Prepare yourself for a very VERY LONGGGGGGG chapter with A LOT of information! Rightfully I should have made this into 2 maybe 3 chapters, but I'm impatient to get to the next part, and I don't want my story too long, or no one will read it.
Okay 91Siler, we can do this. Just pretend your typing new chapters and not one really long one… I can do this… I wrote it by hand for god's sake typing it should be no problem…
Ní féidir liom féin a Danny Phantom (Irish for don't own)
I have got to stop passing out! Danny thought angrily to himself. He had awaked to find his arms stretched out at an angle, held by cool mettle cuffs. His legs where pinned strait down by similar restraints, and a single curved bar held his lower stomach to the dark wooden slab. The slab was held at a slant so he was neither laying down nor standing up. The room resembled a witches hut from some medieval movie. An assortment of herbs and spices hung upside-down in clusters along the stone walls to dry. Books spilled out of their shelves and found homes on the floor and on the unimaginably messy desk, some as thin as 3 pages others thicker then the New York phone book. Vilas of unknown glowing substances filled the spaces the books did not. Just visible to Danny's left was a giant black cast-iron pot. The smells that filled the air could nether be identified as good or bad, just weird. The entire room was lit by a spectral green light, not unlike most of the Ghost Zone.
Danny shivered. The black silk pyjamas had been worm in bed, but here in the damp dungeon it felt like wearing sheets of ice. "At least it's more original then Vlad's lab." Danny thought allowed distracting himself.
"So you're awake? Goody, this wouldn't be any fun if you had slept through the whole thing." His hostess appeared along the far edge of the caldron. She covered her dress with a black stained lab coat that made her look distinctly witchy.
"And this would be?" Danny razed his eyebrows. He had the oddest impression he was not going to like it.
"Secret," the woman pronounced each syllable separately. "But it will keep you from running away from now on."
"What makes you think I was trying to run?" Danny asked. He needed to make conversation to by him time to think.
"Please Daniel," Vlad alert! Vlad alert! Danny's mind flashed. "You're not as good at acting as you think you are. It was almost impossible to miss the smile you were trying to hide."
Well you bought my pained act Danny thought triumphantly. Okay, new topic, "Just curious, but how do your spies manage to go undetected by Vlad? He's quite paranoid you know."
"We first discovered our lord long before his actual birth. You see, we've bin using that portal since oh, I'd say just before the big bang happened. So new married couples would volunteer to send the wife into the portal and the husband would stay here to relay the message. The wives would seek out Vlad's ancestors and follow them until Vlad's birth. When our time finally caught up with the portal the connection would reform and the husbands would tell us what his wife discovered."
"How would they know? They weren't there." Danny interrupted.
"Oh that's right, I haven't told you yet. When Ghosts get married in the Town of All Evil they are connected at the soul. So whatever one sees and hears the other sees and hears. For example…" Mrs. Fin's face went blank for a moment, "Right now Edwin is chatting the cabby boys ear off in the stables." Her face refocused with a sweat, yet annoyed smile.
So that's what she was doing back then Danny realized. He then gave Mrs. Fin a nod that told her to continue. "As I was saying, the wife would stay behind after the portal closed and search out Vladimir's predecessors in the 15th century. When Vlad was born they would take turns watching him until the accident that gave him his powers at which point they all kept an eye on his every move."
"That still doesn't explain why Vlad hasn't found them yet." Danny pointed out. He wasn't just making conversation now; he had genuine curiosity as to why. "His house is rigged with ghost detecting and trapping gadgets. I know, I've been there."
"Simple, we were there when he made them. All we had to do was enter our ecto-signature into their systems so it wouldn't pick us up. Vlad dos the same thing to stop his house form blasting him every time he walks in the door. So they don't set off Vlad's natural senses, our spies overshadow common objects he would never suspect, his laptop, favourite pen, painting behind his desk, his domestic feline Maddie,-"
"Vlad got a lonely guy cat?" Danny was half amused half impressed. Who knew Vlad actually listened to him?
"I'm not sure I like the way you put that, but yes, he got a cat." Mrs. Fin said as she pored some liquid into her caldron.
Danny wasn't to sure how to take this. Had he done something good for the fruit-loop, or had he become an accessory to insanity? "Is he taking good care of it?" Danny wasn't an animal activist, but he was still worried.
"He named it Maddie, what do you think?" Mrs. Fin stirred her concoction slowly.
"Good point." Danny agreed.
Once she was finished stirring Mrs Fin walked over to Danny and patted his head motherly. "I need to go pick up some tings from the market. Be a good boy and wait right here." She stepped out of Danny view. "Oh, and don't try using your ghost powers, this room is lined with Blood Blossoms, and we wouldn't want you dying before I can kill you." There was a soft sound of the door closing behind her.
Danny waited for a 10 count before trying to phase out of the restraints, "here goes nothing!"
Good choice of words, nothing happened. Danny frowned; maybe they were from the real world? He transformed into his ghost form. The black and white hazmat suit felt wormer then the silk had, although he probably dropped 10 degrees in body temperature. "How bout THIS!" Danny turned his whole body intangible.
Still nothing.
"This doesn't make sense! There's nothing wrong with my ghost powers," Danny phased his head into the wood behind him to prove his point, "And these cuffs aren't green or glowing like ecto-proof restraints are." Danny had seen his fair share of those. "So why…" Something caught his eye, the thick metal restraint had the faintest red tint, "… Could they have more advanced technology the even Vlad? I thought they hated that stuff!" Danny shook his head, now was not the time for that. If he couldn't phase through them he'd have to get them open somehow…
Idea 1: Blast it open.
Concentrating ectoplasm in his right hand he aimed his weapon at his left hand cuff. Before he fired he phased his head into the wood to give himself a clear shot. Because of this he had to blindly gauge how wide the beam was and how good his aim was.
When the heat was too much for his wrist to bare Danny stopped his ecto-blast and checked his progress. Nothing. The hot mettle steamed but left no scare behind on its flawless surface.
Idea 2: Clone finds a key.
Danny hadn't mastered full duplication, but he figured as long as he kept it small he may be able to pull it off. Concentrating hard enough for beads of sweat to form over his face, Danny's right shoulder started to morph. Slowly but surly the tiny Danny took shape.
"Good morwing!" The little Danny stretched his arms, standing on Danny's shoulder. He was about 20cm in height, and his big eyes made him almost appear chibby wile still remaining long and scrawny. His white hair and glowing green eyes mimicked Danny's ghost form. Even his hazmat suit was the same, complete with a tiny DP logo.
"Good morning," Danny greeted his mini me. He was exhausted but still managed to give the new kid a smile. The mini DP's eyes looked expectantly at Danny. "You know what to do."
"Wes Sirw!" Minnie Danny saluted big Danny and hopped off his perch on his shoulder.
As soon as mini Danny's feet left his buddies shoulder a red thread like beam of ectoplasm shot out of the right hand cuff and wrapped around his tiny waist. The thread shot ectoplasmic charges into the small boy.
"DANNY!" he shrieked in pain, "IT HURTS!"
Danny panicked; he had to save him, but how? "Try going human." He suggested desperately.
Two little white rings surrounded the tiny body. Blue replaced green, black replaced white, and his tiny hazmat suit was replaced by a mini version of Danny's silk PJs. Luckily Danny had been right and the thread hung little Danny under Danny's arm without hurting him. The little guy climbed up Danny's shirt and sat on his shoulder, swinging his feet over the edge.
Danny couldn't reabsorb his copy because of the rope, but he wouldn't even if he could, he didn't want to be alone right now. "So, you got any ideas?" Danny changed into his human form so he wouldn't freeze the little guy to death.
"Ideewa free," mini Danny listed, "Wait forw Sam and Twucker."
"Third time's the charm right?" Danny sighted. "How long do you think they'll make us wait?"
As if responding to Danny's question the Spectre Speeder phased through the wall. The door opened up, knocking the caldron over and spilling lifeless gray liquid over the floor behind Danny's slab. Sam popped out of the open hatch wrist ray at the ready, scanning the room for hostiles. Tucker followed her out shouting, "the cavalry has arrived!"
"What took you so long!" Danny asked with a smile on his face.
"Got a flat tire" Tucker joked as he and Sam walked over to Danny.
"Danny are you o-OH MY GOD IT'S SO CUTE!" Sam noticed Danny's little friend.
"I didn't know you were a father?" Tucker said with a questioning look.
"Ha ha funny." Danny said sarcastically. "I can't phase out of these restraints and I can't blast them either. I tried making a clone and send it for a key, but as you can see…"
"You poor thing!" Sam picked mini Danny up and gave him a tight hug, "You must have been so scared."
Both Danny's blushed lightly, much to Tuckers amusement. He knew the little guy wouldn't last long, "Sam, that's Danny, not a stuffy."
Sam held the tiny teen at arms length, blushing along with the Danny's. "He's still cute." She muttered beneath her breath. Tucker didn't hear it but both Danny's supper ghost hearing picked it up, causing more red to find his cheeks.
Tucker stole mini Danny from Sam's arms and replaced him on big Danny's shoulder. Wiping out his trusty PDA Tucker analyzed Danny's cuffs. "Well, their not robotic, so I can't hack them. They seem to need a key about yay long and circular." Tucker showed the distance with his hands
"Then find it, it should be around here somewhere unless…" Danny trailed off.
"Unless what?" Sam demanded, "Your not thinking we'd leave you here are you!"
"NO!" Both Danny's shouted at the same time. "I meant unless Ellen has it on her."
"Oh" Sam was ashamed of her accusation. "Tucker, you start checking this room, I'll go upstairs and check out other important places."
"Got it" Tucker confirmed and began his search.
"How are you going to know if Tucker finds it?" Danny asked Sam before she could leave.
"He's got a point; we never did find the Fenton Phones." Tucker called from some pile of books.
Sam didn't have an answer so stayed silent. Danny did, "Here, if you can cut the leash with your wrist ray you can take mini me. Just don't squeeze him to death."
"Not that I'm against this, but how dose that help?" Sam asked, while resetting her wrist ray to match the thread's settings. When she shot the ectoplasm it gave a hissing fizzle and faded away. Now free little DF transformed into little DP and flew over to Sam's head.
"Can I wide up herwe?" he asked, big green eyes pleading.
"I guess," Sam blushed at the cuteness. Tucker knocked something over snapping her out of it. "But I still don't know how this helps."
"Me and him are one person, so we're connected," Danny explained not to thrilled about how similar it was to the Town of All Evils marriage connection. "We don't 'watch' each other, but we can send messages and share knowledge."
"When did you find this out?" Tucker appeared out of a large stack of books to ask.
"About 5 minutes ago when he got the stuffing squeezed out of him." Danny replied with a shrug.
Sam reached up and patted the tiny boys head. He was lying on her head with his head in his hands, swinging his legs in the air happily. "Shall we?" Sam asked.
"WETS GO!" tiny Danny cheered punching the air in front of him.
*Pant pant* longest chapter I have ever typed. *faints*
*recovers when someone says liar* No, I'm not a liar! I said Danny was going to be recued, not which one! MUAHAHAHA! ALL HAIL MINI DANNY! THE CUTEST DUPLICATE EVER!
I like mini Danny so much I'm going to make him an important character in the next few chapters. He's just so cute! And I don't care if you think Sam was out of character when she called him cute, he is.
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