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"Toshiro-kun!" Tomma Nene shouted into her son's room, trying to walk the boy up for breakfast. The mother had an average appearance, with average height, average brown hair, and average facial features. She had probably purposefully modeled her life on the idea of average, or perhaps everything just fell into place that way, since she had one son and one daughter, and average job, average house, average husband. She was an average 'normal' woman. "It's time for breakfast, so please get up."
"Hai hai." Toshiro mumbled as he pushed himself up in bed. The blankets had already been pushed back in the night, the summer heat was uncomfortable in the small apartment complex that the family of four shared, especially since the air-conditioner had gone out over the weekend and Toshiro's father, Mifune, had yet to call someone to fix it, insisting he would get to it himself. "So hot." Toshiro complained as he finally got up and moved towards the door.
Tomma Toshiro had dark black hair, more like his fathers, though no one knew where his crystal blue eyes came from. They supposed it must be one of those genetic things that skipped generations. After all, the twelve year old boy had never done anything to suggest to his parents that he was anything but ordinary. Yes his teachers suggested to bump him up in school, but surely that was from hard work.
Exiting his room, Toshiro walked towards the kitchen where his mother was making eggs and rice for breakfast. His father was sitting at the table reading the morning's paper while the news was playing on the TV. Toshiro didn't pay any attention to it. He could already guess what was on.
Instead his eyes moved along to his little sister who had her head down on the table. "Ohayo, Tsubaki-chan." Toshiro said, as he sat down next to the girl.
"Ohayo, Onii-san." She said back in a tired voice. Tsubaki was only ten years old, two years younger than Toshiro. Her chestnut brown hair reached down to her shoulder blades and eyes looked irritably at their parents.
Toshiro smiled and leaned over to whisper in her ear. "Don't worry. They go to work soon and they we can have some fun." He said, cheering her up a little.
"This just in, another robbery turns into a disaster as B.A.B.E.L.'s special ESP team, The Children, arrived on the seen, taking out two buildings in the process of handling the situation. B.A.B.E.L. is currently not releasing statements on the situation, but I believe..." The news report blabbered on.
"Those rotten espers." Mifune said angrily as he folded his paper and started on breakfast. "They are ruining the world for us normal people. They should just be put down like all wild animals."
"Otou-san, we don't put all wild animal down." Toshiro tried not to sigh. The Children was the name of a team of high level espers, individuals with psychic powers, that was sent in to combat against criminal espers who abused their powers. The thing that turned into a problem was that this powerful team made up of the three strongest espers in Japan were nothing more than ten year old girls, elementary school kids.
Toshiro didn't know why he bothered saying anything, it wasn't like his parents would listen.
"Letting those children run loose is a danger to all of us. For the sake of all the normal people in the world they should all be locked up." Nene said as she put down the plates of food in front of her two children.
Both Toshiro and Tsubaki ate their food in silence as their parents talked on about how the espers were ruining everything from sports to the job market. Saying that the world was a better place before the year two thousand when the birth rate of espers suddenly increased. The words 'normal people' being thrown around like it was a common phrase.
The kids understood why. 'Normal people', was the name of the anti-esper terrorist group, and it didn't take a rocket scientist to know that Mr. and Mrs. Tomma were sympathizers. They were the equivalent of the idiotic rednecks who complained all day about Mexicans without having a clue what they were talking about. The kind of people that someone with common sense would deny being related too.
"Alright kids, we are going to be late coming home from work today. So Toshiro-kun, take care of your little sister, and Tsubaki-chan I want you to get started on your summer homework. And I would like you both to clean up the house a little." Nene said as she was putting on her shoes.
"Hai hai." Tsubaki grumbled.
"Tsubaki?" Their mother said in a warning tone.
"I said I'd do it! Geez!" Tsubaki cried angrily before turning away. Nene only sighed at her daughter's tomboy reaction, before stepping out and closing the door behind her.
Toshiro waited for a few moments until he heard a car engine come to life before sighing. "They're gone."
"Finally!" Tsubaki shouted in relief. Toshiro chuckled before waving a hand, causing the temperature in the room to drop twenty degrees into a comfortable level.
"We'll might as well get the cleaning out of the way." Toshiro said as he focused on the plates in the kitchen table, making them flout into the air and fly into the sink before it turned on.
Tomma Toshiro, or Danny Fenton, had been slightly annoyed when he found himself a baby in an alternative universe. But as usual, he made the best of it. Finding that he had retained a good deal of his powers from his previous life, he trained with them to get over the handy-cape of being only a few days old. It was a pity that he couldn't turn intangible any more and cloning was now forever out of his reach, since he no longer had ectoplasm as part of his biology, but he was still fine without them.
It wasn't long before he realized he was in a parallel world. The fact that America and Canada had been replaced with the nation of Comerica was a dead give away, even if it wasn't for all the espers running around.
"Fine, but I'm going to fix that air conditioner. I am not sleeping one more night in this heat." Tsubaki said, waving a hand at an vacuum cleaner that came to life and started to move about the floor.
It had came as a slight surprise to Danny when he found that his knew little sister was a high level Technopath, though he had been smart enough to hide that fact from their parents. She could control any kind of electronic with far more ease than Danny had ever been able to, leading to hear having a love for all sorts of TVs, phones, and computers. Her introduction to video games and almost ended in disaster as she stubbornly refused to leave them when she had pushed her consciousness into one for the first time.
"You won't hear any complaints here." Danny said using his telekenosis to removed the dust from furniture and move books off of the coffee table onto a nearby shelf. "Otou-san should have done it himself a long time ago, but he's an idiot."
Danny found himself really missing Jack and Maddie. Sure they were still racist, but at least they were intelligent and funny. Not the two most stubbornly bland people in the world. They briefly reminded Danny of the Aunt and Uncle in the Harry Potter books, but then that would imply that he was the fat spoiled child, so he dismissed the comparison.
"The problem is water damage to the compressor right?" Danny asked his sister.
"Yeah, so it will be really easy to fix, just need to replace two wires and its done." Tsubaki said as she walked over to a book shelf, which slid outwards to reveal the girl's stash of old broken laptops, cell phones, and other electronic devices. Danny could just see the assortment of Fenton style weaponry that was hidden back their. Tools and weapons that he had taught the little girl to make.
Tsubaki was happily at work fixing the air-conditioner when she stopped and frowned. "Danny-nii-chan." She said, using his old name, the way she always did when they were alone. "Do you think Oka-san and Otou-san would hate us if they knew we have powers?"
Danny walked over and put his arms around his little sister's shoulders, bringing her into a hug. "You don't have to worry. No matter what they think, I'll always be here for you. So don't worry." From his position, Danny couldn't see his little sister flushing bright red at the contact.
"O...of course." Tsubaki said, trying to pretend to be upset to cover up how flustered she was. "Danny-nii-chan. I want to play some more video games." She said, trying to change the subject really quick.
Danny laughed. "Alright, but take it easy one me this time." He said, knowing he had no chance of winning.
This new life wasn't perfect, but he was still going to hold onto it. Clockwork wouldn't talk him into giving it up again.
I'm starting to wonder if I can just write anything and people will read it and say that it was good. I personally thing that first chapter was the weakest I have had in a long time. Oh well. I guess I just can't be pleased.