Chapter 20: Class Clone

As Danielle stood in the middle of the hallway, imagining her life beginning to crumble into ruins, Lin shook her shoulders in an attempt to bring the girl out of her trance and back into reality. All the while, the A-Listers laughed at the stunned girl, relishing in the feeling of once again being on top and at the center of attention, but no one more so then Tammy. Finally, Danielle's mind was able to reconnect to her body enough to ask a single question.

"How…" she whispered in a low voice.

"Dani?" Lin said as she was pushed lightly out of the way as Danielle strode up to Tammy, anger beginning to flare up.

"How! How do you know that!?" She demanded in a loud voice.

"You know, it's funny the things you find when you leave important papers lying around in ratty old backpacks," Tammy said as she took the paper out of her pocket and thrust it into Danielle's chest with a shove. Danielle stumbled a bit, but stayed on her feet. As she looked at the paper, there was no doubt that in her mind that it was indeed the same paper that belonged to her and that she had shown her parents before.

"You bitch," Danielle said in a low, strained voice before her anger exploded. "You heartless bitch! Why would you do something like this!? Do you even understand what you've done!?"

"Of course I do. Because nobody messes with me. I'm queen bee, and will do whatever I want and need to do to be sure it stays that way."

That was the last straw for Danielle. Before anyone could even blink, the situation had turned dangerous. With anger and adrenaline pulsing through her ectoplasm infused veins, Danielle felt any restraint she had left snap as she launched herself at the blonde. No one even realized she had moved until the sound of a crash and a strangled cry echoed down the hall, catching the attention of every student around. Lin looked toward the lockers and gave a surprised yelp at the scene. There, against the now dented gray of the school lockers, were Danielle and Tammy. Everyone stared on in horror as they watched Tammy practically claw at Danielle's hands as they closed around her windpipe, but her efforts were completely wasted on the super powered girl. As her eyes glowed green in fury, many of the students got scared and started to yell things out.

"Oh my god!"

"Tammy's face is turning blue!"

"Danielle's going to kill her!"

"She's lost her mind!"

"Timmy, do something!" Tootie yelled as she shook his arm in urgency. With a quick shake of his head, the male twin dashed across the hallway to the locker, and grabbed his sister's attacker, throwing her into a headlock. The sudden jerking of her head backwards with a pair of arms around her neck was enough to distract Danielle to release the now petrified Tammy, but this did not stop her from growling in anger at him.

"You better keep your freaky hands off my sister!" Timmy yelled as he tightened his grip on her. Danielle's body began to move as her reflexes caused her to grab his forearm that was around her neck, and lifted it over her head in such a swift and fast motion. Timmy didn't even realize she was out of his hold until he felt a sharp pain in his arm as she twisted it behind his back. Timmy let out a pain filled scream at the added pressure, but before he could call for help, Danielle gave him a swift kick to the back, sending him face first into a closed locker. As soon as his head come into contact with the hard metal, the jock fell unconscious, slumping over in a heap on the floor. Everyone was shocked to see one of their star players and most popular jock of the school, taken down so easily by a girl so small.

"She knocked out Timmy!"

"She's going to kill us all!"

Many of the students began to panic until they saw more players from the football team rush her in an attempt to get back at her for hurting their teammate.

"Get her!" One of them yelled.

As they all rushed forward, Lin backed away before breaking out into a sprint toward the teacher's lounge. As she pushed the door open forcefully, many of the teachers looked on at her in surprise, including her mother.

"Lindsey, what is the matter with you?" her mother scolded. "You know-"

"You have to come quick!" Lin shouted as the sounds of fighting and a feminine scream travelled down the hall. "Danielle's in the middle of a fight with the football players!"

At the mention of her student, Mrs. Otree placed her coffee mug down and ran out the door as fast as she could with Lin right behind her.

Danielle was beginning to get even more aggravated, as her eyes were now a darker shade of their usual green, because the jocks wouldn't stay down. Whenever she she'd hit one, another would come at her while the first one was getting back up. Finally becoming fed up with this, she grabbed one and threw him a few feet down the hallway where he landed on his back. As he crashed on the ground, all the air flew out of his body, leaving him to lay there to recover. The remaining members took this as their chance, and jumped her all at once, each grabbing a part of her. Two grabbed her legs, another two grabbed her arms, and the last put her into a headlock similar to the one she had been in minutes before. It took all of their strength, but they were able to hold her long enough for the last one, who was now back up from being thrown, to run up and give a quick punch to the face.

As Mrs. Otree and Lin came down the hall, they gasped at the site of the young girl as she struggled against the might of the athletes, and nearly screamed at them to let her go, but never got the chance as Danielle let out what could only be called a war cry. Everyone cringed as they were blinded by a white light that filled the hallway. As the light faded, all of the football players blinked in confusion as their captive was no longer there.

"Where did-" but he never got to finish as he was soon sent flying into a locker where he fell over, finally down for the count from the force of the impact. As the others went to check up on him, two of them felt a strange cold feeling as it travelled down their spines, and they too fell over, unconscious. The last three looked on in fear and confusion, looking for the source of the attacks. A sound caught their attention as the three turned around. Danielle faded back into site and brought both her arms out, slamming them against the neck of two of them before slamming them into the ground. As she stood, she turned around, causing the last one to back up and run away in fear down the hall. As he ran, he felt a sharp pain in his stomach as a second Danielle came into existence and sent him flying with a kick. As the final member came to a skidded halt at her feet, Danielle turned toward the entrance of the school to see a crying Tammy as her fear took over and she ran out the door.

"Where do you think you're going!?" The two Danielle's yelled in unison before flying toward her and merging back into one. As Danielle phased through the doors, Lin felt herself being jerked backwards and turned to see her mother.

"Lindsey, listen to me very carefully. I need you to go to the office and tell them to call Casper High and ask for Danny Fenton, and tell them that it's an emergency."

"Ok, Mom," she said as she took off for the office while her mother headed toward the doors with a crowd of students.

Down at Casper High, Danny had just finished grabbing his English book when an announcement came over the loud speaker.

"Will Daniel and Jasmine Fenton, Samantha Manson and Tucker Foley please report to the principal's office," the secretary said. Turning to his two friends, who were just as confused as him, Danny nodded and the three made their way to the office where they met up with Jazz who was just as confused as they were.

"Any idea to what this is about, Jazz?" Danny asked.

"I haven't the slightest idea, but ten to one says it's something ghost related," she said.

"Good, you're all here," Principal Ishiyama said as she entered the office.

"Principal Ishiyama, what's going on?" Sam asked.

"We just got a call from Casper Middle. They didn't go into details on what happening over there, but they mentioned a Danielle Fenton."

"Danielle!" the teens all said in unison. Turning to look at each other, they all nodded, agreeing on the plan.

"Principal Ishiyama, we're going to need to be excused from-"

"Of course, Danny. I've already had arrangements made for the four of you to make up the work later. But for now, I believe you all have a job to do?" she said with a smile and a raised eyebrow.

Danny grinned and nodded before the four ran out of the office and toward the exit of the school.

"We'll meet you guys there," Danny said as he and Sam ran behind a group of trees to transform. "I'm going ghost!"

"Phantom fauna!" Sam said, yelling her own battle cry. After the two bright flashes of light faded, Danny Phantom and Sam Flora floated up into the air before taking off at full speed toward the Middle school.

Tammy had barely made it out the front doors when Danielle came charging outside and began her search for the terrified girl. Tammy had barely enough time to hide behind a tree before the young Phantom proceeded to scan the outer school grounds. Sliding to the ground, Tammy could feel tears running down her face as she struggled to breathe with her now bruised windpipe, and couldn't help the fear pulsing through her as she thought that this was how she was going to die.

"Where are you, coward!" Danielle shouted making Tammy involuntarily cringed at the ferocity in her voice. "You're tough when you think you can get your way, but now you're hiding! Where's all that cockiness you had before!?"

As the sea of students poured out into the yard, Tootie, Chester and AJ pushed their way to the front and began looking for any sign of their friend. As Tootie spotted her, leaning against a tree, she began to scream a warning while running toward her.

"Tammy, run! Before she finds you!"

If Tammy could talk, she would curse at Tootie and tell her that she was a moron because she just gave her away. Stumbling to her feet, Tammy pushed herself up and began to run away, but stopped as a low whistling sound passed her in the form of a small green ball that exploded as it made contact with the ground. Tammy looked up in horror as Danielle hovered above her, hand still smoking green vapors. Not wasting a minute, Danielle focused her energy, igniting her hand once more as she took aim.

"I hope this was all worth it, Turner," Danielle said, putting all her fury into her attack. "Because your days of ruining people's lives are over." And with that, Danielle pulled back, and threw the ecto-disk at her target.

As the disk flew toward her, Tammy lost all hope, and slid onto her knees, staring at the small green projectile with tear filled eyes as it came closer to her by the second, knowing that even as small as it was, it had more than enough power to wipe her clean off the Earth. People began to shout for her to move and run away, but it all fell on deaf ears as the energy closed in on her. Everyone watched in horror as the disk exploded, engulfing Tammy in green smoke, and remained speechless in shock. As the smoke began to clear, Tammy opened her eyes, surprised to feel no pain, and wondering if she had been completely destroyed, only to see that she was surrounded by a glowing green dome.

"You ok?"

Tammy looked up in surprise to see that the dome had been created by Danny Phantom as he stood in front of her, hands held high as the energy spread from his hands. All the students on the sidelines cheered, while Mrs. Otree breathed a sigh of relief, happy to see that she was still alive. Tammy's face scrunched up as she began to cry tears of joy that she had actually been spared.

"Th-tha-nk yo-u" she croaked out as best she could. Danny looked at her in surprise as he examined the red finger marks around her neck. Danielle growled in anger that her attack had been stopped, by her own father no less, and prepared to continue her attack, only to feel something wrap around her. Danielle yelped in surprise as a thin vine wrapped itself around her and yanked her backwards.

"What the hell do you think you're doing!?" Sam yelled as she pulled her daughter back with her Vine Whip.

Danny dropped his hands, allowing the shield to fade, and was about to ask what happened to Tammy, when a loud scream caught his attention. Looking up, he quickly spotted Danielle as she struggled to free herself from her mother's weapon.

"Danny!"

Turning his head again, he was surprised to spot his old teacher as she ran over to them.

"Mrs. Otree," he said as she knelt next to Tammy and began to examine the marks on her neck. "Is everyone alright?"

"Yes, we're all fine. Well, most of us," she said, looking up at Danielle.

"Yeah, I don't know what's gotten into her. She was fine this morning. Can you tell me what happened?"

"I wish I could, but I don't know all the detail myself. By the time I got around, things had gotten out of control."

"I see," he said, looking up at Danielle. "Don't worry; I'll take care of this." Danny quickly took to the air and went straight up to Danielle and Sam, grabbing Danielle's shoulders and holding her against him while trying to avoid the thorns of Sam's whip. "You ok, Sam?"

"Yeah, I'm fine, but she won't stop struggling," she said. Danny nodded his head, and, calling upon his ice powers, covered Sam's vines in thick ice to reinforce them. "Thanks. Now," she said as she glared at Danielle who glared back at her. "Like I was saying, what the hell do you think you're doing, Danielle!?"

"Let me go!" Danielle screamed.

"Why are you attacking her!?"

"Because that bitch needs to be taught a lesson!"

Sam and Danny were taken back by her language, though it didn't last long as Sam's hand flew across her daughter's face, shocking the young girl. Danielle stared at her mother, her anger only slightly quelled as she panted and tried to gain some control of herself in the presence of her parents, while Sam's only seemed to flare.

"That is enough, Danielle Lilith! I don't know what has gotten into you, but I will not tolerate this behavior anymore!" Sam yelled as she brought her face close to Danielle's.

"How can you side with them!? With her!?" Danielle screamed as the stinging on her face began to actually hurt and her fury at the situation continued building.

"We aren't siding with anyone, Danielle! We don't even know what happened! But what we do know is that you were attacking an innocent person, and that you've clearly lost your mind!" Danny said.

"I thought you loved me!"

"We do, but that doesn't mean that we can just sit by while you destroy the city and attack people!" Sam said with one hand on her hip while the other pointing a finger at Danielle. Danielle growled and unleashed a frustrated scream as she thrashed about in Danny's grip. As her thrashing began to get out of control, she accidently hit Danny in the stomach, the force of the hit causing him to release her. Without a moment's pause, Danielle turned and headed straight for Tammy, who was now surrounded by students. As she got closer, the kids all began to scream in fear of her, except Tammy who opened her mouth to scream, but made no sound. Just as Danielle was upon her, she found herself engulfed in a familiar blue light before being forcibly pulled backwards until she felt herself being crammed into tight space, surrounded by darkness.

Danny could feel himself shaking with both fury and disgust as he tried to hold himself together, and capped his thermos. Never in his life, would he have thought he would have to use it on his own daughter. Not even as a joke or on accident, but whatever was wrong with her, this was neither the place nor the time for him to deal with her. No, now was the time for him to do some collateral damage on her mishap. Turning toward Sam, he could see by the look and the tears in her eyes that she wasn't doing any better than he was.

"Sam-"

"Why. Just…why?" she asked in despair. "Where did she go? That sweet, innocent little girl. Where did we go wrong? How could this have happened?"

"I know, Sam. I know. We're going to figure this all out and we're going to get Danielle back to normal. I promise," Danny said as he hugged her tightly and handed over the Thermos. "Take her back home, and put her into the containment unit. I'll deal with her when I get there, but see if you can get any info from her. I'll fix things here. "

Sam nodded her head in understanding. "I'll call Jazz and Tucker on my way home. Good luck."

"You too," he said, kissing her and watching her fly off. Danny turned back to the ground and floated down, landing just outside the crowd. All of the spectators looked at him in both fear and wonder as he walked over to Mrs. Otree and allowed him passage.

"Is everyone ok?" Danny asked.

"Yes, we're all fine. Just a little shook up," she said.

"I'm really sorry about Danielle, Mrs. Otree. I swear, I don't know what's gotten into her, but what I do know, is she's going to be in serious trouble when I get home."

"It's alright, Danny. I'm sure Danielle's not the only person to blame for this," she said, eyeballing Tammy who was massaging her throat and looking away in embarrassment from the two. "I'm sure that whatever the reason she was after Miss Truner, she was provoked."

"She was," Lin said as she stepped forward. "I was there when it happened. Tammy had shoved Danielle and was taunting her about something." Lin purposely withheld what it was that Tammy had said for fear that Danny may have had a similar reaction as Danielle. "Then when Danielle asked her why she had caused everyone to shun her, Tammy said she did it because she didn't like the way Danielle didn't bow down to her like everyone else here did, and set out to bring Danielle down because she wanted to be on top again. It's what she does."

"Thanks for the info, but regardless, there is no reason she should have done any of this. She knows better than to use her powers like that, especially for revenge on someone," Danny said.

"But she wasn't. She didn't change until she was being ganged up on by the football team. I swear, it was self-defense."

"Understood. Again, sorry about all this. I promise, this will be dealt with," Danny said. As he began to ascend into the air, he took off full speed for home, determination on his face. "I'm don't know what the hell is going one, but I'm gonna find out."