Jazz was miserable and cursing, for what seemed to be the thousandth time since last night, her families close connections with the supernatural. Currently she was crouched on top of a very tall wooden crate which was stacked on top of two other similar crates in a dark abandoned warehouse. By knocking her fist upon the crate the sound told her it was empty. Probably the reason why it was left here. The warehouse was fairly large and there were other crates scattered about, but nearest crate, besides her own, was over a good fifteen meters off. So jumping to other crates was out of the question. As for jumping off her crate and onto the floor… Well… If she fancied herself a broken limb or two she, was free to try and make the twenty-five foot, give or take some feet, drop to the floor. But that was not the worst of the situation.

Jazz Fenton was a patient girl who could put up with a lot of things; Ghost obsessed parents, a teenage ghost hybrid brother, outrageous workloads, ghost attacks… and the list goes on and on. But nowhere on that list were there vermin or bugs! Lucky for her, this warehouse had plenty of both. Jazz had to keep her arms in an almost constant motion in order to fend off the cloud of bloodthirsty mosquitoes. She already had a good collection of swollen and itchy lumps. To make matters worse in the shadows of the warehouse she could see rats. But these rats weren't normal rats. Oh no, these were huge rats. Rats that could eat a pug for breakfast and still be hungry. So even if she could make it to the floor without breaking anything she would have to deal with those rats. If she didn't hate Technus before, she definitely did now. But she could see why he had stashed her here. By putting her here he had effectively confined her and made her suffer. Two birds with one stone.

"Efficient." Jazz hissed to herself through clenched teeth as she tried to wave off more mosquitoes and massage her bug bites at the same time. Most of what Technus had done so far was matching up with what Danny had said about him. The odd thing was that he wasn't talking and what did kidnapping her achieve? Often she had heard Danny and his friends laugh about what a motor mouth he was and yet this morning when he had plopped her on this crate all he had said was 'Stay here human Jazz and do not attempt anything foolish. If you hurt yourself I will not aid you.' And promptly phased through wall leaving her by her lonesome. That was it.

As for her kidnapping, the only result would be a pissed off set of parents and Danny. It wasn't like he could use her to access high level technology from anywhere. And threatening her well being was only going to get him so far in a fight with Danny… While he had been efficient and logical in his treatment of her… kidnapping her seemed like a totally illogical action. And yet, from what she knew, Technus was a being of logic…

Jazz huffed with irritation. This didn't make any sense!… Well his tongue should loosen sooner or later. And even if it didn't, Danny was going to get her out of this. All she had to do is put up with this techno freak… that was if the mosquitoes didn't eat her alive first.

The rosey fingertips of dawn could be glimpsed in the east as Technus soared over rows of abandoned warehouses. From his meager amount of data on this city, he knew that this town had once been a thriving industrial and port town. Today it was a shadow of what it once was and most of the factories and warehouses were abandoned and left to rot. It suited his plans perfectly. He pushed himself to fly faster and find the buildings he was looking for. While he had gauged the human Jazz as a somewhat intelligent he was worried that she might be foolish enough to attempt to escape the warehouse he had left her at. If she did try all it would result in would be her own injury. He had specifically chosen a place that she had no chance of getting away from and her sense of self preservation, he hoped, would keep her there. Then again humans were irrational creatures and he wouldn't be surprised if he found the human girl lying in a broken and bloody mess on the warehouse floor. He had made a gamble that the girl was smart enough to stay put but he was still worried. Technus did not want the girl harmed so early in the plan yet.

He slowed to a gentle dissent as he found what he was looking for. It was a building that sold different odds and ends of electronics and other trinkets. While it had nothing of notable technological interest for his studies, he could get the things he needed for the next phase of the plan. Becoming invisible and phasing through the walls he made quick work of collecting what he needed and was soon soaring back to where he had left the human girl.

Technus phased through the roof of the decrepit warehouse and floated down to the crate that the girl sat upon. He was glad that she was still in one piece. As he got closer and looked more carefully at the human, he was amused with what he saw. The human's face and exposed skin of her limbs were covered in large red swollen lumps. When she wasn't swatting away insects she was desperately scratching the lumps bloody.

"Human! What did you do to your face? Why are you allowing these incest to feed on you? Honestly it is a wonder that you species is still alive." He chuckled as he floated down and deposited his burdens on the crate. The human Jazz continued her scratching and swatting while shooting a glare that spoke volumes of the hate she had for him at the moment.

"Well it's not you left a can of bug spray here! What was supposed to do genius? Ectoblast them away? What are you doing with all that stuff? This is pointless! Danny is going to find us and put you back into the Ghost Zone where you belong!" she snarled at him with venom dripping off her words.

"There is no hope of you comprehending my grand plans and genius mind! You see I have finally found the ghost child's weakness and I will exploit it till he expires and I will do so by u-" he was cut off when a program of his sent a warning jolt through his system. He then bit his tongue and was glad that he implemented the new program in his system. It notified him whenever he was about to monologue. He was not going to repeat the mistakes that had cost him victory time and time again. Not this time nor ever again. He ignored the girl and went about setting up his equipment.

"Till he expires? You? Make Danny expire? Fat chance! Just how are you gonna do that if Danny beats you every single time?" As much as he wanted to turn around and tell this annoying girl how and why she was wrong, he ignored her. He focused on setting up the camera and then picked up the extension cables he had brought. Turning to her with cables in hand, he looked down his nose at her with cruel smile and said.

"Now that is for me to know and for you find out my dear…" The girl paled and began to struggle as Technus bound and gagged her with the extension cables.