Ch.10! I hope you guys enjoy! Love ya guys!

Danny stood at the cherrywood podium, with hands clasped tightly around the wooden stand, to the point where his knuckles broken through the thin fibers of his gloved hands. And now, surrounded with every major news team in the country— camera flashes exploded in front of him, blinding his sight as question after question was screamed at him— Danny had to fight the vomit that wanted to spew all over the people below.

Well, maybe it'd make them leave at this point.

"Mr. Phantom, is it true that you were the cause of the explosion?"

Danny took a deep breath, closing his eyes, and his mind to the buzz of the press trying to get their questions heard. "Yes, it's true."

That got them going even more. As the click of the camera's somehow seemed to speed up, Danny tried his best to keep his composure, keeping his back taunt and feet planted to the granite that made up the ground.

But even with the deep, even breaths were doing little to sustain his chaotic nerves that were bouncing from bone to bone, muscle to muscle, from ligament to ligament in his body, tearing through his system like an unwanted bug.

With a recording device raised towards Danny, a reporter asked, "When taking this action, had you considered the other people in the building besides Vlad Plasmius?"

Breath in, breath out. Eyes close, open. Repeat. "No. I didn't."

Another person fished their way through the news-hungry crowd. There seemed to be no end to the amount, or determination of these reporters. "What makes you think you have the right to endanger innocent lives, just for the sake of your grudge match with Mr. Master?"

His baby blues eyes snapped to the person. "This isn't a grudge match. He's hurting people, innocent people! It's all a sick game to him. It's chess. And guess what? We're just his pawns."

Danielle put a hand on her father's shoulder and stepped up to the podium, reassuring him that she and everyone was there. "Listen, my dads' done so much for this world. We have every right as much as police officers, to stop the things that ordinary people can't. We're trained to do this before we could even be trusted to hold an ecto-rifle. My dads' has been doin' this longer than anyone else."

Danny's shoulders visibly relaxed under her words. "But despite being half ghost, he's also half human. Humans aren't perfect. We make mistakes and we try to use our best judgment to do what's right, but sometimes things just don't work out. He's saved every one of you time and time again. So, until they find evidence of anyone actually dead, I think this conferences' over."

As they turned their back, intending to slip back behind the doors of the mayor's office, someone called out one last time, "Ms. Phantom, before you go. Weren't you a creation of Vlad's? How can we be sure these are not his words rather than ones we can really trust?"

Danielle and Danny looked at the reporter with disgust— with Danny about to lay it into the person for the accusation against his daughter— but before they could say anything the reporters all seemed distressed as their equipment shut down along with nearly every electronic device in the town.

Far off in the distance, the two halfas could see a ball of green energy expanding through the town. However, as it touched the world in its path, it blinked out of existence. Nothing happened. It was as if nothing happened.

And then, all the lights in town started turning off. One building, street lights, anything with power one after another; almost like a domino effect.

Clicking his earpiece Danny tried to connect to his sister."Jazz, what was that, and where did that come from? What's going on with the lights?" Danny pressed the com unit again. "Jazz! Are you there?"

Danny transformed and looked to Danielle as the two flew off leaving the press behind.

As they reached the epicenter, they saw The Rusty Ghost, and upon seeing a hole in the wall, ran straight for Jenny and Izzy, who stood just feet in front of the building, holding JJ and Kath.

Upon seeing the destroyed wall, Danielle's eyes snapped to Izzy. "What happened?"

Izzy looked up with tears drowning her eyes. "Vlad survived from the fire, Val saved us but in doing so, she sacrificed herself."

Shock hit Danielle like a truck, almost falling on her back until she almost hit the ground as the world around her began to sway just underneath. She would have, had it not been for her dad.

Not Valarie.

She wasn't gone, she couldn't be. It just wasn't possible.

Izzy continued on, eyes watching Danielle. "She created this orb and obliterated both her and Vlad in the process."

As they stood there looking outside to the spot Val was fighting Vad the lights in the restaurant began to flicker back on. Soon, the city followed suit and one after another, the whole city was lightened up with power.

"Danny! Do you hear me, Danny?"

Danny flinched as his ear device came back to life and Jazz's voice screamed in his ear. "Jazz!?"

"Yeah, seems like the coms are back up."

"Jazz... Val is gone."

"Well yeah, she's' been in Paris for the past couple of weeks, helping with Tucker's company while her dad, stepmom, and brother are in Hawaii."

He sighed, wetness damping his eyes. "No, Jazz. Val's dead."

"Danny, there's something else."

Danny looked at Izzy as she walked up to him, horror in her eyes. "I shot him dead in the forehead. He didn't phase, he didn't catch it. His brains splattered on my walls. It took him a moment's before he got back up and when he did, he talked about when I died 5 years ago and how it would make a great haunting."

Danielle's quick intake of breath was lost to Izzy as she continued. "I don't know how the hell that monster knows that or how he survived a shot through the head, but if I had to bet, we haven't seen the last of him."

Jazz's voice broke through again. "Danny, Danielle, I need you to gather everyone. I might have some news."

Jazz sat next to Roy on the couch, a soft hand resided on the technologist's knee. "Honey, we need to talk. When Danny told you to activate the Belts I know you were looking out for him and if I were in your position I might have done the same thing. You love us and would do anything to protect us, but at the same time, we need to trust each other. You've been so helpful to everyone on this team and you do an amazing job at it."

The guilt that laid in his eyes swallowed him whole, and Jazz felt bad, because she understood how it was when you messed up the first time with ghost fighting.

"They're just sometimes where tough calls have to be made and while we're at headquarters, if one of our field members tells us there's no other way, unless we have the time to prove otherwise, we have to put our faith in them... Even if it means that they might not walk away from a situation."

He nodded, his lips turning down in sadness as his tongue skimmed the length of his bottom lip."I know. I just froze. It won't happen again."

Jazz smiled, patting her fiance's knee."Thanks for understanding, sweetie."

Inside the normally dark lab, Jazz sat in her chair with the monitor behind her washing the walls in front of her white. She was dressed in her suit, as to be able to connect to her chair and had had the whole range of the town just in front of her.

Her family stood in a circle, looking behind Jazz as though the screen in front of them were going to bring back the dead.

Without looking back to her family, Jazz said, "Right now, it's just a hypothesis but over the years, Val's called me from time to time, asking for help with her equations and until now, I couldn't figure out what she was working on. But when Izzy's security cameras came back on, I saw Valerie phase through the wall of the diner. It hit me. She's has been using this time to advance her tech to that of otherworldly possibilities."

Everyone held their breath at the implications of what she was saying.

She typed rapidly against her keyboard, eyes trained on the keys she pressed. "I also did a scan of the area with our satellite, and it showed a strange residue that appeared after the explosion."

Danny shrugged, eyes still on the overly large monitors. "Well yeah, it's an explosion. There's gotta be something left behind."

Jazz's words were on autopilot at this point as her fingers brushed along keys. "Yeah, but those specifics, things like debris and other thing left by a normal explosion were not present. This led me to believe that Val teleported herself and Vlad."

"You're right, Jazz!" Izzy shouted, her entire being started to bounce with excitement. "When Val was fighting Vlad, she was saying how all this time she was using tech from all the multiverse. That's how she held off Vlad for as long as she did. If she could get to other earth's without Lilith's help, then teleportation must be apart of that step."

Jazz smile was filled with hope as she typed in the algorithm.

She threw her arms up in triumph as the screen confirmed her theory. "Yes, just as I thought. If you take into account all the variables you can see that the area around the dinner has a mass that shifted after the explosion. By how much, you might ask. By approximately the mass of two grown adults! Meaning that was no explosion! She teleported them."

Danny looked on at the screen as if it was written in morse code. "Okay, so where did they go to?"

Jazz's mood instantly dropped. "That's the only problem... She didn't give them a destination."

"What does that mean?"

Jazz sunk back in her chair, fingers laced together as she contemplated the situation as a whole. This was in no way ideal. "It means that right now she and Vlad are atoms floating in the wind waiting to be assembled."

Danny's voice began to rise slightly at the hopelessness of his sister. "Well, we gotta bring her back. If she had a way to teleport, I know she would have a way to bring herself back in case something like this ever happened."

Jazz sighed as she moved from her chair, unplugging her suit from all of the cords that connected her from it. "You're right. But what if she doesn't want that."

Sam continued before Danny could respond, a violet fire raging in her eyes. "What the hell do you mean she might not want that!?"

"I mean, that when she was facing off against Vlad she said that she and her family had been working nonstop for the last 5 years to make sure that when he came back she could stop him. What if this wasn't a last-ditch effort. What if this was her end game?"

That made Sam shrink back, her eyes glossed over with worry and a hint of fear. "You mean, she did this on purpose? Why?"

Jazz's voice never faltered as she explained her theory. "The same reason she tried to help Dan during his emo phase. She has people, just like we do, which she would do anything to keep safe. She has always gone a step further so it wouldn't exactly be out of character."

A chirp came through their suits to the tune of the Danny Phantom theme— which Tucker had programmed into the com's, against everyone's protest.

Danny pressed his chest to activate the speaker. "Fenton family here."

A southern twanged voice reached their ears. "This is officer Bandy of the Amity Police Department. We have a member of Master's goons. We were wondering if you could send someone over to foresee the interrogation and to maybe clarify some of the ghost mubo jumbo."

Danielle stepped forward. "I'll do it. Maybe I could get inside his head if he doesn't talk willingly."

Sam sighed, a protest just on the edge if her lips before Danielle cut her off. "Mom, I can do it."

Sam studied her daughter for a few moments before she reluctantly agreed, pulling her into a tight hug. "M'kay. Just make sure you're safe, okay?"

"Oh, Mom. You should know by now to worry more about who I'm interrogating."

"Come on, officer. I was just playing dress up. What's the harm in that? I mean, you let underage kids do it and they're labeled as heroes."

The officer balled his fingers into a fist, bracing his fist on the metal table as files of evidence of the guilty person laid spread out on the metal table."You're not a hero and you know it. You can play coy all you want, but you don't just get to the belly of the beast without having to be there for a long time so just do us both a favor and tell us what he is up to."

The one light that hung from the ceiling between them hardly gave any light, but it was enough to see the guy's light brown maintained hair— which was cut neat, surprisingly to the officer—his dimmed black eyes seemed to scream at the officer to let him go no matter how composed he was. His soft baby face held him younger than he actually was, even the crooked nose did little to age him.

The guy let out a low chuckle as he relaxed in his seat, kicked his feet up to the table—crossing them at the ankle— and threw his hands behind his head as if he was making himself at home in the interrogation room. "Nah, not for you at least. You're too old and saggy. Maybe if you bring a nice broad in here I would sing her a pretty song but for you. Well, you can just kiss the fattest part of my ass."

Without warning, Danielle phased through the two-way mirror. Causing the guy to straighten immediately in his chair as she drew his attention to her. "Now, that's what I'm talkin' about! Long snow-white hair, slim figure, and an ass that could-"

Danielle placed her fingers on his temples, silencing him instantly, which only worked for a few minutes, but it still helped from his crude behavior. Now that he had been silenced, she floated back the other side of the table. "Now that I have the floor, I have some questions for you."

He eyed her hungrily, a lion looking at his prey, Only if he understood that was on the low part of the food chain when compared to her. "Anything you want, hot stuff."

Laying her hip against the table and crossing her arms over her chest, Danielle said, "I'm already taken," his face didn't drop at that, a challenge now lingered in his eyes instead. "Now, about your employer, what does he have planned?"

His smirk that played on his lips widened. "Well Ms. Lady, he has a really good insurance package for a psychopath. But I think you meant his larger plan. Well, if I told you, that'd spoil all the fun. But I'll tell you this, sweetie. Those missing people in your town aren't the only ones. Their just the only ones people care about. And I wouldn't just watch out for the gang members from Chicago. This is so much more than you think."

Her nose scrunched in anger at his words. Did Vlad have more followers than they thought? And where they outside of the Chicago gang? Who was all involved in this? "How many more are there? Hundreds?"

He threw his head back, laughing in almost a delighted tone. "Hundreds? You're funny. Big ol' Daddy didn't tell me you were funny." She growled at the implications of being called Vlad's daughter, "No sweet cheeks, it ain't hundreds, hell it ain't even just Amity or Illinois. This business is worldwide, like McDonalds, only you're the meat."

Jazz was at a complete loss. Any idea that quickly bled though was easily washed away another problem with the idea. "What do we do? She did this so that we could be free of Vlad once and for all. Do we just undo her decision and bring them back?"

Maddie— who had found her way down to the basement after visiting Jack in the hospital; after the doctor said that she could return in a few hours for his discharge and return home, they just wanted to do a couple more checks — came up with, "That's if, we can even do that."

Roy stood up from his chair next to Jazz. "Maybe if we got ahold of Mr. Grey we could find a reversal device so that we could... we could maybe..." As Roy stumbled with his words, he hit the ground, hard.

"Baby, Roy!"

Jazz rushed over to him, kneeling down as she grabbed his head to prevent any more injuries to his skull. Thankfully as she held him, Jazz realized he hadn't lost full consciousness.

His voice was shaky, but still audible as he tried to hold himself. "It's okay... I think I'm just having a low. I don't know how though, I didn't turn my pump off."

With her brother's help, the two get Roy to his feet, keeping him steady once he had some footing. "Roy, the power surge. It must've taken out your insulin pump and it never turned back on. Quickly Mom, get him some orange slices!"

Without a moment's hesitation, Maddie climbed the stairs and disappeared into the kitchen and a second later, she came back down with a bowl of fruit. "I wasn't sure which one to get so I grabbed them all."

Roy grabbed for a peeled orange and ate the entire thing within minutes, his skin still paled, eyes more sunken in and sweated accumulating around his forehead..

Jazz helped Roy as they made their way back to his chair, setting him down slowly and with care."I have'ta start carrying glucose tablets in my purse for you, mister."

His face visibly relaxed as he settled into his seat. "Thanks you two, it'll take me awhile to get better."

"I'm just glad we caught it when we did. I don't want to lose you. I can't imagine my life without you."

Danny looked at Jazz with a heavy heart. "I didn't even think of that. How are we going to break the news about Valarie to her family."

Sam looked to Danny and Jazz, eye big with sadness at what was running through her mind as she breathed out, "Her brother's only six. I can't imagine how he's gonna take it."

Jazz looked to her control panel. "No. I know she made her choice, but if everyone sacrifices themselves than who'll be left to stop whatever comes after Vlad. Bad guys won't stop after Vlad; they always come because they always do. "

Roy spoke up from his spot, sarcasm laced with his words, a challenge playing on his eyebrows. "I thought you told me before that we have to trust our team and respect the choices they made."

Jazz turned to Roy with a tear-filled smile. "Well, you butt, I guess you 'really made an impact on me."

Jazz typed in the address to video chat Mr. Grey. "Ah, Jazz. It's nice to see you. Has Valerie made it there safe?"

Wanting to avoid the situation of what his daughter was in, Jazz instead asked one of her own, keeping it short. "Mr. Grey, I'm sorry for the shortness right now I'll have Valerie explain later, but right now I need you to tell me whether her teleporter has a remote emergency reverse?"

Confusion blinked in his eyes, but still answered. "Yes, we always planned ahead in case she was sent somewhere particularly unpleasant. Why? Is something wrong?"

Again, she dodged the question. "Mr. Grey, we need you to activate it."

The aged man began typing away on his computers, eyes glued to his screens."Sure, but it needs a destination. I modeled the reverse to go to the nearest ghost portal. Seeing as there aren't that many around the world, she should come to you."

"Thank you, Mr. Grey, Now in about three minutes I want you to activate it, okay?"

"Yes."

Jazz shut off the audio on the feed, and looked to her brothers. "Danny, Dan! You two go ghost and get ready to use all the energy you have to blast at that portal. Izzy, Sam, bazookas! Mom, get ready to turn on the portal! If we bring back Val, we bring back Vlad! Now get ready!"

Everyone did as instructed and fled into position.

Jazz's fingers became nothing more than a blur as she typed away. "Now, Mr. Grey!"

Without hesitation, Valerie's Dad flipped the switch.

Within moments the two figures began to reshape in the inactive ghost portal. They were both fully formed and exhausted as the dropped to their knees. But no one could deny the relief at the sight of seeing Valerie safe and alive.

Dashing into the portal before Vlad could become coherent again, Jazz pulled Valerie from the blast radius that the portal would cause.

"Everyone, now!"

Maddie activated the ghost portal behind Vlad as Danny and Dan blasted Vlad with their full power. Sam and shot Vlad again and again. All this effort and it was doing nothing to the withered man. He began to walk closer to the group as the beams of plasma continued to make contact with every step, but continued to do nothing to him as he clawed his way out of the portal. As he neared the huntress, he hissed out in a raspy voice, "Maddie!"

Out of nowhere, a hand pushed the two halfas safely out of the way as a large figure with an eyepatch stepped forward. "Stay away from my wife!"

With that said, Jack Fenton punched Vlad single-handedly into the ghost portal. He looked to his wife, screaming, "Now, Maddie!"

She flipped the switch, banishing Vlad from their presence.

Maddie hugged Jack as tightly as she could follow by Dan and Danny. "I thought I was supposed to pick you up in a few hours."

Jack shrugged, a bright smile lit up his face. "Guess they were ready for me to come home earlier than expected."

Without notice, Valerie quickly awoke and pushed Jazz off her seat."What the hell did you do?"

Jazz remained calm as she swiftly got to her feet. "We saved you!"

Valerie seethed with anger. "I did what I had to! I did what any one of us would for the safety of the people we love and the people of this world. What gives you the damn right to take that choice away from me! He was gone, damn it! He was dust in the wind and you brought him back!?"

Izzy stood in front of Valery, putting herself as a shield between the two woman. "No, we brought you back!" Izzy took a deep breath, bring herself back down. "We brought you back because they're people that love you. When I was a kid, my mother died on an ordinary day, on an ordinary road, with adoption papers in hand for what was going to be my sister."

Izzy calmed the volume of her words, but her voice still remained stern. "Now, every year that day is the hardest day of the year. Every time I'm on that road, I hear her last words. Do you know what that's like to someone that young? To lose someone so close to you. You have a family-"

"I was doing it for them! I have a responsibility!"

The sound of footsteps could be heard over the video chat.

A soft voice reached out from the speakers. "Sissy? Sissy, are you okay?"

Valarie froze upon hearing her little brother's voice. Every bone in her body screamed to run at the voice, because at the back of her mind, something told her she knew what she had done was wrong, but she could push it away if she shut the reason out.

But now, that reason was right there.

Wanting to know the answers.

Izzy smiled pointed to the screen where her brother's face was five times the size as normal. Curly dark charcoal hair, big brown eyes that questioned everything and seemed to take up his whole face, small little lips. A bunny held tightly in his arms. He was Valerie's whole heart.

Izzy's shoulder bumped against Valerie's as she skipped past her. "Better go say hi to your responsibility."

The huntress walked over to the monitor, tears in her eyes. "Hi, bean."

He rubbed the sleep from his eyes. "Sissy, why're you crying?"

She hastily wiped the tears that had started to unknowingly flow. "I'm not, sissy doesn't cry remember. Sissy's just allergic to silly hair on goofy beans."

His lower lip went out in a small pout as he clutched the rabbit to his chest. "My hairs not goofy."

She gave a warm smile to her little brother. "It's always goofy to me. Now, do me a favor and go tell Daddy that sissy loves you both okay and I'll be home soon."

"Okay. I love you, sissy!"

Tears were now fully flowing down her face, uncaring of the audience around. "I love you too, bean."

The computer monitor blinked off as Valerie hit the floor, hands grabbing at her long curly hair that she had for years now. "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I didn't know what to do. I don't know what to do."

Her eyes closed she felt Jazz's arms wrapped around her, followed by the rest of the Fenton family.

Jazz smiled. It's okay, Val. Whatever we do, we do it together."

Poor Valerie. So, what's the next step, now that they know that Vlad's followers aren't just in Chicago? Are there any in Amity? How safe is Team Phantom really? Will Danny be accused further for any deaths that may have come from the explosion? Will people now think Danielle is in on Vlad's plan?

Will Tucker find out about the guy flirting with Danielle and punch him? XD

Sorry, anyway. I hope you enjoyed. Please read and review.