Hi, this is my first fic ever posted. Tell me what you really think about my writing, even if its not good.

The story focuses on OC Lilith Fenton/Phantom. You could probably figure out most of the stuff about her just by her name. My goal is to have her personality walk the line between really awesome and really hate-able. She's gonna be a real smug kind of person. Tell me if you think I pulled that off or not as the story goes on, although there isn't much to go by on this chapter.

Danny is in his forties, his history and the history of Amity Park/FentonWorks/The Fenton's/etc will be explained as the story goes on, mostly from Lily's point of view.

PP did happen but events have happened since that have wiped most people's memories from what really happened. (Mainly a certain wishing ghost granting a reality altering wish)

And praise in the comments is always welcome, but really if there's anything you don't like, tell me why, because I have no idea how good of a writer I am.

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"Shayara, GL, Diana," Mr. Terrific called over the intercom. "Alarms are going off at a government facility in rural Colorado. I need a group with experience to deal with government agents. Are you three available?"

Affirmations could be heard through the comm. links. No time was lost between the call and being beamed down with instructions near the emergency.

"Count me in as well," Batman could be heard over the comm. links, "The Guys in White are part of an ongoing investigation. Beam me to the location." Batman was not on the Watchtower at the time – in fact he rarely was as he was only a part time member of the League – but Mr. Terrific didn't hesitate to oblige.

The Justice League had dealt with many threats before, some by common criminals, others by carefully organized super villains. Heck, they had even thwarted several alien infestations. But even though they dealt with unusual events on a regular basis, the strangeness of it all never really truly wore off, and every once in a while the situation they were beamed into would take them slightly by surprise. What they saw as they gathered their bearings for this mission took their breaths away. Fire engulfed the buildings throughout the facility, soaring twenty feet over their heads and billowing black smoke. It wasn't that they had never dealt with fire before – in fact they had dealt with supernatural fires before – but the fact that it was blue still caught them off guard.

Diana was the first to get to the nearest group of locals – agents in sterile white suits.

"Your emergency set off an alarm at the Watchtower. Do you require any assistance?"

"Everyone is accounted for," One of the agents yelled over the roar of the fire. "All that's left is to put out the fire."

"Is there a body of water nearby?" Green Lantern asked.

"A river runs a few miles south of here, but I doubt water will put this out."

GL was off before the agent could object. There was a possibility that he was right, but there was no point in not trying.

"What caused the fire to be so blue?" Shayara wondered out loud. There were annoyed looks on many of the agents' faces, and a few muttered under their breaths.

Phantom.

"Who's Phantom?" Batman demanded, his stance affirming that he wouldn't leave without an answer.

"A menace that's given us nothing but trouble," The commanding agent smirked at his own vague answer.

BOOM!

The ground shook as one of the facility's buildings was reduced to falling debris in mere seconds. The commanding agent gave no explanation to the leaguers as he dispatched the rest of his crew to find the cause of the explosion.

"He's still here?! Get him! STOP HIM NOW!"

"We could help you find him." Wonder Woman offered. Normally the League trained members to hop right into the situation if lives were in danger, but previous experience had taught that when dealing with the government, always ask first.

"We have everything covered," the agent only argued.

"Ungrateful jerks," Shayara muttered under her breath, barely loud enough for her peers to hear.

"You have no idea."

Everyone turned around to see who the enigmatic voice belonged to: an adult figure completely covered in a white cloak, with only iridescent green eyes glowing through the shadow of his hood.

The remaining agent didn't hesitate pulling out a weapon and firing at the figure.

"You're gonna need better aim than that, Agent K," the figure lazily said as he effortlessly glided out of range of each shot.

"You're not going to get away with this, Phantom!"

Phantom only chuckled and completely disappeared before the remaining Leaguers could jump into the fight. Agent K immediately checked a watch-like instrument on his wrist, only to curse under his breath and then be interrupted by his radio.

"Sir, we're getting six different hits on the radar!"

"Hawkgirl, Wonder Woman, hunt down Phantom!" Batman immediately ordered, not bothering with permission to help, and then put a finger to his comm. link, "GL, you get fire duty."

He ignored the "Isn't that what I'm already doing?" reply that he got as he started to question Agent K about Phantom. He also tuned out Wonder Woman explaining to GL what just happened.

"Who's Phantom?" Batman repeated to the agent.

"A menace," Agent K replied equally as stubborn.

"A more detailed explanation," Batman growled.

"He's a ghost that's given us more than enough trouble." Agent K continued, narrow-eyed.

Batman only glared back until Agent K finally conceded.

"He's enemy number one. He's sabotaged most of our operations and has injured many of our agents."

"Last time I checked this agency doesn't exist."

"That's because we don't."

Another answer Batman didn't like. He continued his glare, but Agent K changed the subject.

"Phantom is a monster. He must be stopped at any cost."

"Found him," both Shayara and Diana said over the comm. links at almost simultaneously.

"At the north most corner."

"Near the southeast edge."

"Can Phantom be in more than one place at once?" Batman demanded.

"He can duplicate. We've observed him in as many as seven places at one time," the agent replied unwavering.

"Five more to go," Batman replied over the comm. link before joining the hunt. He barely heard Agent K mutter as he ran off.

"Stupid superheroes trying to butt into everything."

"Make that six. I lost mine," Wonder Woman countered.

"Mine disappeared when I hit it with my mace," Shayara added.

Almost immediately, Batman spotted Phantom observing another building going up in flames. He was prevented from approaching the copy by a green shield not unlike Green Lantern's. He knew it wasn't his was because it swirled with an iridescence, while John's constructs were always a solid green – although, it didn't hurt to know that John was elsewhere as well.

Phantom turned to see Batman, searching him up and down with glowing eyes before disappearing. The shield disappeared soon after.

Green Lantern could be seen a ways off, dragging behind him a large construct carrying water and then dumping it on a nearby building.

"At least we now know that water can be used to put out the fire," he offered, having heard all the commotion on the comm. links, and then set off for more water.

After that, Batman noticed a large group of agents surrounding another Phantom and being thoroughly punished for it. He arrived at the scene the same time as Hawkgirl and no sooner had the two placed themselves between the agents and Phantom, did he stop his attack.

"Please stand aside. I have no beef against the Justice League."

"You set fire to a government facility!" Shayara yelled, raising her mace.

"And I pulled the fire alarms long before I did," he responded coolly.

"And that makes it okay?!" Shayara started to attack, but Phantom expertly dodged her mace, once even completely disappearing only to reappear behind her.

"No. It makes this a distraction," Batman deduced. He caught the faintest look of approval from Phantom before he disappeared completely. "Shayara, fly me up."

She did as she was told.

"That building in the middle," Batman pointed.

"It's the only one not on fire," Shayara realized, and flew the two of them to it and around to find the entrance. The security keypad they had found had already been sabotaged.

"What is this place?" She asked as they explored inside. All of the walls were covered in open compartments, and as they wandered they found themselves in a room full of equipment of questionable purpose.

"An interrogation room," Batman concluded out loud.

"Interrogation as in torture," Shayara rebuked.

"It's a prison. The compartments were cells; all of the prisoners have been removed already."

"Not all of them," Shayara had left the room and was pointing down the hall. At its end was another similarly broken keypad, its accompanying door ajar and still creaking. Shayara rushed to it, mace in her grip. It was then Batman noticed a darkened window next to the door. Movement and a slight glow could be seen behind it.

"Wait!" Batman nearly shouted to Shayara as he followed behind her. He searched the wall near the window for a switch, the reward: a light flooding the hall from the other side of it – a one-way mirror. In the room on the other side was Phantom, sitting criss-cross on the floor holding what appeared to be a heavily injured teenage girl in his arms.

Shayara nearly dropped her mace.

"Who is she?" She demanded.

"The reason behind this whole fiasco," Phantom answered, "You saw the Guys in White. They have radar that can track me down no matter how far I go. I could get her out of this place, but there is absolutely nowhere I can take her to keep her safe."

"This whole thing was to get our attention so you could pass her off to us." Batman deduced.

"What makes you think we'd help you?" Shayara countered.

"You're the Justice League. You could consider us the biggest threat to Earth's survival since Darkseid, but you'd still treat her with more respect than the Guys in White ever did." Phantom stood up with the girl in his arms and looked around wildly, as if sensing something beyond Batman's and Shayara's capabilities. "They're searching the building now, grab hold of me and I can teleport us out. They can't know you were in here. The less they know that you know about them the better."

Batman didn't hesitate to put a hand on Phantom's shoulder. If Phantom really was trying to rescue this girl from the Guys in White, there was no reason for him not to do what he said he would, and everything he had done up until this point suggested that he really was here to help her. It would also be wrong to leave her here, even if she were a criminal of the worst kind. Although, he doubted she got those injuries she had before she found herself in the custody of the Guys in White. They were too fresh, and the interrogation room was ominous enough. Shayara, on the other hand, looked at the two of them strangely for a long moment before finally following suit. A white ring appeared around the four of them. It split into two, one going up and the other down, and as they did, the scenery changed from the stark white room to the wilderness just beyond the facility.

"Batman, Shayara, are you two okay? You're comm. link signals jumped more than a mile," they heard Mr. Terrific exclaim over the comms.

"We're fine. Prepare to beam me up with an injured passenger." Batman said as he took the girl from Phantom. Despite his assumption that she was unconscious, she reached out and grabbed a fistful of Phantom's cloak.

"I can't go with you, Lily, but I never abandoned you." Phantom consoled. He turned back to the Leaguers. "I'll keep the Guys in White distracted." He said before disappearing once again.

"Shayara, Diana, John, help put out the fire before you return."

Shayara nodded and flew off as affirmations could be heard over the comm. link.

Batman sighed as he felt the girl fidget. A few seconds later the teleportation beam engulfed the two of them, and before they were even cemented in the Watchtower, nurses swarmed around him to take the girl away to get proper medical care. He barely got a good look at how injured she was, but it was enough to know that it was bad.

Another sigh. Time to figure out what just happened.