As everyone else in the gang were all fast asleep in their rooms, June and Jake Long were dragged mercilessly, in their pjs, out of their rooms and onto the deck of the ship. Danny looked around to spot the entrance of the cargo pit. June and Jake glared at him.
"Why?" June asked.
"Why what?" Ali asked.
"Why did you drag us out of our rooms, yo? I needed to catch up on some 'z's." Jake groaned.
"You can sleep later, right now we gotta check out what's going on with Tom." Danny said.
"Tom? You mean that creepy looking dude?" Jake asked. "He's just misunderstood. There isn't any reason to spy on him."
"Exactly." Tiffany turned to Danny. "Why are we doing this again?"
"Because, if I'm right and that weirdo tries something to kill us all, we'd all be DOOMED!" Danny hissed. "Now come on, let's go."
"Why are we hanging out with him anyway?" June asked Tiffany, who just shrugged and followed him.
As the gang approached the cargo pit, the moonlight shone down on the deck, showing that it was totally deserted. The guards were nowhere to be seen and the captain probably had no idea that they were all awake. The gang slowly walked down to the cargo pit and scanned the area for Tom's Chevy.
They all spotted it after a few seconds and then walked towards it nervously. All of them were nervous, because they knew the consequences if Tom found them messing around with his car. They'd all be 'six feet under'.
As they got closer, the moonlight reflected off the car's trunk panel, highlighting the "Monte Carlo" and "Z34" badges. The approached the car's front slowly and cautiously. Danny froze as he looked on the hood of the Chevy. Tom was lying across the hood with his back resting against the windshield. Tom looked like he dozed off there and looked oddly at peace.
"Ok, we gotta be quiet. We don't want to wake him up." Danny ordered, the whole group obeyed. Nobody wanted to find out what would happen when Tom woke up.
"I don't see anything suspicious." Ali whispered.
"It looks like a normal car to me." June replied.
"This is a total waste of time!" Tiffany said.
"Come on, guys. There has to be something…keep looking!" Danny told the group.
"Zzz…" Jake started snoring and suddenly, his head hit the car with a loud bang. Everyone looked around frantically, making sure that Tom didn't wake up. They sighed of relief, thankful that Tom was a sound sleeper.
"Woah, check this out!" Jake exclaimed, once he regained consciousness.
"What? Is there a gun in there?" Ali asked.
"Are there grenades?" Danny and June began.
"Is there a doughnut?" Tiffany asked. All she received were weird looks from her friends. "What? I'm hungry!"
"Even better…this license plate ROCKS!" Jake whispered. June just hit him on the head.
"Wha – why are you here?!"
"What was that?!" Danny asked.
"What are you doing?!"
"What, it's that voice again!" Tiffany exclaimed.
"Again?! You heard it before?!" Ali exclaimed.
"Get off me, you crazy kids! TOM, WAKE UP!"
"Look at all the pretty stars…" Jake muttered before slamming his head back on the car's hood.
"What?! Get this stupid kid off me!"
Slowly, Tom started to stir and opened his eyes slowly. One thought came to Danny's mind. 'oh crud are we in trouble' Tom's eyes suddenly shot open and glared angrily at the group, then he turned towards his car.
"Shadow, what did they do to you?" Tom asked the car.
"Besides this kid drooling on me, I'm fine." The Chevy suddenly shook violently and forced Jake's head onto the floor. Everyone looked at the car with surprise.
"I told you the car would be alive, you stupid kids!" Tom exclaimed. "I'm a Technomaster!"
Tiffany's eyes widened. A technomaster were the most rare and powerful kind superhumans who walked the face of planet Earth. Whenever Tom wanted to, he could bring every single car in the cargo pit to life and under his control. If Tom had an evil plan up his sleeve, the gang would be almost impossible to stop him.
"How do you think that he brought me to life?" Shadow asked, its headlights flaring angrily at the kids. "Kids are so stupid these days."
"Now scram! Get out of here!" Tom exclaimed as the gang took off out of the cargo pit, without saying a word. Once they were out of the cargo pit, they all headed back to their rooms.
"That was horrible! Let's never do that again!" Tiffany exclaimed.
"I second that!" Ali shouted.
"Guys, come on. Did you see his face? It had 'evil villain' written all over it." Danny told the group.
"You can't be so sure, Danny. I mean – he didn't do anything wrong right?" June asked.
"He didn't do anything wrong…YET!" Danny said.
"Danny, you're overreacting. You should just get a grip, and a good night's sleep. Look at Jake. He's pretty good at sleeping." Ali said, turning her attention to the young dragon, barley being able to walk and almost falling unconscious.
"That's true…wait a minute…where's Tiffany?" Danny asked as the gang looked around.
Meanwhile, Tiffany snuck back into the cargo pit. Tom still sat by Shadow's side, he frowned as he saw Tiffany come in the entrance, but he didn't say a word.
"Hey!" She smiled.
"What's she doing here?" Shadow asked, Tom just shrugged.
"I'm just here to ask you if you'd like to hang out tomorrow." Tiffany asked. Tom blinked, was this some kind of joke? Apparently, Shadow was surprised.
"I don't know…we'll see." Tom told her. She just nodded and went out of the cargo pit and back to her room. She was sure that Hui Hua and Skye would be wondering where she was about now.
"What was that about?" Shadow asked Tom as Tiffany left the cargo pit.
"I don't know…but I think that I better hang out with those kids tomorrow." Tom told his car.
"WHAT?! They came down here to tear me apart! One even drooled on me!" Shadow exclaimed.
"Trust me, once I make sure that those brats are off my back, then everything will run smoothly." Tom told it.
"I'll never understand you…" Shadow grumbled as he shut off its engine and went back to sleep.
Tom smirked. "And you never will."