Disclaimer: Wish I owned The Sorcerer's Apprentice.

Author's Note: Can't stop listening to the soundtrack! Need a life. Last day of summer. Eww. Celebratory chapter. Updates will happen. They won't be as frequent, though. Thanks for reading. Sorry it isn't very long. It's to keep up the suspense. Bwahaha. Enjoy!

"What do you mean Horvath didn't kill him?"

"Horvath used the parasite spell," Veronica explained to her apprentice as the four Merlineans sped through the streets of New York City in Balthazar's Phantom, "Stone's not dead. He's simply out of power."

"But how can he defeat Horvath without any powers?" asked Becky, "I don't think that's possible."

"You're right, it's not, and that's where we come in." said Balthazar.

Becky gulped and said in a worried tone, "Wait, you expect us to-"

The car pulled through an intersection at top speed.

Dave cried out, "Balthazar, you just ran a red light!"

Balthazar, Veronica, and Becky shot Dave a look. "And…?" Dave tried to look insignificant and wished he had read up on the spell in his Encantus that made one virtually invisible. "We don't have a choice. And we don't have much time."

"We don't?"

"Yesterday I saw something on the news about someone finding Stone's body locked in a closet uptown, cold, no pulse, characteristics of the parasite spell. They presumed him dead. So we have to hurry."

"You can revive him, right?" Becky asked as they ran another red light.

"You can get him back his powers, right?" Dave said quickly.

"Yes, and yes," Balthazar replied.

Veronica corrected, "If we're not too late."

Dave saw the flaw in the plan and he imagined Balthazar and Veronica trying to wake up Drake Stone before a crowd of confused onlookers. Since Merlineans were against letting civilians know of magic, Dave figured they had a plan. "So what's the plan?"

"No doctors confirmed that Stone was actually dead. They thought the signs were obvious. Obviously not. If we disguise ourselves as doctors, we can convince people to let us take him to a hospital, get him up and running, and give him his powers back." Balthazar explained as if he'd had this planned from the minute he saw that story on the news.

"How on Earth are we going to explain to him that we brought him back so he could work with us to defeat Horvath?" Dave wondered aloud.

"I'm still working that one out." Balthazar said.

Dave saw Veronica roll her eyes. "Honestly," she murmured. She told him which spell to use in order to keep Drake still and quiet long enough for the Merlineans to explain the situation.

"Let me get this straight," said Becky, "It took them a month to find him?"

Balthazar shrugged. "People are stupid." He performed a risky back-turn that made Dave give a yelp worthy of an odd look from Becky. Dave tried to make it look like it wasn't him. Balthazar parked the car hurriedly. "Alright," he said, rapidly getting out of the car, "let's go." Veronica hurried after him.

Becky was still trying to take all this in. "So they expect us to smuggle a famous supposedly dead Morganian out of a crowd of people into a hospital, revive him, give him back his powers, explain to him why he needs to be our ally, and hope and pray through all this that he doesn't kill us?"

Dave nodded as he watched them jog away. "Pretty much."

"They're crazy," muttered Becky with a sigh as she got out of the car, "Sorcerers."