I don't own YJ or DP, also sorry if any of the characters, Batman in particular, are too OOC, if this is the case, let me know and I'll try to fix it.
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Batman and Robin, now in full uniform, stood around a table in the middle of the Batcave; on the table lay Danny, unconscious. The young halfa had a few small wires connected to his wrists and a sticker connected to a wire on each of his temples. A screen to his left showed waves of simple brain movement and a dangerously low heart rate. Another showed his core temperature to be about 15 degrees. There was a mask on his face that gave Danny gas to keep him unconscious. Both detectives were wondering if this was normal. Robin looked to his mentor.
"Are we going to wake him up?" He was excited about finally getting to talk to Danny without him running away. There were so many questions that Danny could, hopefully, answer. Even then, Robin got lost in his thoughts about questions, he didn't hear Batman's answer, but figured it out pretty quickly.
Batman walked over to a machine and pressed a few buttons, switching the gas to oxygen. (A.N. I saw this in Race to Witch Mountain.)He then went to Danny, and the Dynamic Duo waited for the boy to wake. They didn't have to wait long, not even a minute later, Danny's eyes blinked open.
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Danny woke up with a massive headache and blurry vision. The last thing he remembered was avoiding the Joker with Robin. Shifting a little, he realized he was on an examination table. His nightmares of his parents dissecting him appeared in his memory. He shot up, his head spinning momentarily. He looked left and saw a cave filled with what seemed to be Batman's stuff. Danny's eyes widened, then he looked to his right and found himself face to face with the Dark Knight.
Danny opened his mouth, attempting to say anything to Batman, but never found his voice. He just sat there, mouth agape, in silence until it was broken by the very person he rescued.
"I'm Robin," the Dark Knight's protégé stepped up to him. Danny closed his mouth, uncertain of what to do. "You're in the Batcave, but you might already know that, Danny." The use of his nick name got Danny's attention.
'How did he… Megan told him,' Danny remembered. He opened his mouth again, but still words remained unfound. The Dynamic Duo continued to watch Danny, their eyes unreadable through the whites of their masks. Danny scooted as far as the table would allow him to. Robin stepped forward again.
"Don't disappear again, we don't want to hurt you," Danny relaxed only a little at the words, but kept his guard up. He really doubted he could use any of his ghost powers right then. Robin noticed the reaction and continued. "I mean, why would we want to? You saved part of my team from getting killed by Cheshire and Sportsmaster." Danny noticed Batman stiffen slightly at this. A normal person wouldn't have seen it, but Danny's enhanced senses caught it. It was one of the perks of being half dead. "Then, Bats told me that you saved me from Joker…"
"And your own stupidity," came the deep voice of the Batman. Robin merely shrugged at this, and then chose to ignore it.
"Also you are a meta and your powers are very impressive to the Team, I don't think Bats has mentioned you to the League yet, but I'm sure they would be impressed too. You also seem to have experience fighting, but then again you are Danny Phantom, protector of Amity Park. Well until you disappeared, but that is beyond the point. I'm sure you'd love training with Canary. Maybe you could join the Team! You'd be a great addition and you seemed very whelmed… now obviously not before when you ran off, but…" Robin was cut off by Batman putting his hand over the younger hero's mouth.
"Thank you Robin," Batman said harshly. Robin muttered an apology. Batman then turned his attention back to Danny. "Come with me."
Five minutes later, Danny was sitting at a table with Batman sitting across from him in a small room. Danny knew what was coming, the World's Greatest Detective was about to interrogate him. So far, the Dark Knight hadn't said anything to him, but Danny had heard him tell Robin something about food. As he thought about it, Danny realized how hungry he was.
A few minutes later, Robin came in with a bottle of water and a bag of beef jerky. He set them next to Danny.
"This look alright for you?" the Boy Wonder asked. Danny nodded. He slowly opened the bag and took a bite, not meeting the Dark Knight's gaze.
"I ran a DNA test," Danny stiffened at Batman's words. "Your blood is infused with ecto-plasm. That must be what gives you your abilities." Danny nodded. The Dark Knight's face remained emotionless as he continued. "I also found that Vlad Masters is your legal guardian. He will be in Metropolis, Superman has offered to take you there…" Batman had only brought up Vlad to see Danny's reaction. He had his suspicions about the man since he was meeting with Lex Luthor, supposedly privately.
"No," Danny whispered, finally finding his voice, "not to him." Danny was shaking his head; he pulled his knees to his chest.
"Why not? It is his job to take care of you." Batman questioned, suspicions about Vlad being confirmed by the boy's reaction. Danny continued to shake his head, but Batman needed to know more. "If you can't answer that, then I don't see any reason not to place you under his care." He knew this would get something. Danny looked up at the Dark Knight.
"Because, I'll become him." Danny's entire body began to shake. "I promised that I wouldn't, I promised…" Danny looked back at his knees, trailing off. Memories of his last moments with his family and best friends came up from the back of his mind. Both Batman and Robin knew by the way Danny said 'him', he didn't mean Masters. "I don't want to talk about it, just please don't send me to Plas-Mr. Masters." Batman noticed his stutter of the name. He looked Robin right in the eye, and no words having been spoken, Robin nodded and left the room.
A few minutes later, Robin returned. He bent down and whispered to Batman, "Danny Phantom has an enemy named Vlad Plasmius, do you think there is a connection?"
"There is, like me, Vlad is half-ghost, his alter-ego is Plasmius," Danny said to the Dynamic Duo. Two pairs of eyes widened for different reasons.
"Half-ghost? That's so cool, are you half-dead?" Robin sat on the table next to Danny. Danny nodded, saying that he couldn't be half-ghost and not half-dead because ghosts are dead. He was pretty sure Robin already knew that, and was just trying to get something out of him, but Danny didn't mind. Robin started to ask something else when Batman interjected,
"I take it being half-ghost enhances your senses," Danny nodded and Batman continued, "That is how you were able to hear what Robin said to me, even at a low whisper." Batman looked at Robin and saw he was thinking the same thing; Danny could easily eavesdrop on any conversation.
"Danny," Robin began, an idea popping into his head, "what languages are you fluent in, other than English?"
"I know Esperanto, and I'm taking Spanish." Robin smiled at his answer.
"Problemă rezolvată (problem solved)," Robin switched to Romanian, his first language. He was excited to find an excuse to use it since Bruce rarely allowed him to. Batman narrowed his eyes and shook his head. Robin turned his back to Danny and looked his guardian through the whites of his mask with pleading eyes. "Vă rog tata (please dad)." Batman sighed.
"Bine, măcar de această dată (alright, just this once)," Batman decided to do this for his son, since he was always trying to find a reason. Danny watched in shook as the Dynamic Duo switched to a language he had never even heard of, let alone understood.
As Batman and Robin conversed, Danny thought about what he had told them. Most of the information had come out just to keep himself away from Plasmius. Had he given to much information by telling them about Vlad? He knew the man needed to be brought to justice, but he couldn't help the doubt he felt. Maybe he shouldn't have given any information out, or just enough to satisfy Batman's interrogation. Perhaps, if he just learned to keep his mouth shut... Now who knew what they would do to him, maybe a foster home or orphanage, somewhere the Justice League could keep an eye on him most likely.
The Dynamic Duo seemed to finished their foreign conversation and turned back their attention back to Danny. He noted that Robin seemed very excited.
"Since sending you to Vlad Masters is out of the question, you will be staying in Mount. Justice with Robin and the rest of his team," The only reason Batman had agreed to this arrangement was because despite a few flaws, Danny had a pretty decent hero status. "Because we still don't know much about you, you will be under constant surveillance and will not be allowed to leave. Is that understood?" Danny nodded to the Dark Knight.
"Yes, sir," Danny whispered. "Thank you."
"I will continue to look into Vlad Masters," Batman continued and added that Robin would be escorting him to cave and introducing him to the Team. "We leave tomorrow morning, until then, get some rest, you will be staying in the Batcave until we depart." He then pulled Robin aside and said none to quietly, "Go to the cave and inform the Team of what will happen tomorrow, there will not be any missions." Robin nodded and left, heading for the zeta-tube in Gotham.
Danny followed the Dark Knight to a room through many twisted hallways. Batman told him that under no circumstances less than life-threatening should he leave the room. Danny nodded, walked over to the bed, collapsed, and fell asleep immediately.
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Hello Readers, I'm back from my grandparents' house! So I will update again sometime in the next week. Next time, expect the Team meeting Danny, and Vlad and Lex's meeting. Also I used Google Translate for the Romanian
To ameafurry's review for chapter 4, I meant GPS, thank you for pointing that out.
The Pairings:
Danny/Sam
Robin/Zatanna (I'm a sucker for Chalant)
Wally/Artemis
M'gann/Conner
Kaldur/Rocket (who comes later)
Please review and let me know how I'm doing!
