Home

Chapter Nineteen: Home Sweet Hell Hole

As usual, the portal left a few of them nauseated and woozy. Even Phantom and Siren, and they were the ones it wasn't supposed to happen to.

"Next time I see Clockwork, I'm gonna tell him that his portals need to be better stabilized," Danny groaned.

"I'm no expert on reading people, I leave that to White, Nightwing, and M'gann, but I think White agrees," Jaime says.

The fact that Siren was bent over a bush and losing his lunch into it said all that needed to be said.

"You okay, little brother," Cyborg asked the mystical singer.

"I'll be fine," White managed to get out. "I think I officially prefer Lena's portals. At least they are easier on my stomach."

He followed that statement with another round of emptying his stomach.

"Ghosts portals never did sit well with him," Danny sighed. "He was barely able to handle Wulf's back in the day."

Phantom then finally looked around the new area around them, he tensed as the smell of burnt wood, smoke, and dea...

He quickly shut his eyes and shook his head to get rid of the memories. "That was a long time ago, Phantom. Clear your mind and don't think about what happened then."

He took in a deep breath and slowly let it out. It smelled of old books and clay and the air offered little to no breeze in the old abandoned part of the city. The chilly atmosphere of fall surrounded him as he saw the leaves scattered across the road. From their color, he figured out that it was autumn.

Phantom took another deep breath. "Welcome home, Fenton."

"Woah! It's chilly out here," Impulse exclaimed, shivering.

"Whoah," Gar said in awe. "This is..."

"What is this place," M'gann asked no one in particular.

In front of them stood what could only be described as a devastated city, or at least a part of it. Some buildings and houses were completely down while others had missing pieces of their walls. Windows were shattered or cracked, leaves and garbage littered the roads and sidewalks. Cars were burnt, abandoned, crashed, or turned over. Pipes stuck up and out of the ground and buildings. The road in which they stood on was mostly clear, except for the piles of rubble that lay on the sides of the road from where buildings and houses had fallen.

The brothers let out a long breath before turning around completely, to face everyone.

"This happened a while ago," White says. "About a year and a few months after we got our powers."

"I didn't think it was this bad," Conner said, as he observed their surroundings.

Phantom only stared at him with a passive look as he replied. "I told you that it was pretty bad."

"When the ghosts and mystics got really bad, people started to leave town," White told them. "This neighborhood was always known as the snobs that hated anything that wasn't 'normal'. But the area remained abandoned. It became a sort-of battleground for the worst of our enemies. I think you'll find that most of these walls have holes in them from either of us being thrown through them."

Nightwing nodded his head as if he were taking notes.

"Alright, what next," he asked,

Time to get down to business.

"If my guess is correct, our base shouldn't be too far from here," Danny says. "Probably just a few blocks. Once we're there we can set up camp and can use it as long as we need too. There's guest rooms, food, a lab, and it's all powered by ectoplasmic energy."