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Ch.11 Subduing A Phantom
Through his one- piece mask Robin glared down at Danny, slowly he reached into his belt and held out a pair of handcuffs.
"Surrender and we'll go easy on you." Robin said.
"I can't let them take me." Danny decided quietly, "Too many lives are at stake."
Danny shuffled his feet and tried to stand.
"Stay still!" Cyborg growled angrily.
Danny leaned up against the wall and within seconds his body went intangible, Robin watched as he sank into the plaster with a smile on his face.
"Later guys!" Danny called out; his entire body disappeared into the green plaster of the wall.
Beast Boy shrugged, "Why do they always want to do it the hard way?"
Danny phased through several floors before finally ending up on the concrete rooftop. His feet plopped on the solid ground and he searched for the hotel,
"Come on! Come on! Where is it?" He called out in frustration; enormous skyscrapers blocked his view from the rest of the city.
BAM! An enormous green hand shot out from under him, Danny had no time to react before the hand grabbed his ankle and pulled him back into the building. Danny was flung onto the ground like a rag doll and hit his head hard. Dazed he stood up only to be backhanded by a hairy arm.
Danny dodged another oncoming blow and found the hairy face of a green ape growling down at him. The beast grunted and took another swing at Danny,
"Whoa! Where did this thing come from?" Danny asked himself as he dodged the blow.
Danny countered with a few finger blasts of ectoplasm; right before his eyes the hulking form of the gorilla changed and took on the sleek guise of a wolf. The ravenous canine dodged the oncoming blasts and leapt for Danny without even thinking Danny went intangible and the wolf passed right through him. Snarling the wolf turned to attack again, but Danny was quick and brought his heel down on the creature's head with incredible force. The force of the blow cause the floor beneath the wolf to give way and the canine fell into another floor level.
"AGGGGGHHH!" A deafening cry rang out.
Raven shot a blast of black aura at the hybrid and Danny was flung backwards. He crashed through several walls before landing on a moldy couch. Raven gave Danny no chance to recover she quickly fired several more dark blasts at him. Danny dodged and flew towards Raven-Danny tackled her and forced her down.
But Raven was an experienced fighter, she quickly rolled over as they were landing, using her leg strength she threw Danny off of her and quickly sprang to her feet. Danny stopped in mid air and dodged an oncoming crate.
"What the?" He said aloud.
Raven grinned, raising her arms in the air all of the objects in the room with them began to float.
"Oh great she can levitate objects now." Danny thought sarcastically.
With a movement of her wrist Raven sent the various objects flying towards Danny. Danny dodged the inanimate missiles and went intangible to keep a desk from crashing into him. The wall exploded from behind Danny and Cyborg slammed his fist into Danny. Danny let out a painful cry and was sent crashing down onto the floor, his body immediately fell through the maggot-infested wood and he fell into a new level.
Cyborg immediately fired his sonic cannon at the plummeting phantom. Danny dodged the blast and steadied himself. A roar alerted him to another's presence, a gigantic green rhino charged and hammered Danny on the side knocking him over. The rhino morphed into an ape like creature, and it stood over Danny growling.
"Get away!" Danny shouted, he sat up and fired a blast of energy into the creature's maw.
Gagging the ape fell to its knees, and began croaking. Danny sprang to his feet when another being tackled him. Robin flung Danny against the wall and whipped out his staff. He quickly jabbed the end of the rod into Danny's abdomen. Danny gagged and threw his arms around his stomach; the wind knocked out of him.
Robin brought the staff down again on Danny's skull, Danny felt the metal alloy smack into his cranium. Crunch! The pain was sharp and Danny struggled to remain conscious. Robin slugged Danny on the chin and Danny tumbled over.
"Going to give up now?" He asked.
With an insane cry Danny fired a blast of energy into Robin. Robin dropped the staff but amazingly was able to stay on his feet. Danny sat up and went airborne, Robin still stunned by the previous blast could do nothing as Danny drop kicked him. Danny's feet crashed into his chest, but Robin still refused to fall. With a swift motion of his hand Robin gave Danny a karate chop across the face.
Danny countered with a blow to the stomach. Out of nowhere a grisly paw swung for Danny's face.
"Whoa!" Danny called out and leapt back to keep his face from being shredded.
An enraged grisly bear charged and caught Danny's foot in it's jaws. In an instant the bear morphed into a alligator and Danny felt the incredible strength of it's jaws crushing his ankle. Danny let out a cry of pain and went intangible. When his foot was out of the reptiles mouth Robin flung several bird-o-rangs at Danny.
With expert marksmanship Danny shot down each and every one before they reached him. Cyborg leapt down from the hole in the roof and grabbed a hold of Danny. Danny threw his arms out breaking the grip Cyborg had on him, surprised at Danny's strength Cyborg stepped back to fire his cannon. Danny fired at Cyborg's arm, the weapon exploded and Cyborg stared in shock at the stump which was once his arm.
Raven appeared from the darkness behind Danny and chanted a spell. In an instant a black dome surrounded Danny, Danny let out a cry of defiance and threw his fists against the black aura dome. His attempts to escape were futile, the dome would not shatter.
"Don't bother trying to escape. You can't break through it." Raven explained.
Beast Boy morphed back into his human form, "Looks like we got you!" He declared.
"And don't think just because you're a kid that you'll be doing easy time." Cyborg added.
"We'll make sure your tried as an adult for your crimes." Robin stated coldly.
"Crimes!" Danny repeated, "What crimes?"
"Don't play stupid with us!" Cyborg barked.
"I'm serious I never meant to hurt anyone, you got it all wrong." Danny pleaded, "I'm not the bad guy, let me out and I'll explain everything!"
"Yeah nice one." Beast Boy snorted.
"Please let him speak." A soft voice whispered.
Starfire dropped down from the hole on the ceiling. Robin faced her.
"Let him speak?" He repeated in shock, "But Star he's a criminal, nothing but a-"
"I believe that he is different from the rest." Starfire cut him off.
Starfire looked up at Danny, "Tell us what is your name and where do you come from?"
Danny pressed up against the dome, "My name is Danny Phantom and I come from Ammityville."
"Danny Phantom," Starfire repeated, "tell me, why did you attack all of those people tonight?"
"I wasn't trying to hurt anybody, its been a while since I used my powers and I wanted to test them out." Danny answered truthfully.
"You were just testing out your powers?" Robin asked.
"Yes I was just testing out my powers, I prevented a few crimes but the media made it seem like I was the bad guy!" Danny continued, "Now please let me out I have to friends who are in danger!"
The dome faded from Danny and he landed on the floor, "In danger from who?" Raven asked.
"Others with abilities like mine." Danny said, "The curator of the Museum of Dark History isn't what he seems. He's actually part of some secret society that wants to take over the world!"
"What do you mean by 'others'?" Beast Boy asked.
"Ghosts." Danny said simply.
"Now it all makes since." Raven said aloud she turned to Beast Boy, "The little girl in the museum, she was a ghost."
"Danny nodded, the curator wants to resurrect some kind of ghost God from the spiritual world and he needs me to do so." Danny continued.
"There were inscriptions on the tablet on some statue in the museum that said the only way to resurrect the king of spirits is to use ectoplasm from a phantom and the blood of a devil." Raven said aloud.
Danny pointed to himself, "I'm that phantom."
"Your not actually believing this guy are you?" Cyborg asked, "I mean come on ghosts?"
"There were scriptures that told of this event," Raven hissed, "he deserves a chance."
"Okay I introduced myself, now who are you guys?" Danny asked.
"I am Starfire." Starfire pointed to herself.
"Beast Boy." Beast Boy called out/
"Raven." Raven added.
"My names Cyborg." Cyborg grunted.
Robin let out a sigh, "And I'm Robin. Sorry if we roughed you up earlier."
Danny tensed up, "We can apologize later, right now I need to-"
CRASH! An enormous claw ripped open the roof to the building and snatched Raven.
"Raven!" Beast Boy cried out and leapt for her.
"Beast Boy!" Raven held out her hand to him, a shot rang out and Beast Boy flew back towards the ground.
Chuckling Scourge reloaded his weapon from the back of the Guardian.
"Come on let's go!" Scourge ordered, and in a flash the monstrous dragon began to fade away.
Beast Boy looked up just in time to see his loved one disappearing into nothing but air. Raven's face was locked in terror as her very body began to fade. Tears flooding both their eyes they both reached out to one another, before Raven completely vanished.
"No Raven!" Beast Boy cried out, he slammed his fists against the floor splintering the wood and wept, a river of tears fell from his eyes.
Danny felt his heart cringe, it was a heartbreaking scene. To have a loved one ripped away from you so suddenly. Starfire walked over Beast Boy and placed and arm around him. At that moment Danny heard a sinister giggle behind him, a cold chill passed over his body, his ghost sense was going crazy.
Suddenly Danny knew that their troubles were only beginning.