A/N: Hello everyone again! I had like...an idea, but no idea how to get there. So that's why this chapter took forever and a half. But it is here now, and everyone should rejoice. My OC is introduced, and it is not the maid. It's never the maid. Next chapter should focus more on Maddie. Ta~
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom
Danny woke up for the second time that morning to somebody knocking on the door to his prison. At least, that's what he thought of it now. He was forced to stay there and was only permitted to leave the room when Vlad wished it. The first time that he woke up, it was his own personal maid that had stated that it was breakfast. Of course, he had chosen to not get up that time, as he did not want to give Vlad any satisfaction that he was actually listening to his stupid rules. Now he laid in the bed trying to not groan as the maid walked into his room again.
She was a small woman, most likely in her late twenties or early thirties, Danny couldn't be sure as to her exact age. She was of medium height and had blonde hair that went to her shoulders. She came in wearing casual maid attire and opened the door wider than she usually did when she entered his prison. This got Danny interested in her entrance as he propped himself up on his elbows and glanced at the doorway, his eyebrow slightly raised in confusion as he did so.
"Jasmine is here to visit you, Master Daniel," she said as she made an arm gesture to lure his sister into his prison. Danny blinked as he looked at his sister in bewilderment. She had her hair up in a bun and had on a white button down blouse along with a black skirt. She had her light teal blue hairband wrapped around her bun, though.
"Don't you look prim and proper," Danny teased as he sat up fully on the bed that he was resting on and smirked gently at his sister. She sighed as she walked over to the bed and sat down on the edge of it. She looked down at the ground, looking as if she were disgusted at herself for even obeying Vlad's rules and expectations that they were supposed to follow. "I can't believe that you're actually listening to him!" He whispered harshly to his sister so that the maid, or anyone else that could have possibly been eavesdropping hear.
Jazz turned to look at her brother with a pained expression, "It's not like I want to!" She argued as she clenched her fists in frustration. "But dressing like a 'lady' got me five minutes…" She trailed as she looked around his prison, her eyes slightly lingered on the maid for a few seconds before the maid got the message and left the room. "How are we going to get out of this?" She asked, now at her normal volume.
"I…" Danny trailed in uncertainty, not yet formulating a plan in his mind to escape Vlad's clutches.
"You don't know?" She asked, her eyes slightly widening in fear as anxiety was starting to spread through her.
"I'm working on it!" Danny snapped and then sighed as he ran a hand through his hair, trying to settle his nerves in any way that he could. "I can't do much when Vlad is watching my every move."
Jazz stood up and covered her arms across her chest, trying to provide comfort to herself, "Try spending two days with that…Man," she spat out as she felt a shiver run through her spine at the days that Danny had missed. "Without mom…I was alone. I was…" She trailed as she turned towards Danny, "Scared."
Danny took the heavy comforter off his body as he walked over to his sister, still in his normal clothes. "You don't have to be. I'm here now, Jazz," he said as he tried to place a hand on his sister's shoulder, but she flinched at his touch and moved away from him.
"For now. But when will Vlad take you away from me?" Jazz asked rhetorically as she looked at her brother in fear. "You have to start doing what he says, Danny."
"What?!" Danny yelled in an outrage, "Why would I ever listen to him!"
Jazz shook her head gently, "Because if you don't, he might never let me talk to you!" She yelled, trying to contain her emotions, but was doing a poor job at doing so. "That's what happened to mom!"
"What do you mean?" Danny asked, taking a step towards his sister, "What did he do to mom?"
"She didn't listen to him, Danny," Jazz said as she looked down at the ground, unable to look her little brother in the eye, "She even slapped him…" She trailed.
Danny smiled in his mother's small victory over the man, "Way to go, mom," he mumbled, but Jazz shook her head at his response.
"No. He refused to let me see her after that, and she was forced to only spend the next day with him…After that, she didn't even look at me! She wasn't the same!" Jazz yelled as she looked Danny in the eyes again. "Please, do this for me! I don't want to be alone anymore!" She pleaded, tears starting to form in her eyes.
Danny looked at his sister and was about to protest, about to say that there was another way. That they had always won in the end. He opened his mouth about to speak his optimism, but then he closed it at the look that she was giving him. For the first time in years, he had seen the child that Jazz was supposed to be, rather than the adult life that she so desperately wanted to cling to. He nodded, "Okay. I'll do what he wants…" He trailed, feeling disgust roll over his body in a wave.
Jazz was about to say something else, but the door opened and the maid came in with a blank expression, "Your time is up, Jasmine," she stated as she held the door open wide. Jazz nodded as she glanced at her brother before wiping away the tears from her eyes with the back of her hand before leaving through the door. Danny expected the maid to simply wander off, but instead she stayed and glanced down at the ground. "Master Masters has requested that you spend the rest of the day with him. He also requested that you get changed out of, and I quote, 'Those rags that you continue to wear to defy him.'"
Danny narrowed his eyes and was about to give the maid a piece of his mind, but shrugged off the adrenaline rush that suddenly came to him. It wasn't the maid's fault, she was just the messenger. "Fine," he said as he crossed his arms, his eyes faintly lighting up an eerie green for a split second before returning to their normal blue hue.
The maid had seemed surprised that the boy had been so cooperative this morning. She nodded her head and was about to leave but stopped when she remembered something, "Another thing, Master Daniel, Master Masters wants you to start attending breakfast each morning from this point onward. He was greatly displeased when he did not see you."
Danny clenched his fists, "You can tell him to shove it," he said as he turned away from the maid. She got the hint and did a slight bow before leaving the room. After she was gone he filled a palm with ecto-energy as he blasted it at the wall. It absorbed it, as he knew it would, but it was still a great way to release his pent up aggression. "Day two, and I'm no step closer to finding a way out of here," he said with a sigh as he walked over to a drawer and pulled it open.
There were a bunch of slacks and other types of dress pants, all neatly folded, waiting for him to wear. The boy pulled out another drawer and found dress shirts that made him look like one of those rich snobs. He rolled his eyes, "I guess that's what I am now…" He trailed as he pulled out a shirt and found it to be exactly his size, which honestly creeped the boy out on a large scale. "How does he know my freakin' clothing size?" He asked in a scoff as he placed the shirt down and sat down beside the dresser in his misery as he propped one leg up. "This reeks…" He trailed as he banged his head against the wall lightly and closed his eyes.
"Daniel, you had best be almost done in there," Vlad's voice came from beyond the door. "I wouldn't want to put you in the negative points!"
Danny grumbled, "Correction, now it reeks…" He trailed as he stood up and grabbed a shirt and pants as he headed to the bathroom that was attached to the room. "Right away, your highness…" He mumbled as he slammed the door in his teenage rebellion against the man.
Sam was drawing with a pencil and a piece of paper during one of the brainwashing sessions as she liked to call it. She was mapping out the place that she was in, getting every detail down to a T. After all, she was the artistic one of the group, just look at how Danny's superhero emblem turned out. She felt a presence behind her and looked to her side and found Valerie gazing down at her work.
"Did you figure a way out of this place yet?" Valerie asked with a raised eyebrow.
"I'm…Working on it," Sam stated as she made another entry way from her memory. At the top of the paper she had the ghost guards' hours that they were on patrol and when they would shift personnel. "So far, we need to have a group meeting during 'rehab' time."
Valerie blinked in confusion, "You mean free time?" She asked, making sure that the two were on the same page.
Sam sent a small glare at the girl, "Hey, you call it what you want, and I'll call it what I want. Make sure Tucker gets the memo," she said as she darted her eyes towards the opposite end of the classroom. Valerie and Sam were lucky enough to sit next to each other during the sessions, it made getting out of this place that much faster.
A girl that was Hispanic entered the room, she had light brown hair that was up in a messy pony tail, and bright blue eyes. She was covered with scratches and bruises, which seemed to draw the attention of every student in the classroom. She glared at the two ghost guards that held her arms, holding her in place. "Sit down in an empty seat, human," the ghost said with a sneer as he tossed the girl on the ground. She hit the ground hard and let out a pained breath as the two ghosts let out a chuckle at the girl's pain.
"Whoa, since when do we get new people?" Sam asked as she glanced at Valerie.
Valerie looked at the girl in an intrigued manner, "Since never…" She stated as she blinked in awe. "Where did she come from?" She asked as she leaned on her desk with her arms.
The girl stood up slowly and glanced over at the guards, who weren't paying attention to her anymore as they were conversing in the doorway. She turned her gaze to the back of the classroom where Tucker was and noticed an empty seat by him. "Ghost scoundrels…" She mumbled as she took a seat. The rest of the class turned to look at her, and expected to find her in fear or anger, but instead she had a calculative smirk on her face.
"Looks like things are going to get interesting," Sam stated as she leaned back in her seat to take a better look at the newcomer.
"What do you mean? Did you see the way those ghosts pushed her down?" Valerie scoffed, mostly in anger at the ghosts' mistreatment of humans, and just their existence in general. Ever since she was tricked by Plasmius, her hatred towards ghosts increased. With the exception of Danielle Phantom, but that was because she was only a child.
Sam grinned, making Valerie furrow her eyebrow in confusion, "I know an act when I see one," Sam stated as she looked down at her paper. "And she performed great…Look at her, Val," she said as she looked back at the girl.
Valerie did so and studied the girl for a few minutes, "I see now. That's a look of a girl who has a plan…She let herself get captured…"
"And what's more dangerous than a girl with a plan?" Sam asked rhetorically, "Two girl's with a plan. Possibly the same plan," she said with a smirk. "Operation GOOJ is underway."
"GOOJ?" Valerie asked, bewildered. "What's a GOOJ?"
The bell rang and the ghost guards moved out of the way, letting the teenagers out of their 'classroom'. "Get Out Of Jail…Keep up, Val," Sam rolled her eyes as she rolled up her paper and walked out of the room. Valerie narrowed her eyes but didn't say anything as she followed Sam silently to the 'rehab' room.
"Daniel! You are wasting my-!" Vlad began to yell, but stopped when he felt Danny's ecto-signature coming towards him and he let the boy open the door. He wore a glare on his face that screamed 'I hate you' and his clothes were disheveled as he rushed to put them on. He chuckled when he saw the boy and he tried to fix the collar of the boy's shirt, only for his hand to be slapped away.
The young hybrid growled, "I'm not your doll," he stated as his glare grew darker towards the man.
"Ah, you're certainly right about that, Daniel. You're my son," Vlad said as he looked down at the boy, which sent him a defiant scowl, but the boy held his tongue. "Speaking of which…We have a father/son activity planned for us today," he said as he started to head down the tower.
Danny clenched his fists by his sides, "That you planned to torture me," he said as he followed after the man. "Heard what my mom did to you…" Danny trailed, a small smirk growing on his face.
"Well, like any other relationship, your mother and I have had a somewhat rocky start…" Vlad trailed as he shrugged, "I won't deny that there wasn't difficulties, but that's all been taken care of."
"What did you do to her?" Danny asked with narrowed eyes. "Because I swear that if you-!" He began to threat but was interrupted when Vlad suddenly turned around, a triumphant grin on his face.
"If I what?" Vlad challenged, "What will you do about it?" He taunted, edging Danny to attack him. "You want to be hero, Daniel? Go ahead and defeat me…Oh wait…You can't, can you?"
Danny let out a growl as he transformed into Danny Phantom and was about to deliver a punch into the smirking face of Vlad's, but was suddenly reverted back to his human counterpart as soon as Vlad snapped his fingers together. There was a pain in his arm and he suddenly grabbed it, though he fell to the ground in the process. It had felt as if his entire arm was on fire and was burning his bone into ash. "W-What did you…Do to me?" Danny accused as he looked at Vlad with pained squinted eyes.
"There will be a time for me to train your ghost side, but first I need to train your human side," Vlad stated as he grabbed the boy's injured arm and yanked him upwards, making the boy yelp in agony. "And besides, I don't have the time to deal with your rebellious side today."
"I'm not your pet! You can't train me, Plasmius!" Danny yelled as he struggled to get out of the man's grip, his fighting spirit returning, even though this was a fight that he couldn't possibly win for now. "No matter what you do, I'll-!" He began to yell, but suddenly he remembered Jazz crying how she didn't want him to act out and leave her alone. He quickly cut himself off.
Vlad chuckled darkly as he pulled Danny up more in the air so he could look him in the eyes, "Have you learned your place, son? As long as I have everything you hold dear, you couldn't possibly hope to defeat me," he said as he cupped Danny's chin in his other free hand upon seeing that the boy didn't want to look at the older hybrid in the least. "Look at your father when he's talking to you, Daniel," Vlad ordered, a sick twisted smirk on his face. The boy closed his eyes, thinking about his options about not obeying Vlad, and not any of them seemed good.
Reluctantly, the boy opened his eyes and looked into Vlad's cold and calculative eyes, "Good boy," he praised as he dropped the boy, non-too gently on the ground. "Now, we have a father/son activity to get to," he said as he pushed open the main doors that led to the castle. "Surely you have heard of golfing?"
"Golfing?" Danny asked with scrunched eyebrows. "Why are we going golfing?"
Vlad turned around with a raised eyebrow, "Would you prefer that I enslave another country instead?" He asked, a smirk on his face.
Danny responded with a glare, "No. Golfing sounds fun," he said as he crossed his arms.
"I knew you'd be ecstatic about this activity," Vlad said as he opened up the backdoors of his mansion and began to walk out, but stopped when he noticed that Danny was staying behind. "Aren't you coming?"
"You said I couldn't leave the castle?" Danny asked with a raised eyebrow. He didn't want to take any chances about getting injured just because Vlad was somehow careless.
Vlad chuckled, which made Danny scowl, "Did I forget to mention that you could only leave the castle with me? My mistake," he said with a smirk, and Danny fisted his hands at his sides. Though, the boy did cross the barrier that lit up green as he passed through, but it didn't shock him or injure him in any way. "Although, now you have to stay within fifteen feet of my person. But that won't be a problem, will it, boy? It's not as if you were ever planning on running away."
"What is wrong with you!" Danny yelled, now outraged at the man. "It's bad enough that I'm trapped here, I don't need a reminder of that too!" He yelled again, unable to control his emotions, something that he had done with sarcasm, thought his was hard to do since he hadn't seen his friends in five days. He hadn't felt comfortable or safe from the moment he was in Vlad's grip.
"Apparently you do. You haven't seemed to grasp the concept that this is your new life," Vlad said with narrowed eyes.
The boy felt like hitting something, "In case you haven't noticed, I'm fourteen! I shouldn't have to deal with these things! That's one of the reasons why I got rid of my powers in the first place!"
Vlad grinned, "Because you didn't want to have to deal with me? I'm touched, dear boy," he said as he crossed his arms, "Yet, that was one of your downfalls of your capture, wasn't it?"
"Stop it!" Danny yelled, "Stop messing with my mind! I hate your mind games, this isn't chess! These are real people that you're hurting!"
Vlad had a bored expression on his face, "Are you done lecturing me, little badger? What a great and inspiring speech from a grand hero. A round of applause will surely be given in your honor…Perhaps a monument will be built?"
Danny stayed silent, which meant that Vlad had won the battle of wills, like he always usually did. Danny hated it, but he couldn't do anything about it. What would Clockwork say in this situation? "Everyone deserves a second chance…" Danny mumbled and then shook his head, not believing the own words that were coming out of his mouth. "Yeah, right," he said sarcastically as he walked past Vlad, who was looking at him in confusion.
"What was that, Daniel?" Vlad asked, even though he had heard it due to his enhanced hearing. He liked getting a rise out of the boy, it seemed to be the only thing that Danny still clung to. His heroic ambitions that made Vlad see the boy as something that needed to be molded by him. After all, he was a child, he was still impressionable.
"Nothing," Danny grumbled, not wanting to continue this one sided conversation. Vlad smirked as he followed after the boy, after all, he wouldn't get very far within the fifteen feet distance.
The girl was sitting down in the middle of the 'rehab' room where she could get a glance of all the guards in the room. Her gaze traveled from one guard to another and then she smirked, however, as soon as Sam came walking over to her, the smirk disappeared.
"What's your name?" Sam asked as she crossed her arms.
"The Shadow…" She trailed in a serious voice as she glanced up at Sam, who raised an eyebrow in confusion. She then grinned, her blue eyes sparkled as she did so, "Just kidding!" She yelled in a hushed voice. "I'm Naomi, nice to meet you," she said as she extended her hand towards Sam.
Sam took her hand and shook it, "So, you have a plan for getting out of this dump?" She asked as Naomi smirked again.
"This is the third 'school' I've infiltrated…Of course I have a plan," she said as she stood up. "I just need one of those ghost weapons that they have, but that shouldn't be a problem…" She trailed as she eyed said weapon in one of the guard's hands.
Valerie and Tucker came over and greeted them with a wave, "Did you start the GOOJ meeting?" Valerie asked, getting tired of repeating the covert title of the mission.
"GOOJ?" Tucker asked and then looked at Sam in confusion. "And you say my codenames are dumb," he said, a smile tugging at his lips. Upon getting the glare that Sam was sending him, he immediately wiped it away and coughed, "So um, any ideas?"
"Tuck…?" Naomi asked as she took a step closer to see the boy.
Tucker looked at the girl and then he grinned, "Dude, no way! I thought I would never see you again, Nao!" He yelled as he was about to take another step closer to her, when she suddenly pulled him into a tight embrace.
"You two…Know each other?" Valerie asked as she used her index finger to point at the two of them.
"Yeah, that middle school summer camp that you and Danny didn't want to go with me, I met her…" He said as he looked at her condition, his smile faded away, "Man, what happened to you?"
Naomi laughed in a care-free way, "I had to make it believable…Anyway, I need to get a broom…It isn't like a steel rod, but It'll have to do," she said as she started to walk away, but Sam grabbed her arm and made her stay.
"What do you mean by that?" Sam asked with a raised eyebrow. "You have battle experience?"
Naomi looked at Tucker with a grin, "You mean, you didn't tell them who I was?" She asked and Tucker looked down at the ground in shame, "I see. I suppose I'll explain then," she said as she looked at Valerie and Sam, "My father is a Guys in White operative, and from an early age, he trained me in multiple ways of fighting…"
Valerie remained silent for a few seconds before looking at Tucker with a confused expression, "How…Exactly were you guys friends?"
Tucker swear dropped, "Long story…" He trailed as he rubbed the back of his neck, a trait that he picked up from Danny. "When are you going to set your plan in motion?"
"In a day. I will have all the materials that I require," she said as she looked at him and then at Sam, "But I don't want to steal the leader position away from you. Let's talk details," she said as she grabbed Sam's hand and led her over to the table where they could converse their escape plan without anyone overhearing.
Valerie blinked at their exit and then looked at Tucker again with her arms crossed, "Seriously, how did you two meet?"
Tucker laughed nervously and then started to walk towards the girls.
Vlad took the first swing, and the golf ball was sent flying into the air, he grinned at his achievement and then turned to look at Danny. He was leaning on his golf club in a bored manner, and was trying not to glare, though it seemed as if it were permanently plastered on his face. "Lighten up, little badger, this is supposed to be fun, remember?"
Danny glanced at the man before sighing as he took the golf club and walked up to the golf pick on the ground and placed his white ball on it. "I'm not even good at this," he grumbled as he aligned his club with the ball and then swung have heartedly as it was sent flying into the air. "Happy? Can I go back to my prison now?" He asked sarcastically as he narrowed his eyes at the man.
"Daniel, it's your room, not your prison," he said as he started to walk into the golf field to collect his ball.
"Could have fooled me," Danny mumbled as he stayed behind until Vlad was fifteen feet away from him. He had a shock flow through his body, and he yelped as he took a step forward unconsciously.
Vlad turned around and looked at the boy being shocked into obedience as he finally decided to follow after Vlad. He smirked as he waited for the boy to stop by his side, "Look on the bright side, son, the more you continue to delay the afternoon, the more time you get to spend with your father. Not that I mind, I find your company quite refreshing."
"And I find yours quite annoying," Danny responded with a grumble as he glared at the ground.
Vlad smiled as he located his ball on the ground and noticed the hold a few feet away, "You say the sweetest things, son," he said as he lifted his golf club and swing down at the ball, it rolled and entered the hole flawlessly.
"Are we done?" He asked in an annoyed tone.
"You haven't got yours in, Daniel," he said as he turned around, a smirk on his face.
Danny groaned, "Why does it matter! You got in yours first, it's over. Can we just go back?"
Vlad frowned, "How will you ever learn to be a great ruler if you don't have patience?" He asked as he looked around the course and found the ball. He grabbed Danny's arm forcefully, and non-too gently as he dragged him over to it.
"Wait, is this what this was about?" Danny asked, his anger overcoming all his other emotions, "Because I'm not going to rule the world with you, or whatever ideas you have in your head, you froot loop!" He yelled as Vlad let go of his arm.
"Hm, I'm sure that's what you'll say now, but you'll come to realize that this is your destiny," he said, shrugging off the insult and letting it slide.
Danny's eyes widened in disbelief, "I won't think like that ever!" He yelled as his eyes narrowed and he gripped the golf club in his hands tightly so that that his knuckles were turning white. "I'm not sick like you, Plasmius!"
Vlad's hand suddenly latched onto his throat and lifted the boy into the air, "I've had just enough of your insolence, Daniel. You will rule, and you will like it. You will follow my orders, and you will like it. You will see me as a father, and you will accept it," he said, his eyes glowing a menacing red.
Danny began to shake as fear started to overwhelm him, "N-No, I-!" He began to say, but was interrupted when Vlad tightened his hold against his throat.
"You will address me as Father from this point onward, is that understood?" He asked as the boy could barely breathe. "Face the fact, son, this is your life now. It's about high time that you accept that fact."
Danny struggled within the man's grip as his hands latched onto Vlad's to try and pry them off his throat, "I-I won't-!"
"You will, Daniel," Vlad said as his tone grew more serious, "Or have you forgotten already that your life doesn't belong to you, anymore? It is as you said, Daniel, you are my doll, and you will do as I ask without thinking it."
Danny was turning a different shade from the lack of oxygen, "No!" He yelled as he closed his eyes in pain as he couldn't afford to keep his eyes open anymore.
"Stubborn boy," Vlad said as he dropped the boy on the ground like a bag of potatoes. "But I suppose that's why you will be my greatest achievement, when I turn you against everyone you care about…" He mumbled, as Danny rubbed his abused throat.
"It will never happen," Danny stated as he stood up and looked Vlad in the eyes without fear. "My life is my own…I won't be here for much longer, Sam and Tucker will come for me."
Vlad chuckled in amusement at the boy being serious, "Really? Because it looks to me as if they have abandoned you…" He said as he took a step towards him. "You're still just a child, Daniel, and still so impressionable. After all, you're already starting to act more like me every day…" He trailed as he started to walk away from him and towards the castle.
Danny growled and shot an ecto-blast at a tree, and it started to catch on fire. He fell to the ground in defeat as he tried to not think about anything that Vlad had told him, yet it kept echoing in his head in a taunting way that he couldn't ignore. "Sam…Tucker…Where are you?" He whispered as he gripped a handful of grass tightly. "I don't think I can last much longer."
To be continued…
A/N: And now I am the brain dead.