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"You forgot one thing Vladdy," Danny said, remember a movie he once watched.
Vlad sighed, "And what, pray tell, is that?"
Danny looked over Vlad's shoulder and made a face of horror, "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?"
Vlad turned around and Danny turned invisible, when Vlad turned back around he saw that Danny was gone, he rolled his eyes. "Daniel, I was once a ghost as well. I know your puny 15 year old brain cannot remember that far back but come now." When Danny didn't reappear Vlad frowned and walked closer to the cage. "Daniel?" Danny turned visible behind Vlad and grabbed the Billionaire. "What the..." Danny turned Vlad intangible and threw him in the cage. Vlad turned and bore into Danny with angry eyes. "How in blazes..."
"Next time, put a ghost shield on the floor as well," Danny said, pointing at the floor of the cage.
"Ohh... butter biscuits!" Vlad shouted as Danny flew into the Ghost Portal and into the Ghost Zone...
Two hours later Vlad was still sitting in the cage, he could think of no way to get out of this cage. And then the answer walked through the portal.
"Well, well," the ghost said sticking to the shadows, but Vlad knew who it was. "If it isn't my... weaker half."
"What?" Vlad said. "Come to strike a human down when he's defenseless?"
"Actually no," Plasmius said. "Turns out, I'm not as powerful without my human half. Without the knowledge of your billionaire mind I'm not as powerful as I could be."
"So," Vlad said, turning his back and grinning, "you've come crawling back to me, then?"
Plasmius snarled, "Enough. I've come back because you are the only human who can handle being combined with a ghost aside from Fenton."
"Well how to you expect for us to get back into each other?" Vlad asked. "Overshadowing Isn't going to cut it."
"You are a fool," Plasmius said, rolling his eyes. "I didn't come here completely unprepared." He pulled out what looked like a tiny little dreamcatcher.
"What, are we going to dream of getting back together?" Vlad snorted. "Sounds like a bad romance novel."
Plasmius rolled his eyes and pressed a little button on the dreamcatcher and it grew into a larger version, it burrowed into the ground for support and stood tall.
"The Fentons created it," Plasmius explained, "it can separate a ghost and a human when the human is being overshadowed. I have suspicions that it can do the opposite as well."
"You mean," Vlad said, walking forward and almost forgetting about the cage, "this thing could put us back together?"
"Just like Humpty Dumpty," Plasmius said, staring at the Ghostcatcher.
"They couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again, imbecile." Vlad said, and Plasmius turned and shot an ecto ray at Vlad, but it glanced harmlessly off the cage. "Ghost cage, you fool."
"Blast," Plasmius said. "How do I get you out?"
"There's a button over by the portal but be careful because..." Plasmius went to press the button and got electrocuted. "It's... got a shield around it..."
"Ow," Plasmius said monotonously and pushed his hand into the button despite the shield. The cage rose and Vlad walked over to the Ghostcatcher.
"So how does this thing work?" Vlad asked and then felt a hand on his arm and looked over and saw Plasmius with an evil grin on his face.
"It's easy," he said and plunged himself and Vlad into the Ghostcather and Vlad had never felt so much pain all at once in his life. "Excellent," Plasmius said. Looking at his hands, he was Vlad Masters at them moment. "Now I'm in control. No human emotions but all the power of a Half-a." He turned into Plasmius and made a fist. "And now I can take my revenge on those blasted Fentons without fear or emotions." Plasmius laughed an evil laugh, it almost sounded like Dark Dan for a moment. Deep down inside Plasmius, Vlad's human half was locked away in a mental cage, unable to get out, unaware of what he had just done...
Back in Amity Park however, things were peaceful as ever. Ghosts were helping to rebuild the buildings and humans were teaching ghosts a little about modern stuff. While Skulktech helped rebuild the hunting lodge and computer store, the nerds were teaching them about unmanned drones and sniper rifles. The Boxghost was being taught about the wonders of foam peanuts. Johnny 13 helped rebuild the motorcycle club where the bikers made him an honorary member of their club, even shadow got a jacket.
Ember met some new punks in Amity Park and formed a new band, The Embrats. In the chaos, Youngblood's parents were killed, as horrible as it sounds it was the best thing that ever happened to the little dweeb. The Lunch Lady learned some new recipes, she kept making google eyes at Boxghost... gross...
And of course there was me, Danny Phantom. I was making friends left and right. You know, when these ghosts aren't trying to kill me they're pretty cool. Turns out me and Youngblood have a lot more in common than you would think, Sam and Pandora really hit it off, and when Tucker got a chance to talk to Skulktech? Forget about it.
The only ghost I was sad about not seeing was my clone, Dani. It's really terrible that out of anyone, she was the one that was destroyed... I would have gladly taken her place if given the chance. But things were starting to look up, with or without her.
I noticed that my dad was a little iffy on the whole "Ghosts being friends" thing, but my mom really seemed interested. She and Penelope Spectra really hit it off, talking about ghosts and ghouls and other worthless things. Dash made friends with Cujo, as strange as it sounds. PointDexter made friends with most of the Casper High geeks and nerds, Dash won't be messing with them anytime soon that's for sure.
All was great and fine until Walker came flying into the park frantically. "Phantom!" He called, flying toward Danny. "Phantom!" He called. "Phantom!"
"Walker?" Danny said, turning, and seeing the look on Walker's face he said again with more urgency, "Walker? What's wrong?"
Walker landed beside the ghost child, breathless and tired. "P-Plasmius! He's back!"
"What?" Danny said doubtfully. "No, that's impossible. He lost his ghost half, I killed Dark Dani just about an hour ago, its not possible that Plasmius is alive... or... unalive?" Just then there was a piercing scream, Danny turned to see his mom floating in the air, as if being help by invisible hands. She was thrown this way and that and then she was slammed into the wall, she fell to the floor, lifeless. "Mom!" Danny shouted, and the Jack yelped as he was risen. His attacked became visible and Danny gasped, it was Plasmius.
"Oh you have no idea how long I've been waiting to do this, old boy!" Vlad screamed, he rose high and threw Jack down, and he landed with a boom.
This time it was Jazz who screamed, "Dad!" Seeing the tears in Jazz's eyes infuriated Danny, he shot up toward Vlad, who just moved aside as if Danny was a dodgeball.
"How could you," Danny exclaimed. "You loved her! And you loved my dad somewhere deep in that heart as well!"
"Perhaps my human half did," Plasmius said with a grin. "But he's a tad bit too preoccupied to do anything at the moment."
"So," Danny said, fuming, "you're not all Vlad? You're just the ghost half?"
"Oh no," Vlad said duplicating, "it's all me, Daniel. I just figured out a way to lock up my foolish human emotions in my mind. I've got the strength of a ghost," Plasmius turned into Vlad, "and all the brains of a billionaire human." He turned back into Plasmius and smiled at Danny. "What's wrong Daniel? Afraid of a more powerful foe?" Plasmius roared with laughter and faded away. Danny looked down and saw everyone moving his parent's bodies, he flew down and landed beside them.
"We need to get them to a hospital, stat!" Jazz shouted, sobbing.
"Don't bother," Danny said, walking up to his parents' dead bodies. "Their gone."
"You don't know that!" Jazz yelled.
"Jazz," Danny said with an odd feeling of unrealness. "I'm a ghost, I think I'd know when someone is dead."
"Aren't you just the least bit sad?" Jazz turned on him. "Their dead! Their dead because of your archnemisis!"
"Do you think I don't know that?" Danny asked her calmly, tears coming to his eyes. "Do you not think I feel one hundred and ten percent responsible for this?" Jazz and Danny stared at each other for a moment before Jazz broke down and started to bawl her eyes out, Danny pulled her into a hug and held her close for a long time, crying himself. "Jazz, I swear to you," Danny said, sniffing, "I will find Vlad and I will end him. I will make him pay for what he's done..."
