Hey-ya! Man, I feel like I've been working on this story FOREVER... And it's finally ready to be posted! Woo-hoo! Okay, a few things I need to establish first.

1: A warning: As the summary says, this is about the Biblical Apocalypse – which means there are some religious themes. GRANTED – I'm focusing much more on the darker side of religion than the lighter, and this is by no means meant as a sermon. I'm not trying to teach a lesson, nor am I trying to convert anyone. There's no praying or anything like that, I don't even go into that much detail on the subject. This is STRICTLY FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES. You ever see the movie Constantine? It's kind of that level of relation to religion. It's there, but it's not… like, happy, if you get what I mean. You don't have to be Christian to enjoy this, in my opinion (it may actually be better if you're not, because I sort of made up or re-interpreted a lot of the events, heh heh). Bottom line: this is about the characters from the show, NOT about their religious views. I literally don't even go into that at all. (Okay, so that came out as more of a disclaimer than a warning... But you catch my drift)

2: Yes, this is post-Phantom Planet, and for the sake of this story, we're saying that the events from PP happened in August 2007, when it actually aired. Kay? Kay. That being said, this takes place in October/November 2010 (which wasn't the past when I started writing this, haha).

3: DISCLAIMER: Naturally, I don't own Danny Phantom or any of its characters/locations/themes/etc., otherwise my name would be all over the credits.

Short prologue is a go!

-Prologue-

It was chaos. Utter chaos. There was no other word for it – at least none that I knew. After all that I'd seen the past two and a half years, nothing had ever seemed bad enough to be considered chaos. But this… This was different. This was crazy. This was insane. This was complete and utter destruction – madness. Everywhere I looked… I couldn't escape it.

"Look out!" someone screamed from what sounded like a few yards to my left. I turned just in time to see a building—I could no longer tell which building used to be which, they all looked the same now—crumble to rubble, trapping two men underneath it. I'd seen this happen so many times in the last few days, the last few minutes… You'd think I'd have gotten used to it. But could you get used to watching someone die before your eyes?

Rather than stand there and wait to be crushed myself, I picked up my ecto-gun and tightened my Hover Gloves around my wrists, and started running. I didn't know where I was going, or what I was looking for, but still I ran. And I didn't look back.

The wind whipped my hair across my face, slashed at my arms and legs. It felt as though the wind were hurling daggers across my skin. It was difficult to see, and to hear. There were so many sounds. So many sounds… It was like the air itself was screaming at us, howling in pain. I could barely hear the voices of the victims all around me… Human and ghost alike. No one was spared in this disaster. Not anyone.

Suddenly a great roaring—greater than the crying wind—seared through the air, and the ground quaked beneath my feet. I tapped the round heat circle on my left glove and jumped into the air, just as a great crrrack ripped the street in two, leaving a wide and menacing chasm running through the city. It was like a great maw had opened in the earth, ready to swallow us all whole. All around people who could not get away fast enough were falling… Plummeting into the endless pit. Disappearing into the darkness. Others were screaming, crying. Shouting. I could hear them, but at the same time I couldn't. I could see them, but I couldn't. What was real? What was happening? How? Why? I had given up on understanding. I had learned that these past six days. Maybe we weren't meant to understand.

"Sam!"

I turned in the air. Someone called my name. I had heard it, I was sure. Then I saw them. Tucker was pulling Jazz out of a pile of rubble. She was alive. Injured, but alive. I was grateful to see them. So grateful… I flew down to them and tapped the circle on my left glove again, dropping to the ground after.

"Are you okay?" my voice asked them, though I don't remember saying it. I was lost… Lost in my own mind, in my own confusion and suffering. But they had found me, at least for now. I was with friends, finally.

"We're okay," Tucker answered, shouting above the din. Jazz was leaning heavily on his shoulder. She had a broken leg, and some cuts and bruises, but was otherwise unharmed.

I nodded to them, my strength and resolve slowly returning. "Good," I said, and I meant it.

I looked around at the city, or what was once the city. Our city. But not anymore. This world no longer belonged to us. It was almost over, everything was almost over. The end… The end of what? Of our existence? But no… We wouldn't let that happen. He wouldn't let that happen. He was out there right now, somewhere. Fighting. Always fighting. Fighting for us, the ones he loved. And for them, the ones he didn't. He fought for everyone, and he would never give up. I knew it, Tucker and Jazz knew it. Even his enemies knew it. Although right then, at that moment, he had none. We were all united, all on the same side. Our enemy was extinction. We were fighting against extinction. And against all odds, we were determined to win.

Then suddenly, a great explosion shook the earth, shook the seas, shook the skies. It came from the eastern horizon, we knew. We looked. The sky had turned red, had brightened from the previous black, though not comfortingly so. It glowed crimson – an evil crimson. The color of blood… It was frightening, and we knew what it meant.

It was midnight. It had begun.

I looked at Tucker and Jazz, momentarily reading their thoughts, as they resonated the same word as mine.

Danny…

Okay! And we're rolling! The rest of it isn't written in this weird, first-person, stream-of-consciousness sort of style, just in case you were worried, heh heh (and YES! I already have it all written. So no unplanned hiatuses this time!).

I'll probably post the first real chapter today or tomorrow, since this one isn't much of anything. But after that my speed depends on reception, as usual. So review for me? Pretty please?

See ya soon!

-oMM