Chapter Eight

"Rematch: The Phantoms vs. Plasmius"

Plasmius launches a counterattack on them only to have the Phantoms block the attack as they split themselves into two and their doubles launched their own counterattack only to have Plasmius dodge the attack. Valerie takes off into the air just as Plasmius launched another attack on them only to miss as the four Phantoms charge at him.

"This is perfect," Valerie sadistically thought, "I'll just let them destroy each other and I'll finish off what's left of them."

Each of the Phantoms and Plasmius attack one another launching ecto-blasts and punches that they each blocked. Soon both Phantoms' doubles were hit and they vanished leaving them once again outnumbered. Plasmius soon laughed at them as he watched them regrouped.

"What are you two going to do now?" he asked them as if taunting them.

Dani cracked one of her mischievous grins as she outstretched an arm as if she was going to attack. Danny looks at her and she just winks at him, and he knew that she was up to something. She emits a bright light out of her hand engulfing them and blinding Plasmius at the same time. After his vision cleared, they were gone and this made Plasmius angry as he becomes one.

"Running are we?" Plasmius yelled out. "Have you become a coward in front of me, Daniel?"

As if on cue, he fell into the ground until he was chest deep, "What?" He soon saw several lights coming at him, "Oh, cheese logs!" he cursed as he tried to go intangible but found he couldn't. "Why can't I go-- oh, butter biscuits!" he cursed after he found out the reason why he couldn't go intangible as he braised himself for the oncoming attack.

He was soon hit by the blasts before he took an ecto-blast from below knocking him into the air. He soon recovers only to receive a quadruple whammy from all sides before being hammered down by four simultaneous blows to the head sending him into the ground deepening the crater created by the Phantoms earlier.

He gets out of the crater growling as the Phantoms landed not too far from him becoming one once again, "You two think that you can get the better of me by pulling childish pranks on me when I can destroy you in one swift stroke!"

"Then why don't you," Dani retorted only to receive a warning from Danny in the form of her name.

"Why?" Plasmius asked with his anger near the boiling point. "I don't want to upset Maddie and she'll be mine once I get what I want here!"

"Like she'll ever go to you for comfort!" Danny retorted sarcastically.

"She made the mistake in marrying that idiot father of yours, Daniel. She'll come to me after the untimely death of your father."

"She won't go for it; not after the last time you tried that. She's still angry at you, and she won't go with anyone who insults Jack Fenton!"

"Using your father's name?" Plasmius said raising an eyebrow. "You're becoming more like me than you know, Daniel."

"There's a reason for that, fruit loop!" Dani interrupted.

"Oh, I see," he mocks with some of his anger subsiding, "you call them by their first names when you are as you are. No matter, once I get what I want, Danielle, I'll make sure that you are nothing more than the ectoplasm that you came from."

"You'll have to go through me first, fruit loop!" Danny shouted as he and Dani launched an ecto-blast at him only to have him block it.

"Have you tried anger management, Daniel?" Plasmius mocks.

"Why don't you see a shrink?" Danny countered but this came from above him.

He turns to the source only to see Danny and Dani hovering above him. He looks in the direction where they were standing earlier to see that they were still there. Plasmius then looks up at the hovering pair to see them charging up for an attack; then at the pair on the ground to see that they were also charging up for an attack.

"Oh, fudge buckets," he cringed knowing what was to come just as the hovering pair released their attack.

He was hit in the face by the attacks before staggering backwards and unknowingly turned to receive a chestful of ecto-blast from the pair on the ground sending him backwards into yet another pair of ecto-blast from the hovering pair knocking him into the ground leaving a rut in the ground. He gets up growling as his eyes glowed red.

"We're teenagers and we're allowed to be somewhat childish," Dani taunted.

"Easy Dani," Danny said warningly, "we don't want him to unleash his Ghostly Wail on us."

"Let him," she retorted, "then he'll expose himself to Valerie and she won't trust him ever again!"

"Or he'll lie and she'll be on us faster than you can say 'Going Ghost.'"

"Darn it," she muttered mentally hitting herself in the head not thinking through both sides of her plan.

Plasmius just laughs at them apparently having overheard them, "You are correct, Daniel. My pawn won't believe you if you were to expose me and she trusts me enough to believe me."

Danny just growls at his statement, "You just have to make my life more miserable with your constant attempts to make me your son! However," his face somewhat softened but he still kept his smirk, "there is one thing that I can thank you for."

"Which is?" Plasmius asked.

"That's for me to know and you to find out!" as Danny launches an ecto-blast only to have it blocked by Plasmius.

"You think you two can overpower me?" Plasmius questioned as he launched an ecto-blast at them in which they blocked but they were sent backwards landing on their backs as they slid backwards on the ground.

"We need to outsmart him!" Dani said as she got up off the ground.

"Try blinding him again and we'll go from there," Danny suggested.

"You don't think that he'll fall for it again?"

"Try firing it at him and he'll think that it was an ecto-blast."

"Planning are we?" Plasmius called out as he spied them whispering to each other.

Dani just growled and launches her attack at him. Plasmius lazily blocks it but it exploded upon contact with his shield like a supernova blinding him. When his vision cleared, they were gone once again. He growls in frustration that he had been duped again by them. He hovers a few feet off the ground and duplicates himself into four so that he had enough pairs of eyes around him as they stood with their backs to each other.

He was soon hit from above forcing him to become one again that forces him towards the ground, but he was soon hit from below just before he hits the ground. He then receives two blasts on his flanks just as he was launched upwards. Plasmius soon falls to the ground face first after the blasts from his flanks had stopped. He then receives a severe beating from the Phantoms from all sides as they launched attacks with their fists, feet, and a few up close ecto-blasts. He then gets hit towards the ground by a two pairs of simultaneous ecto-blasts causing the crater to become deeper.

Valerie, who was still hovering above the action, was shocked at what she had just witnessed. That Dracula-like ghost just got a beating from the Phantoms and she was also shocked that the Phantoms hadn't used those tactics on her yet. She was also unsure if they had that screaming attack or whatever that Ghost Boy had called it since they hadn't used it on her. Maybe they were afraid to use it on her since it tires them quickly or it could be something entirely different. The only way she can get them to use that attack on her was to taunt them enough so they would use it. Out of all of the encounters with them, she can tell that Ghost Gal has a temper problem when called a "clone." Maybe, no she shakes her head pushing out that thought, the Ghost Boy wouldn't clone himself; would he? She also couldn't shake some other feelings that she had since she could hear pieces of their conversations. Why would a ghost have a sick obsession with a married human woman, and what did he mean by turning Ghost Gal into the ectoplasm that she came from? Did he have something to do with the Ghost Gal and if he did; what does she have against him? She lowers herself closer to the ground allowing her to overhear their conversations better just as the Dracula-like ghost picks himself off of the ground.

"So," he growls at the Phantoms as he wipes some ectoplasm off from his lip, "I was going to be lenient on your destruction, Danielle, but now I'm going to make it quick and painless!"

"That's not going to happen, fruit loop!" Dani shouts as she launches another ecto-blast out of anger.

Plasmius just lazily puts up a shield, but her blast soon turns into a webbed net encasing him in it. He struggles trying to get free but it just makes it much worse.

"Uh," Danny began unsure what witty banter to say next, "what did the spider say to the fly?"

"Let's just finish him off, Danny!" as she charges up for an attack.

"As much as I want to, we can't do it."

"What?" she stops charging up for an attack.

"It's not right. Sure I can do it but it's not in me to finish him off. Dani, we can't just kill him without having to live with it for the rest of our lives. Let him spew over his plans since they'll always fail in the end!"

"How poetic of you, Daniel?" Plasmius mocked as he finally free himself from his bounds. "That is just one of your greatest weaknesses; compassion to those you care about."

"At least I don't go around misusing my powers just for personal gain, and to use someone as a pawn just to clone me!" Danny counters with his eyes flashing a darker green.

Plasmius just chuckled at the comment as they all were unaware how close Valerie was to them. "Miss Gray was just my little pawn helping me perfect my clone of you. I spent months collecting data through her as soon as she started to hunt you with the suit I provided her. I compiled all the data I need on you, especially the attack that I just recently acquired, but I still need the last component to complete my clone. Which I might add, just needs a few more weeks until I can perfect it. It's possible to complete a stable clone of you and I can see that from here," he cracks a smile but Dani became infuriated at the comment as her eyes glowed a deeper green.

"What's that got to do with me?" she snaps.

"You know my dear since you are his clone."

"I am not a clone you seriously crazed-up fruit loop! I am Danny Phantom's twin sister and there is nothing you can do to change it!"

"You can't change the past my dear," shaking his head, "and you most certainly cannot change where you came from! No matter what you think; you are still nothing more than a dispensable clone that I most certainly had no willpower to stabilize even if you came to me begging to save your imperfect life!"

Dani was now shaking with anger as Plasmius chuckled at what he had just said and Danny was also shaking with anger but not as bad as Dani was. Their eyes began to flash green and it continued at a faster rate until they unleashed twin beams of green out of their eyes. Plasmius just puts up a shield but their attacks burn through his shield causing him to scream in pain at his burning hand.

Dani charges at him in a blind rage leading off with a punch to his face that launches him into the air. She then follows him with continuous attacks that seemed to get more devastating over time. After what seemed like minutes, she grabs him by the collar as she stares him down while she was breathing hard with anger looking into his now severely disfigured and bloodied face.

"You're not going to kill me; are you, Danielle?" Plasmius asked weakly as he can manage through his severely bruised lip.

"Dani," Danny said worriedly as he joins her, "it's not worth it."

"I'm not going to kill him, Danny," she replies as she takes deep breaths in an effort to calm down.

She continues taking deep breaths until on one of her breaths; she unleashes her Ghostly Wail on Plasmius at close range. Plasmius screamed in pain from the attack, Danny had to plug his ears to deafen the sound waves, and Valerie had to also plug her ears since the shockwaves had also reached her even though she was behind them. Dani releases Plasmius and he was carried away from the sound of her Wail as she started to revert back to her human-self from her attack. She stops long enough to charge up an ecto-blast as she continues to revert to her human-self. Her blast became as large as an insanely large beach ball and she releases it just as her reversion left her emblem behind. The blast hits Plasmius and it sends him towards the horizon to an unknown destination.

"Take that, fruit loop," she says to herself before she literally falls out of the sky falling backwards fully reverting back to her human form succumbing to darkness.

Danny flies down and catches her while he cradled her like a small child. She had exhausted herself much more than he would've done. He takes a look towards where Valerie was and he gave her a long look unsure if she was going to attack them or not. He then leaves; leaving her behind.

Valerie was shaking with fear at what she had just witnessed as she falls to a sitting position on her board. It just took a series of insults to bring that Ghost Gal into using her screaming attack on that ghost. It was not the attack that shocked her; it was what she had seen happen to the ghost. Was it possible for a ghost to be part human? If so, that would be one way that the two hid from her and the reason why they only show up when there's trouble. She would have to be much more careful in the future if she was going to be able to take both of them out. The last thing that worried her was that she was used by a ghost just to make a clone of the Ghost Boy. Why would a ghost want to clone another? Was that even possible? If it was possible, then the Ghost Gal was a clear example of the result of cloning the Ghost Boy.

Elsewhere, Plasmius, currently Vlad, had landed, where else, at his now destroyed mansion in Wisconsin. He hit the ground with such devastating force that he had landed in his secret underground lab. He began to rub his temples in an effort to ease the pain that was caused by Dani's attack. Vlad then feels something wet where he sat and he stands up to see a green liquid on the ground. He looks up horrified that he had landed near his nearly perfect clone and it had reverted back to the ectoplasm that it came from.

"Oh, sugar cookies," he cursed as he hit a computer console.

"She should be okay after she has a nap, Danny," Jazz said as she tucks the exhausted Danielle into her bed.

"I'm more worried that her anger is going to get her into trouble," Danny replied as he looks out the window.

"What happened, Danny?"

Danny took a deep breath and began from the time he had been attack at the miniature golf course to when Danielle had exhausted herself.

Jazz lets out a deep sigh before she begins speaking. "I'm unsure what to say about this except that she needs to learn how to not let those insults bother her. Some say that anger is a great weapon, but only when used properly."

"Maybe you're right, Jazz," he said after a sigh. "Maybe you're right."