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Dani didn't know what to do. She had taken a wrong turn while trying to visit Pandora, and dropped headfirst into a battle between a bunch of scary robots. Unfortunately, she was dropped in full ghost mode, tiara of flames and all. She didn't have much time to think before one of the big purple ones threw her into its belly and took off.
Heatwave heard screams, and turned around just in time for Optimus to fail to catch the floating, obviously not human girl being taken by a Morbot.
Blades chases after the main Morbot, the girl pounding on the door and attempting to freeze the door off. She finally shifted to a more human appearance, with long black hair and a simple t-shirt and shorts, tears and snot dripping down her face.
As soon as they land, Morocco has a camera drone on her. She babbles in multiple languages in a blind panic, including a few dead ones. Morocco straps her onto a metal table and turns on his computer. On the screen, several anonymous bidders waited for Morocco to start the auction.
"Bidding will start at my usual, four hundred thousand dollars." He said, rolling a cart with a spread of sharp objects and pliers. "Of course," He said, picking up a scalpel, "you will need proof that she truly is supernatural."
"DANNY! PHANTOM!" She screamed, as the scalpel bit into her skin. Green streaked blood trickled from the wound. She kicked, and managed to push Morocco away. The number displayed behind them on the computer ticks up and up.
Then the lights go out.
Even flashlights as the room is consumed by a horribly cold darkness, unusual in the warm summer afternoon. The bot's biolights don't reach past their noses. Optimus puts a protective arm between him and his chest.
Morocco screamed in pain, the sound of metal hitting bone echoing in Morocco's lab, and everyone went silent.
Suddenly, a glowing green portal exploded into space, the lights coming back on with a surge that smelled of smoke and singed human flesh.
Morocco was pinned to the bank of computers by the scalpel he used to prove that Dani wasn't human, a figure dressed in black with a cape of woven souls and a crown of burning blue fire hovering over his head. At least, Optimus could assume they were male. His booming voice certainly sounded male.
"You… You will pay for auctioning my sister to those monsters." He took out the scalpel, Morocco screaming in pain. He spit on the scalpel, green and glowing, and stabbed his other hand. The wound steamed, and Morocco's screams reached a new register.
"You will never harm another child again. Not her, not him," Danny grabbed his face and made him look into Optimus's cab, looking Cody in the eyes. "Never again. Clockwork told me all about how you stole him away, took away his family's livelihoods and threatened the lives of five beings that are not yours. Not humanity's to claim."
He turned around, and revealed that he wasn't much older than Cody. He kneeled next to the girl, who was still crying and holding her cut arm. The glowing green and red blood had stemmed, the skin already knitting back together. He put a big rainbow bandaid on the already closed cut and kissed it.
He looked up at the Burns and the Rescue Bots, frozen where they stood. He wasn't much older than Cody, the girl next to him younger than both of them. He had hauntingly world-weary eyes and eyebags. He looked like he had been crying.
She was almost a carbon copy of him, hee white hair being long and sleek compared to his choppy cut. Her eyes were still filled with terror as she looked up at the five towering robots.
"Dani, are you sure you are ok?"
"No." She squeaked, still silently sobbing.
"You will sleep in my room tonight ok? We will both sleep at Frostbite's, just in case. We will eat ice cream, and talk, or just sit quietly." He placated, rubbing her shoulders and taking off his cape and pinning it around her shoulders.
"Warm enough?" He asked.
"Yeah." She said tearfully.
He took off his ring and snapped his hands. A thin black chain necklace appeared in his hand, and he put his ring on it, slipping it over her head.
"Keep this safe for me Dani. Need a clear head to talk to the big guys."
Dani grabbed Danny's hand. "Be careful Danny. Not everyone is a gentle giant."
"I can handle my own. I am the Ghost King, after all, and Phantom to boot."
"THE Ghost King?" Optimus said. "I heard murmurs from the Matrix. Congratulations on the coronation. May your reign be long and just."
"Thank you, and yours too. I know Primes aren't exactly kings, but we lead all the same. Solus and Macadam say hi."
Danny snapped his fingers, and he turned into the equivalent of a cybertronian teenager. Dead, of course, he was still the Phantom.
Optimus was not feeling it, he was going pale? He was shocked, and not in a good way.
He was a slender, maybe a bit too slender, racecar alt, slate gray with black and neon green accents and brilliant blue eyes. That was leaking green sludge, weld lines replacing the scars he got from being electrocuted by the portal. His eyes were still a bold blue. He floated off the ground, bowing lightly to Heatwave.
"Hi! I'm Danny, this is my twin, Dani." He said, in perfect cybex, directed to the rest of the team. "I love how that joke works in both languages. Optimus, you can thank Onyx Prime for that. He let me learn in exchange for watching the puppies."
"We all speak fluently, Danny, but thanks for the effort." Blades said.
"Oh, sorry." He popped back into a human-ish form, switching to English. "Solus is not fluent, and Nexus is stubborn, so Onyx and Clockwork have been tutoring me just so I can speak and manage the cybertronian dead that occasionally get lost on the way to the well. This particular door is close to our good friend's place, and Dani must have gotten lost."
He pulled Dani onto her feet before Dani Burns could get out to check on her. She had been trying to get out of Blades this entire time, Blades stubbornly keeping his window locked. Dani swayed on her feet, barely aware of what was going on around her.
Danny gave Dani a hug and picked her up before saying. "I gotta go, Solus promised me we were going to duck Mr. Grillface McCityburner Prime in a smelt pit, and I get to teach her how to make smores! After Dani gets all settled with Frostbite, of course." He gave Dani Burns an honest to god pager. "It's way out of date, but the more complicated the tech, the less it works out in the Infinite Realms. Obviously, this doesn't apply to the bots, but you get the idea. It's already programmed with my number, so be sure to give it to all the important people."
Another portal opened, and he stepped through it, tripping over his cape and nearly dropping his twin. He started to float again, and on the other side of the portal, they could see a yeti take Dani and wrap her in a pile of blankets. A massive clawed metal hand reached through an open window, presumably belonging to Onyx. Danny sat in it, and they left for another realm, the portal closing shortly after.
Heatwave cleared his throat. "Well that happened. Dani, do you need help?"
"No, that goo seems to be acting like some sort of sedative, I can barely get Morocco to answer yes or no questions. He will need to be airlifted somewhere that won't ask too many questions."
Optimus spoke up. "I know where to take him. Blades, I just sent you the coordinates."
"Got them."
"Dani, if something goes wrong, call me. I can get a hold of the Ruler of the Infinite Realms a lot faster than you can." Optimus said.
The bots returned to Griffin Rock, Blades making Morocco Agent Fowler's problem.
Optimus managed to get a stable line of communication to the boy king, and they often trade advice. Every so often, a giant ghost dog comes to beg for pets, and Optimus can't help but do so.