Sins
Disclaimer: I don't own Danny Phantom or Teen Titans. If I did then it wouldn't be as popular as it is.
Story written & developed by Nightmares Around Winter. BETA'd by Leaf Ranger. Story based by 'The Forgotten Hero' by TheWhiteTitan.
Author's Note: Hello! Time for another chapter and I just want to see thanks to those who fave, followed and, of course, reviewed the first chapter. I mean 21 reviews! That was more than the first original version had! :D Hell, it is nearly HALF of the reviews the current, non-rebooted version has! So once again, thanks and I hope you enjoy this chapter just as much! Also, please review this chapter as well with either girls you want to see in the harem or what you want to see in the future, remember: Those who go into detail as to why a certain girl should be in the harem will be given special consideration but isn't entirely required! Kinda like bonus points, not really needed but it makes it more likely to do better than those who don't. So with that in mind, let's try and beat 21! :D...please? LOL. Oh, and one last thing, when you request a girl that has had several identities then please be specific on which. It should also be noted that this story will be longer before that actual 'revenge' plot against the Titans will start due to several people wanting to see Danny BECOMING Cerberus as oppose to Danny just reappearing as Cerberus at the start. Oh, and one last thing, when you request a girl that has had several identities then please be specific on which. For example, if a person suggested Batgirl then which one? Barbara Gordon or Cassandra Cain? Or if a person suggested Wonder Girl then do you mean Cassie Sandsmark or Donna Troy? ETC. Thanks again and hope you enjoyed!
"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Demonic/out worldly voices or thoughts"
(Author's Note/Translation) The ANs that are numbered are at the bottom.
Chapter 1: Project
"Young Daniel is one of the most fascinating specimens I have ever come across," a man said as he led two others through a long corridor. He wore a dark red dress shirt under a button-up lab coat. He had light blond hair that was grayed with age and brown eyes behind wire-frame glasses. He spoke with a thick Scandinavian accent as he looked over his notes. "His genetic muta-."
"Just tell me how he is doing." The other man interrupted. The man stood at a fairly tall height with an average build. He wore an expensive blue suit with a white dress shirt with a black tie. His head had no hair whatsoever and seemed to have a light shine to it with dull green eyes. It was hard not to recognize the man at first sight, being the owner and CEO of Lexcorp himself, Lex Luthor.
"Well...given what we know about what happened to him, and what we think could have happened, he's fine. He's untrusting, but that is a given, other than he is very sociable but he is reluctant to discuss the treatment he endured from the GIW." The Scandinavian doctor explained. "He has made several requests that we were able to fill but one that he requested the most was an audience with you."
Luthor merely smirked. "I would imagine that would be something he would want as soon as possible," he said as they got to the door.
"What exactly happened to him at this 'GIW' place?" The third person asked.
The doctor looked at her with a strange look. He was curious as to why Luthor wanted to bring this strange girl along to visit Danny but didn't bring it up in fear of the consequences, after all the last one who questioned Lex Luthor ended up being vaporized...at least, according to rumor. He looked at the CEO who merely nodded. "We know that large Daniel was subject to several experiments but the full details of what they trying to understand and the exact method is unknown. Most of that information was destroyed by Mr. Deathstroke's assault on the facility and Danny requested that certain samples taken from him were destroyed. But the end result was that he was...um...' disassembled'."
The girl fixed him with a dark gaze; the girl was around Danny's age maybe a bit older. She had black-violet hair reaching down to the center of her spine as she looked at him with her narrowed eyes that matched the color of her hair. She wore grey armor on her arms, legs, and around her stomach with a black top and skirt. He noted that her skin had a slight orange tint hinting at a possible alien heritage. "What do you mean 'disassembled'?" She asked. "He's a person, not a machine or a robot."
"I'm afraid you will have to see for yourself," the doctor said as they came to a large metallic door. He placed his hand on a blue slab. As the machine scanned his palm and fingertips, the door slid open. The doctor held it open for the two as they soon entered the lab. At the end of the lab was another room that was guarded by two heavily armed men.
The three approached the guards, and one of them nodded to the group. "Doctor Ville, Mister Luthor sir." The two men answered with a slight salute for their boss as they made their way.
"At ease," Luthor said before turning to the girl. "Stay with them, Blackfire. We don't know how he will react to seeing a familiar face just yet."
Blackfire merely glared at the bald man before crossing her arms. "Fine."
Lex Luthor and Doctor Ville entered the room after he punched in a code. The door rose to reveal a large, computer-holographic projection between a glass sphere filled with bubbling liquid nutrients and preservatives and a human brain and a single, long glass panel on the other side. Luthor stared at the empty glass panel with a confused look on his face. "Where is he?" He asked.
"Asleep," the doctor said. "The first thing Danny requested was a 'sleep mode'. I guess that the GIW didn't give him a proper rest protocol and that has caused him severe mental duress, so we installed a sleep mode, just like one you would find in any household computer. I'll wake him up." He said as he pressed a few buttons on the panel.
The machine came to life with a low electronic groan as the form of Danny Phantom came to life in the glass panel. His eyes were closed before opening. "Doctor," he greeted before turning to the bald man. "I know you...you're Lex Luthor," he stated.
"Indeed I am," he said as he turned to the doctor. "You can leave now. I need to speak with our patient."
"Of course, Mr. Luthor," Ville said with a short bow. "Danny." He greeted before turning to leave the room.
Danny fixed the businessman with a stern glare. "You called me a 'patient'." He started simply. "But I'm more than that to you...aren't I?"
"Yes, you are," Luthor said plainly.
"You hired Slade to retrieve my body from a top secret research facility...you are wasting time and resources into not only cloning me a new body but giving me one that is stronger, faster, and even smarter than my old one...and I not once helped you...aided you...or even met you...why? Why even bother to help me? Slade gets an apprentice out of me because that was the part of the deal you made with him, yet you...I just don't understand."
Luthor was silent as he stared at the ground for a moment before smiling to himself. "Did you know that I was born into a poor family?" He asked; when he wasn't met with an answer he went on. "You see Danny…you don't mind if I call you that?"
"Go ahead."
"Good, anyway Danny: I was born here in Metropolis, the Southside yet it was better known as 'The Suicide Slum', even to this day," Luthor explained. "I hated my life there, I loathed everyone in that place and I despised everything about that wretched little rat nest down to the very cracks in the sidewalk and rundown buildings. It was no place for someone of my ambition and gifts. However, the thing I hated the most were my parents: pathetic, alcoholic excuses for human beings. They only did two things right, bringing me and my younger sister into this world."
"Where exactly are you going with this?" Danny asked.
Lex only smiled more. "Let's just say there came a time when I decided that my sister and I deserved better than the Slums, so I came up with an idea that would take me out of that hellhole. I cut the brakes to the family car and the fools never noticed a thing was wrong till they died in the accident. My parents were finally dead and I had more than enough money to establish Lexcorp, even if I had to resort to some...'unsavory' tactics to get where I am today."
Danny merely stared at him blankly when he confessed. "What about your sister?"
"Before I did away with mother and father, a thought came to mind: That everything I built from the ground up could be taken from me by my own blood. After all, I was already plotting my parent's demise. What's preventing my sister from coming up with the idea when she came of age? So I had to get rid of her. She had done nothing to me so having this baby killed was pointless and even though I didn't want her stealing what's mine, she deserved a better life. So I took her and left her at an orphanage in a better part of the city before I put my plan into motion. Funny...my parents never even noticed she was missing."
"I still don't see how this involves me," Danny said simply
"After some time, I became curious about my sister's fate. So I began investigating to see what happened to her. I learned that she was adopted by a family out in the country, but even then that didn't stifle her intellect and she soon entered a college where she met her husband where she had two children. Sadly, she died along with her husband and oldest daughter, but her son lived." Danny's eyes started to widen."You see now? Where I'm going with this?" Lex smiled at his reaction. "Your mother was my sister...there for I am your uncle."
Danny narrowed his eyes at him. "You mean to tell me that I'm the nephew of one of the richest, most recognizable men on the entire planet?"
"Is it really that far-fetched? You meet the country bumpkins that raised Maddie, you looked at them and thought to yourself that how can someone like her be from such a background? After all, I think I made a fair judgment when I presume that your mother was much more capable than your father. But where did she get that from?" Luthor said with a knowing smile.
"Say that I believe that, that you are indeed my uncle on my mother's side, why now? Why didn't you reveal yourself sooner? Especially after she died along with my father and sister?" Danny asked.
Luthor was silent and frowned somberly; almost as if he honestly was saddened about his mother's death. "I only started my investigation a few months back, by the time I discovered you were alive and well, along with your more extraordinary nature, you were already a part of one of the Justice League's many small detachments and I couldn't contact or approach you without causing a scene."
Danny stared at him for a brief moment, as if trying to find any falsehood in his statement. "Very well, but even if I was a blood relative, I still can't help but think that there is more to it than that." He said as he narrowed his eyes.
Luthor sighed deeply. "I haven't exactly kept my...opinion of the Justice League and its members, namely Superman, a secret. I have long experimented with a radioactive substance called 'Kryptonite'. While it is radioactive it only is shown to be harmful toward the alien race called Kryptonians, which Superman is a part of. Though, I was foolish to think that there wasn't any effect on humans. My experiments and exposure to Kryptonite radiation have left me sterile, leaving me with no hope of producing an heir for my legacy and no one to inherit Lexcorp. This was why I started seeking out my long-lost sister, so I could find someone with my blood to take over for me when I die. This is not only why I cloning you with a new body, but I'm going to go the extra mile and improve everything you are. Make you into something that will make what you used to be, a completely obsolete design."
Danny stared at him blankly. 'Do I just lure in crazy rich people?' He thought to himself. "Very well, but first I need my new body."
"That is being done as we speak, but you must understand that re-cloning your body from your brain tissue will be a long tedious undertaking. We're starting from a proverbial fetus stage and up to an adult stage at an accelerated speed, yes, but it still takes some time. Not to mention that the gene therapy will take longer than that. It will still be some months." Luthor explained. "But not to worry, I hired someone to look over you while you're in this state." He said as he turned and waved Blackfire over.
Danny looked past him and stared at the alien girl approaching him with his mouth agape in a stupefied look. "B-Blackfire?" He said as he turned to Luthor. "You're making it hard to trust you when you bring an enemy of mine into my chamber, 'uncle'." He said as he sent a harsh glare at Luthor.
"Relax," Blackfire said comfortingly. "I'm not here to hurt you."
"Miss Blackfire has been looking for you just as I was when she first heard of your predicament," Luthor explained as a small smile graced his face. "I'll...leave you two alone." He said as he turned to leave the chamber.
Danny stared at his back before turning to the dark-haired Tamaranian. "Why have you been looking for me?" He asked.
"Do...Do you really want to know?" She asked. Danny merely nodded forcing her to smile lightly. "I was looking for you because I wanted to help." Danny gave her a confused look. "You're the only one I honestly liked when I came looking for Starfire and met the rest of the Titans," she said as she placed her hand against the glass. "It…breaks my heart to see you like this." Danny merely stared at her blankly. "Let me help you, I can protect you while your new body is being made. And afterward I can help you with anything else you need."
"Why would you go out of your way to help me?" He asked.
Blackfire merely blushed as a sly smile graced her face. "Is it that hard to understand?"
Luthor watched Danny and Blackfire's conversation; not bothering to hide the darkly pleased look on his face. As Luthor watched his nephew and the alien girl converse, the Scandinavian doctor tapped him on the shoulder. "What is it?" He asked with a annoyed look on his face.
"I need to show you something." He said as he led Luthor to his office and went to his computer. "Close the blinds please." He requested. Luthor did causing the room to go dark as a 3D image of a DNA strand appeared in the center of the room. Luthor noted that the strand looked relatively normal but he noticed that certain base pairs were colored green and occasionally emitted bright green flashes. "This is a model based on the data taken from the GIW when they first took blood tests. The green base pairs are those that were affected by Danny's exposure to high amounts of ectoplasmic-base energy." He started.
"Interesting," Luthor said as he examined the module closely.
"Yes, but there's more," Ville explained as a second model appeared next to it. "This is the same DNA strand but taken from his brain tissue for his clone." Luthor looked closely, though to his surprise he saw that the green base pairs were now yellow and red.
"They've changed." He said to himself.
"Yes!" Ville said excitedly. "Danny's ghost DNA has changed; they...evolved into something else." He explained. "It is still ectoplasmic-based, thus something ghost-like, but...I-I just don't understand!"
Luthor was silent as he examined the DNA strands. "I suppose we have to wait till Danny's body has reached targeted maturity. But still, keep a close eye on him. The GIW may have dissected him for more security reasons rather than purely scientific study." He said as he turned to leave. "Oh, and don't tell the others about this little discovery of yours, this will be our secret."
"Of course sir."
END
So that's the end of this chapter and like always: please be sure to leave a review or send me a PM on what girls you want to see in the harem and those who give detailed and/or lengthy reasons will be given special consideration but isn't entirely needed. Also if you wish to have a list about what girls are confirmed for the harem then feel free to send a PM asking as some people were annoyed with the list being at the end of every chapter and preferred it to be kept a secret.