You guys… make me… SO DARN HAPPY!
*Tears up* I've had so many people put this on their story alert and favorite me as an author! So all I can say is… THANKS!
In celebration, everyone gets a mini-Cujo! :D
*Millions of tiny Cujo's appear and begin woofing*
WHO WANTS ONE?
Disclaimer:
Dani: OHA does not own Danny Phantom or Young Justice, because her allowance can obviously not afford it. Plus, she'd ruin both shows if she did own them.
Me: HEY!
Dani: What? It's true!
Me: -_-'
BTW: On wikipedia, for Young Justice, it says they released a comic series based on the show itself. The first issue is supposedly about Superboy and Wally/Kid Flash killing time while their mentors set up Mount Justice for them and all. Well, they never said anything about Robin! And since Dani's staying with him, she's obviously hanging out with Robin! XD
But before I get to the main part about the chapter, I have to back up to where I left off in the last chapter.
-Line-break-
-In the Bat-mobile-
"So, Dani, how old are you?" Robin asked. Said ghost girl was sitting directly across from him, munching on some chips that Robin had tossed her.
Dani shrugged. "I'm turning 13 in a couple of weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to celebrate with my family."
"So… what's your family like?" Robin actually was curious. Dani seemed so normal for what Robin thought was a ghost, he wondered what living as a dead person was like.
Dani cracked a smile. "I have to honestly say, it's pretty screwed up. What I am, is actually not even supposed to exist."
"But, your a ghost? And from the way you've been going on, ghosts are pretty common where you live."
Dani let out a sigh. "I'm not… actually ghost. I'm a halfa."
Batman, who had been silent up till now, put the car on autopilot and joined the teenagers in the backseats. "What is a halfa?" he asked.
Dani looked around nervously. "People can't see inside, right?"
Robin nodded. "Their tinted and made so we can look out, but no one can look in."
"Okay then. Let me stand up." Dani fumbled with the seat buckle before standing up, swaying a little as the car sharply veered left. "Just… just promise you won't experiment on me." She pleaded quietly.
Batman and Robin shared a glance before nodding. Dani bowed her head, and a bright white-blue light appeared around her waist, making Robin jump. The ring slowly split in half, traveling in different directions before disappearing around Dani's head and feet.
Robin, and even Batman stared. The two-piece black and white haz-mat suit had… changed. Now a blue sweatshirt was in place of the top-piece, and red capri's replaced the black and white pants. White boots were now blue on white sneakers, and a red beanie was nestled on Dani's now pitch black messy ponytail. Dani slowly opened her eyes, and the dynamic duo were startled by the icy-blueness of them.
Dani carefully chose her words. "A halfa is a… half-human, half-ghost hybrid. I'm one of three in existence, in probably three worlds now. My human world, the Ghost Zone where ghosts live, and this world." Dani paused as she waited for the other two humans to respond.
"Uh…" Batman cleared his throat. "Who are the other two?"
"My dad, and our arch-enemy, the one who killed me when I was a baby." Dani shrugged. "It's apparently a small world after all."
At that moment, the Bat-mobile stopped.
"We're here!" Robin announced.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you ROBIN! Master of the 'duh!'" Dani muttered. Robin just stuck out his tongue in response, before suddenly asking a question.
"Hey, what's your secret identity?"
"Danielle Jackie Fenton, daughter of Daniel Jack Fenton." Dani smirked at Robin's expression.
"Why do you have the same name as your father?" Batman asked, and Dani's face fell.
"I'm exactly like Superboy. I'm a… clone. Or at least, I was supposed to be one."
-Inside the Wayne Manor; Living Room-
Dani sat on a chair facing the fireplace with a blanket wrapped around her shoulders. Alfred handed her a mug of hot cocoa, which she gratefully accepted.
"So, then. Why don't you tell us more about you?" Batman, now Bruce Wayne said, settling onto the couch opposite Dani. Robin, now Dick Grayson, joined him.
Dani stretched a little before replying. "Well, it's kinda long…"
"Aw, come on, Dani!" Dick whined, acting like a little kid.
Dani stuck out her tongue, to which Dick copied, causing an all-out evil face war between the two while Bruce and Alfred watched on amused.
Finally, Bruce quietly coughed, ending the face war abruptly.
"Er… right." Dani rubbed the back of her neck. "My story. Well first, I have to go back 20 years. My grandparents, Jack and Maddie Fenton, in college, had a friend named Vlad Masters. Jack and Vlad were both madly in love with Maddie, and did everything to impress her, while still being best buddies. Maddie was torn between the two, so it could go either way.
"Jack, Maddie, and Vlad were all interested in ghosts. At least, Jack and Maddie were, Vlad was just trying to impress Maddie. Together, the trio made a ghost portal, or at least a prototype. A ghost portal is basically a door between the mortal world, and the Ghost Zone, where ghosts live. Unfortunately, Jack wasn't the most… dexterous person. Instead of fuel, he put diet soda in the machine, causing it to randomly blast. Vlad Masters was in front of the ghost portal at the time, and got blasted in the face, giving him ecto-acne, which is pretty much ghost pimples.
"Horribly disfigured, Vlad left college and Maddie married Jack. Unbeknownst to them, Vlad had been given ghost powers along with ecto-acne. Greedy, Vlad spent the next twenty years robbing banks and possessing company owners to hand over rights to him so he became a billionaire by the time Jack and Maddie's second child Danny-my dad- was 14.
"Now we flash back to two years ago. Jack and Maddie Fenton are now the parents of 16-year-old Jazz Fenton, and 14-year-old Danny Fenton. Going back to their college days, Maddie and Jack build another ghost portal, only MUCH bigger. On the day it's to be activated, they gather their family of four and Danny's two best friends to watch the portal be plugged in and…. fizzle and die. My grandparents trudge away disappointed, my aunt who at the time didn't believe in ghosts just rolled her eyes, and Danny + friends just walk away. However, my Dad's best friend, Samantha "Sam" Manson-my mom- convinces Dad to put on a white and black jumpsuit and go into the portal.
"Because it's my mom, Dad gives in and goes in. He trips, puts a hand on the wall to steady himself, and realizes he pressed a button. It turns out my Grandpa put the 'On' button inside the machine. Dad gets electrocuted with ghost energy, and stumbles out with snow white hair, glowing green eyes, and ghost powers. He and Vlad are now the only halfas in the world.
"Vlad eventually finds out about my Dad and tries to get him to join him. But by that time, my Dad had chosen the life of a superhero, and Vlad is a supervillian. Vlad reveals his main goals in life: Marry my grandma, kill my grandpa, have my dad as a son, ignore my aunt, buy a famous football team, and now give me a painful death by ripping me apart molecule by molecule.
"Anyway, how I come along: Vlad, about a year after my dad gets his powers, decides to place matters in his own hands. Dad won't join him, but maybe a clone will. Vlad got a ghost hunter to collect DNA from my dad. Sadly for him, he only got my dad's ghost side DNA. He needs human DNA to make a halfa. So, he takes some DNA from Danny's best friend that's a girl, Sam to supply the human half, getting me. But Vlad isn't exactly the smartest cookie in the jar. He apparently didn't realize when you take a man and a woman's DNA, you don't get a clone…"
"You get a child." Bruce finished.
Dani nodded. "Exactly. So, when I was 'born', my human half had overwhelmed my ghost half making me fully human. But the ghost side was still in me, so Vlad decided the best way to get powers to show is through pain." Dani grimaced. "Let's just say it hurt to get my ghost powers. Anyway, I had been injected with this fast-growing substance like Superboy. But, while Superboy is only 16 weeks old to become the equivalent of a 16-year-old, it took me 6 months to become a almost-13-year-old. This is probably because my ghost side is unstable, as it was forced to show, so even just using my powers melted me. Forcing me to grow quickly probably would have made me explode into a puddle of goo."
"Wait, what to you mean by melted?" Dick asked.
"It means I literally 'came apart at the seams'. Before I was stabilized, I'd sometimes wake up with no legs." Dani frowned. "It sucked."
"Another reason why I'm not older: About six months ago the accelerated growing stopped, allowing me to age normally, like Superboy. But there's still more to tell. As I was raised by a supervillian… I was evil for a couple of months. I didn't commit crimes or anything. Anyway, when I was 5 1/2 months old, I was sent to kidnap my dad so Vlad could get his mid-morph DNA. Mid-morph meaning Danny's DNA when he was in-between going from human to ghost. I thought it was to stabilize me and the other clones, but it was really so Vlad could have the perfect clone son. Turns out he was gonna trigger some sort of meltdown in my body as well as the other clones so we'd melt into nothing after he got his perfect clone son, the jerk. But luckily, he didn't get that far." Dani smirked. "And it's his own fault."
"I managed to knock out Dad after posing as his third cousin, and Vlad brought us to his lab in Colorado. I turned invisible and eavesdropped when I was supposed to leave, so I got to here Vlad call me a mistake, stupid, freak and waste of space, which ticked me off. I confronted him, but he managed to convince me he didn't mean it. Dad escaped, talked to me, tried to convince me to let him go, but I ignored him. Then I realized I was melting when Dad pointed it out, and I freaked. Vlad managed to knock Dad out again, and I reverted to human form to save energy.
"Vlad put Dad back in the cloning chamber, and ordered him to change into ghost form. Dad refused, so Vlad ordered the last living clone besides me to possess Dad and force him to change. Dad was to strong, and the clone died from the effort. Vlad then turned to me and said to do the same thing, even though I'd been standing there the whole time. I hesitated, and Vlad grew angry." Dani winced a little.
"He said, 'YOU STUPID LITTLE GIRL! YOU EXIST TO SERVE ME, JUST DO IT!'. Jerk. He also, uh…" Dani made a slapping motion in the air in front of her and shrugged. "Well… I AM a Fenton, and Fentons don't like being ordered around. I set Dad free, and we kicked Vlad's butt. Dad's friends show up, I leave, blah blah blah.
"A couple months later, I arrive back in Amity, dying. My ghost half had officially begun to melt, and I needed more DNA or something before my ghost half melted out of existence. If my ghost half goes, so does my human half. Vlad managed to find out I was in Amity Park, and I got captured by a ghost hunter and got the lucky chance to be tortured for five hours straight by Vlad! HOORAY! Anyway, Dad and the Ghost Hunter that captured me show up and beat the crap out of Vlad. I manage to ignore the torture, and I tell Dad I love him, that I'm sorry I have to leave him, I'm glad that he tried, and all that stuff. Dad flips out and tries to hold my face, but I literally turn into green liquid and slips through his fingers.
"Before I said good-bye and everything, Dad sprayed me with an invention my grandparents made that accidentally makes ghost stronger. It manages to kick in at the last possible second and I manage to survive. I resurface to see my dad crying, and I talk to him, totally confused. It's like watching a kid on Christmas Day when he sees me and he pulls me into the tightest bear hug ever, and we kick Vlad's butt. I leave, but I see him a month later when I help him turn the planet intangible to avoid a gigantic asteroid, then I leave again.
"About two months ago, I come back for a visit. After the asteroid, my dad had revealed his secret identity to the world and stuff, so he was super duper famous. But this chapter in the government, the Guys in White, hate ghosts and constantly shoot at my dad whenever he's in ghost form. SO they see me, capture me, and use me as bait to capture my dad. Dad shows up, and beats the crap out of everyone, but not until I get shot. By a bullet. In human form." Dani grimaced and placed a hand on the middle of her chest. "OW is the best word. Apparently, the bullet was covered in some sort of poison, so I lose control of my tongue and I scream 'DADDY!' before I pass out.
"Later, I wake up in Dad's room and lo and behold, there he is. We talk, and we both agree we're father and daughter and stuff, especially after I tell him what I found out about myself from Vlad's research lab in CO. Happy times, blah blah blah, we end up here. Questions?"
All three men-Dick, Bruce and Alfred- stare at her.
"Take a picture, it'll last longer." Dani grumbled after a while.
Alfred blinked, then straightened. "Shall I take Miss. Dani to her room sir?"
Bruce nodded. "Yes. Dick and I shall stay here."
Alfred nodded and led Dani away. Dick could briefly hear Dani ask if she could take a shower, but it didn't register in his brain. He was still staring in shock at the place Dani had been sitting in.
"Dick? Are you okay?" His foster father asked.
Dick just mutely nodded before clearing his throat. "I-It's not fair, Dad. Dani had to go through so much to finally get a family she loved, and then she just got… snatched away from it by that stupid portal!"
Bruce's eyes were sad. "I know, Dick. I know."
"What can we do then? What can i do?"
Bruce paused before he began speaking, choosing his word carefully. "I think… I think you and Young Justice are going to have to be Dani's family for the time being."
"But, she'll leave, won't she?"
"Dick… it was a one in a millionth chance Dani ended up here. The probability of her ending back home, in her time period, is next to nothing. Dani may be here forever."
"Do we tell her?"
"Would you want to know?"
Bruce's question surprises Dick. Furrowing his brow, Dick opened his mouth. "Somehow… no. We shouldn't tell her until she's ready. When she knows she can trust us, and we can be a family to her. Me, Young Justice, and you. Is that… the right answer?"
Bruce smiled gently. "In a problem like this, there is no right answer Richard. Each choice has pros and cons. But you are right. We can help her get settled, and finally accept her fate." Bruce stood up. "Now get some rest, son. The Justice League and I will have to be renovating your HQ tomorrow, so I trust you to help Dani get used to her surroundings. Go to the mall or something."
"But Da-a-d," Dick fake whined. "That's where you go on a date."
Bruce smirked. "I know."
Woo hoo, Bruce is trying to hook up Dick with a nice girl! XD
SO yeah… the comic book inspired chapter mentioned in the A/N will apparently be in the next chapter! Okay then! XD
So then, no Wally, Kaldur, Connor in this chap, but we did have some secret identities revealed! XD
After hearing Dani's story, I honestly think Bruce-or at least Dick-would be willing to share their secret identities. After all, Dani IS staying with them, for now XD
~OHA