Author: Hey there Danny Phantom fans! Yes, it's finally here, Andy's breakdown! Also, there's the parody to the Hellfire song from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dome that was deleted during the alternate timeline. I wasn't going to put it here originally, but while I was listening to it, it'll be the perfect demonstration to show Andy's lost of sanity.

Andy: Wait, what!?

Author: Also for those of you who watches My Little Pony, this may seem familiar to Twilight from how she acts in Lesson Zero. Now then, I'm sure you guys want to see this, so let's get to it, shall we?

Andy: What? NO!

Author: Roll the film!

Andy: Wait, STO-!

Chapter 37: A Brother's Insane Love

"Hey, if you make this baby cry and cost us our grade, you'll regret it." Paulina threatened me while we were walking down the locker's hall as she made me carry the baby flour sack.

"Oh, I'm soooo scared." I said sarcastically. "And what are you going to do? Make me a social outcast or laughing stock? I'm the loner of this school, can't get any worse or lower than I already am. Not invite me to your big bash parties? You don't do that anyway. Tell my or your parents I've been mean to you? Yeah, my parents don't care and yours I don't care. Anything else?"

Paulina's face was so red it almost looked like a cherry, score 1 or me, score 0 for the witch- I mean Paulina. "Do you want to fail?"

"Not really, but this assignment requires both of us, Paulina, not just me. I'm not going to do all the work." I said to her. "Let me tell you a little something about animal biology; both parents takes care of their young. Although there are a lot of exceptions, it's mostly mammals that involves both parents. Others… are cold blooded reptiles like snakes who eat their young, and spiders who eat the dad. Maybe both fits you."

Paulina growled and said, "FINE! Since we both obviously can't stand each other, we can take turns taking care of the baby!"

"That's the best idea I've heard all day." I said coolly back at her.

Then my brother, along with Tucker and Sam, were walking past us, they didn't notice us because I heard Sam say, "Don't worry Danny, Valerie doesn't know your secret, and as far as she knows, you don't know her's."

"Yeah, but… I'm also more concerned for Andy. He's been acting very… strange lately, I think this whole secret thing is starting to strain his sanity." Danny said as they walked out of earshot.

Paulina looked at me before she hesitated a bit, as if debating with herself if she should care enough to ask or not… but finally, after two minutes of debating, which is a pretty long time for teenagers, she asked, "So… why have your loser friends and brother ditched you anyway?"

I suppose that's her way of asking 'Why did you isolate yourself from them one day?' "Not that you care, but something happened to Danny and I wasn't there to see it happen. Needless to say they don't want me knowing about it."

Then Paulina put her hands on her hips and smirked, "And it's driving you crazy, isn't it?"

"What of it?" I growled at her.

"Do you already know what the secret is but you can't tell him yourself?" Paulina asked me, her eyebrow still raised.

"..." What was I supposed to say to that? She's right, but how did she know?

"It's written all over your face. You obviously found out something you shouldn't and you've been struggling just to not tell him." Paulina smirked.

I couldn't believe I was doing this, I really couldn't and I SHOULDN'T by any means, but… I was getting way too desperate for my own good. "... What should I do about it? He… he tried to tell me himself once, but I was too much of a coward to just listen, now I don't think he'll ever tell me."

Paulina put her hands on her hips as she spoke, "Well, if you want to find something out, why don't you confront him?"

"... confront him?"

"Who knows, maybe you'll find a way to get him to tell you." Paulina shrugged. "But for now, you're going to take care of the baby while I go to Cheerleading practice."

I frowned as she placed the flour baby in my arms and she walked away. For a minute there, I thought she actually cared, but no, of course not, she was just playing me for a fool. Still… maybe confronting him wouldn't be a bad idea, as long as he doesn't go flying, go through solid walls or turn invisible, I can do that.

Well… I had to keep the baby quiet, because it has some device that makes it cry if it gets cranky… yes, it gets a 'cranky' meter too, so I had to keep it happy while sneaking around to stalk my brother… yes, I'm stalking my own brother, this is so messed up.

Later, I went home and was in my room, putting the baby flour on my bed for a nap. I was looking out the window… Time is running out, the clock is ticking! I've studied what he's been doing… he walks past Kwan like he doesn't know him, he's already forgetting his classmates and bullies! When Mr. Lancer asked him a question, he blinks as if not hearing him… he's forgetting his own teacher! What should I do!?

I hadn't noticed at the time, but my hair was getting all messed up, my left eye was twitching and I could swear my smiles were getting insane and crooked, but I didn't care, the only thing on my mind was saving my brother from his inevitable fate. "Come on, keep it together…" It was then I remembered what happened with Johnny and Kitty… I told him ghosts could reform… so maybe, maybe if I could destroy that ghost, Danny will reform back to normal around a human body, with all his memories in tact! … Yeah, that doesn't make sense, but this is my mind on a string of sanity, logic isn't exactly my strong suit at this point.

So I turned to the baby sack and smiled, "Now don't worry little sacky, daddy's gonna make sure your uncle Danny will be here for your first birthday." … Yes, I'm losing it.

I went downstairs, not even sure what I was going to do. I think I was supposed to get some equipments but… instead, I just see the Ghost Portal, open, and its green, burning light spiraling.

I stared into the Ghost Portal… there I see Danny's spirit, flying off into the night sky, not at all caring the suffering I'm going through because of his death. He doesn't care, why should he? After all I'm not part of his circle of 'Team Phantom'. Oh brother, why do you leave me? (AN: The song is a parody of the Hellfire song from Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame. I highly recommend listening to the song while reading this. I will put it in Italic and Bold.)

"Oh dear Danny Phantom… You know that I'm a faithful bro- your days of hero makes you justly proud. My bro Danny Fenton, your spirit is so much better than the corruption of every ghosts that gives you a bout!" I could almost swear the green light of the Ghost Portal was starting to look more and more like green fire...

"So tell me, dear Danny, why are you just standing there? Why aren't you assuring me that you haven't lost your soul? You're just dead! You're a ghost! The lost of you is my despair! The Ghost Portal suddenly turned on and went out of control!" I could see the accident taking place as the portal's light looked nothing more than green flames to me. "Like fire! Ghost fire! This horror most obscene!"

I held out my brother's hazmat suit, the original black and white one he wore before its colors inverted and infused with his ghost. "My desperate desire… is turning me insane!" I gripped the suit tightly and angrily as dozens of Clockworks wearing that cloak appeared before me. I gasped and turned around. "It's all your fault!" I snapped at all of the Clockworks. "You are to blame! It was your power that drove me so you are to share the shame! It's all your fault! If in your plan, that the accident won't let my brother grow into a man!" I shouted as all the Clockworks suddenly turned to green flames and sucked into the Ghost Zone, as if they were never really there to begin with.

I grabbed the hazmat suit again. "I curse the Ghost Zone! The death of Danny has me repelled, why does Jazz treat it like a lovely tale?" I held up the hazmat suit in anger. "This is all that remains of him! Let it fall into the zone of the ghostly wail! Or else please let him come back to me, alive!"

KNOCK! KNOCK! KNOCK! Surprised, I turned around to see it was Jazz.

"Andy, please, this is not healthy, you need to let it go."

I glared her, "What!?"

"Danny's not dead like you think he is, he's still alive, I know it!"Jazz tried to plead with me, I think she can see just how messed up I looked.

"But how!? I…" I couldn't come to terms that Danny could be human anymore let alone alive! But now I figured this is just Jazz being Jazz and in denial. "Never mind, just get out!" I snapped at Jazz, she gave me a very concerned but defeated look and she left without a word as I turned back to the green fire of the portal. "I'll bring you back Danny, I'll bring you back no matter what it takes!"

I raised my hands at the flames and they responded as if feeling my own despair and rage. "Ghost fire! Dark fire! Now Danny you will learn!" I glared heatedly at the hazmat suit before looking at the flames again. "The charade's grown tired! It's shattered and it will BURN!" I threw the hazmat suit into the green flames, causing it to suddenly changed inversed like it did with Danny before it disappeared into the Ghost Zone as I backed away towards the wall, seeing the other ghosts tearing it apart.

"Ghosts have no mercy on him… Fate have no mercy on me…" I turned to the wall, closing my eyes for a second as I knew what I had to do... "But he will be alive or..." Iopened my eyes as I turned, feeling the nonexistent wind strongly blowing at me, knowing what will happen to him if I didn't stop this madness! "he will BUUUUUUUUUUURN!" I shouted at the top of my lungs as everything around me began spinning out of control, I didn't stop shouting that last word as I fell to my knees and as soon as I hit the floor, it all stopped.

I was suddenly back at the lab, not some spinning place, and the Ghost Portal wasn't some green ghost fire, it was the same spinning ectoplasm light. What I just saw earlier must've been hallucinations… Hee, hee, hee, some very bright and fun hallucinations… I'm going to go find my brother now.

After that resolve, I literally popped up from a bush just outside the Nasty Burger, snickering like a madman as I used my binoculars to spy on my brother, who was outside at the Nasty Burger, trying to get the baby Valerie left him with to stop crying. Now if only I could find any clues as to how to destroy a ghost so they can reform back to life.

I snuck over to them and smiled widely as I popped out of the bush, shocking Danny, Tucker and Sam into almost dropping their baby flour sacks. "Hi guys!" I think my left eye is twitching a bit.

"O-oh hi Andy… uh… how's-" Tucker started to say nervously before I walked closer to them.

"Great, just great! You three look like you're doing great too! Looks like none of you good friends need the help of another good friend!" I had no idea what I was doing at this point, just felt like saying stuff to them. Mostly I wanted them to know I wanted to help them or bring my brother back, however, they seem scared at this point.

"Uh Andy, are you okay?" I heard Sam asked.

"Am I okay? Oh I'm just GREAT! So how are the baby projects coming along? Looks like a lot of fun for you guys!" I said as my left eye kept twitching and my hair frazzling even more, and I swear if I smiled any wider my face would split.

"... Right… I think being partners with Paulina drove him to insanity." Tucker whispered to my brother, but I heard him.

"Oh don't be silly! I just want to know how are you guys been? Looks like Valerie just dumped the baby into your arms too, huh?" I said, still smiling widely at Danny.

"U-uh… yeah…" Danny said hesitantly… what? Am I scaring him? Or… maybe he's starting to forget who I am! The baby sack in his arms kept crying loudly.

I took the baby from his arms and said, "Sometimes kids are crying because they can sense something's wrong with their parents!" I began pinching the smiley face's cheeks. "Perhaps it's worried for its Daddy, maybe?"

"Andy, dude, you are creeping us out, and we're used to seeing ghosts!" Tucker all but yelled from behind me.

Before I could respond, however, I suddenly saw the Box Ghost behind Danny, who's ghost sense triggered as he turned to see him. "We can talk about this later! I'll be right back!" my brother said as he ran off.

I stared as he did… what if the more he turns ghost, the more memories he loses? That means it's possible he won't remember me at all in this next transformation! I wanted to scream and yell at him to stop! But… it was too late, there was that bright flash of light, signifying his transformation… and there he goes, as a ghost. Heh… he probably doesn't even remember me anymore… w-why would he? Heh… maybe I wasn't meant to exist in his afterlife.

No! I refuse to accept that as fact! If I have to destroy my brother's ghost in order to bring him back, so be it! As if on cue, I saw Valerie herself on her hoverboard, ready to blast Danny no doubt… maybe I should take her place. Yes, I'll take her place and avenge my brother's death and bring him back! While Valerie was about to fly up to the sky at Danny, I ran up to her and all but yanked her off.

"Whoa! Andy? What are you-"

"Sorry Valerie, this is MY fight! And I'm gonna finish it!" I said to her before grabbing her helmet and putting on my head so people don't recognize me and I jumped on her hoverboard. Yes, I know… I wasn't thinking straight, like at all, my sanity must've snapped because nothing mattered to me anymore except killing off Danny's ghost, not even my friends or family.

I didn't hear what Valerie said, or shouted, because I didn't care. I had to get used to the hoverboard's controls, but my focus was on Danny. I immediately shot at him with the wrist gun. I was at a disadvantage here, I wanted to lead him back to the house where all the weapons were. I probably should've packed up the weapons before looking for Danny to free his soul. "Come and get me!"

"What the?" Danny blinked at me as if surprised and confused.

"Come and follow me or the Nasty Burger will be in complete ruins." I threatened and his eyes widen before he put his hands up.

"O-okay, just calm down." he said as he began floating towards me. I didn't want him to get too close, because he could easily fire his ectoblasts at me.

"Stay at least five feet from me." I hissed before turning the hoverboard around, almost falling but managed to keep my balance as I had it fly towards Fenton Works.

Thankfully we made it to Fenton Works without too much of a hitch and I jumped off the hoverboard and Danny frowned, "Andy, I know that's you. That mask kept your face covered but not your body. I know that shirt and pants anywhere, what are you doing?"

I took off Valerie's mask and smirked at him, "It's time to end this charade. Do you really think I will forever accept the fact that my own brother is dead?"

The ghost kid's toxic green eyes widen in horror, "W-wait… y-you know?"

"I don't just know… I've seen." I hissed as my left eye twitched. "How could I have been so naive and stupid? To not realize that accident had killed you, that you were no longer among the living, just a ghost who wants to play superhero before he leaves this world."

"No, you don't understand! I'm not-" I didn't let him finish.

"I'm going to bring you back even if I have to destroy your ghost in order to do it!" I snapped as I held out the wrist gun again and fired.

"Whoa!" Danny jumped away, looking at me with horrified wide eyes. "A-Andy… All this time you knew but you-"

I didn't hesitate to tackle him to shut him up and held the wrist gun at his face, ready to blast it clean off. The ghost boy of my brother grabbed my hand, trying to push it away. As a ghost, Danny's strong! I couldn't keep the wrist gun on his face before he managed to push me off, but I refused to give up. Ghosts can make themselves intangible, making it nearly impossible to hit them since they are not solid, however, there are many things in my arsenal that can hurt ghosts even if they are intangible.

I'm glad I at least had another back-up weapon from my pocket before I took it out and pushed the button on the small rod, turning it into the Fenton Rod, I kept this for close, melee attacks on ghosts, it can hurt them even if they go intangible. Danny gasped as I jumped at him and hit his side, causing him to fall to the ground and clutch his side in pain. It occurred to me that Danny wasn't really fighting me, rather just trying to get away, because he didn't want to hurt me… this made me hesitate, but I didn't stop as I walked up to him.

"I WILL have my brother back! I don't care what it takes, you won't be just a ghost anymore! I'm going to destroy you, Phantom, I'm going to completely destroy your every being until you are my living, breathing brother again." I snapped as I held out the rod at his face.

Phantom looked up at me and gave a scared and defeated look… why isn't he fighting back? I saw him fight, I know he could take so much more than this, yet he's not doing anything. Is he toying with me? I glared as I lifted the rod right at his chest where his heart should be if he was still alive. Once again, I saw Phantom's face, his glowing green eyes dulled down and almost looked human… he didn't scream or yell, he didn't make a scared face, but I could tell just from looking into his eyes that he was scared, worried, and guilty… but not once did he look at me accusingly, not once did he blame me or looked betrayed, he just gave me a look of defeat before closing his eyes to await the inevitable. I don't understand, why isn't he trying to stop me?

I shook my head and tried to remember that he's a ghost and by doing this I'll save him… but… I… I'm… what if I'm just killing my own brother? What am I going to gain if I go through with this? Why have I been attacking him? No… this won't bring him back, this will only make him go further into oblivion. I felt my eyes widen in horror as I realized just how much I had lost it over the past few days and that I had almost did the unthinkable; I almost destroyed my own twin brother, all for desperation and assumptions. I dropped the Fenton Rod with a CLANG on the side of the road.

Phantom… no, Danny opened his eyes and looked over at me. I looked at him… it seems there were no need for words. Danny slowly sat up and looked at me, looking as if he's debating with himself if he should talk to me. "... A-Andy, I-"

But I didn't let him finish, I don't know whether my insanity made me do it, or if my desperation or guilt didn't want me to hear his voice or what he has to say, but either way, I ended up grabbing and pinning him against the wall of our house. I was aware he could've easily phased right through, but I knew he wouldn't right away and I just glared at him, as if mentally telling him to shut it and never talk to me again. The wrist gun was at his face, Danny's eyes widen again and he looked at me as if confused and worried. I kept glaring at him before my expression turned to one of sorrow. "I'm sorry." was all I said before I let him go and ran to the hoverboard, immediately taking off. I didn't know where I was going, just that I needed to get away. I didn't know it at the time, but we were being watched by a certain cybernetic hunter ghost.

I heard Danny calling out to me but he didn't follow after me, for that I was grateful since I couldn't face him after that. Guilt was eating away at me, I couldn't believe what I had almost done! But then I began to lose my balance; I still wasn't used to riding on this thing let alone drive it, now that my adrenaline was gone, I ended up crashing the stupid thing near the park.

"Ugh…" I groaned as I sat up, not caring about the nicks and scratches, I just sat on the park bench, wanting to just curl up, cry and die alone here. Everything I did… it was supposed to be for him, Danny Fenton… and all I did was mess everything up, and almost killed him, I wouldn't be surprised if our relationship was completely shot and nonredeemable by this point… we've been growing apart since the accident almost 5 months ago, and this must've been the strain that shatters our bond forever. Why couldn't I have just accepted that Danny was a ghost now like Jazz, Tucker and Sam did? No, instead I ended up going off the deep end and almost destroyed someone who was closest to me since birth.

I heard someone sit beside me, I looked up and quickly wiped the tears away when I saw who it was. It was Paulina, of course she had to come of all people… I noticed she was holding the flour sack in her arms and she hesitated before talking to me, "... I had to pick up the little flour sack at your house when I heard you left it there."

I looked away from her, "... Family issues…"

"Yeah… I'm guessing it's your brother, huh?" she said and I cringed, she sighed. "Listen… sometimes siblings can be a pain. I'm an only child, but I do have an older cousin who looks out for me from time to time, and she drives me crazy, but I know she always means well even if she didn't always do it right, sometimes she hurts me but that's only because she cared."

I sniffled, trying not to cry in front of her, but I continued to listen. I was surprised that Paulina was telling me this… does she really care about me? I doubt it, but still… she continued, "We fight a lot because we didn't agree on a lot of things, but in the end, we would always laugh together and talk things out… Maybe it's time you should try the same with your brother."

"To… laugh?" I asked her with a weak voice.

Paulina sighed, "Well that would be nice, but I meant maybe it's time for you two to talk."

I shook my head… I couldn't possibly talk to Danny right now, I don't even know if I could face even him again, not after what I did. "But… I almost really hurt him… I can't…"

The popular girl sighed as she sat up, "It's up to you if you want to talk or not, but you two can never rekindle your bond if you don't try. Now don't go getting any wrong ideas, I still think you're a loser, but even I find it hard to see you and your loser twin fighting like this." and with that, she walked away, probably to take care of the flour sack and keep it from crying.

I sat there on the bench a little longer, mostly still in shock that Paulina of all people actually cared… I sighed as I looked up and decided to go pay a friend a visit… I owe her an apology anyway.

I was at Valerie's door as I knocked on it, I was glad Valerie herself was the one who answered and not her dad, I guess he was out guarding the lab at this time. Valerie gave me an annoyed look, but I guess when she saw how defeated I looked, her expression soften. "Valerie… I'm so, so sorry… I wasn't thinking straight… I didn't mean to steal your mask or your hoverboard." I was carrying both items and handed them back to her.

Valerie sighed as she took them, "I'm glad you returned them to me, but… are you okay?"

I shook my head, "No… no I'm not… I… I almost really hurt my brother… almost killed him even…" I just needed someone, a friend I could trust, to spill out my heart to, Valerie could see this and she let me into her room, closing the door.

"What happened?" she asked me gently as we sat on the couch.

"... I thought maybe I could save my brother, but when I tried… all I did was make everything worse. I guess my mind just snapped and I came to the conclusion I had to kill him in order to save him… and I came very close to doing just that… but I managed to stop myself before I did… but now, I think Danny no longer trusts me after that and I don't blame him." I said sadly to her as tears began spilling from my eyes. I hated it, I didn't want to cry especially in front of someone, but I couldn't stop the tears, they just wouldn't stop.

Valerie pulled me into a hug, she pat my back. I never thought I'd be hugged by her, but it was enough to break open the dam and let the floodgates out. I began crying softly against her as she continued to rub my back, trying to comfort me. I don't remember much after that, but Valerie told me her dad was coming home soon and I better head home and try to talk to my sister about this. I nodded to her as I left, feeling numb after crying like that.

I didn't want to face my brother again even though I felt numb, so I quietly walked into Fenton Works and head upstairs to Jazz's room, I needed to talk to her, maybe she can help me… I don't want to lose it again… maybe it's time I just accept that my brother's a ghost… and Jazz can help me take that first step.

However, to my shock, when I opened Jazz's door, I didn't see Jazz, instead I saw Danny himself on the bed as if he had been waiting for me. He was in his human disguise, but I quickly back away, what's he doing here? Jazz usually never lets us in her room while she's not in! … Oh wait, he's a ghost.

"Andy, please hear me out, I think it's time we talked." Danny said softly to me.

"There's nothing to talk about." I said with a heavy tone. "Just leave me alone." I made to walk away, but he grabbed my arm.

"No! Andy, we really need to talk." Danny said a bit urgently. I could tell when I looked into his eyes he's not at all willing to take 'no' for an answer.

But before I could do anything, Danny's ghost sense suddenly came out of his mouth. He growled in irritation, "Not now!"

Suddenly something hit his neck, I gasped when I saw it was a sedative and before I could even react, I was hit by something small and sharp on my arm. I hissed and my eyes widen when I was hit by a sedative too! It was strong, because before I could really panic, everything got really blurry and I couldn't even stand, I see Danny is struggling to stay awake too. Before I completely passed out, I saw a familiar ghost…

"I'll have my hunt with you both." it smirked… it was… Skulker… and everything went black for me.

Author: And there you have it folks, the breakdown, the insanity, Andy almost killing his brother but managed to stop himself. But now it looks like Andy's taken Valerie's place for Life Lessons.

Andy: I hate you right now. *was in the corner sulking.*

Author: Don't freak out Andy, people won't see you any different.

Andy: Just leave me alone...

Author: ... Right... well anyway... now yes, I did the Hellfire parody here, probably the only song parody I'd do here, it was mainly because the idea was inspired because it fits so well with the situation here. And now Danny's not going to let this go so easily, think they'll finally talk it out?

Andy: ...

Author: Yeah, let's hope so. Anyways, I hope you guys leave your thoughts and comments into the review box below, I look forward to hearing from you.