All Danny Phantom characters belong to Butch Hartman, not me. Thomas belongs to me, so no stealing!!
Thomas opened his eyes, the lights above him almost blinding, burning his eyes. With a visible wince, Thomas attempted to sit up, but found that he couldn't do such a thing. Turning his head, he could see that his wrists and legs were restrained by metal restraints built into some sort of examination table. With a grunt of effort, Thomas tugged on the restraints with as much strength as he could muster, but to no avail. Those restraints weren't going to move anytime soon. All around him, beakers and machines littered the room.
"Where the heck am I?" He muttered, taking in his surroundings quickly. A few feet away from him, Dani was restrained around her arms and torso on a table similar to his. And she was apparently not happy at where she was. She twisted, grunted, and groaned as she tried to free herself from the restraints.
"What is it with you and examination tables?!" She yelled out, trying to lift herself upwards away from the table with a groan of effort.
"Dani!" Thomas called over, trying to get her attention. At the sound of her name being called out, Dani looked over at Thomas, her face looking strained and tired.
"Thomas! We have to get out of here!" She yelled, pulling upwards some more, this time, her entire legs beginning to dissolve into goo.
"Woah!" She yelped, ceasing her struggling at once. She looked over worriedly at Thomas, her eyes pleading.
"Dani, I can't get free!" He whimpered, once again tugging on the restraints. Over in the shadows, a figure chuckled lightly.
"Now, now, my dear, if you continue to struggle, there will be nothing left of you to dissect." Vlad Plasmius said, stepping out of the shadows towards Dani, placing a hand on her forehead.
"Don't touch me!" Dani yelled, turning her head away from Vlad's hand, her entire head dissolving into goo.
"Ewww…" Plasmius said with disgust evident in his voice as he wiped the grey goo off of his black glove. With a snap of his fingers, a scanner began running a scan across her entire body, Dani groaning in pain as her entire body began dissolving. Thomas had to look away. It was just too painful to look at.
"Structural density?" Vlad called out to nobody in particular, his arms crossed across his chest, a smirk on his face. A hologram head of Maddie Fenton appeared next to Vlad, a smile on her face.
"Fifty-three percent, dumpling!" Maddie said in a chipper voice, her head not once losing its smile. Dani groaned softly as her body formed back to normal, her eyes shutting in exhaustion.
"Eighty-five percent, sweetums! …Oh, love the cologne you're wearing!" Maddie exclaimed, floating to the other side of Plasmius, her smile growing bigger.
"Ectoplasmic energy readings?" Vlad asked the hologram, his tone serious and calculating.
"Unstable, cupcake!" Maddie droned on in her chipper voice. At this, Vlad looked down at Dani, her eyes still closed.
"Clearly, she is only mildly more sound than the other clones. The question is, why did she last longer than the rest?" Plasmius asked to himself, leaning over Dani with a confused look on his face. Dani turned her head to look up at Plasmius, her eyes filled with suffering and a slight hope.
"Please tell me that you've been working on something to stabilize me…" Dani said softly, a small strand of hope within her. At this, Vlad looked at her like she had just asked a stupid question as he produced his mocking smile.
"Oh no, my child. I've had far more important matters to tend to. My Maddie upgrade for instance…Right, Dear?" Vlad asked the hologram, smiling at her.
"Whatever you say, Vlad, my brilliant and ingenious lamb chop! I love what you've done with your fangs!" She said happily, floating around him eagerly. Vlad flashed the hologram a fanged smile, his fangs white and sharp like a vampires.
"Well, Danielle, it seems the only way that I'll be able to create a perfect clone…Is to melt you down and study your ectoplasmic remains!" Plasmius said, smirking an evil smile towards her. At this statement, Dani's eyes went wide with helpless terror, unable to move.
"Vlad, leave her alone! She's done nothing wrong to you!" Thomas yelled out, his face furrowed in fury. He was not going to just sit around while Vlad melted not only his friend, but his sister.
"Oh, Thomas, Thomas, Thomas…Just wait there. I'll be with you in a few minutes." Vlad said, carrying the struggling Dani away into another room. For a few minutes, Thomas struggled with all of his might to free himself before Vlad could discover his little secret. As he struggled, Vlad came back into the room, noticing the young boy struggling against his restraints.
"Silly boy…Do you honestly think that I would make them loose enough for you to wiggle free?" Vlad asked as he hovered over to him. Thomas looked up at him with blood red eyes filled with fury.
"Let us go, Vlad!" He said with anger. Vlad merely chuckled softly as he began to remove Thomas' black belt from his white suit.
"What are you doing?!" He said quickly, knowing full well what he was doing.
"I'm trying to figure out why you have this odd paunch. You shouldn't have it, but it could be a number of things. You could have a stomach virus, tumors, anything…I just have to make sure my daughter doesn't have any of these things as well." Vlad said matter-of-factly, rolling up Thomas' shirt to reveal his paunchy stomach.
"Unless…You would like to tell me something that I don't know…Are you hiding something, perhaps?" Plasmius muttered softly to Thomas. Thomas' heart dropped once again into his stomach.
"I-I have no idea! Just please don't check me out!" He stuttered fearfully, trying very hard to hide the fear in his voice. At this, Vlad went over to a cabinet and produced a bottle of medical gel.
"You've just confirmed my suspicions, boy. You are hiding something from me, and I'm going to find out what it is." Vlad said, rubbing gel onto Thomas' bare stomach.
"Darn you, Vlad, I said that I have no idea!" Thomas snarled, his voice filled with desperation.
"Just hold still now. This won't take long." Plasmius said, ignoring Thomas' pleas as he placed an ultrasound remote on his stomach. His face was concentrated on the screen that displayed the inside of Thomas in a fuzzy black and white picture.
"It's probably nothing, but I just want to make sure that…" Vlad's voice became lost as he spotted something unusual on the screen, and Thomas knew what it was. Vlad's eyes became wide as he stared at the screen in pure disbelief and amazement.
"…This…This is incredible! Never in all of my years of research did I ever expect this to happen! You have an actual human being growing inside of you! You are the first pregnant male on this planet! I knew that you were malformed when I saw that you had female and male reproductive organs, but this!" Plasmius exclaimed excitedly, frantically typing something onto a computer nearby, capturing the image of the fetus on the screen. But then he suddenly looked over at Thomas, his eyes filled with greed and malice.
"Oh, Thomas…I thought that you were valuable before, but now I truly see…You are an invaluable specimen! Maddie, dear?" Vlad called out to the hologram.
"Yes, darling Vlad?" She said happily as she fizzled in and out. Thomas feared what Vlad would request of the hologram.
"I want you to prep an operating room for Thomas. Take one of the smaller cloning tubes and hook it up as well." He said, walking away from Thomas while Maddie began to cart Thomas off.
"Wait! What are you doing, Plasmius?!" Thomas called out fearfully, Maddie pausing long enough for Vlad to answer the terrified ghost.
"I'm removing the fetus, Thomas. I'll keep it incubated, letting it develop naturally in an artificial environment so that I can study it, of course." Vlad said, his tone frightening Thomas. It hit Thomas like an anvil on his chest: Vlad was going to surgically remove his unborn child!
"What?! No, Vlad! You can't do that! Please, don't do that!" Thomas screamed as he was wheeled off to another room, hearing Vlad laughing like he didn't care at all.
"Oh yes I can, Thomas. And I will." He said, getting himself ready for the biggest project of his life.