AN: Hi there! It's me again! I know you all missed me… well, not exactly me, but I shall take you being here like so. This is my second chapter of this story. I apologize for any errors you read on the first chapter, like when I said the speedy was Robin's carrot-haired best friend *facepalms* but seriously, who came up with the idea of giving Green Arrow's side-kick such a name? It was decidedly meant for us to get confused. Having said that, I would like all of you to give a warm round of cheer to dracologistmaster, who helped me fix some typoes in the first chapter —meaning the last one.

Still, I'm still looking for a new, permanent beta, one that has confidence in writing fights and whatnot, and has a good handle on the DC character's personalities and knows how to write fights.

On another note, I might add that after reading random stuff on wikis and whatnot, I decided to mix DP universes as I see fit, along with some random things that pop in my head —you probably won't notice them, but I will explain a bit after the chapter. Anyway, if something doesn't add up to you PM me (or ask me in a review if you are a guest) and I shall do my best to explain where things came from.

Also, I shall be putting times and dates like it happens in Young Justice from now on, so… I figured I would let you know the year. Young Justice starts on 2010, so, this thing being a year before, goes on 2009.

Now on a more important subject, and I repeat: THIS IS IMPORTANT! I will have to warn you "Kindred Spirits" and "D-stabilized" are being left out in this story; meaning no Dani Fenton/Phantom. I might put her somewhere in the sequel, but no promises… If I make a sequel that is *whistles innocently*.

Now, on with the story.


Chapter 2: Urban Jungle redux. Part 2

THE WATCHTOWER

FEBRUARY 25, 06:54 EST

It was an ordinary day in the Watchtower, a few dozens of costumed adults walked around the Justice League's secret space station. The people scattered all over the place were, predictably, heroes part of the Justice League. The ones present were not all the members, though; the majority of them were, at the moment, either in a mission or simply living their citizen lives, confident that if they needed to be called they would receive a call from the space station; currently being monitored by one of the founding members, Martian Manhunter and one of the more recent additions to the League, Captain Atom.

It was the first time both heroes had been put in guard duty together, since the two of them were the leading, strongly reliable type. In the past the guarding duty usually got balanced by putting a leading figure and one more laid back hero —for the first one to order around— inside the tower; however, after what happened a couple of days ago when the Watchtower was attacked by an unknown, white-haired foe —whose get-up reminded everyone to the Lantern's, but without the lantern symbol or the green— their base was still in a somewhat-peril state; which is why the main focus of The League was to fix their satellite and strengthen its defenses, and put on two of their best in monitor duty. who better that the Martian —a founder member without a secret identity on Earth— and Captain Atom —An ex-captain of the U.S. Air force, part of the intelligence in the Vietnam war— to handle such a tight situation?

Probably nobody… at least none of their available, unharmed heroes.

It was as the silver-skinned and the green-skinned sat in silence, in a seemingly normal day of protecting the world, that the emergency alarm rang. With a serious expression the Martian —who was currently the closest to the keyboard— started typing and a bunch of numbers and letters made his eyes widen. Batman's sent an S.O.S; and, for once, there was no way of knowing what had happened… other than going down to Earth and check for themselves. The system of the place wasn't in full function and too many of their heroes were guarding the outside —just in case their enemies took advantage of their weakened condition to issue an attack— or helping repair things inside; which is why he sent the Batman on his own. The whole world knew that the Black Knight was one of the best, more capable heroes, even without the powers; it was clear that he could pull his weight even among the world mightiest, so, for him to ask for help… this probably wasn't going to be good.


AMITY PARK

FEBRUARY 25, 07:05 EST

On the skies of the place that once was "a nice place to live" could be seen for the first time members of the Justice League. If this was a normal day it would have drawn the attention of the townspeople, some would even have wondered if the nearest figure floating in the sky was a bird or a plane… or what was any of the other 4 figures that followed it. But no, this was not a normal day in Amity, then again, it wasn't too much of an unusual one either, ghost invasion and all that…

Superman stopped in mid-fly and looked down the overgrown jungle that wasn't there the day before. As he observed the place from afar he squinted his eyes, using his x-ray vision to try to see past the foliage so he could spot their missing friend. The man of steel could see houses, streets and cars under the green mass, but none of those had humans in there. He moved his head to the right, he could now see a food joint with a sign that read "The Nasty Burger", but still no signs of Batman.

"Did you find him?" A male voice came from behind The Man of Steel.

"Not yet, Zatara." Superman replied the magician.

It was a powerful party the one that had come to Amity: Superman, Wonder Woman, Zatara, Flash and the Green Lantern: John Steward. All of them were floating in the air (Flash inside a green bubble courtesy of the Lantern), and feeling slightly uneasy about how deserted this place was.

"There!" The last man of Krypton shot forwards, and, albeit they didn't know what the man had seen, they followed suit.

It didn't take them long to know what Superman had found. He dived down, creating a hole in the. The heroes dived right after, letting out simultaneous sounds of awe at what they saw: a seemingly endless assortment of giant, purple capsules, were wrapped in something that looked like green wires. They weren't sure what those things were, but by the way little spars of light circled out of them and forwards it was evident that the plants were feeding of them.

"What are those things?" Flash asked while poking one of them. It wriggled.

"Stop that!" John reprimanded and Flash raised his hands in a 'no fight' gesture.

As the two of them held a little conversation about how those things could be dangerous, the Man of Steel was cutting the unknown capsule with his heat-ray with the accuracy of a heart surgeon operating a patience. Just after he finished his handiwork (eye-work in this case) a regular, African-American civilian flopped forwards and meet the ground. "Dude," The teen exclaimed raising a hand towards his red beret.

"Hey, kid, are you ok?" Flash practically teleported to his side and was helping him right up. The unknown kid looked bad, his cheeks seemed swollen, like he was a underweight. Having yourself being used like a human battery could do that on you.

"I feel like I was just trapped in giant salad bar, what do you think?" The stars dancing in his eyes made him unable to see that he was being sarcastic to The Flash.

"What happened here?" Wonder Woman asked at the teen.

"We were walking in the street when Undergrowth attacked and… Wait, aren't you Wonder Woman? Awesome! Can you sign my PDA?" He fished an electronic devise from his backpack and practically buried it into her face along with the black marker he had in his other hand.

She caught those things as a reflex, being swept away by the intensity of the boy.

"What. Happened. here?" Steward asked in his no-nonsense tone; making the younger dark-skinned man to notice him as well.

"Cool! You are green Lantern!" He marveled and then took another PDA out of his backpack. "Can you sign this? And dedicate it to me, Foley, Tucker Foley-" He then looked towards the Amazon. "As in Too Fine," The teen's eyebrows wriggled comically in a way he thought was seductive but wasn't quite it.

"Man, how many of those things you got there?" The Flash curiously leaned forwards and Tucker beamed at him.

Only as Tucker was addressed by the speedster he noticed the rest of the heroes: Superman, Flash and… a magician dude. Oh, Danny was going to be so jealous if he got their autographs —most of theirs anyway.

As if to reply Flash's question Tuck fanned out four other PDAs. Eyeing the heroes contemplatively. "Can you-?"

"Enough of this nonsense." Zatara snapped, he hadn't been in the best of moods after he had been ridiculed in his last battle, and it made him want to stuff this teen back from where they rescued him and pull out another civilian out of the hundreds of similar-looking, purple things that were most likely keeping the rest of the people captive. "Tell us what happened!"

Tucker frowned on that. He, like any self-respected teen, got upset when an unknown mustachioed adult dressed in a funny costume told him what to do. He supposed this dude was a hero as well, but not one he knew much about. That settled it, he was not asking him for his autograph.

After a roll of his eyes Foley recounted. "Well, to put it shortly, this-" he pointed to the roots blocking the sun, "and that-" he pointed towards the imprisoned civilians, "is a ghost attack."

"A ghost attack?" Superman echoed, Tucker nodded.

"Yeah. Supernatural beings attacking the town…"

"You don't seem too phased with this," Green Lantern pointed out.

"Well, duh! Haven't heard of Amity Park being the most haunted place in America? This kind of things is old news to us."

The flippant way he delivered those news made the heroes feel very surprised.

"That's impossible!" Flash blurted, but right away noticed his mistake. It wasn't like he could tell that they were looking over the world by a space satellite and had cameras all over the world to get wind of troubles fast and prevent them from growing too far —like it did in this particular situation-. Right now they might be having problems with the main computer of the Watchtower, and their resources weren't at their peak, but they most certainly would have noticed if the scandalous rumors of invading entities of Amity Park were true.

"What Flash means it that if something like this happened so often then what has been stopped things from getting this far before?" The bathing-suit wearing heroine asked.

Tucker hesitated in what to say for half a second. Had Batman being right there with them he would have picked up on that, but none of the heroes were the best detective in the world, so they obviously missed it. "Well, we have our very own super hero, Danny Phantom, the Red Huntress, and the Fentons." He recounted, then added as an after-thought. "There are The Guys in White as well; not the best ghost hunters out there… Does anyone have a mint?" The techno-geek was growing crazy with the feeling of "vegetables" in his tongue.

"Ghost hunters?" The man of steel echoed, ignoring the teen's side-comment.

Before the heroes could have their collective questions answered the earth shook.

That was never good.

The relative darkness they had been immersed turned blacker as the shinning bulbs started moving upwards, leaving them in complete obscurity… or that would have been the case if they hadn't made a hole to get it… or the lantern to use his ring to illuminate the place with his ring.

'A Lantern providing light… that was ironic, wasn't it?' Tucker wondered inwardly.

"We need to get out of here!" Wonder Woman shouted.

Soon all heroes made it up under the bright, green sky… wait, green sky?

The plant was giving out so much glow that the normal color of the sky was getting harder and harder to see.

Then, for the first time in this story, the real villain they were fighting showed his face. A giant bird-plant creature was raising from the ground in front of them, smiling triumphantly as he rose his hands up.

"Grow strong my child, firs is this city, and then THE WORLD!"

"We'll see about that!" Superman spoke and the ghost turned to see the Justice League members standing in front of him, posing heroically as the wind moved their long hairs and capes respectively.

The enemy turned around. "Petty flesh webbers, you think you can stop me!?"

"Of course we can!" Zatara stated. "Zaarntac ruuidomo sooic" The magician chanted and a blast of yellow hit the ghost plant making a hole in its chest. Hole that closed upon itself in a matter of seconds with no apparent damage.

Undergrowth looked un-phased. "You can't defeat nature, you puny humans!" After he said that a being just like himself sprouted from their left, then their right. Before their eyes now were at least a dozen of replicas of their enemy. "I'M EVERYWHERE!"

To be continued… right now (I would have cut things for real here, but after getting so many reviews I feel obligated to go on. Enjoy!).

After a couple of instructions from Superman they sprung into action… well, not all of them, Wonder Woman had to put the teen hindrance out of danger's way (Tucker: hey!). "You should be safe here," The female hero put the teen near the glowing bulbs area, figuring she could hide there; after all, the combat was happening quite far from there.

"Wait! "

The Amazon turned around.

"You still have my PDA!"

The woman handed it over to the teen whose eyes widened.

"You signed it!" Tucker cheered before venturing, "Now, about your number…"

The older woman gave him an smile and flew away.

"She totally likes me."

Wonder Woman didn't get to hear the teen's out-loud comment, much less his wondering thoughts of "I wonder if they know how to fight ghosts." However, the last one didn't really need a verbal answer. Foley, techno-geek extraordinaire, decided to get his answers from a different source; so, after tapping his PDA a couple of times, he got the life images of the battle going on, courtesy of the arcade's security camera. From it he could see how the plants got intangible —much to the heroes bewilderment— then, the few blows they managed to get, regenerating over and over from the ghost's abilities, which were enhanced further by feeding from the townspeople… And there was Sam, battling Wonder Woman.

Tucker wasn't sure how it the females in battle always got paired out with each other in this sort of thing, but he didn't care; why? Because that was hot!

"Oh no!" Tucker exclaimed right after what he recognized as the "mind vines" from before. The heroes didn't know that the black vines that came out of that plant could control the people they touched…

"Superman, watch out!"

Ok, now they knew it, and not in a way Phantom's male side-kick would have liked. The warning hadn't come in time. Now, Wonder Woman, Flash, John Steward and… what was the magician's name again?

"ZATARA!"

"Yeah, that sounds about right." The teen mumbled, too himself, barely noticing how the mustachioed was sent flying into a building. It was then that Tucker knew he needed to do something; so, the teen started rummaging inside his backpack to see what he had in it. Let's see, he had a lot of PDA and other techno-geek stuff, an English-Esperanto dictionary, a Fenton Thermos (one he couldn't use since the ghost hadn't been weakened yet), a Fenton lipstick and the horrible cologne that had saved him from Espectra's bugs. Tucker had been forbidden to ever use that skunk/gym-socks scent, but he still carried it as a good luck charm. It had saved him from getting trapped inside a hospital after all.

Tucker knew that the heroes were getting their heroic butts horribly kicked so he had to figure a way to use the things he had with him the best he could. Then, as he debated what to do, his eyes got stuck to a poster of a incoming pirate movie.

"That's it!" He cheered and rushed over to… somewhere.

Where has Tucker gone? What will happen in the battle? Will Danny ever show up? And what happened to the Batman and Robin? Those answers and more shall be answered in the next chapter of Young Heroes!"


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AN: Ok, the last bit was uncalled for, but hey, I couldn't stop myself! Now, I remind you I need a beta, so if you want to know stuff before everyone else apply now!

And review! That's also very important ^_^