Chapter 29: Control Freak

After Danny was made a teen Titan, Starfire and her friends celebrated with some sodas and had been very congratulatory to him... Everyone but Robin that is.

To celebrate him becoming a Titan, Danny and Starfire took their private flight and flew around the town together.

"So Danny... how is the way that you are thinking about my friends?" Starfire asked after they flew while watching the sunset together.

Danny thought about her friends. Beast Boy and Cyborg were okay, Raven was pretty serious but she was nice once you got to know her... Danny was okay with them but the only one he didn't seem to impress was that Robin guy.

Danny didn't get why he seemed so hostile all day. Still Danny sent Starfire a smile, not wanting her upset.

"Your friends seem cool and they are cool heroes... I can see why you care so much about them." Danny said

"Oh darling, I am so happy to hear you say that!" Starfire said.

He smiled, not only has his girlfriend's friends and family accepted him, but he's part of a superhero team. He snickered to himself.

"Can't wait to tell Tucker about this."

Starfire smiled.

"I am the jubilant!" Starfire said. "You are now a sixth Titan!"

Suddenly, the communicator Danny was given goes off.

"What do I do?" Danny asks.

"You must open the device."

Danny does so.

"Hello?" He asks.

"Yo, Danny!" Cyborg answered. "There's a robbery near where you and Star are, can you guys check it out?"

"Sure."

"We will stop the crime in progress!" Starfire said proudly.

Both of them flew in the direction the communicator's map function showed them to go. Once they arrived, they find out, to their surprise, it's the mall. The specific location is a movie store.

"AND YET YOU DON'T HAVE THE SAME PROP?!" A male voice called out. "HOW DARE YOU SAY YOU'RE THE BEST STORE IN THE TRI-COUNTY AREA!"

Danny and Starfire flew in and reached the store.

"Please!" The woman at the counter begged. "I just work here!"

"AND THAT IS POOR HIRING!" The chubby man said. He looked and noticed Danny and Starfire. "Titans! Well… one of them. Who are you?"

"Danny Phantom."

"Ah, Danny Phantom... we meet again..." Control Freak said dramatically.

Danny blinked in confusion.

"I'm sorry but have we met?" Danny said.

He's faced a lot of weirdos in both his home world and even here in Starfire's universe, but he doesn't remember this guy.

"Do not mind him, he says that to every hero he faces..." Starfire said to Danny.

"Who the heck are you?" Danny asked.

The Control Freak put a hand on his chest, proudly introducing himself.

"The greatest criminal the Teen Titans have ever faced!" Danny looked to Starfire, unconvinced. She gave a shake, with a clear look of annoyance. "I happen to be a dangerous villain!" Danny looked to Starfire again, who just used her hand in a so-so gesture.

Danny snorted.

"Starfire, who is this dork?" Danny asked.

"He goes by the name Control Freak, he is a man who wishes to be our enemy, but he is not that threatening..." Starfire explained.

Danny's eyes landed in on the way bad guy and he raised a brow. He saw some short, overweight, greasy haired guy who looked more like one of those guys who collect comic books in his parents basement than a supervillain.

"So, a human version of the box ghost." Danny muttered. "So, what's your power? Eating every tortilla chip in the area?"

"I can do this!" Control Freak pointed his remote at the cardboard cut-out of a zombie, which then comes to life. "Now! Watch are you are-"

Danny blasts the head off the creature, returning it to cardboard form as it falls down.

"Sorry, I interrupted you. Can you repeat that?" He asks, unenthusiastically.

Control Freak just stares at him.

"Let me try that again…" Control Freak aims his remote at various objects, causing what includes prop swords and chocolate bars to come to life. "Now, fear the wrath of Control Freak!"

Clearly unimpressed, Danny spoke to Starfire.

"So, how do I deal with this guy?"

"You must confiscate his remote."

Danny went intangible and flew past the odd monsters and made it to Control Freak. He regained tangibility and grabbed the would-be villain by the collar, lifting him up.

"Now, undo this before you lose weight in the worst way possible." Danny threatened, albeit with a flat tone.

Afraid, Control Freak pressed the button that caused his creatures to return to normal.

"So… who are you?" Control Freak asked. "You don't look like you belong in our universe."

"And you look like you need a long walk… a 100 mile walk." Danny said. He looked to Starfire. "So, what do we do with this guy?"

"We should take him to the authorities." Starfire stated.

"Alright then." Danny held onto Control Freak from the back of his coat. "Let's take this idiot."

With his arms crossed, Control Freak huffed as Danny carried him while flying alongside Starfire.

While the two seemed distracted by the flight, Control Freak glances at Starfire with an interested smirk, only for Danny to notice and shake the villain a bit.

"Eyes ahead, Control Geek!" Danny said.

"Danny, it is Control Freak." Starfire corrected.

"I know, I'm being disrespectful to the worst depiction of the geek stereotype."

"By the way." Control Freak spoke up. "I don't know of any superhero named Danny."

"He is new." Starfire said. She smiled at her boyfriend. "Our newest hero."

She gave Danny a happy grin while Danny smiled and blushed as he kept flying.

Recognizing what's going on, Control Freak gasps and becomes annoyed.

"Are you two- No way!" Control Freak gets angry. "You're not even a Teen Titan!"

"Am now, Potato Bug." Danny said.

"I was so gonna make her marry me when I take over the world!"

Danny looked to him, unconvinced.

"You? Some nerdy moron who obsesses over movies and dresses less like a supervillain and more like you're going to a convention, would take over the world?"

"Also, you are the dork." Starfire said. "Not in the cute way Danny can be. More of the negative depiction of one."

Danny blushed when she called him cute.

Control Freak grumbled angrily.

"You don't belong with them… you don't have Robin's martial arts skill, Cyborg's genius and tech, or Raven's-"

"Are you their villain, or the president of their fanclub?" Danny asked, one eyebrow raised.

Control Freak looks away, not wanting to properly answer.

"Danny." Starfire speaks up. "Next week, do you wish for my friends to come with me to visit you?"

"That sounds cool Starfire, but aren't you guys busy protecting a whole city?"

"It will only be for a few hours. I do not think it will be too hard…"

"Are you sure it's a good idea to plan this with the 200+ I'm carrying right now?" Danny asked.

"HEY! I happen to be proud of my physique!" Control Freak said.

"That's the problem… you're encouraging diabetes and obesity." Danny said flatly. "Eat a salad… for the rest of your life."

"Do not look down on me! I'm the number one super villain in Jump City, do you know how long I have practiced my evil laugh?" Control Freak shouted, angry over Danny's disrespect and dismissal of him.

"No and I don't care... do yourself a favor and get a cat... or a therapist..."Danny said to the wanna-be bad guy.

"How dare you?!"

As Control Freak kept yelling his head off, Danny paid no attention to it. In the middle of it all, Danny sent a look at Starfire that basically read 'This dude is a villain?' to her. Starfire only shrugged in response.

Control Freak notices this and snaps.

"Just what is this?!" Control Freak shouted in anger as he pointed to Starfire's expression.

Danny knew he meant their non-verbal exchange, but continued to mock him, even as he pointed to Starfire.

"This is a girl..." Danny said as he gestures to Starfire. "Ever seen one up close before?" He mocked, while Starfire giggled.

"Yes!" Control Freak said indignantly.

"Your mom doesn't count and neither do the girls who no doubt pepper sprayed you..." Danny quipped and Starfire laughed at that.

This causes Control Freak to turn red with rage.

"The other Titans, even Titans East, aren't this grating…" Control Freak muttered.

"Not in the out loud." Starfire pointed out.

She and Danny both laughed, irritating Control Freak further.

"What jokes do you guys make?" Danny asks.

"Cyborg once said the knock-knock joke involving Control Freak." She said.

"How'd that go?"

"Knock, knock!"

"Control Freak."

"Control Freak who?"

"Exactly!"

Both of them erupt into laughter.

Control Freak pulled out something from his coat. It was his lightsaber-like weapon. He aimed the "blade" at Danny's face.

"Now put me down!" He demanded.

"Or what?" Danny asked, unafraid.

"Or this goes in your face!" Control Freak said, complete with a smile.

"Really? With the alien powerhouse you tried to hit on ready to hit you? And even then, you're like over 50 stories in the air." Control Freak looked down, seeing that, as Danny pointed out, he's too high. "Didn't think this through, did you?"

Giving Danny a dirty look, Control Freak turned his weapon off and put it away.

"Stupid punk…" He muttered.

"Me stupid? You built a remote that brings stuff to life and a laser weapon like that and your first idea was to be a supervillain and not make money legally with this stuff?" Danny pointed out. "Like, patent this stuff and sell that sword thing to the Government? How lame a villain are you?"

Danny took back what he said before.

Even the Box Ghost isn't this lame.

Control Freak huffed in anger, before he had an idea and smiled.

"So, if I shouldn't be a villain… I had a great idea for cartoon about the Teen Titans!"

Danny and Starfire looked confused by that line.

"Why would you want to make a show about your enemies? You sure you aren't a fan who just their attention?" Danny asked.

"My point is… I got a premise!"

"What is your premise of the cartoon you wish to make of us?" Starfire asked.

"So, how does this sound?" Control Freak clears his throat. "It's a comedy, with simplified designs. I was gonna go for an anime approach, but to save money to afford to pay for celebrity actors it'd be flash animated. I was thinking, to market to little kids, there'd be a lot of fart jokes with the characters being goofy. One episode is two of them saying nothing but waffles for until the end, another is them ending up in the future after staring at a slice of pizza where everyone has responsibilities that they go back in time to prevent, or one where it's a generic boys vs girls story where Robin infects the girls with a virus named after the cooties! Also, a marathon of the entire show once every month!"

Both Danny and Starfire stare at him.

"Why would any of that happen at all?" Danny asked.

"Hmph... you may think you might be hot stuff but I have been studying my enemies the titans since the beginning... I know all about them!" Control Freak said.

"Yeah, that's not totally creepy at all." Danny said sarcastically.

"It's true... heck, if I felt like it, I could even use my powers to make the cartoon of them... not that I am planning to, but if I did, what do you think?"

Danny took a deep breath.

"I think, it'd be funny… for like a portion of the time. Because they're superheroes and aren't meant to be just comedy only. Plus, saying waffles like a million times isn't funny, it get annoying very fast. Just like how whatever humor you have in mind could get annoying very fast. It sounds very poorly thought out and something only meant for like once in a while, not a long time or even a marathon a month. I'm assuming you marathoning it means it would need like a buttload of episodes, otherwise you'd be replaying episodes, which would be a terrible thing to do as it shows you shouldn't make a long marathon if you don't have enough material to do it. Also, fart jokes are like bottom of the barrel and only funny like once in a while, not every minute. And why would staring at pizza involve time travel? It's like you choose to not think this through because you don't really respect your target audience enough. I'm sure you think they'd think it'd be funny… until they get tired of the same stupid thing over and over again and at best it's only an occasional laugh and nothing more."

"But… I'd have Raven in a clown suit." Control Freak defended.

"That'd be funny with the real Raven, because of how serious she is." Danny pointed out. "But it sounds to me like your show wouldn't have her as the straight man but just as joke."

Control Freak get upset and remained silent, crossing his arms.

"Noob…" Control Freak muttered.

"Controlling Nerd…" Danny muttered back.

"There!" Starfire pointed to the police station. "Glorious! We can finally lose him!"

"My thoughts exactly, babe!" Danny said as he flew to the station and dropped Control Freak on his rear. "Have fun in your cell, and try spend more time in the exercise lounge!"

Once Danny flew off with his girlfriend, Control Freak got up as the police ran out of the doors and held him down.

"This isn't over, Danny Phantom! YOU WILL PAY!" He shouted.

"I already did, I had to carry your smelly hide the whole time! Shower! I'm sure nobody will come near you!"

Starfire giggled at that. So did the police, angering Control Freak even more.

Once they were as far away as possible, Danny and Starfire landed atop a building. The sat at the edge and held hands.

Once the sun finished setting, they kissed touched their foreheads together.

"I guess I should go." Danny said. "See you next week, Starfire?"

"Indeed, Danny Phantom." Starfire says with a smile.

Danny got up and held the jewel he uses.

"To my room!"

He disappears in a flash.

Starfire got up and flew back to her home.

"So, Danny and I would like for you to join us in his world!" Starfire said with a smile to her friends.

Cyborg and Beast Boy both look at each other with grins, though Raven looked less interested.

"I'm not sure that's a good idea." Raven said. "Even if we were gone for one hour, that's one hour for Johnny Rancid, Cinderblock or Killer Moth to cause havoc."

"Raven's right." Robin said, looking displeased with this.

"But next week is his world's turn for our time together." Starfire said.

"Beast Boy and I can go. It won't be too long." Cyborg said.

"Yeah! It's not like us being gone for a while is gonna end the world." Beast Boy said.

"We'll go!" Cyborg tells the happy princess alien.

"Wonderful!"

Starfire hugged Beast Boy and Cyborg in gratitude.

Robin looked away, clearly upset.

A comical chapter where Danny mocks Control Freak and a Take That at Teen Titans Go.

So next time, when I get to work on it, Cyborg and Beast Boy come to Danny's world.

Let's see how Sam and Tucker get along with these guys.

So, still trying to figure out who those villains were? Keep guessing, we'll get another hint of them later. Just now it took me a while to figure out who to use. Also, Blackfire and Val-Yor will make comebacks.

Thank you for the help, Flower Princess11.