Chapter 28: Phantom Planet – Part 2
Danny and Alex were having another on-line chat when Danny's Mom showed up. "Danny, there's something big on the news!" She said.
Right after that, Alex's Mom showed up. "Alex, there's something on the news…" She then noticed Maddie. "Hi. You must be Danny's mother."
"And you must be Alex's." Maddie replied. "Nice to meet you, Mrs. …"
"You may call me Carmen, Mrs. Fenton." Carmen replied.
"And you may call me Maddie." Maddie said.
"Uh, news anyone?" Alex reminded them.
"Oh, right." Maddie said. "A huge asteroid is coming towards Earth!"
"What?" Danny and Alex asked together.
"It's already being called the Disasteroid!" Carmen added.
Both halves of the teen couple ended the call to watch the news with their respective families. "There's something familiar about that asteroid." Unbeknownst to either Danny or Alex, the other thought the same.
"Some experts claim that, unless stopped, the Disasteroid will destroy the whole Earth albeit others say it will at least destroy one nation." Lance Thunder announced and then heard something through a device on his ear. "This just in. The President is about to give a press conference."
"We're doing all we can to protect ourselves from the Disasteroid." The President said.
"What about asking for help from Superman or another Justice League member with the required power to destroy the Disasteroid?" A reporter asked.
"They're fighting Darkseid." The President said.
"What about the X-Men?" Another reporter asked.
"They're fighting the Shi'Ar Empire." The President explained.
"What about the Avengers?" The same reporter who asked about the X-Men asked.
"They're fighting Galactus." The President answered and all reporters were shocked.
"The Teen Titans?" Yet another reporter asked.
"They're defending Princess Starfire's home planet from a Gordanian invasion." The President stated.
"The Fantastic Four?" The second reporter asked in desperation.
"They're fighting the Kree Empire." The President answered.
After the interview, Danny went to his room to think things over. Meanwhile, Alex returned to her own room and was about to call Danny when she was sucked through a W.O.O.H.P. tunnel. In Jerry's office, she came through the first O while Clover and Samantha came through the second one. "Girls, I trust all of you saw the President explaining why the superheroes who could stop the so-called Disasteroid aren't available." Jerry stated and showed Rick at his screen. "Do you remember Agent Dicker of the National Super Agency?"
"Hi, Agent Dicker." The girls said.
"Nice to see you three again." Rick replied.
"Agent Dicker, I understand one of the superheroes under your command can create portals." Samantha stated. "Will you use one of them to divert the Disasteroid?"
"Unfortunately, Voyd cannot make a portal big enough for this plan to work." Rick sadly replied. "Fortunately, I have a plan that can be implemented with help from W.O.O.H.P. equipment and Dani Phantom."
"Uh, you may use whatever you need from us, Rick, but Danny lost his powers." Jerry sadly explained.
"He meant me." Dani clarified as she showed up next to Rick. "I'm Danielle Phantom. Dani with an I."
"She's Danny Fenton's clone." Rick explained.
"Danny has a clone and didn't tell me?" Alex was shocked.
"Well, it does seem too weird of a secret even to us." Clover commented.
"Wait." Dani turned her attention to Alex. "Why would you be that entitled to his secrets?"
"Because I'm his girlfriend Alex." Alex explained.
"Wasn't he dating the goth girl?" Dani asked in confusion.
"Did everybody but him know about her crush on him?" Alex asked.
"Girls, we have a Disasteroid to deal with." Jerry said and picked up his phone. "I'm calling Danny."
A few moments later, Danny answered the call. "Danny Fenton? It's Jerry."
"Jerry, what can I do for you?" Danny asked.
"For starters, you could tell me if that girl with a similar name to yours can do the same things you used to." Jerry replied.
"I'm not sure if she already has the ice breath but…" Realization hit the former halfa. "You know about Dani?"
"Agent Rick Dicker has a plan to stop the Disasteroid and it requires help from W.O.O.H.P." Jerry explained.
"Uh, you won't tell Alex I have a clone, will you?" Danny asked in worry.
"No, I won't." Jerry answered, making Danny briefly relieved until Jerry added "Because Danielle and Agent Dicker already did."
"Oh, no. Is she mad?"
Alex then grabbed Jerry's phone. "We'll be talking about this after the Disasteroid crisis is solved." Jerry got it back. "Danny Fenton, are you willing to come and help?"
"Yes." Danny answered and Jerry quickly ended the call. 'What happened?' Danny thought and was then sucked through a tube. "When did you have one of those things installed at my home?" He asked upon arriving at Jerry's office.
"After learning you knew the identities of some of my agents for so long erasing your memory of it wasn't an option." Jerry stated.
"And how did you do it without anyone in my family noticing it?" Danny asked and the girls were secretly wondering the same.
"That's classified." Jerry said. "Now, let's discuss Agent Dicker's plan."
Several minutes later, three spies, a former half-ghost and his clone were in a W.O.O.H.P. spaceship going to stop the Disasteroid or at least trying to. "Let me get this straight." Alex said. "We're trusting the fate of the world on a clone created by your archenemy?"
"Dani has a personality of her own, Alex." Danny explained while checking the spaceship's systems with Samantha. Since he no longer had his ghost powers and never had the spy training Alex and her friends had, he decided to put his certificated junior astronaut credentials to use before he started to feel useless. "She also lives on Earth and, after how clear it became that Plasmius doesn't care about her, won't help him with dirty deeds anymore."
"Asteroid located." Samantha declared.
"Let's hope it's not the same one we spotted Vlad trying to extract from days earlier." Danny commented.
"You also noticed the similarities?" Samantha asked. "I thought it was just us."
'The spies also noticed it?' Danny thought in horror.
Dani phased the spies out of the spaceship. She then tried to blast the Disasteroid but it deflected her beams. "Odd." She commented and tried to push it out of the way only to receive a big shock.
"It's like we feared!" Clover exclaimed. "The Disasteroid is made of Ectoranium!"
"Ecto-what?" Dani asked in confusion.
"A substance that negates ghost powers." Samantha stated. "No ghost can touch it."
"What do we do now?" Dani asked.
"It's time for Plan B!" Alex declared.
Plan B consisted on leaving some bombs at strategic points of the Disasteroid. The bombs exploded but the Disasteroid remained undamaged. "Okay, now we're out of ideas." Clover commented. Defeated, the girls returned to the spaceship. While Samantha and Danny were flying it back to Earth, the others reported their failure to Jerry.
"Where's Divatox when we need her?" Jerry mumbled. "Girls, let's hope Lex Luthor has better luck than us."
"What?" They asked in shock.
Meanwhile, back on Earth, everyone's attentions were turned to Alexander "Lex" Joseph Luthor, who announced his intention to save the world. "And people said I was being paranoid when I insisted building this spaceship even after Superman returned on time to save us from the other asteroid." Luthor commented to the media. "May this incident remind everyone that we mustn't take superheroes for granted."
"Amen." Evelyn Deavor declared from her prison cell.
"Shut up!" One of their cellmates ordered.
Unbeknownst to the world, Luthor's announcement was watched by somebody who wanted him to fail. "I mustn't let him succeed!" A seriously crazed up fruitloop said. He then turned himself invisible and intangible and flew towards Luthor's spaceship hoping to arrive before launch.
Once the press conference was over, Lex Luthor boarded his ship and blasted off, oblivious to the ghostly stowaway. On their way towards the Disasteroid, a crew member noticed another spaceship. "Unknown spaceship sighted, Sir."
"That must belong to W.O.O.H.P." Luthor commented. "The President said they'd just tried and failed to destroy the Disasteroid. Where they failed, we will triumph."
'Or so you think, Alexander.' The fruitloop thought.
Once Luthor's crew found the Disasteroid, he quickly fired his missiles, destroying it. "Success!" He said.
"Wrong, Alexander." Vlad said as he revealed himself, scaring everyone.
"Vlad Masters?" Luthor asked, remembering the news of Vladco's founder being a half-ghost who started his fortune with stolen money.
"It's Vlad Plasmius now but the world will soon be calling me Vlad Masters again after I am pardoned as a reward for saving Earth from the Disasteroid." Vlad replied in triumph.
"But I already destroyed it." Luthor argued.
"Actually, Sir, you didn't." Another crew member replied and pointed at the real Disasteroid through a window.
"Oops." Vlad said. "I guess I must have messed up with your navigation systems so the President will have no choice but to pardon me and return my fortune in exchange for saving the world from the Disasteroid." He said and disappeared.
'A brilliant plan.' Luthor thought. "Let's go home." He said and his crew left, not knowing they were Vlad's ride home.
After the spies arrived home, Danny was sent back to Fentonworks through the same tube the sucked him away. Jack then entered his bedroom. "Son, your mother and I are ready to reactivate the Ghost Portal and restore your powers!" He proudly exclaimed.
Meanwhile, Jerry and Rick were reporting their failure to the President. "We're terribly sorry our efforts were in vain, Mr. President." Jerry said.
"Are you saying we have no choice other than hope one of the superheroes who can easily deal with this returns on time?" The President asked.
"We have no better idea at the moment, Sir." Rick answered.
A few minutes later, at Alex's home, she was too depressed to think of any sports she could be playing when her parents called her to watch the latest news regarding the Disasteroid. "What happened?" Alex asked.
"Vlad Masters, the fugitive with ghost powers, plans to make a deal with the President." Alex's Dad explained. "In exchange for saving us from the Diasteroid by making it intangible, Masters wants a full pardon and his illegally obtained fortune back. I find it a nonsense. If Masters can do that, Danny Phantom also can."
Alex knew why Danny couldn't do it but she couldn't say how she knew so she stayed quiet.
Meanwhile, Danny got his powers back. His first action afterwards was to call Alex. "Alex, do you remember the important thing I lost? Good news! I found it!"
"I'm happy for you, Danny." Alex replied.
"Alex, I know he's your boyfriend but this is a family moment." Carmen insisted. "I'm sorry. Bye."
"Danny, shouldn't you be telling the President he doesn't need to accept that criminal's deal?" Maddie asked.
"He already knows another reason he shouldn't accept, Mom." Danny sadly answered. "The Disasteroid is made of Ectoranium. No ghost can make it intangible."
"Either way, Danny, you should tell the President you've got your powers back." Jazz suggested. "Or W.O.O.H.P. if you don't feel safe enough to meet the President directly."
"Danny!" He heard his friends Tucker and Sam shouting as they showed up. "Danny, your Dad called and told us you've got your powers back! Hurry! Tell that to the President before he accepts Plasmius' deal!"
"The Disasteroid is made of Ectoranium, Sam." Danny sadly replied.
"Too bad you cannot make Earth intangible instead." Tucker commented.
"Hummmmmm." Danny actually started thinking it over.
"Don't keep up your hopes, son." Jack told his son. "To do so would require the combined power of hundreds of ghosts…"
"Probably thousands." Maddie added.
"and some special equipment to help extending it through Earth." Jack said. "Your mother and I could do the rest with help from some big Government organization but how would we get enough ghosts to cooperate? We don't have time to make the means to force them."
"I'll handle that after telling the idea to W.O.O.H.P., Dad." Danny replied.
Meanwhile, the President made a public appearance to give his response to Vlad's offer. "Ladies and Gentlemen, it's with sadness I must say there's no point in accepting that deal since, as reported to me by others who tried to stop the Disasteroid, it is made of Ectoranium, making it impossible for any ghosts to make it intangible."
"What?" Vlad was shocked. "Oh, no! Earth is doomed!" He was so distracted by it he didn't notice two Guys in White approaching him until one of them sucked him into a Fenton Weasel. "Not again. Now I'm going to be stuck here until the Disasteroid hits."
'Serves him right.' The President thought. 'Jerry and Luthor told me about his role behind the Disasteroid.'
End chapter.
Answer to Leonardo (guest): A Sam não tem coragem de dizer como se sente mas se intromete quando o Danny namora outra garota. Eu leio mas creio que, não importa o quanto ele odeie os problemas, ele não ficará parado enquanto houver alguma coisa que ele possa fazer para ajudar as pessoas. Que nem naquela cena em que ele, não lembrando que perdeu os poderes, tentou voar e pagou mico.
Answer to P96822 (Guest): Thanks! I figured out that, as parents and scientists, they wouldn't take it for granted trying to restore Danny's powers wouldn't have killed him instead. They would make whatever analysis they considered possible and necessary.
Answer to Chester A Bum (Guest): Thank you! Yes, Danny being in outer space means that giant space rock. Congratulations! At least my Vlad didn't copy Doc Ock's naming idea. About the daughter's name, it's OK. I forgot as well and checked on the Internet.