Chapter 21:
Danny POV-
Dani returned an hour later with about thirty ghosts: some that were my allies, like Frostbite and Dora, a lot that I didn't even know, and some that absolutely can't stand me (such as, Ember, Johnny 13, Kitty, and even Walker and some of his goons) but either these ghosts must like Dani or must hate Vlad more than they hate me. (I'm surprised that some kind of ghost sensor hadn't gone off yet) Either way, it wasn't exactly a comfortable situation for me.
We all phased up into my room so that I could explain the situation and tell everyone the plan.
Half an hour later, all the ghosts had been given a pair of Fenton Phones (which, to my surprise, actually worked despite the fact that they are intended to filter out ghost noise) and were ready for the mission.
Eli's school starts early, so this is about the time my parents would be getting up to get him ready for school. A dull thud down the hall let me know that my suspicions had been confirmed. All thirty ghosts turned invisible as footprints stalked quietly past my bedroom door.
When they were gone, and safely out of earshot, Ember decided to make a remark.
"So dipstick, you two had three kids?" she sneered. I rolled my eyes and ignored her.
We all remained relatively quiet while we waited for my parents to leave, the ghosts only occasionally asking for points of clarification.
Finally, the front door closed and the Fenton RV revved up out front.
"Okay, Sam, go wake Wren, Jackson, Jazz and Carrie, I'm going to call Tucker and get him over here," I announced. Sam agreed walking down the hall to wake everyone, as I connected myself to Tucker through the Fenton Phones.
"Wha—" he muttered groggily through the communicator.
"Dude, get over here. Things are going down," I told him, ending the conversation, just in case we were being tracked, I didn't want to say anything more than that.
Sam walked into the room with a still-fully-dressed-from-yesterday Wren and Jackson. Who looked utterly exhausted. I felt bad, they had only gotten about four hours of sleep (of course, they could have gone to bed when I told them to), but the two of them, took one look around the room and stiffened at the sight of all the ghosts, watching them suspiciously.
"Wow, those are your kids," Johnny remarked.
"Umm...what's going on?" Wren asked just as Jazz and Carrie raced into the room.
Jazz had to clamp a hand over Carrie's mouth to keep her from screaming.
"Okay, we're doing things my way," I told everyone who had just come in, "Which means, all of you," I gestured to the ghosts, "Better go to Clockwork's now. We'll be behind you shortly." The ghosts nodded, phasing through the floor, in order to go through the ghost portal. I only hoped that Clockwork would let them go.
"Dad?" Wren asked suspiciously.
Suddenly, my Fenton Phones beeped. And I answered them.
"Dude, I'm outside, what now?" Tucker asked me.
"Wait in the alley two houses down, not the one right next door," I told him, cutting off the conversation.
Then, I heard my parents come home.
"Okay, ready for the best acting exercise of your lives?" I smirked, "Wren and Jackson go get changed, Sam you go get something of Wren's to wear, Dani, when Sam is done getting dressed, take her and go wait with Tucker. I'm going to change too. Jazz and Carrie, go downstairs for breakfast. Be completely normal, we'll be down in a minute," I ordered and everyone split up like I had just told them to do. I quickly threw on a black t-shirt, not bothering to change out of the jeans I had on, I ran a hand through my hair, to make it look a little more like I had been sleeping on it, and left my room to go downstairs. Jackson was already downstairs, and Wren was only a minute behind us. The tension was so thick that you could practically see it hanging in the air, but my parents didn't seem to notice.
We finished our breakfast, and quickly waked out the door, saying our goodbyes, and stopping at the alleyway.
I needed to keep my parents out of the lab, so I called my mom's cellphone.
"Hello?" she answered on the second ring.
"Mom! There is some ghost chasing a school bus on Eighth Street!" I exclaimed into the phone.
"Okay Danny, we'll handle it, just get to school, okay?" she asked.
"Okay mom, bye," I replied, hanging up. My mom didn't seem to notice that Eighth Street was nowhere near my walk to school, but it didn't seem to matter as the Fenton RV peeled out only a minute later.
Then, Dani and I fazed everyone down to the lab.
The ghost portal had been left open from the ghosts that had left earlier, and now it reflected on our faces.
"Dad, you still haven't told us what's going on!" Wren exclaimed.
"You wanted to fight," Sam supplied, "You're going to fight. We're all going to fight, the same as with all those ghosts and their future selves. It's the only shot we have."
"So we're going to the future?" Wren clarified.
"Yes, we are," I told them. Now, everybody get into the Specter Speeder. I got in first, getting everything ready for us to take off.
Sam POV-
"But we haven't been trained!" Wren protested, before we all got in the Specter Speeder.
I grabbed two white and black Hazmat suits off of the wall. They were exactly the same as the one Danny had used when he got his ghost powers, complete with his dad's face stamped to the front of each one.
I quickly ripped the decal off and handed Wren and Jackson each a suit.
"Here, put these on," I told them. They obeyed, quickly putting the suit on over their clothes.
"Why are we putting these on?" Wren asked, "How will this change the fact that we have powers we don't know how to use?"
"Just trust me, okay?" I told them, "When the time comes, you'll know what to do. But you're going to be happy that you're wearing these."
They were still, obviously confused, but they didn't argue anymore before they got into the Specter Speeder. Danny looked back at them in the rear view mirror, giving me a little smirk, before he clicked on the engines.
"Hold on, everyone. Next stop, Clockwork's," he announced, giving the Specter Speeder full speed as we raced through the portal into the ghost zone.