As Alex put his phone away, silence returned. Danny cried out in pain and shock as something hard clamped around his ankle. Sam gripped his wrist as she noticed the large hand around the bloody ankle. Skulker turned his prey intangible, dragging them through the ground.
"No!" Danny yelled, too late as he and Sam vanished.
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Yassen had been distracting them. Instead of just leaving, they had stayed and fought, like children.
Alex couldn't believe he fell for something as stupid as that.
"Tucker! We're leaving!" he hissed, getting to his feet. Yassen held a hand out.
"Here, let me help you." He said softly. Alex faltered. Big mistake.
"Dasvidania." Yassen said, before shooting both of them in the chest, knocking them out of the cavern and into the open.
A second passed, and they began to fall, hitting something solid much too soon.
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Skulker laughed as his prey fell to the floor. He hadn't expected to catch two whelps!
"You are lucky, whelp." The mechanical ghost began, "My employer got cold feet at the last moment and backed out. Now there are no rules."
"How is that lucky?" Danny shot back, standing in front of Sam. In a few moments, his powers would be back. Could they hold on until them?
The room had no doors or windows to speak of, they would be trapped. Skulker drew two glowing blades out, one in each arm. He relished the looks of fear on his prey's faces.
Skulker was going to take his time, slowly killing them. He'd start with the ghost child first, for obvious reasons.
He advanced two steps. Danny and Sam took two steps back. Sam had gripped the bat so tightly, her knuckles were white. Skulker feigned a slash with one of the blades, and Sam cried out, madly swinging her weapon. It cracked against the blade. Danny had fallen to the ground and lunged at the ghosts short legs, knocking him to the ground to get him away from Sam. Skulker swung his second blade down, slicing into Danny's shoulder.
Danny screamed. His eyes were tightly shut against the pain; the blade was still stuck fast in his flesh. Skulker slowly dragged his blade out, enjoying the howl of pain. He kicked Danny aside and stood, now towering over the creature he had been hunting for almost an entire year.
The girl flung her weapon at Skulker metallic face, cracking and ruining the left side. Skulker caught the weapon as it fell, breaking it in two useless pieces. He shot ecto energy at her, knocking her into the wall.
"Sam!" Danny cried out, taking a few weakened steps to her. Skulker blocked him with another kick, this time to his side. Danny fell back, rolling away as Skulker made to drag him to his feet by his injured shoulder. Danny felt his ghostly powers flare back into life inside of him. Skulker spun suddenly, sending both blades crashing down towards him.
Danny couldn't help it. He screamed, louder than he had ever screamed before in his life.
"NO! GET AWAY!"
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Something snapped within his body, and Danny was consumed in a wave of pure power. His Phantom powers took over, following his scream. Green waves of energy shot out, slamming into Skulker.
Danny's human scream died out. The only sound that escaped his lips was a terrible wailing. The force of it was shredding Skulker apart; and the wall behind him as well.
Danny's mind was growing weaker, and he only had seconds to open his eyes and take in the sight of green waves of energy, from his mouth, destroy Skulker. The power gave away then, and Danny collapsed, unconscious.
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"We're not dead?" Tucker said, opening an eye.
They had hit something, or someone.
Another ghost. A child.
"Are you alright?" the new spirit said as he set Alex and Tucker safely on the ground. They turned and looked at him.
And he had asked if they were alright! This ghost, with his white-blond hair that went past his feet and filthy rag of an outfit, had the appearance of one who had been starved to death. His large blue eyes held the only color he possessed, he was so pale.
"Are you alright?" Alex asked. The boy waved his hand weakly.
"I saved my brother. Dying was the price to pay for his freedom. I am fine. I am glad he survived."
"Thank you for saving us." Alex said, bowing his head slightly as he added,
"I am sorry you had to be separated from your brother."
"I'll see him again. The two of you need to go though, your friends are waiting."
The boy pointed to the stone wall before vanishing.
When he was gone, the screams began.
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"We need to get through!" Tucker said, pounding his fists on the stone. Alex began punching and kicking the stone a well. A long howl of pain seeped through the rock, bringing tears of frustration to their eyes.
"Sam!"
"We're not going to be able to break through in time; we can't even get through a foot of this rock!"
"NO! GET AWAY!"
A scream, the loudest of all, tore through. It was accompanied by a wailing noise, which soon took over. The wall before them began to crumble, and large sections fell away. Through the dust, Alex and Tucker could see Skulker's huge frame being torn to bits by waves of green power. Danny, as Phantom, was wailing at the metal ghost, destroying him. A moment later, Danny's power gave away, and he fell back to the ground, out cold. The rings of light returned, changing Phantom back into Fenton. Tucker and Alex ran in. Alex ripped off the Specter Deflector and picked Danny up to run him out as Tucker got Sam and carried her out.
"You're not going… that easily!" Skulker growled. He shot an arm out, bladeless thanks to Danny, grabbing and knocking Alex to the ground, dropping Danny. Skulker kicked Danny across the floor, stepping on Alex's hand as he walked after the ghost boy. Alex had probably broken at least one finger, and bruised the rest. The ring was ruined. He didn't care, and instead charged to his feet to run at Skulker and beat him to pieces. He jumped on Skulker's back, punching his head with his good hand.
Skulker's head piece had already been damaged, both from Sam's bat, and Danny's wail, so the whole thing fell off after a few good hits. Skulker thrashed around, punching Alex a few times until the head came off, ending all attacks.
Alex fell off the useless armor, and went to Danny, dragging him out with one arm. Tucker met him at the entrance to help him get Danny out. Sam was leaning against the wall, half awake.
"Danny's alright, isn't he?" she asked. Alex nodded, not really answering as Danny sagged in his arm.
"He better be alright. I broke that bat against Skulker. Danny owes the kid I stole it from a new one."
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"I suppose this means you win, Alex." Yassen said, appearing in a cloud of smoke.
"Good for me." Alex said dryly, ripping off a piece of his shirt and pressing it against Danny's shoulder. "I guess this means that you won't be getting paid."
"Watch yourself, Alex." Yassen warned, vanishing in a plume of black smoke.
Whether Yassen meant to watch out for him or just trouble in general meant nothing to Alex. He was just glad that no one had tried to kill him or the others in the last thirty seconds.
A small disk shot down from the sky, smacking into Danny's chest. The loud whine of an engine met their ears, and everyone scattered, helping each other, as Jazz made her entrance with the Specter Speeder.
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AN: I know it's early for the ghostly wail, but just go with it! ;D I put a character in this chapter that's not from DP or AR at all! Just as a space filler character, but still not mine! I'm going to be evil and let you figure out who he is… It's not really a big deal though; his appearance was a one time only kind of thing.