Disasteroïd 10

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Vlad was in the back of the Phantom speeder, this miniature space ship originally meant to explore the ghost zone. Nearby him was Jazz, writing some journal on her portable computer. The adults wouldn't want to lunch some conversation and still seem cold to him, Vlad guess saving them all once do not excuse his attitude of their past lives. Ho well, it's still better than occasionally look outside to see Spectra in multiple red disguise, from cowgirl to red flying UFO, he's waiting for the bunny girl for the next miles.

"So, what are we going to do over this… army… Do they intent to attack someone?" The vampire asks. He just spots Spectra nursing Klemper in Baby dress. To his pleasure, Maddie answer first: "well, do you know about the ancient spirits?

-Yes, indeed I heard of their legend* and had a nasty encounter with Pariah Dark... I'm begging you, he's not about to unroll us, right?

-Well, maybe but… actually it's Clockwork who calls us. He's the Master of Time with the ability to see the past and future and try to control people destinies!

-Control destinies? How did you meet him?

-Actually, it's Jazz who heard about him and found him."

Vlad saw Spectra in red leather combat dress, with a matching whip. Jazz lift her head out of her screen: "Ho yes! With the help of Sam and Tucker we look for his lair, some sort of church dedicated for clocks and time. I wanted to have answer like when I'll see my brother again." Then her exited express went sad: "But he didn't know too, the ectoranium had blind him from earth, now he can only predict the future in the ghost world. Since Danny never came back as a ghost, chances are he still lives over here… even though it's obliviously impossible!"

Vlad, who peek Spectra as miss universe, was shocked: "Danny…. Had survived? That's impossible! Him more than anyone couldn't have survived! He was charging the Disasteroïd, in ghost form! He should have died way before me!" the entire family stare at him, even Jack who was riding the ship blindly to a floating rock with an oasis and nomads tents on it and Spectra as Persian princess. "JACK THE ROAD!"

The big man turn his head just on time to dodge the oasis, after the nearby crash that didn't seems to even bother the women, Vlad continue fuming: "I say more if you give your word, Jack, to stay focus in front of us! Where was I… ha yes! I've died of ecto-radiation directly out of the asteroid itself, touching it while being ghost is unreal! All spectral being would have burn way before it!"

"Unless…" Jazz counter him "…unless he managed to absorb and used this anti-ghost energy! But I admit this totally pure science fiction."

Vlad grumble in defeat then add so he could ignore spectra as an air pilot: "Science Fiction or not, he's unfound and if even the Observers or other omnipresent being didn't found a clue about him, your theory is the best option!"

They all silence at this Remarque, they do already know that, still hearing it aloud was another thing, and Maddie voice the dreaded question that would logically come to: "…then, why our baby boy, even though it was just his creation would attack us like it did a week ago? He never had done that, not to this extent when he fought back the ghosts."

But no one answer her, for Jack said they arrive to The ghost king land and castle, a sea of military tent surrounding it all around, and quite impressive army of ghost. Vlad saw that most ghosts keep together least a group of three from their respective culture, and Spectra in amazons like red leather armor. Viking dead in the seas, Snow beasts from the far frozen, rock stars with guitar/chainsaw, colorful centaurs, and human size action figures. Ho there's even more variety farther away in the horizon, but Vlad thought it was already a quite large army. He didn't believe it would work well all together, especially with Spectra disguise as a women dictator.

They all flew out of the Speeder and went to the castle entrance, their Maddie ask the guards where she could find Clockwork, the skeleton centurion guard guide them in the huge castle maze. The group had seen multiple scientific ghosts working on weapons and trying to study crystals dust left from the crystal beasts, and ignore Spectra as a princess. When they reach a huge room with lot of scrap of metals and wires, Clockwork was here, nearby him a black hooded woman with red hair and sober deep green dress from around mid-seventeen century.

"Well hello there Jazz, mister & misses Phantom, and Plasmius too of course." The purple clad ghost granted them, the vampire being surprised he knows them. He continues on: "I'm Clockwork, master of all time and premonitions! I call you all here to help the reapers…" he motions the dark hooded woman "… to build a portal to the earth, either one big enough for battalions or at least multiples to the same destination."

The woman present herself: "I'm Lady Rose Green, one of the best shapshift reapers of all, a few comrades reapers and I are working with deforming space to create a portal to earth, so far we never even reach it for a milliseconds, but Master Clockwork said that you and your science would be able to stabilize long enough our work to pierce through!"

Jack shake her hand, jovially presenting himself and his wife: "The pleasure is for us, I'm Jack Phantom and this is Maddie, my wife, the young girl is my daughter Jazz and the….. the blue one is Vlad Master…" His tone went sad and cold when presenting Vlad, to the fruitloop dismay.

"Well then I leave you the Phantoms, I'll take Vlad with me." The purple ghost grab the vampire hands and drag him along his way. Jazz excuse herself: "I'll go with them; I'm not a scientist of portals to other worlds." And fallow them.

Leading the while keeping Vlad hand, Clockwork start explaining what he was waiting from the vampire: "After we saw your impressive fight against the crystal demon last week: me and the Observers decide to put you in our elite infantry. Your mission will be more complicate and dangerous, but I promise rewards and a really nice paycheck for your service!"

Vlad struggle to get out of the time ghost grip, yelling: "But I don't want to! My only goal now is to make myself forgiven!"

Clockwork turns his toddler face to him, smiling: "Well, you see, there's a good chance that you may investigate and found Danny Phantom, the missing son of your college friend and your beloved nephew! Wouldn't it that be a nice gift for saying sorry?"

Jazz respond before Vlad ponder the proposition: "That is if HE found him and save him! Even if he do get high chances, my parents are very reluctant to let Vlad nearby Danny! I personally must agree that the two of them nearby would end surely into a fight if ever they see each other!"

While the time master in old man form keeps smirking, Spectra pop from behind him: "But it's also an occasion to redeem you in big steps! Risky, yes! But all things considered, it can hardly go worst between him and the Phantoms! You had already forgiven him, no?"

Jazz stare annoyed at Spectra, the woman in red suit sure is determined to get Vlad for her. But she still answers her: "yes it's true I forgive him! But I know that no matter how sincere he was when he told me about his redemption: 'Old habits die hard, especially for ghosts!'"

Vlad stare at her, shocked that he had actually convince her so easily, he was even starting to think she was hiding something from him. Still, as the ever gentleman he was: "Well hello Misses Spectra! What a surprise to see you here!" his sarcasm couldn't be miss, but Spectra only laughs at it and turn her attention back to Clockwork: "So you said he would be in your elite troop, right? What are you hoping for him to do?"

The adult aged time Master nod: "Indeed, we want him to lead groups of selected ghosts and exploit their full potential. But I must warn you that you might have tensions between you and your comrades."

Reaching their destination, Clockwork opens the door to a small reunion room. Inside, Vlad stare at the two other ghosts, one was an animated Fenton thermos trying to build a crème pie catapult, aimed at the door. Vlad had a very bad memory of that blasted thing**. The other ghost was a young woman with snow white hair tied in a long pony tail, a black and white super hero jumpsuit with a characteristic Dp emblem. Vlad paled in mute horror when he saw it was Danielle, the female failed clone of Danny! She seems to have grown up these last ten years, but her clear blue skin betray she had died and came back as a ghost any way.

The albino girl turns her head to the door spotting Clockwork, smiling at Jazz and Spectra and giving surprised death glare at Vlad. Yup, definitely the failed clone he lied, mistreat and almost melt away without an ounce of remorse.

"Clockwork, you must be joking me! There is no way I'd work with him! Do you know he tried to melt me when I was still alive!" Dani scream in anger. The thermos notices the vampire.

"Now, now, Dani! I'm well aware of that problem between you, but right now he's the one with the most experience against the crystal beasts, so you must rely on his strategies and plans, I'll give the missions so he's quite limited. Would that satisfy you?" the purple clothed ghost gently explains and asks. Then he had: "plus: he's said he's in the path of redemption. And Jasmine here can say its full honest redemptions!"

Dani huff in indignation: "He had to die to realize he's a miserable and despicable fruitloop? Nuhu! I know way too well how redemptfull ghost are! I'll never trust him! NEVER!"

Jazz, Spectra and Clockwork shoot back, in automate voice ton: "Never saying nerver!"

Dani sulk at this, while the thermos finish his trap and then lunch it. The pie score right in Vlad face: "HAHAHAHA! I'll obey, but I'll do it my way, with my methods! And that means, Clockwork, you have to release me from my thermos prison/body!"

Clockwork stares in humor at the thermos pet: "What? You still didn't manage to do it by yourself? Then you still deserve to stay a thermos then!"

"!" The puny thermos had shouted a ghostly wail out of his scream, then still with a wailing voice: "I COULD HAVE BEEN OUT BY NOW? I MISS SOMETHING?... NOOOOOOO I'M A FOOOOOOOOOOL….. AGAIN!"

Jazz stare in mute horror at the thermos, the voice couldn't be missing to her, she the ask fearfully Clockwork:" Tell me it's not who I think it is! Tell me!"

Spectra glare with a raised eyebrow: "You know this psychedelic thing?"

The purple clad ghost keeps smirking: "Well Dan why don't you present yourself properly."

Jazz scream: "NO WAY! IT'S ACTUALY HIM AND… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, Ho my goodness, Clockwork! You shouldn't have hid this from us! !"

Both Vlad and Spectra look at girl in her maddening laughs, Vlad was getting worried about who the hell could be stuck in the thermos. But before he could even say anything Spectra cut him and ask: "Is it possible to join your group, Clockwork?"

"Sorry Spectra, even though you are a good fighter and got lots of talents, you are not suited for this work! You could however, with your partner Bertrand join our special medical team to heal them once their back from their missions!" the time Master answer h94er.

The red suited woman jump on the proposal: "deal!"

Jazz look frantically at her, still out of breath for laughing at the thermos miserable state, she wasn't going to let her alone nearby Vlad, way too dangerous!

Dani snap out of her sour mood and ask the time Master: "What will be our mission any way?"

Clockwork, in his old man form respond: "Your first mission for now is to protect this section of the castle where scientists and reapers are are working on opening a portal to earth and analyzing the weakness of the crystal beasts! You most also learn them and help them to establish a base on earth so we can began to lunches attacks on the enemy's domain! The major risk knows until now from it until now might be only petrifaction…. Without a chance to move before years or shattering, that is."

The thermos, still in its hysteric self misery, screams: "I DON'T CARE! IT'S PROBABLY BETTER THEN THIS FREAKING THERMOS/BODY/JAIL!"

Dani glare at the pest and then shoot a bleu fire ball at him, which it screams back: "OUCH! What was that for?"

"For shutting you out, annoyance!" the clone girl answers him gravely, and then turn her attention back to Vlad who was whipping his face off crème.

At first she was just staring at him with maddening hatred, but then with a short sight, she walk to him. She grabs him by the collar with one hand, raising the other in front of his face with pulsing green ecto-blast, she then told him, with the all threatening tons she could muster: "Look well at what I gain when I died!" Vlad obeyed before she even order, he saw the plasmic energy froze in green crystals of ice, then turn in electric bolts, then in liquid droplet of goo to finish in an angry blue blaze. "This Vlad, is the powers of the other failed clones! I gained them with their memories when I died and came back as a full ghost! Their memories! You get it? I know everything you did to me and the others clones! You're rashness, cruel statement and heartless disposal! You though melting and destroying us would clean you from that? Well guess again!"

After blowing this to his face, after tasting the silent horror in the vampire eyes, after being sure she makes her point very clear with her death glare she let him go and fall limply on the floor.

Jazz staring at the vampire, her eyes getting wider in realization, she mutter: "…clones? As if in vitro ones? YOU CLONE MY BABY BROTHER!" her laugh hysteria was long gone, drenched in a lava-burning anger, her red hair where flowing like an enchanted banshee. Dani held a smug on her face, which was wiped out by a revengeful animated thermos. Spectra stand between Vlad and Jazz, keeping the girl from using her telekinetic powers to trash the place and calming her anger with gentle hush. Yet the red suited woman still held a nasty smirk, delighted she get Vlad all to her by the time Jazz cool off.

Clockwork stare at all this with a poker face, even though he knows what's going to happen next, he still found the situation exceptionally tight. They might lose this war if he doesn't use well these explosive components together. How well, it's the best choice, without long terms consequences.

The end at last! Sorry for such long update, I had written other stories in mind and then lost some tracks, but now I'm back on the road. You'll even get a glimps of these other stories I had in mind, hehehe!

*- the Ancients legend is told and explain in one of my Drabbles of Clockwork and a Thermos, basically, it explains the origin of the seven ancients mentioned in the previous chapter, their powers and role in the universe. Just for info, Clockwork has the power of divine logic, making him omniscient because he can deduce all possibilities, even if they don't ever happen in any timeline. (he, after all, see the events in time from above and all twists and turn they could take.. or not!)

**- explained (sort of) in my Drabbles of Clockwork and a thermos. Dan, the evil future adult Danny, had turn into an animated thermos (wich I found the concept just extremly funny). He had been lock by Danny in 'The Ultimate Enemy' from the series. Since then he had tried to get out, but instead his ecto-energy had fused with the thermos containing him. The infuse thermos had since then turn into an extension of his body, preventing him from ever been able to break free. Yet he never thought that he could have just push the release button to get out.

That's a lot of explanations, I know but I wanted to make it clear for you (hope it was). Well anyway, I don't promise to write anytime soon because I might go back to my other stories first, if not then a new chapter will be up by two weeks or less.