"Have you any last words before I crush the life out of you?" Undergrowth waited a minute and chuckled. "That is right. You cannot speak."
Danny struggled to break free, but his strength was gone from the fight with Dan and he was quickly running out of air. As he started to black out, the vine suddenly snapped apart and he fell onto the bottom of the cavern. "What the?" A man in red samurai armor was standing in front of him. His twin katana swords drawn and ready. "Samurai?"
"Our master doesn't want you to die. So he sent us to help you." Two more half ghosts appeared next to him. "Leave! We will deal with this one." The other ghosts were Slamburt and Kwan. Kwan took a deep breath and spat out a wave of cold air. It froze several vines and incased the walls in ice. Slamburt spun his large hammer around and started to smash the frozen plants.
"Interfering whelps!" Vines broke out of the ice and lashed out at the half ghosts.
"You're attacking with plants." Samurai sliced the vines before they could attack. "How pathetic!" He glanced over to Danny. "Still here?"
"I can't just leave you here to fight him alone."
"Your concern is touching!" Slamburt flew back as Kwan froze more of the vines on the walls. "But this is nothing!" He smashed several more frozen vines.
"Go friend!" Kwan ducked as several vines shot past.
"Good luck!" Danny went intangible and flew out of the cavern.
"You will pay for letting my prey escape." Vine twisted and formed a human like creature made of vines. His bulk nearly filled the cavern. "I will use your bodies for fertilizer."
"Bring it!" All three halfas charged at the plant ghost.
Danny landed in the construction yard above the cavern and gasped for air. "Don't want to do that again." He then cursed himself. "The seed! I forgot it."
"Looking for this?" Plasmius appeared with Huntress and Fright Knight behind him. He held the seed in his right hand. "I picked it up while Undergrowth was playing with you."
"You knew about Undergrowth?"
"I have known about all of your encounters. Freakshow and the Reality Gauntlet, your evil side from the future, and of course Undergrowth. Just because I was there, doesn't mean I didn't know about it." He looked at the thumb-sized seed. "Not much to it!"
"Hand it over!" Danny stepped forward.
"Make me!" Fright Knight and Huntress stepped in front of Plasmius.
Dan summoned a barrier of red energy as the ghost fire swirled around him. Inferno simply stood a few feet away with the Wraith Blade pointed towards him. "Your powers are no match for my fire. Sooner or latter your barrier will fall. The items in your possession will be used to further increase my powers."
"I'm not beat yet. I will not some upstart defeat my other self." Dan dropped the barrier and the blue fire flowed around him and consumed him.
"Fool!" Inferno stepped forward, but Dan suddenly popped out of the stream of fire. "What?"
"It is called the Crown of Fire. It makes me immune to your little flames." Dan slammed a red glowing fist into Inferno's face. The ghost fell back. "Now who is the fool!"
"You, if you think all I can do it control fire!" Twin beams of green energy shot from Inferno's eyes. Dan barely managed to avoid the attack. "I will kill Phantom and there is nothing you can do to stop me."
"There is plenty!" Dan shot into the air and took off.
"Coward!" With a mighty flap, his wings of fire carried him into the air and he gave chase.
Tucker grew more and more worried as time continued to pass. Danny had left around ten in the morning and it was almost three in the afternoon. Sam hadn't come out of her room and the guests were starting to get impatient. Even Clockwork's interesting conversation topics were doing little to help. Tucker walked to Sam's room and knocked on the door. "Sam? You all right!" He covered his eyes with his hand and opened the door. "I can't see I swear!" He heard no answer for a moment and sneaked a peak. He must have changed back into her normal clothes, because her black wedding dress was hung up on a dress rack. Sam wasn't in the room. "Sam?" He checked her small bathroom and walk-in closet. "Where is she? She shouldn't be outside in her condition."
"She seeks the one who she shares a bond with." Clockwork stepped in. "I froze time for the guests downstairs. It isn't interfering and I figured Danny would be awhile."
"Do you know where they are?"
Clockwork nodded and turned away. "It is not my place to interfere. I have done too much already."
Tucker sighed and took off his hat. "So what do we do?"
"The only thing we can do. Hope and wait!"
Dan phased through the walls of the Fenton Home and landed in the basement lab. He was happy that his parents had left the defenses off. "The upstart is tougher than I had thought." He floated over to the large control console. "But even he can't fight this." His fingers flew over the controls and the large arch at the far end of the room opened. A large green vortex was inside the arch. He smiled as it began to spin faster. The temperature in the room began to rise. "He has no sense of stealth." He pulled a small remote from underneath the control console. He linked it to the portal and braced himself against the wall next to the portal.
Inferno phased into the room and wasted little time letting his ghost fire loose. "Are you done running?"
Dan chuckled. "I am!" He pressed a button on the remote. "Goodbye!" The portal began to spin faster and began to draw everything around it inside it. The vacuum continued to increase in intensity and Inferno's fire was drawn into it.
"What trickery is this?" Inferno planted his feet down, but he himself was beginning to inch towards the spinning portal.
"I've set the portal to eject you into the farthest depths of The Ghost Zone. It will take you years just to reach a part of the zone even remotely close to this realm." Dan crossed his arms and stood confident, as he was clear of the vortex.
Inferno found himself starting to be lifted off of his feat as he was drawn closer. "Damn!" His blade was on his back, but he feared he'd lose it. As he lost his footing, time seem to slow down. He looked around in hope of finding anything that could help him. A flashing green button caught his eye. "Please be an override." He fired out a green beam of energy that hit the button. In front of him, a large black metal poll with a green dream catcher on top of it rose out of the floor in front of him. Inferno grabbed it and held on as the suction got worst.
"You can't hold out forever!" He covered his eyes as several of the consoles exploded. "Overload!" Several pieces shot into the portal. "I have to shut it down." He pressed a few buttons on the remote. It simply sparked and shut down. "Damn it!" He tossed the useless piece of tech down. "Before I escape!" He threw out his hand and a red beam of energy shot from it. It cut into the poll and the ghost catcher was pulled into the portal.
"I'm not finished yet!" Inferno managed to spin the large ghost catcher around the net part hit Dan directly. The ghost was pulled through the net part and he split into two. The portal exploded before pulling him in. The resulting damage caused the building to collapse in on itself. Inferno shot out of the rubble and landed on the street in front of it. "That kid is going to pay for this as well." He walked away, failing to notice the two sparkles of light fly from the destroyed house. The two lights split up and went in different directions.
Danny hit the ground for the third time and still managed to push himself up. Huntress and Fright Knight had taken turns smashing him into the ground. Plasmius smirked as he watched Danny get slammed down another time. "You have grown tougher and I must admit, more powerful in such a short amount of time." He looked at the seed in his hand. "So what is so special about this seed? I know you want it, but what do you need it for?"
"I'm not telling you anything." Danny's legs were shaking, but he remained standing.
"Brave!" He waved his hand, signaling his two henchmen to continue. Huntress readied her baton and moved to attack Danny. She barely noticed the black car that shot into the area. She managed to jump clear before it ran her down. Huntress readied her laser caster on her left shoulder, but Plasmius waved her to stop. "One moment!"
The door opened and Sam stepped out. "You picked a fight on our wedding day?" Even in her weaken state, Sam still stood as strong and proud as she did when she was healthy.
Danny managed a simple grin. "Sorry!"