A Dark Future Reemerges
Ch. 1
One day, Danny was facing off against a group of ghosts terrorizing downtown. All five ghosts tried to gang up on him, but Danny used his ghost rays to push them back. One ghost tried charging at Danny, but Danny grabbed his arm and flung him toward the others. Knocked on the ground, Danny used this moment to suck them all up with the Fenton thermos. "That takes care of you", Danny said believing the fight was over, then his ghost sense notified him of a nearby ghost, "Ah great." Danny charged up his ghost ray and turned around to fire at the final ghost.
"Wait, don't shoot!" said the ghost, who was actually Danny's clone, Dani Phantom.
"Danielle?" Danny quickly powered down his ghost ray, "What are you doing here?"
"Wanted to see how my cousin/world hero has been doing."
"Oh there's been a few changes since I saved the world and now everyone knows who I am, but other than that, I'm still kicking butt like before."
"Cool", Danielle said, then heard her stomach growl, "Do you by any chance want to continue this over lunch?"
"Sure, I could use a break right now", Danny and Dani then flew away.
Danny and Dani were in their human forms, eating at the Nasty Burger. Danny was eating his a combo meal, while he watched Danielle scarf down three burgers and a large order of fries.
"Well, you certainly have a big appetite right now, don't you?" Danny asked.
"Sorry, I was just so hungry today", Danielle responded.
"So how have you been?"
"Well I've been doing my share of heroics like you. The problem is I don't really have much of a home anymore."
"That's awful."
"Yeah, some nights can be really cold and I don't have the money to feed myself…Well thanks for the burgers", Danielle said as she was about to leave to continue her life of homelessness.
"Wait", Danny said to her feeling bad for her condition, "You deserve a better life than this."
"What are saying?"
"Why don't you come live with me and my family from now on?"
"Really?!" Danielle was happy to hear his request.
"Of course."
The two ghost hybrids flew to Danny's home, Fenton Works, landed and reverted back to their human forms to introduce Danielle to Danny's family.
"You think they'll like me", a nervous Danielle asked.
"I don't see why not", Danny reassured her.
Danny and Dani entered through the front door into the living room, where Danny's father, Jack, and his mother, Maddie, were maintaining one of their ghost combating weapons, and his sister, Jazz, was reading a book.
"Hi Danny, how's my little world hero?" Maddie asked.
"Great mom", Danny answered.
"Welcome home, son", Jack said, then noticed Danielle, "who's your new friend?"
"Everyone I would like to introduce someone to you."
"Hi", Danielle said to the family.
"Her name is Danielle, she's a clone of me that Vlad Plasmius made. She's been on her own ever since she left him. I've always considered her family and I'm hoping you would do the same. So, can she stay with us?"
Maddie, Jack, and Jazz looked at each other, nodded in agreement, and then walked up to them.
"Well of course, sweetie", Maddie said as she kneeled down to Danielle's eye level and gave her a kiss on the cheek, "She's just so adorable."
"Yeah, I've always wanted a little sister", Jazz said as she also kneeled down to Danielle's eye level and tussled her hair.
"Welcome to the family", said a teary-eyed Jack as he hugged Danielle.
"Thanks, Jack", Danielle said.
"Just call me dad."
Danielle embraced the feeling of a warm, loving family that she had not felt before. Later, Danny brought Danielle to the guest bedroom in the Ops center.
"You can stay here until we can pick out a room for you", Danny said as he showed Danielle the guest bedroom.
"Thanks, Danny, thanks for everything", Danielle said.
"It's no big deal. Now that you're part of my family, I can see a bright future ahead."
Meanwhile in the Ghost Zone, the ghost of time, Clockwork, was in his tower, viewing in content a peaceful and prosperous Earth ten years in the future. Then, the Fenton thermos that he had sitting on a pedestal started to shake until finally it exploded revealing inside Dark Danny, Danny's evil self from an alternate future. Clockwork turned around, shocked to see what just happened.
"Time Out!" Clockwork said as he used his powers to freeze Dark Danny in his tracks, then floated toward the seemingly frozen villain, "Now to dispose of you once and for-", Dark Danny revealed he was not frozen by grabbing Clockwork by the throat, Clockwork struggled to break himself free, "How is this possible?" Dark Danny grabbed Clockwork's staff and threw him at the wall. Dark Danny broke the staff over his knee, which then evaporated, and charged up a ghost ray at Clockwork, "No, no!" Dark Danny sets off his ghost ray onto Clockwork. "Aaaargh", Clockwork screamed in agony while Dark Danny sinisterly smiled. Clockwork then lay on the ground unconscious.
"Free at last", Dark Danny said, then he flew off into the Ghost Zone to complete his new goals, "I'm coming for you, Danny."