Hi, guys! Thanks a lot for all the reviews I got! Again, I've been busy the last couple of days, but I found time to give you a new chapter. This fic is slowly winding down, so prepare for a fantastic finish!
I bring you Chapter 10! I don't own Danny Phantom or Teen Titans.
A World he Never Knew
Chapter Ten: Conversations Unusual
Danny's eyes shot up as he saw his arch enemy, Vlad Plasmius, standing in the center of the room.
"Plasmius?"
Vlad heard him and waved his hand, "Not right now, Daniel. I must have a talk with your…master." His voice dropped to an icy level as he said this.
Slade folded his arms at seeing Vlad and said, "Well, well, well. Vlad Masters, a.k.a. Vlad Plasmius. My apprentice has told me much about you."
"Quiet, Slade! I must let you know…that I don't like when someone else swoops in on my territory! I knew Daniel longer than you have, and I wanted him to serve me before you!"
"Too little, too late, I suppose. Young Daniel has chosen to serve me, and I have carefully been able to bring out his true destiny. One that you could never hope to release. All you've ever been able to do is help yourself to get whatever you want."
To Slade's surprise, Vlad simply smirked, "Sound familiar?"
Slade glared at him, obviously angry at this.
Danny then stepped in, shouting, "Cut it, Vlad! I chose Slade, not you, so you have no business being here to make me switch over to you."
Vlad snarled, "I didn't come here to make you switch over to me, young man. I came to get you to stop being someone you're not!"
Danny raised an eyebrow, "Come again?"
"Unusual as it may be for someone like me to say this, you don't belong on the side of evil! At least not if it's not on my side of it."
Sam called out, "You mean you want him to quit Slade and be good again?"
"What else could I possibly mean, girl!"
Slade said to Vlad, "Forget it, Vlad. Danny is the one who chose this life. He can't turn back now."
Vlad spat back, "Not unless someone else takes the steering wheel."
"Enough of this. Danny?"
Danny quickly jumped into action and flew towards Vlad. Vlad flew high upward and fired a purple ghost ray. But he did not aim it at Danny. Instead it hit a large piece of machinery in front of a wall. It was hit and blown to pieces, smoke rising from it.
The straps that held the Titans, Jazz, Sam, and Tucker on the wall glowed for a second, and then they unlocked themselves, dropping them to the ground!
Robin said to Vlad, "I can tell you're not a good guy, but it looks like you're on our side now."
Beast Boy then shouted at Slade, "How are you gonna take us when it's you two against us…uh…" He counted his fingers, "Let's see, that's five, then…uh, carry the one…"
Jazz interrupted, "Nine."
"Uh, yeah! Against us nine!" He then whispered to Jazz, "Thanks."
Slade replied, "You of all people should know by now that appearances can be deceiving."
Before anyone could respond, Slade held up his wrist, and pushed a gray button on it.
Around the room, doors flew open. In the doorway stood more of Slade's robots. They all looked fresh and prepared for battle.
Danny sneered at all of them, "Not exactly in your favor now, is it?"
Robin narrowed his eyes and whipped out his staff, "I think we can handle it. Titans, go!"
The Titans spread out as Slade's robots ran towards them.
Beast Boy became a jaguar as he ran the robots down. Several of them, however, jumped up and landed behind him. He quickly became an anaconda and wrapped himself around them, squeezing them until they broke.
Screaming out loudly, Starfire fired star-bolt after star-bolt at the robots as they tried to jump at her in mid-air. A couple of them found their target, but some robots weren't hit and were about to hit her.
"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"
A wave of dark energy quickly encased the robots who were closest to Starfire. Raven then threw them hard at the wall, crashing into it and sliding down it.
Robin watched as a small round of henchmen ran towards him. He listened carefully, and then jumped up, backflipping through the air before landing on Cyborg's shoulders, who was running behind them.
Carefully keeping Robin balanced, Cyborg charged at the robots, firing his cannon at them, and kicking those he missed.
At this time, Robin jumped high off of Cyborg's shoulders. While in mid-air, he threw a disk at one round of robots and a bird-arang at another. A few of each were hit, with Robin smashing those who were frozen by the disk using his foot.
While the Titans fought against Slade's numerous henchmen, Danny and Slade fought against Vlad, while lightning flashed through the windows, only appearing to add to the intensity that would likely unfold.
Vlad put a shield up as Danny tried firing ghost rays at him.
"Listen to me, Daniel!" Vlad shouted, "I want to help you! You don't have to be this way!"
Danny simply snarled, "I know I don't have to be this way, Plasmius. I want to."
Vlad was caught off-guard as Slade gave him a massive kick from behind, knocking him down.
Danny flew towards the fellow hybrid and tried to give him a kick from above, but Vlad phased through the ground and out of sight. Danny's foot met pavement instead of him.
Danny tried to stay alert, but Plasmius reappeared behind him and he twisted Danny's arm around, locking him in an arm-lock.
As he did this, he spoke in Danny's ear, "You don't belong with Slade, Daniel. Besides, what would your parents say? How have your friends and your sister felt about this?"
Slade moved in to help his apprentice, but Vlad turned towards him and fired a pair of purple beams from his eyes. They hit and knocked Slade down.
To answer Vlad's question, Danny growled, "You think because you spy on me, you know everything about me. You know nothing about me, starting with this: I don't have any family, or friends anymore!"
As he yelled this, he let off an aural blast, knocking Vlad away from him. He then fired a ghost ray at Vlad, knocking him further backward. Slade then grabbed hold of Vlad from behind.
Vlad struggled to get free, but Slade was too strong, and he couldn't phase through him because of the chemical compound inside him that prevented it.
Slade held Vlad tight as he jumped up into the air. He then backflipped while still in the air. As he did, he diverted his body, along with Vlad's, so that both of their heads were facing downward.
Still in the air, Slade let go of Vlad, throwing him straight down onto the ground.
Danny smirked at seeing his arch foe being pounded mercilessly.
Vlad snarled with malice in his face as he got back on his feet. He then turned to the young ghost boy and said sharply, "I'm trying to do you a favor, young man! I'm trying to save you before you lose yourself to those who care about you forever!"
Danny simply said coldly, "Does it look like I care? And what do you mean by 'those who care about me'? Those people don't exist."
"Danny!" Tucker shouted from behind Vlad, "Listen to him! Wow, I never thought I'd say those words before."
Sam cried out to him, "We care about you, Danny! We're your friends, and we…"
"LIARS!" Danny roared, "You may say that to my face, but I've been shown what you truly think of me, as nothing but your bodyguard!"
Sam, Tucker, and Jazz all exchanged looks of shock and confusion. Why would Danny ever think something like that?
Jazz looked up at him and said, "What are you talking about, Danny?"
Danny grumbled, "Yeah, you wouldn't know. You weren't there. Long story short, Slade gave me a tape recorder that showed them saying they only care that I protected them and not about me, gave me a lie detector that showed they were telling the truth.
Tucker turned to Sam, "Do you remember us saying anything like that?"
Sam shook her head, "Not at all."
Vlad shouted at Danny, "I've seen your friends and I can tell that they care about you! You're foolish in believing that they don't."
Danny's face seemed to contort for a second, but before he could respond, Vlad was ambushed as Slade gave him a roundhouse kick that sent him flying upward into the air.
Danny quickly regained the intense look on his face as he fired a ghost ray at Vlad. Vlad dodged it and fired a purple ghost ray at both Danny and Slade out of both hands. Both were hit and knocked backward.
Danny fell to the ground, landing a short distance from Jazz, Tucker, and Sam. They all stood over Danny, looking him in the eye.
Sam started, "Danny, could you please just list…"
Danny ignored her as he shoved Sam down out of his way and flew back to Vlad. Sam had a hurt look in her eyes but didn't say anything.
Vlad duplicated into four as Danny flew toward him. One flew at Danny and tried to punch him, while another fired eyebeams at him. Danny quickly put up a dome and was blocked out from the attacks.
While this happened, one of the other duplicates fired a purple ghost ray at Slade, who jumped up and dodged it. The remaining duplicate tried to give Slade a kick in the air, but Slade pulled out his staff and swung it like a baseball bat. It struck the duplicate heavily across the face, causing it to disappear.
One Vlad quickly formed an ectoplasmic paddle in the air and tried to swing it down on Danny, but Danny grabbed a small round chip from his belt. He threw it up and it landed on the paddle, where it started beeping.
BAM!
Just like that, the paddle exploded, sending a cloud of smoke up. Both Vlads coughed and tried to spot Danny.
Without warning, Danny flew through the smoke and fired ghost rays from both hands at both Vlads from close up. Both of them were hit hard and disappeared as well, leaving only the original Vlad left.
Danny didn't hesitate. He flew straight at Vlad and tried to punch him, but Vlad grabbed hold of Danny and started shocking him.
Danny screamed as pain coursed through his body. Slade jumped up at Vlad from behind, but Plasmius dropped in mid-air, causing Slade to pass over him.
Scowling, Danny concentrated hard, and then a second Danny formed next to him.
"What!" Plasmius shouted, "You've finally learned how to do that?"
"That's right," said the second Danny, and without another word, he slugged Vlad full in the face. Vlad flipped head-over-heels, hovering in mid-air.
Both Dannys flew at Vlad at the same time as Vlad hung in the air. With nowhere to run, Plasmius could do nothing but brace for impact.
WHAM!
Vlad was hit with double the force than usual, with a little extra. He was sent flying backward, crashing into Tucker, Sam, and Jazz. The four of them tumbled into the wall, with Vlad transforming back into Vlad Masters, moaning on the ground.
Slade stood proud as Danny formed back into one, "Very good, my apprentice." He pulled out a remote and pushed a black button.
Just like that, a glowing cage emerged from underneath Sam, Tucker, Jazz, and Vlad, trapping them inside.
The Titans, who were still fighting the robots, with only a few of them left now, gasped at seeing this.
"No!" Robin shouted.
Oh, boy! It's looking pretty bad now! Sorry I pretty much ignored the Titans fight for the most part; I just kept it on the one between Danny, Slade, and Vlad because that's where the real story was, so it would be more interesting.
Anyway, Vlad is down for the count now and trapped in a cage, along with the other three! The Titans are still up, but is there any way to help Danny now? Find out in Chapter 11!