Friendly Strangers
Chapter 1: The Accident
It was dusk and Danny, Jazz were in the RV with Jack at the wheel and Maddie at the shotgun.
"So why are we along for the ride again?" asked Danny to Jack.
"We're going to see Vladie at his mountain resort" replied Jack.
"Why do I even bother" said Danny, "he tried to steal mom."
"Ex nay on the mom ey" said Maddie to Danny.
"What was that?" asked Jack as he turned around while not looking at the road to Danny.
"Uh, look out for that trailer!" shouted Danny as Jack was driving on the other side of the lane.
Suddenly before Jack could realize what was going on, the RV rams itself straight into the oncoming trailer. The damage was minimal, but no one was hardly injured.
"Is everybody alright?" asked Maddie as everyone in the RV gained consciousness.
"Pretty much" replied Jazz.
"Same here" added Danny.
"Jack" said Maddie, "why don't you get out of the RV and greet the driver of the trailer."
"Aw" mourned Jack, "do I have to?"
"Jack" replied Maddie, "the only reason I came along the trip was to give you morale support with Vlad. Now go."
As Jack got out of the driver's seat and walked out of the RV, he approached the trailer. The driver of the trailer looked to be like a man in his 70's or late 60's. The man got out of the driver's seat and greeted Jack.
"Seems like we got in a big mess" said the man to Jack, "btw, who are you?"
"The name is Jack Fenton" replied Jack, "and you?"
"I'm Max Tennyson" replied the man, "and my two grandchildren-Ben and Gwen are in the trailer. They're alright."
"Well that's good to hear" said Jack.
"Jack" said Maddie from the window, "don't forget to exchange insurance."
"Thanks Maddie" said Jack as he got out the papers.
The accident site was not far from Vlad Master's mountain resort. As Vlad was looking through the telescope, he noticed that the Fentons were in some sort of an accident with another group of people. He then goes and signals Skulcker to come into the room.
"What is it this time?" asked Skulcker.
"Take a look through here" replied Vlad as he showed Skulcker to the telescope.
As Skulcker looked down from the telescope he noticed that his most infamous prey was clueless on who was watching him. Skulcker then gave an evil sinister smile as he somehow could translate the body languages of the two men in quite despair.
"My prey is a sitting duck" laughed Skulcker in a happy mood.
"Go on ahead" said Vlad, "give the Fentons and whoever else is down there a run for their money."
As Skulcker disappeared to head down toward that area, Jack and Grandpa Max gathered the Tennysons and the Fentons together.
"Bad news" said Grandpa Max, "this doesn't seem to be very fixable."
"Well, I have good news" said Jack, "we can get our vehicles fixed through Vlad."
"You mean you people know the Vlad Masters?" asked Gwen in an astonished voice to the Fentons.
"That guy is so rich" added Ben, "I wish I had that sort of money."
"You would be surprised how he achieved that type of cash" said Danny.
"Well" said Jack, "I'm going to go behind the RV and call for Vlad's help. You people can make yourselves comfortable."
"I'll head into the trailer and use the phone in there to call some professionals over" said Grandpa Max.
As Jack and Grandpa Max left the scene, Maddie was busy relaxing and waiting for the arrival of either Vlad's professional mechanics or the mechanics Grandpa Max were going to call. Jazz then noticed a strange watch device on one of Ben's arms.
"What's that?" asked Jazz, "Is that a new watch of some sort?"
"Careful Ben" said Gwen as she nudged her shoulder to him, "you don't want to reveal our secret."
"What secret?" asked Danny in astonished worried voice, "I don't have any secret either."
"Danny" said Jazz, "don't forget about your secret."
As both Gwen and Jazz were trying to keep each other's secrets from being revealed, Skulcker was watching the argument from a far distance on some rocks through his binoculars.
"My prey is a sitting duck" smiled Skulcker as he put the binoculars away, "time to make my move."
As Skulcker disappeared to attempt to commit his evil deed, two other strange robotic bounty hunters who were hired from Vilgax arrived on the scene and spotted Ben and the device Vilgax wanted on his wrist.
"There it is" said the first bounty hunter as he observed Ben through his binoculars.
"Vilgax wants that device now" said the second bounty hunter, "if we fail, we won't get the reward."
"Then let's give them a big surprise along with anyone else who gets in our way" said the first bounty hunter as he readied his laser gun.
As Danny was about to head back to the RV to rest his feet, his ghost sense picked up, and as Danny looked above, he noticed Skulcker on Skulcker's jetpack coming straight toward him. Danny quickly looked around to see if Ben or Gwen or Grandpa Max were around and then changed into his ghost mode.
"My client knew you were coming prey" said Skulcker to Danny, "either way, accident or no accident I would hunt you down. The accident just makes you a sitting duck."
Skulcker then fires a laser from his weapon at Danny, but Danny dodges the attack and fires a ghost beam at Skulcker, destroying part of the jetpack. Skulcker then managed to recover from the attack and fires some sort of rope from a bazooka-like gun around Danny and presses the button on the gun which charges up an electric current, which then shocks Danny. While Danny freed himself from Skulcker's clutches and continued to fight him off, the two bounty hunters arrived on the scene and even Jazz was shocked to see them, while this wasn't a big surprise for Gwen or Ben.
"The device" said the first bounty hunter as he brought out his hand toward Ben.
"And we may just not go hard on you either" added the second one.
Ben didn't buy the bounty hunters' reasonings and used the watch to change himself into an alien known as Fourarms. While controlling Fourarms, Ben launched into battle against the first bounty hunter. The bounty hunter fired several laser shots at Ben, but Ben managed to dodge the attack. As Ben continued to face off the two bounty hunters, Ben and Danny's battles were getting closer and closer to each other. Skulcker nor the two other bounty hunters knew what was going to happen when they would meet.