Yay! New chap! Enjoy!
"… you can see Superman dismantling the weapons of mass destruction" A reporter said while the TV showed the blue and red clad superhero doing exactly that.
Danny only paid half attention towards the news displayed in dozens of TVs in the techno shop and continued walking towards his destination. He was in his human form and was wearing lose blue jeans, red sneakers and a dark blue T-shirt under a red hooded jacket. He was in an unusually good mood at having been successful in his daily search.
It's been two months since he had been stranded in the living world and he had learned some things, the first was that he was stranded in a different dimension as his own, after all there was no way he wouldn't have hear of the mission to Mars with his love for space.
The second were the superheroes, besides the fact that they were more common in this world and have their own supervillains, Danny was more surprised at how the people treated them. There was the usual opposition of them but it was very small compared with the support, it made him a little sad at how the people of Amity Park always feared him even when he tried to help.
Danny made his way towards his temporal hideout making sure he was not being followed, he knew he didn't attract any attention but it made no harm to make sure. He knew he was being a little paranoid but he preferred to be safe than to be discovered and experimented on for being unique or something.
When a ratty old abandoned building, at the outskirts of the city he was currently in, came into view Danny relaxed a little. He went towards the side of the building and making sure there was nobody in sight he became invisible and intangible and passed through the wall of his current home.
One of the downsides of arriving at a different dimension without expecting it, was that the only things he owned were the clothes he was using at the moment and no money at all. Besides looking for information of this world Danny had been looking for places portals should appear. He'd been moving through some cities and towns searching for these tears in the space-time and food, lots of food. That was the main downside of having no money, he had been surviving out of stolen food and sometimes shelters. Though his ghost half make it easier to go days without eating if he was unlucky.
"Smoky I'm home!" Danny called when he entered the building.
After the call a black ghost cat with pupil less pastel green eyes came fazing through the wall towards Danny, meowing her own greeting showing her sharp white teeth and green tongue.
Danny found the cat in one of his searches for a portal in a small town. There was a fire in a pet shop a few weeks before his appearance and the remains of the building where still in there. Danny was just passing near the site when he felt his ghost sense activate, with a lot of hope he searched for the ghost and found the adult cat sitting on the debris, Danny deduced it lived its whole life in the shop for the size it had.
Apparently, the ghost cat took a liking to him the moment she saw him because, just when Danny could see the green of her eyes the ghost went quickly towards him and rubbed her body on his leg. Glad that the ghost was friendly, Danny petted her and resumed his walking until he noticed that the cat started to follow him. Not having the energy or the will to shoo her away, he let her join him.
Danny had the suspicion that it did that because of his halfa status, though he didn't mind it, he had been missing the company of his fellow ghost friends and thought that a new one couldn't be a bad thing. Besides the presence of this type of ghost in here meant that portals to the Ghost Zone formed in this dimension. So now Danny had a companion and a source of hope to return home, he named the cat Smoky because the end of her tail appeared to be made of smoke.
"Hello Smoky, how you been?" Danny asked his cat receiving a meow of response.
"I'm great! I could sneak some food from the supermarket near the plaza" Danny said while getting some food out of his pockets that he had hidden in his body with intangibility. It was really awkward, but it worked.
He had stolen some sandwiches, cold and dried food. After all there wasn't gas to cook his food and even if he could make electricity work in his current house, he didn't have a microwave to cook. He had made a small freezer with his unmelting ghost ice to storage the cold food, sandwiches and some fruit he could snatch from stores. Danny also brought out a closed package that he tried to hid from Smoky.
"Mreow?" Smoky made a questioning sound while trying to move Danny's hand to see what he was hiding.
"Ok, ok you nosy cat. I found the cats treats that you like, but I'm not going to give you all of them right now. Even if you are a ghost and can't get sick for eating them but then you'll want more and is very hard to get more, so you better behave miss" Danny rambled to Smoky pointing a finger at her. He knew she could understand him, being a ghost give animals more knowledge than in life, he knew that thank to Cujo. Danny tended to talk to Smoky a lot, it helped him to feel less lonely.
"Mreoow" Smoky meowed again sitting and grabbing Danny's finger with her two front paws.
"Ugh… alright but just one" Danny said and reached with intangible fingers for a treat, then he gave it to Smoky. she ate it purring like a small motor.
Danny smiled at the sight, petted Smoky behind the ears and started to separate his food. Luckily this food would keep him satisficed for weeks, though thanks to his ghost half food wasn't the only sustain he had. He had discovered that he could feed of people's emotions after he spend the first week without food.
He had been near a store looking for food when there was a robbery. After the first second of the crime Danny felt energized, later he found out it was because he was feeding from the fear of the victims. Taking advantage of the extra energy, Danny went ghost and defeated the criminals with ease. A brave witness thanked him and asked for his name, Danny told them he was Phantom and the he went invisible to avoid the questions that he was sure it would follow.
After that incident every time he felt energized by fear in the streets Danny went to the source and stopped any crime that was happening. He didn't know how to feel about this new power, he was glad that it gave him energy but fear wasn't an emotion he wanted to cause if he was too hungry, he didn't want to be like Spectra. That's why he found it relieving when he discovered that cinemas with horror movies were a feast for him for when he wasn't lucky in retrieving food.
Danny decided to eat one of the sandwiches for dinner and was thinking of how good it was that spring was starting, he didn't mind the cold much but there were limits his human form could stand without getting sick and he couldn't afford to get sick.
"Augh!" Danny exclaimed grabbing his head and getting in his knees for the intense pain.
That was the second time it happened in two nights, something was trying to get in his mind and after the incident with Freackshow he didn't want anyone messing with his mind. He tried very hard to not let this person get in his mind but they were very strong, he couldn't stop some strange images get in and before he could pass out of pain, he heard a telepathic message.
"The… comi… earth…. help…" Danny could bravery understand what it said before the pain and the message stopped.
Danny got the feeling that whoever send the message was desperate from help. Sighing and massaging his temples to relieve the headache that was forming, he petted Smoky that went to his side when she felt he was unwell. Deciding to eat before making any big decision Danny got up, grabbed the sandwich and went to sit in the old sofa he found in the building.
After eating Danny decided to listen to the whole message the next time it comes, it wouldn't hurt to try and listen. He knew he couldn't turn down a cry for help and besides his unfruitful search for a ghost portal he didn't have anything better to do.
"I'm going to search the local cemetery. I'll be back later Smoky" Danny said while petting the ghost cat, making her purr.
At not receiving any telepathic messages during the night, Danny decided to continue his own investigation in where he thought would be a good place for portals to form. He spent all day walking through the cemetery and it ending in a waste of time. There were no ghosts in there and he didn't feel any ectoplasm in the air. Giving up Danny transformed into his ghost form and went flying towards his temporal house.
Just a few blocks before his destination Danny felt a lot of fear began to feed him, curious and worried he started to look for the crime causing it but at not finding anything he shrugged and started to resume his travel only to be stopped by the images that the TVs in the techno shop were displaying.
"What the hell?" Danny asked to nobody at seeing the news.
Giant tripods like machines were attacking a city, Metropolis according to the headlines in the screen and because Superman was fighting those things. Though for the look of it he wasn't being very successful.
Danny was contemplating in joining the fight if it took the strongest hero of this earth too long to defeat it when he felt the telepathic message came to his mind again. This time he didn't fight against it, he listened to it and knew what he had to do, he was going to help this person, gathering some more energy from the collective fear of the humans, the half ghost teleported towards the place the message showed him to go.
When Danny reappeared, he found himself in the middle of some mountains covered in snow. Paying more attention, he realized that there was a military base in one of the mountains.
"I have a bad feeling about this" Danny mumbled to himself before going invisible and intangible to infiltrate inside the base.
The first thing he noticed was the lack of people in there, all was eerie silent and it made the hairs of his neck stand, even so he continued his search. Putting his hood up to remain as calm as possible he keeps on going through walls, until he found a huge metal door with a lot of security to get pass it.
"Yup, not suspicious at all" Danny whispered to himself sarcastically.
He passed through the door and found himself in a room full of monitors that showed different stats and what appeared to be alien like organs. Feeling a little sick Danny crossed the last metal door, whatever he expected to find it wasn't a green alien in some weird restrains. Before he could come with an idea as to how free the alien, he heard something coming from the giant metal door.
Making sure he was still invisible and intangible Danny prepared himself to defend the alien from whatever was coming. When the door was ripped apart, the only thing that stopped him from attacking was the appearance of Superman and Batman? "uh who knew, the rumors were true after all" Danny thought while he watched how Superman and Batman got closer.
"What is it?" Batman asked looking at the alien.
"Mankind only hope" Superman said before approaching a panel control.
Superman pulled all the levers up and Danny saw how the restrains in the alien started to loosen. When all of the restrains loosened the alien fell but was caught by Superman before they could hit the floor.
"It's been trying to reach me telepathically but that stasis field interfered. When this message finally came through, I came to rescue him" Superman explained to Batman. Danny was surprised that Superman could also hear the message.
"What's he doing here" Batman asked.
'The invasion' the alien said telepathically at everyone in the room surprising Batman.
"I came to warn you but I was captured and imprison here. They wouldn't listen" The alien explained.
"Big surprise" batman said making Danny almost snort at the pure sarcasm in his voice.
"I sense you don't trust me. Perhaps this would help" The alien said before shapeshifting into a more human like appearance. He now had blue boots, shorts and cape that was keep in place with two golden bottoms united with a red leash to the red belt forming an x in his chest.
"I am J'onn J'onzz" The alien, now J'onn said to Batman while holding his arm to do a handshake, which Batman did not return.
"Don't take it personally J'onn, he doesn't trust anyone" Superman said when he saw that Batman wasn't going to move, he knew from experience.
"A wise policy" J'onn said neutrally.
"I admit I am surprised you received my message as well, your mind is well warded" J'onn said looking at the place where Danny stood invisibly, gaining a questioning look from Superman and a suspicious one from Batman.
"Not well enough, some of it got through and I got curious" Danny said while making himself visible. J'onn had made his presence known so there was no reason to continue hiding.
"Hi I'm Phantom" Danny introduced himself to the other heroes.
Superman was very surprised that he didn't detect him, he swears he didn't hear another heartbeat in the room. Batman just narrowed his eyes analyzing the being in front of him, with only the lower half of his head visible with the hood up and his lower half being a type of tail was a little difficult to make out his age.
"Hello is nice to meet you. I think you already know me and Batman" Superman said while shaking hands with Danny, he noticed that the hand was too cold to be healthy but pretended to not notice.
"Yup, though I think we should get out of here. This place gives me the chills" Danny said while pointing with his thump the hole Superman did to enter the room. He wasn't comfortable in labs.
"Let's move" Batman said and they started to walk towards the exit.
In their way-out Danny took notice of all the destruction Superman caused, he was very impressed with his strength at putting out the big metal door. The half ghost was too caught in his thoughts to listen what Superman was saying, he thought something was very odd about the base, he was about to express his concern when their where surprised by the military.
"Stop right there Superman, you're trespassing in a restricted area. Our orders are to keep that freak in" a soldier with a strict face said, Danny immediately didn't like this situation.
"Wait I vouch for him. You must let us go" Superman said trying to reason with the man.
"I don't think so" the soldier said.
"But the world security may be at sake" Superman insisted.
"That's why he'll never leave here alive" the soldier said before he and all of the other soldiers shapeshifted into white skinned creatures and pointed strange weapons at the heroes.
"It's them" J'onn said while they took defense positions.
The white aliens started to shoot at them, Superman took one of the blasts in the chest and it pushed him towards a tank. J'onn, Batman and Danny took cover behind a bolted jeep.
"Stay out!" Batman exclaimed and threw a batarang at the troops. Before Danny could wonder how a batarang could help it exploded in a bright flash of light and covered them with a thick smoke. Danny took advantage of the cover and shoot ectoblasts at the aliens.
"Behind you!" J'onn exclaimed and passed through batman, he took the soot that was for the dark knight and went down on his knees.
"J'onn are you…" Batman was asking but was interrupted when J'onn shook his head in negative.
"Hang on" Batman said while helping J'onn to stand.
"Get him to safety, I'll cover you" Superman said while holding a tank above their heads.
"Good idea" Danny said.
He then spread all his fingers in front of him, made them glow with ectoenergy and shot twenty blasts at the same time, giving Batman and J'onn the distraction they needed while they make their way towards the Bat-plane.
At seeing that both were in the plane, Danny stopped his shooting and Superman threw the tank towards the invaders. Danny and Superman started to fly alongside the plane but then, they were chased by white alien ships. Taking evasive maneuvers, they tried to keep the ships away from the Bat-plane, Danny shoot ectoblasts at the ships but it made little to no damage.
Realizing that the ships were resistant to his usual blasts, Danny passed inside of a ship and blasted at every machinery at sight causing a great explosion inside it, he passed out of the ship and watched how it went down and crashed with a explosion on the side of a mountain. Danny repeated that strategy with three more ships before he noticed that one of the alien ships shoot off the left wing of the bat plane.
Danny flew towards it to try and stop the fall but he stopped when he saw that the plane was secured by a green energy, searching for the source Danny was surprised to see a Green Lantern. He didn't know much of them just that they could make things of green energy with their rings.
Danny's surprise was interrupted by shots coming from the ships, but before he could fly towards them a woman with big wings appeared and with a war scream, she took the ships down with only her maze. Danny was really impressed by her strength. After the Green Lantern left the plane in a secure place J'onn and Superman got closer to him, Danny and Hawkgirl decided to do the same.
"Sorry I'm late there was an operation in Rigel-9" the Green Lantern John Stewart said and gave Danny a strange look. Green Lantern couldn't comment anything because at that moment more ships appeared and the five of then started to fight against them.
Superman, GL and Hawkgirl fought with their force, J'onn changed density and tricked the ships to fight against their own and Danny continued to destroy them from the inside. One of the ships could shoot at Hawkgirl in a wing making her crash on some rocks on the mountain side, but before she could recover a woman in a red and blue suit with a tiara and metal bracelets descended from the sky.
"Allow me" the woman said and defended Hawkgirl from the ship diverting the shoots whit her bracelets.
Some of the shoots were redirected towards the ship, bringing it down towards them. GL protected them with a green dome of energy and let the ship crash in it.
"Who's the rookie?" GL asked.
"Not sure" Superman said before throwing a ship towards the mountain causing an explosion.
Hawkgirl thanked the new woman and they joined Superman, GL, J'onn and Danny in their way towards Batman's plane. Danny saw in the distance a strange red blur that was approaching at incredibly speeds, when they were close enough, he could see it was the Flash, the hero of Central City that he had seen in TV. The half ghost was surprised he found the left wing of the plane, he though it got destroyed in the fall.
"Wow where have you been all my life" flash asked at seeing the new woman.
"Themyscira" she responded simply.
"Uh?" Flash said in confusion.
"The home of The Amazon, I always thought it was merely a legend" Hawkgirl said.
"I assure you is as real as the ground on which we stand on. I'm Diana princess of The Amazons" the new woman now Diana introduced herself.
"Pinch me I must be dreaming- ow!" Flash said and was stopped for saying more from Superman elbowing him in the ribs.
"Themyscira is protected by the gods, but I cannot stand by while the rest of the world was in danger" Diana explained her presence in there.
"We were lucky you showed up when you did" Superman said.
"No, not luck. I telepathically summon them" J'onn explained.
"Even the kid?" GL asked.
"Yes, even me. And the name's Phantom not kid" Danny said narrowing his eyes, he didn't like to be underestimated.
"Look I'm usually pretty quick in the update but someone please tell me what the heck is going on here" Flash said interrupting any discussion forming.
After Superman fixed the wing of the Bat-plane, J'onn explained to them via telepathy of how the invaders arrived at Mars, of how the Martians learned to fight them, how they defeated them with a powerful nerve gas that paralyzed them and how he became the last survivor of his planet, he also told them that he had been keeping watch over them until astronauts from Earth accidently release them.
"Wait those astronauts never said anything about finding mars" Flash said.
"Hmm… some pencil pusher in Washington probably decided to make it classified information" GL thought out loud.
"With the Martians gone the invaders didn't have anything to feed of and put their sight to Earth" J'onn said.
"Great now we are food" Danny groaned.
"I nearly escaped and came here to warn you of the coming danger. While I've been held against my will the invaders send their agents to disable Earth defenses"
"That's why they disable the deep space monitoring network, so we couldn't detect their activities" Batman said.
"We got to stop them before it's too late" GL declared.
"It may be already too late" J'onn observed.
Suddenly a great sound of thunder resonated through the mountains in which they were, it was quickly followed by more thunder. Danny saw in the distance a lot of dark clouds and lighting coming from them, he got the feeling that that wasn't a natural occurrence in this world.
"What was that?" Diana asked.
"It's began" J'onn revealed and all of the other heroes saw the strange climate in the distance.
Alright! So, cause "Secret Origins" are 3 episodes I'll divide this in 2 parts
I will try to publish once a month, I say try cause I'm also writing myother story so, lots of writing to do :)