Chapter 1
Enter Liz
Flying through the view screen, Gillie would emerge someplace new. Somewhere unfamiliar. Gillie gave a confused chirp as it looked around. It didn't know if it had gone into the past or the future or somewhere into the now. Not to mention it didn't know just how far it went either. Chirping softly, it kept flying till it came across a woman of twenty-three and dressed in a dark shade of blue dress that hung off her shoulders and had a V-neck. Her legs were folded to the side like a lady and were clad in tights with black heels. She had long red hair and forest green eyes with gold specks around the iris. She was sitting and laughing with a young man with messy brown hair and in a blue pinstripe suit with a brown trench coat. They seemed to be having a picnic of some kind out in the sun. Gillie looked mostly at the girl with a sense of recognition. It had seen her before. Or rather it knew who she was. And it knew she could help. With an excited chirp, he quickly flew over to the woman. Making her jump as it flew around her with urgent chirps. "Hey...hey, hey, hey! Woah!" She spoke. Gillie paused. Why did she sound so different? It had been sure her voice was American not British. "Gillie Bird, are you alright?" She asks, worried. Holding her hand out to him. Gillie figured it would ponder this question later. Right now its master needed help. And she was the one to give it. Gillie chirped at her urgently again and she seemed to be listening. As if understanding his chirps. The young man beside her, merely sat there in quiet. Watching on curiously. "Oh...Oh, I see...Well then, we have no time to waste, eh? After all, you're a long way from home. I mean look at you! You're so new..."
"Uh, Liz...What's going on?"
"Sorry, Doc...I gotta go. The picnic was nice though. I enjoyed it, thank you." She smiled and kissed his cheek before standing up. Placing Gillie on her shoulder, she would summon a staff of dark wood with a metal setting at the top. Holding a crystal orb that would pulse with a golden light."Right then...Hold on tight, Gillie...Time travel can be painful." Gillie just chirped and snuggled into her neck as Liz held up her staff. The orb would begin to glow brightly until it was shinning. "Geronimo…" With a yell, Liz stabbed her staff down into the ground. Opening a window to the time or dimension Gillie had come from before quickly moving through it and out into Clockwork's tower.
She would find Dan and Clockwork fighting. Blasts flew and struck gears, springs and bells causing all kinds of noise. Dan's blasts more destructive than Clockwork's. Neither man seemed to notice Gillie or Liz as they continued to fight. Liz would look around as she dodged a few attacks and even went intangible a few times to avoid being hit by things. Looking to the two fighting men, she rolled her eyes. "Enough!" She yelled. Pointing her staff at them to surround them in golden light. Freezing them in that moment. Huffing, Liz walked over and couldn't help but smile. "You both look so young...Time is funny that way isn't it?" She turned her head to look at Dan. Eyes roaming him over with a bit of blush, damn his muscular build, and a bit of a glare. "You...it's been so long since I've seen you, and at the same time its only been a month, at best…" She would begin to circle him. Tsking at his clothes. "I forgot just how much a prick you were...like the you from my time better. Much more fashion sense too. Then again…" Her mind wondered the mysterious creature Dan had taken a liking too. Even loved. Not that she could tell him that. "Now then, boys, since you both insist on acting like children within the tower, would you mind telling me just what Dan is doing out of the thermos this early and why he is trying to kill you?" Liz would ask, snapping her fingers to unfreeze them as Gillie chirped and flew over to Clockwork.
"The fuck are you!?" Dan exclaimed when he was un-froze.
"...Elizabeth?" Clockwork asked looking at the woman.
None of this was suppose to be happening. He had seen none of it in any of his viewers. Had he screwed up by creating Gillie. It seemed as soon as he had given the little fluff ball life as a watch, that things had changed drastically.
"Gillie knocked over the thermos. It landed on the release button. He was knocked to the floor and turned into some sort of bird creature." Clockwork said in his ever so calm manner.
"I'm still confused as to what the fuck is going on…." Dan said floating there close to the two other ghosts with his arms over his chest and looking pretty pissed off still, but not as pissed as when he'd first escaped his prison.
"Oh, stop your pouting, Daniel, I'll explain in a moment." She grumbled. Exchanging her tail for legs and feet. Placing her staff on her shoulder, she turned her attention to Clockwork. "Let's start with you. Yes, it is me, but I go by Liz now thanks, as for the British thing...It's a long story that I can not tell you because it happens in your future. Well, my future...a future we're apart of. Nevermind that." Liz gave a smile as she began to pace. "And why was the thermos not up on its shelf where it was suppose to be? No offense, Daniel, but you are not suppose to be released." She said. Nudging him with her staff as she started to look at some of the time windows till she found the right one. "As for you, Daniel...You know me and don't know me. Hm. Tenses. Anyways, you know me as the thirteen year old ghost girl dressed in a short black skirt and white gogo boots with a long sleeved black bell tee and white gloves. Snowy white hair up in a ponytail. YOU shoved a time medallion in my chest with Danny. Trapping us in what should have been our future, a future you tried so hard to see happen just recently." As she said this, she would push the time window towards him to show him events of that day as she turned to face both of them. "What's going on here is that Gillie flew through my time window but instead of finding my thirteen year old self, he found me and it sounded urgent. So here I am! Timekeeper Liz, at your service!"
"She talks to much…...must be a kid of yours." Dan muttered.
Clockwork glared at Dan and shook his head. "Ok. That makes sense. I can understand that." Clockwork said nodding. He went to get the thermos off the floor, but a well placed blast from Dan blew the contraption apart.
"I'm not going back in there. It was cramped and I was majorly bored." Dan said grinning.
Clockwork glared at Dan. He then looked at Liz. "Is he this bad in your time or dimension? Please tell me he's not." Liz would sigh and whack Dan upside the head with her staff.
"I am not his kid and I do not talk too much!" She huffed before turning to Clockwork. "Still a bit of a prick and a major arse at times, but...He and Danny...Sorry, Danni with an 'i', have separated bodies and they're better off that way despite some disagreements on that notion. You wouldn't believe me but...Even the Dan from my time has a significant other now. And he doesn't go around just randomly attacking places much anymore either….least not as much as the one before us does."
"That's all very interesting and quite a bit to take in." Clockwork said.
Dan had not been happy about being whacked and was about to attack when Clockwork froze him in time again. "I am sorry, he never learns." Liz stuck her tongue out childishly at Dan before moving away from him so he could not reach her as she nodded.
"It's no trouble, really...The Dan from my time...He and I have this frenemies sort of thing going, but when it really matters...when it really comes down to it...He's actually someone I can rely on for safety." She said. Thinking of the time Dan had allowed her to stay in his domain for a night or two in order to protect a very precious bundle.
"I wish this one could learn to be a bit compassionate." Clockwork muttered. He started to look as if he was deep in thought when he let Dan go again.
"Stop doing that!" Dan exclaimed. This time he was livid and he jumped at Clockwork once more. He grabbed the staff like earlier and the two tried to wrestle it from each other. As they wrestled there was a bright flash of light from the staff. Clockwork, Dan, Gillie, and Liz were suddenly transported from the clock tower. They would find themselves on a large old fashioned ship in the middle of the ocean in a storm. A man running around to fix lines on the boat to hold the mast slammed into Clockwork and Dan. Somehow the two fumbled the time staff and it fell from their hands to hit the ship floor and break. Magic from it washed over the ship and anyone with temporal powers were now stuck only able to go where ever the staff would send them and when.
"You fool!" Clockwork growled.
"Oh…..fuck…." Dan said blinking in surprise.
