Here's another chapter of "Nicktoons: World of the Crazies". This is a particular favorite chapter of mine since after much build-up throughout the story; we finally meet Alternate Danny and find out whether he's a hero…or a villain.

Enjoy…

Chapter 10: Mirror of Mendacity

In the Alternate Town, Danny, the fairies, and Alternate SpongeBob made their way to rescue Timmy from Alternate Jimmy. The ghost boy and fairies followed Alternate SpongeBob to the one who would help them make their way to the science lab.

"Where are we going?" Danny asked since Alternate SpongeBob had not told them where they were going and who they were seeing. "Timmy's in trouble and we're wasting time."

"Wasting? Ha!" Alternate SpongeBob laughed as he turned to them. "Trust me on this, Danny. We're going to someone who will definitely be able to help us."

"I hope so." Danny replied. "Compared to everyone else we've met, he better be helpful."

"Oh, don't you worry." Alternate SpongeBob assured. "Once you meet him, you'll see I was right."

"Wait a minute," Wanda said in thought as she looked around the street. "This place looks very familiar."

"All our homes are here." Danny reminded. "Of course it looks familiar."

"Yeah," Cosmo agreed as he pointed forward. "Look how big Timmy's tree house is."

At this, Danny suddenly stopped and noticed that he wasn't in what looked like Dimmsdale- or Timmy's backyard. It was a street in Amity Park, and up ahead in the corner of the street was Fenton Works.

"My house?" Danny asked in surprise, but then gave a small smile, "Never thought I'd see it in this universe." But then he dropped to a nervous frown. "And if it's there, then that means…"

"Danny!" a familiar female voice called out which made Danny turn around to see someone he immediately recognized.

It was an Alternate Sam, who didn't look too different other than wearing a longer skirt, two ponytails in her hair, and her palms seemed to be wrapped in bandages that also covered her forearms.

"Sam!" Danny shouted as he smiled.

Then the Alternate Sam hugged him as she smiled, "Danny, I can't believe you're out here!"

Danny seemed a little surprised, but he then got a love-struck smile while Alternate SpongeBob spoke up, "Actually, Sam, that's not Danny."

"Yes, I am." Danny happily said as Alternate Sam continued to hug him.

"What are you talking about, SpongeBob." Alternate Sam asked, looking angered as she stepped back. "Of course it's…" but when she looked at Danny, she noticed something by his appearance. "Oh…I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else."

"It's the smile, I know." Alternate SpongeBob added. "It's the only thing that kept me from being further fooled."

"Sam," Danny asked as he grabbed Alternate Sam's hand. "I may not be whoever I'm supposed to be in this universe, but I'm still the same."

"No, it's just…" Alternate Sam said, looking sad. "You're just the Danny I wish he would be." Then she turned around and prepared to leave, but stopped for a moment and turned her head with a small smile, "Well, whoever you really are, thanks for reminding me of the real Danny."

When Alternate Sam was gone, Danny seemed even more confused than before. "The way I used to be?"

"It looks like you really are Dark Dan Phantom in this universe." Cosmo pointed out.

"No!" Danny yelled in shock. "I don't get it. Who am I supposed to be in this universe? Back at the bar, you told me I was good, SpongeBob."

Alternate SpongeBob sighed as he lifted his goggled up and took a seat on the steps of Fenton Works. "Oh, Danny, it's time I told you the truth."

He patted on the spot next to him on the steps which Danny took before Alternate SpongeBob started explaining, "Remember when I told you there was only one person I ever saved from Neutron's lab?"

"Yeah?" Danny answered, looking hesitant to know the answer.

"Well…" Alternate SpongeBob began explaining. "That person was you…from this universe."

Danny's eyes widen as Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof look surprised as well. "But it goes back farther than that." Alternate SpongeBob continued explaining, "About five months before I'd met you, there was an accident down in your basement where a weird ghost portal was. It exploded while you were in it and when you came out, you had strange ghost powers."

Danny had an odd expression as he listened to Alternate SpongeBob's interpretation of the story from this universe. He didn't bother to question him though, but he didn't anticipate what came next in the story.

"After you got ghost powers, you weren't sure what to do next, you were…a little scared by your new abilities and you wanted help. That was when you were offered help…by him."

"You don't mean…" Wanda asked in fright.

Alternate SpongeBob nodded and continued, "When you went into his lab, he was so intrigued by your powers that he wanted to know what you were capable of and how your powers worked, and after that, you never came out. From what I heard, you were gone for weeks and he had done unspeakable things to you through the use of science."

Danny seemed horrified by this story as Alternate SpongeBob began to finish, "After that was when I went in, I tried to see who I can save from Neutron's clutches. I had found you locked in a cell and restrained to the wall. I had introduced myself and soon enough managed to break you free from your imprisonment. The two of us managed to work together and barely make it out alive from that place and make it back home." Then he smiled warmly. "Ever since, the two of us have been best friends…like brothers."

Cosmo sniffled with tears in his eyes. "That was the most beautiful story ever."

"If by beautiful as in scarring, then yes it is." Danny added until he stood up. "If the last part is true then he should be willing to help us and he must know the lab like the back of his hand if he had really spent four months in there."

When he was about to open the front door, Alternate SpongeBob quickly said, "I wouldn't just go right in if I were you, Danny! You see, my Danny gets a little…shy around strangers." He gave a nervous chuckle and smile, "You should let me go in first and I'll let you know when you can come in."

"We don't have time." Danny replied as he opened the door. "If we're even gonna save Timmy, we have to get the Alternate Me's help now."

He then rushed in as Alternate SpongeBob had a nervous look. "Oh, this is gonna end badly." The fairies stared at each other in confusion.

As Danny walked through the house, he saw the inside was dark, dirty, and unkempt. He wondered how it was possible for anyone to be living here. "Hello?" Danny called out.

What he didn't know was someone was watching him from upstairs in the dark. "Hello?" Danny called out again. "Is there anyone named Danny Fenton here?"

But instead of his question being answered, a green ecto-beam fired and knocked him onto the ground. Danny groaned in pain and sat up, "What the…"

A voice that sounded exactly like Danny's then said, "Are you lost? Don't worry, I can show you the way out."

Another ecto-beam fired and hit Danny in the chest, sliding him on the floor. He opened his eyes and saw someone standing in the shadows of a corner. "Wait!" Danny shouted to the figure. "Are you Danny Fenton?"

"Gee, I don't know." The figure answered with the sounds of rattling chains coming from his movements. "Maybe this should tell us."

Another ecto-beam fired which Danny tried to dodge, but it instead hit him in the back, causing him to slide on his face.

Meanwhile, Alternate SpongeBob and the fairies walked through the front door, and Wanda asked, "Are you sure it's okay to enter announced?"

"Of course." Alternate SpongeBob answered happily. "Danny may get disturbed around strangers, but he loves company."

But then they heard a loud blast come from somewhere in the house. "Oh no!" Alternate SpongeBob gasped, "Wait, Danny! Don't hurt him, he's just a guest!" he shouted while running further into the house.

Danny was still getting blasted with ecto-beams and he tried to stand up. "I'm Going-" he tried to shout only to get hit again. "I'm-" but then he was hit again. "I-"

He was hit yet again with an ecto-beam as the figure still stood in the darkness with his right hand glowing with green energy. "Had enough?"

"Cut it out!" Danny shouted while leaning on the ground. "I'm you! I'm you from another universe!"

"Nice try." The figure scoffed. "You'll have to do better than that, loser."

"Danny!" Alternate SpongeBob yelled as he ran in front of Danny and spoke to the figure, "Danny, stop! You don't know what's going on, he's with me!"

Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof floated over to Danny and sprinkled some magic dust on him to heal his injuries.

"SpongeBob," the figure spoke. "Why did you bring all of these morons? You know how much I hate company."

"'Morons'?" Cosmo repeated with a smile. "He referred to all of us as morons instead of just me!"

"I'll explain that later." Alternate SpongeBob replied to the figure with a smile. "But come on out and introduce yourself."

"Alright," the figure said with a shrug. "I'll be glad to meet these dead pieces of meat."

When he stepped into view, Cosmo, Wanda, Poof huddle close to Danny, and see the appearance of Danny's alternate self.

He looked just like Danny except he was wearing a black short-sleeved jacket with white trimmings over his white shirt, the same type of blue jeans with a brown belt, red shoes, and oddly had shackles on his wrists with short chains attached to it, and had a strap of white cloth over his head, covering his right eye.

"So, what's the big idea, SpongeBoob?" Alternate Danny asked as he signaled to Danny. "Why bring this idiot who steals my look and makes it ten times stupid?"

Alternate SpongeBob pulled Alternate Danny close and answered, "That there is you from another universe, powers and all."

Alternate Danny just pushed Alternate SpongeBob away and said, "Alternate universe, huh? I guess you weren't full of it."

"Uh…that's right." Danny slowly answered as he stood up and walked over to his counterpart. "And looking past what happened earlier, it's nice to finally meet you. I was worried about what I might be like in this universe after seeing everything else that's happened. But now that I see you, I'm not bummed anymore. You're a pretty cool guy, and it's great to know that I'm still one of the heroes."

"I'm glad to see you feel that way." Alternate Danny replied with a friendly smile. "I gotta say, I think it's better that I'm meeting you."

"You think so?" Danny asked, smiling brightly.

"Totally," Alternate Danny nodded. "I never even knew I had someone like me in another universe. And seeing that my other self is weak, pathetic, spineless, and stupid, it makes me glad that I'm the better one of us that doesn't need to meet my other self to feel like a goody-two-shoes."

At these comments, Danny's smile immediately dropped and he frowned angrily, "What?"

Alternate SpongeBob quickly got between the two. "Oh, Danny, you're such a kidder." He said to the alternate ghost boy.

"How can SpongeBob like that guy?" Danny whispered to the fairies. "He's a total jerk!"

"Don't forget, Danny." Cosmo started saying. "He and SpongeBob are like brothers."

They then see Alternate Danny pull on Alternate SpongeBob's goggles and let them go, having them snap Alternate SpongeBob on the eyes while Alternate Danny chuckled at the sponge's pain.

"Did I say brothers?" Cosmo asked as he watched. "I mean stepbrothers."

"Hey, Alternate Me." Danny said to his doppelganger. "The reason we came here was because we need your help."

"Really?" Alternate Danny asked with a smirk. "Well, I'd love to not help."

"But you see, Danny." Alternate SpongeBob said to the alternate ghost boy. "Your other self's friend is in trouble, so we need you to come with us to Neutron's lab to rescue him."

At this, Alternate Danny's visible eye widened for second until he glared angrily. "No…if you think I'll help you or go back to that place, you thought wrong."

"But the thing is, Danny, Timmy needs our help." Wanda told him.

Alternate Danny suddenly kicked Alternate SpongeBob to the ground and said, "One) I don't help anyone, and two) I beat those who even ask for my help."

"Listen, dude," Danny began saying as he walked over to his alternate self. "I don't know what your problem is or if you just hate life, but one of my best friends is in trouble. If SpongeBob or even Sam were in trouble, wouldn't you wanna-"

"I don't think so!" Alternate Danny interrupted with his hand up. "SpongeBob is NOT my best friend, and I wouldn't even think of hanging out with some helpless, whiny, Emo loser."

This comment pushed all the wrong kinds of buttons for Danny. "Don't talk that way about Sam!" he yelled angrily.

"Or what?" Alternate Danny challenged with a smirk.

Danny responded by trying to punch him, but Alternate Danny just grabbed his wrist. "Oh, what's the matter? Did I make my other self cry?" he asked in a cruel mocking voice. "I didn't mean to…I just wanted to make you hurt."

"Why are you like this?" Danny asked the Alternate Danny while being restrained by him. "Don't you care about anyone?" then he glanced at the bandage over his eye which had been bugging him since he first saw it. "And what happened there?"

Alternate Danny gripped harder on Danny's wrist, causing him to wince in pain. "Ask about it again and I break off your hand."

"No!" Alternate SpongeBob shouted in panic. "Please no fighting, you guys!"

After this, Alternate Danny suddenly flung Danny on the floor and crossed his arms with his chains rattling together. "Well, have fun getting your friend back from Neutron. I hope he's suffered a bit from him."

Then he floats up and phases though the ceiling, leaving the others behind. When Cosmo, Wanda, and Poof went to go check on Danny, the four then turn their heads and glare at Alternate SpongeBob.

The sponge chuckled nervously and shrugged. "You know, he's really not so bad once you get to know him."

The number 1 thing to say about someone like Alt. Danny. Please tell me what you think.