[A/N] Chapter 2 hopefully flows better. I fired the old narrator, so to speak, and hired a more omniscient one.
Somewhere deep in the ghost zone, in the foreboding tower of Clockwork a certain headache-causing group of ghost were doing what they do best: annoying Clockwork.
"Clockwork! Explain yourself. Your charge has encased the entirety of Amity Park in thick ice. We knew it would have been better to slay that child earlier on," one of the large one-eyed creatures, an observant, was staring down the master of time. "Look what he has done, you know this ice cannot be removed by normal means."
"I am well aware of what has occurred, and I assure you that I have reviewed all other futures and have found this one the most favourable," Clockwork replied, stifling a yawn.
"Most favourable? You are the master of time, not a penguin. How is this glacier 'most favourable'?!" Although clearly not gaining any ground in the argument, the Observant obstinately continued to shout at the calm Clockwork.
"Observants, if you perhaps did your job more thoroughly you would know too. Now leave me, I have matters to attend to," said Clockwork as he turned and stared into some distant space. The observants only turned, grumbled and left.
As soon as they departed Clockwork twirled his staff and opened a view way to where Danny was, and then whispered to himself "Everything is the way it's supposed to be."
Danny awoke when a bird landed on his face and began to peck him. "Ow!" Danny muttered, swatting the bird away, what happened? he thought. He began to look around, trying to figure out why he was on a glacier that stretched in all directions. How did I get here? He pondered on that question for a moment and remembered being stuck in some weapon Skulker found. Skulker, that name stirred some memories: his legs stuck, being unable to use his powers and a giant meteor flying towards the city. Then his memories took a darker turn, he froze, quite literally, everything froze. His ice powers reacted to the threat and covered the city in a layer of ice protecting the city from the impact of the space rock.
Danny turned still thinking about what happened and saw the rock, lodged in the glacier that was once his city. He gasped at his revelation; I froze the city, how? Danny wondered.
Danny, for a moment, starting to freak out, sobbing uncontrollable, but stopped. He remembered one other thing, a memory further back: due to an accident earlier, he discovered that the objects he froze were perfectly fine upon defrosting.
He thought back…
"Wow Danny, when you have a cold, you have a cold," Tucker observed feeling Danny's forehead.
"Ya I know. You guys should've seen my last sneeze, I shot icicles," Danny said, punctuating each few words with a sniffle or two. "I even froze a helpless squirrel that was perched on my window sill," he saw the look of worry on his friends' faces and continued "he was fine, don't worry. I defrosted him quickly and he through a nut at me."
"So, if everyone is frozen and safe… I just need to thaw them out," Danny worked out, smiling at his genius. He found a nice place to begin and started firing ghost rays at the ice. The ice, however, had other plans; it refused to melt choosing instead to remain stubbornly frozen.
"Stupid ice, why won't you melt?!" Danny shouted, stressing each word with a beam of ecto-energy. Despite the constant barrage of ecto-beams, the ice stood firm.
"Something wrong little badger?" A wry voice sounded from above the rock, Danny in the midst of his ceaseless storm of blasts turned up.
"Plasmius, are we back from outside business so soon? Don't just stand there help me melt destroy the ice. The town is stuck," yelled Danny.
"Skulker came and took me from my business; he mentioned something about destroying my city with a new weapon. But when I arrived, I came to this" Vlad gestured to the surrounding glacier, "a glacier, honestly Danny?"
"I was stressed; I don't want to talk about it. Just know that everyone is safe, we just need to melt the ice. Help me!" Danny continued his firing.
"Danny, believe me when I say I have tried to liberate our town from the ice. It would seem that this ice will not melt by normal means, though I wouldn't know my powers are not based on ice."
"That's it! I'll ask Frostbite, he will know how to free everyone. Thanks Vlad, you've rebuilt your mansion right," Vlad nodded, "awesome! Can I use the portal?" Danny flew away, excited by the prospects of seeing Frostbite again and freeing his town.
"Go on Daniel, it's so difficult to work when the town is frozen. Now I must have a word with that buffoon, Skulker.