Chapter 25: The Ultimate Choice
As the Guys in White's henchmen surrounded the three caught teenagers, Danny saw Operative O take out a different weapon he had never seen before. The suited agent loaded it with a transparent tube that had a blood-red liquid inside. Danielle was looking at it frightfully.
"Danny, be careful. That new weapon of theirs has…Ah!" Before she could finish her sentence, she let out another shriek of pain and Danny gasped in concern, as well as from the faint jolt he felt go through his own figure. Operative K had pressed the button on the remote that shocked her again.
"Sheesh." He commented. Not lowering the remote. "First we can't get her to talk at all, and then she starts talking too much." Danielle glared up at the African-American agent hatefully after recovering from the sudden shock from the cuffs on her wrists and ankles.
Danny looked between the bound clone and the two white suited operatives. "What have you guys been doing to her?" He demanded in angered disbelief of the Guys in White.
Operative O explained as he finished loading the unfamiliar looking weapon. "Despite her willingness to take your place, she didn't seem to want to cooperate with us on anything else. So we had to resort to more persuasive measures. But she still refuses to tell us how she got her powers no matter what method we've been using."
Danny stood there for a second gaping at what they were telling him. All this time, he thought only Vlad Plasmius could ever be that cruel. "So you've just been plain torturing her for the information?" Danny responded in incredulity. "She's a fifteen-year-old girl."
Operative O didn't seem to be fazed by this little bit of information. He just looked behind the boy hybrid to where Danielle was suspended limply on the wall. "Yes. It is a shame that such a pretty little thing had to be contaminated with ghostly DNA. Something we plan to cure you both of." The bearded agent said then looking back down at Danny with a bit of a smirk. "We were hoping Freakshow would be able to do it for us, but…"
"Wait a minute." Sam interrupted. "Do it for you? So it was you guys who broke Freakshow out of jail? Not Lydia?"
"That was an accident." Operative K replied with a shrug. "We went to the penitentiary to see if Freakshow would be willing to give us some information about certain anti-ghost elements to try and deal with the ghost-boy. Things just got a bit out of hand. But when we saw that it got the famed ghost hero's attention, we decided to just let him work."
Tucker now took a step forward, looking angered. "And the ghost-shield reversal? You were the inside-job on that." He said, pointing at the agents in accusation.
Operative O just smiled, confirming Tucker's theory before he spoke again. "Even though we wanted to do some research first, we thought it would be a good idea for Freakshow to get rid of the Phantom punk for us, so we wouldn't have to risk getting into trouble with our sponsors. But he was apparently thrown back in jail before he could get the job done."
Sam folded her arms in strong disapproval. "Don't worry. You'll be joining him there soon for those kinds of underhanded tricks."
"Yeah." Tucker agreed, also folding his arms, but with more of a bragging look. "In fact, the police also know where you guys are hiding and are on their way here right now."
"Tucker." Danny whispered urgently, nudging him in the arm to get him to stop talking.
But none of the members of the ghost-hunting agency seemed shaken by the thought of the police coming at all. "You think we didn't already suspect that when you tried to hack into our controls, little mayor." Operative O said to Tucker, specifically. "We'll be gone long before they even get here." He then looked at Danny, raising his strange weapon. "And so will you, Phantom."
Danny heard Danielle gasp behind him before he quickly lunged himself at Sam and Tucker. "Duck!" He shouted, as he pushed them down to the floor with him and covering them just before several beams from anti-spectral weapons suddenly flew above their heads. Danny only lifted his head up when he heard Danielle suddenly shriek in fright. He turned his head in her direction to see that a few singe marks were now on the medal panel that she was pinned to. Some of the blasts had nearly hit her.
Before everyone's sudden panic of nearly getting shot had settled down, Danny got up and started blasting the armored men away, specifically aiming for the weapons.
Danielle saw Operative O raise the red-fuelled weapon once again and pointing it at Danny while he was being distracted. "Danny, look out!" She shouted.
The ghost boy looked in the operative's direction and jumped out of the way just in time before a narrow, red, laser-beam hit him. The white-clad agents growled in frustration and Operative K took out the torturing remote again, pointing it at Danielle. "You know, I think I preferred you not talking at all." He said.
Danielle shut her eyes tightly, bracing herself for what she knew she was about to feel. Before Operative K pressed the shock button, Danny sent a bright green beam from his palm that knocked the remote out of Operative K's hands. Before it even hit the floor, the young hero used an additional blast to completely destroy it.
"Don't ever do that again." Danny threatened the two agents as the green charges in his hands faded.
The Guys in White only returned the glare before Operative O pointed the new weapon at Danny again. "Then how about this?" He responded. Several shots came at Danny all at once, not only from Operative O's weapon, but also from all of their armored associates.
The ghost boy would have simply turned intangible, but he felt it safer to just get out of the way of all the blasts in case that didn't work. Especially with the red beams, since Danielle was specifically afraid of him getting hit by one of those. Tucker and Sam tried to help Danny out with some Fenton wrist rays that they had with them, but they were most effective against ghosts. The most they could do with those was force the armored men back a bit.
When Danny felt like he was starting to get overpowered, he split himself into five beings and shot plasma rays at all of the armored men at once. A few of the duplicates started hovering around the lab equipment and would dodge out of the way of the enemy's blasts, making them hit some of the research materials instead. The Guys in White gave Danny a deadly look when they saw that he successfully beat back their employees and destroyed half of their lab as well.
All five of the Danny's just shrugged with a mocking smile at them. "What? I was outnumbered." All of the duplicates said in unison before merging back into one. Then the completed Danny said, "I just thought I'd even it out a bit."
Operative K's hand shot to his wrist, where he pressed a few buttons on a panel he was wearing as a sort of watch. At his command, several metal panels on the walls opened, revealing robotic weapons that pointed at the still airborne Danny. This came as a bit of a surprise to the teenage ghost. He barely dodged in time of some of the blasts before going intangible and heading straight at the closest wall to attempt a sneak-attack. But he couldn't phase. He hit the wall with a hard thud and fell to the floor.
As he was starting to get up, wondering why he couldn't go through the wall, he heard the high-pitched hum of certain weapons preparing to fire. He quickly looked up, seeing that Operative O was about to shoot him with the red-fuelled weapon. Danny was still a bit dazed from hitting the wall. He tried to move out of the way, but not in time to suddenly feel a burning sting on his right side that made him cry out. A shockingly familiar kind of prolonged pain that felt like with every beat of his heart, it pulsed deeper into his body.
"No!" Danielle cried out, as if in agony herself, (considering the connection they shared, it was very possible that she felt her cousin's pain.) The red beam coming from the gun, looked like it was pumping white beads of light, one after another, right into the teenage boy's body, causing him such agony within only a space of a few seconds before the agent finally let go of the trigger and the beam vanished.
"Danny!" Sam and Tucker called in unison as they saw their friend collapse to his knees, gripping his side where he had just gotten hit.
The two white suited partners smiled in triumph, watching as Danny tried to stand up. "Sorry kid, but as soon as your little mayor friend tried to hack into our systems, a ghost-shield activated around this room."
That explained why Danny wasn't able to get through the wall, but even though the red beam had been let off, he felt like he was growing even weaker by the minute. Frightful memories entered his mind as he recognized this kind of pain that was slowly beginning to spread further through his form as if it was starting to eat away at him. "Wha…? What is this?" He asked, still holding his side and leaning against the wall for support to try and get to his feet. He removed his hand from the place where it was hurting, discovering that there was green blood staining his white glove.
"Poison." Operative O said, blowing a stream of red vapor off the barrel of his weapon before lowering it. "Made from the pedals of a special anti-ghost remedy known as Blood Blossom."
Sam and Tucker gasped in fright and exchanged worried looks in hearing the name of the familiar floral substance.
"Freakshow was the one who told us about them before he broke out of the penitentiary." Operative K reported, as Danny's two friends rushed to his side. "We couldn't make it any stronger before you arrived, but I'd say your ghost half has about three hours: At the most.
"His ghost half?" Tucker asked angrily. It sounded as if they thought his human half would live.
Danny set his back against the wall, holding his gloved hands over the deep wound that was left from the blast. So he only had hours left to live. But by the way the wound was burning him from the inside as well as the outside, it felt like it may as well be much shorter. No wonder Danielle wanted him to avoid it at all costs. But now what?
Suddenly, red lights in the room started flashing and an alarm started to blare loudly. An automated voice came from the control panel by where Danielle was pinned to the wall. "Warning: experimental subject resisting. Increasing containment level."
Everyone looked at Danielle who seemed to now be making her own effort to break free. The increasing of the containment level didn't seem to be any help. "Containment level at maximum." The computer said. "Subject still overpowering confinement. Engaging back-up restraints." At the computer's command, additional cuffs extended out of the metal panel and wrapped around the girl's knees, elbows, as well as around her neck and waist.
Danielle looked like she was panicking a bit when the extra restraints activated, but even though her movements were now limited even more, she continued to struggle, tensing her body and straining against her bonds.
Danny felt his heart thumping in his chest as he watched this in anxiety. Could she possibly break free on her own? Even though Tucker couldn't hack into the controls to release her would they even have to? Did she even try to break free before? Danny's friends stood on either side of him, watching with just as much apprehension as he was. The Guys in White looked like they were starting to get nervous and headed to the controls to monitor the procedures to keep the girl contained.
Danny noticed a few cracks starting to appear in the medal cuffs that bound his little cousin and a green glow from her hands and feet was starting to appear. "Subject breaching restraints." The computerized voice reported. "Engaging emergency containment chamber."
A curved, glasslike covering, came out of the wall and encased Danielle in half of a cylindrical chamber that then started pulsing with a blue light inside. It was clear that this made it much more difficult for Danielle, but she wasn't giving up. She was giving it her all to break free of her confinement. She let out a cry of effort as even the transparent cylinder was starting to crack. The lights in the lab started to flicker a bit and the controls were beginning to hiss with an emission of smoke. The alarm blared louder still and the Guys in White backed away, shielding their eyes as the controls started sparking uncontrollably.
"Warning. System overload. Escape of experimental subject: eminent." The computer's voice announced. Now the containment chamber was beginning to let off smoke and the Guys in White were looking scared: So where all of their employees who were just standing around, not sure of what to do.
Danielle felt her ghostly energy returning as the metallic restrains continued to give and with what power she had regained, she gathered as much as she could and let out a burst of energy that shattered her bonds and made the containment chamber completely self-destruct. Some of the controls did the same and the nearest ghost hunters, including the Guys in White, were thrown back several feet from the force of the blast.
Danny, Sam and Tucker, covered their heads as a few shards from the explosion rained down on them, even from this distance away. When everyone looked back up, thick smoke was rising from the place the containment chamber had been. People started squinting as if trying to see Danielle through the smoke and watched, waiting for something to happen.
Danny was starting to think that maybe Danielle didn't survive the blast, but he was getting a feeling that she was still there. The connection was just reassuring him of that.
A place in the smoke became disturbed as something beyond it finally moved. Everyone perked up as Danielle slowly walked out of the cloud of smoke, collapsing to the floor and rolling onto her back, coughing from the smoke until it started to settle.
The Guys in White got up quickly. Operative K took some kind of injecting tool out of the inside pocket of his jacket and hurried to where the young girl laid now motionless. This tool contained another liquid that could destroy any ghost almost instantly, but they only used it for lab emergencies like this.
"The concentrated injection?" Operative O inquired, looking a bit confused at his partner.
"She broke through every single method of containment we have." The African American operative said as he was making his way towards Danielle. "We have no choice but to put her down."
"No!" Danny cried out in desperate protest, trying to take a step forward, but his knees buckled beneath him and Tucker had to catch him before he fell all the way to the floor. "Guys, do something." He begged his friends in almost a whisper, as Tucker gently lowered him down to his knees, but they didn't know what to do either before it would be too late.
All three of the teens watched helplessly as the agent bent down over Danielle, ready to give her the lethal injection when her bright green eyes suddenly shot open, filled with a rage even Danny had never seen in her before. She grabbed the agent's gloved wrist that held the dose before he could give it to her and he grunted in pain as she used her ghost-enhanced strength to squeeze the man's wrist even tighter. A concentrated radiation of green ecto-plasmic energy started burning the gloved hand. To the agent's surprise, the tool in his hands seemed to completely disintegrate from the slow but powerful emission Danielle was giving off. She glared at him with a hatred so powerful as she sat up, still gripping tighter on the man's wrist until she suddenly grabbed his arm with both hands, lifted him up from the floor, swung him around once and threw him at Operative O, making them ram into each other and fall into a heap on the floor.
By this time, several of the armored men were getting up and had seen what had happened. They started pointing their weapons at Danielle, but she saw them do so and with a charging cry, she used her Plasma Rocket. The black white and green blur she became, shot around the room so fast, no one saw how she had grabbed all of their weapons at once and destroyed them all before knocking them back down to the floor. She even went around yanking all of the robotic weapons that were coming out of the walls.
Operative O had taken out the gun that shot the Blood Blossom poison again, but the girl's speed was so unmatchable, he didn't even know where to aim it before that weapon was suddenly grabbed from him as well. The next thing he knew, she was hovering above him with the Blood Blossom weapon in her hands. "How did you do that?" The bearded agent said, in complete astonishment. Operative K, got up, looking just as dumbfounded as his partner was when she answered in a deadly tone.
"Just because I have the same name and theme colors as Danny, doesn't mean we share all the same abilities." She said, igniting her hands that still held the weapon and it completely dissolved as she crushed it between her palms.
Danny, Tucker and Sam watched this wide-eyed as the remaining dust from the weapon fell from her gloved hands and into a small pile on the floor. Danny was also starting to feel a little uneasy. How could Danielle possibly have the strength to do the Plasma Rocket like that when he thought she had used all of her strength just to get out of her confinement? And she still looked strong enough to keep going. Which, she did.
"You also didn't know I could do this." She said as she did a forward flip in the air, charging her feet up. She landed on the floor, shooting the charges into two separate streams that ran along the tile until one stream of energy each hit a white suited man at the same exact time. The blast forced them back, towards the far wall. Everyone stood there with their mouths wide open in seeing the two huge crevices Danielle had made in the floor from the energy blasts from her feet.
Danielle zoomed up to both of the Guys in White, grabbing them both by the collars of their suits and slamming their backs forcefully against the wall. "That poison you just used on Danny." She spat in a threatening way. "There'd better be an antidote for it. And you'd better use it now!" She shouted this last sentence.
The Guys in White looked at her defiantly as if this was the most ridiculous question they had ever been asked. Operative K was the one who answered. "Why would we make an antidote? We're ghost-hunters, not doctors."
"Besides, kid, you're overreacting way too much. Blood Blossoms only work on ghosts. And he's only half ghost" Operative O added.
"You idiots!" Danielle shouted as she suddenly threw both of them over her shoulder, tossing the full-grown men all the way across the room. Danny cringed as they hit the floor hard. Danielle hovered towards them with igniting fists as she continued to speak. "Just as the ghost-zone is bound to whatever happens in this world or vice versa, Danny's human half is dependant on the survival of the ghost. Destroying one half will kill the other! You've practically just murdered the entire world's hero!" She shot them with a plasma ray from her hands. They both tried to dodge, but even as they did, she came up behind them, grabbing them by the back of their suits and threw them to the floor again.
Danny, his friends, as well as everyone else in the room, stood rooted to the spot in both astonishment as well as growing fear at what they were witnessing. Danny hadn't seen Danielle do anything like this since after Vlad tried to destroy her for his own research. But as much as she hated Vlad, and completely clobbered him for trying to melt her down, Vlad was a ghost hybrid and could survive big hits like this. The Guys in White were completely human and not as able to withstand the kind of attacks she was pelting them with. Danielle's rage continued to drive her and she sent one blast after another on the Guys in White. Particularly Operative O who was the one who poisoned Danny.
Eventually she threw them both against the wall again, and generated a green sphere of energy in her hands that was actually hollow. As she released it from her palms, it grew to a size that was bigger than she was and it engulfed the two men in white suits.
Danny had seen this technique only once before. Vlad had used it on him, Tucker and Sam once when they were trying to chase him down and take back something he had stolen.
Danny's heart started pounding in his chest more rapidly and a chill ran down his back as he saw Danielle land in front of the sphere she had trapped the two men in. She extended out a hand and the sphere seemed to shrink, reducing the space they were already limited to inside, until they had to resort to bending down to their knees. Their suits were now tattered and torn and they were scrapped in several places from being thrown around so much. They looked up at Danielle who approached them, and even though they were wearing the dark glasses, you could easily tell that they were now fearful of what she was about to do next.
"And if he goes," Danielle was saying in a deadly whisper. "So will you." She clenched her fist and ignited a green charge that pulsated, as it grew brighter and more powerful looking. In the light of the charge, Danny could have sworn that he saw her eyes turning red. Like Vlad's eyes were in his ghost form…like the eyes of Danny's alternate and evil self that was lodged in Clockwork's tower.
This was what the sage had meant with his warning. This was the choice that would lead Danielle to a path of evil. She was about to kill the Guys in White. What she said next, confirmed Danny's very thought. "And I'll be the one who sends you on your way." She pulled back her ignited hand, facing her palm towards her target, preparing to land the killing blow of vengeance. And Danny saw, completely horrified as her eyes most certainly did start glowing with the blood-thirsty evil that was coming out.
"DANIELLE, NO!" Danny shouted.
The sound of his voice surprised even him as it almost echoed through the whole lab.
Danielle suddenly froze, just as she was about to release her energy. It was like the very sound of Danny's voice sparked something inside her. That she had completely forgotten anyone else was in the room until now.
"Danielle." Danny said, more quietly now, but his fear of what she was about to do still at its peak. "Don't you realize what you're doing?"
"Oh I know what I'm doing, Danny." Danielle shot back, not taking her eyes off her target and not lowering her charged hand. "You save the entire world, including these two lunatics from complete obliteration and they repay you by injecting you with liquidized Blood Blossoms. They deserve nothing else for what they've done to you."
Tucker and Sam knelt next to Danny as if this would help him or his girl clone. The Guys in White looked in the ghost boy's direction, looking a bit confused at why he was trying to stop his look-alike from unleashing her attack. "I understand your intentions, Danielle, but the methods you're using are leading you down a very…dangerous…path." Danny said, still on his knees and painfully holding his side where it was still bleeding badly. "And if you take another step in that direction, you'll never be able to turn back. Trust me, I know. I've been there. In fact I barely escaped it myself." Danielle's eyes still burned with a fire of hatred towards the men that had poisoned her cousin. Danny kept talking as if he thought it was the only thing keeping her from making the biggest mistake in her life. "Don't do something Vlad would be proud of."
He knew he had said the wrong thing as soon as he finished this sentence. "Why not?" Danielle demanded: Her expression hardening even more. "He created me, didn't he? I can be just as ruthless as he was." She pulled her palm back, preparing for that final attack she still was yet to unleash.
"But do you want to be?" Danny said quickly before she was able to thrust her glowing fist forward. She halted her attack again and this time a few more wheels seemed to start turning in her head. Danny chose his words more carefully this time. "Dani, anyone can be the way Vlad was. That's a matter of choice. That was his choice." She was silent after this. "Is this how you really want to be? A vengeful killer?"
An apprehensive pause came in which Danielle stood very still with her hand still glowing with the intended blast. Danny was starting to wonder if she was even really listening to what he was saying. But he went on, knowing that he had to at least keep trying while there was still a chance. "I know…Vlad…made you." He said very slowly. "But that doesn't mean you have to be like him. I know you're not like him. You've shown that. To me, as well as so many others countless times." Everyone stood in anxious silence watching the scene. They seem to be completely disregarding the fact that they were saying that this ghost girl was actually a creation of Vlad Plasmius. The current situation was what was on everyone's minds and they were wondering what was going to happen next. "Please." Danny whispered as if desperately begging. "Don't prove me wrong."
No one moved as Danny finished his statement as if it was the final request he would ever make in his life. The seconds dragged by in complete silence and Danielle still hadn't lowered her hand. The more time passed, the more Danny was starting to worry that his words might not have gotten through to her. He, as well as everyone else, waited. Watching. Hoping. This was the turning point of Danielle's entire future. If she decided to go through with this…Danny feared the worst. He felt Tucker and Sam grasp his shoulders in concern for his well-being as he remained on his knees, and also looking at Danielle as if in fear of what her final decision might end up being.
Though it was only less than a minute, it seemed like an eternity before the young clone seemed to relax her muscles. Danny noticed Danielle was starting to glance from her ignited fist to the Guys in White inside her confining field of energy. Her expression got a glint of confusion as if she was comprehending whether or not she should actually do the thing she had be so determined to do just a few minutes before. It was like the realization of what she was thinking of doing was starting to hit her. Her final glance was at her ignited hand as her elbow was slowly dropping and the glow began to fade in her palm. Her expression changed from a hate-filled and vengeful one to a look that showed fearful recognition of what she had just been doing. Danny saw her eyes fading back to the bright green and she took a few steps backwards as the sphere around the Guys in White vanished.
Tucker and Sam, as well as quite a few others let out huge sighs of relief. But Danny was still looking at Danielle and felt his own concern for her grow and she was starting to tremble. The white ring of light appeared around her and changed her back to her human form as she dropped to her knees.
Despite how weak he was feeling now because of the poison and his friends hesitation in letting him stand up on his own, Danny managed to balance on his feet and make his way over to Danielle's side as she was looking at her hands, which were shaking.
She hid her face in her hands as he quietly knelt next to her. As if he had a choice anyway, since he could barely stand anymore. He moved a comforting hand to her shoulder and his touch startled her, making her spin around with a frightful gasp. This sudden movement also scared him a bit and he withdrew his hand for a second, until she realized it was only him. And from her expression, he could tell that she was now about to cry. Danny had a feeling he knew what she was thinking. She was scared of what she had been so close to doing. What she was about to become.
He replaced his hand on her shoulder as he saw her human blue eyes swelling up in tears. They were both silent as she stared at him for a second with a searching look, before clamping her watering eyes shut. Before another minute had passed, she suddenly wrapped her arms around his neck and started sobbing on his shoulder uncontrollably.
As surprising as this was after such a dramatic change in behavior already, Danny didn't hesitate in holding his little cousin in a warm and comforting embrace, feeling almost like he was about to cry himself. He had been so afraid that he had possibly lost her in more ways than one. That he had perhaps misunderstood Clockwork. Him getting poisoned was the thing that had set Danielle off. But even as she was about to cross the point of no return, she was still willing to listen to Danny. And she had made the right choice. She just needed to be steered in the right direction: Just as he did a long time ago.
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Back in the ghost-zone, Clockwork and the Observants were watching these events unravel on the sage's giant time-window. After Tucker had deactivated the cloaking field around the Guys in Whites base, Clockwork was able to open a window to view inside the building. When Danielle broke out of the containment chamber, the explosion overloaded the other systems that made the Guys in White previously undetectable and the window was able to fully focus how The Master of Time desired.
He and the Observants saw as Danielle broke free of the containment chamber and started thrashing around the lab, throwing the Guys in White around like rag dolls. "What have you done, Clockwork." One of the Observants said, outraged.
Clockwork kept his eyes on the circular screen as it showed Danielle trapping the white-clothed men in the hollow sphere of energy charging up her hand for the deadly blow. "She hasn't done it yet." He said to them. "She'll make the right choice."
"That's what you said about the boy when you presented him with his first choice. And you were wrong about him." That same Observant said, throwing his hands up in frustration. "You had to purposely manipulate him yourself before he redirected his final decision. This time, there will be no turning back. Look at her eyes. She's about to…"
"Shhh!" The second Observant hushed the argument. "I'm trying to watch!" He said this as if they were watching a movie that was getting to a really good part.
The first observant folded his arms in ignorance and all three ghosts remained silent as they watched Danny protest against his clone's actions.
"Please." They heard him say. "Don't prove me wrong."
As everyone in the lab was observing this in apprehension, so were Clockwork and The Observants. Clockwork had seen this happen in a few visions of the future, and he at first was feeling confident that Danny would be able to help turn things around. He at least delayed her from unleashing the final blow, but as the seconds dragged on, the ghostly sage was starting to doubt whether Danielle would make the right choice after all.
But then he saw as she withdrew her attack and changed back to her human form. Clockwork let out a silent sigh of relief and smiled, turning to The Observants, who looked a bit astonished that she had decided not to go through with the kill. "See?" Clockwork said, indicating the screen as it showed Danny embracing the now tear-filled clone with comfort. "I told you. All she needed was a little guidance from one she trusted most."
"Yes, but you had once again violated certain regulations to take part in manipulating the situation." The Observant with the deeper voice said.
"Not nearly as much as last time. And in both instances, it was for the better." Clockwork said, shifting from his infant form of himself to his strong adult form.
"Perhaps." The second observant put in. "But the boy's life is still in danger because of the poison." He looked up at the window again. "And there is still much damage that must be repaired."
Clockwork turned back to the screen, where he saw Sam take a few steps towards the two Phantoms who were still on the floor in their embrace. Danielle looked over Danny's shoulder, seeing her approach. After a frightful look at the Goth, the ghost clone suddenly hid her tearstained face in her cousin's shoulder and continued to cry. As soon as Sam saw how Danielle just turned away from her, she started looking more regretful than she ever had since Danny had revealed to her the whole story in Vlad's lab.
"Yes. There is." Clockwork said in response to the Obervant's comment. Now that the most crucial point has passed, The Observants finally left the tower and Clockwork continued his watch on the two young hybrids. Danny was badly injured but Danielle had another deep wound of her own. One that she would never be able to heal on her own. Especially if Danny was lost to the poison too soon.
I had tried several times in putting in a part where Danny uses his Ghostly Wail to take the whole lab down, but every time I tried to revise it, it never worked out with him being poisoned as well. That disapoints me too, but sometimes some really good ideas that the writers really like have to be given up for the sake of the story. Unless I can find some way of putting that in, I'm afraid the fight goes the way it does.
By the way, Yes. There's still more to come. I'm sorry if this seems like it's just repeating itself but this is another part I had always envisioned happening in the story. Soon another familiar character from the show will be introduced to the story.