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Lancer peeks out of the lounge suspiciously, having only heard bits and pieces of the conversation. Closing the door he decides to check on the test answers, gasping when he opens the empty briefcase. Immediately he starts looking for Jazz, finding her talking with her friends

"So it's a choice between Harvard, Yale, and Standford and I can't make up my mind," Jazz told her friends and they walked away without saying a word. "So see you after school? No?" 

"Miss. Fenton, may I speak with you after school?" Lancer asked walking up to her. 

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It was a little after school and Tucker was trying to hack into the medallion after we realized it could be plugged into. 

After typing on his PDA for a few minutes he announces, "I can't seem to hack into it. It's really high-tech." 

"Yeah, like it's from the future or something," Sam says as she examines it. 

"Well, speaking of the future I think it's time I started preparing for mine," Danny stated picking up his bag and pulling out the answer sheets. 

"You mean cheat," Sam corrects. 

"I didn't say cheat." 

"You didn't say not cheat," Tuck chimes in as Danny facepalms. 

"Guys, c'mon I would've loved to spend the last month studying but I was fighting ghosts. Besides if you three think this test is so meaningless why do you even care if I cheat? Why shouldn't I open this up and study the answers huh?" 

All three of us give a side-eye.

"No answers? Well, that's all the answer I need." 

"Aren't you gonna say something?" Tuck asks Sam.

"I'm his friend, not his mom. He wants to cheat he can cheat," Sam shrugs before they then turn to me. 

"I'm thinking, I'm thinking! He's got a point the C.A.T.s are pointless and that crosses out the only good reason not to cheat," I explain as Danny goes to peel off the sticker when our ghost sense goes off and we see a techno-looking Skulker with Technus's face on the chest appear. 

Sam, Tucker, and I let out a sigh of relief before correcting ourselves. "I mean...Oh no, a ghost." 

I quickly run out of the room, claiming to get a Fenton Thermos and go ghost. When I returned I watched as Danny flew over to attack but he was soon slapped away. 

"Who are you supposed to be?" I question while helping Danny up. 

This was going to be a long week before Saturday, wasn't it? 

"I am Skulk-Tech 9.9. The future ghost world's greatest hunter."

"With its greatest techno villain as his operating system," The two explain to us. 

"Skulker and Technus working together?" Danny asks, Tucker soon chiming in.

"Is that an ew or a yikes?" 

A bunch of claws appears and I answer, "Definitely a yikes." 

We phase-out of the room, grabbing Sam and Tucker before we were hit by the claws. Once those two were safe we phased back into Danny's room. We jump out of the way of two claws forcing us to the ground when Danny grabs me and rolls us out of the way of a few more claws. We were then slapped by one into the wall. The claws then grabbed our necks and we were lifted toward Skulk-Tech 9.9.

"Say goodbye ghost children," They tell us as one of the claws turns into a blade that they slowly moved towards us when their PDA started to beep. 

"Someone's hacking into the system? AGAIN? I thought we fixed that!" 

"We did, it must have accidentally synced up with somebody else's PDA!!!!!" 

We're let go as they blast up and away, Tucker soon opening the door.

"Wow, I could still hack into his operating system with my handheld computer. I dunno whether that's exciting or depressing." (It's sad)

"C'mon, follow me!" Danny shouts as he flies up, all three of us giving him a blank stare.

"We'll walk," Tucker tells me and I fly after the two.

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"So you're saying Danny stole the C.A.T. test answers? But how?" Jazz asks Mr. Lancer who has told her all he suspected. 

"I don't know unless your brother or anyone he knows gained the ability to turn invisible and reach through solid objects." 

Jazz gulped as she thought of Danny Phantom and (s/n). "But Mr. Lancer you still have no proof Danny took the test answers." 

"Fair enough, he has up until the test to return the answers...BUT if he cheats, I won't just fail him, I'll destroy his future." (When you actually think about it Lancer did destroy his future he brought his family to the Nasty Burger and then Sam, and Tucker went there to make them leave)

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"What are you waiting for? Activate the Purple Back Gorilla override!"

 "Don't tell me how to do my job!" The two argue, and Danny shoots an ectoblast at the two causing them to destroy the already destroyed Nasty Burger, the heater's temperature starting to rise.

"Activating Phantom Palm Perbaler," Skulk-Tech 9.9 raises his palm shoots a ray sending Danny back before being hit again forcing him to detransform. 

I stop from flying around the corner to let him transform again.

"You're shorting out my powers?!" He asks in shock. 

"Indeed, that power might not work on either of you in the future but we had a feeling it would work on you here." 

"The future?" We both question while Skulk-Tech 9.9 laughs at our 'ignorance'. "Haha, I love it! You two are much more powerless than that other Phantom and (s/n) that we have to deal with."

Last Edit - August 21st, 2020

Revised - March 21st, 2025