Chapter 09: In Blackest Nights Part 2

Dan was glaring as John walked away, refusing to look at them despite the Halfa's statement that this whole trial was a bunch of shit.

"Three Million gone." Flash shook his head. "I can't believe it."

"He didn't do it." Dan stated uncrossing his arms as he went to walk away. "Lantern may have a stick shoved up his ass, but he is innocent."

"Dan's right, we need to figure this out." Superman said as he looked towards where the planet was. "I want to take a closer look."

"Why? John admits he's guilty." Hawkgirl stated. "Nobody is disputing the facts."

"There's a difference between admitting it and actually doing it." Dan snarled taking to the air.

"Where are you going?" Superman asked curiously.

"Finding some damn answers." Dan stated as he disappeared.

"J'onn, I need you to come with me." Superman said to the Martian. "Flash, Hawkgirl can you buy us some time in the court?"

"You're asking the World's Fastest Man to slow things down?" Flash chuckled as he shook his head. "Won't be easy, with how Dan tore Ken'ja Ro's testimony apart he would be better suited."

"Just do what you do best." Superman told him as he flew off.

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Dan focused as he opened a portal to the Ghost Zone before flying into it.

To be honest, he wasn't sure what to expect from this since he hasn't been inside this world's version of the Ghost Zone.

It was quiet… More quiet than his worlds and he could hear screams of torture around him.

'Focus.' Dan thought flying past it as he passed the empty, decrepit doors that shone eerily before coming to a familiar clocktower.

"Clockwork." Dan called out flying in there only to frown. "Damn it Clockwork, where the hell are you-?!"

Dan came to a stop as he saw one of the screens that Clockwork always viewed and what he saw surprised him.

It was one of those Danny's that he saw when he was freed from the Thermos being stabbed by Skulker right through the stomach.

"Well, he's dead." Dan commented with a dark chuckle as he continued his search, not paying attention as it showed a different Danny fighting a Green Giant in the Ecto Suit.

'Weird, the Tower is here and the screen works, but where is that meddling Time Walker?' Dan thought not liking this. 'I know that he knows that I'm here, but why hasn't he come out? Does he want me to find something on my own?'

"Well now, isn't this interesting?" A voice called out causing Dan to pause before he slowly turned to see Plasmius standing a few feet away. "Hello Little Badger."

"You." Dan snarled as he lunged at his fruitloop of an enemy.

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Cyborg glared at a couple of people who were whispering and pointing fingers at him as he walked with Beast Boy who waved at a few of them. "Come on Cy, cheer up." Beast Boy said with a grin. "Don't let this bother you."

"Don't let it bother me?" Cyborg asked with an incredulous look. "How could I not let this bother me? They're staring at me like I'm part of a circus."

"Give it some time, they'll stop." Beast Boy told him before looking up to see Starfire flying around along with Raven levitating behind her. "The girls are doing good with their patrol."

"You call this a patrol?" Both teens turned to see Nightwing standing on a Fire Escape railing holding an Escrima Stick with a raised brow behind his domino mask. "You guys are casually walking the street."

"Wing? When did you get here?" Cyborg asked in shock as people were now taking pictures of the three teen heroes talking.

"I've been sticking to the shadows the last three blocks." Nightwing answered as he gripped the railing before doing an acrobatic flip, landing on his feet. "So you're doing a patrol?"

"Yeah, want to join?" Beast Boy asked with a grin.

Before Nightwing could answer there was a beeping from his arm as he pressed a button on his gauntlet to show a holographic computer. "There's a Bank Robbery in progress." He said pausing as he looked at them. "You up for it?"

"Duh." Beast Boy answered as he turned into a Falcon. "I'll get the Girls."

As he took off, Nightwing looked at Cyborg. "You alright?" He asked remembering that Cyborg wasn't used to being in public like this.

"I-... I'm fine." Cyborg said as he began running. "How far is this bank?"

"A couple of blocks." Nightwing answered pressing his gauntlet as a dark blue bike shot out of the alley allowing him to jump on it.

Cyborg stared incredulously as Nightwing took off. "Hey, at least give me something to use!" He shouted before muttering. "I should look into getting a car or something."

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"So what do you hope to find on this moon?" J'onn asked as he landed next to Superman near the Javelin.

"I don't know, just call it-." Superman paused trying to find the right word.

"An intuition?" J'onn supplied.

Superman gave a nod. "Exactly." He said with both of them walking up the ramp, none of them noticing Ken'ja Ro watching them.

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"Missed me, Little Badger." Plasmius taunted flying to the side as Dan slammed into the ground where he was.

"How's this?!" Dan shot a blast of ecto energy, hitting Plasmius, but it went through him. "What the-?!"

That was when he realized what was going on.

"Fuck, not another one." Dan muttered as Danny appeared next to him.

"And what's that supposed to mean?" Danny asked with a raised eyebrow before looking at Plasmius. "Oh, it's you."

"You sound so enthusiastic." Plasmius drawled out as he walked up to Dan. "You mean to tell me that you didn't think I would appear after seeing Daniel here for so long?"

Dan looked away.

"Daniel and I are always here, you are the two of us after all-." Plasmius began only for Danny to snort.

"The creepiness factor of that truth went up with you saying it." Danny said causing Plasmius to glare.

"What do you want?" Dan decided to cut to the chase as Plasmius shook his head.

"I can't just talk to you?" Plasmius asked pretending to be hurt. "You do let Daniel do so."

"That's because he likes me better." Danny taunted as Dan felt like bashing his skull in.

"Both of you shut up." Dan said turning to leave as it was clear that Clockwork wasn't going to get involved anytime soon. "I need to head back to Ajuris 4."

"Ah yes, with the other heroes?" Plasmius asked with a chuckle, flying behind Dan. "My, my, my how you've changed."

Dan just ignored him.

"Why do you keep denying what you are? What you've done?" Plasmius asked as Dan barely glanced at him, still flying. "We all know the truth that you aren't a hero-."

Dan punched where Plasmius face was only for it to go through him.

"Now that's just rude." Plasmius said in annoyance, despite not feeling it.

"It made me feel better." Dan remarked glaring. "And I know I'm not a hero, I tell him that all the time."

"Geez, I have a name." Danny muttered as Plasmius chuckled.

"So you say, yet you still try hard to pretend how you didn't kill the GIW, or how you destroyed most of the Ghost Zone?" Plasmius said pissing Dan off. "Now how long before you destroy this Earth just like how you did to our Earth?"

"He won't." Danny said with his hands behind his head.

"Not that this hasn't been a good conversation but I need to help prove Lantern's innocence." Dan said as he went to open the portal.

"Why not just force Ken'ja Ro to drop the charges?" Plasmius asked causing Dan to stop in thought. "All you have to do is Overshadow him and have him testify for Lantern."

"I could." Dan muttered in thought. "It would end the trial just as easily."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa." Danny flew in front of Dan with a panicked look. "John already knows about that little power, he'll recognize your voice. Plus it's not the right thing to do-."

"Oh how rich, how many times have you used that particular power to get back at people?" Plasmius asked with a smirk. "Or to get out of Detention and being grounded?"

Danny winced as Dan frowned in thought.

It would make things easier… But John would most likely blow the whistle on him if he attempts it.

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"John Stuart, you may now question your accuser." One of the Judges began but John shook his head.

"No questions."

Mutterings of surprise happened throughout the courtroom as the Third Judge asked in surprise. "None? Don't you intend to defend yourself?"

"No, I don't-."

"I object!" Flash shouted causing everyone to turn to him. "You call this a trial? I call it a joke."

Hawkgirl tried to make him sit back down. "Are you out of your mind? What do you think you're doing?"

"Prepare to be dazzled." Flash joked as the order to remove him came up.

Using his speed, Flash zipped past the guards about to grab him and came up beside John.

"Listen, with something as important as this, you need to hear both sides." Flash said as John glared.

"Flash, I told you not to get involved." John said to him.

"Sorry, I'm not a good listener." Flash said with a smirk before one of the guards made to grab him, only for Flash to move and be behind him. "Nice try."

"Wait, this being may have a point." The Female Judge said. "We don't want to have any lingering doubts, do we?"

"Of course not." The Judge on the left sighed. "But who will speak for John Stuart?"

"Don't you have any lawyers here?" Flash asked in confusion.

"We solved our Lawyer Problem a long time ago." The Left Judge said sounding amused.

"You can speak for him if you wish." The Female Judge offered as the Middle Judge spoke.

"But be aware that if you lose, you will share the same penalty as the accused."

"The same-." Flash's eyes widened. "That's insane?!"

"No, that's how we solved our Lawyer Problem." The Left Judge told him. "What is your answer?"

"Don't do it." John said not wanting him to be involved.

Flash gave him a look. "You honestly think I'm going to stand by and let you get yourself killed?" He asked before looking at the Judges. "I'll defend him."

"Very well, proceed."

Flash coughed. "Right very well." He said stepping onto the podium. 'Damn it Dan, why did you make this look easy? … I'll just confuse the hell out of them and hope the others find something'

As he spoke, succeeding in confusing everyone, Hawkgirl noticed an empty row and frowned.

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Dan came out of the Ghost Portal in an alley near the Courtroom and was about to head back when he saw an Alien in a familiar Lantern Uniform entering a bar. 'What's this?' He thought flying to the bar, meeting up with Hawkgirl.

"Where were you?" Hawkgirl demanded seeing him. "We could've used some help."

"Looking for answers, just got more questions." Dan said ignoring the sight of Danny blasting Vlad in the groin with ecto energy. 'I swear I might attempt murder on those two if I could.'

"Waiter another round." A short Lantern ordered as he drank something.

"Why aren't you at the trial?" Hawkgirl spoke up walking up to them as the Lanterns gave them a look.

The Round one snorted. "We couldn't stand that idiotic trial anymore."

"John Stuart has made us look bad." A humanoid alien muttered.

"So much for the vaulted loyalty in the Lantern Corps." Hawkgirl snarked at them as Dan watched silently.

The Round one rolled his eyes. "Don't act so high and mighty, if you two were smart you would stay away from him." He said pointing a finger.

"They seem to have more brains than you." A new voice spoke up as a Caucasian Human Lantern walked in with brown hair and a black mask on his eyes.

"What was that Jordan?" A bird looking alien asked with a look.

"You heard me." Hal Jordan said crossing his arms. "I just got here to help defend Stuart and I find you guys drinking your troubles away?"

"Tch, of course the only other human Lantern speaks up for him."

The Big Lantern who hasn't said anything was just watching the whole exchange.

"Nothing about it being Human." Dan spoke up glaring at all of them. "It's about not being a coward."

"Took the words right out of my mouth." Hawkgirl agreed causing all of the Lanterns except for the big one to stand up, their rings glowing.

Hal powered his ring up as Hawkgirl readied her Mace.

Dan smirked at the prospect of a fight and filled his hands with ecto energy.

The bartender saw what was happening and panicked. "My friends, please no weapons." He said trying to defuse the tension.

"You think I need this Mace to take them down?" Hawkgirl asked tossing it as it embedded into the wall.

The Lanterns took their rings off as Dan got rid of the ecto energy and put his fists up.

'Oh this will be fun.' Dan thought with a smirk as the humanoid alien went to punch Hawkgirl only for her to do an uppercut before following up with a blow to the gut.

The Beach Ball one went to help his friend out only for Hal to grab him and spun him around.

"Sorry, but your fight is with me." Hal joked as he threw the guy right into the table as he bounced over the big Lantern who just ducked and calmly ate not paying attention to his fellow Lantern landing in the trash can with his stubby legs kicking in the air. "He shoots, he scores."

Dan shook his head as he easily dodged the blows coming from the bird-like being before grabbing his wrist. "Pathetic." He sneered twisting it as pain shot up in the alien's body. "A little more and it'll break."

A fourth Lantern that was like some sort of jellyfish came to help his friends by grabbing Dan's arm with its tentacles.

Dan obliged and spun it around, sending it crashing right into the bird one.

The round one got itself out of the trash can and tried attacking Hal again only for the human Lantern to kick him up as he was sent flying towards the window where the big Lantern calmly caught him to prevent the window from breaking.

Putting the round Lantern down, the big guy got up as Dan smirked hoping for a bigger fight only to be disappointed when he spoke. "Enough, they're right."

"But Kilowog-." The bird alien tried only for the big guy to cut him off.

"John Stuart is one of us and I'm going to help him." Kilowog said brushing past all of them as he went flying.

"Good ol' Kilowog." Hal said with a chuckle before turning to Hawkgirl and Dan. "Nice moves back there."

"I was unaware Earth had another Green Lantern." Hawkgirl said as they flew after Kilowog.

"Another? I was the first one." Hal said surprising her as Dan stopped seeing something. "Well… Second after Alan Scott. John came a bit after me."

Dan frowned when he saw Ken'ja Ro in the alley speaking with one of the Manhunters, not hearing anything else that was said. 'Would you look at that?'

Deciding to find out what was going on, Dan turned invisible and separated from Hal and Hawkgirl, making it down there.

"No it's not alright, I just saw the Kryptonian and Martian heading for Ajuris 4." Ken'ja said to the Manhunter. "This was supposed to be an easy job, set that Lantern to take the fall."

"Do not worry yourself over this trial." The Manhunter told him. "Everything is going according to plan."

"According to plan?!" Ken'ja snapped at him. "That blue skinned guy tore the entire testimony apart and that scarlet wearing fool is making a mockery of the whole entire court. If this keeps going south, people will find out-uck."

Ken'ja was choking as the Manhunter had him by the throat. "They are irrelevant." He said as the alien was trying to breathe before tossing Ken'ja to the side as he gasped for air. "Just do what you were paid to do."

Ken'ja glared before he stood up and walked back to the Courtroom, Dan having to turn intangible while remaining invisible to allow the alien to pass him.

'Too bad I didn't record it.' Dan thought knowing that would've been a good piece of evidence right there.

"We need to tell the others." Danny said as Dan gave a nod.

"Or you can get more evidence by following the Manhunter." Plasmius voiced causing Dan to pause and consider that.

"What? But the others need to know-." Danny tried to say only for Dan to shake his head as the Manhunter was on the move.

"No, we need more evidence." Dan whispered as he began to follow the Manhunter.

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Nightwing came to a stop at the bank as Starfire and Raven landed near him before Beast Boy landed as he went back for Cyborg as a Pterodactyl.

"Something isn't right." Raven said as she saw how quiet it was.

"Yeah where are the Police?" Beast Boy asked curiously changing back as he looked around.

"Not to mention how nothing is happening." Cyborg said as he hacked the bank's cameras to see no robbery going on.

"I do not understand." Starfire said with a frown. "You were told that there was a robbery in progress were you not?"

"Yeah I was-." Nightwing's eyes widened as a shadow overcame them and was getting bigger. "Move."

All of them barely got out of the way as a huge form slammed right where they were, the shockwave knocking them all back before they got a good look at the being while the people around them began to panic and run.

It was a giant stone behemoth that had red eyes as it glared at them.

Nightwing frowned as he recognized the figure from one of Interpol's Wanted List. "Cinderblock."

Cinderblock was a being of pure muscle that could go toe-to-toe with the strongest of heroes.

But since when does he rob banks?

Starfire gave a battle cry as she shot forward. "Wait." Nightwing tried to say before Cinderblock roared and grabbed her by the fist and threw her, using the momentum of her flight to slam her into a building.

She was stunned as Cinderblock went to finish her before Cyborg shot his Sonic Cannon causing Cinderblock to stumble as Beast Boy turned into a T-Rex to overpower him, accidently hitting Raven with his tail as she barely put up a shield to protect herself.

Beast Boy was overpowered quickly as Cinderblock punched him causing him to fly at Cyborg as he changed back to avoid crushing the mechanical teen.

Nightwing cursed at how everyone was just rushing in and tripping over each other.

They didn't have any teamwork to work with and none of them were used to a team with the exception of Beast Boy and he still messed up.

Despite knowing it would be futile, Nightwing tossed a Birdarang as it was lodged into Cinderblock's shoulder causing him to look at it like it was just a small tickle before it beeped and exploded, covering him in smoke.

Cinderblock charged out of the smoke towards Nightwing seeing him as the weak link as he dove out of the way while the fists of the behemoth slammed where he was creating another shockwave, knocking Nightwing off his feet.

Raven flew up as her hands were covered in energy and a street light was tied around Cinderblock before the guy destroyed it with no trouble.

"You will stay down!" Starfire said her eyes glowing in anger as she shot starbolts at the stone villain.

Having enough, Cinderblock picked up an empty car and slammed it against Starfire, causing her to hit the wall.

'This isn't good.' Nightwing thought looking around as he pushed himself up feeling sore.

Unknown to them a camera was watching their every move.

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A man in the shadows with only one eye visible was disappointed by what he was seeing.

He had paid Cinderblock to attack Amity Park in order to draw the Phantom out to see what he was capable of and instead he got five teenage heroes who clearly had no idea on what they were doing.

'Phantom should've came out by now.' The man thought with a frown as he saw Beast Boy tackle Cinderblock as a Triceratops only to have Cinderblock grab him by the horns and chuck him at a recovering Starfire who barely caught him. 'Sloppy.'

The only one who interested him in this fight was Nightwing who was doing the best out of all of them as he was landing some strategic hits, despite the fact that they weren't doing much at all.

"But when you're trained by the Batman you are a strong fighter." The man mused as he remembered how whenever he fought Batman the fight was never finished as something always interrupted it.

Having enough, he pressed a button.

"That's enough Cinderblock, retreat for now."

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Cinderblock paused as he was holding Cyborg by the waist before dropping him as he turned to walk away.

"Hey where do you think you're going?" Cyborg shouted as he fired a Sonic Cannon causing Cinderblock to stumble. "Get back here."

Cinderblock just gave him a look of boredom as he grabbed a car and tossed it causing Cyborg to jump out of the way as it exploded knocking the teens back.

By the time they got back up, Cinderblock was gone.

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Superman and J'onn were both on the moon of Ajuris 4 wearing some space suits to breathe. "See anything wrong with this picture?" Superman asked seeing the problem immediately as they were standing in front of a crater next to the Javelin.

"Where do I start?" J'onn asked looking up. "The loss of life, the echoes of our past-."

"No, not up there." Superman told him wanting to get on track. "Down here."

J'onn paused and contemplated a bit before his eyes widened. "It can't be."

"But it is." Superman said as J'onn looked shocked. "This moon is still orbiting a planet that doesn't exist, the blast should've either destroyed it or knocked it out of orbit."

"And this Ken'Ja Ro wouldn't be alive due to the backlash." J'onn voiced causing Superman to nod.

"Yeah because his shields failed when he crashed on this moon." Superman realized before he frowned. "Come on, we need to look into this more."

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Hawkgirl was in a bad mood on seeing that Dan disappeared again instead of coming to help John with the trial.

"So this guy does that a lot?" Hal asked as Kilowog spoke for John answering Flash's questions.

"From what I know, yes." Hawkgirl answered.

"No more questions." Flash said as he placed a hand on Kilowog's shoulder. "Thank you, John couldn't ask for a better character witness."

As that was said, Hawkgirl noticed that Ken'ja Ro was frowning before he slipped away.

Seeing how that was suspicious, she made to follow him.

With that done, the Prosecutor floated up. "Kilowog, can you tell me exactly what a Green Lantern does?"

"Why that's easy." Kilowog said with pride in his tone. "We catch bad guys."

"Commendable." The Prosecutor said with a smirk. "But how do you know who the bad guys are?"

"H-How?" Kilowog asked surprised by the sudden question as he shrugged. "I just know."

"So you're saying that you use your obviously superior intellect to sort out matters of life and death?" The Prosecutor asked as Kilowog now looked uncomfortable.

"Well I didn't say-uh-I-... Kind of?"

Hal groaned. "Damn it Kilowog, you really stepped into it this time." He muttered before flying up. "Mind if I answer that?"

"Jordan?!" John asked in surprise.

"Hey John, miss me?" Hal asked as the Judges were clearly getting annoyed by the constant interruptions, asked for him to be escorted out as he flew out of their reach. "I'm the second surprise witness."

"See? Witnesses are popping up." Flash said with a smug smile as the Judges looked annoyed beyond belief, but they allowed it. "Hey Hal, how's it going?"

"Flash, my man." Hal said despite knowing this wasn't Barry. "Tough time?"

"Like you wouldn't believe." Flash said before getting down to business. "Now care to answer the question of how you know who the bad guy is?"

"Our rings have a built in Most Wanted List." Hal answered having it brought up. "We use this to find the criminals and bring them in."

"Seems pretty nifty." Flash said turning to the Prosecutor, challenging him to beat that.

"Yes how convenient that you use rings that are more destructive than any other galactic weapon to solve problems." The Prosecutor said, sarcasm dripping out of him. "Now who gave you the right to butt into these affairs-?"

"We did."

Everyone turned to see some blue skinned aliens wearing red robes that were black around the neck as they had the lantern emblem on their chests, floating towards them surrounded by green energy.

"Any chance Dan is related to them?" Flash whispered to Hal.

"Actually I don't know." Hal commented thinking of the similarities with the blue skin, white hair and green energy.

John however looked down at seeing them.

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Superman frowned as he was flying through the moon of Ajuris-4. "J'onn, I hope you're having better luck than I am." He said through the com. link. "I see nothing but craters here."

"Well I have found something." J'onn answered as he was looking at a giant machine. "But I am not sure what."

It took only a few seconds for Superman to fly down there as he met with J'onn, looking at the machine.

"Any idea on what this thing does?" Superman asked cautiously.

"When I was a small child on Mars we had small toys called Hallucingeons." J'onn began gaining Superman's attention. "They could project crude images over objects and even empty space."

"And you think this is a larger version." Superman said as the pieces were falling together.

"The engineering principles appear to be the same."

"So it's an illusion." Superman had a look of anger at how Lantern was tricked.

"It would explain why the Moon is still in orbit-." J'onn was cut off by a blast as he was knocked back before Superman turned to receive the same fate.

The shooter was none other than Ken'ja Ro who was firing from his ship, deeply intent on killing those two.

He thought he did so as he fired on the rocks above them burying them and was about to leave before another ship fired at him.

This ship was piloted by Hawkgirl who followed him.

As the aerial fight was going on, Superman broke out of the rocks that were on him while J'onn simply phased through them.

"It would seem this moon is full of surprises." J'onn stated as Superman gave a slight smile before they looked up as Hawkgirl managed to cripple Ken'ja Ro's ship causing it to fly out of control.

Seeing that, Superman simply flew through the ship, grabbing Ken'ja as he did so before landing near the machine next to J'onn as Hawkgirl piloted the ship next to them.

"I followed him here from Ajuris 5." Hawkgirl explained her presence to them. "I had to uh… Borrow, one of the defense fighters."

"So he's the one behind this?" Superman asked trying not to think of how Hawkgirl borrowed the ship.

"Not exactly." Hawkgirl said.

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Dan frowned as he was invisible in a room full of Manhunters as one spoke to them. "It is time brothers, time to avenge a thousand years of grievances, time to regain our dignity and power."

"YEAH!"

Unknown to them, Dan had a Tape Recorder that he managed to find on Ajuris 5 and was taping the whole conversation.

"Our plan has worked flawlessly so far." The Lead Manhunter said to the others. "We have crushed the trust between the Lanterns and stained their reputation, but more than that we have succeeded in luring their leaders, our most hated enemies away from their homeworld of Oa."

"Destroy! Destroy!" The Manhunters cheered as their staffs powered up.

"No my brothers, not here. Not now." The Leader said to them. "Our destinies are elsewhere, but rest assured the Guardians of Oa will pay. For we are the Manhunters!"

"NO ONE ESCAPES THE MANHUNTERS!"

Feeling that was enough, Dan smirked and drew back a breath.

The Manhunters were caught off-guard by the Ghostly Wail as it tore through them, destroying the whole army before they could counter it while the Leader looked on in shock.

"How?" The Lead Manhunter asked before Dan showed himself.

"I could've done that at anytime." Dan said with a sadistic grin. "But the others don't really share how I deal with enemies like you."

The Lead Manhunter fired a beam as Dan saw it coming and blocked it with an ecto shield.

"And I needed the evidence to help Stewart." Dan said as he turned invisible.

The Manhunter looked around before feeling pressure in his chest and he looked down to see a fist through it.

"Pathetic, I actually expected more out of you." Dan said in a bored tone as he caused the Manhunter to explode.

"That's more like it." Vlad was clapping at how Dan did that. "No holding back like you did last time, show how strong you are compared to them."

Dan was quiet as he looked down at the remaining head of the manhunter. "I wasn't the only one to hold back." Dan muttered remembering how he was the only one who was injured badly in the first fight against the Manhunters by being impaled in the shoulder. "I'm out of shape."

Danny however gave Dan a worried look. "Come on, don't listen to the fruitloop, remember why we're here? You have the evidence and just stopped the bad guy in this situation, we should go."

Dan gave a nod, being sure to grab the head as he did so.

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Dan made it back invisibly as he saw Superman coming out of some orb that had smoke in it with Flash and Lantern. "How dare you!" One of the Judges said in rage.

"John is innocent." Superman stated and Dan heard him whisper. "That's your cue Hawkgirl, hope you can hear me."

A few seconds later, the sky where Ajuris 4 shifted showing a planet that was said to be destroyed and Dan smirked seeing as even though there was no teamwork in this League so far, they each came back with stuff proving Lantern's innocence.

"Ajuris 4 was never destroyed, it was covered up in an illusion." Superman said as mumbling broke out in the crowd. "It was a cover up, a frame up as they say on my planet."

John Stuart looked shocked as relief flooded him before seeing J'onn holding Ken'ja Ro. "You!" He shouted tackling the pirate. "You did this to me, why?!"

"F-For money." Ken'ja said in fear.

"Whose money?!"

That was when Dan made himself visible. "The money from the over rated toasters." He said throwing the Manhunter head down causing some cries of shock as the other heroes looked at him in shock. "They were planning on heading to someplace called Oa to get back at some Guardians. I saw Ken'ja there speaking with one of the Manhunters and followed them."

"Why didn't you call for backup?" Superman asked surprised by that development.

"Please, a couple of robots are nothing." Dan said with a huff.

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"You guys are great fighters." The round Lantern said as they were waiting for the Javelin to prep up.

"But we knew that already." The fanged Lantern continued with a chuckle.

Hal just rolled his eyes, not believing these guys. "Wow so you act all buddy, buddy when John was proven innocent?" Dan couldn't help but ask, a little disgusted by this.

"Exactly what I was thinking, at least Kilowog actually spoke for John." Hal said before flashing Dan a grin. "By the way you're alright, Phantom right?"

Dan gave a nod.

"I usually live in Coast City whenever I'm on Earth, I'll be sure to look you up the next time I'm there." Hal said with a laugh. "You think you'll be able to keep up."

Dan was vaguely reminded of Tucker from how Hal was acting. "I should be saying that to you." He said with a smirk as Hal returned it.

Looking over, he saw the other Lanterns speaking with John. "So what are you going to do now?" Dan asked the other Human Lantern.

"Meh just keep the peace in the Galaxy, shouldn't be too exciting." Hal joked as he gave a fingered salute. "He mind doing me a solid?"

Dan quirked an eyebrow in reply.

"Look after Flash and John for me will ya?"

"I think they can look after themselves." Dan responded to that as Hal gave a nod of agreement before he took off, in time for John to walk over to the other members of the League.

"Are you alright, John?" J'onn asked Lantern as he was silent.

"You believed in me, even when I didn't believe in myself." Lantern said looking at them only for Flash to casually throw an arm around his shoulder.

"Hey what are friends for?"

Lantern gave a slight smile at that. "Let's go home." He said looking at all of them.

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"Phantom, a word." Lantern stopped Dan as they were all on the Watchtower, most of the other Leaguers getting ready to get back to Planetside.

"What?"

"I… Thank you." Lantern said looking like he was struggling to get those words out. "We never got along and yet you never believed for one second that I was guilty-."

"That doesn't make us friends Lantern." Dan said a little coldly, catching Lantern off guard. "We're only in the same line of work and I knew you were innocent."

"But how?" Lantern asked annoyed by how Dan was speaking, any gratitude gone now.

"Because I know what a killer is like and you're not one." Dan said referring to how John believed that he accidently committed genocide. "It's actually obvious if you think about it, now is that all or can I go?"

John didn't even answer as he turned away causing Dan to smirk.

"Do you have to annoy your allies?" Danny asked as Dan phased through the floor to fly back to Earth.

"Nothing wrong with asserting yourself in the pecking order." Vlad said in a mocking tone.

"Both of you shut the fuck up." Dan snarled, annoyed at them as he wanted to go home and sleep.

To Be Continued…

The next chapter will be an aftermath showing how the Titans handle their buttkicking at the hands of Cinderblock as well as the League resting after the Blackest Night Arc, sorry if it got a little rushed at the ending, I was stuck at a certain spot for quite awhile before saying screw it.

Now as for the scene in the Ghost Zone, those of you that read Renegades and Amity's Dark Phantom will recognize the references it showed on the screens as well as Dan calling Clockwork out which was shown in Amity's Dark Phantom.

I'm slowly tying the different fics together, but the main crossover is far from being written at the moment.

Now it's Review Time!

Guest5: Thank you and sorry for the wait between chapters, yes the flashbacks show the true story of why Dan went crazy like his ghost half dealing with rejection but when he still tried to be a hero, it was all he knew how to do at the time so I think it was believable for the moment.

NoSignalBlueScreen: Thank you and I hope you like this chapter.

Coldblue: Well no flashback for this chapter because I wanted to hold some of them off to add some tension to the story if you will. And the reason he was injured in the first place was because he was 'trying' to hold back as to avoid problems with his current 'allies' but when he didn't he completely destroyed them as well as acknowledging that the League was holding back as well and seeing that he was way out of shape compared to them. I think the Titans not being a solid team showed a lot in this chapter with how they kept tripping over each other to deal with a single enemy. Yeah it is pretty used up with the newest member defending John like that but with Vlad's business smarts, he would be a good lawyer for John. Yeah, I didn't expect for this story to get so popular compared to the other ones.

Now for your Questions. 1) Yes I do. 2) Most likely the teleportation because that would be an extremely useful ability for Dan to learn. 3) Eventually yes. 4) I believe this chapter answered that question. 5) That will be revealed later on. 6) Both his and the Titan's enemy. 7) Possibly. 8) Pretty easily when he doesn't hold back and has the element of surprise if you think about it. 9) That may be shown later in the story. 10) Possibly. 11) Honestly I don't know if I'm going to have Starfire be a main pairing along with Zatanna, I'll leave it up to how the reviewers want it. 12) Possibly. 13) Maybe. 14) After some teamwork training. 15) Maybe.

Marco2o: Thank you and sorry for the wait.

JP-Rider: Yeah Dan going Phoenix Wright was the best part in the last chapter in my opinion. Slade 'may' learn who Dan is in the future. I hope you like their attempted patrol as well as their first attempt at fighting a single enemy with each other. Dan being the third thing scaring the Joker? Now that's awesome. A reformed Galatea? Possibly and she could join the Titans while Supergirl joins the League. The other magic users confronting Dan? Most definitely.

PrincessBinas: Discord? I don't really watch MLP sorry, but the chaotic side sounds pretty funny and considering how Dan has practice keeping his identity a secret as well as having both act like completely different people makes it believable, especially considering how Danny is a common name.

Nightmaster000: Thanks and I hope you liked this chapter.

Mugiwara Otome: I'll most likely be doing all the episodes and yes Vlad will be the devil to Danny's angel-... Okay that just sounds wrong but you get what I mean.

Duskrider: It was pretty obvious if you think about it all as well so I had fun doing that.

Mystic Myra 8: Thank you and sorry for the wait, I hope you liked this chapter as much as the other ones even if it wasn't the best one so far.

KuriMaster13: Thank you and more of him being a mixture of Danny and Vlad will show later on.

PredatorPuck: I was unaware I left… Sorry about that and sorry I took so long with this story again.

Thelastsoul232: Possibly.

RandomCitizen: I know I cringed myself when I typed the pipe through the shoulder part. I may have Dan pull some psychological games in the future like how Jazz tried to help people using that.

Antex-The Legendary Zoroark: Thank you.

Phantom Fan: Haha yeah Dan will be annoyed by Vlad's persona in him but he will listen if it makes sense to him and the pairing is still up in the air for this story.

The Keeper of Worlds: Thanks, I was actually worried about that certain part.

Matt: Yes, this story is actually the center of the planned crossover between them. The Persona4 and Yu-Gi-Oh GX crossover sounds interesting but I'm not so sure I could write it effectively considering how I still need to get back to my CP/YGX story.

CyberActors15: I'll try to work some more interaction between Sam and Tucker in the future.

Danny Fowl the Ranger: Haha thank you, I'm happy you liked this story, honestly I didn't think a story about Dan being redeemed would be liked considering his Canon self.

DannyPhantom619: That's exactly the reason he will hear them because both personalities will help him in the future, or help him help himself in Vlad's case.

Cf96: Thank you.

Guest6: 1) Yeah I figured with Dan's ghost half being ripped out of Danny that would cause betrayal and remorse as well as Vlad's corrupting influence would make more sense rather than him just turning evil. 2) I figured with his human side back and him confronting what he's done he would feel regret.

CBB: … So no pressure? I'll try not to but I wouldn't go as far as to say it's the best JL/DP Xover.

Atom King: Possibly.

Anon007: Thank you and while there will be a pairing it won't be for awhile in this story so don't worry about it yet.

Luna-tic4590: Thank you.

TerrorKing10: Sorry for the wait.

Inviso-Al: All those questions and more will be answered in time.

Devilboy101: Thank you.

Fruity Warlord 01: Thank you, I'm happy you like it.

Shadowdragondanny: Thank you and sorry for the wait.

Kaydiane: Thanks, I'm happy you like the story.

Fseguratwo: Sorry for the wait, I hope you liked this chapter.

Laxard: I'll have to fix that soon, thank you for bringing it to my attention.

Okay it's midnight and I'm tired with having to work for most of today, but I kept my promise about updating this story today (I said I would in the last story I updated before this one).

So I hope you enjoyed this one and I am extremely sorry for how long it took.

This is Spidey Signing Out!