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The Life We Fight For
Chapter 4: Interrogation
The three friends took the whole morning of the next day exploring the medieval style castle, running through rooms full of old armor and weaponry dating back to the Dark Ages, and more modern places like a fully operational gym, theater, indoor and outdoor pool, and, Danny's favorite, an observatory on the top floor. Even Sam was amazed at the ancient artifacts and decked out rooms that the old home of the Dairy King housed.
Danny had been on edge as soon as Vlad had announced at breakfast he would be gone for most of the day. He didn't trust the half-ghost one bit. He may have offered to help him out, but he still wasn't sure whether or not he was willing to go along with the plan Vlad had set out.
More than anything Danny was clinging to the slim hope that something paranormal was behind all of this, but the idea was a weak one. All he had to go on was Vlad's vague comment and his own experience with his parent's weird behavior. The thought that a ghost he was unaware of might be in the picture was both alarming and comforting. Sadly that was not the only thing plaguing the young halfa's mind.
To Danny's dismay the crisscross of electricity-induced scars along most of his body were still slightly visible in his human form, and for once, he was glad that Vlad had his room pre-prepared for his arrival. He had taken a long shower that morning, trying his best to be rid of the wounds but nothing could be done. He'd put on a black, long sleeved collared shirt (the fruitloop just didn't understand the meaning of the word 'casual') and denim pants, deciding to keep his beloved red and white sneakers for some familiarity.
It was close to lunchtime when the trio decided that their curiosity had been satisfied, and Danny, Sam and Tucker all headed to the dining room to eat and once again contact Danny's sister for an update.
Danny was anything but excited about hearing his sister's voice. He missed her of course and wanted nothing more than for her to be safe, but he didn't want to hear anything having to do with his parents. He could barely think about them without shivers of anxiety running down his spine!/p
As Danny followed his friends to the large game room carrying a large tray of various sandwiches and sat down beside them on a bean bag he contemplated making up an excuse to leave the room. No doubt Jazz would be upset and ask for him though, and he'd be dragged kicking and screaming right back by an annoyed Sam in no time. The control she had over him was shocking at best./p
"I'm going to call her now, she'll want to hear you first, Danny." Sam said, setting the phone to speaker mode and placing it on the coffee table in front of them.
It rang only three times before Jazz's voice was heard.
"Hey Sam, I'm glad you called, I was getting worried."
Danny hesitated for a moment and Sam nudged him a bit, gesturing to the device between them. Tucker raised a concerned eyebrow at him while stuffing his face with sandwiches and Danny merely swallowed his nervousness and looked at the far wall, imagining his sister was here with him.
"Sam?"
"Jazz, it's me." Danny said, not once looking at the phone.
"Danny?" Her voice echoed in relief. "Are you alright? Did they hurt you? Oh what am I saying of course they did- but you're recovered right? Ghosts heal fast don't they? I think I read-"
"Whoa!" Danny said with a smile. At least his sister was acting normal, well, normal for her anyway. "I'm okay Jazz, really. I'm more concerned about you right now. I promise I'm coming back as soon as I can, but hopefully you'll be long gone before then."
"What do you mean 'long gone'? And Danny you can't come back here, it's dangerous! Maddie, she's gone nuts!"
"The three friends looked at eachother in confused nervousness before Sam replied to Jazz,
"What exactly is happening?" She asked the older girl.
"It's a little hard to explain... It's almost as if she's become obsessed with getting Danny back, to the point where she's constantly talking to herself, saying how she'll capture him again, tie him down and cut him open, even-"
"So," Tucker interrupted, seeing his best friend start to grow pale. "What about Mr. F? No change in personality at all? No weird behavior from the big guy?"
"No, he's been pretty normal, he tries to calm down Maddie mostly, other than that he's given up on getting out."
"Vlad's gotta be right." Danny said quietly. "Mom is being...controlled somehow, I know it."
Sam and Tucker looked at each other in sadness. They all knew just how slim the chances were that a scientist such as Maddie Fenton could be so easily overshadowed.
"She hurt you Danny! There's no excuse for that!" Jazz's voice proclaimed through the speakers. "You've got to go through with whatever plan you've got to get these guy's where they belong, in prison."
Danny's eyes suddenly narrowed and he glared at the phone on the table. The temperature in the room plummeted and the two other people in the room started to shiver uncontrollably. There was a slowly growing pain in Danny's chest but he ignored it in favor of focusing his attention on his sister instead.
"How can you say that so easily?" Danny snapped, his eyes glowing an icy blue and the scars along his body glowing the same color, so bright they were visible beneath his clothes. "They are our parents Jazz! I can't just betray them like that!"
Sam gripped Danny's arm tightly when she saw that he was about to stand. Tucker followed her lead and together they kept the ghost boy rooted to the brightly colored bean bag, lest he freeze the whole castle with his pure anger.
"What happens when they try to do this again? There's no ghost to blame here Danny, it's obvious they want to kill you!"
"That's not true!" Danny shouted, bright blue rings forming around his waist. His heart was swirling with so many emotions his body was resulting to defense mode! Danny was so confused and upset the walls were beginning to frost over from the cold and Sam was beginning to shiver in her sleeveless top, gripping onto Danny even tighter.
As the rings parted and began to transform him, Danny felt a jolt of intense pain shoot down from his chest to his toes, and he collapsed with a gasp of shock. The rings froze in place and his chest burned with throbbing pulses of agonizing waves of pain and Danny was forced to drop the transformation.
Now he was more afraid than angry, he completely forgot why he was transforming in the first place. Going ghost had never emhurt/em him before, and certainly not to this degree!
"Danny? What was that? What's going on?!"
"S-shut up...!" Danny forced out, his eyes focused on the phone.
"Why won't you let anyone help you? Quit being such a brat!"
Danny growled in rage and his hands glowed, preparing to blast the annoying voice away in one strike, when Sam spoke up.
"Enough, both of you!" She yelled over the swirling icy wind gathering around them. "Jazz, we'll keep in contact. For now, just lay low until we get everything figured out."
Tucker took the liberty of ending the call while Sam stayed by her other friend's side, watching with concern clearly written on her face as he deflated, completely devoid of energy.
""What happened dude?" Tucker asked, breaking the silence. "It's like your powers just...quit."
Danny couldn't bring himself to answer verbally and simply shrugged. He was unsure of everything nowadays, and it was driving him up the wall. The plan, his parents, his injuries, Vlad... the stress would kill him before his physical problems could.
Although, with this new development now he wasn't so sure.
-(With Vlad)-
Vlad had been finishing up his last stack of paperwork when he received a call from his butler Godfrey who he'd placed in charge of the teens' welfare. He had been informed of a sudden and large spike in ecto energy, and that his butler was concerned about the halfa's health./p
Vlad flew home as quickly as he could, only stopping to tell his driver to go home without him. It took him almost ten minutes to reach his home, a car ride that would have taken half an hour at least would most definitely not suffice.
As Vlad changed to Masters and entered his home his butler was the first to greet him at the front door.
"Afternoon sir, welcome home." Said the butler, John Godfrey. He was a ghost, however he preferred to masquerade as a human for the sake of the living maids who came to the castle twice a week to assist in keeping the enormous place clean. Godfrey was an old soul and looked well over the age of 60 with deep blue gray eyes and white, aged hair.
"Indeed," Vlad replied, allowing the butler to shut the door behind him. "I see my home is still standing, so I assume the spike of ecto energy has dispersed?"
"Well, not quite." Godfrey led his employer to the lab where he had been watching the video feed of the children exploring the manor, up until the camera was frozen and no longer functioned. "If you'll watch here, I think you'll find the boy has quite the problem at the moment."
Vlad's eyes never left the screen as Godfrey showed him the moments in which Daniel had nearly lost control of his powers, and subsequently failed to transform. Vlad eyed the collapsed boy on the ground up until the camera fizzled and broke, his mind swirling with confusion.
"I had suspected that a drop in control was possible with the injuries the boy had sustained..." Vlad's eyebrows creased in thought. "But perhaps I don't yet know the extent of the damage...if only it wasn't completely impossible to get Daniel to agree to anything, let alone an examination."
The old butler smiled as he watched Vlad stare at the screen, both contemplating and irritated at the same time. He stepped forward and brought up the live feed of the teens watching a movie in the theater, and zoomed in. Danny was seated on the end of the trio by Tucker, who held a giant bag of popcorn.
When Vlad inspected the three teens closer, he noticed that one specific half-ghost happened to be slightly shivering. Vlad frowned.
"Maybe if you approached the boy with a bit of...care, he would respond a bit better." Godfrey said.
"Are you suggesting that I be nice to the hero obsessed brat?" Vlad snapped, pulling away and pretending to straighten his crisp suit. "Impossible."
The butler simply bowed respectfully as the billionaire exited the room and ascended the stairs to the main floor of the house. His eyes sparkled with amusement as he shut down the computer and proceeded to the kitchen to check in with the chef.
Meanwhile Vlad was scowling as he sat in his desk chair, having retreated there to avoid the possibility of running into the most recent occupants of his castle.
On the one hand, Vlad was sure that the occurrence was an opportunity for the billionaire to get Daniel at his side, but with the young halfa's friends around, they would never let Vlad get close to him. He would have to use clever tactics to ensure Daniel remained with him after the courts decided the boy's incompetent father and less-than-sane mother were unfit for guardianship. Jasmine could easily attend the school of her dreams without the need for a scholarship, though she was indeed smart, and Daniel would train under him and grow into his perfect, evil little minion.
The fantasy was too perfect to picture and Vlad sighed as he looked down at the paperwork regarding Amity Park's election. Maddie, his college sweetheart, was not in the picture. With the thought of her actions toward Daniel and the figure Vlad had seen in the video feed he had questions desperate for answers, and no way to get them.
"Unless..." Vlad stood and eyed the scattered documents adorning his desk. "I must visit Amity to completely become a candidate for mayor anyway, might as well visit some old friends as well."
However, Vlad hesitated at the thought of leaving Daniel in the castle once again. The boy would have to be taken care of first. Vlad had to find out the cause of the strange drop in Daniel's energy in order to completely allow him to recover./p
Vlad sighed, thinking back to the words of wisdom Godfrey had said down in the lab. Daniel barely tolerated being in the same room with Vlad let alone allowing him to help. But maybe, if Vlad's attitude could change, and Daniel's friend's weren't nearby...
His mind made up, Vlad left his study and walked to the upstairs theater the adolescents had last been occupying. It was not long on his journey that he heard the voices of the trio and turned a corner to see them just exiting the room and laughing, completely focused on each other.
Danny was still slightly shaking but it was less noticeable than it had been earlier. Vlad waited a moment and when the kids didn't notice him, he cleared his throat and the hallway was silent.
As usual Danny was quick to shoot Vlad a glare, but his icy blue eyes faltered when he was met not with the familiar tense and rage-filled red eyes he was accustomed to, but calm, relaxed blue eyes that looked at him with an emotion Danny couldn't identify.
"Well, I see you all are enjoying the castle, find anything interesting?" Vlad asked, trying his very best to keep his tone light enough to be pleasant. He could act like a saint for the media but once presented with three rebellious teens he was losing all control.
"Uh, I guess the old dungeons were cool...?" Tucker answered when his friends remained silent. Sam was looking at Vlad like a puzzle she was trying to solve, and Danny was standing as till as he possibly could while shaking to seem even slightly intimidating.
"Excellent," Vlad couldn't resist a small drop of sarcasm there. "Now, Daniel, I need to speak with you. Alone preferably."
Danny's eyes immediately became suspicious and he crossed his arms over his chest. Did Vlad think he had a death wish? He was a little clueless at times, but he understood a trap when he saw one.
"Hm, let me think about that..." Danny pretended to mull it over. "How about 'no'?"
Vlad could feel his blood start to boil at the brat's defiance. He was about ready to strangle the boy! Vlad stepped forward and instantly both Danny and his friends jumped into battle stances. Vlad sighed and swiped a hand down his face. Now was not the time to rile the child up, he looked about ready to feint!
"Danny." Vlad said, gritting his teeth but allowing a softer tone to slip through into his words. "I promise I'm not going to try anything while you're here. I only wish to talk to you for a bit."
The halfa frowned at the sincere tone of voice and stayed silent. Sam was looking at him to respond and Tucker was still staying close by just in case Plasmius tried anything. Danny shivered, a hot wave of energy shuddering through him. He felt like he was intensely cold and super hot at the same time, and he didn't think he could put up much of a fight with Plasmius even if he was at one hundred percent. Lowering his stance, Danny looked to the side to avoid Sam's confused stare.
"Fine." Danny said, and Vlad nodded in relief. The older man was counting his lucky stars that Daniel had actually listened, instead of blasted him outright, which would have only made his condition worse.
"Just so you know," Sam cut in before the two could walk away. "If Danny doesn't appear before dinner I'm blowing this castle to pebbles."
Vlad rolled his eyes. "Of course." He said casually, leading Daniel to his study.
Once there, Vlad simply stood beside his desk while Daniel looked around the heavily decorated room distractedly. He was unsure how well Daniel would listen to what he had to say, but he couldn't let the halfa go in his state, a dead hero was not in his future family fantasy.
"Now," Vlad said clearly, and Danny finally looked him in the eye. "I know Maddie tortured you with ecto-energy based electricity, but I need you to tell me everything she did exactly, no exceptions."
Danny couldn't help but suppress a shiver, and this time it wasn't from pain. The memories were rooted in his mind, replaying like a broken record over and over again, in his dreams, and whenever he closed his eyes. His mother and father standing over him with grins on their faces... his own screams...
"This is extremely important." Vlad continued, seeing Danny start to lose it. "I only want to help you, I believe that something your parents did to you had caused your core to become damaged."
"My core? But she didn't...dissect me or anything." Danny said, his voice soft. It was all he could do to keep looking Vlad in the eye.
"It's possible your core has been either weakened by electricity or direct contact, but if I'm wrong and I try to fix it, it could be disastrous."
Vlad kept his tone serious but Daniel still seemed confused. He closed his eyes for a moment and when they opened he appeared to be unfocused, but after a few moments Vlad saw realization dawn on the boy's face and he looked at Vlad, a sincerely worried expression on his features.
"What if it...melted?" Danny questioned, completely serious.
"Well I suppose that would cause your core to fluctuate in order to compensate for the loss of strength to energize and control you're powers, you're core could not be completely melted, our regenerative genes replace the cells too quickly." Vlad paused for a moment in thought. "However, if the element of the core is opposite the one used to damage it, it could slow the healing process..."
"I understood none of that, by the way." Danny said, rolling his eyes. "But it sounds bad."
Vlad crossed his arms and stood up straight, flaunting his dominant height. He wasn't playing 'nice' any longer. He now had an idea of what was plaguing Daniel, and if he was right then the boy was in danger.
"How exactly did your core get injured with heat?" Vlad wondered.
Danny opened his mouth but snapped it shut, the memories coming forward making him nauseous. He swallowed and looked at the billionaires shoes. He didn't, no, he couldn't tell Vlad.
"It doesn't matter." Danny snapped, standing as tall as he could, which was only reaching Vlad's chest. "Besides, it will heal eventually right? I just have to avoid using my powers."
"Absolutely not." Vlad growled, his patience thrown out the window. "Your core has no control over your ice powers, they've already begun to effect your human half."
Vlad gestured to Danny's continuous shivering and received a scowl in return. Danny resisted the urge to wrap his arms around himself and replied with a sour tone,
"I'm fine."
"Do you understand what I'm saying to you Daniel? Your ghost half will be on fire while your human half catches frostbite, you will be in a constant state of pain and discomfort unless you let me fix this." Vlad stared directly into Danny's crystal blue eyes, desperately trying to convey his message to the stubborn teen.
"You? Fix it?" Danny chuckled. "All you do is ruin everything! You can't help me."
"Oh really?" Vlad sneered, changing into Plasmius. "I'm finished trying to do this the easy way Daniel. We only have oh so much time before your friends lay waste to my property should you miss dinner, and although you may not believe me, I have other things to do besides babysit you."
Before Danny could shout a comeback Vlad teleported behind him and grabbed him around the waist. He turned them both intangible and flew through the floors into his secret lab, dragging Danny toward a chair and pushing him down on it.
Danny tried to go ghost but the rings would blink out of existence if he must concentration for even a second. Once Vlad let him go he focused on transforming, ignoring the rush of heat that flowed uncomfortably through his veins, and slowly changed into Phantom.
"The first thing to do is cool you down, you're already sweating." Vlad said, mostly to himself.
Danny's vision was unfocused and blurry, but he could feel Vlad drop a bag of ice on his lap and he jumped at the sudden jolt of cold. Danny did not need to be told to hold it to his chest, which was burning the most, and keep it there to cool down his ghost core. Vlad meanwhile had grabbed a briefcase he kept in the lab and opened it on a counter close to Danny. The young halfa looked over the man's shoulder and saw that there were five syringes filled with a familiar glowing green substance.
"No way." Danny instantly protested. "I may not be able to put up a good fight right now, but I'm not just going to let you stick me with that."
"Vlad rolled his eyes and faced Danny, disenfectant, cotton swabs and the syringes layed out in front of Danny like weapons. "It is a purified version of ectoplasm, it will have no bad reaction with your DNA, I've tried it myself." Vlad grabbed one of Daniel's wrists and rolled up his jumpsuit's sleeve. "It will speed up the healing process and act almost like energy drink directly delivered to your body."
"Sounds reeaally interesting, but how long will it take for my core to heal?" Danny asked.
As Vlad quickly swiped the area clean and pierced Danny skin quickly and professionally, he held Danny still with the other hand and answered,
"If you take one of these a day, most likely 2 weeks at best." Vlad answered. "Though it might heal faster or slower, it is impossibly to tell this early."
Danny flinched when he felt the prick of his skin but it was over quickly and soon Vlad was allowing him to roll his sleeve back down. Danny couldn't help but notice the energy he felt surge through his veins immediately, but his mood was overshadowing the feeling.
"Two weeks?" He repeated. "I won't be able to use my powers at all for that whole time?"
"Not necessarily, you will simply have to be extremely careful with how often and how long you do so." Vlad explained, returning the case to its drawer and standing in front of Daniel, who had stood, feeling small with Vlad towering over him. "However for now I believe it would be best for you to remain in your ghost form, it will be easier to tell if the injection worked that way."
Danny merely nodded, only half understanding what the man was saying. His eyes had wandered to the ghost portal on the far wall and he'd dropped the bag of ice to the floor. It was bad enough he was in a lab with his archenemy, but the fact that the place looked very much like the laboratory his parents had at home was beginning to make him nervous.
"You never did answer my question, did you?" Vlad said, and Danny's eyes jumped back to his. "What could Maddie have possibly done to cause this much damage?"
Danny clenched his hands into fists as his eyes were no longer looking at Vlad Masters, but his mom, dropping dark red flowers beside him with an annoyed expression pointed toward him. Danny blinked rapidly and bit his lip, his stomach twisting uncomfortably.
Vlad noticed the signs of panic and immediately crushed his curiosity down in favor of pride. Daniel wasn't shaking like a leaf any longer, the ectoplasm shot must have worked to some extent.
"Don't you dare start choking again." Vlad warned when Danny only seemed to grow more uncomfortable. "You can keep your oh-so-terrible secret to yourself, for now. Go rejoin you're friends, I will not be joining you for dinner."
Danny took a deep breath and calmed down, glad Vlad hadn't decided to beat the answer out of him, though in his state he guessed Vlad thought he was too pitiful to attack. He straightened up and attempted to float. He was a little wobbly, but he could still fly.
"Can't say I'm disappointed about that, V-man." Danny mocked, flying out of the room.
Vlad huffed in annoyance and shoved the rest of his medical supplies to the side of the table, and powering up his computer. He quickly brought up the live feed of the Fenton's home and searched the cameras for what he was looking for.
The half ghost smirked when he found the ghost portal was open and fully functioning. The foolish girl, she was most likely too scared to go near it. Vlad turned towards his own portal and took a small remote shaped device from the table. He pressed a button and the device rang like a cellphone.
The communicators were Vlad's own inventions, able to be used even when in different dimensions, such as the ghost zone. Vlad heard Skulker's voice on the other end just as he began to fly through the Ghost Zone.
"Plasmius, how may I be of service?"
"I am going to Amity Park to see the situation for myself, give me your report." Vlad said.
"The girl you mentioned is perfectly fine, in fact she's a bit scary when she really wants to be." Said Skulker. "The orange hunter, he is no threat, the woman though, she's downright dangerous."
"Explain."
"The first time I entered the room-invisible of course- it was as if she knew I was there, she shouted so loud my suit's speakers almost went out."
"What exactly did she say?" Vlad asked, beginning to grow worried. If there was truly such a ghost that could control another being to such magnitude, Vlad needed all the information he could get."
"She was telling something about me knowing where the welp was, and how she wouldn't rest until he was dead, she mentioned something about flowers too, I can't remember what it was though."
"That'll do, you may leave your post for now, however stay close in case I need you." Vlad ordered, disconnecting the line. "Maddie, this ghost, their 'deal', and Daniel... this doesn't make sense..."
For as long as Vlad had known her, Maddie Fenton had been headstrong, stubborn, and loyal at all times. She would never, not in a million years, allow a ghost to gain control over her so easily! But Vlad was so unsure about just what was going on he wasn't sure what he was supposed to think.
Plasmius approached the desired portal and wasted no time contemplating his decision any longer. He went invisible and flew inside.
Had to see Maddie for himself.
Vlad paused in surprise at the vast amounts of ectoplasm and blood that remained painted across the room, like a scene directly from a horror movie. Vlad covered his mouth and nose and flew away from the lab, to the living room, catching sight of Jasmine sitting on the couch, book in hand and
ghost weapons surrounding her.
"I'm not totally incompetent you know." She aid without looking up. "Our house has sensors to let me know when a ghost is around, they just thought it was broken all this time, what with Danny living here."
Vlad dropped his invisibility and landed in front of her.
"Given that you aren't aiming one of those guns at me, I can assume you are aware Daniel is under my care at the moment?" Vlad said, and Jazz did look away from her book this time, sighing slightly.
"Of course I do, and just so you know, I'm not happy about it." She replied. "But I can't help Danny here, I can only buy him time. Something has to be done soon or..."
"They'll go after him again."
Jazz nodded. She marked her place in her psychology book and set it aside, standing.
"I know why your here. The love of your life, hurting the son of your dreams? You must be curious." Jazz said with a disgusted face. "Follow me, quietly."
Jazz led Vlad up the stairs to her parents room, gesturing to the door. She didn't even want to see them, she merely wanted Danny far away from them, and if that meant acting as a warden for her own parents, so be it.
Vlad stared at the door for a few moments before phasing inside, once again invisible. He saw Jack's hulkish figure seated on the edge of the bed, head in his hands. He looked defeated, and exhausted. Vlad turned and finally saw her. Maddie was bent over a desk in the far corner, scribbling down something Vlad couldn't identify on a piece of paper.
As Vlad grew near she seemed to tense. Vlad ignored this and looked over her shoulder. There were scattered papers filled with data she'd collected. They looked familiar to Vlad, and he soon realized they were scribbles of Daniel's physical makeup, his genes, drawings replicating the different cells in his human and ghost form...
She was studying him.
Maddie gasped suddenly and whirled around, knocking down the desk chair and standing to her feet. Jack stared worriedly at her, standing up as well.
"Maddie? What's wrong?" Jack said.
"You...you know where he is, don't you?" She said, looking straight into Vlad's invisible red eyes. "You sent that other ghost here, I know it! You have my son!"
"Maddie!" Jack grabbed her as she made to lunge for Plasmius. He held her tight enough to keep her still, but her words plunged into Vlad like a knife.
"Don't you dare hide him from me!" She screamed, writhing. "I'll fix him! I'll make him my perfect little boy again! I swear it, even if I have to tear him apart!"
Vlad backed away as Jack began to attempt to calm her, beyond confused and concerned. He quickly phased out of the room and found Jasmine staring at the door in disgust while leaning against the wall.
"How long has she been like this?" Vlad questioned, landing beside her and speaking softly. Jazz walked back towards the stairs and Vlad followed.
"Ever since Danny was with them in the lab, she has been crazy about finding him. She knows he's not dead, probably because she hadnt hurt him that bad, wanting to expirament some more when Sam and Tucker came."
Jazz went as far as the door leading to the lab before she stopped.
"Plasmius." She said seriously. "You're Danny's only option right now, even though I hate your guts...he needs you. Don't screw up."
Vlad smirked and bowed in the air in front of her.
"I'll do my best, you shall see your dear brother again soon." Vlad promised.
She seemed to relax a bit and let him to return to her post, watching and listening to her parents insanity.
Vlad left the house and flew high into the air, overlooking Amity Park. He spotted City Hall in the distance and his smile only grew./p
"Now, for the first part of my plan to be set in motion..."
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Next Chapter: Vlad becomes an official candidate for Amity Park's mayor, and Danny attempts to convince him to win honestly.
Welp, that was a rollercoaster of angst wasn't it? Haha, sorry but it's necessary for this part of the story. The next chapter will have less seriousness in it, you earned it if you made it this far!
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