Chapter Four: Danny's Downfall
Meanwhile back in Amity Park the next day, Sunday, Jazz, Tucker and Danny were still trying to come up with a plan to save Sam. There was just one problem, they had no idea where she was taken. They also had no idea who this master was still, if they knew they could find her. But seeing as they had no clues to Sam's location or who the master was, but little did they know they would soon find out. But for the moment they were arguing.
"Maybe we can go into the Ghost Zone again." said Tucker.
"That won't help, we didn't find anything the last time, what makes you think we'll find something this time." said Jazz.
"Well at least I'm trying to help." said Tucker as he raised his voice.
"Yeah and doing a pretty poor job of it." said Jazz as she started to get angry.
As Jazz and Tucker started to argue on the best way to save Sam, Danny sat in the corner feeling miserable. He had let them just take Sam without a fight and it was tearing him up. He was the one who was suppose to be the hero, the one who was suppose to face dangerous villains. The fact that he could not protect his friend, and the girl he secretly loved was killing him.
"I was suppose to keep her safe, what if I never see her smiling face again, her beautiful eyes, her silky hair...STOP, she's your best friend, your not suppose to have thoughts like that about her." thought Danny.
"Oh come on, you know you like her." said a voice in Danny's head.
"What? Who said that?" thought Danny.
"It's me, your voice of reason." said the voice.
"Well if you are then where were you when I needed you." thought Danny.
"I've always been here, you just don't listen to me normally." said the voice.
"Well, what do you want." thought Danny.
"I've come to get you to realize you love Sam." the voice said.
"I don't love her." thought Danny.
"And why not?" said the voice.
"Because she's my best friend." thought Danny.
"So?" said the voice.
"What do you mean so?" thought Danny.
"Does being your best friend mean you can't love her?" said the voice.
"I can't love her because it will ruin our friendship, plus she probably doesn't like me that way." thought Danny.
"Stop worrying, your friendship has survived till now, saying you love her won't change that. Plus I think that she does like you like that." said the voice.
"You really think so?" thought Danny.
"I know so." said the voice.
"Well I still don't think..." thought Danny.
"Don't worry, we'll talk about this more later, right now you should keep Jazz and Tucker from killing each other." said the voice.
"What..." thought Danny as he looked up.
While Danny had been having his little talk with himself Jazz and Tucker's fight had escalated. They were currently yelling and trying to strangle each other. Danny quickly jumped up and pulled the two arguing teens apart.
"Stop it! Fighting isn't going to help us get Sam back." said Danny.
"We know, but we've ran out of ideas." said Tucker.
"Yeah Danny, it's not like the answer is going to fall out of the sky." said Jazz.
Then suddenly Danny's ghost sense went off. Danny quickly transformed into Danny Phantom to fight the coming threat.
"What is it, is it another ghost?" said Jazz.
"I don't know, but I'm going to enjoy taking out my anger on whoever it is." said Danny.
"Don't worry Danny, we'll help." said Tucker
"No, I don't want you guys being captured like Sam, go hide in the corner." said Danny.
Jazz and Tucker went to hide behind a piece of machinery. With his friends out of the way Danny prepared to face whatever horror ways to be unleashed upon him. Danny gasped as the ghost came into view.
"I am the Box Ghost!" shouted the Box Ghost.
"Oh, it's only you, what do you want." said Danny.
"I have come with a important pre-packaged message from my new master." said the Box Ghost.
"Oh, great your serving him too. Hey wait, why aren't you hypnotized like the others?" said Danny.
"My new master said I was too important to turn into a drooling zombie." said the Box Ghost.
"He probably didn't want to waste his power hypnotizing him and just said that to not hurt his feelings." thought Danny.
"Now take my message or suffer square and cardboard powered doom!" said the Box Ghost.
"Alright." said Danny as he took the letter.
With his task done the Box Ghost left with one last parting "Beware". Danny took the letter and began to read it.
Dear Daniel (a.k.a. soon to be future son):
By now you are probably wondering who this master is who has hypnotized the ghosts and taken your friend Samantha. Let me not keep you in the dark any longer, for it is I, Vlad Plasmius, who is this master. You have put up quite the fight but the time for games is over. You will surrender to me or Samantha will die. Come to my mansion in Wisconsin and surrender if you ever want to see Samantha alive again.
Sincerely.
Vlad Plasmius.
(a.k.a. your soon to be future father)
P.S. I know what your thinking and I WILL NOT GET A CAT!
Danny read the letter and began to steam, literally. He crumpled the letter and let out a mighty yell.
"I'll kill him for this!" shouted the enraged halfa.
"Kill who?" said Jazz and Tucker who were shocked by Danny's outburst.
"Plasmius, he's the one who is controlling the ghosts and kidnaped Sam." Danny said in a angry growl.
"Plasmius! What did he say?" said Tucker.
"He said if I don't come to his castle and surrender he'll kill Sam." said Danny.
"Dude, that's just not right." said Tucker who was getting mad too.
"I knew he was low, but threatening to kill a defenseless girl is just evil." said Jazz
"What are we going to do." said Tucker.
"There's only one thing, I have to surrender." said Danny sullenly.
"What, you can't!" shouted Tucker.
"You'll just be playing into his plans." said Jazz.
"But what else am I suppose to do, he said he'd kill her if I don't surrender." said Danny.
"We can try to rescue her." said Tucker.
"But how?" said Jazz.
"I just happen to have a layout of Plasmius's mansion." said Tucker.
"Where did you get that?" said Danny.
"Lets just say that old and creepy should not have had the show Cribs film at his house. They posted a floor plan of his house on the internet." said Tucker (AN: he must have been trying to look cool, and I don't own Cribs, MTV does.)
"That's perfect, now we can find where he is hiding Sam." said Jazz
"She'd most likely be in the basement, that's where I would put jail cells if I was a creepy billionaire." said Tucker.
"Well it's a plan, you two stay here while I go rescue Sam." said Danny.
"Oh no you don't, we're coming with you." said Jazz.
"Yeah, plus I'm the only one with the floor plan." said Tucker.
"Fine, you can come, but I'm the one going into his house." said Danny
"Ok." said the other two teens.
For their trip to the land of the crazed up fruit loop who needs a cat, the teens decided to bring several items. The decided to bring the Fenton Fisher, the Fenton Blaster, and the Fenton Net Launcher for Danny. While Jazz and Tucker would wait outside to help Danny if need be with the Fenton Peeler and Fenton Bazooka. They also got one Fenton Thermos each. They decided the fastest way to Vlad's house was in the Specter Speeder. Fortunately Jack and Maddie had gone to hunt ghosts in the mountains on Friday and would not be back until Monday or Tuesday. But they left a note saying they were having a sleep over at Sam's house, just in case. With their gear ready the teens fly off to Wisconsin.
At Vlad's castle
"Master, the ghost child has received the message." said Technus.
"Excellent, and are the preparations ready?" said Vlad.
"Yes master." said Skulker.
"And what of our little guest?" said Vlad
"She is ready." said Ember.
"Wonderful, soon all my plans will finally come true, Mwahahaha." said Vlad. (AN: he certainly laughs a lot for a miserable, old man.)
Back with Danny and the others, they were just crossing over the border into Wisconsin, in a short while they would be at Vlad's mansion. The teens were nervous at what would await them at their destination, but one thing was clear, they would get Sam back no matter what. They landed just outside the property.
"So you guys know the plan." said Danny.
"You go in and rescue Sam, and we'll come in and help if you need us." said Jazz.
"Right." said Danny.
"Don't worry, we'll get her back safe." said Tucker.
"I hope so, I'll be back soon." said Danny.
"See you soon." said Tucker and Jazz.
Danny left the Specter Speeder and flew to Vlad's house. He quickly found that Vlad had anti-ghost weapons around his house. The lasers followed Danny's movements and were about to fire when Danny got the idea to turn human. The lasers immediately lost track of him, for they were only attack full ghosts. Danny ran to the house and found a open lower window, he climbed through and fell on his face.
"I guess I can cross ninja off my list of future careers." thought Danny.
Danny then transformed into Danny Phantom and began to search the house. He looked for the stairs to the basement that Tucker had given him. He made his way down the halls looking stairs, also taking the time to phase his head into rooms to see if Sam was there. He turned a corner and was meet with a fist to the face. The was knocked back, Danny recovered and saw who had punched him.
"Hello ghost child." said Johnny 13.
"Oh great, well I guess it could not be this easy." said Danny as he fired an ectoblast at Johnny 13.
Johnny sent his bad luck shadow at Danny and it tried to attack, but Danny used the Fenton Blaster to hold it back. Johnny tried to punch Danny but Danny dodged the attacks and gave Johnny a uppercut. He then punched him in the stomach which caused Johnny to fall down. Just as Danny was about to use the Thermos he was hit from behind and the blast sent him into the wall. Danny picked himself up to look at this new enemy.
"You will surrender and join our master." said Kitty.
"I should have known that where Johnny was you would be there too." said Danny.
"You will surrender." said Kitty and Johnny 13.
"Try to make me." said Danny as he sent blasts at them both.
The battle continued with Johnny and Kitty both attacking. Danny dodged and ducked under their attacks but was hit by Johnny's shadow. Danny was sent down the hall, Johnny and Kitty were advancing on him. He needed a plan and then he remembered the Fenton Fisher. He took it out of his pocket and with the flick of the wrist caught Johnny 13 on the leg. With all his strength he swung him around and took out both Kitty and the shadow. Before they could recover Danny took out the Fenton Thermos and sucked them in.
"Well that was more of a fight then I expected, but now I have to continue to look for Sam." said Danny.
Danny floated down the hall still looking for the stairs to the basement. He had gotten a little closer when he was hit by a giant fist. After impacting into the wall he noticed who had punched him.
"It is my masters wish that you surrender." said Desiree.
"Well, well, I've been wanting to beat you up for that wish you granted to turn everyone's hair blue." said Danny.
"You will surrender." said Desiree.
"You guys seem to have a hearing problem, I will not surrender!" shouted Danny.
Danny sent a blast from his hand at Desiree, who ducked out of the way. Desiree used her magic to sent the wall decoration, which happened to be swords, at Danny. Danny went intangible to avoid the swords, he turned back just as a table was thrown at him. The table knocked Danny into the wall with a huge crash. Danny got up only to be lassoed by Desiree's lasso hand. She swung him around making him hit the furniture in the hall.
"Ahhhh! I guess this is irony." thought Danny as he remembered what he had done to Johnny 13.
"I need to think of a way out of this." thought Danny.
He then noticed the table cloth that had been knocked off of the table. As he passed he grabbed the cloth and threw it at Desiree. It covered her head and in her confusion she lost her grip and Danny was free. Then Danny turned back to the still entangled Desiree and used the Fenton Net Launcher, the net flew and trapped the ghost genie. With her trapped Danny took out the thermos and sent her to join Johnny and Kitty.
"Well, that takes care of that, now to get going." said Danny.
Danny continued the hunt for the stairs, going further into the castle. Danny had just reached the stairs when a giant chicken leg hit him. After moving the chicken leg and getting the grease out his hair he turned to his foe.
"Surrender dearie and you can have a cookie." said the Lunch Lady ghost.
"Uh, no." said Danny.
"So be it." said the Lunch Lady.
The Lunch Lady started by bringing all the food from lands kitchen and forming a huge food monster. It slammed it's fist into the ground and Danny barley avoided it. Danny then sent several blasts at the monster which knocked off some large pieces. The Lunch Lady then knocked Danny across the hall and into a display case. She then picked him up with a her giant meat hand.
She then started to smash Danny into the wall.
"I have to stop her." thought Danny.
Then he remembered the Fenton Blaster in his pocket. But it would not have enough energy to stop her. Unless he set it to overload, so he set the dial and threw it at the Lunch Lady. The gun built up energy until it exploded. The blast knocked the meat monster apart and sent the Lunch Lady flying into the door to the stairs. Before she could attack again Danny sucked her into the thermos.
"Finally, I've reached the stairs." said Danny.
Danny then opened the door to the stairs and opened it. He say that the stairs lead down for fifty feet to the basement. It looked like a dungeon with torches on the walls.
"Got to hand it to Vlad, he certainly knows how to make things look creepy." said Danny.
Danny grabbed one of the torches and descended the stairs. For what seemed like hours he finally reached the bottom. He lifted the torch high above his head and observed the room he was in. Along the walls for as far as he could see were jail cells. Danny decided to call out Sam's name.
"Sam! Can You hear me. Sam!" shouted Danny.
"Yes Danny, I can hear you." said Sam in a unusually calm voice.
Danny ignored this strange fact because he was so glad to hear her voice. He called out again.
"Sam, where are you?" shouted Danny.
"I'm right here." said Sam.
"Don't worry, I'm coming to rescue you." said Danny.
He ran down the hall until he got to Sam's cell, he blasted the lock on the door. He then ran into the cell and hugged Sam.
"I'm so glad to see you, I thought you were going to die." said Danny.
"I'm glad to see you to my love, now you can join the master." said Sam
"What...?" said Danny.
"Yes, you can join the master and stay with me forever." said Sam in trance.
"No, not you too." said Danny crushed as he backed away.
Then Danny felt a intense pain and then there was darkness. As Danny fell to the floor Skulker and Technus appeared along with Vlad.
"I knew that Daniel could not resist coming here to save his little girlfriend." said Vlad.
"Did I do a good job master?" said Sam
"Yes you did, and soon you will have his love as your reward, now go to your room." said Vlad.
"Thank you master." said Sam as she left the room.
"Now you two, take my new son to the lab to be prepared to join us." said Vlad.
"Yes master." said Technus and Skulker as they took Danny away.
"Good, soon all my dreams will come true, I will have Danny as my son, Maddie as my wife, and Jack buried six feet under Mwahahaha." said Vlad as he laughed evilly (AN: what is with him and the laughing?)
Back with Tucker and Jazz, they had started to worry. It had been several hours since Danny had gone to rescue Sam and he had not come back. They were arguing about whether to go after him.
"Danny's been gone for two long, we have to go after him." said Jazz.
"But he said to wait for his signal." said Tucker.
"But what if he needs our help." said Jazz.
"Ok, I guess we can go." said Tucker.
They were just getting out of the Specter Speeder they saw a movement in the bushes. Out of the bushes emerged Danny and Sam.
"Danny, Sam, we're so glad to see you!" said Tucker and Jazz
"And we're glad to see you friends, now you can join our master." said Danny and Sam.
"What are you talking about?" said Tucker.
"They are talking about this." said Plasmius as he appeared.
Suddenly Tucker and Jazz were surrounded by ghosts.
"What is the meanings of this." said Jazz.
"This means that I Vlad Plasmius have finally got Danny to join me and become my son."
"No." said Jazz.
"Yes, and now you two will join my army."
Then Tucker noticed that Danny and Sam were holding hands.
"Oh great, they finally get together and they have to be evil and hypnotized at the time." said Tucker
The ghosts began to advance on Tucker and Jazz. But they never got close enough as Tucker and Jazz blasted them back with Ghost Blasters. Jazz then took out the Fenton Peeler and Tucker took out the Fenton Bazooka.
"Don't anybody move, or you get blasted into oblivion." said Tucker
"Yeah, I'm trained to use this." said Jazz.
The ghosts stood in place not wanting to be on the receiving end of either of those two weapons, especially the ghost peeler. Jazz and Tucker used this hesitation to make it back to the Specter Speeder. Once inside Jazz hit the gas and they sped of into the sky. Danny was about to go after them, when Vlad held him back.
"There's no need for that, they can not hope to stop us now." said Vlad.
"Yes father." said Danny.
"I really like the sound of that." thought Vlad.
"Now you two kids go and play, daddy has some evil to plan." said Vlad
"Yes father." said Danny.
"Yes master." said Sam.
Danny and Sam both left to do boyfriend and girlfriend stuff while Vlad went to his study.
"Finally, soon the world and Maddie will be mine Mwahahahaha." said Vlad. (AN: Man, Vlad's been laughing way to much, we'll have to fix that, author pulls the hurt Vlad lever)
Then Vlad slipped on a banana peel that appeared out of nowhere and fell into a pile of old, rotten fruit.
"OH YUCK! Where did this pile of fruit come from" said Vlad (AN: Mwahahahaha, oh great, now he's got me doing it too.)
Meanwhile in the Specter Speeder Jazz and Tucker were devastated. They had not only lost Sam, but now Danny was captured too. What made it worse was that he was under Vlad's control and Tucker and Jazz had no way of braking it. They knew they could not fight Danny, not only because he was a friend and brother, but also because they would not stand a chance. They sat trying to figure a way out of this mess.
"We could try to hit Danny and Sam over the head." said Tucker.
"How would that help?" said Jazz.
"It works for curing amnesia." said Tucker.
"Face it, we can't save them on our own, we need help." Said Jazz.
"But from who?" said Tucker.
"Well..." said Jazz.
"Your not suggesting we tell Jack and Maddie are you."
"We have to, I hate to admit it, but their the only people who can help us."
"But they aren't that dumb, well at least Mrs. Fenton is, they'll start asking questions, we may even have to tell them Danny's secret." said Tucker.
"If that's what it takes." said Jazz.
"Are you nuts, we can't do that!" shouted Tucker.
"We have no choice, would you prefer they attack Danny without knowing it's him, they may hurt them. He may be a ghost but he still is their son, and I know they will not hurt him." said Jazz.
"Ok, but you're the one who has to tell them." said Tucker.
"What...I mean...oh, fine." said Jazz.
The two teens flew on thinking of the long conversation they were going to have and worrying about their friends. It was Sunday night and the final phase of Vlad's plan was set to start at midnight on Monday. It was about 24 hours until the final battle to decide the fate of the world.
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Yay, I finished another chapter before Christmas, here it is as a holiday present to all who read my story.
The horror, Vlad has both Danny and Sam under his control and is finishing his plan. Tucker and Jazz have to go get help from the Fentons, and they may have to tell them Danny's secret. Will Mr. And Mrs. Fenton help when they find out Danny is the ghost boy? Will they be able to come up with a plan to stop Vlad? Will the author hurt Vlad again? Or will Vlad's dreams finally come true? ( well, maybe not the "not getting hurt " part) You'll have to read the next chapter to find out.
Happy Holidays to all, and please read and review!