Chapter 3: Gaining the Town's Trust

AN: Quick Update: I know that I just updated this a few hours ago, but I only just had this idea and I figured that I would give you guys a warning for why it is that there might not be an update on this for a while.

The simple answer is... Nah. Wait. I'll give you a hint.

Cryokinetic. See if you can guess with this hint.

*Evil Laughter follows*

Now. On with the chapter!

Danny POV

The next morning, the team woke up at five. After another breakfast of pancakes, waffles, and soy milk for Beastboy, the team divided to start patrols.

Sunday: Danny and Cyborg, Sector 1

Danny and Cyborg walk down the street, making sure to keep an eye out for any trouble. Well, Cyborg walks, Danny floats next to him. After a few minutes of silence, Danny decides to break it. "So, what was that a few days ago you said about not believing ghosts?" He asks Cyborg with a grin. Cyborg just rolls his eyes.

"I'm still not entirely sold on the idea Danny." He argues. Danny just gives one of his knowing smiles that sends chills down Cyborg's back… If he still had one.

"Alright, but I'm pretty sure that you'll believe me after we run into a few of them. Speaking of which, I'm gonna need a lab in the tower for a ghost portal, as well as space to make a few inventions so that you guys will actually be able to hit them." Danny says. Cyborg just rolls his eyes once more.

"Yeah, yeah. I'll get you your lab space." He says, still thinking that Danny is just pulling his leg, and that he's just a meta-human with ghost-like powers. Same thing with all those reports about ghost attacks in Amity Park. He thinks they were just people with ghost like abilities, and able to shape-shift. Oh how wrong he is. However, further argument is halted when a bank down the street gets its doors blown open and three men run out wearing ski masks over their heads. Cyborg and Danny share a look, and then go charging after them. Danny takes out the first one with a well-placed ecto-blast to the back of the head, causing him to fall to the ground unconscious. Cyborg takes out the second one in a similar matter with his sonic cannon. Finally, the last robber tries to make a getaway in the car they had parked in the alleyway next to the bank. While Cyborg takes care of the two unconscious robbers, Danny goes flying after the third.

Danny catches up with the robber a couple blocks away from the bank. He flies by the window, and waves to the guy inside. "You know, I think you ran a red light about a block back. I'm pretty sure that's illegal. So I'm gonna have to ask you nicely to pull over." He says in fake cheerfulness. The robber pointedly ignores him and continues trying to drive away. Danny shrugs. "I tried asking." He states to no one in particular. Then he flies through the car door, and overshadows the robber inside. When he's gained control, he pulls the car over to the side of the road, seeing as he technically isn't old enough to drive it back to the bank, and gets out of the car. He then locks the car, and starts walking back towards Cyborg.

When he gets back, he exits the robber, and then lets Cyborg knock him out. They make their way back to the bank, where policemen have arrived at the scene, and hand over the three robbers. Danny then hands one of the policemen the keys to the car down the street, and the two continue their patrol around the sector.

Monday: Danny and Robin, Sector 2

Robin runs, tumbles, and flips across the rooftops while Danny flies next to him, making sure to look around for any trouble that might happen while they do their patrol. Finally, they reach a point where they can see the sector from a high vantage point. They can also see Raven and Starfire flying through the air in the distance, making their patrol in their sector. Robin finally turns to Danny after a few minutes of watching the city. "So, you never did tell us how you got your powers." He says.

"Really? Oops, guess I kinda forgot about that. Well, you see, it was a few days after my parents had failed trying to start up the ghost portal in our basement. My friends wanted to see it, so I brought them to the basement to show them. My friend Sam-" He's cut off as an alarm starts blaring beneath them. They look down and see a jewelry store's window broken. A man with a ski mask over his head is running in the opposite direction. "Guess story time will have to wait." Danny states, already dropping down. Robin following shortly thereafter with his grappling hook.

As the man rounds a corner into an alleyway, Danny throws up an ecto-shield in front of him. Cutting off his escape one way. Then the man turns around to find that Robin is cutting off his escape in the other direction. He backs up into the ecto-shield, expecting Robin to rush forwards. What he doesn't expect is the tap he gets on his shoulder. He turns around to find the shield gone, and Danny standing in its place. Waving.

"Shoryuken!" He yells out, flaming green fist connecting with the thief's jaw. Sending him sprawling out in front of Robin. Whose mouth was currently waving in the breeze after seeing the move. Danny shrugs at the response. "What? I was able to watch anime and play video games for the few months I was at Uncle Vlad's. Learned that imitating moves from said anime and video games makes it easier to perform if I have an idea of the ending result rather than make them up as I go along." He explains to him. Shortly thereafter, Robin and Danny hand the thief over to the cops, and continue with their patrol.

"So, the story about how you got your powers." Robin prompts.

"Oh yeah. Well, long story short, Sam got me to investigate the portal, and well, let's just say that a really dark portal, plus trailing you hand along the wall for support, plus your dad placing the 'on' button inside the portal doesn't make a great combination." He says. Robin visually flinches at the implications.

"Ouch." He replies. Danny nods in agreement.

Tuesday: Danny and Starfire, Sector 3

"So Starfire, how's earth treating you so far?" Danny asks her as they fly above the city. Starfire thinks about it for a few seconds, before smiling brightly at him.

"It is most wonderful. The people here are quite nice, the mall of shopping has many clothes and items which I wish to buy, and I have learned of the most delectable food on your planet that you call "mustard"." She tells him. When she told him about the mall, he made a silent promise to Vlad that he would never give Starfire a credit card with his name on it. He may make billions of dollars an hour, but seeing as Starfire didn't know how things worked here on earth, he was willing to bet that she would make it so that his income per hour would be zero with the amount she would buy. He was also surprised when Starfire told him about how she thought mustard was a food.

"Yeah, well, I'm glad that you ended up landing here and not Amity Park." Danny tells her. She looks at him in confusion.

"Why would it be bad to land in the Park of Amity?" She asks. Danny sighs. Both at her use of the English language, as well as what he was about to have to tell her.

"Well, you see Starfire, here in Jump City, the people are nice. They don't judge you just because you're different. But back in Amity Park, it's not exactly the same. I mean, take me for example! I would go out every day and stop ghosts from attacking the city, but because I'm half ghost myself, they immediately believed that I was evil. Because of the stereotype against ghosts that say, "All ghosts are lying, manipulative, beings of pure evil"." He tells her. She looks at him sadly.

"Oh. I did not know that the people of your planet could be that way." She says. Danny sighs and places a hand on her shoulder.

"Yeah well, we're in Jump. So we don't have to worry about them." Danny says with a smile. Starfire smiles back, and then their little moment is disrupted when far below them, they hear the scream of sirens. They look down and see a fire truck flying down the street. They follow it to a two story house currently on fire. "Crap. Alright, Starfire, I'm going to go inside and see if I can't find anyone. You go see if you can help the Firemen with anything. Just… ask what they need help with." He tells her. She nods, and he goes flying towards the firemen in front of the building.

"Hey, do you know if anyone else is inside?" Danny asks the nearest fireman. He turns to look at Danny, and then shakes his head.

"We're not sure. We can't get in far enough to check!" He yells over the sound of the fire blazing in the background. Then another voice in the crowd.

"My daughter! I can't find my daughter! She must still be in there!" Danny turns around and nods, and then flies into the flames. Turning intangible right before he enters. Luckily, being a ghost allows him to stand high temperatures. But for some reason, if he's near a campfire or something small, he can't get near it. As he flies through the fire, he uses his enhanced hearing to listen for anything. Crying, coughing, calls for help, until he hears something. He flies into what used to be a bedroom and hears crying coming from inside a cabinet on the other end of the room.

He flies through some of the wooden pillars that fell down from the ceiling and gets to the cabinet. He knocks on the doors. "Hello?" He asks just to make sure that there's a person on the other end. He hears the crying stop, and then a small voice comes from the other end.

"H-*hic*-Hello?" The voice asks. It sounds like a little girl. Danny wastes no time in throwing up a shield between the cabinet and the flames, and then flings open the doors. On the other end, he sees a girl curled up into a ball in the corner. She looked about 6, and had brown shoulder length hair. She was wearing a white T-shirt, and black sweatpants. Along with pink sneakers. He holds out a hand for her.

"Hi there. I'm here to get you out, okay?" He asks. The girl shies away from him towards the corner. Danny thinks about it, and then lowers the hood of his cloak. When the girl sees his eyes and hair she gasps.

"Y-you're Danny Phantom." She says in awe. Danny smiles and nods.

"Yup. Now, how about we get you to your mom?" He asks. She nods her head, and then takes his hand.

Normal POV

Outside, the firemen are trying their best to douse the flames. Starfire helps them by taking a whole pipe and holding it towards the fire. Then the attic caves in. The force of the attic falling causes the second floor to fall into the first and collapse that as well. A gasp goes throughout the entire group. Some crying, some muttering amongst themselves. But one cries above them all. "NO! My daughter!" Yells out the woman from before. She turns to a man, most likely her husband, and cries into his shoulder. He wraps his arms around her and pats her back, even as tears collect at the edge of his eyes. Then comes a little voice from above.

"Mommy? Daddy?" The entire crowd looks up to see Danny floating down to the ground with the little girl in his arms. He lands and places the girl on the ground. Not five seconds later, the mother and father are lifting her into their arms and wrapping her up in a hug. "Danny Phantom saved me." She says in a little voice. The entire crowd turns towards the now identified savior, who's currently rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly.

"Well, I mean, I'm just doing my job." He says with a small smile. There's silence across the whole space… Then a loud applause. Danny is taken aback by the thunderous applause that suddenly erupts from the crowd in front of him. Then a smile starts to make its way across his face.

"Thank you." He turns to the mother and father of the little girl he rescued to find them crying tears of joy. "Thank you for saving our daughter." Says the man. Danny nods to him. Then turns towards the flame.

"Here. Let me take care of this for you." He says. His green eyes glow brighter as a giant ecto-shield is put up above the flames. He continues to compress it as the flames get smaller and smaller. Finally, the flames wink out as all the oxygen is used up inside the bubble. He turns around as Starfire walks up next to him after putting the pipe back into the ground a sealing it with her starbolts as she calls them, gives a mock soldier salute to the crowd, and then flies off to continue their patrol. Listening as more applause erupts out from behind them.

Danny POV

Wednesday: Danny and Beastboy, Sector 1

Danny thinks about a little idea of his as he and Beastboy walk by the Bank from the other day. Just as Danny's about to ask Beastboy about his idea, the doors are thrown open as a man runs out with a sack of money. Danny smiles at this. Looks like he's going to be able to use his little idea after all. He turns to Beastboy with a mischievous grin on his face, which Beastboy then mimics after he hears Danny's idea.

As the Robber rounds the corner, he runs into an alleyway between two buildings. What he doesn't expect is for the alleyway to have a sense of foreboding. He slows his run to a walk as he looks around himself. Not liking the feeling of what's going on. Then he hears the sound of hooves copping across cement. He freezes up when he sees what's in front of him. Because standing there is a green horse, with a man sitting on it. But that's not what scares him. No. What scares him is the fact that the man is holding a scythe in his right hand, is wearing a black cloak, and is missing his head! And yet the man is still able to let out an evil chuckle as he raises the scythe.

The thief's screams could be heard all across the city.

(At Dinner)

The rest of the group is sitting around the table waiting for Danny and Beastboy. "I wonder what could be taking them this long." Robin wonders aloud. Everyone nods in agreement. Then Cyborg thinks about something he heard earlier that day.

"Hey, did any of y'all hear a scream earlier?" He asks. Everyone thinks about it.

"You know, now that I think about it, I think that I did hear it. While me and Raven were making rounds." Robin says. "But I don't know what could have caused it." He says. Then Starfire gets everyone's attention.

"Um. Friends." Everyone turns towards her. "Is it normal on earth for rooms to be filled with smoke?" She asks. Everyone looks at her in confusion, before looking around and seeing that the room is indeed, filling with smoke.

"Um, no. No it isn't Starfire." Robin replies. Then they all stop when they hear a dark chuckle echo all around them. Then, out of the mist steps the same figure that scared the living daylights out of the thief. Thus, prompting a scream out of everyone except for Raven, who has to fight the urge to give a chuckle. However, that doesn't mean that the figure can't burst out laughing. He ends up falling off the horse, which then turns into Beastboy as the figure's cloak turns white, and his head enters visibility.

"Danny?!" Yell out the other two guys in the room as Danny and Beastboy continue to roll around on the floor laughing. The group only now notices the smoke machine in the corner of the room that's turned on.

"I… Love… Select… Invisibility!" He cries out between laughing fits as everyone else glared at the two.

Thursday: Danny and Raven, Sector 3

Raven and Danny fly side by side over their sector of the city. As they pass over the rubble from the fire the other day, Danny turns to Raven. "So?" He asks. Not needing to explain what he's asking. Raven thinks about it for a minute before responding.

"Robin seems to be a bit wound up tight, Starfire is too jovial, Cyborg seems to be like a brother, and Beastboy…? Don't ask." She replies. Danny smirks for a few seconds before turning back to scouting.

"Yeah. I mean, after spending some more time with them, Robin seems like a brother to me, Beastboy is the younger annoying brother that always want to prank someone, Cyborg is definitely the older brother, though he can be as childish as Beastboy sometimes, and Starfire… Even though she's the same age as us, she acts like the innocent little sister of the group." He says. Raven nods in agreement. They continue flying over the sector until they hear an alarm go off beneath them. They look down and see a carjacker making off with his stolen ride. They share a look, and then take off after the car.

Raven uses her magic to lift the car into the air, while Danny flies over to the carjacker. Who's currently freaking out in the front seat. He smiles as he pulls the guy out, turning him intangible to get through the door, and then flies back down to the street. He keeps the guy in the air as Raven puts the car back down next to the curb. When the cops show up, Danny gives the thief to them, turns intangible to unlock the car, and then he and Raven go off to continue their patrol.

Friday: Danny, Sector 1; Robin, Sector 2; Cyborg, Sector 3

Danny flies around his sector, the T-communicator, or T-com for short, as they'd chosen to call them, grasped in his hand. Relaying his findings over it to Robin and Cyborg in their three way video chat. "So far so good. How're you guys holding up?" He asks into the T-com.

"We're good over here." Robin replies.

"Yeah. So far, nothing. Think we made an impression?" He asks. Danny smirks at this.

"Well… I don't know about you guys." He says.

"Yeah, yeah. Laugh it up Ghost-boy. We'll get you back for that little scare you gave us." Cyborg retorts. Danny just laughs.

"I'd like to see you try. You forget. I can go invisible, intangible, and I can sense your auras. I don't think you'd get very far." He tells them. The only response he gets is grumbling over the T-com. He looks at the time. "Well. I don't know about you guys, but it's twelve and I'm going back to rest while Raven takes over my shift." He tells them. Earning goodbye's over their call as he flies back to the penthouse to see Raven walking out onto the balcony. He nods and smiles to her as he walks in. She nods back, and then flies off to do her round of the sector.

Saturday Night: Danny, Sector 3; Raven, Sector 2; Starfire, Sector 1

As Danny flies over his sector, he hears Starfire from the other end. "Friends. Is it not true that tonight is the last chance for us to become the protectors of this city?" She asks. Danny nods his head. Then, remembering she can't see him because three way calls can't split the screen, replies.

"Yes Starfire. This is the last chance we have. Although, from what I can tell over the last few days, I'd say we've lowered the crime rate by at least 15%." He tells them. It was true, near the beginning, they would each get at least one major crime, and maybe a few minor ones in their sector while they patrolled for the day. Then, after Danny made his appearance as a Headless Horseman knock-off, the crime rate seemed to dwindle down to nothing. Even the carjacking the day after was actually the guy trying to steal a car to get away from the city.

After continuing to scan his sector for another hour, it's time for the three of them to turn in for the night. They land on the balcony of their penthouse and walk in. Only to find a plethora of boxes stacked high. And all marked by the DALV logo. Danny walks over to the biggest one, and takes off a note.

Dear Daniel,

I know that you will most likely want this in the tower once it is completed, but I've sent some of the components that can be made separately a little early. Give you something to do in your spare time.

Sincerely, Vlad Masters.

Danny finishes reading the note, opens the box, and then smiles. He turns to Raven and Starfire to explain seeing as Starfire has a confused look on her face, and Raven is wondering what it is that Vlad sent him. "Good old Vlad sent me the blueprints and some of the parts to a Ghost Portal. " He tells them. Raven nods and goes off to bed, while Danny has to take another half-hour to explain the Ghost Zone and Ghost's to Starfire. Leaving most of it out so that he can tell her at a later date and get some sleep before the next day.

The next day, the Titans found out the good news. They were going to be accepted as the protectors of Jump. Turns out that at first, the crime rate was lowered by around 15% already by Wednesday. Then, after Danny and Beastboy's stunt, the crime rate dropped by another 15%. Causing the total to be a 30% in crime decrease. The tower was coming along nicely as well. Although, for some reason the mayor wanted the tower to be shaped like a T. Probably because of the team's name. In all honesty, they didn't really care. It was a little odd, but it would give them more room than a single vertical tower would.

For the rest of the month, the team would continue their weekly route. And over that time, Danny got to know the rest of the team better. He learned more about Starfire and her home planet Tameran. He learned a bit about the DOOM patrol from Beastboy, along with Cyborg's obsession with technology. He also learned that he and Robin had similar tastes in vehicles. Though, Danny still preferred flying. He and Raven also continued their daily schedule as if they had never been separated.

Whenever someone on the team got into an argument, it would either be Danny or Raven to break up the fight. Danny would find a way to end the fight in a way where everyone was happy and got what they wanted in some way, or Raven would yell at everyone to shut up "or else". Either way usually worked. Although, sometimes Raven's threat wouldn't exactly work and the people arguing would just start it up again in a room where Raven couldn't hear them.

Finally, the tower was finished and the team moved in. Everyone immediately went to work on their rooms, making it so that they best fit their personalities. Starfire, Robin, and Beastboy's rooms were on one side of the T, while Danny's, Raven's and Cyborg's rooms were on the other side. Starfire's room was that of a typical teenage girl, Robin's that of a typical teenage boy, Beastboy's was a pigsty within the first hour of them being in there, and Cyborg's was that of a technologically obsessed cyborg. Which is exactly what he was. Raven's room was completely different than everyone else's.

Not only was Danny the only other person allowed in there besides her, but it reminded him a bit of Sam's. Not many lights besides candles, along with many old books and grimoirs on shelves. There were comedy and tragedy masks with four eyes, along with a hexagonal mirror. The carpet was nice and soft. The bed was on the right wall, slightly indented into it, and there were drapes over the windows. Danny's room was also completely different than the one at his old house.

The walls were black with a single white line going around the middle, and there was a cabinet to the right of the door when you walked in. The main color of it was black, but with outlines of white, and the handles were colored green. His bed was similar to Raven's, but his sheets had a large version of his symbol on it. The pillows were a clean white, and there was a bedside table next to each side. The ceiling of his room was outfitted to work like the great hall in Hogwarts. It showed the night sky with the stars as if there wasn't a ceiling above him. Thanks to Cyborg's technology that is. He also had a TV set up on the opposite wall from his bed, and a sofa-bed was put into the middle of the room in case his teammates wanted to visit.

Next to the dresser was a closet in which Danny didn't have much use for, and figured that he would find a later use for it seeing as his clothes would either repair themselves along with his healing factor, or just reappear on his person if they ever got taken off. Across from his bed was the door that led to his own private bathroom. Each room had its own seeing as it would be better than sharing one on the floor.

Inside his bathroom was a shower that doubled as a tub, along with a toilet and sink. The appliances were white, while the walls of the bathroom were exactly like the room itself. Black with a line of white going around the middle. His mirror was shaped like a hexagon, much like Raven's, along with the ghost portal from home, and was outlined in white. After everyone had moved into their rooms, they went to look at the rest of the tower. They learned that even though the tower was finished, the tunnel underneath the water that would allow them to reach the mainland with their eventual vehicles would take another week to complete. They also learned that they had the entire island to do as they pleased.

After searching the tower some more, they learned more about just what they had. This included a basement/sub launch bay if they ever got one or made one, a garage, the main entrance hall, a workout room, infirmary, the ops center, evidence room, and their rooms. Which they still had plenty of extras in case someone needed to stay the night, or more people joined the team. Cyborg also got Danny his lab near the garage on the base level.

After the few days it took them to set up their rooms completely, Cyborg started installing an alarm system. It was hooked up to almost every alert system in the city. Telling them when someone dialed 911, if the authorities were responding, along with estimated time of their arrival. It was also hooked up to every camera, video recorder, and alarm in the city, able to tell the team if something was wrong if someone wasn't able to dial 911. It also had a set danger level. Such as if it was a simple robbery, a robbery with hostages, or some sort of attack from a high level villain.

It took about a week, but after they all settled in and everything was up and running, the team could finally enjoy the time they had free thanks to the alarm system. Most of it would be spent with the boys playing their game systems, which Danny occasionally brought his teammates into the game, Raven and Danny would also spend time either meditating while drinking tea, or reading a book… While drinking tea.

Starfire spent most of her time either cooking some form of Tameranian dish at the tower, or out searching through the mall. Which Danny kept his silent promise and didn't give Starfire a credit card from Vlad. Though he did warn everyone else not to lend theirs to her so that they didn't get a call from him about losing billions of dollars in under an hour. He also refused to give one to Beastboy so that he didn't spend it all at an arcade in town, or on every single DLC he came across for the video games that they did have. He warned Cyborg that if he did that, he could expect his credit card to stop working. Life was good for the team. But as always, when something is too good to be true, that's usually because it is.

AN: Alright! So the filler chapters are now done. The next one will be the Teen Titans episode "Divide and Conquer".

Okay, so after reading the reviews, I've decided that Danny and Raven's relationship will start out slow. I read from a comment that most other Fanfictions either have them just *click*, or go so slow that it takes a good 40 chapters just to have Raven start liking Danny. *Cough Titans Phantom Cough, Cough though it's a good fanfiction Cough* I'm going to try and make it a good deal faster than that, but definitely slower than just having them *click* right at the beginning.

So thanks for taking the time out of your day to read this, and see you next time!

P.s. If anyone could draw what you think Danny looks like in his new outfit, that would be very much appreciated. I would also probably use it as the cover art for this. Thanks again!