Breaking the Sky: Chapter Two " Now and Then, Then and Now "
Bellwood redevelopment zone - 2:14 am – the future
Gwen Tennyson hovered in front of a computer terminal making the keys glow as she spoke, because she no longer had hands to type with.
" I know this is the worst time for this, but the truth is it's been coming since. . .well since THEN. My body took a pounding cauterizing the edge of the rift, and it's finally started giving out. Nobody should be worrying about me, and where I'm going. Grandma Verdona's waiting to give me a ride, and show me the ropes. I feel bad leaving you all like this, and I want you all to know I'm not abandoning anyone. No matter what Grandma tells me, I'm coming back, and I'm doing it soon. Till then, Ken Grandpa Max take care of each other. Danny looks like any new rifts are on you until I get back. Kevin . . .I AM coming back. . "
**
Bellwood - 4:30 pm Saturday - the present.
Ben looked at Danny and clinched his fist.
" Get lost on the way home rookie? "
Danny smiled.
" Nope I work here. "
Ben tired to swallow his anger at just how bad this day has gotten, as he turned to his Grandfather.
" Gandpa Max? "
" You two have met, good I'm glad. Danny here had a run in with an illegal cloning lab set up a man named Masters. I'd heard about him, but he'd only gotten into overtly bad things as the Plumbers where shutting down, and he slipped through the cracks. Danny and company helped take him down. "
Ben imagined his 3rd grade teacher in a vampire costume as his grandfather talked about Vlad. He spoke and found every word harder to say then the last. After Azmeth, Kevin and Julie he didn't need this.
" Is that right? So we are adding him to the team then? "
" Part time, yes. Seems theirs a lot of extra-dimensional activity in Amity Park the Galvan want to look in on so his parents are angling for a contract. If it goes through we will need a sub station there just in case. It feels like the old days all over again. "
Ben couldn't get out of his mind how far it was FROM the old days for him. He started to stutter as he spoke.
" Um W we do contracts between aliens and e earth people? "
" If the Plumbers sign off on it yes. Danny's run in with Masters left him with a new " cousin " after he tried to clone the boy and messed up badly. I'm no scientist but it's a minor miracle the girls stable. Danny's family contacted me through a mutual acquaintance looking for help getting her a birth certificate social security number, and in general into the system in a real way that won't cause trouble when shes older. I was wondering if you could give her the once over with the Omnitrix just to make sure she doesn't have problems earth tech can't see. "
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Amity park - 12:04 AM - ten years from now.
Kevin Levin sat on a crumbling wall overlooking a stretch of Amity park, drunk off his ass on moon shine.
Off in the distance he watched a Phantom fighting with Skulker the hunter ghost or something. At this range it was hard to tell but he though it might be Danielle.
" Somebody needs a new dame name I swear. "
He'd traded Tucker Foley a portable scan-dilator for the shine. Closest thing you can get to a tricorder from the 60's trek series and he'd known the technophile would snap it up. The fact that he could have gotten more for it if he'd wanted car parts or gas, or any of the other things humans where running out of that were more useful in a world forced to look for off world aid to sustain itself didn't seem to matter. Gwen was "gone" and he was getting drunk, end of story.
Kevin ignored the fight for a moment and looked up at the Broken Sky. The massive rift that had defined the last decade for every living soul and most of the non living ones on earth. The day it happened the day humanity became an endangered species, all he'd cared about was seeing Gwen writhing in agony.
" You saved what was left of the world girl, kudos. Why the heck didn't I make you leave this rock? Past the Galvan blockade. . WE KNOW YOUR NOT SENDING ANY HELP YOU LITTLE FROG MEN . . . and to a Doctor with the right tools."
In the distance he could see the fight getting closer. Danielle was fighting every way she shouldn't be, and winning. She was fighting with her fists and with her legs. Not one energy blast or force field, and it made Kevin frown as he continued to talk to himself.
" Girl grew up real pretty, and a scrapper I got to admit. Thing is we need someone good with energy. . . job opening in the rift sealing department. . "
**
Bellwood - 6:03 pm Saturday - the present.
Ben sat in a burger join across from Danny and Danielle as he fiddled yet again with the watch. Danny kept looking at the time on his cellphone, as his " cousin " her elbows on the table, and head in her hands making puppy dog eyes at Ben.
" Sorry voice commands not working, and I was running a diagnostic this morning. "
Danielle spoke in a sing song voice.
" Take your time Ben. "
Danny wondered if the girl had her own anti-creep stick at this point or if she shared one with his sister. After an hour and a half of watching her fawn over Ben, he decided to get an aluminum bat just in case.
"Umm don't get me wrong here, I want Danielle checked out, but you seem like you don't know how to work that thing. "
Ben bit his lip, before speaking.
" The guy that made the watch loaded it with safeguards just in case. After my little trip into the Ghost Zone he's not happy with me. Apparently not Galvan Disneyland. "
Danny got an annoyed scowl on his face.
" So we've been sitting here while you do what play tetras? "
" No rookie, while I look for a way around it. Gimme your hand kiddo. "
Danielle blushed as Ben took her hand and put it on the watch. He put the omnitrix into capture mode, and watched as it recorded her DNA. Just like he thought it would, the watch flashed blue as Azmeth's hologram appeared over the watch face looking annoyed.
" How many times must you be told? "
Ben spoke up without caring to check if the fast-food joint was still empty.
" Hi Azmeth! This is Danny Fenton and his clone Danielle. Their family is the front runner for that contract to look into Anur Phantos aka the Ghost Zone you where interested it. They asked me for a bit of a favor, and I'm having some trouble getting the DNA scanner working can you help? "
Azmeth smacked his for head, and muttered under his breath.
" The counsel went ahead without talking to me, and you of course walked knee-deep into matters you have been told time and again to avoid. "
Ben put on a fake look of concern.
" She's a year and a half old Azmeth. "
The tiny hologram looked over at Danielle, and frowned. The girl waved.
" Hello Mr. Frog man! "
" Kid don't make me change my mind. "
Danny spoke up like a nervous parent at the doctors office.
" Umm Mr. Azmeth the guy that cloned her, was desperate to get three samples out of me. One normal one powered up and one mid morph. "
" And I'm sure with the limited technology of your world young man. . . . Why am I talking to you? Why am I even running this scan? The girls fine, keep her away from my Omnitrix, and her donor too. "
The hologram went dead. Ben spoke.
" OK, I'm in a bit deeper with him, and you cousin is fine, so that's another one you owe me rookie. I'm out of here, don't call don't write, and don't stop by. If you have trouble, I'll send my people but I'm not coming. Bye now."
Danny rolled his eyes.
" That guy is just something else. "
Danielle still smitten as she spoke.
" Yea I know."
**
Detention facility 47 - Alpha Centari – Present day.
" Thank you Magister, but I'll be fine. "
Azmeth entered the sell, his tiny form contrasting with the human per portioned cell.
" Well well, my old teacher come to gloat have you? "
The elder Galvan crossed his arms, as he replied to his former assistant.
" Hello Albedo. I see confinement has done little for your ego. "
Albedo looked down at him his negative copy of Ben Tennyson's form making Azmeth's skin crawl.
" Ego is all I am left with. Did you know these apes only have one set of eye lids? It makes sleeping for a third of it's life span difficult. Don't get me started on the food, I think this one is allergic of vegetable matter. "
Albedo waited for Azmeth's retort . . it never came.
" It is a burden isn't it being trapped in an unfamiliar form? Perhaps I can be of help in that matter. "
Albedo raised an eyebrow furthering his resemblance to Ben.
" An offer of aid? I am shocked! What do you want in exchange? "
Azmeth had that same unreadable expression on his face he always had when he was angry.
" You felt my choice of young Tennyson was an error. I give you the chance to prove it. "
His odd eyes got wide as he answered.
" Why? "
" Because their is a fine line between courage and foolishness. His world has regular access to Anur Phantos, and I must know if he goes into the heart of chaos out one or the other. "
The words Anur Phantos seemed to give the younger Galvan pause. . Seemed to at least.
" This is unlike you, but considering the circumstance I accept. "
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Next " Phantoms "
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