Jake stepped into the room and nearly lashed out as something glowing brightly ran in his direction. He stopped himself and saw it was Danny in his ghost form, pacing at a run. Jake glanced at Spud who was already shivering violently. Due to the fire in his body, Jake didn't get cold as quickly as normal humans.

"Danny?" Jake called warily.

"Jake? Hey, I'd greet you properly but I have to keep moving," Danny replied, the teen was shivering as he ran, his arms bound behind his back by metal, green inlay handcuffs. As Jake watched the teen, he saw that there was a thick collar with green detailing on his neck too. The halfa's eyes burned brightly and his body was as bright as the sun. The room's floor was coated with a thin layer of ice.

"We've come to save you. Spud, reckon you can get the cuffs and collar off?" Jake informed the halfa. Spud's teeth were chattering as he considered the devices from afar while Danny continued to pace.

"M-m-maybe. I n-need a b-b-better look," Spud answered. Jake bit his lip.

"I could burn them off. But you'd have to be completely still," Jake offered. Danny stopped pacing and started jumping on the spot.

"Get my cuffs off. But leave the collar. It needs to be removed with care," Danny decided. Jake frowned in confusion as he entered the room.

"Why? I mean you don't want it for something right?" Jake wondered. Danny shook his head as he jumped.

"No. There's a needle in my neck. It's how they extract my energy. I'd prefer to have it removed carefully," Danny explained. Jake gasped and nodded in understanding.

"Hold still. Mouth of the dragon," Jake ordered. Danny froze and let Jake melt the hinges on the cuffs and gently fiddle them off his wrists. The second they were off, Danny resumed running around.

"Thanks. Man my arms are stiff," Danny remarked over his shoulder as he rolled his shoulders and flexed his arms while running.

"Why are you running?" Jake inquired worriedly.

"I have too much energy in my body. The collar usually contains a unit that my energy was siphoned from me into. After I got shot, they didn't replace it. I can't get rid of it any other way," Danny answered.

"You were shot?!" Jake exclaimed.

"In the leg. I was trying to stop Cheshire taking Jimmy. Kinda backfired. It's healed now," Danny elaborated.

"Jimmy?" Jake wondered.

"Ten year old boy genius kidnapped to improve the power units they used to store my energy," Danny supplied. Suddenly there was an explosion and Zatanna ran to the door.

"Don't take off that collar!" she ordered.

"Hey Zatanna," Danny greeted as he paced.

"What? Why?" Jake demanded in confusion.

"It's the only thing holding back Danny's energy. James thinks that if we remove it, Danny might go nuclear on us," Zatanna explained. Jake gasped and involuntarily took a step back from the halfa.

"Could happen actually. But I'm more likely to bring this state into the next ice age to be fair," Danny agreed grimly. He couldn't think properly. His skin itched from the buzzing energy held inside him. The only thing on his mind was getting rid of his energy, staying still was uncomfortable now. He had to keep moving. But the warning did sound right.

"Why didn't you warn me?!" Jake snapped. Danny shrugged as he paced and flexed his arms.

"It's not easy thinking when you're freezing and literally buzzing with energy. When you're ready to make a run for it, tell me. I can't stay still," Danny replied, glancing at Zatanna. She gasped at his neon green eyes. It was like looking into two lightbulbs. She pursed her lips and nodded.

"Guys, Danny's here. He's not injured. But he's told me that he can't stay still. He's agreed with James too about removing the collar being bad," Zatanna told the team over the mind link. Happy that his arms had loosened up, Danny dropped to the ground and started to do push ups.

Spud and Jake glanced at each other before poking their heads out to see how the other three teens were doing. Superboy was charging though the hordes of black clad people clogging up the corridor. Rocket and Artemis were working together by Artemis firing gas arrows and Rocket containing the smoke and a number of people until they passed out in translucent bubbles.

"We're pinned down!" Artemis growled. Zatanna returned to the fight and conjured ropes to tangle and trip people up. Jake bit his lip and gasped as one of the guards broke though and lunged at Spud. Jake ran to his friend's aid and using martial arts he learned from his grandfather, protected the secret teen genius.

Danny rolled onto his back and jumped to his feet. The sounds of the fight reached his buzzing ears and he frowned. He bounced on the spot.

"Fighting is probably a really good way to burn off energy," Danny muttered to himself before grinning.

"And the pay back will be nice too," Danny added. He jogged to the door and, while bouncing on the spot, he scanned the fight. Superboy needed back up. Jake was fine. Spud had Jake protecting him. Artemis, Zatanna and a girl Danny didn't know were at a safe distance from any guards. Danny sprinted forward and jumped over the girls, rolling as he hit the ground. He knew he was being a lot more reckless and energetic than normal, but his body's safety had been forgotten. He had so much energy that injuries would heal rapidly. And if Danny was being honest with himself, getting injured would be a good way of using up excess energy.

He ignored the surprised yelps from the girls and barrelled into the crowd of guards, unable to use his powers he resorted to the martial arts his mother taught him. He didn't even notice how every touch he made, caused the other person to shiver uncontrollably and sometimes frost laced the point he hit. Danny forgot about the five people behind him, he only remembered Superboy because the teen and Danny tended to cross paths. All that mattered was the fighting and using his energy. It wasn't enough and he had to consciously hold himself back a number of times.

Before long the guards had all been subdued and Danny bounced on the spot as he surveyed the damage.

"Thanks for coming you guys," Danny muttered distractedly. Superboy blinked at the halfa.

"No problem Danny. Are you alright?" the clone replied, instantly recalling how the teen had tried to talk to Superman on his behalf. Danny nodded.

"I'll be better when I get rid of all this energy but yeah. I'm okay. Can't wait to get out of here," Danny answered.

"Okay, er this way then," the girl replied.

"Danny," Danny introduced himself. The girl smiled nervously.

"I'm Rocket," she returned.

As a group the seven teens walked through the complex, Danny rushing to the front of the group and then backpedalling to the back before repeating the process. Whoever Danny passed felt a sudden violent shiver.

"Danny, remember what you said to Danielle?" Artemis mumbled worriedly as they walked. Danny nodded distractedly.

"Didn't you say it was dangerous to let your ice powers get out of control?" Artemis continued.

"I did and it is. That's why I'm avoiding touching you guys. It'd be a lot worse without the collar. But then again without this stupid thing my powers wouldn't be this out of whack," Danny confirmed with an angry glare as he rushed back to the end of the group.

"What does the collar do?" Superboy asked.

"Represses my powers, locks my ghost energy in my body. It can't get out, I can't use it. The only way for it to get out is through a needle in the collar which feeds into a power unit. Except there's no power unit in the collar to filter my energy into for condensation and storage," Danny explained as he paced within the group and while he shivered violently.

"There's a needle!?" Rocket exclaimed. Danny nodded.

"I stopped feeling it ages ago. Unless I move my neck too much, it doesn't bother me. It's more the whole repressing my powers thing," Danny replied as he moved.

"Wait, how long have you been wearing that collar?" Jake interjected worriedly.

"They put it on me before they put the bag on my head," Danny answered.

"Bag?" Spud repeated in confusion.

"Yeah, so I wouldn't see where they took me," Danny affirmed.

"You mean when they caught you? You've been wearing that the entire time you've been missing!?" Zatanna realised. Danny nodded, pausing to glance at the group before returning to his pacing within the group.

"How long have I been here?" Danny inquired.

"Almost ten days. James has been here almost two days," Artemis replied. Danny gritted his teeth angrily.

They reached an ajar door and Artemis slipped outside, bow at the ready. She scanned the area before whispering the go ahead to the others. Rocket was close behind and led the way towards the camouflaged ship. Danny ran after them quickly, running back to make sure the others were following. The sight of the halfa running between the teens like an excitable puppy would have been funny had the situation not been so grave.

Jake and Spud got on board just before Danny and Artemis. Danny was reluctant to get on the ship as it was harder to burn off energy in enclosed places with lots of people. Artemis didn't want to leave Danny outside alone.

"You next Danny. I don't care if it makes you uncontrollable. Without your powers this is the only way," Artemis ordered the bouncing teen. Danny rolled his eyes.

"Hope you have good heaters because I don't want to freeze all of you guys," Danny muttered and took a step forward. Suddenly a sai appeared out of nowhere and stopped Danny walking any further.

"Not so fast cutie," Cheshire snarled. Danny spun around and scowled at the woman.

"You're way too valuable to let go," Cheshire continued. Danny shifted into a ready position.

"Really. And I said you were lucky I was bound," Danny growled. Cheshire chuckled darkly. Danny ran forward before Artemis could stop him. Cheshire threw a number of throwing stars at Danny. He didn't even flinch when one sliced into his arm. Artemis gasped as she watched the deep gash knitted together before her eyes. Danny kicked and punched at Cheshire but the woman was fast and nimble on her feet. Artemis narrowed her eyes and pulled out her bow and arrow. She notched a foam arrow and then a net arrow. She fired both arrows with pin point accuracy at Cheshire. The net encased the woman and the foam exploded and covered Cheshire, expanding rapidly. Danny, mid-punch, hit Cheshire in the face, cracking the mask and caused it to fall off.

Danny narrowed his eyes as the woman's face, taking in her features for the first time.

"I see you again, and I won't just walk away," Danny threatened angrily. This was the woman who took his energy. The woman who humiliated him by feeding him like a baby. The woman who ordered for him to be shot. He didn't care that Cheshire wasn't the top person calling the shots. Hers was the face he saw. She was the one he directly blamed for the previous ten days he had endured. He turned and walked on to the Bioship without another look at Cheshire. Artemis turned to her older sister and scowled.

"I thought you quit working for the Light," Artemis pointed out. Cheshire shrugged as much as she could in her situation.

"The Light pays well and a girl's gotta eat," Cheshire retorted evenly.

"Dad can help you when he finds you. Bye Jade," Artemis concluded and boarded the Bioship.

Artemis took her seat and Miss Martian guided the Bioship into the air. Artemis frowned.

"Where's Danny?" she asked, seeing that the halfa wasn't in the control room.

"He's in the back, trying to burn off energy. Jake's with him. We're gonna head to Fenton Works. They're experts in ghost energy," Aqualad answered.

Danny's free! But his energy is still causing problems. But he's own his way home! Wow, that's a rollercoaster. Lol.

Let me know what you guys think so far.

Until the next chapter.