Tucker
The game was a total wash, and the team took it out on the mascot, which meant taking it out on Tucker. They strung him upside down and hung him from the goal post before heading to the locker room. Luckily, the crowd still filtered out, and someone took pity on him and helped him down. He went home feeling frustrated with Danny for leaving him again.
Even during trying times, one has to remember a fallen comrade. On Sunday morning, Tucker and Danny shared a call with Sam. The boys were at the mall theater.
Sam sneezed and said, "Ugh! I feel like I'm going to die. I hate being sick!" She sneezed again.
"Hang in there, Sam," Danny said. "Tucker and I are gonna come visit you when we're done at the mall. You want us to bring you anything?"
Another sneeze from Sam. "No, no, please. Don't bother. My folks are taking pretty good care of me."
They hung up, and Danny said, "She's gotta be sick if she's missing Dead Teacher Four."
"This time it's personal," Tucker added.
In the corner, girls ogled over a Sayonara Pussycat cardboard cutout. One of the girls was Paulina.
"Sayonara Pussycat is so cute! Why can't I be that popular?" asked the popular girl.
Then Danny's ghost sense went off.
Tucker and Danny turned to see Desiree phase through the wall. She cast a green mist onto Paulina and left. Paulina glowed green and shrank… except for her head. Her face became more animated with extra-large eyes similar to Sayonara Pussycat's.
"Hey, everybody!" Sayonara Paulina said in a disgustingly sweet voice. "What do you think of me?"
The whole crowd, except for Danny, gasped. In unison, everyone said, "We love you, Paulina!"
"Attention, moviegoers!" said an announcer over the PA. "Googolplex Cinemas has officially declared it 'Happy Fabulous Paulina Day.'"
"I don't know what to say," Paulina squealed. "Why squander my popularity here? I'm so adorable, I bet I could become Super Fairy Queen of All Teenagerdom! Isn't that luscious?" As she said that, she grew to the height of a normal person without changing proportions.
"Yay!" the crowd cheered.
Danny reluctantly said, "Tucker, I–"
At Danny's words, Tucker snapped out of his Paulina-induced haze. "Do what you gotta do. I'll get seats."
Tucker ignored Danny running to the bathroom to transform. Tucker was so over Danny's powers.
Next thing he knew, Tucker sat in an empty theater for a movie called Ponies! Ponies! Ponies!
"Man," Tucker said, "I cover for Danny, my movie gets sold out, and I gotta watch this now. I'm tired of being left out all the time. Man, I wish I had ghost powers, too."
Desiree appeared out of nowhere, and Tucker gasped. She waved her hands and said, "Your heart's desire is my command."
More green mist settled over Tucker, and he scrunched up in his chair and closed his eyes. Nothing seemed to happen, so he opened his eyes and looked around. Desiree was gone, but everything else was the same.
…Until Tucker turned intangible and fell through his chair. Startled, it took him a moment to realize what had happened. When he did, he willed himself upward, and his head popped back up.
"Sweet!"
Danny
Danny went ghost in the bathroom and flew out to confront Sayonara Paulina. To the crowd's dismay, he picked her up and carried her into a supply closet.
"Hi, I'm Paulina. I'm adorable and swell and full of big-headed anime goodness."
Danny powered up an ectoblast and shot it through her forehead. "Bye-bye, kitty."
A green ghostly version splatted against the wall behind her. Paulina morphed back into her regular shape and held her head in a daze.
"Hi!" the ghost cat sang. "Isn't everything in the world sweet and wonderful and–meow!"
Danny sucked the annoying ghost into the thermos. He turned invisible as Paulina came to.
"Wh-where am I?" she said, blinking. "And why do I feel that I'm special and adorable?" She paused and then smiled. "Because I am!" She strutted out of the supply closet.
Danny also left, entered the theater showing Dead Teacher Four, and transformed into his human self. He looked around for Tucker, but his friend was nowhere to be found.
"Huh, no Tuck. Eh, he must've taken off."
There weren't any empty seats, so Danny exited the theater. He could play games at the arcade for a while.
Tucker
With his newly acquired powers, Tucker floated invisibly into a full screening room and played some pranks on the unsuspecting viewers. He ate a woman's popcorn, sipped soda from a high school girl's cup, placed a man's toupee on a boy, and put a nerdy guy's arm around another high school girl. Tucker chuckled at the smack the girl gave the nerdy kid. He was having the time of his fourteen-year-old life!
Danny
Walking out of the mall theater, Danny's ghost sense went off, and he saw Desiree fly away. "Jeeze, lady, don't you ever take a break?" He was about to go after her when he saw a flying car. "Flying car?" He hid behind the box office and transformed into his ghost form before taking off to fly next to the car. The driver was screaming.
"You okay in there, man?" Danny asked.
The driver continued screaming as the car zoomed ahead.
"Don't sweat this one, Danny. I'm on it."
That… that was Tucker! Danny halted midair while his best friend rocketed after the car.
"Tucker?!"
Danny hurried after them and phased inside the car in time to hear, "Chill, dude. Tucker Phantom's on the case."
"Tucker Phantom?" Danny wondered. "Okay, ignoring the total originality of that," he said sarcastically, "how the heck did you get ghost powers?"
"Who cares?" Tucker said. "And now, if you'll excuse me, I have some heroic exploits to attend to." He grabbed the steering wheel while he said that.
Danny reached the steering wheel from the back seat. "Tucker, we're too young to drive!"
The driver screamed again as the car swerved and spun.
"Let go of the wheel! This is serious!" Danny said, but got knocked back into the seat.
Tucker joined in the screaming, so Danny looked ahead to see a skyscraper in their path. He held on to the seat tightly and expanded his power to phase the whole car to intangibility. They went through offices and cubicles until they made it to the other side. Danny dropped the intangibility, exhausted.
"Oh, sure," Tucker said sarcastically. "Phase the car through the building. You had to save the day, didn't you?"
Danny's temper crept up. "Uh, yeah, because a car smashing into the twenty-eighth floor of anything is bad!"
"You're just jealous because there's somebody else around to grab the spotlight now," Tucker said, pointing his thumb at himself.
The driver pointed ahead and yelled, "Yo, hallucinations! Focus!"
Danny was too fired up to pay attention. "I thought you understood! When have I ever grabbed the spotlight?"
"How about now, for instance?" Tucker challenged.
The driver screamed as they crashed through the top window of a grain silo. The car carried them down to the doors at the bottom.
Danny phased out of the car and said, "I'm not jealous. I'm concerned. Remember–"
Tucker phased out of the car also and said, "Well, don't be. This town's big enough for more than one ghost kid." He flew higher.
"Tuck, wait!" Danny said.
Tucker glared at him, then flew off at sonic speed.
"Whoa!" Danny said. "I can't fly that fast. Is he more powerful than me?"
Tucker
Tucker found himself at the Mr. Meat butcher shop, where he hung out in a display window… with just his head sticking out. He enjoyed scaring passersby as he chatted with Sam on his PDA.
Sam sneezed before asking, "So, why didn't you guys see a movie today?"
"Uh, we got a little distracted," Tucker said. "I'm just goofing off by myself now."
"What happened?" Sam asked after sniffling. "Danny have ghost trouble?"
"You might say that," Tucker said. "So, how are you?"
"Ugh, it's horrible, Tucker," Sam moaned. She sneezed. "But somehow, I'll muddle through."
He didn't want to tell Sam about his new ghost powers yet. What if she got as jealous as Danny did?
A dog walked up to the window. Tucker stuck out his tongue, causing the dog to run away.