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Danny is being hunted. Both his parents and the Giw. They all think he is a villain so he might as well be one.
He’d just choose who he’d be a villain for.
By then he had one choice. The flash. That man seems to care about his villain . He doesn’t think the man would let one of his villains be tortured or experimented on.
After his recent escape from the parties hunting him he sets out for central city. He’d just be a villain to an actual decent person instead.
I’m personally imagining him still a teen and doing the most mundane crimes. Just using his powers enough the cops can’t do anything to stop him.
Flash looks at the kid. "Okay," he said slowly, "why?"
Danny just shrugged as the two of them looked over at the police officer with his feet frozen to the ground in oddly warm ice that was in no danger of giving him frostbite. "I didn't think they deserved a ticket, and when I asked him nicely not to give them one, he asked me what I was going to do about it." Danny shrugged.
Flash was mildly impressed. And vaguely alarmed. There was a unknown meta kid walking his city that could freeze people with less effort than it took for Flash to eat. "So, uh, can you melt the ice?" he asked.
Another shrug. "Sure." The ice suddenly vanished and the officer toppled over.
"Thanks, kid." Flash looked over the skinny, raggedly dressed, clearly underweight teen. "How do you feel about getting some food?"
The kid's face lit up. "Really?" he asked, clearly excited.
Oh yeah. Flash was not allowing this kid anywhere near Batman if he could help it.
Barry is certain that there is something going on with Danny. Not only did the kid give his first name, not only was the kid pathetically grateful for food and to be invited to movie nights, but the "acts of villainy" that Danny got up to? Not actually that.
Take the time Danny froze a cash register shut. Sure, the clerk hadn't been able to get it open. But the store had also been actively being robbed at the time, and the criminal hadn't been able to get it open either. And this wasn't some big name store chain; this was a little Mom&Pop place that was always on the edge of making/losing money. He'd saved them from being robbed and just waited. For Barry to get there as Flash before he unfroze the register.
Or the time that Danny froze a bus in place. The bus had been frozen, unable to move. It had also experienced brake failure and was about to hit a cat in the road. And the ice was placed so that the people on board could exit safely, some of the ice even making a handicap ramp.
But Danny himself referred them as "acts of villainy." And once, in a conversation that Barry overheard, mentioned that he'd chosen to go to Central City because Flash was the best hero a rogue could have. He was polite about stopping Danny and hadn't threatened to rip him apart molecule by molecule even once!
Barry was so close to asking Batman how to adopt a kid without putting him through the system. Batman would know, right? After all, he'd gone through all those Robins, and no way were they adopted by his civilian self. (If Bats even had a civilian self.)
Everything changed when the Fire Nation GIW attacked.
Barry was going about his business when his communicator beeped. It had no video call (paranoid Batman), so he answered it. Digger, also known as Captain Boomerang, was on the other end. "Flash, we need help."
Barry dropped what he was doing to change. "What ahppened and where are you?"
"We're in the basement of the Tuesday Trivia night building, and the kid and I are surrounded by--Flash, you're not going to believe this, but we're surrounded by people in white suits who are demanding we die."
The sea of white suited people, all sporting bulky earbuds and wires, appeared in front of Flash. "Got it." He did a couple of laps. They had technology that Barry had never seen before. "You got another way out?"
"I--uh, I don't know. The kid's kind of catatonic."
A chill ran through Barry. "The kid's there?" he asked.
"They were chasing him."
Barry wasn't one to randomly lose his temper, but these--people were getting him there. He found what looked to be the leader and stopped in front of them with a wave. "So, what brings you to Central City?" he asked.
The person's lip curled in a sneer. "Nothing to concern yourself with," they said.
"Yeah, that's not gonna fly," Barry told him firmly. "See, this is my city, and I protect it. You are in my city, so I kinda need to know what you're doing here."
Another white suited person came over. "There's an ectoplasmic entity hiding in that building. We need to retrieve it for study and disposal."
The kid. They were talking about the kid. "No one needs to 'study and dispose' of anyone," he said. He pressed a button on his communicator to connect him to the League. It was time to bring in the big guns.
"We have authorization to remove any obstacles in our path to containing and neutralizing the entity," the first one said.
"Authorization from whom?" demanded Superman, looming behind the two.
"Good question," said Batman, materializing from--somewhere.
Barry had stopped asking questions about Batman a long time ago. He was simply something that could not be quantified. But he was also the biggest gun. "They said they want study and dispose of a kid," he tattled.
Batman's eyes narrowed. "Did they now?" he asked.
Barry grinned. "Oh, you're in for it now," he gloated.
Yes Barry! Weaponize the Bat and while he’s distracted ask how to adopt the child as clearly he came to you for a reason. So you obviously have dibs! Plus Bats can’t complain once Danny mentions he has Billionaire related truama. Tho I would love to have someone write that out. In this one fic where Danny visits the DC universe and follows heroes around as COSPLAY MAN! Barry literally asked Wally to help him plan to murder Danny’s godfather…and Wally was on board
Batman's eyes narrowed at the agents in front of him. Sloppy posture, terrible weapons management--no way were they real government agents. "Care to explain?" he demanded.
The person in white rolled their eyes. "It's not a child," they said. "It's an ectoplasmic entity. Just an imprint of emotions."
"You know," Superman said slowly, "one of my oldest companions is an emotional imprint on a digital database." The agent turned around and Batman was not surprised at the pure look of fury on the hero's face. "And he has full rights under the Meta Protection Act."
"Whoo! You tell 'em, Supes!" cheered Flash. Suddenly an arm was around Batman. "Bye the way, how do you adopt without going through the system?"
"Later," grunted Batman. "Flash."
"Got it!" The man vanished.
Batman and Superman were left with the now nervous agents. "Where were we?" asked Batman. Superman floated just enough to loom over them.
~~~
Barry raced into the building, grabbed Digger and Danny, and zoomed the two of them out of there. As soon as he set them down Digger put a hand on Danny's shoulder. The kid was shaking like a leaf.
"Hey, Danny," said Barry, keeping his voice low and soft. "How you doin', Kiddo?"
"I don't want them to get me," Danny mumbled.
Barry didn't need to look at Digger's face to see the heartbreak in int. "Hey, listen to me," he said. "You're my rogue, all right?" The kid looked up, silent tears streaming down his face. "And I don't share my rogues. You can ask anyone!"
"That's right," Digger said. "Why, Flash here once went toe toe with the Bat for me."
Not quite how that had gone, but Barry wasn't going to do anything to undermine the support he was getting. "See?" he said. "No one's going to take you anywhere. You're my rogue, and I don't share."
Those haunted blue eyes stared into Barry's soul. "Promise?" Danny asked in a whisper.
"I promise," said Flash firmly. Danny threw himself into Flash's arms and began to sob.
Oh, yeah. Flash was going to figure out how to adopt Danny.
Solo villains didn’t last in Central City.
It was just a statement of fact.
The Rogues of Central and Keystone City are just as much of a family as the Flashes. They have each other’s backs, know the rules, and know how to play the game.
Committing solo crime is known to be a great ticket to instantly experiencing an express package delivery to a jail cell in Iron Heights.
But occasionally, things are different.
This, was different.
It wasn’t uncommon, per say, for a flash rogue to do the occasional good deed and help the civilians of Central City. They might be rogues but they still had morals.
But this wasn’t that.
He already has experience in teaching a protégé. Wally West, his nephew. An amazing kid now joined up with the Teen Titans and continuing to make a name for himself as Kid Flash.
The Flashes ran free so he let Wally run on his own as well. Wally ran his own missions, fought his own battles, made his own heroing schedule, made his own boundaries.
Wally foraged his own path to becoming the self sufficient hero Barry knew he could become with his own experience. Laying down a strong foundation of hero work to make his own identity as apart of the Flash Family.
But whenever Wally needed advice, Barry would always be there in a heartbeat.
And now Barry hopes that Danny will let him be there for him just the same.
But first, he has to take down the rest of the government agency targeting the ghost kid.
Luckily, he knows the Big Three--Superman, Batman, and Diana will have his back. And none of them, not one of them are happy with the so-called "government agents." So taking the government agency down was easy. Between the four of them, the agency was disowned by the government, their reputation shredded, and all of their finances were confiscated.
Flash decided it was time for Danny to meet Wally and Bart. He assured a slightly nervous Danny that he was still Flash's rogue, and he wasn't sharing. He just wanted Danny to be able to spend time with people his own age. Maybe team up against the "old guys" on trivia nights.
Bart had been so excited to meet his new cousin-uncle. Apparently he had specifically chosen to “terrorize” Central City in order to become one of Barry’s rogues. The only reason Danny had gone rogue in the first place was because some xenophobic government agency had decided Danny had no rights and needed to be experimented on. He’d fit right in with the rest of Just Us.
….
Bart couldn’t breathe.
Bart couldn’t move.
Every fiber of his being was telling him to run but he was frozen in place.
Bart knew that face.
That face haunted his nightmares.
He never thought he would see that face again.
There was no mistaking it
The man who even the Reach feared.
The man who decimated half the Justice League at once.
Dan Phantom.
Danny West was Dan Phantom.
Inevitably Bart will come to the conclusion that Dan Phantom is the result of Danny ending up (or ending up) under the care of the GIW….
Just for some clues, he believes that Danny managed to be captured by the GIW before Flash adopted him (he would know of some uncle Danny who disappeared) and that due to some butterfly effect on this occasion they did manage to save him…
but now he has the firm idea of protecting his uncle-cousin to prevent her from falling into the hands of some Xenophobic scientist…
He doesn't want to see the world destroyed again!
Meeting Dani and maybe Dan will be wild for the Flash family. Poor Bart is going to retramatize himself
