Hello. This takes place after D-stabilized. As far as this fic is concerned Phantom Planet never happened. Danny Phantom's identity is still a secret except from those who already know. To be exact this begins about a month after D-stabilized. Danny is 16 because there were two summer vacations. As for the Teen Titans this begins a month after Trouble in Tokyo.
I do not own Danny Phantom or Teen Titans
Prologue
He had nothing. The Teen Titans had put every useful meta-human criminal in the city in jail, they had destroyed most of his equipment, he had very limited resources, he had lost both of his apprentices, and he had lost his demonic powers. He had no pawns and no tools to work with. He had absolutely nothing.
However he did have a computer, a camera system he had set up throughout the city to observe any unusual events, as well as a few robots for combat. That however was not enough to accomplish anything.
He needed new equipment and new pawns to manipulate. He also wanted to try a new angle at getting things done. None of his original plans had worked or to be exact the Teen Titans had foiled all of his original plans.
He gritted his teeth at the very thought of those little adolescent heroes. The Teen Titans had ruined all of his plans; they destroyed everything he set out to do.
But, that did not mean he was giving up. No, he would never give up; it would take time but eventually he would accomplish his goal.
Eventually Jump City would be his; and the Teen Titans would lay dead before his feet.
In order for his plans to succeed however he needed to change the rules of the game. But, that was not an easy task because in order to change the rules he needed new rules.
He growled in frustration. "In my current situation," he muttered to himself, "I cannot even accomplish any of my most tedious tasks."
He eventually calmed down and took a deep breath. "A solution will come I just need to be patient; patience is essential to victory. And the more time it takes to get something the more worthwhile it is."
He was sitting in his only remaining hideout; all of his other hideouts had been compromised by the Teen Titans. In other words the Titans had destroyed them.
In order to find a solution to his current predicament he had set his computer to alert him to any unusual activity or news broadcasts. After all inspiration can come from the most surprising sources.
He looked at his computer and snorted. That had been the flaw of the Brotherhood of Evil. They had brilliant plans and ideas but they failed simply because they believed that only a complex plan would work. They would spend all of their recourses on a plan they think up and then would fail to see the flaws in the plan because it was too complicated. Sometimes the simplest plan is the best plan.
The News flashed on to his computer screens. "What do we have here?" he muttered with a chuckle. He turned and watched as a breaking news report appeared.
The news report began with: /There was a major explosion in Amity Park, Oregon this morning. A large and mysterious green explosion has destroyed the majority of the town. The mayor of the town, Vlad Masters survived the explosion and has declared that Amity Park is finished./
This was interesting. Slade relaxed and thought about it; cities don't just explode without a cause. This could be the start of something interesting.
The question is what was this cause and why was the explosion green.
The news report went on; /Amity Park is famous for being the ghost capital of the United States. Countless stories of ghost sightings come from this town. The most famous of all the ghosts that come from this town is Danny Phantom. The exact nature of his visits is unknown because of contradicting reports on his behavior. He is considered by some to be an enemy that has threatened public safety many times and by others to be a hero who protects the people of Amity Park from other ghosts. The former mayor states that Danny Phantom is the reason ghosts kept attacking. He has tried on many occasions to deal with the so called Phantom problem./
This was getting more interesting by the minute. The masked man sat down and thought about this development. Ghosts were something he had never dealt with before but neither have the Teen Titans.
He realized that these ghosts could become the new pawns in his battle against the Teen Titans. He used his computer to search for more info on Amity Park and this Danny Phantom.
A great deal of information came up on the screen. Amity Park was a moderate town in Oregon and the mayor was a man named Vlad Masters. He remembered Masters from the news report; he had something against Phantom. He looked at the man's face that he had brought up on to the screen. People don't hate each other without any reason. There was definitely a history there; but that could be pursued later. It was time to research these ghosts.
These ghosts were apparently from another dimension called the Ghost Zone and they came to Earth through portals that open up between worlds.
The most interesting part was that a family of ghost hunters had lived in the area, the Fentons. The Fentons were a family of four; a man and wife as well as a son and daughter. Jack and Maddie Fenton were the world's leading experts on ghosts. They had claimed that ghosts exist for years but everyone assumed that they were crackpots.
At least until a massive ghost invasion took place in Amity Park. This ghost invasion was lead by this Danny Phantom; he kidnapped the mayor who was giving a speech in city hall at the time. The Fentons had fought the ghosts off however and saved the town.
Now the story got even stranger; a couple of months later a second ghost invasion occurred, this time Danny Phantom saved the town from the ghosts. However, Jack and Maddie Fenton continued to claim that he was an enemy and that he was just trying to deceive everyone.
Most of the reports claimed that the Fentons were incompetent ghost hunters. There was even a running joke in the ghost hunting community that they couldn't catch a ghost if it was living under their own roof.
Both of them had died in the explosion along with their daughter, but their son was unconfirmed although most assumed he was dead.
In the masked mans experience if someone was not confirmed dead then they were still alive.
This family had a lab in their basement. He wondered if their laboratory had survived the explosion. If he could get his hands on their research and tools he could use it in countless ways.
As for the boy, he looked at the name Danny Fenton. He wondered…
He brought up a picture of Phantom and compared it to Danny Fenton. He noted the similar appearance of the two of them or should he say one of them.
A chuckle of amusement came from the man.
There was no doubt about it Danny Fenton and Danny Phantom are the same person. But, how did this happen? How was this even possible? How could a human have the powers of a ghost?
He had to learn more about these ghosts as well as this boy that has the powers of one. They opened a new world of possibilities; possibilities that could mean the end of the Teen Titans.
If a teenager could acquire ghost powers than he could too. He would draw this Danny Phantom to Jump City and acquire this technology, and then a new game would begin between him and the Teen Titans. Better yet why not let the Teen Titans bring this boy to Jump City themselves.
The man known as Slade began to laugh.
-Raven's POV-
Raven was meditating in her room when it happened. It was very sudden and very quick almost like a door opening then slamming shut.
She felt a massive surge of energy that was followed by a malevolent force that chilled her to the bone. She fell over gasping as she recovered from the energy surge she had felt.
At first she thought it came from the city but then she realized it had come from a great distance. It was just so powerful that she felt it all the way here.
She had never felt something like this before. It felt like a rip between dimensions had opened and closed almost immediately.
And the force that had followed the surge of energy was enormous. It was also evil, cold, and ancient. She shivered; if a portal had opened, even for a brief period of time, then something could have passed through. If this force had succeeded in passing through then…
No, she did not want to think of the consequences.
She eventually was able to get back up and got back into her meditative position. She thought about recent events: things had been strange lately; ever since they got back from Tokyo she had been sensing a very strange presence like someone was watching her but when she turned around no one was there. She had also felt strange disturbances during her meditations. It was like someone was speaking to someone else over a great distance.
She had considered telling Robin about this strange presence but for some reason she just couldn't bring herself to do it. She closed her eyes and continued to meditate; she needed to get to the bottom of this.
Then she heard Beastboy's voice, "EVERYONE COME TO THE LIVING ROOM AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE WE HAVE AN EMERGENCY!"
Raven rolled her eyes. Beastboy was always panicking when his ridiculous videogames weren't working or he had found another ridiculous videogame to play and wanted to find a partner.
She would just ignore him for now.
"HEY THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT!" yelled Beastboy.
"This had better not be about another videogame," she grumbled.
She left her room and went to the living room where everyone else was gathering. The others were just arriving as well. Cyborg looked like he had been working on his car as he was covered in grease and was wiping it off with a wash cloth.
Robin had just come from his room where he had been working on broken pieces of equipment. Starfire had clearly been taking Silky for a walk around the tower as she was holding him when she floated into the room.
Beastboy was sitting on the sofa in the living room with a panicked almost terrified expression on his face.
"Alright," the boy wonder asked calmly, "what's this all about Beastboy?"
"Yeah grass stain," said Cyborg, "what's got you all worked up? Did you lose the remote again? Because if you did then you are so going to find it."
Beastboy looked at Robin with a grave expression and said, "I think you all need to see this news report."
The TV was on and it was showing a town that was completely destroyed. Raven then realized that it was a news broadcast. The Titans watched with steadily increasing horror as the news broadcast went on. The broadcast gave very little information about what may have caused the explosion but it did say that the town did have a very strange history.
Eventually Cyborg got up and asked the question that was on everyone's mind, "What could have caused this?"
"I don't know but we need to find out," replied Robin. "It is our job to prevent things like this from happening," he continued. He turned and walked to the windows and looked out at the city. "It is bad enough one city was destroyed if whoever or whatever caused this gets away it could mean the destruction of other cities."
Raven began to wonder could this explosion be the same surge of energy she felt while meditating. If so than this could be the beginning of something they had never seen before. Raven spoke up, "I think I felt it happen; it was like a rip between dimensions. It was also followed by a malevolent and powerful force."
They all looked at her. Robin was the first to speak, "You don't think it could be Trigon do you?"
"No that's impossible Trigon can only come to this world through me and besides it felt different." But even saying that the half-demon sorceress wondered could it be possible. Trigon was one of the most powerful beings that have ever existed in any dimension. Was it possible that he had escaped back into this world?
"We need to find out…" the boy wonder began but he was interrupted by a phone call.
The boy wonder answered the phone, "This is the Teen Titans may I help you."
"This is the FBI, we need a favor. I'm sure you have heard of the destruction of Amity Park, well we believe that there may be a survivor and that the ones who destroyed Amity Park are after him. We would like you to find him first and protect him at all costs."
Robin thought about it, bringing the survivor here would cause whoever did this to come here which meant they could catch him, plus he could not allow someone to come to harm especially when that person's entire town had been destroyed. This survivor would probably need help dealing with the grief and the Titans each had their own history of problems and knew what it was like to lose someone you care about.
"We will help you," the masked titan replied, "Who is this survivor?"
"The survivor is a 16 year old boy named Daniel Fenton…"
-Slade's POV-
A chuckle left the masked man on the other side of the phone as he spoke through the voice altering device. Everything was going according to plan.
All right that is the end of the Prologue. But what is Slade's plan and what caused the explosion? These questions and more will not be answered for several chapters. But you will get to see Danny in the exciting first chapter of A Hero's Tale. I expect some reviews.
SO what do you think of the editing I have done? November 21, 2010.
