Hello! I'm afraid I have some bad news. As of today, both this and my other story will be put on a two week hiatus. I'm really reallyREALLY sorry about this, especially since this chapter has one of the biggest cliffhangers I will probably ever write. I promise, after this chapters will be cranked out MUCH faster and the story will begin to progress. Again, sorry! It's either this, or you'll have to wait at least a week between each chapter.

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cakreut12: Jimmy will know about the ghost powers eventually. But as for your other two questions, you'll just have to wait and see.

Velvet Panther: Good questions!I'll try to answer as many as I can.

1. You'll sort of find out in this chapter. But he didn't really go there, he was taken there from wherever he went. I'll just say he wandered around for a while until Vlad found him and took him to that place.
2. He suspects Danny of being something, but he just dosen't know what.
3. You'll have to wait until Book 7 to find out.
4. You'll have to wait until Book 7 to find out.
5. I guess that's just how he sees him. I actually have no idea why I put that there.
6. You'll find out in this book. Very soon, actually.

I used to have the DVD, but it got destroyed...

Rachel-Ember: Well, he's not dead. And there are problems with him being in Jimmy's dimension, but they don't have anything to do with his half-ghost-y-ness. And Jimmy does know quite a bit about the situation...

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Disclaimer: DP, FOP, and JN are not under my charge.

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Chapter 6: The Mutation

Somewhere

Midnight

"I have caught the subject," Vlad said. "It should happen any second now."

Danny was asleep a few feet away. There was a prick in his arm-he had been injected with something.

"Yes," another voice said. "It only works when he's asleep."

In his sleep, Danny transformed. Waves of energy emitted from his body. He floated into the air as a ball of white light surrounded him. When it cleared, he fell back onto the ground. He stood up, and his eyes opened.

"Now," Vlad said. "Go back to Retroville. Find them, and destroy them."

"Yes, sir." It was Danny's voice, but something was different about it. It had a demonic air to it, like pure evil. He took to the skies and flew away.

"Good," the other voice said. "Foolish boy. He could run, but his friends can't hide!"

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Retroville

9 am the next morning

It had been about 20 hours since Danny left.

And still no sign of him.

Sam sat outside the lab, looking at the sky. Please let him come back safe, she thought.

Timmy was with her. "Sam, do you have any idea what's going on? I mean, first you guys crash into my room, and barely three days later my life has completely changed!"

"Timmy, if I knew, I'd tell you," Sam said. "But- things are just too weird right now. I'll be happy when this is all over."

The two were brought back to Earth by a loud, wailing siren. Jimmy immediately opened the door to the lab. "Sam, Timmy- get inside! Now!"

Back in the lab, the little party watched as Jimmy pushed buttons, flicked switches, and clicked keys. After a few minutes, a shot of downtown Retroville came onscreen.

"I've detected something downtown, but I can't tell what it is. It isn't showing up on radar. Should we go see what it is?"

"Duh!" Timmy said. "It might give some clues to what's going on."

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Downtown

5 minutes later

"See anything?"

Jimmy, Timmy, Sam, Tuck, Cosmo, Wanda, and Help's disk (Sheen and Carl were waiting for Jimmy on the ground) were in the Hovercar, 40 feet above Retroville. Jimmy had run a sweep of the city, and found nothing. But still, screams could be heard below, and several streets nearby were a mess.

"No, I'm afraid not. Whatever it is, it's somehow eluding my scanners. We're going down." He landed the Hovercar on one of the abandoned streets and stepped out cautiously.

"Uhh…hello? Anybody here?" Exactly five seconds after he said this, a shadow flickered through an alleyway.

Sam noticed it first. "This way!" She darted off. The others followed her.

They went down another street, and another one, and another one, still following the shadow. Sam tried her hardest to keep up, but she was getting tired, and the shadows were confusing her.

"Guys? I think we're lost. Guys?" Sam looked around and realized that she was alone. The others had gone another way. "…Hello? Somebody? Anybody?" Silence.

She was getting frustrated. "Answer me!" she shouted. When the echo was gone, she heard a noise- panting.

She was off in a heartbeat. The panting was getting louder. Several corners later, she turned off into a dead end.

She breathed a sigh of relief. I guess I'm safe now, she thought. Then she saw where the panting was coming from. Something was cowering at the end of the alley…something alive.

She stepped closer. "Umm…hi?"

The thing turned around. Sam couldn't believe what she saw. And this was somebody who believed in ghosts.

It looked human at first glance, but- it couldn't be.

The body looked human, but far from normal. It was dressed in a gleaming silver suit, with large boots and gloves. Its hands ended in claws, and its teeth were pointed, like fangs. Its eyes were bright red, and glowed evilly. But that wasn't the worst part.

Even scarier, it had wings. Huge, clawed, dragonlike wings, red and orange in color, each one tipped with one wicked, curled nail. They were twice the size of the thing itself, with enough power to knock you off your feet with one flap. But that wasn't the worst part either. So, what was?

The worst part, even worse than everything else about this thing combined, was that this thing...had a shocking resemblance to Danny.

In fact, it was Danny.

See you in two weeks. -SP