Chapter Eight: Double Trouble
March 18, 2008, Monday
We once again find ourselves at the castle of Vlad Masters. He was in the middle of his favorite activity, trying to find was of defeating Danny and his friends. He was particularly mad at them since they had turned him into a half human/ half cat. It had taken the Fright Knight hours to find Abra Calamity to cure it. This humiliation had been just one of several Danny and his friends had visited on him. These included making his tooth paste turn his teeth bright neon green, super gluing a rainbow wig to his head, and the "marmoset" incident.
"I must find a way to defeat him and his friends and make them serve me, once that is done conquering the world will be easy…well mostly easy." said Vlad, remembering all the ghost weapons the governments of the world had bought after Dan's invasion.
It was then that the Fright Knight came back from the weekly hunt in the Ghost Zone for important objects.
"Fright Knight, did you bring anything that will help me conquer the world?" said Vlad.
"All I could find today was this strange jewel." said the Fright Knight.
He held up a glowing, cube shaped, purple jewel. Vlad flew over and took it from his hand.
"Hmm, maybe this will be of use." said Vlad.
When Vlad went to use it nothing happened. He tried everything, including to shaking it and hitting it against a table, but it would not work.
"Gahhh! Another useless piece of junk. Just once I wish I could get something that would rip those brats apart!" said Vlad.
With that last word the jewels magic power was activated. A purple glow engulfed Vlad and then there was a flash of light. Out of the flash came not one, but two Vlad's. One looked like Plasmius, the other looked like human Vlad, but with glowing green eyes.
"Lord…Plasmiuses?" said The Fright Knight.
"What happened?" said the human looking Vlad.
"Isn't it obvious you fool, it has divided us into two." said Plasmius.
"You don't have to be so rude about it." said Vlad.
"I can do anything I want. Now that I am free of you I can destroy the world!" said Plasmius.
"Not if I have anything to say about it." said Vlad as he attacked his double.
They wrestled around trying to knock the other out, but since they had the same amount of power and skills they could not beat each other.
"Fright Knight, I could use a suggestion here!" said Vlad as he fought his double.
"You used a word that meant to separate, maybe if you use a word that means to join together you will be whole again." said the Fright Knight.
"It's worth a shot, how about the word join." said Vlad, but nothing happened.
"Try another." said the Fright Knight.
"Ok, how about, unite, connect, merge…" said Vlad.
As he said that last word the jewel began to glow brighter and it merged Vlad and Plasmius back together.
"Whoa, that was a weird experience." said Vlad.
"Are you ok master?" said the Fright Knight.
"I'm better then ok, I've just found the item that will help me get Daniel and his friends to join me." said Vlad.
"How?" said the Fright Knight.
"This gem obviously splits the good and evil halves of a person apart. So all I have to do is expose Daniel and his friends to it and it will make evil duplicates of them. Then I will bring them under my control. Nothing will be able to stop me! Mwhahaha!" said Vlad. (AN: Its that time again, time to ruin Vlad's day. Author pulls the hurt Vlad lever.)
Then suddenly an angry kangaroo with boxing gloves came and punched Vlad in the gut, and then it went away.
"Also maybe I can use it on Rob Phantom as well." said Vlad.
So Vlad took off for Amity Park, meanwhile Danny and his friends were sitting in history class.
"And that students is the battle of Gettysburg, next we will look at the bloody campaign to reach the Confederate capital of Richmond." said the history teacher.
It was then that the schools newly installed ghost alarm went off. The students immediately started to panic and the teacher had to calm them down.
"Calm down students! Please leave the room in a quick but orderly fashion." said the teacher.
The students quickly left the room and exited the school. Meanwhile our heroes found a place to transform and went searching for the ghost. It did not take them long to find him.
"I am the Box Ghost!" said the Box Ghost.
"Oh great, what are you doing here?" said Danny.
"I have come to your human world to obtain a gift for my beloved so that I may show her my love and ask for her hand in marriage." said the Box Ghost.
"Why?" said Sam.
"Because the Ghost Zone mall does not have what I require." said the Box Ghost.
"Ok, we'll let you get what you came for as long as you don't cause any trouble. Do you understand?" said Danny.
"Thank you ghost child, I will remember this kindness." said the Box Ghost as he left.
"Well that crisis is over." said Valerie.
"Yeah, it thought it would be someone more powerful, like Skulker, or Walker, or…" said Alicia
"…Or Plasmius?" said a voice.
"Yeah, or him. Wait? Who said that?" said Alicia.
They looked up to see that Vlad was floating right above them.
"Well speak of the devil." said Sam.
"Yeah, and with that hair he looks the part." said Alex.
"Well Daniel I can see you and your friend's wit is still as dull as ever." said Vlad.
"What do you want Plasmius?" said Danny.
"Oh the same things I always want, you to join me, Maddie to be my wife, Jack being crushed by an anvil, those sort of things." said Vlad.
"Well you'll have to go through us to get them creep." said Tucker.
"Oh I don't think you will be doing anything to stop me, in fact your going to help me!" said Vlad.
"And how do you plan on making us do that?" said Danny.
"With this!" said Vlad as he held out the jewel.
"Nice jewelry, actually planning on going on a date for once in your life." said Sam.
"We'll see how smug you are after this, apart!" said Vlad.
With that word the jewel began to glow, it shot out a beam of energy that hit our heroes. They screamed as the jewel did its evil magic. In a flash of light it was done, and instead of six teens there were now twelve. The good ones had fainted while the evil ones stood wondering what had happened.
"It worked, it actually worked, now with evil versions of Daniel and his friends I can rule the world!" said Vlad.
"Whoa old man, who said we were going to help you?" said Evil Danny.
"These collars say you will." said Vlad.
Vlad reached into his pocket for the control collars, but to his horror he realized he had left them back at the castle.
"Uh oh, this is not good." said Vlad as he came up empty handed.
"You got that right loser." said Evil Sam as they attacked.
Vlad tried to fight back but he was no match for the now completely evil teens. Since they did not fight fair it was only a matter of minutes before he was beaten and dropped on the ground.
"Well that takes care of creep boy, what should we do next?" said Evil Danny.
"Hey, lets destroy our goody-goody other halves before they wake up." said Evil Valerie.
"We can't do that, if we destroy them it will kill us too." said Evil Alicia.
"So what do we do then Mrs. Know it all?" said Evil Valerie.
"Lets terrorize those losers, Paullina, Dash, Star, and Kwan that should be good for some laughs." said Evil Sam.
"I like the way you think." said Evil Danny as he kissed her.
And so the evil halves of our heroes flew off into the town to reap revenge on Dash and the others. Meanwhile our actual heroes were just waking up from the blast.
"Hellish headaches, what hit us." said Danny in the Super Danny voice.
"It was some sort of ray, it came out of that crystal Vlad had." said Alicia.
"Then lets find out what Vlad knows about it." said Danny.
Danny flew over to Vlad and grabbed him by the collar. Vlad began to wake up and when he saw Danny he began to panic.
"Ok you felonious fiend, what did you do to us?" said Danny.
"I'm sorry for splitting you up into your good and evil halves! Please don't hurt me." said Vlad.
"Splitting into good and evil? Is that what happned?" said Danny.
"You mean you don't know, that means you're the good ones, so you won't hurt me." said Vlad.
"We will hurt you if you don't tell us how to fix this evil you have caused." said Sam.
"All right, since this plan has gone down the tubes I might as well tell you. Using this crystal I split your good and evil halves apart and now your evil sides are free to destroy the Earth and cause chaos." said Vlad.
"Appalling Apocalypses! We have to stop them." said Danny.
"Give use the crystal so we can stop the evil you unleashed." said Valerie.
"why should I give it to you?" said Vlad.
"Because if you don't we will give you the beating you deserve for your life of evil." said Alex.
"Fine, here you go." said Vlad as he handed the crystal to them.
"It looks like once again the world needs…Danny Phantom, Super Hero!" said Danny.
"And Sam Manson, Super Hero!" said Sam.
"And Alicia Szivos, Super Hero!" said Alicia.
"And Alex Gladstone, Super he…" said Alex before Vlad cut him off.
"Yes, Yes, your all heroes, now go stop them before they destroy the world." said Vlad.
So our heroes flew off to find their evil doppelgangers, meanwhile the evil Danny and friends had just found Dash and the others. They had gone to the football field to plan for the big game, and how to destroy the popularity Danny and his friends had.
"Ok, so we get some embarrassing pictures of Fenton and his loser friends and spread them around the school. Once everyone sees them Fenton and his friends will be a back at the bottom and our place as ruler of Casper High will be safe." said Dash.
"Well, Well, if it isn't the meeting of the losers club." said a voice from out of nowhere.
They looked up to see Evil Danny and his evil friends floating above them, and they looked mean.
"What are you doing here?" said Dash.
"We're here to teach you a lesson." said Evil Danny as he and the others attacked.
Our heroes were still searching the town looking for their evil counterparts. Suddenly they heard a bunch of screams come from the direction of the school.
"Well I would guess by those terrified screams that our rouge scoundrels are at the school." said Danny.
"Quickly, we must go and save those poor souls." said Alicia, they then flew to the school.
When they got there they saw who had done the screaming and why they were screaming. It seems that Evil Danny and his friends had decided to play target practice, with Dash and the others being the targets. They were currently running around the field followed by the laughing Teens of Terror, which they had named themselves only minutes ago.
"Halt you cackling creeps, we will not let you bring harm to these students." said Danny.
"What?" said Evil Danny.
He turned around to find our heroes, who all had gotten capes from somewhere.
"Where the heck did you get capes?" said Evil Tucker.
"We picked them up on the way." said Tucker.
"There are two sets of them, what kind of mad world have we fallen into!" said Dash.
"I don't know, but Phantom is even more hunky in stereo." said Paullina. (AN: Talk about persistent, one of them was just trying to kill her and she still thinks he's hot.)
After coming out of the shock of seeing our heroes in capes made of bed sheets, Evil Danny began to speak.
"Well it seems our worser halves decided to show their faces, well buzz off. We're busy trying to turn these losers into small piles of ash." said Evil Danny.
"You will do no such thing, as long as we are around your evil will not win." said Alicia.
"We'll see about that." said Evil Alicia.
And so our heroes and the Teens of Terror began to battle. But they ran into the same problem the Vlad's had, they were to evenly matched. They tried all manner of blasts, spells, and just plain hand to hand fighting, but nothing worked. It was at this time that the Evil Danny decided to retreat.
"Lets run for it guys!" said Evil Danny.
The other Teens of Terror followed and Evil Alicia and Evil Sam put up a smoke screen to hide their escape.
"They got away, what do we do now?" said Valerie.
"We have to think like an evil version of ourselves. If we were evil, what would we do next?" said Danny.
After several minutes of thinking, during which Paullina asked Danny out three times and was turned down every time, Sam suddenly had a idea.
"I have it!" said Sam.
"What is it?" everyone else said.
"If I were an evil version of my self I would eliminate my enemies because of all the times they hurt me and did bad things to me." said Sam.
"Brilliant, since most of our enemies are ghosts all we have to do is look for a large concentration of ghost energy." said Danny.
And so out heroes took off to locate the Teens of Terror. Dash and the others were still very confused by the whole thing.
"Hey, how about we go to nasty burger?" said Dash, and so they left.
Meanwhile Sam was correct in her guess, the evil Teens of Terror had indeed decided to round up all their enemies and destroy them. but not just their enemies, also anyone else that could stop them, such as Rob Phantom, Danny's Parents, and his sister. They had tied them all to a atomic bomb that could destroy the whole town.
"Danny, why are you doing this?" said Maddie.
"Because these ghosts ticked me off, and you can stop me from taking over the world." said Evil Danny.
"But how can you be so evil?" said Jazz.
"Well that is sort of my fault." said Vlad.
"Vlad! What have you done to my son!" said Jack.
"Well I sort of split their evil and good sides apart, and those are the evil ones." said Vlad.
"Oh great, once again Vlad has doomed us all." said Rob.
"Are you saying I'm incompetent?" said Vlad.
"Well let's see, you released Pariah Dark, Dan Phantom, and now this, yes I would say your incompetent." said Ember.
"When I get my hands free I will make you pay for what you said." said Vlad.
"Face it Vlad, you're an idiot." said Spectra.
"What!" yelled Vlad.
"Yes, I pretty much have to go with her on this, you're a dim bulb." said Walker.
"I am an evil genius! A genius I tell you!" said Vlad.
"Dude, your strapped to a bomb created by one of your failed plans, your not exactly the brightest spark plug in the box." said Johnny 13.
"I mean how hollow is that head of yours?" said Kitty.
"This coming from a high school drop out." said Vlad.
"How did you know!" said Kitty in shocked.
"You look like the kind of trashy tramp that wouldn't finish school." said Vlad.
After he said this Kitty began to cry.
"Oh that is it old man, I going to make you pay for making my girl cry." said Johnny.
"If you lower life forms are done arguing, you and this town have a date with annihilation." said Evil Danny.
"The timer is set Danny." said Evil Tucker.
"Good, any last words before you get blown up?" said Evil Danny.
"Uh, do you need an evil assistant?" said Bertrand.
"No! Tucker, start the countdown." said Evil Danny.
The count down began at 5 minutes. Everyone started to scream as the countdown began.
"Yes! Soon the world will be ours!" said Evil Danny.
"Halt you marauding madman!" said a voice from above.
"What! Who dares to interrupt my fun?" said Evil Danny.
The Teens of Terror looked up to see our heroes floating above them.
"How did you find us?" said Evil Alicia in shock.
"We figured out that you would try to destroy all our enemies, so all we had to do was look for a concentration of ghostly energy." said Sam.
"Well your too late, soon this town and these losers will go up in an atomic cloud of doom." said Evil Danny.
"That is what you think vile villain, but we will stop you." said Danny.
"We'll see about that." said Evil Danny as they attacked.
But it was the same old story, since they were to evenly matched, neither side could win. Finally Danny decided to use the crystal to end this once and for all.
"Enough! Now I will use this crystal to force us back together." said Danny.
The Teens of Terror backed up as Danny lifted the jewel high into the air. He pointed it at them and…nothing happened.
"Malfunctioning medallions, why isn't this working?" said Danny.
"Oh, did I forget to mention that you need a special word to make it work?" said Vlad.
"Why would you do that?" said Valerie.
"Because I thought I could get away and leave you to destroy yourselves." said Vlad.
"Quick! Get the jewel!" said Evil Danny.
Soon it was a free for all between our heroes and their evil counterparts to get the jewel.
"Vlad! You have to tell Danny what the word to fix this is." said Maddie.
"Why should I?" said Vlad.
"Because if you don't we all blow up." said Rob.
"Good point. Daniel listen very carefully, the word to put you back together is merge!" said Vlad.
"Got it, now to stop this." said Danny.
But just as he was about to say the word Evil Danny grabbed the jewel from him.
"Ha! Now I will destroy this jewel and nothing will stop me Mwhahaha!" said Evil Danny.
But what he did not know that a figure was creeping up on him. It then made its move.
"I am the Box Ghost!" said the Box Ghost.
"What the hell are you doing here, why isn't he attached to the bomb?" said Evil Danny.
"We didn't think he was that important." said Evil Alex.
"Well it is that oversight that will now seal your cardboard and cubical shaped doom! For I have returned to repay the kindness the ghost child showed me earlier." said the Box Ghost.
"Yeah, and what are you going to do?" said Evil Danny.
"I will show you what I am going to do." said the Box Ghost.
Then the Box Ghost used his amazing powers over all things cube shaped to take the jewel from Evil Danny's hand. Before he knew it the Box Ghost now had the jewel.
"What! How did you do that?" said Evil Danny.
"I am the Box Ghost, therefore this cubical item is mine to control!" said the Box Ghost.
"No matter we will get it back, Attack!" said Evil Danny.
"I do not think so evil version of the ghost child, merge!" said the Box Ghost.
With that one word the jewels special powers were activated. Beams of energy shot out and hit the good and evil Danny and friends and began to put them back together.
"No! I was so close! So close!" said Evil Danny.
They disappeared in a flash of light and out of that flash came our heroes, back in one piece.
"Whoa, that was a head rush." said Alicia
"Yeah, I never want to go through that again." said Alex.
"Uh guys, I hate to interrupt but we're still tied to a bomb here." said Rob.
"The bomb!" said everyone in shock.
Tucker quickly rushed over and in a matter of seconds had deactivated the bomb, with only one second to go. After they stopped the bomb they got everyone loose.
"Sorry our evil halves tried to kill you all." said Danny.
"Its not your fault sweetie, its Vlad's for trying this stupid plan in the first place." said Maddie.
"Speaking of Vlad, were the heck did he go?" said Sam.
"Darn it! He got away." said Danny.
"Well we can still get him for this." said Alicia.
"How?" said everyone else
"By doing a little 'creative remodeling' on his castle." Said Alicia as she made a sledge hammer appear.
"I like that plan, it hurts him in a place that really hurts, his wallet." said Danny.
"Are we sure we got the good ones back?" said Jack, as they left to wreak Vlad's castle.
A little while later Vlad was back at his castle and was shocked to see what had happened. The whole place was destroyed and rubble was littered everywhere. He found the Fright Knight knocked out and stuffed into a garbage bin.
"Fright Knight, what happened here?" said Vlad as he woke up the Fright Knight.
"All the ghosts and that ghost child came to the castle, they knocked me out and destroyed the castle." said the Fright Knight.
"Damn it! You think you have won Daniel, but I will be back with an even more brilliant plan!" said Vlad. (AN: Time to make Vlad suffer. Author pulls the hurt Vlad lever.)
Then suddenly out of nowhere the Army of Fluffy Doom appears, and they are holding piñata sticks.
"Oh why!" says Vlad, then the cute warriors attack him.
Meanwhile back in Amity Park our heroes were just sending off the last of the Ghosts.
"Sorry, about what happened." said Alicia.
"Don't worry, we'll just punch you extra hard next time we fight." said Skulker.
"Uh, thanks, I think?" said Valerie.
"Oh, I almost forgot! Lunch Lady, there is something very important I must tell you." said the Box Ghost.
"What is it?" said the Lunch Lady.
"Will you marry me?" said the Box Ghost as he presented a beautiful ring.
"Yes! Of course I will marry you." said the Lunch Lady.
"Aw!" said everyone in the room.
"Well it is time for us to go back home, it's been one heck of a day." said Desiree.
The ghosts left with the Box Ghost and the Lunch Lady inviting Danny and friends to the wedding.
"Well that's over with." Said Danny.
"Yeah, but you kids still have homework to do, and me and Jack have to get Jazz back to college." said Maddie.
"Yes, mom." said Danny as they left to do the daily torture that is homework.
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Rob: Well, it looks like our heroes got out of another bad situation.
Ember: Yeah, and the Box Ghost and Lunch Lady are going to get married.
Rob: Yeah, it's a happy ending all around. Now here is the chapter summery.
Well once again our heroes managed to get out of another mess. Also Vlad got what he deserved. But what will happen tomorrow? Read the next chapter to find out.
Rob: Until next time Danny Phantom fans, Read and Review!