DP408 Ghost of Mars

Ghosts of Mars
Title Screen Caption: "Action You Can Feel From Space!"

(Space, the red planet Mars scrolls up from below the screen; a blue light can be seen in the middle, it gets brighter as it comes closer, until finally passing the screen; we see it flowing towards another planet, Earth)
(Top of Fentonworks, someone is stargazing as we see someone using a telescope; that someone pulls back, Danielle)
Danielle: This is awesome. Why isn’t Danny stargazing on this cloudless night?
(Danny phases up from the floor, in his pajamas, looking very tired and bed-headed)
Danny: Because Danny has a big test tomorrow that his parents won’t let him sleep late. (Looks in the sky) But it is a cool night. (The odd blue “comet” flies past) Whoa! Did you see that?
Danielle: (Looks into the telescope, but is too late) Aww, that comet got away!
Danny: That looked more like a meteor than a comet.
(The meteor flies, until reaching a hill to far away and crashing; a light glows from the crater)
(Pan out to space, a huge purple satellite that had a telescope on the top with a red “V” on the middle was watching the comet as well; scene alters to a computer showing a picture of the comet going bottom left, pan back to see the viewer, Vlad Plasmius)
Vlad: What was that thing?! The ectoplasmic readings were off the charts! (Turning a knob, he zooms in on the comet three times and notices something) Wait a minute... (Zooms in once more to see the comet is in the shape of some reptilian figure) It can’t be! (Back the crater, smoke come out of where the crater is, two pupil-less blue eyes glow in the smoke and an odd sound resembling an alien sound is heard; we see Vlad getting off his chair, close up of his smiling face) It seems an old friend has come to pay me a visit.
End of Opener

(Casper High, at the lockers of three certain friends)
Danny: And then it just flew right out of the sky! It was the coolest comet I ever saw!
Tucker: Aww man, I missed something extraordinary!
Sam: Extraordinary happens to us everyday... but I have to admit it does sound cool.
Danny: The Op-Center cameras taped it; we can check it out at my place. (After school, Danny walks home with Sam and Tucker behind, as he opens the door, something comes out of the door that causes him and the others to move aside; that “thing” is Danielle, wearing a red helmet and riding a skateboard)
Danielle: Hey guys! (Rides away) Bye guys!
Sam: Since when did-
Danny: My parents decided to give her a hobby, something to do while were at school. Come on in. (Danny’s room; he pushes in a video tape into the VCR and footage of the comet is shown)
Tucker: Wow that looks cool even on a tape. How’d you get it?
Danny: The cameras were set on anything with ecto-energy. That must have had ectoplasm in it or something.
Sam: I heard the comet landed in the hills up north.
Tucker: Sam, comets don’t land, meteors do.
Sam: Whatever, I’m not one of the three so interested is space. I’ll give you hint who: two Fenton cousins and-
Tucker: (Smiles) A chick magnet?
Sam: (Crosses her arms) More like a chick repellent.
Danny: Well, whatever it was, maybe we can check it out. (Cell phone rings, Danny answers) Hello? Oh, hey Danielle. How’s- What? I’m on my way! (Hangs up) Danielle spotted a ghost up north, let’s head out! (Goes Ghost and flies through the ceiling; short pause as Sam and Tucker glance around, Danny comes back in and grabs them by the arms) Did you really think I’d blow you guys off this time?
Tucker: (To Sam) Ha! Told ya he wouldn’t forget, 10 bucks for me!
(Lift off, phasing through the ceiling and in the sky)
Sam: What kind of ghost is it?
Danny: She said she wan't sure if it even was a ghost.
(Up north of Amity Park, as Danny flies with Sam and Tucker his hands as he lands on the ground; the three look around)
Tucker: Where’s Dani?
(An “oof” is heard, Dani is thrown by something straight into Danny, the two crash into a blue sedan)
Sam: Survey says: There.
(As the two phantoms get up and walk to their teammates in slight pain, a hum sound is heard and they face forward; lowering from the air is a figure with a silver raptor-like body, with three fingers/ toes, pointy shoulders, a blue circle on its chest, a head shape like a diamond tip, with a diamond shape blue spot reaching from between its pupil-less blue eyes to the tip of it head, with an arrow at the tip as well)
Dani: That’s the guy!
Danny: How can you even tell its a guy? (Clenches his fist) Welcome to Amity Park.
(Two of Vlad’s vultures arrive, both with cameras on their heads; close up on “its” face; from its apparent point of view, we see everything blue, except the vultures, with are glowing green figures, it looks at Sam and Tucker, seeing their body heat and between them is Danny and Danny, both appearing as body heat figures with green glows; back to outside its POV)
Dani: Why is he staring at us?
Sam: How do you even know its a "he"? (Quick shot of the ghost) Anyone want to ask it?
Danny: I’ll try... (Hovers over to the “thing”) Hey, dude, what are you- (Before Danny can finish asking, it extends it arms and for a moment, Danny glows blue and is somehow pushed back into the blue sedan) Okay, not here for sightseeing.
Dani: My turn! (She flies head first, but something catches her, something causing her to glow blue, the ghost again does its unique ability, this time dropping her hard into the ground) First time I’ve been grounded and it hurts!
(Changes to the vultures watching)
Vulture #1: (To the camera, with a speaker connecting to Vlad) You getting this?
Vlad: (Over the speaker) Yes, now get out of there before Daniel sees you! (The vultures fly away; back to the battle)
Danny: Hey shiny! (Fires a ghost ray, that the creature blocks by levitating a tree to block the way, the tree catches fire and the creatures eyes widen; it quickly levitates the tree to the right, Danny and Sam notice this)
Danny: Did you see that?
Sam: (Angrily) Yeah, it used that poor defenseless tree! (Danny has that "oh boy" look)
(“It” uses its power to pushes Danny into a building straight down the street, then uses the power on the same sedan and hurls it towards Danny; it crashes, slowly falls and Danny sticks to the wall in a cartoonish way)
Danny: I am never getting a sedan! (Danny falls out and soon enough the building he collapsed into starts to collapse as well, on him) Oh no! I got to get people inside! (He stops when he notices the building is glowing blue) What the- ? (He turns to see the “thing” using its power on the building, repairing it somehow) Whoa...
Sam: Danny, go get him! (The creature flies away) What were you thinking about that was too important?
(Danny just stares in the direction of the creature as the camera closes up on his face)
(Tucker’s home; on computer we see a video on “You-Watch” on the earlier battle, the part where Danny is launched by “its” power; pan back to see the people watching are Sam, Danny and Tucker, who is sitting down on his chair)
Danny: There was this one moment... go further. (Tucker moves the mouse on the “Fast Forward” button on the screen; it speeds to when Danny crashes into the building with the sedan on him) No, after this... (Sounding embarrassed)</i> In fact, let’s never watch this again... (The screen plays when the “creature” stops the building) There, stop! (Tucker pauses) It saved the building from collapsing on me and the people inside.
Tucker: So, it probably wanted to kick your butt personally. Come on, Danny... (Laughs) it’s just like every evil ghost we encounter.
Danny: No... Something was different about him... it... whatever.
Sam: It tossed you and Dani around with its mind AND it harmed a poor tree; he doesn’t need to prove anything to me!
Danny: No, I still say something was different about this one. Besides his powers, he didn’t seem… normal.
Sam: (Just her and a confused Tucker are shown) Normal?
(Just Danny, from the chest up)
Danny: Well, as normal as things are tor us.
(New scene, moonlight in downtown, the “thing” stands on a building top, observing the city, close up on his face)
Vlad: (Off-screen) Not a bad planet, eh? (The being turns to see Vlad Plasmius hovering behind) Nice to see you again. (The creature walks up to Vlad) Uh-uh-uh! (Holds up a wooden club that he energizes with ecto-energy, catching fire; the creature freezes in it tracks) Who says science fiction films aren’t educational? It’s mine now! Go back to Mars! (Flies away; close up its face, showing slight anger)
(Moments later, Danny flies through some of the city in search of the creature with a Fenton Phone in his left ear)
Sam: (Through the Phone) Danny, you won’t be able to find that thing.
Danny: I want to at least try. (Sees something) Wait- ! (The thing he sees is the ghost, on top of a diner) I found it, I got this one. (Turns off the Fenton Phone by pressing a button on it; he lands on top of the diner) Hey there. (Waves innocently)
Creature: (Points his arm at Danny, glows blue) I seek your help...
Danny: You can talk? Why didn’t you- Wait, the psychic power from earlier.
Creature: I require your assistance. I seek something stolen from me. A man with green skin and odd hair is the thief.
Danny: (His hand on his chin) Green skin, odd hair? Vlad...
Creature: Your planet is in danger... I must help it if I am to succeed.
Danny: My planet?
Creature: Follow me. (Stops glowing blue, it flies upwards and soon enough Danny follows)
Danny: Wait? Who are you?
Vlad: (Off-screen) I can answer that. (A ghost ray hits the two from off-screen, they land on a rooftop and see the person who fired, Vlad) Hello, Daniel... and Xenos.
Danny: (Referring to the ghost) Xenos?
Xenos: Return what you have stolen! You have no idea what power it holds!
Vlad: Don’t lecture me about power! (Xenos flies towards Vlad at full speed, until) Remember this? (Holds out the burning stake again, Xenos stops) I guess Martians really don’t like fire.
Danny: (Now the screen shows him) Martian? (Vlad throws the burning stake at Xenos, causing him to quickly move to the side; Danny flies up) Come on, Vlad, you really believe in little green men who aren’t from the Ghost Zone?
Vlad: No, I believe in tall silver men from Mars. After all, he is the one who rescued me after I was hit by the asteroid. (Danny gasps and looks and Xenos)
Xenos: Had I known what you would do, I’d have left you in space myself.
Vlad: Big words from a Martian ghost. (Pulls out a flamethrower gun and fires, literally, at Xenos, causing the Martian to fly back in fear; Vlad fires a ghost ray at him, knocking him out and sending him into the rooftop)
Danny: NO! (Vlad fires another ray, this time at Danny; Danny joins his new friend’s fate; we now see Vlad chuckling)
Vlad: So glad two old friends of mine can meet each other. (Close up of Vlad’s face) For the first... and last time.
(Close up of the two knocked out characters)
End of Chapter 1</u>

(The rooftop floor, where a broken Fenton Phone is, a hand with a white arm and black glove reaches out for it and picks it up, bringing it to the face of the ghost girl it is attached to and speaking into her Fenton Phone)
Dani: Danny’s not here.
Tucker: (Over the Fenton Phone) Where could he be?
Dani: I don’t know, but I bet that silver ghost had something to do with it.
Sam: (Also over the phone) We better find Danny and stop that thing.
(Speaking of the two, Danny Fenton is now waking up, in a room full of crates and boxes)
Danny: (Getting up) Where am I? (Sees a window behind him, walks over and looks in; we see from his POV, there are several ship in the water) I’m at the Docks?
Xenos: (Off-screen) Vlad almost had us, I used my power to teleport us here. (Danny turns around to see the ghost behind him) I can only use it once in a while, so I saved it for this chance.
Danny: Okay, what’s going on? What did Vlad steal that is so important? If you want my help, I got to know if I can trust you.
(Xenos turns around, apparently deciding what to do)
Xenos: Ever since the extinction of Mars, one of the Martian ghosts is designated to protect its secret for 2000 years. I would have retired by now but... that’s another story. After I had healed Plasmius, he stole the Eye of Mars. It is a diamond of immense power. It can power your whole planet forever. In the wrong hands-
Danny: I know. Bring total destruction; I deal with this stuff everyday. Look, I believe you and can help. (Walks up and extends his right hand out) I’m Danny.
Xenos: (Looking confused) Why are you showing me your arm?
Danny: Its how some Earthlings say “Hello”. (Xenos reaches out with his left hand) Other hand... (Xenos extends his other arm and the two shake hands)
Xenos: I am called Xenos. One of the ghosts of Mars.
Danny: I knew there was something about that wasn’t normal… compared to the ghosts I’m used to.
Xenos: I need to find Vlad and stop him; we must find him.
Danny: I bet my friends can help.
Xenos: I sensed your friends dislike for me before, they will not trust me.
Danny: I trust you, and that’s good enough for them.
(Reaching the docks, we see Sam and Tucker on their scooter and wearing helmets; Dani can be seen flying above them)
Sam: The docks are the only place we haven’t checked.
Tucker: And good thing we did, look! (To everyone’s relief, they see Danny coming out of the shadows of the side of a building; when in close enough distance; Sam jumps off her scooter and hugs Danny)
Sam: Danny, you had me wor- (She stops when she opens her eyes and sees a familiar silver ghost standing behind Danny, causing her to let go and step back) Whoa, what’s he doing here?!
(Tucker breaks hard; Dani lands and charges her fists)
Danny: No, wait! It’s cool, he’s not our enemy. His name is Xenos, Vlad stole something important from him.
(Sam stares angrily at Xenos for a moment)
Sam: How do we know we can trust him?
Danny: You don’t have to trust him, trust me.
(Fentonworks, starts with the inside of the front door, when Jazz opens; walking in she takes quick notice of her brother, his two friends, his clone and Xenos)
Jazz: Uh?
Sam: Long story short: Danny made friends with a ghost who’s also an alien from Mars and Vlad stole something from him and he wants it back.
Jazz: ... To think the most interesting thing that happened in my life years ago was boys actually talking to me. (Walks up stairs)
Danny: (To Xenos) How can we help you?
Xenos: First, I must find Vlad...
Tucker: Good luck, ever since he resigned from mayor, no one really knows where he is. (Danielle sits on the couch eating a candy bar) Hey, I want some choclate!
Sam: Ignoring them, (To Xenos) can’t you do like some “Mind Sweep” of the city?
Xenos: I could, but I would be reading the minds of every human in town.
Tucker: (Now eating a candy bar) What’s wrong with that?
Xenos: Imagine hearing your parents argue for hours...
Sam: I don’t want to.
Xenos: Now imagine hearing their bickering in 200 different conversations... all at once.
(Short pause)
Sam: Never thought I’d say this, but I’m glad I’m not too unique.
Danny: Hope psychokinetic abilities aren’t an upcoming ghost power.
Danielle: (Now walking up to Xenos with a chocolate in her hand) Want some chocolate?
Tucker: (To Danielle) What are you thinking? You can’t give aliens chocolate!
Danielle: Why not?
Tucker: It makes them lose their power and cause them to dry up and possibly die! Doesn’t anyone watch science fiction?
(Short pause; everyone stares at Tucker)
Danielle: I can see why you never kissed a girl. (Tucker is about to say something) Your mom doesn't count!
(Xenos takes the chocolate in her hand and observes it for a moment)
Xenos: I know of what is in this earthen food. (Throws it into his mouth and starts chewing)
Tucker: No! Spit it out! You might be poisoned!
(Xenos continues to chew and then swallows; his eyes glow brighter at this moment, up to the point where they light the entire room, causing the kids to cover their eyes; once the glow ends, Xenos makes his discovery)
Xenos: I’ve found him. He is towards an area you know as Kirby Hills.
Danny: How did you do that?
Xenos: Chocolate, as you call it, contains a rare chemical that heightens Martian psychic abilities. It allowed doing a mind sweep without the splitting headache of thousands of conversations.
Danielle: See, chocolate is good for you.
Tucker: So, eating chocolate makes you stronger?
Xenos: Actually there are two sources of the chemical; chocolate or... the human brain.
(Glass shatter sound effect; Tucker holds his head in slight fear)
Sam: Okay, next time we bring the extraterrestrial spirit some chocolate.
(Vlad’s new manor, resembling his old one, in Kirby Hills; inside, Plasmius in his new, bigger lab with a huge cyan diamond, the Eye of Mars)
Vlad: Excellent, a little prototype work and my greatest invention will be unleashed.
(Outside this manor is the now arriving Team Phantom with Xenos)
Xenos: Beware, the Diamond holds power you have no clue of.
Sam: It’s just a huge rock that shallow girls drool over, what’s the big deal?
Xenos: Not big... planetary!
(The doors open)
Dani: I guess we were expected.
Danny: Let’s not disappoint him. (Together, the five walk in; the doors close shut)
Sam: Let’s just get this over- (Before she can finish, two trap doors from beneath the feet of her and Tucker open, they fall in, screaming)
Danny: (Rushes over) Sam! Tucker!
Dani: Go with Xenos! I’ll find them! (She flies into the trap door that Sam fell through, leaving Danny and Xenos)
Xenos: I sense it... (Points up the stairway) This way!
(Both of them run up the stairs and push the double doors open, finding the Eye of Mars hovering in the middle)
Danny: Weird, you think Vlad would have a Chihuahua or something?
Xenos: Chihuahua?
Danny: Never mind. (As Danny reaches in for the diamond, a mechanical arm reaches in from above and grabs it) Note to self: Always expect Vlad to pull of the unexpected.
(From the hole, a big white ecto-skeleton similar to the Fenton’s only bigger, with a T-shaped body a black V on the chest comes out and lands in front; within the dome lays Vlad Plasmius)
Vlad: Daniel... and Xenos. How nice of you to come. I expected you both to come when you teleported.
Xenos: No piloted trashcan will keep me from the Eye of Mars! (He flies headfirst to the machine)
Vlad: Let’s not fight, let’s have a... barbeque! (Two small cannons appear on the chest of the ecto-skeleton and fire huge flames; Xenos stops and moves back quickly)
Danny: Like that can stop me! (Flies headfirst, but crashes into something invisible that glows green) A ghost shield?
Vlad: I was prepared. (Two panels on the chest open up and two cannons come out, firing)
(Sam, waking up on the ground to find her and Tucker surrounded by four-armed ghost bears)
Tucker: In case you were wondering, you were out for two minutes.
Sam: I just woke up to find I’m about to die? That stinks...
(Just then, Dani Phantom flies and uses the light from her ghostly fists to scare the bears away)
Tucker: How many times have I ever said “I’m glad Danny decided to keep you with us?”
Dani: Zero... because I always kick your butt at videogames.
Sam: (Smiling at Tucker’s slight anger) I like her more and more each day.
Dani: Come on, Danny needs us! (Flies upward; short pause as Sam and Tucker sit silently)
Sam: She’s definitely Danny’s clone.
(Dani flies back in, grabbing them by the arms and lifting them)
Dani: Okay, so I’m new at this. You can’t expect me to do it right after a month? (Fly up)
(Back with Xenos and Danny, Danny is grabbed by Vlad’s robot’s arm)
Danny: (Struggling) Can’t beak free or go intangible!
Vlad: No, no you can’t. (Pushes a red button on inside the suit that causes an electrical surge to reach Danny, shocking him; about Danny’s scream) Aah, music to my pointy ears.
Xenos: Danny! (Quickly flies in to save his friend, but fire comes out of Vlad’s ecto-skeleton and Xenos moves back out of fear)
Vlad: What’s a matter, Martian? You don’t like barbequing? It gives meaning to the term “You’ve been burned”!
(A ghost ray hits the ecto-skeleton, only to be blocked by his shield; Vlad looks in the direction where it came from, seeing Dani Phantom hovering in that spot)
Dani: Hi fruit loop!
Vlad: (Aiming the right arm of the suit at her, it reconfigures into a cannon) I hate being called that!
Dani: (Smiling mischiviously) I know.
(He fires a blast from the cannon at her, and then a hovering table, levitated by Xenos, saves her by blocking the blast)
Xenos: (To Vlad) You have not one idea what power that diamond has!
Vlad: Don’t lecture me about power! Besides, I have more ideas than you realize! (Just then, something happens to his shield as it starts appearing and disappearing around him, until vanishing for good) My shield! How did that happen?
(He turns to find two familiar kids behind him, one holding a PDA in his direction)
Tucker: Nice what PDA’s can do nowadays.
Vlad: Note to self: Smash every PDA in Amity Park.
Danny: (Finally being released by Vlad’s armor’s grip) Bingo! (Fires a ghost ray that pushes the armor back and into the ground)
Xenos: Now for the Eye. (Unfortunately for him, the flamethrowers on Vlad’s armor still function, as it launches flames at him) Oh no! (Flies upwards for safety)
Vlad: Ha! (Suddenly, someone intangible pushes him, turning him intangible) What? (That someone, Danny, throws him into the ground, not before turning him and Vlad tangible again; Vlad gets up) You dare to attack- (Suddenly, unexpectedly, Xenos punches his head from behind, knocking it off, leaving where it was wires and static electricity; Vlad’s head roles over to Danny’s feet, freaking him out; Dani and Tucker walk over and are just as freaked out; Sam walks up)
Sam: What’s everyone so- (Sees the robotic disembodied head) Whoa!
Xenos: During the battle I sensed no emotions from him. I figured the real Vlad decided to run and leave a duplicate machine to pilot the armor. If it were a natural ghost duplicate I still would have sensed emotions. He would have had to be nearby for it to work.
Sam: (Traumatized) ... and... You punched his head off?
Xenos: Yes I... Perhaps I should have mentioned that first?
Sam: Perhaps...
(Outside the mansion, the group stands with Xenos holding the Eye of Mars in his left hand)
Xenos: Thank you, my new friends. I would not have been able to claim the Eye of Mars if I had no help.
Danny: It was our pleasure, except for... you know, the head part.
Sam: Which reminds me- (Look nauseated) I need to throw up, even if it was a robot head.
(She walks away with her hand on her mouth; Tucker walks along with her)
Tucker: (Happily) Sam throwing up? I got to see this!
Dani: (Happily as well) Wait up!
(Danny is now left alone with the Martian)
Danny: Okay... so, take care of the Eye of Mars. (Extends his left arm out to shake)
Xenos: Other hand... (Danny quickly takes note and switches arms, Xenos extends his right arm, smiles, and the two shake hands; Xenos flies upward and heads out into space, Danny waves goodbye; an odd throw up sound is heard, along with two excited “EWW!”)
Danny: (Turning around) Hey, wait up!
(Outer space, we see Earth, a blue light from Earth arrives, it’s Xenos, he stops and takes a moment to look at Earth)
Xenos: Goodbye my new friends... I fear when we meet again, it will not be out of missing each other. I wonder if your world will be ready for what might happen one day... when he (He turns around to fly, but sees something, a floating chunk of ice; he flies over and grabs the ice, seeing something inside) It looks like a piece of Earth technology; an astronaut must have lost it. I may as well throw it back. (He throws it back to Earth)
(The ice chunks soon heats up in the Atmosphere and heads for central park; there, Vlad Plasmius hovering angrily above the fountain)
Vlad: That Eye of Mars was the only powerful enough for my secret weapon. There’s always that new engine Axion designed, but how am I to get it? Even if I own the Labs now I can't exactly borrow it. (Just then, he sees something reaching Earth’s atmosphere and crashes into the park) What the- ?!
(He flies over to the crater and there he sees it; a Fenton Thermos, two black tentacles burst out of the sides; something dents it in the middle from the inside; then something breaks out from the center, something black with a jagged mouth with a white outline that “eats” the camera...)
The End