Disclaimer: Don't own Danny Phantom nor am I making any money off this.
Warning: There shall be a few characters that are not in the show. Swearing, violence, character death, and some other things. And Vlad Danny paring!
Also I am assuming you have watched Ultimate Enemy, and since I do not know what to call Danny's evil future self I shall call him Dan since most people seem to do that.
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Chapter 4: Me in big trouble
10 years into the future
Danny Phantom stared at himself in his bedroom mirror unable to believe that only a few days ago that he and his husband and been having a small argument about their five year old daughter Jenny hanging out with Skulker.
Vlad, being an overprotective father, believed Jenny would be hurt while following Skulker as he patrolled the city for rogue ghost. Danny on the other hand believed that Skulker would take good care of their daughter since he seemed to be so fond of her. The muscular ghost even let Jenny call him Uncle Skulky, an impressive feat for someone so young…
A sad sigh escaped the 26 year old; it wouldn't be long till the last remaining good ghost met up at the remains of his parent's house. He should have been leaving now, but he was reluctant to leave his old home full of happy memories.
"If you don't want to leave then don't." A familiar woman's voice said from the doorway.
Danny turned around slowly only to be stunned at the curvy woman leaning on his bedroom doorway with a smug smile on her full lips.
"Danni?" Danny stood slowly and looked at his clone that had grown up nicely. In fact Danni could pass as his twin only with longer hair and softer features.
"Valerie found me and told me what happened." The woman came in the room and walked around looking at the rich finery that was no doubt Vlad's decoration choice. Not that it didn't look nice and elegant but she doubted Danny would ever choose something so unlike him. Then again her counterpart had changed a lot in the last eight years.
The man standing before her was a man the exact opposite of the man who she saw all those years ago.
"Oh." Was all Danny said before turning back to his mirror and looking at the reflection.
"Where is the littlest one? Vlad Jr. was his name right?"
"I sent him ten years back so he would be safe from Dan."
It was now Danni's turn to say 'Oh'. She had more feelings and thoughts to convey, but the words would not form, so all she said for the moment was "Oh"
The silence was slightly uncomfortable, at least for Danni who did nothing but fiddle with her wrinkled sweatshirt to distract herself from it.
"How have things been for you?" Danny politely asked since he knew nothing about what had happened to his clone over the past eight years, but she seemed to know just about everything that happened to him.
"Nothing much, I traveled place to place, saw the sights." Danni informed him smiling slightly at the memories of all the weird and interesting things and people she saw. The world truly was an amazing place when stopped and looked at it.
"No boyfriends?" The halfa asked wondering if his clone who used to say boys were gross had finally taken an interest in them. Judging by the small smile on Danni's face he could assume so.
"Yeah, there have been a few boys. I met this one in Mexico who I think might just be the one." The 22 year old said dreamily at the thought of the mysterious man.
"Really?" Danny turned and looked at the girl instead of looking at her reflection in the mirror "Congratulations."
A small frown formed on her face, Danni knew that Danny meant what he said with every fiber of his being, but if someone who didn't knew him were to look at him saying congratulations they might think he was not being sincere maybe even bitter.
After all who reacts to good news with a blank face and eyes to match?
"Danny…" The woman's voice died in her throat as her counterpart stood and walked past her and out into the hallway.
"I have to go Danni; you can come to the meeting if you want." The halfa year old offered silently hoping that Danni would refuse and go back to Mexico with the man she had met. But he knew her; she would stay and help fight Dan because that's just what he would do.
He also knew this was battle Danni would lose if she chose to fight.
How he knew this Danny didn't know, maybe it was because he himself thought there was no winning against Dan despite beating him in the past.
"We will win just like in the past." The clone said as if reading Danny's mind "Don't think we won't win. And I don't think Vlad would want you to lose to the very person who killed him."
Danni almost panicked when she saw Danny's shoulders shaking thinking maybe she got him angry, but to her amazement a sob escaped the older halfa.
She didn't hesitate to rush to Danny after he cried out Vlad's name.
"I want him so bad!" Danny sobbed on her shoulder "I want to argue with him, I want to tease him about his grey hair, I want to see him tucking in the kids."
Blue eyes gazed down at the crumbling man who it seemed was just now letting his emotions out. Part of her felt guilty for causing Danny to cry, but the other part knew this was healthier for the man to let his pent up emotions out.
"I don't care if Dan wins, I just want Vlad, I just want mom and dad, I just want Jake and Jenny and Vladdy!" Danni had never been a motherly type but comforting Danny seemed so natural, like a mother would for a crying babe.
"I never got to tell them ether!" Danny wailed and clutched Danni's sweatshirt as if it was the only thing keeping him in place, then again it most likely was.
"Tell them what Danny?" The woman couldn't help but ask, ignoring the warning signals in her head that screamed this was only going to make him cry more.
What Danny said next made her blood run cold and nearly faint
"I was pregnant when Dan attacked, and I still am."
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Back To the Present
"Danny, don't slam the door!" Maddie yelled at her youngest, and looked up the stairs with concern. Did he have a fight with his friends? However unlikely that was it was possibility. Maybe she should ask Jack to see what's wrong since Danny never seemed to like having her ask.
The scientist thought about it for a moment then decided against it. Danny, much to her displeasure to admit, was growing up. And if the teenager needed advice or someone to vent to Maddie was sure he would come to her or Jack. If not there always was Jazz.
With that in mind the female genius continued sewing on the couch, mind buzzing with ways to improve that new ghost gun Jack had invented, guaranteed to rip a ghost molecule by molecule of course.
Unknown to Maddie Danny didn't have a fight with Sam or Tucker, how could he when he hadn't seen them today? But he did have a fight with a certain time ghost after the ghost refused to help him or let him help. Clockwork had even gone to the extent to kick the teen out of the Ghostzone!
So the teen had to fly out of his parent's workshop and to the street only to come back into the house so it wouldn't be suspicious.
'Why won't he let me help?' Danny wondered to himself as he stared up at the ceiling. 'He must know he is going to die if Dan escapes, but why not prevent it now?'
This left the teen clueless; he had no idea what Clockwork was thinking. The ghost didn't even give him an excuse, Clockwork just informed him not to ask or leave.
And Danny, being Danny could not resist the topic. What sane person could? So to make a long story short Clockwork kicked him out by opening a portal and throwing him through it and back to his world.
What would he do now? Just wait to see if his future self came back or not? Maybe he should go back to Clockwork tomorrow and demand to help.
The teen let out a long sigh; he didn't know what to do. Clockwork was more powerful then he was and could easily kick him out of the tower and Ghostzone again if he felt like it.
Maybe he should call Sam and Tucker and ask for their advice? Sure he didn't want his friends to get involved with the fight with Dan, but he didn't know who else to turn to. Jazz would be the next person to turn to, but she could be way more pushy then his friends.
"I don't know what to do." Danny groaned and buried his face in his pillow when a shiver ran through the teen alerting him that there was a ghost in his room.
The teen looked up to see who it was since they had yet to attack him. Nothing though could prepare him for the five year old standing right next to his bed.
"Vladdy!" Danny nearly yelled surprised to see the ghost child, he even pinched himself to make sure he was really awake when the boy launched himself at him.
"I miss my mommy!" The child whined and buried his face into the teen's shirt while reverting back to his human form. "I want to go back and say I'm sorry!"
The small boy began trembling, and at first Danny didn't know what to do. Thinking back to what his parents did when he was upset when he was little; the halfa held the five year old tighter and rubbed small circles in the boys back. Instead of calming him it seemed to have the opposite effect.
"Shhh Vladdy." Danny cooed and glanced at his bedroom door, praying his mother didn't hear the child's cries. How would he explain Vladdy's presence in his room?
'Where is Vlad?!' Danny's inner voice screamed. Wasn't the middle aged man supposed to be taking care of Vladdy? Not that he minded the boy really besides him being a little weird, but he could seriously get into some trouble over this.
'Where is Vlad?' Danny asked himself once more again. He could only imagine what Vlad was going to do once he realized that Vladdy was gone, it wasn't hard since he knew how his parents would react. And all parents seemed to react the same…
"Vladdy, you didn't tell Vlad you were leaving did you?" The boy shook his head and continued to cry.
'Great…Vlad's probably having a melt down' The halfa glanced at his phone, soon as he was done calming Vladdy down he would call Vlad before the man tore up his castle looking for the five year old.
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Vlad had torn his castle apart, but he still could not find his son! He was nearing the point of pulling out his hair and yelling for Skulker to hunt his own flesh and blood down when his private cell phone rung.
The middle aged man paused and answered it, for all he knew Vladdy was calling him. Who knew if the child had the phone number from the future.
"Vlad" The man tensed up again at the sound of the super hero's voice on the other line, he didn't give this number to Danny. So how…?
"Don't ask how I got this number." Danny told him as if reading his mind "I am calling to tell you that your son is sleeping on my bed right now after crying himself to sleep."
"What?! What did you do!?" What ever anger Vlad felt Danny retaliated ten fold
"What do you mean 'What did I do?'! What did you do?! I come home to find Vladdy crying for his mom to me when he should be in Wisconsin crying to you! I let you take care of Vladdy because I thought you could handle it, you don't seem to be able to handling it though!"
"Don't you talk to me about how I take care of my son!" The older halfa snarled into the receiver "I've been a father for less than a week and you expect me to be perfect. Though why he would ever come to you about his mother is beyond me! But at least I am trying unlike you!"
The evil man took a deep breath and was about to rant more when the teen's soft voice stopped him.
"He doesn't like me, why even try?"
Why Vlad felt a pang go through him he didn't know, and didn't feel like knowing. Perhaps it was because of how hurt the boy sounded at admitting that? No he would question why later.
"You're a foolish child, why would he come to you for comfort if he doesn't like you? Open your father's ghost portal so I may come through it to pick Vladdy up."
"It's already open." The teen stated.
"Fine, I'll be there in ten minutes." With out saying goodbye the man hung up and went ghost.
If he didn't know any better he could almost say that he and Danny argued like a divorced couple instead of arch enemies. Which was odd to say the least…
Plasmius shrugged his shoulders before flying to the ghost zone, to much to think about now. The only important thing was that he got to Vladdy and brought him home.
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"So this is him?" Sam looked down at the sleeping boy in awe amazed at the similarities between Vladdy and Vlad. Not to mention the hints of Danny which helped make the tiny boy adorable.
Danny nodded and put his finger over his lips, it took him nearly a half an hour to get the boy calm enough to finally be able to sleep. His friends who had just came over after his 'delightful' phone call with Vlad now were looking at the five year old like a failed science experiment.
"Hey Danny, if he is still here does that mean you and Vlad are still going to get together?" The superhero blushed and shook his head no; he and Vlad didn't have to get together did they? Dan existed out side of time; couldn't Vlad Jr. do the same?
"What do you mean 'if he is still is here'?" Everyone froze in the room at the sound of the rich voice.
If thoughts could be voiced Vlad would have heard three 'Uh-oh's' at the same time from the three teens who stared up at him with horror.
