Quickly while I'm in homework limbo! Actually, I have a shit load to do, it's always these times my muses come back.

Chapter 6: Fight

The day had been going fine. The day was sunny, the packers were playing, and by his spies word the meeting had gone pretty well. He had smiled to himself in his office when he heard how perfect Daniel had given the presentation, if Daniel put his mind to it, he could be just as much as a genius as his mother and sister. But a teenager got distracted, and playng hero would be an even bigger distraction. Didn't he watch spiderman? The same happened to him.

His phone beeped and he pressed the recieve button.

"Mr. Masters, Danny is here for the game." His secretary said in her monotone voice. Daniel and his sister came to his office often enough for Anna to be on nick name bases with them. It irked him slightly that she was able to get on good terms with them in less then a month ten he has in a year.

That is odd. He thought. Daniel was early. He didn't think he would actually come, even when his parents thought it was a good idea. He had planed for a limo to pick them up at home.

"Shouldn't you be at school?" He asked, taking another look at the clock.

"Yeah, but I told them who my uncle was and the let me off early." He said. Something was wrong, he saw Daniel, he heard him. Nothing seemed wrong. But a feeling in his gut festered as seconds passed by. Vlad put his gaurd up, but couldn't think of a good reason why. Danny wouldn't attack here, woud he?

Without warning, Daniel shot the clock of the wall, it fell to the ground smoking and broken. Vlad stood up in both shock and confusion and transformed. No worries, no camera's were installed, well, they were fo show, they weren't actually connected to anything.

"Why did you do that?" Vlad demanded. This wasn't like Daniel, not at all, sure, Vlad had reports of him blasting things for practice or fun, but they were useless objects no one wanted. The clock was innocent.

"The ticking was annoying me." He said, like it was so obvious. "And thank you for your co-operation." he said.

"What he asked, out of no where the blasted fenton thermos was in his hands and pointed at him. He had made it a point to make his office ecto proof, the door was the only way out, and Daniel was standing in front of it.

The next thing he was consious of was being at the football stadium, the lights bright and the grass under him soft.

He didn't have a chance to stand up as a figure tackled him. It took a moment to regiester who it was. Daniel's mouth was covered in Ecto goop, along with a stange red ectospasm shcaped like a box attached to his chest. He charged up a blast and directed it at his chest and fired. Vlad sunk into the ground and came back up in the sky. A blue dome circled the entire stadium, trapping the spectators in. He knew better then to touch it.

"Daniel, Stop!"

Danny couldn't answer him, but it was clear he didn't want to talk. He put up shields as Danny attacked with ectoblasts, extremely raw and powerful ones that exploded on shield impact. as soon as the shield was down Danny sent a shower of icce shards his way. Very sharp ice shards that if he didn't fly up and miss them would have done some serious damage.

Daniel was intending to kill him. Actually kill him. It was then he finally spotted a figure standing in the middle of the field, an adult man with a body builder shape dressed in white and black. His resemblance to Danny couldn't go unnoticed. Was it him that trapped him in the thermos? Th older Daniel Grincoud split his face in half.

Vlad realized he wasn't getting out of this without first defeating Daniel. Easy, he's done it before.

Weaknesses. He thought. Daniel's weaknesses.

Hot headed, not as powerful as me, favours his ice powers, cocky, takes a moment to make a horrible pun, not focused, doesn't expand on current powers. Would stop battle to save his friends. Which he has taken advantage of before. Daniel sometimes made his weaknesses to easy to see.

There were several things the changed now. Danny couldn't talk, no distracting puns that made split second openings on his defence. Danny had a fire in his eyes that told him Danny was completly focused on killing him.

Can't fly or go intangable. He noticed, no flying after him or going intangable to avoid the few shots Vlad threw at him. Stay high and try and hit him.

That turned out not to be a good idea. When Danny realized that he couldn't reach him he through his hands to the ground and fired and ectoblast, it set him up via Newton's law. Vlad moved out of the way, but Danny was already blasting. He went higher as Danny went down, saving his fall was an ice slide he quickly created.

He sent ice shards Vlad's way, two managed to scrape him and draw blood. He chose to stay intangable to avoid the shards.

He noticed Valarie on the ground a distance away, not moving. A ice shard was going her way, both Hybrids noticed at the same time and both put a shield up around her, pink and green mixed together before it faded.

"You nearly hit her!" He turned to Danny, floating closer to him, risky. More shards appeared around him ready to go flying. He threw his hand out to indicate the watching people who couldn't escape. "Stop Daniel, you'll hurt people." It was like a magic word. That meant a lot to the him, Vlad knew it was another thing he took advantage off. Question his actions. It drove him wild.

Daniel didn't seemed to have realized that. He froze in his place as the ice shards fell to the ground abandon of power. Vlad knew the young boy was freaking out over being too reackless. Realizing the ice shards intended fo Vlad and his missed shots could hit anyone else. The staium was huge, but eventually the damage could not be confined to the area. It they had been flying, much more damaged would have occured.

Would stop a battle to protect his friends. Vlad summoned a giant purple block and made it crash down on Danny, a green shield circled him. But Vlad wan't lettng go of his advantage and let it fall again, the force making a dent in the ground and pushing Danny further down, he heard cracks or breking bone. A third attack had the shield go down. He cold see how exhausted Daniel was. Even before the battle had started he looked like he had been in a war zone. He fell to his knees, unable to fight any longer. It didn't stop him from trying to get right back up. Vlad admired how determined Daniel was, but didn't have time to comment on it.

"Stay down, Daniel." Vlad said landing near the crater. He blasted Danny's face, the goop disinergrated. "Explain."

"He's A blast stopped him from saying anything else. He became unconsious and slumped in the crater.

"Not much to explain." The Daniel look-a-like walked over. Blowing his fist of smoke. "I made a deal with him. He kills you for Red's life. Just before I let you out, it didn't take him to long to makethe desision."

"What did you do to her?" He demanded, ignoring all the informtion that wasn't inportant. The new Enemy tisked.

"Posioned her." He said, shrugging like it was nothing, he waved the antidote infrnt of him. "She's only got a few minutes left before the cure becomes useless."

"Give her the Antidote." He ordered, readying an ectoblast. He was one of the strongest ghosts this millenia, this fake was nothing.

"Or what? It's not like you care for her." He scoffed. Vlad didn't like how he judged him. Sure, she was a pawn in a game. But not one to be sarificed.

"Daniel would kill me if I didn't make you." He said. The Fake Daniel laughed.

"'Daniel will kill me', news flash! He tried to just then and failed! I don't think he can, or will. He's too much of a good boy to do it." He smirked and threw his hands up. "So, new deal! Vlad, I offer you this, kill the boy, I give you the antidote or let the timer run out and Danny will be allowed to leave alive."

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Vlad froze. Not a good deal at all.

"Why me? Why chose me to make this choice?" He asked. This ghost knew about him, that he cared for the boy, watched over him, fought him to see how he was progressing with his powers butnever attempted to kill him, sure, there were incidents with the potential to kill him, but nothing Daniel couldn't handle.

The Fake Daniel had the ear to ear grin. Vlad wouldn't admit it but it made him shiver. Daniel should have that look on his face no matter his age, it didn't suit him.

"Because. I want you to suffer. Daddy."

On his last word, the blue rings appeared around him, where the taller Phantom stood a younger Daniel was, only his white hair was flaming much like Skulkers and eyes red with dark circles underneath. His clothes were black and formal, like he was attending an event like a fancy dinner or a funeral.

His eyes widened. The Daniel look-a-like snickered. No, not look-a-like. It was Daniel, but the one he knew was laying in the crater, passed out. He hadn't turned back to human, thankfully. This Daniel in front of him was a different one.

"I know the truth. I found out. I was PISSED when I found out, all the years, your obsession with getting me on your side finally made sense." He growled. The face of an innocent child, the expression of a demon. "I HATE you for that. I hate ME for not figuring it out! I was so STUPID for not seeing the signs! When you kidnapped mom and me, that 'mother-son bonding trip, you talked about her 'mistake all those years ago.' That was me wasn't it? He was shrieking now. Vlad wasn't worried about anyone hearing them in the stadium there were no microphones. But the Daniel in front of him wasn't making any sense. And a more important question chanted in his mind How did he know? HOW DID HE KNOW?

"She was more than pissed when you asked her to leave her husband for you. You were reminding her, you were taunting her. I didn't realize at the time. But you were breaking your promise to her!" His voice changed, no longer just Daniel's voice, but a familiar one. His own. "You promised not to tell him or Jack! You were trying to go around it! Selfish Bastard!"

This was not a very stable Daniel, he backed away slightly as the Fake walked forward. He couldn't let his words get to Vlad. They were true, but hell if he was allowed to talk to him like that.

"I remember... when I was really young." His voice went quiet, Vlad could barely hear him. Childish, and his hair turned solid and just like Daniel's style, he clutched his head like it was aching. "Mom told me I had my fathers eyes. Dad's eyes were blue, but a different shade." He looked him right in the eyes as they flashed his human blue for a second. "Then I met you. It took a few years until I remembered her saying that. Then a few more to realize..." Then he was screaming again. "I HATE YOU!"

"I think you're raving!" Daniel, the one that had been lying in the crater had snuck up and grabbed his double. "I hate him too, but you don't have to make such a big deal out of it!"

"I'll split your skull this time!" Other Daniel growled, trying to grab him. He didn't change back to his tall more powerful self. Vlad briefly wondered if he forgot from his ranting. Real Daniel grabbed the Fake's wrist with the antidote and twisted it until he let it go. It fell in the grass and didn't break.

"Give her the Antidote!" Danny yelled, struggling with his double. Vlad didn't hesitate and grabbed the needle and flew over the Valerie, grabbing her arm and administering the Antidote. Daniel was thrown into him. He stood with difficulty infront of them both.

"Put a shield up, when I give the signal put it down." He ordered. "No arguing, no time and stay behind me and cover your ears."

Vlad put the shield up, Daniel sucked in as much air as he could. Was this a new power? The Fake Daniel tried to throw more ecto goop at him to stop the attack, theshield stopped him. Daniel threw his hand out and Vlad took it as the signal. Daniel exhaled and screamed. A scream infused with ectoplasm. A scream that went out in waves, was loud and earsplitting and ripped up the field. The fake Daniel screamed i agony and was flung back across the field. Danny stoped before the scream can get to the spectators. Things fell, the big screen whch had shown the battle shattered in a million peices. People screamed and covered thier heads.

The Fake Daniel somehow stood up, his clothes ripped and hair flaming wildly.

"You win... this round, little me." A portal appeared. He stood holding his left arm, the blue shield cracked and dissapeared. "But really? I won too."

"No!" Danny yelled, his voice sounded hoarse. "Can't let him get away..." He went for the thermos that had held Vlad but the Fake was gone and the portal closed behind him. He collasped backwards, Vlad made sure he didn't fall too hard. When the blue rings appeared around Daniel's waist he acted fast. He grabbed him and Valerie and teleported away before anyone could set foot on the field.

Sweet Irony that Vlad has to fight Danny in a Football stadium with no way out. I actually liked that episode. And Danny's eyes ARE more similar to Vlads. seriously, that's my only evidence. Plus what Vlad said to Maddie in 'Marental Instincts'...

Thank you everyone that Reviewed! You give me confidence in my writting!

EDIT: Added moe and changed grammar, nothing to noticeable, but I wouldlike it if someone pointed out things I missed. Idid Say that Kindred Spirits happened differently, without Danny using his power. I should write up the alternate episodes, or leave it as it is and piece it together as teh story goes on.