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Chapter 25: Who's In Control?

Sam's heart skipped one beat until it became rapid. Why? Why now? Why is Samuel attacking the outskirts of Amity Park, smiling maliciously? She shivered. It felt like her body had touched ice. This was not her brother. But, her grandmother said he was her brother. A huge part of her disagreed with her grandmother as she watched her brother cause destruction on the road. However, there was a tiny part of her who agreed with her grandmother that Samuel was not doing this action.

"Sam! Let's get out of here!" Danny grabbed her wrist and dragged her out of the window, escaping to the other side of the van with the others running. In time, another explosion erupted from the side of the van, turning it over on its side. Sam glanced at her friends and her two best friends. The band was blending in with the crowd of panicked drivers, but Tucker and Valerie took another turn to hide behind the two huge rocks. Danny spotted a large rock that wasn't occupied by any other and signaled Sam to follow him. The girl nodded and let him take her behind the rock.

Once they were behind the boulder and away from being scene, the two panted for oxygen slightly and regained their breath. With a flash, two bright rings formed around their waist and split up and down, transforming them to Danny Phantom and Sam Spectra. The two hybrids turned intangible and sunk into the ground. Above the people, Samuel was still calling out someone in a child voice.

"Come out, little sister." Samuel was about to toss another ball of energy at a random car. When he heard two children crying and spotted them trapped in the car, his smile turned into a wicked grin. Before he could throw the ball of energy, he felt a blast on his back that startled him. He chuckled, turning his head ninety degrees to see Danny Phantom readying his next attack on the ghost.

"So, Phantom. Shall we begin our duel?" Samuel mocked his gentleman attitude toward the guarded hero. Danny narrowed his eyes at the two faced ghost and gave a quick glance at the trapped kids.

Thank you, Sam.

Sam managed to turn intangible while Samuel was distracted to take the two kids out of the car. Danny glared at the ghost and nodded, gathering both ice and power in each of his hands. Samuel smirked and gathered his own power. In the blink of an eye, the two disappeared with speed like shooting stars going to collide into each other. It did collide at first, but it continued as the shooting star struck each other in the air between one in just three seconds.

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"Mommy!" The two children cried as they hugged their mother who hugged them back with tears of joy. Sam smiled after she released the rescued boy and girl who were clutching the famous Spectra. She felt envious of watching the family hugging and seeing the aura color that meant happiness and relief because her family were away and her brother was dead... body wise.

... but it was worth it, and my family is coming together.

"Thank you for saving my children, Miss...?"

"Please, call me Spectra. I feel awkward of the nickname." Sam said as she heard two voices above her head.

"SPECTRA!!" Her focus spotted up in the sky to see the two Hunters on their hover boards. Everyone murmured about the rumors about the ghost girl who joined Team Phantom. Sam, not noticing the audience behind her, nodded to the Hunters, signaling to them that she would be there.

"Wait!" Sam turned around to see the two children she rescued in front of her. Sam knelt down and asked them.

"Yes?" The girl and boy held out their pinkies.

"Would you promise us that you would visit us sometime?" Sam smiled and thought this was cute. She was a bit shy and nervous around the children while she was in her ghost form, but she never hated kids. Sam knelt down and grabbed both of their pinkies with hers.

"All right. I promise." The three released their pinkies, and Sam flew up to the Hunters who were awaiting her arrival.

"Hey, kiddo. Ready?" Black Hunter chuckled when Sam gave him a scowl and a light glare.

"Just because you are three months older than me doesn't mean you can call me a kid." Sam growled. Black Hunter shrugged and set his hover board to auto mode. Red Hunter did the same, but she was a bit cautious on the newly developed hover board.

"Tuck-hon. What's new 'bout this hover board?" Valerie asked through the mini speaker that only Tucker and Valerie could hear.

"Just the intangibility and improvement on the shield. The chip had a short circuit." Valerie nodded and flew forward with Sam and Tucker after her. Sam gave one glance at the two kids below her and then focused on the battle they were going to face.

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Danny panted in exhaustion. There was no way Samuel was on the same level as Danny in one shot. Sure Danny could let out a sigh after finishing his battle against any ghost, but this battle was on a whole different level. His muscles were sore as hell, his suit had small cuts forming on his arms and legs, and his body gave everything it had against the ghost. The ghost was exhausted and injured a little, but he was not backing down. Danny concentrated his right hand and felt his hand turning into ice. Samuel caught sight of another attack and charged his body with energy. Danny shot out icicles toward the ghost, and by one inch from the sharp freezing needle to Samuel's chest, the man disappeared.

"Oh... crap." Danny muttered.

"Over here, fool!" Danny looked up and met a heel on his face. Our hero was sent down to the ground, colliding with the hard concrete hard enough to make a crater. Samuel smirked smugly but it vanished into gritting teeth of pain as the younger Spectra kicked his ribs hard enough to force him far away from her and Danny. From behind him, Red Hunter charged her huge ecto-gun and fired at the incoming ghost sent by Sam Spectra. Samuel, yet again, was blasted sky high toward Black Hunter with his own ecto-gun... er... hover board holding four sets of ecto-lasers. One was a huge gun over his shoulder, a double barrel gun on his right side, a machine gun on his left side, and a five packed missiles... er... lasers under the hover board. At the same second, Samuel was in Black Hunter's range, and Black Hunter, pressing the button on his left arm, activated his weapons. Samuel felt the burning pain wrapped around his body and the ground on his side.

Deactivating his weapons, Black Hunter flew toward to his best friend where Spectra and Red Hunter were already by Phantom's side.

"Danny. Ya okay?" Red Hunter asked her friend with concern. Danny nodded while cracking his broken nose to the right place and said "ow." Slowly, Danny removed his hand from his nose and saw red liquid on his white glove. Sam bit her lip and placed her hand over Danny's bleeding nose. A light glowed from her palm, and Danny's eyes drooped a little from the warmth. Sam removed her palm away to reveal a healthy undamaged nose. Danny rubbed his nose and smiled.

"Thanks, Spec." Sam smiled and patted his head like he was an affectionate puppy. Danny scowled and huffed to signal the new member that he wasn't a baby. Sam just giggled and then frowned into seriousness. She turned around to face the empty lot and moved her focus around. She was aware of the enormous hate aura, but she didn't know that her body was shaking violently. The three noticed her body shivering badly like she was sensing a ghost, and they finally got the message that the battle wasn't over just yet. Danny turned his focus behind him, and the Hunters took his side. They felt the air getting colder, and before they even reacted, they heard cracks from below.

"Gotcha."

Four Samuels emerged from the ground and sent an uppercut to the four heroes at the same time. Team Phantom felt both pain and force from the blow as they were all sent into the sky. Before they reached to the highest altitude, they saw Samuel hovering over them with a malicious smirk and four red ecto-energy balls over his head. Everyone, except Sam, gritted their teeth a little and glared at the ghost above them. Sam, however, could see something hidden behind the hatred aura. She could see a tiny outline of sadness and pain from the hate aura.

Could that mean...

The next thing she knew, Samuel disappeared, and the energy rammed straight against their stomachs, and the energy for Sam was aimed at the chest. The energy felt like a huge fist with a burning cold sensation, and they felt they were forced to go down. Without a warning, the four landed and smashed onto four different cars, hearing the glass shatter underneath them. Danny, Tucker, and Valerie sat up and shook their head to gain focus before Samuel would attack again. They could taste the copper from their mouths and felt a few small cuts from their backs, arms, and legs.

"Well... I win." They snapped their attention to Sam who was unconscious and badly injured and Samuel hovering over her with energy emitting from his hand.

"Sam!" Danny shouted and tried to move. However, he felt his body being held down. Every muscle was tense and he tried to move, but against the ghost hybrid's will, he was stuck.

"I can't move!" Valerie shouted as she tried to move her arm.

"Dammit! Same here!" Tucker said the same thing. Samuel smirked and turned his head towards Danny who was glaring at him and unconsciously snarling at him.

"I can control gravity and air around me. Therefore, your body cannot move, and you will witness her first fatal injury." Danny snarled at him like a protective mate and had a few tears leaking down his face. Samuel smirked even more and charged up his power.

"I won't let you hurt her!" Samuel lost focus and snarled, letting the power on his hand to disappear and clutching his head.

"Damn you, human! Do not interfere with my goal!" He felt another painful throb in his head and felt his mouth and a kind voice speak out against his will.

"I don't care what happens to me! You have evil intentions and evil desires! I will stop you in any way!" The ghost screamed out in pain as he felt something coming out from his head. They blinked and understood what was happening. Inside that evil side, the good Samuel was either preventing or fighting his evil side... or both. Samuel stumbled away from the unconscious figure of Sam and down to the ground, thrashing side to side.

"Go back to your dungeon, human! I do not want any interference. You hear me?!" He shouted as he shook his head from side to side.

"Sam! Wake up! Dammit!" The different voice cursed. The two Samuels were arguing and fighting for dominant control their body and mind. The evil side was winning, but the good side was preventing him from controlling the body.

"You! Phantom! Get Sam the hell outta here, and blast me away from her! I'll try to hold him off for a while." The good side demanded from the evil side's lips. Danny snapped his attention back and tried to argue that he couldn't move or blast him because he was part of Sam's family. Without knowing if Samuel was a mind reader or not, Samuel spoke normally with a kind smile.

"Everyone. I disabled his powers for a while, and...I'm dead. I've been dead for a long time, and you should know that there's nothing you, Sam, or I could do to stop my evil self. You have to... eliminate me. My evil side has taken control of my spirit mostly, but he has no right to contain me inside." Another throb and thrash to the side alerted Samuel and the conscious members of Team Phantom.

"Hurry! I don't know if I-"

"Shut the fuck up, human!" The evil side snarled as the good side screamed in agony. Danny charged his right palm with energy and shot it as strong as he can at the turmoil Samuel. The blast was so hard that the ghost crashed into the boulder. The ghost unfortunately turned intangible to pass all the cars behind him, but fortunately, no one was in the cars. Black Hunter and Red Hunter dashed to Sam's unconscious body and lifted her up.

Danny sighed as he couldn't sense Samuel and walked toward his friends. Seeing the injured Sam, Danny's heart tightened in rage and sadness. He held his arms up like he was asking to let him hold her. Valerie let go of Sam to let Tucker hold her. Tucker nodded to Danny and carried Sam bridle style, so he could take a few steps forward to the ghost hybrid. With five steps toward Danny, Tucker held the ghost girl up to Danny, and Danny slid his arms under Sam's knees and back. Tucker let his arms down and took a few steps back. Valerie walked behind Tucker, placed her left hand on his right shoulder, and took his right arm with her right hand. Tucker lifted his left hand and placed his over Valerie's hand on his shoulder, giving her a light squeeze for both comfort and hope.

Danny's breath was held and squeezed Sam for any signs for life. He hoped that the impact wasn't fatal because Samuel was much stronger than Danny anticipated from any other ghosts. Sam had some experience of ghost hunting and fighting against other ghosts, but Samuel was a whole different level between the two siblings.

"Sam..." Danny choked a sob. When her name was mentioned, Sam groaned and fluttered her eyes opened.

"Danny? Did we win?" The three sighed in relief, and Danny let Sam down to her feet but never let her go. Danny hugged her tightly and nuzzled his nose to the crook of her neck.

"I thought we lost you, Sam." Sam patted his back and soothing him that she was okay and nothing was going to kill her by a long shot. Sam blinked, feeling a slight pain in her chest. She groaned in pain as Danny loosened his grip around her.

"What's wrong?" Danny let her go a bit as Sam rubbed her chest.

"I remembered that I was actually hit in the chest. Why am I not in so much pain?" She saw a gold chain sticking out on the zipper of her sleeve V collar shirt and grabbed the chain up. Danny blushed badly to see that Sam had a piece of jewelry in her bra, but he was curious about what had saved her. Taking out the gold chain, Sam's memory hit her like a truck ramming her mind into remembering.

It was the locket that Yumi gave her.

The locket saved her from the fatal attack since there was a huge dent in the middle of the locket.

"A locket?" Valerie asked as Sam flipped the locket open. Team Phantom, except Sam, gasped at the second picture they saw. Two Tams. Does Tam have a twin? Before they commented, they could hear snarling and panting. Samuel was hovering in the air, glaring at the group.

"You all are lucky that I have to deal with this annoying problem. I'll be back with some help." Black mist swirled around him and engulfed the ghost from existence. Team Phantom sighed in relief and relaxed. The battle was over... for now.

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"Where the fuck have you four been? Don't you have any idea how worried we were about you?" Shocker growled at the four normal teenagers with the whole band behind him, waiting for answers out of the four. They all looked at each other and looked back at the band. Before Sam was about to explain, Danny cleared his throat and answered.

"Way behind the crowd." The five men gave him a look of confusion, but they were a bit convinced that the four were behind them.

"Okay. We believe ya." Ark said, and Surge nodded solemnly. The four sighed in relief as the crowd started to move to the emergency buses that were prepared for any ghost attacks nearby.

"Sam." The Goth girl turned her head to Valerie who whispered her name. Even though they could understand through silent talking though the lips, Valerie needed answers clearly through whispers.

"Was that Masta Tam?" Sam looked back at the locket that was now on her chest and back to Valerie.

"Yes. I think she has a twin that she never mentioned about."