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"The Ultimate Enemy", Episodes 28-29 -- Page 1
Transcripted by our very own transcript savant, Dennis Dunjinman, and edited by our Editor Extraordinaire, Skyechan. Thank you both for your incredible work!
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The Ultimate Enemy Episode #28/29 Transcripted by Dennis Dunjinman -- Prologue Fade in to a shot of a rock
surrounded by debris. A cockroach comes in from the left and begins to climb said
rock. It twitches its antennae a little. Then it scurries on the back, unseen
side of the rock and over some debris of a fallen wall a little farther away. Debris
and a cockroach is how this episode begins. Looks like a post-Nuclear War site. Zoom out and pan up to show more
destroyed and fallen buildings, some still standing but in states of disrepair.
The whole place looks deserted and desolate save for a small, blue domed
force-field in the distance. As it generates itself, lightning strikes many times.
Zoom in on the dome. Fade to a top view of the dome.
Inside is a bright, futuristic looking city. There are high-rises and huge
man-made canyons within the dome. Surrounding it are many small towers
appearing to generate the force field. Zoom in and rotate. I’ll
take note of the canyons dug here. Since this is clearly a last-ditch effort of
the human race, and space is limited, the people would have to dig deeper
underground rather than sprawl outward. Talk about urban planning. Fade to black. A yellow, flying car
is seen passing from in front of the camera and swooping around a futuristic
building, on it an electronic sign that reads “ Pan right and down to more of the
city. Three streams of aerial car traffic are going in various directions, with
flying cars of varied colors like yellow, orange, Violet, and dark blue. Text
is typed onto the screen. In big, white tech letters, it reads “ Cut to an aerial shot of a skywalk
leading to a tall, white building. People walk to and from the place on the
bridge. Flying cars pass by underneath the bridge and far over it near the
camera. Cut to the top of the blue force
field dome. It generates to the apogee point. Some exceptionally tall buildings
are seen coming close to it. Pan down to reveal Casper High School, identical
in all its over-a-century-old glory, save for the many futuristic buildings
behind it. A yellow-orange car is parked with its wheels deployed and its door
open vertically. Students hang out on the campus. One girl is running with her
dog. The car takes flight and hovers offscreen to the right. From the top-right
of the screen, a jet surfboard with an older Valerie, complete with a crew cut,
surfs calmly toward the camera. Pan down as she flies
offscreen. Two young children, a blonde girl a small pigtail in the back
wearing a pink lycra dress and a young boy with fudgey brown hair wearing a
blue jumpsuit and white boots both run up on the sidewalk behind her, waving. KIDS: Hi! Cut to Valerie, surfing past,
looking down and smiling. She salutes with two fingers, then looks forward,
surfing away from the camera, leaning back on the board as it charges with pink
smoke, and blasts off. Cut to a row of six force-field
towers. Pan up as the small speck that is Valerie approaches a small balcony on
the back of one. Cut to the balcony. Pan down as
Valerie powers down her board; takes it in one hand and lands on her feet. She
sets her board on the guardrail and walks toward a panel. Cut to the panel, it has a huge X on
it in blue. Valerie’s black-gloved hand with a communications watch on it opens
it up. Inside, there are three bars, one yellow, one green, and one red. All
are fully illuminated. Zoom out and rotate to show Valerie
observing it with her hand on the panel door. She raises her communications
watch and pushes a button on it, looking down at it. VALERIE: Cut to the watch. Valerie’s finger
is on it. It’s filled with static. VALERIE:
100 percent operational. The static on Valerie’s watch turns
into an older, balding African American man with an eye patch on his right eye
and a missing left arm. Damon
Gray clearly is injured. It only pushes up the rating on this episode
ever-so-slightly, with the dead eye and missing limb, considering his lack of a
replacement or dressing, especially because Damon is a human, not a ghost. DAMON:
Great, sweetie. Check the last tower and get back-- The watch’s visual turns to static. Cut to Valerie, looking at her wrist
communicator. VALERIE:
Daddy? (lifts
the watch closer) Daddy! Cut to the wrist communicator. It’s
all static. It pops to a dark screen with two red, devilish eyes on them. VOICE:
Hello, Valerie. Cut to Valerie. VALERIE:
You *again*? (tilts her head) I don’t
how powerful you are, ghost! You can’t break through the shield. Close up on the red eyes. VOICE:
Until today. The eyes widen as the screen
trembles. A loud, ghastly sound resonates. Close up on a shocked Valerie. The
screen trembles. She braces herself and puts her hands on her ears. Zoom out.
Valerie steps back near her jet surfboard. Cut to an aerial shot of many white
buildings. The screen trembles under the ghastly, loud resonating sound. Pan
left to more buildings; a stream of air traffic. Cut to an aerial shot of a man on
the bridge, kneeling with his arms on his ears. Zoom out and pan over the
bridge to show and entire skywalk of people stopping in their tracks and
covering their ears. Numerous windows on a building shatter. Cut to an older Kwan, wearing a
white suit and glasses, behind the wheel of a yellow hover car. Two sleek cars
ride next to him, a blue one and a red one. The windows shatter on the blue
car, then the red car. Kwan looks in shock to the cars near him. Cracks appear
in his window. He turns to the camera to examine them. He braces himself as his
window shatters. Good
news: Kwan is not a hobo in the future, merely a mild-mannered man making a
living. Bad
news: He’s living in a post-apocalyptic nightmare of a world. Cut to the projector head of a Cut to Valerie, her arms on her ears
with her hands clenched behind her neck. Her eyes pop open. She gasps as she
hears some beeping. Cut to the Cut to Valerie. She looks up and
gasps in terror. Cut to a blue bolt of energy surging
up the Cut to Valerie’s jet surfboard. She
rushes onscreen to grab it, and looks up on the continuing onslaught. The smoking projector tower explodes
once more, with many other chain reaction explosions happening all over the
tower. Pan down to Valerie, on the balcony with her board, beneath all the
billowing smoke. Valerie jumps up. More blasts cause her and her board to fall
off the balcony face-first toward the camera, fading to black on her eye. Fade back in. Valerie is seen from
the back free-falling onto Cut to a cloud of smoke. It
dissipates as the screen pans down-left. Valerie is seen tumbling, then
free-falling head first. Cut to a building from Valerie’s
point of view. Zoom in. Cut to Valerie, free falling. She
gasps and presses a button on her watch. Cut to Valerie’s board, falling on
the screen. It stops in midair and charges the jets with pink smoke. It jets
off toward the camera. Cut to a window inside a building.
We can see Valerie falling head-first toward it, and her jet board runs off
past her. Before she collies with the glass, the jet board catches her and
drags her offscreen to the left, leaving two trails of pink smoke. She yelps
out in shock. Cracks form on the window and they shatter to bits. Cut to the city. Valerie swoops up
toward the camera, sitting on her board with legs hanging off the sides,
holding tightly. She gazes forward, the board hovers. Cut to the smoking projection tower.
Pan left to a working one. The good tower’s projector explodes three times. Cut to Valerie, covering her eyes
with her arm. She looks over his arm and gasps. Cut to Valerie floating on her
board, looking at the smoking tower. The one to the left of it explodes too.
Pan left as Valerie turns left. Each tower’s projector explodes in succession. Cut to an aerial shot over the dome
of Cut to a street of Cut to the skyline of a few
buildings. The dome recedes more. Cut to a full shot of all of Cut to the roof of Cut to an aerial shot of a panicked
street of Cut to a ground street. Three rooms
open up from under the street with red alarm lights flashing. Screaming people
rush into the safe areas. Cut to an aerial shot of the street
with red alarm lights piercing through the crowds of mass terror. Zoom out and
rotate to show Valerie looking down upon the masses. She looks at her watch. Cut to the watch. The red eyes are
there. VOICE: Like the new power? (gleeful) I call it-- (eyes narrow) my “Ghostly Wail”. Cut to Valerie, looking at her watch,
she suddenly looks to the left. Zoom out to reveal a large, flaming violet gem
raining down on her. The screen fills with Violet from the impact. Cut to an unconscious Valerie. Her
body free-falls and barrel rolls further from the camera, falling behind a
couple Violet trees and a telephone pole to the streets below. Cut to Valerie, landing neck-first
on the concrete. She runs on the ground, generating smoldering from concrete
burn. Pan right as she approaches an eating establishment with two broken
windows, shown as “Nasty Burger 2”, with the 2 a separate part of the sign.
Valerie stops sliding in front of the edifice. Ouch.
You got hit by a flaming jewel, free-fell from a great height, slid on a hard,
concrete ground and got serious burns. Glad this is a cartoon, or that would’ve
really hurt. Close up on Valerie’s scratched-up
face. She groggily opens her eyes. VALERIE:
*You*? Cut to the desolate sky and
buildings of FRIGHT
KNIGHT: Yes, me. Cut to the legs of the Fright
Knight. FRIGHT
KNIGHT: And I serve-- Pan up to the Fright Knight, his
arms are crossed. FRIGHT
KNIGHT: --a new master now. Dennis
wrote the transcript of FN two transcripts ago. And she knows for a fact that
his voice sounds different, lower and darker. It’s probably not Michael Dorn
anymore. Still, she also wonders why he would be introduced now and forgotten
for the rest of the show. I guess the only significance is that the two had met
two episodes back in RS. Cut to an aerial shot of Valerie on
the ground with the Fright Knight overlooking in the foreground. Valerie stands
up on her feet. Close up on the Fright Knight. He
leans back, looking over his shoulder. Then, he thrusts his arm back against a
dark Violet action background, generating a small, flaming violet jewel from
his hand. He tosses it toward the camera. Close up on Valerie. She gives a
stern, solemn expression. Cut to Valerie’s watch. Valerie
pushes a green button on the screen. All the parts of the watch’s screen become
pink. Cut to Valerie. She grunts as she
grabs on to her board that rushes past, being swooped offscreen to the right
just before the giant, flaming jewel lands on the Nasty Burger 2 and causes the
screen to fill with a Violet impact explosion. TUE
was a sad day for not only the original Nasty Burger, but its sequel as well.
Let us all mourn our favorite greasy spoon. Cut to Valerie, surfing past. VALERIE:
Gotta get to Dad. Cut to an aerial shot of the street.
Valerie runs over it as two Violet explosions from behind her narrowly miss
her. Zoom out to a Violet building in from of Valerie. Her jet board zooms upward
against the building toward the camera as another shot barely misses her.
Through the smoke, the Fright Knight flies with his arms forward against the
building, the space between his green eyes filling the screen. Cut to Valerie from behind, flying
over the top of the building. She flies away from the camera behind a cloud.
Pan down to reveal Valerie flying toward the glowing green house on the street
corner, FentonWorks, whose OPS center has sprouted several new layers. Her
rockets flare as she jets off toward it as amazing speed. Cut to a flaming violet jewel in the
Fright Knight’s hand in front of his chest. Zoom out to show a huge violet
jewel about his size in both his hands, he thrusts the jewel forward as it
flies downward offscreen. Cut to Valerie, surfing on her jet
board toward the glowing FentonWorks and looking back in fear. Zoom in on
FentonWorks as she approaches. She grabs her board with one hand and swoops up
as the jewel flies past toward the house. Cut to FentonWorks with the super-tall
OPS center. The jewel impacts on the OPS center, causing a cloud of purple
smoke billowing as the upper part of the Cut to a cloudy sky. Lightning
strikes. Valerie zooms onscreen on her board, swerving nearly out of control
toward the camera. Cut to the Cut to inside the house, the stairway
and the door to the kitchen. Valerie surfs in on her board from the right; goes
down the stairs and swerves through the doorway to the kitchen. Cut to the open lab door from the
kitchen. A red light is flashing from downstairs. Valerie zooms though the
doorway. Cut to Damon with his eye patch and
missing arm. The red light flashes. Damon looks down at a machine in front of
him in the foreground, fiddling with it with his remaining right arm. Valerie
zooms down the stairs, parks the board and lands on the floor. VALERIE:
Dad, (walks closer to him) the Fright
Knight’s here. Damon looks to the upper left. VALERIE:
Which means *he* can’t be far behind. Damon turns to the machine. Cut to Valerie. VALERIE:
What do we do? What do we--! She is interrupted by another
Ghostly Wail. The screen trembles. Cut to Damon, looking fearful with
Valerie in the foreground seen from the back. Damon turns to Valerie. DAMON:
Valerie-- Close up on Damon’s eyes. His
eyebrow rises. DAMON: Run. Cut to Damon and Valerie looking at
each other, the Fenton Portal in the background. They turn to the Fenton
Portal. The whole room suddenly goes a dark green as cracks form on the floor
and green light seeps from them. Cut to the floor with Valerie and
Damon far in the background. More cracks form as the ground splits and rises
like an earthquake, with lots of light streaming out from it. Debris flies
upward. A green-flame-covered silhouetted figure comes from the ground and
fills the screen; it has the same two red eyes as the voice on Valerie’s watch.
The eyes rise offscreen. Cut to the ghost from the back as he
gets up. He wears a cape and has flaming hair with a pony tail in the back. He
outstretches his arms and his cape flies up behind him as two streams of green
energy and many pieces of shrapnel fly up. Another stream of green flames goes
up in front of him. Cut to Valerie and Damon, looking in
fear. Zoom out. Cut to the blue floor of the lab
with the gaping crack in it with some pieces of marble tiles on the floor. The
ghost in nothing but green light lands on the floor. Larger debris fall down as
he walks forward a few steps, then stops with his cape flowing. Pan up to show
the ghost, his face looks like a red-eyed version of Danny’s with a pointed ear
and red eyes, and the DP emblem is on his new black-and-white suit. Conjectural
titles again. While most people in this fandom name this character “Dan
Phantom”, and Dennis just uses the name “Phantom”, this character is never
actually named by anyone throughout the episode, even by SkulkTech, who says
“That other Phantom”. So, we’ll use the conjectural title that he’s credited
under, “Dark Danny”. skyechan
the editor here. To clarify further, “Dan Phantom” is a direct result of “The
Ultimate Enemy” Gameboy Advance that came out a few days before TUE aired. As
many already know, the staff of DP including Mr. Hartman referred to the
character as “Dark Danny”. So…I say blame the game staff for any and all name
confusion. DARK DANNY:
Hello, Valerie. Cut to Valerie’s green shocked face.
Zoom in. Close up on Dark Danny. DARK DANNY:
And good bye. Zoom out. Dark Danny raises a palm
in front of the camera. The camera is filled with a splash of green over the
ghost as he releases an ectoblast. Cut to outside FentonWorks. The
remains of the Zoom out to reveal the whole scene
was played on a circular, glowing green ghostly screen. Stripes move up and
down like a paused videotape. The image on screen pop to an image of Dark
Danny, gelling around a little like a pool of liquid. VOICE: (offscreen) Now do you understand? A small, childlike figure floats up
to the screen. He wears a purple, hooded cloak and has a blue ghostly tail,
carrying a time staff. HOODED
GHOST: Yes. Danny Phantom grows up to be the most evil ghost (shrugs) on the planet. Planet?
Just Earth? What about the Ghost Zone? The figure morphs into an adult form
with the cloak tattered on the bottom. Close up on the figure. He turns
around, revealing to have blue skin, red eyes, and a scar on his right eye. HOODED
GHOST: What do you want me to do about it? Cut to two silhouetted ghosts with
cloaks and narrow ghost tails floating by many gears. The hooded ghost is in
the foreground. GHOST #1:
You’re the master of time, Clockwork. The ghost on the left shrugs. GHOST #1: Isn’t it obvious? Cut to a closer shot of the two ghosts.
A different one speaks. The left one lowers his arms. GHOST #2:
To save the future,-- The ghost floats forward, revealing
to be wearing a white robe with a high-collared black cloak. His head is just a
green eye in a lump of ectoplasm. Cut closer to him. GHOST #2:
--Danny Phantom must perish. Cut to the image of Dark Danny in
the screen. It waves around like liquid. Zoom in on his face. Fade to black. OPENING THEME HERE (Possible cut to commercial) -- PART ONE Title Screen is shown.
Depicted is an injured Danny Phantom on the left hand side, his outfit
tattered, looking defiantly offscreen to the right (most likely) at the owner
of the fiery glowing green clawed hand on the right hand side. Behind Danny
Phantom is a shadow with fiery green hair, evil green eyes, fangs, and a green
forked tongue. The shadow’s hands are glowing green with the same fire as the
hand depicted on the right hand side of the frame. The caption in the top-right
corner reads, “It’s Time to SCREAM!” Fade in to Cut to the auditorium. It’s full of
students. Lancer is standing at the podium, with Jasmine seated to the left and
another to the left. There’s a projector screen behind him. There’s a shield on
the stage that says “CHS”. On both sides of the stage are giant flags. LANCER:
Your future is *not* carved in stone, people. Cut to Lancer. LANCER: But
it may be carved (hunches over and lifts
up a pencil in his fingers) with a Number 2 pencil. Cut to a crowd of students. They all
look bored. Sam is seated behind Danny with her arms crossed on Danny’s seat in
front of her. Tucker is slouching in his seat to the left of Danny. Danny is
the only one appearing focused. TUCKER and
SAM: Oh, please. Danny looks scornfully at his
friends. DANNY:
*Quiet*! This is important! Tucker turns to him. He and Sam
exchange glances. Cut to Lancer with the huge
projector wall behind him. LANCER: As
most of you have *probably* forgotten, you will be taking the (letters and corresponding words beneath
them appear as he says the word) Career Aptitude Test on Saturday. Do well,
like-- Lancer thrusts his arm to the right,
pan down to Jasmine seated in that chair. LANCER:
--Miss Fenton here who got-- Cut to Danny. Lancer continues as
Danny echoes him in a bored, worn-out tone. LANCER and
DANNY: “The highest score in the history-- Danny puts an elbow on the armrest
and leans his cheek into his fist. LANCER and DANNY: --of the CAT.” I
guess having a high-achieving sister is just bad for Danny, who is boring and
plain and nothing ever happens to him. He could at least be motivated to do one
thing better than her, even if it’s not academic. In
another note, why is this test the Career Aptitude Test, and why do Freshmen take it? Career Aptitude Tests are for picking your
future career based on your interests. It’s possible that they were parodying
the ACT or the PSAT, which in Dennis’s state, was last taken in 8th
grade and won’t be taken until 11th grade like Jasmine. Yet another question to ask the DP writing staff I suppose… Cut to Lancer. There is a picture of
a rich man in a black suit with wads of cash in his two hands, and a woman with
a pink fur coat, diamond earrings, a gold necklace, sunglasses and a red hat
holding another wad of cash. There’s more bills behind
them. It immediately cuts to a red sports car zooming and a Victorian mansion,
and then a yacht on the open sea. LANCER: And
a successful future will be assured. Half
of those pictures reminded me of Vlad Masters, mostly the black suited man that
doesn’t look like him and the Victorian mansion. Pan down to another student seated
on the right of Lancer. Lancer motions to him. He is sleeping. LANCER:
Fail,-- Cut to the student. He’s snoring and
drooling on his white shirt, which has a lime-green tie and also has jeans. LANCER:
--like LANCER:
--who got the-- LANCER:
--*lowest* score in the history of the CAT,-- Cut to Lancer with the image of the
yacht behind him. LANCER:
--and you will be doomed to a career at the-- Image flicks to the Nasty Burger. LANCER:
--Nasty Burger. Cut to Lancer, looking bored in the
foreground. Lancer turns to him as he stands up
and points a finger in the air. You
tell ‘em, Cut to Lancer at the podium with the
image of the Nasty Burger behind him. Jasmine is seated down. I
like the subtlety of this foreshadowing. It doesn’t suggest that the Nasty
Burger will explode, but it says it’s perfectly possible. Cut to a crowd of students. They
look bored. Crickets chirp. Cut to Lancer, Jasmine, and He slumps over and walks dejectedly
offscreen to the left, Jasmine and Lancer turn their heads toward him. Lancer holds up a gray folder,
Jasmine turns her head to him. LANCER:
These aren’t-- Cut to the folder. On the top it
says “Mr. Lancer”. It also says “Teacher’s Career Aptitude
Test Answer Booklet. LANCER:
--just the answers to the test. He puts down the folder. LANCER:
They’re the answers to your future. Zoom out to show Lancer opening his
briefcase on the podium. LANCER: So
study. Cut to the briefcase. Lancer places
the folder in the briefcase, closes it shut. Cut to the briefcase again. Lancer
lifts it, revealing a jangling handcuff on the handle. He handcuffs the other
end to his wrist. Cut to Lancer. He turns back to the microphone. LANCER:
Remember, it’s your future! Close-up on Lancer. LANCER: Do
you want *fries* with it? Cut to Lancer with Jasmine seated
next to him, and the seat where Cut to Tucker and Sam. Sam has her fingers curled on Tucker’s seat, looking at him. TUCKER:
Dude,-- Sam’s eyes turn to the right. TUCKER:
--you okay? Danny? Pan right to Danny. He looks with a
blank, shocked expression. Zoom out. Danny’s image is on a
screen that oozes like liquid. Clockwork is there, too. He turns around. GHOST #1: (offscreen) What
are you waiting for? Cut to the two eye-ghosts. They
float. GHOST #1:
It’s the perfect chance to-- The right ghost spreads his arms. GHOST #1:
--take him out! Cut to the two eye ghosts from the
back, looking at the screen with Danny’s blank face frozen on it. Clockwork
floats in front of the screen from the right. CLOCKWORK:
That’s the problem with you Observants. Clockwork phases into child form,
with buck teeth. CLOCKWORK:
All you do (close-up) is observe. Y’know,
while reading the conversations between Clockwork and these two Observants, their voices are super ethereal and wise, but
their speech is almost sarcastic, even. Imagine a wise, all-knowing sage is a
sarcastic, all-knowing sage. Yet more reasons why we love Clockwork. Cut to the Observants. OBSERVANT
#2: You know our oath. To watch-- Zoom out. The child Clockwork flies
up to them and looks down upon them. CLOCKWORK:
--And never act. (turns
and floats upright) Which is why you bring me in to do your-- Clockwork phases into an old man,
with liver spots and a long, flowing beard. CLOCKWORK:
--dirty work. Cut to the image of Danny’s blank face
in the time pool. The Observants and Clockwork are
watching. Clockwork raises his staff, which glows white at the top, and the
image in the pool fades to Danny at the kitchen table, with books and an answer
sheet in front of him, his elbow on the table and face in his palm as he does a
practice exam. Cut to Clockwork, looking
incredulous. CLOCKWORK:
He turns evil (raises his staff back to
him) because he’s under pressure (phases
to child form) from some test? Surprised
Clockwork has to ask rhetorically. Obviously he was too busy with other
people’s time streams to care about Danny. Close-up on Clockwork. CLOCKWORK:
Fine. Cut to the image of Danny struggling
on his practice exam in the time pool. CLOCKWORK:
Perhaps it’s time-- Zoom in on the time pool slowly. CLOCKWORK:
--for a test of my own. Fade to Danny at the kitchen table
with books all over. He taps his pencil over his practice exam sheet, trying to
concentrate. He looks up, and then buries his cheeks in his hands with sad
regret on how inept he is. Jasmine rushes in from the right and puts her hands
on Danny’s chair, looking over his shoulder. Cut to the exam. A burgundy book is
seen, the test reads “Casper
High Career Aptitude Test Sample”, with
many cells of bubbles and the numbers 1-15 on the top. Pan down. The cells come in fours,
each labeled with an A, B, C, or D. I’m
sure standardized tests don’t look like that. Most scan-tron
tests are taken vertically, not horizontally like this, and the bubbles usually
have letters in them, not beside them. Looks
more like a Battleship board, doesn’t it?
No wonder Danny’s confused trying to come up with answers. Close-up on Jasmine. She arches her brow. Cut to Danny with his cheek in his hand
and pencil in the air. He puts them down with a smile. Cut to the paper. Danny’s pencil
lowers on the bubble for A on question 1. Cut to Danny, smiling and Jasmine
behind him, looking over his shoulder. JASMINE:
Ah-- Jasmine looks nervous and puts a
hand on her mouth while Danny’s eye look toward her, his smile melting off. Close-up on Jasmine. She looks up and takes her hand off her mouth. Cut to Danny, looking confused. He
turns his eyes back to his paper, holing a blue book open with his non-pencil
hand. He leans over the paper. Cut to the practice exam. Danny’s
hand and pencil hover over it. It’s about to make “B” for 1. Cut to Jasmine, with a finger over
her teeth. She raises the finger away from her mouth. JASMINE: Buh-- Cut to Danny’s hand on the exam. It
retracts a little. Cut to Danny, exasperated with his
sister and the test while Jasmine hunches over him with her hand on his chair.
Danny moves his pencil without even bothering to look at his paper and Jasmine
cringed back with her fingers curled. JASMINE: Nnnnnnnn… Pan up. Danny lifts his arms and
drops his book and pencil. DANNY:
Okay! Danny puts down his arms and looks
at Jasmine with an angry/irked expression with his fingers curled. DANNY: I
get it! Cut to Danny. He turns his head to
the right. DANNY:
You’re brilliant, (looks up and shrugs) and
I’m stupid,-- Danny puts down his arms and turns
back to the left. DANNY:
--and I’ll never be able to get as high a score as you. Don’t
feel too bad if you’re being overshadowed, Danny. No one has, Jasmine’s the
highest score. But this may be an exaggeration; maybe she’s only the highest at
Cut to Danny’s sample test. His
pencil is lying on it. DANNY: So
far I’m not even qualified to scrape the grease-- Danny brings in his hand and flicks
the pencil away. DANNY:
--off the Nasty grill. Cut to Jasmine. JASMINE:
All I want is for you to succeed, Danny. Cut to Jasmine and Danny. Danny is
leaning on his hand with his arm on the chair, his other arm on the table with
the hand drooping off. Jasmine raises her arms. JASMINE: And
doing well on this test can help. Jasmine closes her eyes and points
up a finger. JASMINE:
There are three things I’ve learned in life. Jasmine leans her finger over. Danny
talks with her simultaneously, sick of it. JASMINE and
DANNY: “Study hard, do your best--" Cut to Jasmine. JASMINE:
And-- (Her eyes open wide as she looks
down) *duck*! Cut to the doorway of the kitchen. A
high-tech boomerang spins in, panning right as it flies offscreen. Cut to Danny looking confused at
Jasmine as her hands are raised in front of her, alarmed. The boomerang hits
Danny at the back of the head; he grunts and spreads his arms as the device
lands on the table. DANNY: (putting his hands on his head and rubbing
the back of it) *Ow*! Cut to the boomerang over Danny’s
practice exam. It sparkles once. Cut to Danny with his hand on his
head, looking down on the paper. He picks up the boomerang with his free hand
and looks at it. DANNY: A
boomerang? Cut to Danny with the boomerang and
Jasmine with her hands on her hips. Jack and Maddie rush in from the left.
Danny tosses it away and it flies off, Maddie looking surprised. Cut to the other doorway to the
foyer. The boomerang flies through it. Cut to Jack. JACK: I
call it the-- Jack raises his hands and wiggles his
fingers in a spooky way. JACK: --boooo- (puts down his
hands) -merang. (looks up) It locks in on a ghost’s unique
ecto-signature (looks down) and seeks
it out wherever it goes. Cut to the staircase. The boomerang
flies past it, panning left through the living room. Cut to Danny with his fists on the
table, looking up at his parents. His mom looks down on him as the boomerang
sneaks up behind Danny and bonks him on the back of the head once more, him
grunting in pain and holding his head with pink pain-stars as Maddie grabs it
in mid-air, turning around and looking at it. Wait,
didn’t Danny just toss it in that direction? Cut to Maddie. MADDIE:
Although-- Maddie arches her goggles, Jack
leans in from the right. MADDIE:
--why it’s keying in to Danny-- Cut to the boomerang in Maddie’s
hands. It sparkles. MADDIE:
--is *way* beyond me. Cut to Danny looking at his parents
and rubbing his head at the table. JACK:
What’s that, Dan? Cut to Jack. JACK: One
of those stupid (pronounces the word rather
than the letters) CAT tests? I failed that-- Cut to the Fentons. Maddie is to the
right of Jack, holding the boomerang. JACK: --and
I didn’t turn out to be a cat. Pan left. Jack and Maddie walk off. Cut to Danny. He clenches his fists
and growls at his exam. Then he stands up and grabs his book and exam, tossing
it away. DANNY: Oh,
I give-- The scene pauses with some pink
magic sparkles. CLOCKWORK: (offscreen) Time out. Cut to Jasmine. She breathes in and
lifts her hand to sneeze but pauses. Cut to the kitchen. A clock hand
sprouts from thin air with a blue aura and turns clockwise in a circle, fading
away with a flash of light, and the adult Clockwork appears with a small,
sleeping ghost girl with a pink hat, two black pigtails, a pink shirt, gloves
and overalls. Cut to the girl. Pink sparkles keep
her paused, floating in place. Pan right to Clockwork. CLOCKWORK:
Ah, good. Parents gone. (phases to child form) He’s alone. With his sister. Clockwork floats offscreen. Cut to the paused scene of Danny
throwing his books off the table and Jasmine about to sneeze. Clockwork floats
from the left in front of Danny and around Jasmine, behind them, back offscreen
to the left. Cut to the girl. Clockwork floats up
to her. Cut to Clockwork. He leaves his
staff floating in the air as he fishes a golden medallion with a CW insignia on
it out of his cloak. He puts it forward like a medal. Cut to the medallion. It’s a
circular gear shape with five prongs, gold with the blue insignia of CW on a
brown part of the picture. It sparkles. Cut to the sleeping girl. Clockwork
floats up to her and puts the medallion on her neck. Close-up on the girl. She slowly opens her red-pupil eyes. She looks around. GIRL: Huh?
What? Cut to the girl and Clockwork. GIRL: Where
am I? Clockwork phases to his old sage
form. The girl looks at him. CLOCKWORK: Clockwork turns to the right and
points. CLOCKWORK:
That boy there-- Cut to Danny in retained position,
frozen in time. CLOCKWORK:
--is part-ghost. Cut to the whole kitchen, with Danny
and Jasmine frozen in place with Clockwork and the girl looking at them. CLOCKWORK:
My employers believe him to be a threat to the world. Cut to Clockwork. CLOCKWORK: (phases to adult form) Could you be a
dear (turns to the left and twirls his
finger) and dance a little dance for us? Cut to the girl. She looks with a
fierce expression and looks down with her brace-covered teeth. Cut to Clockwork. CLOCKWORK: (raises a finger) Time (presses a button on his staff, it dings)
in. Cut to a full shot of Clockwork.
Several atom-like looping orbits form around him as a circle appears
counter-clockwise, the hand goes counterclockwise and the circle goes away. The
hand glows blue and retracts, popping out of existence. Cut to a blue book and Danny’s
practice exam. Pan down as the book falls shut on the floor, the test lands
following. Cut to Danny. He clenches his fists. DANNY:
--*up*! Cut to Jasmine. She covers her mouth
and sneezes. Her eyes pop open. Cut to Danny. His ghost sense goes
off. DANNY: A
ghost? *Here*? Cut to Danny and Jasmine. Danny suddenly gets up from his seat, turns to Jasmine, and points
upwards. Jasmine looks completely confused. DANNY: Now,
GET OUT OF MY ROOM! Cut to Jasmine. She lifts a hand in
a matter-of-fact way. JASMINE:
We’re in the kitchen. She curls her fingers in front of
her and gasps. Cut to Danny. The ghost girl floats
down behind him. Cut to Jasmine. JASMINE:
But if that’s your attitude, (looks
nervously to the right) I don’t want to see you, or anything you might do
in here (turns around and leaves) for
the next several minutes. Cut to Danny. DANNY:
What’s with her? He turns around and puts his hands
on his chest in panic. Close-up on the girl. Zoom out. Cut to Danny in a fighter stance. A
blue ring of light appears around Danny’s waist. The two rings pass over him
and transform him into Danny Phantom, and the whole lighting of the room
changes to a dark purple. Cut to Danny. DANNY: More
importantly, what’s with *you*? Cut to the girl. Danny is in the
foreground. She leans back and puts her hands on her hips. GIRL: I am (lifts her arms out high) Box Lunch! She takes a fighter stance and looks
down at Danny. BOX LUNCH:
Daughter of the Box Ghost and the-- She leans over with her head toward
Danny. BOX LUNCH:
--Lunch Lady! Cut to Danny. He raises a finger and
points forward, cringing. DANNY: Um,
*ew*. What
I really wish to point out is that Box Lunch’s name is a self-referential
title, but while that’s true, the names of her parents are also
self-referential, bordering on the edge of conjectural, even. Seriously, come
up with some better names. They’re
ghost parents, what’d you expect?
“Susan”? Oh well, I’ll just
continue calling her “Bentou”, personally. Much easier to say and means the exact same
thing. Cut to Box Lunch. She is vibrating
her hands. BOX LUNCH:
And now you will face the test (tilts her
head back and lifts her hands up) of my box and lunch based (she outstretches her hands at her sides)
doom! Cut to a cabinet. It opens,
revealing boxes and cans of assorted colors. Pan right to two more cabinets.
They open showing more cans and boxes. The cans and boxes fly out of the
cabinets. Cut to the refrigerator. It opens,
and so does another cabinet. The fridge contains generic cans, boxes and
bottles of food, such as a ham, purple soda labeled “POP”, and a tub of ice cream labeled “ICE CREAM”. Things fly out of them like gallons of milk and ketchup. If
the soda is labeled “POP”, then it’s possible that the Fentons are a Midwestern
family, where the term “pop” is more popular. Other than that, they have a lot
ham and milk in their fridge, two of each due to animation cycling. Cut to the arm of Box Lunch. Boxes
of food form around her, like Cheese and Bacon on her arm. Pan down. On her
hand is a box of Baisims
(sic) and a can of beans. Four assorted colored sticks of butter appear, along
with Meat in a Cut to Box Lunch’s chest, which has the medallion. Boxes form around her like Cake
Mix. Pan down to her legs. A can of soup, a box of crackers, a can of fish, and
a box of sugar form her legs. Her feet are formed by many cans of things like
Peaches, Peas, Corn and more soup, along with a red-wax-covered partially-eaten
cheese wheel for the foot. Cut to Box Lunch’s head. She has
cans and boxes around her head like a helmet, along with salami on her hair. Pan out to show the whole figure of Box Lunch standing on the table
made of boxes, cans, and two cheese-wheel feet. Danny looks at her,
seemingly bored. Cut to Box Lunch. BOX LUNCH:
And now, (cheerful) and you probably
knew this was coming… Cut to Box Lunch on the table with
Danny looking at her, seemingly bored. She hunches down and waves her
can-and-box-covered arms. BOX LUNCH:
*Beware*! Cut to Danny in a fighter’s stance.
He bends down and takes flight, his fists in front and hair blown back. Cut to Box Lunch. Danny flies in
from the right plows right into her, scattering all the cans and boxes. Cut to a blue action background.
Danny is seen flying forward with his tail cascading, holding Box Lunch tight.
Box Lunch is bracing herself, her arms out over Danny’s head. Danny and Box
Lunch become intangible. Cut to the ceiling of the kitchen.
Open, empty cabinets are seen. Danny phases through the ceiling. Cut to outside of FentonWorks. Danny
phases out of it with Box Lunch in his grasp, panning left as he flies offscreen. Cut to an aerial shot of the Nasty
Burger. Lancer is seen sitting outside. Zoom in. Cut to Lancer’s arm on a table,
handcuffed to his briefcase. In front of him is a tray
of a Nasty Burger with some Nasty fries, and a white-and-red striped cup of
brown, steaming Nasty coffee. Zoom out to reveal Lancer, looking down at his
food with content. He looks up in surprise. Cut to Lancer from the back. Sam and
Tucker approach from the left, Tucker is smiling. Cut to Lancer. LANCER:
Shouldn’t you slackers be studying for the CATs? Cut to Tucker. TUCKER:
*I’ve* already studied. Lancer
himself should know due to a bonus he was granted in the past about Tucker’s
academic achievement. After all, he did get a perfect score on the Northwestern
9 Standardized Test in Fanning the Flames. Meep! Cut to Sam. SAM: I’m
sure we’ll do fine. Cut to Lancer. LANCER: And
the test answers-- Lancer lifts his briefcase with his
handcuffed hand and points at it. LANCER:
--in this briefcase may indicate otherwise. Cut to Lancer. LANCER:
Enjoy your Nasty Burgers, (lowers his
eyebrows) while you’re still on this side of the counter. Lancer laughs evilly. Cut to Tucker and Sam, not amused.
They blink and exchange glances. Cut to Lancer’s hands, hovering over
his tray. His Nasty Burger begins to glow with a bright, white aura. Pan up to
Lancer, still laughing. He stops and look down in
shock as the burger flies up and rushes past his face, leaving a tomato, a
pickle, and a patty behind on his face. Close-up on Lancer. LANCER: Fast
Food Nation! Cut to inside the burger joint.
Various Pan right to an unaffected side of
the restaurant. More Cut to the door of the Nasty Burger,
which is wide open. The food flies on out of it. Cut to Danny Phantom, floating in a
ready stance. Zoom out to reveal Box Lunch on the roof of the Nasty Burger in a
ready stance, seen from the back. The food comes up from the right and swirls
around her in a purple, circular mass. Cut to Box Lunch with food swirling
behind her. BOX LUNCH:
Prepare to taste defeat! (conjoins her fingers and acts cheerful) And perhaps a nice side salad with that? Cut to Danny, with his face in his
hand, bored. He blinks to look forward. DANNY:
Pass. Cut to Box Lunch, who looks
absolutely shocked. She clenches her fists. BOX LUNCH:
Then feast on my empty calories of (clenches
her eyes shut and vibrates her fists) *DOOOOM*! Cut to Box Lunch with the circle of
food around her. She raises her hams and the food ring lifts up above her. She
thrusts forward. Pan right as the food flies that way. Cut to Danny, hands on his hips, not
remotely caring. He turns intangible, looking to the right as food flies toward
him from the left and passes through him harmlessly. Cut to Danny, intangible. DANNY: (dropping his arms and looking up) Oh (turns tangible) come on. (shrugs again)
If you actually are the child of the Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady, (turns and points both fingers to the left)
*ew*, (resumes his shrug) then you *know* how
this ends. Zoom out and rotate to reveal Box
Lunch above Danny, Danny looking up and dropping his arms in shock. Box Lunch
has her arms raised and bonks Danny over the head with both fists. Danny grunts
with pain and drops offscreen. Cut to the roof of the Nasty Burger.
Danny drops through it intangibly in a sitting position, arms up. Cut to inside the Nasty Burger. Two
kids are in there, scared. Pan down. Danny lands on his back on one of the
booth tables while many teens look at him. They all run off screaming. Cut to outside the Nasty Burger.
Tucker and Sam are standing under the sign. The doors open to many screaming Cut to Danny and Box Lunch. Box
Lunch is hovering over a table, seen from the back. Danny jumps up into the air
and floats in a fighter stance. Pan left to two Nasty Burger employees, a boy
with brown hair under his white hat and a girl with a red ponytail. Both have
white shirts. MALE
EMPLOYEE: Let’s get out of here! They both turn around. Cut to the greasy kitchen of the
Nasty Burger. The grill is there, and an apron is hanging on a hook next to a
door marked “exit”. He puts his hands on his hips. Pan right to two tanks with
temperature gauges on them. Cut to the gauges. The arrow is in
the green, but there is a yellow area and a red one with a skull on it. IRIVNG:
--at all costs! Cut to the girl. FEMALE
EMPLOYEE: At minimum wage? (arches an eyebrow) I don’t think so! Cut to the back of the
establishment. The door opens, and the teenage employees rush out to the left. Cut to the open doorway. Cut to the tanks of Nasty Sauce.
Danny flies in above them. DANNY:
That’s right. Cut to Danny. DANNY: He
said at the assembly, if this stuff gets to hot, (smiles a smug smile) kaboom! Cut to a rack of condiment packets. One
reads “Nasty Sauce” and contains packets of assorted colors. Next to that are
packets of ketchup and mustard. Danny’s gloved hand comes in from the top and
takes a brown-red packet of Nasty Sauce. Cut to Danny. He picks up the packet
and looks down at it. Cut to Box Lunch with her arms
raised and many colored packets of Nasty Sauce surround her. BOX LUNCH:
Prepare for-- She’s interrupted as the red packet
of Nasty Sauce impacts her on her pink hat, knocking her back a little. It steams
with green smoke. BOX LUNCH:
Huh? Cut to Danny, holding up a green
blazing finger. DANNY: Box
Lunch,-- He puts his hand forward and smiles
gleefully, sending out a zap. DANNY:
--*beware*! Cut to the empty booth seats of the
Nasty Burger. Danny’s small, thin zapper streams past. Pan
right to Box Lunch as it lands on the packet embedded in her hat, she looks up,
panicking. Cut to Box Lunch, looking up at her
hat. When Danny’s zap stops, the smoking red packet begins to expand, revealing
the letters “NS” on the packet. Box Lunch braces herself. Cut to Danny, alarmed. He braces
himself and turns intangible. As an explosion of debris
knocks him back slowly. Cut to outside the Nasty Burger. Danny
phases backwards through the wall with many intangible sauce stains on his
suit, falling offscreen. Cut to the Nasty Burger. The whole
left side goes up in a huge outburst containing generic debris. The left side
of the Nasty Burger is completely open and is smoldering. Cut to a crowd outside near an
outdoor seat. Lancer is in front of them, holding his briefcase in his hands.
Danny flies from the right back-first toward the crowd intangibly. Cut to Lancer, looking up in front
of the crowd. He lifts up his briefcase to protect himself as debris fall his
way. Danny intangibly flies back-first through it. Cut to the briefcase. Danny flies
out back-first with the folder containing the answers intangibly stuck to his
back. Cut to Tucker and Sam, sitting on
the ground as the downpour of food debris continues. Tucker is eating a Nasty
Burger. Danny lands in full color beside them while sitting down, covered in
sauce stains and food debris. Tucker takes another bite from his burger. Cut to the gaping hole in the Nasty
Burger. Cut to Lancer, holding his
briefcase. LANCER: Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance! RUN! Lancer runs off. The crowd behind
him starts screaming and running off in two different directions. Cut to an aerial shot of the
half-standing Nasty Burger, still smoldering. The kids run off, but Danny,
Tucker and Sam stay there, sitting on the grass. Cut to Tucker. TUCKER:
Danny, (stands up straight) who was
that ghost you were fighting? Cut to Danny and Sam, standing up
Danny is holding Sam, and covered in food stains. He lets go of her and points
over his shoulder. DANNY: That
was “Box Lunch”? Cut to Danny, he puts down his arm. DANNY: The daughter
of the Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady. Cut to Sam and Tucker. TUCKER AND
SAM: Yikes. Close-up on Danny. DANNY:
Actually, it’s more of an (cringes) “ew”. Cut to Danny, Sam and Tucker. DANNY: I
don’t know what’s going on. (looks down in surprise) Cut to the ground. Among many white
packets of Nasty Sauce and debris, Clockwork’s medallion is on the ground. It
sparkles. Cut to Danny. DANNY: But
this medallion might (reaches down to
take it) give us a clue. He suddenly looks to the folder on
his back and curls his fingers into a fist. He bends over and peels the folder
off, slightly dismayed at the sticky sauce covering him and it. He looks at it,
his eyes open wide. Cut to the sauce-covered folder. It
reads “Teacher’s
Career Aptitude Test Answer Booklet”.
Zoom in on it. Cut to Danny, holding the folder. DANNY: Oh my gosh! Close-up on Danny in the oozing time
pool. DANNY: The
answers to the CATs! Zoom out to show Danny’s face in the
time pool. Cut to a full shot of Clockwork’s sanctum.
The time pool is in the center. Clockwork in his adult form and the two Observants look in it. Cut to Clockwork, looking pleased.
The two Observants are behind him. CLOCKWORK: (holding up a finger) Now
watch this. He’ll make the right choice. Clockwork turns to the Observants, pointing across his chest to the right. CLOCKWORK:
And you’ll see, you’ve got absolutely (turns
to the right and points) nothing to-- Clockwork is cut-off in midsentence. Cut to Danny on a purple action background,
holding the medallion necklace in one hand and the folder high above his head
in the other. DANNY:
Hello, great future! Cut to Tucker and Sam. TUCKER:
You’re not actually thinking of peeking at the answers, are you? Cut to Tucker, Sam and Danny. Sam puts her hands on her hips. Danny is holding the folder in both his
hands and the medallion in one of them, looking down at it. DANNY: Of
course I am. With a flash of light, a ring
sprouts from Danny’s waist and two rings pass over him, changing him back to Danny
Fenton. He looks at his friends and thrusts he folder forward. DANNY:
Aren’t you? Cut to Clockwork, looking troubled
at his mistake. The two Observants are behind him. Huh.
Well, Clockwork isn’t totally right. There are infinite possibilities that
Danny could have chosen, it’s only fair for the sake of plot that he chose this
one. Guess Danny decided to disagree with Clockwork’s plan unknowingly. The Observant on the left lifts a
palm out and clenches his fists, the right Observant looks at him. Clockwork
lowers his eyes. OBSERVANT
#1: He’s stolen the test answers. Cut to the two Observants.
The right Observant lifts a finger in the air as the left one looks to him. OBSERVANT
#2: He’s clearly going to cheat! The right Observant puts down his arms
and looks to the left one, who puts out his palms. OBSERVANT
#1: He has your time medallion. The left Observant puts down his
arms and looks to the right one, who raises his. OBSERVANT
#2: He has your time medallion. Cut to Clockwork, looking away from
the time pool with the image of Tucker, Sam and Danny in it. CLOCKWORK:
You said that twice. (phases
to child form) It’s
obvious why. Since the Observants are identical, save
for voice, they both need to put in even numbers of words in edgewise. And they
provide non-forced comic relief. Cut to Observant #1. OBSERVANT
#1: Destroy him now, Clockwork. Cut to the child Clockwork in front
of the time pool, showing the teens looking at the remains of the Nasty Burger.
He floats up and presses his hand to a gear, phasing back to adult form. The
gear’s center turns into a green portal-type thing. CLOCKWORK:
I know what I’m doing. Cut to Clockwork’s hand embedded in
the green portal on the gear. He takes away his hand as the image of an
advanced ghostly machine fills the screen. The head looks like the face of
Skulker in green flames, and the face of Technus is in a green circular screen
on the machine’s chest. Pan right to Clockwork. CLOCKWORK:
We put the answers to the test in his hands, and he made the wrong decision. Cut to the time pool. The image of
the smoldering Nasty Burger is on the screen. Zoom in. Close-up on the time pool. The image fades to a closer image of the Nasty Burger with the tanks of
sauce glowing red. The image then becomes an image of the sauce tanks glowing
red with a red heat coil in contact with the tank on the right, smoldering.
Then, the image of the tank in contact with the heat source is shown with the
temperature gauge in view. The image of the heat coil in contact with the tank
is in full view now, and it pans left to the gage. The arrow on the gage turns
right to the yellow area and beeps a little. Cut to Clockwork. He presses a
button on his time staff. Cut to the time pool. It’s full of
green static. The image becomes a freeze frame of Danny Phantom and the robot
floating in gray skies, fighting. Green static appears as another image is
shown, this time a freeze frame of Dark Danny ambushing Danny Phantom while
Tucker and Sam watch in terror on the sidelines. Static fills the screen again
as it changes to a freeze frame of Tucker and Sam looking up under the sign of
FentonWorks about to come crashing down on them. Cut to an image of the two giant
sauce tanks n a red-tinted Nasty Burger with the heat coil on the right tank.
From left to right, Jasmine in the Fenton Peeler helmet-off, Jack, Maddie
hood-up, Lancer, Tucker and Sam are all bound together with a ring of green
ectoplasm and gagged with patches of ectoplasm over their mouths. Cut to Jasmine, Jack, and Maddie,
bound and gagged. Pan right to Lancer, Tucker, and Sam looking at the heat coil
in direct contact with the sauce tank. The heat source flames up a bit. Cut to outside the Nasty Burger, the
left side is completely exposed with the people bound to the tanks. The screen
goes black as a large mushroom cloud erupts from the whole establishment. The
screen goes white. Cut to a red-tinted Danny Fenton,
bracing himself as harsh wind and billowing smoke is blowing his shirt and hair
back. He turns and puts his hands on head, looking with regretful terror. DANNY:
*NOOOO*! Zoom out to reveal this image of
Danny in the time pool. Clockwork floats up in front of it, seen from the back. CLOCKWORK:
His future (turns around, revealing him
to be in his old sage form) is sealed. Zoom in on Clockwork. Fade to black. -Cut to commercial- END OF PART ONE. --- |
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