Disclaimer: I wish I owned Danny Phantom! Desiree: -turns me into Butch Hartman- AHHHHHHHHH! CHANGE ME BACK CHANGE ME BACK! -is changed back-
Sorry it took forever to update -cough likethreeyears cough-. Hopefully it turns out okay. I also edited the past chapters, and I must also warn you: This future is a bit more bloody and killy.
"FALL BACK! FALL BACK!" Sam yelled, trying to keep the panic from her voice. Multiple GIW agents immediately obeyed her, hopping into cars or running for their lives. Valerie fell to her knees as she watched them run. "IT'S NOT WORTH IT! SHE'S TOO POWERFUL. FALL BACK, I REPEAT, FALL BACK!"
Sam turned to follow her comrades, but she suddenly stopped. Valerie saw a hole in her stomach from an ecto-blast. Almost dramatically, Sam tipped forward and fell on the ground. Valerie was tempted to rush to her aid, but she noticed Sam's form was still, and she knew that she was dead. If not, she was very close. Instead, she rushed to the net and cut it open. She grabbed Dani's hand, dragging them under a fallen billboard sign that was propped up so that they could crawl under it.
A pair of black boots menacingly walked past them and over to Sam's body.
"Ah, Sam. I used to actually like you," the voice said. Dani held in a scream of horror when Sam suddenly gasped for breath.
"You're a monster," Sam's weak voice gasped at her. Valerie grabbed onto Dani, pulling her close.
"I know. Say hello to your hubby for me," the voice said smugly, preparing an ectoblast. Dani hid her face, but Valerie watching, biting her lip as it was fired. Valerie felt sick to her stomach at the sight of Sam's blood beginning to stain the rubble and mix with the dirt. "This ring would go nicely with my other one."
Valerie crawled a little further out to see what the mystery person looked like.
It was an older Dani.
The halfa had grown into a beautiful young woman. Her hair was in a long braid, nearly reaching her waist. She had a pure black crop top shirt that reached to her wrists with short, fingerless white gloves. She had black skinny jeans and black combat boots, a white belt on her waist with a PDA attached to it. On her shirt was a DP emblem, and she had the Crown of Fire on her head, the Ring of Rage on her ring finger next to a gold one on her middle. When she turned around, Valerie noticed that she did not have her innocent green eyes but the blood red eyes of a monster.
Valerie scooted back under the rubble, and she saw the boots walk away. Suddenly, the billboard was lifted up, exposing them.
"RUN!" Valerie yelled. Dani and her scrambled to their feet as they began to run away.
Ectoplasmic goo trapped their feet, causing them to fall toward. The goo kept their feet stuck to the street, and the older version of Dani stood before them. Valerie glanced at her more, but Dani examined her closely to really take in her appearance. Valerie let her gaze fall on the Ring of Rage.
"Admiring my treasures?" she bragged. "This symbol," she gestured to her chest, "came from Danny Phantom's suit. I cut it out before well...that's a secret now." Now that Valerie took a closer look, she noticed that the white stitching around the DP to keep it attached chest. "This PDA?" She patted the PDA lovingly. "It's Tucker's. Since I loved him, I made his death quick. These lovelies?" Dani pointed to the ring and the crown. "Vlad Masters had them. He was a fighter, that one, but he was no match for me. I left him to die on the lab floor. He was actually the first one to go. And this recent beauty?" She pointed to the middle ring. "You missed out, Valerie. Fenton almost gave this to you, but since you rejected him, it became Sam's treasure. But now it's mine."
Dani had went from normal to pale to becoming teary-eyed.
"What did you do to Danny Fenton?" Valerie demanded to know. Dani burst into laughter, making Valerie shiver fearfully. "TELL ME!"
"You dare threaten me?" the older Dani growled, charging up a red ecto-blast.
"Danielle," a voice said coolly to her.
"YOU! Dani snarled, turning, both fists glowing to see an older version of Tucker. Valerie flushed as one of her first thoughts was to how handsome he grew up to be. "I thought I killed you!"
"You can't get rid of me that easily, Dani. The Foleys are survivors," he said, smiling gently. He held up his hands, which held an ecto-gun. "I just want to talk."
"Well, I don't," Dani replied, preparing to fire.
"Dani, please," Tucker begged, slowly putting his gun to the floor. He backed away. "Look, I'm being peaceful."
"I knew I should have blasted your pretty face off," Dani told him, narrowing her eyes. "I can't believe you survived an ecto-blast to chest."
"Dani, you don't have to do this," Tucker tried to reason. "I know you can stop this madness, I know deep down you still love me, that you feel guilty about everything you've done."
"One would assume," Dani said slowly. For a moment, Valerie could have sworn that Dani showed a brief glimpse of remorse. "But then again..."
The younger Dani next to Valerie screamed. Loud. Valerie felt a tear fall down her cheek when she saw Tucker fall to the floor, his head gushing blood.
"Stopping the madness, still loving you and feeling guilt would all mean that I had even an ounce of humanity," she chuckled. She glanced over at Valerie and Dani. "You two, I'll deal with later."
Turning to them, she held up both of her index fingers and zapped them, knocking them out cold.
Dani woke up first. She noticed that she and Valerie were tied up with glowing rope, the later still in her suit but Dani herself was in her human mode. She rolled over and got on her knees. In front of her was what was left of FentonWorks.
"May they rest in peace," she whispered, looking at the memorial statues of the Fenton adults and Jazz. Next to them was a statue of Vlad Masters. Briefly skimming his memorial, it states that he was a brilliant man. On his other side was Danny Fenton and Tucker, which read Gone But Not Forgotten: Two great heroes who looked evil in the face and dared to stare it down in hopes of a brighter future.
Dani felt tears go down her cheeks.
"Danielle?"
Dani turned to see Valerie had awaken. Valerie noticed the tears, and she began to shift around and soon, she had cut through with a knife. She cut Dani's ropes.
"Valerie," Dani choked, more tears coming. "I...I did all of this."
"This is just the future," Valerie said. She knelt to Dani's level to look her eye to eye. "But think about the butterfly effect. If we change the one event that caused this in the present, we can stop this from happening." Valerie waved her arm to the world around them.
"You're right," Dani said, tears drying as she smiled slightly. She picked up a bit of rubble, a flat piece of concrete and placed it at the feet of Danny and Tucker. Valerie watched as she engraved it with an ecto-blast, Sam Fenton.
Valerie's heart broke a little bit, but she knew that she shouldn't be surprised. She thought of the butterfly effect, and her heart fluttered. Maybe there was a chance for her if they changed Dani's future.
"What do you think caused all of this?" Valerie wondered.
"Do...do you think that file from FentonWorks caused this?" Dani asked in a hushed tone. Valerie blinked.
"Maybe."
"Well, let's go put it back!" Dani exclaimed. "Then the future will be totally normal!"
Valerie and Dani were both blasted with more goo, causing them to be sent against the walls of the building and stuck there.
"It's cute how you think you can now change the past," the older Dani remarked. She walked up to the two. She picked up Valerie by the front of her suit, prying her off the wall from the ectoplasm, examining her. "You know, if I kill you now, maybe I wouldn't have to deal with your future self always trying to hunt me."
"I'm still alive?" Valerie asked. She glanced at the statues. No sign of her.
"Yeah, but not for long," Dani said in a sing-song voice, charging up an ectoblast. Valerie screamed in pain when Dani blasted her upper stomach. She was dropped, and she began to twitch on the floor, unable to move.
"VALERIE!" the younger Dani shrieked. "Why would you do that! She was one of the only friends I've ever had! She was like a sister to me! She rescued me, she rescued us, from Vlad, our creator!"
Despite the unbearable pain, Valerie managed a small smile over hearing this. The older Dani ripped the time medallion off of Valerie, and she flickered away and back into her own time.
"As for you," the elder one spoke, grabbing Dani by her neck, grasping tightly. She phased the medallion into her chest. "Now, you are stuck here, while I go back and assure my birth."
The elder Dani created a portal. Two rings encircled her, and she looked like a mirror image of the Dani in her hand, although she still held the Crown of Fire, the PDA and the rings in their assorted places. She took Dani's time medallion off her neck and held it before throwing Dani into the portal.