It all happened so fast, I'm not even sure how it happened. All I know is that I'm homeless now, my ghost form is twisted into the image of my worst nightmare, and I've got a little girl to take care of. Amity Park was far behind me. I had to get away, get away from murderous family, insane hunters, and traitorous citizens.

"I'm sorry." it was barely audible over the sound of the wind, but I heard it. I looked down at my little clone in human form. Her eyes were red and puffy from crying and dark circles were under her eyes, making it look like she hadn't slept in days.

I kissed her forehead and tightened my grip on her. "You've got nothing to be sorry for."

"No, it's all my fault." she sobbed. "If I wasn't so weak you'd still have a have your home, family, and friends and it's all my fault." she cried loudly. The sound of her crying broke my heart.

"It's not your fault Dani, it's there fault, they were so blind and prejudice to ghosts that they couldn't accept their own son or his beautiful little sister." I said. She blushed and cuddled closer to me. She deserves so much better than this and because of them I can't give it to her. I hate them. I hate Amity Park, and most importantly, I hate Maddie and Jack Fenton.

FLASH BACK

"You seem happy this morning." Sam Manson, my best friend and secret crush, said.

"Why shouldn't he be happy? Last night he managed to have a no ghost sleep, managed to avoid Dash, homework, and ghosts all day today." Tucker Folly, my best friend since forever, said.

"Yep," I said. "Today can't possibly get any better." no sooner had the words left my lip than a red mist escaped my lips. We all froze.

"Dude, what was with the red ghost sense?" Tucker bluntly asked.

"Ya Danny, isn't your ghost sense supposed to be blue?"

"I don't know, I-" I quickly stopped as I heard the sound of air ripping apart coming from behind me. I only had a split second to turn before something hit me dead center of my chest and sent me flying backwards. The impact knocked the wind out of me as my back grinned into the concrete.

"Oh my god, Danny I'm so sorry."

I opened my eyes and saw a little girl with snow white hair pulled back into a pony tail, neon green eyes, and a black and white jump-suit staring back at me. "Dani?" she smiled sheepishly.

"Hey cuz, sorry about knocking you over." she said, climbing off of me and helping me back to my feet.

"Danny," my friends shouted as they ran towards me.

"And Dani apparently..." My two friends stared at the both of us, until Dani lost her nerve and ran behind me.

"Guys, stop staring." I threw an annoyed glare at them and they looked away. "So what are you doing back in town Dani? You're not becoming unstable again are you?" I said, suddenly growing concerned. I bent down and gave her arm a soft squeeze. She felt solid to me, but I couldn't be sure.

"No, nothing like that, I've actually, um... I've come to ask you a favour." She said, looking at the ground and twisting her foot into the sidewalk.

"Oh, sure what do need?" I asked.

Dani looked down and nervously shuffled her feet before sighing. "Danny I can't do it anymore, I've been on the streets for almost a year and I can't keep doing it. Could you help me find a home here in Amity Park? Even just a crappy little shack on the outskirts of town would be great."

I was a little shocked at her request, but it was quickly replaced with excitement when an idea popped into my head.

"I think I have the perfect place in mind." I couldn't help but feel a little excited.

"Really? Thanks Danny, you're the best." she shouted and jumped into my arms.

"So, who feels like some Nasty Burger to celebrate?" once Dani changed back to human we headed to our favourite restaurant and got a table.

"So Danny," Danielle paused to take a bit out of her burger. "Where's this place you had in mind? I want to get settled as soon as possible." she said, swallowing her mouthful of burger and washing it down with some soda.

"You're going to come stay with me." I said plainly. Everyone at the table turned dead silent. I felt all of them staring at me, probably thinking that I was crazy. "You could sleep in the guest bedroom in the ops center, until we could convert a room in the actual house for you to stay in." everyone continued to stay silent, until Sam snapped out of it.

"Danny are you insane?" she yelled, causing everyone in the restaurant to turn their attention to us.

I gave Sam a deadpan look and she sank down in her seat, more than a little embarrassed. I sighed. It wasn't going to be easy for me to convince them to go along with my idea. My friends love me, but Sam's problem is that she's too stubborn and proud to admit when she's wrong. Tucker admitted when he was wrong, even about technology stuff.

"Danny, Sam has a point. How would we manage to convince your parents to let me stay with you? Further more if we, by some miracle, manage to convince them to let me stay, how in hell's name would we manage to keep them both in the dark about our ghost halves?"

"Well, here's where the risky part comes in. The way we convince my parents is by telling them our secrets." No one said anything. They all just sat there and gapped at me. Not that I could blame them though, my plan is pretty crazy and could easily backfire. "Guys, they're my parents and I know that they'd love me no matter what, me and Danielle. Besides, I think it's time they knew."

Everyone kept silent. "I'm not so sure dude." Tucker said.

"Fine," I sighed. "We'll go talk to Jazz about it first and see if she'll come with us for moral support, alright?"

Sam and Tucker looked at each other, before reluctantly agreeing. A few minutes later we walked out and headed to my place. The silence and tension was thick enough that you could cut it with a knife. Somehow it seemed to get worse when we arrived at Fenton works. Mom and dad were busy in the lab so we managed to sneak up to Jazz's room easily.

Jazz was sitting at her desk, working on something. "Hey Jazz," I said. She jumped a little in her seat and turned to face us.

"Jesus Danny, you nearly gave me a heart attack." she glared at all of us before noticing Danielle. "Who's she?"

We spent the next fifteen minutes explaining Danielle to Jazz; by the end of it Jazz was in tears and crushing Dani in a bear hug that would rival my dad's. Then we started explaining the plan to her. Unlike mom and Dad, she didn't seem to have any problems with me telling mom and dad my secret and if she did, she didn't voice them.

"I need you to be there to help smooth things out with mom and dad, in case they go a bit hysterical." I said, my expression pleading.

"Of course I'll be there, after all, I always did want a little sister."

"Gee thanks sis." I said, mock rolling my eyes.

Everyone laughed shortly. "So, when are you planning on telling them?" she asked.

"Well, I guess now would be the best time, so we could settle Dani in as fast as possible." everything was quiet; no one really made a move for the door. Being the brave one, I turned and opened the door. "Let's get this over with already."

Fear and doubt started creeping its way into my mind. What if they don't believe I'm still good? What if they hate Danielle for what she is? What if they don't accept me? I shook my head to clear the thoughts away. No, they're my parents; they'll love me and accept me no matter what.

Right?

We all took a seat on the living room couch while Jazz went downstairs to fetch mom and dad. It was dead silent in the room as my parents were lead to the couch by Jazz. "Danny, what's going on?" mom said, eyeing Danielle. "Who's this?"

"Mom, dad this is Danielle, she's... She's my clone." my parents stared wide eyed as I explained everything to them. I told them about me stealing, the time about the mayor, all the times that I had been framed, and finally about how Dani came to be.

I waited. Seconds seemed to last hours as I waited for my patents to say something, anything. But they didn't. Finally, my nightmare came true. Dad was suddenly on top of me and punched me in the face. Dad was a big man, so a punch from him hurt as much as one of Skulkers' punches. Sam, Jazz and Tucker screamed for him to get off me while mom held them back. Dani must have transformed, because she suddenly tackled my dad off of me. Mom pushed the three back and pulled out an ecto-gun, shooting Dani in the back.

Dani's scream of pain filled me with rage. I leapt up and punched her hard enough to send her flying backwards into the wall.

"Danny!" Sam yelled.

I turned around in time to see my dad aiming the Fenton-bazooka and firing a shot that connected with the side of my head. The blast was enough to send me stumbling over a few paces. Dani leapt at my dad, but mom had gotten back up and shot her with another ecto gun she pulled out of no where. I tried to get up and help, but another shot to the head from my dad kept me down. I couldn't beat them in human form, I had to change forms, but before I could. Dad was standing over me and smashed the butt of the gun against my head.

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I opened my eyes slowly, then shut them fast as bright light assaulted my eyes. I opened them again and looked around. My arms were held in chains above my head as well as my legs. I was in the lab and mo... No, Maddie and Jack were in the corner looking over a computer. I looked across from me and saw Sam, Tucker and Jazz all tied to chairs and giving me relieved smiles. Danielle was in a cage next to them and looked a lot worse for wear.

"Jack it's awake." Maddie said. I growled as the two walked in front of me. "Let's begin,"

"Begin wha-?" I didn't have time to get the full question out before an electric current surged through me, making me scream in pain. I could faintly hear my friends and family scream for them to stop, but they didn't at least not for a full two minutes.

"Subject seems very resistant. Let's take it up to a hundred and twenty volts and see if that'll force transformation." Jack said.

My eyes widened, before another more powerful surge ripped through me. This time the rings formed around my waist and separated a bit before I pushed them back.

"The ecto-signature's beginning to fluctuate, up the voltage another thirty volts. See what happens." They once again turned machine on, making the rings form and this time I couldn't resist. I helplessly change me into ghost form.

They seemed to be happy with that result and turned the machine off. I dropped till the chains caught me.

"Stop, please stop." Sam cried.

"How could you do this to him? You evil heartless monsters." Jazz bent her head down and sobbed.

"Jazz, that thing isn't your brother anymore, it's a ghost who's twisted your mind around to male you believe it's still good, it's what ghosts do." Jack said bending down in front of Jazz and patting her shoulder. She jerked away like his hand was acid.

"Is that what you honestly believe? You ignorant fucking asshole, you couldn't be a bigger idiot if you tried." Dani shouted as tears slid over a nasty bruise on her cheek.

Jack's eyes swirled with anger as he stepped towards the cage. "Don't you dare touch her." I growled. He looked back at me and sneered.

"Try and stop me spook."

I thrashed against the chains. They seemed to be able to stop my ecto and ice energy, but no technology could stop my super strength. The metal crunched and groaned as I slowly managed to bend it. Energy began bubbling beneath my skin in an attempt to over load the chains.

"Containment's failing, hit it with maximum voltage."

My cuffs cracked, just as the electric surge passed through my body. I'm not sure what happened next. All I remember was an unbearable amount of pain as the electricity clashed with the ecto-energy, causing it to backlash and return to my core. Then the changes happened. I screamed at the top of my lungs. My whole body burned as I felt it shifting. Energy I didn't know I had exploded from my core, causing the machine to explode.

I collapsed onto the cold ground. Pain coursed through me with every breath I took. Suddenly, a bright green beam hit me in the side and shoved me into the wall.

"That... That should have blown a hole right through you." I heard Maddie say.

I struggled to my feet and glared. They flinched and backed away, terror clearly written on their faces. "Well it didn't, so I'm going to give you one chance to let them go." I growled.

"Y-you don't scare us phantom, even with that new face." she obviously lied.

New face? What was she talking about? I spotted a peace of glass on the ground and slowly picked it up, fearing what it might show. What I saw in my reflection shook me to my very soul. My pale skin had turned a sickening bluish green color, my normally messy white hair had become a twisting inferno of white flames, I opened my mouth and saw elongated and sharpened canines as well as a long forked tong, and worst of all, my ecto-green eyes now burned a dark crimson. I looked exactly like a young version of Dan.

My whole body went into shock. I was Dan. The monster that would extinguish billions of lives, destroy countless ghosts, and now I looked exactly like him. I did the only thing that I felt I could do at the time.

I screamed.

"Danny," Sam yelled. I looked up and saw Maddie fumbling with the cage lock, trying to get it open so they could use Dani as a hostage.

I snapped out of my shock and lunged forward, grabbing Maddie and throwing her hard into Jack. I didn't have time think about my appearance right now. I had to get Sam, Tucker, Jazz and Dani out of here. With a few shots from my fingers and the bindings were cut as well as the lock to the cage. Dani immediately rushed out and jumped into my arms.

"Outside, now" I said.

We ran fast, up the stairs and busted out the front door. Before I could get half way across the street, a pink energy beam hurdled towards us. I turned to protect Dani and felt in hit my back. Surprisingly, it didn't hurt that much.

"Get away from them Phantom." Valerie, decked out in her red huntress gear, flew above us on her hover board.

"Piss off Valerie; I don't have time for you." I yelled, but she didn't listen and fired another shot at me which I dodged.

"So it is you, I almost took you for a common ghost what with your new look and all." I winced, but suddenly felt another beam hit my back and push me forward.

"Freeze Phantom." my parents said from the doorway.

By now a crowd of people had begun to gather in the streets. Most of the a-listers and a ton of other people I didn't know, plus their parents. They all murmured as they watched.

"Everyone, you have to get away from him. That ghost took our son." Maddie yelled. Gasps and murmurs went through the crowd.

"For the last time I am your son." I said and summoned the now black rings around my body to change me back to human. Everyone except Maddie and Jack gasped when they saw the fierce looking ghost transform into the wimpy Danny Fenton. "Nothing's changed about me I'm still the same person I was before."

It was completely silent. Maddie and Jack just stood on the front steps, weapons trained on me, Valerie just hovered in the air with her blaster, and the crowed just gapped at me.

"What are we going to do Danny?" Danielle whimpered in my arms.

"Anyone got any suggestions?" I asked hopefully, but the look on their faces made it clear that they didn't know what to do either.

Suddenly the crowed exploded into a frenzy. They threw whatever they could get their hands on at me; rocks, sticks, shoes, everything that wasn't nailed down and even a few things that were. Maddie and Jack fired their weapons at me as well as Valerie. I threw a shield up and blocked all of the attacks.

"Danny, run" Sam shouted.

"But-"

"Go, take Danielle and get her somewhere safe." I gave them one last torn look before changing into my ghost form and taking off into the air, leaving Amity Park behind me.

End flashback

I've been flying for hours now. The lack of sleep is taking its toll on me. I can barely keep me and Dani in the air and if I don't stop soon I'll drop dead from exhaustion.

Suddenly a sign caught my eye.

'Welcome to jump city'

I push myself forward. It looks like this is where we'll be hiding for now.