10/14/09

Sorry ya'll I know it's been a while but I haven't had much chance to update and wasn't sure how to write the next chapter so I wrote this chapter to clear a few things up that a few of you have asked about. I will finish writing the real next chapter tonight and hopefully have it up soon.

This chapter is a bit different than my usual ones so I hope no one is disappointed.

Disclaimer- I Still don't. Do you yet?

~Oh yeah! I'm looking for beta readers. I have someone saying they are willing to do it but if anyone else is willing also I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm terrible with finding my own mistakes and really suck at commas. Thanks!

Chapter 6

The Other Side

"Where is he?!" Samantha Manson yelled for the twenty-sixth time.

"I wish I knew because you are really scaring me now." One of her two best friends, Tucker Foley, replied looking at her with scared eyes.

"And of course we can't call him because his stupid phone is in his stupid bag in my stupid hand!" She screeched only resulting in scaring her friend more.

"Geez, Sam, calm down. You know Danny he's probably fine just flying around or something." Tucker said trying to reassure her hoping in making her seem more human and less like the Lunch Lady Ghost who loves to yell and scream.

"Tucker! If he was really fine don't you think he would have come to find us by now?" She said in a low menacing voice. "Don't you think he knows us well enough that he would have found us if he could have? He is not FINE!"

"Sam. Chill." Tucker said. "It's only been…"

"I DON"T CARE IF IT'S ONLY BEEN 2 MINUTES! WHERE IS HE?!" Sam yelled breathing hard. The seventeen year old looking at tucker with a venom she only used on very few humans.

"I'm sure we'll hear from him any time now. Who knows maybe he couldn't find us and is going to his house so he can call us on his house line." Tucker said logically, trying anything to calm down his irritated Goth friend. It really wasn't a smart idea to get on her bad side.

For a moment Sam looked as though she would blow up again. She took in a deep breath ready to retort just to let it out again with a dejected sigh. "Yeah" She said in a small voice. "Maybe your right, let's go check out Fenton Works and see if he's home."

Tucker knew Sam cared for Danny as more than friends. He couldn't say when it actually started but he knows it has been at least since they were in 8th grade. The sad thing was that he knew Danny felt the same way about her but for some reason he still hasn't asked her out. It was times like these that Sam's feelings for him showed more than ever.

They started making their way to Fenton Works, Sam silent for the first time in the last hour. Tucker was too scared to try and break that silence so he slowly took out his PDA to check up on his latest website for Technogeeks United Around the Globe (A.K.A.: T.U.A.G.).

He was so engrossed that he didn't notice the venomous glare come back full force from his temporarily psychotic friend.

That was until the back of his head was hit by that psychotic friend's hand and the PDA snatched out of his own hand simultaneously.

"TUCKER!" Sam yelled at him. "Do you care about ANYTHING other than your stupid electronics?! Your best friend is missing!"

Tucker just looked sadly at the PDA in her hand. Of course he was worried about his friend and she just took away the only thing that was keeping him sane in her presence. Of course he didn't say any of this out loud. Instead he looked down at his feet only to realize they were already standing in front of Danny's house.

"Come on." Sam said grabbing his wrist and yanking him to the door. Before she could so much as knock the door flew open to reveal a nervous looking Jazz. Danny's older, over protective sister.

"Jazz!" Sam said surprised while at the same time Jazz said "Sam! Tucker!"

"Have you seen Danny?" They both asked at the same time.

Tucker couldn't help the small chuckle that escaped his lips but it died the second two venomous glares came his way and he shrunk back.

The girls turned their attention back to each other and Jazz answered the question first.

"No, I haven't seen him and he won't pick up his phone. I was just about to go drive around and check the skies for any activity. You know, see if he needed any help. I'm guessing you guys haven't heard from him either?"

"No, he had to leave our last class not even half way through to go take care of some ghost. We haven't seen or heard from him since. We've been walking around town looking for any activity but all we saw was the Box Ghost a few times." Sam told her then held up Danny's bag. "And we have his phone so we can't even try to get in touch with him."

"Well I'm still going to go drive around you guys can come if you want." Jazz offered taking out her keys.

Before either of them could answer Sam's phone rang Danny and her favorite Dumpty Humpty song.

"Omygosh!" Jazz said a little too anxiously. "Is it Danny?"

Sam's response was only a shrug the caller ID said Unknown.

So she answered with a hopeful "Hello?" …."Oh my God, Danny! Where are you?! Where have you been?!"

"Put it on speaker, put it on speaker." Tucker chanted trying to hear Danny on the other side of the phone.

Sam complied and pressed the speaker button.

"Danny?" Jazz, Tucker, and Sam all asked at once.

"Hey guys." Came the sheepish sounding reply.

"Oh my gosh, Danny, you had us so worried. Where have you been? Where are you? Why haven't you come home? Why haven't you at least contacted us? WHERE ARE YOU?" Jazz ranted on sounding like the true protective sister she is.

"Whoa slow down, Jazz. Thanks for asking how I am by the way. And I'm with Lancer...kind of."

"WHAT?!" All 3 yelled shocked. That was the most unexpected thing they have ever heard (and they have heard a lot of unexpected things).

"Whoa, dude, you're with Lancer? What? Did he catch you coming back to school or something and gave you detention?" Tucker asked with a laugh.

"Yeah, I guess you could say it's something like that only I didn't get detention."

"What do you mean?" Tucker asked but Sam cut in before Danny could even answer.

"Are you okay? Are you hurt? Do you need help?"

"I don't know guys. Something's wrong with me. I'm.." He paused then whispered "My other self."

"With Lancer?!" Sam exclaimed "Are you nuts?!"

"It wasn't exactly my choice. He found me this way. I don't know what happened everything is really fuzzy. I can't think straight. All I know is Technus attacked me and…well …um…kind of…you know…"

"Spit it out already!" Sam snapped.

"WellIkindagotstabbedwithsomeweirddagger." He said in one breath and of course who else knows him better than sam who just so happened understood every word.

"YOU WHAT?!" She yelled on top of her lungs through the phone.

"What?" Tucker and Jazz both asked her looking completely confused.

"He was STABBED! By TECHNUS! With God only knows what!" Sam shrieked out, ready to go tear Technus apart with her bare hands.

"WHAT?!" Jazz and Tucker, now that they fully understood, showed similar anger and worry.

"Hello? Guys? I'm still here you know." Danny's voice said through the phone.

"Oh my Gosh, Danny, are you okay?" Jazz asked then started babbling about how terrible of a sister she was and asking what he needed and how to get to him…etc.

"Jazz….Jazz…..Jazz…Jazz…JAZZ!" Tucker yelled clapping his hands hard in front of her face.

"Oh… sorry."

"Danny, where are you?" Sam asked.

"With Lancer." Came Danny's simple reply.

"Where with Lancer?" Sam asked getting very frustrated.

"His house." Danny replied. "Look guys I'll be fine. Lancer doesn't suspect anything and I can't exactly go home and… I don't know. Everything just seems so confusing. I just want all this to get figured out and sleep."

"Danny where is 's house?" Jazz asked more calmly than she was before.

"I don't know. It doesn't matter." Danny said in a soft voice.

"What do you mean 'it doesn't matter'?" Sam asked angrily. "We are your best friends and you want to stay with a teacher you hate? While in ghost mode? And you haven't even said what else is obviously wrong with you! But I got to say, being stabbed is pretty bad, but knowing you, there is something way worse going on that you're not telling us."

"I'm stuck." Danny said in a fearful and worried tone. "I can't change back and I am losing my powers one by one. We're trying to figure out what's wrong with me and we're going to fix it so don't worry about me."

"Are you kidding me?!" Sam yelled again. "Not worry about you?! Listen to yourself! You're losing your powers and you don't know what's wrong! We can help you! You need us! Lancer isn't going to be able to help you! What the heck does he know about ghosts?! Absolutely NOTHING! Just tell us where you are so you can come home and we can help you."

"No listen to me! I can't just come home I'm stuck like this!" Danny shot back losing his calm exterior he had a moment before.

Sam was quickest to retort. "But Danny we can keep you safe! We can help you! Stop being so stubborn and tell us where Lancer's house is so we can come get you. We'll sneak you out of there so he won't suspect a thing."

"Yeah, Danny, don't worry about getting out of there we can find a way" Jazz added "and don't worry about Mom and Dad either we can keep them from seeing you and then figure out how to fix this. Everything will work out just let us help.

"Yeah, dude, we just want to help you, that's what we're here for." Tucker added in a serious tone for once.

"No you guys, I just can't and I know you just want to help but I don't see how you can, not now anyway. Just make sure they don't suspect anything until we figure all this out. I don't know when we can get in touch again; I don't have my phone on me I left it in my bag. Oh by the way did one of you grab it for me?

"Yeah we got it." Sam said in a defeated tone.

"Good" Danny said not noticing her tone "I don't know how I could explain some of the things in it…"

"Yeah well we figured you weren't coming back." Tucker said then smiling he added "And yeah how on earth would you have explained the lipstick ecto gun?"

Danny laughed softly through the phone and said "Yeah, you're telling me, just make sure to cover for me and keep your phones close. I'll call you guys if I figure anything out."

"Come on Danny!" Sam said desperate now. "Please stop doing this! What's wrong with you?! Let us help!"

Jazz put a reassuring hand on Sam's arm then said into the phone, "Danny, Please come home, we really can help you if you just let us. We've always helped you for anything that came along. Why not now? Why don't you want us to help you? This isn't like you and I'm really worried. We're really worried about you."

Danny let out a heavy sigh. "I know you worry about me and right now I'm worried about myself too but I'll be okay everything will be fine." He said. They weren't really sure if he was really telling them or himself.

"Danny," Sam started but Danny interrupted.

"Guys? I got to go, I can't talk anymore I think he's coming." Danny whispered.

"Danny!" Sam yelled trying to keep him on the line a little longer. It would only take a few seconds for him to tell them where he was.

Jazz seeing that there was nothing more they could really do accepted that their time was up and they would talk soon so she told her brother in a big sisterly voice, showing much emotion. "Call us as soon as you can and Please be careful, little brother."

"Don't worry I will be and don't worry too much" He whispered back trying to stay as quiet as possible.

"Okay." Jazz said accepting his words. "Just know we're here for you and we love you."

After a moment Danny replied with a raspy "I love you guys too. I'll talk to you soon" and hung up.

The three just stood there a few minutes lost in their thoughts.

"Man, I can't believe he's with Lancer!" Tucker finally said.

Both girls just looked at him.

"What?" Tucker asked oblivious.

Jazz shook her head as though to clear it of unwanted thoughts and said "Something is seriously wrong with him... I'm not just talking about him losing his powers or any of that.... When has he ever denied us to really help him?... Especially with something like this... And we all know he would never willingly just stay with Mr. Lancer. Right?... So something else has to be going on… But what is it?... I mean that just isn't like him… He did say things were confusing maybe he hit his head or something?... Oh I don't know." Jazz thought out loud.

"You're right." Sam agreed once she put what Jazz said together. "Something is wrong with him. We need to find him. He can't just stay with Lancer what if he isn't really stuck? What if he's just slowly turning back to human form? Lancer cannot see that. He needs us."

"Yeah…" Tucker agreed but as he was saying this he was eyeing his PDA in Sam's pocket.

"Well we need to figure something out." Jazz said. "How about you two go search the Phone book and see if Mr. Lancer is listed and I'll go sneak into the lab and see if I can find anything that can help Danny."

"Oh yeah that's a brilliant idea." Sam said sarcastically "We all know how your parent's just love inventing things to help ghosts. Absolutely brilliant."

"Sam." Tucker reprimanded softly but forcefully causing Sam to look a little ashamed.

"Sorry, Jazz, I'm just worried. You're right there may be something, knowing your parents they probably made something that keeps a ghost alive so they can experiment on a live specimen or something like that."

Jazz's eyes widened a fraction "Actually…" But before she finished the sentence she was already running towards the door of her house. "Call me if you find him!" She called back as the door slammed.

Sam and Tucker just stared at the door then each other.

Tucker shrugged put out his hand palm up and said "Give me my PDA."

"No." Sam said getting aggravated, instantly ready to start yelling again, ready to do anything to help her vent her emotions.

"Hellooooo?????" Tucker said looking slightly fearful but more looking at her like she was an idiot. "PDA… Internet built in……" He looked at her with raised eyebrows.

"Oh." Sam said her mouth staying in an O shape a second too long. Feeling very stupid she grudgingly handed over the PDA looking anywhere but at Tucker.

Well I hope ya'll weren't too disappointed and I hope this cleared a few things up without giving too much away.

Let me know what you think please. I'll reply to all my reviews.

Next chapter back to Lancer and Danny.

~Mia