So Fast, So Sudden
Again, thanks everybody for your reviews and thanks A.M Williams for beta-ing. Speaking of Aurora Marie, you sould read her DP Story called Extrinsic Souls! It's AMAZING!
Sam's POV
We drove around a while looking for Danny. After an hour, we gave up and started to head home for the night.
We were almost home when all of a sudden, the Specter Speeder stopped; just stopped, hovering in the air.
"Did we loose power?" I asked.
"No," Tucker answered, checking everything, "Battery is still full and so is the gas tank."
"Uh, guys," Jazz spoke, looking out the back window, "Do you think that has anything to do with it?"
Tucker stopped and we both walked over to Jazz. "Probably," Tucker answered, staring at a big tractor beam.
Dani's POV
Danny and I flew around the Ghost Zone trying to find his portal while he told me everything he remembered. "And then I found you," he finished, sighing.
"It all seems familiar. . . ." I answered, trailing off as I thought hard. "I just don't remember it."
"Dani," he said, concerned, "tell me the last thing you remember."
"Well," I thought, "I woke up in a huge purple building. Clocks as far as I could see. I didn't know where I was, so I ran."
"That room sounds familiar. . . ." Danny said, now his turn to trail off in deep thought. "I just can't remember who it belongs to."
"Maybe the clocks have some relevance to it all?"
"Maybe . . . time master?" Danny suggested, brainstorming,
"No. Clock master?" I offered, pretty sure that wasn't it.
"No, that's not it. Master of time?"
"Seems closer. Clockwork?" We were both silent.
"Nah!" We shouted in unison then laughed.
We stopped flying, "Whoa, what's that?" I asked, hoping Danny would know.
"I don't know, but I have a bad feeling that this has to do with Vlad."
3rd Person
Vlad, in ghost form, laughed inwardly as his plan began to go into motion.
"So just to understand," Skulker interrupted, "You're only after the whelp's father?" Vlad snapped out of his daydreaming and turned to Skulker.
"Of course. I told you, you get the boy. I just want him as a pathway to his idiot father." Skulker nodded.
Inside the Specter Speeder, Sam, Jazz, and Tucker were doing everything they could to try to get out of the tractor beam's grasp. Nothing was working to their dismay. Slowly, the Specter Speeder was pulled in and Vlad floated up to the window. "Give me Daniel and we'll let you go.
"What?" Jazz asked, horrified.
"You heard me. Now hand him over."
"We don't have him," Sam told him, bravery showing in her tone.
"Yeah and even if we did, we wouldn't give him to you." Tucker added, with a small grin on his proud face.
"You'd have to." Vlad sneered.
"No," Tucker continued. "You've been messing with his head!"
"I didn't want to resort to this, but you've forced my hand."
Vlad grabbed Sam by the arm and phased her through the Specter Speeder's wall. "Let me go!" Sam screamed, struggling to escape Vlad's grasp.
"Oh, I intend to. After you give me Daniel."
Vlad floated over to where Skulker was and changed back into human form. "Did you really think I forgot that humans phase through things in the Ghost Zone?"
"Don't talk out loud Vlad," a voice rang out. "You lower the IQ of the whole Ghost Zone."