus hole,
a round hole, and a triangular hole. The gems on the bottom on the case are a
red square, a yellow rhombus, and a blue circle.
Cut to the
armhole of the gauntlet. It sparkles. Pan across it.
It sparkles over the square hole and under the thumb.
Cut to the
three gems. The blue one sparkles, then the red.
Cut to a
wide-eyed Freakshow.
FREAKSHOW: The
Reality Gauntlet!
He looks
more serious, then looks up and away without a care.
FREAKSHOW: Never heard of it.
We can tell you’re lying if you said it by
name. Didn’t you write a book about it? The strange thing is that I usually
look for skulls on ghostly items. This one doesn’t have a skull.
Cut to
Agent O.
AGENT O: We know
how you envy ghosts.
Pan right
to Agent K.
AGENT K: Annnd we believe this to be an object of enough spectral
power to eradicate ghosts forever!
Cut to
Agent K’s file marked “CLASSIFIED”.
AGENT K: Perhaps,
including (pulls out a picture of Danny
Phantom) this one!
Freakshow wouldn’t remember that. Danny didn’t
have his emblem in Control Freaks. And this Danny looks a little older, despite
Million Dollar Ghost being one episode before it.
Just the costume changed, not Danny’s overall
appearance, so it should be easy for Freakshow to recognize the ghost that
screwed up his plans. After all, Freakshow knew all about Danny before coming
to
Cut to
Freakshow sitting by the Reality Gauntlet. He throws out his hands.
FREAKSHOW: Aha, (points up with a finger) *that* Reality
(looks envious at it) Gauntlet!
Close-up
on Freakshow.
FREAKSHOW: I believe
I’ve heard of it after all!
Cut to
Agent O with a remote. He presses it with a sharp beep as he pushes it toward
the camera.
Cut to
Freakshow’s arm-and-leg shackles. His leg shackles open. Pan up to a surprised
Freakshow looking down as his arm bands open and fall off with a little smoke.
He takes his free wrist in one hand, rubbing it and smiles evilly.
FREAKSHOW: Now
then…
Freakshow
puts his hands out like a boy in a candy store.
FREAKSHOW: The Reality--
He gets up
from the chair and walks away.
FREAKSHOW: --Gauntlet.
Cut to the
Gauntlet. Freakshow walks up behind it with a hand on his chin.
FREAKSHOW: Hmm…
Well,--
He walks
around it and puts his hands on it, inspecting it.
FREAKSHOW: --I don’t know that much about it.
He steps
aside, pointing a finger to the gems.
FREAKSHOW: But, I believe *these* things play a (curls his fingers) key role.
Close-up
on Freakshow as he turns to the left.
FREAKSHOW: May I
try it on?
Cut to the
agents in front of the tank holding
AGENT K: I
suppose so.
The agents
exchange glances.
AGENT K: It doesn’t work anyway.
Cut to
Freakshow, holding his hands together gleefully.
FREAKSHOW: *Joy*!
He turns
to the gauntlet with a grin, taking it in both hands and swinging it with the hole end out.
Cut to the
agents. Agent O lifts his eyebrows incredulously.
Cut to the
red and yellow gems.
FREAKSHOW: (offscreen) Each
of these gems, (takes the red gem) has
a power.
Cut to
Freakshow, looking down. He lifts up the red one, which sparkles.
FREAKSHOW: The
red one?
He looks
down and puts it down.
FREAKSHOW: The Gem of *Life*!
Cut to the
slots on the gauntlet.
FREAKSHOW: It can
make (puts the red gem in the first slot)
anything come *alive*!
The red
gem sparkles.
Cut to the
remaining yellow and blue gems. Freakshow reaches in and takes the yellow one.
FREAKSHOW: And I
believe this one is--
Cut to
Freakshow’s hand holding up the gem.
FREAKSHOW: --the
Gem of--
The gem sparkles.
FREAKSHOW: --Form.
Cut to
Freakshow wearing the gauntlet with the red gem and holding up the yellow one.
FREAKSHOW: It can
transform anything into (puts the gem in
the second slot) anything else-uh--
Freakshow
puts his hand away with a nervous smile.
FREAKSHOW: --so I’ve been told.
Cut to the
agents with incredulous looks. Agent K arches his eyebrows.
Cut to
Freakshow, holding up the blue gem. It sparkles.
FREAKSHOW: And
this?
Freakshow looks
down and puts it into the Gauntlet.
FREAKSHOW: Is the Gem of Fantasy.
Cut to the
round slot. Freakshow puts it in.
FREAKSHOW: It can
make your dreams *real*.
The gem
sparkles.
Cut to
Freakshow.
FREAKSHOW: These
gems, (closes his eyes) if touched in
the proper sequence,--
Zoom out
to show Freakshow in a ready stance.
FREAKSHOW: --will allow the wearer to control *all* reality!
He leans
back, shrugging.
FREAKSHOW: But, the Gauntlet is (looks up and away) useless without its (closes his eyes) power source.
Freakshow
puts a hand on his hip and smiles.
Cut to the
agents.
Cut to
Freakshow.
FREAKSHOW: Which
I just (reaches for his ear) so
happen to have right here!
Cut to the
Agents. They reach into their suits.
AGENT O: Freeze
it, freak!
Close-up
on Freakshow’s ear. He has
the triangular red gem in his fingers and removes it without even needing to
unclasp it.
Cut to the
triangular slot. The red gem falls inside and starts to glow red.
Cut to the
whole gauntlet. The Gem of Life glows red.
Cut to a
computer screen in the distance. The Reality Gauntlet punches the air from
below on a red action background. The red gem is glowing.
FREAKSHOW: Have a
little taste--
The whole
gauntlet glows red.
FREAKSHOW: --of--
Zoom out
to reveal all of Freakshow in the interrogation room.
FREAKSHOW: --the Gem of Life!
Freakshow
punches the air on a red action background, sending out a red beam of power.
Cut to the
agents with bazookas aimed. They stand down in shock as the beam hits the
bazookas and the background becomes a purple action background. The beam
explodes as their bazookas start to slither and wrap around their arms and
bodies, binding them.
Cut to
Freakshow with his glowing gauntlet out and his hand at his hip.
FREAKSHOW: Now
that’s what I call--
Freakshow
puts the gauntlet back to his side and closes his eyes, looking up.
FREAKSHOW: --living!
The
gauntlet runs out of power and starts to smolder red. Freakshow opens his
fingers and looks down at it, disappointed.
Cut to the
gauntlet. The Gem of Life is glowing.
FREAKSHOW: *Blast*!
Cut to
Freakshow, looking down.
FREAKSHOW: If I
only knew the sequence to activate *all* the gems, (perks up) I could control all reality! (arches his eyebrows) Still…
Cut to the
tank with
Cut to
Agent K on the ground. Freakshow takes the hand with the gauntlet and reaches
between the loops of his bazooka into his pocket, taking out an ID card with a
red slide arrow.
Cut to
Cut to the
bottom of the tank. It lifts up as air hisses from the bottom, filling the
screen.
Cut to a
silhouetted
Cut to a
smoke screen with Freakshow smiling in the foreground. The smoke clears to
reveal a smiling
Some people ask why
I vote with
Cut to the
agents in the foreground. Freakshow is in front of them. He turns around and
waves as smoke billows and
FREAKSHOW: This
concludes our (puts down his hand) demonstration.
Freakshow
and
FREAKSHOW: Now, if you’ll excuse us…!
They fade
away in the smoke.
Cut to
outside
Cut to Freakshow
and
FREAKSHOW: What
should we do with our newfound freedom?
He points
up a finger.
FREAKSHOW: Dinner?
He puts up
another finger and looks up and away.
FREAKSHOW: Movie?
Cut closer
to Freakshow and
Freakshow clenches
up a fist so the Gem of Life is visible.
FREAKSHOW: Make myself ringmaster of all reality?
He starts
laughing maniacally as his hand glows red.
Cut to the
two flying over many skyscrapers. They fly off into the distance.
Fade to
black.
OPENING
THEME HERE
(Possible cut to commercial)
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PART ONE
Title Screen is shown. Depicted is Freakshow
blazing the Reality Gauntlet, with Danny’s face reflected in the red triangular
gem, Sam’s in the round blue gem, and Tucker’s in the square yellow gem. The caption on the bottom reads “Are We There Yet?”
By the way, on TurboNick, unlike The Ultimate Enemy, Reality Trip is
uploaded in two halves instead of one whole. There’s text on the bottom of the
words “Reality Trip” reading “Part One”. By the end there’s a “To Be Continued”
version of this card. And on the second half, the theme song plays a second
time without an intro and reads “Part Two” on the title card.
It reminds me of the Monday in Aruba during the Phantomania week when I
was watching Phantom Planet four days before it would air in America. The Latin
American Nickelodeon aired the first half, then had a “To Be Continued” version
of the end card, then played the theme again after the commercials with a “Part
Two” card. Meep!
Huh. Some sort of “eyecatch” we never get to
see in the
Fade in to a large, outdoor stage with a
large, purple curtain over it. Bleachers are on both sides. Purple banners on
the stage and the bleachers read “Dumpty Humpty” in
white letters. The trees are still orange, so despite it being summer the
season still resembles perpetual autumn.
Pan left to
Cut to above the door. It has a banner
reading “Dumpty
Humpty, Live Tonight”. Pan down. The
doors open and various students pour out, celebrating and cheering.
Cut to the back of the bleachers. The back
reads “(Rav)ens”.
Teens of all shapes and sizes run past, one on a
purple skateboard. Zoom out and pan right to the stage with loudspeakers and
cables running from it. Some kids are already on the bleachers. The teens all
stop and raise their arms to cheer.
Cut to three more teens pouring out the
door. The doors smack closed just while Danny pushes them open with one hand
and a folded piece of paper in the other. Tucker has a paper too and a hand in
his pocket. Sam is behind them with another paper.
DANNY: Finally!
They all walk off.
Cut to the three of them on the sidewalk.
DANNY: I’ve been looking forward to this
summer vacation *forever*!
As well as staying 14 forever, no doubt. Shame the staff of DP didn’t
let you and everyone else grow up, Danny, because the
series definitely takes the course of at least two years.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: The three of us traveling together
cross-country (looks back) seeing the
sights.
Cut to Danny’s paper. It’s a dark blue
picture of space with a moon and a rocket swooping around it, with an astronaut
floating nearby. Text reads “SPACE CAMP” with
a little Saturn in yellow text, and on the bottom “In Florida!”.
DANNY:
I don’t know if there’s a difference between the
Cut to Tucker’s paper. It’s white with blue
stars, depicted is a man with a yellow costume with red cape and boots and
gloves, a blue hood and goggles. Also on it is a yellow-masked face captioned “Flame” and
a red-masked face with goggles marked “Sonic”. It reads “Comic (Con)”, in
red, “Sci-fi and Fantasy” in blue on
a yellow circle, “Convention” in
blue, and “San-Diego” in red on the
bottom.
TUCKER: The comic book Sci-Fi and Fantasy expo
in sunny
Dennis actually went to such a convention in her city. She did it for
the Homestar Runner booth being there. It’s mostly
novelty items, creators looking for portfolios and anime cosplayers.
Though she did see ONE man in a Ghostbuster’s uniform
with a vacuum cleaner on his back that was decked in blinking light clips.
Meep!
Personally I’ve been to quite a few anime conventions. Nekocon five
times and Katsucon twice. Each time I’ve been
in cosplay. I tend to be Conan from Detective Conan,
but at my first Katsucon I wore my Danny Fenton
outfit for a bit. Even made my own thermos. (Used it
to carry my hotel cardkey and whatnot though. xD;; )
Cut to Sam’s paper. It’s a dark purple with
two big, red eyes, a black skull and cobwebs. It reads “GOTHAPALOOZA” in big green letters; below it reads “THE NEVADA DESERT”.
SAM: And Gothapalooza in the bleak
Your parents SO won’t let you go there, Sam. It’s probably full of goth sickos.
Cut to just behind the bleachers. The trio
walks up with their papers.
DANNY: But *tonight* we rock out--
Danny turns and points over his shoulder
with his thumb as Tucker and Sam smile gleefully.
DANNY:
--at the Dumpty Humpty concert.
Jasmine walks up reading a green book and
holding a red book in her hand. The two collide and both grunt in pain as the
books and several papers go flying.
Cut to the school as papers fall. A banner
reads “Humpty”
in red and “Night” in purple. Jasmine leans back into the shot.
JASMINE: Geez, Danny!
She leans forward and puts a hand to her
head.
JASMINE:
Watch it!
Cut to Danny with a hand on his head. Tucker
and Sam look to the left in the background.
DANNY: Geez, Jazz! (looks up)
Watch it!
Danny looks down in surprise.
Cut to Jasmine’s green book among lined
sheets of paper. It reads “Ghost Envy for Dimwits” in purple.
Below it is “Ghosts are not the boss of me”. Danny picks it up and reads it.
DANNY: Ghost Envy for Dimwits?
Cut to Danny, kneeling with the book. Tucker
and Sam look down at him.
DANNY: “Ghosts are not the boss of me”? (looks up) What
is this?
Cut to an aerial shot of the kids. Some kids
are visible in the bleachers.
JASMINE: My College entrance thesis (bends down to pick up the papers) on
ghost envy.
Cut to Jasmine holding some papers.
JASMINE: College might be (holds up her red book) a year and a half away,--
She looks to the side and tucks her book
with her papers.
JASMINE:
--but you can’t be too prepared.
Jasmine turns forward.
JASMINE:
In fact, (holds up a finger) did you
know that ghosts often--
Danny interrupts her as he shoves her green
book in her face.
DANNY: Don’t know,--
Jasmine takes the book, annoyed. Danny takes
his arm away.
DANNY:
--don’t care.
Cut to an uncaring Danny with his eyes
closed and hands out.
DANNY: Not--
Danny puts his arms back a little and turns
to the side.
DANNY:
--listening.
It would be just so wonderfully perfect if Jasmine would’ve said
“uncaring about humans” or some other nonsense that pertains to the situation.
All I know is that the Harry Potter guide to clues has “Interruptions mean
hidden clues” as its second rule. The first is reinforcement (didn’t the agents
say Freakshow envied ghosts?), the third is coincidence (there is no such
thing!), and the fourth is “don’t take the character’s word for it because they
can be wrong”. Meep!
I just find it strange for Jasmine to go from believing ghosts don’t
exist at all in season one (until MBK) to writing a thesis for college based on
them, and for a psychological quirk that probably shouldn’t really exist in
DP’s realm regardless. O_o;; Outside of Amity Park,
how many people would believe ghosts truly exist and know it for a fact?
Cut to Jasmine holding her books with Sam
and Tucker on the side with their papers, Sam’s hand on her hip. Danny turns
around and looks up boldly with his hands on his hips.
DANNY: From now on it’s--
Danny looks behind himself to Jasmine.
DANNY:
--no more pencils, no more books,
He leans aside and points out a finger.
DANNY:
--and…no going ghost so my parents can’t (eyes
widen) tear me apart--
He puts his fingers and thumbs together as
Jasmine walks away awkwardly.
DANNY:
--molecule by--
Danny separates his finger loops far apart.
DANNY:
--molecule.
Cut to Sam.
SAM: Which reminds me, (looks back) how did you convince my parents to let me spend an *entire*
summer with (looks incredulous) your
parents?
Cut to Danny. He tips his head down and
smiles as the background gets all wavy.
Cue flashback mode!
Pan right into Sam’s home. By the fireplace
are a red plush chair and a painting of some individual with a bowl of fruit on
the table. Continue panning to Sam’s parents standing with their hands on their
hips in front of a long, burgundy sofa and next to a chair out from the table.
An invisible Danny Phantom floats up behind Pam.
Cut to Pam. Danny is floating behind her
with a smile. He comes into Pam from the back to overshadow her. She gasps and
puts her gloved hands out in shock as her eyes become a solid green. Her eyes
become normal, but green as she lifts her hands.
Cut to Pam.
DANNY: You know,--
Pam curls her fingers to show one pointing
and looks back.
DANNY:
--I think the Fentons are wonderful!
Pam gleefully clasps her hands together.
DANNY:
Sam should take a cross-country trip with them.
Pam’s eyes resume to cobalt blue as Danny
flies out from the front of her. She purses her lips in shock.
Cut to Jeremy. Danny plunges inside his
chest and his eyes become a solid green. He leans forward with normal yet green
eyes and smiles.
DANNY: And I agree with you! Let’s never
speak of this again.
The screen goes wavy as Jeremy looks back.
Fade to Danny looking back in a smug manner. He then looks forward trying to
save himself.
DANNY: Uh, let’s just say I (closes his eyes and smiles) finally got
under their skin.
That’s probably the most evil piece of ghost-influenced manipulation
Danny ever did. Well, there was Dash and Jack and Tucker in PB, too. But
despite me telling off Danny for being a jerk, I have to commend him on
remembering all his powers, including the ever-so-basic-but-forgotten
overshadow that really could use more mileage.
Let’s just be thankful he doesn’t use it too often for the wrong
reasons.
Danny suddenly looks to the left.
Cut to an aerial shot of Danny with papers
around him. Tucker and Sam are gone. The screen is darkened. Screaming is
heard. Danny turns his head to the left. He looks with shock to the right as
many teens runs and scream toward him and away from
something else.
Cut to Danny, looking down to the side with
puffs of smoke around him. He gasps and looks up.
Cut to
By the way, one of her tattoos is a skull. Another for
the Skull Hunt.
Cut to
Cut to Danny, looking up and serious. He
turns to the left suddenly as Tucker and Sam are
heard, taken by surprise.
Cut to a blackened sky with Tucker and Sam
held up by screeching tattoo bats. They flail their arms.
Cut to Sam, looking up at the bat.
SAM: Remind me again: (looks to the right) why do we hang out with a kid who has *ghostly*
enemies?
Cut to Tucker, looking down.
TUCKER: Because you have (looks to Sam) a crush on him?
Close up on Sam. She arches her eyebrows.
Shipping is bad for the soul. And don’t say you’re a certified Yenta.
You’ve seen Fiddler on the Roof? Yentas can be wrong.
*sing* “Hodel, oh Hodel, Have I made a match for you! He's handsome, he's
young! Alright, he's 62. But he's a nice man, a good catch, true? True.” Yup,
Yenta truly had a few screws loose and thank goodness Tzeitel was aware of it.
Cut to Danny, looking up. Pan right as he
starts running.
Cut to the stage. Purple curtains are on all
sides. Danny runs up to it.
Cut to a staircase leading to a large,
purple curtain on the stage. Danny runs up, lifts the curtain and looks back
for a quick spot check, then creeps underneath it.
Cut to an aerial shot of the stage and
bleachers. A large blast of white light emanates from all sides of the stage.
Pan up as Danny flies up from the top of the stage invisibly and intangibly,
slowly resuming color. He looks down to the right as people are heard panicking.
Cut to Paulina, cowering under three
tattoos, an eel, a skull, and a bird. A boy has his arms up as he is chased by
an evil cat’s head.
Cut to the bird tattoo flapping its wings.
It roars sharply with sharp teeth, flapping tongue, pointy feathers and bulging
eyes.
Cut to Paulina under the tattoos. She waves
her arms and screams shrilly. Then she lifts her waving hands and ducks.
PAULINA: Get away!
Cut to a farther shot of Paulina in the
corner. Danny floats up.
Cut to Danny floating in front of the stage.
He points up two green-glowing fingers, one on each hand. He aims and lets out
a beam for the first one, then puts it back and shoots out the second one, then
resumes to using the first finger again.
Cut to a cowering Paulina under the tattoos.
Danny blasts the eel and it vanishes in a little smoke. Paulina looks surprised
at it then looks forward.
PAULINA: He loves me!
She looks up as the Skull is blasted. She
puts down her arm with her hand on one of them and looks down over her
shoulder.
PAULINA: He loves me not!
Paulina looks at the bird that gets blasted
away with a few flying feathers. She throws up her arms in celebration.
PAULINA: He loves me!
Pan down as she clasps her hands together in
a loving-crush pose.
Cut to a smiling Danny. He flies off.
Cut to a railroad station. Three railroad
tracks intersect on top of each other. An oil tanker is parked on the track.
Pan across the station to an outpost and an overhead with three lights,
buildings in the distance. Tucker and Sam are brought over to the tracks by two
bats, which screech as the hover over the tracks.
Cut to the tracks. Sam is lowered down as
she looks at her bat, whose wings grow large like an umbrella and wrap her in a
bundle so only her feet and head are visible. She lands on the ground, grunting
in pain. Tucker falls next to her in his bat bundle, too. They look up.
Cut to the back of a red train car on the
tracks. Freakshow steps in. Pan up to show his upper body with the gauntlet.
Cut to Tucker and Sam in their bat bundles.
TUCKER
AND SAM: *Freakshow*!
Cut to a proud Freakshow with his hand on
his chest.
FREAKSHOW: In the anemic flesh!
Yikes, you’re that pale *naturally*?
He puts down his hand and looks forward.
FREAKSHOW:
How’s tricks?!
Cut to Freakshow looking down at Tucker and
Sam with his hands behind his back.
FREAKSHOW: Had a nice few months while I was--
Freakshow tenses his arms at his sides as he
yells out.
FREAKSHOW:
--*rotting* in jail because of you?
Well, there’s another hint for our timeline for DP. Not that it matters. Clearly, no one is allowed to grow up at all
in this series, even though really, they should. As I previously stated, Danny *must* be at
least 16 or so at the end of the series, if I remember right.
He is suddenly knocked back by a green
ectoplasmic energy blast.
Cut to Tucker and Sam in their bundles. They
look behind themselves and smile.
Cut to Danny floating over a barbed wire
fence with a smoldering hand.
DANNY: Actually, yeah!
His hand stops smoldering as he looks down
upon the scene.
DANNY:
I’ve been working on my aim!
Cut to Freakshow, bending back-to-car with
his gauntlet glowing red. He smiles as he aims a red blast out in front of him.
Cut to Danny hovering over a barbed wire
fence. He looks down in surprise as the beam hits the fence, causing it to
uproot itself from the ground and wrap Danny in a bundle. Danny grunts in pain
as the bundle falls to the ground.
Cut to Freakshow with the glowing Gauntlet
holding up a finger.
FREAKSHOW: And so have I!
The gauntlet stops glowing. He thrusts his
arm in front of himself.
FREAKSHOW:
Say hello to the Reality Gauntlet.
“Hello”.
Cut to the three gems. The yellow, rhombic
one glows yellow.
Close up on Freakshow.
FREAKSHOW: *Which* is twice as powerful now that
I’ve (eyes widen) activated the Gem
of Form!
Cut to Danny in the red fence bundle among a
torn-apart fence. Freakshow’s yellow-glowing gauntlet had fills the screen from
the foreground.
Pan right to two oil tankers on the train
tracks. A yellow beam is shot out at them and they glow yellow. Zoom out. The
tankers swell, and then are deconstructed into pieces that swirl around. They
soon become giant metal mecha-monsters in a yellow light that fades away to
reveal them.
Cut to Danny’s shocked face looking up from
the red fence bundle. Zoom in and rotate.
Cut to the mecha-monster. Oil is seen on
many parts of it. A bird flies behind it and chirps. Pan right to the other
monster, the bird just flies behind it as well.
Cut to Danny looking incredulous in his red
bundle. His eyes shift side-to-side. Zoom out. He then slips his hands out and
grunts with effort as he pries himself free. Pan right to the monsters as Danny
swoops up to look at them.
Cut to Danny from the back. There is a
visible tear in his sleeve. He turns behind himself and laughs.
DANNY: What are they going to do?
Danny turns and points with his thumb.
DANNY:
*Rust* on me?
Cut to Freakshow looking calmly with his
gauntlet at a right angle and his finger hovering over it.
FREAKSHOW: And Freakshow--
He presses the red gem nearest the hand as
the hand glows red.
FREAKSHOW:
--said, “Let there be--
Pan right as he punches the air and sends
out a red beam.
FREAKSHOW: --life!”
But here’s the problem. You hit the gem in the right position, yes, but
that gem you pressed was triangular. The triangular gem is in the BACK of the
gauntlet.
Cut to the mecha-monsters. A red beam is
shot out to them and causes them to have red light reflected on them.
Cut to Danny, floating bored with his legs
bent. There’s a tear in his sleeve and a bigger one by his waist. He spreads
his fingers and looks up suddenly as the mecha-monster jumps up behind him and
roars.
Pan up to the face of the monster. It
continues to roar.
Cut to the monster with its arm overhead.
Danny is floating beneath it. He does a quick dodge to the right as the monster
plows its fist into the ground, kicking up debris. Danny is now gone.
Cut to Danny floating back with the tears in
his jumpsuit. The other monster’s mouth whirrs up behind him. Danny looks into
the mouth and tenses up as the monster bites the back of his jumpsuit. He
screams and throws his arms forward as the monster pulls him away.
Cut to the arm of the monster. The monster
leans back with Danny caught in its teeth. It shakes its head side to side as
Danny is flung in both directions by the butt of his jumpsuit until he is flung
away to the left, screaming.
Cut to the ground by some tracks. Danny
lands with a grunt of pain, then tumbles to his stomach and slides forward
right past Tucker and Sam in bat bundles to Freakshow’s feet. Danny is now
dirty and his hair is rumpled.
Cut to Freakshow, looking down with his
hands on his hips.
FREAKSHOW: Hmm. That’s odd.
He looks to the side.
FREAKSHOW:
I commanded it to eat you.
He lifts up his gauntlet and looks at it.
FREAKSHOW:
I need more practice.
Cut to a bruised and banged up Danny on the
ground. He’s looking up, ready to fight. He looks behind him in fright.
Cut to the two still mecha-monsters. Smoke
billows in the distance. Zoom in on the track.
Cut to the Guys in White on a sleek, white
railroad car. It moves forward as smoke billows behind it.
Cut to the Guys in White. Agent K puts his
hand to his triangular sunglasses.
Cut to the train cars on the rails with the
mecha-monsters seen from the back. Pan left as the Guys in White travel. The
monsters turn and roar.
Cut to Agent K.
AGENT
K: The gauntlet is active! Bad news.
Cut to the Guys in White.
AGENT
O: Very bad. When I file a report, (reaches into his suit) I shall be--
Agent K looks at him.
AGENT
O: --affixing blame to *you*.
Agent O pulls out handcuffs.
Agent K reaches into his suit.
AGENT
K: Not if I affix it to you first!
Agent K pulls out handcuffs as well. Then
both look forward.
AGENT
K: Freeze, freaks!
Cut to Freakshow in the foreground looking
at his two mecha-monsters. He looks up and frowns.
Cut to a smiling Freakshow.
FREAKSHOW: Freeze?
He looks forward with a tight smirk.
FREAKSHOW:
If you--
Cut to a far shot of Freakshow with Danny on
the ground and Tucker and Sam in the bundles. Freakshow puts up his gauntlet and lets out a yellow beam. Danny looks
up in terror.
FREAKSHOW:
--*insist*!
Cut to some clouds. The yellow beam hits and
is absorbed into it. It begins to glow white, turn white and mold into snow.
Then, a red beam hits it so it morphs into a smiling dough-boy shape with red
eyes. The snow cloud stops glowing and falls.
Cut to the two monsters. They move their
eyebrows down as a shadow descends on them.
Cut to the two agents in the car looking up
in shock as the shadow descends.
Cut to the robots and the agent’s car moving
forward when the giant snow cloud falls on the tracks with a red-eyed smile,
filling the screen.
Cut to an aerial shot of the giant snow
dough-boy thing on the tracks. The back of it mists up.
Pan left and zoom in on Freakshow with his
hands on his hips, and Danny on the ground getting up.
Tucker and Sam are there, too.
Cut to a closer shot of the four. Danny
arches his eyebrows.
Cut to Freakshow. He looks to the side and
holds out a hand.
FREAKSHOW: Now, where were we?
He reaches down and takes something.
FREAKSHOW:
Ah, yes!
He holds up a bored and bruised Danny with a
pursed lip by the shirt and the gauntlet glows red.
FREAKSHOW:
I was going to ruin your life the way you ruined mine!
“Have a bunch of ghosts previously under your control expose your
thievery over the past several years”?
Cut to Freakshow, bringing up the glowing
gauntlet. He laughs.
Cut to Danny in Freakshow’s hand. He lifts
up both arms and lets out a green energy beam.
Cut to Freakshow with the blazing gauntlet.
The green beam hits him and knocks him back into the air.
Cut to a place near a few red train cars.
Pan left as Freakshow lands on his back and slides backwards near some power
lines, stopping and smoldering yellow with friction.
Cut to Freakshow, hurt. He opens his eyes
groggily.
Cut to Danny, walking up. His hand glows a
dull green and his jumpsuit is still full of tears.
DANNY: Show’s over, freak.
Cut to Danny standing over Freakshow. Lydia
comes up from the ground with her hood up and uppercuts Danny, causing him to
yell out in pain and get knocked offscreen.
Cut to Tucker and Sam in their bat bundles,
this time sitting down. Danny falls down and sits next to them with a grunt,
the two look at him. Then Tucker and Sam look up seriously.
Cut to Freakshow, standing up with a red
gauntlet.
FREAKSHOW: Looks like our little showdown is
going to require…
He puts out his gauntlet arm horizontally.
FREAKSHOW:
A bigger audience!
The Circus Gothica
train with a skull on the front blows the whistle and drives up behind
Freakshow. It stops when a staircase is behind Freakshow and it lets out a lot
of smoke on the ground. Freakshow puts his hands on his hips.
Circus Gothica train has a very apparent
skull. Take note of that one, it means that Circus Gothica
involves ghosts somehow.
Cut to an aerial shot of the train,
Freakshow and the kids. The chimney smolders as the exhaust pipes puff out
smoke on both sides.
Cut to Freakshow by the train. Lydia walks from behind the corner with her hood down and puts a
hand on the corner, the other on her hip, and leans.
FREAKSHOW: A *much* bigger audience!
Freakshow raises his arms to his chest and
laughs.
Cut to Sam and Tucker in the bundles,
scared. They look down in surprise as the bundles snap open to let them free,
and then look up as the bats fly away. Sam curls her fingers into fists and
both she and Tucker look up seriously.
Cut to the sky. The green-glowing tattoo
bats chitter as they fly to the train.
Cut to Freakshow and
Cut to
Cut to Freakshow, holding on to the railing
tightly. The red gem glows and the glow spreads on the rail.
Cut to the train with the three kids sitting
on the ground. The whole train glows red as it jumps in the air and sprouts bat
wings, then stops glowing. The bat wings flap and raise the train in the air,
and the train whistles as it flies away.
Cut to Danny, getting up. He looks back and
gets into a stance. Then he tenses his arms at his sides and storms off.
Cut to Tucker and Sam, standing. Danny
storms toward them, and he takes their backs as they take his shoulders.
Cut to Sam.
SAM: Danny! (arches eyebrows) What about Freakshow?!
Cut to a bruised and insecure Danny with the
other’s hands on his shoulders. He looks forward with a serious expression.
Cut to Danny in the foreground looking at
the living pile of snow on the tracks.
Cut to the snow. Agents K and O pop their
heads from the pile with snow-afros and O with a snow-mustache. Both scream and
start shivering.
You should take notes on that, Danny. By the time your ice powers
mature, it would’ve been a good idea to use it on a large army of Guys in
White. Too bad you lost your chance to do that, but it would be funny if you
did.
Cut to the trio.
DANNY: Oh, let the--
He looks more angry
as Tucker and Sam exchange glances.
DANNY:
--jerksicles handle it.
Danny smiles gleefully.
DANNY:
I’m on vacation!
He takes off.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: Besides, two words!
Cut to a crowd of cheering teens. Pan right
across them. They become less detailed as the screen pans.
CROWD: Dumpty! Humpty! Dumpty! Humpty!
Drumming begins.
Cut to the stage. There’s a giant egg on
stage and rock music is playing. Lights are on and moving.
Cut to Danny with a goofy grin. Zoom out to
reveal Tucker and Sam pooling over a book. Sam has a finger up.
SAM: The Reality Gauntlet consists of--
Cut to Sam’s finger in the book. One side
reads “The
Reality Gauntlet” with a picture of the
gauntlet holding all the gems, and the other page as a picture of the four
gems, the red triangle, the yellow rhombus, the blue circle and the red square.
Above it reads “Four Gems”, below it
is a lot of text. Sam points to the gems.
SAM: --four gems which…
Danny puts his hand on the page.
DANNY: Guys! Come on! It’s summer!
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: As in (smiles gleefully) “no more pencils, no more books”…
Cut to Tucker and Sam looking incredulous.
Tucker points down.
TUCKER: You might wanna take a look at (pokes his finger) this book.
Tucker and Sam look down.
TUCKER:
Especially the author.
Cut to an annoyed Danny reaching offscreen.
He takes the book and looks down in it.
Cut to the book. It shows the picture of the
gauntlet with the word “GAUNTLET”. Beneath it reads “As
compiled by Frederich Isak
Showenhower”.
DANNY: (reading)
“Frederich Isak
Showenhower”?
Cut to Danny and Sam holding the book on
their knees. Sam lifts up a page.
Cut to the book. Sam folds it and covers
part of the last name to read “as by Freakshow”. Zoom in dramatically.
Cut to Danny, looking down.
DANNY: “Freakshow”.
Danny lowers his eyebrows and looks to the
side.
DANNY:
Well, (looks uncaring) I don’t care,
Sam!
Cut to Danny holding the book in both hands
while Tucker and Sam look at him with their hands on their knees.
DANNY: (looking
snide at them) As of right now,--
He gives the book to Sam, who looks shocked.
DANNY:
--Freakshow is--
Sam clutches the book sadly as Danny holds
up his palms.
DANNY:
--not my problem.
Tucker, Sam and Danny look up as drumming
starts again.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: Ooh, I love this part!
He looks to the right.
DANNY:
This is where the band comes out of a (looks
forward) giant egg!
Cut to an overhead view of the crowd and
stage. There’s a giant egg with cracks in it. Smoke puffs out on all sides of
the stage.
Cut to the giant egg with the crack in it as
transparent fog fills the screen. It passes over the egg.
Cut to the egg as the fog clears. The egg
suddenly sprouts red, iris-eyes and opens its mouth super-wide groaning,
letting egg whites drip all over the stage.
Cut to the yolk in the egg’s mouth. The four
band members pop out from the gook with yolk on them and gasp. One member is a girl
with long, red hair. Another is a guy with a large chin and long brown hair. A
third is a guy in a blue top hat and sunglasses, and the fourth is a guy with
long blonde hair.
Cut to the crowd. They all gasp.
For those viewers who aren’t aware of the huge joke behind this entire
scene, I’ll explain it. This whole scene
regarding the egg is a parody of the U2 lemon fiasco in which, well…the band
accidentally got stuck in a giant lemon for quite a while during one of their
concerts. Whoops. Talk about embarrassing.
Cut to the spotlight on the stage. Freakshow
materializes with an evil look and his arms out.
Cut to Freakshow, popping up in front of the
egg.
FREAKSHOW: Are you kids ready to have a (throws up his arms) great summer?
Cut to Freakshow in front of the band in the
egg.
FREAKSHOW: Because--
He puts down the gauntlet arm and points
over his shoulder to the band with his thumb.
FREAKSHOW:
--Dumpty Humpty had a *great* fall!
At first I didn’t get that that was a lame season pun. Eep.
Freakshow brings his fists up and laughs.
Cut to a shocked Tucker, Sam and Danny among
the crowd. Sam is clutching her book. Danny looks in horror as Lydia with her
hood up swoops in and grabs Tucker and Sam, taking them away. They cry out in
surprise as Danny clenches his fists in terror.
But why didn’t the ghost sense go off?
Dramatic effect? Who knows…Danny’s Ghost Sense seems to have a mind of its own
sometimes.
Cut to Danny.
DANNY: Will this vacation (looks mad) *ever* start?
Cut to Danny with the crowd in the
foreground and background. Danny looks away from the camera in a spot check and
falls backwards through the bleachers. A flash of light comes out from the
empty place Danny fell from.
Cut to Freakshow.
FREAKSHOW: Ah…
Freakshow points up a finger on the
yellow-glowing Gauntlet.
FREAKSHOW:
The only thing better than an audience, (opens
his palm) is a captive audience!
Cut to the crowd, scared stiff. They all
look down and throw up their hands, gasping in fright as seatbelts buckle on
their seats from nowhere.
Cut to the banner that reads “Humpty”. Danny
Phantom flies up.
DANNY: Show’s over,--
Danny swoops down with his hands in front
and tail in back into a purple action background.
DANNY:
--Freakshow!
Cut to Freakshow, smiling calmly.
FREAKSHOW: Au contraire. (turns a little) That’s French for--
Zoom out on a purple action background as he
raises a red-glowing gauntlet.
FREAKSHOW: --“I’ll bet this hurts”.
Clarification: “Au contraire” = “On the contrary”.
Cut to Freakshow on the stage by the “Humpty” banner.
As Danny closes in, Freakshow punches Danny and he cries out. The crowd turns
toward the camera as Danny is flung back that way.
Cut to FentonWorks kitchen. Maddie is seen
from behind with her hand on the handle of a square case that contains four
ghost-related handguns and bullets. She closes it down, revealing a label that
reads “MF”.
Jasmine looks up to her with a stack of
papers on the table.
JASMINE: But I *can’t* go on this trip!
Cut to a far shot of the kitchen. There are
two suitcases on the floor, and Maddie has one on the table. Jasmine is sitting
at the table with two stacks of paper, and Jack is looking in a cupboard.
Maddie takes the suitcase and puts it by the others.
JASMINE: I need to write my thesis on ghost envy.
Cut to a bored Jasmine.
JASMINE: If only I could find someone (leans back and looks up) that fits the
bill.
Pan up to Jack with his hand in a cupboard.
JACK: Ghost!
Cut to Maddie by the toaster looking at the
suitcases. She turns and gasps, then jumps up offscreen.
Cut to Jasmine, shocked and looking up. She
gasps and covers her papers, zooming out and bracing herself as Maddie lands on
her butt on the table and papers fly.
Cut to four papers in the air. Pan down as
they all fall to a depressed Jasmine with her cheek in her hand.
JASMINE: That was easy.
Cut to Jasmine with her elbow on the table
with Jack and Maddie sitting on the table in front of the TV. A news theme
plays.
NEWSCASTER: It’s ghost-based chaos at the Casper
High “School’s Out” concert--
Cut to Lance Thunder in the studio holding
papers with a wire in his ear. Over his shoulder is a picture of a green
ghostly shape with the words “GHOST WATCH” inside.
LANCE: --where notorious ghost kid--
The image over the shoulder is changed to a
close-up of Danny Phantom.
LANCE:
--Danny Phantom is fighting--
The image gets bigger and fills the screen.
LANCE:
--for his afterlife.
Zoom out to reveal Danny in a fighting
stance on the stage with a goalpost visible.
Cut to Freakshow in front of a drum set with
Danny in the foreground. Freakshow lets out a grunt and raises his gauntlet to
glow red.
Cut to Freakshow grinning ear-to-ear. Pan
left as he points the red glowing gauntlet at the drum set where the red glow
spreads.
Cut to Freakshow bending to the drum set
with hood-up
Cut to the swirling drums. One large drum
stops in place as a stand bends to form a leg and a smaller drum connects to
the large one. More legs attach until there are four and more small drums
attach until it becomes a spider made from drums with four small drums as eyes
and two high-hat cymbals as antennae. Zoom out and rotate to reveal it on the
rail with all the lights above as Freakshow has his hands up high, Danny looks
up, and
Cut to a crowd of adults. They all gasp.
Cut to Freakshow with his hands up, glowing
red as he leans back into the shot and laughs. He leans forward with his arms
out.
Cut to the stage. The spider is on top,
Freakshow is bending over on the side and
Cut to a front-view of a frightened Danny.
He looks down at a spider leg landing in the foreground. Zoom out to reveal
it’s on a TV screen.
Cut to the Guys in White out of uniform in
ivory blankets, their feet in steaming tubs and each with a thermometer in the
mouth sitting down, watching TV. They shiver.
Cut closer to the Guys in White. They turn
to each other. Agent K’s thermometer drops out as he speaks.
AGENT
K: (shivering) Let’s roll… roll… (looks forward) roooollll! (sneezes)
Cut to the drum spider walking up. It sends
out two nets of web from the antennae.
Cut to Danny under the “Dumpty
Humpty” banner. The nets hit and encase
him as he flies backwards over the crowd.
Cut to the pink banner. Pan right as Danny
in the net flies back, grunting in pain as the net is stuck and bounces on the
goalpost.
Cut to Danny, standing stuck and wide-eyed
on the goalpost. He pulls up one arm, but it’s stuck by web. He grunts in
effort to pull the other arm, but all it does is pulling up more webs.
Close-up on Danny. He turns to the left in a
serious pose.
Cut to Freakshow on the stage with
FREAKSHOW: Any last words?
He leans forward with a fist curled and the
gauntlet tucked behind his back.
FREAKSHOW:
Might I suggest,--
He looks up and clasps his hands to the side.
FREAKSHOW:
--“Ah! Freakshow!--
He waves his hands with curls fingers
gleefully.
FREAKSHOW:
--Don’t hurt me!”
Cut to
Cut to over the stage. The egg with the yolk
inside is still there. The crowd is off the bleachers and on the ground. Tucker
is on the stage. Lydia flies up and off, screaming.
How did the crowd get off the bleachers if they were held captive?
Cut to a sign reading “Go Ravens”.
Cut to Sam running with both hands on her
book. She lifts up her book as if to toss it.
SAM: Leave him alone!
She grunts with effort as she tosses the
book.
Cut to Freakshow grinning as the book hits
him in the side of the head. He grunts in pain as he is knocked down, his hat
and book falling.
Cut to Freakshow on the ground. The book
falls on top of his face. He slowly gets up and looks at the cover, then stands
up to read it and smiles.
FREAKSHOW: I see we have the same taste in--
Cut to the page with the fold that says
“Freak Showenhower”
FREAKSHOW: --authors.
Cut to Freakshow holding the book. Sam jumps
in and kicks it out of his hands. Then she grabs the gauntlet.
FREAKSHOW: And in--
Sam pulls the gauntlet, causing Freakshow to
lean forward.
FREAKSHOW:
--gloves!
Cut to Freakshow.
FREAKSHOW: Let go,--
Freakshow bends upward as Sam is hanging
onto the gauntlet.
FREAKSHOW:
--girl!
Still calling her “girl”. We hope he remembers her.
He’s just calling her “girl” because, really, he could care less to call
her by her real name. Besides, the only time Freakshow could’ve learned Sam’s
name in CF was on top of the train, and really, he had other things on his mind
at that time. Like, “Great, my minions are free, they’re gonna hurt me or
worse.”
Cut to the gauntlet so the three gems are
visible. Sam is hears straining. She touches the yellow gem and it begins to
glow.
Cut to an angry Freakshow with Sam hanging
on the yellow gem of the gauntlet. Tucker jumps onto the gauntlet causing
Freakshow to step back, Tucker is hears straining.
Cut to Tucker on the gauntlet. Sam is
touching the yellow gem, Tucker grunts and quickly taps the blue gem. All of
Tucker, Sam and the Gauntlet glow blue.
Cut to Freakshow from the back with Tucker
and Sam holding on to the gauntlet, all in a blue aura. Freakshow begins to
float upward and Tucker and Sam hang on tight.
Cut to Danny in the spider web, looking up
in shock. He strains and glows all green, zoom out as the web disintegrates and
Danny spreads out his arms and legs, free. He falls onto the goalpost and takes
flight with his arms back.
Cut to the banner reading “Dumpty”.
Danny flies up, pan left to Freakshow with Tucker and Sam, all glowing blue.
Cut to the red gem next to Tucker’s hand.
Danny hangs his gloved hands on the gauntlet, stains as he gets his chin up,
and looks to the side.
Cut to Freakshow groaning as the three kids
are on his gauntlet. He backs up, swings them aside so they all fly into the
air, then fall head-first.
Cut to Freakshow, glowing blue and looking
over the four gems. The three kids land and hang on to the gauntlet in their
old positions, Tucker and Danny with their arms over the gauntlet and Sam
hanging by her fingers.
Cut to Tucker with the yellow gem. He taps
it so it glows.
Cut to Danny with the red square gem. He
also taps it.
Cut to Sam hanging under the blue circular
gem. She strains and reaches over the gauntlet to tap it.
Cut to Freakshow in awe.
FREAKSHOW: You did it!
Close up on Freakshow, smiling evilly.
FREAKSHOW: You’ve found the combination that
activates all the gems.
Cut to Freakshow with the three kids holding
onto the gauntlet. Only Tucker has his hand on a gem, the other have their arms
hanging over it.
FREAKSHOW: Which means I control--
Zoom out extra far over the whole city so
they are only a small, blue speck.
FREAKSHOW: --all reality!
So, the combination is Yellow, Blue, Yellow, Red, and Blue. Guess Life
is less cared about than Form and Fantasy.
The world goes all wavy.
Close up on Sam with her chin behind the
gauntlet.
SAM: Guess again, *cue ball*!
Zoom out and rotate to show a scared Tucker
and Danny. Tucker has his hand just under a gem, Sam’s hanging her arm and
Danny has his fingers curled on the fist.
SAM: As long as we’re touching the
gauntlet, we have just as much control as you do!
Cut to Freakshow.
FREAKSHOW: Let--
He leans to the right to show Tucker and Sam
hanging by their fingers and Danny with his arm over the red gem.
FREAKSHOW: --go--
Freakshow sweeps his arm to the right so all
three hang by their fingers.
FREAKSHOW: --of--
He shakes the gauntlet closer to himself,
Danny looks down in fear.
FREAKSHOW: --my--
Cut to the gauntlet being brought up as
Tucker, Danny and Sam are tossed into the air.
FREAKSHOW: --*gauntlet*!
Sam, Tucker, and Danny all fall down
feet-first.
Cut to Freakshow glowing blue and smiling
evilly, looking down. He is taken by surprise as Tucker hooks onto the gauntlet
with Danny below and Sam behind him, causing them all to fall down. Freakshow
strains to get back up with Danny, Sam and Tucker holding on by their hands.
SAM: Quick!
Cut to Tucker, Sam and Danny. Both boys look
at Sam, Sam looks to the right at Tucker.
SAM: According to the book,--
The trio try to
hold on as the gauntlet shakes, Sam is now looking at Danny.
SAM:
--the gauntlet has a defense mechanism!
Close up on Sam.
SAM: Think of a place to hide the gem
you’re holding!
Cut to Danny, looking up. He closes his eyes
to concentrate. Pan up to Danny’s hands on the Gem of Life. The gem vanishes
with a pop.
Cut to Sam. She concentrates. Pan up to the
Gem of Form. It vanishes with a pop.
Cut to Tucker. He concentrates. Pan up to
the Gem of Fantasy. It vanishes with a pop, leaving the red triangle on the
gauntlet.
Close up on Freakshow.
FREAKSHOW: No! *No*!
Cut to Freakshow and the kids hovering over
the crowd and stage. Everyone looks aghast, turns around and braces themselves
as the blue glow the kids and Freakshow are in explodes in a blue explosion.
The screen becomes all white.
Fade in to smoke. It clears to reveal Sam
lying on her back on the stage with her arms and legs spread, Tucker is
perpendicular on his stomach with his hands in front.
Cut to Tucker and Sam, getting up and
looking up. Their head’s switch directions, shocked.
Cut to the drum spider. It walks back in the
space between speakers and in front of the mouth-open egg, turning back into a
set of drums.
Cut to seatbelts on three teens. They vanish
one-by-one from right to left. Pan left as three more vanish. Pan up to the
faces of the teens in this and the next row. They look at each other; get up
from their seats and cheer. Then they turn around and gasp.
Cut to the stage with the crowd underneath.
A red blaze of fire comes down from the sky and lands on the stage, bringing up
debris. Purple smoke billows.
Cut to Freakshow’s silhouette behind a
smokescreen. The smokescreen clears to reveal he is mad and with a red aura. He
lifts up the gauntlet to examine it.
FREAKSHOW: *Blast*!
Cut to the three empty slots on the
gauntlet.
FREAKSHOW: The gems are gone.
The gauntlet ceases to have a red aura.
Cut to Freakshow looking at the gauntlet.
FREAKSHOW: We must flee! But--
He wraps his arm around
FREAKSHOW: --*dramatically*!
Freakshow steps aside as
Cut to the tattoo river. It flows up and
away into the sky.
Cut to Tucker and Sam at the front of the
stage looking toward the camera. In a stream of blue, something falls in the
center of the stage kicking up debris. Tucker and Sam brace themselves and look
to each other as smoke billows.
Cut to the smoke. It clears, revealing Danny
Phantom in the spotlight on his hands and knees. He strains and quickly gets up
with his hands on his head. A ring forms around his waist and transforms him
back into Danny Fenton. Danny takes his hands off his head in shock.
Close up on Danny. He gasps and looks to the
side.
Cut to a crowd of teens. They all gasp in
unison.
Close up on Danny. He blinks and looks the
other way.
Cut to a dimmer crowd of both teens and
adults. They all gasp, too.
Close up on Danny. He looks up.
Cut to the sky. A red helicopter with “NEWS” on
the side flies up with a man in red holding a camera. The Guys in White are
suited up and fly up with jetpacks that have blue flames, Agent K is holding
his straps.
Cut to the crowd of teens. They chatter,
snippets about how Danny is a ghost. Pan down to Tucker and Sam looking nervous
with their fingers curled in front of them. They look forward.
Cut to a front view of Danny in front of the
drums. Zoom in fast on his face.
DANNY: Um. Nobody saw that, right?
Zoom out to reveal Danny on the TV screen in
the FentonWorks kitchen.
Cut to Maddie, Jasmine and Jack looking over
the TV in complete shock. Jasmine looks at her mother.
JASMINE: You didn’t see that, (looks up at Jack) right?
Cut to Danny’s bewildered face on TV. Zoom
in on it.
Fade to black.
-Cut to commercial-
END OF PART ONE.
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