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He took a steady step. Another one. And another.

"I-I… I think I'm good." Danny said, letting go of Raven as he takes careful steps. His body was still weak, and he knew that well enough, but it seems he has the strength to at least walk on his own.

"Woah…" He nearly trips over his own foot. The boy chuckles sheepishly at the look the cloaked titan gave him. Taking a deep breath, he tries again, and this time doesn't trip.

"Everything alright?" Raven asks as she puts her hood back up. The black-head does a quick once-over, and nods to her. 'Good, no need to have you falling over your own feet.'

'I'm pretty sure I can walk on my own, Raven.'

'And I can catch him if he does trip!' Danielle piped in. They were both a little startled by her sudden addition to their mental conversation, but sighed in exasperation.

"I really hope that Cyborg can fix this once they have my core back."

"You and me both." Raven added in sarcasm. He smiled at that, glad to see that she wasn't so depressed as he saw she was before falling asleep. "So, anything from the others?"

Danny grabbed his T-Com and checked. Cyborg and Beast Boy had already checked in from their rooms, apparently having had to deal with… Well, something. They didn't go further as to what. Another message blinked on the screen, this time from Robin. No lead on Slade, yet.

"Looks like we're waiting for Starfire and Terra," Another beep, a new message. "Nope, make that only Terra."

Raven nodded, and turned to look around the room. She glared at the table where her boyfriend had been strapped to. He noticed, and placed a worried hand on her shoulder.

"You good? Rage not too strong?"

She breathed out deeply, shaking her head. He nodded in understanding and took his hand back. Danny knew how dangerous her emotions can get, especially Rage. And he knows that love can do bad things with emotions.

Especially for someone as caring as Raven.

Another beep of the T-Com. This time the screen turned to a very battered Robin.

"Wow! Geez, Robin, what happened to you?"

"Long story. Anyone got a clue on Slade?"

The others appeared on screen, minus Terra, and gave their reports of what happened. Everyone rose an eyebrow at the explanation from Starfire, but shrugged it off as being 'normal' for the alien redhead.

"Terra said anything yet?" Beast Boy asked, a little worried. Danny scratched his head, not sure what to say on that.

"She hasn't reported in yet. I thought she might have called one of you."

Everyone else shook their head, and that only added to the worry of the changeling.

"Hey, BB, I'm sure that your gal's alright. Terra's a strong girl, she can take care of herself." Cyborg tried to assure their friend. Beast Boy wanted to take that to heart, but that heart was right now too occupied with being worried for his love.

"Still, we're talking about Slade here. Who knows what he could have done." Robin added, not really helping the situation. Danny sighed, wracking his head on what to do. Suddenly, a lightbulb blinked on in his head.

"Raven, can you feel her? Mentally, I mean. Normally you should be able to inside the building."

Raven rose an eyebrow, but didn't question any further. She closed her eyes and floated up, crossing her legs so she could focus. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos."

Her eyes glowed black, her mind wandering from her body and going through the building. She understood what Danny meant about the structure, the entire thing is blocking her powers to the outside! That's how Slade hid Danny's mind from her.

She passed the halls and rooms, finding her other teammates like Cyborg and Robin. Passing Starfire, she noticed a yellow glow much deeper underneath them. She travelled closer, and would have gasped if she could at the sight.

An aura of sadness, despair and fear, glooming over Terra's weak mind. The girl appeared to be hunched in a fetus-like position, and it looked like she had something around her neck…

Suddenly, something seemed to zap her detached mind, and she was forced back. Raven gasped as her eyes turned back to normal, and was stunned to the point that Danny had to catch her from falling. He somehow managed to get her to her feet, supporting her on the back.

"Wow, everything alright?"

"We have to help her. Terra's in trouble. Serious trouble!"

Terra had noticed.

Raven her detached mind, as everyone had explained it to her. A black silhouette of the cloaked titan had flown into the room where Slade was keeping her. But, from the ceiling two probes appeared and they had zapped the black form with electricity, making it vanish into thin air.

She hoped that the pale girl was alright.

The door into the room opened, and Slade walked inside, hands behind his back and eye fixated on the robots going through the room. He spared her a seconds glance, and snorted in amusement.

Her uniform was ripped at various spots, including her pants and shirt, leaving her underwear partially exposed. Those robots had used all kinds of tools and stuff on her, doing tests and experiments on her body. Her mind was weak from the pain, and she had pretty much given all hope for herself up.

She hopes the others find Danny's core, and maybe her lifeless body.

'I'm so sorry, Beast Boy. I don't think we'll ever be together again.'

"No sign of hope, not even after seeing that they know where you are?" Slade asked in pure curiosity as he walked to the large computer-screen at the other side of the room, the cage holding the blonde having perfect view on it. He has something to show her.

"You probably have something to stall them, or make them retreat." Terra said, knowing Slade well enough that he always has a plan B ready for when something happens he hadn't planned for originally. The masked man chuckled at her answer.

"Very smart. You at least learn from your mistakes, unlike Robin."

"Don't say that! He's the best leader I've ever known! Only he can lead the Teen Titaaaah!" She was zapped by the collar on her neck as she had grabbed the bars, putting too much force on them, like she was trying to break them. Her neck surely had burn-marks from the amount of electricity going into her body from those shocks. She huddled together, holding her legs with a forlorn expression on her face.

"Nevertheless, you'll already be gone by the time they get here." Slade said, but the way he said gone didn't hint she would be dead. What is he planning this time?

"W-where?" She stuttered, recovering from the painful shock. He chuckled, and pushed a button on the computer. The man stepped aside a little, as the screen turned from the array of data, to an ingoing call.

As the call connected through, Terra her eyes widened in pure horror.

Her parents appeared on the screen, neutral expression on their faces.

"What is it, Slade? I hope you have good reason to contact us this late." Her mother said in a tone she never expected from the woman. Slade merely chuckled, and motioned to the cage behind him. The two royals followed the motion, but barely reacted at all at the sight of their daughter, caged and visibly abused. Instead, smirks tugged at their lips, not going unnoticed by the blonde, whose eyes turned to dots.

"Make sure she gets to Markovia in one peace. We'll make sure she can defend our nation like her brother." Her father said before they ended the connection. Slade had an amused expression behind his mask, and Terra could practically feel it.

"Poor Terra, abandoned by her parents, lost without her team, and separated from her love. How nice revenge can feel."

Terra hadn't budged from her position, eyes staring into void and mind drawing a constant blank. She can't believe it, what Danny and Danielle thought… Was true? Her, her parents really did order the experiments on her and her brother?!

'No, mom, dad… No…I-it can't be…'

She hid her face in her knees, letting the tears fall. She had no one, no family. The titans weren't there to support her, Danielle wasn't there to brighten her mood, Beast Boy wasn't there to hold her and love her.

She was all alone. Caged, and alone.

Raven held her head as they stopped in front of the massive door leading to the rooms where Slade was hiding. Cyborg was able to use her descriptions to see where the rooms where she had found Terra. Apparently, it was a collection of three rooms, each one following the other. They were in front of the first.

"Raven, what's wrong?" Danny asked as he took her by the arm. She regained her bearings, and really wanted today to end.

"Terra, I just felt an emotion so strong from her it hurt my head. She's really troubled, I don't know how much her mind can take, or her sanity." Raven explained, getting back upright. Everyone carried worried looks at that, and knew they had to hurry.

"Alright, let's do this. Cyborg." Robin said, making place for the cyborg teen. He nodded, and charged his left-canon, the only thing he could fix on the way. He fired a powerful blast, and the door hurdled through the room, crashing in the center. They rushed inside, battle-ready, even Danny, holding a pipe he found on the way.

Everyone relaxed a little as they see the silhouette of Terra, but Raven held her arm out, a frown on her face. It might look like they're friend, but she didn't feel the blonde's mind anywhere close to them.

"That's not Terra."

"Aw, you wound me, Raven." Came the menacing voice of Terra as the figure walked forwards. Their eyes widened as the robotic copy walked out of the shadows, a wicked smirk on its face.

"Not Terra, definitely not Terra." Danny agreed as he held his pipe forwards. The others tensed as they prepared for a fight. The robotic Terra scoffed, rolling its mechanical eyes.

"Seriously? I was able to beat that weakling, you really think you can beat me?" It boasted, not a bit of modesty present. The group of heroes shared a few looks at that, and prepared to attack.

"We don't just think it." Danny began, feeling more confidence as he sees the others being more serious than ever before.

"We know it!"

They charged, and immediately had to dodge rocks being thrown from the shadow. It had used the dark shadows to hide the rocks. Clever, but hard to aim all at once.

Robin jumped on one, and used it to jumped forwards. The robot rose a piece of the ground to defend itself, but the boy wonder used it to jump back in the air, doing a backflip and landing behind it. He hit the machine in the back sending it crashing into the part it had risen from the ground.

It grumbled, launching the pieces that came from its crash into the stone at the masked boy. He rolled away, and a shield rose up as Raven reached Robin. The pieces bounced of the shield, and she dropped it when the coast was clear, hurdling attacks at the robot.

The robot dodged, but suddenly was hit in the back after jumping in the air. Looking back, it fazed a very angry and determined Starfire, starbolts in the hand. She fired, hitting the robotic Terra in the stomach-area. It landed on the floor, hard, and when it looked up it got hit by a fist from Cyborg. He hit the thing several times before it was able to swing a piece of stone from the wall into the half-robot.

As it got back up, it was hit in the side by a boomerang from Robin, who made way for Starfire to attack with even more starbolts.

The robotic Terra was thrown from side to side, focus always going away as it got attacked over and over. Finally, it slumped to its knees, sparks coming from the machine as it was covered in dents and scratches. It looked up, facing Beast Boy, a disgusted and furious look on his face. "How c-can you beat m-me? I-I'm much better t-than her." It asked, perplexed by its defeat.

"No one, and I mean no one, can ever be better than Terra. Not even you." The changeling stated before delivering a sucker-punch to the chin, throwing the machine to the floor, appearing knocked out.

"You guys did it!" Danny cheered from the sidelines, having refrained from the fight after seeing just how much the others were into it.

Suddenly the robots eyes opened, glowing yellow. The chest opened, and as they slowly approached when seeing it didn't move, they see what was inside, and Danny gasped.

His ghost-core, in blue glowing glory. He was about to grab it, but his hand was grabbed by the metal one of the robot, eyes fixated on him.

"Father gave this to me as a small gift. Want to see me use it?" It asked, voice having a distorted and robotic tone to it now. Her grip was almost breaking Danny's wrist, and the others pried it from him as he screamed in pain. Finally, he was released, and gripped his red wrist in visible pain, hissing a little as he felt it burn.

The others turned back to the robot, only to find it standing further away, floating on a piece from the floor. Her chest was still open, and they watched in shock when four needles inserted into the core. A yellow substance flowed through tubes and the needles into the core, and its blue color swirled and changed to become half ice-blue, half yellow. The chest closed, and the eyes changed to one yellow and the other light-blue.

"No!" Danny yelled after watching it happen, his fury for Slade for what the man did growing beyond anything else. The robot chuckled, and with the distorted voice, it was almost painful for the ears to listen to.

"Now, watch!" It declared, hand glowing a mixture of blue and yellow. It rose a piece of rock, and the rock froze, sharpening and reshaping into a spear. It was hurdled at the titans, who made a mad dash for it, avoiding being hit. Raven had to drag Danny with her, and rose a shield over them.

The robot laughed maniacally at the other titans as it made a game of trying to hit them. Raven watched from inside the shield, noticing that it was focused on the others, and not them.

"What do we do?" She asked, but noticed that Danny wasn't listening. He appeared in thought, and she wanted to know what he was thinking. 'Danny?'

'Danielle thinks she can make me transform.' The boy explained to her through their connection, after he heard her thought in his head. He forgot that she can only hear his thoughts when wanting to.

'How?'

'It's my core dad has, maybe I am the only one who can activate it?' Danielle proposed, not sure of her theory, but confident enough to hope it works. Raven gave it some thought, and after witnessing an icy spear skimp Starfire and creating a reasonable gash in the redhead's side, she was sold. 'Do it.'

She dropped the shield, and stood back up. Danny made some space, and gave a mental signal to his daughter. Danielle focused her mind, and made contact with her core. It reacted, and to both their surprise and relief, two white rings appeared around Danny's waist.

The others had been trying to avoid being hit, and get a shot at the robotic Terra, but both theirs and the robot's attention was caught by the light appearing from Danny.

The pair of rings flowed over his body, and when the transformation was complete, everyone gawked in shock and confusion.

Instead of Danny Phantom, an older version of Danielle Phantom was standing in the place Danny was. Her eyes scanned her body. She had a more curved shape, suot still the same but bigger for her size, and she felt more strength than ever before. She had to shake her mind to get back in the game.

"So this is how I'll look when I turn 17. Cool." Danielle said to herself as she pulled a little on her suit. Raven cleared her throat, and pointed at the stunned robot. Dani gave a sheepish chuckle, and flew over to the machine with amazing speed. She was in front of it in seconds.

"Sorry, but that belongs to my dad." Dani spoke up, and reached her hand inside the robots chest, holding the machine on the spot with her other hand. The robot struggled against the grip, and tried to attack by hurdling a rock at the ghost-girl. Danielle smirked, turning intangible and letting the rock pass through her harmlessly. She gave a victorious "aha!", and pulled out the blue/yellow core from the robot's chest. She frowned at the yellow staying inside the core, but knew she couldn't be picky right now.

"And as for you." She said, letting go of the robot, a smirk on her face. She charged her fist, and smashed the robots head, hard. She actually punched through the face of the robot, that started screaming with a purely distorted and robotic sound. She grimaced at the noise, and grabbed whatever she had and pulled back, actually taking out the mechanical brain, and breaking the robots head in the process. The robot dropped to the ground motionlessly, the rock it was standing on dropping as well. It crashed down, kicking up some dust. She dropped the damaged tech in her hand, the thing falling to pieces on the concrete floor.

Everyone gawked as Danielle landed on the ground and handed the orb in her hands to Raven. She turned to face them, and cocked her head, confused. "What?"

"D-Danielle?" Cyborg uttered, a little awestruck by the girl standing in front of him. She nodded, and he gulped, feeling his heart take a leap in the air.

Suddenly, the two rings appeared back and turned Danielle back into Danny, who held his head in a daze as he wobbled on his feet. Starfire was quick at his side, helping him get a little stable.

"Thanks Star. And, Cyborg, sorry to disappoint, but I don't think so."

The half-robot straightened up, and tried to have an innocent face, whistling a little. He grinned sheepishly at the boy, who obviously wasn't sold on the act. Danny shook his head, and the cyborg teen dropped his head in disappointment. "Damn."

"Cyborg's misery aside, we should make sure Slade can't take this from us." Raven spoke up as she approached Danny, holding his core out. He nodded, seeing reason in that. He looked around, and Danny's eyes lighted up as he noticed something.

"Robin, how big are those pockets on your belt?"

The boy wonder looked up before looking at his belt, and he understood what the boy was going at. He smirked, finding the plan already very good for now.

"Big enough, what else do you have?"

"Oh, I think I know a few things we can do."

"Aaah!"

He pulled back, the shock-stick in his hand sparking with electricity. Underneath his mask was most likely the most sadistic smile anyone could have.

Terra clutched her arm, feeling where the surge had burned her skin. She hisses in pain, tears streaming down her face. Torture, she expected it, but that doesn't make it any less painful.

"How does it feel? Your body can handle this, for the most part, but I'm sure it must be awful. Just like when you dropped me in the lava!" Slade exclaimed, raising the stick and preparing to shock her again.

"Leave her alone!"

He was grabbed at the side, hurdling through the room and crashing into a few of the robots. The masked man groaned as he recovered, eyes widening as he faces the older form of Danielle, a furious look on her face.

"You monster!"

She grabbed him and threw Slade through the room, into the wall and leaving a sizeable imprint in the concrete. The man scrambled to his feet, tossing the broken zap-stick away.

"You. How did you get past my creation?" The man demanded in rising fury. He was planning to have his revenge and then ship that brat ti the other side of the Earth. How did they get past his greatest creation?!

"Never put a ghost-core inside a machine. You'll pay for taking my father's powers!" Danielle yelled, firing multiple blasts at him. Slade dodged, and jumped through the air, his boot making contact with the ghost-girl's stomach. She crashed into the ground, the villain on top of her. He pressed down, and she screamed in pain. Her hand grabbed his leg, but she couldn't get him off her.

"Danielle!"

Terra her eyes fixated on the titans bursting through the door and charging into Slade. He was caught off guard, and the sonic blast from Cyborg hit him in the stomach. Danielle crawled from the hole, and the half-robot helped her out of the small crater.

"You okay?" Cyborg asked, checking her for anything. She nodded her head, getting out of his grip and glaring daggers at Slade.

"I'm fine. Let's end this."

Slade got up from his spot on the ground, scowl under his mask. He faced the group, and growled.

"What did you do with her?"

"That piece of scrap?" Beast Boy stated, thumb pointed at the remains of the robotic Terra in Starfire's hands as the alien appeared from behind the group. She dropped the thing on the ground in front of them, missing head and chest sparking. Inside the open chest is a broken yellow-blue orb. Slade's eye widens as he sees the core, and curses.

"You destroyed the core?!"

"YOU destroyed it! Tech and ectoplasm doesn't always mix, you fool." Danielle explained, an enraged look on her face. Raven joined the girl at the side, eyes flashing red.

"You'll pay for what you did." The cloaked titan declared, hands glowing black and eyes hard. Terra gulped, knowing not to enrage the sorceress on the team.

Slade was furious, he was beyond enraged. He yelled in fury, fist aimed as he was in front of the sorceress in seconds. He noticed the smirk on her lips, right before he was grabbed by the back. Beast Boy, in the form of a gorilla, was holding him by the neck of his suit. The green gorilla hurdled him into the air, in Starfire's aim. She blasted the masked man, and the force sent the one-eyed villain to crash into the ceiling before falling down, dropping on the side of the cage holding Terra. The metal bars sparked a little where he had crashed, bended and broken. The brace around the blonde's neck blinked, and dropped loose on the ground. She gasped, reaching for her neck, now free of that cursed machine. Her eyes went to the groaning for of Slade, and her eyes glowed yellow.

He looked up, and gulped as he saw the look on his former-prisoner. The metal of the cage bended and folded, wrapping itself around him. The others were a little surprised with Terra's increase in control, but didn't comment on it.

"Thanks for showing me that trick with metal. And other things as well." Terra stated with a smirk. She aimed a hand at the computers and robots, causing them to malfunction and fall apart, bolts and bits of bended and twisted tech falling on the floor. The computers sparked as the wires and harddisks were thrown our, crashing to pieces on the ground.

The blonde threw the captured Slade in the middle of the room. He looked up, and watched as Danielle turned into Danny, a really angry look on the boy's face.

"You know, I don't think I need my powers to do, this!"

He punched, hard, and knocked the villain out. It took a moment for this to process in, and everyone dropped to the ground, exhausted. This day was the longest off any. And it showed. Terra managed to reach the changeling on the floor, and dropped next to him, a tired smile on her face.

"Good acting from Danielle, Danny." Robin stated, taking out a yellow-blue core from his utility belt. Terra her eyes widened at it, confusion on her face.

"But, I thought…"

"Cyborg used some stuff from the other rooms to make a replica." Danny said, pointing at the proud cyborg teen. He nodded, remembering how hard that was.

"By angering Slade, he misjudged us and acted on impulses. He made the mistakes, and 'fell for our trap' as they say." Starfire explained the rest, a large grin on her face. Raven nodded, pulling her hood down.

"He might be a villain, but he's still human. And humans make mistakes, thanks to emotions." The cloaked titan finished, eyes darting to the unconscious form of Slade. She could feel his mind stuck in an unconscious state, and assured it stayed like that, for a long while.

"And that's how we saved you. So, everything alright?" Beast Boy asked, getting up a little and helping his girlfriend up. She flinched as he touched the sensitive burns, and only now everyone could see her state. Clothes ripped, burn-marks and a nasty one around her neck. Tear-shot eyes and dried up streaks on her cheeks. Their blood boiled, and their eyes turned to the KO'd man.

"Can I please, end it now?" Raven asked, eyes flashing red. Robin shook his head, and the others slumped, knowing he's right.

"We have him now. We'll arrest him after getting out of this place, and I'll make sure he can't get out of the cell they'll give him."

They nodded, accepting those terms. At least one thing was sure.

Slade's time as a villain, is over. Finally, they got him.

"You think he can fix them?"

Raven sighed, lowering the book to direct a glare at the changeling, who has asked the same question for over five times now. He backed away a little, and decided to sit down in the couch.

"Not bad meant, but you had it coming, BB." Terra said from her comfortable spot on the couch. She was covered in bandages and a had to stop herself from scratching at the band-aid around her neck, covering the nasty burn from being shocked by that cursed collar more times than she could count.

It was only a day after they finally arrested Slade, and he was dragged to the most high-security jail in the country. Everyone was recovering from those dragging two days, as it had turned out they were inside that place for the entire night and most of the morning. It was midday when they finally crawled out of the hole they had made to get in. When they reached Titans Tower, everyone left for bed, and decided that the rest would be for tomorrow to handle. And one of those things was fixing Danny and Danielle.

Cyborg was busy doing just that, Robin keeping an eye on the procedure. Raven wanted to support her boyfriend, now that everyone knew of their relationship, but the boy wonder had pushed her out of the surgery room.

She rolled her eyes at the two, and went back to her book. She had to keep herself busy, so her emotions wouldn't go crazy. Another push from in her mind showed they were really trying to show themselves right now.

The door opened, and Starfire floated into the room with Silkie in her arm. The usual smile on her face, she went to the kitchen to get her pet a small snack. She had a bandage to cover the gash in her side.

"Anything from Robin?" Beast Boy asked to the Tamaranian. Starfire looked up, confused for a second before understanding what the changeling meant. She shook her head.

"Robin has yet to leave the room. I am getting worried for Danny and Danielle, what if Cyborg cannot separate them?"

"Then that would make for a really strange father and daughter bond." Terra quipped. That earned her a genuine laugh from Beast Boy. Starfire smiled, glad to see the two together like that.

The doors hissed open again, and this time Cyborg walked out, a tired look on his face. He had repaired himself before doing the surgery, so he looked the most decent of everyone. Robin was right behind him, a neutral expression on his face. He had a few bandages from his fight with Slade's double, but those would heal. Everyone turned to them, and a sweat rolled down the boy wonder's face at the sudden attention.

"They'll be fine. Danielle is back to normal, and Danny has his core back. Their resting, so don't disturb them."

A collective breath was released, and the tension in the air dissipated like snow for the sun. Raven allowed a small smile on her face, eyes going back to her book and this time able to read with full attention. Beast Boy and Terra smiled at each other, and the blonde let herself rest in the changeling's arms. He turned into a large wolf, and they cuddled together, the green wolf curled around the geomancer. Cyborg rolled his eyes at the two, and instead left for his room, needing a recharge after such a difficult and stressful operation. Robin headed for Starfire, who smiled and gave him a much softer and more caring hug. He smiled back, and returned the embrace, adding a quick kiss when no one looked.

Things were going to be okay. The recovery will take a little while, but they'll be okay.

Author's note: And that completes this three-parter. Danny and Danielle will be alright, and Terra is saved. But, one thing still remains: What does the change to Danny's core mean?

Wait for next chapter to find out. Remember to review, fav and follow!