Danny dodged the ghost ray and after giving his order to Tucker and Lilith, merged with his duplicate. Then his full attention on Dan he could start to use his powers. Before he had only been able to focus enough to use his intangibility and ghost ray. They were almost instinctive in the first place. Danny faced Dan and scowled angrily at him. "You hurt my wife!" Danny growled with his green eyes glowing dangerously. Dan was momentarily stunned. Dan was surprised at how Danny had known about Sam as he dove straight into the fight. Then he realised that Danny could duplicate himself and he was enraged that Danny had been cocky enough to not give his full attention to his fight with Dan. Dan lunged at Danny, his red eyes glowing dangerously. Both Phantoms were furious with the other.
Danny was tackled to the ground. Dan charged his fist with ghostly energy. Danny channelled his ice powers and froze Dan in place and turned intangible and melted into the ground. Dan shattered the ice. Dan remembered the trick Danny was using and waited for Danny to reappear. Danny floated up from the ground and fired a ghost ray at Dan. Dan spun around and raised a ghost shield and then fired his own ghost ray at Danny. Danny rolled away and filled his lungs. Dan raised his ghost shield. Danny smiled to himself at his ploy. Danny released the deep breath and fired an ice beam at Dan's shield. It froze on contact with the beam. He then charged forward. Dan shattered the ice and was tackled to the ground by Danny. Danny fired a ghost ray at Dan at close range. Dan kicked Danny off of him. Dan fired a ghost ray again at Danny and made contact. Danny was thrown into a nearby tree and pushed himself off of it instantly. He flew at Dan and fired ghost rays from both fists at Dan.
It was impossible for either Phantom to get the upper hand as they were both aware that this fight was a fight to the death. They were both furious at the other and were giving everything they could. They were both too fast for most attacks to hit and both were too powerful to hope to tire out the other. They were evenly matched more-or-less.
Sam came to slowly to see Jazz, Tucker, Valerie and Lilith watching her closely. Valerie's ankle had been treated by Jazz after Tucker had fetched the first aid kit from the ghost assault vehicle. "What happened?" Sam murmured blearily. "Lilith got the thermos away from Dan. Danny's fighting him now and Danielle has gone to get back up from the other ghosts," Tucker informed Sam softly. They all flinched as they heard an explosion from the Phantoms' fight. Sam looked at Lilith. "I told you to stay in the ghost assault vehicle," Sam reminded her. Lilith nodded slowly. "I know, but I couldn't just sit there and watch all you guys get hurt. I mean Dan knocked you out and hurt Valerie. He was choking Dani. I had to do something. So I jumped on to Dan and I managed to phase through him and grab the thermos," Lilith explained. She tried to look as sorry as possible but in honesty she was overjoyed that she had been able to help her father and the other adults. Sam's expression softened as she smiled at her daughter. She had to admit that they had needed the help and by the sounds of what had happened, Lilith had been right to intervene. They flinched again as a bright flash and explosion occurred again from a badly aimed ghost ray.
"So, what does Danny want us to do while he's fighting Dan? Does he want us to find anyone or anything?" Sam asked as she made to get up. Jazz pushed her back down. "No, he told Tucker and Lilith that he just wanted us to be safe," Jazz answered gently. Sam scowled. Danny couldn't honestly expect her to do nothing while he was fighting an evil alternate self. They flinched again from yet another explosion, this was the loudest yet. Tucker shrugged sympathetically. He didn't like sitting on the side lines any more than she did. However they knew that Danny knew what he was doing and had a plan. They couldn't interfere with it. They sat awkwardly watching the flashes of light from the ghost rays missing their targets and flinched at the regular explosions.
Danielle flew through the Ghost Zone. She had already spoken to Skulker, Walker, Dora the princess of the kingdom of Aaragon and the ghost writer. They were willing to help and had even offered to spread the word for her. Danielle had gladly accepted the offer. Anything to get Danny the backup he needed to fight Dan. A ghostly vulture flew over to her and she stopped to speak with it. "Are you Dani Phantom? You look like the ghost boy," it asked with a heavy accent. Dani nodded. "I was sent to tell you that all the ghosts willing to fight this Dan Phantom are gathered at the portal. They are waiting for you," it continued.
Danielle was surprised but then again Dan had destroyed and terrorized a lot of ghosts. One thing ghosts hated was being attacked and frightened. It was their job to frighten the living not to be frightened themselves. The ghosts probably wanted revenge as quickly as possible. She flew to the portal to Amity Park park. Danielle spotted a lot of familiar ghosts such as Johnny 13, Kitty, Ember, Spectra, Vortex, Frostbite and the far frozen people, Amorpho, Youngblood and dozens of others. With a shiver she noticed Vlad Plasmius was among the gathered ghosts. He looked absolutely outraged and ready for a fight. Danielle flew up to the crowd of angry ghosts and cleared her throat loudly for their attention. "Hi, well I found the ghost that attacked you all. Dan Phantom. Er… Danny Phantom is fighting him right now in the park on the other side of this portal. So, you know, he's on our side before you all attack him as well. Dan Phantom attacked you and your homes and this ghost has to pay for that. It's rare for me or Danny to ask for your help but this is one time that we need it. This ghost is just as strong and dangerous as the Ghost King is rumoured to be… so treat him the same," Danielle warned the ghosts. She was trying to say that the ghosts had to have no mercy against Dan. Danielle could tell that some of the ghosts in front of her already understood this or at least weren't thinking of mercy, Vlad and Vortex the most prominent. She nodded at the crowd and then led them all into the human world.
In case you're wondering, the ghost vulture is one of the vultures from the bitter reunion episode in season one.
Anyway, until the next chapter.