The Price of a Frootloop

"Hello, Daniel. Good to see you again. And Maddie! Always a pleasure to see you, my dear." I hated that voice, it came from my mouth, but it wasn't my words or my voice. You could hear the smirk I felt plastered on my face.

"Stay the hell away from my wife and children!" A glowing, orange blob moved into my sight and into the line of fire. I saw energy pooled at his fists as a still battered Danny powered up to join the fight.

"You're going to pay, asshole. I've had more than enough of you." It was hard to tell because of the distinct blurry property everything around me had, but I could have sworn Danny's eye were pure green, filled with pure energy. He was pissed, and it was going to take one hell of a lot to calm him down.

"It's a shame you can't do much, isn't it?" This jackass just loved to shove that in Danny's face, didn't he?

"Maybe not now, but all bets are off as soon as I find a way to make you pay without hurting Sam." Danny was losing control, I needed to end this before he did something stupid. The only problem was I wasn't quite sure what had finally allowed me to regain my control the last time. Something acted as a switch, I just needed to find it again.

Suddenly, the orange blob of Jack caught my attention. "Jazz, now!"

There was a sharp pain in my back that only got worse by the second until I regained full control and it finally began to fade. I was on the ground, watching as the tiny black spots in my vision slowly faded away. God, whatever the hell Jazz did certainly did the trick, but it hurt like hell. I hope I never have to resort to that again.

"Why didn't you tell us you were dealing with that parasite?" Jazz spoke from behind me as she helped me slowly get back to my feet.

"Didn't think it was important, really. I somehow doubt you know how to get rid of him." They didn't provide an answer to my comment. Instead, Jack and Jazz let an uneasy silence fill the air. "You do know something, don't you?" The fact that they hadn't told me anything right off the bat was enough to scare me as it was. They had a solution, but it wasn't a pretty one.

Jazz finally answered. "Just about everyone in the Ghost Zone knows about Plasmius. They know he's a parasite, and they know he's pretty damn hard to get rid of, but that's all the solid fact anyone has." She stopped there, only starting to continue after I saw Danny give her an odd look. "There are rumors of what could completely destroy him rather than just passing him off to someone else…" She trailed off again and I had a bad feeling about where this was headed.

"It's nothing pleasant, is it?" There was no real point in asking, anyone could tell that from a mile away. I saw the look on Danny's face and realized that for once, he'd managed to stop being clueless long enough to figure something out before I did. I didn't like where this was heading at all.

"No, Sam, it's not." Jazz stopped for a moment just long enough for the same phrase that rang through my head earlier to make an appearance. The sacrifice of a mother.

Correction, I really didn't like where this was headed.

"There's a rumor floating around that should his host get killed, Plasmius would cease to exist all together." Jazz finished just as I finished putting the pieces together myself. "Naturally, no one knows for sure since no one has had the heart to try it because…"

When she trailed off once more, I finished for her, the coming to mind without a second thought. "Because it takes a mother's sacrifice." There was silence in the room as that slowly sunk in and I remembered we still had poor Tuck sitting off in the corner, completely uninformed.

I realized just how much he was about to learn and give us shit for about half a second before Ms. Stuth spoke.

"The only two people in this room that could take him out once and for all are Maddie and Sam." I watched Tucker's face, waiting for the moment when what she just said would finally fully set in. It was amazing it was taking him this long to put the pieces together with the mindset he usually had.

Danny had gone slightly red in the face. "Sam isn't a mother yet." He was having a hard time looking anyone in the eye as he spoke.

His mom raised an eyebrow in his direction, but it was our teacher who responded in her normal "are you kidding me?" tone of voice. "Danny, as far as I'm concerned, she became a mother the second you laid her on the bed." Heat flooded my face as I saw realization finally dawn on Tucker's face. May the embarrassment begin anew.

"Wait, hold up. Sam's going to be a mother?" He gave an odd little smirk. God, kill me now. Please? "Wouldn't that require the two of you doing certain acts together?"

"Tuck, let it drop." Danny tried to sound threatening through his utter embarrassment. He failed...miserably.

"So you two finally actually did it?" His gaze went from looking at both of us, equal shades of red, to only focusing on poor Danny who was flustered once more. "You gotta tell me what it was like dude!"

Danny stared at the floor for a second more before I saw a smirk I couldn't quite identify appear on his face. "Hey, Sam. Do I have permission to scar him for life?" Oh...it was an evil, make Tucker pay for everything he's ever done, smirk. I could live with that.

"Do you want me to do it? I'm not sure you'd be able to keep the doorway open with as flustered as you get." He sent me a playful glare at the comment before I saw that slightly evil look appear again.

"You know, it might be more effective to make him see it from your point of view anyway." Apparently he didn't give a damn about embarrassment when he was busy plotting a little revenge.

"Wait, what?" Realization paid Tucker a visit once more before he spoke again. "No! I do not want to see that!"

I smirked at his reaction. "You're the one that wanted to know what it was like." Off in the background, I heard someone, most likely our pain in the ass teacher, practically beg us NOT to relate the previous night aloud.

Tucker scowled. "Generalizations, Sam. NOT specifics."

"You sure?" I sent him a brief image as I teased him. It wasn't much, just the serious kissing right before things starting coming off. Honestly, it wasn't like he hadn't walked in on us like that before.

"Really, Sam? Really? Did you have to?" Tucker was not nearly as amused with this as I was.

"Yeah, pretty much."

"Sam," Danny practically whined from beside me, "what the hell did you show him?"

"Relax, Danny. It wasn't anything he hasn't seen before. It was just enough to get him off our backs." I rethought that statement, there was no way in hell this would keep him silent very long. "Well...it'll get him off our back for the moment at least."

"Okay!" Maddie suddenly spoke up louder than she absolutely needed to. "Now that we're done talking about teenage stupidity" she turned to Danny and I, completing ignoring that the conversation hadn't technically ended when she cut in, "and don't you dare even try to claim it wasn't stupid," insert glare here, "I think we have more important things to talk about right now. Like getting rid of Plasmius, perhaps?"

Oh...right...that...

Well...shit, meet the fan.

So...I managed to completly miss an update... Sorry about that... Shit seems to be continuously hitting the fan right now, but I'm working through it. Hopefully, there won't be another missed update... I SHALL KEEP UP! :)

Commments and feedback are as welcome as always. :D

Invisible One