Chapter 21: Phantom vs Possible

"That's not good."

Ron says before Kim pushes Danny away.

Once there's space between them, Danny can see her glaring at him, with white eyes of evil intent.

"Is that… what happened to me?" Danny asks, concerned that this must be what Kim saw.

"Quick! Make her experience joy!" Sam shouts as Kim stomps towards Danny.

"How?!" Danny asks.

"Maybe you should kiss her!" Jazz shouts. This causes everyone not the two teens in battle to stare at her with a you-gotta-be-kidding expression. She shrugs. "Worth a try?"

Kim comes jumping at Danny with a kick. One he's forced to block. Kim then kicks his arm to get away from him and land safely.

"Somehow, I doubt that's happening!" Danny says.

Kim starts throwing punches that Danny is forced to block with both arms. When that doesn't work, then swings a kick that hits his shoulder, causing him to lower his arms.

Sam pulls out the wrist blaster, but Jazz stops her.

"No! That's a human being under a spell, remember?" Jazz says.

As this happens, Skulker is above, watching with glee. He takes his arm and speaks to the monitor on it.

"Plasmius, the cheerleader is hit. She and Danny Phantom are fighting."

"Perfect!" Vlad says. "This is going smoothly!"

Danny, seeing Skulker above, decides to fly up and away from Kim.

"Skulker!" He shouts, angry at Kim's current condition at him. He raises his arm and readies a blast. "This is for Kim!"

He fires a blast that destroys the blaster. The explosion knocks the egomaniacal hunter off his feet and sends the Rage Pearl flying to the alley.

Seeing it fall, Rufus runs of Ron and grabs it before it hits.

"Ta-Da!" Rufus shouts as he holds it above his head.

"Nice one, Rufus!" Ron congratulates.

Kim, seeing Danny, decides to use her cheerleading to climb the wall by jumping onto the windows, using them as footholds to go up.

"Whoa!" Sam says, shocked at this. "How?!"

"Cheerleading." Ron says nonchalantly.

"What kind of cheerleading does Middleton even do?!" Sam asks.

Danny sees Kim climbing the building, and looks concerned at her coming in.

"This is not how I wanted her to come after me." He says as she floats back.

Kim arrives, jumping up and performs a superhero landing.

With an angry look, Kim grits her teeth and runs at Danny.

She performs a jump kick, but Danny thinks quick and goes intangible.

Seeing as Kim has no way of hurting him, he decides to remain this way.

"Sorry Kim, but as long as you can't hit me, you can't get hurt either."

Kim just stands where she is, glaring and walking around the intangible boy. She walks slowly as if she were a cat watching for her prey.

This causes Danny to be a bit uncomfortable.

"I really wish she were staring at me for a different reason."

She continues this until coming to a stop.

Danny watched, silently hoped something was up.

Kim then walks backwards. Danny wonders what she's doing before realizing she's heading the edge. Panicking, Danny flies to her, regaining tangibility and grabs her by the arm, tossing her back to the center of the building.

Kim manages to flip and land gracefully.

Danny slaps himself on the head, realizing she was doing that to trick him.

"Great… rage doesn't mean an inability to think." He grumbles to himself.

Kim resumes her attack, running to Danny and grabbing by the arm, flipping him on his back. She then tries to stomp on him, but Danny is forced to go intangible through and enter the floor beneath them.

He gets to his knees, taking a deep breath.

It's short lived, her foot kicks through the ceiling. Soon, she manages to make the hole bigger with more stomps, allowing her to fall in and ready for more battle.

"Wonderful…" Danny grumbled sarcastically. "Stupid condemned building…"

Kim throws a punch that Danny manages to catch. Unfortunately, she kicks him in the chest, causing him to hit the wall. Kim throws a punch, but Danny manages to move his head in time to avoid it.

Outside, the other teens see Kim's fist go through the wall.

"Whoa!" Sam shouts. "How?!" She looks to Ron and Monique. "Don't tell me cheerleading!"

"It has to be that pearl thing." Jazz suggests. She looks to Ron and Monique, both concerned for their friend. "What can make Kim happy? Quick!"

"Bueno Nacho!" Ron says with a smile.

"No, that's you." Monique point out. She then smiles. "Shopping!"

"How can she shop while she's intent on kicking someone's head off?" Ron points out.

"Oh yeah…"

"Ugh, great!" Sam groans. "Any other ideas?"

A crash is heard upstairs, something the rest looks up to.

Ron gets serious.

"That's it! I'm going in!"

Ron runs to an old window, picking up a brick and throwing it to break it open.

"Whoa, Ron!" Sam calls out. "What are you doing?"

"Saving my best friend!" Ron shouted.

"Yeah!" Rufus shouts.

Ron then takes his little buddy on his shoulder and sets him down.

"Rufus, buddy. Right now, Kim is more dangerous than the boy with superpowers, so I need you to stay with the rest of these guys." He gives Danny's friends, or at least Tucker in particular, a dirty look. "Hating Bueno Nacho aside…" He looks back to his little buddy with a smile. "They should keep you safe for now." Rufus groans. "Sorry, buddy. I can't risk it."

Sam actually nods.

"That's actually impressive."

Ron then gets up into the window and gets in.

"Here I go!" He goes in, but lands on his head. "Oww! That hurt!" He gets up. "I'm fine! I'm f-" His foot goes through the floorboard. "Ah no!" He pulls his leg out. He then walks away from the window frame. "Oh well, at least my pants are sti-" He heard a rip. Looking back, he sees a tear on his rear thanks to a nail still in the frame that his rear pocket got stuck in. "Oh, come on!"

Danny's friends and sister have heard all of this.

Sam shakes her head and with her face in her hand.

"That's… not impressive… at all."

"So… you guys are just moral support, right?" Tucker asks Monique.

"No, he and Rufus go with her on missions." She answers.

All of Team Phantom just stares at her.

"Seriously?" Sam asks, unbelieving.

Back in the building, Kim throws more punches that Danny is forced to try and dodge.

"Kim, please!" He begs. "I'm your friend! Remember?" She ignores him, continuing her onslaught.

Seeing no other option, Danny grabs Kim by the shoulders and uses his intangibility to phase her into the floor. He returns her tangibility, causing a hole in the floor that she's trapped in.

Danny gets on his feet, sitting cross legged as Kim snarls at him.

"Somehow, I don't think kissing you is gonna set you free." He says. He cracks a small smile. "Though I admit, I'm not against trying." Kim tries to shake her way out. Her wiggling causes her to start sinking. This causes Danny to get up. "Wait, what are you doing?"

He gets his answer quick, she ends up falling out of the hole, landing on the floor beneath them.

Sighing, Danny heads to floor below and readies for more.

"Kim!"

Danny looks to the door nearby and sees Ron, gasping for air and leaning on the door frame.

"Ron?!" Danny yells. "It's dangerous!"

"Kim… needs… h-help." He says, panting for air. "I can't abandon her."

"Look, I admire you wanting to save your friend-"

He doesn't finish, Kim karate chops him in the chest. Then, she knees him in the leg, causing him to fall on the floor.

"Danny!" Ron calls out. Seeing no other option, Kim's best friend runs in, standing between her and Danny. "Kim! Snap out of it!" He grabs her shoulders and starts shaking her. "Think like the straight A student you pride yourself in!"

Kim shoves him aside, resuming her assault on Danny.

In return, Danny creates a dome shield, blocking the attack. Kim just starts wailing on Danny's dome, her punches do nothing but she ignores this in favor of continuing her assault.

Danny still takes the time to look to Kim's friend.

"Ron! Get out of here!"

"Not a chance!" Ron goes back to Kim, putting a hand on her shoulder. "Kim! Snap out of it!"

Kim knocks him away without ever taking her eyes off her target.

Ron's foot then lands on a weakened floorboard, causing a hole to break beneath him.

Ron then falls backwards, screaming for help.

Heroic instincts kick in, Danny lowers his shield and flies to Ron.

Kim sees him and follows him, seeing him fly down the hole.

Once she makes it to the edge, she sees Danny save Ron. He carries him safely to the floor and sets him down.

"Thanks dude!" Ron says, sounding grateful.

Seeing this, Kim's glare starts to lower.

"R-Ron?"

Hearing Kim's voice, Danny and Ron look up.

"She spoke!" Danny said.

"Y-You saved Ron… you saved my friend." Kim says.

She then starts blinking, and soon the color of her eyes returns.

"Kim!" Ron says.

Smiling, Danny flies up, hugging Kim.

"You're back!"

Ron head to the stairway, running up.

Kim hugs Danny back.

"What happened?"

"You got hit with that thing, too! You almost got Ron seriously hurt." Kim looks horrified when Danny said that. "But me saving him got to you."

"Seeing you saving my best friend… I guess seeing you do that made me happy."

Why that made her happy, she's not entirely sure. Maybe it was seeing Ron safe, maybe it was seeing Danny do something heroic. Regardless, Kim then gets upset with herself.

"Kim?" Danny asks.

"I can't believe that almost happened to him… because of me."

"It wasn't your fault, that was the blast from Skulker." Danny assures her.

"Kim!" Ron shouts, having run into the room and hugs her. "You're back!"

Kim hugs Ron, relieved he's okay. However, she soon has a look of rage on her face, not unlike her white-eyed look.

"Where's Skulker?"

Back on the rooftop, Skulker gets up, having been knocked out by the explosion.

He groans as he puts a hand on his head. "What happened?" He looks around and sees pieces of his blaster. He panics "The pearl! Where is it?!"

Looking around, he sees nothing, but he hears a female voice calling out to him.

"SKULKER!"

Looking to where it came from, he sees Danny Phantom carrying Kim Possible by her shoulders. He sets her down as he then lands next to her. Both teens cross their arms and glare at him.

"We'd like a word with you." Danny says.

"Regarding you making us hurt each other and our friends." Kim adds in.

Getting up, Skulker puts his dukes up.

"Relinquish the pearl to me, or I'll hang both your pelts on my wall!" He declares.

Both teens glance to each other and nod.

Danny fires a ghost ray, the blast is cancelled out when Skulker fires his own blast. However, he's distracted, as Kim jumps above the blast and kicks the metal ghost in the head.

This knocks him back a bit before Danny flies in, tackling the hunter off the building onto the rooftop of another one.

Kim follows, jumping off and going after Skulker.

Once the ghostly menace gets up, Danny grabs him by the collar and tosses him in the air.

Seeing this, Kim jumps and kicks the ghost into his side, causing him to fall fast and hard onto Danny's raised fist. Danny then throws the ghost several feet away.

Once he gets up, Skulker sees both teens in front of him. Danny raises his right arm while Kim raises her left as both teens stand next to each other.

They throw their fists in his face together.

The impact knocks him off the building. He lands in a dumpster in the alleyway.

Getting his head out, he sees both teens glaring down at him.

Skulker realizes he can't win right now.

"I'm out of here!" Skulker shouts.

Without any hesitation, Skulker flies out and gets as far away from them as possible.

Once he's as far away as possible, both teens look to each other.

They manage to crack a smile and give a high-five.

Back at FentonWorks, the groups are back in the living room.

As everyone sits around, silent and concerned over what had just happened, Sam is the first to speak up, to Ron.

"So, Ron?" This catches his attention. "That was surprisingly brave of you. I totally misjudged you."

Ron smiles.

"Aside from Rufus, Kim's my best friend. I'd risk anything for her."

"I may not agree with how you feed Rufus, but I can at least respect your devotion to others." She says, showing a smile.

Rufus then comes out of Ron's pocket, holding the Rage Pearl. He gets everyone's attention with his squeaking.

"Is that the pearl?" Danny asks.

"The same one!" Ron says, taking the pearl and handing it to Danny.

Danny glares at the object in his fingers.

"So, Vlad used this thing to make me and Kim fight each other?" He asks.

"Apparently, Wade's research showed it also amplified people's physical abilities." Jazz says. "Vlad probably wanted to get the best fighter he could find for free, that being Kim Possible, and use it on her to fight you. He knew you'd never fight a normal human to death."

"Knowing him, Vlad was probably gonna use it make people fight each other to death or something." Tucker suggested, his voice noting how much he does like what just happened between the attractive cheerleader and his best friend. "What are you gonna do with it?" He asks Danny.

"Take it somewhere Vlad can't find it. Maybe to Clockwork."

"Who?" Kim asks.

"Long story." Danny says as he puts the pearl in a Fenton Thermos. "I'll store this in here for now." He gets up. "I'll leave it here while I have a word with that cheesehead."

"What?" Jazz asks.

"You're going to take him on?" Sam asks, concerned.

"We are going to take him on." Kim says, getting up.

"I'm coming too!" Ron says, getting up. "I haven't gotten involved in action a whole week and I'm not sitting this out!"

"All of us!" Sam shouts, getting up as everyone but Monique gets up.

"I'll… stay here and keep the magic pearl thing safe." She says, not wanting to get involved in action.

"Actually…" Danny says. "You guys should stay here, cover for us when Mom and Dad come back."

"What?!" Sam shouts.

"Come on!" Tucker says.

"Guys, he's right." Jazz says. "I don't like it either, but we'd just be targets."

"Well, I'm not from your circle of friends, so I'm coming!" Ron shouts.

"Yeah!" Rufus declares as he peaks out and raises his fist.

"Fine." Danny says, crossing his arms and shaking his head.

"Are you sure want to do this? Go raid Vlad's mansion?" Sam asks.

"Vlad's crossed one line too many, so it's time to put him in his place." Danny says.

"He hired me to hunt Danny Phantom, hired bad guys to attacks us or to take over my body, tried to destroy us and made me fight Danny and almost hurt my best friend." Kim has a look of absolute anger in her eyes. "I'd say we return the favor."

Danny nods.

Everyone else nods, noting that these two are out for payback.

In Vlad's mansion, Skulker has returned, looking rather ashamed at his loss. Vlad is hovering in front of him, looking angry as he speaks.

"So not only did you fail to terminate either of them, you lost the Rage Pearl?!" Vlad barked.

Skulker shrugged innocently.

Snarling in rage, Vlad then shouted into the air. His arms shaking out.

"Is there no one who can handle teenagers?!"

"If I may…"

Vlad and Skulker hear the Fright Knight's voice, turning to his back, he sees the Fright Knight, walking into his lab.

"The Fright Knight?" Skulker asks.

"It's done."

Vlad smiles.

"Finally…"

"What's done? What's going on?" Skulker asks.

The Fright Knight looks to Skulker.

"Vlad Plasmius and I have been collaborating on a project since Pariah Dark was returned to his sarcophagus." He clarifies.

"If you must know, Skulker, we found something that even Pariah was afraid of." Vlad says, still having his look of anger at Skulker. "Or rather, a piece of what he was afraid of. I used some of my research in cloning Danny Phantom into bringing it back to life."

"Wait, what?!" Skulker asks. "You brought something the Ghost King actually feared back to life?!"

"Indeed, I have been tasked to taming the beast." The Fright Knight says.

"I take it you got the collar on its neck?" Vlad asks.

"Indeed, it's ready for us to unleash it for its first test of power."

Vlad smiles wickedly.

"Then, by all means, bring the creature here…"

In the basement of Axion Labs, the Fright Knight returns to the door.

Inside, monstrous sounds of the creature can be heard.

Pushing buttons on a nearby console, the doors slide open.

As they open, a pair of reptilian yellow eyes looks out from the darkness.

Though it is dark, the sound of the creature breathing from its nostrils can be heard.

As it starts to come to the Fright Knight, as its pupils slit to indicate it wants to attack, the Fright Knight pulls out a remote and pushes its sole button.

Suddenly, jolts of electricity charge around the neck. This causes the beast to call in out in pain while still glaring at him.

"Ready yourself, beast. It's time for you to show us what you can do." He shouts.

The beast's eyes squint, indicating a desire to slaughter something.

Turning around, the Fright Knight pulls out his Soul Shredder. Using its power, he pierces the air and creates a portal, one big enough to fit the creature through.

In his mansion's laboratory, Vlad sits at his self-made throne, waiting impatiently as he taps his finger repeatedly.

Skulker stands nearby, wanting to see what exactly this thing is.

To Vlad's left, his cat, Maddie, sits unimpressed at everything around her.

The Vultures are nearby, just sitting at the table, uninterested as well.

Nightmare, Fright Knight's steed, just stands around, waiting for its master.

Suddenly, a portal opens in front of all of them.

The Fright Knight walks in from the portal.

Marching slowly, he approaches Vlad, on his self-made throne.

"I present to you… my partner…" He then motions to the portal. "The ultimate monster, the beast feared by even the mightiest ghosts, the most dangerous creature that ever lived…."

A large, beastly figure starts walking in view.

What comes out causes the Vultures to fly to the wall, cowering behind their wings at the sight of the creature that earlier tried to harm them. Except, it's gotten bigger.

Maddie, usually uninterested in anything around her, is frightened and runs off.

The Nightmare panics as well, stepping away while it lowers its head in fear.

Skulker, usually ecstatic to find something new to hunt, stares with his jaw agape. He blinks and rubs both eyes to make sure he's not seeing things.

Vlad, in both fear and awe of what is now in front of him, gets off his throne.

He walks a few steps forward as a large, draconian figure extends its wings and roars out.

A sinister smile forms on the evil hybrid.

It's time.

The creature Vlad's been bringing back to life and what this has been building up to.

I got a private message asking me if the story was anywhere close to finishing.

It's not... at all. I'm planning on making this a trilogy and this is just part 1... and we're not even halfway done.

This monster is just where part 1's going to be about.

Also, to answer a question regarding Danny's age. I've never agreed with the whole "Danny is 15 or 16 during Phantom Planet" theory. The thing is that Butch Hartman's shows tend to have a rather slow timeline. Characters don't age unless it's outright acknowledged. It's like shows like Pokemon or The Simpsons. They could celebrate like a million Christmases in Springfield and Ash has been 10 for like a thousand episodes, some episodes take place in the span of more than one day. So, as far as I know or care, Danny and friends are STILL the same age as when the show started until someone outright says in universe if they aged at all. The only confirmed birthday was Paulina, but that's the exception.

Also, fair to bring up, I like Transformers and I was really into the Predacons in Prime. This story is me doing that plot because I like fossil revival stories. However, this goes in a route I WISH Prime's Predacons went. You'll find out more later...

Next time, the beast makes its attack...