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AGAIN- AMANDAS FAULT NOT MINE SHE DIDN'T LISTEN SO I HAD TO KILL HIM HER FAULT BLAME HER NOT ME BLAME HER! (i say knowning she will see this and personally murder me faster than Chara in Undertale) ANYWAYS totally not sorry for tricking you though! (::)

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It's all good, glad you got your phone back! Also, AGAIN BLAME AMANDA! MWHAHAHAHHA! And he just did it with the power of DETERMINATION! (I've been watching people play Undertale for 24 hours, forgive me) (::)

The comment that made me smile/laugh the most was..

The longest comment was... GUEST OF HONOR!

this was me:

Fake chapter: AMANDA YOU BETTER RUN CAUSE THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT AND YEAH DANNY SUFFER YOU JUST DIE OK NOW HUSH LITTLE BABY HUSH AND MWHAHAHAH YES EVERYONE JUST BE ALL UPSET AND HAHAHAHAH BYW BYE YOU GO DIE!

Real chapter: Ok or not you can live and like, ya know, have a normalish life span and instead have like, you know, a memory flashback thing. That works too.

HAHAHAHAH CALLING CLOCKWORK AN OLD STOPWATCH WAS PERFECT DUDE CAN I USE THAT CAUSE I SERIOUSLY MIGHT HAHAHAHAH THAT WAS PERFECT! (::)

My FAVORITE comment was.. SAMTHEBEAN!

WELCOME MY FRIEND! hahahahah bro you should have seen Amanda. See, the opening being her fault and all, she lost her mind and oh my god I legit feared for my life for a moment there hahahah! REMEMBER EVERYONE THIS WAS AMANDAS FAULT SO YEAR GO ATTACK HER NOT ME HER FAULT NOT MINE! Anyways glad you like my pairings! FYI, none of them are what they seem, unless they are. :D *Evil laugh* AND BRAH YOU'RE COMMENT WAS SO NICE JUST GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and bro I LOVE SLADE LIKE HOW COULD I NOT INVOLVE HIM! :D (::)

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GOD FREAKING IuwfbefwFUF JOHN CENA IS NEVER GONNA LEAVE ME WHY DID I DO THIS TO MYSELF SON OF A PAPYRUS! And thats a good question, Liz's death, or Danny's birthday? hmmmm interesting... and hahahah as soon as Amamnda say I actually did that she called me and tried to murder me via yelling through the phone XD (::)

Chapter 29 Danny

"Hey old man! Ready for a blast from your past?" I was talking, but I wasn't- the voice speaking was a little too prepubescent to be mine. Or at least, present day mine. 14 year old me- yeah. That's a possibility.

Reliving my own memories was weird. I was actually living them. Like, I was fully aware I was me, 17 year old Danny, sitting in the Teen titans tower, but at the same time there was a part of me that was thinking I was 14 again.

My future self turned to look at me in surprise as Angel secured my friends and family to the wreckage of the Nasty Burger. Liz was flying next to me, her white hair flowing behind her. 17 year old me would have thought she'd looked stunning, but hormonal 14 year old memories flooded back or briefly thinking she looked hot and then focusing on the soon to be fight.

I slammed my full body weight (not that there was much of it) into Dan, sending him flying back with a grunt.

"Don't worry," Liz said, ripping Angel away from our friends. "We got this!"

"We won't turn into that." I promised. I noticed Lancer staring at us with wide eyes, and offered him what I hoped was a calming smile. "This sorta explains our periodic absences, huh?"

"DANNY WATCH OUT!" Liz yelped and Angel slammed her into the ground. A sticky green rope wrapped around my waist, pulling me towards Dan.

"What are ya gonna do?" I challenged him as he grabbed the front of my costume. "Kill me? What would happen to you?"

Angel flew up to meet us, holding a kicking Liz tightly in her arms. "You're just as stupid as I remember, Danny." she spat, her red eyes narrowing as she laughed. "Don't you get it?"

"We're still here," Dan pointed out. "We still exist! Which means, no matter what you think you can change, you still turn into us!" He tossed me back into a light post. My head cracked against the metal, and my vision filled with stars.

"Danny!" Liz squirmed out of Angel's grasp and tumbled to the ground next to me, shaking my shoulder until my eyes focused again.

"We don't want to kill you." Angel said sweetly, landing lightly in front of us. "We just have to keep you distracted."

"Distracted?"

Dan nodded. "Your life is gonna fall apart one way or another. Let it be this way! Just a few more minutes Danny! And trust me," he wrapped an arm around Angel's waist. "This is the least painful future for you both." He sprung forward.

Liz rolled to the side, just barely missing getting hit by Dan. I went intangible and phased through the ground, popping back up a few feet behind Dan.

"Maybe if you focused more on your past, you'd have remembered the specter deflector," I told him, pulling the anti-ghost belt out of my backpack and fastening it around his waist, watching with a sick sense of satisfaction as he writhed in pain.

"Or the ghost gauntlets!" I tossed the gloves to Liz, who set to work beating Angel away from Dan. I noticed an oil truck abandoned a couple of yards away from our current battle.

"Liz!" I jerked my head towards it. She looked at it, then at Dan's head of flaming hair, and nodded. With a scream, she punched Angel in the direction of the truck, sending the older ghost flying. Dan growled and flew after his girlfriend, crouching next to her to make sure she was alright.

"Do it," Liz told me, ripping the gauntlets off and passing them to me. With a nod, I ripped the oil container open, and Liz pushed the ghosts inside. Dan and Angel had half a second to mutter a curse that would have the queen of England spilling her tea before a huge explosion rocked the street.

A wall of heat blew Liz and I back, and debris from the truck rained down on us, metal scratching us and hot oil peppering our clothes with burn holes. Flames danced down the street, but we didn't see anyone emerging from the wreckage.

"Are they gone?" Liz panted, standing up from where the blast had knocked her down. I stood, shaking ash from my hair.

"I- I don't know-"

Dan stalked out of the flames, Angel hot on his heels. With a growl, Dan ripped the specter deflector off and snapped it in half. Neither of them had a scratch- if anything, they just looked pissed off.

Dan's arm was on fire as he grabbed Liz. Angel's hands circled around my neck, a murderous look in her eyes. The threw us to the ground, leaning over us and duplicating into four copies each.

"Your time is up kiddos." Dan smirked. "It's been up for a long time."

Liz and I could do nothing as all 8 monsters beat us senseless, using every power at their disposal; ghostly powers, physical powers, verbal insults, even grabbing the scattered pieces of debris and turning us into personal pinatas. There was nothing we could do to fight back.

Eventually they paused, bored that Liz and I no longer even had the strength to make noises of pain. We fell against each other, looking up at Dan and Angel with hurt, scared eyes.

"You alright?" Liz whispered to me, wiping away the trickle of blood that was falling from her lip.

"I have a broken rib..." I muttered, feeling the pain in my chest, as well as everywhere else. "Or cracked, at least."

Liz nodded, looking into my eyes as Dan and Angel surrounded us again, sadistic smiles on their faces. It hurt me to see her this beat up- bruises covered her face, blood falling from her lips. Her costumes was torn to pieces, blood and dirt staining the fabric.

"You two are adorable!" Angel laughed, looking down at us. "You remember when we were that cute, Dan?"

Dan glared at her. "I wasn't cute."

"You were totally cute! You're still cute! Even if you won't admit it!" Angel poked her boyfriends cheek and he shoved her off, a slight blush creeping up his cheeks.

Angel laughed again, calling back in her clones. She kneeled down on the ground next to Liz and I, her face filled with curiosity. "Why are you still fighting us?" She asked. Dan looked at her strangely, also calling in his clones.

"What are you doing?" he asked.

"I'm curious!" She hushed him. "They've seen the power they have when they're older. They've seen how happy they are. They've seen everything. So I don't understand why they wouldn't want this!"

"We aren't evil!" I rasped out. Dan scoffed, folding his arms over his chest.

"Danny," Angel reached out and caressed my cheek, her red eyes almost gentle. "There is evil everywhere in the world, in every person. Even you." She sent a loving glance towards Dan. "This entire future happened because you stole the answers to a huge test! Isn't that evil?"

"He isn't evil!" Liz cried, pushing her future self away from me. "He's a kid! Making bad choices is part of the ride, but is doesn't make him evil!"

"Then what about you?" Dan raised an eyebrow. "I know Danny felt guilt about the answers. But what about all the bad choices you've made. Remember when you broke Patricia's arm in first grade?"

"And felt no guilt at all?" Angel went on. "Isn't that evil?"

"Shut up!" I demanded. "She isn't evil!"

"She's her fathers daughter." Angel said. "You can't escape an evil like that. Well, you can. But only by becoming me."

"Dad wasn't evil!" Liz protested. Angel just laughed.

"Sweetie, you don't know you're father. Ever wonder why our eyes turned red?" She blinked her glowing red eyes. "Yes, it's cause of Robert. But, if you remember, you were born with purple ghost eyes."

Liz all but hissed as she tried to stand up and fight. With a careless flick of his wrist, Dan sent us both flying backwards into a building; the wall crumbled, bricks falling down. And electrical wire was cut and was left open, sparking dangerously.

"What makes you think you can change our past?" Dan wanted to know, flying over menacingly.

"We promised." I coughed out.

Dan tossed his head back and laughed. "Oh my God, you are such children! You promised?"

"Yes!" I shouted. Something was rising in my chest. Was I going to throw up? Was I going to die? No... not it felt more like I just had to scream.

I had promised my family. I promised my friends. I promised Liz. I wouldn't turn into this thing, this monster!

"You're a child, Danny." Dan scowled, raising a hand glowing with power. Angel smirked, wrapping her arms around his waist and staring down at us, waiting to watch us die.

"No..." I whispered, looking at Liz. She moved towards me, trying to pushed me out of the way of Dan's attack- she didn't see the sparking wire.

Three things happened at once, all in a matter of one second; Dan fired his ghostly attack at us, I screamed, and Liz pounced towards me, landing on the sparking wire. The next second was even weirder.

My scream wasn't a scream. It was something much more powerful. It was waves of pure power and sound washing over the city, directed and Dan and effectively blowing him back. Liz was screaming 'move!', but there was power coming from her too. Lightning was flying from her fingertips, blasting Angel back.

"What was that?" I panted, helping Liz to her feet. Dan and Angel were too weak to get up.

"That's impossible!" Dan raged. "We don't get that power for another 10 years!"

Liz looked at me with tired eyes and shrugged. "I dunno, but lets try it again."

I'm not sure how we did it, but we did. The power we had together sent the two older ghosts crashing into one of the strongest buildings in Amity Park. The entire structure collapsed on top of them with a loud thud as glass shattered and rock broke.

Liz and I both fell to the ground, panting. Lights flashed as we were forced back into our human forms, where we looked even more beat up than we did as ghosts.

"Did... did we do it?" I asked, hardly able to keep my eyes open. Rocks slid down and two very beat up and pissed off 24 year old ghosts crawled out.

"How did you do that?" Angel demanded. She looked like a deranged cat woman, crawling towards us with her long hair in a mess and her clothes in tatters. "It's not possible for you to have that power yet!"

"The future isn't set in stone." I said, pulling out the thermos and sucking them both inside. As I did, they gloated about Liz and I being too late to save 'them'. As soon as the thermos was shut tight, Liz and I spun around to see that the Nasty Burger was in the brink of exploding.

We ran as fast as we could, but in our state, it wasn't that fast. We tripped over the debris and before we could move, we were blinded by an explosion that would soon take out an entire city block.

"No!" I shouted, jumping up to my feet. I blinked rapidly, the image of my friends and family blowing up fresh in my mind.

I was in the Titans Tower. I was ok. No one was blown up. No one had died then. So why wasn't my heart rate slowing?

The titans were just as discombobulated as I was. They were glancing around, shaking their heads in confusion. Robin was the first person to snap out of it, and he was at my side as soon as he was.

"Hey, Danny, bro." he snapped his green gloved fingers under my nose. "Look at me! It's ok, you're alright! That was years ago, ok? It's over. It's over, you're safe. Nothing happened, no one was hurt. It's ok Danny, take a deep breath."

I sucked in some air, rubbing a hand over my face. "I'm fine. It... It was just weird." I told him. I could almost feel the way my life had literally been drained away by the suit, almost still hear Dan's voice in my ear.

I sat down heavily on the floor with the rest of my team, my breathing evening out.

"That was... Intense..." Cyborg muttered, looking at him with concern. "You did that all within a year?"

"About a month and a half apart from each other." I laughed. "Ghosts don't tend to give out vacation days."

"So, that was them," Leon breathed. "That was Dan and Angel. Wow. They were so badass!" he looked at me, his eyes shining with excitement. "That was the story, wasn't it? The first time you ever used your wail? Dude, that was so much cooler than I ever imagined! Like, the first wail! Wow! And Liz's first element! I just- it's so cool dude! You guys can't tell that story right, ya know that? It's so much cooler to actually see it! And Dan- damn dude that guy is huge! Is he on steroids or something? And-"

"You sound like a highly caffeinated fanboy at Comic-con." Dani told him, shoving him playfully.

"I don't care!" Leon leaned towards me, a geeky smile on his face. "That was so much cooler than any action movie I've ever seen in my life! Dan was so cool! I can't believe that he and you are the same person!"

"We aren't the same person." I snapped, flicking his forehead.

Leon cocked his head to the side. "What do you mean? Dan and Angel are you guys from the future so-"

"I am not him." I insisted. "I might share DNA and a past with that monster, but I'm not him. Got it?"

Leon nodded.

"What was Angel talking about?" Beast Boy wanted to know. "She was telling Liz their eyes were like, red and stuff right? But she said they were born with purple eyes. So why were her eyes red?"

"Most ghosts have red eyes." Dani told him, running a hand through her hair. "Only a few have other colors- no one knows what makes them different. Frostbite has blue eyes but it's because of his power. Danny has green eyes, but no one knows why; if we were going by logic then red and blue would make purple, right? But NOPE! Danny boy has green eyes. Anyways, Robert had red eyes, Claire had purple eyes. That's why Liz had purple ghost eyes, we think. Dunno why her regular eyes are green though."

"So when she went evil, so did her eyes?" BB raised an eyebrow. "I'm confused."

"They didn't jut 'go evil'." I muttered. Leon and Dani looked at me- they didn't know the full story of exactly what had happened. No one but Liz and I did really. "Long story short, in the future Vlad separated me from my ghost half. I did the same for him, and his ghost half overshadowed mine. They... well we weren't compatible. Ghost Vlad was stuck in Phantoms head, and they merged together into an evil monster. Only thing is- Vlad ghost didn't stay. He faded away and it was just Dans evil thoughts. Ghosts are evil by nature, so all my evil thoughts were condensed into phantom. I didn't wanna be alone, so even though Liz tried to fight it, I separated her halves too."

"But she was born with her powers," Dani protested. "You can't just... take that away!"

"Exactly. As Phantom tried to pull them apart it started killing Liz. And in a way, it did kill a part of her. Whatever part of her that contained her humanity that balanced out her ghost instincts was gone. And the next time she opened her eyes, they were red. There wasn't a human side and a ghost side of her anymore. Just a ghost."

"That is very much of the horrifying." Starfire whispered.

I looked at the clones, and their wide eyes.

"How come you never told us?" Leon asked quietly.

"Because we didn't want you to look like that." I looked at the ground. "I didn't want you to look at me like you were scared of me."

"What- Danny we aren't-" Dani trailed off as I stood up, turning away from them.

"You know what you're dealing with now; a ghost king and me. Happy? I'm gonna go do... something."

My heart felt heavy. I was a monster. I hadn't thought of Dan in so long, but it made sense. Literally all of that future had been my fault; stealing the answers, making the choice to cheat. Even the decisions I had only heard of were my fault. Why in gods name would I have asked Vlad to remove my ghost half? Why would I have tried to take away Liz's?

"They aren't scared of you." I turned and saw Raven behind me.

"What?"

"The titans have been around me for a long time," she said, standing next to me. We were on the roof- it seemed like my go to place when I was stressed. The mid-day sun warmed my skin, despite the December chill in the air. "If they're scared of anyone, they're scared of me."

"Did you see the way they looked at me?"

"Yeah." Raven brushed some hair out of her face. "I saw them look at you with awe and respect."

"They wouldn't look that way at a monster." I told her.

She nodded in agreement. "You're right, they wouldn't. And they didn't. You aren't a monster Danny." A soft hand cupped my cheek, turning my face towards her. "I'm serious."

"Raven, didn't you hear what I did?"

"I heard what some weird future version of you who lost everything did. I heard the actions of a hurt boy Danny, not a monster. Maybe Dan did monstrous things, but he was still you. And no matter how small the part of you that was left was, it was still you. And you? You could never be a monster."

I looked at her, stunned. Her eyes were filled with compassion, a look you didn't often see with Raven. "I did so many bad things; hurt people, killed people."

"It kind of comes with being a hero."

"I did it as Dan."

"Danny, you don't know what Dan did, you only know what people told you. Right?"

"W-well, yeah, but-"

"He could have been lying. He wanted to get under your skin in every way we could, right? He knew what he could say to do that. But you want to know what's the biggest proof against you being a monster, even as Dan?"

"What's that?" Our foreheads were almost touching.

"Do you think Angel was a monster?"

I blinked. "What? No... She was evil but no, not a monster. Not like Dan-"

"Yes or no Danny."

"No."

Raven nodded. "Exactly. Angel wasn't a monster, she was Liz. And even with everything Dan did, Angel still loved him. Even with everything you did, Liz still loved you."

I moved closer to Raven. Liz still loved me. She was right, Dan and Angel had made a point to show that they were together. They loved each other. A monster couldn't love someone, could it? And Liz wouldn't have loved a monster, would she?

"I still don't know..." I admitted.

"Then take it from a real monster," Raven said, tilting her chin up. "You could never be a monster Danny. Even if you turned into Dan."

And suddenly my lips were pressed against hers; a kiss from one monster to another.

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