A/N: Thank you everbody that reviewed! hot dog285, dragonrose, mwahahahaha, nightwolf23, Nysk, Nazran, and Umbra8191! Now, before you read my chapter, their are two main issuies that popped up in the reviews. Danny's history, and Danny's power. Now, as for Danny's history, the only hint that I will give you is that it is the Dan incident, but with my own twists. Which you do not get to know yet. As for the power, yes, I gave him morphing and electrical powers. As for morphing, it doesn't really change Danny's strangth or weight. It is only usefull for desgiuse, and becouse he can't get rid of his ghostly aura, even that is pretty useless. I will not use Sunnydale syndrome here. With regards to the electrical powers, it is severly weakened just like his ice powers, due to the two belts he his wearing. Bonus points to anybody who can tell me the name! Now...on to the chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own Danny Phantom or Teen Titans. Sadly.

Playing Hero

Vlads' usual confidence was absent in his face as he handed the credit card to Danny. "As long as you follow those two rules, you can use as much money as you need." Danny didn't say anything. He just turned around and walked out of the mansion. Vlad stared on mournfully. "Are you sure that this will save the future?" A glowing, floating, green baby with a staff appeared next to him.

"No."

"Are you sure that this will save Danny?"

"No."

"Are sure that this will save anything?"

"No. But I can hope."

Raven was wondering Jump City, away from her friends. They were all beginning to get on her nerves, and she really needed a breather. Not that she'd ever admit it. She also heard about a recent addition to the few dark and supernatural stores in the city, and she wanted to check it out. See if there were any books that she didn't own. And if not, she could always just relax their and take that breather that she needed.

She turned a corner, and saw her intended destination. "The Fenton Works Book Store". Hmm. Interesting name.

Raven shook her head, put her hood up, and entered the store. She hoped that the store itself was more promising then the name. She was suitable impressed. The store had a dark mood, but it was still bright enough to read. There were plenty of Goths comfortably relaxing and reading. Just her kind of place. As she looked around, Raven quickly realized that she had no idea where the books that she wanted were. There was a person reading a book called 'Fighting Mental Intrusions'. She assumed that that person was the manager. She walked up and tapped the book.

"What do you want?" the obviously male voice said with more than a hint of impatience.

"Is that how you treat all your customers?"

"Yes."

"Alright." She can't say that she was entirely upset about his brutal honesty. It was kind of refreshing. "I'm wondering if you had any books on Trigon." She wasn't very hopeful, but she decided that it was worth a shot.

"Yep." She blinked in surprise.

"Far right, top self." Raven could tell that this guy wasn't too happy about having been interrupted in his reading. She decided to not push her luck by asking where he got a book on Trigon when no other bookstore did. She shrugged her shoulders and walked to the indicated shelf.

She heard mutterings around her, all of them wondering about why a teen titan was visiting this bookstore. She could feel curiosity and fear coming off of every person in the room. Except for the guy behind the counter. He felt like an emotional blank. What emotions did come off of him were extremely muted. Curios. She shook her head and reached up for the big book, 'Trigon the Terrible'.

She removed her hood and began reading through it. The section on Trigons powers was particularly interesting. It showed possible loopholes and theorized exceptions. Raven decided that she should buy this book. She promptly closed it and walked up to the counter, forgetting to put up her hood back up.

"Excuse me; I'd like to purchase this book." She said to the man behind the book.

"Fine. Just a second." Even though Raven could hear the impatience, she couldn't feel it. Curious.

He wrapped up his book and put it down. Without even looking up, he turned the computer by his side. He was clearly a teenager, and had spiky black hair, though not nearly as spiky as Robin's. She couldn't see the rest of his face, but from what she could see of his body, he was clearly muscular. Raven wondered what a kid her age was doing running a bookstore.

"What book do you want to buy?"

"Trigon the Terrible."

The young man typed the name into the computer, and read the information that came up. "That book is not for sale."

"I thought this was a book store." Raven was slightly irritated, though she quickly repressed it. She was still wondering why this kid didn't seem to feel anything, while she was getting irritable.

"It's the only copy in the store."

"I thought that book stores sold ALL their books."

"I always keep one copy of every book so others can read it." The young male had a smirk painted on his face as he began to look up. Raven could feel a kind of smug satisfaction coming from him. Until he looked into her eyes.

Danny widened his eyes. Sam? Impossible. She was dead. Gone! How could she be here? Oh no. Oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no. She must hate me. I killed her! I…killed her…I killed her…I killed her…Oh. Wait. That isn't Sam. Oh, thank the heavens. She IS dead! Oh…right…she's dead. Man, who is this anyway? Oh. It's a 'Teen Titan'. The great 'Hero's' of Jump city. I doubt they realize the responsibilities and the troubles that come with the title of 'hero'. If you don't know, then your kids, playing in an idyllic world. I have no time for people who play hero. I have no time for the Teen Titans.

Raven widened her eyes. What was with this rush of emotion? It was as if a dam had broken down and everything in his heart was flowing out. First came recognition. Then came fear…which she was always sad to feel. But…not the fear she normally felt…more like fear of what Raven thought of him? What was that about? Then there was a very strong felling of self loathing. It took all Raven had to not run out. After that came…relief? Shortly after came recognition again…and then anger. Raw anger and disdain. After that…all she saw was a pair of red eyes, laughing at her. They reminded her of her father…

Suddenly, Ravens communicator range. A moment after it range, all of those emotions disappeared, and the young man was blank again. It disappeared so fast that it felt like it was never there at all. Raven shook her head and pulled up her hood. She teleported to the tower. As she left, she heard this come from the boys' mouth: "Hmph. Heroes."

Danny shook his head. He didn't expect to see the ghost of Sam appear right in front of him. That really threw him for a loop. He put his head in his hands and took deep breaths. Deep breaths. OK. All better now. He hated living near the 'hero's' of Jump City, but it was better than the empty Fenton Works.

After Danny calmed down, he picked up the book and put it back on the self. 'I wondered why she wanted it.' Whatever. Danny promptly sat down and continued to read his book.

Danny felt the ground shake. He quickly shut his book and looked around. Everybody else was looking around, too. Soon the object that caused everybody curiosity came into view right outside the window. It looked like a giant cement man. The Teen Titan fans in the book store would recognize him as 'Cinderblock'. Everybody promptly panicked. Well, everybody except Danny, that is. He just shook his head and watched as the book store empted itself in record time. He walked out, not forgetting to lock the door behind him, and watched in bemusement, waiting for the Teen Titans to come. So he waited.

And waited.

And waited.

As Danny waited, he watched the giant cinderblock tear up the town. He would leave giant footprints in the street, and he would occasionally punch or kick a building. Danny started to get worried. Where were the Teen Titans? Wasn't this their town to save? Where were they? Danny was about to take matters into his own hands…when he remembered the last time he tried to be a hero. He hung his head, and walked back to his shop.

"HEEELP!"

Danny's head whipped around, and saw Cinderblock about to step on an old lady. Danny really didn't want to do this, but he had no choice. He phased into a nearby building and transformed. He rushed back outside and got to his target right before she was squashed. He quickly made her intangible. He sighed in relief.

After he was sure that the lady was safe, he turned to Cinderblock, a fire in his eyes. He was furious. He hated playing the hero. He would make this dunderhead pay.

He rushed to the back of Cinderblock, a ball of ectoplasm in his hand. He pushed it against the moving cement wall, and let him have it. When the smoke from the explosion cleared, Danny was shocked to find that all that had happened was the big block tumbled forward a couple of feet. (Cinderblock feet, not human feet) Danny didn't understand. That should have left a crater! He shook his head free of confusion. He didn't have the time to be confused.

Cinderblock wasn't the brightest villain in the city. All he did was follow orders, and good things happened. Slade ordered him to free Plasmus, so he did. Slade told him to cause havoc while the Titan's were busy, so he did. So when he felt a huge blast in his back, he was confused. He was convinced that all of the Titans weren't here. Slade told him so. He was confused. Cinderblock didn't like being confused. When Cinderblock was confused, he got mad. Cinderblock was mad.

Danny rushed forward, with glowing ectoplasm to protect his hands, prepared to punch the brick in the head. He was not expecting Cinderblock to catch its second wind quite so fast, so Danny was cruising at a hundred fifty miles an hour into a brick fist. Danny quickly learned that cruising at a hundred fifty miles per hour into a brick fist, even with a hand protected by ectoplasm going first, hurt.

"Ow!" Danny yelled as he flew backwards into a building. 'Step one: avoid fist. Step two: hurt brick head. Step three: leave before the Titans show up.' With a new plan in head, Danny proceeded to focus even more ectoplasm into his right fist, preparing to release it the moment he was close enough to do some damage.

Danny rushed forward at two hundred miles per hour, preparing to hit brick head in this face. This time, when Cinderblock raised his fist, he was ready. He quickly turned intangible and flied through the fist towards the head. The moment he hit the giant cement block, he released the ectoplasm stored in his hand. The effect was just what he was hoping for. The explosion combined with the two hundred mile per hour fist caused him to stumble backwards. 'Come on, come on…' Danny was hoping that Cinderblock would fall down, allowing him to attempt to trap him. Unfortunately, it looked like even the explosion with the fist wasn't enough. He just stumbled a bit. 'No!'

"Booyeah!" Yelled a strong voice as a blue beam tipped Cinderblock over. Danny didn't know what was going on, but he wasn't going to argue. He quickly grabbed the some beams that were left over by a building that cinderblock destroyed. He dragged them over, and used his ectoplasm to bend it around brick head.

Danny took a deep breath. He was mad. He was really mad. He knew his anger was irrational, but he didn't care. He fought alone. And he would make sure that whoever was behind him would know it. He turned his head, a fire in his green eyes. When he saw it was Cyborg, he laughed. A Teen Titan without his team? And he thought he was good enough to beat block head alone. This was hilarious!

Cyborg was confused. He just helped a new super-teen defeat Cinderblock, and he was laughing. "Dude, are you alright?"

"Am I alright? Hehehe…this is hilarious."

"What are you talking about?"

"Hehe…I'm talking about how there's a single titan here that thinks he can beat a villain on his own."

"Hey, I'm strong enough!"

"He…you might be, but all of you 'titans' are weak. You depend on each other too much. Alone, you have no chance. Your friendships make you weak." Cyborg was mad. He showed it by pointing his sonic cannon at the face of this rude hero.

"Take. That. Back."

"Hah! And you don't even know what it means to wear the title of 'hero'." Danny continued as if Cyborg didn't say a thing.

"Oh, and you do?"

"Yes." That was it. Cyborg was furious. This…this kid appears out nowhere trying to take out Cinderblock on his own, when the entire Teen Titans couldn't! And after Cyborg decided to save his sorry butt, he has the nerve to lecture him on his job, telling him that he doesn't even know how to be a hero! In a fit of rage, he fired his sonic cannon.

In the dust that followed, the kid was nowhere to be seen. He felt a blast from behind, and fell to the ground because of it. He turned around to see the jerk staring at him.

"That's why I'm not one." And with that sentence, the kid disappeared. Cyborg shook his head, and thought about what that strange kid said. He saw how bitter he was, how lonely he was. Cyborg didn't want to end up like that. He rubbed the back of his neck, and decided to reconcile with Robin about their stupid fight. If that kid was an indication of anything, it wasn't worth it. He called a tow truck to drag Cinderblock away, and proceeded to search for his team.

Danny was furious. He needed to calm down. He really shouldn't have reacted that badly to the poor Titan. Even if all of what he said was true, he didn't need to say it. He promised himself that he would stay OUT of the hero scene! He needed to calm down. He decided to close shop for the rest of the day and went to the local dojo. His sensei did want him there today, and he needed to beat something up. Bad.

Cyborg was in the Tower gym, exercising. What that kid said still bothered him.

"Hey, Cyborg, what's wrong?" Robin said from the entrance to the room. He knew he team well enough to know when something was wrong.

"It's what that kid said. It's still bothering me!" Cyborg put down the heavy bricks that he was lifting and turned around. "And why are you in a karate uniform?"

"I'm going to do a demonstration at the local dojo, remember? And don't let it bother you. There's no use in getting upset about it. Besides, he himself said he wasn't a hero, remember?"

"Yeah, I guess you're right. See ya' around."

"See ya'." As Robin turned around, he heard Cyborg lifting up the heavy bricks again. He smiled and shook his head. He was glad that he reconciled with Cyborg. They wouldn't have been able to beat Plasmus without his help. He walked out of Titan Tower, and proceeded to head to the local dojo. He promised the owner that he would fight his strongest student. He smirked, his competitive streak getting ahead of him. He was going to show this 'Danny' what a real martial artist could do.