Chapter 8 A Decoy Battle
The next morning down in the FentonWorks, Carrie was sitting next to the bed that Danny was in. It was a pretty sad sight to see a heart rate monitor and an IV hooked up to the young halfa boy that was fast asleep on the bed.
"Come on Danny, you can get through this, I need you." Carrie whispered holding on to her boyfriend's hand as she watched heart rate monitor stay in tuned with the clock on the wall. "I know you wouldn't just leave alone like this. Unless that's your motive." She chuckled slightly but clamped her jaw knowing sarcasm right now wasn't going to help the raven-haired boy's status.
"Hey Carrie, how is he doing?" Jazz asked suddenly while coming down the stairs. Alan, Danielle, Carlos, and Ember followed suit, hoping at that moment Danny would wake up when they came down; but he didn't.
The girl halfa shrugged, "He's doing ok I guess. Although last night was the only time he had his eyes open ever since then he's been sleeping." Carrie stated watching the monitor keep with the beat.
"Did you guys get a good look of the ghost guy last night who shot Danny?" Danielle asked trying to make her way through the crowd.
Before Carrie can answer, Danny started to move around and open his icy blue eyes. Everyone spirits all lifted up when he started to speak. "Man… it feels like someone shot me… what happened?" Danny asked sounding really groggy while using his free hand to run through his black hair. Carrie didn't say a word at first; all she did is started to cry and she held on to her boyfriend making sure that she did not break the healed wound. "Whoa Carrie, I missed you too." He chuckled slightly but weakly; he then turned his attention to the others in the room with a question look.
"Danny, you were shot last night," Jazz finally answered while frowning, "Carrie was about to get hit from the ghost's gun ray, when you pushed her out of the way and took the full blast." Danny's red-headed sister then pointed the wound on his right side.
He took notice of the bandages wrapped around his waist and saw the blood stain that was starting to turn brown, meaning it was healing just fine. "Wait how bad was it?" Danny asked looking very shocked.
"Well we thought you were gone when we saw you on the ground while Carrie tried to wake you," Danielle answered when she finally pushed herself to the front. "Then Melanie came in and started conducting CPR. We were all relieved to see that you were still breathing."
"I didn't see it, but I am glad as well to see that you are still fine." Alan pointed out while Jazz smiled up at her blonde with black streaks hair boyfriend and gave him a kiss on the cheek; everyone else laughed slightly. "Well it's true."
Danny then remembered the ghost that shot him last night. Frowning, he started telling everyone what the intruder looked like. He still didn't see his face, but he had on white boots and gloves and he was wearing black, gray, and white square patterns on his cloths and hat; his voice was muffled when the ghost had his back turned. And too add the last details, under the hat; his hair was white and shaved.
Everyone's jaws dropped after the boy halfa finished explaining his description of the intruder; the details of the ghost were starting to turn the gears in all their heads. "Danny, you think it could be Addison as a ghost trying to contact us?" Carlos finally asked after a long pause of pondering, sounding really excited.
Danny frowned at this prediction, "I don't know Carlos, Addison wouldn't launch a stung grenade at me. Plus he looked a lot bigger than Addison did before he left for overseas." The black-haired boy finished with a heavy sigh; although in the back of his mind, he was wondering if it was Addison. It was a possibility. Not to mention full of irony. Addison died, and then this new ghost shows up, taking the guns that was meant for Danny's deceased cousin. However, if it was really Addi, why would he try to hurt Carrie? Or even through a grenade at Danny?
Before everyone else can think further, a loud heavy sigh interrupted that, "Well I hate to break the train of thought, but I have to get back to my place and get it cleaned up." Ember implied while walking towards the portal. "I wanna see how much that Technus trashed it when I was captured.
"Ember wait!" Both Danielle and Carlos cried, stopping her from going though the swirling green vortex.
"What? I'll be fine." The blue haired ghost stated while glancing back with a knowing look.
"Ember you can't go back to your place," Carrie stated while standing up from her chair. "What if Skulker or that new ghost finds out your back in the Ghost Zone?" The girl halfa inquired although she looked worried. She also wondered why her ghost friend would even think of going back there.
Ember sighed, "I appreciate your concern, but I can't stay here Angel. This is not my home and besides I can take care of myself." Ember stated in a calm, cool tone, looking at a very worried Carrie. "Technus caught me by surprise. If he didn't I wouldn't be captured, so don't worry."
Danny then started to speak and his voice sounded like it was getting stronger. "Wait Ember, Carrie is right. You can't go back in there. Seeing how injured you turned out?"
"If you have another solution to this, I would like to hear it. If you don't, I'll be on my way." Ember folded her arms and waited.
Danny smiled slightly, "As a matter of fact, I DO have a solution. Why don't you move your place next to the portal inside the censored area? So that way you're protected from idiot Skulker and his new ghost friend. Then you can come and see us anytime you want." He explained as Ember put on a thoughtful look with this plan; the boy continued, "We'll also put your ecto signature in the sensors so that every time you come near it, won't go off." Danny finished as Jazz put the covers back over her little brother.
For a minute the room was silent as Ember started to think that this could be a good idea. She kept rubbing her chin wondering what to do. Finally, "Well, that's good plan. But if you guys want me to move my place near the portal, you're going to need something big to pull it." She meant she didn't want to move out, she wanted her place moved.
"Well we can use the Specter Speeder to move your place." Carlos suggested pointing to the ship in the corner of the lab.
Without hesitation, Ember agreed to the suggestion and sure enough she took off into the portal; probably to go and start cleaning up her place. Carrie on the other hand was still a little concern with her friend just taking off like that. So she told Danielle and Carlos to follower her with the Specter Speeder.
"Can do, sis." Carlos said with a salute, while he and Danielle transformed. They then got inside the ship before heading into the Ghost Zone.
"Now, does anyone mind me getting up for a bit?" Danny suddenly ask to the remaining group, "I need to stretch my legs out."
"You sure that's a good idea, lil bro?" Jazz asked with concern watching her younger brother take off the covers and start to move a bit, "I mean, that wound still needs to heal."
"Don't worry, Jazz. I'll be fine. I've been through worse then what you call this injury. Besides, moving around would help me." Danny said with a stubborn smile; Carrie giggled as Jazz and Alan glanced at each other.
"You are so stubborn…just like dad." Jazz finally agreed.
Danny only replied with a cheeky smile, "So are you, Jazz. Not that I'm complaining." Alan pointed out while he walked over to a cabinet and took out a pair of crutches to help the younger boy walk.
"Har, har…Alan. It's not that funny." Jazz stated while she and Carrie helped Danny get to his feet.
Her boyfriend just shrugged and handed Danny the crutches. Before they can move further, they jumped slightly when they Maddie start shouting upstairs; the group glanced at each other, wondering what was going on before they started up the stairs to the kitchen slowly.
Upstairs…
"What do you mean you have to head out Melanie?" Maddie asked in disbelief, shouting almost at the top of her lungs that the neighbors were sure to hear. "You just got here!"
The blonde woman sighed, "I have to report back to Canada. Once that's done, I just have to finish up my contract and I will be back soon. But I have to follow orders and besides, they gave me a desk job." Melanie stated all dressed up in her uniform with her bags packed ready to go.
The blue-jumpsuited woman calm down before grabbing a coffee mug, "Well how much longer is your contract going to be until it's done?" She asked pouring a cup of coffee for Jack and Melanie at the coffee table.
"Well, I only got a month left on it and it will be complete before Remembrance Day I'm sure." Melanie replied before taking a sip from her mug.
"Remembrance Day, what's that?" Jack asked chugging the rest of his coffee down.
Maddie just nudged him in the shoulder before replying. "Remembrance Day is the same as Veterans Day Jack." She pointed out while rolling her eyes, "I thought you would of known that since you're a veteran yourself dear. Remember you always keep telling us you ate horse meat in the war." She stated trying to get her husband's mind going.
Danny, Carrie, Jazz, and Alan, who came upstairs and all heard what Maddie said, shouted in unison. "Wait, you're a veteran?!"
At those words, Jack's dark blue eyes shot right opened and he accidently started chocking on his coffee. Melanie managed to started to hit his back hoping it would clear the clogged air way. It worked, and once Jack was able to breathe again, he just simply replied... "I don't want to talk about it."
Jazz, Alan, Carrie, and Danny who was still on crutches, saw Melanie's duffel bag at the front door, realizing what was going on. The boy halfa asked, "Melanie you're leaving already?"
"Sadly yes." The woman answered with a slightly slump voice, "But I'll be back in a month before Remembrance Day when my contract is up. The Amity Park police saw my service record and they want to hire me on full time." Melanie replied as she was putting her empty coffee cup in the sink.
"But aren't you going to miss being in the military? I mean it is your career." Jazz stated looking concern at the young MP.
There was a pause before the blonde finally answered, "Well there is a liaison position up the road at the US base. I may stay in the military and take it but right now I need to think it over on what I'm going to do. So for now I'm going to have to go back to work." Melanie replied walking to the door. Before she headed out the door to her truck, she gave one final hug to each and every one of them, and then before she left, Melanie said. "Tell Danielle that when I get my new posting up here, I'll help with her aim. Until then she's going to have to wait and take care."
After that, she got into her truck and took off. Everyone all waved good bye and one by one they all entered the house. Jack and Maddie went back into the kitchen while Jazz and Alan walked upstairs to Jazz's room, leaving Danny and Carrie alone in the living room. The boy halfa still couldn't help but think that something was weird about that ghost from last night. He took all the weapons that were made for Addison except the pistol; since it was now Melanie's. But it couldn't be him, because he shot at Carrie. So who was it?
"Danny, are you ok or something? I've been calling your name, to get your attention for the past two minutes." Carrie stated sarcastically looking a bit puzzled. "Has the injury gone to your head or something?"
"Oh sorry Carrie, I was just thinking about that ghost again that stole the weapons last night." Danny replied snapping out of his trance and turned his head toward her.
"Yeah well, you'll have plenty of time to do that up in your room to rest. I'm going into the Ghost Zone to help out Ember move her place." Carrie said transforming into her ghost form.
"No way, Carrie I'm coming with you to help... ouch!" Danny trying to say with determination and tried to stand up straight, but a sharp pain went through him, causing him to slink down slightly while holding his side.
"Sorry mister. You are grounded for a bit." Carrie said seeing there was no way her boyfriend would be able to go into the Ghost Zone in his current condition. As they walked up the steps, the girl halfa sighed; she felt kind of sorry that he got shot. If she never showed up in the first place, her black haired boyfriend would still be walking around on his own two feet than using crutches right now.
Once they made to Danny's room, Carrie said, "Danny, you know I can't help but feel this is my fault you got shot," She hung her head low before continuing, "If I didn't show up..."
But Danny cut in while lifting her head up and gave her one of his sweet charming smiles, "Come on, Carrie it's not your fault. As you said, don't be such a downer all the time. It was that ghost's fault for taking those weapons in the first place. You were right for coming in to help me out." Carrie stared as Danny continued, "I probably would have had worse when he threw that stun grenade. You came and saved me, which is why you told me that one time when Pariah Dark tried to take over Amity Park; I know you will always be there for me as I will always be there for you. That's why we make a good team."
While Carrie helped him into bed she gave him a smirk. "Aw Danny, you don't have to be so cheesy. But that's probably one of the reasons why I love you." She giggled, "Anyway, while I'm in the Ghost Zone with Danielle, Carlos, and Ember, if anything happens, I'll contact you on the Fenton phones ok sweetie?" Carrie implied while putting on the little contact device in her ear.
Danny just smiled as Carrie leaned over and they gave each other a passionate kiss; after a minute they pulled away and the boy halfa ran his hand through his pretty girlfriend's long silver flowing hair while saying, "I love you too Angel. Just be very careful in there."
"I can only try, Phantom. Get some rest now will ya?" Carrie stated while winking at him. She then turned intangible before she took off to the portal to join the others in the Ghost Zone. Danny sighed as he lay back in his comfortable bed. He really hoped Carrie and the others will be alright. He then drifted off to sleep.
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Back on Skulker's Island
Skulker was waiting for Addison to show up. He was able to beat him to the island by taking a couple of shortcuts through some of the doors in the Ghost Zone. Now it was about 10 minutes and the new ghost still hasn't shown up, "Where is he, he should of been here by now." Skulker growled to himself while looking at his watch.
While Skulker was glaring up at the endless void of the Zone, Technus showed up with the Danny Phantom drone which is what got Addison killed in the first place. "Well he better show up or else I will have to discard this some other way." Technus complained to show he had heard what the ghost hunter has said.
But that wouldn't be necessary, because within seconds, Addison landed right in front of Technus and Skulker. They were awed when they saw the arsenal that was all over him.
"You're late what took you so long child?" Technus asked in a very disappointed tone. But the only answer he got was when Addison grabbed him by the cloak, tossed him to the hard ground. Before the Techno-ghost can gather his bearings, he found a yellow glowing rifle pointing at his forehead.
"Don't yell at me or else you're going to get two in the head and one in the chest. Also, the name is Ghost Recon, Tech nerd." Addison replied in a deadly sounding tone.
Skulker stood back a couple of seconds watching as Addison hands, eyes, and the plasma rifle were all glowing bright yellow in rage. "Whoa, Recon, calm down. Technus was just wondering why you were late, that's all. So there's no need to start blowing heads off." The Ghost Hunter said trying to calm the young ghost down.
Minutes of dead silence went by, but sure enough Addison took the rifle out of Technus's face, and then let out a heavy sigh before sitting down on one of the rocks. At first Skulker didn't know what to do; was he just faking or was he really having a hard time with something? Just to make sure he wouldn't get blasted, Skulker started walking up to the young ghost very cautiously so that he wouldn't get blasted head on.
"Ok, tell me what happened while you were in the living world." Skulker asked while keeping his distant.
There was a pause, "It's nothing that you need to worry about Skulker." The other ghost answered as he stood up, "Now let's continue with the training so I can carry on what I need to do." Addison ordered while slinging the sniper and battle rifles from his shoulder.
Skulker was slightly surprised but he just shrugged, "Very well, this is a practice target of the ghost boy that Technus created to help you with your training." He announced even though he already knew that this was the exact same drone that caused Addison to lose his life in the first place. "But before you take it down, I invited some fellow ghosts over to watch you take out the target from both far and close ranges. Now I want you to go in the distance and set your sights on the target. Then I'll tell you when to fire."
Addison didn't waste any time; so he took off out of sight and hid behind a couple of floating rocks which were quite a distance away from the island and his practice target. Once he got the sight on the sniper rifle focused and dialed in to the right range, he waited until Skulker gave him the word fire.
Back at the island Spectra, Bertrand, Johnny, Kitty, Walker, Youngblood, Desiree, the lunch lady ghost, and the box ghost came flying up, while wondering why Skulker and Technus had gathered them to Skulker's Island. Once they made it to the waiting ghost duo, "Skulker why did you call us here? Bertrand is supposed to give me my 3:00 message later today." Spectra complained, while holding her hand up to her mouth before yawning indicating she was already bored.
"Yeah, what's the big deal tin man? I should lock you up for bringing us out here for nothing." Walker shouted trying to clean off the dirt on his boots.
"Please let me show you something first before I explain." Skulker greeted with an evil, before moving out of the way showing everyone the target drone of Danny Phantom. At first everyone was confused wondering what Skulker was going to do with this thing. But then they realized that it was just a floating target.
"Skulker, is this one of your lame plans again to get back at the ghost kids?" Kitty asked with a little bit of chuckle in her tone.
Everyone else started to laugh as well, but when they saw Skulker and Technus wasn't laughing but smiling evilly, they stopped and were starting to get a little curious on why the drone was there in the first place. "Oh this is not my plan that's going to take out the ghost kids my friends. It more of someone who has you all in his sights right now and could have taken you out one by one without you even knowing it." Skulker chuckled giving a sinister grin which got everyone there a little nervous; he then raised his hand and gave the signal.
Over at the rock that Addison was hiding behind, he saw the signal that Skulker gave him and charged up his hands. He then pulled the trigger on the sniper rifle and a bright yellow plasma shot took off like a light.
A second later, at the target, everyone gasped when the saw the drones head get cleaned off by the yellow ecto ray. But wasn't the rest of it. A couple of smoke rounds landed all around them and the quickly covered their mouths and eyes while the smoke was building up all around them.
They did hear footsteps coming towards them very rapidly, when the smoke cleared and everyone was able to see, they notice Skulker and Technus were still standing in their exact same spot. They were even more shocked to notice the drone was completely destroyed, nothing was left standing.
"What did you do to the Ghost boy look alike, you guys?" Youngblood asked looking around for the any remains.
Just then they all jumped when someone shouted, "Boo!" when they saw the direction on where it came from; they notice Addison was leaning up against a rock smirking at the ghosts that were there. "Still gets them every time." He chuckled with a smirk.
Skulker was very pleased on the demonstration and he gladly introduced the new comer to the rest of the ghosts. "Everyone I want you to meant the ghost kids executioner... Ghost Recon!" He announced.
Walker at first didn't like how Skulker called Mr. Recon the ghost kid's executioner; however he was interested in his tactics, so he didn't say anything.
"Ok." Spectra finally said when she shook off her shock, "So he can take out targets long ranges, but how do we know it was him and not you who dismantled the drone while we were blinded by the smoke." The red-headed ghost woman asked looking very suspicious at the new comer.
Fortunately Skulker did have an answer for this to. He asked Technus to playback a video which he was secretly recording. Everyone saw the smoke screen and then they saw Addison sling his rifle and pull out the K-bar running into the smoke. The next few seconds all they saw was a yellow blade, zipping across the screen. Once the smoke cleared on the video they saw Addison lean up against the rock where he was and waited. Throughout that entire video, Skulker and Technus never moved from there spot once.
"Any questions?" Skulker asked while stopping the video. Everyone only answered by hanging their mouths opened, unable to speak for the next while. "Well then, if you don't mind, we got some final preparations to make before we head out. So hope to see you soon when we finally take out the ghost kids forever."
Once everyone started to leave, Johnny 13 and Kitty were starting to think that this plan of Skulker's was a bit too much. Sure they didn't like Danny and Carrie for sending them back into the Ghost Zone, but this plan of taking them out completely was a bit too much.
"Well Kitty I think we better find Ember, and tell her about this guy. She will be able to relay this message but we're only doing this once." Johnny stated while trying to get his bike started. Kitty thought this was a really bad idea trying to get in the way of Skulkers plan. But she finally agreed with Johnny and they drove off to find Ember.
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Meanwhile at Embers place, the move was a little more difficult than what was planned. Cary was trying to pilot the Specter Speeder to push the floating rock while Dani was guiding him which direction to go in. "Cary careful, every time you make a running start you bang up the speeder!" Danielle shouted while Cary started to make another run.
"Well if there was a chain around here we can use I wouldn't have to push it now would I?!" Carlos rebutted angrily.
Inside Carrie and Ember where picking up the garbage that was left all over the place when it got ransacked. "Hey Ember I'm sorry, that we didn't listen to your warning earlier. This probably wouldn't of have happened if we did listen." Carrie sighed holding the garbage bag. "So, sorry for having your room wrecked.
Ember chuckled as she chucked a ripped paper into the garbage bag, "Hey, it's ok Angel. I didn't know that I would get captured in the first place. Usually they leave me alone but this time I guess they wanted try to shut me up after seeing me eavesdropping. But you guys came and got me out of there. No one has ever done that to me. And I have to admit, I thank you for it. Guess it goes to show I do have friends in right places." The blue-haired ghost smiled warmly; Carrie smiled back.
Suddenly, both girls were knocked over by another one of Carlos's shoves. "Cary, don't make me zap you! Take it easy with that thing, will ya! Cause it's really tiring you are trying to push too rough!" Carrie yelled from her Fenton Phone.
"Well like I said to Danielle, if I had a tow rope or chain, this wouldn't be happening." Carlos shouted over the Fenton Phone.
Both girls just looked at each other and started to giggle. "Boys, they always have to use brute strength to move something." Ember stated still chuckling.
Carrie just nodded yes and the continued to clean up Ember's place.
Just then they heard what sounded like Johnny's bike roar up, Carrie got serious and headed outside to see what they were up to. "What do you guys want?" Carrie shouted while Cary and Dani flew out of the Specter Speeder, and they along with her were all pointing their glowing fists at Johnny and Kitty.
"Jeez, take it easy were here with a warning message." Johnny said while rolling his eyes, "There's someone new in the Zone and he's going to come for you guys to finish you all." He shouted from one of the floating rocks.
"Yeah we already know that, he tried to take out Phantom and Angel yesterday and today!" Ember replied stepping outside on to the rock.
"Well do you know his name?" Kitty gloated while trying to shout over the revs of Johnny's bike. All three halfas and Ember just looked at both of them and just shook their heads and Kitty continued, "His name is Recon... Ghost Recon, so take this warning because we're only doing this once."
Then the ghost couple took off into the some other parts of Ghost Zone leaving the three halfas and Ember with a concern looks on their faces.
"Well at least we now know his name." Carlos implied trying to bring girls' spirits up. But they just looked at him with disappointing looks, before Carrie stated.
"Come on, we better hurry up and get this place inside the perimeter before we get attacked."
But it was too late, for as soon as Carrie said those last words Ember's place started to shake. And they heard explosions going off from a distance.
They all looked up to see Skulker and Technus coming right at them at full speed, firing with whatever they had. Carrie grabbed both of the clones and flew to the Specter Speeder with Ember close behind. "I had to say it…" She mumbled.
Once they were all inside Carrie quickly tried to start the speeder up. While Cary, Dani, and Ember returned fire at the oncoming ghost villains, Carrie was still trying to power the speeder up. But it kept sputtering and it seemed like it didn't want to start.
"Good so far, they have taken the bait, it won't be long until they fall into our trap." Skulker said while firing a few more missiles from his arm.
"Yes and those young hipsters will be ours for the taking." Technus cackled but Skulker looked back at him with an evil glare. "I mean yours for the taking...yours." The Techno-Ghost added quickly with a weak smile.
Back at the group in the Specter Speeder, Carrie was still trying to get the speeder up and running but it just didn't want to start. "Carlos you damaged it so much, it doesn't want to start." Carrie shouted angrily trying to push any button hoping it would get it going. "Now what?"
Without answering, Carlos quickly ran over to the control panel and gave it a swift kick. Within seconds the speeder started up. Carrie looked at her younger clone surprised wondering how he got it started. He just shrugged and said "When guys have troubles with machinery, to help get it going, we give it a swift kick."
Carrie just smiled at him before she pushed throttle fully forward. With a mighty roar the speeder took off. Ember and Dani kept firing back at the two specters with either light purple or green ecto-rays. They both gasped as they watched Skulker blew up Ember's home. Ember was just shocked to see her home go up in smoke. But there was no time to sulk; the two ghost villains was still on their tail and catching up.
"Dani, Cary, Ember, there's only two of them if you can count. But keep your eyes out for the one that calls himself Recon, I'll try to get a hold of Danny and the others." Carrie ordered while trying to avoid getting hit by any missile or techno plasma ray. She grabbed her radio and tried to call into it, but all she got was static, "Great…no answer! I just hope this thing doesn't die out on us before we make it the portal." Carrie growled to herself sounding very concern.
Technus and Skulker though knew this would happen. "Ok so far, so good. Recon are you in position yet?" Skulker asked over his radio.
A little ways up the way from the Fenton Portal, Addison was set up and ready with his plasma sniper rifle for anything coming his way. "Yes I'm in position, bring the rain." Addison replied putting the rifle butt snug into his shoulder.
Skulker was very pleased when the ghost replied; he gave a signal to Technus and both of them started to fall back. "Hey we're losing them! Yay, we're going get out of here!" Danielle cheered, but Ember was getting very curious and worried.
"But that's not like them to just give up in a chase… there's something wrong." The blue-haired ghost stated with a frown.
She was right, because Addison just got the Specter Speeder in his sights. He was shocked to see the ghost girl, Ember, and two other ghost onboard his uncle's ship. "And she calls me a thief for taking property that doesn't belong to me well, she in for a surprise. Too bad I have to destroy the ship." Addison said to himself so he aimed for one of the engines.
Carrie was relieved when she saw the portal in the distance. "Guys I see the portal ahead. It's just a little ways, but if I'm right, we're going to make it." She shouted and everyone was glad when they saw it.
"You're not going anywhere." Addison said to himself when he heard her say that and pulled the trigger of the sniper rifle. What happened next was not a pretty sight.
The yellow ball of ecto energy hit the engine on the Specter Speeder and everything started to shut down. Carrie gasped and quickly tried to restart the engines, but it was no use. They were going down, fast. "Everyone grab a seat and buckle up, we are going to come in hard." The girl halfa shouted over the warning buzzer going off, pulling back on the stick as hard as she could.
Cary, Dani, and Ember quickly sat down and strapped on the four point harnesses. Carrie saw a big enough floating rock where they can land the Specter Speeder safely with it breaking up on impact. "Hang on to something. Here we go!" The young girl halfa yelled and she aimed the speeder right for the big flat area on the floating island.
It wasn't very nice what happened next. When the Specter Speeder made contact with the ground. The craft started doing cart wheels, flips, and rolls. The thing even broke in half leaving the engine on another part of the island. Everyone inside had their eyes shut, thinking that this was the end of them until finally the speeder came to a full stop on its side.
It was dead silence when the dust lifted, Carrie was the first one to wake up from her unconscious state and notice the damage to the speeder. "Man, Mr. Fenton is so going to kill me if he sees what happened to the Specter Speeder." She said to herself with a groan. But then her concerns rose when she remembered about Dani, Cary, and Ember state.
"Dani?! Cary?! Ember?! Can you guys here me?! Please say something!" She cried. At first all she heard was dead silence except from the sparking wires that were dangling. But then she listened in closely to here a soft moan coming from the back of the craft under a big piece of steal.
She crawled over and was relieved to find all three of them under the steel, still strapped to their seats and they were just starting to wake up.
Cary was the first to respond to Carrie as he unhooked himself and started to crawl out from under the steel saying, "Did anyone get the license plate of the tractor trailer that ran us off the road?" He chuckled trying to bring up everyone's spirits. Carrie though was glad to see he was alright and gave him a big hug. Next to come out was Dani, she had a couple of cuts to the face but she was able to walk and fight.
"Man I thought that was the end of us there." The young girl implied as she was helped up by Carrie and received a hug.
"Cary, go grab the first aid kit out of the speeder and take Dani behind one of those rocks and start mending her wounds. I'm just going to get Ember out and I'll meet you guys over there." The girl halfa ordered. And sure enough Cary and Dani did what she said.
Ember was the last one to come out from under the steel. She was a bit shaking but she was alright. "Man Angel, you think you can land it a little softer next time." Ember asked with a smirk on her face.
All Carrie did was reply with a saying that all pilots use when they have a hard landing like that. "Hey. As they always say, any landing you can walk away from is a good landing."
Both of them just started to giggle, and they flew over to the rocks that Dani and Cary were taking cover behind. Carrie saw that Dani's scrapes were all mended by Cary and he did a great job of doing it. She also noticed in the distance the Fenton Portal was not that far from their actual location.
She was about to tell everyone her plan, when suddenly a barrage of ecto rays and missiles were going off over their heads cutting her off. Carrie quickly tried to see where Skulker and Technus were firing from. But when her head was above the rocks, a yellow ecto ball of energy landed near her location, forcing her to duck back down behind the rocks.
"Great the yellow shooting sniper out there has got us pinned down." Carrie growled still trying to think on what to do.
"So how are we going to get back home?" Cary asked looking very nervous.
"Ok. Cary you're going to head for the portal and get Danny, while we give you cover." Carrie ordered while powering up her right hand with pink energy.
"But…" Cary glanced at Dani.
Carrie took notice of this and said, "Don't worry about Danielle; we will take of her while you're gone to get help." She instructed to her younger clone.
Cary looked at his older sister not knowing if he can do the task at hand, but he then looked at Danielle and she nodded him a yes to help boost his courage. "Alright sis, I'll do it, I'll go get help." Cary replied sounding very serious. Carrie gave a quick kiss on the forehead before she got into position. For once Cary didn't cringe or make any nasty sounds come out of his mouth.
"At the count of 3 we all fire at once, that's your cue to fly to the portal Cary." Carrie ordered before she held up 3 fingers ready to go.
Cary came over to Dani's side and looked at her before he gave her a tender kiss on the lips. Carrie saw this and smiled at the young clones; it reminded her of what she and Danny do when they have their tender moments.
"Don't worry guys I'll be back with help." Cary stated and sure enough Carrie gave the order to fire, and Cary took straight for the portal.
Skulker, Technus and Addison saw this and started to fire everything at the rocks. Addison though went around on the flanks hoping not to get seen. Once he had a view on the three ghosts. He loaded a grenade round into his rifle and fired it off. When it made contact with the three ghosts, it exploded this rubber substance that stuck to everything that had an ectoplasmic signature. Dani, Carrie, and Ember were unable to move when the stuff hit them.
"Great do you know how hard it is going to get the goo out of my hair?" Danielle shouted as all three of them struggled trying to get out.
"Don't remind me…" Carrie moaned.
Just then they were shocked when they finally saw the new ghost in full view point the battle rifle right at them. His bright yellow eyes were so terrifying that they didn't even want to look at him.
They just closed their eyes and waited for the final blow. He then pulled out something from one of his pouches and placed it under their noses. Within seconds they were all unconscious. Skulker and Technus then arrived at the scene and wondered what it was he used on the girls that made them go unconscious.
"If you're wondering what I used to make them fall asleep, It's either. I packed it away when I was at the FentonWorks." Addison stated placing the bottle back in his pouch.
Skulker shrugged and notice that there were only 3 of them; he looked up and saw Cary was still flying towards the portal as fast as he can.
"I'm going to take out that little whelp right here, right now." Skulker shouted pointing a laser at the young clone in the distance.
Just then Addison grabbed Skulker arm and said, "No let me." Addison then took aim with the sniper rifle and shot one of the rocks that exploded right next to Cary.
Cary was hit by one of the bigger pieces rock and got disoriented on where he was. He didn't even notice Addison right behind him at the last second until it was too late. The small silver-haired boy gasped; putting his hands up to cover is face hoping nothing would happen.
"Relax kid I'm not going to hurt you." Addison stated floating in front of the young clone, who still didn't bring his hands down from his eyes.
"You're, you're not?" Cary asked with still a trembled in his voice starting to take a peek through his fingers.
"No, I don't hurt children, in fact I want you to deliver a message to the ghost boy." Addison replied sticking a piece of paper in Cary's pocket before turning around and starting to fly off.
Cary was stunned when he realized what just happened; he then shrugged and flew straight to the portal.
When Addison landed back down with Skulker and Technus, he notices that they were putting the unconsious girls in a net and tied them up so they wouldn't be able to cut themselves free. "I don't get you sometimes Recon, Why didn't you blast him right there?" Technus asked with a very puzzled look on his face.
"Like I told him, I don't harm children that are a threat. Besides he's a message carrier so I gave him a message to give to the ghost boy." Addison replied looking back at the young clone.
And sure enough, all three of them headed back to Skulker's Island with their captives.
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At the FentonWorks, everyone including Tucker, Sam, and Alan were down at the kitchen table eating supper. Danny was looking a lot better than he was this morning. He was no longer on crutches. And he was dressed in normal clothes though he still had a patch of bandage where the wound was.
They were all in the middle of dinner Lauren came walking in with Vlad right behind her with a very concern look on her face. "Vladdie, Lauren what's the matter. Are you guys alright?" Jack asked looking very concern at their friends.
"Daniel, have you seen Caroline and Carlos anywhere? Its past six and they're still not home." Lauren asked sounding like she was about to cry.
"Carrie told me that she was helping Ember move her place inside the censored perimeter, Dr. Lauren. And they told me that they would be back around 6:30 maybe 7:00. She also told me if anything happened to them, she get a hold of me on the Fenton Phone." Danny replied getting up from his chair walking over to the worried couple.
All of a sudden, everyone who was upstairs heard someone yelling for Danny from down in the lab. They all ran downstairs to see a young exhausted Carlos bent over in his human form, catching his breath. Lauren and Vlad quickly ran to their son, and gave him a warm hug, glad to see that he was ok.
Danny came up to the young clone, asking... "Carlos, what's going on? Where are Carrie and Danielle? And where's the Specter Speeder?"
"The speeder is destroyed Danny, but that's not the least of our worries, Danny..." Carlos paused for a minute before he finally said... "He took Carrie, Danielle, and Ember hostage." Well everyone there was shocked to hear that last word. Jack just started to cry because his speeder was no more. Everyone else just stared into space; But Danny was snapped out of it when Carlos held the message that Addison gave Carlos to his face.
Danny grabbed it and started to read it out loud so everyone can hear.
"Ghost boy
If you ever want to see the ghost girls and the flame headed ghost Ember, you have twenty four hours meet us at Casper High to surrender or else they will cease to exist.
Signed GR
PS Come alone"
Danny just paused before asking Carlos what the GR stood for.
"That's his name Danny, the one that took the weapons he calls himself Ghost Recon." Carlos replied.
Everyone in the lab now knew who the ghosts name was. All Lauren can do was cry in her husband's arms, knowing her baby was being held captive right now and they couldn't do anything about it.
Danny eyes were just starting to water up but instead of crying, he threw the note on the ground and fired off a green ecto ray which destroyed the note in an instant.
A long silence came from the young hero before he turned to his sister and said. "Jazz get a hold of Melanie and Valerie; tell them to get down here ASAP, and tell them our situation, we're going to need all the help we can get our hands on."
"Right little brother." Jazz replied and sure enough, she ran upstairs to the phone with Alan right on her heels.
"But Danny he told you to come alone!" Tucker rebutted flailing his hands all over the place.
"Tucker he took my girlfriend and my sister." Danny said with his back turned to everyone, "If he wants to mess around with the ones I love…" Danny said with dread as he turned with his eyes bright green. "Then he's going to have to deal with all of us."
