AN: Tumblr prompt: Could you please do a thing where Venom is bonded to Vlad (who's trying and failing to fight it) and Danny decides that he has to convince Venom to leave Vlad to take Danny?

Drabble 35-Venom part 3

"Hmm, what are you?" Vlad half asked himself, half asked his cat, as he watched the black slime crawl onto his desk. He poked at it, watching it rise up. It was only a tiny little blob, smaller than his cat's paw, but it grasped onto his finger and grew exponentially. It slid its way under his clothes and around his body, making him highly uncomfortable for a brief moment.

It was a strange sensation to have such a thing on him. Something in the back of his mind told him to get rid of it, but another part of him told him to keep it. He felt as though it had promised him great riches in the future, and how could Vlad pass up an opportunity like that? Riches didn't have to necessarily mean money, after all.

He smiled his trademark sinister smile and transformed into Plasmius, already feeling his powers increase. He felt like he could take over the whole Ghost Zone!

His cat starred at him fearfully as he laughed maniacally before disappearing through the floor.

A part of Vlad knew this was wrong. He's never wanted to kill Danny before, only his father. He tried resisting against the goo, but it already had a strong hold on him. He tried taking it off, blasting it off, and everything else in between, but nothing worked. The only thing that worked was Venom getting into Vlad's head, making him see the wrong kind of reason. And Vlad, even though he didn't want to, liked it.

After all, he had a halfa to go exterminate.

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It was supposed to be a normal day. No ghost attacks. No homework. No birds pooping on him.

But of course, his day off with Sam and Tucker came to a quick end when Plasmius showed up. First it was his ghost sense, and then Vlad had invisibly pulled him from his booth at the Nasty Burger and dragged him up into the sky before throwing him into a nearby building. He hit it so hard he actually went through the bricks. If he was any normal human he probably would have died, but thankfully he wasn't a normal human.

He was Danny Phantom.

He transformed into Phantom before pulling his head out of the rubble, only to be met face to face with a different version of Plasmius that sent chills down Danny's spine.

His suit was black instead of the normal eerie white he had become accustomed to over the years. His eyes and the inside of his cape were still red, but that did nothing to soothe the feeling of fear crawling up Danny's throat.

"Vlad?" he asked in disbelief.

"Ah, yes Daniel," he said with a satisfied grin, "You are looking at the new and approved Vlad Plasmius! With the help of my little friend I am a hundred times stronger than before! It's such a shame you won't be able to see what all I can do."

"Oh yeah?" Danny asked. Stalling. Stalling was a good tactic. Right? "And why is that?"

"Because you'll be dead."

Oh, yikes.

Danny quickly dodged a few ectoblasts before using the building as a springboard and launching himself at Vlad, ready to hit him with n energy-charged punch.

He never have a chance.

Vlad saw him coming from miles away. He gripped Danny's throat tight, more o than usual, and squeezed even harder. He was starting to see black around his vision, trying so desperately to get away from his parents old college friend.

And then he saw it.

Right there, under Vlad's collar, was a a black slime Danny had been acquainted with on several occasions. He growled and blasted Vlad in the chest, making him loosen his grip enough for Danny to free himself.

"Vlad, listen to me!" He called. "You;re being influenced by an alien slime!"

"Oh, I know," he said pridefully. "It's amazing what these things can do to someone like me."

Why would Venom want Vlad? Because they're both evil? Because they both hate Danny? Because they both want him?

Wait.

That was it. Venom wanted Danny back. It didn't like Vlad as much as Danny, who had a lot of emotional baggage. And Danny had already bonded with the damned thing. He was Venom's host for months!

"But Venom doesn't really like you!" Danny called. "He likes me! We go way back! Isn't that right, Venom?" Danny called.

Vlad felt squirmy. It was his pet alien sticking and unsticking itself to Vlad, rippling with eagerness at the thought of the younger Halfa.

"Hey, Venom!" Danny called, shaking his butt towards Vlad. "If you want me, come and get me!"

Venom stayed, latched onto Vlad, but it was obvious he wanted Danny more than one reason alone. He was young. Inexperienced. But most importantly, he had such raw power. Power that could take down the world. He wanted it oh so badly, but he was stuck to the older of the two instead.

Venom saw as Danny continued shaking his behind at him, mocking him. Then Danny launched himself at Vlad, grasping for Venom. It seemed as though Danny wanted Venom back as well.

As soon as Vlad gripped Danny's arms, Venom slipped off of him and onto Danny, encasing him in his center so he could harness the power of the boy until he burned out. Thankfully a ghost core could last several lifetimes.

Danny screamed and tried to resist as his mind and body became overrun by the black tar, but Vlad was finally free, his mind clear of the alien. His intentions were only a little bad now, and right then, when he saw Daniel being overcome by the alien, he had a need to help the boy. But he didn't know how.

Oh, heavens, what had he done?