Danny and Danielle suddenly found themselves paralyzed by a green mist that surrounded them, only able to move their eyes, talk and make facial expressions. They couldn't even move their little fingers. They struggled to free themselves, but they were stuck.
"Now do you believe me that a ghost that looked like us and had flaming hair was on the loose?" Danielle growled at Danny.
"Later," he told her. "So, how did you get out of your thermos?" Danny asked his evil older self. "I would've thought Clockwork would have kept a close eye on you after I caught you the first time."
"Ahh, yes, the story of my amazing escape from that wretched containment device," Dark Phantom growled. "A long story filled with violence, death, and betrayal," he stated with a wicked grin before another flashback ensued.
Deep within the ghost zone, Clockwork was suddenly thrown to the ground. He growled as his staff was thrown to the ground next to him. "The two of you are so very bothersome," he said as he glared up at his attackers.
The view panned up to show the two ecto-pusses laughing hysterically. They both had their tentacles wrapped around several of his time medallions so his staff would have no affect on them.
"Old fashion fighting it is then," Clockwork figured as he floated off the floor and changed into his elderly form. The ecto-pusses screeched before they attacked the master of time. He reacted by whacking them with his staff, which still had an effect on them despite the time medallions.
He changed into his infant form and smirked as the two ecto-pusses collided with a wall. They fell to the floor in a heap, dropping many of their time medallions in the process. One even rolled across the floor and bumped into the leg of a stone stand that wobbled from the impact. Sitting on the stand was an old, dusty and dented Fenton Thermos.
It wobbled before it fell over and rolled off the edge of the stand, landing on the stone floor with a metallic clank! The two ecto-pusses eye balled the thermos and grinned with wicked smiles. Clockwork saw their grins and a look of shock spread across his face.
The ecto-pusses snickered as one of them held up the thermos and threw it in Clockwork's direction. Clockwork ducked as the thermos flew over his head and collided with the wall behind him. The impact with the wall crumpled the side of the containment device, forming a crack in the side.
The entire room went suddenly silent as the thermos began to rumble. The two ecto-pusses looked at each other nervously before they fled, phasing through the wall, leaving Clockwork alone. He changed into his adult form as he floated away from the thermos as the crack in the side began to grow, producing more cracks that branched off from it.
The cracks wrapped themselves around the thermos as it began to shake. The cracks began glowing bright green as gas began to escape through the cracks. A light laughter came from the thermos as it began to vibrate. The green glow coming from the cracks brightened until the thermos eventually exploded, sending massive amount of gas and energy out in all directions.
The explosion sent Clockwork crashing into a wall before he fell to the floor. He looked up as a sinister laughter echoed throughout the entire room. Smoke and gas filled half of the room and very few shadows showed through. One in particular sparked a look of fear into Clockwork's eyes.
From within the smoke, the laughter continued, a shadowy figure stood up and stretched out its arms. It was a tall and muscular figure. It had a flowing cape and appeared to have flames for hair. Its shadow extended out of the smoke and covered Clockwork as he sneered at the figure with his staff in hand.
Before the figure emerged from the smoke, it opened its eyes and they glowed with a dark crimson red light. It grinned, revealing two sharp snake-like fangs. The figure stepped out of the smoke and cracked its neck. "Finally free," he snickered. Dark Phantom had been released from his thermos.
"You can't harm me," Clockwork growled angrily. "I am immune to your attacks."
"Just as I am now immune to yours," Dark Phantom added smugly as he turned and held up his hand, opening a portal to the outside world. "And this time around, you can't help young Danny stop me," he snickered. "Tell the Observants of my new found freedom," he added. "You and I both know they won't permit you to interfere." He laughed evilly before he jumped through the portal, leaving a disgruntled Clockwork behind.
The flashback ended and came back to Dark Phantom with Danny and Danielle now tied up with ecto-binding energy; they were still in their human forms. "That story wasn't filled with violence, death, and betrayal?" Danny asked a bit angrily.
"Alright..." Dark Phantom said as a smirk spread across his face, "That will come after I destroy both of you!" He smiled and looked at the two halfas, "Just because there are two of you, don't assume that you have the advantage! I will not fall at the hands of my younger teenage self and his imperfect clone sister," he sneered.
"How do you know she's an imperfect clone from a failed experiment!?" Danny demanded to know.
"Think Daniel, think!" Dark Phantom said as he knocked Danny in the head. "Not only are you my past, but so is Vlad," he reminded his younger self. "Vlad started his cloning experiments before he fused with you to become me. Apparently after you trapped me the first time he continued with his experiments only to end up failing miserably." He glanced at Danielle and glared at her. "A female clone of my younger self; what was that cheese head thinking?" he chuckled to himself.
"Vlad found that by switching my sex chromosomes he could make my physical form much more stable than all of the other clones," Danielle answered.
"Sounds like the thinking of a crazed up Froot Loop to me," Dark Phantom snickered. He began walking around the two Phantom Cousins as Danielle continued to try to break free while Danny just sat there. "The little one has yet to realize she can't break free from those bonds," he chuckled to himself, although Danny heard him.
"These binds have weaknesses dude," Danny said as a grin spread across his own face. Danielle stopped struggling; she and Dark Phantom both looked at him with confused looks on their faces. "How do you think I broke free of these things in the first place?" he asked his older self.
"You know, that has been bothering me for quite some time now," Dark Phantom wondered as he held his chin in his fingers.
"This whole time that you've been imprisoned I've been learning some new tricks," Danny said as his grin grew, his eyes started glowing green. "I've been growing stronger and my powers have become more advanced."
"Are you saying you possess powers that I don't?" Dark Phantom growled.
"Believe it pal," Danny sneered. He went ghost; his eyes changed from green to blue before the bindings froze over. He extended out his arms and the bindings shattered, shocking Danielle and knocking her over backwards.
"Huh!?" Dark Phantom gasped in shock before Danny fired an energy blast at him. "ARGH!" he yelled as he was blasted away and out of view.
Danielle looked down at herself as her bindings suddenly faded away. She raised her arms and flexed her fingers before she too grinned. She jumped to her feet and transformed into her ghost form. "So, this guy is you?" she asked, cocking an eyebrow at the boy she was cloned from.
"Was me," Danny said, emphasizing on the 'was' part of his claim. "I've diverted myself away from the path in life that leads to him; if I was still gunna turn into him then you wouldn't exist," he informed her.
Both Phantom cousins looked up when a crash was heard. Dark Phantom had crashed into a tree and knocked it over after coming to. "There are ways of changing that," he growled before he lunged at the two of them.
Dani brought up her legs and kicked Danny in the chest with both of her feet, pushing herself away from him and sliding him away across the grass. She back flipped in the air and landed on her feet some distance away.
Dark Phantom punched the ground where they once stood and stared daggers at the younger Phantom. Dani growled back as he prepared an energy attack. He prepared to fire and even managed to take aim before everything suddenly went dark. Danny had grabbed his cape and had pulled it up and over his head. Blinded, he released his attack, sending a ball of energy some distance away.
"Didn't my mom ever teach you to not attack little girls?" Danny mocked him before he punched Dark Phantom in the gut, sending him stumbling backwards.
Dark Phantom grabbed his cape and tossed it back over his back as his eyes glowed with fury. "What makes you think I care?" he growled. "My future exists without her so you might want to teach her to watch her own back," he said with a grin as he looked at the girl.
Danny glanced at her before he gasped, but before he could warn her Dark Phantom had created a duplicate that was already behind her. She realized what was happening just before she was kicked into the air. She crashed into a tree before falling back to the ground at the duplicates feet.
"Because if you intend to prevent yourself from turning into me then you won't have any time to watch over her as well," Dark Phantom snickered. Danny looked from his cloned cousin and back at his alternative self as he growled angrily. "The girl is expendable as well as anyone else to preserve my future."
Danny had heard enough out of him; he lunged for his older self only to be grabbed by his neck and choked. Dark Phantom laughed evilly as Danny struggled to free himself. Dark Phantom's duplicate stood by and watched with his back towards Dani. She struggled to her feet quietly and shot daggers at him.
Dark Phantom was too preoccupied to realize Dani was back on her feet behind him. She hovered into the air and landed an energized punch into his back, sending him stumbling forwards. He turned and growled at her only to receive a fist to the face. He fell to the ground; the original Dark Phantom looked up as Dani stood over her fallen foe.
"Impressive," he said in surprise. Dani began hovering in the air as her feet started glowing with energy. She twisted her body and shot twin energy blasts shaped like sharp disks at him with her feet. He managed to dodge one but the other impacted his chest, sending him backwards across the ground. He let go of Danny who dropped to the ground and grabbed his neck. Dark Phantom had grabbed the energy attack and was holding it at bay in front of his body. "Most impressive," he added with a grin.
"Nice shot!" Danny wheezed to catch his breath as Dani walked up next to him as he rubbed his neck where it had been grabbed. "I see you've been working on your aim," he commented with a grin.
"It wasn't perfect," she said. "If I could aim better I could've split him in half with that attack."
"Split in half?" Dark Phantom responded after overhearing them. "I think I'll do just that," he said with a grin. His grip on the energy in his hands tightened before he pulled his hands apart, splitting the energy in two. He then sent the energy blasts directly back at the Phantom Cousins.
They were unprepared for the attack. The twin energy blasts struck them and exploded, sending them both flying backwards and crashing back into the ground next to each other. "Why does it feel like you gave him the idea to do that?" Danny growled at the younger girl next to him.
"How was I supposed to know he was gunna take what I said and apply it to a retaliation attack?" Dani growled as she sat up. They jumped to their feet as Dark Phantom flew towards them with his arms extended and tongue hanging out of his mouth. "Let's be careful with what we say around this guy," she suggested.
"Dually noted," Danny responded. They bother squatted and sprung into the air to dodge Dark Phantom as he once again punched the ground where they once stood. The Phantom Cousins spun around in the air and fired ecto-rays at him. He turned on the ground and went wide eyed before the two blasts hit him.
The resulting explosion lifted dirt from the ground and surrounded him. Danny and Dani hovered in the air and waited for the dirt to settle; revealing a dome of ecto-energy that completely surrounded him. The energy dome faded to reveal Dark Phantom with his arms crossed in defense.
He unfolded his arms to reveal his face which had been hidden behind them. He barred his teeth in anger and glared at the two cousins. He extended his arms to his sides and jumped into the air, charging the other two. Danny and Dani didn't have time to react.
Dark Phantom flew between them; clothes lining them in their stomachs. He dragged them with him as he flew out over town; he then gripped his fingers onto their suits and stopped to hover. He lifted them over his head before throwing them towards the ground at great speed.
"YAAAAH!" the two Danny's screamed as they plummeted from the sky and crashed through the roof of an old and abandoned building in the middle of town. They crashed through the top floor and even the floor below that before crashing into the ground level floor.
Wood splinters, glass and dust littered the entire room. Rats scurried out of their hiding places as the dust settled; crows that had made their homes in the old wooden structure flew in random directions as they fled. The can of yams they had bought earlier rolled across the floor before falling down a series of steps that led into the building's basement.
Danny lay on the floor with his arms and legs sprawled out. It took him a moment to come to. His eyes opened and he looked around before a crow flew over to him and began pecking him in the head rapidly. "HEY! Get out of here!" Danny yelled as he batted the bothersome bird away. "Dani?" he asked as he looked around for his cloned cousin. "Are you in here?" he asked.
Suddenly he felt something move underneath him, shortly followed by a low muffle. "You're on top of me," Dani said in a very low muffled voice. Danny gasped and jumped to his feet before looking down to see Dani sprawled out on the floor where he had been lying. "Thank you," she groaned before Danny extended out a hand and helped her to her feet.
They jumped in surprise and backed away from where they stood as the ceiling exploded downwards; more wood and dust plumed down like a waterfall before settling to reveal nothing before Dark Phantom descended through the resulting hole in the ceiling at great speed before landing on the floor in a crouched position.
He stood up to his full height and smirked at the Phantom Cousins before he stepped forward and approached them. "This won't take long," he said to himself as he cracked his knuckles.
"I don't think so pal," Danny growled angrily as he stepped back, putting a hand on Dani to push her back with him. "You're going right back to where you came from," he informed his older self as he reached around his back and pulled out a Fenton Thermos that had been attached to his belt.
Dark Phantom's attention went straight to the thermos as Danny brought it up and prepared to pull off the cap to fire. He smirked before he went intangible and phased through the floor.
"Nice," Dani mocked. "You couldn't have reacted faster?" she growled as they both exchanged angry scowls.
Danny was about to respond before Dark Phantom phased back up through the floor and nailed an uppercut punch directly to Danny's chin, sending him crashing into the ceiling. He dropped the Fenton Thermos and it went flying as well. It bounced off the ceiling, deflected off the wall bounced across the floor before losing enough momentum so it could roll across the floor directly towards the stairs that went into the basement. It tumbled down the steps and out of sight.
After punching Danny, Dark Phantom spun around and landed a kick to Dani, sending her crashing into a wall before she fell back to the floor. "Where is our backup when we need it?" she groaned as she pushed herself onto her hands and knees.
"At home, preparing to stuff themselves," Dark Phantom answered as he hovered over her. His feet clicked as he landed on the floor. "They will soon meet their ends, just as they were supposed to nearly a year ago," he added with a sneer.
He looked up as one of Danny's arms drooped down and hung from the hole in the ceiling. He snickered as he reached up and grabbed onto Danny's wrist before pulling him down. What he wasn't expecting was for Danny to retaliate. As he was pulled through the ceiling, he managed to land a kick to the back of Dark Phantom's head before he was thrown to the floor.
"Danny!" Dani called out to him. She immediately got to her feet and jumped into the air. She flew towards Danny but suddenly stopped short; almost as if something were holding her back. She looked down from her horizontal position in the air and gasped when she saw Dark Phantom's hand clenched around her ankle.
"Ahh, Ahh, Ahh," he teased her mockingly as he shook the index finger of his free hand from side to side. His grip tightened around her ankle and his muscles tightened as he swung the young girl over his head and smashed her into the floor, face first. "There won't be any heroism from you," he mocked her.
Dani groaned in pain before she opened her eyes and they were glowing with a bright green light. A look of confusion spread across Dark Phantom's face when he realized her feet began letting off a green mist. Before he knew what had hit him, she had unleashed a powerful energy blast from the soles of her feet.
He had been holding onto one of her feet when he smashed her into the floor so her feet were aimed directly at him. He was quickly engulfed with energy, being forced to let her go. The energy dissipated and he flew over Danny before crashing into the floor.
While he recovered from the surprise attack, Dani helped Danny to his feet. By now both of their phantom suits were torn in random places. "You alright cuz?" she asked him as he wobbled to his feet and regained his balance.
"Better now that I'm standing," he replied. "You really nailed him," he chuckled.
They looked up at where Dark Phantom had landed on the floor. "Hey, where'd he go?" Dani asked when they realized he had disappeared.
Dark Phantom suddenly reappeared behind them and did not look pleased. Fury burned in his eyes. He growled loud enough for them to hear him. Looks of fear spread across their faces. "Survey says…behind us," Danny said nervously as they turned their heads around slowly.
Dark Phantom said nothing; he just raised a fist and punched the Phantom Cousins in a series of still frames. First punching Danny, and then backhanding Dani before kicking her in the back. He then blasted Danny while Dani tried to attack him from behind but as Danny recovered from his last attack, Dark Phantom had grabbed hold of the girl and swung her into the wall. He then turned and grabbed Danny by his neck before throwing him across the room where he collided with Dani and they collapsed to the floor.
"He's just as tough as the last time I fought him," Danny groaned.
"I'm just glad I'm still able to stand," Dani groaned as they got to their feet. "I didn't last half as long when I ran into this guy the other day."
"Well we need to keep our eyes on this guy," Danny advised her as Dark Phantom slowly floated towards them from a vertical standing position. "We need to find that Fenton Thermos I dropped before we run out of energy."
"I'm actually pretty depleted as it is," Dani huffed. "But I think I can keep an eye on this guy long enough for you to find the thermos," she confided to him.
"You'll keep an eye on me?" Dark Phantom asked mockingly. He raised his hand and fired an energy blast at the cousins that formed into ecto-plasmic goo and stuck to their heads, covering their eyes so they couldn't see. "You won't be doing that either," he sneered with delight.
"YAAAAH!" Dani screamed as she grabbed the green goo and tugged on it. "I can't see!"
"This should be good for a laugh," Dark Phantom chuckled in a whisper as Dani tugged on the goo and as Danny stumbled around with his arms out in front of him so he could feel his way around. "What's the matter?" he asked as he flew around them. "Can't find me?" he mocked them.
"I don't need to see to fight you!" Danny yelled, unfortunately he wasn't facing his future self. He had yelled at the wall before he fired an ecto-blast, crumbling the wall into dust.
"Not even close," Dark Phantom sighed in disappointment. He fired a single energy ray from his index finger and nailed Danny square in the chest, sending him falling down the stairway into the basement.
"DANNY!" Dani screamed when she realized what had just happened. "Where are you!?" she called out.
"Oh don't worry about him," Dark Phantom taunted her as he flew around the blinded the girl. "What are you doing hanging around with the likes of him anyway?"
"What do you mean?" Dani asked in a much calmer tone. She wasn't as tense and even looked in his general direction as he spoke.
"The reason I even exist is because he cheated on a test and is responsible for the deaths of all of his friends and family," Dark Phantom taunted her.
"That's not possible," Dani growled. "I've been living with his family for over a month, and they are alive and well, not to mention they've accepted me into their family."
"I'm from an alternate time-line where they are all dead," Dark Phantom informed her as he circled around her. "And that is also something that puzzles me," he admitted as Dani turned her head, as if following him. "You once worked for Vlad; Daniel's most powerful rival besides myself. If he knows about your past, then how do you know he trusts you?" he sneered with an evil grin.
Dani gasped silently before the scene temporarily went down into the dark basement where Danny was just starting to get to his feet. The ecto-plasmic goo was still covering his eyes. He grunted as he stumbled and felt around the new environment. "I've got to get this stuff off!" he yelled to himself as he grabbed the goo and tugged.
"What are you trying to get at?" Dani asked curiously after the scene switched back to her as Dark Phantom circled around her.
"Daniel is simply earning your trust my dear," Dark Phantom whispered in her ear. "He doesn't trust Vlad, let alone anyone that would possibly have worked for him. You still do don't you?" he asked her with a curious grin.
"NO! Never!" Dani snapped at him. "That monster tried to kill me after I turned on him," she informed Danny's older self. "I thought he loved me but he was only using me; he manipulated me into doing his biding just so he could throw me away like trash; and then he melted me down into nothing to study my remains. He would have succeeded had Danny not saved me. Do you honestly believe that I'd still work for a man like that!?"
"Do you honestly believe that Daniel would let you into his home unless he knew you were plotting with Vlad?" Dark Phantom mocked her.
"Danny wouldn't do that," Dani exclaimed. "He cares about me; and if you really are him then you know that he would never suspect me of plotting with Vlad!" Her anger was growing. She clenched her fists and they began letting off a green mist.
"ARGH!" Danny yelled as he slowly pried the green goo away from his face. It finally came off with a loud 'Snap'. "Ouch!" he yelped as he slapped his hand over his eyes. "Grrr!" he growled as he barred his teeth and starred upstairs before an idea popped into his head. He turned and went out of sight before the scene went back upstairs.
"Vlad wanted to make a perfect clone of Danny and you were his greatest creation," Dark Phantom mocked Dani as he continued to circle around her. "But he wasn't satisfied with that, was he?"
Dani fell silent as Dark Phantom snickered to himself. He put his fists together and formed a sword made out of green ecto-energy. He held it up as if he were preparing to swing.
"As far as Vlad was concerned; a failed experiment like you was expendable. He wanted a son, not a daughter; and he was willing to sacrifice you to get what he wanted," Dark Phantom taunted her.
He was trying to get her spirits down and he appeared to be succeeding. She was lowering her defenses making it easier for him to attack.
"What you fail to realize though, is that you are needed neither dead or alive for my future to exist, therefore making you expendable," he sneered with an evil grin.
Dani tensed back up and got into a defensive fighting position.
"I'd let you live, but you're a threat to my existence," Dark Phantom added as his grip on the energy sword tightened. "So suffice to say…Good Bye, Dani Phantom,' he sneered.
He held the energy sword up high and swung as hard and as fast as he could, slicing through the air. Dani dodged the attack by suddenly ducking; squatting to the floor before standing back up. A confused Dark Phantom growled before he took another swing. Once again Dani dodged the attack by stepping to the side as the energy sword impacted the ground.
Dani jumped forward and grabbed the handle of the sword before twisting her body around and kicking Dark Phantom square in the jaw, forcing him to let go of the sword and stumble backwards.
"But…but how!?" he exclaimed in complete surprise as Dani stood upright and dropped the energy sword to the floor where it dissipated. "You couldn't possibly have seen those attacks coming!?"
"I didn't have to see them," Dani informed him as she held up her hand and prepared an energy attack. "I can still hear you," she taunted him. She had used the technique Danny has taught her so she could hear the morning sounds. "Vlad was manipulative; he led me to believe that he loved me and that Danny was the enemy. You are at least half Vlad; I know that you're just playing mind tricks on me, to break my spirit; well I'm not gunna give you the satisfaction!" she snapped. She brought her hand back as it began glowing with a bright green light.
"GRRRRR!" Dark Phantom growled angrily upon being found out. Dani had played him at his own game. He was determined to prevent her from attacking. Before she could fire her attack, he took a deep breath and unleashed a ghostly wail.
The punishing sound waves vibrated throughout the abandoned building, shattering old windows and splintering wooden beams and other wooden structures. Dani's attack dissipated before she could fire; she covered her ears and tried to withstand the attack, but couldn't stand on her own feet.
She was blown backwards and hit her head on the ceiling of the staircase before she fell and hit her head on the steps before she rolled down the rest and crashed into a wooden table; shattering it. She lay in a pile of splintered wood and luckily managed to retain her ghost form. The ecto-plasmic goo on her face had also been ripped away so she could see as soon as she opened her eyes. "That hurt,' she groaned.
She looked up from the floor just as Dark Phantom flew down the stairs and hovered over her. He grabbed her by her neck and slammed her back against a pile of boxes. "It's time to end this little game," he snarled. He held up his hand and infused it with ecto-energy. He was prepared to fire the blast directly into the young girl's face, but he failed to notice a pair of glowing green eyes suddenly appear in the darkness of a stack of chairs piled off to the side. "Huh?" he questioned when he noticed the glowing eyes.
Time slowed down as the stack of chairs suddenly exploded; shattering and splintering the chairs, sending chips in all directions. Dark Phantom slowly stepped to the side as Danny came out of the stack of chairs with one of his own hands infused with energy, the other hand held the Fenton Thermos he had dropped earlier.
Dark Phantom turned and re-aimed his energized hand at Danny. Their energy attacks collided and exploded. From above ground the entire three story building exploded, sending wooden shrapnel into the sky and into the streets.
Wood rained down on a man driving his car as he drove by. "Huh?" he questioned in confusion before a shadow overtook him. "YAAAH!" he screamed before Danny suddenly crashed onto his car's hood, crushing metal and shattering glass. His car skidded off the road and collided with a fire hydrant. Danny had been lucky enough to bounce off the car and landed on the concrete sidewalk nearby. He immediately changed back into his human form due to energy loss.
Dani fell from the sky and landed in a tree; a sapling; that was planted in a circular plot in the sidewalk on the other side of the street from Danny. She fell from the sapling and landed on the ground just as a bunch of crows that had been hiding in the tree flew in all directions. She changed back into her human form as well before looking up when a metal clang caught her attention. The Fenton thermos was within arm's reach.
From across the street, Danny looked up when Dark Phantom, seemingly unharmed, descended from the sky and landed on the ground in front of him. He reached down and grabbed Danny by his shirt and slammed him against the brick wall of the building behind him.
"Let go of me old man," Danny demanded. "I just wanna go home and enjoy the rest of my day. I don't wanna play games with you all day."
"You're right Danny, it is time to end these games," Dark Phantom snarled in agreement as he pressed Danny up against the brick wall. "I am your future and there is nothing that you can do to prevent it."
"Well, half of me believes you," Danny chuckled, taunting his older self. "But the other half…well, she's another story."
"Huh?" Dark Phantom questioned confusingly before a crow began pecking him in the head rapidly. He turned and blasted the bird away before he looked across the street and saw Danielle holding the Fenton Thermos, fully charged, aimed directly at him. She growled as she twitched one of her fingers and activated the thermos, sending a beam of blue energy in his direction. "AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGH HHHHHHHHH!" he yelled as the blue light engulfed him.
He was forced to let go of Danny who dropped to the ground and barred his teeth with a sinister grin of his own as his older self grabbed the concrete in a desperate attempt to prevent himself from being trapped once again.
"The two of you will pay for this!" Dark Phantom declared. "If I ever get out of here, I'll become more powerful than you could possibly imagine! I'll have my revenge Danny, COUNT ON IT!" he yelled in a fury before he was finally pulled into the confines of the Fenton Thermos.
"Count on not getting out any time soon," Danielle sneered with a delightful grin of her own as she recapped the thermos, preventing Dark Phantom's escape once more. She looked up as Danny crossed the street towards her. "Danny!" she called out before she ran to him and wrapped her arms around his waist. "We beat him!"
"Well I beat him once all by myself," Danny admitted to her. "He caught us off guard so had I been alone, he might have beaten me, but against two of us? We had the upper hand."
"Your mom's not gunna be too pleased that we lost the can of yams," Danielle said sadly. Suddenly something made of metal fell out of the sapling they were standing underneath. "OWW!" she yelped after it hit her head. The can of yams fell onto her head and landed in one of her hands. "Oh…never mind," she said with a smile.
"Nobody else actually knows about what happened, so perhaps we keep this to ourselves?" Danny suggested to his cloned cousin.
"I don't know," Danielle pondered.
"Alright, well you can either stand here pondering over my suggestion…" Danny said. "Or we can get home pronto, give mom these yams, and prepare to eat before dad gets into it. He'll leave nothing for us," he added, leaning down to whisper in her ear.
Danielle didn't need any more convincing on Danny's part. "He's not beating me to that turkey!" she yelled as she took off down the street at a sprint with Danny in short pursuit.
Only an hour or two passed by before the Fenton's finally sat down with the Thanksgiving meal around them. Jack and Danielle had managed to get themselves into a contest to see who could eat more food faster than the other. They stuffed their faces as Danny, Jazz and Maddie looked on with concerned looks.
"This is a normal eating habit for Jack, but how can such a small girl pack away this much food?" Maddie asked in a concerned tone as she held up one of the leg bones that had been tossed aside after the meat was peeled from the bone.
"Oh believe me, I had the same thought when I first met her a few months ago when she dropped by, by surprise," Danny informed her.
"So that's where all that food went six months ago!" Jazz exclaimed angrily, giving Danny a furious look from across the table.
Before long, all of the food was gone; nothing remained. No leftovers, no crumbs, not even a hint of meat left on any of the turkey's bones. Jack and Danielle burped loudly before they sat back in their seats and sighed with relief. "A tie," Jack belched. "That's the same as losing," he added with a horrified look. "That's never happened to me before."
"It's the same as winning too," Danielle reminded him before she too belched again. "That was the best meal I've ever had," she sighed with delight.
"Well good," Maddie said before she stood up and pushed her seat underneath the table. "Alright kids, you know the drill. Whoever cleans up gets an extra hundred dollars for shopping at the mall tomorrow."
"What's that now?" Danielle asked as he patted her bulging stomach with two hands. "We're going shopping?" she asked as her eyes widened. "With money!?" she added with surprise.
"Tomorrow is Black Friday," Jazz informed the young girl. "The first Friday after Thanksgiving; nearly every single store in the country opens really early to potential shoppers."
"Ugh, why would they do that?" Danielle asked curiously.
"It's considered the first day of Christmas Shopping season," Danny answered. "The stores offer really good deals on a lot of things. Items near the door are on sale at really low prices."
"Mom and dad give us money for shopping and even offer an extra hundred dollars to whichever one of us cleans the dishes," Jazz added. "Normally we wouldn't want to do it, but we like having the extra cash handy."
"Don't we have a dishwasher for a reason?" Danielle asked with a scowl.
"You're smart Danielle," Jazz reminded the girl. "Do you honestly think we can fit all of this into that machine?" she asked as she waved her hand at the pile of dishes that had spread from the table to the counter.
"I guess not," Danielle figured.
"Good," Jazz said gladly before she turned towards her brother. "I'll play yah for who does them?" she challenged him.
"You are on," Danny accepted her challenge.
"Rock, Paper, Scissors, Shoot!" they called out before they put out their hands; Danny held out a fist representing a rock and Jazz held out two fingers to represent a pair of scissors. Suddenly a smaller hand entered in underneath them; the fingers pointed up and flailing. "Huh!?" they asked in confusion before they looked down at the young girl who had stuck her own hand into the fray.
"What? You think I'm just gunna sit back when a hundred bucks is waiting for the winner?" Danielle asked them mockingly. "I want in on this."
"Well then perhaps you can tell us what that is?" Danny asked her. "By the way, you still lost," he teased Jazz who withdrew her hand and pouted.
"It's fire!" Danielle exclaimed as her fingers flailed. "It beats everything."
"Ohh, well does it beat water balloon?" Danny asked mockingly before he opened his hand and slapped her hand down as if water were putting out the fire.
"Oh man!" Danielle pouted the same as Jazz while Danny laughed to himself upon his apparent victory over the girls.
"I got the dishes mom!" he called out to his mother before he pranced by the two girls and got to work loading the dishes into the sink.
Danielle continued to pout while Jazz did some number work with her fingers. "Hey wait a minute!" she shouted angrily. "Scissors puncture the water balloon, putting out the fire; that's a double win! I want a rematch!" she demanded before the scene ended in a temporary blackout.
Several hours passed; Danny had done the dishes and had thus earned one hundred bucks from his parents on top of the two hundred he and the girls were already given. Danielle slept peacefully in her bed; a leg and an arm stuck out here and there; she snored in her deep sleep as Danny and Jazz snuck into her room in the midst of the early morning. It was still dark out; it was very early in the morning, the digital clock on the desk read five-thirty AM.
They chuckled to themselves as they walked up to one side of the bed and knelt down. Jazz held out three fingers and counted down silently; mouthing the words, 'Three…Two…One…' "WAKE UP DANIELLE!" they both shouted as loudly as they could before they grabbed the bottom of the mattress and flipped it over with all of their might.
"YAAAAAH!" Danielle screeched as she slid off the mattress and landed on the floor before the mattress itself flopped over on top of her. Danny and Jazz laughed hysterically as Danielle phased her head up through the bottom of the mattress with a scowl on her face. "What is wrong with the two of you!?" she shouted before she looked at the clock. "It's five-thirty in the morning!" she exclaimed.
"You gotta get to the stores really early for the really good deals," Danny reminded her. "Now hurry up and get dressed, otherwise we won't get there in time," he rushed her.
Before he could rush for the door Danielle phased up through the mattress. She had already been dressed and was ready to go. "Ready when you are," she said with a smile before she ran out of the room ahead of her two older cousins. "Common slowpokes!" she rushed them. "Or we're gunna be late!"
"I thought we were the ones that told her that?" Danny asked Jazz in a confused tone as he pointed after the young girl.
"I thought we were the ones rushing her out the door?" Jazz asked him in the same confused tone.
Suddenly their father rushed by the door and called out to them. "Common kids, we're gunna be late!" Danny and Jazz scowled angrily before the scene panned to the streets of Amity Park where the street lights were still required to see. A small car puttered down the road but the sound of a roaring engine wasn't coming from it. The view panned back to the Fenton RV stuck behind the slower driver. "MOVE IT GRANDMA!" Jack bellowed before he honked the horn.
The RV sped past the smaller car only to get stuck behind a pack of cars going only slightly faster than the slow driver they just passed.
In the back of the RV, the two Danny's were growing impatient while Jazz sat in her seat with three seatbelts strapped around her. A terrified look was spread across her face as the RV swerved due to Jack's irradical driving. "Dad, will you slow down!" she demanded. "I wanna get there fast but not if it kills me!"
"Sorry Jazzy-Pants!" Jack called out to her as the steering wheel moved left and right in his hands. "HEY! Learn to drive!" he shouted as she shook a fist at another driver. "Kids!" he called back to the three in the backseat. "Take the Fenton bazookas I hid in the backseat! Take out as many rides as you can!" he ordered them.
"You got it dad!" Danny said before he stood up and opened the seat he had been sitting on to reveal that inside the seat was a hidden compartment where three large bazookas sat, waiting to be used. He tossed one to Danielle. "Aim and fire, try to take out as many other cars as you can," he advised her.
"Got it chief," Danielle saluted before she ran to a window and stuck the weapon out of it as she took aim. She fired but her little body was pushed back and onto the floor from the recoil.
Danny tried to hand one of the bazookas to Jazz who snapped at him. "Pass," she growled. "I'm not about to cheat my way to the mall by taking out others trying to do the same thing. I will not sink that low."
"Ehh," Danny shrugged. "Alright, your call," he said before he took a position at another window and fired upon other vehicles.
A short time later, the RV pulled up in the mall's parking lot. The morning sky was starting to light up. The sky was very bleak; overcast didn't let a single drop of sunlight pass through. The day looked cold and a storm was fast approaching.
The tank-like vehicle skidded to a stop and perched one of its wheels up on another vehicle, tilting the entire vehicle to one side. The driver's door popped open and Jack jumped out. A side door opened allowing the three kids to get out.
"We made it!" Danielle exclaimed happily.
"Yeah! And we only caused fifteen accidents! A big improvement from last year!" Danny said happily.
They stood aside from the vehicle as Jack stepped up and reached into the RV before removing an entire seat from the vehicle; with a terrified and frozen stiff Jazz still sitting in it. Her fingers dug into the seat cushion and a look of panic frozen on her face.
"Alright Jazzy-Pants," Jack said triumphantly as he sat the seat on the ground and unbuckled Jazz from her restraints. "We all made it in one piece," he informed her as he stood up straight and put her hands to his hips.
Jazz scowled at her father and jumped to her feet. "I oughta turn you into the cops not only for reckless driving but for the endangerment of two teenagers and a pre-teen!" she yelled at him angrily before she marched off to blow off some steam.
"Whoa!" Danielle gasped as Jazz stomped by her and Danny. "Note to self, when she feels her life is in danger, get out of her way," she took a mental note. "Did you see the size of that vein on her forehead?" she asked Danny. "I thought it was ready to pop!"
"You think it was that bad, just wait until we get inside," he chuckled. "And Christmas is gunna be even worse than that," he added with laughter.
"Alright, you guys have been taunting me with this…Christmas thing…for over a month," Danielle growled. "Are you ever gunna explain to me what it is?"
"You'll just have to wait and see," he taunted her once more, only getting growls from Danielle in response. He chuckled at himself as the view panned up into the sky as a sudden gust of wind blew a dead leaf through the air. It came at the readers but sped past before small white flecks came into view. A snowflake drifted close into view and overtook the readers, ending the story in a blackout.