Ok, to explain something, I think a lot of people were confused as to weather or not Sam and Tucker actually figured out Danny's secret identity. The answer is no. If they do figure it out, it will be in a much more dramatic fashion. They heard everything Skulker and Danny said, but they haven't made the connection… yet. Grins evilly

Skulker laughed, grabbed the net, and flew off so fast that neither Jazz, standing on one side of the roof, nor Sam and Tucker hidden behind the bush on the other side of the road, saw in which direction she went.

Tucker and Sam emerged from behind the bush. "What now?" Tucker asked, looking at Sam, confused and a little bit worried. He didn't know what was going on, but anything involving ghosts couldn't be good.

Sam barley looked at him. "We rescue my parents. We find out who this 'Jack Plasmius' character is, and we get them back."

Tucker had never been someone who people noticed. He was happy to sit at the nasty burger eating nasty burgers while Sam glared at him for eating innocent animals, or playing Doomed until four or five o clock in the morning.

No, Tucker had never tried to be the hero, and so he did something at that moment that he knew he would regret for the rest of his life.

"No," he said, looking Sam right in the eye.

"What?" she asked, her eyes widening.

"I said no," said Tucker, "I'm going home. I'm not a hero, and I'm not a fighter. I'm less athletic than you, and you're a girl!"

Sam glared at him. "So you're just going to let whoever this guy is hurt them!" she asked, incredulous. Tucker flinched at her outburst.

"Sam, we don't know that they're in any danger. They might be perfectly safe."

Sam waved her hands around impatiently. "Tucker! That robot guy was his hireling, incase you hadn't noticed! He had heat seeking missiles! He's going to hurt them."

Tucker shook his head. "I'm sorry Sam. I can't. Go do whatever you have to, but I'm out of here."

Sam watched him as he turned and walked away, a sad, lonely figure disappearing around the corner, hunched over with his hands in his pockets.

A movement caught her hand, and she turned around to see a tall red-headed girl across the street looking right at her.

Jazz.

Sam took off running across the street for her. Robot-dude had said the ghost boy was staying with her family. Sam knew this was ridiculous, she would have noticed, but Jazz was staying with her, and she was the logical place to start. Well, her or her brother. Where was Danny, anyway?

Sam charged across the street, looking neither way, only luck and an empty street saving her from a nasty meeting with the front of a car, muttering, "She'd better have some answers, and so help me god, if she doesn't, I'll make her wish she did!"

Just a filler chapter I wanted to write because I feel like my last couple of chapters haven't really been up to par, and I like this one so I'm putting it in. Short, I know, it wasn't supposed to be long. Also, really sorry for not explaining why the vultures were supposed to kidnap Sam's family in the last chapter, that was seriously the whole reason I wrote that chapter in the first place, but I kind of forgot to put it in… he he. I went back and changed it, so the reason's in there now.