Dani groans.
"He stole the tower, i didn't even know we could do that"
"Do you have all of the same powers
"We should, but dannys never been predictable."
"Do you have any idea how to get the tower back to earth?"
"I can get us back to earth if I find the far frozen or if vlads portal happens to be open, but I have no idea about the tower."
"Fine, let's find the titans and beat it out of phantom."
"We need to get the key to this damn belt first."
"First we need to regroup." he pulls out his communicator trying to contact anyone . Dani reached into her pocket pulling out her cellphone finding it crushed.
"Great, here nightwing theirs tech in here to make calls from the zone. Just don't look through my camera. Or my texts."
"We need to get to cys room." they move down the hallway, a plan having come together.
"I haven't seen danny in years, but it's halloween and he's working with the spirit of halloween, his plans not over."
"Not by a long shot dani." his voice echoes down the hallway. As the ice lanterns start to go out around them. The two move back to back waiting for Phantom, a hand flying up through the floor pulling dani through leaving dick alone. As the last of the lights go out. Danny lets Dani fall onto the couch he had taken from the main room.
"Welcome to the ghost zone, have you been?"
"Twice,I prefer travelin on earth. She rolls backwards over the arm of the couch launching it at him, Danny kicking it through the floor.
"I see a freight knight did her job."
"Yea, where's the key daniel."
"I have it on me daniella"
"Point. Now hand it over"
"In time, i don't want you getting out yet."
"What the hell are you even doing! You were a hero, you could still be one!"
He ignores her question not wanting to get into a debate.
"There are 4 people in the tower not counting me, the only way to free the tower is to beat me. Good luck."
A Danny claps his hands sitting on top of the generator looking down at raven and beastboy.
"That's exactly what i did, pull the sword and trap your friends in another dimension, and now I have no friends left and I'm the villain of this story. And now you're the clueless heroes."
He looks at the unconscious raven beast boy stepping in front of her.
"Don't come any closer!"
"She should have shut off her senses. Everyone in this place aside from your team is dead, and this place isn't made for outsiders."
"This is hell!?"
"No, it's a little to the left of hell."
"What does that even mean!?"
"This is the ghost zone, my particular breed of specter is formed here."
"There's more than one type of ghost?"
"Yep." he jumps off the generator walking towards raven.
"I wouldn't transform here, I don't know how animal instincts would react."
"Ill hurl, but i'll stop you while doing it"
"Sure you will." he takes another step and beast boy transforms into a t rex swinging his tail Danny planting his feet and catching it and spinning throwing Garfield over the edge of the towers edge beast boy turning into a pterodactyl as Danny slams into him his arms wrapping around him smashing him into a floating stone, quickly pulling a door open and throwing him inside slamming it.
"Will you be my friend?" a voice asks behind him making the hair on the back of his neck stand up.
"uhh..Sure?"
Danny touches back down on the roof finding raven unconscious. He crouches down over her pressing a finger to her forehead marking her to make the ghost zone back to ease up on her senses a little, the zone was not kind to invaders. And a demon definitely qualifies.
"Freight, go watch the tower keep anyone from interfering."
"There's no need to worry. All of your old enemies are on earth wreaking havoc.
"I thought this place felt empty, well either way go stand guard."
"Yes my liege." she says picking up the sword. Sheathing it slipping through the wall.
He floats back up to the top of the generator sitting down and phasing his hand inside pulling out a book opening it and starting to read.
Green lantern flies back to the shore, finding Shazam and Cyborg waiting for him.
"I'm getting some weird signals from the tower, nothing the rings seen before."
"No, you wouldn't have." the 3 spin to see a phantom sitting on the railing above them.
"Phantom! You did this?" cyborg yells
"Obviously." he hears a silent turbine looking up to see the bat coming down to land.
"Fuck." he stands up on the bar as he touches down on the sand.
"Daniel fenton." batman growls.
"Jesus you are terrifying."
"Bring them back."
"Why should i? They pulled the sword out, if they had left the thing alone there would be no issue."
"This is like the disappearance of amity in 2011, you were a hero. You fought parademons during darkseid's invasion. It's not too late."
"It was too late when I was vivisected, when I was cut open over and over again by a government organization, and then when they were shut down I was shoved into Arkam with the worst of the worst. So I escaped and here we are." his eyes turn red as he remembers his time with the G.I.W.
"While I'm here there are 3 more of me in the tower with the titans, the games already started and there's nothing I can do to stop it."
"They're in the ghost zone then." Batman says turning and walking back into the bat leaving the trio with phantom, "nwod mih kconk" danny hears from behind feeling a massive concussive force slam into his back knocking him off his bar.
Danny spins in the air looking behind him upside down seeing a woman a modified magician outfit and a tophat.
"Zatanna?" He asks.
"Hey danny long time no see." she waves her wand and the sand forms into a hand trying to grab him, Danny blasting it with fire turning it to glass.
"How's your dad."
"Dads gone. He put on fate's helmet."
"Dr fate? Old school hero?" he dodges a lightning bolt, the hair on his arms standing up, as he kicks Shazam in the ribs sending him flying his foot aching.
"Ow. that hurt." Green chains wrap around him, trapping him and slamming him into the sand. He looks up to see zatanna standing over him.
"When i heard about amity…"
"Dont!" he stops her rolling and pulling the green lantern.
"I don't want to talk about amity."
He phases through the chains grabbing them and spinning out of shazams way as the chains disappear a bus falling towards him as a lightning bolt slamms into his back danny losing himself for a moment screaming out as memories of his death flash through his head the entire beach chilling instantly as danny screams his voice echoing inhumanly.
"Billy, what the hell was that?" Cyborg asks scanning danny.
"That wasn't me." he says eyes wide victor keeping his canon on him as zatana approaches him hesitantly reaching out for his shoulder danny grabbing her arm the bones in her wrist creaking as ice starts to spread up it.
"No electricity." he warns her.
"Yea, no electricity." she agrees staring up into his unfocused eyes. The other 3 moving towards him slowly.
"Whats happening?"
Lantern shrugs and they hear a set of thrusters.
"PHANTOMM!" He turns in time to see a massive green blast slam into his stomach sending him flying The red huntress's board disappearing as she lands in the sand, bringing her hands together a massive cannon forming out of her wrists.
"Val?" Danny's voice echoes from inside of the rubble sounding pained and confused.
"You remember me? Good, I want you to know who killed you this time." she yells firing on the rubble
"I remember who killed me lastime." he snarks after the blast dies down.
"Calm down!" Zatana yells at her.
"What's wrong with you?!" Green lantern asks.
"He killed one of my best friends and his family. And destroyed my home town. I will not calm down." she says as she blasts the ruble again.
"He's down, you're gonna kill him!" cyborg yells.
"That's the point!" she yells as her blasters shut off.
"You haven't changed." his voice echoes from inside of the pile.
"I didn't know you were still alive." the pile starts to shift.
"Mad that you didn't finish the job? After you tore a hole through me and left me in a pool of my own blood."
"You what?we thought you were just a new villain."
"This monster killed the fenton family, sam Manson, and Tucker foley. And he turned my home to ruble leaving his little ghost followers to take over."
"Is that what happened after? I haven't been back but you're wrong, the only fenton i've managed to not kill is danny, actually i have him inside of titans tower." he lifts the ruble off of himself his form flickering and val narrowing her eyes.
"You're not the original. He's in the tower isn't he?"
"Absolutely, why would i risk losing control here?" The bait having been set. and with that he lets go the clone disappearing.
"I'm going after him, you can follow after me to get the titans but phantoms mine.'' She takes a running leap, her board appearing under her feet, lantern forming a bubble around zatanna and cyborg following after her.
"Friend Danny, you seem to know the phantom, if I get my communicator will he hurt you?"
"If you want to risk it, id keep it to a basic status update. Don't give too much away?" he says with a shrug and she pulls her communicator.
"Titans? Can you hear me?" nothing.
"Oh no, I broke another one." star says, dropping it sadly.
"It might be the zone starfire, it affects tech weird bring it here." he holds out his hand with whatever movement his shackles allow Star moving to sit against the side of the throne handing it to him. He reaches into his pocket pulling out a partial fenton phone.
"I was working on this earlier, might help." he rips a chip out of it popping open the back of the communicator going about installing the chip."
"You are very smart." she notes
"No, my parents were the genius's. I had this friend named Tucker and he showed me everything I know."
"He sounds like friend cyborg."
"He would have loved him." Danny says going back to work.
Raven stirs shooting up , firing a blast at Dany who smacks it away.
"Welcome back to the land of the dead."
"Daniel Fenton. What are you."
"I'm a ghost, the heir apparent to the throne of pariah dark. Not nearly as great of a title as the daughter of trigon." the world seems to shake at the utterance of the name.
"Zone does not like him."
"Nowhere likes him. He's the embodiment of evil."
"I've dealt with people like that before."
"I doubt that."
"How'd you figure out who I am."
"Dani."
"Figures. So you know who I am. And now I know how to banish you. We should set some rules of engagement."
"Oh, and what do you have in mind, What have you been playing this game to achieve."
"Who says I have a goal, freight knight is the spirit of halloween and you're towers a damn eyesore."
"Do you even know when you're lying anymore."
"It's not a lie if i trick myself into believing it." he counters
"Here it is, put me down for the count and the tower snaps back to the mortal coil. So , would you like to take your shot first?"
"You're trying to make sure people recognize you, why?"
"It's better if I'm on the radar. If every hero on earth keeps their eyes on me maybe thistle be enough."
"Enough for what."
"Dont worry about it, i still have time." he jumps down from the generator throwing a lazy punch towards raven letting her dodge jumping back and throwing a blast of ecto energy against her shield." jumping into the air and trying to bring his foot down on her head ravens magic catching his leg wrapping around it and slamming him against the floor.
"You're weaker than the last time we met aren't you." her shadows wrap him up
"Fine you got me, I split myself into four to manage this entire thing. I'm about as strong as I was when i was 16." he bends backwards at the waist, his body moving in a way that would break someone's spine as he plants his hands pulling against the shadows flipping.
"Thats gross."
"Right." he says as his legs disappear the shadows trying to tighten as he pulls free.
Dodging ravens next atack and sending and forming a wall between them out of ice a black bird passing through raven appears from within it.
Moving to the side to dodge Danny's fist the wall exploding as he swings his forearm after her raven catching his arm.
"Demon strength huh?" he mutters to himself pulling his arm away from his eyes widening as he hears an explosion.
"someones working against me." he murmurs his sense of the zone cutting in and out. A chunk of stone covered in black magic slamming into the back of his head knocking him out his body fading out.
"3 more of him, great."
"Observants" phantom growls knowing that they were the only ones willing and capable to interfere with his connection to the zone.
"Freight!?" he calls out and she materializes from the floor.
"Yes my liege."
"Hunt down the observants, they did...something and I'm not connected like I once was."
"At once phantom." she says her eyes blazing brighter than he had ever seen them
"I will find them, and cut them down for daring to move against you."
"Do it quick. Disrupt whatever they are doing." she nods and flies through the roof the wall behind danny exploding danny turning to see val fly through the smoke.
"Red huntress? Shit." he dodges her blast grabbing the wall and ripping off a panel send throwing it at her a res blur grabbing it, shazam floating in the air.
"You got here faster than i thought."
He catches Valerie's wrists, her fists glowing with green energy.
"Youll die for what you did to danny!"
"What I did to danny?" he throws her through the wall into the main room ducking shazams fist.
"Dannys right here."