Okay so I'm starting a new story ... a new cross over story. I used to watch Teen Titans all the time when I was younger and recently got the whole series and re-watched it. That was the inspiration behind the oh so unoriginal DP and TT crossover story you are about to view. I know this has been done so many times but I wanted to take a crack at it. This is my 4th Dp cross over story so I hope this turns out good. I have another one with Kim Possible that seemed to go well if ya'll are interested.
This one is a post TUE story but I messed with the timeline a bit so some season 3 events did occur like getting his ice powers. I made him 16 and the Teen Titans timeline is after the movie Trouble in Tokyo. The first chapter may seem angsty but I'm going to try and gradually steer away from that as I go.
Please enjoy my story!=^-^=
Disclaimer: DP I don't have to do. I don't own Teen Titans at all! Or any other recognizable characters described below.
Ch. 1 - Fateful Encounter
D POV
They're gone….. all of them….. gone. I found myself going over it over and over in my head but… it can't be real. I gazed over the site of the explosion for probably the billionth time. "I won didn't I?" Why aren't they here!? Why couldn't I save them!? It's not fair!... but it is. I was the reason all of this happened. "It's my fault."
"Yes but you over turned your destiny." I turned to see Clockwork floating at my right. "I gave you the chance to change your future and you took it. You chose to do the right thing. Blaming yourself will only keep you in one place, but if you move forward, you can find something to live for." He looked mournfully at the ruined Nasty Burger.
"Couldn't you do something…. Anything?" He's the master of time for pete's sake.
"I'm sorry but I already interfered far too much. The time stream can only be bent so much."
Just as I thought… nothing can change. I felt my hands begin to tremble. "They're…. Gone….." I floated down to the center of the wreckage.
"Daniel…. You have to move forward." I placed my hands over my face and felt the tears fall. He placed his hand on my back. He cares and I know he's trying to help, but he's asking the impossible here! My parents, sister, Tucker… Sam. What else can I possibly have to live for!? "Well if you refuse to listen to me now, how about a nice distraction? I'm sure you could use something to get yourself moving."
He then handed me a piece of paper and left. It was coupon…. For donuts. I couldn't help but let out a choked laugh. He's got a messed up sense of humor if he thinks that donuts are going to make me feel better. I don't even know where this place is. "Daniel!" Great…. Just who I wanted interrupting my sulking.
"What do you want Plasmius?" I didn't bother getting up or turning to face him.
"You've been moping around for the last week…. You need to come home." I'm a bit surprised he's not more angry. This has to be the 5th time I've ditched him. I was moved in to live with him only a few days after the explosion, but it'll never be my home. That house is…. Cold. It only makes me miss all those I lost even more.
"That's not my house!" I clutched at my knees. "It never will be!"
"Daniel you have to let them go!"
"Easy for you to say! The only one you cared about was my mom!" He remained silent after that. Figures, I hit the nail on the head. How could he possibly understand how this feels.
"You're right…." Whoa wait….. did I just hear that right? I turned to him in a bit of amazement. "What? Is it so amazing that I admit you're right for once!? Maddie was the only one I lost and I'd like it to stay that way! I know we've never really gotten along but….."
NO….no no no no no! "I get it alright! You finally have what you wanted, but I'm not coming back! All you've ever wanted was me as your stupid apprentice and now that I've got nowhere to go, I'm right where you want me right?! Well I'm not about to let that happen!" I flew off at top speed, which was pretty hard considering I haven't eaten all day.
I just needed to get away from him. Get as far away as possible! I headed towards Lake Eerie just as the sun began to set. Normally I would enjoy the meld of colors that bled through the sky at this time but now…. Now it reminds me that there is no one to watch it with. The quiet I hear isn't because Sam and I are enjoying the silence, it's because I'm the only one there.
Why did things have to be this way!? If I had only stopped him sooner! If I had only been there before it got so bad! If I hadn't tried to take a short cut… tried to cheat…. This never would have happened! I took a glance back behind me and didn't see him following. It's only a matter of time before he finds me again though. He's pretty good at that.
The lake looked almost normal under the twilight glow. Last time I was here… was with Sam and Tuck. Why does everything I see remind me of them….? It's like my mind is playing a sick and twisted joke on me.
Once I landed, finding who I was looking for didn't take long. He probably smelled me the minute I got close. "My friend!" He jumped from the woods and pounced on me. After a lick to the face I was finally able to talk to him.
" Hey Wulf….."
He got off me and seemed to sense my depressed mood. "What is wrong my friend? You look horrible."
Horrible was an understatement. I haven't done much of anything but mope around for the last week, heck I haven't showered in days, though flying around probably disperses the smell a bit. "I need to ask a favor of you Wulf."
He gave me a sympathetic look. "Anything my friend."
"Could you tear open a ghost portal for me?" I had shut down the Fenton portal after the incident. After I handed the thermos off to Clockwork, I tried everything I could to keep ghosts out of town. It worked for the most part. Only one ghost attack has happened since then, but the Box Ghost isn't much to worry about in my opinion.
"I would be happy to friend, but….. are you sure this is what you want? I'm not sure what it is that weighs on your mind but I do not believe the answer is there."
I nodded solemnly. "Yeah, I just need to get away for a bit… think over a few things."
"If this is what you want I will not stop you, go my friend." With that he slashed through the air leaving a dimensional rift in his wake. He stepped aside and I dashed through.
The ghost zone hadn't change much, but what did I expect? For it to just disappear because I shut the portal? I looked around at the glowing green masses and floating array of doors. I sighed to myself and began to fly around aimlessly. I hand no idea what I was looking for, where I would end up, or what I was even hoping to find along the way. I just kept moving and spaced out along the way. I think I passed a few ghosts I knew but it's hard to say considering how lost in my own mind I was. What's it matter anyway?
I must've been flying around for hours before I realized just how hungry I was and decided to stop and look around. It wasn't surprising that I was in an unfamiliar part of the ghost zone. It seemed utterly empty, void of anything, even doors. "Where am I?" Before I could think of an answer to my own question, a portal formed in front of me. "What's this supposed to be? Some kind of sign?" I scrutinized the portal for a moment before I decided to check it out. What harm can it do? If I'm lucky, I'll end up in a time before all this happened. I flew through the portal with that impossible dream driving me.
It was a city, and a big one at that. Amity Park shrank in my eyes as I looked at all the buildings that surrounded me. They towered over me even though I was floating 60 feet up. I flew around to get my bearings, careful not to attract attention. The last thing I needed was another city to hate me. It was still pretty dark, probably early morning by the looks of it.
I landed on a dimly lit street and quickly found a newspaper stand. I guess hoping like that was kinda stupid of me. I lifted yesterday's paper to my eyes unenthusiastically. "Jump City huh?"
"Hey kid! You buyin it or what?"
I placed the paper back down. "Uh sorry no…. just wanted to check the date." He gave me a grumpy glare as he shooed me away. That name….. seems familiar, where have I heard that name before? I then finally noticed the high traffic on the roads. It had to have been around 2 am, so what's with all the people? Better yet, why are they all in costumes? "I guess I blend…"
I followed a few of them and ran into a crowd just as I turned the corner. This large building was lit up like a Christmas tree…. Sort of makes me wonder how I missed it from the sky. People in costumes numbered in the hundreds. "What's going on?"
"You didn't hear?" I turned to a guy dressed in a tight fitting blue suit and red cape.
"Hear what?"
"Some jerk named Gizmo hijacked the midnight concert! Though I guess it's more like 1 am concert because of the delay."
Gizmo? He some kind of thief or something? "So he hijacked it? By the way, what's this event?"
The guy looked at me like I had just grown another head. "It's the super con. Ya'know the one that changes cities every year? It frequents a different hero city every year…. If you didn't know that, why are you dressed like Phantom?"
I guess that was a bit of a suspicious question to say the least….. let's see excuses…. "I just saw the crowd and felt like joining in?"
He scrutinized me for a minute but seemed to buy it. "Well whatever, that guy in there doing it has to be crazy to get the attention off-" I didn't bother waiting for him to finish. I may not be from this town but I can certainly do something to help. I flew off invisibly to the stage where some crazy guy on metal spider legs was taking over the equipment.
"Everyone ready for my concert debut!" He had the controls laid out in front of him and…. Connected to a game console? Okay, filing that one under weird. Alright, now to catch him without causing a scene… duh possession. I flew right into him and had control in seconds flat. This guy was seriously crazed up with hardware…. He and Technus would probably get along.
I then stopped whatever he was doing with the equipment and searched out the closest police officer. The place was crawling with them but I'm thinking they were probably here as event security to begin with. I made him run up to one named Dowell who seemed very disarmed by my sudden approach. "Excuse me officer, but I'm ready to go to jail now." I laid his hands out in front of him in a submissive pose.
The man's initial shock was quickly forgotten as he cuffed him and had his hands behind his back in less than a minute. That was my queue to leave and I phased right out of him. I watched him invisibly from the air as he regained his senses and immediately started to struggle out of his restraints. "Hey what's the big idea! How'd I end up here!? Let me go you crud muchin blue-"
They now had him in the car and I felt a bit better about myself for a moment. That is, until I suddenly remembered what I had stashed at the back of my mind… Can't forget about it forever can I? I left the scene quickly and landed on the roof of the convention center. I gazed up at the moon as I lost myself in my thoughts.
No one's pov
The officers were having a field day trying to explain to Robin, who just arrived with the Titans, what Gizmo had done. "It was weird. He was up on stage about to something with the equipment when of a sudden he stopped and walked right over to me. He held out his hands and told me to take him to jail. Then we're getting him in the car and he suddenly goes wild."
Robin rubbed his chin in thought. "Any ideas Cyborg… Cyborg?"
He turned to see Cyborg ogling some of the tech on stage. "Man some of this stuff is sweet!"
He then turned to Robin who was giving him an agitated glare. "Hey man chill. I got you covered." He pulled up a video in the screen of his arm. "One of the fans in the crowed gave me a video feed." Robin's expression calmed a bit as he moved over to view it. They watched as Gizmo tore at the machinery and began to rewire it when all of a sudden he stops.
"There…. What happened?"
"Beats me… looks like he just… I don't know snapped maybe?" They continued the video until he started to struggle again.
"And what about this?"
"He realized what he was doing?" Cyborg scratched at his head in confusion. "I don't think I've ever seen him act this way….. ever."
They both turned to Raven who had tapped Cyborg on the shoulder. "I took a look inside his mind. Whatever came over him, he doesn't remember it. There's a time gap."
Robin looked back to the video screen of Cyborg's arm. "What could it have been?"
"Yo dudes!" They all turned to see Beast Boy with a gaggle of fan boys dressed familiarly. "I found the Teen Titans!" Robin shook his head and looked back to the video. Raven on the other hand glared at him. "Come on this is cool! They even got you right Raven!" Raven was not amused one bit by the young man dressed as her. He had the scowl right but the rest of it was what bugged her.
Her look became bemused as she pointed behind him. "They got you right too."
Beast Boy turned to see a little kid dressed as a monkey and picking his nose. "WHAT!?"
Her attention was redirected by Starfire, who was flying down to them. "I did not find any of the other Hive Five, nor did I see anything unusual."
"Alright, good work Starfire." She beamed as she set down and clasped Robin's arm.
"Uh Star… now isn't…"
Raven pulled at her arm. "Starfire…. Are you sure you didn't see anything odd?"
The Tamaranean seemed confused by this. "No."
Raven found her eyes being pulled towards the roof of the arena. "I'm going to check something out then." The other 3 seemed confused but Robin nodded all the same.
"Call if you find something. I'm going to look over the crime scene a bit more." Raven nodded and floated into the sky.
She was quick to fly over the arena roof where she seemed to spot something. She only saw it for a moment, but it seemed to be a slightly glowing aura and a pair of green eyes. "What the…." It was gone in a flash just as a patch of shade from the clouds blocked out the moon light. "Where?" She flew over to where the figure was but she couldn't see anything.
She looked around a bit more before she felt something. She had brushed against someone's mind, but she couldn't tell who's it was. She held her head as the flash of foreign memories fell over her. "Who are you?!" The images faded and the only one she seemed to remember at all was of a young darkly dressed girl. "Sam?..." She then tried to get a fix on it again but it was gone now.
Her hands left her forehead and she turned back to the stage. "Whatever that was, it might be related to Gizmo's behavior." She flew back over to her team and explained what happened.
"So this Sam person was all you were able to get?"
"It was a memory I think so I doubt it was her, but maybe someone who knows her?"
Robin took a moment to think about it. "Well it's more than we got from the scene. I guess we should try to figure out who this person is."
"Yeah, but who's up for donuts first!? Big Al's donuts is having a hero special!" Cyborg was practically drooling by this point and Beast Boy jumped at the idea.
"Yeah! Nothing says 2 am like fresh baked donuts!"
Raven heckled him in her standard monotone voice. "And I suppose sleeping never really comes to mind."
He ignored it in favor of joining Cyborg in his puppy dog eyes at Robin. He quickly broke under the pressure as Starfire joined in. "Alright fine…. I guess we can put the search on hold for a bit." The 3 of them jumped for joy and ran off behind Cyborg.
"Come on Raven." He followed behind them and Raven took one more looked up to the roof of the arena before doing the same.
Danny's POV
That girl….. geez of all the people to look like! All I wanted to do was relax a bit and sulk on the roof of the arena….. but then she came. She looked so much like her… at least from afar. I know they're not the same but … I rubbed my fingers through my hair. "What's wrong with me… Sure they have similar features but you'd have to be blind to get them confused!"
I sighed and looked back down to the arena. I then noticed something I recognized. "Wait….." I pulled out that coupon that Clockwork gave me and studied it carefully. "You're kidding…." I took glances back and forth to make sure I wasn't crazy. "Figures…" Clockwork is crazy. He gave me coupon to a donut place he knew I would eventually come across…. Question is why?
I flew down invisibly to a curtained off area nearby and reappeared. Clockwork does things for a reason, so maybe he's trying to tell me something's going to happen if I go in there. I walked out nonchalantly from the changing room I was apparently in and headed over to the shop. I figured being in Phantom form would help me blend more considering there are more costumes than normal cloths here.
I opened the door and immediately found the line due to the fact it was backed up to the door. "Whoa…."
"Yeah, but this is to be expected when he gives half off donuts to anyone with a legit costume." The guy in front of me who spoke was dressed as some kind of super duck character. The man looked me over and then gave me a smirk. "Nice Phantom outfit, but you're too scrawny to be the real thing."
Danny raised his brow at that. "Well at least I'm not trying to be a duck."
"I'm Duck Dodgers nerd. Besides, it's not like I could become an actual duck." He then turned back around in line and proceeded to ignore me. Great even fans don't think I'm really him…. I can bench press a bus, but I'm sorry I don't look like it! I crossed my arms as I looked around the shop. Who or what could've made Clockwork want to bring me here for?
As I scanned the crowd I felt someone bump into me from behind. "Oh sorry dude!" I turned to see a shorter green kid with pointed ears. He really went the extra mile on his costume huh? "Dude?" He had waved his hand in my face as I spaced out.
"Oh, sorry…. It's okay, it is kind of cramped in here." I gestured to the huge line in front of me.
His ears seemed to droop as he saw it. "Aww man! I was hoping for the special hero's double dozen!" I then noticed a larger guy who seemed to be half robot walk in… or squeeze in. The door seemed pretty hard to get open at this point.
"Yo BB did you even get a ticket?" The green teen looked up at him in confusion. "Like this." The robot guy wiped out a small ticket that looked a lot like mine. "The special goes to the winning ticket BB."
"But you'll share if you win right?!" He seemed to beg like a dog at the larger guys heels.
"Of course. I'll take on dozen and ya'll can have the rest."
The green one seemed to tear up for a minute in heart break but sighed in defeat. "No fair…."
He gave BB a pompous smirk. "Should have got a ticket."
"ALRIGHT! Heroes of all ages! It's time to do the Hero's special prize drawing! Everyone get out your tickets!" A large man, whom I could only assume was Big Al, came running past the line ringing a bell. I decided to listen and pulled the ticket back out. I hadn't noticed the prize number on the back until now. "Everybody ready!? Okay!" He pulled out a jar on from the counter and shoved his hand into it. After a moment of shuffling through the paper a he pulled out the winner. "X5623!" He looked around at the crowd and repeated it. "X5623!"
I decided to check my number too as I noticed the rush of disappointed faces. "X5623….."
"Dude you won!" The green guy who was behind me had looked over my shoulder at the ticket.
"I-I did?" I looked it over again. "Whoa… I did!"
"What's that?" Big Al dashed over to me and snatched the ticket from my hand. "Well would you look at that, he's a winner!" After waving it in the air he turned back to me. "Now kid, who are you supposed to be? You have to be dressed as a real published hero to win." He looked over my costume in curiosity. "Well?"
I guess I just go with it then…. After all, I am a real hero. "Danny Phantom."
He turned to the counter and seemed to wait for confirmation before a shout was heard. "He's clear!" "Alright then Phantom is our winner tonight!" He grabbed my arm and jerked me over to the counter where he shoved four boxes of randomized donuts in my arms. "Here you go kid! Alright everybody, be sure to come back tomorrow night cause I'm going to be drawing 1 lucky winner every night during the Super Con! Same time same place!"
Around 2/3rds of the crowd cleared as he turned and made his way behind the counter. 2 am has got to be the weirdest donut special I've ever heard of. I looked over the boxes and felt my stomach growl. I may be hungry…. But I'm not this hungry.
I then noticed the 2 from earlier only they were joined by 2 more. The green one named BB seemed to be almost sobbing next to the metal man. The other 2 seemed to be trying to cheer him up. The boy in the cape and mask seemed more frustrated than sympathetic though and the girl was just patting him on the head. I then looked back over the pile of fried doe and strode over to them. "Want to share?"
I got puzzled looks from three of them but the green one looked completely shocked. "REALLY!?"
"Y-yeah, I really don't think I can eat 2 dozen donuts myself."
The one in the mask seemed skeptical at first before he graciously accepted. "Sounds good to me." He let out his hand. "Robin." I balanced the boxes on one hand and shook his with the other.
"Danny."
"Alright come on already!" BB seemed to have already found a table big enough. I shuffled over and set the boxes on the table. I sat down and the others quickly joined me.
"So Danny, you here by yourself? I always thought people came to these things in groups." Robin had opened a box and began on one of the donuts.
"Actually, I sort of ended up here by accident to be honest. A friend of mine gave me the ticket."
BB who had just horked down 3 donuts at once responded. "Your friend rocks!"
"Yes, I wish to thank you and your friend for these lovely, round sugary nuts of dough." They seemed to me like they were a pretty fun bunch. Maybe Clockwork was trying to distract me by introducing me to new people…..
"Are you okay man?" The robot guy seemed to have a worried expression as he was about to eat another donut.
"Yeah, I'm fine." I quickly grabbed a donut of my own. At the rate they were eating them, their wouldn't be much left if I waited too much longer.
"Hey, anybody seen Raven?" The green one enquired as he gazed around the shop with a doughnut in his mouth.
"Over here!" A girl was trying to get through the, now crowded once again, door.
"Come Raven! Our new friend has shared with us his prize of fried dough!" The minute I saw her face, images of Sam flooded back to me. It was that girl I saw floating above me on the roof of the stadium. What was she doing here?! My mind raced and I felt there was only one thing I could do to stop it, so I went invisible.
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