Daddy's Little Heroes

By Prenn Thrift

. "Everyone can change, given the chance… Knowing things is an obligation which is thrust upon us; revealing those things is a privilege we do not always have." This is my DP Next Generation story that follows the lives of Aiden, Taylor and Leo, Danny Fenton's kids. And then Vlad takes advantage of a train crash and tells the kids that their parents are dead and he adopts them. Meanwhile, Vlad told Danny that his kids died in the crash. So now the three Fenton kids grow up having the last name of "Masters" and they are rich. But then a girl named Lilith Manson comes into their lives and tells them about ghosts…One in particular. Daddy's Little Heroes and its sequel, Phantom Dreamland, are dedicated to my Nana, Sophia.

. R&R!

Prologue: Taking Advantage of Situations

Vlad Masters looked out of the police department window at the train crash he had caused. He'd used his powers to mess up the engineers on the train so that they'd unbeknowedly be colliding the trains. Once it was over, Danny Fenton and his family would finally be dead.

Gone.

Out of his hair forever and never to come back.

Vlad watched as the two trains collided and smashed into pieces of burned and unusable scrap metal. Vlad knew that Danny Fenton and his lovely pregnant wife were on that train.

Vlad flew over to the train. He gasped. Danny was still alive! And so was his family, but Danny and Cecelia were unconscious. This is not good, Vlad thought, but I'll make do. I'll improvise. That's all it takes here is a little creative thinking and soon things will be going my way.

Danny's beautiful wife had just given birth on that train. Lying on the floor next to Cecelia were two babies, a boy and a girl. Vlad took them both and hushed them down because they were crying. They'd do no good to wake the whole train up. Vlad could not risk any attention being drawn to him. I need to get out of here, Vlad mused, the babies in his arms.

Vlad never thought of having kids before, but when he looked at this pair of newborns, he couldn't let them have the same fate as he wished on Danny. The baby girl had her mother's purple eyes. The boy had his father's sky blue eyes. What a pair. Vlad knew he owed them the mercy of saving them. They'd done nothing wrong to suffer the same fate as…Danny Phantom.

Vlad loathed that half-ghost kid ever since he knew learned the kid had powers. It wasn't right for the son of idiot Jack Fenton to have the same powers that Vlad had. If there was anybody or anything Vlad hated more than Danny, it was Jack.

Jack Fenton was the cause of a terrible accident back in the college days that cost Vlad years of his life where he wasted away in the hospital. He knew that one day, he'd emerge, but only to find that Jack had stolen the love of his life—Maddie—for his own. The new couple went off for a three-week honeymoon, and only five years after being married, Maddie was already pregnant with her and Jack's second child.

Danny Fenton-slash-Phantom spent most of his adolescent life foiling Vlad's plans. Ever since Vlad found out about his own powers, he knew he was destined to do great things. It was Danny who would always put his foot down and step in the way of those things.

And now Danny was at his most vulnerable.

Danny Fenton had to go, the hatred burned like a fire in Vlad's mind. He had to make a break for it if he was going to get outta here before the combustion of the trains cause another explosion.

"Who are you?" A small voice asked from down below. Vlad stopped to roll his eyes. As if a voice that small could stop the great Vlad Masters!

Vlad looked down at a little boy who appeared to be no younger than three years old. "My name is Vlad." Vlad said hurriedly.

"Are you going to save us?"

Vlad paused a moment to think this through. He knew that very soon, a rescue squad would come in. above all else, Vlad couldn't be caught as the only conscious person on the train. Swarming reporters would begin to ask questions. "Yes, I'm going to save you." Vlad said flatly, no pity in his voice.

The little boy almost smiled. But then he looked at Danny. "What about my mommy and daddy?" The little boy asked.

Vlad realized that this boy was also Danny's child. How could Vlad have forgotten? He'd known Danny had an older child but had never seen him. Vlad didn't account for this in his plan.

"I'm afraid their fate is sealed." Vlad said coldly, looking over his shoulder one last time to make sure the two lovers hadn't sprung to consciousness.

Vlad held the two babies in one arm, and he took the hand of the little boy with his other arm. He ran them out of the train and into the police department. The police department was now quite flustered with people trying to help out in the train accident and they wouldn't have noticed Vlad anyways.

Vlad set the two babies down and the little boy sat next to him. "I had to get you away from there. I'm sorry, but your parents didn't survive."

The little boy began to cry and whine. Vlad scooped him up in his arms. This child resembled Danny a bit. He looked the most like Danny out of the three.

"Don't worry. Daddy Vladdy is here." Vlad said. Soon the boy calmed down. "You have to be a strong soldier, okay?"

The little boy nodded.

"What's your name, son?"

"Aiden."

"Do you know your last name?"

The little boy shook his head. He probably didn't even know what that was.

"Your last name is Masters. So your full name is Aiden Masters."

"Aiden Masters." The boy repeated.

Later in the day, Vlad was easily able to adopt the children, considering he was a billionaire.

He drove the three children—who were now his three children—towards his home. They rode in a limo. They arrived at Vlad's mansion in a timely fashion. Vlad showed Aiden the place.

Aiden wiped the tears from his warm little cheeks. "This is so much bigger than my house." Aiden said happily.

Vlad nodded. "And I can get you anything you ask for."

"You can get me a model race car?"

"I can get you a real race car."

"Cool!" Aiden jumped up and down.

"This'll be a piece of cake." Vlad said to himself.

That night, Vlad thought that enough hours had passed and Danny and his wife would be wondering where their kids were, if they weren't dead, that is. Vlad called Danny on his cell phone.

Maybe Vlad would get lucky and nobody would answer. Then there'd be no explaining to do.

Or not.

Danny picked up. "What do you want, Vlad." Danny asked bitterly.

"Oh I just wanted to see if you are okay. I was flying around town and I couldn't help but see that nasty train accident. Were you on that train?" Vlad played coy.

"Yes, as a matter of fact, I was. And so were my wife and kids. But my wife is fine. We're just going to be spending the night at the hospital until the officers find our kids. "

"Are your kids okay?"

"Why?"

"Because I saw three little scrambled bodies on gurneys get hauled away by men wearing black and grey…"

Danny gasped. "Are you sure it was my three kids?" Danny stuttered with a breaking voice. "Leo and Taylor had just been born right before—"

"There weren't any other kids on the train, were there?"

Danny realized that was true. He was crying now. "Thank you for telling me." he said briskly and then he hung up.

Vlad looked at the little children. The two babies were on the couch. Vlad had to buy some cradle and changing table for them. He'd have to buy many things, really.

Vlad and Aiden sat down next to the two babies. "Whatever shall we name them?"

"Mom said their names would be Tyler and Leo."

"You mean Taylor and Leo."

Aiden nodded. "That too."

Vlad looked at the three of them. How could this end any other way but in Vlad's favor? Danny thought his kids were dead and they thought he was dead.

Vlad watched Aiden run around the house like the little tyke he was. Vlad wondered if the kids would ever inherit Danny's ghost powers. Vlad decided he had better start making a machine that can test that sort of thing. Because if any of them had even so much as 50 percent of Danny's genes, they might become a halfa just like he was.