Chapter 7
Flash opened his mouth to respond to the troubling information the young boy had just revealed when a flash of red light and a loud alarm rang out through the entire mountain.
Danny saw the red flash and prepared for a loud noise, so even though he couldn't hold back a flinch, he managed to mentally prepare for the onslaught of noise. Good thing too, because as soon as it resonated throughout the room, the man in blue yelled out in pain and fell to his knees clasping his hands over his ears and shutting his eyes tightly.
Batman and the man in red immediately looked down the hallway while the woman tried to comfort the man who fell to the ground.
Danny was panicking. The loud noise and flashing light was scaring him. The sensation was back and screaming at him that something was happening, he can see that something is happening, ohmygodwhatsgoingonpleasestoppleasestop-
He was moving before he processed where exactly he was going to go.
Run. Red means bad. Red means blood. Redmeansbadredmeansbloodredmeansbadredmeans-
-he ran right into a tall figure who grabbed his bicep before he could fall to the ground form the impact. Blindly Danny struggled harshly against the hand and was able to escape and keep running.
His breathing was so quick that he thought his lungs wer going to explode.
His heartbeat was pumping blood so fast throughout his body that he wouldn't be surprised if it exploded too.
He could hear every breath from every single person within a mile radius.
The dull red light seared his eyes so bad that he though he would go blind.
The air in the building was hot and stuffy, and fuck was this even oxygen?
Then, suddenly, it stopped.
"You bumbling idiot." The declaration echoed through the small clearing just outside the mountain. The metal figure towering over the other, green hair erupting into dangerous flames as he stared down the ghost below him.
The gray, faceless figure was unnecessarily breathing heavily as if exhausted.
"How was I supposed to know that the sensors could detect my signature?" The shapeshifter exclaimed.
"You could have been a bit more incognito." Tucker mumbled, not wanting to get in the crossfire of Skulker's rage at the other ghost. Sam and him watching the two from the lookout rock, occasionally glancing at the entrance to the mountain base.
"Incognito?! Incognito?! I thrive on attention! I was being incognito."
Sam gave him a deadpan look. "You were a peacock. Amorpho, a peacock. Those things aren't just roaming around here. You could not of chosen a worse animal to be."
Amorpho looked indignant as he opened his mouth to retort. However he was cut off by Tucker yelling.
"It doesn't matter! What does matter is finding Danny. So how are we going to-"
"Look!" Sam pointed to a small figure that collapsed right outside the entrance to the mountain. However, before any of them could move a figure in bright yellow ran to the limp form and picking it up and carried it inside the mountain once more.
The tow ghosts and two humans stared at the spot that the Halfa once occupied for a good two minutes before the dark-skinned boy jerkily stood.
"What the f-"
"Language child." Skulker scolded the boy, who hesitated.
"What the hell-" he got a look but wasn't interrupted a second time "-was that?! What do we do now?! What are we even up against?!" The boy yelled. Sam stood and turned to him. She looked relieved yet reluctant to share what was on her mind. Tucker, seeing the look, turned to her as well.
"What?" She glanced back at the spot their friend had occupied only a few moments ago.
"I don't think he's in danger." The ghosts turned sharply to her. "That doesn't mean he's safe. But that was one of the so called 'heroes'. They protect a few cities around the country. As far as I can tell this is their HQ. so right now, he should be in one of the safest places on Earth. But that doesn't mean he's completely safe. I mean, they are ill equipped to fight ghosts, and you saw how easily Amorpho waltzed in, so Pariah Dark could do the same, walk in and take him. Then there is the GIW who no doubt are looking for him. But I'm not so sure how beneficial it would be to...remove him from the situation considering he's still relatively safe. Not a great idea unless you want a team of super powered or overly armored humans and aliens along with their sidekicks after you on top of every thing else." She said, ghost of a frown on her face.
She wanted to march in and get Danny right now, but thinking logically, it could just cause more problems.
Skulker frowned. Staring at the empty yard in front of him. He sighed and rubbed the face of his exoskeleton.
"Okay. Here's what we're going to do. Amorpho, you will stay here and keep watch. I want you to make sure no ghost comes within a mile of the Halfa. If they do, call Wulf. He's currently stationed in the Far Frozen, so he'll be able to get help fast."
He turned to the two children. "You two will come back to base with me. Wait." He said when to two looked like they were going to argue. "You are coming back to the base, but you'll be helping me. Because we are going to regroup and decide how we shall proceed after we do more research into these heroes you speak of. But until we find out what we will do we will set watch shifts to watch and make sure Pariah doesn't know about the Halfa's location."
Tucker fumed. "So what? We're just going to leave him? You guys promised that you would get him back and safe!"
Skulker sighed. "And we will. But getting him now will just result in both these...GIW and the group of heroes after us on top of Pariah's army. So right now, we just have to regroup. We will get him. Eventually."
