Ok...I have my favorite band, Evanescence, playin' and I'm in the mood to write!

I got the new Evanescence album yesterday. I love my mom she's so awesome. She let me burn to CD's of Evanescence's old songs too so…life is good.

Any who...I'm finally updating.

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"What do you want now?" Danny pushed himself up with his elbows.

"My plan hasn't changed boy," Vlad flew above him. He held his hands behind his back, "Maddie is here, Jack is in an easy position to kill and you're too weak to fight back when I take you as my apprentice."

"Yeah, yeah, you've tried that before and failed," Danny thought, "You want something else."

"Ah, smart boy," Vlad smiled and flew to the other end of the room. He switched on a light and a large machine was illuminated. It looked a lot like the cloning machine he'd made, but yet…different, in a peculiar way.

"What is he up to?" Danny wondered as he watched Vlad's every step.

Vlad flicked on a switch and a green glow came up inside the machine. Within seconds the entire glass container was filled with green ectoplasm. Danny's eyes grew wide as Vlad's plan finally cleared in his mind.

Vlad looked back at his prey and a grin spread across his face.

"No," Danny shook his head, "You wouldn't even try."

"I would and I will," Vlad flew towards him. Danny backed up, but soon the cold surface of the wall touched his back. He looked up at Vlad's smirking red eye's as he hovered above him.

"Get away!" Danny held out a hand as a warning, but Vlad just laughed. He picked him up by the neck and carried him over to the machine. Danny grabbed Vlad's hand and tried to pry it away from his throat, but he couldn't. He was too weak still.

Vlad pushed an oxygen mask over Danny's mouth and held down his arms so he couldn't pull it off.

Danny squirmed in his grasp, but his eyelids began to get heavy as his energy was drained.

"Don't waste you're breath, boy," Vlad shook him a little to get him to stop moving. He held Danny above the top of the machine where a small opening was. He loosened his grip a little, started to lower Danny into the ectoplasm.

Danny lifted up his legs, to prevent them from touching the ectoplasm. This put more pressure on his stomach, but he didn't care about that right now.

Vlad smirked and let go of him. He covered himself with his cape as ectoplasm splashed out of the machine when Danny fell in.

He heard Danny's screams as the ectoplasm stung is cuts and scars. He stood, with his back to the machine, smiling as he listened to the music to his ears. He had waited so long to get back at Jack, and since Danny was his son…how was it any different now?

Pain. That's all he could feel. The ectoplasm was infecting his entire body…and he knew why. Vlad was such a scuzzball. Why did he have to endure Vlad's torture? Couldn't Vlad get what he needed from someone else?

"I'll…get you…Vlad!" he managed to yell as he tried to swim to the top of the tank. His broken bones didn't agree with him, but they weren't in charge. He gripped the side of tank when a thin metal plate began to cover the top. He quickly took his hand off so it wouldn't be sliced off as it shut. He punched the wall and looked through the glass. Vlad was looking over his shoulder, giving Danny his playful smirk.

Danny narrowed his eyes at him. He knew his mom would never go for him even if he were the last human being on earth.

Danny closed his eyes. He was tired. The ectoplasm was draining him like crazy. A metal chest plate hooked itself onto his chest and his head drooped. The good thing in this was, at least, he could breathe. Vlad wasn't that heartless at least.

Vlad flew over to the side of the machine where a thing cylinder was slowly being filled with a red green liquid.

"Vlad…" Danny gritted his teeth, "I'll get you…for this." He clenched his fists and used any energy left to try to escape.

"Don't even try." Vlad took the cylinder out and replaced it with an empty one. He walked past Danny's view, smiling at Danny's weak scowl. He unscrewed it and poured it into a small vial.

"Danny!" Sam's voice echoed through the room. Danny's eyes grew wide. He couldn't see her…there wasn't even an opening into the room. Where was she?

"Sam!" Danny's voice was muffled, both from energy loss and the mask over his mouth. He hoped she could hear him.

"Vlad! Stop! We're armed and we're not afraid to use it on you." She sounded calm and confident, which made Danny smile. She was strong and protective. He loved that.

"Armed? Nothing you have can defeat me," Vlad glided over to the cage that held Danny.

"Stay away from him!" Sam jumped down from her hiding spot with an ectogun in her hand. Turns out, she was hiding in a small cranny, which somehow, led here.

"Make me," Vlad challenged. Danny gave Sam a pleading looked. He couldn't help her…he could hardly move right now.

Sam glared at him. She never let her guard down; her stare never wavered. Vlad wasn't going to get away with this. She'd make sure of that.

Vlad watched her too; a staring contest that would end with gruesome results. Danny tried to keep watching, but his eyes wanted to close. His body just wanted to sleep.

A small ring could be heard and Vlad turned around. The new cylinder was filled, and he smiled. He pulled it out and turned back to Sam.

"What's that?" She raised an eyebrow in curiosity.

Vlad shoved a thumb back at Danny whose eyes were closed. He was paler than she had ever been and he was slowly sinking in the tank.

"What did you do to him?" Sam gripped the gun tighter.

"Figure it out," Vlad pressed a button on the machine, then turned invisible and intangible. Sam immediately shot the gun, but it didn't hit its target. It hit the tank Danny was in.

She eyes got wide when she realized what she did. The panel that was shot started to spark and a small red light started to blink.

"Danny!" Sam tried to run to him, but before the knew it the machine was about to blow. Apparently ectoplasm is bad for mechanical devises. She saw Danny's eyes; green eyes filled with fear.

"No...No Danny!" Sam tried to reach him in time, but was blown back by the explosion. She hit the hall and slid to the floor unconscious

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Maddie ran down the hall at full speed. Her son may be hurt, or someone else at that. She skidded around the corner before freezing to a halt. In front of her, a huge hole was in the floor. She fanned the dust cloud away from here face and tried to see what had blown up.

"Danny?" Sam, Tucker?" she coughed as the dust got into her lungs.

"Mrs. Fenton!" Tucker's voice was heard in the cloud.

"Tucker? Tucker where are you?" She tried to follow his voice.

"Down here!" He coughed.

Maddie looked down the see a hand holding the edge of the hole for dear life.

"Tucker!" she kneeled down and grabbed his hand. She pulled him up and he fell to his knees on the solid ground.

"Tucker what on ear-"

"Danny and Sam were down there," Tucker cut her off. Maddie's heart froze. Her son was in the middle of that. What if he was hurt? What if he needed her?"

"Danny!" She yelled down into the hole, but received no answer.

"Maddie?" Jack came around the corner.

"Jack! Danny and Sam were down there!" Maddie grabbed him by the jumpsuit. She stopped and her eyes got wide, "Tucker, Where's Jazz?"

Tucker looked behind him, "She was here with me."

Maddie held her chest. Both…her kids were down there.

"Jack, we need to help them." Maddie panicked.

"On it," Jack grabbed the fire house on the wall and threw it down into the hole. He grabbed it and slid down. His gloves prevented rope burn. Maddie followed him, along with Tucker.

Rubble covered the ground and dust still loomed in the air.

"Danny?" Maddie coughed again. She couldn't see anything. The only light there was were from the sparks of a machine, and a small fire in the back of the room. That was probably what exploded.

"Mrs. Fenton!" tucker waved her over. He ran over to the wall, "its Sam."

The girl was covered in dust and rubble. A trickle of blood ran down her chin.

"Sam?" Maddie picked her up and brushed some of the dust out of her hair. She mumbled something about saving Danny.

"Sam," she shook her a little.

"M-Mrs. Fenton?" her eye's opened just a crack.

"I'm here…are you alright?"

Sam didn't answer. Instead, she just coughed. She tried to gather her thoughts.

"Maddie!" Jack ran over to her. He head Jazz in his arms. Her hair was mussed and dirt smudged her face. She too, was unconscious, but didn't look too broken up.

"Jazz?" Maddie smothered her daughter's hair.

"Oh my gosh!" Sam's eyes opened completely, "Where's Danny?"

"We haven't found him yet," Tucker answered her.

"Is he alright? He has to be alright?" Sam tried to stand up, but fell back down. She bit her lip. Blood ran down her leg and her stockings were ripped. Tucker pushed her back down.

"Your leg is broken." He looked into her fear filled eyes.

"Danny…where is he?" Jazz gripped the air as if looking for someone.

"H-He was in the machine," Sam pointed to the burning heap in the back of the room.

"What?"

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Okay…before you all kill me, I'm working on the next update right now, so…that's a heads up.