Get That Out Of Your Mouth (You don't know where it's been!)

Wind them up (And watch them blow!)

"I mean a- uh- yeah A Meta! Of course I am! Unless you're uh, talking about like a  meta meta , in which case I am not!-" It's hard to read the expression  clocked on Jon's face, mouth pulled into a line and brows furrowed as  Danny desperately tries to simultaneously backtrack on what he's said,  as well as neither confirm nor deny the question.

Now, Danny wasn't  completely  clueless, don't get him wrong, he remembered pretty much as soon  as he said it that a couple of the girls on the bus had mentioned the  word in relation to someone. What that meant exactly, he's completely  lost on, especially in both cases it seemed to be something to keep on  the down-low, first with the girls and now with Jon here dragging him  into an ally (suspicious) just to ask him about it.

Luck seemed to be at least a bit on his side today, though, as  Jon's expression melts into something more like an easy grin after a  beat of silence.

"Oh! Right, I guess if you aren't really from  around here   you might not be uh, up to date!" Jon says, clapping his hands together with a smile.

"A meta, or  Metahuman   is a person with, well, special  abilities  or I guess you could describe them as  superpowers ."

Huh.

Huh?????

Danny knows it's probably rude to just stand there with his mouth  gapping open, but can you blame him? People here can have superpowers,  like normal, born-with-em, non-lab-related-clowning-incidents related  superpowers.

And it was (somewhat at least)  normal???

Talk about a way to make his own universe look lame.

"Where did you say you were from again?" Shit, Danny took too long  with his internal crisis and now Jon's looking at him with a kinda  intense look on his face. Better save this somehow, Fenton, just work  off what you know that you know exists in this world!

"Uh, well kinda out in the middle of nowhere, y'know! Just a  couple hours from here! Really small town though, mostly just fields and  stuff, barely any neighbors other than... Cows?" Yeah that sounds about  right, even if it does paint him as some farmboy (despite a lack of an  accent and the fact he's wearing city clothes). It seems to be enough  for Jon though, who practically lights up at the response.

"Oh yeah! Of course, that makes perfect sense if you weren't really  local   so don't worry dude I don't blame you for being from  out of town ." Jon says, waving a hand again as he talks. Danny's a bit  confused at the random word emphasis though, it feels almost like Jon's  trying to have some kind of weird double meaning to what he's saying?

"Right, but here, people with abilities, or Metahumans or  whatever, are they allowed-?" Danny's still trying to parse out this  whole superpower business, if people exist like that, he's more  surprised he hasn't seen it yet, and the say Jon's been all quiet about  them makes him think he might end up in trouble yet for flaunting any of  his powers.

"Oh, no metas are completely protected under the law, so you  wouldn't have to worry too much about that, I mean on the Justice League  alone there's-" Danny feels a bit relieved as Jon talks, another point  for this world being a bit better than his if he wouldn't have to worry  about the government as much. Jon's cut off from finishing his thought  about a "Justice League" (Nerdy name, he's taking the point back), when  he's interrupted by something over Danny's shoulder, back to where they  entered from.

"Oh hey Dami!" Oh right, his doppelganger or whatever. Turning  around, Danny spots the other teen (Also notably younger than the rest  of the teens on the trip by the way, they're probably the same age or  something, Danny thinks that they're probably the same height, other  than that they really don't look very similar.) Stands at the entrance  to the ally, blocking the entrance like he expects one of them to run or  something. Danny sees him roll his eyes when Jon approaches him with a  grin.