A New Beginning

Chapter 18

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Danny had fast reflexes. He always had, even before the accident. They just got enhanced by the portal.

He also knew that this was an impostor. This was a ghost and was not his sister.

When she cupped his face he immediately was alert, and when he felt an abnormal heat radiate from her hands, he made his move.

He wasn't able to move fast enough to avoid burning the left side of his face, but he was quick enough for it to not be serious. (Don't blame the reaction time, it was your miscalculation.) Nonetheless, in under thirty seconds, his attacker was knocked out cold, revealing a thin and spangly ghost with black flaming hair.

The power of the ray he had sent at the ghost had pushed his small frame back a few feet from the recoil. He was holding his burnt face with a blue hand, watching the intruder lay on the ground. He heard the other ghost-Skulker?-yell something to someone in the hall and not a minute later two ghosts were dragging the unconscious shape-shifter out of the room. The robotic ghost kneeled in front of Danny to be closer to his height and placed two gentle, metal hands on his biceps.

"Are you okay? You're hurt, we should get that burn looked at." Danny just stared at the helmeted face.

Now that the impostor was gone, and after his surge of power, he just felt tired and overwhelmed. Tears gathered in his eyes and some of his anger returned. He was not a child. He never cries. So why the hell had he done it so much in the last few months. The hands on his arms calmly start rubbing in a soothing pattern. He finally composed himself and found his voice.

"I want go home." He tried to hide the slight wobble in his tone and looked the ghost in the eyes. "Don't know where. Don't know who you are. Want go home." He knew he couldn't, his home was gone. It has been gone for a long time. Nearly ten years. But as of right now, the closest thing he had was with the Batman and Robin, and he wanted to go back. And it made him angry that no one wanted to give him answers.

The mechanical ghost heaved a sigh, stood up, and gently grabbed his hand. He led the boy down to the medical center where large white yetis were waiting. Danny eyed them suspiciously, scanning them from head to toe. They seemed harmless (despite their bulking forms and sharp claws and teeth), simply there to take care of the patients. Then his eyes were drawn to one yeti who was sitting on a cot, his arm being wrapped with a cloth. He was the most threatening, one arm being encased in ice and an air of power and authority surrounded him. The boy narrowed his eyes.

The robotic ghost continued forward towards the threat and Danny protested. He stopped his feet and tried to tug his hand free without taking his eyes off of the one-armed yeti.

Skulker stopped when he felt the tug and looked at the boy. He was tense and staring at Frostbite. Skulker sighed. He didn't have time for this. He turned and lifted the frighteningly light Halfa and continued walking.

Danny gave a quiet yelp when he was suddenly lifted easily from the ground by his companion. He debated whether or not to attack, but decided against it because the threat in front of him was of greater concern. Before he knew it, he was placed next to the large creature on the cot, both Yetis and the robotic ghost looking down on him. The boy shifted so that his back was pressed against the wall and his legs were pulled up on the cot and close to his chest. He eyed all of them silently.

The (doctor?) yeti smiled softly at the boy, before turning back to the yeti on the cot. She finished up and pinned the cloth quietly muttering some instructions to come back to get it changed to the other before walking away to put the supplies away. Skulker and the one-armed yeti turned to him and then to each other.