No one noticed the orange cat gazing through the slight ajar living room window. But the cat could see and hear everything happening inside. The cat watched as the talking dog threw the revealing powder, hissing softly in anger as the powder took effect and revealed the enchantment on the halfa. The cat ducked away from the window as he saw two girls heading towards the stairs, passing the window on their way. The cat scowled at their backs before turning to the others and growling softly to itself when the halfa disappeared only to reappear with a thermos. The cat's red eyes pulsed as it sent a message to its master.

Danny took a deep breath and nodded to Tucker as the young mayor stood up.

"Anything you want to tell us before I suck you in?" Tucker asked, trying to stall what he didn't want to do. Danny shook his head. Tucker reluctantly took the lid off the thermos and turned the device on.

"Please Tucker. I don't want to hurt anyone," Danny encouraged pleadingly, seeing that his friend was hesitating. Tucker sighed and nodded.

"Alright dude," he mumbled as his thumb hovered over the capture button and he aimed the device at his best friend.

Suddenly Danny's eyes pulsed black, startling Tucker and Sam. Danny's expression completely changed, becoming almost lifeless. Before anyone could react, Danny's hand shot up and released a ghost ray at Tucker. Tucker was blasted back into the couch as he dropped the device and Danny grabbed the thermos from the ground within seconds. He turned to Ember and captured her before she could stop him. He then phased up through the ceiling.

"What just happened!?" Maddie shouted fearfully.

"I think Danny just turned to the dark side," Wally muttered stunned. Artemis hit his arm angrily.

"Not the time for your jokes!" she snapped.

"Wait, he went up. Jazz and Dani!" Sam realised before jumping to her feet and sprinting up the stairs towards the Ops centre. The others gasped worriedly and rushed after her.

Jazz and Danielle watched the security footage, Jazz sitting in the chair while her adoptive sister peered over her shoulder.

"They might have gone through the back door," Danielle remarked, knowing there wasn't a camera on that door. Jazz hummed softly in agreement but didn't move her gaze from the screen. She had fast forwarded through Danny's first night back and had just started on the second night. Suddenly Danielle felt someone grab her shoulders and roughly throw her across the room. She shook the surprise off and turned to where she had been standing seconds ago. Danny, in his ghost form, had just kicked Jazz's office chair forcefully away from the security hub. He then turned to the screens and charged his hands with green energy. Danielle gasped. She didn't know why her adoptive brother was doing what he was doing, but she understood that if she didn't stop him, he'd destroy the security hub.

She jumped into the air and sped towards him. She threw a weak ghost ray at his shoulder and knocked his aim off, causing his ghost ray to smash a nearby window instead. Danny turned to her. Danielle gasped fearfully. His face was almost emotionless, there was only a hint of annoyance. She didn't understand it. Her gaze suddenly caught something white on his belt. A Fenton thermos. The light was blinking. There was a ghost inside that thermos. Danny turned back to the security hub but Danielle recovered herself in order to lunge at him and shoved him away from the computers. Danny turned back to her as the others reached the Ops centre and Jazz finally recovered from the shock of being attacked by her brother.

"What's going on?" she called to the others worriedly.

"Danny's not in control right now. Whoever cast the spell has given him an order," Fu dog answered, scowling at the two halfas. Danielle was standing between Danny and the security hub, determined to protect it. Danny's glazed eyes flicked between Danielle and the security hub.

"Move," Danny ordered, his monotone voice sending a shiver down Danielle's spine.

"No. I won't. Please Danny, stop this. You threw off Freakshow's control. You told me all about it. You can fight this too," Danielle implored hopefully.

"I would rather not hurt you. Move," Danny retorted firmly, but emotionlessly. Danielle raised an eyebrow, that wasn't what she expected Danny to say.

"Uh, Fu?" Jake muttered in confusion.

"Danny has a certain amount of leeway. He has orders that he has to complete. But he can choose how to carry out those orders to a certain degree. It depends on the wording of the command," Zatanna explained.

"If he's getting orders, then whoever is controlling him has to be nearby," Kaldur reasoned. Zatanna and Fu dog shared a look.

"Not necessarily," Fu dog began.

"But in order to know that Danny needed these orders to prevent us figuring it out, then yes," Zatanna resumed.

With no warning, Danny charged forward, blasting Danielle off her feet. Danielle, shocked by Danny's brutality, was thrown across the room, crashing into Jazz's chair, missing Jazz standing beside it by inches. Danny's glazed eyes were then fixed on the security hub as he sprinted towards it, charging his hands with bright green ghost energy.

"We can't let him destroy that! There's no back up!" Sam exclaimed fearfully. This was their only possibility of figuring out who was controlling Danny and maybe even how.

"Superboy! Rocket! Stop him!" Kaldur ordered. Both heroes surged forwards. Rocket placed a shield around the computers and Conner ran into Danny's path and grabbed the teen's wrists, wrestling the blasts towards the windows instead of the now protected computers or vulnerable spectators. Danny turned himself intangible and noticed the translucent shield around his target. He threw a ghost ray at Rocket. She squeaked in alarm and dodged the shot quickly. Conner scrambled to his feet and got in Danny's way again but the halfa merely froze the clone in ghost ice and phased through him.

Tucker's eyes went wide and he yanked his PDA out of his pocket and started tapping rapidly as he hacked into the security hub and copied the files into his cloud. Danny once again charged his hands with ghost energy and finally blasted the security hub. Three shots later, the computers were nothing but smoking mangled metal. Danny then jumped into the air and phased through the roof and sped away into the late afternoon sky. Sam stared at the destroyed computers and staggered forward a few steps before dropping to the floor, ignoring the glass shards around her. She reached out a hand and let out a sigh of despair. The security hub was completely destroyed. The footage was gone.

Tucker breathed a sigh of relief. He managed to download everything into his personal cloud just in time.

"I copied the footage," Robin announced. Tucker glanced at the boy wonder.

"Me too. Get everything?" Tucker admitted. Everyone turned to the two teens astonished.

"Not sure. I had to find a back door before I could start copying," Robin confessed.

"Good thing I've been hacking Fenton tech for years. I was in within a second. Let me double check I got the security footage though," Tucker remarked before smirking happily as he found the previous night's footage. Jake, Kaldur and Maddie peered over Tucker's shoulder as they watched the footage.

"There we are," Jake commented as he saw himself struggling with Fu dog's suitcase before ringing the doorbell. The group watched as Danny answered the door and let Jake and Fu dog inside. A little later two figures arrived. One was a female in a green kimono wearing a painted cat-like mask with a wide grin. The other was a teenaged boy wearing a dark suit. There was an orange cat beside the boy also. They didn't ring the doorbell. Instead the boy pulled something black from his pocket and brought the object to his lips. Within a minute, Danny answered the door, this time his face was blank. Danny let them inside and after a time they left, carrying a thermos.

"The Light are controlling Danny," Kaldur declared, recognising Klarion, his cat Teekl and Cheshire easily.

"What does that mean?" Jack asked fearfully.

"It means some of the most dangerous criminals in the world are in control of a very powerful half ghost and that they have at least four ghosts," Robin resumed, seeing the danger instantly. Kaldur nodded.

"Good thing I slipped that tracking device into his breakfast huh?" Robin revealed.

"What?!" Maddie exclaimed angrily.

"Only way to make sure it can't be removed. Also Danny didn't know about it so he can't tell the Light. Give me a minute and I'll activate it," Robin defended himself calmly. Wally rolled his eyes.

"Was this your idea or Batman's?" Wally inquired.

"Batman would have sedated Danny or something and implanted it into his head," Robin retorted casually as he tapped on his computer gauntlet. Maddie and Jack stared at Robin fearfully.

Robin grinned as a soft beeping emitted from his gauntlet. The tracker was active.

"He's heading east. Probably towards that base the Light held him in before. But it's probably better to wait for him to stop before we go after him. He might have orders to fly east and then change direction to where he's actually going," Robin reported.

"Way to go Rob!" Wally cheered. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

"Tucker, can I see that footage again? I want a second look at what that boy was using," Fu dog requested. Tucker blinked before bringing up the video in question and handing it to the dog. Zatanna knelt beside the talking shar pei to watch the footage as well.

They watched intently as Klarion pulled a crystal ball out of his pocket and muttered something to it.

"That's not traditional blood magic," Zatanna remarked. Fu dog nodded.

"I agree. But I think I know what that kid did. That's not blood in that ball but the Light took Danny's energy. Ghost energy and ectoplasm would be an easy replacement for blood. This method is extremely difficult to detect. The spell is on the crystal ball, not Danny. Danny's connected to that energy though. So to detect that ritual you need to detect the connection first," Fu dog explained. Zatanna looked at the dog and nodded slowly in understanding.

"I think I understand. But how do we break the ritual then?" the magician asked. Fu dog nodded seriously and glanced up as everyone turned to him with worried expressions.

"It's a combination of a variation of blood magic and vessel magic. Destroy the vessel, break the spell. The thing is, Danny will obey whoever holds that vessel. And he can't disobey those orders. He can resist, maybe for a few seconds if he really doesn't want to do whatever he's ordered to do. But he will obey. For now… we can't trust Danny at all. He's the enemy," Fu dog told the group grimly. They all nodded with solemn expressions.

"Can someone get me out of this ice now? I'm getting really cold," Conner called after a few moments of silence.

The truth is out. But Danny's gone AWOL. Although Fu dog seems to have an idea about what magic was used to enchant Danny.

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