Up in the lands of Wisconsin, all was peaceful, but it was not so through the portal to the Ghost Zone that Vlad had managed to assemble on his own, basing it off of the Fenton Portal but without the 'on' button on the inside as that was an accident on Jack's part, as he huffed in glee, finally finding the one thing required to get his hands on the most unique and empowered of all the ghost artifacts as he spoke. "Ah, there you are." He floated closer to the display case with a single key inside it, a skull adorning its green frame as he continued. "The legendary Skeleton Key." He came closer as he mused the purpose of such a tool, the true and ultimate skeleton key in all of existence.

"With it, I can open any door, travel to any realm, free any prisoner..." He paused as the area between him and the key warped with a violet orb and rings of purple before it condensed into a hulking beast of red, grey, and black-white studded bands its colors as it roared at him as Vlad just beamed. "And if you're the only thing standing between me and that…" The behemoth clapped its hand on Plasmius before pausing, opening them to an empty space as Vlad reformed in the air beside the claws, cocking a brow in taunt before the beast blasted a breath of purple flames at him, but Vlad was prepared nonetheless with a shield, blocking the blast form touching him as the beast snatched him in rage as he chuckled to the inability of the ghost guardian. "This is going to be a snap!" He vanished in a puff of flame to the guardian's confusion before he appeared at its belly before delivering a powerful, ecto-infused punch to it, sending it flying before he duplicated into four separate Vlads.

The Behemoth recovered, but it was not enough as the four went on the attack as one lashed out a lasso, another fired eye beams, and the third fired an ecto-beam as they riddled the beast and restrained the guardian before the original glanced to the key and made a break for it. Unfortunately, he was not so successful as the guardian broke free and lashed out the tail, smacking Vlad away and through his portal, he crashing into the wall of his lab and breaking some of his materials. He could barely recover to jump back into the portal before his copies were kicked out of the Zone as well and reformed into him as the Behemoth surged out its head to attack, but unable to get through the passage as Vlad recovered with getting up and scowled.

"Very well, Behemoth." He raised his hands and spoke again to them glowing pink. "No more Mr. Nice Plasmius." He stomped over to the raging monster and raised his hands up to blast it before an alert went off and both looked to a device attached to the Portal with surprise before the Behemoth pulled itself back through the link as Vlad checked the alert and device to see what the problem was, the device bubbling and frothing with green ectoplasm as he spoke.

"'Change the ecto-filtrator'?" Suddenly, he realized what it might as he shouted. "Aww, fudge buckets!" He quickly turned intangible, just as the whole place exploded, launching pieces of rubble all over the ground as it was over just as quickly as it happened, Vlad dropping the intangible to exclaim to the destruction of the housing. "Aah! My house!" He recovered from the ruined piping and stone as he assured himself. "I can always buy another one, but the key!" He turned to the destroyed lab and, worse, the decimated portal. "I can't get that key without a portal!" He huffed before starting to think about his plan of action, with arms down in exasperation. "I'll need to find another working one..." He stopped in realization and straightened up before changing back to Vlad Masters as he pulled a picture of the reunion party, showing the Fentons and him in the picture and in a more comical side of the party as he mused. "I guess I'll just have to take Jack Fenton's!" He paused before he lowered the photo and reached for his phone. "But first..."

What is a challenge to him when he could give the same to young Daniel Fenton...?


The day was starting out rather well as Danny thanked Jazz for her timely driving. "Thanks for driving me to school today, Jazz."

"No problem, Danny." His older sister replied as they walked through the halls of Casper Hall with the roaming crowd as Danny breathed in a easy relief as both carried a book in one hand.

"Yeah, sometimes it's nice to avoid the bus and quietly and anonymously slip into school." He swept his hand at how simple it was today before the whole place lit up as the P.A. shouted.

"Ghost alert. Ghost alert." The crowd stopped in surprise before Jazz yelped to Danny as she grabbed his shirt, dropping her book in the blaring red lights.

"Danny! Hide!"

"Why?" He replied back as a look of confusion cross her face before she replied.

"Um… That's an excellent question..." She released and they turned back down the way to Sam and Tucker walking over before Danny asked.

"What's going on?" Topaz, Talia, and Cedric just returned to conversing their plans while Sam explained it with a slip of paper in hand.

"Didn't you get the memo?" She raised it to Danny and Jazz's eyes as she continued to explain it. "The school's running ghost drills now."

"'Ghost drills'?" Jazz inquired as Sam just pointed down the way for them to see what could be Mr. Lancer in a monster mask as he made spooky noises as he just made it a minor haunting.

"Oooooh… I am a ghost!" Jazz cut that idea short as she pointed at the teacher TRYING to be scary, enough to invoke a ghost that they had faced.

"Who's that supposed to fool?" Sadly, there was one who did fall for it as all heard his loud voice.

"GHOOOOST!" Jack Fenton slid into place in front of the Fenton kids in the Fenton Peeler armor as he held up the memo as he bellowed. "I got the memo! And I know there are ghosts around here!" Both siblings cried out to stop him.

"Dad! No!"

"It's not a ghost!" Danny pleaded as Sam and Tucker looked afraid of the outcome as well. "It's an out-of-shape teacher in a mask!" But nothing had stopped Jack as he replied back before shouting.

"We'll see about that, son. EAT GHOST PEELER, SPOOK!" His left, which was holding the Peeler fired the weapon and hit Lancer, shredding not just the mask, but his shirt and pant rights off, exposing him in a white undershirt with a lot of hair exposed and Shakespeare boxers which kind of left Lancer publicly embarrassed in the school as the Fentons just knew the trouble that was just caused while Jack just commented."Wow, he *is* out of shape. And I'm usually the large one around here." It was that moment that Lancer stormed over with the picture frame of George Washington in his hands, to hide his sudden exposure, as he scowled.

"I can't give you detention, but someone named 'Fenton' is staying after school." Just as quickly, Jack and Jazz abandoned Danny to his fate as they exclaimed.

"Whoa! Look at the time!" They bolted off as Danny lightly sighed.

"Well, this is going to be good." With that, he headed off to see what comes out of the punishment, the friends just shrugging to what could be done more than them tutoring him heavily...


At FentonWorks, Jazz tried her best to dissuade her father in the mess of the Fenton Lab, but that was a vain attempt as she spoke. "All I'm saying is you might want to think twice before you barge in like that." She lowered her arms and raised a brow as she continued. "You really got Danny in trouble."

"Oh yeah, you think he's in trouble now!" Jack gestured to the lab where a great deal of mess had covered the surfaces in green ectoplasm, Maddie and Jazz sharing a look as this mess was actually Jack's fault, he was in one of those 'inventor mood' moments and left it a war zone as he scoffed. "Look at this place! Danny hasn't cleaned the lab in weeks, and the beakers are caked with goo and-" He stopped as he glanced to the portal. "-would you look at that."

Beside the Portal's panel was the Fenton Ecto-filtrator and it was bubbling up with ectoplasm pooling out on the floor as Jack bellowed. "The ecto-filtrator hasn't been changed in six months, that can't be good!" Danny made his presence known as he stumbled down the steps of the lab.

"And it'll be six more by the time I get done with all this extra work Lancer assigned me." It was quite hefty with the additional work on his shoulders as he dropped the pack on the flooring before he turned his attention to his dad with a rub and a short glare. "Dad, are you familiar with the term 'Stay away from my school'?" Maddie replied to Jack's clueless nature.

"Sweetie, relax." She took off her hood as she continued. "You know your dad loves you, and he doesn't mean to make your life more difficult." Sadly, that was not meant to be as the TV set down in the Lab flickered to life with a news cast.

"The hunt is on for the ghost boy!" The Fenton Clan turned to the set as both Jack and Danny yelped in confusion.

"What?" On the set was Harriet Chin, having been demoted for a sudden interview gone wrong, reported the new turn of events.

"As a result of today's false ghost alert at Casper High, the need for competent, 'non-Jack Fenton' ghost hunters in Amity Park has never been more obvious." Jack beamed at the sound of his name.

"Hey, they said my name!" He paused as the paragraph sounded to him. "'Need for competent ghost hunters?'" He hummed before fiddling with the Peeler. "What is that supposed to mean?" He didn't get much of an answer form the device, other than a face full of green goo as the news cast continued.

"Luckily, a mysterious benefactor has offered a million dollar bounty on the head of Amity Park's most famous ghost, and hired the world's best-known ghost hunters to track him down." The Clan found it humorous as both Maddie and Danny counted with smiles on their faces.

"Three, two, one..." Jack somehow pulled out a Fenton Bazooka as he shouted.

"Nobody's catching-" He bashed a few boxes out of the way the Bazooka as he continued to shout. "-that ghost kid, but me!" He headed off as the other stack started to rattle before toppled, glass breaking before Jack returned to commented on the sudden event. "Danny, clean that up." He headed off once more as the clan just looked at each other with smiles before Maddie realized something.

"Wait a second, who would put a bounty on Danny and invite novice ghost hunters from across the world?" Jazz clued in as well.

"Actually, that doesn't sound good at all..." Both glanced to Danny as he remarked.

"If it is any worry, I will look into these hunters when I can, but for now, I got some work to do." He grabbed hold of his pack and headed upstairs to get the subjects under control to Lancer's liking...


The following day, Sam expressed her concern as the friends stood under the entrance banner of 'Welcome Ghost Hunters' at the Nasty Burger. "Danny, aren't you worried? These are the best known ghost hunters in the world!" Danny countered as he chuckled.

"Sam, the 'best-known', they're not the 'best'." They glanced to the first ghost party that had arrived, a party of three that featured a hippy-looking guy, a short-stack smarty woman, and a scared-cat tiger somehow as he spoke. "The Groovy Gang and Scaredy Cat…" Sadly, that intro also saw the tiger suddenly jump and gripped the woman as she yelped and toppled to the guy expressing some remorse for the event as the next party made their entrance like a pair of go-hard rockers.

"Extreme Ghostbreakers…" They played the surf-guy mentality as they rode on a ATV and motorcycle and the guy was just dumb to mistake his partner as a 'male' before they revved to sped off, except the guy's bike went its own way with the power as the third party was made known in white suits, shades, and with looks too seriously.

"The government's ghost hunting squad, Guys in White." The runaway bike splashed the pair of agents with mud and revealed their 'cleanliness' problems and too much code with them being splattered with mud as both Sam and Danny seemed to beam to the array of dumb as Danny spoke once more.

"It's a virtual 'who's who' of who can't catch ghosts." His waving hand closed as he realized who else was going to join the party. "Which means he should be arriving any second now." Horns were heard as the friends glanced to the side, just as the Fenton Ghost Assault Vehicle roared into the parking lot and crushed the ATV and motorcycle as Maddie called out from the passenger seat.

"Sorry about that!" Jack peered out from the driver seat as he commented as well.

"Wow." He leaned out and glanced to the Ghostbreakers as he spoke. "You should be careful where you park those things. This thing is a tank." Danny just beamed at the scene with Sam looking at the ride as well.

"I've got nothing to worry about." Sam smiled as well as the trio just glanced to each other before speaking to themselves.

"My bet's on the GIW here."

"Considering that their whole page is a cultist's dream come true of immature and self-paid members, I am putting my gold on Jack."

"Are we really betting on Daniel's success here?" Topaz and Cedric turned to Talia as she just extended her hands out and Cedric spoke.

"The better question is where you put your idea of someone catching Danny in his ghost form." Talia looked around before back with a furrowed brow and puffed cheeks.

"...Jack..."

"You both are on." Topaz beamed as Tucker walked over with a white sheet as the party just stopped smiling to Tucker planning a marketing scheme.

"Good." He unfurled the sheet as he continued. "Then you won't have a problem with this." He unfurled it once more to revealed the words of 'BOO-Yea Tours' on it in green letters as Danny, Sam, Cedric, and Topaz just gave incredulous looks as he just continued, Talia remarking under her breath with 'human greed'. "Thanks to Danny,-" The tech-geek slipped the costume on as he answered. "-we know the location of every ghost sighting in Amity Park."

"Not sure where you got that idea from, but okay...?" Tucker didn't pay heed to that as he just continued.

"Tucker Foley's Boo-Yea Ghost Tours is bound to be a hit. Boo-Yea!" The five suddenly stepped back as Tucker was blasted with green goo before Sam countered with arms crossed.

"In retrospect, maybe dressing like a ghost in a parking lot full of ghost hunters *wasn't* a great idea." That was a given as the five stood beside the GAV while Jack just beamed at the hit while three of the male members of the collected ghost hunters looked angry with weapons drawn as Jack gloated.

"I got him! Me, Jack Fenton! Danny Fenton's father!" Danny, for his credit, looked worried before looking bored and disappointed as he asked.

"Is it wrong of me to think this was how I was expecting it to be?"

"No one is going to judge you otherwise, Danny, we still..." Before the five could think, Danny's phone rang and he pulled it out and answered.

"Hello?"

"Ah, Daniel, so sorry for calling like this, but I... need a large favor, it is in line with the bounty." Danny blinked before he lightly scowled.

"Uncle Vlad, what did you do!?" He whispered angrily as Vlad started.

"Well, let's just say that I may have blown up my own house by lack of ecto-filitrator regulation." Danny blinked once more as Vlad continued. "And, while I can buy another one, the ghost equipment is a different matter, especially a 'Skeleton Key' that can unlock anything in the Zone."

"W-Wait...!" Danny mumbled as the party drew closer to listen, except Tucker who was getting a bit of eye at him. "What exactly...?"

"No time right now, just enjoy some daily servings of carrion birds." The call cut short as the hunters were laughing at how Jack hit a bystander instead of an actual ghost, Danny confused to Vlad's meaning as Tucker worryingly had asked if he was going to grow a third arm before the real threat came.

The Ghost Senses went off and they turned to the sudden arrival of the ghost vultures, everyone screaming and scattering, taking action after the vulture made a swipe at him. "Stand back, everyone! I've got the home field advantage." He quickly readied the Fenton Fisher and took off after them with resolve while the other hunters just didn't do anything, but watch as the Groovy Girl just exclaimed.

"Like, that's not the Million Dollar Ghost!" She rested her fists on her hips as the Ghostbreakers spoke next.

"Then we should kick back and watch this." The female Breaker curled her fingers after the shrug as she exclaimed. "It'll be a riot!"

"An extreme riot, dude!"

"I'm a *girl*…?"

"Right."

"All right, ghosts!" Jack bellowed as he readied the Fisher for the cast. "Prepare to become the Fenton Catch of the Day!" He tossed the line and snagged one of the vultures as he reeled it in. "Gotcha!" His victory was short as the vulture quickly found its strength and flew as Jack was along for the ride as he shouted with a case of asphalt burn and flying pieces of the street. "I think he's giving up! Or something!" He didn't muse for long before slamming into the drive-thru Nasty Nat, losing his grip on the Fisher as the speaker answered to him while the head dropped onto his own head.

"Welcome to Nasty Burger. Wow. You're the worst ghost hunter *ever*."

"Well, excuse me for trying to do something, speaker." Jack answered back as the hunters just laughed at him before Sam yelled to Danny.

"Danny! Do something!"

"What do you want me to do?" He answered with removing his hands that were hiding his face from embarrassment of how Jack got owned by a speaker. He turned to the rest of the party as he continued. "I can't go ghost here! Besides, nobody's in any *real* danger yet, right?" That didn't last as two of the vultures swooped down and snatched Sam and Tucker before Topaz answered.

"You want to review that statement or are you going to save your girl and buddy?"

"She is not really my girl and he is my buddy." Danny bolted to transform behind the Nasty Burger, the trio turning to each other before Topaz huffed and surrender ten dollars to Talia and Cedric, five for both.

"You win." Both shook their heads as Danny changed, the rings enveloping him as his shirt and pant became a jumpsuit, hair turned hair and eyes lit up as green orbs before he took flight after Sam and Tucker. The bout of laughter continued before their watches started to beep and they checked before their exclaimed.

"*Ghosts*!"

"Aw, quit mocking me." Jack huffed while Maddie did her best to comfort him as Danny soared after the vultures before a black-gloved hand snatched him out of the air and hauled him into the nearby construction set before he exclaimed to his interference.

"Plasmius! What are you doing here?" Vlad hummed with tapping his jaw as he answered.

"Well, let's see, your father looks like a fool while the other hunters were just morons for doing nothing, there's a million dollars on your head that will keep you out of the way and human greed is driving it. What do you think I'm doing here, making tea and crumpets with the Queen?!"

"Now that... would be interesting to see, Uncle." Vlad beamed as the two fought, Vlad making the shield to block Danny, but he swept left and blasted, catching Vlad off-guard before he tried the same technique to Vlad's counter and smiled as it only cracked, but didn't break. "Hey, this training is really paying off, I approve!" He glanced down to the moronic assembly of hunters trying to find him or them like chickens without heads as he inquired. "So you hired these idiots?"

"Yes. Every idiot except your father." The pink energy that generated in Vlad's hand soon formed into something else, a flyswatter. "He's a *free* idiot." He thrusted the hand as the swatter smacked as Danny, due to being weightless in flying, was sent out of the air. He landed on a building and propped himself up before he looked left as his friends called out.

"Danny, help!" He peered over the ledge, just to see his friends get dropped... into a dumpster of refuse and it closing shut with them inside before Danny turned his attention to Vlad as he exclaimed, taking flight again.

"As much as I'd enjoy catching up, Plasmius, shouldn't you be getting along to the evil scheme of your life?" Vlad fired a few blasts as Danny continued with dodging. "Oh, that's right! You never told me your scheme for today, did you." He came to rest as he spoke. "So what's the plan, Plasmius, got a portal to check?" He primed a fist before Vlad caught it and discharged electricity into Danny as Vlad huffed.

"Oh please, Daniel." He leaned his head forward to Danny as he spoke. "Must I *actually* defeat you with one hand behind my back, before you realize, you're outmatched!"

"Well, you do have years of skill, I have only had at least a year." Danny groaned as the discharge had reverted him back to Fenton before it stopped and he turned back to Phantom, curious why Cedric, Talia, and Topaz were not doing anything to help him here, but he dismissed it as the trio helped Tucker and Sam out of the dumpster as Vlad spoke to the now dazed Phantom.

"Ah, ah, ah!" He raised his chin with a smile and closed eyes. "We can't have you pass out, and change back into Danny Fenton, now can we?" He leaned forward close to Danny as he spoke. "This might be your *father's* party, but *you're* the guest of honor!" With a final word, Vlad tossed Danny toward the hunters as the GIW were the first to see him.

"It's the million dollar ghost!"

"Whoa! Do you know how many extreme jockstraps I could buy with a million dollars?" All of them primed to attack Danny as he continued to come toward them, Jack and Maddie just playing the part to be frank, as the tiger was also readied while modern items like a skateboard, a pen, and a lint roller turned into weapons as Tucker shook to the refuse that covered the pair of them.

"That settles it. Nasty Burger smells the same before, *and* after the fact." Sam was not concerned with that as she yelped.

"Danny!" He landed before the hunters and now had weapons glance right back at him as he just mused to himself.

'Whoa, what a bunch of wannabe hunters, only Mom and Dad actually pose a threat here...' He was surrounded now as he propped himself back up as Scaredy Cat growled at him before he just did the one thing that would work against the tiger. "...Boo." The tiger was not brave one bit as it jumped, landing on the dark-skinned agent of the GIW as he yelped.

"Ow! I have a skin breach on Facial Sector Five." While they were distracted, Danny phased through the concrete and disappeared as the Groovy Dude just questioned.

"Like, shouldn't we focus on the Ghost Kid? You know, before Jack Fenton does something stupid and he escapes?" Jack didn't shove them out of the way as he just had his bazooka at the ready before he pointed out.

"You do realize that he doesn't need me to distract you if he can phase through the ground, right?" Still, he had to play the convincing hunter as he whipped about and spotted Danny phasing back out at a distance and Jack landing his sights on him before the weapon charged.

Nothing was said before Danny bolted into the ground once more as Jack lowered the weapon as he pointed out. "See, he doesn't need me running around to escape, he can do it whenever he seems to decide." That didn't lighten the glares that he was getting before he retorted. "Oh, come on, what the heck were you hunters even DOING, you were standing around, wanting to get money out of this whole thing, so I suggest another course of action..." He glared back and they flinched to the powerful stare he returned. "Get in line and protect, don't be greedy about it." He headed off as the Breakers and GIW dropped on their behinds while Dude and Scaredy just covered their faces on the ground with Girl toppled under them.


Back at the Lab, Danny glared at the Ecto-Filtrator before punching it and crossing his arms as Sam spoke, Talia, Cedric, and Topaz there too to hear what Danny had to say about the whole thing. "Come on, Danny." She rolled her eyes and rested a hand on her hip as Danny glanced to her. "You can't tell me the only thing your billionaire arch-enemy is here to do is embarrass your Dad." Danny looked at the control panel again as Tucker brushed any remaining ectoplasm from his sleeve.

"And date his mom." But Danny cut in as he spoke.

"No! That's exactly not just why he's here." He started to fiddle with the panel as Cedric aided some with the measures. "To make my dad look like a fool to all those wannabes with some ulterior motive under the cloak-and-dagger." Jack came down happily as Danny continued ranting, Jack getting to heard it too. "I mean, did you see the way those ghost hunters were laughing at him? That is down right cruel!" Jack beamed at the defense that Danny was exhibiting as Danny just stopped to point at the filtrator and look up from it, unaware that Jack was there. "So frustrating!" Jack arrived behind them and Tucker and Sam took on looks of concern as Danny just continued. "We're all gonna have to live with my dad's insulted status for the rest of our lives, because people think they are better than the ACTUAL scientist of ecto-ology. Just so...!" He stopped as he heard the tell-tale sign of Sam clearing her throat before he spoke. "He's right behind us, isn't he?" The six turned to him as Jack just beamed.

"Yes, I'm sure he is." He straightened up as he spoke. "If you need me, I'll be upstairs, trying to be doing something to help out." Jack headed back up the stairs as Tucker mused on how it could have turned out.

"Nice. You wanna go upstairs and make your *mom* cry?" He got clocked in the head by two Demis, Sam snickering as Danny huffed with some of the anger gone from his systems.

"Great. I just almost managed to do Plasmius's job for him, if I was less than kind and was just... so angry with embarrassment." Tucker rubbed his head as Sam answered with an idea.

"Well, there's only one thing that's going to cheer him up more: Catching a ghost." Danny beamed as well as he could do just that as he answered.

"Yeah, and not just any ghost..." He willed the rings around him to transform once more as he finished with glowing greens. "Public Ghost Enemy #1..."


Jack didn't show it, but he was actually quite hurt when the hunters were just laughing at him, but Danny's words were the best to hear as he mused. "Danny's right. Who do those guys think they are, they barely helped stop those vultures, they are actual ghosts, so didn't they know about them and only got alerted to Danny's presence?" He hummed before he continued. "If only I could figure it out beforehand, that would make it all the more reasonable to know..." Danny took the chance to form behind him and speak up.

"Booooo!" Jack didn't jump as Danny tried again. "Whoo-ooo-ooo!" Nothing again as Jack was in thought before Danny pulled a 'Box Ghost'. "*Fear me*!" Still nothing as he floated over and waved a hand in front of Jack, the thinking stopping as he spoke to the turned attention. "Hello! Ghost! Right in front of ya!" Jack smirked as he spoke back.

"I know, Dann-o, but why you are trying so hard to be a spooky ghost is beyond me here." Danny huffed as Jack spoke again with hands under his jaw. "I was just thinking about the hunters, they were rude, sure, but why didn't they recognize ghosts, it seemed only that you were the sole target there." Danny floated over the table as he spoke.

"Well, your's and Mom's equipment haven't had much of a field day with ghosts, it could be fine-tuned to measure a emerging ghost from the portal or around you, my signature is something easily detected in ghost form." Jack popped up as Danny went on. "Vlad is behind the bounty and the hunters, but I don't know what he is after, he called and said something about an ecto-filtrator, I didn't get it before the vultures attacked and you put up a fight to take them, but they are actually stronger than humans if given the right stimulant."

"Ecto-filtrator?" Jack rubbed his jaw as he thought about it. "That's strange, an ecto-filtrator could do some real damage, but it also severs the connection between our world and the..." He stopped and face-palmed. "Of course, even after these years, we are still naive..." Danny raised a brow as he asked.

"How so?"

"Vladdy has never really let the notion of ghosts float past him, but with these days, I'm starting to think that maybe, he is trying to find various things of ghostly origin to contain, for a better word." Jack hummed with a rub of the jaw before he spoke. "I think we can see what he's up to, but first... we need to make it look like we did capture you."

Danny raised a brow before he spoke. "Which is...?"

"Eat hot Fenton Weasel, ghost scum!" Danny turned, just as Maddie unleashed the Fenton Weasel on him and he yelped as he was sucked in. He struggled to escape the vacuum as he yelped.

"Betrayal!?" He yelped as he was fully sucked in. "Okay, this really wasn't part of the plan!" Maddie beamed as she spoke.

"Got you, Danny, and nice to be helping your father, but like you both said, needs to be convincing."

"...Why did I open my mouth like that...?" It fell into Maddie praising Jack and he acknowledging it as part of the plan before Danny huffed in the Weasel, still apparent to what was happening. "Ugh, gross. Hello! I'm right here! *Hello*!" That was disregarded for a time as Jack geared up to meet the client.

As for the party, the trio just watched as the *ghost hunters* were being ferried about by Sam and Tucker in a bike-trolley, which was stupid, but Tucker was all about that green, completely human greed as Cedric just rubbed his temples. "I don't believe this..."

"Well, let's just do something else with our time than watch two young teens try to keep several ghost hunters off their friend's back." Talia smiled as Cedric nodded before both turned to Topaz, she freezing with a grape soda in hand.

"...What...?" The smile that Talia gave was of a deep mischief as she mused.

"So, when are you going to tell Danny that you... *like* him?" Topaz's eyes bulged and she sprayed the window, Cedric rolled his eyes as he cleaned up the mess while Topaz coughed it up before stammering.

"ARE YOU CRAZY!? Me... a-and the Dipstick!?" She waved her arms in complete denial as she just yelped. "NO... no, no, he is all for that goth chick, no way can I..."

"So you are telling me that you would not 'cuddle him under the starlight and lock lips with him in the pale moon light'?" A visible poof of steam emitted from Topaz's face and ears as Cedric shook his head as he looked to the other side.

"What gossip, Danny is in trouble with his relationship..." Cedric paused as the GAV rolled past, curious as to what Jack or Maddie could be up to as the ride just kept going to the destination set. Jack soon arrived with the Weasel in hand before he pondered to why the meeting for the million was in a dark alley.

"Hm. A funny place to claim a reward." He put down the paper and headed forward as Danny asked, from inside the Weasel.

"Are you sure you want to do this, 'Jack'?"

"I know exactly what I'm getting into. A bigger place in my son's heart. So, please, settle down."

"I know, but what if... it is a trap?"

Oh, *please*, 'ghost'! Why should I believe you on that?" It was short before the trap was sprung as a jail cage appeared around him and he yelled. "*Hey*!"

"Does that answer your question?"

"...No, not really." Jack answered to Danny's question before he peered forward to a patch of blue appearing on the opposite wall and a familiar face floated out with a numbers of claps and turning tangible as Jack exclaimed in surprise. "You! The Wisconsin Ghost himself!" Vlad answered as he 'went evil' on them both.

"Ah, very good. All the pawns doing exactly what they're supposed to." Jack had to admit, Vlad really could do the 'evil villain' rather well. "Leaving you two trapped and your Fenton Portal unprotected. So I can steal it and make it a Plasmius Portal!" Danny spoke up as he inquired.

"Wait a minute, you already have a ghost portal! What happened to it!?"

"He has a ghost portal?" Jack facepalmed before he spoke. "Of course, he had a ghost portal, but we both are not smart enough to change the filtrator when it is near it's limit, how foolish can we be!"

"You said it, not just me." Vlad shrugged as he continued. "It up and exploded on me. Ah, well, that's what you get for forgetting to clean the ecto-filtrator." He shrugged as he continued. "Hmm? Live and learn." He opened his eyes back up and glanced to the man in the cage. "Or in your case, die and learn." He braced before taking flight as Danny grimaced.

"Uh-oh."

"What an evil scheme..." Jack hummed before he beamed. "Vladdy can sure make such a plan, I remember when he pranked the whole football team, but no one even guessed it was him, he was amazing that it was spooky." Danny was quiet before he spoke.

"...Tell me more..." Jack beamed as they had time...


The progress of dismantling the Portal was just beginning by the vultures Vlad entrusted, but it would soon face an interruption as Jazz arrived to the kitchen, but it was darkened out as she asked out in confusion. "Mom? Dad? Danny?" Just as quickly, a black glove snatched her and pulled her under the table as Maddie whispered.

"Quiet! There are ghosts about!" Sadly, being stealthy was not in the plan as two of the vultures arrived at the sound of Jazz and the comment of ghosts.

"Actually, 'Ghosts' is a bit insensitive. We prefer the term 'Ecto-Americans'!" Both of the girls stood up as Maddie pulled out a green pill, just as Jazz spoke.

"That doesn't make any sense, that implies that you were created somewhere else before Amity!" Maddie threw the pill and it erupted in smoke and left them to dash for somewhere that Maddie knew about as she exclaimed to Jazz.

"Come on! We have to get to the weapons vault!"

"We have a weapons vault?" Jazz asked as the pair made it to a circular door and a keypad to which Maddie punched in a sequence before it told her 'DENIED' and she yelled.

"Darn that man!" The matriarch spoke as she answered the unasked question with a turn of the head. "Your father changed the password! There's no way in!" Sadly, that was also what the vultures intended as they landed on the pair's heads as the second answered.

"Or out!" They hurled the pair into the stockpile of weapons that was stored in the vault before Maddie grumbled.

"Ohhhh, *great*. We're stuck!"

"How can we be stuck? It's not like Dad would forget to put a handle on the inside of the door, right?" Another sad fact was made with the note on the door, attached to a wheel that should have been able to let them out as Jazz plucked it off and read. "'Note to self: Have Danny install handle on inside of door, Jack'." Her brows lowered in disbelief before Maddie spotted a second note and plucked to read it as well, from the upper part of the wheel.

"'Note to self: Inquire for actual replacement of iron wheel, jams too easily from ill-fit, Danny." Maddie glanced to Jazz as she beamed. "Well, at least we know about it." That didn't improve the mood as Jack had Danny laughing before Danny spoke again, this time with a serious vibe.

"You need to let me out! We have to get to our house and *fast*!"

"Why?" Jack asked as he continued. "Did you actually forget to change the filtrator? I told you..."

"Five times, I know, but I didn't get to changing the actual thing, the replacement wasn't on the stand when it should have been."

"Well..." Jack hummed. "I am pretty sure you are in trouble, but I don't really care about that." He plucked the Weasel up and released Danny. "So what's the first plan of action?"

"Getting you out first before I deal with another problem." He went behind Jack and turned them intangible as Jack mused.

"My tummy feels funny." They took flight and headed overhead of where the 'Ghost Tours' were going on, only to have the ghost hunters go on the offensive to get Danny, sadly, they were ill-prepared for the ghost boy as he just glanced down and huffed.

"Oh please." He grunted and suddenly, there were two more Danny Phantoms flying as he spoke. "Take care of the wannabes, I am taking Dad home." Both saluted and zoomed down, the trolley cut off from the pair riding the bikes as they barreled for the landing duo, the cart tipping over as the hunters went on the attack. The Breakers' launched hackey sack barely missed with a small eruption of goo behind the two duplicates before both spooked the tiger into the hunters with a bash, leaving them dazed as the pair high-fived and took the hunters to the trash back at the Nasty Burger before throwing them in and closing the dumpster shut as both spoke.

"Now, to stop Plasmius!"

"And save our home." Both took flight before returning to Danny, catching his breath while Jack rushed inside.


The process was long and tiring for the birds as Vlad mused. "I don't suppose you could move any faster?" The vulture who had pulled out a bolt from the portal got back up from being weighed down by the pulled bolt.

"We're two thousand and eight years old. Be happy we're moving at all." Any more was lost when a teal-blue line lashed out and wrapped around Vlad as he exclaimed.

"What the-?" Jack arrived with the Fenton Fisher as Vlad turned and proceeded to 'monologue' to the man. "Oh, you've got to be kidding me. I get to waste you in your own home?" Vlad laughed as he continued. "This is the greatest day of my life." He emitted power and broke free of the line before he exclaimed. "Get him!" The vultures took flight and Danny arrived as he exclaimed.

"Dad!" He phased fully into the lab as he nearly stepped into battle stance. "I better-" He didn't get to finish or fight as Jack pulled out a Jack-O-Nine Tails and lashed out with it, dealing with the birds in quick succession before retracting the weapon and blowing on it like it was a smoking barrel to Danny's exclaim. "*Whoa*!"

Jack backed up his actions with his talk as well. "Nobody's wasting Jack Fenton while his family's in danger." He booked it for the portal before Plasmius cut him off as he mused with a lean forward.

"Oh please, fool. Your family's in danger every time you pick up a *butter knife*." He straightened up with tugging on the gloves as he finished. "It's time someone put you out of their misery." He backhanded Jack back and sent him slamming into a table, fortune favoring him as the Ghost Gauntlets landed on him before he got back up and exclaimed with putting the tools on, Cedric having field-tested the tools themselves to see that Danny was easily pulled out of both intangibility and invisibility.

"I might be a goof, I might mess up, but when my family's at stake, the gloves are off!" He held up his hand, donned in the Gauntlets before glancing to them for a bit. "Now, that is an oxymoron right here." Vlad made to take on Jack, but the big guy had him beat in weight and strength as he wailed on Vlad in true combat as Danny commented.

"Whoa, he's all over this! Which means-" Gripping his fists, he revert back to Fenton as he spoke. "-it's time to do my chores!" Danny headed off as he cleaned up the place quickly as Jack and Vlad helped out much in their fight, Vlad getting a few good shots, both laughing in the brawl. "Well, the table's clear... Beakers are taken care of…" Jack tossed Vlad and the older Demi blasted for the trash can that Jack picked up to get destroyed. "Aaand the trash has been taken out." He turned to the portal as he spoke again. "Which means I have plenty of time for-"

The alarm went off as the system spoke to his now panic. "Ghost Portal to explode in 30. 29. 28. 27. 26." The panic set in as Danny worked to remove the filtrator before he exclaimed in realization.

"The new filtrator. Where's the new filtrator?!" Jack had him covered as he offered the new one after plucking it up from one of the lower shelf of one of the tables with a brief respite from Vlad who was dazed from a good punch. "Uh-I probably should've done this any of the five times that you told me to."

"I'm sort of glad you didn't." They exchanged filtrators before Vlad made for a charge, only to get ectoplasm in the face when Jack blew the build-up in Vlad's face, causing him to flinch before getting grabbed, Jack opening the portal as man walked toward it as Vlad exclaimed, beaten up too amazingly.

"It's not possible. You're an idiot! AN *IDIOT*!" Jack pulled Vlad close as he retorted back.

"Maybe so, but I'm the idiot who beat you." He tossed Vlad into the air and punched him into the portal as he bellowed. "Thanks for stopping by, Vlad, call next time though, we can get a real shindig going if you could!" Danny cheered at Jack's victory as the portal closed.

"That was *awesome*!"

"Aren't you forgetting something? *Again*?" The intercom was nice enough to point it out as both looked up.

"Ghost Portal to explode-" The pair panicked as the canister escaped Danny's hands, both stumbling to catch it. "-in 5." Danny caught it. "-4." Both beamed before Fenton Works exploded...


The computer detailing the event as Jack remarked about it, the guys sitting in the kitchen with soda, popcorn, and the laptop detailing the event.. "Ah, you see? That's exactly what would happen if you don't change the ecto-filtrator every six months." Danny questioned as he asked.

"Why do you even have this simulation on your laptop?"

"So I never forget to tell you why it's important to change the ecto-filtrator." Jack answered back as Danny agreed.

"I won't. And you shouldn't forget this." Danny knocked an elbow to Jack as both stood up from the table. "I'm really proud of you, Dad. I still can't believe you beat Vlad back into the Ghost Zone." Jack rested his hands on Danny's shoulders as he spoke.

"Aw, thanks Danny. Vlad's a cool guy, but sometimes we can butt heads." He held up a finger as they walked. "So, from here on in-"

"I'll remember my chores-"

"-and I'll remember that my actions have consequences to others. Especially my family." They walked on before stopping as Jazz and Maddie called from the vault. Both looked at each other before Jack sighed. "Right, we... didn't fix the opening process for the vault, but I do know the code."

"Yeah, what is it?" Jack walked over and pushed in the ten-digit code and the vault opened and Maddie leapt out as she screeched.

Where are those no-good vultures, I am going to..."

"Taken care of, Maddie, I don't think they will be bothering us for a while." Maddie let up and the family just hugged before continuing on their day while Vlad emerged in a distant part of the Zone in both shock and disbelief.

"Unbelievable that. Jack Fenton beat me. Me!" He paused as the case that he was after bumped into his back and he took it in hand. "And yet here I am. Holding the key I've been searching for." He lower the case as he exclaimed. "Oh, Jack Fenton, even in success, you *fail*!" A roar echoed and Vlad turned to find the Behemoth towering over before devouring him, case and all as Vlad exclaimed, not planning to be spending the day as the behemoth's snack. "Oh, *BUTTER BISCUITS*!" Indeed, the victory was Vlad's, but he still could have gone without getting eaten by a ghostly guardian the size of a large monster truck...