Hey all! This is the first revised chapter of the New Girl! I hope you all enjoy the changes and that it answers some of the questions you might have regarding Danny or any of the other characters. Please review and leave your impressions. ATTENTION: DUE TO AN OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE RESPONSE TO A PASSAGE, I CHANGED THAT SECTION BACK TO WHAT IT WAS IN THE ORIGINAL "New Girl" PLEASE LEAVE A REVIEW ON HOW YOU LIKED IT.

July 4th

I really should know by now that I am cursed. I mean, out of everyone in the world, I was one of the only 2 people (originally) to ever become a half-ghost. That number of course, changed when I met my arch rival- Vlad Masters or Vlad Plasmius for those who knew his other half. He had the wonderful idea that since I didn't want to join him on his crusade to kill my father, marry my mother and rule the world, then he would just create another me- in other words he cloned me. Of course the clones failed and Vlad's plan was ruined… mostly. One of the clones, a female me, was a success. She teamed up with Vlad until she realized that all he wanted her for was to capture me. What a great dad- am I right? Anyway she ended up siding with me and the last I saw of her she was flying off into the sunset, dramatically, for the second time.

Anyway my life has been, from the moment I turned into a half ghost, a constant fight. Not even the figurative type of fight, I literally had to fight every day to protect my town from the ghosts that were coming out of the ghost portal my parents created. Luckily I had my two best friends with me every step of the way. We fought ghosts, monsters, ghost monsters and everything in between for about a year. Then my rival decided that he was finally done playing it safe with his secret and declared that he would take over the world, typical villain stuff I know, but he actually almost did it. We were fighting in space (how awesome is that!?) and due to an explosion knocked an asteroid- a planet killer- toward earth. Due to some campaign by Vlad I decided to get rid of my powers and at the time thought it was for the best.

That is until the asteroid was discovered and the earth went into a panic. We had a week until impact and Vlad said he would protect the earth if the leaders of the world would give him their countries, and they did. I couldn't do anything because when I gave up my powers I destroyed the portal that gave me them in the first place. Long story short the Disasteroid- as it had been taken to be called, was made of ectoranium. A material that ghosts cannot touch, Vlad was banished to wander space and I made a new plan to save the planet. It worked and along the way I got my powers back, we were celebrating when my parents confronted me about my powers, somehow figuring out it was me. Anyway I revealed myself to the world and had a statue built in my honor in every major city in the world. (Pretty cool, huh?)

Of course that was when I found out that I liked being "invisible Fenton" better than "incredible Phantom", that day I lost the meaning of privacy. Reporters, civilians, schoolmates, agents, and company presidents all came to my house to get the chance to meet me. My only highlight was that I was finally dating Sam. Of course that was dampened when the reporters found out she was rich, we became the world's power couple and Tucker was mad that he couldn't get a date. Eventually though due to the stress and constant attacks at our privacy from the media Sam and I decided to break it off. Hoping for some peace and instead getting flooded with date requests, I slammed the door on all of them while Sam tried out a few and Tucker finally got Val to accept a date.

I am getting off track, I am cursed. Seriously, it is incredibly rare when a natural portal opens in the human realm and even more rare when it leads to somewhere other than the ghost zone. There is the Bermuda Triangle and a few other places that lead back in time but to a different world altogether is really new. So of course I just happen to be in the wrong place and the right time for a portal to take me to a place I never knew. Oh Clockwork, help me.

I was in my parent's lab, working a bit on some new weapons to help me with the ghost fights, when a bright light flashed behind me. I was in my ghost form because I had been fighting Skulker and had finished sending him back to the zone with my new thermos that connected right to the portal (so I didn't have to manually empty it anymore), about an hour ago. Some of my parent's inventions still had a lock on me so I figured that was what cause the bright light and quickly turned back into my human form. When the glowing didn't stop I turned around and stepped forward trying to see if I could get to the malfunctioning invention before it went off on me. Instead, I felt a warm breeze on my face and realized I was suddenly outside. I managed to turn just in time for the portal, which I had mistakenly stepped through, to close and wink out of existence.

Of course. I sighed a little and took stock of my surroundings. I was on a cable bridge similar to the Brooklyn Bridge, the color was red and there were minor differences but that wasn't the most surprising thing. In front of me there was a long line of abandoned cars lining the driving path. It was a bright day and other than the car flying at me I didn't find anything wrong with…. It is at times like this that I am glad my reflexes are better than a human's. I managed to dodge to the left quickly enough to avoid becoming street pizza with tire toppings, unfortunately that wasn't the end of the raining cars, and I had to dodge two more before I finally remembered I could just go intangible.

One of the mirrors on the falling cars clipped my shirt and ripped the front about halfway down. Sad, I really liked that shirt. That was when a deep and annoying voice suddenly broke through the crunching of falling car parts.

"Finally! I was wondering what a guy had to do to get attention around here!" The voice said. I searched for the voice and found a blue man that looked to me made of ice laughing up at two figures at the top of one of the bridge structures. They were too far for me to see anything but the colors they were wearing. One was completely green and the other wore red with a little yellow. The ice guy spread more icy destruction around as he laughed and dodged the arrows the figures were shooting at him. Surprisingly the arrows did different things, like some blew up and others shot out a rope net to capture the ice guy but he was too slippery for them. I wasn't really hiding so it shouldn't come as a shock when the ice guy found me.

He grinned wide and grabbed me toward him, spinning me around so my back was against his chest. It irked me a bit that he was so much taller than me but I let it go, my ghost sense hadn't gone off so he was just a human, I was much stronger than he was. The figures on the bridge had stopped firing their arrows when they saw that he had a hostage, They were much closer now so I could see that they were both male. The green one had a blond mustache and the red one wore a hat that covered his hair. They lowered their bows as the ice guy laughed.

"Not so high and mighty now are you?" He said, his nasally voice sounding right in my ear, if I didn't know any better I could have sworn he smelt my hair.

"Come on, junior. Let the girl go. This is our fight." Green guy said. I tried to hold back a snort, seriously? This guy's name is junior? Who would be scare of that? Even the box ghost had a scarier name. Unfortunately I was never good at hiding anything so all 3 of them heard me.

"Why are you laughing?" Junior said shaking me a little as if that would get me to go back to being the submissive hostage he wanted me to be.

"Oh nothing." I said "Junior." I started giggling again; the two with bows (who I'm assuming to be the good guys) had to hold back a smile too. Junior obviously didn't like that he was losing control of the situation and that I was laughing at him. He turned his arm into a blade of ice and held it near my ear.

"Shut up, you. Unless you want me to cut your pretty face into ribbons. Doll face." He said,

"Uh, EW. No thanks." I said, and junior grinned a little while the guys with bows tensed at the threat. "Well," I said "This has been fun but I think I am done being a hostage now."

Before Junior or the Robin Hood wanna-be's knew it, I grabbed iceman's arm and to a large step forward, twisting as I went for a better angle. He lost his balance and fell forward onto my hip and then proceeded to hit the ground as I judo flipped him over my shoulder. His arm was twisted backwards in my grip and he looked like he had the air knocked out of him but he wasn't out yet so I straddled his rib cage, letting go of his arm and socked him in the mouth. Now he was out.

"Well would you look at that?" Green man said behind me "Kid had a glass jaw!" I can always appreciate puns; it came with being a superhero. Half the time I think the only reason why I became one was to say those exact things. So of course I couldn't help but start giggling. I got off ice guy and turned toward the two people behind me. They smiled at me and complimented me on my technique but then berated me saying that I should have waited for them to come up with a plan.

"I'm not defenseless." I said in the middle of the lecture. You know, I think interrupting them was more shocking than taking out ice guy, with the way they are acting. In the distance I heard the sound of sirens heading towards us, probably to collect the criminal. "By the way, who are you?" I asked, I had already come to the conclusion that I was in another world mostly because these guys didn't recognize me but also because not a single human on earth (other than me and Danielle) had any powers.

"Before that miss, don't you think you should cover up?" Green said, stripping off his outer vest and holding it out to me. Red was looking away embarrassed unable to meet my eyes. Confused I tuned into my senses, I could only hear four heartbeats, mine, ice guy, and red and green. Green guy could only mean me since red was obviously male and ice guy was out cold. A breeze ruffled what was left of my shirt and red turned away, his face burning in a blush. Curious I looked down and found… breasts? They were attached to my body so they must be mine, but last I checked I was male. Did the portal change me? The wind blew again and that was when I realized that the two in front of me were getting a pretty good view of my cleavage, my arms crossed in front of my chest and I snatched the vest from green's hand. They turned so I could put it on.

"I am Green arrow and this is my apprentice Speedy." Green said (I am not changing his nickname, I was half right anyway)

"I am Danny, nice to meet you." I said when I was finished changing. Strangely enough it didn't feel all that different being a girl; besides the small weight of breasts (which weren't too small or too big) I didn't feel bad though I will probably freak out about it later. Green walked up to me and shook my hand before picking me up bridal style and beginning to run towards the sound of the sirens.

"There should be shirts at the hall; I need that vest back before my next mission so we need to move fast." He was pretty fast, granted I was faster but we got to where we were going in less than 10 minutes with red- Speedy running beside us. We stopped at a grouping of strangely costumed adults and teens.

When green put me down I pulled the vest tighter around me, it was big so unless I did that I would be still be flashing everyone. I was kinda sad that the vest look like a dress on my small frame. We walked up to two other costumed adults; one man was blond and had an orange shirt that clashed slightly with his black and green fin-like pants. The teen standing next to him was dressed similarly on with a red shirt and less green on his pants. He also had weird tattoos going up his shoulders and meeting under the metallic box he had on his back that looked to carry his weapons.

"Green Arrow!" The man in orange greeted. "Who's the girl" He asked, I flinched a little because all the attention was now focused on me. The other man joined them; He was tall and well-built with a gray body suit and a black cowl that had ridges cut into the bottom, he wore a mask that covered the top of his face. And a cape that cape to two points at the top of his head, a black bat emblazoned on his chest. Sooo… Batman? Nah, but I was right about arrow so maybe these people had the same naming sense as I did. Next to Batman was another teen that looked about that same age as I did. Just a little smaller than me, he wore a red shirt, black cape and domino mask that covered his eyes and yet still managed to show emotion.

"Hello Aquaman, Batman." Green said. 'Seriously I got Batman right?' "This girl lost her shirt when speedy and I confronted Junior. He ended up taking her hostage and she defeated him before we even got a chance to save her. Judo flipped him right over and then socked him in the jaw. She shows talent." Batman glared at me a bit before he grunted and turned away. I was going to yell at him and ask him what that was all about when I was nearly scared to death when the caped teen was suddenly in front of me. I hadn't even heard him move, but to be fair I wasn't tuning into my ghost senses. The teen's black hair was a little wild and he had a mischievous smirk on his face.

"Hey, I'm Robin." He said "You have pretty blue eyes." He was pretty cute and I am a sucker for compliments so I blushed a bit and replied with a soft "Thanks." Finally realizing how high my voice had gotten since I had turned into a girl. The other teen walked over as the adults and Speedy conversed about something off to the side.

"Hello, I am Aqualad" He said holding his hand out to shake; I took his hand and muttered "Danny." I didn't want to be the center of attention anymore so I tried to retreat back a step, after the phantom planet thing I really didn't like being focused on. It made me self-conscious. Behind me a gust of wind picked up and stopped, followed by a loud voice saying "SEE! I knew we would be the last ones!"

When I turned around I saw a man in a red jumpsuit with a lightning bolt on his chest stop next to Batman, it looked like he had super speed. I decided to call him Red Flash since it didn't lot like I would be getting introductions. Beside him was a teen dressed in yellow, both newcomers were dressed in spandex and had masks covering their faces. It seemed that these two were the ones we were waiting for because everyone turn toward and began walking to the building surrounded by *gulp* reporters.

They started yelling when they recognized the group heading toward them; it was so loud I couldn't even hear myself think. Green leaned over to Speedy and asked something too quietly for me to hear and Speedy smirked and replied happily. A few other words were said as it got easier to hear the closer we got to the building. Yellow-boy asked "Have all four sidekicks ever been in the same place at the same time?"

"Don't call us Sidekicks! Not after today" Speedy yelled.

"Sorry," Yellow said "I guess I am a bit overwhelmed, first time at the Hall."

The reporters were getting desperate now that they realized that the "heroes" weren't going to answer any questions. They swarmed asking about each of the teens and even about me. I heard Robin sigh as the doors opened "You're overwhelmed, Freeze was underwhelmed, why isn't anyone ever just whelmed? Inside there were 7 giant statues standing over a doorway. I was a bit amazed, these beat out my statues by a lot.

"Whoa!" The other teens gasped, Robin just said "Oh, maybe that's why."

We were greeted at the Authorized Personnel door by a red robot with a yellow arrow point down its forehead and a green man with red eyes. I tensed a bit readying for a fight with this new ghost I had never seen before. But my Ghost sense didn't go off and no one seemed surprised by the green man's presence, maybe it was just another costume.

"Welcome Robin, Speedy, Aqualad, and Kid-Flash" The robot said. 'So yellow-boy is Kid flash? The robot turned and everyone followed after. Man! Tuck would be so jealous that I got to be a working android! We, the group, entered a lavish sitting area and I was finally given a shirt by the green man. It had a low v-shaped neckline and the bottom stopped just before my belly button, I had to resist the urge to ask what the point of giving me a shirt with even less coverage was. The shirt had some weird shield mark on it with the letter S on the front in red and yellow.

"My apologies," Green man said "It seems the only extra shirt we could find was one of Super-girls spares."

I sighed and nodded. Maybe I should just keep my ripped shirt on under it, that should cover more and it would stop the others from seeing the scars I got fighting. I walked a little off to the side and slid on the shirt. Luckily the white of my old shirt and this white were the same color so it didn't look too bad. My stomach was covered and only a little cleavage showed under the rip in my shirt. I folded the vest and walked back to the common room to return it. I was almost bowled over by an angry Speedy as he stomped out of the main hall. When I walked in all eyes were on me, with slightly surprised faces. Luckily the screen behind them lit up and a man wearing the same shield that was on my shirt spoke.

"Superman to Justice League, there has been an explosion at project Cadmus. It's on fire." He said. He had black hair that seemed to curl slightly in front of his face. Batman seems to be the leader of this group because everyone looked to him as he walked forward toward the Supercomputer. "I have had my suspicions about Cadmus, this may present the perfect opportunity to infiltrate-" He was interrupted by another screen appearing on the screen in a smaller box next to Superman.

"Zatara to Justice League. The sorcerer Woton is using the amulet of Attan to blot out that Sun. Requesting full league assistance."

"Superman" Batman asked he probably was trying to see if they needed to split forces to deal with the fire at this Cadmus thingy. I was proved right when Superman replied, saying.

"It's a small fire; local authorities have it under control."

"Then Cadmus can wait. All Leaguers rendezvous at Zatara's coordinates." The adults turned to their protégées and glared at them slightly, I have the feeling that they don't follow direction very well.

"Stay put." Batman nearly growled

"What? Why?" Robin asked his face seemed to fall even as his friends rallied behind him.

"This is a League mission" Orange man said (I still haven't gotten his name.

"You aren't trained-" Red flash said

"Since when?" Kid Flash interrupted throwing his hands out in a big why, gesture.

"I meant you aren't trained to work as part of this team." Red continued

"There will be other missions, when you are ready." Orange said again.

"But for now," Batman finished "Stay out." Glaring at every teen in the room, including me before he and his team left to save the sun. Green arrow leaned over to green man and whispered something about you-know-who, but I wasn't really paying attention at that point. I was told to stay here by some masked weirdo that seems to be this world's heroes, so I of course needed to get out and find a way back home before they find out I have powers and they try to recruit me to the League or something crazy like that.

It was quiet for all of 3 seconds before Kid Flash scoffed and began muttering about being ready. I found myself next to the yellow couch that was in the room, sitting down I barely managed to get comfortable when an arm was slung over my shoulder.

"Hey gorgeous, how about you and me grab a quick bite to eat?" He was trying to look cool by wiggling his eyebrows, as if that was to be some huge hint about what eating out would lead to. All I wanted to do was roll my eyes at him and apologize to Sam for every stupid guy move I had ever done to her. Tuck though, he and I would totally go to town on each other and laugh until our sides were in stitches.

I guess Kid Flash was going to continue because he leaned closer to me when Aqualad asked. "What is Project Cadmus?"

"Dunno." Said Robin "But I bet I can find out" with a smirk he headed over to the Supercomputer and started typing. "Access denied" a computerized voice sounded, "Oh yeah?" Robin muttered, the typing speed got faster and a screen with flowing numbers appeared on the jumbo screen where Superman had contacted the League. When Robin seemed to crack it he murmured something about a Batcave before reading the contents of what he pulled up. Sadly there didn't seem to be very much about it. It looked to be a regular science building.

"But if Batman is suspicious, maybe we should investigate?" the three boys gathered together, Kid Flash finally leaving me alone and began to plot how they would solve their mentor's case before them.

"It would be poetic justice," Aqualad said smiling slightly.

"Hey," Robin laughed "They are all about Justice."

Aqualad sighed, "But our mentors told us to stay here."

"For the blotting out the Sun mission, not this." Robin said.

"Wait- ar-are you going to Cadmus?" Kid Flash asked "Cause if you're going I am so going."

They both turned and smiled toward Aqualad. He sighed "So just like that? We are a team on a mission?"

"We didn't come for a play date." Robin said

"Then let us leave." They all turned and began to rush the door, stopping only when they saw me still sitting on the couch.

"Uh, stay here" Robin said. "It'll be safe!"

"Yeah!" Kid Flash exclaimed "and do us a favor and don't tell the others?" They didn't even give me a chance to respond before they rushed out the doors. Normally I would have gone with them, kept them safe. But I needed to find a way home and these guys looked like they knew what they were doing, so I let them go. Not even 2 minutes later the computer started blaring alarms all around the room. "Warning, warning. Unknown energy field detected. Repeat, unknown energy field detected." The loud alarms suddenly silenced and on the screen was a map that showed the place where the weird energy was, I was paying riveted attention to this. It might be my ticket home! The map zoomed in closer and highlighted the building where it detected the energy. It read "CADMUS" I guess I am going after those guys after all. I ran out the door and sprinted in the direction the map told me, trying to change into my ghost form along the way. For some reason my powers were not responding to me, guess I am going in this human style.

I got to the building just in time to watch Kid Flash literally RUN up a wall and catch two people falling from a window. He ran all the way up to the roof when his foot slipped and he had to toss the two people on the concrete top in order to catch a window on the second floor as he fell. I managed to locate Robin as he laughed and grappled his way to the second floor of the building; he helped Kid Flash in and then disappeared from view. Next was Aqualad, surprisingly his tattoos glowed as he manipulated water from the fire hoses into a platform and helped the two scientists to the ground as he also stepped off on the second floor.

I guess that leaves me, ghost energy is fairly predictable if you know what to look for. My guess is that there is a portal home somewhere on the second floor, mostly because I knew I wouldn't be able to avoid the others with my kind of luck. I looked around the building a found that it had a back door; walking over to it I tried the handle. Unsurprisingly it was locked. Praying to Clockwork I tried to go intangible, it worked and I walked through and on to the first floor of the CADMUS science building. I found the stairs quickly and walked up them and managed to catch the end of a conversation. "Poetic Justice, remember?" I think it was Robin who said it. I took a quick sweep of the room but I didn't see any portals, there weren't any one the first floor either. Where could it be? Aqualad was searching the room and an idea popped into my head, I walked invisibly into the center of the room and when everyone's back was to me I reappeared. "You know it was kinda rude to leave me there like that." I said.

Their reactions were priceless. They all whirled around to face the new voice in the room, Robin with his hand going to his belt and Aqualad reaching behind him for his...Water bearers? Anyway they both were ready to fight and Kid Flash was on the floor having tripped himself in his haste to face the "enemy." I started laughing when they asked "How-?" But my reply was cut off by the ding of the elevator.

"Hey, aren't elevators supposed to be stopped in the event of a fire?" I asked.

"Yeah, something's wrong…" Robin said getting closer and pulling up what looked like a hologram of a computer on his left arm. "I was right; this is a high speed express elevator. It's not something that belongs in a two story building."

"Neither does what I saw." Aqualad said.

Robin spent a minute studying the designs while Aqualad and Kid Flash forced the doors open.

"And that's why they need an express elevator," I said looking down into the darkness, it was much deeper than I thought it was, even with my ghost sight I couldn't see the bottom. Robin stepped forward and shot his grapple into the ceiling before he turned to me.

"I don't know how you got in here but you should go home, this isn't safe for civilians like you." He said before jumping down the dark hole, the rope in his grapple gun hissing as he went.

"Just leave the saving of the day to the pro's sweetheart." Kid Flash said, "And think about that dinner sometime." Before he too was gone. Wow, he upgraded from a bite to eat to dinner… don't I feel special. Aqualad was the last to go; he put his hand on my shoulder and looked into my eyes as he spoke.

"I do not know why you followed us here, but we have been trained to handle these situations. We cannot protect you if you come any farther. Please go home and leave this to us."

"Don't worry." I said, 'I plan to do just that' I thought but out loud I said "I can take care of myself." And before he could protest I jumped down the hole, grabbing the rope halfway and slowing my descent just in time to jump on the platform left by the other two.

"Hey! Didn't we tell you to go home?" Robin asked as Aqualad finally landed beside us.

"Yeah, but just like you guys," I said "I have a problem following orders." They sighed and admitted defeat; they weren't getting rid of me anytime soon. Robin walked to where the call button would be on the other side of the wall and brought up his holo-computer again. He bypassed security and I helped Aqualad open the doors.

We walked into a hall with a gigantic ceiling and rows upon rows of…. I don't even know, but there were a lot of circular things on the walls and at the end of a loooong hallway was another door.

"Welcome to Project Cadmus." Robin said awe and shock in his voice.

We walked in and began to explore, I had my back turned when I heard Aqualad whisper fiercely "Kid. Wait!"

It looks like Kid wanted to check the room at his own supersonic pace, He ran into the room and slid around a corner, only to slip and slide to the other wall, narrowly avoiding being stepped on by giant troll-like elephants. They were grey and covered in red glass like spots which I later realized were eyes and their mouths held two deadly looking tusks and a set of shark-like teeth. They had the back legs of an elephant and the front legs were like gorilla arms with spikes coming from their shoulders.

We caught up to Kid and watched as the troll-elephants walked in two lines down the hall, completely ignoring us.

"Yeeeaaah- nothing wrong here." Aqualad said sarcastically.

We moved down the hallway opposite of where the troll-elephants were going. It was taking Robin less and less time to open doors for us. When the doors opened in front of us was another room with millions of pods lining the walls with little electric creatures inside each one.

"Okay," Robin said "I am officially whelmed."

We wandered in and took a look around "This must be how they are hiding such a massive underground facility from the world." Kid Flash said turning to us behind him. "The real Cadmus isn't on the grid. It generates its own power using these… things. Must be what they are bred for."

"Even the name is a clue. The Cadmus of myth created a new race by sowing dragon's teeth into the earth." Aqualad must be some sort of student, the only one I know who can explain unheard of myths off the top of their head was Sam. But then again, maybe it was a popular story, who knows?

"And this Cadmus creates new life, too" Robin said walking to the computer console "Let's find out why." He took what looked to be a USB drive from his glove and connected it to the computer.

"They are called Genomorphs, and that's not all, look at the stats on these guys. Super strength, telepathy, razor claws. They are living, breathing weapons!" I flinched a little at that, I remember after revealing myself the G.I.W wanted to perform some "painless" experiments on me to see if the government could produce more people like me to fight for "liberty." Luckily the world thought it would be abuse and vetoed it.

"They are engineering an army, but for who?" Kid Flash asked.

"Wait, there's something else… Project Kr? Ugh! The files triple encrypted, I'm going to have to download this and-."

"DON'T MOVE!" A harsh scratched voice sounded. I turned invisible on reflex, but it didn't look like anyone noticed. I decided to stay invisible and watched as an older guy with a yellow bucket on his head ran into the room with some of the Genomorphs running after him. These were skinnier and had long thick tails that looked like a lizards. I would guess that these guys were in the razor claws section of the file Robin just read off, judging by the way their nails cut long, deep scratches into the tiled floor. The bucket man stopped about 2 yards from the group with his little squad of Genomorphs.

"Wait! Robin? Aqualad? Kid Flash?" Bucket -head said it sounded like he knew them personally, not just their superhero names.

"Well at least he got the name right" Robin said to Kid Flash, I could see they were all looking around for me but they haven't given anything away yet.

"I know you," Aqualad said "You are Guardian, a hero!"

"I do my best." Bucket-head, I mean Guardian was a little more relaxed now that he knew the intruders personally.

"Then why are you here?" Kid yelled angrily.

"I'm head of security." He replied. Wow I guess even heroes need part time jobs, Guardian seemed to remember why he came rushing in the room in the first place and walked forward to the protégées. "You were trespassing but I am sure we can just call the Justice League, figure this out."

Robin's holo computer beeped and Kid started ranting again. I don't know if he was doing it to cover up that Robin was downloading the files or if he just was that lucky but he started yelling again. "You think the Justice League going to approve of you breeding weapons?"

"What are you- I ugh…" Guardian went rigid and the small Genomorph on his shoulder had its horns glowing red, I could feel from here that his mind was being tampered with, but these weren't ghosts, I don't know enough about their abilities to fight them yet and jumping in recklessly is not a good battle plan. When the Genomorph was done Guardian straightened up and gave the command to take down the group.

Robin ran to the front of the group and threw a smoke bomb at the ground, before shooting his grappling hook at a rafter and jumping over the attacking Genomorphs. Last I saw of him he was running back to the elevator. Kid seemed to be struggling a little dodging the claws that were aimed at his chest and Aqualad didn't have his usual weapons. I couldn't worry about them though because apparently the Genomorphs could sense me and realized I was the bigger threat. A group of about 7 gathered around me, the smoke was thick enough I didn't have to worry about staying invisible any longer. I let the power go and used a shield made of my ecto-energy to block the oncoming claws. Kid jumped and ran on the wall, pushing himself off it in a flying pose and punching two 'Morphs in the face before rolling up the side of another wall and jumping over them, running in the same direction Robin went.

Aqualad following close behind since he managed to get the 'Morphs off his case, they were both heading for the exit and I figured now was probably a good time to go with them! I axe-kicked the nearest 'Morph near me and punched out the next three catching up and following closely behind the other two.

"Man! Where were you?" Kid asked, we rounded the corner and saw Robin crouched at elevator. I didn't answer, soon enough we were right beside Robin as we watched the flood of razor clawed Genomorphs.

"Way to be a team player, Rob!"

"Weren't you right behind me? Oh hi, Danny. Where did you go?" Robin asked as the doors opened.

"Escape now, talk later!" I said pushing them in front of me and turning to fight any that may have gotten lucky enough to catch us before we managed to get out. The doors closed right as the 'Morphs jumped, the sound of skulls hitting metal has never sounded so good. It was strange to suddenly be in quiet, we watched the numbers slowly rise.

"We are going down?" Aqualad asked.

Dude out is up!" Kid said.

"Excuse me? Project Kr is down on sub-level 52."

"This is out of control; perhaps we should contact the League."

"We can't, we are too far down." Robin said

"Well that's just great, we don't know what we are up against, how to handle anything, and NOW we can't contact the League?" Kid yelled.

"Not to mention we have a civilian with us that we can't protect. Aqualad said glaring at me.

"Hey, it's not my fault you guys are stuck, I am here for a reason and as I told you before I can handle myself." I was getting a bit peeved at the whole "I am a superhero and therefore have to keep you safe" kick.

"You mean like when you disappeared?" Kid asked.

"Yeah, how did you do that?" Robin said. It was rapidly getting uncomfortable in the elevator. Aqualad was standing in the corner with his arms crossed glaring at me while Robin and Kid Flash tried to edge closer. Their faces spelled trouble, luckily before I had to answer the door opened on Sub-level 52. The room was covered with a red gooey substance, like the entire place was the inside of some giant creature's stomach. Robin ran out first, followed by Kid Flash and then me, Aqualad bringing up the rear guard. We crouched down behind some barrels and looked down the two hallways that separated us. We split into two groups and headed down each path. Robin and Kid Flash down the right and Aqualad with me down the left.

Aqualad and I had to hide in a divot on the wall when two scientists came from the direction we were going. I was almost too distracted to notice my ghost sense going off. Never have I been happier to see my ghost sense then I was right at this moment. It didn't really matter anymore that Aqualad was with me, I was almost home, baby! When the two ladies past I ran down the hallway, leaving Aqualad in my dust, if everything worked out I would just "disappear" again and he would assume I was caught, or that I finally couldn't handle it anymore and escaped by myself. I passed three doorways until I came to one that triggered my sense again. I had just enough of a head start to phase through the doors before anyone saw me so that's just what I did. The room I was in was still covered in the weird red stuff that was coating the hallway, from outside I heard Aqualad be called by the others. He left and I was finally alone with a portal.

The portal was tucked into the corner of the room; it showed a halo of blue and green from its opening. I walked toward it until I heard the word. "STOP" I had barely connected the word to the voice when I felt a pendant swinging from my chest. Clockwork.

"Stopwatch!" I said, in front of me was my ghostly guardian in all his time-ly glory. He floated in the air in front of me and smiled at my nickname for him.

"Hello, young Phantom." He said, he was in his grandfatherly form, slowly cycling from that to his infant and young adult stages. Looking around the room I noticed everything had a blue tint to it, meaning that Clockwork froze time for this conversation, which also means that something is up and I either needed to save the world or learn a lesson. Or both, you could never tell with Clockwork.

"Young one, I have come to tell you something very important. You cannot go back to your own world just yet." Clockworks voice was grave and sadness filled his eyes.

"The Observant's have made it so that if you even show a hair in the ghost zone you will be hunted down and ended." He said.

I gulped, and trembling asked, "H-he didn't escape… did he?" It was pretty evident that I was terrified of my ex-future self. Sometime I still have nightmares of him coming back and murdering my family so I could become just like him, and at the end of it he would kill me just for fun as the world burned to ashes behind him.

"No, he will eventually but that is not the reason the Observant's want to end you." Clockwork said both relieving me and filling me with a sense of dread.

"Why do they want to kill me?" I asked, but Clockwork shook his head no.

"I cannot tell you that yet, young one. Soon but not yet." He said.

"Then what should I do?" I asked, if I couldn't return to the ghost zone then I can't get back to my human world either, which means my family and friends will worry about me and people will be left almost defenseless against the ghosts. I mean Sam, Tuck and Jazz could handle most of them but with others like Undergrowth and Aragon, how will they survive?

"Fear not, Daniel." Clockwork said "The ghosts are much too focused on ending you to attack your town. They know you are not there. All you need do is wait until the time is right. I understand that there are heroes in this world as well. You should join with them until it is time to come home."

Whilel I am glad the ghosts won't attack my town but seriously… too focused on ending me? "Well don't I feel special." I said. Clockwork chuckled and turned to leave, I could feel his power on the timeline of this world weakening so it was time for him to go.

"Wait!" I said, feeling the weight on the amulet on me chest again, reminding me of one really important detail.

"Can you tell me why I am a girl?" I asked, "Is it to hide me?"

Clockwork turned back and looked me up and down hiding a chuckle as he finally realized that something was distinctly different about me.

"I didn't turn you into a girl, the portal did that. Good luck young Phantom." He said before disappearing with a "TIME START!"

The portal winked out of existence and the world turned back to its normal hues, I still had Clockwork's amulet and the stunned look on my face as Clockwork left. A loud explosion sounded outside and down the hallway the other two went. I snuck out the room just in time to see one of the Genomorphs telling Guardian and his group of attacking 'morphs where to find Robin and the others.

"They are headed for Project Kr!" The tall Genomorph said, his horns were much larger than the smaller Genomorphs and the attack squad he also had an air of intelligence about him, seeing as he was the only Genomorph so far that could speak the human language. The tall 'morph stepped to the side and let the others pass him before turning to me and saying.

"You might want to help your friends." And then walking off down a different hallway with his horns glowing red as he walked. "Not...girl...attack…" I heard in my head as I ran down the hallway the others were in, turning invisible as I ran. I arrived just as the door blocking the attack squad was closed; I heard a click which meant that Robin probably locked the door. Not slowing down I ran through the door, keeping a careful eye on the other 'morphs, they all could see me even when invisible… a chill ran down my spine. That wasn't good.

I arrived on the other side and let my intangibility go. Not yet ready to let the others see me. "We're safe!" Robin sounded triumphantly

"No, we are trapped." Aqualad's ever pessimistic voice broke through.

"Shouldn't we be focusing on the elephant in the room," I said, finally fading back to the visible spectrum while their backs were turned. Sometimes it was just too much fun messing with these guys. They all turned towards me with their weapons out, until they recognized my voice and my face.

"Man, Danny." Kid Flash said "You are even better at that than Robin."

"How do you do that?" Robin asked.

"I'm a ninja samurai warrior, how else?" I said. I got a lot of strange looks for that but I wasn't technically lying, I am a ninja samurai warrior…. I just also happen to be half ghost and ghosts are just a little bit sneakier than ninja's.

"Speaking of the elephant in the room, what do you mean?" Aqualad asked. I think he finally gave up understanding me or trying to figure me out.

"That thing." I said pointing to the pod that held the form of a teenage "Superman" inside it. Kid Flash walked up the pod doors that had the project name written on it.

"Big "K" little "r,"" He said. "The atomic symbol for Krypton. You think it's a clone?"

Robin, hack." Aqualad said. He didn't need to since Robin was already reading through the blueprints. "Codename Superboy, cloned from Superman in 16 WEEKS?" Robin exclaimed "He was made to replace Superman should he die and destroy him should he ever turn on us." He finished. The boys suddenly got very excited about that talking theories and trying to wrap their heads around this turn of events. I didn't know who Superman was other than him being the one on the television screen back at the Hall. I looked back up at the glass the surrounded the pod and noticed three little Genomorphs inside it with the teen, their horns glowing red.

"Uh, guys?" I said, nothing. They weren't listening to me.

"Attack...bring...to me…" I heard in my head, I had already figured these guys spoke telepathically and somehow I could hear that but sadly it was broken up and I couldn't get the whole message, but judging by the way Superboy's face was scrunching up in pain I figured it wasn't going to be good for us. Dani told me once that when she was first created the only thoughts in her head were the ones Vlad implanted into her. Things like Vlad's and my mom's face and my ghost half were some of the most memorable.

"Guys!" I tried again, this time panic was entering my voice.

"This is wrong." Kid said, "They are making a slave out of… well Superman's son."

"We can't leave him like this." Robin said.

"Set him free, Do it!" Aqualad said. And Robin reached down for the controls.

"No!" I said trying to leap forward to stop him but I was too late.

Superboy looked at us through the opening glass with a puzzled look on his face. Suddenly the boy lunged forward and I had to quickly dodge to the side. Unfortunately Aqualad was right behind me and Superboy pushed Aqualad into the back wall, causing it to form a spider web of cracks in the concrete. "Okay," I thought "Super strength, check." Superboy started punching Aqualad in the face causing him to grunt in pain. Kid and Robin ran up behind them Kid taking one of Superboy's arms that was raised over his head in preparation for a punch and Robin going for a chokehold while he covered Superboy's eyes.

"Whoa! Hang on Supey." Kid said

"We're on your side." Robin grunted it was becoming increasingly apparent that they were not holding him back in the least. I couldn't just watch as he pummeled them so I ran to give a helping hand. I managed to grab the arm that 'Supey' had slipped through Kids grasp with one hand and stopped him from delivering a fatal punch to Kids jaw. He jumped back just in time for me to take over and hold his wildly flailing arm.

"I don't wanna do this" Robin said as he reached into his gadget belt, pulling out a disc shaped thing that made a high pitched buzzing sound before shoving it in 'Supey's' mouth. It exploded and a smoke filtered out of Superboy's mouth. Supey was holding his throat in pain when Aqualad recovered enough to kick him away from the group. Sadly I didn't let go in time and flew backwards towards Superboy's pod. We connected and all the air rushed out of my lungs as his body was pushed back into mine from the inertia. Luckily he didn't stay long, (probably because he landed on something nice and soft while I took the brunt of the damage.) He stood up coughing as Robin pulled out what looked like my parent's ghost zapper, a gun that works like a Taser on ghosts. I could hear the high pitched whine as it charged up. Robin shot two cables that connected to Superboy's chest and arcs of electricity flew in between them.

Sadly it didn't seem to affect Superboy since he grabbed the two sparking cables and pulled; he spun around and around and eventually let go flinging Robin into Kid Flash and knocking both unconscious. Aqualad charged with a hammer made of water and smacked Superboy in the face. Shouting "Enough!" before heading over to me and helping me up. I stood shakily with an arm over my chest, still trying to recover my breath when Superboy stood back up and walked towards us. Aqualad growled and stood in front of me, protecting me from what was to come.

"We are trying to help you!" He said standing with his hand outstretched in the universal sign for "stop." Superboy just growled and lunged forward punching at the place where Aqualad was before he dodged and aiming a punch at me, he swung his fist and I raised my arms up with an ecto shield in place before I could even think about it. When the fist hit the shield, it felt like on of Dark Dan's punches, my shield cracked but stayed strong for about three more hits when Aqualad tackled Superboy and I could let it down. They crashed into a wall and Superboy kicked Aqualad off, chasing after him and exchanging hits.

I aimed some Ecto blasts at him, being careful not to his Aqualad when we finally trapped him in an arm lock and shocked him with Aqualad's magic tattoos. Sadly that only gave him strength since he jumped and knocked Aqualad out against the ceiling. Landing nonchalantly in front of me and standing up to his full height. "I'm in trouble." I said. I sent an ecto black point blank into his chest which knocked him back into the door that I heard was being pried open. Soon Superboy was back on his feet and charging at me, if I wanted any chance at helping the boy's later I needed to get away now. At the last minute I turned intangible and he passed right through me, turning only to be rewarded with a punch in the jaw.

When he stood up again I was invisible, I could only pray that he couldn't see me like the other 'morphs. He looked around for a while and then walked to the door and opened it. I flew to the ceiling hoping that the other 'morphs, especially that tall one, wouldn't look up there. Guardian an older man and a woman scientist walked inside the room and surveyed the damage, it looked pretty bleak. The three heroes were unconscious around the room and the room was in shambles. I heard the older man lean over to Superboy and say "Good boy" and then turning to Guardian and the 'morphs and shouting "Get these three into pods, now"

Superboy was about to protest when he saw that the Genomorphs had grabbed the others and were carting them off in some unknown direction. He must have been curious because he didn't say anything about me and followed them down to the end of the hallway and turned left.

I had to sigh in relief when Superboy found something more interesting to do, slowly floating down since it was hard to stay airborne in my human form. I still couldn't transform, I think the portal messed with more than just my gender, besides the light would have tipped the 'morphs off to where I was. I followed silently down the hall making sure to duck for cover if a 'morph was looking my way, even though I was invisible the entire time. Strangely enough the man who seemed to be giving the orders turned down a different hallway. Usually the bad guys wanted to make sure that they had the heroes locked away before they continued on whatever they were working on. Making a flash decision I followed after him, pausing just outside the door he entered and making sure no Genomorphs would catch me if I went in.

The room was covered with hanging televisions screens as the man walked into the center of the room each one lit up only showing blacked out images on white fuzzy backgrounds.

"Cause that doesn't scream, secret, secret, plot, plot." I whispered to myself. The lights suddenly turned out and the people on the screens spoke.

"Doctor Desmond, you require an audience with the light?" One man asked.

"Yes," the older man, Dr. Desmond said "Very sorry to disturb you at this late hour-"

"Just make your report" the screen man snapped. Desi must have interrupted their naps. The Dr. pouted slightly before he gave his report.

"We had a small fire here at Project Cadmus, the origin of the incident still unclear but it seems to have attracted some…" He paused as if searching for the right word. "Unwanted attention. Three sidekicks Robin, Kid Flash and Aqualad breached security. They found and released the weapon, the Superboy. Of course the clone is under our telepathic control and as ordered turned in his would-be liberators. The three are contained and we don't believe the League knows they're here. Uh… What should I do with them?" Desmond finished.

"Clone them." One screen said.

"The substitutes will serve the light and only the light." Another said.

"And the originals?" Desmond asked.

"Dispose of them." The last screen said.

Well that was enough for me; I needed to get them out now. I ran out of the room as the meeting continued and wandered down the halls, being careful to duck and avoid any more 'morphs that might be patrolling. 'Now, if I was a scientific sociopath… where would I hide my victims' I asked myself. I found a couple of big doors that were locked from the outside and heavily guarded. 'Found it!' I said to myself, but I couldn't get past these guys without alerting the mad scientist that I was here… my biggest advantage was that no one knew I was here except my team, Superboy and the Genomorphs no one was telling Desmond for some reason and I would like to keep it that way.

I was pacing quietly when I saw Desmond heading this way; well I guess I could just walk in with the warden. He unlocked the doors and walked in just in time to hear Kid say. "But we could show you the moon!"

"We can show you, introduce you, to Superman." Aqualad finished.

"No. They. Can't" Desmond ground out. "They will be otherwise occupied. You!" He said pointing to Guardian and a woman scientist. "Start the cloning process."

"Pass." Robin said. "Batcave is crowded enough." That almost made me laugh, I managed to hide it in the form of a snort when Superboy heard me, he turned and started for me when-

"And get the weapon back in its pod!" Desmond shouted."

"Hey! Why does he get to say it?" Kid Flash said

"Help us" Aqualad said, but a small morph jumped from Desmond's shoulder onto Superboy, his whole body seemed to slacken and his eyes unfocused at the red horns next to his face glowed blood red. I was pretty sure that the 'morphs in his pod were the ones that made him attack us, he really did want to help but he was under their power and he couldn't fight the telekinesis. He silently walked out the doors, never looking back.

"Why would you do that to him?" Robin asked.

"Oh, please he isn't a real boy, he's a weapon!" Desmond said "Now start the cloning process!"

The machines powered up and these claw-like things headed for the boys, the pods were soon electrified and the claw like things stuck into their chests and proceeded to draw blood pouring it into large circular glass containers with some sort of liquid in it. I was hiding next to Robin's pod when I heard Desmond say, "Where's Dubbilex? Ooh, there you are! Lurking as usual." I turned and saw the tall 'morph walking up behind the Doctor. He was staring right at me, but he still didn't say anything. I knew he could see me, now I wonder if he's on our side.

"Get the G-gnomes downloading their memories and when that is done… delete the source material." Desmond said before walking away. Dubbilex just stared at me before nodding and following after Desmond, I guess now is my chance! I phased into the control panel and started wrecking it from the inside, thus turning off the pods and destroying their chance at a quick and easy cloning. The scientists were running about trying to stop the damage done to the console when the doors were wrenched open.

Superboy had come back without his 'morph and began to attack his creators. Using my strength I opened each pod becoming visible again before anyone could really piece together that I shouldn't be here. Robin's cuffs clicked and he fell to the ground.

"Whew!" He said "Lucky Batman isn't here; he'd have my head for taking so long."

"So is Supey here to help us or fry us?" Kid Flash asked. Superboy finally had managed to suppress the others and they all lay knocked out on the floor. Superboy glared until a smirk came to his face.

"Hmm" He said "Seems I don't have heat vision, guess my only option is to help."

"Free Aqualad" Robin said "Danny and I will get Kid mouth."

"Don't give me orders!" Superboy growled winding up to give a punch to Robin, I stepped in a grabbed his hand, halting him mid-swing, though it was taking all my ghost energy that I could use in human form to do it.

"He wasn't giving orders; he was giving directions on how you could help us. Now stop throwing a hissy fit and get up there! That was an order." I said squeezing his fist just enough to hurt the pressure points located in the knuckles. It was something I picked up grappling with ghosts like Skulker, and Walker. He grumbled a little but did what I said as Robin and I went to free Kid. Robin picked the locks holding down his hands and I made the ankle cuffs intangible, both were freed in less than 2 minutes we all ran towards the doors me at the very back when Desmond regained consciousness and shouted at us as we ran.

"You will never get out of here; I will have you all in pods by morning. Especially you girl! You will never escape!"

Robin threw another disk from his belt at the global containers holding their blood and it exploded as we cleared the room.

"That guy is not whelmed, not whelmed at all." He said

"What is with you and this whelmed thing?" Kid asked. We ran not knowing where we were going to just trusting in luck to keep us out of Desmond's clutches. Suddenly Superboy shouted, "Turn left!" He sounded so sure that we all followed his directions. "Right!" He yelled. We continued in this fashion until we came to a dead end.

"Great directions, Supey. You trying to get us re-podded?" Kid exploded.

"You kidding?" Robin asked, "This is perfect."

Above us was a small grate, just enough for us to get through the ventilation system without running into the 'morphs still chasing us. We crawled slowly with Robin in the lead and Superboy at the rear.

"At this rate we will never get out." Kid said.

"Shh. listen." I said Superboy had already tensed behind me. We heard the claws of the razor 'morphs after us. Strangely though they seemed to be heading away from our direction, we heard a large crash and frustrated yelling before Robin turned to us with a smile on his face. "I hacked the motion sensors." He said

"Nice" I said we jumped out in a different section this time closer to the elevator that could lead us out of here. We ran for it, luckily all the 'morphs were pulled in by Robin's trick so we had time to pry open the doors and climb the shaft. We only got a couple floors up when reinforcements arrived via the elevator box heading down, we had to crash through another door and roll out or the elevator would kill us. We emerged right next to some stairs and Kid Flash took the lead, speeding up the stairs and knocking the 'morphs down to clear a path for us. Superboy stopped and stomped on the staircase as some of the Razor 'morphs gained on us. He broke the staircase and caused them to fall, buying us a little more time to climb to freedom. We were still about 1 floor down when we were forced out onto the floor, where large metal fire doors were closing our only exit.

Kid Flash couldn't stop in time and ran right into the doors, rebounding off it and doing a backwards somersault before skidding to a halt about 5 ft. from where he crashed. He sat up groaning as we caught up to him.

"We are cut off from the street." Aqualad said. Captain Obvious strikes again.

"Thanks" Kid said sarcastically "My head hadn't noticed."

Some G-trolls were heading our way while the boys tried to pry or hack the doors open.

"This way!" I said point to a door that would at least prolong our capture if not completely evade it. We rushed in only to be surrounded by all the fighting type Genomorphs in Cadmus, strangely they were in attack position but they were not coming any closer to us, they couldn't be afraid, they outnumber us 20 to 1 just jump on us and we were finished. One of the smaller 'morphs had their horns glowing red when the boys sighed and fell to the ground, not quite unconscious but close.

"Perhaps for the sake of all Genomorphs, our brother Superboy should make up his own mind." Dubbilex thought, his thoughts passing to me and Superboy through his telekinesis, horns glowing red all the while. Superboy sat upright opening his eyes, suddenly focused as he thought back to Dubbilex

"It was you!"

"Yes, brother. I set the fire and lured your new friends down to Cadmus. Woke them when they were in danger."

"And guided me. Why?" Superboy asked.

"Duh," I thought "Because Desmond treats them as nothing more than tools instead of living beings." Superboy turned to me as if surprised I was in this conversation, instead of on the ground with Robin and the others.

"You are our hope, the Genomorph hero. You will blaze a trail for all our brothers, showing us the way toward freedom. Along with the girl, who is not of this world."

"Danny." I thought, introducing myself. It wasn't surprising that he knew I wasn't from here he probably knew about the portal that was in the room on the floor Superboy was found on. Finally the Genomorph turned and a smaller' morph sitting on Guardians should jumped off letting his horns fade to the white/grey they were originally.

"Everyone began grunting and groaning as they returned to focus (no one likes being knocked out).

"What is your choice, brother?" Dubbilex asked this time adding volume to his thoughts.

"I...choose…. Freedom." Superboy spoke aloud. Slowly everyone got to their feet, as Guardian muttered about how his head was clearing.

"Not to be a Debbie downer," I said "But I think we have company." Pointing to the elevator at the end of the hall that opened to reveal Desmond with an angry scowl on his face.

"None of you will escape; Project Blockbuster will give me the power to restore order to Cadmus." He said glaring right at me as he did. "I don't know how any of you got in or how the little girlie managed to hide for so long but none of you will leave this place alive!"

"I'm half-dead… do I still count?" I thought to myself. Desmond drank a vial that was in his hands and started groaning, clutching at his heart and curling in on himself. He then collapsed to the floor while his Doctor jacket ripped to shreds due to the muscles that were suddenly growing on him like daisies. He kept groaning and slowly starting to turn blue skinned, his hair fell out of the top of his head and his eyes turned blood red as dead skin fell from his face in layers. It looked like a giant blue rock monster tried to put on a human skin as a coat and ripped it beyond repair. The monster roared at us and leapt forward knocking Guardian over as he tried to protect us. Superboy punched it in the face only to get hit back into his Genomorph brothers as they tried to get away. I jumped over him and ran at the monster punching it in the teeth and the gut, getting slapped aside as Superboy returned for another volley.

My lips were split and red-ish green blood pooled at the corners of my mouth, I spat and made sure to grind my blood into the dust so no one could grow another me when I was picked up and thrown through the ceiling, followed closely by the Monster attempting to tackle me. We made a very circular hole in the floor of the dummy Cadmus building. The monster roared at me grabbing my waist and punching Superboy towards the others who had just climbed out of the hole. It was like watching a bowling match, but only one pin fell down. Aqualad. I fisted my hands and delivering a double fisted uppercut into the monster's jaw. He dropped me but also managed to use his fingers to fling me forward, ripping my shirt for the second time that day down to show more of my cleavage then I was comfortable.

They loud ripping sound echoed through the room and everyone turned their eyes on me. I blushed covering my chest with one arm while glaring at everyone; they all looked ashamed except for the monster. He looked the same. He rushed forward at me and tried to tackle me into the wall but I managed to evade it thanks to Kid Flash picking me up and running away with me at super speeds. He put me down a few yards away and we sank back into a fighting stance. We got ready and charged at the beast Kid sliding under his feet and crouching as Superboy and I punched him in the face. The monster tripped over Kid and fell on his back.

"Learn that one in Kindergarten." Kid said, while Robin jumped over him and flung three more exploding rings at the thing. They exploded and we retreated to come up with a plan.

"You have super strength?" Aqualad asked as we hid behind a pillar…. Okay we retreated so the others could as some obvious questions and THEN come up with a plan.

"Yeah, monster blue boy first. Me later." I said.

"I think I have a plan," Robin said, but Desmond had gotten up again and was searching for us. Superboy, Aqualad will you buy us some time?" He asked, they nodded and ran from behind the pillar to melee Doctor Frankenstein.

"Ok, here's the plan." Robin said, he pulled up the blueprints of the Cadmus building at highlighted all the load bearing walls and pillars. "What we need to do is cause a controlled collapse right in the middle of the building here." He pointed at a red "x" he marked in the center of the room, "If we take out these pillars and lure him to where the "x" is we got him. Got it?" He asked Kid and I nodded "Good! Go."

Kid raced off and Robin grabbed my arm, "If you wanna leave now's your chance. I don't know if we will make it through the collapse but you can leave right now and never have to look back." He said.

"Where I come from it would be my job to say that to you…." I said causing a bit of shock to show on Robins face. "Besides," I continued "With me here, no one is going to give up the ghost." I turned and ran into the fight shooting ecto balls at the nearest pillar and making my way towards the middle of the room, picturing the "x" on Robin's map. Kid Flash angered the monster and made him smash the pillar he was assigned to break as Robin explained the plan to Aqualad and Superboy. Kid was hit in the back by debris and fell to the ground. The monster was gaining on him until he felt the walls shaking.

I shot another bolt at him and watched as he turn around and charged at me, When I measured the steps I counted down until he was at the perfect spot and smashed the last pillar. The ceiling rained down showering the incredible bulk with a couple feet of steel and concrete; I leapt towards the boys and gathered them together forming a shield with my ecto-energy until the house had finished falling down. The dust settled and all the rocks burying us were illuminated by my energy.

"Whoa! You have powers?" Kid Flash asked.

"Well we figured she had super strength since she took on Desmond and Superboy and won…" Robin said.

"She disappeared, she didn't win" Superboy growled.

"Yes but it seems we have been underestimating our new friend Danny." Aqualad said. We stood in silence for a little while my arms held up to maintain my shield; they were starting to get tired.

"Hey…. Not to complain but how sturdy is this green stuff? Is it like lanterns ring?" Kid asked.

"Don't know. Robin said walking over to the edge of the shield and poking at it, like my parents started to when they first saw me use my powers. Figuring it was time to let the shield go I simply stopped applying energy. Superboy caught the falling ceiling just in time to stop it from crushing us and pushed it aside, the other 3 glared at me.

"Whoops" I said sarcastically. Superboy looked to Desmond an unreadable look on his face.

"See," Kid piped up panting slightly from the workout from earlier, Superboy turned "The moon." He said. It was a beautiful full moon tonight, closest I have ever seen and so bright it almost looked unreal. In the center of it was a black dot that seemed to be coming closer. As it slowly focused I saw Superman flying towards us.

"Oh. And Superman!" Kid said surprised. "Do we keep our promises or what?" He finished. Superboy gasped as Superman landed softly in front of us, followed by several others of the League…. Including Batman, Orange guy, Zatara, Green Arrow, the Red Flash the green guy from the Hall and the Red robot. They were also joined by many others I didn't know. All with grim looking faces as they surrounded us.

Superboy stepped forward and lifted the front of his ripped solar suit up so Superman could also see the symbol both he and I wore (and another girl in the crowd with the same shirt as me who I think is Supergirl).

The small smile on Superboy's face disappeared as it seemed that Superman rejected him.

"Is that what I think it is?" Batman said, thus crushing any good feelings Superboy managed to gain in his time escaping Cadmus with us. That made me mad.

"Don't you mean, is that WHO you think it is?" I said. "Superboy is Superboy." Batman glared at me but I just glare right back at him. His glare could scare someone to death, but I already am dead (or at least half) so I didn't really care.

"I am Superman's clone." Superboy said slightly desperately, for what I don't know. The League members looked at each other in silence until Batman stopped glaring at me and growled out to his protégée, "Start talking."

By the end of the story, most of the Leaguers had left and the protégées and I were standing in a circle, glancing back a few times to try and gauge what their reactions were. I felt the cool metal of Clockwork's pendant lying on my chest when I remembered what happened to my shirt. "Shoot!" I exclaimed covering up and blushing badly. The boy's turned to me with worried expression until they saw the state of my shirt and they turned away blushing. Robin held out a couple of pins and I pinned my shirt as well as I could but I could still feel a draft. I was pinning my shirt when I found Clockwork's medallion again, I grabbed it and started to study it. It didn't look like Clockwork's regular medallions so something on this must be a message for me, otherwise he wouldn't have left it. I searched until I found a small switch and flipped it, inside was a letter. The others were looking at me strangely but I paid it no mind as I opened my letter and read.

'Dear Daniel,

As you are reading this you probably have already started ignoring the others. You are going to have to earn their trust until you are able to return, especially this "Batman" character. Unfortunately I am still unable to say at this time why the Observant's are hunting you but be at ease, it will be very difficult to send anyone after you since I am the only one powerful enough to do that on my own (Though it is very taxing)

I understand that you want to come home as soon as you can but it will be a long while before you are able to see your friends again. Fret not, your family and Sam and Tucker know what happened and have promised to keep your town safe. Though I know that in a few months' time the reporters will become unbearable (as if they weren't already) You should join with the heroes of this world and help them in their quest to stop a very powerful enemy called "the light". As you saw earlier with Mr. Desmond they are really the ones behind the scenes, however no one knows this yet since it is not the time for it. You must lead them to discovering their enemy and get as many allies as you can, build up the team. Your future depends on it…. But don't forget to have fun Danny, remember they have no ghosts here, and think of all the pranks you can pull! I will be watching.

Sincerely, Clockwork.

Or- for you "Stopwatch"

P.S. This will now self-destruct.

Right as I finished the last line the paper burst into green flames being devoured before I could even think of saving it. I looked up and saw that the League had made their decision. Superman walked over to Superboy and said "Well uh… figure something out for you… The League will I mean."

"No." I said, the league is temporary. You will do it." I said glaring at him, letting my eyes glow a little for effect. (Clockwork did say to have fun even though I will be here longer than a few months) Superman backed away cautiously. "For now I better make sure they get that Blockbuster creature squared away." He said before flying off.

'Coward' I thought, scoffing.

"I don't need you defending me." Superboy said but anger and hurt rang through his voice.

"I wasn't defending you." I said, "I was defending someone who wouldn't stand up for himself. I have a clone of my own, and she is like a daughter to me. Just because you are a clone does not make you lesser of a human." I finished. Everyone around us was stunned; I even saw the speck that was now Superman falter in the sky.

"Cadmus will be investigated… All 52 levels but let's make one thing clear..." Batman said

"You should have called!" Red flash cut in, folding his arms over his chest.

"End results aside we are not happy, you hacked the Justice League system, lead a civilian into danger, disobeyed direct orders and endangered lives. You will not be doing this again." He ended.

"I am not from your world, nor am I just a civilian. I- WE are heroes, trained to do what we just did, so yes. We will be doing this again."

"We did good work here tonight" Aqualad stepped in.

"Aqualad! Stand down" Orange man said (I really need to get his name.)

Aqualad crossed his arm over his chest in a slight bow to the older man.

"Apologies my king, but no." Aqualad finished "Together on our own we forged something powerful, important."

"If this is about your treatment at the hall the three of you…" Red started but was cut off by Kid Flash "The five of us and it's not."

"Batman" Robin implored "We are ready to use what you taught us, or why teach us at all?"

"Why let them tell us what to do?" Asked Superboy, sounding very much like an upset 5 year old child, but then again he is one (16 weeks.) "It's simple," He said "They either get on board or get out of the way." The four of them stood at attention while the League stared at all of us. Batman glared but finally sighed and told us that he would think about it.

"But I don't trust her." He said finally glaring back at me, "If she is to be joining the team she will have to be tested and prove that she is not an enemy." I glared back at him but not as hard since A) I needed him to give his permission so I could be a hero here and B) he did have a reason to be suspicious. So I waited as it was decided that I would train with the Amazons for a couple days to prove that I was not trying to deceive them and that I could take care of myself. A woman in red high heeled boots and an American themed swimsuit gesture for me to follow her as the others headed home for what was left of the night.

We came to a clear area when she did the most amazing thing I have ever seen; she opened a hatch to an invisible Jet! I think I am going to like it here…. I wonder if she would let me fly it sometime…

Finally! The revision of the first chapter is done! I can finally start on Chapter two! I have decided that I will keep my original 'New Girl' story for my rough drafts and create a new one for the revisions so my wonderful fans can see how I am doing… Sorry this took so long (But it is double the amount of words in the first chapter so I hope you enjoyed it!" 14,072 words!