The day shined bright on Amity Park as the Nasty Burger was where the six friends were enjoying their time inside as Danny spoke. "Ah, Nasty Burger. Our safe haven away from the worries of-" That was cut short as Jazz burst in and exclaimed to them.

"Danny, Run!"

"Run, why Should I?" Jazz rushed over, but then came the sound, the noise, and the figures as both exclaimed with bursting into the fast food joint.

"Dude!" It was Jack and Maddie in 'hip-hop' 80's style clothing as the Nasty Burger laughed at the get-up as Jazz took cover by Sam as she spoke in ducking down, Topaz on the other side of Sam as the older sister slid in.

"If anyone asks, I'm related to you."

"Okay, but you're gonna have to be way less cheery."

"And green, don't forget the green." After the 'King Tuck' incident, Sam had been training a bit more with her powers, enough that she could easily hid her markings and revert her eye back to violet so her parents wouldn't go nuts, and Tuck got a robotic chimera from Cedric, in the fact that it could shift from a mechanical hound to a titanic scorpion and easily managed hawk, but they couldn't bring 'Ferdinand' along on account of... the 'Slushie incident' as both Fenton parents approached the tables.

"We're, like, totally late for 80's night at the Material Grill."

"But you, like, totally forgot your wallet, man." Maddie followed up from Jack's comment as she showed a wallet to the party as Danny took it with some minor thanks.

"Uh, thanks?"

"Don't mention it. We love ya, man." Danny was then subjected to a grizzy hug as he exclaimed to his sister.

"If I pass out, I give you permission to not resuscitate me." Jazz hid her face behind a menu as Jack beamed in his 80's getup before cracking up the tunes on the boombox on his shoulder.

"Come on, Maddie. Let's crank up the tunes and moonwalk outta here."

"Oh, just like our college days!" They somehow did the moonwalk out of there as Danny facepalmed to Topaz's comment.

"Cheer up, Baby-pop. I'm sure there's a couple of kids who didn't see that."

"Oh, this one's going straight to the internet!" Mike exclaimed with a camera in hand before Danny groaned.

"DAUH!" He got up to leave as the members called out to him.

"Danny! Wait!" Danny stomped out a side entrance of the Nasty Burger as he lightly growled with the friends behind him.

"Just once, I'd like to know what it's like to live in a normal family."

"Which you never will, so long as you're Jack Fenton's son." All looked to find Vald Plasmius on a light post as Danny spoke with some rage.

"Great, more weirdness from my parents's college days. What do you want with me this time, Plasmius?" Plasmius landed before he reverted back, the party exclaiming as Vlad's face was covered in acne as he spoke.

"Ugh, the ecto-acne; it's back. Please help me." They gasped to the state of Vlad as Sam exclaimed."

"Help you? Yeah, right."

"Why would he want to do that?" Topaz smacked Sam while Cedric actually smacked Tucker hard enough to cause him to actually flip before he spoke.

"Now is not the time for this, you guys." He dashed over with Talia as Vlad looked thankful for the helping hands. "This is not good, I think that the ecto-acne is killing his human side more and more, we NEED to start examinations about this, fast!"

"And I know who can help with that." Danny raised his fingers before the door was bashed down to Jack, Maddie, and Jazz as Jack exclaimed.

"Back off, ghost!" He blinked before he spoke. "Oh, Danny and friends, Vladdie too, I didn't mean..."

"You are forgiven, Mr. Fenton." The two demis and Cedric answered as Jack grimaced.

"Whoa. This is dangerous, we need to get you into quarantine!"

"We have an outbreak of ecto-acne. And there's only one place on Earth that knows how to treat ecto-acne."

"Please say hospital, please say hospital, please say hospital." But the hospital was the worse place to go to with such a effect, so they hit up Fentonworks with locking it all down as Danny grimaced in an actual hazmat suit with the others. "Why couldn't you say hospital?"

"Hey, everyone, he's awake." Vlad stirred back awake as he spoke.

"Ah, Maddie, I knew you wouldn't let me down. It's almost like you didn't have a choice. Well, almost, to be fair." Danny groaned, but he didn't stomp off as Jack exclaimed.

"Looking good, Vladdie!" The monitor spoke otherwise as Jack corrected himself to the falling vitals. "Who am I kidding? You're a goner." That was a bad sign as Danny asked.

"There has to be something we can do for him." Maddie sighed, however, as she spoke.

"I wish I could, Danny, but I still can't identify the ecto-impurities that are causing the lethal acne." All grimaced as Talia spoke amongst them.

"And you would have increased your odds if you had exposed Tucker to the same effects, tainting his flesh with the same would have also been killing him too."

"Indeed, but I decided against it, because I know I have a lot to make up for, but I am not going to be a cruel man about this." He panted as he continued. "Worse enough, if I can't be cured for this, I will die."

"Shoot..." Danny grimaced as he asked. "I wish we had something to work against this."

"My wishes could make it worse, Daniel, and I don't even know if it would work in time." Suddenly, Danny had an idea as he spoke to them about it.

"Time? That gives me a great idea." He headed off to ask Clockwork what he could do to reverse it...


"No, it's a horrible idea. I'm the ghost of time, not the ghost of miracle cures."

"Send me back in time to my parents's college days, Clockwork. I can prevent the accident that gave Vlad his original case of ecto-acne and his ghost powers." Danny answered as he bantered with Clockwork for the chance as Clockwork warned him.

"Changing the past can have dire consequences. Are you willing to take that risk?"

"Please, Vlad may be a bit heartless, but I know that we are changing him for the better, I don't have a choice if I want him to live on."

"You always have a choice, but since you insist on learning things the hard way..." He opened a portal and Danny headed in with a final glance. "...Try not to destroy the past." Danny didn't like the sound of it as he traveled through time itself and arrived to the time where he needed to be as he mused, to all of the 'culture he was seeing.

"'Destroy the past?' What? And lose all this culture?"

"Totally awesome outfit, dude." He glanced to a punk rocker giving him the thumbs up before heading off as he groaned.

"Oh, great." Danny huffed as he continued to himself about it. "I blend. Ah well, guess it beats people thinking I'm a-" He glanced to a poster and made to find out what he could do to change it as the bell rang and the past forms of his parents and Vlad spoke.

"Maddie, there's something I've been wanting to tell you for a long time."

"One second, Vlad." She called out to the large teen. "Jack, do you remember to fill the filtrator with ecto-purifier?"

"On it, baby." But in his distraction, he didn't take up the ecto-purifier, he took up diet soda and poured it in, Danny blinking for the answer before Vlad exclaimed to the small device before them, having seen the look of affection Maddie had for Jack.

"I'm telling you, Jack, it won't work."

"Bogus, V-man, it totally will. This proto-portal is guaranteed to bust open the wall into the ghost dimension." The pair headed over to start as Danny was going to change how this event would go down as Maddie exclaimed to the notes.

"Jack, these calculations aren't right."

"Bonzai!" The portal started to power up to Jack's control, but Danny dashed to save Vlad from the incident, knocking him away as the room became a bounce board for the projectile beam before Vlad got back up and dashed into Maddie as he yelped.

"No!" The beam went in between them with an explosion as Maddie thanked him for the save.

"Vlad, you saved my life."

"Yes, I did, didn't I?"

"No ecto-acne, no Plasmius. Mission accomplished." Clockwork pushed the button on his staff and send Danny back 'home as he spoke. "Whew, back home, and no quarantine tent either which means everyone's alright." He stopped to see that Fentonworks was not so teched out, in fact it was just a old building as Danny mused in confusion. "I think." He turned back to Fenton and entered the house, the place looking ransacked or abandoned with boxes of pizza littering the ground as he called out. "Uh, Mom? Dad? Jazz? Anyone?" But his breath went off and he knew that meant that a ghost was close, but what he found was his dad, dressed in his old college garbs instead of his jumpsuit, as he exclaimed.

"Nobody trespasses on Jack Fenton's property!"

"Dad! Relax!"

"'Dad?' I don't have a son! I'm single, bitterly, bitterly single."

"You are? Geez, that explains almost everything."

"What!?"

"Nothing! Uh, is that ecto-acne?"

"It's a condition, that you shouldn't know about! How do you know about ecto-acne?! Talk!" Jack exclaimed with grabbing Danny and lifting him.

"I'm your son. I know all about the accident in Wisconsin years ago... that shouldn't have happened." But Jack was not in that ring as he exclaimed with throwing Danny like a basketball.

"Oh, it happened alright. And my life went straight down the flusher from that day on." White halos formed around him and Jack took on a more Plasmius appearance of Jack as he blasted at Danny as his 'son' called out to him.

"Guh! Wait! It's me, Danny! Your son!" He dodged another blast as Jack exclaimed in rage.

"Lies! I do not have a son! Even if I did, I certainly wouldn't name him 'Danny.' That's dumb."

"Okay, I didn't want to do this in front of you, but 'going ghost'!" He changed into Phantom which gave pause, but not for long.

"You're a ghost? I hate ghosts!" He fired once more, but still, he was a horrible shot as he exclaimed. "Nn-rah!"

"I don't understand, that's got to be Dad. He aims like Dad."

"If it wasn't for ghosts, I never would've lost the love of my life." The tackle was otherwise said as Danny was sent flying through the floor as he got himself back up with hoping for a way to fix this.

"Oh, this is bad. I've gotta get back to Clockwork and change this." He stopped to gasp at the lack of portal as he answered his own concern. "No portal?" He found the proto-portal covered in dust as he grimaced. "Okay? Maybe I can squeeze through this stupid thing?" He stopped to see something far worse on the other side. "Oh, oh no." Mounted on the wall was a new clipping of Vlad Masters and Maddie married together as he exclaimed. "I didn't destroy the past, I destroyed the present! I changed the past into something far worse!" He reached over and took the clipping as he read. "'Mr. and Mrs. Vlad Masters'?" He gasped as Jack arrived and empowered a fist to punch.

"Say 'goodbye'!" Danny turned with holding the clipping up and that stopped Jack from his attack as he spoke again. "'Goodbye'." He took it from Danny as he looked at it with remorse. "Seems all I ever do is say 'goodbye'." Danny quickly inquired about it, in hopes of finding out where he went wrong.

"Dad, uh, Jack, please, just tell me what happened. I mean, I'd love to hear you blather on about the glory days."

"Well, my cat, Jasmine, won't listen anymore." So Jasmine was Jack's idea, so Danny was his as Jack started off with explaining. "Anyway, it was twenty years ago..." instead of Vlad being affected by the acne, Jack was in the blast and he dashed away in fear as he continued. "I may have lost Maddie that day, but I gained ghost powers and twenty-seven pounds. Anyway, after that I tried to find my place in the world. First as a ghost fighting superhero, but that didn't work out; then again, perhaps I shouldn't have debuted on Halloween." That made some sense as he continued on. "Eventually, I moved here, to continue my research on ghosts." That may have scared the previous resident away as Jack just continued. "No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get rid of my ghost half, the half I knew Maddie would never be able to accept." Danny realized that he made a terrible mistake as he spoke.

"Oh, man. I'm so sorry. This is all my fault."

"What are you blathering about?" Danny answered with pulling out his wallet and showing the pictures of the Fentons, the real family as Jack exclaimed. "What? What is this?"

"Vlad wasn't supposed to marry Maddie, you were! I went back in time and changed one little moment in the past and messed up everything." Jack growled as Danny pleaded. "But I can fix it, I swear! I just need a working portal to-"

"More Lies!" Jack shouted in dividing himself into three of himself and went to town on Danny, launching him from the building as he exclaimed.

"I have to get to the Ghost Zone and find Clockwork." He turned invisible to hide form the Jacks before forming back to the visible plane as he wished that the OTHER half of the original family could help him out. "And if Dad doesn't have a portal, that means I have to find Mom and hope she does." He took flight to the Castle and landing to shifting in human form and knocking on the door with the knocker exhausted as both Vlad and Maddie greeted him at the door with Vlad shouting.

"How many times do I have to tell you, 'No. Free. Cheese. Samples'!" But Danny didn't have the time to explain it right now as he dropped to his knees in lack of energy.

"Mom."

"Mom?!" Both exclaimed as they brought him in and got him energized again as Maddie spoke again. "We should call your parents. They must be worried sick."

"My parents are sort of, uh, missing, there was an accident." It was the truth of the matter right now as he felt the energy return as Vlad spoke.

"Oh, I'm so sorry, my boy."

"Is there anything we can do to help? Do you need a place to stay?"

"Ah, your kindness knows no bounds, my love." Vlad answered with puckering up before Danny got up to stop it.

"Ah-ha, listen, um..." He covered Vlad's mouth from kissing as he asked a weird question from the alternate family. "...this might sound like a strange question, but, um, do you guys have a ghost portal by any chance?" Maddie laughed with feigned innocence.

"Why would we have a silly thing like a ghost portal?" The way she avoided the question said something else as Vlad spoke next in pointing out his stance of the whole thing.

"Yes, I'm a simple dairy man, successor to the Wisconsin Dairy King, we do not discuss ghosts in. this. house!" Danny blinked at that before he pointed out a familiar tool that his parents used often.

"Then why do you have an ecto-foamer?" The fact it was slightly stashed in the closet was a signal as Vlad inquired with hidden outrage.

"What's the meaning of this?"

"Um, that's my- carpet foamer. It eliminates stains, not ghosts. Right, sweetie?"

"Maddie, can you forgive me for doubting you?" They then started to make out as Danny grimaced to the sight.

"I thought my real parents were embarrassing, this is so much worse." They gave him lodges to use until further notice, but Danny took the night time to search, finding a lab, but not what he was looking for as he hummed for an answer. "Something's wrong here. Even if Mom was crazy enough to marry Vlad, there's no way she'd give up ghost hunting to become a milkmaid." He paused before going deeper into the foundation to find what he was looking for as he exclaimed. "I knew it! Now all I need is-" He beamed once more to walking and dashing to a familiar arch, a heart on it instead of hazard markings. "Ye-yes! A portal! I can get back to Clockwork and-" A crash sounded behind him and he turned to find Maddie behind him, in a jumpsuit and a familiar suction device in hand as she pointed it at him with a call.

"Eat Maddie Weasel, ghost!" Danny exclaimed to get her to listen.

"Wait! You don't understand!" But he was gone and lost his battle with consciousness for a time.


He groaned awake to Maddie as she spoke. "Oh, you're awake." Danny started to get afraid as this was one of the worst moment of his life, he was strapped down and had a laser position right in front of him as she continued with turning it on. "Good, I have some questions for you. Let's start with 'who are you' and 'why are you snooping around my secret lab'?"

"Wait, what are you doing!?" The thing detached into Maddie's hand as he fired a fine green beam and it was moved to his pit as he continued to plead. "Stop!"

"Oh, scream all you want, ghost. This lab is totally sound proof; it has to be or my husband would find out about it. Now, I ask you again: 'Who are you'?" Danny yielded with his answer.

"I'm- your son." She gasped as Danny continued. "Yours and Jack Fenton's." Anger filled Maddie again as she exclaimed.

"Liar! I haven't seen Jack Fenton in years. He blamed me for the accident that gave him his powers, Vlad told me so; he ran away here to escape his ghostly wrath." The record stopped there as Danny cataloged it in his head, if Vlad was hit, he blames Jack for it, but if Jack was hit, Vlad tells Maddie that Jack blames HER for the accident, was Vlad afraid of the paranormal that he would do everything in his power to ensure that he was never be pulled into the mess of ectoplasm and ghosts, that was something to think about as Danny replied back.

"What? That's insane! He's still totally in love with you."

"It's true, Maddie." Both gasped as Jack arrived as he spoke his piece. "It's always been true."

"Jack? But Vlad told me you never wanted to see me again?" Jack refuted that as he came closer.

"I never stopped wanting to see you, Maddie; I... just couldn't face you as the thing you despise..." The halos appeared and he reverted back as he spoke. "...a ghost. But I had to come, because of this." He held out the wallet that Danny left behind for Maddie to see as she took it in hand.

"A family? With you?" Danny breathed easy as Maddie hugged Jack and he hugged her back. "Oh, Jack, And that's why you called me 'Mom' at the door, you must be our son from an alternate timeline." She disengaged the locks as the three shared a hug as Danny breathed out a very real answer.

"The one good thing about having scientist parents- alternate timeline- totally valid excuse." They split as Jack asked.

"So, where's our little alternate timeline daughter, Davy?"

'It's Danny."

"That's still dumb."

"Eh, that's a little complicated." Danny chuckled as Maddie booted up the system and searched for the ghost Danny was looking for.

"Clockwork, right?" They found his description and appearance as easily as Danny mused.

"Wow, you're good." Maddie walked over to the way and opened it as she spoke.

"You don't really think I spend my nights coming up with new cheese recipes, do you?" Cookies sounded more interesting as Jack beamed.

"Oh, Maddie, just think, in another universe we have two kids to embarrass." Danny did the same as he headed for the way through, pausing when he heard the door behind him open and knew that the clock just ticked as Vlad's voice filled the lab.

"Let's focus on what you're doing in this universe, shall we?" Danny ducked down with a turn as Vlad stood at the entrance, ecto-foamer in hand, with Jack and Maddie gasping to being exposed as Vlad exclaimed. "I knew this wasn't a carpet foamer. You've been experimenting again."

"Vlad, it's not what you think."

"No, Maddie, It's exactly what he thinks. You and I are destined to be together, and nothing will keep us apart any longer." Jack answered in turning ghost as Vlad countered.

"Nothing, except this! " He fired and Jack was blasted into the wall as Danny called out.

"Leave him alone." He took flight to fire a beam at Vlad who ducked before he barraged the room, Danny dodging as a stray blast got Maddie and slammed her into the terminal as Vlad spoke.

"Sorry, sweetheart, my bad."

"Mom!" He charged a blast to knock the foamer out of Vlad's hand, but he had a steady grip as he exclaimed back.

"Don't you ever call her that again!" Danny didn't dodge when he was hit with the foamer, landing on the table and the shackles trapping him on it as Vlad spoke with approaching the table. "You have overstayed your welcome. Now, you're going to have to leave molecule by molecule." He dropped the foamer to handle the laser as Danny exclaimed.

"Wait!" The beam moved to cut off his limbs as he shouted. "No! You don't understand! None of this should be happening!"

"You think I care? I like it this way!" Jack, having gotten free, slammed Vlad away as he exclaimed back.

"Get away from my son!" He shut off the laser, but Vlad was not done as he got up and shoved Jack back before pulling free the laser and firing it, Jack protecting himself form its beam, but it sent him careening into the portal as warning alarms went off and the smoke cleared to a human Jack kneeling on the ground there as Maddie exclaimed.

"Jack." She dashed over to him as he mumbled.

"It's alright, Maddie. Just remember what could've been." He breathed as he fell unconscious before Maddie had enough as she vented on Vlad.

"You despicable, lying piece of cheese! I wasted the best years of my life with you!"

"Now, Maddie, I may be a lying piece of cheese, but I'm still your husband." Maddie didn't care as she lifted him up and primed the throw.

"Consider this an annulment!" With that, she threw him into the Zone to be dealt with by the other ghosts within before she dashed over to Danny as she spoke. "Quick, the portal's overloading." She uncuffed him as he launched himself into the portal. "Go back in time and make sure this never happens, Clockwork will help." He soared in to find Clockwork and hope that he had the answers.


"I will not help." Danny stammered as he asked.

"But- Vlad, he-"

"Needs to be cured in the present, not the past. I can reset time to back to the way it was before you meddled, but that's it." Danny watched as the same played out.

"Jack, do you remember to fill the filtrator with ecto-purifier?"

"On it, baby." And he grabbed... the diet cola as Danny exclaimed.

"That's it. That's it!" Clockwork smiled before Danny facepalmed. "All this time and I missed such an apparent answer, the portal wasn't powered by the ecto-purifier back then, it was powered by diet soda, Oh My Ancients, I was so dumb!"

"See, you are indeed learning, Daniel, but don't let me take up anymore time, save him." Danny nodded as he took flight back to the human world as Jack exclaimed.

"Live, Vladdie, live!" He pounded on the man's chest as he pleaded. This cannot be the end, it can not!" Vlad huffed as he spoke.

"If you see Daniel, tell him that I..."

"Why don't you tell me yourself?" Maddie gasped as she rushed over with protective gear in hand.

"Put on your protective gear, you don't wanna catch the ecto-acne!"

"Uh, yeah, about that. those ecto-impurities you couldn't identify, um, would they be consistent with, oh, say, diet cola?"

"Don't be silly, why would-" She stopped with a gasp at the result and almost facepalmed on how foolish they were. "Oh my." She quickly mixed up some ecto-antidote and gave it to Vlad as the acne disappeared from sight as Jack exclaimed.

"Vladdie, you're cured!"

"That's great, Jack. Now, would you please stop pounding on my chest!" Jack stopped as he apologized.

"Sorry, diet soda?" He stopped to see that he grabbed the ecto-antidote instead and mused. "Why do I mess up with these things at times...?" Maddie cut in as she inquired about Danny's insight.

"Danny? How did you know?"

"There had to be some benefits to being the son of the two smartest ghost hunters on the planet." He flicked a signal to Cedric and he gave a thumbs up as the two parents went to the machines to record it all down and never to make that mistake again if anyone came down with it as Vlad beamed.

"I knew you'd come through, Daniel. All it took was the proper motivation." He groaned as he inquired. "Of course, I'm still weak beyond measure, so bygones?" Danny beamed as he spoke.

"Bygones, though I am not going to send you back to Wisconsin, the Material Grill has a 80's night going on." The squad watched as Vlad paled in pleading.

"Daniel, don't you dare...!"

"Suffer with me, the 80's have returned for the night!"


"We finally got our 80's night out." Maddie mused as the Material Grill had the 80's going on as Jack beamed back, a bit upset that Vlad made a 'ghostly' retreat to avoid being part of the 80's time.

"It's too bad Vladdie had to fly back to Wisconsin so suddenly, he'd 'ave loved this place. Right, Danny?"

"Gnarly!" Danny danced with his folks with a moonwalk, past Jazz as she groaned.

"If anyone asks, I was adopted."

"Let's just say I've come to terms with Mom and Dad's past. I wouldn't change it again, even if I could." He danced with them as Mikey exclaimed to the dancing going on.

"Forget the internet, this is going on pay-per-view!" It was quite the time as Danny showed off some serious moves with his folks, the squad taking a backseat as they watched as Talia hummed.

"This is the part where we should 'save' Jazz from the horrors of the 80's."

"Nah, Babypop's got it covered, and besides this is very amusing to watch."

"Is Ferdinand recording all of this?"

"Of course, Cedric made him to be my protector and our portable data archive, he is getting all of it in the records." Cedric chuckled as he looked back to the scene, surprised that no one had taken notice of the machine wolf by Tucker's elbow, its blue eyes purple to show some feedback of the scene recorded.

"Just remember that he is meant for ghost hunting, NOT being a teen." Tucker waved his hand about it and the four rolled their eyes as you could could teach a dog new tricks, but sometimes, they can fall back on old hobbies...