A Phantom's Way

Chapter Twelve: Savage Time Pt.2

The League couldn't help but gawk at the battle before them, most of them remember the movies, videos, and pictures they've all seen while growing up.

Danny's eyes trailed over the battle, feeling a little more out of his depth compared to those other time-traveling adventures Clockwork had sent him out before in the past. This is bigger, much bigger.

Really, Danny is pretty dang grateful that he isn't going on this time-traveling mission by himself. Even if the League didn't get here the Danny's usually means.

Although, Danny is curious to how they got here. But he knows that's a story for another time, maybe the others will tell him when they finished fixing things. And when Danny finishes his homework when they get back.

"It's just like those old documentaries.", Flash comments breathlessly.

"Not quite.", Hawkgirl chimes in ominously, looking out behind the Allies pointedly.

Danny reached out with his enhanced hearing, and could hear a low rumble from the distance. The Allies ceased their fire and scatted just as a large red spiked wheel, armed with two behemoths of a cannon on both of its sides. Despite its design, this thing can somehow be nothing else but a tank, smashed right though the decimated buildings.

He didn't care how ridiculous he looked, Danny could only gap at the vehicle, the weapon, that has no place in 1944. Ancients, it has no place in the 21st century either. Even by the League's own standards of their time's technology, this thing is futuristic!

The Allies started firing their weapons once more, only this time, their targets changed to the giant spiked wheel instead of the usual tanks and soldiers on the other side of the battlefield. The barrage was led by the Allies' own tanks and machine guns, but their weapons had no effect. There wasn't even a scratch.

As he watched, Danny almost felt like he was going to be sick, this is something much bigger than just a ghost trying to crash a human sized paper plane.

The Wheel returned fire. With just one blast from one of its cannons, a tank exploded and many men in, at least, a twenty feet radius were sent flying with screams and shouts of both pain and surprise.

They tried to return fire, but the Allies were quickly trying to retreat, with the wheel speedily following after them, the tanks rolling backwards as they tried to provide the running soldiers cover fire as the Allies retreat in the face of the obvious superior technology and weaponry.

Danny's core buzzed at him to go down and protect those men. His body practically vibrating with need from his Obsession.

The rest of the League were all on the same boat, all of them jumping, racing down, or taking off in tandem, no words needed. Green Lantern came just in time to shield the tank that was providing cover fire from another blast of that spiked wheel.

Danny flew up and behind the Wheel, right towards the two domes that served as protection for the enemy soldiers inside. With a smirk, toxic green eyes glowing brightly with his adrenaline and emotions on high, Danny knocked on the dome. The bewildered soldier turned, eyes widening at the sight of Danny, who just gave the guy a wave as his smirk stretched wider. The halfa then turned intangible, grabbing the now panicking soldier before pulling him out of his dome of safety.

He almost snickered at that one.

The soldier started screaming while Danny tossed him aside. Oh, don't worry, the guy is fine. Although Danny can't say the same for his friends, who had cushioned the guy's landing.

...Okay, the guy may not be that fine since Danny grabbed the other two soldiers on the wheel's entire right side and throwing them shortly on top of the first guy.