***Okay.  Final part of the final chapter.  Thank you to all of those who have stayed with the story the whole way through.***

“I’ve been so lenient with you guys for three years, even though I knew full well that you were still coming after me.” Danny continued to scold the two men as if he was the grownup disciplining trouble-making teenagers instead of the other way around. His voice steadily got louder and more enraged as he rebuked them. “But in kidnapping and torturing my little cousin, poisoning me, threatening my friends and family, and causing a panic among hundreds of innocent people, you guys have officially…crossed…the line.” He emphasized each of these last words angrily, before his voice became softer, and more threatening. “I may not be any certified government official, but I think it’s safe for even me to say that you should consider yourselves demoted.”
Danielle ignited her fists in flames as she added with a glare, “If not fired.” Then she slammed her fists into the ground, sending a trail of intense heat at the Guys in White through the gravel that melted the pavement around them. Then, spouts of the red-hot concrete spewed out of the ground and enclosed the two men in a domelike cage that Danny froze solid to cool down before it collapsed on the men inside it. Once the gravel stopped glowing from the heat, The Guys in White pulled at the bars. But they were too strong to break and neither agent had any more gadgets handy enough to cut themselves out.
Danielle smiled at her cousin’s and her handiwork and then flew to the other side of the cage, landing next to Danny who also touched down.
“Guys that was so cool!’ Tucker blurted excitedly from behind the force field. Then after a second, he stammered a bit “…or that was hot…or…”
“Oh, whatever, it was just totally awesome.” Sam ended up finishing for Tucker and everyone just laughed in agreement. Except for the Guys in White of course and their cronies who were all still out cold from the powerful blast of ghost energy the Phantoms had released in unification.
Danielle shrugged with a bit of a giggle before turning to Danny with a bit more of a serious look. “Except, at the moment we’ve got one more problem on our hands.” She said, thumbing in the direction of the people who were still trapped behind the force field.
“Right.” Danny said after being reminded of this. Then he shot a harsh look at the Guys in White and approached the concrete cage. “And you guys have the remote that can help us solve that problem.” He extended his hand out with his palm facing up. “If you would please hand it over.”
“Or what?” Operative O folded their arms in ignorance.
Danny didn’t lower his hand. “You know, every time you said that to me, has it ever turned out as anything good? Especially when I was the one who had the advantage.”
“Or do you?” Operative K said with a mischievous smile. “As long as we have the remote, you can’t release your friends, Phantom. But if you let us out of this, we might consider it.”
Danny cocked an eyebrow and folded his arms. “Or I could just phase in there, overshadow you, and make you smack your friend on the side of the head until he gives it up.”
Both operatives looked at each other thinking of how embarrassing that would look. Danny couldn’t help but smirk at the way they reacted to this and held out his hand again. “And I can easily come up with other creative definitions of abject humiliation for you. Unless you willingly give me the remote.” Danny’s smile broadened and he waited with confidence. He knew that the Guys in White were way too dignified to be subject to the interrogation of a teenager.
Eventually they rolled their eyes in defeat and Operative O reached into his coat, pulled out the requested device and slapped it into the boy’s outstretched hand with an ignorant huff.
Danny received the remote with a smug nod and tossed it to Danielle. “You do the honors Dani. I’ll keep an eye on the government frauds until the proper authorities get here.”
“Who so happen to be on their way already.” Said one of the trapped security guards who must have called with his earphone as the fight was going on.
Just after he said this, the sound of approaching sirens could be heard in the distance and several police vehicles came screeching into the town square. “Right on cue.” Danny commented as armed policemen filed out of the cars.
“Aw.” Danielle wined, but still smiling in a playful manner. “But we did such a cool job on the cage. Can’t we just keep them in there for further mortification?”
Danny laughed knowing that the new and improved ghost girl didn’t really mean what she was saying by the bantering tone in her voice, but he shook his head and responded anyway. “I think being in a jail cell next to Freakshow will be embarrassing enough for them.” He pointed out.
Danielle saw the reasoning behind what her older cousin said. Two once-called government officials caught by two teenagers and in the same position as the criminal they had accidentally release, but who was also eventually thrown back into jail. Danielle giggled at the thought of this.
So, after the Phantoms phased the Guys in White out of the cage, and handed them over to the police, the cage was melted back down to it’s original state. The armored men were finally coming around as they were being taken care of as well.
With that set and done, the Phantoms were finally able to change back to their human forms, (Danielle’s was just the same as it was before, despite the change of her Phantom outfit) and make their way to the force fields with the remote they needed to deactivate them.
As soon as Danielle used it, the now freed Fenton’s were the first to hurry down the stairs of City Hall to pull both of the young heroes into a strong and welcome embrace. Sam and Tucker didn’t join in just yet and the two security guards went to help the police to round up the members of the criminal organization.
By the time Sam and Tucker did join in, they and jazz just got so ecstatic and couldn’t stop talking about the action they just saw the two teenage hybrids participating in. They complimented Danielle for her new look in her now white and silver jumpsuit and awesome fire power (which they ended up calling the Phantom Phlare to sort of match Danny’s Phantom Phreeze) while Danny was congratulated for the return of his ice power and received thoughts of relief in avoiding yet another close call.
“Man. Now I feel kind of awkward.” Tucker commented. When Sam asked him why, he explained, “Danielle suddenly reappears after I just finish a presentation of the new statue as if it was some kind of funeral service.”
Danielle overheard this and gave Tucker a look of mystification before turning from the hug she was currently getting from Mrs. Fenton to look in the direction of the statue. And her eyes widened at the sight of the image of herself that had been added to it. She hadn’t even been able to look at it until now because she was so busy fighting off the Guys in White and their army (who by this time had all been loaded in the backseats of the police cars and driven off to jail). The ghost girl slowly walked towards it, just gaping up at the huge sculpture before turning to Danny, surprisingly, instead of protesting against it, she was just beaming. “What’s this for?” She asked, sounding bewildered though quite overjoyed.
Danny smiled with a shrug and walked to her side. “Just a token of gratitude, Dani.”
Jazz walked up behind the both of her younger siblings and instantly said to Danielle before she could respond in any way, “And don’t start asking about what for. You know full well what you did to earn this and it’s staying.”
Danielle’s eyes widened at the way jazz said this and then she scratched the back of her head with an embarrassed laugh. Then she looked at Danny, who was giving her the same look as his sister was.
“Speaking of which,” Jack said, as he came up to his children at the foot of the statue. “That was quite the entrance you made, Danielle.”
“Yes it was.” Maddie added. “No matter what happens, you just keep coming back, don’t you.”
Danielle looked at the faces of the family and friends that were just as much hers as they were Danny’s, and smiled. “I can never replace Danny,” she started to say before turning to the one she was made from. “But I can always be there for him.”
Danny responded with a warm smile of his own and hugged his cousin that he could just as well call as a little sister. “What else is family for?” He asked rhetorically.
Then, there at the foot of the grand Phantom memorial in the town square, the other Fentons, Sam and Tucker gathered in for a group hug around Danielle that this time, Danny was able to join in.

000000

Within the week, the rest of Amity Park learned of Danielle’s return and she was warmly welcomed back by a lot more people that she had even anticipated. Little Andrew, by far showed the most energy in seeing Danielle again, especially with her new white and silver jumpsuit that his mother came to admire. “Now we can actually tell the two of you apart from a distance.” She had said with a laugh.
The female double of the teenage ghost hero continued to help him in keeping their hometown safe. Once in a while she and Danny still had arguments about whether or not she would was able to take over for him, and perhaps she could, someday. But for the moment, she still ended those conversations by saying that she wouldn’t even exist or even be on his side if it hadn’t been for her cousin in the first place. And there was no substitute for the original.
But that was a side-note from the fact that Danielle remained with the Fenton’s from that day on. She may have still had to resort to calling Mr. and Mrs. Fenton her aunt and uncle, especially in public, but that didn’t matter to her. She already knew for sure that they still loved her as their own daughter. In addition, Danny and Jazz eventually started calling her ‘Sis’ as a secondary nickname.
In a way, the teenage hybrid may have had to give up a part of herself to save the hero in whom her entire existence was possible because of, but in doing so, she had gained her own identity. She still qualified as a clone because her DNA profile was still similar to Danny’s, but her since her merge with him, and then separation, she had her own unique ecto-plasmic signature. (This was probably how her human form remained the same while her ghostly appearance had changed.) She no longer felt that she was just an altered copy of someone else. She was her own person.
And best of all: She now had her own family that loved and cared for her as much as she did them. The empty space that had been causing her so much grief and pain before had by this time completely disappeared. And for the first time in her life, she was whole.
She was home.

The End

So. That’s the end. And I don’t have any intention of doing a sequel. So don’t ask. even if I could come up with a decent one it would never be nearly as good as this one.  But anyway. let me know what you guys thought. Especially with Danielle coming back with a new look and a new power. I’ll be posting a picture of her in her new outfit as soon as I can get it done.  but I'll be starting school again soon, so I dont' know how long it will take for that to be finished. 
Final disclaimer: The show Danny Phantom is aired by Nickelodeon and created by Butch Hartman. I own none of its original characters that I used in this story other than the older version of Danielle that you can still view on this website.
Thank you to all you readers who have stayed with the whole story. Once again, I hope you enjoyed my final result.