Chapter Four: The Capture of Danny Phantom.
It was several hours after Sam had been kidnaped, and our hero's were still arguing over the best way to get Sam back. Jazz, Tucker and Valerie were arguing while Danny was in the corner, still upset that he did not save Sam. Jack and Maddie had come in a while ago, but they two were caught up in the argument.
"I say we blast our way in and take Sam back by force!" said Valerie.
"Yeah, we need to bust some ghost heads, it's the only way they'll learn to not mess with us!" said Jack.
"And what if we hurt Sam while doing that? We need to sneak in and take her when they aren't looking." said Jazz.
"The sneaky approach is always the best in a rescue mission." said Maddie.
"But we need to make those ghosts pay, a frontal assault will make them wish them never to Sam." said Valerie.
"Plus it will give us the chance to test the new Fenton Ghost Mashers, these babies are a ghosts worst nightmare." said Jack.
"Are you two insane! We need to recuse Sam, not test out one of dad's dumb inventions!" shouted Jazz.
"Hey, my inventions are not dumb!" shouted Jack.
"Then explain the Fenton Oven?" said Jazz.
"That was a great invention!" said Jack.
"It turned dinner into a monster, how is that great!" said Jazz.
They quickly started into a argument about Jack's inventions, and their usefulness. Seeing that the planning was going nowhere fast, Tucker decided to go see how Danny was doing. Tucker walked over to the corner where Danny was sitting and started to talk to him.
"Hey dude, how you doing?" said Tucker.
"Just great, I lost my girlfriend to a bunch of ghosts after I promised to protect her, but other then that I'm fine." Danny said sarcastically.
"Dude, you need to stop beating yourself up over it." said Tucker.
"You don't understand, it's my responsibility, I'm the one who has to keep everyone save, by losing Sam I failed." said Danny as he but his head in his hands.
"There was nothing you could do to stop it." said Tucker.
"I know, but it still hurts. I still can see Sam's face as they took her away. The fear in her eyes, begging me to save her." said Danny as he started to cry.
"Dude, stop blaming yourself, will get her back, I promise." said Tucker.
"I hope so Tucker, I hope so." said Danny.
"But right now I think we should get the planning back on track." said Tucker.
They looked over and saw that everyone was still arguing, very loudly.
"Hey, guys can we focus here." Danny said.
They still kept arguing.
"Guys!" Danny said while raising his voice.
Still the arguing went on.
"GUYS!" Danny screamed.
Finally everyone stopped yelling and looked at Danny.
"What is it Danny?" asked Jazz.
Before he could answer the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it" said Jack as he ran up the stairs.
Jack ran up the stairs and opened the door, but no one was there. He looked all over to see if someone was there, then he looked down. On the stoop was a letter with no return address with Danny's name on it. Jack picked up the letter and saw another name on the back, a name that made his blood boil. Jack walked back to lab.
"Who was at the door dear?" said Maddie.
"No one, there was only this letter for Danny." said Jack, barely containing his anger, he handed the letter to Danny.
Danny took the letter and saw his full name written on it. He then turned it over and saw the name he had come to hate.
From: Vlad Masters.
"Oh God, please don't let it be what I think it is, please God." thought Danny as he opened the letter.
Dear Daniel (my soon to be future son)
I have kidnaped your little girlfriend, Samantha. If you want her to live to see another day, you will come to my castle and surrender. You'll love being my son, I already have a outfit picked out for you when you help me conquer the world. Tell Maddie (my soon to be future wife) and Jazz (my soon to be future daughter) that I said hi. See you soon hahahaha!
Sincerely
Vlad Masters.
P.S. I STILL WILL NOT GET A CAT!
Danny finished reading the letter, then he crumpled it up. Danny started to get angry, so angry that his eyes glowed red and red steam started to come out of them.
"Vlad." Danny said the name with venom in his voice.
"What did you say." said Valerie.
"Its Vlad, he took Sam!" said Danny as he became more angry.
"Vlad, I should have known." said Jazz.
"I kill him, I swear to God that I'll kill him for this!" screamed Danny as he transformed into Phantom.
Before anyone could stop him he shot out of the room and into the sky, headed to Wisconsin to destroy Vlad.
"Danny, come back!" said Maddie.
They all ran outside, but it was too late, Danny was already gone.
"We have to go after him, he's obviously flying into a trap." said Valerie.
"Your right! Mom and dad, you stay here while we go after Danny." said Jazz.
"But we want to help Danny." said Jack.
"I know, but you two have to protect the town incase the ghosts attack, you're the only ones who know how to work the defenses." said Jazz.
"Ok, but be carful sweetie." said Maddie.
"I will mom, well Valerie, it looks like were going attack them directly." said Jazz.
"Good, lets get that creep." said Valerie.
The teens went into the house and down to the lab. They loaded as many ghost weapons as the could fit into the Specter Speeder. They piled in and with one last goodbye they took off after Danny.
"Do you think they'll be ok?" said Maddie.
"Sure they will, there using inventions made by me." said Jack.
"I hope they'll be ok." Maddie said in response.
Meanwhile Danny was flying at breakneck speed toward Vlad's castle. Normally he could fly at 112 miles per hour, but his anger gave him the energy to fly at almost 300 miles per hour. His anger was fueling his increase in power. He felt he could do anything with it, even completely destroy Vlad.
"I swear, I'll make Vlad pay, he'll regret ever thinking he could take Sam." said Danny as he crossed the border into Wisconsin.
Meanwhile miles behind him were, Valerie, Jazz, and Tucker in the Specter Speeder.
"Can't this thing go any faster?" said Valerie.
"Were at it's top speed of a 150 miles per hour, it can't go any faster." said Jazz.
"I just hope we can catch Danny before he makes a mistake." said Valerie.
"Don't worry we will." said Jazz as she tried to get more speed out of the vehicle."
"Don't worry buddy, we're coming to help you." thought Tucker as they raced after Danny.
Danny arrived at Vlad's castle, unfortunately he did make a mistake. Instead of sneaking into Vlad's castle unnoticed, he decided to use the "blast a hole in the wall" method to enter the castle. He found Vlad's study room and saw him in it. Danny charged up a huge blast and sent it at the wall. It exploded in a shower of bricks and wood, Danny then entered through the hole. He saw Vlad standing by the fire place, looking very calm considering his wall just blew up.
"Why hello Daniel, to what do I owe the pleasure of your visit." said Vlad.
"Cut the chit chat Vlad, I'm here to get Sam and kill you." said Danny as he sent a ectoblast at Vlad.
Vlad rolled out of the way as the blast hit the wall, knocking a large hole in it. He quickly transformed into Plasmius, he turned to face Danny. He then noticed that Danny's eyes were glowing a blood red.
"Well, well, it seems I've angered the little boy."
"I'll show you little boy!" shouted Danny as he sent a blast at Vlad.
This took Vlad be surprise, and the blast sent Vlad through a wall. Vlad got up and reentered the room.
"Attacking your opponents with out warning, using anger to drive you, you really are becoming more like me." said Vlad.
"I am nothing like you!" shouted Danny as he sent blasts at Vlad.
Vlad dodged out of the way, then he duplicated into four Plasmiuses.
"Give it up, you can't beat me." said Vlad.
"I am going to beat you." said Danny as his new energy allowed him to turn into four Danny's.
"it seems you've learned a new trick." said Vlad.
"Stop talking and fight you coward!" said the four Danny's as they shot at the four Vlad's.
The Vlad's sent blasts at the Danny's hitting one, then the three Danny's sent blasts at the Vlad's, hitting one also. The remaining Danny's and Vlad's started to punch and kick each other. They traded blow after blow, seeming to be equally matched. After much blasting and punching only the original Danny and Vlad were left.
"So, give up yet Daniel?" said Vlad.
"I've just begun to fight!" said Danny as he sent eye beams at Vlad.
The beam sent Vlad crashing into a couch, breaking it in half. Vlad countered with a ecto blast that sent Danny into a wall. But Danny quickly came back and sent a barrage of blasts at Vlad. Vlad put up a shield, but it could not take the strain of Danny's now more powerful blasts, and it broke. Then Danny sent a huge Blast at Vlad, knocking him across the room. Danny swooped down and started to punch Vlad, knocking him around the room and doing a considerable amount of damege.
"Maybe its time to get my trump card out." thought Vlad.
Vlad used all the energy he had and blasted Danny away, then he called out to Skulker.
"Skulker, bring our guest in now." said Vlad.
Skulker came into the room, being pushed in front of him was Sam.
"Sam?" said Danny, his eyes turning back to green as he saw her.
"Hi, Danny." said Sam.
Danny tried to grab Sam, but Vlad started to speak up.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you Daniel." said Vlad.
"Why not?" said Danny.
"Because that collar she is wearing can make her life very short." said Vlad.
"What, take it off of her this instant." said Danny as his eyes started to glow red again.
"I won't try anything or with this controller I can end her life." said Vlad.
Danny, immediately calmed down.
"What do you want Vlad?" said Danny.
"You know what I want, I want you to surrender." said Vlad.
"Danny, don't do it!" shouted Sam.
"You know you don't want her to die Daniel, you know what you have to do." said Vlad.
Danny mumbled something.
"What was that Daniel?" said Vlad.
"I surrender." Danny said quietly.
"Could you say that again?" said Vlad.
"I said I surrender!" shouted Danny.
"Excellent, you made the right choice, now if you could just put on this collar..." said Vlad.
"What! I'm not putting that on!" said Danny.
"You will if you want Sam to live." said Vlad.
Danny thought about this then picked up the collar.
"Danny, don't." said Sam.
"I'm sorry Sam, I have to." said Danny as he clamped the collar around his neck.
"Good, now Daniel I've always wanted to say this, uh hm...Daniel, I am your father." Vlad said in a Darth Vader voice.
"Did you really have to do that?" said Danny.
"Yes I did, now Skulker will take you to your rooms. You may stay together if you want." said Vlad as Skulker took them away.
Vlad was left alone in the room, then Technus came in.
"Vlad, a unidentified craft is approaching the castle!" said Technus.
"It must be Danny's little friends, lets prepare to greet them, shall we." said Vlad.
"I will call the other ghosts." said Technus as he left.
Meanwhile Jazz, Valerie, and Tucker were within site of the castle. The first thing they noticed was the battle damage from Vlad and Danny's fight. The fact that they could not hear and battle sounds as they approached.
"Wow, looks like Danny went medieval on Vlad's butt." said Tucker.
"Yeah, but I don't hear anything now, I hope Danny's alright." said Jazz.
"I don't like it, its too quiet." said Valerie.
Then suddenly a figure appeared in front of the Specter Speeder as it was flying. Jazz slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting the obvious ghost. The three teens looked up to see the smiling face of Vlad Plasmius.
"You! What have you done with Danny and Sam." Jazz shouted out of the Speeder's megaphone.
"I have done nothing to them, I'm just keeping them at my castle so they don't cause any trouble." said Vlad.
"You stupid, creepy, jerk, give them back now or else!" said Jazz.
"Now is that any way for you to talk to your father." said Vlad.
"You are not my father!" shouted Jazz.
"I soon will be, and soon I will have you and my beloved Maddie, and kill that idiot father of yours." said Vlad.
"You'll never win Vlad!" said Jazz.
"That's what you think." said Vlad as a bunch of ghosts appeared around the Specter Speeder.
"I think we're in trouble guys." said Tucker.
"What gave you that idea." said Valerie sarcastically.
"Surrender now and you'll live." said Vlad.
"Fat chance ghost!" said Valerie as they started to shoot at the ghosts.
The teens tried to get through the ghosts and to the castle, but there were to many. They kept the ghosts at bay with the many weapons on the Speeder, but they just could not defeat them.
"Their to powerful, we have to retreat!" shouted Valerie as another blast rocked the Specter Speeder.
"No! We can't leave until we get Danny and Sam." shouted Jazz.
"We have to go or will be captured too, we can come back for them!" shouted Valerie.
Jazz thought about this and grudgingly blasted one of the ghosts out of the way so they could escape. As they were leaving Jazz shouted at Vlad.
"Don't think this is over, we will come back for them!" shouted Jazz as they flew off.
"Should we go after them Lord Plasmius?" asked the Fright Knight.
"No, we'll get them later, right now we have to go back to the castle, I have something important to tell you all." said Vlad, they then flew to Vlad's castle.
The ghosts assembled in Vlad's meeting room, where there was a pile of boxes on the table, wrapped up as gifts.
"What is this?" asked Ember.
"These are just some gifts to show my appreciation for all the hard work you did, there's one for each of you." said Vlad.
"Wow, thanks." said Ember as the ghosts took there presents.
"Hey, how come there's no present for the Fright Knight?" asked Skulker.
"The honor of serving Lord Plasmius is reward enough for me." said the Fright Knight.
The ghosts excepted this explanation and started to open their gifts as Vlad looked on with a evil smirk on his face. As the ghosts opened the boxes something popped out of them and attached to their necks. The ghosts were shocked by this and turned to Vlad.
"What the heck are these things?" demanded Ember.
"Their the collars that I had Technus whip up." said Vlad.
"What! You tricked me!" said Technus.
"That's right, I can't have you serve me without some way of insuring your loyalty."
"You'll pay for this Plasmius!" said Ember as the other ghosts prepared to attack.
"Ah, ah, ah, I wouldn't do that if I were you." said Vlad.
"And why not?" said Skulker.
"Because with a push of this button I can end your existence." said Vlad.
"How can these kill a ghost?" asked Ember.
"They can because I had Technus and Skulker design them to be able to kill Daniel whether he was human or ghost." said Vlad.
All the ghosts in the room suddenly went pale(AN: is that even possible?) When they realized what that meant.
"If any of you disobey me, you will be destroyed, is that clear?" said Vlad.
All the ghosts nodded their heads.
"Good, Now all of you go back to your rooms until I call you." said Vlad.
"You heard Lord Plasmius, move!" said the Fright Knight as he forced them from the room.
Vlad's plan was going perfectly. He had Daniel in his clutches and he had the ghosts under his complete control, soon he would complete the next stage of his plan.
"This is a great day, soon I will have the whole world in my hands, and Maddie in my arms Mwhahaha!" said Vlad. (AN: A great day huh? Well that's about to end. Author pulls the hurt Vlad lever.)
Then suddenly a bucket of rotten eggs falls on Vlad.
"Ow, that hurts! And the smell, its horrible, after I wash up I'm going to find who is doing this." said Vlad as he left to shower. (AN: I love this job:) )
We go to another part of the castle where we see Danny and Sam talking to each other.
"Danny, what are we going to do?" asked Sam as she cried into his shoulder.
"We'll figure a way out of this, I promise." said Danny as he patted her on the back.
"I think that will be very difficult." said a voice from the door.
Danny and Sam turned to see who it was, it was Ember.
"Have you come to gloat about your victory." said Sam.
"No, I came to say I'm sorry." said Ember.
"Why would you say your sorry?" said Danny.
Then they noticed the collar around her neck.
"I don't believe it, he turned on his own side." said Sam.
"I knew he was low, but this is definitely a new low for him." said Danny.
"I knew I shouldn't have helped him." said Ember.
"He's a evil master mind and you didn't see something like this coming." said Sam.
"I was blinded by what he offered, he said I could have my own kingdom, where everyone would love me and say my name." said Ember.
"Well it looks like your getting your punishment for trying to take over the world." said Danny.
"Its not about the world domination, at least it never was the main reason. The one thing I want is for people to love my music, to love me." said Ember.
"What do you mean love you?" asked Sam.
"Let me tell you about my life before I died. When I was alive my life was terrible, no one ever loved me. They always loved my older sister, she was the smart one, the prettier one, the one who would do them proud. And I was the one who was wasting her life with music." said Ember as Danny and Sam listened on.
"Not that anyone appreciated my music, they would not listen to me because I was a girl. One day I finally got a gig, it was at a small club, but at least it was something. The night we opened I sang that song you heard before." said Ember.
"You mean Remember?" said Danny.
"Yes, that's the one, I sang my heart out on that stage. But then a fire started behind me, it spread so fast that I was trapped. I couldn't get away, the flames came closer and then...and then." Ember said before breaking down and crying.
Danny and Sam found they felt sympathy for the rocker ghost, they ran over to comfort her.
"There, there, it's all right." said Sam.
"I never knew how you died, I am sorry." said Danny.
"Well now you know, now my dreams are being dashed once again by that evil jerk, and there's no way to get out of it." said Ember.
"Maybe there is a way." said Danny.
"What do you mean?" asked Ember and Sam.
"If we can get that control away from him, we may be able to free ourselves." said Danny.
"But how do we do that?" asked Sam.
"He can't keep his eye on it all the time, we just have to wait for him to turn his back and take it." said Danny.
"But how will we do that?" asked Sam.
"We'll need the help of the other ghosts. Ember, do you think you guys can help?" asked Danny.
"If it means kicking Vlad's butt, then yeah we'll help." said Ember.
"Good." said Danny.
"Uh, do you mind if I stay here awhile and talk with you guys, there's pretty much noone else for me to talk to." said Ember.
"Sure, take a seat." said Danny.
The three teens sat down and began to talk. They talked about music, movies, and the like. They also talked about freeing themselves from Vlad and kicking his butt. But they would have to hurry, because the end of the world was quickly drawing closer.
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Me: It's me, Rob Phantom!
Ember: And me, Ember!
Me: And we're coming to you live from my control room.
Ember: And its time to give more reviewers a chance to pull the hurt Vlad lever.
Me: Yes my friends, since the last installment of our show three people have asked us if they could pull the lever, they are Missmeliss4251. Tommy Koopa, and Captain Deoxys.
Ember: In fact Captain Deoxys had a very specific request.
Me: Yes, he asked whether I could have Snowball, the three headed hydra, from the Fairly Odd Parents and Godzilla attack Vlad.( note: I don't own either one of these, they belong to their respective owners.)
Ember: We tried to get them, but there were... complications.
Me: Ahem, Uh yes, when we called the Fairly Odd Parents, we got Wanda on the line. She said that we could not do it and not to encourage Cosmo to bring back Snowball. Then we heard something that sounded like a poof, then someone shouting Snowball, then a lot of noise and the line went dead. We tried calling back but after the first angry response they stopped taking our calls.
Ember: Then we tried to get Godzilla, but there were...problems.
Me: Yes, problems.
Flashback
We see Godzilla rampaging through the city of Tokyo. As we get closer we see a giant dog collar attached to his neck. We pan over to the end of a leash, where we see Rob Phantom in ghost mode and Ember flying behind Godzilla, desperately trying to pull the beast along.
Rob: Sit! Heel! Stay! Roll over!
Ember: Would you like a monster treat?
Godzilla turns his head to see the two annoying small things behind him. Without a moments thought he hits them with his atomic breath and walks on. We zoom in to see a very burned looking Rob Phantom and Ember.
Rob: Well cough that was a bad ideacough.
Ember: Yeah cough lets go back to the control room cough.
End Flashback
Me: As you can see it did not go so well.
Ember: I'll say.
Me: But fear not, you three reviewers will get to pull the lever. In a stroke of genius ( and because I'm lazy) I decide that I would have all three of you pull the lever at once. You will be brought here in my teleporter, Ember, throw the switch!
Ember: Three reviewers coming up! Ember throws the switch, we see a flash of light, then suddenly Missmeliss4251, Tommy Koopa, and Captain Deoxys appear in the studio.
Missmeliss4251: Hey, what am I doing here?
Tommy Koopa: I was about to ask the same question.
Captain Deoxys: Hey its Rob Phantom!
Me: Yes, and you three lucky reviewers are here to have your wish granted, for here it is, the hurt Vlad lever! The hurt Vlad lever rises out of the floor.
Me: Now all of you will pull the lever at once, do you understand? They nod their heads. Good, now all of you grab on to the lever. They run over and grab hold of the lever.
Me: On the count of three, you all pull, alright, one, two, three! They all pull the lever.
Me: Now lets watch. We cut to a televison monitor. We see Vlad playing golf in a really stupid outfit at the top of a hill. Suddenly he is struck by lightning, s stumbles and starts to fall doen the hill. He first lands in a large puddle that has a waste water pipe flowing into it. He comes up covered in a greenish brown substance. Then he slips and falls some more down the hill. Next he crashes through a huge number of thorn bushes, before finally landing in the cat section of the local animal shelter. The cats upon seeing him immediately attack him with their claws.
Vlad: Ahhhhh! Why did it have to be cats!
Missmeliss4251: That was awesome!
Tommy Koopa: I really liked the part where he hit the thorn bushes.
Captain Deoxys: I still would have liked to see Snowball or Godzilla hurt him.
Me: Let me explain something about the lever. It was designed to hurt Vlad with random things. Not even I have the power to make it do what I want. So I can't make it do a specifically asked for request. Do you understand?
Captain Deoxys: I guess so.
Me: Plus having him face Godzilla is probably not a good idea, we need him alive to finish the story.
Captain Deoxys: Ok then. Thank you for letting me pull the lever.
Missmeliss4251: Yes, Thank you.
Tommy Koopa: Thank you.
Me: And thank you for reviewing. The three reviewers are teleported away.
Me: Now that that's over, time for the chapter summery.
Oh no, Vlad has both Danny and Sam now, plus he has the ghosts under his complete control. But it appears Danny, Sam, and Ember are planing a little rebellion, what will come of it? Jazz, Tucker, and Valerie have had to retreat and now Vlad is going to come after Jazz and Maddie. This doesn't look good folks, will our remaining heros be able to save the day? Will they be able to stop Vlad's plan for the conquest of the Earth? Or are we all doomed? Only one way to find out, tune in for the next chapter of Vlad Strikes Back.
Ember: I hope Vlad gets his butt kicked.
Me: I'm sure he will.
Vlad: I will get you one day Rob Phantom. The cats start to attack him again, causing him to scream and run around.
Me: Until next time Danny Phantom fans, Read and Review!