A/N: w00t people, I have officially given the story a new name. Well, at least a Sub-Title. Anyway, I hope it attracts more DP fans who like the BttF movies. Other than that, I don't have much to say here except I'm FINALLY getting to the climactic epic battle. Yay!

Monday, April 6, 2015 6:14 AM

"It is time," Maddie said. It was just before dawn, and the sky over the Haven Compound was finally beginning to brighten after the long night. Maddie looked over at her ragtag group of men and women who had been fighting the ghost armies for the past ten years. And a tear fell from one eye. This was the night it would end. They would either destroy Vlad, or die trying.

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It took about fifteen minutes before the trio of Specter Speeders were airborne, but Maddie was glad they were. She had opted to sit on the top of the Speeder that had formerly been the second ghost RV, on the high deck where she could man the Ecto-Goop canon in case a scout patrol found them. Everything was quiet: it was the proverbial calm before the storm. And there was going to be a a storm. Was there ever!

Maddie noticed Flare, the pyrokinetic ghost that Danny had met in his trip to the past, float up beside her on her left, and Kaze, the young but mysterious metahuman they had just met float up beside him. She no longer doubted Kaze intentions; if he was to betray them, he could have done so when Rose was there. She only worried that he might not be so capable when the fighting started to get intense, which it certainly would.

"Mrs. Fenton," Flare started his Japanese accent barely noticeable, "Kaze and I been talking..."

"And we were wondering if we can trade places. I want to go with you and Danny to Wisconsin, and Flare will stay in Amity Park to help fight the army. Is that OK."

"That should work, actually," Maddie said. "I... No, never mind. This is probably for the best. Kaze, you'll be with me and Danny; Flare, you stay with the diversion group..." What Maddie didn't say is why she agreed so easily. She had always been mistrustful, even of the ghosts that didn't seem evil. She blamed it on her roots. After all, she was first and foremost a ghost hunter.

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Paulina scanned the horizon for the signs that she was getting closer to her home. The duo of Specter Speeders she had been allotted should be there at any moment. Suddenly, a whooshing noise filled her ears and another figured was right outside the open window of her speeder. "Flare, right?" she asked.

"Hey. Maddie said that Kaze and I are going to trade. I'm staying in Amity while Kaze fights with the rest up in Wisconsin."

"That makes more sense than the original plan," Paulina stated. "Dora, can we fit one more back there?" Paulina glanced to the back where her cousin and several other ghost-fighters were sitting together cramped up, but not entirely without space.

"Lo creo, mi prima," Dora confirmed.

"Get in, then." She said to Flare, "No point in you wasting your strength flying all the way to Wyoming."

Flare nodded. "Thank you."

It took about 20 minutes more, but the two speeders and the soldiers inside them found their way to the Town Between the Lakes. It looked as it always did these days. A ruin. A smoldering shell of a town that had long since been abandoned by everyone who could abandon it. Sure, some humans remained, and some even lived among the ghosts—among the dead. But for the most part, the city was deserted by those with a pulse. Whatever Vlad had done to the world under his domain made it a perpetual night there, as cliché as that may be. So despite the sun's rising, no solar light would guide them. They would fight by darkness, like all those who opposed Vlad. And darkness was the specialty of those that go bump in the night.

Ghosts, on the other hand, thrived in the bombed out shell of a town between Lake Amity and Park Lake. And Vlad's rather stalwart force of spectral soldiers he had sent here patrolled the streets, searching for some evidence that the rumors of that halfa's return were true. Paulina chuckled. She had once had a crush on Danny Phantom. And now, she was fighting for him—so that he would have a chance to succeed where all other superhumans and ghost hunters had failed. As selfish as she had been as a teen, she couldn't help but see the irony in what was happening now.

"Prepare the main guns. Flare, get ready to light them up."

"I've been ready. I've been waiting for payback for ten years. Here goes everything. WAKE-UP CALL!"

With that exclamation, a swirling cord of flame spiraled down to the surface of the planet, tearing through the burnt-out husks of buildings and exploding in the faces of unsuspecting ghosts in the service of Vlad. When it hit the ground in a swirl pattern, it exploded, lighting up the city and burning away battlefield obstacles. But mostly, searing those searching for Danny, and the ones protecting them. It brought a dead city to life.

It truly was a wake up call.

"I have visual contact with the Endsville and Aaron City forces," Paulina said. "Dora, get down there and start send some ghosts back where they belong. I will coordinate with the other groups and join you in a minute!"

"Good luck, Paulina," Dora said as she leaped out of the speeder along with the rest of the soldiers, using the hovering platforms that her old friend Valerie had once used. They all brandished Soul Sabers, Dora's double edged as usual.

"Banzai!" came a shout from a few feet away. Gyzz also jumped from his speeder, suing a quartet of mechanical legs protruding from his backpack to break his fall. And with the touch of a button, he turned on his hologuise and looked like Danny. The trap was set..

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"Lord Vlad!" came shouts from another room of his towering palace..

Vlad hovered over and met Rommel half way. "What is it?"

"Sir, Amity Park is under attack, and early reports are saying the halfa has been sighted there.

"Daniel, I'm surprised." Vlad shook is head. "You would think that he would be smarter than that by now. He knows he can't beat me with brute force and yet every time he tries just that. Fine. I will play his game, because I've always played it better." Vlad smiled evilly. "In fact, I've always played every strategy with a straighter face than that insolent child."

"I will go to Amity Park and confront him, then?" Rommel asked, comprehending.

"Of course. Teach him—and his mother—that nobody fights Vlad Plasmius so foolishly."

"But what if the force in 'Calamity Park' is a diversion, my liege? Would you have me leave this place undefended?"

"The defenses of this palace are more than sufficient, and even if they weren't..." Vlad stood up, bringing the ghost amulet, which he had recently had embedded in a gauntlet, up to level with his head. It began to glow, surrounding him with a red aura."I am perfectly able to obliterate them on my own."

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Danny, Marty, Qwan, Maddie, and Timmy Turner in the guise of Kaze, crouched down in their open-top speeder. "There they go." Marty said.

"There must be more than 5000 of them..." Danny gasped. Ghosts. Hundreds upon hundreds of ghosts, perhaps soldiers in past wars, police officers, firemen, or normal civilians killed doing their job, or screwing it up—all of them recruited into Vlad's army through the power of the same amulet that the woman named Jinx had brought to his town. Danny knew. He knew because of the same glowing red eyes that Kitty and Ember—and later Sam and Paulina—had shown through their helmets, their masks, their glasses. An army of thousands, all controlled by his arch nemesis.

"I don't understand," Maddie sighed. "If what you told me of Jinx is true, then theres no way Vlad should be able to control so many... If she could only control two without going insane..."

"But, mom, Vlad is insane. And he is also FAR more versed in ghost powers than Jinx ever was. She had been possessed once in the past but Vlad's very DNA is half ghost."

"Really?" Kaze asked.

"Yeah. Don't you watch the theme song? It explains it really well, I think. Guy and Butch did a great job," Qwan insisted.

The quintet of freedom fighters looked out over Vlad's palace, its squared outer wall towering above.

"Which wall would you say was built last, of those four?" Marty suddenly asked.

"Um. The one that's crumbling, I'd say," Danny sighed. Chaltab never could resist a fourth wall joke, and sometimes Danny hated him for it. Sure enough, one of the towering fortress walls around the palace fell to the ground in a pile of rubble.

"Well," Maddie sighed, "That Deus ex Machina solved the problem of how we get into the compound without getting blasted..."

"Now we just have to wait for the soldiers to clear out. I'm going ghost!"

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"YOU DID WHAT?" Vlad yelled at the diminutive card-dealing ghost in front of him.

"I made a deal with Saladin, sir, that if he would knock down your south wall, I would enhance his strength and, in the unlikely event you are ever defeated, give him back his empire of old."

"And who authorized you to make such a deal?" Vlad screamed into the face of Deal, the ghost most infamous, not for combat skills or special attacks. No, he was infamous for making incredibly, horribly, mind-bogglingly awful, bad deals. A deceased Vegas card-shark, Deal had turned his afterlife around when he discovered his not-at-all-fair exchange powers allowed him to manipulate people into making deals that ultimately sucked, but seemed very tempting.

"I wasn't aware I needed authorization," the ghost smirked. "Besides, I tried to make a deal that would ensure victory in the upcoming battle... and Rommel punched me in the face."

Vlad sighed deeply. Sure, he wasn't particularly worried, but having a big pile of rubble where one of your walls should be was an open invitation to every metahuman and ghost hunter in the Midwest to barge in and bother Vlad with their pitiful attempts to "Destroy the evil Overlord Valerie and her ghost hoards"...

That last thought actually made Vlad laugh, something he hadn't done much since going insane. Well, except of course in the maniacal variations.

"Hanmah Soukta Rommel," Vlad said into his pocket communication crystal. Rommel's face appeared in it.
"Yes, my liege?"

"Tell your pal Saladin that as punishment for his deal, he will stay here and guard the castle instead of conquering and pillaging. Tell him to command, oh, say, about 300 men. There should be enough left to crush the Phantom Child and his friends in Amity."

"Yes, sire."

"Master Vlad," Deals started before Vlad could toss him out, "Actually, I have a proposition for you."

"The answer is no," Vlad spat, "but let's hear it anyway."

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"Most of them are gone," Danny announced. "There are a few hundred left."

"Then we press the attack now," said Maddie.

The five quickly made their way down the hill they had camped on, riding in the open-top Specter Speeder. "Maddie," Marty said, "Are you sure we can do this? They have like sixty for every one of us.

"I have a plan," said Kaze, and flew away.

"Did he just abandon us?" Danny asked.

"Looks that way," replied Qwan.

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"Cosmo" Timmy whispered. "I need you to do something." Finally, they were a sufficient distance away from the rest.

"Sure thing, good buddy," he said, poofing into his fairy form.

"I wish that I had the greatest comic book ever made!"

"You mean the COMBINED ADVENTURES OF BICEP-MULLET MAN AND THE DISCO DANDELION!" The fairly blurted as he made that comic book appear in a puff of smoke, it's namesake duo of heroes on the cover in all their psychedelic glory.

"No, no no!" Timmy yelled. "I want the Ultimate Decades Crimson Chin Uber-Crossover."

"Oh... THAT greatest comic ever," Cosmo sighed. And then it was.

"Thank you. Now, open a portal to the comic world and unleash the Crimson Chin of each decade—in wish form!"

"That's another 10-4, Good buddy!"

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Maddie hacked her Soul Saber down and sent another ghost to the ghost zone, and three more popped up. She rolled away from their blows and cut horizontally, causing fluid ectoplasm to spray out of their abdomens. "Go away!"

A massive blow smashed her in the face and she went flying, only to be caught by Danny. "You alright, Mom?"

"Fine, Danny. Go! You have to get inside that castle."

"Right." And he was gone.

Maddie pulled out her gun—the Amityville Horror—and began blasting away at the ghost who had hit her, a hun of a man. "Eat ectoplasmic lead, Atilla!

After nearly half a clip, the ghost succumbed to the assault and fell over, slowly dissolving. But Marty could only do so much with the gun turret, and she and Qwan were quickly being overwhelmed by the multitude of hellish hosts.

"Wind Cutter!" came a nasally voice from above, and a sudden gale knocked over some enemies while a duo of blades rend a group of Saladin's men in two.

Here come the Crimson Chins!

And suddenly, the sky was alive with red as 8 figures in red outfits and a single hero in a silver bodysuit swooped in and began to lay waste.

"Is it just me, Mrs. Fenton, or are those the Crimson Chins from the comics?" Qwan asked as he decapitated anther ghost with a Soul Saber.

"Let's just be grateful for the help... HAIYAH!" Maddie said, then barked as she rammed her blade through the face of an incoming ghost, disintegrating it. "And hope we're buying Danny enough time..."

oooo

Danny found a door in the floor of the outer grounds of the palace, and decided it must have been a vent of some sort. He also decided that it would be as good a place to enter as any, so he had blasted it open and fallen in. But he hadn't gone ten steps when a wall appeared in front of him in what had been a hallway a moment ago.

"There is no escape for YOU, ghost boy!" Came a familiar voice from behind him.

"Technus," Danny said while turning... "Or not.."

It wasn't Technus, but rather a short midget ghost with very large shiny teeth. "I am not "Technus, Bookie! I am Dr. Bender, THE TOOTH GHOST! Prepare to feel the fury of bad dental work!"

Suddenly, a bunch of skeletons somehow found their way into the room, and their teeth began to fly out of their skulls. "Prepare to DIE!" And the teeth flew at Danny..

"AAAAHHHHHHH!"