Hi everyone, I'm baacckk!

((and I still don't own the rights to Danny Phantom :( :( ))

Okay, so this fanfic was inspired by a video created by Butch Hartman himself, 'Danny Phantom 10 Years Later PART 2'. Check it out, it's a really cool video. One of the drawings Butch created was of Vlad 10 years later and with him was a cloned child, whom Vlad had finally been successful in creating, and was made up of both Danny's and Vlad's DNA.

Now guys I will not lie to you…see the whole cloning business, the episodes with Danielle, uh uh! They did not do it for me, I was not keen on that aspect of the storyline AT ALL (Please don't hate)! Which is why it really shocked me when I watched that video and seen that picture, and I actually liked the idea of Vlad with this cloned kid. Next thing I knew, all these different scenarios and ideas went through my head and I thought screw it! Gonna write this stuff down!

So that's a little background info as to what inspired the story you are about to read. This first chapter kick starts the whole plot, so although in some places you may think, 'I already know that', or 'duh!' Please bear with me, it works up to the good stuff!

Hope you like!

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Similar to many of the previous disasters and ghost attacks which the people of Amity Park had been subjected to; after the events regarding the apocalyptic Disasteroid the citizens soon relaxed back into their comfortable way of life. True, there were now a couple of new changes to become accustomed to, such as Tucker Foley leading the town as the youngest mayor known to Amity Park, with support of other trustworthy government officials.

Although a huge responsibility to task upon a fourteen year old boy, Tucker appeared to take it in his usual stride. True, many did have their doubts about electing him as mayor, but Tucker's courageous and knowledgeable contribution in saving the world from the Disasteroid did not go unnoticed.

Amity Park also turned a more positive outlook on their very own ghost boy, Danny Phantom, who was now also known and accepted by all as Danny Fenton. The town vowed to be forever grateful of his heroic actions. Naturally Danny remained humble about what he felt was his duty, he took more happiness in knowing that he no longer had to keep his ghost half a secret and the ones he loved the most still loved and accepted him.

So life went on in Amity Park, with so much to be celebrating, mainly to be enabled to go on living, they quickly forgot about the sole individual who had put them in mortal danger; Vlad Plasmius. Or as they had previously known him as Vlad Masters, their previous mayor.

Few actually knew what became of Vlad's whereabouts when it was discovered he could not stop the Disasteroid. Jack Fenton only admitted to his family that he had left his ex-friend in outer space. He didn't want to make it public knowledge that he had done such a thing, for although at the time he couldn't bear the thought of speaking another word to the evil man, he later felt it had actually been a spiteful thing to do, and perhaps lacked justice.

Of course, no one else who knew of Jack's decision felt it had been too harsh. Maddie Fenton even made a point of thinking Vlad got of too lightly. "Whatever happens to him now will be too good for him!" She'd said, "If I ever lay eyes on that sleazy creep again it will be too soon!"

Jazz, Sam and Tucker were of a similar opinion. Jazz felt that he had become too narcissistic to be of any benefit to anyone other than himself. Sam and Tucker simply thought he was evil and his actions had proved it time and time again, and what use did Amity Park have for an evil person?

Dani had mixed feelings about Vlad's disappearance. She was now a regular visitor at the Fenton's home and was made to feel most welcome by the family. At first, Jack, Maddie and Jazz had been horrified to find out that Vlad had been crazy enough to clone Danny. Not believing it were possible, this had lessened their view of Vlad Masters even further, thinking it a sick and unethical attempt. However, they never made these feelings known to Dani. Upon meeting her they accepted that the origins of her creation was not her fault, and felt that she was more than deserving of a place in the Fenton's home. Though being a free-spirit Dani liked to come and go as she pleased, exploring the world as she went.

Given that Vlad was the first person she ever knew, and that in an untraditional way he was technically her 'father,' Dani still wanted to believe there was a small glimmer of good in Vlad. Although it hurt her when he didn't accept her, it would hurt her even more to think that the man who brought her into this world was pure evil. For what would that make her?

With this in mind, Dani chose to keep these feelings to herself. After all, she still needed to make friends and fit in. Therefore she would verbally agree with the others that Vlad was mere scum.

That left Danny. His hatred for Vlad Masters was probably the purest. He had seen and experienced the evil which Vlad was capable of, the man seemingly becoming more malice and crazy with each encounter. Danny's one regret was allowing Vlad to remain in control of Amity Park for so long as mayor, he felt he should have intervened sooner. Then maybe Amity Park wouldn't have suffered as much under his power.

Danny also hated the fact that Vlad had now vanished with no trace. The last encounter between Vlad and Danny had been unpleasant, and Vlad had got the upper hand in it. Danny felt he'd never really beaten Vlad Plasmius. He knew the half ghost's strengths and abilities, and he refused to believe that the man had perished in outer space. Danny still had a sickening hunch that Vlad was still out there somewhere, plotting his return and revenge.

Naturally, when you're a fourteen year old hero, thoughts like these go to the back of your mind. Danny chose to also try and forget about Vlad Masters and remain a positive character, for the sake of his family, friends and town.

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Unknown to everyone in the world, after being struck by the Disasteroid whilst contemplating being stuck in space, Vlad felt certain he would die. The injuries caused to him from the hit had threatened his ability to stay in ghost form, and without oxygen Vlad would last only seconds if he turned human whilst in space. So Vlad had to battle with himself to keep his black transformation rings at bay. Although in truthfulness, he had contemplated 'giving up the ghost' and simply ending his miserable existence, believing there was really nothing left for him now.

Whilst having this internal battle with himself, Vlad suddenly noticed a bright green light appear metres in front of him, and within seconds it expanded and seemed to almost create a tear in the atmosphere. Vlad widened his eyes in disbelief. It was a portal into the Ghost Zone. Like Danny, Vlad had been aware that natural portals can sporadically appear at any given time, but to have one appear in outer space?

Vlad saw his opportunity to escape from space, and took it. He made it through the portal seconds before it closed.

Once inside the Ghost Zone, thoughts of death quickly evaded from his mind. He now had the opportunity to live out his life, but at what cost? He wasn't sure he had allies in the Ghost Zone anymore. Were they aware of his actions? If they were the ghosts would no doubt be as ruthless as the humans and would mercilessly hunt him down. That wasn't a chance Vlad was willing to take.

So what choice did he have?

He couldn't go to his home in Amity Park, it was much too risky. He doubted he would ever set foot there again. He never did repair his castle in Wisconsin after he became mayor, not that he would have been much safer there.

That left his secluded luxurious cabin out in the woods near Colorado. No one lived near there, it was unlikely he would be bothered. However the cabin did need repairing. Vlad shuddered when he thought back to when he was last in that cabin. Danny and Danielle had destroyed his hopes of ever creating his own half ghost apprentice.

It sickened him to his very core.

Vlad desperately wanted to avoid that cabin, avoid facing those memories and realities. However he had nowhere else to go. He needed a safe place to recover and work out a plan of action.

So Vlad swiftly made haste on locating another portal and getting himself to Colorado where he desperately needed rest.

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"Mr Lancer, may I please be excused?"

Mr Lancer immediately stopped writing on the board and turned around with a raised eyebrow.

"What is it this time, Mr Fenton?"

"WHO DARES CHANGE THE MENU?" Screamed a demented female voice, followed by the screams of innocent cafeteria workers.

"Uh, that." Danny replied dryly.

"Sam, you didn't try to pull the whole vegan thing again did you?" Tucker asked his friend.

"She better not have!" Dash shouted angrily from the back of the room.

"Yeah, us athletes need our protein to perform well on the field." Kwan added.

Sam folded her arms and scowled irritably at the accusations. "I didn't do anything!"

"Grapes of Wrath people calm down there's a ghost on the loose!" Shouted Mr Lancer glancing at the one student who could resolve this. Danny was already holding a Fenton Thermos and waiting for the go ahead from his teacher. Not that he had done this before everyone knew his secret, but it was merely out of respect. Someone in the school had to show Mr Lancer some respect, right?

"Danny you're excused."

"Goin' ghost!" Danny cried as he instantly transformed and flew out the door.

His classmates stared in amazement and cheered.

"Yay! Go Danny!" Paulina cheered in an overly chirpy tone.

Sam shuddered slightly at the cheerleader's reaction to her boyfriend's heroic action.

"Uh! I don't think I'll ever get used to that." She grumbled to herself.

"You're telling me." A voice said from behind her, "Weird."

Sam turned around, and raised an eyebrow at Valerie. She was tempted to make a harsh remake and ask Valerie if she wanted to go help Danny, or to get in his way by hunting him. But she bit her tongue, and turned back around not commenting at all.

Tucker noticed this small interaction, or lack of, between the two girls. But he knew better than to interfere.

Sam and Valerie still didn't see eye to eye, Sam wasn't sure if she wanted to either. She still felt that Valerie had some shallow traits from the time when she hung around with the popular kids. But she wasn't sure if she disliked her more for formerly hitting out at Danny when he was in ghost form, or hitting on him when he wasn't. Either way, Sam preferred to keep their interactions minimal.

A few minutes later a human Danny walked through the door, slightly breathless and holding a thermos. He gave a small smile to his eagerly awaiting classmates.

"Lunch will proceed as normal today." He informed them lightly as he took his seat, "Hope you guys like fish sticks."

"But it's supposed to be sloppy joe day!" Nathan loudly whined.

"So I've been told!" Danny mumbled as he stuffed the Fenton Thermos into his backpack.

"Danny is it hard to fight ghosts?" Kwan asked.

"Yeah, and how do you make your hands glow?" Star added.

"Who designed your cute costume?" Paulina gushed.

"Does it tingle when you fly through walls?"

"Do you teach classes on ghost fighting?

"If I stand in front of the microwave with a hairdryer will I get ghost powers too?"

Danny looked around at all of his classmates who were bombarding him with questions. This was the one aspect of revealing his secret which he didn't like.

Tucker, Sam and Valerie each gave him a sympathetic look as he uncomfortably hunched his shoulders and looked at his desk whilst the questions continued to be fired at him. It was Mr Lancer who got the class of teenagers to be quiet and leave Danny alone.

"That's enough people. Chitchat is for lunch time, this his class time." He reminded his students. "Now saying as you are all so interested in ghosts, I'd like to turn your attention back to Macbeth, who thinks he's seeing them."

As the class quietened down Danny gave a small sigh of relief, and a small smile of thanks to his teacher. Ever since Mr Lancer had learned of Danny's secret he'd been much more understanding and considerate. Before, Mr Lancer had assumed Danny had been ditching class and slacking in his work because he had no interest in learning. Now, however, he had a lot of respect for what the young boy did and was happy to help out with his school work in any way possible. Even if it meant getting curious teenagers off his back.

As Danny tried to refocus his mind back to Macbeth, he also tried to convince himself that things would become normal again soon. It was still early days, maybe everyone still needed more time to accept who he was and what he did. But most of all Danny hoped that they would still remember who he was, and that was more than just 'the ghost boy.'

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Whilst Danny had been coming to terms with being a somewhat celebrity, Vlad had begun picking up the pieces of his shattered life. He had successfully made it to his secluded cabin in Colorado. It had been a risky and tiresome journey, Vlad had to constantly check himself and his surroundings to decrease the chances of being spotted by man or ghost. The halfa also had to rest more often than he was used to, clearly the events in space had taken a larger toll than he'd first anticipated, causing a slower recovery. Vlad kept telling himself that the shelter and safety the cabin would provide would be worth the tribulation.

However this small consolation didn't make up for the state the cabin was in. It was worse than he'd remembered. It was evidentially clear that no one had been there in months, Vlad had more or less abandoned it after his attempt to clone Danny, and never did clear up the debris or see to repairs from the damage caused by the fight.

Despite knowing nothing good could come from his curiosity, Vlad couldn't settle himself with simply utilising the the living quarters of the cabin. Within less than an hour of arrival, he'd gone into the lab where he had previously conducted all of his clone experiments.

Vlad felt his heart sink instantly as soon as he stepped foot in the room. He inspected all the equipment and all the tools which had been necessary, bitterly reminding him that it had all been for nothing.

Vlad sighed in anguish. Everything was broken, destroyed because Danny and his friends had interfered. Not forgetting Danielle's betrayal, if she hadn't been so weak minded and easily led by Danny his chances of succession were almost guaranteed.

Vlad's face twitched in anger as he thought about the clone which had dissolved during the fight.

"I'd been so close!" Vlad muttered through gritted teeth.

And he had been. He merely needed that final piece of Danny's DNA and the clone would have stabilized if properly attended to. What stung Vlad the most was that Danny and Danielle didn't seem to realise what they had robbed him of that day, how much it hurt to see that clone, who at that stage was really more of a boy than an experiment, vanish before him. To see how he'd reached out to Vlad before he did…

Vlad cringed at the memory. That had been painful. It angered Vlad because Danny had protected Danielle due to the fact that she had a mind of her own. What the boy hadn't realised was that the clone in process also would have had a mind of his own. Vlad already knew how to achieve that, he'd done so when he'd created Dani.

But Danny just couldn't let him have that. Vlad knew that Danny was stubborn, that was partly the reason why he wouldn't join him. And begrudgingly, Vlad had grown to accept this. Which was why he'd started the cloning process. Although after that incident Vlad realised that as well as not wanting to train under Vlad, it appeared that Danny didn't want Vlad to be happy either. That clone would have made him happy, Vlad was sure of it, and Danny robbed him of that happiness. He would have gladly left the boy alone after that, but things just got worse from there.

Vlad knew the cloning was the real turning point. It was the stage of desperation. He decided after that that if he couldn't have what he wanted, he would have everything else.

But that didn't work out the way he'd planned either. His rising into politics only proved to be his downfall, stopped at every turn by Danny and his friends of ever ruling more than simple Amity Park.

Vlad's anger only continued to rise as he wondered through the busted up lab. He cursed Danny Phantom, Jack Fenton, his so-called daughter Dani, everyone he could think of who'd done him wrong.

But soon his anger turned to sadness.

"All I want is what everybody needs." Vlad muttered spitefully to himself.

Love.

"Am I such a despicable person that I don't even deserve that?"

Vlad knew what the answer would be from every person he'd ever met. Not that he even cared about any of them anymore, which is why he longed for the clone to be successful, someone he could create and mould. Someone who would grow to appreciate, respect and love him.

Danny hadn't believed him when he's told him this and explained why he'd resorted to cloning. Either that or the teenager simply didn't care.

As he studied the remains of the cloning technology Vlad was surprised to find that it was all fixable and maintainable. He raised his eyebrows and laughed sardonically at the cruel mocking irony.

"Fixing these machines won't fix the child that melted!" He growled angrily before throwing a piece of discarded metal across the room and had it crash off the wall at the other side.

As the shard of metal smashed against the wall, the force of it caused the nearby wall cabinet to swing open. Vlad raised an eyebrow and paused for a second. Due to the fact that this was a property he had spent the least amount of time in, and given the state it was currently in, Vlad could not remember what he had stored in the cabinet.

The half ghost walked over and inspected the vials and document. He gasped when he read what the file was titled:

DNA ANALYSIS OF DANNY PHANTOM

Vlad stared at the writing for a few seconds before opening the file to see if it could really be true.

When Danny had attacked Vlad with his ghostly wail all that time ago, he had broken Vlad's computer. A super technological computer which had stored months' worth of information about Danny's DNA. Once the computer was destroyed, Vlad believed all that hard gained information to be gone.

However Vlad had all the information again now, right at his fingertips. The file did indeed contain hard copies of pictures and diagrams which were broken down to explain Danny's DNA structure. It was the information Vlad used analysed to gain an understanding of how to properly structure a clone.

How could he have forgotten that he had back up hard copies? The data was invaluable.

The vials which accompanied the documents were also equally, if not more important when it came to the cloning process. Each vial contained a physical aspect of Danny, which was used to create and form a clone. There were several of them; Danny's blood, ectoplasm, hair, ecto-energy, and so on.

"How could I have forgotten these were here?" Vlad wondered aloud. Had he been so disgruntled by his failed attempts that he'd simply lost the motivation to recall such important aspects to the process?

Vlad couldn't help but inspect the DNA samples. Most of them were still valid sources, except for Danny's blood, of course that had long since coagulated.

Not that blood is a difficult source to find, Vlad thought humourlessly to himself.

Ever so slowly, Vlad's hopes began to rise.

"There is still a chance." Vlad concluded, disbelief coating his voice. "I have all the information I need, I have most of the relevant DNA samples…If I fixed the machines…There is a possibility that I can make another clone!"

Vlad set down the data and files and approached the cloning machines. Technically he only needed one, the one which would help to create and stabilise a clone. Vlad concluded that the machine which Danny had broken when he refused to give a morphing DNA sample would not be necessary.

"To blazes with Danny!" Vlad snapped angrily, remembering the resistance and fight that Danny put up when he attempted to extract the morphing DNA. "It's not all about that little rat anymore. I can provide any missing DNA samples."

Suddenly feeling that purpose in life had been returned to him, Vlad began to identify and process the repairs necessary to his cloning technology immediately.

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People! Thanks for reading the first chapter! I have written a few chapters in advance so I can tell you right now this is the most boring one. Lol. As such, if you liked this chapter, then chances are you might like the rest of the story-great! If you didn't like this chapter so much…maybe don't rule it out yet, the story has hardly started.

Please review, I will try my best to answer any queries you have, your opinions are most valued (plus the more reviews the faster I type)!

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