Chapter Sixteen: Tragedy Strikes
Warning: Character Death in this chapter.
"Oh crap." thought Danny.
Danny and the others looked a little nervous, they were facing some of the most powerful ghosts on Earth.
"Its seems that your not as confident as you were before. Daniel if you stop this foolishness now I just might let you off easy." said Vlad.
"Never, you have lied to me to much for me to ever join you again." said Danny.
"Well, if that's how you feel, I guess I have to give you a time out!" said Vlad.
Vlad launched an ectoblast at Danny and the battle was on. Danny and the others dodged out of the way and returned fire. Skulker deployed a rocket launcher and began to fire missiles at our heroes, but Ali shot them out of the air with some magic energy bullets.
"Is that the best you got!" said Ali.
"I'm just warming up!" said Skulker.
Skulker pulled out his laser guns and began to fire at Ali, as they were fighting Sam was dealing with the ever annoying Technus.
"Foolish child! You will never defeat me, Technus, lord of all gadgetry! Wizard of wires! Duke of Aiiii!" said Technus as Sam blasted him with a ghost bazooka.
"I've been waiting a long time to do that, today is your unlucky day, because I'm pissed off and I going to take it out on you." said Sam as she kept firing at Technus.
Meanwhile as they were fighting the minions Rob and Danny were taking care of Vlad. Vlad, though out numbered, was putting up a good fight. He was dodging their attacks and trying to shot them with his eye beams. Danny and Rob dodged and tried to hit Vlad with their ghost rays.
"Ha! You think your pathetic ghost rays can stop me?" said Vlad.
"No, but maybe this will." said Rob.
Rob used his shape shifting powers to transform into a huge ghost Dragon. Ironically Dora happened to walk in at that moment.
"Sir I finished your new suit and…" she then saw the fighting that was going on.
"Uh, I think I'll come back later." said Dora, who ran out the door as a chair flew into it.
The now dragonfied Rob began to attack Vlad, swiping at him with his massive claws and breathing fire. Vlad was dodging and ducking these attacks, but he did not see Danny teleport behind him. Danny let loose a bolt of ghost energy and it hit Vlad in the back. Vlad went flying through the air and hit a couch, splitting it in half. Vlad sprung up and faced them, his eyes glowing red.
"So that's the way you want to play? Well lets see if you can play with the big boys!" said Vlad.
Vlad shot forward and hit Rob square in the jaw, the halfa fell backwards and landed hard on the ground, turning back to his human ghost form.
"Damn, that hurt." said Rob.
"You ok?" said Danny.
"I'm fine, looks like we have our work cut out for us." said Rob.
"Yeah, we better get started." said Danny, as they attacked once more.
Meanwhile on in the power core room Tucker was still working on hooking up the bomb. Jazz, Alex and Ember were keeping an eye out for any guards.
"Hey Tucker, how's it going?" said Jazz.
"Shouldn't be much longer." said Tucker.
"Well hurry up, I want to beat on Vlad before Danny and the others knock him out." said Ember.
"We all do, but this takes time." said Tucker.
Tucker attached the last wire and set the timer to explode in 45 minutes.
"Ok, its set, now lets go help Danny and get out of here quickly." said Tucker.
"Right, lets go." said Jazz.
Just as they were leaving the room a bunch of Vlad's ghost guards came around the corner. They had been sent by Spectra to patrol the area our heroes had gone in to see what was happening. The guards stared in shock at Jazz and the others, and vise versa, then they snapped out of it.
"Hey! What the hell are you doing here!" said one of the guards.
"Uh, nothing." said Alex.
"Well ok then…hey wait a minute, you are doing something, lets get'em boys." said the Guard as he and the other two guards charged.
Jazz and the others began to fire back at the guards, all this commotion drew a lot of undue attention to them. (An: I wonder why none of the guards went to see what was wrong with Vlad? Oh well I guess large explosions and fighting come from his part of the castle a lot or something.)
Anyway the guards were starting to close in and they had to get out of there.
"Ember, we need a quick exit." Said Jazz, as the guards charged down both ends of the hall way at them.
"One exit coming up." said Ember.
Ember grabbed a hold of the rest of them and turned them all intangible. She phased them through the wall just as the guards got there, causing them to crash into each other. On the other side of the wall Jazz and the others ran off looking for a way out, with the guards not far behind them. As they were navigating the maze that was Vlad's castle with the guards in hot pursuit Danny and the others were still battling Vlad, Skulker, Technus and Walker, but the battle was starting to go our heroes way.
"Now you punks better surrender, because fight your betters is against the rules." said Walker.
"How's this for surrendering?" said Ali, as she blasted Walker with a magic energy orb.
Walker went flying into wall, leaving a huge dent. He then got back up and tried to attack again, but Ali was to fast for him. Ali punched and kicked the arrogant Warden until he was knocked out.
"Where are your stupid rules to help you now?" said Ali, as she kicked him on last time.
Meanwhile Sam was still fighting Skulker and Technus, well more Skulker. She had knocked Technus out during one of his long and pointless speeches. Right now she was facing Skulker, who was not doing as well as he thought he would.
"How can you still be standing! I am the Ghost Zone's greatest hunter!" said Skulker as he fired at Sam.
"Yeah, but you can't even beat one average human." said Sam.
"Arggh! You damned human, I'll show you!" screamed Skulker in rage, as he brought out on of his missile launchers.
Just as he was about to fire Ali slammed into he back and sent him flying, and his head impacted into a wall and got stuck.
"Thanks for the assist." said Sam.
"No problem, now lets turn robot boy into a pile of scrap metal." said Ali.
Skulker ripped his head from the wall and turned around. He then came face to face with to mean looking girls.
"Uh oh." said Skulker.
Sam and Ali began to beat the crap out of Skulker, pieces of metal and weapons began to fly as they attacked. Skulker could not stand up to the sorceress and the angry girl with the laser gun. Soon Skulker was on the ground, his suit badly damaged, with Sam and Ali about to finish him off.
"You think you've won, well think again." thought Skulker, as he activated his last weapon.
A huge laser cannon popped out of his chest and before they could do anything about it he fired. The laser blast hit Ali and sent her flying across the room, where she hit the wall hard. Ali fell to the ground and did not move.
"Ali!" yelled Sam, she then fired at Skulker, completely disabling his robot suit.
Sam ran over to Ali and checked to see if she had a pulse, thankfully she was only knocked out. Danny and Rob had noticed what had happened, and after sending Vlad into his desk, went over to help.
"Sam, is Ali alright?" said Danny.
"Yeah, she's fine, just knocked out is all." said Sam.
"Good, because Alex would go ballistic if anything happened to her." said Rob.
Then suddenly Vlad got back up and began to fire at our heroes. Danny threw up a shield just before it hit. Vlad sent a relentless barrage of ghost rays, laser eyes, and other ghost powers at the shield. Danny began to struggle as the attacks kept coming,
"Rob, get Ali out of here now!" said Danny.
"But what about Vlad?" said Rob.
"Me and Sam can handle him until you get back, now go!" said Danny.
Rob reluctantly agreed and grabbed Ali, then phase through the wall.
"Ha! I was waiting for you two to be the last ones standing." said Vlad.
Suddenly Vlad pulled out a remote and pressed the big red button on it. Suddenly a shield activated and enclosed the room.
"This shield is specially designed to keep both ghosts and humans from going through it. Now there is nowhere for you to run." said Vlad.
"Damn you Vlad you bastard!" said Danny.
"My, my, such a filthy words for a young person to use. Well once I kill Samantha I have a mind control machine that will fix that, just like it fixed your mother." said Vlad.
"You bastard!" yelled Danny as he attacked Vlad in with blinding fury.
The old halfa had not been expecting this and was caught off guard. Danny punched him hard in the face, then the stomach, and then in the chest. As Vlad fell he kicked out and knocked Danny's feet out from under him. Danny fell on his back and Vlad sprang up, as he did he fired an ectoblast at Danny. Danny rolled out of the way, and Sam fired her ghost blaster to knock Vlad away.
"Thanks Sam." said Danny.
"You wretched child! I will make you pay for that!" yelled Vlad.
Vlad fly at Sam and as he was about to hit her Danny hit him with a his laser eyes. The older halfa was sent flying back.
"Thanks Danny." said Sam.
"Just returning the favor." said Danny.
Vlad got back up and faced our heroes again, thus the battle continued. Meanwhile on the other side of the castle Jazz, Ember, Alex, and Tucker were running for their lives. They ran through the halls as Vlad's guards chased after them. they ducked and dodged as the laser blasts kept coming at them.
"This is looking bad." said Tucker.
"Just keep firing, we've gotten out of worse then this." said Jazz, as she fired back at the guards.
They kept running, then as they thought they had lost the guards they turned a corner and ran into someone. They looked up to see the face of Maddie Fenton.
"Mom, is that you?" said Jazz.
"Jazz dear, what are you doing here? have you finally give up on your silly little fight with your father?" said Maddie.
"Mom, You have to get out of here, this whole place is going to blow." said Jazz.
"Is this another attempt to get me to not like Vlad, I know you don't like him, but he is your father. Now stop this right now and maybe he will forgive you, then we can be one happy family." said Maddie.
"Mom, you don't really mean that, your under mind control, Vlad is manipulating you can't you see that?" said Jazz, then they could hear the shouts of the guards coming closer.
"Uh Jazz, could you hurry this up?" said Alex.
"Don't be ridiculous, I love Vlad." Said Maddie in a monotone voice, but you could tell slightly that something in her was trying to fight it.
"We don't have time for this!" said Ember, she then knocked Maddie out.
"Ember! That's my mom you just hit!" said Jazz.
"You can do the psychoanalysis later, right now we have to get out of here." said Ember.
"Your right, Alex grab my mom and lets get out of here." said Jazz.
Alex picked up Maddie and they began to run for the exit again, with the guards still on their tail. Back with Danny and Sam the battle was going well, they had Vlad on the defensive and he was starting to fade fast. It seems that the evil halfa was no match for two very angry 20 something's.
"What's the matter Vlad, to old to keep up with us?" said Sam.
"Why you little…" said Vlad as he fired at Sam.
Sam rolled out of the way and fired a laser blast at Vlad, hitting him in the shoulder. Then Danny zoomed up behind Vlad and hit him in the back with a flying kick. Vlad was in bad shape, his costume was messed up and his body was bruised and burned.
"Ready to give up?" said Danny.
Vlad was in a tough spot, even though Sam and Danny had been fighting and were damaged as well, both of then together could still defeat him. Vlad had to think of a way to get rid of one of them, then an evil smirk crossed his face, he knew who to eliminate, permanently. Vlad turned invisible and Sam and Danny looked franticly for where he might appear again.
"Where did he go?" said Sam, holding her gun tightly.
"I don't know, but keep an eye out he could be anywhere." said Danny.
Suddenly Vlad appeared out of nowhere right behind Sam. before they could do anything Vlad fired a ectoblast point blank right into Sam's back. Everything went in slow motion as the blast hit her and went straight though and out her stomach, blood spraying out of her. Danny could only stare in horror as the woman he loved began to fall, a shocked expression on her face.
"Sam! Nooooo!" yelled Danny.
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Clockwork: It is almost the end, and I would hate to be Vlad right now, of course I would hate to be Vlad at anytime. But right now Vlad is about to hate being himself, for it is time to pull the hurt Vlad lever. Clockwork pulls the hurt Vlad lever. The scene changes to Vlad taking a nice bath…wait a minute; he's not in the tub! Argh! My eyes! I'm blind!
:Technical Difficulties, please stand by:
Is he in the tub now, good, now we see that Vlad is taking a bubble bath, and playing with his rubber ducky.
Vlad: Oh Mr. squeaky, you're the only one who truly understands me. Ok, now that's just weird, even for Vlad. Anyway suddenly there was a rumbling noise and the room began to shake. Suddenly the wall collapsed a herd of moose ran through the bathroom trampling the evil billionaire. Soon the moosey doom was over and Vlad was lying on the floor, in a towel thank god.
Vlad: I think I'll take a little nap. Then Vlad collapsed on the floor. but it was not over as the Fluffy Army of Doom appeared…I said the Fluffy Army of Doom appeared….where are they?
Rob: Yeah, where did they go?
Clockwork: Hey, I found a not from them. Dear Rob, Ember and Clockwork, went on Vacation, will be back next week, hugs and kisses, the Fluffy Army of Doom. We see the Fluffy Army of Doom playing on a beach in Hawaii.
Ember: Well that explains where they went.
Rob: Well it doesn't matter, Vlad is unconscious anyway.
Clockwork: Well anyway, now that that is done it is time for the chapter summery.
This is bad this is really bad, Sam has been hit by Vlad, and from the looks of it she's not going to make it. Danny has just lost the love of his life, and Vlad's going to have to pay for it. Watch as the enraged halfa beats the crap out of Vlad, I wonder if Vlad will survive? The only way to find out is to read the next chapter of Daniel Masters.
Clockwork: So until next time Danny Phantom fans, Read and Review.