The streets of Amity were quiet as Danny Fenton was making his way home as he breathed on his electric scooter. "Finally. One day where I get home on time without any ghost detours making me miss my ten o'clock curfew." He looked his watch to see that he was still three minutes good before his ghost sense went off and he stopped as three vulture ghosts flew overhead and seemed to be searching for something as Danny huffed. "Or not. Going ghost!" He drove behind a car and turned into his ghostly half of Danny Phantom before flying alongside the vultures to find out what was going on. "You fellas look lost. Um, any chance of you staying that way for a bit?"

"Mind your own business, fancy pants ghost boy." The first vulture answered as they swooped down and phased into a moving bus, Danny following as he listened to the birds bicker in the seats.

"Hey, we've been circling this town for hours. We could have been halfway to Florida by now. Ask for directions." The second one spoke as the first was firm to just solo it.

"I know where I'm going!"

"You so do not!" The third answered as he pointed at Danny. "Ask him."

"Ask me what?" The vultures took flight again and Danny followed them into the air as they stared off before the first sighed and came closer.

"We're on a search-and-destroy mission. Can you help us find and peck to death this guy here?" He pulled out a piece of a photo, but it was the younger looking man that caught Danny's attention as he exclaimed.

"Dad?"

"Ah-ha, see? I told you he'd know where he is." Danny quickly answered as he made the mark for 'time-out', rather talk it out now than before when he was just going headstrong and not getting aid from Cedric.

"Whoa, back up, time out." Danny answered as he spoke. "My dad is a big goof, no offence to him, but he has done nothing really wrong to anyone, not to ghosts despite his research and not anyone that I know of that's human." The vultures looked confused as Danny continued. "Now, if you would just explain it out, I am sure that I can understand, but if this is a fight, I need to know, okay?"

"None of your business, fanc-"

"He's asking nicely, bonehead!" The second socked the first in the back of the head as he flew over. "Jack Fenton is, yes, our target and we need to peck him to death and all that stuff, but he is of the greater value to our employer, Plasmius."

"Plasmius? Like a take on 'plasma'?"

"Kid gets it." The third voiced as the trio landed on a roof top and hopped over to Danny as he continued. "Yes, and Plasmius really has it in his head that he was wronged by the big hippo years ago, twenty to be more exact, and has it in his head to just cut the bud and move on." Danny nodded as he spoke.

"Well, I think I want to learn more about Plasmius and I think the only way I can is to go where Dad is connected, so no 'search-and-destroy' tonight, sorry." The vultures groaned in displeasure, but still took flight as the first spoke.

"Alright, alright, we get it and we'll tell the employer, no need for trouble, but we do expect you there in the very least, so you can tell Plasmius yourself." Danny nodded before the vultures took off and Danny waited before he hummed. He picked up the piece that dropped off the vultures and really questioned it.

"I really wonder why those guys were trying to waste Dad." A chime rang out and he glanced to the town clock in grimace. "Oh, no. Dad." He headed back home and peered through the crack to find his parents waiting and very unhappy.

"You're late again, young man." Jack scolded his son as Danny breathed.

"Oh, joy. This is going to be fun..." He headed in and closed the door, his time in punishment going to be a problem...


Danny was seated down and looking sullen as Maddie lectured him while Jazz was reading a book while Jack was working on a new invention as Maddie started. "Danny, this is becoming a problem. You're constantly late coming home..."

"You're shirking from your chores..."

"Your grades are slipping..."

"You're shirking from your chores..." Danny raised a brow as he could answer the grades and stuff if he came out and he could tell that Jack knew the same thing, but Maddie and Jazz were not so as he questioned why Jack needed to point out 'the chores'.

"You already said chores."

"I know, but when you don't do 'em, I get stuck with them."

"Look, I'm under a lot of pressure than before. You two have no idea what it's like to be a kid today or nowadays!" Jack looked with a nod, but Maddie was still in lecture as she spoke.

"Come on, Danny. That's the oldest excuse in the book." Danny sat back down and rested his elbow as he listened. "There's nothing you're going through that your father and I didn't go through when we were your age." Danny panicked as his arm phased through and he pulled it back up, Jack noticing and zipping his mouth as Danny nodded and deferred to the 'different' card.

"Yeah? Well, I beg to differ."

Jazz closed the book and looked up as she explained it out to both of them. "The reason Danny doesn't think you can relate to him is that you never take the time to tell him about your childhood!"

"Jazz!" Danny whine with annoyance before she just continued.

"Have you ever told him how you met? About your first date?" Jack walked out from behind the machine and pondered it with Maddie as Danny yelped again.

"Jazz!"

"Where you went to college?"

"You know, Jasmine, that's a great idea!" Danny looked a bit skeptic as Jazz spoke up with Maddie.

"It is?"

"What is?"

"This is!" Jack held out a invitation to a college reunion for the students of UW or the University of Wisconsin as Jack pulled Maddie close and explained. "You can come with your mother and I to our college reunion."

"I... can?" There was a strange feeling in his gut that told him that he was going to find out about the employer there as Jazz seemed to screech.

"Wisconsin?!"

"Sure! My old pal Vlad is throwing a huge shindig there. We'll take the RV so the whole family can go together." Jack leaned in with the next sentence as he just beamed. "You can learn more about your mother's and my college days, and while we drive, I can blather on about ghosts!" The invention that Jack was working on activated and sploshed Jazz with ecto goop as Jack cheered despite the angry glare under it. "Haha!" He pumped his arms in victory. "It works! I can't wait to blather on about that, too." With a pick up for a road trip, the Fentons headed out of town, Cedric assuring Danny that the four friends could handle any mess that could happen, Danny still unsure of the fourth member that Cedric was now accompanied by, but she has been both faithful to the cause and quite able as she seemed to be able to manifest a vicious kind of heat wave and aura on any that threaten her or the others. The Fentons were off as Jazz grumbled.

"How does this happen? You goof up, and I have to spend four days jammed in the Fenton Ghost RV?" Danny breathed as he should have guessed that Jazz wanted to be FAR from the paranormal stuff of her family as Jack spoke up about the vehicle while Maddie read a map.

"That's the Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle, folks. Every button in this baby is a ghost's worst nightmare." Danny groaned as it was slightly suffocating in the GAV.

"Ugh. I need some air." He presses a button before Jazz could exclaim.

"Don't press any buttons!" But it was a moment too late as several weapons popped out and activated, blasting a chuck off a tree, freezing a bird in midair and still intact, another charred a man on his phone which was amusing as he had of punishing a talking driver, but that took the cake before the last blasted green goo over Jazz and she glimmered. "I'll get you for this." Danny shrugged as the road trip was not so tiring, but it could still use some work as they stopped by a truck stop for a rest as Jack called out to the family in sleeping bags

"Get some rest, everybody! I want the entire Fenton clan bright-eyed and bushy-tailed when we meet Masters tomorrow." That caught Jazz's attention as she clarified with a hand held up and lowered.

"Wait, wait, wait. Masters? As in Vlad Masters? Who was named Affluence Magazine's 'Billionaire of the Year'?"

"That's the guy! In college, he was my best friend." He pulled out an old scrap book and flipped through the pages before coming on a pair of smiling goofs and the whole cast of bullying as he spoke. "We were very popular guys. Roommates, lab partners, we did everything together. Until the thick fingers of fate stuck themselves right in Vlad's eyes." He reflected on the day that changed it all before Jack turned to Maddie. "I'm sorry, Maddie, but when you said that the calculations were not right, I didn't realize what I had done wrong and that cost both of us our friend." He breathed as he recalled the portal activating and Vlad getting a face of proto-plasma, crippling him with a bad case of ecto-ache and glowing blue eyes as he shook his head. "He was hospitalized with a horrible case of ecto-acne. It devastated him... and killed his social life." He breathed as he continued with some remorse. "We haven't spoken since that day. But I hope that we can reconnect and I am able to tell him that I am sorry and hopefully find out where I had gone wrong." Danny looked unsure as they fell asleep, Danny a bit awake still before he dozed off as well. Come the following day, the GAV parked outside the great mansion as the Fentons unloaded and headed up and met the well-dressed, very imposing looking man known as Vlad Masters.

"Jack... and Maddie! You've never looked lovelier, my dear." Without pause, he ushered the trio of Jazz, Danny, and Maddie inside. "Please, please, come in." They headed in while Jack cleared his throat and spoke.

"Vladdie, my man! It's good to-" The door slammed in his face before he breathed and called out. "Hello? Hello?!" The calls were unheard for the moment as the trio took in the green-and-gold of the entrance hall and clear shows of football memorabilia before Jazz spoke.

"What's with the green and gold? You're a billionaire! Surely you could afford an interior designer."

"Jazz, hello? Football helmets, jerseys, cheeseheads? He's a Packers fanatic." Danny paused before continuing to Jack's call. "Would fanatic be a good word or a bit over the top?"

"Oh, 'fanatic' is such a negative word and a bit." Vlad smiled as he rested a hand on Danny's shoulder before lifting it again. "But, yes."

"I don't understand. You have billions of dollars! Instead of buying this stuff, why don't you just buy the team?" To this, Vlad replied with irritation.

"Because the Packers are owned by the city of Green Bay and they won't sell them to me!" He breathed before looking to Maddie. "One of two things my wealth has not as of yet..." He chuckled to the notion. "...been able to acquire." Maddie smiled innocently back as Danny spoke to Jazz in ponder.

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but is he hitting on Mom?"

"As long as he's got working toilets, and Mom says no, who cares?" She walked off as Danny spoke.

"I care..." He looked down as Maddie grew uneasy under Vlad's gaze before she spoke.

"I'd, uh... better let Jack in." Maddie walked over to the door as Danny looked up, his eyes widening as he took in a autographed football.

"Whoa, cool!"

"Indeed." Vlad answered as he lifted the ball up and showed it to Danny. "This ball was autographed by the legendary Ray Nitschke himself." He hugged it to his face as he finished. "It's my prized possession."

"Hey V-Man!" Vlad turned to Jack coming over as he commented. "I see you DO have the autographed football of Ray Nitschke, what a guy. I done nearly tackled you over it, but I will settle for something more friendly." He snatched Vlad up in a hug as Vlad gasped in the bear trap.

"Jack, what are you doing, put me... down, this is killing me!"

"Sorry, V-Man." Vlad breathed as he cast a curious gaze to Jack as the big guy rubbed his neck. "I just wanted to say sorry for all those years we have been apart, I dearly wanted to still be your friend and you mine, but I didn't want to intrude on your new life, I thought you never wanted to see me again after college, I mucked it up so badly for us." Vlad looked surprised as he voiced.

"Jack Fenton, loud and apparent, apologizing for something that deeply affected me and didn't know how to talk to me after these long years?"

"And paid for your medical bill, if I can add to it."

"Oh... well..." Vlad looked at a loss as he rubbed his neck before he cleared his throat and spoke, putting the ball on its pedestal. "Yes. Well, it gave me time to chart out a course for my life, didn't it? Make some decisions that helped to make me very wealthy, very quickly. And it never would have happened without you, Jack." He could have smiled creepily, but he just gave a genuine smile.

"Maybe we should go, we'd hate to intrude." Maddie spoke as Vlad dismissed it as he explained.

"No, no, you should stay with me!" He voiced as he wrapped an arm around Jack. "That's the whole reason I'm throwing the reunion here in my castle - previously home to the legendary Wisconsin Dairy King." A short, chunky type of guy was pictured high up with a cheese hat and ice cream cane as Vlad continued. "Just so I could... reconnect with you, Jack. I insist you stay."

"Well, I don't know. We do have a really cool RV." Jazz coughed out an answer as she wanted nothing to do with that deathtrap.

"Let's stay here!"

"Smooth." Danny answered as he swept a hand through the air before Vlad moved on a surefire way to get Jack in.

"You know, Jack, the Dairy King's ghost could haunt these very halls..." Jack hummed before he answered, surprising Vlad again.

"Well, that's a bonus, but I really want to reconnect with you more..." He hummed before he spoke. "You know what, I think I will get the bags, your place is very nice and it will let the kids learn more about their uncle." To this, the trio of Jazz, Danny, and Vlad yelped.

"Vlad Masters!?"

"Uncle!?"

"UNCLE!?"

"Yeah, you were suppose to be the godfather of the Fenton kids, Maddie and I agreed, didn't you get the letter when both Jazz and Danny were born?"

"Jack... I'm... shocked..." Vlad stammered as Jack clapped a hand on Vlad's back.

"It's okay, V-Man, you had better things to do..." Jack headed out, Vlad very lost before he headed off, the clan formed to collect their things and it was clear to all that Jack was really showing a more tender side, he giving remorse over Vlad and he didn't show that Fenton spunk that he usually carried. Vlad shared the same as he was really lost, both to the status as a 'godfather uncle' and how Jack was reacting. Night fell and all was quiet before Jack sprung up. "Bathroom." He headed off, unaware of the vultures that came to stalk him with claws extended, but one did noticed as Danny's ghost sense went off as he woke up and grimaced.

"Oh, great. Just what I need: a working vacation." He transformed and took flight out of the room before spotting the threat, the vultures about to attack Jack before he slipped through the flooring and grabbed Jack, pulling him under the floor as the first vulture spoke.

"Hey, what gives?" He pulled Jack to the restroom and flew out of there before contending with the vultures as he phased behind them and spoke.

"Hi, guys!" He punched a fist into his palm to make a statement. "Remember me?" They turned and freaked out before scattering as Danny questioned in ponder. "Okay. That was actually too easy."

"Ah, bright boy." Danny turned to find a new ghost, flaring black and grey hair in the shape of horns, fangs protruding out from the mouth, in a white suit and red cape and clearly looking sinister as Danny flinched to the smug grin.

"Okay, that is scary as it is, Nosferatu." Danny pointed out as the new ghost mused.

"Oh please, I am not a vampire, boy, I am master of this castle."

"Okay, Dracula or would you prefer Plasmius?"

"If you know who I am, then it would seem that my vultures were not lying and you have come here as well with the big oaf. Danny Phantom, right?" This surprised Danny as he spoke.

"You... you know of me?"

"Of course I know you!" Plasmius phased through several rooms with Danny following to a private library as the ghost scolded him with a point of the finger. "You're the ghost boy who uses his powers for good. How quaint." He then got up in Danny's face and around him as he mused. "Aren't you going to try to shove me into your ridiculous thermos?"

"Okay, one; I don't have the Thermos on me, there isn't a portal close by that I can send any ghosts back to the zone." Danny answered with some distance. "Two; why should you care about how I use these powers, I found a reason for them and sticking with it." He raised the third finger as he spoke. "Last; I came here to find out why and stop you from getting the kill."

"No. No you can't." Plasmius blasted Danny and Danny countered with an attempt.

"Get away!" The mastermind blocked the blast with a ecto-shield as he mocked a bit with smug-crossed arms.

"Ah, an ectoplasmic energy blast." Danny blasted a few more as the ghost just casually moved the shield with a yawn. "So... year one." The shield disappeared and Danny breathed as he glanced up to the ghost. "Tell me, child, can you do this yet?" Without pause, the ghost multiplied himself and Danny backed up, surprised with the skill and ability he was facing.

"No, I can't, I've only had months! How are you doing all this?"

"Years of practice, which you, unfortunately, have no time for." The four spoke as each blasted Danny, he dodging low and slipped through before punching one and smiling as it disappeared, an extension of Plasmius' power as he tried for another, but ended up getting the snot beaten out of him as he was flung out into the hall, the beat down blacking his sight as Plasmius surged out, surprised when Danny reverted back "The ghost boy... is Jack's son?" The ghost emitted a black ring around him, similar to the white one of Danny's and it traveled to reveal a suit and white hair as the man who was amused by the change, grimaced with hand to chin.

"And I just beat him up for just being himself and wanting to at least give Jack a chance... Oh, this will not be fun..."


Danny stirred before he yelped. "No! Get away!" He sprung up and caught his breath before he pondered. "Huh? Where am I? What happened?" He was back in bed as he crossed his arms, trying to figure it out. "The last thing I remember was..."

"I was going to ask you the same question, young man." Vlad entered the room as Danny stammered with a reasonable explanation.

"I... must've been worn out from the long car trip and letting my mind wander on how this castle feels rather more vampire-like at night." He shook his head as he spoke. "I-I'll be okay in the morning. I'm sorry for the scare."

"Oh, what's a little scare between friends, my boy, hmm?" Vlad voiced as he headed out. "Sleep tight, little badger." Danny breathed as he fell back to sleep as Vlad closed the door and lightly grinned. "Indeed, sleep tight." He silently hummed a bit before heading out. The following day was greatly interesting as Jack was on an all-time roll with bonding with Vlad and asking him about his many businesses while also explaining that, while ghost hunting has been rather weak nowadays, the research is more the energy and power of ghosts could change the world in the right ways, but it hadn't developed too deeply to make a real difference as they had a pleasant time before night fell again and guests started to arrive as Danny searched the rooms for Jazz before finding her in the screening room as he spoke.

"Jazz, aren't you coming to the reunion?"

"What? And watch a bunch of old fossils pogo to new wave music? Pass." Jazz answered before she commented. "Did you know the Packers won the very first Super Bowl?"

"Sounds fair." Danny answered as he left the room behind before accompanying Jack and Maddie to the main party before Jack spotted an old acquaintance.

"Hey, Harry!" The woman spat out her food as she grimaced.

"Ugh. I'd know that voice anywhere." She turned and headed over to the trio as she spoke. "Jack. Maddie. How nice."

"Danny, meet Harriet Chin. She's a big-shot reporter for the Milwaukee Journal now, but back in my college days she was just Harry. Harry Chin!" He laughed with a grab of his head as he continued. "Get it?!"

"I'm really sorry, Harriet." Maddie apologized to Harriet as the reporter pointed out.

"Sweetie, you married him. You should be." New wave music played and Jack exclaimed.

"Hey, my song! Come on, let's pogo!" Dragging Maddie behind, Jack started to pogo to the floor and running over several people with his sheer mass before Danny spoke.

"Okay, I'm both officially mortified and glad to not be his size right now."

"What took so long?" Danny shrugged as he found a seat by the window and watched as several people pogo along with the sound before he felt a hand rest on his shoulder and Vlad Masters spoke to him.

"Well, son, you're looking much better. I was wondering... if you could do me a huge favor."

"Oh, sure, Mr. Masters. But call me Danny. 'Son's' what my dad calls me or you could use 'nephew'."

"Oh, yes, yes, of course. Now, could you go to my lab, second door on the right upstairs? There's a present in there for your father that I'd like you to bring down." Vlad chuckled as Danny agreed with standing up.

"Sure thing!" Danny headed off as Vlad just smirked before he glanced to the center of the room and focused on Maddie before he slightly growled.

"Maddie... That lab accident cost me my youthful chance at you, but that's all about to change... in a way, dear..." Danny followed the direction to the lab, surprising that Vlad would have a lab as he looked around for the present, but couldn't find it.

"Present? I don't see a present." He paused and picked up a framed picture of what was Vlad and Maddie, but a piece of it was missing from the upper right and there seemed to be... He trailed off with an exclaim as he reached into his suit for something that was connected. "Hey! Wait a minute." Pulling out the piece of photo, Danny lined it up and found it was the perfect match for the picture before he stumbled back, dropping the picture on the table with the piece he had. "Oh, no. No way." His sense went off and he transformed into Phantom, looking around on the defense before getting snatched up by the same two ectopuses that he kicked into the Ghost Zone before the Lunch Lady. "Let go!" Danny shouted as he kicked one away before slamming the other into the flooring and breathed as he recognized the pair of terrors. "Those ghosts... They were two of the first ghosts I fought!"

"And they're not alone, pup." Danny turned just as a net came flying at him and trapping him with a shock before a figure emerged from the door frame of another room, its mechanical face a grin with flaming green hair as Danny yelped.

"Skulker?!" Phantom broke free and knocked Skulker into several large tanks with a kick as he exclaimed. "How did you rebuild your ecto-skeleton so fast? What are you doing here?"

"All excellent questions. Catch!" A box rolled toward Danny before trapping him by expanding into a large glowing box, his head the only thing remaining outside the box as Danny exclaimed.

"Huh? Hey! I can't phase out of this. It's disrupting my powers!"

"And that's not all it does." The box zapped Danny on Skulker's command and he reverted back to human and slammed his head in a daze before Skulker lifted his head up and from his wrist extended a glowing blade that Danny didn't want a single point to touch as he commented on the new addition with a nervous chuckle.

"Uh, the glowing blade is a new tool."

"You like it? I've had some upgrades!" Skulker answered casually before reverting back to an evil glint. "Now..."

"Enough!" Both looked to the lab entrance as Vlad Masters entered and scolded Skulker. "I didn't free you to kill the boy, Skulker! Your work is done." Both looked at the other in confusion before the blade retracted and Skulker started.

"Yes, well, I..." He paused to read from the PDA attached to his arm and beeping. "I've gotta go to the library and check out a book on a gorilla. Again!" He huffed as his jet-pack activated and he lifted off through the ceiling as Danny questioned and mused.

"Skulker rebuilt, but still bound to the schedule? The ectopuses? I don't understand, Vlad!"

"Of course not. You're, what, fourteen?" Vlad answered as he walked around the box and continued to speak. "Too young to drive and not in college yet? I sent those ghosts, and others, to test your father's skills. Imagine my surprise when I find you, the second ghost hybrid his foolishness created."

"Second? You don't mean...!" Vlad need not a word as black rings formed around his form before splitting, turning him into the vampire-like ghost that beat him down last night. "You! I'm going ghost!" Nothing happened before Danny spoke. "Sorry, you just... surprised me with that and... yes, I have a battle cry." He frowned before Vlad patted his head and spoke.

"You are just fine, young Daniel, and I do want to apologize for how I treated you last night, I thought you didn't have a real case at my home." He cleared his throat before he spoke again, patting the box. "However, this is a spectral energy neutralizer, designed by Skulker and paid for by me, so as long as you or I are inside that box, neither of us could use our powers, we would be just as human as your brilliant, but dull father.

"If that is so, then why leave me in here?"

"Why? So you can go back to stumbling through your adolescence, desperately trying to get control of your powers? Powers, by the way, that I've had for twenty years." He breathed as he showcased a ghost shield, duplication and even invisibility as he lectured. "I have experience, my child. And the money and power attained through using those powers for personal gain, you see." He pressed on as he divided into three and returned to one. "I could train you, teach you everything I know. And all you'd have to do, is renounce your own father." Before Danny could speak, Vlad continued with a roll of the hand. "Or so my 'evil and fiendish' scheme to ruin Jack Fenton was going to be, but after looking through so many papers and documents, I am truly shocked that my bumbling fool of a friend actually did want me in his life, I checked the bills that should have trapped me in a hospital and I found the name Fenton at the front of all of it, I even found a formal invitation, TWO no less, to be the godfather of both you, Daniel James Fenton, and Jasmine Trish Fenton. That is such a gesture that I am at a loss for words." Vlad folded his hands behind his back as he spoke. "So, this is what I will do instead, I always wanted to wreck my own party and I will do it through your father, I will be waiting for you to join me and stop me." He laughed and teleport as Danny paused before he smirked.

"You are one crazed-up fruit loop, but I guess I can relate, some of those parties I JUST want to wreck." He started to try and get out of the box while, down in the party, Jack was looking so bored as Harriet just told her latest story.

"Then I covered the guerrilla uprising in Rumackistan, got an exclusive with the rebel leader that got raves-" Jack's chin slumped into the drink in hand before Harriet noticed and she mused in annoyance. "Am I boring you, Jack?"

"Frankly, yes. I'm just an action kind of guy, not too deep with the news." Jack answered before a second presence made itself apparent as it overshadowed Jack and turned his eyes red as he spoke in a different type of voice.

"So, what do you say we liven up this shindig?" Without pause, Jack picked up Harriet and tossed her, causing her to crash into the punch bowl table as Maddie rushed over with exclaim.

"Jack, what's the matter with you?!"

The possessed man turned as he lectured. "Why Maddie, didn't you always know I'd turn on you? That when you chose me. you chose wrong?" He reached out his hands in rage before they shook and clasped closer to his body as Jack slipped through.

"Get out. Get out of me!" Harriet stomped over to Jack as he tried to struggle for control over his own body while inward, Vlad mused.

'This will be a fun time indeed.'

'Great Scott! How are you in my body, Vladdie!?' Vlad paused before he spoke again.

'Jack, you know who is overshadowing you?'

'Danny needed to back when he had to contend with a dragon ghost, I don't know the full story, but it does seem like Cedric, a late friend of Danny's, believed that I somehow can interact with anyone overshadowing me for some reason, I heard in passing that 'something something bloodline of spectral protection and something altered overshadow'. Really, I don't know what to tell you, this is all new for me.'

'Well, my large and powerful friend...' Vlad grinned as he spoke once more. 'I'm to wreck my own party and I want you to play along, young Daniel will be along soon.' Harriet shouted with a threat.

"I don't know what's come over you, but when I write about this I swear-"

"Ghost... overpowering me." Jack voiced as he gripped Maddie, playing along to the plan of Vlad as he whispered before it erupted. "Maddie, run. RUN!" He flew into the air and the sheer action scared all of the party goers into panic as Vlad took over fully.

"He's a ghost? This is the story of the century!"

"Come on!" Maddie shouted as she dragged Chin away from the scene for protection. "We have to get to the Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle! I mean, the RV!" Back in the lab, Danny still struggled to escape as he breathed.

"Whoa, this is quite the complex trap, I could use some aid here, but..."

"Well, gosh and golly, it looks like you could use a speck of help there, dontcha know?" Danny glanced up to see a ghostly Dairy King float on down as he exclaimed.

"Hey, you're the Dairy King!" He grew worried as he inquired. "Oh, great. What are you gonna do? Suffocate me with Limburger? Strangle me with Swiss?! Or-" The Dairy King just laughed as he used the scepter to press the 'Open' button on the box's side, shrinking it back down and freeing Danny as he spoke.

"Let me go?" He kicked the box up and placed it on the table before he turned back to the Dairy King. "Well, thank you! But, why?"

"Well, not all ghosts are evil, right? Some of us just want to be left alone there, dontcha know?"

"I hear that. Hey, will you help me fight Plasmius?"

"I'm the Dairy King, kiddo. Kings don't fight. They send other people to fight for 'em. That's Royalty 101 there, dontcha know?" Danny rolled his eyes with a smirk as the King phased through the ceiling with a call. "Try the Gouda! It's dairy fresh!" His smile remained before Maddie's voice echoed.

"Jack!"

"Dad!" Going ghost, he headed down to the party as he heard the roar of a familiar engine tear through, knowing that Maddie had gotten the GAV into the manor, surprisingly as he bolted down to knock Vlad out of Jack as he called out, the party a real mess with tables thrown, flying about the place, and scaring people in general.

"If you live to tell the tale, remember that big, fat Jack Fenton did this to you!" He shouted after hitting a man before Danny came in.

"Guess again, cheesehead." Danny soared and slammed Vlad out of Jack, screaming as both heard Jack shout about being used a 'human meat puppet' before they entered the battleground of their last battle and Danny tried to fight to Vlad countering as he spoke.

"Daniel, stop. Think about the things I could show you, the doors I could open for you. You, Danny Phantom, and I, Vlad Plasmius. Together, we could rule."

"Forget it, uncle. Your money can't buy my mom, it can't buy the Packers, and it can't buy me. I need to find my own path!" He fired an ecto-blast, only for Vlad to catch it and fire it back as he projected a dome and spoke, the blast being blocked by the green dome. "I'll admit that I don't want to say this, but I know who you are. I'll tell my father. I'll tell everyone."

"And so will I. Honestly, if you expose me, you expose yourself."

"Sounds fair enough, uncle, we need our secrets under lock and key, but still..." Suddenly a honking came and Danny turned with a 'huh' just as the GAV crashed through the wall and tried to run the pair over, both bolting out of the way as Vlad landed on the roof of the vehicle.

"Mind if I cut in?" He went intangible and grabbed Maddie from the middle seat and pulled her out as she shouted.

"Let go of me!" Both turned tangible as Vlad played the 'villain' rather well.

"Never again, woman." Danny looked up as Jack jumped out of the GAV and chased after Vlad with a shout before he got into the GAV and grimaced to the controls.

"Oh, great. It's a stick." He shifted the gear shift to the proper place as he disregarded Harriet's amaze before gunning it toward Jack.

"Jack, look out! The RV!" Maddie called out to Jack while dangling by one foot in the air. Jack peered to the side before jumping out of the way as Danny apologized.

"Sorry, dad. I've got one shot at this." He swerved it to a stop nearly below Vlad and his captive before he activated the weapon system and aimed. The 'energy blast' was knocked to the side, the 'lightning' was let to pass through Vlad, but the 'ectoplasmic goo' worked as it splashed him and knocked him down, releasing Maddie, but Danny quickly overshadowed Jack to save her as Maddie cheered.

"Jack! You did it!"

"It was nothing, Mom- uh, Maddie. Sure, heh, Maddie. You make sure Harry's okay while I finish this." Danny, in Jack's body, answered as he set her down and she booked over to the GAV while he stomped over to Vlad and lifted him up in his goo-covered form. "How's it going, V-Man?" Vlad made a mocking tone as he spoke in Danny-Jack's grip.

"Ooh, you've overshadowed Jack. Ooh, I'm so scared. Now what's next? A card trick?"

"Listen to me. I swear I'll walk out of my dad right now and expose us both, unless you agree to a truce."

"You're bluffing." Danny lowered Vlad as he spoke.

"No, I'm not. My parents will accept me, no matter what. But if I expose you... well, what would my mom think of you?" Vlad got worried as Jack near-lectured Danny on such a move as Danny continued. "You'll be miserable and alone for the rest of your life, unless you call a truce."

"Using your opponent's weaknesses against him. I am teaching you something after all. Very well. Truce." Vlad smirked as he continued. "That was the old me and I will accept the setting, but you and I will still need to be close, I have much to teach and you can learn a bit."

"I accept that, Fruit Loop."

"And I could learn a bit from you, Little Badger. But for now..." He cleared his throat and floated into the air with a dramatic act. "Curse you, Jack Fenton! Your world-renowned expertise of all things ghost has defeated me! ...Until next time, son." He screamed with drama as he faded away, likely going elsewhere while invisible while Danny phased out of Jack and headed off as the trio of adults conversed. Harriet was taken by the sheer act of what just happened and Maddie praising Jack, but Jack knew that it could be awhile before he would be facing off with any ghosts, Vlad was one show of power that he knew meant a bit more training and work. When Harriet made to make the career big with this 'ghost' sighting, Jack said otherwise, swaying Harriet in a surprise to just report her own stories to the Journal, ghosts were considered fake and without further evidence as Danny joined them and they gathered the clan after a short clean up, Vlad even playing along as he said and Danny could quote 'I kinda needed some chaos in my life and if Jack Fenton could cause it for me, even for a bit, then I will have had a true blast of a day.' Before long, the GAV headed back to Amity as Danny sat in the front seat with Jack driving, Maddie and Jazz in the back and in beds.

"I can't believe how crazy this whole reunion was."

"We were kicked out there, Danny, I can't believe that we made such a mockery of Vlad Masters, even with that whole cleanup and 'praising' speech." Jazz turned over to sleep as Jack spoke.

"I still can't believe how much has changed for old Vladdie. And he was so mad, he didn't even say goodbye after that speech." Jack fell depressed as he continued. "And we were all such great chums in college."

"Oh, whatever." Danny answered as he spoke about it, trying to be supportive. "Who cares what you were when you were younger? It's who you grew into that makes you who you are."

"You think?"

"Hey, if you can cause that much damage in college, and still turn out to be this cool, ghost-butt-kicking adult, well, maybe there's hope for me yet." Jack rested an arm around Danny as he spoke back.

"Thanks, son... But your curfew is still ten."

"Oh, man!" The GAV drove on past a sign that read 'Now leaving Wisconsin' before the lights flickered off and darkness overtook the place before long, Danny's adventure with a fruit loop of an uncle just barely beginning...