Hidden Connections

Disclaimer – Danny Phantom and Young Justice don't belong to me. Sadly

Chapter One: Average Days

Flying through the air Danny raced to meet up with Tucker he was late and knew he would be called on it. He was also late for school as well, which is the last thing he needed. He has been getting dangerously close to getting detention with Mr. Lancer. Seeing Tucker come into view Danny quickly flew down behind a building to change back.

Rounding the corner "Hey Tuck!" Danny called running up to him "did you get it?"

"Of course fresh off the truck. Totally worth having to wake up at 4 in the morning for this." Tucker said turning to Danny as he waved the new PlayStation game in front of his face. "Full of murder and violence, which means it's the best!"

"Awesome! We should invite ourselves over to Sam place her TV is huge. The graphic are probably amazing." Danny laughed.

"Yeah," Tucker agreed "and who wouldn't want our amazing company!"

"She better not whip us at this game I want to beat her at least once." Danny sighed as they walked towards the school.

Sam their other friend was wickedly good at any online game that she ever picked up. Sometimes Danny had wonder if she may be cheating but that just didn't seem like Sam. Danny and Tucker just passed through the gates of the school and found Sam waiting for them there.

"I wasn't sure if you guys were going to make it one time. The bell rings in 5 mins. You know Danny if your late again I don't think you can talk your way out of a detention."

"I know Sam, but all the ghosts just keep getting in the way." As he was saying this a white mist was released from his moth. "Oh crap!" Danny sighed "cover for me. I'll make this quick!"

Danny ran behind a bush and quickly changed into phantom before he flew up into the sky around the school and did a lap around the school looking for the ghost.

"Where are you? Come one I don't have time for this!" Danny spotted a truck unload new school supplies in boxes. "Oh come on." Danny flew over just in time to see the Box ghost take control of all the box.

"Beware I am the box ghost" a short ghost screamed. "Fear me for I will have my cardboard vengeances!"

"Hey Boxy!" Danny yelled as he flew by punching the box ghost in the face "be nice and get in the container I have school to get to." He said as he quickly whipped out his thermos and sucks the ghost in just in time for the bell to ring. "Not good!" Danny moans as he flew towards class.

Danny peeked into the room and saw Mr. Lancer are the board writing something this was his chance he slowly crept into the class room and makes his way slowly towards his chair hoping to make it before the teacher notices him at all. 'maybe I can pretend like I have been here the entire time. Who knows maybe he will fall for it. It's not like he will give me detention our week break is coming up.' Peeking over his shoulder to see Mr. Lancer still writing on the board he was only two seats away 'I can make it!' he thought. The moment before he made it Dash saw him and smirked "Mr. Lancer Danny's here." Lancer turned to see Danny on the floor in front of his chair.

"Well welcome Mr. Fenton I'm so glad you could join us."

"Sir I just dropped my pen. I've been here the whole time." Danny tried.

"That's good to hear and I so glad you are trying to be prepared for this class but I think we just might need some extra time with me after school. In Detention."

"crap." Danny murmured.

Morning classes seemed to take forever and with the growing headache Danny was developing his temper was much shorter than usual. It turns out that Danny had forgotten about their exam in math class after lunch and hadn't study, which would have been difficult anyways since he had to deal with three ghost last night on his patrol.

"I'm going to fail." Danny moaned as he and his friends sat down in the court yard for lunch. "How could I forget? Did you study?"

"Yeah I heard it's going to be a killer test." Tucker responded without thinking causing Sam to smack him over the head. "We can quiz you a little before the test we still have an hour before we go in." Sam suggested.

"Can't hurt I guess." Danny picked his head off the table to focus only to be thrown off the table when an explosion hit the wall across the room from him. The smoke cleared leaving a huge hole that took up half the wall. Tables and chairs had been thrown everywhere. Half the students had been thrown to the other side of the room while the others were hiding under tables and behind chairs. Danny's ghost sense went off warning him of the danger as a huge mechanical suit walk through the hole in the wall.

"I have come for the ghost child!" Skulker demanded.

"Just great!" Danny groaned as the schools alarms were sounding "So much for studying. Again."

Teachers rushed into the room trying to get the students out and in the chaos Danny ducked under a table to change into Phantom. Fazing through the table Danny speed towards Skulker and rammed both fists into his stomach of armor and forced him into the court yard.

"Are you ever going to give up Skulker? Come on this is getting old and no less gross."

"Never! You are my ultimate prize!" he said as he charged his gun and fired. Danny quickly dodged to the left flying up to lead Skulker away from the citizens.

"You're not getting away this time ghost boy!" Danny turned to see three missiles headed his way. Turning to face them he fazed through the first missile and kicked the second into the line of fire of the third making them collide. The explosion disorienting him for a moment.

"Nice try!" Danny yelled "But not good enough."

Skulker just smirked and looked up. Danny turned to see the missile that he fazed through careening straight for him. 'Shit, they're trackers.' The missile collided with him and the explosion sent him straight to the ground. 'Stupid mistake Danny. Stupid mistake.' He berated himself. Danny looked up as he tried to shake the pain off just in time to see the Fenton van come crashing through a bunch of trees.

"Uh oh!" Danny's dad popped out wielding his Fenton ghost fisher finishing rod. He preceded to cast it straight at Danny. Danny rolled to the left just missing getting his my a few centimeters as his mom jumped from the van holding the Fenton bazooka. She takes aim at Skulker and fires forming a small portal that sucks him in with a scream.

"Okay time to go!" Danny turns invisible and intangible to fly away from his parents as fast as he could.

Danny made it back to the school just in time for the assembly to be announced. He made his way toward the gym and found Sam and Tucker sitting on the bleachers waiting for him. Danny sat down in between them.

"How'd it go?" she asked quietly.

"Awesome." He replied sarcastically "Mom and dad showed up. It's always fun having them try to kill me. What is going on here?"

"Apparently Skulker took out a bunch of classrooms before he attacked the lunchroom. They are probably going to cancel school until after our break week so that they can fix things."

"Wait that means no test then yes!" Danny pumped his fists excitedly. "and an extra-long vacation."

"It will happen the first day back man so more study time." Sam interjected.

Mr. Lancer walked to the middle of the gym and cleared his throat. "Attention students due to the massive damage to the school we will be letting out school for the rest of today and tomorrow going into our week off for the necessary repairs that will needed to be made. I hope you all have a safe and productive break." With that the entire gym erupted into cheer as kids quickly streamed out through the doors.

"Sweet early vacation!" Tucker cheer joining the other in leaving the gym. Sam and Danny following close behind. "Let's get out of here quickly before Mr. Lancer remember I'm supposed to have detention with him tonight. Hey we should stop at Nasty burger. It's on me as celebration." Danny said from behind a pole out of any teacher line of sight.

Danny walked into the house around the same time he usually did after his stop at the Nasty burger. Walking in the front door Danny found the place unusually quiet, much quieter than usual. On a normal day he could usual hear his dad screaming from either one of his inventions catching on fire or it malfunctioning telling him there was a ghost around. Jazz probably wasn't back from high school yet so he didn't have to sit through her complaining about how weird they were.

Danny slowly made his way toward the kitchen to see if hear could find anyone. He heard them before he saw them.

"I think it's time we told him. He's old enough to understand." His mom was standing in front of the stove prepping dinner, which was a scary thought.

"Are you sure this could uproot his world and he is only making passable grades as it is." His dad responded.

"He's strong enough to know and right now is a perfect opportunity for him to meet his brother. We always planed on telling him. After all we were never really supposed to keep him. He was meant to go back at ten."

Danny couldn't take it any longer her knew they were talking about him. He just didn't understand what they were talking about it sounded like he was adopted but he knew that couldn't be the true! He knew it.

"What are you guys talking about?" Danny demanded as he slammed the door open causing both his parent to start.

"Danny boy I didn't hear you come in." His dad said nervously as he paused for a moment. "The thing is that well, you aren't exactly related to us."

"Are you saying I'm adopted?"

"Well son it's complicated but know we will always think of you as our son. You had a rough start and we wanted to help your biological family."

His mother walked over and placed a hand on his shoulder "Danny, when you were three you were very sick. Your parents took you to every doctor they could afford, but soon it became clear that it was their life style that was making you very sick. You see they were acrobats in a circus, which meant they moved a lot and meet many different people, which was aggravating your condition. Your parents were at a loss they didn't know how to help you. If they left their circus job they would have no money to support their family but if they stayed you would have died."

Danny could feel tears coming on even at his best effort to stop them. His dad moved forward and gave him a hug. "That is when we stepped forward. Your biological father was my best friend when we were ten just like you and Tucker. His name was John Grayson and I promised to look after you and make sure you were safe and health. We would send picture of you and video so that they could always see you. They sent us money every week and presents for you on your birthday and at Christmas. That telescope in your room was from them. They even came to see you a bunch of times every year. The plan was when you were ten you would have the choice of going back to them since you would be older and strong enough to handle it."

There was a pause.

"What happened? Why didn't I go?" Danny asked hating to hear it but needing to know the truth.

"When you were nine there was an accident your parents were killed." His mom told him softly. "There is something else you should know."

Danny waited for her to continue.

"You have a twin brother. His name is Richard Grayson."

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