Author notes:

1)English is my second language. Forgive me for any mistake.

2)I don't own Danny Phantom. I only own the plot for this story and the eventual OCs

3)Thank you Truephan for being my beta for this story

It was a sunny day in Amity Park. Danny woke up a bit earlier than usual and was alone with his mother at the kitchen. The boy was swallowing his breakfast, barely chewing it. He ended up choking with a piece of egg and quickly drank a glass of orange juice to clear his throat.

His mother, who was wearing her hazmat suit but without the headgear frowned in concern and asked: "What's the hurry, Danny?"

The teen gave a deep breath and answered: "I have a geography exam today. Thanks to you and dad doing some ghost hunting for me last week I could study for it, but I agreed with Tucker and Sam to cram before the test.

Since his parents discovered Danny's secret identity, he and his parents have been hunting hosts together, which made the job much easier for the halfa. This also allowed him to have more time to study and enjoy life a little bit more.

Sure, the teen tried his best to not let his parents deal with powerful ghosts, like Skulker or Technus, but he was really surprised seeing his mom and his dad…well, his mom handling the ghosts so well. But he still worried.

Sam, Tucker and Jazz often tagged along, but then, it was Jack and Maddie's turn to not be fond of having them around since they thought it was too dangerous for them. But they managed to prove themselves when during a fight against Technus.

"You're welcome sweetie. But I do think you should let your father and me do most of the ghost hunting from now on. It's too dangerous."

Danny immediately thought 'You don't know the half of it…' but then he said: "There's no problem, mom. I've been doing this for over a year now. I'm used to it."

She then replied: "Still, don't hesitate to call us in case you spot a ghost."

Maddie knew her son was strong. But after she knew that she used to hunt him down and the kind of fights Danny had and still has with ghosts, her worry raised tenfold. But she was relieved beyond words that, despite of all the things that happened to his son, he was still a good and caring person.

Then they heard the doorbell ring. "It must be Tucker and Sam. Bye, mom." Danny said grabbing his backpack on the foot of his chair and storming to the door.

His guess was correct when he opened the door. Sam then told him "Ready to go?"

"Yes!" Danny replied.

But before they could leave, they heard Maddie saying as she approached them: "Danny, you almost forgot the thermos! How many times do I have to tell you not to leave without it? What if a ghost attacked?"

Then she handed the thermos to her son. "Thanks, mom" Danny replied as he placed the ghost catcher device inside of his backpack.

"Have a nice day of School." Maddie told them before going back inside of the house.

As they walked to the Casper High, Tucker couldn't help but to chuckle: "Some mothers worry that their children will leave home without a coat, yours worry that you leave home without a device to capture dangerous beings."

Danny rolled his eyes and said: "I think we should hurry. I have a few things I want to ask you guys about today's exam I didn't get."

Sam then assured her half ghost friend: "Tell me about it. Sometimes I wonder why the teachers want us to memorize hundreds of different types of rocks and the places where they can be found. Not everyone intends to write for bland detective TV shows where they always find stuff in the mud that directly points to a suspect, but they are wrong the first time."

Danny and Tucker laughed at her comment. They chit-chatted to relieve the stress a bit, but when they got to their school, they started reviewing the subject of their test.

Time passed and the three teenagers, along with several classmates took the exam. Even if you told him that he would have to eat nothing but toast for all of his meals until the day he died couldn't dim the smile on Danny's face right now. His pencil wouldn't stop moving during the exam since he knew all the answers for it.

Sam and Tucker also went well on it and the three compared the answer to check their answers. Danny was so glad that school became so much easier for him to handle, but it had its bad moments. Like one math teacher, Mr. Smith, who accused Danny of cheating after his grades got up, but Danny proved Mr. Smith he knew the subject. But the teacher ignored the evidence shown in front of him and threatened to do everything in his power to throw Danny out of the school for cheating.

Danny almost lost his cool with the teacher. Danny would never break his vow of never cheating after the incident with Dan Phantom. But before Danny could even do anything, Mr. Lancer had appeared and backed him up. Mr. Lancer knew Danny was a good student and was glad the teen finally managed to get his grades up again and wouldn't let a grudge filled teacher to try ruin anyone's future.

That made Danny respect even more Lancer. The downside was that Mr. Smith still taught Math, but he could survive him until the end of the year. Then he wouldn't have to see his face again.

During the history class, a female teacher called Miss Milton was teaching the students about a famous saying of Franklin D. Roosevelt: "There's nothing to fear, but fear itself."

She even read to them his entire speech. And told them about his strategies and approaches on the economic crisis the United States faced back then.

Danny even wondered why history always repeated itself. Wasn't this the entire purpose of the subject? To study the past to not make the same mistakes?

He thought of questioning this, but knowing his 'passionate' teacher, she would say his question would be very interesting and tell the entire class to make a giant paper work on the matter. She did that every time someone asked her something. That's why nobody asked her anything anymore.

After school, the three teenagers went to the Nasty Burger to celebrate a good exam. Sadly Jazz couldn't tag along because she was having a college-prep course.

When they were eating, they heard someone say:

"Hi, everyone. Long time no see." Said a teenager who had brown hair that hit his shoulder who was accompanied with a huge man with black hair and a big chin.

Danny, Sam and Tucker recognized the teenager almost instantly, but had no idea who the man next to him was, although he resembled someone, but they couldn't really guess who he was.

"Almo! When did you arrive?" Danny asked getting up to give his other self a hand shake.

Almo was Danny from another timeline, from an alternative universe so to speak. They had met three months ago when Clockwork wanted for both teenagers to help each other to overcome some personal problems.

Unlike Danny, Almo became a ghost when he was 8 and was sucked into the Ghost World, which was the equivalent of Danny's Ghost Zone. The thing about the Ghost World is that the police there was a strong law upholding place and their warden, Walker, wasn't as maniac for laws as Walker from Danny's timeline.

Almo was raised by Skulker and they saw each other as father and son. The halfa was also trained by Wulf and was a member of Walker's police force back in his timeline.

Almo was his ghost persona's name. He also liked to be called Daniel and the reason why his hair was brown was to disguise himself in his world where he was hunted down by the Guys-in-White, which, sadly wasn't dismantled after the incident involving Vlad from his timeline, but they were in a pretty bad shape.

Tucker and Sam also got up to greet their friend.

"Man, I was starting to think you wouldn't show up again. Why did you take so long to come visit us?" Tucker asked, but then he looked at the oddly familiar man and asked warily: "By the way, who is he?"

Daniel thanked them for their reception and explained: "I couldn't come here sooner because I was still trying to remedy things with my parents and also with the ghost police. Having a double life is hard."

Danny smiled and said: "I know how it is."

Almo smiled back and continued: "When I got some free time, I decided to visit you guys again, so I went to Clockwork's place and asked him if he could bring us here." He made a brief pause and pointed to the man next to him and said: "You've met him already, Danny. He's my dad, Mr. Skulker. Remember, you helped me saving his life."

The other three teenager's jaw fell hard on the floor and had to control themselves to not yell and bring unnecessary attention to them. The trio was aware that Skulker raised Almo, but they still found it a weird imagery for a 'Danny' to be Skulker's son.

"Almo wanted me to come here to meet you and also to see this human world. Since it would be too dangerous for me to walk around in my ghost form, I had a bit of help from Technus from our timeline to create a cloaking device for me. So I can look like my old human form." Skulker said.

The hunter was really glad to meet some of Almo's friends and they seemed to be very friendly towards his son.

But their conversation was soon interrupted when a certain Jock appeared next to Danny and pours his soda over the halfa's head.

"That was classic, Dash!" said Qwan somehow amused by Dash's 'prank'.

"I do what I can!" said the blond jock with pride.

"Danny had to control himself to not let that get the best of him. It always hurt him to not fight back even though he could easily wipe the floor with Dash's sorry ass. But he knew better.

"Why don't you go pick someone of your own size?" Almo said not happy to see his other self in such troublesome situation. He knew that Danny tried to keep a secret identity and that's why Danny endured being a punch bag for the bullies.

Dash, however, couldn't help but to laugh at that. "That's one overused line you got there."

Then the jock realized how Danny and the brown haired teen looked like. "Who are you? His cousin or something? Do you want to get beaten too?"

In order to protect his own identity and to explain why they were so similar, he said: "Yes, I'm his cousin. And if you don't apologize you're the one who'll be sorry."

Dash laughed out loud and said: "Looks like I'll have to teach you who's the boss around here as well."

Almo frowned with that. He remembered Dash from his universe to be a really nice guy, but here he was nothing but a jerk. Dash, then, without any warning tried to punch Almo, who instinctively grabbed his wrist and twisted it, making Dash yell in pain and fall on the ground.

"I'll let you go, but I better not catch you doing anything like that again, am I clear?" Daniel said firmly.

"Yes! Now please, let go!" Dash whined.

"HEY! No fights here!" yelled the manager of the Nasty Burger.

"We didn't pick this fight, you know." Almo said letting go of Dash, who quickly got up and left being followed by Qwan.

"Wow, that was a really nice move!" Tucker said amused.

"I taught him that." Skulker said proudly.

"Thanks. It's a pain not fighting back without risking having my identity discovered." Danny said.

"I figured pretty it out when you didn't punch him after he did that. Well, he doesn't know me, so I could say I'm an expert in martial arts, which is kinda true. Skulker and Wulf taught me a lot in hand-to-hand combat. I could teach you some of it if you're interested. You could use them to defend yourself without resorting to your ghost powers."

Danny then thanked Almo for his offer, but then Sam said: "Danny, I think it'll be better if we go to your places. You need to change clothes."

The halfa grabbed his white soaked shirt and agreed with her. Danny also saw this as an opportunity to present his other self to his parents since all he did was tell them about how Almo helped him to overcome his fear of his parents, which worked both ways to tell the truth.

Almo was a bit anxious to meet Danny's parents. He had only seen their behavior from afar when Vortex and Undergrowth attacked the city months ago. He always got nervous when he visited his family in the human world back in his timeline. He knew the Fentons he was about to meet weren't his parents, but he still got nervous as they walked.

Skulker noticed that and understood this was still a touchy matter to his son. Problems like his don't heal fast. Sometimes they don't heal at all, but Almo was working his best to mend things with his human family.

Skulker placed his hand over Almo's shoulder and smiled at him, which told the boy to not worry about it. Daniel smiled back feeling a little better. Sometimes gestures are much deeper than words and Almo was glad that Skulker understood his fears.

When they arrived at the Fenton residence, Danny said loudly for his parents to hear: "Mom, dad, I'm home!"

"Just one minute, Danny-boy. We are at the verge of a breakthrough!" Jack said out loud

They could hear Maddie groaning and saying: "He's talking about a new sandwich recipe, sweetie, you can come here in the lab."

"Hey, it's a fudge sandwich The fast food industry will beg me for its recipe, but I shall never sell it!" Jack replied.

They all laughed at the strangeness of the situation. But then Danny told them to go to their lab to speak with them.

Skulker and Almo were quite uncomfortable at that place since it resembled a lot with the laboratory when Skulker had been captured by the GIW of his timeline.

Jack was connecting the sandwich to a pair of electric wires in order to create the perfect flavor. Maddie had a palm on her face as she said: "Jack, I can't believe you're using anti-ghost technology to create food…At least don't turn it into a flesh eating monster…again."

"You worry too much, Maddie. I'll join you in a second, this is a very crucial procedure." Jack replied with a grin.

The woman turned and saw Danny, Sam, Tucker and a familiar looking boy and a man she had never seen before.

Before Maddie could ask who these two were, Danny introduced Almo first; "Mom, this is the other me I told you about."

Almo looked at Danny a bit shocked by that, but Danny assured him low enough for him to listen: "I just told her you helped me big time. I didn't go in much detail, so don't worry. She's a bit weird sometimes, but she has a really good heart."

Almo relaxed a bit after knowing Danny kept some of the most touchy parts of his life away from his parents of this dimension.

"Nice to meet you." Maddie said a bit surprised seeing two 'Dannys'. She knew the boy was awfully familiar. Sure the other boy had a different hair color and his physique was a bit more athletic than Danny's. But she now understood why she thought she was seeing double when she first glanced at them.

"And who are you?" Maddie asked the man next to them.

"I'm Almo's father. Well, I adopted him some time ago." Skulker replied somewhat nervous, but he didn't change his serious expression.

Jack didn't hear what Skulker had said, since he was too focused on his little project, but Maddie did hear him and found it very strange and replied not really wanting to get an answer for her question: "Did Jack and I…die in your timeline?"

It was then, Almo's turn to reply, but avoiding direct eye contact with the woman: "No, they're alive. It's just…"

Maddie didn't need any further inquire on the matter. She knew how her Danny was worried about their reaction on him being half ghost. She wondered if Almo's parents reacted as bad as her Danny feared.

Maddie also wondered who that man really was. All she figured it out so far, was that he must know about Almo's half ghost nature. There was so much she wanted to ask them, but she couldn't since Danny quickly interrupted when he felt like that conversation was getting too uncomfortable for his other self.

"Can they have dinner here tonight? And maybe spend a few nights here?"

"Maddie then smiled and replied: "Sure they can, sweetie."

She thought she could use the chance to know them better. Besides, her son spoke higlly highly of his other self and she would love to know all Danny's friends.

But then they all heard Jack yell triumphantly as he pressed a big red button in a remote: "Behold! The perfect sandwich!"

However, when he pressed it the sandwich exploded covering everyone and everything with fudge.

"At least it won't try to kill us in our sleep." Maddie said somewhat relieved.

As Danny wiped the fudge from his face, he suggested: "So…are we going to order pizza?"

Meanwhile in the Ghost Zone, a ghost man with pale blue skin with an open vest floated around in desert area of the Ghost Zone. He had the company of four ghost tigers and they had bruises all over their bodies.

He even lost some of his animal companions and his new whip in the battle against Vlad. The billionaire had sent several ghosts to hunt the Ghost Tamer and he himself had gone after his former employee.

The reason for that was that Vlad felt like the Ghost Tamer had betrayed him by making him believe Danny had come to the hybrid because of the ghost's actions.

The Ghost Tamer had, at first found weird his employer task of 'tire the halfa boy, but don't kill him'. But after talking with some gullible vulture ghosts who worked for Vlad periodically, he discovered that his former boss wanted the boy to be his son.

'And to think I respected that traitorous vermin!' He thought bitterly.

The ghost wanted revenge for all the humiliation he went through, but he was clearly out powered. Vlad hurt not only him, his beasts, but also his pride and reputation. He wanted to make sure that man paid slowly.

But he didn't know how to accomplish that. He even had to resort by going into prohibited areas of the Ghost Zone. He heard stories about how ghosts died in this area and he was certain it was the work of some incredible powerful ghost. He thought he could find some and tame it with his power, but, so far, he couldn't see any other ghost around and he has been wandering there for days.

'If this turns out to be a huge waste of time, I'll kill someone!' He thought angrily.

"Come." Said a male voice in his ear like a whisper.

This made Ghost Tamer halt and look around and yell "Who's there? Show yourself!"

"I can give you whatever you desire." Said the voice again, its tone both assuring and calm.

The Ghost Tamer rolled his eyes and yelled again: "Look, pal. I've heard this offer countless times. What makes yours different?"

"Because I can give you power in advance no strings attached. If you like it, I can give you more, but after the favor. How about it?" said the unruffled voice.

"Suuuuure. And then you and me can have tea later. Leave me alone." Said the Ghost Tamer at the same time tempted and annoyed by the voice. He wanted power, yes. But he was certain that this person would backstab him like many did in the past.

"I'm just trying to help you, kid." Replied the voice, sounding almost like a father assuring his son.

The ghost then growled and replied: "I'm not a child, show up already!"

"I would, if I could. Besides, since I'm much older than you, you are a kid, in my eyes." Replied the voice keeping the same soothing tone.

The Ghost Tamer only bared his teeth in a futile attempt to look frightening, but there was nobody else looking at him, but his beasts.

"My, boy. In this place you shouldn't be worried about what you can see. You should be worried about what you can't. Without proper guidance, you might be sucked into another dimension where you'll find nothing but pain. You were lucky enough to not face a booby trap so far." Said the voice once more, which had remained calm; but somehow, it now seemed more genuine and even concerned.

Though he still did not trust the voice, this did worry the Ghost Tamer a bit. Since he saw no crazy powerful ghost wandering around, the only thing that made sense was the voice's statement about the traps.

"I can guide you through a safe route to me, if you want to. If not, I suggest you to follow the exact same path you came through in order to not die by accident." The voice carefully said.

The Ghost Tamer paused in thought, both intrigued and wary about whatever was behind that voice. He didn't want this entire thing to be a waste of time, but didn't trust who was speaking to him. Still, if this ghost were lying, he could easily defeat him, since a lying ghost who didn't want to show his own face probably wasn't so powerful…He paused again. Maybe he could at least listen to whatever the voice proposed. After all, if 'the voice' wanted the Ghost Tamer to fall in one of those traps, he would have stayed quiet and just watched until he bumped into one.

"Fine, show the way!" said the Ghost Tamer finally.

End of chapter 1

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