Hellbreaker, I was trying to go around that somehow. I never had her wish that everything was as it was before so that leaves a lot undone.
"Vlad, what are you doing here?" Danny questioned. The other male raised a brow in question at the attitude from the teen as Maddie herself reacted in a way unforeseen.
Pouring some hot tea in his lap she stated in a monotone voice, "Very valid question."
"Still steaming?" Vlad questioned. It was at that moment that both ghost fighters realized another important item of business. Sam grabbed Danny and excused themselves before heading up to his room leaving Valerie downstairs with the adults and Jazz.
The adults gave each other a look, Jack's more of a proud look while Maddie seemed mildly concerned. Valerie eyed the slender rich man with them. She felt that she had seen him before. He seemed to notice her as well, but at this point he wasn't sure what she could do for him. She wasn't important enough to get his attention and yet he felt that he had seen her before, then it struck him.
"Your father just lost his job, didn't he?" The young woman gave him a quizzical look. "Because of a ghost, right?" Now her teal eyes narrowed at his knowledge of her fall from grace.
"How do-" She was cut off as he dug out a small gold card. Looking at the card she glanced back at him. "Vlad Masters? The millionaire?" He smirked.
"I may have a job that could bring you back out of misfortune." Eyes still looking at him suspiciously she waited for him to continue. "If you are up to the challenge." That got her attention. "Give me a call if you change your mind."
Upstairs Sam shut the door before turning to her longtime friend. The room was silent as she contemplated the words that she wanted to say, though she was sure that he would have figured it out.
"If we never unwished you having powers than does that mean that everything was undone?" He looked thoughtful. "Vlad is obviously still his evil self, but what about Valerie? She turned the way she was because of that run in with ghost dog, Cujo, but if you never ran thru her father's job to capture him then is she after either of us?"
"I don't know," he stated honestly. "The ghosts are still here so maybe some of that stuff is true even if you have taken over." That made them both think, both wondering similar thoughts...and opposite thoughts.
Sam was wondering about Paulina's sudden hate toward her having to do with her powers and Danny was thinking about how Dash was suddenly interested in the Goth standing before him. He had also thought about how without his powers Paulina wanted nothing to do with him, not even when he could see that he was helping the Phantom.
"So, what do we do?" Sam inquired. "With Vlad I mean..." she faded off leaving Danny to wonder as to what she had been thinking of.
"Well, as I have never fought him, at least to his knowledge," the former halfa stated. "That means that we are at an advantage knowing who he is while he is in the dark that there is another half ghost running around." Sam nodded, though she herself was unsure of how her wish had played out. She almost wished that she had unwished it. Then she looked at him again and knew she had made the right choice.
"We should probably go downstairs and see why he is here though," the Goth pointed out. "Judging by the way he looks he seems hurt or at least got his ass handed to him." The former halfa nodded. Rushing back downstairs they found that Valerie had left and that Vlad was still seated on the couch, though he was rather wet from the coffee Danny's mother had poured on him.
"What are you doing here, Vlad?" Danny quired, though he still was uncertain if he and this man had a good relationship.
"Ah, well, Daniel, I thought to myself that I would pop in for a visit and then I saw that wonderful battle suit that your father is building..." he faded off as he looked over to Jack, who was still playing chess with him, a lost look on his face. "And knew that I couldn't just beat up my good friend and take the suit away, so I might as well just steal the secrets of the suit from him!" For a moment all was silent until both Vlad and Jack broke out in laughter.
"Such a kidder!" Jack bellowed while Jazz, Danny, and Sam looked rather bemused.
"Maddie, may I have some more of that delicious tea?" The red head in question responded by pouring the hot tea over his white head, the other half ghost letting out a cry of pain while repeating, "Not there! Not there!" He then turned to Danny. "Now, why not scurry on your way and do teenager things." It was at that moment that the half ghost looked confused, as if he felt something were odd in his response to the dark haired teen and his friends.
Beep! Beep! Beep!
A Jack head on a nearby counter went off, the eyes blinking red with each beep that left it's speakers. The two parental ghost fighters rushed to the spot, Jack flipped back the head, like it were a toupee, and pushed the red button he had revealed.
The picture above it spun around to reveal a ghost radar, the green lines that streaked across it showing Amity Park. On the screen a green circle that rippled out showed their location while what appeared to be a bunch of heads came from the left upper part of the screen toward them.
"It's the ecto-exodus alarm!" the heavy set male cried in a almost corny way.
"The whaty what?!" all the teens cried in confusion while Maddie began to explain what her husband was talking about.
"It only goes off if we are about to face a massive ghost attack!" Sam and Danny looked to each other in horror and then back to the screen where the ghosts were getting closer to the portal. Whispering to Danny the Goth rushed off, Jack trying to follow a few moments later only to be tripped by his son and Jazz taking down her mother with a drop of a book. As their parents lay immobilized the former halfa shot a look at his sister in confusion. She smiled and then looked away.
Did she know? That was the first thought in his head before he dismissed it. It was that moment that Vlad decided to sneak out of the Fenton home, his presence forgotten.
Below them in the basement Sam rushed toward the portal, willing herself to change mid stride as she stopped mere feet before the portal. As she watched to green swirling tides she readied herself for the onslaught that had been shown on the screen above her. Around her alarms went off, the red making her even more tense as the sounds echoed around her.
"Here we go," she muttered. Just then a familiar, annoying head popped out along with his body.
"BEWARE!" he cried, though the look of fear on his face never even registered to Sam as she smacked her face in annoyance and let out a giggle of relief.
"It's just you!" she cried out just seconds before a blast knocked her back several feet and onto her back. She looked up, but before she could get up further a large, sharp boot slammed onto her chest knocking the wind out of her. "S-Skulker?" she managed to wheeze out as the large mechanical ghost stood over her. He paid her no mind as he turned toward the portal.
"I told you there was a way out thru here!" With those words several familiar ghosts stuck their heads out before rushing past the downed halfa. As he ordered them to go Sam watched in both horror and shock, her long white hair rushing behind her at the wind the large amount of ghosts passing thru her best friend's basement.