Author's Note: Well here we are with another chapter. I have been reading Image comics like Invincible and they have tied with my love for DC. I have now moved Marvel Comics to my second favorite and I don't mean current Marvel but the older funnier Marvel Comics.
Also wanted to remind everyone that the abuse between Hank and Janet never happened in this universe.
I don't own Danny Phantom or Ultimate Marvel
Chapter 09: Ultimates United
Walking through the Triskelion with Betty Ross and Nick Fury Danny couldn't help but look at all the people healing here that were hurt during the Hulk's rampage. The whole event was something he was glad he was able to stop but still he was really regretting not killing Banner so the guy would never get the chance to rampage again.
Feeling all the stares of awe that were sent his way Danny decided to focus on the fact that these were the people that he had saved and take it as an accomplishment.
Getting in to the elevator with the other two Danny was content in the silence. Betty on the other hand was not and so she decided to break it.
"You know, there is a little bit of me that feels a tad responsible for all this, general." Betty said.
"I agree with you." Danny said cutting in and the two turned towards him.
"Isn't that a little harsh?" Betty asked him. Danny shook his head no. He wasn't one to judge another person but he could see and understand cause and effect. From the way that she, Hank and the others had been treating Banner and his obvious issues a problem was naturally going to occur.
He told her as much. Then the elevator door opened and they stepped out to see Banner.
While they were watching Banner Fury asked him why he wasn't with the other Ultimates helping out and he replied that he was.
"Then how are you here?" Fury asked him.
"I'm a Duplicate." He answered before he felt the original calling him back. He left while letting them discuss how to cover all of this up.
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Danny absorbed the clone back into him while they helped clean up the mess that banner had made.
Picking up a piece of debris single handed Danny turned towards the others and saw that they were getting interviewed.
"How am I feeling? Well my ribs are cracked, my nose is broken, and my left arm seems to have been dislocated, but it's nothing that shouldn't heal in a day or two, ma'am." Captain America answered.
"Was I scared fighting the Hulk? To tell you the truth I was shaking like a leaf, my dear." Tony said in his armor and Hulk drool running down his face.
"That is why Stark is glad to have someone like me with him." Danny said as he wrapped an arm around Stark's shoulder.
"Really?" Stark asked raising an eyebrow at him.
"You were there. you know what happened." Danny said and then the reporter turned towards the others.
"No, helping the Ultimates does not mean I am suddenly one of Bush's little super-commandos, mister Stern." Thor said and then went on to say "By that logic wouldn't stopping to help an advertising executive with a flat tire mean you automatically joined Proctor and Gable."
Janet was on a show with Oprah talking about the Battle while Hank was here with the rebuilding and taking pictures.
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Danny was in a boxing ring with Captain America. Danny was in his costume but the captain wasn't.
"You sure you're up for this?" Danny said as he lifted his hands up.
"Anytime." Captain America replied as he lifted his hands up.
Danny had decided to train with Captain America in close quarters combat without the use of his powers as that was one of the many things that the Captain was good at that no one else on the team was.
"Let's go." Rogers said as he came in with a punch that Danny sidestepped. Dropping to the ground Danny tried to kick the Captain's leg out but the captain did a sideways flip that ended with him on his legs and farther than Danny's leg.
"I'll admit it. you are good." Danny said as he came in with a punch to his face that the Captain blocked by bring his fist up. Danny brought his fist down to punch the captain in the stomach but Captain America grabbed it and flipped Danny over his shoulder.
"You need a minute?" he asked looking down on Danny.
"Oh it is on." Danny said jumping up to his feet and facing the captain.
They rushed at each other both with a determination to beat the other.
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Walking down the hallway Danny was now bored. It had been a draw with Captain America. He had to admit for an old man that had been frozen for a few decades the old guy was still very fast and strong.
Seeing Janet walking towards him Danny got an idea. Steve had told him that he, Tony, and Thor were having dinner and that they wanted to know if he was interested. Danny was bored and had nothing to do at the time so he said yes.
"Hey Janet." He called out to her. She saw him and turned he told her why he was calling out to her and she agreed and promised that she would bring Hank as well.
"Alright thanks. See you later." He said as they parted ways.
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"They made trading cards about me?" Captain America asked as they walked through Tony's huge mansion. Danny had arrived along with the others about ten minutes ago.
"All gone to charity now, I'm afraid. I think I gave them away with the Faberge eggs and the vintage playboys, if I'm not mistaken." Tony said talking about how this house that he had bought from his mom with the first million he ever made.
The butler Jarvis led them all to a table and brought out wine for the others. Danny however was given soda. Danny just leaned back in his chair and wondered when the food would get here.
"Thor do you really believe in this whole Asgardian thing?" Hank asked as he and Janet sat next to each other. Janet elbowed him for being rude but Thor just took it in stride.
"Oh very much. I have believed since I was twelve. The mental breakdown just made everything clear." Thor said and Danny had to admit that really did not help his case.
Thor went on to say that he was a god in the form of man and sent here to help fix the earth and Tony went to try to tell him that joining the Ultimates could help him do that. Thor disagreed saying that the Ultimates were being paid for by the wealthy to protect them and that joining the Ultimates would be forgiving and accepting the military industrial complex that was paying them.
Captain America then said it was good since they got him for free since he offered to help if there was a threat that endangered people's lives.
"Hey Phantom are you really a ghosts?" Tony asked. I guess since they were asking Thor if he was really Asgardian they would ask him too.
"Yes and No." he answered.
"How can you be both a ghost yet not a ghost?" Hank asked
Feeling no need to keep it a secret given that Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. knows Danny gave a sigh and transformed back into his human form. It wouldn't do to keep this a secret from his team.
"My name is Daniel Masters and I am a half ghost." Danny said looking over at the others who were surprised by his transformation.
"How can you be half a ghost?" Janet asked leaning on the table looking at him. He could see the others were interested too.
"It depends on your definition ghosts." Danny said leaning onto the table. It seemed like since they were waiting for dinner they were telling origin stories. Tony already told them about his tumor and how he became a superhero to make every day of his life matter. The Pym's origin story was already known alongside Captain America's. His origin story was the only mystery.
He decided that he would tell them a modified version of his story using the origin story made by the alien that sent him to this universe.
"There are three ways ghost are described. The soul of the deceased that refuses to move on, An odd manifestation of ectoplasm and post human consciousness, otherworldly monsters and creatures with no connection to human spirits." Danny said as he gave them the three ways ghost were created and defined. The first was the mystical reason that many believed in. The last two were the beliefs of his original universe.
Tony, Hank, and Janet all look interested at this discussion.
"Which one are you?' Thor asked.
"None of the above. I am a halfa. Half human and half ghost and I was born this way." Danny said.
"Which of your parents was the Human?" Hank asked.
"My father." Danny answered and it was true. In this Universe Vlad wasn't given ecto-acne given that none of the Fentons existed. He had checked his second day in this world.
"So your mother was a ghost?" Janet asked.
"Ghost can have kids?" Tony asked. Danny nodded.
Danny told them his backstory. His parents had gotten together and created him in a lab to see if they could create a child that was both human and ghost. They wanted to see if a human could have ghost powers.
"Why would they do that?" Janet asked wondering why someone would go to the trouble of this.
"Profit maybe?" Tony asked and Danny shook his head no. Vlad and Spectra were rich but they had not created him for that purpose according to his memories.
"They did it so that Vlad my father could have ghost powers." Danny said. Vlad had turned himself into a half in this universe both to be with Spectra and for power which they later got by robbing millionaires.
"That is against the law." Tony said. Human genetic manipulation tests were forbidden by the united nations and when found out they were to be arrested.
"Yeah. The thing is the both of them aren't on the planet anymore so they really can't be tried." Danny said
"Where are they then?" Tony asked and he told them they were in another dimension but no specifics were given since one of them might tell Fury and there was no telling what Fury would do with information of the ghost zone.
The food then interrupted them and Danny focused on that and the adults took it as a sign to end the conversation.
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"Doctor Banner? Can you hear me? Is the speaker system working?" the person on the other side of the glass asked. He was holding a clipboard with notes on him from all those test they took on him.
"Who in God's name are you supposed to be." he asked tiredly. He just wanted to go back to wallowing in guilt over what happened. Others that worked here had left him alone when they weren't blaming and attacking him.
"Emmon Brankin, sir. I don't know if you remember me, but I was the senior medical officer on S.H.I.E.L.D.'s old genome project a few years back." He said. Banner didn't remember much of back then. The only memories he had of working with S.H.I.E.L.D was the Hulk and how much trouble that came from it.
"Doctor Pym brought me on to deputize for him on the super-solider program when you, ah... Well, when you had your recent Hulk episode, sir." he said reminding him of his recent rampage. That was the hip thing to do apparently.
Remind Bruce Banner of his rampage while ignoring that his plan worked and the Ultimates were now friends and a true team. Did anyone remember that no. All they remembered was that the Hulk had gone on a rampage.
"I'm here to review your blood tests and see what we can do to make your stay here in the holding area a little more comfortable, Doctor Banner." he said looking at him.
"Are you still feeling a little too groggy from the painkillers to talk about this right now?" he asked but his mind was focused on something else.
"One of the nurses told me they were having a remembrance service this morning for all the people I killed in New York, Doctor Brankin." He asked the doctor. They weren't supposed to tell him since they were worried it might stress him out and bring back the Hulk but the nurse wanted him to feel pain since one of them had lost a niece.
"Is it true I murdered over a hundred people?" he asked. The entire night seemed like a blur. He remembered talking to Betty then walking up to facing the Ultimates and in a lot of pain.
"To be honest we won't have any final body count until all the bodies are dug out of the rubble, sir." he went on to say that there were a lot of lives saved that might have died if it wasn't for Phantom and Iron man taking up most of the Hulk's attention.
Bruce didn't like what happened but he could take the small victories where he could.
"You can't imagine how painful this has been for me, Doctor Brankin. The paper must be tearing me apart out there. The public must be calling for my head on a plate." he said wondering how bad it would be when he got out of the cell.
Apparently that wasn't an issue. The government had airbrushed him right out from their statements. Apparently if you did not work for S.H.I.E.L.D. or the military you did not know that the Hulk was Bruce Banner.
Looked like life was finally going well for Bruce Banner is some manner.
"Are you serious? You mean once I get out of here, there isn't even going to be a trial? " He couldn't believe that and going by the look on Brankin's face he was right there being in fact something he still wasn't being told. It looked like it was going to be bad news.
"Actually that is one of the things I came down here to talk to you about, sir. You see we have been taking a look at the general trends in your blood test results and I am afraid that things aren't quite as simple as your last couple of Hulk escapades." he said and the tone in his voice made Bruce uncomfortable.
"It's probably the fact that you combined your old formula with Captain America's super-solider serum but the Hulk intrabodies in your cells aren't just disappearing." Barkin said and he was shocked and worried over what that meant for him.
"We think they are forming a permanent bond with your DNA, sir." Bruce could not believe this especially with what it meant for him.
"Are you out of your mind? That's ridiculous! I'm not going to spend the rest of my life in a cage! I want the figured checked again! I want Hank Pym to check them not some idiot I've never heard of." He screamed unable to believe what was going on. Why did all of his mistakes just make his life even more difficult.
"Very well." Barkin said and left leaving him alone to wallow in his despair except now it was even worse.
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"Gentlemen I would like you to meet the leading lights of S.H.I.E.L.D.'s black ops division. Natasha and Clint, this is Tony Stark, Phantom, Hank and Janet Pym, Steve Rogers and Thor." Fury said as he introduced them to the Ultimates.
Danny waved at Hawkeye but he was focused on talking with Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver.
"Clint and Natasha as you might have heard, are going to be upgraded to public status later this month, once we finish falsifying their backgrounds. Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch are staying in the shadow team for obvious reasons." he said and they turned to look at them and saw that Danny was talking with quicksilver and going by the grin on his face and the scowl on Quicksilver's it was obvious that Danny was making fun of him.
Oh great that kid really loved annoying people.
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"Hey Pietro can you create speed mirages?" Danny asked with a grin on his face. Pietro and Wanda Maximoff were the children of Magneto. The mutant terrorist that had attacked Washington a while back. They had sided against their father which led to his death and now they were joining the Ultimates.
Danny wanted to understand what type of people they were and so he sought to find out. He wanted to annoy Pietro because it seemed like it would be funny seeing his reactions so for him it was a win-win situation.
"Can you create a speed mirage?" he asked and watched as Pietro glared at him. He found it best to make flash references with Pietro because the man clearly wasn't as fast as the flash and he was proud of his speed.
"Hey do you guys take long talks in hallways while Pietro broods Wanda?" He asked and given the guilty look she gave Pietro and as Pietro glared at him he knew he was right.
"Do you tell him run, Pietro, run when he is feeling down?" Pietro tried to rush him but he crashed into the wall as Danny turned invisible.
"Should have tried vibrating your molecules so you pass through the door." Danny said and looked at the downed body of Pietro.
"You make me miss being a super villain." He said as his sister began to help him get up.
"I don't know what surprises me more, General Fury the Brotherhood of Mutants working for S.H.I.E.L.D. or the fact that you are employing Magneto's children here." Thor said with his weird long blonde hair that in Danny's opinion was just terrible.
Apparently they were working with S.H.I.E.L.D. for the release of a few prisoners that were in the government's custody. Natasha and Quicksilver were arguing over what they had accomplished with Pietro claiming that he had saved her life three times when they were in an earlier mission and Natasha didn't believe him.
"Maybe you can tell us why all of us were needed." Captain America said in the back. He was obviously trying to get back to reason that we were all called here.
"Nick do you know Stark International is losing a million dollars for every minute I am sitting here, old boy. Do you think we could possibly get this meeting underway?" Tony asked. Danny wasn't sure if he was exaggerating but with the amount of money Stark had he didn't think Stark would care over a few million.
"Okay but anyone just promoted to above top secret should probably take a seat because what I am about to say contradicts everything we drip-fed to you through the media people." You had to give it to Nick Fury he really was a master of setting the mood.
Danny wondered at times if that eyepatch was just for show and to help him look intimidating. After all who asks the man with an eyepatch a question that would lead to a stare down.
Apparently there were eleven alien species living on this earth that the American government was aware of. The Chitauri had arrived in the year seventeen seventy-seven and were responsible for several acts of genocide most notably world war two.
Looking back on him he saw that Captain America was giving a deep frown at the screen.
Fury said they were eight feet tall and reptilian with the ability to transform into humans. They helped the rise of national socialism and Adolf Hitler.
They had assumed them finished when the war ended and them driven out of Europe and Africa and until two years ago in Calcutta where they found a Chitauri corpse they had assumed them dead and extinct.
Last year there were four sighting in Eastern Europe and another three in Singapore but the New York bust was the biggest to date.
"Five hundred and twenty-eight sleeper agents organizing everything from mind-control drugs in the water supply to infiltration of the national media." He said looking at all of them but Fury believed that the problem went even deeper. That the Chitauri were planning something on a planetary scale.
They didn't know what the plan was but they were scanning the alien's brain to find out what it knew or what it had been planning.
"My god. Am I the only one here absolutely blown away by all this? I mean are you all trying to prove how cool and unflappable you are or something?" Tony asked leaning back. Danny had met a scarier alien before being sent here and he was pretty confident he could destroy these Chitauri.
"Welcome to the world between the cracks in the sidewalk, comrade Stark." Natasha said with her Russian accent.
Fury led them all to the alien that was being dissected. Danny was really glad he hadn't eaten anything as he got a good look at the creature. His face shifted between alien and human, two mouths open in terror, purple blood spilled all over the table, and its eye was out of his head and put right next to it. It truly was a gruesome thing.
Hank and Janet were staying behind to help with the study of the alien. Everybody else was suiting up and getting ready. Danny already had everything he was going to need for this trip so he just went up to the roof of the Triskelion and took a look over the city.
His ghost sense activated and he whirled around to see who it was.
Clockwork was standing behind him in his child form.
"Is this why you made me join the Ultimates?" Danny asked. Wondering if this invasion was the reason that millions of people would die. That this fight would end badly if he wasn't there and that people would get hurt.
"No. If you survive this problem, then you will one day face the catastrophe I am aware of and warned you of." Clockwork said shifting to his adult form. Danny found it more comfortable talking to Clockwork when he was older than Danny in appearance and not only age and mind.
"So we all survive?' He asked Clockwork.
"I won't tell you that because if I give you an answer you will either fight too overconfident or too protective of the others." Clockwork answered.
"So it is a question I will have to figure out on my own?" He basked and watched as Clockwork nodded and disappeared into a ghost portal.
Giving a sigh Danny turned to look back at the city getting ready for a major fight. He walked down a while later trying to find Tony and Natasha to tell them it was time to go and saw a sight that would traumatize him more than any of the fighting would.
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Flying with Iron man and keeping in time with all the jets was easy for Danny to do listening to the man's jokes however that truly was the hard part.
"Tony I want you to know that you aren't funny." He said as he floated between two jets.
"You just have a poor sense of humor. I blame it on the public educational system." Tony said in return.
"I may blame them for a lot but I can't let them take the blame for you jokes failing." Danny said with a grin on his face.
"Both of you focus." Fury said. He was with Captain America, Hawkeye, and Black Widow and approaching Micronesia by helicarrier while Thor was flying on his own.
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Janet Van Dyne was currently trying to escape the Triskelion. She had heard that there was fighting in the sick bay and she went to check it out. She had heard reports of gun shots being heard and people being hurt.
She had rushed down there and found that the Chitauri had invaded farther than Nick Fury had thought and were now trying to take control of the base. She had fought them off for a while but being small and shooting energy blasts weren't really affecting them much and so she left to alert the others.
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"What do you mean nobodies there?" Fury questioned Thor. He wasn't sure he heard the man right
"Exactly what I said general, you asked me to teleport and give reconnaissance and I'm giving you the best information available." Thor replied with certainty.
"The island's deserted and has been for weeks. The information given by psi-division was completely inaccurate." Thor said.
"Yeah well I think I trust their word more than yours, Goldilocks. go take another look, huh?" He told him.
"Excuse me?" Thor said.
"What?" He said. He didn't get how the guy didn't understand how important this was.
He and Thor argued over the next couple of minutes about how Thor didn't work for Fury. He helped him out because people would be in danger and killed otherwise. Fury in disbelief over all this was about to say something else when Stark showed up and told them that Thor was right and besides them nobody else was here.
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Danny had been walking inside the building with the soldiers when they saw the bomb.
Create a ghost shield over the soldiers Danny protected them all from the blast. He lowered the shield when the damage was over and had to cover his ears when the soldiers began to cheer when they saw the weren't caught in the explosion that destroyed the facility they were standing in.
They were cheering but Danny was thinking about all the people that were caught up in the explosion. He hoped that a majority of them made it out okay. Psychic division had a lot to explain when they made it back.
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Janet couldn't believe she had been captured. The worst bit was being stuck in a beaker. Psi-division had been compromised and she was the only one that knew. They had taken Hank out already. It had taken a lot of them but the accomplished it and now she was trapped.
This was so humiliating.
The worst part was the alien that captured her was now dragging her along and so she had to listen to him boast about how they were going to win.
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Rushing to the capital Danny and the other charged straight ahead. It hadn't take long to understand why they had been set up and sent to a facility that was going to explode.
Full of determination they charged right ahead to do battle with the Chitauri.
Captain America and Fury were doing battle on the ground with the soldiers.
Thor and Danny were taking the ships down.
"You are a brave warrior for one so young." Thor said to Danny as they brought lighting and electrokinesis down on the ships respectively.
The blue and green lighting took down ship after ship.
"Thanks but let save the congratulations for later." Danny said in return.
The battle from that point was really easy. Captain America was dealing with the leader of the Chitauri and Ironman saved the city from having a plane crash into it.
Hawkeye, Fury, Quicksilver, and Scarlet Witch were fighting and Black Widow had freed Wasp and Giant man and they were taking care of the Triskelion.
So far everything was going pretty good.
"NO!" He heard a voice shout and looked to see Banner being thrown out of a plane coming closer to the fighting zone.
"Great now we have to deal with this." He complained.
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Well after Captain America sent the Hulk after the aliens Danny had left Thor to do his thing and destroy the other ships. He went to help Iron man, Wasp, and Black Widow stop a bomb. Or more accurately a duplicate did. The original went to deal with the Hulk.
"Thor, it's me. Could you get down here for a second? We really need your help and don't have much time left." Iron man said.
Black Widow and Iron man had this speech about how she respected him for being willing to sacrifice himself for the world and mentioned an event that they had in the bathroom that Danny was consciously trying to repress in his mind. Behind layers and layers in a door that would be labelled repressed memories.
"What but I thought you had a plan." Janet cried out. She was clearly nervous. Danny wished he had a helmet he could take the bomb to space and let it blow up. He was only a duplicate and it would save lives.
"I do have a plan: I want Thor to use his magic hammer to teleport the bomb off-world. As far away from me and you as possible." Iron man said and Danny had to admit it did make sense to do it that way.
The girls on the other hand had a different reaction. They broke down and Janet put her hand to her mouth at Tony's plan.
Natasha raged at the fact that he was going to have Thor drop it off in "Narnia" and Tony told her to stop being so Eastern European and relax.
"Danny what is your opinion?" Janet turned to him to ask.
"I say go for it." Danny had memories of mystical objects that could rewrite reality. Why shouldn't they trust in one now.
Natasha fought Tony's claim that Thor was real and said that he was an insane metal patient with delusional schizophrenia.
Of course that was when Thor decided to show up.
"Oh, ye of little faith." Thor said with his axe in hand clearly confident in what he was doing.
"This is insane." Natasha said and as Thor began to draw lightning to himself they all began to run away from the bomb.
"But that's impossible. I've read the intelligence reports. I've seen all the classified documents. Thor how did you do that?" Natasha asked as besides feeling the few ripples third dimensional space that Thor mentioned would happened when he teleported the bomb to Nastrond a desert in Asgard.
"He is a Norse God." Danny said to her as he finally relaxed. He knew that he would survive but the others that were farther away would not have been so lucky.
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Original Danny was with Hawkeye and the others dealing with the fact that now that the aliens were gone their biggest problem was the Hulk. He had eaten the alien commander and was now rushing Hawkeye.
"Hey dummy remember me." Danny said as he blasted the Hulk who was charging Hawkeye with the only weapon able to turn him back into Banner.
He had expected ghost rays to blast the Hulk but instead what he had hit the Hulk with was ice.
"Finally." Danny cheered looking at his hands but while he had been celebrating the Hulk had broken free and was charging at Hawkeye with the arrow sticking in his shoulder.
He could hear Hawkeye screaming as the Hulk got closer but when he turned to them and rushed off to save him he only found Banner back to normal and unconscious.
"Zat a fact Hawkeye this guy eats in his sleep or something?" a soldier asked him the others were full of smiles now that the danger was over.
"That's right. Laugh it up. I'd like to see you make that shot, you morons." Hawkeye said in response.
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"I think this means we're officially superheroes now." Janet said as they all stood together looking over the damage.
"I mean I have been a superhero for a while already so this is just another day in the life." He said. He was glad everything turned out all right.
"Don't ruin the moment kid." Giant-man said next to the Wasp.
"There will be a party to celebrate in a few days." Fury said to them and it was awesome lots of pictures were taken the food was amazing.
He spent a lot of time just looking outside glad to be alive and watching the fireworks. The adults were inside dancing. He was on his own since he was looked like a teenager and the party was full of only adults.
Looking at the fireworks he knew it was time to leave. Taking off into the air he heard the flew off back home. He was going to get some sleep. He had definitely earned it.
