(Back with Clockwork)
Clockwork sighed and waved his staff once more, rewinding the world around him until, 14-year-old Danny, and his friends stood before him once more. His soldiers surrounded them cornering them against the future rift.
'This Time I am leaving nothing to Chance!' he thought. 'I shall insure that he takes a different path.'
And with that final though Clockwork said "Time In."
Suddenly the trio gasped as they noticed their current predicament.
"You three have seen too much." Clockwork scowled, but it was more out of annoyance for repeating himself, then actually concern for the informational leak. "You must be eliminated before you permanently alter the time stream." He said darkly as five ghost soldiers from different eras moved in for the kill.
"Nowhere to run, children." Clockwork muses.
Danny looks all around him seeing his words to be true that is until he see the Future time rift behind him. Suddenly he has an idea. "Nowhere but the future!" He cried before grabbing Sam and Tucker, and jumping into the rift.
Clockwork smiles darkly, shifting into his child form.
"Then let's see if you have what it takes to face that future…" He said. Eyes focusing on the future rift.
"Clockwork…" Melk began.
Clockwork turned around and with a wave of his staff he froze the two Observants. "You will not distract me again." He snapped.
In truth he should have seen the distraction coming, he should have looked ahead of the time stream, and realized Dark Dan's plans before the dark Phantom even thought of them himself, but he had not. Instead he had allowed his confidence to get in the way. However, this time he was leaving nothing to chance. He would influence Dark Dan's every decision if he had to.
Clockworks eyes narrowed. 'This time nothing can go wrong….'
(Back with Danny and the gang…)
[Time Frame: 10 years into the future]
{Location: The ruins of Amity Park}
The future…
It was far more unpleasant then even the gothic Sam would dare to imagen.
The trio looked around the desilt waste land uneasily.
"Man." Tucker sighs. "If this is what we have to look forward to, I'm definitely not taking the C.A.T. test."
"How do you think this all happened?" Sam asked, looking around in defeat. 'How could Danny's life get so messed up?' She wondered. 'Sure he's not perfect but...' She stopped, looking at Danny thoughtfully. '…Who is?'
Danny floats around still in his ghost form. "I don't know. But based on what we just saw, I have a really bad feeling I'm the one responsible."
"Got that right, ghost!"
Suddenly An Older Valerie springs out of the wreckage on her jets-led, powering up a huge shoulder-mounted blaster. She fires, the kickback knocking her back a little. The blast impacts the street right in front of Danny, blowing the street apart. Danny retreats into the street, then rises back up through it intangibly to face off against Valerie.
But he doesn't want to fight her.
"Valerie! Wait! Listen to me!" He begged.
Valerie turns a deaf ear. 'He's just messing with me again, trying to make me suffer. Trying to make me hesitate.' She told herself. 'But it won't work this time.' She wavers, but only slightly. 'That's Danny, No! It can't be, and even if it is I have to stop him before he hurts anyone else.'
"You can't fool me this time, Phantom!" She fires again and he takes a flying dodge. She fires a few more blasts then chases after, jumping into the air and letting the board continue on its own.
Danny loops back around, just barely misses getting beaned by the hoverboard, and gets caught in an electrified purple net which drops him to the ground. Valerie lands nearby and trains her blaster at him, powering it up with a whine.
"I've been wanting to do this for a long time." She said. But these words are only half true, she never blamed Danny for any of this. This monster was not the Danny she knew, and there for in her mind this was not Danny.
This was not her Danny!
With that thought she goes to pull the trigger. "And good rid-"
Tucker and Sam suddenly jump in front of Danny, shielding him.
"Valerie, no! Don't shoot!" They declare.
Valerie's eyes widen, and she rears back in shock. "Sam? Tucker? I-It's not possible! This is a trick! You can't be alive!"
"Wait. Not alive?" Tucker drops his arms in shock. "That's our future? I'm definitely not taking the C.A.T.!"
"The C.A.T." Valerie gasped. "That's the last time I saw you alive. The explosion at the Nasty Burger...you, Tucker, Danny's family—" Suddenly she trains the gun on Danny again. "And it was all your fault!" She screams going to fire again.
However a green flash of flame knocks Valerie off her hoverboard, and into some rubble. The trio look up to the source to find Dan floating there.
"Actually, that was me." He admitted. "And you, eventually." He said looking down at the still trapped Danny. He then lands before his old childhood friends. Sam and Tucker. It's been a while." He says almost kin heartedly. "Ten years, to be accurate." He raises a hand, he sweeps it down, and Sam and Tucker are encased, motionless, is green light. "So, to what do I owe this little blast from the past?" His eyes widen as he notices Sam's CW medallion.
Suddenly images flash across his mind. He was flying towards Valerie and an old looking ghost in purple robes.
"Not so fast!" he declared. "You're not taking my future away from me!" he lunged for the robed ghost.
"No!" Valerie panicked, and stepped in front his target protectively.
"There is no need to protect Me." the robed ghost said.
"But he-!" Valerie began.
"Here wear this." the robed ghost then places a gearshift shaped medallion around her neck.
Dan had just enough time to take in the piece of jewelry, there was nothing special about it only that I bared the initials CW. "How's some petty trinket supposed to save her!" he declared still coming at full speed.
"Like this." the robed ghost said, punching the button up top his staff. "Time Out!"
Dan frowned as he shook his head. What was that? A memory? He didn't remember these events happening, but they were so vivid. He looked at the medallion again. 'CW?' He wondered, 'Who?' Then his eyes widen once more. "Clockwork!" he whispered, and then with another realization he growled. "Meddling again!" 'So he rewind time again? Does he really think it will make a difference?'
He begins to raise his arm, but a purple blast from somewhere to his right, knocks him into the street. As he stumbles up and waves the smoke away he see Valerie, blowing the smoke from a wrist-mounted weapon, a grenade in her other hand. Scowling, he gets to his feet and charges. Valerie throws a pair of grenades at him, but he transforms to a green, blobby form and they pass right through him. She fires her wrist gun, but he is too fast and grabs her by both wrists.
Meanwhile, Danny is struggling to get free. 'I have to save her.' He thought. And bursts from the net with a cry.
Dan lifts Valerie with one hand and punches her with the other, sending her bouncing off the pavement. He follows as she props herself on one hand and one elbow.
"Valerie!" Danny flies and catches Valerie around the middle, making them fly intangibly through a few buildings before crash-landing in the street on the other side in a tangle.
Valerie looks at him stunned, and realizes something. 'This can't be a duplicate sent by Dan to confuse me, Dan wouldn't save me from himself. In less…' Valerie notices the gear shape medallion around his neck, and the same memory as Dark Dan's flashes before her mind. 'Clockwork?' She smiles. "You're from the past, aren't you?"
Danny gets to his feet, stunned that she's figured out this information on her own.
"I almost forgot how cute you were back then." She admits, before slumping back on the ground, knocked out cold.
"You thought I was cute?" Danny asked shocked. "Wow! An older woman likes me."
Dan looks to his former frozen friends still trapped in the green light with a look of distain. "You know, if I had an ounce of humanity left in me, this would be a touching little reunion. But of course I surrendered my human emotions a long time ago."
Behind him, Danny rises invisibly from the street, teeth gritted, and fists clenched.
Dark Dan's ghost sense goes off as tendrils of red smoke coming from his nostrils. "Oh, please." He whispers. He turns and punches an ectoblast at Danny, who returns the favor.
Both are knocked down by the other's blast, and the green light trapping Tucker and Sam vanishes, dropping them to the street as well.
Danny sits up, panicked. "Tucker! Sam! Run!" He orders.
They do.
Dan scoffs getting back to his feet. "Run? Where are they going to go?" He asked the obvious. Turning, he lets out a Ghostly Wail. Danny covers his ears. Tucker and Sam stop, looking up at the Fenton Works next to them. The brick begins to crumble, the Op Center tilting from the top.
'It's going to crush them.' Danny realizes, and gets to his feet in hopes of saving them in time. But as he flies to their rescue Dan grabs him by the ankle. "Ah, ah, ah." He mused.
Danny gasps as the Fenton Works falls over on top of Tucker and Sam, throwing up a cloud of dust. Danny stares in shock for a moment, then cries out as Dan shocks him with energy causing him to revert back to his human form. Then Dan spins and throws him toward the wreckage.
Getting up on his elbows, he sees the two-time medallions Tucker and Sam had been wearing are now lying abandoned on the ground. "They took off their time medallions!" He realized in relief, getting to his feet he grabs the medallions. "That returned them to their time period just like Box Lunch and Skulktech! Tucker and Sam made it out alive! Which means I can—" He goes to take off his own, but Dan seizes his arm.
"Why go back for them?"
Danny cries out as Dan lifts him into the air.
"They're doomed anyway. And you aren't going anywhere if you can't remove your time medallion." Dan reasons. Suddenly His hand glows green. Ripping off Danny's time medallion, he makes it intangible and sticks it inside Danny's chest, fusing it with his very being. Keeping him in this time frame forever.
"In fact, you aren't going anywhere at all." He vows.
"You won't win!" Danny declares, struggling in his hold. "I will never become you!"
Dan growls and shocks Danny once more.
Danny screams then slumps, before becoming unconscious.
"Yes you will." Dan Vowed, as he picked up one of the other two time medallions. "And I'll make sure of it…"
(Back to present day with Tucker, and Sam…)
In the alley beside the Nasty Burger, Sam and Tucker appear in a flash of light. The still-live heating element and tanks of Nasty Sauce are visible.
Tucker is on his knees, still shielding his head, screaming. Sam crosses her arms and frowns at him. He looks up, surprised. "You got the medallions off, didn't you?"
"I don't accessorize well." Sam said confirming his suspicions. "Unfortunately, Danny's still stuck in the future fighting his jerky older self! We've got to help him!"
"Tucker? Sam?" The two freeze as Jazz suddenly appears. "You got a second?"
The two look at her unsure while preparing to make a run for it.
"Let me answer that for you. Yes, you do." Jazz said, blocking their paths. She had been looking all over for Danny since she found the answers to the CAT in his bag. And now she finally found them. And even if Danny wasn't with them Jazz was going to talk since hearing it from his friends might actually make him want to come clean. Probably more so then hearing it from his nagging older sister. "Look I know Danny stole the answers to the C.A.T. That he's going to cheat!
"Actually, Danny wasn't going to—" Sam began to defend him, but Jazz stops her.
"Sam, enough. I know more than you think I do. A lot more." She admitted. "So I suggest when you see Danny, you tell him I wanna talk to him. Tonight! Because if I don't, I will be talking to our parents and Mr. Lancer tomorrow." She stomps off then disgusted. 'They knew he was going to cheat; they knew he had the answers and did nothing to turn him in or try to stop him.' She shook her head. 'Honestly I thought these guys where better.'
Sam looks stunned. "Mr. Lancer knows Danny has the answers?" She gasped.
"Oh, man, is he in trouble." Tucker realized.
That's got to be it." Sam said. "Danny cheating is the thing that leads to that horrible future!"
Tucker shook his head finding this hard to believe. "Let me get this straight. Danny gets caught cheating on a test, and we pay for it with our lives? How is that fair?"
"I don't know." Sam said, "But we have to find him, and warn him."
"But how?" Tucker asked. "He's still stuck in the future."
"Maybe he isn't." Sam said looking around. "We reappeared closely where we last where in this timeline." She told him. "We stopped Skulktech around the Nasty Burger.
"So you think Danny's around here to, just not with us because we didn't disappear from this alley?"
"Maybe." Sam said. "It's the only theory I got."
"Then let's go see if we can find him." Tucker said, before the two friends set off to look for Danny.
(Back to Dan in the future…)
Dan drops his past self in disgust, resisting the urge to tear him apart, but only just barely. 'If I kill him now I will cease to exist.' He reminds himself, deciding to get from difference from the boy. He walks around to the other side of some nearby rubble thinking to himself as he goes. 'I can't believe that hooded time wiz actually had the nerve to meddle with my future.' He looks back down at the medallion in his hand. 'I can fix this.' He realized. 'If I put this on it might teleport me to the time frame opposite of my own.'
It was strange how he could know this, he never fiddled with time travel before, or he hadn't originally. However now that the past had been changed, Some of Dark Dan's memories had altered too. For example, instead of fighting the Box ghost in the original fight that allowed him to get the test answers in the first place. Dan now recalls it being Box Lunch, Skulktech has also replaced Skulker in his memories as well.
Dan shook his head. "His meddling is changing everything, including my memories!" he whispered out loud. "I have to fix this-"
Danny moans still lying on the ground, he opens his eyes a large stone statue comes into focus before him.
"Mom? Dad?" He whispers rolling to his knees. The statue is of the Fentons Mr. Lancer, Sam, and Tucker, all smiling. An epigraph on the large pedestal reads "GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN". Danny grimaced as he realizes his arms are bound to his torso with glowing green rope.
"Gone but not forgotten"? He whispers, He stands, realizing where he is, and that something is missing. "Where's the Nasty Burger?" He asked. He looks up at the wreck of the Nasty Burger, and gets his answer
It's been blown open, and the sign is fallen. Dan walks around the corner of the building.
"Strange how, one massive fireball of highly combustible condiments can ruin your whole future." He mused.
"The time medallion?" Danny asked hopefully.
"Fused inside you." Dan answered. "Nice, huh? Intangible and unreachable whether you're ghost or human which means...you can't go back in time."
"It doesn't matter if I go back in time or not." Danny shouted. "I'll never turn into you! Never!"
Clockwork's eyes widen as he forms an idea, he suddenly knows exactly how to beat Dan at his own game. With another wave of his staff he manipulates the dark phantom's thoughts just slightly.
'I should throw him into the ghost Zone.' Dar Dan thought. 'I bet all our old friends would just love to keep him busy.'
Dan chuckles, and forms his own ghost portal. "Of course you will." He says reverting into human form, but he now appears to be Danny's age; a perfect clone. "It's only a matter of time." He seizes Danny by the bonds, and throws him into the awaiting portal. "I need you out of my way and out of my hair while I make sure nothing happens to change my past. And luckily, this…" he pulls out one of the medallion with a smile. "Is all I need to make sure of that I get where and when I need to be?"
A ball of blueish-white light engulfs him, and he vanishes. He reappears back in the present, in the alleyway next to the Nasty Burger.
Clockwork smiles as he allows the Observants to move once more "Have you completed the Task yet?" Melk asked, continuing his question.
Clockwork looks at him crossly. "Everything's fine." He smiles. "Everything's the way it's supposed to be. He gestures to Dark Dan, who is disguised as Danny. "See there's your boy, back to his time. Safe, sound, and clearly not evil. Now. Care to observe the door?" He asked, dismissing them.
The two Observants look at each other, suspicion shows in their eyes, but they soon vanish all the same, leaving him to his work. Clockwork switches to child form. "Good now there will be no more interruptions." He mused, watching the Rifts.
In the future Rift Danny struggles in his bonds as he floats through the future ghost Zone... he's alone, and though he can turn ghost, he can't seem to break free.
And just when he thinks his situation can't get any worse it does, and in the worse way possible!
"Well, well, well." A voice that sounds a lot like the Box Ghost says behind him.
Danny turns towards him and gasped; he his large and muscular now, with a hook for one hand, an eyepatch, and a heart with an arrow through it tattooed on his left arm.
"All this time we've been planning how we'd take the fight to you, and here you are. Wrapped up like a present." He mused.
"Box Ghost?" Danny asked in disbelief.
"Beware." He said darkly while raising a hand before throwing a blue, white energy beam at Danny, knocking him into an older and much chubbier Ember.
"Ember?! You look..." He began, but She cut him off.
"Like I went to seed right after you destroyed my vocal cords with that Ghostly Wail of yours?"
Danny winced. "I was gonna say statuesque, but uh-"
Ember doesn't let him finish instead she throws a punch chord on her guitar, knocking Danny back. He crashes into Johnny 13, now balding and in a wheelchair.
"Johnny 13?!" Okay just how many of his old enemies did his Darker-self mess up? And Why? "Ok, whatever happened to you, I swear I had nothing to do with-" He tried to explain, but just like the rest Johnny 13 would hear none of it, and neither would his shadow.
The black blanket over his legs rises up and resolves into the bad luck shadow in question.
"Been waiting a long time for this, punk." Johnny 13 admits.
"Wait!" Danny insisted as they closed in. "No! Nooo!"
Clockwork looks away as they begin their assault, as much as he wanted to help Danny he couldn't. The boy needed to learn that even something as little as cheating on a test had consequences, besides he had a more dangerous problem to address. He turns to the present day Rift where Dan has just appeared.
Dan smiles wickedly as he looks up at the Nasty Burger before him. "The Nasty Burger. Still standing. For now..." He looks inside where the heating element is warming the Nasty Sauce tank. The temperature indicator is still slowly creeping higher.
"Danny!"
Dan Turns to see Sam and Tucker running towards him.
Sam embraces him suddenly.
Dan cringes, 'Human affection, man I so do not miss this!' He thought.
"You made it back!" Sam exclaimed.
Tucker also joins into the hug. "Did you beat that evil jerky alternative version of yourself?"
Dark Dan's eyes flash red for an instant, then return to blue, and he laughs shortly. "Always with the quips." He laughed, mocking his younger voice perfectly. "In my weaker moments I sometimes miss your droll sense of humor."
Sam and Tucker look nonplussed.
"I'm sorry?" Tucker asked.
Dan shook his head, realizing he's messed up. "I'm just kidding!" He scoffed. "I beat my other self quite easily. Had you guys going there for a second, didn't I?" He asked nervously, biting his lip. 'Why did I say that?' He wondered, 'I never slip like that ever!'
His eyes narrow as he suddenly remembers something.
"I could manipulate your very thoughts if I wanted to."
'He's been manipulating my thoughts!' He snapped. 'What else had he changed?!'
He tried to focus, to recall his how he beat clockworks game before the old time wiz had hit rewind, but his current changes had already started meddling with his memory. It wasn't the same anymore. 'Damn that no good meddler!' He hissed inwardly. 'He won't sway my thoughts again.' He vowed. 'Now that I remember I can stop him.'
Clockwork smiled. "That's it, keep underestimating me, and everything I throw at you. Because in the end it will be your own undoing." He whispered as the present day events continued to play before him.
"Well...we should probably do what we can to stop the Nasty Burger from blowing up, huh?" Tucker asked to bring Dan out of his thoughts.
"Already done!" Dan assured him. "Now, who's up for playing some games and raging against the machine?" he asked.
"We're in!" Tucker, and Sam exclaimed.
Dan smiled. 'Perfect, now all I have to do is keep this up 'til test day then Kaboom!'
Dan led his former friends down the street knowingly. 'Then my future will be sealed.'
(Hours Later...)
Dan rose up through the floor in utter disguise, "My old room." He said bitterly. It was just as horrible as he remembered. Oh well at least he was finally alone. He Sighed, taking in the rest of the room equally as annoyed. Dan had spent several hours playing video games with Tucker and Sam, and pretending to be his younger self was starting to wear on him and fast. 'Speaking of my younger self.' Dan froze as and his bedroom in mirror, touching his face. "And my old face." He muttered, and turned quickly as Jazz Burst into the room. "And my old Sister."
"Danny? We need to talk." She ordered, deciding to get to the bottom of this.
"What do you want, Jazz? I'm busy." Dan Spat.
Jazz pulled out the answers from his backpack and said. "Yeah, busy cheating! Mr. Lancer was right; you DID steal the answers! Don't you understand?" she asked him.
"That I'll be destroying my future? Ha-ha. You don't know that half of it." He said, then grabs the answers and his backpack from her.
Jazz took a deep breath; she knew there was only one way to reach him: she had to tell him the truth. "Danny, I know all of it. About everything. That you're part ghost. That you're always doing great thing with your powers. Until now." She picked up the Booomerang as she spoke, which was lying on his floor.
"You knew?" Dan asked stunned, she knew this whole time!
"Yes." She confirmed. "And I've been covering for you with Mom and Dad because I'm proud of you, and the good that you do. But not anymore." She shouted more determined now.
Dan suddenly smiled evilly. Jazz was too smart for her own good, and the only way this would run smoothly was by eliminating her! "You always were smarter than I gave you credit for." He admitted and then changed from his younger self to his true ghost form.
Jazz backs away startled. "You're-you're not Danny!" She looks down at the boomerang still in her hands and gasped. "That's why the Boooooomerang wasn't homing in on your ecto-signature! You're not Danny!"
Dan smiled and replied. "I was. But I grew out of it. The Danny you know is floating helplessly in the Ghost Zone ten years in the future."
"He'll escape. He'll beat you!" She spat at him.
"How?" Dan asked mockingly. "Is the answer A, the Fenton Portal? Destroyed it. B, the only remaining portal? The one my idiot cheese head archenemy has. As soon as I find it, that's going too." He said, with an evil smile.
"Cheesehead?" Jazz asked, and then realized. "Vlad Masters?! HE'S your archenemy?" She asked him but he didn't answer my question as he kept on talking.
"Is it C, you? No. You can't stop me from cheating on the C.A.T. and solidifying my future, so it must be D-" and he throws an ectoblast at her and she freezes. "None of the above!"
Jazz moans as she passes out and falls to the floor, out cold.
Dan turns back into his younger-self and pulls the CAT answer sheet out of his bag, opens it, and looks at the answer to question one., and laughs. "Well, what do you know! The answer to the first question "is" D."
Jazz thrashed in her unconscious state as that evil laugh followed her into oblivion.
(The Next Morning)
Jazz screamed as she woke up with a start. "Huh? What?" she ask them suddenly her door was kicked opened by Jack. "What's up, princess? Are you ok?" He asked.
Jazz is dazed, nothing make sense to her. She thought for sure that ghost would've killed her, but he didn't. "I'm in my bed? I'm alive?" she asked still not comprehending it.
Suddenly Maddie burst in in, kicking Jack out of her way. "Well of course you're in your bed and you're alive, sweetie! Danny said you fell asleep helping him study and we tucked you in." Maddie explained.
"He even woke up bright and early to make sure nothing happened to make him late for the big test!" Jack said.
Jazz suddenly jump out of my bed and screamed "Oh no! The test!" She runs out of the room snatching the boomerang out of Jack's hand before heading down to the lab and open the portal. She takes a folded note She had wrote in a hurry on her way down and took her headband out of her hair and tied the note to the boomerang. "I need you to find Danny. 14-year-old Danny, ten years from now." Jazz said to the device and then threw it in the portal before rushing out to stop the other ghost.
Her only hope was that it would make it to him in time.
(Meanwhile, in the Ghost Zone)
Danny screams as the assault of his enemies continued.
Ember lands another chord, then Box Ghost beans him with some energy boxes, while Johnny's shadow sends him spinning.
Danny fights the urge to vomit, as Skulktech threatens him with lightning, and Kitty socks him with her purse knocking him into Ember, so the endless loop can start all over again. She seizes him and slams him into a wall.
"Please!" Danny begs, though he knows it's no use. "I didn't do all this to you, it wasn't me!"
"Oh, stop!" Skulktech scowls. "You're responsible for the horrible things that happened to your world "and" ours. To everyone you've ever come in contact with!"
"Your family, your friends, and most importantly, us." Ember added, powering up her next attack .
"But-I didn't do any of that!" Danny whispered, too weak now.
All of the ghosts power up around him, following Ember's lead.
"No." Danny said, finally tiered of it all! Ever since the CAT had begun and the madness of his future along with it he had been so tense. Well now it was time to let it out. "Get away! Get AWAAAAAY!" His scream turns into a Ghostly Wail, knocking the other ghosts away and vaporizing his bonds. The effort of the attack makes him partially revert to human form, his eyes and hair changing but his suit and glow remaining.
All of the ghosts are floating unconscious, the Shadow half-melted and Skulktech's suit smoking.
"Whoa…" He said, his voice deepened for a moment, before going back to normal. "My voice is changing?" He realized. "Great." He goes back to his full ghost mode. "I'm going through evil puberty. Everywhere I turn my stupid future is smacking me in the face!" Suddenly the Booomerang clocks him in the back of the head. "OW!" He says then notices the note. "...A note?" He takes the note, making a mental note in his mind that it must have come from Jazz due to the fact that it was tied with her head band. He then throws the boomerang to the side before he begins to read. "Wisconsin? Plasmius. Figures he's involved in this!" He growled, and headed towards his new destination.
(Back with Dark Dan)
[Present Day, Time for CAT!]
Mr. Lancer walks around the classroom making sure no one is cheating. He knows someone must have those stolen answers, but alas he finds none. He nods to himself; this is good he decides. 'Maybe he got cold feet and decided to be honest on the Test.' He thought as he goes to sit down at his desk. 'I'll give him until the end of the exam to fess up.' He decided before pulling out a book of poetry.
Meanwhile, Dan pulls something out from under his desk. It was the answers!
Tucker gasped. "Danny, don't! If you cheat on the test we-" but Sam shushed him.
Mr. Lancer looks up suspiciously and said "Mr. Foley, Mr. Fenton. Is there a problem?"
Dan looks at Mr. Lancer then at his old friends and chuckles "No problem at all."
Mr. Lancer goes back to his book, and Dan continues bubbling answers in all the while he was hurtling them all to their demise, and they had no idea!
He looks around making sure everything is as it should be when he notices Jazz frowning at him through the glass window of the classroom door. He looks around quickly, then a transparent copy of his adult-self peels off and dives into the floor as he scowls back at her. Out in the hall, the copy slips up behind her and zaps her as she pulls the Fenton Peeler. She screams then collapses, unconscious, to the floor.
And the second Dan drags her off by the ankles stuffing her in a closet before returning to his original self who then walks up to Mr. Lancer's desk and slaps his test answers down.
"Finished already, Mr. Fenton?" Mr. Lancer asked him, his suspicions increasing.
Dan leans on his desk and said, "Is that a problem?"
"How should I know? I don't have all the answers. Do you?" Mr. Lancer asked.
Dan simply walks out of the room smiling dark.
Mr. Lancer sighs deeply as he pulls out his cellphone and dials a number. "Mrs. Fenton? It's Mr. Lancer. Could you meet me at the Nasty Burger at say, 5 o' clock? And bring Danny with you."
Sam and Tucker tense.
"Oh no it's happening!" Tucker whispered fearfully.
"Hurry and finish!" Sam whispered back harshly; we have to stop him!"
Tucker forced himself to hurry they both did; their only hope was that they would make it in time!
-To Be Continued