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Sam's Plan of Action

Chapter 7 – Ghost Zone

Tucker had just cleared the Fenton's portal and was on a direct course for Vlad's portal. Tucker set the autopilot and headed back towards the rear of the speeder to check and see what weapons Danny had stuffed in to the speeders cargo Tucker was mid way through the cargo bay when the ghost alert rang through the ship. Tucker rushed towards the front of the speeder nearly tripping over the seats in the process. Tucker looked out the window half expecting an army of ghosts there to prevent him from getting to the other ghost portal.

"Beware; I am the box ghost; Master of all things cardboard and square."

Tucker let out a visible sigh of relief when he saw that it was just the box ghost; No one of any real threat. The alarm was still going off full blast and Tucker was eager to silence the alarm. Sitting down in the command chair Tucker activates the speeders weapons system. Tucker was anxious to try out the new Fenton Thermos. However, this was not technically a thermos any more. This was a cannon looking projection out of the top of the speeder that auto locked on any ghost in the area and then proceeds to suck them into a much larger containment chamber. Danny would never let him or Sam fires it up when they were in the ghost zone because he was afraid that it would suck him in and without an obvious eject button he was not eager to try it out. After about fifteen seconds the computer beeped that it had a target locked. With a push of a button the box ghost was sucked into the container. To Tuckers surprise the alarm continued to blare as if nothing had changed. Tucker was about to manually shut off the alarm when he was thrown out of his seat by a sudden impact to the speeder. Tucker slammed is head in to the front of the console and everything went black.

Tucker slowly opened his eyes trying to survey his surrounding. He was still inside the speeder. Once Tucker was able to pick him self off of the floor looked over towards the status display on the console. Tucker could every easily see the red area the was displayed, indicating that the Thermos was no longer operational and according to the computer no longer attached to the ship. Tucker finally sat back down in the chair and this time strapped him self in and made sure that he was in securely. Tucker looked out the window to find a very bored looking Skulker floating in front of the speeder.

"Where is the whelp," Skulker demanded leveling his blaster on the speeder.

Tucker quickly checked to make sure that the ghost shield was at least still operation over the cabin portion of the speeder. Danny and Tucker had managed to convince Jack to place redundant shielding through out the speeder in case part of the shield was damaged the occupants of the speeder would still be relativity safe. Tucker reached over and picked the headset off of the floor and placing it on his head turned on the outside speakers. "What do you care?"

"I have sworn to mount that whelp's pelt in front of my bed, and I tend to keep that oath. That is of course after I deliver him to Plasimus," Skulker said as he began to fire at the Speeder trying to break through the ghost shield.

Tucker activated the other weapons and began to fire at Skulker in a random manner as he tried to start the engines. Skulker had apparently made some improvements to his suits weapons. The blast were actually making a dent in the ghost shield and if Tucker did not get out of there quickly Skulker was going to have his pelt to mount right along side of Danny's.

As Skulker continued to fire at the speeder weakening the shield more and more with each blast; Tucker decided that he would have to do something before he was unable. Unstrapping himself and heading towards the back Tucker grabbed the Fenton Peeler and waited for the machine to wrap around his body. One fully encased in the suit Tucker opened the door and jumped out into the ghost zone to face Skulker directly. Jack had made a few improvements to this device at the bequest of Danny and Jazz. The suit now came with a modified thermos that ejected directly from the arm and several new and improved targeting systems.

Skulker quickly turned his attention from the speeder to the whelp now standing in front of him leveling a blaster at his chest. Tucker fired a shot hoping to end this battle quickly and without any more damage to the equipment. Skulker through up a shield and diverted the blast up and away from himself. Taking that opportunity he began to fire at Tucker with his nets hoping to catch him off guard. Luckily for Tucker another of the improvements was the suit had automatic defense systems. Nothing that was too special but net or single blasts the suit could easily take care of. With the net safely on the ground Tucker fired a new weapon that was supposed to immobilize the ghost by restricting its movement with a type of gel. The shot only grazed Skulker's shoulder but it was enough to cause that arm to stop functioning.

"What was that," Skulker yelled as he tried in vain to operate his right arm.

"Just something new," Tucker yelled back excited that the weapon had the desired effect. Tucker continued to fire at Skulker hoping to score a direct hit on the hunter's armor.

Skulker had managed to avoid most of the projectiles how ever he knew his luck was not going to hold out. He had tried to just allow the projectile to phase through him only to find out that it somehow made the effects more pronounced when a hit was scored.

Tucker was getting tired to almost hitting the target he was after. He had managed to immobilize Skulker's right arm and his left leg; however that did not do him any real favors since Skulker had the ability to fly. As Tucker was firing at Skulker he heard an alarm go off signifying that the ammo reserves for the gel were beginning to run low. Deciding to save what ammo he had left Tucker switched over to the ecto-blaster and began a new assault with that.

Skulker went invisible and tried to sneak up on the whelp by phasing through the ground only to be met with a blaster to the face. "This whelp is getting on my last nerves," Skulker yelled. This fight was taking entirely too long and he wanted to be the one to defeat the Phantom. The blast caused Skulker to fall backward; thinking quickly he phased himself through the floor before Tucker could get off a second shot. This time wanting to completely surprise the whelp he came up underneath him instead of from behind.

Tucker suddenly felt his feet come out from underneath him. As he crashed in to the ground he looked up to him Skulker taking aim and firing point blank in to him chest. The shot caused the suits weapons system to go off-line. Realizing that he was suddenly unarmed and in front of Skulker Tucker made a quick dash back towards the speeder hoping to make it inside of the ghost shield before Skulker could get a second shot off.

Following the whelp he grabbed the suit just before it could pass in to the ghost shield of the speeder. "Now I have you. Plasimus will be glad to know that his plans are all falling in to place."

Tucker was completely caught off guard be the sudden jerk back. Pressing the emergency release located in the arm of the suit he was ejected forward and in to the door of the speeder. Finding himself finally in a safe place Tucker grabbed the first thing that his hand touched. Tucker aimed the device at Skulker and fired not knowing what he was firing and hoping that what ever it was it was enough to finally take Skulker down.

Skulker looked down at the now empty suit he was holding and then back up to the speeder only to find a glowing mass headed directly for him. Reacting on pure instinct Skulker tried to go intangible and allow the mass to phase through him. To his horror he found that the mass still impacted his chest and caused him to fall over backwards. Trying to move he found that he was suspended in the air with multiple small circles surrounding him. Skulker realized that neither his ghost powers or his armored suit were going to serve him any good with those things still surrounding him.

Tucker finally opened his eyes after firing the shot. Tucker was completely taken back by the fact that Skulker was completely frozen in place. Taking a moment to look down at the gun he was holding he read the inscription that read Prototype of new inhibitor blaster Maddie Fenton. "Man, Danny's mom should make all of the weapons from now on. This thing is amazing," Tucker said out loud. Tucker turned his attention to the pile of weapons in the back look for a Fenton Thermos to place Skulker in. After a few moments of searching Tucker found the thing and pointed it at Skulker sucking him in.

Tucker went about picking up the weapons that had fallen outside and around the cabin and placed them all back in the cargo bay of the speeder. Strapping himself in Tucker fired up the engines and resumed his course towards Vlad's ghost portal.

In the room with Sam

A look of horror flashed over Sam's face as the realization hit her. The knife was laying on the floor and Vlad was coming in and there was nothing in the world that she could do about it. Praying that he would just over look the knife Sam sat back in her chair and tried to put on as calm and cool a face as she could muster. Sam's eyes dashed to the door knob as it slowly turned and opened. A look of complete shock crossed over Sam's face. "Danni!"

A/N: I would once again like to thank Catgirlversion30otakufan.05 for proof reading my work. This is my highest reviewed story so far and I would like to thank all of you who have taken the time to review; it is greatly appreciated. Please read and review.