Just one or two more chapters. And, as for why I put this up today, I'll tell you at the bottom.
Darren was nervously walking to school, checking his surrounding area. In a barely noticeable motion, he said something into a tiny microphone attached to his shirt.
"Please tell me you know what you're doing."
"We already went over the plan, remember? Just play your part and everything will be fine." Younger Danny said from his own microphone, hidden invisibly on top of a building a good distance away.
Darren sighed and continued on his way. According to the plan, Dan would spring at any moment. And if his Dad and his…er…younger Dad knew as much as they thought they did, it would happen.
"You know, being bait is not very enjoyable." He commented.
"Shhh!" The kid from the past hissed.
Several more moments passed until anything else was said.
"See anything?" The older Danny questioned from his own microphone.
"No. I don't get it; he should be here by now." He muttered in response.
Suddenly, Danny's ghost sense went off and a bone-chilling voice broke the air.
"Oh, I am."
Danny turned around slowly. Dan was right behind him, ecto-blast charged and cruel smirk in place.
"Oh, no." He cursed, turning visible once he realized that the jig was up.
Dan chuckled in maniacal pleasure. "Did you seriously think that I'd fall for something so stupid? That this simplistic plan would have gotten me? You underestimate me, Danny."
Danny gulped and backed up slowly to the edge of the building. "Adaption." He whispered into his microphone.
Dan's hand shot out and he tore the microphone from Danny's shirt as well as the speaker from his ear. He dropped the two pieces of technology to the ground and stepped on them, grinding his foot against the pavement and reducing the communication devices to scraps.
"Can't have the rest of the team in on this, can we?" He sneered, latching on to the front of Danny's jumpsuit before hurdling him to the other side of the rooftop. The boy weakly perched himself on his elbows.
The ghost smirked and took a deep breath, ready to unleash a ghostly wail, when he was pounded in the back. The ghost lurched forward a bit, but did not fall down. Hissing, he spun around and came face to face with Darren in ghost form.
"You forgot this part of the team." He smirked, apparently hearing Dan's earlier comment.
The older ghost growled. He reached out behind him and flung Darren into Danny in one swift movement. The two boys groaned while trying to get off of each other and get back up. Dan stomped up to them.
"Now, don't tell me that this is all of your pathetic team. Where's the others?" Dan glared at the two boys with his soul-less red eyes as he said this.
"I told you we should have told older you." Darren acted, pretending to be mad at Danny.
"Well, I thought he was going to go after you so that I could sneak up on him!" Danny snapped in his defense.
They were cut short as a blast from Dan knocked them in separate directions. They flew a few feet apart and landed roughly on the ground. Dan kept his eyes on both of them as he duplicated into two. One for each ghost boy.
"Now…" They began, raising their hands in front of them. They were about to attack again when they were both pummeled from the side by two Camelas. They were knocked into each other and fused once more. Then, ice beams came from both directions, trapping Dan in an ice encasing. This gave the two boys enough time to fly over to the girl, who fused back together.
"Ready….now!" Danny shouted.
Just as Dan had broken out of his entrapment, all three had sucked in a deep breath and let loose three ghostly wails. The older ghost had no time to react to this and was caught in the middle. He couldn't do anything as he was constantly beaten on. Dan was forced to the ground under all of the pressure. Sparking green energy suddenly surrounded Darren and his attack stopped. The boy coughed and landed on the ground, leaving his side open. Darren crumpled to the floor and changed back. Danny and Camela couldn't hold on any longer and followed suit. All three panted heavily.
Dan leaped up from his current position with a burst of energy, sending the now-human teens flying backward. The ghost created energy-shields around each of them, rendering them all unable to move. He slowly approached the group, looking like someone who had just walked out of a war.
"Any last words?" He growled.
Unexpected smirks appeared on the faces of Danny, Camela, and Darren.
"Um, yeah." Danny responded.
"Buh-bye." They all finished.
Dan looked utterly confused as he was knocked to the ground with a heavy blast from the back. He opened his eyes and flopped over to see the older Danny standing over him with a look identical to those of the teens. Within seconds, he sucked the howling ghost back into the Fenton Thermos. Danny, Camela, and Darren were suddenly broken from their prisons.
"Nice job!" The man congratulated while handing the thermos to the younger Danny. "Even though it didn't go exactly as planned."
"Yeah, good thing we worked in that adaption." Camela agreed.
"Good job…uh…" Darren started saying to younger Danny, but then trailed when he noticed the half-ghost was flickering out of the realm. He never got to finish his sentence, because at that moment, Danny vanished, leaving the futuristic half-ghosts on the roof of the building.
Danny reappeared in Clockwork's lair. He looked at the beaten up old Fenton Thermos in his hand and smiled, placing it back on its stand. He then removed the time-traveling deice from his wrist and put it on a table. After he had done so, Clockwork drifted into the room silently.
"I take it Dan is back in his thermos." The time ghost said, changing from a young man to an old man.
"Yep. Nice and safe. Although, we should probably put more security on it so that he doesn't get out again." Danny replied, looking wiped out. Danny then glanced at the time mirror, showing the moment he had left, and sighed. "So, I guess it's time for me to go back home now, huh?"
"No." Clockwork responded.
Danny looked startled and turned to the child-version of the ghost. "What?"
"That time-line…it's not completely stable. You learned too much on your voyage through your future. Those things will affect your destiny greatly. Some things will change for the worse." He announced slowly. He changed into the young man again.
"What do you want me to do about it then?" Asked Danny in confusion.
"Make a choice." The time-ghost replied, ageing once more. "The future that you are currently destined for…" he waved his time staff so that the screen changed. It showed Danny in the middle of a snowy area with people crowded all around. His parents were in front of him and he was standing there with shock written on his face. He was about to make one of the biggest decisions of his life. "Or I could let you change the past. You could change this one little moment and no one would know who you were except for your parents." He changed into a young man and floated up close to Danny. "So, Danny Phantom, what will it be?"
Yes, I know that this is an odd day for my to post this chapter, but I have my reasons.
1. I found time to finish this.
2. I really wanted to get this story finished up soon.
3. I'm getting finger surgery and a cast on in a few weeks and it would probably make my typing slower as well as take up a lot of my free time because I'll be doing my homework slower, hence the reason WHY I wanted to finish this up soon.
4. I'm going to Washington DC next week for my eighth grade school trip.
Yeah, I think that's it. Feel free to suggest whether or not you want Danny to have everyone forget or not!