Season 1 Episode 7
Bitter Reunions
"A Blast from the Past!"

It was a quiet night at Amity Park as Dani Fenton rode her motor scooter down the street across the neighborhood with a bright look on her face. She was riding back to her home, Fenton Works, before her curfew time her parents assigned her.

"Finally, one night where I get home on time without any ghost detours making me miss my ten o'clock curfew." Dani said as she looked down at her watch, which currently read nine fifty PM.

However, her eyes suddenly went wide before she gasped as her ghost sense went off, alerting her that a ghost was nearby. Dani looked up as she broke her scooter and saw three green vulture ghosts with red hats flying across the neighborhood. They phased from house-to-house, like they were trying to look for something, each time there was screaming heard at least for a second.

"Or not. Going ghost!" Dani exclaimed as she quickly rode her scooter behind a truck before she transformed into her ghost form. She flew into the air and caught up with the vultures. "You fellas look lost. Um, any chance of you staying that way?"

"Mind your own business, fancy pants ghost girl!" A vulture snapped in a Scottish accent before they flew into a bus.

Dani followed them inside while she listened in on their conversation. "We've been circling this town for hours, we could've been halfway to Florida by now. Ask for directions!" The second vulture with the shades said, sounding exasperated.

"I know where I'm going!"

"You so do not! Ask her." The third vulture retorted when she pointed her wing at Dani.

"Ask me what?" Dani asked them in confusion. The vultures phased out of the bus and into the sky while the ghost girl hovered right across from them.

The leader vulture sighed. "We are on a search-and-destroy mission." She said in a resigned-frustrated voice while she flew closer to Dani, who had her arms crossed and looked perplexed by this 'mission' she just mentioned. "Can you help us find and peck-to-death this gal here?" She then pulled out a ripped photo and showed it to Dani.

To Dani's complete surprise and confusion, it was a torn picture of her own mother, Jackie Fenton, but she looked a little more younger since her hair appeared more longer and all-black. She realized that the vultures were on a mission to kill her mother. "Mom?!"

"Ah ha, see? I told you she'd know where she is!" The second vulture said in glee.

Now knowing that they were the enemies, Dani fired a green energy beam at the first vulture, but she quickly dodged it by flying up before she glared at her.

"Nice try, kid. Get her, girls!" She ordered her comrades before they flew directly at her while she dodged them and then they flew in a circle around her at great speeds.

"Give it your best shot, guys! I'm a wiz at dodgeball!" Dani yelled with a smile. The vultures stopped and she quickly flew up when two of them tried to lunge at her, but they ended up colliding with each other. "Okay, technically it's dodgebeak, but who cares?" They quickly recovered before they flew after her as she flew towards a clock tower. She noticed that the clock was now reading nine fifty-seven. "Oh, it's almost ten!"

She quickly circled around the tower until the vultures and Dani were on the other sides of the clock. Dani phased through the clock and quickly grabbed hold of a vulture's talons. "HEY!" She exclaimed.

"You know that old saying about a bird and a hand?" Dani began swinging the vulture in a circle as she swung her at the two others away and then threw the vulture away into the air. "Well neither do I! And don't go messing with any windshields on your way out of town!"

The vultures flew away, a little disoriented while they left behind the ripped photo. It descended downwards and landed on Dani's palms before she examined the picture of her mother in confusion. She may have defeated the vulture ghosts, but she didn't even know their true motives on why they were so intended on killing her own mother.

"I wonder why those guys were trying to waste Mom." She said to herself before she cringed when the clock tower chimed ten. "Oh no, Mom."

Dani changed back into her human form when she arrived back at Fenton Works. She peeked her head through the door and looked up at her parents, Jackie and Matt, who were looking displeased that their daughter was late again with their arms crossed.

"You're late again, young lady." Jackie said sternly.

"Oh, poop." Dani moaned before she got a little 'surprise' from the ghost vultures and she glared at them angrily as they flew away out of town.


Theme Song:

(She's a phantom)

(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)

Young Dani Fenton, she was just fourteen
When her parents built a very strange machine
Designed to view a world unseen

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)

When it didn't work, her folks, they just quit
Then Dani took a look inside of it
There was a great, big flash, and everything changed
Her molecules got all rearranged

(Phantom, Phantom)

When she first woke up, she realized she had snow white hair, and glowing green eyes
She could walk through walls, disappear, and fly
She was much more unique than the other gals
And it was then that she knew what she had to do
She had to stop all the ghost that were coming through
She's there to fight, for me and you!

(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)
(She's gonna catch 'em all, cause she's Dani Phantom)


After Dani got herself cleaned up, she joined her family in the living room, but looked a little embarrassed that she was late coming home past her curfew again, much to her parents' frustrations and concerns. She sat sullenly on the couch, James read a book like he usually did on a chair, Matt stood sternly across from his daughter and lectured her while Jackie worked on some kind of water-heater-like device.

"Danielle, this is becoming a problem." Matt said crossly to his daughter with his hands on his hips. "You're constantly late coming home…"

"You're shirking from your chores…" Jackie added before she returned to work.

"You're grades are slipping…"

"You're shirking from your chores…"

"You already said chores." Dani pointed out as she raised her head up.

"Yeah, I know, but when you don't do 'em, I get stuck with 'em."

"Look, I'm just under a lot of pressure. You two have no idea what's it's like to be a kid today."

"Come on, Dani, that's the oldest excuse in the book." Matt said with a knowing look and his arms crossed. "There's nothing you're going through that your mother and I didn't go through when we were your age."

As her father spoke, Dani rested her elbow on the couch handle, supporting her head while she frowned in annoyance. Her arm suddenly turned intangible when she barely phased through and quickly got up while she turned her arm back to normal before her family saw. It clearly showed that Matt was kind of wrong about his daughter since she has been spending a quarter of her school semester secretly fighting ghosts.

"Yeah, well I beg to differ." Dani muttered as she slumped her shoulders a little.

James closed his book. "The reason Dani doesn't think you can relate to her is that you never take the time to tell her about your childhood!" James told his parents.

"James!" Dani said in annoyance.

"Have you ever told her how you met, about your first date?"

While James continued to list off his suggestions, Jackie halted her work and stood next to her husband. They both allowed their eldest son's words to sink in while they began thinking to themselves as they listened.

"James…" Dani said, even more annoyed.

"Or where you went to college?" James finally finished.

"Ya know, Jameson, that's a great idea!" Jackie said with a bright smile, like James has brought up something that gave her an idea.

James stared at his mother as he cocked an eyebrow. "It is?"

"What is?" Matt asked his wife in confusion.

"This is!" Jackie held up a flyer that read 'twentieth college reunion, University of Wisconsin, at Madison'. She then pulled Matt close to her while they both smiled at their children. "You can come with your father and I to our college reunion!"

"I can?" Dani asked, sounding a little baffled and confused.

"Wisconsin?" James asked, looking equally as baffled as his sister was.

"Sure! My old gal, Vladia, is throwing a huge shindig there. We'll take the RV so the whole family can go together. You can learn more about your father's and my college days and while we drive, I can bladder about ghosts!" Jackie explained to her children as she leaned close to James, much to his discomfort while he cringed a little.

And then the water-heater device suddenly beeped before it began to shake and the tube sticking out began to wave around. It squirted out some green goo and ended up covering James' his head in goo as his eyes narrowed in annoyance and anger.

There was a moment of stunned silence. "Haha! It works!" Jackie cheered with a smile and raised her arms up victoriously while her family stared at her oddly. "I can't wait to blabber about that, too."


The next morning, the entire Fenton family packed most their things for the trip and they were on the road in a semi-tank like vehicle. Jackie estimated that it would take about a few days at least to get to Madison, Wisconsin since it was pretty much about a long way from Amity Park.

"How does this happen?" James asked, sounding a little miffed that he actually got himself and his little sister involved in this trip. He sat next to Dani in the back of the vehicle while he frowned at her. "You goof up and I have to spend four days jammed in the Fenton Ghost RV?"

"That's the Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle, folks." Jackie said proudly from the passenger's seat while she read off a map for the right direction. Matt was at the wheel as he drove to their destination. "Every button in this baby is a ghost's worst nightmare."

Dani groaned in boredom. "I need some air." She said before she hovered her finger over a button in an attempt to open a window.

"Don't press any buttons!" James warned, but too late.

Outside the RV, several weapons of different styles sprang out of the vehicle as one fired a beam of energy and blasted a good chunk of a tree's leaves. Another fired a freeze beam as it frozen one of the migrating geese. The other fired another energy beam as it scorched a driver and destroyed her phone.

Finally one squirted green goo onto James' face again just like last time. "I'll get you for this." James said vexedly to his sister as he glared at her.


Three days later, Matt has parked the RV at a resting stop in the edge of Madison, Wisconsin. The entire Fenton family all cramped in the back together with their sleeping bags.

"Get some rest, everybody. I want the entire Fenton clan bright-eyed and bushy-tailed when we meet Masters tomorrow." Jackie said to her children, while Matt remained deep asleep.

"Wait, wait, wait. Masters? As in Vladia Masters? Who was named Affluence Magazine's 'Billionairess of the Year'?" James clarified in confusion while he narrowed his brows a little.

"That's the girl! In college, she was my best friend, like my sister-in-arms. We were very popular girls, roommates, lab partners, we did everything together, until the thick fingers of fate stuck themselves right in Vladia's eyes…"


Jackie began to tell her children the story about her's and their father's college days twenty years ago while she had a flashback.

Of course, unlike what Jackie just said, she and Vladia weren't very popular girls in college, but she liked to have her confidence up. Jackie and Matt also both went to the University of Wisconsin together in Madison, where they first met each other with Vladia Masters, and they all formed a trio of some sorts and became best friends.

One day, they were in a lab room while they worked on some kind of a smaller version of the original Fenton Ghost Portal. While younger Jackie and Matt were pleased about their work, a girl with long, black spiky hair and midnight blue eyes, who could have be Vladia Masters in her college days, studied it and pondered in total doubt.

"I'm telling you, Jackie, it won't work!" Vladia said with frustration as she gestured her hands for emphasising.

"Quit your nagging, V-girl, it totally will! This proto-portal is guaranteed to bust open the wall into the ghost dimension!" Younger Jackie said with complete confidence while she pounded her fist into her palm.

Vladia leaned over to take a closer look at the new proto-portal while she skeptically examined the device. Jackie and Matt both ran to the counter as Jackie took the remote controller to activate the portal and Matt took some papers. Matt examined at a few papers and studied them, until he made a look of perplexity like something was a little off about the results of their first paranormal science experiment.

"Jackie, these calculations aren't right." Matt said as he looked up at her.

"BONZAI!" Jackie shouted, ignoring Matt's concern and warning, and flipped the switched on the remote.

The generator-engine began to shake as a green swirling vortex appeared right in Vladia's face, making her eyes go wide in a sudden surprise. While Jackie and Matt watched the portal beginning to work in silence, something then went horribly wrong when the portal suddenly blasted a stream of ghost energy straight onto Vladia's face as she screamed in agony.

"AHHH! BOGUS!" Vladia shouted over the raw force of the energy.

The portal then powered off before Vladia immediately held onto her face while it smoked and her black hair became white from all of the raw the ghost energy she was exposed to. She turned around with her hands still on her face before she removed them, and Jackie and Matt gasped in horror at the sight. Vladia's eyes were glowing an electric blue, and her face was covered in large bumps and pimples while she had a look of fright in her eyes.

Jackie (Voiceover):
She was hospitalized with a horrible case of ecto-acne.

Vladia covered her face again in fear as she ran out of the lab, not looking back at neither Matthew nor Jackie.

It devastated her and killed her social life…


"We haven't spoken since that day." Jackie finished with a solemn tone in her voice, until she perked up and smiled with a little hope. "But the good news is, I think after all these years, she's finally forgiven me."

Dani made herself a look after her mother finished her story, and she didn't exactly share the same thoughts as Jackie's. That lab accident with the proto-portal story twenty years ago sounded very familiar to her…


The next day, the Fenton RV finally arrived at Madison, Wisconsin as the vehicle drove up to a large castle mansion with multiple turret towers and it looked more something like a king and queen would live in.

Matt, Jackie, James, and Dani all walked out of the vehicle and stood below the steps, where an old woman was waiting for them patiently for their arrival, and stood at the top of the steps. The old woman was undoubtedly Vladia Masters herself as she walked out of the shadows while she smiled down at the family with her hands laced behind her back.

Vladia had her gray/white hair tied into a low ponytail, wore a black business suit, consisting of a black buttoned-up jacket with a red shirt underneath, a black skirt, black transparent leggings, and black high-heels. She also wore a black neck collar with a diamond, red lipstick, and wore diamond-encrusted earrings on each of her ears. Despite her gray hair, she didn't appear to be very old, even though she was somewhere around her forties and that she was about the same age as Matt and Jackie. Her midnight blue eyes and heavy black mascara seemed to give off a creepy nature about this woman, but she smiled at them with a polite yet creepy and mysterious grin.

Matt, Jackie, James, and Dani smiled up at the billionairess as they all walked up the steps and stopped before her. "Jackie...and Matthew!" Vladia said with delight as she laced her hands together. "You've never looked any more attractive, my friend. Please, please, come in." She then ushered the family into her castle, minus Jackie.

"Vladia, my girl, it's good to se-" Jackie said when she was about to enter the castle mansion, until Vladia suddenly slammed the door right into her face. "Hello? Hellooo?"

Inside the castle, the family looked around the lobby room and noticed that it was decorated with green and gold. They all saw a bunch of football models, posters of cheeseheads, jerseys of green and gold, and everything else that was related to football and green and gold. It was like this woman was some sort of a fanatic for this sport and team.

"What's with the green and gold?" James asked, looking unimpressed by the look and designs of her castle lobby. "You're a billionairess, surely you could afford an interior designer." He crossed his arms and looked very skeptical about the entire castle.

"James, hello! Football helmets, jerseys, cheeseheads: she's a Packers fanatic." Dani said with a small smile as she crossed her arms.

"Helloooo?!" Dani heard her mother call from outside again, catching her attention when her eyes went wide.

Vladia then rubbed Dani's head, making her cringe a little in discomfort. "Oh, fanatic is such a negative word, but yes." She said before she held her hand up in an a matter-of-fact-ively way.

"I don't understand, you have billions of dollars! Instead of buying this stuff, why don't you just buy the team?" James suggested as he stared at the old woman.

That made Vladia more irritated as she glared with her arms crossed. "Because the Packers are owned by the city of Green Bay and they won't sell them to me!" She suddenly glanced at Matt, who was staring at her oddly from her temper, as she regained her calm and she stared at him somewhat admirably. "One of two things my wealth has not as of yet...been able to acquire." Matt gave her an innocent, yet uncomfortable smile.

"Is she hitting on Dad?" Dani asked quietly to her older brother, noticing Vladia's admiring look on her face.

"As long as she's got working toilets and Dad says no, who cares?" James said before he walked away as he waved it aside, making Dani look away awkwardly at the thought.

"I'd, uh...better let Jackie in." Matt said uncomfortably before he walked away to allow his wife into the castle.

Dani then walked up to an autographed football and smiled. "Whoa, cool!" She said.

"Indeed. This ball was autographed by the legendary Ray Nitschke himself." Vladia said before she held the football up and then held it close to her cheek. "It's my prized possession."

"Heads up, V-girl!" Jackie bellowed before she suddenly tackled the billionairess woman down to the ground while Dani stood there nonpussly. "HA! I see you still got the old moves." The obese huntress got up to her feet with the ball in her hand, ignoring the billionairess' irritating glare.

Vladia snatched the ball angrily out of her hand. "Give me that!" She stormed away as she placed the ball back on the pedestal before she glared. "I never had any 'old moves'! All those years in the hospital robbed me of that!" The entire Fenton family stared at Vladia in stunned silence, worried and concerned from her sudden outburst of anger, before she cleared her throat and composed herself. "Yes...well it gave me time to chart out a course for my life, didn't it? Make some decisions that help to make me very wealthy very quickly." She then narrowed her eyes while she smiled sinisterly and creepily at Jackie. "And it never would've happened without you, Jackie."

Jackie looked a little confused by this at first, but then took it as a complement when she crossed her arms and looked proud of herself. Matt, however, looked more uncomfortable by his old friend's creepy attitude. "Uh, yeah...maybe we should go." Matt suggested with a look of unease.

"No, no, you should stay with me." Vladia walked over to Jackie before she threw her arm around her neck in a sisterly manner while they both smiled at each other. "That's the whole reason I'm throwing the reunion here in my castle, previously home to the Wisconsin Dairy Queen." She showed them the portrait of the Dairy Queen up on a wall. "Just so I could...reconnect with you, Jackie, I insist...you stay."

"Well, I don't know, we do have a really cool RV…" Jackie said unsurely before smiling a little.

"Let'sstayhere!" James said while he faked a cough, not really wanting to spend one more night cramped in the RV, not to mention getting gooed in the face again.

"Smooth…" Dani said to her brother as she did a planar motion with her hand.

"You know, Jackie, the Dairy Queen's ghost could haunt these very halls…" Vladia said like she was egging her on.

"I'LL GET THE BAGS!" Jackie exclaimed excitedly with a bright smile before she immediately sprinted outside to unload the RV of her family's belongings.

Behind everyone's backs, Vladia secretly smiled sinisterly and evilly like she was hiding something very dark for the whole family.

That night at Vladia's castle mansion, Vladia herself has shown the entire Fenton family to their own master bedrooms. They decided to take long naps after being worn out from their long four-day road trip from Amity Park all the way to Madison, Wisconsin.

In Matt and Jackie's room, they were both sound asleep together until Jackie suddenly sat up on her bed. "Bathroom." She said immediately after she woke up.

She exited her room, half-awake, as she walked to find the restroom. However, she was oblivious to the fact that the same three ghost vultures, the ones Dani fought back at Amity Park, phased through the ceiling and quietly floated behind her.

In Dani's room, she twisted and turned in her sleep while she felt a shiver down her spine until she woke up when her ghost sense went off.

"Oh great, just what I need: a working vacation." She groaned as she sat up on her bed. She changed into her ghost form and hovered off her bed before she flew into action.

Back in the hallway, Jackie continued walking half-awake as the vultures prepared their talons to grab her. Fortunately, Dani phased her hands through the floor as she caught her mother's feet, turned her intangible, and phased her through the floor before the birds could even touch her.

"Hey, what gives?" The first vulture asked out loud, looking a little surprised.

Dani gently settled her half-awake mother into the bathroom and flew away before she noticed her. "Ah, sweet relief." She sighed with a smile.

Dani phased back through the floor and looked at the vultures with a smirk. "Hey girls, remember me?" She asked as she pounded her fist into her palm. The vultures turned to her and they suddenly freaked out before they quickly scattered as they phased through the walls and floor, confusing Dani greatly while she cocked an eyebrow. "Oh-kay...that was almost too easy."

"Ah, bright girl." A woman's voice said from behind her. Turned out, Dani wasn't the reason why the vultures scattered away in fear like that.

Dani turned around and found a whole new ghost woman she has never met before. She had black hair that was styled up in a V shape as the rest of her hair rested on her neck and passed her shoulders, blue skin, solid blood red eyes, purple lipstick. She wore a white jumpsuit with a black collar that didn't reach up to her neck like Dani's did, black elbow-length gloves, a white skirt with a black belt strapped, white pants with black thigh-high high heel boot, and a cape that was red on the inside and white on the out.

The ghost woman hovered there with her arms crossed and grinned smugly at the young ghost girl.

"Oh, whatever, I was aiming for the those dodos, but you'll do." Dani said confidently. The ghost woman only smiled at her amusingly as she cocked an eyebrow. Dani shouted as she tried to land a punch on her face, but she merely caught her fist and threw her aside as she crashed to the wall, cracking it. She collapsed onto a stone bench, a little disoriented as she rubbed her head dizzily. "Whoa, fast. Alright, better stop fooling around."

Dani charged at her again, but the ghost grabbed her neck as she gagged a little and then she threw her to the rugged floor. "My vultures were supposed to bring the big, fat idiot to me, but you'll do...Dani Phantom, right?" The ghost woman said mockingly.

Dani looked very confused and surprised that this ghost woman actually new her heroine alter ego name, which she has never really told anyone directly yet. "You...you know me?"

"Of course I know you!" She phased through a wall, backwards, while Dani followed her inside and found her floating in the middle of the library. "You're the ghost girl you uses her powers for good! How quaint!" She looked disgusted by the fact that she was a good ghost before she suddenly went into Dani's face with a mocking smile and flew around her. "Aren't you gonna try to shove me into your ridiculous thermos?"

"I...I don't want to fight you."

"No, no you don't." The ghost woman smiled as she blasted a pink energy beam at her, sending her flying across the library while she screamed until she crashed into a row of books.

Dani recovered and flew out to fire her own green energy beam at her. "Get away!"

The ghost merely created a pink mirror-like shield as it nullified her beam. "Ha! An ectoplasmic energy blast! Such weak potential!" Dani narrowed her eyes even more, looking very offended by her arrogant comment. She rapidly fired more ghost beams at her, but the woman ghost kept moving her shield around casually and then yawned in boredom. "So, year one." Dani stared down at her hands as they let off green vapor before she looked back up at the ghost. "Tell me, child, can you do this yet?"

A copy of herself suddenly appeared as two more popped out of nowhere while they all surrounded Dani. The ghost girl flew away backwards with wide eyes, surprised by what this ghost can actually do, that not even Dani knew she could do yet. "No, I can't! How are you doing all of this?"

"Years of practice, which you, unfortunately, have no time for." The ghost woman and her three duplicates said in unison while they charged up their hands with pink ecto-energy. They then fired their pink energy beams as they blasted at Dani dead on, making her shriek in agony.

For the first time in her ghost fighting career, Dani was the one who was beaten in a fight since her jumpsuit was torn, her face was scratched and bruised, and her hair was all frizzled. She weakly got up to her feet as she breathed heavily and held onto her stomach, trying to ignore the pain and not wanting to give up. Unfortunately, the ghost woman raised her energized hands again as Dani gasped before she got the beating of her lifetime, until she phased out of the library and back out to the hallway. She weakly tried to open her eyes while she groaned in pain before she finally drifted into unconsciousness.

The ghost woman phased out to the hallway and landed in front the unconscious ghost girl's feet and smiled victoriously, just before Dani changed back into her human form from energy loss in her PJs: a white tank-top, black shorts, and barefeet.

The ghost woman's eyes went wide as she stared at the girl, looking very surprised at what she just witnessed before her very eyes. "The ghost girl...is Jackie's daughter?" She asked herself in somewhat shock.

Black rings then appeared at her torso and they intersected her body as she transformed into none other than Vladia Masters herself, revealing that she was half-ghost just like Dani.

She smirked down in amusement at the unconscious girl with a whole new interest. "Well, what do ya know…" She said to herself quietly with a grin.

Several minutes later...

"No! GET AWAY!" Dani shouted in her sleep before she threw some sheets off her head with wide eyes. "Huh?" She looked around and found herself back in her guest bedroom, no longer injured and unconscious. It was almost like the ghost fight she just had never happened, like she was just having a huge nightmare. "Wha...what happened?"

"I was going to ask you the same question, young lady." Vladia said as she entered the room with her hands behind her back and her usual polite yet creepy smile.

Dani rubbed the back to her neck in embarrassment. "Oh, I must've been worn out...from the long car trip. I'll be okay in the morning, Ms. Masters. I'm sorry for the scare."

"Oh, what's a little scare between friends, kid? Hmm? Sweet dreams...little flower." Vladia then walked out of the room while Dani smiled a little before she fell back to sleep as the woman closed her door and smirked evilly. "Yes...sweet dreams." She began cackling softly and quietly.


The next night, the reunion began as people park outside Vladia's castle and walked inside, ready for their reunion party.

Inside the theater room, Dani, who was in her formal blue dress she once wore for her freshman dance a few weeks ago, peeked inside and found James sitting in the back while he watched some of the Packers' old game footages.

"Hey, James, aren't you coming to the reunion?" Dani asked her brother.

James cocked an eyebrow like she was just making fun of him. "What? And watch a bunch of old fossils dance to new wave music? Pass." He crossed his arms and looked back at the screen. "Did you know the Packers won the very first Super Bowl?"

"Whatever." Dani walked out of the theater room without another word, leaving her brother alone while he continued to watch some of the old Packers clips.

At the reunion party, the old adults from the University of Wisconsin were chatting away with their old pals while they caught up on some good times, drank some punch together, and enjoyed some of their old-wave music. Matt, Jackie, and Dani entered the party room and looked around, although Dani looked more bored and uninterested.

Jackie suddenly spotted a Asian man in a green business suit and short, black hair as he chewed on some food. "Hey, Harry!" She called out with a bright smile.

The man spat out her food in surprise. "Agh! I know that voice anywhere." He grumbled under his breath before he uneasily walked up to the Fentons while he rubbed her arm. "Matt, Jackie...how nice."

Jackie placed her arm around her daughter's neck as she began to introduce. "Dani, meet Harrison Chin, he's a big shot reporter for the Milwaukee Journal now, but back in my college days, he was just Harry. Harry Chin, haha! Get it?!" She sounded like she was now joking around with his name.

"I'm really sorry, Harrison." Matt said while he gave him a look of pity.

"Matty, you married her, you should be." Harry said as he crossed his arms before they smiled at each other.

Techno music began to play, catching Jackie's attention when she perked up excitedly. "Hey, my song! Come on, honeycakes, let's pogo!" She exclaimed out loud before she dragged a reluctant Matt to the dance floor while she hopped across the floor, knocking some tables and people down along the way.

"Okay, I'm officially mortified." Dani said under her breath, looking a little surprised and embarrassed at the same time.

"What took so long?" Harry asked rhetorically to her in agreement with his arms crossed again.

Later on during the party, Dani was already bored from all the adults dancing, hopping to old music, and she had nothing better to do and had no one to talk to. She was currently resting her head on her palm while she sat by a table as a woman with a cheese hat pogoed right past her. Dani then suddenly felt a hand touch her before she looked up and saw Vladia Masters standing next to her.

"Well, kid, you're looking much better. I was wondering...if you could do me a huge favor." Vladia said as she creepily grinned at Dani, which made her a little uncomfortable, but she tried her best not to show it.

"Oh, sure, Ms. Masters, but call me Dani. Kid is what my mom calls me." Dani said as she pointed her thumb at herself.

"Oh, yes, of course. Now, could you go up to my lab, second door to the right upstairs? There's a present in there for your mother that I'd like you to bring down." She then chuckled a little.

"Okay, BRB." Dani got up from her seat and walked off to the lab where the billionairess business woman told her to go.

Vladia then dropped her smile when she glanced at the dance floor. She saw Jackie hopping while Matt only watched her oddly while he eyeballed up-and-down, following his wife, with his arms crossed. Vladia focused her attention towards Matt like she was deeply in love with him.

"Matthew Fenton, that lab accident costed me my youthful chance at you…" Vladia said with her eyebrows narrowed before she grinned. "But that's all about to change."

Dani entered the lab after she remembered Vladia's directions exactly. She walked inside as she glanced all around for the present for her mother, but there wasn't one since there were only beakers on the counters and other lab equipment, kind of similar to her parents'.

"Present? I don't see a present." Dani said to herself as she approached a counter. She spotted a picture frame of Vladia and Matt in their college days when she picked it up. What really caught her attention was that there was a ripped corner like someone was missing in the frame. "Hey, wait a minute."

She pulled out the torn picture of her mother in her college days, the one the vultures left behind after their battle with her back at Amity Park several days ago. She then placed the picture on the corner and, much to her surprise, it was a perfect match. It was a full picture of Vladia, Matt, and Jackie in their college days, but Jackie was ripped out like someone had tried to erase her. Dani knew that it could only mean one thing: Vladia was involved with the vultures trying to attack and kill her mother, revealing that she was the real mastermind.

"Oh no! No way!" Dani said with wide eyes as she backed away in shock, like she didn't want to believe it.

Dani's ghost sense suddenly went off, alerting her as she frowned and got into a stance before she changed into her ghost form. And then suddenly, a pair of green arms grabbed her by her arms and lifted her to the air as she yelped and dropped the picture frame. It was the same two Ectopus ghosts she once fought before. In fact, they were the first ghosts Dani has ever fought the month she had first acquired her powers, before the Lunch Man incident.

"Let go!" Dani demanded as she kicked one of the Ectopuses off of her. She then grabbed the other by its arm while she plummeted to the floor before she landed on her feet and she slammed the octopus ghost right on the floor, making it splatter all over the floor. Dani looked surprised by the appearance of the Ectopuses like they were waiting for her to show up in the lab. "Those ghosts...they were two of the first ghosts I've fought."

"And they're not alone, pup." A familiar voice said right before Dani suddenly got caught in a blue net and was sent to the back of the wall, getting electrocuted a little as she shouted. She followed the line that was giving off electrical currents before an old ghost foe walked out of the shadows: Skulka, the Ghost Zone's greatest huntress, back in her suit and she grinned widely at the girl.

Dani's eyes went wide by the huntress ghost's unexpected appearance. "Skulka?!" She then narrowed her eyes as she burst out of the net, twisted in the air, and held out her feet before she gave her a double-kick to the chest. She sent her flying into a furnace behind her while it let out steam. "How'd you get back in your ecto-skeleton? What are you doing here?"

Skulka only grinned as she held onto a tiny, black box. "All excellent questions, princess. Catch!" She rolled the box to Dani's feet as she stared at it in confusion, until it suddenly expanded around Dani and it trapped her entire body, minus her head, inside a giant box while it began to glow.

Dani could feel all of her ecto-energy being drained from it. "Huh? Hey...I-I can't phase out of this! It's disrupting my powers!"

"And that's not all it does."

Skulka pressed a button on his wrist, making the box electrocute Dani while she shrieked in agony until it stopped and she unwillingly changed back into her human form. She dropped her head onto the box in weakness before Skulka lifted Dani's head back up. Then, a glowing blade sheathed out as she held it near her neck, making her eyes go wide in surprise.

"Um, uh...hehe, the glowing blade is new." She said nervously.

Skulka perked up as she smiled brightly like it was a compliment. "You like it? I've had some upgrades!" She said before she grinned at her again as she held it close to her ear, ready to end her. "Now…"

"ENOUGH!" Skulka and Dani turned their heads around and found Vladia Masters across the lab with her hands behind her back, the door closed like she just walked into the lab. "I did not free you to kill the girl, Skulka! You're work is done." She said to the huntress ghost.

Dani and Skulka exchanged confusing glances before she retracted the blade and rubbed the back of her neck sheepishly. "Yes, well I-" Her wrist beeped with a familiar-looking PDA. "I gotta 'go to the library and check out a book on a gorilla'. Again!" With a frustrated and annoyed glare, Skulka's jetpack sprang out as she jetted upward and phased through the ceiling, leaving Dani and Vladia alone by themselves.

Dani was now even more confused as usual, even though she knew that Vladia was behind the vultures trying to kill her mother twice. But Vladia was also apparently friends with Skulka, too, and she didn't even know why the billionairess woman would even try and do all of this to her and her mother.

"Skulka? The Ectopuses? I-I don't understand." Dani said with disbelief in her voice as she stared at Vladia with genuine confusion in her eyes.

"Of course not, you're what, fourteen?" Vladia asked rhetorically as she began to walk around Dani casually with her hands behind her back. "Too young to drive and not in college yet? I've sent those ghosts and others to test your mother's skills. Imagine my surprise when I find you: The second ghost hybrid her foolishness created!"

Dani's eyes went wide in confusion and surprise. "Second?"

Vladia narrowed her eyes before she bent down and got into a stance as black rings appeared at her torso and intersected her, changing her into the same ghost Dani fought the other night. Vladia exposed herself to Dani that she was a half-ghost, just like her. The lab accident twenty years ago, the one Jackie once told her children before they meet Vladia, apparently didn't just hospitalized her with ecto-acne, but it also gave her ghost powers as well, confirming Dani's thoughts from before.

Dani's eyes went wide in realization and shock. "YOU! I'm going ghost!" She cried out as she concentrated, but she oddly remained in her human form, much to her confusion. "Going ghost!" She tried again, but nothing happened again as she looked down at herself. "Why can't I go ghost?"

"Aww, you have a battle cry, how adorable, hmm. I, on the other hand, have this!" Vladia said as she tapped her hand on the box Dani was trapped in. "A Spectral Energy Neutralizer, designed by Skulka, paid for by me. And as long as you're contained within that box, you're as human as your idiot mother!"

"Let me out of here!"

"Why? So you could go back to stumbling through your adolescence, desperately trying to get control of your powers? Powers, by the way, that I've had for twenty years." Vladia demonstrated her pink energy shield as she continued speaking to the girl. "I have experience, my child, and the money and power obtained from using those powers for personal gain, you see." She then splitted herself into three Vladia's. "I could train you and teach you everything I know." She merged back into one before she turned herself invisible and visible. "And all you have to do...is renounce your idiot mother."

"...Girl, you are one seriously crazed-up fruitloop. That is never going to happen." Dani rejected defiantly as she gave the old ghost woman a glare of disgust and disdain.

"Yes, well once your mother's out of the way, we'll see how you'll feel." Vladia laughed evilly as she disappeared in pink mist.

Dani made a look of worry and concern, wondering what Vladia had planned for her mother. She got the feeling the whole college reunion was all just a big trap for her own mother the whole time, but she was completely helpless since she was trapped in the neutralizing box and prevented her from escaping.

Back at the reunion party, Harry was explaining to Jackie his story about his past reports while everyone else continued to party and got caught up on old times with each other.

"Then, I covered the guerilla uprising in Rumackistain, got an exclusive with the rebel leader that got raves…" Harry said, but faltered when he noticed that Jackie wasn't really paying attention as her eye twitched and she rested her chin on her glass of punch, making the reporter annoyed. "Am I boring you, Jackie?!"

"Frankly, yes." She said as she raised her head from her glass.

Vladia then phased invisibly through the floor as she grinned before she flew straight into Jackie's body, making her drop her punch while she gasped. She then blinked her eyes, revealing them to be red as Vladia possessed Jackie's body.

"So what do you say we liven up this shindig?" Vladia said through Jackie with a smirk.

She grabbed Harry while she hurled him straight across the room as he shouted and crashed into a table. Harry sat up with a punch bowl on his head, covered in punch as he spat out the spoon in his mouth.

Matt rushed up to his 'wife', looking unimpressed by her action. "Jackie, what's the matter with you?" He demanded.

"Why, Matthew, didn't you know I'd turn on you?" Vladia said through Jackie as she began to walk closer to Matt while he backed away in recoil. "That when you chose me, you chose wrong?"

Jackie suddenly began to fight for control when she tensed her muscles. "Get out...get out of me!" She strained before she continued to twitch her body while she tried to regain her control from Vladia.

Harry walked up to the obese ghost huntress with an unimpressed glare. "I don't know what's come over you, but when I write about this, I swear I-" He said, but paused when he finally noticed that Jackie was struggling.

"Ghost...overpowering me." Jackie grabbed Matt by his arms and clutched him close as she continued to fight, but began to lose. "Matthew...run." She suddenly shot into the air and floated as her body began to glow when Vladia finally won the control. "RUUUUN!"

"She's a ghost?" Harry admired Jackie hovering in the air while the other adults ran for their lives and ran out of the party room. "This is the story of the century!"

"Come on!" Matt yelled as he dragged Harry along with him. "We have to get to the Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle...I-I mean the RV!"

Back in the lab, Dani struggled to break free from the Spectral Energy Neutralizer box, but with no effort since she desperately wanted to stop Vladia from fulfilling her plan on getting back at her mother.

"Well, gosh and golly, it looks like you could use a speck of help there, don't ya know?" A woman said in a Wisconsin accent. Dani stopped struggling as a familiar-looking queen ghost descended in front of her. She had a cheese crown and an ice cream scepter in her hand while she smiled friendly at the girl.

"Hey, you're the Dairy Queen!" Dani said with a smile before she became more worried. "Oh great, what are you gonna do? Suffocate me with limburger? Strangle me with swiss, or…"

The Dairy Queen used her scepter while Dani braced herself for some pain, but nothing came when she only pressed the 'release' button. The box shrank back into a tiny box, freeing Dani and she felt her powers beginning to return.

"Let me go?" She finished before she kicked the box away and stared at the Dairy Queen with confusion. "Well, thank you, but...why?"

"Well, not all ghosts are evil, right?" The Dairy Queen said to her in a matter-of-factly way as she shrugged a little. "Some of us just want to be left alone there, don't ya know?"

"Hey, will you help me fight Vladia?"

"I'm the Dairy Queen, kiddo. Queens don't fight, they send others to fight for 'em. That's royalty one-o-one there, don't ya know?" She then hovered towards the air as she turned intangible to phase through the ceiling while she called down to her. "Try the gouda! It's dairy-fresh!"

Dani smiled up at the ceiling, happy that she learned that not all ghosts were evil besides herself. "JACKIE!" She heard her father shout, thanks to her enhanced hearing when her smile dropped.

"MOM!" Dani exclaimed in alarm, remembering the situation at hand. She jumped to the air and changed to her ghost form before she quickly flew into action with her signature determined glare.

Meanwhile, Matt and Harry ran outside where they hopped into the Fenton RV with Matt at the wheel and Harry in the passenger seat.

"So, Matthew, when did you first realize your wife was a monster, bent on destroying her more successful and better-dressed peers?" Harry asked him as he held up a tape recorder close to him.

"What are you talking about?" He asked with a cocked eyebrow and looked a little offended. "That jumpsuit is incredibly stylish."

He then floored on the gas pedal as he drove straight into the castle while he passed through the lobby, with people jumping and scattering out of the way, and the theater room. James peeked his head through the door when he heard all the loud rackets.

James sighed as he frowned. "I'm guessing we wouldn't be invited back." He said dully.

Back at the party, Vladia continued to make Jackie wreak a lot of havoc around the room when she made her throw tables everywhere, flipped them, spilled food and drinks everywhere, and even scared people out through windows while she flew around the room.

"If you live to tell the tale, remember the big fat Jackie Fenton did this to you!" Vladia shouted through Jackie as she swiped a man from under his chin.

"Think again, cheesehead!" Dani shouted as 'Jackie' turned her head and found the ghost girl flying straight towards her, glaring with determination.

She turned herself intangible as she flew straight through her mother while she used her excising power to shove Vladia out of her mother's body. The ghost woman shouted as they both phased through the wall and out of the party room. Jackie landed back on the floor, looking a little confused before she got up onto her feet with a glare.

"Nobody uses Jackie Fenton as a human meat puppet!" She exclaimed angrily.

Dani shoved Vladia through the wall and into the library. As Vladia turned solid, Dani tried to swing-kick, which the ghost woman ducked at, and then Dani tried to punch her while she flew up to the air. She landed beside the ghost girl and kicked her away as she grunted.

"Danielle, stop!" Vladia said before she hovered over the floor with her cape billowing behind her, and Dani got into a ready stance across from her. "Think about the things I could show you, the gifts we've been given that no weak and pathetic human being could ever possess, the abilities you've only begun to understand that I could teach you...you, Dani Phantom, and I, Vladia Plasmius. Together, we could rule!"

"Forget it, hag! Your money can't buy my dad, it can't buy the Packers, and it can't buy me!" Dani snapped before she fired an energy beam at Vladia.

However, she merely held her hand out as she absorbed it, manipulated it, and then fired it back at her with twice more power. Dani luckily managed to create a green force field to protect herself from the attack. After seeing Vladia do it from the other night, it took almost no effort for her to figure out how to create one in just one day.

Dani then looked back at the woman with a glare and pointed at her. "I know who you are. I'll tell my mother...I'll tell everyone." She said defiantly.

"And so will I." Vladia said, looking unfazed as she smiled with some sort of reassurance. "Honestly, if you expose me, you expose yourself."

Dani stared at her while she allowed her words to sink in, until she heard some loud beeping coming from behind her. "Huh?"

The Fenton RV suddenly crashed through the wall, with Jackie at the wheel. Dani dropped her shield and quickly flew over to avoid getting collided, but unfortunately, some of the rumble fell right on top of her as she grunted and got buried underneath.

Vladia also flew to the air to avoid getting crashed into as Jackie braked the RV with a determined glare. "Mind if I cut in?" Vladia phased her arms through the roof as she grabbed Matt by his arms and phased him out while Jackie gasped in worry.

"Let go of me!" Matt demanded as he glared at her and she floated him into the air.

"Never again, sir."

Dani used her strength to punch her gloved hand out of the rumble with a shout before she shoved a rock off and groaned painfully as she pulled herself out. She looked up ahead just in time to witness Vladia holding her father while her mother jumped out of the RV as she chased after them.

"Matthew!" Jackie shouted.

Dani became determined again as she turned intangible before she quickly flew into the RV and into the driver's seat while she messed around with the joystick invisibly. "Oh great, it's a stick." She muttered.

To Harry, who was still sitting on the passenger seat, he only saw the stick moving by itself. "And I wasn't going to come to this thing. Ha!" He said excitedly.

Dani managed to get the RV going, but didn't have much experience at driving something that big when she steered around and was about to drive straight towards her own mother. "Jackie, look out! The RV!" Matt warned his wife while Vladia held him upside down by his ankle.

Jackie glanced to the side just in time to see the RV. Dani tried to steer out of the way, but Jackie luckily managed to quickly jump out of the way.

"Sorry, Mom. I got one shot at this." Dani said to herself as she narrowed her eyes.

She braked the RV as it power-slid in front of Vladia before guns sprang from the roof. The wheel turned into attack mode as she fired an 'energy beam', but Vladia shouted as she swiped it away with her arm. Dani used the 'lightning' setting, but Vladia continued to smirk as she turned intangible and it passed harmlessly through her. However, Dani narrowed her eyes as she used the 'ectoplasmic goo' setting, and it luckily did the trick when Vladia gasped and she got hit by the goop dead on. However, she dropped Matt in the process as he plummeted towards the ground.

Dani quickly phased out of the windshield, possessed Jackie, and caught Matt in the nick of time. "Jackie, you did it!" Matt said in gratitude.

"It was nothing, Da-uh...Matt! Sure, uh, Matt, he." Dani said through Jackie sheepishly before she settled him down gently. "You make sure Harry's okay while I finish this." Matt did as he was told while 'Jackie' ran up to a goo-covered Vladia and lifted her by her collar with a wide smirk. "How's it going, V-girl?"

"Oh, you've overshadowed Jackie! Oh, I'm so scared, now what's next? A card trick?" Vladia mocked sarcastically.

'Jackie' then narrowed her eyes as she glared at the old half-ghost woman. "Listen to me, I swear I'll walk out of my mom right now and expose us both...unless you agree to a truce."

Vladia gave her a look of disbelief. "...You're bluffing."

Dani held her closer with a more serious face. "No, I'm not. My parents will accept me, no matter what, but if I expose you..." 'Jackie' then grinned cleverly with a small chuckle. "Well, what would my dad think of you?" Vladia's face grimaced at the thought of Matt's reaction, and since Dani was definitely not bluffing at all. Dani then released the evil half-ghost woman while she slouched a little. "You'll be miserable and alone for the rest of your life, unless you call a truce."

Vladia then smiled at the girl possessing the ghost huntress she held a long-term grudge against. "Using your opponent's weaknesses against her...I am teaching you something after all. Very well...truce. Eventually, you will join me by choice...you and your father. But for now…" Vladia cleared her throat before she suddenly flew into the air dramatically. "Curse you, Jackie Fenton! Your world-renowned expertise of all things ghost has defeated me!" She then smiled secretly at her new formidable archenemy. "Until next time...my dear." She then made a dramatic exit when she screamed and dissipated herself into pink mist until she disappeared in a supposed defeat.

Dani phased out of her mother before Matt and Harry ran up to her. "World-renowned expertise...outstanding!" Harry said as he held up his tape recorder before he glanced at a now-confused Jackie.

"Jackie, I have never seen you like this. You beat that ghost all the way to Kenosha!" Matt said as he placed his hands on her shoulders.

"I did?" Jackie wondered in confusion until she quickly set it aside when she smiled at her husband. "Oh, heck, I'm just doing my job." Matt and Jackie then hugged each other happily.

"And mine! Jackie, for all the years I thought you were a crackpot, I...sort of apologize. Ghosts!" Harry said happily just before Dani joined her parents in her human form. "This story will make your career and mine!"

After the reunion party ended in a disaster, the Fenton family decided to return to the RV while Jackie drove her family back to Amity Park after a long night. Dani, who was still wearing her formal dress, was sitting next to her mother in the passenger seat while James and Matt were laying on individual beds in the back. James remained awake while Matt was fast asleep.

"I can't believe they fired Harry." Dani said, looking a little surprised by the fact, just like Jackie.

"Of course they fired him, he tried to file a crackpot story about ghosts." James said like it should have been obvious with his usual annoyed face. "It's the Milwaukee Journal, not the National Enquirer." He then turned to his side and tried to sleep.

"I can't believe Harry blames me. And Vladia was so mad, she didn't even say goodbye...and we were all such great chums in college." Jackie said sadly, looking depressed that the two people she has known since college were mad at her, despite after everything they have supposingly done together in the past.

"Oh, whatever." Dani said as she rolled her eyes before she looked back at her mother. "You know, a lot of things can change after twenty years, even the people themselves. Besides, who cares what you were when you were younger?" Dani then smiled caringly at Jackie. "It's who you grew into that makes you who you are."

"Ya think?"

"Hey, if you can cause that much damage in college and still turn out to be this cool, ghost butt-kicking adult...well, maybe there's hope for me yet."

Jackie smiled as she placed her arm around her daughter's neck. "Thanks, kid...but your curfew is still ten."

"Oh man!"

Jackie then drove the RV out of Wisconsin as they made their long road trip back to Amity Park. After that night, Dani has recently discovered that she was not the only one with ghost powers and that she was one of the two only half-ghosts in the world, but now she has a new archenemy for one: Vladia Masters, aka Vladia Plasmius. Dani doubted that this would be the last time she would ever hear from Vladia again, so she would have to be ready anyway she could be from now on to prevent her from killing her mother, taking Matt as her own husband, and even try to ignore her offer as being Vladia's adopted daughter/successor.