Hey guy! I'm back again with a new chapter!
More of Dannie's ghost hunting stuff in this, but not very much. Sorry.
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Amity Park
August 8, 9:00
Dannie was fighting the Box Ghost again.
"Honestly Boxy, can we please wrap this up? I'm supposed to be meeting some friends in Happy Harbor soon!" she shouted, dodging a box.
"NEVER! YOU WILL NEVER PUT ME INSIDE THAT CYLINDRICAL DEVICE!" he shouted right back at her.
She came up carefully behind him and used the Fenton thermos, trapping him inside of it.
"Finally. I'd better get home so that I can get ready. Today's Beach Day!" she exclaimed, flying into her bedroom.
She changed to her human form and put on a blue one piece swimsuit, decorated with white swirling designs that had been made to look like frost, placing a white flower behind her ear
She grabbed a silky, white swimming robe and put it over her suit, adding her black, Grecian sandals to the outfit and packing some sunblock in her beach bag, along with sunglasses, an extra pair of jeans, a t-shirt, a green beach towel, and her favorite book(PJO: The Lightning Thief).
Dubbing herself ready, Dannie went to the Amity Park Zeta tube, avoiding her mother(Who had once again brought the sausages to life)
However, Jazz caught her before she left.
"Daniella Sapphire Fenton, you need to put on some sunblock!" she lectured.
"I'll put it on when I get there Jazz." Dannie promised. That was a lie. Dannie's skin didn't mix with sunscreen.
"Why is it that I don't believe you?" Jazz asked in exasperation.
Dannie sighed. "I'll have friend Megan help me get it on when I get there; I promise Jazz. Can I go now?"
"Okay, I suppose. But don't blame me when you come back as a lobster." Jazz sang-song as she walked away.
"I happen to like seafood!" Dannie called after her sister.
When she arrived at the cave, the only ones that were missing were Robin and Wally.
"Where are Robin and Wally?" she asked.
"Robin should be here at any minute, and Wally starts school today." Kaldur informed her.
"Poor Wally. Hang on, since when does high school start at the beginning of August?" Dannie questioned.
Superboy was about to respond when the Zeta tube announced, Recognized: Robin, B-0-1.
When the Boy Wonder left the tube, everyone saw that he was very shiny.
"Sorry I took so long." he told them. "Agent A made sure I was thoroughly covered in sunscreen."
Dannie feigned surprise. "So that's why you're shiny! Just don't get any on me. I hate sunscreen. Sunscreen and I are like oil and water; we go together but we don't mix."
Robin smirked and Dannie's eyes widened in terror as he pulled her into a hug, rubbing off some of his sunscreen on her.
"Robin, stop! You're all slimy! Ew!" she begged.
When Robin finally released her, everyone started laughing as she tried to clean the sunscreen off of herself with her beach towel.
"You are so getting it later Wonder Bread!" Dannie threatened.
Robin cackled and said, "If you can catch me."
She glared at him, her blue eyes flashing neon green for a few seconds.
"Let's go before I get tempted to blast you." she growled.
Turning away, she muttered, "Inner peace, inner peace, inner peace, inner peace."
*See? You have a certain impulse to become me.* Phire insisted.
"Phire, shut up." Dannie muttered under her breath.
"Hey Dannie!" Robin shouted. "How about we have fun now and fight your inner demons later?"
"Demon!" she replied. "Singular. One is enough, believe me!"
"Great, but can you grab the charcoal for the fire? We're going to be grilling hotdogs later." he explained.
Dannie shivered. "As long as we're using hot charcoal instead of cooking them in an electric grill or something, gladly."
M'gann raised an eyebrow. "Why would using an electric grill be bad?"
"My mom has a bad habit of using technology to accidentally bring the food to life, especially hotdogs and sausages." Dannie elucidated.
"Ah, that makes a little more sense." M'gann said thoughtfully.
They went out of the mountain and M'gann said, "Hello Megan! We should hit the beach every day!"
Robin put a hand to his forehead in mock sadness and said, "First, a moment of silence for our... absent comrade."
"Poor Wally." Dannie muttered. For a few moments, she feigned sadness before smirking and saying, "Last one in the water is a rotten egg!"
She threw off her white robe and ran for the water. Her and Robin splashed around a bit before he hugged her again, hence getting what little sunscreen he had left on his arms onto her back.
"Stop it! You're still slimy! And besides, I hate physical contact." she told him, phasing out of his grip.
She got out of the water and laid her beach towel on the ground before going away from her things and turning intangible so that she would be dry.
After that was done, Dannie laid down on her stomach on top of the towel and started reading her book.
"Hey, kid," Ares said, seeming genuinely pleased to see me. "You were supposed to die." Well isn't that a nice thing to say to your cousin? Notice Dannie's sarcasm right there.
"You tricked me," I said. "You stole the helm and the master bolt." Duh Percy, of course he did. He's the god of war; he'd love it if his dad and uncles started fighting with each other.
"I figured out it was Ares before Percy did." a voice said, and Danny looked behind her to see Robin coming up to her.
She cracked a small smile. "Hey Rob. And I can't say that I'm surprised, what with you being Batman's protege and all."
"So you're not going to tell them about my identity?" he asked, sitting on the sand next of her.
"If I did, I'm pretty sure that you'd have to kill me." she deadpanned.
"We're heroes; we're not allowed to do that DP." he replied.
"I'm positive that Batman would let you make an exception, and that you could hide all of the evidence and junk. Relax Wonder Bread; I'm not going to tell anyone. Doing so what most certainly end in a Batglare that would give new meaning to 'if looks could kill'. I'm not telling anyone for fear of my afterlife." she explained.
Robin raised an eyebrow. "Don't you mean life?"
"Nope. That got thrown out the window when the accident turned me half ghost." Dannie joked.
He laughed and she hesitated a few seconds before joining in.
M'gann walked up to the two and said, "What're you laughing about?"
"Dannie's misuse of the English language." Robin replied through his laughter.
"Says the boy who uses the words 'whelmed' and 'aster' on a daily basis." the halfa deadpanned.
"Well I just wanted to let you both know that the hotdogs are ready." M'gann informed them.
Dannie got up off of her beach towel and put her book back into her bag, walking over to the charcoal grill.
Luckily, Connor and Megan were better cooks than Dannie's mom and didn't bring the food to life.
M'gann passed Dannie a hotdog, which she promptly started to munch on.
After hotdogs, they decided to play volleyball.
Dannie stayed off to the side and continued to read her book, as she never had been very good at sports.
When the game was over, she allowed her friends to bury her in the sand.
"You sure you don't mind sand in your swimsuit?" Robin asked her at one point.
She smirked. "If I get any sand in my suit, I can just turn intangible to phase it out. That's how I got dry so fast."
He cackled and poured some sand onto her feet.
Out of nowhere, Robin got a call on his phone. "Yeah?... Okay... See you soon."
Then he hung up.
From behind her sunglasses, Dannie had shock in her eyes. "Your conversations are short." she commented.
"They are when it's Batman." he agreed. "He wants all of us cleaned up and in uniform in 20 minutes."
From underneath the pile of sand, Dannie smirked and phased out of the sand, phasing the sand and salt water off of her and making the twin halos bring her into her uniform.
She laughed at the dumbfounded looks on her teammates' faces and said, "I'm ready."
She waited in the Mission Room until her teammates joined her, all cleaned up and in uniform.
Artemis, Dannie had met her once before, had already been here when Dannie came in, so now they were all just waiting for Wally before introductions could get started.
Recognized: Kid Flash, B-0-3.
Wally was holding a lot of beach items, and he said, "The Wall-Man is here, and ready to get this party star-" he was cut off as he slipped and saw the enormous glare on Batman's face. "-ted?"
"Wall-Man, huh?" Artemis asked. "Love the uniform. What exactly are your powers?"
Dannie smirked. She'd only met Artemis in person long enough to give out names last time they saw each other, but now that she was meeting her for a longer duration, Dannie loved her attitude.
"Uh, who's this?" Wally asked rudely.
"Artemis," she stated proudly. "Your new teammate."
"Kid Flash; never heard of you." the redhead replied.
"Uh, she's my new protege." Green Arrow put in. Dannie had to resist rolling her eyes. She knew that Arty wasn't really GA's niece, but she chose to keep her mouth shut.
"What happened to your old one?" Wally asked.
Recognized: Speedy, B-0-6.
"Well for starters, he doesn't go by Speedy anymore." a redheaded archer that Dannie assumed was Speedy said. "Call me Red Arrow."
Green Arrow looked at the newly named Red Arrow and said, "Roy, you look-" "Replaceable. In fact, it looks like you got me two replacements."
Dannie fumed. She wasn't anybody's replacement. Heck, she wasn't even GA's protege; she was Captain Marvel's. Well... technically, she was more of an older sister to him, but she couldn't tell anyone in the League about that.
"It's not like that; you told me you were going solo." Arrow tried to explain.
"So why waste time finding subs?" Red asked. "Can they even use bows?"
"Excuse me Speedy, but I am nobody's replacement. I'm not even Arrow's protege; I'm Captain Marvel's." Dannie growled.
Artemis and Red ignored Dannie's comment as her favorite blonde archer said, "Yes. She can."
"Who are you?" Wally asked.
"She's his/I'm his/she's my niece." Arty, GA and Dannie all said at once.
"Another niece?" Robin scoffed.
'Excuse me, but I happen to be Cap's niece Wonder Bread.' Dannie told him telepathically.
'Wait, I thought you said that your telepathy-' 'Only works if the person has seen death, they're half ghost like me, or they're a full ghost. And as I said before, Cap is my uncle.'
'I highly doubt that. You two look nothing alike.'
'How do we look nothing alike? We both have black hair and blue eyes, at least when I'm in my human form, and pale skin, again with the human form thing.'
'Other than that, nothing is the same.'
"And she is not your replacement." Aqualad assured Red. "We have always wanted you on the team, and we have no quota on archers."
"And if we did, you know who we'd pick." Wally promised.
"Speak for yourself. I'd rather have Artemis." Dannie retorted, but a Batglare shut her up.
"Whatever Baywatch." Artemis stated. "I'm here to stay."
"You came to us for a reason." Aqualad told Red.
"Yeah," the archer said. "A reason named Doctor Serling Roquette."
Dannie noticed that Robin's eyes nearly popped out of their sockets.
"Nano robotics genius and claytronics expert at Royal University in Star City! Vanished two weeks ago." he stated as he pulled up information about the doctor on his glove computer.
"Abducted two weeks ago," Red corrected. "By the League of Shadows."
Robin put away his computer and said, "Whoa! You want us to rescue her from the Shadows?"
"Hardcore!" Wally supplied.
Dannie rolled her eyes. As if Speedy(Not being nice because he was mean to Dannie and Artemis) would give them that difficult of a stealth op when Superboy, Kid Flash, and herself had so little stealth training.
"I already rescued her." Red replied, deflating Robin and Wally's excitement. "Only one problem; the Shadows had already coerced her into creating a weapon. The doc calls it the FOG; comprised of millions of microscopic robots. Nano-tech infiltrators, capable of disintegrating anything in their path; Concrete, steel, flesh, bone, but its true purpose isn't mere destruction; it's theft. The infiltrators eat and store raw data from any computer system, and deliver the stolen Intel to the Shadows; providing them with access to weapons, strategic defense, cutting edge science and tech-"
"Perfect for extortion, manipulation, power broking," Artemis interrupted. "Yeah. Sounds like the Shadows."
"Like you know anything about the Shadows." Wally said cockily.
Artemis smirked and just gave him a, 'I know more than you think I know' look.
"Who are you?!" Wally shouted.
"Artemis," Dannie smirked, "I like you already."
"Roquette's working on a virus to render the FOG inert." Red told them.
Robin's eyes widened from behind his mask. "But if the Shadows know she can do that-" "They'll target her. Right now she's off the grid; I stashed her at the local high school's computer lab."
"You left her alone?" GA asked incredulously.
"She's safe for now." Red retorted.
"Then let's you and I keep her that way." Arrow replied, trying to keep the bitterness out of his voice.
"You and I?" Speedy scoffed. "Don't you want to take your new protege?"
Green Arrow stepped up to reply, but Batman placed a hand on the Emerald Archer's shoulder, almost as if to say, 'choose your battles.'
GA calmed down and said, "You brought this to the team. It's their mission, which means its hers now too."
"Pfft. Then my job's done." Red replied, walking out.
The computer started to say, Recognized: Speedy- but it was interrupted when the red archer(ruby archer?) said, "That's Red Arrow, B-0-6; update."
Artemis, after turning her head away from a very peeved Kid Flash, looked to Dannie and said, "I'm glad we're on the team together. Last time we met, we only got to exchange names. It'll be nice to get to know you."
Dannie smiled. "Yeah. It'll also be nice to have someone that can help me keep 'Baywatch' in line; It's getting too hard to do it by myself."
"Hey! I swear, you two are ganging up on me!" Wally exclaimed.
The two girls smirked in unison. "Duh Wally. I didn't start my afterlife yesterday."
Happy Harbor
August 8, 21:53 EDT
Aqualad checked once more to see if there was anyone outside the computer lab, and requested that Miss M link them up to prevent their comms from being hacked.
'Is everyone online?' her voice rang out through Dannie's head.
'Ugh! This is weird.' Artemis commented.
'And distracting.' Doctor Roquette added. 'Coding a distributed algorithm virus on a kiddy computer with less RAM than a wristwatch is hard enough; now I have to hear Teen Think in my skull?'
Dannie raised her eyebrow. 'Lady, are you always this rude when somebody is trying to help you?'
'I agree with DP on this. Lady, do you always complain when somebody tries to help you?' Wally asked.
'Pot, kettle' Artemis introduced. 'Have you met?'
'Hey, hey! I do not need attitude from the newbie that drove Red Arrow off the team.' Wally retorted.
'That is so not on me.' Artemis growled.
'Fate of the world, at stake?!' The doctor reminded them.
'She started it!' KF replied.
'And you should've ended it instead of agging her on.' Dannie told him.
'How about I just go help Miss Martian and Superboy patrol the perimeter?' Artemis suggested.
'Good idea.' Kaldur answered. To Dannie it almost sounded like he was getting frustrated.
Once Artemis was gone, Robin said, 'You might cut her some slack. It was her arrow that saved your butt against Amazo.'
Wally shot forward. 'What? No! That was Speedy's- I mean Red Arrow's- arrow... right?'
Dannie smirked. 'Not so much. I've met Artemis before, and I'd recognize her arrows anywhere.'
'Well, still not giving her the satisfaction' Wally said stubbornly.
'You know I can still hear you.' Artemis mentioned.
"Ugh!" Wally shouted out loud.
'Couldn't get the Justice League.' Doctor Roquette complained.
'The virus will not be of much use if we cannot find the weapon. Can you track it?' Kaldur questioned.
'My utility FOG is not a weapon; it's science, brilliant science, and of course I can track it, but I'd have to go online. Might as well rent a billboard with this address and 'assassinate me' written in neon.' Doctor Roquette retorted.
'Since this FOG of yours can disintegrate flesh and bone, it arguably is a weapon lady.' Dannie argued.
'Are you going to stop calling me 'lady'?' The doctor asked.
'I'm afraid not lady. It's just like with Robin over here; I'm not going to stop calling him Wonder Bread.' Dannie elucidated.
'... You two would make a cute couple.' Roquette mused.
Dannie paused, gaining a horrified look on her face before acting like she was choking.
'Forget it lady!' the halfa screamed.
Kaldur placed his hand on the doctor's shoulder. 'We will protect you.'
The doctor took a deep breath before pressing a button on the computer, which probably started tracking the FOG.
After a few seconds of waiting, Dannie heard Artemis think, 'Mmm. That boy.'
'He can hear you,' M'gann reminded her, and the halfa almost thought that the Martian sounded jealous. 'We can all hear you.'
'Oh, I know.' Artemis replied.
'Miss Martian,' Aqualad's voice rang out, 'Doctor Roquette has located the FOG. Reconfigure the Bio-Ship so that I can send Robin, Superboy and Spirit to disable it.'
Superboy, Robin, and Dannie ran into the Bio-Ship, and Robin took his place at the helm while Dannie and Superboy sat down near the front.
After getting situated at the controls, Robin launched the ship into the air.
The three teens flew in silence until Robin asked, "So Spirit, how did you and Superboy meet?"
Dannie suddenly felt really uncomfortable as she muttered something that was almost completely inaudible to Robin, but perfectly clear to Superboy.
"What was that?" Robin questioned.
"I was in an alleyway and I almost got mugged; Supey and KF saved my life, and a few minutes later I met Captain Marvel. Are you happy now?" She said, much louder this time.
"Sorry, I didn't know."
After a long silence, Robin said, "Robin to Aqualad. We've located the Shadows' next target; STAR labs. We're too late; it's been destroyed, totally destroyed. The FOG totally decimated it. This is bad. STAR labs has cutting edge science, and now their secrets are in the hands of the enemy. What's our next move?"
"Re-scan for that FOG; find it. We're moving the doctor."
The teens moved on as Doctor Roquette gave us the coordinates for the Shadows' next target."
"The Shadows' next target is Vlad Co." Dannie smirked. If this FOG stuff wasn't in the hands of the Shadows, she'd let it destroy fruitloop's servers.
Suddenly, a thought came to her head. "Wait a minute. In theory, Vlad Co.'s systems could be used to hack-" Dannie cut herself off, easily finding her shoes very interesting.
"Hack what?!" Robin and Superboy asked her.
"Uh... it doesn't matter, but the point is that Vlad Co. runs a 24 hour work force; we'll never get everyone out in time." Dannie elucidated.
They all went to the door and opened it so that they could jump out when they needed to.
Robin looked down at his glove computer and said, "It's downloading."
Superboy looked down at the Vlad Co. parking lot and said, "Don't need it."
"Superboy!" Dannie and Robin shouted at the same time.
The guy in the van that Superboy had apparently spotted was prepared, and launched a laser beam from his helmet, tossing the clone aside before he released the FOG on Vlad Co.
"No!" Dannie shouted.
She jumped out of the Bio-Ship, and Robin followed closely behind her towards the Vlad Co. building and flying through the hole that the FOG had created.
"What the-" she heard a security guard say, but then he added, "Hey! You can't come in here! Unauthorized entry!"
A barred wall, like that in a jail cell, started to come down until Dannie shouted, "Vlad Co. override; Maddie Masters!"
Dannie ran fazed through the bars and ran off to the next hallway that came on their left, entering what appeared to be a lab, with a large desktop computer on the desk.
She looked to Robin and said, "Plug into that computer; it's the only one in this entire building that's linked to the mainframe."
He nodded and quickly plugged his glove computer into the system. "Oh boy, I hope you're right."
He typed several keys on his glove and added in the virus to the system.
When he saw several of the nano-bots falling and turning red, he said, "Yes! The infiltrators have been outfiltrated!"
Dannie rolled her eyes, at least until Vlad entered the room in human form.
His eyes narrowed at the heroes.
"Shadow, so good to see you. I assume that I have you to thank for saving my servers?" he questioned.
"Actually Mr. Masters, that was Robin and Doctor Serling Roquette. The doctor made the virus and Robin downloaded it into your systems, destroying the FOG. All I did was guide him through the building." Dannie elucidated as she tried to keep herself calm.
"Well, I am honored to have a pair of such impressive heroes save my company's servers." Vlad said, expressing fake gratitude.
*He seems a little too happy that you helped. He knows too much. Destroy him.* Phire demanded.
The younger halfa ignored Phire's voice and said, "It's what we do Mr. Masters."
Robin put a hand on her shoulder. "We should go; the others are waiting for us."
Dannie nodded and followed her teammate out of the building and into the Bio-Ship.
Amity Park
August 9, 1:00
Recognized: Dannie Phantom, B-0-7.
Dannie left the zeta tube to see Danny waiting for her, arms crossed.
"I needed your help today, and you weren't here." he accused. "Dannie, which is more important to you; Amity Park, or this new team of yours?"
"They mean equally as much Danny." she replied. "I got called away for a really important mission today, and it took a long time; I'm sorry. And if you needed my so badly, who were you fighting?"
Danny's gaze shifted uncomfortably. "I was fighting the Box Ghost."
"You needed with Boxy?" Dannie deadpanned.
"No. But you're always with the team; you never make any time for me, Jazz, Tucker, or Sam, you don't even make time for mom and dad." He answered, rubbing his arm. "I feel like I"m losing my twin sister."
"Danny... I'm not replacing you, but I've been busy lately, and... Artemis joined the team. I was so excited about getting to know her during the mission, that I forgot about how we'd planned to spend time together today. I'm really sorry. BUt you need to understand that this team... they're part of my obsession now; I want to be able to protect them if they need me. No matter, you will always be my twin brother, but my teammates, they need me sometimes too, and I'm trying to make Superman get his head out of his butt about Superboy. Trust me when I say that isn't easy." she explained, cracking a smile.
He returned it. "Okay, I just... I don't want to lose my sister."
"You won't." I promised him.
Okay! That chapter is out of the way, and might I say... FINALLY! I had almost no idea where to go with this until the idea of Dannie and Robin saving Vlad's company instead of Wayne Tech, and Danny being a possessive brother came into my head.
But thank God that this chapter is done.
Anyways, bye peeps! (I didn't have my macaroni salad today)
Signing off,
-MckennaTennyson-Harper12
