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SURVIVING THE TITANS!
By: GhostAnn

Chapter Twenty-Seven:

As Robin's command rang out, eerie with its echo quality, the Titan's rushed forward. Danny stood in the mansion watching as the Titan's rushed forward, trembling as he held himself back. "Danny." Sam said placing a hand on his shoulder. He looked to her, and she bit her lip noticing the red swirling in his eyes. "We're starting to move. You need to do your thing."

He nodded. In response. "Right…"

"Danny…" She said slowly, watching as he watched the fighting unfold outside. "Are you sure you're going to be okay?"

He nodded again, more slowly this time. "I'm going to be fine." He said stepping forward and jumping into the air as he fazed through a wall.

Just on the other side he found Valerie and they nodded at each other as they took ahold of a glowing rope. Flying forward they rushed the ghostly villain. Up on the roof, Maddie, Jack, Sam, and Tucker took positions and started firing long distance ecto weapons.

"Faze one: distract and attack." Danny murmured to himself shaking his head as he flew. "Faze two…" He gazed up at the large figure as he and Valerie rushed up under it, catching its feet with the rope.. "Faze two: disarm and capture." As he spun around the legs coming up past the red hunter, he could feel his control slipping. He needed to focus. "Faze one… distract." He repeated. "Faze two…" his eyes glowed a bright green and he shot up letting go of the rope putting energy into his fist. With as much speed and strength as he could muster he connected with the entity's chin. The evil ghost stumbled its legs catching in the rope and tumbled backwards. "Attack!" Danny cried giving it all he had. The Titans and Valerie right there with him.

Slade toppled over crying out in rage. "Damn you!" He roared as he swung at Danny. The boy flew back landing hard on the ground.

Cyborg rushed up to him pushing him up. "You okay Danny?" The young hero asked.

Danny stood. "Yeah, thanks. We need to keep at it."

"Right." Cyborg lifted his cannon and blasted. His body was mended together with electrical tape and wire, a quick fix thanks to Maddie and Jack. It was doing the cyborg well well enough, but he was worried about the integrity of the fix up. Shaking his head he rushed forward blasting away at the large form of Slade's giant ghost body. Slade let out yells of rage as he kicked the boy across the yard.

"Cyborg!" Danny cried as the Titan hit a wall.

"Don't get distracted, little ghost boy." Slade hissed snatching the halfa out of the air and holding him tight in his hand as he made his way back to his feet. "Or would you rather not see your death coming?"

Danny struggled to get out of the giant's grasp. "Let me go!" he cried.

"That's right…" Slade laughed. "Panic, be afraid. Let me control you."

The words made Danny freeze, his mind racing with fear, as the dark hand began reaching deep in his mind again. "No." He growled. "No. I won't let you-"

He gasped as Robin Sliced through the ghost's hand freeing him. He stared at the boy wonder amazed. "You okay?" Robin asked turning to Danny his masked eyes glowing with concern.

"How…?" Danny's words were lost as Robin was swatted aside by Slade's newly formed hand. "Robin!"

How was Robin in so much control? He was full ghost, wasn't he? Danny watched as Robin spun throwing a couple of ghost bombs at Slade. Danny noted the eerie green glowing fog seeping from around the boy wonders form. He frowned. "Is he shielding himself from the signal somehow?"

Danny shook his head, he needed to worry about his own mind right now. Looking up to their enemy he frowned. Slade wasn't showing any signs of weakening. "What? He should be weaker by now." The ghost wasn't however, in fact he looked like he was getting stronger.

Vlad slunk away, slipping into a nearby car. He watched for a moment, taking in the battle. No matter what the outcome was he knew he couldn't stick around. He frowned. "Back to the drawing board." He mumbled turning the engine over. With a quick press to the gas petal he was rocketing down the road away from the chaos. "See if I ever work with anyone again." He mumbled darkly to himself.