I phased through the door leading to the auditorium, only to see a lot of people I knew, but different. I saw Tucker, Valerie, even Nathan, and a lot of other classmates. All in a uniform that said, 'I'm ready to fight'.
"QUIET!"
A person appeared on the stage, probably the leader. And that person was nobody less than... Sam.
"Good job earlier this day. Was it succesfully put in the cage?" she asked. Dash took a step forward. "Yes ma'am." I couldn't believe my ears. "That's good. Valerie!" Valerie also took some steps forward. "Yes?" "You will ask it who sent it here and where its leader is. That might bring us some steps closer to finding him." Valerie left the auditorium. I didn't follow her, I didn't try to get back in the cage before she found it, because I wanted to know what was going on with Sam. All I knew was that it had something to do with the inter-dimensional transporter. That's it! I just have to use it again, and then all of this will be over! I searched for it, only to notice I didn't have it anymore. They must have stolen when they put me in the cage! I carefully tried to come a bit closer to Sam, still intangible, without making the alarm go off again.
"What's your next order, Leader?" one of the people in the crowd asked. Sam thought. "Go take the rest of the day off, all of you. I can't come up with a working plan yet." Just then Valerie came bursting in the auditorium.
"It's gone!" she gasped.
"WHAT!?" Sam reacted. "Just like I said, an empty cage. It's gone," Valerie told her. "That's impossible. Our cages are made out of the best ghost-shield. No ghost can pass through it." "Well, it still did, and now we have no idea where it could be. It could even be here now, listening to our conversation." Sam sighed. "New orders. Search for that ghost. We can't have it tell only the smallest details to its boss." Everyone in the crowd left, except Tucker and Sam. Sam sat down at the edge of the stage and Tucker walked up to her.
"You gonna be okay?" he asked, while putting his hand on her shoulder. Sam nodded, while looking at the ground. "We have to fight. He would have wanted us to do so." She walked out of the room, leaving Tucker behind. He sighed. "I'm so useless..." he told himself. Without thinking, I stepped closer to him, making his alarm go off. He immediatly turned himself in a ball hiding his face in his hands. "Help! G-g-ghost! Someone!" his reaction really surprised me. "Ssshhhh, stop screaming," I accidently said. He looked in my direction. I had already spoken, so there was no point staying intangible, so I got visible again. "Quiet! I'm not trying to hurt you!" He looked at me with that scared look. "B-b-back off!" he told me, "I c-c-can fight too, you k-k-know!" I sighed. "I know." He looked surprised. "Really?" I nodded. "Listen, I'm kinda lost, could you tell me what's going on?" His look softened first, but then he put up a brave face. "As if you don't know. HELP!" His scream was heard by someone, because the next I remember is being shot in the back. Again...
I woke up on the stage with ghost-proof handcuffs. Sam and Tucker were standing on the stage, and the crowd of people from earlier was standing behind them.
"Leader! It's awake!" one of them said. Sam turned around, looking me right in the face. I wasn't able to use my ghost powers with the handcuffs on, so I couldn't turn intangible. She grinned at me. It made me feel uneasy. "So tell me... Who sent you here and for what purpose? And you better tell the truth!" I said nothing, so she kept looking at me. It made me kind of sad to see her look at me like that. Why won't she recognize me? This can't be the Sam I know. So there's only one option left... Clockwork ws right, I'm in a different reality. I wonder what happened to Amity Park... What forced everyone to fight... And then there's another question... Shouldn't there be another version of me in this reality? Could it be that... My thoughts were interrupted by Sam. "Well, you gonna answer, you scum?" Sam obviously disliked me. Or maybe it is just ghosts she dislikes. She pointed an ecto-gun at me. "ANSWER ME!" Tucker grabbed her arm. "Sam, calm down! What's wrong?" She lowered both the gun and her head. "I'm sorry... I'm going out for a while. Take care of things here." And without waiting for an answer, she left. Surprisingly, nobody tried to stop here. I got curious and decided to ask about it.
"What's with her?" Tucker looked away from me. Then, Dash en Kwan came on the stage. They looked me in the eyes. "What's wrong with you all? She told us to take care of things here!" Kwan said. And he and Dash pointed more ecto-guns at me. My eyes grew wider and I got a little scared. "What were you trying to do sneaking around here?" "Nothing, really!" Dash looked angry. "As if we'd believe you!" "Well, Sam told me to tell the truth, so that's what I'm doing!" Their faces filled themselves with confusion and they lowered their guns. "How do you know... her name?"