Chapter 7

"It's been almost a week and no sign of her attack, much less whatever the other thing…" Cat mumbled to herself as she was folding her cloths right after coming home from the laundry mat.

"Who attacking?"

"Ah!" Cat cried, her fist going up, green and ready, as she turned towards the door only to drop her arm and roll her eyes. "Danny! How'd you find the door?"

"You've got it invisible to humans." Danny laughed, walking in and closing the door behind him. "Don't worry, it took me some time to get it right too."

"Sorry about the door being in your attic." Cat said, going back to folding her cloths. "Clockwork thought it would be best."

"No, it's fine." Danny said, smiling. He looked at her cloths, his cheeks reddening as he noticed her underwear. He sat down on a part of the bed not being used for her cloths and asked, "Who were you talking about?"

"That goes under I'm not allowed to tell." Cat admitted, folding a shirt. "Sorry."

"You've got a lot of black." Danny noticed, changing the subject to have something to talk about.

"I'm an Emo Refined. It's in-between goth, emo, and nerd." Cat explained. "In short we wear black, like dark stuff and anime, but we don't cut ourselves. Some of the group used to cut but don't anymore."

"I'm guessing Emo Refined isn't all that popular, huh?" Danny asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Not really. Some friends of mine came up with it last year, so it's something only we do." Cat admitted, putting her cloths away in her dresser. She turned to him and asked, "So, what's up? Man that's sounds so old."

"I was wondering if you wanted me to teach you so ghost tricks." Danny admitted, smirking at her comment as he stood up. "Sam and Tucker mentioned how you don't fight much."

"You've still got a couple of weeks before you should be doing anything like that." Cat pointed out. "The doc said you were close to snapping your back."

"Why I'm wearing this brace." Danny pointed out, hitting the plastic under his shirt. "That's why I thought I could try and explain how to do it."

"Well…" Cat said, thinking. "Ok, alright. I should be fighting like you anyway."

"Ok, Sam and Tucker are getting my course set up in the basement so we can find where you are." Danny explained.

"What about your parents?"

"Uh, parents are at a meeting that serves dinner and Jazz left a while ago with some friends." Danny said, walking towards the door. "We've got the house to ourselves for a while."

"Ok, give me a moment. I wanna use my own ghost form." Cat said, picking up her costume from a table in the room.

Danny nodded before leaving her room. He headed downstairs and entered the basement as Sam pushed a button on the remote in her hand to retract rings into the ceiling.

"She coming?" Tucker asked, putting the list he normally uses for Danny's practice on a clip board.

"Ya, she wanted to change back to her own costume." Danny explained, sitting down behind his friends.

"What does she call her ghost song thing?" Tucker asked, looking up from the paper.

Danny and Sam shrugged their shoulders, not sure. "I'll have to go ghost so we can see how it works, though." Danny figured.

"And we'll have to test her morphing ability." Sam reminded. "Does she have a ghostly wail?"

"I haven't developed one." Cat said as she walked down the stairs, her brown hair held back by barrettes. "So what do I do for this test?"

"First is agility." Tucker said. "Basically don't hit or get hit. Make your way from the door to the portal wall and back."

"Alright." Cat said, gulping as she prepared herself. She closed her eyes and allowed the white light appear at her waist. As it separated it showed her wearing a jumpsuit designed on a more feminine side of Danny's own. Her feet were dressed in white boots, black taking over up to her thighs where white took over up to her waist giving it a crooked belt-like look. Her hands had gloves designed in white that showed black where her fingers were. Her chest gave the appearance that a white shirt covered her. Her white hair was back up in its normally messy pony tail.

"Ready. Set." Sam started. She pushed the button on the remote as she said. "Go!"

Cat found herself dodging lasers, darts, and a cardboard ghost. A wall fell from the ceiling, forcing her to go intangible so she could continue in her momentum forward. She finally found herself at the far wall and turned around to find rings swinging from the ceiling and walls. She quickly went through each one, making it back to the start.

She landed on her feet, almost sliding a foot before stopping. She knelt over to catch her breath before asking, "So, how'd I do?"

"Compared to Danny? You're just under his normal score." Tucker said. He pulled out a speed gun from his book bag and smiled at the girl as she stood straight. "Next is speed."

"Do you want my top speed or just the best I can do in this small lab?" Cat asked, smiling at the boy.

"Top speed would be cool." Danny pointed out, his arms stretched back as he watched.

"Ok, point that gun towards the middle of the room." Cat said, floating upwards. "I'll be back sooner than you'll expect."

The three friends watched as she flew out of the basement, Tucker doing as she asked.

"I wonder how far she's got to go out to get to her top speed?" Sam wondered out loud.

"We'll ask when she-whoa!" Danny started only for a rush of wind to blow all their hair towards the portal.

"194 miles an hour." Tucker gasped, eyeing the gun's screen.

"I think I could've been a racecar driver if I hadn't been born a ghost." Cat said as she appeared from the wall next to the portal. "What's next?"

"Aim and coordination." Sam said, the remote in her hand again. "Shoot ghosts, not humans. GO!"

Cat heard a click as machinery started up and a green blob-like ghost cut-outs popped up. In the end, only one out of ten humans lost their heads.

"Ok, how about overshadowing?" Tucker asked.

"Who wants to volunteer?" Cat asked.

Tucker sat the clipboard down on the table. "Let's get it over."

Cat smiled before going inside her father's best friend. "Hi, I'm Tucker and man, am I glad I no longer write that with an F in cursive!" Cat said, making Tucker move a bit to show she had control of his rotary movements as well.

Danny and Sam laughed a little as Cat came out, herself smiling.

"I wouldn't've done it so long if someone had just told me I had my T's and F's swapped." Tucker defended, crossing his arms over his chest.

"It's ok." Cat tried, "I still get C and S mixed up in speech."

"Ok." Sam said, still snickering as she picked up the clipboard. "Let's see you disappear."

Cat did as asked, vanishing from their sight.

"Perfect." Sam commended, checking that off as Cat reappeared.

"So how about your morphing?" Tucker asked.

"I call it Phantom Fitting. Morphing sounds too much like Amorpho." Cat said, getting confused looks from the three. "He's a ghost you'll meet soon."

"Isn't Phantom Fitting a bit long though?" Sam asked.

"I thought it was a good name, since I came up with it when I was six." Cat admitted.

"So how does it work?" Danny asked.

"I think about who I want to be and that's it." Cat shrugged. "It's not all that difficult." Cat closed her eyes and before their eyes she changed into Sam, her costume adjusting to her new height.

"How'd your cloths stay together?" Danny asked as Sam stood staring at her copy.

"It's made from some weirdo elastic my grandmas created." Cat explained as she went back to herself. "Really I was surprised they got together to create it since they were still at each other's neck at that time."

"Nice." Sam admitted, thinking of something.

"So, how does that ghost song work?" Danny asked, standing up.

"I normally use it to stop another ghost from moving. I've learned I can convince ghosts to move in directions if I change pitches." Cat explained.

"Do it to me." Danny ordered, going ghost.

"Okay." Cat said, not sure. She started singing the same tune they had heard back in Vlad's lab only to see Danny's eyes dilate. Cat changed pitches as Danny started to walk towards the portal.

Cat sang it backwards, getting Danny to walk in reverse. He stopped back in front of the girl as she stopped singing before dropping down to her hands and knees panting.

Danny shook his head to clear his mind, his eyes back to normal as he looked down only to see Cat as worn out as he normally is after his wail. Her human black shirt now showing through her ghost form along with her bare arms. "Let's take a break."

"It takes a lot out." Cat admitted, trying to stand up, getting help from Danny. Danny changed back to human as he helped her sit down in the chair he had been sitting in earlier.

"It looks like his ghostly wail and your ghost song do the same to you." Tucker realized.

"And I didn't even use my most powerful song." Cat admitted, turning fully human as she looked up at the three.

"What do you mean?" Danny asked, seeing how worn out she was now.

"I can destroy a ghost if I sing another tune."

"I'm glad you didn't sing it than." Danny said, his eyes big.

"It's an ultimate weapon that takes a lot of energy and I've only had to use it once." Cat explained. "Of course I accidently used it once when I gained it. I ended up destroying a newly forming proto-plasum grandma was creating."

"You have any other powers?" Tucker asked.

"Well, I've seen one power Dad do that I've been practicing." Cat admitted. "Creating copies of myself."

"I can help you with that." Danny nodded, proud of himself. "I just finally perfected that. Have you learned how to make a shield out of your plasma?"

"No."

"Then we'll work on both after you get your energy back." Danny said, leaning against the table. "You said Mom taught you to shoot?"

"And some jujitsu." Cat nodded.

"It's weird to think everyone knows about your powers." Tucker admitted, looking at his friend.

"Well, do you really think you'd be able to keep it a secret forever?" Cat asked. "It's a wonder how Grandma never found out until you told her."

"At least you say I tell her." Danny admitted, not seeing his daughter rub the back of her neck as she bit her bottom lip.

"And not like last time when everyone found out." Sam pointed out.

"Last time?" Cat asked, only to the story to find its way back to her. "Oh, you mean with the Reality Gauntlet, right?"

"Ya, that time." Danny remembered. "How you feeling?"

"Much better, thanks." Cat nodded.

"Alright than, get up and go ghost. We'll work on your shield first." Danny said, strangling up.

"There's his house." A dark skinned woman said, stopping a few feet from Fenton Works. "It's been a while since any of this was standing."

She looked down at her watch as a couple of teens passed the woman vaguely remembered. She knew they wouldn't recognize her that her hair was in a military crew cut and she now was in her thirties. She dropped her arm as she continued on with her plan. She had to destroy Danny Fenton before he became Dan Phantom.

Cat closed her eyes, remembering what Danny had just told her as she concentrated on creating a clone of herself.

"Hey, did I just hear the door?" Sam asked, stopping Cat.

"I'll go check it out." Danny said, disappearing from their sight. Danny floated up the stairs, finding nothing out of place as he went through the kitchen. He floated into the living room and was about to give up until the sound of a gun warming up stopped him.

"I can see you, ghost boy." A female voice said.

Danny turned around to see future Valerie, a visor over her eyes and a gun pointed straight at him. "Valerie!" Danny exclaimed, becoming visible. "How'd you get here?"

"None of your business. Now die!" Valerie demanded, starting to shoot at him.

"Dad!" Cat cried, her ghost form shooting out from the kitchen. She created a green plasma shield as she protected Danny from the purple ray.

Cat found herself flying passed, colliding with the couch. She got up and shot towards Valerie, not wanting to harm her but just scare her away.

"What, Danny, letting your little pet ghost fight your battles now?" Valerie asked, shooting at the girl.

"I am NOT his pet!" Cat growled. "I'm his Daughter!" Cat flew at the woman, tackling her down to the ground.

"How are you his daughter?" Valerie asked, the two locked in a hand grip as Cat pushed down. "He's a monster!"

"He's not a monster." Cat growled, her hands glowing green to hurt Valerie.

"Ow!" Valerie exclaimed, kicking Cat off of her.

Cat corrected her balance, floating in the air before looking back at the woman only to see a gun pointed at her. "Don't you get it!? You're not in the same timeline you left!" Cat tried, hoping Valerie would at least pause.

"How is that possible?" Valerie asked, her gun still pointed at the girl.

"A ghost called Clockwork, have you heard of him?" Cat asked, keeping her hands where the woman could see.

Valerie nodded her head, her gun still not moving away.

"He prevented your timeline, but because of the damage Dan caused to your line, not everything has merged with my line." Cat tried to explain.

"That doesn't even make sense!" Valerie refused, shaking her head. She looked determinedly at Cat and enforced, "Danny will always turn evil! It's my job to prevent that!"

"Then how do you explain me!?" Cat asked, only to find herself dodging lasers.

"You're just some freak of nature! Just like Danny! And since that's the case, you should die too." Valerie said, a smile on her face as she shot one final blast. The laser hit Cat square in the chest, sending her flying into the wall, her eyes closed. She fell to the floor, not responding as Valerie walked closer.

"Cat!" Danny's voice cried out, hopping to wake his daughter.

Author's Note: sorry about it being so long and full of info. I wanted to show what all Cat could do and actually have something Danny teach her work. Also Valerie's fight is a bit….issued to even me but I still wanted to add her in to the story. Trust me, I am getting better. (On paper this story's already up to chapter 14 and it get really good by then so I'm getting better at least I think I am)