A Daniel X Fanfiction

by Sakura Martinez

Disclaimer:

I do not own Daniel X, or the characters in that story. James Patterson own the rights for them. What I do own is the idea of this fanfic.

Summary:

Daniel has long accepted what has happened to his friends Dana, Willy, Emma and Joe. But when he is suddenly ambushed by Number 2's second-in-command, Number 13, the young Alien Hunter finds a big surprise waiting for him.

Daniel X: Game Over

Chapter Thirty-Three

"Finally," Void's voice welcomed us as we step into the throne room. He was clapping his hands in a lazy way and each clap seemed louder than the first that you would have thought a drum was beating rather than someone was clapping. "I was wondering if any of you would be coming."

"Oh, we wouldn't miss this for anything," Willy said, and before I knew it, he had fired one of his big guns at Void.

The rocket that fired off of Willy's weapon hit its mark. When the dust cleared, there was only a large crater where Void once stood.

"Really, you should learn to have patience, Willy," Void laughed as he materialized a couple of meters to the left of the crater.

"How's this for patience!" Shouted Emma, as she too jumped the gun and rows of large, pointy rocks suddenly flew towards Void.

Void raised his hand and the rocks that were being hurled towards him stopped in mid-air. Joe didn't waste any time as he disappeared and reappeared behind Void, his arms thrown back and I knew that he had went from this stage to the Slums and back again. He threw a punch at Void, but Void grabbed Joe's arm and threw him towards the direction of Willy, who was getting ready to fire again.

The two of them tumbled to the ground as Void laughed at them. Dana, at that moment, chose not to sit around and watch as she also let loose her own brand of attacks, which were projectiles made of psychic energy so condensed that you could actually see it as shimmering, purple balls. She threw it at Void and I took that as a sign that there wasn't going to be any verbal plays or monologues this time around. With that in mind I summoned my trusty Opus 50/50 and busied myself with firing at Void, making sure that he would be so distracted so as not to see what Dana had conjured for him.

But that didn't work. Void showed us how fast he can be—which was faster than all of us combined. One moment he was just standing there, amused at how tangled up Willy and Joe were and the next he was right behind me. Before I knew it, he had thrown me to where he was standing before and instead of Dana's psychic projectiles hitting Void, they hit me instead, throwing me back.

It hurt. A lot. And I landed as a heap on the floor. For a moment, I couldn't move my body. It felt numb, especially around my chest where the projectiles had hit me square on.

"Daniel!" I heard Dana scream my name followed by her footsteps as she rushed towards me, helping me up.

"I'm okay," I coughed, even though I was far from okay.

"Really? Is that all you Alparian Alien Hunters can do?" Void asked, sounding disappointed. "I was expecting a little more than that." He turned towards Willy and Emma, "Don't you two want to see your parents again?" then to Joe, "Don't you want to be free and see the galaxy as it is now?" then Dana, "Don't you want to regain all of your memories?" and then to me, "And don't you want to get to the bottom of all of this? The secret that your parents have kept from you? The secret that only I can shed light on?"

"Oh yeah, we want that," Joe said as he finally untangled himself from Willy and stood up.

"And we are so gonna wipe the floor with you. Take off that stupid grin on your face," Willy added.

"You Alparians are all talk," Void said and with a flick of a mere finger, he had us all flying on opposite sides of the room and crashing into the walls. Between having just been thrown into Dana's attack and crashing into another wall, I was already sore all over.

Another groan escaped my lips as I forced myself back up. The Opus was long gone from my hands, so I had to create another weapon. My mind fumbled for something that would fire bullets swiftly and devastatingly, and the image of the mysterious weapon I had used flickered in my mind. I shook the thought away. I had made a promise not to use it. And so I chose to create twin laser guns instead. It might not be as powerful as an Opus but its bullets flew faster and it didn't have any charge times.

I fired in rapid successions at Void, not staying rooted in one place, running around making sure that he wouldn't catch me with any of his attack. Void blocked all of the laser bullets, save for one which was fired after I accidentally tripped. The laser grazed him at the cheek and you can tell he wasn't happy with that.

He was about to flick his fingers again when he got hit by a pillar at the back of his head and he was the one sent flying for a couple of feet before he righted himself. When I looked at the pillar that had done him some damage, I saw Emma and Dana standing behind it. Both of them had their arms forward with palms wide open and I knew that the pillar wasn't one from the castle, it was something Emma had molded with her powers and that Dana had used her psychic powers to use it as a bat.

I nodded at them, sending my thanks and they nodded back.

"Impressive," roared Void, "Now that's more I like it!"

He then clapped his hands. A clap that was louder than any other. And then, suddenly, these strange-looking, luminescent, transparent, giant, cockroach-looking things appeared, surrounding Void.

"Those are data bugs!" Joe informed us, and then he quickly began typing on his Symbiote. The next thing we knew there were jellyfish-looking things that were just as luminous and transparent as the cockroaches surrounding Void around us. "Leave those things to me."

Void looked as though he wasn't expecting that. He looked as though he was ready to tear Joe apart, limb by limb.

"Are you sure you're going to be alright?" I asked, inching my way closer to Joe while avoiding those flying jellyfish things he had summoned.

"Don't worry about techno-geek here," Willy said, cocking the gun in his hands, ready to fire it at will. "I'll make sure nothing happens to him."

"Yeah, macho-man has my back," Joe nodded, "You three focus on Void and we'll focus on the data bugs."

"Right." I nodded. There was nothing left to say after that as I turned my attention back at Void.

And then, the battle resumed. It was Void against me, Emma, and Dana and Joe and Willy against the data bugs. I quite honestly thought that Joe and Willy had the better end of the bargain. The data bugs were no matched for them and the jellyfish things. The three of us, on the other hand, had our hands full with Void.

"Now would really be a good time to use that power of yours, Dana," I said as I panted, several minutes later, and we stood behind the thick wall Emma had made as Void began firing powerful rounds of plasma at us. "A little boost in our power would really help right about now."

"I wish," she was frustrated. "But, Void's still making me unable to use them."

"We can't keep fighting like this Daniel," Even Emma was out of breath already, and the walls she was putting up one after another were starting to get flimsy. "We have to defeat him, and defeat him soon."

"I know," she really didn't need to tell me that.

I looked over at Joe and Willy and even they looked like they could use a break. The data bugs had been pretty relentless. Kill one off and two appear in its place. Sort of like a Hydra.

I kept on thinking, trying to come up with a way to defeat him. But, how do you defeat someone who has complete control of the place? Someone who can create things at will? Someone...like me, only with a bigger ego?

"Hey, I got a question for you both," I started. "What would you guys say my biggest weakness is?"

In a heartbeat, Emma answered, "Dana."

While Dana answered, "Your loyalty?"

I blushed and coughed at what Emma said and Dana looked at her as if she was crazy.

"What?" Emma looked at Dana and me, "It's the truth."

"That...really doesn't help us in our current predicament, guys," I said just as Dana was about to open her mouth to say something to Emma—who knows what that is. "I was thinking more on something I can use against Void. He is...like me."

"Void isn't anything like you, Daniel," Dana was quick to my defense. Emma agreed with her. "You two have nothing in common."

"We do have the same powers," I said, "It's kind of impossible to miss."

"Okay, so apart from that you two are like two completely opposite sides of a coin," Emma said. "To think that both you and Void could possibly have anything else in common is preposterous."

"I was only asking about a weakness we could use with regards to his powers," I said defensively, even though as I said it I began to wonder. Were we really all that different?

If I really think about it, if I really put into perspective what would have happened if The Prayer found me out when I clung into him, if he had decided not to destroy me but to raise me to be the exact opposite of who I was now, would I really be all that different from Void? Because, if I follow that train of thought, the only thing that makes us different were our circumstances. I was certain that whatever had made him that way, could have happened to me. What if something happens that makes me forget about all that I stood for? What if everything I stood for was suddenly ripped away from me? Would I turn into something reminiscent to the enemy that stood before me?

"I grow tired of this!" Void's voice snapped me from my thoughts. And then there was the sound of his fingers snapping and then a shout from Joe and Willy.

The sound of her brother's voice was enough for Emma to put down the wall. What we saw then was Joe and Willy's head being gripped by Void's hands. Both of them were flailing, so much that Willy managed to elbow Void. It didn't do anything but I did manage to catch a glimpse of something like a green jewel hanging on a necklace around his neck.

"Willy!" Emma shouted as she tried to run towards her brother.

"Don't!" Willy shouted, which made Emma stop on her tracks.

"Finally, you emerge from that cocoon." Void said. "I should have known that the sound of your friends struggling would be enough to draw you three out."

"What do you want, Void?" I shouted the question. It really seemed like too much effort in his part if all he really wanted to do was destroy Daniel X.

Void laughed, "I thought it had been obvious from the get-go. I want to destroy you, Daniel X. Completely and utterly destroy you."

"That's not it!" I was only bluffing but suddenly I wasn't bluffing at all. Somehow, my words felt true. "You had so much time, so many chances to do just that. Why wait until we're here?"

"Ah, always trying to find the reason behind everything," Void said. Then, without ceremony, he squeezed Willy and Joe's head that they screamed. Seconds later, they were gone. Like they had been sucked out of existence.

"No!" Emma shouted.

The shock was enough to blind her as she rushed towards Void, using all her powers to try and attack him. But Void beat her to it. And, within seconds only Dana and I were left. Emma, Willy, and Joe were gone. It was so fast that all we could do was stand there, mouths agape and eyes wide open.

Did that...just happen?

"No...way..." I gulped. My mind was blank other for that thought.

Dana slumped on the ground beside me. Even she was speechless at what had just happened.

Void, however, was not.

"Three down, one to go." And he set his sights on Dana.

To be continued...