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Day 5 Domino: Let it Snow: Preperations

Early Evening

Due to some of the passengers having strange dreams those on the Voidtrecker Express should be expecting something soon and so it is around dinner time on the evening of the fifth day of Domino that everyone's SCA glows with the colour of the void, a holographic message appears with their next mission.

Those going to the dressing car will find the drawers and wardrobes open. Inside are a variety of warm weather clothes, all in team colours. Thick padded winter jackets, waterproof trousers. Hats, gloves, scarves. Thick boots and also a variety of ice skates. There are waterproof covers for a variety of sizes of bags and even some coils of rope.

It seems they are not arriving until the next morning and so they have time to plan as best they can.

Morning: Day Six

No matter if they stayed up late preparing or went to bed early to get some rest before the mission they will wake up the next morning to the morning announcement. "Good morning passengers. Today is day six of the month of Domino. A moment later the voice speaks again. "Our next stop is world#58291. Drop order: Purple, Blue, Red, Orange. Conditions are adverse and so all passengers must be ready to alite swiftly."

There is time for some final preparation.

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Danny had already shifted over to his ghost side in preparation for the drop, and he was glowing faintly even now. He had been leaning up against the wall as he waited for the drop time... but he could not resist puns.

"Icy what you did there. But snowthing wrong with a little overreaching. Long as it annoys someone."

Peter Just makes a face at him because that was a terrible pun. Probably one he might make in the heat of the moment but right now?

"Snow way, Man. Have a little more respect for your Pun Game than that." He just shakes his head. "You can do snow much better than that. Otherwise, I'll just come down on you like hail." He grins and then frowns. "...No, that was too much. I'm sorry you had to be a part of that."

Danny just grins at him. In his opinion there was no time like the present for puns. And the worst they were the better.

"That's assuming I have any respect at all. After all the main point of puns is to annoy people." It was a central part of his battle strategy.

"Besides, we're about to coldly go where no man has gone before."

Peter just grins and nods. "Okay, Okay. I'll give you a little credit for that one." He decides, mostly just because of the sick reference.

"I don't pun to be annoying-it helps my nerves a lot to talk. The mask keeps people from realizing just how scared I actually am." He admits, oversharing as he's prone to do.

"Oh! We're about to head into the land of the Ice and Snow."

"Huh, that's actually a really good reason to wear a mask. Why didn't I ever think of that?" Danny casually leans back against the wall and allows himself to float up a little. He'd been trying to avoid being too obviously ghostly around people, but it got tiring constantly remembering to stay on the ground.

"But seriously, puns are like the best battle tactic ever. Make enough terrible ones, and you can almost predict when the villain of the day is going to lose it and try to shut you up." He grins. "Plus, it's fun."

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Peter doesn't even seem to care about these ghost powers. But then again, he has spider-powers so it'd be really hypocritical of him to be against it. Besides, Danny's pretty cool and it's not like he's changed as a person at all.

"I mean, I love coming up with chill puns on the daily as much as the next guy-but I find just mouthing off at bad guys usually has pretty much the same effect-I get told to shut up at least twice in a fight. I consider it a bonus if I get anymore than that." Peter shrugs like this is every day conversation.

"So like, what kinda villains do you fight? I go after anything from like... muggers on the streets of New York to uh.. angry space aliens that come to earth to steal jewelry from a wizard for their evil boss-it's like ten times more ridiculous than it sounds, trust me."

"Ghosts. So many ghosts." Danny makes a face. "My town has to be the most haunted place in the country, because there are ghost attacks all the time. And when I'm not dealing with the ghosts, there's all the human ghost hunters to avoid."

Danny blinks. "And here I used to think that I was the only one that had days like that. Though less on the angry space aliens and wizards and more on the evil, or at least very annoyed, spirits from another dimension. I kind of gave up on things making much sense after my school got buried under several tons of meat by the ghost of a lunch lady."

"Oh man, that sucks." Peter winces in sympathy. "I've got like-a huge fan following on Instagram and twitter and stuff. I shouldn't but I totally have an account as Spider-Man. There's also this dude that runs this web news series? It's really controversial and he's trying to convince the world I'm a Menace." He says like this is a perfectly normal conversation between two teenage super heroes.

"Do you ever that show um... 100 most haunted places in the US? I mean, I'm pretty sure that's all BS and people faking ghosts stuff for publicity but who knows." His rambling is placed briefly on hold as he processes this information about this lunch lady ghost. "Well.. I mean, I guess I'd be pretty vengeful too if I died a lunch-server at a high school. Do you ever ask why the ghosts are so angry and vengeful? I mean, maybe they just have some unfinished business that they're clinging to?"

"Get a publicist," Danny says firmly. "It sounds like it isn't too late yet. One of my ghost enemies managed to convince my entire town that I was evil right after I started, and its been a massive pain." Nothing like fighting off a villain, and then immediately being attacked and accused of masterminding the whole thing by the very people he'd been protecting.

"I think someone tried to film something like that once? They kind of left in a hurry after some real ghosts showed up. I think the Box Ghost still has some of their equipment." His parents hadn't really helped.

"Uh, the ghosts back home aren't really that angry and vengeful? Well, the Lunch Lady was, but that's because they changed the school menu. Apparently that deserved a forty foot meat monster. But she can actually be pretty nice at other times. Most of the other ghosts I fight just want to mess around with humans, and then get mad at me when I stop them."

"Eh, I guess ghosts get pretty bored." Peter reasons as to why they'd wanna mess with humans. "Doesn't make it right." He quickly offers, not trying to stand in defense of the ghosts.

"But your ghosts sounds like a lot of the people I deal with-well sometimes. Villain-of-the-week type thing. Admittedly, I mostly deal with muggers and petty thieves. Sometimes bank robbers-it's Queens so there's always some kinda crime happening. People can think what they want, really. Doesn't really change my ultimate goal."

"Ghosts aren't automatically evil like the ghost hunters back home think, but that doesn't stop some of them from being massive jerks. But some of the others are actually pretty cool."

Danny makes a face. "That's... actually a pretty decent description. Except for the Box Ghost, who's more like wannabe Villain-of-the-Hour. Can't say I've ever dealt much with human criminals. Some days it takes all my time just to keep up with the ghosts."

"Hm, sounds like your town's pretty racist against ghosts." Peter states. Admitedly though, if he met a ghost-another ghost-full ghost?? he'd probably be on his guard too.

"Box ghost?" He makes a face. "What does he do, haunt boxes?"

Danny sighs.

"Its not just my town. It's everyone. I got chased halfway around the country by the government's ghost-hunting division once."

He makes a face. "Even worse. He wanted to conquer the world with, and I'm quoting here,his 'corrugated cardboard minions and the bubblewrap of DOOM'."

"Yikes. I mean, Renee told me her world's pretty racist against mutants-my world just calls them enhanced? Although there are a lot of people are against the enhanced so I don't know. Then there are the accords-uh-Sokovia accords that Mr Stark and Mr Rogers got in a fight over and no one really told me why." Mostly because he was fourteen at that time.

"But uh... back on box boy-are you sure he's not just... I don't know. Trolling? That sounds an awful lot like someone trolling."

"I don't know about any accords. But we've got the anti-ecto acts." He grimaces. "Far as I can tell, it means there's nothing stopping any ghost hunters, or the government's ghost-hunting goons, from hunting down and experimenting on any ghost in the human world. They even tried to nuke the Ghost Zone once, which you know, qualifies as a frankly terrible idea."

Even apart from the obvious issues, the Zone was a mirror dimension of the human world. Destroy one side and the other goes too.

"Nah, he's serious. Just not very good at being an evil world-conquering ghost. But he tries hard."

"Double yikes." Peter amends. "Well, I mean, I'm sure you miss your friends and fam but at least no one here cares about your ghostliness." He offers, sure that he isn't helping a damn thing.

"Eh... points for enthusiasm, I guess." This guy sounds hilarious and Peter really, really hopes he gets to meat him some day. Think of all the quips he could quip at him. It'd be so much fun!

"That's hard to get used to too." Being able to move around the train as a ghost without freaking anyone out or having to run away from hunters still felt too good to be true. It was putting Danny on edge as he kept waiting for the other shoe to drop.

"Eh, Boxy's annoying, but he's mostly harmless."

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