Dan

"Ugh, let's see, I take right at the administration offices then a left at the portal testing chamber... or was it a right at portal testing and left at administration?" I groaned and tossed the pencil onto the shelf of my transparent room. Mapping was trickier then I remember... hmm, actually, on second thought I never really had a knack for it...

I had re-discovered the enclosed glass balcony with the art supplies about a half hour or so ago and decided to busy myself until my handler would come running to me about my sob-story and beg to help me settle my affaires with young Danny Fenton. So I decided to sketch a map from a nearby door to the cafeteria to ingrain the memory in my mind.

After a few minutes frustration, I forced myself to walk away from the easel before I decided to burn it. I hated being so inactive. It used to be that whenever I ran out of things to break in one dimension, I'd just go to the other, just in time to destroy new buildings or floating islands. Now, I was stuck curled up in my transparent tunnel system, waiting for that damn wizard to show up.

I was beginning to doze off (I would've slept til about 10am, as usual, if it hadn't been for the damn werewolf) when a sound, kind of like an electronic 'poof', zapped from across the main tram hall. I lazily opened my eyes to see a small group of scientists backing away from a dark dull-green cloud swirling itself into an oval shape across the opposite side of the hall. An orange figure shot down from behind a corner, firing some kind of cannon-gun before disappearing in the man-sized cloud.

The orange-armored man popped out from a dull-yellow cloud he somehow created with the cannon-gun over 50 feet from the green cloud he landed in. Now, I was interested. It was a teleport gun and only further proved just how advanced this race was and how hard I would probably have to fight to escape.

The orange-suited man was hurled through the air in an arch, missing the ceiling by only ten feet before plummeting towards the ground. He fired the gun yet again, creating another dark dull-green cloud beneath him and hurled through the lighter cloud yet again. "Tally-ho!"

Oh, crap. Him. I let myself fade to invisibility, not that it would do me any good really...

Almost on cue, the wolfman slide sideways on the freshly wax floor, dressed in an identical orange metal suit, following his master's physics-defying acrobatics urgently. My handler bounded through the portal clouds, much to the mild delight of his coworkers before firing the darker-colored portal just above the tunnel system not 20 feet from me.

As he shot straight up in the air, he shot a light-colored portal directly underneath him, where he would land. He fell through it and slid across the smooth glass of the hamster trail to a stop next to me. "Greetings and salutations, Mr. Phantom." he stated in an sickeningly polite tone with a small bow in my direction. "Yes, I see you. Right there." He pointed directly at me.

I pouted but turned visible nonetheless. Not reacting would only encourage him to continue talking. "What do you want?" I muttered, looking away. "And what are you wearing?"

"Why, this is my armored hazardous environment suit." He cheerfully stated, holding out his chest to show the Veneficus Science logo in-between the breast plates. "Science is a dangerous work, even more so when you are responsible for testing the new inventions." He started, holding onto a steel support beam for balance "I just popped by to warn you that the Administrator wants to bring in some analysts to ensure you are... well, worth having here."

I straightened as much as I could in the tunnel "And if I'm not worth being kept here?" Perhaps an escape plan wasn't necessary after all...

He cleared his throat, glancing away nervously. "I supposed you would be... um...Ah, Porter! There you are!" The wolfman scowled at me before glaring at his master. "What is it, my friend?"

"Vi foriri mi al trovi li!" The wolfman growled

"Ooh, I did not ditch you!" the wizard defended himself "I was continuing our experiment with the Intra-Dimensional Portal Projector. Or the I.D.P.P." He added looking back at me.

"I can't tell you how much that interests me..." I said in a sarcastically deadpan tone. Clearly, he hadn't heard my sob-story, so I looked away and said "Can you just leave? I'm not in the mood right now..."

The wolfman jumped the 15 feet onto the top of the tunnel, as the wizard looked down at me with concern. He knelt down on the transparent tube and gently asked "Why? Whatever is the matter, Daniel?"

Showtime.

Dedicated to deadlydaisy8o8 although it would be better if I dedicated the next chapter to her for answering a Porter question.

Also, Merry Christmas y'all!