Vlad flipped Lloyd down onto the table, like he did to Dani 25 years before. His old lab was almost destroyed, and his home abandoned.

He leaned over to the young boy, seeing his blue eyes with gears, he smiled. "So this is what I've been hearing about..."

Moments later, the gears faded, and Lloyd closed his eyes, and he relaxed.

As he did Vlad could hear a voice and a crash from up stairs, the voice was young, and a girl yelling "BEWARE!"

Vlad sighed, and floated up to were he heard the sound, a little girl floated there, and she smiled "BEWARE! I AM BOXLUNCH!" she yelled with a smile, Vlad snickered, "get out of my house" he yelled, trying to scare her, she started to tear up, "DADDY!" she yelled.

"What is the box ghost going to do to me?" he chuckled, then hearing a deep manly voice say "Beware" Vlad turned, to a ripped, older, and stronger version of the once round boxy.

Vlad's eyes widened "well! The years have treated YOU well!" Vlad smiled, knowing this will hurt...

Lloyd woke up, looking around and finding he was strapped down. "Hello..?" he called, with no answer; he tried to use his powers, but failed.

'my head...' Lloyd thought, and looked to the door way, but heard footsteps.

Vlad slumped down them, he was in human form, and looked tired, his suit was ripped, and he wonders over to Lloyd, who was pretending to be still asleep.

"Finally got him to leave..." Vlad breathed... "now... let's get to work" he turned to the young teen and walked up, holding a weird machine. And put it agents Lloyds skin.

'Oh clockwork, what is this thing?!' Lloyd thought to himself.

Vlad pulled the trigger, which made Lloyds eyes shoot open, and made him scream. Vlad laughed, and Lloyd was forced into his ghostly attire.

Lloyd breathed, eyes wide, and Vlad pulled the thing away. "Hello my boy" Lloyds now Violet eyes rolled to his voice. "What... was that?" breathing slowly, laying back down.

"It's something, that how..." Vlad thought for a moment to think of how to explain to a child what had happened... "Have you heard of objects that short out your powers?" Vlad looked at the teen, and started to fiddle with the long red scarf. "My dad warned me about them... d-don't touch my scarf... Please..." Lloyd's eyes followed his hand.

"Alright..." Vlad let go of the red fabric. "This... Machine... took me Five years to build... this does the opposite... however it only works for 3 hours..." his eyes looked up to the halfa "try turning back" his voice cocky.

Lloyd blinked 'why is it that he wants to make me more powerful..?' he tried to turn back...

Nothing.

Vlad smiled, and saw the silvery rings go around him, and change nothing.

Lloyd turned intangible, and jumped off the table, "What?" he blinked; "normally I can't use them after I have a time-" he stopped himself, and looked at the older man, now in his 60s.

Lloyd saw his aged eyes, and bolted out of the room. After Vlad smiled, and waited his return.

Lloyd flow high, then smacked right into a ghost shield.

"No..." he felt around it "No nononononono..." he turned back to the mansion, were, most likely had the generator. He flow back down, and stopped in front of Vlad, "let me out!" Lloyd panicked.

"No"

Vlad said, with a smile, "You're trapped here for the next three hours. And if I catch you before that three hours are up. Then it maybe longer" he turned into his ghostly attire. And Lloyd started to float away.

"Why let me roam free?" Lloyd questioned.

Vlad's red eyes shinned, "Because, I haven't had a good hunt in 25 years. I want a challenge" his grin made Lloyd.

His skin crawl, his eyes violet wonder; he then dashed, and went to hide.

Back in amity park

Tj and Casey ran up the steps to their house, and into their living room, were their mother Valarie and an unexpected guest was sitting drinking coffee.

This unexpected guest was Dani.

"MOM!" Casey yelled, the two looked up, "Hi Casey! Hello there Tj" Smiled Dani, Tj ran in, "Hi Dani, hello mother" he said, and Casey smacked his side, "LLOYDS BEEN KIDDNAPED!" Casey yelled, with that Valerie and Dani jumped up.

"By who!?" Dani had the silvery blue rings appear, and she transformed. "Some old man who called himself Vlad" Casey said confused, and Dani's face turned paler than it already was. "who is he..?"

Dani could only chock up two words...

"My Father"