AN: Well. I clearly cannot be trusted. So I will refrain from making any kind of promises.

I do not own Danny Phantom or Young Justice. Geez, it's been a while.

Danny grinned as he stepped out of the zeta tube. It didn't matter how many times he came to the Watchtower, he still loved it. The view of the stars was amazing, and he could never get enough of it. Visiting the Watchtower was the closest he would ever come to fulfilling his dream of being an astronaut, so he would cherish it any chance he got.

"DANNY!"

Danny barely had time to brace himself before a small green figure crashed into him. He staggered, but managed to stay on his feet. He laughed, wrapping his arms around the kid who was currently attempting to hug the life out of him.

"Heya Garfield. It's been a while, hasn't it?"

The shapeshifter beamed up at him before abruptly frowning.

"It's been six months!" He yelled. "You promised you would be here for Christmas, but you never showed!"

Danny winced.

"You're right. I'm sorry. There was this whole thing with a robot and mind control- you know what, never mind. That's just an excuse. I should have come sooner."

Garfield pouted for a few more seconds before grinning again.

"It's alright Danny. I know you're busy. Just don't let it happen again."

"Oh he won't," Dick said, coming up behind Danny and slinging an arm around his shoulders. "I'll make sure of it."

"Because you're so much better."

Danny and Dick turned to see Kaldur, Megan and Connor approaching. Connor had been the one to speak.

Dick laughed a tad self-consciously.

"What, me? I don't know what you're talking about."

Megan raised an eyebrow.

"Who was it who left without even saying goodbye again?"

"Okay!" Dick threw his hands up. "Look, the important thing is that we are all together now. How about we focus on that?"

By this point Garfield had managed to clamber up onto Danny's back. They both snickered at Dick's discomfort. Kaldur smiled slightly, patting his old friend on the shoulder.

"I agree with Nightwing. Let's use this opportunity to catch up."

Danny's smile faded. He sighed, setting Garfield down.

"As much as I would love that, this isn't exactly a social visit." He said quietly, not wanting to attract attention outside of their small group. Kaldur frowned, glancing at Nightwing who shrugged. Danny was being surprisingly tight lipped about what was going on.

"Is something wrong?" He asked, lowering his voice to match Danny's. Danny frowned.

"Not exactly… Look, can we go somewhere private? I don't really want this getting out."

Kaldur frowned but nodded. Megan and Connor exchanged glances, clearly concerned, but they didn't push it. They gave Dick and Danny one last smile before walking off. It was a bit harder to convince Garfield to leave, but soon enough they were alone.

Kaldur led them into a small room just down the hallway from the main hub. As soon as the door was closed, Kaldur and Dick focused in on Danny.

"Okay, are you going to explain what's up now?" Dick asked, slightly exasperated at still being in the dark. Danny chewed on his bottom lip for a moment before finally speaking.

"I need access to Mount Justice."

Kaldur jerked back as if he had been struck and Dick hissed slightly. Mount Justice was a very touchy subject for the Team, the two of them especially. No wonder Danny didn't want the rest of the Team to hear this.

"Why?" Kaldur managed to ask. The old base wasn't off-limits per say, but it was strongly encouraged for the Team to leave their previous location alone. That was mostly because of how unstable it was, but there were other considerations as well. The whole world knew about Mount Justice by this point and they could never be sure that some villian wasn't keeping an eye on it on the off hand chance that some hero would turn up.

Of course, all of that was secondary to the real reason the Team avoided the ruins. It was simply too painful for them to take in the destruction of their old home, especially for people like Danny who had lived there full time.

Danny shifted uncomfortably.

"I left something there." He mumbled. "I didn't think I would need it again, but something came up."

Kaldur and Dick exchanged uneasy glances. Dick stepped forward.

"Danny, anything you might have left there is long gone by now. If it wasn't destroyed by the explosion, than the elements would have gotten it by now."

Danny huffed, looking frustrated.

"Gee, thanks for telling me that, Captain Obvious. Clearly I'm a complete idiot and none of that occured to me."

Dick frowned, taken aback by Danny's harsh tone. Danny's gaze softened and he sighed quietly, running a hand through his hair.

"Sorry, that was uncalled for. But trust me, the thing I'm after will be fine. I went to great lengths to make sure that it wouldn't be damaged."

Kaldur took a deep breath, suppressing his nerves.

"I would be happy to accompany you Danny," he said, with only a hint of hesitation, "but… why? You do not need my permission, and it would probably be safer if you went alone."

Danny shrugged one shoulder.

"Well, I will need your permission to use the thing I'm retrieving, so I figured you might as well come with. Besides…"

Danny hunched in on himself.

"I… I have bad memories from that time. You and Dick make me feel safe. I'm not sure sure I could bring myself to go in if I were alone."

Kaldur closed his eyes, trying to swallow back bile. He had bad memories of that time as well. If there was one thing he regretted more than anything else about his time undercover, it was the destruction of Mount Justice and the subsequent capture of the people who lived there. It was bad enough that Bart and Garfield had been taken, but Danny? He could still remember Danny screaming as the Reach experimented on him. It had been the hardest thing he had ever done, offering Danny up to be experimented on again. A large part of him had never forgiven Dick for approving that plan. And an even larger part had never forgiven himself.

Dick looked similarly stricken. He had confided in Kaldur once that he couldn't understand why Danny had forgiven them for that. Wally never had, not even in the end. Maybe, given enough time, they could have reconciled. But now they would never know.

Kaldur took a deep breath, putting aside his own turmoil. He smiled at Danny, glad to see some of the tension leave the halfa's frame.

"Of course I'll go with you. I am free right now if you wanted to go."

Danny seemed taken aback by that. He glanced at Dick nervously before his expression steeled. He nodded once decisively.

"Yeah, let's go. No point in putting it off."

With an air of uneasiness, the three men headed to the zeta tubes.

Danny stared at Mount Justice. The zeta tubes that used to lead to the base no longer worked so they had taken the next closest one, which was nearly half an hour away. It had given Danny an uncomfortably long time to think.

Mount Justice had been his home. It had been the first place where he was happy after losing everything. The fact that yet another one of his childhood homes had been destroyed was difficult for him to reconcile.

Still, he had changed since then. He wasn't the vulnerable kid he had been back then. He could handle it.

He grabbed Kaldu and Dick's hands, turning them all intangible. He took off, flying them through the walls of the mountain. In a matter of seconds, they were in the old hangar.

Danny swallowed harshly. He had known it would be bad, but this? This was awful. He let go of his intangibility without thinking, stepping forward to get a better look.

He supposed he should be grateful that the place was still standing at all. The damage done to the roof wasn't as bad as it could have been, all things considered. That didn't make it any easier to take in the charred remains. He stared at the pedestal where Megan's ship would be if things were different. He had spent so many days here, waiting for the Team to return from their latest mission. And now it was destroyed.

"Danny?" Dick asked hesitantly. Danny turned away from the empty pedestal, walking deeper into the Cave.

"Come on," he said horsley. "I left it in my room."

The trio was silent as the navigated the wreckage of the Cave. Danny had to turn them intangible quite a few times. The hangar had been practically unscathed compared to the rest of the base. It had been on the edge of the explosion, sparing it too much damage. The central hub, where the zeta tubes had been, was completely destroyed. There was nothing left.

Luckily, they didn't need to go through there. Instead, they turned away from the center of the base, heading to where the bedrooms were. These were fairly undamaged as well. At least, the were recognizable as something that had once been a room. The front walls were pretty much gone, and any personal items that might have been left were gone, destroyed by the rubble.

Danny ignored all of this, heading to the rubble that had once been his room. He felt a pang as he looked at the room. If he closed his eyes, he could remember what the space had once looked like, but he couldn't project that image onto the place's new reality.

He shook his head, refusing to get caught up in melancholy. Yes, this place was gone, but he had moved on. He had a new home, and a new family. He would always miss this place, but he refused to let it haunt him.

He stepped forward with new confidence, picking his way through the debris. It was a little difficult to remember where everything had once been, but he did his best, stopping once he thought he was in the right place. He turned his arm intangible and reached into the floor, feeling around.

For a moment he thought he was in the wrong place, but then he felt it. Grinning, he reached down further, plunging the entire length of his arm into the floor. He came back up a moment later, holding a strange looking tube.

Dick gasped, stepping forward.

"Is… Is that..?"

Danny nodded, holding the tube close.

"It's my parent's research." He confirmed.

"I thought you destroyed it." Dick said, his eyes wide as he stared at the tube.

"I was going to." Danny admitted, staring at the device that held all of his parents research. "So many people were hurt because of it. But in the end, I couldn't do it. It's the only thing I have of theirs."

Danny shrugged, looking torn.

"When the Cave was destroyed, I thought it was a sign. It would be left in the rubble, never to be discovered. But I need it now."

He stared up at Dick and Kaldur pleadingly.

"I met an old… acquaintance last night. A ghost. She was captured by the GIW around the same time I was. She was freed when the GIW went down, but she's been stuck here ever since. Her and all the other ghosts that the GIW experimented on. I told her I would rebuild the ghost portal and send them all home, but I needed these blueprints to do it."

"Rebuild the ghost portal?" Dick looked concerned. "Is that even possible?"

"It should be." Danny said, standing up. "I know my way around ecto-technology, even if it has been a while. I can make it work."

He paused, giving a Kaldur a sheepish look.

"Though, I would like a favor."

"What is it?" Kaldur asked, slightly confused. "I am willing to help, but I doubt that I would be of much use in attempting to build such a device."

Danny shook his head rapidly.

"No, not that! It's just, well…"

Danny trailed off, looking uncomfortable.

"Look, I really don't want this technology falling into the wrong hands. Would it be alright if I built the portal on the Watchtower?"

Kaldur blinked, surprised. He hadn't been expecting that. Though it did make a lot of sense. No one could get onto the Watchtower without permission from the Justice League. It would be safer there than anywhere on Earth.

"Of course." Kaldur said softly, before smiling. "At ;east this way you will have to visit more often."

Dick and Danny both blushed flailing their arms and protesting that they did visit, they were just busy, besides, it's not like he had a job outside of crime fighting, so really he couldn't judge them, they were doing their best…

Kaldur grinned as his friends continued to argue, walking behind them as they left the Cave.

The next few months would be very interesting.

Vlad stared into his fireplace. An empty bottle of wine sat on the table next to him. This was how he spent most of his nights these days, drunk and wallowing. He lifted his cup to take another drink, only to find it empty. He hurled it at the wall in frustration, watching it shatter into pieces. He felt better for a split second before the despair swallowed him again.

"What would you think of me now, Daniel?" He mumbled.

He sat still for another moment before deciding that he needed more alcohol. He dragged himself to his feet, swaying slightly. He was about to head to the kitchen when someone spoke.

"Geez, look at you old man. Maybe my contacts were wrong. I doubt you could be of much use to anyone."

Vlad spun, his vision blurring at the sudden movement. His gaze caught onto a figure standing in the corner of the room. He scowled at it.

"Who are you? How did you get in here?"

The figure laughed, not looking the least bit intimidated.

"Look, I'll answer all of your questions and more, but first you gotta do something for me, 'k old man?"

Vlad snarled at the man, wanting nothing more than to just blast him out of existence. He was just about to do that when he paused. This... this was something new. The first thing that had caught his attention since the entire Fenton family had died.

Vlad knew that he was pathetic. He knew that he had basically thrown his life away these past eight years. If he had a chance to actually do something again…

"Fine," he muttered, falling back into his chair. "Have a seat. I'll hear you out."

The man stepped forward into the light. Vlad was only mildly surprised to see that he was wearing a helmet that completely covered his face. The man sat on the chair across from him. Vlad couldn't see his face, but he could hear his smile as he spoke.

"Hello Masters. My name is Red Hood."

AN: I am so sorry this took so long. I hope you enjoyed the cliff hanger! Maybe that will encourage me to update more quickly next time! Hah…

Anyway, a small peak into what happened during season 2! Not a huge plot point, prolly won't come up again, but I felt like it fleshed out this world a little bit more, so I put it in. Well, it may come back up. Maybe. I dunno, this fic is way less planned than the first one. Is that obvious? I feel like it's obvious.

Sorry once again for the wait! I love and appreciate all of you who read my stories! Seriously, thank you all so much.

Bye for now!