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Chapter 3: Entering the Ghost Zone

"So, everything accounted for?" Danny asked, already in the Specter Speeder and peering out. "Come on."

"In a minute, Danny," Jazz said, sifting through the contents of her navy blue backpack. "OK. We've got everything." She slid into the seat next to Danny. "I call shotgun."

"That's where I usually sit!" Sam objected.

"Who says?"

"I say!"

"Guys!" Danny interrupted a potential argument. "Can we go before either one of your parents calls up? Mom and Dad aren't going to be gone forever."

Tucker hopped into the seat behind Jazz and leaned over her shoulder. "Ready."

Sam rolled her eyes at Tucker's position and was just about to get in when a dark and morbid tune rang out. She sighed. "Sorry. It's my phone." Slinging her backpack off her back, she fished out a small purple cell phone with a spider emblazoned on the back of it. "Hello?"

The other three could hear a small high voice emit from the speaker and nearly burst Sam's eardrum. The Goth held her cell phone away from her ear, grimacing dramatically. "Sorry," she mouthed.

Danny shrugged and waited, fidgeting at the controls. He was still in human form.

A minute later, Sam clapped her cell shut and gave the others an apologetic glance. "Sorry, guys. My mom's freaking because I'm not back at home sweet home. She's been getting all riled up with the disappearing stuff and thinks I'll be next." She raised an eyebrow at her boyfriend. "Is that okay?"

Danny nodded. "Can't be helped. Tomorrow maybe?"

"That'll work after school," Sam agreed. "See you." She waved at Tucker and Jazz and dashed up the stairs. "Don't go into the Ghost Zone without me, Danny!" she called down when she was out of sight.

"Why would I?" the ghost boy muttered, reluctantly phasing through his side of the Specter Speeder. He looked hopefully at Tucker. "Do you think you could—"

At that moment, Tucker's cell phone gave off an upbeat cheerful tune with a perky voice singing something neither Jazz nor Danny could understand. Tucker looked rather embarrassed and answered it as quickly as he could. "Hello?"

"Great." Danny sidled over to Jazz's side of the Speeder. "You free for tonight?"

"You don't have anything to do?" Jazz raised an eyebrow disbelievingly.

"The ghosts took up all my time," Danny explained. "Now that they're gone I don't have anything to do besides homework and that's almost done."

Jazz opened her mouth but was cut off by Tucker. "Danny, mayor emergency came up at the office. Sorry about that. I'll see you tomorrow, 'kay?"

"Have fun," Danny said, grinning.

"You kill me," Tucker said in mock complaint. "Ciao." He gave a quick wave and followed in Sam's footsteps.

"Jazz?" Danny turned to his older sister.

"I've got a really big report coming up," Jazz said apologetically. "I was already studying for it when you dragged me out for a trip to the Ghost Zone."

"Oh. OK." Danny shrugged, managing a smile. With nothing else to do, he figured that he would soon sink back into his depressing thoughts. "I'll…just stay down here…and clean up." He nodded towards a lab table filled with overflowing beakers of green stuff.

Jazz placed a hand on her hip and narrowed her eyes. "You're not thinking of going into the Ghost Zone alone, are you?"

"No," Danny said hastily.

"Promise me, Danny, that you won't do anything stupid like going into the Ghost Zone alone," Jazz said seriously.

"Jazz…"

"Promise, Danny."

Danny sighed. "Fine. I promise." He put up his hands. "It's not like I would've gotten anywhere without you guys."

"Now I can sleep easier," Jazz murmured, shooting Danny a stern look. "You promised, little bro. No going in there alone, in your ghost form, or in the Specter Speeder."

Danny put a hand over his heart. "Promise, Jazz. I'll just stay and clean up."

"Good night then. I'll see you at dinner." Jazz placed a kiss on Danny's head which promptly earned her a "eww" from the raven-haired teen. She smiled and went upstairs.

Danny watched her go and turned to look back into the swirly greens of the Fenton Ghost Portal. His eyebrows furrowed as he contemplated it. 'Really. Where did the ghosts go?' He sighed and picked up a rag and a bucket from next to a waste bin. 'I promised.'

Just as he was starting to wipe up some of the green goo that he really didn't want to think about, a sudden release of blue air from his lips caused him look up. "A ghost? Finally!" He transformed into Danny Phantom via two bluish-white rings. "Wow. Never thought I'd see the day when I was glad to see a ghost."

"Whelp." It was Skulker with guns blazing. "Doing menial chores?"

"Sure!" Danny floated up to meet the hunter. "After all, there's only so much a guy can do with the ghosts on leave. Where have you been anyway?"

"The ghosts aren't on leave," Skulker said. "They've been disappearing."

"Is that so?" Danny cocked an eyebrow.

"It is." Skulker fired up an ecto-gun where his arm used to be. "But you really won't be interested for much longer."

"We'll see about that!" Danny let loose a ghost ray, which exploded in mid-air upon meeting Skulker's attack. He zoomed in close for an upper cut but was kicked aside by Skulker's metal boot, not having seen it or sensed it. "Ow!"

Skulker quickly released another blast from his gun, hitting Danny in the chest and pushing him through the portal and into the Ghost Zone.

Danny flipped around to meet his enemy, realizing where he was. 'Oh great. Jazz is going to kill me.'

"Beast Boy!" Starfire landed next to her green friend and helped him get up. "Are you all right?"

"Never better," Beast Boy groaned, looking even greener than usual. "Ugh. I think I'm gonna be sick." He keeled over and was violently sick on the masses of wires at his feet. Starfire slowly inched away, looking slightly grossed out.

"Is he gone?" Raven asked, floating above all four Titans.

"You're calling him a 'he'?" Cyborg asked.

"This time I can actually tell the gender," Raven replied. "And you called him a 'him'."

"Quiet!" Robin ordered, looking into the wrecked electronics store. "I hear something."

Then followed a large explosion that threw the still woozy Beast Boy back, whipped off Raven's hood, revealing a purple head of hair and purple eyes with a stone set in the forehead, and pushed the other three back.

"You hear something? How about seeing it!" Cyborg cried, raising an arm to cover his face from the wreckage.

"BWAHAHAHA!" a loud cackle came from within the store. "I, Technus, master of all electronics and ruler of computer wizardry have emerged unscathed!" All the Titans gaped at the sight of Technus's form stepping out from the wreck of the store. "Who's your Daddy?"

"Mine's evil," Raven answered, even though she knew the question was rhetorical. "And you're certainly not one I want. Azarath Metrion Zinthos!" She whipped her hand around and a car flew into Technus's TV face.

The ghost turned into a bluish transparent form and the car flew straight through the TV and landed in the pile of debris behind him. The face displayed on the screen grinned even wider.

"You'll have to be faster than that, witch girl!" Technus taunted, raising a hand in turn. In his case, a pile of electrical devices glowed green and floated to surround his towering figure.

"That hurts," Beast Boy said, having recovered significantly. "And I really hope he isn't planning on doing what I think he's doing with that stuff."

"Doing what?" Starfire asked.

"Upgrading his form to the next level," Beast Boy responded.

"I wasn't going to but that's a great idea!" Technus declared. "You should be a tutor!"

All the Titans shot glares at the shape-shifter, who looked nervous.

"Face my upgraded wrath!" Technus shouted to the heavens; all the green objects attached to his form and he glowed green.

"I think this guy has a tendency to shout out what he's doing next," Cyborg said quietly to Robin.

"And now," Technus was saying, "I have enough power to wipe out the entire city's power supply! BWAHAHAHA!"

"He does," Robin agreed, narrowing his eyes to inspect Technus's new form. "But that makes it all the easier for us since we know what he's going to do next."

Technus reached out for a power line and clasped the wires. They sparked violently and the energy streamed into the pile of electronics that made up the ghost's body. Bars appeared on almost all of the appliances and streamed up until one hundred percent was marked on each one of them. Technus's face reappeared on the TV, grinning evilly.

"OK. Did he say he was going to do that next?" Cyborg asked, watching as Technus fed on some more power.

"No." Robin grabbed a staff and whirled it out. "Titans, GO!"

Robin ran forward and jumped on Technus's shoe, which was made up of a Mercedes. The boy wonder jammed his staff between a TV and a radio and bent backwards. The staff bent as well and he suddenly released the pressure that had been building up, using it as propulsion to fly upwards to waist area.

As he started slowing down, Robin grabbed something else at his waist: something shaped as a bird. His index finger pressed a trigger and a grappling hook shot out from the tip, diving into a stereo and wedging into the crook between the stereo and a video recorder.

While Robin was making his way upwards the hard way, Starfire was flying straight up to Technus's eye level and shooting star bolts. The green bolts crashed into various areas on Technus's body and destroyed small, meaningless electronics.

"That stings!" Technus swatted at Starfire but the Tamaranean sped around his large, mechanical hand and shot eyebeams at the ghost. They hit the mark by cracking the TV screen. "Why, you!"

"Eep!" Starfire was then hit by a beam of electricity that Technus shot out of a frayed cable. She fell to the ground and raised a huge dust storm and created a mini-crater.

"Starfire!" Robin cried, seeing her fall out of the corner of his eye. "Aargh." He gritted his teeth and dug into his tool belt to take out a screwdriver and a hammer. The screwdriver went into his mouth and he held the hammer up high in his right hand as he held on with his left. Robin brought the head down on the screen of a TV and shattered the glass.

He covered his eyes and looked up, trying to see if that small injury had done anything to hinder the ghost. Looking even grimmer upon noting that Technus hadn't even noticed the injury, Robin now took it on himself to take apart a car that was appearing decidedly battered for being the "thigh" of the body.

Cyborg, meanwhile, was firing sonic beams after sonic beams from his cannon and not causing much damage aside from wreaking certain areas on Technus's body near the head. Technus did notice these injuries on his person and revenged himself on the half-robot by shooting electrical beams from various cables that were situated on him. Cyborg had his work cut out for him dodging those and shooting back in turn.

Raven wasn't having much better luck since all the stuff she kept throwing at Technus either bounced off harmlessly, got fried, or joined the mass on the ghost's body. A water hydrant she had cast in the middle of his back had gotten stuck, changed colors to be green, and started shooting water at her even though there shouldn't have been any water in it. She was then thoroughly drenched and disgruntled.

"Cyborg!" Beast Boy morphed back from the elephant he had been. "Try hitting it from the feet!"

"What good's that gonna do?" Cyborg yelled back, still firing his sonic cannon. He had half an eye on his power levels.

"It's simple physics! Knock out the feet and the body follows!" Beast Boy explained loudly, running up besides Cyborg.

"That makes sense. But…I can't do it with Robin in the middle of that," Cyborg said, pointing to a spot about halfway up the robot. Their leader was still dismantling the car. "Besides, if he fixes that car the way he's aiming to we might have an easier time of defeating this guy."

"I'll help," Beast Boy decided, morphing to a raven and taking off.

"How are you going to help? You can't even fix my car without blowing up the engine!"

"Would you let him fix your car?" Raven landed besides Cyborg.

"No," Cyborg admitted. "But it was an example."

"He's going to help by blowing up the car," Raven said.

"Well, that makes sense," Cyborg agreed, watching the green raven join the red-suited black-haired teen on the ghost's body. "I just hope he doesn't explode Robin as well."

'Well, Jazz said I wasn't to go into the Ghost Zone alone. I'm not alone so I guess I didn't break her promise. But something tells me this wasn't exactly what she had in mind.' Danny fired off another ghost ray in Skulker's direction but the ghost hunter ducked and retaliated, meaning it was Danny who had to duck now. 'Yeah. Probably not.'

"Submit, whelp!" Skulker demanded, firing a barrage of ecto-energy at the teen.

"Never, you fiend!" Danny cried valiantly, internally cringing at the phrasing he had used.

"Interesting choice of words," Skulker commented, holding back for a moment.

"Interesting choice of action!" Danny fired an enormous ecto-blast at Skulker's torso and it burnt a hole straight through the machinery. "Maybe that'll teach you to not stop attacking me!"

"My armor!" Skulker cried, amazed.

"That's all?" Danny snorted. "No 'I shall avenge my grievance!' or 'Prepare to die!'? Too bad." His whole body glowed green and he disappeared to reappear instantaneously behind Skulker. "You won't have a chance to do so." He turned his hand intangible and shoved it into Skulker's head, pulling out a small green ghost with small arms and legs. "Pity. I thought you might've gotten a makeover."

"Let me go!" the small Skulker squeaked. "I am Skulker!"

"Yeah, yeah." Danny fried the rest of the suit and kicked the remnants into the distance. "Now, you have the option of staying here and doing nothing or flying away as fast as you can and escaping the rest of the nasty ghosts in here."

"There are no nasty ghosts!" Skulker said, folding his miniscule arms. "They've all gone!"

"Where to?" Danny held the tiny ghost up to his face, a full foot away from his nose.

"No one knows!" Skulker said. "But you shall soon find out!"

"Why?" he asked.

"Because of her!" Skulker pointed behind Danny, grinning rather wickedly for such a small ghost.

Danny twisted his head and saw Ember floating behind him with her guitar strapped to her back. "Ember?"

"Drop him, dipstick," Ember ordered.

"You're still boyfriend and girlfriend?" Danny raised his eyebrow in disbelief. "Even though he's absolutely minuscule?" He held up the ghost in question.

"I said drop him," Ember repeated, bringing her guitar around.

"I'm really not in the mood for this," Danny grumbled, shooting a look at the Fenton Ghost Portal. He sighed once he saw that he would have to go through Ember to get back. Jazz was so going to kill him.

"Too bad!" Ember strummed her guitar, which was now in the playing position and shot a pink fist at the half-ghost.

"Watch it!" Skulker squeaked as Danny dodged to the side.

"I'll watch it; tell your girlfriend to watch it!" Danny objected, flying the other way to avoid Ember's wrath.

"Let me go and then she'll watch it!" Skulker challenged.

"Hmm. Tempting but no," Danny said, flying past purple doors and rocky ledges. "You're the only ghost that I can actually hold and interrogate. And one that speaks properly, too."

"There are other ghosts that talk!" Skulker protested.

"But you're the only one that I can hold with one hand that talks properly."

"Drop him, dipstick!" Ember called again.

"Get new lines!" Danny retorted.

"Let me go!" Skulker demanded.

"I already told you: no," Danny replied, annoyed.

"You asked for it!" Ember yelled.

Danny heard a loud noise presumably from Ember's guitar strings. To avoid being pelted by unpredictable attacks, the halfa dashed behind a purple door and watched several pink fists fly by.

"Your girlfriend's got a temper," Danny informed Skulker quietly, listening to Ember's ranting.

"Only because you won't put me down."

"Answer me this: why haven't the ghosts been attacking?"

Skulker's minuscule form raised an eyebrow. "You always complain when we do."

"And you never listen. So when you guys don't show up there's obviously a problem. Well?"

"We're disappearing," Skulker admitted. "At first it was only in your world that it happened so we stopped attacking. But it's been happening here, too."

Danny was silent for a moment. "Is that why I can't hear Ember anymore?" The screaming from the upset rock star had disappeared.

"What?" Skulker squeaked, alarmed.

Danny peeked around the door but didn't see the fiery-haired ghost anywhere. "Huh. She really is gone. Where to, I wonder?"

"Let me go!" Skulker commanded. "I must see!"

Skulker struggled so violently that Danny let him go. For a minute he watched the small ghost zip around before something from behind knocked into him forcefully. Taken completely off-guard, Danny hurtled forwards into the green nothingness.

But then his eyes widened when he saw the green start swirling and a vacuum sucked him in. Something again hit him from behind but this time on the head.

The last thing he saw before blacking out was zooming colors and then a night sky.

"Beast Boy!" Robin looked up from breaking into the engine of the car he was attempting to hack into. "What are you doing here?"

Beast Boy morphed back into his normal form and grabbed onto some electronics next to Robin. "Helping you explode the car. You know my handy talents around them."

"You explode them," Robin said matter-of-factly.

"Isn't that the point? Now try not to do anything and watch me be at work." Beast Boy morphed into something that Robin couldn't see but then turned back. "Oh. And you might want to be somewhere far away when I'm done."

Robin had no time to reply as Beast Boy vanished again. But he did take the shape-shifter's advice seriously and used the grappling device he had shot earlier to lower himself down. He was not a moment too soon for when he was only a foot above the ground the car where he had been hanging onto exploded and sent him free-falling the rest of the twelve inches.

If he was worried about his friend there was no need as the changeling appeared next to him almost instantaneously.

"See?" Beast Boy placed both fists triumphantly on his hips and grinned. "I'm a master around cars."

"But not the type that Cyborg admires." Robin watched for Technus's reaction to the loss of the car.

"What the heck is going on?" Technus shouted, looking down at his collapsing leg. "My leg!"

"And now your shoulder!" Cyborg shouted, too, shooting his sonic cannon. "Take that, ghost!"

His shot hit the mark and destroyed a huge stereo that had made up the master of technology's right shoulder. The arm glowed green and dissembled into the separate components and crashed into the street, sparkling and crackling.

"Boo-yeah!" Cyborg crowed.

"NOOO!" Technus shrieked, pin wheeling his remaining arm as he tried to stay upright. Unfortunately for him, he completely toppled over and shook the entire neighborhood of shops. "Ow!"

"He's down!" Robin exclaimed. "Titans, go!"

"And do what?" Raven asked, restraining the leader from jumping forward by her words.

"Subdue him," Robin answered, though he had no idea how to do so. "Somehow."

"Get the TV maybe?" Beast Boy suggested.

"I shall do so," Starfire volunteered, looking none the worse for having crashed into the street. She flew over to wrest the TV that had served as Technus's head.

"Careful, Star," Cyborg warned. "He might still be conscious."

Before Starfire could touch the TV, the whole mass of electronics glowed green. The energy separated from the junk and collected above it to form a figure.

"Bwahahaha!" it cackled. The light died away to reveal a green-skinned man with a cape, sunglasses, and white hair that was slicked back in a "cool" look. "You cannot defeat me, Technus, so easily, children!"

"I thought it was a TV!" was all Beast Boy could say.

"He possessed them," Raven said grimly.

"I am Technus!" Technus proclaimed. "Cower before my electronic wrath!" He lifted his hand, which was glowing green.

The Titans looked over their shoulders and saw that the power and telephone wires were wiggling like snakes. It was now completely dark save for the stars, moon, and Technus's ghostly glow.

"That's not good, is it?" Beast Boy asked, watching the wiggling wires warily.

"Robin?" Starfire waited for the boy wonder's signal.

Robin dug around in his tool belt and came up with disks. "Let's go!"

But before they could attack, Technus had struck, binding them with the glowing wires.

"Standing around debating does no one good, does it?" he taunted, grinning.

Raven's eyes sparkled eerily. "Azarath Metrion Zinthos!"

The wires around her became black and burst, freeing her. She then enchanted a car and hurled it towards Technus. But all he did was raise a hand and a stereo stopped it in its tracks.

Raven reached for something else but was stopped when the wires she had broken earlier wrapped around her ankles and electrocuted her.

"AAARGH!" Raven fell to the ground, momentarily senseless and twitching.

Technus cackled once more. "Now I, Technus, am free to rule this world!" He pointed to the bound Titans. "Watch me suck every last bit of power from this city!"

Laughing madly and floating high above the heroes' heads, Technus summoned the power from every electrical device in the city.

Meanwhile, the Teen Titans could only watch as the wires that bound them crackled ominously.

You see that Danny's gotten a lot stronger, something emphasized in the prequel.

Thanks to starr1095, Shiva the Sarcastic, GhostKing666, musiclover9419, Copa-Phantom, SpartanCommander, Piece of Toast, The Feral Candy Cane, Alviniju, ell the weasel, Miriam1, vasilidor, and kirara the great for reviewing!

GhostKing666: True. I'll keep your advice in mind. I'll also head over and take a look at that episode of Trigon's library. I'm just not sure which episode number it is. I already watched the Trigon arc, which was totally wicked! It also gave me more ideas, helping me further the plot.

Alvininju: You'll see what happens regarding the relationship between the heroes. I had a different plan in mind for Skulker, which you'll see in Chapter 7. Perhaps you can already make a guess from this chapter.