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Grace is a little girl who believes that her best friend is now the famous Danny Phantom. Danny feels a bit bad for her and keeps running into her. However Vlad is scheming again, and came to Amity to battle Danny. (It's a bit A/U, Vlad was never mayor and obviously this takes place before PP) Danny looses pretty badly, but not as bad as his dad who joins in the battle. Jack gets turned into a half ghost, and now Danny is training him to be a "superhero". Meanwhile a company called SUMISALP invited his mom to go to a ghost convention in Washington DC…

AAANYwho I'm back with an update… really really late…

No Grace this time guys, I'm focusing on Danny and his mater et pater for people who take Latin. Even if you don't you can probably figure out what that means.

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Three hours later the father and son finally walked up stairs, exhausted.

"Well, it started off slow at first, but then you started to catch on. Now you've uhh… 'experienced' the basics, flying, intangibility, and invisibility, and also did them all at the same time, but that was by accident, but we're still counting it. You also learned that if you waste enough energy you revert back to human form." Danny summed up. Jack just nodded. "And you also learned how to concentrate for more than three seconds." Danny said waiting for his delayed reaction. Jack nodded.

"I think I am going to take a nap." He said, going up the stairs. Half way up, "Hey!!!" Danny chuckled and went into the kitchen to get dinner before patrolling. Meanwhile he wondered how his mom was doing. She hadn't called, but at least she left the SUMISALP company number, so that they could get a hold of her through that. Danny decided to give her a call. He dug through the kitchen drawers and finally found the pamphlet, and quickly dialed the number.

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Meanwhile, upstairs one more thought went through Jack's sleepy brain before he could drift off to sleep. He needed a superhero name. Suddenly he was trying to think of a name for himself. "The Specter!" No, how about… "The Ghost Destroyer!" Too weird… "Jack Phantom?" Nope, "Phantom" was already taken by Danny… ghost Danny that is. Not his son. But still… what a strange coincidence…

Speaking of Danny's he decided to take one last bit of advice from his son before he could fall asleep. As he neared the kitchen he realized that Danny was talking on the phone. He shrugged and decided to wait on the couch for him to finish.

Danny waited as it rang once, twice, three times… then someone finally picked up. "Why hello Daniel. I suppose you are calling your mother to inform her that your father is dead? What took you so long?"

Danny stood there speechless for a second but then his eyes glowed green. "Plasimus." He growled.

Jack stood up at the comment. Wasn't he the Wisconsin ghost? He started towards the kitchen but instead stopped. He took the phone next to the couch and quietly as he could covered the mouthpiece and listened to their conversation.

"SUMISALP?" Danny asked, and then Jack could practically see his son slapping his forehead. "Like DALV. Duh." He said to himself. The Wisconsin Ghost chuckled over the line. "Where is she? What did you do with her?" Danny growled.

Was this his son talking? The one who always ran away before Phantom could even get to the scene? Then he realized something. "She?" "Her?" What was going on? SUMISALP? Was his wife in trouble?

He forced himself to stay quite as he listened in on the conversation. "Can't you see that my master plan is falling in to place? Now with your stupid father dead and dear Maddie willingly by my side-"

Now Jack was sure they were talking about his wife, and he tensed and furrowed his eyes in confusion. "Willingly? Ha! Only in your dreams." His son replied mockingly. "And your plan hasn't worked out as well as you planned Plasimus. Dad is still alive."

There was a pause over the line. Something had gone wrong with the ghosts plan by him living? Great… now he was a goner for sure. The ghosts calm voice was not what Jack expected. "Oh so old Jack lives eh? We'll just have to see how long that lasts." Then there was a dial tone. Danny growled in frustration and Jack heard him kick a chair over. This was way out of Danny's character.

Jack carefully made his way over to the kitchen to see if Danny was okay. He was putting the phone back in his cradle and when he turned around his eyes were glowing green. When Danny saw Jack standing at the door, he jumped and hit his head on the corner of the cabinets, and him swearing loudly. Jack was so confused that he didn't even scold him. He wanted to know more about this ghost who kidnapped his wife and that was plotting on killing him AND why his son and that ghost were on first name terms.

After Danny regained his bearings he asked, "how long were you standing there?"

"Long enough." He replied. Danny's face drained of color. "What is going on?"

Danny stuttered "N-nothing!"

Jack narrowed his eyes, looking at his son. "Why does the Wisconsin Ghost have your mother?" Danny stood there, not sure how to reply when suddenly the strange blue mist emerged from both of their mouths.

Danny looked horrified for a second, and glanced nervously at Jack. Before his dad could ask what it was again, the Box Ghost emerged from the ceiling. Danny seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. "GGGHHHHOOOOSSSTTT!" His dad yelled and closed his eyes and concentrated the way Danny had taught him, and slowly he changing into his ghost form. After he was fully transformed he was already panting with effort.

"What is this?" The Box Ghost asked. "You're a halfa too?" Danny winced behind his dad. He looked between Danny and Jack confused. Jack was too excided and tired to care and Danny just decided to not say anything. The Box Ghost finally shrugged. "No matter… now you shall both feel the wrath of my box army! Come to me my cubic friends!" The Box Ghost yelled, and suddenly every box that was in the kitchen came to life and started floating behind the box ghost threateningly.

Jack looked back at his son, suddenly panicked. "Whatdoido?!?!" He asked quickly.

Danny looked at him disbelievingly. "Just go intangible when the boxes come at you!" He said, quickly going behind the chair to take cover. Suddenly all of the boxes were flung at his dad, and Jack couldn't go intangible quick enough. He was thrown back into the wall, all of the boxes burying him. It took a while for his dad to get up.

As soon as he was up and flying again, Jack said "NO GHOST CAN HURT A FENTON! TAKE THIS YOU—" but suddenly more boxes bombarded him and he slid down the kitchen wall again. The Box Ghost was grinning like mad, happy to be winning a fight for once. Danny covered his face with his hands. His dad was losing to the Box Ghost. He sighed as the process repeated itself.

Danny finally got up and walked out of the room. Then he walked up the stairs and grabbed an empty Fenton thermos from under his bed and in no particular rush went back down to the kitchen. His dad was still losing, and he seemed to be on the edge of unconsciousness.

Danny simply uncapped the thermos and pressed the capture button, sucking the unsuspecting Box Ghost in. After that was finished, he went over to the pile of boxes that was his dad and helped him up out of the mess. His dad smiled weakly at him and said, "Th- Thanks Dan… your going to have to teach me how to do that." And with that he fell down, turning back human. By the time he hit the floor he was already snoring.

"Uhh- dad?" Danny asked, taping his shoulder. No response. Danny shook his head, bewildered. Only his dad could actually fall asleep right after a fight. Danny put the thermos down on the counter and looked around the kitchen. It was a disaster. Danny transformed and turned back to his sleeping dad. He picked him up under the armpits and turned them both intangible and went through the ceiling. He tucked his dad into bed and then flew back downstairs, ready to tackle the mess in the kitchen. The whole time, plotting ways to get his mother back.

A few hours later, the kitchen was clean and he had come up with a plan. It wasn't the best, but he didn't have many options at this point. He called Sam and Tucker and told them all of the recent events and even told them about Grace, but he didn't tell them about his plan. He didn't want them worried. Finally he looked at the clock. It was midnight. He shuffled up to his room. He made sure to check on his father. He was still out like a light. Finally Danny got in to his own bed and drifted off to sleep.

It felt like he hadn't even closed his eyes when his alarm went off at seven the next morning. Danny groaned and rolled over, trying to ignore it. Jazz had the brilliant idea of putting the clock across the room, so Danny would have to get up to turn it off. This was his third clock, the last two went off on a weekend, and he quickly destroyed those with a well-aimed ghost ray.

Finally Jazz came in to his room, turning off the alarm for him. "Danny, time to go to school." She stated shaking his leg.

He cracked an eye open. Then he remembered last night. "That's what you think." Danny mumbled in to his pillow.

"Humm?" Jazz asked.

"I'm getting up." He said, hanging a foot out of bed, and then the other.

"Hey Danny?" Jazz asked, sitting down on his bed. "Have you noticed dad's been acting… strangely?"

"No." Danny said bluntly, rubbing his eyes and stretching.

"Haven't you noticed that he hasn't invented one new invention yet? That he's really clumsy? … He was even eating an apple the other day!" Jazz exclaimed.

Danny finally sat up. "He was eating an apple?" Danny asked. "That is weird."

"See? I think something's up. Especially with mom gone..." Jazz stated.

"Yeah, whatever you say Jazz. Can you get out of my room now so I can change?" Danny asked, finally getting up.

Jazz walked over to the door. "Don't fall back asleep." She warned, and closed the door behind her. Danny quickly got changed and tried his best to smother down his bed head. Then he went down stairs to eat some Fruit Loops.

While Jazz was up stairs brushing her teeth, Danny sat across the table from his dad, who was stirring cream in to his coffee. Suddenly the spoon he was using phased out of his hands and Jack looked a bit lost for a moment. Danny chuckled. "How are you feeling?" He asked.

Jack picked up his spoon and replied, "Like I've been hit with a truck." Danny nodded, knowing exactly how he felt. "I want to talk to you after school about the phone conversation you had yesterday with that ghost."

Danny nodded. "Speaking of school I should probably go now." He said and picked up his backpack. "Bye dad." He waved, and went out the door. Soon after he left, the ghost alarm went off and Jack looked around wildly.

Danny was off to Wisconsin.

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The trip was much shorter when you fly, Danny decided. The whole time, Danny was trying predict the different scenarios he could possibly get in. His plan was simple. He would fly in, grab his mom, fly out. He didn't want to fight Plasimus again.

What kind of situation was his mom in? Was she locked in a dungeon? Was she being forced to stay in Vlad's castle? Was she being tricked and thought that she was in D.C.? How would his mom react to seeing Phantom? Scared? Mad? Would she struggle? What would happen if Vlad caught him? That's one thing he didn't want to think about. Would his dad figure out he skipped school? What happened if another ghost attacked him? Danny wouldn't be there to help…

Finally Vlad's castle came in to view and he slowly descended. He landed behind some bushes and stretched. He didn't like long flights. Finally he turned invisible and intangible and flew in to the castle.

No matter how many times he's been in it before, he would always be awed by the vastness of the place every time he went in. Suddenly his ghost sense went off. Vlad was near. Danny winced. That means that Vlad's ghost sense went off too.

Danny decided to start from the top and go down, so he phased through the ceiling to the top floor. It took him a while to look through everything. There were six bedrooms with a bathroom for each, and then there were two large formal rooms with couches and a fire place, along with a huge plasma screen TV and small collections of books on one end of the room. The place was deserted.

Then he went down a floor and started looking. There was the huge kitchen with an even larger dining room, a ballroom that Vlad hosted the reunion in, the entryway of course, and the library. These were all deserted too. That left one option.

Danny phased down to his secret lab. The lab was glowing an eerie green, thanks to the ghost portal at the end of it, and all of the computers were turned off. There was nobody there either. Danny at this point was confused. Vlad was here, his ghost sense detected him, so he couldn't be in his Colorado house could he? Danny suddenly heard a noise. It sounded like… chains rattling. Danny's eyes glowed green. If Vlad had his mom locked up…

Danny shook his head. He had to figure out where the noise came from. It sounded like it was near by, but there were no doors leading anywhere else. There it was again! He was positive it was coming from the other side of the wall. He floated over to it and phased his head through it, almost expecting to see dirt, except what he saw was another room. There were no doors of windows, and it was fashioned like a medieval dungeon, except Danny wasn't looking at all of that.

He quickly went all of the way in and became visible. "Mo—Maddie?" Danny asked, looking at the figure struggling in the corner. She appeared disheveled, struggling with her chains wrapped around her wrists that were creaking in protest. Her black belt didn't go to waste though: the metal bolted to the wall seemed quite a bit looser.

She twirled around immediately with an angry glare on her face. When she saw Danny, she was so surprised that she lowered her defenses to show her bewilderment. "Phantom?" She seemed to examine him for a moment and then the glare was back. "I bet you're teamed up with that Wisconsin Ghost aren't you?" She shot.

"What? No!" He exclaimed loudly, but then cringed. "I'm here to get you out of here." He stated in an urgent whisper. His mom looked at him disbelievingly and was about to protest but he cut her off before she could even start. "I'm not always the bad guy you know." He said softly. She closed her mouth. There was an awkward silence. "Well if I'm going to get you out of here, we need to hurry. I don't want Plasimus to—"

"Don't want Plasimus to what dear boy? Catch you in the act? Well it's too late for that." Said a disembodied voice. Suddenly Danny was thrown into the opposite wall, and behind him appeared Plasimus. Danny bit his lip and got up, trying to think of a plan. He didn't think he could beat Plasimus with out a major fight that would leave him with enough energy to get him home.

"You didn't let me finish." Danny shot back at him, a smile playing on his lips to hide the rising panic. "I was going to say I didn't want Plasimus to figure out we secretly signed him up for the knitting club… well surprise!" Danny said, firing up a ghost ray of his own and shooting it at him.

It missed, but it was enough for Plasimus to get angry. He flew down and punched Danny into the ground, earning a gasp from Maddie, still chained in the corner. She once again started struggling with her chains, this time with more vigor. Danny squeezed his eyes shut and kicked Plasimus off of him. He went flying in to the wall behind him. Danny slowly got up, his back cracking, and then he took to the air again. He wanted to stun Plasimus before he grabbed him mom and fled.

Danny shot a series of ghost rays at the recovering Plasimus who simply absorbed them all and shot an even bigger one back at him. Danny dodged out of the way with plenty time to spare, but then he realized his mistake.

His mom, who used to be standing behind him, was about to be hit with the deadly blast, and she knew it too. Frozen with horror she barely heard the Wisconsin Ghost's, "NO!"

Time seemed to be stopped as it sped towards his mother, and all sounds had a strange muffled echo. Danny made a decision. In the millisecond before the blast hit his mother, he dove in front of her, braced himself, and took the shot.

The sound came crashing back into his head as pain exploded in his chest. It hit him point blank and the force of the blow sent him flying back, and he yelled out as he hit the wall, slowly sliding down it.

The next thing Danny knew, two Plasimus' were hoisting him up and there was one standing in front of him, staring down at him evilly. His mom still stood in the background, recovering from the shock and absorbing what just happened.

Danny let his eyes glow green as the duplicates of Plasimus held his arms behind his back. "Did you really think you could get away with your little plan humm?" He asked calmly. In a fit of violence, his fist slammed in to Danny's stomach. Danny cried out and leaned over, trying to catch his breath.

Danny grinded his teeth together and glared back up at Plasimus. His archenemy laughed at him and said, "No stupid boy. I'm afraid that someone stronger," an uppercut, "faster," a side swipe, "and smarter" a two hand blow to Danny's back that knocked him from the arms of his captors, "will even have a chance rescuing her."

Danny lay on the ground, in to much pain to get up. "And do you want to know one more thing Daniel?" Plasimus whispered in to his ear, sending chills down his spine. "I no longer care if you become my apprentice or not. You've become a thorn in my backside and there's no redemption at this point… no matter how much you beg… basically I don't care if you live or die." Plasimus spat out, standing up.

He paused for a moment, as if thinking. "Actually, I would prefer the latter." Plasimus said, shrugging, and then smiling evilly. The next thing he knew, Danny was dangling in the air as Plasimus tightened his grip around his neck, the way he did three days ago. Danny gasped for air, struggling wildly, knowing what was coming next. Plasimus just smirked up at him and suddenly pain racked Danny's body. He screamed as shock waves were sent throughout him. This time Plasimus didn't stop.

The only thing that was going though Danny's mind was that he couldn't change back to human form, and he forced his shaking body to obey. Eventually he ran out of air, and he realized that he was going to die. No longer able to scream, his body twisted and convulsed uncontrollably.

Maddie watched in horror. She knew that if her captor didn't stop, Phantom would be cast in to obliteration. "Stop!" She yelled at Plasimus, but he either didn't hear her or ignored her. By this point she knew Phantom was on her side. If he wasn't he would have flown off to save himself. She tried to shake herself out of shock. Suddenly Phantoms back arched and he stopped screaming, his eyes closed tight, and she knew that this was it.

"STOP!" She screamed again, and this time she was sure he ignored her. She got as close to them as her chains allowed, and kicked out as far, and as hard as she could. She hit her captor in the stomach, winding him, and fortunately he was surprised enough to drop the smaller ghost.

"What are you doing?!" Her captor turned to her sharply. The look he gave her made her want to shrink back and go back into her invisible corner, but she stood tall.

"Please, leave him out of this! I don't know why you're keeping me here, but I know that he has nothing to do with it!" Maddie nearly yelled at him. She looked at the smaller ghost worriedly. His body was still shaking and his breathing was shallow. It was strange. When she left Amity, she hated him… she could have never foreseen her here protecting him.

"He has everything to do with it!" Plasimus yelled, his eyes glowing red. "Now would you please go back to your corner so I can finish him?" He more demanded than asked. Maddie stood her ground though.

"No." She growled, almost surprising herself. She wouldn't let this ghost die trying to save her.

All Danny knew was that the pain suddenly stopped and he was dropped to the ground, but his body was still having spasms, and he was gasping for air. He heard voices. He couldn't tell what was going on though. It felt as if he had cotton balls in his ears, but he was still in too much pain to care. Suddenly he remembered one of Jazz's rants. He swallowed heavily and started breathing deeper, trying to clear his mind. It worked. The sounds seemed to sharpen, along with the pain. He groaned softly.

When Phantom made a small sound, Maddie looked over at him and her breath seemed to constrict. She was scared. Not for her though, for him. It was weird, but something told her that if she stepped aside she would really regret it. She felt like she was protecting one of her own children. Call it maternal instincts, but the ghost even looked like her son a bit. She turned back to Plasimus.

"Let him go." She demanded. Plasimus looked at her as if she was crazy. Even Danny opened his eyes in surprise. There was no way Plasimus would let him go! Here he was as vulnerable as ever, and even if Plasimus wouldn't finish him off in front of his mother, he would probably just take him in to the next room and do it.

Finally Plasimus shook himself out of his speechless state and pushed her aside. Once again firing up and ghost ray. "NO!" She screamed and pushed him away. "Please! Just let him go… for me…" She said, sensing that she had some sort of power of the ghost.

She looked down for a moment, did her best to tear up the way her son used to, and made her eyes wider, and more sad. When she looked back up, she looked right into Plasimus eyes with her best puppy dog look. Vlad's breath hitched in his throat. He looked deep into her eyes for a moment fighting an internal battle. He grinded his teeth together for a moment, and then he seemed to deflate. He couldn't bear to see the woman he loved in pain. "Fine." He stated, surprising everybody in the room.

Not wanting to talk about his scarce act of mercy, he roughly picked up Danny, causing him to gasp in pain, and flew out of the secret dungeon. Once outside and out of Maddie's sight, he threw Danny down on his lawn. The wind knocked out of him, Danny slid to a stop a few feet away with his eyes squeezed shut.

"And don't try to come back." Plasimus warned, then he flew back in to his castle. Lying on his archenemies lawn, Danny's heart rate slowed, his breathing became deeper, and he finally gave in to the darkness that was swarming his vision.

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TBC….

Kinda a cliffie, kinda not. You decide. So yeah. I typed all of this a while ago, but my policy is to always be a chapter ahead of my update, so yes, I mostly have next chapter written out too, and it's starting to get interesting no? Well for some foreshadowing that's the last time Vladdy will show any mercy.

School's hard (understatement of the year), so that's why it took so long to update.

Sorry! I promise that the next one won't be so far off in the future.

And of course, reviews help me get motivated to actually sit down and type.

Thanks to sciencefreak330, purrbaby101, mystery writer5775, and Queen S of Randomness 016!