Chapter Four: Even Heroes Have Fears
As Grim and the others stood in shock, inside of Danny and his friend's minds evil magic was at work. They say that even the bravest of the brave fear something. Every human has a fear, it could be as big as life or as small as a bug, but to them it is a terror beyond measure. Let us look into the minds of our heroes to see their worst fears.
Danny's Fear
Danny woke up to find himself no longer in the park, in fact he did not know where he was. He sat up to see that he was in some sort of ruined city. There were wreaked buildings as far as he could see, and the stench of death filled the air. The sky was grey with no sun to be seen, and the land was devoid of life.
"Where am I? What happened to this place? Where are the others?" said Danny, but there was no one to answer his question.
Danny walked along the ruined streets of the city, looking for his friends, in fact anyone at all. He passed row after row of gutted houses until he came to a familiar sight. In front of him were the ruins of Fenton Works.
"My god, this is my home, then that means…this is Amity Park, who did this?" said Danny.
"You did! And now your going to pay!" said a strange, yet familiar voice.
Danny turned his head to see Valerie zooming at him with a ghost bazooka at the ready. She shot a blast at him and he barely got out of the way.
"Valerie stop! It's me Danny, your friend!" said Danny, trying to avoid the laser blasts.
"You're not my friend, not since you murdered everyone!" said Valerie as she fired again.
"What are you talking about?" said Danny.
"Like you don't know, you killed our friends, families, and the whole world! And now your going to pay for every one of their deaths!" said Valerie.
Valerie fired a laser blast that sent Danny flying, he landed hard next to a piece of broken mirror. For the first time he noticed that his muscles seemed to bulge, and his suit was different, then a piece of flaming white hair fell into his face.
"No, dear God no." thought Danny.
He lifted his head up and looked in the mirror, only to come face to face with the evil Dan Phantom.
"No! This can't be! This isn't supposed to happen!" said Danny, but then the image began to speak to him.
"Oh but it is Danny, despite all your efforts to stop this future from happening, you still have become me! Hahahaha!" said Dan, his cruel laugh echoing in Danny's mind, tearing it apart.
Sam's Fear
Sam woke up to find herself in her own bed.
"What am I doing here? Weren't we fighting some crazy looking ghost before? Oh well I guess it was a dream" thought Sam.
Sam got dressed and walked over to Fenton works, to see Danny and tell him about the weird dream she had. As she neared Fenton Works her magic senses felt great sorrow and anger in the air.
"What is this terrible feeling I'm getting?" thought Sam.
This was strange because she had only felt good feelings come from the Fenton home. She walked up the stairs and opened the door, as she entered she could hear crying. She saw both Jazz and Danni sitting on the couch in the living room.
"Jazz? What are you doing here, what happened?" said Sam.
"Like you don't know! You were there when it happened!" said Jazz, and then she ran away.
"Danni, what is going on?" said Sam, getting more worried.
"Don't you remember? Danny is…" she started, but was cut off by Sam.
"What! What happened to Danny?" said Sam.
"Sam, Danny's dead." said Danni.
"What? You're pulling my leg." said Sam.
"It's true, he died a week ago." said Danni.
Sam saw that Danni was not kidding, as the news sank in she fell to her knees.
"No, oh dear God no." said Sam, as she started to cry.
Alicia's Fear
Alicia found herself in the middle of town, and there was no one around.
"Where is everyone?" thought Alicia.
Then she heard a noise, it sounded faint, but it started to get louder and louder. Soon she was able to make it out.
"Burn the witch, burn the witch." came the sounds of a crowd, saying the three most horrible words a sorceress could ever hear.
Alicia tried to find a way to run, but the sound seemed to be coming from everywhere. Then the crowd appeared from all sides, holding torches and pitchforks.
"There is the witch! Seize her!" said one of them.
They began to run at her, as they did she tried to fly away, but found that she could not. Soon the crowd had her and was dragging her away.
"No! Your making a mistake, please let me go!" screamed Alicia, but no one listened.
Valerie's Fear
Valerie awoke to find herself in a ruined landscape, just like Danny had. But her nightmare would far different then his, and far worse.
"What the…? Where the heck am I, where are the others?" thought Valerie.
Valerie walked along the streets of the ruined city, looking for any sign of her friends. She kept walking until she came to something that shocked her, the ruins of Casper High.
"What? That's the school, but if that's here then that means…this is Amity Park!" said Valerie.
"How very observant of you, I was wondering when you would figure it out." said a voice.
Valerie turned around to see the evil face of Vlad Plasmius, a sinister smirk on his face.
"Vlad! What have you done to Amity Park!" said Valerie.
"I haven't done this just to Amity Park, I've done it to the whole world. You see I acquired a gem that would allow me to control ghosts, but it was useless on humans, now that was a problem. Then the solution to my problem hit me, eliminate the human problem." said Vlad
As he spoke a look of horror appeared on Valerie's face, as meaning of his words dawned on her.
"You…you killed all humanity?" said Valerie in horror.
"Yes, all of them but you, but I will be taking care of that problem right now. I have some friends that are dying to meet you." said Vlad, laughing at his own bad joke.
Five ghosts rose out of the ground, five ghosts that Valerie instantly recognized.
"No, it can't be, you can't be dead." said Valerie, as she saw Danny, Sam, Alicia, Alex and Tucker appear before her.
"Oh but it is Valerie, and we are here to make sure you join the ranks of the dead." said Danny, a twisted smile on his face.
"You'll love being a ghost, it's only an instant of pain and then its over." said Tucker.
"Yeah, join us Valerie." said Sam, which started them all chanting.
"No! I won't let you get me!" said Valerie as she summoned her jet sled and took off, the evil ghosts who were once her friends following behind.
Alex's Fear
As I mentioned before a persons fear can be big, or it can be small as a bug. In Alex's case it is a bug, well, actually more like a spider. Alex found himself in a dark and spooky forest. The shadows danced and moved as the wind blew through the trees. Then he heard a noise off to his side.
"Hello is anybody there?" said Alex.
Then the sound came from behind him, he quickly turned around and came face to face with his worst nightmare. Standing there was an eight foot tall spider, with huge fangs that dripped green goo. Alex stood there in terror at the hideous creature that stood before him. The giant spider started to move towards him, its giant fangs snapping.
"No, stay away, stay back!" said Alex.
Alex tried to summon a magic energy blast to stop the beast, but he found to his horror that his magic was gone.
"AHHHH!" screamed Alex's as he turned and ran for his life, the spider quickly following behind him.
Tucker's Fear
Tucker Foley is known as a lover of technology, all things digital make him happy. But what people don't know is that deep down Tucker had a fear of technology getting out of his control, of it taking over. Now that fear was about to be unleashed. (AN: Mostly because having him trapped on an island with no technology like in the episode Fright Knight doesn't seem scary enough.)
Tucker found himself in a dark corridor, the walls were lined with blinking lights and computer screens. Every inch of this place seemed to be covered in technology. But Tucker felt a great sense of unease in this place.
"Hello is anybody there?" said Tucker.
Then he heard the sound of heavy foot falls coming towards him. He looked down the hall and saw whatever it was coming around the corner. It was the weirdest thing he had ever seen, it looked human, but it had allsorts of technological devices sticking out of it. (Think of the Borg from Star Trek, which I don't own.) Its one laser eye turned and spotted Tucker, as it moved closer he noticed it looked familiar.
"D-Danny?" said Tucker.
"Analysis: Human Biological Unit, Name Tucker Foley, Conclusion: Must be joined to the collective. Human Biological Unit, surrender and no harm will come to you." said Danny in a monotone voice.
"What are you talking about?" said Tucker.
"You will be joined to the collective hive mind, your individuality will be taken away and you will serve the queen." said Danny.
"No, get away from me!" said Tucker.
Tucker backed up and ran into someone, he looked up to see Sam, also a cyborg.
"You will be joined to the collective." said Sam.
His two friends turned cyborgs grabbed him and dragged him down the hall, with him screaming all the way.
As all this went on mere seconds passed in the real world. Clockwork, Grim, Ember and Rob looked on in horror as our heroes lay on the ground, the terror they were experiencing evident on their faces as they slept. Danni had just returned from her little trip to see Danny and the others lying on the ground, she looked at Nightmaria with hate in her eyes
"You monster! What did you do to them!" yelled Danni.
"They are trapped in their nightmares, and they will remain that way until they are no more, and now to finish you off so that no one can stop me." said Nightmaria.
Nightmaria set the same strange blast at Danni, but she was knocked out of the way by Ember.
"Thanks Ember, she almost got me." said Danni.
"No problem kid." said Ember.
"Guys, I think a strategic retreat is in order." said Rob.
"We can't do that, what about Danny and the others?" said Danni.
"We can't help them if we trapped in our nightmares as well." said Rob.
"He is right, it is better to retreat for the moment, we can then come up with a plan." said Clockwork.
"Ok, if you say so." said Danni.
"Grim, we need a quick escape." said Clockwork.
"One quick escape coming up." said Grim.
Grim used his scythe to kick up a dust cloud, as Nightmaria covered her eyes our heroes escaped with the unconscious Danny and friends. When the dust cleared Nightmaria saw that her enemy was gone.
"Darn, they got away, well no matter for I will capture them soon enough, and then the world will be mine! Hahahaha!" said Nightmaria as she flew off into the night.
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Rob: Things are looking bad for Danny and the others, I hope everything comes out all right. But to cheer you readers up it is time to pull the hurt Vlad lever. Rob pulls the hurt Vlad lever. The scene changes to Vlad sitting in his office in his huge company headquarters. He was about to fill out some important paper work.
Vlad: Ok, which should I do first, the paper work to fire 10,000 employees, or the ones to allow my factories to pollute more? Vlad is just asking for this today. At that moment Vlad was hit by fifty rotten Jack o lanterns, his office is toilet papered, and all the papers on his desk are covered in nougat.
Vlad: Argh! What is going on here! Then suddenly the Fluffy Army of Doom appeared.
Vlad: Oh cheese logs. Then the army attacked, visiting Halloween type doom on Vlad.
Rob: Now that Vlad has been punished for today, it is time for the chapter summery.
Oh no! Danny and the others are experiencing their worst fears. As our heroes live their own personal hells, Clockwork and others have to face Nightmaria alone. They better come up with a plan or humanity is doomed. Will they be able to wake up the others? Will they stop Nightmaria? If a tree falls in the woods and hits Vlad, will anyone care? Read the next chapter of the Night of Nightmaria to find out, especially the tree hitting Vlad part.
Rob: So until next time Danny Phantom fans, Read and Review, or Nightmaria will get you!