Surviving the Titans
By GhostAnn

Chapter 24: Cross

Maddie shifted her right foot forward just slightly strengthening her stance as the building began to shake. A hollow scream muffled its way through the walls and she readied herself to move if the ceiling began to collapse. The ghost she was facing off with looked surprised and a bit frightened by the occurrence.

As the noise started to dissipate Maddie took advantage of the situation and hit the ghost squarely in the chest sending him flying back. Too surprised to faze the Fright Knight collided soundly against the opposing wall.

Maddie placed her foot on the ghost and he immediately felt the effects of her sector deflector course through his armor. With wide eyes he looked up to find himself staring into the barrel of her wrist gun. "Now." Maddie said a very feral like grin crossing her face. "Let's talk."

The Fright Knight swallowed. This did not bode well.

Robin gasped. His vision was blurring between a fog and a terrifying amount of chaos around him. He was starting to get back enough of himself to realize that he was under some kind of mind control- and he knew simply through some unexplainable link that Danny was too. With all he had he tried to fight back. Frustrating enough it wasn't working and even worse the more frustrated he felt the more violent the small bits of what was going on seamed to become. He knew that Danny had knocked out Cyborg, after that terrifyingly powerful sound attack Phantom had loosed the teen's wires were probably crossed. Now the ghost boy was holding Raven up against the wall. Robin screamed, he couldn't take it anymore.

This had to stop!

Valerie wasn't sure what was going on. She knew it was Danny and Robin- but it just couldn't be- they were fighting their friends. This just didn't make sense. Apart of her spoke up in her mind. 'see, ghost are always evil.'

Her eyes narrowed as she watched, she had to do something. She had to stop them- that was her job. Stopping in mid sneak she spotted a man standing off to the side watching the fight take place. She could see he was holding some kind of device. "What is that?" She mumbled, only to jump slightly as Danny shoved Raven up against the wall not too far from her. His expression was blank as Raven struggled in his grasp- his face shifted to that of confusion and worry before the strange man lifted his device and Danny's eyes glowed bright red in response. A dark grin worked its way into the halfas features.

This wasn't good. Valerie could see Raven was in a tight spot- but that thing that the stranger held was obviously apart of not only Danny's strange behavior but Robins as well.

She had to make a choice- get the device from the man and risk Raven getting seriously wounded or worse. Or she could expose herself- save Raven and get caught up in the fight. Neither option seamed all that promising- but destroying that device before she was noticed seemed to be the more likely rout for success. She hated it but she'd just have to trust in the Titans ability to survive the ghost boy's wrath.

As she neared the man, she flinched as Danny landed behind her with a loud crash. Tucker had blasted him away from raven with some kind of lipstick weapon. Valerie tensed as the man looked at her. She could see from the one eye visible in his mask that he was surprised to see her. "Valerie!" Tucker said waving happily at her as he saw her. Almost as if it was completely normal to be in the middle of a small battle field and greeting friends at the same time.

'Don't sound so happy to see me! This is really bad!' Valerie thought as the man took a step toward her. Danny stood shaking his head and glared at her coming up behind her. "I'm so screwed."

As these words left her mouth the man in front of her was sent flying by an ecto blast. Shocked Valerie looked up to see Plasmius. The ghost looked infuriated.

"I should have known you would pull a fast one on me!" The ghost growled.

"Oh don't act so cross- you were plotting behind my back as well." Slade said dusting his shoulders off as he stood. Bending over the man picked up the device he'd dropped. "I just beat you to it."

Vlad bit his lip his eyes narrowing dangerously.

Valerie wasn't sure what to do at this point. She felt cornered and just to amplify that feeling Danny reached around her placing her in a head lock. "Let me go Phantom!" She growled.

He didn't budge. Slade had only ordered him to grab her. Nothing more.

Forced in this strange position, with both the person she loved and hated, she found herself emotionally frustrated. "Danny what the hell are you doing? Do I have to kick some since into your adorably scrawny butt?" Still nothing but she did see something interesting happening behind the two arguing baddys.

AN:

So another chapter done… hope you enjoyed it :D

I know the title for this chapter sucks but I couldn't think of one so I just picked somthin' random… Yay randomness!

Next chapter will be longer- I just haven't had much time or sleep...