Danny looked up and through his pain saw his parents being pulled to their feet and pushed out of a side door. They struggled to stay with the children. They were shouting too but everything seemed to reach Danny through a muffled buzzing. The green kimono woman had started to walk over to his sister and friends, taking out a sai as she walked. Agents O and K had left their posts too. He glanced at Cujo and frowned with determination. He was not going to let his loved ones get hurt and he was never going to be caught by the Guys in White again. He dropped his hands and grabbed the thermos on his belt. He'd decided to have it on his ghost form to show the illusion that he was prepared for ghosts and didn't know about Luthor's interest in him.

He took off the lid.

"Sorry boy, but you'll be safer in here," Danny muttered, unable to even hear his own voice. He pointed the thermos at the dog and activated the device. He then returned the thermos to his hip and struggled to his feet. But he'd acted too slowly. Agents O and K had reached him. They grabbed his arms.

"Hold on Danny! We'll be there in seconds!" Aqualad informed him.

"Seconds is too late," Danny retorted. He looked over to his friends and sister. He struggled against the men holding him. They were in danger. They couldn't protect themselves and the team wouldn't be there in time. He had to get to them. He had to move. But the distance was too great. Even if he got free, he'd never make it in time.

Suddenly a familiar feeling swept over him. A feeling he'd only felt twice. His form disappeared in a puff of green smoke and he reappeared in front of his friends and sister, just in time to put up a shield to deflect a thrown sai, there was no time to be confused. Danny dropped his shield and duplicated himself. He spun around and began to untie Sam, as she was closest. His duplicate glared at the people surrounding him.

"Danny!? How did you do that?" Sam exclaimed as he removed her gag. Danny didn't hear her question but saw her lips moving.

"What?!" he asked, once again not even hearing his voice as he gripped the ropes in his charged hand, burning the bindings to a degree so that even Sam could snap them. His duplicate fired multiple ghost rays at projectiles thrown at him and the room was filled with loud explosions and shouts. Luthor and his body guard retreated out of the line of fire. The noise that deafened Danny stopped as well as they saw that it no longer affected Danny. Sam frowned as Danny took Jazz's gag off her.

"I asked, how you did that?!" Sam repeated herself slightly louder. Danny, once again saw her lips moving but heard nothing. He scowled in confusion. Jazz raised an eyebrow.

"Danny?! Can you hear us?!" she called, but since Danny was looking at Sam, he didn't even know she'd spoken to him. Danny burned through Jazz's bonds and she touched his shoulder. He turned to her.

"Can you hear me!?" Jazz shouted, mouthing the words clearly as she spoke. Danny frowned and tapped his unoccupied ear.

"Can't hear!" he told her, unknowingly answering her question.

Jazz gasped as Danny turned to Tucker and took off his gag.

"That noise! It must have deafened him!" Jazz realised.

"What?! Do you think it's permanent?" Sam inquired, watching Danny burn through Tucker's bindings. Jazz shook her head.

"No idea. But he can't fight off so many enemies handicapped like this," Jazz replied with concern.

"If only we had our ghost weapons," Tucker moaned. Danny frowned at them, not sure if they were talking to him or not.

But back up arrived and the double doors Danny entered through exploded open. Danny looked up seeing the movement out of the corner of his eye and smirked.

"Finally," he muttered. As they could hear fine, Sam, Tucker and Jazz heard Danny's comment. They tapped him on the shoulder and gave him a questioning look.

"Did you really think I came with only Cujo as back up?" he asked. They blinked in surprise and turned to see Aqualad with his water bearers ready, charge into the fray with Superboy. Artemis fired arrows, imprisoning the assassins attacking Danny in expanding foam. Kid Flash zoomed over to Danny and raised an eyebrow at the fact that there was two Dannys.

"Since when can you do that?" he inquired.

Danny didn't hear the speedster and scanned the room. Kid Flash frowned.

"Danny?!" he called.

"He can't hear you. That noise deafened him," Sam interjected. Kid Flash turned to the Goth.

"What!?" he gasped. He turned to Danny.

"Danny! Can you hear?" Kid Flash asked telepathically. Danny turned to the speedster.

"No. Well, I can in my left but not with all these explosions. Sorry, were you saying something?" Danny answered. Kid Flash shook his head in disbelief, subconsciously noticing that the Fenton phone was in his left ear.

"In that case, Danny retreat with your friends," Aqualad decided.

"What about my parents? They took them somewhere," Danny interjected.

"They're through the door beside you, third left and second right. There's an exit that way too. But you'll come out on the opposite side of the complex to the Bioship," Robin informed them.

"Where's Cujo?" Superboy inquired.

"In my thermos. He's safe. Might be deaf like me, but he'll be fine," Danny answered. Danny's duplicate spotted the clone nod as he threw a punch at one of his attackers.

"Alright, go after your parents. Wally go with him. Once you guys and team alpha are clear, Conner, Artemis and I will follow," Aqualad ordered. Kid Flash turned to the trio watching Danny and Kid Flash with confusion.

"Come on, we're going after Danny's parents," Kid Flash informed them and gestured for them to head through the door.

"Wait, how do you know that Danny's parents were taken that way?" Tucker interjected. Kid Flash glanced at Danny and groaned as he saw that the halfa hadn't heard a word.

"We can communicate telepathically. Miss Martian set up a mental link. Danny and the rest of the team have been talking using that," Kid Flash explained.

"So, you can communicate with him even though he's deaf. That's a relief," Jazz realised.

"Yeah, Danny sucks at lip reading," Sam grumbled. Kid Flash blinked at the response before smirking. Danny noticed the smile.

"You're talking about me, aren't you?" Danny inquired, talking a little louder than usual.

Kid Flash glanced at the halfa before giving him an innocent expression as he pushed the door open. Danny scowled.

"Guys, I can sustain my duplicate at distance. But you'll need to tell me if something's up because neither of us can hear," Danny informed them.

"Noted," Aqualad acknowledged. Danny then walked through the door, leaving his duplicate to stop anyone following them.

Whew!

That was a close one.

But they're not out of danger just yet.

Will Danny save his parents?

Until the next chapter.