READ THIS NOW! please. :)This is not the last chapter of this story! This is simply a filler chapter between one section of dates and another! I need to have some plot structure somewhere! Anyone and Everyone who was disappointed that I didn't use their character should cheer up! I do not pick the characters in any order, but they will be used! I am still accepting new characters all of the time! If you are waiting for this story to end then you'll have to wait a lot longer! Exclamation point!
Danny slammed his fist down on a button and a ghost shield surrounded the Specter Speeder. Vlad was pushed back, but he started blasting the shield. He was so angry that the shield could barely withstand the blasts. Danny turned and began typing as fast as he could on the computer.
"What are you doing!" yelled Sam over the blasts.
"If I'm going down," he yelled back, "Then I'm taking Plasmius with me." he clicked on a small button that said 'reply to all email' and typed in Vlad's name and address. Just as he clicked send and alarm went off.
"WARNING, GHOST SHEILD FAILING, PLEASE PREPARE FOR GHOST ATTACK"
Then it was very quiet. Danny changed into his ghost form, waiting for something to happen. Suddenly Skulker fell over with a loud clank causing Danny to jump. Vlad appeared out of thin air holding Skulker's true form. "I'll deal with you later." He said to the small green blob. Then he whipped Skulker like a baseball, sending him through the windshield of the Specter Speeder. The windshield shattered and another alarm went off.
Vlad turned to glare at Danny and Sam. "I've been dying to ask you what you were thinking, Daniel. Surely you didn't believe that you could get away with your plan to pair me up with every insane woman on this planet. I'm much more observant than your father." He didn't move to attack.
"It was a joke." Danny said quietly. Vlad raised an eyebrow.
"Really? And in what way is it funny? The fact that my reputation has been ruined? The fact that I now have been forced through several strange situations with women who were clearly only after my money? Or maybe it was the fact that I was almost forced into marriage?" Vlad had never once stopped glaring at the two of them.
"Sorry." Danny mumbled. Even Sam gave him a look for that.
"Unfortunately I am not in a good mood at the moment, and sorry is not going to cut it." Vlad blasted Danny backwards and flew into him, crushing him up against the wall of the Speeder.
Sam ran up and tried her best to pull Vlad away from Danny, but Vlad shoved her away with one hand and then shot some ectoplasmic bonds at her. She fell to the floor and couldn't move.
"Jeeze fruitloop can't you take a joke?" Danny said, angry that Sam had been blasted. He tried to break free but Vlad had him pinned so tight he could barely move. "We were just trying to get your mind off of my mom, and you have to admit it worked." Vlad's hands lit up with ectoblasts, and since they were pressed tightly against Danny's arms Danny suddenly wanted to scream out in pain.
"Maddie can not be replaced. Would you like me to send you insane women to be your mother?"
"No, but I thought your obsession with her was getting a little out of hand. I mean, come on! 'Roses are red; my heart is blue, because I'm spending Valentines Day without you.' That's just sad." Danny gritted his teeth as the pain in his arms skyrocketed.
"You read those!?" Vlad said, his face turning purple with embarrassment. "Those were for Maddie's eyes only."
"Yeah well if she had tried to read those she would have died of laughter. They were the worst things I had ever forced myself to look at. I destroyed all four of them before she even had a chance to see the envelope." Vlad loosened his grip and Danny continued. "See? I was just trying to help. You couldn't date my mom if she was dead."
"Fine." Vlad said quietly. "If you insist that all of these women coming to my doorstep are good for me I will allow you to live." Danny waited for the catch. "But, until they stop coming then I'm afraid that you and your friend will be my prisoners." Vlad bound Danny in ectobonds and walked over to the controls of the Specter Speeder. "Maddie may not want to live with me now, but we'll see how she feels when you don't come back."
Danny struggled uselessly. "How are you going to keep us prisoner? If you've forgotten, I'm half ghost, and I'm much stronger than you."
Vlad didn't answer. He looked at the controls of the Specter Speeder in silence. Maddie would never be his, and if he kidnapped Daniel then she would simply hate him. Maybe he should just give up on her. Not all of the women in the world could be as insane as the several he had encountered, could they? Maybe he should move on…
"Hey! Fruitloop! Are you deaf?" Vlad turned around and glared fiercely at Daniel, temporarily forgetting his moment of weakness.
"No, Daniel, I can hear your annoying voice quite clearly." He snapped. "Half ghost or not, I am more experienced than you and if you've forgotten that I have several devices for canceling out your powers then perhaps you should see someone about your memory problem." Vlad had the perfect invention in mind.
Vlad turned back to the controls and flew the Speeder down behind his mansion. He lifted Sam and Danny both easily by the back of their shirts and flew them down to his secret lab. Then he took four circles of metal and put them onto Danny and Sam's wrists. They shrunk instantly until they fit just tight enough to be impossible to get off.
"Do you have these in black?" Sam said sarcastically.
"No." Vlad said. "I was hoping to build off these prototypes and make a more permanent device, but since you came early I'll have to use these. They will not only cancel out your ghost powers, but they will also keep you inside of this house. If you try to leave a force field will come up, blocking your escape."
"Let me guess," Sam said, "You're the only one who can remove them?" Vlad looked surprised and nodded. "I've been through this before."
Danny experimented by trying to charge up a small ectoblast. Nothing happened. So instead he resorted to irritating Vlad. "You're going soft, Plasmius." He said. "So we can't leave, it's not like we're in a dungeon being tortured or anything."
Vlad's eyes flashed. "Not yet anyway. You two will be forced to follow my orders or suffer the consequences. I promise you that you will probably want to take the easy route and follow my orders."
"Never." Danny said, glaring at Vlad. "Sam and I aren't your servants, and nothing you can do will make us work for you."
An evil grin filled Vlad's face. "Very well. I was hoping you would try to resist. It's more fun that way." He changed into his human form and took a remote from his breast pocket. His thumb hovered over the button on the remote. "This is your last chance." Danny just glared at him, making Vlad smile wider. He pressed the button.
Danny instantly felt like he was being overshadowed. Pain raked through his body as he tried to resist, and then he found himself bowing. He glanced at Sam and saw that she was being forced into a curtsy.
"I did warn you." Vlad said, somehow smiling wider than ever. "Your bracelets are made with a little bit of my DNA and Technus' inventing skills. With a press of a button I can instantly overshadow you without actually having to walk into you. Mind control." He pressed another button and Danny fell flat on his face as Vlad released his grip on their will power. "A very new invention of mine that apparently escaped your detection."
Sam straightened out of her curtsy and looked like she was going to kill Vlad. "No one makes me curtsy and lives to brag about it!" She dived forward but Vlad pressed the button again and she stopped. Then she curtsied several times before walking backwards away from Vlad.
"No, no my dear Samantha. You can't win that way. I haven't even told you the best feature yet! I can program instructions into the bracelet telling you what to do, and you are forced to follow them. The maid could use a few assistants, so until I decide otherwise you are to follow her orders." Vlad pressed another button and Sam and Danny were forced to walk away to go find the maid.
He sighed and put the remote back in his pocket. Danny was under his control at last, but now that Vlad was alone he remembered his treacherous thoughts from earlier. Maybe he should just move on, forget Maddie. He picked up a picture from his college days, with him Maddie and Jack all standing together and smiling at the camera. Jack's face had been ripped off, and Vlad stared at Maddie's younger self.
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"There has to be a way to get these off!" Danny said, slamming his wrist into the wall. He and Sam were still being forced to walk to wherever the maid was, and he was trying everything to break the mind control bracelet. Nothing worked.
A surprised gasp came from somewhere farther down the hallway and Danny and Sam saw the maid standing there looking shocked. She wasn't ugly; in fact she was very pretty. She was about Vlad's age, which surprised Danny. He always thought maids were either really young or really old. "What can I do for you two?" she said.
"We've come to help you with your work." Danny heard himself say. "Mr. Masters hired us." Danny ground his teeth together. He hadn't called Vlad Mr. Masters since the reunion, and he didn't intend to call him that now.
She frowned. "Who does he think he is? Forcing teenagers to work in this creepy old place. The rich jerk thinks he owns everyone's lives." The maid sighed and said, "I'm Molly Virga. You two can just call me Molly though. Only the evil boss calls me Ms. Virga. So what exactly is it you're supposed to be doing?"
This time Sam was forced to answer. "We'll help you with all of your work."
Molly started laughing. "Work? In this house? It's always clean anyway since the rich cheese head never bothers to use any of the rooms besides his bedroom and laboratory. There's a chef who comes in and cooks breakfast lunch and dinner, and this place is so big it would take a year for dust to settle on anything. Here's an order for you: go have fun and explore this place, just make sure Mr. Masters doesn't see you."
Danny and Sam stared at her. She shrugged. "Big house, not a lot of work, and a good payroll. As long as the boss doesn't realize that I don't do anything then I'm fine. What are you're names?"
"I'm Danny Fenton and this is Sam Manson." Danny said. For some reason Molly's eyes widened.
"Danny Fenton?"
"Yeah…" Danny said, confused at why the maid seemed so shocked.
"So your parents are the ghost hunters that were at the reunion! Have you seen the blue faced ghost? You know, he has vampire teeth?" Danny nodded, still confused.
Then Molly seemed to think of something and her eyes faded like she was dreaming. "Just watch out for the blue faced ghost. He's around a lot, and even though he's cute I'm sure he's dangerous. I just said that cute part out loud, didn't I." Danny and Sam nodded and Molly blushed embarrassedly. "He is though, especially in sweatpants."
She left the two friends alone. They looked at each other in disbelief. "She's very… um, open." Sam said.
Then Danny burst out laughing. "Molly's in love with Vlad Plasmius, but hates Vlad Masters!"
Sam rolled her eyes. "She sounds a lot like a certain ghost hunter I know." Danny said nothing but stopped laughing. "Molly's given us permission to go anywhere in the mansion as long as Vlad doesn't see us. We should find a phone and call home."
"Sam, that's exactly what Vlad wants us to do! If we call our parents then they'll come here looking for us, and Vlad can capture them too."
"Well at least we won't be his prisoners for very long if he keeps his word and lets us go now that you aren't sending any more women after him." Danny's face suddenly went pale, and he tried to hide it the best he could. Sam noticed anyway. "What?"
"I-uh-um… Vlad won't keep his word, Sam. You know that." Sam raised one eyebrow and just stared at Danny, knowing that he was hiding the truth. "Okay! I was lying. Right before Vlad broke the ghost shield I answered all of the emails at once. He's going to have every single woman who even clicked on his profile come right up to his door."
Ding-Dong
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Ding-Dong
Vlad looked up and frowned angrily. Danny's laptop was still in the Specter Speeder, so it couldn't be another woman, could it? Vlad began walking towards the stairs. Maybe it was a visitor. Yeah, right, a visitor to one of the most secluded homes in Wisconsin. He sighed and decided that Danny must have contacted one last woman before Vlad had captured him.
"At least this will be the last one. Now that Daniel isn't meddling anymore I should be free from these insane people." Vlad sighed and resolved to stop talking to himself, even though it was a convenient way to sound crazy. Of course this was the last date, and he would be home free after this. How wrong he was.