Another update! Hope this makes up for my absence. This is the big battle scene you've all been waiting for! After this, one more chapter to go to conclude "The Ultimate Return"! I already have my next episode in the process of writing. Well, enjoy ;)


Danny was flying as quickly as he could, looking around for his friends and family. Looking down, he noticed that the town was deserted. It must have been because of his and his older self's destruction that everyone was hiding.

"Think Fenton," he told himself, "If I was an evil creep with no emotion at all, and I was trying to dispose of all my old friends and family, were would I go?" Danny paused and thought for a second, but then it clicked in. "Oh how original. I'd better get to the Nasty Burger and fast! You'd they'd get rid of that stupid sauce by now."

Danny flew in the direction of the Nasty Burger. Suddenly, he saw Sam, Tucker, Maddie, Jazz, and Jack tied up against an overheating tub of sauce, just like the first time in 'The Ultimate Enemy.'

"Yes! I was right!" Danny said as he landed in front of them, but then got really worried, "Wait! Oh no! I was right!" Then he out his hands on his head and screamed as he saw that the thermometer was in the red zone and the boiler was about to explode.

Danny quickly raced over to them and turned them intangible. They all landed on the ground gasping as Danny used his ghostly ice and froze the whole thing.

"Thanks… Danny," Sam gasped as Danny helped her up. "Are you guys okay?" Danny asked as they all slowly stood up.

"Besides almost being blown up, never better," Tucker joked, putting his thumbs up.

Suddenly, the evil phantom flew over towards Danny. Everyone else backed away as Danny got into a fighting position. "Well, so you escaped? I should have figured you'd escape. I never did give up. No matter, your time is up Danny, it's been up for ten years," he spoke.

"No way! I'll never turn into you! I promised!" Danny yelled, but then put his hand on his head and said "Whoa, major déjà vu." Then Danny flew up face to face with his ultimate enemy.

"At first, I didn't realize that I didn't need you anymore, but then I figured out that I exist out of time. So now, I'm not holding back!" future Danny yelled as he shot ecto-blasts at Danny but he dodged them.

"Man, it took this long to figure out that you don't need me? And I though I'd be smart in the future," Danny mocked.

"Let's settle this once and for all," he then growled.

"You took the words right out of my mouth," Danny said, seriously instead of cracking another joke.

Sam, Tucker, Jazz, Maddie, and Jack were all hiding behind the Nasty Burger, watching the two preparing to fight. "I wish we could do something to help Danny," she said to the group.

"But we don't have any weapons," Tucker explained, "We'd surely get in Danny's way, and then get creamed by his evil self!"

Sam and Jazz whispered, so low that nobody could her them, to themselves, "Danny, please be careful."

Suddenly, the two started shooting ghost rays wildly at each other, but each of them dodged all the blasts. Then Danny's evil self made three more of himself and they all started shooting at Danny, making it harder for him to dodge.

"Aw man," Danny said as he continued to dodge and shoot back, "Maybe I can… just this once..." Then Danny closed his eyes and concentrated really hard. But older Danny took this opportunity and shot at him. At the last minute, Danny created three more of himself and blocked the blast. "Yes! I did it!" he cheered. The other Phantom's growled as they shot more ecto-blasts at the Danny's, while they shot some ghostly ice. The two blasts collided and both struggled. Finally, the elder Phantom's blast made it through Danny's ice and hit the Danny's, forcing them to change back into one.

Then they also formed back into one as he shot a giant ghost ray at Danny. Danny didn't have time to dodge it, but it made him fall to the ground and changed back into human form. Then he shot anther energy blast at Danny.

Danny put his arm over his face but when he took it off he saw that the blast didn't hit him! In fact, there was a square pink shield in front of him blocking the attack. Danny looked over and saw who put it up. "Vlad?!" Danny asked as Vlad flew over and helped him up, "Where's the ecto-suit?"

"Uh, well, you see…" but Vlad couldn't finish stuttering his explanation, because a green blast shot him and pushed the elder halfa back. Then the older Phantom charged past Danny and towards Vlad. Danny continued to peek, but then look away as Vlad was attacked.

After about a minute, Vlad slid next to Danny and changed back into his human form. They looked up and saw Danny's ultimate enemy charging towards them. Just as he's about to hit them a big blue blast hit him and pushed him back. Vlad and Danny turned over and saw that it was "Dani?" Danny asked, as he looked up and saw her in the ecto-skeleton.

"Hold that thought for a second," she said. Then she stuck out her hand and blasted him again as he was getting, pushing him father away and giving them more time to explain things.

"Now, do you really think I'd let you have all the fun?" Dani smirked as Vlad got up. "I tried to tell you that Dani came after me. She insisted that she would go to get the battle suit while I came to help you."

"And don't worry," she said, transforming back to her human form, jumping out, and letting the battle suit transform back to its original form, "I was careful with the power."

"Thanks Danielle, I guess I was kind of wrong about…" then Danny stopped and looked up at the battle suit. It went from the black and white with the 'DP' symbol to dark blue, red, and silver colors, with a 'VM' symbol on it. "You've got to be kidding me," Danny stated, "You have time to give it a new paint job, but you don't have time to perfect the neural receptors?!" Vlad just shrugged.

"Hey!" Jack yelled as everyone walked over to them. "That looks just like my old ecto-suit! I wonder where that ever went?" Jack wondered as he pointed over to the battle suit. Everyone nervously chuckled except Maddie and a confused Jack.

"Now," Danny said as he hopped into the ecto-suit, "I'm going ghost!" Then Danny transformed into Phantom, and the suit followed, just like the first time.

Suddenly, everyone heard something and turned around. It was the older phantom sending a ghost ray their way. But Danny put a shield around them just in time.

Then Dani jumped up and transformed into her ghost half and opened the top of the suit and grabbed some weapons from inside it. "I also brought some of these. Danny did say he wanted me to look over the weapons," Dani shrugged as Vlad went ghost.

Then Maddie, Jack, Jazz, and Tucker all grabbed one. Dani handed one to Sam but she put her hand up. "No thanks," she said as she pulled the Fenton Wrist Ray out and slipped it on, "I have this." Sam figured she'd pull it out now, since they would have never let her go out alone to help Danny with only that.

"Young lady, where did you get that?!" Maddie asked, recognizing it right away.

"I know," Jack agreed, "That looks just like our missing Fenton Wrist Ray!"

"Whatever," Dani said, "Do you want to ask questions, or do you want to kick some butt?"

Then they all started to charge towards the evil ghost and surrounded him. But even though he was surrounded, he continued to smile evilly. "You know, I had a feeling you'd make a little army, so that's why I went forward in time and got these guys," then he snapped his fingers. Suddenly, a big group of ghosts from the future turned visible, all around Team Phantom.

"What!? I thought they hated me… us… uh, you!" Danny exclaimed.

"I know," he smiled, "And since it's obvious that I'm going to win this fight, I told them that if they help me win, I'd spare them. Of course I could easily win on my own, but it'd be more fun to focus all my energy on you, Danny."

All the ghosts grinned evilly and were all wearing Clockwork's Time Medallions, to keep them in this time. Everyone charged towards the future ghosts, leaving Danny to fight his older self. They were outnumbered, but Team Phantom never gave up so easily. Even the Box Ghost, Skulktech, and a lot of other ghosts were there, most likely to just save their own hides.

Then the two Danny's engaged in battle. Each of them were shooting ghost rays at each other, and dodging their opponent's attacks, while everyone else was fighting the future ghosts.

"So listen, if you're my enemy, I need to call you something. You know, after I kick your butt and everything. And calling you Danny Phantom would just be too weird. Not to mention that name is reserved for good guys only," Danny said to his future self.

"Hm, yes. I wouldn't want the same name as a goody-to-shoes anyway. I don't see much point in a name, but I suppose it would be good to have one for when these pathetic humans run in fear... you can call me Phantom. D-"

"Phantom?! Uh, that's kinda confusing, because a lot of people call me Phantom alrea-"

"Dan Phantom," he finished, pretty irritated.

Suddenly, Danny bursted out into laughter. "Dan Phantom?! That's the best you got!? Well, I guess when I was split up, my ghost half didn't inherit my creativity," Danny joked, still laughing.

Dan growled and started to change up ecto-blasts in his hands.

Danny looked over and stopped laughing as soon as he saw this. "Uh-oh. I guess I didn't inherit my sense of humor either."

"No, just your temper," he smirked.

"Temper? What-" but Danny was cut off by being hit with one of Dan's ghost rays.


"There's too many of them!" Tucker shouted as he blasted a ghost that was charging at him.

"Keep fighting!" Sam yelled as she blasted one of the ghost's medallions off.

Suddenly, Jack tripped and dropped his weapon. A ghost charged towards him as he put his arms over his head. Vlad saw this, and quickly flew over to help. Right before the ghost hit Jack, Vlad slammed into it.

Jack watched astonished as Vlad tackled the ghost that was about to attack him. But after hearing from his son about how much Vlad hated him, why did he save him? Suddenly, the ghost zapped Vlad and was about to strike him again. Jack quickly picked up his weapon and fired it at the ghost. Jack walked over to Vlad, who was getting up, and said, "Vlad, you… you saved me. But I thought…"

"I though too," Vlad interrupted, "Jack, I- I'm so sorry. You were always my friend, and well… I guess it's true what they say, you don't know what you have until it's lost. I don't know how I could ever make it up to you, or Maddie, or Daniel, or everyone else I've taken advantage of. I was wrong, and I'm truly sorry for blaming and hating you. I know it simply won't make up for everything I've done and, I probably never will, but I'd like to try."

"Vladdie…" Jack smiled. The next thing Vlad knew, he was trapped in a big bear hug by Jack saying, "I knew you weren't all bad!"

"Thanks Jack," Vlad struggled, "Now will you stop crushing me!"

"Sorry," Jack said, dropping Vlad. Jack wasn't entirely ready to forgive Vlad, but he did just save his life. May Vlad deserved another chance, after all, who doesn't? Suddenly, right before Jack was about to something serious for once, an ecto-blast came right at them, but they jumped out of the way. Jack warmed up his ghost weapon and Vlad's hands started glowing pink-purple as they charged back into action.


Danny got right back up the two continued to shoot and dodge each other's attacks. Finally, Danny shot a big blue ghost ray at him that hit Dan and he slid across the ground.

"Ah, yes," he spoke as he quickly rose to his feet, "I remember how helpful that ecto-skeleton was when locking up Pariah Dark. But as I remember, this suit drains your energy as you use it."

He was right, Danny was tired getting even more tired as put his hand on his head. He was getting weaker and weaker, while his older self was barely fazed. "Uhg! T-that maybe so, but I need to stop you, no matter what it takes!" Danny said, just managing to get back to normal. Then Danny charged towards Dan and threw a punch but he dodged it; he threw a punch, but Danny dodged it.

Danny then jumped up high in the air above Dan and then got ready to land on him, but he jumped out of the way just in time. Suddenly, Dan made a huge ecto-blast and shot it at Danny, but he put a shield around himself.

"Uh!" Danny struggled as some more of Danny's energy started draining. Now it was at 25%. Sweat was trickling down his face. Danny charged forward and hit Dan as hard as he could and made him fly back into the air, which gave Danny a moment to catch his breath.

But, not as much time as Danny wanted before came charging back; only this time he unleashed his ghostly wail towards Danny. Danny gasped as he tried to put a shield up but the wail broke through it and hit Danny which caused the battle suit to go into pieces and made him to slam into a wall from the almost destroyed Nasty Burger.

Dan Phantom stopped and put an evil, but satisfied, grin on his face. Danny was lying against the Nasty Burger with his eyes closed as he transformed back into Danny Fenton. The elder Phantom started to walk forward to Danny…


Dani was wildly attacking the ghosts. She was doing really well, when two ghosts flew over. "What's this? Are you some kind of Phantom wannabe fan girl clone?" one of them asked.

"Shut up," she growled, trying to hit them with ecto-blasts.

"Ooh, sounds like we hit a sensitive spot," the other one mocked. Dani recognized the ghosts now. They were the older Spectra and Bertrand.

"Why should we shut up? All we're saying is the truth. You're just some worthless clone girl of the original. You say you're your own person, but you look like and have the same interests as Phantom. Why would anybody care about a clone like you?" Spectra mocked, feeding on the misery.

Dani was about to say something, but she couldn't think of anything to counter. What of they were right? What if she was worthless? What if she was saying she was her own person, just to fool herself into thinking that?

"Because she's more than that!" somebody called.

The girl looked over and saw that it was Vlad, who just blasted Spectra. "And I should have realized that sooner," Vlad apologized. "Danielle, I'm sorry. I was so wound up in having the perfect son that I didn't realize that you were the perfect daughter, and I should have seen that sooner, like young Daniel had. Don't listen to what the others say, because you're more that just a mere clone, and you've been through a lot –most of which I admit is from me- but you are your own person, not some mindless drone, making you your own person, true to what you say."

"Sheesh Dad, you can be so corny when you're not trying to dominate the world," Dani smirked. "I don't know if I can accept your apology one-hundred percent, but I do believe that it's sincere and not just some trick," she smiled. Besides, she couldn't let what those misery feeding ghosts say get to her now; she had work to do and cousins to help. Then the two halfa's prepared to finish off Spectra and Bertrand.


The rest of Team Phantom was struggling but they cleared almost half the ghosts and sent them back to their own time line. After Sam shot one of the medallions off, she stopped for a minute and looked over to see Danny back in his human form and Dan getting closer and closer to him, laughing manically.

"Danny!" Sam shouted. Everyone looked over and gasped. They tired to get over and help him, but all had their hands full with the ghosts charging at them. Sam shot the ghost off of her and ran towards Danny. She turned around and shot the ghost that was charging towards her as she continued to run to Danny. As she was close enough, she shot Dan sky high.

"Danny! Danny! DANNY!!!!" she called, trying to wake him up as she put her hand on his. "Danny, I-I… don't go! I can't imagine my life with out you! Danny, I love you!"

Then she took Danny and finally kissed him. After all these days of trying, of course now would be the time they'd get the chance to kiss. Then again, these things are normal for Team Phantom. Once she stopped Danny slowly opened his eyes; he was tired and worn out. "Uh… S-Sam?"

"Danny! Thank goodness!" Sam exclaimed as they hugged.

Suddenly, Dan flew back and landed in front of Sam and Danny just as Sam finished helping Danny up. He was laughing manically as Danny weakly pushed Sam behind him. "You all are doomed! There's no way you can escape my wrath!" Dan laughed.

Danny was huffing and puffing. He could barely talk, let alone stand. Not to mention that he was fighting off the need to black out. "B-back off D-dan! S-Sam, get o-out of here and go back to f-fighting the future g-ghosts!"

"No way Danny! I won't leave you!" Sam argued.

"G-go! T-this is m-my fight!" Danny ordered.

Sam was about to argue back, but a ghost slammed into her and pushed her back to where everyone else was fighting all the ghosts. Danny turned back and faced his evil future as he put out his hands in a fist and a defensive position. Dan just chuckled and said, "Ha! Do you honestly think you can defeat me!?"

Suddenly, blasts were shot at the evil ghost from out of now where, but he flew in the air and dodged them. Danny and everyone looked over and saw that it was Valerie who suddenly flew in while looking over the town.

"Danny, catch!" Sam called as she threw Fenton Bazooka towards Danny. He caught it and also shot it at the Phantom.

"Man Valerie, am I ever glad to see you!" Danny said to her.

"I was in the neighborhood and heard some blasts being fired, so I decided to check it out. Care to explain?" Valerie said.

"Well in short," Danny said looking around, knowing that his evil self was going to be back any second, "That's Dan Phantom, an alternate future self of mine, he was controlling me for a while including when I attacked you, sorry by the way, and he's bent on destroying me and everyone I love."

"And other kids think they have problems," Valerie rolled her eyes, knowing that this was not the time to ask more questions or for more details.

"Where is he? I thought he would have flown back by now," Danny wondered as he and Valerie looked around. Suddenly, they heard a scream; Sam's scream to be exact. They spun around to see that Dan flew down, grabbed Sam, and flew back high up in the air. Valerie charged at him but he just shot a ghost ray at her rocket board which sent her flying back.

"Sam! No!" Tucker yelled, wanting to go and help, but was fighting off three ghosts at the time.

"Sam!" Danny yelled as Sam screamed.

"Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!" Dan laughed, "Try and shoot me now Danny! Unless you also want to hurt her! Ha-ha-ha-ha!!!"

"Sam!" Danny screamed again. What could he do? He lost all his power, he could barely stand. Dan shot Valerie's board, and everyone, especially Dani and Vlad, had their hands full with all the ghosts attacking them. He couldn't let anybody get hurt; he had to save them no matter what it took.

Suddenly Danny felt all his power return to his body as his eyes started blazing green. No matter what, he wasn't going to let Sam get hurt. She's always been there for him, now he was going to be there for her.

"GOING GHOST!" Danny roared as the familiar blue-white rings went up his body and transformed him into Danny Phantom, at full power.

"What!" Dan yelled in shock as Danny charged up towards him, "How did he get his strength back?! He should be defenseless right now!"

Danny punched his future as hard as he could, which made him drop Sam.

She screamed as Danny zoomed down and caught her.

"Danny!" Sam exclaimed as they landed and Danny let go of her.

Then they hugged each other as Tucker ran over to them and sighed in relief, "Guys! Thank goodness you're okay!" Then he joined in for the group hug.

"Look out!" Danny called, cutting the hug short, as he shot a ghost ray at a future ghost that was flying towards them. Valerie finally flew back and yelled "Danny, behind you!" Danny turned around and saw Dan Phantom charging towards them. Valerie shot at him, which hit him dead on. Sam and Tucker ran off to fight off the rest of ghosts as Dan landed in front of Danny, and Valerie landed next to Danny.

"Ah, and my old enemy Valerie. Does this day get any better? Everyone at the top of my list, all in one area," he grinned.

"Uh, do I know you?" Valerie said in confusion.

Danny leaned over to her and whispered, "Back in the alternate future I mentioned before, you two were enemies and you were the one that tried to stop him from doing all his evil deeds."

Valerie stood there a little confused. "I'll explain it in detail later," Danny sighed, "Just go fight some of those ghosts. If you knock off the medallions that they're wearing, they'll be sent back to their normal time. Oh, and don't shoot Vlad, he's on our side right now." Valerie listened to Danny and flew off to help everyone fight some ghosts. As much as she disagreed –especially with Vlad- she trusted her friend.

"Fools, you may be lessening the ghosts, but there's still no way for you to defeat me! I just don't understand one thing, how did you get your power back? You were powerless," Dan mentioned.

"Simple. A ghost like you would never understand about caring for someone! That's how!" Danny answered. Suddenly Danny unleashed his ghostly wail on the older Phantom. He did the same and used his ghostly wail to counteract. The two wails collided. They pushed against each other, but none of them budged much.


Back with Team Phantom, who were almost done with Dan Phantom's little army, Tucker and Jazz were standing next to each other firing at the ghosts.

Suddenly, Tucker saw Valerie fighting Skulktech and got his PDA ready. But before he could type anything in, a ghost grabbed it out of his hands. Although, before it could get away, its medallion was blasted off by Jazz, who had been improving on her aim.

Then the ghost went back to its own time, and dropped the PDA. "Ha! Nice shot!" Tucker said as he said jumped up and caught his falling PDA. Then he raced over to Valerie and started typing on his PDA. Right before Skulktech was about to fire, something started ringing in a catchy tone.

The Skulker part looked at it and read it out loud, "'Take time medallion off and return to normal time.'" "Uh-oh," both parts said simultaneously as he unwillingly took the time medallion off and returned back to their previous time.

"Nice job Tucker," Valerie complemented.

"Thanks," Tucker said, "There are only three things needed to do that, courage, experience… and a trusty PDA." Then they raced back into battle.


The ghostly wails collided. Danny and Dan were both putting full force to it. Suddenly, five ghosts surrounded Danny with their hands glowing. As Danny kept his ghostly wail going he looked around at the ghosts, worried. If they shot him now, Dan's wail would get through, and he'd be toast. Suddenly Jack, Vlad, Dani, Maddie, and Valerie basted the all the ghosts around Danny away. "Stay away from my boy!" Jack shouted as they all charged at the ghosts.

The two wails continued fighting off against each other. Suddenly, Danny closed his eyes and put more power into it. Dan saw it inch closer to him and tried to put more power into his wail too, but Danny's still got closer to him.

Dan Phantom's eyes widened as he thought "Where is all this strength coming from?!"

Danny's wail finally made it through and blasted Dan into a building, and the building toppled on him. As he slowly got up, Danny got on his knees and transformed back into Fenton. The wail had made Danny weak, but it also left Dan hurt and weak. Danny got the Fenton Thermos out as the older Phantom started walking closer and closer to Danny.

He aimed it at his future self and it started pulling him in. "No, I won't go back! I won't be captured again!" Dan yelled as he struggled against the pull of the thermos.

Dan was then sucked back into the Fenton Thermos. Danny put the lid on and smiled.


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Well it's not over yet!



Suddenly, the thermos started to shake and rumble. Danny gasped as it suddenly broke open and fell apart. Dan Phantom had broken out and was now standing right in front of a defenseless Danny, inches away from him. Danny was frozen in shock as Dan warned, "Don't think you've seen the last of me! I'll be back, and things will be even harder for you... and your little friends."

"You leave them out of this!" Danny growled as he tried to hit Dan, but he stepped out of the way and Danny fell to the ground.

"You wish. I will be back, and I'll never leave. When? As that fool Clockwork would say... when the time is right. Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!!" Dan grinned. Then, he pulled his cape around himself and disappeared just as all the future ghosts were beaten and returned to their time. It wasn't the right time for Dan to strike. But he would be back, soon.

Danny slowly got up and just stared. Was Dan Phantom really that powerful? Was he, Danny Phantom, really that powerful?

But Danny's worried thoughts were interrupted when he was being hugged by Sam. "Danny! You did it!" she smiled. Sam knew Dan had gotten away, but none of them were lost today, and when he did return, they'd be ready.

Then everyone else ran over to him as they all hugged and cheered for him. "Thanks everyone, for being there," Danny smiled as Danielle and Vlad transformed back into human form and Valerie let her suit come off.

Suddenly, people started to emerge from their homes and surrounded Danny and his friends. Apparently they were watching the whole fight from the safety of their homes. They all just stared at him, not knowing what to think. They all heard that the ghost was his older self, not to mention the destruction he was causing before. Was their hero really a monster?

Out of no where, the Guys in White came out and attacked Danny. They weren't going to take any chances. The GiW took these two pink glowing ropes tied with a hole at the end of each, made to hold and capture ghosts, and shot them at Danny, making them go around his wrists. Danny struggled to get them off, but it just zapped him. He screamed at the pain, not to mention all the pain he was in from his future self.

"Danny!" everyone called in worry.

"Daniel Fenton, a.k.a Danny Phantom…" operative O started.

"You're coming with us for questioning…" operative K added.

"…And experiments, lots of painful experiments!"

"B-but…" Danny tried to say.

"Don't try to talk your way out of this one Phantom," K said "We heard everything that happened."

"Especially that part about you being that awful, evil, dangerous, powerful ghost," O added.

"Wow, they actually listened for once," Tucker whispered to Sam. But Sam just elbowed him and he said rubbing his arm, "I probably deserved that."

"Wait!" Danny tried to explain, "You don't understand! He exists out of time, so I don't turn into…"

But before Danny could finish, they zapped him again as Danny got on his knees. Suddenly, ropes identical to Danny's were around Vlad's wrists. "You too, Plasmius!" K said as they zapped Vlad too and he got on his knees.

"Back off!" Dani said as she stepped in front of them. Sam, Tucker, Jazz, Maddie, Valerie, and Jack also stepped in front of them. One of the GIW was about to say something when…

"Time Out!"


Now it's over... well this chapter anyway. One more to go!

Thanks to:

lilusagi12, Aquamarine Moonlight, and NinjaSheik

-GoinGhost :)