Black Phantom

Prologue

"Any idiot can face a crisis – it's day to day living that wears you out."

~Anton Chekhov~

The city was darkening, and he was waiting for something to happen. He was watching as a young teen came running around an ally and stopped at a dead end. Three men were chasing him with guns. Batman went down ready to strike when the black haired teen turned quickly and vanished into thin air.

"What the…?" one of the men stuttered looking around waiting for the teen to reappear. Only Batman showed up and punched him unconscious not taking the chance of them finding the teen. The other two started to aim for the hero only for Batman to break their weapons and knock them down.

"Wait here for the police, I have a teen to find," he growled glaring at the muggers as they groaned. Danny watched as Batman got out some kind of device that seemed to pick him out. He slipped though the wall behind him.

"Why does he have a tracker?" Danny sighed running away from where he was at earlier. "Of course, he's Batman, he has everything he needs to find anyone, including ghosts." Danny sighed again and ran behind a dumpster and looked around. "At least there is no way he could have followed me here," Danny whispered trying to see if he could get full access Phantom with no luck. He walked out and flowed into the crowd, disappearing into the mess of the night.

Batman was watching over the group of people being lead out of the immediate area when the bomb had gone off. He was still looking for the kid, but now he had to find out who had planted the device and blew up half a city block. He also had a feeling that whoever planted the bomb might have also been after the kid as well. The timing was right on the money for it at least. He got up and disappeared. He headed for the cave. He would have to look again the next night and hope that the teen stayed in the city. Batman had noticed that the teen was extremely thin, but had a certain grace to him.

Bruce was sitting at his desk hoping to catch some sleep after the night. He had started looking for the teenager again. He hadn't ever seen anyone able to do that before. He was looking for anyone who may have escaped from a lab or may have also been running from hunters. It was different from what he had dealt with in the past. Normally anyone else with powers or something that advances them in any way, they always tried to steal. This kid however seemed like he was running, and Bruce wanted to know why. He knew that there were companies out there that had began working on human experiments, but this kid seemed different. He had control of whatever powers he had. He didn't seem like he was afraid of his powers either.

"Master Wayne?" Alfred Pennyworth, his loyal butler, asked. "Are you still with us?"

"There was something out there last night," Bruce started looking out over Gotham. "It looked like a teenager, but something tells me that it was something more. I think that someone has been experimenting with teens. I know that a division of the Government was cut after an incident in one of their labs in Ohio."

"Ah, and you believe that the teen you met may have been in the lab where they found several things on experimentation on humans?" Alfred asked knowing that something more was bugging Bruce.

"Thirteen people died, and many are still missing. They have yet to find any of their bodies or anything to tell them that they are still alive. One family was destroyed except for one, and apparently her son is one of the many missing. She is hoping that he is still alive," Bruce explained. "The pictures I seen of the missing, that kid looked like her son."

"Perhaps you can get more info on the young teen later," Alfred stated as the door bell rang. Bruce sighed knowing that whatever happened was going to bug him.

Me: This has been sitting on my computer for so long and I just really wanted to post something today. And I'm working on the first chapter of this...I have so many ideas, and I was just wanting to know which one I wanted to put first, and this one is the one that was bugging me...and I dreamt about...

Danny: She lost her chapter for Seeing Sounds and she pissed.

Me: Yeah...I hated that. Let me know what you think about this prologue...remember, this probably won't be updated very fast...but probably once a month if that.