Sam didn't know what she would do, especially with all the ghosts in the Zone that hated her, but when she ran into that she would figure it out from there. Looking down upon herself, the constraints from the older Sam still wrapped around her, she powered up and with her transformation tried to free herself. Struggling with the bonds she noted that not only could she not free herself, but the Ghost Zone looked different and quiet. There was not a sound from her in the area that had once been bright green that was now a murky swamp green. She looked around as she floated, her constraints long forgotten as she wondered as to where all the ghosts were, not that she wasn't happy to be left alone, but it was eerie to be in such a silent space that had once been so full of...well life. It was like when they had been in Amity, the future bleak without any of the normal sounds of their city.
How was she going to get out of this and what was her future self going to do that would ensure the death of her family and Danny? How would all of this play into her becoming someone evil enough to wipe all of Amity off the map?
That Sam was in her house now, alone with Danny and Tucker having gone home a few minutes prior. She had an idea of what she was going to do, but with the answers to the test in Danny's house she would have to go over there and take them. He would notice her there, unless she came up with a plan to make him bring them to the school the next day. Smirking she picked up her phone, the device feeling strange after so many years without it, and dialed her friend.
"Hey, Danny," she said, trying to sound like her younger self. She had a feeling that her friend had an inkling as to the fact that she wasn't who she was portraying, but she cared not since he wouldn't exist soon enough. "Are you going to turn in that answer sheet?" When she got nothing from him she continued, "I'm not your mother or anything, but you should at least turn it back in since I would hate for that future that we saw to happen."
"Yeah, I didn't like that future at all, but how will I do that without getting caught?" She had him.
"You could give it back to me and I could return it to the briefcase," she pointed out, sounding as helpful as she could without laughing at how easily she could get him to do what she wanted. When he agreed they made plans to meet before school so she could get the sheet from him. Hanging up after him she let out a laugh. This was working all according to plan.
The next morning found the pair with Tucker standing by as lookout. Sam watched as he took the packet out of his hand, but before he could hand it back to her, she split and one of her clones entered him. Tucker scowled as he turned at the cry from the raven haired male. His eyes grew wide when it all hit him that the Sam they had been hanging with wasn't the good one. She turned her gaze on Tucker, a smirk twisting her lips.
"Ah, the last to know, but know this Tucker," she hissed. "You lived to fight another day." That being said she walked off, Danny following close behind her as they headed into the school. Tucker knew that she had just threatened him and yet he followed behind them, keeping close enough to let her know that he didn't like what she was doing, the urge to tell on her almost as strong as the urge to stay back. He wasn't that brave and he didn't want to die, not yet, though in the future it didn't look like he had much of a life.
"You're not going to get away with this," he stated instead as they grew closer to the door to Lancer's room. "Danny won't let you control him long enough to do this." She chuckled.
"He did it before, and that was without me overshadowing him." With that she entered the room. He reached for Danny, hoping to shake the other male out of the stupor, but the former halfa moved quickly, staying close to the one that was controlling him. Tucker didn't know what to say. Sam would never have used her powers like this and while he didn't know what she would have done to another person that had pissed her off, he knew she loved the former halfa and would never use him in such a way especially knowing that it might be what ended up leading to his death. How could he help when he had no way to move? He was in a stalemate.
Sam, still stuck in the Ghost Zone, was growing more and more upset. Her mind kept replaying all that happened so far... Danny taking the test answers from her. His death. The attacks to kill her. All of it and the worry that he would end up dead because of her making her small form shake as tears tried to leak out from her amethyst orbs. She just couldn't seem to do anything to protect her friend! She should have just done what she had done with the portal and escaped from his side. He was in danger with having met her and while she would be hurt by leaving his side, at least he would be safe.
All of her emotions were fueling her powers, her energy rising up around her in a faint purple color. What more could she do when she had no way to get back and save her friend? She wasn't the one that was supposed to be here, but while she wouldn't change it she knew that Danny had been far more used to his powers and in that was was far more powerful than she. With the last thought of his death flickering before her eyes, the unknown way that he could have passed on and the feelings that she would never get to show to him she felt the tears fall, a cry of remorse and loss leaving her green lips. The wail of her emotions coming to edge and falling over echoed around her like waves, her power enhancing the wail to become the one that she had seen in the images in Clockwork's tower. Her bonds broke around her, but she paid them no mind as she curled up to allow her pain to curl around her.
In class Danny was busy writing answers down, his own mind shut down as Sam forced his hand. He had thought about cheating, but knowing the future might be impacted by this act he had decided that maybe it was better that he didn't do such a thing and now he was doing it regardless. He tried to fight against her overshadowing, but this Sam was far more powerful, able to subdue him with just a thought as the real one sat next to him doing her own work with a smirk.
'Don't worry, Danny,' she whispered in his mind. 'It will all be over soon. There is nothing left to do but wait for the end.' He struggled again at her words, sure that she would never do such a thing, not knowing that it would kill him, but on that same thought he wondered what would have happened if he had still been the Phantom. Would he have done this even if his friends had been the ones to die? He didn't think he could do that, but he knew that had he been the Phantom his grades might have been worse so he might have cheated to get those grades... to show everyone that he wasn't a loser. 'You did.' At his silence she continued to whisper to him. 'You took the answer sheet from me in my time too. I was upset, but who was I to tell you what to do? Nobody.'
He couldn't answer that. He wanted to argue, but Tucker and Sam had told him not to do it, that it wasn't a good idea, but he hadn't listened, still intent on doing just that to help himself. Sam smiled at his silence, but Tucker whispered to him now, angry at his friends for what was happening.
"Danny, you know that's a bad idea!" Lancer looked up, his eyes narrowing.
"Do you have something you would like to share with the class, Foley?" Tucker looked at Danny, his eyes flicking to Sam for one second, her scowl a reminder of what she could make happen to him and shaking his head he replied in the negative before he sat back to continue his test.
Sam didn't know what to do now that she was free from her bonds. There was nowhere to go. She was sure that Fenton Works was gone and with it no way to get back home. The necklace was in her body so even if she found a way out of the Ghost Zone she had no way to get back to her time and stop her evil side from doing what it wanted. 'Would you really give up and let your friend die?' Narrowing her eyes she shook her head. She had never given up on Danny and didn't plan on doing it any time soon, but even if she didn't want to give up...what could she do?
Luck was there for her when she noted that off in the distance of the Ghost Zone a rather strange object floated in the distance. "Is that a football?" she asked the space around her and then it hit her. "Vlad!" Why hadn't she thought of that?! Vlad was another person like her that had to have a portal at his disposal! Flying off she felt the hope that she could help her friend swell in her heart. Approaching the ball, she looked around, not that she had a reason to since all the ghosts were gone, but who was to say where Vlad was. She hadn't seen him in the glass, but who was to say that he hadn't gone into hiding upon her evil side coming forth? He was a coward when it all came down to it! Pushing the football aside she found herself looking at a portal and smiling she entered only to find herself in what could only be the ruins of Vlad's home.
"Come to attack an old man?" came a rough voice, the sound of it familiar. She turned toward it to find a desk, the chair turned from her for the moment.
"Who are you?" she asked, only to receive an answer when his chair turned. Before her sat Vlad, well, what was a rather worn out looking male that looked like he could pass for a homeless man. "Vlad? What in the hell happened to you?" He shook his head.
"I could ask the same of you, more of why you are here, in this time?" He looked sad, the circles under his eyes speaking of his weariness. When he noted the look on her face he began to tell a tale that she hadn't even asked for. "They passed peacefully, never really knowing what hit them, but you, Samantha, you found yourself in a world of pain," he stated. "And while I don't know your home life, I do know that you didn't mourn them, not your parents." She said nothing, curious as to what he was telling her. He was telling her how Danny had died. "I tried to help you. You didn't want to be a halfa anymore, not knowing that because of your choice that you would lose the one you held dear."
"What do you know about that?" she asked, venom in her voice.
"Why, Samantha, I know what it's like to love someone from afar, knowing that they would never reciprocate such feelings and the pain that comes from that. I know it all. I used all that was at my disposal to grant you that wish, but it all backfired. Once your ghost was taken out," he paused, his face twisting into one of anger. "It came after me and using those same means tore my ghost from my body as well." He looked sad again. "Your ghost tried to take out my ghost, but in the end the evil of my half was too strong and you were changed. You couldn't control that much hate, even as a Goth you were still a child." That left another question.
"What about my human side?" He looked away now.
"Somethings are better left unsaid." She let those words sink in. The fact that she had inadvertently helped Danny die instead of stopping him and that in the end she had killed her human side because she thought that after she had removed that which she saw as a curse. She had let this evil out and now she was left with all the destruction it had wrought.
"Do you still have those means you spoke of? The gloves?"