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Chapter 06: Aliens and Alternate Earths Part 1
"Wake up Daniel." Clockwork's voice said ringing throughout his head like loud drums. Danny wanted to move except that had its own problems. Besides the weights pressing down on both sides of him held him down and keeping him contained to his bed the single act of moving made his head ring.
Danny knew that hangovers were painful but he had no idea that it would be like this. He was making sure he never got as drunk as he had last night again. The pain it brought on was not worth it.
"I would like to but I am kind of stuck Clockwork." Danny said wanting to go back to sleep and given Clockwork's way of freezing time before appearing meant that he could sleep as long as he wanted to as long as Clockwork did not let time return to normal.
"Your assistance is required Daniel now Get Up!." Clockwork shouted at the ned and Danny could feel the room growing colder. No matter how hard it hurt Danny opened his eyes to see the young and childlike version of the ghost standing over him.
"What is so important that I could not deal with later?" Danny asked as he phased through the two bodies sleeping on top of him and sat on the bed.
"I need you to save someone very important." Clockwork said and Danny raised an eyebrow in curiosity. Clockwork did not intervene unless the person involved was very important. The original Danny had been deemed important enough to have Clockwork interfere so that made him curious who the person he was supposed to be rescuing was.
"Alright where are they?" Danny asked looking at clockwork and watching as he shifted into his young adult form.
"They are on Earth Thirty-Eight." Clockwork answered and Danny tilted his head to make sure he heard correctly and that the hangover was not messing with his head worse than it was.
"I am sorry but I thought you said Earth Thirty-Eight." Danny said wondering what he was getting involved with now.
"Well Earth Thirty-Eight in this set of the multiverse." Clockwork said to him.
"Can you explain it to me slowly I think my hangover is affecting my head." Danny said wishing the awful pounding in his head would stop. At least there were no bright lights around because that would have only made it worse.
"Reality is omniversal however each reality helps form a multiverse. My powers let me see throughout the alternate timelines and realities. I want you to go to another earth and fix a problem that would lead to major destruction." Clockwork said.
"How much damage are we talking about?" Danny asked Clockwork.
"A level comparable to that of Dan Phantom." Clockwork said and Danny gave a whistle at that and immediately grabbed his head. He really wished that he hadn't done that.
"How long do you think I will be gone?" Danny asked Clockwork. He had just been made the official hero of the city not even two weeks ago and disappearing for a long time would be pretty bad.
"Probably a few days at the most." Clockwork answered him.
"What about the city?" Danny asked.
"I have foreseen that you will leave a duplicate behind at fifty percent power." Clockwork said telling him his idea before he even thought of it. Going at only fifty percent power was more than enough for a simple job but he knew that there was a lot that Clockwork wasn't telling him.
He knew better than asking the ancient ghost because the only response he would get would be a cryptic riddle and with this headache a cryptic riddle would not help.
"How do I get to this alternate earth?" Danny asked calmly and slowly trying to not send his head spinning.
"This is complicated so first I have to do this." Clockwork said pointing his staff at him and green ghost energy moved throughout the room.
"What did you just do?" Danny asked looking at Clockwork. Taking a look at the clock in his room he could see that time had not returned to normal and nothing else had changed so he wanted to know what was the point of that.
"I moved your body a day in the future. Your hangover is gone. Now listen carefully." Clockwork said and Danny nodded along.
"When a ghost opens a portal between this world and the Ghost Zone they are opening dimensional portals. You think of a destination and the portal opens to take you there. So to reach another earth all you have to do is think of the earth you want to go to." Clockwork said.
"So the Ghost Zone connects with all these different earths?" Danny asked making sure to remember this information. Dimensional jumping would probably be a good backup plan in case things on this earth did not work out.
It was important to always have a backup plan and more in the case that one did not work out as planned.
"Okay. Is there anything else that I need to know about this person that I am supposed to be helping?" Danny asked wanting to know the city he was supposed to be aiming for or other important things like the person's name or face that he was supposed to be looking for.
"It is all here in the file." Clockwork said and a portal opened with another file falling on his desk. Danny would have to look over it before he left. He knew Clockwork was not going to give him the full details but thankfully he was not telling him that he would figure it out when he got there.
"Alright I will do it." Danny said and watched as Clockwork set time back in motion. As soon as he saw the clock began to tick he got out of the bed and headed to the shower. Hopefully the two lying on his bed asleep would be out for a bit longer.
Thinking back on last night while he took his shower he could not help but groan. He had gone to a bar for a drink and ran into Shawna and Becky Sharpe the metahuman who would have been known to become Hazard. He had seen that she was feeling down on her luck and decided to buy her and shawna drinks.
The night just spiraled afterwards. He had seriously underestimated alcohol's effect on him.
Turns out that he was truthful while drunk and once started he could not be stopped. He had not talked about his origins but he had talked about what he was planning with all the metahumans he had been hoping to acquire. Becky had been on that list because her ability to manipulate luck would do very well for his business.
His original plan was to create a business where metahumans could use their powers to help the world. Many were only doing the hero and villain thing because they needed money or just simply wanted to use their powers. Just because people had superpowers did not mean they had to put on spandex and fight crime.
This line of thinking was based on an issue from marvel comics. Their powers had plenty of in the world without them needing to use force and if some did want to fight crime there would be spots for that.
There was major crime all over the world and would exist as long as sentient beings lived on the planet.
Hearing that he had a job for her Becky had ordered more drinks. For such a small woman she could drink a lot of alcohol. They soon left and ran havoc throughout the city. Drunk people with superpowers were always going to end up in chaotic situations. The only good thing was that there chaos could be explained away by simple teenage pranksters.
Mannequins moving like they were zombies, people seeing a woman teleporting like a horror movie monster, or fire hydrants exploding without anyone touching them. The three of them had run wild with their powers but they at least made sure that no one got seriously hurt.
The night was fine. The major issues would come when the girls woke up. Between their threesome and the fact that their boss had powers they probably had a lot to talk about when they woke up and their hangover went away.
Danny wanted to avoid that conversation as much as possible and this mission made it exactly possible for him to do dressed in a dark red shirt and blue jeans he created a duplicate.
"Great so I have to deal with this while you go on an adventure." Duplicate Danny complained watching him put his socks and sneakers on.
"Life is tough. We all have our burdens to bear." Danny said before grabbing the file and some oranges and tangerines. He was going to to his office to read the file.
Danny phased through the roof and off he went.
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"Damn Clockwork." Danny said as he banged his fist against the table. The oh so important file that he was given by Clockwork held very little information. All it said was that he was looking for some named Supergirl and that she was the heroine of National City.
He would have banged his head on the desk but now that his headache was gone he did not want to bring on another his hand had to pay the sacrifice.
There was no mention of the danger that she was in. Whatever he was supposed to help her in he would have to figure it out after he met her. The one upside to it was that this Supergirl looked to be very beautiful.
An interesting bit was that she was an alien. Danny wondered if there were aliens in this universe as well. If they looked similar to her he would be very willing to spend money on any space programs the country decided to make.
"Guess it is time to go." Danny said placing the file down and backing away from the table. He extended his hand focusing on an empty area of the ghost zone. Before his eyes a hole between the dimensions appeared and he flew through it and saw that there were no islands or floating doors around him.
Danny wondered how deep into the Ghost Zone he was. This was deeper than he, Vlad, or Original Danny had ever traveled through the Ghost Zone. Farther than Pariah's Keep and Aragon's Castle.
At least he had the room to properly think and aim of where he was going.
Taking a deep breathe Danny opened a portal but unlike all the other ghost portals this one had a white center. Danny could feel a connection with the portal.
Worlds flew by with histories and people he could glimpse at but passed by too quickly for him to get a a real image of. There were images of heroes saving worlds and worlds being destroyed. There were cheers of hope and cries of despair that blurred together making confusing sounds that tempted him to both laugh and cry.
He wondered how Clockwork dealt with all of this and more given the nature of his powers.
Danny eventually found the correct world on the other side of the portal and so he flew through it and he would admit that the ride was worse than any roller coaster. He eventually had to form a ghost shield around him to protect him as he bounced around the portal. Unlike the instantaneous travel he would get when he traveled through a regular portal this was more like a tunnel.
Except this way was a lot more bumpy and chaotic.
When he made his way to the other side he felt tempted to kiss the ground but he had to much pride to do so.
It was time to start his mission.