Phantom Trip

Evil halfa for mayor!

Tucker!!! What do you think.

   Danny didn't know what to say. On the one hand Vlad was a crazy old man who kept tormenting him and making his life way more difficult than it already was. On the other hand if Danny told his mom of Vlad's secret, the fruitloop would tell everyone that Danny was Phantom.

He sighed. His parents were just one hair away from finding out the truth.

Before he could make a decision Jack chose that moment to come up, arms full of weapons. He grinned at them. "Vladdie? What does he have to do with any of this."

Maddie looked over at him, lips pursed. "No, Jack. It's.... another....Vlad." She trailed off. Is it? She looked over at Danny. "Danny. How does this...Vlad...know me?"

He fidgeted. "He ummmm. I don't know."

Maddie then grabbed him by the shoulders. "Danny. You became halfghost because of the accident with the portal, didn't you?"

Danny frowned at Tucker and Sam. "I guessed they had filled you in. And yeah. Why?"

Maddie let go and scrunched her eyebrows. She glanced at her husband. This event seemed awfully familiar to her. "Jack? Do you remember what happened in college?"

Jack raised an eyebrow. "So many things happened in college, Mads."

She waved her hands. "Yes but the incident with Vlad." Maddie noted how her son stiffened. "It was very similar to Danny's incident wasn't it?" Her brain worked around the facts. She had actually been thinking about this for awhile. How did Danny acquire ghost powers but not Vlad? She had assumed it was because Danny was inside when it happened but Vlad was only hit on the face. However, it would explain how he became so rich in so little time.

Maddie didn't know if Danny could overshadow someone else but she knew ghosts could so if Vlad was also halfghost...

Jack frowned. He didn't really like to talk about that incident. They had been such great chums back then. Always together. Then they grew apart. Vlad had never completely forgiven him. "Yeah. It's very similar."

Maddie sat down as strength left her legs. Her mind working overtime. Danny had called the ghost Plasmius. He had said it was the Wisconsin ghost and he wanted Danny as his son. He also had a hologram of Maddie and apparently liked her.

That did sound like Vlad.

She'd seen the Wisconsin ghost a few times. He didn't look at all like Vlad. In fact he looked downright evil. And he had this driven look in his eyes.

Maddie shakily looked up at her son. "Danny? The man who experimented on you, the Wisconsin ghost, isn't..... Vlad Masters....right?"

Danny bit his lip.

The other students listening gasped. Everyone knew Vlad Masters. He was the mayor after all. What was this woman implying? That their mayor was this crazy old man obsessed enough with Danny to make clones of him?

That was....that was crazy.

Jack kneeled by her. "Maddie. It can't be. Why would V-ma...... Vlad...do that?"

Maddie kept looking at Danny. She stood up and faced him, waiting.

Danny sighed. He ran a hand through his hair. Then he nodded. He inspected his parents' expressions. His dad clearly didn't believe any of what was being said. His mom, however, looked as if her suspicions had just been confirmed. He decided to explain. "Vlad is also a halfa. He's been ever since the accident at college. He still wants you back, mom. He's asked me many times to be his son too....like I just explained. He became rich because he misused his powers." He didn't really know how to go on. He purposefully avoided mentioning anything about the man's deep hatred for Jack.