Danny flew over Amity Park desperately searching for his only child, it was only as he flew over the outskirts of the town that the fenton phones crackled into life.
"Danny, I think I've found her. Centre of town, there's this giant stage here. Wait- Tucker… Tucker is here, with Alex. Oh god…" His mother's voice warned him. Without saying a word Danny changed his flight path and was above the centre of town in seconds he could already see Alex's shock of black hair from where he hovered in the air.
Tucker looked up and saw Danny looking back down on him, casually he drew a small green disk out of his coat pocket and threw it up towards Danny.
As the disk hit Danny's chest a wave of crippling pain ran through him, he felt his ability to fly diminishing and he crashed to the floor of the stage painfully. The force of his impact jolted Alex from her precarious standing position. Danny watched as she toppled over, her hands and ankles were bound with some glowing green metal. Seeing him he watched with pain as his daughter's face flared with anger, he was sure that he would be being shouted at were it not for the gag around her mouth.
"A nice invention yes? I thought it'd be good for getting your attention, after all I've always been so much better with technology than you. Now you're going to put this on, but not before changing back to your human self." Tucker smiled nastily as he tossed Danny a slightly similar looking green band.
Danny looked around at the large crowd that was now gathered, if he changed into Danny Fenton now then his secret identity would be out forever, no going back. But then again, his daughter's life was at stake. A nasty sound reminded him of this fact the sound of a safety being taken off of a gun, a real gun, not a ghost zapping gun, but your usual bullets kind of gun and to make it worse it was pointed at Alex. With a sigh he allowed the white rings to slide over his body, in Danny Phantom's place, sat Danny Fenton, looking somewhat pathetic and dishevelled in jeans and a t-shirt. He flinched as the crowd gasped and at the horrified look in Alex's eyes.
"Ah, there's nothing I like better than seeing you suffer. Now put it on, round you neck." Tucker ordered waving the gun at him, Danny obliged.
"Now you," Tucker began as he pulled off Alex's gag, as soon as her mouth was free she began a torrent of swearing and insults that Danny was surprised that she knew. Tucker narrowed his eyes and fired his gun at Alex's head, swearing some more she grabbed hold of what was left of her left earlobe, Danny joined in at this point in the verbal tirade against Tucker.
"Now, the next one will be between those glowing green eyes of yours. So change into your ghost form already." Tucker said simply and maliciously, Alex growled but allowed herself to slide into her ghost form.
"What good is this going to do you?" Alex demanded.
"And here I thought I'd made my plan clear enough earlier. But just so our captive audience here can keep up, I'm going to murder you and end the world.
"You bastard!" Danny snapped pulling Alex into his arms defensively.
"It'll end this pain I'm in. The guilt from nine years ago, it's all your fault too! If you hadn't been born then I wouldn't have had to try to kill you and Sam wouldn't have sacrificed herself for you, it was meant to be you not her!" Tucker snapped angrily Danny felt himself snap at this and lunged at Tucker who simply whistled. Appearing out of nowhere two three-headed creatures materialized.
Danny practically felt his heart stop, he heard Alex's scream from behind him and a look at her confirmed her curled up in a ball in terror. His eyes turned back to the monsters, they were huge salivating creatures being some resemblance to a cerebus, the three-headed dog that guarded the underworld in Greek mythology. They were huge, and a mixture of purple and green, with horrifying realization he recognised them from the terrifying picture that Alex had drawn of her mother's death when she was being evaluated in the psychiatry ward.
"You murdered her. You send these… things after her, you deprived me of the one person I loved and Alex of her mother." Danny breathed in quiet horror.
"It was an accident, I was trying to get them to get HER, Sam got in the way. And it's tormented me for years, that I killed the most perfect woman in the world." Tucker sobbed.
"I will not let you harm Alex." Danny said firmly as he stepped between Tucker and Alex.
"Yeah you don't get a say. If he makes a move, kill him." Tucker ordered his monsters as he transformed into his ghost self. It was a horrible sight to see, he looked more like a zombie than a ghost with horrible green skin and red eyes. Danny narrowed his eyes and did the same, or at least, he tried. As he felt the transition into ghost begin the band around his neck stopped him, and gave him a nasty shock to boot. Tucker grinned at this.
In one swift movement Danny felt himself knocked off the platform, but not surprisingly by Tucker, the blast came from Alex. He watched from his crumpled position on the floor as she stood up shakily and stared tucker straight in the eye.
"No one else is dying for me." She said sternly to Danny without taking her eyes off Tucker. "Killing me won't end the world, I've something to do with the re-shuffle of the system, but nothing to do with ending the world. That much I know." She said quietly.
"You're lying, you're lying to save your own skin." Tucker shouted angrily.
"I'm not. You're wrong, wherever you got this stupid idea from, you were wrong." Alex calmly explained as she stood her ground.
"LIAR!" Tucker screamed firing his gun.
Alex twitched and stumbled backwards, her hands rose to the left side of her chest, holding her hands out for inspection she saw that they were covered in blood. Alex fell to the floor after a second or two, almost as if reality had just caught up with her. Danny screamed and clambered back onto the stage with horror he saw that Alex's chest wasn't rising and falling as it should if she was breathing, after a second Alex's body faded back into her human form, her white shirt stained with blood. Danny pulled her up into his arms and held her tightly and sobbed uncontrollably as the blood of his only child soaked through his own shirt.
A/N: heh, don't worry this isn't the end. ya didn't all think that I'd let it end so easily did you? We've still got one last chapter to go, but you're all gonna have to wait till monday to get it as i have to move to my new university (yay) unfortunately one of the things i have to pack is the computer, meaning i can't update until monday as it'll be asleep in it's own little cardboard box. (aww) Until then, enjoy the suspence!
