Chapter Two – Strangeland

The first thing that Danny became aware of was the chill in the air that made him shiver. It reminded of the Far Frozen. After a few minutes he cracked open his eyes to check his surroundings. The sight was slightly unfamiliar, as expected, except he wasn't shocked or worried.

This wasn't the first time he had woken up someplace strange and probably wouldn't be the last.

Danny figured that he was in his parent's basement when he caught sight of steel walls. Thinking that he had somehow passed out down there after a long night of ghost hunting.

I'm dead.

He slumped back against the wall groaning in annoyance at the thought, of his parents. What was he suppose to tell them? They must have stayed up all night worrying about him unless someone, Sam or Tucker, had covered for him AGAIN. It was only when he glanced down that he noticed that something was off.

The floor was made out of concrete instead of tile.

It was clear that he was in a large steel hallway as he really looked around for the first time. The walls had patterns unlike the flat steel of the laboratory.

Another shiver ran through Danny's body except it had nothing to do with the cold. He was filled with an overwhelming sense of dread as he remembered his friends panicked faces before everything turned black. What had happened before that? He bit his lips trying to think back to another regular day without any ghost attacks before the Box Ghost showed up... a surprise attack?

MOM AND DAD.

The new invention.

'It can opens portals, Danny!'

But to where? This was definitely not the Ghost Zone that he imagined earlier.

In fact, everything felt different because it was much warmer and colder than he could remember it being in ages. The very idea made his mind stutter to a halt as the thought of temperature had started to become a foreign concept to him a while ago. It had been ages since he had last felt his own body heat after he had developed his ice powers.

Danny searched, hesitantly, for the familiar cold sensation of his ghost half only to find nothing. There was only the pounding sensation of his heart beating against his ribcage. The sensation felt so weird to him because this was something that he attributed to being a regular human.

"What the?" The teenager exclaimed as he jumped to his feet after he had looked down and caught sight of the appendage laying upon his chest. Examining himself with a slow growing mixture of horror and confusion while wondering if someone was playing a joke on him.

These couldn't be his hands.

The situation felt so surreal to the boy after he realized that he was practically swimming in his clothing. It seemed so ridiculous that Danny wanted to smash his head into something.

He was a freaking kid again!

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"Clockwork." He gasped with a tinge of anxiety and hope. The thought of his odd ghostly guardian was enough to calm him down. As the older ghost had claimed that he was his guardian. He wouldn't leave him a dangerous position, right? There was a tinge of doubt in the back of his mind though.

Which didn't change his current situation. No powers, far from home, and trapped as a child. The reality of it all weighed down on him like a bag of bricks.

His mind flashed to Sam and Tucker.

What happened to them after that? Are they okay?

"They're okay. They're okay..." The dark haired boy told himself softly except the words sounded hollow to him. It seemed that he wanted to convince himself of the fact more than anything. He tried to figure out what to do with his clothes after calming down. Which ended up being ditching everything except for his over-sized shirt and socks.

There was a light coming from around the other side of the room that caught his eye. As he rounded the corner he discovered a large window within an alcove. He noted with fascination that they were made from industrial material, but it was the sights outside that caught his eyes though.

It was as if a large body of water had flooded the whole world leaving nothing unscathed. Bubbles rose from an unknown source while kelp gently waved in front of the window. Beyond all of this were large and unrecognizable metallic structures including signs that went beyond his line of sight.

This is a city?

Several minutes passed before Danny pried his eyes away from the sights beyond the glass and moved on. Quickly reaching a large metallic doorway that automatically raised itself as he approached. It looked as if it could easily crush someone. Behind it was a hallway with colorful advertisements decorating the walls except he passed on through to another room.

The first thing that caught his eye as he entered was the open vent coming from the wall in front of him. It seemed out of place because it was obviously new, gleaming bronze, while everything else looked old and dirty.

Bold lettered signs gave away the fact that the room was a stop for a train called the Atlantic Express.

Danny walked farther inside except it seemed devoid of life other than the trash indicating that someone had been here. In the middle of the room was a large map for the train that was lit up with lights.

The boy moved on only to find actual civilization or what would be considered civilization if it was founded in a dark and grim corner of the world. There was a building in the center with a neon sign that declared that the establishment was called the Fishbowl Dinner. A red fish repeatedly jumped out of a fishbowl into a frying pan on top of the sign.

It was creepy.

The dinner itself was lit up making shadows appear within the windows indicating that there were actual people inside. Danny walked past the doors as he made a beeline for a space by a wall. Thinking that he might rest only to come to a sudden stop.

Senses on high alert, screaming DANGER.

He wasn't sure what was wrong. Many of the people sitting there seemed as if they had gone without a good bath in ages except they seemed normal. Hesitantly, he walked away moving deeper into the unknown.

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Nothing much to say, this chapter had mostly been written except I needed to write an ending and eh... I don't know if it worked here.