Chapter 7: Loneliness and Death
New York City Streets, 2:00 p.m., Wednesday March 8th
Danny flied down the streets looking for something, anything that would lead to the rescue of his captured comrade. He flew around hoping to keep his anger in check. He blew up once and that had led to the capture of Jake.
He had been flying for about an hour when he found a black SUV that looked extremely out of place when placed next to all the taxi cabs around it. He figured that these people would probably know where Jake was. So he started to follow them.
He followed them all the way through the city to the New York Oceanside. It was when they got to the Oceanside that the Black SUV stopped in front of an abandoned warehouse. Danny figured that this warehouse must be their base of operations, but that still didn't tell him where Jake was. Danny continued to watch from the sky as seven or eight soldiers like the ones Danny had fought earlier ran towards the warehouse with caution.
Danny watched as they kicked in the door and annihilated the idea of this being their home base. Whatever they were doing here they definitely had not been invited. So he decided to head inside to get a closer look. When he got in there he saw something unexpected. He watched as a teenager in a red jacket beat the crap out of the soldiers with huge metallic hands.
Danny realized that this kid was probably not very good friends with the soldiers, and neither was Danny. So he offered some assistance in taking out the few soldiers that were left. With the both of them working to take out all of the soldiers it took a grand total for all of them to either be knocked out or frozen solid. When the dust cleared the two of them stood awkwardly not really knowing what to say. Danny didn't want to say much as he was still brooding over what happened to Jake. Thankfully the new kid spoke first.
"So I'm gonna guess you're not here to deliver Girl Scout cookies." He chuckled.
"Nope, sorry." Danny said chuckling for the first time in a long time. "You haven't seen some guys similar to these ones dragging a half Asian kid around have you?"
"What was his name?" The guy asked.
"Jake Long." Danny replied.
The teen then let out a long sigh, it was obvious something was bothering him. "No I haven't but I know where you can find some people that would know where to find him."
"Really?" Danny asked starting to perk up.
The new kid then told him where to find a group of people that could help with finding Jake.
"You better hurry though because their probably going to leave pretty soon so that they can start looking for you." The stranger told him.
Manhattan, 3:30 p.m.
Aang was sad. He had found a group of people that could finally help him figure out his problems. In making the decision to stick with them however he had lost his first friend that he had made when coming to 'New York'. Aang had been thinking about what had happened ever since it had occurred.
Robin had shown everyone the schematics to some weird machine along with a list of names. Surprisingly Aang's and Rex's names had both been on that list, along with the two people Aang and Rex had just met, and also the names of two others that they were now searching for. However after Robin had finished showing and explaining everything, Rex had started to laugh and tell Robin that he was crazy. Rex had then decided that he didn't need to be around all of them so he prepared to fly away. Before flying away though Rex had asked Aang if he wanted to stay with Kim and Robin. Aang had said yes which had caused Rex to sigh, exclaim fine, and then fly away.
It was obvious that Robin and Kim were trying to be as careful as they could around this subject. Aang didn't want to be babied but he was also too busy thinking about what had happened to tell them otherwise.
After Rex had left they had sat there in silence. It was after awhile that Aang had decided that they should probably go look for Danny Fenton and Jake Long. Robin and Kim had been reluctant but realized that they probably should continue with the plan regardless of their current numbers.
That was what had brought them to the streets looking for two people that they had little to no hope of finding. At least not until one of them had flown right in front of their faces. The boy that had flown up to them looked even more strange than some of the things that Aang had already seen.
He had snowy white hair and glowing green eyes. He floated there in front of Aang and the others before speaking.
"My name is Danny Fenton and I was told you would know where to find my friend Jake Long, he was captured by some unknown military." The kid revealed to be Danny Fenton explained.
"Thank you for finding us." Robin told him relieved. "And don't worry we'll have Jake Long rescued in no time."
Robin then went on to explain everything to Danny who looked pretty confused as Robin told him everything. He did understand perfectly though when when Robin told Jake the plan that would get them into the base and get Jake Long rescued.
Undisclosed Location on the New York Oceanside, 7:00 p.m.
Jake opened his eyes to see an alien nothing. He was hung up from chains in the middle of a dark room. Well dark everywhere except for a bright light that shone down upon Jake. Jake had no idea how he had gotten there, something that had been happening too often.
Suddenly he heard footsteps coming from in front of him. He could not see the person that was walking towards him which annoyed him.
"Yo, whoever you are you better run before I turn you into charcoal." Jake yelled.
That was when a man dressed in a black trenchcoat stepped into the light, something he obviously didn't see much of. He was about 6'3, had black hair that came down to his eyeline, and had an extremely weird glove on one hand; the glove was black had a chamber that was obviously meant for holding some kind of liquid and the fingertips were topped with 6-inch needles. Not only that, but the dude just gave off the vibe creepy.
"Hello Jake Long." Tall dark and creepy addressed him. "I am Professor Thade."
"I would like to apologize for this will probably hurt a lot but is completely necessary." Thade droned on whilst walking towards Jake.
When Thade had reached Jake he shoved the needled glove into Jake's chest. When he did this Jake felt much more pain then he could imagine would come from 6 –inch needles. Jake screamed as he felt his life start to slip from his body. He started to see his life flash before his eyes as he was about to die.
"Any last words?" Thade asked smiling.
"Yeah." Jake replied deciding to take action. "Dragon up."
Jake shifted into his dragon form and broke the chains that had binded him causing him to drop to the floor. Jake attempted to fly away but to no avail. So since Jake couldn't fly away he decided to fight. He whipped around and attempted to spit fire at his new opponent. Of course this failed and instead had received a sight much more painful than a blast of fire.
There standing there in the light smiling was Thade. Upon Thade had grown maroon wings and fire dripping from his mouth.
"You better run."
