Hello, all! I must say; I was VERY impressed with the review total since yesterday. We shall see if it keeps up. Well…I guess that's all I can say.

Here we go with Chapter 2! I don't own Danny Phantom or Teen Titans.

Plotting for a Transformation

Chapter Two: Under his Skin

"And it says, 'You might be what I'm looking for. I know you, but you don't know me. I'll be in touch. S,'" Danny finished telling Sam and Tucker about what happened to him the next day while they walked through the park.

Tucker said, "Okay, how weird is that?"

Sam asked Danny, "Think it's anybody you might know?"

"Sam, it can't be. That note even said, 'You don't know me.' I have no leads except that S symbol, and since that ball was destroyed, I'm in the dark here."

Tucker asked him, "Do you know what you're gonna do about this, man?"

Danny only shrugged, "I don't have a clue. I don't know who this guy is, where he is, or what he wants with me. Far as I can see, the only thing I can do is go about my business until he eventually contacts me again."

Just then, the wisp of blue escaped Danny's mouth once again. From above them, a large raven glowing black started flying around in the air.

Danny said, "And that business means this. I'm going ghost!" Two rings formed at his waist, and he transformed into Danny Phantom.

Danny flew up at the raven and tried to punch it, but it flew out of the way. It flew at Danny and started pecking him on the head.

"Ow! Ow!" Danny cried as the raven pecked painfully. "Quit it!" As he shouted this, he let off an aural blast (Like he did to Spectra in "My Brother's Keeper") and the raven was blown backwards.

The raven cawed and a beam of black energy shot out of its beak. Danny dodged the beam and fired a ghost ray at it. The raven was hit and knocked backward.

Not to be outdone, the raven flew at Danny. He tried to fire another ghost ray at it, but it flew fast out of the way. It then started flying circles around Danny, picking up more and more speed as it flew.

Danny tried desperately to follow the path of the raven, but it was impossible as the raven was flying so fast now. He tried to fire ghost rays at it, but they kept missing.

Danny said to himself, "It's flying too fast for me to see. I have to try listening."

Danny took a deep breath and listened closely. He listened, with his ears trying to match the flight pattern of the raven…

Without warning, he turned around and fired a ghost ray. A loud and painful caw was then heard as the raven was hit and knocked down to the ground and crashed into a mailbox.

Without a word, Danny flew down to the raven and sucked it into the Fenton Thermos.

Tucker and Sam went up to Danny as he changed back into Danny Fenton, with Tucker exclaiming, "Slamming job, dude."

Danny responded as they started walking down the street, "Thanks. But I've been having to fight quite a lot of ghosts these last couple of days. It should be tiring me out. But…it's not."

Sam retorted, "It's not? What do you mean, 'It's not'?"

Danny answered back, "What do you mean, 'What do you mean, "It's not?"'? I'm not getting tired out. What else could I mean?"

Sam scowled, while Tucker asked him, "Not tired at all?"

"Not really. Normally by now, I would be tired from fighting so many and would be more than willing to take a break."

Sam tried to explain, "Maybe you've had these powers for so long, you're building up more endurance. As in, you're able to go a lot longer without getting tired. I wouldn't be surprised, Danny. You have learned how to duplicate to two."

"It's probably something like th…" Danny was interrupted as they heard a loud Bang! It came from above them. Something dropped down and landed at their feet. It was rectangular shape and had the letter S on the side of it.

Danny examined it and said, "This is the same S as what was on that ball yesterday."

Tucker asked him, "What is it?"

Sam pointed out, "Look, there's a button on it."

Curious as he was last night, Danny pushed the button. After he did, a cold, emotionless voice came out of the device, "Greetings, Danny Fenton, or should I say, Danny Phantom?"

The three of them exchanged fearful looks. Danny whispered, "This guy knows my secret!"

The voice from the tape recorder went on, "You must wonder of this random message and yesterday's random letter. You shall soon receive your explanation, but for now, my identity will still remain a deep secret to you. I must only say that I am very impressed with your technique, skill, and new-found endurance. It will soon be put to a more…profitable use. Good day to you."

At that moment, the recorder blew to pieces and only a few pieces of metal and circuits stood in its place.

Sam said, "Okay, major weirdness."

Tucker asked Danny, "Who is this guy?"

Danny slowly shook his head and spoke in a rather creeped out voice, "I have no idea, and I really don't think I want to know."

Later that afternoon, our favorite trio was taking a walk through Amity Park for no real reason at all.

Noticing Danny, Sam asked him, "Danny, you alright? You've been awfully quiet today."

"Huh?" Danny went, "Uh, yeah. I'm fine." He scratched the back of his head nervously and said, "Everything's okay."

Tucker and Sam looked at each other and then at Danny. They stopped walking.

Danny said, "What's up?"

Tucker replied, "Dude, you did the 'scratch the back of your head' thing."

"So?"

Sam sighed, "Danny, you only do that when something's on your mind. You've done that ever since we were nine."

"Really? I've done that before? Hmm. Guess I've never noticed."

Tucker asked him, "What's the problem, man?"

Danny sighed, "I don't know. I guess I just feel a little stressed from that message this morning. Here's a guy I've never met, whom I've never even seen yet, and he's already sent chills up my spine. And he knows I'm half ghost!"

Sam responded, "Good point. That voice of his sounds icy as a snowstorm in Norway."

Just then, they heard a crash. They looked ahead of them and saw that Axiom Labs was about two hundred yards ahead of them. There was currently smoke rising from it.

Sam cried, "Look! Trouble!"

The three of them hurried towards the building, wondering what the commotion would be.

Danny said to Tucker, "Tuck, hack into the security camera and see what's going on."

"Can do," Tucker responded. He did some typing on his PDA, but then a buzzer went off. Tucker gasped, "Oh, no! My PDA's been infected with a virus! I can't hack into the camera!"

"Then I guess I'll just have to get an even closer look at the action." He transformed into Danny Phantom and said, "Stay here. I'll be back as soon as I can."

Leaving his friends behind, Danny flew to the building and phased inside.

Kind of a short chapter, I know, but here, I'm still trying to build up the plot. Looks like this new guy has already gotten under Danny's skin, but who has broken into Axiom Labs? And will this guy meet Danny soon? Find out in Chapter 3! R/R!