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TMDDF: Danny and Kara
Chapter 25: Team-ups and Battles Part II
Previously
"Why are you doing this?..."Kara demanded.
"As I said earlier...I have plans for the likes of you...for both you and Daniel..."Vlad said as he was about to send another blast to the heroine...only to be hit himself...
But not by Sam or Kara.
The girls turned around and they saw who sent the blast. It was someone both girls were happy to see, for similar yet different reasons.
"Danny..."Kara and Sam both exclaimed at once when they saw it was him.
"Danny!..."Kara shouted in relief as she quickly flew to him and the two embraced.
"I'm so glad that you're okay..."Danny said, happy that she is alright.
However, as he still hugged his girlfriend, he saw Sam on the ground and Danny's smile dropped a bit.
"Sam..."Danny said.
"H-Hi Danny..."Sam said, feeling so guilty and awkward right now.
Unfortunately, Vlad got back up and sent a blast in their direction, but Danny and Kara managed to dodge them.
"DANIEL! HOW ON EARTH DID YOU FIND THIS PLACE?! WHAT ABOUT THE COORDINATES I GAVE YOU?!..."Vlad shouted.
"If there is one thing I have learned about you Vlad, is to never trust what you say..." Danny said... "As for how I found this place, let's just say you're as subtle as a flying mallet!..."Danny said sarcastically.
Vlad growled at that remark and sent another blast.
"FINE! IT DOESN'T MATTER SINCE NONE OF YOU ARE LEAVING THIS PLACE THE WAY YOU CAME!..'Vlad shouted as he sent more blasts to his arch-enemy.
"We'll see about that...care to give me a hand, baby?...'Danny asked his girlfriend.
"It would be my pleasure..."Kara said with a determined grin..before noticing Sam.
"If you are up to it...you're welcome to..."Kara said and Sam nodded, as she held the bazooka even closer.
"I'm in..."Sam said and despite what Danny was feeling, he nodded to.
What they are facing is more urgent than whatever issues they were currently facing.
Danny, Kara and Sam were all facing a very peeved off Vlad Plasmius.
"Oh, you all can't be serious...Daniel, you have never defeated me in a fair fight, your girlfriend's power can be taken away with just a couple of green space stones and I am more than capable of overpowering Samantha...what chances do you have of defeating me?...'Vlad mocked arrogantly as he was prepared to use every dirty trick he could think up to get everything under his control once again.
Danny just sent him a nasty glare.
"Fruitloop...SHUT UP!..."Danny shouted as he sent an ucy ray at his enemy and managing to land a hit on him.
That's when it started to go down, Danny sent countless ice and ghost rays, Kara used her fists and her laser vision and Sam tried to use to bazooka to try and land a few shots herself.
Unfortunately, Vlad was still proving to be quite a fight and has either dodged, created a shield to block the blasts and used his intangibility whenever Kara tried to land a punch on him.
Danny decided that it was time to get serious.
"Kara.."Danny said to his girlfriend.
"What?..."She asked.
"Get Sam and fly someplace safe...things are about to get ugly around here..."Danny said to his girlfriend.
"What are you talking about? I'm not leaving you alone with him..."Kara said.
"Just trust me on this...I have an idea but it means a lot of damage..just trust me..."Danny said in a serious tone.
Kara was unsure but nodded. While Danny sent several ice beams to Vlad to distract him, Kara quickly grabbed Sam, despite her protests.
"Hey, what the heck are you doing?..."Sam shouted.
"Danny insisted, he says he's got some trick for Vlad that he needs the two of us away from here..."Kara said and Sam's eyes widened.
There is only one power that she knew Danny possessed that he would take that sort of precaution with and she stopped fighting.
Vlad saw that they were fleeing and growled.
"They are not getting away..."Vlad shouted, only for Danny to block his path and prepared his body.
"Like I said Vlad...you made a big mistake today...you tried to hurt my girl..."Danny said as he took a deep breath and then-
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!..."Danny unleashed an epic ghostly wail and Vlad was sent flying to the far end of his lair.
The sheer power of the wail caused the entire lair around him and Vlad to receive a lot of damage, windows broke, walls collapsed and every gadget, gizmo and notes here were being crushed and destroyed.
Outside
Kara had managed to punch her way out of Vlad's underground lair and was once again back in the surface, where she saw the burned cabin from earlier.
She then felt the vibrations on the ground, so she grabbed Sam and went a little higher for safety. She then used her x-ray vision to see the entire destruction happening to Danny's lab.
"Oh man, Danny..."Kara said in mild amazement, while Sam didn't realize her tone.
"Is he okay?...'Sam asked, still worried for him.
"He is...but now I know why he wanted us out so bad..."Kara said as she hissed, her advance hearing getting some of it.
After the vibrations stopped, the two of them went back to the lab and saw the state it is in.
Totally destroyed.
"Whoa..."Kara said as she saw the destruction caused to the lab, as she tried to look for her boyfriend.
"Danny?..."Kara called.
"Danny?...'Sam called too.
"Over here..."They heard.
They soon found Danny, still in his ghost form but on his knee's, clearly worn out from all of the power he just used.
"Hey.."Danny said as Kara helped him up.
"Why Danny, what big lungs you have..."Kara joked and Danny chuckled, despite himself.
"Where's Vlad?..."Sam asked.
"Under a pile of rubble somewhere and he can stay there..."Danny muttered.
However, before they could escape, Vlad shot up from the very rubble he had been pinned under, angrier than ever.
He then saw the state of his lab and even the collars he had made...they were destroyed.
"My collars...ruined!..."Vlad shouted in rage.
"He was going to use that on me to take control of my body and then put one on you after he got you to surrender..."Kara said.
"Classic Plasmius move..."Danny said in annoyance, while Vlad got furious.
"It's over Cheese-head! Your Metropolis base is toast, your little hypno collars are trashed and you're out numbered...it's over..."Danny said and Vlad, for some reason, just smirked.
"Not quite, there is still the matter that I know your precious Kara's secret identity..."Vlad said smugly.
"And we know yours..."Danny said, his arms crossed.
"He is right, wouldn't you agree...Vlad Masters, mayor of Amity Park..."Kara said with a glare and Vlad frowned.
"I see that you have told her..."Vlad said.
"And our little "deal" extends to her...if you tell anyone about who she is or try this again, I promise that my parents will know about every rotten thing you've done, I don't care if I get exposed in the process..."Danny said and Vlad growled, realizing that they had him there.
"Not to mention, I have connections with the media...believe me, I can get your identity on the front of the newspaper in a heartbeat...so you better watch your step..."Kara threatened.
She hated that Vlad now knew her identity and she can't bring him to justice but at the very least, she and Danny knows his as a counter blackmail.
Vlad was mad, before nodding.
"This isn't over Daniel and Kara...it's only just begun..."Vlad said before he fazed out of the lab, leaving the teenagers behind.
"I really hate that guy..."Danny said in anger
"I'm not too crazy about him either..."Kara muttered, before turning to Danny and smiling.
She then hugged him and he hugged her back.
"I'm so glad that you're okay..."Danny said, happily.
Soon the two heard the sound of more rubble falling near them and they realized that it would probably be best to continue this conversation in a more stable area, so they grabbed Sam and flew out.
Unknown to them, Spectra had finally regain consciousness just in time to watch the entire place fall down.
"Ow, what the heck happened?..."Spectra said, only for a large pile of debris to fall on top of her in the process...
"Note to self...no more tempt jobs.."Spectra said under the pile of rubble, in a pained voice.
Later
The three teenagers were now out of Vlad's now ruined lab and settled in a valley nearby.
"I'm glad that's over..."Kara said.
"Me too..."Danny said."
"Now tell me, how did you ever find this place and how did you get in?..."Kara asked.
She really needed to know.
"Like I said, I don't trust Vlad...so I called Tucker and he managed to pin point the location of your and Sam's cell phones, so I used that to find this place...as for how I got in...Vlad isn't as observant as he likes to think...while you guys were fighting him, that's when I fazed in to stop him..."Danny said and Kara smiled, before hugging him.
"I knew you'd come..."Kara said, before frowning again.
"So what are we going to do with Plasmius? He knows my identity and from what you told me, he's just going to cause more trouble..."Kara said and Danny sighed.
"On the bright side, at the very least we know his secret and we can use that to make sure he doesn't squeal on you..."Danny said but Kara didn't look satisfied.
"I hate this...and I thought Luthor was a slippery one..."Kara muttered in frustration.
"Vlad's my responsibility...I'll get him some day but for now...what matters is that we managed to foil his latest plot and we're all safe..."Danny said, trying to be optimistic for her.
Kara nodded.
Soon Danny turned to see Sam, who had remained silent during the entire talk between Danny and Kara.
"Hey... Danny..." Sam said, trying to sound casual.
Looking hurt, Danny turns his back to her.
Sam sighs and looks ready to go, but Kara put a hand on her shoulder. She gave an encouraging smile and nod.
"You can do this..."Kara said in a gentle tone
Sam took a breath and looked back Danny.
"Danny...I know you must have mixed feelings about seeing me...but I want you to know that...that I'm sorry... I wanted to say something the day after but I couldn't. You know I don't like to admit my feelings or when I'm wrong but... I was very wrong. I'll tried to find excuses to justify trying persecute an innocent girl just because I had some misguided belief you'd somehow be mine..." Sam started tearing up. "I hurt her... and you. There is no dancing around that... I thought I was the best friend in movies who finally earned her friend's love… But I'm not. I'm a jerk… I tried to blame her and even Tucker but even I knew that was wrong… " She started crying. "I'm sorry... I don't care if you ever have feelings for me anymore… I just...I just want my best friend back. ..."Sam said as the tears kept flowing from her eyes.
Danny's back is still turned to her, she can't see his face and Sam just took it as a sign that he still won't forgive her and cried even harder.
"I'm so...so sorry...I'm so sorry and ashamed of what I did and I don't know how I can ever make up for this but-
Sam was silenced when Danny finally faced her and pulled her forward, capturing her in a hug, much to Sam's shock as she could feel his tears falling on her shoulder and heard his heavy breathing.
He's...crying...and he's...hugging her?!
"H-How can you forgive me so suddenly like this? I thought you hated me..."Sam said in bewilderment but she didn't push him away.
"I could never hate you, Sam...I was sad...I thought I lost the girl who had been my best friend my entire life...I thought everything we have been through would have been lost forever..."Danny admitted as he still hugged her and felt more tears falling from his eyes.
Sam heard this and held him tighter.
"It was all my fault...you trusted me...and I blew it...I really did lose who I was because of my jealousy..."Sam admitted but that was when Kara, who was smiling at the scene, spoke up.
"But you found yourself again..."Kara said.
"You helped me escape and you even saved me when Spectra tried to take over my body..."Kara said and Sam felt even worse now as Danny finally let her go.
"Kara...I'm sorry...about everything...you're a good person and...I'm just sorry..."Sam said it, finally apologizing.
"Apology accepted..."Kara said and Sam looked even more surprised.
"Hey, I don't like holding grudges and...I can see with my own eyes that you regretted what you did...trust should be earned, but forgiveness should not, it has to be given in order for a person to work for trust...that's what my aunt Martha tells me, anyway...so I am willing to let bygones be bygones..."Kara said as she offered her hand to her.
Sam saw this and smiled as she took the hand and shook it.
"Thank you..." Sam said.
Danny saw this and smiled as his girlfriend and his now reaffirmed best friend finally managed to bury the hatchet.
So..." Sam spoke.
"So..." Kara responded. "What... does this make us, friends?"
"I... don't know... I've been so attached to it just being Danny and Tucker, it took me a while to even accept Jazz..." Sam answered in an awkward tone. "Maybe... someday we can try that?...after this stops being so weird..."She suggested.
Kara smiled.
"I'd like that..."She said.
However, Sam soon leaned forward and whispered this to Kara, so Danny couldn't hear.
"You really care about Danny, don't you?..."Sam whispered and Kara nodded.
"Yes...he's my perfect match..."Kara said without missing a beat and Sam saw the sincerity in his eyes.
"Well...just take good care of him...or else..."Sam whispered the last part and Kara actually chuckled at that.
"Don't worry, I will.."Kara whispered back.
"Is everything okay?..."Danny asked, having not heard this part of the conversation.
Kara just floated back towards him.
"Yeah, everything is okay now..."Kara said, before looking to Sam, who nodded.
"Yeah..."She said with a nod.
"So Danny...are we...friends again?..."Sam asked, needing to be sure.
"To be honest, I don't think I ever stopped seeing you as my friend Sam, which is why it hurt so much...but you proved that you regretted what you did and Kara says you helped...so I am willing to forgive you..."Danny said and Sam was happy for that and hugged him one last time in response.
"Thank you...I promise I'll never risk our friendship ever again..."Sam vowed during the hug.
After several moments and beginning to feel awkward, Sam let go and backed away.
"Uh...if everything is alright...I think I better get home...my folks must be freaking out right now..."Sam said.
"We'll fly you there..."Kara offered to be nice but Sam shook her head.
"No, don't...I'll take a cab or something...you both have been through enough as it is tonight..."Sam said.
"Are you sure?...'Danny asked.
"I'm sure...you guys go..."Sam said as she began to leave.
Once she was away from the area, Danny and Kara looked at each other.
"Do you think she'll be okay?..."Danny asked and Kara had a small smile on her face as she nodded.
"Yeah, I think she will be...after all, people learn from their mistakes and I know she won't forget tonight..."Kara said to her boyfriend.
"So, anyway Kara...the dance is still going on, if we hurry, we can make it before the last dance..."Danny said and Kara smiled.
"I'd like that..."Kara said as she and Danny soon floated to the sky, however, before they left, Kara said this.
"Hey Danny..."Kara said.
"Yeah..."Danny said, only for Kara to give him a quick kiss on the lips and Danny didn't waste any time in reciprocating.
Once they were apart, Kara just sent him a sheepish look.
"I...I'm just really happy to be with you again..."Kara said, not sure what else to say.
"Same here..."Danny said sincerely as he cupped her face and Kara smiled, happy to be back with the boy she has become so attached to.
Danny and Kara soon shared another kiss, both happy and relieved that the other is safe and that they are together.
Back on the ground, Sam saw the kiss and sighed, before giving a small, heartbroken smile.
"I still have feelings for him...but if Kara makes him happy...a real friend has to want that for him...see ya later, Danny..."Sam said as she soon walked away, heading back for home.
She didn't know or care what will happen after today, she didn't care about the potential fact that she had been missing for over a day and her parents will most likely be freaking out more than ever and she didn't even care anymore that she might never be with Danny in a romantic sense.
Because all that matters is that he forgives her and they are finally friends again.
Even if she may never experience what Kara is experiencing right now, as long as she has Danny's friendship, she can make it.
The Gothic girl soon left for Amity Park, feeling for the first time in weeks, truly happy and at peace.
Later
Back in Amity Park
While Danny and Kara were enjoying the rest of the Fall Formal, there was a dark haired girl waiting impatiently in the room of one Sam Manson.
But it's not Sam Manson...the real one anyway.
It's actually Bertrand, Penelope Spectra's assistant.
"Where is Penelope? She said that the job should have been done by now?..."Bertrand/Sam muttered as he glanced at his watch.
You see, this is sort of how things happened. After Spectra and Vlad kidnapped Sam, Spectra ordered him to take her place as to not arouse suspicion from her parents or from Phantom's foolish little friends.
So Bertrand, being a shape-shifter, type of ghost, managed to create an identical look of Sam Manson and this job was surprisingly easier than he expected since every time Sam's parents or grandmother tried to come in and speak to him/her, he just gave a sad little look and asked to be left alone and the soft heart fools did so.
That was the easy part but the rest was just long, boring and tedious but he knew it would be worth it once he and Spectra received their cut from Plasmius.
So, while the Sam look-a-like waited for his boss to show up, he just decided to pass the time by watching some shows on Sam's big screen television that she had in her room.
He was in the middle of watching some news report about some incident in New York involving some freakish human with spider powers fighting off against what looked to be a goblin who was throwing exploding pumpkins.
"New Yorkers...pft...and people call us weirdos..."Bertrand scoffed as he was about to take a drink from the soda he had, only to notice that it was no longer there.
"Huh?..."Bertrand then looked and noticed he was now looking in the direction of a Fenton thermos...and a very angry looking Sam Manson was the one who was holding it.
"YOU?! HOW DID YOU ESCAPE?!...'Sam/Bertrand shouted.
"None of your business...oh, and tell Spectra when you see her in the Ghost Zone that I don't like being copied..."Sam said as she used the Fenton thermos to finally suck a ghost inside of it, this trapping Bertrand inside.
"That's it...as soon as I'm out I'm telling Spectra no more tempt jobs..."Bertrand grumbled from the inside of the thermos.
Sam smirked, happy that she was finally home and that it looks like she won't have to make up an excuse for her parents after all.
"Sammy-kins...are you alright in there?..."The voice of her mother, Pamela said on the other end.
Sam heard it and memories of her talk with Kara came to her, of what she said about her own families and before Sam realized it, she found herself opening the door, seeing both her parents and grandmother there, looking worried.
"Are you alright, dear?...'Her father, Jeremy asked.
"Is there anything you want to-
To their surprise, their daughter said nothing as she suddenly pulled the two of them into a hug, she said nothing as she just held them close.
She didn't care if this is against gothic norm or the confused, questioning looks anyone would have if they saw this...she needed this.
Pamela and Jeremy were confused, wondering what has come over her but soon found themselves hugging Sam back, realizing that she actually was hugging them on her own free will for the first time in a long time...but why?
"Sam...is everything alright?...'Pamela couldn't help but ask and then Sam pulled back a bit, revealing a teary smile on her face.
"Yes...everything is alright now...'Sam said as she went back to hugging her confused but happy parents.
Grandma Ida saw this and smiled, realizing that her granddaughter was no longer the miserable girl she was earlier today. She soon joined in the family group hug and Sam said nothing as she just tried to enjoy this.
She knew that things were still going to be tense with her family, with how different their views are but different or not, this is her family and even if she won't say it out loud, she loves them and it's time she learns to accept that.
She may not have Danny's love and she may never have it, but she still has this. She still has her family and she has finally regained Danny's friendship.
And she realized now, more than ever, that would be enough.
"-To be continued-
Next time on TMDDF: Danny and Kara
Afterwards
A/N(1): Special thanks to NeoMark for helping with some scenes :)
A/N(2): The Sam and Danny reconciliation scene is based on the Zuko and Iroh forgiveness scene from Avatar: The Last Airbender, which was one of the greatest scenes in the series.
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