Disclaimer: I do not know Star Wars or any of their characters or Danny Phantom. Star Wars is owned by Disney. Danny Phantom is owned by Butch Hartman.
Author's Note: This is after Danny has been stabbed and he has been recovering from the Battle. Anakin and Ahsoka discover Danny's cellular-regeneration powers and begin to wonder what he is. Obi-Wan tries to find out what he is, but it starts to freak Danny out, knowing his past encounters with G.I.W. Everyone tries to track him down and Danny is unsure about them.
*Expect some humor.
*Dooku and the Separatists will not be in this chapter, they will be next chapter and I will summarize what happened to them after.
Chapter 4: Mystery Guest
"Victory across worlds! After going up against 3 separate battles against his long-time archenemy, Vlad Plasmius, Danny Phantom has defeated Vlad and freed Ahsoka Tano and multiple clone troopers from the clutches of Count Dooku and Asajj Ventress. Phantom and Ahsoka had joined forces and held off the Sith Lord Dooku and his new recruit Vlad Plasmius and drove them off the planet. Unfortunately, in battle, Phantom has been seriously wounded by Dooku's lightsaber and his forces after freeing Ahsoka from her captivity. Now after being rushed to the nearest Republic station, Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ahsoka Tano wait anxiously for his well-being and his recovery."
Ahsoka sat outside of the medical bay at the Republic Station they had rushed to the moment they had gotten off planet, along with her master, Anakin.
"I can sense your worry, but you need to relax, Ahsoka. There is nothing we can do now but wait, and worrying about it won't do much help," Anakin said to his Padawan.
"Master, does anyone ever listen to that advice?" Ahsoka said raising an eyebrow.
"No, but I wouldn't be much of a mentor if I didn't at least try," Anakin joked. "Who knows how many times Master Obi-Wan told me the same thing." He then put a hand on the girl's shoulder. "You've done everything you could, but now his life is in the Force's hands."
"But if I had just stayed put like you said, then maybe we wouldn't have been caught. Maybe no one would have gotten hurt," Ahsoka said, blaming herself for what had happened.
"Well then, try to remember that for next time we are on a mission. But don't dwell on it right now. Regret is one of a Jedi's greatest enemies. One that cannot be gotten rid of completely, but one that we must keep at bay," Anakin said calmly.
Ahsoka snorted. "I think that you've been hanging around Master Yoda too much."
"Hey, Master Yoda is the greatest and most wise Jedi today you know," Anakin said defensively.
Ahsoka nodded, a gentle smile crossing her features. "Thank you, master."
The door to the med-bay opened up and the medical droid exited. "How is he?" Anakin asked and Ahsoka was concern about him.
"There is nothing to worry about. The patient is only suffering from small case of food poisoning. He ate a few wild herbs that he really shouldn't have," The medical droid reported, not noticing the incredulous looks one the Jedis' faces. "I have given him the antidote, and medical boosters to help flush out the chemicals from his system, but he will be hungry when he regains consciousness..."
"Wait, a second, food poisoning!? What about the wounds!?" Ahsoka asked confused and shocked.
"I'm sorry, what wounds?" The medical droid inquired.
"We're talking about that wound to his chest, from him getting impaled on a lightsaber!" Anakin growled. This is why medical droids were his second to least favorite type of droid to deal with, right after protocol droids. Even the enemy battle droids weren't as annoying to deal with because he could at least just slice them up and destroy them.
"I'm sorry sir, but I do not understand your humor. There is no such wound," The droid commented. Anakin's eyes widened and he pushed past the droid, knocking it to the ground as he entered the room with Ahsoka right behind him and stopped to where Danny was laying in the hospital bed.
Anakin grabbed the sleeping boy's sheets and lifted it up. But the droid was right. There was no wound. There wasn't even a single scratch on his body.
"What is he?" Anakin wondered out loud. But he dropped the sheets and turned to his equally shocked Padawan. "We should probably tell Obi-Wan about this," Anakin said as he turned to leave. Ahsoka only stopping for a momentary sigh of relief before following.
In Obi-Wan's Workshop...
They found Obi-Wan in the workspace he had been provided with, his hand moving across a holo-display. The older Jedi had a rather unhappy expression on his face.
"Is something the matter, master?" Anakin said, knowing the look that meant he was about to get an earful.
"'Is something the matter, master?' I would most certainly believe that something is the matter. We have to write up a report to Chancellor Palpatine about everything that happened on our mission, and you two were nowhere to be found," Obi-Wan said, frowning at the two.
"Oh, sorry," Anakin said rubbing the back of his neck.
"Wait, why do we have to report everything to the Chancellor? I thought this was an internal matter for the Jedi Order," Ahsoka pointed out.
"This would have been an internal matter, except that some clones died on this mission, making it a government matter. And why were there clones there on this mission?" Obi-Wan said, glaring at his old apprentice.
"Oops," Anakin said rubbing the back of his neck some more. "Sorry about that too."
Obi-Wan sighed and started rubbing his temples. "Luckily I convinced the Chancellor into qualifying this as a top-secret mission, otherwise the entire Republic would know about our new friend. And we would have to explain to the entire Senate about how a child, no older than Ahsoka, who appeared out of nowhere, had a lightsaber, took down a battle droid squadron with manuguards, and fought against the most dangerous man in the galaxy and came out on top. And how a Sith Lord that nobody knew about was fighting the child and now has sided with the Separatists. I can't even begin to imagine the repercussions if such a thing got out."
"What is going to happen to him?" Ahsoka asked slightly worried for Danny. He had saved her from losing an arm and stopping both the Sith and Dooku from killing her after all.
"Who knows? The Jedi Council and the Chancellor are going to hold a meeting about it as soon as we get back to Coruscant. For now, he is in Jedi Order's care. That, assuming he survives his injuries." Obi-Wan said scratching his beard.
"Oh yeah... about that," Anakin said remember why they had come in the first place. "The wound to his chest has vanished. There's no sign that he was ever injured at all. The medical droid says that he is only suffering from food poisoning from eating the wrong kind of plants while he was down there on that planet."
"You're kidding," Obi-Wan said, his eyebrows flying up.
"Not a scratch on him," Anakin reiterated. "It's hard to believe, I know."
"That's impossible. Nothing heals that quickly. What is he?" Obi-Wan said looking down at his report and realizing he was going to have to revise it for this new information.
"He looks like a normal human child." said Obi-Wan in confusion.
"Maybe he is blessed by the Force. I did see use the Force to throw both Dooku and that Sith Lord back to save me again." Ahsoka suggested.
"It could be, but The Force doesn't give someone the power to vanish from sight, shoot plasma out of their hands, pass through solid objects, fly, create a sonic blast from screaming, or heal so quickly. No, some other form of magic is at work here," Obi-Wan mumbled, closing his eyes and concentrating. "I will need to get a blood sample from him so that we can run some tests. Maybe we can understand what he is and why the Force has led us to him," Obi-Wan said, before getting up. "In the meantime, you two can write your field reports. And don't tell anyone about this! The clones have already been informed to keep quiet, and I don't want any leaks on this ship."
Anakin and his Padawan both winced but nodded as they the elder master left the room. "Oops," Anakin said again. They had already called ahead to Coruscant and told Anakin's secret wife, Naboo Senator Padme Amidala, all about it.
"I'm sure we can convince Padme not to make a scene..." Ahsoka trying to stay positive, "Alright fine, that's not going to happen," Ahsoka admitted.
"A Jedi must face reality, even if it is going to hurt." Anakin agreed not looking forward to his near future.
In Danny's Medical Room...
Obi-Wan felt uneasy as he watched the medical droid move forward with a needle to get a blood sample from Danny. They wouldn't have needed to do this, but the stupid droid had already thrown away the blood-soaked clothes when he had put Danny in the bed and began to diagnose him. A bland, sterile Manila hospital needle went into Danny's arm and Obi-Wan watched as the vial started to slowly fill with red liquid.
"There we go, Master Kenobi," The droid said, holding up the vial.
But then Danny started to shift around. His eyes fluttered open, and he found Obi-Wan, standing there in white armor with his hands behind his back and a serious look on his face. And then he spotted the veil of blood.
'Oh no, not again.' Danny thought, 'That's my blood fused with ecto-energy. They're going to use that for something bad.'
His eyes widened and turned green. Obi-Wan felt a rush of fear come from Danny as his hand whipped out and a blast of green light hit the needle and destroyed the vial, the blood, and the needle right out of existence.
"Hey!" Obi-Wan complained turning to Danny who gave a small wave just before he sank through the bed and disappeared from sight.
"Well, this isn't good," The Jedi said as he called up Anakin and Rex. They had to find Danny before anything bad happened.
In the Hallways...
"Alright, Danny, just calm down. Just because you are in a very white station that looks really high tech, is really clean, and has that 'owned by the government' air about it, doesn't mean that it is the G.I.W.." Danny mumbled to himself as he tried to calm down after seeing the man in white armor taking a blood sample from him. He paused as the events of the last few days organized in his mind.
"No, it can't be the G.I.W. I'm nowhere even remotely close to Earth. Oh, Ancients, for the past 2 days, I have been on a alien planet. I saved an orange-skinned alien girl from a superpowered old man, his evil witch sidekick, and a small army of battle robots." reasoned Danny as he moved through the hallways, completely invisible to the human eye.
'But that leaves the questions: Who the hell, are these people? What do they want? and where the hell am I?' thought Danny. But his train of thought derailed as he passed one of the rooms, he heard a lot of noise coming from the other side. So, he phased his head in through the wall to find out what was going on, and his eyes widened with shock.
It looked a bit like the school cafeteria, with the lunch line and rows of tables. Only instead of the normal people, sitting in their normal social division, the entire place was filled with nearly identical, buff Hispanic men wearing identical white armor. Each of them, eating what looked like bland brown nutrients bars and speaking in a language that Danny didn't understand.
"Oh my god. I must have died and gone to Sam's personal hell and Tucker's personal heaven. Or maybe it is Tucker's hell and Sam's heaven." Danny said, shivering at the thought. "Either one would explain the fact that I wake up in an extremely advanced hospital room with a man who sported impressive facial hair." commented pulled his head from the wall and kept moving along the hallway. It wasn't like he had a better idea at the moment.
"Either way, I've got to find a way... out... of... here." Danny's words fell off as he passed a large glass window, seeing the endless ocean of stars opening up in front of him had driven all thoughts out of Danny's mind as he just stared out at it. He was in a space station.
The view of the stars, constellations and the planets that were close or far away drove everything home for him. Everything that he had pushed into the back of his mind: The near-Armageddon crisis, the weapon that was going to destroy the Earth, the fact that his arch-enemy had sent the asteroid and tried to blackmail the world, his arch-enemy's masterplan to win the war and have the planet as his own, the events that happened after his plan failed, Danny saving the whole world and becoming Earth's Savior, Vlad's return, their battle on Earth, Vlad's backup plan, being blasted onto that alien planet and the battle that he just fought in with that alien girl. All the things that he knew not to think about, because any one of them could have paralyzed him, or make him lose everything about him or himself. But out in deep space, what would happen to him? Odds are that if his family or someone else saw the explosion and thought he died in the war fight. Where would he go? What would he even do? What was he going to do or even train? The only thing that keeps his mind on what or how was he here was the thought 'Is this what Clockwork meant about my next challenge?' His family thought he was dead, and he had no way to get back to Earth or even the Ghost Zone. It finally hit him as he was looking out into the dark void of endless lightyears of space: He was completely, truly alone.
The revelation that he was on his own with nothing to fight for, drove the ghost child to his knees, his invisibility long forgotten. Then Danny began to cry. These were not tears of happiness like when Danny won the war, saved everyone, or when Danny's parents knew about him and Dani. These were like tears of sadness, like when Dani almost died after almost being melted by Vlad. Danny was so busy crying that he didn't even notice that 2 troopers, Commander Cody and Sargent Boomer came out of the mess hall and spotted him.
"What the? Hey, what's this kid doing here?" Commander Cody said in confusion as he walked towards Danny, not expecting anything in the least.
"Hey, what's the matter? You lost are something?" Sargent Boomer asked as he placed a hand on the Danny's shoulder. Danny momentarily stiffened before grabbing the clone's hand and spin tossing him across the hallway as if the trooper weighed nothing at all.
"What the devil!" Cody shouted, making a grab at Danny, but his attempt landed him an elbow to the chest plate which dented inward. Danny slipped from his grasp before running off away from them.
"Got to keep moving. Got to hide somewhere to hide. Think of a plan." muttered Danny to himself as he turned invisible again. Not that he knew what he was hiding from. It was only natural for a Phantom to want to hide.
Back In the Medical Room...
"What do you mean he's gone?" Anakin asked raising an eyebrow as he spoke with Obi-Wan in the debriefing room. Ahsoka, Captain Rex, and Trooper Longshot were also in attendance, being the only others on the station who knew about Danny's existence.
"I mean, he woke up, freaked out, destroyed the vial of blood and fell THROUGH his bed and out of the room. Though not before blasting the medical droid." Obi-Wan said scratching his chin.
"At least something good came of it then." Longshot muttered; they wanted a different model anyways.
"What are we going to do then? Everything about him was supposed to remain top secret." Ahsoka said, trying to move the subject along.
"Well, it's a little too much to hope that he will simply go unnoticed on a station with this many clones on it." Anakin said crossing his arms. "I'm sure he will turn up sooner or later." The younger Jedi Master said.
"Is that supposed to be comforting?" Obi-Wan asked, raising an eyebrow. "The boy managed to match Dooku. He may be Force-sensitive, and he was in a battle with another Sith Lord when we found him. If he gets into trouble, he could seriously damage the station, we could have quite a disaster on our hands."
"Well, then how about we start moving than before that happens." Ahsoka said, starting to get impatient. "It isn't like he is hard to track in an area this small. He leaves a disturbance in the Force wherever he goes. If we don't want other people to find him before we do, we need to start moving."
"She's got a point." Anakin said, looking to his old master. Obi-Wan sighed, but before he could answer they got a call from someone inside the base.
"General Skywalker, General Kenobi are you there?" Someone said on the comms.
"This is General Kenobi, what is it?" spoke Kenobi, hoping that it wasn't about what he thought it was about.
"Sir, this is Commander Cody, we were attacked in the hallways outside the mess halls. Not sure what it was. Looked like a kid, but it hit like a heavy armaments droid." Cody said over the com-link.
"I understand, we're on our way." Obi-Wan said with authority.
"Should I gather up the rest of the boys and do a sweep of the area?" Cody asked. "If this is a Separatist spy then we should probably get our weapons ready and..."
"No!" "Don't you dare!" Anakin, Ahsoka, and Rex all shouted quickly, stopping Cody's train of thought.
Obi-Wan coughed. "I assure you that this is no Separatist ploy. We believe the boy is just confused, but he is still highly dangerous. Spread word that if you see him, you are to avoid contact and report any sightings to us." Obi-Wan said. The clone gave the affirmative, and as Obi-Wan hung up the com-link with a sigh. "We need to locate him as fast as possible. But we cannot risk him losing his temper or giving him reason to attack."
"Then we just need to take it slowly. First, we find him, then we try to talk things out." Anakin said, turning to leave the room. "Come on, Snips."
"Right behind you, Master." The Padawan said, and they both exited the room.
"I guess that means you two are with me." said Obi-Wan to Rex and Longshot. "Hopefully this will go better than our first meeting."
Throughout the Halls...
"You sure you can track him, sir?" Longshot asked General Kenobi as they moved through the hallways. Obi-Wan in front of them with his eyes closed holding out his hand to feel the changes in the Force.
"The disturbances that he leaves in the Force are strong. Stronger than any Jedi I have ever known, though the child, at the moment, has shown some control over his emotions, but not enough. Tracking him is simple for anyone with a strong connection to the Force." Obi-Wan said calmly.
"You get any of that?" Longshot asked Rex.
"He said 'it's a Jedi thing'." Rex translated to the best of his Obi-Wan stopped outside of a storage room.
"He's in here." said Kenobi, opening the door. The three walked into the room and looked around. The room was empty except for some crates stacked neatly against the walls.
"Are you sure, you have the right room?" Longshot asked as he turned his head back and forth.
"Yes. He's here." Obi-Wan said, sounding very sure of himself. Obi-Wan could feel them, Danny's emotions. They were concealed and attempted to be pushed down, probably because but Obi-Wan could still feel them. And he could recognize the types. They were emotions he was seeing more and more of these days of war: sadness, and fear.
"We are not here to hurt you. You can come out." Obi-Wan said, maintaining his professional manner. Nothing happened.
"You will reveal yourself." Obi-Wan said, trying for a Jedi mind trick. Something that proved to be a wrong move. The amount of fear coming from Danny skyrocketed and Obi-Wan was too shocked to dodge as he felt a presence moving towards him. The Jedi nearly doubled over, knees buckling as he felt a fist connect with his stomach.
"Sir!" Rex shouted before he was hit hard on the side of the helmet, knocking him to the side. He tried to look up at what hit him, but his brother was tossed on top of him.
"Uhg... what was that? I didn't see a thing." grunted Longshot from on top of Rex.
"That... would be our guest." Obi-Wan groaned as he got to his knees. He pressed his wrist communicator. "Anakin, we found him, but he got away. Oh, and don't try Jedi mind tricks. He doesn't seem to take kindly to them." Obi-Wan said with a slight moaned.
"You never were good with kids." Anakin said, probably taking a certain amount of pleasure in the older Jedi's failure. "Don't worry, we'll handle this." He said before hanging up.
"Don't worry Master Kenobi. Well, handle it. You just make sure that you are okay." Ahsoka said before she too dropped out of contact.
"They talk about me like I'm old." Obi-Wan said, almost sounding depressed as he pulled himself together. He would let them have their fun. He needed to find a functioning medical droid to check on his ribs.
Danny was still shocked from the second encounter with the bearded man in white armor. He was currently huddled in the back of a bedroom that he found that seemed to be unused, trying to figure out what had happened.
The man hadn't just known where Danny had been even though he had remained invisible, he had tried to enter Danny's mind. But how did he do it? He had looked human, and Danny didn't see him activate any form of magical artifact or gadget that would have allowed him to do anything like that. Then again, that old man with the red blade shot lighting from his hands and seemed to have telekinesis. Danny didn't even know where or when he was exactly, he guessed that he was in the future. The dominance of plasma weapons and the super hi-tech space station made that the obvious theory for him. The one thing that Danny was glad was that this would not be like the future he was sent to.
He hardly noticed when the door shifted open with a loud whooshing sound and two people walked in. He turned his head, not dropping his invisibility. He was expecting to see more of the people in white armor, but instead, the two standing in front of him were very different.
One was a young man, tall with a rather rough look about him and a scar at the corner of his right eye. His brown hair was messy and unkempt, and he was dressed in black and brown cloth armor. He had a shaggy, yet proud air about him.
The other was the girl from down on the planet. She wasn't human, that much was for certain now that Danny had time to get a proper look her and not where he was about to pass out from exhaustion and blood loss. Her bright blue eyes were so alive and full of concern that it almost shocked Danny out of his invisibility. The girl, for he believed it to be a girl, looked around his age, maybe younger, and had dark orange skin with white tattoo marks on it. There was a white skin like membrane with blue stripes over her head instead of hair and she wore a brown skirt and tank top. 'Cute' was the first word that came to Danny's mind.
It was obvious that these two were not the same as the other white armored men. Neither of them gave off the strict military vibe that Danny got from the others.
"Hey there, no reason to be afraid." Anakin said, going down on one knee. His voice was calm and gentle, and he had a half smile on his face that got rid of much of the tension that Danny had been feeling. He was holding a plate in one of his hands that had some of the brown bars that Danny had seen from his peek into the cafeteria. "The medical droid said you would be hungry when you woke up. So go ahead and eat." Anakin said, putting the food down on the ground before backing up and standing with Ahsoka.
"Master, I don't think he understands the Common language." Ahsoka said looking over at the tall man.
"Doesn't matter, Snips. I've had to deal with language barriers like this before." Anakin said, keeping a calm voice as he smiled down at the girl. "You just need a calm voice, to give them plenty of room, and make sure to let them make the first move. That is how we can build trust. I'm willing to bet that he is smart enough to figure out that we mean him no harm. Plus, a guy's got to eat." He said with a slight shrug and a chuckle.
Danny looked down at the plate. It could be a trap. It could be poisoned. But he just realized how hungry he was. He hadn't had a proper meal in days. All of a sudden, the brown nutrient bar began to float in the air and began to float towards him. He cautiously moved forward and knowing perfectly well that knew was there, letting his invisibility drop and the bar began come even closer and he started to pick up and eat the food. He found it surprisingly good, actually having flavor and texture, despite how bland it looked.
"Thanks for the food." He said as he started to eat, looking up at the two visitors.
Ahsoka was only a little surprised when the boy used the force again, returned to the visible spectrum and started eating, floating just above the floor with his legs crossed in front of them, looking up at them with a certain level of curiosity as well as caution.
"It worked, master." Ahsoka said surprised.
"Of course, it worked. Obi-Wan could have done it as well, but he tried to hurry things along by using a Jedi mind trick to calm the kid down." Anakin said crossing his arms and smiling. "I hope they let me be the one to give him the lecture on the importance of patience. I'm pretty sure I could give it towards him. I've heard it from him enough times to recite it in my sleep." finished Anakin. Ahsoka laughed as her master joked around. The boy raised an eyebrow as he looked back and forth between the two.
"We should probably call a protocol droid to see if we can't figure out what language he speaks." suggested Ahsoka.
Anakin groaned. "Why does it always have to be protocol droids." He sighed. "Fine, I'll keep an eye on him while you do that, but could you also bring some large paper and something to draw with. Something makes me think that the droid wouldn't be able to understand him."
"What makes you say that, Master?" Ahsoka asked the Jedi.
"Simple, have you ever met anyone who can turn invisible before?" Anakin asked. "Even if he looks human, he's part of a completely different and unknown species. So, we might need a different means of communication." reasoned Anakin.
"Alright. I'll report to Obi-Wan while I'm at it and tell him that we found him." Ahsoka said, giving the boy another look and a smile before leaving the home. Things were certainly getting weird.
To Be Continued...
