Amity Park, The Future
The whole world was a horrible dystopia, save for one bright spot, a small, blue domed force-field in the distance. As it generated itself, lightning struck many times.
Inside was a bright, futuristic looking city. There were high-rises and huge man-made canyons within the dome. Surrounding it were many small towers appearing to generate the force field.
A yellow, flying car was passingand swooping around a futuristic building, on it an electronic sign read "Amity Park" in big, white letters.
Three streams of aerial car traffic were going in various directions, with flying cars of varied colors like yellow, orange, Violet, and dark blue.
There was skywalk leading to a tall, white building. People walked to and from the place on the bridge. Flying cars passed by underneath the bridge and far over it near the camera. At the top of the blue force field dome, It generated to the apogee point. Some exceptionally tall buildings were seen coming close to it. Casper High School, identical in all its over-a-century-old glory, save for the many futuristic buildings behind it. A yellow-orange car was parked with its wheels deployed and its door open vertically. Students hung out on the campus. One girl was running with her dog. The car took flight and hovered off to the right. From the top-right of the screen, an older Khione flew in a wide arc.
Khione's blue hair was cut short in a jagged way, as if burned off in some fight. The fur had been burned off her costume as well, but it remained black and blue-silver. She now had a cape as well, though it too was burned at the edges, and around her head was a circlet marking her as the Queen of the Ghost Zone. The same pendant that younger Khione had, completely identical down to the scratches, was hanging around her neck.
Two young children, a blonde girl a small pigtail in the back wearing a pink lycra dress and a young boy with fudgey brown hair wearing a blue jumpsuit and white boots both ran up on the sidewalk behind her, waving.
"Hi Queenie!" The kids said, using a nickname Khione liked better then formal titles.
Khione flew past looking down and smiling. She saluted with two fingers, then looked forward, flying away in a blast of blue fire. At a row of six force-field towers, Khione approached a small balcony on the back of one. She landed on her feet.
Khione opened the panel and placed her finger into the slot.
"Ghost Shield 100% Operational." Khione said, her words transmitted to Vlad Masters via her smart watch.
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Vlad was now an old hermit with a long beard and no ghost powers, heading the defenses for Amity Park and protecting Queenie.
"Good job, Khione. Check the last tower and get ba—"
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"Vlad?" Khione was alarmed. She tapped the watch, and Dark Danny's face appeared on the screen.
"Hello, Queen Khione." Dark Danny said formally.
"You again." Khione snapped. "You'll never win. My master and I have a plan—"
"You really think it wise to depend on that old man?" Dark Danny taunted. "He will never get involved. Face it. You are on your own. Say yes!"
"NEVER!" Khione shouted.
"Then the blood of Amity Park is on your hands, Queen." Dark Danny growled. "Didn't you promise that you would protect them? One more chance—"
"Shut up! I will never give in!" Khione shut off the watch.
A loud wail sounded outside the dome.
Khione clamps her hands over her ears, wincing. The howl shakes the entire city. We pan across the buildings, seeing people holding their ears and ducking down on a skywalk, windows shattering from the skyscrapers on either side. Kwan was in his flying car, the windshields of cars around him exploding, then his followed suit. Back on Tower 9, Khione was half doubled-over. She gasped as the levels on the tower meter began to drop rapidly, then the generator on top of the tower exploded.
Khione leapt from the balcony as explosions rattled down the tower, the shockwave knocking her forward. Wide-eyed, Khione came to a stop floating in the air to stare at the still-smoking tower.
The ring of shield towers exploded in a domino chain. The shield dissolved at the generator points and sizzled away, leaving the city exposed. Lightening struck, and people screamed and ran in the streets. Emergency bunker entrances with flashing red lights rose out of the streets and people raced inside. Above the milling streets, Khione looked at her watch as it flickered on again.
"You like the new power? I call it my Ghostly Wail." Dark Danny smirked.
Khione was about to respond when she was distracted by a tsssew sound overhead. She looked up to see a blazing purple blast coming at her. The impact knocked her out and, transforming back to Kurai, she fell, coming to a crash-landing in front of the Nasty Burger 2. Bruised, she opened her eyes.
"Fright Knight..." Kurai growled. "You traitor."
Kurai, as an adult, had the same badly-cut hair, and was wearing a red leather jacket, black skinny jeans and a white lace shirt, with what appeared to be a black toolbelt.
"You should know, Queen." Fright Knight said. "That in the Ghost Zone, the most powerful rules all."
Kurai scrambled to her feet and transformed into Khione. The Fright Knight hauled back and threw another purple crystal blast at her. Scowling, she took off just in time the blast vaporizing the Nasty Burger 2.
"Gotta get to Vlad!" Khione muttered, flying at top speed.
Purple explosions erupted around her as she zipped down the street then up a building, the Fright Knight hot on her heels. She arched up through the smoke, then disappeared in a burst of speed toward FentonWorks. The Fright Knight formed another purple blast crystal, this one bigger than he is, and flung it. Khione dodged and it impacted the Ops Center, knocking the array off the top and splitting it open like a dropped watermelon. Khione zipped in through the hole, flying down through the house and down into the lab, where red alarm lights are flashing. Vlad was at a console; looking frightened. Khione ran to him.
"Vlad, the Fright Knight's here. Which means He can't be far behind. We must inform my master at once! Surely he will get inv—" Khione said in a rush of panic, cut off by Dark Danny's Ghostly Wail.
"Khione! It's you he wants! Get out of here!" Vlad shouted. "I'll hold him off! I know his weaknesses; after all, they are mine as well..."
Khione reached for her pendant to open a portal.
The red lights shut down, leaving the lab in a green dim, and they both turneD to look at the Fenton Portal. The ground split open, starting at the base of the Portal and zigzagging toward them, green light shining from the fissure, and a dark red-eyed figure bursts up from it. Khione could see him from the back, wearing a white and black jumpsuit with a white cape, green flame blazing around him. He landed on the shattered ground and approached the two on foot. It was recognizably an older Danny, with the DP logo, flaming white hair, green skin, pointed ears, fangs, and a goatee.
"Hello, my beloved Queen Khione." Dark Danny said, taking her hand in his. "I'll ask you one final time; and remember, you can stop all of this destruction if you answer correctly: Will you be my Queen?"
Khione jerked her hand away. "I've told you once, and I'll tell you again: You are nothing more than an abomination of my Danny! I will NEVER be your Queen! You seek to destroy all I seek to protect! I will fight you with every breath in my body!"
"I only exist because you created Danny Phantom on your master's orders all those years ago, Khione." Dark Danny pointed out. "I only gained power off the title of Savior that you gave me. And I only destroy because you continue to reject me! Think of what we could do if you only...rule with me."
There was a heartbeat where all of this sank in. The guilt and sorrow. All that Danny had once been to her; and all Dark Danny had ripped away from her in an attempt to force her to his side.
Finally Khione transformed into Kurai. She grabbed Dark Danny by the chin and forced him to look her in the eyes.
"I always thought you ruled Danny. But...not like this." Kurai finally managed in a broken voice.
"Then this is the end. Of everything!" Dark Danny lifted his voice in a earth-shattering Ghostly Wail.
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"Now do you understand?" Observant said.
Child Clockwork flew up in his purple hooded cape, Time Staff in hand.
"Due to your meddling, we have this problem." Observant said.
"And would you rather the Ghost King have taken over?" Clockwork shifted to adult form. "I think not. It is well in hand. My Apprentice will—"
"Yes we know all about your Apprentice." Observant snapped wearily. "The Ghost Princess, and in the future Ghost Queen. Well this is all her fault. She created Danny Phantom on your orders and she is the target of the future Dark Danny's evil conquest!"
Clockwork looked at them, tiring of their talk already. He shifted into elder form. "What do you want me to do then?"
"You are the Master of Time, Clockwork. Isn't it obvious?" Observant said.
"To save the future, Danny Phantom must perish." The other Observant said firmly. "And, if necessary, the Ghost Princess as well!"