Hi, all! This is the final stage of the Ninja Phantom trilogy. A warning to readers: for the sections of the story that take place in Konoha, the setting is later in the series than is aired on Toonami. If you've only seen English episodes, as of this posting you'll have seen up to Episode 63. I suggest that you go on Youtube and type in "Naruto Episode 64", and go from there. You won't have to go all the way to the end (episode 210, I think). This story only really takes elements from up to episode 125 or so. (Those of you who know what I'm talking about, that's around where the Valley of the End fight is, right?) Since there isn't a whole lot of chronology in DP, the sections that take place in Amity Park don't really have a specific time to them.

Also, this takes many elements from the first two parts of the trilogy, so if you haven't read Nine Tailed Ghost or Kekkei Genkai, I suggest you do so that you're not left in the dark.

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom or Naruto!

Tucker and Sam ran up to where they had seen most of the fighting taking place and saw Danny standing over Vlad's prone body.

"Dude…" Tucker said, awed. "You won."

"I…I can hardly believe it," Danny admitted, the enlarged veins of his byakugan receding as he cancelled the dojutsu.

"You didn't even have to use your Wail, either," Sam noted. Danny nodded.

"All the better. The last thing we need is for him to see it and copy it with that sharingan." Just then, Vlad's eyes fluttered open and he slowly came to.

"What…" he muttered. Danny immediately placed a sandaled foot on his back, keeping him trapped.

"I'll let you go once you answer a couple of questions, Plasmius," Danny spat. "First off, how exactly did you get the sharingan?"

"A bit of research," Vlad replied.

"How about a bit more detail?" Danny asked as he drove his heel into the man's chest.

"Very well," Vlad said with a grimace. "I traced my family's history back a few generations, and it turns out that my mother has an ancestor who was an Uchiha, an S-ranked missing nin. With the technology in my lab, it wasn't difficult to activate the gene that coded for the sharingan."

"Makes sense," Danny mused. Suddenly, too quickly for Danny to interfere, Vlad whipped a small, black communicator out of his pocket.

"Do it now," he commanded into the device. Immediately, an invisible force knocked Danny skyward with an uppercut as it phased upwards out of the ground.

"Wh-what was that?" Danny asked as he hit the ground and shakily got up.

"An ally," Vlad replied. The invisible assailant made himself visible, and Danny, Sam, and Tucker paled.

"You…" he gasped.

"Me." Standing in front of him was none other than Dan Phantom. The torn bottom edge of his cape brushed against the ground as he slowly walked towards Danny. As he approached his younger self, his eyes turned into those of the sharingan. A second later, they became something entirely different. The iris was still red, but instead of three toeme the pupil looked like a kaleidoscopic, three-pointed star. He grabbed Danny by the throat and hefted him up into the air, so that the boy's eyes were inches away from his own.

"Mangekyou Sharingan," he hissed. Immediately, time seemed to stand still for the two Phantoms. The sky became red and the sun turned black. The clouds also became black, and stood completely still.

"Where are we?" Danny demanded as imposingly as he could with a hand around his windpipe.

"In a universe I created with the mangekyou sharingan, a higher level of sharingan than that of the cheesehead."

"And how do you have it?"

"I'm part-cheesehead, remember? Since his kekkei genkai was in him since birth, when I was created from his ghost half I got it too. Unfortunately, you received your byakugan artificially after you were supposed to turn into me, so I didn't get that as well." He shrugged. "But it doesn't matter. After Vlad released me from that annoying thermos, he taught me how to use my sharingan, and I took it one step further."

"So why can't Vlad do this?" Danny asked, as he gestured wildly around at the bizarre dimension.

"One can only achieve the mangekyou sharingan by killing their closest friend, and Vlad has yet to kill our father. In my timeline, however, I stood by and watched my friends and family perish in a massive fireball of highly combustible condiments. I as good as killed them, and that satisfied the condition. Which reminds me…for the next seventy-two hours, you will watch as our friends and family are slowly annihilated in the Nasty Burger accident." Dan's red eyes glowed even brighter than normal for a second, and then he vanished, leaving Danny alone in the mysterious universe. Suddenly, there was a flash of light and when it cleared, Danny was in his human form and standing in front of the fast food joint. The spark was right next to the sauce tanks…the gauge on the tanks was heavily in the red…the tanks were shaking uncontrollably, seconds away from exploding…his friends and family were tied to the tanks with ecto-ropes, the last moments of their lives ticking away…

"Danny, help!" he heard Sam scream.

"SAM!" he yelled, as he rushed towards the restaurant. His eyes grew wide as she, along with everyone else he cared about (and Lancer) were engulfed by flames, their wide eyes focused on him until the explosion ripped through their bodies and their eyeballs, along with the rest of them, were incinerated.

"NO!" Danny screamed as he sank to his knees. Sweat and tears were running down his face as he watched the explosion with horror. He yelled until his voice was hoarse, then sank into a fetal position and began sobbing uncontrollably.

"Seventy-one hours, fifty-nine minutes, and fifty-nine seconds remaining," Dan's sneering voice came from everywhere at once. There was another flash of light, and the whole thing began again…

Danny fell to the ground, screaming, after the longest seventy-two hours of his entire life. Watching them die…watching them all perish over and over again…it was too much for him…he could feel his sanity cracking and threatening to shatter.

"Danny!" Tucker and Sam yelled, concerned. They hadn't been able to hear what Dan had said to Danny other than the words mangekyou sharingan, and they didn't know what had happened after that. What had felt to Danny like seventy-two hours was only a second in reality. To them, after they heard Dan say something to their friend, Danny immediately fell to the ground, screaming bloody murder.

"No!" Danny yelled, thrusting a palm out at the source of their voices. He couldn't hear their calls for help…not again…he couldn't watch them plead for him to save them, just for him to be unable to…just for him to be forced to watch them die a horrifying death…

"It's too late," Dan sneered to them. "You can't save him, not when he's trapped within his own mind."

"It's never too late to save him!" Sam asserted. She turned to Danny. "Danny? Come on, speak to me! Everything's going to be okay…you can beat this guy!" She gasped as an ecto-blast landed on the ground less than a foot in front of her. Danny shakily stood up, his breathing heavy and his pupilless green eyes darting all around.

"Need…ghost zone…Clockwork…" he muttered. He was speaking like a crazy person, in a soft voice that implied that he was speaking only to himself, but loudly enough so that everyone could hear him.

"You see?" Dan smirked. "His mind's completely shot. I think I'll humor him…as if he'd even be able to find Clockwork's realm in his state…" he created a portal to the ghost zone, hefted Danny up by the back of his high-collared t-shirt, and thrust him through it, closing the portal behind him. "Now, where were we…" he asked himself as he stalked towards Sam and Tucker.