A/N: If any of you know this song that I put in here then congrats. If not, I urge you to look it up because it is really good. The song title is in the bottom A/N. Again, I will try to post daily, probably from the time of 3-6 in the afternoon southern Illinois time. If not then it will either be early morning or late night. Enjoy!

Chapter 2

Hold On

"DANNY! NOOOOO!" Jazz cried out. She was still on the roof of the building Danny set her on. She had watched her brother was shot from all directions. Then, he free fell. He only sibling shot out of the sky like a dove.

Jazz fell to her knees and sobbed. She was only 8 and her brother 6. How could such evil men do his to her? What had she done to deserve this?

A moment later, she heard gunshots coming from her house. She perked up and looked in the direction of her house about a block away. A man walked out. She saw him slip something into a holster on his belt.

Loving and Fighting | Accusing | Denying | I can't imagine a world with you gone.

"No. No, no, no, no, no! Not Momma and Dada, too. Please. Don't leave me." She got up and ran towards a fire escape on the side of the building. She started climbing down and landed in an alley. Jazz ran towards her house, the large Fenton Works sign illuminating her way.

The joy and the chaos | the demons we're made of | I'd be so lost if you left me alone.

She opened the back door and ran towards the kitchen. Lying in a heap on the floor were her parents. Small, stuttering breaths escaping their lips. She ran towards them and fell next to them. There were multiple bullet wounds in the stomachs, bleeding out with crimson red blood. Her parent's eyes were almost glazed over when they looked at her. She was crying still, eyes closed, when Jack raised a hand to her face. She gasped at the sudden, but comforting feeling.

"Dada?" Her voice barely a whisper.

"Jazzy-pants." He replied. Jack coughed a little and blood was splattered on the floor.

"Always know that your mother and I love you," He turned towards his wife and held her hand, "but we need you to be strong for us. Please, go before they get you. Take care of your brother. Tell him we love him very mu-" His words were cut off as his final breath escaped him, eyes fully glazing over.

"I-I-I wi-will~hic~. I p-promise" She stuttered and kissed her father on the head before closing his and his mother's eyes.

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Danny started to fall, multiple shot wounds and burns all over him. He managed to stay conscious and with a last burst of energy, flew towards his house. The men that shot at him started to chase after him. He phased into the bathroom and landed on the tiled floor with a thump. Danny was too weak, so his form changed back to normal with the Coca-Cola shirt and baggy jeans. He went over to the door and locked it. After that, he fell in a heap on the floor, unconscious.

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Jazz heard a sudden thump above her and flinched. She ran up the stairs and looked in all the rooms. She got to the bathroom door, but it was locked. She tried to open it, but it wouldn't budge. Then, a thought occurred to her. Danny!

She went back to her room and grabbed the bat, realizing that Agent E was gone, the only thing there was his blood. She started back towards the bathroom and hit the metal bat against it. It finally broke away enough for her to unlock the door. What she saw inside scared her. Her brother was on the floor, red and green blood escaping his wounds but slowing down thanks to his healing factor.

"Danny? Danny, get up. Please!" Jazz sobbed into him and picked him up.

You locked yourself in the bathroom | Lying on the floor when I break through.

She laid him back down to feel for a pulse. She felt a faint throb in his neck.

"Please. You're my only family left. Please, don't leave me!" She cried.

I pull you in to feel your heartbeat | Can you hear me screaming please don't leave me.

Danny twitched a little and then shuddered. His eyes opened a crack as he looked into his sister's teal-blue orbs. He heard soft footsteps in the hallway and bolted upright. Boy, that was a mistake. He almost immediately fell back down, head spinning, but Jazz caught him.

"Danny? Are you okay? Can you hear me?" She asked a slightly conscious Danny.

"Mmhn~" He tried to assure her and warn but he was in too much pain to do so. He was panicking on the inside.

"3…" A man outside the door said.

"2…"

"1…"

A man, who looked almost exactly like Agent E but had a buzzcut (gonna call him Buzzcut), broke down the door. He had four other men beside him. One took a hold of Jazz while three took hold of Danny. Buzzcut pulled out a gun, trained it on Danny's head and shot. Danny's body fell limp. The three men holding him left the room and headed down the stairs, occasionally striking Danny on the head to keep him unconscious, or just doing it because they could.

"NO! DANNY! PLEASE, NO!" Jazz screamed while trying to break free of the strong man's grasp.

Hold on, I still want you | Come back | I still need you | Let me take your hand | I'll make it right | I swear to love you all my life | Hold on, I still need you.

"Don't worry, kid. He's only stunned. He will be just fine." Buzzcut gave a fake smile, but Jazz saw past it. He dropped the smile and put a finger up to his ear and listened.

"Okay, got it." He mumbled.

Buzzcut turned back towards Jazz and gave a stern look to the man holding her.

"Load her up, too. The boy will need some persuasion." At this, he gave Jazz an evil smirk.

The man holding Jazz started towards the door. Jazz started to kick and struggle, but he only whispered in her ear, "Keep this up, and your precious 'brother's' head will be blown off." Jazz gasped a bit but stopped struggling. She was led to the kitchen where her parent's bodies were covered with a white cloth, but it was stained dark red from blood.

Jazz looked away and the man holding her gave a slight chuckle. Jazz looked defeated.

She was led to a white van with a tube of glowing green goo. That wasn't what shocked her though. No, what shocked her was that her brother was in the tube in a comatose state. Tears threatened to fall from her eyes again. She couldn't cry, she had to stay strong for Danny. Jazz was forced into a seat across from Danny. All she could do was hope that Danny was okay. After all, he was shot multiple times then beaten on the head. He probably had a concussion.

A long endless highway | you're silent beside me | Drivin' a nightmare I can't escape from | Helplessly praying | the light isn't fadin' | Hiding in the shock and the chill in my bones.

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Jazz had fallen asleep for a bit. She checked the time, it was 11 am. It had taken them 3 hours to arrive to this mysterious place.

Where are we? She thought.

She realized that her hands were tied behind her back with a rope. Jazz stood up and walked outside with an agent holding one of her arms. The sunlight hit her eyes and her instinct was to close them. A moment later, they adjusted, just in time to see some agents rolling her 6-year-old brother towards a completely white building. She was sent in after him. Danny was rolled into a room with a metal table and a mirror along one wall, which she would assume is another room where other agents were spectating, while she was pushed towards that spectating room. There was a small cage where she was shoved in.

Once the cage was secured, she looked out the window. In the room Danny was in, all she could see was Danny strapped down to the metal table.

They took you away on a table | I pace back and forth as you lay still | I pull you in to feel your heartbeat | Can you hear me screaming, "please don't leave me".

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Danny was just released from the tube and set down on this cold surface. His vision was blurry, so he blinked a few times before it was clear again. He groaned and tried to get up, but his wrists and ankles were strapped down. He tried to lift his head and waist, but they were strapped down, too. He couldn't move. As a 6-year-old, this was frightening. He no longer had the freedom to move and he started to panic. He tried to look around and found men and women in white lab coats running around. Then, he saw it. A giant machine that looked like a helmet. A man chuckled. He was wearing a slightly grey lab coat and a red badge, signaling that he was in charge.

"'What's that?' You must be thinking. That is a state of the are electric current distributor. Or, to put it in simpler turns for your simple mind, it'll shock ya." Some of the doctors moved closer, hooking Danny up to some machines. He didn't pay attention to them. All he could hear was the doctor's voice saying 'It'll shock ya.' Danny tried to squirm some more, but his efforts were futile.

"Shall we begin, sir." On of the women asked.

"We shall." The man (Gonna call him Red Badge from now on or just RB) grinned from ear to ear.

The woman hooked Danny up to the shocking thingy and everyone stepped out of the room. Danny whimpered a little before he felt slow low shocks pulsating through his body. Every time it would pulse, he twitched a little, but it did not hurt too much. He could handle this.

"Level 2 Shock: Begin." A slightly more annoying but painful shock went through him. He gasped a bit, but it was over soon.

"Level 5 Shock: Begin." This time, a more powerful shock was administered. He screamed a little. Why had they gone up to Level 5? This one was way more painful than Level 2 and Danny wondered how many levels there were and how much of this shock he could take.

"Level 8 Shock: Begin." Danny screamed at the top of his lungs. This one was shocking him to his core, and it was not pleasant. He felt the stinging and burning sensation rage through him until he was about out of breath. Luckily, it stopped after a short time.

"Final Level Shock: Begin." Excruciating pain shot through him. It was like all his insides were being deep fried and then burnt. This level went on in waves for what Danny would assume was an hour. He screams filled the hallways, high pitched ones that ghosts in cells had to cover their ears to ignore, but even that couldn't save them from this child's misery. Danny had screamed his throat raw, but his screams kept coming, irritating it more. He wouldn't be able to talk for a while after this.

"JAZZY! HELP MEEEEEE! PLEEEASE!" He managed to yell.

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After another hour or two, the shocks finally stopped, but the pain was still there.

"Jazz…" He whispered, but all that earned him was a coughing fit. He tried to stop so his throat could heal, but his body wouldn't respond to his pleads.

Jasmine heard his screams but couldn't do anything to help him. She tried to plead with them to stop, but all they did was turn up the levels more.

Hold on, I still want you | Come back, I still need you | Let me take your hand | I'll make it right | I swear to love you all my life | Hold on, I still need you

Red Badge walked in with an amused look.

"Kid. I don't know what you're made of, but you lasted longer than any other subject we've ever had. What's your name?" Red Badge asked.

Danny tried to talk, but all he cold muster was a dry heaving noise.

"Hmm. Doesn't matter. Your new name is Subject #1. We've been saving that title just for you."

Danny didn't want a new name, he liked his name. His parents gave it to him. But… What was it again? He couldn't remember. Maybe it was the shocks that were messing with him. It must be.

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Jazz was crying in a heap in her cell. She tried to block out all noises that came from around her. All she wanted was for Danny to be ok. She wanted to take him home, but home seemed so distant now that her only living family member was being tortured for what he was. She didn't want him to die, too.

I don't wanna let go | I know I'm not that strong | I just wanna hear you | Saying baby, let's go home | Let's go home | Yeah, I just wanna take you home.

Jazz just wanted to live happily again with her parents still alive and her baby brother still smiling. But that was now a fantasy, one that she could only dream of.

Hold on, I still want you | Come back, I still need you.

A/N: Sorry for any broken hearts that I may have caused. I just kind of think this stuff up. Don't worry, this is still just part of the beginning, you will get your Danny X Artemis soon. No, I have not forgotten that I was writing a crossover. The Young Justice and Justice League will be included soon, but this is going over Danny's past so that stuff later in the story will make sense like maybe some triggers for panic attacks. I am a cruel human, teehee. Anyway, hope you enjoyed and don't forget that I will try to post these daily. I am hoping to do more than just a couple of chapters. I might go over 30, who knows. Suggestions are always welcome and if you want your OC to make a cameo, just put it in the reviews. Um, if any of you know that song then WOOHOO. This song is called Hold On by Chord Overstreet. It is really good, to me at least. Alright, I think I'm done here. See ya soon! (Also, if any of you know any beta's that are really good, please let me know because I'm just typing this on Microsoft word, so, yeah) Btw. I'm currently working on Chapter 3 and it should be done soon.