A couple of hours later the teens, Garfield and Danielle were outside on the beach. Batman had gone to Amity Park to talk to Danny's family, both to inform them of Danny's potential life-long hearing disability and to explain how and why they were kidnapped. Black Canary was watching the children with interest as Danny prepared to teach Danielle how to shift her presence on the Real World plane. Kaldur volunteered to help. Danny decided that the best option was to try and teach Danielle under the same circumstances as he learned to shift his presence. M'gann was going to accompany them also, using her shapeshifting ability to give herself gills, in order to help Danny and Danielle communicate.

"Ready?" Danny asked Danielle. She nodded and changed into her ghost form and Danny followed suit.

"Alright, keep in mind, when you shift in and out of sync with this plane, your need to breathe is kind of paused. You won't need to recover air like when you hold your breath normally. Let me demonstrate here while we're still on dry land," Danny explained. Danny paused for a moment.

"Okay, I'm doing it now. As long as I'm concentrating, I don't need to breathe. But I wouldn't advise relying on it. If I lose my concentration, I'll instinctively breathe again and if I'm underwater, I will drown," Danny warned. He paused again.

"I've stopped now. See how I don't need to catch my breath? That's how you know you've done it right," Danny concluded.

Kaldur frowned and glanced at M'gann.

"Then why did you need to catch your breath when you did that when Vlad was choking you?" M'gann asked over the mind link. Danny smirked.

"Because I did it when I needed to breathe. It's different to now. Like I said, my lungs kind of pause. If I do it when I'm out of breath, I'll need to catch my breath when I stop," Danny answered. Everyone listening nodded, having been part of the mind link and heard the question. Danny turned to Danielle.

"When you're ready Dani and if you don't want to try, it's alright. This isn't easy to learn and can be a bit dangerous," Danny resumed. Danielle sighed to calm her nerves before jumping into the air and grinned at him.

"If you can do it, I can," she retorted cockily. Danny blinked and noticed her facial expression. He deduced that she said something along the lines that she was ready.

He nodded.

"If you start to drown, try to stay ghost and fire off a ghost ray. As ghost, we need less oxygen anyway," Danny advised before floating into the air as well. Danielle nodded to show that she heard him. With him unable to hear, teaching was a little tricky. In a way, this was the best lesson for him to teach. Danielle would only be able to talk if she managed it.

Kaldur and M'gann waded into the sea and dove under the gentle waves. Danny and Danielle flew out until they reached deep enough water. Then they dropped into the water and began the lesson. There were a few times where Danielle had to come up for air and a near drowning, but after the eleventh attempt, she did it. Unfortunately, her elation of achieving the feat caused her to lose her concentration and Danny had to save her from drowning again.

Danielle floated away from him, spluttering from inhaling a little water by accident.

"I nearly had it!" she growled.

"Dani, you did have it. You just lost concentration. I told you, it needs you to concentrate to work. But now you've felt it, it'll be easier to do again," Danny reassured her. Danielle looked up and smiled.

"Can I try again?" she asked.

"If you're up for it, sure. It doesn't bother me," Danny agreed. The team were trying to wean Danny off using the mind link solely to communicate as it may come to a point that he'd rely on it completely and be unable to talk to others without it. Black Canary had offered to teach Danny sign language or how to read lips. But they decided for times like this when proper communication and understanding was imperative, they'd use the mind link.

Both halfas dropped back into the water and Danielle tried it again. She managed it for almost a minute before losing concentration, however this time, she didn't require saving. She grinned at Danny as she floated out of the water.

"Yes! I did it! I really did it this time! Thanks Danny!" Danielle cheered. Danny smiled as she spoke just loud enough for him to hear what she was saying.

"Knew you could Dani, congrats. Now all you have to do is try without being in danger. That's harder because you know you can breathe if you want to but you'll get it. Just try not to hold your breath so much that you pass out okay?" Danny replied. Danielle nodded and hugged him excitedly. Danny laughed and hugged her back before turning intangible and drying himself. Danielle copied him.

They returned to the beach moments later and met up with Kaldur and M'gann, both soaked.

"Now what do we do?" Wally asked the group. They all shrugged and looked to each other. Danny, not knowing what was asked, turned to Black Canary.

"Mind if I do some training of my own for a bit? I want to try and teleport again," Danny inquired, attracting the others' attention. Black Canary blinked in surprise at the question before shaking her head and gave a go ahead gesture. Danny grinned. He then turned around and scanned the beach for an easy target. He saw that Wally and Artemis were sitting on the sand a substantial distance away.

He took a breath and try to get to the point he'd been when his friends and sister had been in danger. He filled his mind with the desire to get to the point he was focusing on without moving. His form momentarily blurred into a green mist before solidifying again without success. He growled with frustration and tried again. But he didn't even grow smoky this time. He took a calming breath, ignoring his audience, and turned his thoughts inwards. He closed his eyes and considered how he'd felt. He'd felt an overwhelming need to get to another location while being unable to move. But he'd also felt a wave of instability. Just like with the Zeta tubes. It wasn't a frightening feeling but certainly a unique one.

As he thought, he unconsciously adopted a thoughtful, floating position.

"What's he doing? I thought he was trying to teleport," Garfield inquired in confusion.

"I think he's trying to figure out how he did it the first time. Doing something by accident, is a whole lot different than doing it on purpose and this time he doesn't have the stress of if he fails something bad will happen," Danielle answered breathlessly, revealing that while Danny had tried to teleport, she'd tried to shift her presence. The others looked to her.

"Ghosts work on emotion. If our emotions aren't right, our powers don't work. So if Danny isn't feeling the same as he did when he teleported, then he mightn't be able to do it," Danielle explained. The team had told Garfield and Danielle what happened during the mission when Danny was talking to Batman and Black Canary.

Danielle turned to Danny and gasped as his form began to blur again slowly. His face was set in a determined, concentrating expression. He then erupted in a cloud of green smoke and vanished. Everyone cried out in alarm and searched for him.

Danny opened his eyes and saw that he had moved. He frowned. He wasn't near Artemis and Wally. He was ten feet in the air above where he started. He growled in frustration and floated back down.

"This is going to take some time," he muttered, bringing everyone's attention away from their search and back to him.

"Where did you go Danny?" Raquel asked. Danny didn't hear her though. She waved her arms to get his attention. Danny turned to her.

"Where did you go?" Raquel repeated, trying to make what she was saying obvious. Danny guessed what she asked.

"I did teleport but I didn't really move. I ended up up there," Danny answered and pointed above him. Everyone smirked and Danielle giggled.

"Practice makes perfect," she joked over the mind link. Danny sighed and nodded before giving her a playful glare.

A new power for Danny to learn to control.

And a new technique for Danielle too.

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Until the next chapter.