In the shadows of a hidden lab, Vlad went over all records he had compiled and readied from the equipment that Valerie Gray had before the suit suffered a 'total' overhaul and was severed from the net work. "File 10-4-O-6-VM." Clips of Danny and Valerie battling appeared before he called out. "Stop." The feed froze as he continued. "Analysis." This was the process ongoing as he repeated with different feeds, all of Danny battling the Red Huntress, both friendly and competitively. "File 1-O-4-O-6-VX. Stop. Analysis. File 18-74-MI. Analysis. File 24-16-SM. Stop. File 32-99-IM. Stop. Analysis. Conclusion?" But all of it was for naught for what he was looking for.

"I'm sorry, sweetheart. Inconclusive data. Experiment cannot be completed without mid-morph sample." A Maddie program answered as Vlad huffed with some resentment.

"Bah! The equipment I gave Valerie to fight ghosts has been monitoring Daniel for months and I'm still missing the one piece I need." He snapped his fingers and turned to a series of pods, three opening to a brute, a thing in a bedsheet, and a small thing as he floated over to them and spoke. "You know what to do."

"Yes, father." They took flight as Vlad mused.

"Father. Ha! I do so love that. Now say it again the way I programmed you to."

"Jack Fenton is an idiot. I am glad I serve you." More windows of the digital Maddie appeared as they repeated the phrase. "Jack Fenton is an idiot. I am glad I serve you." Vlad laughed manically as Danny was going to have some trouble with a long-term plan that Vlad had been cook for a great deal of time...


It was a casual game of mini-golf, but Sam's hit was in vain as the windmill stopped her ball before she groaned. "Ugh, darn it."

"18th hole, Sam. I beat ya here, I win." She growled as the party of Cedric, Valerie, Topaz, and Taila watched it all happen as Topaz spoke.

"Strange how Babypop didn't stop by for this mini-golf match."

"Indeed, I expected him to be here by now, what did Jazz say about it when you called her, Cedric?" The young man answered to Talia's question with a roll of the wrist to boot.

"She said that he didn't set his alarm this time and that he might have overslept, Sam and Tucker know this as well, but they were still a bit miffed about it." They nodded as Valerie glanced to the mechanical wolf by her side.

"And Ferdinand is... doing what exactly out here?"

"Being cuddly with his master's girl, Tucker is many things, but he has actually been better with being with you."

"Well, that and I could just as easily shock him with some of my ghost toys."

"That too." Tucker moved to putt the ball in, but his club phased through as all watched it happen with Sam beaming to Tucker's gasp.

"That's one." Tucker went again, but the ball just phased as Sam pointed out. "And two. Three. Four. And five. Ha!" Tucker growled to the failed swings and reached for the ball before it went intangible on him and was lifted by someone else as Danny spoke.

"Boo." Tucker yelped before he recovered to lecture.

"Danny, knock it off."

"Yeah, you were supposed to be here an hour ago." She then directed her tone to Tucker in continuing. "By the way, that still counts." Danny phased back under as the ball rolled as he spoke.

"Uh, sorry I was late." He emerged from the rocks as Fenton as he continued. "But you'll be happy to know that the ghost king won't... be..." But all of them gave a look of suspect looks as Danny corrected himself. "Okay. I overslept."

"We know, Danny." All answered as Sam lightly groaned.

"Ugh, Danny. You have got to start being more considerate."

"Yeah, dude." Tucker pointed out as he made his statement about it. "Lately, you've been treating us like sidekicks instead of friends. And when you get into a fight, we're the ones who take the beating."

"Oh, come on. Name one time." All glanced at him before he blinked in relization. "Well, Skulker firing his missiles in a molasses factory was kind of reckless, but I guess I was not really thinking about my surroundings at that time."

"Cujo's saliva was everywhere when we finally got him back into the Zone, in his titan form." Valerie pointed out to the second moment as Topaz was on the third.

"And I am no vegan, but getting stomped on by the Lunch Lady is a new low for me, you said 'Look out!' and bolted to the side, some of us were not fast enough to go intangible or to just run from a fight."

"Because we are quite stubborn when it comes down to it." They nodded as Danny spoke in apology.

"Okay, okay I get it. I'll try to be a little more considerate." They ghost sense went off, even Sam's as her was a puff of herbal scents as Danny grimaced. "Starting tomorrow." People screamed at the arrival of a ghost in a bed sheet before Danny bolted over and slammed into the ghost, smashing him into one of the mini-golf structures as Tucker questioned, with Sam and Valerie watching as Cedric had jumped in to join Phantom while Talia and Topaz ran observance.

"What kinda ghost haunts a miniature golf course?"

"Well, there is a Box Ghost. Obviously all the good haunts have been taken." Danny was knocked out of the structure and Cedric went in, as the bed-sheet ghost clashed with him before he bashed the ghost into a windmill and Danny flew over to the slumping ghost as he chuckled.

"Seriously, a bed sheet? What do ya got under there?" He pulled the sheet away and what they saw was not a real ghost, more like a blackened skeleton as Danny gasped before the tackled him in speaking in a haunting tone.

"Change back."

"What? Get off me!" He kicked the ghost off, it only the upper half of a skeleton before it charged him again and he blasted, lasering a decent amount of the course and destroying the ghost as he grimaced, nearly panicking to run before he shook his head as Cedric landed beside him.

"That ghost said 'change back', that can't be something you say to a foe of all things."

"Yeah... that was weird..." Sam, Tucker, and Valerie arrived to the mess and were caught by the manager as he ranted at them.

"Trashin' the golf course, huh?"

"But we didn't do it."

"Really? Anybody else you wanna pin the blame on then?"

"Yeah, you..." Danny answered as he glared at the manager, making them realize that he was still there with the Iron Exorcist. "The fact you jumped to the belief that they trashed the place when I was just dealing with a ghost is harsh, sure, it is not going to repay the whole thing, but that doesn't mean you blame them in the first place."

"Besides, we are here, we are going to help and if you have an issue with it..." Cedric voiced as his visor gave a narrowed eye at the manager who was now shaking in his boots. "...Then you have never seen the type of crazy ghosts that like to destroy a lot of things."

"O-O-Okay!" The manager headed off in a panic as the trio thanked the duo for standing up for them.

"Thanks, Danny."

"No problem, beside this is my fault, I have to make amends somehow." Cedric nodded as Danny continued. "So let's fix up this golf course." With that, they started their work, moving rubble and cleaning up debris, Sam and Talia mending the ground to a more perfect condition and the Manager returned to see it was all back to normal, even better, as he thanked them for doing it and for calling him out, that was rude of him...


"And it said 'change back', do you guys have any clue as to what that means?" Danny asked on the Fenton Phones as Valerie flew with him and Cedric, the other four or rather five took the scenic route as Sam spoke.

"No, that doesn't sound like something that anyone among your enemies would say, who would want you to change back in a public place like the course?"

"Something was also wrong about that ghost, Danny." Cedric answered as Danny glanced to him in his speech. "I was getting some erratic patterns from the ectoplasm compound that made up that ghost, I am thinking that it was artificial in nature."

"Artificial?" Tucker asked as he joined in the call. "You mean like... it was not a real ghost, but some sort of construct?"

"I don't know, Tucker, Topaz and Talia both noticed the same, that it didn't hum to them one bit and ghosts have a natural sixth sense about both sides." Cedric answered as he continued. "I'll be heading for the Base, maybe I can find out more over there." They nodded as Danny bid them farewell.

"Alright, I'll see you guys around." They headed out and Danny focused on the line as Sam and Tucker were usually on the line for more private conversations, they usually get dropped off when that happens. "I am sorry that I have been a little bit of a jerk, you guys, I was just trying to keep the ghost rates from going up."

"It's okay, I know that you are trying your best with what you got, but we are not trained fighters like you, give us ectoguns and we will help, but we aren't as skilled as you are, Danny."

"Yeah, man, you don't have to worry about it right now, we get it."

"I know. I know." Danny answered as he phased through the house and reverted back in his room as he moved to continue. "And I appreciate it, but-uh" He trailed off to spot something out of the ordinary, some girl in his room, but she looked like a preteen with red hat, red shorts, and blue hoodie as she was reading one of his comics before he spoke up. "Can I help you?"

"Is something wrong, Danny?"

"Just asking someone right in front of me, call you later." Sam nodded as the call cut as the comic was lowered to the girl speaking.

"Not so loud." Danny blinked at the eyes as they were the same blue as his as she introduced herself. "I'm Danielle. Your third cousin once removed. I ran away from home. Hey, you got any food?"

"Uh, yeah, we got some, hold on a second, won't you?" Danny headed out before he sent a message to Cedric. 'Need some details, Fenton Family Tree, someone by the name of Danielle.'

'On it.' Danny returned with the food and blinked at the amount she just consumed, that must have been the Jack family's abnormal appetite as she burped and sighed before she took in the room with some interest.

"You wanna be an astronaut? Do you know they only chose one hundred people-"

"-every two years to go into the space program." Both said at the same time as Danny answered back.

"Yeah, I knew that. How did you?" But she switched the topic on him as she glanced to the music collection.

"Dumpty Humpty. Those guys rock." Danny groaned as he took the CD out of her hands in speaking.

"Yeah, I know that too. You had enough to eat?" She nodded before Danny took her wrist. "Then it's time to talk to my parents." She yelped as she refused.

"No!" But he didn't go too far as he pulled her into the hall and closed the door as he spoke.

"Look, you say you're my cousin and maybe you are, but we still have to call your parents, even if you ran away, because if this is just some scheme to pick up someone on the run, I need to know." Danielle looked surprised as Danny continued, with kneeling down. "I just want to know everything, I am learning how it is all going down, so hearing about a cousin once removed is news to me, are you sure that I can't get you to at least see my folks about this?"

"Uh..." Danielle answered back as she seemed to be rotating the position she was in. "That sounds... good, I guess, but really..." She dashed out to the door before Danny could stop her. "I said no!" She dashed in as Danny shouted after her.

"Hey! Come back!" He followed her into his room, but she was gone as he inquired. "Man, she's fast." He went ghost and flew out of the room to see where she was, but nothing as he tried to piece it out. "Okay, she's a twelve year old girl. How far could she possible have-" His ghost sense went off and he chuckled at what ELSE could be coming for him. "Swell. After the bedsheet ghost, what's this gonna be? A spooky bat on a string?" The growl sounded otherwise as he looked up to a hulking brute charging him and he barrel-rolled out of the way, the swing whiffing as Danny commented. "Man, you look like I do on a bad day, but I'm gonna make you look worse!" He charged, only to get caught and hurled away as he impacted into a car and groaned as he mused. "Okay, so muscled ghost, not a good sign for me alone." The ghost crashed into the car with a growl as Danny turned to fight, only to get picked up and lifted with a punch ready to hit before a voice called out.

"Hey! Leave him alone!" Danielle had returned as she sassed the brute as Danny spoke back to her.

"Get out of here." He reached for the hand to pry it off, but Danielle refused as she spoke.

"Forget it. I know who you are. And I came a long way to find you. And I'm not leaving now." Without warning, a while halos formed around her and separated, changing her into a smaller, female version of him with slacks, long-sleeve top that exposed her midriff, gloves and boots, her hair turning white, and her eyes turning green. Danny was surprised as she blasted a ghost beam at the creature and got Danny free as he tired to find the words.

"How-?" But the brute was not done as it came for them both as Danielle answered back.

"Do you wanna ask questions? Or you wanna kick some butt?" Danny yielded to that as the brute came charging for them with extended claws before both blasted, a hole in the center of the brute before it turned into goo and splashed on the asphalt as Danny spoke.

"That is not normal." He shook his head as he spoke. "Night's getting weirder and weirder. And I have a lot of questions. When we get back, my parents are-" Danielle pulled something else as she seemed to faint as Danny huffed. "And I guess we'll have to answer those questions tomorrow..." Danielle would have smiled if it weren't for the final part. "...At the Firebase." She gasped as Danny had used a stun rod, hiding it in his jumpsuit sleeve, on her and spun it as he spoke. "Cedric was right, this thing works both for riot police and criminals, I hate it when he is right..."


The next day at Casper High, Danny spoke to his friends there of Valerie, Sam, and Tucker while Ferdinand acted like a normal dog with licking Tucker and resting its paws on his lap. "So I gave her to Cedric last night to see if he could figure out what her story is, he hasn't called to tell me that she had got out anytime soon, but that is beside the point." Danny asked as he tried to make amends for his behavior. "Is there anything I can do to make it up to you guys?"

"I am a simple girl, Danny, just give me a good fight and you have repaired my trust."

"Help me with the construction of a hover chair with Cedric's guidelines, and you have the Tuck's belief back just fine." Danny turned to Sam as she mumbled before giving a sigh and speaking.

"A date, treat me to a date, and you will be good and make it a good one, not a short one, a REAL date, Danny." Danny blinked before he answered.

"So a fight, a chair, and a long-running date, I can work with that." They nodded as Danny took Valerie aside and spoke. "Right here and now?"

"Yeah, make a statement, Fenton, I want us to have an audience to who has got it more able to fight ghosts, the Demi or the Huntress?" Danny huffed before he shouted.

"Hey, everybody!" Eyes landed on him as he spoke with a smug tone. "Valerie was just saying that she thinks that the Red Huntress is the better ghost hunter to Danny Phantom!" That was a public shot as some glared, some 'ohhh'ed, and some started to shovel food in while watching the drama. "So, show of hands, who believes that the Huntress has it going or that Phantom outclasses her." Valerie smirked at the compare before Danny's sense went off and they noticed as a small ball of green soared in and started to terrorize the lunchroom before Valerie spoke.

"Shall we?"

"Let's take cover then get to work." They slipped into cover and changed as they started to chase the blob, it was clearly trying to pull them away from the school as it had taken a few rushes for Danny for some reason. Sam and Tucker were among the escaping students so they couldn't be blamed for the mess, but when a 'ghost' is the cause of it, someone had to clean up the mess and, while Lancer couldn't really just slap them with the task, it was only likely that they are tossed under the bus like that.

The pair chased the blob out across the town as Valerie shouted. "Race ya, Ghost Boy."

Danny chuckled as he retorted. "You are on." He picked up pace as Valerie went head-to-head with him in chasing the blob, weaving as Danny questioned. "I don't get it, what are these ghosts even doing here, they just cause some trouble and just either tackle me or something else."

"Yeah, that's weird... maybe we should..." Valerie yelped as a blast hit her and Danny turned to Vlad as he spoke.

"Now, now, we can't have any latecomers getting in-between us, now would we?"

"What? Vlad?"

"Of course, fool. Who else?" He blasted Danny as well and rushed into a series of attacks before launching him as Danny huffed in inquiring and getting back up.

"Aren't you at least gonna make some stupid crack about my father? Or a lame come on about my mom?"

"No, dear boy, funny joke around Vlad isn't here today." He fired a blast and Danny countered as the were equal in power there as Danny tried to think of somewhere to overpower Vlad and find out what the heck was going on, but the blob returned and blitzed him as he moaned to darkness as Vlad laughed. "Oh, I so do love it when a plan comes to together like that, now where I wonder is my more stable child, oh well..." He mused in picking Danny up, just as Sam and Tucker came out of the school to toss the trash in the dumpster as Sam huffed.

"As soon as we get rid of this trash, I'm gonna find Danny and give him a piece of my-" Both stopped as they watched Vlad take off with a human Danny slung over his shoulder before taking off. "Danny!"

"Aw man. We should've known that something was up with those ghosts, maybe even Danny's cousin is a part of it."

"That doesn't excuse his latent times of leaving us as sidekicks."

"Yeah, but he's our friend. We have history." Lancer spoke up as he inquired.

"Manson. Foley. Can you tell me why you're not still in the cafeteria?" Before either could say, something landed between them and stood up and speaking.

"These two have recently been recruited to aid me in a short endeavor, stand down, senior citizen." Lancer backed up just as well and shut the door as the Exorcist turned to them. "Glad I found you, I also saw Vlad, but I thought to find you two first, Talia is taking Valerie back to the Base."

"What's going on, Cedric? Why was Vlad here and where is he taking Danny?"

"That's what we need to talk about, all of us..." Meanwhile, up in Colorado, Danny started to stir again before it cleared up, the screen that had the Vladco logo then bringing up footage of him transforming as he inquired.

"You've been spying on me? Okay, I've said it before and I'll say it again. You really are one seriously crazed up fruit loop, Uncle Vlad."

"A fruit loop wouldn't have been able to make his first million with a series of invisible burglaries." That was a newspaper of robbed banks. "A fruit loop would never have thought to overshadow enough millionaires to become the riches men on the planet." There goes Mastersoft as Vlad shouted. "I. Am. Not. A. Fruit. Loop! And I am not a villain." He breathed before continuing. "All I wanted was love." He opened the pod in the back as Danny was aghast as his ghost half resting in it as Vlad continued. "It's taken months, and the good clone still needs more time before he can accept your DNA." He looked back to Vlad in Shulker's little box trap as the blob floated around his head.

"So those ghosts..."

"Bad clones. Mistakes." The blob expanded out to be a messed up Danny Phantom that yelled at him with an eye falling out and dissolving into ectoplasm as Vlad spoke. "And I would watch a hundred more failures devolve into ectoplasm to get the perfect half clone ghost son."

"Oh yeah." Danny chuckled as he continued with furrowed brow. "Nothing loopy about that."

"Are you under the impression that you're getting out of this? I need a DNA sample of you mid-morph to complete my work." He snapped his fingers and the clone shrink back down to slam into Danny's forehead in trying to control him.

"Get out of me!"

"And then you will be obsolete."


Sam and Tucker arrived to the lab as Talia greeted them. "It's a pleasure to see you two, now we need to move, Topaz is currently tracking down Daniel's presence as we speak, so we will know where to head to fast, but we need to address the bigger matter on hand."

"Which is...?" Sam asked as Talia guided them in, they gasping as Danny's cousin was in a pod, like one of the sci-fi pods for healing people critically injured as Cedric retracted his armor in speaking.

"She is not his cousin, she is his clone." Both blinked again as Sam questioned aloud.

"C-Come again...?"

"It's a lot of big words and tricky issues." Cedric answered as he brought up the display of Dani's bio-metrics. "Her bone marrow is slimier than Danny's own, but they both bear the same amount of tone and volume that being different is highly unlikely, worse yet, they share the same spinal Leyline core that her claim as a cousin single removed is a fib, but she has only had a month's worth of memories to fill in the gaps, the other part is something that should be a concern." They watched as he pulled up a feed and brought it up, getting a view of Vlad's face looking concerned as he spoke, not likely to have noticed that Dani was hearing all of it, but was blank as to what it was about.

"Not good, I should have shut down this place before this got out of hand, now I need to get Danny's mid-morph sample to get this place to accept and finally shut down, I will need to be the villain here, but if I can't, this place will try again and again to get Danny and take from him everything he holds... I just hope that I am not too late..." The scene blanked out as Tucker spoke with confusion.

"Vlad's trying to shut it down, then why did he attack Danny in the first place, Valerie was also in the preemptive attack."

"Valerie was a piece of the puzzle that Vlad didn't want interfering right now and Danny is still years of experience behind Vlad." Cedric answered as he continued with turning to them. "The Booo-merang should help in finding Danny, but I suggest keeping in radio contact with Topaz to make sure you know when to hit or escape." They nodded as they headed back out, taking the Specter Speeder and Booo-merang in hand while Jack and Maddie were somewhat none the wiser as they soared into the sky and Sam hurled the device.

"Okay. Find Danny." She sat back down with hurling it. "Tucker, follow that stupidly named tracking device." He floored it to full throttle as Danny struggled to resist changing, holding it back as Vlad asked the holo-Maddie of its progress.

"Well?"

"Subject is still resisting morph, dear heart." She somehow dialed it more up as Danny resisted still before the device started to give out. "Containment chamber beginning to overload." It then exploded. "Oopsie. Has overloaded." The whole thing erupted as Vlad shielded himself before Danny changed in the mist and phased through him and away as Vlad exclaimed.

"Agh! I will-" He took a moment and breathed as he shook his head. "No, I will not be losing my temper about this, Danielle still has yet to return and I have a feeling that Daniel's friend is responsible for that..." He hummed before he spoke again. "Maddie, dear, can you find the number of one Cedric Trace?"

"Sure thing, sweet dough." What was he even thinking with making a holographic Maddie when he could converse with the real one nowadays? "Standby, there seems..." She fizzled out and the screen brought up Cedric as he nearly crashed his head into the terminal before speaking.

"Of course, you would be searching for my number, phone just went off and I back-traced it to your location, Vlad."

"Now, now, is that any way to speak with a business associate?"

"If it was anyone else, no; For you, yes." Vlad frowned as Cedric spoke. "You could have told me about this and I would have helped to fix the problem, not make it worse."

"Well..." Vlad scratched his cheek as Cedric huffed in defeat.

"Still, to think of viable clones like that..." He leaned back over as he spoke. "Danielle is fine, but she is currently in stasis, slowing the process of cellular decay going on within her body, holding up a lot better than Tiny and Bones, from what's left of the black top, but I need to get Danny back to be sure of this and also... one of the females with consent, not Talia, she's mine." Vlad nodded as he spoke.

"So, could you...?"

"I'll call off the search and shut the lab down remotely, that will terminate any mission-wise programming it had beforehand and free you from it's corrupted data base."

"Do it..." Alex hacked in and shut it all down, all of it halting in its operations before powering down, losing effort and ability to keep pushing for a flawed agenda before Vlad flew up and found an exhausted Danny and picked him up.

"I am so sorry, Daniel, I didn't mean to let this go on, but the lab wouldn't accept my kill codes, so I had to do it manually, your friend managed to expose the brief weakness in the system to shut it down."

"No more... shocks, Uncle..." Danny breathed as he regained his color. "I hate getting shocked... it's not a pleasant feeling."

"I understand, dear nephew, now come..." Vlad answered with lifting Danny up as he reverted back to human. "Let's get you back to your friends..." He took flight and even dodged the Boooo-merang as Sam and Tucker came a-knocking, but they let it go for now as they headed back to Amity Park, to help Danny recover and to see what Vlad's unexpected operations had done...


Vlad couldn't help it, he really couldn't, he was not that thorough with ghost anatomy as he was would like to believe, but it didn't stop him from nearly laughing his lungs out of his body at the DETAILED diagram that Cedric Trace had set up to explain out the reproductive process for ghosts, some were casual of sharing core fragments and that would form into a new ghost, others were more asexually in creating more offspring by themselves, while others were... well, best left alone as the members there were scarlet in their faces as the Foley child quickly pulled out a sleeping mask and earbuds to block it all out, Manson was not so turned away as she watched with pure attention while Daniel was cupping his face in embarrassment. Danielle was sadly the same as she whined at listening to this like a child would, but the real surprise was Cedric's lady friend, Talia Rahmat, she was flustered like no other at the presentation before she spoke. "STOP!"

Cedric stopped to look at her as all of the party breathed a sigh of relief for freedom in the base as he spoke. "What is it, Talia?"

"I KNOW that I told you the basic of the Infinite Realms, but not once did I tell you about the deeper life cycles of ghosts, WHO told you all about this!?"

"What are you talking about, Talia?" Cedric questioned as he continued. "Since you didn't want to tell me, I asked Clockwork about it and he gladly told me, even guided me through some of it if I was feeling unsure of myself." The party quieted, even Vlad as speaking Clockwork's name held instant weight as Talia gulped before she turned away in speaking.

"I see... I forgot that he could drop by in the rare moments." Cedric just shrugged with a sigh before he turned to the party in speaking again.

"In any case, why we are here is based around Danielle." Said clone pointed at herself in confusion as Cedric spoke. "While I can understand Vlad's minor loneliness, his efforts of creating a Demi son or daughter is too shortsighted, especially one of Danielle's caliber as you can see here..." He pulled up a diagram of Danielle whole body and its number of parts before Sam questioned, blinking a bit at the fact that Cedric had made a full biology for a clone girl no less than a week old outside the pod.

"Uh, Cedric, correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that...?"

"Excellent, you spotted the problem." They all blinked before Cedric pulled up a DNA strand of Dani's, but that was an issue. "Due to Vlad's distant observations, he failed to account for the DNA sequences giving out half way, leading to different appearances, forms, or even features instead of a specific form of Danny's Demi form, Danielle is the most stable of all of them, but that is only because her form is more compacted in a younger appearance, some of Danny's muscle being converted to feminine features to make up for the loss."

"So... what are we expecting...?"

"Right now, nothing as I don't have the full cure on hand and that could take a month to figure it out, she should be fine for now if she refrains from using all of her power at once, but I urge on the side of caution, we have to be prepared in the event that something goes wrong and she needs help." They nodded, even Danielle as Cedric spoke. "I know that is not what you wanted to hear from me, but we will ensure that, if you come back, we will save you from your fears, is that clear?" She nodded and they disbanded as Cedric started to clean up before Vlad spoke.

"I have to admit, I would be the first to say that a child was able to do far more than what I was expecting, you surprised me, so why cling around Daniel?"

"Because I have become rooted into place, here in Amity, Vlad." He turned to face the aged man with a answer. "This is my home, this is my place of knowledge, of secrets, and of truths, I have become the keeper of friends, I have gained their belief in me, so I seek to uphold that trust to the end of my days." Cedric peered to the passage where the friends were leaving. "I will admit, I don't share in their fun too often and would rather be in a lab doing the impossibles, but I am just a child in compare to the worlds around me, I should have fun with what I can have, not take all of the time in the safety of the clean walls, the silent voices through the halls, and the hum of the energy flowing through the base."

"I see..." That was very mature, Vlad didn't expect this as he opened his mouth to ask. "And your family...?" He froze as Cedric's eyes bore into him before easing up.

"They are fine with it, calls every once in a while to make sure I am still heading home and enjoying their time with me." He cleared his throat as he gestured to the door. "Now, not that this chat hasn't been insightful, do see yourself out, I have some work to get done and school waits for no one, not even us scientific minds." Vlad yielded with a nod as he headed out, Cedric turning around as Vlad made a note, going ghost and heading back to scrap the lab, to investigate the Trace family, something he had said was not connecting well with him while Danielle took her chance at a new-found freedom out in the world, Maddie and Jack told about her and to keep their eyes out for a girl who looked similar if not a mirror to Danny Fenton or Phantom himself...