Season 3 Episode 11
D-Stabilized
"Your Screams Won't Dissolve!"

In Amity Park's sister town, Elmerton, it was a bright afternoon for the rundown town. In an alleyway, green glowing eyes are seen in a hole of boxes as they belonged to thirteen year old Danny Phantom, Dani Fenton's half-ghost 'cousin', biologically. But in reality, he was actually Dani's clone who was created accidentally by none other than Vladia Masters herself in hopes she could create herself a perfect daughter for herself. He once worked for Vladia until he learned her true intentions and cared nothing about him, since she only saw him as a mistake, so he no longer viewed himself as her 'son' and he also no longer viewed Vladia as his 'mother'. After Dani saved his life from his former mother, Danny decided to explore most of the world on his own and promised he would come back to visit his 'cousin' as they were now on good terms.

In the alleyway, Danny walked out of his hiding spot in his ghost form, tired and sweaty before he sighed in relief that he has finally returned to Amity Park. "Finally! I'm back!" He said as he rubbed the sweat in his forehead; his voice has changed a little in the months he has been gone since it has been nearly a year since his creation. He then noticed his reflection on the nearest window as he ran towards it. "Uh oh! Whoa, that's one scary ghost. I got to get to Dani fast." He ran down the alley and flew to the air, but instead of flying fast, he was flying very slowly. After he left Amity Park the last time, his powers have been growing weaker ever since then.

"Or slow, slow's good. Or slower, even slower's better." He said weakly before he landed back on the ground and supported himself with his legs as he exhaled in exhaustion. Smoke began producing on his feet, and then suddenly a puddle of ectoplasm formed at his feet, making him yelp in fear. "I just hope Dani can help me."

Danny concentrated hard and reabsorbed his ectoplasm back into his feet. He has been slowly falling apart since his clone DNA was still unstable and it has been and major weakness for him. He returned to Amity Park in hopes of finding his cousin, now that his instability has finally caught up to him and would begin to melt without warning.

He suddenly heard meowing out of nowhere as his eyes went wide and he looked around nervously. "I can't let her find me!" He said fearfully, but saw nothing was around. He somehow knew that Vladia was after him and no doubt she would want to destroy him out of vengeance after he betrayed her to help Dani. It wasn't like he didn't have no good reason to turn on her, Vladia never saw him as a child to begin with. Danny sighed as he began talking to himself to calm himself down. "Okay, pull yourself together, Daniel, Vladia is all the way in Colorado. There's no way she can know you're here."

Danny began to fly down the alleyway again, but he was unaware that one of Vladia's spy cameras has spotted him and sent a live video footage straight to Vladia's mayor mansion. Danny has never known that Vladia now lived in Amity Park as the new mayor since he left before she was even elected. In the mayor's mansion, Vladia was currently in her ghost form as she rubbed her cat, Matthew, named after the love of her life.

"Well, well, well, the return of the prodigal son." Vladia said to herself as she watched the screen footage of Danny, her former 'son', with a whole new interest. "He's looked better, and yet he survived, the question is why?"

"Meow!" Matthew yowled.

"Oh yes, I agree, Matthew. It's time for a little research, but he's hardly going to come running home to mommy."

"Meow!" Matthew pounced off of Vladia's arms and walked on her desk until he placed a paw on a button to summon Vincent Gray.

"Oh, Matthew, you are so brilliant! Yes, let's call our mommy's little helper." Vladia changed to her human form and sat at her desk before pressing the button to call for her number one trustworthy bounty hunter. She heard jet turbines from outside as Vincent entered her office in his new and improved battle suit Technus once made for him before and on his new hoverboard. He smiled down at her with his fists at his sides firmly and confidently, ready for a new assignment from his new boss. "Well that certainly was fast. My, don't you look fancy." Vladia admired Vincent's new suit she has never seen before.

"Got a few upgrades." Vincent said as he showed her his new wrist gun.

"Well, perhaps you'll be willing to upgrade your life as well. Wouldn't you like to finally move out of that rundown apartment?"

"Mmmhmm." Vincent made his hoverboard disappear and stood on the other side of the desk before Vladia. "What do you need, Ms. Masters?"

"A little bounty hunting."

Vincent smiled cleverly while putting his fist in his palm confidently. "Hunting down ghost scum is what I'm all about. The target?"

Vladia pressed a key on her computer. "Danny Phantom."

Vincent stared at her in shock. "Dani Phantom?!" He then made a look of disgust as he clenched his hands into tight fists. "That girl's been an intangible pain in my butt for a long time."

"Oh no-no, sorry, my boy. Not Dani Phantom, Danny Phantom, with a 'y'." Vladia showed him a recent footage of Danny flying through the air. "A boy ghost."

Vincent stared at the footage screen with disbelief in his eyes. "You're kidding. There's a boy called Danny Phantom?" He rolled his eyes and scoffed, looking unimpressed. "These ghosts gotta come up with more original names."

"Yes, well this Danny Phantom is an incredibly evil dangerous ghost out to destroy me!" Vladia lied with a fake look of concern in her face.

"What's he got against you?"

Vladia turned around on her chair away from Vincent as she smirked evilly behind his back while she continued her lie. "Word must be out that I'm hunting down ghosts. Once he brings me down, who knows what kind of terror he'll unleash on our fair city?"

Vincent made a look of determination. "There's no way I'm letting that ghost boy get you, Ms. Masters. He's as good as caught!" He pulled out a mini computer on his forearm and began pressing as a map of Elmerton and Amity Park appeared and the coordinated revealed that Danny Phantom was hiding somewhere in Elmerton.

Vladia turned around and and smiled at her bounty hunter. "I knew I could count on you, Vincent."

Vincent jumped to the air and summoned his hoverboard. "And I'm glad I can count on that new apartment." Vincent then took off from the window and began his search for Danny Phantom at the rundown city he lived in.

Vladia smiled wickedly with anticipation to have Danny back in her grip for a new scheme that was coming for the young ghost boy. "It will be so nice to get my little boy back." She then laughed evilly until Matthew meowed a little offendedly, making his owner scratch underneath his chin. "Oh relax, Matthew, you're still my favorite."


Theme Song:

(She's a phantom)

(Dani Phantom, Phantom, Phantom)

Yo, 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)


Vincent continued flying around Elmerton to search for the ghost boy he believed was out to destroy his boss. He then slowly flew by his apartment as he looked through the window and saw his mother, Diane Gray, sleeping on a chair with a book on her lap like she just took a snooze during a middle of her reading.

"Mom, when I catch this ghost boy, I promise to finally move us out of this crummy place." Vincent vowed to himself until his GPS tracker beeped as it pinpointed to Danny Phantom's location as he smirked. "Mmmm, got ya!"

Right beside a fruit store, Danny was currently hiding behind a building to hide from a fruit woman setting out fruit before he transformed into his human form, feeling a little hungry; his red sweats gained a cameo pattern after the last time he left. He looked up at the woman as he hid behind the stand, hoping that he could have something to eat to save some of his energy of making it to his 'cousin' before his ghost form fell apart completely.

"If I wanna reach Dani, I gotta keep up my strength." Danny said quietly to himself before checking into his pockets to see if he had any money, but all he pulled out were his pocket sockets. He realized he never had any money since he left and he had no other home, making him look down in sadness.

On top of a building across from the fruit store, Vincent appeared and looked at his GPS, looking very confused. "What's going on?" He asked himself in confusion. "The coordinates brought me right here...but that fruit girl's not a ghost, and neither is that kid!" He began typing on his arm computer, only for it to act very crazy as it beeped madly, much to his frustration. "What is up with this thing?!"

Back near the fruit shop, Danny turned his hands intangible, knowing he had no other choice but to steal some food, even though he never liked doing evil and selfish things with his powers, especially after what happened when he was working for Vladia. "I really hate to do this, but…" Danny whispered quietly to himself before phasing his hands through the box.

Unfortunately, the fruit woman gasped when she noticed Danny and the boy smiled innocently as the woman looked down at him with suspicion. "Alright, young man, let me see your hands." She demanded as she placed her fists on her sides.

Danny smiled brightly yet mischievously as he held out his hands, but showed nothing but air as the ends of his sweatshirt sleeves dropped limply. The fruit woman looked shocked by this before she screamed and then ran down the sidewalk, completely freaked out. Danny hid his invisible hands behind his back as he ran down the alleyway while Vincent watched the whole thing from the air. He saw the young orphan boy pulling out two apples as he licked his lips before he took a satisfying bite out of his little snack.

"Man, he's good! I didn't even see him pocket those." Vincent said before he gave Danny a look of pity. "Oh, poor kid, I know where he's coming from."

Then satellites suddenly pop out from his back and beeped loudly, catching his attention as he gasped and they alerted him that there was a ghost was nearby. However, Danny could also hear it with his enhanced hearing as he spat out his food in surprise and dropped his apples to the ground before he looked up and saw Vincent in the air, making him look scared that he was there to hunt him down.

"Huh? That ghost must be around here. Don't worry, kid!" Vincent called down to Danny before flying after him on his hoverboard. "I'm not gonna let some little ghost freak get ya! Hold on!"

Danny, however, only began to sprint down the alley, trying to get away from Vincent, thinking he was a bad guy as Vincent dropped his hoverboard and watched Danny enter into an old restricted house. The boy looked around desperately for a hiding spot until he ran across the room and unknowingly stepped on a loose wood on the floor, making the supporting beam bounce a little, but it luckily stayed in place. Danny quickly hid behind an old cloth table as Vincent entered the building and turned on his helmet like a flashlight.

"Listen, kid, I know you're in here and I know something evil is hunting you!" Vincent called out, looking genuinely concerned, not really knowing what the kid really was.

Danny cringed behind the cloth as the light passed by him. "Yeah, no kidding." He muttered quietly with fear.

"But I can protect you if you'll just trust me and come out!"

Then Vincent stepped at where Danny stepped, but this time the beam fell down completely as the whole building began to fall apart. "WHOA!" Danny looked up the ceiling that was threatening to collapse on Vincent so with little choice, he ran out of his hiding spot and changed to his ghost form as he flew towards the hunter and grabbed him while turned them both intangible as the room collapsed. They both phased out from the wall and landed outside on the ground with grunts.

While Danny rubbed his head from his intangibility act, Vincent scooted away from him as he stared at the boy in shock at what he just witnessed. He just saw him transform into a ghost right in front of him and realized he has found his target ghost, but in a very unexpected way.

"You're...you're a...boy and a ghost?" Vincent asked in confusion and shock as he blinked and cocked an eyebrow.

"And your welcome." Danny said as he smiled at him a little as he got to his knees.

Vincent rose to his feet. "The ghost boy!"

Danny stood up as well and held out his hand. "Yeah, but you can just call me Danny."

Vincent then glared threateningly at the boy. "Oh I will…" He brought out a device from his waist and held it out. Danny stared at it in confusion until he gasped in shock when the teen ghost hunter cuffed his hands up with pink energy. "Danny Phantom." Danny looked up at him nervously, realizing he was now in big trouble.

Meanwhile at Amity Park in the Fenton Works lab, Jackie and Matt Fenton were working on something new as their youngest daughter, Dani, was watching them but looked down at her watch.

"Mom, I really gotta go. Sam and Tina have been waiting for me for over half an hour to patro…" Dani said, but faltered as she quickly tried to cover it. "Patroclus! To do our report on Patroclus, a Greek warrior friend of Achilles."

"Your math homework can wait, kid." Jackie said before holding up a syringe needle filled with green liquid. "Check out my newest invention. I call it Ecto-Dejecto; with one little shot of this no-ghost juice, ghostly power shrivels up like a raisin in the sun." She inserted the needle into a small green ghost blob and transferred the artificial juice inside it. "Take this little spooky stinker. Yeah, he's tiny, but terror comes in all sizes. Just hit it with some Ecto-Dejecto and watch it go from tiny to gone! Sayanora, spectral scum!"

Dani watched to blob ghost shrink a little, until its eyes popped open as it began to grow instead. Apparently, the Ecto-Dejecto seemed to do just the opposite of what Jackie intended to make it.

"Wait, are-are we shrinking?! Oh no! No, stop!" Jackie exclaimed. The ghost then burst out of the glass container, sending glass everywhere. "Shields up!" Jackie, Matt, and Dani shielded their eyes from the glass before they watch the ghost grow bigger and roared loudly. "Matt, quick, the Wraith Wrangler!"

"On it!" Matt said before lassoing a rope from his wrist and grabbed onto the ghost by its neck.

"Dani, containment!" Dani quickly ran to the large box and opened the door before her father released the ghost as it flew backwards and into the containment unit as Dani closed the door shut before she and her parents blocked the door. "I just don't know why I can't seem to get the kicks out of this one."

There were multiple other ghosts inside the containment unit, all the ghosts Jackie used the Ecto-Dejecto on, but she seemed very confused on why the juice she has created could only make the ghosts stronger instead of weakening them.

"Uh, any chance of me getting far far away from here?" Dani asked her folks.

"Good idea, Danielle! Best you avoid an unnecessary contamination!" Matt said to his daughter.

"Or embarrassment. Thanks!"

After Dani left the lab, Jackie examined her syringe in confusion. "Maybe I just need a bigger needle." She suggested.

Back at Elmerton underneath Vincent's rundown apartment building in the boiler room, Vincent had Danny in a corner with his wrists and ankles bound together with energy with light shining on him as he struggled to break free.

"Let me go!" Danny demanded.

"Not on your afterlife, ghost boy." Vincent said sourly as he towered over him with his fists on his sides.

Danny strained again until he gasped when he looked down at his hands. They were beginning to melt, which scared him even more. "That's what I'm afraid of." Danny then looked back up at the teen ghost hunter in fear. "What are you going to do with me?"

"Me? I'm not doing anything to you." Vincent then smiled as he pulled out a cellphone. "I got ya all bundled up for delivery to Vladia Masters."

Danny stared at him in shock. "You're working for Vladia?! She'll destroy me!"

"Ha! That's a good one." The hunter scowled accusingly at the boy. "She told me the only reason you came out of the Ghost Zone was to destroy her."

"WHAT?! No! She's lying!"

"Vladia Masters is a good woman, she has never lied to me!"

"Are you insane?! Look at me!" Danny allowed his face to melt a little to show how weak and harmless he really was, and to show that Vladia was lying to him that he was dangerous and evil. He frowned back up at Vincent like it should've looked obvious. "Do I look like I could destroy anything?" Vincent tried to ignore him as he turned his back toward the ghost boy and began dialing in Vladia's number. "Vladia is evil, and even though I knew she was hunting me, I chance coming here because I'm dissolving into nothing! Only one person can help and she's the only person I trust: Dani Phantom!"

Vincent turned back to him, looking surprised at first that this ghost boy actually knew Dani Phantom, the ghost he has been trying to hunt down for almost a year in a half. He smiled deviously with an idea before he pretended to be a fan. "You know the ghost girl?!"

"Yes, she's my cousin! Do you know her, too?"

"Of course! Everybody in Amity Park knows of the amazing ghost heroine, Dani Phantom!" He then pretended to be in love with her. "But...I've never had the honor of meeting her."

Danny was very desperate to find his cousin, so he just decided to trust him as he smiled with gratitude and somewhat urgency. "I'll introduce you, just set me free so I can see her!"

Vincent turned around and then smiled deviously behind the boy's back. "Oh, I'll let you see your cousin...for the last time."

Later on that night in Amity Park, Sam and Tina rode on their motor scooters down a road with Dani flying above them in ghost form (they were all now about sixteen years old). They were on their unual night ghost patrol to see if there were any ghost attacks, but everything seemed to be quiet that night.

"Our report on Patroclus? I'm impressed." Sam said through his Fenton Phone to Dani.

"Thanks, I guess I really do absorb some things while sleeping in class." She said as she shrugged a little.

"Well guys, I hate to say it-or, maybe I'm glad to say it-but tonight's ghost hunting theme is pretty much dullsville." Tina admitted to her friends. She and Sam suddenly drove past between Danny as they braked and looked back as they saw him staring at them before he took off down the street. "Unless you count the sudden appearance of Dani's long-lost ghost cousin."

Dani looked down in confusion. "What? My cousin?"

"INCOMING!" Danny cried out, making Dani look ahead and she gasped as they were flying right towards each other before they both crashed into each other and they both fell on top of a roof with grunts. Danny looked up wearily and smiled in relief that he has finally found his cousin. "Dani!"

Dani groaned as she got to her legs before she looked ahead at Danny. "Dani, that was your cousin, right?" Sam asked through her now busted up Fenton Phone.

Dani picked up her earphone. "I've got this one, guys." She said to her friends.

Sam and Tina looked at each other, looking unimpressed that Dani just blew them off like that for her cousin. Apparently, they both still had some negative opinions about Danny, despite them both interacting with the ghost boy very little. "Did we just get blown off?" Tina asked sarcastically to Sam.

"Pretty massively." He said dully.

Tina then smiled. "Wanna pig out at Nasty Burger and put it on Dani's tap?"

Sam smiled in agreement. "Absolutely." And they both drove off the Nasty Burger, leaving their friend to deal with her cousin.

"Daniel? Are you okay?" Dani asked him as she helped him up. When they released each other's hands, Dani noticed that her glove now had green goo from Danny's melting hand as she examined it with concern. "You look awful. What happened to you? Last time I saw you, you flew off flew off kind of dramatically."

"You know how hard it is to fly off dramatically?" Danny asked her. He looked down at his dissolving hand before concentrated hard on absorbing it back into his body. "That plus our last battle with Vladia left me really wiped out. As much as I've tried to save my strength since then, I just keep getting weaker. I needed your help to see if you can make me stay whole, but as soon as I got into town, Vladia came after me."

Dani frowned when Danny just told her that her archenemy was out to kill him. She kneed down to his level and placed her comforting hands on his shoulders. "She's not gonna touch you, Danny. Come on, I'll protect you."

Dani held onto her cousin and was about to fly him to Fenton Works until a hook suddenly grabbed her by her ankle, making her yelp and she gasped when she turned around and saw Vincent with his arm up with the hook cable, and a smirk on his face. Danny looked equally as surprised like he wasn't expecting the hunter boy was gonna do this.

"I knew you'd take the bait, Phantom." Vincent said cleverly.

"Bait?!" Dani exclaimed before glaring at Danny. "Was this all a trap?!"

"What?! No! No! Absolutely not! I would never ever do that!" Danny exclaimed defensively before he began to explain everything. "He saw me go ghost and he was going to turn me over to Vladia, 'til I told him I knew you and that we're related!"

"It's true, Dani." Vincent said as Dani turned back to him. "Your little ecto-brat of a cousin had no idea I was using him to get to you."

Danny stared at him in disbelief. "You what?!"

Vincent then made a mocking smile. "And he actually believed that I wanted the honor of meeting Dani Phantom...when I really just wanted the honor of destroying you!" He then sent out a wave of electricity down his grapple hook, electrocuting Dani as she shrieked in agony before he released her and she plummeted to the ground while she fell unconscious.

Danny looked down at his unconscious cousin before he glared angrily at Vincent. "You-you tricked me!" He exclaimed to the hunter boy offendedly. If he wasn't so weak, he would've been beating him to a pulp for hurting his only family.

Vincent just remained silent and continued to smirk as he aimed out his wrist gun at Danny, making him gasp in shock before he blasted at the ghost boy dead on, making him shout loudly and he fell right next to Dani as he, too, drifted into unconsciousness.

Vincent chuckled at his accomplishment. "Now that's two Dani/ny Phantoms for the price of one." He said as he looked down at the unconscious Phantom cousins.

Several minutes laters, Dani groaned as she slowly began to wake up and then gasped as she looked around and found herself in a boiler room, and that she was cuffed hands and feet by four containing cuffs. She struggled to break free, but gave up when they were even ghost-proof as she couldn't phase out of them.

"I finally got you where I want you." Vincent said as he walked out of the shadows, making Dani gasp. "But now I want answers, Phantom."

"You're not getting anything until you tell me what you did with Danny!" Dani growled as she glared angrily at him.

Vincent smiled casually as he placed his fists on his sides. "Oh, he's getting what's coming to him."

"Just tell me you didn't hand him over to Vladia."

"Well...that would be a lie now, wouldn't it?"

"Well, you didn't seem to have any trouble lying to Danny. Listen, I that we've had our issues and clearly you're not big on forgiveness, but Danny doesn't have anything to do with you hating me, even if we are related."

"I don't hate you, Dani, it's because of you that I'm the most powerful ghost hunter in Amity Park." As he spoke, he walked to a counter on the side of the room where a box was.

Dani made an offended look. "Hey! What about the Fentons?"

Vincent scoffed like she was joking around. "Are you kidding me? They couldn't catch a ghost, even if it was living under their own roof."

Dani made a flat look like he got her there. "True."

"But knowledge is power, and with your knowledge, I'll have the power to rid Amity Park of it's constant ghost invasion forever!"

Dani cocked an eyebrow. "So you want information?"

"Everything you've got. On the ghost portals, the Ghost Zone…"

"And what if I don't feel like talking to you?"

"Then I'll need to find ways to persuade you." Vincent opened the box and pulled out a gun as he activated it and revealed electricity coming out, making Dani gasp in fear.

Meanwhile, in Vladia's lab, Danny was strapped (or in reality, trapped) on top of an examination table as he strained to break free, but his strength was so weak, he couldn't break free, and it was even ghost proof so he couldn't even phase out of it. Like Dani, he did also have a big fear of being dissected like a guinea pig.

"What is it with you and examination tables?!" Danny exclaimed in annoyance before he pulled with his legs, but immediately stopped when they melted a little as he eyes went wide in surprise. "Whoa!"

"Now, now, my son." Vladia said as she walked out of the shadows in her ghost form, satisfied that she has finally captured the one imperfect clone who has betrayed her willingly. "If you continue to struggle, there'll be nothing left of you to dissect."

She reached out to touch Danny's forehead as he turned his head away and glared in disgust at his creator and former mother. "Don't touch me, fruitloop!"

His face melted a little, making her retract back her gloved hand in disgust as it dripped from her fingers. "Ewww!" She snapped her fingers as a scanner appeared and began scanning a struggling Danny as his body began to melt even more. "Structural density?"

"53%, dumpling." A Matt hologram said. Danny groaned weakly as his body began to reform again. "85%, sweetums. I love the perfume you're wearing."

"Ectoplasmic energy readings?"

"Unstable, cupcake."

"Clearly, he is only mildly more sound than the other clones. The question is: why did he last longer than the rest?"

She then saw Danny look up at her weakly. "Please tell me you've been working on something to stabilize me." He asked her hopefully, trying to see if her could reach into his 'mother' and hoped there was at least some good in her.

"Oh no, my child. I've had far more important matters to tend to. My Matthew upgrade, for instance. Right, dear?"

"Whatever you say, Vladia, my brilliant and ingenious lambchop. I love what you've done with your fangs." The Matt hologram said.

Vladia smiled brightly and then grinned wickedly at Danny. "Well, Daniel, it seems the only way I'll be able to make a perfect clone...is to melt you down and study your ectoplasmic remains." Danny looked up at her in fear, knowing that she still wanted to kill him as the imperfect clone she viewed him as and nothing more.

Back in the boiler room, Dani tried to talk to Vincent that killing and torturing ghosts was wrong, but he believed that every ghost he saw was evil, and he still wasn't quite the forgiving type still he stilled never forgave Dani for 'ruining' his life, revealing his identity to his mother, and supposingly trying to kill him when his old suit was controlled by a technopathic ghost.

"Vincent! You don't want to do this!" Dani said as she tried to reason with him.

"No, you don't want me to do this." Vincent said as he smiled and held up the ecto gun.

"Well, yeah…" Vincent then shocked Dani with his gun, making her shriek loudly. "STOP!" Vincent halted his gun and looked at her. "I'll tell you about the portals! I'll give you a map to the Ghost Zone, you can become the hero ghost hunter of Amity Park, but first, you need to let me go and we need to save Daniel!"

"Why?! Because your cousin's one of your kind? A ghost?" Vincent shocked Dani again, making her shout in pain.

"No! Because he's one of yours! A human!" Vincent made a look of shock as she continued. "He's not just a ghost, he's also a boy."

"But Vladia said the ghost part of him was out to get her and Amity Park."

"Vincent, you saw him! Did Danny really look like he could destroy anything?"

"Funny...he asked the same thing." Vincent looked down as he began thinking to himself for a second.

"Look, the facts are Daniel's ghost half is unstable, Vladia is out to destroy him. And if she destroys the ghost half, the human half is destroyed along with it!"

Vincent glanced back up at the ghost girl as he glared. "No! That's not my problem! He is a ghost, and I destroy ghosts!"

"Fine, destroy ghosts! But can you really take part in destroying a human?"

That made Vincent hesitate when she reminded him that Danny was not just a ghost, but also a human, and he would never harm an innocent human. He guessed to himself the he was so caught up on wanting to destroy him because he was part ghost, he never listened to his pleads and that he even ignored the young ghost boy when he said he couldn't destroy anything, because he was unstable and melting into ectoplasm. And after learning he was Dani's cousin, the ghost girl he has been trying to hunt down since he first became a hunter, he was willing to trick him into luring both of them together so he could capture him and hand him to Vladia. Maybe Vladia did lie to him, but in Vincent's view, she probably just misunderstood Danny as a real threat, but like usual, he was too stubborn to admit of her true evil intentions. Finally, he begrudgingly agreed to help Dani rescue her cousin and make up for his mistake.

Dani flew the both of them into Fenton Works and into the lab. They both looked around and saw that they were alone, Vincent made a look at Dani when he realized she was still holding his hand and he swiped his hand away from her's.

"What makes you think the Fentons would have anything to help Danny?" Vincent asked skeptically with his arms crossed. "They are ghost hunters, not ghost helpers."

"Yes and no." Dani said as she began searching around the counters for something useful. "My mo-uh...Jackie Fenton tends to be a little of both." She then smiled when she found a sprayable canister of her mother's Ecto-Dejecto. She knew that Jackie made it to make ghosts weaker, but it instead made them stronger. She hoped that, since it could make a ghost's body stronger, it should also help strengthen Danny's unstable clone DNA to help stabilize his ghost form and DNA to prevent him from melting anymore so he could become whole again. "For the sake of all ghosts, I keep my eye on these guys and have a pretty good idea of what they're up to."

"You don't think it's a little dangerous flying into the lab of a family of ghost hunters?"

They heard grunting from inside a full containment unit full of ghosts and saw that Jackie was cramped at the top and being squashed from inside of it. "Something tells me we'll be okay."

Dani phased Vincent through the ceiling before briefly returning to flush the ghost out of the containment unit and through the pipes before they swirled into the ghost portal, back into the Ghost Zone before she flew away. Jackie fell from the top and looked at the empty unit she was kind of trapped in. "He-he-hey! Am I good or what?" Jackie said with a smile.

Vincent flew across Amity Park with Dani flying right behind him as they flew towards Vladia's mansion. However, one of her bug spy cameras caught them on tape as it sent a live footage of Vincent and Dani straight into Vladia's lab.

"Intruder alert, dearest." The Matt hologram announced.

"Dani!" Danny exclaimed when he saw the footage. He was strapped to a melting device that would shock him mercilessly and cause his unstable body to fall apart and underneath him as a large unit where his ectoplasm would be collected for Vladia to study for a perfect clone for herself and to research how he survived longer than the other clones, both as revenge against her former 'son' and as an advantage all for herself.

"Phantom!" Vladia growled as she walked to the screen. "Argh, what a nuisance. And Vincent! Well this is inconvenient at best. Can't go letting him discover the truth now, can we?" She then duplicated herself as her duplicate changed into Vladia Masters. "Time to assume my role in our little production." The human Vladia duplicate locked herself inside the closet to pretend she was captured.

"I'll go welcome our guests." The Plasmius Vladia said before flying off, but then stopped at the Matt hologram. "And I'm sorry, dear, but I can't have them see you either." She pressed a button on the console.

"See you tonight, my love." He said before fading away.

"Until then, there's work to be done."

Dani and Vincent phased into the mansion and landed in the main room. "DANI! HELP!" They heard Danny shout from somewhere as they looked around for the source of the scream.

"Danny?!" Dani called out.

"It came from in there!" Vincent said as he pointed at the fireplace. Before they could do anything, Vladia Plasmius phased from the floor and laughed as she waved her cape off of her.

Dani frowned at her archenemy. "I don't want to fight you, Vladia, I just want to save Daniel!"

"Sorry, not on my watch." Vladia smirked before firing a ghost beam at Dani, sending her crashing into a bookshelf. Before she could get up, the shelf collapsed on top of her hard. Vincent summoned his hoverboard and flew straight at the ghost woman as Dani drifts to unconsciousness and changed into her human form. Vladia turned intangible with her arms crossed as Vincent flew right through her. "Feeling super in our new suped-up suit, are we?"

Vladia fired another beam at Vincent as he pulled up a blue shield and deflected her attack as he grinned cleverly at the ghost woman. "Actually, yeah." He said before the bottom of his board fired multiple darts as they pinned Vladia to the wall by her cape, skirt, and gloves as she shouted.

Vladia then smiled at the teen ghost hunter. "Not bad, but do you really think you can trap me, boy?"

"I think I just did." However, Vladia merely phased through the wall and the darts, surprising him as his eyes went wide. "What the?!"

She then phased back into her lab and walked to her console. "Breaking up is hard to do, unless you have a button that does this!" Vladia pulled on a lever and activated the device on Danny, ignoring the boy's look of fear as it shocked him and began to destabilize his entire body.

Vladia laughed evilly until Vincent burst from the ceiling and saw he was too late. "NO!"

Danny's feet began to melt as he shouted in agony. "DANI!" He shouted to the top of his lungs up to the first floor.

Dani woke up and she heard her cousin's cry. "DANIEL!" She exclaimed back, until she noticed that she has changed back into her human form. "Oh no, Vincent. Did he see me change?"

"HELP ME!"

Dani then got serious at her task at hand. "No time to worry about that now." She transformed back into her ghost form and phased through the floor.

"DANI!" Daniel's body began to destabilize from the electrical currents from his restraints.

Dani phased into the lab and saw that Vincent was just floating there on his hoverboard as she floated right next to him. "Vincent! Why are you standing around?"

They heard knocking from behind the closet door. "Help! That horrible ghost trapped me and is going to destroy the boy!" They heard Vladia shout urgently from inside.

"Vladia?" Vincent wondered in confusion.

"Hello, Vladia's right in front of you!" Dani said behind her teeth as she gestured to Vladia Plasmius.

"Not her, Vladia Masters! This is her mansion!" He dove down to the closest as he hopped off his board and opened the door as human Vladia fell on him as he caught her bridal style as she faked her weakened capture.

"As a sweet, caring good natured woman I am, I beg you don't let her do it!" Vladia acted out in a fake plead.

Vincent smirked up at Dani. "Ha! Told you she was a good girl!"

Dani only frowned at him until she heard Danny shouting in pain again. "Help!" She turned and noticed he was still getting destabilized by the device and dove down to help him.

"What are you doing to him?! Stop it, now!" Vincent fired his wrist gun at Vladia Plasmius and blasted her dead on and sent her crashing to the wall as she collapsed to the floor.

Dani landed in front of Danny and tried to take the cuffs off him, but ended up getting shocked away from him. She yelped and held onto her hand before she narrowed her eyebrows and she fired an ecto beam at the cuffs, but it did no apparent effect as the cuffs continued shocking him.

"It's going to take more than your little plasma ray to cut those ties, Danielle." Vladia said as she smirked at her archenemy while she stood up. Vincent aimed his wrist gun again and fired another beam at her again, making a hole on the wall when she was blasted dead on.

Danny continued to scream to the top of his lungs as his legs began to melt into green ectoplasm. Dani fired another beam at the cuffs, but still didn't do anything. "I can't break them, Daniel. There's only one thing left to try." She said as she took out the Ecto-Dejecto from her belt. She looked back at her cousin. "Feeling brave?"

"A little weak in the knees actually...and I don't even have knees anymore!" Danny exclaimed as he gestured to his legs melting even more as he destabilized even faster.

"Then let's just hope my mom didn't mend this Achilles Heel!"

Dani placed the Ecto-Dejecto on Danny's arm and sprayed the juice inside his body, but nothing happened as his whole body to melt as he grew even weaker and weaker. "I think it's too late." He looked at Dani as he began to lose his grip on keeping his body together. "Goodbye, Dani...thanks for…"

Dani's eyes went wide. "Oh no!" With one final breath, Danny finally fully melted into ectoplasm as it fell straight into the unit below him, now he was nothing but a puddle of ectoplasm. "NO!" Dani kneed at the unit and began to grieve at the lost of her cousin, and that she failed to help save him like she promised she would. "No, Danny! I-I failed you!" She buried her face into her hands as she sobbed quietly. "I'm so sorry."

However, the puddle of ectoplasm began to bubble as Danny's head appeared on top, looking a little confused and surprised until he smiled at his sobbing cousin. "Dani? What's the trouble?"

Dani perked up when she heard his voice as she turned to him and smiled. "Huh? Hey!"

Danny burst out of the puddle with a laugh as his ectoplasm reformed into his body and he became solid before he landed in front of his cousin, his body longer unstable and no longer melting as the Ecto-Dejecto has worked as he was whole once again. His unstable clone DNA has finally been stabilized and his body was now complete. "I'm me again!" Dani walked up to him with a look of joyful relief before they hugged each other. "I knew you wouldn't let me down!"

"A little help here!" Vincent cried as he flew around with Vladia at her tail, catching the Phantom cousins' attentions as they turned to him while they released each other.

Danny smirked like he has been waiting a long time for this moment. "With pleasure."

The ghost boy glared angrily as he charged straight at Vladia and punched her straight at the ceiling. She flew out of the hole and looked around for her attacker, until she felt someone grabbing her cape. She looked up and saw Danny holding onto the end of her cape before he spun her around one time before he threw her across the lab. Vladia screamed as she crashed through five stone columns from Danny's superhuman strength before she crashed into a wall, plummeted down and crashed onto a computer console hard until she finally landed on the floor with a grunt.

Vladia looked up and her eyes went wide when she noticed Danny flying straight at her with a very ticked off look of his face. "I never got to thank you for the homecoming!" He shouted sarcastically out loud to his villainess creator. He then angrily threw a few green ecto disks at her and then a couple of ecto waves from his swing kicks with grunts.

Vladia managed to fly up and she avoided all of his energy attacks at once. "Ha! You missed me!" She shouted at him with a sick grin, but then the young ghost boy zoomed in and punched her hard dead on at her chest and sent her crashing onto the wall as she drifted to unconsciousness.

Danny landed a few feet away as he glared angrily at her for trying to kill him while his resentment for his former mother grew even more after she just tried to kill him with no hesitation or second thoughts at all. "Guess that'll teach her to pick on a defenseless boy."

"There's no such thing." Vincent said with a impressed smile as he and Dani walked up to him while the ghost boy faced them.

"Get Daniel out of here, Vincent, I'll be right behind you." Dani said to him. Vincent smiled at Danny before he hopped on his hoverboard and took off out of the mansion while Danny followed suit, leaving Dani alone to have a little 'chat' with her archenemy as she crossed her arms and glared at her. "Man, you really know how to work the system, don't you?"

The real Vladia Masters grinned as she walked up to her ghost duplicate and reabsorbed her before grinning back at Dani. "It's my specialty." She said with her hands behind her back.

"Now Vincent blames Vladia Plasmius for trying to destroy Danny, leaving Vladia Masters in the clear. If only he knew you were one and the same."

Vladia's smile never dropped as she walked up to the the ghost girl casually. "Well, you could always tell him, my dear...but I'm afraid I would have to counter such slanderous accusations by revealing your little secret."

"Don't come near him again!" Dani warned as she pointed at her, telling her to stay away from Daniel, before flying out of the mansion with Vladia smiling behind her back. Dani phased out of the mansion outside and looked very impressed by Danny's battle with Vladia after he tossed her around. "Danny, that was awesome!" But she noticed that he wasn't there as she only saw Vincent floating there on his hoverboard. "Danny? Vincent, where's Danny?"

"BOO!" Danny shouted as he turned visible right in front of her, making her jump a little before he and Vincent laughed at their little prank.

Dani smirked at the boys as she placed her hands on her hips. "Oh hardee har har, very humorous."

Danny ceased laughing as he looked between Dani and Vincent while he smiled in gratitude for their help. "Thank you both! Vladia would've baked me into a puddle of nothing if you hadn't saved me!"

"That's what family's for, cuz." Dani giggled a little as she smiled before she placed her hands on her hips. "So uh, now what? Gonna head off again?"

"Yep! Now that this Phantom's fixed, he's got places to go."

"Well just be safe, okay?"

"Aw, Dani, nothing can hurt me now." He gave Dani another big brotherly hug. "I'll see you later, cuz, and thanks, Vincent!" And after saying his goodbyes, he took off to the sky and flew off to the parts unknown to do his own brand of good for the world, but he promised he would come back to visit his cousin in a later time.

Dani and Vincent both watched as the young ghost boy disappeared into the night sky until he was out of sight before Dani held out his arms to Vincent while he looked at her in confusion. "What's that for?" He wondered.

"Deal's a deal. You helped me save Danny, you can now have me back as your captive." Dani said to him.

Vincent only scoffed as he smiled at her. "Forget it."

She dropped her arms in surprise when he was letting her go just like that, dropping the deal they made before. "What?"

He looked away as he glared a little. "Fly away, ghost girl...before I change my mind."

Dani then began to float away as she smiled. "Alright, I'm going." She turned around to fly away, but only to get blasted in the butt by the hunter boy. "Ow! What in-"

Vincent smirked at her cleverly as he allowed his arm down. "But don't think this is gonna last. Tomorrow, it's game on!"

Dani grinned back at him. "Wanting to have your butt wiped by a girl? Don't worry, Red Hunter, I'm always ready to play." And with that, she flew back to Fenton Works after a long night of saving her cousin from being melted down into nothing but ectoplasm.

Vincent sighed as he watched her disappear into the sky the same way her cousin did. "I told her Vladia was a good girl." He gasped when he suddenly remembered about his boss. "Ms. Masters! I forgot about her!" He quickly flew back into the mansion before he made his hoverboard disappear and then he walked around. "Mayor Masters?! Are you okay?!" He began looking around the damaged lab after Danny nearly destroy it while he tossed Vladia around the room. "Mayor Masters?!"

He peeked through a console until he heard high heel steps and Vladia's voice. "Disappeared? Oh, we were so close! If only we've managed to melt that little brat down!" She growled to herself.

Vincent quickly hid behind a damaged column and peeked through with a look like that selfish talking sounded very familiar to the ghost woman he has fought against. "Is that...Plasmius?"

The hunter boy saw a hologram version of Matt Fenton standing there before he noticed Vladia Masters walking towards it with her permanent smile. "And who knew Vincent would be so easy to fool? 'Trapping me in the closet'. Ha! Ingenious!" Before Vincent's very eyes, she transformed into Vladia Plasmius right in front of him, shocking him completely as his eyes went wide, and she luckily didn't notice. "For a smart boy, he's very easily lead."

Vincent quickly ran out of the lab and jumped back in his hoverboard as he flew away from Vladia's mayor mansion, completely overwhelmed with shock and anger at what he just witnessed his boss just do before his eyes. "Vladia Masters is Vladia Plasmius?! Those Phantom cousins were right all along! And all this time I've been doing all her dirty work!" He then glared angrily with a look of determination, now feeling completely betrayed that his own employer has been lying and using him from the day she first gave him his weapons, using him as one of her useful pawns. "Well, not anymore. Better watch out, Vladia...cause one of the ghosts I'm hunting now is YOU!"

Meanwhile back at Fenton Works, Jackie was pounding her fist from inside the containment unit, still trapped inside "Hello?!" She called out before clearing her throat. "A little help here?! I HAVE TO GO TO THE BATHROOM!"