Disclaimer: All characters and songs used in this story are owned by their respected creators, except for the original characters, on that case they are owned by me.
Author's Note: Danny will have all his known powers and couple of new ones. Oh and Jazz knows about Danny's powers. This story is set after The Ultimate Enemy, you know after Clockwork sets back the clock. Also right before Phantom Planet, though Danielle is going to be a part of this, so don't worry, and there will be swearing in the beginning and later on sorry.
Now Let The Story Begin!
Last Time On Phantom and Mutants
"Danny who's the little girl behind you?" Jazz asked, getting Jean's and Kitty's attention going from me to Dani.
"This is Danielle, she's my daughter." I said calmly, the blackbird became deathly quiet. I move my left arm and gently place it in front of Dani, moving her behind me, preparing for what was going to happen.
"WHAT!?" Jazz, Kitty, and Jean yelled in unison.
Danny's P.O.V.
"What do you mean, she your daughter?" Jazz screamed, while Jean and Kitty nod their head rapidly. I rolled my eyes at the girl's reaction. I mean I was expecting this kind of reaction.
"Well technically she was created to be my clone, but if she were to be my clone, she would have to be an exact copy of me." I said explaining Danielle's situation. "But since she isn't, a second DNA source must have been used during her creation."
"Ok, so do you have any clues on whose DNA was used?" Jazz asked, calming down from her 'excited' moment.
"At the moment, no I don't. Not one clue, the file that I found, doesn't have any other useful information." I said in an unpleased tone. "Any information that I was in the file was blacked out."
Dani looked at me with a sad smile, I pulled her close to me, making her feel better. "Aw, she's so adorable." Jazz said, moving closer to get a better look at Dani.
"Dani, meet you aunty Jazz." I said, placing Dani towards her aunty. The two of them looked each other in the eye, then Jazz engulfed Dani in a hug.
"Maybe we should head back to the mansion." Jean suggested, speaking for the first time in a while. "We really should get Jazz and Danielle to the professor."
"Yeah, like, it's best if we don't keep the professor waiting on us." Kitty said walking the jet's cockpit, with Jean following.
I had to agree with Jean and Kitty, we can't make Professor Xavier wait any longer than he already has. "Jean, Kitty, startup the jet and let's head back to the mansion."
Jean and Kitty both gave an 'ok', and a few moments later, the engine came to life. "Jazz you better strap in, the takeoff is a little bumpy." I instructed Jazz, while I fastened in Danielle, who was sitting next to Jazz, the both of them were struggling to keep their eyes open. I kissed Dani on her forehead once she fell asleep, and I made my way to the blackbird's control room. When got to the cockpit door, I overheard Jean talking.
I poked my head through the door and saw Jean and Kitty in the pilot and co-pilot seat. "Professor, we're on our way back." Jean spoke through a headset, "Yes we found her…. we also found another…. no this one's a little girl, Danny says she's his daughter…. yes, we'll be back in about a couple to a few hours…. alright, see you when we get back "
"Hey Jean, are we on track to the mansion?" I asked, straightening my posture. The jet slowly ascended to the sky, heading back towards New York.
Jean nodded and said, "At the rate we're going, we'll be back in a couple hours."
"That's good, Jazz and Dani need get to a bed." I said, looking back to Danielle leaning against Jazz.
"Danny are you worried about how those two will adjust?" Kitty asked looking straight into my eyes.
"Of course I'm worried, I watched how their lives changed from normal (well as normal as they're going to get) to crazy and possibly destructive life." I said, feeling like it was my fault that Danielle and Jazz were caught in this craziness.
"Hey, like, they'll be fine." Kitty voiced her opinion, looking at me with sympathy. The only thing that I could do right now, is nod my head in acceptance.
I left the cockpit and went back the other passenger area to catch some rest. I sat next to Danielle, running my right hand through her hair. Dani let out a breath of content enjoying my touch. I drifted to slumber.
Two and a half hours later into the flight, I woke from my nap to feel the jet descending. I yawned quietly and cracked my neck. Danielle was still sleeping, she was leaning on Jazz, who was reading a book and listening to her music. 'Well that's no surprise that Jazz is sticking her nose into a book'. Jazz looked at me and stuck out her tongue childishly, before putting her book away.
When the jet's engine shut off, I picked up Danielle carefully, not waking her. Jean and Kitty came out of the cockpit and helped Jazz with her luggage.
Jean and Kitty were the first ones off the jet, both of them were tired from the flight. I know Jazz was, she was rubbing her eyes trying to wake up herself up. "Danny what time is it?"
I looked at my iPod, checking the time, which it read 8:47pm, "It's a little after a quarter before 9, Jazz you need to get some sleep."
"Yeah you're right," Jazz nodded tiredly. "Do you think you can show me to a room."
"Yeah, you can take my room tonight," I said while putting my iPod into my pocket. "But, you'll need to bunk with Danielle tonight."
I carried Dani and led Jazz to my room, carefully placing Dani on the bed and tucked her in and I turned to Jazz and said, "Jazz watch over Dani, I'm gonna take the couch in the living room tonight. If you need anything, call or get me."
I left the room and headed to the kitchen to get something small to eat, only to find Professor Xavier and Ms. Munroe there. "Ah Daniel you're back, did everything go fine?" Ms. Munroe asked in a motherly tone.
"Yeah everything went fine….I guess," I head toward the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water. "There were a couple of problems here and there, but I dealt with it no problem."
"Daniel, I would like to have a discussions about your sister and your *ahem* daughter," Professor Xavier said in a calm tone. "You don't have to answer right away, but I would like to know about their lives. How they were treated, how they acted, what they want to do. Things like that."
"*Sigh* No it's not that professor, I'll answer all your questions that you have, but just not tonight. We'll talk when both my sister and my daughter are up." I took a sip of water, and got ready to leave the kitchen to go to the living room. "Good night Professor, Ms. Munroe."
I went to living room and laid on the couch. "Ugh I need to get some sleep." And now I'm talking to myself ….again.
The stream of time that passed through every moment, seem to ease my troubled mind. The time on a digital clock read 10:16 pm, I closed my eyes hoping to embrace the darkness for the night.
But I could fall asleep until at least a half an hour later, worrying about what would happen to Jazz and Dani, only time will tell.
Off into the distance a serious voice spoke, "All is as it's should be"
The Next Morning
Mornings always seem to bother me the most, especially when I wake up to find that I've been drawn on. I mean sure I have a normal morning routine thing for me, waking up and going to the bathroom to brush my teeth.
But when I look in the mirror I saw that I had a moustache and a monocle drawn out in pen. 'Oh come on it's not even 10 am.' Which was true because on of the wall clocks read, 9:53 am.
I took a deep breath and released it, to cool my irritation and wash away the markings. After I was done in the bathroom, I headed into the kitchen to get some food. There I saw Danielle getting swarmed by Rouge, Jean, and Kitty. All of them were making sure that Danielle was eating all her food.
'Poor Dani, I probably should go help her, but first,' I grabbed an apple sneakily and turned invisible. 'I really need some food.'
"Daddy, help me!" Poor little Danielle pleaded, "They're crowding me!"
Now at this point all eyes were on me as I turned visible. 'Well I can either help her or I can leave there and make sure she's well fed. Decisions…. decisions'
"Ok Dani, let's venture around the mansion." I said to my little girl as I picked her up in my arms, wanting to get cleaned up from her breakfast.
But first Dani wanted a quick drink first. Jazz and Jean took Dani's dishes to the sink and washed them, while Dani is drinking a cup of milk, when she finished her drink, she had a milk mustache. As the kitchen was being cleaned up, Rouge and Kitty left to get ready for the day.
"Well Dani, now that you had your drink, are you ready to get cleaned you and explore the mansion?" I asked while wiping away the milk mustache.
"Yup yup" Dani said cutely as she placed her cup in the sink. I scooped her up in my arms, spinning her around, while she squealed with delight. Both Jazz and Jean watched loving stares (sisterly/auntie type of stares, thank you very much).
While both Danielle and I were spinning around and laughing, all of us failed to notice that Professor Xavier, Ms. Munroe, and Logan had entered the kitchen during our little family bonding moment.
"Ah I see all you are having good morning." Ms. Munroe said in a happy motherly tone.
I quietly readjusted my stance to make sure that Dani was comfy as I carried her, "Yes, Ms. Munroe, we were just having a little laugh after getting some food."
"Yes it was quite a cute sight." Both Danielle and I blushed slightly from the comment.
"Kid, today I'm going to be testing your fighting abilities." Logan said to me in a gruff tone of voice. I simply nodded and thought to myself, 'Hmm that's strange I thought I saw him smile. I must have imagined it.'
Not having enough time think over about what I thought I saw, I grabbed a couple of apples I picked up Dani and followed Logan.
'Well today will be interesting,' I thought to myself. Little did I know my training with Logan was going to the most normal thing that happened to me.
~COUPLE HOURS LATER~
I plopped on to the bed, that Jazz and Dani are using, while Jazz was at the desk reading and Danielle was coloring on the floor. Dani leaving about five minutes into my test from being bored.
"So Danny, how are you feeling?" Jazz asked, looking up from her book. She was giving me the "you look like shit" look.
"I felt like I fought a borderline Pariah Dark type opponent." I said in a tired voice, and mentally added, 'Logan is a slave driver, it was unbearable and I thought I was going to die….again'
Jazz just chuckled and went back to reading, she was radiating amusement and sense of calmness off her.
After laying on the bed for a couple minutes, I got up and left the room. I didn't have a specific area I wanted to go, I just walked. After about five minutes of walking, I ended up by the eastern edge of the mansion perimeter.
I let my right hand drag on the trees as I walked, I eventually lost myself to my thoughts and ended up in the forest. But that didn't stop me, I just kept walking. Then I started to sing,
If I wasn't here tomorrow
Would anybody care
If my time was up I wanna know
You were happy I was there
Would anyone lose sleep
If I wasn't hard and hollow
Then maybe you would miss me
As I sang, I just kept on walking. Until I found a boulder, where I went to sit and continued the song.
I know I'm a mess and I wanna be someone
Someone I like better
I can never forget
So don't remind me of it forever
I closed my eyes and kept pace of the song. While I lost myself in the song, my ghost sense went off. But it didn't matter, I just kept on singing.
What if I just pulled myself together
Would it matter at all
What if I just try not to remember
Would it matter at all
All the chances that passed me by
Would it matter if I gave it one more try
Would it matter at all
I know I wasn't really how the song portrayed, but I felt it was just as much
If I wasn't here tomorrow
Would anybody care
Still stuck inside this sorrow
I've got nothing and going nowhere
Of course there will be people who care and I know that one day I'll be somewhere great.
I know I'm a mess and I wanna be someone
Someone that I like better
I can never forget
So don't remind me of it forever
"You will become me, no matter how hard you try not to." The voice of Dan, flooded my mind.
'No, I will not become him' I thought to myself as I continued the song.
What if I pulled myself together
Would it matter at all
What if I try not to remember
Would it matter at all
All the chances that passed me by
Would it matter if I gave it one more try
Would it matter at all
At this point I know somebody is watching me, because my ghost sense just keeps going off.
I know I'm a mess and I wanna be someone
Someone that I like better
Can you help me forget
Don't wanna feel like this forever…forever
I need to change, I need to be the one people can see for hope.
What if I pulled myself together
Would it matter at all
What if I try not to remember
Would it matter at all
All the chances that passed me by
Would it matter if I gave it one more try
Now as I sing I gained a burning passion to change myself for the better.
If I live tomorrow
Would anyone care
Stuck in this sorrow
Going nowhere
'No I'm not going nowhere, I have to keeping going forward'
All the chances that have passed me by
Would it matter if I gave it one more try
Would it matter at all
As I finish singing, I think to myself momentarily, 'I need to matter, not only for myself, but for all those I care about.'
"You can come out of hiding, I'm not gonna attack you." I said, calling out the the ghost watching me, as I look at the cloudless sky.
I looked away from the sky and saw not one, but two figures sitting in the tree. They were Ember McLain and Desiree.
Ember was wearing her usual black one-shoulder tank-top, black leather pants and skull boots. And Desiree in her "harem girl" outfit.
"What can I do for you ladies?" I ask politely, not wanting to start a fight.
"We wish to see if you wanted company." Desiree replied bashfully. I shrugged and said, "Alright."
Then there was Ember, and she said, "I want to hear another song."
"If that's all you wish for, I can easily grant that" I said looking at Ember.
I quickly thought of the song I wanted to sing, and I began to sing once more.
And with that I finish this chapter. Wow this was a long chapter. For those wanting to know why I haven't posted in awhile, my reason was school was a pain and work wasn't helping either. I know I shouldn't have left a cliffhanger at the beginning of the song. But I need the help of the viewers at home. PM me possible songs that I can use for the next chapter. If you think there should be a change, PM and I'll make the corrections. Till next time, PEACE OUT