Hi, people! The reviews came in a little slow, I'm gonna need a few more! Thanks to those who did! Oh, just one thing. I forgot that Danny rode in a plane with Maddie in "Maternal Instinct". My bad. So let's just make it that Danny's nervous because he thinks what happened there may happen again. That'll do.

Okay, let's get to Chapter 3!

Far out in space, a satellite with NASA was observing the Earth's weather patterns. Two workers were currently inside it. Mission control spoke to one of them through a microphone. "Parker, this is Houston here. We're currently getting a look at some bad weather over Canaveral. Doesn't look like you'll be coming back this weekend."

He chuckled and added, "Your wife's really gonna give me an earful."

Parker chuckled with him, "Roger that."

Parker's partner floated over to him and said, "Hey, come take a look at this storm system. It's enormous."

Parker went over to the window to get a look. Sure enough, there was a huge cloud cover that blanketed a portion of the North East. And currently, a group of people were about to be caught in it.

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The airplane containing the Casper High students had been flying for almost half an hour. Lunch was being served. Outside, the plane was flying into a patch of dark gray clouds, which rumbled.

Inside the plane, Danny was looking a little bit fidgety. He had brought some candy with him, and he appeared to be trying to calm himself by stuffing a bunch of it into his mouth.

Thunder boomed, but not too loudly outside. Sam turned to Danny, "You okay?"

Danny nodded, and then continued eating.

"Afraid of flying, Fenton?" said a different, unwelcoming voice.

Danny groaned as Dash Baxter walked into the room, Kwan following.

Danny growled, "I'm not afraid of flying, Dash."

"Oh, is that so?"

"Yeah, that's so."

"Oh my gosh!" Dash suddenly shouted, "We're gonna crash!"

Danny gasped in fright.

Dash suddenly started laughing. Kwan laughed as well, "Hey, he is afraid!"

"That's not funny!" shouted Danny.

"Yeah," said Sam, "Just leave him alone."

Dash chuckled again, "Oooh, Fenton, you've got your girlfriend defending you now?"

"She's not my girlfriend!" shouted Danny.

"I'm not his girlfriend!" shouted Sam.

Just then a loud thunder boom made Dash jump.

Danny, Sam, and Tucker all laughed. "Who's afraid now?" said Danny.

Dash growled, "We'll talk later, Fenton." Then he and Kwan walked away.

"There's no reason to worry, Danny," said Tucker, "Statistically, the chances of a plane going down due to turbulence is about one in a billion. Or maybe it's a million. Man, I can never remember…"

"Tucker, shut up," said Sam. She turned to Danny, "Don't pay attention to Dash. Everything's fine. They're still serving lunch."

The ride was starting to become a little bumpy. They watched as a stewardess went to the back of the plane and strap herself in to a seatbelt.

They heard a ding and heard the voice over the intercom again. "Folks, it looks like we're going to have a bit of a bumpy ride here for the next few minutes or so. We ask that you please fasten your seat belts and put your tray tables into their upright positions until we get through this. Thank you."

The rumbling picked up and everyone quickly did as they were instructed. Up front, a cart was serving water. Just then, a huge bump sent it sliding backward. Danny heard it and looked back. He quickly ducked his head out of the way just before it hit him. The cart slid to the back where the stewardess was. She quickly unbuckled herself and got up just before it hit her. It crashed into the wall and everything spilled out.

The rumbling and the bumping was growing worse. Danny found himself panting in major fear. Without thinking he suddenly grabbed Sam's hand. Sam looked at it but said nothing.

Everyone heard the engines whine as the storm outside appeared to be getting worse. Some of the luggage started falling out of the top of the room and onto the floor.

Tucker currently had his eyes closed and was mumbling, "Happy place, happy place, happy place…"

Danny was starting to sweat as the rumbling continued. He was just starting to wonder if they would stay in the air when the bumping started to slow down.

Indeed, things were calming down as everyone began to relax. Finally, the whole thing stopped. Tucker opened his eyes and took a deep breath. Sam turned to Danny, "Danny. Danny."

"Hmm?" asked Danny.

Sam chuckled and said, "You can stop holding my hand now."

Danny was still holding Sam's hand. The two of them blushed as Danny quickly let go. They both were able to laugh it off after that.

Most people thought of the storm as "no big deal". But others wondered if it was a sign of things to come…

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At the Hedland Center, it was now starting to snow. This was no big deal, as Scotland got plenty of snow throughout the year.

John walked inside the building. His wife and son were going on a family vacation for two weeks. He heard the TV saying, "The cause of the extreme weather remains a mystery. Some meteorologists believe, however, that sunspots may be to blame."

As John hung up his coat, Peterson was looking closely at the computer. He had gotten back a couple days ago.

Peterson said, "This is very odd. This buoy is showing a thirteen degree drop in ocean temperature."

John sighed, "Oh, yeah. That buoy malfunctioned while you were in India. I'll put a call in to see if there are any ships near George's Bank to pick it up."

Peterson shook his head, "That's not the case. This buoy isn't in George's Bank. It's just southwest of the coast of Greenland."

"What?" asked John in confusion. The beeping on the map was buoy 4317. He zoomed out and saw that 4311, the buoy that beeped the other day, was beeping today as well.

He turned to Peterson, "Professor, what are the odds of two buoys malfunctioning at the same time?"

"Slim to none."

After a few seconds, another buoy started beeping. It was 4300, a buoy farther east of Greenland.

"Make that three," said Peterson with a frown.

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Not long after this, the Casper High freshman had arrived safely at Manhattan Island in New York City. Currently the sky was partly cloudy, with temperatures in the fifties.

Everyone walked off the plane and into the airport. Everyone then started talking amongst themselves.

Danny, Sam, and Tucker were currently in conversation. Danny said, "Man, it's pretty cool to be here, isn't it?"

"I hear ya, man!" said Tucker and they high-fived.

Sam chuckled, "You guys didn't look this happy during the plane ride."

Tucker retorted irritably, "Well, no one was during that storm we went through, Samantha."

Sam growled, "What have I told you about calling me that?" Then she started to chase him around the airport interior. Danny laughed as they kept on chasing, with Tucker shouting, "Come on! I was just kidding!"

Lancer was counting everyone off at this moment. Finally he shouted, "Everybody, quiet! Miss Manson, Mr. Foley, please stop running."

Sam and Tucker stopped chasing each other and walked back to Danny. Sam shook her fist at Tucker, "I'll get you later."

"First things first," said Lancer, "A few buses will be waiting outside to take everyone to the hotel we will be staying at. You will be rooming with whichever people you organized yourselves to be in earlier this week. Let's go outside and wait."

The large group walked outside and waited for the buses to arrive.

As they waited, something caught their eyes that made everyone look up. Birds. There were hundreds, no, thousands of birds in the sky, and they all appeared to be flying south.

Sam asked Danny, "Shouldn't the birds have already flown south for the winter and come back already?"

"Yeah," said Danny, "They should have. I've never seen so many birds in the sky at once."

Tucker added, "I doubt anyone here ever has."

And the birds weren't the only animals in the city acting different than usual.

Farther away from where they were, in the zoo, the aquatic creatures were yelling up to the sky, and the animals that were contained in cages were also moaning, like they though something was happening.

One of the workers walked inside the building that housed mammals and asked another worker, "What's gotten into everyone?"

He shrugged, "I have no clue. They've been acting crazy all day."

Rather interesting, isn't it? It may seem like nothing, but animals do have a better sense of nature than humans, so this may be a sign of things to come. As well as the buoys measuring major drops in ocean temperature. Could it just be a fluke, or is there something suspicious and possibly dangerous in Mother Nature's works? Find out in Chapter 4!