This is the last chapter and it contains the repercussions of all the other chapters.

I hope you enjoyed this short little trip and in turn, this short little story. Even though I wish I could've figured out more ideas for the trip in Danny's mind, I still like this little tale.

Tell me what you thought of the story overall, and as always enjoy. :)

*EDIT: THE SEQUEL IS UP!*

As a side note: If any of you enjoyed my writing style and wanted a bit of a longer story, check out Pondus Omnium: The Weight of All Things. It's my longer DP story and is a replacement for Phantom Planet. The story kinda ends the series in a smoother more natural way than the movie. At present, it's 16 chapters in and over 100, 000 + words.

So if you want more! There you have it :) On with the final chapter!

The first thing everyone saw, was a wooden desk and a puddle of drool beneath each of their faces. After a moment, they rose their heads from the desks and then silently locked eyes as if to ask if everything they'd seen and witnessed had been true and shared by others.

The moment of quiet was broken by a soft snore.

Everyone looked over to see Danny, still sleeping on his desk. Sam got up and walked over to him. She carefully took off the helmet and then rubbed Danny's back a bit before shaking him slightly. "Danny… Danny wake up. It's important."

Danny's blue eyes fluttered open and he sat bolt upright. "Sorry Mr. Lancer!" He yelped out of reflex. The silence prompted him to look around the room at the many faces that were looking at him. "Uh… what's wrong? You guys all look like someone died."

Sam facepalmed.

"Dude, they know."

Danny froze at Tucker's simple sentence. His blue eyes grew larger and he looked around in fear and confusion before his eyes met Valerie's. He got up and backed away, putting up his hands.

"I swear I'm the same person! Phantom isn't taking over Fenton! We aren't two different beings. It was an accident, Val I swear!"

Sam walked over to him after he got confused at the shame in Valerie's eyes. "They know… everything."

Danny tensed and looked at Sam. "Everything?"

"Almost every single thing of importance. We went into your mind. Your parents had given consent, unknown to you."

Danny blinked and then gulped. "What about… Him."

"Yeah."

Danny's face grew determined with a hint of self-loathing. "I won't become him. No matter what happens. I made a promise that I will keep."

"You shouldn't makes promises you can't possibly keep, Daniel."

Everyone paused at the familiar voice as a breath of blue mist left Danny's mouth.

Someone let out a scream, Sam tried to grab at Danny's arm, Tucker fumbled for some sort of weapon in his backpack all at the same time, when Vlad suddenly appeared behind Danny. The mayor pulled out a forked item and jammed it into Danny's side causing the teen to let out a scream of agony as his body convulsed. Vlad then snatched the struggling human boy and shot up through the roof using intangibility.

"Fenton! We've-We've got to do something!" Dash yelped.

"Danny needs our help!" Paulina wailed.

"Everyone calm down. We need to keep a cool head to deal with Vlad," Sam snapped and ran and hand through her hair. She'd been so close to snatching Danny to the side and saving him from the sneak attack at the least, but just a second too late.

"Where would Masters take him," Valerie demanded, ready to activate her suit.

"Better question is how Vlad knew to come here and why he was bold enough to snatch Danny in front of us, randomly," Sam replied.

"I think I know why," Tucker whispered and everyone turned to see the pale and fearful Techno-geek.

"What do you mean, Mr. Foley?" Lancer spoke in fear.

Tucker used his PDA to project a news report. The news report showed the class… walking through a grey expanse. "Because somehow… Everyone saw what was in Danny's head along with us. It's all over the national news."

Everyone turned deathly pale at that and Sam had to grab a table to steady herself. "The Guys in White… Tuck, they're going to start hunting Danny down. They'll turn him into a lab rat, Tucker!"

"I know! I know! Don't you think I know that!?" Tucker shouted back.

"This cord… it doesn't belong with the rest of the tech that came with the Mind Explorer," Mikey suddenly spoke up.

Tucker looked over and then growled. "Who do we know that could find the right tech to do something like that? I bet that's how everything was seen by everyone else."

"Technus," Sam hissed. "That explains Vlad too. He panicked since his secret was revealed as well. Technus wanted to cause chaos."

Suddenly a News Report came to Tucker's attention and he displayed it too.

"Hello Amity Park. Just recently we were given a literal tour of the Ghost boy's mind and all the secrets of our fair city were laid out for the public to see. Our elected mayor, Vlad Masters… or Vlad Plasmius, has barricaded himself inside City Hall. We believe he was spotted with a hostage and the Police are trying to work with the Fentons to set up a communication line on the inside, so negations can hopefully be discussed."

"We've got to go," Tucker whispered.

"You've got to take us with you!" Dash shouted.

"You don't know what you're doing," Sam hissed back.

"Everyone is already at City Hall regardless. I'll escort the other students, you two-"

"Three," Valerie growled and turned into her Red Huntress suit with a click of her heels.

"-Three, get a head start." Lancer finished and nodded.

Sam and Tucker jumped onto the back of Valerie's board and shot off, while the rest of the class followed right behind Lancer to hurriedly get to City Hall. It seemed that everyone had been so distracted by everything, that no one had actually come to check on the only remaining class in the empty school.

Lancer shook his head. He didn't know how any of them could help Daniel more or as much as his friends had already been doing, but hopefully… Things would be alright.

zzz

Sam, Tucker, and Valerie got to City Hall in record time and pushed through the crowd to get to the front. There is where they found Maddie and Jack Fenton talking intently with Jazz, who was trying her best to answer their questions. She happened to spot them though.

"Sam! Tucker! Valerie!" Jazz exclaimed and caused Maddie and Jack to look over at them. "Do you know where Danny is?"

Sam and Tucker looked at each other nervously and Jazz frowned.

"I know he's got to be scared out of his mind, but mom and dad are really wanting to talk to him."

"Jazz, you remember that Vlad is probably holding a hostage, right?" Sam asked slowly and with great sadness.

The gears started to turn in both Jazz's and Maddie's heads. Jazz whispered something to herself and put and hand over her mouth.

"Vlad has Danny?" Maddie asked quietly.

Tucker frowned. "He snuck up on us once we woke up in the school. He used the Plasmius Maximus and stole him away."

Maddie clenched her fists in pure fury. "Curse that man. Curse him and all his trickery."

"Attention, people of Amity Park."

Everyone froze and turned around, immediately silencing when Vlad appeared on stage.

Valerie immediately whipped out her gun and aimed at Vlad. She was halted by his voice.

"Now now, my little ex-pawn. I wouldn't do that if I was you. You wouldn't want anything tragic to happen, would you?" Vlad grinned calmly as another Vlad, a duplicate, appeared. The duplicate was holding Danny. Danny's arms were tied behind his back with green glowing rope and his ankles were tied closely together just enough to allow him to shuffle about; the duplicate had a tight hold on one of Danny's arms and was pushing it upwards behind his back painfully while the other hand was clasped tightly around his mouth.

Some people started whispering worriedly and Valerie growled but slowly pulled down her weapon. Danny was struggling against his captor, grunting, and yelling things from behind the hand-gag.

"Now I'm not going to pretend as like this is a casual talk, so I'm going to cut right to the chase here. You surrender Amity Park over to me and I won't kill this little annoyance. Your little hero."

Right after the words left Vlad's mouth, electricity erupted around the duplicate and Danny's form. Danny screamed in pain from behind his gag while the duplicate just laughed. The attack stopped and Danny's knees wavered in weakness. The duplicate let go of Danny's mouth and grabbed his hair to force his head back and prevent him from sliding down to the floor.

"Don't! Vlad never makes deals! You can't listen to him! Don't worry about me!" Danny shouted.

Vlad glared over at Danny. "Be quiet, little badger."

Danny whipped his head to the side as much as he could and narrowed his gaze as Vlad. "This is the only way you could ever win. Handicapping your opponents."

Vlad snarled at that and stalked over to Danny and the duplicate. "You will regret that." He powerfully backhanded Danny afterwards, causing the boy to topple over onto the ground. The duplicate disappeared as Vlad faced the crowd. "I'll give you some time to think about your decision. After all, you could very well listen to Daniel's advice and abandon him. Whichever you choose though, I win."

Vlad snatched Danny by the front of his t-shirt. "Now lets go have a talk, Daniel."

He turned himself and Danny into green smoke before disappearing and leaving an anxious crowd behind.

zzz

Vlad glared at Danny, who was kneeling and panting on the ground within the inner room of City Hall.

"You ruined me. All because you had to play your hero act and get your parents and teacher suspicious. Everything I've ever worked for is ruined, all my intricate plans and moves, for nothing. If you thought your life was hell before, just you wait boy."

Without another word, Vlad kicked the boy in the ribs and started to beat him.

"You will learn obedience! You will learn to respect me! You will never again defy me! They'll either let me destroy you and I can make a new clone or they'll kneel to save you and then you'll be mine! Mine! Mine!"

Vlad continued to beat on Danny who was oddly quiet, though his eyes were wide and dilated with fear. He was certain Vlad had lost it. His body ached, the punches and kicks felt like white fire where they connected.

Danny tried his hardest, but he couldn't control the whimper that came out of his mouth once Vlad was done.

"Are you starting to see how hopeless your situation is now?"

Danny growled. "You won't win. If I don't stop you, someone else will."

"Ha! As if anyone could pose a threat to me. Your hardly are one with your powers, worthless boy."

Danny was silent.

Vlad stepped away looking at his work and then glanced up at the clock in the room.

"Well… time's up."

zzz

Everyone was deathly quiet. The silence remained after Vlad had appeared. Some people gasped quietly when they saw Danny's battered form on his knees in front of Vlad with the older Halfa's boot pressed into his back. Danny's left cheek was bruised and a bit of blood dripped out of the side of his mouth and nose.

"So Amity Park, what is your decision? Life or death for young Daniel? Oh! and do I get Amity Park as my own?" Vlad grumbled. "And hurry. I have to build my defenses for when the feds finally come and try to stop me."

The people in the crowd looked at each other, including the students of Casper, Sam, Tucker, Valerie, Maddie, Jazz, and Jack, and all of them collectively fell to one knee.

A large happy smile split Vlad's face. Danny looked up at everyone in shock and slight horror, then let his head fall while he grit his teeth. They hadn't listened to him… they'd… stood up for him. Even though he was touched by their actions, he felt a deep burning in his core. He was supposed to be the one who protected people.

"Wonderful, I get to use my new toy!" Vlad exclaimed and whipped out a metal collar. "If you are to live, then I have to have some semblance of control over you, Daniel." Before Danny could try to even move away, Vlad snapped the collar around his neck. It charged with ecto-energy and glowed green within its mechanisms.

Vlad snapped his fingers and the bonds around Danny's arms and legs disappeared. Vlad then pressed a button on a control he'd pulled from his pocket. Danny's scream shattered the silence that had been there. Some people yelled out in worry or anger because Vlad was still hurting to young man they were trying to protect. Some watched in fascination when the two rings of light were forced up and down Danny's body, turning him into his ghostly alter ego.

Danny fell to his knees again and panted.

"My first command for you, son… is to kill that oaf you called father."

No one moved and not even Vlad spoke for a moment before, "No."

Vlad growled. "What was that?"

Danny's gloved hands clenched in fury. "I said, 'No.'"

Vlad paused and Jack clenched his eyes tight almost wishing his son had indeed killed him. "Danny-boy just do it, please!"

Danny froze and looked up into his father's eyes. A few seconds past before he shook his head. "I... I can't... I won't kill... I won't be like him."

"You should listen to your idiot father, boy." Vlad hissed.

Danny glared difiantly up at Vlad. "No I won't be like that! I refuse! Life is too precious to extinguish! You got another chance to live, Vlad! Think about this! We should've both died when the portals struck us! We got a chance at life again!"

Vlad roared. "Another chance at life!? More like a living hell! You think I'm happy? Even if you say it's because of my choices... Think about yourself too! You protected these people, sacrificed everything and they still loathed you up until now! Was that living? Was that, fun!?"

Danny grit his teeth and looked away. "It's not that simple... It's not just the reward to live... it's... the potential... not the outcome. That's what Clockwork told me... that was what he said to me when I asked why he'd tried to save me instead of turn me over to the Observants to execute. He believed in me... That I wasn't doomed to become a monster. It was the potential Vlad..." He snapped his eyes back up to looked at his arch-nemesis. "Sure maybe everyone could've hated us! But maybe they would've liked us both! You could've helped people with your power and maybe you could've found happiness, but you'll never know because you didn't try."

Vlad growled deeply and looked at the ground. "Kill him, Daniel. Kill, Jack Fenton."

"No."

"That's your final choice? I guess we will have to have another talk."

"You're jealous... and you're afraid of me too… That's why you're trying to break me."

Vlad flinched at Danny's perceptiveness. He rose his hand as though to press a different button. "You will not speak out of turn, boy."

-ZAP-

"Butter Biscuits, Snicker-doodles, Nutter Butters!" Vlad screamed out and snatched his smoking hand. Valerie glared at him as she fingered the trigger on her ecto-gun again. Maddie, Jack, Jazz, Sam, and Tucker all pulled out some kind of weapon.

Before they could move forward, Danny launched himself at Vlad. The two started to brawl on the stage and fire attacks at each other. The others ran up to try and help, before Danny halted and started writhing on the floor in pain.

"You will submit to me!" Vlad snarled as his newest duplicate appeared next to him with the control in his hand, button pressed down.

Danny slowly started pulling himself up as electricity jumped across his frame. His arms and legs twitched as he marched slowly towards Vlad. Vlad started to grow nervous as Danny lifted his hands slowly and painfully before firing off a blast of electricity at Vlad.

The billionaire let out a pained shriek from the attack as he was assaulted with the same energy he'd hurt Danny with. The duplicate poofed into nothingness and the controller exploded, as Vlad was thrown back.

A click echoed through the air and the collar slipped off Danny's neck. He first looked at his hands in confusion, wondering how he'd used such an attack. Soon though he remembered he had more important things to worry about. He looked up at Vlad's person angrily as the billionaire tried to prop himself back up.

"Cover you're ears!" Danny shouted and everyone immediately slapped their hands over their ears just before Danny let loose with a ghostly wail. Vlad cried out and flew back into the side of a nearby building. He was crushed against the wall by the sound waves as the black rings formed around him and turned him back into Vlad Masters. Danny continued for a bit after Vlad had already turned back into his human form. Finally Danny fell to his knees as he transformed back into Fenton. He panted as Vlad fell to the ground limply. Maddie ran over to Vlad and quickly cuffed him with ecto-neutralizing cuffs and slipped a Specter Deflector around his waist.

She ran back to Danny to see Jack helping to keep him propped up. Sam, Tucker, Jazz, and Valerie were gathered around him and the crowd was starting to circle, though they were keeping a respectful distance. Maddie fell to her knees in front of her son and cupped his bruised face.

"Danny."

His eyes cracked open and they were bright blue and filled with pride. Green flares of energy flickered like lightning in his blue irises. "Yeah mom?"

"I'm so proud of you."

Danny laughed a bit hoarsely. "You have no idea how long I've wanted to hear that… for this reason… for real…" Danny mumbled and finished somewhat incoherently. With that, Danny's eyes slid closed just as Jack pulled the rest of Danny's form into his arms, bridal style.

Cheers erupted from the crowd as the family passed by. Sam and Tucker told them that he'd most likely answer more questions or any questions they had in time, after he had healed and rested.

They were almost through the crowd, when two new voices filled the air and filled many there with dread.

"Daniel James Fenton, by the authority of the anti-ecto act, article five section nine, you are hear-by under arrest!"

"Is he conscious? Hey, ghost scum!"

The two Guys in White floated in the air above the crowd with their jetpacks.

"Over my dead body!" Valerie yelled out and people started to boo the agents.

"Enough!" The first agent shouted.

Someone threw a rock into the air and it damaged one of the agent's jetpacks. The other was taken down soon after and the crowd was chasing after the two, now flightless, men. The Police quietly took the still unconscious Vlad away as the Fentons turned to rush home, with Sam and Tucker trailing after them.

zzz

He could feel something resting on his legs. Why did his body hurt so much? Every single cell felt tingly… Oh yeah.

He cracked opened his eyes slowly to see the familiar view of his room. He peered down blearily at whatever was on his legs and saw a wave of ebony hair.

"Sam?" Danny asked, noticing how hoarse his voice was. Should've known from using his wail for such a long period of time, continuously.

Sam leaned up and whipped her head around to look at Danny before a smile came to her face.

"Hey, how are you feeling?"

"Like crap."

"I bet… You had bruises all over… What did Vlad do?"

Danny looked away from her. If he was going to answer, then he knew he couldn't look into her eyes at the same time.

"Beat me up a bit."

"Son of a bitch." Sam whispered under her breath before looking back up at Danny. "They locked him up tight, by the way. You should've seen the way your mother attacked him before he was lead off."

"Heh."

Sam eventually reached a hand forward and turned Danny's head back to face her. "Bad news is you've been asleep for like two and a half days. Good news is that the president is already talking very seriously with the Guys in White and Congress to make sure you're protected from the anti-ecto acts. They're even willing to make it to were no ghost can be tested on but they needed you to explain to them what you know. Me, Tucker, Jazz, and your parents have already told them what we know."

Danny couldn't hold back a smile that came to his face. "That's… that's great… no, wonderful!"

A comfortable silence came between the two before Sam suddenly looked nervous. Danny spoke immediately.

"Sam what's wrong?"

Sam blushed instantly and sighed. "While we were in your head… we met your… Romance."

"My… Romance?"

"He asked me to talk to you after we got out, but then the thing with Vlad happened…"

Danny suddenly flushed a scarlet red across his cheeks and to the tips of his ears. "So wait… what does that mean exactly?"

Sam facepalmed. "He hears the personification of his Romantic emotions asked to talk to me and he still is clueless."

Danny blinked and then frowned. "Sam…?"

Sam removed her hand and looked at him. "Yeah?"

Danny looked up and smiled nervously. "I want you to tell me if I'm right about this." Before Sam could reply, Danny leaned forward and placed a soft kiss on her lips. After being stunned for a moment, Sam reached up with one hand to rest it on Danny's cheek. Eventually, they broke apart.

"Wow, remind me to let people see how my mind personifies my emotions more often."

"I'm impressed."

"With my kissing skills?"

"No, that you caught onto what personify means."

Danny smiled and then laughed lightly before a breath of blue fled his mouth.

"They're waiting for their hero to return."

Danny looked back at Sam to see her smiling. Danny grinned and tossed the covers from him as he leapt up from the bed. He ran over towards his room's window and transformed as he phased through the glass.

A cheer rose from outside, where Sam knew all his more dedicated fans and concerned citizens alike had gathered outside the residence periodically to wait for news of his health. She thought she could hear him say something to the people before flying off.

The rest of the Fentons and Tucker ran into the room after that, asking about Danny. They only smiled when they saw Sam smiling blissfully out the window.

Things would be different now, but maybe it was for the better. With even more support than he'd had before, maybe it would be much easier for him to squash any negative emotions or thoughts. He wouldn't feel so alone and in general everyone had learned a little bit about how dangerous and powerful one's words and actions to one another can be.

What would the next day bring? They'd just have to wait and see.

The End.

Okay in case you didn't read the AN: It mentioned a sequel and my other DP story that's much longer. Go back up to the top to check out what the AN says if you're interested and wanting to read more. :)

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