Danny Phantom in: Spectre Rejecters

Part 4

The three of them walked into Vlad's laboratory where there were two tall glass cylinders surrounded by various tubes and computers. Funny, he was sure he had destroyed this place. Danny was told to stand in one of the tubes, Dani in the other. She stared at her cousin, but he refused to make eye contact. He hung his head and couldn't help but think of all the evil things that Vlad could do once he was in possession of his DNA. "Three, two, one… Begin." Vlad said as he pushed a number of buttons. He signalled for Danny to transform into his alter-ego, Danny Phantom, which he did. He barely registered the machine turning on, he was still tired and weak from the training session – Or perhaps torture session would be a batter description. That is until strong electric volts were violently sent through his body, and what looked like green lightning was being sent to Dani. After moments he had transformed back to his human self and was gasping for breath holding his blood-stained side which had most likely been injured during training and had been damaged by the cloning machine, and was weakly crouched down in the tube. No sooner was the process complete, the cylinder containing Dani shattered into thousands of pieces, and out she flew.

But she was different. Her eyes weren't green and didn't reflect an innocent child; they were a deep red and reflected a blood-thirsty beast filled with violent rage. She hovered over to her vulnerable cousin. "What do we have here?" She mockingly questioned. She punched the glass and it smashed around Danny. "It's a traitor! I don't like traitors…" She lowered herself to his level, smiling evilly, before attacking him with a powerful ghost ray.

"Danielle, what the hell are you-AAAHH!!" Danny yelled in pain as Dani began showering him in ghost ray after ghost ray which sent him flying into the wall behind him. Why was she doing this to him; and where on Earth was Vlad?

"You were going to let me die… Just because of some pathetic rivalry you have against my father!" Dani angrily stated. The boy slowly climbed to his feet, stumbling against the machinery beside him. Just as he opened his mouth to speak, she yelled bitterly, "Silence! It almost pains me to kill such a pathetic, scared excuse for a ghost… almost." She raised her arms to her sides and her hands began to glow red, as did her eyes.

"Goodbye." She taunted as she pointed both hands towards Danny and fired a huge blast of ghostly energy straight at him. He closed his eyes tightly and prepared himself for the impact, knowing that in his present state he couldn't survive it. Suddenly, he heard a loud crash infront of him. Slowly opening his eyes, he saw Vlad's figure standing infront of him, holding up a strong barrier shielding both himself and Danny from the vicious girl's attack.

"What are you doing Dad?!" Dani growled. Vlad approached Dani and gave her a look of utter disgrace, before slapping her across the face. She looked up at her father with tears flooding her eyes, which had now returned to their normal green shade. "I …" She whimpered before falling to the floor; surrounded by a pool of ectoplasm. The boy rushed to Vlad's side, "What's happening to her?!" He exclaimed worriedly.

"It appears that her DNA is failing. When we took your morph sample… it seems that you were so weakened from the training; you didn't transform properly…" Vlad started. Both the half ghosts stared at the dying clone. "I'm afraid it's too late for her." He muttered, doing the best he could to hide his sadness.

"Dani! No!!!"

"You should be angry, I almost killed you… I'm so sorry, I couldn't control myself…" Danielle whispered weakly, before dissolving into nothing but a puddle of gooey green ectoplasm. Tears began to form in Danny's eyes, as Vlad gently put his arm around the boys shoulder; and eyed his daughter's remains. It was too early; she shouldn't have died like this. Her Father hadn't even had chance to apologise for the way he acted towards her the last time they had seen each other. Dani was nothing but a younger, female clone of Daniel, so why did Vlad care so much? He held the ghost boy tightly, never wanting to suffer this painful feeling of loss again.