Okay well I got a more negative reaction than what I had originally anticipated, though I honestly wasn't expecting a whole lot for this one either as it is my first stand alone crossover. Anyway as I will say with all my stories (Probably in every chapter so that it is remembered as well) is that I will end writing whatever I am feeling at the time, whether it be this story, another that is already in progress or an entirely new one. I have a scattered mind, I will try my damnedest not to abandon any story just don't expect updates for them very often.
Moving on to the reviews...
Synaps - As far as Danny being too over powered, it tends to be a problem with a lot of Danny Phantom crossovers. Danny has an extensive list of powers, many of which we aren't given an accurate power rating for. As an example Dan was able to destroy the entire world by himself, if the crossover states that Danny's world is also the Justice League's world than that would mean that Dan was somehow able to defeat them all. Danny has a lot of power but I will try to limit him in any way that I can.
Zentin - I actually intended for the summary to be vague as I am still deciding what happens in it. My stories are generally write as I go, so the summary may end up changing in the future. As for my warning about the rating maybe changing... I'm on the fence on writing what would be my first ever Lemon... As I haven't decided or not if I'd do it, I decided that I may warn about it. I will never make a story M Rated unless it contains either sexual acts or extreme violence and or torture. Language (unless extremely excessive) doesn't constitute an M Rating for me. I'd be happy to address any other questions you may have.
Guest (Mar 12) - The reason why Danny has fifteen inhibitor collars. One for each power, not for how powerful he is. That is how I intended the collars to work. Superman has Flight, Heat Vision, His Super Breath thing, and then Super Strength and Invulnerability (which I count as a single thing). Superman has four powers, therefore the four collars. Danny has A TON of different abilities so I used the collars to cancel each individual one out. As far as the Ghost Physiology explanation works, I think that it's brilliant and I'll probably end up using it, but keep in mind that Junior isn't the brightest bulb in the batch so he most likely bought into the more ridiculous rumors. I think I addressed everything there...
Clockwork's Apprentice - I'm happy to see one of the writers I enjoy the most reviewing my work. As far as how powerful Danny is, I think that a lot of people underestimate him as can be seen from the other reviews I've gotten thus far. As to how he got into Belle Reve... I'll probably reveal it in the next chapter but I haven't started it yet as I am enjoying writing yet ANOTHER new idea I got courtesy of Spidey108 though with influences from a few others. But I won't spoil that one just yet. ^_^
socialgirl378 - Please see my Guest response above for the explanation on the fifteen collars. As for the disclaimer page, I like to let my readers know what they're getting into with my stories and many of the stories I read give a disclaimer at every chapter. I prefer to give one large disclaimer at the beginning rather than write the same thing every single chapter, so I don't really plan on changing that habit of mine.
Penny Lu - Glad you're enjoying it, as far as how I update my stories though. I believe that I mentioned in the Author Update on my other stories as to how my writing would continue from now on. I will probably update whatever I feel like at the time, so it's likely that you'll start to see a lot of new stories of mine soon. But as I said before I will try not to abandon any.
That's it for this Author's Note, though really guys try not to leave reviews begging me to update, I'll get back to them eventually but I'm not a people pleaser, writing is supposed to be fun so that's how I'm going to work it. I'll write what's fun and if it entertains you as well great if not then I'm sorry but you're not the only one to be reading it. That is also my reasoning for what I write at the time, if I feel like Harry Potter then I'll write Harry Potter, if I feel like Young Justice then I'll write Young Justice. And if I feel like X-Men Evolution, well then that's what'll happen.
With all that done, please enjoy this next chapter.
Chapter 02
Cujo
Belle Reve Penitentiary – Warden's Office
September 18th – 18:34
"Move." A prison guard roughly shoved the infamous Mr. Freeze closer towards the desk of Belle Reve's warden, Amanda Waller.
"Freeze." Freeze grabbed the guards hand shot ice along his body, he then took a step towards the warden but was stopped as she pressed a button on a remote. Electricity arced across Freeze as he reached towards his neck and froze the inhibitor color before he tore it from his neck. He panted heavily as he said, "Too little, too late."
Waller gave a determined grin as she responded, "We'll see." She then shouted commands, "Voice Activation, Waller One. Lockdown!" Alarms started blaring as the sound of heavy thuds echoed across the prison. Waller then pulled a gun on Freeze and was about to shoot him when he grabbed the gun and froze it along with her arm.
She gave a short shout of pain as she fell backwards. Hugo Strange caught her and said desperately to Freeze, "Stop, stop! What do you want?"
Freeze just gave an angry scowl as he answered, "Master control for the collars." And with that Freeze reached forwards and pressed a button on the warden's desk thus turning off every inhibitor collar within Belle Reve.
Mr. Freeze gave a victorious smirk as a vicious roar echoed throughout the prison. More than likely the sound of victory as the inmates realized that they had their powers back.
Belle Reve Penitentiary – Solitary Confinement
September 18th – 18:34
The solitary confinement sector of Belle Reve was usually reserved for when an inmate killed either a guard or a fellow inmate. While the second was unlikely, it still happened from time to time. But for the last year, every inmate strived to stay out of solitary because it had served as the personal cell of the inmate known only as Remnant.
If Belle Reve was the most secure prison in the world, then its Solitary Cell was the most secure location ever dreamed of on the planet. World leaders didn't have as much protection as what surrounded the cell. It was a titanium lined glass casing placed within the center of a large and empty room. In reality though the room contained a large minefield and roughly fifty military grade security turrets, of course these were the secondary defenses. As with the remainder of the prison, the primary defense was the inhibitor collars that all the inmates had to wear. Though Remnant had never paid these defenses any thought, he was in the prison for a reason after all.
As alarms began to blare, Remnant sighed to himself and the two guards set to watch him started to panic. Even more so when the fifteen inhibitor collars on Remnant seemed to just fall off of his body. Remnant then stretched and shouted towards the two guards, "While I can just walk right out of here, it'll be better for the two of you if you just turn the defenses off."
The two guards glanced at each other with worried eyes before they nodded quietly to each other. Together the two of them shut down the defenses securing the Solitary Confinement ward of Belle Reve Penitentiary.
Belle Reve Penitentiary – Male Ward
September 18th – 19:12
Icicle Senior gave a victorious smirk as he spread his arms in front of Amanda Waller, Hugo Strange and a handful of guards. "The prisoners now control the prison."
"That's not the same as escaping it." Waller stared defiantly at Icicle with a smirk that stated 'I know something you don't.'
Icicle in response gave her a happy grin, not having noticed the look on her face, "Then we better get to work." As he finished he walked towards the heavy titanium barrier separating the prison from the outside world.
Standing between Mr. Freeze and Captain Cold, Icicle Senior raised his arm towards the barrier and began and began firing a steady stream of ice at it, his actions were quickly mirrored by the other two ice themed villains. As the icy blast struck the barrier a chilling fog quickly spread throughout the prison, freezing a portion of the prison in the prison. Metal railings turned to ice and the many guards shivered violently from the now frigid temperatures.
When they finally stopped firing, Blockbuster and Mammoth rushed forwards and began punching the now brittle barrier. Mr. Freeze grinned, "Excellent. At this rate, we'll have our exit in ten minutes." The two other ice villains smirked at his assessment and resumed firing at the barrier.
Junior and 'Tommy' stood behind the three ice villains. Junior wore an excited expression while 'Tommy' wore a worried frown. Junior turned happily towards his cellmate and spoke, "Genius, huh?"
'Tommy' turned towards Junior looking very distracted, "Uh, yeah." Junior just smiled an oblivious smile as 'Tommy' wore a look of deep concentration while he attempted to call out to Miss Martian.
He was distracted though, when Icicle Senior approached him, "Hey kid. Still in touch with your sister? Everything copacetic in chick central?"
A brief look of confusion passed over 'Tommy's' face before he responded. "Yeah, copacetic."
"Then why are you both standing around!"
Junior quickly understood and started pulling 'Tommy' with him as he said, "We're on it dad."
Belle Reve Penitentiary – Male Ward
September 18th – 19:18
"Heh, look at 'em shiver and shake." A great big man…(?) known as Brick was smirking at Amanda Waller from outside of her cell. Too bad you're not wearing the new orange we had smuggled in. Microtech thermal units sewn into the fabric keep us toasty." He pulled on his orange jumpsuit smugly.
"Toasty? Before this is over, you'll be toast." Waller spoke proudly and without a doubt in her voice, but as like before the villain paid no mind to it.
Brick, however, did adopt a rather angry expression on his face before he reached through the bars and grabbed the warden by the front of her shirt. "Before this is over, you'll be over!"
Hugo Strange took a rather uncharacteristically brave step forward and said, "Daniel, stop! There are 100 ways this could go down, and in all of them, a hostage like Waller is m-more valuable alive."
Brick looked angry but contemplated Strange' words regardless. After a moment he shoved Waller off of him and said, "Thank him, Wal. He just saved your life."
Brick was about to leave but Waller spoke regardless. "You still have Belle Reve's last line of defense to get past."
Icicle Senior, who had only been paying half-attention to what Brick had been doing to his most valuable hostage, narrowed his eyes at her words. Images of her cocky smile flashed back to the forefront of his mind as he turned and walked towards her. "Explain, Waller. Or the temperature in that cell is about to get a lot lower."
Waller just smirked at him and said, "What's the matter, Icicle? You were so sure of yourself a moment ago. But then again, our little guard dog is no laughing matter."
Icicle just scowled deeper and sent a questioning glance towards his coconspirator, Hugo Strange. Seeing his equally confused expression, Icicle turned back towards Waller and spoke condescendingly, "I think you're bluffing Waller, you haven't got anything that can stop all of us."
A voice echoed from the second floor walkway when Icicle finished. "I believe that I already proved that I was better than all of you." Many of the villains turned at the sound of the creepy voice.
Icicle's scowl deepened even further when he recognized who it was that had spoken. "What's the deal Remnant! What's your game?"
Remnant stood high above the other inmates, standing casually on the second floor walkways. "Simple, you stupid popsicle. Waller and I have a little deal see. She gets me intel, and I act as Belle Reve's Guard Dog. Its Cujo, if you will."
Icicle clenched his fist and was shaking slightly in anger. "You think I'm afraid of you! Just try and take us all down! You don't stand a chance!"
The faint red glow from beneath Remnant's hood became marginally brighter as a soft chuckle echoed. "Oh, we'll see about that." With that Remnant allowed himself to fall forward, plummeting straight towards the ground, the assembled criminals were surprised when he just went right through the ground.
Freeze was the first to react, "Where did that brat go!" He turned around when he heard a strange groan. Blockbuster was holding his head as if in pain. "Snap out of it, you big oaf!"
When Blockbuster turned towards Freeze, the ice villain involuntarily took a step back as the behemoth gave a savage grin as his eyes glowed a bright red. "What's the matter chrome dome?" Freeze attempted to shout a warning but was interrupted as Blockbuster's fist rocketed into him, sending him flying into a group of minor villains that hadn't been paying attention.
At this point the rest of the villains turned towards Blockbuster and shivered slightly as a maniacal echoing laugh came from the monster's mouth. Icicle just glared at Blockbuster in cold fury. "Possession, huh? Just how many powers do you have boy."
Electricity echoed across Blockbuster's body as Remnant strolled out of it. "More than what I told Waller when I first came here… And you know… There are only a few things that I hate being called. You just hit that list." With that last word, Remnant disappeared from sight again only this time rather than someone being possessed, someone went flying through the air and collided heavily with the wall.
With a twitching eye Icicle shouted, "I don't care who does it! Somebody kill that bastard!"
Before anyone could follow through on that order, a faint beep sounded out in the hall. And before anyone could react any con who was still wearing their inhibitor collar collapsed to the ground, convulsing slightly from the electric charge that the collars gave off. Remnant reappeared looking around with a bored look on his face, "Well there goes most of my workout…"
All that remained of the villains was Mammoth and Icicle Senior himself. "NO! No, no, no, No! This was supposed to be the greatest jailbreak in history."
"If it makes you feel any better, it is history. Just as the worst one." Remnant's echoing voice was filled with sarcasm and fake pity and Icicle could practically see the faint sign of a superior smirk from underneath his hood.
With a roar of anger Mammoth charged at Remnant, only to get by a pale blue blast which pushed him back a few feet. But as the oversized mutant tried to move towards Remnant again, he found that ice was creeping along his body, keeping him in place. Mammoth gave one last roar before the ice finished its path and Mammoth was left completely encased in ice.
Remnant turned towards the angry shaking Icicle Senior and spoke in a tight voice. "Now, it's just you and me, icy."
Icicle didn't say a word, he just slowly raised his arm and fired an ice blast from the strange device he had smuggled in. Remnant responded with an ice beam of his own and a second ice mist filled the room as both combatants squared off against one another. The ice blasts collided against one another and exploded, Icicle had a concentrated expression on his face as he directed the machine at full power, Remnant stared expressionlessly at the collision point as he slowly added more power to his cryogenic attack. Suddenly a red glow came from Remnant's unoccupied hand and Icicle glanced at it worriedly before he returned his attention to the ice that was slowly over powering his machine. The second he looked away from Remnant's other hand a glowing red beam struck Icicle, causing Remnant's ice blast to overtake his own and he was encased in ice.
Remnant then walked over towards the cell that Waller was in and unlocked the gate. "Hello Warden. It's been a while since our last talk. Hasn't it?"
Waller nodded neutrally, she knew Remnant wouldn't hurt anyone so long as he got what he needed. "Unfortunately I was only able to get a bit more information since our last talk."
Remnant nodded in equal with her, he had suspected that there wouldn't be much information a human could get him, but he had figured that he would try all avenues. "I'll be leaving soon then. But I suspect one last information exchange is needed, agreed?" He cocked his head slightly to the side as if in question, though he knew her answer.
She nodded, "The only new information I have is more than twenty years old. Is that acceptable?" At Remnant's nod she continued, "The name you provided me with, made its first appearance alongside a spectral criminal known as The Gentleman Ghost. He only appeared a few more times over the twenty years following his first appearance but became extremely active four years ago until he vanished two years later. And that's all I could dig up, what information are you offering me?"
"A full status on the prison for starters. The male ward has been locked down, the Riddler was attempting to escape through a corridor near my cell and is currently in a block of ice. Mammoth and Icicle Senior are both frozen as well. Two are unaccounted for but they won't cause any trouble." At Waller's skeptical glare Remnant elaborated, "One reactivated the collars while Junior probably thinks that the collars got deactivated."
Waller raised an eyebrow and said, "I didn't realize that Icy Junior was that easily susceptible to suggestion." She turned towards the resident psychologist, Hugo Strange, and said, "You may need to increase your sessions with Mr. Mahkent."
Strange began to nod before Remnant grabbed his arm roughly and spoke in his usual echoing voice. "Which brings me to the second scrap of info I had for you. The conspirators that assisted with the smuggling." Waller's eyes widened slightly before her eyes narrowed at Strange who was struggling vainly against Remnant's super strength. "A guard by the name of Wilcox oversaw the transportation of the devices that the ice villains were using while Dr. Strange here was the key planner alongside Icicle Senior."
Waller gestured to the other guard beside her, who was still staring at Remnant disbelievingly, to handcuff Strange as she turned her full attention to Remnant. "I'll admit, when you first proposed this little arrangement to me, I doubted your abilities. But seeing you take command of the prisoners while feeding me information proved that you had what it takes to get things done. I'm sure the League would want someone with your abilities among them."
Remnant gave a dark chuckle. "The second anyone figures out what I am, I'll be hunted all over again. No, I'm getting my revenge and more than likely leaving after that. Which brings me to my last order of business here. I'll wrap things up in the Female Ward but I can't guarantee everything went as well over there as it did over here."
"I understand, it was interesting working with you… What is your name anyway? Your real name anyway? In this entire year, you've only told me to call you Remnant. I can harbor a guess that you intend it to mean something."
Hollow shook his head, "Just a Remnant of a bad past… and an even worse future." With those cryptic last words Remnant left the room, heading towards the Female Ward.
Belle Reve Penitentiary – Female Ward
September 18th – 19:39
"Get out of the way!" Killer Frost was glaring at her partner, Devastation, in annoyance. The two seemed to ignore her as they continued struggling "Oh, fine. I'll ice you both!" She then fired twin beams of cryogenic energy at the pair only to hit Devastation only. 'Tommy' ran forward pushing the Devastation ice sculpture as fast he could ramming into Frost hard and knocking her back.
"Dude! What are you thinking? Oh…" Junior ran into the room at the sound of the fight and then saw what had sent his friend into a rage. "Oh, dude… I'm sorry." He was silent for a moment before he unwisely opened his mouth again, "And she was such a total babe too."
"Not very tactful, are you Junior." The two boys and the semi-conscious Frost turned towards the massive hole in the wall where Remnant was casually leaning against the wall. "But then again, I can hardly blame you. After all your father is an idiot."
Junior turned rigidly towards Remnant and saw the low glare he was sending him. Junior slowly backed away from him, "Remnant, dude. How's it going?"
Remnant just seemed to stare at him before he shook his head, "Go back to your cell Junior, I'd rather not waste more time breaking you." Junior's eyes widened before he glared hard at him.
"What did you do?"
"The warden has resumed control of the other ward, and your father is encased in ice. Trust me Junior, it'll be much easier on you if you just go back to your cell." When Junior didn't move, Remnant just shook his head. "Last chance, ice pop."
Junior rushed at Remnant with a look of sheer determination on his face… that turned to a look of confusion when he ran right through him. The look on his face changed one last time to an expression of pain as Hollow hit him in the back of his neck. He turned and saw that Tommy was about to shatter the giant ice pillar that housed his 'sister.' "I wouldn't do that if I were you." Tommy stopped for a split second before he turned towards Remnant with hate in his eyes. "If you try and get her out of there like that, then you'll shatter her into a million little pieces."
A small cough caught their attention and they turned towards Killer Frost who was scowling and looked like she wanted to kill one of them. "Would one of you care to tell me what's going on." She was impatiently tapping her foot while a ball of ice formed and faded within one of her hands.
Hollow tilted his head and said, "I'm leaving and the prison break was foiled, anything else?"
Killer Frost blinked slowly as if trying to understand the overly simple statement before she strode confidently towards Remnant and looked at him in what she assumed to be his eyes. "You're taking me with you." At his silence she continued, "I'm sick of this place and you ruined my escape plans, so you owe me."
Tommy looked at the two disbelievingly. From what he understood as to what had happened, Remnant had somehow ruined the break out (which was fine with him, he'd rather not have to deal with Frost at the moment, even though he wants to rip her apart for what she did to Megan). He knew that he had been the one to reactivate the inhibitor collars but it would seem that Remnant had taken Icicle Senior down at some point. And now Frost was demanding him that he take her with him. Tommy shook his head, surely if Hollow was actually good then he would leave her behind right?
Remnant stayed silent for another moment before he spoke, "On two conditions." Tommy looked at him incredulously. "First you listen to everything I tell you, you disobey me and I throw you back in here." Frost scowled but nodded her assent. "Next, dissolve your ice."
The two conscious occupants blinked slowly not really believing his words. Tommy because this man was willing to free an extremely dangerous psychopath, Frost was surprised because both requests weren't all that hard, so long as he didn't have her saving kittens and helping Superman, then she was good with him.
She nodded to him and with a snap of her fingers the ice surrounding Tuppence Terror shattered. Remnant then turned to Tommy, "See you another time kid." A swirling green portal opened up behind him and he walked into the swirling portal and Frost quickly followed after him as the portal closed behind them.
I apologize for going into a rant at the beginning there but it needed to be done, I'll see everyone at my next chapter posting whether it be here, at Project Phantom, or even somewhere new. After all you did get this chapter two days before I said you would.
(Author's Note = Roughly 1,000 Words this time around...)