True Family

by EctoPermafrost

The blame, the hate, the undesirable feeling of seclusion, it was just too much for him. So he left, attempting to try and escape the ever suffocating feeling of betrayal. But when he finally finds somewhere in which he can call home... will the miserable past seep into his life again? And will he have to return to the place in which he dreads?

4. Chapter 3

Ecto: Hello again! We're really sorry for the wait!

Silver: It was Ecto's fault -.-'

Ecto: HEY! Okay, yeah, scratch that, it was kind of my fault. Family and other things came up so I was temporarily busy. As well as a very complicated situation, where I had the outlines for the chapters (for both stories of my stories mind you), but I had no idea how to write it... if that makes sense...

Silver: Don't forget to mention you got sick and didn't want to do ANYTHING... and the fact that you got me sick.

Ecto: Hey, I didn't have a fever okay? That one was on you, I had a really bad cough as well as a stomach ache and headache, not a fever.

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Ch. 3

The raven-haired teen stood there, frozen in shock, as he stared in amazement at the Team.

When Danny was getting ready to explain why and how he ended up in the forest, he was absolutely terrified. Of what you might ask? Judgement. Judgement about what he was, the reason for running from his old home, and the disappointment of the once hero.

But what he saw in front of him now, was DEFINITELY unexpected.

They were calm. Sure some of them had smiles, sad or genuine, and other members were frowning or disappointed. But Danny somehow knew that the disappointment wasn't directed at him, but at what had happened to him. And THAT is why Danny was now frozen, not from fear nor anxiety, but from shock and amazement.

The long silence was broken when Danny finally felt the courage to speak up, "Y-you're not a-afraid of me? You're not d-disgusted at what I-I am?"

Yes, he had told them about the Disasteroid incident and the months following and the trouble his Ghost-half (ability-wise) had brought him. But he knew better then to reveal what he looked like, at least until he knew for sure that they weren't going to shoot him on sight.

Everyone seemed to look a bit shocked at his question, some concerned, others slightly amused, but mostly shocked.

Miss Martian stepped towards Danny, but felt himself unintentionally take a step back. She stopped immediately with a slightly concerned look on her face, but asked gently, "We understand that you may be surprised. But why would you think that we would be afraid of you or 'disgusted'?"

Danny looked down and tried to swallow down the lump in his throat, "Where- I'm from- everyone, even my own parents, Maddie and Jack, had claimed that all ghosts were 'evil'." He chuckled sadly as he said, "Or as Maddie used to call me, 'An odd and evil manifestation of ectoplasmic energy and post-human consciousness'..."

He looked up to see Miss Martian with a look of sympathy and then looked at the rest of her Team and the ever shadow of a figure Batman looming behind them. The Team looked between each other and Danny got that feeling that they were actually talking to each other again. Artemis stepped up this time, Danny not backing away, and said, "Okay, that explains the 'disgusted' part, but what about 'afraid'?"

Danny took a deep breath and said with a slight shake in his voice, "Because of what I am. I'm a scientific anomaly, I shouldn't even exist... even to the ghosts I'm a freak of nature. I'm an unpredictable impossibility that has caused more than enough problems in the past."

Again, Danny was in awe, but this time by the looks on most of the Team's faces, it was understandment.

And the look being passed between Aqualad and Nightwing asked, 'Is that what is parents had said to him?' and 'That seems to be likely...'

Nightwing walked up to him and smiled, genuinely smiled, "Most of us knows how that feels, trust me when I say, we've all experienced something like that, especially when we feel as though no one could relate. But the truth is... we're never alone, because we have each other."

Smiles began to appear on all of the Team's faces, even Batman seemed give a little smirk.

"We're not just a team of heroes, Danny... we're all friends here, " Nightwing said with a smile.

Aqualad joined in, "I once thought that the only home for me would be Atlantis. But after I joined the Team, after I met everyone, I realized I was wrong. I realized that home is here, with my new friends that are like family."

Danny (not processing the fact that Aqualad mentioned Atlantis) looked at all the Team members and their smiling agreements.

Beast Boy jumped up and down excitingly, "Yeah! And you're our friend too Danny!"

"B-but, you only just met me-"

He felt a hand on his shoulder and looked up to see Connor with small smile, "Even though we just met you, doesn't mean we can't be friends...even IF you're not from here."

Miss Martian walked up and hugged Danny, "You will always be a part of our family, no matter what you are or where you come from."

Danny could feel un-shed tears in his eyes as he slowly returned Miss Martian's hug. He then turned to everyone else, "Thank you... all of you..."

A whirring sound, like an engine starting up, had filled the room. Danny turned his attention to the other side of the 'Mission Room', to see giant portal-like machines; one of them glowing brightly and three figures stepped out.

One being Superman, the other two he didn't recognize. One was a male, his head was completely bald, and his face was oddly proportioned, with heavy brows, thick lips and red eyes. His costume was primarily black, with red accents, and a large red belt and x-shaped straps across his chest. He always wore a blue cape that was fastened by gold clips. The other person was a woman. She was fair-skinned and had black hair and blue eyes. She wore a strapless red bustier held up by a brace of gold resembling two W's. She has a large golden belt, and blue briefs with five white stars on them. She also wore red boots with a white stripe on the front side; silver bracelets around her wrists, red star earrings, and wore a golden diadem with a red star on her forehead. Finally, she had a golden lasso hanging from her belt.

Batman turned to Danny and gestured to the other three adults in the room, "Of course you already know Superman. This is Martian Manhunter and Wonder Woman, both original members and founders of the Justice League."

Danny gave a small wave of 'hello' with a nervous smile. Martian Manhunter nodded, while Wonder Woman smiled and gave a small wave back. 'They seem nice...' Danny thought.

Batman stepped forward and kept his attention on Danny, "Since you ran away from your previous dimension and have no place to go in this one, the League has decided to offer you a place to live here, on Mount Justice. As well as a possibility of joining the Team."

Some of the team members cheered or yelled 'YES!', but the others just kept quiet or smiled lightly. At least until, they noticed Danny's unhappy expression.

"There's a catch," Danny stated, not questioned.

Batman nodded, but Manhunter was the one to answer, "Because you are unfamilar with this dimension and we have never came across a- being- such as yourself, we would like to see what you are capable of."

'I don't think I like where this is going...'

Danny remained monotone, "I don't think I fully understand what you're asking of me..."

Wonder Woman crossed her arms as she explained, "The League needs to know what kind of powers you have, and to see how much training you have and will or will not need."

'Of course that's what they wanted!'

Danny narrowed his eyes slightly as he retorted, rather bit too harshly, "In other words you need to know if my 'kind' is dangerous or not and need to know my weaknesses in order to know how to stop me or anyone else, if it ever comes down to a certain situation."

The Leaguers (except Batman) and some of the 'Team' were struck speechless by Danny's words.

Miss Martian stepped forward, "Danny, it's not like that-"

"Please!" Danny interrupted her, "Don't try to lie to me or deny it... I've been a hero long enough and had to partner with others enough to know when there's a catch, or when I need to read in between the lines of something."

He turned to the Leaguers and took a calming breath, "Even if I don't like the reasons... I agree with your terms. But I just want you to know that I didn't have a mentor or someone there for me to show me the ropes. I had to learn everything for myself and by my own mistakes. And it wasn't like I could train my powers when I got them either."

Superman spoke again, "Why is that?"

Danny looked at him in the eyes and said, "Usually people get a choice between fight or flight right? I didn't get that choice. I had to learn on the spot or die, simple. After I got the gist of it, I started to train myself when I had time too. Besides that, it was fighting for either mine or somebody else's life and safety 24/7."

Along silence passed by as both teenagers and adults alike processed this new bit of information and they honestly couldn't help but feel a little sympathy towards the small teen.

Batman was the one to break the silence, "So do we have a deal?"

Danny looked up at the Team and then at the Leaguers and smiled.

"Deal."

****ONE YEAR LATER****

BOOM! CRASH!

The smell of smoke and burnt furniture filled the air, dust and ash flying into the air as the roof caved in.

Muscles ached and groaned as an elbow propped up the body and proceeded to get up slowly, a hiss of pain sounding off as it did so.

Neon-toxic green met raging fires within the building. Support beams had fallen, papers and ash littering the floor, desks and chairs tipped over and flown across the room.

A cry was heard across the room. Green eyes widened and arms quickly pushed and scrambled off the boards and debree. Legs ached as they ran over to a man protecting a woman from the collapsed roof and fire. White gloved hands reached for the man, and became slightly transparent as it and the two people became intangible and the roof debree fell out of their path. They became tangible once more and the man looked up and thanked the helping hands.

"Get out of here quickly! There's an emergency staircase right outside the doors to the hallway!"

The man nodded and quickly rushed the coughing woman out of the room, making their escape.

Another support beam fell and the helping hands were raised to keep the ashes out of the neon toxic green eyes. The eyes searched for any way to stop the fire, while ears listened for any more trapped citizens. An escape was found, no more trapped civilians, and white boots started for the escape window. But before they could reach them, a part of the roof collapsed again and something rammed into the escaping.

The force was strong enough to ram him through the floor and onto the level below.

A knight-like armored boot rested on top of his chest, rendering him immobile and struggling to try to loosen the weight that held him down.

As white hair was pushed out of green eyes, they looked up in hatred and slight fear at the intimidating figure.

Black armor and chainmail covered the figure's legs and arms. A black chest plate was worn as well as black shoulder armor. A green belt was tied across its waist along with a diagonal sash and leather belt. In the middle of the waist belt sat a golden disk, within it were two dangerous and looming eyes, as if they were alive themselves; hanging from the belt was a glowing green sword and a gray piece of cloth, adding a pharaoh like look to the armor. Two green glowing skulls held the black shoulder armor in place, while wearing two gray armored gloves with green spikes along the cuffs and knuckles. The figure's head had a red cracked helmet/armor with a pharaoh's beard surrounding their face; revealing a right green eye with a scar over it, and a black eye path over the left, and a fanged twisted smile. Two horns stuck out of the helmet, one half broken, the other as sharp as a talon. Long spiked/shaggy green hair flowed down its back, acting as if it were the flames of a fire. And lastly, a green glowing fired crown sat upon their head, and a glowing green ring rested on their left ring finger.

"Pariah!"

The being, 'Pariah', smiled evilly, as he bent down resting his right arm on the leg keeping the other on the floor, "Having that much power... it's a burden isn't it, child?"

Said 'child', continued to struggle under Pariah's boot. When finally, he'd had enough, "The power isn't the burden... The burden is in how I use it!"

(A/N: Actual dialogue from episode 'Reign Storm'.)

He raised his hand and shot a green ecto-beam at Pariah, causing the other to stumble back in surprise.

He immediately jumped up and flipped backwards and landed in a fighting position.

Pariah growled in annoyance and glared at the halfa, "Have it your way then!"

Before he could do anything, Pariah shot a red eye beam at the ceiling, and the ceiling came crashing towards wide green eyes.

"NNOOO!"

Danny was now sitting up in his bed panting, forehead damp with sweat and had his wide blue eyes staring at the covers in front of him.

'It was just a dream... Calm down, Phantom... it was just a dream.'

He closed his eyes and took a calming deep breath, when suddenly the door swung open with a BANG!

"DANNY!"

Said person almost jumped three feet in the air, as Gar (Beast Boy) came sprinting into the room yelling excitedly.

Only to stop when realizing Danny's reaction, "Uh, Danny? Are you alright?"

The later just stared for at the green boy for a moment before remembering that the other had asked a question. "Oh! I'm fine Gar, just a dream I had that's all..." 'More like a nightmare...'

Gar just shrugged and then smiled and began to ramble on about why he was so excited.

Danny simply smiled at him and chuckled at his excited chatter.

He doesn't know what it is with Beast Boy, or Gar as he was told to call him, but he always seemed to make Danny smile. Whenever he is in a bad mood or just not feeling well and he just needs some cheering up, the Team always sends Gar. And some-how, in some-way, it always works.

"-so what do 'ya think?"

Danny shook the cobwebs from his mind, "Sorry, Gar I spaced out, what was your question?"

Gar huffed (comically) and explained, "Okay. So, today Nightwing says the we're going to mostly be tidying up the 'Cave', a little bit of training, and then going to relax the rest of the day. And it's all because, we're going on a mission in a couple days and that means that we finally get to have some action! So my question is, 'what do you think?'"

Danny smiled and answered, "Well to be honest, you need to be careful what you wish for-" 'One because I know from experience at what that can lead to. And second, they almost had a really bad run-in with a certain wishing ghost.' "-Also, training sounds good right about now... maybe sparing can allow me to brush off that dream I had. Oh, and Gar?"

Gar looked confused, signaling the older teen to go on.

Danny playfully glared at him, "You are going to help Megan and I clean up the 'Hanger' this time right?"

Gar groaned in annoyance and said, "Yes... I'll help you guys clean it up this time."

Danny smiled and went over to his draws to pick out his 'house-clothes' (a plain white t-shirt and some light blue jogging pants), while Gar smiled and exclaimed, "Hurry up though! We're all going to eat and then clean up the Cave first!"

The other laughed as Gar left the room and closed the door.

Danny chuckled at Megan's reaction to his blueberry pancakes.

"Oh my gosh Danny! These are amazing!" Megan said with wide eyes that seemed to be filled with joy and wonder.

"Yeah seriously dude! These are seriously crash!" Bart (Impulse) exclaimed eating two more with super speed. (Along with Wally.)

"Where did you learn to cook so well?" Kaldur asked.

'Oh that's right! I forgot I never go to explain where I had learned how to cook to Kaldur!'

Danny smiled at him and gave a small laugh.

"Well, back in Amity Park, Maddie and Jack were always out 'hunting ghosts' or at conventions. So Jazz usually had to cook alot for the both of us, but once she was in her Sophmore year in High School and I was an eighth grader in Middle School, she started teach me. Then after awhile I got the hang of it and started to cook for everyone. Even when I had patrol or something, I always tried to find the time to bake or cook. By the way Megan, that offer is still open if you want me to show you some baking recipes I picked up awhile back."

Megan seemed to be overjoyed at this new fact and nodded her head 'yes'.

Megan was basically Danny's mom on the Team. She would point out if something's wrong and try to fix it. She would always check to make sure he was okay and always made sure that he was at his very best. When Danny had frequent nightmares (in the beginning, when he had joined the team) about his past fights and family, she would always let him talk to her about them and comfort him. Megan would mess with him, scold him (for him and Gar, occasionally Nightwing, playing pranks on Wally), teach him, and was just there for him, even if and when he made mistakes.

Megan had been scolding Danny for running off on his own again and had just finished by threatening to ground him to the Cave.

"Jeez Mom-!"

M'gann whipped around and had wide eyes as she stared at him in shock.

Danny quickly covered his mouth, blushing a slight red/pink and he started to tear up, embarrassed and ashamed of himself for slipping.

"I-I'm sorry I-I didn't mean to c-call you that! I-I'll just go-"

Megan instantly stopped him from leaving by pulling Danny into a hug.

"It's alright Danny... it's fine... we all slip up sometimes... but-"

Danny shot his head up staring at Megan with tears still in his eyes. But all she did was smile at him and say, "I actually don't really mind you calling me that..."

That left Danny speechless as they continued to hug each other, both with tears running down their cheeks, but both for different reasons.

"Why aren't you eating Danny?" Kaldur asked.

"I fell into a habit where I clean up first, then wait till everyone's done eating, before I actually sit down to eat," Danny explained snapping out of his thoughts.

Some of the other members raised their eyebrows at this, remembering having this same exact conversation almost a year ago.

Danny sighed and explained, "Look, you should know by now that I can go a week without eating, plus it was a forced habit. Alot of times I would get done cooking, and Jazz would already be eating, but then my Ghost sense would go off and I would have to go out and catch the ghost, most of the time multiple ghosts."

Everyone that was at the table seemed to understand and just dropped the topic.

"Old habits, die hard huh?" Connor stated breaking the short silence.

Danny rubbed the back of his neck and answered back, "Guess you could say that..."

"DANNY!"

Out of nowhere, Danny was tackled with a hug from behind, almost causing him to fall over. Danny mumbled, "Speaking of habits..."

"ZATANNA! What have I told you about messing around with Danny in the kitchen!?" Megan scolded.

Zatanna fake pouted and let go of Danny.

The latter turned around and smiled at her. Zatanna had medium length black hair and bright cyan colored eyes. She was wearing her more casual outfit, which was a pair of white or black pants with a light violet top and white or black shoes. She was also wearing her white earrings today.

Now he know's what you're thinking... him and Zatanna. But no, its not actually. In fact, the Team jokes around saying she's Danny's enthusiastic (sometimes annoying) big sister. She's constantly making sure he's staying out of trouble and is always giving him hugs and just being a really really... enthusiastic sister.

Actually, now that Danny is thinking about it... Zatanna did once explain that the reason she acted like that around him was because; 1, Danny was one of the few people she could call a 'brother' (always messes with the team with that one), and 2, she just wants to feel like a kid again sometimes, and Danny to her is just the person to allow it and it's also her excuse to be that way, but still knows when its time to be a hero and get serious.

The Team laughed and smiled at Zatanna's childish behavior, causing her to smile as well, yet still managing to fake pout.

Danny turned around and started to clean up his cooking mess, while Zatanna remained in the kitchen leaning on the counters closest to everyone else.

"I was just playing with my baby brother-"

CRASH!

The Team whipped their heads towards the noise, to find a now shattered glass plate on the floor.

Danny was frozen as he stared at the shattered glass with wide ice-blue eyes. The raven curtain of hair hiding his momentary shock from the others.

'Oh no, not now!'

Megan was instantly by his side, but made sure not to touch him knowing fully well what was going on, "Danny?!"

A teenage girl with aqua blue eyes and long orange hair that reached down to her hips was smiling at him. She wore a long-sleeve v-neck black shirt, aqua pants, a pair of simple black flats and an aqua headband.

Danny bent down and silently began to pick up the glass shards and pieces, desperately trying to push the memories back to the back of his mind.

'Why now? Why do the memories have to come back now?!' he thought somewhat angrily.

The people on the opposite side of the counter looked on with confusion and some turned to the now standing and ready-to-assist Connor and Gar. But even they were confused... 'Since when did the visions and flashbacks start coming back?' they thought.

"Little brother?" Zatanna asked with worry and concern.

"Danny, I know you think I'm pushy, and I'm a know-it-all. I know you think I can be a jerk sometimes..."

Danny smiled slyly.

"You know, you can stop me at any time."

"I know."

Danny's hands started to slightly shake. 'You need to keep your cool Fenton...'

"Danny, what's wrong? What are you seeing?" Megan asked, now with a voice full of worry and concern.

"Always know I'll be right here for you little brother..." the teen said with a brilliant and intelligent smile.

(All real dialogue!)

"Then why weren't you there? And why aren't you here now?" Danny growled out in sadness and heart-aching pain. He wasn't paying attention and a glass shard had cut his palm, revealing a small trickle of red and green.

"DANNY!"

Danny's mind snapped back to reality and stared with wide eyes at Megan and Conner, who in turn both had looks of deep concern and worry. While the rest of the team looked on in confusion and interest.

"Are you alright?" Zatanna asked with a shaky voice.

Danny shook the lingering pieces of memories away and gave her a sad smile, "Yeah I'm fine." Then proceeded, except with more caution, to pick up the plate pieces. At least until a green hand stopped his by setting it gently on top of it.

He looked up to see Megan again, "Who wasn't there, Danny? Tell us what's wrong. What did you see?"

Danny quickly swallowed a lump in his throat and said while throwing the glass pieces away.

"Was it your sister again?" Megan asked softly.

Danny nodded his head, but remained silent.

"Now it makes sense," he heard Connor say, now relaxing and sitting back in his seat.

The present Team members looked on in confusion.

"What makes sense?" Artemis, Wally, and Bart all asked at once, voicing everyone's thoughts.

Danny turned to see Connor explain, "His older sister, Jazz, used to call him 'baby or little brother'. But when he was- having trouble at home- she wasn't there to stop the constant arguments from starting."

He turned to Zatanna to see her nod her head in understandment, "So when I called you 'baby brother', it made you think of her?"

He smiled sadly again and nodded, then turned around and washed off his hand, before returning to cleaning the dishes.

"I'm sorry Danny I didn't mean to-"

"It's fine Zatanna," he interrupted rather quickly, "Seriously, it is... I just wasn't expecting it and I didn't expect any visions or flashbacks to come back either. You're fine, I promise."

She smiled sadly and nodded, probably knowing that, that was the end of that conversation.

"So..." he heard Wally say, "who's up for a little cleaning up?"

Everyone smiled and smirked at each other.

*Everyone's POV*

The Team (or at least who was present) had just finished their cleaning wars and were now headed for the training room.

Cleaning wars was basically an idea Wally and Dick came up with a while back to make cleaning the Cave a little bit more interesting. It's when everyone is split into different teams and assigned to clean certain parts of the Cave. The objective of the 'war' is to finish all the chores and cleaning the assigned places the fastest and most efficiently. Which ever team finishes this task first, earns bragging rights and early 'release' time (going home early if there were no missions).

Gar and Impulse had won again and were smiling the entire time they walked to the training room.

As they entered the training room, Danny tensed slightly, and the happy chatter around him ended as the Team stared at the adults and two teen occupants standing in the middle of the room. Among the adults were Black Canary, Superman, Batman, Flash, and surprisingly Green Lantern (Hal Jordan). Nightwing and Robin stood off to the side of them with emotionless expressions.

Canary noticed Danny's reaction to the amount of Leaguers and calmly raised her hand as if to say there was nothing to be afraid of. She noticed Danny relax slightly, but still remained on edge. Noticing his odd behavior, she sent a look towards Megan and Connor, who in turn mouthed the words, 'vision' and 'flashbacks'. She nodded her head in understanding, but inwardly sighed as she thought of the unpleasant 'talk' she'd have to have with Danny later.

Aqualad was the first to break the long silence, "To what do we owe the honor of the present Leaguers?"

Superman smiled and stepped forward, "There's no need for formalities Aqualad. We're actually here to see Danny."

At the sound of his name, Danny's attention was fully on the Leaguers and was once again tense.

Superman frowned a bit at his reaction at glanced at Canary, who in turn gave him a look that said, 'I'll tell you later.' He quickly turned his attention back to Danny and explained reassuringly, "It's alright Danny, Batman and I came to see the progress with your training and just to see how you doing with the Team in general. It has been one year after all, and we haven't checked in with you since two months ago."

Danny winced as he understood what Superman was referring to, but nodded in understanding all the same.

The Team of course walked closer to the Leaguers and their fellow teammates as Superman said all of this.

Flashed walked forward and stuck out his hand towards Danny with a smirk on his face. "I tagged along because simply because we haven't been able to formally meet yet. Sure we've been able to meet during combat and fought together for about ten minutes, but it's still not the same. Also I came because I was kind of curious to see you when not in action."

Danny shook Flash's hand for a moment and then brought his attention back to the other Leaguers.

This time Green Lantern stepped up, "I came along just to see the amount of skills you have, sorry for sounding so critical."

Danny shook his hand and replied with, "I don't really mind."

Canary cleared her throat and everyone's attention was directed at her. "Team, except Danny, could you please move away from the sparring area and stand over near the opposite wall."

The Team did as she asked and Batman finally decided to speak up, "You'll be facing Robin and then Nightwing for your first round."

The League members then walked over close to the Team and waited for the match to start.

Flash rose an eyebrow at Beast Boy and Impulse who were having a quiet conversation.

"3 minutes for Robin," Impulse stated.

"Less than one," Beast Boy replied back with a smile.

"What are you kids doing?" Flash asked.

Beast Boy and Impulse both smirked and Beast Boy answered back, "Betting on how long it will take for Danny to beat Robin."

Flash raised both eyebrows at that and then turned his attention back towards the center of the room.

Canary turned to Batman and he gave a short nod, then she turned back to Danny saying, "Alright Danny, for now, while you're going against Robin and Nightwing, no powers alright?"

Danny nodded in confirmation and then turned towards Robin, both getting into a fighting stance.

"GO!"

Danny and Robin circled each other for a couple seconds, one waiting on the other, but in the end Robin finally decided to make the first move.

(A/N: Please note that this is all going on very quickly, I'm simply describing on what exactly is happening.)

Robin lunged forward and sent a punch towards Danny's face, but the latter side stepped and blocked with his forearm, pushing the arm away, causing Robin to show his back.

But he quickly swung around sent a roundhouse kick towards Danny. Danny ducked and swung his leg out all in one swift movement, kicking Robin's legs out from under him. Robin quickly rolled and jumped back up and then ran up close to get in a few punches. Danny blocked and pushed away most of the punches (others briefly hitting his arms and shoulders), Robin then sent another kick his way, but Danny flipped backwards and pretended to try and send a punch towards the other's right side. Robin fell for it and Danny quickly and efficiently switched legs for balance and roadhouse kicked Robin on his left side, sending the latter tumbling down onto the ground. Danny in a swift movement flipped and landed above Robin, holding the latter's arm behind their back and keeping it there, rendering the other immobile.

"Match end!" Canary announced.

Danny let go of Robin and offered him his hand. The other took it and Danny helped him up, both smiling as they did so.

Flash stood there dumbfounded, "D-did he just take down Robin?"

Over to his right he heard Beast Boy say, "Ha! I win! You owe me a bag of chips!" Followed by a groan, which Flash could only guess was Impulse.

Hal turned to the other Leaguers and said, "So far, I'm not entirely impressed. Stewart told me that the boy was both resourceful and powerful, and as of right now, I'm not seeing any of that."

Superman simply smiled and said, "I think you'd be surprised at what this kid can do, I wouldn't underestimate him if I were you."

Hal simply crossed his arms and leaned against the wall behind him, his attention now back towards the center of the room.

"Alright, Nightwing, you're aloud to use your Eskrima sticks for this fight. Danny you are only allowed to use advanced speed. Nightwing?" "Ready." "Danny?" "Ready." "Go!"

Nightwing lunged forward with his Eskrima sticks already in hand. Nightwing swung left and Danny dodged, swung right, dodge. Nightwing continued this for a short time before jumping up and swinging his foot around for a kick. Danny caught the other's ankle and swung it away from him. Nightwing landed then went forward and began to expertly swing his Eskrima Sticks towards Danny. The other was hit a couple times (not much different than the match with Robin), but still managed to dodge most of Nightwing's attacks.

"Why isn't he going offensive? I also noticed that he did that to Robin as well," Superman pointed out.

Canary turned to Superman and explained, "Danny may be able to fight supernatural beings and meta-humans, but that doesn't mean that he likes to fight humans. In fact, he tries to avoid fighting humans if he can."

"What? Why?" Flash asked.

Canary turned towards him, "Because in his past dimension, even though people treated him differently and rejected him, he never wished to harm anyone. He was used to fighting ghosts and only ghosts. His town hated him already, and he was afraid that if he fought humans or accidently harmed one of them, their hatred for him would just grow."

The Leaguers seemed to be surprised at this and Green Lantern asked, "Then how are you able to send him on missions?"

Batman answered this time, "He has been sent on both recon missions and infiltration missions. If a fight was to occur during these, he always tried to fight either super-villains or humans with armor on, such as Sportsmaster."

Nightwing stopped his now pointless attacks and looked over at the Leaguers (mainly Batman). In turn Batman narrowed his eyes and turned to Canary, "He has to if we want to see the complete results of his training so far."

Canary sighed and looked over at the two opponents, "He's not going to like it, not one bit."

Batman simply remained silent and Canary sighed in defeat and turned to Nightwing and nodded.

In turn Nightwing nodded back and got back into his fighting stance. He lunged at Danny and started to throw punches this time before saying, "I'm really sorry about this Phantom!" Danny's eyes widened as Nightwing turned on the electricity on his Eskrima sticks. Realizing what he was about to do, Danny moved backwards and exclaimed, "Nightwing don't!"

"Look out!"

Phantom pushed Nightwing out of the way of the blade of a sword, before turning and knocking the armored man unconscious with a solid kick to the head.

He felt a SLAP! and turned, rubbing the back of his head, and smiled nervously at Nightwing. But said person was not smiling, nor amused.

"You could've gotten yourself killed!"

"But I didn't-"

"I had it handled Phantom, there was no need for you to jump in."

Phantom dropped his hand to his arm and rubbed it nervously.

"But hey..."

Phantom looked up to see Nightwing sighing and then gave him a small smile.

"Thanks for the save anyways..."

The other smiled back and said, "What are friends for?"

Nightwing lunged and swung the left eskrima stick at Danny, the latter raised his arm to block it, but electricity crackled as it hit against his skin and Danny hissed in pain as he was forced to flip backwards and away from the other. Nightwing began to attack again, causing Danny to block a few more blows, but was now starting to get effected by the electricity and slowing down. Danny was sent flying back as Nightwing swung his leg around and kicked him away, boot also crackling with energy. He stood up and stared at his opponent, the latter dashing forward straight towards him. But Danny had, had enough-

"Dang it Nightwing!" he exclaimed with annoyance and slight fear in his voice.

Danny finally decided to go offensive and Green Lantern's eyes went wide (dropping his arms from being crossed and pushed himself off the wall) as well as Flash, and some of the Team.

Danny sent a punch one way but tricked Nightwing and then used his upper body strength and speed to switch tactics and kick him in the side of his leg. Nightwing quickly recovered and started sending his own punches and kicks. Danny cartwheeled to the side and began to throw punches most of which Nightwing deflected, but others landed a hit. Finally Nightwing swung a huge punch towards him, but Danny swung his body to the right, making Nightwing's side an opening target. With inhuman speed, Danny twisted his body and swung his leg around, kicking the other square in the chest, knocking the wind out of Nightwing, wrapped his arm around the other's shoulders, and thus causing him to push Nightwing down with his built up momentum. Danny landed with one knee on Nightwing's chest, an elbow at the other's throat and the other hand holding down his left shoulder. Nightwing tried to wrap his legs around the other's neck, but Danny saw it coming and quickly swung his other leg around (the one not holding Nightwing down) and back kicked the other's legs; causing them to fall back onto the ground (most likely bruised in the area the kick landed) and thus ending the match.

Nightwing was panting/gasping, slowly getting the air back into his lungs, from the wind being knocked out of them. He was also sweating slightly on his forehead. But Danny wasn't exactly in that great of a shape either. He had burn marks and minor bruises on his arms and a large burn mark on his shirt. Danny was panting as well, just not as bad or as long as Nightwing.

The Leaguers and the Team, were all staring in amazement and shocked at the events that had just occurred.

Luckily Canary snapped out of it quickly and exclaimed, "Match and round end!"

By the announcement of these words, Danny was finally allowed to get off of Nightwing. He stood up and held a hand out for Nightwing. The other just stared at him for a moment, now simply panting, but then gave a small smile and took the other's hand, allowing Danny to help him up. Nightwing swayed a little bit, but immediately just shook it off and walked slowly over to where Robin was.

"I must admit, that was kind of impressive," Green Lantern stated with wide eyes.

Canary only frowned and walked over to Danny and put a hand on his shoulder, "Are you alright? We don't have to continue if you don't want to..."

'She did NOT just seriously ask me that...'

Danny simply frowned and said, "Just like how I had the choice to fight back or not? I've fought before, and I know for a fact that defense isn't always the best offense. That's why I had planned on just tiring Nightwing out, to have him have to keep up with me, and then take him down. Yes, the fight would've been longer, but at least we would've come out of it with less damage... As for your question, I'd rather just get this over with, so that way I'm not forced into fighting again."

The Team was mildly surprised, while the Leaguers were almost completely dumb struck at hearing what the boy's tactics would've been if they would've let the fight carry on.

Canary frowned but nodded and turned around to the others, "Aqualad? Super-"

"I would like to face him, if that's alright with you."

Everyone turned towards Green Lantern with surprised looks.

"What? If the kid accepts, then yes, I am willing to have a match with him."

Flash put his hands on his hips and stated, "Yeah right! The only reason you want to go against the kid is because you've heard how powerful he is."

"Actually I want to see if the kid can handle in a fight against me," Hal said matter-of-factly.

Flash simply rolled his eyes at Hal's comment and kept quiet. (Wow, thats a first.. -.-')

But his apprentice had a different idea, "Hey that's not fair! Danny's not even at full strength anymore! Even with his advanced healing, it's not like he can fight right away!"

Green Lantern shrugged at Kid Flash's reaction and turned his attention to Danny, "Well what do you say?"

Danny had long finished panting and his burns were already starting to clear up. He thought about it for a moment, looking to Canary for her opinion. "This is your fight not mine." Danny looked back to Lantern and said after a moments hesitation, "This fight will have to be indoors, so no big stunts. Flight is limited to 8 feet off the ground, advanced speed and strength is allowed. Minor explosions will be allowed, but limited to a two foot detonation radius."

The Team all had surprised looks on their faces, completely shocked that he was going through with this. The Leaguers were mildly surprised, Flash could be considered down right dumbstruck, but otherwise were calm and agreeable to the set conditions.

"Alright kid, so I was told you don't like to fight humans. You are aware that I am a human?"

Danny nodded and deadpanned, "But the ring that the Green Lantern Corps had given you, Hal Jordan, and John Stewart, grants the wearer incredible and incomprehensible powers and abilities by harnessing willpower. They are considered by some to be the most powerful weapons in the known universe. Depending on the skill and willpower of the wearer, it can do almost anything."

Hal's eyes went wide and he scrabbled for words, "What-Wh-HOW?!"

Danny crossed his arms and said (still deadpan), "If I was going to live in this new dimension, I would have to study the history behind it as well. Heroes, villains, and civilians alike."

Hal began to compose himself again, "Good, but just know that just because you study the history of this dimension and its inhabitants, doesn't necessarily give you an edge."

Danny smirked and said, "Just like how you had an 'edge' when you tried to team up with Guy Gardner?"

Some of the Team members smiled and were trying to not laugh at Danny's comeback.

"Alright! I think that's enough chit chat, go ahead and get ready to start and be sure to not hold back," Lantern declared with a slightly upset look.

Danny raised an eyebrow and replied back smartly with, "Unless you want to explain to the locals why Mount Justice suddenly went up in smoke, I'd advise you to NOT say that again..."

Gar, Impulse and Flash gulped at the thought, but Gar and Impulse shared a look remembering a previous mission and they remembered very vividly why you shouldn't underestimate Danny.

Canary turned to everyone else and said, "Alright everyone back up near the opposite wall please, so we can give them space."

Everyone obeyed and went to the opposite side of the room near the wall, some against it.

Danny turned to Lantern who was cracking his knuckles and stood in the center of the room.

Lantern gave him an expecting look and Danny rolled his eyes at him. Danny closed his eyes and reached for the cold feeling within him. His eyes shot open and the glowing transformation rings appeared around his waist. Lantern's eyes widened slightly as the rings traveled in opposite directions and turned his white shirt and blue jogging pants into a black and white hazmat suit. The rings passed over his head, changing his raven hair to snow white, and his eyes from icey-blue to neon toxic green. Lantern stared at the transformed kid in front of him and couldn't seem to find words.

Danny ignored his reaction and went into a battle stance.

Meanwhile, Superman leaned over to Batman and whispered, "Have you found out anything that could possibly disrupt Phantom's powers? Or maybe even weaken him?"

Without turning, Batman crossed his arms, narrowed his eyes and answered back, "I've discovered multiple things that can weaken him to a certain point, but not long lasting or very effective if it came down to mind control or something similar. Electrocution does a number on him, but not enough to keep him down for awhile..."

Lantern snapped out of it and he too was about to get into a fighting stance, when we he noticed something off. Danny was in a different fighting position than when he had fought Bat's kids. Lantern quickly came up with a theory in his head then decided to let it go and just focus on the fight.

Canary stepped a little closer to them and turned to each person, before looking at Danny one more time, "Are you sure about this?"

Phantom only nodded in response and Canary sighed before raising her hand and swinging down, "Go!"

Green Lantern shot forward and sent a punch towards Phantom, the latter simply caught the other's fist, causing his eyes to widen again. The teen knew better than to smirk, and simply turned and kicked Green Lantern in the chest, sending him flying backwards. Lantern quickly recovered and landed on his feet, now staring at the neon focused green eyes. 'He didn't even flinch!' Hal growled slightly as he stood up straight. He lunged forwards again and threw multiple punches again, but the ghost simply remained passive and blocked and dodged all of the punches. Hal went in for a huge kick, but Phantom flipped and slid backwards. "Not fighting again kid?! Come on! Give me something to work with!"

Phantom remained passive, not responding to Lantern and continued to stand in the same place as he did when they started. 'Looks like I'll have to bring out the big guns anyways,' Hal thought.

GL (I'm calling Hal that for the rest of this fight) floated off of the ground slightly and raised his hand over his head. A large green anvil formed above his head and he swung his arm down, the anvil following his movements. The anvil swung towards Phantom and the latter quickly formed a green dome shield around himself. The anvil bounced off of the shield and dropped to the ground. It disappeared in a green light back into Lantern's ring. GL pulled back his arms and a baseball bat formed in the next to him, he swung his arms and the bat hurdled towards Phantom. "Batter-up!"

Phantom quickly jumped up into the air, over the bat, and remained floating there.

GL groaned and exclaimed, "Look Phantom, I wanted to fight you to see how strong you were! I can't do that if you stand around like a statue all day!"

Phantom narrowed his eyes and stated simply, "Fine."

He disappeared.

GL blinked in surprise and looked around, "Where'd 'e go?"

Suddenly GL was flown into the ground by an unseen force. He chuckled while standing back up, "Very funny kid, absolutely hilarious..."

He searched for the white haired teen, but still couldn't find him. 'Invisibility... right. Forgot about that...' This time he searched for a disturbance in the air, but couldn't find anything. 'Oh he's good...'

Out of nowhere he felt a kick to his side and a punch to the face. GL rubbed his jaw bone as he looked at the area he thought Phantom was at. It wasn't until a green beam shot towards him, did he confirm his theory. He quickly dodged the attack and sent a barrage of rays in that area and with a satisfying 'thump', he smiled as Phantom was flickering in and out of the visible spectrum pulling himself off the ground.

GL chuckled and said, "Sorry kid, but it's going to take alot more than-ACK!"

Phantom had lunged and GL was now trying to dodge green punches being thrown at him. He grabbed one of the ghost's arms and tossed him in the opposite direction. The other recovered with inhuman speed and flipped himself in the air and threw a green energy disk at GL, successfully hitting him and causing a mini explosion. The mini explosion threw GL into the air, tumbling and then hitting the nearby wall, causing it have a small web design.

GL stood up and said with amusement clear in is voice, "Alright then, Now we're getting somewhere!"

GL's body glowed brighter and floated up into the air. He swung a large fist at the ghost teen, who in turn turned intangible. But as the fist passed through him, Phantom felt a sting like that of electricity in his left side and as soon as the fist was gone, the teen had to release his intangibility, he stumbled back some, gasping. Phantom saw Canary step forwards but he held up a hand, "I'm fine." She nodded and backed up again, but not without the look of worry still on her face.

Batman raised an eyebrow at this, but remained silent.

Phantom turned back to GL and took a deep breath, then shot an ecto-beam at him. GL formed a shield and the ecto-beam dissipated. Phantom flew through the air towards GL and they started a hand-to-hand combat mid-air. GL sent a right-hook but the teen ducked and sent an upper-cut, GL floated slightly backwards, but Phantom didn't let up. He roundhouse kicked(ecto-infused) him in the side and then shot an ecto-beam at his back, causing the other to land on his stomach.

Phantom gave a quick look to his Team. Some of his friends cheered, other's smiled or put a thumb's up. When a voice rang out, "Fire in the hole!"

But the ghost was too late to turn back around, because a green energy gun had appeared and fired a beam of light, and it hit him square in the chest. He crashed into the nearby wall, and pieces of the wall itself fell ontop of him. The debree sent up a small could of dust, and as the dust slightly cleared, everyone noticed that Phantom wasn't moving.

GL looked towards the Team to see them with shocked and worried faces. Flash, Canary, and even Superman were surprised. Some of the Team and Canary were about to dash over to him, but stopped when Phantom started moving again. He stood up slowly and with a slight wobble. His snow white hair covered his eyes, hiding any sort of emotion from the people presently watching.

GL laughed and said, "Well then, up already? Come on! Surrender kid, you can´t possibly win!"

(Disclaimer: Sorry to interrupt, but this is very close to actual dialogue which is, "Surrender child, you can't possibly win!")

That's when something inside of Phantom snapped.

Everyone's eyes widened as Phantom's green aura flared up to almost two feet long.

Batman's belt beeped rapidly, and he quickly took out a small device and read it. He tried to stay calm, recognizing the signs from before, as he said, "Everyone needs to back up now!"

They turned to him and someone asked why. He turned to them and exclaimed, "Now! His energy readings are spiking! We need to move now!"

They quickly followed orders and moved as far away as possible, still watching the now glowing brighter Phantom.

Phantom looked up and some people gasped. His eyes were now fully green and glowing brightly, his face itself was twisted in rage.

"PaRiAH DArK!"

Everyone felt chills run down their spines at the sound of Phantom's voice, it had a haunting and just over-all chilling effect on everyone.

"I'M GoiNg To PUt yOu BaCK in THaT foRSaKEn SArcOPhAgUS, so YOu CAn RoT IN ThE DaRKeST PaRtS oF THE GhOst zOnE IN it!"

Batman narrowed his eyes and turned to Canary. She all she did was cover her mouth in surprise and then turned to Superboy. Superboy looked on with wide eyes, but saw Black Canary and the question implied. "H-he's re-living the past! I don't think he's with us right now! We need to snap him out of it!"

Canary turned back to Batman and was about to agree with Superboy, but the Caped Crusader only held up his hand and said, "Hold on... Let's see what he does..."

Superboy turned to Batman and exclaimed, "What?! We need to stop him now! Before he ends up hurting Green Lantern! Along with HIMSELF!"

Batman simply glared at Superboy and said back with ice in his words, "That's an order."

Superboy glared back but then huffed and stomped over to Miss Martian who looked as though she was about to have a heart attack.

Back at the scene, GL was internally confused, but he wasn't about to back down. He got into a fighting stance and said cockily, "Give me your best shot!"

Phantom growled and planted his feet to the ground. He remained in place as he shot white/green energy beam at GL. The latter put up a shield, but began to noticed that is was cracking, he quickly used his ring to form a small catapult and dropped the shield. The last two beams were caught in the catapult and launched back to Phantom. They seemed to hit an invisible shield as they suddenly were torn apart and the white/green beams circled around him before they were absorbed.

GL's eyes widened and he stepped back, completely unaware that he had that kind of power.

Phantom narrowed his fully green eyes as he said, "TiME tO eNd YoUr gAMeS PaRiAH! YoUr REign ENdEd ceNtRiES AgO!"

Phantom took a deep breath and Canary's eyes widened in fear as both she and Batman realized what was going to happen. In sync the two adult heroes exclaimed, "COVER YOUR EARS!"

Everyone quickly covered their ears, just in time too, for what happened next, no one but Black Canary and Batman expected it.

Phantom let out an ear-splitting scream. It sounded as though thousands of souls were being tortured all at once, screaming for the pain to end. The wail was so powerful that it came out in green sound waves. GL used the ring to form a shield, but the wail became too powerful and the shield shattered and the waves flung GL backwards into the wall, creating a large webbed crater, and GL stuck in the crater as the waves kept coming. The entire room shook, and undoubtedly the entire mountain. Eventually the scream stopped and the room stopped shaking. GL fell to the ground, groaning but not getting up. Phantom was trying to regain his breath and looked completely exhausted and on the verge of collapsing.

Everyone let go of their ears and now stared awestruck at the teen hero. Though Batman had a look of disappointment and anger displayed on his face.

Phantom looked up at GL and then back at the Team, 'Great... now I... have to...explain why...I've kept that power a secret. Well at least Batman and Canary already knew...'

That's when his advanced hearing picked up a cracking noise. He turned and saw the ceiling above GL beginning to crack and break. And GL was only just now beginning to stand up. Phantom quickly dashed over to him and shoved GL out of the way, just as the rubble fell on top of him. GL was in shock and confusion as he stared at the now covered with heavy pieces of rubble Phantom. The rubble had fallen on top of Phantom while his back was up, so now he was laying on his stomach and his white hair was full of gray and tan dust. His face and arms had minor cuts and there were only a few bruises, but what scared GL was that he wasn't moving nor making any sound at all.

Green Lantern was speechless as the Team ran over to them and Superman and Flash helped him onto his feet. They asked if he was okay, and he kept telling them that he has fine.

Superboy and Aqualad began to un-bury Phantom from all the rubble and eventually finished and everyone was now able to see the minor cuts and bruises on his body.

Canary and Miss Martian quickly bent down next to him and examined all his injuries. Canary turned to Batman saying, "Only minor cuts and bruises he should be fine."

Batman nodded and bent down to examine the damage as well, when he noticed something. He scooted over to the ghost's side and looked over a large dark green and black streak near his rib cage. Before he could further examine it, Superman put a hand on his shoulder, "Something's wrong..."

Impulse stepped forward and asked, "Yeah... why hasn't Phantom changed back yet?"

Everyone on the team exchanged worried looks, but Superman interrupted them, "No not that... I-I can't hear a heartbeat..."

The Team turned to Superman as though he had grown a second head or was just a complete idiot.

Batman quickly bent back down over Phantom and put two fingers on his neck, then to his wrist. "He doesn't have a pulse either..." Then he stood back up.

The Team then also sent the same look at Batman. But before anyone on the Team could explain-

Phantom gasped and everyone had to catch themselves as they were startled (except Beast Boy, he actually fell back in surprise). He started to cough a little as dust flew around from the sudden movement.

Some were able to recompose themselves as others just stared in amazement.

Phantom had stopped coughing and was now just trying to catch his breath. His muscles ached and he felt as though he was about to pass out (again).

'Ugh... Did anyone get the plate of the truck that hit me?'

Canary bent down in front of the white-haired teen, so he would be able to see her, and asked with concern in her voice, "Are you alright Danny?"

He didn't have the energy to talk, so he just nodded.

Her eyebrows furrowed and she said with the same tone, "Danny...your heart stopped. You had absolutely no pulse or heartbeat..."

Phantom furrowed his eyebrows at this and then finally processed what she was saying and chuckled.

The Leaguers just looked on with confusion and some (Flash) thought he was going insane.

The white-haired teen stopped laughing and explained in a low voice, "How... dense... are you people? I'm... a ghost... remember?"

Sudden realization dawned on all of the adults, but Flash was still really confused. "But, you can't just die and un-die when you tranform?!"

Danny laughed softly but didn't say anything else as he began to focus on just trying to stay conscious.

Canary looked worriedly at him but then turned to the other Leaguers, "What do you want to do?"

Batman silently walked over to Phantom again (behind him where he couldn't see him). He bent down and looked over the large dark green and black streak/wound again. "Do you know what this is injury is or how you got it?"

Phantom remained silent nor acknowledged that he had even heard Batman.

Batman looked back at the wound and wanted to further examine it. He just barely grazed it when Phantom yelped in pain as green arcs of lighting raced across his body for a few seconds. When the lightning dissappeared Phantom was left breathing shakily.

Batman turned and looked to the other Leaguers. "We need to take him to the infirmary...the wound isn't too bad, but I would like to examine it more."

Phantom heard this and began to try to lift himself up, but someone gently forced him back down with their hand. The ghost groaned in protest but the hand wouldn't let him up. "Stay down Phantom. Superboy, Aqualad. Take him to the infirmary, we'll be there in a minute."

They both nodded and Superboy half- carried Phantom while Aqualad stayed beside him, just in case he needed any assistance.

Batman looked at Superman and the latter nodded in understandment. Superman turned to the rest of the Team and told them to go and relax, and that training was canceled. As they were leaving Beast Boy turned to GL and asked, "Will you and Phantom be alright?"

GL looked surprised at the question but quickly answered, "Uh yeah of course, we'll both be fine..."

Beast Boy gave him a small smile and ran off to catch up with the others.

Batman turned to Superman and the other asked, "What did you want to talk about?"

Batman crossed his arms. "The fact that when Green Lantern said something, that set Phantom off. He thought that he was fighting someone else instead of Lantern."

All the present Leaguers nodded in agreement but Canary was the one to speak, "We have to be careful when we start asking him questions. Especially about this 'Pariah Dark'. He never mentioned anyone by that name in any of our sessions."

"Well its not like they were exactly buddies," GL stated sarcastically.

Batman ignored that comment and said, "We also need to see what's causing these sudden flashbacks and visions. That is what you wanted to talk about isn't it Canary?"

Canary nodded her head, "Yes. When the Team came in I automatically noticed that something was slightly off about Danny."

Superman nodded in agreement, "Yeah, I noticed it too."

Canary looked back at Batman and continued, "So when I looked at M'gann and Conner for insight, they just mouthed the words, 'visions' and 'flashbacks'. But that's what confused me... Danny's had visions and flashes of his past before, when he had first gotten here, but after that they just seemed to disappear."

The Leaguers all began to think this information over, when Flash decided to ask a question, "What do you mean by 'visions'?"

Batman decided to answer for her, "'Visions' is actually a code word we use so we don't cause any unnessecary panic or have the younger Team members worrying. When we say 'visions' we actually mean 'hallucinations'."

Superman, Flash, and Green Lantern's eyes went wide at this. "He used to have what?!" Flash exclaimed in disbelief.

Canary sighed as she began to explain, "It's not exactly hallucinations, but definitely something like it. From past sessions and 'talks' with Danny, Batman and I have come up with the conclusion that it may be a result of bad times, or-" Canary hesitated and the other Leaguers noticed. "Or what?" GL asked. Canary took a calming breath before finishing, "Or it could be a result of PTSD."

Everyone but Batman blinked at her and an awkward silence lasted for a good time, before GL spoke up again.

"Wait. Hold up. You think, that a sixteen year old kid, who hasn't even graduated High School yet, has PTSD?" he asked incredibly.

"Actually... that would help explain a lot of things."

Everyone's attention turned towards Superman, who seemed to be in deep thought.

"How so?" Flash asked.

"Well, think about it. He always makes sure he's constantly aware of his surroundings, he's constantly looking for a deeper message when told something, and he's always been pretty tense around large crowds or new people."

Everyone thought this over and ultimately agreed that it did actually explain a lot of the mysteries behind Danny.

The Leaguers seemed to think about this for a second before GL spoke up, "Look, the thing is, I shouldn't have provoked him like that. I simply wanted to see how strong the kid was, not completely set him off. And the fact that he was able to still save my sorry butt, is more than enough to impress me."

"What do you think that wound is?" Superman asked Batman.

Batman narrowed his eyes and explained his theory, "I was thinking the same thing earlier, but I have a theory now. During the fight, Green Lantern used his ring to form a fist. But when he attacked, Phantom turned intangible, letting it pass right through him. But I noticed that he stumbled. Sometime when he phased through the fist, the energy of the ring distrupted his powers, causing his intangibility to fail."

"So basically what you're saying is that that wound came from when he was inside of my ring's energy construct?"

Batman shook his head, "What I'm saying is, the energy the ring produces can effect Phantom... which means, we have found a way to distrupt Phantom's powers."

There was a long silence before Flash broke it, "So how does the whole half-ghost thing work out exactly? I'm still having a hard time processing this."

Superman only turned to him and said, "I guess that's something you'll have to ask yourself..."

The Leaguers all turned and began to walk towards the infirmary, ready to ask questions and hopefully recieve answers.

TA-DA!

Okay yeah, I'm sooo tired. But luckily I finished this chapter! YAY!

Anways... I only have two things to say.

1.) I am not a martial artist, no have I ever been. So please understand that I tried to the best of my ability to describe the fight scenes. I do not really know alot of fighting techniques nor names and I honestly and truthfully just looked up different fighting scenes for Robin, Nightwing, and some what Green Lantern. (Also I watch alot of action movies, so there's that too.) I'm sorry for those that wished the fights were more detailed, but again I tried to do my best.

2.) Silver has talked to me and we both would like to give you guys a little challenge. If you can correctly guess our genders (preferably PMing us your guesses) we will grant the winner of selecting a character from the Young Justice series (heroes preferably) and for their appearance to be in the next chapter! So please hurry because the next chapter is already being worked on!

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