Chapter 07: A Tyrant Prince

Vladimir Masters narrowed his eyes as he watched footage showing the fight in Oregon.

It wasn't easy, but he managed to steal a copy of the video from SHIELD. He had to do it in a way without showing himself, since SHIELD doesn't know he existed and he preferred to keep it that way.

The reason he got the footage was simple.

In the News it showed a familiar green shield knocking some mechs back before disappearing.

Not believing it to be a coincidence, Vlad knew that it was Danny, after two years he finally emerged.

But imagine Vlad's surprise when he found some recently updated files on Danny showing him behind a lone assault on a Hydra base in Canada, before going to Salem a few weeks later but this time with two others.

"What are you doing, little badger?" Vlad asked with none of the usual warmth in his voice at his favorite nickname for his Godson. "Who are these people?"

Vlad was devastated when he heard that Maddie died and he knew that Danny was too.

He wasn't planning to do anything to Danny, hell he was going to leave Danny with his fortune and made sure the other Ghosts left him alone, but Danny refused.

Then Danny had the gall to say that it was because of him this happened?! Vlad doesn't even know who that Ghost was and he still believes that Danny made the story up about that Ghost being his future self, time travel was impossible.

Clockwork doesn't exist; otherwise he would've found him by now.

The last two years he's been slowly building an empire in the Ghost Zone. Vlad has made alliances with Skulker more permanent, took over Walker's troops as his private army and made Fright Knight his bodyguard and general.

"Are you still brooding?" A teasing voice asked, breaking Vlad out of his thoughts as he turned to see a red headed woman with green eyes smirking, only wearing a towel. "It really defines you."

"Spectra." Vlad said with a smirk as he eyed her form appreciatively. "And here I thought you were asleep."

At first, Spectra tried to take advantage of his misery and Vlad easily saw through that, but she is useful in terms of getting to people and buying their allegiance.

Overtime they actually fell in love, and even though Vlad still had feelings for Maddie he wasn't as lonely as he used to be.

Then Spectra saw what Vlad was looking at. "Still looking for Phantom?" She asked curiously because Phantom was one of her favorite people to mess with due to the misery he had, which most likely increased over the last two years. "Why bother? He's just a scared little boy crying for his pathetic mommy and daddy."

"You and I both know that he is the only one capable of destroying everything we worked so hard to complete in the last two years." Vlad said looking back at the screen, trying not to snap at her for what she just implied about Maddie Fenton being pathetic. "Did the Far Frozen agree to our terms?"

Spectra pouted at Vlad going back to work mode, but she relented as she dropped the towel and became a living shadow. "They're stubborn fools, Plasmy." She said her affectionate nickname for him with a feral smile. "They still believe that their 'Great One' will defeat you."

"They know how to choose an idol that's for sure." Vlad said remembering how Danny always came back on top in the fights they had as well as how Danny took Pariah Dark down.

However, Vlad locked Dark up, so he knew that if it wasn't for him then Pariah would still be loose. And he was 'conveniently' ignoring the fact that if it wasn't for him, then Pariah Dark would have never been set free in the first place.

Spectra put her arms around Vlad's neck and whispered in his ear. "But he will fall, dearie." She said in a seductive tone. "After all you're the leader of this vast empire."

"But every emperor needs an heir." Vlad said looking down before Spectra lifted his head up.

"Why wait?"

Raising an eyebrow at her forwardness, Vlad shook his head. "It has to be Daniel." He said clenching his fists. "He is just like me, only on the wrong side-." Then Vlad's eyes widened as he thought about something before laughing. "Of course, why didn't I think of it before?"

"Plasmy?" Spectra asked feeling lost.

"It doesn't need to be Daniel, just another halfa." Vlad said with a chuckle. "But with his DNA."

Now Spectra caught on. "You're going to clone him?" She asked wondering how this would work out and she could already taste the misery he would give off at finding out about this. "But how are you going to get his DNA?"

"I already have it." Vlad said with a smirk. "Remember the ectoplasm I generously donated to the GIW?"

Now Spectra's eyes widened and she smirked. "This is going to be interesting."

"More than you know." Vlad said looking back at the screen. "More than you know."

"Oh and Aragon will be over here at the end of the week." Spectra said to Vlad as she turned to leave. "Something about an alliance between kingdoms."

Vlad's grin grew more sinister at the thought of Aragon's army at his beck and call combined with Walker's troops.

The day they invade the Earth draws closer.

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Danny sat in his room with his eyes closed trying to focus as ecto energy surrounded some objects around him. He fought the Box Ghost enough times to know that he could learn telekinesis and he was trying to unlock that power.

It wasn't working, but he could surround objects with ecto energy.

Right now, Laura was with Logan in town. Kurt and Ray hit it off and were at the mall in the Arcade.

John was in town getting parts for the Haven and his experimental virtual reality training room.

Since it was quiet, Danny figured that working on mastering more of his Ghostly abilities would be good.

Just as he was getting headway on the power, Danny tensed as he felt a cold chill go over him and he opened his mouth as a blue mist erupted from it.

"What? Here?" Danny stood up and went Ghost with narrowed eyes as he floated through the window to outside. "Hello?" He called out.

"YOU!" Turning around, Danny's eyes widened when he saw a blue skinned dragon roaring at him.

"Princess Dora?!" Danny asked in shock before he turned intangible as the claws nearly gutted him. "Why are you here? How did you find me?"

"NO MORE!" Dora roared as she shot fire at Danny causing him to erect an ecto shield.

"No more?" Danny asked in confusion as he flew up kicking her in the face. "You're going to have to be a bit more specific- uck!" While he was talking, Dora reached over and grabbed him. "Uh… Hi?"

Dora narrowed her eyes before Danny was sent hurtling towards the ground where he made a crater.

"Ow." Shaking his head as he stood up, Dora stomped on him. "Again, ow."

'What the hell?' Danny thought as he managed to push Dora off of him. 'I used to be able to fight Dora easily. Could it be I'm out of practice in fighting Ghosts? It's been two years and the only Ghosts I've seen were Clockwork, Amorpho, Frostbite and the Box Ghost.'

Looking up, he was hit by Dora's tail and went crashing through some trees and he noticed that they were getting closer to Bayville.

'Shit.' Danny thought as he became more focused. 'If Dora and I end up fighting in the streets, regardless of the fact that Ghosts are well known in Amity Park, it wouldn't help with Xavier keeping Mutants a secret until the time is right.'

"Sorry, Dora but we're going to have to continue this, another day." Danny said unleashing a giant ecto blast at her amulet, knocking it off as he caught it. "Now, what pissed you off this time-?" Danny's voice trailed off when he saw Dora back in her princess form, except she had cuts and bruises on her. "What the hell?"

"W-Where am I?" Dora asked in confusion before she saw Danny. "Phantom?"

"Dora, what happened to you?" Danny asked in concern because even though he isn't 'friends' per say with Dora, he wasn't her enemy when she was calm. "Cause I know my ecto blast didn't do this much damage."

"My brother." Dora said looking down.

"Brother?" Danny asked in shock because he didn't know she had a brother before stopping as he looked around to see the damage. "How about we talk more inside?" He gestured to the hideout as he took out his phone and sent a text to his teammates.

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Laura and Logan were looking at everything, but each other at this moment.

It's been like this for the last twenty minutes as they sat in a Café drinking coffee and every conversation they started was short.

Logan felt guilty about not knowing about her for sixteen years and because of him, she was trained to be a weapon. That was one of the main reasons he was trying here, but being a father was never a part of his life plans, so he never learned anything that would help.

Laura was just feeling too awkward to converse with him for long.

She's wanted to do something like this for years, but now that the moment was there, she can't think of anything to say.

"So, how do you get along with your friends?" Logan asked hoping that this conversation would be a good start.

"Fine." Laura said relieved that the awkward silence was broken. "We all live together and watch over each other."

"How did it start?" Logan asked deciding that he may as well learn how she met each of them.

"Danny rescued me from Weapon X." Laura said softly as Logan instinctively clenched his fist at the mention of that damned Government Program. "At first I thought he just wanted to use me as a weapon, but then he gave me a choice… He was the first person to give me a choice and to treat me like a human being, besides my Mom."

Logan was drinking some coffee and he choked. "Mom?" He managed to get out in confusion.

Now Laura's eyes darkened. "She was killed." She said not wanting to say that it was her fault. "Danny helped me bury her before I went with him… That was nearly a month ago."

Logan nodded as he heard that and he knew that it was hard for Laura to speak about this. "D-Did he give you the name?"

"No… Mom did when she died." Laura said before taking a sip of her coffee trying not to cry. "After spending nearly a week in Bayville, Danny enrolled me in the school to give me a sense of normality before he found John trapped in a pocket dimension."

Logan closed his eyes as his head started to hurt just thinking about it. "I'm not even going to ask." He said, referring to the Pocket Dimension.

Laura gave a small chuckle. "Yeah, I don't know the full story either and John and I disagree on a lot of stuff." At Logan's confused look, she clarified. "On whether or not technology makes a person weak."

Shaking his head, Logan had a small smile. "Now that we can agree on."

"But, even despite it we managed to put it aside when we found Ray in Oregon." Laura said remembering the fight with AIM. "What was supposed to be a simple offer of a safe place, turned into a war zone in a race to save his parents."

"And you succeeded." Logan heard about the AIM attack and how while some lives were lost in the attack, a lot of them were saved. "But SHIELD took the credit."

Laura sighed in annoyance. "That name bothered us because we don't know them at all-."

"They're a Government Agency that watches over Mutants and Metahumans." Logan answered, shocking Laura. "But they're nothing like Hydra. They don't experiment on Mutants or Metahumans, just lock up the bad ones."

"You'll forgive me if I don't believe that they don't." Laura said causing Logan to nod in agreement.

"I suppose every faction has people that do." Logan muttered before he got a phone call. "What do you want Chuck?" He asked testily before going quiet. "I'll be there in a few moments."

"Trouble?" Laura asked.

"Chuck just wants me to watch Elf and Shades while he takes Red to recruit a new student." Logan stood up before leaving money on the table to pay for the coffee. "Same time, tomorrow?"

Laura nodded, feeling like these talks were helping.

Then her phone went off and Laura looked at it before leaving to get Ray and John.

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"Jump!" Ray shouted as he slammed his fingers on the controls.

"I'm trying!" Kurt said going as fast as he could. "You need to work on your timing!"

"Hey blame my reaction time. The games aren't suited for my skills." Ray shot back as his character died. "Damn it."

"Bad luck, mein freund." Kurt said with a chuckle. "Again?"

"Why not-." Ray began before a hand grabbed the back of his shirt and started to drag him. "Wha?!"

"Sorry, but Danny called saying we're needed back home." Laura said cryptically making Ray get the message.

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John was whistling the song 'Soul Train' as he looked at mechanical parts, trying to ignore the agonizing feeling of wanting to do what he does here, because if he does so, it wouldn't be good for the team.

"Gnarly." John said looking over a piece in his hand before he saw Laura and Ray outside the window gesturing for him to go outside. 'Time to go already?' He thought as he purchased the parts he had.

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"So, this Prince Aragon?" Danny asked getting Dora some tea… She may be a Ghost but tea actually helps calm a lot of people. "He's the one responsible for your injuries?"

Accepting the tea gratefully, Dora nodded. "Yes, he got angry when I gave my opinion on his choice to join the empire Plasmius created-."

"Empire?" Danny interrupted in confusion. "What empire?"

"You mean you don't know?" Dora asked in shock.

Danny shrugged. "I haven't had anything to do with Ghosts in two years, unless you count using the Box Ghost to look for someone." He explained a little sheepishly. "You're the first Ghost that I've ran into besides him."

"After you disappeared, Plasmius has been going overboard with recruiting Ghosts for something." Dora explained the basic information to him. "There are talks of him planning to invade Earth."

"What?!" Danny asked giving her a look. "B-But that's crazy! Sure he stole the Infini-Map one time, but invade the Earth? He's not that crazy-." Danny trailed off as he thought about that. 'Or he could've snapped, a lot can happen in two years.'

As Danny trailed off, Dora continued. "My brother hasn't made an official allegiance yet, but he will by the end of the week and Plasmius will gain control of his army."

At that, Danny paled. "And with that army he can invade the Earth." He sighed in annoyance. "Looks like I'm heading to the Ghost Zone."

"What?" Dora gave him a shocked look.

"You think I will let what your brother did to you go?" Danny asked in disbelief. "We may not be buddies, but I don't like it when siblings do that to each other. And I don't want Plasmius to gain an army so in order to stop him, we need to dethrone your brother."

"You can't." Dora told him sadly. "He's a Prince for a reason. He is too powerful."

"Wouldn't be the first Royal Ghost I've dethroned." Danny reminded her with a smile.

After a few seconds, Dora smiled as well.

Then Danny tensed as his Ghost sense went off, but it never happened when a Ghost was literally in front of him. 'What the-?'

He was cut off from his own train of thought as a green skinned Medieval Ghost, wearing brown and holding a huge neon green axe, shot out of the ground.

"The Headsman." Dora screamed in shock.

The Headsman raised an axe as Danny turned intangible, barely dodging the swing.

"Hey, I like my head right where it is thank you very much." Danny said blasting him back. "Now, how about we cut to the chase?" Then Danny groaned as he realized what he just said. "Am I really back to witty banter?"

"Look out!" Dora cried out as the Headsman managed to catch Danny off guard with the side of the axe, sending him flying into the wall.

"Gyah." Danny muttered in pain before throwing up an ecto shield to block the next axe strike, but his Ghost sense went off again as an arrow came out of nowhere and went right through his shoulder, causing Danny to scream in pain.

Looking over his bleeding shoulder, Danny could see an archer wearing a red hood as it notched another arrow and as it was fired, Danny blacked out.

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"So what did Danny want?" John asked as they headed back to the hideout while he carried the bags of appliances he bought.

"He didn't say." Laura answered with a shrug. "All the text said was, it was urgent."

"I'm going to laugh if he trapped himself in the lab with this Ghost Shield he's been talking about." Ray said earning a glare from Laura.

"That's bogue, man." John told him.

"Yeah, yeah-." Ray stopped talking when they came to the clearing to see a crater as well as some trees destroyed. "Alright, maybe it's something serious."

Snikt.

Laura ran forward with her claws out, while John shoved the bags in Ray's hands, knocking him off balance, and made his arm cannon.

After regaining his balance, Ray ran after them.

The inside wasn't much better with some destruction around before Laura stopped, sniffing the air. "I smell blood."

"That's creepy." Ray said feeling freaked out.

John went to say something else as he walked around before he caught sight of something. "DANNY!"

Rushing over there, Laura and Ray stopped in horror at the sight of Danny with an arrow through his shoulder and one through his chest with ectoplasm leaking out.

"Shit!" Ray cursed as he rushed over to see that Danny was breathing. "He's alive-er… Half-alive… He'll heal!"

Not wasting any time, Laura reached over and broke the shaft of the arrow causing Danny to cry out subconsciously as it was pulled out. "Who did this?" Laura snarled in anger as she worked on the other arrow.

John looked around to see cut marks in the hole and the walls. "I don't know, but they made a big mistake attacking one of us at our own crib."

"But who?" Ray asked in confusion as Laura narrowed her eyes.

"There are a few people who know who we are."

"Whoa." John gave her a shocked look. "I don't think the X-Men had anything to do with this."

"What makes you say they didn't?" Laura asked sharply. "This happened a few days after we met them!"

"I have to agree with John on this one." Ray said interrupting them. "Plus, I don't think any of them carries green arrows."

"They don't." All three of their heads snapped around to see Danny opening his eyes in pain. "It wasn't the X-Men." He moved to get up, but grimaced in pain.

"Whoa, cool it Danny." John told him as he helped him up. "Don't push yourself."

"Just give me a few minutes." Danny told him before looking around. "Where's Dora?"

Ray raised an eyebrow. "Who?" He asked while Laura sniffed around.

"Danny, only your scent is here." Laura told him.

"Start at the beginning." John advised helping Danny get to the couch. "What happened, man?"

"I was just trying to focus on something that I've seen many different Ghosts do when my Ghost sense went off-."

"I'm sorry, Ghost sense?" Ray asked in confusion.

"How do you think I knew when the Ghosts were around in Amity Park?" Danny asked with a smile before frowning. "After it went off I went outside to see Princess Dora in her dragon form-." He held up a hand to stop the upcoming interruption. "She wore an amulet that turned her into a dragon when angered."

"Funky." John said at hearing that.

"But on knocking the amulet off she turned back to normal, only for me to find out that she was being hunted by her own brother Prince Aragon." Danny said as he felt the arrow wounds finally close up. "Then two more Ghosts I've never fought before took me by surprise and you know the rest."

"Ghosts?" Ray sighed and did a face palm. "We have to fight Ghosts?"

"Hey, I fought them all the time." Danny told him as he got up to their annoyance. "And I'm going to the Ghost Zone to fight Aragon."

"Uh, we're not letting you go by yourself." Laura told him. "You were nearly killed by yourself."

"Plus, it would be interesting to see the Ghost Zone you talk about." Ray said thinking about it.

"You guys don't have any experience fighting Ghosts." Danny told them. "This is different than fighting AIM or Hydra."

"Don't be a Bogart with this." John told him with his arms crossed. "We're going whether you like it or not, you dig?"

Danny sighed. "I'm not going to convince you guys otherwise, am I?" He asked with a small smile.

"Nope." Ray said popping the p.

"Then let's go-."

"You're injured." Laura told him with a small glare.

Danny blinked at the sudden protectiveness that Laura was showing, before deciding that since she's finally accepting friends, she wants to make sure they stay safe.

"I'm a fast healer." Danny said, showing that the wounds were just fading scars now. "It's not as fast as yours but in this case I'm good."

"Well then what are we waiting for?" Ray took off towards the lab as Danny sighed before grabbing Laura and John.

"When will he learn?" Danny muttered as he phased them through the floor and into the lab right as Ray made it there.

"Wha?" Ray looked at them in shock before remembering Danny's intangibility ability. "Oh right."

"So how do we get to the Ghost Zone?" John asked as Danny walked over to something that was covered up. "You said that one needs a Ghost Portal."

"That's true, but I mastered opening a stable portal a long time ago." Danny said with a smirk. "We're just going to need this."

Pulling the tarp off, the team saw the silver and green armor plated Specter Speeder.

"Groovy." John said looking at it.

"This is the Specter Speeder, my Dad named it." Danny said to their looks. "Equipped with every Anti-Ghost Weapon known to Man, which isn't very much, and can travel at high-speeds. Perfect for exploring the Ghost Zone or as we're going to do, dethroning a Ghost Prince."

"Dethroning?" Ray asked as Danny opened the door.

"You guy's coming or what?" Danny asked with a grin before frowning. "After you change into your combat clothes that is."

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"So I'm not driving?" Forge asked with some disappointment.

"You need ecto energy to drive the Specter Speeder." Phantom told him. "I'm working on fixing that new bug, but for now I'll be driving."

Focusing energy, Phantom pushed his hand forward as a green swirling vortex opened up.

"Whoa." Speed Demon said at seeing it for the first time. "That's a Ghost Portal?"

"Trippy." Forge agreed.

Talon was just tapping her fingers wanting to get in there already.

"Alright, hang on." Phantom turned on the Speeder and shot in there.

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"Again, trippy." Forge commented on seeing the green sky and the floating doors. "Where do these doors lead?"

"The lead too many places." Phantom explained as he typed something in the Speeder. "Some of them lead's to different lairs while some are natural portals to the Earth… Some of them can take you through time itself."

"Really?" Forge asked in shock at hearing the time part.

"Yeah, but it's usually a crap shoot with the time ones." Phantom told him in good humor. "I once ended up during the witch hunt trials where I had to save a friend from being burned at the stake."

"What are you doing?" Talon decided to ask as what looked like a GPS appeared on the Specter Speeder's screen.

"I'm keying in to Dora's Ecto Signature." Phantom said as he typed a bit more. "I have just about every Ghost's that I've fought ecto signature recorded, Aragon was someone I never met before so if we find Dora, we find Aragon."

"Smart." Speed Demon said as he stopped looking out the window. "So how much longer? I hate being cooped up!"

"As long as it takes." Phantom told Speed Demon. "The Ghost Zone is an endless stream of Ecto Energy so it could take weeks if we didn't know where to go-." Phantom stopped talking when they came upon a medieval looking gate. "Nevermind, we're here."

Phantom then turned the Speeder and everyone in it intangible as it went through the gate.

"Good old reliable technology." Forge said with his hands behind his back before he frowned as he felt his arm turn off. "What the?" He asked as the Speeder shuddered before it started to free fall.

"WHAT'S GOING ON?!" Speed Demon shouted as he was hanging onto his seat.

"WE'RE GOING TO CRASH!" Phantom focused and threw up an ecto shield around everyone.

BOOM!

Coughing as smoke erupted all around them, Phantom looked around. "Is everyone alright?"

"I'll live." Speed Demon muttered holding his side in pain.

"I'm good." Talon confirmed.

"… Forge?" Phantom asked before seeing Forge messing with his arm. "What are you doing?"

"I'm having a cow, man!" Forge said in panic. "My tech isn't working!"

"It isn't?" Speed Demon zipped over to see Forge stumbling. "Are you alright?"

"… Y-Yeah."

"I told you that you rely on tech too much." Talon told him with her arms crossed.

"I'm not in the mood." Forge said testily. "We're in a tech free zone so some of our chances of success went down."

"Excuse me?" Talon said in anger.

"Calm down." Phantom told them as he looked in the distance to see a castle. "Even without tech, Forge is good with the training sessions that we did without powers."

"And I was talking about how the Anti-Ghost Weapons won't work." Forge said to Talon. "I wasn't doubting your skills."

"Well, there is one tech free Ghost Weapon that I have." Phantom reached into the Speeder before pulling out some silver gauntlets. "Ectoranium, very harmful to Ghosts, just don't hit me with it and we'll be good."

"But you only have one pair." Speed Demon said.

"So we share." Phantom gave one gauntlet to Forge and the other to Speed Demon. "I already know that Adamantium can hurt Ghosts as well as Ecto Energy so Talon and I don't really need an upgrade with our abilities."

"Look out!" Speed Demon moved and managed to get Phantom out of the way as an arrow nearly shot through his head.

"Oh great it's these guys again." Phantom muttered on seeing Headsman and Archer.

Talon clenched her fists at seeing Archer as her claws came out.

Snikt.

"I call dibs on the Archer."

"Make that two of us." Speed Demon said as arrows were shot at him so he knocked three of them out of the way before grabbing the fourth one by the shaft. "Hah- crud!" He noticed a lit stick of dynamite on his.

BOOM!

"Gah!" Speed Demon flew back into a tree. "That's some Looney Toon's crap right there."

Forge managed to block the Headsman's axe with his gauntlet as he struggled under the weight. "Alright this is weird." He muttered.

"You haven't seen weird until you fight the Box Ghost or the Lunch Lady." Phantom quipped as he covered his foot in ecto energy and smacked the Headsman in the face, scratching him with the ectoranium. "Hit him!"

Running forward, Forge managed to punch the Headsman in the gut causing the Ghost to drop his axe.

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"Gah." Talon was running at the Archer with six arrows in her body as she managed to get a claw strike in. "Is that all you have?!"

Shaking his head, Speed Demon sped over and wall jumped off a tree delivering a punch as he took the quiver. "Not so tough without your arrows are you-?"

Clang.

Archer corrected that by slamming his bow in Speed Demon's head before using him as an arrow to shoot at Talon and she had to move her claws to avoid gutting him as he crashed into her.

"Get off." Talon pushed him off as Archer managed to put his quiver back on.

"Ugh, what is that bow made of?" Speed Demon asked rubbing his head in pain.

"Move!"

Looking forward, Speed Demon ran through a horde of arrows as he had to jump off of one before twisting his body in midair to dodge some more. "HOW FAST DOES THIS GUY SHOOT?!"

Talon ran forward slicing her way through the arrows. "Just take him down."

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As the Headsman was knocked back, Forge picked the axe up. "Gnarly, axe." He admitted as he gave it a twirl.

Glaring at Forge, the Headsman made a hangman's noose appear in his hands before he threw it and it wrapped around Phantom's foot. "Forge!" Phantom called out. "A little help?!"

Using the axe, Forge managed to cut through the rope as the Headsman was pulling causing the Ghost to fall back, before Phantom blasted him with his cryokinesis, freezing him.

"You fight things like this all the time?" Forge asked with a pant.

"This is just another Tuesday to me." Phantom admitted.

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Archer was shooting arrow after arrow at Speed Demon. "Missed me." Speed Demon taunted as he sped from one place to the next. "Come on, at least try." After dodging five more he sighed. "This is boring."

Notching another arrow, Archer was about to fire it when he stopped as he felt pain in his back before looking down to see four claws protruding from his chest.

"That was for shooting my friend." Talon said as she ripped her claws out, none too gently causing ectoplasm to spill.

"Oh God." Speed Demon covered his mouth in horror, because he haven't seen anything like that, not even when he interfered with the Middle East War.

"What?" Talon asked giving him a look of disbelief. "This is a Ghost, he can't die again."

"True." Speed Demon relented with a sigh of relief.

"You guys done?" Phantom flew up to see Archer unconscious. "Cool, now we just head for the castle-."

"No you won't." They turned to see a blue skinned ghost with silver hair wearing a familiar amulet that resembled the one that Dora wore. "You will get off of my property."

"Prince Aragon, I presume?" Phantom asked his fist lighting up.

"Danny Phantom?" Aragon asked remembering the tales he heard. "The one who defeated Pariah Dark? You think because you defeated the King of Ghosts you stand a chance against me?"

"Kind of." Phantom said with a shrug. "Where's Dora?"

"That idiotic sister of mine? She's in the dungeon." Aragon said without a care.

"That's harsh." Forge commented.

"Where's the army?" Speed Demon asked looking around.

"I don't need one to beat peasants like you."

Talon snarled at being called that. "Can I gut him?"

"Gut me?" Aragon laughed as his eyes turned pure red before he grew, black wings sprouting from his back. "You cannot defeat me!" He roared as he became a giant black dragon with a purple underbelly and green claws. "I AM THE PRINCE OF THIS REALM!"

"Take him down!" Phantom ordered as he shot a barrage of ecto blasts.

Running forward, Speed Demon went to punch him, but Aragon spun around his tail slamming him into the ground where he felt something snap and he saw that his leg was bent in the wrong angle, as a searing hot pain overcame him.

"SPEED DEMON!" Forge shouted in horror before Aragon turned to him as he managed to duck a tail swipe aimed at him. "If my arm cannon weren't off the grid, he would be so toast."

"Check on Speed Demon." Phantom ordered as he grabbed Talon. "Repeat on what happened with AIM?"

"Do it." Talon agreed as Phantom threw her at Aragon. "I always wanted some dragon hide boots!"

Narrowing his eyes, Aragon shot flames out of his mouth blasting Talon into the ground as she cried out in pain.

"Leave them alone!" Phantom blasted Aragon back before dodging a wing strike. 'Focus, he took Speed Demon down easily, Forge isn't much good in this tech free zone and Talon is being burnt. I need a way to take him down.'

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"Easy." Forge was helping Speed Demon in a sitting position.

"Forge, I need you to twist my leg back in the right angle." Speed Demon told him trying not to cry out as his leg protested to his movement. "My accelerated healing will do the rest."

"… Am I the only one without a healing factor?" Forge asked in disbelief as he put a hand on Speed Demon's leg causing him to cry out. "You ready?"

"Get it over with." Speed Demon clenched his teeth as Forge violently twisted the leg back to the original angle. "FUUUUUCCCCKKKK!"

"Are you going to be alright?"

"Y-Yeah." Speed Demon said as he felt his bone healing. "Just give me a few minutes before I can run without pain."

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Talon snarled as she made it out of the flames with some tears in her costume and her helmet visor broken to show burnt skin rapidly healing. "This guy is really pissing me off." She snarled before digging her claws into a stone wall to climb up to higher ground.

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"AAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!" Phantom screamed in agony as he was slammed through three different walls. 'This guy is powerful.' He thought making a cryo shield to block the flames before he saw Talon using her claws to climb the wall. 'Alright Phantom, just hold out for a little longer-.'

Phantom's eyes widened when Aragon's tail slammed into the shield knocking him down before landing with a claw over his body.

"Any last words Ghost Boy?" Aragon asked snidely as Talon leapt from the wall.

"Yeah, this is going to hurt you more than me." Phantom said with a smirk.

"What are you-?" Aragon's words were cut off as Talon's claws embedded in his back and he gave a roar of pain. "Get off of me you wench!"

Feeling the wind shift, Phantom wasn't too surprised when Speed Demon helped him up. "You have a plan?" Speed Demon asked warily trying not to wince at the pain of his throbbing leg. "I don't know how we can win."

"Yes." Phantom reached into his pocket and pulled out Dora's Amulet. "Find Princess Dora and give her this, she'll know what to do from there."

"Got it." Speed Demon grabbed the amulet before taking off as Aragon managed to shake Talon off and hit her with his wing, causing her to slam into the ground, creating a small crater.

"You alright?" Phantom helped her up.

"I'll live." Talon said accepting the help as Forge ran to them.

"You need me to do anything?" Forge asked as Aragon roared.

"Stay alive." Phantom ordered sharply. "Until Speed Demon returns with help."

"Who are you getting for help?" Talon asked in confusion.

"You'll see." Phantom pulled an ecto shield up as fire blasted towards them.

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"No!" Speed Demon ran by every door and kicked them open to try to find the dungeon. "No! Not it-." Now Speed Demon wanted to throw up at seeing a ghost taking a bath before he saw Speed Demon and screamed, causing Speed Demon to slam the door shut. "Definitely not it. Man, where is the dungeon?"

After running around for a few more minutes, using his speed to take out the guards before they could react, Speed Demon found some stairs leading down before he saw Dora in a cell with some fresh bruises.

"You Princess Dora?" He asked carefully.

"Who are you?" Dora asked in fear.

"I'm a friend of Phantom's." Speed Demon said before tossing the amulet in. "He said you would know what to do with this."

"What's the point?" Dora asked not moving towards the amulet. "I can hear the battle going on outside, my brother's too strong."

"What's the point?" Speed Demon repeated in disbelief. "The point is that your brother is a douche!"

"A what?" Dora asked never hearing that word before.

"He's a jerk." Speed Demon explained. "And he'll continue being a jerk unless people stand up to him."

"He's a prince and I'm a princess." Dora shook her head. "A princess isn't supposed to think, we're supposed to smile, look pretty and live happily ever after."

Speed Demon nodded as he listened. "Uh-huh and how is that working for you so far?" He asked sarcastically causing her to look down. "Look, we all have potential for many things but to find out what we have to take chances, to make risks. And that includes standing up to Prince Jerk face out there." He said before narrowing his eyes. "So either you help with what Phantom said you could do, or I go out there and fight by myself. Make your choice."

Hearing Aragon's roar, Dora narrowed her eyes and picked the amulet up off the ground. "You're right." She said as she tied it around her neck. "It's time to end this."

Speed Demon's smile turned to one of shock as she grew into a giant blue dragon. "Now that's cool."

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"Gyah!" Phantom barely managed to get out of the way as Aragon's claw slashed through his costume with small cuts appearing. 'Getting careless.'

Forge was using the axe he took from the Headsman to send out blasts of ecto energy at Aragon, but the dragon sent them back with his tail hitting Talon.

"This is bad." Forge said as Phantom was knocked to the ground next to him, reverting back to Danny as he got in front of him, brandishing the axe.

"Move aside, peasant." Aragon roared at him.

"Make me." Forge told him.

"As you wish." Aragon took a deep breath to breathe fire when a blue blast of fire hit him and Dora flew in with Speed Demon on her back.

"Whoa." Forge said as Danny woke up groaning before he went Ghost. "You alright?"

"I'm in pain, but I'm good." Phantom said before Aragon stood up and roared at Dora.

"Dora, you imbecile!" Aragon snarled at her. "What do you think you're doing?"

"What I should've done ages ago." Dora said.

Shaking her head as she got up, Talon tensed at seeing a second dragon before seeing Speed Demon on the back as she smirked. "I'll be damned."

"1600 years of doing your bidding." Dora snarled using a tree to smack Aragon back. "1600 years of suffering your insults." Stomping her foot on Aragon she continued. "1600 hundred years of-umf!"

Aragon reached over and shut her mouth up. "You." He said on seeing Speed Demon. "I'll kill you right now."

Speed Demon narrowed his eyes before seeing Aragon's amulet. 'I wonder.' He thought as he smirked. "You can try." He taunted as he ran across Aragon's arm before grabbing the amulet as it broke off. "But something tells me you'll be very busy trying not to suffer."

Aragon's eyes widened as he turned back to normal hanging off of Dora's mouth. "Uh-." That was all he managed to get out before Dora plucked him off.

"Way to go!" Phantom shouted as Speed Demon landed next to them with a smile. "You did it."

"Thanks." Speed Demon said as he saw a lot of Ghost surrounding him. "Oh crap."

Getting ready to fight, the team was surprised when the Ghosts started to cheer at Aragon's defeat. "That's unexpected." Forge commented while relieved that the fighting was over.

"I think it's time we took this realm out of the dark ages." Dora said as she shot flames into the sky clearing it of the clouds, allowing light to fill the clearing as people had to cover their eyes to adjust to it.

Forge felt his prosthetic arm turn on and he smiled widely. "YES! TECH IS ALIVE!" He cheered as he began messing with his arm to see if some features still worked.

"Calm down." Talon told him, but she was smiling underneath her helmet before they saw Aragon get up with a look of pure hatred.

"You." Aragon pointed at Phantom. "Your return ruined everything! I will get you for this Ghost Boy, mark my words."

"Should we stop him?" Speed Demon asked as Aragon took off. "I can get him easily enough now that he isn't a dragon."

"Let him go." Dora said turning back to normal. "He's no bother to anyone anymore."

"Thank you, Princess Dora." Danny bowed his head in respect.

"No, thank you." Dora said with a smile before looking at Speed Demon. "And thank you for what you said, you were right."

Speed Demon sheepishly rubbed the back of his head. "Uh, no problem."

As people surrounded them, Dora looked around. "Now I believe that a celebration is in order." She said causing everyone to cheer again before she looked back at the team. "It would be an honor if you would stay for the festivities."

"What do you guys say?" Phantom looked at the others.

"I'm game." Speed Demon said with a smile. "I'm curious to see a Ghost Zone party anyways."

"I hear that." Forge agreed before looking at the Speeder. "We have to fix some of the systems anyways so we might as well stay for the party."

"I don't care." Talon shrugged.

"Well then." Phantom turned to Dora. "We accept the offer, it's an honor to be included your highness."

Dora laughed. "Please just call me Dora."

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Vlad was holding the sides of his seat in anger as he heard the story from Aragon. "You got kicked off your own throne by the Ghost Boy?!" He asked seething in anger at losing his army.

"I underestimated the peasant." Aragon said with his fist clenched. "I will get him for this."

Now Vlad smirked because an angry pawn would work in his favor. "I believe I can help you with your revenge."

Aragon's head snapped up with rapt attention. "I'm listening." He said in a dangerous tone.

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Speed Demon was in a frenzy of eating to keep his energy up after running around so much. "Oh man, who knew that Ghosts could make great food." He said munching happily.

"I could've told you that." Phantom said in amusement as he watched Forge trying to introduce tech to the other ghost subjects.

"I'm telling you, use this to electrocute enemies." Forge said showing off a makeshift Taser. "I can make more and send them over if you want because this is just one step into the modern world."

'Plus we managed to delay Vlad's supposed assault on the Earth.' Phantom thought before frowning. 'But where is this supposed empire?'

Looking up, Phantom saw Talon sit next to him with a plate of food for herself. "Hungry?" He asked as she began to eat.

"Considering how long we fought, starving." Talon answered with a shrug. "Still it's interesting to see this place."

"The Ghost Zone is something, isn't it?" Danny asked with a small smile remembering the adventures he had in this world when he first got his powers.

A lot of them were great, although he could've gone without the arrest warrant from Walker's compulsive dictatorship.

"Danny Phantom." Dora floated up to them. "A word if you please."

"Uh, sure." Phantom stood up and walked with her. "What is it your highness?"

Dora sighed showing a little annoyance. "I told you to just call me Dora."

"Sorry." Phantom apologized with a sheepish smile.

"I wish to reward you and your team." Dora said as they left the hall and headed towards a door.

"You don't have to." Phantom said with a smile. "We're just happy to help."

Dora smiled as she opened the door to show a room full of gold, gems and dusty books. "This is my brother's treasury." She explained to Phantom's shocked look. "I already divided it in half. The half I took is for the kingdom to make changes, but this half in here is for you and your team."

"I-I don't know what to say." Phantom said in awe, this could solve the money issue for when Clockwork's fund runs out but he didn't want to take advantage of Dora like this. "But I don't know-."

"Consider it a thank you for everything you've done." Dora said to him. "You protected the human world, defeated the Ghost King and freed my kingdom from my brother. It's only natural I return the favor."

"T-Thank you." Phantom bowed his head. "I humbly accept your reward."

"No need for formalities between friends." Dora said with a chuckle before she looked serious. "If you ever need a hand my kingdom will help out in any way possible."

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Meanwhile in Bayville, a ten year old girl with light purple hair and dark purple eyes, wearing black combat boots, black and purple stockings, a black double-layer skirt, a simple black T-shirt, and a half-length leather jacket with white fur lining on the edge's and cuff's, was skipping through the town.

As she passed a hot dog vendor, she waved a hand, some purple energy coming out as a hot dog shot out and latched onto a man's face causing him to scream in terror as she pilfered a hot dog.

"Ah, I love the smell of chaos in the morning." She said eating the hot dog as she teleported up to a roof of a building. "And this place is just begging for chaos to be released."

To Be Continued…

Sorry for the long wait, I had to find time to type this as well as balance with the job I have so I can save up for college and I'm beginning to write a script for a comic I wanted to make in sixth grade.

But now the Renegades have new allies and there is a new player in Bayville, but whether she'll be a friend or a foe remains to be seen.

Also this chapter happened the same time as the second episode of X-Men Evolution happened so they'll have Shadowcat in the next chapter.

Review time!

TheWhiteTitan: I was wondering if anyone would notice it because I figured that until Pariah Dark attacked, people outside of Amity Park didn't take the Ghost threat seriously, and in order to make that believable I had to do it before other heroes showed up.

NightMaster000: They'll meet the Brotherhood soon enough because right now they only have Avalanche and Toad in their ranks. I hope I did well with Logan and Laura talking because they needed to be awkward with them trying to make things work out. And I think you can tell who it was at the ending right?

TitanX: Thanks! I hope this will continue to be in the Top 5!

Guest4: Who said that it was just one evil boss?

Coldblue: I might do, option number two because I think love triangles will be hilarious to type and those are good reasons for Laura/Danny. And sorry if I did make Ray too emotional but I figured it would work out and I did have him win the fight in this chapter.

They will meet the Morlocks, but not for a while. How they interact with the Brotherhood remains to be seen and I think I answered your third question.

I want Dark Dan to come later on in the story but I want to do it perfectly instead of it being random and I don't think he would be able to kill Clockwork, take him out of commission for a while but not kill him.

JP-Rider: Maybe or maybe they form an alliance with the Mandarin.

Guest7: Thanks and I hope to fix the interactions as time goes on.

Guest2: Oh don't worry I will.

Inviso-Al: Oh I need to make it hilarious otherwise it would be wasted potential.

Guest8: Thank you for the pairing suggestions.

Shugokage: Thanks!

Phantom Fan: I'll try to resolve the Parker issue in Spectacular Spider-Man.

Alright, hope you enjoyed this chapter!