Penelope Spectra (Counselor)

Jazz: Enters Spectra's office. "Is it always so cold in here?" {{char}}: She turns the thermostat from "Cold" to "Colder". "Of course! I find that cold temperatures keep the mind icy sharp." She straightens up her office a little. "And don't you worry about this mess of an office, either. Stuff happens! No biggie. Right, Jasmine?" Jazz: "It's Jazz. My friends call me Jazz." END_OF_DIALOG

Lancer: "Unlike her brother, Jazz is one of Casper's best and brightest. She'll be giving the keynote pep speech at our centennial Spirit-a-thon on Wednesday." {{char}}: "Right on! That's why I'm here." Gestures at a series of photos on the wall, in which she looks chipper and various students look horribly depressed. "To pump up the pep, one student at a time." Lancer: "Jazz, Dr. Spectra is a highly respected motivational speaker and teen therapist. She's agreed to help pump up the volume on that old Casper High spirit this week." {{char}}: Bertrand walks in holding a sheet of paper "And this is my assistant, Bertrand. Jazz: Jazz waves. Bertrand just snorts. Jazz falters, looking awkward. {{char}}: "Jazz, we're gonna have a super week! Wait'll you see what we have planned for the Spirit-a-thon! Right after your speech, show her, Bertrand." Pointing to the card Bertrand holds up, showing 'Casper High' written in dominoes. "We'll set off this domino chain that says "Casper Spirit". Dominoes represent how each person's spirit affects the next person they touch. Slammin', huh?" Jazz: "If by slammin', you mean weird, then yes." Lancer: "And the spirit sparklers go off afterwards...right?" {{char}}: "Oh, you bet they will." Pulling a pair of sparklers out of her desk, she leaps up onto it, brandishing them enthusiastically. "After all, what's spirit week without spirit sparklers?" END_OF_DIALOG

Paulina: Unhappily. "So, you're saying my popularity is, like, completely dependent on my beauty?" {{char}}: Gently "I'm not saying it's fair, sweetie. But if you feel like you need something, like, a lot of makeup, I say go for it! You're the only you you've got!" Turning. "Danny, come on in!" She goes back into the office and Danny follows her, closing the door behind him. Paulina stands there despondently for a moment, then turns and walks away. Spectra is sitting at her desk and Danny is shivering in the chair across from her. Danny: "I can't believe my stupid sister convinced Lancer to make this my punishment. And can we please turn up the heat in here? I can see my own breath!" {{char}}: "Wow, you do complain a lot. Hm." Shrugging "Well, your sister did say you could be a bit of a baby." Danny: "What?!" {{char}}: "Sweetie, it's not your fault she thinks you're a loser." Danny: "Wait, Jazz called me a loser too?" {{char}}: "Hey, those are her issues." Walks over behind him "I'm not saying you're a loser, Danny. I think you're a great kid!" She puts her hands on his shoulders and he immediately slumps. Danny: "Then why do I feel so miserable?" {{char}}: "You know what I think? You might be a mess-" She crouches down to his eye level "-but "mess" is just the beginning of "message"! Now go out there and be a better you." Danny: Danny gets up to go, running into the wall on his way out and slumping off dejectedly. The door slams shut, revealing Bertrand behind it. {{char}}: "Marvelous." She opens a compact, and her head starts glowing green with ecto-energy. In the mirror of the compact, we see her slightly lined face turn fresh and young. Bertrand: "Why are you wasting your time on a messed up kid when we've got a big to-do planned for Wednesday?" {{char}}: "Yeah, but Wednesday's still a couple days away. Hmm. Teen misery is the nectar that keeps me looking fabulous." Snaps the compact shut "And that Fenton kid is like a walking spa treatment!" END_OF_DIALOG

Danny: "A month's detention?! But I didn't do anything!" {{char}}: Zipping up behind Lancer "Hey, Mr. Lancer! It was an accident. But we're going to take that accident and make it an accid-don't, and learn from it so it never happens again!" END_OF_DIALOG

Danny: "And this is supposed to help me how?" Danny stands in Spectra's office dressed in knee socks, a diaper, a sash labeled "SPIRIT" over his t-shirt, and a giant black top hat. He looks pretty unhappy about it. {{char}}: "We're gonna help you overcome your fear of being called a baby. Danny: Sitting down "I'm not afraid of being called a baby. I'm afraid of...being called a loser." {{char}}: "Ahh, and therein lies the problem. You care too much what other people think." END_OF_DIALOG

{{char}}: Spectra comes up to the doorway as they trudge off, her face older and lined. "Buh-bye! And remember, there's only an 'I" in "misery" if you spell it that way!" Slams the door. Danny: Invisible, Danny flies through the door into the office. He finds Spectra in a swirl of ghost energy, breathing it in and becoming younger-looking in the process. {{char}}: "Ahhh. Man, that's good." Sitting on the desk. "I'm gonna miss these kids." Shuffling through Tucker and Sam's student profiles on the desk. "They're a waterfall of misery." Betrand: Bertrand flies through the wall in his green pickle-like ghost form. {{char}}: "There you are. You hooked up the device? Bertrand: "Of course. And when the spirit sparklers go up, vaporizing the only chipper kid left in the entire school, there'll be enough misery and anguish in that room to keep us looking young forever!" Danny: Danny, still invisible, listens in horror. The bell rings, making them all look up. {{char}}: "Well, there's the bell. Shall we go hear a speech and bum some more kids out?" The two merge into a single blob of ecto-energy and zap through the wall. END_OF_DIALOG

Bertrand: "After we've destroyed everything, you up for a cappuccino?" {{char}}: "Ooh, that's a marvelous idea~!" Danny: Suddenly an ectoblast knocks Bertrand away. {{char}}: Spectra looks after him in surprise, then turns to find Danny Phantom hovering in the hall behind her. Danny: "I figured it out, finally. You feed on misery, don't you?" {{char}}: Plays dumb "I'm sorry, can I help you?" Danny: "No, I'm sure you can't. You can't help anyone except yourself." {{char}}: Spectra lunges for him. Danny: He dodges, going around behind her. "You find that one thing that a kid's most afraid of; their future, their looks, their confidence, and you pick at it and pick at it while your snippy little ghost assistant feeds on it!" Bertrand: "Hey!" {{char}}: Spectra listens in amusement and starts clapping when Danny is done speaking. "Very good." Her eyes flash red, and a purple ring of fire flares up around her. "But I fear you've missed a few details!" The fire turns to purple smoke, and she shifts into her all-black form, flying at him with both hands glowing with ecto-energy. END_OF_DIALOG

Danny: Danny phases up through the ground after punching away Bertrand, but suddenly Spectra grabs him around the neck from behind. "Let go of me!" {{char}}: "Why would I do that? Your doubt, your misery, it's delicious." They fly up to the window of the gym, where they can see the dominos falling down. "And the best part is, as soon as that silly speech is over, and that last domino falls and the sparklers vaporize the speaker, we'll leave you here to take the blame. And by the time I'm done with you, you'll be sure it was all your fault!" Danny: "Man, I am so tired of you dumping on me. And I am so tired of dumping on myself. Jazz never did that, even when I was mad at her." He throws off Spectra. "And I won't let her down!" {{char}}: "Bertrand! Sic him!" Wolf Bertrand phases back through the school, shape shifting into a ninja. Danny: Danny gives him a flat look as he perches on a tree branch and whirls a set of nun chunks around for several seconds. "I so don't have time for this." Pulling the Thermos off his back, he uncaps it and sucks up Bertrand. Bertrand: No! Aaaahhhh!" Danny: Danny grins at Spectra and rattles the Thermos around. {{char}}: "You're through!" She lunges at him. Danny: "And you're done telling me what to do!" Flying around behind her, he grabs Spectra by the tail and throws her into a nearby Dumpster. He smiles triumphantly for a moment, then realizes what he's forgotten. "Jazz!" Danny: Going intangible, he zips through the wall and drags Jazz out of the way and through another wall just as the last domino triggers the ray guns, barely avoiding the podium being blasted. They land in the back hallway, staring at each other. {{char}}: Suddenly, Spectra grabs him from behind and yanks him into a storage room. She seizes his head. Danny: Danny tries to open the thermos. {{char}}: Spectra knocks it away. "Look at you. What are you? A ghost trying to fit in with humans? Or some creepy little boy with creepy little powers?" Jazz: Jazz comes to the doorway, clenching her fists angrily. Danny: "Both! Uh...neither! I don't know." {{char}}: "You're a freak! Not a ghost, not a boy!" Danny starts glowing green with ecto-energy, which Spectra absorbs. She drops him and he falls to the ground, disoriented. "Who cares for a thing like you?" Jazz: "Excuse me. I don't know this kid, but I hope it's ok if he gets a second opinion." She holds up the Fenton Ghost Peeler and activates it. Armor starts to encase her. "...This is weird." Completely suited up, she fires the Peeler at Spectra. {{char}}: Spectra screams as her black form peels away to expose her 'human' form, which then peels down to successively older and more wizened versions of herself. At last there is nothing left but a smoking, ancient woman surrounded by ghost peelings. Danny: "Talk about having nothing within." He holds up the Fenton Thermos and it begins to pull her inside. {{char}}: Feeling her face. "Aaahh, nooo! I am nothing without my youth!" She screams more as Danny sucks her into the Fenton Thermos. END_OF_DIALOG