-Chapter 3: Don't Lose Control-

After everyone finished their breakfast, they all went downstairs to the lowest level of the tower, where the training room is. The color of the walls were dark and metallic. The rest of the room, which is 50' by 50', was high-tech. The center floor, about 15' by 20', was lit up and has a grid pattern because that is where the holograms would appear from. At the far end of the entrance was a computer module and above on the wall is a monitor, which displays the progress of a person compared to the last time they've trained. Everyone except Danny walked over to the module and stood there to watch him.

Starfire started typing on the module and Danny's entry appeared on the monitor.

"Ok, Danny, just stand in the center and you can begin showing us what you can do. Holograms of men with varieties of weapons will start to appear. Just picture them as enemy robots. Don't hold back. Their weapons will range from blades to projectiles. As for receiving and dealing damage, the holograms will feel real to you, but the damage you receive will barely feel like an ant bite, but that's if it's on easy mode. Medium will feel like a sting and hard would be the real thing, unless it's a kill shot," she said.

"Set the holograms to hard, please." Danny asked and everyone looked at each other.

"Are you sure about this?" Starfire asked, and Danny nodded.

"I'm positive."

"Ok then. Raven, be prepared if someone goes wrong." She said and Raven nodded.

Starfire punched a few keys and about five holograms appeared. They look like realistic human robots wearing cybernetic armor.

"For each hologram you destroy, two more will appear until it reaches a maximum of fifteen," she said, "Begin."

In an instant, light shined around Danny's left hand and a white pistol appeared. He fired bullets of light at the only two projective holograms in the head, killing them instantly. He just barely dodged the sword of one that came charging at him then kicked it away. The gun disappeared from his hand and darkness flowed around his right, extending and solidifying into a black scythe. The Titans were amazed by his performance as he cut down the closest clone in half. One came from behind him, and he was slow to react. It swung down its sword and left a semi-deep gash in his back. He growled and pushed it away with the staff end of his scythe, then quickly swung his scythe to cut off its head. By now, there are 9 holograms and they surrounded Danny. Four of them have either a sword or knife, three of them were either bare fists or had knuckle bracelets, and the last two had guns: one with dual pistols and the other with an assault rifle. The ones with the guns started shooting at him, but Danny made a wall of darkness appear to shield him while he dealt with the others. One with a sword charged at him, so he swung his scythe to deflect the sword then held out his hand and fired an energy blast of light at its chest, killing it. One with a knife had stabbed him in the leg and he winced in pain. He elbowed it in the face then stabbed his scythe through its chest. He took the knife out and threw it at the hologram with the assault rifle, impaling it in the head and killing it. Now, the holograms were at their max, 15 in total. The one with the dual pistols ran while shooting him, and Danny got shot in the shoulder. He held his arm in pain and the holograms with bare fists and knuckle bracelets surrounded him and started beating and kicking him.

Starfire was about to stop the holograms and Raven was about to go heal him, but then Danny let loose a wave of dark and light, pushing the holograms back. Danny was bleeding from the gash in his back, stab wound in the leg, bullet wound in the shoulder, and was bleeding from his head and a bit from his mouth due to the beating. His hood was pulled back and how everyone can see what he looks like, and they could see from his eyes that he wanted to end this. He made his scythe disappear and black and white energy flowed roughly around his arms. He extended his hands and fired a big blast of dark and light, blasting down all the holograms until they were all destroyed.

Once they were all destroyed, Starfire stopped the simulation and Raven went over to Danny to heal him, but he held out an open palm, letting her know to stop.

"Don't. I can heal myself." He said as he closed his eyes and started chanting something softly in Ancient Greek.

Black and white energy flowed around him, healing his wounds until they were nothing but scars. When he was done healing, he opened his eyes and almost lost balance from the fatigue. Raven was about to catch him, but Danny caught his balance.

"You ok?" She asked.

"I'll be fine. I just need to go to my room now." He said and pulled his hood back up, covering his hair and eyes again.

"I agree, Danny. You should take a break. You did very well. I'm very impressed with what you could do." Starfire said with a smile, but Danny didn't reply or show any emotion. He just turned around and headed up to his room.

"Wow. Would it kill the guy to smile?" Beast Boy said.

When Danny went up to his room, he closed the door behind him and panted.

"Damn! I almost lost control there. I can't lose control, not again. Too many people will get hurt again if I do." He said to himself, trying to calm himself down.

"Oh crap! I almost forgot." He said and grabbed his backpack.

He rummaged through it and pulled out a syringe filled with a black liquid. He rolled up his sleeve and stabbed the needle into his arm, injecting the liquid into his system. He let out a sigh of relief.

"It would have been bad if I forgot."

He then took the needle out and put it back in his bag. He lied down on his bed and looked up at the ceiling.

"It's been too long since I've had a real home. I just hope nothing bad happens this time." He thought to himself, and before he knew it, his eyes closed from the fatigue and he fell to sleep.

-end of chapter-