Hellbreaker, and you would be right. Sam would be to blame. Yup, someone was going to pull out the sword, but I wasn't sure who I was going to have do it. I thought I would have Valerie, but in the end it ended up being Danny again. XD
Ecto goo, pink and sticky, hit the large ghost in the face, blinding him and forcing him to drop the pair of ghost males. It took him only a minute to recuperate, wiping the slime from his face and taking a shot at her with his one good eye. Valerie managed to dodge it, but she wasn't so lucky in dodging the goal post. Hitting it with a resounding thunk she hit the ground. She wasn't down for long either, immediately trying to take out the ghost male before her with a rocket that came out of the glove on her hand. When it instead began to spark she threw it off, the top of her hand red from the burn.
"The ring!" Pariah cried out, his one eye noticing the familiar green skull on her ring finger.
"Give that to the king NOW!" Fright Knight commanded. The dark skinned girl in the red suit took it off, but instead of throwing it to him like he had told her she pulled out a large rocket launcher, attached the ring too it and with a witty reply shot it off to the surprise of the knightly ghost.
Pariah took the bait, heading off after his ring while Valerie took off toward her downed board. As she took it up and took off the Fright Knight began to shoot at her, furious that she had infuriated his king as well as tricked his king. The red suited teen headed back for the pair of downed half ghosts, seemingly unaware of what had happened to the ghosts that had been aiding her. Picking the pair up she headed back for the safety of the dome, passing the Fright Knight who tried to slice her and her companions in two. Failing at his attempt he took off after them astride his black steed. Dodging his every attempt Valerie continued on toward the dome, but at the last moment was struck, her engine taking the damage and flaring up.
She was lucky as they crashed inside the dome, safe from the ghosts that still continued to beat at the green shield to no avail. Fright Knight joined them, pissed that he had been bested, curses muttered under his breath.
"I will get you and when I do you will be dead! This is not the end!"
"But it is," came a fearful voice, the Fright Knight turning to find Pariah with a frightening smirk as he opened his palm to reveal the Ring of Rage. Slipping on his finger the air crackled, green lightning coming from the ring. As soon as the lightning cleared the knightly ghost looked upon a more powerful king, his energy bringing the knight to his knees knowing that this man could choose to end his existence should he not bow to his every command. "Come, we have plans to make as soon this human realm will be mine." In his wake he left rings of red burning fire that the Fright Knight ran thru to follow him.
Inside Fenton Works several people sat, worried about their fate and about their town they looked weary. Some were outside in the streets watching the chaos upfront. Meanwhile, in the skies above them a figure flew by, taking a pair of males with her into Danny's room. Angling her way into the empty room she dropped Sam on Danny's bed while depositing Vlad on a nearby chair. As soon as she had them down she crashed, her form becoming her civilian half as she fell to the ground.
Vlad was the first to awaken, his eyes immediately falling on Valerie's empty finger, the ring gone.
"The ring!" He cursed under his breath, aware that while he had been unconscious the thing that he had risked his life for was gone and he wasn't sure how he would get it back.
Danny rushed into his room, his eyes surveying the pair that lay unconscious in different places, while Vlad had become invisible so as not to be caught by who he thought to be Danny's parents. Behind him came Tucker, the techno geek looking at the teen he had found himself wondering about. The former halfa rushed to Sam's side as she woke up, her amethyst eyes narrowing slightly as the pain in her head began.
"Danny? What were you doing there?" Tucker looked at him in confusion and then back at Sam. "You could have been killed!" The increase in volume caused her head to ache more. Looking around her she realized that she was in Danny's room...in his bed. "How?" The male before her pointed to a downed Valerie.
"She rescued you after Pariah knocked you both out, but what I don't understand is where Vlad went..." he faded off looking around. "I saw her grab both of you." Sam was still staring at the other female, regret flooding through her. She had been the one to choose her fate, becoming the Phantom for Danny, but she wasn't as strong at the male. Sure, she had gotten most of it down and in fact had become stronger than she had hoped to in such a short amount of time. Still...she hadn't been able to protect her friends or herself. She had been rescued by a teen who hated ghosts and hated her. "Sam?" She blinked, her gaze shifting to her friends.
"I am responsible for this," she stated before transforming. "I failed this time, but I will not fail the next time." Without even waiting for an answer she turned intangible, grabbed both males before her before going through the floor.
What they found was the town in the basement, Maddie and Jack revealing the ecto-skeleton suit.
"While our ecto suit can make one more powerful," the red head said turning to the crowd. "It could prove fatal." Jack stepped forward.
"That is why I shall be using it." He still looked slightly unsteady on his feet. "If anyone should die fighting ghosts it should be me." His wife knocked him out, looking upset that he would even volunteer after his last use of the suit.
"You are still too weak from the last time you used the suit. I shall go!" It was then that another person hit her from behind, Jazz being the culprit.
"Forget it, mom. Danny needs both of you so I shall do it." It went on for a moment like this...Thurston Manson knocking Jazz out and Pamela knocking him out followed by Tucker's parents until no one was standing.
"Well, that worked out better than I thought," the Goth stated with a slight shrug.
"What do you think you are doing?" came a voice from below. Looking down Sam found herself looking at the red suited Valerie, the tone of voice coming from said female one of disbelief and anger. "How did you get in here?!"
"It doesn't matter," Sam stated moving back and down slightly so that she, Danny, and Tucker were all standing before the ghost fighting teen. "What matters is that you aren't doing what you think you are doing." Danny and Tucker looked at each other, confused as to what Sam was doing. "And here is why. MR. GREY!" The red suited teen looked skeptical, sure that her father didn't know who she was so why should it matter if this ghost before her called his name...though...
"How do you know m-" Swoosh! Sam yanked the mask off the other teen just as her father walked thru the door.
"Valerie?!" he exclaimed causing the teen in question to scream out in horror as her father grabbed her. "What do you think you are doing?!" The Goth took that moment to get in the suit as her two friends watched in dismay. She couldn't see their faces, but even without them being apparent she knew that they both thought she was weak so she wouldn't be surprised if they were just a little upset. Taking off toward the roof she didn't see the father/daughter exchange as Mr. Grey made sure his daughter was okay before promptly grounding her. She also didn't notice that her friends had snuck off.
On the roof she looked around the suit, the buttons flashing as it started up. She wasn't sure how it worked and hoped that it wasn't fatal like the Fentons had said it would be seeing as she was already part dead. Setting up the suit she hissed as a metallic spine fitted itself to her, the thought that it could still kill her making her heart beat faster and harder. It was scary, but she had to protect her loved ones. Speaking of loved ones.
"I can see you," she called out as the door to the roof moved, two males watching from the shadows. The two teens walked over to her, both looking more worried than she had ever seen them.
Danny's mind was on the fact that his friend was going to risk her life for them, that it should have been him in that suit taking that chance. He could only imagine all that was going through her head at that moment. Tucker looked down at his feet.
"Danny's mom said the word fatal, Sam," he said softly. "I know you know what that means." She nodded, forcing a soft smile to her lavender lips, hoping that they would believe that she was as brave as she was faking to be. In fact she was hoping that her acting was so good that she would believe it.
"We all knew it wasn't always going to be as easy as kicking Plasmius' butt all over the place or shoving the Box Ghost into a thermos. It was bound to get to this point whether now or in the future."
"Sam," Danny said, but before he could say any more the ground shook as a blast sounded off from behind them, the clouds turned a blood red before Pariah's face appeared.
"That's my cue," she muttered. "Tucker?" He looked to her. "I need you to drop the shield so I can leave." Nodding he rushed off leaving Danny and Sam alone...well, save for the giant head in the skies. Throwing her friend a reassuring smile she watched as he failed to smile back. In fact he looked crushed. "Danny..." she whispered, but her friend rushed off. It hurt that he didn't seem to support her idea, but she couldn't blame him either. If this had been him she would have been pissed that he was throwing his life away, even if it was for the good of the town.
Transforming again she found herself transforming the suit, the black and green matching the style of her outfit. Looking out at Danny and Tucker she found him smiling at her. With a wave she took off, the group of students watching in awe as she took off.
"Good luck, ghost girl!" came a cry from Dash as he watched the female he adored take off into the Zone, the ghost shield closing behind her. As soon as she was a good distance away Sam looked back, her final goodbyes in her head, but not spoken as she again hoped that she would survive this.
"Oh crap," she muttered when she turned back to find a red castle with over a million skeletons ready for battle.