Danni's POV
Just after Sammy landed, our Ghost Sense went off. [Don't do anything, Danni. For all we know the ghosts may assume that I'm Dad's past form.] Sammy warned me. {Ok, Big Brother. I promise to avoid fighting in ghost form this time.}
With that being said, I quickly slid my shoes off and tied the laces together. Sammy was looking for the threat while I did this.
"Well, if it isn't Daniel and Samantha come to visit their future," a voice said. The ghost revealed itself as none other than Dad's archenemy, Vlad Plasmius/Masters. "What do you want this time Masters," my brother, glaring at him demanded. "You're not welcomed here after what you did."
"Come now my boy, I just want one thing. Namely you. You've gotten to be one of the most powerful ghosts in the Ghost Zone, aside from the Twins," he said. "I've alerted some of my associates about the twins possibly having ghost powers. (noting the look on Sammy's face, he continued) Oh, I know about the brats."
"Just leave, before I make you," Sammy warned the fruitloop, "As I said before, you're not welcome here." Sammy gave me the signal and I started whirling my sneakers, preparing to throw them at Vlad. "Come now, Samantha. Shoes can't hurt me, unless I allow them to," he gloated. I just grin, "That's what you think, ya Fruitloop." I then throw my shoes at the lunatic. They connected with his face. Serves you right for kidnapping me in the past. "Is that any way to treat your elders, young lady," he taunts. "One, I am NOT a lady, ya whacked-out lunatic. Two, you aren't one to be respected. After what you did, you're lucky I didn't throw anything else at you. And three, turn around," I tell him. The 'real' Danny showed up just then. He had heard nearly everything and from the looks of it was going to play along. "Miss me," he tells a shocked Vlad, before introducing him to a snow-bomb. Once Vlad was finished getting pelted by Sammy and Danny (and occasionally my sneakers), not only was he freezing, but he looked like he was going to have some severe bruising for a week.
Danny's POV
After leaving the others to find out if Sammy found Danni, I heard voices. I went ghost behind the nearest bushes and headed towards them. I found out that Vlad was back and had assumed that Sammy was me and that Danni was Sam. She was apparently starting to get annoyed with it, because she threw her high-top sneakers at his face and connected. That must have hurt. Well, that, and those shoes aren't light. "Until the next time, brats," Vlad warned before flying off.
"So, um, which Vlad was that," I asked Sammy while we were flying to his house. Danni was being carried by Sammy, as he told her not to change. "That was the loony-bin from this time. He wasn't supposed to come back here after he tried to kill Gramps, and destroy the planet," Sammy explained.
"By the way, Danni. Great aim with the shoes. But why throw them when he could have let them pass," I ask her.
"Dad coated them with a special spray so that I wouldn't lose them when I went running. He said that it would prevent my phasing through them and lower my tripping rate from it," She admitted. Oh. That explains it. "I figured that since he thought that Sammy was you and I was Sam, I may as well play the part, though I doubt that Mom would have thrown her boots at the moron."
"Actually, I've been tempted on occasion," Sam said walking up. "We were worried when you guys didn't come back. Alex and Dani took Tucker to the house so that his future self could lecture him on the way he talks to Danni. He looked really upset with Tuck."
"I guess I need to explain why I'm like that, huh," Danni asks sheepishly.
Danni's POV
"I have been wondering why you took off like that after Tucker asked you," Danny admitted. Sammy and I sighed. "Let's go get you something, Danni," Sammy said hoping to cheer me up. I nodded. After buying a cold soda from a nearby vendor, Sammy and I tried our best to explain what we could.
"Since we got some of our powers at eight, I've had a really bad thing for sweets. Sammy took to hiding his candy from me after I took all of the sixlets and ended up having a really bad sugar-high. I couldn't resist sweets if they were within reach at home. Mom had to limit the sweets after finding out about a particularly bad episode. Dad chalked it up to Gramps's influence at first," I start.
"After we 'changed' at ten, Danni's sugar thing extended to cold sweets while I went after spicy foods whenever I got the chance. We can't really explain why, but…" Sammy started before being interrupted.
"But I can." We turned to see Dad walking towards our table. "Dani told me a bit about what happened. I've never seen your uncle so upset with 'himself' before, but now I've got a whole 'new' understanding of the phrase 'talking to yourself'," Dad joked before returning to the topic at hand. "I'm surprised that you've not figured it out yet, kids. I was hoping that we wouldn't have to go over this, but now you've got to know. Since your first transformation, the two of you have a certain need for the opposite temperature of what you had then."
"So being that I was freezing, I crave hot and spicy foods? And since Danni had that fever, she needs cold and sweet things," Sammy asks.
"Plus the two of you draw on each other for strength. That's why I've been trying to train you in strengthening that bond," Dad tells us.
"So what's going on with Tucker and Uncle Tuck," I ask.