Burned Ice
Notes:
This is a re wright, I didn't like how it went the first time so I plan on making a story to go in tangent with this prologue, check out the other story, its the one that was the first chapter of this, sorry. I plan on making it be a more laid back version, while this story will be more uptight, stressful, and it shows how Danny will recover, but I can't say anymore, tell me if you agree, or you want me to continue as this, I have been debating whether or not to do this, and I'll fix it if I have to, please tell me what you think.
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Prologue: REWRITE!
Prologue, part 1:
How does an entire town just suddenly come into existence? I mean really man! And it's supposed to be totally destroyed! What's going on!? I mean dude! ..." Though all of the team of friends were thinking the same thing Beast Boy's exclamations were getting annoying. "the puddles had green goop in them, and the smoke was blocking everything just vanished after ten minutes! Like DUDE! It's got to be a hoax..." Beast Boy's rant was cut short after Cyborg had finally decided to turn off his mike for the trip, slightly puzzled why he didn't do it more often. The entire team was in the T-ship going to the strange occurrence that held everyone's, but the justice league since they were off world taking care of a few things. So far the only available info is that over night, in what had once been a plains, was now the smoking rubble of a once modern small town. The only name the authorities could get was from a stray flyer that had burned up to near unreadable, so that could be wrong. When it had happened, no one noticed until a passing plane had complained about the smoke.
Robin, the boy wonder, was just as puzzled as Beast Boy and had just as many questions, but he didn't voice them without waiting for an answer. "Raven, do you have any info on 'Amity Park'?" He asked, deciding to disguise his failure to understand what happened, but sadly Cy had caught him.
"Wait so you don't either Rob? Man what is going on here!" The robotic teen questioned. In her trademark monotone voice, Raven answers, "last night I felt a massive force of energy pass over the tower, but I assumed it was my anger after Beast Boy's prank last night." She was still fuming that he had drenched her bedroom door with maple syrup, causing the door to be stuck halfway open, and drenched her with it. Robin furrowed his brow at this, he was honestly hoping for something more substantial. What is going on? he thought to himself. As he began to further puzzle over the event, he failed to notice that Beast Boy had turned his mic back on, but at least he calmed down a bit. His careful stocking of the situation was interrupted by Beast Boy. "Like, don't forget the nuke shelter in the middle of it all!" Beast Boy reminded them. It was the main reason they came. The government officials had dubbed it the place the bomb or whatever initially blew up from. The building held against every assault the government had thrown at it without so much as a scratch. The worst part was that it appeared to be the focal point of the explosion.
"Well, it looks like we're about to find out what's going on," Robin said, finality in his voice. "We're here."
At this all if the titans realized that they had arrived, and all of their training and hardships couldn't have prepared them for the sight before them. The entire town was scored with flames, soot, and dust, giving the area a darker feel. Power lines stood leading to nowhere out of the town, some buildings had fallen in on themselves, prices of buildings and ground alike were strewn all over. But that wasn't the worst of it, no, the bodies were the worst part. There were three complete bodies, each displaying how they died. As the Titans got out, the smell hit them, it wasn't bad as they expected... No, it was pleasant, that was the worst part. The smell of cooked meat permeated the air, tickling their mouths to water, much to their horror. even Cyborg swore meat away for a while. In front of the T-ship was a body, it looked like the person had tried to escape his fate, but failed, forever reaching out towards the safety that it never reached. As they walked down the street, there was a body that was hanging in a dead tree seemed to leer out at them, as if angry they live, yet it died, leaving them unnerved as they passed the disfigured and unrecognizable corpse. Up ahead of them a body looked to be strangled by the power lines wrapped around it, the hands holding on the the deadly wires around its neck as it forever released its silent scream. As the Titans walked on, all with looks of horror and despair, they failed to notice the rescue worker coming to meet them, a grim expression adorning his face. When the Titans finally realized their welcomer, they simply looked at him in horrified surprise. "Hello, I'm the agent in charge of this investigation, agent Smith. I'm sorry that you had to come out and see this, but we need your strength to get in. Brace yourselves though, it only gets worse." He said as he turned back around, leading them around the corner of a tall residential building, leading towards the center of town.
"Dude. if this isn't the worst, then what is?" Beast Boy asked. "I don't know, and I'm beginning to think that I really don't want to know." Cyborg replied. So intent on their discussion as they rounded the corner they didn't notice where they were stepping until… CRACK! Everyones head immediatly looks down to Cyborgs feet, and everyone but Cyborg, even stoic Raven, threw up. Cyborg immediately screamed (though later on he tells everyone that it was a very manly yell), and fell on his but and tried to scrable away, only to break the head away from the body, letting it follow him until it finally came off as he broke the rest of the skull dragging his foot as he tried to scoot back across the ground in order to escape it. "Hey! What are you doing!? You gotta be careful out here, Why weren't you being careful? you should know by now! You're hero's for petes sake! Show some respect!" Agent Smith angrily reprimanded, but when Cyborg remained wild eyed, he went up and slapped the kid on his human side of his face, waking Cyborg up from his fear induced paralysis.
The team finally got it together as they continued on, deeper into the massacre. As they looked around the town the identity of the town began to take form. Noticing that there were more hotels than houses the titans figured this to be a tourist town, and a booming one by the amount of bodies caught in the blast. Though there were many bodies and many hotels, the Titans could find nothing to point out why so many people were there in this small town.
Being the top notch investigator that he is, Robin sought the answers out in the only way he could. "So why are there so many people here, I mean this place doesn't look like its that interesting?" Robin began. "Well, many of the bodies we have taken and examined had on these weird necklaces and hear with a symbol of a D with a P inside, we can only guess that they were some kind of cult that came here to preform a ritual. We looked around and in the center of the town is a statue of a young man grabbing the earth below him, he had the same symbol on him, so we assume that they were trying to resurrect him and something went wrong with the spell and brought them to this dimension, and killed them all. But the thing that really intrigues us is the underground shelter that appears to have frozen while the rest of town burned. We don't know what's in there but that's why we called you, incase a hostile force is in there. I hate that you had to come and see all this, but my first priority is my teams safety, and after seeing all the damage they did, we assume, by accident, we don't want to know what they can do if it's on purpose." Agent smith answered seriously. "No, you did the right thing, we'll take care of the situation." Robin assured, hoping none of his fear at what the agent made everyone realize. As the walked closer to the town center, they say a big building that must have been the town hall, and right in front of it was the statue that Agent Smith was talking about. Deciding to take a closer look, they went over to it and see a the determination in the face of the person crouched down, grabbing the earth. BeastBoy decided to ask the question on all their minds, "just who is this guy to have so many followers?" "We don't know, but the good news is that the entrance to that bunker is right over here," Agent Smith replies, showing them to the bunkers strong door.
"Woah, who left of the air conditioning?" BeastBoy joked. "This was what I was talking about, the whole town is burning up, making us sweat up a storm, and right underneath our feet is a freezer... huh, I'm at a serious loss as to what happened here, the only explanation could be magic or something... I-I-I j-just don't know what happened!... But one things for sure, we can't let this happen to more people. It's too horrible." Agent Smith says, finally venting some of the stress and horror and hate for whoever did this, even if it was just a small outburst. Robin, after finally regaining his composure, noticed this, and decided to try to help out, even if it was just check the wreckage for survivors, however unlikely. "Don't worry we'll take care of this bunker and check for survivors, get some rest, you look like you need it." Robin ordered, noticing the bags under his eyes. "Thanks, I really do... Good luck, and keep alive, alright?" He implores. "Don't worry, we'll be fine." He assures, watching as the man slumps his shoulders and begins walking to the tent he sleeps at.
Looking at his team, all of them looking to him for guidance, "alright, let's get started, I really don't like it here." Robin orders. The team immediately begins, Cyborg turning his finger into a blowtorch to cut his way in, Starfire at the ready to help, Raven watching as if bored, and BeastBoy watching the surroundings for trouble. Robin couldn't help but be proud of how quickly his team did their jobs without even asking, they had grown into a well oiled machine, though there were always a few hiccups, it still worked efficiently.
A few minutes later found the door off its hinges laying outside, and all the titans in a defensive line, slowly creeping forward, into the belly of the beast.
Robin took the lead as they went through the door into what appeared to be a reception area, behind a desk was a woman in a white suit, she was frozen in a pilar of ice showing a document to a man in another white suit with sun glasses on, frozen solid.
They passed them to a set of double doors behind her desk. In the hallway behind her desk was a crowd of people in white suits, and the titans had trouble slipping through the crowded hallway. As soon a they came upon the first set of doors they began to systematically search the floor, finding tons of corpses and technology, but no survivors.
It took a few hours until finally the floor was cleared, 123 dead, and that was just on this floor, Robin had been the on to find the elevator shaft, and with Cyborgs and Starfires combined strength the doors finally opened. When they looked down the shaft, they saw five more floors, the elevator on the bottom. As they slowly went through the place they noticed one big commonality, "dude! What is up with these guys and the color white?!" He said, wishing for some color, even if it was black.
Finally on the bottom floor they open the top of the elevator to get to the last floor they need to check. After finally prying the doors open, they find themselves in what appears to be a control room. It was Much like the bat cave in the boy wonders opinion. The weirdest part was that there was only eight or so people here, while there was at least a hundred people on each level above it, in Robins opinion this room would be the most populated level. Towards the back was an office, deciding that this was an important room they go in the back.
As they open the door, they notice that the man behind the desk wore a black lab coat with what looked like dried blood on it, he was looking towards a screen that now was blank, on his desk was an open file that had the title, project Recovery.
Robin walks to the desk and picks up the file and sees a color photo of the guy the statue was made to portray, the pity the split his head in half, one with black hair and icy blue ice, and the other white hair and green eyes. He looked just as determined as the statue, but in pain. The file read:
Daniel (Danny) James Fenton/Phantom,
age 15 when taken.
That was the same age as Robin, Raven, and Starfire. 'What has this kid gone gone through in his two years here?' The boy wonder does his namesake (wonders, get it?). He read on.
'has shown exceptional an exceptional healing rate to all forms of physical damage, including, but not limited to: stabbings to any part of the body, except from ecto-enhanced blades, though it is still faster than most ghosts; bullet wounds, even from ecto-bullets, though they seem to cause more pain; burns, has been tested up to 500 degrees Fahrenheit; acid burns, even full submersion; animal bites; vivisections; and more. *note* all has been tested thoroughly.'
By the end Robin had paled slightly, causing the rest of the Titans to read over his shoulders.
'Vivisections have shown that he has the same internal organs as a regular human, but they heal at astronomically faster rates than his skin, which can heal the vivisections and be ready to be cut back open by the day after a single day of rest. Cutting away the skin and muscle while subject is awake allowed researchers to see the subjects' windpipe and voice box in action as he screamed in pain. Similar results were seen with how the hand works as the hand spasmed when cut. When muscle and skin was cut away from the bone it was proven that the bone was more sensitive to pain than the skin. Breaking the subjects' bones until, for a human, the body would never rebound from it proved only to slow the healing process by a day. Subject has gained the ability of a edenic memory, and his heightened brain wave speed allows the subject to solve puzzles at a quicker pace. Subject displays heightened senses, and is stronger than a normal human his size is. Training has begun, though cause of his ghostly abilities remains unknown. Subject has showed much progress, his muscle mass increasing exponentially compared to a human. After only a year subject has mastered all forms of known combat, without his abilities, and with is an unstoppable force, unless the kill switch is activated.'
Robin read, horrified at what this suggested he went through. Deciding that he had read too much, he stops reading and snaps it shut before anyone else sees what he's been through, pocketing the file just incase. "Cyborg, check to make sure there isn't any hidden rooms here, I think he's here, and if he is, he's in a lot of trouble, we need to save him… if he survived." Robin orders. Cyborg, who had been reading over Robin's shoulder, snaps out of his horrified daze and brings out his scanner, and is instantly drawn to the elevator, he stares at the back wall for a second, the other titans looking at him puzzled, until he lunges forward and punches the wall, revealing the secondary, hidden elevator shaft.
"Must be to hide the labs, especially if they are doing that to a kid." Cyborg stated, his voice hollow as he tries to push past his horror. They finally get to the bottom of the second elevator shaft, to the only floor available, going through the elevator again. They find themselves in the labs, just as predicted.
"Alright team, let's split up and look for any survivors. I doubt we will find any, but if the file is right about this kid, then he might just have survived this too, or at least deserves a good funeral for all he's gone through. Titans, go." Robin orders. They all begin to fan out. No one seemed to find anything but technology labs and a few frozen lab coats (scientists in labcoats), that is until Robin found a heavy duty metal door that was locked. Finally picking the lock, he opens the door and walks in, seeing a body, chest cut open, blood everywhere. It was dressed in the remains of a cut up black jump suit, the head lolled to the other side. As he got closer, he caught movement, and he realized that this was what they were talking about in the file. This was Danny, and he was in serious trouble. Robin immediately called the rest of the Titans, hoping that they could save the poor kid in time.
Thanks for reading, I'll try to post part two ASAP, I need a proofreader, if people want more details of Amity Park in ruins and glimpses into what happened in Amity park, I might make Robins file on the Amity Park Ruins leak onto my page if I get enough of an interest, but only after I feel I left this story at a good enough conclusion. This is my first story that I published online so tell me if you think it needs more or less details for future reference, if enough people wish it, I will fix any chapter to be more or less detailed, please tell me what you think!
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