Clones, friends, Siblings, twins? (does it really matter?) Part 1
Just as a heads up: The first half is kinda dialogue heavy, I'm a terrible writer and I don't know what Im doing. I hope you all like it tho! ૮ ˶ˆ ﻌ ˆ˶ ა
1: Does it really matter?
Danny was running, he has been in the run for a while now, he isn't even sure where he is anymore...
Not that it matters, the only thing that matters is staying alive, or well at least not dying all the way. And if he wants to do that he needs to run, Run, RUN.
"Stop there ecto-scum" yell a GIW agent coming from a different direction than the others, joining his persecutor, leading a new group of them and blocking yet another of his possible escape routes.
Danny takes a sharp turn, barely avoiding being shot in the shoulder by the new comer. Were in the hell did they keep coming from!? He haven't even seen the ghost (ha) of them in over a month before today! The only way things could get any worse would be if his par- Danny stumbled back a little bit, almost getting hit by the Fenton Grappler.
"Darn it, I failed! I was convinced that I have it this time..." Exclaimed his da- Jack. Exclaimed Jack sounding disappointe, as if he hadn't fail a million times before.
"Don't worry to much about it love, I got this!" Said his m- Maddie, appearing from behind Jack, carrying a ecto-foamer and a Fenton bazooka of all tings...
He jinxed himself, didn't he? For his pare- the Fentons (they are only the Fentons, not his parents... they haven't been his parents in a while, not after what they did) to appear and block yet another of the pads that he could of taken, now, when he was just thinking about them, it has to be that he just jinx himself!! Hahaha-!
no No NO. Danny, you don't have time to spiral over something like this right now, he blinked rapidly, slightly backing off against the wall, looking frantically for a way to escape.
"Danny, baby, please come with us; let us help you" pleads his m- Maddie (why is it so difficult to stop calling her that?) approaching him slowly, like you would with a scared animal that might bite, as if that will convince him to go with her (It would be more convincing if she wasn't pointing a bazooka at him, though).
"Yes, Danno, come with us; we only want what is best for you" his f- Jack said it so earnestly that Danny almost folded, he would of if he didn't knew what their “help” actually entitled, what the-
His eyes stop moving frantically focusing solely on thing, there a couple of GIW agents that weren't standing as close together as the rest, He finally saw a opening to run trough and he isn't going to lose it just because he was lost in reflection, he knocked a couple of agents to the floor in the process (not that he cared, they deserve much more pain than a couple of bruises anyway) but he was out of the corner that they managed to trap him in and back on the run.
"The ghost is escaping! Hurry up!" shout one if the agents, bolting after him.
And with that, the start of the descent back to the chaos of the beginning was marked with the same shouts, slurs and careless shots; The only difference was:
"Danny! Please stop running we can still fix this"
"Yes Danno,we can fix you like we fix the others"
The others, his rougues friends, His ghost friends, the blob ghost, the ghost animals, the shadows, all of the ghost zone inhabitants that they managed to capture and "fix" reduce to only the others as if they didn't matter as much as himself! As if the guilt he feels for not reaching them in time wasn't enough, as if the guilt of not being able to save-!
An ecto-blast brushed past his cheek, dragging him back to reality.
Honestly he was kinda surprised he hadn't been actually shot yet... Or maybe he was and just forgot about it, with how much everything hurt already, a new injury would be easy to ignore after the initial spike of pain anyway...
"Danny please stop running"
He was not going to stop until he couldn't move any more, but really...
"Why are you all trying to negotiate with me!? You don't even believe that I'm sentient!" Thinking about it, why is the GIW allowing them to do this?
"Because you aren't sentient! you are just as echo of yourself left behind when you died!"
"Firts of all yes I am, and second of, that still doesn't answer my question!"
"We now understand that you and the others aren't inherently evil, only objects, forces of nature, echoes of once living creatures"
And now they were ignoring what he said, like they all ways do... Of course... fantastic...
How did they even reach that conclusion anyway? most ghost were never alive to begin with!(yes, the ones that visit Amity the most often were alive at some point, but that doesn't matter).
"But you and the others need to leave, you all can not keep on existing like this, it's bad for you and bad for society, you need to move on! So please come with us, so we can fix this, so you can rest in peace, don't you want to rest in peace?"
He was not going to dignify that question with an answer... But seriously, how did they reach that conclusion? It doesn't even make any sense... But regardless:
"I am still alive, though..."he mumbled
"Danno... son... No, you aren't... You haven't been in a long time... We know that its difficult for you to accept that... It was difficult for us to come to terms with it as well, especially with you possessing your own body, but you are dead... All evidence points to that..." And now they answer him... That doesn't make any sense...
"But I am alive! Even if just partially... But I am alive!" Danny wasn't sure why he kept trying to reason with them, he all ready knew that it was pointless to do so, specially after all of what they did to him and the others, but he just couldn't stop himself from shoutting back at them...
"Dont lie, no living creature could survive with their body in the estate that yours is in" Maddie said coldly
"You shouldn't even be able to move, most of your bones were fractured, the vast majority of your inner organs are missing or damage and you don't even have any blood left on your body only ectoplasm" (that can't be acurred, right? His injuries can't be that bad, right!?) "And that is before taking into account your external injuries. You. Are. Dead." Her voice was so plain that it might as well have come from a robot. (How the heck did she manage to do that while running??)
"Anyway! Why do you stop running and come with us, sweetheart? We have a nice little coffin waiting for you back home! It is space themed, you would like it, Don't you want to come see it?" She added cheerfully, and wasn't that the whitlash of the century, Ancients...
"Yes, we also have a really nice grave waiting for you! It's right next to Vladie's and-"
Danny did not need a reminder of what they did to Vlad, how they- they-- oh Ancients... there wasn't even a core left they finished with him!
He couldn't even think about what they did... Yes, Vlad used to be his nemesis, but he didn't deserve that, no one deserves what they did to him, Vlad also had become a much better person (but still a frootloop) after he stopped being so obsessed with Maddi- Ancients, he knew that she had to have done something terrible for Vlad to grow so disappointed on her to the point of losing his main ghost obsession (Ancients.... that all most killed Vlad at the time, it would have done so if it wasn't because of his obsession with power, and the half formed family one that took it's place.... Thought that would have been a much kindred death than what he got) and become so weary of his parents the Fentons and GIW all of a sudden, but Danny didn't expect it to come to this point.
Maybe if he had taken it more seriously at the time none of this would of happen, maybe them all would still be around, Maybe D-
"-!!" He got shot in the shoulder...
Danny doesn't have the time nor energy to spare on nonsensical thoughts and emotions right now, he needs to focus on escaping and only escaping, he can spiral thinking about the "maybes" and "what ifs" once he isn't on immediate danger of being injured, captured, killed, or all of the above.
After a while he had somehow managed to put some distance between himself and his persecutors, it ha take him (probably?) 3 hours, but he did!
Though if he wants to lost them for real (even if its just for now), he needs a plan.
For what he can tell, most of them are on this side of the city, probably because of the ghost haunt in this area(it wasn't the only one but it was the easiest to spot, it also seems to be acting as a shield for the other haunts), not that he needs to worry about it, they don't seem to be here right now so they should be alright, he thinks? Like...
He knows the feeling of a haunt whose owner has faded away, is gravely injured, or distressed, and none of them feel like that, they feel perfectly healthy, if just... Empty, like those that live there have just go out and haven't come back jet. In particular the biggest haunt was also coated in a feeling of righteous anger and joy, so whoever owns that one is definitely alright, thriving even; which means that Danny doesn't have anything to worry about, nope, nothing at all!
(He, in fact, had nothing to worry about. The Ghost of this area were just chilling somewhere else, not that he knew that at the time, but...)
Anyway, back to the plan! If most of the agents (and the Fentons) are in this area and the more he moves towards the southwest (or what he thinks is the southwest) of the city, the less frequently they appear in front of his path blocking it, and he is pretty sure that by the next city block (neighborhood?) there shouldn't be any more GIW agents waiting there for him, so he just needs to go over there? easy, right? Wrong.
After spending the last 30 minutes trying to find an alternative route, he has come to the conclusion that the only way to get there is by going across the main street, which is a problem because that means either being seen by the cameras, alerting them of his location, or turning invisible, which would also alert them of his location by making his ecto-signature more obvious; the only difference between the two was that one of those clues would last longer than the other...
So invincibility it was! As long as he is quick about it, he should be able to reach the other side safely, without the Fentons nor the GIW catching up with him.
But because nothing could ever be easy for him, a new figure appears out of the shadows blocking his path. On the bright side: it was none of his persecutors. On the downside: they were too close to him for it to be possible to avoid them without stopping or at the very least slowing down, exactly the things that he couldn't afford to do right now (he could hear the Fentons getting closer by the second), so he didn't have many more options than to turn intangible; that, on top of the invisibility, would surely take a strain on his core (and make his location even more obvious), but it will only be a second, so it shouldn't be a problem!
The moment that he made contact the stranger, he feels a tug in his core and everything turns white. It felt visceral, like having all of his organs being ripped out of his body at the same time (he would know, he has experienced it before), but it also felt reassuring in a way, like putting on a winter coat on a snowy day.
The next thing he feels is himself falling forwards, Danny somehow managed to get his balance back before he hits the floor faces first, but the thing that he sees after his vision clears up almost makes him fall to his knees anyway, because, is that a body? That wasn't there before, was it? Did he-? No. That- that is his body...
But he is right here? (Is he in...?) He looks down at "his" body, online to see the stranger's (Yes. yes he is) , but how is that possible? Even if he is overshadowing someone else's body he is not supposed to leave his own.... And this doesn't feels like an overshadowing at all! it feels more a kind to possessing an object, but not quite the same... Which didn't make any sense! This is clearly a person, not an object! And what else could this be if not an overshadowing or possession!?
A transmigration or transference. One of the most basic instinctive survival tactics that a halfa can have.
After all a true halfa needs a living half to survive, it doesn't matter if it's the original one or not, as long as it fulfills all the requirements... So when he make contact with a body that did just that? His core instinctively latched on to it like a starving man to a piece of bread, bringing the rest of his being with it.
Not that Danny knew about any of that...
Anyway he doesn't have time to trouble himself with the "whys whats and hows" of the situation he needs to get back into his own body or at least-
"The ecto-scum should be over here! Run faster before it escapes!"
They are too fucking close! He- he needs to- he bolts down street, completely forgetting his plan, until a couple of city blocks away...
An unknown amount of time has passed.
Danny was panting heavily, struggling to even out his breath while sitting on the floor, leaning against one of the walls of the abandoned building that he has decided was secure enough to take a break in at least for now.
Seriously... His situation was already hard enough...
First a bunch of ghosts disappear, then he got caught by the GIW while trying to rescue the missing ghosts, then his parents the Fentons join the GIW and help to run a bunch of experiments in the other ghost and him.
Then they discover that he is a halfa.... When that first happened, it almost looked like they were going to change their minds for the best, he was wrong to think that was even an option.... Their point of view did change in a twisted way though...
Then Vlad (whom apparently was captured before Danny) tried to scape liberating as many of the others ghosts as he could in his way out as a distraction, only to be recaptured and later on brutally killed in front of Danny. It apparently was supposed to be a warning of sorts... They don't even believe Danny to be sentient, and yet they forced him to see the whole process as a warning...
(If this is how they treat their son and their family friend like... What kind of treatment did the rest of them get?)
Then he managed to escape alongside all of the ghost that remained after Vlad's "sacrifice" (He had chosen to pretend that was the reason so few of them were left at the end, he was choosing to believe that Vlad's death wasn't in vain, for his own peace of mind), and now he accidentally high jack someone's body, losing his own in the process along side of-!
Danny jumps back on to his feet.
How could he possibly forged about them for this long!? He needs to go back! He needs to go get them! He can't fail them again, he needs to--
He let's himself fall back on the floor, right next to the building's entrance, like a marionette with whose strings had been cut.
He brought them with him, their cores are right next to his own, were they belong.
"Sob- they, they still are here... hip- I- i didn't fail them this time" Ancients... He was so relive, they were here, they- "we are safe sob- I promise that sob- we are safe hip- we have to be... " it's just that he can not stop himself from crying, he wants to, but the tears will not stop; and he is just so so relive, he doesn't know what he could of done if he lost them for real...
What is even a protector spirit with nothing to protect?
But seriously... How could he forget about them even for a moment? The situation might be dire but... He was subject to Dan's painful screams for literal weeks, Danny was also screaming but he is still alive, he had to hear Ellie cry for help, he was also crying but he is still alive, he hear them both plead for it all to end, same as he did, then he had both of them die destabilize on his arms leaving only their cores behind, first it was Dan, the it was Ellie. After all of that how could he...?
At the time he had taken both their cores and placed them next to his own in the hopes that they will reform like he knew other ghost could do, but it's been months since then and there isn't any sign of progress... He does know that they are still "alive", he can still feel them feeding of his core after all, but still... Is he... Missing something?
And surely now being in a body that is not his own isn't going to help their progress at all!
But on the bright side he isn't injured anymore and-
He looks at his hands, then the rest of "his" body and his mind freezes because:
"Am I dress like a fucking ninja!? What the hell?"
