Chapter 15: Vlad's Apprentice
As Danny was getting out of the Specter Speeder along with the others, he noticed the bag of Talismans Jade was carrying.
"What's that you are holding?" asked Danny to Jade.
"These are the Talismans" replied Jade, "you wouldn't be interested."
As Danny was about to take the bag from Jade, Danny heard the voice of his father calling down in the basement.
"Danny, I'm coming down to the basement to show you my latest ghost-catching invention!" said Jack.
"Quick" said Danny as he grabbed Uncle, "let me take you and the others out of here before my dad shows up."
"That is a good idea" said Uncle.
Danny turned into his ghost mode and took Jackie, Uncle, Tohru and Jade outside of the house in a back ally way.
"You'll be safe here" said Danny.
As Danny went back to the basement, Jack came in.
"I thought I heard something?" asked Jack as he came down stairs, "Were you three having a party?"
"No Mr. Fenton, it was just us three" replied Sam.
"Well, I thought I heard an old cranky man" said Jack, "I wanted to prove that technology works better than this voodoo magic in catching ghosts."
"Uh, he left before you got here" said Tucker.
"Darn" replied Jack, "I really wanted to prove my point."
Disappointed, Danny's father goes back upstairs with his invention in his hand.
"So what was the bag Jade was carrying Walker wanted so badly?" asked Sam.
"I don't know" replied Danny, "but whatever's in there, I'm probably sure Walker and even Vlad Plasmius wants it badly."
"Which means you are going to follow them back to their apartment, right?" asked Tucker.
"Right" replied Danny as he changed into his ghost form.
Danny quickly went back to the ally he had placed his new friends. He took a look while invisible with his head poking out of the wall as Jackie, Uncle, Tohru and Jade were getting into the taxi, probably heading back to their apartment. He knew he had to be careful around Uncle, since he knows how to detect ghosts. He followed them as the taxi slowly began to move. As the taxi arrived at the apartment they were staying in, Danny was right behind them.
"Jade, I think you are getting tired" said Jackie.
"Tired? Me?" asked Jade as she was making a yawn.
"You are tired" said Uncle, "when we get to the room, you rest!"
"I think it's Uncle that needs the rest" whispered Jade to Tohru.
"Good one" said Tohru as he whispered back to Jade.
"I heard that!" shouted Uncle as he slapped his finger on Tohru's forehead.
As they finally got back to their apartment room, Jade was falling asleep, but tried to keep herself awake.
"See, I told you, you are tired!" shouted Uncle.
"Fine" grumbled Jade, "I'll get to bed."
As Jade was getting ready to go to bed, Danny while still invisible grabbed the bag Walker wanted to get earlier. He then took the bag of Talismans and raced out of the apartment back to his house.
"Did anyone feel that?" asked Uncle as he was looking around.
"Come on Uncle" replied Jackie, "you must be tired just like Jade. It's probably nothing."
"It can't be just nothing Jackie" said Uncle, "I feel like there might have been a presence."
"Uh, weren't the bag of Talismans right near Jade's bed?" asked Tohru as he came out of the bathroom after brushing his teeth.
"The Talismans are missing!" cried Jackie as he was about to pull out his hair.
"Aaiiyyyeeaaa!" cried Uncle, "Uncle knew he felt something in the air!"
"Does this mean we won't go to bed?" asked Tohru.
"Quick" replied Uncle, "Jackie, I want you to tell Captain Black to order lots of coffee. Tell him the Talismans have gone missing and we'll need to be awake to find out who just took it!"
Jackie then got his cell phone and dialed Captain Black's number.
"Jackie, do you know what time it is?" asked Captain Black as he was in his bed.
"I'm sorry to wake you" replied Jackie, "but the Talismans have gone missing."
"Missing!" shouted Captain Black, "I thought it was in Jade's hands."
"No, they just vanished in thin air" replied Jackie, "we need a load of coffee on this one. We would need it to keep us awake to find the culprit who took the bag of Talismans."
"Gotcha" said Captain Black, "a truck load of coffee is on the way. I'll come with you. The Talismans are also mine responsibility as well. Captain Black out."
As Captain Black was getting ready to meet with Jackie to find the Talismans, Danny was already back in the basement with the bag of Talismans.
"So what are these things?" asked Tucker as he was looking down in the bag.
"Don't know" replied Danny, "but Walker seemed interested in them."
"Come on Danny, why don't you pick up one of those strange items" said Sam.
"Okay" said Danny, "but I don't know what will happen."
As Danny reached into the bag, he picked up one of the Talismans. The Talisman he picked up was the Tiger Talisman.
"I have no idea what this thing is" said Danny.
"Hey look, there's a small crack in it" said Tucker.
"Yea" said Sam, "why don't you try and fix it?"
Danny shrugged his shoulders and pushed the Talisman trying to fix the small crack. As the crack was about to be fixed, a strange light appeared in the room which Sam and Tucker had to cover their eyes from the strange light. As the light started to disappear, Sam and Tucker were shocked to find out there were two Dannys standing instead of one.
"Uh, which one is Danny?" asked Tucker to Sam.
"I'm Danny!" cried both of the Dannys.
"Okay, this is confusing" said Sam, "which one of you is Danny."
"I am" said the Danny on the right in a rude attitude.
"Okay, this is getting creepy" said Tucker, "if the Danny on the right acts like a rude jerk, the Danny on the left must therefore not."
"Okay, maybe having you going after that bag of whatever wasn't a good thing" said Sam.
"You think?" asked the Danny on the left.
"Hey, on the plus side" replied the Danny on the right, "I am no longer connected to him."
"Yep, the Danny on the right is differently the evil Danny" said Tucker.
"Look, let's talk about this in the mourning" said Sam, "I'll take the Danny on the right since it's going to obviously be blamed on me. You take the Danny on the left."
"I don't know if these two know they both can have ghost powers" said Tucker.
"You mean like this" said Danny on the right as he turned into his ghost mode.
The Danny on the right instead of having glowing green eyes, it was glowing red eyes.
"Okay, the glowing red eyes is a new look for you" said Sam, "now come on, let's get out of her before your dad shows up to show us one of his inventions."
"I don't need you" said the evil Danny, "I'm finally free from my lesser half. And as an added bonus, I'll be taking this bag. If whatever item in this bag freed me from my lesser half, then there might be more stuff I can do with the other items in it."
The evil Danny grabs the bag of Talismans and flies out of the house giving a ghostly laughter.
"This can't be good" said Sam.
Suddenly the door to the basement broke down with Jack armed with his anti-ghost weapon.
"I just heard a ghostly laughter" said Jack, "did you three kids hear anything strange?"
"Uh, no" replied Tucker, "that was just us three. We were just telling really funny jokes."
"Darn" said Jack as he snapped his fingers, "I swear I heard an evil ghostly laughter. Must be that I am up too late. You kids better get to bed, it's late."
As Jack left the room, Jackie, Uncle and Tohru were heading toward the house with a Section 13 agent at the wheel of the car.
"We must hurry" said Uncle, "if we are to get that bag of Talismans away, who knows what it can do in the wrong hands."
Suddenly the evil Danny flew just above the car giving an evil ghostly laughter.
"Stop the car!" shouted Uncle at the Section 13 agent.
"Alright old man" said the agent.
As Uncle, Jackie and Tohru got out of the car, they were astonished to see Danny Phantom holding the bag of Talismans in his hands. Yet there was something different about him. Instead of the usual green glowing eyes, it was the glowing red eyes.
"Aaiiyyeeaaa!" cried Uncle, "That stupid teenage boy used the Tiger Talisman, and now his evil half is free! Tohru, we must make a chi spell to capture this darker half of Danny quickly!"
"What do I do?" asked Jackie.
"Stall for time!" replied Uncle as he was preparing the ingredients.
"So, you want to fight me?" asked the evil Danny as he lowed down to the ground.
"Come get me then" replied Jackie as he got into his fighting stance.
"I'm going to squash you like a small, little and pathetic ant" said the evil Danny as he prepared his ghost beam at Jackie, "and oh, see you on the other side."
The evil Danny fired his red ghost beam at Jackie. Jackie dodged the attack and leaped and tried to kick at the evil Danny. Yet the evil Danny turned invisible and Jackie landed on the other side, not knowing where the evil Danny went.
"Hey, looking for me?" asked the evil Danny as he appeared right behind Jackie.
The evil Danny then struck Jackie down by giving him a good punch.
"Come on Jackie, you can do better than this" said a voice.
Suddenly Jackie got up and noticed Jade with Captain Black standing behind him.
"How did you?" asked Jackie, "I thought you were asleep?"
"Hello?" replied Jade, "Uncle's scream woke me up."
"And she persuaded me to take her to the scene" added Captain Black.
"Hey, here's a flying fist coming at you!" shouted the evil Danny as he flew right into him, knocking Jackie to the wall.
As the evil Danny and Jackie were busy fighting, Skulcker was observing the fight.
"Sir" said Skulcker, "are you getting this?"
Skulcker showed through a video phone of the fight between the evil version of Danny and Jackie Chan.
"Yes" said Vlad.
"Wow" said Fynn, "that evil version of that ghost boy is kicking Chan's behind."
"And I would love to have him as my apprentice" said Vlad, "Skulcker, proceed with abducting the evil version of Danny Phantom. Perhaps it's time for him to show him his master."
"Got it" said Skulcker as he loaded up his ghost-net launcher.
Skulcker fires his ghost-net and manages to capture the evil version of Danny Phantom. He then pulls the net toward him.
"Sorry folks" said Skulcker, "I have to run."
Skulcker then disappears into thin air.
"Where did that evil version of Danny Phantom go?" asked Uncle as he was finished with the chi spell.
"You just missed him" replied Captain Black, "he was abducted by another ghost."
"Aaiiyyeeaaa!" cried Uncle, "Do you know what this means? Now the Talismans are lost too!"
Meanwhile back at Vlad Master's mansion, Skulcker appeared with the evil Danny Phantom captured in his ghost-net.
"Here's your present" said Skulcker as he threw the evil Danny Phantom on the ground to Vlad Masters.
As the evil version of Danny Phantom fell to the ground, the bag of Talismans also fell to the ground as well.
"Hey look" said Ratso, "the Talismans are back."
"We can do a lot of damage with these" said Chow.
"I have a proposition for you" said Vlad Masters as he changed into Vlad Plasmius, "how would you like to be my apprentice and destroy your less half?"
"That's the best news I heard all day" replied the evil Danny as he reached his hand to shake Vlad's.