In a green-swirling part of the Ghost Zone scattered with purple doors, Danny was drifting, still bound. He struggled against the ropes.
Danny grunted "Gotta get out of this! I'm going ghost!"
Danny transformed. He struggled some more and found himself still stuck, then finally gave up.
"Well, it was worth a shot." Danny said.
"Well, well, well." Box Ghost said. Danny was floating toward him; Box Ghost was large and muscular now, with a hook for one hand, an eyepatch, and a heart with an arrow through it tattooed on his left arm. "All this time we've been planning how we'd take the fight to you, and here you are. Wrapped up like a present."
"Box Ghost?" Danny said weakly.
"Beware." Box Ghost said ominously.
Raising a hand he threw a bluewhite energy beam at Danny, knocking him into an older and much chubbier Ember.
"Ember?! You look..." Danny attempted.
"Like I went to seed right after you destroyed my vocal cords with that Ghostly Wail of yours?" Ember snarled.
"I was gonna say statuesque, but uh-" Danny tried to save it.
Ember threw a punch chord on her guitar, knocking Danny back. He crashed into Johnny 13, now balding and in a wheelchair.
"Johnny 13?! Ok, whatever happened to you, I swear I had nothing to do with-" Danny tried.
The black blanket over Johnny's legs rose up and resolved into the bad luck shadow. "Been waiting a long time for this, punk."
"Wait!" Danny kept trying to explain. The other ghosts closed in on him. "No! Nooo!"
Ember played another chord and Box Ghost formed a glowing box over his head.
Xxx
In Danny's room, Disguised Dark Danny rose up through the floor and looked around distastefully.
"My old room." Dark Danny Looked in the mirror, touching his face. "And my old face."
Behind him, the door opened. It was Kurai.
"Where is Danny?" Kurai said.
Dark Danny turned. "You really are very clever, my Queen."
"Don't call me that, you cretin." Kurai snapped, transforming into Khione.
"The Danny you know is floating helplessly in the Ghost Zone ten years in the future." Dark Danny said, transforming back.
"He'll escape. He'll beat you!" Khione said, gearing up to attack.
Dark Danny grabbed her wrists and bound them behind her back. "How? Is the answer A, the Fenton Portal? Destroyed it. B, the only remaining portal? The one my idiot cheesehead archenemy has? As soon as I find it, that's going too."
"Oh don't worry." Khione snapped. "Danny will find away. Your destiny is already set, thanks to me and my master!"
Dark Danny continued as though Khione had not spoken. Is it C, you? No. You can't stop me from cheating on the C.A.T. and solidifying my future, so it must be D-" Dark Danny threw an ectoblast at her, freezing her with green light. "None of the above!"
He released her and she fell to the ground unconscious. He returned to his human disguise and pulled the answer packet out of his bag, looking at it.
"Well, what do you know! The answer to the first question "is" D." Dark Danny said in his adult voice, and then gave an evil laugh.
Xxx
Kurai woke up in Danny's bed, surprised he'd left her alive. She got up and headed down to the lab.
She had to save Danny.
Kurai snatched the boomerang from the table in the lab. She ran up to the open Fenton Portal. Holding up a folded piece of paper, she spoke to the Booomerang:
"I need you to find Danny." Kurai ripped off her headband and used it to fix the note to the boomerang. "Fourteen-year-old Danny, ten years from now." Kurai hauled back and threw the Booomerang into the Portal.
xxx
The Booomerang flew around in the Ghost Zone, the red homing beacon on it beeping. It flew around for ten years. The boomerang, scorched but still beeping sluggishly, floated past a giant crab/warthog monster. The beacon went green and it nearly got chomped by the monster, but it quickly switched directions.
Danny, still bound, was getting bounced around by cranky ghosts. Ember landed a chord, then Box Ghost beaned him with some energy boxes, Johnny's shadow sent him spinning, Skulktech threatened him with lightning, Kitty socked him with her purse and knocked him into Ember again. She seized him and slammed him into a wall.
"Please! I didn't do all this to you, it wasn't me!" Danny said.
"Oh, stop! You're responsible for the horrible things that happened to your world "and" ours." Skulker said.
"To everyone you've ever come in contact with!" Technus said.
"Your family, your friends," Ember backed away. "and most importantly, us."
"But-I didn't do any of that!" Danny protested.
All of the ghosts powered up to attack.
"Get away. Get away! Get AWAAAAAY!" Danny screamed.
His scream turned into a Ghostly Wail, knocking the other ghosts away and vaporizing his bonds. The effort of the attack made him partially revert to human form, his eyes and hair changing but his suit and glow remaining.
"Whoa." Danny said.
All of the ghosts were floating unconscious, the Shadow half-melted and Skulktech's suit smoking.
"My voice is changing? Great." Danny went back to full ghost mode. "I'm going through evil puberty. Everywhere I turn my stupid future is smacking me in the face!" The Booomerang clocked him in the back of the head. "OW! ...A note?" Danny took the note and throws the boomerang to the side. "Polter-heights, in Future Amity Park? Plasmius? Figures he's involved in this!"
Xxx
At Casper High, Lancer walked down the aisles as students scribbled out their test answers. Disguised Dark Danny looked up as he goes by, then smirked down at his test sheet. He looked at the answer key under his desk, then randomly started filling in correct answers. Tucker looked shocked, and Kurai despondent.
"Danny, don't! If you cheat we'll—" Tucker whispered.
Kurai shushed him.
"Mr. Foley, Mr. Fenton." The trio all looked up. "Is there a problem?"
"Uh..." Dark Danny looked over at Kurai and Tucker, who looked back expectantly, and he snickered. "No problem at all." His eyes went red.
At this point, Kurai had done all she could. It was up to Danny now.