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Chapter 19: Test

"You're really lucky that the knife didn't go all the way through," Cyborg said, bandaging Robin's calf.

"It felt like it," Robin said, his eyes on the bandage.

"If it had, you would have lost a lot more blood. As it is, your tibia has a huge hole in it."

"You mean it's fractured."

"Well, fractured or not, is he going to be okay?" a human Danny asked, peering at the sheets of medical jargon Cyborg had laid out next to the bed. "Will he be able to walk?"

"If he stays off his leg he'll be fine," Cyborg answered, shooting Robin a warning look. "When Raven gets back I'll have her take a look and see what she can do."

"The last time she did anything regarding broken bones I had to wear the cast for weeks afterward!"

"Yeah but then that weird kid showed up and fixed it so it doesn't count," Cyborg countered.

"Weird kid?" Danny asked curiously.

"He looked like a mini-Robin," Beast Boy explained. "It was creepy."

Danny cocked his head, picturing the image and had to agree. No offense to Robin but that was creepy. He turned his head to the doors when they slid open and let Raven in.

"How's it going?" she inquired, stopping by Cyborg's side.

"He'll be all right," Cyborg said. "I just need you to take a look and see what you can do."

"Hmm." Raven placed a glowing black hand over the bandages and quickly assessed the damage. There was silence for a minute as the group let her work. When the glow finally subsided she said, "It's been reduced to a minor fracture now but you'll still—"

"Have to wear a cast, I know," Robin finished, disgruntled. "For how long?"

"Couple of weeks, I'd say."

"Is there any reason you can't heal it completely?" Danny asked, coming up besides Raven's shoulder.

"It's better if I let it heal by itself," she explained. "If I try to force the healing by magic, there's an increased likelihood that it'll snap again. All I really did was lessen the damage and straighten the bone out."

"Okay. I get that. But why don't you check on it in like a week and try healing it some more? I mean, you already healed it some. A lot can happen in a week, right?" Danny rubbed his elbow. "How did that kid manage to heal Robin's arm then?"

"He shifted reality," Raven said. "So it wasn't really healing. It was more like changing it so that it never happened in the first place. But anyway, I don't see why not," she continued, seeing Robin's hopeful face. "Robin goes stir crazy so it's just as well."

Danny smiled wryly. "I'd also go stir crazy."

Starfire bounced into the bay at that point. "Friends! I have just finished the repairs."

Danny shot her a confused look. "Already? I thought the windows still needed to be done?"

Starfire beamed. "They were inspired!"

"And by that she means they were scared out of their wits," Raven muttered, making Danny stifle a laugh.

He coughed to hide his amusement. "But, um…speaking of repairs, what's going to happen to the street where we fought?"

"The city'll take care of it," Robin answered, grimacing as Cyborg fitted a cast on his leg.

Danny raised his eyebrows. "And they don't complain? At all?"

"Do they complain when you fight?" Beast Boy asked.

Flashing back to when he had fought his future self, Danny sighed. "The last major fight I had ended up with the sewer system getting wrecked and the street as well. A couple of buildings also collapsed. My friend had to really pull his weight so that I wouldn't have to pay." He shrugged. "Even fame has its limits."

"I don't know what it's like where you're from but here damage from superhero and super villain fights gets calculated into the city budgets," Cyborg said, flicking Robin's knee so he'd stay still and quit squirming. "Stop moving."

"It's because a lot of cities around the world have to deal with it," Raven added.

Danny tapped his fingers against the bed railing. "I might have to bring that up with Tucker and see what he says. It would definitely help with the damage from the ghost fights I get into."

"Are you friends with your town's government?" Cyborg inquired.

"He is the government – or at least the mayor," Danny said, grinning. "I still can't figure out how he did it since he's my age but I'm not complaining." He shrugged in response to the incredulous looks he was receiving.

Starfire was now looking Cyborg's handiwork on Robin's bum leg. "Will he be all right?" she asked concernedly.

"Like I said two times before, he'll be fine. Raven's already looked at it and will look at it again later." Cyborg bundled up the tape and stowed it away in a drawer. "I'm gonna go and take a look at the job the guys did."

As Cyborg left, Raven leaned in towards Danny. "Do you want to talk?"

Danny seemed surprised. "What about?"

"Your ghost sense for one. And your apparent increase in flying speed."

"Flying speed?" Danny flashed back to his excursion in the ocean. "Am I faster than usual?"

"That's what I'd like to find out," Raven stated. "Do you know how fast you can fly?"

Danny furrowed his brow, thinking back to the last training session he'd had before landing in Jump City. To his chagrin, the last one he'd had was with Sam and Tucker before his future self had attacked. "The last time I checked was a couple of months ago. I was clocked at two hundred and twenty-three mph."

Raven raised an eyebrow. "Impressive. Do you want to see how much you've improved since then? I'd like to test this theory of mine."

Danny peered at her. "You aren't going to tell me before I do this, are you?"

"Nope."

"Darn."

"You know, I don't think we've ever used these grounds for this kind of a training session before," Cyborg commented, setting up some weird gizmos on the ground.

"There's a first time for everything," Raven said, cloak billowing in the slight breeze. "Is it ready?"

"As ready as it can be," Cyborg said. "You know it's kind of short notice to test a ghost's powers."

Raven waved it off. "You ready to go, Danny?"

The white-haired teen looked wary as he inspected the course Cyborg had set up. "What's the plan?"

Lying on a beach chair with a curious Starfire by him, Robin also seemed curious as to what was going to happen. Wulf was in the tower and sleeping in Danny's room. The ghost wolf had tired himself out running around in the city.

"You told me that ghosts have several powers and you told me what your powers are. I want to compare something," Raven explained. "What were your stats last time?"

Cyborg handed Danny a clipboard and he scribbled down everything he could remember. When Raven read through it, she "hmmed" appreciatively. "Let's see how much this has changed."

Danny looked extremely wary now. "Meaning what?"

"Let's test your flight speed first," Raven said, evading the question. "Cyborg?"

The half-robot waved to Beast Boy, who was manning a high-tech device.

The changeling nodded in response. "You can take off when ready, Danny!"

Danny exhaled heavily. "Here goes nothing." Gearing up, he blasted off, leaving an explosion of air behind that whipped Raven's hair and cloak. Grass fluttered and there was a small dent in the dirt.

But all eyes were fixed on the black and white blur that was zipping around in a circle. After a second, Danny screeched to a halt in front of Beast Boy, floating in front of him.

Beast Boy's eyes bugged at the reading. "No way!"

"What is it, BB?" Cyborg asked, pen tapping against the clipboard. Raven had stolen what Danny had written so he was stuck with being left in the dark.

"Three-ninety!"

"Three hundred ninety?" Cyborg and Danny repeated incredulously.

Beast Boy showed it to them and Cyborg wrote it down, hearing Danny's amazed muttering.

"Try your strength next," Raven directed.

Danny shot her a wary look. "With what?"

"Those iron blocks look good," Raven pointed out, meaning the obstacles in the ground.

"Raven, if you pull those out, you're responsible for putting them back in," Cyborg warned.

"I don't think that's a good idea anyway," Danny objected.

After a second's thought, she had to agree. "All right. Try your"—she checked the sheet—"ghost rays now."

"Just so you know, it'd work better if these were ghost proof," Danny said, his hands flaring green. He shot the strongest beam he could manage at an obstacle. The heavy metal obstruction was instantly incinerated.

"Wicked, dude!" Beast Boy shouted, jumping from his spot next to Raven.

Danny looked shaken but turned to the Titan. "I could punch one of those?" he offered. "It might give a good estimation of my strength."

Raven glanced at Cyborg, who seemed slightly disgruntled but nodded. "He already destroyed one."

Danny flushed and muttered, "Sorry." He floated in front of a still standing metal obstacle and drew his fist back. "Hah!"

The punch dug right into the metal and poked a hole through it, causing a startled Danny's momentum to leave him with his arm stuck in it up to the shoulder. "Ack." Grimacing, he shoved backward, unintentionally using more strength than he intended to. The result was the metal bending under his other hand and him losing his balance. Fed up, he phased out and gave the thing a kick. To his shock, the whole thing keeled over like a drunken man with a loud creak. "Oops."

"Just so you know, I'm not doing any arm wrestling matches with you!" Beast Boy told the chagrined ghost teen.

"Anything else you want him to wreck?" Cyborg demanded Raven after writing the observations down. The demand was half-hearted, though, and Raven knew it.

"Yes," she responded blandly without batting an eye. She turned to Danny, who was floating in front of her now. "I already know that your teleportation has changed."

"You want me to test my telekinesis?"

"Yes."

Danny scoured the surroundings and smirked when he saw something he could use. Without warning, Robin and his beach chair lifted up, freaking Starfire out. They weren't glowing and Danny hadn't moved.

"Hey!" Robin protested. "Not funny, Danny!"

Danny obligingly put him down with a mere thought. "The last time I did something like that I was running on adrenaline and they still glowed green."

"We've still got ice," Raven began.

Danny grinned and took off before she could specify. Within a minute, a beautiful ice sculpture of Titan Tower and the Titans stood before them. He reappeared in front of them, grinning.

"Impressive," Raven remarked dryly. "But maybe something offensive?"

Danny didn't hesitate as he turned to the ocean. He slammed his hands down on the ground and froze an entire section of water and ground in less than a minute. When he turned around, his breath was visible and his eyes were fading from blue back to green.

"Nice. We can ice skate," Raven said sarcastically.

"Don't diss the power of a slippery ground," Danny defended.

"He's right," Cyborg said, remembering the fight earlier.

"What about that duplication thing?" Beast Boy asked before Raven could say anything.

Danny closed his eyes and tried to create as many as he could. When he heard gasps, he opened them and looked. He promptly couldn't look away. A dozen of him looked back.

One of them even said, "I think we can make more if we try not to focus on individual characteristics."

"…Okay?" Danny got out, stunned.

"You could probably make up your own soccer team with that many duplicates!" Beast Boy exclaimed.

Danny reabsorbed them, shrugging. "Not too big a fan of soccer. In fact, I don't really like any sport." He made a face. "Seeing your parents argue about who's overshadowed by a ghost and who's not kind of sucks the fun out of it."

"That must be difficult," Starfire sympathized.

"What's the use about arguing who's overshadowed?" Cyborg asked.

Danny scratched the back of his neck, grinning sheepishly. "I guess to them it's the same thing as doping. But I've never understood why ghosts would overshadow athletes in the first place so it's just rubbish."

"That aside," Raven broke in, "there's one more thing I'd like to see."

Danny promptly took a step back, putting his hands up. "No."

"There's one more thing on here," she insisted, holding the sheet up.

"Do you have any idea how destructive that is? And that was before! You saw how much damage just a ghost ray did. I'm not using that here. It stays a last-ditch resort."

"What are you talking about?" Cyborg tried to steal the sheet from Raven but she held it out of his reach. "Come on, Raven!"

"What could be worse than that ghost ray?" Robin inquired warily, leaning forward. Starfire had confiscated his crutches since he'd been using them too much and not resting his leg.

Danny winced, looking at his boots. "It's my ghostly wail."

"It sounds like a wail?" Starfire guessed.

"Well, yeah. But it causes a lot of damage. I knocked down a building one time. I don't want to know what would happen now."

Raven peered at him for a long moment. Then she nodded slowly. "All right, Danny. We won't use it."

Danny sighed, relieved. "Thanks."

"Instead, I'd like to test your reflexes," she continued, tucking the sheet into a hidden pocket.

"How?" Danny stepped around her as she walked onto the training grounds.

Without warning, Raven flung the metal obstruction Danny had knocked down earlier at him and the Titans behind him. Yelping, Danny snapped up a green shield in time for it to bounce off of. He dropped it a moment later only to have to knock aside a beam that had served as a goal post. His arm smarted slightly from the brutal contact but he ignored it to move away from the stunned Titans behind him.

"What are you doing, Raven?" Cyborg shouted, waving his clipboard around frantically. "You could have killed us with that!"

"I didn't," was the blasé reply. Raven then grabbed onto a large rock that was lying in the water and levitated it.

Danny floated in the air, arms up in a defensive position. Given the destructive power of his ecto-blasts, he really didn't want to attack Raven. When the sorceress flung the rock at him, he turned intangible and let the rock fly behind him. Before it hit the ground, though, he grabbed it with his own telekinesis powers. He flung his arm forward and the rock hurtled toward Raven.

Again noting the lack of green covering it, Danny watched Raven be buried under it. "Raven!" he cried, alarmed.

He was both startled and relieved to hear a familiar voice from behind him. "Don't let down your guard."

Danny whirled around in time to see Raven unleash a stream of black magic toward him. He needed to get away!

And then he was behind Raven and grabbing her arms. The Titan evaporated into black smoke and left him clutching thin air. When she materialized next to him a second later, Danny had had enough.

"That's it!" Not thinking, Danny moved his arm in a sideways arc. A stream of green exited his fingertips and hit a startled Raven, knocking her backwards and into the ground. Danny was surprised to see the green still coating her and keeping her pinned to the ground.

"Nice," Raven called out, trying to get off the ground but failing. Whatever Danny had fired at her had really sticky capabilities. It was stickier than the thing she had seen him fire at her body during the Puppet King. "Think you can get rid of it?"

Landing and carefully approaching her, Danny inspected what he had shot her with. He had to swallow hard when he recognized the restraints his future self had used on his friends and family with the boiler.

'Remember, it's because you're getting stronger,' he reminded himself sternly, freezing the binds before shooting a very low powered ghost ray at them. They shattered and Raven stood up, brushing off her cloak. He warily stood back, remembering the surprise attack she had done at the beginning.

"Not too worry," she said reassuringly, catching the movement. "I'm done."

"Oh good. I was afraid you'd be after my head." Danny grinned wryly. "Sorry about that, by the way."

Raven took out the sheet she had tucked away, allowing Cyborg to finally see what was written on it. He had approached them while they were talking. "So that's another power besides your electricity."

"You could only go two hundred and twenty-three before?" Cyborg asked, looking up from the sheet Raven had in her hand. "That's a pretty big jump."

"Everything is," Danny muttered, shuffling uncomfortably. He transformed back, ruffling his now black hair.

"That cover everything, Raven?" Robin asked, leaning back into his chair. "I think Danny's about done."

Danny shot her a sheepish grin. "Are you?"

Raven looked over Cyborg's clipboard with a critical eye. "I should think so. Just let me get everything straightened out." She turned and headed back to the tower.

Danny stared after her before realizing he didn't have anything to do. He turned to Cyborg. "You want me to help out or something?"

"Now that you mention it…"

It was quiet and dark in her room and exactly what she needed to think about the information she had gathered that afternoon. The clipboard glowed black and floated in the middle of the room. In the meantime, Raven flitted from shelf to shelf, perusing books before discarding them or adding them to the other floating books around the clipboard.

When she was sure that she'd gathered all the books on ghosts and spirits from her extensive library, Raven began to look more closely at the books she had gathered while floating in the air in a cross-legged position. Most of them were instant garbage once again and she stacked them in a pile next to a bookshelf. A few of them had some valid points but were useless in the context of the matter.

Sighing, Raven pulled the clipboard towards her and viewed the stats again. Then she mentally reviewed everything she'd gathered so far. Before, Danny's top flying speed had only been 223 and it was now 390, a drastic jump in only several months. His strength had improved tremendously but the stats would be a more accurate measure if the sheets he had punched were ghost proof. Telekinesis- and teleportation-wise there was no comparison to several months earlier: he had drastically improved his control in leaps and bounds.

Everything led right back to the Puppet King. Following that was when Danny had said his ghost half felt stronger and when his abilities skyrocketed in power. So she had the why. But how did it even happen?

The problem was that since half-ghosts were an anomaly, no book she had would give any information on their genetic makeup. Plus, there was also the fact that the books she did have were useless when it came to Danny's species of ghosts. So this was all going to be guesswork and hypothetical.

'What happens when you rip half of one's DNA out and then it reincorporates itself?' Raven bent her head, covering her eyes with her hands as she mentally puzzled out the problem. 'Theoretically speaking, it wouldn't merge itself in the same way as before. Genetic testing has proven that. So what? Does that mean it binds itself even more tightly to the existing structure to ensure it doesn't happen again? Like a defense mechanism?'

Her sixth sense niggled at her, telling her that she was on the right track. 'If that's the case, then the Puppet King extracting Danny's ghostly DNA resulted in it binding more tightly to his human DNA. That could result in his ghostly abilities experiencing a jump in strength. But then, this is all hypothetical.'

Blowing out another sigh, Raven unfolded her legs and stood on the ground. It wasn't what she wanted but at least she had some sort of explanation for why Danny's ghost half was stronger than before. If – when he got back to his home world, his parents could run tests to figure out the actual cause.

Taking the clipboard with her, Raven left her room and began to descend into the bowels of the tower. She knew Danny was down there after searching for his aura. It was so bright that it was blinding.

When she came to the garage, she stopped in the doorframe to watch Danny help Cyborg with his car. The half-ghost was using his telekinesis power to keep it afloat in the air while Cyborg stood underneath and tinkered with the underbelly and the tires.

"You getting tired yet?" Cyborg asked.

"I could make the car do flips and rolls if you wanted," Danny offered, one hand in the air to make sure the car stayed steady.

"Try that and I'll throw this at you," Cyborg threatened, waving a wrench at the ghost teen.

The white-haired ghost shrugged, a quirky grin playing at his lips. "It'll just fly through me."

"Unfair," Cyborg muttered, making a hand motion.

Raven saw Danny slowly lower his hand; the car came down to Cyborg's level. The half-robot opened the door and grimaced when it fell off.

"Shucks," Danny sympathized. "What happened to it?"

"You saw the rats, yeah?"

"The ones the size of go-karts and looking like zombies? Yep, I did."

"They happened."

"What? They chewed it up? It just looked like a building fell on it."

"The sewer pipes did," Cyborg said, carefully placing the broken off door on the ground. His eyes landed on Raven then, who was still lurking by the doorframe. "Raven! What are you doing down here?"

Danny's green eyes flicked towards her before returning to the car and gently setting it on the ground.

"I think I came to some sort of conclusion," Raven said, holding the clipboard up to indicate what she was talking about.

"Should I be worried?" Danny asked.

"No." Raven neglected to mention the fact that everything she'd come up with was purely hypothetical.

After making sure that his baby would be all right, Cyborg followed the two hybrids upstairs into the living room/kitchen. Robin, Starfire, and Beast Boy were already there, hanging out in front of the TV.

Beast Boy's head snapped around as he heard them come in. "You fix your car yet, Cy?"

"Not yet. It's going to take a while." Cyborg sounded disgruntled.

"I could take Desiree out and ask her to fix it," Danny said half-jokingly. "Or Technus. I'm sure he'd go gaga over fixing that."

"The time I'm letting any ghost you've fought near my baby is the time that I find out vampires are for real," Cyborg said, shooting Danny a mock glare.

"They sparkle," Danny said sarcastically.

"And drink animal blood," Robin added from his spot on the couch.

"I thought it was cute!" Starfire objected.

There were groans from the rest of the Titans and Danny.

"Don't," Danny pleaded. "They were awful. Sam wouldn't stop ragging on them for days after reading the series and forced me to read them, too."

"I thought they were really fluffy," Beast Boy said, grinning sheepishly. "I wasted a week reading them."

Raven grimaced at the mention of Twilight and steered the conversation back to where it was supposed to be. "I didn't bring you up here to debate whether Meyer's Twilight is really bad or really good. I just wanted to say that I have a reason for why your abilities have developed the way they have."

Danny waved her on, taking a seat in midair. Cyborg blinked, disconcerted at the sight but didn't comment, instead leaning back against the black couch.

Raven took it into stride, instead walking over to Danny's side to show him the clipboard. "You said that it was after the Puppet King that your ghost half felt stronger. Since then, your abilities have skyrocketed from two hundred and twenty-three mph in flying speed to three-ninety and your control and finesse have also improved greatly."

"It sounds like you're just primping up your speech," Beast Boy called. He received a slap in the head with a glowing black towel for that remark. "Ow!"

Aside from that, Raven ignored him. "One thing that struck me was that since the Puppet King literally removed half of your DNA, it had to merge back with your human half."

"I went through the accident again," Danny agreed, grimacing as he remembered the pain.

"Exactly. In this case, your DNA merged more tightly so that future occurrences wouldn't happen so easily. It's a defense mechanism."

"Wait… So I'm more half-ghost than before?" Danny looked faintly ill at that thought.

"No. Your DNA is just more tightly bound, thus giving you a jump in abilities. It also explains why you suddenly have a new power. Your DNA was extracted and then reintegrated. It mixed around your growth rate."

"That's because once DNA is taken out, it's not put back in the same way," Cyborg mused thoughtfully.

Danny looked between Cyborg and Raven. "How much of this is speculation and how much is fact? I don't think you have books giving you detailed descriptions on the genetic makeup of half-ghosts."

"I don't," Raven admitted. "Really, most of this is hypothetical. I just have a feeling that it's right. When you get back, you can have your parents check to see if anything's changed."

Danny sighed, unfolding his legs to land on the ground. He transformed back into his human form. "So what now? You said when I get back. Do you have a plan for that?"

Raven shook her head. "Not yet. It's going to take a while for me to gather the materials necessary. In the meantime, you'll have to stay here with us."

"I don't mind." Danny gave a small smile. "I'm just wondering what I'm going to be doing aside from teaching Wulf English." The ghost wolf was still in his room, sleeping.

Robin volunteered information then. "I saw you fight during the Puppet King. You know some martial arts, right?"

"My mom's a ninth-degree black belt. She's taught me some since finding out I'm half-ghost."

"I could teach you some more," the boy wonder offered. "It would come in handy."

"And we can play video games!" Beast Boy said rambunctiously, jumping up on the couch.

"You can help me fix up the car," Cyborg said, smirking.

"We can go shopping!" Starfire said gleefully.

"And I can teach you more about control and finesse," Raven said, smiling at the befuddled look on Danny's face. "That's when I have time, of course."

A slow smile broke across Danny's face and he met the eyes of every Titan in the room. "Thanks."

Beast Boy suddenly procured a gigantic grayish-green ball that was dripping foul green stuff. An evil smirk was plastered across his green face. "Stinkball!" he shouted, flinging the ball in Danny's face.

The ghost teen turned intangible before it could touch him, causing the ball to hit Raven instead and splatter her with something foul and stinky.

Danny paled upon seeing the mess. "Sorry. That was habit."

Raven didn't respond except to grab a mass of gunk from the sink with her magic and aim it towards Danny. This time the ghost teen teleported out of the way, leaving the mess to splatter against Cyborg.

The half-robot wiped the gunk off his face, glaring at a smirking Raven and a sheepish Danny, who was hovering by the ceiling in his ghost form. "It is on."

With that declaration, all six were immediately engulfed in a full-on stinkball war. When Wulf joined them five minutes later, he instantly found himself the recipient of a glowing green stinkball courtesy of Danny. He promptly joined the fight, resulting in more chaos and the kitchen sink blowing up.

No one ever said that a game of stinkball involving the Teen Titans and two ghosts would be clean.

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Anonymous: Glad you enjoyed the bonus scene! I hope you enjoy this chapter as well.