Chapter 65: The King Returns

In the Ghost Zone, he was searching for something lost to him a long time ago. He knew where this Vlad Plasmius was hiding, but decided this deserved his attention at the moment.

It was buried underneath the Ghost King's castle. However, he took some time looking for it. He had been trying to find it before, but decided tricking the humans into bringing a portion of his army back to life would go first and easier.

He's been looking long and finally found it.

He found the area in the basement that he was looking for. Likely, the king at the time, Pariah Dark, likely had it buried like the information they were sentient.

But now he's discovered where it is.

"My armor…"

"Here we are again…" Kim said.

They were suspended above the same trap they were before. Only this time, Rufus was tied up along with them, around Ron's leg.

And like last time, Falsetto was at his seat. This time he had the staff to his side.

"I have a special treat for you… you might find it too hot to handle!" He went.

"Huh… heat-related… I was still right." Kim said.

Falsetto pulled the lever.

What was once the vat of eels was now a fire.

"Fire?!" Ron screamed. "What happened to the eels?!"

"I sold them!" Falsetto shouted. "We use this to heat the place up when it gets cold!" That's when he looked to his men. "Lower them…"

He nodded and pressed the button, causing the trio to start descending into the fire.

"Uh… are you really going to stay?" Kim asked.

"Of course, I am!" Falsetto said. "I want to actually see this happen!"

"Again, with the breaking of supervillain traditions…" Kim said, sounding a bit annoyed.

However, to everyone's surprise, the three stopped descending. It looked like they were hovering as something invisible held onto the rope just inches above their hands as the rest of the rope continued to extend and go past them.

Then something cut the rope and lowered the two safely to the floor, away from the fire pit.

That turned out to Danny and Dani, who then tore the rope off, with Danny phased the rope off Ron's leg and setting Rufus free.

"I'm guessing Wade called you?" Kim asked as she smiled at relief.

"Yup." Danny said. "So, what's going on?"

"We're after that!" Kim pointed to the staff Falsetto had.

Falsetto got up and eyed Danny before he recognized him.

"I know you. You're Danny Phantom. Hmph… and here I thought you'd be-"

Danny really didn't like what he knew Falsetto was going to say, so he made that clear as he pointed at him.

"If you say you thought I'd be taller… I swear I'm gonna make you swallow that thing…"

Falsetto huffed.

"Well, you're in trouble. You and the little girl…" Both Danny and Dani were having a hard time keeping a straight face. "… have made a huge mistake! You are now in the presence of Falsetto Jones!" Both of them tried not to smile as they were holding back laughs. "The world's best thief and master of…" Kim and Ron noticed what the two were doing. Kim rolled her eyes when Ron just smiled as he and Rufus knew why they were acting that way. ".. all forms of-" Falsetto noticed what the two were doing and didn't like it. "Ahem! Is something… funny?"

Danny and Dani tried their best not to laugh… for about 3 seconds.

That's when they both broke down in laughter.

"Falsetto Jones… wow… how fitting!" Danny said.

"I WAS IN A HELIUM ACCIDENT!" Falsetto shouted with his face red.

Both of them stopped, but laughed even harder.

"He sounds… like Mickey Mouse!" Dani said as she was on the floor, holding onto her stomach.

"I swear… I'm never gonna make fun of the Box Ghost's voice again after this…" Danny said as he wiped tears out his eyes. "At least when I look at him, the voice is fitting…"

Kim couldn't help but smile a bit, even as Ron and Rufus laughed along with the two.

Falsetto was losing his patience.

"GET THEM!"

However, before anyone could make a move, something else made itself known.

It was the robot Armors of Doctor Drakken. The broke through the door and ran down the winding stairs.

"Knights?" Danny, who has stopped laughing, asked.

"Aren't those Drakken's robots?" Ron asked.

As if on cue, Drakken stepped out and did his usual laugh. That's when he noticed the heroes.

"Kim Possible?! Here?! NOW?!" He was in disbelief.

"Shouldn't you be enslaved by prehistoric monsters?" Kim asked.

"Made a deal with the one called Slashfang." Drakken started explaining. "I bring that staff and I get to be in charge of the robots… and not build that stupid device."

That word caught Kim's attention. "Device?"

"Based on your uncle's little gizmo, only bigger." Drakken said. "But enough about that, Armors!" He snaps his fingers. "Get that staff and destroy anyone who gets in the way!"

The Armors obey and began descending the stairs. All of them heading towards Falsetto, who was stepping back.

"I got this!" Danny raised his arms and fired. However, the Armors were only somewhat pushed back. This made Danny surprised. "Huh?"

Drakken laughed loudly.

"I already gave them upgrade so that your powers will have little effect on them!"

The robot Armors continued until reaching the floor.

Falsetto hid behind his chair.

"Do something!" He ordered his men.

They attempted to make a move, but the armors held out electrified maces and hammers, making them run away out the back door.

"Wow… good hires." Danny said sarcastically.

"COWARDS!" Falsetto shouted. "YOU'RE FIRED!"

With that, the heroes went back to looking at the Armors, who approached them.

"Ron, get that staff, we'll take care of this." Kim said.

"No argument!" Ron said as he ran towards Falsetto.

The Armors picked up speed, that's when Danny Phantom flew at them, tackling a few into the floor.

One of them ran towards Kim, but she jumped out of its way, kicking its head into the ground.

"Kim, look out!" Dani shouted.

Kim saw one of the robots throw it hammer at her, causing her to move her head out of the way in time.

"Thank, Danielle!" She shouted.

Dani, meanwhile, saw two of them approach her. Thinking fast, she avoided the swinging of their weapons and kicked one of them down.

The other was about to hit her, when she flew out of its way.

Meanwhile, Ron got hold of the staff as he and Falsetto tried to tug it in their direction.

"Give it up!" Ron said.

"No! If they want it, maybe I can make a deal!" Falsetto said.

That's when the staff was grabbed by a third figure, now visible.

"Then maybe you and I can form a deal!" Vlad Plasmius shouted. "Give it to me and I'll let you live!"

This caught the attention of the two Phantoms.

"You…" Dani said in a scathing tone

"Plasmius?!" Danny questioned as he punched a robot. "How'd you get here?"

"He's the one who hired me with a fake account!" Kim said while dodging a robot's mace. "We played along just too find out why…"

"This staff!" Vlad said as he phased it out of Falsetto and Ron's hands. "With this, I can use it to restore powerful objects, including the Reality Gauntlet!"

Hearing that caught Danny's attention.

"What?!"

"The what?" Dani asked.

"Long story! One we're not redoing!" Danny said as he went to take the staff from Danny.

However, Vlad reacted fast and fired at Danny knocking him into a wall.

"FIRE!" Drakken ordered as he pointed at Vlad.

One of the robots then threw its hammer at Vlad with enough force and speed to make him let go of the staff.

Though it was over the edge where he was standing, Drakken reached out for it and was able to grab the staff, holding it up in victory to show it.

"Drakken! You idiot!" Vlad shouted with his fists shaking. "What are you doing?"

"Keeping in their good graces… while also trying to make my own move for world domination!" Drakken said as he ran out. "Keep them busy!"

The Armors that were to his side blocked the doorway, guarding.

Vlad got angry and fired at the Armors, though it only moved them back a bit.

"That blue idiot!" Vlad shouted angrily.

Meanwhile, on the island, as the humans enslaved to the dirty work with Nyklaw observing, the larger Terakons talk.

"How long will it even take?" Scorex said.

"As long as that idiot with blue skin does his job in time… I should check in on him soon…" Slashfang said with his arms crossed. "We will get this staff to restore the Gauntlet, the only key that could open up and get what we need."

"Would the king approve of what you're doing?" Trescorn asked.

"What does it matter?" Slashfang says. "Soon as the royal pain arrives… I'll-"

"You'll what?"

The voice of their king caught their attention. Those who are genuinely loyal bowed. Scorex did so reluctantly. Slashfang was the only one left.

Slashfang looked over his shoulder slowly, and in a stiff, frightened state. He smiled nervously.

"Hello… cousin. I was just saying I'd go get what it is I made the blue human and his toys retrieve for us… How'd you get back?"

"It was me." Seastorm said. "I set the portal to open once he returned to the point he came from."

"Then tell me what you've been up to… Or do you think I'm being a royal pain?"

Drakken ran outside the mansion, holding the staff in his hand.

"I have it! Now open the portal already!" Drakken shouted. "Wait! Can you even hear me?!"

"I can!"

Drakken turned around and saw someone flew in to tackle him into the ground.

That was Danny, who took the staff once Drakken dropped in on the ground.

"NYARGH! How did you get past my Armors?!" Drakken whined.

"I phased through the walls, dummy…" Danny said as he held the staff up.

Then the sounds of windows being broken were heard from behind.

Out of the windows was the Armors, to Drakken's relief.

"Aha! Armors!" He then smiled to himself. "Part of me always wanted to say this…" He pointed to Danny. "Destroy Danny Phantom!"

The Armors obeyed and charged towards him.

Danny landed and rose the staff over his head.

"STOP! One bad move and this staff goes in two!"

Drakken panicked.

"Armors! Stop!"

They obeyed and stopped.

That's when everyone arrived.

"No worries!" Falsetto shouted. "Whatever it's made of, it's indestructible!"

Curious, Danny decided to hit the staff on the ground. The impact actually created a large pothole in the cement.

Seeing no harm, Drakken grinned.

"Armors! Resume the attack!"

The Armors obeyed. Thinking fast, Danny decided to swing the staff, knocking one of them down.

"Nice!" Danny shouted.

As more arrived, Danny swung and knocked down both of them. However, they started to surround him.

"I got it!"

Kim jumped over them, landing behind Danny. She motioned for the staff, which Danny handed her.

She struck one of the Armors down, then swung at another.

Dani flew up.

"Kim, I'm open!"

Kim threw the staff to get it out of the Armors' reach.

That's when they started swinging their maces, which extended via chains, at her, making her have to dodge each one.

She saw Ron and readied. Ron saw this.

"I'm on it, kid!"

She threw it, but he failed to grab it in time as it flew over his head.

Kim saw this an facepalmed while avoiding her opponent's hammer.

"Did I mention he's not much of an athlete?"

"No, we kind of figured that out fast…" Danny muttered.

Ron was about to pick it up when Drakken ran in and grabbed it.

"Ha!" Drakken went.

That's when a portal opened nearby.

Drakken grinned as he ran towards the portal.

"My new partner is here!" He said to them. He didn't see who stepped out of the portal, but those familiar gasped in horror. "Hello…" Drakken turned around. "Slashfang…"

Once he saw who it was, he gasped as well.

It was Thirorex, in a new armor. He wore gold grieves that extend to his knees, gold vambraces, and a golden cuirass with shoulder pads. And he was not happy to see Drakken, but he did crack a smile at everyone else.

"Well hello…" He said. "It's been a while, hasn't it?"

"Thirorex…" Danny whispered.

"So that's what he sounds like…" Dani said.

"It'd be so cool if he wasn't gonna hurt us…" Ron said as he cowered.

Rufus, seeing this large beast in armor, immediately hid back in Ron's pocket.

Drakken shivered with the staff in his hand, enough that he dropped it. As he was about to pick it up, Vlad thought fast and took it before flying away.

Drakken gasped.

"Oh… uh… oops…" He said.

Thirorex looked down with a very vicious looking snarl.

"GET BACK IN THE PORTAL! AND TAKE THOSE MACHINES WITH YOU!"

"Uh… right… Armors!" Drakken shouted weakly. "To… the portal…"

As Drakken and his remaining Armors did as he instructed, Thirorex directed his attention to the others, namely Vlad.

"Give me that staff!" He demanded.

Vlad reacted by flying away.

Annoyed, Thirorex looked down to the rest, who just froze there in fear.

"I'll be right back…" He said before extending his wings and taking off after Vlad.

He caught up pretty fast, to Vlad's horror.

"You're not taking this from me, you beastly freak!"

He fired, but the blasts did very little.

With a mighty swing of his tail, Thirorex knocked Vlad back towards where they left, creating a small crater in the ground.

Vlad was about to take off, going intangible, but Thirorex reached and grabbed him, holding him in place before picking him up. Vlad, to his shock, finds he can't get out.

"We were bred to fight ghosts… we've developed the conscious ability to keep you from phasing out of our grasp!"

That's when he started squeezing Vlad.

"Oh… honey muffins!" Vlad shouted in pain.

Once the strain was too much, Vlad went out cold and morphed back to human form. Casually, he threw Vlad into the portal.

"Now where's the staff?!"

That's when everyone saw Falsetto Jones, holding the staff, attempting to make a break for it.

That's when Thirorex jumped over the heroes, landing and slamming his hand in front of Falsetto, blocking his way into his mansion.

Seeing no way out, Falsetto put on a nervous smile.

"So… how about we make a deal?" He said.

Thirorex responded by getting very close that the smoke from his nostrils were in the scrawny man's face as she shook in fear.

"How about this… give me the staff… and I don't kill you?"

Shaking even more, Falsetto then held up the staff.

"Okay!"

Thirorex took it out of his hands. But when he observed the lamp-like tip of the staff, he quickly lost his temper.

"WHERE IS THE DIAMOND THAT GOES INSIDE?!"

"Oh, that? It was the only thing I could sell…" Falsetto admitted, which he realized was a mistake as Thirorex snarled.

"Where is it?!"

"I sold it! To a member of the Billionaire's Club! I don't know where he is but I know where he's going to be! Tomorrow in Florida!" Falsetto said.

Thirorex smiled.

"Well… good to know. However… by taking the diamond out…" His throat started turning red. "You've made me less interested in sparing your life…"

Falsetto braced himself as Thirorex readied his dragon breath.

Moving fast, Danny flew in and swooped Falsetto before the flames could touch him. Though the flames hit his mansion.

Not seeing any point in continuing the fight, Thirorex only turned around and flew back through the portal, which closed once he entered it.

Once Danny put the frozen in fear Falsetto down, the heroes shared a look.

"Florida?" Ron questioned.

"Looks like we'll have to find out where in Florida it's happening." Kim said. She pulled out the Kimmunicator. "Wade? Where in Florida is the Billionaire's club meeting tomorrow?"

Wade checks his computer.

"Looks like they're meeting tomorrow at 7 Eastern time for gathering at night." Wade said. "Not far from where your grandmother is staying."

"Then it looks like I'm paying Nana a visit tomorrow…" Kim said.

All the while, as this was going on, Falsetto finally took a look at the damages to his mansion. The entire, fancy looking home was in shambles. Robots breaking through walls and windows and a draconic beast setting a large portion of it ablaze has made it rather uninhabitable and very expensive to have fixed.

"MY HOUSE!" He shouted in pure shock.

This caught everyone's attention, and not in a good way.

"We should go…" Kim said hurriedly.

Nodding, Danny took her while Dani took Ron and Rufus. They flew away before Falsetto remembered they were still there.

Back on the island, the unconscious Vlad was given a collar by the Nyklaw. Once he woke up, he found himself surrounded by the creatures he tried to enslave.

Gasping, he got up and readied himself.

"Don't even think about it, you prehistoric freaks!" He attempted to morph, but the rings vanished before they could do anything. He was shocked. "What?!"

That's when Seastorm, the only larger Terakon, made his presence known.

"The collar on you has faint traces of the element known as Ectoranium. A supply of it was buried on our island and kept in hiding. I had it made into a collar thanks to the Nyklaw. Despite their talons, they were able to make it work…" Seastorm said. "I was able to make enough collars for all of the ghosts we've captured."

"All?" Vlad asked.

He then turned around and saw other ghosts, namely those of the faction, wearing those collars as they were digging with makeshift tools like pickaxes.

"We needed them to dig up something while the humans build our machinery…" Seastorm said. "You'll be joining your fellow man…"

"Now see here!" Vlad turned around and pointed a finger at the taller creature. "Vlad Plasmius is no-" Seastorm bent down and roared with enough force to make Vlad's hair move. Vlad gulped. "I'll do as you say!"

As Vlad went where he was directed, to over the hill and to join the humans building the machine, Junior was seen walking away from it in a fit.

"Father! These nasty lizards are making me do labor!" Junior whined.

His father walked up to him and patted his shoulder.

"I understand, Junior… Enslavement by monsters is not the proper way of villainy! Also… I'm old. All I can do is just carry water for everyone…"

"YOU!" The sound of Thirorex caught their attention as, to their horror, he flew in and landed in front of them, looking at them with an evil smile. "You are clearly a wealthy human… what do you know of this Billionaire's Club?"

Florida?! You know what that means?

...

We're getting Kim's Nana.

But what are they digging up?

qazse: Next time, I will do just that...

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