Author's Note: Principal Oldsdotter is "World's Oldest Woman" from Histeria! As played by Tress MacNeill. I should have the next chapter up in a few hours.

Chapter 3

"And when it's over/Is it really over?" - Sugar Ray

Vlad Masters cast a cautious glance up and down the hall. The coast was clear. He slipped into the foot-traffic. Act casual, blend in.

"Oh Vladdie-poo!" An extremely old woman covered in wrinkles, stepped around the corner and called to him. Vlad flinched. He knew he should have turned invisible and just flown out, but she probably would have been able to detect that with magic, and then he'd have a lot of explaining to do.

"Principal Oldsdotter," Vlad said with barely concealed impatience, "please, for the thirty-third time, call me Mr. Masters."

"Alright, Mr. Masters." The elderly principal said with a sly wink. Vlad shuddered. "I just wanted to check up on you after our date last night."

"My dear madam, that was not a date, it was a professional dinner." Mr. Masters insisted.

"Sure, sure." She replied with a chuckle.

Vlad looked desperately up and down the hall for something, anything to get him out of this situation.

"Vlad!" a familiar impudent voice called out from across the hall. The older half ghost breathed a sigh of relief.

"Ah, Daniel." He said with a smirk, "I'm sorry Principal, I have to take this. He's the son of my best friends from college, rather fond of his 'Unkie Vlad'. Don't bother waiting for me." With that he darted away.

Danny was rather surprised with how quickly Vlad abandoned his conversation with the principal and crossed the hall to talk with him. He was expecting a little more resistance to questioning.

"What are you playing at Vlad?" The teen ghost demanded, deciding to get right down to business.

"I was in an awkward situation and you were my way out, there's nothing wrong with that!" He snapped.

"Not whatever you were talking about with the principal." Jimmy clarified, "We're referring to the creature attacks that have been occurring since last night, which is just a few hours after you arrived at the school."

Vlad looked the kids over with disdain. "You think I'd get involved with something ridiculous like that?"

"Uh, not really." Manny admitted, but the others just glared back at Masters.

"Well, I have an alibi. I was in a schoolboard meeting during the Runespoor attack, which we had to cut short, mind you, and I was having dinner with the Principal at the time of the first attack."

"That late at night?" Timmy asked.

"Believe me, I would have rather been out smuggling dark elves onto the grounds."

"Nice try Vlad, but we know you can split yourself as many times as you need." Danny countered. "An alibi doesn't work if you can be in two places at once."

The older half-ghost sighed in exasperation. "Believe it or not, my world does not revolve around you and your little friends, Daniel. I do have a multimillion dollar business to run and a reputation as a philanthropist to keep. What could I possibly stand to gain from letting dangerous creatures loose in a school?"

No one had an answer for him.

"Now, if you'll excuse me, I think I'm going to leave early. I don't want any more encounters with Principal Oldsdotter."

"Dude, I told you Vlad didn't make any sense." Manny said to a slightly disappointed Danny as they made their way to dinner.

"But now we don't have any idea of who's behind the attacks!" Danny said dejectedly.

"Sure we do, there's that weird guy I saw last night!" Timmy reminded them. The others groaned.

"For the last time Turner, it was just some random student." Jimmy insisted.

"But he was acting really weird!" Timmy insisted back. He glanced across the cafeteria and spotted a young couple eating together, giving him an idea. "Look, I can prove he was weird. This guy told me his name was Dave Timens, and he said he knew Kim Possible and Ron Stoppable. You know, those two seniors who are always doing stuff? If I ask them if they know him and they say 'no', it'll prove that there's something suspicious about him!"

His friends shrugged, but that was enough to send Timmy off to look for the odd couple. It took a lot of searching. The cafeteria was nearly empty by the time he found them, but he eventually caught the two just as they were leaving.

"Hey!" The buck toothed boy called out to them.

"Hey…" Ron said in confusion, turning to look at the stranger. "Weren't you in that class we did the bogart demonstration for?"

"Yeah! Can I ask you a weird question?"

"…About bogarts?"

"No. Do you know anyone named Dave Timens?"

The two teens looked at each other.

"I don't, do you?" Kim asked.

"Nope. I know a Dave Pilkey…"

"Ron, you do not know Dave Pilkey."

"Well I read his books."

"Sorry, we don't know him. Why do you want to know?" Kim asked. But Timmy was already gone.

Timmy was running back to partake in a good 'I told you so' when he passed a closed door with strange lights and shouting coming from inside. He cracked open the door and took a peek. It was the teenager from before! And he wasn't alone! There was a girl of about the same age with him. They looked similar, giving Timmy the impression they were related. They stood on opposite sides of a glowing ball of blue energy.

"They keep on getting worse the more people show up!" The girl shouted over the crackling of the energy ball. "It's like half the people here are walking time anomalies!"

"So what are we supposed to do, evacuate the school?" Dave asked, also shouting.

"But that would ruin their end of year celebration!" The girl replied, "They were gonna have a dance and a banquet and everything!"

"I dunno, if someone told me I could leave school a couple of days early, I'd be happy."

It was this time that Timmy chose to reveal himself. "Aha!" He threw the door wide open and strode right up to the teenage boy, with Cosmo and Wanda floating above him as back up, "I've caught you red-handed villain!"

The two teens stared at the intruder blankly. "What." Dave said flatly.

"I have proof!" The boy continued, "You said you were friends with Kim and Ron, but they'd never even heard of you!"

"Well they are my friends, in another timeline." The teen explained.

"David!" The girl hissed at him.

"Oh come on Erika, our cover is already blown to bits." He brushed her off and continued, "We're time travelers. That's how I recognized you the other night. In another timeline I already know you."

"Time travelers who are attacking the school with magical creatures!" Cosmo accused, "For some reason…"

"We're not attacking the school, we're trying to fix the problem!" Erika exclaimed indignantly, gesturing to the blue ball of energy. "Do you want more dangerous animals to come out of this portal?"

"How did these portals even start in the first place? And why do dangerous monsters come out of them?" Wanda asked.

"Long story short: Someone dropped a copy of 'Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them' in a temporal vortex." Dave explained.

"That makes perfect sense!" Cosmo said, satisfied.

"Well it's a lot more complicated than that…" Erika said, but before she could explain, the portal began to glow brighter. It crackled louder than ever before, with little sparks of electricity shooting out. "Oh no, we almost had it closed."

Dave pulled Timmy and her away from the portal. "Well it's too late now! There's no way we'll be able to close the portal before it comes out, and we have no idea—"

The sparks concentrated into a vague, sheet-like shape, which then consolidated into a shadowy cloak, hovering just a few centimeters off the ground.

"Lethifold." Dave breathed. Erika nodded. "Crap." Dave muttered under his breath. The monster was between them and the door.