Wow. That's all I can say. I wasn't expecting so many reviews on this story! Here's chapter two! It's not too actiony yet, just some more of Vlad's evilness. But there's a lot of evilness, and I think you'll all enjoy it.

Apart from the initial shock of seeing myself, A very weird thought popped into my head. Why the heck was my skin blue? I glanced sideways at the device that had caused all of this to happen. Words caught my eye, and I read them twice before any meaning came from them.

Side one split, Side two merge.

Side one split, and Side two merge.

The sense of the words hit me like a brick. I had been split from my ghost half. Why was it that the one invention that Jack made that actually worked was the one I fell through?

My evil half sneered at me, and startled me by reading my mind. "It certainly took you long enough to figure it out Vladimir." He said, his voice dripping contempt for me. "And yes, now that I've been separated from you, I can read minds. Well, your mind anyway." I shuddered, and he laughed wickedly.

"Do you even realize the numerous ways I could kill you right now?" He said. "But maybe since we just split there is enough humanity in me left to spare your human life. For now anyway." An insane grin spread across his face.

"In fact I'll make a deal with you. If you let me kill Jack without your interference, then I promise that your death will be quick, instead of the several more painful and drawn out methods I have locked away in my mind."

I shuddered again even though I was trying extremely hard not to. How could my other half be so evil? Was I really that murderous? Other me seemed to be counting on his fingers. "You want to kill Jack?" I whispered hoarsely. It came out strange, and there was no excuse for it except for the fact that I was terrified.

"Hmm," he said frowning slightly. "Ten seconds to say a five word response that I saw coming. And here I was thinking that we were more alike." His grin returned and all that I wanted to do was run away screaming.

"Jack is a rare prize. We had hated him when we were one, and when I was split from you, the first thought that entered my new mind separate from yours was I must kill Jack Fenton." His smile widened to an impossible size.

"So how do you like that Vladdy? I will finally carry out our greatest desire and murder Jack Fenton. Then I will move on and destroy all human kind until ghosts roam the earth, and I shall rule them all!" As his speech continued his voice rose until he was shouting insanely.

I caught movement out of the corner of my eye. Daniel was moving slowly behind my ghost half with one of his thermoses. Then I remembered that my evil half could read my mind, and knew that I had to distract him. Unfortunately the idea of confronting my evil half made me feel worse than the time I had eaten way to many cheeselogs.

I gulped and said, "What are you going to do with me? We are the same person after all."

His laugh rang through my ears. "Were. We were the same person up until a few minutes ago. Now I am a powerful ghost no longer tied down by human emotions, and you… well, you are a weak little human. And now, since you have kept me busy talking while Daniel has tried to sneak up behind me, your demise will be painful, and long."

He whirred around and blasted Daniel backwords. The boy fell unconscious and my evil self turned back to me. "Did you honestly think that you could keep me busy? Without human distractions there is nothing that can distract me from my goals." He floated to the ground and began to walk towards me.

I backed up and realized I was in a corner. He came closer until his insane grin was inches from my face. "Fear, I love fear. You are practically smothered in fear, drowning in it Vladimir." Somehow that grin kept stretching and distorting his face. "Hey, that rhymed!"

Why the heck did my ghost half have to be insane? Was I that crazy? Evil me answered my thoughts. "You bet Vladdy!" he said and then laughed. "We were crazy you and I. Crazier than a coocoo!"

I swallowed a lump that had been forming in my throat. If I had known that I was going to die today, I would have been more prepared. Never in my most horrible nightmares had I thought that I would be killed by my insane other half.

He laughed and snapped me from my thoughts. "Expect the unexpected Vladdy." He said almost kindly. "Because when I do come to kill you I promise that it will be when you least expect it." He paused for a moment. "But first I'm going to murder that stupid wasted blob of flesh named Jack Fenton."

Other me glided backwards. "I had so much fun talking to you Vladdie, we simply must get together again sometime. Then again…" His hand lit up as he charged an Ectobeam and blasted apart the strange device that I had fallen through. "Maybe we won't."

He vanished in a puff of smoke, leaving me staring at the spot where he had been. A small moan made me remember Daniel and I ran over to see if he was all right. He had crashed into a counter lined with glass containers, and there were several bloody cuts along his back.

I checked his eyes to make sure there were no shards in them and then I realized something. Why did I even care?

The question stumped me. ME! Vlad Masters, evil mastermind! Maybe more had happened to me than just losing my ghost half. Maybe I had lost something else. I sighed and decided that I would have to think about that later.

Daniel was still unconscious. I lifted him up gently and still got soaked with his blood. He was surprisingly light. I climbed the stairs and was happy that no one was home. That meant that my evil half would have to find Jack before he could kill Jack.

I found some bandage wrap under Daniel's bed, on which Daniel was now resting. He had clearly had some experience wrapping wounds. Luckily I had gotten used to the smell of blood after being stuck in the hospital after my accident, and had wrapped a few of my own wounds after some unfortunate incidents in the ghost zone.

I was just about to pull his shirt up and start cleaning his wounds when he woke up with a start. He saw me and before I could react punched me in the face so I ended up falling on my… bottom, again. This time I could not fight back, so I just sat on the floor and tried to look as innocent as a man with a bloodstained suit could look.

Daniel glared at me with green eyes. "Plasmius," he hissed violently, his teeth clenched in what I guessed was pain, "Get out of my room now!" I stood and tried to brush the wrinkles out of my suit, but only succeeded in wiping more blood from my hands on it.

"Masters." I said softly. "I'm not Plasmius, I'm Vlad Masters." Could Daniel have forgotten what occurred down in the lab? Maybe he had a concussion.

"I don't care," He said angrily "Whether you are human or ghost. You are still my archenemy." Then his eyes widened and he seemed to remember what had happened in his basement.

"The Fenton Ghost Catcher." He said. "You really are just Vlad Masters." I held back a rude remark. Daniel had no reason to go easy on me if I offended him, and I couldn't fight back.

Daniel's grin scared me. "So that means that you have no ghost powers."

Before he could get anymore ideas for revenge on me I said, "But it also means that my ghost half is after your father, and he will kill him."

Daniel seemed to realize how important the situation was. "We need to use the Ghost Catcher to fuse you back with your ghost half. As much as I love the idea of you not having ghost powers, your ghost half is a lot weaker when it's fused with you. Besides, your ghost half was what corrupted my ghost half and created Dan…" He stopped as if he had said too much.

I glared at him when I realized that he had insulted me. It wasn't like he hadn't done it before, but weren't children supposed to respect their elders? Wait, I just said I was old! That I was an elder! Only old people say "respect your elders" Well, I am old for a bachelor, but… That strange chain of thoughts ended as I processed the last sentence he had said.

Was I missing something? I had no memory of ever splitting from my ghost half before, but maybe I had had a small case of amnesia. Or Alzheimer's- I shook my head and decided to pass off Daniel's babble as a result of smacking his head into a wall and possible blood loss from his cuts.

I was about to ask him what he was talking about when the door opened behind me. I turned and saw Maddie looking horrorstruck in the doorway. She looked from me with my bloody suit to Daniel with his numerous injuries. Then that horror was replaced with pure motherly fury.

"Vlad Masters what have you done to my baby?"

There's nothing like getting threatened by an angry mom!