Reviews:
Mizugami18: Sure. Octavia sounds like an okay ship. Though it may cause some conflict between Danny and Stolas since Stolas may think Danny is trying to get close to his daughter just to get his book in order to escape Hell. That could be a fairly interesting conflict I'm sure.
Lauren Thorn: Any female? So I can let Vaggie die and have him get with Charlie? Nah, I'm kidding. I won't do that. Charlie ships are way over done as it is. As for the Harem idea, eh. It seems a bit OOC and wishfullfilly to me. Danny doesn't strike me as the kind of guy to be interested in a Harem. I think he would be more interested in having a monogamous relationship.
Alder Hill: Counter counterpoint. Clockwork doesn't want him to die and risk him becoming more powerful by having his human half turn into anything else. And even if he did die and go to Heaven thus becoming half angel, what would he do to be cast out and become fallen? Unless he was just made a fallen half angel immediately due to the sins of Dan Phantom and his pseudo ownership of them, but that seems a bit odd to me. Either he would be pinned with Dan's sins or he wouldn't. There's more I could add but if I was going to have him die, I would have him pinned with all of Dan Phantom's sins from both the past and the alternate future due to them technically being the same person and thus have him sent to Hell and become half demon. It just makes more sense that way, at least in my mind.
"Or what?" Clockwork said, unfazed by Vlad's fury. His old form changed to that of a toddler.
"Or I will rip your soul to pieces and consume your very essence!" Vlad growled, the ecto-energy blazing around him even more intensely than before.
Clockwork sighed. "Well, with that ring and crown in your possession it's certainly possible you could do just that, but I promise you I would not go down as easily as you seem to think. I was one of the ancient ghosts who helped lock away Pariah Dark originally… Look, I can't just give you the boy. But! If you are so worried about him, I can send you to him. However, first, there is something I need to show you. The reason I sent him to Hell in the first place."
"YOU SENT HIM WHERE?!" Vlad roared.
"Hell. Come here, you idiot. I don't do anything without a very good reason. Especially not something like this." Clockwork said, his toddler form changing to that of an adult, before floating over to the portal Danny used to travel to the future. He then waved his staff in front of the portal and it began displaying the timeline that would no longer come to pass. "This is the future. Or it was before I changed it. In this timeline Danny's family died and you adopted him. Then he asked you to rip out his humanity so he would no longer have to feel the pain of his loss. So you did. You separated his ghost and human halves. Then he did the same to you and his ghost half possessed yours. But your evil overwhelmed him, turning him into Dan Phantom, a monster who single handedly brought about the apocalypse and the ultimate destruction of mankind. Even Heaven, Hell, the Humans, and the Ghosts all working together were unable to stop him. Granted, the biggest players like Lucifer and Gabriel avoided getting involved directly, and obviously Pariah Dark was still locked away, but that's besides the point."
Seeing the images Clockwork was showing him, Vlad began to calm down a bit. But he still very clearly wasn't happy with any of this. "So instead of stopping his family from dying thus preventing this future from ever happening you in all your infinite wisdom decided to send a TEENAGE BOY who has just lost his entire family to HELL?!"
"I tried to give him the opportunity to save his family from what was to come. He failed. So I sent him there to contain him. If he does turn into Dan Phantom, at least there he won't be nearly as much of a problem. Lucifer can keep him in check if he ever gets out of line, and I made a deal with the Ars Goetia to ensure he can never use any of their books to create portals to escape from Hell. And I know he could take care of himself down there even if he were left entirely on his own. I'm not completely heartless, Vlad." Clockwork stated.
Vlad was silent for a moment as he stared at the portal to the future, watching the horrific scenes of Danny causing the apocalypse repeat over and over again. "Send me to him." Vlad ordered in a dangerously calm tone.
"Very well. However, for me to do so, I will need you to hand over the ring and the crown." Clockwork stated. His adult form changed to that of an old man.
"Why?" Vlad hissed furiously.
"Because if Danny turns into Dan and gets hold of them, he would eventually be able to surpass Lucifer and would thus be impossible to contain. At that point all of creation from the Human World, to the Ghost Zone, to Hell, and even to Heaven itself would be in grave danger. I cannot allow that. So hand them over. And I will also need you to sign this magic contract stating that under no circumstances will you ever help Danny escape." Clockwork stated. He then held out a hand and a contract and a fountain pen appeared floating above his palm.
Vlad snatched up the pen and the contract. "I refuse to give you either one. Especially now that I know you have sent Maddie's son to Hell! I will be making my own addendum to the contract. You can read it over and decide whether or not you agree to my terms." Vlad growled as he began writing on the contract. His terms stipulated that he would keep the Crown of Fire and Ring of Rage and Clockwork would never attempt to steal them away from him. And in return Vlad would never allow them to be in the same realm as Danny so long as it was within his power to prevent. And he made sure to make the wording as precise and clear as possible to avoid any possible loopholes that Clockwork could exploit. When he was done he handed the pen and contract back to Clockwork.
Clockwork read the contract over and gave Vlad an annoyed look. His old form changed to that of a toddler. "You really went to great pains to ensure there was nothing I could do to take those from you, didn't you? Ugh… Fine. But if you are to keep them, I have stipulations of my own." Suddenly the paper the contract was written on grew in length as Clockwork began writing on it. When he was finished Vlad read it over.
Clockwork's addition basically said that Vlad would be allowed to keep the Crown of Fire and Ring of Rage so long as he did not try to use them to take over the human world or destroy humanity. However, as they were technically the symbols of royalty in the Ghost Zone Vlad legally had free reign to declare himself the next King of the Ghost Zone, having claimed them directly from Pariah Dark himself. Clockwork wished he could add in a stipulation in the contract preventing Vlad from claiming the throne of the Ghost Zone, but unfortunately he did not have the legal authority to do so, even via magical contract. At least not without the authority of the others who helped him seal away Pariah Dark backing him. And as bad as Vlad was, Clockwork knew he would be a far better option than Pariah so the others likely wouldn't support him in his attempts to take the crown and ring from him.
"I agree to these terms." Vlad said, before signing his name on the contract. He then handed the contract and pen back to Clockwork who also signed his name on it. Suddenly the contract burst into ethereal green flames and disappeared.
"Wonderful. Now go put your little toys away before I send you to Hell, would you? You agreed to keep them out of whatever realm Danny is in, after all." Clockwork said.
"Fine. I'll be back in five minutes." Vlad said before vanishing as if he had never been there to begin with.
Vlad had used the power of the crown and ring and teleported back to his home, Clockwork knew. He also knew he would not be back in five minutes. He would be back in exactly five minutes and thirty seven seconds. A small difference, but an important one as far as time was concerned.
Five minutes and thirty seven seconds later, Vlad had returned and he didn't have the crown or the ring with him anymore. "Now, open the damn portal." Vlad growled.
"Fine, but you're going to have to find your own way back if you ever want to return. I'll let you figure out how to go about doing that." Clockwork said before opening a portal to Hell directly next to him. "Anyway, you had best hurry along now. Danny is just now finishing up killing an Overlord. If you hurry, you should still be able to catch the tail end of the fight."
"You probably timed this exact moment didn't you?" Vlad snarled before flying straight into the portal.
(Danny)
Danny was floating above the main hang out of a pair of Overlords who were apparently friends. Vox and Valentino. Two relatively new Overlords in the grand scheme of Hell. They had both died roughly around the time of the nineteen fifties, not a very long time for the residents of Hell. After that they rose to power roughly around the same time and quickly became friends and business partners.
He chose them specifically because of how powerful they were. It had originally been a toss up between them, Alastor, and the Von Eldritch family. He ultimately decided on them because at least in theory killing two overlords at once would be more impressive and earn him more fear and respect than killing just one, and the Von Eldritch family had known connections to the upper echelons of higher ranking Hellborn demons such as the Morningstar family. Danny had no idea how powerful Lucifer was in terms of raw combat ability but considering he was the King of Hell Danny couldn't imagine him being any less powerful than Pariah Dark. And Danny knew full well he wasn't powerful enough to take on Pariah Dark by himself let alone without the exosuit his parents had made, so he didn't want to risk provoking Lucifer by killing Overlords with connections to him. He wasn't stupid or suicidal. So Vox and Valentino were his best options.
Besides which, he had read up on the two of them and investigated their territories whilst invisible. What he found in Vox's was bad, but fairly bog standard for Hell. Valentino, on the other hand… The things Danny saw in Valentino's territory would haunt him for the rest of eternity. And Vox was complicit in Valentino's crimes by willingly distributing the "porn" Valentino made, some of which had legitimately made Danny puke to see, especially in person. So as far as Danny was concerned, if anyone deserved to have their souls destroyed it was Vox and Valentino.
So he waited invisibly in the sky above their favorite hang out for a few hours, waiting for them both to arrive. Vox showed up first and entered the building. Then Valentino showed up.
At that point Danny split himself in two, creating a clone of himself. Having his clone start recording what he was about to do using a camera he stole, Danny then flew down towards Valentino at a fraction of the speed of light, grabbed him, and proceeded to smash him through several walls and out the other side of the building. Danny casually dodged laser beams on a regular basis, so flying toward someone moving at a walking pace at one fifth the speed of light then slamming them through a building was child's play for him. Once he and Valentino were out the other side of the building Danny flew him several miles up into the air before flying back towards the ground at two thirds the speed of light. When they impacted the ground they created a massive crater in the street and Valentino started coughing up blood.
Not letting up, ecto-energy blazed around Danny's fists as he proceeded to pummel Valentino with pure unbridled hatred and fury.
Suddenly he was blasted by a powerful bolt of electricity from behind that caused his body to lock up. He could feel his flesh boiling from the intensity of the electricity. When it was over, he collapsed to the ground next to Valentino groaning in pain.
"Val! Are you alright?!" Vox shouted as he ran out of the building.
Valentino threw Danny off of him and pushed himself back up. "Yeah, I'm alright… Fuck! This was a brand new coat too! Fuckin' damn it… Ah well… Gotta admit, you throw a damn strong punch, kid. But you just caught me off guard. If I had been prepared for that, that entire fuckin' thing would'a gone very differently."
Danny pushed himself back up to his feet and snarled at Valentino and Vox. Ecto Energy blazed around him as he floated back up into the air. "Maybe, but neither of you will be walking away from this fight either way." He then split himself into even more clones.
(Vlad)
On the other side of Clockwork's portal he found Danny bruised, beaten, covered in cuts and scrapes, and severely burned standing over the unconscious bodies of a pair of demons. Everything for several blocks around them looked like a veritable warzone. Danny's hand then turned intangible and he reached into one of the body of one of the demons before ripping out an ethereal black substance. He then looked over at a clone who was recording him with a camera and held up the ethereal black substance for the camera to see.
"You see this?! You know what this is?! This is Valentino's soul. The essence that is released when the Exorcists kill you on Extermination Day… And I'm going to destroy it." Danny growled.
Vlad then watched as Danny pumped destructive ectoplasmic energy into the soul, causing it to glow green and start screaming in agony before it violently ripped itself apart and fizzled out of existence. The second demon was barely conscious and was begging for his life, which Danny completely ignored.
When Danny was finished destroying the souls of both of the demons he looked back at the camera and said, "There's a new Overlord in town and his name is Danny Phantom, and I'm far worse than any Exorcist you've ever seen… Since I'm trapped down here with the rest of you I plan on establishing actual law and order down here in Hell. Even if I have to establish my own separate city to do so. So if you want to follow someone who will protect you from the thugs and criminals down here in Hell and you don't mind following the laws like we had back on Earth, you come follow me. I am officially claiming the entirety of both Vox and Valentino's territory as my own. Though I have zero intention of taking over their respective businesses. Oh, and if anymore Overlords want to challenge me and have their souls destroyed then I am more than willing to oblige."
Vlad then saw the clone stop the recording and lower the camera. Danny then merged himself back together with all six of his clones that were surrounding him.
Vlad flew over to him. "Daniel…" He said in a remorseful tone, seeing the boy like this.
Danny whirled around and pointed a hand surrounded by ecto energy at him "Plasmius… I would ask what you're doing here but honestly? You probably belong here more than anybody I know…"
Vlad put his hands up in a sign of surrender. "Daniel, I'm not here to fight you. I know what happened to your friends and family… And I tracked down the ghost who sent you here. He showed me what happened in that alternate timeline, and he made me sign a magic contract ensuring I would never try to help you escape from Hell or separate your human and ghost halves. However, that doesn't mean I can't help you at all. In honor of Maddie, I can not in good conscience leave you down here on your own. I will stay with you while you're here. Once I find an exit I can even make trips back to the world of the living and bring you things from there every so often. Within reason, of course. For example, I've brought you this." Vlad held out a usb to Danny. "It contains videos of your family and friends' funerals, and pictures of their graves. And I am even having statues of them made in Amity Park where the old Nasty Burger used to be."
Danny calmed down a bit and lowered his hand. He then took the usb from Vlad and said, "Thanks, I guess… Sorry. I know you cared about mom, and maybe Jazz, too… It's just being here in Hell for a month… I guess I'm just a bit on edge right now."
Vlad put a comforting hand on Danny's shoulder. "Understandable, my boy. I wouldn't wish being stuck down here on my worst enemy… To be honest, despite my issues with him, I even hope Jack has ended up in Heaven rather than down here. While he was an insufferable idiot and he did steal the love of my life away from me, he was admittedly a very good man. There's a reason we used to be friends…" Vlad said in a sympathetic tone. After a moment he sighed and said, "Look Daniel… I saw you destroy the souls of those demons. I have to say, I'm both extremely proud of you and also incredibly worried about you. I'm proud of your ruthlessness and the fact that you were able to figure out how to destroy souls so quickly. But I'm worried because you would never have resorted to such a thing back in Amity Park… Could you at least tell me why you did it?"
"Yeah well, this isn't Amity Park. And if I'm going to be stuck down here, then I want to improve things down here as much as I possibly can. As a long term goal I sort of want to establish a prison and throw demons who commit crimes in there. And maybe my own city so I'm not stepping on the toes of anyone too powerful. But in order to do any of that I need resources and followers. And I figured the best way to gain those would be to take down an Overlord. I chose them because they were both powerful, they were working together, they had a lot of influence and territory, and a lot of people who hated them. Besides… They were evil… More so than you or anyone else I've ever faced back in Amity Park… If you saw half the things I did while I was investigating Valentino… Did you know he, uh… He essentially monopolized the porn industry… In Hell… You can imagine how bad it was…" Danny shuddered as he remembered everything he saw.
Vlad jolted back in a mixture of surprise, horror, and disgust. "Oh… Yes… Though I would vastly prefer not to imagine. Ugh… How deplorable. Regardless, while this is a very good start if you want to make a name for yourself the fact is you honestly have no idea how to actually go about accomplishing this goal of yours, do you? That's fine, of course. You've never done anything like this after all, so how could you know what to do? However, this brute force approach you are trying is far from the only way of acquiring power or resources. And while it may be quicker in the short term, it is less efficient and will not get you quite as far in the long term as other more subtle methods. Not even in a place as corrupt to the core as Hell. No, especially not in a place as corrupt to the core as Hell."
"What are you getting at, Vlad?" Danny demanded.
"Oh come now, Daniel. I'm not exactly being subtle. What do you think I mean, my dear boy? You obviously haven't the first clue what you are doing so I will teach you. I will train you in how to survive down here and how to rise to power to achieve your goals. Specifically I will be teaching you how to take a more civilized approach to gaining power than just punching all your problems away like a common thug." Vlad stated.
"So basically what you were doing back on Earth. Politics and shady underhanded dealings." Danny stated.
"Essentially, yes. I know you may not like it Daniel, but trust me. Down here, that sort of thing is a must." Vlad told him.
Danny sighed. "No, no. I get it. We're in Hell. Of course this place is going to be full of corruption and politics… Doesn't mean I have to be happy about it."
Vlad shrugged and crossed his arms behind his back. "True, I suppose… It seems the cannibalistic scavengers have arrived. Perhaps we should leave now and continue this conversation elsewhere. How about you take me to where you have been staying this past month?"
Danny scratched the back of his head. "Uh… About that…"
Vlad face palmed. "Daniel… Don't tell me you've just been letting yourself live on the streets…"
"Uhhhh…" Danny said, looking off to the side.
"Ugh… You really have no idea how to live on your own do you, my boy? I suppose I will have to teach you that as well… Let me guess you've also just been stealing food up until this point." Vlad said in an annoyed tone.
"Well what else was I supposed to do?! It's not like I can just get a job down here!" Danny exclaimed.
"But you already have one, do you not? You want to continue being a hero like you were in Amity Park, so I imagine you've probably been running around beating random street thugs and drug dealers. So why haven't you just taken their money when you were finished with them?" Vlad demanded.
"I, um… Never thought of that…" Danny muttered.
"Oh for goodness sake! You are hopeless Daniel, hopeless! Good god… Fine. Do you at least know where these two demons you just killed used to live?" Vlad asked.
"Uh, yeah… Valentino lived in a brothel not too far from here but I'm not going anywhere near that place ever again. As for Vox, he lived in a penthouse in his territory. I know where it is." Danny stated.
"Good, now do you know where they kept their money?" Vlad inquired.
"Uh, Vox kept some in the bank and some in his physical assets if I'm not mistaken. As for Valentino, I honestly have no idea. I stopped investigating him after the fifth time I threw up." Danny explained.
"Very well, then we will simply seize as many of Vox's physical assets as possible and sell them all. And we will claim his penthouse as our temporary residence… Quite the downgrade from my castle-esque mansion in Wisconsin but it will do for the time being. Now come. Lead me to where he was keeping these physical assets. After we sell some of them off and get some money, we can claim his penthouse." Vlad stated.
"Yeah, we can do that. But first I need to make some copies of this video and send it to all the big news outlets in Hell." Danny said, holding up his camera.
So, a few of you guys seem interested in Danny finding a girlfriend down in Hell. I'm cool with that, so sure. Why not? But he will be an adult at some point in the story so that begs the question of what will happen if Danny has kids with a Hellborn demon, since Hellborn demons are the only ones capable of reproducing? Will the child be one third human, one third ghost, and one third demon? Or will it be half human or ghost and half demon, depending on which form Danny is in when the intercourse happens? Personally I think the second option would be more interesting but I want to hear what you all think.
Also, if you're upset about the Overlords going down too easily, no they didn't. He was more injured at the end of that battle than he usually is in the show and very well could have died, I just didn't show the whole battle because I didn't know how to write it because I have absolutely no clue what Valentino's powers are. Danny barely scraped by in that fight by the skin of his teeth. I know Hazbin Hotel hasn't really displayed feats on par with some of the more powerful ghosts in Danny Phantom, at least not yet. But to make things more interesting I'm equalizing things a bit in this version, at least for the higher tier demons like the Overlords. So when Valentino said he could have reacted in time and countered Danny attacking him at one fifth the speed of light had he not been caught off guard, he genuinely meant it. The dude can actually dodge laser beams like Danny can if he's expecting them.
Edit: I almost forgot to mention, this takes place a few years into the past as far as Hazbin Hotel and Helluva Boss are concerned. Specifically it's taking place in the early 2000s at least right now, which is the time period the Danny Phantom series took place in, if I'm not mistaken. So Velvet wasn't in Hell back in this point in time. Or if she was, she hadn't become an Overlord just yet.
