Chapter 20:
Danny POV-
I arrived home about twenty minutes before three in the morning, but the whole flight home, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being watched. And when there is absolutely no one around, that is a very unsettling thought.
Sam grinned at me as I flew into the room, the green light reflecting off of her features before I closed the portal behind me, leaving us both in only the light of the flickering, emergency light behind me. I smiled, noticing that both Jackson and Wren were asleep, leaning against Sam's shoulders.
She gently handed Wren over to me, and I phased her up into Jazz's room, where Jazz and Carrie were both passed out on Jazz's bed, before I flew back downstairs to get Jackson. I flew him upstairs too…that was a little weird, considering that he is taller than me.
Finally, I went back downstairs to talk with Sam, who was waiting for me with her arms crossed.
"Danny, who dies?" she asked me. Wow, she knew that the future me had been lying over the Fenton Phones.
"Jason. And Kwan will probably be paralyzed for the rest of his life," I told her.
She nodded slowly.
"So what's the next move?" she wanted to know.
"Well, he told me to keep them home from school tomorrow and train them, but…I still have this bad feeling," I confessed.
She clearly didn't know what to say, she merely pursed her lips in the nervous way she sometimes does.
"Do you have a bad feeling about this too?" I asked her. Sam is always the most intuitive person in our group, hell, she's the most intuitive person I know, and if she feels like something is wrong, then I would go by her instincts.
"Kind of," she said quietly.
"Okay, so what are you thinking?" I asked her.
"Well, I've got a plan, but you're not going to like it," she sighed.
"How do you know I'm not going to like it?" I questioned.
"Not you the future you," she clarified.
"Okay…what is it?" I asked her.
She sighed, "Well, I just have this feeling that…maybe nothing is going to happen."
"And, how exactly is that a bad thing?" I wondered.
"Because, if nothing bad is happening in this time period, then that means that Vlad is pulling all of his resources, probably including his past self, into the future to launch a full-scale attack. There's no way that the future you can handle that all by himself," she told me.
"Gee, thanks for the vote of confidence," I remarked sarcastically.
"Come on Danny, you know it's true. You will be overwhelmed and when you try to save everyone, you will be playing right into their hands. Then they will either kill the future you, or more likely, capture him and make him watch while they destroy our kids and you, which would wipe out his existence too," she guessed. I shivered. As much as I hate to admit it, she was right, that is probably what would happen, which means that we do not have much time.
"Okay, so what's the plan?" I repeated.
"Right. So you, me, Tucker, Wren, Jackson, and Jazz, and maybe Carrie, are going to go into the future and help. Hopefully, that will be enough. If not, we're doomed anyway," she told me. It was definitely a crazy risk, with way too many variables, but it was just crazy enough that it might just work.
"My name better be on that list," I heard a voice. I stiffened and looked over to the doorframe where the voice had come from, only to see, none other than Dani casually leaning in the doorframe like she had been there all along.
"Dani!" we exclaimed in unison, and she grinned, flying over to give us each a hug.
"So what's this about some kind of raid into the future?" she asked us.
"Um…all of our kids from the future have come to Amity Park and are staying here in secret while their parents are fighting a war against future Vlad. And then Sam and I found out about them and now we're planning to go help," I told her.
"Ooh fun," she grinned mischievously, and then her face softened to one of silent consideration, "Do I have kids here too?" she asked.
"Umm…yeah, they're staying at Tucker's house—" but before I could finish my sentence, she flew out of the room. I looked at Sam, who looked as confused as I am. Not even a minute later, Danielle was back.
"Aww, my boys are cute. If we're protecting them, I'm soo in," she pounded her fist into her palm, "And I think I might know where we can get some back up."
"We're listening," I pressed.
"Well, I've been around the ghost zone a couple dozen times since I left and made a lot more allies than you, and something tells me that they won't like how future Vlad has taken over…" she explained.
I hadn't even considered bringing other ghosts into this…but it might work, especially if we could get those ghosts to recruit their future selves too.
"Great idea. Get them on our side," I told her.
"I'm on it. Just make sure that you don't bring my boys into the fight," she told me.
"Don't worry, we won't they're too young," I assured her.
"Good. If I'm not back in an hour, something's wrong. I'll see you guys then," she told us slamming her fist on the 'Open Portal' button, before she dove into the ghost zone. I hadn't meant for her to leave right this second, but, I supposed the sooner she recruited our troops the better.
"Okay. Anyway, if we go in for a strike tomorrow, that doesn't leave me much time to train Jackson and Wren," I pointed out.
"Trust me on this one," Sam smirked, "You're not going to need much time."
I didn't know what she meant by that, and I didn't need to.
'Okay,' I thought to myself, 'That just leaves me with the issue of sneaking who know how many ghosts four halfas and four humans into the ghost zone early, so that the ghosts have time to recruit their future selves and we have time to run the plan by everyone else. Great.'