Chapter 5

A Plan

"Well, we know for a fact that when Black Nova has the Infinity Gauntlet he's unstoppable. We only have a short window before he recreates it." Jade stated.

"How short is that window?" Danny asked.

"About fifteen minutes maximum I'd say." Samantha responded.

"That doesn't exactly give us much time to take him down." Tucker stated.

"No it doesn't. Can he even be defeated?" Sam asked her older self.

"Before he recreated the infinity gauntlet, he was still powerful, but not invincible. Tucker?" Samantha stated.

Tuck once again reconnected to the flat screen through his tablet. His time, various video clips of the first fight with Black Nova and other battles afterwards were shown. Alongside them were stats on said ghost.

"This is all the data we have on him so far. As you can see it's not very much." Jade stated.

"Age unknown, origin unknown, weakness…none. Well isn't that peachy." Sam stated with sarcasm.

"Still the same sarcastic Sam, even when you were a teen. It's amazing." Jade stated looking to her leader with a smile.

"Yeah, I'm pretty proud of it. Anyway, yes, unfortunately we don't have much on him besides his destruction level." Samantha replied looking to the screen. "Maybe we aren't looking hard enough…"

Dan, who had kept quiet for most of this altercation, looked to the screen. Red eyes looking rapidly at everything with a stern gaze. Even he had to admit, just from what he was seeing, Black Nova was a force to be reckoned with. It seemed nothing could cut him down to size. With every hit, he could come right back and hit just as hard. It also didn't help that he could distort the reality around him. Not to mention that damn gauntlet. How were they going to-

"Stop and play back these three clips." Dan stated, pointing to three video clips and startling everyone.

Tuck looked to Samantha, who nodded in approval.

"Do you have something to share, Sweets?" Samantha stated, not noticing the slight rosy appearing across his face.

"As a matter of fact, I do." He replied, looking at the goth woman with a look asking her to challenge him.

"Don't let me stop you then." Samantha replied, holding her hands up in surrender.

"As I was saying, stop these three clips. Notice anything strange?" he asked everyone.

"Besides the whole reality distortion?" Tucker asked.

"Yeah, real big discovery there." Danny stated with sarcasm.

"I don't expect anything less from you than ignorance and oblivious stupidity, so I'll let that go." Dan stated. "Does anyone else notice that when any part of Black Nova is damaged or destroyed it takes a few minutes to regenerate depending upon what part it is? Or that after recreating that gauntlet, it takes even longer?" he stated.

Upon hearing this tidbit of information, everyone turned back to the screen, now with wide eyes.

He was right, that was a re-occurrence with Black Nova.

With a smug look, the phantom crossed his arms and sat down as the realization hit everyone.

"How did we not see this before?" Tuck asked in shock.

"This is the one up we've been looking for!" Jade exclaimed.

"Nice one there, sugar." Samantha stated, catching the phantom off guard for a moment and once again forcing him to fight down the blush that came to his face.

"Mph, well it wasn't like you all were going to figure it out anytime soon." he replied. He'd never admit it, but at her praise he had a small moment of…happiness?

Samantha glanced at him with a small smile. Before turning to the others.

"Okay, this is good. We can work from this. If we can cut down Black Nova bit by bit before he recreates the gauntlet he won't have enough power to create it quickly since he'll be trying to regenerate." Samantha stated.

"And while he's trying to regenerate, I say we hit him from all possible angles with everything we have. However, we can't just go full power at once. If we start out strong, we need to be able to keep it up." Jade added.

"Not to mention we need to be able to cover each other. Like if some of us non-ghosts need a reload. We need the cover and pick up from where we left off." Tuck stated.

"Exactly, so here's what we should do, while all of us are hitting him from all advantage points, Danny and Dan will find an opening to deliver the final blows. Once he's down we may not have long, even with him taking the time to regenerate. It'll be close, but when he goes down, we'll use this." Samantha stated, pulling out a cylinder tube.

"Is that a Fenton Thermos?" Sam asked.

"Close, but not quite. This was made by Clockwork himself. It will keep him locked away and out of time completely. It was modeled after the thermos Danny used to trap Dan the first time." Samantha stated, tossing it up and down in her hand.

"Yeah, he took some real inspirations from your cage to make this one Dan. There's no way Black Nova will get out of this." Jade added.

"And we're sure this'll work?" Danny asked.

"Yes, if you're not sure, we could always try it on you and Dan. See how long it takes before you stop trying to get out." Jade suggested with an evil glint in her eye.

"Yeah, no thanks, but I do have one other question. Does this one tie into the ghost zone?" he asked.

"Nope, once something is in there, it's not going anywhere unless it's released." Samantha replied. "So, are we all set on the plan?"

"Not to be that person, but this plan seems simple. Are we sure it'll work?" Tucker asked.

"Well to be fair, our plans were always pretty simple and had a fifty/fifty chance of going well or not. If anything does go wrong we'll have to do what we always do and wing it. Now, are we all set on this plan?" Samantha asked.

After a moment, there were mutual nodes and vocal confirmations.

"Great, we have a plan. Now that we have that settled and we have until sometime next week, meaning that with the time we have, we need to prepare." Samantha stated.

"But we don't know how much time we have to prepare." Sam stated.

"Then I guess we better get started. Pack up your things, we're heading to the ghost zone." Samantha replied.

"For what?" Tucker asked.

As Samantha opened a portal to the ghost zone, a courtesy of the medallion Clockwork had given her, she turned to the others that looked at her in confusion.

"Training of course." she replied, a sly smile on her face.

Sorry it took me a while again. I'm leaving on the thirteenth for college so I've been busy getting stuff ready. Being an adult can kinda suck, but I'm making the most of it! I will try to get chaps out at reasonable time. Make sure to leave me a review to let me know if you liked it. Peace out everybody!