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I can't believe this… the Teen Titans.

After we were escorted into the security area of the airport we were told to wait in one of the examinations rooms. And who should walk in but Robin the ex-sidekick of Batman in his traffic light colored costume and Beastboy former member of the Doom Patrol with his green skin and purple outfit. Both members of the Teen Titans.

Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against the group of heroes, if anything I am a little jealous of their popularity and acceptance in society, but I had been flying under a fake ID and they would be able to track me back to Danny Fenton and then my parents would find out.

"Wow Robin, I didn't know you had a twin." Beastboy said when he looked at me.

Robin ignored him and sat down in front of me. "Let's get this first part out of the way. Four hour ago we were told that a passenger plane coming in from Domino City, Japan went missing. The members of my team that weren't busy fighting monsters were preparing for a rescue mission when we were told that the plane's radio was back up and that two civilian children were flying the plane."

"Who are you calling children. You not that much older than us, bird boy!" Rebecca shouted in indignation.

"Rebecca please." Her Grandfather tried to calm her down.

"Anyways." Robin continued. "We did a quick background check of everyone in the relative age group on the plane and found that one of the people on the plane didn't really exist."

"Shoot." I mumbled.

"Martin Frost, there was no such person. But with a little digging we found out that your real name was Danny Fenton, son of Jack and Maddie Fenton the self-proclaimed world's best ghost hunters. And with your status as a junior astronaut in training with NASA, you would have the knowhow to fly the plane." Robin said putting a copy of my school photo ID in front of me. I got a little angry myself at the 'self-proclaimed' part. "Then we found out that you registered from the flight at the same time as Arthur Hawkins and his genius granddaughter Rebecca Hawkins who would fit the description of the other child."

"You worked fast." I said a little depressed as Arthur continued to try and control his granddaughter. "So now what."

"If you think we are here to bust you then you're wrong. You two saved the lives of over three hundred people today. And there are lots of reasons that you could have for wanting to keep your movements secret. We came for a different reason all together." Robin said leaning forward and looked at us all. "Right before we lost contact with your plane a giant hole was torn in the sky about Domino City and a giant eye appeared as seemed to try and consume the monsters until a…"

"Giant blue dragon stopped it. Yeah I know." I said leaning back in my seat and Rebecca and Arthur looked at me puzzled. After I found out that my parents wouldn't find out about this I relaxed immediately. "The dragon is called Timaeus and the only thing I know about the eye is that it was supposedly sealed away ten thousand years ago and that the monsters call it 'the Great Beast'." I air quoted.

"I figured it wasn't a coincidence that a man that publishes controversial material about the history of the world involving monsters, and a boy who is only on the radar because he fought off a ship full of inner dimensional ghost pirates, were coming out of a city that was about to be attacked by a giant monster." Robin said with a smirk aimed at Beastboy who handed him a five dollar bill. "Tell us everything you know about these monsters."

Professor Hawkins gave his explanation about Atlantis and its monsters to the Titans and should them the pictures. "You have got to be kidding me. Give me back my five bucks, Rob. This was a waste of time." Beastboy said to his leader.

Rebecca kicked him hard in the knee. "Don't you dare say anything bad about my Grandpa!" She shouted at him.

"It is quite a story to swallow, but they do have evidence to back up some of their claims." Robin said looking at his dopy partner jumping up and down on one leg. "But I don't understand what this theory about Atlantis has to do with our current monster problem."

"Maybe we should start over." I said and grabbed the related picture. "This picture is supposed to be about of the Great Beast leading an army of monsters to destroy Atlantis." I said showing him the picture of the eye in the sky and the monsters fighting in the street. "In the battle there were two sides. The Great Beast, the king that he brainwashed to do his bidding, and his army of monsters on one side. On the other side was the former king, his people, and the arm of monsters that they got from another world called the Realm of the Beasts." I started to tell the story.

"In the initial fight the Realm of the Beasts sent their Vanguard out to see what the situation was. That Vanguard was called the Lightsworn. During the fight the Lightsworn were cursed by the Great Beast and banished to the Shadow Realm or as my family calls it, the Ghost Zone." I said to the two heroes. "A little over a day ago, before the monsters started to appear, the curse was lifted off of the Lightsworn after ten thousand years. They told me that the Great Beast was starting to awaken and to go to Japan to see how I could help out."

Beastboy was shaking his head. "Rob you can't possibly believe this guy."

"What kind of proof would you need?" I said looking at the two of them.

"I really don't know." Robin said scratching his chin. "I am going to believe you." Beastboy's mouth dropped to the floor. "Normally I wouldn't, but Batman once told to never underestimate the Fenton family, expecially the son. I don't know what the old Bat meant by it, but there is something about you."

"Danny, you know the Batman?" Rebecca asked looking at me.

"I have done a lot of things." I said rubbing the back of my head and failing to restrain my grin. "On that note, can you tell Alfred that I have that book he was looking for? He will know what I am talking about." Robin's eyes widened from behind his mask. "Don't worry I have no intention of revealing anyone's secret identity." I said waving off Robin's concern.

"Fine then, what have you figured out about how to stop the current happenings?" Robin said as Beastboy looked like he was having a heart attack.

"Not much, apparently there is a biker gang that is going around stealing peoples souls by beating them at the Duel Monsters card game. Please don't ask, I know it sounds stupid. Apparently Duel Monsters was based off of really Dark Magic." I said to them with a shrug. "The people are trying to use the souls that were stolen to revive the Great Beast."

"Reports say that the Dragon destroyed the thing." Beastboy pitched in.

"Only drove it back. The Great Beast hasn't recovered its full power after all these years." I said staring down the hero. "It will be back… and it will be bigger. Remember, that was just the eye. Think how big the whole thing is." Rebecca looked worried and Beastboy shivered, but the Professor only seemed unsure of things. Robin and I were staring at each other not moving a muscle. "Professor Hawkins came back to the states to do some research and I tagged along to act as a body guard in case whatever organization is doing this thinks that he is getting too close."

Robin crossed his hands in front of his mouth. "With all the mess that the monsters are causing, all the heroes in the world are on call protecting their own cities and those that don't normally have heroes." Robin said. "So we can't offer any support in guarding the Hawkins family." The Robin looked up. "Amity Park has not been under attack since this entire thing started. You're from Amity Park right. You wouldn't know why they are suddenly the safest place to be would you?"

"Yeah, I have a theory anyways." I said a little nervously. "They are already overlapping with one dimension, when a second one tried to compete for influence over its magnetic fields it just locked up the existing natural gates without any new ones being opened. Though, that is only my theory." I told him why it was happening that way… at least to the best of my knowledge. "Why do you asked?"

"Because Amity Park being safe leaves Phantom free to help you protect the Professor." Robin said. I could almost feel my heart in my heels. Rebecca looked as if she had connected two and two together from when Lumina called me Phantom. Her mouth fell open a little and her eyes widened. "He rarely leaves his city, but if we can make contact with him…"

"You… you're not serious." I said to Robin who stopped. Did Batman really not tell him I was Phantom? "My family is notorious for trying to strap Phantom to a dissection table. You want to make us work together." I shook my head. "Don't worry, I am more than capable of handling this myself, adding Phantom to the mix with just complicate things. There is no guarantee that he isn't locked out of our world at the moment anyways."

Robin frowned. "If you say so… you got Bat's seal of approval… but if you need help then just give us a call." Robin finally said.

We were escort out of the security area and to baggage claim desk were we finally got our stuff back. I strapped my Duel Disc back onto my arm and then looked up. Something felt off. I scanned the area. Until just a moment ago it was packed… but now it was completely empty. "Guys… something up." I said slowly.

"Yeah… Jump Airport is one of the busiest in the world. But this place is empty." Robin agreed.

"But… they couldn't have all just vanished." Rebecca said looking around.

But they had, no one was in sight. Then I saw no less the thirty guys in black ski masks with assault rifles come in from the pickup zone. "Get down!" I shouted grabbing Rebecca and Arthur and pulling them to the ground behind the revolving baggage claim. The bullets came at us like heavy rain. The thick rubber and metal plating on our chosen cover protected us from harm. I looked and could see that Robin and Beastboy were pinned down behind a concrete pillar that was quickly being filled with holes.

I looked behind us and saw the mirror that ran across the entire wall that would give them vision of us even though we were not going to move out of cover. Then I saw the fire extenuator in the mirror. It was one pillar away from where I was now in cover.

"Rebecca, I need you to stay here with your Grandpa and don't move." I told her as the little girl was shaking with fear. I knew the feeling, the feeling you get when you first realize that someone is trying to kill you. I put my hand on her head. "Don't worry, I will protect you." I said gently.

She looked up at me with wide eyes and nodded. I looked towards my objective. Turning intangible I jumped into the bullet storm and moved straight for the pillar. I took cover and grabbed the fire extenuator and throw it hard straight over the heads of our attackers. I dived to the ground and aimed up using all the skill I have gained from hunting ghost, and firing my built in wrist laser from my Duel Disc. It hit the fire extenuator dead on.

The effect that a thin layer of ectoplasm has on fire extenuator foam really is amazing. One time when my mom forgot about the cookies she put in the oven and they caught fire we tried to use a fire extenuator on them. But mom had used ectoplasm for a nonstick surface gel and it end up producing a green mist that burned human eyes like tear gas.

That is exactly the effect that it had on the thugs. They could no longer see and some of them even dropped their guns to try and rub the stuff out of their eyes. Again turning intangible in case one of them decided to fire blind I went running at them full speed into the mist.

My eyes were unaffected by the mist do to my ghostly blood. I quickly began to knock out every single thug in reach. I had taken down ten of them when I grabbed another person who was screaming about their eyes to find that it was Beastboy. I then noticed that Robin was also in the mix, but that his mask was protecting him from the make shift tear gas.

After a little while, the thugs realized that we were mowing them down anyways and they opened fire on their own ranks. So all and all the whole fight lasted no more than a minute after the fire extenuator was thrown. Twenty of them were neatly knocked unconscious and nineteen more had been shot. I was holding the last of the men against a wall with one hand around his neck.

"Alright talk, who are you guys and who sent you!" I shouted at the man.

"I… I'll never talk." He wheezed as he struggled still unable to see through the tear gas.

I gave into my ghostly nature, and proceeded to scare the crap out of him. "I would be more willing to believe that if that wasn't what everyone always said before I began to… persuade them." I draw a card from my deck and put in against his throat. "It has been a while since I got to do this. I wonder how long you will last when I slowly peel your skin away like a banana." He's breathing began to quicken. With his inability to see he had no idea I was not holding a knife to his neck.

"You… you're going to kill me… but I thought you were supposed to be heroes?" The man was panicking.

"I am not a Titan, and you threaten people I said I would protect. But no, you will not die, but you will wish that you didn't." I said with a wicked cold voice fuel by my ice core. "Then of course if you manage to still hold your tongue I get to start to insert the needles into your nerve ending. Then the ice on the needles, some people use heat or electricity, but I prefer ice. It doesn't destroy the pain receptors as quickly and allow you to feel it a lot longer."

"Wow… he really is Robin's evil twin." Beast moaned from his position on the ground rubbing the mist out of his eyes. Even Robin looked impressed.

I could smell his soiled pants. "I'll… I'll talk… please… I don't get paid enough for this." The man was sobbing now. "I work for a man called Dartz, that is all I really know, really. He was always going on about some giant monster and that he was some kind of ancient king or what not, but I think he is just crazy. I needed then money and he paid well so I didn't ask questions. We were just supposed to get rid of the Doc. No one said that there would be superheroes involved."

The man just wouldn't shut up. But then I heard a shout. "Danny, look out!" It was Rebecca's voice. I jumped to my right and a bullet went through my left shoulder and hit the man in the heart.

I shifted myself back to cover and put my hand to my left shoulder feeling my ice cold blood between my fingers. I mentally kicked myself for not going intangible instead of just trying to dodge the bullet. I looked at the man in front of me. There was nothing I could do for him. I can't bring back the dead. Then I heard the voice of the man who pulled the trigger. "I so do hate it when the swine start to squeal." A thick accented man said. I couldn't tell if it was Italian, German or French. Culture has never been my strong suit. "And pray tell me why two jumpsuit baboons and a boy with a weaponized children's toy, are guarding a nameless old man and his worthless granddaughter?"

I peered out of my cover to see a man with a large hook like nose and a top hat holding a revolver in his gloved hand. On his left arm was a black Duel Disc with weird marks on it. And around his neck was a glowing stone, just like the one the Professor was carrying.

Robin had maneuvered himself behind the man and threw something at the guy. A wave of the greenish blue energy blew away the projectile. "Don't insult me with your children's toys. This piece of the Orichalcos Stone makes me more powerful than any number of children with the silly belts." The man laughed. Beastboy turned into a rhino and charged at the man but another wave of energy blew him through one of the supporting pillars and knocked him out. "So much for the Teen Titans." He said and started walking towards where Rebecca and her Grandfather were hiding. "Now please come out good doctor. I would rather make this quick."

"No!" I shouted and ran straight at the man. I lifted my left arm with my right and I fired my wrist ray at him again and again. The energy gathered and acted as a shield between him and my attacks. But as long as it was up he couldn't fire his gun. As I got close I changed my Duel Disc into duel mode and activated another function that coated the top with ecto energy and used my right hand to lift my left arm and jumped, using my ghostly strength to bring down my left arm like a battleaxe on top of his shield. After a moment of struggle I managed to push him back causing him to stubble a bit.

Now I was between him and Rebecca and Arthur. "If you want to get to them, you will have to do it over my dead body." I was starting to get feeling back in my left arm after the shock and could move it a little. But if he chose to continue I would be forced to transform and reveal my secret.

The man started to laugh. "To continue fighting in your condition and over powered the Orichalcos Stone with nothing but a toy and you own will power, you truly must have a powerful soul, and unless that Duel Disc of your is just for show, you must be a duelist." I could see where this was going. "I assume you know that if you play a little card game with me then? The loser will have their soul feed to the Great Beast. Master Dartz would be very pleased if I delivered him a soul like yours. And if you should win, then I would no longer be a threat to your little friends." He said with a smile. "So are you a betting man Mr…" He cut off. "I am sorry we never introduced ourselves. They call me the Handyman." He said with a bow.

"Danny Fenton, and I don't think I really have a choice right now, do I?" I said staring at him.

"Don't do it Danny, just run, we're the ones that he wants." Rebecca shouted from her cover.

"I told you that I would protect you and your grandpa, and that is exactly what I am going to do." I said lifting my Duel Disc.

"Then lets us begin." The Handyman said lifting his own. "Since I challenged you, it is only fair that you go first." He said with a stupid grin. "Not that it will make just of a difference in the end."

Handyman 4000

Danny 4000

I looked down at my hand. The only monster I could play was my Lightsworn Hunter, Ryko. "I play one monster facedown defense mode and then two other cards facedown." I said making my declared move. "That is it for now."

"Not much for openings, are you?" He said as he drew his card. "Let me should you how it is done with this," He played out a field spell, "my 'Seal of the Orichalcos' magic card!" Wind was thrown about as the symbols on the Duel Disc began to glow. Out came a wide magic circle that pushed away Rebecca and her grandfather whose cover was inside of the circle. An identical circle appeared on his forehead. "Now thing can get in or out until one of us loses and the loser will lose their soul." He said with a grin. "And that isn't all. Come out my 'Dark Zebra'." (1800 / 400) it was a Zebra with a unicorn horn on its head. Then a circle appeared right underneath the horn. Its eyes took on a more evil look and a glow appeared around its body. "The seal also gives all my monsters 500 more points, and I can now have ten monsters instead of just the stander five, that I can arrange in rows so that you can't attack my back line without going through the front." He said proudly. (1800+500 / 400 + 500)

"Now since I don't like surprises I will play this little card. 'Swords of Revealing Light'." Swords of light appeared all over the field and caused my Ryko to flip over. (300 / 200) "What? That little thing was the best you had. I think this will be too easy." He laughed at the tiny husky. But then Ryko grow to his giant size and tore a path through the swords going straight for the Zebra. The Zebra tried to run but Ryko latched onto it with his teeth and swung its body left and right tearing it apart. "What… what is the meaning of this? It was my turn, and you can't attack will my swords are on the field, not to mention your dog was too weak."

"That is because my friend here has a little effect. Whenever he is flipped over I can destroy one card on the field by sending three cards from my deck to the grave." I said moving the cards to the graveyard. Ryko came back to me and shrank down to his original size. I pet the back of his head. "You did good there boy." I praised him. The swords reappeared and held him in place.

"You still won't be able to attack me for the next three turns, and your monster is still weak." Ryko growled at him. "I play one card facedown and will let you have another go."

I looked at my hand. It was nothing that could help me right now. And I still had no Lightsworn in my graveyard. I put my hand on my deck. 'I think this will help.' I heard Lumina's voice say. I draw the top card in my deck that gave a light glow. I smiled as I looked at the card. "I play the spell card 'Roll of Fate'!" A die appeared and began to roll. "I roll a die and whatever number it lands on I draw that many cards, as long as I send the same number from my deck to the graveyard." The die stopped on a three. "What was that you said earlier about gambling?" I asked as I draw my three cards. I saw Lumina in my hand and smiled. Then I moved the cards from the top of my deck to the grave. They were Wulf and Lyla as well as 'Gragonith, Lightsworn Dragon'. The white claw marks appeared in the air. "Looks like my Wulf was sent to the graveyard from my deck. That means he is immediately special summoned to my side of the field." Wulf appeared in all his white armored glory. (2100, 300)

"Next I will summon my Lightsworn Summoner, so come out Lumina." I said playing her card. The circle of light appeared on the ground and raise to show Lumina with her arms crossed in front of her. (1000, 1000)

"Seriously Danny, what would you do without me?" Lumina asked with her smile.

"I would probably just have punched him in the face." I said. The Titans and the Handyman looked shocked that she was talking. "I activate her ability by discarding a card from my hand to bring back my Lyla, the Lightsworn Sorceress." Lyla appeared before me in a column of light.

"You go Danny, show him whose boss!" Rebecca cheered since she knew what happened next.

"He still can't attack me." The Handyman said looking a little move nervous.

"Not yet, but by switching my Lyla to defense mode I can destroy one spell or trap on your side of the field." I said moving my sorceress to the needed position. The swords shattered. "You should have known you can't hold back the Lightsworn with light."

"I am not died yet, I activate my 'Gravity Bind' trap card." He said revealing his face down card. "No monster, level four or higher, can attack." He said with a smile. "That leaves only your little girl and that stupid mutt able to attack." Ryko growled again and Lumina flipped him off.

"Mutt? This mutt is all I need to beat you." I said. "I activate my facedown card. 'Glorious Illusion'." There was a bright ball of light that shaped itself into a dragon.

Gragonith first looked like Dora's dragon form before her pearly sky blue scales turned white and a horn appeared in the center of her head as the other two disappeared. Her leather wings turned to white feathers and her reptilian tail disappeared as it combined with the golden mane that stemmed all the way down her back, which made her look like the cross between a Pegasus and a Dragon. She spread her wings wide and gave a call like that of a song bird rather than a dragon. "I am here to lend you my aid, Sir Phantom." (2000 / 1600)

"That's a six star monster, you can't attack with that you fool." Handyman said angrily.

"I already told you, only Ryko will be attacking you, and with this he will be able to finish you." I said playing the final card of the Duel. "My 'United We Stand' equipment spell, which gives my Hunter 800 more attack points for every monster I have face up on my side of the field." The Lightsworn gathered behind Ryko who gave of a bright light that almost hide his body. (300 + 800 x 5 / 200) "My Hunter now has 4300 attack points. You lose." Ryko ran at the handy man and buried his teeth into man's hand as he screamed.

Danny 4000

Handyman -300

The magic circle began to close in on him. "No… please… It can't end like this… Master!" The Handyman cried before a giant pillar of green light went into the sky and the man fell down, dead to the world.

"Professor Hawkins, are you and Rebecca alright?" I asked as I moved towards them.

Rebecca ran up to me and started to cry. "Danny, I was so scared." I slowly patted her on the back trying to calm her down.

"Don't worry Rebecca, it is all over. You're safe now and I won't let anyone hurt you." I said in a calming voice which seemed like it was having an effect on her.

"But… but you got hurt Danny. You got hurt and… and it is all my fault." Rebecca said through her tears.

"No Rebecca, if you hadn't warned me when you did then I might not have gotten out of the way in time." I said flexing my left arm and hiding my pain. "Don't worry about this little scratch. It didn't hit anything important and didn't damage much muscle tissue. I will be good as new in three days time. You'll see." I assured her. The truth was it would be good as new in three hours time with my advanced regenerative abilities, but I didn't know if I wanted to tell her that I was a superhero yet, even if she probably already guessed. "Don't worry Becky. I'm not going to be going anywhere." I said ruffling her hair again. She really did feel like a little sister.

We were startled out of the moment by Robin's voice. "Looks like everything you told us was just proven true." He said loudly as he checked the Handyman's pulse.

"Is he dead?" Beastboy asked.

"No… he seems to be in a coma." Robin said standing up straight. "But it is probably more than that."

"Yeah, he lost his soul." Beastboy said backing away from the man's body. Robin started calling of some paramedics with the SWAT team.

"I don't think we are going to be getting any information out of him, but maybe they will…" Robin said turning to the mountain of unconscious bad guys. But then the large green magic circle appeared around them and there was a giant light. "Or not." Robin said in defeat.

"They didn't want anyone to find them." I said grimly trying to make sure that Rebecca wouldn't turn around but I couldn't stop her from hearing that the men had stopped moaning.

"They… they are going to come after my Grandpa again, aren't they?" Rebecca said with a bit of worry. "Are we going to be alright?" She asked looking up at me.

"I already told you that I will protect you and your Grandpa." I said with a smile. She finally seemed to calm down.

"Thank you Danny… for everything you have done already." Arthur said as he took Rebecca and continued to pat her on the back. "I should never have gotten the two of you involved in all this."

"You did well Fenton, but know that we know that there are people coming after Professor Hawkins we can't leave their protection to just you. We will have to move them into Titan's tower." Robin said seriously.

"We can't. I have to return to my lab. There are inscriptions and artifacts there that cannot be moved that I need for my research." Arthur said wide eyed at the suggestion.

"It's for your own safety." Robin and Arthur began to argue.

"I got another suggestion." I said waking over to the Handyman and taking the stone that he had on around his neck. "Make yourself a more dangerous threat than the Hawkins family." I said tossing him the necklace. "With your resources you would be a lot more threatening than a small lab correct? The only reason Professor Hawkins was targeted was because he is the only one that is doing research that connects the current events to Atlantis. You go public that you are doing some of the same research then we will probably be in the clear." I said.

Robin looked like he was considering it. "We don't have time with all the monster attacks. But it might work as a smoke screen." He looked at the stone in his hand. "I'll have Raven take a look at this at least. If we can track them with it and put an end to this then we will. Otherwise we will be depending on you to find them." He pulled a yellow communicator out of his pocket. "You're now a temporary Titan." She said as he tossed me the devise. "Use that to contact us if you find anything out. I'll call Cyborg. We can at least give you a ride to your lab."

Twenty minutes later I was sitting in the back of the T-car on the way to Professor Hawkins's lab. I had found a medic kit back at the airport and used it to do a quick patch job on my shoulder. Once Rebecca had calmed down, she fall asleep almost immediately and her head was now resting in my lap. "Guess today was too exciting for her." I said lightly. It reminded me of my first day of ghost hunting, when I had been too tired to even carry myself up the stairs.

"Sounds like it. Monster attacks, airplane malefactions, and then a group of people that are trying to destroy the world or something try and kill her and her grandfather. I can imagine it would take a lot out of her." Cyborg said over his shoulder to me. We had put Arthur in the front with Cyborg and I was in the back with Rebecca. "But you seem pretty tired yourself, you sure you don't want to take a nap?" He asked me.

"I can wait. And besides, I am from Amity Park. Things like this are on the news between weather and sports everyday at seven and one." I joked.

"Yeah, there are few people in the hero business that haven't heard about Amity Pack. They say it was a nice place to live until about two years ago when all hell broke loose there." He said casually. "I hear from Robin that you are some kind of expert when it comes to the physics of inter-dimensional travel, do you know any way of stopping the monster appearances?"

"In a closed area like a single building, sure." I said with a shrug. "But this is a global problem. And don't you think I would have cut off all random portals to my home town if I knew how to." I said looking out the window as we passed a flock of 'scapegoats'.

"Can't blame a guy for trying." Cyborg said with a shrug. Also looking at the goats. "Hard to believe that it was all just a game we would play to pass the time between attacks on the local bank by someone we could beat in two minutes." He said with a little wonder in his voice.

"I know what you mean. I only started playing because one of my friends dragged me into it. But she still probably would have even if she knew. Sam is funny like that." I said with a smile.

"Is Sam your girlfriend?" Cyborg said with a grin.

"What? No, no, we are just friends." I said trying to both defend myself and not wakeup Rebecca.

"Well do you have a girlfriend then, cause otherwise I going to start thinking that you're lying to me." He said with a smile.

I thought about Valeria. "I… I had a girlfriend. But she left me because she thought I was too weak, that I would hold her back." I said sadly.

"From what I heard you showed up both Robin and Beastboy back at the airport. And she thinks that you would hold her back?" He looked at me with his red eye. "This girl must be something else."

"She really is, but I never showed her what I could do. I was going to… I was going to tell her everything about my time as a ghost hunter. And I was going to give it all up to be with her and I thought she might too… but she dumped me right as I went to tell her." I said and there was an awkward silence in the care for a few seconds.

"That's harsh man… but what's stopping you from telling her now? Maybe she would take you back." Cyborg said.

"I don't know. She has an irrational hatred for the town hero. I use to provide the guy with weapons and info. I guess I am afraid to find out if she would hate me for it, or if what we had was worth more to her." I said as one of the scapegoats turned into a wolf like monster and destroyed the others. "I'm pretty sure she would turn on me."

"I used to have a crush on one of our villains." Cyborg said sadly. "Her name was Jinx and she was… strong, smart, beautiful. She had it all, but she was on the wrong side." He said to me. "I used to dream about go off and taking her away from her life back at the HIVE and showing her that she could be good. But I never got up the courage." His head dipped. "Then Kid Flash came along and swept her of her feet and made a hero out of her. She even joined the Titans… but it wasn't me that did it." He said with a sad look on his face.

"The hearts of the young." Professor Hawkins said with a smile. "It is good to know that even warriors like the two of you are deep down still only human and unable to solve the ago old mystery of a woman's heart." He then chuckled. "Trust me when I say it is ago old. I have seen cruel love stories like these carved into the walls of temples in Egypt."

It was a three hour car drive down to the Professors Lab. He lived in a wide open area in the county side. Cyborg said a few things about defendability and that it would take over two hours for any police to get there in the case of an emergency. But that was for reinforcements. I didn't need reinforcements, and with an endless field with no cover, I would see any intruder coming from over a mile away.

Even after Cyborg's tech said that the only beating heart in the area was a horse and some smaller animal I still quickly scouted the house to confirm it is safe. After I was done, we carried Rebecca in and placed her in her bed to finish sleeping. I then positioned myself on the porch and closed my eyes. I would send the next hour sleeping in ten minute busts. I had to do everything to make sure that Arthur and Becky remain safe. 'A guess you really are a Lightsworn at heart.' Lumina's voice said and her spirit was standing next to me. 'Get a deeper sleep. We will take this watch.'

"Thanks." I sled back relieved that someone would be watching out, because I really needed sleep.

Yes I put in the Teen Titans, I don't know what I was smoking when I did, but I did.

Brownie points to whoever can guess who the next person Danny has to go up against is. You have until chapter 6 to guess.