A/N: I don't own neither Danny Phantom.
"N-Nellie?" Danielle stuttered. "You're-you're-"
"I'm you. Sort of. Something went wrong in our alternate timeline so I came here looking for my older brother. And I was completely surprised to find him in the Fenton Thermos of all places. So, he tells me that we exist outside of time, blah, blah, blah, and how this Danny tried to kill him...yadda, yadda." She yawned exaggeratedly and turned her cold, seductive gaze to one of the innocent men beside her. She stroked his chin and a happy, puppy-love grin melted into his face as she pressed a dagger against his cheek.
"Nellie," she chuckled as her name slipped out from between her teeth. "I kept telling Dan that it was a stupid nickname. That the name sounded childish and innocent. I preferred Ellie before that but now..." She jammed the dagger directly into his heart and chuckled as he dropped down to the ground.
"He said the innocent sound suited me." She gently wiped the blood on her jeans and smirked as she licked a few drops that had stained her fingers. "You know. I wasn't always like this. At fifteen or sixteen, I began taking interest in dressing less-" she glanced over at her younger self and wrinkled her nose, "manly. And, then at seventeen I found Dan after my boyfriend was killed. I'd been travelling the Ghost Zone, went around, "she paused, placing air quotes in the appropriate places, "'helping people' until I found my big bro." Her eyes briefly delved into a sad memory before she smiled. "And, he taught me things. By the time I was twenty, I was his apprentice. I looked up to him. There was no need to waste precious time saving useless humans. In fact-"
"Danielle?" A voice interrupted. To their right, Danny and Sam had appeared. To their left, Jake and Chronos. Each of them wore incredulous expressions on their faces as their eye fell to the seductive women that looked too much like Danielle to be a coincidentally similar stranger.
"Hm...did you know that I have dozens of ghosts under my spell. Twenty are following Mr. and Mrs. Fenton...and Jazz," she feigned pity as her perfect, rosy lips tugged down into a pout. "Another twenty with Jazz and Luna. On my signal, I can give my servants the okay to kill them if you don't let me finish my amazing story. Oh, speaking of Luna, I met her once in the future. She was happily married to that bozo over there." She thrust a finger to the direction of the boys and smiled as Jake's eyes widened incredulously. "They had two kids. Such a shame...I killed them, of course. Put them out of their miserable lives." She thoughtfully tapped her blade against her own chin. "I developed new powers with Dan, I became stronger, and started the whole take-over-the-world business with him...I think that's the end of my little monologue. Isn't that what villains do?" She grinned and nodded excitedly. "Yeah, I think so." She nodded and tossed her knife over her shoulder, instantly lodging the weapon into her victim's chest. She didn't even flinch when he dropped to the ground.
Danielle glanced around and caught sight of her brother who remained completely immobile. Sam was struggling against his strong, frozen grip, asking what he was doing.
"Don't bother. The boys are paralyzed. It's a relatively new power: I can give them one look and render them immobile. It only works a few minutes at a time, but it's a work in progress. There is one thing..."
She turned and met Jake's gaze, his eyes fearfully widened before melting into that same puppy dog look the previous innocent male had given her, a glazed smile forming on his face. "Now, come here, take this knife and kill yourself." She held out the dagger and watched in mild pleasure as the boy instantly moved his feet towards her.
"No!" Danielle shouted as she mustered up all her supernatural strength as she flew and shoved Jake so hard, he landed a few feet away.
Nellie's eyes blazed with anger and she screeched in annoyance, two black rings appearing at her middle; the rings separated.
The older woman's hair became a familiar snowy white, blue eyes a radioactive green. Her body was encompassed by an unusual glowing green, so much unlike Danielle's white aura. Her outfit, though the was similar to Danielle's, consisted of tights and a short-sleeved shirt that revealed her midriff. The older woman didn't bother composing herself and, instead, immediately fired up her fists with pure, brilliant, green energy. "Men! Kill the hostages!" She shrieked at the top of her lungs.
Danny blanched. "Mom! Dad!"
He spun around at the sound of his mother's screech piercing the air.
Danielle had suddenly hurled herself the older, alternate, beautiful self, using unimaginable speed to knock them both down. Her glowing, green fists suddenly collided with her alternate's face, sending the woman flying across the park before being thrust into a wall. "I'll handle her," she growled.
"Danny!" Danielle cried out through grit teeth. "Go help our parents!" She smirked at him. "This is my fight."
Danny solemned and nodded slowly before shooting off into the other direction, yanking a reluctant Sam into his arms.
"Chronos, Jake! Get Luna and Tucker!"
The two boys suddenly snapped out of their trance and dropped to the ground. "Go!" Dani shrieked over her shoulder as she turned her focus on the seething lady.
"Oh, you think you're winning, don't you?" A chilling laughter void of any emotion echoed from Nellie's throat. Her lips curled up into a smile as she cracked her knuckles. She elegantly raised her hands and moved them across the air in a swiping motion. Powerful ecto shots instantly shot towards Danielle with unfathomable speed. The girl dodged a few but the last remaining one rammed into her stomach and another on her chest, knocking her a few feet away as if she were nothing but a ragged doll.
She landed face-down, all the breath suddenly deserted her lungs. She gasped, uselessly struggling to inhale some oxygen. An attempt to move some caused a shooting, searing pain to shoot up from her ribs, and he hybrid clone was certain she'd received a broken rib and possibly a broken leg. Nellie approached and, though her injuries were already healing, Danielle could sense the immediate danger. Nellie brushed the debris off her tight outfit. She frowned and approached a gasping Danielle before crouching down to her level.
"Look," she pouted. "You broke my nail!" She extended her hand, holding it up in front of Danielle's blurring eyes. "Ugh, I know. You think this is silly, right? Well, you'll just have to pay for that, won't you?" She pulled out her blade and swung it around a few times before raising it above her younger self's body.
"Don't worry. Because you're me, I'll make it quick and painless. Everyone else is just gonna have to suffer," Nellie shrugged and smiled in delight as Danielle's eyes widened fearfully.
Tears sprang up in her eyes as she helplessly watched the dagger rapidly approach her still-beating heart. And she knew this was the end.
A/N: Finally, this story is almost over. If I'm correct, there's only two more chapters left. Maybe three.
;D Don't know if I still have readers, but I'm not quitting on this regardless of whether or not someone reviews. Besides, why quit if it isn't over?