Sorry for the wait, work and personal life was keeping me busy ugh.

"This can't go on any longer."

Clockwork, the keeper and Ghost of Time could only watch and observe from a time window revealing Danny's whereabouts. All the events he had witnessed so far were not only disturbing, but worried him for the young teenaged half ghost and the consequences that could be bred if he stayed trapped.

"If he remains there, his evil ghost half could be brought into resurrection if his mental state is pushed to it's limits"

He raised his staff, changing the image, showing Sam, Jazz, and Tucker worried and talking to each other. But before that event, and before the events that led Danny to be trapped had not yet happened, he was only merely looking into what will happen, the conclusion was yet to appear depending on the outcome.

"It seems I'll have to lend my aid again, but I cannot help him, only guide him. He made a choice last time, the world was left alone and safe. But the other thing I should investigate is "what" took him into this dimension."

Danny has been through the continuous "loophole" three more times and there was no change, no sounds of crying, nothing. He still continued, keeping all senses high and alert.

POV:

"I sort of take back what I said earlier, this is just getting really old, I know I'm supposed to be scared but now I'm just bored. Still can't let my guard down though."

"You want me to entertain you?"

"No thanks-

I froze and turned around, looking for whoever just answered back at me, but no one was in my field of my ghost night vision. Goosebumps went up my arms, I tried to shake it off and lifted of my fists for an attack. I still couldn't see anything that spoke.

I sighed and scratched my hair.

"I know it's you you jerk, why don't you just come out already?" I said challengingly.

Only silence answered.

I went to the last door, ready for the loophole again. It was still there, the red lights and the same hallway.

Except this time I could see someone at the end of it.

Normal POV:

He stood still to get a good look at whoever was standing there...and shockingly, it was the person who looked like him in his human half. Danny heard him sniffling and crying softly, but not as much or loud like he did before, he was rubbing his face to wipe the tears, and then he looked right at Danny, in a tired and sad face.

Danny ignited a ball of green energy in his hand, he wasn't going to fire, but wanted to warn this thing to stay away.

"Please don't fire at me, I want to help you." He held up a hand.

Danny's eyes widened, and his mouth gaped.

"Please, let me help, I don't know how much time I have, there's something I need to show you that can help you escape."

He begged, but the moment he took two steps forward, Danny made the ecto ball in hand brighter, he felt scared of this thing and didn't want it to come near him. However that didn't keep this Danny away, he continued to get closer.

"Get away from me! You're probably that other Phantom in disguise and I can't trust my eyes or anything I see in this freaky place!" He warned, his green eyes glowed brightly and grit his teeth together.

The other Danny didn't seem to listen much less weary of the glowing ball in his hand, he held up his hands and touched Danny's forearms gently and tried to make him lower them, Danny roughly kept trying to shove him off, but he kept holding on and couldn't him to let go.

"I know you're freaked out, but compared to how my position is, I'm way off worse than you and you're the only one who can leave this place.."

"Ugh, let go of me! I will kill you!" Danny spat, trying to sound menacing.

He didn't hear him.

"Let me show you..."

Somehow, Danny's arms lowered and his ball of ecto energy vanished, his eyes widened in shock, he didn't tell himself to do that, they just did on their own. He wanted to back away from this person possibly in disguise, but his feet wouldn't listen to him. This other Danny was pulling him gently someplace but he didn't know where exactly, they were getting close to where the bathroom door was and turned left to where Danny came in, the first door.

"Where are we going? And what did you do to me?" Danny asked in a nervous voice; "You did something that I can't move how I want to."

He didn't answer him and continued to pull him, his hand still firmly but gently gripped on his arm, and he didn't face him. He led him to the wall on the left, there were a few picture frames on it. Danny kept a firm eye on him, waiting to see if he would strike just in case, not that he also wasn't paying attention to the pictures.

"Take a look, what do you see here?" He asked, and finally, he let go of his arm.

Danny quickly gave him a slight glare, just to let him know he was onto him. It still didn't scare him. Did anything scare him? He wondered.

He looked at the pictures, and sure enough, were of him and his family, the ones he saw sitting on the dresser were here as well, and some he had forgotten about. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary...except for one, one was on the wall, but the photo had been ripped into pieces, the pieces were missing.

"Do you see it now?"

Danny turned and looked at the other, he just noticed how red his eyes were, probably from how much he cried, and really thin as well, his hair very messy too, he looked about like he could collapse at any time, but he answered,

"Um, yeah, that picture is all messed up, why?" He asked.

The other smiled slightly.

"Find the missing pieces, before.." He stopped, not finishing his sentence.

"Hey, before what?" Danny waved his hand by his face, then he saw what was wrong.

Other Danny's eyes were slowly getting bigger, he started to wheeze uncontrollably, and then he whispered; "Run..run before it's too late."

He put his hand on his stomach and Danny saw blood start to soak up his shirt...Danny winced, a hand had run through his torso, it was glowing green and it had a claw-like shape and green electric light flickered above the surface piercing his skin. Danny looked at his face, tears were starting to form and this Danny smiled. His blue eyes started to turn grey.

"NO!" Danny screamed, putting his hands on his head in horror.

The hand disappeared and his body fell with a sickening thud, and finally revealed who it belonged to.

"Stupid human, giving away secrets that he shouldn't be sharing." A cool monotone voice cooed.

Danny growled at the creature that dared mimic his own appearance, he wanted so badly strangle this monster.

"You said you were bored, right? So there ya go, I put on a little show just for you." He clapped slowly and chuckled, blood stained his white gloves.

Danny charged at him ready to fire a ray then something grabbed his leg, he looked down, the Danny that was mercilessly stabbed had a sturdy grip and looked at Danny in his eyes.

"Don't attack...you'll die..."

"What?"

He looked at fake Phantom, and read his face to see if was lying or knew anything, fake Phantom folded his arms and raised his eyebrows looking at the fallen Danny.

"You've figured that out just now? He snorted, "Aw well. As long as you don't go around running your mouth I don't mind if Danny knows." He shrugged.

I have to do something,now I can see the one that got hurt is real, I need more information from him, we need to be alone, but where to?

Right then Danny knew what to do.

Fake Phantom still had his attention to the one on the floor, laughing and taunting him.

"Come on, you've been suffering long enough haven't you? I'll put you out of your pathetic misery."

He put his hand closer to the dying Danny, but then a punch to his face came in flying, Danny had hit him. He quickly went and picked up the other one from the floor, who started to moan from pain and flew to where the bathroom was and over the other Phantom.

"Not bad, for a weakling." He messaged his jaw and got up to follow the two, red eyes glowing.

Danny set the other Danny on the floor and closed the door, he hoped it could hold and had a lock, which luckily it did.

"I hope we're safe in here, we need to talk, just don't die on me yet." He stood by the door with one hand placed on it.

The bleeding Danny sat against the wall, struggling to breathe with slow breaths, and laughed weakly.

"I've died here more times than I can remember, believe me, and mostly by that guy."

Danny kneed in front of him, and put his hand on his shoulder and one on his forehead, even with his glove on, he could feel his body temperature drop.

"Are you strong enough to answer some questions for me?" Danny asked, he was trying to hold back his anger and sadness in his from his voice.

Bleeding Danny smiled.

"First, before I was interrupted by Jerk Face, I need to tell you: the way to get out of here is through that photo of your family, find the torn pieces, put them together and then destroy him." He breathed.

"But why the photo? Can't I just beat him by fighting him?" Danny asked.

"No it's impossible. Even I don't know why the photo is the way out, I didn't get that far to figure it out. May have something to do with him trying to forget-"

He started coughing up blood, there was a bathtub just a foot away and he gagged more of it in there. After he stopped, Danny helped him back to the wall gently.

"Then what about you? just what or who are you?"

The moment he asked that, this Danny started to tear up, then start to sob.

"I'm you...from the future, that got sucked into this game and couldn't figure out a way. I went insane, so my ghost half left my being and started to torment and hunt me down. It's been like this for a very long time for me."

The proper words couldn't form from Danny's mouth, he just stared at him in shock and horror and fell to the floor.

"It's no surprise really, I guess I am a weakling." Other Danny muttered.

After a moment of silence, Danny spoke again.

"Why can't you fight back?"

"Silly, I can't. My power is gone. I'm stuck in this purgatory until I lose my sanity. When that happens, he goes free."

BANG! BANG!

"HEllLLLO?"

The two jumped in surprise, they both scooted closer to the wall, bleeding Danny started to shake with fear, Danny put one arm around his shoulders, the need to protect instantly came.

If he gets in here, I won't let him win

"Hereeeee's Danny!" Phantom mocked, "Sorry! I couldn't help use that reference, hahahaa!"

He continued to pound on the door, twist the knob, but it wouldn't open.

"I'll get you eventually, Danny. Now that my secret is out, I'll make sure your suffering is worse than my human half's...much worse."

The banging stopped. None of them wanted to breathe yet. Danny let out one sigh first. But...he couldn't hear the other one. He looked at him. He gasped.

He was dead.

"No no no! Hey, don't die yet!"

He remained motionless, eyes closed. Dried blood was on the corners of his lips, his body now felt ice cold.

"No..."

Danny put on hand over his eyes, and tears started to stream. He wasn't just crying because he felt scared, but torn now that his self from not a distant future was gone. He felt too broken to leave the bathroom yet. He wanted to continue to morn over himself. He laid the body flat on the floor. It is the result of giving in while in this game.

"I wanted to save you."

...

"You can."

Danny swiped his hand off his face, and looked. The thought to be dead one barely had his eyes open, he held one hand up, his fist closed, then he opened his hand, a piece of something was in it.

"You can start saving me, by saving yourself."

Danny took the item in his hand, and unfolded it. It was a crumpled piece of a photo.

"Do what I failed to do."

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