Disclamer: Do not own!

Chapter 2

In This Room

"How are we supposed to believe you?" Robin asked. "You just attacked us. Why should we suddenly trust you?"

Danny blinked. "Um… You attacked me. I was just trying to catch a ghost… Besides… I'm the one who shouldn't trust you… Don't you get it? You were assigned to catch me by someone just like me! … Only stronger… and richer… but the point is that Plasmids is a half too! Why do you trust him, then?"

Robin didn't say anything to that and he just stared at Danny. After a moment, the half decided to break the awkward silence. "… Do you… ever emote… you know… at all? You… uh… don't believe a word I said, do you?" Robin didn't move for a moment before shaking his head. "I don't suppose I could have my cell phone back… You took it from me, didn't you?"

"Huh?" Beast Boy asked, he never remembered seeing a cell phone. "What are you-" he started, but was cut off by Robin, who held out a black cell phone with a D on the back stylized to have a P in the center.

"No, we can't have you calling anyone like Slade. You're in prison now. You may as well get comfortable, because you're probably going to be here for a long time."

"Well, by human standards anyways," cut in Cyborg. Robin put the cell phone back in his pocket with a nod and walked out, and the other followed after a few moments, and Starfire lingered for only a second before running to catch up with the others.

"… I want my one phone call!" They turned around to look at Danny before Robin made his way past the others back to Danny's cell and handed him the cell phone reluctantly. Danny couldn't believe that that had just worked, but held his hand out for the phone anyways, forgetting about the green glowing halfa-proof glass that was in between them for a moment.

Robin walked over to the door and cautiously opened it so that Danny had no chance of escaping in the few seconds it took him to him to get through the door. "We're watching and listening," Robin reminded him, "One call, no plots, no plans, and no escapes." He held the phone in front of him, and Danny nodded dismally before accepting the phone.

Robin walked out of the room, and settled himself in front the glass, watching as Danny held the phone out in front of him, not dialing. The other Titans had realized that this may take a while and settled them selves near the cell along with Robin and waited for a while until Beast Boy got impatient and burst out.

"Hey, what are you doing? Are you using your ghost magic to get more than one phone call or something? Just call already!" Danny glared at him.

"'Ghost magic'?" he repeated incredulously before scoffing. "I'm trying to decide who to call."

"Oh…" Beast Boy blushed slightly, then muttered, "ghost magic would have been cooler…"

"I heard that!" Danny shouted back, giving Beast Boy another look.

"What? HOW?" The rest of the Titans looked between the two like they were watching a ping-pong match – they hadn't heard Beast Boy say anything and he was right next to them.

"I'm half dead, not deaf," Danny answered before turning his attention back to the small phone in his hand. Raven raised an eyebrow and tried to reach into Danny's mind to see what he was really doing.

'Tucker or Sam… Tucker or Sam… Tucker or-'Danny's thoughts were brought to an abrupt halt when he felt a presence in his mind. His eyes widened and his head shot up to look at the Titans, all but one of which were shocked. 'Raven…? Are you… uh… possessing me?'

'No,' she calmly thought back, 'just reading your thoughts.'

Danny mentally let out a noise resembling a growl. 'Get out of my head!'

'No.'

'… Is this even legal?'

'There's certainly no law against it, just think of it as an interrogation. Only now it's impossible for you to lie.' She pushed further into his mind and felt Danny trying to resist her, but he made little progress and working so hard to block her out made him slump to the ground from exhaustion when she quickly crumbled his mental shields.

'I really don't think I like you guys very much... Why is it always one phone call? If you'd just given me two, I wouldn't have you hacking my brain,' Danny complained to her, but she ignored him. She sorted through his memories, from when he was born, to when he became a halfa, to when he met them in the alley.

'Danny Phantom… Danny Fenton… not much for originality, are you?' Danny gave her a mental glare.

'Shut up.' Raven reeled herself back into her own mind ad opened her eyes calmly to see all but one of the other Titans watching her closely, many with looks of worry on their face, but the main emotion that surrounded her was curiosity as to what she'd seen in his mind.

The only Titan that wasn't standing around her was Beast Boy, who she quickly noticed had snuck into Danny's cell and was standing over him, looking at him confusedly. Danny was crumpled on the floor with a pained expression on his features. Beast Boy had crouched down and looked like he was about to poke Danny in his side when they boys cell phone rang and Robin looked over toward the noise and saw what Beast Boy was doing.

"Beast Boy! No! Don't touch it, it's dangerous! It's probably a trap!" Beast Boy quickly jerked his hand away and reached for the phone. When he had the phone in his hand, he felt a hand try to grab it. Danny held onto the cell phone and Beast Boy stared, thinking that he had seemed to be practically unconscious a few seconds ago.

"I'm not a creepy little boy with creepy little powers," he started, remembering the time Specter had called him as 'it' as well, "and I'm not some ghost trying to fit in with humans! I'm a halfa and I want my one phone call." Beast Boy let the phone go after a moment and stood up and backed out of the room, leaving Danny alone to answer the phone.

"Hello…?" He answered cautiously praying that it was anyone but a telemarketer. What would he say if it was Jazz or his parents? What would he say if it was Sam or Tucker though? He hadn't thought of that either.

"Danny!" He felt himself smile for the first time in who knew how long when the voice on the phone changed from Sam to Tucker. Maybe he wouldn't need two phone calls after all.

"Where are you? We've got a ghost attack here towards the center of town. It's about… half a mile from your house. Get over here, man, we need you!"

"I can't…"

"Why not?" they both shouted into the phone at the same time.

"I was kind of captured… Surprisingly enough… it wasn't Walker or Skulker. These guys are smarter… or at least stronger. There's no way to escape… and if I did I'd be in trouble with the law."

There was a long pause on the other line before Tucker spoke "Tell me you mean the ghost law…"

Danny shook his head even though Sam and Tucker couldn't see it. "No… I told you, it wasn't Walker. Human law… I wasn't captured by ghosts at all… it was this group called the Teen Titans." He looked up at the said team.

"Then why don't you just phase out of there? Why did they even capture you in the first place?" Sam asked.

"Because Plasmius gave them halfa-proof tech so I can't… and they were arresting Inviso-Bill. Vlad put them up to it, he must have tricked them some how. The box ghost somehow managed to blow up the thermos so they must have thought I was setting him loose on the world or something stupid like that…" A quick glance at the faces on the Titans – Starfire in particular – told him immediately that he'd hit the nail on the head.

Tucker suddenly burst out laughing. "Dude, what's with your voice? You sound drunk." Danny laughed half-heartedly.

"They drained my powers in battle and now I'm exhausted. Plus one of then broke into my mind… not a pleasant experience to be honest…" he explained, sending a look at Raven, though she showed no sign of noticing.

Danny heard a sudden click and a tone and was startled. Why would his friends hang up in the middle of such an important conversation? He looked to the right of Raven and saw Robin holding some sort of remote and Danny immediately had a pretty good idea of what it was.

"Why you turn off my phone? What about my one call?"

Robin still refused to emote at all. "You were about to exceed your two minute time limit."

"What two minute time? You never said anything about anything even like that!"

"Yes, I did."

"When?"

"Just now when I hung up the phone. Come on, Titans, let's go have a meeting. We need to discuss a few things." Danny watched in shock and practical horror as they filed out, leaving him all alone after whipping away his phone. He muttered something incomprehensive about heartless people, Robin, and mind-hackers.

&-X-x-x-X-&

Sam and Tucker had been nervous about Danny all day, but they had supposed that Danny had gone home to rest or something and didn't want to disturb him. It wasn't long before Sam had snapped and forced Tucker to let her call Danny to see if he was okay.

The conversation had been surprising, to say the least, but she found it disturbing how he had just hung up on them in the middle of such an important call. She didn't know what to do after calling his cell phone only to find it off. The one thing she could think to do was to find out who the Teen Titans were.

She turned to her other best friend, "Tucker, you have your PDA, don't you?"

He looked at her as if she was crazy. "Why wouldn't I? Sam, when don't I have my PDA?"

"Tucker! This isn't the time! Danny is probably in big trouble and we need to find out who these people are! I need you to research the Teen Titans, and I'll go see what I can find about them on the computer."

"Fine… But Sam?"

"Yeah? What?"

"Don't worry. Danny's smart, and you know he can get out of almost anything. Even if he can't get out of this one, I'm sure we can help him."

"…" Sam half-smiled at him, "Thanks Tucker."

&-X-x-x-X-&

Upstairs, Robin started the meeting by bringing attention to Raven. "So… you went into his mind, huh?" Raven nodded once slightly. "Nice work. So what'd you see in there? Any plans we should know about? Was there any information on our ally, Mr. Masters?"

Raven nodded, moving her head no more than she had just before. "Yes… either he was telling the truth earlier… or he can alter his memories or at least what I see of them."

Beast Boy gaped. "Is that possible?" Raven shrugged, she had been wondering the same thing herself. But he'd also sensed her presence without her letting herself be detected. No one else had ever been able to do that before, so she had no idea what Danny was or wasn't capable of.

"I have no idea." Robin thought about it for a while before looking up. He had no idea what they should do. He scanned the other titans and saw that they were as conflicted and confused as he was.

Beast Boy coughed on purpose just to break the eerie silence. "So… uh… what do we do with it? Do we just give it to Plasmius?"

"… Him." Every one looked at Robin and Raven when they spoke at the same time.

"What?" asked Beast Boy. Robin had been the one who'd Called Danny 'it' to begin with, and Beast Boy had just been following his lead.

"Him." Robin repeated. "… I think he should be treated as a 'him' instead of an' it.' We've established the fact that he's at least half human…"

Raven nodded in agreement "Yes… he's still human… and even if half of him is as dead as any other ghost in the world, that half was human too once, I believe. Besides… you saw how reacted to being called 'it'…"

Beast Boy frowned, feeling both a bit conned by Robin and a bit guilty. He had no idea what to say except "… Yeah… sure…" He bit his lip. "So… what are we going to do with him? We're not going to give him to Plasmius, are we?"

Cyborg nodded his agreement before adding his two cents. "Yeah… I'm with BB on this… I've got a weird feeling about the guy, I don't know if our little ghost dude is telling the truth… but still…"

Beast Boy smirked triumphantly. "Well, of course ya do! He's name's only like one letter off from Plasmus!"

"Speaking of Plasmius…" Starfire started, "Did the 'halfa' not say that Plasmius was half-ghost as well?"

Robin nodded. "He did." He looked at Raven. "Do you think he was telling the truth?"

"I don't know," she confessed, "but he didn't seem to be lying. He was spurting things out too fast for that. He could always just have planned out a back-up story in case he was caught though. We'll probably have to investigate to find out."

Robin nodded once solemnly. "Alright. Titans, I guess that's all. I guess we should just relax now and rest up for our next battle."

Beast Boy nodded his head vigorously and pulled a grinning Cyborg over to the video game console. "Great idea, Robin! Game time!" Robin sighed and Raven shook her head before turning away and trying to meditate.

Robin turned toward one of the large window panels and stared out at Jump City and tried to filter out Raven's chants and the synthetic sounds of a car race coming from the direction of the television. He didn't have long to concentrate though, before Starfire came over to him with a large bowl of a green glob-like substance. He supposed it had to be some kind a Tameranian pudding or something like that.

He gave her a grateful half-smile before shaking his had before she could offer him any. "No thank you Star… I'm just… not hungry right now…" He smirked as he thought of a good idea to get rid of the food without hurting Starfire's feelings. He felt a momentary guilt for what he was about to do, but shooed it away by reminding himself of what the halfa had done to them.

"Why don't you go take some to the prisoner? He must be hungry… and we can't starve him… that'd be inhumane. Half ghost or not, he's still human… just like he said."

Starfire's trademark smile faltered. "But… Robin… I am afraid…"

Robin smiled at her reassuringly. "Don't worry. I think he's still weakened from today's fight. He can't hurt you… Besides, I'll even go with you. Alright Star?"

Starfire looked nervous for a minute before nodding hesitantly. "Alright…"

Robin nodded and smiled before he led her down the stairs Danny's temporary cell with her hand in his – causing her to blush even though he didn't notice.

&-X-x-x-X-&

Danny banged his head against a wall. This Titan's cell reminded him of Walker's prison. But he held a firm belief that he'd rather be in Walker's prison rather than where he was now.

First of all, he' had a chance of escaping Walker, but not the Titans. Also, his cell in Walker's prison had had a window that looked outside… yes the view had been miserable and of the glowing horrors of the ghost zone… but at least there had been a window to the outside, whether it had been bared up of not. Also the door to his cell hadn't had a mechanism that shocked him every time he so much as touched it. It wasn't even just the door knob, the whole thing was set to shock any ghostly being that touched it or even came within 2 inches of it.

He sighed and ran a hand through his hair before banging his head against the wall hard. "AHH!" he shouted, having just received a shock to his head. He looked up confusedly, remembering that the door was on the opposite side of the room. A second later he noticed that Starfire and Robin were looking at him through his window.

While Robin only looked mildly surprised by Danny's scream, Starfire had frozen from shock, holding Robin back with her. Their clasped hands were just out of Danny's view from the small window to the hallway that was lit by cheap lighting strips attached to the ceiling.

"What the heck was that?" Danny grumbled angrily.

Robin mentally smirked before answering. "It's another security device to keep you from trying to escape. If any being with spectral energy hits these walls, they get a shock."

Danny let his head drop and smacked his forehead with his palm. There was another reason to prefer Walker's prison – at least he could kill brain cells by banging his head against the wall to release his frustration there. "Anything else in this room that might be trying to shock me to death?"

Starfire decided to speak up, "Have you not already found out about the door?"

Danny sighed. "Yeah, I kinda noticed that one. Anything else?" Robin shook his head.

"Unless I'm forgetting something… but don't take my word on it. I may be wrong. Cyborg's the expert on this room, not me. He's the one who did the tech and built it, so he would know the most about it…"

"Great… nice to know that there just might be a couple other weapons in here that might kill me. Thanks a lot. It's nice to know that you keep these things – like how your shock therapy works – in mind. " Danny sighed then dropped his head into his knees, closing his eyes and trying to relax. "So why are you here, anyways? What do you want?"

Starfire forced a plastered grin just in case he looked up and spoke in her most polite voice. "We have brought you offerings of food. It is Tameranian Pudding, a specialty of my home planet. Would you like to partake in some so that you do not starve?"

Danny tilted his head upwards slightly and looked out of the tops of his eyes at the pair. "Home planet? You mean you're…" Robin nodded for her, "an alien…?" Starfire nodded. "O… kay…then…" He looked suspiciously from Robin to the large bowl in Starfire's hands. "… Is it poisoned?" They both shook their heads. "… And you're sure it's not going to electrocute me or anything…?"

"But of course it would not, why would you ask such a thing?" questioned Starfire.

"…Just checking. It seems like I can't be too sure in this place." He stood up and walked toward the window, avoiding the door by over two feet more than necessary. He looked down into the bowl that Starfire was holding, and ignored the fact that she'd taken four steps back, despite the extremely thick ghost-proof window.

"Is it green of does it just look that was because of the glass?" He tapped the green glass and felt a shock go through his hand. "OW!" He glared at Robin. "There's another one that you seem to have forgotten to mention."

Robin smirked. "I told you not to take my word for it. And yes, it is green. You don't have any problem with that, do you?"

Danny half-mumbled something along the lines of "with my mom's cooking, I've probably eaten worse… only she can put the 'frank' back in 'Frankenstein'…"

Starfire stared at him confusedly and he began to laugh to himself slightly at the memory of his mother's vicious hot dogs. "What do you mean? How can you talk about your own mother in such a way?"

Danny stopped laughing and stared back at her. "Huh…? What? I didn't mean it like that, I like my mom and all it's just… this one time…"

He gave up on trying to explain his supposed absurd rudeness when Starfire opened the door, shoved the somewhat food-like glop at him and slammed the door before storming up the stairs to the Titan's living room.

Robin was left behind though and Danny looked at him with a raised eyebrow. "Wow… talk about mood swings, huh?"

Robin just glared at him. "Don't you ever talk to me like that again. Don't treat me like we're the same and don't act like we're friends. I'm nothing like you."

He stormed up the stairs and left Danny gaping, before the confused halfa whispered to himself "I never said we were."