Well now here we are. The second half to Dans unfortunate timeline. I feel nothing but pity for the poor guys but even still everyone shall die.

Disclaimer! I dont own Danny Phantom... its probably a good thing too.

It was a tragic accident. That's what everyone kept repeating as Dan stumbled through the next two weeks of his life in a daze. He had awoken in the hospital and although he had been burned, hit by debris, and had a concussion he'd had far worse fighting ghosts. His injuries didn't slow him in the slightest and he immediately demanded to know what happened. No one would tell him anything and even though Dan had been badly injured in their minds he was desperately trying to leave. Frantic the doctors had been forced to try sedating him which honestly hadn't worked so well since his makeup was no longer fully human. Thankfully before he decided to turn to violence Vlad showed up and threw everyone out. Dan had expected sarcasm, smugness, anything but the sad patient we need to talk look that adults get when something bad happens. The look had frozen him to the spot all the adrenaline and fury snuffing out in an instant.

"They are dead Dan." Vlad said and those four little words had shattered his world.

Dan hadn't had many choices. His aunt didn't want him and he was too young to live on his own. When Vlad offered his home Dan found he hadn't even cared that he was literally going to be living with his arch nemesis. He didn't go back to school. He couldn't face anyone especially not after the funerals. He felt hollow and spent his days wandering around Vlad's ridiculously huge mansion or grounds. He would wander until exhaustion hit him and would sleep where ever he was at that moment. Once after falling asleep under a tree a boot nudged him awake and he found the barrel of a gun pointed directly between the eyes. Usually he would go ghost and blast whatever fool was stupid enough to point a weapon at him but that was before he had lost everything. Now he simply looked up into Skulkers eyes and sighed.

"Please, go ahead. I don't want to do this anymore." Dan muttered and Skulker flinched at the complete monotone nature of his voice.

Dans eyes closed and he fell back asleep uncaring whether he woke up at all. To his disappointment he did awake in the nice soft bed Vlad had gotten him. He sat up and to his surprise Vlad sat at the end of the bed an odd look in his eyes.

"Dan, I know that you are hurting from your loss. As you know I-I loved your mother and cared about your sister. However you need to start getting a grip boy. Since arriving here you haven't gone ghost once…"

"I'm never going ghost again." Dan snarled the first flicker of any kind of emotion finally showing itself.

Vlad flinched. "Very well but all you do is wander around until you collapse from exhaustion. That cannot continue."

Dan glared up at him that small spark of rage growing. "Its not like I have anything else to do! Everything hurts and I just want it to stop!"

To his surprise Vlad hugged Dan to him and whispered "If that's all you want I may be able to help."

The rage was snuffed out leaving a hollow feeling worse than before. "How?" he asked his voice small and breaking.

Due to the fact his face was pressed into Vlads chest in comfort he missed the look of triumph that crossed Vlads face at his words. Two days later he stood in the lab watching Vlad set up the contraption that was going to help him. Vlad had been concerned about his ghost half taking over. Because Dan had lost his will to live Vlad feared his ghost half was starting to take over and that's why Dan felt so numb all the time. He had done some tests and none of them had come back good apparently. So now he was in the lab a strange sense of dread filling him. Vlad had said that he could remove his ghost half and once that was done the pain would stop. Dan was unsure if he was telling the truth but at this point he honestly couldn't remember why he should care. His head felt fuzzy his mind lost and he hadn't eaten anything that day yet but Vlad had given him something to drink earlier. Now he just felt tired again and Vlad helped him lay down on a stretcher where he drifted off for what felt like only a brief moment. His eyes fluttered the strange numbing sensation fading as his consciousness rose again. He was strapped to a metal stretcher a mask fitted tight over his face. A slight feeling of panic and distrust flitted through his tired mind as he looked around and spotted Vlad in what looked like operation scrubs. He was upright on the stretcher the straps keeping him firmly in place. For a moment he tried to struggle but the drugs were already starting to take effect making his movements heavy to the point of almost nonexistence. He was just so very tired and besides he wanted this didn't he? A voice spoke up one that Dan vaguely recognized

"Is this all you ever hoped for Plasmius?"

Dans eyes blearily moved and a trickle of surprise as slow as molasses filled him. Fright night stood there his gaze fixed on Vlad. Dan didn't understand what was going on. Since when had Fright Night and Vlad been buddies?

"No Fright Night. I wish my dear Madeline was here as well but Dan shall have to be enough as my son. They never should have gone with that oaf to the restaurant but I suppose things rarely go according to plan. Dan is depressed and I have him convinced that it's his ghost half causing it. He is too strong to leave to his own devices though, once I absorb his ghost half he will be far easier to control." Vlad answered and anger surged through Dan the first real thing he had felt since everyone had died in the accident.

"Heart rate climbing." A mechanical voice reported and Vlad did something because Dan felt drowsiness surge into him but before he fully lost consciousness he swore that Vlad would never have his ghost half.

In the next instant he was awake and in pain, while the fury he had felt when losing consciousness was stronger than ever. Looking down Dan realized claws impaled him, his human body sitting just a few feet away looking as if they were starting to come to.

"You!" Dan roared and Vlad flinched looking terrified. In the next instant he ripped the claws from his body and flung Vlad away to smash into the wall. The claws had fallen from Vlads hands and his words echoed through his mind. 'Once I absorb his ghost half he will be far easier to control'

"Never!" Dan shouted snatching up the ghost gauntlets and deciding to take out Vlad ripped his ghost half away so he could only ever be a rich deceitful jerk. He faced a problem then. Dan could already feel himself weakening. He was meant to be half ghost and half human. Just being half ghost was destabilizing him and although he fully meant to merge back with his human half he couldn't leave Plasmius just lying around. He knew he could remerge with his human half from the experience of going through the Fenton Ghost Catcher and that meant Vlad and Plasmius would be able to remerge as well. It left him two options. Try and destroy Plasmius outright and hope he could still remerge even in a weaker state. Or he could absorb Plasmius stabilizing himself in the process then take his human half somewhere safe before figuring out how to merge back. Knowing he didn't have a lot of time he chose the second option flying directly into Plasmius sealing his fate and the worlds doom.