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(Danny's POV)
I couldn't do anything by watch and listen as Dani stumbled around the room mumbling to herself, not realizing I was even there.
"Alright calm down Dani, just try to figure things out." She said taking deep breaths. "That's right, my name is Dani. I'm twelve years old and... and... I can't remember." She said, her breathing becoming more rapid again. "I can't remember anything. Not my family, not my school, where I lived or anything. Why am I here? What is with that weird forest outside?"
I could feel our chest hurting from the oncoming panic attack that her breathing was causing. If felt so odd to think of it as our body, rather than just mine or hers. Though my own mind was filled with its own thoughts. She couldn't remember who she was. Did that mean she didn't know about her powers?
If she was out there and I was stuck in here, how was I supposed to complete Clockwork's stupid job. 'Dani, please! Please tell me you can here me!' I wanted to show out, but if there was a way of doing that, I didn't know it, or she was just not listening.
None of this made any sense. Why would Clockwork do something that would clearly stop me from completing his mission? Or was this the real price? In order for Dani to be stabilized, she needed my body.
Either way, there had to be something I was missing. Otherwise there wouldn't have been much of a point to restricting my ability to feel mercy if I wasn't even the one in control.
Dani seemed to be having her own problems figuring out what was going on. I felt sorry for her, being dropped into all this without having any clue what was going on. Even less of a clue that I had. Thinking back, Clockwork didn't actually tell me what exactly I was going to be doing. After I agreed to do what he wanted he just skipped the mission briefing and dropped us inside of this new world. Though knowing him some kind of plot thread was bound to be nearby and we would just have to follow that to its conclusion.
No sooner had this accrued to me than a polite knock came at the door to my room.
Our body stiffened as Dani looked to the door. It was obvious that everything what happening to fast for her, but she adapted the way anyone with a drop of Fenton blood would. She moved to grab onto the nearest baseball bat and started slowly towards the door. I could only think about smiling as I saw the green 'Fenton' sticker on the side of the anti-creep stick.
Dani slowly reached out and turned the nob on the door before pulling it open, holding the bat above our head. But her determination feel flat when a girl jumped in and hugged up, causing the bat to fall through our fingers.
"You saved me! You have such wonderful timing!" The girl said, not noticing Dani's attempts to disentangle ourselves from her grip. "Little sister, you just saved my life!"
"What are you talking about!? And get off me!" Dani said before she finally managed to fight our way out of the girl's arms. Catching our breath, Dani looked up at the girl and I felt her blush the same why I would have if our rolls had been switched.
The girl looked like she was around thirteen with short burnt orange hair and wide brown eyes that gave her a childish appearance. Though none of that was why we blushed. It was what she was wearing... or wasn't.
I could already tell that this mission was going to be as traumatizing as everything else that had ever involved Clockwork. Though this was a very different kind of traumatizing.
The girl didn't have a top on, so to speak. Instead she had a semi transparent pink ribbon that was barely even wide enough to cover her already developing breasts that was tied up in the back. The only thing that was stopping me from perhaps causing Dani from haven't a nose bleed was because I was instead concentrating as hard as I could on a sort of diamond pendent that was in the center of the girl's chest. At least she was wearing bottoms, even if it was a rather exotic long pink skirt, and a blue cape around her shoulders, not that it covered anything.
'Clockwork, did you send me to a place where normal clothes don't exist?' I couldn't help but think.
"I thought I was a goner back there when they spotted me. Though I guess I should never give up hope." The girl said with a wide smile. "'Cause a savior like you just might appear... I'm soooo moved."
"What are you talking about? Where are your clothes?" Dani said trying to fight down the blush that still painted our face.
The girl laughed. "I guess I haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Mill, Mill Varna." She said happily. This girl was probably Sam's kryptonite. Her cheerful pinkness and complete lack of normal modesty would have sent the goth girl off the deep end in an instant. "Where did you come from, little sister?"
I could feel our body clamping up as the subject of her own cluelessness was brought back in front of Dani. "I don't know where I'm from. I don't even know where I am right now. I don't know who I am beyond my name, or what I'm doing here." Dani said sadly, pulling our legs in.
I felt so sorry for her, not knowing what was going on. But then again, if she did remember everything that had happened before, she would have to remember Vlad. She would have to remember running for her live, alone in the streets. She would have to remember the sickness that was slowly killing her. She would have to remember Valerie's betrayal. She would have to remember dying a horrible death.
Maybe it was better for her if she just never remembered any of it.
"Well, we're in the Forest of Panon right now." Mill said cheerfully, either unaware of Dani's panic, or trying to cheer her up, I can't really tell. "Your house fell from the sky and squashed my pursuers."
"S...squarshed your... what?" Dani said unable to accept what she had heard. I was having a hard time wrapping my mind around it as well. Why would Clockwork send my whole room with me? I wasn't even in my room when I was sent to this world.
Mill put her finger in her mouth, making a sort of baby face that really made it hard for me to not question her intelligence. Then after a moment that seemed to drag on for a bit too long she finally had an idea, getting up and grabbing our arm and started to drag us outside while Dani struggled against her, grabbing the bat again as she was being pulled out the door.
After finally pulling us out of my room and out into the jungle, she turned around smiling and pointed back at the brick room that looked so oddly out of place, since it had been ripped away from the rest of Fenton Works. I had the sinking feeling that my parents were going to freak out when their sons room suddenly disappeared completely. Though I suppose there was nothing to do about that now.
Dani's scream brought me out of my thoughts as I noticed we were looking just below the edge of the room where several things that looked like human bodies covered in rather thick hair on their arms and legs were crushed underneath the out of place room. "Oh god. I... I killed people." Dani said in a panic. "No! No it isn't my fault... I don't know what is going on but I didn't cause this!" Her voice was going up and down as she tried to figure out just how she was supposed to be feeling. Suddenly finding out that you might be connected to murder was a hard thing for her.
My mind was more pondering just what these people were doing 'pursuing' a girl as obviously young and oblivious as Mill. I can't imagine it was very wholesome. They didn't even look that human.
"They aren't people. They are demi-humans." Mill said, sounding confused at to why Dani was freaking out.
"Demi... humans?" Dani said confused. The term didn't exactly sit well with me. Demi-human would suggest that it was a creature that was less than human, or only part human. I think I'd been called a demi-ghost at some point in the past as an insult. "What's a demi-human?"
"A demi-human is a... hmm... I guess you could say that they are sort of a pawn race that is used for war for foot soldiers, so that the nations can minimize human casualties. They aren't very smart though and they can't operate demi-armors." Mill said, crossing her arms and thinking about it.
Dani was looking more closely at the things now, seeing that they looked more like apes than humans. "So these things were chasing you? Are their more of them or..?"
Dani was cut off as three more of the creatures jumped up of some bushes out at us. They were ugly enough things, though I've seen uglier. They looked like oversized baboons with human faces wearing Viking helmets. In there large monkey paws were curved club like blades, weapons that might do damage, but were clearly not meant to be wielded with any actual skill.
"Oh no they found me again!" Mill squealed.
Before anything else happened, Dani throw the bat, causing it to spin through the air and smack one of the demi-humans in the face, sending him down for the count. The other two just turned to stare at the injured one with dumb looks on their faces, as if wondering what they were supposed to do now.
Dani grabbed Mill's hand and started pulling her along, running away from the creatures before the monkeymen remembered they were supposed to be giving chase. I wondered why Dani didn't just use her powers to fly away. It would have been easy to get away with her Phantom form and powers. Then I realized that she had forgotten who she was entirely, including that entire part of her nature. Meaning our life was in real danger.
'Dani please! Please remember how to use our powers!' I wanted to shout, but she couldn't hear me. She just kept running.
"Please tell me you have a hide out or something nearby!" Dani shouted in panic.
But before Mill could answer a tree fell down, blocking our path, and out of the jungle came what I can only describe as a mecha. The giant robot creature was around thirty five feet tall and hand a single camera like eye in the center of its forehead.
"Oh no! It's a demi-armor!" Mill shouted.
"This isn't happening!" Dani shouted, turning and pulling Mill along as the mecha raised one hand and a blast of red energy flew from the hand, missing us and vaporizing the demi-humans that had been gaining on us.
Dani kept running, stumbling through bushes until suddenly the ground gave way underneath our feet and we fell down towards a fast running river, pulling Mill along with us.
As Dani struggled to keep us up and gasped for air, not remembering that our body doesn't need it, my thoughts went back to the demi-armor.
That light it had thrown at us. I was almost curtain that it was ghost energy. 'But how is that possible. Our ghost sense hadn't gone off. So how...' That train of thought disappeared when I finally noticed it. The reason our ghost sense never went off, was because there was ghost energy all around us. Nearly as thick as it was in the ghost zone, maybe even thicker. But this was a mortal world. How was it possible for such a thing to be real?
As the water swept us away, I couldn't help but to wonder just what I had signed us up for.
'I only hope Dani can remember her powers. I will need her to be up to par if we are going to survive this.'
This seemed like as good as a place as any to stop a chapter.
So how this is going to work is while Dani is in control of the body, Danny narrates, and while Danny is out, Dani is the one telling the story. (It will start making more sense if you stop reading the names out loud and just think girl boy.) I thought it would be an interesting design choice, since it means that we always get both of their points of view. One from narration and the other from action and description. Though of course it will have to be skewed based on how they view each other.
