Titans X Chapter Fifteen: "Time No More"

In a flash of light, Danny reformed. First he blinked. Then he looked around him. Several things were off. Number One: the tower was rusted and broken. Number Two: The river was BLACK. Number Three: The city was in shambles, destroyed and not looking so 'new' anymore.

"What the Heck is going on?!" Danny yelled. Just minutes earlier, he was going to get the pizza from Ben, and now…that's when he heard something, or should that be some one, step up from behind him, as his ghost sense went off. Not. Good.

He jerked behind himself to find something that looked like if Ben's Wildmutt and Heat Blast fused. It had the animalistic qualities of Wild Mutt, while the flaming body of Heatblast. And it was transparent.

Danny was about to transform, when a vortex like beam fired out from behind him, catching the creature, and sucking it in.

He whirled around to meet whom ever was sneaking up on him. What he found was a pretty, ('No, beautiful was the word,' chimed in a voice in his head) Asian woman, who looked to be about 24, and had a single red streak amongst pure black, mid back length hair. For those two of you who haven't guessed, well…

"J-June?!" Danny asked in shock.

June looked like she was about to cry, as she nodded. She quickly picked Danny up off the ground in a fierce hug, tears falling from her eyes. "I knew you'd come back…I knew…Oh Danny, I've missed you so much…"

Hugging her back, slightly, was all he could do. "June…what happened? What's going on?"

June put Danny down, wiping the tears from her eyes. "I guess I do have to explain a thing or two, don't I? You've been gone Danny. You've been gone for ten years and five days exactly. It's just…something happened after you left. An old enemy of yours, Pariah Dark, had been awoken and came looking for you. Instead, he found us…

"We tried to fight him off, we tried to stop him…but he was too powerful, too strong. It would be Super Man, aided by Dr. Fate, who would finally put an end to Pariah, but at the price of their own lives. After that, the world was in shambles…and another darkness arose. We don't know who or what it is, but it caused the cities around the world to be destroyed…we are all that is left. Myself, Kim, and Jake."

Danny's eyes widened at that. "But…what happened to Peter and Ben?"

June looked away. "They…were among the first to fall against the new darkness…they went to challenge it, and were never seen again…come. We must get back. They must know that you have returned after so long…" June lead him to an area on the island…which opened up.

What Danny found nearly made him sick. Jake was alive, yes. For how long, he didn't know. He was missing his left eye, and his body was riddled with wounds, both new and old. His lone eye filled with tears as he caught site of Danny. "You returned…I always knew you would…"

"So he did come back." came a voice behind Danny and June. Danny turned to see a beautiful redhead, with hair down to her butt, and wearing armor. She had a small scar on her left cheek.

"Kim?" Danny asked. Kim nodded then leaned down to hug him.

"It's so good to see you again…June! I found the location of the evil. It's in sector B-9. I need to go prep, so I need you to go on ahead, OK?" Kim asked, letting go of Danny.

"Sure. Go on ahead Kim." Kim nodded and headed to a back part of the building. Jake followed after her.

"June…I'm so sorry…I'm so sorry I couldn't stop this. I couldn't…I couldn't do anything…but I promise that I will help you end this. Once and for all." Danny apologized. When he looked up, he saw June smiling.

"There's the boy I remember. There's the boy I fell in love with…" She said softly, then kissed Danny, catching the halfa off guard as she bounded out the door. All Danny could do was stand there and look out after her.

Then a blast caught him upside the head, as he was blacked out, thoughts racing, body stopping…

Hours or minutes later, Danny finally came to. "W-what happened?" he saw Kim working on a computer.

"Oh. Hello Danny. Glad to see you wake up. I just had to finish off Jake, and I didn't want you to get in the way…" Kim said, as if she was just talking about ordering a pizza.

"Wh-WHAT?!" Danny cried out, struggling against the restraints that held him. He tried to turn into Danny Phantom, but something was making that impossible. "You! YOU DID THIS?! YOU KILLED BEN AND PETER?!"

"Yes. Though not alone, of course. I had some help in the matter…infact, I had your help, so to speak." Kim continued. Then a door opened, and Danny heard a voice that chilled him to the bone. A voice that should not exist.

"Hello me," Dark Dan Phantom greeted Danny with a fanged smile.

Titans X Chapter Sixteen: Demon Within

June arrived at the destination: right smack dab middle of the Outer City, a place that was deemed hazardess to normal and metas to venture to. Something about this didn't feel right. Danny should have followed her…

That's when she ducked and rolled out of the way as a diamond shaped energy blast slammed down where she had just been, causing a deep crator to be formed.

"My master has ordered your destruction, Te Xuan Ze! HAH!" Fright Knight yelled out blasting at her again.

"Wait a minute…I know you! You're the Fright Knight! Ah-Mah warned me about you, Spirit of O Hallowes Eve!" June yelled, grabbing the rune, her body glowing white, as she rushed the Fright Knight.

Dodging out of the way of a powerful punch, June leapt up and lashed out with a kick, catching Fright Knight upside the head, and making him stumble back as she continued her assult, throwing punch and kick after punch and kick. Then she was caught off guard by a powerful blow to her midsection, driving the breath out of her lungs…

"What's going on?!" Danny roared at Dan.

"I did used to have quite the temper, didn't I?" Dan asked…himself…almost with a fondess in his voice. If you could CALL it a foundess. "What's going on, Danny? I rule the world. THAT'S what's going on. Well, we," he amended himself, gesturing towards Kim, who smiled a dark smile, sauntering up to Dan, kissing him full on the lips.

"But…how?! WHY?!"

"Oh easy Danny. I no longer exist in time. Thusly, Clockwork has no power over me. Without his power, he is really quite pathetic. I showed up where YOU were, and brought you here so that you could see first hand the fruits of OUR labor. Yours, mine, and hers. That and so that you can't get in the way again. You always LOVE getting in the way."

"But…Kim! How could you?!" Danny asked, half crazed.

"Kimmie here had been infected. I believe you remember Death Sheloth? Normally dark energy like that can be easily fought off with friends. It would have been too, if you hadn't of 'dissapeared'. Sadly, for you, it didn't, it grew…and I have my Kimmie."

"And I wouldn't want it any other way. What should we do with him, Dan?" Kim asked. "Could I play with him?" she smirked at this.

"Nah. We don't know what him dying may have to do with effecting me. Right now he cant transform, and he can't escape. That's the only thing that matters. Did you finish the preperations?"

"Yes. What little defense systems around the globe that's left will soon self destruct." Kim answered quickly, tossing her long hair to the side. "They will all die."

"And June should have been taken care of about now…"

That's when Dan was kicked in the head.

By June.

"GUESS AGAIN FLAME HEAD!" She scowled, fury crossing her eyes. "Your little tin man couldn't take me down."

Then she found a gaping hole in her chest, with Kim's fist sticking out. Danny's eyes widened in horror, as blood came out of June's lips, as she fell forward.

"Then I guess I had to do it 'eh?" Kim asked the now dead June, as she shook the blood off of her arm.

"Y-you…you killed her…YOU KILLED HER?!" Danny yelled.

"Oh shut up, child. You, techincly, have already killed two worlds. One little slut's life isn't that much more." Dan said, callously.

Something, deep within Danny, snapped.

There were no rings…only an explosion of energy, as Danny yelled out.

What was standing in the place of Danny Fenton, was Danny Phantom. Sort of.

His hair, for instance, was now shoulder length, and blazing white flames. His left eye was blood red, his right emrald green. The white areas on his suit were red, with two jagged lines of white tearing down his chest through the Danny Phantom emblem. His skin was also darker, and his gloves flashed fire as he clenched them into fists. He bared his fanged teeth as he glared at Dan.

Titans X Chapter Seventeen: Demon Unleahsed

"Now THAT'S unusual." Dan commented.

"I made a promise once Dan. I promised I would NEVER become you…now I make a new promise. I promise that I WILL DESTROY YOU!" Danny roared, flying at high speeds towards Dan…only to be knocked out of the air by an inhumanly quick Kim. Danny's eyes flashed red and green as he blasted her away…killing her instantly.

Danny looked in shock at what he had done. Then he was thrown backwards into the wall, and almost through it, by a single punch from Dan.

"Heh. Nothing I wouldn't have done. I must say, she was quite nice to play with though. So now, child, do you want to get up and try to pitifully fight me? You can't win. You know this. You can never beat me. I'm everything you are, everything you WANT to be, and so much more. Infact-" he was cut off by a powerful flame styled beam lashing out and slamming into his face.

The red areas on Danny's body were now flames. His gloves, his boots, his color, all turned into white hot fire. His hair flared up, pure white flame, as he spat out, pure venom laced with every word, "Shut the FUCK UP you GOD DAMN MONSTER! I AM NOTHING LIKE YOU! I WILL NEVER BE YOU! RRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" as he threw himself at Dan, one hand grabbing the still surprised future ghost by the throat, the other slamming into his stomach.

Dan glared and then brought down his fist into the back of Danny's skull, forcing Danny to let go, as he slammed him into the ground, face first. Then, picking him up by his legs, he swung Danny around, into and through walls, computers, and everything in the room, before slamming him down into the ground again.

Danny mule kicked Dan in the chest, knocking him away as he flew up, green blood dripping from his nose, growling. He flew at Dan again, slamming them both out of the hide out and into the open, his flaming fists burning Dan with every punch.

Dan lashed out with a powerful kick, catching Danny in the side, hearing a satisfying CRUNCH, as he fired off a quick beam into Danny's face, sending the teen spiraling down into the water below.

"Give it up Danny. You can't win. I can't lose. And…" Both of Dan's hands started to glow black, "I…" his eyes glowed bright red, "WILL…" his hair flared up, into an inferno, "NOT HOLD BACK!" he roared, as he brought down one massive black, red tented, ecto blast, evaporating the entire river…

As Danny shot up from behind him, full force, straight into Dan's back, knocking the elder ghost out of the sky into the steaming deathbead that lay below…

"Where are you?!" Danny cried out, franticly searching the mist, blasting off shots every now and then in all directions. Then an ecto line wrapped around his throat, cutting off his breath, and sent him flying into the island.

Danny groaned, his right shoulder cut open, as he rolled out of the way of a powerful blast from Dan. Danny's eyes began to glow blue, as the air around him shimmered…then lashed outwards, blue flame-like daggers cutting through everything in the sky…

Dan saw the flame flying towards him, as he brought up a quick Ecto-shield to block the on coming blow. Then he found Danny right next to him again, glaring, as the two entered a fray of punches, kicks, blasts and blocks.

Dan's right hand glowed with the power of a thousand souls, as Danny's left hand burned with white energy, as the two collided, a massive explosion consuming both…

Danny got up. Slowly. Then he found himself surrounded by four Dans. All four lashed out with eight simultaneous punches, sending Danny back to the earth, as the four continued an onslaught of energy beams and punches, driving Danny deeper and deeper into the ground.

"GIVE IT UP!" Dan roared, as he formed back into one, kicking Danny in the stomach, driving him out of the crater he had just formed. "I AM YOU. YOU ARE ME. WE ARE ETERNAL. THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO CHANGE THIS!"

"Watch…me…" Danny muttered, blood coming out of his mouth as he spoke. Then his head shot up, and Danny unleashed the Ghostly Wail. Only this time…it was different. Normally it would be just a sonic attack. This time…it was on fire.

Dan screamed out in pain as he was driven backwards, to his knees, then blown back even farther. Danny increased the power of the ghostly wail, its normal green color turning pure white, as the few remaining buildings around them shattered, and the skies turned white…

Then Danny dropped to the ground. His power was spent. As he morphed back into Danny Fenton, he watched as Dan got up. Damaged, injured, knocked around…and madder then Hell itself. His flaming hair had intensified, if anything, as he slowly approached Danny, who could do nothing but watch.

Dan picked him up by his neck. "You FAIL, Danny Phantom. You will become me. There is no other way. THERE IS NO OTHER CHOICE."

"I…refuse…YOU. I DENY YOU!" Danny spat at Dan, actually spitting in his eye.

Dan glared, as his fists glowed black…

"STOP!" called out an all to familiar voice, as Dan was frozen in his tracks.

Suddenly, a blue portal opened up as a group of people stepped forward…though people isn't the right word.

They were all Danny. But that also isn't right. They were all a VERSION of Danny…

There were six in total. The two first ones, on either side, were total opiates from the other. On one side, there was a Danny with long blond hair, glowing blue eyes, and a suit of angelic design, alternating white and gold, with two majestic white and gold wings adorning his back, and a silver DP symbol on his chest. He gazed at Dan with a righteous and just look, as if daring him to move. The other was a dark, demonic Danny, with black scaled skin, blood red fangs, red claws, cruel black leathery wings, and a suit that was dusk and gray colored. His burning black eyes looked at Dan, and he laughed as he commented, "Pansy," to the still frozen Dan Phantom.

The one behind him was a human grown up Danny, wearing an astornaught suit, holding a helmet in one hand, and gazing at the two with cool green eyes. The one next to him was also human, but his hair was white and long, and he wore a rockers outfit, styled like Danny's costume Old costume but with a rockers look. While he had white hair, his eyes were blue.

The final two were also standing side by side, though neither one looked like they belong…sorta. One looked exactly like Danny did at the moment, only he had a black strip in his hair And he was ten years older much like June's. The other had a very long pony tail, with a goatee, and a complicated white and black alternating suit. Yes Wings, I did steal the final guy from you. ;P

Behind the six Dannys was Clockwork. "DAN PHANTOM!" He called out. "You are hereby IMPOSSIBLE to exist, thusly you must be sent with all other impossibilities; to Oblivion."

"What?!" Dan roared out, dropping Danny as he marched towards the group.

"Danny can NO LONGER turn into you in ANY version of ANY of his futures. These are all versions of him in ten years. YOU are not. Thusly, as you have no beginning, no origin, YOU HAVE NO EXISTANCE." Clockwork declared.

"And what you ARE going to do? I'm beyond your power! I'M BEYOND TIME ITSELF!" Dan laughed.

"It is true, Dan. I can not effect you. But THEY can." Clockwork then gestured towards all of the other Dannys. They all rushed at Dan as one, grabbing him, holding him, as he struggled, as he blasted off beam after beam…but as each touched him, he slowly started to fade, until, atlast, there was no more Dan Phantom, as Danny, the true Danny himself, reached out and punched him in the back, finally ending his existence.

The Dannys separated, each looking towards their younger self, as Danny looked back. Then Clockwork was beside him.

Danny looked at Clockwork, and Clockwork knew what Danny wanted: to go to his new friends. And so, with a wave of his hand, all disappeared in a flash of blue light…

In a flash of light, Danny reformed. First he blinked. Then he looked around him.

Everything was as it should have been. His friends were alive. He was rid of Dan. It had been a few hours since he had disappeared…and to him, it seemed like eternity, as his friends surrounded him, asking what had happened…

Note: To those wondering, yes, Danny's human form now has long hair. Not a mullet either.