Ch.14: Spare Time Boredom

Danny stared at the ceiling for the fifth night in a row, bored blue eyes drifting in and out of hazes where he was lost in thought. As of the moment, the male was acutely aware of how silent it was around him and how still he had been for the last half hour. The most he had heard was a few creaks out in the hallway and the most he had moved was his chest rising and falling as he breathed.

He didn't like it.

Sitting up, the ebony-haired boy looked around the room to try and find something to make some noise. His red-bangs immediately fell in his face, the ends invading the edged of his vision persistently. Danny brushed them away briefly, hardly noticing how they fell back to their original spot as he took his hand away.

Even though he had personalized his room over the past couple of days, it still wasn't up to the homey feel he got when he worked in his apartment in Las Vegas. There were no computers, no stereo, no electronics of any sort. King didn't let the Jade Cloaks have any. Danny had questioned this simple matter but, from what he could tell, the only reason that wasn't completely bogus was that the older, blue-eyed male was a control freak.

Of course, Danny made a special request (i.e. demand) that he be allowed access to computer every once in awhile to be able to work on his very special network. This allowed Danny to get in touch with his friends briefly, though he didn't get to see their faces. King, Crispin, or Rider was always watching him when he worked and he wasn't risking their identities to talk to them. It would be awhile until he would be able to hear their voices again but Danny was doing all he could to be able to reconnect with them soon.

Danny's bored blue eyes scanned the room, saw nothing that interested him, and sighed. Propping his elbows on his knees, Danny rested his head in his hands. His icy orbs were getting duller each minute and the boy wished he could just sleep the night away. He hadn't had much sleep since he got there but he never felt all that tired either.

The male surmised that he was either really paranoid and Batman rubbed off on him more than he realized or he was just used to being able to stay up for days on end. Though his long stretches of consciousness were always on accident, Danny had accidently conditioned himself into being awake for good, long periods of time before he felt tired. It was coming back to haunt him.

Danny got up and paced the room, counting imaginary sheep in his head. He did this for about twenty-minutes before he realized that, hey, it wasn't working! Groaning, Danny face-planted into his bed with his arms sprawled above his head. In frustration, Danny yelled into the blankets "I hate boredom!"

The suffocating silence was mocking him again. Danny could feel it. He had to do something to distract himself from the persisting quiet surrounding him and he had to do it quick. If he didn't, he was going to go completely insane and he'd probably screw up his mission in the process.

Then again... He was starting to have the desire to abandon it, leave everything behind, and do what he wanted. He didn't know if these thoughts spawned from the fact he grew up that way or if he was starting to resent heroism. Though not as emotionally constipated as, say, Batman, he could still be pretty bad at deciphering his feelings when it was different from his usual amusement, affection for his friends, burning anger, and overwhelming hatred of the world.

As Danny's mind raced to find something that amused him, an imaginary light-bulb went off in his brain and his head popped up out of the sheets, a crazy grin accompanying the action. The devious nineteen-year-old cackled madly to himself before spring to his feet, suddenly excited.

Danny transformed into his ghost-half as he bounced over to where he laid his cloak every time he entered his room. He snatched it up, throwing it over his shoulders without the usual hesitating minute to despise it in all its horrendous glory. Once it was on, Danny swiped his black, domino mask off the dresser and pressed it to his face. Bouncing to the door, Danny peeked his head out and made sure the coast was clear before he slipped out, closing the door behind him quietly. Then, snickering to himself, he skipped down the halls towards his destination.

The white-haired male weaved through the halls quickly, skipping down to one door at the end of one lone hallway. Smirking, he raced up to it and, quietly as he could, opened it up and peeked inside.

No one was in the pitch black room.

Once he had made sure no one was there, he silently stepped in and closed the door behind him. Flipping the light switch on, Danny looked at the row of laptops and desktops sitting on a long table. There was one for each Crimson Cloak and a couple of extras, just in case. Danny usually used one of the spares when he was working on the Dark-Net.

Tiptoeing to one of the leftover computers, Danny began the awful task of unplugging the stupid thing. He didn't understand why there were so many wires but he did, finally, unplug them all and took the laptop and one, long black cord into his arms.

Danny, once again, made sure no one was in the hallway outside the door before he slipped out of the computer room with the laptop tucked under his arm. He tiptoed down the hall, grinning evilly to himself while doing so. He was quiet all the way up to the double doors of the gym. He opened them quietly, slipping in, and making sure they were quiet as they closed behind him.

Turning around, Danny locked the double doors closed behind him and faced the open gym. It looked a lot bigger when there weren't dozens of people in it. All the equipment stood shock still and didn't waver an inch in their upright positions. They invited Danny to play on them like a jungle-gym instead of using them in their proper way.

Danny suppressed the need to turn into a five-year-old staring at a large playground that said 'do not play; work in progress' they wanted to run and play all over. Waltzing over to a panel in the wall, Danny opened the cover and looked at the dials and buttons inside. He nodded at it once and fell onto his backside on the ground.

Dragging the laptop into his lap, Danny opened it up and powered it on. After waiting for the resounding chime that alerted him to its full power mode, Danny straightened and instantly made his way into the internet. Knowing its powering on would send an alert to King's mainframe hidden somewhere within the complex, Danny typed quickly and smiled when he finally made it to the website he wanted. After, he quickly plugged the cord into the computer before plugging it into the panel. After turning all the dials up, Danny bent down and pressed 'play' on the computer.

Immediately, heavy metal poured from the speakers set up around the gym that were hardly used but were magnificent for irritating an entire complex full of tightwad criminals. As the insufferable music blared through the gym, amplifying the sound times infinity, Danny instantly turned into a guitarist and began jamming out.

The reaction Danny was going for didn't come too long after that while Danny went into a drum solo. There was banging on the door and someone was trying to get his attention by yelling. It was probably Crispin, knowing she knew him well enough to know this was all his doing. But over the obnoxiously loud bass and rough singing, Danny really couldn't make out who it was that was yelling.

When his favorite part of the song came on, Danny didn't bother to mouth along anymore. He belted out the song easily, singing each word right on cue. He was a bit off key but, at the moment, he really didn't care. He was too busy basking in the noise and the chaos he had managed to cause, once again. It was so good to be breaking the rules after a long period of taking mindless orders.

Gosh, he had forgotten how fun his favorite pastime was because of the hero-life. Dang, it was kind of sad now that he thought about it...

Danny pushed the thoughts aside as he fell onto his back, laughing as he used his feet to propel himself around on the ground. He was aware he was mopping up all the grime on the floor with the back of his cloak but he honestly didn't care. He hated that green piece of cloth anyways. It added to his long list of reasons to get rid of it soon.

The white-haired boy got up sometime after his legs got tired of pushing himself around. Instead, he bounced around, still singing loudly and obnoxiously. His air guitar flew up and down with his hands, head flying every which way. His hair was quickly becoming a mess as he threw his head every direction he could. It stuck up in spastic ways, looking as if he got caught in a hurricane sometime recently.

Somehow, someway, over all the music and Danny's screeching voice, Crispin's voice (and it was definitely her voice) screamed "OPEN THE FRIKKIN DOOR, YOU FRIKKIN A-HOLE!"

Mockingly, Danny's voice rose in volume and pitch. If he got any higher, he might've been able to pass himself off as a girl instead of a guy.

This thought amused the boy further and he tried to achieve the small goal.

As he approached the small feat, the doors were blasted open, ice covering one side of them entirely. Standing in the middle of the frame, Crispin breathed heavily as her furious eyes stared at the singing boy heatedly. Her hands were still glowing blue and the few other Crimson Cloaks standing behind her looked at the back of her head with disappointed expressions. It was like they couldn't believe she couldn't control one of her responsibilities. If they had known Danny a little bit better, they would've known trying to keep the boy in check forever was a lost cause.

Danny waved briefly to the girl, grinning wildly at her, before rocking out on his air guitar again. He "whipped his hair back and forth" while dancing to the depressing song playing over the speakers.

Hair in a crazy fray because she had just gotten out of bed to take care of the problem, Crispin stalked forward towards the boy. She didn't expect Danny to grab her hands when she got mildly near him, dragging her into an unwilling tango with him. Danny's laughter was mocking her and the other Crimson Cloaks' mouths dropped open as they watched. Their various colored eyes were completely stunned that a Jade would so openly disrespect their Crimson Cloak leader. That was just begging for punishment.

As she regained her senses, Crispin shoved the taller boy away while her furious look intensified. Danny just roared with laughter some more, his eyes overflowing with tears. He managed to calm himself enough to continue to mockingly dance in front of her, still belting out the lyrics to the heavy metal still playing over the speakers spread out across the room.

Crispin roared before jumping forward to tackle the taller male to the ground, hands glowing blue threateningly. Danny whooped, sliding past her on his knees like a rock-star. The girl quickly caught herself and ran after him while the white-haired male while growling through her teeth. Danny pretended to be an airplane while he sprinted away from the blood thirsty ice-wielder behind him, whooping and making plane noises as he did. The occasional laugh slipped through, which only served to make the blonde more angry with him as she chased him around the large gym room.

Still standing in the doorframe, the other Crimson Cloaks watched her without remorse and made no move to help their fellow comrade.

Crispin growled and looked at her similarly ranked acquaintances, yelling "Help me!"

Rolling their eyes, a couple of them pushed a red-haired boy with brown eyes forward to help. The boy groaned before rushing after the white-haired male, trying to take him down while Crispin tried to freeze Danny. Patches of frost and ice began appearing on the walls and floor as she missed every time she shot. Danny continued to zoom around, laughing through his panting as he outran his pursuers.

As Danny took a peek over his shoulder while grinning, his foot landed right on a patch of ice. A yelp escaped his mouth as he slipped, falling onto his back painfully. He looked up as the red-haired boy lunged for him to pin the white-haired boy to the ground. Ebony slammed over Danny's green eyes defensively. The unnamed boy screamed and lashed out at something unseen to everyone else, losing his form as he did. Danny pushed his legs up; the boy's stomach ran right into them. The black-eyed nineteen-year-old used his arms to launch himself up, taking the red-haired boy with him. Within a few seconds, it was the red-haired boy on his back on the ground, lashing out at something no one else could see while Danny stood by his head, looking down at him emotionlessly with his eerie, black eyes.

Crispin launched herself at the white-haired boy, uttering a war-cry. Danny ducked under her glowing fist, grabbed her arm as it was above him, and threw her a few feet away. The ice-wielder slid across the floor, stopping in front of the double doors. The other Crimson Cloaks were looking into the room with wide eyes while Danny calmly tilted his head at the boy by his feet, watching him thrash around.

King stormed in seconds later. He looked around before he pulled out his own pistol from around his waist, shooting the laptop and stopping the music cold. Crispin looked up at him worriedly, still sprawled out on the ground by his feet. Danny looked up abruptly once the music stopped, no clear emotion still not on his face. As he caught sight of the seething male, the black ink that had entered his eyes slowly retreated. The boy at his feet calmed his screaming and panted heavily, eyes closed tightly together.

"What is going on in here?!" King yelled, looking around the large, icy room and the occupants with dangerous, flashing eyes.

Crispin got off the ground, brushing herself off and standing alert in front of her superior. "Well-"

"I was being a pain again." Danny cut off, stepping forward and crossing his arms. His teasing smile was back, completely genuine as if he hadn't just scarred the boy behind him. "I've been such a good boy recently and my other personality- you know, the naughty one no one likes? -pointed a gun at the angel and took him hostage! So the very naughty personality took over my body and I couldn't stop it, King! You've got to believe me!" The smile on Danny's face was full of mirth and his eyes sparkled with amusement.

King glared at the boy, not amused by the crap that had just spewed from Danny's mouth. His eyes turned to where Crispin was standing like the good little soldier she was, silently demanding an explanation.

Blowing a strand of blonde hair out of her face, Crispin explained "Phantom hijacked one of the computers and turned on super loud, obnoxious music to wake everyone in the complex up. Avery and I tried to make him stop with force but, as you can see, that didn't exactly work out too well."

King averted his eyes back to the sweetly smiling Danny, no humor appearing on his face at the situation. The leader of the Cloaks briefly looked at the red-headed boy, Avery, before looking back at the culprit. Dryly, he questioned "What did you do to him?"

"I loved him so much and it was so powerful that he started convulsing." Danny answered, shaking his head and pursing his lips together to make it seem like it was a shame. Behind him, Avery continued to breath heavily while he calmed down from the awful fright Danny gave him.

King's glare turned into a completely dry look, silently telling the male to tell him the truth for once instead of making up ridiculous lies even a first-grader could see through.

Danny pouted at him, though his smile was playing on the corners of his lips again. "What~? You don't believe me! How could you? I thought we were allies!"

"That's pushing it." Crispin stated, brushing another loose strand of hair out of her face.

Danny shrugged. "Alright, fine. I got this weird power-thingy that makes people go a little insane cause they see their fears and stuff. No worries. He'll recover!" Danny assured, looking over his shoulder. In a low mumble that everyone still heard, he added "...maybe..."

King perked at this statement before masking his interest again, preferring to keep it on the down-low for the time being. "And pray tell, why would you do such a thing to all of the people in this facility?"

Danny shrugged again. "I was bored."

"That would be his answer." Crispin said with a wondrous tone in her voice, placing her hand over her face to hide her annoyance.

Even though she couldn't see it, Danny smirked, tilted his head to the side, and waved flirtatiously at her. "Come on; I was so good on our last few heists! I was like a poster child! ...almost anyways... And it's not like you guys give me anything to do on the nights I have insomnia! If only you would let me have a computer, all of this could have been averted but no~, I can't be trusted to do the things I've been doing for years now... So sad..."

Behind the sighing King and exasperated Crispin, the other Crimson Cloaks gazed at the white-haired male with strange, amazed looks. They just couldn't comprehend the pain that he was putting their comrade and leader through.

After sighing long and loud, King's blue-grey eyes traveled back to Crispin's slumped form. "Please take him out somewhere."

The blonde gave her superior a dry glare. "At two in the morning? What are we going to do? Go grocery shopping?"

King glared right back at her, making sure she knew who she was talking to and warning her not to use that tone of voice with him again. "I don't care what you do. There are stores and fast food restaurants open at this time. Go find one and amuse him till morning so the facility may not burn down."

"You're joking..."

"Go. Now."

Crispin groaned before turning on her heel and walking out of the gym, past her fellow Crimson Cloaks. Danny cackled in his spot before skipping after her and right past the other similarly ranked youths. They watched his happy form go by with blank expressions, not quite sure what to make of the scene.

A Jade Cloak was getting their way... After pulling a stupid stunt and arguing with his superiors...

Something was not right in the universe.

King sighed for the umpteenth time as his eyes followed the two down the hall. The other Crimson Cloaks wandered back over the downed Crimson Cloak still lying in the middle of the gym, exhausted. With a wave of his hand, he uncompassionate-ly ordered "Someone get him to his room. We don't need him lying in the middle of the gym."

The two youths going out in public at the weirdest time ever stopped by their rooms before going to the garage, stripping of their Cloak outfits and replacing them with civvies.

Danny merely transformed back into his human half when he got back to his room. His black-haired self was all dressed up with his usual black tee, ebony leather jacket, black jeans, and combat boots. For some odd reason, he put gel in his hair to make it spikier than it usually was. The gel made the red and the ebony look shiny. His ebony hair suddenly looked darker and his red bangs looked more vibrant than usual.

Happy with his outfit, Danny left his room and eagerly went to the garage to wait for his awful companion to show up.

Crispin changed into a blue blouse, dark-wash jeans, and knee-high black converses. She brushed her bed-head down and quickly pulled it into a braid that draped around her shoulders. After, she stopped by the kitchen to fill a large, thirty-two ounce travel mug with nothing but straight, black coffee and to grab an entire bottle of aspirin for the oncoming migraine sure to be gained from the trip she was about to make. She also slipped the shopping list hanging on the fridge into her hand on her way out.

As she entered the garage, Danny jumped out at her and the blonde screamed in shock before calming. Danny was laughing hysterically, once again, hand over his face to hide the tears running down his face.

Crispin looked at the boy, her exasperated look deepening. Taking in his appearance, she wasn't too surprised, though she was slightly curious. "How'd you get yourself to turn off, Nightlight?"

Danny grinned at her and easily lied "Hologram generator. Built it myself."

The blonde looked the ebony-haired male up and down. "Oh yeah, where is it?"

Danny lifted his leg up and pointed at his foot. "In my boot."

Crispin stared at him. Danny set his foot back on the ground, looking at her innocently. "What~? You want proof?"

The blonde turned and silently walked to one of the black vans. Danny looked after her, his mocking grin still in place. "What? Is there a problem with putting a hologram in the last place anyone would look?"

Crispin silently got in the driver's seat, turning it on and hoping to drive off before Danny could get in the car. The ebony-haired boy hopped in before she could, though, crushing her dreams. As he fell into the seat beside her, he started going off about the time he rode a dark unicorn across the galaxy and battled lots of gross globs. His story got wilder the longer he droned on.

Before she put the car in drive, Crispin poured half a dozen pills in her hand before tossing them in her mouth. She washed them down with her coffee before she clasped the steering wheel tightly in her hands. "This is going to be a long night..."

"That's not good for your colon~!" Danny mocked in a nasally voice. "And I'm pretty sure it's early, early morning."

"A very long night..."

"Morning~!"

Crispin sighed while pressing on the gas pedal. Danny began going off on another insane story about the time he and Batman supposedly stopped an entire invasion of the undead creep-a-zoids (whatever that meant...) by themselves and that Batman had actually given him a compliment after that. Ever since, they've supposedly been best buddies.

Crispin only rolled her eyes.

Batman and Danny best friends? Pssh, yeah. Right. That definitely happened, right along with the time Godzilla did the Macarena with the people of Tokyo.

Danny continued to spout out his adventure with the Dark Knight- of course, he twisted the truth a bit but he whatever -and couldn't help the grin that split his face. Blatantly telling someone the truth- albeit, a little off -and them not believing was seriously one of the most amusing things to do in the entire world.

King sighed as he rubbed his face behind his mask. That boy, though very impressive in his own little way, was going to be the death of him. Or someone else. But either way, someone was going to die.

The masked man took a route to his room through his throne room, walking up the stairs to his throne. Walking behind the large seat, he pressed the button on his personal elevator and waited for the contraption to open. As it did, he slipped inside and typed in the code to get down to his floor.

The elevator instantly obeyed, taking King down to his level under the already underground complex. It kept him separated from his underlings and allowed him to do as he pleased in his free time. Where he stayed was a mystery to the Cloaks and it would remain forever more.

As it stopped and the elevator doors opened, King stepped out and into his large, lavish room. He ignored everything and immediately wandered over to where his large computer was mounted on a wall. After waking it up, he typed in 'Hero Graveyard' on the search engine with a glower behind his mask.

The computer loaded the request quickly, bringing up a few dozen headlines. Though not nearly as many as one saw with Superman or Wonder Woman, it was still a fairly good collection of accounts where the indifferent hero was. Most of them were him simply defeating one of his few foes while some accompanied him with either the entire Justice League taking down a ghost invasion to even the albino boy teaming up with Batman in Gotham a few times.

Though the man didn't care for electronics, he did keep up with the news outside to see what was going on. It helped with his heist planning.

King instantly saw the similarities between the new Cloak and the hero, though he'd never seen Phantom's full face and Graveyard kept his face shadowed always. From what he could gather, the hero and the Jade Cloak also had similar personalities and had a knack for saying things they shouldn't. The masked man saw one picture of Graveyard's laughing, ominous green eyes looking up at the Dark Knight, hands on his hips and a silent laugh falling from his parted lips. Batman stared down at him with a small smirk.

Graveyard's glowing eyes were all King needed to confirm his suspicions. How had he never seen them before?

So... Phantom was a criminal turned hero that was now acting as a criminal again to get his attention? It would explain why he was so eager to get close. The faster he climbed, the faster he could delve into the man's secrets and report them to his hall-monitor who was, no doubt, Batman. That would be so like the Dark Knight.

More out of morbid curiosity than anything else, King searched the web for videos of Graveyard's adventures. Most of the ones he found were taken with phones and were out of focus most of the time but they sufficed.

There was one that caught King's complete and utter attention. Moving his mouse over to the link that was entitled 'Graveyard's Creepy-Ass Power'.

The video came up instantly, ready to play at any moment of King's choosing. Quickly pressing the button that allowed the video to start, the masked man with blue-grey eyes watched the screen intensely.

Graveyard was immediately dodging past the camera, earning a startled yelp from the cameraman as the white-haired male zoomed past. His laughter was drifting through the area (that was definitely Phantom's laugh - how had he missed it so easily?) as he rushed into the air, quickly being followed by a man made of metal.

"Come on, Skulky!" Graveyard taunted, spinning in the air while facing the robot. His smile was taunting and his the green energy around his hands was threateningly. "It doesn't have to be like this! We can do this the easy way, where I merely send you back to the GZ with the ray gun! We don't have to take the hard road, my friend! It just isn't worth it~!"

The robot with the green, flaming mohawk growled at the boy. "Not after our last battle!"

Graveyard scoffed and waved his glowing, green hand around in the air. "Skulker, let it go. For the love of- It's my duty to kick your butt! Accept this as fact before I bust out the big guns."

The flaming haired metal man, Skulker, snarled before pulling out a large gun from his never-ending arsenal. Skulker had no time to use it, though, because ebony tendrils slipped into Graveyard's eyes and his opponent began screaming hysterically, clutching his ears and closing his eyes tightly.

Graveyard didn't seem at all concerned with the reaction. In fact, he looked pleased, grinning and shaking his head. His white hair bobbed left and right. "I told you, Skulker. We could've done this the easy way."

After that, the clip stopped rolling.

King fell into the chair in front of the large monitors and leaned back in his seat, thoughtful and quiet. The boy's obvious indifferentism was something interesting. He didn't care what seemed to happen to anybody, as long as he had his fun and he didn't get wounded too badly. King had also read somewhere, a good long while ago, that Graveyard could be particularly brutal if he wanted. The video King had watched proved this to be true.

So... Could he manipulate that obvious lack of interest in hero-ing into his favor?

Crispin reached over, grabbed the hem of Danny's shirt, and yanked him back inside the van, as the boy was half hanging out of it stupidly. Though it was very tempting to push him out and let him get hit by one of the cars driving along side them, the ice-wielder didn't because she knew there was, at least, a couple of people who would not be too happy with her actions.

Danny laughed as he fell back into his seat and the blonde was starting to hate the sound. "Come on Crispy! Lighten up! Have you ever hung out of car like that? I have to say; it's one of the most glorious things in the world! You should try it sometime! Wait, how 'bout now?! Hey, you hang out the window and I'll hold the wheel-"

"Do you live to do stupid stuff?!" Crispin questioned as she stopped at a traffic light. She turned her head to look at the boy, a bewildered and tired expression on her face as she glanced at him. He had been so good the past week and showed no signs of relapsing into his chaotic ways; he'd barely even cackled. What had brought on the sudden urge to screw everyone over?

Danny laughed his annoying laugh and nodded his head. "Yeah! Being irritating is like the need to pee! I can only hold it in for so long."

Crispin groaned and let her forehead fall onto the steering wheel, pressing the horn. The loud sound alarmed a couple of the other drives, though it was very few, and woke up a few of the people sleeping in the apartment complexes surrounding them. Crispin kept her head there, continuing to press the horn. Tiredly, she mumbled "Oh, that explains so much..."

In the seat next to her, Danny's sides hurt with how hard he was laughing. Tears pricked at the corners of his eyes, threatening to overflow and slide down his cheeks. One hand covered his eyes and the other held his middle. He roared with laughter, kicking his feet to try and calm himself.

The light turned green and Crispin continued to press her forehead to the horn. People behind them honked their horns, not understanding the girl's deal all the sudden. This only furthered Danny's amusement to the point there wasn't even a sound coming out of his mouth. He sat in his seat, no noise coming out of his mouth and clapping like a retarded seal. The tears had suddenly begun to flow from his closed eyes, creating trails down his flushed face.

As the blonde sat up in her seat, too tired to tell her companion to shut up, she pressed the gas and drove across the intersection, surmising it was probably better to let Danny get away with small stuff than to let all his chaotic thoughts build up until he finally burst at the seams, laughing and thrashing everyone with his 'sense of humor'.

Pulling into the Walmart parking lot, Danny began to calm down. The tears stopped flowing and nothing more than tiny giggles escaped his lips. Wiping the watery streaks from his face, Danny laughed a couple more times while the girl beside him parked beside the only other car in the parking lot.

"Really? Out of all the spots you chose the one right beside the crappy Prius?" Danny asked, looking at her with a look.

Crispin glared at him, grabbed her bottle of aspirin, and took a couple more of the tablets. Picking up her travel mug full of cooling coffee and slipping a wallet from a secret compartment in the glove compartment, the blonde ordered Danny out of the car while she did as she said. The red-banged boy told her 'nah' and leaned back in his seat. His door opened beside him and Crispin quickly yanked him out, earning a loud yelp as Danny spilled out and onto the concrete at her feet. Shutting the door behind him, Crispin locked the car doors and began walking towards the store. "Let's go."

Danny got up as he cackled, dusting himself off, before quickly following after. "Come on, Witch! I'm that bad, am I?"

"Oh no~, you're a heck of a lot worse."

Danny danced beside the girl in victory as they walked in the automatic doors, earning the attention of the one clerk there before he went back to reading his book. The blonde grabbed a shopping cart before pulling out the list, taking another gulp from her mug. Danny danced around her, attempted to get in the cart, and got smacked. After a few more attempts, Crispin finally let him have his way and let him get in the cart. Danny sighed happily as he was pushed around, slinking in his ride contently.

What she would give to be able to take his place at that moment...

The two youths wandered around the store quietly. Once he was in the cart, Danny calmed considerably and stopped talking, closing his eyes as Crispin pushed him around. She occasionally threw something in the cart with him, though he didn't seem to mind having a couple dozen boxes of mac-n-cheese, cereal, and granola bars on him.

Crispin took his silence as a gift from God and made no move to disturb him, sipping on her coffee occasionally.

As she strolled down one aisle, Crispin noticed her passenger was staring at her with blue eyes. Though a little creeped out, she didn't say anything for fear of his mouth starting and never stopping. As she put about a dozen bottles of ketchup in the basket, Crispin noticed the boy's head lean back over the side of the cart, looking at the things in front of them upside-down. The girl took another sip of her coffee just as Danny asked "Do you ever read 'condiments' as 'condoms'?"

The coffee spewed from Crispin's mouth and landed all over the floor, just as she began choking. Danny watched the show from his seat with a devious smile on his face, arms laying on the edges of the cart comfortably.

As her fit calmed, Crispin looked at her passenger with an irritated expression. "Do you find these things somewhere or are you just that obnoxious?"

Danny grinned his answer.

"I had a feeling that was going to be his answer..." Crispin mumbled, pushing the cart forward so she could hit another aisle to get food for the large 'family' that was the Cloaks.

"It's not my fault I always read it like that."

"I'm just going to pretend you didn't just tell me that..."

"But it will forever haunt your dreams and whisper in your ears when you least want it to."

"Ain't that the truth?"

Crispin shopped around the store a little more, putting lots of much needed things in the basket in front of her. Danny continued to let her pile things on him, quickly becoming buried while he droned on about meaningless observations. Crispin put up with it silently, still gulping down her coffee so her urge to sleep didn't seem so bad.

The ice-wilder never felt any more ridiculous than the moment she pulled up to the cash register with another youth buried within the basket, probably older than her by a year or two. The clerk tried not to look at them strangely but the scene was ridiculous and comical. It was hard not to take a picture and post it on several social media sites.

After everything had been checked, Crispin quickly paid with the Cloak's credit card before piling everything back in the basket where Danny had, seemingly, fallen asleep. The blonde pushed the cart out to the car, piled everything in the back, and smacked the boy upside the head.

"OW!" Danny yelled, rubbing his head as he sat up.

Crispin glanced at him dryly before gesturing to the van. "Come on. We're heading out."

The red-banged male before obediently hopping out of the shopping cart and getting in the car with his superior. "Where we going now~?"

"Back to base."

"But I don't wanna~!"

"But I don't wanna deal with you so shut up!"

"NO~!"

Crispin groaned.

This was only going to be a filler when I started. Then it turned out I needed it. Hilarious how that happens, right?

Yesterday was my last day of school! I'M-A SO HAPPY! :DDD Now I may bask in my love for Pentatonix...

Thanks to these people for favoriting/following: Greeny619.

Thanks to these people for favoriting/following me: Dayndra, RedRose0123.

Reviews:

Eirena Gaia: I'm totally excited because of you! :D Oh my gosh, that's hilarious! What a coincidence! XD And wow... A heart. Sounds like fun. *thumbs up* And yeah~!

Anime Hotty Lover. 18: I never saw the movie but whatever. XD Glad you enjoyed!

KuriMaster13: Which means you won't mind me doing that kind of thing in the future. Thanks!

Sarra Torrens: Glad you thought so!

BoyDragon1: Already got an identity picked out for King. You'll find out who it is soon enough.

Roselin: I knew you would appreciate that... That he did. XD

Crimson Leo: :D Oh my gosh, that means so much. I'm-a so happy you're enjoying!

Pegasus Sword Master: YES! Someone admitted to having a laughing fit! *parties* It should. That's why that's his view point. XD

Ninuhuju: Nice! :D He is? You think so? Sweet!

PHOENIX1020: Aw, hope everything goes well.

Guest of Honor: The sing was waiting for later! ...and now, apparently. XD

KainVixenheim: Glad you caught that...? (Wasn't really linking it... XD) And glad you had fun!

Expergiscimini: ...*bursts out laughing* I never thought of it like that! I was thinking of something else!

Poohbearmorris: I think we all would want to do that. XD Pssh, control freaks... Am I the only one who gets the smirking? XD

BringbackDannyPhantom: Good. One of you guys needed too. XD Welcome! Oh, I know, right? He's such a dick sometimes! Oh well!

Karen: Oh my gosh, glad you enjoyed! There probably won't be an x-over though. We'll see. But it would be hilarious. XD

IWasNeverReal: XD If my dad could, he'd speak in movie quotes. Mom doesn't understand though.

16ckelman: Hahaha! Glad you're enjoying so much!