George
Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have
not got it.
Asteria: Dahk is controlling the body right now. Danny talks to her sometimes, but she's really overtaxed by what's been happening and has to sleep a lot.
Ransom: Thank you so much!!!!!!
Iora Rua:I'm sorry I didn't get your shout-out in last time *feels bad* but I'll give you a special cookie to make up for it! It looks like Doggy :).
Azzandra: One of the olsen twins got eaten? Where was I? As far as the virus, you're just going to have to find out, and as for commenting, go ahead! I can take it. I'm not the kind of person that gets mad at critiques, and I'll probably find your comments helpful or incredibly amusing, as they already are.
Flamingo1: Danny isn't in control. Dahk is. I'm going off to review now, buh-bye!
Laureate: Why do they need rat bites? I'm sorry I'm making this confusing. I'm going to try and clear it up soon.
HoneyBug17: It's gonna get crazier from here on out.
hnh: Insanity, but it works for both.
Rogue77: It'll be explained later.
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"Schooooool! Schoooool! Books and pencils and homeworks and such! I hope the teachers are thoroughly stuffed! Schooooool!"
\That's not very polite/ Danny muttered in the back of my head. I grinned.
"See, Dann, that's the problem with you- you're too polite. When have you ever done something that you wanted to do without a care about anyone else?"
\……/
"I thought so. See, you never just let loose. Oh, I can't be bad and inconvenience people because I'm sweet little Danny. Have you ever been happy like that?"
\….yes…./
"Be honest. You inconvenience yourself by not following your instincts."
\And you hurt people by just following yours./
I stopped in the middle of the street. People had evacuated from the premises once they saw the cloud of dead buggies behind and above me.
"Well, we can't help that, now can we?"
\….Dahk?/
"What?" I asked irritated. There she went again, asking questions! Why didn't she ever go with her gut instinct?
\What is the Power?/
"What? It's the Power. Duh."
\…You don't know what it is./
"No freakin' clue!" I sang happily as I began skipping forward. Being like a little kid was fun! Why didn't she ever want to do stuff like that anymore?
\And you've been hiding this little Power from me…for how long?/
"Hey now." I stopped in mid-skip. "Don't think at me with that tone of voice. I know that tone."
\Dahk./
"We-ell….we're sixteen," I mused, and then happily said, "Forever!"
\And you still don't know what it is?!/
"Hey! I'm a work in progress!" I shook my fist at nothing.
\Obviously you haven't progressed much/ She commented snarkily.
"Ooo….We're grouchy this morning!"
\It's almost lunchtime./
"Grumpiness. What side of the bed did you get up on?"
\Depends. Which side did you fall off?/
"Har har. You're so funny I—Ooooo….." Something caught my eye.
\….taxidermy? So?/
"Homework assignment." I summoned the bugs to go in and snatch up anything not stuffed and started walking towards the high school again.
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"What happened here?!" Danny's mother gasped.
Doctors and nurses were trying to calm down patients as panic ran rampant through the hospital.
Xavier sent out his thoughts to locate Danny. They had no hope of getting to her room through the crowd of frightened people.
He jerked his head in shock. "We must go back to the institute."
Danny's father whirled around. "I'm not going anywhere before I see my daughter."
"She isn't here." Charles Xavier said before he turned to wheel back to the car. The father's mouth dropped in shock.
"What do you mean she's not here?"
"We must go back to the institute and use Cerebro to locate her."
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"Looks like a prison." I said to no one. Danny had fallen back asleep. I tested the doors. Locked.
"What a pity." I waved my hand and some crawlies went into the keyhole.
CLICK.
"So much for that," I grinned. I walked into the hallway. It would be perfect. I'd just go over to the labs and work my magic.
"Alright guys." I addressed the bugs. "Put the stuff in the lab and then surround the school. I don't want visitors."
The bugs swept through the school, carrying with them precious material. They came back out just as swiftly, swirling into a cloud swarm above and around the school.
Impenetrable.
I whistled as I walked down the hall to the science building.
Today is a fine day to play.
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"Do you see what I see, yo?"
"Looks like the school has a serious bug problem." Lance whispered back. They had just come over to do some random destruction in their favorite stomping ground to find it was covered in bugs.
"Yuck." Fred commented. Tabitha wrinkled her nose. She had come back to the brotherhood for the third or so time and was hanging out with the guys.
"Lunch is lunch, yo." Todd jumped up and hopped towards the school. Wanda rolled her eyes and looked away. He was already too far for her to bother hexing.
"YUCK! GROSS YO! IT'S DEAD! THIS BUG IS DEAD!"
Todd spat out the remains of what he had been trying to eat and scampered back to the group.
"What, it died in your mouth?" Fred said puzzled.
"No, they're dead! Those things flying around are dead!"
"If they're flying around they can't be dead," Lance reasoned.
"Oh no? You want to try and—"
"They're coming this way!" Tabby yelled. The Brotherhood looked over to see a swarm that had broken off the main group headed right for them.
"RUUUUUUUUNNNNN!"
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"What a mottley bunch…of pieces. Wow, who knew? Bugs are the workhorses of the world." I hummed tunelessly as I perused the bounty from the taxidermy shop. A bear, several winged animals, bats and such, a couple hoofed mammals, a crocodile, a torso from a monkey that must have been a gorilla, some big cats, some really big lizards, and an emu. Those big bad-tempered birds. The bugs, being dead and untiring, had dragged them over.
What inspiration. Time to get to work.
There was a pulley system in the lab, and I used it to hoist the dead bear carcass onto a table. The perfect starting point.
"The tools." I took out a saw, several needles of varying sizes, and some scalpels.
"Time to have fun!" I giggled as I prepared the saw. "I hope you have life insurance," I added in mock seriousness.
I swiftly began doing what I needed to do, chopping the entire part from the shoulders up off of it. Him. The bear was a him.
\What's going on?/
"We're doing homework!" I said cheerfully.
\With dead animals?/
"Yup! Oooo! Look at those horns! Deer horns, I—"
\Impala./
"Shut-up. Go back to sleep." I said a little disgruntled. What a know it all!
I arranged the body the way I wanted it and lopped off the legs, one at the knee, another at the ankle. I ran off to where the other animal were staying, as if they could go anywhere else, and took a camel leg and part of a komodo dragon leg off. I attached them to the stumps of the bear.
\What exactly are we doing?/
"Artwork!"
I took the arms off next. I sewed the gorilla arm on one side and did a little surgery on the emu leg before I attached it to the other arm. Now it could grasp, a little.
"Now for the next bit!" The crocodile took a lot out of that little saw, but we managed it. I attached the tail in place of the little bob bear's call a tail. A large piece of armored back skin was placed aside for further use. The saw cut a sharp line down the bear back, and I did a little switching around of the muscles. I don't know how I knew how to do this stuff, but really, I didn't care.
It was fun.
After pulling out some muscles and replacing them with others I removed the wings from a large very dead condor and some from flying foxes. The really big bats with six feet wingspans. I attached them to the back of the bear. About six pairs of wings.
Then came the head. I thought for a while. Then I took the head of a very big antelope and sewed several neck pieces of other animals together for the neck and sewed them on. The antelope had no horns, but I would remedy that later. It ended up having a big ruff, because one of the big cats was a lion.
"Oh, my kingdom for a heart," I mused. It had to be pretty big. The bear heart was still in there, but I needed more…
A sheep. The heart of a sheep. Sheeps were sweet creatures. Stupid, but sweet. I swiftly chambered a sheep heart in with the bears. As an afterthought I added one of the cat's hearts. A tiger's. There were two tigers. I took the eyes out of the other tiger, a white tiger, and put them in a container in the fridge until I was finished.
I pulled the croc skin over the open chest cavity and sewed it on.
"But we can't have him have the deer's brain."
\We can't?/ Danny said sleepily. The entire time she had been slipping into and out of consciousness. I'd be worried if it weren't for the fact that she was with me.
She couldn't be safer.
"Of course not. He has to be smart. HEY!"
\What?/ She asked, alarmed.
"There's a research place nearby right?"
\Studying dead sea-oh no. You're going to break in./
"Oh yeah." I ran through the lab. There was a freezer full of ice. I grabbed several bags of dry ice and threw them on my creation. I did this several times and followed with several trips of regular ice. It looked like a fridge when I was done.
"Abnormal brain, here we come!" I yelled as I ran out of the room.
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Uh-oh. Look's like Frankenstein all over again.
Next time: MY KINGDOM FOR A BRAIN!
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