A/N: Hey, guys! I'm probably going to have the rest of this story typed up by the time you get to this, because my stupid comp won't let me on the internet, and the other comp takes way too long to start up. Anyway, onto chapter 12!

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Once Alan and I got home, I ran to Mom and asked for the keys to the Specter Speeder. She gave them to me, and I ran downstairs and into the Speeder. Alan was already there.

"The spell's gonna wear off soon," I said as I drove the Specter Speeder out of the basement and onto the street. We drove back to the spot we had last seen Dad. Plasmius was gone, and Jim was lying on his stomach, bleeding. I could see that the cut came from his forehead. Alan and I got him into the Speeder and headed back home. When we got there, we saw that Mom had called all our other friends, because they were all in the basement waiting for us. Jade and C.K. carried Jim over to a few chairs and laid him across them. Amy got the First-Aid Kit down, and she and Cassie got to work on the cut on Jim's forehead.

"What happened?" Darren asked.

"We'll ask him when he wakes up," Alan answered.

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With Danny (Danny's POV)

"Idiot, idiot, idiot, idiot,…" I chanted to myself as I waited for Skulker to come back. When he did, I immediately asked if Jim was okay.

"He had a cut on his forehead, but he'll be fine," was the answer.

"Where is he?"

"Alex and Alan got there just before I did. I saw them pick him up, put him in the Specter Speeder, and drive towards their house."

"They drove the Speeder, alone? What were they thinking?"

"You drove it when you were fourteen."

I blushed. "Oh, yeah."

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With Alex and Co. (Alex's POV)

Unfortunately, Jim didn't wake up that night. Everyone stayed at our house overnight. The next morning, we all crowded onto the bus and took up the four seats farthest back.

"Jim, what happened to you?" Brad asked.

"When the spell broke, I looked up to see Plasmius standing above me," Jim said. "He had a branch in one hand and the other was glowing. I was really confused, then, he laughed and said that I wasn't worth his time. He hit me on the head with the branch, and I can just barely remember falling sideways onto my stomach and Plasmius disappearing in purple smoke. The next thing I remember is waking up this morning."

"Wow," we all chorused.

"Wait a sec," Alan said, "Alex, did you say the incantation at home?"

I gasped, "No! I totally forgot!"

"This is bad, this is very bad," said—Bunni? Wow, I haven't heard her be this serious for a while!

"Just, remind me to say the one at school."

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After school.

Luckily, I remembered to do the incantation at school. Plasmius hasn't bothered us all day.

We all piled onto a bus and were on our way to my house. Alan and I were extremely excited. In an hour or two, we'd have our Dad back!

Just slightly before we were home, though, I felt like something was about to go horribly, horribly wrong. I told Alan, but he said I was just nervous about the incantation. But, knowing Alan, he's probably wrong.

When the bus stopped, we all got off, Alan and I in the lead. We were laughing at a joke Jade had told us when I looked up, gasped, and stopped dead, causing Alan and the others to run into me. They looked up and gasped, too.

Standing on the doorstep, leaning against the door with his arms crossed and looking incredibly bored, was the last person any of us wanted to see.

"Plasmius!"

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A/N: Oh no! Looks like the twins' plans are ruined! What'll happen next? Find out in the last chapter—Chapter 13: Because You Live! Bye, y'all!