A/N: Ah, here we are again, chapter 2; where the real story starts. I'm pleasantly surprised at just how big of a splash that chapter 1 made, far better than my other stories did more than a week after they were first posted…and it's been only four days! Now, the way I have this story set up, when the Dan Phantom incident happened Starfire had been with the Titans for about three weeks. Not long enough for the Titans to have done very much, but long enough for news of them to have spread. But enough of my plot placement ramblings, why not just read the chapter to find out more. Anyway, please read and review, it does help me out more than any of you know.


"Can't believe that it's been six months since I left Amity Park for good," Danny mused to himself, reflecting on what had happened to him since his departure from his hometown. In the time since he left Amity Park, he had taken to wearing a far darker outfit than when his family was alive. He now wore a black T-shirt with a white skull on the left sleeve, black cargo pants with chains hanging from the pockets, and black sneakers with red shoelaces. He liked to think that Sam would have liked his new ensemble, but he new there was no way he would ever find out. He was currently walking to the middle school from the high school to pick up his 'sister' Danielle.

"Man, why does she need me to drop by to pick her up," Danny grumbled, "It's not like she can't defend herself if she needs to." Danny's phone started ringing, and there were only two people that had his number. "What's going on Danielle," Danny sighed as he answered his phone.

"Danny, where are you at," Danielle's upbeat voice answered, "And how many times do I have to tell you, it's Dani, with an I!"

"I'm downtown, by the Midnight Latte," Danny responded, "Why do you ask?"

"Well, come to Pizza Palace," Dani commanded excitedly, "The Teen Titans are fighting some villains and it looks like they could use some help."

"How many times do I have to tell you, Danielle, I am not interested in playing the hero anymore," Danny hissed as he hung up on her.


Jump City, Pizza Palace

"I can't believe him! Well, if he's not going to help, then I will," Dani huffed as she slipped into an alley, out of sight. She was wearing an open faded blue hoodie over a white shirt that showed her midriff, denim kangaroo pants and white tennis shoes. "Going ghost," Dani whispered, summoning a white ring around her waist that immediately began to separate, going up and down her body while changing her appearance. As the transformation finished, she now had snow-white hair, glowing green eyes, and a better tan. Her outfit now consisted of a black tube top, white fingerless gloves that reached her mid-bicep, black skirt that reached almost to her knees, white boots that reached mid calf, and a simple white belt.

Dani turned invisible and silently floated over to where the fight was taking place. "You know what you call someone with a rocket on his back," Mammoth asked Cyborg as they had their hands locked together.

"Duped," Gizmo stated as he slapped a rocket onto Cyborg's back. With a shout of surprise, the rocket took him in a random direction in the air.

"Cyborg," Starfire shouted worriedly. She quickly flew off after her airborne friend. The rocket on his back further complicated her attempts to rescue her cybernetic friend by changing directions every time she would get near him.

"Titans, GO," Robin shouted as Raven and Beast Boy got up from where they had been launched to earlier. He threw a few birdarangs at the three villains only for them to be shot down by the miniature laser cannon now peeking over Gizmo's shoulder.

"Why don't you pick on someone that can fire back," Dani cried out as she revealed herself floating behind the three teenaged villains.

"And who are you supposed to be," Jinx sneered, her hands crackling with pink energy.

Green balls of energy formed in Dani's hands, "Name's Spectre, and you're going down!" She brought her hands up and fired ghost rays at the three.

Robin paused for a moment, surprised that some new hero had popped up literally out of nowhere to help his team. "Titans, let's help her out," he shouted as he threw a few more birdarangs at the now distracted Gizmo. One of them sliced clean through the piece of metal holding up his laser cannon, causing the now useless piece of tech to fall to the ground.

"Those scum-lickers took out my cannon," Gizmo cried out as he brought his mechanical spider legs to bear.

"Come back here pipsqueak," Mammoth roared as he punched Dani, only for his fist to pass right through her.

"You wouldn't hit a girl." Swish. "You couldn't hit a girl." Swish. "You couldn't hit the broad side of a barn!"

"RAAARGH,' Mammoth yelled, swinging his fists blindly, trying to hit Dani…only to take a charging green rhino to the rear.

Jinx threw her arms out, pink arcs of energy flying out and hitting the buildings, street lamps, and a few cars. When the surroundings started to fall apart, apparently from signs of rot and decay that hadn't been there moment's earlier, Raven had to use her powers to keep everything standing so the civilians could get out of the way. Sweat was beading on her brow from the mental strain of having to hold up several tons of weight in multiple directions. Jinx wasn't going to stop at that. "Your luck just ran out," she chirped as she sent her pink hex bolts at the dark titan. Raven gasped as they hit her, causing her hold on the rubble to vanish as her hold on the rubble fizzled with her disrupted concentration, the damaged buildings falling on the civilians that were left.

"No," Raven shouted as she surrounded the pedestrians in a dome of her obsidian power. She then enveloped some of the rubble in her ebon energy and made it fly towards Jinx, making her back flip out of the way. When the rubble stopped falling, Raven made the dome of her energy levitate out of the rubble, taking the civilians to safety. "Looks like my luck's changing," Raven quipped in a monotone as she sent more rubble flying at the unlucky villain.

Robin extended his bo staff, trying to strike Gizmo. Gizmo reared back on the back to of his mechanical legs, trying to strike the boy wonder with the other legs. "You're going down," Robin stated plainly.

"Like you can stop me crud-muncher," Gizmo sneered as she struck at Robin's staff, breaking it. Robin jumped back, drawing two birdarangs and throwing them at the tiny terror. He managed to sever the back two legs, forcing the midget to stand on his own legs. Unfortunately for Robin, this only increased his range while somewhat limiting his mobility. "Hey scuz bucket, try this on for size," Gizmo jeered as his remaining mechanical legs opened, revealing giant glowing blasters. Robin's eyes widened as the cannons fired; destroying the ground he was standing on and dropping him to the sewers below where he was swept away by the current.

"Robin the two remaining Titans and Dani cried out, giving Mammoth the opening he needed to do a spinning backhand to both Dani and Beast Boy, sending them flying. Jinx then fired more hex bolts at the ground, opening the hole wider to send a startled Raven to similar watery fate that befell her leader.

"We're done here," Gizmo sneered as his legs retracted, allowing his glider wings to be revealed. The three villains made a quick exit as police sirens were heard in the background, and getting louder.

Dani floated out of the dumpster that she had landed in and floated over to the hole in the wall that marked where Beast Boy had fallen. "Are you alright," she asked when she heard the emerald titan groan, earning her a half-hearted glare. "Sorry, standard question."

Beast Boy grunted as he got up. "Thanks for trying to help. Let's head to the tower, that's where everybody's probably heading."

"Titan's Tower," Dani squealed in delight, "I've always wanted to go there to meet you guys! I can get us there really fast!"

"Oh no, a super-powered fangirl," Beast Boy groaned, "And I thought the regular kind were bad enough!" Dani ignored that comment and grabbed him, flying to Titan's Tower as fast as she could.


Jump City, Titan's Tower, Approximately One and a Half Minutes Later

Beast Boy was leaning on Dani heavily as they entered Titan's Tower, his skin greener than usual, while she was looking at the front hall in awe. "Yo, BB! What happened out there after that small freak strapped me with a rocket? I was halfway to Gotham by the time that Starfire got it off me."

Starfire, however, looked at the two that had just entered the tower and then looked behind them before centering her gaze on the changeling. "Beast Boy, who is this girl and where are Robin and Raven," the Tamaranean questioned.

"I'm Spectre," Dani replied in a low tone as both she and the emerald titan suddenly found the floor very interesting.

"Beast Boy, Spectre, where are our friends," Starfire asked again, this time more anxiously.

Cyborg slammed his fist into the wall, "Man, I should have been there! I should have known they were trying to take me out of the fight!"

"It's alright Cyborg," Dani stated as soothingly as she could manage, "When I showed up to help, it looked like they were setting up for something. We split them up and that green midget dumped Robin into the sewers. While we were surprised, the Neanderthal slammed me and Beast Boy into the scenery and that pink-haired girl blasted the ground, sending Raven to join Robin. There was nothing we could do to stop them from getting away."

"I still should have been there," Cyborg grumbled.

"Our friends are strong," Starfire declared, "Surely they will return to us unharmed."

Knock. Knock. BOOM! The giant blast doors to Titan's Tower fell right before the four teens, revealing three silhouettes they didn't want to see again so soon. Nice place," Mammoth declared.

"We'll take it," Gizmo sneered opening fire with his new laser blaster.

"Titans, take 'em out," Cyborg shouted as he fired his sonic cannon at the midget, drawing him away from the others.

Beast Boy transformed into a cheetah, running deeper into the tower as fast as his injuries would let him, being chased by Jinx. "Here kitty, kitty, kitty."

"Man, of course I get stuck with the two girls," Mammoth groaned as he waited for them to come to him.

"My gender says nothing about my strength," Starfire growled as she floated off of the ground, her eyes glowing with emerald energy.

"You got a cheap shot last time, it won't happen again," Dani declared angrily as she floated off of the ground as well.

"If you're not gonna come at me," Mammoth smirked as he charged them, "Then I'm gonna come at you!" Mammoth hit Starfire in the gut, sending her flying through the wall, earning only a small grunt of pain. Dani responded by blasting the gargantuan teen with her ghost ray. Mammoth braced himself against the impact and saw sent sliding back a few feet, grinning. "Is that the best you got," he sneered.

"Unfortunately," Dani gulped as Starfire climbed out of the rubble her impromptu flight had made.

"You will wish you hadn't done that," Starfire growled as she threw starbolts at Mammoth, who just stood there with his arms covering his face, sliding back inch by inch. Dani, meanwhile, flew around behind the villain, backing up to gain more distance. She then flew straight at him, her hands glowing with ectoplasm, at 112 miles per hour.

"Starfire," Dani shouted as she hit Mammoth, sending him lurching forward a few feet…into Starfire's waiting fist. While her attack wasn't as fast as Dani's had been, it made up for it in strength. Mammoth was sent flying towards Dani, who turned intangible, letting the large teen hit the floor behind her with a loud thud.

"Perhaps we have won," Starfire inquired of her smiling new friend, not noticing Mammoth getting back up and rearing back one of his large fists.

"Think again," Mammoth growled out as he hit Dani with enough force to knock her through a wall and out into the bay, painfully unconscious. As she hit the water, the white rings flew over her body, transforming her back into her normal self.

"Spectre," Starfire gasped shortly before joining her ally in the bay via another punch, dazed but not unconscious. Beast Boy and Cyborg, minus one right arm, quickly joined them in the choppy waters of the bay.

The three villains stood at the shore of the rocky island, looking down at the heroes. "You're all washed up," Mammoth sneered.

"Let me help with that," Jinx offered in a sing-song voice as she sent a wave of her pink energy into the water, creating a wave that washed the four teens onto the mainland.

It was mere minutes later that Dani woke with a groan, "Uhn, what hit me?"

"Who are you and why do you sound like friend Spectre," Starfire asked, her curiosity piqued as to the identity of the unknown girl before her.

"Uh, Starfire, I think that is Spectre…just out of costume," Beast Boy guessed, unsure what to think.

"Huh," Dani said oh so intelligently as her hair fell in front of her face, revealing to her that she has changed back. "I guess I have some explaining to do," she laughed nervously, rubbing the back of her head.

"Not all of us can have secret identities," Cyborg sighed as he started repairing himself. "Yours is just very well hidden."

"Hey, look at the good news," Beast Boy chuckled, trying to ease up the tension, "At least we don't need to take a bath."

"Not now BB," Cyborg sighed, "We just kicked out of our home and, in case you hadn't noticed, I just became left-handed! It's over!"

"Maybe not," a familiar voice called from behind them. They looked to the voice to see Raven and Robin on the top of the hill, their capes billowing in the breeze.

"Robin," Starfire shouted, flying up to meet with the lost titans.

"Here, let me help," Raven stated as she floated down, her hands glowing blue as she healed Beast Boy and Dani's wounds.

"Heheh, thanks," Beast Boy said.

"But you are right; you do have a little explaining to do…" Robin declared, trailing off at the end, leading the black-haired girl before him into telling him her name.

"Dani Fenton, with an I." She let the white rings float over her body again, transforming her into her alter ego. "Like this I go by Spectre."

"Where did you get your powers, if you don't mind me asking," Robin inquired, his curiosity piqued. "From what I have seen, you can go invisible, turn intangible, and fire energy from your hands."

"And she can fly too," Starfire chipped in.

"Yeah, one minute you can be one place and poof, you just vanish, like a ghost or something," Beast Boy piped up.

"I got them in a lab," Dani muttered, somewhat nervously, "I'm what's called a halfa." Raven stiffened at the title.

"A half a what," Beast Boy asked further, confused by her words.

"Half a human, half a ghost," Raven responded her emerald teammate's question, "But the only halfa I know about is male, and he disappeared six months ago." Her eyebrows narrowed in suspicion, wondering if there was any relation to the halfa that had been terrorizing that town in Illinois, Amity Park if she remembered correctly.

"That's about when I got mine," Dani declared, "I'm trying to get him to teach me how to use his ghostly wail, but he won't teach me, the jerk." Robin's eyemask narrowed joined Raven's at the slip.

"How are you half a ghost, that doesn't sound possible," Cyborg inquired as he continued to make repairs to his damaged systems.

"Ectoplasm bonded to my DNA," Dani replied, getting a little nervous at how invasive the questions were getting.

"What do you mean by 'he won't teach you,'" Robin asked the white haired girl before him.

"I don't want to talk about it, it's his secret to tell," Dani responded, "And he kind of gave up on being a hero."

"What do you mean 'gave up on being a hero?' Inviso-Bill was a menace; he tried to kidnap the mayor of Amity Park in broad daylight! Doesn't seem very heroic to me," Robin inquired further, drawing closer to Dani.

"Ever think that in a town full of ghosts that he could have been framed," Dani retorted, her face drawing closer to the face of the leader of the Titans.

"Yo, let's focus on something else for right now, like getting back the tower," Cyborg shouted, positioning himself in between the two teen. "We'll ask you more questions later, but for right now we can use all the help we can get."

"If the Boy Wonder can't tell when someone has been framed, it's not my problem that he's too pig-headed to see past his eyemask," Dani quipped, obviously furious at the teen before her.

"He was caught on tape, it doesn't get any more cut and dry than that," Robin retorted.

"Ever thought of the possibility of the mayor being over-shadowed king of hair-gel," Dani sniped back.

"Please friends, do not do the fighting over this matter," Starfire pleaded, picking up the two teens by the backs of their collars, "We must concentrate on liberating our home from the villainous adolescents that have absconded with it, and ejected us from its halls."

"…say what," Dani muttered, scratching the top of her head in confusion.

"You get used to it," Cyborg replied, "Now I hope you got a plan of attack so we can get our tower back Robin, 'cause we sure as hell don't have one."

Robin decided to ease off of the questions. His friends were right, taking back their tower was important; grilling Spectre for information could wait. He'd let her actions in the coming hours speak for themselves. "Yes, and we could use your help Spectre," Robin stated.

"You need my help," Dani gasped in surprise, a fangirl's glint in her eye, hidden very carefully behind her animosity towards Robin at the moment.

"It could make things go easier," Robin replied, suppressing a shudder at the look in her eye.

"And you'll want me to answer your questions afterwards, I'm guessing," Dani responded.

"Yes, it would make things go a lot easier if we end up working with you in the future," Robin replied.

"Alright, but if I think that you are getting too personal with your questions, I won't answer them," Dani responded in kind.

Robin sighed at that. He guessed that would have to do, he understood the need for secrets to be kept better than any of his friends, his mentor taken into consideration. "Deal, so would you be willing to help us," Robin asked, offering his hand to the halfa before him for a handshake.

"Alright, count me in," Dani smiled as she shook Robin's hand. The other titan's all let out a sigh in relief at that. Starfire put the two teens to the ground and looked at the Boy Wonder expectantly.

"Great, now here's the plan," Robin responded, a small smile creeping onto his face.


Jump City, Titan's Tower, Three Hours Later

"Look at the crud these losers call music," Gizmo jeered loudly, throwing CDs behind his back.

"You think that's bad, take a look at their food," Mammoth scoffed, while licking said furry blue food. One invisible Dani turned green at the sight.

"Pfft, you think that's bad," Jinx snorted, "Then you haven't seen their fashion sense. Does she have anything that's not blue?"

"Time to start phase one," Dani sighed mentally, noticing the camera at the end of one of Cyborg's fingers scanning the room. She caught one of the CDs that Gizmo was throwing and threw it at Mammoth as he sucked the meat off of a chicken leg.

"Hey, watch where you're throwing those things," Mammoth shouted, turning to Gizmo as another disc's course was altered, hitting him in the face.

"Why don't you make me snot brain," Gizmo challenged in a sing-song voice as he threw another one straight at Mammoth.

"Will you two just shut up," Jinx ordered. The two turned to look at each other, nodding in silent agreement. They then proceeded to throw CDs and leftovers at the unlucky girl. Only Dani noticed as Cyborg's arm crawled along the floor and activated the console. The fighting stopped as the alarm started blaring.

"What the hell's going on," Gizmo shouted as he looked at the console. The chair moved slowly, revealing Cyborg's arm resting on the right arm, fingers rapping a steady rhythm. "AHHHH," the tiny terror shouted in surprise at the site of the disembodied limb moving of its own accord. Cables came out of the estranged arm, entangling the foul-mouthed midget, before small rockets came out of the arm's side panel and took both arm and screaming tech-junkie on a ride through the vents.

"Huh," Jinx grunted before gasping as ebon energy took her through the floor. Mammoth scratched his head in confusion before a starbolt and a beam of emerald ectoplasm knocked him through the door.


Jump City, Titan's Tower, Roof

"AHHH," Gizmo yelled as he flew through the vent on the roof, joining his dazed allies. Cyborg's arm detached itself from the bald villain and went over to its smirking owner.

"Titans, GO," Robin shouted, the teens following his plan. Cyborg and Robin made a beeline to Gizmo; Starfire and Dani flew at Mammoth; and Raven and Beast Boy chased after Jinx.

"Heh, you two again? Didn't you learn your lesson last time," Mammoth snorted derisively as he charged at the two girls.

"Yeah, we learned that you really are as dumb as you look," Dani retorted.

"I'm sorry that we must do this, but we must ask you to please leave out home," Starfire stated, her eyes and hands glowing a bright green.

"Pfft, as if," Mammoth snorted as he threw a punch at the Tamaranean's face. She flew up in the air to dodge his strike as the now revealed Dani hit him with a fully charged ghost ray. The attack sent him sliding back a few feet to be greeted by a barrage of starbolts. Dani flew around him, invisible, to prepare for another high velocity strike. "Is that the best you can do," he roared as he threw a large piece of the ceiling at Starfire.

"No, but I do believe that I performed the distraction very well," Starfire replied cheerily as she floated down to the ground, avoiding the airborne piece of roof.

"Huh, Mammoth grunted, scratching his head in confusion until he got slammed in Starfire's direction by Dani.

"Some boys never learn," Dani laughed as she regained visibility, already charging another ghost ray.

"Indeed," Starfire agreed as she slammed a fist into the large teen's gut, sending him rocketing towards Dani and her ghost ray.

"Urgh," Mammoth grunted as he was sent flying high into the air, only to get slammed back into the tower by Starfire's far more powerful starbolt. He laid there, limp and burned, in a smoking crater.

"We did it," Dani cheered, floating up to Starfire to receive a death hug.

"Yes, we were successful in the beating down of the large villain," Starfire assented as she stumbled in midair due to the loss of her companion in her hug.

"Jeez Starfire," Dani panted, "I kinda need to breathe you know." Starfire just grinned, rubbing the back of her head in embarrassment.

"You scuz bags really think you can beat me," Gizmo scoffed as his mechanical legs extended from his tech pack. "I've beaten you losers before, and I'll do it again!" The legs opened up, revealing the large blasters again.

"That was before little man," Cyborg shouted, his arm transforming into his sonic cannon, "Now we're working together!"

"Doesn't mean anything, cludgehead," Gizmo sneered as he fired his laser cannons. Robin and Cyborg quickly dodged the blasts being fired by the diminutive cackling villain.

"Enough of this," Robin growled out, pulling three discs out of his utility belt, "It's time to put you on ice." He threw the discs at Gizmo's feet; the explosion released a freezing gas that froze Gizmo's firing legs.

"Looks like your tech just froze up," Cyborg snorted as he fired a blast, shattering the legs, "Good thing I'm just getting warmed up."

"You pit sniffing snot-for-brains, I'm not done yet," Gizmo cried out as he turned to Cyborg, his smaller laser cannon at the ready.

"Looks to me like your system's about to crash," Robin smirked as he slapped a scrambling device on the pack on Gizmo's back.

"Ahh! My tech," Gizmo screeched as parts started falling out of his pack, before the jetpack function activated, sending him flying face-first into a steel beam.

"That had to hurt," Robin winced.

"Well, that's what he gets for taking on the Teen Titans," Cyborg shouted, slapping Robin on the back. "BOOYAH!"

Jinx led Beast Boy and Raven into the scaffolding that had been built to turn the T into an H. "Ooh, bad luck choosing me as your opponent."

"Your unlucky puns are starting to get annoying," Raven declared as she coated some loose items in her black energy, "Azerath Metrion Zinthos!" The items went flying at Jinz, who just hit them with her hex bolts, making them fall apart before they got near her.

"Bonzai," Beast Boy shouted as he turned into a monkey, landing on Jinx's face. She screamed slightly as she struggled to get the green changeling off of her. Unfortunately for her, she was blasting the scenery with waves of pink entropic energy while a smirking Raven erected a dome of her own obsidian energy around herself.

A few moments later, Beast Boy jumped off of the young villainess, shifting back into his elfin form as he ran away, Raven giving chase. "Your luck just ran out," the emerald titan called behind him, Raven glared in annoyance at her teammate's unwelcome joke.

"Huh," Jinx grunted in confusion before she heard the sound of metal groaning. She looked around wondering what was going on before panic crossed her face. She started running as the scaffolding collapsed, flickers of her remaining hexes crackling at the joints before they buckled. Just as she exited the hexagonal hole in the wall, a steel beam that had collapsed swung down and hit her in the back, sending her flying and writhing in pain. Jinx was caught roughly by Robin, whom brought her face up to his. "Jeez, this is the last time I take a job from Slade," the pink-haired witch groaned in pain.

"Who is Slade," Robin growled out, trying to pump the villainess for information.

"How should I know; he just hired us and told us to defeat you," Jinx replied weakly as she lost consciousness. Robin dropped her onto her fallen allies.

"I'll call for pick-up," Robin stated as he turned to walk off.

"Already done man," Cyborg called after him, making him pause in mid-step.

"Good, then that means that we can get right to the questions," Robin declared as he turned around to face Dani.

Dani held up her hand in resignation, "Alright, I did agree to answer your questions."

"Who is Inviso-Bill," Robin questioned brazenly.

"I'm not going to tell you his secret identity, Robin. It's his secret to tell. Besides, he hates the name the media gave him," Dani replied curtly, "He preferred Danny Phantom."

Robin nodded, "Fair enough, I can't exactly force you to reveal his identity if he's fallen this far off of the radar."

"What's your connection to him," Raven inquired, "You mentioned earlier that he won't teach you how to use one of his moves."

"I'm a clone created by his former nemesis," Dani replied, "The Y-chromosome didn't copy offer right." Cyborg lowered his hand as his unasked question was answered.

"What does Phantom intend to do here in Jump City," Robin inquired, pieces starting to fall together in his mind.

"As I already told you, he got tired of being called a villain when he was saving Amity Park from all of the ghosts that were attacking it. He just wants to live his life like a normal member of society now. You know, go to school, get a job, write dark poetry, that sort of thing."

"He writes dark poetry," Raven inquired, her eyebrow raising in interest.

"He went goth after his parents and family were incinerated in front of him by his future self," Dani replied, "That's also when he gave up on being a hero." Robin snorted at the hero statement, but kept his comment to himself.

"Wait, you don't mean the Nasty Burger incident, do you," Cyborg asked, "That fight was televised and man was it intense."

"If it was his future self that did that, wouldn't that mean that he would have to have been a murderer in the future," Raven inquired.

"I don't remember all the specifics, but he said that shouldn't happen as long as he doesn't take the actions that lead him down that path in the first place, which he hasn't," Dani replied, rubbing the back of her head.

"You said earlier that he was framed," Robin inquired, "Would you like to explain how?"

"You're the detective her Robin, why not look at the tapes and news reports from that time frame," Dani responded, smirking at the furious look on his face.

"As far as I'm concerned, you're a good kid," Cyborg declared, patting the halfa on the back, "I for one wouldn't mind if you became a member of our team."

"Yes friend Spectre, I would very much like for you to come join us here at the tower and do the heroic acts with us," Starfire cheered.

"You did good work today Spectre," Robin offered grudgingly, reaching behind his back and pulling out a communicator, "I think that we would all like for you to join the team."

Dani reached for the communicator, but she stopped short of grabbing it. At Robin's confused face, she decided to explain her hesitation. "I don't know if I'd be able to join you guys here at the tower, I have an older brother to keep an eye on and I have school in the morning."

"Dude, that's gotta be rough, being a hero and going to school at the same time," Beast Boy groaned in sympathy.

"Yeah, but my brother had it worse before we moved here," Danni replied, not noticing the slip that Robin and Raven both narrowed their eyes slightly at.

"I thought you said that you're a clone," Raven stated.

"Yeah, but that doesn't mean that I can't call the closest thing I have to family my brother, does it," Dani smiled.

Robin put the communicator in Dani's hand, deciding to give her the benefit of the doubt; she had just gone out of her way to help them out after all. "Don't worry about it too much Spectre, we'll try not to call you until after school gets out unless it's an emergency."

Dani smiled at that, "Thanks Robin, this means a lot to me."

"Just one more question," Robin asked, "Could you give a hint as to how Phantom was framed, it would help to clear his name in the long run if he was framed."

Dani thought about it for a second before nodding, "Sure, look up possessions. Phantom refers to it as overshadowing when he does it." With a nod from the Boy Wonder Dani flew off into the nighttime sky, heading home where she hoped that Danny hadn't gotten too worried about her.

"Raven," Robin turned to his cloaked teammate, not needing to ask the question on his mind.

"Malicious ghosts and demons can possess people and objects in order to wreak havoc," Raven replied with a shrug, "But you can't normally possess a ghost like that."

"Maybe you don't have to," Robin thought out loud, more and more pieces of the puzzle falling into place. "I'm going to check that tape again, after I see what I can find out about Slade." Robin promptly went inside to go to his crime files computer.

"Man, I hate it when he gets like this," Cyborg groaned as he and the rest of the Titans waited for the police to come pick up the meta-humans that lay unconscious at their feet, "Now he's gonna get obsessed with two cases."

"Hopefully our friends will be all right," Starfire sighed, watching as an armored police helicopter came closer to their beloved tower.


Jump City, Fenton Apartment

"Danny, I'm home," Dani called as she entered the apartment, wearing her normal clothes. She kicked off her shoes by the door before flopping on the sectional sofa that Danny was sitting on so she could watch TV.

"Noticed you helping out the Titans earlier Danielle," Danny stated, keeping his voice neutral.

"Yeah, that got really messy there for a bit, but we eventually won," Dani smiled.

"You know I don't want to see you hurt by being a hero Danielle," Danny declared, turning towards his 'sister,' "The only thing people like more than praising a hero is tearing one down."

"Amity's different from Jump City, Danny," the younger halfa snorted, "Maybe you should give these people a chance."

"No, I'm not going to be a hero again Danielle, and neither should you," Danny retorted as he got up and went to his room.

"Danny, I just hope that you don't close yourself off from everything you have now because of what happened to you n the past," Dani thought to herself as she watched the news reports of the fights earlier today.


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"I'm sorry for their failure; after their retrieval, their punishment will be severe," a woman in a business suit declared.

"There'll be no need for that," a man in the shadows with only his left eye showing stated, "They served their purpose as messengers and revealed a new player on the field. You will get the funds along with a bonus for the extra work they did." On a single screen in the room Spectre was shown fighting Mammoth while on another screen Robin was shown interrogating Jinx. "Yes, they did more than was expected of them, far more."