Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom. I am just a dedicated fan.
DarkDragonQueen: I started watching Danny Phantom until about three months ago and I didn't really watch it. It was my sister and one day it was the only thing on and I completely fell in love with the show. I've been reading the fanfiction for a while and this story kind of came to my mind. I didn't want to write it until I saw a few stories that calmed my nerve. It's an Alternate universe and Sam has never met Danny or Tucker and she's never been to Amity Park until now.
Also no flames, but I do accept constructive criticism. Please bear with me because although I know the basics of grammar, I never did look at the detail. Don't worry my grammar isn't horrible where you can't read it, but it isn't exactly perfect where I could go and become an English teacher.
You all are going to hate me after this chapter, but don't worry, this leads to three key chapters, probably the most important. Sorry about this, but I just like to drag out stories and torture you sometimes. It's fun to read your reviews of frustration. I know... Sadistic. I've been trying to get into how I want Black Phoenix's character to be a bit too much.
With that said here is chapter fourteen of this story.
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Coincidence?
By
DarkDragonQueen
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Danny sat in his room with Tucker yapping away. Danny wasn't really listening though. He had been thinking about the Black Phoenix and how some of the things she did reminded him of someone he had met in the future.
"Dude, you okay?" Tucker asked noticing Danny's spaced out look
Danny shook his head. "Yeah, I guess."
"Okay spill," Tucker demanded
"What?"
"I now something's up and whateer it is I now it has something to do with Black Phoenix so spill," Tucker replied
Danny sighed. "There's this woman named Celosia after Black Phoenix the way Vlad is after me. Anyway when I saw I thought she looked familiar,"
"You knew her from somewhere?" Tucker asked
"No, I knew her dress," Danny replied
"What does a dress have to do with all this?" Tucker asked confused
"Just listen," Danny groaned. "Remember when we went to the future and saw my older evil future self?"
"How could I forget?" Tucker asked dryly
"Well, remember that woman that was with him? She never said her name but she new Dan, and was always flirting with him. She had the same dress as Celosia, but black with black hair and violet eyes." Danny said remembering when he saw the woman in the future.
/Flashback/ (TIME OUT: This is really important. The Ultimate Enemy did not happen the way it did on television in my Alternate Universe story. I plan on putting my version of it up to match with this one soon. One more time... The Ultimate Enemy did not happen the way it did on television in my Alternate Universe story. Okay that's it: TIME IN)
Danny and Tucker looked around the destroyed town. There was nothing left. It had been reduced to rubble.
"Where are we?"Tucker asked
"I think we're in that future Clockwork showed us," Danny replied in his ghost form
"Where's that guy we saw that Clock Work said was your future-" Danny clapped a gloved hand over Tucker's mouth and hid them behind a big piece of rock.
Right in front of the rock was his evil older self floating off the ground and another woman in with long black hair and a long black dress with a split that went up to the thigh, with high heel boots, black nail polish, violet eyes and lipstick. She was floating in the air in a sitting position with her legs crossed.
"You know, I get tired of destroying things sometimes. Can't we just take a break and spend a little time together?" she flirted with a smile
"I told you about flirting with me," Dan said annoyed
"I know, but it's fun to see your reaction." The woman replied with a smirk and a black fan appeared in her hand.
"I react how I always react. Annoyed," Dan replied. "I let you join me when you tried to fight me ten years ago. If I hadn't you'd probably be dead. The least you could do is stop doing that."
"I'm hurt," The woman gasped dramatically with a hand on her chest. "I thought you liked my company,"
"Can it you,"
"Besides, if you had killed me I would have come back to haunt you for ruining my second chance at life." the woman ignored Dan's interuption
"I'm seriously regretting I didn't," Dan replied tossing an ecto- ball in the air
"I'll pretend I didn't hear you say that." The woman replied dryly.
"Why Sam, you still don't know how to take a joke. I thought you knew how by now,"
"I didn't know you could joke Dan," The woman replied, "And don't call me that. That weak little girl is long gone. I told you my name is Black-" the woman stopped and then smirked. "I feel eyes on us and I dont mean just Valerie's. By the way, she's right behind you."
/Flashback Ends/
"I remember her," Tucker said finally. "She was about to say her name, but stopped when she saw us. It was Black something."
"What if she was about to say Black Phoenix?" Danny asked
Tucker frowned and then his eyes widened. "Wait you think that that woman was Black Phoenix's future self."
Danny shook his head. "No, it would have been her future self if I had become... that." Danny said,
"So you're saying either way you two were going to meet."
"Yeah, but in that future she was the villian,"
"But you said she was a villian now," Tucker said confused
"No, I said she tends to act like one sometimes," Danny corrected
"Okay what are you getting at." Tucker asked
"Well," Danny started. "I'm not positive, but I'm only filling in the missing pieces. I think that if I had become Dan Phantom, I would have met up with Black Phoenix who probably would have just gained her powers. I most likely in that time line destroyed her home and she tried to fight Dan off. When he saw she wasn't going to back down and could become a threat, instead of killing her, he let Black Phoenix join him and over the years Black Phoenix became what we saw in the future."
Tucker then realized where the halfa was going with this. "So you think that either way, in either time line Black Phoenix was supposed to meet you."
Danny nodded.
"And that when you destroyed your future self and saved us, you changed the time-line so that Black Phoenix would come here?" Tucker asked
Danny nodded again.
"So you two were destined to become partners, but whether as villains or heroes depended on the path you took." Tucker assumed
Danny gave him a black look. "I didn't get that far,"
"It's like this. Black Phoenix met your evil future self and became evil. She meets you here and starts helping you fight ghost. The way I see it is that she's going to follow you which ever path you choose. So if you were to decide to throw everything you have and destroy the world Black Phoenix would most likely follow." Tucker explained
"That makes... a little sense." Danny replied nodding his head.
"So, now we know a little more about the Black Phoenix. Only thing we don't know now is her identity." Tucker took out his PDA, "What do we know about her?"
"She has black hair, she's sarcastic, a bit blunt, sadistic, and I think she's goth." Danny counted off on his fingers
"That could be anyone Danny within a... maybe thirty mile radius." Tucker exclaimed
"Oh yeah," Danny slapped his forehead. How could he forget the two most unique things about her? "Her hair is like steel and her eyes are violet."
Tucker laughed. "You know, Sam fit's that description completely except for the steel like hair and sadistic part."
It was then at the mention of Sam's name that he remembered two encounters with her that contradicted what Tucker had said. He remembered back to about a four days ago when he was with Sam as Fenton.
"Point made," Danny sighed in defeat and then frowned. "Hey, what's up with your hair?"
"What's wrong with it?" Sam asked looking at her hair and frowning
"It's not soaked or anything. It isn't even sticking to you face. The water's just sliding off of it like it's sliding off a metal surface or something."
Danny frowned and thought about what Sam said when he was Phantom.
Sam laughed. "I definitely feel sorry for you then, but to answer your question I'm not like other girls. I'm not as defenseless as you think."
"What?" Danny raised an eyebrow. "Are you a black belt or something?"
"No, but I know how to defend myself and I'm not the nicest person either. I can be a bit... sadistic at times..." Sam grinned
Danny shook his head. There was no way Sam could be Black Phoenix. It wasn't possible. If she was why didn't she transform when Principal Palprin was chasing her and they were nowhere in sight, but then again she hadn't been afraid of Rocket. It was like it was something she went through everyday. She was so casual about it. Sam hadn't had any visible sign of fear at all. She wasn't even shaken by the ghost.
"Hey Danny," Tucker said snapping his fingers in front of Danny's face shaking him from his trance like state.
"Huh?" Danny looked at Tucker.
"You okay?"
"Oh... yeah. I'm fine." Danny said brushing all the things Sam said and did as a mere coincidence. She was different from most people and that was one of the things he liked about her
"Okay," Tucker replied. "So the violet eyes and steel hair really narrowed it down. All we have to do is get the profiles of every teen girl in every school. I'll hack into the files of the high schools tonight. You said she's fifteen and her birthday's in September right?"
Danny nodded.
"It shouldn't be too hard. Your faces has been all over the TV for the past two days."
"It has?" Danny frowned
"Man, don't you watch the news?" Tucker asked
"Not like I have the time," Danny replied dryly
"Well, you and Black Phoenix's little joy ride has been all over the news." Tucker said grinning from ear to ear. "It was so cool. Man, that girl can drive and she practically admitted she liked you on national television... Well, actually I hacked into the news station's file and found out that they cut that part out for some reason, but whatever."
"They caught that on tape!" Danny exclaimed
"Yeah, they caught Rocket too. They also caught you blowing up Black Phoenix's bike and her almost screeching at you. They probably would have caught you both had you stayed any longer. No one at school has been talking about anything except that."
Danny moaned. This was just perfect.
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Sam looked at Aly as she sat on her laptop doing, who knew what on it. Aly had been on it a lot lately and Sam knew something was up. She tried to look over Aly's shoulder, but Aly closed the laptop and turned to face her.
"What are you hiding Aly?" Sam asked putting her hands on her hips.
Aly rolled her eyes. "It's nothing. I was just working on a little project. Nothing you'd be interested in."
"Nice try Aly, but I used that one on Danny a few days ago. Now I know you're definitely doing something you don't want me to know."
"It's nothing Sam and I promise when I'm done I'll show it to you, but right now I don't think you should know yet." Aly replied putting her laptop down on Sam's desk and walking out of her room and down the stairs.
Sam looked at the laptop and bit her lip. She shook her head. Whatever it was it wasn't bad and Aly could take care of herself, besides if she did it would be an evasion of privacy. She walked around her room in a circle and sighed.
"I'm just going to ignore the laptop that I could open and figure out the password to without even thinking about it." Sam told herself as she walked around her room. "Oh the heck with privacy,"
Sam ran to her desk and opened Aly's Laptop, only to find it wasn't her laptop. It was one of the Phoenix Profile Analyzers. It took the profile of different people and broke it down. It was much more advanced than just DNA. It took DNA from hair, blood, even skin, it could record voices and take a picture of someone and get the height, size, and weight of the person. It also compared up to four people's DNA at a time.
The box for entering the password came up and Sam knowing Aly as well as she did typed in the password.
"Amber McLain..." Sam said as she typed it up
It was the name of her grandmother's sister who had tragically died in plane crash to visit her older sister who had at that time had just had Aly's mother. According to her grandmother Aly looked just like Amber although they had never found a picture to prove this.
The screen popped up and what Aly had been working on popped up. The DNA reading was in it's simplest for to be read by the average intelligent human mind. According to this whoever it was had human DNA and ghost DNA.
"Who has ghost and human DNA?" Sam asked herself and looked at the pieces of white hair in one of the four slots on the side of he Profile Analyzer. It looked familiar.
Sam clicked on the button that said voice records. She clicked it and pressed the play button that came up.
"So, the Black Phoenix does have a soft side," said an echoed teasing voice
Sam frowned. Why did that sound so familiar to her? She clicked it again and the voice played. Then she saw a button that said remove echo. She pressed it and then clicked play. The voice played, but this time without the echo.
"So, the Black Phoenix does have a soft side." it repeated without the echo and Sam's frowned deepened
"That sounded just like Danny." she said referring to her alive friend
She played it with the echo again and bit her lip. Who was that? Then she remembered a few weeks ago.
"It's so beautiful and relaxing, " she said, "Just what I needed."
"So," Said a voice she knew all too well. "the Black Phoenix does have a soft side,"
"Phantom..." she whispered clicking back and reading the top of the page that the name of who Aly had been looking at. It read clearly in bold green lettering DANNY PHANTOM.
Sam looked back at the white hair in the slot. That's what Aly had been doing in her room that day. She had known Phantom had been there and was looking for pieces of his hair to analyze and the blood on the cloth could be analyzed too, but how did she get a recording of his voice. She didn't go to the height, size, and weight. She was pondering why Phantom would have human blood.
"Unless..." Sam muttered as it dawned on her. "That's why they call him that."
"Awww," said the live Harpy, "I haven't had a decent male in a while. At least let us have the halfa?"
"Halfa?" Black Phoenix asked looking at her ghost companion
"I have no clue what their talking about." he tried to lie rubbing the back of his neck
"That's why they call him halfa. Ghost Boy's half human," Sam realized, "But how could a person be half ghost. That's like being half dead and half alive."
Sam bit her lip. "But that would mean that he had to have been involved in an accident that was life threatening. The only half dead state I can think of is a coma state."
That was it! She had heard somewhere that being in a coma was like being in a state between life and death, but how would a person in a coma come into contact with ectoplasmic energy? Unless they had some accident in a lab it was impossible. Phantom had said he had died in a lab though, but who in Amity Park had a lab...
Danny's parents had a lab. Where else would they work on those inventions? Then Sam gasped. Phantom's voice without the echo sound just like Danny's.
"Could Danny be Ghost Boy?" she asked herself and then shook her head.
That would explain why Danny always disappeared when Phantom showed up and vise- verse and that could be the reason the two shared the habit of rubbing their neck when he was nervous, but they were also completely different. Danny Fenton was shy, a bit clumsy, and didn't stick out like a sore thumb, unlike Danny Phantom who had confidence, was careful, attracted loads of attention, and was a bold.
Danny Fenton would have never asked if she needed a lift home (or if she wanted him to walk her home in this case) if she had only a few seconds ago accidentally blurted out that she liked him. He would have become a blabbering idiot and tried to come up with something to run off let alone dare to kiss her cheek. Danny Phantom was very calm about it and was even bold enough to not only take her home, but kiss her even if it was just on the cheek and could have been just a sign of affection.
"No, there's no way." Sam muttered and closed Aly's laptop before she came back from doing whatever she was doing. It was all just one big coincidence. There were probably a few more people within a thirty mile radius who had a lab and were obsessed with ghost... okay maybe not, but it was all just pure coincidence.
Sam would have to look into the halfa thing a bit more and to start with she would have to get down into the Fenton's lab. She smiled and picked up the phone. She dialed the number and the phone picked up almost as soon as she finished.
"Fenton Works. Danny speaking."
"Hey Danny, I was just wondering if maybe me and Aly could come over tomorrow and we could do something together. You know since all three of us are suspended and all..."
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Yay. I know it was short but it was needed for the next chapter. I also know you're wondering about the Amber McLain part. Hm... I can't tell yet. That will be explained in a later chapter. Here's your sneak peek:
"Go to Ricco Harbor now Sam. You don't want to fool around with this episode yet," Aly stated and then tilted her head. "Have you seen your boyfriend around lately?"
Sam blushed. "Which one?" she asked knowing Aly referred to two people as that
"Phantom," Aly replied
Sam sighed knowing what was coming next. "No, I haven't seen him since our little joy ride."
Aly frowned and Sam opened her mouth to explain forgetting that she hadn't told Aly about it to avoid being teased about her blurting out that she like him.
"You mean the one that's been all over the news for the past couple of days?" Aly asked
Sam dropped the controller in her hand. "What did you say?"
"Your little joy ride with Phantom is all over the news. From when you got on the interstate, to when you almost cussed him out for destroying your bike, to when he flew off with you. Had you stayed any longer you and him would have been captured. According to Tucker it's been the talk of the school. He also said something about Paulina being furious about Goth Girl stealing her future husband from her."
"Hopefully she never finds out about that kiss..." Sam muttered to herself picking the controller back up and continuing the game.
I hope the references to the Nintendo GameCube game Mario Sunshine doesn't confuse you. I just wanted to put that they were doing something and not just sitting in the Phoenix nest again.