Sorry about the late update, I am a Senior in High School so I am having to also work on my Senior Project. I am doing mine with 'Survival in the Wild.' The judges say that I am the only person to do something like this so far so I am very nervous and wanted to please them so I don't make a horrible first impression of this subject. So I might be a bit late in my updates but I will try to get them in on time.

But in other news...for those of you whom are wishing to kill me...a wod of advice *chuckles nervously* kill me and I'll never be able to finish the story or bring Danielle in...So...you might want to think before killing moi, eh? *giggles*

Dan muse: I still think she shouldn't be put in.

Me: Too bad! Deal with it Hot Head!

Dan muse: ...-_-...

Enjoy the story!

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Chapter 25: Double Cross- Part 2

Danny's POV

I trailed after Slade as we walked in the underground tunnels under Jump City. I kept all of my emotions locked up no matter how chaotic they might be so I do not alarm Slade in any way. I could tell that some of the tunnel systems lead to the sewers. I managed to keep myself from jumping or flinching with the sounds of water dripping from the ceiling.

We walked in silence with only the sound of our footsteps and the dripping water echoing around us, making me tenser. After walking for about 10 minutes I noticed that he were now approaching a metal door at the end of the tunnel.

I kept a few paces behind Slade so that I could keep an eye on the creep. I don't trust him. Even if he is supposed to have a Time Portal to help me save my family, he was still a creep and a villain.

We came to a stop in front of the door and Slade reached over to a control panel next to it and typed in a few numbers. When the door slid open, Slade stepped to the side and gestured for me to go in first. I glared at the man from under my hood as I cautious passed him and walked into the room. I stopped 5 steps into the room and looked around. The room was about the size of a grand ball room in one of those old fancy movies about the past with kings a queens.

The only light in the room was coming from the open door behind me as it filtered into the overly large room. I scanned the room, landing on the Time Portal on the other side of the room.

I flinched when the doors behind me slammed shut, leaving me in darkness.

I lifted my hands out of my cloak, careful not to let it fall open, and lit my hands with ecto-energy for light.

The small make shift light sadly didn't illuminate very much. I could only see in a twenty foot circumference. I slowly walked forward my green eyes scanning the area around me.

I continued to walk forward till I saw the Portal appear in front of me. I paused 15 feet away from it, my eyes narrowed.

There was a duo of claps behind me, then the place was lit up with lights that were handing from the ceiling like chandeliers. I dropped my hands, letting my ecto-energy go out, and turned around to see Slade standing behind me, his hands raised in front of him. He was the one who clapped.

"This is my lair. And that is the Time Portal." Slade said. He dropped his own hand and placing them behind his back. The man reminded me so much of Vlad that it was creepy.

I looked back at the Portal that was now fully visible since the lights were on. It looked just like it had in the clip that Slade showed me only an hour ago. Only difference is that there was no Slade-bots around. "Your robots are already finished with the touch ups?"

"Yes. They finished up not very long ago. We are the only ones here now."

I nodded my head slowly as I walked up to the Time Portal and gentle brushed my hands over the closed doors.

"So when can I use the portal to get my family back?" I asked slowly, not turning around so Slade couldn't see my smug smirk. I so badly wanted to break into hysterical laughter. "I would like to get them back as soon a possible." I said, managing a calm voice.

"That's what you think, Daniel." Mocked a voice from behind me, which did not belong to Slade.

I whipped around at the sound of the voice my eyes wide with shock.

Vlad Plasmius.

Vlad was standing a few feet off to the side of Slade, whom was now looking highly amused and interested.

I growled at him. "What are you doing his Plasmius?"

Vlad laughed with such malevolence that it sent shivers down my spine. "Why the same reason you are my boy. To go back in time. But instead I will be heading back to my collage days so that after the oaf of a father of yours blast me with that damned portal, so that I can keep my ghost powers, and kill him, making sure that I get Maddie as my own."

I growled at him. "Your really are a sick and twisted up fruitloop. I will NOT be letting that happen!"

Vlad smirked, his read eyes narrowed with evil glee. "Oh is that so? You still think you can beat me? Both me AND Slade, whom by the way set you up so that I may get you down here and kill you myself before I go back in time." He crackled at that folding his arms over his chest. "And you out numbered dear boy. The Teen Titans are dead by YOUR hands so your all alone." He said with mock sympathy.

Why was I not surprised? I will never know. Maybe villains now a days are just so dang predictable. They must be losing their touch.

I felt a smirk spread across my face. "You still think you have a chance at my mother and beating me? Face you fruitloop. You can't kill me! You have tried again and again to kill me in the past but it keeps failing!"

Vlad's eyes narrowed at me his fangs bared in a growl. "You batter watch who you're talking to you Rat!"

I chuckled and reached up pulling the hood of my cloak off my head so that Vlad could see my one bright green eye that was not covered by my hair. "And just who am I talking to? An over obsessed fruitloop that can't get over that he still needs a cat, he will never be able to kill me AND that my mother loved my father more than she ever will YOU."

Vlad snarled and leaped at me with an enraged growl, his hands alight with his pink ecto-energy.

I threw back my head and laughed. I couldn't help it. I felt like a maniac with my own satisfaction. Oh please! I thought, honestly sounding a bit like my evil self. This is WAY too easy. I stepped aside and Vlad zipped right past me. "Too slow, Plasmius." I smirked at him. I grabbed his cape the twisted around and flung him across the room. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Slade take a few steps back into the shadows to watch the fight.

Vlad flew several dozen yards away before skidding to a stop and glaring at me. For a few seconds we only stared at each other. Till Vlad broke it by laughing. "My dear boy, you truly have gotten better haven't you? Makes me wish that I could turn you into my apprentice instead. But I've given up with that. You have foiled my plans far too many times for my liking."

I narrowed my eyes at him my smirk vanishing and turning into a scowl. "And you have cross me far to many times for my liking either Vlad. You're not getting your hands on that Time Portal."

Vlad smirked. "And just how do you plan to stop me? Eh little boy?" He taunted. His blood red eyes mocking me.

I glared at him before slowly shifting my eyes to the Portal a total of 50 feet away. I gnawed on my lips in thought before smirking slightly. "I know a perfect way."

Vlad raised an eyebrow at me. "Oh. Enlighten me boy. What would that be?"

I looked back at Vlad and glared at him. "This." I raised my hand out from under my cloak and fired.

"NO!" Vlad and Slade yelled at the same time as my high power green ecto-blast slammed into the Portal doors, blowing it up. The lights of fire from the explosion brighten the room and shook it slightly.

I felt the air leave my lungs when Vlad teleported in front of me and punched me in the stomach with so much force that I heard a rib crack. I went flying backwards and slammed into the wall crumpling to the ground with a loud thump and landing on my cracked rib. I cried out in pain and curled up into a ball slightly from the agony of the rib poking my lung. I cracked and eye open and looked over to see Vlad stalking towards me through the pain filled haze that covered my eyes. Vlad's red eyes were beyond furious. He was past the point of rage.

He was livid.

I knew I needed to act fast. I reached up for the green stone on my cloak and grabbed it, lighting my hand up with ecto-energy. I only had a hold of it for 5 seconds before Vlad grabbed me by the front of my cloak and shirt, hulling my up to my feet.

"I'm going to make you wish you had never done that." He hissed out venomously. "And what makes you think your parents would accept you? Remember dear boy. They're ghost hunters. They hate ghost like you."

I chuckled. "Oh yeah? that what were you planning to tell mom if you were ever going to change the past? You're a ghost too."

Vlad nodded. "True. But I will change your mother's opinion of me earlier so she can accept me. Ghost or human." He narrowed his eyes at me. "But oh well. The Time Portal might be destroyed but I can always get Slade to make another one."

I glared at him. "I'll stop both of you before that happens."

Vlad laughed and punched me in the stomach again. I couldn't stop the pain whimper that escaped my lips, but I still glared at Vlad.

"Oh and what about your dear Ms. Samantha Manson, hmm? Do you think that she will want you?" Vlad said mockingly as he reached up with his free hand and grabbed my hair in a painful grip. "With this scar of yours, I wouldn't be surprised if they all turned their backs on you."

I glared at him, a pang in my heart. I honestly never thought about my family turning away from me because of a scar. I know my family would still want me…but what about Sam?

Vlad must have seen the doubt in my eyes because he smirked even wider. "Yes. I know that you love Ms. Manson. She is a rather very pretty girl even as a Goth."

I glared at him, his word still ringing in my ears as I punched him in the face. He let go of my cloak and took a step back in surprise. I landed back down on my feet and glared at him with anger. "Don't you DARE ever talk about Sam like that again!" I growled at him my hands clenched into tight fist.

Vlad's teeth were bared, his eyes narrowed. I didn't even have the chance to brace myself when he punched me in the stomach again, sending flying into the air slamming into the ceiling before falling back down with some rocks and stones that broke free. I slammed into the ground hard again turning intangible at the last second to keep from getting crushed under a falling wall of solid ceiling cement.

I pushed myself to my feet and turned around just in time to bring up a shield when Vlad fired an ecto-blast at me. The Energy bounced harmlessly off my shield.

Come on, come on, Come on!

I thought impatiently as I watched Vlad assaulted my shield with a stream of ecto-blast. I was waiting for my rib to heal some before I went full out against Vlad. I'm also waiting for-

BANG!

The whole room vibrated and threw me off my feet. I looked over to see Vlad and Slade in the same predicament as me. Sitting on my ass of the floor. Only difference is I held a grin on my face while theirs held shock and surprise.

"We miss anything?" Asked Robin as he dropped down from the huge hole in the ceiling followed by Starfire, Raven, Cyborg and Beastboy.

"Nope." I said as I pushed myself up to my feet and brushed dirt of my pants and sleeves. "Just waiting for you guys to arrive to that We can kick some butt. You in?"

Cyborg charged up his arm cannon, Starfire's hands lit up with her own green energy, Robin pulled out his bow staff, Beastboy morphed into a T-Rex and Raven just levitated a few more feet off the ground.

"Ready as ever." Robin said with a grin.

"But HOW!" I heard and enraged yell from behind me.

I turned to see Slade and Vlad standing with shock on their face.

I rolled me eyes and, for the first time since my fight with Raven in Town, opened my cloak. I watched as Slade and Vlad's gaze slide down my body, coming to a stop at my belt.

The Green Stone was missing.

I crackled at their stunned faces. "You HONESTLY thought that I would kill the Titans just to get my loved ones back? You guys real low of me. While I was in that dust cloud with Raven, instead of fighting her I gave her my plan. Then I dropped the stone and the hologram I wanted appeared while she phased through the ground. Just before the building collapsed on the rest of the Titans she shielded them then teleported them all away."

Vlad was the first on to reply. "But how!"

I groaned and resisted the urge to rub my temples. "The green stone on my belt had many uses. One of them happened to be able to create illusions or holograms. Lovely little piece of technology, wouldn't you say?" I mocked with an evil grin of my own at the two villains before me.

"You-you RAT! You tricked us!" Vlad screeched in rage, pointing at me with his black gloved finger.

I chuckled. "Yes. Yes I did." I crossed my arms over my chest and gave my future self's 'greater than thou' stance. "I guess I deserve a cookie, don't I?"

Vlad screeched in anger again, and Slade just looked plain ol' pissed off at me.

I glanced at Robin with a smile. "Would you do the honors?" I asked, bowing low at the waist and sweeping my hands towards the two bad guys.

Robin grinned and let out their signature battle cry. "Titans GO!"

All hell broke loose.

The Titans attacked Slade, while I went after Vlad.

Vlad leapt at me the same time that I jump for him. We lit our hands with ecto-energy and out fist collided with each other's face, sending us both backwards a few feet.

I recovered just a tad bit quicker and I full out body tackled Vlad and punched him in the sternum. I hearing his breath come out in a whoosh of air as I knocked the wind out of him.

Vlad reached out and grabbed hold of my throat and squeezed. I gasped out reached up gripping at the hands that were wrapped around my throat, bruising the pale skin, and threatening to brake my neck. I grabbed hold of his wrist and covered his arms in ice.

Vlad yelped at the cold and let go of my neck and quickly melted the ice with his fire abilities.

I turned intangible and phased through the floor looking for something to use. I saw a metal bar lying on the ground and grabbed it, phasing back up. I appeared behind Vlad who was staring at the ground that I vanished through before with a cautious expression, his eyes narrowed.

"Hey, Cheese-head!" I yelled and swung the bar downward, connecting it with his shoulder. Vlad howled in pain and turned around blasting me in the chest with his pink plasma-ray. I flew backwards and flipped in the air once to correct myself. Vlad flew at me and punched me in the face sending me sailing backward once again, my legs started to get tangled in my cloak.

I landed on the ground then reached up and unhooked the green stone on my cloak, allowing the material to flutter to the ground around me feet. "Much better." I muttered to myself as I launched myself back into the air.

Now that I no longer had my cloak to restrict my movements or be a haphazard to my fighting, I glided through the air like a rocket, going at my top speed of 200 mph and slammed into Vlad, shoulder to ribs.

Vlad fell to the ground and left a small crater in his wake. I glanced over at the Titans and saw Beastboy still in the form of a T-Rex try to take a bite out of their villain. Slade ducked out of the way and punched him in the jaw managing only to twist Beastboys head to the side slightly. Cyborg was aiming his arm cannon at Slade but didn't fire in case of hitting BB. Raven was flying above ripping chucks of ceiling out of the wall getting ready to fling it at him. Robin was in the process of charge at him with his bow stick.

Talk about Team Work.

I turned my attention back to Vlad who was now standing up in the crater and taking off, flying strate for me.

"Oh. I dont have time for this." I grubbled then took a deep breath. I saw Vlad hesitate mid air his eyebrows creased with confusion. Perfect.

I wailed as hard as I could at Vlad. Vlads eyes widdened when he saw the green waves heading straight for him, but didn't have time to get himself out of the way or teleport. The green waves slammed into him pinning him to the wall behind me. I faintly could hear the room around me began shaking from the pressure of having my strongest move being used within it.

I wailed as long as I dared, with the safety of the Titans still in mind. When I stopped I saw Vlad lying unconscious on the ground half buried within a pile of debris. I slowly floated to the ground, panting heavily, almost completely drained of energy.

When I touched down on the ground I looked over and saw the Titans walked towards me, Slade nowhere in sight.

"Where is Slade?" I asked, my voice hoarse from wailing.

"Escaped. He ran when you used your Ghost Wail. He must have realized he lost." Robin said as he stopped a few feet away from me with a smile. "Glad to see you're still on the good side."

I chuckled softly. "Never planned on leaving it." I straitened up and walked over to my cloak a few yards away and picked it up. I dusted it off before slinging it back around my shoulders and clipping it into place. I walked back over to them with a smile of my own.

I paused for a second and looked over at the destroyed Time Portal. I felt a small wave of depression come across me.

But it was for the best.

Maybe now is a Time for new beginnings.

I turned back to the Titans as the smile came back and joined them in their small circle as they celebrated their victory.

Oh Ghost. You don't know how hard I was laughing throughout this whole chapter xD Oh Ghost that was fun.

Dan muse: And I must agree...You're all probably wishing to hug Rae-Rae right now-OW!

Me: *glares* I told you not to call me that! It's just Rae you Hot Headed jerk!

Dan muse: *Rubs that back of his head* Well you didn't have to hit me for it Tiny.

Me: *Eye twitches* You've gotta problem with being small?

Dan muse: *Smirks* Well there are a few disadvantages...

Me: So? Your point?

Dan muse: *Clears throat and turns back to you* Well, we shall see you all next week. Be sure to leave reviews...Rae-Rae over here- OW! DAMN IT! -like her reviews...AND WILL YOU STOP HITTING ME!

TA!

Rae

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