Valerie watched interested as the circle glowed.
"It has been ten minutes, why didn't we reach him already?" She asked as she watched Zeke focusing on the spell.
"He might be unconscious, the place might be protected, he might be too far away." Carla said as she listed the possible reasons. "We will get something on him soon." Valerie nodded.
They received a faint image, Daniel was unconscious.
"Someone is holding him like that and making sure he doesn't wake up." Rachel said as she noticed the IV. "Do you know where he is?" Rachel asked Zeke.
He shook his head.
"Can you find out?" She asked.
He didn't respond.
"Can you do anything?" She asked worried.
"I can." Zeke said before he closed his eyes. "Be quiet." He said.
Daniel's hand twitched, his eyes slowly opened and he looked at the portal. He was confused for a moment but in a few minutes his eyes started to glow.
"Vampires…Beth is one of them…" He said before his eyes closed. "Kill them all." He said before the image faded.
"Who is Beth?" Karen asked.
"Beth Thomas, she must have been an undercover vampire. That was the reason she tried to approach him more than anyone." Slayer said as she made her presence known. "I should have known, I should have discovered it sooner, it makes sense they would try to get the famous Soris vault." She said letting out an annoyed sigh.
"Do you know where they are?" Carla asked.
"They have a base; I saw a lot of movement there so they must be getting ready to attack." Slayer said gravely. "We will have to change the plan to rescue him." She told Valerie and Carla.
"What plan?" Rachel asked.
The three looked at each other and got ready to explain their plan.
Neo Salem had received reports of an attack, the werewolves and several vampires were attacking the city; the police was doing what it could to contain them but normal bullets were not the best weapon against them.
"We are sending three squads, with the new weapons they should be enough." Commander Bradford ordered as he looked over his weapon. His laser pistol was a special variant, it had several settings, but the one he had chosen was the vampire hunting mode.
"You know this is their plan isn't it?" Logan asked as he sharpened his machete.
"I am not an idiot, besides, we will keep most of our forces here anyway; we will wait for their attack to fail, and then." Bradford smiled. "We strike back." He said with a smile.
In the medical area Paul was setting his own plan in motion, he had some of the gas they had stockpiled earlier this week and had his plan ready.
"I am sorry…Pete?" He asked the corpse he had dragged along, he was the same size he was. "I need a way out and you are just the right size." Paul said as he dragged the body towards a table.
"Traitor." One of the Hunters said; Paul had trapped them in the room not too long after he got his plan in motion.
"Well this thing is going to sink." Paul said as he set the pistol on the table. "I like living so I am making my way out of this." He said as he unscrews the battery. Once he got it out of the gun he hammered it once.
"And why did you get us here?" Another Hunter asked.
Paul let out a long sigh but told her anyway.
"One of your first missions was to find a werewolf family wasn't it? Human female, werewolf male and child." He asked. "You got my sister's family." He felt the damaged battery heating up on his hand.
He tossed the battery at the gas and laughed.
"It is a shame you people don't know how to properly maintain your equipment, such unfortunate accidents it causes." He said as he dressed Pete with his lab coat. "Just like that hot head in the scout squad." Paul said laughing.
"So it was you." The women accused.
"Oh, no that was his own incompetence." Paul said laughing. "Well I am leaving, have a nice time in hell guys, you deserve it." He said as he heard the battery start to heat up.
Paul had the cameras on loop for some time, he could just leave and he was free.
"I hated every minute of this place." He said as he looked over the HQ, he heard a loud explosion and figured his plan worked, he looked over his bus ticket and walked towards the station. Amity Park sounded like a cool place to live.
Danny Fenton was doing his best to calm down his family but it was difficult.
"Dad stop trying to punch the door, you are not strong enough to knock it down." Danny said letting out a sigh.
"There is no way I am letting the government take me." He said as he punched the door again.
"They already got us, the best we can do is cooperate." Danny said tired. "So stop punching the door, and mom you won't be able to open that panel." He turned towards his mother as she tried to open the wall panel.
"I if I can just…" She tried to pull away the thing but couldn't.
"Jazz, can you come with me please." Danny said as he let out a sigh.
Jazz walked beside him and they walked towards one of the hidden entrances, he pulled her through it and soon smoke covered the room and their parents fell asleep again.
"Is that really necessary?" Jazz asked as she watched the camera.
"They are being too hostile, we will try again later." Danny said as he presented his card to the reader and a door opened. He walked in the halls with his sister looking around.
"Where are we?" She asked as they approached Danny's room.
"Space Exploration Division, secret branch of the government and all that." He told her. "They came after us because of the ship I made and the laser weapons mom and dad gave Neo Salem." He told Jazz making her freeze.
"I forgot they had those." She said worried.
"I bet mom and dad forgot too, they know how to make more and have been using it to kill people for a while now." He told her as he opened his room. "Stay here I have to help the scientists, they don't know how the weapons work." He told her as he pushed her inside.
The door closed and he let out a sigh.
Thirty minutes later he was doing his best to explain the scientist the inner working of the weapon.
"This is not how matter works." One of the scientists said as he heard Danny's explanation.
"Ectoplasm isn't matter, not the kind we have here. Some elements have parallels to things we have like iron, carbon, oxygen but ecto energy has no known parallels." Daniel explained. "And it is easy to store if you know what you are doing, using electricity and ecto material you can create crystals and batteries that can make handheld energy weapons work." He said pointing towards the small battery.
"Why isn't everyone using it then?" Another scientist asked.
"It is hard to get, you need to drill into another dimension to get it." Danny explained. "My parents did that by accident and it took them twenty years to get here." He then pointed towards the blueprints.
"The design is made to be difficult to replicate, if one makes a copy of it the weapon it will blow up when they use it." He explained. "The Neo Salem knows that but they don't know about this." He said smiling.
Three components were highlighted.
"For all of their flaws my parents managed to plan ahead in case their weapons were stolen and copied." Danny explained. "There is a signal that would cause the weapons to self destruct, the components also need to make it work and can't be removed." Danny explained.
"So all we have to do is to send that signal, and they will explode." One of the scientists asked.
"Pretty much, we can get it done by the end of the day." Danny explained. "It needs ecto energy to work but it is simple."
Director Anderson made herself known as she spoke.
"Very well, Danny, help the scientists to make it." She said sending them several images. "Neo Salem is working on something; we need to destroy their weapons now, and anything else they have on the planet." She said as she left.
Daniel and the scientists let out a sigh; they would need to work hard to finish this.
"They are always pulling this, giving us only a few hours to make something never done before." One of the scientists complained.
They agreed, but they had a job to do.
Inside the abandoned mansion the teens did their best to sneak around, thankfully the place was almost empty. Their forces were sent away a few minutes ago, Slayer knew where to.
"They must have directed their forces to the Neo Salem HQ, the leaders will be here; they always are." She said with a stake in hand.
"How much further?" Carla asked.
"I am not sure; I think he is on the other side of the mansion, one of the small rooms." Zeke said unsure, he was following instinct more than anything. "The residual connection is fading fast." He felt something tugging him forward but the tug was getting weaker.
"Do you feel anything?" Slayer asked; she didn't seem to ask anyone in particular.
"I can feel the energies." Karen said looking around. "They brought what was in the basement here but a lot of it was taken elsewhere." She explained.
"They must be using it to fight the Neo Salem, they got powerful weapons now." Slayer said angry. "That could is bad." She stopped walking.
Valerie was the first to move, she activated a cannon from her suit and shot something in front of them, a man in a fancy suit was thrown back as he appeared. He lifted his head and let out a loud screech as he tried to attack them, Carla punched the creature in the face and threw it back down.
The vampire started to fade but she grabbed its hand and pulled out the ring it was wearing. Slayer threw the stake and it stayed down.
"They know we are here, everyone get ready, Zeke stay back." Slayer told them. "This one is a butler; the guards are going to be tougher." She warned them.
They moved faster now.
In ten minutes they reached a room that had three guards outside, they turned their heads towards the group as soon as they arrived. The three men had suits but they were red and their ties had a red T.
"Don't hold back, those three were able to bring one of the Neo Salem cells to its knees while distracting them." Slayer said as she replaced one of her stakes with a knife.
The three men seemed to vanish as they charged; Valerie was the first to be thrown back as one of the men tackled her. Carla went through a wall after the second one pushed her and Slayer held her ground as the last one rushed her.
While the three fought Karen and Zeke walked forward, they had to get to Daniel.
"The door is locked." Zeke stated, he was about to shoot but Karen reached inside with her hand and unlocked it. "Oh…thanks." He said smiling.
Opening the door he saw Daniel laying down on the bed, he had an IV like he had seen.
"We need to get that out of him, the chemical must be what is keeping him down." Zeke said as he walked forward.
As he reached down to the IV a cold hand held him.
"You are not doing this boy." Beth said as she twisted his hand. "This one is mine." She said smiling.
Karen quickly doused her in flames in order to make her let go, it worked. The vampire tried to tackle the ghost but that was a futile endeavor due to her lack of a solid body. Zeke moved towards the other teen and pulled out the IV, the boy bleed for a moment but his skin quickly healed.
"So he is not the usual teen." An elderly voice said behind Zeke. "We planned ahead for this situation." The old man said as he grabbed Zeke's shoulder, he threw the boy back.
Zeke hit the wall with his back and let out a gasp. He watched as the man as he inserted the IV back on Daniel's arm.
"The sedative we use is enough to put a werewolf in coma, even if you had pulled it out there is nothing you could do." The old man said with a smile. "Although we admire your courage." He told Zeke.
Karen screamed, Zeke watched as the vampire girl used a strange green gem against Karen, she was sucked inside it and the vampire girl let out an annoyed sigh as her skin healed.
"You are an annoyance, nothing else." Beth said as she walked towards him. "You are the Soris son aren't you? The sad child incapable of making any kind of friend, it is funny the only friend you found is a ghost you probably summoned." She said laughing.
Beth watched as a beam of green energy shot from the boy's gun and missed her head by a good distance, she giggled.
"Alexander, please take the weapon." She told the older man. "Not that the kid is any good with it." She laughed.
Zeke tried to hold on to the pistol but it was taken out of his hand. He could hear the crashing sound of combat far away; the three probably would need time before they arrived.
"Why are you doing this?" Zeke asked with a weak voice. "You will only get the others killed." He said.
"True the idiots are going to die, that is the point." She said smiling. "Too many vampires live long lives when they don't deserve it, Alex and I weren't just idiots someone bit." She told Zeke.
"We were people that searched for it, we found puzzles and we became vampires because we wanted it." Alexander said as he showed his neck. "The others believe being vampires makes them superior but it was never about that, it is an advantage, nothing more nothing less." He told Zeke.
Zeke blinked.
"So where did the others go?" Zeke asked making the two giggle.
"They had an incident with wood." Beth said. "Old idiots." She said smiling.
A phone started ringing; Alexander picked it up and started to talk.
"More resistance than you expected?" He asked with a wide grin. "Fear not, they cannot defeat you, we are vampires after all." He said barely keeping up his serious tone.
"I understand sir; we will show them our might." Came a proud voice in the phone.
Alexander and Beth waited until the man let out a gurgled scream and started to laugh.
"That guy was five hundred years old; he was among the first settlers to come to this continent." Alexander said laughing. "Not the smartest of the bunch, I bet he was saluting when he was shot." He roared, he was soon joined in his laughter by Beth.
Beth walked towards Zeke and started talking again.
"Now we get some of the riches they had and walk away, after this the city will be purged for real. The Neo Salem won't be a problem for much longer, so you can thank us for that." She said grabbing Zeke's neck and lifting him off the ground.
"You are not going to escape." Zeke gasped.
"And you are going to stop us?" Alexander asked mockingly.
Zeke felt her grasp tightening but smiled.
"No…he will." He said pointing behind him.
Daniel was surrounded by a green aura and his eyes glowed red. The IV bag had been destroyed by the energy blast from earlier and Zeke bought enough time for Daniel to wake up.
"…I am going to kill you." He said taking a step forward.
That was all that Zeke remembered before he was thrown towards another wall.