First thing I wanna do is remind people that this entire story is NOT to be considered part of my fake season four story line. It is the original version of the updated version which can be seen on my profile. Anything read in this story should NOT be considered part of the story line I have written, even if some elements have been carried over into the other stories.

From this point forward, you should also take into account that Danny's friendship with my OC Kim is staying just that, they are remaining friends in the updated version. Kim no longer has feelings for Danny and so therefore no romantic relationship will EVER happen between them. As much as I support DannyxOC, I'm trying to keep my stories as close to the original episodes as possible, which includes keeping Danny's relationship with Sam intact.

A few elements from this chapter will be retained in the future update of this story.

Chapter 7- A Thorn in Vlad's Side:

It was still dark out as the full moon hung high in the sky. The three ecto-American vultures flew in front of the moon as they passed over Amity Park; a dark and deserted ghost town, no pun intended.

As the vultures went out of sight; Danny, Danielle, Jazz, Kim and Wulf became visible behind a tree line of the woods on the outskirts of town.

"I can't believe we were able to escape so easily," Danielle said as she looked out over the empty space between them and the edge of their home town. She looked down and lowered her eyebrows when she noticed she was still wearing her black and white prison strips.

She grunted as she pulled the shirt off and phased her way out of the pants by walking out of them. Growing tired of being in her ghost form, she transformed herself into her human form as Danny and the two other girls took their prison strips off as well.

"I still don't know how we were able to escape so well," Kim said as she tossed her prison clothing to the ground. She looked up and shrieked when she saw Wulf looking down at her.

"Don't worry Kim," Danny reassured her as he patted Wulf on the back of the head making him pant and wag his tail happily. "Wulf and I go way back."

"I think I remember seeing him once," Jazz said as she pondered. She walked up to the giant K9 and examined him up close.

*"Kio estas vi faranta?" he asked in Esperanto, causing Kim to cock an eyebrow at him. Jazz reached out and lightly touched his claws which he had yet to retract. He snarled at her, causing her to jump and hide behind Danny who simply laughed.

*What are you doing?

"He was with Walker when they tried to take over the town and turn me into public enemy number one," Danny answered as he calmed his sister and the giant ghost dog down. *"Prenas ĝi facila knabo, facile," he reassured the ghost dog.

*Take it easy boy, easy

"Danny, was that Esperanto you were just speaking?" Kim questioned him.

He turned to her and looked a little startled. "Ya…how did you know?" he asked, but he got his answer as Kim stepped up to the big ghost dog.

He was about to snarl at her too but she spoke up before he did. "Umm…*Dankonas vi," she said nervously. Wulf's angered expression changed that to a friendlier one before he licked her face, leaving behind a green slime. "Eww," she whispered as she shuddered in disgust.

*Thank you

"Kim, you speak Esperanto?" Danny asked her. He was quite shocked by this.

"Well ya, what part of I used to be a techno-geek back at my old high school did you forget when I told you back when we first met?" she asked with a slight chuckle before she turned back to Wulf. "Alright, hopefully I'm not that rusty," she whispered to herself. *"Ni devas helpon batalanta Vlad, povas vi helpas nin?" she asked as simply as she could.

*We need help fighting Vlad, can you help us?

Wulf seemed confused at first but he answered swiftly. *"Li estas la kialo mi liberigis vin ĉiujn. La mondo estas en tuta kaoso kaj ĝi estas gunna preni pli da ol juste ni preni lin kaj liajn fantomajn adeptojn malsupren."

* He is the reason I freed all of you. The world is in utter chaos and it's gunna take more than just us to take him and his ghostly followers down

Kim gulped nervously. "That's what I was afraid of," she said fearfully.

"Kim, I can speak enough Esperanto to get by, but I'm lost in what he said," Danny mentioned. "Care to translate for us?"

"He says that Vlad has the world in utter chaos and its gunna take more than just us kids to take him down," Kim informed them sadly. "We need more help than what we have now."

"I have got to learn how to speak this language," Danielle said as she looked up at her older sister. "It sounds pretty cool, and I can talk to others and nobody would be any the wiser as to what I'm saying," she said with a grin.

"Now's not the time to worry about that Dani," Jazz scolded her. "Kim, ask him if he knows where our family and friends are?" Jazz asked her friend.

Kim nodded before she looked up at the ghost dog. *"Kio pri niaj amikoj kaj familio? Faras vi scias kie ili estas?"

*What about our friends and family? Do you know where they are?

*" Vlad havas ilin jailed for en lia kastelo. Ili estas multe gardita sed se ili elakiras min estas certe ili estus de granda uzo al la rezisto," Wulf answered as best as he could.

* Vlad has them jailed away in his castle. They are heavily guarded but if they get out I'm sure they would be of great use to the resistance

"He says that Vlad has them locked up in his castle and that they are heavily guarded," Kim translated for the others. "He also says that if they were to get out, he's sure they would be of great use to the resistance," she mentioned with a slight tilt of the head and a cocked eyebrow.

Danny was rather shocked by this. "Resistance? What resistance?" Danny asked loudly.

Wulf didn't need a translator to know what he asked. *"Malgranda grupo de fantomoj prenis supre la libereco de batalanta kontraŭ Vlad kaj liaj adeptoj," Wulf stated.

* A small group of ghosts has taken up the liberty of fighting against Vlad and his followers

"He says that a small group of ghosts has taken up the challenge of fighting against Vlad and his followers," Kim told them. "As it seems, some ghosts are fighting for the Earth's freedom," she said happily.

"No, they're fighting for the ghost zone," Danielle said as she shook her head. "They don't care about the Earth; they just want their homes to be free from his grasp."

"She's right," Danny said sadly. "While we may all be against Vlad, only those that are our allies already will fight alongside us. Everyone else is only fighting for their own benefits."

"Well Danny, you've formed unlikely alliances with your enemies in the worst of times," Jazz reminded him. "This isn't any different, you can fight alongside everyone on our side, then they can just go back to kicking our butts later."

"Sounds like a plan to me," Kim agreed. "We just need to get our hands on some ghost weapons and then we have to find our way to Wisconsin which is like a four hour drive. Don't even get me started on walking time."

"We don't have to walk; Danny and I can fly there in no time flat," Danielle said as she waved her hand out in front of her.

"Get ready Vlad, we're coming for you and you're gunna pay for all that you've done," Danny said with an angered glare. Dramatic music plays in the background as the scene zooms in on his face before fading away to a dark basement cellar with multiple dank jail cells.

One of the jail cells was made of ecto-energy and housed Cujo as he laid hog tied on the floor. The other cells were your normal metal bars. Jack and Maddie were in one cell; Kim's parent's and Ron were in the next one over.

Across the room from them were two other cells that contained Sam and her parents while the other contained Tucker and his parents.

"I can't believe we are going through all of this again," Sam's mother said angrily.

"This is all Fenton's fault," Sam's father responded angrily as he scowled through the bars at Mr. and Mrs. Fenton.

"HEY! Vlad is the one that locked us up in here not us!" Jack yelled back in retaliation.

"Jack let it go," Maddie said sadly as she placed a hand on his shoulder. "On some level I almost think it is our fault. Our kids are out there, alone and afraid. Danielle doesn't have access to her Ritalin!" she fretted.

"Fear not Maddie, for she's with Danny and Jazz and we know more than anything else is that they would never let anything happen to her or themselves," Jack said proudly. "We just have to wait for them to come rescue us is all."

"I'd rather find my own way out of here before I let Danny rescue me," Sam spat as she sat in a dark corner of her cell. Her parents seemed rather pleased at how angry she was with him.

"Sam will you drop it already," Tucker scolded the Goth girl. "Danny has always been there for us; we've been his friends forever and I see no reason to turn our backs on him now." His words were slowly starting to have an effect on her.

"I know," she said sadly. "But how can I forgive him after what he did to me?" she asked desperately, although out of slight anger.

"Sam, he would never do that to you," Tucker reassured her. "He loved you then, he loves you now, and he always will. You just have to fight to keep your relationship standing."

"But he went to that stupid dance with Kim!" she yelled at him, making everyone jump at her sudden outburst. She reached through the bars separating the cells and grabbed him by his back pack straps. "He knew how much that would hurt me, and now he's probably dating her because of it," she wept. She let him go and backed away to her dark corner again and started crying.

"Sam, he didn't go with her as a date," Ron spoke up. Everyone turned their attention to him as he stood up from a bed of straw he had made for himself. "We asked him to get Ember to sing and they only went as friends, nothing more, nothing less. If you had let him explain like he wanted to, you'd already know that," he scolded her.

"You were too mad to take into reasoning that there was a logical explanation, and now you have to be the one that fixes things," Tucker said as he pointed at her.

All of this hit her hard. "What have I done?" she asked herself as she continued to weep into her hands. "I've got to make it up to him, but he probably won't even look at me let alone speak to me now," she said sadly.

"He would listen Sam," Ron informed her. "If you confide in him you can fix things with him, but you have to fix things now."

"He tried to do that before but you blew him off," Tucker continued. "If you want things to go back to normal, you have to fix things with him."

"This goes against my Gothic nature, but I don't really have a choice," Sam said as she dried her tears. "Well at least we can help him in any way we can possible, and I think we can start by getting ourselves out of here so we can help him fight Vlad."

"We need a plan for that though," Ron pointed out. "How do you plan to get us all out of here?"

Sam thought to herself for a moment as she looked around the basement they were being held captive in. Her eyes fell on Cujo as he slept hog-tied in an energy cage across the room. She looked above him to see all of the keys to the cells hanging on the wall. She looked down to her spider back pack which had not been confiscated when they were brought here.

She smirked as she started rummaging through it. After a moment of searching, she grinned before pulling out a toy cat squeaky. "This should do just nicely," she said with a smirk as she walked to the edge of the cell.

She put her hand through and squeaked the toy, waking Cujo up from his sleep. He yawned before he saw the toy she was holding. He growled and struggled against the binds tying his feet together.

"Common Cujo, you can do it," Sam encouraged him as she continued to squeak the toy.

Cujo started barking madly as he rolled around his energy cage. His eyes started glowing solid bright red before he stretched out his legs, shredding the bindings off his feet.

He growled and barked loudly as he increased his size. He became too big for the cage and so was able to blow it apart as it strained to contain his massive size. He howled after growing into his adult form.

Sam threw the toy to the ground before he could grab it out of her hand, he would have torn her arm off getting to it. He dove for it and started chewing on it like a little puppy while still in his adult form.

"Alright!" Maddie cheered for the giant dog. "Now he can get us the keys on the wall and we can get out of here," she said happily.

"Then we can find my confiscated weapons and tear Vlad apart molecule by molecule!" Jack yelled to the heavens in angry.

"That's the idea," Sam said with a grin before she stuck her fingers into her mouth and whistled to get the ghost dog's attention.

He looked up at her with the toy in his mouth. He dropped the toy and started panting happily before he rushed over to the cell and licked her through the bars.

"Alright, go over to the wall and bring me back the keys to the cell," she ordered the dog, ignoring that she was now covered in green dog saliva.

He barked happily as he rushed over to the keys and grabbed them off the wall. He pranced back over to Sam and dropped the keys into her open hand.

"Why thank you," she said happily as she accepted the keys. After shaking the drool off them, she unlocked her family's cage before she rushed over and unlocked the other three cages, freeing the others.

They all rush up the stairs out of the basement. Jack uses his immense size to slam the door open. They rush into a large corridor lit with torches all along the length of the long corridors.

Tucker used his PDA to lead them through the labyrinth of hallways they came across for about an hour. Vlad's castle was larger than originally thought. "Well this place has been destroyed and rebuilt a few times so maybe he made it harder to get around on purpose," Tucker figured as they all came to a dead end.

"This is taking forever," Sam said in a hushed frustrated tone. They all jumped when they heard two people talking as they approached from a distance. They all huddled into a group against a wall so as not to be seen when a large silhouetted figure floated by them.

"This new system you designed for my suit has way too many glitches," Skulker said as he appeared to pound on his suit.

"Hey, this is the best I could come up with on such short notice," Technus replied. "Had I been given more time I'd have been able to make something a bit more stable."

"Stabilize this," Skulker said angrily before his silhouette punched itself in the chest.

"Hey! Watch it!" Technus yelled as the silhouette disappeared down yet another corridor.

"That was way too close," Tucker sighed with relief as he leaned on a door handle. The door was unlocked so it opened up when he leaned on it. "Whoa," he said as he pushed the door the rest of the way open.

"What?" Sam, Jack and Maddie asked as the four of them peered into the dark room.

It was a small room, no larger than a broom closet, but inside piled into a heap on the floor were all of Jack's confiscated anti-ghost weapons.

"Jackpot!" Jack yelled excitedly as he dove into the room and grabbed up a bunch of weapons. He tossed a few guns to Maddie and some smaller weapons to Sam, Tucker and Ron. He also tossed them each a Fenton thermos. He gave Sam a Fenton Peeler and kept another for himself. "Any of you want something to fight back with?" he asked Sam's, Tucker's and Kim's parents.

"Sorry, not a fighter," Tucker's father said as he shook his hands in refusal.

"Not sorry Fenton," Sam's father said in a rude tone.

"But we will not stoop to the same level as our daughter, let alone your degrading family," Sam's mother said in a very rude manner.

"This degrading family is going to save your butt missy," Ron said to her in the same rude manner, defending his girlfriend's family.

"We would, but we wouldn't know how to use your equipment," Kim's father refused.

"We'd be more in the way than we would be helpful," Kim's mother said in an innocent tone. "We'd love to help in any way that we can though," she said before she had a Fenton thermos shoved into her hands.

"Aim at a ghost and press the button," Maddie explained as she flipped her hood up and over her head. "Now let's get out of here and find our kids," she said heroically before she ran down the corridor with a battle cry.

"Oh man that is hot!" Jack said happily before he gave chase to his wife. Ron and his parents followed shortly behind them.

"Common Tucker, we have to move," Sam yelled to him before she also gave chase.

"If you guys aren't going to fight with us then at least stay out of the way until we can clear a path out of here, then you guys can make for the safety of the woods," he instructed his and Sam's parents before they all took off around the corner of the corridor.

As they ran along, they passed by a little Vlad shaped beetle on the ceiling as it kept watch on them.

In another room of the castle, a TV monitor flickered to life before it showed them running down the long corridor, weapons ready to fire on anything that moved.

Vlad in his human form stepped up to the monitor and pushed a button to show Danny and Danielle flying at full speed as they approached his castle. Below them Jazz and Kim were clutching onto Wulf as he ran at full speed through a thicket of trees.

"So it would seem they have all broken out of their designated prisons," he implied to himself as he pondered on what to do. "They are all starting to become annoying thorns in my side. No matter, I expected them to do this sooner or later, it's just a lot sooner than expected, they are no threat to me but I must act swiftly. I don't want them foiling me like always; I've planned this out for too long for that to happen."

He turned and turned into his ghost form as he walked up to two cloning chambers. Two pairs of glowing red eyes appeared inside before the cloning chambers opened to reveal the evil versions of Danny and Danielle. "What is thy biding father," they asked as they bowed before his presence.

"It would seem Daniel, his sisters and my niece have broken out of Walker's prison and are on their way here as we speak," he informed them. They looked up at him and growled in angry upon hearing the news. "Go outside and stay hidden until they get here. When they arrive, do as you please with them, but don't kill them…yet," he said with an evil grin.

They returned the same evil grin, then without saying anything, they disappeared in a swirl of pink smoke as they teleported outside to hide.

A silhouetted figure appeared in the shadows behind Vlad seconds later. "Skulker, I have a task for you as well," Vlad said with a grin. He didn't have to turn around to know who it was but he was only half right.

"He is not the only one of us here you know," Technus spoke up, causing Vlad to cock an eyebrow. He turned around just as a primitive Skulk-Tech entered the light from the shadows.

"We are no longer Skulker or Technus," Skulker said with a grin.

"Instead we are together as one," Technus said with an evil laughter on his voice. "We are Skulk-Tech 5.7!" he shouted as they raised their arms into the air.

A few sparks are let off before a puff of smoke emerges from every crack in the suit. "Well there are still a few kinks to work out," Skulker said as he looked worryingly at his hand. "But none the less we are more powerful than either of us was separately, and with this increase in power we can take on almost any enemy that comes our way."

"What is the task you have in mind for us oh great one?" Technus asked with an evil grin of interest.

"My prisoners have escaped from their jail in the basement and are running amuck through the corridors," Vlad informed them…him…Skulk-Tech. "Your conjoinment will serve you well, so I want you to go after them and capture them by any means necessary. I don't want them interfering with my plans."

"You got it," Skulker and Technus said in unison as they saluted. They turned intangible and phased through a wall. Vlad smirks before he starts laughing evilly.

The entire group of escaped prisoners slinked their ways through the dark corridors as they search for a way out of the castle. Tucker was still trying to lead them out with his PDA's GPS, but it was all fuzzy and was showing a blue print of an older version of the castle. It had been rebuilt so many times the current GPS coordinates were way off.

"Think you can get that thing working anytime soon?" Sam asked him in a frustrated tone. "We're on a deadline!"

"Will you please be quiet," Tucker hushed her. "I'm trying to concentrate, and this thing is giving me enough trouble without you yelling in my ear."

"If we don't get out of here, I'm blaming it all on Fenton," Sam's father said smugly.

"I already blame him," Sam's mother said in the same smug tone. "This place has been destroyed because of that family."

"Oh sure blame it on us," Jack as he held up his Fenton Peeler.

"Jack, let it go," Maddie said as she put a hand on his weapon and pushed it down. "The sooner we get out of here the sooner we can get away from them."

They came to the end of the corridor to find a double door that was unlike all of the other single doors they had come across. They opened it up to find themselves on a balcony just above the Entry Chamber to the castle. Below them was the entrance, or in their case, the exit to the castle.

"Well it's about time," Tucker's mother sighed with relief as she, her husband and Sam's parents all ran for the steps.

Kim's parents started down the steps but halfway down they were suddenly shot at, they were trapped in a glowing blue net before they rolled to the bottom of the steps.

Everyone gasped as Skulker and Technus laughed evilly. They looked up to see Skulk-Tech descend from the shadows before he hovered over Kim's fallen and trapped parents.

"Good luck with this Fenton," Sam's father yelled to them mockingly before he and his wife ran out the doors to the castle and made for the woods. Tucker's parents wanted to stay and help but they would have just gotten in the way so they decided to make for the woods as well.

"Does all of this seem too familiar to you?' Tucker asked Sam in a slightly terrified tone.

"Oh ya," Sam replied in the same frightened tone. "Only, they look like a primitive version," she observed.

"We are Skulk-Tech 5.7," Skulker said, introducing their new form.

"We have combined forces and now we shall cook your bacon," Technus said lamely.

"Skulker and Technus together as one?" Ron asked with a cocked eyebrow. "Umm, eww."

"Actually, it's more of a Yikes," Sam informed him.

"A primitive Yikes," Tucker corrected her as a few sparks flew off Skulk-Techs body. "I could hack into Skulk-Tech 9.9's system, if these guys are a primitive version I should still be able to hack into it," he said as he tapped his PDA with a stylus.

"We have been given the task of capturing all of you and returning you back to the basement prison," Skulker said.

"You don't stand a chance against the Ghost zones greatest hunter when I am his operating system," Technus cackled. "You have already lost this battle."

Neither of them expected to have their tail grabbed within the sharp toothed mouth of Cujo's adult form. "YAAAH!" they both screamed as Cujo whipped them around and threw them to the floor.

"You are going to get it now ghost dog," Technus threatened.

"This attack was meant for the ghost children, but it should work on you just as well," Skulker said as they started to hover over the floor. "Activate the Phantom Palm Pummeler," he ordered.

"Don't tell me how to do my job," Technus barked back before they prepared to fire an energy attack at the ghost dog. Their hands sparked before the attack powers down. "Darn it, what's going on?" Technus asked as Skulker examined his hands.

"I happened," Tucker said with a grin. "Your security system still can't defend against my hacking skills."

"That's still really depressing," Sam said with a scowl. "Will someone please hit them while they're distracted!" she shouted.

"Don't worry, I got him!" Jack shouted as he aimed the Fenton Peeler and pressed the button to activate it. He was encased in shiny metal armor before he fired the weapon.

"YAAAH!" Skulker and Technus screamed as Technus was stripped away leaving Skulker in his real ghost form.

"Time to scram until I perfect the armor for his suit," Technus said after he reformed in his more human like form. "Later," he saluted before he phased through the floor.

"You will pay for what you have done," Skulker squeaked. "You hear me! You will all pay!" he squeaked before Ron sucked him into a Fenton Thermos.

"Well that was easy enough," he said as he capped the top of the ghost catching device. "A little too easy," he said as his eyes widened from the irony.

"Of course it was easy! They were primitive!" an evil voice shouted from above. They all gasped and looked up to see Plasmius floating over them and he did not look happy.

He descended to the floor and grabbed the thermos from Ron who was too scared to run. The thermos disappeared in a swirling haze of pink smoke.

"What have you done to our children!?" Maddie demanded to know as she aimed a Fenton Bazooka at Vlad.

"I did have them locked away like you, but due to an early escape that was expected, they are on their way here right now," he informed them with an evil grin.

"Danny won't let you get away with any of this!" Ron yelled in anger. "He will stop you!"

"I would like to see him try this time," Vlad said with a grin before he jumped into the air and shot an energy ball at the readers, ending the scene.