If I ever suggest putting up a story on Tucker please hit me. Not one single reviewer in the last chapter mentioned his condition. There is not much action in this chapter, maybe a little more than chapter six, but it explains a few things.

The tentacles around me loosened and fell to the floor. I became airborne and looked down at Sam. She had started to recover and I realized that if I held back any longer she would simply capture me again. It was now or never, and it had to be now.

I took a deep breath of air I didn't need and yelled at the top of my lungs. The noise echoed around the huge chamber and became magnified to an almost earsplitting roar. Sam scream mingled with the roar, and the chamber burst into wild chaos.

Everyone in the cave seemed to wake up from their trances. Several people pointed up to where I was floating. Sam's control over them must have momentarily broken. I flew down and stood by the entrance to the still echoing cavern. People were flooding out the door and I invisibly made sure that they all made it through the tunnel.

Silence filled the now empty chamber. It's amazing how fast a few hundred people can exit a room. I felt like I was forgetting something when there was a faint moan. I turned around and realized that Tucker was still up with Sam. Paulina and Valerie were probably still robots too.

I cautiously flew up to where Sam lay. Her crumpled form sent a shock ringing through me. What if I had killed Sam? She didn't move, and I felt grief sink into my stomach like a lead bullet. Something behind me came closer, and I turned to see Paulina and Valerie staring at me with fear in their red eyes.

They didn't seem to be affected by my voice as strongly as Sam had been, and I took a few steps towards them. Suddenly, Paulina jumped on me and out of instinct I turned intangible. Paulina passed through me, but something else didn't.

I looked down and saw a lump of metal on the ground. It wiggled like a worm and then snaked towards Sam. I grabbed it and threw it against a wall before it reached Sam, and it shattered like glass. Paulina sat up and screamed when she saw me. She continued screaming the whole way out of the cavern.

Valerie looked shocked and started to back away from me. I grabbed her and pulled the metal out of her too. This one simply melted in my grip, and Valerie followed Paulina, although she screamed noticeably less.

I didn't have time to figure out why the metal was acting so strangely. Tucker shifted and became conscious. He looked over at me and his eyes widened. "Danny, you…" he stopped and simply stared at me. I walked over to him and knelt down.

As carefully as I could I felt the tips of my ears. What if they had stayed pointed after Sam had made me angry? What if I was stuck like that forever? For about ten seconds I rubbed my ears without realizing that they were perfectly round.

Tucker continued to watch me and I finally realized that my ears were not pointed. I put my hand down and looked at Tucker with confusion written all over my face. He finally blinked and then rubbed his eyes.

"What's wrong?" I asked, and behind us Sam let out another blood chilling screech. At least she wasn't dead. Tucker opened his eyes and resumed staring at me. He tried to move and managed to sit up straighter.

"Dude, you're aura thing is glowing way brighter than usual. Besides that, there's also the fact that your costume is the wrong color, I haven't seen you in days, and you're in your ghost form which you had lost." He blinked and said. "I think that that's enough reasons."

I looked down at my gloved hand. The faint glow that was around it was indeed brighter, and it was black instead of white. An idea popped into my head. Since the curse I had made me turn evil when I was angry, what if it worked the other way? I had refused Sam's temptations to turn evil after all.

The guilt returned and I turned to face Sam. She was staring at me and I gasped as I looked at her. Half of Sam's body was covered in metal. The other half was entirely human. And the weirdest thing was, she was arguing with herself. Talk about split personality.

Both halves of Sam didn't realize I was there, and I noticed that their eyes had clouded over. I silently motioned to Tucker to be quiet and turned myself invisible just in case. Tucker looked at Sam with terror and disgust on his face and then towards the spot where I had vanished. "This is really gross." He mouthed.

"What are you doing Samantha?" I turned my attention back to Sam at the sound of a robotic voice. "Why are you trying to reject me? You know that it is impossible." It was the evil side of Sam who had spoken, and I watched as the other half, the good half, argued back.

"I never knew it was going to turn into something like this" she said, and her voice sounded clear and angelic. How I could not have noticed that before, I have no clue. "Besides it's not like I had a choice, you glued yourself to me and took over right away."

The robot half narrowed its blind eye. "I'm giving you a blessing Samantha." It hissed. "I suggest you accept it!" Metal tried to invade the human half, but it only made it a few inches before it was shoved back over.

"No tricks from you! Your blessing is a curse. What kind of blessing starts as a belt and then takes over the wearer's body?" Sam was talking now, and I realized that the other half was entirely the time belt. How did it get so out of hand?

The time belt cackled and said, "One made of ghost metal does. I'm just as alive as you, I just needed a host in order to get that way." Sam gasped and the time belt continued. "Ever since I was tampered with and accidentally created, I knew that it was my destiny to control humans."

Sam spoke again. She sounded almost proud. "Well you're not very good at fulfilling your destiny." She said. "Because if you were this little conversation wouldn't be happening."

The time belt's eye narrowed again. "If your annoying friend hadn't come you would be totally consumed by me by now." Sam gasped. "It was a silly mistake I made, accidentally allowing him to speak."

That question had been running through my mind every three seconds. How did my voice cause this? Apparently Sam had been wondering the same thing. "How did Danny's voice cause you and me to turn into this?"

More cackling from the belt. "You are a smart girl Samantha. I thought you would have figured it out by now. I am made of ghost metal. Ghost metal has no effect on ghosts, or if it does it isn't the same as the effect it has on humans, and there are ways to cancel out my powers."

My mind was working furiously trying to figure it out, but I was drawing a blank. The time belt continued. "My weakness just happens to be your friend's ghost voice. As soon as he spoke I felt pain for the first time in my short life. I didn't enjoy it. But a ghost alone wouldn't be enough to stop me."

Now I was really confused. Sam's cheek blushed and I wondered what the time belt was going to say. "The other reason is the thing you humans call feelings." The time belt shuddered as if it was disgusted. "Your friend is half human, and the human half appealed to you. You love him, don't you?"

My eyes widened as Sam answered. "Yes." It was all true. Tucker teasing me, evil Sam's taunts, my mothers secret smiles whenever she saw Sam and I together, everything. How could I not see it? Sam startled me by continuing. "When I heard his voice it was like taking a cold shower. My head cleared and I realized what was going on."

"How do you know that he shares your feelings?" The evil machine that was Sam's other half said. "He managed to resist us trying to get him to give us a kiss. If he loved you, why did he escape?"

Sam said nothing. She looked unsure and confused. I remembered how she hated Paulina and all of the times she had heard me talk about Valerie. I hadn't even considered her feelings. I hadn't even considered my feelings.

The metal from the time belt began to cover Sam. I realized that her will to fight back was fading. My mind spun with all of the thoughts I had had. 'It would be too weird, it was just a fake-out make-out, it was Ember's spell.' All of those thoughts and a thousand others came back and smothered my mind.

"Sam!" I cried out. Sam shuddered and shook as the metal from the time belt receded back to the other side.

"I love you too."

This chapter was for Ness Lupin and i-AM-the-Random-Idiot, Ness Lupin for being a SXD fan, and IATRI for guessing that Danny's voice affected Sam's human side.