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Chapter 4:

Black Friday, November 24th, 7:47 am. Deep Inside the Ghost Zone

Ember woke up confused. She tried to sit up but felt a sharp, stinging pain right in her midsection and she immediately sunk back down to stop the pain. She quickly realized she wasn't in her own realm and was confused on how she had got here.

She was starting to piece together the events of last night when suddenly Kitty walked in to check on her.

"Oh good, you're awake!" Kitty exclaimed. She had been worried about her best friend and didn't get much if any sleep. All she could think about was finding Skulker and giving her a piece of her mind.

Kitty helped Ember sit up with minimal resistance.

As she sat up she grabbed her stomach in pain again.

"How the hell did I end up here?" Ember asked, last thing I remember I was fighting Skulker."

Kitty took a moment to think of an excuse as to explain how Ember had ended up in her realm without mentioning Danny in any way since she promised her. Even though Danny fought ghosts, Kitty had a soft spot in her heart for her since she knew how caring and thoughtful he can be from her time overshadowing Paulina to make Johnny jealous.

"Well I heard a bunch of huge explosions outside so I went to check it out and found you lying on the ground bleeding out so I brought you back to my realm and patched you up," Kitty smoothly lied.

"Woah, thanks Kitty. I'd probably be dead if it wasn't for you," Ember thanked with sincereness in her voice, "I'm so thankful to have a friend that actually cares about me like you."

"Yeah, uh don't mention it," Kitty said quietly. She had just realized that Danny could have very well just saved her best friend's life and she had no idea.

Kitty didn't want to break her promise to Danny though so she kept quiet.

After a few minutes of silence Ember started to get up. She didn't feel like being a problem for Kitty to have to tend to all day.

Kitty would have stopped her but she knew how large Ember's pride was and let her go, only on the condition that Ember let Kitty come over the next day to check on her.

As Ember was on her way back to her realm, she tried to remember the events of the past 24 hours.

She remembered the kidnapping, the fighting, and the pain she felt when she got shot, but she couldn't remember anything after that concretely.

She remembered seeing a tall slender figure right before everything faded to black the second time.

Before she knew it, she had reached her realm. She had forgot that her door was blown off.

It didn't take her long to repair it and once she had finished, she went straight to her room, shut and locked the door, and crashed immediately on her bed for the rest of the day.

Meanwhile, Fenton Works, One Hour Later

The blaring sound of an alarm clock rudely woke Danny up from his sleep. He barely slept last night and only got about 5 hours of sleep.

He kept having a dream about what had happened the past night. Except the way it had played out in his dream, he found Ember in time to save her, just like in real life, but as he was taking her to Kitty's, he was blindsided by Skulker and he finished the job. He kept seeing the image of Ember dying in his arms and then he would wake up with a fright. This happened about five times throughout the night hence why Danny had the worst sleep of his life.

When Danny finally got up, he put on fresh clothes and went downstairs to get some breakfast. He found that no one was home still.

"Must still be shopping," Danny deduced. He didn't get the hype behind Black Friday. People get so crazy about shopping on the day that it's ridiculous.

After finishing a bowl of cereal, Danny decided to go for a walk to take his mind off of his nightmare from last night.

On his stroll through town, Danny passed by the local electronic store where hundreds of people were lined up and inside shopping for Christmas presents.

Just then Danny heard a large bang and saw people running the opposite direction screaming. Danny quickly turned the corner into an alley and transformed into his ghost form.

Danny had originally thought that it was Skulker and that he somehow found out about him helping Ember last night. So what he heard next was somewhat of a relief to him.

"Behold! I am Technus, Master of Technology and all Things Electronic and Beeping!" Technus bellowed.

It seems that Danny had got his wish from the other day.

Danny flew towards Technus and met him face to face.

"Ah the Ghost Child, come again to bear witness to my technological glory?!" Technus asked with pride.

"No I came to make sure you don't use all of this expensive electronics and turn them against everyone!" Danny yelled back in retort.

"What a wonderful idea!" Technus responded, "I swear you should be a student teacher or something!"

Danny kicked himself for doing that yet again.

Just then Technus assembled all of the electronics in the store and formed them together to form one giant hulking body.

Now about twenty feet tall, Danny was officially un-glad that he had run into Technus.

Technus started hurling bits of electronics towards Danny as he dodged and weaved in midair.

Danny tried to punch away at Technus after throwing his first punch, he yelled out in pain since he had just punched solid metal.

"Ha ha, you foolish child, you cannot destroy my outer shell, therefore I shall defeat you and spread my technological rule all over the world!" Technus taunted.

"Some things never change," Danny joked since Technus had once again yelled out his plan for everyone to hear just like always.

Danny kept firing ecto rays at the giant electronic ghost, chipping away at the bits of electronics that made him up.

After twenty minutes of no progress being made, Danny was starting to get tired.

Since he was groggy, Technus caught him off guard and blasted him sending him through the glass of the electronic store's window.

Now covered in small cuts all over his body, Danny struggled to muster the energy to stand back up, but he knew he had to keep fighting.

Just as Danny had got up and back outside, suddenly Technus, out of nowhere, began shutting down.

"What?! No, how is this happening?!" Technus yelled out in agony, "Curse you ghost child!" he screamed.

After Technus had been shut down the electronics that made up his robot body fell apart from each other and ceased to move.

Danny was very confused since he hadn't really done anything to Technus.

It was at this moment when Danny heard a familiar voice behind him on the street.

"Yo Danny, miss me?" the familiar voice said.

Danny quickly turned around to find that the owner of the familiar voice was none other than his best friend Tucker Foley.

"Tucker! How've you been buddy? How was your Thanksgiving?" Danny asked catching up with his best friend.

"It was great! My family's cooking was a meat lovers dream!" Tucker explained. "So how about you?"

"Mine was crazy to say the least," Danny said remembering the events of last night.

"So I'm assuming you had a hand in that?" Danny asked pointing to the pile of broken electronics.

"Oh yeah," Tucker answered, "I used my new and improved PDA to hack into Technus's

mainframe and shut him down. Then I sucked him into the Fenton Thermos while you weren't looking," Tucker explained, much to the enjoyment of Danny.

Danny and Tucker decided to go to Nasty Burger and catch up on all of the events of the past couple days of their lives.

Danny explained what had happened the night before with Ember and Kitty and Tucker was left speechless.

It blew his mind that Danny would still help someone like Ember after everything she had done.

He then told him about his nightmare he kept having hoping that Tucker would be able to explain why he was having them.

"Maybe you care about her or something? I mean after all you did save her and help patch her up even though you're both kinda sworn enemies," Tucker explained slowly and calmly.

Meanwhile Danny internally screaming at the thought.

"What no way! She's an evil ghost who repeatedly tried to enslave people to try and take over the world!" Danny yelled while still trying to keep his voice down.

"Hey man I'm just saying, it would make sense," Tucker said calmly.

Danny then quickly tried to get the topic off of Ember.

After about 30 more minutes the two headed to their respective homes.

On Danny's way home he thought about what his best friend had said.

"Is it true? Could the reason I helped her and had that nightmare about her be because I care about her?" Danny thought out loud to himself.

"Nah there's no way, I was just doing my job! After all I am a hero," Danny answered himself in slight denial.

He decided not to think about the topic of Ember or even ghosts in general for the rest of the day and upon getting home he spent the rest of the day helping his mom around the house.

Back in the Ghost Zone

Ember was having a similar nightmare to Danny's. In her version she was fighting Skulker until he got the upper hand and was prepared to kill her. Just as he was about to strike the final blow, a mysterious figure stepped in and saved her.

She couldn't make out who the figure was but she could tell that it was tall and slender.

Then she would wake up breathing heavily, which hurt her gash on her stomach, and sweating.

This kept for the entire time she tried to sleep.

"It's official, worst 48 hours of my life," Ember said before trying to fall asleep once again.

Another chapter in the books! I'm pretty happy with how stuff has been turning out! I may not be able to update as frequently as I have this week starting Monday because my Thanksgiving Break will be over but I'll try my best to update whenever I can! If you enjoyed, leave a review and tell me what you think! Until Next time!