Avoiding Past And Future

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Silently he cursed as he pulled out his last remaining few collars.

5

He had 5 left. Hopefully that was enough.

Before he got close enough to the still agitated muscle dudes, Danny nearly tripped over the space suit man's body on the floor. As a quiet string of curses escaped his mouth, he phased in one of the collars into the ice dome the villain had created.

How odd.

But he had bigger and angrier things to worry about.

Now only down to 4 he levitated towards the angry muscle dudes. All their wiggling had managed to create cracks in the ice formation. Surely it wouldn't last long until they'd actually break out.

Remaining invisible, Danny added some of his own ice onto the formation to strengthen it again before swiftly adding collars to the big dudes' necks.

2 left.

Danny shot some ectoplasmic goop over their mouths before the safety shocks kicked in. Big dudes usually screamed quite loud and he wasn't feeling like getting a migraine later. He bent down a little to pet Cujo who had started to lick some of the ice on the floor. No doubt the little pup was thirsty with how much drool he found literally everywhere in the prison.

A loud explosion like cracking noise filled the area.

Danny shot back up on high alert at the sudden noise. Turning to his left he was quite amazed how he had somehow managed to not notice the gigantic hole in the wall.

Oh Miss Waller wasn't going to like that.

He ordered Cujo to remain hidden by the muscle dudes as he creeped closer to the other side of the hole.

To his utter confusion and shock, he found quite a sight.

A muscle lady laid passed out on the floor and a little bit off was a blue lady also unconscious. Seeing as they were already subdued he didn't really feel the need to collar them. Not with the three still very awake inmates in front of him.

Actually, um, make that two?

Danny flickered back onto the visible plain as he watched the drama unfold in front of him.

Buff guy kissed buff girl, but then buff girl turned green? And ginger? At least her color palette matches her well, buff dude could take a note from her book as his bleach blond really doesn't suit his skin tone.

Anyway, then blue ice kid seemed to go into quite a mental breakdown over that whole mess so it seemed ice kid had equally no clue on what was going on as Danny did.

Now he had quite an issue though. With only two collars remaining and three- is green girl even an inmate? She was dressed like one before so maybe some type of shape shifter? He hadn't seen a collar on her so it seems plausible. Best just escort her back as well and let the guards and higher ups handle that administrative mess.

So two collars and three inmates.

The odds are not in his favor it seems.

Considering the muscle people and ice people who were already incapacitated before he got there, the young ghost boy would place a fair wager that it was them who took the others out. Definitely some higher ranking inmates then, especially with a possible shape shifter. They did seem calm and judging from the ice kid's mental turmoil they might not be on the same side anymore. God how he wished he could avoid puberty and never have to deal with girl drama like this.

Teens really are scary when it comes to love and attachments.

Never again.

Danny shook his head as he mentally readied himself for the confrontation.

They seemed rather docile for the moment so the best course of action was to avoid physical confrontations and hope advising them to return to their cells would be enough. He wasn't sure if there were still any other prisoners left so he really couldn't afford wasting his last remaining collars on them.

He looked behind him to where his best friend had moved. Sensing the tenseness from Danny, Cujo had moved to stand slightly behind the boy, still hidden by invisibility. Danny formed a first and gave Cujo the command to remain there for now.

The young ghost boy took a deep breath and tried to relax as best as he could. Best not to seem on edge when wanting to avoid a fight to the best of his abilities.

He cringed inwardly as he cleared his throat in what sounded like the most awkward noise he had made in a long.

"Um, sorry to interrupt but would you mind going back to your cells?"

(a/n my laptop is still broken for the forseeable future but im doing my best to get new chapters out)