Thank you all for your patience, here is the next chapter. Hope you enjoy.
Before I forget here is the disclaimer... I DON'T OWN ANYTHING SO DON'T SUE ME
Oh and I now bow to my Beta.. Thank you so much. "Im not worthy. Im not worthy.."
While the author is off being crazy here is the new chapter and poll.
In a future chapter Im doing, Winner Takes All and I need another hero/villain to fight Danny.
I was thinking Kid Flash but if someone can come up with something better it would be much appreciated.. (Must be male and from the Teen Titans show.)
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Chapter 3
Danny had just finished ringing up an order for a new computer when the phone rang. "Hello, Cyber-Life, Danny speaking."
"Hey Danny, this is Cyborg. Is the coast clear?"
"Yeah all clear. However, they have scheduled club meeting tonight so be careful."
"Thanks man."
The Cyber-Life catered to the wants and needs of a lot of people, one of which being fan club meetings. A while back the Teen Titans came in just to relax and purchase some items, but they were mobbed by their visiting fan club. After that, Cyborg or Robin would call beforehand to see if the fan club was there before they came.
The Teen Titans fan club isn't the only one out there. When he first came to work at his current job, he saw a fan club for Danny Phantom, but once the Teen Titans formed he never saw it again. Other fan clubs included the Justice league, not to mention each of the individual heroes that made that group up. Fan clubs didn't only have to do with heroes, but also TV shows, manga, and books. One of the most funny moments he remembered having to do with fan clubs was when a fight almost broke out at a Kim Possible meeting, between people who supported Kim going out with Ron and people who argued Kim should go out with Shego.
Personally, Danny thought it was dumb that people would argue about whether TV show characters should go out or not. He had seen the show on several occasions so he could see each sides points. But he couldn't understand why they would argue about it instead of just agreeing that they disagree...
"Hey man." Danny was brought out of his musings of fighting fans when Cyborg walked in.
"You all by yourself today? What about the others?" asked Danny as he turned off a game of solitaire that he had been playing.
"Yeah well, I had to get out of the tower. Beastboy was acting suspiciously and after what I did to him the other week, I didn't feel like sticking around. The other Titans were busy; Robin was looking for some leads on a criminal, Starfire was cooking, and Raven, well she didn't want to come."
"What did you do to Beastboy?" asked Danny, curiosity evident in his voice.
"Last week I put red dye in his shampoo, it ended up turning him brown for two days." Cyborg chuckled.
"I'd try to get you back too if I was him." Danny said, laughing. "So what can I get for you?"
"Well I heard that the latest Doom expansion pack gives new upgrades and allows access to harder levels. I need it if I'm going to beat the Online Phantom tonight." Danny smiled at his words before he pulled out a specific key and unlocked the display case.
"Yeah, we just got a few copies of the Doom 5 expansion pack in today." Danny pulled out a box and laid it next to the register. "Anything else?"
"No, that's it. Later man." Cyborg paid for his game and left with a really pleased expression on his face.
As soon as Cyborg had exited the cafe, Ben walked up from the computer he has been playing on for the last hour, looking a little surprised. "Dude, you're friends with the Titans. Why didn't you tell me?"
"Only sort of. Whenever they come in when I'm working I talk to them."
"Why do you sound like it's no big deal that they're the Teen Titans?"
Danny sighed. "They're teenagers just like us. Besides, they're hero status is a little overrated." Ben on the other hand couldn't believe what Danny was saying.
"Whatever you say. Still, do you think you could get me an autograph from Starfire?" asked Ben excitedly.
Danny rolled his eyes. "You do realize that she's way out of your league. Besides, from what I've heard, her and Robin are an item, so don't be too surprised when your butt gets kicked."
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Danny finished with the orders, so once his shift was over he headed home for a nice game of Doom. As he walked home he noticed the dark storm clouds in the sky and every now and then would hear thunder. Not too worried about the oncoming storm, he put some headphones in his ears and turned on his mp3 player, listening to the first song that came on.
On the ground I lay
Motionless in pain
I can see my life flashing before my eyes
Did I fall asleep
Is this all a dream
Wake me up, I'm living a nightmare
I will not die (I will not die) I will not die, I'll wait here for you
I will survive
I feel alive, when you're beside me
I will not die, I'll wait here for you
In my time of dying
BOOM!
Feeling an explosion, Danny quickly pulled off his headphones and looked up. Across the street from him, two guys stood on top of a building. One guy was blue and wore an odd outfit with thunder clouds on the front. The other guy was yellow and his outfit had a lightning bolt instead.
"Brother, this looks like a great place to have fun without those other guys ruining it," said the yellow one as sparks crackled around his hands.
"Yes brother, this looks like another great place to show off our power," said the blue guy before he clapped his hands. The result of which caused another loud boom and the ground shook.
Beside him, the yellow guy sent a lightning bolt streaking towards Danny along with a crowd of people. Everybody ducked as he made a split second decision and quickly put a dome shield around them. When the lightning bolt hit the shield, it ricocheted back up into the sky. Hastily removing the shield, within the chaos of people running away he turned himself invisible and transformed into his ghost form.
Now Danny doesn't get mad as easily as he used to, however when he heard the guys talking about showing off their powers, having fun, and then attacking people, to say the least he was very pissed. He reappeared floating twenty feet from the two brothers. As they tried to clear their dumbstruck faces from seeing the lightning deflected, the yellow one asked, "Why did you ruin our fun, white haired one." Pouting, he looked like a child who had his favorite toy taken away.
"Fun. You think that attacking innocent people is fun." stuttered Danny, quickly losing his cool.
"They should get out of the way of our fun and so should you." said the yellow guy before shooting lightning at Danny. Swerving out of the way, he hit the yellow guy square in the chest with an ecto-blast, sending him into the street below. The impact created a small crater.
Danny turned to address the remaining blue guy, who had yet to actually do anything. The expression on his face told Danny that he was thinking about what he had said. "Do you think it's fun to hurt others?"
"I... I don..." Before the blue guy could give a proper reply, a lightning bolt hit Danny, smashing him into a wall.
"Come Thunder, we'll go find somewhere else to have fun." said the yellow guy as he flew back up, looking unscathed from the earlier attack.
"Yes brother Lightning." Before he left, Thunder looked one last time at where Danny had fallen.
Danny got up from the rubble looking completely okay, minus his hair which was standing up on end, but on the inside it was a whole different story. Why did I let my guard down? I'm so stupid. That's why I'll never be a hero, I always screw up. Danny sighed before turning invisible and flew back to his apartment, still lost in thought.
Unbeknownst to him, there had been two other people that had seen the fight between him and the brothers. One, dressed like an old man, grinned as he watched the young halfa disappear from sight. "Interesting..."
The other witness to the battle, was Raven...
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Several minutes ago, Raven was flying around the area looking for the two troublesome brothers, lost in thought and almost laughing at the previous events that happened that day. Poor Beastboy, I almost feel bad for that little Klorbag getting partnered with Starfire. But he really shouldn't have pulled that stupid prank. I even tried to warn him that Cyborg had left the tower earlier, but he wouldn't listen... Raven thoughts were interrupted when a loud boom sounded in the distance, followed by a bolt of lightning streaking up from the ground. "There are so many things wrong with what just occurred." Raven sighed flying in the direction of the "abnormal weather patterns."
Getting closer to the origin of the lightning, she saw a guy with white hair confronting the two brothers. Lightning blasted at him, but the white haired guy swiftly dodged and then planted a green blast directly into Lightning's chest. Was that a starbolt? No, only Starfire uses those. But then, what was it? Raven pondered as she got closer. Deciding to get only close enough to hear what was being said, she hid in the shadows.
"Do you think it's fun to hurt others?" asked the white haired man angrily. Thunder was trying to answer when Lightning hit the white haired guy with a thunderbolt.
"Come Thunder, we'll go find somewhere else to have fun," said Lightning. Thunder seemed to hesitate before finally going with his brother.
She was about to go check to see if the white haired guy was okay when he stood up from the rubble looking relatively unharmed. After a moment passed, she felt strong emotions coming from him and this was when she was at least a hundred feet from him. Most of the emotions she felt coming from him were sadness and sorrow with a little anger mixed in that she could tell was directed towards himself. All of a sudden, right before her very eyes, he disappeared, catching her off guard. After composing herself, she scanned the area around her, finding nothing. She pulled out her communicator and contacted Robin.
Robin's face appeared on the communicator. "Raven, I saw the lightning. Are the brothers still there?"
"No, they took off. However, I did see them fighting a white haired guy."
"What happened?"
"I'll tell you about it later. The brothers are heading towards where Beastboy and Starfire are searching."
"Good, I'll contact the others. Robin out."
Raven turned off the communicator and turned to leave when she thought back to the white haired person. The moment that he stood up from the rubble, she had a glimpse of his face and she could swear that she had seen him before, though she couldn't remember where...
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After the fire monster that was created through the trickery of the "old man" was destroyed by the rain the brothers created, the brothers approached Beastboy, Starfire, Raven, and Cyborg. "I am sorry for the trouble we have made." Thunder said as he bowed to Beastboy. Looking over, he elbowed Lightning who in turn also bowed.
"I... am also sorry."
"You have taught us much Green one, thank you." Thunder said as he shook Beastboy's hand.
"Don't thank me, thank the person who taught me." Replied Beastboy, motioning to Starfire. She walked forward and bowed to the brothers.
"Thank you for helping to defeat the flame monster."
Thunder looked around for a second, searching for somebody, before speaking again. "If you see the white haired one, please tell him we are sorry for hurting him."
"White haired one?" asked Beastboy, a little confused.
"Yes, he stopped one of our attacks and also tried to stop us from causing more trouble earlier."
"We will tell him when we see him." Raven said, before anybody could say more.
"Thank you. Come Brother let us leave." With a flash of lightning, Thunder and Lightning were gone.
"Why didn't we get more information on this white haired guy?" asked Cyborg.
"Earlier I saw the fight between them and the white haired guy. I'll explain what happened once Robin gets here."
When Robin got back he explained about the old man, who was Slade in disguise. Raven then explained everything that she had seen in the fight between the white haired guy and the brothers.
"So you're sure this white haired guy is another hero, not just a friendly spirit?" asked Robin as he soaked in all the information that he was given.
"Yes. I could sense a life force from him and he showed just as many different emotions as a normal human teenager."
"Well Titans, it seems that along with a new enemy in the city, we have a new ally."
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When Danny got back to his apartment he fixed himself something to eat, thankful for the fact that he could cook decently. After years of his parents mutating food with their "experiments", he was forced to learn how to cook at a young age for survival. After finishing a meal of hamburgers he had made with his own homemade special seasoning, he decided to play a game of Doom.
Doom had changed a lot since him, Sam, and Tucker had started playing it. You could still collect the seven silver keys and get unlimited access to the online world, but there had been a lot of additions since then. Many longer and harder levels had been created with huge bosses and enemies. Then there was that one point in time that they tried to condense player killing to one area called "Bounty Hunter", but with the cries of outrage coming from all the players, they removed it.
He logged on to his character Phantom, widely known to other players as the Online Phantom after he defeated the strongest boss in the game single handedly.
Phantom has logged on
Firion98: Hey Danny, u ok
Phantom: Yea Mat, why do u ask?
Firion98: Didn't u here the 2 guys causin trouble all over the city
Phantom: Yea I was at a place they attkd (
Firion98: Wat happened?
Phantom: A little destruction, not hurt. where's Ben?
Firion98: Haven't seen him on today
Ronan360 logged on
Ronan360 : Man u wont believe wat happened
Firion98: I spoke to soon
Ronan360 : Wat?
Phantom: Lol! Nvm
Ronan360 : anyways a giant fire monster was near my house when the teen titans stopped it with the help of those brothers
Firion98: cool did you get Starfire's autograph
Ronan360 : NO they left (
Phantom: Could you'll shut it about autographs and meet me on levl 9
Firion98: Sure...
Ronan360 : fine.. Is this because Cyborg is looking for you
Phantom: yea
After an hour of fighting noobs and a very annoying guy named Atlas, Danny was starting to think Cyborg wasn't going to challenge him. Then two guys appeared online. One was named Beastman, looking like a wolfman from the movies, and the other was Roboman, a guy wielding heavy artillery.
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That night Raven had been trying, and failing miserably, to fall asleep. Her thoughts kept returning to the white haired guy she had seen earlier that day. She remembered all the emotions he aimed at himself that he exhibited and she knew that those kind of people were usually self-destructive. His glowing green eyes stuck out in her mind the most. They looked like they could peer into someone's soul, yet behind them you could see the clouds of pain and sadness.
Realizing that she wasn't going to fall asleep any time soon, she decided to get some tea. Putting a cloak over her black pajamas, she left the solitude of her bedroom. Once she was close to the main room she heard the yelling. "I can't find him." Entering the living room she saw what the commotion was all about. Beastboy and Cyborg were sitting on the couch with two laptops hooked up to the large TV set, which showed the game they were playing.
"BB, I just got information on the Phantom. He's located on the ninth level." said Cyborg as he started pushing buttons really fast.
"I'm so there." replied Beastboy as he matched Cyborg's ferocity.
Raven just shook her head as she went into the kitchen, trying to ignore them. She had just started boiling some water when her mind wandered to an unexpected topic. The word phantom has the definition of spirit or ghost. Our mysterious hero may use ghostly powers, but that is a little far of a stretch, isn't it? The fact that out of the thousands of people who play that game, it would be possible for those two to be connected. Seeing her tea done, she was brought out of her thoughts.
"Finally! We found him!" exclaimed Beastboy. "Now to take away his precious little title of being the greatest fighter in Doom."
Quieting her mind against the outrageous thought that the person Beastboy and Cyborg were playing against could possibly be the hero from earlier, she decided to watch their stupid game. Walking back into the living room, she nearly spilled her cup of tea at what she saw. The video game character Phantom had white hair and was garbed in all black, except for the white bandages around his arms. With the character looking so much like the hero it was quite eerie, but the one major difference was the fact that it had blue eyes.
She watched their battle, finding it quite funny due to the fact that Beastboy and Cyborg were getting their butts handed to them. The guy may have had two other allies, but they didn't even try to help him. They just watched the fight as people would a spectator sport. When Cyborg and Beastboy were beaten and in tears, Raven decided to go to bed. Though she still wondered if the person who played that character was their mysterious hero.
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The next morning in the tower was quiet. Even Beastboy and Cyborg didn't even have their usual argument over the vegetarian versus meat eater lifestyle. They just sat at the table, nursing their bowls of cereals while they mourned their loss against Phantom. When they recounted their loss to Robin, they exaggerated it by saying that Phantom had five other guys on his side when he played against them.
"Don't you mean that you got both your butts kicked by Phantom, on his own, when you both tried to double team him?" interrupted Raven in her usual monotone voice. As if she grew a second head, Beastboy and Cyborg stared at her. Robin on the other hand looked mildly puzzled, while Starfire for her part just stared off into space as she drank an economy sized bottle of mustard. "I was getting myself some tea last night when I heard the ruckus of you two losing very badly to another player."
Cyborg and Beastboy blushed in embarrassment while Robin bursted out laughing. Raven almost grinned at the look on Beastboy and Cyborg's faces as they went into the living room, grumbling.
Later that day, Raven was busy reading a book called Blood Legacy, the Story of Ryan when the rest of the Titans headed out the door. "Friend Raven, would you like to go out with us for the time of hanging out." asked the excited Tameranian.
Raven thought for a moment before deciding that she would appreciate some fresh air. "Sure Starfire."
"Oh joyous you're going with us friend."
"Maybe I shoul...dn't." Starfire, ignorant to her pleas of staying behind, dragged her along with the rest of them as they walked out.
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The Titan's first stop was their favorite pizza place, where their usual argument broke out over whether to order veggie or meat lovers pizza. After finally ordering the usual extra large pizzas, one veggie, a meat lovers, and one supreme, they went over to Cyber-café. There, Danny was working at the time...
When they got there, Raven immediately got herself an herbal tea, one of the few reasons she actually liked the place. Once the lady behind the counter gave her the tea, she went and sat at her usual spot in one of the darkest areas in the room. Normally she would be reading a book, but today she just felt like observing the surroundings around her. She saw Robin comedically trying to explain the different kinds of books to Starfire over by bookshelves. Cyborg and Beastboy on the other hand were up at the front, explaining to the guy running the register about their loss to Phantom.
Raven remembered seeing the guy running the register almost every time she came with the others, but had never paid much attention to him before. Currently he had a knowing grin plastered on his face as he listened to the woes of the defeated. As she studied the guy, he seemed to resonate a feeling of familiarity within herself, until she remembered the mysterious hero. Thinking on that thought, the two did look similar. However, unlike the hero from before, she couldn't sense any strong power from him.
Turning, Raven then noticed Starfire happily giving her autograph to two guys while Robin watched, his jealousy quite evident on his face. The dark sorceress was willing to bet that if he had been holding his bow staff, he would have bent and broke it in half by now.
After paying for their stuff and walking out, Raven was still lost in thought when she thought she felt a tinge of the strong emotions coming from somewhere in the store. It seemed similar to what she felt from the white haired hero, but she couldn't be sure. "Raven, you okay?" Robin asked looking worried.
"I'm fine. It is just that I thought I sensed something..."
END CHAPTER
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