Past and Present Mistakes
I’m having horrible writers block with my DP x DC fics so I’m falling back on old reliable. I missed my clone babies.
Previous/Next
“Connor? Jason? Samuel?”
The tiny clone shook his head as he rejected the suggested names Liam read out of the book they’d taken from the library below their hiding place.
Elle let out a sigh and snatched the book out of Liam’s hands.
“Hey.”
Elle tossed the book aside.
“This isn’t working. Is this really how Danny and Jazz helped you find your name?”
Liam gave a shrug.
“That’s what they started with, but I guess it really came from a news article.”
“News article?”
“Uh yeah it was mixed in with the name books Jazz brought and it had the name the town called Danny before he told them to call him Phantom. So, I may have used that as inspiration.”
Elle let out an exacerbated groan.
“So, the books weren’t even a part of it?”
Liam shrank back with a guilty look.
The tiny clone flew down and placed a hand on his cheek with a chirp to comfort him.
Liam relaxed a bit and leaned into the tiny caress.
“Yeah, we can take a break. It’s your name, you can take as much time as you want.”
Elle stood up from her position on the floor.
“Maybe getting out and taking a walk will help.”
Liam frowned in worry.
“But it’s the middle of the day. What if someone sees us?”
“So? We both look entirely human, and Tiny is small enough to go unnoticed. If you keep your hood up we’ll just look like two teenagers hanging out on the weekend.”
Tiny nodded in agreement.
Liam still didn’t seem convinced but after being outnumbered he agreed, and they headed out.
-
It had taken a while to get fully out of the GiW facility.
Thankfully humans, even humans who studied and hunted ghosts, often forgot that the same rules of the living world didn’t apply to ghosts.
It had just been a matter of hiding himself in the floor under the assistance scientist as they scanned her before using her body to get past the ghost shield and making a break for it. The spilled ecto dejecto on her clothes was able to hide his ecto signature long enough for him to escape.
After getting out he wasn’t really sure what to do.
Fa… Master. He wasn’t allowed to call him father unless the others were around. Master would not be happy with him if he returned to the mansion and the mission to capture Prime Daniel wasn’t completed.
The problem was he didn’t know how long he’d been in the GiW facility. He didn’t even remember being taken there. Just sensations.
The last clear memory he had was…
“We’ve been walking around for a half hour, maybe we should head back now?”
That was Prime Daniel’s voice.
“Ugh, come on nothing’s going to happen.”
That was Danielle.
This was the set up for him to attack.
Danielle would bring him outside and he would attack. Then they would…
It didn’t matter. He had to do this. Couldn’t fail. If he did then Master would stop using him and focus on the other clones.
Something panged harshly at the thought of Master harming the two clones made after him the way he had done to him. They still believed they were loved the same as Danielle and for some reason he couldn’t bring himself to shatter that illusion for them.
He was getting sidetracked. They were only a block away from turning a corner and him possibly losing sight of them.
He needed to attack now.
-
Liam was the first to sense the approaching ghost first, tensing and looking around just as Elle and Tiny registered their own ghost senses.
A loud roar came from above and all three clones scattered as their attacker landed where they had been only a few seconds before.
Elle recovered quickly, having more experience than her brothers. She got ready to transform and grab her brothers to get out of there, but stopped at seeing who was attacking.
A horrible pit of guilt plummeted in her gut as she stared at another brother she’d thought lost. A brother that she had overestimated and encouraged Danny to blast point blank.
The blasts that had…
Her mind recoiled at the memory on instinct just as it had for the near year since the incident.
Her attention was brought back to the situation when she saw the new clone turn and bring a fist up to strike Liam.
NO!
She flew faster than she thought possible and put up a shield before the fist came down.
“Stop!”
Unfortunately, the larger clone didn’t listen to her and continued to pound on the shield.
Thankfully, Liam had snapped out of his shock and had transformed to help Elle keep up the shield.
“That’s one of our brother’s. Why is he attacking us?”
“I don’t know.”
Another strike to the shield had them both stumbling back. When it came to raw strength this clone definitely had them outmatched.
Two on one would probably even the odds but neither were in the mood to actually fight him.
Wait two? Where was…
“STOP!”
Everyone froze and turned to the new voice.
It had been Tiny. However, he wasn’t very tiny at the moment, instead he was nearly to his full size and not looking very good.
Some of his features were wispy and see-through while others drooped and shifted like puddy.
“Tiny!”
Elle and Liam started for him but the larger clone was closer and got to him first.
Tiny shrank back down and curled up in the massive hands cradling him.
The large clone looked down at him worriedly.
“Tiny why would you do that? You know growing makes you less stable.”
Tiny let out a trill and the large clone’s eyes widened.
“Siblings?”
He looked over to Liam.
“You’re not Prime Daniel?”
Liam hunched his shoulders and pulled his hood down even more over his face, not sure how to react to another clone mistaking him for Danny.
Elle shook her head.
“No, this is Liam. He’s our brother. He was made after me.”
A look of horror and guilt crossed his face.
“Oh, Liam… I thought… I’m so sorry.”
Liam shrugged.
“It’s ok. Not the first time someone mistook me for Danny.”
The large clone shook his head.
“That still doesn’t make it ok. I’m still sorry.”
Liam gave a small smile and nodded showing he still forgave him.
The large clone nodded back, then looked thoughtful.
“If you were made after Danielle does that mean the mission to capture Prime Daniel was a success? Are we supposed to return to Father now?”
“NO!”
The large clone startled at the sudden shout from all three of his siblings.
Tiny, now stabilized back in his small form floated up and explained in hums and trills the horrors they each experienced under Vlad, shattering any illusion of him being the loving father he had tricked them into believing he was.
Elle stepped forward.
“He hurt us.”
Her eyes lingered on the many stitches and scars lining the larger clones body.
“And he hurt you too, didn’t he?”
The large clone ran his fingers over one of the scars.
“Yeah, he did…”
Tears welled up in Elle’s eyes.
“I didn’t know. You were unstable and being hurt and I…”
She was cut off by another stream of mist coming from her mouth.
Everyone looked up to see a streak of blue being chased by a streak of black and white, identified as the Box Ghost being chased by Danny.
Danny sucked the Box Ghost into the thermos and looked down at them.
He flew down to great them but before anyone could exchange any words, Elle, Liam and Tiny found themselves being pulled behind the large clone.
A glare was directed at Danny with teeth bared and fingertips extending into claws.
“What?”
Danny took a step forward but that seemed to be the wrong move as the large clone lunged at him.