Chapter 26: The Night Is Over

The Terakon remains on the top of the building, looking out at the city with a vicious glare.

Images flash through its mind.

The image of a figure in shadows, looking over it and so many others like it.

A glowing crystal.

Then a flash.

That last bit appeared to be the last thing it remembered… and it got angry for some reason.

It felt like something was missing… and that destruction was the key to remembering.

It saw somethings flying towards it.

"Open fire!"

The jets fire rockets at the beast.

Annoyed, it fired red flames then blew up the rockets before they reached it.

Danny observed this and took a breath.

He put his Fenton Phone in his ear.

"Everyone hear me?"

Sam, in the Fenton Blimp after it lands in the park, far away from the chaos, answers.

"We're here, Danny. Let me get you on the radio."

She nodded to Tucker, who used his PDA to connect to the Fenton's computer so that he and Ron can listen in.

"Cool." Ron admitted.

"We can hear you now." Tucker said.

"The Specter Speeder is totaled. We only have one last option." He took a breath. "I'm gonna lure that thing down here so Kim can fire."

"WHAT?!" All three shout out.

Thankfully, the citizens were evacuated before they spoke.

"Danny, that's insane!" Tucker shouted.

"He's right, don't do it dude!" Ron begged.

Danny took a breath.

"It's a terrible idea… but we've run out of options." He said. "I can't carry that thing without being seen or smelled, I need it to stay still. I'll lure it somewhere where it'll pin me down and Kim will fire."

"Danny…" He hears Sam say.

"I trust her Sam." Danny said seriously. "Please trust her too."

Sam looked concerned before looking to Tucker and Ron.

They, plus Rufus, nodded with a smile.

She sighed.

"Alright."

"If this goes well… I'll see you later."

He takes the Fenton Phone off.

He looks back at Kim, who smiles and nods as she holds the bazooka ready.

He walks to her and the two hug.

"You better be okay!" She says. "I'm actually looking forward to going out with you."

He smiles at her.

With one nod, he turns and flies up.

Kim took one breath, hoping silently for his survival.

Vlad sees Danny flying towards the creature. He's confused as Skulker and Fright Knight are with him.

"What is he doing?" Skulker asked.

"He's a fool!" The Fright Knight said.

"Daniel isn't that self-destructive!" Vlad stated. "Unless…" He looked to the building Kim was on, and saw what she was holding.

He realized what they were doing.

"Oh no…"

Drakken and Shego see Danny fly.

"What's he doing?" Shego asked. "He's gonna end up in that thing's belly."

Drakken looked to where he came from and saw his nemesis with a large blaster.

"Didn't they mention a bazooka and another dimension?" He asked. "Some kind of portal weapon?"

Shego figured it out quickly.

"They're gonna lure that thing into a trap!"

"Not if we have anything to say about it!" Drakken said.

The Terakon saw Danny coming in. It glared at him.

Danny's flight reminded it of someone… but it didn't know who.

Danny fired one ghost blast at its head, irritating it.

"Hey! Jerkasaurus Rex!" The Terakon seemed to respond when it snarled at him. "Come on! I'm still here!"

With a roar, the Terakon flew at Danny. Danny turned back and started flying back to Kim.

Kim readies the bazooka.

"Okay…" It powers up. "It's now or never."

"I fear… NEVER!"

Vlad's voice called out as a blast near her feet knocks Kim down.

She looks up and sees Danny's three foes above her.

"Plasmius?!" She sits up. "Seriously? Why are you so eager to stop us?!"

"Because that's MY Terakon monster!" He yelled. "I will not let you interfere!"

"That thing is out of your control!" She called him out. "Go back to being jealous of Danny's dad for marrying a woman who never liked you!"

Vlad's scowl became bitterer for hearing that.

"You know… I was gonna spare you. I was going to make Maddie my queen and take over the world, which would make Danny my heir. I would have given you to him, I figure a union of you two would make powerful grandchildren…" He admitted.

"Okay… first off, you're a disgusting misogynist!" She shouted. "Second, they'd still be Jack Fenton's grandkids, not yours!"

Vlad's glare intensified.

"He's just going to have to move on." His fists were glowing. "You were to be my head warrior with the Rage Peal and later who I'd use with Daniel in my future… but now you will DIE!"

"Not by you, Dorkula!"

Shego called out as she fired her green energy at him, knocking him away.

Skulker and the Fright Knight turned and readied for battle, until Drakken fires from a cannon that shocked them.

"No one is getting rid of that monster! We're taking control over it!"

"Seriously Drakken?!" Kim shouted. "Don't you have to go whine about how Professor Dementor is more respected than you while whining about how I'm all that but you think I'm not?"

Drakken gritted his teeth. "I yelled that you think you're all that but you're not!" He took out a collar, similar to the one he put on the creature. "And Dementor is going to have to compete with me after this!"

The beast roars, alerting everyone that Danny was coming with it following him.

Danny saw what was going on, and was annoyed.

"SERIOUSLY?! CAN YOU ALL TRY TO KILL US LATER?!"

Danny landed on the rooftop, firing his ghost ray at Shego.

She fired her blasts at Danny, putting them at a draw.

However, the Terakon's presences forces Danny to fly away as it lands where he was.

"Perfect…" Drakken said with a smile. "Let's get this thing on!"

He hands the collar to Shego, who runs at the creature, which jumps up and flies around the building, snarling at the people on it.

"Come on!" Shego yells. "Get here and where this stupid thing!" Danny took advantage of her distraction by freezing her from the waist down. "WHAT?!"

Danny smiled.

"Sorry Shego, you're gonna have to-"

"DON'T SAY CHILL!" She snapped.

Danny smiled smugly.

"Chill…"

She growled in anger.

"Oh snap…" Drakken said.

"Oh snap indeed." Vlad said as he got up.

The Terakon saw this and landed between everyone.

The impact causes Vlad and Drakken to fall.

It saw Shego and readied its fire breath.

"Aw crud…" She muttered.

However, his heroism kicking in, Danny ran into Shego and used intangibility to phase her through the ice. The two landed safely out of the way of the flames, which melted the ice.

Shego quickly noticed the 14 year old on top of her and quickly pushed him off.

"Uh-uh! You're too young!" She shouted. Her fists glow again "Here, let me at least say thanks for the save!"

"Seriously?!" He asked.

The Terakon breathes out its nostrils, alerting the two.

"Okay… maybe I can wait." She says.

She instead fires at the Terakon, not really doing anything by annoying it.

It fires again, forcing her to jump out of the way.

Kim took advantage and grabbed the bazooka.

However, Skulker pulled it out of her arms thanks to intangibility. He aims it at her.

"Why not get a first-hand view of the Ghost Zone?" He suggested.

Kim then jumps over the metallic menace. This distracted him enough for Kim to sweep kick him off his feet.

"OOF!"

Kim then forced his face open, revealing the tiny ghost inside.

"This is where you go away." She says.

She grabs the tiny true form of Skulker and throws him like a baseball, sending him several yard away.

The Fright Knight pulls out his Soul Shredder.

"You will pay, girl!" He shouted.

Kim managed to avoid his sword and grab him by the head. She flipped him on his back. The impact causes his sword to fall out of his hand.

Seeing it, she had an idea.

She grabbed the sword and ran to the Terakon.

"Here goes everything!"

The Terakon noticed this.

She swings the blade.

It doesn't penetrate its skin. It only make a TING sound like it was hitting a metal wall.

This causes her to gasp.

"Ha!" Vlad shouted. "My beast fears nothing! You will all die!"

Hearing this causes the Terakon to look at Vlad, and be annoyed. It swung its tail at him.

Vlad only now noticed this.

"Oh dear…"

He's hit with enough force that he goes through the buildings nearby while at a 60 degree angle.

Kim drops the sword.

Seeing it, Fright Knight grabs it. However, seeing the Terakon causes him to panic.

"He's all yours!" He flies away.

Drakken and Shego bored the hovercraft once more.

"Let's just watch this monster win." Drakken suggested. "Kim Possible is going to die anyway, may as well let it do it for us."

"I'm game." Shego admitted.

Seeing them, Danny fires a ghost ray at the hovercraft, causing one of the rockets to blow a fuse and send them hurling downward.

"DANNY PHANTOM! YOU THINK YOU'RE ALL THAT! BUT YOU'RE NOT!"

Danny actually smirked.

However, he regains his serious look when he fires at the Terakon once more.

Turning around, it glared at the boy.

"Come on!" He shouted. "Come get me!"

He flew down and the Terakon followed him.

Kim saw the bazooka and grabbed it.

Danny landed on the street below, the Terakon lands as well, glaring at him.

Danny stands confidently.

"So, here we are… I can tell you're smarter than you're letting people think you are." Danny said. "Then I should warn you… you won't win."

The Terakon only stares at him, one eye wider as if looking at him in suspicion.

"I don't know what Vlad had planned for you, or what's going through your head… but this is where it ends." He then creates a duplicate.

"Come on!" The two shout.

The Terakon reaches out and slashes both of them.

Both doubles use their strength to hold it back. However, they end up on their knees.

"I forgot… when I duplicate, I'm weaker…"

Danny looked up and saw Kim, holding the bazooka and aiming down.

She gave a thumbs up, showing it's ready.

Smiling, both Phantoms let go and return to once, flying back and smiling.

"It's over, beastie!" He looked up at Kim with a smile. "Let him have it!"

"Die…"

That sound caught his attention.

A voice.

A deep voice.

Turning his head, he saw the Terakon for a brief second before it happened.

Kim pulled the trigger and fired.

It hit.

A portal appeared before it, pulling the screaming monster in.

It gave Danny one last glare before it's sucked in.

The portal closes.

It was gone, now in the Ghost Zone.

It was over.

Danny stared, curious of what he just heard far more than anything else. Still, it sunk in… it's gone. He let a breath go and floated up to Kim.

Kim took steps back so Danny can land in front of her. It took them a moment, but they smiled and high fived.

Vlad floated in, weakened by the injuries. He sees the Terakon gone, realizing the kids one.

"No…" He growled, but he clutched his side, the pain too much. "This isn't over…" He flew off.

Drakken's hovercraft floated up, sounding like a car breaking down.

"Let's get out of here!"

They craft took Drakken and Shego away, slowly.

Danny and Kim looked around, relieved it was over.

A car pulled up to the building, one that belonged to Jazz. She and Monique came out and saw the two on top.

The Fenton Blimp arrived as well.

All of the teens met up on the rooftop.

Danny got hugs from his sister and best friends.

Kim hugged both of her best friends and got Rufus hugging her arm, happy to see her alive.

Everyone looked out at the damaged city.

"What now?" Ron asked.

"Global Justice is convincing the Guys in White and other people to help bring some repairs." Kim said.

"That's good to hear." Danny said.

"Yeah. Can't wait for like 1/10th of the city that thing destroyed to go back to normal." Tucker said.

"At least there no known lives lost." Jazz said. "Other than some bulls it ate… but I'm just glad we're all still alive."

Sam looked to Jazz, feeling upset.

"Um… Jazz?"

Jazz holds a hand up.

"You saved a whole bunch of people with the blimp, so we're good." She said with a smile.

Sam let a breath go, relieved.

Everyone looks out at the city.

Kim's eyes darted to Danny and smiled.

"Well, I have a promise to keep. Let's go out tomorrow."

Everyone else looked at her.

"Go out?" Monique asks.

"Go where?" Tucker asks.

Kim and Danny looked back and smiled.

"Danny's been trying to convince me to go out with him, and I promised if he lived then I'd go out with him. So, I'm going on a date with him tomorrow."

Everyone was silent… for a second.

"WHAT?!"

Everyone but Jazz was shocked by this. She turned away and smiled.

In the Ghost Zone, the Terakon found itself floating aimlessly. Looking around, it flew until it saw a familiar structure. Familiar to it at least.

Pariah's castle.

It landed in front and sat down, staring. A memory of the castle appeared in its head, though the castle looked different. It didn't have the scar-like section on the eye-like feature. It remembered it looking blue as well. It glared and sat there… remembering.

The battle is over... but we're, at best, halfway done.

You're all probably wondering... what is it remembering?

This will play a role later.

As for Drakken and Shego, their interference is going to be of importance to Vlad.

But tomorrow for Danny and Kim is purely them getting some relief from fighting the monster dragon.

Danny's FINALLY getting a proper date with her.

But there are still villains out there and the Terakon is alive...

Clearly, we're not done.