New Beginnings

Purple Woman

The wolf turned around, looking at Mikey because even now she wasn't completely unreasonable, "What? What do you expect us to do Foxy?"

"We can't just run in brashly," he said, "you know where their base is, so that's a start, but we need to come up with a plan, a rescue operation if you would."

"We don't have time-they could be torturing Danny as we speak!" Phantom snapped with wild eyes.

"It would be for the best, if we run in right now, we could be the one's hurting Danny, not them. Think for a moment."

Fire took a deep breath and nodded slightly, "I know more than just the location." She smirked, "You think I got out by myself because I got lucky?"

Wes grinned back, "Let's go back to the clearing and figure out how we're gonna do this huh?"

They all agreed and started making their way back to the clearing they started from, all except one. Phantom looked back in the direction of the facility and looked after the others, biting his lip as he remembered the note.

Pursing his lips and remembering the stealth training he'd practiced, he slunk off into the woods without a sound, suppressing his signature and keeping away from any thing that would alert Fire of what he was doing. By the time the others got back to the clearing Phantom was long gone.

Fire sighed and turned to them, immediately noticing that Phantom was gone, "Damn it! That stupid prince..." She snarled.

The rest of them finally noticed as well and groaned, Sam muttering something about overprotective ghosts and stupid mate bonds. Wes sighed, rubbing the bridge of his nose.

"Okay...I'm pretty sure the albino can take care of himself, but just in case...let's tweak the plan we come up with to rescue both of them." 'Why do I put up with those two again? Oh yeah, brothers and what not,' he thought sourly.

O.o.O

Phantom cleared the forest and stood in front if the GiW base, glaring as he seen Xena leaning against the side of the building with a smug look. Keeping his guard up, he looked around and found the two of them alone; which only made more on edge.

The blonde glanced up, her smug smirk growing upon seeing him, "Well, well, Project Specter has returned." She commented idly, twirling a knife between her fingers.

O.o.O

Back in the clearing, the wolf girl sighed in frustration, "Alright." She took a deep breath, "Every two hours the guards switch out. We have about 5 minutes and 37 seconds between each switch."

"I can hack the cameras and make a two hour loop," Tucker pipped in, pulling out his phone from nowhere and tapping it with a stylist pen, "five minutes should be plenty of time to get you guys in before I switch out the feed."

"I can sneak in through the vents; where would they most likely keep Danny, and Phantom if it came to that?" Asked Wes, apparently declaring himself the leader. He was looking to Fire for guidance though, so the authoritative air he had didn't aggravate her as much as it could have.

The wolf hummed lightly to herself, "Danny would be in a dark room, I know that. The only rooms without timed lighting are the...play pens." She winced, "They'd take all of the weapons out so he couldn't use them though."

Fire rubbed the back of her neck, "There are only 5 in the whole place to minimize damage to other experiments."

The red head looked over at Sam, "You can get in by teleporting into a supply closet. Those are the only rooms that don't have cameras."

O.o.O

Danny huddled in the same place he's been for the past...hour? Days? He wasn't able to tell time in this dark place. Getting almost to the point of hyperventilating, he debated on whether he should leave his body behind and go looking for the others.

On the one hand, he didn't want to sit around like a damsel in distress, but on the other he didn't know if one of the guards would come in and leave his body defenseless. He automatically searched out the others signatures, and gave a start when he felt Phantom nearby, along with that lying protective signature.

Deciding it may not be a good idea to go there at the moment, he spread his senses out wider, sweating from the exertion of fighting against ectorainium laced walls. He vaguely managed to locate Fire and the others and locked onto them before the barrier made him lose it, snapping himself away from his body with a pained grunt before his body slackened, appearing to be asleep.

O.o.O

Phantom's scowl darkened at the use of his code name, his grim eyes boring into Xena with such malice that she could have burned. If looks could kill, she would've been dead a thousand times over.

"Do not call me that name lowly human. Where is Danny?" He growled.

Xena only laughed, "Now, why would I tell you that?" She asked with a mocking smile. "What's wrong that name anyway? I thought it was pretty nice of them to give you a name at all, Project Specter." Another knife slid out of her sleeve and into her palm, hidden from the albino.

Phantom sensed the knife however and automatically tensed up, "That name belongs to Nothing; I am not nothing."

He narrowed his eyes, green eyes turning icy blue. Xena found her legs and arms pinned to the side of the building with a thick layer of ice to keep her immobile, "Now I'll ask you once more," he leaned in, raising a glowing hand, "where. is. my. mate?"

O.o.O

Back in the forest, Sam bit her lip and looked away with an uncertain expression, "I can only teleport to places I can picture. I can try, but I might not be spot on."

"I can help with that."

Fire's ears shot up and she spun to face the direction of the voice, "Goldy!" A smile lit up her face, but it fell after a second, "You're not really here." It wasn't a question. It was a statement. Her ears went down again.

O.o.O

Back at the facility, Xena was still grinning, "If you kill me, I can't tell you anything." She leaned against the wall, seemingly unperturbed by her current position, "Besides..." the blonde licked a clear coat off of her teeth and spit it in Phantom's face, "why would I surrender when I always have ghost tranquilizer on me?"

"Ugh!" Phantom screwed up his face and wiped at his eyes, but the damage was already done. His face began to tingle, his nerves numbing out as he squinted at Xena in loathing, "Bitch...just as crafty as Fire."

Phantom suddenly smirked, his vision blurring as he fought unconsciousness, "I look forward to hearing the tale about your demise by her hand...My Lady..." the tone in his last words was sugary sweet. He knew that if she was anything like Fire she would find the term irritating as well.

Getting his final jab in, Phantom succumbed to darkness, his core chilling at the prospect of what he would have to go through when he woke up; what he and Danny would both go through before they were rescued.

Xena glared at the unconscious ghost, her nose wrinkled, "My lady? Really?" She growled lightly, a little mad that she couldn't kick him for that.

The green eyed teen rolled her eyes before yelling, "I got him!" After a few minutes a couple men came by and took Phantom away, but not before setting her free.

"Do what you want with him, just make sure you do it when he's awake." She said, rubbing her wrist.

One man nodded, "Understood Agent X. Anything else?"

She hummed, thinking, "Let me talk to him when he wakes up, preferably before you start." Green eyes locked onto the ghost, narrowing slightly, "I have a few questions that need answering."