Chapter 6: 1 vs. 3; Danny's Crisis

(AN: Just so as you know, this is the longest chapter yet I have made for this story. Considering the amount of favorites, I might continue this. ¾ of this chapter is a battle. Also if anyone has opinions on the cover for this story. {See Desktop version}. Please tell me what your opinion is on it.)

Danny sat out in the open pondering about his experience with Hal Jordan. The experience allowed him to open up a vast possibility into some of the areas of his powers.

He wasn't as talented as a Green Lantern officer was in creating energy constructs with only his powers. It would a while before he could manage to achieve any stable form of construct with the sizes that Hal Jordan was capable of as well as Vlads.

Looking at his hand, Danny began to question if he was as strong as he originally thought to be. From what Batman had said, he would need to retrieve his counterpart wherever he was and defeat Superman before he was able to get back home.

His thoughts drifted back to his fight with Sinestro. He didn't use all of his powers to help win the battle, as using too much would reveal too much. If he ran into more opponents at one time here who could fly… he didn't think that he would have any other choice.

Diana spoke about her concerns that Sinestro had a body with the durability of Superman. He never suspected how that was possible but the procedure to do so would need to be examined.

One doesn't go from having soft flesh and blood to iron tough skin in only a few minutes. He only fought two and a half people so far and by the looks of it, the state of enhanced durability may only last a short time if he was thinking about the process correctly.

Danny was about to leave to head back to the base when he noticed a white beam of condensed energy heading straight for him. Bringing a shield up at the last possible second, the shield was barely halfway formed before the beam collided with his shield, breaking it and sending Danny crashing straight into the side of a building.

Wincing at the pain he was currently experiencing, he slowly picked himself up to glance at his attacker and was surprised by what had attacked him. His attacker looked to be a cross between a human and machine. 'Cyborg'. If Danny was correct, this person acted as a tech expert, a part time scientist, and a former member of the vigilante group, THE TEEN TITANS. Not a good combination, especially for him.

This one looked to be in his early twenties and by the looks of it, was able to track him down using his computer. (*^* ^&).

"This is Cyborg, I've located the target, please assist." He responded into his communicator in a deep gruff voice.

"Copy that, we have you both in our sights". A higher pitched voice responded.

Danny's eyes widened. He didn't like the sound of that. If that was true, then there was more than one metahuman as his backup and by the sound of it, they were not far. He needed to finish this fight as quickly as he could, despite knowing very little of Cyborg's capabilities.

Standing up, fists blazing, he got ready to defend himself, when an electrical charge hit him from behind.

Screaming from the pain at the sudden electrical attack, which was followed up by a hard kick to his side, Danny took to the skies where he analyzed the newcomer.

His eyes widened when the newcomer turned out to be Nightwing. He pondered back for a moment. Murphy's Law. He hated that. He just had to ponder about it and now he was going up against someone with enhanced durability. Nightwing didn't have that last time, so this one upgrade must be fresh.

Great… Just # &^$ Great.

He was brought out of his musings when the lower half of his body was suddenly encased in ice. Falling to the street below, Danny backed up so that he could see who the third newcomer was.

This time his attacker was a woman. Dressed in navy blue clothes and had bluish gray skin. "Killer Frost". He thought. Well this just seems fitting. A scientist, a fighter who uses stealth and hand to hand combat, and a third fighter who specializes in ice abilities. He was a person with all three attributes. Well the son of scientists and someone who understands some of the basics but still.

He could just fly out of here with or without intangibility and invisibility, but then they would be able to track him using their tracking devices and he wasn't sure if Cyborg's eye could see through invisibility but he wasn't going to take that chance. Hiding some of his heavier abilities was going to be a problem this time especially with it being three on one.

Cyborg started out by shooting Danny with a few shots from his cannon. Danny weaved around them only to get frozen by a well-aimed shot from Killer Frost. Nightwing followed up by connecting his eskrima sticks into a single rod where he began to knock the halfa free from the ice but ended up causing him a fair deal of pain with the repeated strikes.

Danny hated to do this as it was against his morals to hurt other humans with his powers but they weren't giving him any choice in the matter. He didn't dare split them up no matter how much he wanted to. Creating an ectoplasmic construct of a hand, he grabbed Cyborg and tossed him towards a light post where he spread some ice connecting it to Cyborg, hopefully to hold him for a while.

Turning his head towards the other two he decided to try something that might give him the edge. He noticed a broken light post lying on the ground and started to try and swing it like a giant baseball bat. Nightwing quirked an eyebrow; amused at what the kid was trying to do. Nodding to Killer Frost who selected an abandoned green trash bin and swinging it towards Phantom catching him off guard and sending him into another building leaving an indention in the wall.

Danny was certainly seeing stars when he saw Killer Frost running towards him with a hammer she constructed from ice. Acting on instinct, he froze the ground beneath her feet catching her off balance and sending her into the wall next to him.

Flying away from the wall, Danny tackled Nightwing in an effort to bring him down but nightwing surprised him when he turned Danny's speed against him and almost sent him into a wall.

Turning quickly, Danny was about to ram into a building headfirst till he turned intangible at the last second and phased through the wall. Wait. There might be a way to win after all. Phasing out of the building, he noticed that Cyborg and Killer Frost were back in the game. This time though, they were through messing around. But Danny wasn't ready to bring out the big guns yet. This plan of his just might work.

Shooting towards the three, the smile present on his face as he phased through the ground surprising the three. Cyborg couldn't see who what he was going to do till he chose a random fighter which surprised him as Phantom's choice proved to be Killer Frost.

Grabbing her legs from below the ground without breaking it, Danny dragged her beneath the ground till she was up to her shoulders. Cyborg tried to warn Nightwing, but Danny got him too.

Cyborg quickly made use of his eye to try and sense him. Just as Danny was about to do the same to the half robot, Cyborg shot a blast from his cannon into the ground saving himself and leaving him to fight Danny all on his own. He had to give the kid credit for one thing. The guy certainly knew how to divide and conquer.

"You know I am a little curious, why would someone like you follow someone like Superman?"

"Hmm?"

"From what I read about you, you were originally part of the group known as the Teen Titans. The Titans fought to bring down any form of villain or crime group so why would you stoop this low if you fought with Batman before?"

"I already know what you're trying to do kid. Trying to stall for till help comes. We will be long gone by then." He responded shooting another few blasts at Danny. Who avoided the shots either by evasion or intangibility.

"That may be but I am still curious what made you decide to work with a criminal of all people". He asked looking at Killer Frost. Danny may have fought with old enemies against Pariah Dark, but at that time, they were all against the ghost kings agenda.

Cyborg gave the teen a hard look. "You really want to know? After the titans were killed, I sought to end all crime organizations who sought to massacre those that I once cared about. When Superman became the world's leader, I joined up to end all crime organizations. Criminals who didn't desire Superman's punishment for their current crimes or their refusal; joined him."

Danny sadly shook his head. "So basically everyone hero or villain became afraid of the man they once admired."

Cyborg's face grew red with fury. "Don't you dare try to label the High Councilor as the villain you monster." He replied as he charged up a blast in combination with a heavy downward punch. While Danny was able to avoid it, the two buried in the road were released from confinement.

Aquaman was curious as to where their new comrade was. He knew that teens surface dwellers or atlanteans had a bit of a rebellious streak after being cooped up for an extended period of time.

"Has anyone seen phantom? Its been a few hours since we last saw him."

Hal glanced in the sea king's direction. "We practiced with energy constructs for a couple of hours then he decided to take a small break outside the base."

"I understand about someone taking leave after a practice, but are you sure that was a wise idea letting him go out there where he could easily be identified."

Batman broke the silence. "I can understand where you are coming from Aquaman, in a normal situation I would say to give him some space. This is war though. He hasn't come back yet. Has he given any indication as to where he might be heading?"

Hal thought for a moment. "I believe he said he wanted to check out the old buildings a few miles west of here. Said it looked like an old penitentiary."

Green Arrow shuddered. Arkham Asylum. That place always gave him the creeps.

"I am going after him. If I see any trouble I will call for backup."

'Hopefully he hasn't run into any trouble'. The caped crusader thought to himself. He never had any idea the seriousness of how accurate the situation was.

'Pant,.Pant, Pant.' "You have got to be kidding me." It was as if he was right back at square one. He was getting nowhere. At this rate he would have to use the duplicates. Taking a risk, he created an energy construct around Cyborg's arms and fastened him to a wall in a horizontal angel several feet above the ground. He needed some time to deal with the other two. Placing them underground again would be out of the question. The ground was loosened and they would not fall for the same trick twice.

Forming a bo staff of ice, he charged towards the two fighters who both had their own weapons out. Killer Frost a sword and Nightwing his own staff. Nightwing leaped over to try and attack him from behind. Gritting his teeth at the change in position, Danny blocked Killer Frost's blade with his staff, then as Nightwing was about to strike him back from the rear, he decided to attempt a trick his cousin performed. Charging some energy into his leg, he let loose the energy from his foot like a back kick throwing Nightwing back several feet. Making him hit his the wall and causing him to have a minor concussion.

Danny Vs Killer Frost

The fight between the two warriors began as Killer Frost started assaulting the target in front of her. She performed a roundhouse kick and sent him airborne. While her target was airborne, she created a slide of ice and shot ahead of him then swung a club of ice at him sending him backwards.

To Danny, fighting against Killer Frost was like fighting against Frostbite and his people. Only this person was alive and giving it everything she had. She wanted to determine who was the best wielder of ice powers? They were about to determine that.

Stretching out his hand and creating a slide of his own, Danny manipulated the ice into a ramp where he managed to right himself up if only barely.

Killer Frost created an updraft of air sending him airborne and almost impaling him on another spike of ice. He created a frozen sled to act as not only a sled but a shield against the spike.

Bringing forth a huge gust of cold air, she was able to mold several walls from his left and right and above. Kind of like an iron maiden of sorts. "How about some Frostbite kido?"

He smiled at her "He was my teacher." She brought them down as Danny smirked and created an igloo of ice to shield himself. The attack broke the igloo but the attack in itself broke as well. Knowing they were in a way evenly matched they moved on towards hand to hand combat.

Danny and Killer Frost kept on exchanging blows until the former swept her feet out from under her causing her to lose her balance. Taking this chance, he brought up his hand and encased her in a cocoon of ice trapping her.

"Looks like this round's mine." He smiled to her.

Danny vs Nightwing

Nightwing came to and noticed that Killer Frost was frozen solid. Getting to his feet he quickly made a break towards his comrade in an attempt to release her. Danny noticed him coming and didn't want him to try and get his partners free again, instead, despite being exhausted, decides to take him on.

At first, it was certain Nightwing was going to dominate this fight then Danny held out his hand and fired a several ecto-rays at Nightwing at point blank range. He knew that against someone who now had enhanced durability that it would only hold off for a certain amount of time before he was going to be able to escape it.

Trading blows staff for staff, the fight began to wear both fighters out, but Danny knew that if he wanted to leave, then he would need to destroy or at least disable all three tracking devices. Nightwing began to push back Danny towards a building hoping to knock him out for past times he humiliated him. That or at least defeat him personally in order to pay him back.

Kicking his opponent towards the wall at such a hard and fast speed left quite a body sized indention in the wall. Danny wasn't willing to throw in the towel just yet though. Turning intangible, he phased through the wall and got behind Nightwing several feet. What surprised him though was not his opponents strength or speed this time. But the pain he experienced when becoming intangible. It felt like his body was on fire or experiencing a cramp. Did this mean his body was approaching his limit? He hoped not.

"Not bad, for an amateur." Nightwing remarked at him.

Danny scowled then smirked knowing what he was trying. "Says the one who wears a Halloween costume."

Nightwing growled before charging. Danny charged up his hands and flew straight forwards as his attack hit his opponent's eskrima kali sticks.

Trying a different tactic, Nightwing shot a hook gun in the direction of a wall with a flag pole bearing the flag of the regime. Taking the flag, he attempted to wrap it around the kid before attacking him repeatedly.

Key word. Attempt.

Danny merely used his ecto energy and ripped through the fabric. Shooting Nightwing with a close range ecto ray he knocked him away and onto his back.

Before he could do anything else, a high power energy beam hit him dead on in the back sending him flying over the debris. He looked seeing Cyborg and Killer Frost loose and free again.

He didn't know how much more of this he could take. If help didn't come soon, he was likely to get captured.

Getting ready to continue fighting despite his state, he was about to charge into the fray when water that was spewing from the hydrant suddenly pushed them away. "You alright Phantom?"

Danny looked up and was relieved to see Aquaman. Trident and all. "Despite having one person here as backup. I could gladly use the help."

Aquaman looked up at the group. "Looks like you bit off more than you could chew."

Danny gave a hollow laugh. "Considering my assumption that they now have a fresh upgrade in enhanced durability? Yeah you could say that."

Looking carefully at the group, Danny thought to himself. 'I highly doubt that I could handle all three again after that. After that experience, it's true one can protect two others and freeing them. I would need to focus on one of them before helping aquaman, but the question is… which one?'

Thinking about the situation earlier, he decided. "Aquaman, considering the situation, do you think you could handle Nightwing and Killer Frost while I handle Cyborg?"

Aquaman looked at the lad concern on his face. "Are you sure, in your state?"

Aquaman asked him if he could just fly the both of them out of there. Danny replied that he couldn't.

Cyborg had a lock on his powers so if he even used them, they would know where he was. If he left then the regime would be able to locate Batman.

Arthur facepalmed at that mistake. So he would need to damage the locaters on the three before they could leave? Perfect. With that they charged into the fray in an attempt to bring down the three regime metahuman members.

Danny looked at him. "The sooner we can defeat him, the sooner we can destroy their tracers."

Arthurs eyes narrowed. That complicated things. "Alright, good luck."

Danny Vs. Cyborg round 2

Danny nodded and faced his last opponent. The Cyborg. "You are under arrest for countless charges and will be taken into custody."

"Whatever happened to Right to Speedy and Fair Trial by Jury?"

"Superman is now the judge jury and executioner."

"Then I shall have to end that system." (If one were to consider their health gauges on the INJUSTICE Game, Cyborg would have sixty five percent with Danny having thirty. Tells how exhausted he is.)

Cyborg started out with a few basic punches and kicks towards his opponent. Which Danny tried to either evade or redirect.

Shooting out a grappling hook, Cyborg grabbed ahold of a piece of an old iron billboard sign and swung it at phantom. Handling the strain, Danny phased through it causing Cyborg to growl knowing that he still had the strength to fight.

Powering up his cannon for a stronger shot, Cyborg readied himself for firing the cannon.

Danny panicked not knowing if he could phase through it in this state. Charging up the ectoplasm in his hands he faced his opponent.

Letting it loose, the ray from his cannon collided with the energy Phantom fired from his hands. As both struggled for dominance, Cyborgs blast overwhelmed Danny's own catching him in the line of fire.

The only good thing is that he didn't take the full brunt of the attack, but Danny was still in quite a bit of pain. He looked over at his ally: Aquaman and saw he wasn't faring much better. Nightwing and Killer Frost were both pushing him back till Nightwing took a heavy swing with his staff and caused the king of the seas to be knocked towards Phantom.

Danny looked at the three approaching fighters in resignation.

The three looked ready to finish this off. Danny and Aquaman could both tell and both of them were nearing exhaustion. Resigning himself due to his options, Danny realized he had no other choice but to use it. Looking around in desperation he spotted the one they had damaged earlier.

"Arthur, can you make a wall of water from that hydrant?" Aquaman heard him but wondered what he was going to do with it. Killer Frost could freeze it and nightwing could just electrocute the water. He didn't see anything else that could help them at the moment but complied anyway.

Summoning some water from the fire hydrant, he created a huge watery wall cyborg and the others got ready to attack with their own ultimate abilities: Cyborg to fire at through the water and Frost to freeze it or Nightwing to electrocute it to finish the fight when Danny surprised them all as he sucked in a large breath and unleased his ghostly wail into the water. Aquaman covered his ears as he couldn't tolerate the sound very well but he could finally understand where lad was coming from. There are two ways to amplify sound effects:

The first was to use an enclosed space which was where they were considering it was a narrow street.

The second he remembered from his analysis of oceanic life were sounds that came from aquatic sea creatures traveled faster underwater than they do above ground.

If one considered the strength of the soundwave which was several levels above the ones called banshee and black canary, it would have been the equivalent of a high powered explosion hitting all of them at one time. Considering it was also going up against Cyborg's Cannon and dissipating its energy.

The sound wave was pretty painful to hear and he could tell that the ability was draining the young lad. The three regime members were not faring much better.

The devastation died down.

Danny looked at himself, he was still in his ghost form, but he did not know how much longer he could handle it.

Aquaman and Phantom looked around and saw the place resembled a war zone. Struggling with the experience of what just happened, they made their way to the three fighters. Danny saw that Cyborg's mechanical system was fried from the experience. Nightwing and Killer Frosts electronics were damaged beyond repair.

The good things: they were still alive and his intention was done. They got rid of the tracking devices. Knowing that their job there was done they made their way back when what looked like a navy blue bird out of a horror movie appeared in front of them.

Danny groaned at this new development. What now?

A figure stepped out of the portal. Danny's eyes widened in fright at the new arrival. Even though he was exhausted and made an effort to focus he recognized the person from the description in Batman's files.

"Raven." He mouthed. Of all the people to have arrived now of all times why did it have to be her?

He knew that even if he was at full strength from the description and from what he observed of the new developments in these three, Raven would have been more than a match for him especially one on one combat.

"Sorry but I am afraid that I can't let any of you go."

She made a gesture with her one of her hands and suddenly Aquaman was in pain. "You will know the feeling of pain."

Turning her gaze towards Danny she made a construct of a claw and made it to grab Danny.

Using what was left of his power, Danny made a construct of his own and started wrestling with Raven's magic. It was clear he wasn't going to last much longer. Lowering his head he knew he may not last longer then he spotted a trail of water leading from him to Raven. Knowing it was crazy but if it freed both of them he would take it.

Using the last bit of his powers, Danny focused his ghostly stinger into the water, allowing it to reach Raven. Recognizing the signs too late Raven and Danny both got themselves electrocuted. Raven breaking her concentration and falling back. Danny losing consciousness and allowing the rings to envelop him, changed back into his human form.

Aquaman saw what happened and lifted the teen onto his shoulder. Looking back at the four he saw Raven was beginning to stir. Seeing a tracking device of her own, he quickly brought down his trident on it and with that he made off with his ally back to base for some medical attention.

Raven faintly grinned at the retreating duo. 'Well, looks like things have just gotten interesting.'