Okay here's a nice big chapter for ya! I guess this is what happens when I'm told by certain people to "write like the wind." lol
"That's not a problem, I can fly the jet," Danny said taking out the last guard and high-fiving Skulker, "we're finished here so I'll be right there."
"Well the thing is," Sam replied hesitantly, "I think you need two people, er ghosts, to fly it, so . . ."
"Oh, well," Danny looked at Skulker who shot him a what-are-looking-at? glare, "I think I can handle it."
"What?" Skulker asked.
"Oh, nothing, I just need help flying Walker's big, technologically advanced jet back to Amity Park. But with the look you're giving me right now, it's obvious you aren't gonna want to help so I'll just get my mom to-"
"I'll do it," Skulker interrupted.
Danny just smiled and said into the Fone, "We're on our way."
Skulker followed Danny out of the room and down the hallways until they found their way out of the warehouse. A massive black jet was parked right in front. Danny climbed aboard and Skulker continued to follow. As soon as he entered to see the parents all seated in plush chairs, Danny felt himself relax a little. Just a short plane-ride and they'd all be safe. A hand grabbed his wrist. Danny looked up to see Sam pulling him over to her where she was standing beside the pilot chairs. She wasn't looking at him, but at his belt. She unhooked the Fenton Thermos from his belt and held it up to his face so he could see that it said "Empty".
"Forgetting something?" she accused.
"Oh right, duh," he replied with a weak grin, "be right back."
He turned invisible and intangible and flew back to suck up Walker and all the guards that were still in one piece. With him gone, Sam was now face-to-waist with Skulker. She acted like this was no big deal and pointed to the controls in front of the pilot chairs.
"They won't respond to humans, I think only ghosts," she told him.
"Hm," Skulker grunted as he gently pushed past Sam and sat in one of the chairs.
"Welcome to the Walker-Jet 3000," an automated voice suddenly said.
"You've got to be kidding me," Skulker said and began turning knobs and pressing buttons while the voice continued to welcome him, "There's gotta be a way to turn that little feature off."
A silver gloved-hand suddenly appeared and pressed a button silencing the jet's computer voice.
Skulker looked up to see that Danny was back with the thermos back on his belt. He smirked at Skulker.
"I would have found it eventually," Skulker muttered.
Danny hopped into the seat next to Skulker and fired up the jet.
"Seatbelts everyone?" Danny asked glancing back.
"Yah, buckle up, it's the law," Skulker said laughing at his own joke.
"Very clever," Danny said dryly as he readied the jet for take-off.
The noise of the jet was not as loud as normal airplanes, still Danny and Skulker could really only hear eachother. This left Sam with both sets of the parents in the back of the jet.
"He promised," she muttered.
"You're right, I did," Danny's voice came into Sam's ear through the Fenton Fone, "and technically you're still not alone with them."
Sam looked up to see Maddie smiling at her from her cozy jet chair across from Sam's. She still had her Fenton Fone in her ear too.
"Oh!" Sam gasped realizing that that meant Maddie could hear them, "No offense, Mrs.Fenton." Only Danny and Maddie could hear her through the Fones. Her parents and Jack sat in their chairs towards the back of the jet, not making eye contact.
"None taken," Maddie replied into her Fone, "Danny, are you sure you don't need my help flying?"
"I got it, Mom," Danny assured her, glancing back to smile at his mom and girlfriend.
"Plane!" Skulker suddenly shouted and the jet did a sharp turn that made everyone clench their armrests.
Sam managed to look out the window to see a jet, smaller than the one they were in, whiz past.
"Danny!" she shouted, forgetting that he could hear her even if she had whispered using the Fones, "Wulf's in that plane!"
"Are you sure?!" Danny yelled back.
"Positive! I saw him! Walker's goons said they had him on surveillance, remember?"
"Crud," Danny said, his mind racing with options. He turned to Skulker, "Can you handle the controls for a little while?"
"Of course," Skulker said, sounding offended.
"Great, then turn around and once I'm back start shooting at that other jet," Danny instructed.
"Wait, what?"
"Just do it!"
The jet did another sharp turn and as soon as the tail of the other jet was in view Danny got up and flew through the windshield. Then Skulker saw him disappear into the other jet.
"Wait!" Maddie yelled as she and Sam both came running to the cockpit.
"Where'd he go?" Sam shouted at Skulker.
"He went into the other jet, don't yell at me," Skulker said.
"Danny!" Maddie, suddenly remembering the Fones, spoke into hers.
"Shh . . ." came the hissed reply.
Sam and Maddie looked at eachother worriedly. It was just like Danny to rush into something without consulting either of them. When they ran to the cockpit they had been hoping to convince him that he shouldn't go alone.
"Mi amico! SHH!" Maddie and Sam heard through the Fones.
"That's Wulf," Sam explained.
"Hey!" what sounded like a guard's voice shouted loud enough for Danny's Fone to pick it up. Then there was some blasting, reminding Sam of when she had Danny on the phone earlier that day – was it really still the same day? – when he was fighting the guards who started this stupid mess.
Suddenly Sam and Maddie shivered. Then Danny and Wulf appeared on the floor behind them. Still accelerating some, they crashed into the chairs Maddie and Sam had vacated.
"Danny!" Sam and Maddie said at the same time and rushed over.
"I'm fine," Danny said immediately getting up, "Sam, help Wulf. Skulker, now! Take them down!"
Skulker began firing at the jet in front of theirs with the weapons Walker had modified the jet with. Sam turned to Wulf. He was almost as bad as the last time they'd found him at the camp. He began struggling to his feet and smiled at her, letting his tongue fall out of his mouth.
"We don't have any berries," she found herself saying.
"You'll have to settle for Neosporin," Danny said as he handed her a first aid kit he had snagged from the other jet since Walker had taken the one from the jet they were in when Danny needed a blanket.
"Oh, right, duh," Sam replied, smiling sheepishly at Danny. She suddenly realized he was holding his arm near the shoulder.
"Danny, your arm!" she cried.
"It's nothing," he insisted and tried to return to his pilot seat.
"Oh, no you don't," she said pulling him by his other arm into the seat she had been sitting in earlier. Maddie appeared on the other side of him and together they forced him to sit and let them examine his arm.
"Mission accomplished!" Skulker suddenly exclaimed from the cockpit. At the same time an explosion could be heard coming from below the jet.
"Good," Danny replied without really paying attention. He was watching Sam tend to Wulf while his mom bandaged his arm. "I think we're finally in the clear," he thought to himself as he closed his eyes and sighed, leaning his head back against the back of the nice jet chair.
He flinched when he opened his eyes and saw his Dad's face right in front of his.
"Sorry," Jack replied quickly, "you okay?"
"I'm fine," Danny said, knowing what his dad really wanted, "I'll give you all the gory details later."
Maddie's head snapped up from Danny's arm to give him and her husband a look.
"The other ghosts' gore, Mom, not mine," Danny quickly explained.
Maddie just rolled her eyes and went back to putting the finishing touches on Danny's bandage. Jack gave Danny a wink and mussed his hair before sitting back down.
Danny then looked over at Sam and almost laughed.
Sam was talking to Wulf in a soothing baby-talk kind of way as she applied medicine to the cuts and scrapes on his paws. His claws were out so that she could get to all the wounds around and in between them. Sam's parents were watching with their eyes popping out of their sockets and their jaws just about on the floor.
"There, all done," Maddie said getting up.
"Thanks Mom," Danny said also getting up. He walked over to Skulker in the cockpit.
"We're going to Sam's house," Danny explained, "it's on-"
"I know where it is," Skulker interrupted.
"You do?" Danny said in a you-better-NOT-be-telling-me-that-you- know-where-my-girlfriend-lives kind of voice.
"Relax, over-protective one," Skulker smooth-talked, "it's programmed into the jet. Probably from when he came to get you guys earlier."
"Oh," Danny said, feeling stupid. "How'd you get so smart?" he teased.
"A hunter must never let his prey become smarter than he is," Skulker replied.
"You sound like a fortune cookie," Danny said back, but smiled to himself at the half-compliment. Danny then turned back to Sam and Wulf.
"Hold still," Sam was saying as she attempted to apply a bandage to Wulf's wrist.
Danny hurried over to help. He stroked Wulf's fur to calm him down a little so he would stop squirming.
"Hang on, Buddy," he said.
"There, that's all," Sam said pulling back and looking at Danny, "man, how they manage to do so much damage to him without getting shredded, I will never understand."
"Ha," Danny agreed, "me neither."
He continued looking at Sam and she continued looking at him. It was one of those moments when the rest of the world disappeared around them and it was just them alone. And yet, Danny could feel Sam's parents watching them. But it was as if that didn't matter and so he was about to move in to give her a hug or kiss when he was suddenly covered in slobber as Wulf gave him a huge thank-you lick. Sam giggled. Danny moved closer to her anyways and she grabbed his hand, giving him a rain-check-on-that-kiss kind of look. They turned to look at Wulf.
"Well, you're free, again," Danny said, hoping that maybe Wulf would leave before they made it back to Sam's. The unease in the jet because of Wulf's presence was obvious to him. Even his mom, who had so far been the most okay with everything that was happening, kept her gaze averted from the giant ghost as if she could pretend he wasn't there.
Wulf was on all-fours as he couldn't stand all the way up in the jet because it was so small. He stretched like a cat, letting his claws extend so that they just stopped at Danny's and Sam's feet. Danny shot him a dude-my-parents-are-right-there look at this.
"Sorry," Wulf said in his raspy voice.
"It's okay," Danny said smiling, "now stay out of trouble."
"Yah, no more open portals, remember?" Sam added.
Wulf nodded and then disappeared out of the jet. (He can fly, can't he?)
Danny pulled Sam close so he could mumble in her ear, "One down, one to go."
Sam giggled and pulled away to nod. They parted, Sam going back to her chair next to Maddie and Danny to his pilot chair.
Maddie smiled again at Sam, but Sam didn't see it this time. "They seem to have forgotten about the Fones again," she thought to herself, but didn't say anything so that they wouldn't be embarrassed.
The rest of the ride continued in silence as everyone either pretended to sleep or be really interested in what was out the window. It wasn't long before Danny and Skulker landed the jet on the street right in front of Sam's house. By now it was really late at night and no one in their little town was out.
I'm thinkin' that there's only gonna be one more chapter actually. I probably should have made this one in to two, but I didn't want to torture you with another cliffie! ;)
