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Sam's Plan of Action

Chapter 10 – Dan's Appearance

Sam awoke to the sounds of laughter. Something about the laughter was both familiar and disconcerting at the same time. "Danny," Sam moaned her head was killing her. The memories started to flood back in to her head. Sam remembered being kidnaped by Vlad and Danni coming to her rescue. She remembered finding Tucker downstairs with the Fenton Speeder. Sam remembered heading in to the ghost zone when something hit the speeder causing them to crash. Sam attempted to stand up only to find that she was being held down by something that she could not see.

"Hello Sam, long time no see. How have you been," Dan Phantom said as he stood in front of the bed she was lying on.

Sam looked on in horror as Dan Phantom walked in to the light. Sam had never actually seen Dan, but Danny had done a fairly good job of describing what he looked like. "What are you doing here," Sam said, "I thought you were stuck in a thermos?"

"Well my dear, I have far more power than that mere thermos could contain. Now, once I kill you in front of Daniel. He will give in to the evil with in. And once that happens I will merge with that form and gain even more power than I have now," Dan said as he laughed evilly.

Sam looked on at him with confusion. "How can you merge with yourself," Sam asked letting her curiosity get the better of her.

"Well, due to clockworks interference I am currently out side the realm of time. Which means that I can and will merge with my younger self gaining all the power required to conquer this world and the ghost zone," Dan said as he walked over towards Sam and brushed his hand across her cheek. Sam cringed under his touch.

If looks could kill the look was giving Dan would have sent his to his grave ten times over. "You know that you cannot defeat Danny," Sam said, "He was more powerful than you then and he is much more powerful than you now."

Dan just smiled as Sam and stroked her cheek once more, delighting in the look of disgust evident in Sam's eyes. "Well now I must be off, Sammy. I have to go find our young Daniel so that I can turn him." With that Dan went invisible and Sam completely lost track of him.

Sam looked around hoping that she could find a way out of this prison like she did the other. Much to Sam's disappointment Dan had securely fastened her to the chair and now all she could do was wait for Danny to rescue her. Sam smiled despite her current situation, Sam could picture Danny's eyes and that lop sided grin of his. At that moment a single tear rolled down her cheek as the thought of never seeing him again struck home.

Danny was flying at top speed towards Clockwork's door hoping that everything was well and that He had not actually escaped. Danny arrived at Clockworks castle and dropped to the ground. Staring him in the face was a gigantic hole in the double doors that lead in to the interior of Clockworks castle. Danny flew inside scanning the surrounding looking for any sign of Clockwork or Dan Phantom. Danny headed for Clockwork's study; once there he found Clockwork on the ground unconscious with the thermos beside him.

Danny rushed over to Clockwork and tugged on his shoulder gently trying to arouse Clockwork. "Daniel is that you," Clockwork said just coming out of the daze of unconsciousness.

"Are you OK," Danny asked helping Clockwork over to a chair in the corner of the room.

"I will be fine, but we must locate Dan before he does anything else," Clockwork said grabbing a hold of one of the medallions lying of the floor and placing it around his neck.

"Dan has Sam," Danny shouted. "And how did he escape, you are the master of time. You know everything, you should have seen this coming," Danny added as a last thought.

"Somehow when I pulled Dan out of time he ceased to show up when I look in to time. This has never happened before; I must contact my former master and find a way to fix this problem. Daniel you must go and rescue Sam I will try and find a way to bring Dan back in to the time stream and secure him in a stronger prison. When I learn what I need to I will come to you and we can finally put this to an end. And Daniel you must remember to not give in to the darker thoughts, you cannot allow yourself to become like him. To do that is to let him win, do you understand me," Clockwork said as he used the medallion to transport his self back in time.

Danny stood there after answering Clockwork; he turned on his heel and headed back towards the front door of the castle. Danny headed back towards the door and castle that Tucker and Danni were currently recovering in. Danny was flying so fast that he did not notice Dan heading straight for him from the opposing direction. Danny arrived at the castle and rushed inside to see if they had any idea where Dan could have taken Sam and had Danni regained consciousness. Before Danny could say anything a huge explosion rocked the building causing Danny to lose his balance and fall over. As the dust and ruble cleared a lone figure stood in the new door way.

"Dan! Where is my Sam," Danny yelled as he charged towards Dan's figure.

Dan easily side stepped the emotionally upset figure that was charging down on him. Dan easily grabbed the scruff of Danny's neck and slammed him in to the ground pinning him under his boot. "Daniel, Daniel, Daniel, if you want to want to see Samantha alive I suggest you meet me at that Nasty Burger tomorrow and you can watch as I destroy your future. And this time I will succeed," with that Dan faded in to nothingness leaving Danny, Tucker, and Danni standing. As Danny stood up a single tear rolled down his face leaving a clean line through line dust covered face.

A/N: I would once again like to thank Catgirlversion30otakufan05 for proof reading my work. Please press the go button and review.