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Future

Danni opened her eyes groggily to a blinding light, 'Where am I?' She thought, 'What happened?' And like a bullet to the brain, all of the memories came flooding back. She shot up from the bed in an instant, "Danny!" Danni quickly got out of the bed, ignoring the searing pain it caused. She ran down the stairs to see Danny sitting at the kitchen table, a glass of water next to him.

'What time is it?' Danni thought to herself, noting the darkness in the room, she glanced at the clock, 2:45 AM, 'Nice,' she thought. She saw Danny's eyes meet her identical blue ones and she smiled weakly at him, "Good morning?"

Danny smiled, "Hi," he said stoicly, "Couldn't sleep."

Danni cocked an eyebrow as she opened the fridge, "Was that a question or were you explaining yourself?"

"Explaining," he answered, his eyes fixed on the glass of water, "How are you feeling?"

Danni poured a glass of orange juice into a glass and sighed, "I'll live," she replied, "What about you?"

"He almost cracked my ribs," he said, "Almost killed me…again."

Danni sat down next to him and took a sip of orange juice, "Well, you got lucky," she said, "Most people don't." She heard Danny mutter in agreement and she decided to somewhat change the subject, "So, did you hear about what happened to Vlad?"

Danny seemed to flinch a little but kept calm, "Is he still alive?"

Danni tapped her fingers on the table, "I think so," she said, "I need to find him."

Danny raised an eyebrow, "Why?"

"The last I heard from him," she started, "He told me that he actually acquired a sample of your morph DNA, but he had no clone so he offered it to me to help me fight Phantom," she circled her finger around the rim of the glass, "I just don't know where to find him, and I can't be gone from here too long."

Danny's eyes widened, "He's alive?"

Danni looked at him oddly, "As far as I know, why?"

"Just surprised is all, I think," he replied, looking back at his glass, "I'm so sorry."

Danni looked at him, "For?"

"Doing this to you all," he said, "If it weren't for me, none of this would have happened."

"But that wasn't you," Danni said, "I mean yeah, it was a part of you, but it's also part Plasmius, and that's not your fault."

Danny looked back up, thinking, "Part Plasmius…so he did merge with him, I wonder…"

"What?"

"How much of the equipment did you manage save from my parent's lab?"

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Clockwork's lair

Clockwork smiled as the plan he had set was in motion. 'Dance, puppets, dance,' he thought to himself as he brought up a screen of the present where young Daniel Fenton was going downstairs to meet his unwelcome guest.

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"Daniel!" Vlad said smiling, "Why, look how much you've grown!"

Danny scowled and muttered under his breath, "Yeah cuz it's only been a few weeks since you last tried to kill me."

"What was that, Danny?" Maddie asked, hearing him grumble. Danny muttered a "nothing" and walked in the kitchen.

Maddie turned back to Vlad, "I'm sorry about your mountain home, Vlad," she said, "How long will it take them to disinfect it?"

Vlad smiled as Jack walked into the room, "Oh not long, Maddie, maybe about a week."

"Great," Danny muttered to himself in the kitchen as he fixed himself some water. The last thing Danny heard was his parents mentioning the Ghost Hunters Annual Cook-Off and Vlad turning down there invitation to go with them. The voices grew distant until it was silent in the room. Danny turned the faucet on and poured more water in his glass.

Before he could take a sip strong hands circled his next and gripped him so tight the air almost knocked out of him. Then he was forced violently against the fridge, the glass of water breaking on the floor with a loud crash. Vlad appeared with a hateful look, "You're going to pay for that little accident you and Danielle caused," he said threateningly, Danny could respond so he loosened his grip and continued, "First I will destroy her, then…"

Danny cut him off, "Then you plan on forcing me to join you by choice?"

Vlad smirked, "Correct, you're next question is how I'm going to get you to join me."

Danny played along, "How are you gonna get me to join you?"

Vlad smirked again and then he heard the front door open, "You'll see soon enough." With that said he disappeared and reappeared by the door helping Jack carry his things upstairs.

Danny glared and grabbed a towel and started to clean up the watery mess on the floor, 'Wonderful,' he thought, 'Now we can take sleep off the things to do list.' Luckily he the weekend was only four days away and he could plan tactics for Vlad's attack.

Four Days Later

"I can't believe I didn't plan anything!" Danny exclaimed angrily, "I am so dead!"

Sam looked at him sadly, "Danny you have school, I mean it's not your fault."

"My life is at stake Sam," he said seriously, "I can't just let this go."

"I'm not telling you to let it go, Danny," she said irritably, "But you have Tucker, Danni, and I; I mean four against one?"

Danny relaxed a bit, when she put it that way it did sound a little easier. But Tucker and Sam didn't have ghost powers and Danni could easily be reduced to goop if she fought too hard. Danny couldn't blame Sam for trying, "Easier said than done, Sam."

Sam sighed and got up, "I don't know what to do with you anymore Danny," she said as she walked away.

Danny cocked an eyebrow, 'What?'

His thoughts were interrupted when Tucker walked over, "Hey Danny, where's Sam off to?"

Danny shrugged, "I dunno, she just walked off."

Tucker looked at him oddly, "Did you say anything to her?"

Danny looked away, "She was telling me that it would be easier for me to fight Vlad with you, her, and Danni helping but I told her it was easier said than done."

Tucker bit his lip, "Well Vlad is pretty powerful but maybe she was just trying to help."

Danny sighed, "Yeah I know, wanna help me go after her?" Tucker nodded and they both went off to catch up to Sam. They saw her in the distance and Danny ran quickly to catch a moment alone wit her. "Hey," he said softly, "I'm sorry about earlier, it's just been so hectic lately."

Sam looked at him sadly, "I understand," she said, "But you know we're here to help and you've been brushing us off lately without an explanation."

Danny nodded, trying not to show that he really didn't want to talk about it, "I'll try," was all he could say. He heard Sam sigh and he realized that he didn't sound convincing, he brushed it off as always and Tucker finally caught up.

"Man!" he said out of breath, "Are you two competing in a race or something?"

Danny smiled but before he could say anything his ghost sense went off, "Guys!" he said, "Cover me!"

Instantly Sam and Tucker covered Danny as he transformed. He flew into the air, looking for the ghost he assumed to be Vlad. Suddenly, Danni appeared from behind him, looking scared, "Danny!"

"Oh," Danny said, relieved, "Only you, geez, Danni don't scare me like that!"

"Danny you have to watch out," she said, out of breath, "Vlad's here!"

Danny glared in annoyance, crossing his arms, "Yeah you're about four days late on that one."

"No! He-"but she was cut off by an ecto blast which hit her in the back, causing her fall down.

Danny looked up to see another heading straight for him. He tried to block it but he was too late, it hit him square in the face. He reeled back, holding his face in pain. He realized he couldn't open his eyes, "What is this!"

He could feel Vlad's presence in front of him and he was blindly moving around, "I've attained a new power, Daniel," he said menacingly, "This little trick works on whatever it lands on, as in it landed in your eyes so it will temporally blind you."

Danny cursed to himself, realizing that without vision he couldn't win this. He felt a hard punch in his side and he was sent flying to the ground. He hit the pavement by Sam and Tucker's feet and transformed back. Sam glared and put the Specter Deflector around her waist as Tucker grabbed the thermos.

Vlad saw this and smirked, "Oh I don't think so children," he said as he shot two blasts, one at Sam and the other at the Thermos, knocking it from Tucker's hands.

Tucker looked back to where Sam had landed, "Sam! No!"

Danny couldn't see but from what he could hear, Sam was hurt. Growling, he shoved the fact that he couldn't see aside and leapt in the air to attack Vlad. Vlad dodged a few of Danny's punches and he returned some of his own. He felt a sharp pain in his back and let go of Danny. He looked down to see Danni standing there, smoke clearing from her hand where she had fired her own blast.

Vlad glared and flew towards her. She dodged a punch and the next but the third time he nailed her in the stomach causing her to fly back, hitting Tucker down who was helping Sam up.

Up in the air, Danny was slowly regaining his vision. His vision was blurry but he could make out figures. He saw the white figure he knew was Vlad and flew towards it. He knocked Vlad down who responded with another lethal blast. This time it hit Danny in the head, knocking him down on his back. Danny transformed for a final time and passed out.

"No!" Danni said as she ran toward Danny, she saw Vlad coming towards him and she stepped in front of him protectively, "What do you want!"

Vlad glared annoyingly and shot a small blast at her making her fly five feet away. He smiled as he transformed back, "Just what I came for," he answered as he picked Danny up and headed back to Fenton Works.

Tucker helped Sam up who had gained consciousness, "Sam?"

"Ugh," she responded, holding her head up, "Yeah, I'm okay…"

Danni walked up to them, "We have to get to Danny's house!"

Danny's House

Sam, Tucker, and Danni quickly ran to Danny's house to find Danny hooked up to a machine in the lab. Tucker glared, "You know you're not gonna get away with this."

Vlad turned and smiled, "Oh I already have," he said, "The only problem is that Daniel is in a coma."

Sam's eyes went wide, "What!"

"The blast hit him harder than I expected," Vlad explained.

Sam glared, "Oh no!" she said, "And you think you're gonna just walk out all innocent!"

Vlad glared, "Samantha you're talking to a half ghost who overshadowed billionaires to get where he is today; so don't even think about trying to rat me out!" Sam went to say something else but backed off, he was right. He could overshadow Jack and Maddie and making them believe that Danny was hurt in a ghost attack. But how would they get Danny out of Vlad's grasp?

"This machine is hooked up to Daniel's brain," Vlad continued, "This side is his ghost half and this side is human half, the level sensors indicate that both halves are equally dominant," he pointed to the level sensors indicating an average level of dominance on both sides, "They're both a contributing factor to his health." Sam, Tucker, and Danni walked to Danny's side, he looked…dead.

Tucker looked at Vlad, "Do Danny's parents know about this?"

Vlad shook his head, "No," he said, "This will be our little secret."

Danni turned, "What about Jazz?"

Vlad glared at the clone he once considered his daughter, "She's out for the night." Danni returned the glare and then turned back to Danny. Vlad sighed, "Okay I think Daniel needs his rest, we'll come visit later."

Not in the mood to argue, the three kids walked out of the lab leaving Danny asleep. Danni turned back and gave him a sad face; Vlad then took her arm and forced her up the stairs. The echo of the door slamming vibrated through the walls and Danny's phantom half's sensors twitched slightly.

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Author's Note: Meh, review, pretty please.