Chapter 17: All that Glitters

Hey everyone I'm back with a new chapter. If any of you have seen Ultimate Alien you'll catch a reference to one of the episodes in this. I hope you like it. Please Review and Enjoy.

It was late at night at a large fancy house, as a girl was banging on the front door.

"Let me in! I need to see you." She said when the light turned on. Stepping back, she let out a smile as the door opened only for something to lunge at her.

In the nearby neighborhood, some teens were talking when one lets out a gasp as the girl from earlier was walking by, but she looked like she had turned into a zombie.

At Monster High, things were peaceful Charmcaster and Hex had made the school very interesting. Hex had taken up managing the library after they had retrieved his magic collection for his home and was doing a pretty good job, but he always made sure he had time to give Charmcaster her magic lessons.

The sun was just setting on Monster High as the students were relaxing after a long day of classes.

Drake was drinking a smoothie outside as he watched the sunset when Gwen walked out to him.

"Hey Drake." Gwen said getting his attention.

"Hey Gwen what's up?" Drake asks.

"Why haven't you asked any of the girls here out?" Gwen asks causing Drake to choke on his smoothie and start coughing.

"What?" Drake asks.

"You heard me. You spend a lot of time everyone and I've seen the way some girls look at you, even that new girl Charmcaster stares at you when you aren't looking. And you like them, so why is it that you never take the risk?" Gwen asks.

"Gwen, it's not that easy." Drake said.

"Drake you're a nice guy and I just don't want you to miss your opportunity because you never know when they might get tired of waiting and try to find someone else." Gwen said walking away leaving Drake with his thoughts.

Walking to the Plumber's room, Drake was thinking about what Gwen said.

'I never realized I had so many admirers. I mean I kinda knew Draculaura did but there are more?' Drake thought when he noticed Frankie walking inside.

"Huh?" Walking inside he saw Frankie with Ben and Rook as they made adjustments to the Plumber's badge.

"Uh what are you all doing?" Drake asks.

"Hey Drake, Ben told me about this cool function on the Plumber's Badge. Turns out they have a feature that allows them to locate others." Frankie said.

"Cool any nearby?" Drake asks.

"Let's see." Rook said turning it on to reveal a map where they saw a dot located in town. "Hey we got one."

"Cool, if we get another Plumber to join maybe we can start a program where human Plumbers can go to Monster High and they can help us monsters come out of the dark." Frankie said hopeful.

"Uh better leave this one to me and Plumbers Frankie, if any of you ghouls show up you might scare him or her." Drake said.

"Yeah good point." Frankie nods in understanding.

As Drake and Ben walked out Drake saw Charmcaster walking up to him.

"Hey Drake."

"Oh uh hey Charmcaster." Drake said nervously causing her to giggle.

"I told you before, call me Hope." She reminded him.

"Uh right, sorry." Drake said rubbing the back of his head.

"Where you boys off to in such a hurry?" Hope asks.

"We're just going to find a new plumber to join our school." Ben said.

"Can I come?" She asks.

"Sure." Ben nods as they made their way to Rook's RV.

Along the highway, a girl with brown skin and a school uniform was weakly making her way down the sidewalk until she missteps and starts walking into the highway.

When a truck driver sees her he swerves to avoid her and ends up banging his truck into the bridge above before the truck falls over.

On the bridge, traffic built up until they saw what was the caused and gasp as the bridge started giving out.

"Hope!" Drake panics as she used her magic to catch cars and passengers who were close to falling off.

Activating the watch Drake slams down and turns into Four Arms. Jumping down Four Arms grabs the bridge and uses his strength to hold it up.

"Get everyone to safety! I can't hold this much longer!" Four Arms said as Ben and Rook got the Truck driver out to safety when they noticed the girl walking in front of a car.

"Drake!" Ben yells alerting him.

"Little busy!" Four Arms said when out of nowhere a teen with blonde hair flew in and saved the girl surprising everyone.

"That's everyone." Hope said as Four Arms let some rubble fall on the truck putting out the fire.

Running behind the highway Four Arms turns back into Drake as they made their way towards the new guy.

"I have to get away! I was running and I—" The girl said weakly.

"It's okay Trina, you're safe now, these guys helped you." He said as Ben, Hope, Drake and Rook walked over.

"Your friend's just being modest." Ben said.

"Who or whatever you guys are, thanks a lot. Weird things have been happening to the girls at our school." He said.

"Glad to help. Hey you've got a plumbers badge." Ben said noticing it on his belt.

"You guys know about the Plumbers?" He asks.

"They know more than me." Drake shrugs.

"I'm Ben, this is Rook, Drake and Hope." Ben introduces.

"I'm Mike Morningstar." He said shaking everyone's hands, but when he got to Hope some electricity appeared when they shook. "Wow, that's never happened before."

"Maybe because we both have powers." Hope said.

"That's a theory." Mike said causing Drake's eyes to narrow.

"Perhaps we could meet up." Rook suggests.

"Sounds great, but first I need to get Trina home, how about we meet up at my place?" Mike suggests.

"Sounds good." Ben said.

"Yeah, can't wait." Drake said sarcastically as Mike took Trina and flew off, but little did they know a mark had appeared on her shoulder.

Soon they were all at a large mansion complex. This was Mike's home.

"Mom and her new husband live in the main house. They usually leave me alone, let me do what I want." Mike said showing them in.

"Cool." Ben said impressed.

"After you." Mike said as Hope, Ben and Rook entered but just as Drake was about to walk in he slams the door in his face.

"Wow thanks a lot." Drake said letting himself in.

"Impressive technology." Rook said looking around at all the computers and monitors.

"Some of my dad's Plumbers Gear. I brought it over from his headquarters. I could take you there later if you'd like." Mike said looking at Hope before grabbing her hand and leading her to a monitor causing a cold feeling to fil Drake's body.

"We'd all like to." Ben said.

"I'm patched into the Central Plumbers Monitoring System. Everything that goes on in town I know about it." Mike said.

"So you use your powers and this to help people?" Hope asks.

"I never thought of it like that, but yeah." Mike nods.

"You know what I think?" Ben asks.

"What?" Drake asks.

"Mike should join our school." Ben said.

"Excuse me?" Drake said surprised.

"Uh thanks but I already go to school." Mike said.

"No, no our school is different. It's—" Before Ben could finish Drake grabbed him.

"Uh Ben I'm not sure we should be so quick to tell him about this secret." Drake said. "Don't you think we should get to know this guy a little more?"

"What's to know? He's got the powers, he's got the gear, he's perfect to join Monster High." Ben said.

"Monster High?" Mike asks.

"It's a special school to help Monsters come out of the dark and live amoung humans. In fact Drake is one of the founders." Ben said.

"Wow that's pretty impressive. How do I enroll?" Mike asks when suddenly the power went off an on.

"Power troubles?" Drake asks.

"The electricity has been a little undependable lately, now worries my backup generator kicked in." Mike shrugs.

"That was no brownout. Look at these spikes in the local power station." Rook said looking at a monitor.

"Really?" Mike asks not sure what he was talking about.

"You said something strange was happening in town, this qualifies." Ben said.

"If you need help we all don't mind lending a hand." Rook offers.

"Thanks, let's go." Mike said as they walked out. As Hope followed behind, she looked at her arm and noticed a strange mark on it confusing her.

Arriving at the Power station they saw the lock to it had been picked.

"Watch out, we got company." Ben said as they made their way in to hear a buzzing noise.

"Sounds like something you would hear in those old monster movies." Mike jokes.

"Yeah but real monsters actually think stuff like that are bad stereotypes." Drake said.

"Right, guess I'll keep that in mind when you show me your school." Mike said when they saw a schoolgirl between two giant coils gathering electricity.

Letting out a roar the girl picked up a powerbox and threw it at them.

Acting quick Hope creates a barrier deflecting it when suddenly three more zombified schoolgirls appeared.

"Has Moanica been recruiting again?" Ben asks.

"For our sakes, I hope not." Rook said.

"Those girls all wear uniforms from my school but I don't recognize any of them." Mike said.

As they made their way towards them Mike fires energy bolts from his hands that hits the ground in front of the girls.

"Try not to hurt them, maybe we can reverse this…whatever this is!" Mike said as one ripped a pole out of the ground and charged towards Drake.

"Yeah well, what if they hurt us?" Drake asks as he slams down on the watch turning into Frankenstrike who grabs the pole with ease before yanking it out of her hand. Swinging his arm, he knocks her to the ground.

As one girl rushed towards Ben and Rook, they drew their Proto tools and fires the grappling hook function and threw them at her tying up her arms and legs.

Up in the air, Mike was blasting energy bolts at the two girls but they were evading with ease until Hope used her magic to tie them both up.

As she lifted them into the air, she suddenly got weak and her magic dropped.

Flying down Mike helps her up. "Are you alright?"

"I felt like all my magic was drained from me. But I feel better now." She smiles.

"Take my hand, use my energy." Mike offers as Hope held his hand and gold energy surrounded the two of them.

Raising her hand Hope blasts the two girls knocking them to the ground.

As Frankenstrike turned back into Drake he looked to see Mike raise his hand to finish them off but at the last second, he blasted the pipes above them causing them to fall and allow the girls a chance to escape.

"What the heck was that?! They're getting away!" Drake said.

"Sorry." Mike apologizes as Ben and Rook walk over.

"It's okay we all make mistakes. The important thing is we stopped them from doing…whatever it is they were doing. We'll get better with more training." Ben said.

"We do make a great team." Mike said.

"What happened back there? You looked like you were gonna faint." Drake asks.

"How can I thank you?" Hope asks.

"You could have dinner with me." Mike offers causing that cold feeling to come back to Drake.

"Right now?" Hope asks.

"I'm hungry." Mike said as he escorted her away.

"I'm happy for Charmcaster." Rook said.

"Are you guys nuts?" Drake asks.

"What do you mean? She deserves a guy who treats her nice." Ben said as he and Rook walked back to the RV.

"I don't trust that guy and I don't think you should have been so quick to let him join Monster High." Drake said when it suddenly hit Ben.

"Oh my god you're jealous of him." Ben smirks.

"What?" Drake said.

"You can't stand that Mike is smooth with the ladies because that was your thing and you don't want him to take away your admirers." Ben guesses.

"Wha? What? You're crazy." Drake said with a blush on his face.

"You need to cool off man not every girl you meet is gonna have a crush on you. Just let it go." Ben said as he and Rook walked away.

Eyes narrowing Drake knew there was only one person he could go to.

Back at Monster High, Kevin was working on his car when Drake walked up to him.

"Hey Drake, to what do I owe the pleasure?" Kevin asks turning around to face him.

"I need you to help me break into someone's house." Drake said.

"Whoa, that's quite a surprise coming from you Drake. I thought you were a hero." Kevin smirks.

"I don't trust this guy, he's hiding something and since no one else seems to believe me I'm stuck asking you for help." Drake said.

"This guy must've really pissed you off if you had to come to me." Kevin said.

"Will you help me or not?" Drake asks.

"Okay, but you owe for this Drake." Kevin said.

"Fine, what do you want?" Drake asks.

"I'm gonna wait on that. Sooner or later I might need your assistance and then I'll cash in that favor." Kevin said opening the car door. "Get in."

At Mike's house, Drake was waiting as Kevin picked the lock for the door.

"Gotta admit Drake, I like this side of you. You should have this Drake come out more often." Kevin said.

"Shut up and open the door." Drake said crossing his arm as Kevin opens the door.

"There you go." Kevin said.

"Is Mike home?" Turning around they saw Trina walking towards them. "He hasn't called me back since you and that new girl showed up."

"Trina right? Sorry but Mike isn't here right now." Drake said when Trina looks to see the door was open.

"We're just picking up some stuff for him." Kevin said quickly.

"Then you know where he is, can you take me to him?" Trina asks walking up to them.

"Look he's kinda busy." Drake said.

"I need to see him." Trina insists when Drake notices some marks on her arms.

"Where did you get those?" Drake asks but Trina shrugs not knowing. "I saw those same marks on the zombie girls I fought earlier." He whispers to Kevin.

"I need to see him." Trina repeats.

"Yeah I'm getting that. So what are you saying this Morningstar guy is infecting these girls?" Kevin asks.

"Yes and I think I know who is next target is." Drake growls taking out his phone. "Ben, you and Rook need to meet up with me and Kevin right now."

At an old base by the lake, Mike was walking towards Hope.

"You know beautiful, when I first touched you I knew immediately I had found the only girl I needed." Mike smirks as he opens his hand to reveal the marks.

"Really? I don't know what to say." Before she could even finish Mike grabs her and starts draining her of her energy.

In Rook's RV, Ben and Rook were furious at Drake for going to Kevin.

"Of all the reckless and disrespectful things I have ever heard." Rook said.

"How could you go to Kevin of all people to break into Mike's house?" Ben asks.

"Uh because Drake knows I'm the best at this sort of thing." Kevin smirks.

"The fact is Drake, you've been jealous of Morningstar since the moment we met him." Ben accuses.

"Yeah because he was an arrogant, rich and womanizing piece of garbage." Drake said.

"Who also has a crush on Charmcaster." Ben smirks.

"Wait, wait, wait you like her? I thought you liked those ghouls? Dang Drake you're a player." Kevin said impressed.

"Her name is Hope." Drake corrects. "And you guys are too blind to see he's using her for something."

"If he's really turning girls into zombie why wasn't Trina one?" Ben asks.

"I don't know, maybe it takes a while before the effects kick in." Drake assumes.

"Do you even hear yourself?" Ben asks.

"Mike has been assisting us ever since we found him. Why did he fight them with us?" Rook asks.

"But he didn't. He told us not to hurt them and then he blasted the pipes so they could escape." Drake said.

"Even if you're right we don't know where they went." Ben said as Drake grabs Ben's Plumber Badge and activated the tracker.

"We do now." Drake said.

"Okay when did you get so cool Drake?" Kevin asks liking this more and more.

When they arrived at the base Drake looks to see the highway, they found Trina on was nearby.

"Trina wasn't just wandering around she was trying to get away from him." Drake realized.

"How about you give the crazy theories a rest Drake until we check on them?" Ben suggests as he, Drake and Kevin walked inside to see Mike's skin turning to gold and Hope turning into a zombie.

"Hope!" Drake gasps.

"Okay that is messed up." Kevin said as they ran towards them.

Seeing he had intruders Mike put Hope down and blasts Ben knocking him to the ground.

Growling Drake slams down on the watch turning into Rath.

"Let me tell ya something Morningstar! Nobody and I mean nobody messes with Rath's friends and gets away with it!" Rath declares as he charges at Mike.

Throwing punch after punch Rath tries to land a hit but Mike dodges them all and nails Rath in the gut before blasting him at close range sending him crashing into the wall.

"Drake!" Kevin gasps before touching the ground and turning to stone.

"You guys are out of your league." Mike said blasting Kevin of his rock armor and knocking him to the ground.

"You shouldn't use your powers like this." Rath said weakly as he limped towards Mike.

"Look at you Drake, you have such amazing powers, but you use them to help people and monsters of all things? Monsters don't deserve to come out of the dark. We put them there because we humans know we're better than they could ever be. Why use your powers to help people when you can use them to get whatever you want?" Mike asks as the 5 zombie girls entered from behind him.

Timing out Rath turns back into Drake who glares at him. "You really are the worst Mike."

"All I ever wanted was power and then you brought me Heather." Mike said causing Hope's eyes to widen. "I suppose I should thank you. I know the perfect thing." Mike looks to the large pipes above them and was about to blast them so they would fall on Drake when Hope grabs his arms and started draining him of his powers. "What are you doing?!"

"You claimed I was the one for you? But you didn't even bother to remember my name!" Hope yells in rage as she broke Mike's seal and took her energy back resulting in Mike's skin turning pale.

When she was finished, she looks to Drake and runs to him.

"Hope, you're okay." Drake smiles as she hugs him.

"At least you bothered to remember it." Hope smiles.

"Girls help me. Feed me. Give me your power." Mike orders as the zombie girls made their way towards him but instead of feeding him they took back their energy turning them back to normal while Mike ended up turning into a zombie.

Walking towards him Drake rips off Mike's Plumber badge. "You don't deserve this and consider your application to Monster High denied." Drake said stomping the badge to pieces causing Mike to growl in anger.

"By the authority of the Plumbers you are under arrest." Rook said grabbing Mike and dragging him out.

"Drake I'm sorry for not believing you, you were right about Mike all along." Ben said.

"Thanks for looking out for me Drake." Hope smiles as she pecks him on the cheek causing Drake to blush.

"Come on let's get back to Monster High, maybe afterwards you and I can talk you and your love life Drake." Kevin smirks.

"I wouldn't mind joining in on that." Ben smirks.

"You guys suck." Drake said while Hope giggles at his reaction.