Danny stood up from his desk, the other students, save for Sam, watching him as he walked toward the front of the class, test in hand. Slamming it down on the desk he smirked at Lancer while the teacher in question just frowned. It was like a dead lock between the pair as the former halfa stared down the bald male. "Finished already?" he asked. Danny said nothing for moment before coming back with a comeback.
"You have a problem with that?" The teacher just scowled at him, his gaze flicking down at the packet before him. He looked back up, his eyes narrowing for a moment before he leaned back.
"Not at all," he muttered. Without a word he headed for the door, glancing back once before disappearing from view. Sam smirked from her seat, watching as Lancer took out his phone, his words spoken softly as he conversed with who she knew was one of Danny's parents. It was all going to plan. Finishing her own test quickly she followed his path out the door. Now, what to do with the former halfa? He wouldn't remember that he had taken the test, so she just needed to ensure that he was under her control for just a bit longer, maybe just until the end of the period. Heading for the library where she had instructed her duplicate to go, she found that Danny wasn't under her control and looked rather upset with her, his eyes narrowed at her as she approached him.
"Well, damn," she said with a twist of her purple lips. "Still able to fight back. I would admire that, but it will disrupt my plans." Looking around she flew into him, her own form stronger than her duplicated one.
In the future, Sam was standing before Vlad, his hands now holding the gloves that he had spoken about. "So, you're telling me that you have a medallion in your body that is holding you to this time," he stated, clarifying what the halfa had told him. She nodded, touching the space where the object had been shoved into her. "And you can't reach it since it was put into you while intangible?" He couldn't understand how that was possible, but given as he had seen what the older Goth had done in his own home, he was inclined to believe the young woman before him.
"Not that I believe you took out my ghost half with good intentions, nasty by the way, but I figure you can use those to remove the necklace." The male before her smirked, his eyes gleaming evilly. "And trust me, if you think that you're going to pull some demented stunt, then know this, Vlad, if I know where you are, then my future half does too." He seemed to think about it for a second before putting the gauntlets on and swiping his hand out at her, her scream echoing in the small space.
In the past, the Fentons were pulling up at the nearly collapsed fast food structure, Danny standing behind them with a smirk. "Your teacher sounded mad, Danny," Maddie said with a frown. "Is there something wrong?" He didn't move, his words spoken so softly that his mother failed to hear them.
"Nothing at all." As they exited the RV, Sam's father pulled up behind their car, all eyes on the rather worried looking male. His eyes were narrowed, all worry gone as he stomped over to the parents' of the former halfa. "What the fuck?" the raven haired male muttered. Then it struck her. Her parents were supposed to die in this, but only her father was here! It was as if the devil were on her side, because not even two seconds later her mother appeared out of the passenger side of the vehicle. She wondered as to how her mother had gotten out of the hospital so fast, but then again the woman had probably only been under a watch. Her lips twisted back into a smirk.
"Where is our daughter?!" the blond yelled, poking his finger into the lower chest of Jack, his face turning red. He looked at Danny, his scowl deepening. "Your son has done something with our daughter!" Both of his parents looked at him, Lancer clearing his throat in frustration. Neither pair of parents paid him any mind as Maddie turned her attention back on the other two.
"We haven't seen Sam," the ghost fighter remarked. "Danny?" she asked, turning to her son. He shrugged his shoulders.
"Saw her in class, but not since then."
"What is going on here?!" the teacher bellowed, but before anyone could respond in the small group, Tucker came rushing over with what appeared to be a dreamcatcher. He looked out of breath, but Danny glared at him, recalling the device, but not what it did.
"I'll tell you what is going on!" he cried out. Rushing to catch Danny, he slammed the dream catcher down upon the now ticked off male. Before everyone's eyes Danny was freed from Sam, her body still in its human form. The gasps of all around her, save for Tucker, were the only sound for a moment before she began to laugh. The raven haired male stood before her, looking worried. Sam had been exposed and while he knew that if had been the real one from this time, she would have been upset, this one cared less for all of the to know her secret as she disposed of her disguise to appear before them as the one known as Sam Phantom.
"Samantha?" her parents gasped, Maddie and Jack moving to pull their ghost weapons on the woman before them.
"No, I'm some other female that just looks like your child," she spat, distain coloring her tone. "You two were always so fucking annoying, always bossing me around as if I had no brain in my head, but not anymore. This is the end folks and am I glad to say that!" Flicking her hands out all of them, Tucker included with the mass of humans, were thrown away from her and into the floor of the Nasty Burger. Appearing before them, she threw goo over their mouths, her red eyes narrowing at the techno-geek. "You could have lived, hell, you were smart enough to stay out of this the last time, but no, you just had to play the hero." She seemed to find this funny. "Why you chose now to do that, I'll never know."
"Hey!" a voice cried from overhead. Dark Sam looked up as Sam came flying at her. Catching her with a fist to her face, she went on the defense, striking at her future self with all that she could. Danny watched as the two Sams battled, the older one able to strike back multiple times with enough power to knock their Sam into the ground a few times, but she kept coming back. When it seemed safe she came to their side, ready to free them when the older Sam yanked her back, her power bonding the young Goth around the arms and waist. When she was face to face with her future, she growled, "What are you going to do now? Can't kill me since you need me."
"I don't need to kill you," the older Goth spat, glancing back at the people watching with fear in their eyes. "I just need to keep you away from them and then it all falls into place." Striking the young woman down, Sam flying into a light post several feet away. "Then our future is set in stone." Sam phased into the ground when her other side tried to attack, the older Goth striking down the light post that she had been just moments before.
"If you could recall that Danny's parents were quite instrumental in aiding us in the fight against bastards like you, then you should recall this!" Appearing behind the other woman, she placed the Spector-deflector around the slender waist of the older halfa, the other woman falling to the ground with the quick drain of her powers. "Or these bad boys!" Using the gauntlets on her older form, she knocked the other raven haired woman into an oil truck behind her. As soon as she hit the truck, an explosion rocked the city as it burst into flames. Sam went to aid Danny and the others still on the floor of the fast food joint, unaware that her older half was yanking off the belt, her eyes narrowed on the young halfa's back.
She was yanked back, her cry of alarm lost as Dark Sam slammed her into the concrete, her head hitting the hard ground and leaving her vision swimming. Before her eyes, the older Goth multiplied, her voice echoing with each new duplicate. "Your time is up, Sam," she hissed. "It was up ten years ago." The young Goth was knocked around, blasted, and left on the ground shaking in pain and frustration. She couldn't lose this fight! Her parents... Danny's parents...Tucker...Lancer... Danny... They would lose their life if she failed to take down her older self. "What makes you think you can fight me?! What makes you think that you have enough power to change our future?!"
"I may not have been strong enough to do it before, to stop them from dying, but I will protect my friends and that is something that I promised the moment I walked into that portal!" Her older half looked bored with her statement, chuckling at the very words from her mouth.
"You are so fucking delusional! You think that just because you promised something that it means anything?!" Sam growled, pushing herself up on her elbows before getting on her hands and knees. "You are weak! Those emotions and beliefs are what led to this day!"
"Go to Heeeelllll!" she bellowed, her ghostly wail echoing around them, the ground shaking with the power of her cry. The older Goth was thrown back by the power her younger self released. She was in shock that the weak halfa before her could use such a power when it had taken her ten long years to do such a feat. Skidding back, the ground rolling up around her she looked at the other halfa.
"How could you have that power when I didn't get it until ten years in the future?" Sam groaned as she moved toward her older self, her hand on her left side as she wheezed a bit. She knew her ribs were probably broken, but she wasn't going to stop until she was sure the other woman was gone and her friends were safe.
"Because nothing is set in stone!" Releasing another ghostly wail, Dark Sam found herself flying further away from Sam, her body landing in a building across the street with a large truck following her. The building crumbled and collapsed on top of her as Sam found her body de-transforming, all of her energy gone, but once the smoke cleared, the Goth pulled out a thermos and sucked up her older half with a weak smile. As she was turning toward her friends, the sound of the alarm on the sauce filled the air. Eyes wide she tried to run, finding the simple movement hard to do in her current state. She tried to transform, hoping to make it in time to at least turn them intangible, but the power needed to do that was unavailable. She was just feet away when the building blew, her own small form thrown back...
Clockwork appeared on the scene, his red eyes taking in the small woman frozen in midair and the explosion that now stood before him. Smiling he took out a necklace, one that resembled the same one that Vlad had removed from her body. She came to life and flailing for a moment realized that she was still in midair, her eyes immediately seeing the ghost of time, his small childlike form smiling at her.
"Clockwork?" she inquired, the small male pointing at the building, her eyes watering at what she knew she was going to see, only to find that all of them were okay, suspended above the plum of smoke. "You saved them?" she asked in confusion. It wasn't that she wasn't grateful, but she had been under the assumption that he didn't do such a thing... that he wasn't out to help them.
"The Observants only watch, like one would watch a parade, but I get to see it play out from beginning to end before it even starts. I know which way it will or won't go." It became clear to the halfa. He had known. He had known that this would all happen. "It is how it should be." Changing again into his older form, the long white beard moving to expose his staff. "Time in." With a push of the button several clocks appeared around them and Sam found herself in class again, Danny at his desk beside hers. Taking the answer sheet from her desk she looked to Clockwork who just smiled before disappearing. Time resumed around them, Danny looking up at her in surprise as she smiled at him.
"Miss Manson?" Lancer questioned. "Is something wrong?" She turned to him, ready to confess, when Danny stood as well, taking the packet from her hands.
"Yeah, I have something to tell you," Danny said with a solemn look. He approached the desk of the bald teacher. "Sam found this at the Nasty Burger the other day and was going to return it, but I... I took it." The male looked at Sam and she nodded, but Danny just continued, "I should have turned it in, but I opened it. I couldn't help myself from looking at the answers, but I am not a cheater and I never will be." The older male looked surprised at his words, but smiling he responded.
"Well, you will have a chance to prove that when you take the make-up test next week, won't you?" Sam smiled as Danny looked surprised, his look changing to one of joy with the knowledge that he would be given a second chance. Sam was glad that she too had been given a second chance to do things right. She never wanted to find herself in a world without her best friend at her side. Even with the promise of detention the former halfa continued to smile as he sat back down at his desk with only a knowing smile thrown at Sam. She sat down and finished her test as Danny laid his head down to wait for school to end.
The future was going to be a bright one after all.
And so ends this fanfic. I thought about going further in with all the series, but this was where I felt it should end. I hope that you all enjoyed reading it.