SURVIVING THE TITANS!
By: GhostAnn
Chapter Two: Trouble Already
Fenton Works- Friday night:
Danny was in his room stressing over his math homework when the doorbell rang. He sighed in frustration at his dad's scream of: "GHOST!"
His dad could be so-
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Danny jumped at the shrill sound, "What the- that was a scream." Quickly abandoning his torturous homework, Danny ran into the hall sharing a similar look of shock with his sister.
"Did someone just scream?!" Jazz asked. Danny just nodded before running down the stairs.
"Jack Fenton!" Their mother, Maddie Fenton was yelling at their father. "What have I told you about goo-ing our guest?"
Jack stood in the middle of the living room rubbing the back of his neck in embarrassment. "I'm sorry." He said with a sheepish grin to a red headed girl covered in green ecto-goo.
Danny and Jazz knew instantly what had happened.
"Dad…" Danny exasperated. "Not again." This was embarrassing.
"Oh!" Jack said happily. "Jazz! Danny! Guess who's here!"
'Only the people who want to rip me apart and give me to you in colored wrapping.' Danny thought darkly, but smiled instead. "Hi! You're the Teen Titans right?" Sometimes it scared him how well he could play the "everything's just fine" card when everything totally sucked.
There were 5 of them. 3 boys and 2 girls. The boys were obviously odd. One was made of mechanical parts and another was completely green. The only one that looked normal was dressed up in a strange outfit- cape and mask included.
The girls looked fairly normal, the one covered in goo was very pretty, with long red hair and bright green eyes. Too green actually, and her skin seemed to be the wrong shade of any human, but Danny thought it looked nice anyway. Then the other one, she was paler than Sam, and wore a dark blue-violet robe, she looked irritated.
"Yeah." The normal, yet bizarrely dressed boy said. "I'm Robin, leader of the Teen Titans."
"Wait, I thought you were a team." Danny said in confusion.
"Well, yeah, but every team needs a little guidance." Robin said brushing back his black spiked hair, he seemed pretty serious.
"Well, maybe he's the leader, but I'm Cyborg." The metal boy said happily. "I provide the sonic BOOM!"
"Oh!" The red headed girl said, pulling at the goop in her hair. "I am Starfire! I hope we can be friends!"
Danny smiled at that, he wasn't sure why. Maybe because it was funny- or ironic.
"Raven." The pale girl said simply, then glared at his dad. "I like things when they're quiet. Real quiet."
There was something about her, something that made Danny feel uneasy, that made him shiver.
"Hey!" The green kid said, jumping and waving his arms. "Don't forget about me! I'm Beast Boy! The hottest Titan and the funniest!"
Danny smiled despite himself, he had a feeling this boy was a lot like Tucker, full of himself and totally unaware of the fact that he was weird.
"Wow," Maddie giggled slightly, as if a mother amused with her kids new friends. "Its so nice to meet you, I'm-"
"I'm Jack Fenton!" Jack interrupted and took his wife by the waist to hold her close to him. "And this is my wife! Maddie!"
"Nice to meet you." The Teen Titans said politely.
Jazz walked up to them and smiled. "I'm Jasmine, Jazz for short."
Beast Boys jaw hit the ground, and hearts feeled his eyes, instantaneously struck by cupid.
"I'm Danny." Danny said without looking at them or coming over. He knew, from what Sam told him, despite what they might look like, these guys meant business.
Maddie clapped her hands together then, "Okay, lets see. We don't have the best room and Jack kind of destroyed the guest room…" Danny and Jazz cringed at the memory. 'Kind of?!' "So… Danny, the boys they'll stay with you. Jazz-"
Jazz beat her to it though. "The girls, I know mom."
"Good." Maddie smiled. "Now your trip must have been long, do you want something to eat or would you like to just head up to bed now?"
Maddie's offer of food wasn't declined, so now it was 10:30 PM and after the Titans grabbed their things from their car, Danny and Jazz were left showing the Titans to their rooms. Danny traveled slowly behind his sister trying to hide his nerves. But no matter what he tried, he just kept jumping at every sound, every unexpected movement. "Dude." Danny jumped as Beast Boy spoke. "Are you okay?"
Danny rubbed the back of his neck nervously. "Yeah! I'm great! Why wouldn't I be?!" He could feel his body twhich with anticipation. He didn't know what of, but he felt his senses were all on high alert. It was like a demon boomerang, his fears, he throws them away and they come right back with double the force.
"I don't know," The Cyborg kid said. "Its just you seem a little-"
"Jumpy!" Beast Boy finished loudly, causing Danny to jump again.
"Jumpy?" Danny laughed, feeling beads of sweet covering his forehead and upper lip. "Me? N-no. I'm not jumpy. I'm just..." Oh great he didn't know what he was aside from jumpy! "Uh-um, anxious!"
"Why?" Danny cringed. Out of one trap into another.
"No real reason. Just... a test at school I'm sooo going to bomb." He said. It wasn't a total lie, he had been stressing over his math test. If only it were possible to stay awake in such a boring class, maybe then he could actually pass...
"Oh." Robin said. "For a second there I thought it was because of us."
"NO!" Danny jumped on that before he really registered the comment and afterwards was smacking himself mentally for the outburst. "I mean. Yeah, you know. Y-you are intimidating..." Danny swallowed nervously. Then not meaning to he admitted a deep feeling. "I mean, tougher kids are always pushing me around." He sped up, his heart about to give out with exhaustion. Relief saved him though, as he saw the top of the stairs and the welcoming of his bedroom door.
The Titan boys were silent after his words and shared slightly upset glances. They were the heroes, they didn't want anyone to fear them. Well, except the bad guys.
The Titans collided with Danny when he suddenly stopped. Danny groaned, as a stream of light blue fog seeped through his lips, and a shiver ran down his spine. Luckily, for him, the boy's didn't notice the fog.
"Um, are you okay?" Beast Boy asked again and Danny bit his lip nervously, how was he supposed to ditch his 'guests'?
"I'm fine." He continued heading down the hall to a room. It was obvious to the Titans that he was into space as they entered his NASA covered room. "This is my room. Um..." He scratched the back of his head kind of like Jack had earlier when he was apologizing for shooting Starfire. "I need to go take care of some things, but I'll be right back."
With that Danny shut the door. Leaving the Titans in his room. "That was kind of weird." Cyborg said.
"Yeah," Robin agreed, then smiled kind of sadly. "But look at his parents."
"I know!" Beast Boy said. "Can you say mental!?" He laughed.
Robin and Cyborg just frowned at each other. "Come on." Robin finally said. "Lets unpack."
So the three teens unrolled there sleeping bags and checked over there bags to make sure they had everything they needed for the night at least.
"Beep. Beep. Beep!" The boys stopped as Robin pulled out his communicator.
"Mayor?" He asked.
"Titans! Inviso-Bill! He's been spotted in the park!"
Robin looked up at Cyborg and Beast Boy, surprised. They'd only just got here, he wasn't expecting it.
"Alright!" Robin said, and took charge. With that Robin, Cyborg, and Beast Boy ran out into the hall, "Raven! Starfire! We have a lead on Phantom! Lets go!"
The park- Friday night:
Pine needles showered Danny's head as he collided with a large pine tree, shaking his head; he looked up through his messy white hair at the ghost who'd thrown him. The ghost smiled at him, his large fangs glowing in the moon light. This ghost was new to Danny, he had gray skin and blue hair and a long reptile-like tail. Aside from the tail and odd colored skin he would probably fair well as a teen super model. Of cores the ghost had other things in mind.
Chuckling with inhuman laughter, his red eyes aglow with glee, he aimed his hands at Danny, taking a moment to feel them with a red energy. The light stretching out the features of his face.
Danny growled as he stood, and placed his hands together to counter the attack. "Eat this you over-sized lizard!" Danny charged a large blast; he was angry. He'd been battling this ghost for minutes now, and it had gone far enough as to drag him out into the park!
He fired.
The ghost fired.
The attacks collided and the two flew back from the force. Danny spun, and fired a small ecto-blast from his finger.
The blast followed a flawless path, and Danny was sure they would hit, but the ghost just created a hole in its abdomen to avoid the attack. Letting out a yell of rage the teenager flew toward the ghost and pinned him to a tree. The ghost, however, just grinned as his eyes began to glow. Using a double laser eye ray the ghost hit Danny full in the face. Danny released him using his hands as a shield to block his eyes. The ghost then took the chance to send blast after blast to hit Danny. Stunned, Danny quickly put up a shield shaking away his shock. Danny had used a lot of his energy, and his shield was failing faster than the ghost's attacks. Quickly Danny phased through the ground and shot up from behind the ghost and sucked it in the Thermos.
A quick end to a tough battle.
Sighing, he rubbed his shoulder, thankful that fight was over.
With a quick scan of the park, he centered the energy he had left in him to take off but stopped when he spotted something flying toward him from the corner of his eye. He spun, wondering what it was. As it came closer he stuck his hand out to catch it. Before it hit, he saw it was some sort of small disk. Shock nearly overcame him when it exploded. "Ow." He blurted, but it didn't hurt, he just wasn't expecting it.
"What the!?" He saw flashes of green and what looked like an ecto-blast headed straight for him. Out of practice he dodged them. He knew it couldn't be a ghost- he would have sensed it- was it his parents?
Suddenly, he felt something collide with his back, but still it didn't hurt. Shocked He watched as a pigeon soared past him, then it did something that made Danny yelp with surprise, it turned into a pterodactyl and came back for him. He went intangible this time, and it fell through him. Then there were more disks and that green blast along with something new. A blue energy- they all collided with him at once and he felt a sharp pain in his shoulder as he lost control and plummeted to the ground.