Disclaimer: I wish I owned Danny Phantom! Desiree: -turns me into Butch Hartman- AHHHHHHHHH! CHANGE ME BACK CHANGE ME BACK! -is changed back-
Dani flew up next to Valerie. Valerie quickly tucked the necklace into her pocket before Dani could notice.
"Where's Danny?" Dani asked.
"Flew off," Valerie said, shrugging her shoulder. Dani just nodded. "What's on your back?"
Dani awkwardly reached to take it off. Valerie laughed and took off a file that was stuck to her back with some sticky ectoplasm glancing at it.
"It's a file from FentonWorks," she said, opening it. "It's a new theory they're working on."
"We shouldn't invade their privacy," Dani said, putting her hand on the page, preventing Valerie from reading it. Valerie looked up at her, about to protest before sighing.
"You're right," she said, sounding disappointed. She handed it to Dani, not looking at the halfa. "Go put it back."
Dani took the file and phased into the FentonWorks lab. She put it back on the table before staring at it. Curiosity got the best of her, and she grabbed it. She opened it, and she gasped after reading the first paragraph.
She didn't get any further, for the door knob turned. Quickly, she turned invisible a little bit after the door was opened. She hoped that they didn't see her, even though they clearly did.
"Danny Phantom was sneaking around in our lab!" Jack cried out.
"Jack, that was a girl. Probably his little sister. How dare he use her for his dirty work!" Maddie said with a small frown. Dani jumped and flew through into the kitchen. She wished she had a backpack or something to put the file in so that Valerie wouldn't notice. She instead shoved it into her boot, wrapping it around her leg.
"That took you a while," Valerie stated suspiciously when Dani came out.
"They caught me," she replied.
"You okay?" the elder asked, immediately becoming concerned.
"Yeah, they didn't have time to shoot," Dani smiled. Valerie returned it, and she began to fly back into her apartment. Dani glanced at her leg before following.
Danny went up to Clockwork's lair, only to notice the door shut. Something was up, Clockwork's door was always open. Taking a closer look, he noticed folded pieces of paper taped to the door with several names written on them. One had Danny Phantom scrawled on it, so he took it off, opening the letter.
Danny,
I'm gone for the day. Don't worry about Danielle. She's your clone, she is simply going through what you're went through last year.
Sincerely,
Clockwork
Danny growled and crumbled the note up in frustration.
Valerie woke up the next morning feeling pretty good. She stretched before slipping out of bed. Upon entering the main room, she noticed the halfa in her human mode, reading on the couch a certain file.
"You still have that!" she yelled accusingly. Dani turned, giving a guilty smile.
"They caught me, I didn't have time to put it back," she lied, continuing to read. Valerie went to the kitchen area and poured herself some cereal.
"So what does it say?"
"It's basically their new theory of-"
Dani was interrupted by her ghost sense and Valerie's ghost tracker beeping. They glanced at each other before Dani turned into her ghost mode, and Valerie switched into her suit. Dani flew through the wall as Valerie went out the window.
There was a ghost blasting the city below it. Dani and Val shot an ecto-blast and ecto-gun at her, causing her go back a little bit. The ghost girl didn't look that old at all no older than Dani herself, but she seemed powerful. She had a black ponytail that was on fire that contrasted her white skin. Vampire teeth were bared at them, green eyes glowing furiously and dressed in black and blue. The ecto-blasts she was sending the two were blue.
Valerie sent another shot at the girl, who dodged it and pulled a keytar from her back. The girl played a note, hitting Dani and causing her to fly backwards and hit Valerie. Dani slumped, sitting on the front of the hoverboard as Valerie shot at her again with her ecto-gun. Another key was blade, and a dome encircled her.
"Who are you?" Dani yelled. The girl smirked, but she did not reply, instead playing another note. Valerie dodged it, and Dani steadied herself before blasting her. The girl was thrown back some, and Valerie used the chance to hit her with a bazooka, which sent her hurtling towards the earth.
Valerie, with Dani still on the hoverboard, zoomed to the ground to find the ghost, to their surprise, crying. She was sitting down, her knees to her chest and tears rolling down her pale cheeks. Glancing up at the two, they notice that her arm was bleeding heavily. The girl pointed to Dani as she spoke.
"To add to all your harm, you hurt my arm!" she claimed. She grabbed the necklace resting on her chest and ripped it off.
"Wait!" Dani yelled, grabbing her arm before she completely threw it off.
"Dani!" Valerie yelled, barely grasping the half-ghost's foot before they were teleported away.
They landed on their bottoms in a strange room, filled with clocks and the soft sound of tick tock, tick tock. The ghost had moved away from them, clutching her arm tightly to stop the ectoplasm from gushing out.
Valerie stood and noticed a row of necklaces hanging up. She pulled out the one that she had put in her pocket, and held it up next to the others.
"So this is what those ghosts were wearing," she thought aloud. She glanced at it before putting it around her neck. "It's kind of cool-looking.
"Val! Check this out!" Dani cried out, pointing towards what looked like a monitor in a clock. Valerie walked over to watch it with her. There was a woman in black and white. She was standing in front of a bunch of GIW and the military as it began to surround her. The woman grinned before letting a eardrum-shattering wail, easily blowing them all away as if they were leaves in the wind. "It's that so cool!?
Valerie gave her a Look.
"It if wasn't being used for evil?" Dani finished. Valerie rolled her eyes and smiled. "Come on Val. You have to admit that's a pretty cool power."
"It is kind of cool," she slowly admitted, but before she could comment more on it, they were distracted by the ghost's cries.
"I would give my very last dime to return home to my own time!" she wailed. This time, she was pleading to a floating ghost that did look a lot like a giant clock.
"Come here, child," he told her gently. She shifted closer to him, and he comfortingly patted her back. "You served your purpose well. Now," the ghost lifted a staff, and a portal appeared. "return home to your mother and father. Dinner's ready."
The ghost hugged him briefly before jumping in. The portal disappeared, and the ghost turned to face Valerie, who was ready with a gun, and a stunned Dani.
"Where are we?" Valerie demanded to know, charging up the ecto-gun, finger on the trigger. "Who are you?"
"You normally shoot before asking questions Valerie," he told her, sounding a little happy as a smile tugged at his lips. "I'm glad you're improving. You are also in my lair."
"Why are we here?" Dani wanted to know. "Who are you? How do you know Valerie?"
"I am Clockwork, master of time," he replied, turning into an old man. "You followed little MelodyWriter here. As for Valerie…I know everybody. Especially you Danielle." At Dani's surprised look, he continued. "As master of time, I have to prevent that," he pointed to the monitor with the ghost girl taking out the military and GIW for the second time. "from happening."
"What happened?" Valerie asked curiously, watching the screen again.
"That woman is you, Danielle. You become evil, but it's my job to stop it," Clockwork half-ignored Valerie's question as his time staff turned into a scythe.
He swung at Dani, who jumped and dodge. Valerie grabbed her hand and pulled her away from another swing.
"You're NOT going to hurt Dani!" Valerie yelled at him. She glanced at Dani. "We gotta get out of here.
"How do we get out?" Dani asked. Valerie paused. She didn't know.
"There isn't a way out," Clockwork lied. Truth is, he sealed off the doors.
"There is a way!" Valerie snapped. "There's always a way!"
"So where's the way? Dani asked sarcastically.
Valerie silenced her with a glare. She put her hand through the monitor before she pulled Dani with her.
The portal immediately closed afterwards.
"Well, there's no going back," Valerie sighed. She looked at Dani, who was too shocked to comment. She looked around the world, and she became speechless as well.
The place was in complete and total ruin.
Buildings laid in pieces, trash was everywhere, the smell of corpses was strongly present, and most disturbing of all, there seemed to be not one living soul anywhere.
"What is this place?" Valerie whispered to Dani. "Is this some part of the Ghost Zone?"
"I...I think it's Amity Park," Dani spoke in a hushed tone. "Only...destroyed."
Dani walked forwards a little bit and picked up a part of a building. Looking forward, she saw a destroyed Nasty Burger 2. With no warning a net shot out of the Nasty Burger and entangled Dani, making her scream in surprise.
"DANI!" Valerie shrieked. She ran to help, but almost immediately, a group of GIW agents had surrounded them, held Valerie back and had their guns pointed at Dani.
"What's going on?" Dani screamed, beginning to panic as she struggled.
"Let her go!" Valerie yelled, struggling against two GIW's holds.
"No!" a woman snapped sharply, looking at Valerie. Valerie stopped struggling and gasped at the woman, doing a double-take. The violet eyes, the purple lipstick short hair mostly covered by the helmet, and her GIW outfit looked more gothic than everybody else's uniform. Sam! "We can't allow her to live. We can't let this happen! I've had two chances in my life to destroy her, and I will not let a third chance escape me. Agents! Prepare for execution!"
The guns began to charge up, but before any of them could destroy Dani, something blasted them away.
In case you were wondering, MelodyWriter is the daughter of the Ghostwriter and Ember. Yeah, she and Skulker finally broke it up because he paid more attention to hunting Danny than to her. What? I think it's a cute couple. Ghostwriter and her could write songs and books together.