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Danny was, admittedly, feeling more and more overwhelmed. Quite a few of his sorta kinda reformed villains/friends were trying to get him to take his role as the Ghost Zone's new king. It's not like he didn't like his ghost frenemies, it's just he didn't want to be in charge of them. And it isn't as if he doesn't want to be king, except for the fact that he DOES NOT WANT TO BE KING.
So, maybe he panicked and decided to yeet himself out of the situation. Could anyone actually blame him? It's not like he could just accept becoming king of an entire realm that was Infinite. Honestly, the only silver lining is that Clockwork wasn't part of the mob of ghosts trying to crown him, or this would have been over a lot quicker.
A missile launched past his head as he tore open another portal. "You can run, Welp, but we're all dead and you need to sleep at some point!"
"Bonvolu nur aŭskulti nin," Wulf plead, opening a portal as well in order to avoid being cut off. "Ĉi tio estas bona afero!" (Please just hear us out. This is a good thing!)
"Come on, Baby-pop! Being king couldn't be worse than when we were trying to kill you!"
"Running from this is only prolonging the inevitable!" Ghost writer yelled.
I avoided a very brightly colored individual by swerving at the last second. He was hovering in the sky wearing a very loud metal suit of armor. "Excuse me, OUT OF MY WAY!" And tore open another portal.
This world, I took note of briefly because it looked nothing like my world and I appeared to have portaled into the middle of an intense fight where people were throwing fire and lightning and tons of other stuff. It looked like some dude just bit a chunk out of fire as though it was solid.
I pretty quickly snapped out of my amazement, though at the sound of Kitty calling out to me and bolted off again. Twisting around to avoid a thrown table, I decided to get to another dimension as quickly as possible.
The next dimension was even weirder. The sky was shifting colors and there was an x-shaped tear in it. There was also a floating pyramid with an eye and arms fighting a giant mech-house thing. Which is the point he decided to nope out of this dimension. There's no way he's getting involved in that.
Getting back to a normal dimension, he took the time to fly through a few buildings as randomly as possible, before sitting down to catch his breath. It's at this point Danny decided the multi-verse deserves to be blamed for all his problems as he was immediately shot at by two guys that had apparently seen him go through a wall. Both were scruffy and alert. They also appeared to be confused as to where he came from even though he just came through the wall.
Seeing as the two were going to garner more attention than he really could afford if he didn't want to get caught, Danny tore another hole into a new dimension as a box was thrown at him from behind. Getting hit shoved him through the portal even faster, which probably wasn't Boxy's intention but it worked out for Danny as he closed it behind him.
He ran right through a even scruffier man than the last two wearing a trench coat that was talking to a lady that was wearing a suit coat, dress shirt, and what was probably a bodysuit and fishnet tights. "Sorry! Would love to explain, but I'm being chased and I don't want to be king. Bye!"
He jumped through another portal back to the Ghost Zone, closed it, and was immediately caught by Cujo. In his defense, he thought he might be able to avoid this if he just went home and pretend nothing was going on. He also didn't think that Cujo would still be there. Cujo usually loves to play chase.
"Daniel." Clockwork's voice startled Danny out of his musings. "I understand that this is sudden,-" Clockwork started, being uncharacteristically non-cryptic.- "and you don't need to jump right into all of the duties expected of a king of the realm."
"But we need you to accept your role," Pandora stated, stepping into view with Clockwork, Dora, and Frostbite. "The Infinite Realm needs a king."
"We will help you, of course," Dora said. "You don't need to do this alone."
"We can take part of your duties until you are trained and ready to fully accept being king," Frostbite added.
"Would this arrangement be alright with you, Daniel?" Clockwork asked, as Dora helped him up from where he still was under Cujo.
Danny brushed himself off, before answering. "I'm not going to have to go ghost full time, right?"
"Of course not," Frostbite answered. "Being alive is part of you."
"And it's going to be a big help to you in the future," Clockwork added.
Danny took a calming breath before answering. "Ok, But! I don't want this to interfere with everything else I have going on ok?"
"Of course," Pandora said.
The five of them smiled at each other for a moment before Clockwork ruined the moment and said "Good luck" before leaving like the cryptic annoyance he was. On the bright side it only took him a few seconds to figure out what he was talking about when the group that had been chasing him came through a new portal and dog piled him.