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Adrian Spook
In
The Unluckiest Number
Episode Summary:
Adrian finds his day going from bad to worst thanks to The Ghost Punks. It just so happens to be the day he celebrates his 14th birthday. That doesn't top it though he gets a little more for it then he wanted. Including inheriting his father's genes.
Part 3
Things just keep going from bad to worse
By: Lydia (penname: Linariel)
All of their guests not including the Foleys, Fentons, Youngbloods, and Rivers just blinked still taken by surprise with the newcomers floating above their heads. They couldn't decide what to do. It was either run or ignore the ghosts though it wasn't easy to come to the conclusion on which was the correct action.
Butch shrugged then lifted his hands in the air and moved around in a stereotypical ghost like gesture. "BOO!"
Panic ensnared and those who were not used to ghost attacks begun running around like chickens with their heads cut off. The Ghost Punks just looked at each other finding the theatrics a little unnecessary but very amusing all the same. Butch took off into the sky blocking them. His hands glowed with electric blue energy throwing blasts right at each human who tried to get away. Rook yawned and continued reading his book as he sent rays at anyone who moved with direct precision despite not looking in that direction. Lol threw bunches of plasm everywhere but missed most his targets mainly hitting his leader who in turn hit him back with more force.
Danny couldn't believe this was happening not on his son's birthday. He'd never had this problem before.'I thought ghosts respected important days like this as they did Christmas!' But it seemed not all of them valued that code. "This is not good…" Danny said wincing as he watched random gifts being blasted. He turned to his wife and best friend both of them nodded having become used to these occurrences.
Tucker the mayor and founder of New Tech couldn't help but whine. "Man this is a new low for those guys."
"Yeah no kidding." Sam said dryly though her face was one of rage. She clenched her fists glaring at the ghosts. "They are so going to pay."
With a nod the senior ghost hero of Amity Park allowed two rings of light to surround his torso transforming him into his ghost half. "Tucker, Sam get the kids, and other adults to safety…" he turned to face the instigator of this mess. "I'll handle these party crashers." He took off into the sky heading straight for the gang.
Butch however wasn't looking their way. His eyes were focused on the chaos. If this didn't get his message across nothing would. "It's payback Phantom." He said with a smirk this was going better then he expected he should have thought of doing a haunting like this years ago. A tap on his shoulder made him turn abruptly hitting the intruder with a blast of plasm. Only then did he see it was Rook.
The nerd ghost groaned as he push himself off the mound of dirt. "Watch where you point that..." Rook said brushing off his pressed collar shirt. "You almost knocked me out boss."
Butch just growled. "Well you shouldn't approach someone from behind who is armed genius." He sent another blast in the direction of a table where some of the humans took refuge. "Don't you think everything is going beautifully?"
Rook shook his head and rubbing his shoulder trying to find the best way to answer this. "Well I don't know how to tell you this but…."
"But what?" Butch asked impatiently.
"They're escaping." Rook said passively, he still doubted if this whole plan was going to work.
But for once Rook was surprised to see an expression that radiated confidence on his leader's face. "Not for long." Butch said as he pulled a bag almost out of thin air. "Let's see what to use… what to use…" he dug through the bag till a satisfied smirk came on his face as he pulled out a glowing blue cube. "This should do the trick." He mumbled tossing the device into the middle of the park
Danny's attention was averted from his current target when the small cube headed straight at him ducking out of the way he made a sharp turn to follow the object's trajectory. It hit the ground bounced a couple of times before it settled. 'Well it seems that weapon is useless as they usually are.' He focused his attention back on the two ghosts just floating over everything while Lol was on the ground area making freaky faces at all the guests.
Butch was completely focused on the cube. Rook looked from his boss back to the device in question but received no response. 'So it's finally happened… he's cracked.' "I'm not…"
"Shush…" Butch barked cutting him off. He watched the blue cube presently a white light sparked from it. "Come on baby." Another spark and a blue light completely blasted out of the cube straight up. "Bulls eye!"
"What the heck?" Danny exclaimed as the once harmless cube shot out with blue energy as it reached a certain point in the sky (just about as high as the tallest tree in the park) it spread out. Soon it covered a space nearly as wide as a football field in clear blue energy. Half of the people in the park were now cut off from the rest of the town. Including our ghost hero's family.
"Jack are you sure you put our grandson's gift in the trunk?" Maddie Fenton, the mother of Danny and the grandmother of Adrian, and his siblings asked from outside the Fenton RV. She was still in her old jumpsuit but like most special occasions she didn't wear her hood this time. Both she and Jack were getting gray hair and looking older but thanks to all their ghost hunting they kept in good shape.
Jack Fenton popped his head out from the car with a determined look on her face. "I'm sure as the day we begun our lives as ghost hunters." Then a smile broke out on his face. "In the mean time I found ginger snaps!" He grinned holding up a bag of treats.
Maddie looked at him with a critical eye.
"I mean I'll keep looking." Sheepishly Jack said response to her gaze.
Both were so focused on finding Adrian's surprise that they didn't notice the blue dome that formed around the party area. "Let's see…" he went on from inside the car. "Nope that's not it." He tossed out a fenton ectogun. "Uhm maybe this…nope." He tossed out the fenton ghost gabber. "Ah ha!" proclaimed Jack's voice very triumphantly. Out he popped with a large package in black wrapping paper with a lot of spooks on it. "I've got it!"
"Great work honey." Maddie said with an affectionate smile hugging him. "You came through again."
"Ha ha I always do." Jack said as the two of them begun walking back to the party. "Whenever there is a problem at hand Jack Fenton will be on it quicker then butter on toast." He barely had enough time to stop before coming close to running into the blue mass of energy. "What the?"
Maddie gasped with her eyes widened. "I've never seen anything like this." Pulling her hood on she used the infrared in her goggles to examine dome. "It seems to be some kind of ghost shield only…"
"Hmmm…" Jack said reaching out to touch it only to be zapped back right into a nearby tree. "YOW!"
"Traps humans…" Maddie finished reaching over to help her husband to his feet. "Jack are you alright?"
Jack groaned shaking his head. "I'll be fine in a moment hun'."
"I wonder how this was done."
Danny was wondering the same thing as he sent a blast of green ectoplasm at the ego enthralled ghost. "Okay Butch I know your not a whiz kid, how did you make the fancy light show?"
"Oh it's no light show Phantom." Butch said with a smirk neatly evading his next shot. He was so confident in the success of his plan that the punk was actually thinking clear enough to put up a good fight against the notorious halfa. "You know all those shields your parents made? Well I've got some goodies that will give ya humans and phonies a taste of your own medicine."
"And what is that supposed to mean exactly?" Danny asked landing a punch on the ghost punk's arm knocking him back a ways.
Shaken but not down Butch shrugged. "You're all trapped here!" avoiding a right hook from the peeved halfa he went on. "Go on try and get out. I dare ya looser!"
Danny's eyes flashed neon green with those words. "Do. Not. Ever. Call. Me. A. LOOSER!" Taking the dare he went straight towards the blue energy gathering a large ball of ectoplasm in his hand fed by the energy of his emotions and experience and tossed it at the shield. It barely even skimmed the surface phasing through and out into the middle of park where those watching from outside the shield had to duck to miss the beam. He winced at this mistake and then tried to place his hand on the shield but it didn't pass through as he thought only shocked him hard making him scream out in pain, causing those inside the shield to look his way.
Butch cackled enjoying the predicament. "Ha… ha… ha ha…ha! Did I mention that it is designed for both humans and hybrid ghosts. Only your ecto energy is getting through that bub."
Clutching his head Danny tried to get his bearings even though he was feeling dizzy from the shock. "How are you doing this?" he asked. It was his best bet to keep bombarding the cocky ghost with questions if he wanted to get his energy back and discover his weakness.
"Oooh oooh I can tell you.. I can tell you!" Lol said flying over to where the two of them were engaged in combat. "He used weird Ghost's goodies!"
"What ghost?" Danny asked suspiciously that was odd he didn't know any electronic capable ghosts besides Technus but he had a feeling it wasn't him. This wasn't his style.
Lol opened his mouth to speak but Rook flew up to stop him.
Butch cut into the conversation. "None of your business Phantom." Now that the famed ghost boy was down for the count he could execute part two of his plan. "Boys…" he said turning to his sidekicks he reached into the bag that appeared again out of nowhere and tossed each of them an odd looking blaster. "You know what to do weed out the heroes from the wimps."
Rook saluted him and went towards the area where Sam, Tucker, Jazz and her husband Lars were distributing ghost gear to all the adults left in the dome.
Looking from the weapon to his leader Lol had a confused expression on his face. "Uh boss… what's a wimp look like?"
Growling just about at the end of his leash with his minion Butch replied through gritted teeth. "Just go for those who attacks you dummy."
Lol looked at him for moment with a blank face then a smile came up as a light bulb turned on in his tiny brain. "Oh…" he took off for the area where the children including the fenton siblings were gathered.
"Don't forget to leave me Phantom's boy." Butch shouted with a cocky look on his face.
Danny could feel his blood boiling. This had just gotten personal. His powers reacted to his emotions and started to rush out fresh and ready. "Leave my son out of this." He snapped shooting a beam of green energy directly at him.
"Now Phantom…" Butch said rolling his eyes his ego going in full throttle. "Why would I do that?" he ducked another blast. "After all it is his Birthday…" he ducked a right jab. "can't I give him a little something to remember me by?"
Danny's eyes blazed neon as he went for him punching the ghost in the legs, and managing to blast him in the shoulder. "Somehow I get the feeling you're going to be remembered but not in the way you want."
As she watched from outside the shield at the fight taking place Valerie's muscles itched as she longed to be in the middle of the current brawl. Yet at the same time her family was in there and nothing but the shield separated those Ghost Punks from the rage of the huntress. 'Calm down Valerie the only way your going to be able to help them is if you focus your energy on figuring out what's amiss.' A small smirk appeared on her face. 'Then you can show those ghosts not to mess with your people.' Relaxed after giving herself the peptalk she strode over to where the Fentons & Youngbloods had moved a RV.
Maddie's attention was entirely focused on her computer as she typed in codes and carefully looked over their scans of the transparent blue dome. "If my calculations are correct some one reverse engineered the shield so that it works not on ghosts but humans now."
"So I figured." Valerie said with her eyes deepening in a scowl.
Danielle Fenton, Danny's clone cousin, and the adopted daughter of the Fentons tapped her chin trying to understand things. "So did the Ghost Punks design this?"
Her husband Youngblood, the prince of pranks, snorted with shake of his head. "I doubt it the only thing those dweebs were ever good at was creating random mayhem. I've never even seen them make the weapons they used."
"Probably something given to them." Maddie said thoughtfully surmising through things. "If this ghost or person keeps giving this stuff out we could have a major problem on our hands kids."
The Red Huntress's fists clenched. "The point right now is we focus on the matter at hand. We need to find some way into there and fast."
Maddie nodded glancing to her husband who was already typing in the different codes that would help them get a better understanding of things. "Jack what is your analysis so far."
The usually bumbling Jack Fenton was gone replaced by a focused ghost hunter. "Near as I can figure this thing is a prototype which means there might be a weak spot in the inner armor of the shield like the ghost shield had. But I can't get a fix on it yet."
Just as Valerie was about to offer her input her wrist communicator went off. Buzzing in its loud irritating distress signal. The Red Huntress's eyes narrowed as she hit the intercom button. "Talk to me."
A scratchy voice broke in from the other line. "Commissioner Gray" They said using her professional name "there is a break in progress as New Tech. We aren't getting any response from your husband's security."
"This day just keeps getting better and better." Valerie said sarcastically then sighed. "Send a squad out and I'll see if I can make it there soon." Turning to the group she was hesitant while her husband's company was important, her family currently trapped in the dome was more so. Her hands were tied on a decision it was either stay here out impulse or do her duty.
Danielle solved this problem for her. "Youngblood and I can go check out the disturbance for you. Right pirate?" she said playfully punching her husband in the arm.
"Yeah sure." Youngblood grunted then a small smirk grew on his face. "Sounds like a lot of fun and wicked action. I'm game." He was still a child at heart in a lot of ways.
"Thanks guys." Valerie said with a smile. A serious look replaced on the huntress's face. "Okay you two head down to New Tech and check on this disturbance if you have any trouble use these." She tossed them each a wrist watch with the official GPA logo.
The pair nodded. Two rings of light emerged from Danielle's torso spreading out and she transformed into her alter ego Dani Phantom still dressed in practically the same suit as when she was younger minus there was no belly showing, and she had a full figure now. She took to the sky only turning once to see if her husband had caught up yet. Youngblood grumbled slightly about being once again upstaged by his wife but she winked good naturedly and blew him a kiss. To which he smirked taking to the sky to chase her. The two laughed as they took off towards New Tech.
A cold chill had settled around New Tech as the nameless ghost floated through the halls, smirking with satisfaction seeing that all the humans were currently incapacitated. This gave him just the amount of time he needed to implement the next stage of his plan.
"Silly mortals." He cackled going towards the elevator. "You barely put up that much of a fight and your boss calls you a well oiled machine. Tisk." He had gathered much from the different employees of New Tech but it was not enough. Which was the very reason he'd come here to the heart of its operation.
He was a patient ghost and knew his plan would take time it probably could take months. "But when I'm done the human race will no longer be the dominate species on this planet." Yes this would be tricky but he knew it would work fine. Why else would he keep over shadowing those disgusting creatures if not to reap so kind of benefit from the experience.
The elevator doors opened abruptly and he turned from his thoughts of the future to the task at hand. The office of CEO Tucker Foley lay right in front of him. But he knew for a fact it wouldn't be that easy to get into. Having skimmed hard through the blue prints of New Tech. Carefully he produced a small device from his position in the shadows tossing it right at the door. The little thing was shaped like a lizard and wrapped its mechanical body around the door handle. Little numbers came up and the countdown begun.
An explosion blasted through the room causing him to duck. Loud alarm bells sounded and a neon green light begun blinking. "Just perfect!" he snarled. There had been nothing in the plans about that particular alarm.
Flying to the room he went for his aim Mr. Foley's desk and quickly accessed his computer. Typing in the codes he siphoned from the technician Julian's brain he got access to the main network. Using the mouse he guided it carefully to a folder called GVHPA Doc1 and pulled out a memory chip from his pocket, and forced it into the computer. Clicking a few more buttons a green set of letters appeared on the screen.
[Download commencing estimated time ten minutes]
The mysterious ghost rolled his eyes and sat back watching the screen as it slowly fed the information from the hard drive to his chip.
Inside the dome things were not going well. Lol and Rook had the children cornered near one edge of the portal as far away as they could get from the tussle between Danny and Butch. Unlike the average adults, the teens were actually handling the situation a little easier since a lot of them were born around the time ghosts begun to populate the city. Some of them weren't however all that okay with everything. The two ghost punks hovered over their quarries with their blasters aimed at the ready.
Now that they had the children in one area they honestly did not know what to do. It was Butch after all that made most of decisions not them. And there were just so many young teens and kids staring at them with wide eyes it was a little unnerving. Still they had a mission to do and they needed to come up with something to cause some mayhem or they feared Butch might take his frustration out on them later.
"Any ideas?" Rook asked his partner.
"Uh…" Lol made the ultimate decision purely by accident when he squeezed too hard on his gun activating the trigger. It spat out a silver metallic ball that went for a direct aim at a nearby adult who had been making their way to aid the children, it slapped right into the human and evaporating into mist. The mortal moved about in an odd circle holding his head and groaning till it spun around in a circle and plopped on the ground.
A few of the teens let out a gasp then looked at the ghosts who stared back at them then Rook smirked. Taking aim he pushed his own trigger and balls shot out from the barrel right at the children who screamed out in panic and ducked away, though not all of them were lucky in this case two went down. "This actually is kind of fun." He admitted but his gaze was drawn to one group of adults a very particular group some of them members of Team Phantom. They were up to something.
No one had noticed Alicia sneaking away from the group. She ducked behind overturned picnic tables, rolled in the grass, and army crawled all the way to the pile of smoldering presents. She took no heed to the mayhem (having come to expect it on nearly a daily basis) and was determined to retrieve a particular gift before it got ruined. Her dainty hands tore through the packages throwing them this way and that.
Since she wasn't watching where she was aiming one of the present clunked Rook on the head. He yelped and turned around to face the girl. Not realizing it was strange that he was affected by the present it should have phased right through him. He aimed and clicked the trigger causing a ball to shoot directly towards the busy human.
Adrian happened to be near the vicinity having finally noticed she was gone. So when he saw Rook aim his gun he grabbed something small from his pocket and strapped it on shooting a beam of energy directly at the oncoming ball.
Only after the explosion did Alicia finally notice the danger, and she sheepishly smiled at her friend. "Thanks Adri if that thing got me I'd be down for the count right now."
He shrugged stuffing his custom made fenton wrist ray back in his pocket. "Now we're even." Adrian's eyes narrowed. "I can't believe you'd do something this stupid 'Licia putting yourself in the line of fire like that. You know the Fenton-Foley rule 'Stay in a group or at least have someone else with you.'"
"Well excuse me Mr. Protective but I was trying to retrieve something very important." She snapped.
Adrian looked at her incredulously. "What could be more important than obeying our parents Ms. Goodie Goodie?"
"YOUR PRESENT ADRIAN DEVIN FENTON!" Alicia shouted then folded her arms over her chest with a huff. "I spent a lot of time trying to find you the perfect gift and I'm not about to let it be ruined by those jerks." She then went back to digging.
A moment of silence fell over the two as they ignored the constant uproar in the background. Adrian's eyes softened as he frowned. "'Licia your life is worth so much more then a stupid present'. Besides…" he looked around and added dryly. "I think I'll remember this Birthday either way."
"Too late I found it." Alicia said with a grin now holding up a small package wrapped in sunflower patterns. It had her signature folding style and a big black bow on top. Adrian couldn't help but smack himself in the face about her one track mind. She tucked it under her arm and then gave him a side hug and pat on the shoulder. "Thanks Adri' that means a lot BF'."
"Guys there you are!" They both turned to find a wild eyed Hugo coming towards them. He seemed nearly out of breath which was different for an athletically fit young man such as himself. But they both knew unlike themselves he was not used to ghost attacks. "We need to get to shelter quickly." He grabbed Alicia and Adrian's hands without another word and they were off in a run.
Adrian had the hardest time out of the three keeping up. As he looked about more concern hit him. "Where are my sisters?" he asked Hugo since he seemed to be the most informed on everything.
"Back at a picnic table Jennifer's leading the others in a ghost drill." Hugo responded.
Ah yes the Ghost Drills. They were his grandparents own invention and since the disasteriod incident they were a continuously ran by Amity High and every district of the nations schools. Sure enough as they reached the area they saw Jenn's Best Friend Chloe handing out various shields and child safe equipment that the Fentons out of habit had brought to the party. Jenn stood in the middle of the small crowd (which thankfully did not consist of any of Malcolm's A-Listers who must have avoided getting caught in the shield). She was confidently instructing everyone on how to use the gadgets they'd been assigned to.
"-and this is a Fenton Pen-o-matic Shield." Jennifer held up a small pen. "To activate it click button on the side." She did so and a beam of enery projected out. "And the shield will protect you from most attacks." She smiled slightly when she saw Adrian and Alicia approaching but turned her face back into one of business. "Any questions?"
"Yeah I've got one." Said a kid in the back that happened to be Chloe's black hair little brother.
Jennifer sighed. "Yes Brandon?"
"When do we get offensive stuff? This stuffs all for defense. We can't fight ghosts with it."
Half of the others looked at her too with now narrowed eyes. "Yeah." "He's right." "When do we?"
"Uh oh Jenn's going to get angry now." Alicia whispered.
Adrian nodded. He had to agree with that. If there was one thing Jennifer didn't like it was people going against the spoken word of their parents. Or trying to get involved in something they shouldn't.
"This is no game." She said sternly in a cold voice that made them all stare at her. "We're not here to be some kind of superhero that's what my dad Danny Phantom is for. Now tell me do any of you have ghost powers?" she asked.
All of them did not respond but scratched their heads looking blankly.
"Then we don't get involved." Jennifer said in a firm tone. "Only other person who should is some one trained to handle an offensive weaponry. We stick together and use the emergency equipment only and that is that. Got it?"
They all nodded not finding any room to argue. Even Brandon Baxter the instigator of the whole argument backed off.
"Good." She said with a sigh then adjusted her stance to a more relaxed position. "Now it appears we're safe we just need to stay behind here until the specter notices we're gone."
The older ones were still unnerved by the way the eleven year old commanded attention but they couldn't argue with her. Adrian was impressed his sister was becoming more and more of a leader. She even could handle people three years her age. Glancing about he tried to find a glimpse of his littlest sister. But not a sign could he see of his perky sibling. He couldn't help but get worried. With a frown he turned to his sister. "Jenn?"
Looking up at her brother the eleven year old barely blinked. "Yes?"
"Where's Lil?" he asked still looking about the area.
"Lilith is-" Jennifer's eyes darted back and forth then she gasped. "Oh stars no!"
Adrian's fist clenched as he guessed the rest. "She strayed from the group… again?"
"Hey it wasn't my fault I was busy getting these guys to safety." Jennifer said panicking. "We need to find her now!"
"No kidding a Fenton kid all alone with no weapons is a prime target for any ghost." Adrian replied dryly. It wasn't a compliment either it was a statement of fact. In the fenton siblings eyes it was no good to attract ghosts attention, which they generally did, and he had every reason to be concerned for his little sister. She could easily get distracted, and no matter what kind of situation they'd gotten into (thanks to their dad's identity) and she continued to not get the meaning of danger. There was no telling what kind of situation their naïve sibling was in.
It sat there in all it's culinary fine goodness. Something baked so tenderly with love and care. A complete masterpiece to any sugar lover's eyes and it was alone with no guarding it. Lol couldn't help it the temptation was too much, he may be a ghost but he could still appreciate the sweet taste. He sank his teeth into the untouched birthday cake. "Mmmmm…" he said with his mouth full of chocolate and marshmellowy goodness, and the black liquorish frosting just hit the right spot. His tail wagged as he soon his mind was completely distracted from the thought of following Butch's orders. He even tossed weapon gun on the ground with not another thought a mind filled with lots of sugar.
"GET AWAY FROM THAT CAKE!" Shouted a loud female voice.
Glancing up with his face covered in black frosting, and brown chocolate Lol tried to pinpoint the source of the disturbance. When he found nothing that gave him an idea of what it was he shrugged and went back to chowing on the cake.
"You asked for it you big bully!" The voice cried.
Lol only had enough time to say. "Wah?" before he was pounced on by a ball of raging energy, a small redhead, freckle face cute little girl with blazing blue violet eyes attacked him.
Little Lilith Fenton one of the sweetest kids you've ever met did something quite unlike herself she jumped on the ghosts back and held on tight as she hit him hard with his tiny fists. "You leave my brudder's cake alone that's his!"
Lol blinked surprised that she was telling him what to do. "Buh…"
"NO buts he gets the first pi- slice!" Lilith snapped with a growl she hit him hard on the head and without knowing it right on a tender spot.
"YOW!" Lol yelped as he tried to get the child off him.
But Lilith was determined to teach him a lesson and she held on hard, having not an ounce of fear about what she was doing or realizing she was fighting a ghost that should have been able to phase away from her. The ghost punk started to fly away from the cake bucking as he struggled to get the littlest Fenton off his back. By now he was petrified of the kid who he should have been able to take on but his brain wasn't completely there to do so. So instead he started screaming like a little girl.
This was something Sam Manson-Fenton hoped she'd never have to face. But here it was. Begrudgingly after their pleas to help in some way she handed her parents ghost gear. Her mother Pamela received an ecto lipstick blaster, and her father Jeremy a fenton wrist ray. She then instructed them on how to use the devices and watched the after affect. Granted her dad wasn't bad with his aim but her mother was a hopeless cause. Still seeing they were okay and were keeping Rook a bit distracted she turned to Tucker, Jazz, and Lars.
"Okay…" she noticed Rook sneaking up from behind, Sam blasted at him with her own fenton wrist ray. "we need to find some way to get in touch with the others outside the dome. Tucker do you happen to have your PDA on you?"
"Now you know Sam I always have it on me." Tucker said grin pulling out his PDA.
Sam smiled slightly. "Great see if you can contact the Fentons through it."
"Alright I'll try." Tucker begun typing in different codes. "Hmm…uh…" he tried typing some more. "Uh oh."
"Uh oh what does uh oh mean?" Jazz asked having remained for once somewhat silent till now. She couldn't believe how this party was going it was a total disaster. But she saw a bright side to this all at lest she dropped off Hope and Benjamin as a babysitter instead of bringing them to the party.
Tucker glanced briefly at her then back to his device. "I'm getting major interference from somewhere."
"Probably that large cube in the middle of this dome…" Lars said pointing to the beam of light shooting out of it then he went on. "Somehow the electronic frequency is making things disrupt." Allowing his mechanical know how to come out. He wasn't genius but when it came to anything to do with mechanics he was fairly smart in that area.
Jazz nodded catching on. "Yes it's altering the area and around us thereby subduing people." Glancing at Danny and Butch fighting she hadn't seen the ghost or the halfa go intangible once. "But it's also making everything in the vicinity solid including the ghosts. Which means there is probably a glitch somewhere in it's programming?"
Now having an idea of what they were facing Sam's eyes narrowed. "Tucker you, Jazz, and Lars try to figure out what can make the shields go down."
Tucker glanced up at his friend. "What about you?"
"I'll…" her eyes narrowed zeroing in on the mess her mother was making not controlling her laser lipstick very well she winced. "go help my parents keep the ghosts distracted." Glancing up at the sky as she went her thoughts went out to her husband 'I hope you can keep him busy Danny.'
After flying a short distance from his fight with Phantom, Butch glanced about to see how his men were doing. He bulked almost loosing his concentration as he saw Lol being beaten mercilessly by the halfa's youngest daughter, Rook engaged but not winning against Phantom's wife, and two other humans. He also noticed none of his minions were taking care of the kids. 'Can't anyone do something right.' He thought with a groan.
Butch missed Topkick that muscle bound Asian ghost would have kept Phantom's mate busy and then Rook would be after the kids not going up against people with years of experience. 'No I'm not down yet that ghost gave me a couple more gadgets one of them is bound to up my chances of winning.'
Digging through the bag once more he pulled out a new gadget if he remembered correctly from the ghost that gave it to him it was.
"…A heat sensory seeker it will go after any human in the vicinity but stay away from ghosts." The shadowy figured said still evading Butch any glimpse of what he looked like.
Butch was a bit intrigued and at the same time perplexed. "How come?"
"Because we ghost are beings of cold energy mortals are warm blooded. Now it's not fatal to any humans but it has the potential to put them to sleep for at least six hours."
"Good enough for me." Butch said with a smirk.
His face matched his last memories expression as he followed the procedure and hit the small dial on the top of the egg shape device. It beeped quietly forming rapid beeps as it begun to try to escape his hands. With a snicker he let it go and it burst forward with inhuman speed towards its target some warm blooded human. Then he tossed out more till at least a dozen different shaped missiles headed for the humans
As he watched a beam of green energy hit Butch in the chest driving him right into the ground. He pulled himself up and growled pouncing at Phantom with his own hands glowing in electric blue ectoplasm.
So far Adrian was having no luck finding Lilith it was like she'd disappeared. But that wasn't possible still the area that covered the dome was a long distance so there was a chance she was further in. Alicia, and Hugo trudged behind him just barely able to match his pace. When he was on a mission it was like he had been possessed by someone with super strength, agility, or speed depending on the situation.
He cared that deeply about his siblings. Adrian after all was the oldest and he needed to look out for his younger sisters. As he was about to change directions a whooshing sound brushed right near his ear he was barely able to duck and roll out of the way when a small missile exploded nearby.
"Oh boy." Adrian said as he found himself again faced with another one he took off at the fastest speed he could leaving his friends in the dust.
Hugo and Alicia were taken by surprised with that. "What just happened?"
"A large missile went after our amigo and he ran like a pollo." Hugo replied to her comment.
Alicia sighed. "We'd better go help him."
Her friend was about to nod when he shook his head and blinked seeing what was behind Alicia. "Uh might not be the best idea Alicia."
"Why?" she asked not believing that her friend wouldn't want to aid their best friend.
Hugo gulped. "Many missiles heading right for us we need to ejecutar now!" he grabbed her hand without another word and practically dragged Alicia away in the middle of this she noticed the silver seekers heading towards them and matched his pace.
Alicia barely having time to throw herself on the ground in turn making Hugo fall down as well.
Meanwhile Adrian was having a hard time evading this particular seeker no matter how many people came into view it seemed fixed on him. "I hope this has nothing to do with the small amount of ghost DNA I inherited." He said dryly as he continued to jump over various obstacles including random smoldered presents.
Finally he noticed a punch bowl and got an idea. Dashing towards it he jumped quickly over it and the missile kept its aim steady but hit the bowl in the end shattering it to pieces. Despite the situation Adrian winced knowing that was his Aunt Jazz's good china. She was not going to be happy about that. 'But that's what she gets for bringing it here.'
A sniffling sound caught his ear he looked under the table to find to his surprise Paige Lewis shivering with fright the blond hair girl looked close to tears. He didn't know if this kind of situation really called for that screams of terror yes but shivering and crying he wasn't sure. "You okay down there Paige?"
Paige bolted upright hitting her head on the picnic table roof, she yelped but then rubbed her head, and nodded slowly, then shook it back and forth. "No I'm not okay… there's…."
"Yes?" Adrian asked expectantly.
"Ghosts out there!" she exclaimed looking around even more wild eyed then his friend Hugo.
"Oh is that all I thought that the heat seekers were more of a problem." He said dryly.
Paige shook her head rapidly. "No you don't understand Adrian… I'm not good with ghosts I…." she sighed as if admitting defeat. "I'm afraid of them."
Adrian was surprised well that was a new one. But he sighed and gently grabbed her hand. "You don't need to worry about that here those ghosts aren't really anything that terrifying in fact they remind me more of bullies, trust me on this one." He said dryly. Then he turned his attitude into one of business which he'd adapted from his training with his grandparents. "We need to get you to the others. We've got a little shelter there you'll be safer."
She sniffled then nodded, allowing him to take her hand. "Alright."
Adrian scanned the area as he tried to pinpoint the exact hiding place Jenn had picked out. Seeing what he assumed to be her makeshift fortress he begun to guide Paige carefully towards it ducking and running. As they went he could feel his body getting warmer almost like he was in a sauna. He pressed on but his current partner noticed the after affects.
"Are you sweating Adrian? It's not even that warm right now. Why are you doing this?" Paige asked growing concerned for his well being.
Adrian couldn't answer this but he could feel beads of sweat coming down his forehead yet as odd as it might sound it didn't feel like normal sweat. "I…" he panted. "have no idea." Why was he sweating this just wasn't right he knew that this wasn't normal especially for him. But he could feel the heat rising in his body to an almost unbearable tempt.
"Adrian look out!" Paige yelled.
He had no time to turn around before he found himself shoved to the ground by Paige. The missile flew straight over them and hit a nearby tree exploding. Adrian breathed a sigh of relief, a little coldness in his body now and the heat was slowing down. Only now did his cheeks start burning when he noticed the position he'd found himself in.
Paige blushed madly and rolled off of him. Adrian didn't say much else but brushed himself off and held out his hand which she gladly accepted and they both made their way back to the makeshift shelter Jennifer was working to fortify.
Blast of ectoplasm met each other in unison. As the two specters fought for control. Danny was beginning to gain the upper hand having been trained in ghost fighting for a least half of his life, while Butch himself had barely any experience in that area and relied on his confidence and ego to win. While this was all good in the end the halfa was winning because of his strength and intuition.
The halfa sent a left hook his way and Butch was not able to evade it. He was sent back into a nearby tree. The ghost then attempted a brute force attack at halfa trying to push him back but Danny was ready for it and retaliated with a blast of ectoplasm right at his gut. The Leader of the Ghost Punks clutched his side in pain gritting his teeth.
Nothing was working now even his newest attack had seemed to be useless since the stupid devices exploded on impact with the first thing they touched. He sent a whip of blue energy at Danny it wrapped around the Halfa's arm but the hybrid grabbed it and pulled it off sending a blast of his own energy through the make shift weapon. Butch screamed out in pain and moved as far he could away from the peeved hybrid.
'Come on one of these doohickeys has to help!' Butch thought as he dug through the bag with fast pace. But Danny was quicker shooting his hand with ectoplasm causing him to drop the bag as it fell he dived for it but the halfa was quicker and got a hold of it first.
"I'll be taking that Butch." He said pulling out his thermos to suck up the evidence.
Things were looking up now for Danny his opponent was starting to run out of moves as he predicted and the tides were turning.
As the letters appeared on the screen and the code begun to make sense Maddie's eyes widened. "That's it!" she exclaimed.
"What is?" Valerie and Jack asked at once.
Maddie's eyes didn't leave the screen as she pointed her gloved hand at the letters. "There." She pulled up a three dimension of the human shield. "Right in sector three dash five is a hole that's letting in energy." She then nodded to the screen. "Not only that but the shield still has some of its old faults that the being who messed with it failed to fix. It's still projecting enough energy to make ghosts within the shield tangible."
"So it's affecting Danny too?" Valerie asked taking things in with a critical eye.
Maddie nodded. "Precisely it's not too harmful but it makes this a lot easier." She turned to her husband. "Jack try and contact Tucker's PDA through that rip. I believe I know how to disable the cube."
Sam had to admit her parents weren't doing too badly now that they'd gotten the hang of their weapons. Which was good because they were now having to deal with the odd bombs Butch threw their way. Surprisingly enough they exploded each time just as they touch the items. They were ghost made probably then. 'Which makes this a whole lot easier.' She thought.
Her son's two friends appeared out of nowhere both trying to escape another seeker. Hitting it with her wrist ray it blew up immediately.
Alicia turned and gave her a grateful look. "Thanks Mrs. Fenton."
She nodded. "Think you kids can use these?" she tossed them each a wrist ray from a nearby box.
Of course Valerie's daughter smiled brightly. "Absolutely Mrs. Fenton!"
"I think I can manage." Hugo said with a nod.
"Good I need you two to stay on guard with my parents till your father, Alicia, can get in contact with the others outside the dome."
She nodded with a determined look. "You can count on us."
Sam left Hugo and Alicia facing each other back to back as they hit the seekers with the weapons. Naturally the Foley's daughter was a clear shot and had no trouble at all but Hugo had some difficulty despite this he managed. Coming over to the growing science convention she tried to get an understanding of what was going on.
"Any luck contacting the outside world?"
Tucker didn't look up from his PDA but shook his head. "No we're still having problems. Wait…" he, Jazz, and Lars moved in blocking Sam's view a little. She would have chewed them out but she knew it was important to get this done.
"Come in this is Jack Fenton calling Sam and co come in."
Tucker handed Sam the PDA. "We read you."
"Yeah but the reception is a little scratchy." Tucker concurred. "If I can adjust the signal." He reached for the buttons.
"Don't touch anything." Valerie cut in. "We don't know how long this will hold."
Tucker brightened with a grin. "Sweet heart is that you."
"Always my techie." Valerie replied then her tone took on a different seriousness. "We managed to isolate the disturbance in the shield. You might…"
Jazz cut in starting to understand more and more. "Be able to cause a disruption that…"
"will devastate the shield." Lars finished.
"Right I forgot the two geniuses were there." Valerie replied with a snort.
Lars shrugged. "I'm just good with mechanics it's Jazz whose the genius." He gave her loving smile, which caused her to blush.
"Back to the matter at hand." Maddie spoke up. "I need you to get as close to the cube as possible. Although the outer part is working against humans the inner still functions as a ghost shield."
Sam nodded and handed the PDA to Jazz who with Lars and Tucker walked towards the cube. She couldn't hear everything they were saying but she watched as Tucker's fingers now covered with ghost proof gloves carefully worked through the wires. As Jazz instructed him on things and Lars pointed out some parts the techno geek was unfamiliar with. They worked like a nearly well oiled machine. Soon a fizzing went over the shield and Sam watched in triumph as the blue ghost shield slowly shattered finally reconnecting them with the outside.
As soon as the shield was down Valerie Gray-Foley rushed in like a caged bull. Swooping in on her glider her eyes darted about looking for her first target. She then aimed her cannons directly at Lol. The littlest fenton fell off the ghost punk and landed on the soft grass nearby. Completely enthralled in the action she cheered Valerie as she watched her take on the ghost.
Lol was already in panic thanks to the mini-Fenton so he was unprepared for her attack. If she was bad enough now he was really over his head with this particular ghost hunter. Instead of facing his opponent he took off as fast as his ghost tail could carry him which wasn't very fast at all thanks to Valerie's glider that quickly matched his speed. Her ray gun popped out of her wrist arm and blasted him out of the sky straight into the ground. The ghost went intangible phasing through surface. After a few moments his head popped, he looked about then pulled himself out of the dirt.
That was when the Red Huntress made her second strike. "Give it up ghost!" She barked at him.
Now shaking and shivering Lol whimpered as he froze still. "I give! I give! I'm done this is no fun!" He held his hands out to her.
Valerie smirked and slapped on a pair of phase proof handcuffs. "Don't worry you'll have plenty of time to think about your actions in Walker's Jail."
The handcuffs themselves instantly glowed green and the ghost found himself knocked out. Valerie's blast shield came up from her helmet as she hovered over her quary. "One down…" she glanced up to see Team Phantom and Lars fighting against Rook, while Danny seemed to be having no sweat with Butch. "Two to go."
A tapping went on by the side of her rocket and she glanced down the see the youngest Fenton Lilith looking up to her with appreciative eyes. "That was so rockin!" she exclaimed clapping her hands. " You disci- punished the cake thief big time!"
Smiling amusedly at her biggest fan Valerie scooped up Lilith setting her on the back of her glider. "Come on kid let's go find your parents." The two of them came upon a fight between Rook, her daughter and Adrian's friend. She couldn't help but smile seeing how Alicia was gradually getting the geeky ghost cornered. "'Licia think fast." She yelled at her daughter tossing her the fenton thermos.
Alicia caught in her arms then looked about only to find her mother being the one who gave it to her. She grinned and waved at her. Then pushing the button on the side of the thermos she held it out bracing herself for impact when it heated up. . It was a known fact that anyone who knew how could use the thermos but half ghosts could handle the sheer might of it better then a human.
"Here's for ruining my best friend's party chump!" she barked. Then the thermos lit up and a vortex spewed out sucking Rook in as a he tried to get away from the beam. It pulled him in and she finally capped the lid.
After being set on the ground Lilith scampered off to find her own family.
Valerie dismounted her glider and gave her daughter big hug. "I'm so proud of you Alicia." she said before she moved her back to look her straight in the eyes with admiration. "You whooped his ghost butt big time I saw you out there you were holding your own well. I think will make a ghost hunter out of you yet." She said with a wink.
Her daughter blushed brightly looking down at her feet then shaking her head. "It was nothing mom I just did what you and dad taught me everything thing was fine." Alicia crossed her hands behind her back "I did what I had to do and that's all that matters."
Valerie shook her head her daughter was unbelievably modest unlike her father or come to think of it kind of unlike her. At least she knew that she was okay.
"And how is my family doing?" came a masculine voice from behind.
"DADDY!" Alicia exclaimed jumping into the arms of her father.
Tucker hugged her back. "A.J.!" he said using his nickname for their daughter. "My little sunshine and Val…" He held her close. "My fiery wife."
"You dog." Valerie said punching him in the arm, then she smiled and hugged him back. "What took you so long?"
He chuckled. "Well you know me I fist had to reconfigure the power and cut off the access grids so they couldn't realign after the shield turned off." He shrugged. "It was nothing to it." The three of them held each other glad to be out of separation again.
Watching the reunion of the small portion of the Foley Clan Hugo smiled softly then walked off to join the rest of the recovery party. He knew this was a private moment for them that wasn't really his business to get into.
Danny shot another blast of ectoplasm right at Butch pushing him back against the shield which soon faded away leaving nothing but air. The ghost punk barely had time to resume his footing. He looked around wide eyed seeing everything he worked for gone. He didn't notice the halfa being tossed an object by Maddie Fenton and waving to her thanks.
"Well Butch." Danny said with a smirk. "Looks like your plans are canned." He meant this literally too because the next thing Butch saw was…
"NOT THE STUPID THERMOUS AGAIN!" He yelped knowing just what it felt like to be in that thing. Only ghosts who were bad ever ended up in there and the occasional minors, it was tiny.
With a nod Danny ignored Butch's attempt to fly away and focused on putting his energy into the thermos. It hummed in an instant and it's mini twister appeared.
"This is not over Phantom I'm going to…..geeeeeeeeeettttttttttt outtttttttttttttttttt sommmmeee daaayyyyyyy."
Danny capped the thermos and breathed a sigh of relief. It was finally over.
He started drifting back down to the ground. Once at level surface a bundle of energy pounced on him hugging him tightly, he couldn't help but chuckle and move stray bang out of his little Lilith's eyes as she clung to him. He noticed Sam and Jennifer approaching along with Lawrence and Jazz but something caught his attention which caused him to worry… 'Where's Adrian?' He asked with his eyes to his wife.
She looked away for a moment with a frown, then gestured towards a beaten path that lead towards their home. This could only mean one thing Adrian had left without them. Glancing around at the destroyed party, Danny sighed distributing his youngest from his arms into Sam's. The rest of the family watched as the halfa became weightless once more leaving them alone.
"So much for the ideal Birthday." Jenn says with a sigh.
"Do you think Adri is okay?" Lilith asked having for once noticed her brother's actions.
Sam patted her youngest holding her close as she looked to Danny where had left. It was obvious he was going alone to sort of his feelings. 'The one I'm more worried about is your father.' She thought to herself. She knew Adrian could take care of himself in this kind of circumstance and will shake it off in the end. But not her husband, not Danny, he'd worked hard on this party to make it special for his oldest and now it was ruined. It was going to take while to brighten his spirits after this. She could only hope he'd work things out in the end.
To Be Continued in Part 4 of
The Unluckiest Number
A/N:
Lots of action and chaos. This chapter was a crazy one to write but I did it and I must say it didn't turn out too shabby. Yes there is a cliffhanger I couldn't resist besides this chapter alone is 21 pages approximately. I had to stop somewhere. Promise you the next chapter is the last of this episode but then we go to the next trust me I have a lot in store for our heroes.
Oooh and as a special treat I've got some pictures of the crew that you might enjoy looking at. Including a Title Card for this episode!
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