Danny’s teeth were chattering. It was summer and yet, the building was freezing. He didn’t want to be here. Danny glanced back at his friends. They didn’t seem like they were having a good time either. Tommy was rubbing his hands over his arms, trying to keep himself warm. Chuckie was shivering violently with fear. Sam was walking slowly down the hall, her eyes darting around nervously, hanging onto Phil and Lil by the hands. Phil and Lil kept glancing at each other, both on the verge of crying.
‘Man you guys,’ Danny thought, ‘why did you even want to come here in the first place?’
Suddenly, Danny froze in his tracks. A small ‘ping’ had caught his ear. Normally nobody would have heard something as silent as a ‘ping’ bounce against their eardrums, but since Danny’s parents were ghosts hunters, he figured it was a good idea to always keep your eyes and ears open.
The babies had stopped too, trying to figure out what was going on with their friend.
“Danny,” Sam started, “are you-,”
Without turning around, Danny quickly said, “You guys, get down.”
“But Danny-,”
“I said get down Sam. All of you. Now.”
“But why do we need to-,”
“NOW!”
Sam did not argue after that. She, Danny, and the babies dropped to the ground. Soon enough a huge explosion came from behind them. Everybody, but Danny, screamed.
“W-What was that?” Chuckie asked in a scared voice.
“A grenade.” Danny answered, sitting up cautiously. “Someone must know we’re here. We have to be more careful.”
As the babies started to stand up, a misty spray slowly started spreading down the hall toward them.
“Hoo?” Steve asked puzzled.
“Is it just me,” Phil asked, “or is anybody g-getting…. sleepy?”
“Y-Yeah.” Lil replied. “I guess it’s n-nappy time.”
Phil and Lil slowly lowered themselves to the ground, lie on their sides, and closed their eyes.
“Oh no.” Danny mumbled, sleepily. “I t-think that grenade had some laughing gas in it. It’s m-making us all t-tired.”
Chuckie yawned. “H-How come we’re not l-laughing instead?” He was starting to head toward the ground.
“No.” Danny cried. “C-Chuck, don’t fall asleep.”
But by the time Danny got the last raspy word out, Chuckie was already fast asleep.
“Hooooooo.” Steve was starting to fall into dreamland too.
“Tommy, Sam, Steve,” Danny started, “t-try not to fall asleep.”
“I’m trying to f-fight it off Danny.” Sam mumbled. “I’m fighting. I’m fighting. I’m l-losing…”
She fell against the floor and went to sleep.
Tommy turned his head slowly toward his playmate. “I c-can’t f-fights it anymores Danny. I n-needs to rest.”
“Tommy, no.”
“I’m s-sorry, D-Danny.” He collapsed, fell on his back, and slept.
“Hooooooo.” Steve fell asleep on Danny’s shoulder.
Danny strained to keep his eyes open. He had to stay awake. He was on his own now. Soon, Danny saw one, no, two shadows coming down the hall toward him. They were coming closer, and closer, and closer. Pretty soon Danny could see the shadow’s creepy, glowing red eyes.
That’s when Danny blacked out.
L L L L
Tommy slowly opened his eyes. He had just had a great dream. He dreamt that he was in his backyard and it started raining. Normally Tommy didn’t like rain because that meant he couldn’t go outside and play. But this was different. Instead of rain falling from the sky, there were Gummie-Dummie Bears! That was Tommy’s favorite candy after Reptar bars.
Tommy was enjoying the delicious treats, until a loud noise disrupted him. It was probably just his Dad working on a new toy again. When Tommy’s eyes were completely open, he couldn’t believe what he was seeing.
That’s when Tommy remembered what had occurred earlier.
He was in a huge, dark, damp basement. There were different weapons of all sorts sitting on many shelves, along with a huge machine with giant letters on it that Tommy couldn’t read. A pipe was hooked up to the wall connecting the machine to a metal frame with a swirling, glowing green vortex.
“The ghosty portal!” Tommy whispered, excitedly. “We founded it!”
Tommy tried lifting himself up, but he couldn’t. He looked down at himself. He was tied to a chair with bright green cables that seemed to glow. Tommy sighed and looked to his left. Sam, Lil, Phil, and Chuckie were sitting in the chairs tied up with the same green cables that had kept Tommy from escaping. They were all still asleep.
Tommy glanced at his right. Danny was tied up and asleep also. Tommy thought about letting his playmate rest until he woke up. But what if the ghosts came? He couldn’t take any chances.
“Danny.” Tommy said softy, nudging his friend. “Danny, peas wake up. We founded it!”
Danny grunted and slowly opened his eyes. “Tommy?” he asked, yawning.
Tommy nodded. “Yes.”
“What’s going on?”
“I don’t eggzactly knows. But those bad ghostys took us right where we wanted to goes.”
“What are you talking about?” Danny asked, with a puzzled look on his face.
“Look!” Tommy pointed to the ghost portal.
“Whoa!” Danny cried, excitedly. “Good going Tommy!”
“Ah, it was nothing really.” He paused. “Hey Danny, how did we gets in here anyways?”
“I don’t know, but-,” Danny gasped.
“Danny, what’s wrong?”
“You just reminded me of something!” Danny exclaimed. “Just before I fell asleep, there were two shadows coming toward me. They must’ve been S.T. and his ghost friend. They probably took us down here and tied us up so we could watch their evil plan unfold right in front of our faces! The question is,” he continued, “what are those two planning to do?”
Tommy looked to the ghost portal on his left. “Well,” he said, studying it carefully, “there’s the portal, which is connected by that tubey thing that goes into the machine, and there’s two other tubey things. One goes into that wall on the left, and the other is just laying theres.”
“Hmmm.” Danny paused for a moment. “That machine is going to open the portal, so that means the pipe on the left generates the machine which means the power source must be in that room. Then the other pipe….” Danny gasped again. “Tommy, they’re gonna let all the ghosts out!”
Tommy gaped at Danny, his eyes wide with fear. “They-They can’t do that! What’s gonna happen to our homes, and our famblies, and our friends, and Reptar? Think of all the ascared peoples there are gonna be!”
“I know.” Danny sighed. “But we’re not gonna let that happen. You wake up the others, I’ll get Steve to-,” Danny cut off, his eyes darting around the room. “Uh, Tommy?”
“Yeah, Danny?” Tommy asked, trying to shake Sam awake.
“Where’s Steve?”
“Huh?” Sam mumbled, rubbing her eyes and blinking. “Danny? Tommy? W-What happened?”
“We’ll explain as soon as you wake up the others.” Danny answered. “We need to get out of here as soon as possible!”
“What? Why?”
“Just wake up Lil, and tell her to wake up Phil, and he’ll wake up Chuckie. We’re kind of tied up at the moment.”
Sam nodded and started shaking Lil.
L L L L
“Come on you guys!” Danny cried, dashing down the hall. “It can’t be too far now!” After Danny had explained the whole theory to his friends, he eventually found a big, rusty old nail nearby that could free them from those glowing green ropes.
Danny had searched for his blue gym bag before they had left, but he couldn’t find it. And honestly, Danny really didn’t care. That bag had caused him many misfortunes all through preschool and kindergarten. He was actually glad that it was gone. The only thing Danny was worried about was what the ghosts were planning to do with the bag and all of the useful weapons that were in it. But he would worry about that later. Right now, he and the babies had to get to the main power source. All they had to do was follow the giant pipe down the halls and they would get to the room soon enough. All they had to do was keep running.
In just minutes, Danny and the babies turned into a doorway with the huge pipe connecting to a small glass dome. Steve was looking at them with his wide eyes, flapping his wings wildly while jumping up and down, and hooting loudly as if crying for help.
“Be quiet, Steve!” Tommy whispered, sternly. “We can’t let the ghostys find us heres!”
“How are we gonna gets him out of theres?” Phil asked.
Danny shook his head. “I don’t know Phil. We’ll think of something.” He started pulling on the glass with all of his might.
Suddenly, a robotic voice came out of the bottom part of the dome.
“KEY CODE PLEASE.”
“Key code?” Sam asked. “What’s a key code?”
Danny looked at her and shrugged.
“KEY CODE PLEASE.” the robotic voice repeated.
Danny glanced down at the bottom of the dome, and sure enough there was a small keyboard in front of him. He sighed deeply. Did villains always have to make things so complicated?
“Okay.” Danny mumbled, aloud. “So, we have to enter a password in order to set Steve free.” He turned to his friends. “Got any ideas?”
They were all silent for a moment.
“Um, a ghost?” Chuckie finally responded.
“A machine?” Sam asked.
“A portal?” Lil suggested.
“One of those tubey thingys?” Tommy said, hopefully.
Danny shook his head and sighed again. “No. None of those would work.”
They all thought for a few more minutes.
“I gots it!” Phil suddenly exclaimed. “The password is Reptar, the biggest, bestest dimnosaur in the universe, that smashes cars, eats buildings and-,”
Phil cut off, noticing his friends were looking at him strangely.
“What?” he asked. “I’m only trying to help. After all, it was a good idea!”
“Yeah,” Lil whispered, so only Sam could hear, “now all we need to do is to learn how to spell all of that!”
They both snickered.
“Come on, you guys!” Danny cried. “We don’t have much time! We’ve got to focus! Now, if I was a villain, what would I put as a password to lock a dome with a power source in it? It would be something that I would expect the least. Something really mysterious.”
Danny thought for at least two more seconds, and grinned. He leaned toward the keyboard and read aloud the letters as he typed:
“O- W- L”
Danny pressed the enter key on the keyboard, and a few seconds later, the dome lifted up over Steve’s head.
Steve flew onto Danny’s shoulder. “Hoo! Hoo!” He was glad to be with his friends again.
“You’re welcome, Steve!” Tommy answered happily.
“Now come on!” Danny cried, quickly walking toward the door. “Let’s get out of here and destroy that machine once and for-,” he gasped.
The babies shrieked loudly. A lot of scary things had happened to the six of them before, but nothing quite like this. Standing right in front of them were two ghosts, grinning evilly.
The ghost on the left leaned toward Danny and whispered loud enough so the rest of them could hear. “Very clever, Daniel! Now give me my pet!”
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