Hello my lovely readers, I'm so sorry about last week, a lot of stuff has gone down. My neighbors horse, who I had learned to ride on and was very close to was put down and I was really sad. I had so much home work for school and cross-country practice got in the way and then during my last race I got injured and Let's get on with the story! This chapter is longer to make up for last week (though not by much).

Chapter 5

Danny's POV

"I've totally got this!" Beast Boy yelled.

Cyborg, Beast Boy and I were playing video games and so far I had won 5 out of 7 of our games, Cyborg had won 2 and that left Beast Boy with not a single win. Thanks to Sam teaching me some hints, I was able to keep my head above water.

"Danny." I turned and saw my brother. "Come train with me. Show me what you got!"

I jumped up off the couch, anytime I could get with my brother I took. Transitioning into a public hero was not as easy as I originally thought, but I'm catching on. I ran after my traffic light brother and tagged him as I ran by.

"Last one there has to clean the kitchen!" I yelled running down the hall.

I looked back to see a smile on his face before he ran after me. I grabbed the wall as I turned a sharp corner and sprinted off. When I looked back again though my brother was missing, I slowed a little until I felt something or someone bump my shoulder. I looked over and saw Dick pulling ahead of me. As one last attempt I jumped and tackled him as we reached the door that had just slid open. We crashed to the ground laughing.

"Alright, let's see what you got. No powers this round, just hand to hand."

I nodded my head as we got up and stood in position.

I ran at Dick making it seem like I was going to deliver a punch to his side but at the last moment when he went to grab my fist I let him and used it to help swing myself around and swipe him off his feet. Dick got up and turned to me smiling before he got back into a pose and motioned for me to come again.

I ran straight at him this time aiming for his middle but never connected. Instead he jumped over me doing a flip in the air and landed behind me then lightly kicked me in the back pushing me over.

We went on practicing for what must have been hours before Dick finally noticed me slowing down and called quits. "You're pretty good, who taught you?"

"My adopted mom, she was a ninth degree black belt, and of course the ghost hunting and fighting I did." I replied back.

"That's cool, well let's go see what the others are doing, it is the 4th of July and we all watch the fireworks together." Dick said walking toward the door.

Later that evening we were in the main room celebrating Independence Day waiting for the fireworks to start. I have never seen them like this, in Titans Tower with a great view and no attacking ghosts or crazy parents. Cyborg, Beast Boy and Raven were sitting on the couch.

"This will be great, my first year with no attacking ghosts." I said leaning my arms on the back of the couch.

"Here we go, 10 more seconds!" Beast Boy jumped up and down on the comfy couch.

I watched as the countdown to the fireworks got closer to zero. Right as the clock reached zero though the screen changed and the image of a man with short, bright-red hair and black rimmed glasses with a rounded face.

"Hello my duckies, sorry for the interruption but I'm here to teach you the proper way to live!" He spoke with a heavy British accent.

"Ahh! Mad Mod, how dare he ruin our day." Starfire said floating up and closer to the screen.

"Well we're going to take him down. Titans go!" With the cue from Robin we all took off to catch Mad Mod, who I'm guessing they have fought before or Starfire would have had a different reaction to him.

I noticed first off it was like the whole city was under his mind control; innocent people all over were staring into space. The good thing though was we were able to track Mad Mod into the subway underground. We jumped on the train and caught up to him at the controls.

"Enough Mad Mod you will put the city back the way it was before." Robin stepped forward.

"I don't think so!" Mad Mod said before he pushed a button and a glass wall slid down between us, but before it fully closed, Robin dove under. We all pressed out hands against the glass.

"Times up Mad Mod." Robin grabbed his cane and tried to yank it away.

"Actually it's quite the opposite." Mad Mod responded before he pushed the top of his cane and sparks danced on my brother. I screamed and pounded my hands on the ghost proof glass. When the sparks died down we were all shocked, the bottoms of Robin's shoes were turning to stone.

"What did you do!" I screamed.

"Oh don't worry my duckies; slowly Ol' Robbie here will be turned to stone!" Mad Mod replied with a laugh, He then pulled a lever and the two parts of the train pulled apart and went down separate paths.

"Everyone hang on to me!" I yelled at the last-minute as I saw a dead-end in front of us. I turned intangible and the crash went through us.

"We must get friend Robin back." Starfire said softly.

"Umm, Mad Mod hasn't only got Robin; he's got the whole city!" Beast Boy said pointing to shops and restaurants.

I looked around and almost everyplace had a new sign over the old one and a British flag in the window. We were pulled from our thoughts when we heard marching and saw soldiers, toy British soldiers the size of 4 of me put together.

"Don't look at the hypno screens!" Cyborg yelled. I instantly turned my head and when I looked over everyone else I noticed Beast Boy had looked and was drooling while staring into space.

The Soldiers took aim with their rifles and started firing at us. We All jumped out-of-the-way, re-grouping further down the street.

"OK guys we need a plan, here's what we do; we go out there and fight back! Take back out city, show them we don't fall so easily." Cyborg stood up proudly and smiled.

"What, no way, here's what we should do-" Beast Boy started to say but was cut off by Starfire.

"I say we rescue Robin, and then take down Mad Mod." The red-head girl softly said.

"I say we sneak in and take them out one by one." Raven pitched in.

"What; no way!" I heard Beast Boy start but I dozed off.

I really didn't care as long as we got out city back to normal and I had my brother by my side. I listened to them argue and fight over who's plan to use. Finally Starfire's plan was voted for and we left our make shift hiding place in an alleyway.

"Now where would Robin be?" Starfire looked at every building. "There!" We looked up and saw him sitting in s chair, cuffed to the arms and the stone up to his knees.

Before any of us could stop her, Starfire was flying up to the top. She went to try to hug Robin but went right through him; it was simply a picture to pull us out. The holographic picture of him disappeared, thinking fast I focused my energy and teleported up to her. One of the powers Clockwork helped me with when I stayed with him; took me forever to learn it well enough.

"Come on, we need to get back to the others, this was just a trap." I said as I grabbed her hand and started to fly away. I looked back and saw the place we were just standing burst into flames. Time for plan B. We set foot in front of the others and turned to look at the screen that had appeared. Mad Mod was on the screen, smiling his evil smile.

"Oh to slow my duckies, Ol' Robbie's right here!" He said turning the camera so we could see; the stone was almost up to his waist. "Try this one for size."

About 20 more soldiers marched out and took aim at us. We all dodged the shots in our own way, me going intangible.

"Who agrees with attacking them straight on?" I heard Cyborg yell over the noise as he jumped into battle.

Cyborg charged one soldier knocking him over and went to punch another but hurt himself in the process; didn't he know what kind of metal these soldiers are made of? A really strong metal I didn't remember the name of. Starfire was shooting star bolts until one grabbed her and started to crush her. I flew over, a black and white blur, and sliced through the arms with an ecto sword I made; another useful trick I learned.

"Thank you Danny." Starfire said before we turned to see tanks driving out and taking aim.

Beast Boy turned into a rhino and smashed into one. Another tank shot at us and broke through the wall behind us. Taking the opportunity, we ran out to find another place to hide and change plans.

"Well I guess that leaves my plan." Raven said.

"What about my plan, it would totally work." Beast Boy argued.

"Ok, here's what we do, we need to sneak up to Mad Mod and take him down." Raven talked right over Beast Boy.

Once we knew what we were doing, we all snuck out of our hiding place and went from alleyway to alleyway hiding as best we could. We were doing ok until Beast boy tripped and knocked over a sign. About 10 soldiers came after us and we ran/flew away. The only save place left was city hall, so we camped in there.

"Well, we tried everything, without Robin we are nothing." Cyborg said.

"Hey guys, you still have me. I think I know what we did wrong, we all had great plans but none of us truly worked together to put them all into 1." I spoke up taking charge of the team. If we were going to win this we needed a plan. Luckily I had one that just might work.

After I told them my plan we raced out to see Mad Mod on a float being held by balloons and more soldiers in front.

"OK let's go." I gave the all clear to go.

Starfire shot star bolts at the balloons dropping the float and Cyborg started shooting soldiers with his sonic cannon.

"What do we have here, back for more?" Mad Mod said.

We all jumped into battle, Beast Boy ramming soldiers and Cyborg or Raven crushing them. Starfire would line them up 3 in a row and I would turn intangible and fly through them grabbing as many wires as I could and rip them out. While flying I snuck a peek at Robin; the stone was now up to his chest.

I looked at Beast Boy and nodded for our plan to be set in motion. I turned invisible and watched as Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy and Cyborg then started falling and let the soldiers win, grabbing their arms to hold them.

"Hahaha, you guys just don't get it do you, you can't win, wait where's the black and white one?" Mad Mod said then looked around worried.

"We have not failed yet, Danny now!" Starfire said.

With her say I flew at Mad Mod from behind and pushed him off the float, his cane flying from his hands. I jumped up and caught it. "Times up Mad Mod, it ends now." I said as I pushed the top then snapped the cane in two, the city returning to normal and the soldiers going limp dropping my team. I turned and saw Robin sand up and walk over to me.

"You guys did well, mostly you Danny." Robin said putting his arm around me. "We better make sure Mad Mod stays in jail this time."

We grabbed the crazy Brit and handed his to the police before going back to the tower to rest and finally watch the long-awaited firework show.

Once again thanks for all the reviews I absolutely love getting them and they make me so very happy. And I'm sure that most of you saw(if not go look) I finally got a cover for this story! Thanks so much. And once again I feel horrible for not updating last Sunday.

~Fluffy