Okay. This story is goanna be partially inspired by Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D in that the team are based on a plane, however the Phantom jet is about twice as big as the bus, though uses the same basic schematics but with 3 extra floors and more rooms on each floor. Silhouette wise it is identical to the bus just 2x bigger. And yes this is ultimate Phantom version of Danny with a similar story to the version from college Phantom but he learnt of his disease at age 5 not 7 and got his powers at age 6 and was captured while he was 7. Rhino was born 2 months before this chapter putting him at age 8 in chapter 1 and he is about the same age Dani physically. Dani comes in next chapter.
Chapter 0, prologue, first meeting
Chicago, Illinois is a nice city in nice places but in others it is quite shady and dark. One such place is where we find ourselves this night.
Hidden among some dumpsters were 4 beings hiding under a pile of newspapers. The top sheet read.
'EXPLOSION AT GOVERNMENT RESEARCH CENTRE.'
Underneath was a white 4 year old dog, a black and white 4 year old cat and a ginger hamster cub (Idk what the word for baby hamster is so for this chapter it is cub. Please correct me if I'm wrong so I can go back and fix it.) All of them were snuggling into a small 8 year old girl. They had found the hamster, named Rhino, in a back alley a month ago. They were runaways.
3 years ago the girl, named Penny, had a happy home, with a loving mother and father but then her father fell into some bad luck and started to take it out on her and her mother, who he killed 1 and ½ months ago. It was at that point that Penny had taken her beloved pet dog and cat, named Bolt and Mittens, and ran as far away as possible.
Her only regrets were leaving her 2 friends, Dr. Kevin Michelson and Dr. James Calico 2 scientists who worked together near her school. They worked in genetic enhancement, attempting to improve on human and animals to create super heroes. An accident several years earlier had given James a cat's eye and with it, despite actually being a charming young chap, he looked pretty evil. In fact they had joked that they could try putting together a show with Penny as a young heroine with Calico as the villain. They even joked that Kevin could play Penny's father, kidnapped by James, as she looked more like him than Mr. Cuoco, her father. She would have gone to their lab but she was afraid of her father and wanted to be as far away from him as possible.
"Well, well, well what do we have here?" Penny jumped up to see 2 grubby men.
"What's a pretty young girl like you doing out at this time?" the second man added as they made their way towards her. Bolt and Mittens made an attempt to grab them but they were thrown aside.
"Pathetic." The first man spat.
They continued on and soon Penny was pinned to a wall and the men's advance continued.
"Hey leave her alone!" A young sounding male voice called out. Turning they saw a boy around Penny's age glaring at them.
"Get lost kid." One of the men said as they approached him. His partner took a swing at him but he swiftly dodged the blow before planting a solid blow to the face. The man crumpled like a ragdoll. Using a spin kick the boy knocked the other man down and landed a hefty stomp to his crotch, the man's eyes bugged out before he curled into a ball to cradle his wounded area.
"Come with me." The boy said to Penny, holding out a hand. She let him help her up and then picked up her pets before running off after the boy. They ran out of the city and along the coastline coming to rest by a large-ish box made of metal in a secluded cove. At this point they finally got a good look at each other. The boy was in light blue cargo pants with a white t shirt on with some red trim and a red oval on the chest. He also wore white fingerless gloves decorated with black detailing and a long brown coat. The clothes were dirty and a bit torn up. He had messy black hair and blue eyes. Despite the terrifying feel he had had displayed when she saw him beat up those guys he now looked nice and cheerful now that he was relaxed. He looked a darn sight better than Penny.
Her red hair was strewn about her head as though she had been dragged through about 12 bushes. Her face was smeared with grime and her clothes ere the same. Her red t-shirt was now torn, exposing her abdomen and missing its right arm. Her skirt was ragged at the end while the stripy leggings below, one ended just below her knee while the other ended about 5 cm above her ankle. Her socks and shoes were long gone.
"So what was it for you?" The boy asked.
"What?"
"A kid your age doesn't look like that unless she's been on the street for some time. So why were you?"
"My dad. He was a nice guy but then he had some bad fortune and took it out on us. What about you?"
"When I was 5 I learnt I had a degenerative incurable disease and, well, my parents were always working o I had nothing to do but learn and, having been born with the ability to slow time, I was easily able to learn everything 2 years prior. Because of this I wound up making a serum to save me but it made me into this super powered immortal half ghost superhero and my parents were ghost hunters in Amity Park. 4 weeks ago I was captured and, experimented on. Then a ghost attacked their facility and, well I had been weakened by them so I couldn't do anything but save myself and run." He said. "Hey what's your name?"
"Penny. Penny Cuoco. You?"
"Danny. Danny Bartowski. Formerly Fenton."
"Formerly? Where did you get Bartowski from?"
"An old neighbour of mine. I used to go round and talk to this old guy Chuck Bartowski who wrote stories about him as a young man with a spy computer in his brain. They made a show about it staring Zack Levi as him." Danny explained. "Now do you have aim or were you just going to beg and hide till you got killed or starved to death?"
"Um the second one I guess."
"Then do you want to stay and help me with this?"
"What?"
Danny pulled out some blueprints from the box. They were plans for a massive aircraft.
"This is the Phantom jet. It is goanna be my headquarters/ living space. Do you want to build and live in it with me?"
"A Plane?"
"More than just that, it also functions as a submarine and space ship."
"Cool. I guess we might as well be in."
"Great!"
"Hey. Do you still have that serum? The one that gave you powers?"
"Yeah. If you like once I know I can trust you your and your pets could have some."
"Awesome!"
And with that a friendship was born that would blossom into something beyond imagining. They had no idea what would happen in the future.
And that's that. If you didn't know chuck Bartowski is indeed a character portrayed by Zachery Levi in the NBC drama Chuck. As for Penny's surname this is a reference to the big bang theory's Penny who also has never had her surname revealed. Although some interesting trivia is that Penny's actress' name was never actually revealed, the fan community has decided that like Charlie Sheen they named the character after the actress but she is never referred to by name except by the animals and show characters, the latter reading from a script and the former only knowing her by this name, we never learnt what her true name May be.
Another interesting piece of trivia is that in barking at the moon we see the drivers of the U-Haul van from New York 3 times. The fat one is who Rhino steals a chip and a map from, they are the vehicle hit by the dirt Bolt is kicking up while learning to bury things and the fat one waves at Rhino when the van is passed by Bolt, Mittens and Rhino in a car with a kayak on top of it. This means that likely they would have arrived at their destination in a similar timeframe even if they hadn't fallen out.
Anyway see you next time.
