So Fast, So Sudden
I apologize for the timing of this chapter. My beta has been sick so she got some time to get better and catch up with school. Because of the lateness with this chapter, I'll give you a special present seeing as the time and how my 5 year anniversary of being on Fanfiction was the 8th. Can you guess the present? Two chapters at once!
Danny's POV
When I woke up, I was trapped in the same container that I was when Vlad tried to make a perfect clone of me. "Not this again!" I complained.
"No, little badger, not that again." Vlad replied, as he stepped out of the darkness of some room and into the laboratory. "I have decided on something else." I raised an eyebrow.
"You? Change? Enlighten me," I smirked, letting the sarcasm drip from my mouth. Vlad pressed a button on a hand-held remote. I screamed in agony as jolts of electricity coursed throughout my body.
"Like my new feature?" He asked. It was obvious in his tone that it was a rhetorical question. "It hurts both ghosts and humans!"
"Just tell me what your stupid plan is so I can ruin it!" I said, my hands on the glass for support.
Vlad shocked me again and laughed while I cried out in pain. "You won't be able to defeat me while your powers are gone for another," he checked his watch, "half-hour." He was wearing his best sly and evil grin.
"Speaking of which, how did it knock me out? It never has before."
"After you destroyed the Plasmius Maximus, I had to make a new one. Well," he laughed again, "a new and improved one. The Maximus II has the ability to knock out whoever it's used against. It's one of my most powerful weapons." At this he began stroking the apparatus like he does his cat. Well, if you can call that ball of mangled fur a cat...
"Okay..." I said, a little nervous, "So what's your new plan?"
Vlad's annoying laugh came one more time as he said the most horrifying thing I've heard from him. "To strip you of your powers... permanently!"
Sam's POV
"We have to go back!" I screamed, "Go back now!"
"We can't Sam!" Tucker said, failing to control his voice... and the worry in his tone. "Danny told Dani and us to go." I looked at Dani and asked, "What do you know about this?"
"Me?" She asked, surprised, "I don't know anything. I just met you guys!" Jazz took the wheel while Tucker came back.
"What did Danny tell you-"
"Wait!" Tucker interrupted, "Dani, say that again; say what you just said."
"I don't know anything?"
"No, after that,"
"I just met you guys." Tucker was silent, just staring at her.
"No Dani," he finally said, shaking his head. "This isn't the first time you've met us." Dani gave him a weird look as she tried to remember the dark skinned boy.
The Specter Speeder jolted to a stop as Tucker and I were thrown to the ground. "Uh, guys," Jazz said, staring out the windshield. "We have a little problem."
We raised our heads, moaning groggily as we did so, and looked out the huge window of the flying ship. "Oh no," I said, staring straight into glowing green, mechanical-like eyes of Skulker.
3rd Person
"To strip you of your powers... permanently!"
Danny was speechless. That was low, even for Vlad. "Once I have your powers, I'll have no need for a clone because you'll be obsolete and I'll be the most powerful half-ghost that ever lived."
"You're wrong Plasmius!" I screamed, "There will still be Dani and we'll stop you!" I began struggling to free my bonds.
"I'm not too worried about young Danielle. I was monitoring her and the moment you lost your memory, so did she. I guess you could say that it's a "sticky" situation," Vlad sneered.
"The moment I lost my memory... a sticky situation?!" Danny screamed, louder than he ever had. Even louder than he had when he did the Ghostly Wail. Pictures and scenes began flashing through his mind like a sick, twisted horror movie playing in reverse, all the way to Danny walking down the sidewalk that would lead to his most painful memory.
Flashback!
Danny and Sam said good-bye as they turned down their separate roads. Danny came up to the crosswalk and looked both ways, as most parents teach their kids when they're young. He was about to cross when the icy blue wisp of his ghost sense floated in front of his eyes.
Danny quickly looked around then jumped into the bushes, changing into his alter-ego Danny Phantom. Once he jumped out, he was hit with a powerful ecto-blast in the right shoulder. Back-flipping in the air, Danny formed a quick shield around himself just in time. The unknown ghost sent more blasts without effect to Danny.
Once Danny had landed upright, he looked at his oncoming foe. "Vlad," he said with disgust, "What do you want this time? My mom's cell number?
"No, but if you're willing to give me it, I'll be happy to take it." Danny growled and started attacking Vlad.
"I'm not even trying," Vlad said, blocking and evading the attacks.
As Vlad and Danny got into the road, all was silent except for Danny trying to get a shot in with out success, and the purring of a car engine.
Suddenly, Vlad shot something sticky out of a hand gun at Danny's feet. Danny was stuck to the ground, right in line with the oncoming car.
"It was all your fault!" Danny shrieked, pounding on the glass of his container, now free of the straps that had been holding him in place. "Everything! The car crash, the amnesia, everything!"
"Good, you remember. It's about time. You see, everything I did was to get to you and to prove a theory. You and Danielle do share experiences."
"I swear Plasmius – once I get out of here, I will kill you!"
I want to say that I thought of the Flashback at the beginning, but then I'd be lying. I actually thought of it last chapter and I was dying to write it. It sort of wrote itself.