This is embarrassing… !^. I wasn't going to have things happen here (I was going to have Chief Estain turn up at the Fenton's after… blah blah blah! Who cares that won't happen now) but this happens around chapter 118 – 122 I think? and felt this would be the best fit for the plot I'm planning…

Also Lenali's name: have I got the right spelling? 'Cause it changes in the manga every so often... -D.C.

**Chapter 4 - Seconds Early of Seconds Late**

"Oh its' not me you'll be fighting" Road grinned as the ghoul stepped forward out of the shadows,

"Meet Ghoul, he's a little experiment that the Earl made and let me tell you he's heaps more dangerous than anything else you've faced" Road sneered and stood off to the side as Lavi and the ghoul sized one another up.

"Have fun fighting your own mind, try not to break too much~!" Road called as in the real world Lavi collapsed.

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Lenali and Chaoji gasped as inside the box a gold portal opened and two people stepped out; a tall young man holding a longbow and a short boy with black hair.

"You were right, he got us here just in time Danny, hello we're the unplanned back-up" the blonde said, the other boy just rolled his eyes and turned to Lenali and smiled pleasantly.

"No we're not, your order doesn't know we're here… and I think we're maybe a few seconds late Toby" Danny said grabbing a hold of the three and phasing them through the box as it was yanked out of the way of Tiki's vacuum ball by Road much to Lenali and Chaoji's shock and surprise.

"Toby! you protect these two from her, while I offer that guy in there some friendly firepower" Danny said pointing and to the vacuum ball.

"Okay!" Toby yelled as Danny disappeared from sight in a flash of glowing green and white that Toby recognized as his transformation.

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Inside the vacuum Allen gasped as the air was forced from his lungs, but just as he felt black edging his vision, he felt cold arms wrap around him from behind.

"Easy now, I'll get you out" a voice with an American accent said and before he knew it he found himself being set down and found he could breathe again.

"What was that? Who are you, not another white haired brat?" Tiki yelled as he and Road looked gobsmacked at the ghost boys' appearance.

"You!" Road screeched pointing at Danny frantically "I know you! You're the ghost freak that the Earl has been baiting for a year! The pair to that ghoul thing he made, that I set in that Bookman's mind just now!" this time she was alternating between pointing at Lavi and him.

"What?" the others yelled all looking bewildered (Relo and Tiki included) at her outburst, while Danny just looked waveringly between Lavi and Allen, noticing this Toby grinned and nodded towards Lavi and Danny smiled sighing as he flew intangibly into junior Bookman's red head.

"You know don't care! Be ready to fight Allen~!" Tiki yelled advancing on him as Allen struggled to fight the black still edging his vision from lack of oxygen and remembering his oath to himself.

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Lavi panted as he reduced another friend-faced zombie to its clone-like form before it dissolved in a pool of glowing green goo.

Lavi turned at the strange accent and almost thought it was Allen on seeing the white hair, but blinked when he realized that this person whoever they are had glowing green eyes, was dressed all in skin-tight black and was (if it was even possible) a significant degree shorter then Allen was, he hadn't thought anyone was that short other than Bookman.

The not!Allen almost immediately started cutting through the mass of zombies with glowing green blasts, stunned at this, he wasn't aware when of his double as he blindsided him.

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"No! Danny!" Toby yelled as the Exorcism sword went through Lavi and a flash of green shot out of him.

"Ouch…" Danny mumbled blearily as he skidded to a stop next to the three spectators, blinking dazedly and rubbing the quickly healing stab wound on his chest.

"Danny! What- where's the ghoul?" Toby said as he and Chaoji helped him to his feet.

"He's not here; it wasn't Vlad, just his clone…" Danny replied before bending over to hack out a blob of ectoplasm, Lenali and Chaoji just blinked mutely at Danny's ghostly appearance, but all four quickly looked back to see that Lavi was still attacking Allen.

"It isn't Vlad's clone, he's gone now, he didn't overshadow him anyway, he was just a decoy along of the ride, it is really as that Road girl said 'his heart has died" Danny bit out as the wound on his chest finished closing up.

"But what about you? That sword should have killed you when he tried to exorcise Lavi?" Toby said his nausea rising at seeing Danny's injury heal so quickly, Danny looked upset at him and laughed.

"That Allen guy just said that it exorcises evil, I know I may be a ghost but I'm not evil! And even if I was, it would take more than a sword no matter how powerful to off me, -half ghost remember?- it was bad enough that it forced me out!" Danny shouted as Chaoji and Lenali gasped when he said 'ghost'.

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"Road-tama!" they heard the pumpkin Relo (Lero?) scream as Road's skeletal remains crumbled away.

Danny turned away after he and Toby were introduced as they started talking about how they would get out, only adding he two cents that if he stay and get Allen out when he found the other two.

He stayed standing there until he heard the Lenali girl scream and spun around to see the ground collapse under Allen as he fell.

"I'll catch him you lot go on before you lose the chance!" he yelled over his shoulder as he streaked through the air and down the hole.

Next to him Lavi fell also, Danny shot him a 'what are you doing here!" look as he grabbed the redhead's shoulder and slowed to a hover above the ground before dropping the rest of the way.

"The doors already gone" Lavi replied answering Allen's question and Danny's look, before Danny jumped to grab a hold of them and sent them all intangible to miss the swing the Tiki monster through them and Danny flew towards the others far above them, zigzagging as he went to miss the tentacle things of Tiki.

When he got there he gracelessly dumped Allen and Lavi next to Toby brought up a shield in vain as the tower crumbled to pieces around them.

"No…!" he heard someone yell the portion of rubble he was on fell sharply away and he looked around wildly as he tried to see the others oblivious to the column falling towards him.

**End**