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Chapter Twenty-Seven: Danielle Phantom

"I can not be the only one that is still trying to process all of this," Jaime says. "Anyone else?"

Beast Boy, Impulse, Guardian, Bumblebee, Cyborg, Tempest, and Robin all raised their hands. The rest of the team was shocked but knew that an explanation was coming soon.

"You have... a daughter," Mal acted like he needed a reboot.

"Does being a ghost slow down your aging, or did you get a girlfriend really early in life," Impulse asked.

The second part of that question made Superboy stiffen a bit. But it went largely unnoticed by everyone else. Except for Nightwing, but it wasn't like he didn't already know what was going on between him and their ghostly teammate.

"Technically, ghosts don't age slowly," Danny said. "They don't age at all. You know, being dead and all."

"Eventually, the two of us will stop aging from our mystic heritage," White admitted. "Mystics, in general, are eternally young."

"Either way, Dani is not exactly my daughter in the most traditional sense of the word," Danny says.

"So, who is this Dani," Roy asked.

With a nod to Red Huntress, the African-American girl pulled out a circular device. Where she had been keeping it, none of the team knew but they weren't going to ask. Her armor was basically a techno version of Mary Poppin's bag.

But with how the device looked, both Nightwing and Robin assumed it to be some type of holographic device.

They were proven right when Huntress activated it. Two images of similar-looking girls appeared above it. They were large three-dimensional images instead of like the holographic screens back at the Cave and Watchtower.

Phantom, Siren, Jazz, and Huntress were really the only ones aware of the real reason behind why the two looked so alike.

As Danny's clone, Dani is close to being Phantom's identical twin were it not for her age and gender.

In her human form, like Phantom, she bears a strong resemblance to her genetic mother and genetic sister. She has the same skin color, eye color, eye shape, and hair color as Phantom's human form. She also has the same hairstyle as him but with the back longer and in a ponytail.

Dani's main outfit of choice is a red beanie, red shorts, a blue sweater/hoodie, and shoes of the same style as Phantom's civilian ones but blue.

In ghost form, Dani's skin, hair, and costume are of the same color scheme as Phantom's. She has the same D logo as her 'father' on her chest.

However, instead of a one-piece suit, Dani wears a matching shirt-and-pants set that reveals her midriff, with no belt. The right half of her shirt is white and the left half is black, divided diagonally down the middle, and she wears a white left glove and a black right glove. Her pants are baggy and black with streaks of white on the sides that come down to her boots.

Her eyes in her human and ghost forms were also the same as Phantom's. Blue as a human and green as a ghost.

"She's adorable," M'gann cooed.

"She is also likely to punch anyone that calls her that," Valerie stated.

"She isn't mindless and doesn't mind voicing exactly how she feels," Danny says. "She is a very willful and somewhat tomboyish girl."

"I've always like to say how Dani is a lot like Danny, only more cheerful and childish," White said. "Even if the age difference doesn't make her being childish quite obvious. She seems to have no concern with responsibility and can be quite stubborn at times."