Chapter Three
The next day…down in the basement of Sumdac Towers…
"Hello my deceased friends." Powell said to the ghosts as he walked by their containment cubes. "and how are we this afternoon?" he said to a ghosts, who was a child with an arrow protruding through his forehead. The boy just tried to swing at him with his tomahawk.
"HEY!! Knock it off you freak! Save it for that little brat Sari." Powell shouted. Then all the ghosts, except for one, started hitting the walls of their cubes.
"I said KNOCK IT OFF!!!" Powell shouted. "And you, why aren't you upset?" he asked a ghosts who was standing in the far corner of its cell. "Like I care." he said and walked back up to his office.
At the Autobot base…
"Are you pack yet?" Bulkhead called to Bumblebee.
"Almost, I just need this last…there." Bumblebee said packing his last video game.
"Good, now can we go?" Sari asked.
"Wait first, I need to make sure I didn't forget anything…"
"BUMBLEBEE!!!!" Both Sari and Bulkhead said.
"Alright already. Lets go." the yellow mech said putting on his Autobot sized backpack.
"What are you bringing?" Bumblebee asked Prowl.
"Nothing much, just some oil and energon." the ninja informed the three.
"Well lets go." Sari said anxiously.
The three bots transformed and Sari got into Bumblebee and the headed off for Sumdac towers. About half way there, Sari took out a picture.
"What's that?" Bumblebee asked.
"Its picture of me and my dad, and my mom." Sari explained.
"What happened to her?" Bumblebee asked again.
"My dad said she died, when I was a baby." she went on.
"Oh, sorry. Is OK if I asked how she died?"
"Its OK, she died in a fire. She helped my dad with his invention, they used to put my in the same room to keep an eye on me, and one day, one of their projects blew up and set the whole room on fire. I was closer to my dad then. He grabbed me and ran out. He said he saw her run out, but she didn't. She was trapped and when they found her, she had bad burns all over her body. They took her to Detroit General Hospital, but it was too late…" She started crying.
Bumblebee slowed down.
"Listen, some things you just can't fix." he comforted her. "just be glad you were able to live."
She wiped her tears and sobbed for a while.
"Thank you." she said and hugged his steering wheel. Then they caught up with the other two.
About five minutes past and they arrived at Sumdac Towers. Sari got out and saw a man pacing in front of the door.
"May I help you?" she walked up to him, followed by her robot friends.
"Not unless you got the keys to this place." the man said.
"I do, this is my home." she explained.
"Wait…you live here?" he asked.
"Yeah, this is my fathers company."
"Good, can you let me in? I need to see that Powell guy." the man begged.
"Um, what's your name?" she asked.
"Rafkin, Dennis Rafkin."
That evening…
"Alright! No sleeping tonight." Sari said jumping around holding empty candy wrappers in both hands.
"Um Sari, I think you've had a little too much sweets." Prowl said.
"What are you talking about Prowl? The fun's just getting started." Bumblebee said holding an oil drum.
Out in the parking lot…
"Hey Powell! Where's my money?" Dennis asked.
"Oh fine. It in the lobby, on the desk." Powell said. Dennis just glared at him. "If you want it, go it." Powell said again. Dennis ran inside and into the lobby.
"Where is it?" he said. Then he heard the doors shut. He turned around to see Powell on the outside and the door was replaced with glass that had writing on it like the containment cubes.
"What are you doing?!?" Dennis shouted.
"No one must know what happened here, not even you. Don't worry, there are specter viewers all over the tower. In case you are confronted by a ghosts, you'll know where its at. Oh, I almost forgot, you have more company, ALIVE company." Powell's voice went dark. "I'll be back in the morning. See ya, or not." he drove off and a metal shell came down.
"I need to get out of here." Dennis said running up the stairs.
In Sari's room…
"Left hand green." Sari called out.
"Come on, almost…oomph." Bumblebee said falling over and losing another round to Prowl.
"Its not fair. Rematch." he said pissed off. Then there was knocking at the door.
"Who else is here?" Bulkhead asked.
"I don't know." Sari said getting off her bed. She walked to the door and opened it.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!"
"What is it?" Bumblebee asked, taking out his stingers.
"What are you still doing here?" Sari said.
"I…have…something…to…tell…you…" Dennis said trying to get his breath back. "Sorry, I just ran up a lot of stairs."
"Who are you?" Bulkhead asked.
"Why are you here?" Prowl asked.
"My name is Dennis Rafkin, I'm a physic. I can sense ghosts."
"WHAT!?! Now I know he's crazy. First the stairs, now who runs up stairs when there's an elevator, second, he says he can sense ghosts." Bumblebee was trying to hold back a laugh.
"I ran up the stairs because the elevators aren't working."
"What about ghosts?" Prowl asked.
"Well finally, someone who asks the right question." Rafkin said.
"Humph…gives the boring one credit." Bumblebee whispered to Sari, which caused her to giggle. Prowl just glared at him.
"You were saying…" Prowl started.
"There are twelve ghosts, in this basement." Rafkin told them. "Powell said that there were more company and…" he was cut off.
"Whoa…hold on…Porter C Powell is behind this?" Sari asked.
"Yeah, he motioned something about money and inheritance…I had no clue what he meant."
"If there's one thing, he likes money." Bulkhead said.
"He blocked the front door so no one could get out." Rafkin went on. Just then, on Sari's window, a second row of windows came down.
"He what's going on?!?" She shouted.
"What? Why would he put spell barriers on these windows?" Dennis asked himself, "Unless…" his widen. "we need to get out of here." He said frantic.
"What's wrong?" the all asked.
"Lets just get down to the lobby." Rafkin said. The all got up and walked to the nearest stair way.
"Oh man, I was ready to party." Bumblebee complained.
Out in the parking lot…
"Time to start this shin-dig…" he took out a key and inserted it into a computer and turned it.
In the lobby…
The middle of the floor began to spin around a stationary circle. Then, Rafkin and the others came out of the stairs, panting, except for Prowl.
"Why did you make us run down?" Bumblebee asked.
"That's why." Dennis said pointing to the spinning floor.
"Whoa…that's new." Sari said, "What happened to the door?" she exclaimed.
"That what I mean…" Rafkin started but was interrupted by another voice.
"Its all sealed up." Nano-Sec said coming from the restroom. He was followed by the Angry Archer, Slo-Mo, and Professor Princess.
"What are you guys doing here?" Bulkhead asked.
"We were tricked by the sleazy Powell. He said there was money here for who ever found it." Slo-Mo explained.
Then the spinning floor stopped. All eyes were on it, then it spun again, this time with another spinning ring.
Down in the basement…
A door slid open on one of the twelve containment cubes, and out came a ghosts.
Back in the lobby…
"Listen I don't care who the heck you all are, but we need to find…" he stopped and saw eight pairs of enhanced glasses. "Good, we need these." Dennis said picking them up. "Here, put these on."
Bumblebee saw five pairs of glasses too, all were the right size for Autobots.
"Cool, we get to have some too." he said getting them
"What are these for?" Slo-Mo asked.
"These are specter viewers, you can see ghosts with these." Dennis explained.
"Ghosts? Are you kidding me." The Angry Archer said.
"Why does everybody not believe me?" he said, " There are ghosts around us all the time. Some can' harm us, most of them don't want to harm us, but sometimes, there are exceptions…"
Then Sari heard a door open. She turned around to an opened door, but no one in it.
"What are you looking at?" Bumblebee asked.
"I thought I heard it open." she said. She slowly put on her glasses and looked to the door again. Her eyes got big and her jaw dropped, she was trying to scream but couldn't.
"Sari, what is it?" Bumblebee kept asking.
Dennis put his on and looked where Sari was. "Oh shit! Grab her and lets get out of here." he said running to the stairs.
"What? What is it?" they all said.
"Its a GHOSTS!!!!!!!!" Sari finally said and ran with Dennis, but was held back. She fell to the ground. Bumblebee and the others put on theirs and saw the horror.
"Hey let go of her!" Bumblebee shouted trying to pull Sari. The ghosts that had Sari in its grip was the First Born Son, the ghosts with an arrow sticking from his head, tomahawk ready. Bumblebee finally got her free and carried her to the stairs. The others followed, but the ghosts just stood there. Then the two spinning wheels stopped on the same sign, the Jackal…