#nowhereking!danny

Standard DP origin story (activates portal, becomes halfa, fights ghosts, ghosts considered both evil and non-sentient by his parents)

Meets Val, still wants to date her despite her wanting him dead as Phantom

Danny and Val grow closer, they start dating

Danny's self hatred starts to grow, blames his ghost half for making him something Val would hate if she knew, plans to find a way to get rid of it

Finds the ghost catcher in the lab, uses it, but instead of getting rid of Phantom both Fenton and Phantom still have all of Danny's memories

Phantom feels betrayed by Fenton, who demands Phantom leave and then goes on to date Val without his other half

Fenton becomes a ghost hunter with his parents and Val, part out of self-hatred towards Phantom, part out of his continued sense of responsibility to stop all the ghosts from coming through

Phantom shows up to confront him and tries to convince Fenton that they should merge back together, Fenton refuses and shoots Phantom

The two are still linked, so it hurts both of them

Realizing he can't hurt Phantom or leave him to get hurt by someone else, Fenton traps him in a thermos and keeps it hidden

Years later Val discovers the thermos and opens it, is shocked Danny kept the capture of her mortal enemy secret from her for so long

Seems off, begins to suspect there's more going on than it appears

Lets Phantom go, tells him to escape through the FentonWorks Portal

Fenton finds out Phantom is free and pursues him, Val chases after him for answers

Phantom, Red Huntress, and three Fentons (everyone but Jazz) all end up in one basement with an active portal

Phantom shot, tries to flee through portal

Jack shoots at him, misses but hits portal instead and it explodes

Phantom trapped halfway through portal, in void between Ghost Zone and Human Realm

Time is different in void, ages pass as injured and alone phantom warps and adapts to survival in abstract space

For extra plot, Val gets sucked through portal by explosion, gets character growth in the Ghost Zone

Where are Sam, Tucker, and Jazz? What will they do when they find out what happened to Phantom? What about Dani or Vlad?

If Fenton/Phantom link works differently then Phantom could go through Nowhere-King-creating Trauma at the hands of the GIW

Or Fenton could turn him over to Vlad with the safety net of blackmail to make sure any experiments wouldn't come back to hurt him, in which case cloning, fusing/splitting people/ghosts, etc. are possible to go with The Nowhere King's minotaurs