Hello! How is everything? I'm in a pretty good mood today. Not a whole lot of reviews, but it's alright. I wanted to get in an update before Friday, because I may only be on the computer for an hour that day. I'm going to a Los Angeles Lakers-New Jersey Nets game at 7:30 that night. The Lakers are my favorite team, so…yeah. But enough about me.
Let's get back to it! Chapter 7 is now here!
Plotting for a Transformation
Chapter Seven: Searching the City
"We have to find that disruptor thing!" Danny shouted as he paced the floor of his living room with a look of intensity on his face. He added, "If we can't find that thing and deactivate, that eruption will turn Amity Park into a parking lot!"
Sam put her hands on his shoulders and shook him, "Danny, you have to relax! We can do this. We can find it."
Danny pushed his Goth friend away and yelled back, "Sam, Slade controls when it goes off! He can make it erupt at any second!"
Tucker was currently taking a look at his PDA. He was looking at a playback of Slade's message.
Sam looked at her techno-geek friend and asked, "What are you doing, Tuck?"
Tucker responded, "Just trying to find anything that might give us a hint as to where this Slade guy could be."
"Good thinking, Tuck," Danny said, "We'll need to get the remote if we want to shut off that disruptor. You find any hints?"
After a few moments, Tucker replied, "So far, I don't have any leads."
Sam asked him, "Did you scan the background of where he was?"
"Hang on," Tucker responded, "Let me zoom in a bit." He zoomed in onto the screen and looked around the area. There wasn't a whole lot of it. He checked everywhere, the ceiling, the walls, the floor…
Tucker raised an eyebrow when he found something lying on the floor on the screen. He motioned for Danny to come look, "Dude, check this out."
Danny walked over and looked at what was on the floor. It looked like a ripped off piece of paper. There was writing on it, but he couldn't read it.
Danny said to Tucker, "Zoom in closer." Tucker did as he was told and zoomed in more. As he did, the paper came more into focus. He continued to zoom in until Danny was finally able to read what was on it.
Danny read it out loud. There were only two words.
"Elliot Kravitz."
Danny scratched the top of his head, "Elliot Kravitz. Where have I heard that name before?"
The three of them scratched their chins and thought for a minute.
Finally, Sam snapped her fingers and cried, "Of course! Don't you remember? The Box Ghost!"
Danny raised his eyebrow in confusion, "Elliot Kravitz is the Box Ghost?"
"No! When we first met him! He threw a box belonging to Kravitz at you that night!"
Danny slapped his forehead, "I knew I heard that name somewhere! That was at that abandoned warehouse by the pier!"
Tucker joined in, "Then that has to be where Slade is!"
"Yes! Okay, Tucker and Sam, you guys head to the mountain and try to shut off that disruptor."
Sam threw her arms out, "Danny, how are we gonna do that? The disruptor is underground, underneath the volcano."
"Come with me," Danny answered. He led the three of them down into the basement. Once there, Danny rushed over to one corner of the basement and picked up a fairly large device. It looked like a drill.
Sam looked unimpressed, "A drill?"
"My dad calls it the Fenton Drill. According to him, it can drill through the ground at a very fast pace. You guys can use it to find the disruptor."
Tucker held up his PDA and said, "And I can scan for it with this."
Sam smiled and took the drill, "This just might work." Her smile then faded as she said, "Hold on. If Tucker and I are going to deactivate the disruptor, what are you gonna do?"
Danny put on a look of intensity and responded coldly, "I'm going after Slade."
Tucker and Sam exchanged looks of fear. Tucker asked him, "Dude, are you sure? I mean, you've gotten pounded the last two…"
Danny interrupted, "I'm sure. Now, let's go. We may not have much time."
And before his friends could respond, Danny hurried out the door. Tucker and Sam followed.
Danny knew the lay of the land around Amity Park, so he was able to find the warehouse by the pier where he first met the Box Ghost inside of five minutes. Mount Amity was on the edge of the city, on the other side of it where Danny was. It was actually closer to Fenton Works than the pier, but given Danny's maximum flight speed of 112 miles per hour and his knowledge of the town, it didn't matter.
Danny pulled out his cell phone and called Sam. She picked up after two rings.
"Hello?"
"Sam? Danny. You guys there?"
"Nearly at the base of the mountain right now," Sam responded riding her scooter, with the drill bulging in her backpack.
"Now remember. If you see any signs of that mountain blowing its top, get out ASAP."
"Got it. Danny, are you sure you know what you're doing? Slade isn't just some random threat like an ecto-puss or something."
Danny scowled, "Sam, I know that. And I know what I'm doing."
"I'm just…"
"Goodbye." And before Sam could protest, Danny hung up.
Sam sighed as she rode through the late afternoon. She muttered to herself, "I worry about him sometimes."
Danny flew over to the warehouse and phased inside. He looked around. Everything looked the same as it did the last time he was here with Sam and Tucker, except there weren't quite as many boxes.
Feeling daring at the moment, Danny called out, "Slade! Come out and show yourself!"
Danny knew that was a very stupid way to enter, just screaming for a new-found foe that appeared more dangerous and more sinister than nearly ever other foe he had ever faced before. A foe, more to the point, that had virtually kicked his butt in their only two encounters.
Danny started to fly softly through the air, searching for any signs of anything out of the ordinary.
After about five minutes, he couldn't find anything he could call strange. All he really found besides the boxes was a mouse, which scurried into a hole after it saw Danny.
Feeling like he had just been led down the wrong trail, Danny then heard his cell phone ring. He answered it, "Hello."
"Danny? It's Sam. We're at the base of the mountain and we're going to fire up the drill now. As soon as we figure out how it works."
"I've been in the warehouse for five minutes. But I can't find Slade any…"
Danny was cut off as an arrow fired through the air. It hit Danny's cell phone while he was holding it. The phone shot out of his hand and the arrow carried it to the wall, where it broke.
Danny turned to where it came from. He saw at least ten masked figures standing there. They looked like Slade, but they had masks that were all gray and they appeared to have goggles over their eyes.
"Good afternoon, Danny," said a voice all too familiar to Danny now.
Danny looked up. Slade was on a ledge up in the rafters with a remote in his hand.
Danny called out, "Hand over that remote!"
Slade answered back, "I suppose I might be tempted to…if you can fight your way past my little friends."
Danny scoffed, "Only ten? Big deal!"
But as he said this, Danny heard footsteps. He looked around and saw that more of Slade's henchmen were entering. And more. And more. When the last of them finally entered, there were at least a hundred of them and they had Danny surrounded.
Danny looked fearful, but he shook it off, and fired a ghost ray at the first round of henchmen.
And thus, we end it here! Danny has reached the warehouse where Slade is, but now he has to fight off Slade's henchmen! Can he? And will Tucker and Sam deactivate the disruptor in time? Find out in Chapter 8! R/R!