Con-San back again.
After some kind advice from DemonOfShadow I will no longer be answering reviews in the story and I will only PM if your review makes enough of an impression on me.
Thanks for all of your support I think there were nearly twenty reviews since I last updated.
And for those of you who thought it was Sam and Danni well you got half of it right.
Who forgets Tucker has black hair? If his hat fell off do you think the GIW would care and put it back on? Nuff said.
Now onto the story.
Danny could only glare as the GIW held his friends who were tied together while Scott just stood there.
"Don't listen to him Man!" Tucker yelled struggling. An agent gripped his arm causing him to cry out in pain. Danny shook with anger his aura crackling and expanding Scott backing away as Danny's eyes glowed bright white.
"You just killed. Hundreds of people. Kidnapped my best friends. Then threatened my best friends. And you expect me to COOPERATE!" Danny's anger flared glowing eyes slits as his fists gathers the white energy around his arms and fists the energy crackling about like a storm around Danny. Danny gritted his teeth.
"You. Killed. People." Danny glared. Danny's arms were now cloaked in the white energy in the form of claw like hands long spikes coming off the fore arms as the energy blended up his arms till just past his elbows where it wrapped and snaked around like angry electrical serpents.
The agents looked to K and O for reassurance Danny guessed they weren't even letters yet, just numbers, and that K and O had decided that this would be an easy collection. K showed no difference and pointed a gun toward Sam whose deep violet eyes went wide and she looked at Danny. This only angered Danny more though. A large white spike of energy impaled the agent and he crumpled.
"DANNY!" Sam and Tucker yelled once more. Danny charged the other agents around his two friends taking them out with a slash his claws. As Danny attacked livid whit eyes filled with blood lust the claws passed easily through each agent as the crumpled. Danny looked down at them without pity his bright white glowing eyes unsettling slits as he glared down at them. Danny then turned to Sam and Tucker gathering the energy in one palm as it turned white to its usual lime green into a highly concentrated sheet of ecto-energy. Danny raised it and brought it down quickly.
Sam and Tucker slipped out of the rope as the ecto-knife severed their bonds. Danny was still shaking livid with anger and despair hands gripping each other to stop the shaking.
"Dude… did you…" Tucker trailed off looking at the fallen agents.
"They're not dead." Danny said fists clenching harder if possible, "But i… I wanted to kill them. I wanted to so badly. To make them pay for what they've done." Danny's eyes flashed with the white energy once more but Sam put her hand on his shoulder and Danny looked at her livid green eyes cooling to their soft ectoplasmic glow. Danny looked down ashamed and stuck his face in his hands.
"I saw a mother… whose baby was alive, but she was dead. I saw dead children and fathers and parents and daughters…" Danny choked up, "I couldn't save them. They were dead. There wasn't even a reason. They just needlessly died because of stupidity. Because of these idiots… and because of me…" Danny collapsed his knees giving out as Sam and Tucker rushed to him. Scott watched observing this new vulnerable Danny in front of his friends.
"I don't know how they found out, but they've been chasing me. They followed me. I don't know why I thought I'd be safe." Danny pulled Sam close to him, "They tried to hurt me through you." Danny breathed in her scent her hair, her body close to his. Danny hugged her close he wanted to hold her tighter and never let go but he slowly released her and took a deep breath trying to calm down.
Danny turned and regained his composure looking toward Scott.
"Bobby… where is he?" Danny asked. Scott nodded and began running once more Danny flanked by Sam and Tucker following. The odd quartet passed a few bits of rubble but most of the building was cleared out. Danny could smell blood in the halls though and knew most of the people were dead from loss of blood, there was no noise. It was deathly quiet as they ran at a steady pace Danny following the silent stoic Scott Summers.
They came to a wall of stone where another part of the building had given out Sam tried not to puke as she saw a corpse. Danny gritted his teeth.
"He's in here?" Danny asked.
"Yes, the professor is with him." Scott answered. Sam and Tucker looked at each other.
"So… who is Bobby?" Sam asked. Danny held a gloved hand out.
"Later." Danny said and phased through the rubble.
(And it won't leave me alone)
Bobby was getting light headed, whether from the hyperventilating or losing oxygen he didn't know, he was getting sleepy and it wasn't a good sign but his brain and body didn't care.
Now Bobby. The voice from before said. Bobby waved it off preparing to go to sleep his lungs breathing shallowly what little air was left.
Bobby! The voice said again.
"BOBBY!" the voice yelled, Bobby's eyes snapped open once more… no it was a different voice, "BOBBY!"
Yell Bobby or he won't know you're here. The voice implied.
"help." Bobby said.
"BOBBY? Was that you? Please yell louder." The pleading came, Bobby looked around his imprisonment. As much as he didn't want to move he still wanted to live.
"Help!" Bobby called again, Bobby could hear noises getting closer, "HELP!" He called one more time a foot came down and went through his stomach. Bobby stared at it in wonder knowing that shouldn't be possible then screamed.
"Bobby?" Danny's face was coming out of the rock. Bobby stared at him wondering if he was dead and why Danny had green eyes.
"Danny?" Bobby asked trying to focus.
"It's ok… Take a deep breath alright. I'll get you out of here before you can say putrid protoplasm of post human consciousness." Danny said. Bobby wasn't even sure if he could say that. Danny looked at Bobby.
"Breath now!" Danny ordered. Bobby complied as soon as he did so he felt a strange tingling sensation throughout his body his stomach doing flip flops and then they were flying through rocks Danny holding onto him. Bobby continued holding his breath until Danny stopped. Feeling dizzy Bobby was instantly supported by two other teens one with short black hair tied up in a really messy pony tail and another with hair that came no more than half an inch of his scalp yet somehow managed to be messy as well. Bobby blinked and held his stomach.
"We need to get him out of here." Danny said. Then he frowned, "While we're at it we might as well pick up the idiots in white as well." Danny rolled his eyes then created a large shield sitting the two humans and one mutant on it. The professor stepped out of the rocks and Bobby looked over at him then groaned.
"Am I dead?" He asked Danny. Danny shook his head.
"No but you were close." Danny said before flying behind the group pushing the shield along. It seemed to be a long time for Bobby and the rest of the group felt like it took forever as well. Sam suddenly laid down on her stomach and stared at Danny who looked at her briefly before turning his attention back onto the path he was trying to direct them out of.
"Danny…" Sam said looking at her best friend. Danny glanced up and nodded before continuing along.
"I was just thinking that… that power you used… I've never seen it before." Sam said, "It was too easy for you to defeat them and you lost your temper rather easily to… do you think that…"
"No." Danny answered, Bobby found the way he cut her off interesting but his eyelids were drooping so he couldn't quite read Danny's expression.
"Maybe you should… you know think about it. We could go see Clockwork to see if he…"
"No." Danny said harshly. At this time the words Danny was saying were fading farther away, "I wonnmpft beechompf himmskfflgsadshdjbhanskx."
(These wounds won't seem to heal)
Danny forgot about the GIW as Bobby fell asleep. He didn't think that was good and he quickened the pace rushing Bobby out to the paramedics who ushered him into the line of medical respondents. A few civilians who knew first aid were going around helping and Sam and Tucker quickly joined the group. Danny contacted Storm who organized a few mutants whose powers might help and sent them to the makeshift medical line. There was a line of bodies covered in white sheets growing at one end of the rubble. There were ten so far and Danny had to advert his eyes to keep guilt from crushing him.
The medical staff though wary of mutants under normal circumstances weren't about to reject any help and the mutant children were quickly put to work while firemen continued to rush into the building. One of the firemen who was taking care of a few victims who hadn't been hurt but shaken up looked over at Danny then assuring his "patient" walked over with a cup of hot cocoa.
"I don't know if ghosts drink but…" The fireman held a cup out. Danny took it.
"Thanks." Danny took a sip out of it licked the excess of his lips.
"You saved a lot of them." The fireman said. Danny hung his head.
"I couldn't' save them all." Danny glanced at the piles of bodies.
"That's ok. Well, no its not I suppose at least I feels that way. You think you have to save everyone or you fail, but you have to save the ones you can, you can't torture yourself over what's too late to change, you just go out there and do the best you can. You saved more than we ever could have without you. You're a hero." The fireman said. Danny took another sip of hot cocoa.
"No... I'm your cartoon character really, the comic book character in spandex." Danny joked, " You the ordinary people who risk your lives, you are the heroes. I know that I'm not going to die easy." At this the fireman chuckled and Danny smiled, "But you… you still have family don't you? Or something you want to protect, that's why you do this right?" Danny asked. The fireman thought.
"I have a beautiful wife and a baby girl." The fireman smiled. Danny was reminded of the dead mother and the baby girl and a tear slid down his cheek. He took another sip of hot cocoa.
"Somehow your ordinary heroes, men and women risking their lives every day, your average Joe, the man down the street who runs the flower shop, the kid who saves the bus from crashing. Those are your heroes because they are ordinary and they do the extraordinary." Danny ended before taking a long drink of his cocoa.
"Weren't you an average Joe before you died?" the fireman said. Danny started and looked at the yellow suited man, "Sorry." The fireman said realized he brought up Danny's death.
"No." Danny said, "I was your average Danny." Danny smiled. He then chugged the rest of his cup and handed it to the fireman.
"I better get in there. I'm sure there are more lives to save." Danny smiled feeling better. The fireman laughed and nodded taken the cup and waving Danny off as Danny dove back into the ruins of the mall.
Well?
I hoped you liked it.
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Thanks for all your support once more. I hope you enjoyed this chapter.