When school was finally over he headed back to the foster home with Isabella and Lucas, he just wanted this day to end. He went to his room and just cursed everything for a few minutes before Toxin spoke, 'Are you done?'

"I could go on, not only do I have to deal with a bunch of heroes but now I also have to deal with people talking about my love life when I didn't even tell them nor do I want to."

Toxin was clearly a bit annoyed, 'It is annoying, the heroes are bad enough but now there's this, humans are annoying.'

"Most of them yes, at least some of them are decent, not many though."

'At least Robin is not that bad, now I am hungry.'

Danny laughed a little and got up before going downstairs and grabbing some food, he'd rather not have Toxin be hungry too. After he got some food he went back to his room, he needed to think of a plan for finding this murderer. Of course he would probably have to deal with the heroes too which he was not looking forward too.

Hours passed as he thought and he did his homework just so he wouldn't have to deal with annoying teachers the next day. By then it was time for dinner and he joined the others at the table while not saying a word. The others talked to each other but if Danny didn't have to talk he didn't, he didn't want to talk to anyone at the moment.

Isabella and Lucas knew better then to bother him right now and Mary and John seemed like they didn't know what to say. When Danny was done he started heading to his room when Mary stopped him and pulled him into the living room. Danny glared at her, "Don't touch us."

Mary looked like his words stung her but at this point Danny didn't care, he was sick and tired of people forcing themselves into his business. John walked in and spoke, "We know you're mad, but we just want to talk to you before you take off."

"Then hurry up, I've got enough shit to deal with tonight as it is."

Mary sighed, "I'm sorry that all of this is happening, and we aren't helping. This is all new, and we've never had anything like this happen, and you've been hurt so much already that we're worried about making it worse."

John spoke, "We've talked about what to do over and over, we tried to give you space, we tried to be involved, we tried acting like this was normal. But it's not, you're not, and you have a right to be angry after what you went through, but we don't want to you go out and possibly get hurt while still hating us."

Now that pissed Danny off more, "See that, right there, people assume shit about me all the time. I don't hate you, I am pissed, and I don't trust people, because the people that were supposed to protect me were the first people that hurt me. But I do not hate you, what pisses me off is that you try to act like parents, I don't want or need parents."

"What I need is people I trust, and I can't trust you when you're trying to be something I don't even want you to be."

John and Mary were silent, they hadn't expected him to be that honest and direct, though he's always been upfront and said what he meant they thought he'd just leave this time. Then Mary smiled, "You're a good kid, then if you don't want us as parents how about friends?"

Danny wasn't impressed, "You'd have to earn that, you can start by telling me what you really think about the situation with Toxin and I."

John spoke immediately, "It is absolutely terrifying, you fight criminals with an alien that lives in your body. You're only half human, you've been running off at night probably since you got here risking your life. You save people and we watched you get shot several times just for Toxin to heal you and for you to fight the people that shot you."

Mary spoke, "It really is terrifying, how do you not get scared?"

"You assume I don't, I think it's scary too, I just do it anyway." They stared at him, Danny sighed, "Look I have to go, so see you later."

With that Danny just climbed out of the window and left, part of him didn't want to go out tonight but he knew he had to. He didn't want to deal with the heroes but he needed to find the murderer, which meant dealing with them. Danny transformed and Toxin spoke, 'I don't want to deal with them.'

"I know buddy, but the sooner we find this guy the sooner we won't have to deal with them anymore."

'The only reason you're doing this is because you get to see Richard.'

"Shut it."

Then they heard a voice, "We didn't say anything."

Phantom turned around and the team of heroes was behind him the one that talked was Superboy and he looked annoyed. "I wasn't talking to you."

Robin smiled a little, "Toxin?"

"No shit."

Aqualad spoke, "Do you have a plan for finding this murderer?"

"Yeah, look for him, because he moves around so we have to find him."

Kid Flash didn't look impressed, "Not much of a plan."

"You don't have room to talk, you were going after the wrong guy until recently but we've actually found and almost caught the guy several times and would have got him by now if it weren't for you."

Artemis shrugged, "Well he is right."

Toxin growled, 'I hate this.'

"Trust me so do I." Phantom sighed, "There are certain areas around the city he attacks in more then others so we're checking those spots first. Now either keep up or go home we're not going to waste more time because of you."

Toxin took over and jumped to the next rooftop, the heroes followed and Robin was a little worried. He knew Phantom and Toxin didn't like this and he didn't want either of them to get pissed off more then they already were. The team followed Toxin as they checked all of the areas they usually found dead bodies in.

Over an hour had passed and they didn't find anything, by then the team had started to get tired after running around without stopping. Then Kid Flash spoke, "Maybe the guy took the night off, or, you know, you were wrong about where he would be."

Toxin completely ignored him as he watched and listened for anything that might be the murderer. Kid Flash looked angry, "Now he's ignoring us, why are we even following this guy?"

Aqualad spoke, "Because Batman told us to."

"Yeah well Batman isn't the leader, you are, you could have had us split up and we would have had a better chance at finding this guy, instead we had to follow the creepy guy with a parasite."

Toxin growled a little, "I am not a parasite."

"Well you need that Phantom guy to live, sounds like a parasite to me."

Artemis glared at the speedster, "Leave them alone."

"Why should I? I'm right."

Toxin growled and grabbed the speedster, "You don't know me or what I am, you know nothing about me aside from my name and the fact that I need a host. But you don't know why, you don't know what I am or where I'm from, you don't know anything, and none of this would be happening is you had looked into this properly or just listened to your fucking teammate!"

Everyone froze, Toxin was absolutely pissed and they didn't want to say anything in case it just pissed his off more. Then Toxin heard something, he dropped Kid Flash and jumped to the next rooftop, the heroes stood there in shock for a second before going after him. Toxin ran as fast as he could, he could see that familiar black figure, he could smell blood on him.

He suddenly stopped when Superboy jumped in front of him and he growled and quickly got around him, he could still see him, they had a chance. Then they felt something grab them and it was water Aqualad had grabbed them, Toxin didn't take his eyes off the figure, Batgirl looked at where he was looking and her eyes widened before she grabbed Aqualad.

"Let them go!"

Robin helped her and the water fell away, Toxin ran after the shadow, when he got to the last rooftop they'd seen it on it was gone. They listened and tried to find him but he was gone, there was no sign of him and Toxin was pissed. The heroes stopped behind him and glared at them, "What the fuck is wrong with you?"

Aqualad answered, "You suddenly ran away you're not supposed to do that."

"We saw the murderer and you want to tell us you stopped us because we didn't talk to you first? He got away, again, because of you, because you didn't stop to think for a minute that maybe we were chasing someone and didn't want to waste time telling you when he could get away."

Miss Martian spoke, "We didn't know."

"You haven't known a lot of things lately, because you haven't taken a second to fucking think."

Robin got between them and the others, "Toxin they didn't see him, we'll find him again."

Toxin was about to answer when he heard a scream, he turned and ran, the source of the scream was less then a block away. They didn't see the figure but they did see something on the street, a child, Phantom took over and jumped down to him, the child was missing his right leg. He screamed when he saw him and Phantom put his hands up, "I'm not here to hurt you I want to help, I heard you scream."

The boy was crying and Phantom got closer while making sure the boy didn't freak out again. Phantom looked at the wound quickly and it was bad, he tore the sleeve off his jacket and wrapped it around the boy's leg to help stop the bleeding and picked him up. He didn't have time time to run him to the hospital, so he held him close and flew out of the alley.

He heroes stared as he flew away before following him, Phantom held the boy close and he was still crying, he couldn't blame him. He flew to the hospital as fast as he could and burst through the doors of the ER, the lady behind the desk looked up with a bored look on her face before she screamed.

She yelled for help and some nurses took the boy away, before anyone could turn their attention back to him Phantom left. He already had the boy's blood on him and even Toxin felt sick, nothing had ever made him feel sick before in his time with Phantom. Phantom saw the heroes on a rooftop and flew up to them, Batgirl looked worried, "Is the kid okay?"

"I don't know, it looked like his leg was torn off, and I'll give you one guess who I've seen cause similar injuries." The heroes were silent, that boy had probably been hurt because of them and if they had let Toxin go he may have been okay. Then they looked at Phantom's arm, with his sleeve gone they could see scars all over his arm and they had no idea where they came from.

Robin, Artemis, and Batgirl knew where they were from, or at least some of them, but they still weren't used to seeing his scars. Aqualad eventually broke the silence, "We are sorry-."

Phantom cut him off, "I don't give a fuck, sorry doesn't give that kid his leg back, sorry doesn't catch the murderer, and sorry doesn't make up for the fact that you got in our way, again. That kid could have died, I don't give a fuck what you think about us, I don't even care if you trust us. But we were here, we tried to stop this, even with all of the people coming after us we were here."

"But your fucking pride and ego stopped you from thinking that maybe someone else was trying to help, maybe someone else gives a shit. Maybe not everyone outside of your little fucking club is a villain when they're out on the streets using their powers."

Robin got between him and the team and held his hand, "They get it, I know you're mad but they get it."

Phantom was silent for a second, "I told you from the beginning, I don't like heroes, everyone always asks me why, I think this whole situation answers that pretty well." Robin gave him a sad look and Phantom slowly let his hand go, "Go home, all of you, you've done enough."

Toxin took over and jumped top the next rooftop, the heroes didn't go after him and soon he was gone.