The earth quakes grew in intensity since the first tremor and that was almost two hours ago. The Fentons had all waken and gathered in the lab. Jack and Maddie were packing emergency bags for everybody Valerie took the spectre speeder to pick up her dad with Tucker and Sam borrowing the RV to pick up their families. Despite all the negative outbursts they all needed to work together now.
The ground shook again this time the sidewalks began cracking and splitting. Street lights started to fall over and fire hydrant on the corner ruptured powerlines fell to the soaked streets. Amity was crumbling in on itself over the course of a couple of hours. The house rumbled and groaned with another tremor causing ceiling tiles to fall to the floor, lamps toppled from the stands lights glassware leapt from the shelves littering the floor with shards.
"This is insane" Spike exclaimed "My phones not showing this storm anywhere else just Amity"
"Spookiest place on earth Spike, lives up to its name" Dani chided as she tossed another bag into the growing pile in the middle of the lab. Jazz rounded up the last of the emergency food rations adding them to the pile. Jim and Bethany were helping Thorn pack the weather gear leaving Joanie handling the weapons. The Spectre speeder came racing down the basement hatch from the roadside launch. Valerie and Damon emerged packed and ready with some extra ghost hunting gear.
"We're good to go any sign of the others?" Valerie asked
"Not yet" Maddie replied "odds are Sams parents are causing a hold up with packing everything in their mansion" she threw the last bag to the pile before directing others to start filling the speeder with the food supplies, figuring it was best kept away from Jack, Jim and Danielle in the RV. Her attention turned to Danny, still in stasis. They had to evacuate but he wasn't healed yet and the tank wasn't portable. Danny would be safe in the lab, it was made to withstand another Pariah Dark rising but what mother could leave her child behind in any situation much less a town ending crisis.
"Madeline, we need to get going" Joanie told her "where are those other kids with that RV of yours?" she was getting pushy with the others despite her previous outburst in front of them Joanie was starting to push the others into going quickly.
"Jack, any word from Tucker or Sam?" Maddie asked taking her attention away from her sister in-law. Just as she asked though the Fenton RV pulled up to the backdoor with the Foleys and Manson's Racing for the door.
"What in the world has your Danger prone son done now Fenton?" Jeremy demanded "the whole city is collapsing on itself"
"We've noticed prune" Jack shot back "but it's not Danny's fault or even ghost related as far as we can tell"
"Jack is right Jeremy, none of the city scanners are detecting ghost energies" Damon added.
The last of the packs were loaded into the RV and the families began loading up Jack driving the RV and Valerie and Dani in the spectre speeder. Maddie took another look back at her son Dani had offered to stay and wait with him, so did Valerie and while both were capable of escaping if needed given the storm Danielles powers might be needed and Valeries reflexes made her the best candidate to navigate the speeder in the storm. She had to have faith that the lab was strong enough to hold out, his powers made him invulnerable to disasters like this but he wasn't conscious enough to rely on them.
A flash of lightning lit up the sky, a brief moment the town looked like it was midday sun overhead. Both vehicles raced away from Fenton works into the wild raging storm. Maddie glanced in the rear view mirror one last time through the ran "Dani be ready to go intangible when your told, ok" she ordered her youngest. But there was no reply from Dani, "Jack, where is Danielle?" she asked.
"In the speeder with Valerie" Jack casually replied.
"she was supposed to be in here with us for emergencies" Maddie replied "and so she doesn't pig out on the food supplies!"
The ground rumbled again and the RV dropped lower on its right side "Buttermilk biscuits! At this rate Amity will tear itself apart!" Jack cried out as he corrected the RV and moved to the higher ground.
Amity was crumbling from the ground up and the water was washing everything back into the bay. Lightning cracked across the sky, wind ripped brick from motor and the shakes shattered glass and the rain flowed through the streets. Armen returned to the streets his mask was starting to crack and the red glow of his eyes became a blazing beacon. He watched people scurry and flee like rats abandoning a ship. Cars were bogging down in the waters some even stalled out from hydro-lock. One car caught his attention. An older man with greying blond hair driving with a woman who appeared to be trying to give the illusion of being younger than him and a boy in the back seat. A boy identical to reverend Baxter.
It ignited. The fire in his chest, the unquailed fury of revenge "Baxter" he growled through his mask his fingers began to ball into fists drawing out the black aura his gaze fixed on the Baxters car.
The hood and fenders crumpled like an empty pop can, the head lights and shattered and snapped. The bumper began to crush inward. Next the tires blew out the doors began to crease and crimp shattering the windows on all sides like confetti littering the ground. He watched the people inside scream and flail, they were trying to free themselves from the enclosing death not that bothered Armen. Reverend Baxter murdered his wife and sunk him to the bottom of the bay among other crimes he committed under gods protection. Someone owed blood and it would be paid, in full.
Dash squealed in terror as the roof caved in on his family pressing himself between the seats and the floor his casted arm wedging between the driver's seat and the center console. "Somebody help me!" he screamed. The groaning and crushing of the engine block was followed by the cracking of the dash board and screens. "Mommy! Do something!" Dash screamed.
A loud roar of an engine raced through the wading waters stopping just in front of the Baxter car and soon after Danielle Fenton phased through the door grabbing Mr. and Mrs. Baxter and flying them over to the Fenton RV. When she returned for Dash his eyes were forced shut and he was crying hysterically. Under normal circumstances, she'd take the opportunity to mock Dash, this was a terrifying ordeal during a disaster. Dani grabbed Dash and brought him back to the RV, seconds later the car compacted in on itself in a block of crushed plastic and metal.
Dani shot back to the spectre speeder when her eyes fell on what appeared to be a ghost with a deer head. Black aura consumed his gangly fingers, she watched him, and he glared back at her she could feel evil, wrath emanating from him. He flickered, then faded from sight. This guy was something else but not a ghost that was certain however there wasn't time to worry about him. She ducked into the speeder and they raced after the RV.
"What was that about?" Valerie asked "you look like you saw something out there"
"I did" Dani replied her gaze still on the window "I'm just not sure what it is I saw he was ghostly, but my senses never went off…and just something about him felt, evil."
"Do you think this storm could be his doing?"
Dani looked back at Valerie with worry in her eyes "actually I think he's the one who hurt Danny so badly"
Valerie clenched the steering wheel as the image of Danny crumbled in that crater and later floating lifelessly in the tank. Then came regret, they left Danny back at Fenton works defenceless and powerless. Her knuckles started turning white she needed a distraction now. "Are the people in that car ok?" she asked through gritted teeth.
"It was Dash Baxter and his family, they're ok, a little shook up but given that their car just imploded on them"
"Several cars on the road trying to get to the evacuation sites and the Baxter's are the ones who got caught up, is that bad luck or Karma?" Valerie asked.
"It's not funny I'll say that much" Dani shot back
Valerie looked at the ghostling with bewilderment "Who was laughing?"
Dani crossed her arms and leaned back into her seat "I am sorry Val I'm not saying you were laughing. It's just been a long day and an even longer night and knowing that Dash deserves a lot of the Karma he gets…the look on his face back there he was absolutely terrified, Val, I heard him yell mommy" Dani told her.
They both sat in silence not even the radio was coming through. The storm ragging on when they finally saw the stadium on the horizon half of Amitys population lined up in the parking lot. A sea of yellow rain ponchos lined up down the city block people pushing and shoving to get in. another tremor rattled the street lamps but this one was different. as the people hurried inside no one took notice of the slowing forming fog that settled at ankle height it was slow forming and never rising, but it was gradually getting thicker.
"Mads, did we pack the emergency ham?" Jack asked as he tossed the last of the ration bags from the RV.
Spike and Thorn went with their mother to find a place in line while Jim and Beth stayed to help Jack and Maddie unload the Rv. The Mansons' were quickly making to hep grandma Ida to the front of the line leaving Sam to help the Foleys.
Tucker tossed his dad another duffle bag when Sam quickly pinched her nose "awe Tucker that's disgusting! At least excuse yourself!" She groaned, fighting down a retched gag.
"hey now!, that was not me" Tucker defended "I'm too scared to let a squeaker slip much less a bomb…" Tucker sniffed the air before his face paled "That's gas!"