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7. The Sweet Spots

Danny walked down the hallway of the lab, taking in the sights and sounds of the technicians working away furiously. Horatio was leading him to what seemed to be some sort of locker room. He was fingering a pair of sunglasses as he opened the door, allowing Danny to go first. Stacked on top of one another were piles and piles of boxes with labels. Danny glanced around. "Where are we, exactly?"

"Danny, this is the evidence locker," Horatio told him, nodding in towards the aisle. "We keep everything from previous cases stored in this location. If we're going to find Mr. Wolfe and your friends, I think we should begin in here."

Danny looked utterly bemused. "Why?"

"Evidence from an unsolved case could prove useful to tie us to Plasmius. Perhaps he left a bit of himself behind in a case from a long time ago." He examined the hybrid from head to toe slowly, looking for any sign of understanding. "DNA, a fingerprint, saliva from a drinking glass, anything at all."

Still not fully getting it, he shrugged nonchalantly and began to take a look around. When he got to the end of a row, he noticed a woman with wavy brown hair and quite the tan to match. She wore a blue silk top and khaki pants, pushing her fingers through her hair. Soft brown eyes glanced up from her paperwork, noticing Danny. "If you're looking for Horatio, I don't know where he is. I'm looking for him, too."

Danny was surprised by her Americanized tone despite looking almost Mexi-Cuban. "I know where he is. Who are you?"

She smiled slightly. "Natalia Boa Vista, CSI. Are you a visitor?"

"Yeah. Just taking a look around."

Natalia looked back at the papers. "Could you tell me where H is, please? I've got some data for him I need to... you know."

Horatio walked out from a center aisle, glancing over at the duo standing at the end of the row. He smiled. "Bumping into team members left and right, I see." He turned to Natalia. "The ectoplasm found at the scene."

"It's an unknown and a known match," she replied, looking as confused as Danny did walking into the evidence locker. "One comes from a national hit in Colorado and the other seems to be linked to Miami."

Danny blinked. " Colorado?"

Both the CSIs turned to Danny expectantly. Natalia frowned, rereading the location. "Yeah. A remote location somewhere in the Rockies- some guy owns a cabin up there by the name of Masters. I thought it was a glitch in the database- I guess I was wrong. Do you know him?"

Horatio narrowed his eyes. A cabin in the Rockies? That sounded suspicious...


Ryan Wolfe groaned, opening his eyes blearily. He was in a pink, ectoplasmic bubble, away from his new fellow companions. Sitting up as best as he could, the CSI looked at his surroundings- log cabins walls, picture of the ghost kid he saw in Miami, various holding chambers, and animal skins. "This is nuts. I'm in a pink bubble."

"I think it's called human guinea pig."

Sam was gripping the bars of her cage, brooding as she reached for the bubble. "I'm Sam Manson, and the one in the other cage..." She pointed to Tucker across the hall. "...is Tucker Foley."

Ryan nodded, his hands against the bubble. "H was talking to guys before we got kidnapped. I saw pure black and now we end up here. Mind telling me why we're all in this position?"

She sighed. "I think we're being held as hostages until Danny can get here. Or if another person can do wonders and make a beeline for hitting a switch to open the gates, then..." She glanced over at Tucker, who sat there, staring at the brown walls. "You okay, Tucker?"

He shook his head. "He took it away from me! Vlad took away my PDA from me! So that means I can't override any systems to get us free or something! That slimy billionaire is probably screwing around with it as we speak!"

Ryan sat down in the bubble. "Who's Danny? A friend of yours, or that ghost kid I saw in the parking lot?"

Sam glanced at him, flustered. "Yep, that's Danny Phantom, all right. Have you ever heard of him?"

"He soon will."

Plasmius appeared out of thin air, smiling and holding Tucker's PDA. "You know what the greatest thing is about technology? It obeys you with every command you give it. And let me tell you something, Mr. Wolfe- Danny Phantom and Horatio Caine are going to be both your Lucifer and your Gabriel."

Ryan's lips tightened. The way the new figure had said it made it sound deadly... and that was not a word Ryan liked to use at all. "Why are you?"

"I'm known as Vlad Plasmius, or the Wisconsin Ghost, or anything else that you can come up with that sounds much more majestic." He smirked. "Although in the human world, people refer to me as something much more respectable."

Sam snorted. "Respectable?"

Plasmius flashed a nasty look before poking Ryan's bubble. A sound of ghosts wails and super naturalistic creatures seemingly howling inside the bubble grated the man's ears. He clutched his head and began howling in agony as Plasmius watched him with a lazy stare. Sighing after a few moments, he finally placed his hand on the bubble, and the noises stopped. Ryan stared at his new foe, eyes widening in disbelief. "What the hell was that?!"

"That is the Human Hybrid Bubble, Ryan," he replied calmly. "Given that you are the youngest male CSI, and Miss Boa Vista is much too inexperienced for what is going to possibly become of you and not her, I have decided that you are going to become my next project and attract my beloved heroes to my cabin in Colorado. Turning you into a half ghost by unknown- and possibly deadly- means will give me a chance at them after so long!"

Sam looked sick at this as Tucker tried to reach for his PDA through the bars. "You're a bastard."

Plasmius shrugged. "Whatever." He smacked Tucker's hand against the rails and heard a crack, which he found exceedingly gratifying. Unfortunately for Tucker, this wasn't the case as he clutched his left hand and screamed. "Now you two are going to help me blackmail Horatio and Daniel to make sure they witness Ryan's- and possibly your-demise. Or else."

Ryan glared at Vlad. "My demise? You're a ghost! Ghosts can't exactly kill people!"

"I prefer the term hybrid, Mr. Wolfe," he replied lazily. "It sounds more... majestic to me."

And with that, he disappeared.


Man, I hope I'm not being too much of a ding-donged idiot to do this chapter like so! And yes, Tucker got his hand broke... but don't worry. The revenge is coming soon enough! Reviews are loved! Thanks for reading!