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10. Plans formed and put into action

In the mean time at FentonWorks everyone prepared to fight to get Danny back. Maddie put as much ghost hunting equipment in her boots as possible and Jack charged the Fenton bazooka. Hailey tried to convince the twins to stay up in their room. This is how the conversation went:

"But we wanna help Danny, too!" Max yelled.

"But it's too dangerous for you to be there.", Hailey replied, "You could get hurt."

"Danny said that, too when he battled that big, metallic ghost but we were the ones who saved him! He was already captured in a net! That ghost would have killed him! And it wasn't even his worst enemy!" Theo half-whined.

"Yes and Vlad IS Danny's worst enemy…"

"THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO HELP!!!" Max shouted. He was just about to just walk off and find Danny without anyone else when his mother slammed the door shut.

"LET ME OUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!!!!!!!" Max cried. He pounded against the door with all his might but it was no use. Both Max and Theo started to cry.

Fifteen minutes later they heard voices down stairs. Maddie, Jack, Hailey, Danielle, Sam, Tucker and Valerie were about to leave when suddenly Vlads face appeared on the TV screen. They all turned around in shock as they heard his voice:

"Citizens of Amity Park! I, Vlad Plasmius, have returned to get my revenge on your beloved hero, Danny Phantom and on the world. Mwahahahahaha! And to do that I have made me a little company…" the scene flipped over to Danny in a cage with a cloth over his mouth and his hands behind his back.

He had cuts, burns and buries all over his body, probably from escape attempts or Vlad, torturing him. He had pretty deep cut on his right cheek and it looked like Vlad had tried to slash his eye.

"As you can see", Vlad suddenly said, "he has no chance of escaping and if you won't surrender for him till tomorrow evening he will pay for this. With his live. I'm waiting for your decision. Should he die or just be enslaved? Oh and Fentons, don't try anything funny because I have a state of the art security system. If it goes off it will kill him. Ta."

Vlad laughed like a lunatic and in the background you can see Danny, shocking frantically his head, meaning not to surrender, and glaring angrily at Vlad before the scene vanished and the usual program came back.

All seven ghosthunters looked at each other, their mouth hanging open and with shock in their eyes.

Finally Sam broke the eerie silence: "Should we go?"

In response everyone looked even more unbelieving. If one of them would have the courage to go it would be Sam but now she hesitated, too. 'Should they risk Danny's live?' was the real question behind her sentence and one thing was for sure: no one of them wanted to be responsible for Danny's death.

"But we can just let Vlad take over the earth and still torture Danny!" Valerie suddenly shouted out, "He will KILL him eventually!"

"You know, you have a point", Tucker said to everyone's surprise, "He won't just let Danny go free. And Danny will surely put up a fight and you all know Vlad, he won't appreciate that. But still, if Vlad really has a state of the art security system then it's nearly impossible to get there without him noticing."

At his words Sam's face brightened. "You said it's nearly impossible. That means there is a chance, doesn't it?"

"Maybe, maybe…"

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Wow, this chapter took long. Well, I'm still working on improving the other chaps. And special thanks to Karnelia who gave me some tips to do so. I hope I'll be able to update soon now that school's out for a week.

So until next time read and review!