I know that most authors suggest doing research before writing something you don't know about, but… (Bangs head on wall) I'm too lazy. Oh and to those who actually care, I'm not good with height so please ignore the height reference about airplanes in chapter 5.
Thank you.
Disclaimer: Alex Rider and Danny Phantom have mysteriously diappeared from my file of things i created. If you find them please return them to ME! NOT Anthony Horowitz or Butch Hartman. They stole them.

Chapter 6: Break-in

Alex was in the hospital. He had survived Plasmius's attack and was fine. The only problem was what to do now. Sam and Tucker knew that Alex knew. So you could say that the meeting in front of the hospital wasn't exactly pleasant. Alex had walked outside with Jack before Sam came out of nowhere and pounced on him.

"I swear, if you tell anyone Danny's secret, I will hunt you down, tie you up in a chair and slowly cut your limbs off with dental floss(1)," she whispered fiercely into his ear. Right then she noticed Jack and backed away from Alex.

"Are these friends of yours, Alex?" Jack asked. Alex shuffled his feet and mumbled:

"Yeah."

"Well, go catch up with them. I'll meet you back at the apartment." She turned and walked away. The four of them stood there for a while, Alex still looking at his feet, Sam glaring, Tucker and Danny staring at Alex.

"I'm not going to tell anyone. What would be the point when you know about me? But…nah, it's nothing." Alex started walking away but was stopped by Danny and his friends.

"In this town, nothing is never nothing. Tell me what it is." Danny was serious.

"Well it's just that the ghost who nearly killed me was working with Scorpia."

"WHAT?"The three friends cried. They remembered how Scorpia was a ruthless terrorist organization who nearly killed Alex.

"Okay, Alex I'm sorry to ruin your vacation, but you have got to know more info before we can investigate. Call your…uh guardian. You're sleepin' over at my house tonight."

Danny's room wasn't really the best place for four people to sleep in. So they were allowed to sleep in the basement with sleeping bags. Alex had borrowed one from the Fentons.

"Is this sleeping bag safe to sleep in?" Alex asked. It was a faded silver color and was covered with mysterious green stains. There were several large rips on it revealing the stuffing. All in all it looked like it was going to fall apart.

"Yeah it's fine. It's just a bit battered." Danny unrolled his own sleeping bag which looked pretty much the same except there were less stains on it. When they were finally ready (and when everybody was finally awake) they started talking about serious stuff.

"You know that ghost you were fighting? His name is Vlad Plasmius. And well…" Danny began.

"No wait. Let me guess. He's also a half ghost half human and his alter ego is Vlad Masters." Alex waited for them to get over their shock.

"How did you know?" Tucker managed to ask.

"In my experience the rich dudes always have something shifty to hide. Plus I just guessed."

"Anyways you're right. Ever since he found out that I'm also a human-ghost hybrid he's wanted me to be his apprentice. Oh and before that he wanted to kill my dad and marry my mom."

"And this is important how?" Alex asked. Danny shrugged.

"Just some background info. And now that he's working for Scorpia something fishy must be up. But if I can count on two things. One that Vlad wouldn't give up his secret unless he was to become ruler of the world or something if he did (2). And two, Sam can hack into anything. If I can count on your coming with us Alex, we should be able to break into Vlad's house and find out what Scorpia's up to."

"But Danny, we've already broken into Vlad's house before. Why should this time be any different?" Tucker asked. He was looking over some blueprints and Alex recognized something that vaguely looked like Vlad Masters's mansion.

"This time is going to be different because we don't know what we're up against. We can handle any type of ghost but the actual death thing is not our style."

"So, what you're like the Ghostbusters?" Alex joked.

"In a way," Danny replied. He thought of the rows of guns in the weapons vault. "But for now go to sleep. We investigate tomorrow."

"That was too easy," Danny replied, blowing away smoke from his ecto-gun. They had defeated about 30 ghosts that Vlad used to keep his mansion invader free. Danny, Sam and Tucker had nearly perfect aim from their daily practice, but Alex wasn't a bad shot either. "Where'd you learn to shoot like that Alex?"

"Here and there," Alex said seeing no need to mention his training on Malagasto. The door was wide open and they ran inside carefully trying not to set off any alarms. As they turned the first left after the main hall they saw ruby red lasers crisscrossing in every single direction.

"Tucker can you disable this?" Alex asked. Tucker pressed a few buttons on his PDA but shook his head.

"I need to get into the middle of it," he said and started going down the hallway. It was almost scary to see Tucker to dodge every single beam because you'd think a nerd like him would never been to a gym in his life.

"I wonder if super villains have a yearly meeting to decide the booby trap of the year award," Sam muttered as she dropped to the floor to avoid a beam. Alex had already made it to the other side and Danny had used good old fashioned intangibility. "Mind giving us a hand, Danny?" She and Tucker were stuck in positions so awkward it was funny. Alex had a laugh while Danny chuckled as he turned intangible to fly through the beams. He grabbed both of them by their wrists and half carried pulled them through the rest of the beams, intangible of course. They finally reached Vlad's study and there they split up.

"Tucker, go keep a watch on who's in here other than us. I'm pretty sure Vlad isn't here because he had to go to a meeting but keep an eye for cleaning maids or extra ghosts we didn't knock out. And if the King of Fruitloops himself shows, you know what to do before you leave. Stay in touch with these," Danny finished tossing Tucker a pair of Fenton Phones.

"What was the last part about?" Alex asked raising his eyebrows. He had learned a bit about the rivalry between Vlad and Danny but they had barely scratched the surface before they left.

"Nothing. Here, you guys should keep these too," Danny replied, tossing Sam and Alex a pair of Fenton Phones. He started looking through the books on the shelf, while Sam was hacking into the computer on a smaller desk. Vlad's main desk was full of papers so Alex went and had a look. There wasn't anything important there, a few newspaper clippings about Scorpia that were from about 5 years ago. No plans for making world destroying bombs, no recipe for child killing viruses. Just a few papers about contracts and some really scary pictures of Danny's mom. Alex shuddered as he closed a book that had pictures of Maddie dressed in little more than a…well you don't really want to know.

"Find anything?" Danny asked. Alex shook his head.

"No, but if I were you I would blast this book into a million pieces." Alex handed the book to Danny. He looked inside and saw the pictures of his mom. He quickly closed the book.

"I'm pretending I never saw that so I won't be scarred for life," Danny said, tossing the book outside while shooting an ectoblast at it, obliterating it into small charred scraps of paper.

"Hello? If you guys are done looking at stupid obsessions of Vlad's, I found some things that might interest you." Sam was still furiously typing on the computer and snapped Alex and Danny out of their joking mood. Alex was on her left and Danny on her right.

"How convenient is that he saved it all under named 'The S Project'? Unfortunately the information is messed up and doesn't seem to be in any order. I can't find anything specific so I'm just scrolling down…" she stopped as she saw that they weren't paying attention. Alex saw something that looked like recipe and asked Sam to stop.

"What are Blood Blossoms?" Alex asked.

"They're a type of plant that affects ghosts in a painful way. The rest of the items on the list are a series of tranquilizers. Pretty powerful stuff. If they were using it on humans one teaspoon of this stuff could knock out about a 1000 people, maybe more." Alex and Danny gawked at Sam like she had said she was from another planet.

"So I read about poisons and stuff on the internet. So?" Sam was starting to feel uncomfortable under their gaze.
"I like my torture ideas to be detailed! Okay? Big deal." By then Alex had gotten bored and was looking at the computer. He saw some plans for a small submarine like machine.

"Does either of you guys know what these are?" Alex asked. Danny and Sam stopped arguing and looked at what he was gesturing at.

"Those are plans for the Spectre Speeder!" They exclaimed at the same time. Danny looked closer.

"But there's some kind of modification on the top." On the top of the vehicle was sub machine gun type of object. But there was no point in doing that as bullets can't harm ghosts.

"Okay, I think we got what we came for. Sam, email the contents of this file to Tucker's PDA. Tucker, get out of here. We're leaving."

"That's good," Tucker said through the Fenton Phones "Because the fruitloop himself has arrived."

"See you outside Tucker," Danny said before grabbing Alex and Sam, turning them intangible and flying them to outside of Vlad's estate.

Later

Vlad Masters came into his study with the feeling that something was wrong. As he glanced around his office to see what made this feeling come up, he spotted a bright flash of red among the brown and gray of his office. It was a cereal box, boldly proclaiming "Frootloops". Masters narrowed his eyes and shot a pink ecto blast at it, reducing it ashes. Underneath he could see some official documents.

This is to certify that Mr. Vlad Masters has successfully adopted one cat nicknamed 'Fruitloop'…..

Vlad swore viciously and saw that his own cat Maddie was looking at him curiously.

"Don't worry snookums; you'll be my one and only favorite. Aside of course from the human I named you after." Vlad said affectionately. He sighed. It was days like this he was lucky he had conned Maddie into thinking he was a professional photographer back in highschool. Reaching into his desk he felt for the album of all the secret pictures that were taken that day. He was shocked when he came up with nothing.

"WHO TOOK MY MADDIE ALBUM?!" He screamed.

(1) this was a torture design designed by yours truly. Don't worry i won't use it unless i really want to.
(2) This is a little reference to Phantom Planet (kind of)

Hahahhaha. For those of you who don't get it was Danny and Alex who destroyed Vlad's little book. I'm really sorry because I'm kind of putting this story on hold for a while to finish Detonation Day. I promise I'll be back ASAP. I'm also disappointed that I missed National Angst Day.
This is Werewolf 5, signing off.