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Danny was, quite frankly, irritated beyond all belief. A little bit after his clone/cousin/sister Dani had been repodded, he too had been dumped back into podsleep for who knew how long. And really, it had been horrifying enough the first time. He hadn't really wanted to repeat the experience. But of course Stacy, GlaDOS, or maybe just his avia had other plans.

He stalked his way back up to Weapons and Possesions, and, diving straight into the piles of junk, started looking for his stuff.

"Nope, nope, nope, come on, where is that dang Fenton Thermos?" Danny muttered, elbow deep in a box

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Someone watched him show up again, with the micro-cameras that had been planted in various places on the ship.

Someone, when they saw him arrive, had teleported into Weapons and Possessions ahead of him.

That someone held the Thermos in their hands.

"It's right here," they said, and they pressed the button before he could see who was there.

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"Oh no." Danny groaned.

He tried to dodge the beam, but too late to avoid it. With a "Clunk" the lid was popped back on, and Danny was trapped.

[cityship]

He would find himself released a while after, in a clear cube, shimmering with energy. The dim light of that energy didn't do much to light up the room beyond and so his captor wasn't immediately visible.

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Danny's first reaction, as with every other time he'd been kidnapped, was to punch his way out.

Danny's second reaction, as with the majority of times he'd been kidnapped, was to immediately be blown back by whatever defense measures were in place. In this case, his prison's electrified defense measures.

"Okay, not gonna try that again." he said, shaking away the pain in his hand.

"If anyone's listening, you'd better have a damn good explanation for this or a REALLY good health insurance plan."

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"You're practice," came a voice in the darkness, a woman's voice. "The magnitude of him choosing you as his first subject--well, I'm sure you'll understand soon enough, but this is beautiful to me. Beautiful to behold. It brings me such pleasure."

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"Hello to you too crazy lady." Danny replied, voiced laden with as much sarcasm as he could possibly fit into a single sentence.

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"Such bravado. It will fail you in the end. As it did him. But I'm wasting time talking to a pink ape like you, aren't I. Who am I to play with another's food?"

If grinning had a sound, Danny could have heard a grin in the dark.

"Go ahead, son. Play with your new toy."

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Out of the darkness stepped not a woman but someone (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v38/psychicsaphie/brainyicons/truecolors2copy.png) familiar to Danny, someone who'd once been a friend, even if he'd been reluctant to admit it.

"Thank you for the opportunity, mother," he said in a dull voice devoid of all emotion. "This will be most illuminating."

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If it had been anyone else who'd met Brainiac 5 and just repopped, they might have automatically assumed the Coluan had turned to evil of his own free will. But Danny knew a little about manipulative evil parental figures. Enough to write his own book if he'd been inclined.

"Lady, when I get out of here, and I will get out, I'm shoving my fist straight down your fucking throat. You do NOT mess with my friends."

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"You'll find escape impossible. My assistant can verify for you, if necessary."

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"Danny, I'm so sorry."

The sound came from his left where a young woman hovered at the side of the room, hands folded behind her back in a precise manner that could only have been trained into her. She was dressed in plain grey clothes that hung off her too-thin frame, her red hair chopped to a manageable length without much care for symmetry.

She looked at him with eyes empty of any hope.

"...don't fight him. You'll waste your strength. You're going to need it."

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Danny's eyes widened, he gritted his teeth, and slumped down, appearing to give up.

"Fine. You win. I'm no match for the great Brainiac Dynasty. Do what you want."

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"You haven't given up. You're Daniel Fenton. You're one of the most irritatingly persistent beings I know," Brainiac remarked with devastating calm. "The tricks you use on your own villains won't work here, Daniel. I'm not a villain, after all."

Brainiac fired up a rather gnarly looking probe and looked at it impassively.

"I am a scientist."

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Brenda flinched from the sight of the instrument, dropping her head, shoulders hunched, but she stepped forward anyway when Brainiac flicked his fingers in her direction, stopping arms reach from him.

Her words were hollow, spoken on reflex.

"What do you require, sir?"

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"Was worth a shot." Danny said, lifting up his head to show the defiant glare he'd been hiding.

"And you're right Brainy. I haven't given up. I won't give up. I can't give up, not anymore at least. And when you're done here, you'd better tell mommy dearest to watch her back."

Danny's glare continued as Brainiac 5 walked forward with the probe.

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"Turn on the sound nullification field," Brainiac said to Brenda. "His screams will be terribly obnoxious otherwise."

But a little pain on Danny's part was worth it to satisfy Brainy's curiosity about his physiology, wasn't it?

It was time to get to work.