Just some more silliness.
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The portal opened up without warning, dumping the ghost right on the kitchen table and ruining Danny's after-school snack. It closed immediately thereafter, disappearing into the stained ceiling. Danny was already reaching for a thermos, gearing up for a fight, when the ghost's appearance finally caught up to him.
"Wh-"
"I'm not Amorpho!" interrupted the ghost.
"Yeah? So why are you wearing my face?" Danny knew that there were ghosts other than Amorpho who could shapeshift, but he didn't know them by name.
"I'm not!" said the ghost, hands thrown out to the sides, crouching on the other side of the table. "It's a loop. A time loop. And you had better make it a stable time loop, because I don't want to make Clockwork deal with another paradox involving me, okay?" The ghost ran gloved hands through snowy hair, and, with a flash of light, turned into Danny's doppelganger. "Come on, dude. Ah heck, um, you don't believe me. Heck what did he, uh, what did I say next? I said... Three green, two red, a pink, three orange, and two blue. And a purple."
"What?" said Danny, thoroughly nonplussed.
"The gummies," said the other Danny, pointing at Danny's snack where it laid on the floor. "In the bag. Those are the colors."
"... You're trying to prove that you're from the future based on the colors of the gummies in that bag."
"Look, I'm not from all that far in the future. Like, thirty minutes, tops. And don't lie, that's totally something that you would do. I know, because I'm you and I'm doing it."
"I guess," said Danny, trying to keep both the ghost and the gummy packet in his field of vision.
"Dude, just pick it up. I don't know how much time we have here."
"Shouldn't you?"
"I don't know, should I? What part of me looks like an expert on time travel? The part that looks like you, or the part that looks like you?"
Okay, that sounded more like Danny. He grabbed the packet with his telekinesis.
The other Danny groaned. "I keep forgetting that I can do that."
Danny scoffed. "If it's only been half an hour-"
"Give me a break. I'm panicking here. Come on open it."
"How many of each did you say it was again?"
"Three green, two red, a pink, three orange, two blue, and a purple."
Danny tore the bag open. "Heck," he said, "you're right. How do I fix this?"
"Just go to the Ghost Zone and fly towards Elysium. The portal will eat you before you know it."
"Okay," said Danny, but he hesitated.
"Look, dude, if I am Amorpho, you can come back and beat me up. Just go, before the portal decides not to show up, or something."
"Okay," said Danny, finally going down the stairs to the lab.
Danny, standing in the kitchen, sighed and picked up the pack of gummies. "Finally," he said.