Ch.11: Young Justice

Danny cracked his fingers, smiling evilly as he stood in front of the Zeta-Portal controls. He popped the top layer of the panel off, revealing all of the wires and circuitry under. His evil smile only grew.

"This can go two ways: I either do this correctly... Or I blow up the entire Watchtower. Which one is more likely?" The teen asked himself before doing some mental math. He frowned when he got his results. "I'm more likely to blow up the Watchtower..."

His serious face started laughing. "Well that's not new!"

Making a weird tune with 'be-boops bop be-do-bo', Danny danced to himself as he played with the wires. He shocked himself a few times, destroyed a few wires altogether, and blew up a button right from its place but he did manage to get the wires he needed in the correct sequence. Score.

Covering his eyes, Danny slowly pressed the green button. He waited for the invertible BOOM that would surely come any second now. When nothing happened, Danny peeked out from his hand and yelled a 'a-ha!' at the working portal.

"I knew that would happen." The teen commented to himself, grinning victoriously. He sauntered over to the portal and paused. He stopped and stared at the ceiling. "I'm going to pray this is the right dimension."

As he stepped in, the white light enveloped him. The feeling of weightlessness inside and out was a familiar feeling Danny took delight in. The weightlessness lasted for a split second before it faded and left Danny on his feet in the dark tunnel of another Zeta-Portal. The teen immediately spotted the differences between the portal he knew and this unfamiliar one. Danny smirked.

Taking careful steps, the teen exited and found many different heroes, ones he knew and ones he didn't, all staring back at him. Looking around the Cave, he recognized it immediately.

"I don't believe it..."

Danny turned and saw a twenty-year old him staring at him with a large smile under his hood. Alongside his trusty flute, a sword in a fleshy sheath rested on his hip. The adult raised his hands up and shouted "Mini-Me!"

"Big-Me!" Danny shouted back, a laugh escaping his mouth. While most of the crowd looked confused, eight others stepped up next to the halfa. All were adults of the teens Danny once knew. Kind smiles and amused smirks met his own eager face.

"Like looking back in time..." Artemis commented wistfully.

"Like looking forward in time..." Danny stated back.

Older-Danny barked a laugh, throwing his head back. Nightwing, as he rolled his eyes, slapped his older brother upside the head.

"Can someone explain what's going on..." Wonder Girl trailed, looking between the two Dannys with a bewildered expression. The members of the Team that had never met the nine-year-old Danny way back when continued to look at the scene with shell-shocked expressions. The original Team members laughed long and loud.

"It's a long story for another time." Megan said, smiling kindly at her teammates.

Kaldur jerked his head to the teen and gestured for his long time friends to follow as well. They each grouped together, the smaller Ghost Boy trotting ahead to catch up to the older Team members. The rest stayed back and watched them go, looks of wonder on their faces.

As the group of ten entered the common room, both Dannys transformed back into their human forms in sync. It made the rest of the group laugh.

"So how's life treating you, Kid?" Wally asked, falling onto one of the couches, Artemis falling behind after him. Danny smirked at the relationship. He could see the two's relationship was following nicely along like the one in his dimension.

"Things are good. My Gotham hasn't fallen into anything super disastrous in awhile. Most villains are underground right now, planning and plotting like there's no tomorrow. Jason hasn't killed anyone in awhile. Barbara slapped Dick-"

"I bet that was a sight to behold." Older-Danny commented, grinning at his brother. Nightwing frowned dryly at him.

Danny laughed before continuing. "The Watchtower hasn't completely fallen into ruins in the past six months, which is a record."

"Why?" Connor asked, bewildered.

"I haven't had a glue bottle in my hands for six months." Danny explained. While the Team looked at each other with confused expressions, the teen merely said "You don't wanna know. Trust me."

"So how's it been over here?" Danny asked, very eager to escape the topic of glue hell.

Zatanna shrugged. "Not much. Some of us were conducted as League members, some of us have stayed working with the Team. We've defeated a couple of invasions. Nothing really exciting."

The other adults agreed, looking at each other with casual shrugs (heroes...).

"You wanna make this exciting?" Danny asked slowly. The others perked at his prospect.

"And how do you propose we spice things up?" Artemis asked, a smirk starting to adorn her face. Danny looked behind him and down the hall, where he could clearly hear other Team members chatting and teasing. His eyes moved back to the adults with a suggesting smirk.

The original Team slowly looked at each with knowing smirks.

"Let's do this." Older-Danny said.

SING OF THE LORD'S GOODNESS, FATHER OF-

Kadzait: KODI!

What? Oh right... I'm singing again... Dang, that song is addicting... :D

Kadzait: -.-'

Idea above was for Scheffelman!

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Anime Hotty Lover. 18: Haha! Plot twist! XD

Lexosaurus: If loving Danny-torture is weird and/or wrong... Then I'm sadist. A SADIST! XD Hakuna Matata means "no worries". I just took Hakuna Matata out and put 'survivor's guilt'. XD And your comment on how Batman was like "YOU SUG YOURSELF THIS GRAVE AND NOW I'M BURYING YOU IN IT" cracked me up. XD Did you ever finish The Abused? I ended with 101 chapters so I was just wondering... XD

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Poohbearmorris: All of us viewers love angst, don't we? XD

Roselin: I love you too~! XD Lion King reference~! (Now I just gotta do a Mulan one! XD)

Ethiopian1987: Haha! Nothing like recycling plots. XD Hmmm... I might look into that. :D

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Ninuhuju: That was the only part of the movie I liked. And it's only one movie... XD

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ViceVersa: ...my bad...

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BringbackDannyPhantom: *gasps in pleasant surprise* You're yelling at me? YEAH! (That's not warped at all...)

Guest of Honor: I'm working on it, I'm working on it! Chill! :)

Supaherolena02: The song was playing when the crash happened. It's a trigger. :D

Luna Star Phantom: The only good part of that movie. XD

Fluteplayer99: I planned for Jack to come in some time but hadn't made a clear vision of it yet... Till now, that is. *evil smile* Exclamation points are good!

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