Greetings, people! Hey, what happened? First day this was up, I got nine reviews. Since Chapter 2 went up, it's only been three. But I guess I understand, since Chapter 2 wasn't that good. Promise this will be better!

Chapter 3 is here! Check it out!

Plotting for a Transformation

Chapter Three: Giving Chase

Danny phased into the Axiom Labs building, this time invisible. He had gotten caught breaking in as Danny Phantom before, and he didn't want to risk it happening again.

Flying carefully and watching closely for anything out of the ordinary, Danny finally saw a small explosion somewhere by a bunch of computer stuff. He looked and saw a masked figure by it, holding a computer disk.

Turning himself visible, Danny shouted, "Hey!"

The figure turned to him, and just as soon as Danny saw him, he had run off.

"Come back here!" Danny yelled as he tore off after him.

Danny flew out into the next hall and looked both ways. On his right, he saw a shadow disappearing around the corner. Danny followed it around the corner and down another hallway, which led to a dead end.

The figure stopped at the end of the hall, with Danny approaching him.

Danny smirked with the figure currently encased in a shadow, "No way out, creepy. How about you just hand over that whatever-it-is and we can call it a day?"

The figure simply jumped onto a wall, which stretched far up to a window on the ceiling, which had a hole in it. He jumped off the wall and pushed himself off onto a higher part of the wall, and kept going.

Danny sighed, "They always want to do it the hard way." Grunting, he fired multiple ghost rays at the figure, but he kept jumping around them and Danny wasn't able to hit his target. Finally Danny flew up after him just as he escaped through the window.

Danny went outside through the window as well, where darkness was settling in, and saw that the man had jumped down to one of the lower roofs of the building and then jumped onto the ground.

Looking puzzled, Danny spoke out loud, "Whoever this guy is, he's definitely daring." He then flew off after him.

Seeing Danny run after the mysterious man, Tucker shouted, "Danny! Who is that?"

Still flying, Danny yelled back, "I don't know! Catch up with you guys later!"

Danny kept an eye out for this guy as the chase stretched beyond the boundaries of Axiom Labs and into the downtown section of Amity Park.

As he flew, Danny saw the man run into an alley. Danny followed him in, with the shadows engulfing him.

"Hey!" Danny cried, "Where are you?"

No answer. Danny flew up until it wasn't so dark and looked around. There was no one in sight.

Danny said to himself, "My ghost sense isn't going off, so this guy can't even be a ghost."

Just then, a rock dropped on top of Danny. Danny looked up and saw someone jump from one building to another.

Danny smiled and flew up higher to the roof, where he caught sight of the man again and once again flew after him. The figure continued to flee, this time jumping across the tall buildings of Amity Park.

As he continued to fly after him, Danny was quite surprised to see that the man he was chasing didn't seem to be tiring out at all. He had strong, powerful, fast legs and he moved with great agility. He was pacing himself very nicely.

Danny, however, was always prone to flying after his foes at a fast pace in hopes of ending the trouble as soon as he could. He had tried doing the same tactic this time, and as a result, he was starting to tire out just a bit. But the endurance he had built up from his months of ghost fighting was showing, and he kept flying.

"Where could he be?" Sam asked Tucker, looking worried as they ran throughout Amity Park, searching for Danny and whoever he was in pursuit of.

"I don't know!" Tucker answered, "Normally, I could track him by making my PDA a GPS, but everything's still shut down from this virus."

"Who was that guy he was chasing?"

"Beats me. Whoever he was, I don't think he was a ghost."

"Yeah." The two of them turned in the direction of the Nasty Burger.

Tucker said to her, "Well, he couldn't have gotten too far. We can find…"

Just then, the two of them heard a blast come from above them. They looked up and saw the figure leaping through the air onto a building. From behind him, they saw Danny firing a ghost ray, missing unfortunately.

Sam commanded, "Come on." The two of them ran off.

Some time later, Danny was really beginning to tire out as they neared Danny's own house, now down on the street. He checked his watch. It said 7:45. Danny couldn't believe it. It had been 6:50 when he first left the building!

Unbelievably, the figure he was chasing still didn't seem tired at all.

Danny growled, "If I'm gonna end this, it better be now." He then fired a heavy barrage of ghost rays, hoping at least one of them would strike the man.

Finally, one managed to nick him, and he went crashing to the ground near an open man-hole.

Danny grunted as he floated above the man, "You've gotten me very frustrated from having to chase you for the last hour. Now hand over that device!"

The figure still did not speak and jumped down the man-hole and into the sewer.

Now groaning, Danny flew down into the sewer. Once he reached the bottom, he saw that he was on a pathway that stretched down the sewer, with a river of waste beside the path.

More importantly, the man had now come to a stop approximately one hundred feet away from Danny, facing away from him.

Danny looked at him and said, "So what? Are you giving up? Gonna hand that thing over?"

The man turned towards Danny, who noticed that he wore dark clothing with gray patches of armor all over himself. His face was concealed behind a black and orange mask, with only one eye seen on the left orange side.

The figure finally spoke, holding the disk up, and with a very cold voice, "This? This 'thing' as you so crudely put it happens to be a very important disk developed for the CIA. It can store a nearly infinite amount of information, and is impossible for anyone to hack into, and that includes your little friend."

Recognizing the voice, Danny said to him, "Hey, you're the guy who left me that note yesterday. And who sent me a tape recorder this morning!"

"So you recognize my voice. Very good. I trust you don't know me."

"Never seen you before. Anyway, why did you steal that disk?"

"So I could do this." Then before Danny could respond, he greatly tightened his grip on the disk and it disintegrated right in his hand, while Danny simply watched in awe.

Danny scratched his head, "Okay, what did you do that for?"

"My dear boy," the man said as he dropped the pieces to the ground, "That disk may be useful for gathering information, but what I want is something worth so much more."

"So you came down to a filthy sewer to get it?"

"I didn't come to get it in the sewer, young man. I came to trap it." Then he pulled out a remote and pushed a button.

In an instant, the man-holes above them slammed shut and the top and bottom of the sewer began to glow green.

Danny gasped, while the man said, "Like it? Ectoplasmic coating. Any thoughts you had of phasing through the top of this sewer are now virtually worthless."

Danny didn't like this at all. There was something he found very confusing and very puzzling about this guy that gave him a cold feeling in his stomach.

Danny threw his arms out in exasperation, "Alright, could you stop beating around the bush? What is it that you want?"

The man stepped towards Danny and said, "Quite simple, Danny. I want you."

And the plot develops! This guy has Danny cornered in a sewer, but what is his actual intention? Does he want Danny dead, or does he have other plans in store for our favorite ghost boy? Find out in Chapter 4!