Great just what we needed, an independent Goth girl with dreams to change the world into Veggie Ville with a time belt wrapped around her waist that no one can get off. I walked behind her and started tugging on the metal. It almost felt like part of her skin.

I tried intangibility next and instead of the belt turning intangible and sliding off Sam, all of Sam turned intangible. Then I tried ectobeams on just the belt, but that didn't even make a dent. Since I was running out of ghost powers that would be useful, Tucker tried deprogramming it with his PDA. His little organizer fell apart in his hands.

Now, I was expecting Tucker to start crying or something. His PDA was his whole life. The reaction that came from him however, was far more terrifying then what I thought was possible. Tucker dropped his PDA and stomped on it. He then looked at the time belt like it was his new PDA and seemed to completely forget about everything else.

Sam was looking at the belt with the kind of look my mom has in her eyes when Jazz brings home her A+ report card. She really did seem proud of her belt that could withstand attacks from ghosts and hackers. I shivered and tried pulling at the belt again.

To my surprise Sam slapped my hand away. "Danny I don't care that the belt is stuck. I'm sure it will come off eventually but until then let me keep it." I couldn't exactly say no because there was the whole 'stuck to Sam' issue. Sam smiled but not at me. She was smiling at the belt. She left the room and Tucker followed with a sort of dreamy look in his eyes.

Since they couldn't time travel without me I was pretty sure that they couldn't cause too much trouble. I was still concerned and planned on talking to Clockwork about it as soon as possible. In fact I was going to leave right away when my ghost sense went off.

Skulker was outside my window looking bored. He watched me go ghost with no particular interest and didn't move when I had joined him outside my window. I glared at him as he floated there and said, "What do you want Skulker. I already beat you in the future and I can do it again now."

He looked at me confusedly and started speaking in his deep voice. "I have a message for you from the all famous handsome rich blah blah blah Lord Plasmius. He says that if you don't hand over the time belt to me then he will reveal your secret identity."

Why would Vlad want the time belt? Two reasons popped into my head. One, he wanted to stop me from getting ghost powers, and two of course was that he wanted to marry my mom. "What keeps me from telling everyone that Vlad is a ghost too?"

Skulker looked like he expected me to ask that question. "I expected you to ask that question ghost boy." He said. "Plasmius said that after he tells the world who you are he will frame you and no one will trust a word you say." I sighed. Walker had made it bad enough for me when he made it look like I threatened the mayor and now Vlad was going to ruin me.

The only thing left to do was try my plan to stop Vlad from having the ghost accident in college. Sam would probably disagree but I would have to go through with it no matter what.

Skulker was sneaking around me so that he could get the first attack in. I whipped out the Fenton Thermos and sucked him inside. I didn't have time to deal with him. Becoming human as I entered my room, I shoved a chair in front of the door again, went ghost, and flew off to Sam's house.

The party seemed over and I landed on Sam's roof. I phased in and after several minutes of flying through rooms I found Sam's. Tucker was there too and I wished that I was blindfolded. Since I was invisible they didn't know I was there, and the scene that played out before me was disgusting.

Sam was on her bed staring at the time belt. Every few seconds she would brush some invisible speck of dust off it. Tucker was staring at it longingly and was polishing it with his red beret. I made a gagging noise and turned visible again.

"Guys I think that you are both way to hooked on that belt." They looked at me with disgust as if to say, 'What makes you think that?' and continued fawning over the golden piece of metal. I walked up and pulled Tucker out of Sam's room. He was struggling and complaining but I was still a ghost and could lift him easily.

When we got out of the room he stopped fighting and I put him down. He reached towards his pocket as if to pull out his PDA as if he didn't remember what had happened to it. Looking at his empty pocket Tucker shook his head and said, "It feels like I was taking drugs or something. I have a killer headache." He looked at me in my ghost form and continued talking. "Was I attacked by a ghost or something? My PDA is missing and I don't remember what happened."

Alarms were going off in my head. Something was very wrong about the belt. "Um, Tucker you smashed your PDA remember?" Tucker seemed shocked at first and then started laughing.

"You almost got me there Danny. You know that I would never do anything as stupid as that." I shook my white head. "You mean, that I killed my one and only… I mean, third best friend in the world and I did it on purpose?" I nodded. "NOOOOOOOO! Technology why have I betrayed you?"

I tried to comfort him the best I could. It was hard considering that I was more concerned about what the belt was doing to Sam. If it had this strong of an effect on Tucker, who was only near the belt, what was going to happen to the wearer? Another thing was confusing me also. Why wasn't I attracted to the ghost metal? Wait, duh, I'm a ghost.

Asking Tucker to wait out in the hall, I walked back into Sam's room. Sam was still on the bed caressing the time belt. The more she seemed to love it the more I seemed to hate it. "Sam? Would you like to come back to my house with me? There's someone I want you to meet."

She looked up at me and I was shocked to see that her face was twisted into a mask of hatred. "Is it another dirty ghost like you Phantom?" she spat out the last word as if it burned her tongue. "Because if it is then Belty and I are staying here."

I was so angry at Sam that I almost blasted her where she sat. Then I remembered that she was my best friend and carefully became human so that I could resist the temptation better. "What is wrong with ghosts Manson? After all it was your fault I went into the ghost portal both times."

Sam looked up as if seeing me for the first time. "Danny! I was wondering where you were. Have you come to help me take care of Belty or do you want to time travel again?" I blinked with surprise. Sam now saw me as two separate people, Danny Phantom and Danny Fenton, and she hated one and liked the other.

As an experiment I switched back to my ghost form. Sam glared at me and screamed, "I already told you I'm not going anywhere with a ghost!" I changed back to normal and she said, "Danny there is a horrible ghost who keeps haunting my room. Could you please get rid of it?"

I left her room and joined Tucker in the hallway. "Whoa she's got issues." He said. I didn't respond. We had to find Clockwork before anything else happened. I grabbed Tucker's arm and flew him out of Sam's house.

When we got to Fenton Works the first thing I noticed was that there was a large crowd gathered in front of my house. Tucker and I landed and I changed back to human form. My ghost sense went off and several people gasped as a ghost came flying out of the house carrying my mom. Mom wasn't moving but it was probably because the ghost was holding her too tightly.

The ghost was none other than a rather green skinned version of me in my ghost form. I felt my eyes flare green and stick that way. This was how Vlad planned on framing me. The crowd was gasping in surprise.

"The ghost boy is a traitor!"

"I knew he was no good ever since the mayor incident!"

"He must have saved the town to trick us into thinking he was a hero!"

I am a hero, and I planned on convincing these people that they had been tricked. Tucker stood in front of me and I silently became the real Danny Phantom. I flew after the fake me but the crowd seemed not to notice. They were all watching something else.

On the roof of a building I noticed something bright blue. I flew down and saw that it was my mom lying startlingly still. I felt two rings go around me as I became human out of grief. I walked up to her and felt for a pulse. Her arm was very stiff, like wood, and I noticed that her hood wasn't fitting well. Out of curiosity I walked up and pulled the hood back to reveal a pouting wooden face that was definitely not my mom's. It looked like a mannequin from the Victoria's Secret in the mall.

Attached to the inside of the hood was a note posted in Vlad's curly hand writing that said "You didn't think I would actually let someone hurt Maddie did you?" I crushed the note in my hand and watched it burn up in a green flame.

It just wasn't my day.

All of you who reviewed my last chapter were expecting something different in the plot weren't you? Don't worry, it will happen but I just added some twists in between. I'm not always as predictable as you think. Please review. Thanks