Chapter 3: Vlad's Main Plot
As the tow trucks carrying the RV and the Tennysons' trailer moved into the garage of Vlad's mountain, resort, Vlad Masters was there to greet everyone along with some of his servants.
"Jack, Maddie I'm glad to see you two again" smiled Vlad as he walked toward them after they got out of the RV.
"Well" said Jack, "we would have made it sooner if we didn't run into these find people."
"Ah yes" said Vlad as he looked at Gwen, Ben and Grandpa Max as they were coming out of the trailer.
"Hey" said Grandpa Max, "don't blame me. I'm not the one who started it."
"Don't worry" said Vlad, "I'll be happy to pay all the charges of your insurance. After all, you are my guests since you must know the Fentons."
"Are you really Vlad Masters?" asked Gwen.
"The one and only child" replied Vlad, "and if you people would please follow me."
As everybody were heading out, Danny signaled Ben to come over since he wanted to warn him about Vlad Masters being Vlad Plasmius.
"What's the big deal?" asked Ben to Danny.
"I wouldn't get too comfortable with Vlad" replied Danny, "he has ghost powers just like me."
"No way!" shouted Ben in an astonished and an excited voice.
"It won't be a good idea for you to find out what's going on" said Danny then he changed into his ghost mode, "leave that to me. He's my villain and I know what he is capable of."
As Danny left the scene by going invisible, Ben was about to change into Ghost Freak when Gwen came into the scene.
"What's taking you so long?" asked Gwen, "We're all waiting for you. And where did Danny go to?"
"Did you know that Vlad Masters has ghost powers just like him?" asked Ben in an exciting mood.
"Look" said Gwen, "I suspect that he might. But please if you see Danny; tell him to come to the main room. We're all not just waiting for him, but with you as well."
"Sorry" said Ben as he changed the image to Ghost Freak on his watch, "but I got some snooping to do around these parts. So see you around then."
As Gwen turned around, Ben was gone since Ben had turned into Ghost Freak.
"Just what we need" sighed Gwen, "we just need to make more enemies on our trip, as if we don't already have enough."
Meanwhile, Danny was snooping around in Vlad's usual meeting stops where he usually held meetings with his henchmen. As Danny looked around, his ghost sense picked up and he quickly dodged a corner. He then fired a ghost beam at a strange shadow of some sort coming toward him, but suddenly that shadow dodged the ghost beam.
"Hey" said Ben as Ghost Freak, "be careful who you are firing at."
"Ben?" asked Danny, "You can change into a ghost?"
"Actually" replied Ben as Ghost Freak, "it's more of an alien ghost to be more precise."
"Well" said Danny, "since you are here, you might want to stay close to me. You don't know what Vlad is capable of."
As Danny and Ben began snooping around Vlad's mansion, Vlad was in his secret lab with Skulcker and the two robotic bounty hunters.
"I believe we can conduct business now" said Vlad as he changed himself into his ghost mode.
"Then get on with it" said Skulcker, "Skulcker wishes to hunt h is prey."
"We're wiring up the tnansmission to Vilgax" said the first bounty hunter as he began typing the communications onto the main computer in the lab.
Suddenly Vilgax's wounded image came on the screen.
"This better be good" said Vilgax.
"Oh but it is" said the second bounty hunter, "we have made an alliance with people who have a common enemy."
"And who might your new allies be?" asked Vilgax.
"Plasmius" smiled Vlad as he approached the screen, "Vlad Plasmius. I already have the boy with the watch in my mansion along with my nemesis."
"Do you know where they are?" asked Vilgax, "I would like to retrieve that device from that boy sometime this century."
"Skulcker, Ghost Zone's greatest hunter at your service will gladly aid your already hired hunters to do the job" said Skulcker as he saluted to them.
"Excellent" said Vilgax, "continue on your hunt. When you succeed in bringing me that device I'll see to it that this alliance shall continue once I arrive. Vilgax out."
As Vilgax's image on the computer screen disappeared, Danny and Ghost Freak appeared.
"You know" said Danny to Vlad, "you make it just too easy for us to snoop on your plans."
"Skulcker would be glad to hunt you two down" said Skulcker as he readied his weaponry.
Vlad then split himself up into four separate Vlads and began to fire ghost beams at both Danny and Ben while the two robotic bounty hunters moved in.
"Got any bright ideas?" asked Ben as Ghost Freak.
"How about the ghost scream?" asked Danny.
"What's that?" asked Ben.
"Watch and learn" replied Danny.
Danny got right in front of the two bounty hunters and held his breath in and then let out a large shockwave through his ghost scream. The shockwave caused all four Vlads to go back into the original Vlad and the shockwave damaged the robotic bounty hunters' weaponry.
"Ha!" shouted Skulcker as he began to fire his rockets at both Danny and Ben, "You may have outwitted those three, but Skulcker still stands!"
As Ben was dodging the attacks with Danny a ghost beam from one of Skulcker's weapons hits Ben as Ghost Freak and falls to the ground.
"You are a strange type of ghost" said Skulcker, "Skulcker has never seen a ghost like you before. Perhaps Skulcker ought to take that bounty instead of those two pathetic excuses for hunters."
"I don't understand how Ghost Freak can get hurt" said Ben as he recovered from the attack.
"Oh" said Skulcker, "did you not know prey that this hurts ghosts. And since you have somehow changed into one, this would be permanent on you."
As Danny saw Skulcker readying some sort of laser cannon at Ben, Danny raced toward Skulcker and fired a ghost beam at Skulcker's back, knocking Skulcker across the room and hitting the two other bounty hunters as they were recovering from the attack.
"Now what were you calling us?" asked the first bounty hunter as the hunter pointed his weapon at Skulcker.
"We don't like being insulted by people who are suppose to be our allies" stated the second one.
"Skulcker would rather just bash the both of you for moving on Skulcker's turf" said Skulcker, "but since our prey are one and the same we shouldn't be fighting."
"And speaking of fighting" said Vlad as he looked around the lab and noticed both Danny and Ben were gone, "our foes have vanished!"
"Well it's certainly not my fault we're in this mess" said the second bounty hunter.
"I don't care who started it" said Vlad then he took out a map of his mansion and downloaded on some sort of disk and gave it to the two bounty hunters, "here is the map of my mansion. Take it and find them with the help of Skulcker. I'll be watching from behind the scenes and I don't think Vilgax would be pleased to see his two top bounty hunters lose that device that child is wearing on his wrist."
Then Vlad turned back into his human self.
"Now go" said Vlad as he was leaving his lab, "and I'll keep an eye on the rest of the Fentons and the Tennysons for you."