Ghosting

Ghosting is the 35th and 36th episode of DCSHGSJC season 4. It will be released on January 5, 2025.

## Plot

### Part 1

At the Metropolis Museum, Cheetah is trying to steal some artifacts. However, the Super Hero Girls arrive to stop her. Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Batgirl, Supergirl, Bumblebee, Zatanna, and Katana are there. After defeating Cheetah, Wonder Woman comments that she is glad Katana agreed to be the temporary 7th member since Harley Quinn is sick. Katana tells her that it is an honor to serve by the girls' side.

At Metropolis High, Diana Prince is the perfect student. She gets an A+ on a test and is the best gymnast in the school. But Barbara Ann is annoyed at Diana for being perfect all the time. She even asks Diana if she ever gets tired of always being the best. Diana responds by saying that she and Tatsu usually tie in fencing.

During a fencing round between Diana and Tatsu, which has lasted 4 hours later then it should, Babs announces that there is a intruder in the school. The 3 girls quickly turn into their hero forms and rush to engage the intruder. They meet up with the rest of the Super Hero Girls, where they see that the intruder in Cheetah. She is trying to steal a thumb drive from the history classroom. She then grabs 2 objects that start releasing smoke. This disorients the girls. However, Wonder Woman is able to grab Cheetah, but she kicks Wonder Woman hard. This Shocks Wondy. She then manages to defeat the girls and get away.

At Sweet Justice, the girls discuss what just happened. They are still shocked by the fact that Cheetah managed to defeat all of them. After eating their ice cream, Diana declares that they have another day tomorrow. Kara says that they will figure out how to defeat Cheetah by then. Karen says that tomorrow will be brighter.

The next day at school, Diana hurries to class, as she wants to be the first one there so she can feed the class newt. However, when she gets to class, Barbara Ann is already there. The teacher comments how someone else other then Diana finally gets to feed the newt. Then the teacher gives a quiz. Diana says it will be easy. But before she can even start, Barbara Ann finishes. Then at PE, Barbara Ann beats Diana in a race. Finally, Barbara Ann gets 1st place in gymnastics.

At Fencing, Tatsu notices that Diana is sad. She let Tatsu beat her, which is not like Diana. Tatsu asks what's wrong. Diana tells her that she feels ashamed for losing to Barbara Ann all day. Diana then gets the idea that she is not training hard enuff. She then tells Tatsu to contact the girls and tell them that they are going into training overtime. A montage then shows Wonder Woman forcing the girls to do grueling tasks for the sake of training.

The next day, Jessica is tired. She is walking several dogs. Diana and Tatsu then run by. Jess asks how they are running after the intense training last night. Diana tells her that they must push themselves to the limit. Diana then turns in a stack of extra credit essays to the teacher. Zee and Karan are talking about how tired they are. Diana the shows up and tells them that they should use their free time training. At Karen's Class, there seams to be a lack of students. Only Karen, Garth, and a random girl are present.

After school, Diana makes the girls do another round of hard training. during the training, Supergirl quits due to being board. She heads over to see a concert. When she gets to the concert, she finds Livewire there. The 2 then start fighting. But the fight stops short when Supergirl tells Livewire that she just wants to see the Blundie concert. Livewire reveals that she also wants to see the concert. The girls decide to have a truce so they can see the concert next week.

Diana is once again training with Tatsu. When Tatsu trips Diana, Diana get discouraged. The other girls then show up. They tell Diana that everyone has hard days. They then tell Diana she needs a break. The girls then take Diana to the fair. Babs then reveals that Diana is going on a date with Steve Trevor. Diana tries to protest, but the girls insist she do it. The girls then leave Diana along. After waiting awhile without Steve showing up, Diana decides to leave. Babs finds Diana and asks where Steve is. She tells her that Steve never showed up. Babs tells Diana that Steve must have ghosted.

Steve isn't the only one who never shows up to a meeting with one of the girls. At the Blundie concert, Supergirl is waiting for Livewire to show up. But she never does. This makes her mad. Supergirl then finds out that Blundie didn't show up to her own concert. This shocks Supergirl. Karen is at the library waiting for Garth to show up to study with her. But Garth never shows up. He also doesn't answer Karen's texts. At a magic show, Zee and her father are performing a disappearing act. However, Zee is unable to make her father reappear. At the nature park, Jessica is waiting for McTodd to show up for their walk, but he never shows up. She tries calling him, but he never answers.

At Sweet Justice, Jessica asks Barry if he has seen McTodd. Barry tells her that he hasn't seen many people around lately. Jess then sits down at the table where she goes to the Super Hero Girls hideout. The other girls are already there. She hears Diana talking about ghosts and wonders if there is a new villain. Babs then tells Jess that Steve ghosted on Diana. The rest of the girls then reveal that they also had people ghost on them. Zee tells the girls that her father still won't reappear no matter how many spells she does. Jess then tells how McTodd is also missing. Diana then says that the whole city is full of rude ghosts. But Tatsu suggests that maybe something else is going on. She suggests that something supernatural is going on. Diana says that before they can discover what is going on, they must do more training.

In the park, the girls are doing more training. Zee is still trying to get her father to reappear. Tatsu notices a girl looking for her friends. She asks the girls if she wants help finding them. She declines, saying that they ghosted. Suddenly, someone yells that there is a robber. The Super Hero Girls quick go to stop the robber. The girls discover that the robber is Catwoman. They chase her until Katana pins her against a wall with her sword. Batgirl then states that the security guards the were supposed to guard the store are gone. The girls the discover the Catwoman is gone too. Katana tells the girls that it doesn't make any sense. But Batgirl says that it's time for her job at Burrito Bucket.

At Burrito Bucket, O'Shaughnessy is yelling at Babs for doing everything wrong. Tatsu starts criticizing his management style. Tatsu tells the other girls that he should be taught a lesson. Tatsu then decides to confront O'Shaughnessy as Katana. She tells him that ne needs to treat his employees better.

As Tatsu catches up with the other girls as they leave Burrito Bucket, Babs announces that O'Shaughnessy is gone. The girls go back inside to look for him. After looking everywhere, they realize that he really is gone. Diana asks who the last person who saw him was. Tatsu admits that she was the last one to see him. But she didn't do anything to him. Babs says that they need to analyze the evidence to find out what's going on. Babs then closes Burrito Bucket to prevent any customers from coming in while they do their investigation. After thinking about ways to find O'Shaughnessy, Babs comes up with an idea. Tatsu can use her soul taker sword to find his soul. Tatsu says that in order to do that, she must have something the O'Shaughnessy touched recreantly. She finds an old burrito that he had thrown away. She then performs a ritual on it. After doing the ritual, a tiny O'Shaughnessy soul sprite comes out of the burrito. Katana says that she will follow the soul to O'Shaughnessy, while the rest of the girls try to look for the other people that have disappeared.

Katana follows the soul sprite all over Metropolis. The sprite eventually leads Katana to a dry cleaner's store, where she must pick up green sequins. The sprite then leads her to O'Shaughnessy's house, where Katana has to watch a boring tv show. She calls her friends and asks them if they found anyone else. But they haven't found anyone. The sprite then takes Katana to a restaurant. Inside, she finds a bunch of people wearing sequins. They tells her that they are dancers. Katana tells then that she is looking for O'Shaughnessy. Katana then notices that Lena Luthor is also there. Katana thinks that Lena might be behind the disappearances. But before she can confront her, the lights go out. Everyone then starts saying that several people have suddenly disappeared, including Lena. Katana then chases the O'Shaughnessy soul sprite to a warehouse. Inside, she finds Cheetah with Lena. Lena demands to know why cheetah brought her here. Cheetah then pulls out an ancient mask and uses it to turn Lena into a Cheetah clone. Katana is shocked to see this. But she tells the sprite that she can handle 2 cheetahs. But then Cheetah reveals that she has an entire army of Cheetah clones. Cheetah tells the clones that they will steal every museum artifact in the city. Katana tries to leave so she can warn the Super Hero Girl. But the Cheetah clones attack her. After a short fight, Katana decides that it is best to flee. However, the Cheetah clones chase after her. Katana decides to call Zatanna.

At Zatanna's house, Zatanna and Bumblebee are looking everywhere for her father. Zatanna decides to try one last spell to summon her father. At first it seems to be working. But then a cheetah arm reaches thru the magic hat.

### Part 2

After failing to contact Zatanna, Katana tries Contacting Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman and Green Lantern are searching for Steve Trevor. Wonder Woman gets Katana's call and tells her that she will gather the rest of the girls and meet at the Casino. When the girls arrive, the find a bunch of Cheetah clones over running the place. Zatanna and Bumblebee are trying to fight off the cheetahs, but there is too many of them. the rest of the girls quickly start fighting the cheetahs. After a battle, the girls make the Cheetahs flee. The girls decide to go to the library to do research on how Cheetah created the clones. After looking, they discover that the mask Cheetah had is the Mask of Dolos, a magical item of trickery. The girls then leave for the museum.

When the girls get to the museum, it is trashed. Everywhere, items have been either stolen or broken. Zatanna is able to repair the broken items with her magic. Katana then asks the O'Shaughnessy soul sprite to lead them the Cheetah's lair.

When they get to Cheetah's lair, they make a plan. After executing the plan, Wonder Woman fights the real Cheetah for the mask. During the fight, Cheetah tries to get the clones to attack Wondy. But the clones have been captured by the Super Hero Girls. This allows Wondy to win and grab the mask. Bumblebee then takes it away.

At their hideout, the girls try to figure out how to activate the mask so they can turn all the Cheetah clones back into all the missing people. Tatsu tries the same ritual she used to free the O'Shaughnessy sprite to free all the souls in the mask. But it doesn't work. Zee then tries to use her magic. But it also fails. Zee then freaks out, saying that she will never see her dad again. The girls calm her down and tell her that they will figure it out.

Diana then goes to the library to do more research. after 12 hours of research, she is told she has to leave due to the library closing. Diana checks out all the books she was reading before she leaves. When Diana gets outside, she hears something. Diana puts her books down, expecting a fight. However, it was only Tatsu. Tatsu tells Diana that got worried after Diana didn't return for hours. Diana tells Tatsu that she has failed to save everyone. Tatsu tells Diana that failing is just trying something and crossing it off the list of solutions. This gives Diana hope again and she tells Tatsu that they try again.

The girls try everything they can think of to release the souls from the mask. After 472 failed attempts, Jessica suggests that maybe the lost souls aren't in the mask. But before they can try anything else, they get an alert of a break in at a construction site. The girls suit up and go to confront the villain.

When they get to the construction site, all the Cheetah clones are there. The girls quickly get to work fighting the Cheetah clones. They all fight off the clones while also protecting the construction workers. During a fight with one clone, Wonder Woman discovers that it has burrito breath. She makes an epic discovery. The mask never took the people's souls. It just turned the people into Cheetahs. Wonder Woman has Katana use her sword to turn the Cheetah clone back into O'Shaughnessy. Wonder Woman then tells the girls to gather all the Cheetah Clones. One by one, they are all turned back into the missing people. After turning everyone back into themselves, Wonder Woman tries to find the real Cheetah. But she has already escaped. The girls tell Wondy not to worry about her. Everyone one else has been saved. And that's what truly matters. And they wouldn't have saved them if Wondy hadn't discovered the truth about the Cheetah clones. The girls then celebrate their victory.

## Characters

* Wonder Woman/Diana Prince
* Katana/Tatsu Yamashiro
* Green Lantern/Jessica Cruz
* Supergirl/Kara Danvers
* Zatanna/Zee Zatara
* Batgirl/Barbara Gordon
* Bumblebee/Karen Beecher
* Cheetah
* Cheetah clones
* Shane O'Shaughnessy
* O'Shaughnessy soul sprite
* Catwoman
* Lena Luthor
* Livewire
* McTodd Steel
* Steve Trevor
* Garth Bernstein
* Mr. Zatara
* Barry Allen
* Blundie

## Trivia

* This episode is an adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name, with several differences.
	+ Several details and scenes from the original comic were either changed or removed to fit in better with the continuity and to keep the episode short enough to fit in with the 22 minute time limit. These changes include.
		- Removing the slumber party subplot.
		- Removing the Katana Dance scene.
		- Removing the extended waiting time for the O'Shaughnessy soul sprite to complete tasks.
		- Replacing the scene where Hal doesn't show up for Green Lantern training to the scene where McTodd doesn't show up to go on a walk with Jess.
		- Replacing Star Sapphire with Lena Luthor in the scene where Cheetah reveals her clones.
		- Shortening other extended scenes.
		- Explaining that Harleen is sick and that Tatsu is a temporary member.
* Harley Quinn does not appear due to being sick during the episode, allowing Katana to fill the role of temporary 7th member. Harley does not appear in the original comic version either.