Chapter Three

"The Phantoms vs. Plasmius"

High above in the Specter Speeder, Jazz, Sam, and Tucker were still following the "stupidly-named homing device (as Sam puts it)" in order to find Danny.

"Where did you guys find Danny the last time you freed him?" Jazz asked them.

"We found him at Vlad's Rocky Mountain retreat," Sam replied.

"We're over the Rocky Mountains right now and about the same place we found him," Tucker replied as he peered out the cockpit window.

"If that's the case," Jazz replied as she turned the helm, "he's either in Wisconsin or at another place we haven't been to."

"I just hope that Vlad doesn't get his clone of Danny working since having two half-ghosts is more than enough for me to handle," Sam said with some bitterness in her voice and yet she had a worried tone in her voice.

"I'm sure Danny can handle this on his own since he's done it before, and besides," as he readjusts himself in his seat, "he had some help from Danielle."

"You can't possibly trust someone who betrayed your trust the first time you met but," Sam snapped with fire in her eyes but it then subsided to that of concern, "she did help Danny out."

"I was just saying that she was being used by Vlad and he pushed her into something that she couldn't do without loosing her life," Tucker replied with his hands up in defense.

"We can worry about this after we find Danny," Jazz spoke over them just so she didn't have to hear them argue throughout their rescue mission.


Back at Vlad's, Danny and Dani were facing off against Vlad in his ghost form of Plasmius. He launched an ecto-blast out of his hand and fires upon the two Phantoms. Danny blocks the attack with a shield while Dani launched a charged ecto-blast of her own; however, Plasmius blocked the attack with a shield before launching a counterattack. Danny drops his shield and they dodged his attack by taking off into the air. The blast destroys the ground they were standing on and kicks up dusts in which the two concealed themselves in. Danny and Dani charged their ecto-blasts and they launched a combined attack on Plasmius. The blast hits Plasmius and sends him across the room through a wall.

"Hey, Plasmius!" Danny called out as they came out of the dust. "Catch us if you can!" To add insult to injure, they both made childish faces at Plasmius as they exited by phasing through the ceiling.

Plasmius growled as they left before he got up to follow them but he soon lost them when he came up through several floors of his mansion. He soon heard sounds coming from the next room and he let out an evil grin as he entered the room. It was the music room of his mansion and he only found another ghost dressed like a king playing a tune on the xylophone (for the sake of the humor; it's the last part of the Danny Phantom Theme). Plasmius let out another growl but this didn't go unnoticed by the ghost playing the xylophone.

"Whatcha doin' disrupting my musical ensemble?" he had a Midwestern accent as he turned waving his mallets at Plasmius.

"I'm looking for two teenagers that look like they're twins."

"I haven't seen any don'cha'know," before he phases through the ceiling dropping his mallets as he left.

Plasmius looked around trying to find Danny and Dani only to find that a pair of cymbals floating in midair as if being held by someone. "Oh, butter biscuits," Plasmius cringed just before the cymbals came crashing together in his face. He stumbles backwards due to his temporarily deafness before he gets hit in the face with an ecto-blast that sends into a grand piano destroying it.

"Hey, Plasmius!" Danny spoke as he and Dani both reappeared with Dani holding a pair of cymbals in her hands. "If your twenty years of experience are good enough; then you should have no trouble taking on two half-ghosts even with your powers held back by the Specter Deflector!"

"Catch us if you dare, you old fruit loop who needs a cat!" Dani added as she dropped the cymbals to the ground as they clashed to the ground while they left phasing into another room.

"Oh, I dare and I won't get a cat! I am also NOT A FRUIT LOOP!" he roared as he followed them into a hall.

Danny and Dani both were firing off ecto-blasts at Plasmius, who was dodging them, as they flew down the long hallway. Plasmius was launching his own attacks when he could but he couldn't seem to hit them. Their missed attacks were causing damage to the walls and priceless artifacts along the hallway.

"Danny, cover me!" Dani yelled as she began charging up for another attack.

"Are you sure?" Danny asked as he continued to keep Plasmius from attacking.

"If that screen read what I think it read; then I'm completely stable and more then capable of bringing this fruit loop down!" her blast was now the size of a regulation-sized basketball.

"I hope you're right for your sake!"

"Now!" Danny launches one last attack knocking a suit of armor over while he dodged out of the way. Plasmius put his hands over his face as parts of the suit of armor hit him just as Dani released her attack. The attack knocks Plasmius off course and into a nearby wall leaving a hole where he had landed.

Danny and Dani phased through the wall at the T-intersection and into a large room. Danny recognized the room as the place where the college reunion was held the first time he had met Vlad. They couldn't let their guard down since Plasmius was still out to get them.

"Danny, we should get out of here," Dani suggested as she caught her breath.

"He would still chase after us even if we ran and how do you think I'll explain to my parents about a cousin we never knew we had without spilling my and your secret," Danny knew that they should run, but if he knew Jazz; she was on her way with Sam and Tucker to rescue him from what they see as an unknown fate, and that their combined attacks could bring down the entire place since they had already destroyed parts of the mansion ever since they left the lab.

They were soon knocked to opposite sides of the room by an ecto-blast. Plasmius had entered the room with his usual grin on his face as he appeared out of nowhere.

"You know Daniel," he spoke mainly towards Danny as the two regrouped, "even if you were able to thwart my plans before; you won't stop me from perfecting my clone of you as the perfect son."

"For an evil fruit loop, you are the most stubborn when it comes to getting me to join you," Danny replied not looking very surprised.

Plasmius launched another ecto-blast at them but was still unable to hit them. Danny and Dani split up so it was harder for Plasmius to hit them. Danny drew his attention onto him with several ecto-blasts while Dani can get behind him. Plasmius finally hit Danny in the chest with an ecto-blast before throwing Dani, who was getting ready to hit him from behind, towards Danny before entangling them up in some ecto-rope.

"You two can't defeat me that easily and once this cursed Deflector is off; I'll make sure that you are made obsolete Daniel and that you are destroyed Danielle!" as he started to reel in his captured foes.

"That's not going to happen!" Danny shouted as he freed his hands and placed them on the ropes that bound them.

He sends up an attack that changes his bounds from pink to green while an electric circuit went through it. The attack electrocutes Plasmius and he releases Danny and Dani from their bounds. They then launched another charged ecto-blast on him that sent him through the wall, but that also disabled the Specter Deflector that had kept his powers diminished.

"Oh no," Danny groaned as he saw Plasmius come out of the wall without the Specter Deflector.

"Now," Plasmius spoke with an evil grin as he split himself into four in which they all spoke at once, "let's make this a fair fight!"

Danny and Dani began launching ecto-blasts at him but they couldn't hit their mark. They then took a beating by Plasmius and his clones in which they were sent into another large room near the main entrance. They tumbled down the stairs just as Plasmius entered into the room through the holes left by his foes and he began to walk down the stairs towards them just as they hit the bottom step.

"You think that you two can defeat me just by diminishing my powers and outnumbering me? Daniel, you should've joined me when I first asked," Plasmius mocked them as he walked and while Danny and Dani stood up while his anger became worse, "then you wouldn't be fighting a female clone of yourself before she betrayed me! As for you Danielle, you are nothing more than a clone, a mere shadow, a replica, a doppelganger, a duplicate, a carbon copy, and a mere twin of Daniel who stopped me from perfecting my perfect half-ghost son!"

With each insult, Dani grew angrier and angrier as her eyes began to become a darker shade of green as her fists began to shake violently. "I am my own person!" it was Dani's turn to be enraged as she emphasized each word while speaking slowly so Plasmius could hear every word while she took a few steps forward as tears formed in her eyes. "It was your fault for giving me a mind of my own and a human form! I am going to show you what a duplicate can do and," she had some bitterness when she spoke 'duplicate,'"I am NOT A CLONE!" As she said her last word, she screamed it and the shockwaves from her voice reverberated throughout the room destroying anything in the way while Danny plugged his ears and stepped back as he held his ground.

"Oh, cheese logs!" the four Plasmius cringed realizing what they had just done as they each had only seconds to put up a shield while the shockwaves came towards them.


Sam, Tucker, and Jazz had just landed the Specter Speeder outside of Vlad's Wisconsin mansion.

"Whoa," Tucker whistled at the sight of the castle, "for an evil ghost; he sure knows how to live."

"Don't forget that he had robbed banks and overshadowed millionaires to get to where he is today," Sam countered.

"He would know how to live it up even if he didn't turn out this way," Tucker tried to counter Sam's statement but that failed.

"Let's find Danny and leave this place before we're found," Jazz said as she led the way towards the doors.

The windows started to vibrate slightly but then they got worse as if a large freight train was passing by.

"I-I-I think we sh-shouldn't enter j-just yet," Sam stuttered as the windows began to vibrate more violently.

"I think you may be right Sam," Tucker agreed as they all started to back away from the doors and structure.

They didn't get far since the windows had exploded and they dove for cover as they heard a loud wail from inside the mansion. The wail seemed slightly high pitched and the central towers of the mansion started to collapse from the wailing voice. Now the mansion started to implode as the wailing stopped and began to fall in on itself.

"Danny!" the three shouted as the mansion collapsed kicking up chocking dust.

They shielded their eyes and mouth from the dust as the roar of the imploding building overtook all sounds around them. As the dust cleared, they were covered head to toe in dust and there was nothing left of the mansion but rubble and settled dust. They slowly approached what was left of the mansion unsure of what they would find.

"Danny?" Jazz cried out anxiously unsure if anyone (ghost included) could've survived the collapse and Danny's Ghostly Wail.

"Do you think Danny used his Ghostly Wail to bring the house down?" Tucker asked in awe at the scene.

"But that Wail sounded too high pitched to be Danny," Jazz replied still anxious to find her lost brother.

"If it wasn't Danny, then whose--" Sam stopped when she saw someone flying out of the rubble.

Tucker and Jazz saw it too and it appeared to be a snow-white haired young teen carrying a tired looking black haired teenage girl while he supported her with an arm around his neck. They knew it was Danny and the one that he was carrying appeared to be who they guessed was Danielle in her human form. Danny was hovering several feet above the wreckage as Danielle had an arm to her forehead as if she had a headache.

"Danny!" Jazz cried out both in joy and anxiousness at the sight of Danny as she waved her arms.

Danny turned to the sound of her voice and floated down to the ground as he landed as softly as he could. He made sure that Danielle had her feet planted firmly on the ground before he landed.

"Am I glad that you came," he said with happiness in his voice at the sight of them. "I wasn't sure how we were going to get back home after this fight."

It seemed true since they both sported bruises on their faces and possibly bruises elsewhere on their bodies. This small emotional scene was ruined when the sound of moving rubble was heard before a body exploded out of the rubble. Apparently the body was Plasmius' and he look completely enraged at what had just happened.

"Jazz," Danny said as he handed her Danielle as she supported her without question before he turns towards Plasmius.

"So Danielle," Plasmius spoke and it seemed difficult who he was talking to, "I don't know why those Vultures stabilized and gave that vocal attack to you instead of to my clone. However, despite at what you did to me before; I am willingly to forgive you for your betrayal," he cracks a smile but this didn't fool Danny.

"She not going anywhere's, Plasmius, and how do I know that you aren't going to turn against her after you get that perfect son you so desperately want!" Danny snapped back.

"How are you going to explain that to your parents without revealing your secret, Daniel?" Danny knew that he had hit the nail on the head and Plasmius looked behind Danny at his friends and sister. "I also knew that Jasmine knew about your secret ever since the two of you staged that mock fight and I knew that you would've told her about my attempts to clone you. This also includes Danielle since you care about her."

"I'll find a way to convince them to let her stay and I'll make sure that you don't harm her at all!" he charges at Plasmius only to have his punched stopped before he is launched towards the rubble. Danny was then knocked onto the ground by one of Plasmius' ecto-blasts.

"So," he turns back towards the others as they crowded together for support as he smiled, "are you going to surrender Danielle to me, or do I have to force her out of your grasps?"

Danielle seemed to have recovered from her lightheadedness and approached Plasmius as she passed Sam and Tucker with her eyes flashing green with anger before anyone could stop her. "I'm not going anywhere's!"

"You will be coming to me even if I have to put you under mind control."

"That's the worst lie I've ever heard from you, you seriously crazed-up fruit loop!"

Plasmius just frowned at the insult before cracking a smirk, "Danielle, Danielle, Danielle, how do you think that you can live a normal life when you are nothing more than a mere shadow of Daniel?"

Now Plasmius had stepped across the line again as her eyes flashed a darker shade of green, "Didn't you hear me before, or are your ears still ringing from my Ghostly Wail!" She tried to transform but it didn't make it half-way since she collapsed onto the ground with her eyes returning to normal.

"You exhausted yourself after that attack and if you join me--"

"I'll never join you since one; you're a seriously crazed-up fruit loop, two; you need a cat, and three; you tried to destroy me! Besides," she stands up crossing her arms over her chest before giving him a smirk, "you can't do that attack yourself."

"I'll learn that attack even if I had to spend my entire life on it!"

He started to approach them as they started to back up at the same time as his hands glowed pink. Plasmius then yelled in pain as he was shocked by something or someone. He collapses onto his knees as he reverted back to his human form with a pair black rings running up and down his body from his waist. Danny appeared behind him holding a device in his hand that appeared to be what he had used on Plasmius wearing a smirk on his face.

"Oh Daniel," he says as he turns around with a surprised tone in his voice, "I didn't see you there." He starts to back up only to run into Danielle before he cracks one of his innocent smiles, "Let bygones be bygones?"

Danielle cracks a mischievous grin on her face just as her eyes flashed green.

"Oh, fudge buckets," Vlad said as she picks him up by his collar so that they were nose to nose with each other.

"I don't need my powers to do this," she punches Vlad in the face that knocks him into the rubble of his now destroyed home.

Danielle's eyes returned to normal and she once again became lightheaded. Danny returned to normal and swung her arm over his shoulder in order to stabilize her balance.

"Let's get back home before we get in trouble for taking the Specter Speeder," Danny suggested and they agreed since they've been gone long enough for his parents to notice that the Specter Speeder was missing.


Post Author's Note: How'd you like the chapter? I tried my best with the fight to make it as realistic as I could and at the same time keep everyone in character.