There are few things that can surprise Danny these days. Being half ghost can do that to you. Getting attacked by ghost? With his ghost sense, it's more of an annoyance. Failing a class? Even though he is improving, he stopped caring about his grades and dream of being an astronaut. Meeting his evil counterpart? Been there, done that, got a Hell of a souvenir. However, meeting a girl who looks like a near carbon copy of you only of the opposite sex is very surprising. Seeing said girl eat roughly three times her own body weight is very shocking.
'Where does she put all of it?' asked Danny as he quirked an eyebrow. "You full yet?" he asked the girl. She nodded to him with a smile. It was a nice smile similar to his, before he and his former friends split up. The girl looked around his room and noticed a lot of NASA related stuff.
"You want to be an astronaut?" she asked in surprise. "Did you know that…." she started to say.
"Don't care about that anymore," interrupted Danny.
"What, why?" asked Danielle in confusion.
"Even if my grades are improving they're not enough to get accepted by NASA or anyone else," answered Danny. "Besides I think you and I need to have a little talk with my parents," he added as he grabbed Danielle's arm.
"What? No!" protested the teen girl.
"You say you're my cousin and maybe you are, but we still have to talk to my parents," replied Danny.
"I said no!" yelled Dani as she broke free from Danny's grip and ran back into his room.
"Hey, get back here!" yelled Danny as he chased after the girl. He entered his room and saw no one in there. "What the?" said Danny as he searched his room.
He looked out the window and saw no body around. He quickly turned into his ghost form. His gloves, boots, and belt were colored green rather than blue or white. Both of his eyes were colored entirely yellow as he looked around him. Danny was able to see the body heat of every living thing within a ten mile radius. His sense of hearing has picked up all forms of sound from the speakers of someone's car being played full blast to the beating of a hummingbird's wings. Danny's sense of smell picked up on the scent of fried chicken in the direction of Fifth Avenue. Suddenly, the green color switched back to blue and his yellow eyes reverted back to the standard yellow that he recently acquired.
"Where the Hell did she go?" wondered Danny as he floated down to the ground. "She's a fourteen year old girl, so where would a normal teen girl go?" he asked himself only to be punched in the back by a large fist.
Danny crashed into the road and slowly got back up. He turned to face his attacker only to see a large gray ghost. This ghost was built like a reject from the Incredible Hulk with black torn pants and a black Mohawk. He also has a black collar around his neck. The large ghost roared at Danny.
"DANNNNNYYYYYYY PHANNNNTOMMMMMM!" yelled the ghost.
"You know I'm starting to get annoyed with being called that," commented Danny as he grabbed his hook swords from his back.
The larger ghost lunged at Danny and rammed his fist aiming for Danny's head. The Ghost Fighter jumped back to avoid the punch. The impact of the punch created a large crater surrounding the larger ghost. Danny let out an impressed whistle as he looked at the damage.
"Not bad big guy," commented Danny.
"Need a hand?" asked a female voice.
Danny looked over his shoulder to see Dani standing behind him.
"Sorry, but this no place for a little girl, so get lost!" yelled Danny as he charged towards the hulking ghost.
"Forget it, I know who you are and I came a long way to find you," argued Dani as she emitted two white rings around her waist. 'No said anything about him changing his appearance like this,' she thought.
One ring went up while the other headed down. Her top was a long sleeve shirt divided into two colors in a diagonal angle. The left half was black and she had a white glove on her left hand. The right half was white and a black glove on the right hand. On the center of her chest was Danny's old DP emblem. The shirt was cut short to expose her midriff. Her pants were black and she had long white boots that thin outwards. Her black hair turned snow white and her eyes turn into a glowing green.
Danny looked at his 'cousin' in wonder as she moved next to him. She sized her up for a moment as she looked back at him. The male Danny grabbed his hook swords from their holsters and pulled them out.
"Who the Hell are you really?" questioned Danny.
"You want to ask questions or are you gonna fight?" snapped Dani as her hand glowed green.
"Try to keep up," replied Danny with a smirk as he changed his blue color into yellow. He bends his legs and suddenly vanished.
"What the?" said Dani in surprise.
The next thing she knew the large ghost was sent flying towards its right by an invisible force. Dani watched in amazement as the large ghost was being beaten by this unseen foe. She realized that the Danny moving too fast for her or the ghost to see.
'This can't be right,' thought Dani in disbelief.
After three seconds Danny reappeared in front of his foe and holstered his hook swords. He started walking towards his 'cousin' who looked at him in awe. However, he stopped when he saw her charging up ectoplasm into her hands. She fired her ghost rays over his head as he ducked. The rays hit the giant ghost causing him to dissolve into a puddle of ectoplasm. Danny looked at the puddle and turned to his cousin.
'That makes two ghosts that turned into goop. What the Hell is going on here?' wondered Danny as he stood up. "Okay now that Tiny has been dealt with. You and I have a lot to discuss," he started, but stopped to catch Dani who collapsed. "After you recover, damn it," he finished with a curse.
The next day, Danny woke up to find his cousin was missing. He searched for her in the spare room in the Emergency Ops Center, but found no one. Rather than tell his parents and be asked many questions about his missing cousin, Danny headed for school instead. Surprisingly enough, Dash and the jock squad didn't try to harass him, so he got to school with no throw down. However, when he got into the school he noticed most of the students staring at him. He noticed the looks were of wonder and confusion. Some of the looks seem to be placed past him and at something else.
"What?" yelled Danny in annoyance.
"Hey coz!" greeted a female voice that Danny recognized.
The ghost-hybrid turned around to see his cousin Dani standing behind him waving.
"Danielle! Where the fuck were you?" demanded Danny.
"Chill out Danny, I was just trying to make sure Aunt Maddie and Uncle Jack didn't know I was home," explained Dani as she back up a bit.
Before Danny could argue with Dani's logic the tardy bell rang. Danny turned around and started to head to the main office.
"Come on, we should at least get you….." started Danny but stopped when he turned around and saw that Dani was missing again. "TO STAY STILL FOR A FUCKING MINUTE!" he shouted in rage.
"Hey Fenton! No yelling and cursing in the…." started the Hall Monitor, but stopped when Danny turned and glared at him. "Uh…. Never mind carry on," he stuttered as he ran off.
Danny entered Mr. Lancer's class and took his seat which was still next to Sam's desk. Sam looked at Danny in confusion as he glared out the window. Danny was looking out the window not paying attention to Lancer at all today.
Lancer noticed, but didn't say anything about it. In fact Lancer has been doing a lot of thinking about how he portrays himself. After talking with Danny yesterday, Lancer looked at how all the other teachers behaved around the students and realized that Danny was right. While confronting the other teachers about these acts, he received the answers that because the jocks gave the school a good reputation, they were given plenty of leeway.
Half way through the school day Danny was in the cafeteria for lunch. He grabbed his food and sat at his usual table by himself. Sam was eating at a table far away from others and Tucker just entered the cafeteria. As Danny took a bite out of his 'food' he felt someone's presence near him.
"Hey coz," greeted Dani as she took a seat next to him.
This small announcement drew in the attention of every student in the cafeteria. All the boys were looking at this newcomer who was sitting next to Danny. The girls of the A-list were judging her based on her appearance. One of the first boys to walk up to the two Fentons was Tucker. He set himself across from Dani and smiled at her causing the girl to tilt her head in confusion.
"Hi there, I'm Tucker Foley or TF as in Too Fine," greeted Tucker in his usual manner.
"Is he hitting on me?" asked Dani.
"He hits on just about every girl. He also thinks that his pickup lines are perfect," answered Danny.
"He sounds like a male prostitute," replied Dani.
Tucker was shocked to hear someone call him that. To make it worse, everyone who was in the cafeteria heard Dani say that and they started laughing at Tucker.
"Can't say I don't agree with that, but that was pretty mean to call someone Dani," scolded Danny.
"But he was hitting on me. What else could I do?" argued Dani.
"Turn him down gently," suggested Danny.
Before anyone could say anything else, Dash decided to make his presence known by pushing Tucker onto the ground and smile at Dani.
"Now that the geek is gone, how about getting to know a real man?" boasted Dash.
"Sure, just tell when a real man shows up," replied Dani getting a lot of students laughing at Dash's expense.
"Nice one Dani," complemented Danny only to have Dash grab his shirt.
"What was that Fentoad?" sneered the jock only to feel a great amount of pressure on the back of his hand.
Danny grabbed Dash's wrist and placed his thumb between the middle two knuckles and started to push. Dash started to whimper in pain as Danny put more pressure on him. Finally, Dash let go of Danny and held his hand as he continued to whine.
"You know Dash, it's really sad to see how everyone fears you. Look at yourself, a pathetic little football player who bullies others just because you never think about their feelings. It's no surprise you knew that after high school you would have no future," announced Danny as he and his cousin started to leave the cafeteria.
The two didn't notice that Sam was following them from a distance. She watched as the two nearly identical teens talked. Suddenly, Danny's ghost sense went off and so did Dani's to Sam surprise.
'I knew something was not right about this girl. I need to…..' Sam stopped thinking as she realized what she was doing. 'I'm doing it again, I'm spying on Danny without even thinking that he can handle himself,' she thought as she looked at the ground clinching her fist in anger at herself.
"You really crossed the line!"
Sam started to shake her head as she tried to stop herself from remembering that argument, but couldn't stop remembering.
"Hey! You crossed it long before I did!"
'Damn it! Why do I have to be such a damn hypocrite?' she mentally cursed as she looked up to see Danny in his ghost form a female ghost that looks just like Danny only in a different style outfit. 'What the? No way she's half ghost too,' she thought as she followed feeling that something was wrong.
Sam followed and saw Danny facing off with Vlad. She moved in closer to listen in on them.
"So no crack on my Dad or stuff about how great my Mom is today?" taunted Danny.
"No, funny joke around Vlad isn't here today," declared Vlad as he fired a strong Ghost Ray at Danny.
Danny countered with a ghost shield to protect himself. Right behind him was Dani in her ghost form. Danny looked behind his back while still keeping his shield up.
"Don't just stand there, do something!" yelled Danny.
"Don't worry I will," replied Dani as she fired her ghost rays at Danny's back.
Danny yelled in pain as he collapsed on the ground. He looked up at his 'cousin' and Vlad in confusion.
"What the Hell is going on?" groaned out Danny as he passed out.
"Did I do good Dad?" asked Dani.
"You did excellent child. I couldn't have asked for a better daughter," answered Vlad which caused Dani to smile at her "father.'
Sam watched in shock and fear as Vlad and Dani took the unconscious Danny away from Amity Park.
After quite some time, Danny awoke to find himself in some sort of laboratory. In front of him was a monitor that was showing video feed of his past events as Danny Phantom. From what Danny can guess they were footage that is at least two months old.
"Video surveillance of me?" mentioned Danny. "Wow, Vlad has either taken Fruit Loop to a whole new level or he is becoming a stalker," he commented.
"A Fruit Loop would not be able to commit massive amounts of successful thief's. A Fruit Loop would not be able to overshadow wealthy businessmen in order to gain a fortune. I am not a Fruit Loop," declared Vlad as he entered his lab. "All I wanted was love," he added dejectedly.
"Well I did suggest that you do some online dating, but you wouldn't listen to me," commented Danny.
"That's because the perfect woman for me was taken away from me by your idiot of a father!" yelled Vlad.
"Mom's far from perfect Vlad. She and Dad are perfect for each other. Neglectful, detached from others except each other, and they are blinded to the obvious fact that I'm the very thing they want the fame of killing," countered Danny.
"What? Maddie is not what you claim!" argued Vlad.
"I've spent nearly thirteen Christmases nearly killed by an undead turkey dinner and my first Christmas involved a dog pissing on me just because she and Dad spent all Christmas arguing over the existence of Santa Claus," commented Danny. "If that doesn't show how neglectful she is then you really need help," he added. "Now on to the real problem, what the Fuck am I doing here!" he yelled.
"Language Daniel, I know Maddie taught you better than that," replied Vlad.
"She barely raised me at all you messed up stalker!" yelled the younger hybrid.
"Well no matter, since you wish to constantly refuse my offer of being my son. I've decided to create the ideal son using your DNA," explained Vlad.
"My DNA? You cloned me?" questioned Danny.
"Yes, all of your battle with a fellow student of yours has been most helpful," answered Vlad.
"A fellow student, you had Valerie's equipment set up with live video recording!" accused Danny.
"Indeed and without her help I would have never have gotten this far," admitted Vlad.
"So those ghosts I've fought recently…" Danny trailed off as a small green glowing micro-Danny Phantom flew by.
"Bad clones, mistakes," replied Vlad as the micro-Danny floated in front of Danny. "Not a single one of them is stabilized because they all lack a certain piece to the puzzle that is you," he continued as he revealed another clone of Danny.
The clone was in a stabilizing chamber. It was an exact copy of Danny's old self including the DP symbol. What Vlad didn't know was that Dani was floating behind him invisible and heard everything he said.
"All I need is your mid-morph DNA and the good clone will be perfect and you will be obsolete," announced Vlad as he snapped his fingers.
The micro-Danny flew towards Danny and phased into his body. Danny's body started to move in spasms and his voice started to distort.
"Gettttt ouuuuttttt ooooof MEEEEE!" Danny roared as the containment unit exploded.
Vlad watched the smoke start to clear out as Danny in his ghost form flew towards him and phased through his body.
"Gahhh!" yelled Vlad as he turned around. "When I get my hands on you… Oh hello Danielle," he began only to come face to face with Dani. "How long have you been floating there?" he asked.
"A mistake, is that what I am?" asked Dani in disbelief.
"What? No I was talking about the other clones. I need Daniel's mid-morph DNA to help stabilize you and your true brother. My two greatest creations," explained Vlad as the micro-Danny appeared before them and dissolved in front of them.
Dani screamed in terror as she watched one of her brothers die right before her eyes.
"Horrifying I know. That's why I need his DNA to save you and the last one," added Vlad.
Dani looked at the last clone still in stasis and made her decision.
"I'll do it Dad," replied Dani as she flew after her template.
Meanwhile in another part of Vlad's hideout Danny was recovering in what appears to be one of Vlad's private studies. He landed on the floor and tried to catch his breath.
"I should be able to rest here," puffed out Danny only to be hit by an uppercut courtesy of Dani.
The male halfa crashed into a desk and tried to pull himself out.
"Why don't you just give up? You can't win against me," declared Dani as she charged up for another attack.
"That's because I'm not fighting you. I'm not fond of fighting someone who is killing herself," retorted Danny as he looked at Dani's feet.
The female clone looked down at her feet and noticed that she was beginning to dissolve. She screamed and stopped her next attack. The ectoplasm that she is composed of moved back into her body.
"But you're not like those other clones. You can actually think and feel," added Danny as he moved towards his female doppelganger.
"Then go back to Dad and give him your DNA sample, so he can cure me," begged Dani.
"Vlad's not going to cure you. All he cares about is the other clone. Once he gets my DNA, he'll stabilize that one and leave you to die," stated Danny.
"No, you're lying. He's going to save me," argued Dani.
"No he won't. Come on you're a clone of me. Even you should realize that Vlad will just betray you," argued Danny.
"No he said that he would…" started Dani.
"Save you? He won't, all he cares about is what he wants. He'll use anyone to achieve his goals. He used Valerie and me so that he can gain the Ring of Rage and the Crown of Fire. He'll use anyone to get what he wants even if that person dies to please him," said Danny.
"No, no he wouldn't do that to me!" yelled Dani.
"Fine if you don't believe me, then I'll prove it," said Danny. "Take me to Vlad," he ordered.
Dani looked up at Danny in shock after hearing him say that.
A few minutes later Danny was placed inside a pod that was parallel to the pod the nearly perfect clone. He looked at Dani who was next to the controls, and then he glared at Vlad.
"He's all secure Dad," said the girl.
"I still need to figure out how to get him to change so I can claim his mid-morph DNA," replied Vlad.
"You could ask him to change," suggested Dani.
"No, Daniel may be as dumb as his father, but he's not as willing," dismissed Vlad. "No I'll need you to overshadow him and force him to change," he added as he looked at Dani.
"But the last clone that tried it was destroyed," replied Dani. "What if it's too much for me?" she asked worried that she might have to do it.
"Oh it should be no problem for you my dear," assured Vlad.
"But…" started Dani.
"YOU EXIST TO SERVE ME!" yelled Vlad as he glared at Dani.
The male Danny felt a large level of rage inside himself. It wasn't like how he usually was when he was mad. This level of anger was far more primal, more ancient than he could possibly have felt. He never felt this kind of anger for anyone, not even to Sam and Tucker. This entire new source of rage was directed at Vlad and the older hybrid didn't even notice.
Dani felt great sorrow after now realizing that Vlad truly didn't care for her. However, that sorrow subsided and was replaced with anger and hatred for her so-called father.
"I DON'T TAKE ORDERS FROM YOU!" yelled Dani as she hit the release button and freed her template.
The male Danny landed on his feet and looked at his clone. He smiled at her because she made the right choice.
"Glad you now see Vlad for what he actually is," commented Danny.
"You want to talk? Or do you want to kick his ass?" argued Dani as she glared at Vlad.
The two Dannys turned into their ghost forms and got ready to fight. Danny's gloves, boots, and belt were now red instead of blue. He grabbed his hook swords from his holsters and drew them out.
Vlad was surprised that Danny's usual was replaced with red. He thought back to their encounter and remembered they were blue before.
'What is going on? Daniel shouldn't have been able to change his colors that easily. No matter, I'm still more powerful than him,' thought Vlad.
As he was thinking this he never noticed that Danny's red turned yellow as he vanished. Vlad was shocked for a second, but it didn't last as he was hit by an unseen force. He was flung back and landed on his back. He looked at his chest and saw two long cut marks. He looked up in disbelief as Danny appeared next to Dani still colored red.
"How did you?" started Vlad.
"You may be more experienced than me, but I've had plenty of practice fighting for my life and I'm more powerful than you thought," answered Danny.
Vlad laughed at Danny's answer.
"Don't make me laugh boy. As you are now, I can beat you and your pathetic little clone without exerting any real power," boasted Vlad as he fired a ghost ray at Danny.
As the ray reached Danny, the younger hybrid kicked the beam right back at Vlad. Surprised by this retaliation, the older hybrid was hit by his very own ghost ray. His attack forced him back to the chamber with the last clone. The chamber fell on top of him before he could get up. He moved it off of him, but doing so caused the clone to destabilize. Suddenly, a hologram of Danny's mom appeared.
"Prime clone destabilized, destruction of clone imminent," reported the hologram.
The clone tried to reach out to Vlad to be saved.
"No! NO!" yelled Vlad as he watched his last clone dissolved into nothing. He glared at the two Dannys specifically the female clone. "You, you caused this!" he yelled. "I lost my perfect son because you wanted to save your own worthless life!" he continued to yelled as he advanced towards his foes.
"You made clones of me and decided to sacrifice them just to fill your own damn ego," growled Danny. "And now you want to kill the only one with a will of her own," he growled again as he sheathed his weapons. "I'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU FOR THIS!" he roared as he dashed forward and punched him in the face.
The force of the blow felt like Vlad was hit by a tanker truck. Danny grabbed Vlad's left arm and punched him again in the stomach. Vlad was then hit by a powerful uppercut under his chin. The next attack was a knee strike to his stomach. Vlad was taking this beating and couldn't fight back. He was shocked by Danny's physical power that was being used on him.
'Impossible! Daniel can't be this strong. He's only a teenager!' Vlad mentally ranted as he was being pulverized by his younger foe.
From what Dani was seeing, it was like Danny was not only defeating Vlad. He was going to kill him. As Danny continued to throw punches at Vlad's body Dani saw a large red aura appear around her template. The aura was forming some sort of creature with large wings behind the top of his shoulders. The arms had three claws on the forearms and on the lower back was two flat tails. The legs looked reptilian in appearance, but it was hard to tell. The head had a large horn sweeping backwards. Whatever this aura was it wasn't normal.
Danny finally finished his assault on Vlad and his turned back into his blue color form. He turned around to look at Dani. He smiled at her and approached her.
"You okay Danielle?" asked Danny.
Dani nodded her head and smiled at her template. She spotted Vlad's main computer and fired a ghost ray at it. The attack destroyed the computer and with it all of the data on Danny. The two Dannys smiled at each other for a moment before Danny was hit by his dad's most ridiculous invention, the Boooomerang. Then they heard a loud crash was heard. The two of them looked and saw the Specter Speeder had crashed into Vlad's lab. Suddenly, the door opened and Sam appeared and wrapped a Specter Deflector belt on Vlad's waist.
"Sam?" said Danny in surprise. "What the Hell are you doing here?" he asked here.
"I saw Vlad and her capture you, so I snuck into your parents' lab and took that stupidly named tracking device and the Specter Speeder to rescue you," answered Sam in one big breath.
"Why?" asked the male hybrid.
"Because I…" started Sam, but she could finish the sentence. She knew what she wanted to say, she just couldn't bring it upon herself to say it.
"Well, I'm glad that you came anyway," said Danny.
"Really?" asked Sam hopefully.
"Yeah, I'm tired as Hell so the Specter Speeder would be very helpful to get back home," answered Danny.
"What about her?" asked Sam. Normally she would be glaring at any other girl that was near Danny, but she's still trying to become friends with Danny.
"Danielle and I have patched things up, so I'm sure she'll be…" started Danny only to notice that said ghost girl is missing. "RUNNING OFF ON HER OWN AGAIN! DAMN THAT GIRL!" yelled Danny.
An unreasonably short amount of time later
Danny and Sam were back at Fenton Works being chewed out by Danny's parents and Lancer for skipping school and for Sam taking the Specter Speeder. Strangely though, they were let off the hook almost like Maddie and Lancer were under someone's control. Predictably enough Jack went along with what was going on and went to work on making a new 'ship-thing' as he dashed into the lab. The two dark haired teens were confused by this turn of events.
A few minutes later Sam was heading back to her house only to be stopped by Danny.
"Hey Sam," called out Danny.
"Yeah?" replied the Goth girl.
"We still have a couple of hours to kill. Want to play a few games?" offered the Ghost boy.
Sam smiled, but shook her head.
"Thanks, but I still have some things to think about," replied Sam.
"Oh, maybe another time then," said Danny.
"Yeah maybe," replied Sam as she headed home. 'Maybe it's not too late to save our friendship, but I need to become a better person. I've nearly lost him because of my attitude. I don't want to lose him again. I've already lost Tucker, I won't what I was before,' she mentally declared as she continued to walk.
Author's note: Well that takes care of this chapter and man was it hard to type up. I know it looked like Danny has forgiven Sam, but it was more like he was in a good mood that he was willing to forget about what happened. As you have read Sam didn't apologize or tried to take advantage of Danny's good mood. Still now that season 2 has been taken care of. I now can try and remake season 3 into my vision and fair warning to all readers. Chances are things will get very odd since I will be changing a lot of things and make things a lot darker because I like dark themed stories. If anyone is curious about that aura, it is a teaser to Danny's newest form. He'll still get his ice powers because I actually like them. It reminds me of Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat and who doesn't like Sub-Zero? Please don't answer that, I don't want any fan wars about who's the best Mortal Kombat character in a Danny Phantom story.
I like to take the time to thank xsugarxblossomx for reading, reviewing and discussing with me about how to expand on my story. I also like to thank Kamen Rider Ebon for not only reading and reviewing this story, but for also doing the same with my crossover story "If you don't Fight, you don't Survive." For Eteor, I thank you for reading my story and reviewing, but I really didn't like you small threat. There is no need to threaten someone on the internet. It makes you seem like a bully and those types of people usually are those who cause trouble. I also like to thank dannyphantomcrazyfangirl for taking time to read and review my story. Finally, I thank all who have put this story on their favorites.