Chapter Two: First Campaign Stop
It was a month later, May, and Vlad's campaign for the presidency was in full swing. With his vast resources, which included a TV network and a dozen or so newspapers he was giving the political parties a run for their money. Not that they could get much money considering Vlad had his lackeys overshadow most of the people who normally donated to the political parties. It was a Vlad blitz, he was featured in ads ranging from being a average middle American to a unwavering patriot. You could not go two steps without seeing a poster with Vlad's face on it, a fact that greatly annoyed Danny.
"Agrh! Everywhere we go I see Vlad's stupid face." said Danny as he pulled down another poster.
"Yeah, if I see Vlad's ugly face one more time I'm going to scream." said Sam.
"Well prepare to scream." said Tucker as he pointed to the posters lining the block.
"If he keeps this up until the election he just might win." said Alicia.
"Not if we have anything to say about it. How are we doing in ruining Vlad's campaign?" said Danny.
"Me and Sam have organized an anti-Vlad campaign on the internet, we have support from several environmental organizations that are ticked at Vlad's horrible pollution record." said Valerie.
"Yeah, all those years of protesting and campaigning for animal rights have really helped." said Sam.
"I found out that Vlad has been overshadowing donators to the Republican and Democratic parties. Me and Alex have been alerting any witches and wizards in the area of the effected people." said Alicia.
"Anything else?" said Danny.
"Yeah, I have been working on a little ad against Vlad, which includes some unflattering remarks, it goes to the political parties tomorrow." said Tucker.
"Nothing that will expose us?" said Danny.
"No, as of right now no one knows we are behind this stuff." said Alex.
"Good, Rob and Ember are visiting today to see if they can help." said Danny.
So Danny and the others walked back to Danny's house. They walked in the door to see Rob and Ember sitting in the living room talking to Jack and Maddie.
"So how have you been doing Mr. and Mrs. Fenton?" said Rob.
"We've been fine, we're expecting a new baby in a few months." said Maddie.
"That's wonderful, is it a boy or girl?" said Ember.
"We don't know yet, we have to go to the doctor to see in a little while." said Jack, and then he noticed the kids.
"Hey kids! Look whose here, it's Rob and Ember." said Jack.
"We know dad, we called them here." said Danny.
"Yeah, we've been wondering why you called us here, what's up?" said Rob.
"You know how Vlad is running for president?" said Danny.
"Yeah, it's sort of hard to not notice it." said Rob.
"Yeah, you can't go anywhere without seeing an ad of his." said Ember.
"Well we want you to help us derail his campaign." said Danny.
"Ok, how can we help?" said Rob.
"We need you to start speaking out against Vlad, saying he is bad and what not." said Alicia.
"Ok, that's sort of a given, anything else?" said Rob.
"Yes, we want Ember to start planting subliminal anti-Vlad messages in her music." said Sam.
"Are you sure? That may be going too far." said Ember.
"We have all know what Vlad will do if he wins, we have to stop him by any means necessary." said Danny.
"Yeah, its not like we're asking for full mind control, we just want you to make others feel the same uneasy, nauseous feeling we all get when we think of Vlad." said Sam.
"Oh! If that's all you want then we can do it." said Ember.
"Good, we need all the help we can get." said Danny, then he noticed Rob and Ember holding hands.
"Uh, not to pry into your business, but are you two together?" said Danny.
"Yeah, we are." said Rob.
"How did it happen?" said Sam.
"Well when you spend a lot of time around a person you get to like them, and I guess it just sort of happened one day." said Ember.
Flashback
Ember was just finishing up a concert and as she walked backstage she was greeted by Rob.
"Great show today Ember, you really rocked the house." said Rob.
"Thanks Rob." said Ember.
"Want to get something to eat?" said Rob.
Rob and Ember left to go to a local diner, they sat down in a booth and Rob looked a little nervous.
"What's the matter Rob, is there something bothering you?" said Ember.
"Actually there is something on my mind, we've been around each other a long time right?" said Rob.
"Yes, you sort of see people a lot when you go on tour with them." said Ember.
"Well it's just that as I've spent time with you I've gotten these…feelings towards you." said Rob.
"What are you trying to say?" said Ember.
"I'm saying that…I love you, more then anyone else in the world." said Rob.
"R-really?" said Ember.
"Yes, you don't have to feel the same as me, I just wanted to tell you. I hope we can still be friends…" said Rob, but Ember put a finger to his lips to stop him.
"It's ok Rob, I love you too." said Ember.
"You do?" said Rob.
"Yes, I have for a long time." said Ember.
It was then that Rob and Ember embraced and shared a kiss. It was the best day they ever had, the women running the diner looked at them and smiled.
"Young love is a beautiful thing." said the women as she went back to serving a customer.
End Flashback
"Well I guess their right about the person catching the bouquet being the next one to marry." said Alicia.
"Yeah I guess so." said Ember.
As our heroes talked about love and the like, Vlad was sitting in his campaign headquarters. He had just completed his latest commercial, but he was not pleased, mostly because of what his campaign manager was telling him.
"We have some problems, we seem to be getting a lot of interference from the online community, also some if the people we had overshadowed have been saved and are donating to the parties again. we also have reports that something or someone is messing with our TV ads and poster shipments." said Spectra.
"Damn it all! Who is doing this? How can I complete my takeover of the United States if someone keeps messing with my campaign? Technus! Have you found out who is responsible for this?" said Vlad.
"I Technus have found who is at the bottom of this, it is that annoying ghost child and his friends." said Technus.
"Blast! How is it that he always finds a way to meddle with my plans?" said Vlad.
"Maybe we need to have a campaign stop in Amity Park, while we're there we can have a very violent talk with the ghost child." said Spectra.
"I like the way you think, prepare the bus, we're going to Amity Park.
It was the next day and the sun was shining, but all was not right in Danny's world. For you see he had just learned something very upsetting.
"Vlad's coming here?" said Danny.
"That's right citizens of Amity Park, presidential candidate Vlad masters is coming to Amity Park. He is coming to give a big important speech and greet the mayor, that's all the news for now, I'm Tiffany Snow." said Tiffany as the news ended.
Danny quickly called the others and they rushed over.
"Did you guys see what was just on the news?" said Danny.
"If you mean that Vlad is coming here? Then yeah we saw that." said Alicia.
"It's obvious he's up to something, we better keep a close eye on him." said Danny.
"I'll help too." said Danni, who had just entered the room
So our heroes agreed to keep an eye on Vlad, as this was going on Vlad's campaign bus was just passing the welcome sign on the outskirts of town.
"30 minutes until we're at the town hall Vlad." said Spectra.
"Excellent, is my speech ready?" said Vlad.
"We just finished it." said Spectra.
"What would I do without you?" said Vlad.
"Let's hope we don't find out, we're heading into enemy territory." said Spectra.
"Don't worry, we can handle Daniel and his little friends." said Vlad, looking back at Skulker and the Fright Knight.
"Yes, taking care of the ghost child will not be a problem." said Skulker.
"I want you two to find all the stuff Daniel is using to ruin my campaign, and then destroy it." said Vlad.
"Yes lord Plasmius." said the Fright Knight as he and Skulker left invisibly.
Meanwhile Danny and the others were just about to leave to see Vlad's speech and find out what he was up too.
"Ok guys, while Vlad is giving his speech we go to his bus and see if we can find anything." said Danny.
"Ok Danny, we're ready when you are" said Valerie.
"Ok lets go." said Danny as they flew to the town hall.
After they left Skulker and the Fright Knight arrived and entered Danny's room. They started to look around and found all the stuff that Danny and friends had about wreaking Vlad's campaign.
"Shall we begin destroying this garbage?" said the Fright Knight.
"Let's do it." said Skulker as he took out a laser gun.
So the Fright Knight and Skulker began to wreak the stuff. But as they were about to blast the computer a blast hit Skulker.
"What the hell just hit me?" said Skulker.
They turned to see that Danni was standing right behind them with Cujo.
"What are you doing here? Your supposed to be gone like the others!" said Skulker.
"I was just taking Cujo for a walk, but since you showed up I think we could use some more exercise, lets get'em boy!" said Danni as they attacked.
Meanwhile at the town hall Danny and the others were waiting for the chance to sneak into Vlad's bus. Finally Vlad and Spectra left the bus and the coast was clear.
"Ok guys, lets go." said Danny.
They ran over to the bus and Danny used his powers to get them into the bus. They began to search around for anything that might give them a clue to Vlad's plan. They searched through the papers and finally they found something.
"Guys! I've found something." said Alicia
The others looked at the plans and were in shock.
"I knew Vlad was up to something evil." said Danny.
The plans described what Vlad would do once he was president. Once he was president he would stage a fake mass ghost invasion. Using this he would declare for the sake of national security that he was suspending the Constitution and Congress. Then he would rule the nation as a dictator.
"My god, this is terrible, we have to stop him." said Valerie.
"And what makes you think you will stop me?" said Vlad, who was right behind them in ghost mode.
"Vlad! What are you doing here?" said Danny.
"The real me is actually giving his speech right now, I am a duplicate. I see you have found my plans, just like I wanted you to." said Vlad.
"Yeah, and now we're going to stop you!" said Sam.
"How will you do that, no one will believe you without the plans." said the Vlad duplicate as he sent an ectoblast that burned the paper.
"Why would you destroy your own plans?" said Alex.
"Because I already have them memorized, and like I said without them you can't prove a thing, now get out of my bus!" said the Vlad duplicate as he blasted them.
They were taken by surprise and ejected from the truck, as they flew through the air they were heading for the wall of the town hall. Thinking quickly Danny turned them intangible and they phased through the wall. They hit the floor on the other side and began to roll, as they did they turned back to normal and rolled through a curtain. Our heroes looked up to see that they were on the stage during Vlad's big speech and Vlad was standing right next to them.
"What is going on here!" said the Mayor.
"Uh, we got lost?" said Tucker.
"What are you kids doing here, you're not supposed to be backstage." said the Mayor.
"Isn't it obvious Mr. Mayor, they wanted to meet the important politicians that were attending today. I wish all kids were as interested in politics as these kids seem to be." said Vlad.
"Uh, I guess your right." said the Mayor.
"In fact I think we should take a picture of these kids to so that others kids will want to be interested in our political process." said Vlad as he went behind Danny and friends and placed his hands on their shoulders.
The reporters, sensing a photo op, began to take pictures of the smiling Vlad and our heroes.
"Oh great, our faces are going to be in tomorrow's paper with Vlad's, mom and dad are going to kill me." thought Danny.
Meanwhile back at the Fenton house Danni and Cujo were not doing so well, they had managed to get Skulker and the Fright Knight out of the house. But once that was done fighting them proved to be a little harder. Danni and Cujo were facing two very powerful ghosts, especially the Fright Knight. They had all ready knocked out Cujo and Skulker sent an ectoblast that hit Danni in the arm, leaving a burn. Danni cried out in pain and held her arm where it was injured.
"It is over ghost child, you have lost." said Skulker.
He prepared to fire, but then he was hit with a laser blast.
"Stay away from my daughter!" said Maddie, who was holding a ghost bazooka.
"Yeah, no one messes with the Fentons!" said Jack.
"I think it is time we go." said The Fright Knight
"What? But I was just about to destroy the female ghost child." said Skulker.
"We have completed our mission, it is time to go." said The Fright Knight.
Grumbling Skulker followed the Fright Knight and they headed back to Vlad's campaign bus. Maddie and Jack ran over to Danni to see if she was alright.
"Danni, are you ok?" said Maddie.
"I'm fine mom, just a little damaged is all." said Danni.
Maddie got out the first aid kit and began to bandage Danni's arm. Just then Danny and friends returned from their humiliating experience.
"What the heck happened here?" said Alex.
"Skulker and the Fright Knight attacked, they came to destroy our anti-Vlad stuff. I tried to stop them but they still managed to get most of it, I'm sorry." said Danni.
"Its ok, all that matters is that your ok." said Danny.
"Well they did manage to get a lot, most of the stuff we left out is ruined, but the good news is that we still have the computer." said Valerie as she came back from looking at the damage.
"So we're down but not out." said Alicia.
"So where do we go from here?" said Tucker.
"We start from scratch, Vlad may think this little set back can stop us, but we have to show him that we will not give up, because if Vlad wins we are all doomed." said Danny.
So our heroes went to rebuild their anti-Vlad campaign. But they had better be ready for a long, hard fight, because it is a long time till Election Day.
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Rob: Well it looks like Vlad has the dirty politics angle down.
Ember: I hope Danny and the others win, I do not want to pledge allegiance to Vlad.
Rob: Don't worry, if anyone can beat Vlad it is these kids. Now for our favorite part of the day, time to pull the hurt Vlad lever. Rob pulls the hurt Vlad lever, on the screen we can see Vlad walking down the hall. As he is walking he steps on a banana peel and begins to slide down the hall.
Vlad: Ahhhh! Screamed Vlad as he speed down the hall. He hits a cart and continues down the hall. He smashes through the front door, through a thorn bush, and finally he flies off the cart into a dumpster.
Vlad: I know you did that Rob Phantom, and I will get you for it! Just then the Fluffy Army of Doom surrounds him.
Vlad: Oh butter biscuits! Then the Fluffy Army of Doom attacks and visits intense pain upon Vlad.
Vlad: Ahhh! My face, my beautiful face!
Ember: That will teach him to walk down the hall way in peace.
Rob: Yes, and now for the chapter summery.
Well it seems Vlad has given our heroes a set back, and now they are going to be in the newspaper with him. If that was not bad enough they just found out Vlad's true plans. Will our heroes be able to pull their anti-Vlad movement back together? Will they defeat Vlad's evil plan? Or will the land of the free become the land of the doomed? Read the next chapter of President Vlad to find out.
Rob: So until Next time Danny Phantom fans, Read and Review!