Chapter 1

Jump City High – Three weeks later

"Danny, I know you have already learnt this, but please, can you pay attention?" Mr Dashwood said, exasperated. Danny looked away from the window he was staring out to see an angry Maths Teacher staring at him, his eyes narrowed and his moustache bristling. He sighed and replied drearily

"Yes sir."

Jump City High was not the most exciting of places, especially now that Danny didn't have to run out of the class every day or two, to fight off some ghost. He didn't even have anything to learn. He had been put down a year due to his 'just below average' score, but now he had a lot more free time, he was acing tests left, right and center. It didn't help that he hadn't made any friends yet, which was perfectly fine with him.

If he had to describe the pupils of Jump City High, it would be; stuck up chavs (1). Needless to say, he didn't fit in at all. It didn't help that within the first twenty minutes of arriving at the school, he had been branded. It seemed the new kid, no matter how they looked, was always researched by the popular people, aka those whose parents were in power. It had been found out who Danny was, where he used to live, anytime he was in a newspaper (which turned out to be a lot) and who his friends and family were. So Danny was forced to live through the next year, not learning anything, not fitting in and missing his friends. 'Not the best way to spend a year' Danny thought bitterly.

The bell rang sympathetically as Mr Dashwood was about to announce the detentions for tonight, and Danny managed to slip away to his final period, which was Biology. He weaved his way through the long lines of students hanging about trying to not get too their classes, but unfortunately was cornered by Harold.

"Hey, where do you think you're going, freak?" He asked as went to block his path. Danny just rolled his eyes and tried to side step him, but it seemed that Harold was in a bad mood and blocked my path with a sneer.

"Do you mind?" Danny asked him. He may have been a year younger than Danny but compared to him, he was a full foot taller than him and well built.

"No, no I don't mind." He replied the only thing moving was his grin, which was getting bigger. Danny tried not to sigh, his temper beginning to rise. If that was one thing he hoped would change, it was that he wouldn't be bullied. It turned out to be a false hope.

"What do you want Harold?" Danny said lazily.

"I don't like you're tone, freak. Now ask me again. Nicely." Harold was beginning to attract a crowd of people, mostly his crew coming out from different classes, but some hoping for some kind of fight. Danny's temper was really starting to get high, in spite, he replied with sarcasm in his voice;

"What would you like, Mr Harold sir?" Harold's grin grew even bigger; he obviously didn't pick up on the sarcasm.

"Now that's more like it freak. I want you to do my home work for me. The last nerd who was told to do it for me ended up moving, so now you're taking his place."

"No." Danny replied.

In a second, Harold's hand flew towards Danny's shoulder and pushed him into the lockers. Danny had to fight the instinct to react and dodge the sloppy move. His shoulder connected with the cold steel and a small jolt of pain erupted. Danny faked a wince and looked hurt, while Harold leaned in towards in, his cronies cheering him on and leering at Danny.

"Now freak, that isn't the right answer. You do what I want, or I'll make your life a living hell here. Do you understand?" Harold said as he gripped his shoulder tightly. Danny was now seriously annoyed. This guy had been on his case for a while now, and now he was saying that he would make his life 'hell'? Danny did the only thing he could think of, he quickly raised his knee and let it connect with Harold's groin. Harold's face contorted in pain, and he took a disorientated swing at Danny which he dodged easily. Before Harold could try for another punch, Danny turned and began to walk the other way, the crowd parting to let him through. Harold, in no condition to move, shouted after Danny

"Where the hell do you think you're going freak?"

"To class" he replied as he entered his Biology room.

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The rest of the day was uneventful, the teacher taught Danny's class a little about biological enzymes, but as it was the last lesson on a Friday, she didn't expect much from them. The 'almost fight' Danny had with Harold was popular topic for a while, but it was quickly over shadowed by the latest break up rumours spreading around. Danny was sat down, slouched, the text book propped up in front of me while doodling on my blank piece of paper.

Danny was no artist, but his doodles weren't really art. They were words in jazzy fonts or simple pictures drawn out of certain patterns. He had tried to draw nice pictures, but it seemed that the pencil refused to go where he wanted it to, and compared to the picture he had in his mind's eye, it was like a child had done it. In Casper High, Danny had much preferred to sculpt clay than draw or paint. Most of the art came from Sam, though, who had always 'helped' him with some art homework.

Thinking about Sam had struck a bit of sadness in Danny. He had last spoke to her about a week ago, the internet had gone down since then when a new invention fried all the electronic in the house. Luckily the big starting bonus that Danny's parent had received covered the broken electronic and they had brought all new stuff with them. Unluckily, that meant that anything electrical running under the house had been fired too. So Danny had to wait another week while the people who supplied the internet came and replaced the burnt out wires.

Both Sam and Tucker seemed sad that Danny had gone, but kept reminding that they were going to see him over the summer "Even if I need to sneak out and hitchhike!" as Sam had said last time they were talking to each other on a private chat room. Tucker had since managed to get Valerie to go out on a date with him, and he managed to score a second as well, to the shock of both Sam and Danny. They had managed to subdue any of the small time ghosts that got through any of the natural ghost portals with the help of a few ghost thermos's and ecto-guns Danny's parents had given them. They always managed to throw out the ghosts before they escaped or the ghost portals closed, but they hadn't met any of their usual enemies.

Vlad had resigned as mayor the day after Danny and his family had left, Sam told Danny the first time they contacted each other, he said that he was no longer needed after the ghosts had disappeared and that due to his work, he had silenced Inviso-bill. "More like he didn't have you to annoy and he was bored with the paper work" Sam had commented with a snort.

Danny's thought were stopped when a loud ringing sound erupted from one of the bells. Danny quickly looked at his watch and saw that the lesson wasn't done for another twenty minutes. Confused, he turned to the person next to him who was a spiky blond haired boy, who had collected his stuff and looked like he was going to jog to the door.

"What's happening?" He asked the boy

"Titans warning. There's a Super Villain coming this way, so we're going to the bunkers." He explained.

'What the hell?' Danny thought to himself as he was herded outside the school across the field into what seemed to be some kind of underground bunker, barley rising eight foot of the ground it seemed that there were steps going inside, revealing a big gymnasium with various tables and seats, almost like a lunch room for an army. 'No way I'm staying in there for long,' he said as he was forced into the bunker with the rest of his year. Everybody, it seemed, looked around and found their friends, and simply sat at the tables chatting, almost like this was routine, like a fire drill.

Danny looked around nervously; he had never been a fan of tight places where he couldn't use his ghost powers. After the names had been called out and everyone had been marked here, Danny asked to go the bathroom. He went in a cubical and closed the door, and then turned ghost. He quickly turned into his alternative form of Danny Phantom and flew, intangible, through the ground and to where the commotion he quickly heard was coming from.

He recognised the Titans immediately, even though he had only seen them in various photos and news reports. They were battling a small army of robots just outside the school, each one taking them out in their own way. He saw Robin, the leader, in his trademark traffic light outfit using his bow-staff to knock any of the advancing robots down, Starfire with her usual tanned complexion and firing various green beams of light from her hands and eyes, Beast Boy in his pterodactyl form, raining green hell from the skies, Cyborg with his blue mechanized body, using a makeshift club to knock down the various number of robots they were attacking, and finally Raven who was levitating in the air using one of the school's basket ball hoops as a kind of golf club.

He watched this all, invisible, from just above the bunker. The Titans were doing well, but then the tides turned when Danny heard something. A giant man, possibly over ten foot high and made of solid rock appeared in the distance, travelling at a suicidal rate straight towards the Titans. The Titans though, were oblivious to this fact as they had their hands full with taking out the mechanical army that was battling them.

Danny, in a split second decision, flew and sped up to meet the hunk of concrete before it hit ran through and squashed the Titans. Charging up a ball of ice, he threw it at the monster's feet and watched them freeze over, the ice making its way up to his knees in seconds, and causing the rock man to fall over. The ice shattered with the amount of weight on top of it and the monster came crashing down to the ground. Danny grinned triumphantly as the monster looked defeated. 'I still got it' Danny thought to himself

But his victory was short lived after a low and loud roar came from the monster as it raised itself up off the floor and looked at Danny. It ran towards Danny and managed to him his square in the chest, knocking him into the nearby office blocks. Pain exploded as he was thrust at the concrete and took most of the force in his back. Badly hurt, he felt his back and touched a gooey substance which he brought to his eyes and saw was his blood. Danny shook himself off, now very angry, and threw blasts of ecto-energy at the monster, while also thinking of stopping the creature. Normally he would weaken an enemy until he could trap it in the Fenton Thermos, but this enemy not being a ghost, he would have to think of someway of knocking the monster out.

The blasts only distracting and annoying the monster, he gave a mighty roar and knocked Danny out of the sky. Danny's eyes widened and he quickly went intangible before he hit anything. He passed through a few office blocks before he was able to stable himself, and flew back at the creature was. His surprise followed as the creature was steadily making his way to the bunker, obviously wanting to take it out, and everyone inside it. Danny growled in anger, and looked around for anything he could use to stop the monster; his ecto bolts obviously doing nothing to stop it.

'You have to be kidding me' Danny thought to himself as he what would defiantly stop the monster, but would be on his most wanted list of weapons. The phrase 'desperate times come for desperate measures' came to Danny's mind as he picked up the toy BB gun. He powered the gun using some of his ecto energy and fired one of the BB bullets. The glowing green bullet found its mark and hit the monster square in the back which seemed to crack one of the huge stones.

The monster roared in pain as the cracked healed itself over when he moved. It turned around and looked at Danny, its red eyes turning to slits. It threw his arms up in anger and roared a cry larger than any he had before, and ran at Danny again, arm poised to punch him. Danny fired again, aiming at the eye but it landed at his shoulder, the force of the bullet knocking the monsters punch of course, causing it to go past Danny and into a nearby wall, his fist and arm getting stuck in the rubble.

"How am I going to take this guy out?" Danny said to himself.

"Hey, block head, remember us?" Danny heard someone call at the monster. He turned to see the Titans standing in the middle of a miniature scrap yard, all covered in cuts and bruises, but ready to take on another hundred. Danny inwardly smiled as he heard the battle cry of Robin and watched as they all sprang into action against the now free monster. Danny shook himself and joined in the fight, but it seemed that he didn't need to.

Danny simply watched as the Titans quickly disabled and then dispatched the monster that they had called 'Cinderblock'. Within thirty seconds flat they had managed to blast him into unconsciousness with impressive teamwork. Finally when they were sure he was out, they all turned to Danny.

"Friend, you're bleeding!" Starfire said worried as she noticed the now small trickle of blood on Danny's back. Danny blinked as he was pulled towards Raven with incredible force.

"Wait, wait, its fine Starfire, its fine." Danny protested as he was turned around by Starfire to be healed. Raven simply raised an eyebrow under her hood commented in monotone

"We don't even know this person's name, Star."

"Should it matter? This person it injured and we should help, should we not?" Starfire said confused and unnecessarily. Danny managed to wrestle out of Starfire's grip and managed to calm her down.

"Wait, how do you know our names?" Beast Boy asked

"Dude, its public knowledge. And anyway Starfire, my back will be fine. It's only a graze" Danny said lying. It was a little worse than a simple graze, but it would be fine in a day or two, and the blood had already begun to clot.

"So, what is your name then?" Asked Robin. He knew the boy had good intentions, he had pretty much beaten Cinderblock by himself, but he was still suspicious why this kid would just appear out of thin air in his town and he didn't know a thing about him.

"The name is Phantom. I moved here a little while ago, and saw you guys fighting today. I was just going to leave you to it, but then I was Cinderblock waiting to ambush you and decided to help out. That a problem?" Danny asked, knowing exactly why he was asking. Having a sister as a Psychologist wasn't a bad thing after all.

"Well thanks for the help Phantom. Oh, and here, if there's anything you spot that's out of the ordinary, just contact us." Robin said with a forced smile, handing Danny a simple Titans communication device. He still didn't trust Danny, and this would make it a lot easy to track his movements.

Danny simply nodded in thanks and out of the corner of his eye saw the school coming out of the bunker. He said a quick thanks then turned invisible, causing Beast Boy and Starfire to gasp in surprise. He quickly flew and turned back into his human self, while joining the rest of his class while thinking "How am I going to fight super villains now when I can't even defend myself. I need some kind of weapon, but what?"

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AN:

For those who don't know, chavs are defined as: 'a stereotypical arrogant teenage yob who wears townie clothes, especially baseball caps, tracksuit trousers and hoodies, and behaves like a lout. Origin: from 'charver', meaning 'an unruly, disobedient youth with very poor taste and dress sense, but no job' By . I live one of the top 10 Chav towns of all time :(

So that's the first chapter, and Danny meets the Teen Titans! Sorry this wasn't out sooner, revision sucks, and so do exams, but they should both be over in two weeks, so look forward to a new chapter around then or maybe earlier.

Oh and also, can someone think of some kind of weapon for Danny to use in this story, It could be a fire arm or a simple club, just something that would fit Danny's fighting style and would be easy to carry around. I would think of one myself, but I've got so much to do at the moment.

All entries will get a free cookie. :)

Till next time,

Umbra-Luna :L