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Holding the top of the tower with one hand, Baxter deposited Sam on the small square at the top of the Bataan Building. The only other thing on the square was a flag pole, and she clung onto it after being dropped.
"Baxter!" shouted Sam. "Stop this! This is insane!"
"You could have stopped this before it even began!" retorted Baxter. "You could have escaped what was coming if you had chosen me over that pathetic brute. Now, you serve no use to me other than bait...and a trophy."
Baxter snickered before letting go of the tower and landing on the lower section of the building. Looking down at the street, he saw civilians fleeing in terror as several police cars headed towards him and pulled onto the courtyard grass. The officers piled out of their vehicles and aimed their weapons at Baxter.
"Hostile targets incoming," said Rowena. "Nineteen armed targets acquired."
"I see them," replied Baxter.
One of the officers pulled out a loudspeaker.
"Attention! This is Sergeant Jenkins of the Santa Fe Police Departments," said Jenkins. "You are hereby ordered to stand down, return to hostage and surrender your armour. You have been branded a supreme emergency threat by our superiors, and we will not hesitate to use lethal force. There will be no negotiation here."
"Good!" shouted Baxter.
Baxter equipped his wrist-mounted chain guns.
"Open fire!" yelled Jenkins.
The officers fired their pistols and shotguns at the armour, to no visible effect. Baxter returned fired with his chain guns, tearing several officers to pieces and riddling the cars with bullets. Jumping forward, Baxter slammed his foot down on the front end of one of the police cars, causing it to fly in the air. He then looked down at an officer who had been taking cover behind the car and kicked her. Baxter's kick sent her flying back into another building, where her body tore in half on impact.
Jenkins pulled out his shotgun and jumped on top of a nearby vehicle. Aiming at the armour's head, he fired his shotgun. The helmet was knocked back, but quickly turned to look at him. Jenkins's eyes widened as Baxter threw a punch, killing him instantly with the sheer force of the blow. Backhanding another police car and sending more officers into the air, Baxter then turned around after hearing the voice of Vlad.
"Baxter!"
Baxter sneered as he saw several tanks and armoured personnel carriers moving down the street towards him. A helicopter flew over the military convoy.
"This only goes down one way, Major," said Vlad over the loudspeaker. "Aerial unit, assault!"
The helicopter fired a missile at Baxter.
"Incoming projectile," said Rowena. "Counter measure advised."
Baxter reached out and caught the missile before it struck him and turned his body around before flinging it back at the helicopter. The helicopter pilot shouted as the missile struck, blowing the chopper apart.
"All units! Open fire!"
The tanks and soldiers fired hundreds of bullets and shells towards Baxter, who returned fire with his wrist-mounted chain gun. The higher calibre of bullets from Baxter tore apart the armour on the front end of the tanks. He then equipped and fired a wrist rocket, which decimated one of the APCs.
"I'll crush all of you useless maggots!" shouted Baxter. "Tin men, the lot of you! I'm the only real soldier here!"
Baxter smashed his right fist against the ground.
"I'm the strongest one there is!" yelled Baxter.
As he finished his sentence, everyone heard a loud roar, and looked up into the sky. Danny Phantom fell from above and landed between the military convoy and Baxter. Breathing heavily at first, Danny Phantom then looked up at Baxter and roared directly at him before speaking.
"Wanna bet?"
Sam, who was still lying down on the square atop the Bataan Building, looked down with an open mouth.
"Danny."
Baxter punched his fists together.
"So, are you for the end of this little game, phantom boy?"
Danny Phantom growled at Baxter. Paulina, who was in the command tank next to Vlad, walked up to him.
"Sir?" asked Paulina. "What do we do?"
Vlad was silent as he watched Danny Phantom stare down Baxter.
"Sir?"
"There's nothing more we can do," said Vlad. "Pull everyone back."
"But sir, your…"
"I said pull back!"
Paulina stood back for a moment.
"Yes sir."
The military vehicles began retreating. Danny Phantom looked back at them for a second before turning back to Baxter.
"See the way they run?" said Baxter. "Spineless, tin cowards. Just like you. You think you're so strong, but you've always ran off whenever we got the upper hand. Five years of this chase, and I'm sick of it! It ends now!"
"I agree," said Danny Phantom.
Bending his knees, Danny Phantom launched himself towards Baxter, his arms outstretched. Baxter braced himself and jutted out his elbow at the last moment, dealing a crushing blow to Danny Phantom's jaw. As Danny Phantom reeled back from the force of the attack, Baxter rushed forward and kneed Danny Phantom in his chest, sending him tumbling backwards into a couple of crashed cars.
Shaking his head, Danny Phantom recovered quickly and grabbed hold of one of the cars behind him as Baxter rushed again. Danny Phantom put the car in front of himself, and used it as a shield to absorb Baxter's forward jab. The force of the attack split the car into two, and Danny Phantom held both sections in his hands. Roaring, he slammed the left section against the side of Baxter's head, before uppercutting with the right section.
Baxter staggered backwards, and Danny Phantom took the opportunity to smash Baxter's head with both sections of the car simultaneously. The remaining pieces of the car exploded, and Baxter was stunned long enough for Danny Phantom to body check him and slam him against a building wall.
"Argh!" shouted Baxter.
As Baxter was held against the wall by Danny Phantom, he used his free left arm to repeatedly pound on Danny Phantom's shoulders with a hammer fist. Being unable to break Danny Phantom's grasp as the armour began to buckle he changed his speaker module to internal.
"Rowena," said Baxter, cringing, "addictive emergency countermeasure."
"Emergency countermeasure has not been properly tested or attuned," replies Rowena. "Use may cause unknown damage to the armour."
"Do it!"
"Powering up."
The chest piece of the armour began to glow red. Danny Phantom looked down at it with an open mouth for a moment before a bright, red laser emitted from the chest piece, blasting him off of Baxter. Danny Phantom roared in pain, as the blast seared his jumpsuit and skin which sent him crashing into the road, tearing up large sections of the tar.
"No!" shouted Sam.
"Haha!" exclaimed Baxter.
"Armour integrity potentially compromised," said Rowena. "Suggest ceasing combat for damage assessment and repair."
"Never! I'm ending this!"
Baxter changed his speaker module back to external. Danny Phantom, who was breathing heavily, started pushing himself off the ground.
"You're the problem with the world, Danny Phantom," said Baxter. "Do you hear me? You! You and all your kind!"
"Kind?" said Danny Phantom.
"Yeah. Phantoms. That's the problem with this world, isn't it? Freaks who stand outside the established order, the abominations who cause chaos. It's my duty to put you down! That's what I have to do. After I'm finished with you, I'll take them all on, all the phantoms! The mutants, the vampires, that dictator in Latveria, that traitorous bitch, Dipper Pines...everyone with power. I'll find them, and crush them all! This world will be free of phantoms...starting with you!
Sam heard the sound of rotors behind her and turned her head up to see a police helicopter flying parallel to her. An officer with an aerial helmet on, hung out of the side of the chopper and held her hand out towards Sam.
"Come on!" shouted the officer.
Sam lay still for a moment before moving to grab the officer's hand. Before she could, Baxter looked up at the helicopter. As the officer was about to grab Sam's hand, she instead pushed Sam back onto the square, out of the way of the rocket.
"Look out!" shouted the officer.
The rocket hit the helicopter square in the centre, destroying most of the main section and rendering the rest of the pieces into smouldering, slag metal which smashed into the Bataan Building's tower. Sam screamed and jumped as the tower was displaced. The flag pole fell and ended up horizontal, arching out over the ground. Sam grasped it with both hands, before wrapping one elbow around it as her feet dangled in the air.
"Help!" shouted Sam.
In the command's tank, Vlad's eyes widened as he looked at the display screen showing her. Danny Phantom looked up at her from his position on the ground.
"Sam!" they both said.
"Please, someone, help!" shrieked Sam.
Danny Phantom, who was staring at Sam, was then tackled by Baxter and pinned to the ground. Punching him repeatedly in the face, Baxter laughed at him.
"You think she could ever truly love a freak like you?! A wretched phantom like yourself could never be loved!"
Bracing his face to take Baxter's punches, Danny Phantom curled up his legs before unleashing them in a double kick against the armour's chest. Catapulting Baxter off of him and into another building, Danny Phantom quickly got up as Sam's elbow gave away and she was only holding onto the flag pole with one hand.
"Danny!" screamed Sam.
Danny Phantom furrowed his brow and leaped into the air as Sam's lost her grip. She screamed as she fell towards the ground. Vlad shouted as everything went silent. Sam's vision seemed to slow down to a crawl as her hair and limbs floated through the air. Danny Phantom reached out with both of his arms as he soared towards her. All the sound in the world was gone as Sam felt her breath disappear. She closed her eyes, knowing that she could do nothing.
Her eyes were then jostled open by the feeling of Danny Phantom's arms wrapping around her. Cradling her close to his chest, he then spun himself around in the air so his back was to the ground when he landed. Crashing onto the sidewalk next to the Bataan Building, Danny Phantom sighed as he let Sam go. He then opened his eyes and looked at her as she looked up at him and smiled.
Vlad sighed with relief upon seeing Sam move.
"Thank you," said Sam.
"You're welcome," said Danny Phantom.
Danny Phantom then lifted Sam up and got to his feet before placing her back on the ground. Vlad ran out of the command tank and over to her. The two then embraced.
"Vlad."
Danny Phantom sighed as he watched Vlad and Sam hug. After a few seconds, they let go and Vlad looked over at Danny Phantom. They stared at each other for a few seconds before Vlad smiled and nodded.
"No!" shouted Baxter.
Clutching his ruptured chest piece as it flashed on and off, Baxter limped towards Danny Phantom, who gently pushed Vlad and Sam behind him. Baxter collapsed on to one knee as electricity arced around his chest piece.
"Arc reactor core has sustained critical damage," said Rowena. "Core overload imminent. Wide scale detonation in thirty seconds."
"If I die," said Baxter, "if this armour is going to overload...I'm taking you all with me!"
"No," said Danny Phantom.
Danny Phantom ran forward and grabbed both of Baxter's shoulders. Staring at him in the eyes and roaring, he then grasped Baxter's elbows. Spinning him around twice, Danny Phantom heaved the armour high into the air. Baxter's eyes widened as he soared upwards.
"Detonation in five," said Rowena.
Sam felt a tear drop from her eye.
"Four."
Danny Phantom looked up at the armour.
"Three."
Vlad sighed and looked down.
"Two."
Baxter closed his eyes.
"One."
The armour self-destructed amongst the clouds, creating a loud and powerful explosion that lit up the entire sky.