Aren't origin stories fun?! I had such a rough time when I originally created Dark Parmius. I mean I knew he existed but I didn't know how he came about. Then I looked at the name and went oh duh… Thanks brain. (Yes I know I am crazy just read the chapter and you too will see)

Disclaimer! I dont own Danny Phantom... its probably a good thing too.

Vlad went silent and stayed silent his gaze far away and filled with painful memories. Danny shuddered because Vlads words resonated with the memories of how Dan was created. The rest of Team Phantom didn't know exactly how Dan was created in the other time line, they just knew he was an alternate version of Danny that was absolutely nuts. They knew the bare minimum of course, that he was a full ghost but they didn't know that he was a combined version of Plasmius and Phantom. Danny had never told them that, or the fact that it was Vlads fault, for he had ripped out Dans ghost half out under the pretense of wanting to help Dan after everyone had been killed. Danny hadn't believed everything the future Vlad had told him mostly because he hadn't wanted to believe that he could become evil at the drop of the hat and turn sadness into such rage. He knew better now as he had a flashback of how he lost control on the battlefield after learning of his fathers death. At that point in time though he had been so terrified of turning into Dan as he matured, that he had gone to Clockwork for the full story. Clockwork had been a little hesitant to tell him but in the end he had shown him only after exacting the promise that he wouldn't go after Vlad in his world. Danny had promised and it was a tale he would take to his grave. He also vowed to never trust a single thing that Vlad said or did. But now Vlad had done it twice. He had created a monster that was hell bent on destroying the world and everything in it.

"So this truly is all your fault." Danny stated his voice trembling with suppressed rage. Vlads eyes shot open at the intensity of the emotion in his voice, and almost fearing what he would see Vlad looked up at Danny nervously licking his lips.

"Do you realize that this is the second timeline you have destroyed because of your desire for power and control?!" Danny roared making everyone jump in shock and confusion.

Infuriated by Vlads stupidity and lack self control Danny tried to stand ready to beat Vlad to a pulp. Thankfully Danni was practically in his lap and Sam clung to him as he started to move restricting his ability to leap to his feet. He still could easily, even with their extra weight. He wouldn't however because he would never risk hurting one of them.

"Danny please!" Sam said trying to keep her voice calm as she clung to him. "You don't want to kill him." At her words Vlad scrunched himself against the wall even further.

"I don't want to kill him." Danny growled gesturing to the cowering fool before them "I want to beat him to a pulp. Then I'll let you heal him so I can beat him to a pulp a second time."

"I'm not sure that will do a lot of good man." Tucker snorted trying hard not to laugh at Dannys words.

"Yeah but it may make me feel better." Danny retorted however with Sam holding on to him sending a wave of calming energy through him he was already starting to calm down though Vlad didn't seem to notice.

"Please… don't beat me." Vlad said his voice trembling as he raised his hands defensively across his body. "I'm not quite done with my story yet." Vlad wasn't sure if that would be enough to stop Danny but it was all he had. Vlad was starting to realize that he had made a tactical error when he had assumed that nothing had changed between them. It wasn't just Jazz who was different, all of them had changed in the time he had been a prisoner of Dark Parmius.

At Vlads trembling plea Danny slumped, feeling slightly embarrassed for letting his anger and aggression take hold of him yet again. He was still plenty pissed but he knew that at this point Vlad had already paid for what he had done in spades. If getting thrashed and imprisoned by your literal other half wasn't karma Danny didn't know what was.

A tense silence hung in the air as Vlad still tried to make himself as small as possible. Danny could feel that the others were waiting to see what he wanted to do. They finally had answers as to where Dark Parmius had come from but according to Vlad he hadn't finished his story. With a sigh Danny tried to make his voices sound as non threatening as possible before speaking again.

"So, Dark Parmius is a combination of your ghost half Plasmius and Pariah Dark." Danny stated in an attempt to get Vlad speaking again. Then he groaned slapping a hand to his forehead as a thought came to him. "How much do you guys want to bet Dark Parmius is just a combo of the two names?"

His friends looked confused but coming out of his defensive curl Vlad nodded. "The first three letters of Pariah and the last four of Plasmius, the Dark part is obvious of course." Vlad answered before Danny could explain.

The others laughed at this revelation and Tucker said "I still think it sounds like on old cheese." This made them laugh harder and even Vlad cracked a smile.

"Did you ask Dark Parmius if that's where he got his name from? I mean you seem awfully sure in your reasoning." Jazz asked curiously once everyone had stopped giggling.

Vlad lifted his shirt showing healing bruises, freshly healed gashes, and a bold jagged scar that sliced across his torso. Other scars covered every inch of the skin they could see and all of them visibly paled as he dropped the shirt back into place. "Dark Parmius gave me that scar for having the 'courage' to ask such a question. He confirmed my reasoning as I was bleeding out on the floor. The only reason I survived was because he needed me alive to unlock the shielding I had put on the crown when I was still Plasmius. He also needed my mind to build him an army."

"The mutant creatures…" Tucker whispered and Vlads head bobbed slightly his eyes filled with pain and sorrow.

"I held out as long as I could." Vlad said a pleading note in his voice as if he were asking for forgiveness. "I tried everything in my power to make him kill me. I even tried to kill myself multiple times when it became too much to bear but even I have a breaking point. That's why I was put into that room, to prevent me from finishing myself off before Dark Parmius is done with me. Although I finally gave in and told him how to take the barrier off the crown because he… he had Maddie and I thought I could save her." Vlad went silent again and everyone could only feel pity for him.

Danny shifted feeling uncomfortable and not just because of Vlads revelations. They had been sitting here chatting for a while and he was starting to wonder why they hadn't been seen or bothered by anything yet. Also the foreboding feeling that he had felt since stepping out of the Fenton jet was steadily growing stronger. The very air was starting to feel almost strained and his instincts were telling him to quit wasting time and find the source of the wrongness. Before he could voice his worries or start to move though Vlad spoke again.

"I'm sorry I couldn't save your mother Daniel. I'm sorry that we always had such a terrible relationship. I don't remember what I was like before I received my ghost half but I think that having one overshadowed what little good I had in me. Dark Parmius is evil, truly and irreversibly evil. At this point he won't stop until he rules both realms and he isn't afraid to destroy them to get what he wants."

"Wait, destroy?" Danny demanded his full attention back on Vlad once again.

Vlad nodded "He has created a machine, a merging machine like the one I made. This one however has the ability to merge the real world with the ghost zone."

"Impossible." Tucker breathed in the stunned silence. "That would require an insane amount of power and besides, a kind of machine to do something like that would have to be huge like…" he froze mid sentence and scrambled to his feet so suddenly, he made everyone else jump in surprise. Whipping out his PDA he rapidly typed something into it and several beams of different colors raked over the walls once again. The others watched the blood drain from his face and he turned back to them his face a mask of horror.

"Tucker?" Danni queried climbing to her feet with the others.

"We are inside the machine." Tucker said his voice soft. "Probably from where the campus starts, this whole dam place is a giant machine. It's being powered by a natural lava bed deep below us and that's not even the worst part."

"Do we want to know?" Jazz asked

Tucker shook his head "Probably not but I have to tell you anyways. This machine is already on and has been for several months. I don't know if it's working or not but all those anomalies I kept finding would make complete sense if it were."

"Anomalies?" Jazz asked

"Oh my gosh." Danni whispered

"Crazy cheese head fruitloop." Sam growled

"I didn't realize he actually turned it on." Vlad said

"That's why this place feels wrong." Danny snapped

They all looked at each other having all said something at the same time. Before any of them could speak again Danny spoke his voice firm and unyielding. "We have to turn it off. Vlad you need to show us the way to the control room of this thing."

Vlad nodded "I will try but it's not like I was allowed out of my cell very often. When I was they blindfolded me and carried me to where they wanted me to go." He said slowly getting up. He started walking down the hall and soon reached a dead end. He glared at the wall as if it shouldn't be there and Danny decided not to tell him that they were in a corridor that was capped at both ends. Even if Vlad had managed to escape his cell, all he would have been able to do is walk up and down the long hallway until a guard or Dark Parmius found him. "We need to go that way." He was pointing at the right hand wall. With a sigh Danny placed a hand on Vlads shoulder and made him intangible.

"Stay close guys." Danny said and walked through the wall with Vlad into another hallway. This hallway wasn't empty. Two Goons hung in the air on the other side, before the Goons could attack or multiply Danny blasted them and they disintegrated. The others were right behind Danny and they all looked at Vlad who shrugged.

"I'm sure as we get closer to the control room we will be seeing more of them. In fact I am betting on it. I just hope we don't run into Dark Parmius." Vlad said a slight shiver running through his thin frame. "We should continue before any more attention is draw to us."