On their way to the hideout, Pronto kept a keen eye on Danny, or should we say the slug that was sitting on Danny's shoulder. He just couldn't understand it, why did the slug enjoy spending time with someone who barely knew anything about this world? But before he had the chance to try and get the slug once again, Trixie unintentionally rode in between his and Eli's mecha, "So Danny, can you explain how you were able to fly?"

"What do you mean?" Danny asked trying to play dumb and clueless.

"You know what I mean," Trixie insisted, "You were able to fly without the need of a jetpack! And how were you able to change your appearance so quickly?"

"Come on Trix, give him some space," Kord tells her as he rides his mecha over to the other side of Eli's, "He just entered a whole new world. His mind must be near the edge of exploding with questions and I don't think you are helping any. Let him get use to his surroundings before we start asking questions"

"Kord right," Eli stats as he jumps into the conversation, "Let's wait until we get to the hideout to ask questions."

"Now that that is settled, can someone please give me that slug?!" Pronto demanded as he pointed to the Ecto Spirit on Danny's shoulder. The slug in question turned to look at Pronto and sent a raspberry his way, "HEY! How dare you do that to the great Pronto!"

"Um...Why does Pronto want this guy so badly?" Danny asked completely confused as to why someone would want a slug so badly.

"He wants it so badly because it is one of the rarest slugs down here," Trixie answered as she looked over at an irritated Pronto.

"But why does someone want a slug so badly, to begin with?" Danny asked not really see the point. Was it because they had different color schemes and people wanted to catch them all? Or was it because of something else? "And how is this little guy so rare?"

"Why wouldn't someone want a slug?" Pronto answered with a question of his own not thinking about how things may be different for Danny, "They hold great power that you can use to dominate your foes! With a powerful and rare slug by your side, you can show everyone that you are not someone to mess with!" then as an afterthought added in, "Plus the are also the key to life. Where ever there are slugs, there is life."

Danny then started to imagine himself shooting a slug at one of his enemies, but couldn't see it working out so well. He then looked over the slug on his shoulder, if what Pronto said was true, then how powerful was this little guy? After a bit it, he turned his attention back to those around him and said, "But that doesn't answer my question on how this guy is rare."

"Well for starters, that slug there is called an Ecto Spirit," Eli started explaining, "From what we know about it, it will only come out when it senses it's fated Slinger has arrived and not let anyone else sling them. And because it is rarely even seen, it is a very rare slug to come across."

"So I guess that explains why he keeps jumping away from Pronto whenever he tries to take him," Danny said in thought as he went over the information given to him, "Then if is true, then why is he happily sitting on my shoulder and not trying to escape?"

"Because you're the one I been waiting for," the Ecto Spirit chirped in delight.

Danny just blinked once again not very sure if he was hearing things, "Did anyone else hear him talk?"

"Don't be crazy, slugs can't talk," Pronto stated as if it was a known fact and waved the question away.

"Then was I hearing things?" Danny questioned mostly to himself. He won't be surprised if he was, barely any sleep can probably do that to a guy.

"Nope," the slug replied with a smile.

"Ok then..." Danny trailed off deciding to question his sanity later when he was able to sleep, "But I'm pretty sure I wasn't able to understand animals before."

"Maybe the slug energy down here is effecting you somehow," Kord suggested, "It might have something to do with you being from the Burning World."

"I'm from the Surface as well if you have forgotten," Eli pointed out reminding his friend.

"Oh yeah," Kord said forgetting about that fact, "But there must be a reason why he is able to understand them."

"It may be something to do with me being half ghost, so the energy down here may be effecting me differently then Eli," Danny thought, then out loud said, "Maybe it having a different effect on me for...unknown reasons."

Kord noticed Danny hesitation but decided to question it later, because right now they had something more important to deal with. In front of them, coming up fast was a roadblock made out of five people wearing black suits with red goggles and their mecha beasts. Seeing there being no way to jump over the roadblock, the Shane Gang plus Danny skidded to a stop not that far away from the opposing group. Eli glares at the group before he asked, "What do you guys want?"

"Dr. Blakk wants the slug that your friend has there," the goon at the fount of the group answered as he and the rest of the goons held up their blasters. Seeing the action, the Shane Gang held up their own blasters ready to defend themselves.

Danny watched as everyone around him held up different looking guns with slugs inside ready to be fired and he started to wonder if these people were crazy. Danny was about to make a comment saying, "Slugs really? Can't you think of something else to fire that may be a bit more effective? Maybe a potato?" But decided to keep his mouth shut for now which was a bit unusual for him because he remembered Pronto saying something about the slugs down here having great power. Plus he was in no position to speak, well he could if he revealed his secret, but he was saving that for another day.

"Sorry to burst your bubble, but we aren't letting Blakk get his hands on this slug just to Ghoul him. So you better leave now empty handed if you know what good for you," Eli declared as he held his bluster up with Burpy inside ready to be fired.

"Not going to happen," the first goon stated once again as he aimed his blaster towards the sky and fired.

Trixie watched the slug being fired off and gained a look of horror and worry once she recognized the slug, "It's a Xmitter!"

"Not good," Eli stated sounding and looking worried.

Danny watched as a dark blue slug with almost black brown backing, light green belly and hones flew through the sky with great speed. After a few seconds, it did a summersault transforming into something that looked like a tadpole with sharp teeth, dark blue body, light green tail, belly and hones, two arms with three almost black brown claws and pink eyes. Once the Xmitter was high enough in the air, it turned into a bright neon green energy ball that sent out a shockwave around it into the surrounding area. "What is it doing?" Danny asked as he watched the shock wave deplete after a certain distance and the slug landing on the ground unhurt.

"That!" Kord cried out in alarm as all the blasters and mechas in the area powered down, "It sends out a magnetic wave that short circuit anything that runs on electricity for a bit."

"I don't really see the point of them using a Xmitter," Pronto commented not sounding worried but more confused, "They shorted out their own blasters, now they can't sling any slugs at us and we can't at them."

Danny couldn't help but groan in disbelief, he was acting like a certain techno geek he knew back home, "You just jinxed us."

"How could I possibly jinx us?" Pronto asked in confusion, "See their blaster are also powered down, so they-" But he was cut off from his train of thought when Black's goons threw their blasters to the side and pulled out some working ones already loaded with ghouls from some cases, "Oh...I see your point now."

Soon ghouls started to be fired at them causing the group to jump off of the mechas and hide behind a giant rock nearby for cover. "What are we going to do?" Danny asked as he felt the impact of the ghouls hitting the ground and rock they were hiding behind.

"How about we just give them the slug?" Pronto suggested sounding quite panicked. In reply to Pronto's suggestion, the Ecto Spirit sent a small green energy blast from its mouth at Pronto's hand, causing the tracker to cry out in surprise. He then turned to the creature as he cried out, "What was that for?"

"We are not going to give them Ecto," the Halfa told him sternly with a small glare.

"Ecto?" Trixie asked a bit surprised that Danny already named the Ecto Spirit.

Danny just shrugged, "I thought it would be a good name for him," then he turned to the Ecto Spirit. "What do you think?"

"I like it," the newly named Ecto Spirit chirped in agreement.

"Great, someone else that names their slugs," Pronto stated as he crossed his arms.

"So what the plan?" Danny asked once again and then glared over at Pronto, "Besides giving them Ecto."

"I agree with Danny, we can't let Blakk get his hands on Ecto. Who knows what will happen when he ghouled," Eli stated, "We need to find a way to get by them or buy us some time until our blasters and mechas are working again."

Just then a blast accorded right by them created a giant dust cloud around them and once it cleared, the group saw that their shield was now in rubble. Danny stood there like a deer caught in headlights as he tried to format a plan. By how the blasters and mechas were still offline, so Danny decided that they won't be back online anytime soon leaving two plans open. One of them was to run the opposite direction to try and escape, but Danny quickly pushed that one aside for they may be already surrounded and the goons could just shoot slugs or ghouls at them to stop them. With that plan not knocked off the list, there was now only one left that he wasn't really fond of doing, but knew that it was had to be done for them to escape...he had to reveal his secret.

With a deep breath, he then turned to his newfound friends with a determined look, "I know a why that we can get out of here, but don't ask any question until we get to your hideout."

"Why can't we ask questions?" Pronto questioned confused as to why Danny didn't want them to ask questions.

"Because I whether answer questions here we will have a less chance of having ess droppers," Danny answered sternly, "Just get your mechas ready to make a run for it once they are online again. Ecto, you go with Eli. You will be much safer with him than being with me for the time being."

Ecto shook his head, "Nope, I'm staying with you."

"Are you sure?" the Halfa asked to give the Ecto Spirit a chance to change his mind.

"I'm sure," Ecto assured him without hesitation.

"Wait Danny!" Trixie called out stopping Danny from taking off, "You can't go out there, it's too dangerous and you have no idea what you up against. It's best if we wait out the Xmitter's effect to wear off before we do anything."

Danny couldn't help but smirk as he replied, "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine. I have been through much worse than this. Just make sure that you guys are ready to take off when the effects were off." then before anyone could stop him, Danny took off into the battlefield.

Trixie wasn't sure what the Halfa meant but before she had a chance to go after him, Eli held her back, "Don't worry about Danny, I'm sure he knows what he is doing. Right now, we have to trust him and follow his plan."

After a bit, Trixie finally agreed and followed Eli, Kord, and Pronto over to their mechas.

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Danny walked further into the battle and stopped a few feet away from the group of Blakk's goons. He stood there holding his ground with a determined look, with his arms crossed and with a confidence look in his eyes. "Looking for something?" the Halfa asked with a smug look and with no fear laced in his voice.

"He has the slug!" the second goon cried out once he noticed Ecto sitting on the Ghost Boy's shoulder.

"Kid, hand over the slug and we will be on our way," the third goon told the boy.

"Let me think about it," Danny tells them, he made a thinking face for a moment and then turned it into a smug smile, "Nope."

"Do you know who you are dealing with?" the fourth goon asked irritated.

"Not really," Danny confessed broadly with a shrug, "But if you are trying to take this guy away against his will, then you guys are the bad guys in my books."

"I don't think you are in the position to talk," the first goon tells the Halfa as he points the blaster at him with a growling Ghoul ready to be fired, "Just hand over the slug and we will leave you and the Shane Gang be."

"Not going to happen black and ugly," Danny replied not dropping his smug looking pose.

Being quite annoyed with the teen's actions, the first goon fired one of his ghouls right at Danny without really caring if he got hurt or not. The ghoul that was shot was a Grimmstone, a Ghoul with a very dull pink front, it's back was burgundy red, it had blue hones and markings, it had very razor sharp teeth and glowing red eyes that made it look evil. When it hit full velocity, it transformed into a what looked something like a bull with very pale ghostly green hones, claws and razor-sharp teeth, it's body was blue that looked almost black, it's stomach was red and there was little thunderbolts by the corners of it's blood red slitted eyes. It came flying at Danny with great speed and Danny jumped into the air at the last second to dodge the speeding Ghoul. Without missing a beat up in the air, Danny created an ectoblast in his hand and sent it at the first goon with sent crashing into the one behind it. sending them both to the ground. The surrounding area then went into an eerie silence as everyone stared at the Ghost Boy in shock, no one was expecting him to do that. He then landed harmlessly on the ground, stood up straight as he smiled at Blakk's goons, "So, do you still think I'm not in the position to talk?"

In response to the Halfa's question, the goons started to rapid fire at Danny not wanting him to get close. Danny dodges each one fired at him only needing to turn intangible a few times as he fired his own ectoblasts and rays in return. After a while, Danny heard the mechas behind him starting to power back up and knew that it was time to wrap things up. He then created a basketball sized ecto ball in his hand and threw it down to the ground created a dust cloud that enveloped the area around him as he jumped onto a mecha beast that was going past him. Once he was out of the dust cloud, he saw that he was once again on the same mecha beast as Eli. "You have a lot of explaining to do," Eli tells the Ghost Boy not letting his eyes off of the road before them.

"I had a feeling you were going to say that," Danny confessed with a small sigh dreading the fate will befall him shortly.

Here's the newest chapter for The Phantom of Slugterra! I hoped you all enjoyed this chapter and can't wait for the next one. Right now I'm trying to decide whether to have this take place when Eli has Doc or afterward, that is the main thing I'm trying to figure out at the moment. I have a few ideas on what kind of slugs Danny would be getting, and I have to say that one of them may just surprise you all. I also wanted to let you guys know that the next chapter for this may take a while, I say this because I want to try and focus on my other stories more and update them...which may be hard... I say that because I got tons of other ideas for other stories going through my head right now...But don't worry, I will try and update this story at the same time but as much as the ones I will be focusing on.

Until next time, Flare, over and out!