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Hangry Danny: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

Sick Boy: Part1 Part2 Part3 Part4 part5 part6

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Jason spent the last week trying and failing to spy on the Fenton girl. One moment, she was casually walking down the street. The next, she was just gone. It was almost like she was a ghost appearing in the corner of his eye just to disappear again.

The only times she couldn't disappear was when she was in class. And nobody better blame Jason for not wanting to be out during the middle of the day on top of campus building staring at someone sitting for hours.

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Danny waltzed into the restaurant and plopped himself in the seat across from Jaz.

Jaz's face was already pinched with concern.

“wah?” Danny grumbled his mouth stuffed with one of the three buggers that had been waiting for him on the table.

“You're hurt.” There was no room for denial.

“Im fine, Jaz. I heal fast, remember?”

“Don't roll your eyes at me. We both know that's not very true at the moment.”

Jaz was a steel pillar, impossible to sway or bend. It was an aspect of her that made her such a good person to lean on, but at this moment Danny kinda hated it.

“I stepped on some glass, ok?” He raised voice slightly. “Not a big deal!”

“Danny”

He looked away and took a huge bite of a burger.

Jaz sighed, "I'm being watched.”

Danny choked and glanced around.

“Not right now!”

“Do you know who?” Danny asked.

“Redhood?”

“Redhood?!” His eyes were wide.

“I've only seen glimpses but I'm 85% it's him.” Jaz shrugged as if it wasn't a big deal. “Anyways how have you been? How's the online school?”

Danny hummed, “ My grades are better now that I don't have much else to do.” He paused. “I miss Sam and Tucker.” He sounded so small at that moment.

Jaz slid onto his bench and gave him a somewhat awkward side hug. Danny leaned into it. Once he pulled away, he cleared his throat. “Anyways I'm sort of being followed too.” Jaz looked alarmed so Danny quickly continued, “ by one of the Wayne kids. I think he’s trying to be my friend or something.”

Jaz hummed “Having a friend wouldn’t be so bad.”

“ I don't know, Jaz, something's off about him.”

A shiver went up Danny's spine to his neck. It wasn't his ghost sense but it felt similar. He looked at Jaz who seemed to have felt the same thing.

“Guess I better be heading back.” Danny said standing up.

Jaz stood up and pulled him into another hug. She placed a kiss on his forehead when she let go, and Danny pretended to be grossed out.

She smiled fondly, “stay safe.”

“Who’d you think I am?” Danny reached into his pocket a pulled out a small stack of cash.”And here for the food”

“You don't have to pay- that's a lot of cash.”

Danny shrugged, “Mom and Dad are like rich rich now, and Vlad is trying to bribe me into liking him. You actually need this, I probably just buy video games with it.”

She sighed but took the money, “ ok be safe, Im being serious.”

Tim greets Danny with a wide smile, “I was so excited to find out we both skate.”

“Yeah yeah, where do I put my board?”

“Just in the trunk is fine.”

Danny followed Tim into the back of the car while he muttered something about private drivers. “So have you been to this skate park yet?” Tim asked.

Danny glared out the window, “ What do you think?”

Danny's hostility was a stark contrast to their first meeting. Danny had been skittish and shy and it was only when the topic of space came did Danny become more talkative and relaxed. But somehow Tim completely messed up any progress he made.

They skated around for some time, Tim showing off some tricks that Danny was able to repeat immediately or after a few tries. It was nice, and it seemed like Danny was enjoying it as well, that was until Danny sat down on the bench with a groan.

“Do you have bandages by chance?” Danny asked tiredly.

“Oh of course!” Danny had fallen a few times but nothing serious, but it was completely possible for him to have some cuts. Tim grabbed the small first aid kit he kept in his bag and handed it to Danny. Danny looked at it, then back at Tim

“Do you really just carry this around with you?”

‘It is Gotham.”

Danny tilted his head, “touche.”

Danny then proceeded to remove his shoes to reveal his socks, which both had blood covering the bottom.

Danny took off his socks with a wince as the fibers stuck to his cuts. He swung one foot over his knee and pulled out the neosporin and a roll of bandages. He works effectively and with obvious practice.

A multitude of thoughts swirled around Tim's mide. “are you okay ” Tim finally settled on saying.

Danny gave him a level look.

Danny sighed, “ can I go home now?”

With a quick text, the private driver is back in minutes.

Jason sauntered up to the batcomputer, where Tim is rapidly typed and clicked away.

Jason slipped his helmet off and glanced at the screen, displaying a young orange haired woman.

“Sup Timbit, who's that?”

“ Jasmine Fenton, Danny Fenton's sister.” Tim says as he pulls up an old Fenton family picture.

“Really? I didn't know the Fentons had another kid.”

Tim sighs “Me neither, until I caught Danny sneaking out to meet her. Apparently, she and her parents had some sort of falling out.”

“That's interesting and all, but what's the real reason you called me here?”

“From the info I found Jasmine has recently enrolled in Gotham University, and is staying in Crime Alley. I would like to keep an eye on her and maybe watch out how often Danny meets her.”

Tim pulled out a thumb drive and held it toward Jason. “ This has everything I have so far about the situation.” Tim pulled his hand back, "Don't lose it."

“Wasn't going to.” Jason snatched the thumb drive and walked towards the way he came in.

“Oh, and Jason.”

Jason paused and tilted his head.

Danny made his way downstairs with a small swirl of hope in his chest. He had finally convinced his parents to leave him at home while they went on another late night business meeting.

This was Danny's chance, probably for a long time, to investigate the lab for any clue how to get the stupid bracelet off.

A light flicks on as soon as Danny steps foot in the kitchen. His heart drops to his stomach as he turns to see Vlad standing by the light switch.

“Shouldn't you be in bed, Daniel?” Vlad asks his signature smug smirk plastered on his face.

Danny scowled, and forced himself to grunt ‘water’.

Vlad nodded and sat by the dining table and opened his laptop.

Danny filled the cup almost completely with ice. The cold liquid temporarily soothed his ice core, which was constantly fluctuating.

Danny refills his cup and takes a swig, a green sheen on his eyes “ You know what, Vlad, even if you were able to ‘cure’ me and my dad just happens to get out of the picture; my mom would never marry you.”

Vlad does one of his creepy rich man laugh, and Danny is tempted to go feral raccoon and claw his face off, no powers needed.

“ I have to apologize to you, Daniel.” Danny stares at him with a blank look. “ I find that after these few months that I wouldn’t be opposed to a relationship with both of your parents.”

The cup slips from Danny's fingertips.

Without a word Danny turns around and heads back to the stairs, not even bothering to avoid the glass shards.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Bruce had managed to get invited to have dinner with the Fentons on the guise of going over possible partnerships. And that, fortunately, that allowed Tim to tag along, he was running Wayne Enterprise after all.

They sat at the table with Mr and Mrs Fenton, making the usual small talk.

"May I ask, where might Daniel be?" Bruce asked.

Mrs Fenton frowned. "He wasn't feeling well earlier and wanted to take a nap. I bet he's feeling better, tho. I'll go get him."

"I could go get him." Tim says as he already is starting to get out of his chair.

Mrs Fenton paused for a moment before nodding. " Upstairs, second door to the left."

Tim got to the closed door and knocked. No answer. He knocked again and called out to Danny. No answer. Tim tried to open the door, but it was locked. That never stopped him before, though. A few moments later, the door was unlocked, and Tim was inside.

"Danny?" Tim called heistently. He went over to the bed. It was empty. A slight breeze flitterd into the room. The window was opened. Tim felt a sense of dread. The Fentons have been in Gotham for less than a couple of months. Had Danny already been kidnapped?

Tim watched as a hand grabbed the edge of the window and forced it open. A moment later, Danny Fenton was pulling himself in. He looked up when he was about halfway in. He stumbled backward when he spotted Tim. Tim rushed over to help, but Danny had already recovered and pulled himself all the way in.

"What are you doing here?" Danny hissed.

"You stuck out. Tim said matter a factly.

Danny shushed him. "That doesn't answer why you're in my room, and it's none of your business."

"I think it is." Tim argues. "Gotham is dangerous, and you shouldn't be sneaking out."

"Is everything ok up there?" Mr Fenton called up.

"Everything's good, just showing Tim my rocket."

"That’s great Danno, it's almost time for dinner."

"Well, if you won’t tell me, I'll just tell your parents."

Danny tensed, his scowl being replaced with panic. "Fine," he sighed, " I was meeting my sister."

"Ok. Why sneak out?" Tim replied as if Danny hadn't dropped an absolute bombshell.

"She and my parents had a disagreement."

The way Danny said it made Tim sure it was much bigger than just a disagreement.

The last of criminals were being loaded up to be taken away.

"Meet at the base. We need to talk about something." Robin informed the team.

The team was all together at Mount Justice watching as Robin typed furiously on a computer, mumbling to himself.

"Hey Rob, what you'd want to talk about again?" Wally asked.

Robin stopped typing and stood up. "During the mission me and Artemis were helped out from a super powered individual."

"Another hero?" Kaldur asked.

"I doubt it, I've been searching everywhere for any information, but I got nothing."

"What did they look like?"

"They had white hair and green eyes."

Connor and Wally's eyes widened.

"Did he by chance glow?"

"Yeah..why?" Robin asked, narrowing his eyes.

" I may have met him before." Wally said, avoiding eye contact."

"You met him before! When!"

"Uh, do you remember my solo mission a little while ago?

Robin just glared.

" Well, i'vemighthavegottencapturedandhewastheonetosaveme."

"And you didn't tell anyone!"

"In my defense, I had a concussion."

"Okay, anyone else met this person and didn't say anything?"

Connor sheepishly raised his hand.

Robin signed, "When?"

"During the rescue mission."

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Danny was miserable. Tucker had asked him, 'Hey Danny, want me to enroll you in school?' And sure Danny liked school. He got pretty good grades before phantom, and he would definitely have plenty of time. So he stupidly said yes, and now he was suffering. He had forgotten about the english essay that was due the next day.

He's well aware of it. He wasn't just any clone. He was the very first. That was the difference between Danny and other clones. He was made before the League started using brainwashing and stuff into their cloning process.

When Danny was fresh out of the tube, the League had sat him down and explained his the purpose of his existence, gave him some intense training, and immediately tossed him out into the world.

But the thing was, he just didn't care. He had absolutely no loyalty to his creators, and he had no desire to kill/kidnap his original. So he just started walking. The next thing he knew, he was at some orphanage in Illinois.

And then the rest was history. He got adopted by a pair of enthusiastic scientists and their red-head daughter, got his own name, and he could finally start living his own life.

Danny had put the past behind him and had barely even thought about it at all for a long time. That was unill his original showed up at his school.

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Damien was annoyed. He was stuck at some random Illinois town (supposed to be the most haunted place in the world, which was a bunch of ludicrous.) On a transfer program. He tried convincing Father how illogical it would be, but Father had told him it would be good for him to meet new people.

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Danny was annoyed.

"I don't understand what the big deal about him is anyways," Danny complained.

"He started being the ceo of Wayne Enterprise when he was a teenager." Sam countered.

"Ok, so, nepotism."

Sam rolled her eyes. "I still don't understand why you're so against him."

"One, billionaire. Two, Tucker is way cooler than Tim Drake.

Sam's eyes soften. " Tucker is just gone for a few weeks."

Danny's cheeks felt warm. "I never said anything about that. I just want Tucker to find a cooler role model, is all.

Sam gave him an all-knowing look. "Well, if you say so. I'm going to get in line."

Sam, all ways waited last to get in the lunch line. Claiming she didn't want to hold up line when the lunch ladies had to get the vegetarian option. Which was fine, but now that Tucker was doing the dumb transfer student program, all he could do was eat his mediocre lunch and mindlessly play on his phone.

Untill someone grabbed his arm and dragged him out of the cafeteria into the hallway. Danny turned around to face the person. He froze at the sight of his own face. Or well, a glaring rich kid version.

"Oh, it's you." Danny said nonchalant, even though he was screaming inside.

"You're not going to play dumb, clone?"

"No, why would I, The resemblance is uncanny.

"What are you doing here?" His original demanded

"You dragged me here."

His original scowled. "You know what I mean, clone. I won't hesitate to end you."

"Just trying to go to school, honest."

Original glared at him, scanning him with his eyes. The grip on Danny's arm loosened. " I'll be watching you, clone."

" Whatever you say, template."

Danny walked back to the cafeteria, blocking out the yells of rage behind him.

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It was about a week of Damian watching his clone, and he was confused. At first, he thought the league sent the clone to trade places with him before he went back to Gotham, but now he wasn't sure. The Clone seemed to fit in the community to well to have show up recently, but that didn't disprove the theory entirely. It could be a long-term plan from the League. They could be responsible for putting the transfer program in place in the first place.

The other theory was that the clone escaped and made a life for himself, but that didn't explain how he got past his programming.

After the last period, Damian found his clone and pulled him aside.

"What do you want?" His clone asked, irritated.

"You're different then other clones, explain."

"I don't know. I didn't really stick around very long to find out."

"What about your programming?"

"I didn't have any?"

Damian thought about it before giving a small nod. "You don't seem to be a threat, but I'll still keep my eye on you, clone."

"I've got a name, you know." He held out his hand. "Danny Fenton, nice to make your acquaintance."

Damian heistently shook his hand. "Damian Wayne."

That started their unsaid agreement. You don't mess with me, I don’t mess with you. They interacted with each other sometimes, but not very offen. They were impartial to one another, and both sides weren't very keen on getting to know each other. And that was their relationship till the day Damian was leaving.

Damian was waiting for the bus when Danny approached him.

"What do you want, Daniel?"

"I told not to call me that, but uh, here." Danny handed a piece of paper to him. "It's my phone number if you ever need help from the League or anything."

Damian slipped the paper into his pocket. "Give me your phone." Danny handed over his phone, and Damian started typing.

"What are you doing?" Danny asked.

"I'm putting my number in. If you ever require assistance."

Danny smiled, "Thanks."

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A few months later.

Tim was peeking over a corner.

"What are you doing?" Dick asked.

Tim didn't say anything and just waved him over. He walked over and stared in aw at what he saw. Damian was slouched on the couch, his hair messy, playing on his phone.

A few minutes later, Jason joined.

"Am I hallucinating?" Tim whispered.

"Nah, I don't think so... unless we're all hallucinating." Jason whispered back.

"Do you think he has brain damage or been possessed or something?" Tim asked.

Dick shook his head. "That seems unlikely."

"This is so trippy. I've never seen him wear anything that casual like ever.

"What are you imbeciles doing?"

"We're watching Damian."

All three of them froze and turned to look at a glaring Damian.

Damian walked past them and went right up to the second Damian.

"Daniel, what are you doing here?"

The causal Damian 'Daniel' pulled out a letter. "Your pops invited me, and I didn’t want to risk the chance of batman showing up at my front door."

Damian scoffed, "Of course Father found out."

Alfred walked in. "Master Daniel, I'll be taking you to Master Bruce."

The double got up and went to Alfred.

"Cookie, Master Daniel?"

The baby justice, or whoever they were, were starting to get on Danny's nerves. Well, basically, everything did that currently, but not as much they did.

Don't get him wrong. He understood what it was like to be a teen hero, and he respected them for it. But it didn't stop him from immediately groaning when he ran into bird boy and arrow girl.

It started out as pretty okay day. He got a passing score on a test, and it had been a slow work, which meant he'd could go home early. He had got to his trashy apartment and immediately passed out. Danny wished that he'd could sleep till next week, but a few extra hours were still much appreciated.

But fate had other plans. Danny had woken up late at night in a cold sweat, flashs of green and loud yelling, repeating in his head over and over. Danny got up and made his way to the window. He needed to get some air and to clear his head.

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" I'm tired of just sitting here." Artemis complained, fiddling with one of her arrows absencemimdly.

" we need to be ready for anyone that leaves the building." Robin snapped back, not taking his eyes off of the building below.

Artemis already knew this, of course, but it didn't change the fact that she would rather be in the building, actually fighting instead of just waiting.

Her and Robin were stationed on the adjacent building to the one that was the base for a human trafficking scheme. The reason for them being outside and not inside with the others was because, apparently, the top people of this scheme were known flight risks.

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Danny drifted through the night sky, trying not to remember his nightmare. Trying and failing. He couldn't help it. The images just kept popping up in his head. mostly ones of his parents' faces filled with disgust, rage, and just pure hatred,while they tried to blast him to bits.

Danny gets pulled out of his head by the sound of a whisper argument taking place on the rooftop below. Danny looks down and is immediately regretting going outside. The two people arguing were members from Young Justice because, of course, they were. If Danny didn't know any better, these run-ins were starting to seem like no coincidence. He definitely wouldn't put it past CW.

If Danny remembered right, the two people were Robin and Artemis. It looked like the two were on a stake out or something. They kept bickering back and forth, seemingly unaware of the goon that started to creep up behind them. Danny watched and prepared himself in the case he needed to step in.

When the goon was about a foot behind them, Robin swung around and swiftly knocked the guy out. But as soon as he did, multiple men started popping up. Some jumped from the next roof, others climbing up the sides.

Robin and Artemis seemed to have it handled. Things quickly went down after the goons pulled out wepons that shot similar green blasts that left smoldering spots.

It wasn't long before the duo was surrounded, hands up in surrender.

One of the men walked towards them, reaching out to grab them. That's when Danny stepped in, keeping his invisibility and, sucker punching the dude out cold.

All the goons charged at the two, who at the moment were frozen, both looking around in confusion before joining in the fight.

Danny was exhausted by the time the last guy was knocked out. Which was not saying a lot because he had been exhausted for weeks, but now, even more so. Danny looked over to Robin and Artemis, noticing how they were both tense and staring right at him. He looked down...

Opps... Apparently, he had dropped his invisibility during some point in the fight. Well, there's not much to do about it now.

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Robin stared at the teen, who stared back with a pair of neon green eyes. The teen looked down for a few seconds, then looked back at them and shrugged.

"Cuffs?" The mysterious meta asked

"Um...what?" Robin asked completely confused.

The meta huffed and gestured to the unconscious people.

"Catch." Artemis said, walking past him and tossing the meta some rope. " Just tie their feet and hands for now." The boy nodded.

After all the men had been tied up, the three stood in silence, looking back and forth at each other.

Robin cleared his throat. "So, who -" the meta cut him off with a scoff.

Robin tried again.

" I'm Robin, and you are." Robin asked, keeping his body language friendly.

"Nun-ya." The boy replied. Hmm, it was a unique name. Maybe he wasn't a meta, but an ailen. "Business." The boy finished before fading away.

The Fentons find out about Danny being Phantom. Either from Vlad or just randomly. They take it badly. They think Phantom is possessing him, but they think they can "save" him. Unfortunately, the GIW think otherwise and want to destroy their son. So what do they do? They erase all signs of their existence in Amity and wiping every article and study they ever had on ghost. Then they packed up and moved to Gotham in the middle of the night. Cutting Danny off from his friends and Jazz (due to her being at college and disagreeing with them). Vlad and the Fentons become business partners. Publicly, the three work together making and marketing inventions. while privately trying to 'fix' Danny on the side.

Danny has to wear an upgraded specter deflector, which is a thin metal bracelet.

Having half of himself offline for a long period of time has been causing his physical health to decline. That and the experiments his parents have been performing on him. No full-blown vivisection. He also gets anesthesia because they believe the Danny can still feel.

It wasn't long for the people of Gotham to start to talk about Vlad Co's new business partners and their sickly son. It wasn't long after for Bruce Wayne to gain some interest as well.

The first time Bruce met the Fentons was at a gala with Masters introducing them. Jack, Maddie, and Their son. He was also able to observe that he looked more sickly in person. With deep eye bags, pale skin, and how thin he was. It made Bruce's heart ache thinking what the boy about Tim's age had been having to endure.

The conversation contuied. Danny nervously fidgeting, only giving curt responses. Mr Fenton laughed, joking about how Danny didn't like fancy events. He excused Danny, telling him to grab something to eat. Danny nodded and rushed away, grabbing food and settling down in a nestled in a far back conner.

Bruce continued talking to the enthusiastic pair, talking glances at the boy occasionally. He felt some of his tension relax when spotting Tim taking a seat near Danny.

After the gala Tim and Bruce got together and compared notes. They both came to one conclusion.

Kid Flash

The mission was simple. Run in, grab the data, and run out. So Wally might have messed up, and he emitted it. But in his defense, he hadn’t been expecting there to be any traps.

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All Danny wanted to do was go home and pass out.

His new job, for a lack of a better word, was draining. During his shifts, there would always be at least one bad customer, and lately, Danny has found himself being very easily irritated. For example, today, Danny had to physically restrain himself from punching a particularly annoying customer (mostly because attacking a customer would definitely get him fired).

Unfortunately for Danny, his much awaited sleep had to be put on hold. A couple of suspicious people ran past him, whisper shouting about an inturder and debateing on what to do. Before running into what seemed to be an abandoned building.

He groaned, he was definitely wasn't let that go. Curse his self-sacrificing hero tendencies!

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It was starting to look like it was the end of Kid Flash. As the noise of stomping feet got closer and closer, he mourned over his soon to be abandoned leftover pizza.

There was a brief moment where the stomping feet were replaced by loud bangs and shouts before going silent. It was eerily silent besides the low hum of the single dim light above.

Wally didn't know what was going on. Was the silence a good thing, or is it a bad thing? He might be panicking, just a little, okay, maybe a lot. He hadn't heard anything after the commotion, so either they all took each other out, or someone or maybe something was still there.

Kid froze as the door handle began slowly turning. He mentally prepared himself for what would happen next.

The door swunged open, and a teen around his age walked in a few seconds after. The boy stopped and looked around before spotting him on the ground, tightly tied up. They eyed each in an uncomfortable silence for a few minutes.

"You got captured."

" Um.... yeah?"

Kid replied even though it was more of a statement than a question.

"I thought you were supposed to be fast."

Wait a minute. Was the weird glowing teen making fun of him? He opened his mouth to defend himself. The teen walked over and yanked him through the ropes.

Wally yelped and sat up, dazed.

"Did you just..."

His eyes widened frantically looking around. He was the only one there. There was no sign of the glowstick of a teen.

First Encounter

Danny regrets telling his parents. He wouldn't be wandering around a random city if he didn't. It's been a couple of rough weeks. Scratch that it's been rough for a couple of years! Ever since he went into that dumb portal, when he was 14, everything started to go downhill. But now he hit a new low.

He has no place to stay, barely any money left, and if he was found, he'd end up on a dissection table. Oh, and on top of that, his powers had started acting wonky as soon as he left Amity.

Even though it sucked, it still was like a weight had been taken off his chest. Danny was alone. Yes. But he was also free.

For starters, Danny didn't have to pretend that everything was okay anymore. It also gave him some actual control of his life. This was a new beginning, a time for him to finally work towards something better.

But right now, Danny was hungry. Really, really hungry, and granola bars and cheap Ramen weren't cutting it anymore. He needed money. Hopefully, he would be able to get a job using the fake ID Tucker made for him. Getting a job would be a good start.

Danny's thoughts get cut off by the sudden sound of an explosion and the people screaming.

Danny sighed before pulling off into a secluded alley.

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Connor was currently running around gathering people and ushering them to safety, the same thing the rest of the team was doing.

While they did that, some of the League were handled the Rouge, who was responsible for starting the attack.

But its not their fight. Connor and the rest of the team were here as damage control and evacuation.

Just as it seemed like everyone was evaluated, Connor heard someone scream. He whipped around just in time to see debris fall towards a little girl.

No, No, No!

He wasn't going to make it, he wasn't fast enough.He needed to save them. He had to save them!

There was a blur of white and black right befor the debris crashed into the ground, letting out a cloud of dust.

Connor had failed. He couldn't save them. It's all his fault.

Connor froze. Someone was crying. It might not be too late. He ran through the dust towards the sound. As the dust cleared he saw something he didn't expect.

There behind the rubble was a teen. He had white flowy hair and unnatural green eyes. What Connor was really focused on was the little girl in his arms. She was shaking with her arm tightly clutching onto the stranger. But she was alive. Relief flooded Connor.

The Stanger rubbed her back in a soothing way, while talking to her softly. Which Connor could barely hear over how loud his own heart beat was.

Connor watched as the little girl nodded to something the stranger said. The Teen walked over to Connor and stood in front of him, looking hard into Connor's eyes before nodding. He held the nolonger crying girl out to him. Connor reached out and carefully took the girl into his arms. He quickly scanned the girl for injuries before looking back to where the mystery teen was. He wasn't there. He had left, and Connor didn't even notice.

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Danny moves to either Gotham or Metropolis to hide from the GIW and his parents.

Danny isn't getting enough ecoplasm to fully sustain his core, but he can replace the ecoplasm with extra food or getting more sleep in order to make enough energy to sustain himself.

Unfortunately, he can't do either. For one, he is basically homeless and can't afford to buy large amounts of food. Secondly, he is too busy with school, work, and occasionally being a vigilante. He won't be getting the recommended 8 hours, much less more than that. So he stuck on low power mode.

Danny ends up running into the Young Justice team a couple of times during fights. He stays to help out, but as soon as it's over, he's gone. But after one of the battles, Kid is able to catch up to Danny and exchange numbers.

After that, Danny basically becomes an unofficial member of the team.

YJ sees Phantom as an angry and serious meta kid. They are annoyed that he still leaves as soon as the missions are over and that he doesn't really talk to them except if it has something to do with the task at hand. But they still think of Phantom as their friend who is very reliable and caring.

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Later, after a practically tough mission, Danny passes out and detranforms from using too much energy.The team frantically takes him back to Mount Justice or to The watchtower, where Danny gets some much needed sleep.

Danny wakes up after a few days and notices he is in a medbay. A few minutes after that, he's taken to be integrated by the Justice League.

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YJ comes back to their usually grumpy teammate laughing and chatting with the Flash while chowing down on a speedster's amount of food. They stand there in total shock of the complete personality change. When it dawns on them, this is Phantom's normal personality.