Wow I was not expecting that much response for just the first chapter. Thank you everyone that read the story.
Also it was asked why everyone just believed that Danny was kidnapped so easily. It's because Vlad is one the richest most powerful men in the world. If someone like Bill Gates told you something you would probably believe him. You'd expect that what he told you was right. Also Vlad is Jack's best friend so Jack would believe it after he learned the information was from Vlad. Maddison doesn't trust Vlad be she would probably go along just in case Vlad was right. Anyway onto the story.
It had been a slow day. I should have expected it though. Not many people drink coffee later than 5 o'clock on a Friday night. I sighed as I left the coffee shop and started heading to my apartment. It was about 11 o'clock and I had just finished my shift as a barista at The Coffee Bean, a small café in downtown Jump City.
I've been in Jump City for a little over a month now. I decided to stay because the GIW would expect me to go and hide in a faraway secluded area. So living in a busy city near where I was last spotted was what they least expected.
The first week in Jump was pretty hard. I had no money and nowhere to live. I spent the week searching for a place that would hire a 16 year old and wouldn't ask questions, while sleeping in an abandoned building and dumpster diving for food. Then I found The Coffee Bean. The owner, Joel Wells, hired me almost instantly after I asked for a job. I think he knew that I was homeless or a runaway and wanted to help, but he has never brought it up. That's just how Joel was; he would help anyone that needed it no questions asked. Kind of like how I used to be. Well at least all the times I had to make coffee after a night of ghost hunting paid off.
Anyway, with the money I received from my job I was able to get an tiny rundown apartment and get myself a new identity. I'm now officially Danny Fields now. The new I.D. was tough to get but it was worth it. With it I was able to enrol into Jump City High School, I know it's a lame name but it's better than are rivals, Shwarzenegger High. I still don't get how a body builder can become governed of California, but hey I'm half ghost, who am I to judge. So all in all I'm doing fine.
The only problem is I can't use my powers. Well that's I lie, I can use a few easy ones for a short period of time. I can go intangible for a few seconds and invisible for about a minute. I can also shoot tiny weak ectorays and I can use my ghost strength once a day. Unfortunately I can't transform, into a ghost, fly, or use my ice powers which means my ghost sense is probably broken too. Thankfully no ghosts have come this far west yet so I haven't needed to use my powers but who knows how long that will last.
I turn onto Main Street and pass a busy pizza place. There are many people milling around enjoying the beautiful evening. A group of guys are hanging in front of a shop and a couple enters the pizza place when it happens. I see a streak of green in the sky. The next thing I know there was a bright light, a loud noise and I was knocked off my feet.
I pick myself off the ground and look towards where whatever knocked me off my feet originated from. Standing inside of a smoking crater is a girl with orange skin, long pink hair and glowing green eyes. She's wearing armour made of a light purple metal that has black cloth overtop of the armour positioned like a shirt and skirt. On her head was a metal headpiece that lined the top and sides of her face. Her hands were in some kind of futuristic handcuffs.
She started yelling in a alien language that I couldn't understand. She seemed like she was getting frustrated and angry that she wasn't being understood. I realized that I had to do something before something bad happened and people got hurt.
"OK EVERYONE. DON'T MAKE ANY SUDDEN MOVES THAT MIGHT PROVOKE HER," yelled to the curious onlookers. Thankfully everyone listened to me and everyone stopped moving. I slowest took a step towards while making sure she could see me. I took another step towards and then another. When I was within 3 feet of her she suddenly lunged at me and swung her still handcuffed hands at my head. I ducked under her swipe and quickly dove to the right avoid her follow up attack. Her downward swipe left a small crater in the road and crack in the surrounding asphalt.
Seeing the damage the girl caused, made the curiosity leave the onlookers immediately. They all started fleeing and I heard a scream or to.
I got up from my dive and took a step backward. Unfortunately I found out that I was in front of a car by bumping into. The girl lunged again and just barely missed it by sidestepping to my left. Her swipe tore the door off of the car and a piece of her handcuffs fell off exposing her right hand. Her arms were still held together though.
I realized that I was in way over my head. I don't have most of my powers and the ones I can use are unreliable. Fighting her as a human would be suicide. One of her hits could easily break my bones or even kill me. I decided the army would be better equipped to dealing with an angry alien and started running away from her. I'd only made it a few steps when I heard a loud BANG and the sound of metal creaking.
It appears that the girl, seeing that I was no longer bothering her, decided to try and remove her handcuff by hitting them against something. That something was currently a metal support beam holding up the pizza places still full balcony. Her hits had cause the beam to bend and the balcony to lean dangerously downward.
I had to do something quickly. One more hit and the balcony would collapse sending its occupants on a one way ticket to the ground. I concentrated for a second, pulling as much energy from my almost non-existent powers. I started sprinting towards her pushing the energy into my arms and legs to go as fast possible, as she wound up for another hit. I managed to get in front of her and catch her arms before they hit the pole. Thanks to the energy augmenting my strength, I was only pushed back a few inches. Man this girl was strong.
She was surprised that I interfered and jumped backward and started floating. Her surprise turned to anger and she raised her arm again. Instead of swinging it like she had the previous times, her right hand started glowing the same colour as her eyes.
This isn't good. I don't know anything about the glowing in her hand. It looked like an ectoblast. If it acted like an ectoblast I am in trouble. I am too close to dodge and I can't turn intangible. I do the only thing I can think of. I raise my arms so she can see them and try to appear as nonthreatening as possible.
"I'm not here to hurt you, but you've got to stop destroying the city," I say as calmly and soothingly as possible. The girl responds but I don't understand what she says. She starts floating towards me. She lowers her arms as the green glow around her hand disappears. I start to relax a little. Suddenly she lunges for a third time and kisses me
I was shocked. A kiss was the last thing I was expecting. I was expecting that we would try to communicate through hand signs or that she might take another swing at me. The kiss only lasted about a second before she pulled away from me, breaking the kiss.
I stood there frozen as she turned around and started flying away. She stop and looked over her at me and said, "Stay away from me" in perfect English.
Her words broke me out of my shock and I called out "wait". Appears that was the wrong thing to do because she quickly spun around and her right hand started glowing again. She was about to fire the green energy at me when, CLANG, she was hit in the hand by a small red object. She fired at that moment and a glowing green ball flew wide of me into a nearby building
Out of the shadows walked a teen wearing a bright red, green, and yellow costume that was partially obscured by a black cape. He had an R on the right side of his chest and a mask on his face. It was Robin, Batman's side kick.
"You must stop your rampage before you hurt anyone" Robin called out to the girl. The only respond he got was a car being kicked at him. He managed to flip over the car and threw a few birdarangs at her.
I stood on the side lines as the two fought. What was Robin doing all the way in Jump City. He should be in Gotham right now. If her saw me stop the girl he might get suspicious about how a skinny teenager was able to stop a alien. He would run a search on me and my fake I.D. isn't going to stand up to his scrutiny. He could find out that I'm wanted by the GIW and hand me over to them. I don't even want to think about what might happen to me if the GIW capture me. I need to get out of here fast before the battle ends.
I turn to leave and the last thing is see is a green ram head butt the alien girl sending her into the side of a building. I start running away from the battle and head towards my apartment. After a few blocks I slow to a walk. That was close, I hope nothing else happens to me on my way home.
Of course the moment I think that a giant spaceship appears in the sky. A massive hologram of a reptilian alien with blue and green scales appears under the ship.
"I am Trogaar, captain of the Gordanian ship currently above your city. A dangerous prisoner has escaped from our ship into your city. She will be recaptured by the Gordanians. Do not attempt to help her or your city will be destroyed," the giant hologram spoke. As the alien said that a giant gun appeared from the bottom of the ship. It turned and aimed at the heart of the city.
Oh no. I can't do anything to stop the hulking metal death machine without my powers. And the last I saw of the girl she was fighting Robin and whatever that green goat was. I could go back. But what if she's been captured and I'd walk straight into an interrogation by Robin. But if I don't go back I might be responsible for the destruction of the city. Sure I didn't let her go free but my fight with her did help her free one of her hands. I stood there thinking about what I should do. I realized that even if I went I wouldn't be able to do anything to help. I have to leave this problem to Robin and hope things turn out all right. I don't want to do this. I can't stand by while people might get hurt but if I'm a hindrance even more people might get hurt.
Sadly I walk towards my apartment. As I look around a bright light appears in the middle of the empty road. When the light disappears two Gordanians are left standing in the street. They look around and see me. One starts to make a move towards me but he, or is it a she I don't know is stopped by the other one. They turn and go down an alleyway searching for the alien girl. That's okay by me. As long as no one gets hurt or people's stuff gets destroyed than they are free to do whatever they want.
I continue my walk home. The rest of my walk is pretty uneventful. I don't pass any people or Gordanians and only a few cars drive by. The peace lasted until I turned onto the street where my apartment is. A Gordanian was in the middle of my street tearing apart cars parked on the side of the road. A silver car just turned the corner onto the street and had to swerve to avoid the massive reptile blocking the road. The Gordanian jumped on top of the car while it screeched to halt. He punched through the roof of the car before he ripped the roof cleanly off. The doors opened and three people dashed out. It was a family consisting of a 40 year old man and woman and teenage girl. The giant lizard turned towards the family.
When the Gordanian jumped on the car I started running. As he leapt off the roof towards the family I jump at him. I heard a scream as my arms wrapped around the alien's waist as tackled him to the ground in a move that would have made Dash proud … or scratch his head as he tried to figure out how "Fentina" suddenly became athletic.
Both of us jumped up from the ground. I got into a defensive stance expecting him to attack. Before he could a beeping sound came from his helmet followed by a flash of light. When the light died down the Gordanian was gone. I heard a soft gasp behind me and I turned around.
Crap! The girl that I saved was Kelsey Hanson from my school. I didn't know Kelsey well. She was in two of my classes, Math and Chemestry, but we have never talked. She is a pretty girl with shoulder length brown hair, round face and brown eyes. She is 5'8" and is slim. She is athletic and plays on the school soccer team. Other than that I know nothing about her.
This isn't good. I can't be seen being able to fight aliens. A normal teenager shouldn't be able to what I just did. And now that someone from school has seen me fight, rumours are going to start at school. Then all it will take is one curious person to dig to deep and find that I'm a wanted criminal and all I've worked for will be ruined.
Kelsey opens her mouth as if she's about to say something. I do the only thing I can think of. I bolt. I hear a cry of "Danny wait" as I ran through an alleyway between my apartment building and its neighbour. Not the smartest idea running start towards where you live in full sight of someone your trying to avoid but she didn't know I live here so it should be fine. I reach the back of the apartment building and started climbing the fire escape. I reached the second floor and made my way to my tiny balcony. I opened up my window and popped the screen off. I was about to climb inside when I heard an explosion. I looked up and saw the spaceship on fire and falling towards the ground. It landed on small island in the bay with a loud crash.
I climbed through the window into my tiny apartment and replaced the window and screen. I didn't bother to lock the because the locks were broken.
My apartment consisted of four small room, a living room, kitchen, bathroom, and bedroom. The entire apartment was falling apart. The walls had numerous cracks and holes in them. Mold was growing in the corners of the room and stuffing was coming out of the couch shoved into the corner of the living room. The faucets dripped constantly and the shower had hot water only half the time, but I can't complain. This was the only apartment I could afford where the landlord wouldn't question why a 16 year old was buying it.
Tiredly I I took my shoes off and shuffled towards my bedroom. I flopped onto my bed and instantly fell asleep glad to be finished with this horrible day.