"What are you doing here? You never come to town..."

Vlad brushed some invisible snow off his winter jacket, that oddly looked like his normal suit jacket, the only difference was the visible foofur on the cuffs and neck lining...

"Well, I had a new store opening ceremony, as well as Maddielen, ran out of kibble, and since I was already in town I thought I'd get it myself..."

Danny sighed, 'Guess even evil villains need to do errands...', Danny felt dizzy again, the blow to the head was not helping with the fact he'd barely slept more than four hours in the last week... or was that two?

"Daniel!!!"

Vlad quickly grabbed Danny's elbow before he completely lost his footing and hit the ground... again... he then guided him over to the outdoor seating next to them, brushing off the snow before they sat down.

Danny held his head in his hands as the feeling of nausea and his empty stomach churning got to him any more, he really hoped it'd stop soon... But suddenly, a wisp of blue icy air escaped his lips, 'Aww great... just what I needed...', he went to get up to find a place to Go Ghost, but Vlad grabbed his arm and stopped him.

"Daniel, stop... it can wait a moment, you need to get your barrings..."

What was this?... was Vlad... Vladimir Masters... also known as Vlad Plasmius... being nice? To Him?!?

Danny knew Vlad wanted to make him his son, but this was his first time showing any kind of concern for his well-being... it was... strange... maybe it was just a new trick into getting him on his side?

"Nice try ya Frootloop, but I don't have time for this..."

Danny checked his surroundings, he jumped into the air before transforming above him.

"Catchcha later, Frootloop!"

He then flew off towards the area his Ghost Sense had directed him in. He wasn't surprised when it was his own house, he went intangible and flew into the basement to find Technus hacking the Ghost Portal!

"Technus! What in God's name are you doing!!!"

"Why making some upgrades of course~! I thought it'd be a good idea to make this a ghost only portal since the GIW have discovered this one, you, of course, will still be able to make it through, but if any overworld items or people try to go through then~"

Technus then picked up a box and threw it at the portal, but instead of going through it bounced off and flew across the room making a loud bang!

The lab door was thrown open as the trigger happy Ghost hunters ran down the stairs...

"GHOSTS! Madds turn on the Ghost shield! Don't want them escaping!"

"On it!"

The sound of a loud switch being throw and the ecto-shield wirling to life could be heard.

"Opes! I haven't calibrated it to your unique ecto-signature yet my liege!!!"

"It's fine! Just go! I got this!"

Technus hesitantly entered the portal as Maddie ran down the stairs, she then threw the Ghost laso around Danny, further trapping him.

"No way out of this Ghost Boy!"

"Yeah, you tell him Madds!"

Maddie rolled her eyes under her goggles. Danny couldn't phase-out of this there was clearly no way out of this... except for one... and if he didn't then his parents would dissect him, tearing him apart molecule by molecule, as they had told him a billion times before...

"Get the table ready Jack! Can't wait to see how this thing ticks!"

"W-Wait please don't do this! It's me! Your son!!!"

Danny then transformed before them, causing the laso to fall to the ground as it had lost any ectoplasm to stick to...

His parents stood before him, stunned. This was not how he had planned for this to happen...

He slowly walked towards his mother.

"Mom?"

Suddenly she snapped out of her shocked state and wrapped her arms around him.

"Oh, Danny! Baby! How did this happen to you!!!"

"The accident last year... I sorta died... but didn't... if that makes any sense... the electricity and ectopic energy in the portal both killed me and kept me alive..."

Danny then walked over to a table picking up a scalpel before walking back, he then made a small cut on his finger. The red and green blood oozed out slightly, as both his parents yelled at him.

"Danny!"

"No no, it's ok, I just needed to show you what I meant... see I'm already healed..."

They all stood in silence for what felt like an eternity... suddenly Jack and Maddie looked at each other as Maddie threw Jack the Fenton Ecto-Gauntlets, he then grabbed Danny and began dragging him up the stairs as Maddie grab a few Ecto-Blades and ran up after them.

"M-Mom?!? D-Dad!?! What are you doing?!?"

"Where to Madds?"

"Upstairs bathroom."

Now it was Maddie leading the way, she opened the door and threw the blades in the sink, as she turned the bathtub water on. Within minutes the tub was filled, Maddie then turned and after taking a blade from the sink, cut her son's shirt off.

"M-Mom!?! Stop! S-stop! Please!!!"

But it was no use as she ripped the remaining fabric away.

"Put him in the tub and hold him there."

"W-What?!? W-Wait!?!"

Jack did as his wife told him and soon Danny was held in the water... screaming... as his own mother carved into his arm turning the water a mix of red and green...

"Hold on dear, this won't take long! I-I promise!"

But since his healing factor kept kicking in and closing his wounds... it went on for hours...

All Danny could focus on was his own screaming and how cold he was... he'd never experienced this type of chill before... and he'd almost died of hypothermia from his Core...

Soon all he could do was try to stay conscious and hope his healing factor could keep up with all this... but sadly it couldn't and soon his wounds stopped healing... as only red ran from them...

At this point, Danny's hair had even turned white as Phantom's from the sheer trauma of it all...

His parents... thinking they had done what they needed to, to cure their son, patched up the now unconscious boy and sent him to bed...

Hours later Danny woke up, the first thing he saw was his white hair, had he shifted in his sleep again?!? He hadn't done that since the first few months after the incident!!!

But as his eyes fell to their own reflection of icy pale blue and his now reddish bandages, he remembered the night's experience... he checked his new wounds, inflicted by his parents, to reveal that only a third of the still visible ones were healed... whatever his parents had done has slow his healing ability...

Danny quietly tried his door... only to find it was locked... 'Great...', he then tried his Ghost Powers, luckily they were still there... but barely... he tried phasing only to find that he flickered like a dying light bulb...

Danny quickly packed his old backpack from high school; spare clothes, his wallet and phone along with its charger, a notebook with a few pens... you never know..., and a Fenton Thermos. He also took out his old med kit that Jazz, his older sister, had gotten him.../forced him to have...

He quickly removed his bandages with great difficulties, a few of his wounds had scabbed and fused themselves to the disgusting gazes. Finally getting them off and ripping open a few cuts, revealing his ecto-blood was slowly replenishing itself.

This only further proved that Danny had to leave... tonight... he quickly and painfully disinfected his arms and then wrapped them back up with fresh gazes.

He grabbed his coat and bag, throwing them on before quickly phasing through his door. Luckily he didn't get stuck halfway.

He then quietly made his way downstairs, glancing into the kitchen, the stove clock read it was three forty-eight at night, and like most nights he could see his father asleep on the living room couch, meaning the coast was clear...

Quietly he made his way to the front door and threw on his shoes before sneaking out the front door and bolting down the street.

Where he was heading?... even he didn't know...