Infinite Realms.

The episode where Vlad steals an Artifact and makes Danny and his friends chase him through time and space. How long did it take, an afternoon? A day? A week? Who knows?

Time travel allows a person to experience a lifetime while gallivanting beyond the bounds of time. But that traveler still ages. Time still passes for the one living, breathing, eating, sleeping outside the confines of the timeline. A time traveler can spend that entire lifetime then return to the spot where they left, suddenly aged and decrepit, collapsing under the weight of so many years. Years that happened for the traveler and no one else.

So. I ask again.

How long did Danny and friends chase Vlad through time?

Better yet... How many years did Vlad spend alone in each time period?

How many stops in his travels did Danny and friends miss? Did we even see all the stops along the chase?

How many years did they lose?

This is a collection of stories written for the Through Danny Phantom project. I'm posting them here under my own name because

1. they probably skirt some unspoken boundary somewhere. They do touch on sacrifice (animal and human), slavery, religious tones, twisted time paradoxes, and some of the seedier conspiracies of history.

and

2. Sapphire has not yet been forced to post a rated M fic into that collection. I expect at least two of these chapters will go that far.

Now then. Because an amount of fiction seems to be required in every chapter posted...


The signal from the bug disappeared. Vlad jumped up from his chair, Maddie hissing at the loss of her warm lap. He absently stroked her behind the ears before running off to his lab and its waiting portal. He grabbed a signal amplifier.

He had a bug to find.