"I thought we weren't going to eat here." Sam quietly hissed from under her dark purple hood to Danny and Tucker who were both trying hard not to drool over the plates in front of them.

Getting to the homeless shelter was easy, the purple, blue, and black cloaks that Sam had gotten them gave them more then enough cover. More importantly they had made it to the shelter's relatively clean showers with no problem. After a very rigorous bathing process, which had needed more soaping and rinsing then they cared to admit out loud, they had packed up and tried to leave. The key word here being tried.

"Well what was I supposed to do?" Danny exasperated, motioning vaguely to a large heavily perfumed woman who tried her best to show everyone how much she was helping. "She wouldn't leave me alone and kept insisting that I eat something. Then she said that the food was professionally made by a local restaurant..."

"…and that's why I'm here." Tucker said eyes dropping down to the food tantalizingly steaming in front of him. "I know meat Sam. This," he said pointing to large cuts on his plate, "is about as high grade as it's going to get for us. It would be criminal for me to not eat this." Tucker said snickering under his large black hood at his own joke before Danny kicked him under the table.

Sam crossed her arms over her chest as she glared at them, "That's not the point! We have money these people don't. We have to leave what they gave us."

"…but Sam." Tucker started to whine, fork making its way to poke a succulent potato covered in cheese and other spices.

"No buts!" Sam snapped before lowering her voice as others in the mess hall began looking in their direction. "I can't believe you guys. These people get one day to eat like this and you want to take that away from them? How can you be so greedy especially during this holiday?"

Danny and Tucker shared a quick glance before Danny spoke up from under his dark blue hood, "Um, what holiday?"

"You know a holiday where a restaurant would give food to the homeless?" Sam said crossly, "You don't really think a restaurant that has food this fancy would give to the homeless unless they get some holiday publicity, right?"

"Yeah I know that, but what holiday is it?" Danny asked looking around the undecorated, almost bare, room.

Silence fell over them as they tried to think of holiday that would cause a high-end restaurant to go out of its way to help people in need.

"Victory Day?" Sam asked trying to remember the bigger holidays in August.

"Sam, that was on the eleventh. It's the twenty-first now." Danny said pointing to the large calendar displayed on the far wall.

"Arbor Day? That day is becoming bigger every year isn't it?" Tucker asked.

"Arbor Day is in April I should know." Sam said a hitch of worry filling her voice.

"Maybe it's a holiday that only this town celebrates?" Danny suggested weakly.

"If it is then the people here are just as confused as we are." Sam said gesturing to people around them that poked at their food in confusion before eating it all the same.

Tucker quickly grabbed a sandwich off his plate and began sniffing it heedless of the looks the people outside of his table were giving him. Carefully putting the sandwich down he slowly turned to Sam dread growing on his face, "Sam you have been into to town before right? What was the fanciest restaurant here?"

Sam paused thinking it over the town was pretty out of the way but, "It was an Applebee's." She replied her eyes growing wide at the panicked look Tucker gave her.

"Since when did Applebee's start serving quail?" Tucker asked concern heavy in his voice.

They all jumped when the homeless people and the volunteers around them quickly stood up tossing chairs, tables and food on the ground in their hurry to get out of the mess hall. The last person out of the room shut the door hard causing a large bang to fill the room before being followed up by a sharp click.

"Did we just walk into a trap?" Sam asked in to the now silent hall. Her question was answered when the doors and windows exploded out in a shower of wood chips and shattered glass as an army of GIW agents swarmed them, large ecto-guns buzzing dangerously with energy.

"That would be a yes." Danny deadpanned before slugging his bag on, grabbing a hold of Sam and Tucker and transforming in one fluid movement. Two extremely bright rings of light passed over him temporarily blinding the agents as he quickly flew through the ceiling pulling Tucker and Sam with him.

The bright sun drenched them with its heated light as they cleared the building. Danny turned around to look at the hundreds of agents stationed outside of the shelter and the large white planes that buzzed like angry wasps overhead. He would have stayed in that shocked state if Sam hadn't shouted for him to fly. Getting his bearings Danny took them as far away from the shelter as he could before they where stopped by a swarm of white planes that quickly blocked them in.

A hatch opened up on the underside of one of them revealing large speakers as a deep boarding cruel monotone voice addressed them, "Danny Fenton, Sam Mansion, and Tucker Foley you are hereby under arrest by article one under sub-section B of the Guys in White handbook and by the direct orders of the American government. Surrender peacefully now or suffer the consequences, the very painful consequences."

The already stifling air in the outskirts of the desert-like town became heavier as both sides waited for the other to act.

"Just go intangible and fly away, we don't have to fight them." Sam whispered as the ground forces caught up to them dotting the barren landscape with white vans and a poisonous pink glow.

Before Danny could respond their world exploded in a burst of pink light that quickly morphed into a large dome trapping them inside with agents.

"…and now we do. How did they even find us?" Danny asked annoyance thick in his voice.

"Maybe it was because you wouldn't stop floating and giving off ghost energy back at the motel?" Tucker pointed out dryly.

"You saw that room. I wanted to rest and there was no way I was going to touch those sheets or that ground." Danny snapped back, "Maybe they tracked you through your laptop ever thought of that?"

"You keep Sasha out of this!" Tucker replied angrily, "She has everything she needs to avoid detection and is better than anything you have ever owned, but you only see her as is a vessel to play Doom on, don't you!"

"Will you two shut up?" Sam shouted, before saying pointedly to Tucker, "Mostly likely it was a combination of Danny's ecto-signature and your hacking that got us caught."

"Oh and you had no hand in this?" Danny said turning on Sam who glared right back. "You were the one that was walking around town shopping all day! How do you know that no one followed you back?"

"Oh you are so…" Sam trailed off, her eyes widening at the deep and very threatening whirring sound that was quickly approaching them, "Danny watch out!"

Danny dropped in altitude barely dragging them away from the missile that was fired at them.

"Who agrees that we should fight about this later?" Danny said quickly dropping off Sam and Tucker on a relativity open spot on the ground.

"I'm game." Tucker said quickly taking out his P.D.A to begin annoying process that was breaking into the GIW systems.

Sam reached under her cloak to unhooked an eco-blaster from her back as a devious smile spread across her face, "I got a better idea. How about the one who takes down the most guys wins the argument?"

"Oh," Danny said his hands glowing with brightly with green energy, "you are so on!"

They broke apart Sam and Tucker giving each other enough room to maneuver on the ground while Danny went high into the air to directly attack the planes. They spent grueling months training to become a better fighting force then they had ever been in Amity Park, and with each clash with the Guys in White the fruits of their labour was shown to its fullest effect.

On the ground Sam was running around directly fighting the agents that went after her. More than half a year ago she wouldn't have dreamed about fighting like this, in Amity she was always support blasting ghosts whenever she could and running when she couldn't. It wasn't until she had almost lost her head in a fire fight that she started training with ecto-weapons seriously. She danced around the agents gunning to take her out, shooting at the agents that were taken off guard by her forward, almost suicidal, charge. With each shot another agent hit the floor going into a short spasm as the modified weapon's beams took them out of the fight without killing them. She stepped over the fallen bodies and began her newest charge against the next wave of agents.

A short distance away from where Sam was currently mowing down the agents around her Tucker had set up shop, a little slower then he would have liked to. Which would have been bad if he hadn't already put up a shield around himself, courtesy of the many failed inventions that Jack Fenton had thrown out. Much to the amazement of both Danny and Sam he not only made the inventions work, he made them work to perfectly complimented the stationary fighting style he had invented for himself. The shield protected him from the agents and gave him the breathing room he needed to get into the systems of the androids had brought with them. Then he turned the droids on the people who created them. The robots attacked in the most non-lethal way the death bots could picking the agents up and running or flying into the distance before dropping them at a damaging but non-lethal height. Tucker counted each felled agent with a smirk on his face. He was racking up some serious points.

High in the air Danny twisted around the planes that were trying to capture or kill him as he failed to hide the excitement on his face. Just taking out his aggression on the guys who took everything away from them was one of the best feelings he had felt since that day. When the GIW had shown his parents video evidence that he was a half ghost he had expected the worst. He did not expect his mother and father to knock the agents out, quickly help him to pack his bag, then tell him to run. Danny promised them that he would stay alive and come back to them, so that they could yell at him for being stupid enough to think they would ever stop loving him. To him every time he tore the wings of a GIW plane, every time he heard his name on the news, everything he had fought impossible odds and survived, he saw himself getting one step closer to getting back to his family. He couldn't help but get excited as the sky was filled with explosions and safely falling agents threating to end his life.

They made quick work of the agents, and soon the impromptu battlefield was littered with the groaning bodies of the GIW agents and their inventions mangled exoskeletons. Danny landed next to Sam and Tucker who were currently striping the agents and their death bots of anything that could be important.

"You guys find anything good?" Danny asked as he floated over them.

"Just some ammo to restock with." Sam said tossing a newer model of the GIW blaster aside, "I swear it's like they're not even trying anymore. These blasters are way to clunky to be usable it's better to scrap them for parts."

"I have to agree with Sam," Tucker said kicking the head of a robot in frustration, "I've already studied this model. The only thing that upgraded was its encryption, which I cracked." Tucker said a self-satisfying smirk crossing his face.

"Great, so now what?" Danny asked scratching the back of his head. There would be GIW agents in the next town, there always were, and he really didn't want to sleep in a cave again.

"Well you guys could always turn yourselves in." A deep but playful voice suggested from behind them.

Danny, Sam and Tucker jumped into a fighting stance as they faced their newest enemy. Collectively their jaws dropped as they took in the speaker's red and gold suit.

"Dude!" Tucker shouted pointing the golden picture of a lightning bolt that was displayed on the chest of the man in front of them, "You're the Flash!"

The Flash gave them a winning smile, "So you have heard of me then?"

"Of course I've heard of you!" Tucker exclaimed happily not noticing the dawning horror on Danny and Sam's faces. "You're, like, one of the world's biggest heroes! What are you doing way out here?"

"Um, Tucker." Sam said slowly her eyes darting around in paranoia, "Do you remember exactly what the Flash does?"

"Of course I know. He and the Justice League go to different parts of the world and stop dangerous criminals…" Tucker trailed of and took a step away from the smiling man realizing that they were still on the battlefield they had personally devastated, "…oh, snap."

"Hey now don't give me those looks. I just want to talk." The Flash said taking a step forward causing them to take what they quickly realized was a futile step back.

"Yeah and wait for the League to come to backup you up." Sam said her quivering hand traveling to her blaster, as she wondered how the hell was she going to fight the Flash, "No offence but we are not going to wait for that to happen."

Through his mask Flash's eyebrow raised, "What makes you think they're not already here?"

What happened next only lasted for a blink of an eye. The Flash saw Danny reach for Sam and Tucker and ran to grab him only to pass through the half ghost. He turned around just in time to watch Sam and Tucker to disappear along with Danny.

"Well then he is a ghost," The Flash said placing a hand to his ear, "This is the Flash. The Amity Convicts got away from me." He paused, "Well the ghost kid can fly and can apparently make the people he touches intangible, so there's that. Wait, how do you expect me to follow them? Okay, okay I'm on it." The Flash removed his hand, "I swear that guy needs to get laid." His eyes widened in panic at the dark muttering in his ear. He slapped his ear piece off, "And now Batman has it out for me." He sighed and spoke into the empty air or at least what he thought was empty air, "I hope these kids appreciate what we are doing for them."


"Shit, shit, shit!"

"We get it Danny this is really bad. Like really bad." Sam said as the world around them was distorted by the speeds that Danny was reaching.

"I'll say. I forgot to get an autograph!" Tucker said, feeling the glares he knew they were giving him, he quickly defended himself. "Hey I'm just trying to lighten the mood. At least it's more productive than swearing."

"Well then mister productive one, what do you suggest we do?" Sam snapped panic making her voice hitch painfully.

"As I say again, I was just trying to lighten the mood. The Justice League is after us. I'm the meat and tech guy, not the meat, tech, and makes plans to fight the League guy!" Tucker said his voice cracking at his shout.

"Well whatever we do, we need to do it now before they find us." Danny shouted frightfully.

Sam didn't even get the chance to reprimand him for pushing his luck before a bright beam struck Danny causing him to lose his invisibility and fall from the sky. Taking Sam and Tucker with him.

"Dude wake up!" Tucker screamed as they plummeted to the ground, "Dude I do not want to die like this!"

Desperate, Sam grabbed Danny and began smacking him hard across the face. "Wake. Up. You. Idiot!" Sam punctuated each word with a hard slap. Danny's eyes snapped open and upon seeing their situation grabbed both of them and slowed their descent, turning what would have been a definite splat into a rough but survivable landing.

Tucker reacted on instinct grabbing a remote from his backpack. He quickly pushed a button second they stopped bouncing, causing that remote to cast out a steady stream of green light that instantly shielded them in a way that wasn't unlike a ghost shield.

"Ugh," Danny said sitting up with Sam's help, "what hit us?"

"That would be me."

They looked up in shock as a dark figure walked up to the force field, his large black cape making him stand out in the bright blue skied day.

Danny and Tucker were shocked when a girlish scream broke out from Sam.

"Oh my god, it's Batman!" She squealed as she when for her backpack, "You have to sign my map of Gotham!"

"Um, Sam?" Tucker said very wary of the glare the dark knight was giving them. "This isn't the time, remember?"

Sam blinked before quickly zipping her bag shut, "Right, us vs the Justice League. Wait you're Batman. You don't use guns"

"I developed the technology," Batman said as he continued to observe the teens in front of him, "someone else shot it.

"Who?" Danny asked getting on his feet.

"That would be me." The Flash said appearing beside Batman gesturing to the ecto-gun in his hand, "Miss me?"

"No, not really." Danny said as he, Tucker and Sam tensed.

"That's too bad I thought we were really hitting it off." The Flash said before raising the ecto-gun at the shield, "How about this? You take that down and we won't have to do this the ugly way."

"Um, hello! This shield is my own invention." Tucker said smugly crossing his arms over his chest as Danny and Sam smirked behind him, "Ecto-blasts will only make it stronger, there is no way you can take this down." Too caught up in his own hype Tucker didn't hear gasp of shock from Sam and Danny, "Unless you use a lot a physical force on a single point, and neither of you have the strength…"

"Ah, Tucker…" Danny squeaked loudly.

"Superman is right behind me, isn't he?" Tucker said blankly.

"Yes, yes he is," Danny said worry etched on his face as he and Sam backed into Tucker, "how many hits can this thing take again?"

"Thirty, forty…" Tucker said just as Superman landed a heavy punch against the shield. Large cracks erupted over it's toxic green surface as the force of the punch violently shook the ground causing them to stumble as a deafening boom ravaged the very air around them.

"Two maybe three if we are incredibly lucky!" Tucker shrieked as the device he was holding started to spark and short out much to Danny and Sam's panic.

"Listen guys," Flash calmly said bringing their attention to him, "my friends and I don't want to fight you." He said smiling as he gestured to the scowling dark knight and the floating steel wall of an alien behind them, "So why don't you give up. Come on we can talk it out over some hot chocolate I know how to make a great blend. So what do you say?"

Danny, Sam and Tucker switched their gaze from the smiling Flash, the scowling Batman, Superman who was calmly watching them, and finally to each other. They nodded as one coherent machine, a direct reflection of how much closer they had gotten in the past eight months. At once they spoke as confident in their answer as they were in each other.

"Nope!"

Danny grabbed Sam and Tucker and turned them all intangible just as Superman's fist broke through the shield. Danny dragged them both deep into the ground and into a random direction as they heard what sounded like a sledgehammer on steroids trying to break through the ground.

They were completely silent as they raced through the endless void that was the planet's crust. They stayed under the surface for hours until Danny's fatigue forced them to come up or risk being buried alive.

Invisibly they escaped the ground to find themselves in the middle of a bustling city during the night. The bright lights of the city blinded them as the constant sound of traffic strained against their ears. The suddenness of the change of scenery caused Danny's invisibility to flicker completely revealing them to the oblivious city for a dangerous heartbeat.

"Danny." Sam whispered to the tired halfa, "We have to find a place to hide out for the night. Try to stay keep it together until we find an empty apartment or something."

Danny grunted in response before slowly flying over the city.

"There's a hotel coming up. Let's just crash in one of the rooms for the night." Tucker said pointing an invisible hand at the hotel then dropping it when he realized that they couldn't see it.

With a final grunt Danny carried them through the hotel and into the first room he found. Thankfully the room was empty and seeing that they were alone Danny released his hold on Sam and Tucker and changed his form.

"Danny are you okay?" Sam asked as the now human Danny began to sway on his feet a hand over his sweating brow.

"I'm fine, I just need to…" Danny said taking a few steps before collapsing face first into the plush bed his backpack still on him, "…sleep."

"Shouldn't we you know talk about what just happened?" Sam whispered roughly, "We just fought the Justice League!"

"Sam I wouldn't call that fighting," Tucker said dropping his backpack on the ground and taking off his shoes, "more like evasive running and screaming."

"Okay so we encountered the Justice League. Shouldn't we talk about how they had ecto-weapons? Or how they conveniently showed up just as we defeated the Guys in White?" Sam said gesturing in exasperation.

"Ecto-weapon, and them showing up could just be a coincidence." Tucker said pulling the backpack off Danny, tossing it to the ground and pushing Danny to the far side of the bed. "We can't do anything about that now. I vote that we get some rest before we worry about the overpowered defenders of Earth that are after us."

Sam sighed as the adrenaline finally left her leaving her sore and tired. "Fine we'll go to sleep, but we're waking up early tomorrow to talk about this."

"Shh…can't hear you, sleeping." Tucker muttered as he fought Danny for the sole pillow on the bed.

Sam sighed in defeat before going to the door, taking off the 'Do Not Disturb' sign and placing it on the other side hoping to give them some time before the hotel realized that their room should be unoccupied. She then turned the lights in the room off before shutting the curtains.

Sam stopped just sort of fully closing the curtain as she saw a very large very bright sign from their window, "Hey guys I think we're in Jump City." A thoughtfully look crossed her face as her sleep depraved mind tried to access its memory, "Where did I hear that name before?"

"Sam, less talky more sleepy." Tucker mumbled losing the impromptu tug of war with Danny.

"Fine I'm going to bed," Sam said fully closing the curtain and getting into the bed only to end up fighting with Tucker for the covers, "the next time we find a place to stay it better have three separate beds."

"Agreed." Danny muttered.

"I thought you were asleep." Sam smirked poking reaching over Tucker and poking Danny in the side.

"I am." Danny said before making exaggerated snoring noises.

"Less talky more sleepy!" Tucker growled out lightly hitting the both of them.

In the best hotel room they had been in since they started running away from the world Danny, Sam, and Tucker slept. While on the other side of the city in a large tower shaped like a T the leader of a small five member team got a message from his former mentor.