This chapter is for those who are wondering what's going on with Danny now.

I don't own Danny Phantom.

Vlad Masters grinned as he watched Dani and Maddie fly out of Clockwork's tower, the younger girl holding a Fenton Thermos. His plan was going perfectly.

He felt another presence behind him.

"Amorpho, dear boy, your shapeshifting skills have come in handy," Vlad chuckled, petting his cat Maddie.

Amorpho nodded. "I certainly got attention from Phantom's daughter."

Vlad chuckled again. "And to believe she thought that you were her father. Ha! I would never hurt Daniel that badly." He waved his hand in the direction of his ghost portal. "You may go."

"Goodbye, Plasmius," Amorpho said, flying through the portal.

Vlad set Maddie down and stood up. You see, it wasn't Danny who he'd shown to Danielle on the tablet. It was Amorpho shapeshifted into a bruised up Danny Phantom. But now it was time to visit the real Daniel Fenton.

Danny weakly looked up as Vlad entered the room. He wasn't necessarily beat up but he was sitting limply on the floor with the Specter Deflector around his waist. His wrists and ankles were chained to the wall with glowing green chains. A wall of blood blossoms separated him from Vlad. The walls and ceilings were made of ectoranium and the floor was ghost proof. He hadn't touched the blood blossoms or the ectoranium but he could feel them weakening him from a distance. He didn't have the strength to change into his ghostly alter ego.

"Vlad," the boy weakly acknowledged.

"Daniel," Vlad said with a smile. "How are you enjoying your stay?"

Danny winced as he felt another spike in the blood blossom-ectoranium combination. "It isn't exactly a five star resort."

The elder hybrid chuckled. "Always with the banter, little badger. Even when you're in pain."

Danny didn't respond to that.

"Seems like Danielle inherited that from you," Vlad said, facing away from his enemy and smirking.

The younger halfa's head shot up at the mention of his daughter. "Danielle? What did you do with her?"

"Oh don't worry," Vlad said. "She's in good company with her grandmother."

Danny relaxed slightly.

"…Who believes that she's the daughter of Danny Phantom," Vlad finished.

Danny immediately launched himself angrily at Vlad, eyes glowing green, teeth sharpened into fangs. He was of course stopped by the barrier of blood blossoms. With a scream, he collapsed to the floor in a heap.

"Sorry, Daniel," Vlad whispered, not being sympathetic at all. "But there will be no escape this time."

Daniel said something.

"What was that?" Vlad asked.

"…Don't…lay….a-a-a…single…finger… on… h-h-her," Danny managed to whisper.

Vlad chuckled and knelt down on the other side of the barrier. "I won't for now. But once she gets here, I'll get revenge on her, get you as a son, and get your mother as my queen. There is no way this can fail."

"…They… a-a-always… f-f-fail…" Danny said. "…P-P-Pari-i-iah… D-D-Dark…"

Vlad smirked. "I ended up with the Crown of Fire, son."

Danny didn't respond.

"F-F-Fruitl-l-loop…" Danny murmured as he drifted into unconsciousness.

Vlad got up. "Halfas like ourselves aren't meant to be heroes. That's not the reason we were given these abilities."

For sleep that night, Danielle found an abandoned lair that she and her grandmother could sleep in. Maddie thought it was wonderful, trying to be as polite as she could to the hybrid.

Dani gave Maddie the bedroom and took the couch for herself, claiming that years living on the streets would let you be happy for anywhere to sleep.

Long after Dani had gone to sleep, Maddie thought over what she had learned that day.

Fact #1: Phantom had a daughter. That one fact changed everything Maddie had originally thought about the ghost. She had thought Phantom was a cruel heartless ghost, but judging from what Dani had said about her father (the girl talked an awful lot when given the chance), he actually cared for her and protected her even when his afterlife was in danger.

Fact #2: The Ghost Zone had an atmosphere and no sense of gravity. That was an interesting scientific fact. She had always assumed that the ghostly dimension lacked oxygen and things would plummet when put in there. But she could breathe here and everything seemed to float. Dani had told her there were some exceptions though.

Fact #3: Danielle Phantom is a half-human half-ghost hybrid. The existence of hybrids such as this girl shocked Maddie and could shake the entire structure of ghostly sciences if leaked. Maddie supposed that since the girl's father was a ghost and her mother was human that it was possible. Besides Danielle, there probably weren't a lot of hybrids out there.

Fact #4: Phantom has a girlfriend or wife. How else could Danielle have been born? And the hybrid had said that she had a human mother. Judging by Dani's human appearance, the mother wasn't Paulina Sanchez, who always claimed to be the ghost boy's girlfriend. Dani didn't look anything like her.

Fact #5: Phantom and Dani know the Master of Time. That worried her. If Phantom really was playing an act (which she was beginning to doubt), it was going to end badly if Clockwork became involved. If that was the case, they would know every move humans would make and be able to freeze time to destroy people. The thought sent shivers up her spine.

Fact #6: Her son was going to get involved in this adventure somehow. In Clockwork's hints of the future, Danny had appeared in two out of the three scenes. In one of those scenes he had been chained up. In another, he had been protecting Maddie and someone else. Was the last scene her crying over Danny because something had happened to him? Only time would tell.

Fact #7: Phantom has a future self. Dani and Clockwork had both referred to that future self as Dan. And Dani had tortured him in a way, meaning she didn't see him as her father anymore. Something had happened that made Phantom leave Dan in a thermos and Dani to torture him. What exactly was it?

As Maddie drifted to sleep, Vlad Masters's voice drifted through her head.

"Some things, my boy, are better left unsaid."

OMG! Plot twist! It wasn't Danny shown on the tablet! It was Amorpho disguised as Danny. But Danny's still being tortured! Hopefully, Dani and Maddie get to him in time!