Season 2 Episode 9
The Ultimate Enemy: Part 2
"It's Time to SCREAM!"

James: Previously on Dani Phantom…

In Amity Park, ten years in the future, citizens covered their ears from the loudest ghostly howl that was ever unleashed. The towers powering the ghost shield exploded as the shield shutted down and disappeared, leaving the town unprotected as alarms blazed and people screamed and ran for their lives.

In Fenton Works, a ghost woman burst out of the floor of the lab, and the woman was undoubtedly Dani's Phantom's older self, Dark Dani Phantom, and she stood a few feet away from the Grays, who were gaping in fear.

"Hello, Vincent...and goodbye." She said sinisterly before she fired a ghost beam at them.

"Dani Phantom grows up to be the most evil ghost on the planet, what do you want me to do about it?" Chrona asked as she looked from the image of Dark Dani and then to the Observants.

"Isn't it obvious?" The first Observant said.

"In order to save the future, Dani Phantom must perish!" The second one said.

In the present day of Amity Park at Casper High, Lancer made an announcement to the students in the assembly as the end of the semester was drawing near. "As most of you have probably forgotten, you will be taking the Career Aptitude Test." Lancer announced before she held up the answers booklet. "These aren't just the answers to the test...they're the answers to your future. Do you want fries with it?" Dani stared in worried silence.

"She turns evil, because she's under pressure for some test? Fine, then perhaps it's time for a test of my own." Chrona said as Dani flew through Lancer's briefcase from an explosion from the Nasty Burger.

Dani pulled the CAT answer booklet from her back and gasped as she smiled. "HELLO, GREAT FUTURE!" She exclaimed happily.

"You're not actually thinking about peeking at the answers, are you?" Tina asked Dani, not liking the idea one bit. "You're not actually thinking about cheating on a test you're convinced that will determine your future?"

"Guys, come on, I would love to study, but I've been busy fighting ghosts."

"So you're saying Dani stole the test answers? How?" James asked Ms. Lancer outside Casper High.

"I don't know, unless your sister suddenly gained the ability to turn invisible and reach through solid objects." Lancer said, making James gulp nervously. "She has up until the test to return the answers. If she cheats, I won't just fail her...I'll destroy her future!"

"You're much less powerful than that other Phantom we have to deal with." Techna cackled.

Dani, Tina, and Sam were all dragged into Chrona's Tower in the Ghost Zone as they looked around. "Where are we?" Tina asked.

"I am Chrona, Mistress of Time. I've been charged with the task of eliminating your future so that never happens." Chrona said, pointing at the screen that showing Dark Dani destroying buildings and attacking innocent people.

"I think I'm seeing your future...and you're kind of a brat." Sam said to Dani.

"You three have seen too much, you must be eliminated before you permanently alter the time stream. Nowhere to hide, children."

"Nowhere, but the future!" Dani exclaimed before she grabbed both of her friends as they flew through the time portal and into the desolated future around them. Future Vincent suddenly popped out of the rumble and fired his gun at Dani, which she avoided. "Vincent! Listen to me!"

"You can't fool me this time, Phantom!" He said as he attacked Dani and finally caught her in a pink net and was about to fire his gun again to finish her off, until Sam and TIna suddenly slid between them as they pleaded him not to destroy their friend, and he stared at them in bewilderment and confusion. "Sam...Tina? This is a trick! YOU CAN'T BE ALIVE!"

"Not alive? I'm definitely not taking the CAT!" Tina exclaimed in fear at what she just heard.

"The CAT...that's the last time I saw you alive! The big explosion at the Nasty Burger…" All of Dani's friends and family were bound and gagged to the Nasty Burger overheating vats as it exploded. "You, Sam, Dani's family...and it was all your fault!" Vincent aimed his gun again, but got swept away by a green ecto-wave as he shouted.

The trio looked up and saw Dana Phantom floating above them in person. "Actually, that was me...and you, eventually." She smirked evilly.

"Her future is sealed." Chrona said as Dani stared at her evil future self in complete shock.


Theme Song:

(She's a phantom)

(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)

Yo, Dani Fenton, she was just fourteen
When her parents built a very strange machine
Designed to view a world unseen

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

When it didn't work, her folks, they just quit
Then Dani took a look inside of it
There was a great, big flash, and everything changed
Her molecules got all rearranged

(Phantom, Phantom)

When she first woke up, she realized she had snow white hair, and glowing green eyes
She could walk through walls, disappear, and fly
She was much more unique than the other gals
And it was then that she knew what she had to do
She had to stop all the ghost that were coming through
She's there to fight, for me and you!

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)


Dana Phantom stared down at her younger self and her past friends while they all stared at her in awe as they couldn't believe their eyes that they were staring at Dani's dark future, and that she was going to become the most evil ghost on the planet.

Dana landed in front of the trio with her hands on her hips. "Sam and Tina...it's been awhile. Ten years, to be accurate." She said darkly with an unfazed frown before she waved her energized hand in front of Sam and Tina as they braced themselves, but merely immobilized them since couldn't move and Dana walked closer to her old friends. "So...to what do I owe this little blast from the past?" Her eyes suddenly went wide when she saw Sam's time medallion around his neck and frowned in realization. "Chrona...meddling again."

Dana suddenly got blasted as she grunted and crashed into a building by a red beam. She swiped the smoke away and saw Vincent, fully recovered and with a wrist gun as he blew on smoke billowing from it while he gave her a frown. Dana glared murderously before she charged at the ghost hunter as he threw a few grenades at her, but she turned into a green vapor form when the grenades exploded harmlessly through her. Vincent fired more blasts, but Dark Dani duplicated herself as she made a sudden zip and grabbed his arms. Meanwhile, Dani focused on her energy and shouted as she broke free from Vincent's net before her evil older self punched Vincent right in the face, enough to send him flying several feet away while he grunted and tumbled on the street.

As he weakly got to his fours, Dana landed near him with a grin. "You know, for the respect of our past, I should let you live." Dana said before she grabbed him by his weapons holster when she glared. "But that's not how I work!" She lifted him up high before she hurtled him away as he screamed.

"Vincent!" Dani exclaimed before she flew after Vincent and grabbed him by his waist as she made them both intangible. They phased from wall-to-wall a good distance away until they landed on the ground as Dani grunted and glanced down at Vincent, now really weak from Dana's blows.

"You're from the past, aren't you?" Vincent asked Dani, making her sit up while she remained silent. "Almost...forgot how cute you were back then." Vincent then drifted into unconsciousness.

"You thought I was cute?" Dani suddenly smiled brightly. "Wow, an older man likes me."

Back with Dark Dani, she used her telekinesis to lift Sam and Tina off the ground as she walked around them. "You know, if I had an ounce of humanity left in me, this would be a very touching little reunion." She said before her old friends glanced at each other fearfully. "But of course, I surrendered my human half...a long time ago." Dani phased through the street behind her evil self, but Dark Dani's ghost sense goes off when red wisps submerged from her nostrils and she made an unfazed, knowing look. "Oh, please…" She sharply turned and fired a ghost beam at Dani, who fired one back before she got hit by Dana's blast while she got hit by Dani's, but it was enough to set Sam and Tina free from her telekinesis.

Dani sat up and glanced at her friends. "Tina, Sam! RUN!" She cried out to her best friends.

Sam and Tina immediately began to run away before Dana quickly recovered from Dani's blow as she smirked at her 'old friends'. "Run? Where are they going to go?"

She stood up and turned around as she took a deep breath and unleashed her ghostly wail. Dani clapped her hands on her ears before Sam and Tina stopped in front of Fenton Works. The powerful sonic waves made the corner of the house crumble and it began to collapse over Sam and Tina before Dana halted her power.

"For the record, I blame you." Tina said to Sam as they shielded themselves by covering their heads.

"GUYS!" Dani exclaimed as she about to fly over to them to get them out of the way, but Dana suddenly grabbed her by her ankle.

"Ah, ah, ah. No more heroics from you." She said, smirking evilly.

Dani gasped in horror as she watched the rumble completely collapse around Sam and Tina as they yelped. To make things worse, Dark Dani began to shock her younger self in agonizing pain as she shrieked and changed back to her human form before her future self threw her into the rumble. Dani rubbed her head as she weakly got up, but then she noticed that there were two time medallion lying on the ground where her friends were supposed to be. She suddenly realized that they quickly took off their time medallions and they made it out of the future safely.

"They took off their time medallions! That returned them to their time period just like Box Lunch and Skulk-Techna. Which means, I can…" Dani said while she was about to remove her own time medallion, but got cut short when Dana grabbed her by her wrist and lifted her to the air.

"What? Go back with them? They're doomed anyway, and you can't go anywhere if you can't remove your time medallion." Dana said sinisterly. She snapped Dani's time medallion off, turn her hand and the medallion intangible, and she phased it straight into her younger self's chest, making her shriek in agony before she fell unconscious. "In fact...you're not going anywhere at all."


Back in the present day of Amity Park, James drove his red car around so he could find for his little sister and have a little 'chat' with her. "They should be here somewhere." He said to himself.

In an alleyway beside the Nasty Burger, in a bright flash, Sam and Tina suddenly appeared while Tina screamed when she thought she was about to be crushed by a collapsing Fenton Works building. She stopped when she realized that she was back in her own time and glanced up at Sam, who was frowning down at her in annoyance with his arms crossed.

"You got the medallions off, didn't you?" Tina asked Sam.

"Yes, but unfortunately, Dani's still stuck in the future, fighting her bratty older self! We have to help her!" Sam exclaimed when he kinda forgot about the fact that he left Dani behind in the future.

"Sam, Tina, you got a second?" James asked before he walked up to them without receiving an answer, as he glared at both sternly them with his hands on his sides. "Let me answer that, yes, you do! I know Dani stole the test answers to the CAT, and that she's going to cheat."

Sam then smiled innocently. "Actually, Dani wasn't going to-"

But his smile dropped when James held up his hand, looking completely convinced that his sister's best friend was just trying to cover for her. "Sam, enough! I know more than you think I do." James went up to his face with a knowing stare. "A lot more. So, I suggest when you see her, you tell her I want to talk to her tonight, because if I don't, I will be talking to our parents and Ms. Lancer tomorrow!" With that happy message, James stormed away to his car and drove off, leaving Sam and Tina baffled by what he just told them, but were kind of confused when he said 'a lot more' in a very obvious way.

"Lancer knows Dani has the answers?" Sam asked Tina after a moment of silence when he processed James's words together.

"Oh man, is she in trouble." Tina commented at the thought.

Sam's eyes went wide in realization before he grabbed his techno-geek friend by her shoulders in urgency. "That's gotta be it! Dani cheating is the thing that leads to that horrible future!"

Tina gently shoved him away as she frowned at his theory. "Let me get this straight, Dani gets caught cheating on a test and we pay for it with our lives? How is that fair?"


Back in the dark and desolated future, Dani groaned when she began to wake up and the first thing she saw was a statue of her entire family, Sam, and Tina right in front of her.

"Mom? Dad?" Dani said as she sat up and found herself bound to a green glowing bind. She read the inscription on the gravestone statue before her. "'Gone, but not forgotten'?" She turned and found Lancer's gravestone statue, but it only read 'gone'. She suddenly knew this was where the Nasty Burger should have been and now it was like a graveyard: nothing but rumble and tombstone statues. "A-and where's the Nasty Burger?"

She saw the original Nasty Burger a few feet away, completely destroyed in rumble. She began to remember that Future Vincent once mentioned that there was a big explosion at the fast food restaurant, and how he reacted when he saw Sam and Tina for the first time and wasn't expecting to see them alive at all. She realized her friends and family have all been killed in the Nasty Burger explosion.

She heard some cruel snickering coming from the destroyed Nasty Burger before Dark Dani walked out from the rumble like she was reading her past self's expression.

"Strange how one massive fireball of highly combustible condiments can...ruin your whole future." Dana sneered darkly before she walked straight up to her younger self, who was glaring up at her angrily. "It makes me sick of how I was back when I was hormonal teenager. All heroic, loyal, well-meaning, and what did I dedicate my life to? Protecting my own hometown from harm? How old can that get?" Dark Dani laughed before she then kneeled to Dani's level and held her by her chin, but she didn't lose her glare. "But...I suppose I do miss the witty banters I use to throw, and the beauty I once had as a human…" Dana then smiled mockingly. "But I grew out of it."

"ACK!" Dani shook her head away from her evil older self's hand in disgust and glared up at her, but then her eyes went wide when she glanced down at her chest. "The time medallion?"

"Fused inside you. Pretty nice, huh? Intangible and unreachable whether you're ghost or human, which means you can't go back in time." As she spoke, Dana stood back up to her feet when she created a ghost portal with her hand.

"I don't care if I go back in time or not, I'll never turn into you! NEVER!"

"Of course you will…" Dark Dani then transformed as she disguised herself into Dani herself in human form and she smirked at her past self. "It's only a matter of time." She grabbed Dani by her bind and threw her straight into the Ghost Zone as she shrieked and the portal disappeared, trapping her inside. "I need you out of my hair and out of my way while I make sure nothing happens to change my past and luckily, this is all I need to make sure of that..." Dana held up one of Sam or Tina's time medallions before it teleported her back in time when she found herself in the present day, near the Nasty Burger. "And get where I need to be."


Inside Chrona's Tower in the Ghost Zone, Chrona was tuning her time staff just as the Observants appeared in her presence once again. "Have you completed the task?" The first Observant asked the time ghost.

"Everything's the way it's supposed to be." Chrona said as she showed an image of 'Dani' walking around the Nasty Burger with a evil look on her face. "There's the girl, returned back to her own time. Safe, sound, and clearly not evil. Now, care to observe the door?"

The Observants glanced at each other before the teleported out of his tower, leaving Chrona shifting to child form while she made a suspicious look, like she knew that wasn't the real Dani that arrived in the present.


Back in the present, Dana (still disguised as younger Dani in human form) began to inspect the Nasty Burger to make sure everything was set for her big master plan to ensure her own existence and to prepare for what was coming for her former friends and family.

"The Nasty Burger, still sanding...for now." Dark Dani said to herself when she saw the sauce vats overheating as the meter raised above the yellow meter while the sauces became hotter and hotter with every minute until it was ready to implode.

"DANI!" Sam and Tina shouted in relief, making Dana gasp in surprise as she lost her smile when Sam hugged her before her held her hands.

"You made it back!" He said in relief.

"Did you beat that evil bratty pus pack alternative version of yourself?" Tina asked excitedly.

Dark Dani's eyes briefly glowed red before she snickered a little. "Always with the quips." Dana said in Dani's voice as she smiled darkly at her 'friends'. "In my weaker moments, I sometimes miss your droll sense of humor."

Tina cocked an eyebrow in confusion. "I'm sorry?"

Dana giggled a little while she smiled. "I'm just kidding! I beat my other self quite easily, had you going for a second, huh?"

"Well...we should probably do what we can to stop the Nasty Burger from blowing up, huh?"

Dana then faked a reassuring smile. "Already done. Now, who's up for-what did we used to do together?-playing some video games and raging against the machine?!"

"We're in!" Tina and Sam exclaimed happily, making Dana smirk secretly that they don't suspect a thing.


In the Ghost Zone in the future, the real Dani hovered across the void as she strained while she struggled to break free from the indestructible ecto-binds Dark Dani bounded her with.

"I've...gotta get out of this! I'm going ghost!" Dani cried out before she transformed into her ghost half and tried to use her strength to break free, but no matter how much she struggled, it wouldn't even snap off since it was too strong, so she just gave up as she glowered in defeat. "Well, it was worth a shot."

"Well, well, well." The voice of the Box Ghoul said.

Dani turned her head and saw the Future Box Ghoul, now much more leaner and bigger, had a tattoo, a hook for a hand, and an eye patch, and she looked like she had a serious beating from a powerful ghost.

She smiled at Dani as she floated closer to her. "All this time, we'd been planning on how'd we take the fight to you, and here you are...wrapped up like a present." She said darkly as she smirked at the ghost girl.

"Box Ghoul?" Dani said with slight fear

"Beware…" She held up her hand as she charged it up with blue energy and fired a beam of ecto-energy, hitting her dead on when she bonked into Future Amber McLain, who now looked more obese and wore black tattered clothing as he glared down at the ghost girl.

"Amber?! You look…"

"Like I went to seed right after you destroyed my vocal cords WITH THAT GHOSTLY WAIL OF YOURS?!" Amber snapped angrily, his voice sounded very much like he has been gurgling nails and sounded as tone deaf as Tina.

Dani smiled nervously. "I was gonna say statuesque, but, uh…"

Amber angrily strummed his guitar as he sent a wave of energy straight at Dani, hitting her dead on when she flew into Future Jessie 13, who was now in a wheelchair and had a black blanket over her lap as she glared at the ghost girl.

Dani groaned and gasped as she looked up at Jessie. "Jessie 13?! Okay, whatever happened to you, I swear I had nothing to do with-" She began.

"Been waiting a long time for this, princess!" She sneered angrily, not giving her a chance to finish her sentence as her blanket formed into her bad luck shadow ghost.

All the future versions of Dani's ghost enemies began to surround around for some payback. "WAIT!" She tried to plead them to stop, but they wouldn't listen when they began to charge their energies and gave the ghost heroine everything they got as an act of revenge for what her evil future self did to them. "NO! NOOOOOOOOOOO!"


Back in the present day of Amity Park, Dana (still disguised as Dani in her human form) phased through the floor and into her old bedroom as she looked around. "My old room." She said to herself in Dani's voice before she walked up to a mirror and stared at her reflection as she rubbed her cheek while she admired her old human face she once admitted she missed. "And my old beautiful face."

The door opened up when James walked in, carrying Dani's backpack in his hand. "Dani, we need to talk." James said sternly with his hands on his sides as he narrowed his eyes at his sister.

Dana smiled to herself and turned to her old brother. "And my old brother, James." She then frowned as she placed her hands on her hips. "What do you want, James? I'm busy."

"Yeah, busy cheating!" James pulled out the CAT test answer booklet from Dani's backpack, revealing that he knew she stole the answers. "Lancer was right, you did steal the answers! Don't you understand?"

"That I'll be destroying my future?" 'Dani' smiled before she chuckled and took the backpack and answer booklet out of her old brother's hands. "You don't know the half of it!"

James frowned at her briefly before he made a look of sadness when he looked down and sighed as he picked up the Booo-merang off the floor and Dana stuffed the booklet in her old backpack. "Dani...I know all of it, about everything. That you're part ghost and that you were always doing the right thing with your powers...until now."

That made Dark Dani's eyes widen in surprise when he told her this. "You knew?" She asked in confusion and with an ounce of care in her voice.

Despite her goal to kill her own brother to ensure she would still exist, Dana has never known that James knew everything that she used to be half-ghost and never told Dani directly. Her brother must have been already killed before he could even tell her the truth about his knowledge of her secret.

"I know, and I've been covering for you with Mom and Dad, because I'm proud of you and the good that you do…" James said before he frowned again when he placed his hands on his hips. "But not anymore!" He was facially telling his 'sister' that he was probably gonna tell their parents and Lancer that Dani was half-ghost as his own form of punishment for his sister planning on cheating.

Dana, however, only smirked at her former brother. "You always were smarter than I gave you credit for." She said dangerously calm before she transformed out of her younger self's disguise as she exposed her true evil, older form to James while she grinned sinisterly at him.

James stared at her in complete shock. "You...you're not Dani!" He backed away in fear as he dropped the Booo-merang on the floor while Dana walked closer to him. "That's why the Booo-merang wasn't homing in on your ecto-signature: you're not Dani!"

"I was, but I grew out of it. The Dani you know is floating helplessly in the Ghost Zone, ten years in the future!" Dark Dani said in her normal voice as she rubbed her fingernails together in satisfaction with her hands on her hips.

James then glared at the evil ghost woman with a look of confidence. "She'll escape! She'll beat you!"

Dana only snickered and rolled her eyes like he was just joking around. "How? Is the answer A: the Fenton Portal? Destroyed it. B: the only remaining portal, the one my cheesehead archenemy has? As soon as I find that, that's going, too."

James allowed her words to sink in when she said 'cheesehead' and he knew that there was only one person he knew was a total cheesehead fanatic. "'Cheesehead'? Vladia Masters?! She's your archenemy?"

"Is it C: you? No, you can't stop me from cheating on the CATs and solidifying my future. So, it must be D!" Dana then blasted her energy at James as he hovered a little in the air. "None of the above!" When Dark Dani halted her blast, James fell onto his knees and collapsed on the floor, unconscious as Dana shifted back to her younger human disguise and pulled out the answer booklet from the backpack. "Well, what do you know? The answer to the first question is D!" She then laughed evilly now that everything was going according to plan.


"DANI! NO!" James shouted in his sleep as he shifted around his bed until he sat upright awake before he realized that he was in his own bedroom and it was Saturday morning. "What the?"

Jackie suddenly barged into her son's room when she heard him screaming, and she even brought the Booo-merang that was in her fist like she was expecting a ghost attack. "What's up, son? Are you okay?" She asked her eldest child.

James glanced around his room in confusion. "I'm in bed? I'm alive?"

Matt suddenly kicked his wife out of the way as he entered his room in a chipper mood. "Of course you're in bed and you're alive! Dani said that you fell asleep, helping her study and we tucked you in."He explained with a smile.

"She even woke up early to make sure nothing happened to make her late for the big test!" Jackie added proudly.

"Oh on! The test!" James exclaimed in realization when he eyes went wide.

He suddenly jumped out of bed in a hurry as he snatched the Booo-merang out of his mother's hands while his parents stared at him in confusion. James quickly ran into Dani's bedroom, where opened up a dresser cabinet and pulled out one of Dani's favorite blue headbands she liked to wear everyday. He then ran into the lab as he activated the ghost portal and tied a note to the Booo-merang with Dani's headband.

"I need you to find Dani, fourteen-year-old Dani! Ten years from now." He told the device.

James then threw the ecto-seeking boomerang device into the Ghost Zone, hoping his sister would receive his message later in the future, literally. The Booo-merang continued to fly through the depths of the Ghost Zone while it remained active for days, days turned into months, and months turned into years as the device still remained active. Ten years later, the Booo-merang has rusted up after so many years of trying to track down Dani, but then it suddenly reactivated when it locked into Dani's ecto-signature and it flew away, right before a ghost monster could even chomp at it.

The real Dani continued to get beaten up and blasted at by all the older versions of her past enemy ghosts. Amber strummed his guitar at her again as she yelped, Box Ghoul threw a couple of ecto-boxes at Dani, Jessie's shadow ghost suddenly swooped by her, making her spin a little. She glanced up wearily until Skulk-Techna shocked her and Future Kyle smacked her with his fist before Amber finally pinned Dani to the ecto-wall hard in pure anger and rage.

"Please...I didn't do all of this to you, it wasn't me!" Dani exclaimed with a heavy inhale, not wanting to take anymore of their paybacks.

"Oh, stop!" Skulka snapped as she waved her hand while everyone continued to glare at her in pure anger and vengeance. "You're responsible for the horrible things that happened to your world and ours!"

"To everyone you've ever come in contact with!" Techna added.

"Your family, your friends, and most importantly, us." Amber finished as he released Dani and join the rest of the ghosts.

"But I didn't do all of this to you! Please stop!" Dani pleaded.

But all of the ghosts didn't listen to her as they completely ignored her pleas, not caring if she couldn't take it anymore, and they all began to attack her again for payback and ready to kill her for everything Dark Dani has done to them. Dani began to breath heavily as her fear became anger when it began to rise in her chest and her breathing slowly became a growl. She couldn't take anymore of the ghosts blaming her for everything her evil future self has done since they all went up at her younger self for some revenge for all the misfortunes Dana has brought upon them...and it really made her want to scream.

"Get away...get away! GET AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!" Dani's shout became a loud sonic ghost howl when she unintentionally activated the power her evil future self has recently acquired: the ghostly wail.

All the ghosts stared at her in awe and shock when they halted their attacks since they were unexpected by her using this power. The waves of raw energy flew at them as they shielded themselves and they were all blown away by her most powerful ability she has ever unlocked. Dani continued to scream at them as the binds that tied her up faded away and she knocked back the last of the ghosts before white rings suddenly intersected her, but it doesn't change her completely, only her head into her human form: her black hair, blue headband and blue eyes, but still had her jumpsuit. She halted her wail as she rubbed her head from all the energy she has used.

"Whoa!" She said in amazement. She saw all the future ghosts unconscious from her ghostly wail, even the shadow ghost became a black moss and Skulk-Techna has completely powered down. "My voice is changing? Great, now I'm going through evil puberty." She changed her head back into her ghost look while she facepalmed herself a little. "Everywhere I turn, my stupid future's smacking me in the face!" The Booo-merang suddenly smacked her in the back of her head. "OUCH!" She rubbed her head until she saw a note tied onto the device. "A note?" She removed the headband and note attached to the device as she unfolded the note and examined it:

Dani, you need to get to Wisconsin, it's the only remaining portal in the future, but you need to hurry! You don't have much time left! You're our only hope!

"'Wisconsin'? Plasmius! Figures she's involved in this." Dani said as she made a suspicious look and now she knew how she can get out of the Ghost Zone in the future and possibly get some help, or face off against her old archenemy.


Back in the present at Casper High, the students have arrived to school on a Saturday to work on the CAT. While Lancer inspected them briefly, Dana smirked at her before she peeked at the answers as she hid it underneath Dani's desk and began to bubble in the answers, much to Sam and Tina's dismay when Sam rested his cheek on his palm and Tina only stared at her 'friend'.

"Dani, don't! If you cheat on the test, we-" Tina whispered quietly.

"Ms. Foley, Ms. Fenton, is there a problem?" Lancer interrupted as she scolded at them suspiciously.

"Uh…" Dana said in Dani's voice before she grinned at Sam and Tina, who blinked at her in confusion, and then snickered softly. "No problem at all." She smirked even more while her eyes glowed red before she continued to cheat on the test to ensure her own future is set in stone.

She suddenly heard someone coming when she looked up at the door and narrowed her eyes when she saw James standing out there, glaring directly at her. Dark Dani quickly made an invisible duplicate of herself as it flew through the floor and into the hallway when James pulled out the Fenton Peeler to reveal Dana's true identity to everyone. Dana's duplicate merely touched his shoulder as she shocked him while he yelped in surprise before he collapsed onto the ground, unconscious again. The duplicate then dragged James into a closet so he wouldn't try to interfere with her master plan again.


Back in the Ghost Zone ten years in the future, Dani was hovering in front of a giant purple football that was blocking something, but she knew what was behind it.

"Well, that's Vladia for ya, subtle as a flying mallet." Dani muttered to herself before she shoved the football aside, revealing the only remaining portal in the entire future world as James's note explained.

Dani narrowed her eyes, not really knowing what to expect, but she flew through the portal and back into the real world. She found herself in a lab of some sort, but it looked more like a set up lab in a dark cave. She was expecting a fight until she turned to the side and saw someone sitting on a chair with the back turned to her a few feet away, but she immediately knew it was Future Vladia Masters herself, her old archnemesis.

"Come to kick a defenseless old lady while she's down?" Vladia merely said as she tapped her fingernails on her chair handle.

"Defenseless? Old?"

Dani walked up to her as Vladia turned her chair around to face her. Her hair was longer and messy, her business suit was all old, damped, and tattered, she was barefoot, and her face was all wrinkled and slightly sloppy from aging into her fifties. Dani knew that, being a half-ghost, they could retain their youth and beauty longer than any other normal human, as she remembered Spector once told her. Dani looked surprised about not just that Vladia looked even older, even after just ten years, but she used to be a proud billionairess, but now she looked like her career just went down the drain and was now an old homeless woman.

"Man! What happened to you?" Dani wondered with wide eyes, not expecting Vladia looking like this miserable old woman in front of her.

"I could ask you the very same question, my dear." Vladia stood up with a walking stick when she noticed her appearance and realized she was from the past, so she probably barely knew anything other than the fact that she would turn evil in ten years. "Although, perhaps I should ask what hasn't happened to you...yet. If it's any consolation, they went so quickly, they felt no pain. Unfortunately, the same could not be said of you, Danielle…"


Vladia began to explain to Dani how the bleak and disastrous future came to be and how she became known as Dark Dani Phantom, the most evil and most powerful ghost on the planet, and it did rootly have something to do with Dani cheating on a test.

Before Chrona's meddling, Dani was caught cheating on the CAT by Lancer when he arranged a meeting at the Nasty Burger with the entire Fenton family about Dani's act of selfishness. Tina and Sam then rushed up to the teacher and the Fentons to warn everyone that the Nasty Burger was gonna blow up soon, but either it was because Lancer was too busy scowling at Dani, didn't believe Sam and Tina at all, or if it was just too late. Either way, the entire fast-food restaurant exploded from the sauce vats overheating...and Dani was sadly the only survivor. All of Dani's friends and family (and teacher) and everything she ever had was all gone, and it heartbroke her greatly that she couldn't even save them in time.

Vladia (Voiceover):
With nowhere else to go, you came to me, the only person left on the planet who could possibly hope to understand you situation.

Now orphaned with no family and no friends, a heartbroken and grief-stricken Dani has been forced to move out of Fenton Works and moved to Madison, Wisconsin to live with Vladia Masters, who gave her some sympathy when she placed a comforting hand on Dani's shoulders. Despite all the past fights and 'disagreements' they had together, Dani was too hurt to even care. She glanced at a photo of herself with all of her loved ones, who were now all gone all because she was caught cheating on a test and Lancer already knew about it, and it made her grief grow stronger when a tear leaked down her cheek, and Vladia gave her a look of pity.

All you wanted was to make the hurt go away.

Vladia understood Dani's wish when she took her into her lab, strapped her to an examination table with a breathing mask over her face. Vladia wore her surgeon apron and mask and wore a copied pair of the Ghost Gauntlets.

I honored your wishes...no more painful human emotions to drag you down.

Dani's wish was to have her ghost half removed from her body, since her ghost powers were too much of a painful memory to have about her friends and family, and didn't want to be heartbroken anymore and wanted it all gone, and to not feel depressed anymore.

Vladia raised her Gauntlets as sharp claws sprang out and she dug them into Dani's body. She strained before she pulled and finally managed to drag out Dani's ghost half. Even though at first it was a success, something went wrong when Vladia's eyes widen at the sight in front of her. Now that she was freed from her human half's consciousness, Dani Phantom glared at Vladia and roughly shoved her away, making her crash into a wall with a grunt as her Ghost Gauntlets dropped below Dani while she hovered over her archenemy.

Sadly, that freed you to rip the ghost out of me.

Dani Phantom smiled with anticipation as she slipped on the Gauntlets and grabbed Vladia by her apron before she separated Vladia's human and ghost halves apart. Dani then slipped the gloves off, turned intangible, and flew straight into Vladia Plasmius' ghost body just like that before in a bright flash, she took the shape of Dani.

And when my evil ghost half mixed with yours...and my evil side overwhelmed you.

Dani Phantom's eyes opened and glowed full-on solid green as her skin began to crack. She screamed in agony to the heavens when she began to take on a new monstrous appearance as her long white hair began to blaze like flames, her tan skin became green/blue, her ears pointed and her teeth grew into fangs. She continued to scream as Dani's and Vladia's ghost powers mixed together, strengthening and augmenting her entire body and abilities. As Vladia's evil side overwhelmed her, everything good about Dani disappeared when she became completely overtaken by evil with absolutely no humanity or a moral conscience.

Human Vladia trembled in absolute horror as she witnessed this horrifying birth of Dana Phantom.


Dani listened to Future Vladia's whole story in complete stunned silence at the entire story of how she had lost her friends and family in a Nasty Burger explosion and of how she became the heartless monster with no more humanity she saw before her eyes. All it took was one simple act of cheating and her dire consequence was that she lost everyone she knew and cared about, and she became the most evil ghost on the planet to remove all the pain.

"What happened to my human self?" Dani said with a look of horror in her eyes.

Vladia cringed as she looked away like it was a painful subject.


Some things, my dear…

Human Dani Fenton, now all battered and bruised, cowered and trembled in absolute fear as young Dana hovered over her while she contemplated her now-powerless and harmless human half.

...are better left unsaid.

Dark Dani suddenly roared at her human half as her eyes glowed red and stuck her now-forked tongue out like a snake. She then caused an explosion of Vladia's mansion, and even though Vladia Master inexplicably managed to survive somehow, Dani was sadly killed by her own ghost half. Young Dana Phantom flew away from the explosion of the castle as she cackled evilly to the heavens, ready to begin her ten-year road of destruction and chaos that was awaiting for both the Earth and the Ghost Zone, not caring if they were innocent or not.


"If any good came out of this, it's that ten years without ghost powers gave me the chance to see what a fool I've been." Vladia finished as she sadly looked at a photo of herself with Jackie and Matt in their college days.

Despite how much Dani hated Vladia for everything she has done to her and her loved ones before, she couldn't help but display a little sympathy for her archenemy and understood that having no powers can make you open your eyes at all wrong misfortunes you have done. Dani doubted that the Vladia Masters in her own timeline would ever redeem herself or would ever feel like this since she planned on changing the future, but she always gave everyone a chance, but not for her enemies. But it wasn't the main thing to think about right now: after Dani heard that her cheating on the CAT was the key that lead to this horrible future, she must travel back to her own timeline to set everything right and make up for her mistakes.

"Maybe that's all anybody needs: a second chance." Dani said somewhat sympathetically with her hands laced close to her heart before she looked up at her old archenemy. "Do you still have those Ghost Gauntlets.

Vladia's eyes went wide when she asked that, wondering why she needed them now.


Back in the present day, Dana slammed her finished test on Lancer's desk with a smirk as she placed her hands on her hips.

"Finished so soon, Ms. Fenton?" Lancer asked suspiciously as she glared at her.

"Is that a problem?" She asked as she leaned on his desk.

"How should I know? I don't have all the answers." Lancer went up to her face and gave her a skeptical look. "Do you?" Dana only remained silent, yet smiled evilly as she walked out of her classroom. Lancer sighed before she picked up her phone and dialed in the Fentons' number while she held the phone to her ear. "Mr. Fenton, it's Ms. Lancer, could you meet me outside the Nasty Burger at, say...five o'clock? And bring Dani." She walked up to her window as she watched 'Dani' walking back home to Fenton Works.


Back in the future, Dani quickly explained to Vladia that her evil future self has fused a time medallion within her body, keeping her trapped ten years in the future. She also suspected that Dana has also traveled back in time to her present day to make sure she absolutely cheated on the test so that her friends and family (and teacher) were all getting what was coming to them. All to make sure Dana still existed and that the time stream doesn't change one bit. Dani had to travel back to her own timeline to fight Dana and save the future since, as the note said, she knew that she was their only hope.

"So you're saying there's a medallion lodged within you, keeping you rooted in this time period?" Vladia repeated as she slipped on the Ghost Gauntlets.

"Yes, and I can't reach it. But I'm guessing if you could reach into me and rip out my humanity-which, by the way, sounds totally gross-you could get the medallion out, too, and I'll pop back to my present like Tina and Sam did." Dani said as she prepared herself.

Vladia raised her gloves up as the claws sprung out. "Or I could just destroy you now and prevent this future. Didn't think of that, did you?" However, despite what Vladia just said, she swiped her gauntlets and Dani shrieked in agony when Vladia began to reach within her to pulled the medallion out so Dani could return to her timeline.


Back in the present day, the Fentons have arrived at the Nasty Burger exactly at five o'clock. Jackie drove the Fenton RV up to the fast food restaurant as the vehicle's headlights flashed at Ms. Lancer's eyes. Her husband, Matt, was also present, along with their 'daughter'.

"Ms. Lancer sounded urgent on the phone. Is something wrong?" Matt asked 'Dani' with concern.

"Not yet." Dana said with a smirk as she glanced at the sauce vats of the Nasty Burger heating up higher and higher while it got ready to implode soon.

The Fentons exited the RV as they stood before Lancer. "Mr. and Mrs. Fenton, Danielle, this is the Nasty Burger. When people fail, this is where they end up. Whether they failed because they don't study...or because they cheated." She said sternly and coldly before she held up Dani's test packet.

Jackie and Matt gasped in complete shock that she basically told them that their own daughter has cheated on the CATs.

"Dani, is this true?" Jackie asked her 'daughter' with an arched eyebrow.

"Did you cheat?" Matt then asked in disbelief, looking very hurt.

"YOU HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!" Sam shouted out loud, catching everyone's attentions when they all turned around with wide eyes and saw him and Tina rushing right up to them in a hurry.

"The Nasty Burger's gonna blow, and we're THREE FEET FROM IT!" Tina exclaimed as she threw her arms into the air urgently.

"South Beach Diet, people! What's going on here?!" Lancer demanded out loud.

"I'll tell you what's going on!" James said out loud as he stomped several feet away from everyone. They all turned around in surprise when they saw James wearing the Fenton Peeler Suit as he glared at his 'sister' with anger, disdain, and determination. "Or better yet...show you!"

He then aimed the Peeler at Dana and fired a raw beam of energy at her, making her groan as her human disguise peeled right off her body and was forced to reveal her true form to everyone, and she collapsed onto the ground on her legs. Lancer, Jackie, Matt, Tina, and Sam all stared down at the ghost woman in complete shock as her jumpsuit smoked from being peeled like that.

"THAT'S NOT DANI!" James exclaimed as he retracted his arm with the gun billowing smoke.

Jackie and Matt then glared angrily at the ghostly woman imposter who was pretending to be their daughter all this entire time before they pulled out their a anti-ghost weapons and aimed them directly at Dana.

"Where is she?! Where's our daughter?!" Jackie demanded angrily as she charged up her ecto-gun.

"What have you done to our girl?!" Matt demanded as well as he, too, charged up his gun.

However, Dana only cackled evilly and loudly before she finally faced her former father with a smirk. "I am your girl!" She said out loud.

This completely confused and shocked Matt when he perked up in surprise with wide eyes. "WHAT?!"

Everyone gasped in surprise when they heard her say that as she was about to reveal Dani's secret that she has kept from her family for a very long time. Dark Dani then flew from the ground and hovered in the air as the clouds began to grow darker when it took a dramatic effect and circled around the sky. Jackie and Matt never dropped their guns as they continued to aim at the ghost woman, but they didn't fire.

"What kind of parents are you anyway? The world's leading ghost experts, and you can't even figure out that your own daughter was half-ghost!" Dana said out loud with her arms held out.

"For the record, I blame you." Jackie muttered to her husband before she faced up at Dana again.

"Hello! Dani Fenton, Dani Phantom? Ever noticed the similarity?" Dana glanced at her former brother, who was still glaring and growling menacingly at her. "James did."

"He did?" Sam and Tina asked each other in surprise and confusion.

"LIAR! Don't move!" Jackie exclaimed angrily as she aimed her ghost weapon at her again, but she still didn't fire.

"Actually, nobody's going anywhere...not until it's time for you to be blown everywhere!" Dark Dani said as she grinned wickedly and swept her hand as she unleashed an energy wave that shoved Sam, Tina, Lancer, Matt, and Jackie (who dropped both of their weapons) as they all yelped and pinned them to the overheating sauce vats. Dana then gagged them with her ectoplasmic goo to prevent them from screaming.

James then slid from behind Dana as he tried to punch her from behind, until a hole suddenly formed on her chest just before his fist passed harmlessly through her, making him gasp in shock while he retracted his hand. "Nice try, Jameson." She said before the hole on her chest disappeared as Dana then twisted her head one-hundred and eighty degrees while she faced her former brother with a smirk. "But me, in my future...I'm inevitable."

Dana duplicated herself in three Dana's as one removed James's Peeler helmet, making him scream loudly until another gagged him with her energy, silencing him. They flew into the air and merged back into one before she wrapped an ecto-rope around James and swung him next to his family. Dark Dani Phantom then laughed evilly with her energized hands up in the air, now that everything was all set and soon all of her former friends and family shall perish, her past will remain in its original stone set, and she shall still exist forever...but unfortunately for her, a spark of hope and light emerged from the shadows just in the nick of time.

"HEY, OLD LADY!" Dani's voice shouted from the clouds as Dana looked up in confusion and saw the real Dani Phantom diving straight from the clouds with her utility belt and backpack on as she charged straight at her evil future self with a wide smirk. "Ready for a blast from your past?!" Before Dana could react, her past self slammed right into her and sent her flying across town as Dani hovered to her friends and family with looks of fear in their faces. "Don't worry, I won't turn into that. Ever! I promise." She then glanced at Lancer and smiled at her. "I'm guessing this sort of explains my periodic absences, huh?"

Dani suddenly got lassoed on the waist by one of Dana's ecto-ropes as she dragged her younger self close, but Dani glared before she double-kicked Dark Dani on the chest and she broke free from the rope as they both back-flipped in the air before they landed on the ground several feet away from each other. Dani pulled out her Boo-staff, spun it expertly and got in a fighting position, while Dana smirked and formed a staff out of her ecto-energy while she merely stood there with the staff at her side, waiting for her younger self to make her move.

"What are you gonna do? Waste me? What happens to you then?" Dani retorted rhetorically to her evil future self as she glared at her.

"You don't get it, do ya? I'm still here, I still exist! That means you will still turn into me." Dana said while Dani continued to glare.

Dana suddenly fired a ghost beam without warning, but Dani flew to the air to evade it as she shouted and charged with her staff. She swung her staff at her older self, but she merely held up her staff as they collided their weapons. They began doing some swordplay as Dani continued to swing her staff at Dana, even swing-kicking at her, but she either dodged or countered them with her energy staff. It was then her turn to attack when Dani tried to dodge most from her attacks, but Dark Dani was strong and quick since with each hit on her Boo-staff seemed to exhaust her as she grunted with each blow. Dani flew into the air as Dana followed by her tail until they collided their staffs and tried to overcome each other. There was no contest since Dana smirked and swiped Dani's Boo-staff out of her hands while it deactivated and landed on the ground several feet away.

Dana then grabbed her past self by her jumpsuit, and held up an energized fist as she energy-struck her in the face, sending her flying across the street. She crashed into a light post and collapsed to the ground while the Ghost Gauntlets poured out of her backpack.

Dani looked up wearily at Dana as she hovered above her. "I don't have to waste you, I just have to run out the clock until your entire life...falls apart." Dark Dani said before she lunged at her past self as she hissed and stuck her forked tongue out. Dani quickly phased through the concrete just before Dana sliced through the lamp post in half and she glanced around for her younger self.

Dani phased through the street behind Dana unnoticed with the Ghost Gauntlets in her hands. "Maybe if you'd remember more about your family, you'd maybe remember the Specter Deflector!" Dani said while she flew up to her future self as she pulled out the Specter Deflector belt and attached it to Dana's waist, making her scream in agony with her forked tongue sticking out as it shocked her. "Or the Ghost Gauntlets!" Dani then punched Dark Dani to the nearest oil truck as it demolished and spilled oil on the street.

Dana glanced at her flaming hair that was igniting with the oil when it suddenly exploded into blue flames while Dani shielded herself from the force and the brightness. She landed in front of the roaring blue flames and stared at it briefly before she began to walk away to help her friends and family (and teacher). However, Dana poked her head out of the blue flames with a provoked glare as she stepped completely with the flames burning across her jumpsuit, before she ripped the Specter Deflector belt off her waist with ease as it short-circuited.

Dana suddenly grabbed Dani by her arm, surprising her a little when she yelped as she got shoved onto the road. "Your time is up, Dani. It's been up for ten years." Dana said as she duplicated herself into four. Dark Dani then punched Dani straight in her cheek hard, kicked her under her jaw, and then all her duplicates fired their beams at Dani, shocking her. Dani then collapsed to the ground with a grunt, her face all bruised and her jumpsuit torn up, and Dana towered over her younger self and merged back into one. "What makes you think you can change my past?"

Dani weakly tried to get up as she tried to ignore the incredible pain in her body. "Because...I promised my family!" Dani replied as she wearily looked up at her evil future self and glared determinedly.

Dark Dani threw her head back as she laughed mockingly into the heavens like the girl was joking around. "Oh, you are such a princess! You promised?"

Dani sweated as she felt her anger rising inside her when the same screaming feeling returned. "Yes...I...PROMISEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!" Dani suddenly unleashed her ghostly wail, surprising Dana before it threw her backwards as she slid across the concrete road, making a crater, with her face all bruised.

Dana made a look of confusion, surprise, and somewhat fear at the same time when her younger self used that power she herself has recently acquired. "That power! Uh, it's not possible! I don't get that power until ten years from now!"

Dani landed in front of her as she held onto her stomach and glared at her former future self. "I guess...the future...isn't as set in stone as you think it is."

Dani took another deep breath before she used her ghostly wail again. For the first time in a long time, Dana showed actual fear at her younger self when the force flew her backwards from the sonic howling, and it even shattered the windows of the buildings. Dark Dani then crashed into a building before a truck got flown in as well when the entire multi-story structure collapsed on top of the evil alternative future ghost villainess. When Dani finished her sonic wail, she faded back into her human form and halted her power as she groaned and collapsed to her legs. Dani realized there was a serious side effect for using an ability that powerful, since it drained her of her ghost energy and she had to revert to human form to recharge.

Dana's hand raised from the rumble before it weakly clenched into a fist. "Huh?" Dani moaned when she wearily looked up and saw the fist.

Dark Dani then burst out of the rumble with an angry shout, but she looked seriously injured and severely weakened from the wail and the building collapsing on her. She was missing a few flaming hairs, her face was all bruised and scratched, and her jumpsuit was tattered and torn. "Well, that's it, isn't it?" She asked rhetorically as she glared.

Dani narrowed her eyes at her alternative future self. "Time's up!" And then she immediately fired her Fenton Thermos at Dana as it began sucking her in.

"I don't need to escape! And you're too late to save them!" And she got completely sucked into the thermos as Dani recapped it.

At first she smiled, but then it dropped when her eyes went wide in realization. "Oh no!"

She suddenly remembered that her friends and family (and teacher) were still tied to the overheating sauce vats as it reached in impossible, unimaginable lava-hot temperatures while it prepared to explode with the people bounded to it. Dani quickly ran to her loved ones and tried to change into her ghost form, but her rings faded away since she basically lost most of her ghost energy from using that ghostly wail.

"I can't go ghost! NOOOOOOOOOO!" Dani shouted as she tripped onto the ground before she glanced up at everyone.

James, Jackie, Matt, Lancer, Sam, and Tina gave Dani one last looks of fear before the entire restaurant exploded as she watched in horror and the force made her fly in midair, but then time stopped with Dani cringing with her eyes shut in the air. Chrona, the time ghost, appeared next to her and placed a time medallion around her neck, unfreezing her when she gasped and yelped as she tried to balance herself until she found herself floating.

"Chrona?" She asked the Mistress of Time. She pointed behind her before she turned and smiled brightly with relief when she saw her friends and family (and teacher) floating in the air in a green glow and were put on some suspended animation as they slept peacefully. "You saved them?" She gave the time mistress a look of confusion. "I-I don't understand."

Chrona shifted into an adult while her smile never dropped. "The Observants look at time like they're watching a parade, my dear." They hovered over the Nasty Burger, completely safe from the explosion as the time ghost shifted into an old woman. "I see the parade from above, all that twists and turns that might...or might not take." Chrona then winked at Dani.

Dani smiled when she remembered she was the Mistress of Time. "You knew all of this was going to happen...all of it, even this part." She gestured to her loved ones (and teacher).

"Everything's the way it's supposed to be and here we are with you, a fourteen-year-old child, risking everything to save the people you care about." Dani smiled at her when she said those heartfelt words. "TIME IN!" Chrona pressed on her staff as she and Dani teleported back in time, two hours earlier before the battle of Dark Dani, during the CAT. She glanced around and saw that everyone frozen in time before Chrona picked up the CAT answer booklet as she shifted into a child. "You've given everyone else in you life a second chance, why not you?"

Dani took the answer booklet before the Mistress of Time swung her staff and she teleported away while she unfroze time and everyone went by on their normal business. Sam and Tina glanced up from their tests and to Dani, who only smiled at them.

"Ms. Fenton, is there a problem?" Lancer asked solemnly.

Dani made a guilty look as she turned to her least favorite teacher. "Actually, Ms. Lancer...there is." She said as she walked up to her desk. Outside the classroom, James peeked through the door with the Fenton Peeler in his hand to reveal Dana's true identity, but then he gasped when he saw the real Dani standing in front of Lancer as she placed the booklet on her desk. "I...found this the other day, outside the Nasty Burger."

Lancer examined it and noticed something that made her look suspicious. "Hmm...the seal is broken."

Dani looked down in shame. "I know, and I'm so sorry, but I couldn't stop myself from looking at the answers." She then frowned with determination. "But I'm not a cheater and I never will be!" James smiled gratefully in relief, happy that his sister has learned her lesson.

Even though Lancer was angry at Dani for stealing the answers from under her nose, she was clearly very happy that she told her the truth and was willing to give her a second chance when she smiled warmly at her. "Well, you'll have a chance to prove that when you take the make-up test next week, now won't you?"

Dani perked up as she smiled hopefully. "Really?"

"You'll have plenty of time to study for your make-up test in detention, but for now…" Lancer pointed her thumb at the door, telling her that she was allowed to have a day off from the test, and James yelped before he ran out of sight before his sister noticed him.

Outside Casper High, Dani sat in the steps in victory, enjoying the nice, chilly weather and feeling good about herself that she has not only stopped herself from cheating, but she's spared her loved ones' (and teacher's) lives. And Dani knew for sure that a bright future was now underway for herself and everyone she knew, now that Dark Dani was finally defeated and was no longer Dani's future anymore, just an alternative version of her original dark future. She, like Chrona said, has given everyone a second chance and Lancer has willingly gave her a second chance to study for the make-up test so she could learn from her mistakes.

James approached behind his sister. "So...how long have you known?" Dani asked as she glanced up at her older brother with a smile.

"About the test? For days, but I'm really proud of you for not cheating." James said with a proud and warm smile, happy that that his sister was still a very good person he always knew she was.

"Not that: my headband, your note with your handwriting." Dani pulled out the same note she received from the Ghost Zone in the future: the one James sent her. She immediately recognized her own brother's handwriting, and she would never forget about her own blue headbands she wore almost everyday.

"What? That?" James chuckled nervously as he blushed a little and shrugged his shoulders. "Oh, I didn't write that, and...there must be dozens of headbands besides yours."

Dani cocked a skeptic eyebrow. "James."

He sat next to his sister before he looked down at the note and headband that indirectly told Dani that he knew who she really was. "Since the Spector thing, when you saved my life a few months ago...I didn't want to tell you 'til you wanted to tell me. It's your secret."

Dani sighed as she smiled warmly. "Well...it's our secret now."

Dani and James then hugged each other, finally tightening their strained bond they have drifted a long time ago. They released each other as James smiled at his sister again. "Don't think this means I'll stop being meddling and overprotective."

Dani chuckled a little. "Wouldn't have it any other way." Her ghost sense suddenly went off as she gasped and saw a giant blob ghost chasing a police car while it roared and the Fenton siblings watched when they passed by them on the street.

James smiled warmly at his sister. "Go." He placed his hand on hers, making her smile again before she made a brave face and ran off the steps and down the street.

"Going ghost!" Dani changed into her ghost form before she flew into the air as she hovered in front of the blob ghost. "Hey, giant green and gruesome! Guess who's back and better than ever!"

The ghost made a look of fear as Dani smirked and punched it into goo, but it only ended up splattering all over James, who was smiling proudly, but then his smile dropped when he got covered head-to-toe with ectoplasm. "BLEUGH! This is gonna take some getting used to."


Meanwhile, back in the Ghost Zone at Chrona's Tower, she watched the whole thing through her time portal as she held the thermos Dani gave her, that was currently entrapping Dana Phantom inside. The Observants were also present, but although Chrona accomplished her mission, they were displeased by how it was sorted out from her meddling.

"You manipulated the girl, you influenced her choice!" The first Observant said with disappointment in his voice.

"That's a direct violation of the protocol of temporal displacement! In other words…" The second Observant said.

"YOU CHEATED!" They both finished sternly in unison.

"True, I cheated, but I assure you her choice was her own." Chrona promised calmly as she shifted into an adult and smiled reassuringly at her employers.

"You realized the girl is your responsibility now." The first Observant pointed out.

"As is her evil self, now that she exists outside of time." The second Observant added, looking at the thermos that was currently holding Dark Dani inside on Chrona's hand.

"I know, but then I know everything." Chrona said before she flew into another room of her tower and placed the thermos on a table for safe keeping.

However, the inside of the thermos began forming dents like punches as it toppled a little, and then Dana Phantom's face implanted itself onto the thermos as she laughed evilly from inside the device. Will this be the last time Dani Phantom will encounter her evil alternative future self, or shall they meet again in another time for another epic battle for their lives?