Superman's Protégé

Rating: K+

Pairings: Hints of RobStar if you squint

Ages: Robin: 17, Cyborg: 18, Starfire: 17, Raven: 17, Beast Boy: 15, and Danny: 15

Summary: He's far from home and trying to rebuild his sense of family and friendship. Can some people about as strange as him, help Danny find his place?


A giant green gorilla crashed into the villain known as Cinderblock and tried with all his might to knock the monster down. Cinderblock freed one arm long enough to swat the gorilla away, sending it crashing into a building.

"Beast Boy!" Starfire cried out in worry.

Cyborg grit his teeth and fired off several explosive energy blasts at the monster, forcing it to brace itself. Smoke drifted off of Cinderblock before he roared again.

"Azarath Metrion…ZINTHOS!" Raven cried out and encircled the beast with dark magic. It started beating the inside of his prison as everyone regrouped.

"We need a plan to restrain him. Can you bend metal around him again, Cyborg?" Robin asked as Raven continued to concentrate on holding the villain still.

"Yeah, but he has to stay still long enough for me to trap him. He has to be stunned somehow first," Cyborg replied.

"Why is this guy always more complicated than he should be?" Beast Boy groaned.

"I can't… hold him anymore!" Raven shouted, bringing their attention back to the cracking shield. The black magic shattered as Cinderblock let out a roar.

"Titans…" Robin started before a blur raced past and a fist slammed into the side of Cinderblock's head. The beast fell over, surprised.

"Ow ow ow ow… That actually hurt a little… You can't punch without pain like Superman, Danny, duh."

The Titans looked up as the figure before them turned and breathed out a large icy breath, freezing Cinderblock completely solid. "There, hopefully he won't crack when they thaw him out."

Robin narrowed his eyes at the dark hooded figure. "Who are you!?"

The stranger turned and looked at them from under his hood, two piercing green eyes lingering on them. The heroes tensed and Beast Boy seemed spooked before suddenly the figure threw off his hood. "Heya! I'm Danny. Danny Phantom and you're the Teen Titans. Superman told me about you guys."

Robin blinked before relaxing a bit. He'd heard from Bruce not long ago that Superman had randomly taken on a new and strange protégé from what was supposedly another dimension. "Phantom."

"Yep, that's me. Sups and the rest of the League are busy off-world and he said I couldn't come for this one so I'm kinda just doing some random vigilante work. Then I remembered you guys!" Danny grinned, showing two sharp canines amongst his teeth. His suit looked almost organic, with white sections covering his shoulders waist, forearms, and forelegs and black belonging everywhere else. A neon green seemed to illuminate the inside of his hood.

"You're supposed to be a ghost…" Robin murmured.

"Half-ghost. I've still got a ticker and all the other things too. I just kinda… turn them on and off I guess."

"Oh hello!" Starfire expressed flying up next to Danny, making Robin flush with annoyance. Cyborg grinned slyly, Raven of course looked impassive and Beast Boy seemed clueless. "Where did you come from? How did you get here? What's your favorite color? And do you wish to be my friend?"

Danny blinked, before flashing his teeth again with a happy grin. "Well I guess Amity Park, through a portal, green, and why not?"

"Glorious!" Starfire shouted before hugging the halfa tightly.

"Luckily I don't need to breathe in this form." Danny turned to the others and smiled after Starfire was done. "Hey, I'm kinda bored so um… could I hang out with you guys until Sups comes back home?"

"Oh please Robin, let friend Danny come and have the fun times with us!" Starfire asked as the police pulled up.

"Hmmm…"

"I like video games and horror movies…"

Cyborg and Beast Boy perked up and looked over at Robin. Robin groaned. "Fine."

"Yes!" Everyone but Robin and Raven cried out.

zz

"BOO!"

"YAAAAAAAHHHH!" Cyborg cried out when Danny and Beast Boy suddenly appeared in front of him. Beast Boy started rolling on the floor, laughing and Danny was snickering. "Very funny, guys."

"Your face was priceless." Beast Boy faced Danny. "Do you get to pull pranks like that all the time?"

Danny chuckled. "Naw, Superman can see through my invisibility right now, I still give off heat because I'm alive. He thinks I could alter my temperature to match the air though if I practice enough. Then I could prank him!"

"Pranking the Man of Steel? You have a death wish?"

"He's a gentle giant."

"Friend Danny!"

The three boys looked up to see Starfire soaring towards them with some strange plate of well… who knew what.

"I wanted to gift you with the meal of Globorgoft! The meal of friendship!" Starfire expressed happily.

Danny looked at Beast Boy and Cyborg only to see them slicing at their necks. Danny chuckled to himself and looked Starfire in the eyes. "Okay, thanks Starfire."

Cyborg and Beast Boy's mouths dropped open as Danny started to actually eat the unidentified thing on the plate.

"Should I make more?"

"No thanks. I'm full."

"Alright! I will go clean the dishes. See you at movie-time friend Danny!" Starfire then turned and zoomed off.

"DUDE! How are you not choking on your last breaths of air right now!?" Beast Boy shouted in disbelief.

Danny chuckled. "I don't taste anything in ghost form. It's the only sense that's kinda dead in this form. Well… actually I could taste it kinda and it wasn't great, but the ectoplasm in my body and more specifically my gut kinda disintegrates anything thrown in there. I may or may not regret my kindness towards her when I transform into a human later…"

"I am not cleaning that mess up when it happens," Cyborg declared.

Danny shrugged. "What's the worst that could-" Danny paused and then slapped his face with one hand. "Damn it. I jinxed myself."

"You believe in that stuff?" Cyborg asked with a raised brow.

Danny deadpanned. "With everyone else? No. With me? Hell yes."

30 minutes later…

Robin flinched with everyone else outside the bathroom when they heard the human Danny gag for the twentieth time.

"I am so sorry friend Danny. The globstagorf must've gone bad before I made your meal!"

"It's-urk-okay Star. I'm-huck-going to be okay. Watch the movie without me."

"You sure, man? I bought Paranormal Activity for tonight specifically…" Beast Boy whined, sad for his new friend.

"I'd like to but-ergluck-I don't need to leave the bathroom… Stupid jinxes."

"Well if you say so," Robin expressed, feeling bad as well.

"I get over things quick. Maybe I'll turn my stomach intangible… never mind I'd get your floor dirty…"

The Titans cringed at the visual.

"Sorry. Too much info, huh? I forget sometimes-urk-about that."

10 minutes later…

"BOO!"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Four Titans screamed and Raven clutched the couch in a white-knuckled death grip when Danny suddenly appeared beside the group.

"See. Told you I'd be fine." Danny cocked his head to look at the movie before he grinned, his now blue eyes alight. "She'll really regret turning her back."

"Why?" Beast Boy squeaked.

"It's irresistible to most ghosts… That and showers and mirrors…" Danny drawled.

Raven rose a brow. "Please don't make Beast Boy avoid showers. We'd never get the stink out."

"HEY!"

Danny chuckled.

zz

"Welcome home!" Danny called out as Superman landed near the Titans Tower.

"Good to be home." The hero looked at the Titans. "He did behave, right? Not too much irreversible damage?"

"Hey! Don't you believe in me, Sups?" Danny whined.

"He was fine," Robin replied, giving Danny a smile that was heartily returned.

"Good. Ready to go home?" Superman asked.

"Yeah! I've been working on my ice breath ya know."

"Oh have you? I guess we'll have to test it, won't we?" Superman asked as Danny ran up beside him. The Man of Steel mussed Danny's white hair after knocking off his hood. Danny grinned with one eye closed. Robin watched with a bitter-sweet look on his face.

"Bye guys!"

"Here," Robin spoke and tossed something to Danny.

Danny looked over the yellow and black device, confused.

"It's a Titans comm-link. We'll be in touch if need be. You're an honorary Titans in our books."

"Congratulations, Danny." Superman smiled as he saw the light grow in Danny's eyes.

"I'll come visit!"

"Oh please do, friend Danny! I will prepare a better meal next time!"

Danny nodded before Superman took to the sky. Danny leapt into the air, turning his legs into a tail before following his mentor, but not before waving goodbye to his newest friends from this world. His new home.

zz

Superman finished checking on things within the Fortress of Solitude before turning around to find his curious and danger-prone protégé. He enviably heard a crash.

"It wasn't me!"

Superman shook his head as Danny appeared in front of him with a sheepish grin.

"By the way, I finally got you into a Metropolis High School."

"Awwwww… Do I have to? I'm dead! My prospects for jobs diminish to anything that won't do a physical exam on me… including being an astronaut."

Superman frowned at Danny's sudden sadness. "Well, you'll be seeing space one day, so don't worry about that too much. As for a job, you could always work as my assistant at the Daily Planet for a while. I at least want you to finish High School, please."

Danny sighed. "Yes sir."

"Thank you. Let's get home. Lois was worried about you, you know."

"She was?"

"She called me wondering where you'd vanished to and thought you'd followed me."

"Oh… I forgot to warn her…"

"That's alright. My parents are excited to meet you as well."

"They're okay with… me being a ghost?"

"Yes, absolutely. They raised an alien like me. A ghost isn't that far of a stretch, Danny. I know you're used to others not liking you for being you, but things are a bit different here." Superman placed a hand on Danny's shoulder. "You aren't alone."

Danny chuckled before giving his mentor and new father-figure a smile. "Thanks, Clark. Let's get home before Lois has a coronary."

"Agreed."


So yeah. I don't really know what this is. I wanted to write something with Superman being Danny's mentor but I kinda wanted to have the Titans in there somewhere, so I did this… Teen Titans technically do have adult heroes in them, they just aren't mentioned much. So the Justice League here is kinda a general conglomeration of JL alliterations? Idk. So I ended up with a Teen Titans x Justice League x Danny Phantom mix. I like having Teen Titans stories with the League in them in some way anyways.

And Danny's outfit is based off of Promisen's design. I was slightly inspired by her drawing of Danny talking to Robin about joining the Teen Titans.

Oh and I kinda made up the alien words Strafire used… is that okay? Does anyone know if there are particular words to use or if the writers honestly come up with a strange name on the fly?