WARNING: The following chapter contains enormous amounts of plot induced stupidity, writer self-induced stupidity and many other kinds of stupifity during the first half of it that are meant to be part of the story and taken seriously. Proceed under your own caution and don't say we -the autor and his voices- didn't warn you.

Chapter Eleven:

The Day That Never Comes, Part 11

Cold Hate vs Hot Rage

00:37 A.M. UTC

Rising his fist, he strikes Spectra's flame freezing it along with the entire street and every building around. Everything was covered in ice, snow and frost as far as the eye could see. Everything was pure white, the snowflakes falling everywhere like winter and the deadly cold air killing Ember and Spectra's fire.

Hustling at Spectra, he grabbed her from behind in a full nelson and spun toward a near wall. Her arms were clenched and her back was arched but he was able to use her own weight against her.

With her nails poped out, she seeks for his face, but he quickly grasps her nails with his right hand. His cold touch numbed her hand so fast, she didn't get to feel the pain until he ripped her frozen claws, straight from her flesh and crashed them like glass before her eyes.

Roaring in pain she hits him in the face repeatedly, with the back of her head. Danny's goggles protected his eyes from the acid flaming hair and the cold energy that running through his body protected the exposed part of his face.

Ember floats sneaking up from behind them, to attack Danny with her own hair, but his ghost scanner warns him about her and the moment she fires her hair at him, he fades away in his mist form.

- Watch out who you aim your hair at, you little girl! - fumed Spectra after getting struck by the blue fire.

- Hey, if you could move as fast as you talk you wouldn't get burned.

- Why don't you try to run in this cold with this stupid blizzard wearing heels?

- Why don't you both try to run while I'm still giving you a chance - he exclaimed materializing behind them. - Ops, too late - states waving his hands, releasing two cold energy waves onto the floor, trapping Ember and Spectra inside an ice dome with very long and sharp ice shards in the inside.

- Ok, time to bring the big guns - states Spectra.

- What do you mean? - inquired Ember.

- I mean this - retorted stabbing her in the head with her good hand, reaching inside her mind, looking for her worst and most devastating moments.

Unwittingly, Ember started to remember things, things she didn't wanted to talk or think ever again. Things from her afterlife, like the moment when she hit rock bottom, when she realized her long life dream of becoming a rock star would never come true. The pain of her crushed dreams came back more vividly than ever before, and started crushing her heart while Spectra feasted on it, making Ember sadder and angrier, which made both their fire grow.

Spectra digs deeper and deeper until reaching her most painful and miserable memory. A memory so lost that not even Ember herself could recognize it and for a moment she thought it was someone else's life. Images of a blonde girl just like her who dreamed of being a rock star as well, who was at the bottom of the class, a girl who was in love with the most popular guy at school and that one day got her dreamed date with her loved boy, but he never came. And then, images of that same girl tired, screaming scared, in pain… and then everything was hot; they felt hot like they never felt before, and then everything they saw was fire. They saw the girl die, burned alive and alone, and then everything was fire.

Like a sinister dark phoenix, with black and blue flames they burst breaking the ice around them.

- Wow… how cool is that? - asked young Danny, astonished when he saw the huge flare breaking out of his ice dome, melting everything around. - Uh, right. They're gonna use it to kill me.

Their hair bursting into very large flames, burning and melting everything around them. The heat of Ember's fire was of 246 degree Celsius according to Danny's goggles, and growing excessively fast.

- Wow… that's… that's pretty hot. Is it weird that I'm getting turn on? Haha, got it? "Turn on".

- No.

- You are a computer, what do you know about jokes? What's she doing to Ember?

- Can't tell. Looks like her hand is inside her head.

- Well. She always had a thing for getting her hands inside her patients minds. Wait a minute, that's it! She's digging her mind, looking for memories of her, memories that would make her miserable so she can feed on it. Wow, good thing she didn't try that on my.

- Where was that fast thinking earlier today when you got your ass handed to you? - asked Gas while Danny dodged a huge fire blast coming from Spectra's right hand.

- It was having an awful me time. And so was I. - answered dodging Spectra's attacks jumping nimbly on the walls. - So focused on my fame and so convinced that I was the best at what I do, that I completely forgot that what I do is not nice and always gets worse, so blinded I didn't see I crippled myself by not letting myself grow thinking I had already reached the top of my game - said squatting on a billboard. - Is it me or her powers are starting to affect me again?

- Maybe. This ought to do - said Gas creating a holographic carbon-fiber laced bubble face mask that quickly fades from sight. A mask made with a self-cleaning electrostatic precipitation system that allows for full nuclear, biological and chemical filtration that will prevent Danny from breathing Spectra's pheromones in the air.

- Thanks. The way I see it, it was an awful and unnecessary moment of self-pityness and I've never been up for that. I hate that! - replied jumping behind the billboard to escape Spectra's fire. - You ask me the only personal grow I need is the feeling of my fist breaking when I punch another guy in the face so hard I know he feels worst that I do, but since Technus isn't here, they ought to do by now.

- And how do you plan on hitting that? Ember's fire is about 371.11111 C, that's…

- Wow. That's Saturn's temperature. That is like 700 degrees F. I should should now that, I'm an astronaut, which you are not.

- And you have no idea how much it pains me. It totally keeps me up at night - replied with utmost indifference.

- Its lowest temperature is -270 degrees F which is like -170 degrees C. And I'm sure as hell I can get get even lower… ok, that… I'm just gonna stop talking.

- God call.

Flying away from the melted billboard, Danny fires a cold energy ray with a temperature of -370 degree C at Spectra who summons a 37 meters black fire wall to use as a shield.

- Fascinating - uttered Gas.

- What? That she could melt my face?

- No, not that. But her fire. It basically shares the same properties that normal fire or ghost fire and acid but it only burns like the later. - Explained whilst Danny opened his body to let pass a stream of Spectra's and Ember's fire combined. - And for the record, the suit is acid proof, in case you didn't notice.

- Oh really? Oh, then I'm so totally letting them hit me. - Replied sarcastically, with his head tilted.

- Tell me do you have any idea how acid works?

- I'm a "C" straight student, what do you think? - asked crouched on the barely frozen ground, throwing a cold energy wave at them. - The only thing I know about acid is that citric acid and my grades are just the same, full of C's.

- Ok I'll try to explain you: Bronsted Acids are proton donors - said while Danny created a cold energy shield to deflect both their fire and energy blasts -. Lewis acids accept electron pairs - retorted while he raised a large ice wall and hurled it at Ember's firewall also hurled at him.

The ice wall and the blue fire wall crash, made an spectacular display of chaos and beauty with blue sparks of fire and glowing ice splinters falling from the sky.

- And arrhenius acids increase H3O+ concentrations in water. The strength of an acid is defined by how easily it gives up the proton; the strength of a base is determined by how avidly it binds the proton. Are you getting this?

Danny mulls in silence for a few seconds and then responds:

- I'm a C straight student who got expelled from chemistry class for dropping everything made out of glass, what do you think?

- All right, I'll make it super simple to you; there's a bunch of h+ (or something similar) in an acid. It'll find some oh- (or something similar) in a protein and steal it. Then, like taking a card out of a cardhouse, it falls apart. Acids cause tissue damage by denaturing proteins and some acid-base reactions are exothermic so that explains why acid "burns" feel hot.

- Ok, I'm kinda getting some of that crap you're telling me, "Professor Proffesserson", but I really don't have the time for it or to find or create an anti-acid or whatever - said jumping and swinging while throwing another cold energy wave -. So tell me, if I knock her out cold it will turn it off?

- Well, if you want the caveman, brute savage solution, yes.

- That's all I needed to hear.

Danny pops out his claws creating larger ice claws covering them, and claws the snow reaching into ground. Before Spectra could throw another fire attack, he creates a giant snow hand with sharp ice claws rising from the underground that grows bigger and bigger. Tightening his grasp on the ground, he turns the snow into ice and traps her in the giant ice hand.

- How 'bout that? See? That's what I meant when I said "knock her out cold".

- What? How-How did you know that was going to work?

- Simple. You said her fire shares the same properties than normal and ghostly fire, right? Well in my book it translate as "it can be turn off with ice". Luckily I was right, what a Mary Hail I pulled out there, eh?

- How are you even sure that's gong to hold her?

- Because there is nothing stronger than my hate for her, a big cold hate.

In that moment Ember pounces him with a fire ball thrown at his face.

Her eyes were completely red, and red was all she could see. Her mind was consumed by a burning rage like no other. Danny knew that feeling pretty well, he put himself through that to fight them, but now she was on the other side, and her rage was greater than he thought.

"Ghostly fire burning at 1063 degree Celsius" said indicated his suit on his left lense.

Danny jumps sky high, with his body temperature at -500 C, and unleashes a deadly snowstorm upon her.

- And what are you going to do with this?

- I'm gonna use my environment on my behalf.

Landing on the snow, he started moving his hands, manipulating the snow around him, attacking Ember with it while dodging her assaults with graceful movements, swinging and jumping on the snow. His movements were so nimble and his attacks so precise it seemed as if the snow was a part of him, an extension of his body.

Hurling a snow wave at her, he grasp her left arm, and solidifies the snow turning it into ice so hard and cold she couldn't break it or melt it. Quickly she realizes her feet were also frozen and when raising her right hand with flaming axe to break the ice, he grasp it with a snow tentacle and turns it into ice again, completely restraining her movements.

Growling and glowering at him, she assails with her pony tail, unleashing the greatest flare he has ever seen, and melting the ice in her hands.

Quickly he summons an ice wall between him and the flame, but the fire breaks through hitting Danny in the face. The blow leaves him dazed for a second, but he quickly shakes it off and gets back on his feet, jumping at her but she hits him in the stomach with all her strength using her guitar. With her right fist smoldering in pink ghost energy, she punches him in the face so hard he feels his wisdom teeth breaking loose, but mostly breaking. She bludgeons him in the face with her axe-guitar; he feels his the unmistakable crunch of nose cartilage shattering to pieces and again that brain stinging tingling of it regenerating as soon as it breaks.

Danny falls on his knees, angry and hating her more than before, glaring at her with his lenses slanted and an intense blue glow. He blows and slays her flaming body with his claws, freezing her body from the inside, but the ice of the wounds quickly melt and she heals.

Once again she attacks him with her flaming ponytail, with a flame even bigger and hotter than before -1508 C according to Danny's suit-.

He takes the attack getting only first degree burns on the exposed parts of his face. His cold energy emanated through his body, and his thick ghost skin, combined with his blocked neuron pain receptors allowed him to withstand the attack, but Ember wouldn't let him pass through. Using her hands, she fires two blue streaming flames with a pink ghost ray spiraling on each one, pushing him back, bringing him into his knees.

"Warning: Ghostly fire attack at 2000 C" said all over his lenses.

In that moment, Danny calls for all of his cold energy to fight her back, pushing her attack with a streaming cold energy blast fired from both hands.

"User's body temperature at -675 C" said the computer built in on he suit.

- I have to be colder - thought Danny, harnessing as much cold as he could. Getting blue by the first time ever since he got his powers.

"User's body temperature at -775 C."

- Danny, I don't know how cold can you bear, but I think this can by dangerous for you. You may be reaching your limits - said Gas.

- Shut up! If this is about limits, I'm gonna break them through and freeze this bitch! - shouted while struggling to get on his feet. - I'm gonna break my limits, and then I'm gonna break her in half, and then I'm gonna break Technus in less than a half - yelled sputtering only cold hate, hate for Ember, for Technus, for all of his enemies.

"User's body temperature at -985 C."

Danny's skin, turns even more blue, and his hair began to grow ice spikes while his whole body was shivering, but it wasn't enough for Danny. He wanted to lower his temperature even more. He had to lower his temperature even more.

"User's body temperature at -1500 C."

His hair and skin completely frosted, his lenses damped, his suit suggesting -almost begging- him to stop for his own good, but he didn't mind, because deep down he knew what he was. He knew he had to keep pushing just a little bit lower…

"User's body temperature at -1850 C."

and lower…

"User's body temperature at -1950 C."

and lower…

"User's body temperature at -2000 C."

Until he finally got it.

Finally getting the power he needed to overcome Ember's fire and getting back on his feet, firing the most powerful cold energy blast he has ever fired dazzling her for a second.

And when she opened her eyes, she couldn't believe what she saw. Danny's body was completely turned into ice. By pushing his ice powers to the limit, he had reached a whole new level, and now his hair, his ghost skin, his ghost flesh, his entire body was now made entirely out of organic ice, except for his bones which could be seen through his translucent icy flesh, though only the exposed part of his face would demonstrate such trait, since his suit was now made out of ice as well, only though this wasn't see through.

- You are made out of ice now?

- Yeah, baby - he grinned with a wide creepy-looking smile given to his visible jawbone and his sharp canine teeth.

- Then you just made things easier for me - said smiting him with a full blast of her pony tail, but her fire was nothing for him now.

Fighting back only with a blizzard, not even a full cold energy blast, he turns off her fire with not problem.

- You should have never left school - said knocking her out with a single punch.

- Impressive child, impressive. You are most impressive indeed - claimed Technus from behind, giving him a slow clapping.

- You!

Danny bustled at him with his hand turned into a large ice claw, pouncing him in the face, gashing his skin.

- What are you? - Asked Danny when he saw a black metal piece beneath his skin.

- Maybe I should… But perhaps is better if I save that for another day, that if there is another day for you.

Technus covered his wound generating a green light with his right hand, healing his face.

- You know, I said I was going yell my plans anymore, but I feel like doing it one last time, just for the good old days.

- It was about time, 'cuz I'm not the only one who doesn't understand what's going here.

- An hour ago, at exactly zero hours I set up a device, a ghost bomb or G-bomb, that was set to explode exactly within the hour, since that's what takes for it to charge given to the immensity of its size and its destructive capacity which can blow half this city, and when it does, it will release a huge cloud of my ghost-converter nano-bots, that will turn this entire city into my own ghost city! Or at least it will be until the power grows too much for those weak and rotten human bodies, reducing those miserable stepping stones in my path for the perfect ghost-hybrid army into carcasses.

- I am so going to break YOUR "!*#/ ASS IN HALF! - Yelled, sputtering in rage.

- Oh my, who knew you'd know such words? But tell me, do you really think you can give yourself the luxury of fighting against me when so little time to take care of the bomb - said showing his G-bomb right behind Danny.

- This isn't over. Not even close - said bustling at the bomb.

- Of course is not. Wouldn't expect less of you. And of course, you wouldn't expect me to make it that easy to you, right? - claimed grabbing his ghost tail, and slamming him on the ground. So hard, Danny's returns to his normal ghost form.

- Let me GO! - shouted smiting him in the face with an intense bright blue ghost ray.

Technus falls steaming, with his face scorched.

- Can you feel it child? This is it. This is your limit. You've lost, you lost a long time ago and you don't even know it.