Hello! So, following the posting of Types of Family, some of you brought up having the Team meet Dani, which is a wonderful idea. Unfortunately, I was a little distracted with other projects, so I wound up not writing it out until now.

Regardless, here you go!

Patrol was proving to be rather interesting today. It wasn't every day that some girl crashed landed in the middle of the park, after all.

Did it say something that Wally considered patrol uninteresting if he was dealing with various thugs and members of the Central City Rogues? He did that every day. It was routine. Girls falling from the sky and leaving craters was not. Even in their strange world of superheroes and villains, people did not often fall from the sky. Maybe in Metropolis, but not in Central.

Either way, there was a crater and a girl, and he and Flash had to go check it out.

At least they were already at the park when it happened, so he didn't need to worry about getting side tracked because Flash had to stop and say hi to someone.

And, yeah, they witnessed the crash, too. It came out of nowhere. Surprised everyone.

And now Wally West, Kid Flash, was standing at the edge of a crater with his mentor and uncle, staring down at a girl with black hair pulled back in a ponytail in a red beanie and a ratty blue sweater with a bag of possessions on her back.

Flash shared a small glance with his nephew and began carefully moving down the wall of the crater. It wasn't as deep as Wally had expected, but it was deep enough to raise questions as to whether or not the girl was still alive. (The lack of blood and mangled limbs pointed to a probable yes.)

A small rock was dislodged and bounced down. The movement and the mutters of the growing crowd caught the girl's attention, and she stirred.

(Alive, definitely alive, thank God.)

She blinked and looked around blearily, eyes unfocused as she tried to make sense of her surroundings.

"Hey, kid," Flash said quietly in the most soothing voice he could manage while Wally forced himself to split his attention and start corralling the crowd back and on their way, "what's your name?"

Her eyes (blue, why did Wally feel like he should know them?) landed on the Flash, but she still seemed a little out of it, and a moment later she spoke. "Dani," she said.

Flash grinned. "Dani, can you tell me if you're alright? Does anything hurt?"

She blinked at him slowly, then shook her head. Her limbs twitched once, violently, and she winced, but quickly turned her attention back to the Flash.

He frowned at her. "What happened?" he asked. "Are you sure you're alright?"

"Fell," she slurred. "'M fine."

"If you say so," Flash allowed. They both knew if she didn't want to say anything, she wasn't going to. "How about we get you to a hospital, just in case. Head injuries can be tricky."

The girl stared at him for a moment as Flash began crossing the last of the distance between them, and then, just before he could reach her, her eyes widened, and she leaned back, scrambling away and shaking her head violently. "N-no," she said. "No 'ospitals."

Flash stopped and crouched down in front of her. Wally shot a brief glance over his shoulder (like he had been doing every few seconds because why did he feel like he knew her?) instead of focusing on clearing the civilians to give her some privacy and prevent this from turning into a spectacle. "Alright then, no hospitals," he conceded. They had to keep her calm. They had to have her cooperation, or they could make things worse when they tried to move her. "Is there someone we could call? Someone that you trust to come help you? A parent or a sibling?"

Dani nodded slowly. "Danny," she said. He body twitched again, and a slight whine escaped her throat as her face contorted in annoyance and pain in the aftermath.

"I thought you were Dani," Flash joked, a grin crossing his face.

"No, I'm Dani-with-an-I. He's Danny-with-a-Y," she answered, sounding almost petulant as her face dropped.

Wally froze. He had heard that before. He knew that name. That set of names. He looked at Flash, seeing the tension in his shoulders that said he remembered too. His grin was much more forced now.

"I think I can help you with that," he said. "You're looking for Danny Fenton, right?" He needed to confirm. They might have been almost certain, but almost didn't cut it.

She smiled brightly, too far out of it to realize it didn't make sense for them to know what Danny she was talking about. "He's ma cousin," she said happily.

Flash relaxed, ever so slightly. He had a plan. "Great!" he chirped. "I know a place I can take you where we can meet up with him, and a friend of mine is going to call him to let him know he needs to come get you. I'm going to pick you up now, is that all right?"

Dani nodded. "Tell 'im abou' the 'lectricity," she said as yet another jolt ran through her. "Hurts."

"I'm sure he will," Flash said, his smile unwavering even as he sent a pointed look at Wally. "I'm taking her to the Cave," he clarified. Wally gave him a thumbs up and waited for Danny to pick up.

Wally's foot tapped on the ground, moving so fast it was nothing more than a blur.

It felt like forever for the speedster (but then, everything did, and the stress wasn't helping), but Danny finally answered. Wally didn't wait for him to say anything before talking, forcing himself to speak at normal speeds because he couldn't afford to lose time because Danny didn't understand him. "We found Dani," he said. "She crash-landed in Central. She's in bad shape and Flash is waiting at the Cave with her."

Wally could hear something fall and footsteps when Danny spoke. "How bad?" he asked. "What exactly did you see? What did she say?"

"She was out of it," Wally answered. "Like, really out of it and slurring her speech. Barely coherent. Physically she looked fine except for the muscle spasms. And she said to tell you about the electricity. Said it hurt."

Other voices could be heard in the background. They seemed disgruntled, like they were- oh, Danny was so worried he'd forgotten he could fly and was running through the crowd. Actually, why hadn't he-

"Electricity?" Danny said, sounding… a lot more scared than Wally had expected.

"Yeah-"

"And she crash-landed? How far apart were the muscle spasms?"

"Maybe a minute or two. Danny, what's wrong?"

"Tell Flash to meet me at the Amity Zeta Tube. We don't have any time to spare and, since he's probably already at the Cave, he'll get there faster."

"Danny, he really shouldn't be in-"

"I don't give a fuck, Wally!" Oh shit. "She's dying and the only people that can help her are in the Ghost Zone. So you get off this line, call Flash, and tell him to get his ass to Amity, now!"

Wally hung up, but not before hearing Danny's terrified whisper of "Why electricity?" Wally called Flash. Wally glanced around and forced the thoughts of the apparently dying ghost girl that was cloned from his best friend's brother out of his head and went back to patrol. It was halfhearted, but it was something to do. He was a hero and a speedster at that. He needed to be doing something, and if he couldn't help Dani, he would be helping Central.

Danny was, of course, terrified. Dani's core was developing and overloading. He knew that it was going to happen, but every time she'd been around, there'd been a more immediate and pressing problem of making sure she survived to tomorrow and now she was being shocked to death as surely as he had once almost frozen to death.

He sent a text to Team Phantom to prep the Specter Speeder. In the Zone, it was actually a bit faster than him, if only because ghosts were less likely to attack it due to its stronger defenses and weaponry.

Moments after the call had ended with Wally, he'd realized he was going too slow and ducked into an alley way. Out of sight, he turned into Phantom and faded from the visible spectrum and the physical world. Intangible, he moved as fast as he could taking the straightest path to the Zeta tube. He couldn't be slow. He couldn't be late. He didn't bother gaining any altitude to go over the buildings, that would only slow him down when he needed to come back down to pick up Dani.

Sure enough, Flash was already there, and Danny screeched to a halt in front of the Scarlet Speedster. He slid back into visibility and tangibility long enough to pull Dani into his arms, a sudden twitch a groan making him almost drop her, and let Flash know he was the one taking her before fading again, taking her with him.

In the back of his mind, he noted just how much he had startled the older hero, so he could savor it later. Right now, he had more important things to worry about.

Once again, he went straight through all the buildings, not bothering to think about it or anything other than his little cousin dying in his arms.

He dove through the floor of FentonWorks and into the Speeder, only barely processing the way it had been moved to the center of the lab in front of the swirling green of the now open ghost portal. He had asked for them to prepare for departure and they had. He set Dani on a bench in the back and kneeled on the floor next to her, holding one hand.

"Go," he said, not even visible yet. Not even looking to see who was driving. (Tucker. He had the most experience piloting.)

The Speeder lurched forwards, bolting through the Zone.

"Where to, little brother?" Jazz asked, glancing over her shoulder to see another jolt pass through Dani and her brother tighten his grip on her hand and cup his free hand on her cheek.

"The FarFrozen," Danny answered. His voice dropped low, whispering to his sister, cousin, clone, daughter. He didn't know what their relationship was, but he was responsible for her and she was in pain. "It's alright," he whispered. "I'm here. You're going to be alright. I'll make sure of it."

The Speeder banked. Danny kept talking. A string of nonsense intended to comfort him just as much as her as they moved faster and closer. It swerved, and explosions rang through the Zone's think green atmosphere.

They kept going.

Danny kept talking.

Jazz glanced back every once in a while to check on her brother and the little girl he cared so much for. Dani was a part of the family. Dani was her family even if she'd never had the luxury of meeting her before. The same as Dick was until they'd finally managed to track him down and reunite the brothers.

More evasive maneuvers.

More whispered words.

More spasms and jerks.

More concerned glances.

"We're almost there, Danny," Tucker announced. "It should be safe enough for you to go ahead."

"Thanks, Tuck," Danny said, his voice horse and strained.

Tucker nodded and kept up the breakneck pace, even as Danny picked up Dani and left the Speeder, flying even faster towards the FarFrozen and its doctors.

Next (and final) chapter will be posted in two weeks, 9/19. I promise, Dani will meet the Team then.

Hope you've enjoyed so far, and I'll see you then!

NoS