Chapter 4
July 2nd; JL Watchtower; Meeting room
The air was thick in the Justice League's watchtower meeting room, and there were several reasons for that. One was the coming Independence Day celebration. While some of their younger partners would be present, they needed to divide the places they needed to investigate for the recent bombings- if they can be called that.
That is the second reason: the 'bombings'. They were simultaneous, all in places that were close to important corporations. The cover story was that there was a miscalculation in an aircraft's missile aim. The truth is that there were spaceships in the center of each of the fires.
Well, space ship is the only term that was suitable for the craft. Not only did it look foreign, but also no one could get any solid data. Not to mention the fires that surrounded them upon impact. To top off that list, they disappeared after thirty minutes after the fires were out.
Which brings them to the last topic in this meeting, the two people that came in and froze one of the explosion sites. The ship still disappeared, but the ice is yet to melt, even after two days of being there. The people who did this, Legacy and Relic, were not anywhere in the Justice League's files. Not under 'Villains' or 'Heroes'. There are only several mentions of them in the New York Times. Their public opinion was mostly good, not counting some damage done in major battles. Civilians saw legacy more than once, he is always around whenever anything happens, no matter what the time was.
Relic on the other hand was never seen. She was barely mentioned in one article saying that there was a flash drive sent to the NYPD with the tad saying 'Relic'. The drive exposed major systems of drug selling and jewelry thievinggroups.
And that brings us here.
"She could have been erasing whatever came online about her?" The Flash said. It sounded more like a question, but it made some sense to him.
"Could be. She did show her knowledge in hacking and infiltrating computers," Batman stated. He was still trying to make a new comm system that she will not be able to infiltrate.
"She mentioned they were from New York?" Wonder Woman asked.
"Yea" Green lantern answered, "Now why would two minor heroes go all the way from New York to Gotham City?"
July 2nd; One of Chris' safe houses; training room; same time as the meeting
Chris stood behind glass and watched Danny blast moving targets. She relocated them to one of the houses she owned since they were probably going to stay here for a while. Now she needs more data to be able to make an upgrade to the power restrains. She sighed, if Danny kept on increasing his power so much, he will need more than power restraints to keep him from blowing up or turning evil and destroying the world.
"Okay Danny, now just use your ice powers and we should be done" She said through the mic. Danny looked at her and nodded before he blasted the remaining four targets with Ice.
"Thanks Danny" She said as she slid her chair over to the second part of the control panel and unlocked the door while also bringing up all the power signatures for the exercises.
"Is everything okay?" Danny asked as he approached her, she nodded and scribbled something down on her notebook. Danny paused before asking another question, "So what should I be doing while you do this?"
Chris stopped for a second to think, "Do whatever you want. There was nothing on the alerts and the Justice League still did not contact us. So go enjoy yourself maybe make some friends, there is a credit card on my desk upstairs," She said going back to her work.
Danny knew something was bothering her, but ignored it. He knew that Chris did not need help carrying her problems and would scream at him if he asked her. "Be careful" He said as he turned around and headed upstairs for a shower.
After showering and putting on a white t-shirt, black pants and a red jacket, he headed to Chris' room to get the card. He saw the many screens she set up on the wall. There was the almost-never-used bed, bed stand and desk. He went to the desk and found the card there. He looked at the bed stand to find some letters. He was going to go through them but refused when he remembered the last time he was snooping through Chris' things….
Flashback, 1 year ago;
Danny was sneaking around the hotel room in China. Chris had to come here for some business and he was bored. He went to her room and looked for anything that could pass time. However, all he found was her laptops and several books and letters.
He takes one of the letters and starts to open it before he feel a light hit on is head. He freezes and turns around to find a furious Chris. Danny gulps and drops the letter while aiming to get out. Surprisingly he did. However, before he stopped, he heard a whooshing sound and realized something dreadful. It was one of Chris' drones and right now, the only threat it can see was Danny.
That had felt like the longest night in Danny's existence, mainly because the drone was set to find both him and his ghost form. Long story short, he was running around like an idiot screaming whenever the drone caught him for the next ten hours.
Back to the present;
Danny shivered at the thought of what she might do. He ran outside and began to slow down. He had no idea what to do since it has been a while since he was able to just go outside and chill. He began thinking about how exactly they were supposed to join the Justice League's Independence Day celebration. He was also thinking about the Ancients.
As far as he could tell, which was not very far mind you, they were a complete mystery hidden from everyone but their members. They had enough influence on ghosts to keep many of them from being corrupted by Pariah Dark. They were important enough and powerful enough that even the observant feared interfering with their business. All that and they gave Danny an honorary membership, but he still had no idea what that was and he was sure Chris didn't either. And that leaves him with zero leads to start with.
Danny was so far lost in thoughts while walking through the streets that he did not notice that he entered a slightly more crowded area. And of course, seeing his luck, he bumps into someone. Danny was pushed back a little, for he was tiered from all the tests Chris had to run, and starts apologizing.
"I'm sorry, I did not mean to bump into you," Danny said rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. He looks at the person he bumped into.
It was a kid, around his age with red hair, green eyes (not unlike Chris') and freckles. He wore blue jeans, long-sleeved yellow shirt and a black short-sleeved button up as if it was a jacket.
"Its okay dude" the kid said, "You looked pretty deep in thought. Something troubling you?"
"Nah, just some projects I need to start on" Danny said, "nothing too exciting though"
"Ah, so what are you doing in Gotham City?" He asked. Danny raised questioning eyebrow, which the kid replied to him by saying" You don't look like you are from around here"
"Yah, I came here from New York with a friend to finish some of her projects. She asked me to come along and help her," He said, before continuing to ask, "And why are you here?"
"I am here visiting a friend" He said. "But I think I am pretty lost right now" He said, looking like he did not mean to get lost.
"I can probably help you with that. Where does your friend live?" Danny asked, confident in his memory of the map Chris had showed him.
"Oh, well. He kinda lives in the Wayne Manor…" He trailed off.
"Okay. Wayne manor, it is an area or two over. I can walk you there" Danny said as he remembered his location and the way to get to Wayne Manor. "My name is Danny by the way. Danny Fenton"
"Wally West" The newly dubbed Wally said as he followed Danny to the Wayne Manor.
"So, you friends with Richard Grayson or Bruce Wayne?" Danny asked. He should not be intruding, but he was curious. He had never met Richard, he only knew Mr. Wayne from business trips he had attended with Chris.
"Well, I and Dick are pretty close. Why, do you know either of them by chance? "Wally replied.
"Well..." Danny trailed off, contemplating if it was okay to tell him, an absolute stranger, about Fenton Works and AASTRC. The concluded that it would do no harm so he said; "Yah, my friend and I own businesses and had to deal with Mr. Wayne several times. I have never met his ward though"
Wally raised an eyebrow at Danny. "Really, you and your friend own businesses?" Wally asked skeptically. He could not believe someone as young as Danny could handle running a business.
"Yeah. I own Fenton Works and my friend, Chris, owns Argyris Advanced Scientific and Technological Research Corporation." Danny said before continuing. "And if you think I am too young to run a business you should see Chris. She is two years younger and practically a child prodigy at just about everything"
Wally let out a long whistle, "You two must be really busy all the time. So how are you free right now?"
Danny looked around and took a turn left to the street that leads to the main gate of Wayne Manor. "Well, I am not on free time, but Chris said she needed peace and quiet to finish a project she was working on and asked me to just go out" Danny lied easily.
"So she kicked you out" Wally summarized.
"Basically. She was kinda upset for some reason "Danny paused as they finally reached the Gate, "Oh, we are here" Danny noticed that the sun was starting to set and looked at his watch."Wow, it is getting late. How did time go by so fast?" He mumbled.
"You wanna come with. I am pretty sure that Dick has an extra controller" Wally invited.
"I wouldn't want to intrude on you guys or anything "Danny said sheepishly, he was trying desperately not to get involved with anyone in the Wayne Family because Chris had warned him about them for some reason.
However, it looks like he will not be able to get out of this.
"I am pretty sure neither Dick nor Bruce would mind" Wally insisted.
Wally was obviously persistent for some reason. Danny tried his best, but he could not figure out, for the half-life of him, why this person wanted to invite a total stranger to play with his best friend. Finally, after a lot of convincing, Danny agreed to go in but only after he called Chris to make sure she did not burn the house time.
Wally went forward to the gate and pressed the intercom to call the butler to get a car, because the manor was a fair distance from the gate, while Danny Called Chris. He dialed her on his phone; honestly hoping that something came up so he would not have to go in.
"Hello, Chryssa Argyris, here who am I talking to?" She said over the phone.
"Umm, Chris, its Danny. I am calling to say that I might stay out late. I got involved in going to play videogames with someone I bumped into..." Danny trailed off, praying internally: please say I cannot and that I have to come back, please say I cannot and that I have to come back, please say I cannot and that I have to come back.
Apparently, His luck was still at odds with him.
"Okay, where are you going Danny, and who exactly did you bump into?" She said calmly. There was some clattering in the background. She was probably working at her lab.
"Well, I bumped into someone named Wally West. He was lost on his way to see his friend who lives in Wayne Manor" Danny said, "and then he invited me to come in and play video games with them and I couldn't hold up a decent argument" so please help me. Danny added mentally.
A sigh went through the line. "Okay, just be careful, if anything happens call me. And don't get lost and try not to slip," She said as she closed the close.
Wally was waving at him. He looked at his phi=one before pocketing it and walking to the car. How bad could it be?
July 2nd; Wayne manor; 6:17 PM; Danny's First Person Point of View;
The manor was huge, almost the size of Chris' manor back in France. I met the butler, Alfred, who seemed nice but somewhat skeptical of me.
When we entered, we met Richard (preferred Dick), and I introduced myself
"Hi, I'm Danny Fenton, I was dragged here by Wally after I helped him find his way to the gate" I rubbed my neck and extended my other hand for a handshake.
Dick shook my hand and said, "Nice to meet you, I heard a lot about Fenton Works "He said as he started to lead us to the game room on the second floor of the manor.
"Well, I didn't expect news to spread as far as Gotham" I said, honestly surprised that he knew about Fenton Works.
We entered the game room; I grabbed the beanbags and waited for them to pick a game. We ended up playing Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. I remembered playing this with Chris several times. I had the sixth highest score on multiplayer, while Chris held the seventeenth. We all logged on, but when I put my name in, they gave me a look.
"Ghost boy?" Wally asked.
"Well, I used to play this at the time my parents were still the Ghost crazies in town, my friends used to tease me about their research with the name. It kind of stuck," I said shrugging. I really did not like talking about the time my family was alive. Even after two years, it still hurts to think about them as dead.
We all played against each other several times, Dick won most of those. I was holding back because if I went all out they would be getting suspicious about my ranking in the game. I would prefer that cat stays in the bag.
My luck was still against me because after a handful more rounds they decided to go to multiplayer. It would have been hard with three people if not for the huge screen Dick had. Their team won the first time. Dick checked the Leaderboard for the world high scores. Wally was at the five hundred-thirty first spot. Dick was looking for his name to find out he ranked fifty-third. They were both trying to guess what my rank while looking for it was. Wally guessed in the thousands and Dick guessed in the one hundreds.
Imagine their surprise when they found out I was ranked sixth. Wally just sat there, staring at the number in awe.
"How are you that high up?" Dick asked bewildered.
"Well Chris and I played against each other to settle our differences for a month, only because we were bored. This happened. I ended up ranking sixth while she ranked Seventeenth "I said, remembering that month. We fought so much that we pretty much slept at the game room, anticipating the next feud to come up.
They scrolled down to see Chris' score. Her screen name showed up next to the seventeenth spot as "ArgentumRelic".
"Wait a second, which Chris are we talking about here?" Dick asked as if he had figured something out.
"Chryssa Argyris" I said, hoping that she would not kill me when she finds out I told them.
"Oh thank god you came here then" Dick said,"Bruce wanted to send you an invite to a charity he was going to hold, but he told me he couldn't get a hold of either of you"
"Makes sense since we were moving around quite a little," I said, dreading the party whenever it will be. I never liked fancy parties, but I had to attend because: one, Chris would force me and two, it would be weird if I didn't try to make connections to other wealthy institutions and people will start looking into what I am doing in my extra time.
"Well, I will hand you both of your invites when you leave. If its okay that is," He said as he entered into another game.
"Sure" I replied as we started the game.
We played until it reached eight. We went down to have a snack and let the PS4 cooldown. We talked a little. They told me how being in school felt, since I had already finished in a crash course (which Chryssa Argyris had provided when I first met her). We stayed in the kitchen and talked about several more things like sports, places, school, etc.
When the clock reached nine, I said that it was getting late and I should get going. Wally said that he would be staying over and that I should too but I replied by saying:
"I better go back to see if Chris set that house on fire yet or not"
Dick gave me the two envelopes with the invites to the charity. I thanked him and started walking home.
When I reached home, I went to the lab to find Chris still working.
"Ummm, Chris?" I said startling her and making her turn on her chair, hiding something behind her.
"Oh, hay Danny! You're finally back! So, how was it?" She said standing up and exiting the lab, heading to the kitchen.
"Well first of all here are invites to a charity Bruce Wayne is holding and your credit card," I said handing her both items. She put the credit card in her back pocket and opened the letter, taking out some pizza from the fridge as she read it.
"Second, we just played Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare and talked" I said, taking a slice from the pizza she took out.
"Okay, did you see Wayne?" She asked, closing the letter and putting it on the table.
"No, he wasn't in the manor" I said, "Did anything happen on your end?"
"Well" She said as she took a bite from her slice. When she was done chewing she continued:" I finished the new power restraint and got the invitation to the …. Thing after tomorrow"
"And you didn't take a rest from work" I said, she was about to say something but I stopped her, "Not another word young lady. After you eat, its bed time for you," I said in my impression of a grandmother.
She laughed, almost choking on her food, "Okay O' mighty grandmother" She said with sarcasm dripping from her voice while rolling her eyes.
We ate in silence. She was done first so she went up to her room, taking the letter with her. I stayed up a little before going to my room and sleeping.
July 2nd; Chris' house; 11:22PM: Chris' First Person Point of View;
I sat in my bedroom thinking stuff over. I needed a plan, and there are too many things happening for me to sleep and think about it in the morning. I sighed as I sat on my desk chair looking at several papers. Trying to organize my thoughts. I started to list things happening in the next few days like:
There is charity tomorrow.
There is the 4th of July JL celebration .
I have to finish some of my drones before the celebration.
My deadline with the Ancients is approaching.
Clockwork is sending letters and boxes with that just complicate thing ten times over.
Crime has been rare in both Gotham and New York. This feels like the calm before the storm.
I am yet to find a way to prevent Danny from being corrupted by the power when he becomes King of the Ghost Zone.
I just wanted to hit the wall. It is just so frustrating sometimes; the things I have to deal with.
I heard Danny go into his room and shut the door. That gave me the 'all clear' to get back to working on my newest drone. I was working on it for a long while, only having one thought in mind.
If this plan does not work, this dimension might as well be set on fire with ice on the edges starting tomorrow.
A.N/EIRENA-GAIA: HI people! Happy new year! Merry Christmas! Or whatever you celebrate in your regions!
First of all, Thank you to everyone who reviewed, followed or Favorited this story. I honestly did not think this many people would be reading this story (+2000 views!*runs around and dies*).
Second of all, I am sorry if this is kinda crappy since I edited it instead of Ihatejasongrace since I did not want to put too much pressure on her with editing both this and the new years special.
And yes, there is a new years' special. It is LONG(In my standards at least). I have never typed something that long in a single night before(I typed this chapter[chapter 4 in several sittings] because stuff happens). Its gonna be the Origins of Chryssa Argyris and it explains the Ancients better than that not-so-brief AN in the first chapter. I will probably put it up sometime during this week. So, look forward to that.
I would love to be hearing any of your predictions, thoughts and opinions. And if anyone has any questions just review or PM me and I will more than likely answer in a day(because school is starting again and stuff). Also, tell me if its okay with the 1st person POV(writing from one character's perspective) or was it better with the 3rd Person POV(writing from an outside perspective) .
I think that is it. Hopefully it is. See you all later! Have a good day/night/morning/evening or whatever other period of time that occurs during the 23.(something) hours in an Earth Day!(I know I am dragging this but I m kinda bored right now. Bye now!)