Ok, I have a very important announcement to make…
I have no idea where this is going.
It's definitely near the end, but I really don't know what's going to happen. I apologize for any choppiness in the last few chapters; I'm trying to sort out the ending. I'm not going to stop writing, it's just that up until now I've known exactly what was going to happen, and now I don't.
So… Hope you like the chapter!
"So, what you're saying is that you and Danny come from an alternate time-line where Tucker and I are best friends with him. You've got to admit that sounds a little ridiculous. Oh, and let's not forget that you claim your brother's 'half ghost', whatever that means. What do you take me for, stupid?"
Sam may have sounded like she had gotten over the fact that she was currently standing about five feet away from herself, but she definitely hadn't. If anything, she was getting more and more freaked out.
Jazz sighed. This was it, what she'd waited for since the age of seven and a half- time for all those years of reading long psychology tomes to finally really pay off.
"Sam," she said patiently, "Do you want to see your parents again?"
Sam nodded, and Jazz continued, ignoring the muffled exclamation of the other Sam behind her. Jazz had conveniently forgotten to mention that little tidbit to her…
"Will you do everything you possibly can to get them back?"
"Yes."
"No… Ouch! Tucker, when did you get so violent!"
"Well then, let's go."
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"And now… we begin!" Plasmius laughed maniacally.
"Yea, I hate studying health too…" (A/N: I couldn't help it, we just started studying health at school, and it is SO BORING!)
"Wait, what did he say?" Danny interrupted. "You're finally going to start doing countless painful experiments on us? Halleluiah!"
Plasmius stopped laughing- frozen in a semi-comical position. "Wh-what?" He had never held anyone captive before, but he didn't think they were supposed to respond like that.
"No more monologueing!" Tucker cried cheerfully, almost crying in relief.
Plasmius growled, "ENOUGH!" he unlocked and opened a door in the cage the two boys were held captive in. "I think it's time to teach you a lesson in obeying your elders…"
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Maddie paced the floor around the kitchen table. The house was quiet and dark, Jack asleep upstairs, and Vlad on the living room couch (he was staying with them until he could get his strength back), but that was more than could be said for Maddie's thoughts, which buzzed around in conflicting directions inside her head.
She had stayed in the lab all day, hoping to find some clue to the mysterious events unfolding around her. There were deep bags under her eyes, and her hair was frazzled and uncombed. Where else could she look? There was no one else in the world who knew as much about ghosts as she and Jack did, unless you counted the ghosts themselves.
Or was there?
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"Ok, so everyone's clear on the plan?"
Sam (The one from the original time-line) rolled her eyes and said, "Yes, we're all clear on 'the plan', in fact, we're exactly as clear on 'the plan' as we were the last time you asked!"
Jazz didn't seem to notice the annoyed tone in Sam's voice. "Well, say it again anyway. We can't afford to make mistakes halfway through."
Sam rolled her eyes and did.
"We," she pointed to herself and… herself, "Go in through the front door, which I should be able to pick, as long as it's the same here as it is at home, then try and distract Plasmius. Or Jack Fenton."
"I still don't know how you know how to pick the Fenton's lock," Tucker muttered. Jazz turned on him.
"And what will you be doing?"
Tucker gulped. Jazz could be very intimidating when she chose to be. "I'm going to go spy through the basement window and then find where he's keeping Sam's parents. Then I'll get them out, using my PDA to hack into any computers he might have."
"Ok then, let's go," Said Jazz. Tucker ran to the basement window, Sam and Sam went to the front door, and Jazz went in the back door. While the other three were working on saving Sam's parents, she would try and save Danny.
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With a metallic hiss, the doors slid open. Plasmius threw Danny into one of the containment pods, and Tucker into the other one. The doors slid shut again.
"Now, he murmured, time for those tests…"
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Vlad, irritable at being woken up at 3:00 in the morning (Even if it was the love of his life who had done the waking), listened to Maddie's story, then said, "So you're wondering if I happen to know of a time-controlling ghost with blue skin who might have for some reason kidnapped your children."
Maddie nodded. "Um… you wouldn't, would you?"
Vlad was about to deny knowing about Clockwork (What ghost, or half ghost, didn't, after all?), and go back to sleep for a few more hours, when a thought hit him.
If Danny really was doing something for Clockwork, he was most probably either somewhere in the past or the future (Or some alternate time-line, but what were the chances of that after all?). If he told Maddie what he knew about Clockwork, she would do anything in her power to rescue her son and daughter from him.
In the confusion, Vlad would be able to black-mail/force Clockwork to tell him where Danny was, and send him there too, where no doubt it would be much easier to kill him. Then he could return, kill Jack without Danny getting in the way, and marry Maddie. It was perfect.
"Yes, actually, I have heard of him…"
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Gasp! what's going to happen to Danny? Will Vlad really manage to kill him in the alternate time-line? Or will Jack Plasmius do his job for him? And will Jazz's rescue plan work? Where is Plasmius keeping Sam's parents? What is the point of all these questions? I have no idea!
Also, I would like to thank all of my readers again- this story currently has more hits and more alerts than any other story I have ever written. Thank you guys so much!
