The First of His Kind

by Isom

Phantom Devil Rewrite. multi crossover. The body of a man. The strength of a devil. The power of the umbra. The Spirit of a Ghost. He is the first of his kind. He has potential like no other. He...is still in high school? Warning contains: light swearing, minor gore, violence throughout, at most TV14

12. Bitter Reunions part 2

I do not know anything.

Shadowwriter329 – It was called the bat spin. I'm glad you enjoyed the fight, and there is more to come.

Woflpackperson009 – No, it is the bat spin. Demon Cradle is a vampire shoryuken. Seriously, look up Demetri Maximoff move set video on the internet. And what was the impromptu drive?

Forbiddenlove100 - No, but I can see the similarities. It almost makes me wish that Kamen Rider took off in America, because imagine the crossover specials and the fact that most Kamen rider series don't use the same rinse and repeat methods for killing monsters. Plus, seeing some of the baddies interact with the kamen rider villains would be interesting to see when you think about it.

Zen-aku the wolf spirit – maybe.

SoundVenom – There will be some explanations about Vlad's behavior next chapter. Anyway, I think Danny have Vlad as a teacher would be a nice change of pace. Plus, I have plans for Vlad later. And compared some of the baddies from DMC, Darkstalkers, and…a few others. Vlad would have been outclassed and outmatched, so why waste time making him a villain?

Guest – here you go. Sorry for the wait.

FrostHunter – Here you go.

Chapter 12: Reunion Never End Well Part 2

Danny's eyes widened as he shot up from his bed. Danny looked around in shock as he tried to understand where he was. Danny blinked in confusion. He saw he was in bed. He looked around and saw that nobody was there. Danny got out of bed and walked to an adjoining bathroom. After turning on th lights he examined his face in the mirror. Danny lifted his shirt up. He looked down and saw the faded scar from his fight with Xana but didn't see any bruises. The boy shook his head.

"Was it just a nightmare?" Danny thought aloud, "Great, the last thing I need is night terrors. Next thing I know Jazz is going to want to psychoanalyze me for them. It's bad enough as it is."

Danny walked back to bed and laid down, and in a few minutes was fast asleep. Danny fell asleep and rolled over, as an eye watched him from the cracked door.

Vlad rubbed his chin in thoughts.

'Another ghost child,' Vlad thought, 'How unbelievable. Did Jack really try to kill his own son? I wouldn't put it past him.'

Vlad then let out a yawn, which he stifled.

'I can think about this tomorrow. Half ghost biology or not, I still need sleep.'

With that, Vlad left for his own room, set on getting some sleep before tomorrow.

The next morning…

Danny walked down the extravagant stairs and down into, what he thought was the dining room. After being woken up by an, admittingly, pretty maid, Danny dressed himself in a prepared robe and went down for breakfast.

Danny joined his family and was surprised as what they served. At the large table, there was fruit, including apples, oranges, and grapes, pancakes, waffles, scones, toast, eggs, made in all types, bacon, sausage, fancy hash browns, juice, milk, and water. And it all look delicious.

Jack was eating his usual amount but was trying to do so in a dignified manner. Most likely, trying not to be rude to his host.

"So, Vlad," Jack said, "I have to ask…how did you earn all this? You kind of fell of the radar after college."

Vlad, swallowing a mouthful of pancake answered, "Well, I made some smart investments and wound up striking it lucky. Plus, I found some time to earn my master's degree in science and wound up creating my own company, Vlad Co. After that, things just took off from there."

Vlad then thought, 'It also helped that with my overshadowing ability I was able to do a little trading on the inside.'

Vlad looked at his former friend and said, "What about you? How have you and Maddie been since college?"

Jack smiled, glad to see that Vlad didn't seem to be holding the grudge, and said, "Well, we moved out to Amity Park and set up shop there. We didn't get many ghost calls, but our combined engineering degrees did help us set up patents with certain companies. More than enough to get funding and keep the roof over our heads."

Jazz said, "I'm surprised that my parents know you. I didn't really think that they had any friends in college. Given their…beliefs."

Danny thought, 'Really Jazz?'

Vlad looked at the girl and said, "You mean over our interest in the supernatural?"

Jazz smiled and said, "Yeah. At least you turned out normal and rich. Maybe they should take a page from your book and give up their childish and irrational pursuit."

Maddie and Jack both looked upset at Jazz's words.

Vlad looked somewhat annoyed and said, "Jasmine…I said we had a shared belief. I didn't say I had given it up."

Jazz looked at her father's old friend as he said, "I have always believed that there was something that some couldn't explain. I was interested in it, since I was a boy. That interest lead to my meeting with Maddie and Jack."

Jazz sighed and said, "Seriously, why can't anyone this family knows be normal?"

Danny responded, "Normal is overrated and boring."

Vlad said, "Quite right, my boy."

Jazz sighed and said, "Honestly, I don't know how you can believe in things like ghosts. They don't exist, and there is no evidence to prove that they do."

Danny looked at his sister and said, "Jazz in the last two months there have been sightings of a meat monster, two robots appearing out of nowhere, movie characters coming to life, sightings of a genies, and our own school came to life and assaulted some of the student body, and our own quarterback became the incredible hulk for all of five minutes. Not to mention that white-haired kid that shows up all the time. Where is the science and logic in that?"

The adults in the room raised an eyebrow. They all turned to Jazz waiting for the girl to answer. Jazz simply stumbled on her words as she tried to come up with an answer to the strange phenomena that had been reported around Amity Park.

Jazz said, "Oh shut up. Like you'd know anything about any of that."

Danny answered, "Seeing as we have three eye-witnesses to some of the events, I'd say I'd know something. Besides, that isn't an answer. You just don't want to admit that your…are…wrong."

Jazz stood up and stubbornly growled, "I am not wrong. And I refuse to admit that our parents are…"

Danny interrupted, "Anything other than the town whack jobs like everyone says? Jazz, there are things you can't explain, no matter how hard you put that big brain of yours to work."

Jazz then pushed out her chair and stomped off, muttering about brothers and weird parents and other stuff.

Danny sighed in annoyance. For once, he was glad to win an argument with his elder sister.

Maddie turned to Vlad and said, "I'm sorry about this Vlad. Even after every supernatural event that happened around Amity Park, Jazz refuses to believe that there is such a thing as ghosts. She even saw one come out of the ghost portal and she still isn't willing to accept that science can't explain it."

Vlad sighed and said, "It is okay, Maddie. I never was open with my beliefs in the supernatural, unlike you and Jack. However, people believe what they believe, and whether Jazz comes around to seeing that not everything can be explained by science is up to her. Besides, I remember you two being just as stubborn as she was back in the day. Mr. and Mrs. Know-it-all."

The Fenton couple both chuckled at the old nickname that they had been given in school.

Vlad then turned to Danny and said, "I take it you believe in ghosts as well?"

Danny answered, "Well, I didn't at first, but after seeing meat come to life, your school golden boy transforms into a monster, and lockers beat up a bully, you tend to rethink a few things."

Vlad smiled and said, "Ah. Nothing like a witness to wake you up. Even now, I remember my first experience in the supernatural."

Danny blinked and said, "Really? Mom and dad never mentioned theirs. I just thought it was something they ran with."

Vlad answered, "Oh really? Well then?"

Maddie and Jack looked at each other and then turned to their son.

Jack started, "Do you remember that mean old lady who used to live down the street from us?"

Danny asked, "You mean Ms. Tremaine? Didn't she move when she got married again?"

Jack said, "Well, unfortunately, I wasn't so lucky when I was a kid. You see, there was this old woman who lived on my street. She died of natural causes when I was in middle school. The problem is that she kept appearing at the foot of my bed for the next three years before she vanished for good."

Maddie said, "In my case, it was closer to home. Back in Arkansas, I got lost when she was a little girl. I was saved by a little boy who brought me back home, after a couple of hours. When I told them everyone about the boy, they told me that someone had gone missing in the same area. when they checked back, the found his body, slumped up against a tree, having apparently died of starvation months before."

Danny winced at the last one. Danny then turned to Vlad.

"Well," Vlad explained, "I was on a trip to the Rocky Mountains. Given it was clear weather, we decided to camp out overnight. Now, in the middle of the night awoken by some noise from the tent. At first, I believed it was my father simply getting himself a midnight snack, as he sometimes did. However, I noticed that he was still in his sleeping back few feet away. I looked out of my tent and found myself staring a large beast, probably a few feet larger than me at the time, covered in white fur with large red eyes."

Danny blinked and said, "You saw bigfoot?"

Vlad said, "No…I saw a sasquatch. Bigfoot have brown or black fur, or so says the internet…I don't know for sure since I never saw it again."

This soon lead to other stories as Maddie and Jack began to tell of some of the various misadventures that they had gone on together, when they met Vlad, when the two started dating, and other stories.

With breakfast soon out of the way, Danny and his family spent the rest of the time around town. Vlad gave them the official tour of the local town, which didn't really have that much, though they did have a place with fresh pizza of any type. Again, to Danny's joy.

After that they, spent some time at the mansion just lazing around.

In a surprisingly short amount of time, it was time for the reunion. Danny sighed in boredom. The night had been boring all night. There was nothing to do right now except listen to older people reminisce about their high school and college years, and in some cases, their glory days, and watching them do some old out of style dance called the pogo.

This was why Danny found himself sitting at the snacks table, while Jazz was watching a rerunning movie in the theatre.

"Hello, Daniel," Vlad said, approaching the boy.

"Hey, Mr. Masters," Danny said, "And Danny please. Daniel is what I hear when I'm about to get scolded."

Vlad smiled and said, "Of course. To be honest, when I sent out the invitations for the party…I thought that it would be a bit more…entertaining. By the look on your face, you think so too."

Danny said, "Well, I didn't really have high hopes for my old man's glory days. No offense."

Vlad said, "Yes, well, listen. I have something that might help make things a bit more exciting. Upstairs, the second door on the right. I'll be up there shortly to help bring it down."

Danny blinked and said, "You aren't spiking the punch, are you? My dad's dancing is bad enough as it is."

The pair turned towards the dancing man, who was bouncing around doing the pogo, and knocking into people, much to Maddie's embarrassment.

"Thankfully, no," the man answered.

Danny nodded and said, "Okay."

Danny then made his way to go upstairs. As he left, Vlad turned towards where Jack was dancing, and his eyes narrowed, with his irises turning red.

'Soon Jack…soon everyone will know the man you truly are,' he thought bitterly before going upstairs.

With Danny…

Danny walked up the stairs and found the door Vlad had mentioned. He opened it and found himself in laboratory.

Danny whistled and said, "Wow…Vlad is just as much into ghost stuff as my parents are. I'm glad Jazz isn't hear because I'm afraid she'd tried to psychoanalyze the man."

Danny looked around the lab for a few minutes but didn't find anything. However, a photo caught his eyes. A picture of Jack, Maddie, and Vlad back in their college days. Danny blinked a she saw the portion of the photo was ripped out, Jack's face. Danny blinked in confusion and then his eyes widened in horror. He flashbacked to the portion of a photo that one of the three vultures had pulled from their hats.

"No way," Danny said.

"Actually, yes way."

Danny turned towards the voice on high alert but was shocked when he saw no one. Danny glanced around for the source, before a black cube slid at his feet. Before Danny could move, the box expanded, taking the shape of a much large cube, covered in green circuitry, covering most of Danny's body, leaving only his head visible.

Danny writhed around and tried to get out of it, only to realize he couldn't phase out of it.

"Don't look so surprised boy," Vlad said, coming out of the shadows, "that device is made to be completely ghost proof. You won't be able to get out of it, even if you wanted to."

Danny's eyes widened in shock and said, "It was you! You were the one who sent those vulture stooges to kill my dad!"

Vlad said, "Yes, I did…wait kill?"

Danny said, "Yeah, kill. They said they wanted to peck him to death."

Vlad facepalmed and said, "Damn it, I told them that I wanted him alive and to not peck him to death. Damn it, I knew I should have double checked the DNA I used when I spliced those vultures. Now I know what people mean when they say it is hard to find good help."

He took out a voice recorder and said, "Note to self, look for younger DNA when gene splicing. Age and its negative effects are apparent in splicing."

Danny blinked and asked, "You weren't going to kill him? What do you want him for then?"

The billionaire answered, "Revenge dear boy. For what that fat oaf did to me all those years ago."

Danny tried to get out of the box and asked, "Why? What did my dad do?"

Vlad raised an eyebrow and asked, "Oh, he didn't tell you, did he? Well, if you must know…your father tried to murder me."

Danny blinked in shock and said, "What?"

Vlad nodded, pulling down the collar on his neck revealing a wicked looking burn scar.

Vlad said, "Tell me boy, has your father completed his little ghost portal yet?"

Danny blinked in confusion, wondering what that had to do with this.

"Yeah…why?"

Vlad explained, "You see, when we were in college, your father, mother, and I, worked together on the prototype portal, a much smaller version from what your father has told me. You see, during our experiment of the prototype portal, your father activated it while I leaned in to examine it. The result was horrible. I don't remember much, other than incredible searing pain and the feeling of my skin peeling off."

Danny winced at that.

Vlad continued, "I was forced to spend most of my youth after that in the hospital recovering from the burns and radiation poisoning because of what your father did to me."

Danny said, "No way, my dad isn't a murderer! He can be a little reckless at times, but he's not a cold-blooded killer."

Vlad said, "Oh, you'd think so. I know what happened. Your father was jealous of me."

Danny said, "Hey, I won't pretend to know what went down between you and my old man, but I know my dad. I'm positive he didn't try to kill you! He isn't that kind of person. Clumsy and a little too gung ho, but he's not a killer."

Vlad said, "I am actually surprised to hear you defend him. Given he apparently did the same thing to us both."

Danny looked confused at that remark. Vlad simply smirked before a pair of black rings formed around his waist. Splitting in different directions and in Vlad's place was the vampiric ghost from last night.

"You!?" Danny yelled.

Vlad said, "Surprised? After being exposed to the ecto-energy in my burns, I found myself able to take on a ghostly form. Though, as you can tell, I don't get to keep my good looks when I change."

Danny glared at Vlad and tried to transform to fight him but found he couldn't transform.

Vlad said, "Oh stop. That device was made to hold back ghosts much stronger than you boy. Though, I'm a bit surprised that Jack would attempt to kill his own son."

Danny yelled, "He didn't try to kill me. It was an accident. He, Jazz, and mom weren't even home when it happened."

Vlad blinked and said, "Hm…well…unexpected. However, as much as I would like to spend time debating with you, Daniel. I have some revenge to complete."

Danny said, "I'm not going to let you kill my dad."

Vlad laughed and said, "Oh, I'll admit I did want to kill your father in revenge, but then I thought, why would I stoop to his level? Any idiot can kill someone else, I have something so much better planned."

Danny blinked and asked, "What do you intend to do?"

Vlad said, "What do you expect me to do, stand here and monolog about my plan?"

Danny looked somewhat sheepish as he nodded.

Vlad laughed and said, "Of course you did. What do you think I am? A 007 villain?"

With that, Vlad flew out of the room.

Downstairs, Plasmius flew silently to the lower floor. He then created a duplicate who transformed back into Vlad, who then proceeded to mingle with the guests.

Meanwhile, Danny was struggling to get out of the box he was in.

"Damn it," Danny muttered, "How do I get out of this thing?"

Suddenly, Danny felt his ghost sense go off causing him to sigh and grumble, "Oh great, now what?"

A new ghost entered the room through the ceiling. He was an old man with white hair and mustache, wearing a red robe with white, black dotted fur, and a crown that had a large piece of cheese under it, and held a gold scepter with an ice cream cone decorating the top of it.

"Uh…I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you're the dairy king," Danny said, seeing the cheese and ice cream.

The dairy king smile and said, "Yeah, I am don't ya know? This used to be my place before that Vlad guy moved. Nice guy once you get to know him."

Danny said, "Yeah, well he's planning something involving my dad. You think you can help me?"

The dairy king said, "Sure, but don't expect me to fight. Kings normally send people to fight for them, don't ya know?"

The ghostly king approached the box and pressed a red button that was present on the front of the cube, well out of Danny's reach. The cube retracted, and Danny stood up, glad to be free of the device. In a flash of light, Danny transformed and said, "Thanks."

With that, Danny flew over to the party and looked around. Invisible, he saw Vlad walking in a different part of the room. Danny blinked in confusion at seeing Vlad move away from his old man. Danny took a deep breath and exhaled. His ghost sense split in two. One going towards the Vlad duplicate and the other towards the real one. It also had an unexpected effect of making some of the guests shiver and mention the air conditioner.

Seeing the mist near his father, Danny immediately shot forward, his speed making it seem like there was a small breeze in the room.

Danny turned intangible and tackled the intangible ghost. Unfortunately, in Danny's rush, he didn't consider the result of his actions. As a result, both ghosts slammed into Jack's body. Jack stumbled and brought a hand to his head as he was hit with a sudden feeling of wooziness.

"Jack?" Maddie asked, noticing her husband's sudden movement, "Are you okay?"

The Fenton patriarch rubbed his head and said, "I'm fine. I just need some time to sit down."

Inside of Jack…

The two ghosts slammed down hard and groaned as they stood up. Danny rubbed his head and looked up. Danny's eyes widened at the sky, realizing that this wasn't something he was used to.

It looked like Amity Park, but it seemed different. The sun was shining, the Fenton logo was on everything, a river of ranch dressing was flowing next to a forest of trees made from various types of fudge, and some with fried cheese sticks growing on them. a massive statue of Maddie, Jazz, and himself in the center of the town.

"What the heck is this?" Danny asked, confused, "This looks like something my dad would do fi he was in charge of construction."

Vlad groaned as he stood up and said, "It would appear that we have entered Jack's mindscape."

Danny asked, "Mindscape?"

Vlad sighed and said, "Again with the year one talk. Have you ever overshadowed someone?"

Upon seeing Danny nod, Vlad answered, "The mindscape is a step deeper than that. You can enter a person's body without them even knowing. From here you can manipulate them subtly, without your personality taking over. You can see their thoughts, their dreams, their memories…"

Vlad trailed off.

"Boy," the older half-breed said, "You don't believe that your father tried to kill me. I can officially prove your wrong in here."

Danny asked, "What do you mean?"

Vlad said, "Here we can observe your father's memory of his attempt to get rid of me. Then we'll have irrefutable proof of what your father did to me."

Danny blinked and rubbed his chin in thought. A part of him wanted to prove Vlad wrong, but another part of him was nervous about him walking around in here.

"How do I know that you won't do anything to mess up my dad?" Danny said, "You told me that you can manipulate someone from the mindscape. How do I know you won't tear out my dad's memory to breath or something while we are in there?"

Vlad sighed and said, "Daniel, I have no intention of killing your father. We have been over this."

Danny said, "You thrashed me with a bunch of clones and drove me into the floor with a demon cape. Not to mention my old man. How do I know you aren't lying to me?"

Vlad said, "Well, given the fact that you haven't been here before, I know the way out, and you don't. If you allow me to show you the memory, then I will help you figure out how to leave. If you don't then you are stuck here. Your choice."

Danny said, "That's not a choice! That's an ultimatum!"

Vlad said, "I'm surprised you know what that means."

Danny grumbled to himself and thought it over. As much as he didn't want to admit it, Vlad was possibly his only way of getting out of here. He could try getting out of here o hi own, but he didn't want to risk damaging his father's brains. He also didn't like the idea of his Plasmius running around in here.

"Fine…" Danny said, before something occurred to him, "Wait…you can't manipulate memories while you are in here, can you?"

Vlad answered, "No. I tried once when I messed up with an old girlfriend and…it ended poorly. You don't want to know the specifics."

Danny sighed and said, "Fine. But I do so under protest! Oh great, now I'm starting to sound like Sam."

Vlad smiled and said, "Excellent. Now then, is ther ea place your father spends a good amount of time."

Danny thought about it for a moment and said, "I think the lab at home."

With a destination in mind, Vlad and Danny took off into the sky. The two flew through the warped and strange town. Danny shuddered slightly as he realized just how in touch, Jack was with his inner child, especially when he saw ponies running through the town.

"Dad always did say he wanted a pony," Danny said, as they flew.

Vlad said, "I'm going to need to wash my brain after we get out of here."

The two half breeds flew through the mental sky until they came across the Fenton home.

Vlad looked the house over and said, "I must admit, he does seem to have a vivid imagination of a house for ghost hunters."

Danny said, "Actually, our house looks like this in real life."

Vlad looked at Danny in shock before he said, "He really needs to learn the meaning of the word subtle."

Danny had to agree with that as they both flew into the home. Danny walked through the house and saw nobody was home. There were piles of food on the table, which Danny recognized as all his father's favorite meals.

Danny shuddered at the thought of seeing his old man pig out like crazy on the stuff. Pushing that thought to the back of his mind, Danny walked through the living room and into the basement. Danny was surprised to not see anything that looked memories, but he did see a bunch of papers flying around.

"I take it that these aren't what we are looking for?" Danny said, as he looked around.

Vlad grabbed one of the papers and saw that it was a incomplete blueprint that looked like it utilized some form of lightning rod.

Vlad said, "No, I believe this is your father's creative center, where he comes up with the idea for weapons and inventions. We're close, but we are probably looking in the wrong place. Any other ideas?"

Danny said, "Well, there's the observation center up top."

A new destination in mind, the two flew through the roof and found themselves in the bizarre UFO shaped structure on top of the tower. There the two saw there was nothing out of the ordinary. Danny scratched his head while Vlad groaned in frustration.

"Oh, come on," Vlad said, "It has to be here somewhere."

It was at that moment, that Danny realized something. He walked over to the nearby fridge and opened the freezer compartment. Next to the ham, Danny saw a bright red button. Danny reached out and pressed it, causing the floor to open.

The two stepped back as it did, as images began to rise out of the ground.

Vlad smiled as he realized these were Jack's memories.

The older half ghost walked towards them. Danny made a move to stop him, but Vlad made a motion for him not to.

Vlad then moved his hand gently over the memories and move them upwards, like scrolling down with a handheld device. He moved a bit faster to go back farther and stopped when he found something.

He pressed the memory and it began to play.

"Madeline Emily Jefferson…will you marry me?" Jack asked, as he was on one knee with a velvet box in his hand.

"Oh Jack," Maddie said, tears burning in her eyes, "I will!"

Jack looked shocked and said, "Wait, you actually do want to marry me? Yes, I'm not crazy! In your face Mrs. Jefferson!"

Maddie looked confused before Jack swept her off her feet, bridal style, and kissed her. Maddie simply shrugged and embraced her new fiancé.

"Huh…a private moment in the park," Vlad said, "I was expecting him to pop the questions via writing on a blimp, or something a lot less subtle."

Danny said, "Yeah, he said he considered that, but he didn't have the money…wait why are we doing this, I thought we were trying to see your proof of my dad being a killer…still sounds wrong to say."

Vlad explained, "Oh, we are. I just wanted to satisfy some personal curiosity. Moving on."

Vlad began scrolling through memories again. He went past an image of Jazz and Danny playing as toddlers, Jazz's birth, their wedding, thankfully the wedding night was blacked out with an age restriction, of all things, the bachelor party, also blocked, and college graduation. Realizing he was close, Vlad moved his forward more slowly before coming across the younger trio in a lab.

Vlad smirked as he pressed the memory and it began to play.

Vlad examined the small prototype portal up close, the portal being in one of the isolation tanks used for experiments with gas. The device itself was connected a small generator sitting on a station a few feet away, with Maddie going over the generator. I was going over the notes of the projects and drinking some soda.

"Jack are you sure this project is going to work?" Vlad asked, breaking me from my work.

I smiled and answered, "No problem, V-man, Maddie and I triple-checked the numbers. The portal should work this time. If not…well, you know how I like to quote Thomas Edison."

Vlad sighed and said, "I know, Jack. I know. Okay, are we ready?"

Maddie took the notes from me gently and said, "Jack, I'll check the notes. You go prepare the ecto-purifier in the generator."

"This where it happened," Vlad said as he watched the memory.

I nodded and walked over to the device, picking up the canister of purifier. Double checking to make sure I hadn't picked up a beaker of something else. Maddie still gave me a hard time about that little mix up.

I then turned and called, "Hey, Vlad could you double check the cables connected to the portal?"

As I spoke, I poured the liquid inside. As I finished I heard Vlad close the tank.

I took the remote to activate the portal and said, "Get clear."

We all put on our goggles and yelling "Banzai", I pressed the button. The portal roared to life briefly before only producing a few sparks before the power fizzled out.

I groaned in frustration, moving my goggles, and said, "Oh, it should have worked. Maddie are you sure the math was right? You did say one integer could lead to failure?"

The young woman answered, "It should have. Let me triple check. I did work late last night. I might have missed something."

Vlad said, "I'll check the portal. Jack you check the generator."

Vlad opened the isolation chamber and approached the device.

I moved back to the generator and began examining the cables. I examined the cables and found nothing wrong. Getting an idea, I gave the device a small smack. The generator rumbled, and I was aware of a flash of light behind me, and screams of agony.

I spun around and saw Vlad on the ground, clutching his face, his mullet now white as snow and burns covering his face.

"Vlad!" I yelled out, panic running through me, "Maddie call 911!"

Maddie stumbled with her phone as I grabbed a first aid kit and began pulling out some bandages and burn cream. We stayed with Vlad as the paramedics took him away. A part of me always wanted to ride in an ambulance, but not like this.

Danny winced at the sight of Vlad getting blasted by the portal, the memory of his own accident hitting him like a truck. He felt a twinge of phantom pain. meanwhile, the two could feel intense guilt coming off Jack's memory like a flood. Vlad stared in dumb shock as the truth was revealed to him.

Danny stared at the memory and said, "Oh man, that had to hurt, and I should know."

Danny turned towards Vlad and saw the vampiric ghost just staring his eyes wide in shock.

"It…it was an accident?" he said aloud, "He didn't…all these years…why didn't he?"

Danny asked, "Vlad?"

Vlad said, "He didn't even call. No letters. Nothing. He could have cleared all this up years ago. Why didn't he?"

Danny said, "Vlad…you felt the guilt he had for causing the accident. Besides if you hadn't seen this…would you have believed him?"

Vlad hung his head and after a minute to collect himself. He flew off without a word. Danny flew after him, following the man. Vlad took off into the mental sky and after flying high enough they phased out of Jack's body. Danny flew into a hall and changed back into his human form.

Danny then looked to see Vlad mingling with his guests, though, whether it was the real him or the duplicate from earlier was yet to be determined.

Danny was pulled from his thoughts when Maddie, with Jazz, approached him and said, "Come on, sweetie, it's time for us to go."

Jack approached and said, "Yeah. We should get home in record time with no traffic.

Jazz agreed and said, "Good. All this cheese is making me lactose intolerant."

Danny walked with his father, glancing back at Vlad, who just looked at them as they left. He kept glancing back at the manor in the RV's mirrors as they drove. As he did, he noticed a figure standing in the window, watching them as they drove off.

Inside the castle, Vlad sighed as he turned to return to the party. Though, he seemed calmer, a part of him were in turmoil as he thought about what do now that revenge was not his goal.

Cut! Well, that was a bit harder than I thought it would be. Sorry for the wait, I've been a bit busy with finals and trying to find a way to write Vlad out of the villain thing without being a copout.

Okay, now I was originally planning to make Vlad an enemy for Danny, but then I thought about some of the other monsters, demons, beasts, and other stuff Danny would have to deal with and realized that Vlad would eventually become small potatoes compared to them.

Now there are a few things here. Vlad mainly used his powers for financial gain and experimentation. I don't think he murdered anyone, even in canon. In canon, it was Jack's fault that Vlad got ecto acne due to the soda mistake, and Vlad's crush, obsession with Maddie being "stolen" by Jack. In this case, Vlad was horribly burned and left in the hospital with radiation poisoning, which he survived, but he blamed Jack and thought it was an attempt to kill him out of jealousy. However, it was merely faulty equipment. Now that Vlad knows the truth he has no reason, he is not going to get revenge on Jack, but don't expect him to, in the words of Dr. Penguin aka Roger the Alien from American Dad, "Get Over It". There will be some resentment towards Jack, but don't expect any killing any time soon.

Also the memory was from Jack's point of view, so that clears that up. If you were confused at that part of the story.

Criticism is welcome, flames are ignored. Suggestions are hoped for.