Chapter 13

Vlad fled from the presence of the ghost once it laid eyes on him. If these other ghosts feared this specter, then that was reason enough for him. Try as Vlad might, the specter that he and the other ghosts were fleeing from caught up and captured him with ghostly cords.

"Greetings there V-man, there's no need to struggle." His captor greeted in a sarcastic tone. "You must have thought that I forgot about you. Don't worry I haven't abandoned you…yet. Can you tell me where and how to find the Fentons? They weren't home."

Vlad felt a chill of fear run down his back. Why was this ghost after the Fentons and why did he bear Danny Phantom's symbol? Truly this ghost had the most evil of intentions imaginable if he wanted to take out the Fentons so that he could attack the city or something else malicious.

"Don't worry Vlad, I'm your future." The captor said in a less menacing tone in order to coax out information from Vlad.

"Then why do you bear his symbol?" Vlad inquired uncertain of this particular Phantom's plans.

"Oh that's because I defeated him and is now his future too. Folks usually just call me Phantom in the future." Replied the evil ghost in a wicked tone.

Vlad shivered in fear unsure of what to say and how to respond to such requests or even demands.

"Answer me Cheesehead!" the Dark Phantom snarled and gave the mayor a slight pseudo shock.

"I don't know! Nor does anyone else that I know of is aware of where they went! I'm as confused and uncertain as you are." Vlad answered in anger and fright. "They did leave me a message but they didn't tell me where they were going or how long they were going to be gone for. I didn't take it seriously because I thought it was silly nonsense or some sort of joke." Vlad added.

"Do you have any idea where Danielle is?" Dark Danny pressed on trying to at least get some useful information out of Vlad. He was hoping that he could destroy, corrupt, or imprison the younger Danielle somehow and thus not have to worry about the adult Dani Phantom anymore.

"I don't know where she is either. Danny and Valerie rescued her from my clutches trashed my lab in the process and left my mansion." Vlad admitted.

"And you allowed that?" The Dark Phantom hissed in annoyance supposing Vlad to be inept.

"I couldn't expose my dual identity to Valerie. She hates ghosts, has advanced anti ghost hunting and tracking equipment. I hired her to do some of my bidding including tracking Daniel and capturing Danielle. She probably wouldn't be above attacking her boss for being part ghost." Vlad explained to his captor the best he could. He still didn't know what else to say or what this evil and powerful specter wanted.

Vlad watched his captor's face turn sour with frustration. He was depending greatly on Vlad to give him much needed information about his former family and friends but it turned out Vlad was denying knowledge about their whereabouts. That left the wicked ghost with another option: torture. If Vlad cracked then he knew that this hybrid was hiding something. If not then Vlad took a torture for nothing. From what Dark Dan could tell was that Vlad wasn't on friendly terms with the other hybrid or the hybrid's dad.

Meanwhile back in Amity Park, Danny, Danielle, and Valerie met in a secret quiet place away from the press in order to discuss a possible plan on how to defeat the enemy, however due to Valerie's constant disruptive questions about why should she trust them and where the female 'Danny' came from they ended up cancelling the plan because Valerie wasn't willing to listen or trust them. They would have to tell Valerie about the enemy and communicate with her anyway but she's was too suspicious to be cooperative. Even more the stress seemed to be making Danielle sick. They couldn't reveal secrets about Danny's past to her at this time. This wasn't looking good. They could really use Valerie's aid but the Phantoms had reason to believe that she would turn on them. Still they had to make Valerie feel like she was doing a service to the community. It would be better that she fight the other Phantom than them.

Both Dani and Danny left for another private place to plan and contact their family. Danny was very troubled of the sudden revelation he gave his parents about his ghost half. He didn't really blame Danielle his clone at all. She herself was in a pinch and coming to him was probably the best thing to do. His evil twisted self was too much for her to handle alone. He then proceeded to call his mom.

"Danny are you all right? We just saw the news report." His mother asked in a worried tone. He could hear shuffling of footsteps from others trying to get closer in order to listen.

"I all right and so is Danielle. Although I think she's becoming sick from the stress. I just want to let you know. Have you made any progress on any weapons to make him less powerful or remove the time medallion?" Danny asked.

"Umm...Danny isn't that something you should ask Clockwork? How the heck do you suppose your mom and dad will know how that works?" Sam answered in an unsure tone. He knew at once he was put on speaker phone but he really didn't care.

"I think that my mom and dad should know something about separating

"Danny, is Danielle running a fever or anything?" Maddie asked.

"No, I just feel nauseated." Danielle answered. "I've been feeling this way for a while."

Danny's heart sunk, this was a bad time to get or feel sick. The thought of fighting his evil alternate self alone once again made Danny sick to his stomach. No doubt that Evil Danny would be super ticked off about losing to his former weakling self even though it happened quite a while ago. Danielle herself wouldn't have recruited him if she was positive that she could deal with such an enemy.

Eventually Dark Danny Phantom figured that Vlad was telling the truth and honestly didn't know where the Fentons were hiding. He decided to return to Earth his former home that he took great pride in trashing it along with causing chaos and anarchy during his timeline. He would deal with Vlad later. There he arrived just outside of Amity Park and looked out toward the horizon. He had to figure out where Vlad's new/current home was so that he could relocate or destroy his weapons/technology or possibly use them against the other Phantoms. However he would have to impersonate the mayor but he was positive that Vlad kept his ghost powers a secret from all those closest to him. Only during that fateful reunion he arrogantly revealed his half ghost status to Danny assuming that this inexperienced newbie wouldn't be capable of stopping him. However Danny was somehow able to escape the trap set for him and defeat Vlad using the Fenton RV. Dark Dan wasn't going to be stupid, arrogant, or over confident this time especially the clone being around. He couldn't afford to underestimate them this time. However he couldn't help but giggle at the fact that he had some control over the Guys in White and that they didn't suspect anything.

He may not know where Vlad's weapons were as of this time but he could still get the Guys in White to do his bidding and even find and capture both the original and the clone for him. That way he could buy time and trick just about everyone else. He then proceeded to the mayor's office and made a duplicate to impersonate Vlad Masters to fool the public and order ghost hunters to get capture the Phantoms.

Meanwhile Danny and Danielle snuck into their empty residence to find someplace comfortable for Danielle to rest and find some medications for her condition. Everything seemed to be normal (for a human) other than the nausea and some dizziness she was feeling. They kept very quiet to avoid any attention. The news media had several reporters going there see if anyone was home or why they left, and why was it so dangerous.

A short nap seemed to help Danielle and Danny began to wonder what was afflicting her. She had mentioned that she was feeling this way on and off for over a week now. Eventually she woke up.

"Danielle, are you feeling better?" He inquired.

"Moderately." She replied. "Sometimes I need to give myself a chance to recovery, but this has got to be the worst time for get sick like this."

"I hope this isn't too invasive or personal of a question, but is it possible that you might be expecting?" He asked with a bit of a blush hoping not to offend her.

"Unless men can get pregnant too, no. My husband has been feeling the same way. I think we picked up a pathogen from somewhere, something, or someone. He even went to a doctor recently and the doctor hasn't found anything causing it. I think the stress is making it worse or that my stress is somehow contagious." Dani answered with and explanation.

They figured that their best option as of this time was to rest, plan, and snack for their human selves. Danny then turned on the news to see if anything had changed. The mayor was being featured about his theory of the Fentons whereabouts. However he seemed to be blasting verbally Maddie as much as Jack for being morons despite their knowledge on ghosts and anti ghost technology. This seemed to be weird to Danny because usually he would ridicule his father but not his mom.

Then Dani's eyes got real big and her jaw dropped.

"Danny, I don't think that's really Vlad. I think that's Dark Danny Phantom. He's impersonating Vlad." She stated in realization and fear.