Chapter 5
It seemed like weeks before the final bell rang, letting the kids free from the prison known as school. Danny, Rosa and Brooke all exited the school together; after finding no sign of Star, Tucker, Sam or Aries anywhere. This did worry Rosa and Danny, but they figured the four could handle themselves. So they took Brooke to Danny's house as they planned. It would be a quick deal so that Brooke would get in and out. Then Danny and Rosa would go look for Star and the others. At least, that was their plan.
But when they got there, Brooke demanded to see everything, especially in the basement. Danny hesitantly led her down there with Rosa not far behind, then after a quick tour, Danny shoved her out of the room, with Rosa pulling up the rear. They were in the living room, when Brooke unleashed her plan.
"So, Rosa…Danny, how long have you two been going out?" Brooke smiled to herself.
"Oh, just well over a month now." Rosa smiled at Danny and he smiled back.
"How did you two fall in love?" Brooke questioned. Instantly the two went rigid. It wouldn't be easy to explain everything to Brooke. So they each chose their words carefully.
"I had been friends with Danny for a while." Rosa said. "Then one day, I almost got killed and Danny revealed to me that he liked me more than a friend."
Danny smiled and nodded. "Yeah, I really do."
Rosa seemed to smile at him again. "You do?"
"Yes." He whispered.
Brooke smirked. This was her chance! Without so much as a whisper, she disappeared and appeared back in the basement, staring at the green swirling vortex in front of her. She gulped slightly and transformed into her other half. Her brown eyes turned blue, her hair turned silver and her outfit turned into a silver and blue lab suit. She bit her lip and stared hard at the portal in front of her. Finally, she took a breath and jumped in.
A few seconds after she had left, both Rosa and Danny had broken the trance they were in, to see that Brooke was gone. Both instantly gasped and started to search around the house for her frantically. But both came up empty handed. Finally they both looked at the door to the basement and nodded in unison. They ran down there but found nothing as well.
"Where is she?" Rosa asked, panicked.
"I don't know!" Danny's eyes soon lied on the portal itself. Brooke couldn't have possibly gone in there. Could she? Rosa stood next to him and looked at the portal as well.
"You think?" she began. Danny only shook his head.
"I don't know Rosa. I don't know."
"We have to go in there after her!" Rosa concentrated and a ring surrounded her waist area, then it suddenly split into two pinkish rings and one flashed down, and the other went up. Rosa Specter soon emerged. She smiled and looked at Danny for him to transform. He nodded and did the same thing. Both then looked at the portal and both grabbed each other's hands, and stepped inside.
Brooke meanwhile was inside and was being led to her mother by Bertrand. She was excited, and scared at the same time. Millions of constant thoughts raced through her mind. Thoughts of worry, panic, and rejection. Soon Bertrand led her inside a cave, as they walked through the endless tunnels Brooke started to become increasingly nervous. Finally the tunnels let out into a large room. There in the center was a throne like structure made of the rock from within that cave. Brooke walked foreword, itching to finally meet her mother, but when she got up there, who she saw wasn't her mother, it was Spectra.
She gasped and stumbled back. "you aren't my mother!" she cried out, she then turned to see Bertrand behind her, in blob form. He grabbed her arms and dragged her to Spectra.
"Of course not my dear. Your mother would never want to see a wretch as you! You are a disgrace to you entire family!" as her words sunk in, Brooke found herself closing her eyes and she began to cry.
"Yes, cry!" She mocked. "That is what you do best you nobody!" The more miserable Brooke got, the stronger Spectra became. She was in ghost form but she still looked much younger than before. She smiled wickedly and looked at Brooke with her piercing red eyes. "Just give it up Brooky, no one will ever save you. Your doomed."
Brooke opened her eyes so that they narrowed in anger. "Stop it!" She struggled to escape from Bertrand's grasp, but she had felt herself get extremely weaker as Spectra fed off her.
"You have no friends, no family, no life. Who would even care for someone who is doomed to die anyways?" Spectra laughed evilly and looked at the helpless girl.
Brooke closed her eyes hard, as tears flowed from them like rivers. She then opened them and stared hard at Spectra. "No! They do care! Your wrong!" she started to glow a bright blue.
"You really think they like you? They are just pretending, in no doubt to embarrass you later!" Spectra continued to mentally abuse the poor girl.
She stopped glowing instantly as that sunk in. "No! They wouldn't!" but she was loosing the battle as she became extremely weaker. She fell to her knees as she was overtaken by grief. Spectra was going to win, and no one could save her.
"HELP ME!"
"Did you hear that?" Rosa asked Danny as they were floating through the ghost zone. He shivered. "You mean that unearthly wail? No.."
Rosa rolled her eye and jabbed him in the chest.
"Ow that hurt!" Danny whined.
"Men are such babies sometimes.." Rosa mumbled under her breath, continuing to float around the ghost zone, searching for Brooke.
"Hey!" Danny yelled angrily, flying after her. Soon they found a cave and heard someone's cries coming from it. They floated inside and looked around nervously. Finally they came to a opening and large room. There inside was Spectra, Bertrand, and the girl from the other night!
Rosa looked at the girl thoughtfully, then something inside clicked.
"That's Brooke!" Rosa exclaimed.
"What? The girl in blue? Oh now I see it." Danny whacked himself in the head. "If I wasn't a C student I would have realized that two hours ago."
"And what does that make me?" Rosa looked at him harshly. Danny was speechless. "Erm.. Uh…" A loud Thump got their attention from the argument and to a very weak Brooke who had been thrown to the ground by Spectra. She advanced towards the unmoving girl.
"You are nothing but worthless garbage you know that? No one loves you! No one cares!"
"We beg to differ!" Rosa called out, as she and Danny stepped out of the shadows.
All three looked over at two.
"Well if it isn't Danny Phantom and Rosa Specter." Specter smirked. "Get 'em Bertrand!"
Bertrand instantly transformed into his cougar form and attacked the two. Both split up and Rosa ran for Brooke as Danny fought with Bertrand. He pounced on top of Danny, knocking Danny to the ground hard on his back. Danny quickly kicked him off and stood up as Bertrand started to attack again. Danny attacked also, throwing plasma and anything else he could at the beast.
Meanwhile Rosa got to Brooke and went to touch her, but Spectra grabbed her wrist.
"Let go!" Rosa tried desperately to escape Spectra's grip. Nothing worked and she was thrown into a wall hard. She stood up rather dizzy and then growled at Spectra. She formed a light pink substance in her hands and fired it at Spectra multiple times.
"Think happy thoughts!" Rosa ordered the weak girl on the ground. "She feeds off you if you're miserable!"
"Shut up!" Spectra screamed, throwing her own dark blast at Rosa in the chest, sending her flying into another wall. She groaned and she started to fall unconscious.
Brooke concentrated hard on one happy memory. She soon found it and found her own strength returning. She stood up weakly and saw Spectra moving menacingly towards a unconscious Rosa. Hardly even thinking, Brooke formed a light blue plasma in her hands and fired it at Spectra's back. It hit its target and Spectra took a tumble on the ground.
Danny was still trying to fight off Bertrand. He then finally realized he had the fenton thermos with him and merely sucked him up into the thermos. " I really need to work on my technique."
Rosa managed to awaken to see Spectra on the ground. Instantly though, Spectra was up and heading towards Rosa once again, angry.
"Uh oh.. ummm.." Rosa instantly got to her feet and got ready to fight.
"Turn back to human!" Danny yelled.
"What? So she can kill me in human mode, then in ghost mode?" Rosa snapped sarcastically.
"Just do it! Trust me!" Danny yelled.
Rosa sighed and transformed into her human self. Spectra reached out to grab her, and Rosa looked horrified, until Spectra's hand went right though Rosa's body. Both looked very surprised. Then to Rosa's amusement, Spectra continued to try to grab at Rosa frantically, not yet processing what was going on.
Danny grinned and transformed back to human as well. Brooke finally did as well as she saw the familiar faces of Rosa and Danny. Rosa and Danny walked over to Brooke.
"You alright?" Rosa asked.
She nodded softly. "Thank you."
"C'mon, lets get out of this place." Danny let Bertrand out of the thermos and the three started to walk back to the portal.
Bertrand watched them walk away and looked at Spectra. "Back to the drawing board?"
She just glared at him.
Star and the others, once united started to look for Rosa and Danny, only to no avail. They tried their houses and found nothing that would lead them to know where Danny and Rosa were. Frankly they were all very worried, so they all went to their homes and waited impatiently for Rosa or Danny to call them.