AN: This is meant to be a short series. I had originally planned it to be a oneshot, but splitting it up seemed a bit better for the pacing. For those waiting for updates of some of my other stories, I've got a few chapters written, and I'm just fine tuning them. I am sorry for the delay, I've just had a rather long writing slump. This idea just hit me due to a game I was playing and I just had to write it.

Everything until D-stabilized has happened, but not Phantom Planet so Danny's identity is still secret. It's two years later, and Valerie knows about Danny. And Danny and Sam are together, but it's not likely to come up anyway.

"Son, you need to make more friends like this!" Jack Fenton declared, pointing to Dani Gray, age fourteen.

Danny, age sixteen, was staring at his 'new' friend and Valerie's new adopted sister, otherwise known as his younger female clone, shock gone unnoticed as Jack turned to the girl, blathering on the finer points of the Fenton Ghost Peeler. To explain just how close her theory on how it worked had been.

Eventually Maddie called Jack away for help with something, leaving the two halfas alone.

"When did you learn all that?" Danny asked, walking over to Dani as she looked over an ecto gun.

"What did you think I was doing after I left Vlad?" Dani asked. "I was doing research and after the second time…well, I found it interesting," she added with a shrug.

"Oh. I thought you were just flying around," Danny said. Running from Vlad was left unsaid.

"Of course not," Dani said. "That'd just be stupid. Besides, I needed to do something and libraries are free. Did you know how much your parents actually put up their research?"

"Uh, no, not really. How much?"

"At least half of the searches. Well, half that were really worth anything. Most people just have the old myths, which is good for theory and mentality, but not a whole lot for the science behind it," Dani said.

"Huh, really?"

"Yeah. Before this portal, the information is pretty scarce. I thought the Guys in White might have stuff, but, you know, government and its classified files," Dani said with a shrug. "Hey, think your parents can teach me about the tech? Valerie's kind of got a limited supply and while I can recharge the power, it's no good for when stuff gets broken."

Danny chuckled. "If you really want to risk it. Dad can go on for hours when he drags me into learning it, I'm not sure how long he'd go with a willing student."

Dani beamed. "Cool! That'll help a lot."

"So you're really gonna keep learning then?"

Dani shrugged. "Why not? You know as much as I do that it's not like I could become an astronaut or anything. It's something I'm interested in and if I'm working with your family or Valerie, then I can stay out of the limelight."

Danny paused at that, studying the younger girl. Now that she mentioned it, it was true. She was his clone, after all. And if anyone figured it out, it would be bad. "How did you even get those papers that you did?"

"Hung around the bad part of town in New York," Dani said, setting down the gun. "Just had to wait long enough for someone who's knowledgeable about that sort of thing to either be a ghost or willing to help out a girl with the amount of money I had."

He frowned at that. As much as he knew she could handle herself, especially after being stabilized, he still didn't like the idea of her hanging out in some city slums. Especially when she was LOOKING for dead criminals. And yet she looked so nonchalant about it. He wondered if she even understood how dangerous it was.

"Made up a whole history and everything after a call to Valerie."

"Does her dad know?"

Dani paused. "Sort of. Basically, I was made my creator a mad scientist ghost doing weird experiments. He doesn't know about the ghost powers, just that a ghost managed to make a human clone, and I had met someone who could make the papers after I managed to get to the human world. Valerie saved me when the ghost tried to get me again. But he helped check out the papers, being an old security expert, so we got it all checked out. Far as the government knows, I'm some kid who ran away from one of those overcrowded foster homes."

"Wow. How did you even figure all that out?"

"Library after the stabilization."

"Well…I'm glad it all worked out then," Danny said, ruffling her hair.

"Hey!" She said and pouted, flatting out her hair before smiling. "Yeah…so am I. Hey, do you think your parents would let me have an ecto gun? Just in case, you know."

"We'll see," Danny said and suddenly both cousins gasped, blue air escaping their mouths. "Oh great. Who is it this time?" He grumbled.

"I AM THE BOX GHOST!"

Danny sighed, turning to the portal where the Box Ghost was. "Really?" He said, the rings of white forming around his waist, turning him into Danny Phantom. "Don't worry, Danielle, he's not a problem."

"I can HEAR you. Do not think I, THE BOX GHOST, will just stand by as you belittle the true threat that I am. BEWARE!" He shouted, and sent boxes flying at the two. Dani yelped and jumped behind the counter to avoid getting hit, Danny simply phasing through them.

"Dude, seriously? I just cleaned the lab this morning!" Danny said, sending a blast at the Box Ghost, but it seemed he was bound and determined to be annoying today.

Danny chased him around the lab, avoiding the boxes he sent around, Dani watching from behind the counter. Though she quickly had to duck everytime the Box Ghost sent things her way until finally Danny managed to corner him enough to suck him into the Thermos.

"One day, I'm going to get you to stay in there," Danny said, walking over to the machine to flush the contents of the thermos back into the Ghost Zone. "You okay Dani?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Dani said, pushing boxes off her and stumbling and tripping over them to get out from behind the counter. "I didn't get hit at all."

"That's good," Danny said, turning around to see one of the boxes Dani pushed out of the way knock into the Fenton Ghost Catcher. His eyes widened as it began to topple over. "Dani, watch out!"

"Huh?" Dani turned, looking up, and too late to get out of the way as the Fenton Ghost Catcher fell over her.

Danny slapped his face. "Oh jeeze, a fun Dani and a phantom Dani," he said and sighed. "Sorry, Dani, that's a device that removes ghostly things from non-ghostly. The ghost you just needs to phase into the human and if that doesn't work, we just need to use the other si-"

It was then Danny realized something had gone very, very horribly wrong as Dani, the human one, backed away from her ghost side. He could see why.

The ghost had red eyes.