Here is chapter 2 and i want you all to know that KodiakWolfe13 have yet to do a double check on this so if you find something then please tell me! Now to answer som questions that some Guest have asked me.
The connection between Fenton's and Bruce is that Maddie and Bruce are friends and if I write a sequel to this it will be more explained, but it is only if I make a sequel! So far i have yet to plan out how to make the sequel and so far i haven't had the inspiration to make one. Batman will be a mentor to Danny and also to another character that i want to be a surprise to you all and will be introduced future in this story! That is also if i make the sequel you will see it!... or read it more like but you get the point.
One more thing i have to say! If you all wonder where in the time line this is in the Young Justice series it is between the first season and second season! It is explained in the start of the second season that five years have passed since the first season ended so i tough that a lot of stuff can happen at that time and would be interesting to start the story in the middle of things.
Well this was a lot but i still don't own the shows! So yeah... Well let's get on whit the story!
Chapter 2: Searching for clues!
Batman, aka Bruce Wayne, sat in front of the large computer housed in the Bat-Cave, staring at the articles on the screen. They told of the Fenton parents' death and the fate of their two children.
The man was still in a small bit of shock at his friend's, Maddie's, death, though he hid it well. After all, he had agreed only a few months before to be the children's god-father. He had never thought he'd have to fulfill his promise at all, let alone months after agreeing. It was a huge shocker.
Another shock was finding out Danny Fenton was Danny Phantom. (It didn't really take too much to figure out the identity thing once Batman had seen a picture of Maddie's son. Phantom might as well have been a clone of the boy, with the same name and everything.) Batman had been wondering about the Ghost-Boy for months now but had never found a suitable opportunity to investigate deeply, noticing all the stains on the teen's record. After figuring out the boy's identity, he decided to let all the offenses drop (for now) and wondered if Danny would be a good candidate for Young Justice.
His chance to ask, though, never came.
Batman didn't believe Danny had killed his parents. It just wouldn't make sense for the young hero to suddenly go rogue like that. He had to find the teen.
The room Alfred led Jazz to was a lot bigger than her old one. There was a big bed that had room for, at least, three normal sized people. The walls had a beautiful flower pattern in a pink and green color-scheme. The carpet was white and was soft under her feet. Beside the bed was a bedside table with a night lamp sitting on the top. There was a large closet off to the side, placed right beside a door that led to a private bathroom with its own whirlpool tub and shower.
"Wow..." Jazz muttered, completely in awe. She walked to the huge window on the other side of the room as Alfred set the luggage at the foot on the bed, smiling. The teen girl looked out the window to see a garden with beautiful flowers outside. "This is amazing!"
"Master Bruce thought you would like this room." Alfred stated, watching as Jazz turned to him with a sad smile. Her eyes glazed over, probably thinking of her brother and how much she missed him. Alfred frowned but didn't point it out. "Supper will be served in the kitchen at eight pm, Lady Jazz. I will come to get you at that time and, if you should need anything, please call me on the intercom system. For now, you can relax and make yourself comfortable."
Jazz nodded her understand before watching as the butler left the room, showing her where the intercom system was as he left. After looking around her room absently, she decided to go take a bath and figure out how to use the thing. As she soaked in the tub, her mind wandered to her missing brother and the death of their parents. Part of her mused over the unfairness of it all while the rest of her wondered where Danny could be and the suspicious nature behind his sudden disappearance.
After soaking for the longest time, Jazz got out, dried off, combed her hair, and investigated her room further while still thinking over everything. At eight, Alfred came to get her, right on time. The kitchen was quiet, since Bruce hadn't shown up, but she didn't mind.
Once she had her fill, the girl went up to bed early.
Alfred watched her sadly, reminiscing over the similar tragedy to that of his oldest charge, Bruce. He decided to stick a little closer than usual, if he should be needed in any way.
Jazz found herself in a room that is completely empty and white. The room was eerily silent and Jazz was standing in the middle. She looked around the room and started walking to a door on the other side of the room.
"Mom? Dad?" She shouted. Jazz opened the door and waves of blood flooded out. Jazz screamed as it washed over her and she fell onto her back, sitting on the floor covered in blood. She stared at it all in horror. Then she looked up and saw her parents in front of her. They looked at her with blank eyes before falling on top of her.
Jazz screamed. Waking up, Jazz didn't remember where she was until she heard the butler of Bruce Wayne, Alfred Pennyworth call "Is everything alright, Lady Jazz?"
Jazz shook her head, feeling too sick to talk and simply not wanting to either. Part of her knew she'd feel better once she did but not right now. Maybe when Danny was found and safe but not right now...
After taking care of two children who both had their parents snatched from them over his years, Alfred just knew when he was needed.
Standing outside the door to the newest resident's room, Alfred could hear the girl inside struggling in her sleep before a small scream emitted from inside. Like many times before with his other two charges, Alfred entered the room and calmed the girl. He asked if she wanted to talk but she just shook her head.
Continuing the old routine, Alfred asked if she would like some warm milk or some other drink to calm her nerves. Jazz requested hot chocolate and Alfred was more than willing to make it and bring it to her, smiling sadly as he watched her drink the hot liquid slowly after thanking him.
When Danny woke up again, he found himself lying on an uncomfortable bed with white sheets in a small room. Beside the bed, there was an end table with a tray on it. It had a little bit of food and some water on it. The teen sat up and stared at it, really wanting to eat and drink the bread and water but wondering if it was poisoned or drugged.
While trying to ignore his aching stomach, Danny began remembering everything he had heard yesterday about his parents. Hugging his knees to his chest, Danny felt water prick at the corners of his eyes and tried to take a deep breath to calm himself. What was said wasn't true. It couldn't be.
Getting up from his spot, Danny looked around the small room and noticed the lack of any other furniture. There were two doors, though. One was regular old wood while the other was thick and made of metal. Without needing to try it, Danny knew it wasn't going to open and opted to look through the other, finding a small but full bathroom behind the door.
The teen almost smacked himself when he remembered his powers. Danny tried to transform but nothing happened. He reached up and touched his neck, groaning when he felt a new collar strapped to his throat.
'How am I going to get out of here?' Danny thought to himself, frowning. Part of him wanted to try and break it again while the other part knew it wasn't going to work this time. His captors would learn from their mistakes. They were smart; they had kept him captive for this long already.
Danny turned to the door when he heard it open and tensed when a familiar, tall, bald man entered with a pleasant smile on his face. Behind him, armed men stood in the entrance, acting as a barricade and deterring Danny from an escape attempts.
Upon seeing the original occupant of the room awake and moving, the man smiled and (tried to) soothingly say, "Good morning, Daniel." The halfa stared for a moment before he realized who the familiar figure was. It clicked in his brain as the man began saying, "My name is-"
"Lex Luthor." Danny cut off.
The man, Luthor, smiled a little brighter and said, "So you know of me."
With an angry glare, Danny questioned, "Why have you kidnapped me?!"
"To study you, of course." Lex answered, his smile suddenly becoming darker than before. His eyes filled with the need to simply know everything. "I'm aware you're the Ghost Boy of Amity Park, Danny Phantom. Your powers interest me greatly, boy. We've already taken a blood sample and it's simply fascinating."
By now, Danny was as white as a sheet.
Luthor's eyes drifted to the untouched tray sitting on the end table. "I see you haven't touched your food, even though you must be starving. I can promise you it isn't drugged or poisoned in any way. Go ahead and eat while I ask some questions. After all, I don't want someone like you dying on me."
Even though he now felt sick to his stomach, Danny collapsed on the bed and began nibbling on the bread and taking tentative sips from the glass, doing as he was told. As he began eating, Danny looked into the eyes of the man that had caught him and was reminded of a scientist watching animals at the zoo.
"Now then, Daniel, how did your powers come to be? Was there an accident in your parents' lab? Were you born with them?" Luthor questioned, watching as Danny mulled over the answer while nibbling on the bread. They stayed perfectly silent for a few minutes before Luthor, irritated, said, "I don't have all day, Daniel. You can answer me now or I'll have to use extreme measures to make you talk."
Danny resisted the urge to roll his eyes. 'Great… Another fruit-loop… Just what I wanted in my life…'
Danny swallowed. The bread in his mouth wouldn't go down until he drank some water. Afterward, he opened his mouth to answer and wondered what he was going to say. He didn't want to tell the truth. After all, Lex seemed to be like the other Fruit-loop Danny knew and despised. Though, in any case, Danny would have preferred dealing with Vlad any day.
Lucky for Danny, his lying skills had been honed over the time he had his powers. He quickly responded, "Actually, I don't remember how I got them but I know I wasn't born with them."
Lex curiously looked the boy over and asked, "Really?"
Danny nodded but said nothing more. It was a half-truth, at best. He certainly wasn't born with them but his memory of receiving them was still quite vivid. Getting zapped half-to-death with ectoplasm and electricity wasn't the most pleasant experience he had ever had in his life.
Seeing as he had finished the bread, Danny quickly gulped down the rest of the water.
"Sir?" Lex's assistant called, getting the attention of the bald man and the teen. Mercy Graves held up the iPad, continuing, "You have a meeting in ten minutes that you need to attend."
Lex looked irritated but quickly hid it. Turning to the ebony-haired teen, Lex said, "It seems my time is up, Daniel. However, you'll be joined by Dr. White soon."
It had been a day since Vlad saw the news. Not long after that, he had been told that Jazz had been taken to Gotham by one Bruce Wayne, her godfather.
Vlad didn't know when the change had happened and, in all honesty, he didn't really care. He had been ticked off by the change for the longest time before settling down, convincing himself to respect the wishes of his dead beloved. He would be a man about losing his chance to have the kids. Still, it would've be nice to have them, especially Danny, under his wing.
Not that he had said anything to the boy, of course. It was still a big slap to the face after Maddie had told him off, telling him he had to grow up and stop trying to swoon her. The white-haired man had done a lot of changing since then, which surprised everyone but it really shouldn't have. Love had a way of changing people, after all.
It's what made Vlad go to the Fenton's house in the middle of the night, looking for clues as to who killed the two parents and what happened to Danny. As he was searching, he nearly smacked himself for almost forgetting one of the homemade cameras he had installed to watch them. It would have a chip in it (so no one could track a transmitter to his computer) that he could put in a computer and watch what happened.
Before he could grab the chip, Vlad heard a sound and instantly turned invisible. He thanked his enhanced hearing, knowing no normal human would've been able to hear the faint noise.
If it weren't for the fact Vlad had wonderful control of his emotions, he probably would've gasped in surprise when Batman came from the shadows. He looked around the house, finding things Vlad himself had not seen. A true detective, he was. Of course, the Dark Knight's detective skills led him to Vlad's camera. He instantly took the chip without thinking, looking around the house, as if looking for something. However, Batman seemed to shake it off as he left the house, climbing to the roof where his one-of-a-kind plane was.
Figuring that the Dark Knight may be trying to find Danny (maybe even help the boy, at some level), Vlad phased into the plane, taking the seat behind the Dark Knight.
However, as soon as the Bat-Plane was turned on, it immediately started going off, letting everyone know there was an unknown figure in the plane. Batman didn't even seem surprised when he said, "Show yourself."
Scowling, Vlad dropped his invisibility. Batman looked at him in the mirror before asking, "So why is the 'Wisconsin Ghost' in Amity Park, following me?"
"I could almost ask you the same." Vlad answered as he debated telling the other about his dilemma.
Batman turned in his seat to look suspiciously at Vlad. Both were quiet, staring at each other coldly. They tried to read each other but, in the end, Batman won with his famous (or infamous, depending on who you asked) Bat-Glare that Vlad had to admit was intimidating even if he was half-ghost.
"Alright look, I'm searching for the ghost boy, Phantom or Inviso-Bill, as some people like to call him. You seemed to be searching for something as well and I was interested to see what it was." Vlad half-lied.
Batman looked didn't seem to completely believe him. The Dark Knight responded, "I'm here investigating the Fenton family tragedy. I don't know what that has to do with who you're looking for."
"Did you find anything?" Vlad asked, ignoring the Dark Knight's inquiry entirely.
There was an irritated sound from Batman as he pressed a button, allowing the top of his plane to open up. He responded with a "yes" but said nothing more, shooting a meaningful glare over his shoulder.
Vlad sighed as he flew from the plane. The Dark Knight glared at him again and, as the plane began closing over him again, he demanded, "Don't follow me."
As the plane rose into the air and began flying back towards its home-base, Vlad stayed where he was, having enough respect for the Dark Knight to do what he wanted. However, that left him nothing, which was irritating beyond belief. But then again, he could only feel intense relief that one of the Justice League members, one of the smartest and most respected even, was looking into the tragedy.
Thinking about what the people on the news had said made Vlad's blood boil. How could they think that Danny had been the one behind his parents' untimely and tragic deaths?
If they only knew the boy for themselves….
Danny was still sitting on the bed after Lex left when the door opened again and two guards came in."Come with us." One said, pointing to the door with their ecto-weapon.
The ghost-teen debated listening, eyeing the guns in their hands warily, before getting up and walking to the door and out of the room. The corridor was empty and Danny was led down the hall towards a door. They stopped in front of it and the boy noted the security pad on the wall beside the entrance.
With a mental sigh, Danny thought, 'Great… All the doors will probably have security measures installed into them. No easy escape for me then.'
One of the guards help up a card to the scanner, turning the red light to green before the door swooshed open, a click resounding through the hall.
Danny was shoved into the room and the teen looked around as he stumbled forward. Computers lined the walls and tables filled to the brim with equipment Danny wouldn't know what to do with. Doctors and scientists dressed in lab coats ran around, using the equipment without much thought. The teen also took note of cages and vials spread across the tables, holding trapped ghosts in them. Danny remembered some from Amity but others were new. The ghost-boy didn't think they were hurt or injured with the way they seemed to be asleep.
The two guards led Danny to the back of the lab, weaving between the tables. They stopped in front of a desk; a man was sitting in a chair and
looking through some documents on his computer. His attention was instantly drawn to the small group that joined the lab when one of the guard's grunted for his attention.
The man's eyes looked Danny up and down and the teen wondered if this was Dr. White, the man Luthor had talked about.
"Ah! You must be, Daniel! I was just reading your file and, I must say, it is fascinating." The man said, standing from his chair as he walked around the boy, poking and prodding in a way that made Danny uncomfortable. The man seemed to notice his nervousness and said, "Oh, I'm sorry! I forgot to introduce myself. I'm not supposed to give you my real name but you may call me Dr. White. I was a part of the GIW once but I quit some time ago. I didn't agree with their methods so Lex Luthor hired me instead. Oh, but now I'm rambling."
At the mention of the ghost-hunting organization, Danny reached up to rub the back of his neck with an obvious frown on his face.
"How was the food?" Dr. White suddenly asked, looking him up and down. "I made it especially for you. It had everything in it that your body would need to keep a good balance with all the ectoplasm running through it."
Danny was surprised by what the doctor said and, looking back, he thought he had noticed something off with the food but it hadn't tasted any different than normal bread. He had had no idea that there was anything in it.
Dr. White watched the teen stare at him and waited for an answer. Danny hesitantly began opening him mouth before the doctor jumped, which made him jump to. Dr. White started nervously turning in a circle, quickly muttering, "I guess we'll have to wait and see if there's any negative effects, seeing as it was the first time I made anything for a half-ghost, but I'm sure you'll be just fine."
The teen just continued to watch the doctor nervously. He felt compelled to tell the other that he was starting to feel more energized, despite his worrying having worn him out for awhile, but Danny kept his mouth carefully shut. After all, what if he was strong enough to break the new collar? Would he have another chance to run?
Being as discreet as he could, Danny scanned the room again and noticed a door he had missed before. There was an observation window to the side of it, allowing Danny to see a large room with white walls inside.
"Ah! I seen you've found the testing room!" Dr. White observed loudly, making Danny jump again. The man clapped as he continued, "You're going to love this! Why don't you go in right now? Oh, yes! What a fine idea!"
Despite struggling nervously, Danny was led to the door and forced inside. He stumbled as he was shoved into the room and his head swiveled to the window, where he could see Dr. White giving him a thumbs up.
The doctor messed with something Danny couldn't see but Dr. White's voice came over the intercom a second later, telling the teen it was a control panel of some sort. The nutty doctor said, "This room was made just for you and your powers and it allows me to get a good reading on your powers! Your collar doesn't work in the room but we do have extreme measures to keep you here so I suggest not trying anything. It would be very terrible to hurt you in any way, seeing as your one-of-a-kind powers make you very valuable."
'Well, at least they don't know about Danielle or Vlad.' Danny thought to himself.
Lex sat in his office after a meeting that had taken two hours before it got anywhere. If it hadn't been important, he would've left a lot earlier but he had to keep a good face to the public.
The man was working through the papers on his desk when he found one from Dr. White. He would later stash them away in a safe hiding place, just in case the Justice League somehow found out about Project Ph. He had already made sure all the experimentation and kidnappings would fall on Dr. White's head instead but he couldn't stop from receiving the papers that could pin all the blame on him.
That was just how interesting he found the ghost boy.
