Sam and Tucker immediately knew who the ghostly intruder was. Sam jumped in front of Jack and Phantom; she held a protective posture. Tucker jumped in front of Maddie and Fenton, also in protection.

"Get out of here Vlad!" Sam yelled, "Danny doesn't need you making things worse!"

"Yeah," Tucker added, "What she said."

"Vlad?" Maddie stared at the figure floating in front of them, "Vlad Masters?"

Vlad looked at her. His face showed a touch of worry for just a second, but then, it was gone. He sighed and flew down so that he was face to face with Maddie. He took her hand and looked into her eyes.

"Maddie," He smiled, "You always were able to see right through me. That lab accident years ago; it gave me ghost powers, but that's not all it did. It made me lose my chance at you!" his smile turned to an angry scowl, "and it's all big fat Jack Fenton's fault!" he glared at Jack.

Maddie wrenched her hand away from his. She gave Danny to Sam and turned back to Vlad. She grabbed a hand full of Vlad's coat and pulled him down so that his nose was almost touching hers, "Listen Vlad! No one and I mean NO ONE dumps on my family! You got that! And I don't love you, I never have loved you and I never will love you. My heart belongs to Jack," she shoved Vlad away and ran up to Jack, who gave Phantom to Tucker, and hugged him. Jack Fenton was the only one for her.

Vlad clenched his fists, "No," his eyes seemed to glow an even brighter red. Then a smile crept across his face. He turned invisible and the next thing they knew Fenton and Phantom were floating in the air above them.

"Danny!" Sam tried to grab them, but they were too high for her fingers to reach.

They flew over to the portal and floated in front of it. Vlad became visible, holding each Danny by the collar. He had an evil grin plastered on.

"Either you come with me, Maddie, or you're son will," he held the two Danny's in front of the portal as though he was about to throw them both in.

"Danny!" all of the family and friends yelled out to him.

Vlad pushed them a little closer, "You or him."

"Vlad, I…" Maddie glanced at Vlad then at Danny then to Jack. She wasn't sure what to do.

Danny F's eyes flickered open, "Wha…what's going on? Where am I?" he saw Vlad holding him by the collar, "Vlad!"

Vlad was a bit surprised by Danny's sudden awakening, but soon shook it off and turned back to Maddie.

Danny squirmed, but his entire body hurt. If Vlad tried to fight him…he wouldn't be able to do anything. He looked at his family with pleading eyes. He needed their help.

Maddie saw Danny's pitiful look. Her mind was racing. What was she going to do? She couldn't do that to Jack, but she wasn't going to let Danny get hurt. She kept looking at the three people involved in her decision.

"I'll…I" Maddie stuttered. Jazz came up behind her.

"Mom, don't give in. I've got a plan," Jazz backed away and gave her mom a wink. Then, Maddie looked at Vlad, a new determination in her eyes.

"I can't do that to Jack. I'm sorry Danny," she let her head fall, but it wasn't a sad look she had. She looked over at Jazz, who had quietly boarded the specter speeder.

"Mom!" Danny tried to reach out but Vlad shocked him brutally, "No." he had no strength left. All he could do was look at his mom with sorrow filled eyes.

"Fine, if that's your decision," Vlad turned and flew into the portal.

The world seemed to go in slow motion as Maddie watched as her son was lead away into the ghost zone; His blue eyes staring into her violet ones. She couldn't help but feel a little guilty. If Jazz's plan didn't work…she would never see her son again.

"Everyone get in fast!" Jazz was at the controls of the speeder. Everyone ran into it and buckled themselves in. Jack closed the door and took a seat next to Jazz. Maddie took the controls and they flew into the depths of the ghost zone.

Jazz stayed in front and turned on the scanner.

"Human found," the scanner showed a picture of Danny. He was moving at a fast pace, but it wasn't towards Vlad's portal.

Sam and Tucker quietly sat in the back as they let the moment they just had sink in.

"Why would Mrs. Fenton just let Vlad take Danny?" Tucker asked Sam.

"Well, apparently, Jazz has a plan, but if it doesn't work," Sam stopped and stared out the window.

Tucker put a hand on her shoulder reassuridly, "Danny will be fine. Everything will work out."

'Thanks Tucker," She looked at him for a second, and then turned back to the window, "I hope I can believe that."

"We need to go faster," Jazz said. Maddie pulled a lever and the jets roared louder. The speeder shot ahead. They were catching up, but Vlad was still flying pretty fast.

"So Vlad was a ghost this whole time," Maddie commented as she steered the speeder.

"Well, actually, he's half ghost, like Danny," Jazz told her.

"How long has Danny known?"

"Since the reunion thing; Vlad beat him up pretty good one night. He told me the entire story after I figured out his secret."

"Jazz? Why didn't Danny ever tell your father and me about his powers? We could have helped him?" Maddie asked the one question she wanted the answer to the most.

"Well, I think you should ask Danny that. But I think he was scared. I mean you are ghost hunters and he is a ghost. I think he thought that you would try to experiment on him and stuff. He thought you wouldn't care about him anymore." Jazz told her.

Maddie sighed, "I guess he had a reason. After all those times we said we wouldn't care if a ghost was hurt, and we told him how much we wanted to catch a ghost. But Danny is our son! We would never try to hurt him. Never."

"Well, I guess he wasn't sure.'

Suddenly the speeder made a jerk as something hit it. Maddie got the speeder back on track, but as soon as she looked before her she gasped.

They were surrounded by thousands of ghosts, and they didn't look happy. They began to advance towards the speeder and Maddie was sweating bullets.

"Mom! Get out of here!" Jazz screamed. There was another loud crash as the ghosts began to ram the speeder. Maddie turned the ship only to see Vlad and the two Danny's just outside the circle of ghosts surrounding them. Vlad stared at the speeder; he had the same evil grin on.

"Danny," she whispered.