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Ch. 1

Somewhere deep inside Clockwork's liar, in the fenton thermos Dan had been trapped in, he violently thrashed about. He was determined to get out and alter his younger self's judgment scale so he could ultimately turn himself into Dan.

Dan had given up all hopes of being released, since it was obvious that anyone involved with Clockwork hated him, and had helped plot against him, successfully getting him into the mess he was now so desperately working to get out of. And as ironic as it was, Dan had no clue how long he had been confined to his cylinder prison, but he often used all his limitless spare time to plot his world takeover and to wonder how old his younger self was beginning to be.

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"C'mon on guys it's our last day of summer, then it's senior year. We should at least find something fun to do!" Sam practically begged.

"Well, we could play Doomed, I mean really, when was the last time we played that, freshman year?" Danny proposed, suppressing a laugh, as he flashed back to the day they trapped Technus inside a glitch of a game, and managed to get all the keys to the world wide web only for them to be defeated by Mr. Lancer, of all people.

"You know surprisingly I'm not in the mood, but you know what we could do….."

"We could map out the ghost zone!" Sam suggested, interrupting Tucker, who slowly began nodding his head in agreement.

"You guys can't tell me you honestly want to map out the ghost zone again." Danny groaned.

"Please, for me?" Sam pleaded as she slipped her hand through Danny's.

"Oh, okay..." Danny answered as he slowly began to blush, from ear to ear, after all Tucker was watching.

"Mayor Foley, it seems that there is some sort of conflict about the construction in the town park. They request your presence." Star mimicked in her best business voice.

"Be right there, sorry guys, it looks like it will just be the two of you mapping out the ghost zone, but I will try to catch up with you two later!" Tucker hollered as he scurried out the door after Star.

"And then there were two." Sam added.

"Well, we better get going..." Danny insisted, grabbing Sam's hand, and began leading her in the direction of the Fenton Works basement.

*Some time Later*

"Oh, come on Danny do we really need all this stuff?" Sam whined.

"Uh, sort of, ever since I saved the planet I've become a much more valuable prize..." Danny chuckled, who knew the day would come when he would quote Skulker. Sam merely rolled her eyes and gestured for Danny to get in the Specter Speeder.

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Tucker swiveled around in his chair, engaged in his new upgrade on his PDA. He was super psyched about his term being up for mayor; it was going to be pretty great just chilling with his friends for senior year, just like old times, kicking ghost butt and taking names.

Just as Tucker began to get lost in the fond memories of his youth, a window shattered and in stepped the notorious, exiled villain Vlad Plasmius!

"Plasmius!" Tucker screeched; after all he was supposed to be light-years away, lost in the depths of the galaxies.

"How dare you show your face, with a push of a button, I could easily have you pushed back into exile for eternity."

"Oh, relax. I'm not here to cause trouble, I just have a proposal for you that I'm sure you will find quite... interesting." Snickered the 'free-roaming space nomad'.

"Like I'll ever need anything from you" drawled Tucker, pushing the button on his desk that informed everyone of Vlad's return.

Vlad smirked, Daniel's sidekick was quite wrong, there would come a time when his help would be very much needed. That will be the day, he decided, he would make his return to Amity Park for good.

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Sam watched Danny as he examined his unresourceful, very outdated map of the ghost zone, she could tell he was finding it quite difficult to guide them through the infinite green swirls of the ghost zone.

"We're lost, aren't we?" Sam asked, coming across a lot more hostile and sarcastic than she may have wished to.

"No, we just have to turn at the..."

"That's a thumbprint." Sam interrupted. "This is the reason we should be mapping out the ghost zone frequently. That map is far from being expertly drawn".

"Hey, that's my handiwork you're insulting." Danny crumbled up his so called trusty map. "We really are lost though."

"Do you happen to remember where the realm of the Far Frozen is?" Sam queried, hoping Danny's answer would be yes.

"I don't think I need to." Danny pointed to a giant football. "That's the entrance to Vlad's old portal."

Out of nowhere, a large cardboard box flew across the hood of the Specter Speeder. "Going Ghost!" Danny shouted as he changed into Phantom.

Sam placed a hand on Danny's arm. "Can't we just go home?" she pleaded.

"Come on, Sam it's only going to take a second it's just the box ghost, we will be home in no time." Danny begged as he got out of the Specter Speeder with the promise to return in seconds.

"Beware I am the box ghost!" The small, wimpy ghost bellowed.

"You know I really don't have time for this..." Danny fired an ecto ray, hitting the box ghost square in the chest. The box ghost quickly scurried away back into whatever door he crawled out of. Danny chuckled to himself, well that was easy. Almost too easy. Then he heard it. The two words that changed everything: "Hello, Daniel."

So I hope you enjoyed it I had a fun time writing it! Special thanks to my editor caftrsgatdp (don't ask long story)! Anyway hit the review button and tell me what you think!

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