Author's Note: Wow it's been almost exactly two months since my last update. I am SO sorry about the long delay everyone. First I had writers block and then I was so busy. I know that's really no excuse but I hope I didn't loose any of you or anything. So after a long hiatus I'm back! This story is nearing it's close…and let me tell you…some climatic events will happen in the next few chapters. A possible death may be on the horizon…or will it? XD LET'S SEE!

((Amity Park Streets))

April let the ashes of the letter from Dan fall to the ground like snow. She turned to Danny, "Come on."

Danny's eyes drifted to the sky as ghost after ghost flew across the darkening atmosphere. "April…I don't think it's going to be that easy."

The girl didn't listen and jumped into the air, taking off at a speed that bordered on supersonic. She didn't get far before a ghost that looked like a skeleton noticed her and grabbed her. He pushed her down towards the earth but April wasn't going down without a fight, "GET…OFF!" She screamed, her eyes blazed with purple energy. The energy took form and blasted the skeleton ghost far away.

Danny hovered near her now and opened his mouth as if to say something but April cut him off, "Don't say a word. We'll get through this town to the school if I have to blast every ghost within an inch of its afterlife."

"Alright see now you're scaring me."

"GHOST!" a familiar voice shouted.

"Yeah they're all around us," Danny muttered sarcastically then looked down at the people who had screamed and he paled (even more than usual for being a ghost). Standing below him, guns charged and ready, were his parents.

"Alright ghost kids…you're going down," Jack Fenton said and pulled the trigger. April shoved Danny and her self out of the way of the blast and both phased through a nearby building.

April was the first to recover. She adjusted her black trench coat and spun around to Danny, "I don't know if you REALIZED this…but your life is on the line here. We need to stop goofing off and rescue you."

"April…I'm not stupid. The other ghosts aren't just going to let us fly by though…and I'll bet you anything that that skeleton wasn't the strongest of them out there."

"Granddad and the others can take care of them!"

Danny grabbed April's wrist, "April…calm down. This is how Dan is able to manipulate people…he riles up your passion and you'll never beat him. You have to stay calm."

April ripped away from the half boy half ghost's grasp, "Fine. Let the race to save your life begin."

((Cue Danny Phantom Theme Song))

Danny flew over Amity Park's buildings with April beside him. They had been flying for about five seconds when trouble struck, trouble in the form of a certain pop- rock ghost princess.

Ember McLane was far different from her TUE version. Since Danny had never turned evil she had never lost her voice by a vocal battle with him. Thus Ember was still after power and still as hip as ever, though her wardrobe had gone through some changes.

Instead of a halter and pants she now wore a sleeveless black dress that went to her ankles with a slit that started at her hip and went all the way down. This dress showed a bit of Ember's cleavage and had blue flames running along the seams. Under the dress she wore tight, black spandex pants and the familiar old combat boots with the skulls on them. Around her neck was a black choker with a blue gem in the center and spikes all the way around it. One arm was clad with a black glove that went all the way to her shoulder while the other only had a glove that went to her wrist and was fingerless. Both gloves had diamonds encrusted in them. The arm that wasn't completely covered by a glove bore a henna tattoo design that ran from her revealed fingertips to her neck. Her hair was pulled into a high ponytail and a purple streak that ran through it.

She was warming up her band when she saw April and Danny fly by. A smirk crossed her face and she slammed a note out. Danny was caught in the back by it and sent flying. April spun around to face the rocker and Ember smiled, "Well, well…if it isn't daughter dipstick. Come to challenge me to another battle of the bands?"

April crossed her arms, "Please…after I whopped your ass last time. You are such a has-been Ember."

Ember licked her purple glossed lips, "Think so, huh? Try this chord out dipstick." Ember adjusted the knob on her guitar and struck a powerful chord. A huge fist shaped blast flew at April who merely flew to the side to dodge it. April then balled her hand in to a fist and flew at Ember. Ember continued to play her guitar sending blast after blast at April. April dodged every single one but couldn't get close enough or pause long enough to hit Ember back.

"EMBER'S BACK THEY'LL CRY!"

"Oh they'll cry alright," Danny said from behind Ember.

The ghost rocker spun around and her green eyes went wide, "YOU! But you're…you're young?"

"Yeah…surprise. Just call this my come back tour," Danny said and blasted Ember in the gut.

Ember flew backwards, straight into April's extended kick. Ember pitched forward, falling to her knees. She glared at Danny, her eyes glowing. She stood up and grabbed her guitar and cranked the knob to the far left where the guitar had a triple X symbol on it. "DIE DIPSTICK!"

The hug blast flew at Danny but he threw up a shield made of his ectoplasmic energy. The blast smashed against the shield and sent Danny flying back and crashing into a building. Ember cackled and didn't realize that Danny was resurfacing behind her. Danny became solid again and fired a blast of energy point blank at her head. Ember pitched forward, unconscious.

April and Danny didn't spare any time to talk. They took off from the building, not wanting to wait around. They flew as fast as they could and the school was nearly in sight when suddenly a large ghost ship pulled up in front of them. Danny pulled back and stared up at the large hull. Standing on the glowing green deck of the ship was Captain Youngblood. The young captain looked exactly the same as he had in Danny's time but Danny wasn't surprised because, after all, he wasn't called 'Youngblood' for nothing.

Without wasting any time Youngblood shouted an order, "FIRE!"

Danny stared wide eyed as the large cannonballs flew towards them, without thinking he shoved April out of the way and then got rammed in the gut by one of the flying balls of death. It sent him flying through the air and far away from April and the pirate ship.

April glared up at the familiar ship before her. She was used to dealing with Captain Youngblood by herself anyway. Usually none of the adults could see him, including her father. "I don't have time for this shorty. I've already dealt with pop stars I don't need to add pipsqueak pirates to the list," April shouted.

"Arg, matey, I'm not THAT short," Youngblood squeaked in protest.

"Whatever…where's your dumb little parrot?"

"I…I don't need him anymore…not to deal with the likes of you!"

April rolled her eyes, "Right…well let's get this over with."

Meanwhile Danny, who had been blown away, was in the midst of a very strange scene. People were stuck to walls with familiar glowing green netting. Danny frowned, he knew that netting anywhere. If there were people in nets then there was bound to be, "Skulker," Danny said catching sight of the bounty hunter.

'That's weird…last time I visited the future he was combined with Technus…here he looks more like his old self…sort of,' Danny thought. It was true. This Skulker was alone in body but he was still as menacing and had gone through a few wardrobe changes.

The fire Mohawk was gone and Skulker's new "do" was a skullet (a mullet with no hair on top of the head). His goatee and the fire that made it up were blue flames with streaks of black. His armor was chrome with blue circuitry all over it and very slimming. The "muscles" in his arms and legs seemed much more bulky however…of course that might have just been the spike covered gloves.

Skulker smirked, "Well, my prey has sought me out."

Danny clenched his fists, "Yeah but I'm sort of busy so if we could reschedule this reunion that would be great."

Skulker held up one of his hands and a rather large cannon sprouted from it.

"Or not," Danny paled.

Skulker fired a blue blast from the plasma cannon. Danny threw up a shield and it managed to deflect the blast but just barely. Skulker didn't stop even for a second and kept firing. Each blast strained the shield even more, pushing Danny back with each hit. Danny gritted his teeth; he had to move to the offensive if he didn't want to be blown away…literally.

"Hey Skanker!"

Skulker looked up, "You!"

April grinned and hurled a small pirate ghost kid at the robot hunter. Youngblood crashed into Skulker and the two went tumbling backwards.

Danny sighed, dropping the shield as April landed next to him. "Come on, the school's just down the block."

They rose into the air and flew towards the school. They got to the soccer field in no time and standing ominously in the center was Dan Phantom.

Danny shivered; horrible memories of his last encounter haunted him. Dan smirked, noticing his innocent counterpart, "Well…I didn't think I'd be seeing YOU here. If I had known that I would have brought a gift."

April scowled, "Where's my father!"

"Which one? You're father's 14 year old self, me, or the weakling trapped in the thermos," Dan asked with a chilling voice, patting the gleaming thermos tied to the belt as his side.

April's eyes blazed purple and she clenched her fists into balls, her nails digging into her gloved hands and almost drawing ectoplasm blood, "How dare you talk about my father like you're the same person. You are nothing like my father. My dad is a brave and kind man and I will not have you act like you are one in the same." April started shaking and Danny could swear he could see tears in her eyes. April jumped into the air and flew at Dan before Danny could stop her, "GIVE HIM BACK!"

Danny reached for her but it was too late, "APRIL NO!"

To Be Continued…

Author's Note: I love revamping character looks. I hope you liked them. As for Technus and Skulker not being combined…I have a theory that they joined forces so they could have a better chance against Dan Phantom. Seeing as Dan Phantom "doesn't exist" then they had no need to combine. Same with Ember, she's not fat because she never lost her voice so she can still sing.

Anyways this chapter was relatively short…I just wanted to build up to the Dan vs. April and Danny and Future Danny fight scene. Which will, most likely, take up more than just one chapter…I want an epic fight scene! XD

So please review…I'm hoping to get more timely updates now that I have this chapter out of the way. Expect an update for my Spooks and Spiders story soon as well!