DISCLAIMER: I don't own either shows.

REVIEW REPLIES TO IMPORTANT QUESTIONS AT THE BOTTOM!

Chapter 2: Worries

"Yo, Robin, you sure you're not just making a mountain out of a molehill?" Cyborg asked the silent team leader.

"Yes. I'm sure."

Both Titans were still covered with cake, the remnants of their fight with the Cake Ghost. And they were also walking down a hall in Titan's Tower. Just as they reached the end of it, an automatic door slid open, revealing their living room/kitchen area.

"Don't you think this could wait until after a shower?" Cyborg said.

"You go if you have to," Robin replied. "I need to check something."

"If you're looking for the floating cake in our database, I can already tell you that you won't find it in there," Cyborg said.

"It's not that. I'm getting the feeling that something's up," Robin said.

Both of them were in front of a large monitor that normally served as their TV. A huge control panel stretched out under it. This was where Robin pressed a button, causing the screen to flicker to life.

Cyborg waited behind him. "Like what?"

"At this point I'm not entirely sure." Robin flicked through sites quickly, leaving the monitor a blur of color.

"Then what are you looking for?" Cyborg swatted away an errant fly.

"That…Cake Ghost was unusual. I've never seen anything like it," Robin mused.

"So what if he's new to the neighborhood? We meet new villains every day," Cyborg pointed out.

"I know," Robin answered. "But still…a ghost? We don't get many of those."

"We don't get many Beast Boys either," Cyborg said. "And thank God for that. I don't know how many stupid wisecracks I can take."

Something popped out of midair next to Cyborg. "I heard that! My jokes aren't that bad!" It was Beast Boy, having morphed back from the fly. He was also decked out in a new outfit—which was the same as before.

"You know what I mean." Robin drew up a map of Jump City. "Not only did he call himself a ghost, he had all the attributes and more."

"Controlling sweets is a ghost attribute?" Beast Boy wondered. "Who knew?"

"Well, now we know who kept breaking into all those bakeries for the last so many nights," Cyborg said.

"The problem is that we don't know anything about ghosts," Robin said, ignoring their comments. "We know they can fly, be invisible to the naked eye, and phase through things. What we don't know are their offensive capabilities, if any. But from seeing this Cake Ghost—if he is a ghost—we know they can fight if they want to. We just need to know their abilities."

"I thought ghosts were generally intangible," Cyborg objected. "I know this ghost we fought earlier could fight by tossing sweets but aren't they normally intangible and impervious to harm?"

"This ghost was solid," Robin said confidently. "Solid until it became intangible."

Cyborg looked slightly skeptical. "How do you know that? Nothing hit him!"

"He looked solid, right?" Both Cyborg and Beast Boy nodded. "It was only when I attacked him that his form changed, becoming see-through. That means he can turn intangible voluntarily," Robin explained.

"Off the record, why are we calling a cake 'him'?" Beast Boy asked. "Cakes don't have genders."

"And they don't talk either, Beast Boy," Robin said. "He sounded like a man"—Beast Boy snickered—"so I dubbed him 'him'."

He then realized they had gone off-track. "Regardless of that, I'm saying we don't know anything about them."

"And how does this tie in with your earlier statement?" Cyborg queried.

"It really doesn't," Robin admitted. "It's just a feeling I have."

"And you should trust your instincts," a new voice said. All three turned to see a clean Raven walking down the steps. The hooded teen approached them.

"Do you think something's up, Raven?" Robin asked.

"I've been sensing some erratic energy as of late," Raven said. "Besides that and the floating cake, I haven't seen anything odd."

"You can't base an assumption off of that," Cyborg said once she had finished.

"I can base an assumption off of my own feelings," the boy wonder insisted. "I've been right before."

"And you've been wrong. What about that time when you thought you were seeing Slade and he wasn't there after all?"

"That wasn't a feeling. That was an assumption based on my own eyes," Robin said flatly.

"He's got a point," Raven said.

"I just know something's up," Robin stated. "And I'm going to find out what."

"Perhaps you should take a shower?" a small voice volunteered. All heads turned to see Starfire approaching their group by the monitor. "You do still look dirty."

"Now she's got a point," Beast Boy said, grinning.

"I'll take a shower later." Robin turned back to the monitor. "Right now, I need to study these readings."

"Which mean what?" Beast Boy peered over their leader's shoulder. "It looks like a load of garbage to me."

"Sniff it out," Cyborg joked.

Just as Robin was about to explain, a loud alarm cut all hopes of a further conversation off. Red lights flashed in the living room/kitchen, alerting all the Titans to a new crime in the city.

"This can wait. Titans, go!" Robin dashed up the steps, flanked by the rest of the team. Not one of them noticed the flashing readings on the screen that suddenly jumped and settled again.

"Hey, Danny, you all right?" Tucker asked his friend.

Danny looked up, his hand on the doorknob of his house. He had been preoccupied in his thoughts. "Yeah. I'm fine. I was just thinking."

Sam raised an eyebrow. "Must be some thinking."

"Yep," Danny said, not really thinking about his answer.

Both Sam and Tucker shared concerned looks. Danny had been acting strange ever since the fight. He'd been quieter, moody, and even spaced out now and then like he had just done. But both of them knew that if something was bothering him, he'd let them know. After that last big secret involving older Danny, he'd promised to not keep secrets like that indefinitely. They just had to hope that he'd tell them soon.

"You guys wanna come in, right?" Danny said, turning around. "It's just been a bit crazy…"

"Sure, Danny!" Sam insisted. "You know that we know that your parents are obsessive about ghosts."

Danny shook his head. "It's not about ghosts. Although it leads back to ghosts…"

"What do you mean?" Tucker couldn't recall Danny's parents ever doing something that didn't involve ghosts directly.

"Well…I meant to tell you guys two days ago but I forgot 'cause of the Box Ghost…"

"Just say it, Danny," Sam said, her patience wearing thin.

"Em…" Danny still had a hand on the doorknob. While he was trying to put his dilemma into words, this turned out to be a bad thing as the door suddenly opened, jerking him inside. "Agh!"

"Be right back, Maddie!" Jack Fenton, a huge man in an orange jumpsuit, was calling over his shoulder. "I just have to—" He caught sight of his son lying at his feet. "Danny! Why are you lying on the floor like you fell in?"

"Because I did," Danny said, getting up.

"Oh." Jack had the grace to look embarrassed. "Sorry about that. But you weren't saying anything so I didn't know."

"He was about to," Sam said, sidestepping around Jack's huge frame. She gave Danny a sharp look to which he responded with a shrug.

"What were you doing, Mr. F.?" Tucker asked, curiously.

"Well—" Jack started.

"Jack?" A hooded woman in a blue jumpsuit and with enormous red goggles covering her eyes appeared from the kitchen doorway. "You're still—oh, hi, Danny!" She flipped off her hood, revealing reddish-brown hair. "Were there any ghosts at school, sweetie? We didn't get any alarms so we assumed you'd taken care of them quickly."

Danny frowned. "No ghosts? Not even one who poked his head through the portal to say 'boo'?"

"Not one," Madeline Fenton confirmed. She looked puzzled. "Are they all on vacation?"

Danny raised an eyebrow. "I thought ghosts didn't take vacations 'cause they're too busy wreaking destruction."

"That's normally what we'd say but we've been reevaluating our theories," Maddie explained. "So we're forming new ones."

"But the ghosts are stealing furniture!" Jack said excitedly. "So we've been rigging alarms for furniture! See?" He threw Danny a lamp that he'd been holding in his hand, which the teen caught by reflex. Instantly, the whole thing glowed green and then exploded, leaving Danny with a shell-shocked expression.

Jack frowned. "That's not supposed to happen."

"Did you calibrate it to reject ecto-signatures?" Maddie asked sternly. "You know that we're supposed to include human DNA, too! We're not one hundred percent sure about the thieves being ghosts."

Jack looked sheepish. "Oops."

"Any particular reason why?" Sam asked.

Maddie looked at her soot-blackened son. "You didn't tell them?"

Danny rubbed the back of his neck. "I meant to but it kinda slipped my mind after the Box Ghost disappeared on me and I couldn't find him." He shrugged. "Sorry."

"Was that what you were going to tell us?" Sam said to Danny.

"Yeah." Danny smiled sheepishly.

"Why don't you tell them then, sweetie?" Maddie encouraged, drawing up her hood. "Jack and I anyway have to run out to check on things." She gave Danny a kiss on his head and left with her husband, leaving the three alone.

Sam raised an eyebrow at her boyfriend. "Well?"

Danny cleared his throat. "Remember when Tucker was complaining about the missing furniture? Well, my parents started getting calls about making specialized alarms so it wouldn't happen anymore."

"Why not call their security systems?" Sam interrupted.

"The people suspect ghosts but also asked for something that'll protect them from regular thieves," Danny explained. "Mom and Dad are the only ones who can really make a shield for both. And that's why I said earlier that it doesn't really deal with ghosts directly."

"I didn't know your parents could get normal jobs," Tucker admitted.

"It's not exactly normal," Danny said, chuckling. "Come on. Homework awaits."

Sam rolled her eyes. "Joy," she muttered sarcastically.

The three friends walked by Jazz's door and stopped in front of Danny's. Before he could open it, though, Jasmine Fenton appeared, smiling broadly.

"Hey, guys," she said cheerfully. "How'd school go?"

"Boring," all three answered.

"No ghosts again?"

"Other than the Box Ghost two days ago, I haven't seen anything," Danny confirmed.

"You didn't catch him, did you?"

Danny frowned. "That's the weird part. I was right on his tail when he suddenly rounded a corner and disappeared. I searched all over for him but couldn't find him at all, which is really weird considering how he loves attention."

"Did he go back into the Ghost Zone?" Tucker suggested.

The ghost boy snorted. "Since when do ghosts go back voluntarily?"

"You've got a point," Tucker admitted.

"It's a problem," Jazz said. Then she changed the subject. "How're you feeling, Danny?"

"Fine."

Jazz shared a look with Sam and Tucker which Danny intercepted.

"And Sam and Tucker know I'm fine, too," Danny said dryly, enjoying Jazz's look of surprise. "You set 'em on me, didn't you?" He was just confirming this since he already knew this from the two teens.

"What can I say?" Jazz looked embarrassed. "You weren't telling me anything and I was worrying."

"He really is fine, Jazz," Sam said. "He has a perfectly sound mind."

Danny shot her a glare, which she returned with a sweet smile.

"In that case, why don't you guys go do your homework?" Jazz said, smiling again.

"We were gonna do that anyway," Danny muttered, shoving his two friends into his room before closing the door in front of Jazz's face.

They'd been working for a solid half an hour when Danny suddenly slammed his book shut and blurted out, "I just can't do it."

Sam looked up from her Calculus homework. "Can't do what?"

"I just can't focus on homework! I've been staring at the same stupid line of Wuthering Heights - which is completely boring - for the last ten minutes and not even absorbing it!"

"Maybe that's because you're holding your Calculus book," Tucker commented, looking at the book his friend had shut.

"But I still can't concentrate!" Danny said, waving his Calculus book around. "All I've been thinking about is those stupid ghosts!"

"What about them?" Sam sat up, crossing her legs. Her Calculus homework lay forgotten.

"I've been wondering what's going on. Why they haven't been showing up," Danny said. "I need to know. Are they missing? If so, where? It's just not normal!" he cried, frustrated.

"Dude, calm down," Tucker cautioned. "You're ranting."

Danny calmed down, breathing heavily. "Sorry about that. I'm just so…worried!"

"If you're so worried, why don't you go into the Ghost Zone or something?" Sam suggested. "Maybe that'll quell your fears."

Danny stared at her, a light shining in his blue eyes. "That's a great idea, Sam."

"Really?" Tucker said. "In that case, when do you want to go?"

"How 'bout now?" Danny grabbed both of his friends' arms and dragged them to the door before they started protesting.

"Whoa, whoa, Danny!" Sam objected, stopping her boyfriend by placing a hand on his shoulder. "Don't you think this is moving a bit fast?"

"Not really." Danny shrugged. "Mom and Dad are out and probably not gonna be back in a while, Jazz is just studying in her room for some research paper, and we don't have anything to do besides homework. What harm can it do to just go in and out of the Ghost Zone to check things out?"

Sam raised an eyebrow. "A lot."

"The first time you went into the Ghost Zone you ended up being caught by Walker," Tucker reminded him.

"But that was my first time!"

"And the time after that you freed the Fright Knight," Sam went on.

"That was my first year as a half-ghost, remember?" Danny objected.

"And don't forget the time when you got us lost 'cause you couldn't read your map!" Tucker barreled over Danny.

"I admit, that was an accident…"

"Or the time when you went into the Ghost Zone to gather up all the ghosts as a human!" Sam continued.

"You were there, too, you know," Danny argued.

"Or the time after that when you went into the Ghost Zone as Danny Phantom with a huge net, the ghosts broke out of it, turned on you, and then the Specter Speeder crashed into a mountaintop, leaving us to believe you were dead!" Tucker finished.

Danny waited for the next statement. "You done yet?"

"Yep," Sam confirmed.

"You're missing one," Danny pointed out dryly.

"And which would that be?"

"The time when I went into the Ghost Zone to consult Frostbite about whether or not he'd seen my future self," Danny said. "Nothing happened then. Oh. And nothing happened when we left Clockwork's place either."

"That's two," Tucker said.

"I know." Danny brushed it off with a wave of his hand. "Anyway. I get your point, guys. The Ghost Zone's dangerous and you shouldn't go in there without help and blah blah blah." He stopped kidding around and stared at his friends seriously. "But we have gone in there, remember? And if we leave a note—"

"That'll work," Sam interrupted, rolling her eyes.

"—they'll know where we went," Danny continued, ignoring her interruption. "I need to know this, guys. Amity Park has never gone this long without ghost attacks before. And it isn't even Christmas!"

"No, it isn't," Tucker agreed. "We'd know from your attitude."

Danny glared at him. "The point is that we've got experience in going into the Ghost Zone. When have Mom and Dad ever gone in the Ghost Zone?"

"Zero times," Sam admitted.

"Exactly," Danny said. "We're the ones with the experience when it comes to these things. If it makes you feel better, we can take Jazz. But this'll be her second time in the Ghost Zone…"

"Now that's a great idea!" Tucker said. "Let's go get her!"

A few minutes later, the techno geek was knocking the eighteen-year-old's door. Another minute later and it was opened by the reddish-orange-haired teenager.

"Jazz, we'd like you to come into the Ghost Zone with us," Danny said immediately before Jazz could open her mouth.

Jazz opened her mouth, shut it, and opened it again. "Wh-what?"

"You. Us. The Ghost Zone," Danny said slowly.

"Oh!" Jazz looked slightly embarrassed. "Ah, sorry. Um…why not?"

"That's great!" Danny beamed.

Both Sam and Tucker shared concerned looks behind the halfa's back. He was acting more cheerily than usual and neither of them could figure out why. Was it because he was going into the Ghost Zone? Or because he was finally going to do something that he liked to do?

'Come to think of it, his weird mood started after the ghosts disappeared gradually,' Sam thought.

'Does hunting ghosts make him happy?' Tucker wondered. 'He's always been complaining how he can never get enough sleep or do enough schoolwork.'

'Maybe it's the normality of it?' both of them thought simultaneously.

Meanwhile, Danny was bugging Jazz while she was trying to get her stuff gathered up fast enough. Her only excuse was that they couldn't go into the Ghost Zone unprepared.

"We've done that tons of times, Jazz," Danny said impatiently.

"What?"

"Dude, what is that?" Beast Boy sounded absolutely stunned and astonished. "Is that…a floating TV?"

"TVs don't float," Cyborg said confidently.

"Then what am I seeing?" Beast Boy pointed to the floating TV that was hovering by the ceiling. "And am I imagining all that stuff clamping itself onto it?"

"It's a floating TV," Robin said matter-of-factly.

"That's what I said!" Beast Boy shouted, waving his arms like a hummingbird.

"And it's got feelings," Raven said.

"Perhaps it is a friend?" Starfire suggested hopefully.

"BWAHAHAHA!" The TV screen flashed green and a maniacal face with black sunglasses appeared on it. It only had the sunglasses, nose, and mouth displayed though.

"Guess not," Robin said, whipping out some circular disks.

"I am Technus!" the TV face announced. "Master of all things electronic, wizard master of gadgetry, ghost master of science, and the hottest TV face to exist since Lassie!"

There was silence after that announcement.

"Wasn't Lassie a dog?" Beast Boy said finally.

"And you're just a regular TV," Cyborg added. "Nothing special about that."

Suddenly, all the gadgetry and electronics that had accumulated on the TV flashed green, blinding everyone. When it vanished, they all saw a towering giant made out of electronics, with the original TV serving as a face.

"What is it?" Robin asked.

"It's a ghost," Raven said. "It called itself 'ghost master of science'."

"But ghosts don't—" Cyborg started.

"Exist?" Technus interrupted. "Ah, but blue child, I am a ghost!"

"My name's Cyborg!" Cyborg protested.

"Are you a friend of the Cake Ghost?" Starfire queried.

Technus's whole body flickered with electricity. "The Cake Ghost? Why would I be friends with that imbecile?"

"I guess it wouldn't be smart to mention that the guy completely kicked our butts," Beast Boy murmured. "If the cake's an imbecile, I don't wanna know what this guy is."

"I am Technus!" the TV face said, having heard Beast Boy's last sentence. "Ghost master of science, and wizard master of gadgetry! I am also—"

"The master of long-winded introductions," Robin said, narrowing his eyes. "And you're just about to get frozen!"

Technus cackled. "What can you hope to do to me? The Cake Ghost defeated you!"

The Titans shot their smallest member glares.

"Oops," Beast Boy said weakly, drawing in on himself. "I'll just, uh, turn into a T-Rex?" To prove his point, he morphed into a green tyrannosaurus and roared.

"Interesting!" Technus's huge fingers tapped his "chin" thoughtfully. "Have you ever thought about becoming a zoo animal?"

An anime mark appeared on Beast Boy's head and he roared again, evidently mad about the ghost's remark. He jumped towards Technus, fully intending to sink his huge teeth into the giant's arm. The only problem was that wires sprouted out of Technus's chest, wrapping up the green T-Rex completely and leaving Beast Boy as a mummy with only his eyes peeking out. Technus whirled around in several circles, Beast Boy following and becoming dizzier by the second. Then, the wires snapped and the green dinosaur was sent flying into a wall, which burst open and revealed the street.

Beast Boy morphed back into his normal form, the wires becoming a huge mass on the ground covering a very small lump.

"Beast Boy!" Starfire called out in alarm.

"He'll be fine!" Robin said. "Titans, go!"

The Titans ran forward in their usual attack style, minus Beast Boy. The green boy was currently shaking off the wires and clearing his head.

"Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" Raven's hands glowed black and a few other articles in the store glowed black, too, floating in the air. Eyes visible as a black light inside her purple hood, she floated about two feet off the ground as she waved her arms, sending the items she had possessed towards the gigantic robot.

They crashed into it, not causing much harm besides denting the electrical appliances Technus had used for his body.

"Hey!" Technus objected. "That's brand new!"

"That's 'cause you stole it!" Cyborg shouted, firing his sonic cannon up.

"Hey, Cyborg!" Robin cocked several small disks in his fingers, raising an eyebrow at the half-robot. "You got the sonic?"

Cyborg grinned broadly. "Oh yeah! Let's go!"

Without another word, the two Titans ran along parallel sides of an aisle, jumped onto a rack, and leapt up into the air, crossing in midair and firing their sonic cannon and disks respectively.

What happened next was a huge explosion that rocked the whole entire electronics store to its core and blew out several windows.

The funny thing is, Technus started off the other one with a bang, too. For Danny's scene, I'm not sure about the curriculum of a high schooler in their grade so I just went with what I've read in Twilight and adjusted it a bit.

Thanks to GeekGirl2, GhostKing666, Miriam1, Me-agaisnt-the-world, Shiva the Sarcastic, SpartanCommander, musiclover9419, Karrnras, Piece of Toast, Copa-Phantom, starr1095, The Feral Candy Cane, ell the weasel, DYlogger, CartoonCalvin, Tiger Phantom- Crazed Fangirl, Ms. Unlucky, Kitsune-242, arandomreviewer, formerlyarandomreviewer, ChopSuzi, Mianne, and Snowbird for reviewing Chapter 1! Criticism is always nice and the one way to do that is by REVIEWING! So I guess what that would say is that I'm asking nicely if you could review! :)

GhostKing666: The Cake Ghost beat them because...that's just how I imagined it. Besides, the show has a pattern going on when it comes to new villains. The Titans are always initially defeated until they come up with a good plan and then they beat the villains' butts. The same goes for ghosts, especially since they've never had enemies with powers like the ghosts.

arandomreviewer: Dani comes later...

Mianne: I tried my best!

Snowbird: Thanks!