"No…" I said.

Suddenly, I felt a wave of anger. Immediately, I realized that it was towards Dani.

"You lied!" I yelled at her. "You told me that –"

"I told you that I wasn't working with Vlad, and I'm not! I'm really not."

"Then how did he know that you had those tapes?"

"My… my… my step-mom went to collage with him, and, three years ago, he stopped by for a visit. I didn't recognize him until I got here. I gave the tapes to you thinking that you'd try to keep them away from everyone."

"Do you know what he's going to do with those?!?" I shouted.

She looked like she was about to cry, but she didn't.

I transformed and flew out of her house.

I had been flying around for a few hours. It was already eight o' clock at night. I had started to feel bad for yelling at Dani, but I was still angry. When I thought of her, I remembered that I had left my backpack at her house.

I changed my course.

When I got to her house, I found my pack on the couch.

I grabbed it and slipped my arm through one of the straps.

I noticed that her parents were in the kitchen, quietly talking.

Her mother noticed me and pointed me out to her husband.

"Hey, Danny! Have a minute?" he asked.

"Uhm, sure…" I said, walking into their kitchen.

"Danielle said that she's really sorry about what happened before. And when she saw that you left your book bag here, she told us to let you know that."

I looked around for any sign of her.

"Uh… where is she?" I asked.

Her parents looked worriedly at each other.

"Danny, she went to Wisconsin." her mother said. "She said that she wasn't going to let him show the tapes."

"She went after Vlad?" At that time, I couldn't believe that she would do something like that. But then again, I didn't really know her back then.

I pulled the Fenton Thermos out and dropped my pack without thinking. Strapping the Thermos around myself, I said, "Mr. and Mrs. Platto, please, if Sam, Tucker or Jazz stop by and ask you where I am… lie. Please!" I begged.

Abigail smiled

"Danny, I know that you're going to try to find her. She told us a million times about Vlad. She knows all of his powers, about the second mansion in the Rockies, all of his ecto-gear, she's fine." Jake said.

"Not my point, but thanks for the pep talk." I turned around and started to fly away.

"Danny, you're not going to fly all the way to Wisconsin, are you?" she asked.

"No, I can go through my parents' ghost portal. It'll be quicker that way." I said.

"Oh, then, in that case, why don't you use ours?" Abigail said.

"What?" I heard myself ask.

"Yeah, Abigail is an ectologist." Jake said proudly.

I stared at them for a minute.

And I thought my family was full of surprises, I started thinking to myself.

So, I headed down to their ghost lab.

It took me a few minutes to figure out how to open it. Eventually, I was able to open it and fly right through the portal.

I partly expected to see the Fenton Portal a couple of yards away, but it was no where in sight. Instead, her Portal let out by Walker's Jail. The Plasmius Portal was in sight, about two city blocks away.

Steering clear of the jail, I headed to Vlad's ghost lab. When I entered it, I gratefully found that it was empty. I was about to call out for Dani, but decided against it. Because if he wasn't in his lab, he was obviously somewhere in his mansion… within earshot. I mean, he couldn't possibly be out with his wife.

Just then, a bright flash of pink light streaked through the room. As it flew past me, I felt something grab my wrist. It jerked me backwards.

"Hey!" I shouted as it dragged me back into the ghost zone.

When I struggled, trying to break out of its grip, it got tighter.

"Sorry." a female voice echoed from the light.

I saw the Plasmius Portal close as I was pulled away from it.

I looked behind me and saw that we were headed towards the Fenton Portal.

"Hey! Let go!" I screamed. She zipped right through our Portal.

When we stopped, the light started to fade.

"Who the heck do you think you are?" I asked angrily, my hands and eyes glowing vibrant neon green.

"Calm down, Danny. It's me…"

As the light faded completely, I realized who it was who dragged me out of Vlad's lab, through the ghost zone, and into our lab. It was Dani.

"Are you nuts?!? I talked to your parents. They told me that you knew about Vlad and all of his powers. He could have hurt you! You shouldn't have taken the chance." I said.

Dani smiled one of her soon to be famous please-don't-start-this-junk-with-me smiles.

"I didn't take the chance. I took the opportunity." she said, pulling the four tapes out of her backpack. She handed them to me.

"You got them?!?" I asked surprised.

"Danny," she said as her confident smile faded, "I'm so sorry. I know I should have gotten rid of the tapes before we came here. But when my parents told me that we were moving to Amity Park, I didn't think that they were serious. And I didn't want to get rid of my only Danny Phantom tapes. Plus, I thought it would be the best way to tell you that I know you, and that I'm not here to cause any trouble."

I looked at her and saw that there was more to her story than she said there was. Then I remembered that I had left before she answered any of my questions.

"Dani, I need to know how you know all of this. And how you have these tapes." I said.

"Ok. So, when my dad got transferred to Amity Park, we had to pass through a portal that let out here, which is the first part on how I got my powers. Then, the second portal that I went through- there and back – was the second part on how I got my powers, that night I realized that I actually had the ghost powers at that time." she said.

That's when I realized what she said.

"So, you went through a portal to here. Where did the first one start?"

"New York. Except, kinda' in a different dimension. The way I see it, our world is a spec in the universe. Our universe is nothing compared to the multi-verse."

"Multi-verse?" I asked.

"Everything you think is emit into the universe. So, there is an alternate world for every book, every TV show, etcetera."

"Ok."

"And – again – I'm really sorry about my not getting rid of the tapes."

"Yeah, well, let's not think about that right now. You got the tapes back, and there's nothing to worry about." But even as I said it, I wasn't so sure about it.

"I find it odd that Vlad would be so careless with something that he was so sure would get him what he wants" she said.

I stared down at the tapes. Was it possible?

I put one of the tapes in and hit 'play'.

The video screen showed Danny Phantom fighting Skulker. Almost immediately, I recognized it as my first encounter with the Ghost king.

Dani studied the footage.

"It doesn't seem like anything was altered, cut, or copied…"

But something that Dani had told me raised a red flag.

"Which tape has my profile on it?" I asked.

"The first one." she answered.

I took out the tape that was currently in the VCR and inserted the tape marked 'season one'.

It was already rewound all the way, so it automatically showed me the profiles.

As it started, Jazz walked into the living room.

"Danny? Where have you –" she began to ask, eventually reverting her attention to the TV screen, "What is this?"

As my information appeared, the tape started to violently flicker.

I remembered that Tucker had told me that when a tape is copied, there is usually some side effect to the original tape.

"It's what's going to ruin everything!"

"And… who's this?" Jazz asked picking up the remaining tapes.

"This is Dani Platto. She moved in next to us a couple of days ago." I said.

"So… these tapes are yours?" Jazz asked, reading the labels.

"Yes. They are." she answered miserably as she sat down and buried her face in her hands.

As she looked up, she sighed.

"Vlad has footage of Danny going ghost, and we're sure that he's going to use it to tell his secret.

"Well, really, Danny, what's the worst that could happen?" she asked, trying not to upset me.

Inevitably, I had started thinking of all the thing that could happen. For some reason, whenever situations like these come up, I somehow start thinking about things like that.

If Vlad was to turn Amity Park against Danny Phantom, say that he knows who the ghost boy is, and then uses that footage to prove that it's me, who knows what would happen.

Maybe Vlad wouldn't tell Amity Park my secret…