Ooh, whee! This is where it gets really good. I won't keep y'all in suspense anymore, so here we go. The Danny Phantom marathon is in less than half an hour and the new season premiers at 8 tonight! Yay!
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or Lois and Clark. But I am raising money. My pennies are growing by the day.
Now, onward!
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Chapter X: Secrets Revealed
5 minutes earlier
Lois and Clark stood in shock at the slammed door. Lois was the first to speak.
"Well, that was rude," she said as they turned back around to face the door.
"Yes, well, accidental rudeness does happen," said a silky voice. They whipped back around only to come face to face with a blue ghost with black, upswept hair.
Lois snorted. "Oh, come on, Lex Luthor scared me better than that."
The ghost smiled, showing pointed fangs. "Well, my dear, perhaps we'll need to rectify that." With that, he grabbed Lois's arm, and phased through the floor.
"Lois!" Clark shouted. He whipped off his glasses to use his x-ray vision. The layers peeled away to the basement, where he saw Lois being pulled into the Ghost Portal.
"She's gonna kill me for this," muttered Clark, shoving the glasses back onto his nose. Without a second thought, he burst into Danny's room. He saw the last traces of the blue rings disappear, but didn't mention it, shouting, "Lois is gone!"
"So? I thought she disappeared all the time," said Danny. To Clark, the boy didn't seem too concerned.
"This time is different!" said Clark. "A ghost kidnapped her!"
Danny's face whitened. "What did the ghost look like?"
Clark tried his best not to appear too fast with the information. "Um, black hair, blue skin, fangs…"
"Plasmius," muttered Danny.
"Who?" asked Clark.
"Um, a ghost that was terrifying the town a couple of months back. He shouted out his name." Clark could tell that Danny was trying to lie; Clark had made up worse.
"Look, Danny…Lois and I…we know…okay?"
Danny was worried. I was so careful. But he tried to bluff his way through. "Know what?"
Clark pulled up a chair and sat down, motioning for Danny to do the same. Danny, however, chose to remain standing.
"Um, yesterday morning, when Lois and I were at the library, we were reading the Danny Phantom articles. When Phantom showed up, he had to leave a few minutes later to tend to a ghost. We heard him mutter something, and two bright rings of light appeared around his waist." Clark noticed Danny getting more and more nervous. "When the rings disappeared, it was you."
Danny sank onto his bed, defeated. "You're the press. You can't keep a secret."
Clark shook his head. "On the contrary, I've been keeping a secret of my own, and right now, I don't think Lois would mind my decision to tell it to you right now."
Danny squinted in his direction, doubt written across his face. "Prove it."
Clark got up and locked the door. "Do you know the articles Lois and I are so famous for?"
"Sure. They're all about Superman. How do you two get personal interviews with him all the time without falling off buildings?"
Clark chuckled. "That's more of Lois's thing, but we get the interviews because…I'm Superman."
Clark was surprised when Danny started laughing. "You, Superman?" C'mon, give me a break! You're not Superman. For one thing, there's the whole, mild-mannered thing."
"That's just to draw suspicion away," said Clark. He resigned himself to the only thing he knew would make Danny believe him. He took off his glasses. Now Danny stared at his face.
"How on earth did you deceive everyone for so long with just a pair of glasses?"
"How on earth did you deceive everyone for so long with just a simple name change?" countered Clark.
"Good point," Danny conceded. "So, what's the game plan?"
Clark blinked. "Excuse me?"
"You heard me. We're both going to rescue Lois. Let's get started."
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Meanwhile, in the Master's Mansion in Madison, Wisconsin. (A/N: Say that 3 times fast!)
Lois was tied up more securely than she had ever been before. She twisted, she turned, but nothing she did loosened the robes binding her to the simple wooden chair. She was in a white room without any doors, or windows, and the air vents were small, and numerous all over the ceiling. Whoever this ghost was, he certainly knew her tricks.
Finally, Lois gave up. Wasting her energy right now would do her absolutely no good in the future.
"Great, Lois, just great," she muttered to herself, more to pass the time than anything else. "You come to Amity Park for one ghost, and end up being captured by another. Perry's just going to love you."
The ghost chose that moment to phase into the room.
"Ah, are you comfortable?"
Lois snorted. "Are you kidding? Luthor kept me in worse places. Compared to those, this one is heaven." Her voice dripped with sarcasm. "Aren't you at least going to tell me your name? Or do I have to keep referring to you in my brain as 'that funky blue dude'?"
Lois could tell she had gotten under the ghost's skin. Or, whatever the ghost was covered in to keep him looking human.
"Very well, since you insist. My name is Vlad Plasmius."
"And what is your purpose, your goal, in this afterlife?" she asked him, while thinking, Danny Phantom, Danny Fenton. Vlad Plasmius, Vlad Masters? It's possible.
"Well, my goal was to marry a certain beautiful woman, but I chose you instead."
"I'm flattered, but I'm also married."
"So is she, but that never stopped me before. Well, technically it wasn't that."
Lois sighed, thinking, As soon as I get back to Metropolis, I'm putting this guy on the pervert list. What is with me and attracting rich, crazy billionaires? She patiently listened to him ramble a bit more, but he was cut off by the sound of an explosion.
"Now what? I just changed the ecto-filtrator two months ago!" he shouted, phasing back through the walls, but Lois knew what was going on. She knew the sound of her husband anywhere.
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Uh, oh, Vlad's in for it now! Hee, hee. I can't wait for the next chapter. And I know you can't either. It'll have to wait though; I've got Algebra homework tonight.
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