Vlad
[channel surfing] Ah, let's see. Shopping with pyschopaths, [changes the channel, screen shows animated Michael Jackson surrounded by cops] embarrassing celebrity arrests...[changes it again; screen goes snowy before depicting the outside of FentonWorks] Ah, illegally spying on the Fenton family, my favorite!
Vlad
[to Danny] My vultures were supposed to bring me the idiot but you'll do - Danny Phantom, right?
[surprised] You...you know me?
Vlad
Of course I know you. You're that ghost boy who uses his powers for good. How quaint. Aren't you gonna try to shove me into your ridiculous thermos?
[increasingly scared] I... don't want to fight you?
Vlad
No. No, you don't. [He fires an ectoplasmic ray, sending Danny flying into a bookshelf]
Get away! [He fires an ecto-blast, which Vlad blocks with a shield]
Vlad
Ah, an ectoplasmic energy blast. [Danny fires more shots, which he keeps blocking with his shield, yawns] So, year one. Tell me, child. Can you do this yet? [Three clones of himself appear, surrounding Danny]
No! I can't! How are you doing all this?
AFAll four Vlads
Years of practice. Which you, unfortunately, have no time for! [They all fire ecto-blasts at Danny, who falls to the floor. Danny then phases out into the hallway, unconscious. Vlad, too, phases into the hall when Danny transforms back to human]
Vlad
The Ghost Boy... is Jack's son?! [Turns back into his human form, too] Well, what do you know?
[trapped in a spectral neutralizer] Let me go!
Vlad
Why? So you can go back to stumbling through your adolescence, desperately trying to control your powers? Powers, by the way, that I've had for over 20 years. [Makes a shield] I have experience, my child. And the money and power from using my abilities for personal gain, you see. [Two clones appear on either side of him] I could train you, teach you everything I know. [The clones disappear] And all you'd have to do is renounce your idiot father.
Dude, you are one seriously crazed-up fruit loop. That is never going to happen.
Vlad
Yes, well once your father is out of the way, we'll see how you feel.
[Vlad Plasmius phases up invisibly from the floor behind Jack and overshadows him, turning his eyes red.]
Vlad
[overshadowing Jack] So, what do you say we liven up this shindig?
[Jack (controlled by Vlad) picks up Harriet and throws her, causing her to crash into the punch bowl table. Maddie runs up behind Jack.]
Jack, what's the matter with you?!
Vlad
[turns around] Why Maddie, didn't you always know I'd turn on you? That when you chose me you chose wrong? [reaches hands out angrily above Maddie]
[trying to regain control] Get out. Get out of me!
[Harriet walks up behind Jack while he struggles with Vlad for control of his body.]
HHarriet
I don't know what's come over you, but when I write about this I swear--
[clutches Maddie] Ghost... overpowering me... Maddie, run. WAH WAH WAH WAH WAH
[Jack floats high above the dance floor as Vlad takes over him again. Several party guests run away screaming.]
HHarriet
He's a ghost? This is the story of the century!
[dragging Harriet away from the scene] Come on! We have to get to the Fenton Family Ghost Assault Vehicle! [worriedly] I mean, the RV!
Vlad
[overshadowing Jack] If you live to tell the tale, remember that big, fat [hits man] Jack Fenton did this to you!
[off-screen] Guess again, cheesehead.
[Danny flies in, turns intangible, and flies through Jack's body, knocking a screaming Vlad out of Jack and phasing them both through a wall. Meanwhile, Jack falls to the floor.]
Nobody uses Jack Fenton as a human meat puppet!
Vlad
Why, Maddie and Danny Fenton.
MDMaddie and Danny
Vlad Masters?!
Vlad
Oh, what a completely unexpected and totally unplanned surprise. [pulls gift baskets out of nowhere] Personalized gift baskets? [Maddie runs up and grabs them]
[suspiciously] You're up to something.
Vlad
Oh, you think? [to a hidden microphone] They're here, kill Jack.
Vlad
I said... Flapjacks! Mm-hm, pancakes. I have pancakes.
Vlad
Oh please, Daniel, don't try to butter me up! Especially when your powers are shorted out for another fifteen minutes! You're barely a threat to me with them. Without them, well, I wouldn't need fifteen seconds, would I?
How can you say that? You think my mom made the decision to come back on her own? We're a family. We both talked about it last night, and I want to stay here with you, too.
Vlad
Really? You don't mean....
Yes, I do. Come on! Give me a big hug... New Dad!
[Vlad walks over to Danny to hug him, but Danny quickly straps the Fenton Specter Deflector to his waist.]
Vlad
Ah! You little rat! You tricked me! You know what this will mean for you, don't you?
Oh yeah. [the clock strikes midnight and Danny transforms] A much fairer fight!
Nice Donald’s hiccups Plasmius, [Danny transforms] Where's your lonely guy cat?
Vlad
Ah, there's that teen wit again. [pulls out the Plasmius Maximus and zaps Danny]
Vlad
Oh, I call it the Plasmius Maximus. It has just short-circuited your powers for the next three hours - that's midnight. I tell you this because I've seen your grades and I know you're bad at math. These are my latest experiments. What do you think? Oh, that's right - who cares what you think?! I will give you five minutes before I send my minions to destroy you. The clock's ticking, Danny, on you and your father. Run.
Vlad
[after five seconds] Get him. [the ghosts animals take off after Danny] Five minutes, five seconds... Oh, apparently I'm bad at math too!
Vlad
[to Maddie] I've been able to forgive Jack for a lot of things. Causing the accident that ruined my life, stealing you, the backwash incident...
Whoa, whoa, back up. What was that?
Vlad
Causing the accident that ruined my life?
Vlad
The backwash incident?
[frustrated] No! In. The. Middle!
Vlad
Oh, the "stealing you" part? [sighs] You were always able to see right through me, Maddie.
[about Valerie] So, what's up with this? Why are you helping her all of a sudden?
Oh, she hid me from Dash earlier today. I'm just returning the favour.
Well, be careful. The last thing you'd want to do is invite your archenemy into your own house.
[they open the door, Danny gasps as he sees Vlad there]
Vlad
Ah, hel-LO, Daniel!