Ch.26: Red Hood

Danny giggled as a he created a Bat-symbol in his hands made from ice. He had visited Frostbite, his Auntie Pandora, and Auntie Dora just that weekend. He had learned to control his ice powers more from the Far Frozen leader and now had fun occupying his time creating small intricate things with his powers.

Danny put the Bat-symbol in his pocket so he could give it to Bruce later.

The young child got off the ground and began walking along the side of the building. He was just about to jump off the side and into the air when a green blast whizzed by. Startled, he yelped and turned to the source of the green blast.

Or sources.

There were about a dozen men in white suits with black ties and sunglasses aiming guns at him. There were two vans behind them.

"Hey! What was that for?!" Danny yelled, stomping his foot and crossing his arms with a pout on his face.

"Danny Phantom, you are under arrest!" One of the men said into a megaphone. More of them charged up their guns.

Danny tensed and his pout dropped, as did his stance. "Why? I didn't do anything wrong!"

"It's stated in the Guys In White handbook article one, section C, subsection B that all ghosts must be contained and experimented on. That means you." The agent hissed into his megaphone.

Danny paled considerably. A few blasts were shot at him and he screamed. Jumping into the air to avoid these blasts, he propelled around them. He flew off in the opposite direction of the people who wanted him to be experimented on.

The agents followed. Fairly easily too. Danny's mind was running ten miles a minute and he wasn't focusing on his speed.

A blast hit Danny in the back and he plummeted. The white halo appeared around his waist and turned him back human, though he still looked to be in Phantom form through a hologram feature in his belt.

The nine-year-old crashed into the street, creating a crater. A car veered out of the way so they didn't hit the child. More cars veered and crashed into each other, creating chaos around the small child.

When Danny got out of the crater, holding his head as he did, he looked around at all the crashed cars and destruction. Car alarms were going off and, in one of the cars, a baby was crying, the mother trying to soothe him.

Danny teared up instantly.

SCREECH.

CRASH!

Clink clink clink...

Crying.

"Jazzy! Mommy!"

The two vans holding the agents screeched to a stop before hitting more cars. The agents, completely ignoring the destruction and mayhem, jumped out of the van and began pointing their guns at Batman's protégé.

Danny whirled around when he heard the whine of the guns powering up. He screamed and began running as fast as his feet could carry him.

He tried contacting Bruce but didn't get an answer. That meant his mentor was busy fighting one of his bigger baddies; Two-Face, Killer Croc, Bane, etc.

It also meant he didn't know Danny was in danger and needed help to get away from people who wanted him fully-dead.

Danny screamed in pain and, lurching forward, rolled on the asphalt of the street. One of the agents had aimed better than before and had hit him with his ecto-powered gun.

The pain Danny felt was unbearable. He hadn't felt like this before, not even with his Other Daddy. He had accelerated healing. Most pain was dulled to him. Even burns, which always hurt the worst because of his ice powers, did not last long.

But this did.

Danny got up off the ground, steaming. He shook his head and looked back to where the agents were coming towards him. His eyes widened, his pupils dilated, and he froze in terror.

There was another whine but-

BOOM!

Danny rolled on the ground again, this pain instantly dulling. Dust covered the area and stray pieces of asphalt showered on him and in his hair, making it look duller and almost grey. You couldn't see through the thickness of the dust, dirt, and grim.

A figure dropped down beside Danny, making him yelp, but the figure grabbed his arm, pulled him up, and dragged him between his crouched legs and open arms. Danny shook, terrified.

"Get on the bed, you little shit. I paid good money to play with you, boy."

The dust settled and the agents, who had ventured further in the rain cloud of grim, pointed their guns at Danny. They drew back surprised though, seeing who was with him.

Red Hood, with his hands out, pointed his automatic handguns at the agents. He was crouched on the ground with Danny in-between his legs. Even though his face was covered with a mask, you could tell he was glaring.

"Get out of here, vigilante! We're only here for the ghoul!" One of the agents shouted.

His reply: "No."

The lead agent growled. "Fine! We'll just take you down ourselves!" He hissed and drew closer.

"Stay where you are or I pump you full of lead." Red Hood warned. The agents continued advancing.

POW!

"AHHHH!"

Thump…

The agent, really only a lanky, collapsed to the ground, blood pooling around him. He seemed to be breathing. But that was a big maybe.

Danny had his hand placed over his mouth, eyes wide in mortification.

Red Hood put his right gun back in its holster on his thigh and linked his free arm around Danny's thin waist, the child still shaking. Red Hood got up from his crouched position and put his second gun away. He got his grapple gun that he only used for emergencies, shot it, and flew into the air, Danny screaming in his grasp.

Red Hood landed on the roof and threw Danny onto his back. He took off in one direction, jumping from roof to roof. Danny clung to him tightly, scared half out of his mind.

Fifteen minutes later, they landed on an apartment complex. Red Hood slowly took the fire escape down to his apartment. Danny continued to tremble violently on his little piggy-back.

Red Hood frowned behind his helmet.

Opening the window to his apartment, the anti-hero slunk in and closed the window behind him. He turned the lamp resting on one of the dingy end tables on. The light casted an eerie glow around the room and threw the child's and the older male's shadows onto the wall.

Red Hood gently eased Danny off his back and onto the couch. The child's eyes were still dilated in fear.

Red Hood eased the helmet off his head, revealing his young face, black hair, and blue eyes: Jason Todd. It also revealed his worry frown.

The anti-hero kneeled on the ground beside the sofa. "You were burned pretty badly, kid. Let me see it."

Danny didn't fight or argue when Jason turned him around to examine the burn from the ecto-powered gun.

The burn was bright red and blistering. Blood was running down the child's back steadily. His skin almost seemed to be bubbling.

Jason winced. He should've jumped down from the rooftops sooner.

The anti-hero got up and turned Danny back towards him. His terrified state had not lessened. Jason cursed under his breath. How was he supposed to take care of a terrified child? This wasn't exactly his forte, here!

The vigilante got an idea. He got up, went to the run-down kitchen, and came back a few minutes later, handing Danny a sippy-cup full of heated milk.

Why he owned a sippy-cup in the first place, no one really knew.

Jason knew the nine-year-old was fully capable of using a regular plastic cup (maybe not like this, but you get the point) but spills did happen. He was trying to minimize that.

Danny, regaining some sense of what to do, took the drink from Jason's hands and drank it. Jason turned the child around again, grabbing his first aid kit (one of many) from his end table drawer.

The older male loosened the fabric around the burn by stretching it out. Noticing how Danny tensed dramatically, he stopped when he would be able to work on the wound without too much trouble.

Jason sopped the blood up with a rag, grimacing at how some got on his sofa but knowing he had enough peroxide to take care of it. He then wiped the burn down, added some burn cream to lessen the pain, and then, much to child's silent dismay because it involved his entire upper torso, wrapped it.

Once he was done, Danny turned back to the older male, still drinking his warm milk with terrified eyes.

The two stared at each other.

Jason really didn't know what to do now. Taking care of little children was not his forte. That was Bruce's and Dick's and Alfred's. They were good with kids. He was not.

Danny took the cup out of his mouth long enough to ask "Where am I?"

Batman landed on Jason's fire escape, fully prepared to just steal his Lil Raven back. He was aware of all the GIW agents around town, searching for his baby. He had also heard of the little brawl that went down that ended with Red Hood kidnapping Danny Phantom and shooting one of the agents into a coma.

Opening the window, Batman slunk into the run-down apartment. What he saw made him smile.

Jason was on his semi blood-stained couch with Danny (in human form) in his lap, a sippy-cup in his mouth. Both were fast asleep, peaceful expressions on their faces, with the TV playing in front of them.

If I butchered Jason's character... Sorry. First time doing him.

And for the people who also read Young Justice: I FIXED THE PROBLEM! Go read the chapter called 'The Abused'! I FIXED IT~! I FIXED IT~!

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Reviews:

GreenDrkness: Thanks for the tips! XD Hope you enjoyed the chappie!

SomeItalian: We have no idea how Danny can be so chaotic. XD Poor Kad... (Kadzait: *cries* My name isn't Nancy...)

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