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Penguin: What are you confused about?

R6: I'm not sure why, but I've noticed, especially in Mystery Meat, Fanning the Flames, 13, and Lucky in Love, that Dash and his fellow jocks, then Paulina and her girlfriends always seemed to pick on Danny especially. Even Valerie seems to, and she's not that popular anymore. They especially bullied Tucker in the episode 13 with the whole, "Bad Luck Tuck," and "Techno Geek," thing. So I guess from Paulina's, Valerie's, and Dash's points of views, they pretty much think he's a loser. And your review meant a lot to me. I'm glad I'm your fav.

ChibiSess: Sam rocks. I don't think anyone who's into Danny Phantom likes Paulina. We all want to see Danny end up with Sam, at least that's what most stories say (Hey, then why do I have a story where he doesn't? I'm insane I guess). Thanks for reviewing. And by the way, it's not Danny this time, sorry.

A. Nonymous: The elevator jolted, then dropped one floor. The Box Ghost is awesome. My favorite ghost is still Ember though. And I haven't added anything yet, because I've been busy, but thanks for reminding me, I'll hurry. And happy Saint Patrick's Day to you!

Sqweakie The Wonder Mouse: Ooh, Tucker's not going to sing…but he's going to do something else. And he actually does do it! That comes last chapter though! Danny is unconscious because Val's weapon is designed to remove ghost energy from the air. Don't worry, he comes back in this chapter.

Fubukis-wraph: No, Kwan's not on the elevator. Just Dash, Paulina, Valerie, Danny, Sam, and Tucker. Don't worry, I have the attention span of a gnat.

GreyRavenNorth: Thanks for answering my question. I hoped you wouldn't mind, but I used your favorite truth question on Dash. Any ideas are welcome! Thanks!

ChibiMilleniaPhantom: Is Chibi the name from a book or tv show? I have another reviewer with a similar name. The elevator just jolted and dropped a floor.

Rainstorm Amaya: I'm glad you did read it. The first time I put it up, it wasn't my favorite and I was thinking it wasn't really going to do well, and then it threw me a loop and I got one hundred reviews on three chapters. So I was like, wow. (Can't think of something intelligent to say) Thanks for reading!

Those changes I said last chapter will be made soon, I've just been really busy. So I'll stop your waiting and bring you chapter five! Our favorite "Techno Geek." Sorry for all of you who wanted Danny. AND DANNY IS NOT DEAD! I could never kill him off…..(oops, maybe I did. But only in like three stories)

Chapter Five

Tucker

I'd never heard Sam scream before, but I heard her this time. In fact, I think we all screamed, except for Danny, who was still unconscious from whatever had happened.

But all of a sudden, the elevator jolted, and we were all falling….. not really. For a millisecond maybe. It felt like an eternity to stop.

Sam was distracted and straggled roughly against Paulina, and I seized the chance to pull her off of the girl, and she didn't really seem to mind.

Paulina stood up, pale and (I sort of thought it was funny) the side of her nose was bleeding. The elevator stopped shaking.

"What was that?" she asked.

"You two! What are you trying to do, kill us?" Valerie snapped. Frankly I thought she had a point. "This….is….an……elevator. Which means if we move too much, while we're inside, it could crash to the ground and send us to our deaths!"

"She started it," Paulina said, wiping her nose and pouting.

"Oh, how childish," Sam said.

Here we go again, I thought. "Will you please stop?"

There was a groan in the corner. Sam and I flipped around at the same time, to see Danny's eyes flutter open.

"Danny!" Sam exclaimed, dropping down to him hurriedly. I did the same, though not as excitedly. I knew that she at least had a thing for him, and I figured I'd let her get closer to him, so I backed off a little. I knew those two would end up together.

"What happened?" he asked, sitting up.

"You blacked out," I replied. Was it wise for him to be moving? Whatever had happened to him, it had to have been bad for him to just lose consciousness like that.

"What a coincidence," Valerie said behind me.

I tried hard to ignore her. I was willing to tell her everything, but Danny's secret I had at least kept…but now he was coming closer and closer to exposure.

"Are you okay?" Sam asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine," he said, rubbing it as he spoke. It didn't take a brain surgeon to figure out he was lying though. His blue eyes, normally light and wide, were darkened and glazed. "What happened?" he asked again.

"One of Valerie's weapons. They were supposed to effect ghosts," I heard the emphasis she used and he nodded, understanding.

"Which brings me to a point—" Valerie began.

"Want to play truth or dare?" I asked again, interrupting her.

"What is it with you and that game?" Dash asked.

"It gets you guys to shut up for a while, and it buys us some time while we're waiting for help," I said honestly.

But something hit me again. Where was help? It'd almost been an hour, I think, I didn't really check. Did they not have some sort of alarming system? In the biggest computer technology company? Highly doubtful they didn't. I was supposed to be looking around, losing my mind over their latest inventions and electronics. I especially wanted to see this real live replica of a computer, MP3 player, game boy, and PDA system that was said to be the "Techno Geek's Marvel. The future of tomorrow."

But no. I was stuck here. In this itty bitty elevator with Sam and Paulina, who wanted to kill each other, and Danny and Dash, who wanted to kill each other. I was in perfect company.

"If someone else would shut their trap—" Paulina began.

"Shut up! God, do I need to separate you two?" Valerie asked.

"You're like a bunch of four year olds," I pitched in, finally snapping and saying something.

"Oh, and what are you fourteen?" Dash asked.

Boy he really was stupid.

"No, I'm just a seven year old who tagged along for the ride of freshman life," I said sarcastically. It wasn't like me to stand up fully to a bully, but what could he do to me here? Things were already bad enough with Paulina and Sam's little cat fight. Would he dare to do the same? Besides that, if things got too bad, Danny and Sam were there to back me up, and they would.

"Whatever," he said. In the dark (and I could finally see better now that we'd been in here so long) I could see him blush.

"Can we play?" Valerie asked.

"With what?" Paulina asked.

Danny, Sam, even Dash, and I all laughed. Valerie caught on quickly to what, and Paulina looked at us stupidly.

"You're disgusting," she said darkly.

"You said it," Alex said, laughing.

"Truth or dare, is what I was talking about."

Wow. She really wanted them to shut up about as much as I did. At least I had an ally other than Danny and Sam. Maybe.

Valerie was totally gorgeous. Black, like me, with curly/wavy black hair and green eyes. She was smart and savvy and seemed to want to be a mediator. She didn't choose sides, and if she did, it was probably more prone to Dash and Paulina, like I was with Sam and Danny.

"Fine. Nothing else perverted," Paulina said, catching on. About time.

"Anyone else?" Valerie said. I loved how she just took charge like that.

"I'm in," Dash said.

"We're in," Sam said, referring to both her and Danny.

I looked over at my best friend. He looked terrible; he was deathly pale and clearly in pain. Coughing, he sat up again and crawled back into the corner.

I turned my glance over to Sam who wasn't paying attention to me, but staring at him, her own face set pale and worried.

"Truth or dare?" Valerie asked, beginning.

"Who did you ask?" Sam asked.

"Oh….um….Tucker," she said.

Ooh. Nice.

"Truth or dare."

"Dare," I replied. No reason not to be tough. I'd already seen Danny's dare, where he had to kiss Sam. (Which I thought was hilarious because I know he likes her, and I know she likes him. I'm just wondering when they are going to get over themselves.) It couldn't be that bad. Everyone else had chosen truth except for him.

"Okay. I dare you….when we get out of here—" she started bursting into laughter and I knew it had to be bad. Why did I have to be an idiot? "During third hour tomorrow, run around the school, stark naked, screaming like an Indian."

Paulina clapped a hand to her mouth and Sam started cracking up. Danny even laughed, banging his head on the side of the elevator wall again, muttering to himself, "bad visual, bad visual." Dash just covered his face in his hands and smiled.

I myself, was kind of grossed out. What in the heck was Valerie thinking about?

"That's just disgusting," Paulina said. "I thought I said nothing perverted. And nothing…that would make a person throw up."

"I thought you were just talking about you," Valerie said, still trying hard to remain calm. "But if you want me to take back the dare, go for it. I've got loads more."

"I say he keeps it. And he has to do it," Dash said.

"Third hour tomorrow? I believe you have Spanish," she said, staring at me.

I sighed, so not wanting to do this… but. "I'll do it."

"Oh, I do not want to see that," Paulina said, making a sour face.

"I do," Sam said.

We all stared at her.

"I didn't mean it like that you sickos," Sam said, laughing.

"Uh…huh, sure," I teased her. "You want to see me naked Sam?"

She punched me in the arm, hard, but I shrugged it off, laughing. Everyone was cracking up and for a minute, it was almost like we were friends… I wondered how long that would last.

"Dash, truth or dare?" I asked.

"Truth," he replied.

"What's your greatest fear?" I had a better one, but that was reserved for Valerie. And as far as I was concerned, I was pretty sure we weren't playing tagsy-backsies.

He rubbed his chin, as if he were thinking (Is it really that hard for him?) "I don't like bugs."

"Eww…you're right. They're so slimy and gross and they have all those feelers," Paulina agreed. "Especially spiders."

"Spiders aren't insects," Sam said.

"Well…whatever," Paulina said. "They're still…yuck." She lifted her collar from her shirt. "Does anyone else think it's hot in here?"

I suddenly realized it too. Where it was once cold (whether from the power shut down or The Box Ghost, I wasn't sure), now it seemed to be quite steamy in here.

"It's because we're all in here, and we've been in here a while," I replied.

"Wait….have you guys ever seen Without A Trace?" Valerie asked.

"That show with the people missing?" Danny asked. Danny was into those kind of shows with all the cops and CSI people.

"Yeah. Don't they say that we only have a certain amount of time before we run out of oxygen?" she asked.

"Oh my gosh, she's right!" Paulina chimed in.

"Chill, just chill. We'll be fine," I said. "We've only been in here—" I checked my watch and my eyes widened. It'd almost been two hours. On one hand, that was kind of freaky. Why weren't they searching for us? It'd been only ten minutes since our little jolt.

"Yeah, see!" Valerie exclaimed.

"How long has it been?" Danny asked.

"T-two hours," I stammered.

"What?" Dash, Danny, and Sam said at the same time.

"Where is help? They should have been here a long time ago," Paulina said, shaking.

"Has it really been that long?" Sam asked.

"I guess playing truth or dare passed the time," I suggested.

"Or it could have something to do with your stupid weapon," Paulina said, looking at Valerie.

"It wasn't the weapon. Time doesn't just speed up. We must have lost track of time," she insisted.

"Valerie, what exactly does your weapon do?" I asked. Maybe it really did have something to do with the weapon. If the wiring configurations didn't match up—

"It's supposed to remove any ghost energy from the air, creating a radius around us that would protect us from ghosts, while if a ghost itself were inside or near it, it would be weakened or ill, or sometimes…even fall unconscious, which brings me to a point I'm still trying to make," she said firmly.

Oh…no.

"What are you hiding?" she asked.

I knew who the question was intended for, but I wanted to avert anyone from getting any closer to thinking about it.

"I have four PDA's in my pants," I said randomly.

Silence.

"That was more information then I needed to know," Paulina said.

"Well, at least you know it's not something else," Sam said.

They laughed together. That had to be a once in a lifetime moment. I should have brought my camera. They stopped immediately though, looking everywhere but each other.

"I wasn't talking to you, Tucker," Valerie snapped. "I was talking to Danny." She paused and then gazed at him, like she was trying to read his mind. "If my weapon went wrong like everyone said, why were you the only one who fell unconscious?"

"I—I don't know," he stuttered.

"Can we just get back to the game?" Sam asked nervously.

"Whatever you're hiding, I'm going to find out," she warned.

"Okay….you're freaking me out," Paulina declared. "Who's turn was it?" she asked. "I like this game."

Sam looked happy. We'd both managed to do two things; keep attention away from Danny's secret for now, and keep them from flipping out about the elevator problem.

"It was my turn. But do you realize the one person who nobody has asked yet?" he asked.

"Who? Everyone's gone," Paulina disagreed.

"Not everyone."

Then I realized who he was staring at.

"Sam hasn't."

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HA! How's that one for a little more humor (and a little more perversion, I'm sorry if you're not into that). Not as much action, but there will be the chapter after next. I already have our favorite Goth girl's POV done, but I'm going to be evil and make you wait till next FRIDAY! HA. Yes, obviously Sam is next. And then you know who comes after that.

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Lateraina Wolf