A/N: See, I told you it would be up within a week! Granted it's exactly a week, but that's beside the point. It's amazing what telling yourself that you can't play KH II until you finish the chapter can do for your writers block!

Anywho, I know I said there are only two more chapters left, but after writing this one, I decided I should make it three (and you'll see why when you get to the end) so now there are two more chapters left.

Chapter Fourteen
Assault on the Masters Mansion

"Danny, we're nearing the Wisconsin border," his mother informed him. Danny lifted his gaze from the orange sky and looked ahead, his heart leaping as he saw the "Welcome to Wisconsin" sign.

"So, where exactly are we going in Wisconsin?" his father asked.

"Umm…is 'I can't tell you' going to work?"

"Danny," his mother warned.

Danny sighed. He knew he was going to have to tell them at some point, it might as well be now. He wanted the opportunity to hold the information over Vlad, but he figured that now was as good a time as ever, especially since when Vlad finds out that his parents know it might weaken him a little, and anything to weaken Vlad right now was appreciated. He knew Vlad wouldn't be willing to give over the Plasmius Maximus freely.

"We're going to Vlad's."

"Why are we going to Vlad's?" his mother asked. "It's not like we need a place to stay for the night, not that we'd ever stay at his house," she added bitterly.

"Well, Vlad's the Wisconsin Ghost."

"What?" both his parents yelled as one as Jack slammed on the breaks, sending Danny flying off the roof of the GAV. He closed his eyes, concentrating, praying that he still had some control. Thankfully he managed to turn intangible and fly through the road instead of skidding across it. He'd skid across more ground in the past few days than he had his entire life. He floated out of the ground and landed.

"Dad! Look what you did!" Jazz yelled at him as she rushed out of the GAV towards Danny.

"Jazz, I'm fine."

"But if you hadn't been able to go intangible you wouldn't be. They shouldn't count on you being able to use your powers since you don't…" she stopped as she saw Maddie and Jack walk out of the GAV as if in a daze.

"Danny, wha-what did you say?" Maddie asked as she leaned on Jack for support, who was leaning on the GAV.

"Listen, Vlad is the Wisconsin Ghost. Back in college when you created the first portal, Vlad's head was shoved inside, making him a half ghost, like me. Except, he's used his ghost powers to steal and rob, making him the great businessman he is today, and now he's using them to try and kill Dad and corrupt me."

"But why would he…oh," his mother finished, catching on while Danny nodded.

"Wait what?" his confused father still asked. "Why would Vladdie want to kill me?"

"Nevermind. He wants to steal me from you, make me his son and help him take over the Ghost Zone."

"I just…are you sure he's the Wisconsin Ghost?" his mother asked. "Sure he might be half ghost, but he may not be the Wisconsin Ghost."

"Mom, he is, trust me. I usually make it a point to know who I'm fighting."

"I know it's hard Mr. and Mrs. Fenton, but it's true," Sam verified.

"But…but Vladdie would never do anything like that," Jack reasoned meekly.

"Um, don't you remember earlier when he came into the basement the night of the party, or when he overshadowed you at the reunion, or when you fought him in the basement when there was a reward on my head? He's bad news."

"Wait, that night at the cabin, he sent those ghosts after us, and he hired that ghost pilot too so that we'd conveniently crash over his cabin," Maddie figured out.

Danny nodded his head, glad that at least his mother was starting to understand. Then again, she'd seen a different side of Vlad than his father ever did.

"What cabin?" Jack asked.

"Long story, tell you later," Danny answered quickly. His father was already confused enough and he didn't want to add to it.

"So let me get this straight: all this time Vlad's been a half ghost using his ghost powers for evil and hurting you," his mother summarized.

"Yeah, pretty much."

She turned her head towards Wisconsin and narrowed her eyes menacingly. "Vlad, you are so going down. Everyone back in the GAV," she demanded.

Danny immediately jumped onto the top of the car and Jazz, Tucker, and Sam rushed back inside and took their seats.

"But-but Vlad…" Jack trailed off, his eyes glazed over like he still couldn't grasp the fact that his college buddy wasn't really so much of a buddy after all.

"Jack, get into the car and I'll explain it on the way," Maddie ordered and he marched into the car, heading for the drivers seat but Maddie shoved him out of the way. "I'm driving."

She buckled herself in and clutched the steering wheel, her eyes glaring at the border like the state itself had harmed her and her son just by housing Vlad.

"Danny, I'd find something to hold on to," Jazz advised and Danny grabbed onto a railing as Maddie floored it, sending the car into rapid acceleration towards Wisconsin.

They spent the next hour trying to drag Jack out of his shocked stupor, but after he regained normal functioning, they managed to convince him of the terrors that Vlad had done and was planning to do and he felt as angry and betrayed as Maddie.

A few hours later the Masters mansion was in sight. They pulled over on a nearby street, hidden from the manor so Vlad didn't spot their arrival.

"You know, I think that drive was supposed to take a lot more time," Sam stated as she yawned and looked at her watch.

"Not when my mom's driving," Jazz responded as she too fell victim to the contagious yawn.

"I always thought your mom was the good driver of the family."

"Not when she's pissed."

"Sweetie, how are you doing up there?" Maddie asked as she finally tore her attention away from glaring evilly at the mansion.

"I'm doing great, all six of me," Danny stated unenthusiastically as he looked at his other replicas.

"Six of you?" she asked in confusion.

"Sweet! You've finally learned duplication!" Tucker yelled as he jumped out of his seat and ran outside to look at the multiple Danny's. "Actually, I'd say you mastered it."

"Far from it. It's just the disease trying to torture me further by teasing me. Only problem: I can't get rid of them, so they've just been, piling up."

"Well, now you'll have six Dannys to fight the six Vlads."

"Well that would be a good plan, if being split six ways didn't totally zap me of all the energy I'll probably need to fight him in the first place."

"Speaking of which, what's our plan of action?" Jazz asked as she joined Tucker outside.

"Well, once I find a way to pull myself together, I was thinking about just sneaking in, see how far I can get before he notices me."

"I? Me? What's with all the first person pronouns?" Sam asked suspiciously.

"I want you guys to wait, make him think that I came here alone. If I need your help, well, you'll probably know."

"Well we know you're going to need our help anyways because even on a good day you have a hard time beating him, so what's the point?"

"Thank you Tucker for your words of encouragement. The point is that a cocky Vlad gets careless and a disheveled Vlad makes mistakes. So put the two of them together and you get a lot of mistakes, which I can use to my advantage. The Plasmius Maximus is as good as mine."

"Look at him Maddie, our baby boy, planning his own ghost onslaught," Jack gushed as he sniffed, his eyes watering. "I'm so proud."

"What if Vlad stays asleep the entire time?" Maddie asked. "Then you may not even need to fight him."

"He won't," Danny, Jazz, Tucker, and Sam answered.

"That's just our luck," Sam explained. "Well, Danny's luck anyway."

"So, we're just supposed to wait outside while you get beaten up?" Maddie asked.

"Not outside, just nearby. You need to stay out of Vlad's sight until I start screaming a lot."

"But there's still the whole 'you screaming' part of the plan that I don't like."

"I know, but that's what has to be done. Don't worry, it's not like I haven't been hurt by him before," Danny reminded them as he smiled, all the other Dannys finally vanishing. He looked around him. "Oh thank God. I was sick of seeing myself everywhere." He jumped off the GAV and started heading towards the manor. Jack and Maddie loaded themselves up with weapons and followed after him.

"Danny, what if there's a ghost shield around the mansion?" Jack asked as they reached the iron gates surrounding the property.

"There won't be. Vlad has ghosts reporting to him all the time and they need free access in and out of the mansion, and so does he. Alright, everyone grab onto me."

"You're not going to faze us through the gate, are you?" Jazz asked worried.

"You got another idea?"

"No, but I don't want you wasting your energy."

"It's all right. It's just intangibility; it's not like it's that hard. Once we're all intangible, we need to run through the gate and the door."

They nodded their heads in understanding and did as they were told while Danny closed his eyes as he concentrated, turning each of them intangible one by one. They started running through the gate and across the courtyard, finally stopping once they were inside the large oak doors. Danny collapsed onto the floor, immediately turning tangible.

"Danny!" Jazz whispered urgently as she knelt next to him.

"I'm okay, just, really tired."

"This is a bad idea."

"No, I have to do this. It's the only way. I need to neutralize my powers, there's no other way. We need to head to the study." He tried to stand up on his own but he was too tired.

"Jack, pick him up," Maddie ordered as Danny leaned on Jazz to stand.

"No, that's not necessary."

"Danny," his mother warned.

Danny sighed, realizing it was pointless to argue. "Fine."

Jack easily lifted Danny and carried him bridal style as Jazz lead them to the study. While he was grateful that he didn't have to walk and he'd get a chance to conserve his energy, he did feel foolish, being carried by his father on his mission, through Vlad's house of all places. If Vlad saw them he'd feel so stupid. But Alison's words about needing his family's support crept into his head and he realized that this was one of those moments.

They entered the study and Jazz lifted the football trophy on the fireplace mantel, revealing the entrance to Vlad's secret lab.

"Alright, Vlad would have heard that, and I think he has an alarm on this place, so you guys need to hide in here where he won't see you."

They nodded their heads and Danny smiled at them as he headed down slowly into the lab. Once he reached the bottom of the steps, he felt the tickle in his nose. Well, there was one way Vlad would know he was here he thought as he sneezed, creating an ecto-dome around him, but it quickly faded as he didn't have enough energy to keep it up. At least it didn't happen when we were walking through the house, Danny thanked.

Knowing he didn't have long he started looking for the Plasmius Maximus. It had to be here somewhere. He started opening drawers, scanning the devices on the tables, opening cabinets, but it was no where to be found. How was it that he could find stuff easier in his parents' disorganized basement than he could in Vlad's organized one?

"Ah yes, I knew you'd come here. You're looking for the Plasmius Maximus I believe?" Vlad's silky voice asked.

Danny whipped around, glaring at Vlad. "No wonder why I couldn't find it," he remarked as he noticed Vlad holding the device tauntingly in his hand.

Vlad smiled. "Of course not my dear boy. I wouldn't leave something so important to you laying about where you could easily sneak off with it. That would defeat the purpose."

"The purpose…wait, how did you know I'd be looking for it?"

"To cancel out your powers of course. Really Daniel, using this to solve your problem isn't that ingenious of an idea."

"Wait a minute, you know about the disease?"

"Know? Of course I know; I created the powder."

"You what?" Danny asked venomously, his eyes glowing in pure rage.

"Isn't it obvious? I'd been working on this powder for ages and after our little encounter I knew it was time to use it, so I sent it to Skulker to use on you. After you decided to tell your parents about being a ghost I knew I had to punish you somehow, make you suffer, and it looks like I succeeded perfectly. Your parents may have accepted you before because they knew that you could turn back into a human at any moment, but tell me Daniel, do they still accept you now that you're stuck as a ghost, as the thing they hate the most?"

Danny kept his gaze steady with Vlad, not showing him any change in emotion. He knew that what Vlad was saying wasn't true. His parents didn't see him any differently. They came running after him all this way because they wanted to help him. Still, he kept a straight face, pretending to look downcast, pretending that what Vlad said really was true.

"I knew it. Did you happen to lose control? Did you hurt them? Injure them?"

Danny narrowed his eyes in anger. That, was a little too close to home and none of his business.

Vlad, however, looked positively thrilled. "So that's why you came here alone and without the help of your little posse. They're afraid of you, now that you can't control yourself. They're afraid you'll hurt them again. You're afraid that you'll hurt them again."

Danny lunged at Vlad in anger, but Vlad simply turned intangible, smiling evilly as he enjoyed seeing Danny suffer.

"Ah, seems I hit a soft spot," he relished. "Well Daniel, if you want to get physical, then I will by all means." The black rings formed around his waist, turning him into his ghostly self.

He immediately formed a large dark pink ball of ectoplasmic energy in his hands and shot it at Danny. He dived to get out of the way but his body was too weak to react quickly and it grazed his arm. Vlad laughed as he heard Danny gasp in pain and fall onto the floor.

"Daniel please, this is pointless. You can't even beat me when you're at full power, and now you expect to when you can't even use any of your powers? It doesn't have to be like this."

Danny grabbed an ecto-gun from a nearby table and shot it quickly at Vlad, who simply formed an ecto-shield, absorbing the blast.

"Daniel, I have the cure. We don't need to do this. I'll give it to you freely if you simply renounce your idiot of a father and come and live with me."

"Same old demands Vlad? Can't you think of something different?" Danny asked as he stood up with the help of the table while pulling something small out of his belt.

Vlad smiled. "I know what I want. Come on Daniel, it's not that hard of a choice. Your parents have already done all but shun you and you've even run away from home because of it. Why not live here, where you know you'll be cared for and never shunned. And you won't be alone. You're mother will be joining us soon as well."

"She'll never join with you," Danny spat.

"Well, we'll see. But what about you Daniel? Trade your unloving parents for me and the cure?"

"Or I can just beat you and take the cure while you're down."

Vlad laughed. "My dear boy, you haven't even been able to land a punch on me!"

"Maybe not yet…" he remarked softly as he pushed a button on the device and threw it at Vlad as he jumped behind a table. The device exploded, sending rays of ecto-blasts in every direction. Danny rose from behind the demolished table, smiling slightly as he saw Vlad trying to stand from the wreckage, his clothes singed.

"That…was one of your parents' inventions, wasn't it?" he asked as he stood, his eyes blazing red in anger. He obviously didn't expect to be hurt.

"What, you think I'd leave to fight you without some of my parents' weapons since I don't have any of my own? And you always said I was the dumb one."

Vlad's eyes narrowed. He floated up into the air, three more Vlad's appearing at his side, their hands glowing dark pink.

His parents would be getting that signal real soon.

A/N: I know, I'm totally evil. But just think of it as a blessing, because it means that this chapter was able to be posted sooner becauseI didn't have to go through the pains of writing the actual battle!

And, if you're so obliged,I would really like for you guys to check out the summary for my new story on my profile called Secrets from the Past. I'm totally excited about it and now that The Beginning's finished I'll be posting it soon. So please tell me what you think!

Here's hoping it takes me less time to get the next chapter up (crosses fingers)!