Chapter 19

Danny

Danny was pacing the floor, wondering what was going on. He couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. I mean, they flew the Specter Speeder into the Hangar, yet no one attacked them. That isn't how it worked… "Oh crap! It's a trap for Jof, it has to be!" Danny yelled when it finally hit him. Sam slapped herself on the forehead and Tucker yelled, "Oh man! We gotta warn her!" "But what about Jazz?" Sam pointed out. Danny checked the GPS and looked at it. "What!? It says that they're nowhere near the Brig now, they're at the Bridge, near the top!" "What does that mean?" Sam asked. Danny got a sinking feeling in his gut and Tucker quietly said, "They got them. They must have." What am I gonna do, what am I gonna do!?

"What about making copies?" Sam suggested. "I don't know, I've never made copies that went all that far before. For all I know they'll just disappear once they get too far away from me!" Danny yelled. "Danny, calm down, we need to keep clear heads!" Tucker yelled at him. "But they got my whole family!" Danny yelled. Sam immediately slapped him, hard, "Danny, calm down." She firmly told him. Danny rubbed his cheek, it hurt, it REALLY hurt, but his head was much clearer now. "Tucker, did you get that map I took a picture of?" "Yeah, I really had to work to fix it," Tucker said as he took out his PDA, "But I managed to make my own map. We'll go get Jof; you get Jazz and your parents." Danny looked at the two of them and hugged them, tight, "Be careful you guys. I don't know what I would do if anything happened to you." "We'll be fine," Sam promised as she gave him a kiss on his cheek. Danny went Ghost, created a copy that grabbed Sam and Tucker, and flew off the way his parents went.

Danny invisibly flew through the halls, seeing stormtroopers running around. "We need to find the prisoner now!" a short fat man in a grey uniform yelled, "If she isn't found in the next half-hour, Lord Thal will have my head!" Danny stopped where he was, Jazz escaped! I need to find her! Danny flew faster; looking everywhere he could think of, soon becoming completely lost. He passed by some kind of cafeteria and spotted a short officer in grey uniform with red hair and was about to continue on when he thought, wait a minute…that guy looked familiar…

Danny stayed invisible and grabbed the officer around his waist and mouth then flew into a room. It was empty and Danny turned visible. The officer head butted his face and landed on the ground then looked at him and said, "Danny!?" "Jazz!?" he said as his sister took off her hat. "What are you doing here!" they yelled in sync. "What happened to your hair?" Danny then asked. "I escaped through the air ducts and caught an officer and took his clothes. I had to cut my hair to blend in," she told him, "But how did you get here?" "Mom, Dad, Jof, and some guys from Delta Force flew the Specter Speeder in. I had to tell everyone about my powers so I could come and turned the Specter Speeder intangible. The Air Force launched an attack on this thing to keep them distracted while we did that. Sam and Tucker are here too."

"WHAT!? Danny you can't get them involved in this! They're…just…" Jazz couldn't finish that sentence, Sam and Tucker had been through too much with Danny for her to call them kids. "Look, that's not important right now," Danny said, "Mom and Dad took two of the Delta Force soldiers and came looking for you while Jof took the other two to try to blow up this thing's engine. But they didn't make it, they were captured." Jazz sat down on the bunk in the room and said, "This is all my fault." "Jazz, this is no time to get emo on me!" Danny yelled, "Mom and Dad need us now! Sam and Tucker went to warn Jof, we think that this was all a trap to lure her here to be captured, we need to meet up with her and think of a way to save them." Danny grabbed his older sister's shoulders and looked in her eyes, "Jazz, they need a Jedi now more than ever. You have the power, I don't. We need to work together to save everyone." Jazz looked at him and nodded, then looked past his shoulder. The room was spare except for the bunk, a black closet, some kind of device on the floor, and Danny looked behind him to see a desk with some lightsabers on it.

It took him a second for it to click in his mind. "We're in that bald psycho's room," he whispered, wondering if Thal would come through the door at any minute. Jazz walked to the desk with the lightsabers and picked one of them up. "I recognize this one. I saw it in my vision…This is Jof's master's lightsaber," Jazz said as she pressed a button on it and a blue laser blade hummed into life. Jazz waved it around and nicked Danny's hair. He said, "Be careful with that thing will ya." "Sorry," Jazz said, then got a look in her eye. "There's the Jazz I know," Danny said. "Let's go save the world," she said as she deactivated the lightsaber and put her cap back on.

Thal

Thal sat on his chair on the Bridge and looked at the Fentons. They both had their hands force-cuffed behind their backs and were gagged as well after Thal got tired of listening to the woman's, Maddie's, threats. Her husband, Jack was his name according to Vlad, was still unconscious, and Thal could understand that. The blow he gave him could have caused permanent brain damage, but he wasn't sure. They were both very tough, of that there was no doubt. And now their daughter was roaming free around his ship and he couldn't find her.

After an hour's deliberation, Thal decided on what he would do with them. "Lieutenant, bring an interrogation droid here as fast as you can. And make sure you have something to wake up the oaf, I need both of them conscious," Thal ordered a subordinate who immediately ran off to do his bidding. Maddie gave him a look that could kill and Thal smiled at her. "You shouldn't be angry at me. If Jof Favrem hadn't kept on running, if only she had accepted the inevitable long ago, then I would never have come here and you and your family would all be safe at home. But alas, she wouldn't accept her fate and I of course had to follow her as was my duty, and here we all are," Thal said.

The lieutenant arrived with the interrogation droid floating behind him. The black sphere's red eye turned to Thal and he pointed at Jack, "Wake him up first; I think he has a concussion." The droid floated over and Thal noted Maddie's struggling and gagged yelling with a content smile. The droid stuck a needle into Jack's arm and floated back just as the man groggily opened his eyes.

Thal got up and walked over to the Fentons and said, "Vlad told me you were scientists. We're about to do a little experiment. Let's see how much pain it will take to bring your daughter to me." Jack and Maddie struggled weakly but were too wounded to move far as the droid closed in on them.