MASTERS OF ALL TIME
It was a beautiful Saturday afternoon. Danny, Sam, Tucker, Dayla and Andrew were all eating at Nasty Burger. Dayla and Andrew just finished enjoying their date at the movies and were now enjoying spending some time with Danny and their friends as they sat together in a booth.
"Ah Nasty Burger, our safe haven away from the worries of…" Danny began to say when suddenly Jazz ran through the doors and shouted, "Danny! Dayla! Run!"
"Run? Why should we run?" Danny asked.
The answer came when Jack and Maddie came bursting through the doors wearing clothes from the 80's and Jack was carrying a radio over his shoulder, both their eyes widened at the sight and before they knew, all the kids they knew from school who were eating in the restaurant began to laugh at them. Danny and Dayla cringed in embarrassment while Jazz sat down next to Sam and hid her face behind a menu.
"If anyone asks, I'm related to you" Jazz whispered.
"Okay but you're gonna have to be a lot less cheery" Sam said.
"We're like totally late for 80's night at the Material Grill" Jack said. Maddie then handed Danny his wallet and spoke just like Jack, "But you like totally forgot your wallet man"
"Uh…thanks" Danny said as he grabbed the wallet with annoyance.
"Don't mention it. We love ya man" Jack said.
Suddenly Maddie pulled Danny into a one of her back breaking hugs, almost crushing the air out of him. Jack then put the radio down and gave Dayla a bone crushing hug as well.
"If we pass out, I give you permission to not resuscitate us" Dayla said to Jazz quietly as she was crushed from Jack's hug.
Both parents let go of their children and Jack picked up his radio and said, "Come on Maddie! Let's crank up the tunes and moonwalk out of here"
"Oh just like our college days" Maddie smiled.
Jack turned up the volume of the music coming from the radio and then both of them started doing the moonwalk embarrassing Danny and Dayla even further as they both covered their faces in annoyance.
"Cheer up guys, I'm sure there's a couple of kids from school who didn't see that" Andrew said hopefully.
Their hopes were crushed unfortunately when Mikey ran up with a video camera and started filming Jack and Maddie, "Oh this one's going straight to the internet!"
Danny growled in frustration and Dayla just sighed and then they both headed out the back door, Sam, Tucker and Andrew got up and followed them out. They both stopped and Danny crossed his arms.
"I swear they can be so embarrassing at times!" Dayla exclaimed.
"I agree. Just once, I'd like to know what it's like to live in a normal family" Danny said.
"Which you never will, so long as your both Jack Fenton's children" They heard the voice of Vlad say.
They looked up and gasped at the sight of Vlad in his ghost form standing on top of a street light, he then jumped down and stood on the ground.
"Great! More weirdness from our parents college days" Dayla muttered as she and Danny changed into their ghost forms. "What do you want from us this time Plasmius?"
Suddenly Vlad groaned and held his head in pain and then kneeled to the ground, he changed back into his human form and then revealed his face to show small red pimples completely covering it. He then begged weakly, "The ecto acne is back. Please help me!"
They all gasped at the sight. They all frowned however and Sam snapped, "Help you? Yeah right!"
"Why would they want to do that?" Tucker asked sarcastically.
Vlad smirked and said, "I thought you'd never ask"
He then pulled out a small canister and threw it at Sam, Tucker and Andrew. The canister opened and then suddenly they were all being surrounded by purple smoke, Danny and Dayla could hear them coughing and were about to help them, when Vlad grabbed onto their feet and stopped them.
They looked back at him and he said, "Help me find a cure or my fate is theirs"
He then fainted and when Danny and Dayla turned back around, the smoke cleared and revealed that Sam, Tucker and Andrew all now had ecto acne covering their faces. They all screamed at the sight.
Danny then grabbed Vlad by the collar of his shirt shaking him and demanded, "Vlad wake up! Tell us there's an antidote!"
Dayla then shouted, "Tell us you're bluffing! Tell us anything! Just wake up!"
"BACK OFF GHOSTS!" They heard Jack shout and then suddenly they were both blasted by Jack and Maddie by ecto guns right into a barrel of crates.
"Nobody slaps around Jack Fenton's college pal!" Jack shouted as they prepared to fire again.
Jazz then jumped in front of them and said, "Danny! Dayla…must be around here somewhere! I'll go look for them"
Jazz then dashed off and when Jack and Maddie looked back to face Danny and Dayla, they were gone. They lowered their weapons and then gasped at the sight of Vlad unconscious on the ground in front of him, his face covered in ecto acne.
"Vladdie! You alright?" Jack asked as they kneeled down to inspect him.
They heard Jazz call as she came out with Danny and Dayla now in their human forms, "Found them"
"Thanks for finding us" Danny and Dayla said playing along.
Jack and Maddie then saw the sight of Sam, Tucker and Andrew, already feeling weak from the effects of the ecto acne. Maddie took a closer look at them and then nodded in confirmation.
"We have an outbreak of ecto acne and there's only one place that knows how to treat ecto acne" Maddie said with determination and then Jack gave her a thumbs up.
"Please say hospital. Please say hospital. Please say hospital" Danny and Dayla muttered hopefully.
Unfortunately what their parents meant by the place that knows how to treat ecto acne, they meant Fenton Works which was now covered in an orange tent for quarantine tent and the sign outside read Biohazard.
"Why couldn't they say hospital?" Danny and Dayla asked themselves in their heads.
Inside the house under another quarantine makeshift room, everyone who wasn't infected by the acne was wearing protective gear to protect themselves from possible effects from the ecto acne. Jazz took care of Sam, Dayla stood by Andrew's side gently holding his hand and was almost on the brink of tears for her boyfriend, Danny was scanning Tucker getting an x-ray figuring out where the acne was affecting his body and Jack and Maddie were over by the computers monitoring everyone's vitals.
They all then heard Vlad groan and wake up. Maddie smiled and rubbed a cold cloth on his forehead as she said, "Hey everyone, he's awake"
"Ah Maddie. I knew you wouldn't let me down" Vlad said with a weak smile. Maddie then returned to the computers. He then turned his head to Danny and Dayla and smirked, "It's almost like you didn't have a choice"
Danny and Dayla both growled at him and went back to helping their parents.
"Looking good Vladdie!" Jack bellowed. His smile dropped when he saw the vitals drop, "Oh who am I kidding? You're a goner"
"What?! I can't be a goner! I haven't even dated a cheerleader yet!" Tucker exclaimed in complete shock.
"Trust me, you're never gonna live that long" Sam said. Tucker groaned and laid back down.
"There has to be something you can do for them mum" Dayla said not letting go of Dayla's hand. Danny looked at his sister with sympathy, Andrew was her boyfriend and now there was a chance she could lose him.
"I wish I could Dayla, but I still can't identify the ecto impurities that are causing the lethal acne" Maddie said solemnly.
"LETHAL?!" Sam, Tucker and Andrew asked in shock.
They all then glared at Vlad as he sat up and said with a smirk, "Ah life is so unfair, ever you three growing shorter"
Dayla was about to go right up and punch Vlad in the face, but Jazz held her back and Danny grabbed him by the collar of his suit and said threating and quietly, "I swear if they find a cure, I'm gonna make you wish they hadn't!"
"Oh good one. I swear I get chills when either you or Dayla get so dramatic. But if I were you two I'd focused more on saving your friends and boyfriend, they're running out of time you know" Vlad said gesturing to Sam, Tucker and Andrew who were now shivering from the ecto acne.
Danny let him go and walked over to Dayla. His eyes then widened and he said, "Time? Now that gives me a great idea"
A few minutes later and after explaining his plan to Dayla, she and Danny changed into their ghost forms and were off at Clockwork's tower in the Ghost Zone to ask for his help. They explained what happened and Danny's idea, but he definitely didn't like the sound of it.
"No it's a horrible idea" Clockwork said turning his back and crossing his arms. "I'm the ghost of time, not the ghost of miracle cures"
"Send us back in time to our parent's college days Clockwork" Danny said. "We can prevent the accident that gave Vlad his original outbreak of ecto acne"
"And his ghost powers in the process" Dayla added.
Clockwork turned around as his form changed to a child and asked, "Changing the past can have dire consequences. Are you two willing to take that risk?"
"Please! Tucker, Andrew and Sam are our best friends and Andrew is my boyfriend. I don't want to lose him" Dayla pleaded as they both looked back at the image of Sam, Tucker and Andrew lying down sick on the small time window. Danny then added, "Plus we don't have a choice"
"You always have a choice" Clockwork said as his form changed to an elderly man. "But since you two insist on learning things the hard way…"
He then used his powers and opened a time portal that would take them to their parent's college days. They flew up and then looked back at Clockwork one more time and then flew into the portal as they heard him say, "Try not to destroy the past"
Danny and Dayla appeared in front of the sign that read, University of Wisconsin. They stayed behind it and hid, they both then peaked around it and looked around to see all the people in 80's clothes, dancing socialising and everything.
"Destroy the past? What and lose all this culture?" Danny asked sarcastically.
They both then heard a guy behind them say to them, "Totally awesome outfits dudes!"
He gave them a thumbs up and then left. Danny then groaned, "Oh great! We blend"
Dayla giggled and said, "On the bright side, it beats people thinking we're ghosts"
Dayla then saw something on the notification board and pulled the flyer off, they both then read it. It was an invite for anyone who wished to come and watch the experiment with their parent's first ghost portal they built and where there was a ghost portal, is where they would find their parents.
They turned invisible and phased into the room, but kept their invisibility on. They watched the younger version of Jack and Maddie along with a younger version of Vlad preparing the small ghost portal. They watched as Vlad romantically looked at Maddie as she pressed buttons on a small pad attached to the machine.
"Maddie, there's something I've been wanting to tell you for a long time…" He began to say but was cut off by her, "One second Vlad"
"Jack did you remember to fill the filtrator with ecto purifier?" She asked the younger version of Jack.
"On it baby" Jack said, but he was so busy looking down at a clipboard, he grabbed a can of diet cola instead of the bottle of ecto purifier.
Danny and Dayla's eyes widened at the sight as Jack emptied the entire can into the filtrator, he then noticed Maddie looking at him lovingly and he returned her gesture with a dashing smile, Vlad glared at his friend and crossed his arms in jealousy. He then walked in front of the portal and inspected it for a moment.
"I'm telling you Jack it won't work" Vlad said.
Jack disagreed as he said with complete confidence, "Bogus V-man! It totally will! This proto-portal is guaranteed to bust open the wall into the ghost dimension!"
While Maddie and Jack left Vlad who was putting his face right in front of the portal, Maddie picked up the papers that had Jack's calculations while Jack picked up the remote control that would activate the portal. Maddie looked over the papers and then frowned.
"Jack these calculations aren't right" She said.
"BONZAI!" Jack shouted and then activated the portal, completely ignoring what she said.
The filtrator frizzed and fizzled and then the portal started glowing, but just like before the blast headed straight for Vlad, but before it could hit him Danny and Dayla shoved him out of the way invisibly, Jack and Maddie then jumped out of the way and the blast ricocheted off a blackboard, then a trophy and then a computer. The blast then headed straight for Maddie, but Vlad got up and shoved her right out of the way, Danny and Dayla shielded their eyes from the bright light as the blast hit something.
"Vlad you…saved my life" Maddie said with a smile of appreciation.
"Yes. I did didn't I?" Vlad replied with a warm smile of his own.
Danny and Dayla smiled at their accomplishment as Danny said, "No ecto acne and now no Plasmius. Mission accomplished"
Clockwork watched from the time screen and then pushed a button on his time staff and transported them back to their time period. Danny and Dayla found themselves back in Amity Park where their house is.
"Back home and there's no quarantine tent which means everyone is alright" Danny said with his eyes closed and a smile.
"Uh Danny are you sure about that?" Dayla asked as she pointed to their house.
Danny opened his eyes to see what she was talking about, it was definitely their house but there was no Fenton Works sign or Emergency Ops Centre either. They both changed back into their human forms and ran inside, only to gasp in shock at the discovery of their house was completely trashed with rubbish and clothes everywhere and there wasn't a single picture of their family anywhere.
"Mum? Dad? Jazz? Is anyone there?" Dayla called out.
They suddenly heard footsteps and they turned around to see an angry Jack Fenton in front of them, his face covered in ecto acne. He shouted, "Nobody trespasses on Jack Fenton's property!"
"Dad! Relax!" Danny and Dayla both said in unison.
"Dad?" Jack asked in confusion. "I don't have any kids! I'm single…bitterly, bitterly single"
"You are?" They both asked. Dayla then said, "Geeze that explains almost everything"
"WHAT?!" Jack angrily yelled.
"Uh n-nothing" She stuttered. Danny then asked, "Uh is that ecto acne?"
"It's a condition" He answered. He then got really angry and grabbed onto their arms and lifted them into the air as he demanded, "Which you two shouldn't know about! How do you know about ecto acne?! Talk!"
"We're your kids! Your twin son and daughter!" Dayla answered. "We know all about the accident in Wisconsin years ago, that shouldn't have happened"
"Oh it happened alright" Jack said bitterly. He then threw them to the ground. "And my life went straight down the flusher from that day on!"
Two halo rings then appeared around his torso and when the rings split, Danny and Dayla stood up in shock to see their dad was a pudgy version of Plasmius! He growled and then fired at them an ecto blast right at their heads, but thanks to their fast reflexes they managed to dodge the blast by ducking.
"WAIT! It's us! Danny and Dayla! Your twin son and daughter!" Danny pleaded, but Jack just blasted another blast at them and they both jumped out of the way.
"LIES! I DO NOT HAVE ANY KIDS!" Jack shouted in fury. "And even if I did, I certainly wouldn't name my son Danny! That's dumb!"
"Okay. We didn't want to do this in front of you but…" Dayla began and then they both shouted in unison, "GOING GHOST!"
They both then changed into their ghost forms. Jack looked at them in surprise and asked, "You kids are ghosts?"
He then got angry again and shouted, "I HATE GHOSTS!"
He growled and then screamed as he fired another blast at them, they both dodged as he shot more blasts at them and then floated in the air above him.
"What is going on? That has got to be dad" Dayla said to Danny.
Jack then fired a couple of shots but completely missed them as he blasted the wrong way. Danny then said, "He aims like dad"
"If it wasn't for ghosts I never would have lost the love of my life!" He shouted.
He then flew up and grabbed them by their necks, they both screamed as he then threw them to the ground, which they crashed right through the floor and hit the basement floor hard. They both groaned in pain and stood up.
"Danny this is bad! We better get back to Clockwork and change this" Dayla said.
However when they turned around to use the ghost portal, there wasn't one there. Danny then said, "Great there's no portal!"
He then saw the small proto portal they seen from when they went back to their parent's college days and looked it over, while he did that Dayla gasped at the sight of something on the wall.
"Dayla we might have to squeeze through this stupid thing" Danny said.
"Danny! You might want to come look at this" Dayla said. Danny looked up and his eyes widened at the sight of a newspaper clipping on the wall.
The article showed a picture of Vlad and Maddie getting married and the headline titled, Wisconsin Dairy King Marries College Sweetheart.
"We didn't destroy the past, we destroyed the present!" Danny exclaimed.
Dayla practically ripped the article off the wall and read aloud, "Mr and Mrs Vlad Masters?!"
Jack phased into the room and prepared to deliver a final blow as he screamed, "Say goodbye!"
Dayla and Danny braced themselves and Dayla held up the newspaper article in front of her face, Jack then calmed down and lowered to the ground looking at the paper in sadness.
"Goodbye. It seems all I ever do is say goodbye" Jack muttered.
"Dad…uh Jack please just tell us what happened" Danny said. Dayla then quickly covered up, "Uh what he means is that we…loved to hear you blabber on about the glory days"
"Well my cat Jasmine won't listen to me anymore. Anyway it was twenty years ago, Maddie along with myself and Vlad were testing out the prototype ghost portal, there was accident and Vlad saved Maddie from being hit by the blast, unfortunately the blast hit me and I caught what you saw on my face ecto acne" Jack started. "I fled from Vlad and Maddie so ashamed and devastated, I may have lost Maddie that day but I gained ghost powers and twenty seven pounds. Anyway after that I tried to find my place in the world, first as a ghost fighting super hero but unfortunately didn't work out. Then again maybe I shouldn't have debut on Halloween. Eventually I moved here to continue my research on ghosts and hopefully a way to be rid of my case of ecto acne and my ghost powers, but no matter what I did or how hard I tried I couldn't get rid of my ghost half, the half I knew that Maddie would never be able to accept. Then I heard that Vlad married her, so I gave up"
"Oh man. I am so sorry" Danny said. Dayla sighed and said, "This all our fault"
"What are you two blathering about?" Jack asked confused by what they said.
Danny reached into his pocket and pulled out his wallet, he then opened it and showed Jack the family picture he had inside of it. Jack took it from him and asked, "What…what is this?"
"Vlad wasn't supposed to marry Maddie. You were" Dayla answered. Danny then added, "We both went back in time, changed one little moment in the past and messed up everything"
Jack then growled in anger and shook his fist at them. Danny then tried, "But we can fix it! I swear! We just need a working portal to…"
"MORE LIES!" Jack screamed and then duplicated three times.
They both gasped as they were blasted right out of the house and crashed right into a welcome to Amity Park sign, they both fell to the ground feeling weak.
"We have to get to the Ghost Zone and find Clockwork and if dad doesn't have a portal, that means we have to find mum and hope that she does" Dayla groaned holding her head in pain.
They both gasped at the sight of the four Jack's coming their way, they both turned invisible and then watched as they left looking for them in different directions. Danny and Dayla both then flew off and started heading for Wisconsin. Meanwhile after trying to find them, Jack gave up and went back to his home, he phased into the basement and then picked up the wallet and saw the family photo again.
At first he was sceptical about whether or not they were telling the truth, he then saw a black purse on the ground and picked it up. He opened it to reveal on one side was the same family photo in the wallet and then on the other side was a picture of Dayla smiling with Andrew as they both kissed each other. Jack sighed as he remembered what he felt for Maddie, what he still feels for her. His eyes then widened at the realisation that those kids were telling him the truth so he decided to go and make things right.
Meanwhile after many hours of flying, Danny and Dayla finally managed to make it to Vlad's castle mansion. They both landed on the ground completely exhausted and changed back into their human forms, Dayla groaned as she came close to falling to the ground on her knees, but Danny even though he was tired himself grabbed her and held her up, they both then walked up to the front door and Danny knocked on the door. Both their eyes widened at the sight of Maddie wearing a pink and purple summer dress and Vlad was wearing a blue polo shirt with black pants and a red sweater over his shoulders.
"How many times do I have to tell you? No free cheese samples!" Vlad said in frustration.
Danny and Dayla then both fell to their knees in pure exhaustion and sighed out, "Mum"
"Mum?" Vlad and Maddie asked feeling really confused.
They took them in and gave them some food and by food, they gave them a lot of dairy products ranging from milk, cheese, ice cream, yoghurt etc.
"We should call your parents. They must be worried sick" Maddie said in concern.
"Our parents are sort of…uh missing" Danny said. Dayla then added after taking a bite of some yoghurt, "T-there was an accident"
"Oh! I'm so sorry dear children" Vlad said feeling sympathy for them.
"Is there anything we can do to help? Do you two need a place to stay?" Maddie offered.
Vlad sighed and held her hand gently as he looked at her lovingly. She smiled warmly at him as he said, "Your kindness knows no bounds my love"
He was about to kiss her when Dayla stopped them by standing in between them and asking, "Uh listen, this might sound like a strange question. But um…do you guys have a ghost portal by any chance?"
Maddie laughed at that question and asked, "Now why would we have a silly thing like a ghost portal?"
She then looked away nervously as Vlad stated, "Yes I'm a simple dairy man, successor to the Wisconsin Dairy King"
He then got really mad and shouted, "WE DO NOT DISCUSS GHOSTS IN THIS HOUSE!"
"Then why do you have an Ecto Foamer?" Danny pointed out the large weapon hanging out of the closet behind him.
"What is the meaning of this?" Vlad asked looking at Maddie with suspicion.
"Um…that's my carpet foamer. It eliminates stains not ghosts" Maddie lied nervously. She then gave him a loving smile and said, "Right sweetie?"
His frown dropped and he returned her a warm smile, "Maddie can you forgive me for doubting you?"
They both then shared a romantic kiss, Danny and Dayla cringed at the sight. Danny then muttered to Dayla, "I thought our real parents were embarrassing. This is so much worse!"
"No doubt about that" Dayla muttered back.
In the middle of the night when everyone was fast asleep, Danny and Dayla changed into their ghost forms in the hallway and then started flying around the house hoping to find what they were looking for. They phased into the floor heading to where they knew from their proper time period, Vlad's lab would be, unaware that a certain someone had seen them transform,
They found Vlad's lab but only to find it looked like an ordinary lab, well except for the fact that it was used for making cheese products. They both then went in different directions, phasing through the walls hoping to find anything that resembled a ghost portal, they both then returned back to the lab with no results.
"Something is wrong here" Danny said. "Even if mum was crazy enough to marry Vlad, there is no way she'd give up ghost hunting to become a milk maid"
Dayla thought about it for a moment and then her eyes widened at a thought, "Danny did we check maybe the floor below us?"
Danny thought about it and then they both phased through the floor beneath them and discovered a secret lab filled with ghost fighting inventions.
"I knew it!" Dayla exclaimed as they both smiled at the discovery.
They both flew down and landed on the ground, they looked around and then both smiled as they saw right in front of them a ghost portal!
"Yes! A portal!" They both cheered. Danny then said, "We can get back to Clockwork and fix everything"
They both suddenly heard a noise and gasped when they saw Maddie land behind them in her signature blue hazmat suit and on her back was a Fenton Weasel.
She pointed it at them and screamed, "Eat Maddie Weasel ghosts!"
She activated the weapon and began sucking them in as they screamed, "Wait! You don't understand!"
They both fell unconscious as they were sucked into the ghost trapping device. When they awoke, they both saw Maddie towering over them.
"Oh you two are awake? Good" Maddie said. "I have some questions for you"
They both became frightened when they found themselves strapped by anti-ghost cuffs to a couple of examination tables. Their hands were strapped above their head and above them was some sort of machine that practically spelled, dissection!
She pushed a button and the machine whirled to life as she demanded, "Let's start with who are you two? And why were both snooping around my secret lab?"
She grabbed the hose like device and aimed it at Dayla and Danny asked panicking, "Wait! What are you doing?!"
She activated the laser which began to cut the table right by Dayla's rib cage, the laser then came closer and closer and they both begged, "STOP!"
She stopped for a moment and said, "Oh scream all you want ghosts! This lab is totally soundproof. It has to be or my husband will find out about it"
She then aimed it at Danny and demanded, "Now I ask you again ghosts! Who are you?!"
"We're…you're kids" They both answered in unison. She gasped at that response. Dayla then added, "Yours and Jack Fenton's twin son and daughter"
"LIAR!" She shouted and pulled the laser away. "I haven't seen Jack Fenton in years! He blamed me for the accident that gave him his powers! Vlad told me so, we ran away here to escape his ghostly wrath"
"WHAT?!" They both asked in shock. Danny then said, "That's insane! He's still totally in love with you!"
"It's true Maddie" Jack said as he phased into the lab. "It's always been true"
Maddie gasped as he landed on the floor. She then looked down sadly and said, "Jack! But Vlad told me you never wanted to see me again"
He changed back into his human form and walked up to her and said, "I never stopped wanting to see you Maddie. I…I just couldn't face you as the thing you despise, a ghost"
He then held up Danny's wallet and Dayla's purse showing her the pictures inside as he finished, "But I had to come because of this"
Maddie shed a tear of joy as she asked, "A family with you?"
Danny and Dayla smiled at the sight as Maddie leapt into Jack's arm and exclaimed in happiness, "Oh Jack!"
Jack returned the hug. Maddie then released Danny and Dayla as she said, "And that's why you two called me mum at the door. You must be our twin children from an alternate timeline"
They both sat up and nodded, they all then shared a comforting group hug. Dayla then said, "The one good thing about having scientist parents: Alternate timeline, totally valid excuse"
They all came out of the hug. Jack then asked handing back their wallet and purse as he asked, "So where's our little alternate timeline older daughter Davy?"
"It's Danny" Danny corrected. Jack shrugged and said, "That's still dumb"
He chuckled nervously and answered his question, "That's a little complicated"
"Clockwork right?" Maddie asked as she pulled up a file on him on her computer. Dayla commented, "Wow! You're good"
Maddie walked over and opened up the portal and asked, "You don't really think I spend my nights coming up with new cheese recipes do you?"
"Oh Maddie just think, in another universe we have three kids to embarrass" Jack said. He then turned to Dayla and placed a hand on her shoulder and said, "By the way that is one handsome boy you have for a boyfriend. Don't let this one go"
Dayla nodded and then she and Danny were about to enter the portal, that is until suddenly a blast was sent their way stopping them as it hit the portal above them. They all turned and gasped at the sight of Vlad Masters in his usual business suit, pointing the Ecto Foamer at them.
"Let's focus on what you're doing in this universe shall we? I knew this wasn't a carpet foamer! You've been experimenting again!" Vlad snapped.
"Vlad it's not what you think!" Maddie pleaded.
Jack then interrupted as he changed into his ghost form, "No Maddie it's exactly what he thinks! You and I are destined to be together and nothing shall keep us apart any longer!"
"Nothing except this!" Vlad retorted and fired the weapon.
The foam hit Jack dead on and knocked him against the wall. Danny and Dayla shouted now angry, "LEAVE HIM ALONE!"
They both flew up and fired a combined ecto blast straight at him, he ducked out of the way and then started firing random blasts from the foamer at them, and they both flew around in different directions dodging each blast, and one of them hit Maddie and sent her into the wall.
"Sorry sweetheart! My bad!" Vlad called out.
"MUM!" Danny and Dayla both shouted and then fired another combined ecto blast at him, he dodged it again and then shouted, "DON'T YOU EVER CALL HER THAT AGAIN!"
He fired two more blasts which hit them dead on and sent them flying back onto the examination tables, the cuffs activated and they were once again strapped to the tables. Vlad then walked up to them and placed the foamer down glaring hard down at them.
"You two have overstayed your welcome! Now you're both going to have to leave molecule by molecule" He said.
He activated the laser and this time it was slowly heading towards Danny's rib cage. Danny then shouted, "Wait! No! You don't understand none of this should be happening!"
"You think I care? I LIKE IT THIS WAY!" He screamed at them. "And once you're taken care of, your sister will be next!"
Jack then pushed him away from them and shouted in anger, "GET AWAY FROM MY KIDS!"
He turned off the laser and was about to release them, but Vlad growled and pushed him out of the way and grabbed the laser. He aimed it at Jack and fired it at him, Jack placed a shield in front of himself but the laser was too powerful and it pushed him straight at the portal causing a small explosion. The portal's warning signal beeped loudly and the smoke cleared to reveal Jack in his human form, really weak.
"Jack!" Maddie cried almost in tears as she ran over to him and held his head gently in her hands.
"It's alright Maddie. Just remember what could've been" Jack said and then collapsed to the ground.
Maddie then got really angry and stood up and faced Vlad, "You despicable, lying piece of cheese! I wasted the best years of my life with you!"
"Now Maddie I may be a lying piece of cheese, but I'm still your husband" Vlad said with a smirk.
His smirk dropped when Maddie grabbed him by his suit and held him above her and then said, "Consider this an annulment!"
She then threw him into the portal where he was attacked by many ghosts in the Ghost Zone, even though he tried to sweet talk himself out of it... The portal then began letting off smoke and the warning signal became louder and louder, Maddie gasped and ran over releasing Danny and Dayla from their restraints.
"Quick the portal's overloading! Go back in time and make sure this never happens" Maddie said. "Clockwork will help"
"We will!" They both said and then flew into the Ghost Zone just as the portal exploded.
They went back to Clockwork's tower and explained what happened. He then said, "I will not help"
"But Sam! Tucker! Andrew…" Dayla said as they both looked at the time screen showing that they were getting weaker and weaker.
"Need to be cured in the present, not the past" Clockwork said. He then changed the time screen to the moment of Vlad's accident and pressed a reset button as he said, "I can reset time just to the way it was just before you two meddled. But that's it!"
They both then re-watched the younger Maddie ask younger Jack on the screen, "Jack did you remember to fill the filtrator with ecto purifier?"
"On it baby" Jack said. Just like they saw before, he filled the filtrator with diet cola instead of ecto purifier.
"That's it! That's it!" Danny and Dayla exclaimed as they finally found the answer they were looking for and then flew straight out of the tower, Clockwork smiled as he watched them leave glad they learned a lesson from all they experienced.
Back at Fenton Works, Jack was busy pounding his fist onto a weak looking Vlad.
"You know what this means for us guys?" Sam asked weakly.
"No cheerleaders" Tucker moaned.
"No fifteenth birthday party" Sam groaned.
Andrew then said weakly, "Jazz tell Dayla I love her when you see her"
"When you also see Danny, tell him…" Sam began to say to Maddie when Danny cut her off as he and Dayla entered the room and said, "Why don't you tell me yourself?"
Maddie gasped in fright and said, "Put on your protective gear! We don't want either of you to catch the ecto acne!"
"Uh…yeah. Mum we've been thinking about the ecto acne and remember those ecto impurities you couldn't identify?" Dayla asked. Maddie nodded and then Danny continued, "Would they be consistent with oh say…diet cola?"
"Don't be silly! Why would…" Maddie was about to ask until she looked at the results of the ecto acne and gasped in shock.
A few minutes later Maddie prepared some ecto purifier and placed it all in some cups, she then gave some to Vlad while Danny gave some to Sam, Dayla gave some to Andrew and Jazz gave some to Tucker. In a few short seconds, all their faces were cleared of the ecto acne and they were cured!
"Vladdie! You're cured!" Jack exclaimed in happiness.
"That's great Jack. Now would you please stop pounding on my chest?!" Vlad practically shouted. Jack stopped and said, "Sorry"
"Danny! Dayla! How did you know?" Maddie asked feeling really proud at her children.
"There had to be some benefits to being the kids of the two smartest ghost hunters on the planet" Danny said. Dayla then added, "Plus I remembered Mr Lancer once said in science class, that studies show that some junk foods can trigger acne"
Maddie and Jack smiled proudly at them and then left the room to start clearing the orange tape from outside. Dayla ran over to Andrew and hugged him tightly, they both then shared a kiss. Vlad sat up and grinned at Danny and Dayla.
"I knew you two would come through, all it took was the proper motivation. Of course I'm still weak beyond measure so bygones?" Vlad asked hopefully.
They both smirked at his question and then a few minutes later, Vlad screamed as he was blasted and beaten away in his ghost form out of town by them. They both then placed their hands on their hips and said, "Bygones"
The next evening, Jack and Maddie were at the Material Grill in their 80's clothes dancing on the dance floor.
"We finally got our 80's night out" Maddie said happily.
"It's too bad Vlad had to fly back to Wisconsin so suddenly. He would've loved this place" Jack said. "Right kids?"
"NARLY!" They both exclaimed as they jumped onto the dance floor dressed up in 80's clothes and began dancing along with their parents doing the moonwalk.
Jazz cringed in embarrassment and said, "If anyone asks, I was adopted"
"Let's just say we've come to terms with mum and dad's past" Dayla said. Danny then added, "We wouldn't change it again, even if we could"
They both continued to dance, not caring that some of their classmates from school was watching. Mikey laughed and filmed as he exclaimed, "Forget the internet! This one's going on pay-per-view!"
THE END
NEXT TIME ON THE PHANTOM TWINS:
Vlad is up to no good again! Why does he want Danny and Dayla's morph DNA? Why are all these weird looking ghosts attacking them? Who is Danielle and Dayle and how the heck do they have ghost powers? Find out next time on The Phantom Twins in: Kindred Spirits!
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