Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom, but I do own two horrible Mary Sues in another story.
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Jazz Fenton and Danielle Phantom marched ahead through Amity Park with nearly fifty teenagers behind them and Valerie Grey flying above them. They were doing well, capturing every ghost they could. Once more, a pale blue mist came from Danielle's mouth. "Ghost!" Jazz called.
Instantly, everyone was alert. They spread out, weapons and thermoses ready. Jazz split off into a smaller group composed of herself, Danielle, Dash, Kwan, Star, and most surprisingly Paulina (although Jazz suspected she'd just come in hopes of finding the ghost boy). Jazz blinked. The house looked familiar. "Who…?"
Dash ringed the doorbell, and a woman with red hair opened the door. "Hello, children! How can I help you?"
"Mrs. Manson?" Jazz asked.
"Oh, do I know you?"
"I'm Jazz…Jazz Fenton."
"Ah, yes, Danny Fenton is your brother. He's a nice boy."
Since when? Jazz thought. Danny swears Sam's parents hate him all the time.
Jazz saw Danielle narrow her eyes, and without warning, the ghost girl flew forward, through Mrs. Manson's chest. Sam's mother gasped as a ghost floated behind her. "Hello, Jazz."
Jazz's eyes widened as she turned around. "It's Danny Phantom!" Dash yelled. "Whoa, have you been working out?"
"That's not Danny Phantom," Jazz said, "Not the one we know."
Dan chuckled. "No, the Danny you know and love is much weaker than I am."
"Where is he?" Jazz asked.
"He's exactly where I want him to be."
"W-what?"
"What have you done with the ghost boy?" Paulina yelled.
"Oh, I've done nothing to him…yet."
Danielle shot an ectoblast at him, which the older ghost easily deflected. "Can't you do better than that?" he asked boredly.
"Attack!" Jazz yelled, flipping the power switch on the Fenton bazooka.
"Show me what you've got, Jazz," Dan said, smirking.
"Why were you possessing her?" Danielle asked.
Jazz frowned. She'd forgotten all about Dan possessing Sam's mother. Dan chuckled. "Wouldn't you like to know?" he asked mockingly.
Then, he shot out an ectoblast which sent Danielle flying into a building. "Danni!"
"Jazz, look out!"
Jazz yelled in surprise as someone shoved her hard into the pavement, away from the blast of energy Dan had aimed at her. The girl winced at the pain jolting through her body. She groaned and took a hand waiting for her. Jazz allowed herself to be dragged behind a car before she looked up. "Are you okay?"
"Dash?" Jazz asked in a daze.
He nodded, and both yelled as the metal of the car crunched together. They backed away as the car flew over their head. "Ah, Dash and Jazz. I'm sure I'd be surprised and probably disgusted, but just about everything disgusts me these days."
"Stay away from her," Dash said.
Dan laughed. "Make me. I don't think you can, though, do you?"
"I bet I can!" Danielle yelled, aiming an ectblast at him.
Dan vanished before it ever hit. "Where is he?" Jazz muttered.
Danielle frowned. "I can't sense him anymore. He was the only ghost here."
"How?" Jazz muttered, "And why would he possess Sam's mom and just leave?"
"Who is he?" Dash asked.
"He's… Danny Phantom from an alternate future," Jazz said.
"He's evil?" Dash asked.
Jazz nodded. "So where's our ghost boy?" Paulina asked.
"I don't know."
"Can't we find him somehow? We could help him defeat that ghost!" Dash said.
"Dan said he was right where he wanted him to be," Danielle said. "That means a trap."
"You're right," Jazz said, her eyes widening. "Yes. The boo-merang should be able to find him."
"Then, let's go," Danielle said.
Jazz nodded. Danny, please, be alright.
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Twenty-four-year-old Sam Fenton leaned back against the sofa, waiting. She heard a soft sigh as Danny stepped into the room, blue eyes flashing with annoyance. "The stupid Box Ghost," he muttered.
"I thought you were just leaving him alone."
"I was. He wanted me to buy more bubble wrap for his hideout in that abandoned warehouse."
Sam laughed. "And did you?"
"Yes," he admitted.
Danny sat on the couch beside her and shook his head. "Got a call from Tuck today," Sam said.
"Really?"
"Mm-hm. He's designed you a new battlesuit- some new, lightweight steel or something."
"My dad didn't help build this one, did he?"
Sam laughed. The last suit had electrocuted him. "That hurt!" Danny protested.
"Oh, I'm sure you've felt worse."
"Well…" Danny grinned. "Okay. Maybe I have. It still hurt."
The doorbell rang, and Danny raised an eyebrow. "Who could that be?"
"I don't know," Sam said, standing.
Danny stood also and walked to the door. "It can't be Tuck; he'd just walk right in."
He opened the door and frowned. "Huh."
"What is it?" Sam asked, peeking over his shoulder.
"A note?"
Danny carefully unfolded the paper and felt a chill run up his spine as he read. "What does it say?" Sam asked.
"Daniel, Samantha, Run. That's all."
"Vlad?" she asked.
"Most likely. It doesn't make sense, though. Why wouldn't he just tell us?" Danny asked.
"I don't know. What do you think we should do?"
"I think we should see if Vlad's home."
"This'd better not be some joke," Sam grumbled.
Danny passed her the note, and he pulled out his cell phone. Sam looked at the note and frowned. For some reason, the handwriting didn't look quite right to her. She wasn't sure why, though. "He's not answering. I'm going over there."
"I don't think you should," Sam said slowly.
"Why?"
"Gut feeling."
Danny shook his head and kissed her. "I'll be fine. You say that every time I try to go ghost-hunting, and it hasn't killed me yet. If he sent us a note, though, he may be in trouble."
"I want to come, too," Sam said.
"If you want."
Danny transformed into Phantom and picked Sam up in his arms. He turned them both intangible before he flew through the ceiling. "I don't like this," Sam whispered.
"I know, but I have to see if Vlad is okay. You know that."
"Hero complex," Sam muttered.
"Ah, but you married me anyway," Danny teased.
"You know…I'm pretty sure I was possessed when I agreed."
"When I agreed," he reminded her.
Sam sighed as Danny landed in the front hall of Vlad's house. "Do you think I should go invisible?" he asked. "Then, we'd have surprise if something was wrong."
"Surprise is good," Sam replied.
He turned them both invisible and flew silently through the halls of the mansion. Nothing seemed out of place. Danny came to the lab and gasped. "A ghost shield!"
"A ghost shield?" Sam asked. "What does that mean?"
"I don't know, but I think you're right about that bad feeling."
Danny turned back to his human self, and Sam reached into her jeans pocket and brought out the mini Fenton ray. They stepped carefully inside, and Danny morphed once more. They walked quietly into the lab and looked around. It was dark and unnaturally quiet. There was nothing out of place, though. Danny looked around. That moment, his ghost sense went off. He waited, but nothing happened. Sam took a few steps closer to him, and then, something hit him hard. Danny flew backwards, knocked into a wall. "Ow!"
He stood, his eyes wide. "Miss me, Danny?"
Danny glared at his evil self before smirking. "I'm beginning to think you're some sort of narcissist. You're obsessed with yourself."
"Cute. Still using the lame puns?"
"How did you get away from Clockwork?" Sam asked.
"Oh, Clockwork won't be coming to help you. In fact, he won't be helping anyone at all anymore. I am the Master of Time now, but I don't need the power of time to kill you. It's more fun this way."
Danny shot an ectoblast at him, which Dan dodged. Sam shot him, too, but it seemed to have no effect. "I've learned some new tricks," Dan said.
"So have I."
Danny's eyes glowed blue as he coated the room in ice- Dan included. "Sam, get a thermos!" he yelled.
Dan broke free from the ice and shot at him. Danny dodged and thought of using his ghostly wail, but Sam was still in the room. The shockwave would probably really hurt. Instead, he shot another ectoblast. Dan lunged forward, knocking Danny into a wall again. Danny stumbled forward and punched his alternate self in the face. "Danny!"
Sam, breathless, handed him the thermos. He aimed it at Dan, who vanished. Someone grabbed him by the throat, and Danny kicked behind him. He freed himself and whirled around. "Sam!"
Sam's eyes glowed red. "Is something wrong, Danny?"
Danny turned intangible and flew into Sam, but somehow, he didn't manage to knock Dan out of her. "How are you doing that?"
Dan laughed. "Wouldn't you like to know."
"Sam, please, it's me!"
Sam smiled. "She can't hear you; you know."
For a moment, though, Sam's eyes flashed lavender. Then, she aimed the Fenton ray at him. Danny dodged when Dan flew at him, knocking him to the ground. Another Dan flew from Sam. "Alright."
Danny tried to duplicate himself, too, but it didn't work. He yelled in surprise. Suddenly, his intangibility wouldn't work, either. "How are you doing this?"
Dan laughed as he became one ghost again. "I've redesigned the ghost shield to work against you. Nice, huh?"
"But we're genetically the same."
"No, we're not. Not anymore."
Danny aimed another ecotblast at him- thanking God that still worked- when Dan dodged and grabbed something from behind him. Danny yelled as he was sucked into a thermos. "Let him go!"
Sam came from behind, carrying a medium-sized gun. "Make me," Dan said.
Sam shot, and the blast hit its target. Dan smashed into the wall, actually going through it. "Powerful," he said. "I used to think these were indestructible."
"What are you- Danny! Where's…what did you do?"
"What did I do?" Dan asked. "You're the one who just blasted this thermos and caused it to disintegrate."
"No! No… Danny! He can't be…"
Sam felt herself crying, and she didn't try to stop it. "Please, Sam, you're so melodramatic. Congratulations are in order. You managed to kill him when I couldn't. Thank you."
Sam glared at him and shot. Dan dodged and knocked her to the ground. "They always said the truth hurts. You killed Danny Phantom. Good job, Samantha."
"No! You arrogant, sociopathic, son of a-"
"Don't worry. You'll be with him soon enough."
"Samantha!"
Sam felt as if she'd been dunked into ice water. Dan glared, looking around him. She'd gone invisible and intangible."
Then, the person holding her flew right into the Ghost Zone. "Vlad?"
"I am not sure, Samantha, which question I should ask first. Who was that ghost? Why were you in my house? Why did you put a gaping hole in the wall of my house?"
"That was Dan…or Dark Danny."
"Daniel?"
"Sort of. He's not our Danny."
"Then, where is our Daniel?"
"Vlad, what happens when you destroy a thermos with a ghost in it?"
"I didn't know you could destroy them," Vlad said. "I would assume the ghost would escape unless the thermos was completely disintegrated. That would be nearly impossible, though."
Vlad and Sam turned visible again, and he looked up at her. "Why?" He saw the tears and nodded. "Daniel was…inside a thermos?"
Sam nodded. "And I hit it with the Plasmius Specerus," she whispered.
"Wait. You can tell me everything later."
They flew through the Ghost Zone. Danny, I'm so sorry, Sam thought. I'm so sorry.
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Author's Note: Now we know how Danny dies! Yeah…that's about it.
Invader Johnny: Everybody loves Ember. ^_^
Niece of the Prophet Zarquon: Yeah, Jack probably does have cookies hidden up his sleeve. And yeah, we'll get to see a little Jazz/Dash romance.
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