Jazz yelped once more as she was zapped by the computer, the voltage of each shock was getting higher. Sam's lips were starting to go blue and her hair started to freeze from the coldness of the room and it only got worse as she fell to her knees, her thoughts were on Danny thinking of what horrible things Vlad could be doing to him right now. A tear fell from her eye but immediately became frozen as it hit the ground.
Taylor fearfully looked at the clock on the wall and saw there less than two minutes left before the acid would come down and completely melt his skin.
Luke continued to grin at his soon to be victims on the camera screens.
Meanwhile in the room in the other lab Vlad said, "Begin the process and turn on the machine"
"Yes sir" Technus said as he placed a helmet on Danny's head.
Technus then pressed a button and the sound of the machine turning on could be heard, the red glowing crystal glowed brighter in the room and its energy was being transferred into Danny's mind through the helmet.
IN DANNY'S HEAD:
Danny stood in his human form in a black room. He called out, "Sam! Taylor! Jazz! Anybody?!"
He began to walk around the space and then stopped as he saw something orange in the distance. He squinted his eyes to look closer and suddenly his eyes widened as he recognised the human figure standing in the distance.
"Dad? DAD! DAD YOU'RE ALRIGHT!" Danny shouted as he ran to his father who had his back turned around.
Danny turned him around only to jump back in fright at the sight of his father's deathly pale skin and the bullet wound flowing from where he was shot.
Jack sneered at the boy standing in front of him and suddenly back handed to the ground.
"Dad?! What are you doing?" Danny asked in complete shock.
"It's your fault! It's your fault I'm now dead!" Jack roared. "It's your fault that I can no longer kiss my own wife or hug my own daughter! If you hadn't been born then this wouldn't have happened!"
Jack disappeared and the room suddenly changed its scenery to Amity Park. Danny stood up and rubbed his face where his father had struck him and saw the images of destroyed cars, burning buildings and the roads were broken.
He heard crying in the background and turned to see an image from an all too familiar nightmare….
In the real world Vlad grinned at the sight of Danny as he yelped in pain and a red mark appeared on his face, when he had tested the power of the machine on someone else, he had discovered that whatever pain they had felt in the dream world, they would feel it in the real world.
Taylor saw that he only had one minute and thirty seconds left until the acid came flooding into the room. He suddenly got an idea as he looked down at the metal chain. If metal was made out of earth, then would it possible that there would be still bits of earth buried deep within the heart of the metal?
It was a long shot but it was the best option he had. Luke watched in confusion on the screen as Taylor bent down to his ankle chain and started rubbing his hands against it with his eyes closed.
"What is he doing?" Luke wondered.
Taylor continued to concentrate and he felt the metal, his eyes then widened as he felt it! There were tiny fragments of earth within the metal. He grabbed onto the chain and started working on bending those fragments of earth.
"Come on! Work! Please work!" Taylor groaned as he kept pushing and pushing his powers and pulling on the chain.
Suddenly the chain fell apart and Taylor could suddenly feel all his powers back again.
"YES!" Taylor cheered and then ran to the metal wall of the room and bended the metal to create a large hole in the wall and then ran out and quickly closed the wall just as the timer finished and the acid flooded the room.
"NO! NO! NO! NO!" Luke shouted in anger.
He was about to run out of the room when suddenly the door slammed open and before Luke could do anything, he was punched right in the face by Taylor and knocked out completely cold. Taylor then encased Luke's body in some water right up to his neck before freezing it.
"That should hold you long enough" Taylor said. "And never mess with my team mates again"
Taylor then went to the controls and turned off the computer that was connected to Jazz and shut down the liquid nitrogen flowing into Sam's room. Taylor then ran out of the control room and opened up the door leading to Sam and ran straight to her.
He ripped the chains off her using his now ability to bend metal and then used the heat from his fire to warm Sam up. It took a few minutes to warm her up and she said as they both stood up, "Thanks Taylor"
They both then ran to the room leading to Jazz and opened it up. Sam ripped off the helmet while Taylor ripped open the cuffs on Jazz's wrists. She stood up and said, "Thanks guys. Any longer and I would have been brain fried"
"Okay we need to call HQ and find Danny" Sam said with urgency.
"But first we need to find out exactly where we are" Jazz added.
They went back into the control room and Jazz started hacking into the system. She then said, "Looks like we're underground in New York in one of the old subway stations from the 1950's. Just near the old drainage junction at South Point"
She continued to hack into the computer and found where Danny was and said, "Danny's in Lab 23 on the third floor"
"Okay contact Mathew and tell him where we are" Taylor said.
Jazz used the computer and video called Mathew who looked shocked to see that they were using a frequency from DALV.
"Guys! Are you all okay? Where's Danny?" Mathew asked as they all could see he was standing with Maddie and Brian.
"We're fine but Danny won't be if we don't hurry" Jazz said. "We're in New York City underground. It's hidden in an old subway station which is just near the old drainage junction at South Point"
"We're still in Tennessee but we'll be there as fast as we can" Maddie said. Brian then added, "Faster the way I'll drive the jet"
"We're going to rescue Danny" All three of them said before hanging up.
Taylor, Jazz and Sam then immediately ran out of the room and started heading for Lab 23 hoping they were not too late.
TO BE CONTINUED….