You know," Danny quipped, uppercutting a Mooger one of its fish-faced buddies slashed at him with a sword. Danny morphed his body around the downward slash before firing a blast that sent the Mooger flying back, crashing into a dozen of his buddies.
"If I had a dollar for every one of you sushi samurai whose butts I've kicked, I'd have more money in the bank than Sam's family."
Nearby, Penny punched a Mooger sending it back, then leaping up and kicking another Mooger in the side.
"Why are you doing witty banter with these things," she asked "they can't do anything but right back.
Danny shrugged, leaping back and dodging a strike he landed beside his girlfriend "force of habit, I guess," he said, throwing a blast at more and more Moogers
The good news was they were easy to beat, ridiculously easy to beat. The Box Ghost could beat a Mooger blindfolded with both hands tied behind his back.
The bad news was that like all minions, the villains who fought the various power rangers that populated California used they were like the hydra in Greek Mythology. You took one down, and two more took its place,
Danny fired blast after blast taking out more and more Moogers around them. He could hear Humonasaur roaring as he plowed through attacks.
He heard Buzz and Sam's fireballs fists crashing against Moogers and the sound of blasters ringing through the air over and over.
But with every Mooger the good guys beat, there were much more ready and waiting to take their place.
The Moogers around Danny and Penny all at once impaled their swords into the ground. It began to glow, and something began to soak into Danny's boots,
Danny hissed in pain. It felt like he got hit by one of Ember's fireballs. He grabbed Penny bridal style floating up into the air, landing on a building. "The heck is that stuff," Danny asked.
"That would be the Senzu River," Danny heard Professor Paradox explain as the time walker flashed onto the roof "well, to be completely accurate, it's one of seven Senzu rivers."
Oh, that explained why it hurt so much.
Wait, did he say SEVEN
Danny looked around La Soledad. There were six other spots where Senzu river water was starting to flow, and wherever one water current met another, they glowed with even more power making the buildings glow with red power.
"Hold up, did you say seven" Penny asked "and who are you anyway"
"Ah, forgive me, we've never met in your world, Professor Paradox at your service," Professor paradox said politely, "and I did indeed say seven, one from the native worlds of these dark clones unwilling genetic donors and the other from your native Earth 20."
Terrific, Danny thought, realizing the layers of Vlad's plan distract him by kidnapping Penny while using Nighlocks to keep the local heroes busy while somehow making portals to other worlds to bring the Senzu River here "he's gotta be using some kind of machine to do it" Danny figured.
"Luke, Tucker, someone else with incredible skills with technology that I haven't seen yet, anyone finds a weird machine, smash it, and the bad guys will get weaker," Danny shouted as loud as possible.
"Not that we'll allow you to do that, Phantom," a Nighlock that looked like a mix between a wolf and a chameleon said, leaping onto the roof, his body glowing bright red from the seven times power boost. "I wouldn't advise shouting your plans where everyone can hear him."
He held his hands out, his fingers turning into sword-like claws "not that there will be the next time," he snarled, running at Danny, "now DIE."
Snarling, the Nighlock leaped at Danny and Penny, its sword-like claws ready to rip and tear flesh. Danny grabbed Penny leaping away from the spot on the roof where they had been standing was torn apart by the Nighlock's claws like tissue paper. The Nighlock looked up at Danny and snarled.
"The power of the Senzu River multiplied sevenfold," he said, his claws rattling together, his fanged teeth spread into a monstrous smile "with it, I could defeat Plasmius and take his throne," he said aloud, grinning, "but first I'm going to turn you and your girlfriend to dust."
The Nighlock opened his mouth a ball of red energy began to gather in between his jaws, getting bigger and bigger before he could fire it. Etrigan pounced down, snapping the Nighlock's jaws shut before throwing the fear dream face-first into the roof. Danny then watched as Etrigan picked the Nighlock up by the jaw, looking him in the eye.
Danny could see that the Nighlocks eyes were wide-eyed with fear "in your final hour, see who truly has the power," Etrigan rhymed, throwing the Nighlock high into the air before unleashing a massive torrent of fire from his hands, incinerating the Nighlok.
Before Danny could open his mouth to thank Etrigan, he snarled and leaped off in search of other opponents "man, I'm glad he's on our side," Danny said
Danny saw explosions in another part of the base and heard blaster fire grabbing Penny. So they flew off in that direction.
Throughout the base, Moogers ankle-deep marched through senzu river water which had now flooded all of la Soledad, all of them heading towards one part of the base.
A group of Moogers looked up at them. Pulling out bows, they fired red bolt after red bolt. Danny swerved and dodged, making sure to protect Penny as best as he could
More and more Moogers kept firing at them, and their shots were getting closer and closer. Danny gritted his teeth as a shot hit him in the back. Danny began to fall. Danny managed to straighten out just enough to turn his back, crashing on a roof, sliding against the roof, hurting his back more than it already was
"Danny," Penny said, worried. Getting out of his arms, she tried to help him up. Moogers were climbing the roof heading straight towards them. Danny had to keep her safe. He had to pull out the cosmic compass he cycled through the coordinates until he got to the first place it was used in earth 20
Danny and Penny's home universe "I love you, Penny," Danny told her, hopefully not for the last time. Activating the compass, he pushed her through the portal, closing it behind him. Just as the Moogers got onto the roof, Danny pushed himself onto his feet, rushing at the Moogers. He punched and kicked at the fish-faced freaks firing a massive wave of energy from every -ire of his body, sending them flying off the roof. Danny panted
That had taken a lot out of him, and after every fight, he's been in, there wasn't much left in the tank, to begin with
But he'd have to make due.
If Vlad kept combining the Senzu rivers, his army would be unstoppable.
Danny took off flying around what had been the mess hall. At one point, there was a defensive line on the roof, mostly of that brown-haired girl holding back the Moogers, but for every Mooger they beat, a dozen more took their place.
Danny landed between Sam and Buzz, who were shooting fireballs into the crowd "nice of you to drop by," Buzz said, flinging fireballs down at the Mooger lines.
"Sorry had to drop my girlfriend off," Danny quipped "her parents are going to kill me for keeping her out this late"
"Now's not the time for jokes," one clone of the brown-haired girl said before turning back to shoot at a Mooger that got too close.
"Sorry, I do witty banter when I'm nervous and because it's fun," Danny explained, looking at Sam "please tell me we have a plan."
"We've got one Flash. You ran around the entire base. They pinpointed where the machine is," Sam answered before shooting a streak of fire, hitting a line of Mooger archers, frying them like burgers on the grill.
Wait, there was a him. Who was the Flash?
"That's good," Danny said, "where is it? I'll smash it."
"No offense, cuz, but you stick out like a sore thumb. So we've got the stealthier versions of you heading towards the machine," Buzz said, "with the tech-savvy guys."
Danny nodded. He supposed it made sense to stay here to be the bait while the stealth team destroyed the doomsday machine. It sounded like something out of a spy movie.
And it seemed like the easier part of the plan right now. All they had to do was not touch the Senzu river and shoot at Nighlocks like they were fish in a barrel.
Wait, what were they doing.
Down below, all of the Moogers were beginning to glow, morphing into red good that collected and merged before they reformed into giant Moogers
"You know I'm glad tyronodrones can't do that," the green Ranger said
"This night just keeps getting weirder and weirder," Danny, dressed as the Flash, said, "and it was pretty weird, to begin with."
"This could be a problem," Ben said
All at once, the Moogers drew their sword and swung down.
"GET CLEAR" Gwen shouted.
Danny and everyone on the roof with ghost powers worked together to make a shield while Gwen used her powers to make a platform underneath their feet, the building collapsing beneath their feet.
Seeing that their targets hadn't taken a dip into the Senzu River, they brought their swords up and swung down again against Danny's shield.
"Man, I'm really glad Tyranodrones can't do that," Ranger said around them. The shield shook
"You said that already Dude," Luna said. The shield around them shook.
"It's worth repeating."
The Moogers brought their swords up to swing down again.
"Yeah, I'm not waiting for them to do that again," Ben said, tapping his Omnitrix and transforming into Big Chill. Then, turning intangible, he flew out of the shield towards one of the giant Moogers faces. Taking a deep breath, he breathed out a massive cloud of ice that froze the Moogers face. The fish face stumbled back, crashing back first into a building.
"Time to run," Flash Danny said, his eyes glowing with green electricity. He ran through the shield, a green blur that ran up a Moogers arm. In a blink of an eye, another Mooger was beaten, its sword knocked away, and it was sent toppling back. Danny saw Flash him leaping through the air towards the last one, fists sparking with green lightning.
'I'd say that were cool if I had any idea how he did that,' Danny thought, watching the speedster version of him throw a punch. There was a massive thunderclap, and the last giant Mooger was sent stumbling back before he exploded.
It would have been a pretty epic moment if Flash Danny didn't begin plummeting towards the ground.
"Wait, can he not fly," Buzz asked with wide eyes
"Probably not," Sam answered
Oh crud, that wasn't good.
Danny was about to drop the shield and rescue him when Ben beat him to it catching him by the armpits "thanks for the save," Flash Danny said
"No prob," Ben said before they landed on the roof.
The good news is the giant Moogers we're gone, and no one noticed the stealth team was going for wherever Vlad's machine was. The bad news was there was a high breed plummeting towards them, Danny thought.
Wait what
Danny didn't even have time to react before the High breed crashed through the shield and knocked aside Ranger Danny and Kevin. The alien looked at Danny with a stern look in his eyes. "I should have destroyed you back on earth, 20 Fenton," the High Breed said with a voice that sounded like his being said through a voice filter.
Danny growled, "Rook."
Danny and the others surrounded the possessed alien warlord "congratulations; you're not as moronic as I had initially assumed," Rook said. "Still, you're a fool to think you can beat me."
"You know ordinarily I feel bad hitting someone whose being overshadowed," Danny quipped, throwing a punch at Rook, hitting the overshadowed warlord in the face, "but you're the exception."
Rook laughed darkly, swatting Danny away like he was a fly sending him flying back "was that supposed to hurt" he laughed, his body glowing red he sent a wave of energy flying forward that crashed into Ranger Danny, Sam, Henry Dani, and Ben.
Ron rushed at Rook, tackling him around the waist and picking him up; he threw him, Kim, then leaped off of Ron's shoulder, aiming a kick at the alien's head.
A forcefield pushed out of Rook's body, stopping Kim's kick. He then grabbed Kim throwing her into Ron.
Kitty Fenton flew up, firing alternating blasts of green and blue from finger guns at Rook. He brought his arm up to block while Kevin, with his body covered in steel, rushed at Rook with clones of Luna acting as backup.
Kevin swung his arms out of Rooks's attack throwing him off balance. Then Luna's clones leaped on his chest, knocking him to the ground "wait a minute, didn't I kill you already" Rook asked, "or was the one I dropped out of a window an identical triplet."
"Not even close," the two Lunas said before unleashing a sonic scream from their mouths. Rook hissed in pain, throwing off the two clones
Danny looked to Kitty Fenton "you ever go through evil puberty" he asked, referencing the time Danny went to the future and met HIM
"Unfortunately," Kitty answered, "why do you want to know-" Kitty's eyebrows widened in realization, catching on to what he meant "oh, I get it.
Dani groaned, getting up. "I'll help too."
The three of them together unleashed their ghostly wails in tandem on Rook Ben transformed into Echo Echo, and the original Luna joined in combining their sonic waves with the half ghosts. Rook was pushed down onto all fours, his claws digging into the floor; Rook's actual body began to be forced out of the High Breed.
Ranger Danny looked toward Henry and Buzz "can you guys do that" he asked.
"It would have come in handy against Vilgax if I could," Buzz answered while Henry simply shook his head.
Rook growled, pushing, forcing himself back into his host body and then slamming his hands against the ground creating another energy wave. It hit the combined ghostly sonic wave creating an explosion that drove everyone back.
Rook was breathing heavily "you've only delayed the inevitable soon; our endgame will be at hand," Rook said, disappearing.
While Danny and the others were fighting with Rook
Tucker Luke Black Cat Possible Danny and Archer Danny were sneaking through the command center in the middle of La Soledad. Outside red lightning flashed across the sky, and puddles of Senzu river water leaked through the floor.
The team of five had to be careful not to step in one of the puddles as they moved through the base to not step in the demonic water
"Are you sure it's here?" Black Cat asked
Luke nodded "according to my calculations, given the points of origin for the Senzu rivers forming a circle, this building in the epicenter of said circle, along with Vlad's traits of narcissistic personality disorder, the bases command center would be the ideal place to set up the machine" he telepathically explained while drawing a circle in the dust on the floor."
"And no one from this earth noticed," ninja Danny asked.
"Vlad has a speedster on his payroll," Tucker pointed out "he could have put the machine together before you could blink."
Ninja Danny seemed understandably uncomfortable at fighting someone that fast "is it wrong that I'm hoping speedsters don't exist back on my earth."
Team Possible Danny and Black cat shook their heads "they're not all bad," he said, "but no, can't blame you for not wanting to fight one dude, "Team Possible Danny said
The five continued to move, with Tucker at the back moving slowly, holding onto his side, something the others noticed. Still, they weren't bringing up "are you sure you're alright, Tucker," Luke asked telepathically, directing the question solely to Tucker "no one would think less of you if you had stayed back."
'I would,' Tucker signed back.
Luke sighed, not bringing up his concerns again though they were still there. Reaching the general's office, they saw two Moogers flanking the door.
Ninja Danny reached into his pocket, pulling out a handful of black marbles and throwing them at the Mooger's feet; they exploded, filling the hallway with pitch-black smoke. The Moogers drew their swords, looking around the smoke for any sign of an attacking enemy.
From the darkness, a pair of glowing green eyes appeared before leaping out of the smoke was Black Cat raking his claws across the Mooger's throats, the feared demons disappearing in red smoke as the smoke cleared with Black Cat standing in front of the door.
Team Possible Danny stepped towards the door, putting his finger against the lock. His body glowed purple he shrank down, landing in the lock running through to the other side, leaping down, growing, landing quietly, turning around, he unlocked the door letting everyone else in
There, in the middle of the room, was a machine that looked like a large centrifuge holding vials of Senzu river water spinning in a circle in the machine. An aura of yellow energy surrounded the machine.
"Okay, we found the machine," Ninja Danny said, pulling out an arrow with a firecracker wrapped around the shaft below the arrowhead "let's blow it up."
"I got this," Black Cat said, holding a hand. Black energy filled his palm "just watch the door and make sure no one else comes."
Before Black Cat could move towards the machine, there was a flash of red light before he was thrown towards a wall. The others turned to see Tiger grinning with a handout, traces of red light lingering on his hand "sorry, but we can't let you do that."
Black Cat pushed himself up, pulling out his Bo staff "so you're my clone," he said, "clearly, my sense of style isn't genetic cause you do not look good in tiger stripes."
Tiger smirked with a flick of his wrist; red energy appeared around Black Cat's neck, tightening like a noose. Black Cat gasped and choked, dropping his staff and falling to his knees while Tiger smirked, tightening his hold on Black cats throat. "Let's agree to disagree, but the dead don't get an opinion."
Luke transformed quickly, rushing at high speeds and throwing a punch at Tiger's chest. A shockwave flew from the impact destroying the wall behind Tiger fragments of tile rained down, but Tiger didn't move. He didn't even flinch.
"How," Luke asked, shocked before Tiger hit him with a punch that sent him flying back.
Team Possible Danny leaped up, catching Luke while archer Danny drew an arrow, but before he could fire, an arrow flew through the air cutting his bowstring and hitting Archer Danny in the eye. Then, while he dropped his bow and his hand reached up for his eye, another arrow fired, this one turning into two nets of red energy catching him along with Luke and Team Possible Danny, binding the three together.
Archer stepped out of the shadows, and with a snap of his fingers, red electricity surged from the net, electrocuting the three into unconsciousness.
Tucker reached for a ghost blaster, but Archer zipped across the room with a grin on his face grabbing the blaster out of his hand and crushing it. "I'm glad my assassin failed," he said, grabbing Tucker by the neck and holding him in the air, "because now I can do this personally."
Archer hit Tucker with a palm strike to the chest, sending him flying into the wall with a sickening crack. He slumped over, barely conscious Archer frowned, seeing Tucker was still breathing.
Turning his hand into a pumas paw, the claws glowing with an aura of red energy, a murderous look on his face, "from hades heart I stab at thee for hate's sake I spit my last spit at thee, Tucker Foley."
Before Archer could bring his claws down and kill Tucker, he, along with Ninja Danny, Luke, Black Cat, and Team Possible Danny, disappeared in a flash of blue light.
"NOOOOO, I HAD HIM. I FINALLY HAD HIM," Archer shouted in rage, looking to Tiger "how did they rescue that weakling from my claws."
Tiger shrugged, indifferent to Archer's grudge against Tucker "it doesn't matter. The machine has finally begun charging," Tiger said, looking at the machine "the end is now"
Archer grinned to Tiger before they vanished in red light, a-earring in the pocket dimension that their father had been using to observe the final steps of his plan for ultimate power.
They appeared behind their father. Archer took notice of Vladimir, Ranger, and Rook, but he saw no sign of Goliath Archer paid it no mind, though, for now.
He and his brothers would work together to crush Fenton and the meager forces of Earth 74 before destroying each other.
Perhaps Goliath was waiting in the shadows for them to destroy each other, or perhaps he was already dead.
For now, it didn't matter. Archer notched one of the ectoranium arrowheads and aimed at his father's skull, an instant death with no chance of a counterattack. It was more than Vlad deserved
Before he could unhook his fingers from the bowstring, his body stiffened. He couldn't move. His muscles were like statues, and the breath froze in his lungs. All he could hear was his heart beating reassuringly in his chest from his peripheral vision. Archer could see his brothers were frozen in their strikes.
Ranger and Vladimir are holding blades made of some sort of red gem. Tiger had a cataclysm ready to use, and Rook was simply frozen stiff, all of them surrounding Vlad, their death blows frozen in place. Vlad tapped his gauntlet.
"I'm disappointed in you boys," Vlad said, looking at the "truly, I am. I expected you to make your assassination attempt almost an hour ago."
WHAT does he know? How could he possibly have known this was coming? Was it Goliath
Vlad tapped his gauntlet holographic screens appeared, showing some sort of footage. Archer didn't recognize most of it, but he did recognize one screen where he'd robbed that museum of ectoranium from HIS point of view.
"See, when I created you six, I implanted nanites into your bloodstreams specifically coded to your genetic signatures. So I saw your every move, and I heard your every conversation. I knew your every plan, your every scheme" Vlad looked to Vladimir. "I'm the most disappointed in you, Vladimir."
Archer could see the Speedster struggled in vain to move an inch "you impressed me the most, ensuring the death of Goliath without placing yourself in harm's way was well done" Vlad made a tsk sound as he turned away "you were my favorite son I even considering not using you for the plan."
Wait, what did that mean.
Pods rose around Archer and the others. Then, with a push of the button, Archer was forced to drop his weapons, his arms against his sides like he was wrapped in invisible ropes.
"You see, the Senzu rivers power increase was just one part of the plan with it, my powers are increased fifty-fold, but with your abilities integrated into my genetics, "Vlad explained as he stepped into a pod, the lid closing behind him.
"My powers will be a hundred times more powerful. With that power, I could crush Pariah Dark with a hand behind my back, force Thanatos and this Mr. Hyde to kneel before me, and conquer not just Earth 20, but the entire universe will be my empire," Vlad said with a joyous grin "it's just a shame none of you children will be around to see it," he said pushing a button as yellow lights lit up in the pod and a machine began to activate.
And then Archer knew nothing.
This was getting really repetitive. Danny thought about shooting another Mooger.
Danny wiped the sweat from his forehead, and tiring beside him, Sam shot out a stream of fire, sending a wave of Moogers flying back, but for every one they took down, two more took their place.
Honestly, the whole thing was off. Yeah, the Moogers were tough with the power boost, but still, they hadn't won yet against a bunch of teenagers.
Did Vlad and his clone kids really think they could conquer the world with this bunch of buff fish-faced creeps cause they were losing to a bunch of teenagers not even out of high school?
A team of adult superheroes like the Justice League or the Avengers would probably have won by now.
What the heck was Vlad's plan
"You okay, Danny" Flash Danny asked. Yeah, it was still weird that a version of Danny somehow became one of the Justice Leagues' heavy hitters. "Uh, I'm fine, Dan, um, Flash, sorry, this is a little weird."
Flash Danny shrugged "no offense taken; I've dealt with weird since I got struck by lightning and got these powers," he said, laughing, "especially when the Legends call for help."
Above their head, thunder rumbled, and the Moogers stopped marching. Instead, they dropped down onto one knee.
"I've got a bad feeling about this," Ben said while Gwen put a hand against her temple, gritting her teeth.
"You okay," Kevin asked.
Gwen shook her head. "Something is coming, something unnatural."
Lightning flashed across the clouds collecting into a single point before striking down on the rooftop behind them. The lightning took shape before their eyes. It looked like a power ranger wearing a white costume with black lightning bolts running up his arms and legs on his chest was 恐れ
Now Danny wasn't fluent in Japanese, but he picked up some things over the Months from Luke, so he knew that word meant fear.
Combined with the stupid cape on his shoulders, the red lens, and the arrogant posture, Danny didn't need to be a rocket scientist to know who was in the ranger costume.
"No offense Vlad but the power ranger doesn't look good on you," Danny quipped at Vlad, and the others surrounded him, all looking ready for a fight Vlad laughed, red lightning sparking across his body, and black energy surrounded his hands.
"On the contrary little badger, I pull off this look quite well," Vlad explained, zipping forward faster than Danny could see, hitting him with a punch that made Danny feel like his insides were on fire. It felt worse than the accident that gave him his ghost powers.
Danny was sent sliding back, holding onto his chest. Vlad looked at his fist-shaking his head disappointedly, "impressive little badger, you're still alive. It seems I haven't completely controlled these powers yet."
Sam growled, lighting her hands-on fire and sending a wave of fire at Vlad Flash did the same thing with lightning from the other side. Before Vlad could try to run away, Gwen tried to use her powers to hold onto his ankles.
But it turned to dust when Gwen's mana made contact with Vlad. Gwen recoiled in pain and disgust
Vlad held up his hands. The fire and lightning stopped before being redirected back at Sam and Flash, sending them flying back.
Kevin Ron Kitty Ben as Humongasaur and Kim charged at Vlad, who laughed "too easy," he said mockingly, his arm growing fur claws growing out of the paw where his hand used to be. He spun in a circle unleashing a wave of purple energy that sent everyone who charged at him flying back.
Clones of Luna caught them before they could end up falling over the edge into the Senzu river and the legions of Moogers.
Ranger Danny pulled a blaster off his belt and began to fire while the original Luna, backed up by dozens of her clones, let loose a sonic scream.
Vlad held up a hand, easily deflecting the blasts, batting them away like he was shooing away a fly. He then fired a beam of glowing red energy from his visor that vaporized the Luna clones. He then levitated the actual Luna by the neck, making her choke and gasp for air.
"Odd, I'm getting the strangest sense of deja vu," Vlad commented, "haven't I already killed you."
Luna said nothing while Vlad shrugged. "I'll just have to be more direct," Vlad said, drawing a sword, "fear blade."
With a sharp tug, Vlad pulled Luna towards Vlad and his waiting sword. Danny rushed forward, knocking Luna out of the way and throwing a punch.
Red lightning surrounded Vlad as he sped around Danny's punch, grabbing him by the face and pushing forward, sending Danny colliding back first with the ground.
Dani and Ranger Danny rushed to help. Dani threw a punch at the back of Vlad's head while ranger Danny swung with his punch
Vlad shrunk down their attacks passing through the air where he'd once been, and they hit each other
Vlad grew back to his normal size flying above them "come now, surely you all can do better than that," he mocked, watching as everyone got up back onto their feet.
Flash Danny got to his feet, green lightning surrounding his body "this doesn't make sense. How does he have so many different powers."
"It's because he's mixing magics," Gwen said "the speed force the morphing grid Nighlock magic ectonourite biology, and then there were the other powers."
Danny had a pretty good idea where he'd gotten those other powers. He must have done something to his last eat batch of evil clones and turned them into a power-up for himself.
That was bad. That was really bad. Vlad was already ridiculously overpowered, but now he was practically unstoppable, Danny thought before remembering what Katie had mentioned about mixing magic.
"No offense Danny but your fruitloop is crazier than mine," Kitty told him "all those different powers can't be stable."
"The Ron is going to regret asking, but what happens when those powers destabilize," Ron asked.
"Best case scenario," Gwen answered solemnly, "North America is vaporized."
Okay, if THAT was the best-case scenario, Danny didn't want to know the worst case.
"And the worst-case scenario," Henry asked.
"Who knows how far the explosion will spread, especially with those portals open to other Senzu rivers," Gwen said
That was beyond bad if they didn't stop Vlad, countless people would be annihilated in a flash. So it had to stop here, and now the good news was at least his deal with Roker meant all he had to do was beat Vlad, and then he'd go from powerful to powerless.
Now how the heck was he going to do it.
Before he could come up with an answer, Flash zipped forward, running down the building into the Moogers sending them flying. Then, he began running in a circle around Vlad, creating a whirlpool filled with green lightning, trapping Vlad.
Danny used his ice powers to freeze the vortex with help from Ben as Big Chill Flash stopped running after a while. Then, standing on the water, Vlad stood trapped frozen in a chunk of red water.
"Very impressive, Flash," Vlad said mockingly from behind. Flash, before he could move, Vlad grabbed him from behind and threw him, sending him flying through multiple buildings. Before anyone could think to go and help Flash, Vlad appeared in front of them.
"Now now, don't you know it's rude to interrupt a private conversation" Vlad mocked, stomping the ground and sending everyone to the floor, gravity pushing down on them like Jupiter, the planet, not the sailor was pressing down on their backs.
Soon the other Vlad came back with an unconscious Danny hanging limply by the neck in his arm. His costume was shredded, and his cowl was gone showing his beaten face.
Vlad dropped him unceremoniously to the ground.
Vlad threw him to the ground "now, do you truly understand just who and what you're up against" Vlad mocked, "but I'm not wholly without heart as a show of good sportsmanship. So I'll give you all one last chance to join me and serve in my army of fear as we conquer the multiverse, or one by one, I will destroy you all."
Danny grit his teeth. Even with all this pressure on his back, he'd never join with Vlad. Any of them would ever do that.
"I'll join," Henry said, surprising Danny.
"Henry," Danny said, shocked.
"Brother," Buzz said, looking betrayed. Vlad waved his hand, and Henry stood up slowly, rubbing his shoulder "my, my Henry, this is a surprise, my boy. I thought the little badger had completely indoctrinated you and his naive mentality of using your powers for goooood," Vlad mocked the same way he had the first time Danny had fought him.
Henry looked at Danny for a second. "I'm not as selfless as he is; I care only about one other person," Henry said, stepping forward, dropping down, and kneeling to the fruitloop. Oh, that sight made Danny want to puke "promise to keep her safe 'father,' and I'll do whatever you want."
Danny raised an eyebrow briefly when Henry called Vlad's father. His cousin had flinched.
He was lying
"Of course, my son," Vlad promised, stepping in front of Henry and patting him on the head like he was a dog, "now any other takers, no just one of you is willing to join the winning side, no just Henry, a pity, but one prince of fear is more than enough at least for now"
While Vlad was monologuing, Henry stood up with his hand behind his back and began to glow with energy aiming at Vlad's head. He threw the punch.
And faster than anyone could react, Henry's arm just below the elbow was on the ground, disintegrating into dust thanks to Vlad's black cat powers.
Henry fell to his knees, screaming in pain.
"Excellent try, son but next time you want to lie, work on hiding your body language," Vlad mocked, kicking Henry in the chest and pinning him to the ground "did you really think that would work"
Henry didn't say anything. He just smiled
Vlad looked behind him to see Etrigan charge at him, swinging a massive sword. Vlad brought up his own to block, but he was still sent flying back. Etrigan grinned behind them. Everyone was trying to back to their feet. The pressure lifting "took you long enough," Luna snarked
"I like to make an entrance," Etrigan said, leaping across the rooftops towards Vlad. Meanwhile, Danny Buzz, Sam, and Dani rushed to Henry's side.
Henry looked at them with a pained smile back in his human form "hi."
"Are you crazy? Why would you do that" Buzz demanded to his brother, tears in his eyes looking at where Henry's arm had been "he could have killed you."
Henry shrugged "maybe, but you guys were in trouble. I couldn't just sit by and do nothing."
"You are definitely Danny's brother," Sam said, trying her best not to cry. On the other hand, Dani was crying quietly, unable to say anything.
Danny, on the other hand, was angry. He was just so angry at everything VLAD had done, every petty scheme, every attempt on his dad's life, or when he'd tried to hurt Jazz or Sam or Penny or who knows how many other people in the twenty-something years Vlad's had his ghost powers.
But no more
Danny wasn't going to let Vlad Masters and his schemes hurt one more person.
Not
One
More
Danny flew across the way to where Etrigan and Vlad clashed with their swords. Every swing, every collision sent shockwaves through the air.
"Though are truly a fool to mix magics as you have," Etrigan warned while their swords collided, "you will be undone by what you considered just a tool."
"Oh, spare me the moral drivel, Etrigan," Vlad mocked, leaping away, firing blast after blast from his hand. Finally, Etrigan spun his sword in a circle above his head, creating a shield of fire that Vlad's attacks couldn't get through.
Okay, seriously, where was this guy earlier when Vlad was kicking their butts.
Etrigan threw his arms forward. The shield of fire became a massive beam that flew toward Vlad.
Vlad held his hand out. The flames turned purple before they changed course, vaporizing a legion of his Moogers. Vlad rushed forward, throwing a punch at Etrigans face. Etrigan brought his arm up to block while his face was covered. Vlad leaped into the air hooking his leg through the air. He grew to his giant size.
The kick landed the building underneath the two fighters was completely demolished. Vlad shrunk down, floating in mid-air, seeing no sign of Etrigan, "and it seems that is that"
Out of the dust and the rubble, Etrigan leaped out, punching Vlad in the face cracking his helmet, and sending him flying back "not quite this demon has hardly begun to fight."
Etrigan landed kneeling on a circle of fire. Standing up, Vlad rose. Black lightning surged across his body. Vlad grit his teeth in pain. Etrigan frowned, "already it has begun to forsake your power, or this will be your last day beneath the sun."
Vlad, clearly in denial and probably mad with power, shook his head "you're quite strong, Etrigan, but I wonder if you're fast enough to save your little friends" holding out his hand, black energy of destruction filled his hands "how does it go again or right Cataclysm."
Vlad fired his attack aiming where the others were
Most of them were still unconscious, thanks to Vlad's earlier attacks.
Danny knew he had to stop it somehow, but Etrigan literally beat him to the punch. Then, leaping between the others, the beam hitting Etrigan in the chest, he fell back, landing in front of Kim and Gwen.
"Etrigan," Kim gasped.
Etrigan gasped, "and so it ends my race is run," Etrigan said. His body began to turn to dust. "I regret nothing," he continued. More and more of his body turned to dust until only it was just his head "it was fun."
Etrigan completely turned to dust. In the middle of the pile was Tim's unconscious
Danny turned to Vlad, who, after his last attack, more and more black lightning was surging off his body, and his suit began to glow. Danny had a bad feeling in his chest that Etrigan was right and the fruitloop was becoming increasingly unstable.
But that didn't mean he could beat him. Even unstable Vlad was a hundred times more powerful than he was
Power
Danny had completely forgotten about the phantom Morpher his dad had sent him. Danny wasn't an expert on power rangers, but hopefully, it worked, giving him enough power to stop Vlad.
Vlad laughed "my, my, someone's afraid," Vlad mocked, "is the great 'hero' going to step in now that your last chance is gone? Are you going to trap me in your moronic thermos?"
Danny frowned at the reminder of Etrigan being destroyed, but he wasn't going to let Vlad get under his nerves any more than he already had "last I checked, he was winning," Danny quipped before he got serious "look, Vlad, you've got to give up. All the power you have before it literally destroys you, and who knows what else."
Vlad's answer was to punch him in the stomach and send him flying through the sky.
Danny frowned as he held tight onto the phantom key. He really hoped this worked. "Phantom force," Danny called, outputting the key into the Morpher "going ghost," Danny shouted, turning the key.
A red glow spread from his arm across his body, becoming a costume like his usual costume, but red with a golden belt with a DP belt buckle, a red helmet on his face with a black visor over his eyes and nose.
Immediately Danny felt the boost from the morphing grid connecting him to every hero on earth, 74 every person who wanted to do right to help people. It was making him stronger.
He also felt Vlad the cheesehead was like the ecto filtration back home in the lab, full to the brink with more power than his body could actually handle from all different sources and with every second that went by, becoming more unstable.
Until kaboom
Danny had to stop that before that happened. "Roker, you'd better hold up your end of the deal," Danny muttered before rushing forward, making a sonic boom.
"Fire," Vlad commanded. All the Moogers looked up and began to shoot at Danny.
No way was he getting shot out of the sky, Danny thought, his body glowing red as he tapped his belt buckle "phantom deflector," he called out, blasts bounced off as he flew at Vlad throwing a punch Vlad blocked with his sword creating a shockwave that wiped out his army of Moogers.
Great, one less thing to clean up, Danny thought happily. Ducking under a slash, he punched Vlad in the chest. Vlad shrugged off the punch and hit him with a giant fist.
Danny blocked, crossing his arms in front of his face just in the nick of time as he was sent flying back through the air. Danny straightened out and fired blasts from his hand lightning surged across Vlad's body as he flew faster than the eye could see
Lucky for Danny, he didn't need his eyes while tapping into the morphing grid. Danny's fist glowed, and he punched Vlad, knocking him off guard.
Vlad snarled, turning his arms into animal legs; he swung his claws, creating shockwaves of toxic red energy flying at him. Danny barrel rolled around the attacks, but before he could, a counterattack ready, Vlad fired another beam from his visor. Danny created a shield deflecting the beam.
Vlad laughed before his laughs turned into screams of pain, and he began to change and transform before Danny's eyes. He grew larger. His costume turned into scales, his neck grew like a dinosaur, his head turned into a big cat, and wings shot out from his back.
Vlad roared, swinging his new tail hitting Danny and sending him flying. Vlad roared, turning to the sky. He breathed out a beam of energy that split the clouds lightning flashed across his monster body as Vlad flew at him, opening his mouth wide. Danny quickly got out of the way before he ended up getting eaten.
Monster Vlad roared. Lightning sparked off his body, nearly hitting Danny. The monster, formerly known as fruitloop, roared, attacking a building and smashing it to pieces.
The good news was Vlad's new monster form made him act like a giant animal. The bad news was he's becoming more and more unstable.
Danny fired blast after blast at Vlad, but nothing seemed to get through his new scales aiming for a softer target. Finally, he fired another blast hitting him in the eye, getting Vlad's attention.
The monster roared, trying to hit him with his claws or tail wildly, but every time Danny tried to get closer, lightning surged off Vlad's body, nearly frying him.
There had to be some way to stop Vlad because his body began to glow. The ground shook, and storm clouds rumbled. Vlad's eyes were completely blank.
Oh crud, the fruitloop was going to blow.
"Only one thing left," Danny said, using his ranger form last resort. "Phantom saber," he cried out as a grey, and a red sword appeared in his hand.
Danny only had one shot at this, he thought. Then, holding the sword up high above his head, the sword began to glow.
"FULL POWER FIRE" Danny shouted, swinging down with all his energy, hitting Vlad.
Vlad roared, energy surging out of his body before a white flash completely blinded Danny for a second
When he could see again, everything seemed normal: Senzu rivers were gone, the sky was clear, his friends were relatively safe, and Danny looked in the middle of a crater was Vlad.
Danny couldn't sense any energy coming off of him. No Nighlock, no speed force, no magic, no nothing
"Pleasure doing business with ya," Danny heard Roker's voice in his head, but when he looked around, there was no sign of him.
Danny landed, powering down. He looked at the unconscious Vlad "checkmate cheesehead," Danny said, tired before he fell back, passing out.
After the battle, Ben and his team surrounded the High Breed General, which wasn't overshadowed and captured by them.
"We'll wait until a plumber ship gets here to take him away for questioning," Ben said.
A few hours later, Danny finally woke up and saw all of his other universe counterparts waiting for him to wake up after the battle with Vlad. Danny smiled that the battle with the crazy fruitloop was over.
"How long was I out?" Danny asked them.
"You were out for five days," Tucker said.
"What!?" Danny was shocked that he was out for that long.
"I'm just kidding. It was just for four hours," Tucker joked.
Danny glared at Tucker for making that joke again. "Haha, very funny, Tucker,"
Danny saw Henry and went over to him after he lost an arm so he could protect Alex.
"Hey there, Henry," Deadpool said to the clone of Danny.
"What are you doing here, Deadpool?" Danny asked him.
"Well, I have to send that fruitloop to get punishment and heal your arm, Henry," Deadpool answered.
"Heal me?" Henry asked
Deadpool revealed a green stone in his hand, and Henry's body glowed green. Suddenly the ash began to form, and then the ash turned into his lost arm. Surprising, the two Fenton that Deadpool was able to get back Henry's arm after Vlad destroyed it.
"How did you do this, Deadpool?" Henry asked the merk with the mouth.
"Well, I use the Time Stone from this universe to reverse the damage from what that crazed up fruitloop did to you," Deadpool explained.
"Wow, thanks, Deadpool," Henry said to the merc with the mouth.
"No problems, Henry," Deadpool left with Vlad on his shoulders.
Danny said his thanks to his counterpart for the help in defeating Vlad and saving Penny. After that, Danny's counterparts and Kitty Fenton returned to their universes, then Danny and his friends returned to theirs.
A few hours later, Danny from earth 74 woke up, and he was at the Loud house.
"Luna?" Danny asked.
"Hey, Danny, how you're doing," Luna said as she smiled at the alien boy.
"Are you alright, Luna," Danny asked.
"I'm alright, Danny," Luna told him.
I'm glad you're alright, and thank you for trying to save me from my clone," Danny thanks her.
"No problem, mate. I'm just trying to protect my sister, man," as she said that Leni Loud, Danny's girlfriend came into the room.
"OMGosh, Danny, are you okay?" Leni asked.
"I'm alright, Leni. There is nothing to worry about," Danny told her.
"I was like so totally scared that you were hurt after Luna said you were taken away about what she said was a clone," Leni said.
Danny put his hand on Leni's cheek and told her everything would be alright now. This calmed her down, and the two looked at each other then they kissed on the lips.
"I'll leave you two love birds alone," Luna left as Leni and Danny began kissing more passionately.
That's the end of this chapter. I hope you enjoy and the next arc well be about Danny and Penny going to college, dealing with more struggles and new drama.
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