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A/N: Yo, what's up and in general, hello! I'm sorry this took so long—I was out of town all weekend. But now I'm back and armed with another chapter! Yay! This chapter is a good deal shorter, but it's from Danny's POV, so it's all better! Hopefully the next chap will be longer, but it's only just started, if you've got any input, I'd love to hear it. Please R&R!

Chapter Nine

When Danny came to, he was lying on the floor of what looked like a prison cell, with black metal walls and a tiny barred window in the door, feeling very disoriented. After a moment, everything came rushing back and he sighed.

The moment Vlad had opened the door, back in his lab, Danny had gone ghost and shot out in a frantic bid for freedom. Unfortunately, he was no match for Plasmius, especially in his weakened state. Danny vaguely recalled a fairly one sided battle that wreaked havoc in Vlad's lab before the fifteen year-old had blacked out.

He remembered nothing after that, not what had happened or where he had been taken. The latter was the most pressing question in his mind at the moment. He was positive that it wasn't Vlad's house; most likely the ghost zone, he figured. There was a simple test for that. Danny pressed his hands hard against the cold walls, but he didn't phase through. If this was the ghost zone, Vlad had figured out how to trap humans here too.

But maybe, if it wasn't the ghost zone, he could turn ghost and escape. Not likely, but worth a shot.

"Going ghost!" he murmured, out of sheer habit, his voice hoarse from disuse. Nothing happened, now he couldn't even go ghost!

Danny slid down the length of the wall to the floor, feeling utterly defeated. If he hadn't been so gullible, so stupid, none of this would have ever happened in the first place.

A few months ago, when he was still at home, with his family and friends, Danny had started feeling horribly guilty about everything that had ensued in the week before the C.A.T. It bothered him immensely that he could have become the most evil ghost in existence and he had felt some sort of weird guilt for actions that he had never committed or would commit. He had spent weeks feeling this way, wallowing in the future-slash-present things that had gone on.

So when Plasmius claimed to have obtained the thermos containing Dark Danny, the younger Danny had fallen right into a trap. He had decided without really thinking about it to go and get the thermos from Plasmius. Sam had begged him not to go, but he had remained adamant. Now he realized she had been one-hundred percent right.

Danny wasn't sure what Vlad was planning, but he would bet his life it wasn't anything good. He hoped it wouldn't involve hurting his family or Tucker and Sam.

Sam. He wondered where she was right then. Hopefully somewhere safe, with the rest of his friends and family. How was he to know she was somewhere in the ghost zone climbing a weak rope ladder to escape murderous shadow creatures and save his family? His musings were interrupted by voices and he got up and silently crept to the small window and peered out.

The first thing he saw was Plasmius, standing in front of a tall glass cylinder-thing, wearing a smirk so cocky it should be illegal. He noticed the Fright Knight hovering close by and stained his ears to hear what they were saying.

"…Arrested all the Fentons and a friend and put them in a high-security cell." Relayed the Knight. Danny bit his lip; so they were in the ghost zone. And by the sounds of it, Walker had somehow managed to capture his family who had followed them.

"Perfect!" Plasmius exclaimed, clearly unaware that Danny was listening, or even conscious.

"How do you plan to kill them if they're locked up in that prison?" asked the Knight sensibly. Plasmius scowled at him and he quieted.

"I'll simplify their escape and then kill them—except Maddie, of course." He turned to look at the door to Danny's cell, and Danny ducked out of sight for a moment; he didn't want Vlad knowing he was hearing everything. Unlike the other ghosts Danny had battled, Vlad was the only one who didn't always shout his motives to the sky; this might be the only chance Danny had to figure out what he was up to.

"I won't kill Daniel, either." Plasmius told the Fright Knight. "He will end up joining me."

Danny took a chance and peered out the window again. Plasmius wasn't looking in his direction anymore, but he had moved away from the glass cylinder and Danny felt all the color drain out of his face at what he was seeing. It wasn't the cylinder that Danny was staring at in horror, but what it contained.

Floating suspended in green ectoplasmic goo was Danny Phantom! He was missing half of himself! Plasmius looked over at the stunned boys face and laughed. He vanished into thin air, along with the Fright Knight, leaving Danny alone in the dark with himself.

A/N: Done! Hopefully the next chapter will be longer. Please keep reviewing!