Author's Note: This is a beginning to a story that I began a while ago, but it kinda died. The beginning was pretty good, though, so I decided to tie it into this one.

Disclaimer: I don't anything besides my own characters. If you try to sue me, I have a bunch of lawyers as family friends and zero money, so don't even try.

Prologue: A Beginning

They were coming. She could feel them in her very essence. A presence, a force of fear itself, crawling up her spine and into her skull. She knew that the days of relative peace and prosperity were coming to a close. There was no way around it, not like before. All her alternatives, all her backup plans, had been used, and been temporary. The presence that now loomed on the horizon of this ancient lady was one that was determined to break free of a 2000-year imprisonment. The Godless Age was over, and an eternal night seemed to be the only end in sight. The end of humans. The Great Experiment was about to be terminated. And then, a tremor of hope, like a small candle lost in the vast deepness of space, came into being. Then it flickered, and she almost thought it had disappeared completely, when it reappeared in a slightly different spot. As this had never happened before, she tried to look closer, to see if she could see what it was, but then it flickered out, and reappeared somewhere else. She studied it for a while, and then, an idea came to her, one that she instantly hid in the very depths of her massive intellect, for if the enemy got a hold of this very vital information, no matter how tenuous, it would be ripped away forever before it even had time to blossom. And with this very vital piece of information, she arose, and started her preparations for the tribulations to come. And for the first time in a long time, she smiled.

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Danny shuddered, without knowing why. Sure he had just done three transformations in a very short amount of time, but it shouldn't give him the shivers. For now, he just shrugged it off.

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So, what do you think? R and R please!