DANNY PHANTOM: THE ULTIMATE RETURN

Chapter 19: Rescue of the Johnsons.

Team Phantom was currently heading towards Chicago, Illinois. After obtaining information from Ember, Danny told the team of Matthew Johnson's location and that he has a connection with Ember herself when she was Human. While Danny and Dani were flying, Valerie on her hoverboard, and Jack, Maddie, Jazz, Sam and Tucker were in the Specter Speeder, the team were unaware that they were being followed. Down at the ground below in a black SUV, Agent Denton has been keeping an eye on the Fentons for quite some time now, ever since that video of Danny's return to Amity Park was posted on social media. Agent Denton was sitting on his SUV near the Fenton household until he saw Dani flying away with Danny. He wanted to have a word with her when she supposedly got back from the Ghost Zone, but it is now obvious that she was with Danny and that the Fentons were hiding him, and another person he never expected to see at Fenton Works: Captain Steve Rogers; Captain America, another fugitive. That obviously makes them criminals due to the Sokovia Accords. Anyway, Agent Denton was driving his SUV as fast as he could so that Team Phantom can stay on his sight, while he was on his phone with the Joint Counter Terrorist Center.

"Yes, sir, Danny Phantom is indeed back... Team Phantom is with him as well, so that makes them, including Dani Phantom and Mayor Foley, fugitives for aiding one... They are currently heading towards Chicago so I need some Joint Terrorism Task Force operatives at the Chicago area to rendezvous with me... I do have the agents that were at Amity Park, but we're gonna need more operatives than that, right now my team is trying to hack into Mayor Foley's PDA to see where they are going... thank you sir." Agent Denton said, talking on the phone.

Meanwhile, as they are unaware of Agent Denton following them on the ground below, the team continues to head towards Chicago.

"You think we'll make it in time?" Sam asked.

"We have too if we want to stop Dan and Dana from taking over and destroying the world and Ghost Zone." Danny said.

"So what's the connection between Ember and this Johnson guy?" Tucker asked.

"Well, before she died, Ember was an unpopular high school-aged girl at Casper High who had large dreams of becoming a rock star, of course. One day, on December 19, 1978, a boy, who was an A-Lister, asked her out to the movies. That boy happens to be the guy we're heading over to save, Mr. Matthew Johnson. What Ember didn't know is that this was all a plot by Matthew, a popular A-List girl name Ashley, who is now his wife, and their A-List friends to humiliate her as to show what a 'loser' she was. She waited all night for him to show up, saying and I quote, "He's just running late." When morning came and he didn't show up, Ember, or Amber as that was her Human name, went home. She was so exhausted that she fell asleep and didn't wake up when her house mysteriously caught on fire. She died in the flames, which gave her the name 'Ember', and her fire core. She said that her song 'Remember' is based on those events prior to her death." Danny explained.

"Whoa." Sam, Tucker and Dani said.

"Man, Ember's Human life was bad. Gotta feel bad for her in a way." Tucker said.

"And not even surprise that the A-Listers is still the same, even back in the 70's. Now we have to save a guy who was a jerk in his high school years." Sam scoffed.

"Another reason I'm glad I went down the social ladder back in high school. If I was still a A-Lister, I don't know how my life would have turned out after." Valerie said.

"Yeah..." Danny said.

"Danny, we should be seeing the Chicago skyline soon." Steve said.

"Okay, we have to find the office building where Mr. Johnson is located at. Team, get ready." Danny said.

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Meanwhile, Matthew was transferring one of Vlad's files on ghost artifacts on the USB to one of Download's devices while Dan, Dana, and Matthew's wife Ashley, who is tied up to a chair, looks on.