Chapter 01: The More Things Change
In the town of Amity Park there was a battle going on, one that had the occupants staring in awe from where they were hiding as their local hero Danny Phantom, a teenage Ghost with white hair and glowing green eyes wearing a black and white Hazmat Suit with a DP Emblem on his chest, fought against an unknown enemy who had the same emblem but had blue skin, red eyes and his hair was flickering as if it was on fire.
This town was well known for the daily Ghost attacks that have been happening for nearly a full year with Phantom stopping them and sometimes the Fentons, the World's Most Renowned Ghost Hunters would stop a few as well.
Outside of Amity Park, people thought it was a gimmick for tourist attractions, not knowing that it was all very real.
While they were fighting the Phantom's parents also known as Jack and Maddie Fenton along with his sister Jazz Fenton, his friends Sam Manson, Tucker Foley and his English Teacher Mr. Lancer were tied up to a boiler that makes the Nasty Burger sauce and it was set to explode any minute.
"Why?" The older Ghost asked as he punched Danny while he was trying to get back up sending him rolling across the street. "Why are you fighting me? Time is set in stone, you cannot change what is to come."
Danny struggled to his feet as the older Ghost belittled him. "Because… Because I promised." Danny got out as he coughed out ectoplasm, Ghost blood, in pain.
The older Ghost looked at him in disbelief, before he busted out laughing. "Oh my, this is rich." He said before kicking Danny back down. "You promised? Are you really that childish to believe that a promise can change destiny?"
"Yes." Danny glared at the older Ghost, feeling more hatred than he has ever felt for anyone, reaching past the breaking point. "I PROMISED!" He shouted that out letting loose a scream of pure ecto energy that sounded like a howl of death to anyone who was around to hear it.
The force of the scream shattered glass around them, caused everyone to fear what they heard, and sent the older Ghost flying back a few feet as he looked on in shock.
"Impossible." He got out shaking his head to clear the ringing. "I-I never learned that attack until ten years from now."
Danny flew towards him holding his side in pain. "Looks like the future, isn't set in stone after all." With that he breathed in, making the older Ghost's eyes widen in shock as he realized what was about to happen and he moved to stop it.
But he was too late as Danny unleashed that awful scream again sending him flying into a building with a car causing an explosion that made the building collapse.
When he was done Danny felt his energy leave him, but he was still in his Ghost form before a hand shot out of the rubble and the older Ghost came out, sporting many cuts and bruises with blood pouring out.
"This is impossible." The older Ghost hissed as he fell forward in pain.
Danny narrowed his eyes, staring at this Ghost in hatred. "To you maybe." With that he took out the Fenton Thermos, a silver and green containment device he used to trap Ghosts ever since he got his powers and sucked the older Ghost in as he screamed. "But it happened."
"You think you won, but it is already too late." The older Ghost snarled as he was being pulled in. "I still won."
"So you say Dan." Danny put the cap on the top of the Thermos knowing that the fight with his alternative future self was finally over, before his eyes widened as he caught what he was saying. "NO!"
He turned flew as fast as he could to the boiler that held his family, but he felt his energy leaving him as the timer hit critical.
While he was flying he saw the eyes of everyone close to him.
Jack and Maddie Fenton had proud looks in their eyes as they saw and heard the whole fight, knowing how hard Danny tried to save them and they loved him no matter what. Jazz was scared, but there was acceptance in her eyes as she realized what was going to happen. Sam and Tucker were remembering everything that they went through with Danny since he got his powers and they knew that they wouldn't choose any different if they had a choice. Mr. Lancer had a look of understanding as he saw how one of his students put his life on the line to try and save the people that he cared for.
All of those looks made Danny push harder, but the Nasty Burger exploded before he got there.
The force of it knocking him back through a few buildings and as he struggled to stay awake he felt himself turn back into Danny Fenton, a boy with black hair and blue eyes, before he fell into the arms of unconsciousness.
Danny didn't know how long he was unconscious, but over time he heard voices.
"There's a kid here!"
"Oh God, it's that Fenton boy, what was his name?"
"I think it was Daniel or something."
"… Does he know about his parents?"
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Danny groaned as he woke up the pain from earlier gone due to his enhanced healing as he noticed that he was in the Hospital Room. "W-What happened?" He muttered before he remembered everything. "Oh God."
He tried to get up, but a doctor ran in. "Whoa. Take it easy Daniel."
"My name is Danny." Danny snarled at him before he winced, not wanting to sound ungrateful to the doctor.
But only his parents called him Daniel.
The Doctor held up his hand in a peaceful gesture. "Okay Danny, you need to rest, you were seriously injured."
"I'm fine." Danny told him.
"No you aren't." The Doctor waited until Danny calmed down before he let go of him. "… Do you-?"
"I-I know about my parents." Danny managed to get out as he felt tears in his eyes.
"For what it's worth, I'm sorry." The Doctor said as he bowed his head.
Danny nodded since he didn't trust himself to speak at the moment.
"There's someone here to see you." The Doctor got Danny's attention before walking out. "He's awake."
The last person that Danny wanted to see walked in. "YOU!"
In his black business suit a man with grey hair looked at Danny sadly. "Daniel, I can't tell you how sorry I am-."
"Save it Masters!" Danny hissed at him with his eyes red. "I don't need your sympathies!"
Vladmir Masters was the worst person behind Dan in Danny's opinion.
The man was a half-ghost like himself and a college friend of his Dad's, but an accident caused him to gain powers at the cost of needed surgery for his face.
Since then Vlad has never forgave Jack Fenton and has been trying to get Maddie Fenton to marry him and turn Danny into his evil son-slash-apprentice.
"Daniel I-."
"It's Danny!" Danny cut him off glaring at him. "Only Mom and Dad can call me Daniel and the last time I checked you're neither!"
"Danie- Danny." Vlad caught himself knowing that the teen wasn't in the right state of mind. "I want to help you."
"I don't need your help Plasmius." Danny told him.
"Danny I am your legal guardian-."
"This would cause this to happen."
Vlad blinked in confusion, trying to process that. "What?"
"You heard me." Danny snarled back in anger. "That Ghost I fought was me ten years later. And he was created by me living with you!"
All because he went to cheat on a test.
That was what set in motion the events that led to this outcome.
And he knew from what he saw that somehow, someway Vlad's Ghost form and his get fused together to create Dan.
He couldn't let that happen.
No matter what.
"Daniel, I think you may need to lie down some more-." Vlad tried to say but Danny snapped.
"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" Danny roared in anger as his hands lit up with ecto energy. "I fought a future version of me after meeting Clockwork so I'm not going with you!"
Vlad narrowed his eyes at hearing the name Clockwork, but he thought that Ghost was only a legend. "I promise you that I'll help you-."
"No you won't." Danny blasted him back before turning intangible and phased through the ground.
Vlad shook his head as it cleared before he changed forms into a Ghost that was a blue-skinned vampire with blood red eyes, had jet black hair that was up like horns and wearing white royalty clothes and a white cape with it being blood red on the inside, before he followed Danny.
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Danny made it to his own home right before Vlad Plasmius appeared in front of him. "Daniel, stop."
"Get out of my way, Vlad." Danny warned him as he turned into Phantom. "I'm not going to ask again."
"You're being irrational-."
"I am?" Danny laughed at the irony. "You are a fucking hypocrite."
Plasmius gave a start as he heard Danny curse, sure there was always the occasional slip, but Danny never was that vulgar with his language before.
"You say I'm irrational, what about you?!" Danny's eyes turned red again. "You were always after me to be your 'son' and to marry my Mom." When Plasmius went to speak up, Danny's hands lit up. "Don't interrupt me."
Plasmius narrowed his eyes.
"You held a freaking grudge over my Dad for twenty years, over a stupid accident that he didn't mean to cause!" Danny glared at Plasmius as he winced. "You also tried everything to get a hand on me when I wanted you to leave me the fuck alone! Now get the hell out of my way or I'll blast you out of my way!"
Plasmius opened his mouth when a voice called out.
"TIME OUT!"
Danny blinked as a medallion went over his head before he saw Clockwork, a blue skinned ghost wearing a purple robe and carrying a staff. "Oh great it's you!" He hissed out remembering the last time they met Clockwork tried to erase him from existence. "You about to finish the job?!"
"No, I'm getting you away from here." Clockwork said calmly, confusing the halfa.
"Come again?"
"You see, it's like this." Clockwork changed to the form of an old man reminding Danny that Clockwork changed to the form of a kid, an adult and an old man depending on his mood. "My job was to ensure that your alternate future never came to be and I was prepared to do so by saving your family. But the Observers limited my powers right as I was about to do so."
"Observers?" Danny glared at Clockwork. "How do I know that you're not making this up?!"
"I am the Ghost Master of Time." Clockwork changed to the form of a child. "I may be cryptic, but I'm not a liar. The Observers just watch and I cannot interfere much, but getting you away from Plasmius was allowed."
"So, where do I go?" Danny decided to go with him for now.
"I have a building in Bayville, New York that you can stay in to train your powers in secret." Clockwork told him changing to his original form. "I'll keep any other Ghosts away from you for a total of two years to let you grieve and to let you gain a handle of your powers."
"What's the catch?" Danny asked cautiously, because so far this sounded too good to be true.
"There are other people out there that need help." Clockwork said earning a confused look from Danny. "Other people with powers that are much like yours, yet very different called Mutants and Metahumans."
"Mutants and Metahumans?" Danny asked curiously. "What's the difference?"
"Mutants have a DNA anomaly that they were born with." Clockwork explained patiently. "Called the X-Gene they develop a power or two in their teen years. And there are Metahumans, those who gain their powers by accident in extreme environments, like you."
"I'm a Metahuman?" Danny asked in shock.
"You maybe a Ghost, but you're still half-human." Clockwork explained with a smile. "That makes you a Metahuman."
"So train my powers and look for people who need help?" Danny asked with his arms crossed.
"No, just your powers." Clockwork told Danny confusing him again. "I'll come to you in two years with a list of people who would need help."
"And then what?"
"You'll find out in time." Clockwork said making Danny glare. "Now, I believe you need to gather your stuff?"
Danny nodded as he went inside to gather a bag full of clothes broke down the Ghost Weapons and put them in a suitcase before he turned to the Ghost Portal. "I'm not leaving this." He said as he took a deep breath and unleashed a Ghostly Wail on it, obliterating it before he ran out of energy. "Note to self, have this attack as a last resort."
Turning to leave after gathering the blueprints, Danny stopped when he saw a family picture that he picked up.
"I'm sorry." He managed to croak out as tears slid down his face. "I'm sorry that I wasn't able to save you."
Looking at each of his family members and even his two best friends who were in the picture with him, Danny packed that before he walked back to where Clockwork was waiting but he stopped.
"Hold on."
Clockwork smirked as Danny said that, knowing what was about to happen.
Danny then turned to the still form of Plasmius and punched his face before kicking him in between the legs. "Alright, let's go."
As Clockwork and Danny disappeared, time resumed. "D-GYAH!" Plasmius fell over holding his manhood. "What the hell?!"
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Danny blinked as he found himself in a factory-like building that was empty except for a few essentials and quite a few rooms. "What is this place?"
"Your new home." Clockwork said with a nod, causing Danny to look at him in shock. "There are a few bedrooms, a basement that will be great for you to train and a second level that would be good for a lab if you want one."
"… Clockwork, thank you." Danny told him sincerely.
Clockwork gave a nod before he disappeared.
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Two years later, a sixteen year old Danny was training in the basement that now looked like an obstacle course as he blasted a few targets that popped up, he was efficient enough to use his Ghost Powers in his human form, he finally mastered duplicates but could only make up to three, he unlocked a power to control ice as well. Clockwork pulled him into the Ghost Zone to learn from a friend called Frostbite with that one.
Frostbite was the leader of a group of Yeti Ghosts in the Far Frozen sector of the Ghost Zone.
He is a pretty enthusiastic Ghost actually worshiping Danny due to him defeating Pariah Dark the King of Ghosts in Single Combat.
But Frostbite was a great leader that cared for his people and would put his life on the line for them in a heartbeat.
Yawning as he shot a blast from behind his back as another target popped up he stopped when he noticed a medallion over his neck. "Two years already?" Danny asked in amusement.
"Yes." Clockwork said with a nod as he pulled out a list. "Right now there are two people on this list, as time goes on, more names will appear."
"So it's a magic list?" Danny asked in confusion as he opened it to show two names.
Well, a name and a number.
The name was Jonathon Silvercloud.
But the number was X-23.
"I would suggest going to help X-23, first." Clockwork said turning into an old man. "But I need to show you something first."
As a screen appeared in front of them, Danny looked at Clockwork with a raised eyebrow. "What are you showing me?"
"The reason X-23 needs help."
Feeling interested, Danny turned only to turn pale white as he saw what her life was like.
X-23 was a black haired sixteen year old girl with green eyes, and she turned out to be a clone of a Mutant that was called Weapon X and was raised in a facility for the last sixteen years of her life.
Due to her healing factor and the claws that come out of her knuckles and feet, she had a certain indestructible metal, one that Danny later learned was called Adamantium, grafted onto her skeleton.
Having almost every human emotion squashed out of her, X-23 was trained to be the perfect killing machine, but there was one doctor that tried to help her keep her emotions.
"Clockwork." Danny glared at the Ghost Master of Time in pure anger. "Why didn't you have me go help her two years ago?! No one deserves this!"
"Because you needed to hone your Ghost Powers." Clockwork told him calmly. "If you went out there as you were two years ago, you would've been caught and experimented on yourself. With you having control of your powers, you have a better chance of succeeding."
Danny took a deep breath to calm himself down. "Where is this facility at?"
"A remote location in Canada." Clockwork answered as Danny went Ghost. "You changed your outfit?"
Instead of the Hazmat Suit, Danny was now wearing a black unitard that was covered with Kevlar, and a snowy white vest along with his combat boots being pure black with ectoranium, a metal that is extremely harmful to ghosts and indestructible, on the edges.
"I couldn't bear to wear the Hazmat suit." Danny said to Clockwork. "Too many memories."
Clockwork nodded as he turned to leave. "What you do from here on is your choice." He told the halfa. "So be careful."
Danny nodded before he flew up and shot off flying as fast as a jet.
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Danny glared at the facility as he was invisible, wanting to burn it to the ground because of what happened. First this 'Weapon X' guy was forced to go through some sick, twisted experiment, then he was cloned and this girl was forced through the same thing.
Ecto energy came off in waves before he calmed himself down.
Activating his intangibility, Danny flew through the facility looking around before seeing decayed bodies on lab tables making him want to puke.
'My God.' Danny thought in revulsion. 'These guys have no morals at all.'
Even Skulker had better morals and that Ghost wants to hang Danny's pelt on the wall.
Hearing a door open behind him, Danny tensed for a fight before remembering that he was invisible as two people wearing green armor walked in.
"I'm just saying, all these freaks walking around like they own the place." One of them said shaking his head. "I'm perfectly fine with how Dr. Rice runs things, but that Kimura chick scares the shit out of me."
"It doesn't help that she trains the weapon."
"Yeah I know-." The guy shivered as they walked through Danny. "Geez, I just got a cold chill."
"We're in Canada, nimrod. Of course you got a cold chill."
"Oh fuck you." His friend laughed as they walked away.
As they left, Danny narrowed his eyes. 'Kimura? Who the hell is that?'
Leaving the room, Danny found himself in an empty cell with claw marks on the walls, floor and ceiling as well as blood stains on the floor. 'Alright this is either X's old room or X-23's current room.'
That was when Danny heard fighting and cheering going on, so feeling curious he followed the sound before he saw the X-23 girl, who was wearing a black shirt and black jeans, he came to free fighting a dark skinned woman wearing a tanned outfit that had a circle showing parts of her cleavage and the claws glanced off of her skin as she punched X-23 back.
The crowd was cheering as X-23 was getting the crap beat out of her and to say that Danny was angry would be an understatement as he subconsciously made the air colder around him, causing quite a few people to shiver.
"That is enough." He snarled as he turned visible right in front of the crowd, causing them to jump back in shock at his sudden appearance and Kimura to stop her abuse of X-23 to give him a look.
X-23 was on the ground healing, and she wasn't sure what was going on.
"An intruder?" Kimura asked in surprise. "You have a lot of nerve coming here-?"
"Phantom." Danny narrowed his eyes. "Danny Phantom."
For some reason, Kimura smirked. "The famous Danny Phantom himself? We were actually considering sending my toy here to fight you before you disappeared off the face of the planet. So why are you here?"
By this point, most of the goons brought out their weapons and pointed them at Danny who raised an eyebrow since none of them were ecto guns. "You do realize that I'm already dead right? You can't kill me again."
Some of the thugs looked a little off at that, but they just cocked their weapons, ready to fire.
"My question." Kimura said in a demanding tone.
"Freeing the kid." Danny crossed his arms.
X-23 looked at him in confusion as Kimura laughed. "You broke into our facility to free my little toy-?"
"You know what pisses me off?" Danny growled as his hands lit up. "People who think about life like that."
Kimura shrugged before rushing forward but Danny turned intangible and she ended up hitting a poor guy behind him, killing him.
Danny's eye widened at seeing that and if he didn't see death first hand courtesy of Dan, he would've freaked out. "You are a cold-hearted bitch."
Kimura frowned at that remark, but Danny held up a hand and blasted her back using ecto energy.
At once, the other individuals began to fire at Danny as he put up an ecto shield before seeing X-23 still looking at him in confusion. "Get out of here."
"Why?" She asked in a suspicious tone as she was still healing. "Why are you doing this?"
"No one deserves to be treated like you have." Danny told her before he turned to see Kimura right in front of the shield and she punched right through it sending Danny back. "Durability and strength? How convenient."
Kimura pulled out some knives as Danny covered his fist with ecto energy and they lunged at each other.
Some idiot pointed a gun at the back of Danny's head but he heard a noise behind him.
Snikt.
"Gah!" He grabbed a stump where his hand was a second ago before a pair of claws jammed into his throat, causing the man to choke on his own blood.
X-23 snarled at the others who subconsciously took a step back. She's wanted to do this stuff for a long time remembering every time she was used as Kimura's punching bag as well as a guinea pig for the scientists.
She wasn't sure what this 'Danny Phantom' wanted with her, but if it gets her out of this hellhole, she'll listen to his reasons and may or may not gut him for them.
One of them ran at her in an attempt to hit her with the butt of the gun, but she sliced through the gun before the claw that protruded from her foot found its way into his gut.
That was when they all charged at her as she twisted and spun her way through them like a wild animal, savagely taking off body parts and killing them quickly.
"Gyah." Danny jumped back after a knife got stuck in his arm and he pulled it out, throwing it to the side.
"First time with Adamantium?" Kimura asked with a twisted smile. "You're a lousy fighter Phantom."
"How about something new?" Danny's eyes turned blue as his hands lit up.
Kimura frowned, not remembering this being on the file on Phantom, before she smirked again. "Learned a new trick?"
"Something, like that." Danny shot ice at her, but Kimura ducked as it hit a guy that was going at X-23 before the girl shattered the poor guy. "Not what I intended, but it works."
As Kimura came at him, Danny quickly made two duplicates.
"Three against one?" Kimura mocked as he kicked one of them back, jamming a knife into the throat, killing it and then she grabbed the other and snapped its neck. "Hardly seems fair."
"Like you're one to talk." Danny scoffed forming a sword made from ice and managed to block the Adamantium Knife.
"Wha?" Kimura was shocked that the Adamantium didn't destroy the knife.
"Trade secret." Danny teased with a smirk.
As they were keeping each other at bay, X-23 finished off the last thug before turning to see what was going on as she ran at Kimura but the woman leaned back and grabbed X-23 before slamming her into Danny as they went sliding on the floor.
"Ow." Danny muttered shaking his head. "You alright?"
X-23 gave him another confused look for the question before Danny threw her to the side and barely managed to roll out of the way of a kick that cracked the floor, courtesy of Kimura.
"Good reflexes." Kimura begrudgingly admitted as she saw Danny panting while X-23 was snarling at her. "If you think I'm going to let you take away my little toy, then you have another thing coming."
"Shut up." Danny said before thinking of an idea as he turned invisible.
"Running away?" Kimura mocked while X-23 sniffed the air, knowing that he was still in the room.
"No." Danny's voice echoed around them. "Just taking a slight advantage."
Then his hands shot out of the floor and grabbed Kimura's foot before dragging her neck deep into the floor.
Kimura struggled as Danny came back up with a smirk. "Try to top that." As the floor cracked he sighed. "I hate you."
Before Kimura got a chance to retort, X-23 shot forward and her claw went right through Kimura's eye causing her to scream as blood poured down her face.
Danny winced at seeing that before Kimura's body went limp. "Well, that's one way to deal with her-." He stopped when X-23 turned her claws to him and was an inch away from his face.
"Who the hell are you?!" X-23 snarled wanting answers. "Why are you doing this?"
"Look kid-." Danny began before X-23 interrupted him.
"My name is X-23."
"No, that's a title that these dumb ass doctors gave you." Danny retorted in anger. "I'm freeing you because no one deserves this."
"What's the catch?" X-23 asked knowing there was something he wanted.
Danny blinked feeling Deja-vu at the time he asked Clockwork that question. "I want to extend an invitation to come with me." He answered honestly. "I'm looking to help people and when I heard about this place, it pissed me off on what was happening."
"Extend an invitation?" X-23 asked in disbelief. "Y-You're giving me a choice?"
"Well, yeah." Danny shrugged like it wasn't a big deal. "It's your life, so you make the decision to either come with me or go your own way."
X-23 opened her mouth to say something when someone spoke up. "I don't think so."
They both turned to see a blonde man wearing a lab coat holding a gun to a black haired woman in green and the sight of it caused X-23 to snarl.
"I would think carefully 23." The man said pointing the gun at the woman. "Wouldn't want young Dr. Kinney to die right?"
Danny was confused when X-23 sheathed her claws and figured that this woman was important to her somehow.
"Good, now you will kill the intruder." The man said with a grin.
"Who are you?" Danny asked as X-23 brought her claws back out and turned to him with a mixture of anger and regret in her eyes.
"Zander Rice." Dr. Rice said with a smirk before Dr. Kinney spoke up.
"Don't!" She called out causing Laura to pause. "Kill Rice! Forget about me."
"Shut it!" Dr. Rice tightened his grip on her neck.
Looking around, Danny was trying to find a way to disarm the man without hurting the woman before he saw the Adamantium knife that Kimura stabbed him with and he looked at X-23 to see that she saw where he was looking and she nodded.
Quickly, kicking the knife to X-23, she grabbed it and threw it, burying into his hand causing him to drop the gun in pain as Dr. Kinney pushed him off of her managing to get away.
"Mom." X-23 hugged her.
'Mom?' Danny thought in confusion before remembering that Clockwork told him that one of the doctors tried to show her a sense of normality. 'Good, she's alive-.' Danny frowned when he saw Dr. Rice smirk.
"Why are you smiling?" Danny asked cautiously as the man reached into his lab coat and pulled out a phial of liquid.
"This." He tossed it and it hit the wall above Dr. Kinney causing the liquid to drip on her. "Something I call a Trigger Scent."
As Danny heard the term Trigger Scent his blood went cold and he saw X-23 freeze as her eyes changed to blood red and she roared as her claws came out.
Snikt.
Dr. Kinney gasped in pain as the claws went through her stomach and X-23's eyes went back to green.
At first she was confused at what happened before horror filled her face at what she did.
Dr. Rice smirked before Danny punched his face and slammed him into the wall. "WHY?!" He shouted in his face. "Why in the name of God did you do that?!"
"Because the good doctor was obsolete." Dr. Rice grinned at the pain in X-23's eyes.
"Mom." X-23 tried to cover the wound. "P-Please."
X-23's mind flashed to the times when Dr. Sarah Kinney read her Pinocchio, the stories of the outside world that made her laugh and the care she showed making her smile.
Dr. Kinney coughed. "I-It's alright… Laura." She got out as her breath left her.
Clenching his fist, Danny wanted to hurt Dr. Rice but he thought of something better. "Kid." He said getting X-23's attention. "He's all yours." He indicated Dr. Rice dropping him. "Do what you want with him."
For once, Dr. Rice was afraid. "What? B-But you're a hero! They don't kill."
"I changed a lot in the last two years." Danny turned his back as he walked away. "And with what you pulled, you'll forgive me if I'm not feeling any damned sympathy for you."
X-23 slowly walked towards Dr. Rice who tried to back up before Danny shot a beam of ice from his finger to Dr. Rice's foot keeping him in place.
On getting to Dr. Rice, X-23 slammed her foot into the iced foot destroying it and he screamed in agony.
"M-Mercy." Dr. Rice cried out before X-23 slashed his arm off. "Gah!"
Then she walked away surprising Danny.
"You're not finishing him?" Danny asked as Dr. Rice's continued to cry in agony.
"He'll die of blood loss." X-23 answered without a hint of emotion. "I wanted him to suffer."
Then X-23 knelt by Dr. Kinney making Danny sigh. "If you want, we can give her a funeral."
X-23 gave him a glance but she nodded to show that she was grateful.
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It took two hours to find a spot but they gave Dr. Kinney a send-off and X-23 used her claws to cut into a stone that was used as a tombstone.
'Here lies Sarah Kinney.
A beloved mother.
A woman of virtue and kindness.
She will be missed.'
"… Laura." X-23 said getting Danny's attention as she shook her head. "What was she trying to say?"
Danny thought about it before smiling. "I'd say that she was naming you."
Now X-23 looked at him in pure shock. "What?"
"Laura." Danny smile grew wider. "It definitely sounds better than X-23 doesn't it?"
After a minute of silence, the newly christened Laura gave a small smile. "It does."
The two of them turned back to the grave before Danny turned to leave causing Laura to look up.
"Where are you going?" Laura asked curiously.
"Back home." Danny said to her. "You're free to go your own way and do what you want with your life."
Laura was shocked that Danny suggested that but she shook your head. "What about your offer?"
"To have you come with me?" Danny asked eliciting a nod from Laura as he sighed. "I didn't think it was appropriate to ask after what happened."
"I accept."
"Huh?" Now Danny was shocked.
"I don't have another place to go and I know next to nothing about the world except what I was told here." Laura explained with her arms crossed. "It's only logical that I accept."
Danny thought about that before nodding. "Alright then." He nodded accepting her reasoning. "We have a long way to go though, I live in New York."
"I can fly a jet there." Laura shrugged causing Danny to stare.
"You can fly a jet?" He asked slowly to make sure he heard right.
"It was a part of my training." Laura answered.
'A jet?' Danny thought as he followed her to where the jet was parked. "You want to blow the building up?"
Laura thought about that before smirking. "Sure."
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Danny watched the explosion as Laura was flying the jet. 'Well, it took longer than I thought but Laura's rescued. I guess I'll help her adapt to life in Bayville before I go look for this Jonathon Silvercloud guy.'
Yawning, Danny sat in the passenger seat and shifted back to his human form causing Laura to give him a look.
"I'm half-human, half-ghost." He answered her unasked question.
Three years ago, he wouldn't tell anyone, but considering he was going to be making a safe haven for people, he had no reason to hide it.
"Is that even possible?" Laura asked in confusion.
Danny gave a shrug. "Considering I am one I guess so."
To Be Continued…
So tell me what you think? I never read the 'Innocence Lost' X-23 comic so this is my take on it from stuff I find on Wiki.
I have a plan for this and in the next chapter they go look for Forge.
Basically its Danny building up his own team like how Xavier and Magneto did, but his team will be more in the grey area of morality.
It's based off of X-Men Evolution but the series hasn't started yet, so he saved Laura early on.
But Laura has her comic look.
Also the ghosts will come after Danny eventually as will his past.
I personally hope I did Laura's character good because it was hard to type her like this.
And even though Sarah Kinney is dead, I will be expanding more on her character whenever Laura has a flashback if anyone wants that.
Alright, peace out!
… Oh right one more thing!
I need at least two or three OC's for the list if anyone doesn't mind.
Alright, now peace out!