Chapter 3

Later that day

Danny stood in the hallway, looking through a glass window to a class room. There were five people sitting next to each other, each one looking at the teacher with an air of boredom. Danny knocked at the door and the teacher gestured for him to come in. Danny walked into the class room and sat down.

"Welcome to detention, Mr...?"

"Fenton." Danny stated

"Ah yes, here you are. All we need to do now is wait for Ms. Caroline and the usual Mr. Lupo to join us." She said with an enthusiastic voice. Danny just sunk lower in his chair and waited for the teacher to finish her instructions. She set down a single piece of lined paper on each of the six desks and told the students that they could go if we wrote down what we had done wrong and why we did it enough times to fill both sides of two pages.

The teacher than went left the class room, muttering happily to herself. But before she could reach the door, she stood face to face with a student whose face was red from running to the detention room. I stared blankly at Penny, who apologized about being late and then signed her name on the detention register. The teacher just gave her a big smile and told her what to do.

Penny sat down next to Danny and explained

"Sorry Danny, can't talk now, I've got get home as soon as possible before my parents realise I've got a detention."She explained as she sat down next to him, her eyes and concentration immediately on the piece of paper. Danny looked at her for a second before he began to write as well. He fought hard to not write "I skipped out on a lesson because I was summoned by Robin of the Teen Titans because they he a gift for me from the master of time." But instead wrote "I skipped out on a lesson because I hadn't done my homework."

'A lame excuse, I know, but it's not like they won't believe me.' Danny thought

Danny wrote down quickly and quietly, also trying to get out as quick as possible, but just then he looked up to see the classroom door opened a second time and out stepped Harold, looking smug. He caught his eye on Penny who was writing just as fast as Danny. He quickly signed his name on the detention register and sat down next to her. He loomed over her his breath easily sensed at the close proximity

"Hey hot stuff, did you fall from heaven because you look like an angel." He said. Danny clenched the pen he was holding to almost its breaking point, trying not to listen. Penny turned her head to the voice and her eyes widened at the closeness of his face.

"Wow, you seriously need a breath mint." She said, obviously not fazed by the horrible pick up line he had just uttered. She reached into her bag and pulled out a stick of gum which she offered to him. He looked at shocked, realizing that his charm and manly attitude hadn't made the girl before him swoon. Penny shrugged when he didn't take it and popped it into her own mouth before starting to write again.

"Come on babe, you know we were meant to be together. It was written in the stars." By this point Danny had stopped writing and was finding it hard to not hit Harold. Penny, on the other point, nearly choked on the gum she laughed so much.

"You do realize that I wouldn't even consider touching you with a barge pole, even if you were the last thing on earth?" She said exasperated. Harold grew enraged, and was just about to give his retort when the teacher came back in.

"Ah, you did decide to join us then Mr. Lupo? Good." The teacher said looking up from the register to where Harold was sitting. Harold just scowled at her and got up from his seat to get a piece of paper. Danny had almost written one side and was about to start another when something caught his eye. He looked out the window and on top of one the buildings outside was a person. He couldn't have been more than sixteen and had spiked up hair. He held a pair of binoculars which was pointed at him. The person quickly packed away the binoculars and the laptop and exited from the roof top, jumping down behind the building.

Danny stared for a second, figuring out who that was and hoping against hope that it wasn't who he expected to be. His attention was quickly diverted back to the task at hand by the teacher. Danny quickly readjusted himself and began writing again, though his writing speed going slower due to the worrying thoughts going through his mind.

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Robin looked down at the school through a set of binoculars; he then looked down at the laptop he had brought down with him. He first looked at the map which was displaying the location of the super person Phantom, and then at the picture he had taken from their fight with Cinderblock. Finally back through the pair of binoculars. All the information that these three things showed pointed to one of two things. Either Danny Fenton was Danny Phantoms twin brother, who had died at birth, and Danny Phantom was over showing Danny Fenton when it suited him, or Danny Phantom and Danny Fenton were one of the same. Robin thought that the latter was most likely true

Something vibrating in his pocket told Robin that one of his team mates wanted to talk to him. He quickly answered Raven looking down at him looking to reporting on her assignment.

"Have you got any information for me Raven?" Robin asked his concentration fully on the half demon.

"I've been looking through a few of my books, and I may have found something. It seems that a long time ago, there was an artificial portal into a different dimension simply named the 'Ghost Zone'. It was opened by a monk in the sixteenth century, it was recorded in his journal that he had called the spirits to help him seek enlightenment. In doing so he let out the spirits of the damned, who killed him when they escaped.

"But what is interesting, is that before he died, he got his son to try and venture to the other side for him to help him seek out his goal. The thing is, the scripture says that the monk accidently opened the portal on top of his son and soon after the boy died of an illness but the way the monk describes what happened to the son when he opened the portal onto him is most interesting. It reads: 'My boy writhed in agony when the land of sprits landed on top of him. His arms made harsh popping sounds as every bone in his body broke. He cried out, but that was suddenly stopped by the tiredness that engulfed him. He started to spasm and move as his skin seemed to change colour. Once was it a harsh brown, but now it was as pale as the sky. His once black hair turned a shade of deathly white and when he awoke from his pain, his brown eyes now a blood red. He looked half dead, almost like a ghost.'"

Robin nodded as he took the information in. Again he looked at Danny through the window and saw that he had stopped writing and seemed to be clenching his fists. A boy sat on the other side of the girl Danny was next to, and it seemed like the boy had been trying to talk to the girl, which she took no notice of him. He turned back to Raven who had been waiting for him.

"Also I've been looking up some articles on Phantom. It seemed that not before his very appearance, two ghost hunters had been experimenting with getting through to the Ghost Zone, and had managed to succeed, but not without their son getting hurt." Robins eyebrows furrowed in confusion

"What do you mean?" He asked

"It seems that the son had been helping his parents when they were building the gateway into the Ghost Zone, but he got hurt when he activated it while he was inside it. Incidentally, it was almost a week later that the first sighting of Danny Phantom was recorded. The ghosts, along with Phantom, stopped appearing when the ghost hunters and their family moved here three weeks ago. It seems this isn't a coincidence." Robin nodded at Ravens information and filled her in with what he had learned.

"Well it seems that the locator in the communicator I gave Phantom is emitting from Jump City High at this moment, and Danny Fenton is sitting exactly where the locator is originating from." Robin explained. Raven just gave a nod in agreement and she ended the connection. Robin looked through his binoculars and saw Danny turn his head towards him. Their eyes made contact and Danny's viably widened. Robin simply stood up from where he lay, packed up his things, turned around and jumped off the building and onto his waiting R-cycle, thinking that it didn't matter if Danny saw him, he would be confronted about it soon enough.

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Danny finished his detention ten minutes after he saw the spiky haired boy, and was beginning to make his way home. Wanting to concentrate on what he had seen, he decided to walk and only risk walking into a poll instead of flying and then hit an office building. He walked the route he had memorised within the three weeks and thought about the situation he had been thrust into. 'Why didn't I just leave the Titans alone? I knew I would be noticed, but I just had to go and stick my nose into it. Now my secrets going to get out, I'll be hated by my parents, everyone will call me a freak at school. Oh well, at least I can let Harold have it if he starts on me again,' Danny thought 'Maybe I should just go over to the Titans tonight and beg for them not to let my secret out. Maybe...'

Danny's train of thought was knocked off course as he suddenly felt a blue wisp of air leave his mouth. Alert, he noticed that he was near an alleyway. He ducked inside it and began to look around. He couldn't see anyone, so he transformed and let the two rings turn him into Phantom. He flew up, looking around for the ghost, but he couldn't see anyone. He pulled his axe from his back and began to fight.

WHACK

Danny was thrown through the air as some kind of explosive collided with his back. He dodged out the way of an incoming building and steadied himself. He turned intangible and scanned the area again. He was only slightly hurt, only a bruise would show us the next morning.

"Aww, the little whelp not see me coming did he? Looks like your loosing you touch Phantom." A voice called. Danny's eyes narrowed and he turned round to see Skulker with one shoulder open loaded with a missile. He fired again, but Danny dodged out the way. It seemed Skulker wanted him to do this as while Danny was dodging, he flew at him and tackled him into a brick wall. A gasp of pain came from Danny's mouth as he hit the wall. He began to fall, but then quickly caught himself and flew at Skulker, his axe ready to swing.

Skulker dodged Danny's first swing, but not the second. Danny managed to get a swing in that narrowly missed Skulkers helmet, but still cut off one of his rocket launchers. Danny slashed at Skulker again, but Skulker weaved to the right, and gripped Danny's leg. He pulled and made Danny lose his balance. Following up, he grasped Danny's axe and pulled it away from him, throwing it to the ground below, out of Danny's reach.

"Now, how would you like to die? Electrocution or explosion?" Skulker said his face inches from Danny's. Danny felt a familiar weight on his back, and his eyes glinted in realisation. Suddenly he kicked off with his free foot and pulled his axe from his back. Skulker looked in surprise, then back at the ground where the axe should have been. Danny seeing the momentary confusion flew at Skulker at break neck speed and swung his axe again. The ghost not having the time to dodge, he was cut into two. Another slash and his mechanical head came off his shoulders.

Danny looked and saw that the little green ghost that had been populating the machine climb out of the head and began to attack Danny, but with no weapons and no force behind the punches, it was useless. The ghost sighed and simply said;

"Well, aren't you going to wisp out that magical thermos of yours and put me back in the Ghost Zone?" Danny simply looked at him blankly and then realised what he was talking about.

"Oh, crap. I don't have it. I didn't expect that there would be any ghosts today." Danny couldn't believe what he was doing. He was talking to someone who wanted to murder him like he was teacher that was demanding why his homework was late.

"Ah, ok. Well then I guess I have no choice but to use your axe then. "

"What about my axe?" Danny asked. Skulker just looked at him, confused

"Wait, you don't know what you have there?" Danny shook his head "Those gauntlets there are the gauntlets of a thousand forms. It was forged for the Fright Knight himself, but it was stolen by a thief before he could use it. What it does is it takes the wearers fight style into account and then changes into a weapon accordingly, which for you is an axe. But what it also does is when it is out of its natural dimension, any severely weakened ghost it finds, it sends them back to their lair back in the Ghost Zone, but it still hurts the ghost when you send them back. Now would you please send me back? I want to start to make a new suit that can combat this axe of yours." Danny was about to strike, when a thought occurred to him.

"Why were you so surprise to see that the axe had come back to me after you threw it away?" Danny asked

"Simple, I do not know everything the gauntlets can do, just what's passed around the Ghost Zone." And with that, Danny nodded and swung the axe. It passed through the ghost, and with it exited him, he wasn't there anymore. Shrugging, Danny saw that the fight had brought him nearer to the home than his school, so he thought it was best to walk the rest of the way. He set down in an alley, and transformed back. He turned back to Fenton and began to walk home, but before he could take a step, he heard a gasp.

He turned around to see that Penny was standing on the other side of the alley, her eyes wide and her mouth slightly open. 'Not checking to see if the alley was clear. Rookie mistake.' He thought to himself as he moved closer to Penny. He tried to think of an excuse, but nothing came to him.

"You... You're... What the hell?" Was all Penny could say before she turned and quickly ran away from Danny. Danny went to try to and explain, but when he turned the corner that she had gone around, she was gone. Sighing, he turned back and began to walk back to his house, realising that within two hours, his secret identity had been blown... Twice.

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The man looked at the many screens in front of him. They were all of the many articles about a ghost, one Danny Phantom. One was about the bank robberies he had committed when he was under the control of Freak Show. Another one was about his many incidents with the town's former mayor, Vladimir Masters. The man was looking at the vague photos of this mysterious ghost. He had already known that the ghost was different from the rest of his species; he had personally seen him take down the ghost that had almost turned all the residents of Amity Park into mindless plant-zombies, and heard about his fight with his future self, the one that had entire destroyed the world, even Jump City.

This was the most interesting, and most important, fact that he had heard about the ghost, and was the main reason why he had researched the boy since his last apprentice had turned against him and almost defeated him. He had done extensive research and had found that this Ghost was tied to another, a mortal by the name of Danny Fenton. More and more researched yielded results that pointed to this fact, and Slade had lured Danny's family into a cushy job making weapons for his army, as it seemed that the ghosts were plaguing Amity Park were haunting this family, which meant that they had brought them to Jump.

Since the first sighting of Danny Phantom not too long ago, he had sent an agent to spy on this mortal, someone to befriend him and let him into his life. He had not expected his agent to come back and give him information this early. The agent in question made their way through the winding corridors of Slade's base and into his chamber.

"I take it you have news of the boy?" He asked

"Yes sir, he is as you had thought, a Halfa. He changed in front of me after a battle with one of his ghost enemies. It seems that he has acquired a weapon recently that he did not have when he occupied Amity Park." Slade simply nodded at this.

"Good work. I will inform your Headmistress about this. Now, go and find out as much about this boy and his relationship with the Teen Titans. I expect you to give me details in three days."

The agent nodded, turned around and exited for the apartment they rented out.

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AN: I'm sorry it took so long, I'm actually writing this on my new computer, which needs a wire to connect to the internet, which is why I haven't updated in a while. Anyway, it seems that both the Titans and Slade appear know Danny's secret, and he's getting nervous. What will happen next time, and who is this agent I wonder? Only time, and me actually updating, will tell.

Till next time,

Umbra-Luna :L

(P.S. I love my new computer!)