The only time they interacted with him was when he needed to use the bathroom and realized that there wasn't a toilet. He hoped they would take him to a restroom when he asked about it, potentially giving him a chance to escape. One he could take before Vlad got there; it didn't matter how he'd felt about the guy being stuck in space, if Danny himself could find a way out quickly than he'd surely be able to as well. And Danny was sure that leaving him to do it alone would make them both happier than they be if they were stuck sharing a cell together, even if it wasn't for long.
Unfortunately, instead of unlocking the door to the cell they pointed his attention to a hole in the floor hidden in the shadows at the back corner of the room instead.
"What, seriously?" he asked, staring at it in disbelief.
"We assumed that would be less objectionable to you than a bucket," one of the guards said. "You will find that toilet paper has been provided in the bundle of bedding and other supplies that we've left with you."
The other added, "And do not even consider attempting to escape through it. The cesspit was built in the same manner as your cell."
"You guys are that thorough and you never thought for a second about, I dunno, slapping a toilet on top of the hole? Really?"
"Your comfort is hardly our primary concern, Abomination," the second replied, sounding bored in the face of his disbelief.
But he thought that the other sounded that tiniest bit apologetic, noticeable only in comparison to how emotionless members of the group usually were, when he added, "If you'd like to learn if something might be arranged later, you must ask our leader when she returns with the other."
After that they went back to refusing to have anything to do with him, apparently deciding that he'd gotten all the information he needed out of them.
On the up side it gave him something other than brooding to focus on for awhile. He tried to be proud and refuse to let them force him to use a hole in the ground as a toilet, but that didn't last long. If he hadn't been late for class before being captured maybe he'd have been able to hold it until the leader got back and he had a chance to see if she could provide something better quickly, but because he'd been running late he hadn't bothered using the toilet before leaving his apartment. When you had to go you had to go, and everything he'd seen out of the nutcases holding him told him that there was no chance that they'd take pity on him and lead him to a real bathroom if he just set there squirming as he tried to hold it for long enough. If anything he bet they'd be hoping he'd hold on until his bladder burst and hastened his trip to 'true death'.
At least they'd made the thing wide enough that it wasn't hard to avoid making a mess.
Once that was over with he tried to make himself look on the bright side instead of stewing about his imprisonment. The only one he could find was that it didn't look like they knew about Dani, but that was a pretty damned big one. He didn't know if they'd already decided that he and Vlad were irredeemably abominable and stopped observing them to focus on building their trap by they time she showed up, or if they'd seen her come apart and gone off to celebrate there being one less half-ghost in the world so they'd missed her getting pulled back together, and he didn't care. All that mattered was that it from all they'd said it sounded like Vlad was the only other one they knew about.
He just hoped that she wouldn't try taking up the heroing slack as Dani Phantom once she found out that he wasn't around to protect the city. She'd only just started getting a pretty normal life over the past couple of years, since she'd come back from wandering the world and after he introduced her to his parents and explained the situation his mom had absolutely insisted that no cloned-child of hers was going to go through life without an education. So plain-old Dani Fenton, normal human girl as far as anyone could see, was safely under their radar, living with her Auntie Maddie and Uncle Jack while she studied for her GED. If she kept it up they'd never even notice her.
He hoped so anyway. It didn't seem like the ghosts holding him cared enough about the living to keep an eye on his family if he wasn't there stinking the place up with the half-ghost cooties they hated so much. If they hadn't seen her and put two-and-two together before than he didn't think that they'd suddenly start hanging around his old house long enough to see the resemblance to the supposedly-dead clone Vlad had made years ago now that they had him.
But if he was wrong, or if she did go out and start kicking butt during his absence, he'd handle it. He'd get her out too, and he'd make the death-obsessed freaks pay even worse than he already planned to for picking on a girl whose life had already been screwed up enough before his parents finally gave her a home.
At the same time there was a guilty part of him that would actually kind of like it if she was dragged into this to, if he wasn't able to get out of there before they brought in Vlad. He didn't like the thought of being locked up in a small cell alone with his old worst enemy. Having someone else there who he knew was always on his side-especially where Vlad was concerned-would make him a lot more comfortable. Sam or Tucker would be even better, but he knew that wasn't going to happen.
He knew he shouldn't feel that way. He shouldn't ever want someone else to be in danger just to make himself feel more comfortable; he was supposed to be a hero after all. So he pushed the feeling aside and focused on trying to think of a way to just get out of there ASAP.
Then he heard the leader's voice through the door saying, "Step against the back wall, Abomination, and do not consider moving. We will not allow you a chance to reach the entrance if you do," and it was too late.