"Who are you?" he asked, clearly happy that someone had helped them but also suspicious at the same time.
Danny looked at the young man. "Danny Phantom."
The other teen nodded then smiled and offered his hand. "Robin, of the Teen Titans. Welcome to Jump City."
/And now, Chapter two./
Danny smiled at the young man and took his hand in his own. "It's nice to be here." He replied back a little hesitantly. Danny was unsure how these five superheroes would treat him but kept his attention on the one called Robin as he introduced his teammates.
"…and now I the rest of my team. Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, and Cyborg." Beast Boy and Cyborg waved, Raven simply nodded her head and Starfire jumped in front talking excitedly. "Hi! How are you? What's your favorite color? Do you like pizza and/or ice cream and would you like to be my friend?" she asked very quickly.
"Uh…" Danny hesitated as he thought of an answer. "Blue, both, and uh, sure."
"Hurray!" the alien squealed as she wrapped her hands around him in a bone-crushing hug.
"Can't, breathe…" Danny gasped. Star, realizing what was happening, immediately let go. "Oh my!" She gasped. "I hope I didn't damage you severely in the 'hug of bears'." The three male Titans snickered at the poor alien's naiveté while Raven simply rolled her eyes.
While Danny recovered he noticed the other Titans suddenly huddle together and converse. By the time he had fully recovered Robin had headed back to him. "Hey, thanks for the save but we have to close out this show. Would you like to help us?" Danny immediately grinned.
"You bet."
Danny flew high into the sky with Starfire flying not far behind him. He stopped immediately and faced the girl.
"Ha!" she yelled as sent a volley of star bolts at him. Danny dodged the first few before creating a shield that blocked the reaming few. After this he began firing ectoplasmic blasts at her as she tried and dodge them.
Starfire began flying back towards the stage with Danny hot on heels. She reached the rest of the Titans and flew past Robin and Cyborg. Immediately, Robin threw three explosive birdarangs at him while the android teen's right arm morphed into a cannon.
Danny saw the birdarangs coming towards him; his hands glowed a bright green as he fired at them with another ghost ray. They blew apart.
Cyborg then shot at him with his cannon. Danny landed one the stage and created a shield to block the incoming blast. The halfa strained to keep the shield going while the blast pushed him back along the stage. I wasn't until something morphed behind him and black dome formed that he became startled. "Whoa!"
"Don't mention it." she muttered. Raven gritted her teeth as she struggled to maintain the force field under the cannon's force. Danny saw this and moved around behind her.
"Hang on." He whispered as he placed his hands around her. Raven gave a momentary gasp as she felt her body tingle. Within seconds, her force field disappeared as she went intangible. The cannon's blast went through both of them.
Raven gasped as the blue cannon energy went through her an Danny's intangible forms. Before she could say or do anything she felt herself being carried through the air, become tangible, and redeposit her on the stage.
The crowd, who had been watching, were now on there feet cheering and screaming. The other four befuddled Titans soon joined them before all six bowed to the crowd. Somewhere offstage and man walked back on.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the Teen Titans, and their friend.." he turned around to Danny. "Kid, who are ya and where ya from?"
"Uh, Danny Phantom and Amity Park." he whispered.
"…Danny Phantom of Amity Park!" The crowd began cheering the young teen's name. Danny smiled and waved. So, he thought, this is what it feels like to have fans and people like you. The only people who really appreciated him were Tucker and Sam, and well, Paulina, but she only had a crush on him.
The curtains were pulled shut allowing the six superheroes a chance to catch their breaths and rest before the next part of the event. "Wow, that was so cool when you turned invisible and Cyborg shot you guys!" Beast Boy cheered.
Danny shrugged. "It wasn't that big of a deal."
The other's were shocked by his humbleness. As they continued to talk, one held back, only taking in part of the conversation.
It was Raven. She had been staring at the boy with white hair ever since the end of their show. She could sense something different about him. Different, but still the same. I don't know who he is, she thought, but I might want to have the other look into him more.
After they were done talking the five Titans shuffled to the autograph booths which had been setup behind the stage. They could hear the crowd on the other side of the partition separating the two; their eager voices heard well by the Titans.
Danny lingered back. As much as he wanted to follow them outside he refrained from it. This was their show, not his. Besides, wasn't he suppose to be on vacation? And what about Jazz?
Jazz! Crap. He'd totally forgotten about her since Skulker had attacked the Titans. He needed to get back to her and make sure she was ok.
Danny headed up to Robin to tell him he had to go when all the sudden Beast Boy grabbed his shoulders. "Hey man, you're coming out there with us, right?"
"Uh…" Danny tried to answer but Starfire cut him off. "Oh yes! You must join us in signing the auto of the graphs for the young ones!"
It was no use, Danny sighed, and nodded with a forced smile as he was dragged out into the spotlight once again.
Where was he? Jazz had been asking herself that same question for the last fifteen or so minutes now. Ever since that ghost had shown up she'd been waiting for Danny to reappear like he normally did after a ghost attacked.
She glanced at watch again and then back around the crowd. Maybe he'd changed back and would meet her here. It was possible, she thought. Besides, the only reason she was here at the autograph booths was to meet him finally. The dreamy smile returned to her lips thinking about him.
Suddenly she was brought out of her thoughts when it was announced that the Teen Titans were coming out. Jazz smiled and hugged the notebook she'd brought closer to her chest. However, that smile disappeared when she saw who was with them.
Danny!
While all of this was happening there was a ruckus going on out in the parking lot. People that were there watched as two people, a man and a woman, in jumpsuits and carrying strange weaponry, began running for the stadium. "C'mon Jack!" The woman yelled to her husband. "We have to get in there to the kids and make sure they're ok!" She slowed in her pace to readjust the Fenton Bazooka she was hefting and glance back at her husband. "Especially with that darned Inviso-bill out there!"
"Ghost!" Her husband yelled. Maddie rolled her eyes. At least he heard one part of her conversation to him.
"Danny, what are you doing?" Jazz asked no one in particular as she watched her brother in front with the Teen Titans.
As the six entered the autograph area the fans began to cheer again. Nervously, Danny followed behind Raven and ahead of Cyborg. He watched as the Titans waved to them and then sat down to their respected seats and began signing. After a while he began to feel at ease. This isn't so bad, Danny thought. He looked around the crowd some more when he looked to Raven's station to see that she was looking at him strangely.
Danny shrugged it off and turned his attention back to the crowd; his eyes scanned every person out there until they rested on a certain redhead. Jazz! He thought. He needed to get back out there with her as soon as possible.
"Ghost!"
Wait, what was that? Danny's green eyes scanned the crowds again trying to find the source of the noise. "Ghost!" He heard again. That's when he spotted a large in an orange jump suit.
Oh no.
"Ghost!" Jack Fenton yelled again as he and his wife pushed their ways through the crowd. The Fenton ghost detector he held in his hand was beeping madly. That's when he stopped in his tracks and looked up from the device to the autograph booths.
And saw public ghost enemy number one.
Inviso-bill.
Danny cringed when he saw his father looking at him. He already knew what plans he had in store for him. He had to find a way out of this. Now.
"Everyone, get away from that guy, now!" came a scream from a feminine voice. People stopped what they were doing to look around at the woman in a blue jump suit. She stopped right next to odd looking man and brandished her bazooka. "Please everyone, move away from the ghost now!"
Ghost? What ghost? The crowd began looking around for the so-called ghost that the woman was talking about. It wasn't until she pointed to the Danny that people began to take action.
"Hey what do you mean ghost?" One person questioned. "He's the good guy!"
"Yeah! He's a friend of the Titan's lady. People love him!" Exclaimed someone else. Other voices and murmurs of approval ran through the crowd.
Good guy? Friend of the Titans? What are they talking about? Wondered Maddie. Surely they couldn't be protecting Inviso-bill, could they?
By now the other Titan's had noticed the disturbance in the crowd. Not hesitating, Robin leapt from his chair and proceeded towards the two ghost hunters. "Who are you two and what are doing here?"
"We're the Fenton's." the woman started before her husband could answer. "We're ghost hunters and that thing you're trying to protect is Inviso-bill!"
Robin and the other Titans turned around to look at Danny. "Uh, hi." He said nervously and walked out into public view.
"There's the ghost!" Jack shouted and produced a weapon. "Eat ectoplasmic goo you paranormal pest!" He pressed the trigger on the gun.
Danny watched his father bring out the gun, say something, and then pull the trigger. A large glob of ectoplasm was sent hurtling towards him. Before he could say or do anything, a black telekinetic shield erupted in front o f him.
Danny turned around to see Raven, with a hand outstretched and eyes glowing gray, had once again saved him, only this time from his own parents. He was about to say something when he heard his sister running up out of the crowd again.
"Mom, dad, stop this!" Jazz pleaded. "He saved our lives from a real ghost attack!"
Maddie's jaw dropped. "He did?" She whispered. Out of the corner of her eye she saw her husband hesitate to fire the gun and then lowered it.
Danny breathed a sigh of relief as Jack lowered the gun to the ground. Unfortunately, that was all broken when his ghost sense went off. "Oh no…"
From out of no where another blast rocked the ground, causing the Titans to scatter and the crowd began to panic. "Starfire, Beast Boy, help get these people out of here!" The two nodded and went off. "Raven, Cyborg, cover them!"
Cyborg was already alert, his arm shifted into it's sonic cannon form while Raven took to the air, her eyes ever vigilant. She continued searching for the person or person's who fired at them when another blast erupted from out of no where, knocking her to the ground.
"Oof!" She fell to the ground and landed on her back. Wincing slightly, she leaned up and ran her hand on the smoking part of her uniform. It wasn't until a shadow drifted over her that she looked up.
"Heh, heh…" Skulker chuckled as he pointed a laser weapon at her. "Well, well, it seems as if I won't go home empty handed today." He was prepared to pull the trigger when a green ecto ray slammed into him, knocking him back several feet.
"Keep away from her!" Danny shouted. He was already in the air and hovering over to Raven's position. "Are you ok?" He asked as he offered her his hand.
"I'll live." She grunted in her usual monotone while she accepted it. The ghost teen pulled her up as Skulker pulled himself up too and prepared for another attack.
"Ghost child you are testing my patience today!" He growled before producing two laser weapons on his wrists. With the push of a button both weapons fired.
"Get back!" Danny yelled. He pushed himself in front of Raven and produced a shield. The blast ricocheted off the force field as Danny struggled to maintain it. Suddenly, he noticed black energy intertwine with his own green hue. "What the?" He looked over to Raven whose own powers were active and produced a force field of her own.
Cyborg saw what was going on and immediately lined up his cannon for a blast. He fired, and the blue energy hurtled towards the towering ghost.
Skulker saw the blast and immediately produced a shield, blocking it. By this time the area had been evacuated allowing the other Titans to join in on the battle.
Beast Boy charged the ghost as s bull. Skulker turned intangible as Beast Boy went through him and crashed into a near by wall.
Robin and Starfire came down hard with star bolts and explosive birdarangs but Skulker was prepared for both. She dodged both projectiles before grabbing the Tamaran. With all the strength he had, he flung her towards Robin.
CRASH! The two teens impacted hard into the ground. Skulker sensed that Cyborg was preparing for another shot and fired a missile at him. The weapon impacted the android teen's arm and completely obliterated it.
The Titans were down. Every single on of them were out, with the exception of Raven and she was weakened. She looked over to Danny who was panting hard trying to catch his breath. Apparently, trying to maintain the combined force fields took a lot out of them. Their only reprieve came when the ghost had stopped his attack to attack the others. And now he was looking at Raven with a menacing smile.
"That was fun." He commented on the previous battle. "But now I shall collect my prize and be on my way." He fired a blast at Raven that knocked her to the ground.
Raven fell hard. She was still in pain from where she'd been shot the first time and now it was worse. Whatever that ghost had shot her with had robbed her completely of any strength. She tried to teleport out but found it impossible to do.
"No you won't!" Danny attacked Skulker with a punch to the face knocking him back a few feet. Skulker growled and shot back up.
"Insolent child!" Skulker growled. "Why do you continue to protect that little witch? Do you have any idea of what she represents?" He took a few steps closer .
"No, and I don't care." Danny shot back coldly. "And I'm going to make sure you never hurt her!" His hands glowed green and he fired another ecto blast straight at the hunter.
Skulker was unprepared for the blast and it knocked him back onto the ground. He tried to get back up when he felt a foot hold him down and huge, huge gun pointed straight at him. "Don't even thinking about moving." Growled Maddie Fenton as she pressed the Fenton Bazooka at his face.
Skulker scowled. Fighting the ghost child was one thing but trying to fight his mother? Bad idea. Really bad idea.
"Alright ghost! What do want with the girl? Answer up!" She pressed the bazooka closer to his face.
"I don't want anything with her!" Skulker spat. "The other halfa wants her!"
Danny, who had been listening, growled. "Plasmius."
Maddie leaned forward. "What's a halfa? And what are its plans for her?"
Skulker grit his teeth. "I don't know! All I know is that he wants her for something important. As for what a halfa is." he flicked his thumb towards Danny. "ask him."
Maddie's eyes trailed over to the boy in the black jumpsuit but it was just enough of a distraction that Skulker needed. He quickly tried to reach for his weapon's wrist controller. Maddie saw it, however, and pressed the trigger on the bazooka.
The weapon fired and an inter-dimensional portal to the ghost zone opened, sucking Skulker back in. "I'll be back!" He screamed. "I'll be backkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!" His screams stopped when the portal closed.
For a few tense moments everyone just stayed where they were. Then, movement erupted. Starfire, who had been on top of Robin, finally pushed herself up. She shook head and then asked. "What has happened?"
Cyborg, still wincing over the destruction of his right arm, looked around. "I think the battle's over."
Starfire nodded. "That is good." She looked down to the still unconscious Robin. "Robin!" She screamed. Cyborg, and a half dazed Beast Boy, immediately ran over to her.
Danny leaned over Raven. "Are you ok?"
"I think so." She replied as she experimentally tried to move an arm. "But I can hardly move anything."
Danny only nodded and without even thinking about it, slipped his arms underneath her body and picked her up. Raven was slightly shocked and tried to protest but stopped when she remembered she still couldn't move.
Jazz came walking up to her younger brother. "Danny, are you ok?" She asked him while placing her hand on his shoulder. Danny nodded, and then gave his sister a second look. Does she really know who I am? He asked himself.
Danny moved away from Jazz and headed towards his parents. "Are you two ok?"
"Yeah, I think so." Jack answered. He looked over to his wife who only nodded her head and then moved in front o her husband. "What did he mean by the word halfa?"
"Uhh." Danny wasn't sure how to answer her question. Thankfully, they were interrupted by Beast Boy. "Raven, are you ok!"
Raven, who'd been resting in Danny's arms, shot her eyes open and glanced at her teammate. "I'm fine." she hissed her cheeks turning rosy.
"Sure…" Beast Boy began to giggle silly. Raven growled at him. Beast Boy cringed and shut up.
"Danny, I'm fine. You can sit me down, now." Danny looked down at her and began blushing too. He sat the goth teen on her two feet as she pulled her hood up over head.
The other Titans walked over to Danny, his family, and their teammates. "Raven, you are undamaged?" A concerned Starfire asked.
"I'm fine." She replied. "How's Robin?"
"A little bruised, but otherwise ok." Her leader responded with a small smile. He was leaning on Starfire's shoulder for support. "Phantom, are you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm great." Danny replied while looking at the spot where Skulker once layed. "Just great." me muttered. Now everything had changed. Danny had thought that Skulker merely wanted Raven for his collection. Now he found out that his greatest nemesis, Vlad Plasmius, wanted her for his own plans. This didn't sit well with the ghost teen.
It was during this moment that Maddie realized something. Where was Danny? He should've shown up by now, she thought. She turned to Jazz. "Jazz, where's your brother?" Jazz looked back to her mother before looking at Danny, then did something radical.
She passed out.
"Oh no, Jazz!" Maddie and Jack rushed to their daughter's side as did the Titans. Danny, figuring this was his best chance to escape, made a break for it.
Danny turned intangible, and immediately flew from the scene. He found a place to change back. Two blue rings formed around him and traveled back either way, changing Danny Phantom back into Danny Fenton. Once he was back in human form he ran back to the crowd.
Jack looked up. "Danny! Where in the world have you been?"
"Uh, hiding?" he answered. "Over, there!" He pointed at the spot where he changed back. "What happened to Jazz?"
"We don't know." Maddie "She just passed out before you got here." She got to looking around. "Hey, where's Inviso-bill!"
Everyone began looking around for the ghost teen but he was already gone. "Inviso-bill?" Danny asked. "He was here too?"
"Yeah. Apparently he helped these guys here out." Jack flicked a thumb at the Titans.
"Who are they?" Danny asked.
"We're the Teen Titans!" Beast Boy huffed. "We were kicking major butt with Danny Phantom while you were hiding!" the changeling boasted.
Danny shrugged. "Whatever." Beast Boy's face fell at Danny's remark. Danny continued to look at the team until his eyes stopped on Raven. She looked at him for a second before Danny jerked his head away from her and looked back at his sister.
"We probably need to get Jazz out of here." He stated. His parents nodded and helped Jazz up while Danny grabbed some of the weapons they'd dropped. "Uh, Later." He told the Titans as they walked back to the rv.
"Hm, that was certainly different." Robin commented. "Let's get everyone back to the tower." There were nods of approval all around as the team headed back. Only Raven lagged behind slightly. She continued looking at Danny for a few seconds longer before turning around and joining her friends.
(A/N's: ARRRGGGGHHHHHH! There's another chapter done! Yeah buddy! This one was hard for me to crank out but thank god it's out of the way. I'll start the next one in a few days but right now I'm going to start on the next chapter of A Goa'uld in Smallville. For those out there who haven't read it yet, DO SO NOW! The great MADSCIENTIST demands you too!)