A/N: Sorry to keep you all waiting! Here's the next chapter! Here's where you finally find out a little…okay, a lot more about Virus. Thanks to everyone who reviewed, and without further ado, on with the phic!

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The next morning, Virus softly knocked on the door of Phantom's house, to make sure he was up. He waited a minute. No answer. Curious, Virus opened the door and peeked into Phantom's small house Virus had built. He gasped. Phantom was shaking and muttering to himself, clearly in some sort of nightmare state.

Virus stared at Phantom, pondering. "I wonder…" He focused on his center, calling forth his strange power, and the red mist came around Phantom again. Virus concentrated, suddenly able to see and hear everything in Phantom's dream:

"You are lying, foolish human! I never belonged there!" Phantom's voice screamed out. "The Clan is as much of a home as I ever will have!"

A familiar voice answered back. Virus looked and saw that the Goth girl was there too. "You're wrong about the Clan! You have to remember! You're not just Phantom! Your real name is Danny!"

"D-Danny?" Phantom asked, shaking his head as a look of surprise entered his eyes. Visions were beginning to swim through his mind. That girl…those humans…why did they seem so familiar to him?

The girl nodded, walking over to Phantom and touching his hand. "Remember me Danny? I'm Sam."

"…Sam?"

Almost at once, Virus was thrown out of Phantom's dream world. His crimson eyes became fixed on Phantom, who was jolted awake out of his dream. "So," Virus whispered, leering at the young halfa, "your memories have returned at last."

"You!" Danny gasped, his emerald eyes burning into Virus's. "Look, I don't know who you really are or what you look like, but why did you capture me? What am I doing here?"

"Oh, don't worry Danny," Virus snickered, as the six other Clam members filed into the small house. "You'll know very soon."

Before Danny could react, Virus snapped his fingers and red snake-like ropes wrapped around Danny. There was a strange black mist emitting from it, and Danny blacked out.

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"DANNY!"

Back at FentonWorks, Sam woke up with a start, causing everyone else to run over to her in a hurry.

"Sam!" Tucker asked, looking worriedly at her. "What's wrong, what happened?"

"Sounds like she had a nightmare," Jazz said softly, "about Danny."

To everyone's surprise, Sam shook her head. "It wasn't really a nightmare," she explained, excitement building in her voice. "I was trying to talk to Danny, but he wouldn't listen at first. He just kept saying that I was lying and he belonged with the Clan."

Valerie gave Sam a confused look. "What 'Clan'?"

Sam shrugged. "Beats me, but then I began to remind him who he was, and he suddenly seemed to remember me. Before I could do anything else, he disappeared."

"Well, at least he remembered you," Tucker commented. "That's a start."

However, Sam wasn't finished. "Right before I woke up, I suddenly got a picture in my mind of where Danny was. It looked like the forest that's on the edge of the city."

"Well then, what are we waiting for?" Jack exclaimed, "let's all get into the Fenton RV and find Danny!"

"Wait " Sam started in puzzlement, "I thought Virus destroyed all the equipment!"

"Well, apparently he forgot the Fenton RV." Maddie grinned. "Now come on everyone, let's go find Danny!"

"I'll get the fudge!" Jack announced, sprinting toward the kitchen.

Jazz smiled and rolled her eyes. "Dad will never learn!"

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Danny slowly opened his eyes, trying to get a grasp on his surroundings. He shook his head, trying to clear it, and realized he was chained to the wall. He morphed into his ghost form, struggling to break free, but to no avail. The chains were ghost proof.

"Master," a familiar voice called out. " I can see that our prisoner is awake."

"Ah, good," another voice said, making Danny's head jerk up. "I was wondering when you would awaken, Daniel." The figure stepped into the light, grinning at Danny.

Danny gritted his teeth, there was no mistaking that voice. "Plasmius! You're the one who's behind all this!"

Vlad chuckled softly. "On the contrary, Daniel, both Virus and I planned it all. I created the plan, Virus carried it out."

Danny looked from Vlad to the pair of eyes which he knew to be Virus. "So…you two were working together this whole time?"

"Correct," Virus laughed.

Danny glared at Vlad, remembering what had happened two days before. "Vlad, you said…that soon I would start to be…seeing double. What exactly did you mean by that?"

Virus's laughter could be heard as he stepped closer to the trapped halfa. "I think I'll will be able to explain that."

Vlad grinned maliciously at Danny, whose eyes were widening in confusion. "Show him, Virus!"

In that moment, Virus's eyes stared intently at Danny, and slowly his true form began to take shape. Snow-white hair fell over his crimson eyes, his mouth twisted into an evil grin as he watched Danny's shocked expression. He wore a black and white jumpsuit identical to Danny's, except there was a fancy red "VP" emblem in the center.

Danny screamed as the truth was at last revealed to him. The figure standing in front of him-Virus-was almost a mirror image of Danny. Apart from his eyes and his emblem, Virus was an exact copy.

A clone. Danny's clone.

"Surprised?" Vlad asked as he watched Danny tremble. "I was able to get a hold of some of your mid-morph DNA when Danielle first escaped. Virus here was the result. He's the son I've always wanted!"

"Face it, Danny" Virus sneered, "Vlad created me to be more powerful than you! I have abilities that you lack."

"W-What do you mean?" Danny asked fearfully. It felt really strange to be talking to someone who was nearly a mirror image of himself.

"Remember that fever?" Virus chuckled. "And the brainwashing? I caused that. It was all thanks to my power, so great that even the legendary Danny Phantom can't overcome it!!"

Danny couldn't help shivering slightly. That strange fever that had nearly killed him…was Virus's work?

"There's no time to worry about that now Virus," Vlad reminded him. "The Great Ritual is coming tonight, remember?"

"Of course, Master." Virus replied. He gazed at Danny with a look that sent shivers down his spine. "However, there is one more thing I'll need for the ritual to work."

"What's that?" Danny asked nervously, attempting to hide the fear in his voice. By the way his clone was smiling, he could tell it wasn't good.

Virus's grin only grew. He removed the silver glove from his right hand, revealing the Mark that was imprinted.

"Your life."