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Ch. 2
*Everyone's POV* (The Team's)
The team arrived back at base and man were they relieved to be back.
Nightwing expected the night to go by smoothly, and to get the mission done quickly and correctly. But when Nightwing found out that someone had gone into the forest, he automatically knew that something as up. So it wasn't much of a surprise to him that they had happened to find a kid, that was injured and was a long way from home. To be honest, nothing had surprised him, to badly, that evening.
Everyone climbed out of Miss Martian's red ship, and made their way to the debriefing room. At least until- "Um guys?"
The Team looked back at Superboy and Beast Boy, to find Superboy still carrying the mystery boy, Danny.
"Oh right," Nightwing stated calmly, even though he mentally kicked himself for forgetting about a bleeding kid. "I'll take him to the infirmary and-"
"NO!"
'Forget what I just said... I'm officially whelmed...' Nightwing thought.
Everyone had shocked faces and wide eyes, as they looked up at Superboy. But, even he himself looked surprised he had snapped at them.
"I-I mean... It's alright, I'll take him to the infirmary," Superboy said trying to correct himself.
Nightwing raised his eyebrow at this, while Superboy just walked away towards the infirmary, without even recieving an answer.
Nightwing brushed it off thinking that S.B. must just be having a rough night.
'But then again he's been acting strange ever since we met that kid...'
"Mission Report."
Nightwing was snapped out of his thoughts as Batman stepped through the Zeta Portal. He had the usual on, the black and gray suit, black gloves, black boots, and his Bat mask, and of course, the never wavering cowl he always has on.
"Mission was a success. Criminals were stopped and caught," Nightwing reported.
"We also encountered another person, neither foe nor ally," Aqualad added.
Batman's gaze hardened into a glare, "Explain."
Nightwing sighed and said, "We were looking for stragglers, when we encountered a young boy about the age of 14, alone in the forest. When we offered to help him home, he refused. So we kept trying to get him to come with us, but ended up having to try to forcefully bring him with us. At least until..."
Nightwing hesitated, but Batman simply waited.
"Superboy had smelled blood, and a lot of it. We found out that he had cut his leg, not too badly, but badly enough for medical attention, and it apparently happened when he had slipped and fell from the nearby road."
Batman seemed to think about this and asked, "Where did you take him?"
Nightwing's eyes widened as he stumbled for words and Aqualad ended up answering (very awkwardly), "Here..."
Batman's eyes narrowed at Nightwing, "You brought a civilian to Mount Justice?"
Nightwing straightened and quickly began to explain, "It's not like that. The boy- was- he was different."
Batman kept his eyes narrowed.
"Batman, when he asked who we were and we told him the League's proteges', he claimed he's never even heard of the League, nor any of the heroes."
Batman's glare went away and as he processed this new information.
"Also," everyone turned to look at Artemis, "he made that strange energy dome."
Batman looked back at Nightwing and the latter pulled up the small video he was able to record. When the 14 second video ended, Batman turned his attention back to the Team. "Is there anything else that seemed strange or unusual?"
Miss Martian stepped up and said in a low voice, "I wasn't able to sense his mind..." Batman seemed to stiffen slightly at that statement, if fact, everyone did. "Anything else?" he asked. Megan shook her head 'no'.
"Where is he now?" Batman asked.
Beast Boy seemed to feel uncomfortable when he answered, "Superboy took him to the Infirmary."
Batman actually raised an eyebrow at that answer, "Superboy?"
Everyone nodded and they as well had looks of bewilderment. Beast Boy decided to speak up, "In fact, SB insisted that he took him to the infirmary..."
Batman put his gloved-hand to his ear and spoke into his comm link, "Batman to Superman; I need you to come to Mount Justice."
"When?"
"Immediately."
*Conner POV*
'What is wrong with me?' Superboy (Conner) thought to himself.
The mystery boy known as 'Danny', was now laying on the bed in the Infirmary, soundly asleep. While Conner himself was seated next to him in a chair.
Danny's messy raven hair was still slightly wet and bits of hair was matted to his forehead. He had some dirt left on his face and on his black baseball T, probabtly from when he was running earlier. Danny had a small built body but still was very capable of athletic ability (as he had shown earlier as well). All-in-all, he basically almost looked like a small, kid version of Conner.
As Conner sat there, he began to wonder why he froze earlier. He had stopped and froze when Danny had looked at him. 'But why?' Then he remembered what he had felt when he was frozen, confusion and something else. 'But what though?'
"Superboy."
Superboy jumped at the sound of the voice and turned to find Batman staring at him with a deadpanned look.
"Conner are you alright? It's like you didn't even hear us come in." Superman then stepped fully inside the Infirmary.
"Oh yeah, sorry... everything's alright, just deep in thought, that's all," Conner explained.
Superman raised an eyebrow, then turned towards Batman. The latter simply ignored him and walked over to the bed asking, "Is this him?" While Superman walked to the other side of the bed.
Conner blinked his surprise away and turned towards the bed answering, "Yes. He told us his name has Danny."
"Any last name?"
"He didn't say..."
As Batman examined him, Superman said, "His heart beat is extremely low, almost coma-like or lower..."
Batman grabbed a pair of stethoscopes, put them on and listened. After a few moments, he took them off, "You're right."
Confusion was clear on Superman's face as he turned to Conner, "Was he like this when you found him?"
Conner nodded his head, "Yeah, his heartbeat was almost just like this when we found him, only of course it was slightly faster due to him being awake."
Batman walked over to Danny's injured leg and began to undo the torn flannel. While he was doing so, Superman also walked over to observe Danny's injury.
"By the way this was tied, I'd suspect he's gotten into these sorts of situations more than once..."
Conner's eyes widened, while Superman just looked intrigued.
Batman continued to observe the wound until finally coming to a conclusion, "He seems to have advanced healing, he'll be- Wait... what's that?"
Batman grabbed a cotton ball and gently patted the large cut. When he pulled it away, a mixture of red and green blood was revealed.
"What is that?" Superman asked.
Conner watched as Batman walked over to the nearby electronic microscope. A red beam of light scanned the cotton ball and began to search for matches. After a couple of seconds, the computer announced, "52% human blood, 48% unknown."
Batman narrowed his eyes at that.
Conner and Superman stepped towards the computer, "Unknown?" Superman asked.
Black gloves ran over the keyboard, furiously typing away. "It seems that whatever is in his blood, isn't in the League's database..."
"But how can that be? We have pretty much have every single species and alien race on file," Superman stated.
"Apparently, whoever this kid is, could've either, have hidden himself from the outside world to keep a low profile, that would help explain why he doesn't know about the League. Or..."
"'Or'?"
Batman turned to face Conner and Superman (mainly Superman). "Or he isn't from any nearby galaxies."
Conner looked at Superman as he thought about those possibilities. It seemed Superman was also in deep thought about this.
"That could be a possibility, but then the question is why is he on Earth?"
Batman pulled out two small tubes and grabbed a needle from one of the many drawers. He put one of the tubes in the needle and walked over to Danny.
Suddenly Conner's emotions became out of his own control. He stepped in Batman's way and glared at him, "What are you doing?"
Batman remained passive, but Superman raised his eyebrow.
"Conner, what are you doing?"
Conner's eyes widened as he slowly relaxed and thought about what just happened. "I-I don't know..."
Batman responded in a deadpan tone, "I'm going to take a sample of his blood for further investigation."
Conner let Batman pass and watched as Batman put the needle in Danny's arm. The tube was half-way full until a hand grabbed Batman's wrist, with such speed, that the needle flew out of the caped man's hand, and landed on the floor, shattering the tube. Even Batman was staring with wide eyes.
Danny was now sitting in an upright 'ready-to-fight' position on the table, his right hand held Batman's wrist with a firm grip and he had flipped Batman over and onto the table, glaring at him with rage filled eyes.
"Who are you? And what do you think you're doing?"
Conner's eyes widened as he remembered the same echo in Danny's voice earlier. But what shocked him more was the fact that his eyes were starting to glow green.
"Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Calm down, nobody is going to hurt you!" Superman quickly assured Danny, desperately not wanting to have to fight and the kid ending up hurting himself.
Batman tried to snatch his hand back and get up, but the raven-haired boy held onto him with a firm grip. He narrowed his eyes, "I should be asking the same thing."
Conner flinched as the raven-haired boy glared at Batman, NO ONE has EVER DARED to glare at THE Batman! "Danny, now what were about to do with that needle?" he asked, the echo now gone from his voice and the neon green disappearing from his eyes. He then let go of Batman, the latter rubbing his wrists and standing up.
"I was taking a sample of your blood for examination," Batman responded in a monotone voice.
Danny narrowed his eyes, "And why would you want to do that?"
Superman stepped forward, "We didn't mean to offend you... We are only curious as to why you're blood matches nothing within the League's database and we-"
Danny had turned towards Superman and now had an annoyed/confused look on his face. "What is the League?"
Superman sighed and said, "The Justice League, is a team of unique individuals, heroes, who help protect and keep the Earth and other worlds safe."
Danny looked down at his hands and Conner watched as Danny went into deep thought but then shook his head as if to get rid of a bad thought or memory.
Batman broke the short silence, "Where did you come from?"
Danny looked up and seemed to think before answering, "Earth."
"Where on Earth?"
"United States."
Batman was starting to get annoyed and Conner could tell. "Where?"
Danny shrugged ever so slightly and said, "Doesn't matter..."
"What's your last name?"
Danny just stared at him, face passive.
"Where are your parents?" Conner stepped in, noticing that Batman was about to get REALLY impatient with this kid.
Conner would've missed the wince if he had not been paying attention, and he's pretty sure Batman and Superman didn't miss it either. "Doesn't matter..." he whispered.
"Why?"
"Because they're not here..."
Everyone seemed to go quiet at this. 'Does that mean-? No, maybe it's something else... but at the same time-'
Conner's thoughts were interrupted by the caped-crusader turning around and leaving the room. He looked at Superman and they both ran after him.
"Batman?"
"I want you to report to me on a daily basis in the debriefing room. From there you will inform me of anything you find out about 'Danny'." Then he turned and left down the hallway.
Conner felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up to see Superman, "I-I...umm...I'll see you later, Conner." Then Superman followed Batman down the hallway.
Conner went back into the infirmary, only to start scolding Danny for trying to get off the table and for trying to leave with a still bleeding leg.
*Everyone's POV*
"You're doing what?!" Kid Flash and Robin exclaimed.
Batman narrowed his eyes, "I said, 'we're keeping Danny on Mount Justice until we can decide on what to do with him'."
Nightwing stepped up towards his mentor and asked, "Why not just try to contact his parents?"
Invisible steam seemed to roll off Batman (that only Robin and Nightwing were able to notice) as he answered, "Because we are unaware of his last name nor where he actually lives."
Nightwing's eyes widened at the fact that 'Danny' was able to anger THE Batman.
Superman walked up next to them and said, "He is still in the Infirmary with Conner, you may want to go help him get Danny 'cleaned-up'."
Most of the Team's eyebrows raised at his statement, but M'gann and Aqualad left to go help.
Nightwing turned to Batman again and whispered, "Did that kid really get on your nerves?"
Batman walked towards the Zeta-tubes quietly saying (only so Nightwing heard), "Shut-up Dick..." Only to leave a laughing Nightwing surrounded by his ever confused teammates.
*Danny's POV*
He's been in the 'cave', as Conner and the others called it, for a couple days now.
At first, Danny was having a hard time trying to 'relax' around the others. But ever since he left the infirmary and met some of the other members, he's been able to let his guard down every so often.
Danny now sat on the floor of the room he had been staying in, leaning his back against the bed, his legs slightly bent in front of him.
To say Danny was in deep thought, would be an understatement. He was practically lost in his memories...
"What do you mean you didn't mean to?!"
"T-they ambushed me and I didn't have ti-"
"Stop lying! J-Just go to your room!"
...
Ice and frost were everywhere; crawling up the walls onto the ceiling in intricate patterns, the carpeted floor was now blue, his bed had frosted over, and the window seals and the door had frozen over.
"Daniel Fenton! Open this door right now!" his mom yelled.
Danny just sat in the corner of his room, curled up into a ball, trying to block out all outside noise.
"Danny, listen to Maddie! You know you shouldn't have reacted in the way that you did, no unlock this door and apologize!"
His mom had started scolding him for 'destroying the lab' and Danny had tried to explain it wasn't his fault, but she wouldn't listen, and he ended up yelling at her.
"It's not my fault... its not my fault... its not my f-fault..."
...
"Sir! You must be mistaken, Danny wouldn't-"
"No you are mistaken! That boy is practically a CURSE to my class and I'm absolutely tired of ghost attacks in MY classroom, and endangering MY students! Now you either give him a good talking to, or you transfer him to a different classroom! Even better, a different SCHOOL!"
...
"Sam, listen!"
"Why should I?! So you can just run off and go behind my back again?! No! I'm sick of your excuses Danny!"
"But it's not tru-"
"UGH!" Then she stomped off.
Danny didn't realize a tear ran down his cheek as he played with his ice powers, still deeply lost in his memories.
As such he was not paying attention to anything around him... not even the opening of his door.
(Ecto: Your lucky, I would've ended it there... but I'm feeling generous... -.-')
*Conner's POV*
'I wonder if he's still asleep?'
Conner was just now on his way back from his 'daily reports' for Batman. Even though he didn't even have anything to report besides Danny seeming to slowly become more comfortable around everyone else.
"Hey SB!"
Conner turned to see Gar (Beast Boy), running up to him. "Hey Gar, what is it?"
Gar smiled and explained excitingly, "I was wondering if maybe you or Big Sis could convince Danny to come out of his room and we could all hang out on the beach!"
Conner gave him a tiny smile and answered, "I'll ask him when he wakes up, alright?"
Beast Boy smiled and ran off towards the living room area.
Conner turned back around and made his way over to Danny's door.
He slowly started opening the door, listening first then looking inside, only to swing the door wide open.
Danny was crying, though it looked like he was unaware of it, and had glowing blue ice forming in the air above his hand.
Conner dashed over to him and grabbed and pulled him by his upper arms and started to scold him. "What are you thinking?! That could have lost control and-" He kept scolding him until he finally just stopped and asked confusedly, "Uh, Danny?"
Danny was staring at him with wide eyes full of shock, tears stains running down both of his cheeks, and his whole body frozen in Conner's grip.
Conner sighed and let go of his arms, then grabbed his wrist and said sternly, "Come on, we need to go tell Nightwing and-"
"NOO!"
Suddenly, Danny's wrist disappeared from his grasp and Conner turned around surprised that someone was even able to escape his grip.
"I can't let anyone know! Don't you understand?! I can't! I won't tell them! I don't want to be blamed for something else! Not ever again!-"
Conner watched as more tears were shed as he yelled, and eventually Danny was curled up on the floor, starting to cry again, and shakily rambling, "I didn't do it... I didn't do it... I didn't do it..."
A strange feeling overcame Superboy and he joined Danny on the floor and awkwardly hugged him. Conner couldn't explain it but he almost seemed weirdly comfortable hugging awkwardly and trying to comfort him. 'This is definitely unnatural to me...' he thought as he hugged him.
Conner pulled away to see Danny surprised with wide eyes, that he had been hugged.
Conner awkwardly and softly asked, "What do mean by 'you didn't do it'?"
Danny seemed very hesitant and reluctant, but eventually he explained what had happened. He explained that after he had helped save the world from the 'Dis-asteroid', his secret was exposed to his non-knowing parents and his entire town. Over the next couple of months, his parents and teachers were having a hard time excepting him as a 'whole' and eventually led the entire town to blaming him for even the littlest of things, like a fallen tree or a street light's bulb going out. He had tried to keep his feelings buried inside of him, but that had only made it worse, because he actually started to believe them. And how he was nearly fully convinced that it was his fault. So he ran away from home, for even his friends had begun to turn on him.
Conner sat in silence and listened until he was done. To say he was angry, would be an understatement, he was pissed. But he quickly lowered his voice, trying to sound calm, "What's would've caused them to act like that?"
Danny breathed in a sharp breath and said reluctantly, "I-I'm half dead...I'm not exactly alive..."
Conner remained quiet and Danny looked up at him surprised, "Y-you're not surprised? Or terrified of me?"
THAT caused Conner to become shocked, "Why would I be terrified?"
'Is that why so many people hated him? Because this kid isn't exactly alive? That's like when certain people were uncomfortable around me simply because I was a clone... What sick minded people would do something like that to this kid?' Conner thought, now with unshed tears in his eyes.
"How?" Conner asked quietly to Danny.
Danny had taken a seat on the bed and Conner had pulled up a nearby chair. Danny then explained what happened, and how his parents were ghost hunters and their 'big project' was a Ghost Portal. He explained how it didn't work and how he went inside because his friends eventually convinced him, and also he wanted to help his disappointed parents. He had explained everything about why he was blamed, the reason people feared him, and even explained how his human and ghost halves clashed a times.
Conner had listened the entire time, and even laughed along with Danny at some of his accidents and misfortunes.
*Danny's POV*
By the time Danny was done explaining, he couldn't help but be depressed again, and he said to Conner, "I do deserved to be blamed..."
"Danny, no you-"
"Yes I do Conner. Disaster is just waiting to happen and its all because I'm a monster."
*Conner's POV*
Conner watched with wide eyes as white glowing rings appeared around Danny's waist and traveled in different directions across his body. The rings revealed a black suit with white gloves, boots, collar and belt. His eyes turned from icy blue to glowing neon green, and his hair changed from raven black to a rivaling snow white. Around his body was a faint white glow, giving him a 'supernatural' and 'spiritual' look.
Conner got up from his seat and put a hand on Danny's shoulder, "Danny... you're not a monster, nor have you ever been one... You're a hero that went out of his way for everyone, even if the city you lived in hated you for it..."
*Danny's POV*
Danny looked up at Conner and saw the most shocking thing to him... Conner was had a tear running down his face. 'He's crying...?'
Danny wiped his tear away, Conner shocked at him for doing so, and said, "Conner, there's no need to cry... especially for someone that isn't even human..."
He watched as Conner looked at him and said with a small smile, "Danny... You're more human then you realize. More human than most people are or ever will be..."
Danny's eyes widened, "R-Really?"
Conner smiled, "Really."
"You know... I can kind of relate," Conner said after a short silence.
"Y-you can?" Danny asked him.
Conner began to explain how he was actually Superman's clone and also half human. He explained what had happened when the Team had found him at Cadmus and all the adventures that had followed.
Danny listened to him and how we really felt about his teammates and how Connor actually felt about being a clone and how he dealt with it everyday.
After he was done explaining, there was a long silence.
"So... now that that's out of the way, I have to tell you 'to stop blaming yourself'. What happened wasn't your fault Danny, nor could you have done anything besides what you did to fix it. You helped those people to the best of your ability and that's all you could've done, from there the people themselves had to finish fixing it... alright?"
Danny looked down at his gloved hands and thought to himself, 'Maybe Conner is right... I did everything I could do, and that's that. So...maybe, it really wasn't actually my fault and everyone just wanted to look for someone else to blame.'
Danny smiled and nodded, transforming back, "Thanks Conner, I think you may be right..."
After a long silence Danny said, "Fenton..."
Conner looked confused and asked, "What?"
"My last name. My last name is Fenton."
"So when you came here through the Ghost Zone, did you enter a different time stream? Or..."
Danny thought for a moment before answering, "I think I traveled dimensions... because the portal I went through was slightly different, and by that I mean it felt different..."
Conner asked after another short silence, "Now... do you think you would feel comfortable telling everyone else? By that I mean the Team and Batman. You don't have to tell them about your past, just what happened and who you really are?"
Danny thought for a moment before smiling and sighed nervously, "I guess it's now or never."
As they walked over to the door, Conner said to Danny, "If you keep my secret about how I feel about my past, I'll keep yours, alright?"
Danny nodded and they headed down the hallway towards the debriefing room.
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