Dead on mayn 2025 prompt: Word - Bones, Situation - Jason meets Danny as a ghost, Dialogue - "Wait you can see me?"
Danny sighed in relief as he walked into the graveyard. His parents dragged him to Gotham to join a Ghost Hunting symposium. Good thing they let him explore so he wouldn't have to listen to all that.
The graveyard was a peaceful quiet… or it should have been. He could see a young ghost being crowded by a bunch of angry shades.
That was strange, usually ghosts and shades hung around graveyards to rest or relax. Not cause any trouble.
Danny looked around, the graveyard was empty. The ghost was looking overwhelmed by the shade, he should help out.
As he got closer the ghost looked more and more familiar… Holy smokes, Batman! Was that Robin?! Robin died?! When did that happen? He didn't hear anything about that.
Danny walked faster to the group. They were in front of a fancy gravestone. …Jason Peter Todd, was that Robin? He forced himself to look away, even if Robin was a ghost now Danny knew how important it was to keep your secret identity safe.
He coughed to get their attention, "uh… need some help?"
Robin blinked owlishly at Danny, then suddenly pointed at him, "Wait, you can see me?!"
"Y-yeah. What's got them all upset?" Danny gestured to the crowd of shades.
Robin huffed, clearly upset on their behalf as well, "someone's been digging in old graves, stealing their bones to sell. Fucking horrible."
It really was, Danny agreed. Messing with graves was a fast way to make an enemy of a ghost. Even shades that were losing their sense of self could feel if their graves were tampered with.
Robin continued, "I've seen him but he covers himself up really well so I can't tell you who he is. I tried tackling him but I just go through him. I know I'm…d— a ghost but he doesn't even flinch or shiver, which rude.
You could… hmm." Robin stopped his train of thought, muttering about a civilian and too dangerous or something.
Robin must think that it'll dangerous for Danny. Well jokes on him he's already dead or more like half-dead.
"I can catch him for you." He's fought and caught ghosts, he could catch a human.
"A twig like you?" Even with the mask Danny could feel his doubtful stare.
"Hey!" Danny felt like the twig of a ghost Robin didn't have room to talk either.
They were interrupted when a small shade came bounding up to them making little urgent-sounding whispers.
Danny could feel warning and anger from the shade.
"The perp's coming back for another dig. Let's hide, I know a place with a good view that's out of the way."
Danny followed Robin, meanwhile the shades somewhat dispersed but they all still glared at the person as he set up his tools near a very old grave in a remote part of the graveyard.
The anger was palpable in the air nearly blanketing Danny's core. He barely registered getting up and quietly walking to the guy in his blind spot. He barely heard Robins hiss for him to come back.
Danny realized he was at the back of the guy but he was too busy digging to notice. Welp he was right here so he might as well…
Danny reared his arm back and swung his fist, trying not to punch as hard as he would for a ghost. The guy fell over like a bag of rocks. Thankfully still alive.
"Wha— who— How?" Robin stuttered as he flew up to Danny.
"There, I helped now who's this Gordon guy I need to tell?"
Robin puffed up, like a bird Danny thought amusedly, and huffily instructed Danny to alert the Gotham P.D.
They went back to Jason's grave after tipping the Gotham P.D. with Robin eyeing him critically all the while.
Danny rubbed the back of his neck bashfully. "I'm uh, stronger than I look?"
"That a question?"
"Maybe an explanation?"
Robin sighed. "Fine keep you're secrets, I get it. Still, thanks for helping catch the guy."
"No prob, happy to help."
"Hmm, you have experience working with ghosts? You didn't seem afraid of me or the shades."
"Uh, you could say that."
Robin's core radiated curiosity. There was also a mix of want, hesitant, threat? He seemed like he wanted to ask something but was afraid to?
Danny hummed. "I didn't help to, err, help you pass on or anything like that. I know ghosts that just want to exist, fulfilling their obsessions or checking out the living realm. So again if you want something I'll be happy to lend a hand."
Robin blinked at him, stunned. "R—really? Hmm… can you give me time to think about it?"
Danny nodded. "I'm visiting Gotham with my parents for the week so I got some time. I can come visit tomorrow if you want? No rush, we can just hang out." It'll be infinitely more interesting than listening to parents talk about new ways to hunt ghosts.
He smiled as he saw Robin relax with a small grin, "I'd like that."
They really are good detectives, Danny thought as he was running away rooftop to rooftop from Red Robin and Nightwing.
Currently he was using a new ghost power to shift into Red Hood's likeness.
…Which might look bad but he had a good reason for it!
A ghost led him to an abandoned building where hostages were being kept. They were friends with one of the hostages.
Danny didn't want reveal Phantom in Gotham so what better disguise than one of the Bats. Especially, when this new gang wanted to taunt Hood in particular. They thought they could gain an advantage over him in a gunfight while using the hostages as meat shields.
Danny liked Red Hood, he was his favorite of Gotham's Bats and Birds. The way he looks after his territory felt similar to his own days of protecting Amity Park.
He hid close by to keep an eye on the situation, Hood was certainly taking his time. Danny looked at the hostages, they seemed okay, taking things well with that Gotham grit.
Except one unconscious guy that was beaten up and tied up with extra rope. He was built like a tank and had black hair with a striking white patch in the front. There were some kids that had shuffled behind him. Was he injured trying to protect those kids?
Wait a minute! That was his kind, hot neighbor, Jason! He helped him carry his stuff to his new apartment.
Danny was getting nervous. Hood wasn't appearing and the gang leader was getting impatient, twirling his gun dangerously at the hostages.
So he made a decision. He shifted to look like Red Hood. He used his invisibility to quietly take out some goons.
Then when there was only the main cluster left he flew to a sky window and let his invisibility fall so it'll look like he came in threw the window. He let gravity take hold and stomped on the leader. While the goons were stunned he knocked them out with quick solid punches.
Danny turned to the hostages and oh, Jason was awake. He hurried to free them cause if they start asking he had no idea how Red Hood would answer and Danny "I'm not a ghost!" Fenton was a horrible actor. Better not to push his already terrible Fenton luck.
The ceiling windows shattered and Robin, Red Robin and Nightwing dropped in. It was silent for long tense moment, Danny could feel their intense stares.
"Who are you?" Nightwing growled and yup that was his que to leave.
He booked it. Nightwing and Red Robin gave chase leaving Robin to handle the hostages.
That led to his current situation, Red Robin and Nightwing had caught up to him and the next rooftop was too far for a normal human to realistically jump.
Danny had no choice but to jump and use his powers to escape. He smiled to himself, he couldn't help but tease some of Gotham's best.
He winked at the vigilantes and jumped of the roof instantly going invisible and shifting back to normal and flew away from the rooftop.
Jason sighed as he headed up to his apartment. What a awful day.
While walking to the grocery store saw bold fledgling gang trying to kidnap some alley kids. Woke up to see Red Hood beat up said gang and free the hostages. Nightwing and Red Robin chased him off and lost the copy cat. Dickwing wouldn't shut up about naming the copy cat Hoodwink. Demon brat called him a disappointment for getting ambushed. Got lectured by B.
Bruce tried to make a case to investigate this imitator which he absolutely shot down. He was going to investigate his own imitator fuck you very much. He didn't need other bats or birds stomping all over his turf and scaring off the imitator.
Jason had a gut feeling the copy cat wasn't out to drag his name into the mud.
When he reached his floor he saw his neighbor, Danny, trying to grabbing his keys to enter his apartment with grocery bags hanging off his arms.
Damn it, Jason thought, forgot to get groceries too.
Danny noticed him and waved happily at Jason. He really wasn't a local. But he seemed so earnest, that actually lightened his mood a little.
Danny's eyes widened as Jason got closer, noticing his bruises. "Oh! What happened? Do you need a first aid kit? An ice pack? I bought some frozen veggies like you suggested even though I'm fine with just eating burgers."
"It's called having a balanced diet, Danny."
"Never heard of her."
Concerning.
"…Anyway, thanks but I'm fine."
Danny seemed like he wanted to protest, must be the mid western hospitality but decided not to. He nodded and lifted a grocery bag with a smile. "Ok, but if you need anything I'm here. Even if its ice cream!"
Jason huffed a laugh, "thanks, I appreciate it." He's grateful he backed off, some of his family could learn a thing or two from Danny. He waved as he passed him and entered his own apartment.
The imitator could wait for tomorrow but for now bed sweet bed.
So there are two stories that I’m looking for. I’m not sure exactly where they are but they are either on Ao3 or Tumblr. FF is a very low possibility.
Fic 1; All I remember is that Danny is badly injured and hides on a high ledge in the Batcave. At some point he turns back to human (forgetting his injuries though I forget why) and passes out, blood seeps down the ledge. When returning from patrol Batman steps in it (not realizing it is blood until examination) then they panic at having to get severely injured Danny down by grapple.
Edit: Found! Baby, I basked in the violence by Garden_Haunter
Fic 2; Danny goes to Titans tower as Phantom with Damian as Robin. At some point he hears harassment about Superboy and goes a bit eldritch, wrapping around Robin to add intimidation. I remember there being art of it which looked really cool.
Edit: Fic 2 is Grave Promises by Blueseabird2. Also I got some to the characters mixed up but whatever.
All I can say, is I was so bored I've been alternating scrolling through Tumblr and Pinterest for the past 4 hours... And suddenly I have an idea.
We get Danny in so many stories. We have Danny I'm many shaped and forms. We have Danny good day and bad day. We have Danny friendly, Danny gremlin, Danny non trusting. Danny 'wtf is happening' and Danny 'what do you mean people can't just make friends whenever they want?'. Danny 'imma just adopt everyone I meet into my fake family'. And so on and so forth.
So hear me out.
Danny, whos friendly with the Gotham villains, because yes they're villains but they're not monsters like the joker bastard. In particular, his bff/fatherly figure is Mr freeze. And 2nd almost bff/almost mother figure poison ivy
Danny on a no good, absolutely horrific day, worst time in his in life fleeing to the west after a horrific unintentional reveal caused the death of his sister and ex parents Maddie and jack Fenton when jazz blew up the portal after freeing him from a direction table.
So now he's in Gotham, surviving in the streets.
But there is one problem. Danny haddnt realized how u normal Amity park actually was.
In Amity it was normal for people to have certain features like freckles, eyes, teeth, birthmarks, hair, ears or even nails to be 'unnatiral' whether that be some sort of glowing, being elongated or sharp, very uniquely snapped etc.
It was also normal for people to have a need to either take a bath in extreme iced or boiling water just to bring their personal body temperature to a level that won't make them on the brink of a fever.
And unfortunately because of Danny being surrounded by the cause of this since he was just an egg and sperm, he has it quite heavy.
Almost a fantastical looking boy he was to others. The pointed ears, glowing freckles, moon shaped birth mark on his neck, emotional glowing eyes, occasional hissing or purring.
But most specifically, the need to be on the brink of freezing otherwise he starts feeling like he'd pass out from a heat stroke.
Now before he coped with this by using his ice powers, cooling patches, wearing summer clothes 24/7-12 month a year. But what was normal in Amity was far from normal in Gotham.
Danny: in Gotham in the middle of April, hiding out in an alley way sweatting proffusely wearing a pair of lose, breathable jeans and a thin and extremely lose NASA t shirt with a pair of converse. Gone through his 7th bottle of water half way through the day, trying to generate some ice but not able to do much as all his energy is focussed on healing the skin that had been sliced open joy even a week before.
By a stroke of luck, he's in the area when Mr freeze attacks. And all Danny can figure out is that just moment ago he was half way to unconsciousness in a back alley hiding from ppl to not bring attention to himself and his freely looks. And next, he's encoumpased by ice his body temperature dropping rapidly and bringing relief to him, allowing his energy to go back to healing him and not also trying to bring down his temp.
He sighs with relief before collapsing from the exhaustion. But the bats don't take him out the ice. Why? Because they didn't know he was there. After all no cameras, hidden in a closed off alleyway, out of sight, no calls for help, no detectable heart beat do to Danny being deathly slow and weak.
Danny wakes up the next day, mostly melted ice with some clumps still clinging to him. Thats when he remembers the villain Mr, freeze.
Danny will be honest he spent the next week trying to find any word of the supposed villain. But he couldn't find much. However after the week his injuries had healed enough he could start generating some ice. So he'd get by daily by freezing his midsection under his shirt.
Days pass and Danny is going by normally. When one day when he's sitting/sleeping in an abandoned garden he encounters poison ivy. At first ivy is angry a ignorant person is polluting her garden and intended to scare him out, but then she gets close to him and wraps vines around the sleeping boy and recoils after the freezing feeling shot through the touch.
When Danny wakes up, he finds the said plant lady start to interrogate her. And Danny? He feels comfortable because she's also not 'normal'. He explains his boddy temperatur needs.
Which in turn gives ivy the idea to introduce him to freeze. So for now she let Danny stay in her green house with her and Harley. It helps that Danny doesn't mind eating meat prominent meals around her, and that he has a love for plants thanks to Sam.
Eventually ivy brings Danny along with her to the villain bi weekly meetings up game/movie night.
She introduced Danny, explaining that he wasn't a normal human and was okay being around ivy and needed to introduce him to Victor (Mr freeze).
To say that Danny hit it off well with everyone there was an understatement.
Waylon (Croc) loved the inhuman looking boy, they liked to play wrestle sometimes, and Danny helped salon protect the street kids around crime alley and old Gotham sometimes.
Ed (riddle) enjoyed giving the kid puzzles, and testing out puzzle games he was creating for kids around the poorer part of Gotham and Danny obliged the clockwork riddle talk helped him alot.
Selina (catwoman) adores the feline little kid especially since he helps her feed the strays and donate some of her 'borrowed' riches to food banks.
And Harvey (teo face) enjoys the kids ability to medley with his mentality and helps him organise the occasional cases he take up for some civilians.
Harley loves the little boy as she's noticed he helps bring out the best in everyone and in general just is a laugh for her to be around him and he helps her girlfriend and best friends with their side works.
But Victor? (Mr freeze) He take the most liking to the kid. His wife loves Danny, and Danny can be around him without having to bundle up like he's headed to the Arctic.
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Danny doesn't have anything bad to say about any of them. And he spends more and more time around Victor, enjoying the fact he can save energy and won't overheat.
Victor and Pamela are his favourites. And both of them love him equally. He helps with Ivy's plants, and rounds together street kids to help her so that she could make vines for the kids to play with occasionally like on climbing frames.
And Victor doesn't need to accommodate Danny when he starts at his place which he had modified to be able to go to sub zero temperatures when he's there, and just in general he starts feeling familial love towards Danny. Subconsciously he starts referring to Danny as his son without even realizing.
It has been months Danny had essentially become family to these rouges. The only exception is joker, not even the rouges like joker. They hated to be put in the same category as that monster.
Danny is hanging out with the group when he gets an idea during one of their tea times.
Danny: what if, just hear me out. What if we create a day or days in Gotham where it was just like you guys using your powers to like make a fun day for gothamites?
Ivy: what do you mean?
Danny: like. Okay, so it's approaching summer time, and Gotham will be horribly hummid, so what if Vic does like a ice skating thing for everyone to enjoy? Or ivy you could do some plant art in pride month? You see what I mean?
Riddle: That thought is true, we could see it through quite well, your ideas ring so much like a bell on wedding days.
Harley: oooo, that sounds like an amazing idea. Then Ed could do something like a puzzle room night? Oh, oh and Waylon could do building work and all tha' oh, oh and-and-
Ivy: harls, dear take a breath.
Victor: I like that idea. But how would we know if the citizens would take it well?
Waylon: how we know, that they won't be scared?
Riddle: we start with one, and ends in fun. If it flops we drop the thought.
Danny: exactly. Lets do the ice idea first?
Ivy: ... You just want a day you don't need to be wrapped in ice.
Danny: okay yea, but! I thought of the people for this idea too. Waddya say?
Everyone: okay/yeah/lets do it/yes.
Over the next week they planned their summer ice skating session. Danny visited the library to create some posters and printed them off. Decided on the place and handed them out all over the place.
When the day arrived Victor arrived to the large grazz park ivy grew for him to freeze over to see a crowd big enough to fill half the Gotham museum. Most of them holding the flyers, some holding some warm clothes and everyone holding a pair of skates.
Victor smiled. Truly smiled. He greeted everyone, and warned them to step off the field for now to let him freeze it over, and explained that he would go around every 20-30 minutes refreezing more melted parts, then finished by wishing them fun.
The next few hours were spend with kids, adults and families having fun skating around, throwing some snowballs around after Danny also got the idea to create some snow. More people started arriving throughout the session. And even the Wayne family and friends came to skate, apparently some businesses closed for the day or closed earlier because even the managers wanted to cool down on the hottest day of the year so far.
It was safe to say that bey the time it was turning night and everyone left Victor had felt the most happiest since before his condition affected him.
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Side idea to this---
Danny at least once a week asks Victor to just freeze him with his gun so that he could sleep in peace especially since it was approaching summer and heat waves were be coming frequent. Danny would stay over at victors place more often than not as it was the only place he felt the most at ease in this horrendous e heat.
So when the batfamilly crashed victors house and kidnapped Danny thinking he was an endangered civillian that Mr freeze took hostage, they done and fucked up.
It was bang in the middle of summer, and he was being held hostage in a cave/cell because the bats thought Danny had been mind controlled and deemed him a danger to himself especially as his core temp had been so low and wasn't reacting.
So when Mr freeze had come home from a discreete shopping for some food to find Danny missing his stomach dropped. He called, Pamela after Harley didn't pick up, then Ed, then Waylon. Non of them had seen him. And hour passed, then two. Then Victor gave in.
He didn't trust the gang he employed to find Danny, every one of his friends were already looking. The only ones left were the bats.
So there he was, on a roof in shooting his gun up in the air, occasional freezing a lamp post trying to catch the attention of the bats, or at least the one day bat he knew patrolled during the day.
And eventually he came, signal snuck up behind him making a snide remark not attacking ad there hadn't been ant actual casualties and people were actually great full for the ice, before stopping after seeing Victor look panicked.
He spoke through incoherent sentences talking about how someone named Danny had been taken, and he needed to find him before it's too late etc, etc. When Mr freeze said a certain sentence it clicked for signal who he was on about and instantly switched to a passive aggressive tone telling him how they took away the civilian he had been hurting for his own safety.
At first freeze blue screened, before trying to throw a punch which caught the bat by surprise. Then without realizing Victor was yelling at the day bat to 'return his son before they killed him'.
It took some time before signal realized what was happening and panickly contacted the bats. He quickly calmed down freeze so that he could explain more clearly. And once he did, the batfamilly that had been originally trying to find a way on how to un do the 'mindcontrol' while making sure the cell Danny was kept in stayed at a warm temperature, ran to the said cell to find one Danny passed out on the floor unconscious, temperature at what would be classes as normal but looking like he was at the peak fever of a cold.
They went into work mode to try and cool the boy down instantly, while freeze was led to the cave by signal blindfolded.
Safe to say as soon as freeze saw Danny he was on the brink of a panic attack, he shot his cryo gun at the ice tub Danny was now in, essentially eveloping him in ice, while the bats fought the urge to run to 'help' Danny.
It wasn't long before Danny woke up. After things were sorted out the situation was explained to the bats. There were missunderstandings about the 'son's situation but no one was brave enough to ask. Danny and freeze left later after the bats had uploaded a file on Danny so that they know how to actually help him in the future instead of the fucked up help they did this time.
Later in the week the batfamilly had sent some apology and thank ypu gifts to Danny, to both apologize for the incident, and thank Danny after they found out it was Danny's idea to do the weekly ice skating that freeze was running this year, and all the help and community activities the other rogues were doing all of a sudden after summer started.
Danny had to escape his home dimension due to the GIW hurting him too badly during one of their little hunts, causing the ancients to deem Danny’s dimension too dangerous for him. Clockwork gave him a hand making up an identity in another dimension (DC), but he failed to tell Danny that this dimension was nothing like his, and Danny, so focused on getting himself back to his feet and going unnoticed, doesn’t notice that’s the case on his own.
He’s overwhelmed by how much more advanced technology is in this dimension, and with much reason, they’re like XX years over his dimension, but at least he doesn't have to worry about sustainance, since Clockwork placed him on Gotham's academy Scholarship list, and the school is providing for all the basics. He would cry if he had to figure out a job in a place so much more advanced than his own dimension.
Now, Danny knows better than to just repress his powers, he doesn't want a repeat of the freezing incident. Less now that he's alone. Solution: casual use of his powers within his house. But maybe he got a little too used to that, because he kept slipping when having people over. But that's okay, he'll just play dumb and gaslight everyone into believing it didn't happen or Danny has nothing to do with it. After all, powers are not normal, and Danny is a completely normal human boy.
Or at least Danny thought he was playing normal pretty well until his friend from school just created a shadow sphere out of nowhere and started talking about metas and Danny doesn't really hear what else, because his blood is rising in his ear. Is this normal to humans here? Has he been playing human wrong? Shit, how does he ask about what his friend clearly sees to be normal information without giving out he’s from another dimension?
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Duke knows his friend from school is a meta, he’s seen Danny slip with his powers multiple times, and honestly the excuses Danny gives him are getting a little ridiculous at this point. He wants to be able to bond with his friend over the meta experience. So after much thought, he decides to reveal his meta status without revealing the whole extent of his powers. Just to give Bruce some peace about his decision.
But instead of the opening up he had been hoping for, Danny looks completely lost. Did he come on too strong?
"Um, Duke, can everyone just… do that?" Danny asks confused.
"What?"
"I mean, I know growing up in a cult kinda cuts you off from some basic information, but I would have thought we would have at least been told if humans develop the ability to do… that."
"You what?"
Now, learning that Danny grew up in a cult was not how he envisioned this going, but what worries Duke more is that after explaining what meta were, Danny didn’t immediately jump to identify himself as one. So now Duke is worried. Does Danny not know he has powers? Does he actually believe all those excuses he had been giving Duke in the past when he slipped up.
You know what would be really awkward in a bodyswap soulmate AU with Danny?
A bodyswap soulmate AU with corpse AU.
Just imagine Danny trying to bury his own body, the shovel is his hands throwing mud and dirt over the hole with a clear view of his corpse; when suddenly he gets bodyswap with his soulmate.
That would be pretty hard to explain, especially to a vigilante who now is probably in panic that their soulmate just murdered a teenager. Should they help hide the body? That is their soulmate so it should be for a good reason their soulmate just killed someone, right? RIGHT?
Even more awkward if Danny swaps when the vigilante is in costume and now he is freaking out about the misunderstanding that is about to happen.
Danny: *jumps on the back of Red Hood's motorcycle* Drive! Drive! Drive!
Red Hood: *starts speeding* What are you running from?!
Danny: I was hired to attend a wedding and yell "I object on account the Groom cheated on the Bride with his sister!" I thought the Bride was the one that hired me! I was actually hired by the Groom's Ex-girlfriend! She just wanted to ruin his wedding!
Red Hood: *cackles* Did you at least get paid?
Danny: Yeah but this money has bad karma! I need to donate it to charity to cleanse it. You know any good women's shelters?
Red Hood: I'll hook you up with a guy, he knows all the best shelters in the city!
Danny: Thanks man! You know, for a Crime Lord you're a solid dude.
Most people in Amity know Danny is Phantom, especially the teenagers. More importantly, they've realized that everyone in Amity is liminal enough to be summoned with the correct runes. And so a system has been devised so when they want to hang out somewhere, one person goes in, draws a big summoning circle, and just summons everyone else. It saves a lot on transportation and it's just practical.
Now that they're all old enough to go to college, most have spread all around the country. Staying in contact is not a problem, however, they can just summon each other, get together for a while, then break the circle and send them back to wherever they were before. Perfect solution. It doesn't even register as weird, they've been doing it for years and no one even bats an eye anymore. No one in Amity that is.
It'd be fine except they've caught the attention of the Justice League. On the heroes perspective, they have just discovered a cult that formed seemingly out of nowhere and keeps leaving neon green summoning circles with ominous runes traced along the edges in random places all over the country. They have not found any sign that people are getting hurt but that only means the cult is thorough at covering their tracks. Where did so many well-organized, clearly trained people come from? What are their bigger plans? Who are they targeting? They're clearly a big threat and they need to be a priority in investigating.
The Batfamily has that weird bird whistles and chirping when their comms are off for some reason and as a form of coded language so enemies don't understand what they're saying.
But do you know who, or rather what, use chirping and whistles as a form of language? Ghosts.
Now imagine Danny, who is in Gotham for a field trip with his family (who has been learning Ghost Language after they found out their Danny-O is part spook), make some chirping sound in public, not paying attention, and everyone freeze.
And start looking around, waiting for the batfam jump out of the shadows out of nowhere.
Clones, friends, Siblings, twins? (does it really matter?)
Okay so I was writing a dpxdc prompt (?), but I have noticed that is getting a bit too long so I want to left some sort of evidence of me starting it, sooo here you have a General framework of my idea (it is still way too long):
Danny was running away from the GIW and his parents after a bad reveal (or something like that, I don't know if the reveal occurred before or after he was caught).
He has been on the run for so long that he doesn't eve now were he is now but he hasn't seen any of them in a little while until earlier that night and now they are hot on his heels, no matter were he ran or how many corners he turned they just keep appearing.
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After a while of that going on Danny finally managed to create some distance between them, but he needed to leave (temporarily) the back alleys and go trough the main street to a difference area of the city (and maybe leave the city itself) if he wants to lose them for real, even if just for the moment. But when he was just about to leave the back alley he was in, a figure appear right in front of him, blocking his path, Danny have turned invisible to avoid being seen so the figure didn't notice him but Danny certainly noticed that they were too close for him to avoid colliding with them without turning intangible or slowing down, and that wasn't an option right now, so he squishes a bit more of energy from his already stained core to turn intangible on top of being invisible, anyway it would only be a second so it should be all right... Right?...
(It was in fact not all right.)
Just when he was passing trough the person he feels a tug in his core and everything turns white, next thing he knows, he is stumbling forwards, looking in a completely different direction than before. While trying to regain his balance he looks down only to see his own body just laying there, he stares at it for what feels like forever, but couldn't been more than an instant when he hears the GIW and his parents the Fentons come in his direction and he starts running again, the more he ran the more he felt his core settling down in this body.
This didn't felt like overshadowing someone at all, it feels more a kind to possessing an object but not quite... Which didn't make any sense! This was clearly a person, not an object! And what else could this be if not an overshadowing or possession!? (A transmigration or transference.)
His original body was damaged beyond what his healing factor could hope to repair, and the stress of keeping it in working conditions on top of everything else was starting to damage his core, if he continued overstraining it like that his core would break, making him reach his true death...
So when he passed trough a body that met all the requirements for a transference: a living soulless body without any trace of it ever having one to begin with and a constitution sufficiently similar to the original to fit his own soul within it? His core instinctively latched on to the body like a starving man to a piece of bread, bring the rest of his being with it.
A true halfa needs a living half to survive it doesn't matter if it's the original one or not... Yes, both parts can (technically) exist without the other but a ghost half without the living one is just waiting for it's time to run out, and a living half without the ghost one is only a soulless shellf.
Not that Danny knew any of that...
Anyway! He does not have time to think about it right now, he needs to run, he needs to hide, he needs a secure place to lie down and figure out what to do now!
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Somewhere else, a little bit earlier that same night...
Damian was running after the last one remaining clone of the latest batch send after him by his mother.
He has been running after it for the past 2 hours, (admittedly he lost sight of it at least twice in that time) not that it matters, he was about to catch the clone anyway.
'Was' being the key word. Because just when he was going to strike his shot, Birdarang in hand, a body- a corpse (it couldn't be anything but a corpse with the state it was in) appear out of thin air and fall through- Through the clone, making it stumble forward... What exactly was going on here?...
He views what must be own his confusion reflect on the clone's, and that confused expression didn't fit its face at all, neither did the one full of terror that followed soon after, and the way that it moves...Yes, it did show signs of combat experience and some sort of training but it was nothing like the league, so unlike any of his other clones...
It didn't seem a farce either. He wasn't sure as to why, but Damian could just feel that it wasn't an act...
Though if the group of oddly dressed people (possibly a new gang) that appear almost simultaneously with the clone's scape yelling about ghost running away, ecto-scum(?), putting someone to rest in peace, lost ecto-signatures and possessed bodies being left behind, give him any clue...
He was going to have to let the clone go for now and stay to investigate this at least until Oracle send someone else to take over it so he can go and catch the clone, or to be more precise ghost/meta with ghost like powers that was possesing his clone now; whoever they were and whateve they are, they seem to be a victim and they need help and it is his duty as a vigilante help, especially with them being inside his clone they are his problem to solve.
It has been alittle over a year since Danny was chased out of Amity after a bad reveal with his parents. They tried to convince everyone that he died but far too many people saw him running away from their shots. They were avoided before but now they were dispised. Tucker moved away not long after that, his parents didn't think the town was safe with the Fentons. Jazz went off to college.
They keep in contact, still trying to look for Danny. Trying to avoid Vlad, the GIW, and the Fentons.
Now Sam is here, at a gala, with her parents trying to introduce her to older, richer families and their children. Like the Wayne's, with their trillions of dollars, and many single kids.
That's when she sees him, with the Wayne's, their newest adoptee Is Danny.
Thinking quick she says something she never thought she'd say. 'Hey mom, I'm gonna go flirt with one of the Wayne's.'
Her mom stared, wide eyed. Then handed her something and said 'The Wayne's are trillionares. Go be a rebellious teenager and have some fun.'
It was a condom. Her mother just handed her a condom. She didn't even ask which Wayne! From the 12 year old Damien to the 29 year old Richard! Just "be rebellious and have fun"!
Ancient of Space!Phantom who can, and does create planets, as well as stars, asteroids, ect. Its part of his job and he remembers every single thing hes ever created. But, he remembers Krypton the most, and with great fondness.
Krypton was the first planet Phantom ever created. He had so much fun, and since it was his first, he put so much care into it. He cried when the first signs of life took form- but after creating the planet, Phantom could no longer directly interfere, he could only watch.
Phantom was so sad when Krypton was destroyed, and he thought all of the inhabitants were dead. He mourned the Planet and the life it held for a long time. When he eventually met the Supers, and smelled Krypton clinging to them, he openly wept. Phantom immediately picked them all up, and cradled them in his arms like they were his babies, chirping happily that some fragments of his beloved First Creation still existed.
Phantom: *floats into the Watchtower with a baby strapped to his chest*
Batman: ...Phantom why do you have a baby?
Phantom: Oh, I was summoned last night and some lady sacrificed her baby to me, so I'm a dad now.
Superman: What?!
Wonder Woman: Oh? Congratulations.
Batman: You can't seriously just...keep them.
Phantom: Sure I can, anything thats sacrificed to me is mine to do with as I please. Got a puppy once, her name's Bugsy.
Superman: Do people often get sacrificed to you?
Phantom: Oh yeah, but most sacrifices are adults, so I just let them go back to their mortal lives. I'm working with Constantine to get the word out that I prefer nonhuman sacrifices, like food, or herbs, but its slow going.
Batman: Phantom we can't let you keep the baby.
Phantom: *tightens his hold on the baby and eyes falling into slits* And why not?
Superman: Well, you're a ghost and they're...living. I don't think you'd ever hurt them on purpose, but accidents happen, especially with babies.
Batman: A ghost is not equipped to raise living children.
Phantom: Oh, is that all you're worried about? Then- *transforms into living form and quickly puts on a mask* There! I'm human, problem solved. *happily walks away*
Superman: Did you know he could do that?
Batman: *shakes his head*
Wonder Woman: *nods her head* Phantom has many talents, tis why Pandora looks down upon him favorably.
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Danny is a Janitor at the Daily Planet, he knows that Clark Kent is Superman, and he knows that Mr. Kent is in a bit of a sticky situation; he can’t go be Superman because he can’t be in two places at once, and the cult that’s holding up the entire Daily Planet with weapons that range from guns to machetes are not inclined to let him have an opportunity to dip.
So Danny takes a deep breath.
Holds it.
Lets it out.
Grabs his mop and goes to cause a distraction.
He can use his ghost powers to survive any bullets or swinging machetes, but he’s going to entirely rely on the training his Mom drilled into his head to take all these clowns out, or to at least cause a big enough distraction that Mr. Kent can go ‘disappear’ and get Superman.
But he’s 100% confident that he can take all these idiots on.
After all, his Mom’s ‘goal’ for him and Jazz was to be able to 1v1 Batman, and when she learned that Danny was Phantom, her training had only gotten more strict on both of them. Their mom’s line of thinking had been that if they were capable of going toe to toe with Batman, then they were capable of going toe to toe with the GIW and walking away.
Jazz specializes in ranged or one on one combat.
But Danny?
Danny specializes in one versus an entire group. He thrives in using his abilities to redirect attacks onto the assailants partners.
This is gonna be easy.
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Clark, preparing to use superspeed but trying to figure out the logistics of doing it in such a way that he won’t clue Perry, who he’s tied to, in on that he did the superspeed, feels his jaw drop a bit when the janitor starts methodically taking out the cult with a precision that makes Clark think this has to be one of Bruce’s kids or trainees.
Danny has a problem. He is a protective spirit. Which means he has to protect people or he will slowly drive himself insane. But he doesn’t want to be used for his strength. The solution? Become a fake oracle for Clockwork.
He can warn people of things that shouldn’t happen therefore saving them. Somehow Clockwork agrees and Danny is sent out.
The Justice league hears about him and his accurate prophecies and goes to investigate. They find out the work is going to end if they don’t convince the Ghost king to help them defeat one of his old enemies. They just have to find him.
Danny knows Clockwork is laughing. Now he has to pretend to be a human while leading them to find his own alter ego.
Danny first learned about the importance of Ghost Cores when he was exploring the Ghost Zone/Infinite Realms before his core type came in. Amd it was Ember to tell him the information. The he was told? He and Ember had been witnesses to a particularly brutal fight between two Ghosts where one of them ended the other.
Another thing Ghost Cores do is release all rhe power the contained in a blast when their hosts core is damaged enough, I.e, ending a Ghost. The strength of the blast depends on how powerful the Ghost was during their afterlife. With the strongest ones being able to destroy a solar system if not ended in the Infinite Realms.
Danny doesn't know that all and thinks that all Ghosts release a normal blast when they end. Which is why he thinks ending Pariah, who was released again or broke out, will just let out a small harmless blast. The moment he crushed the core of the Ghost King, he became the next one, but is still too young, and a massive blast was released, destroying not only his planet, but also his solar system, only he survived, thanks to the Crown of Flames and the Ring of Rage, but he was still severely injured because he is still a baby Ghost.
Clockwork had not anticipated this outcome, as the Ancient of Time thought that the Halfa knew that ending Pariah would ne catastrophic, they should have paid more attention and possibly tested the Halfa about their knowledge of Ghost Cores. The new Ghost Prince is still Halfa, but now reverted to their Ghostly age, that of a 5 year old. The young prince will not remember anything of his previous life, save for his Nickname of Danny being the only thing he will remember, but he will have a new life in a different world.
Danny wakes up in a cave with some slightly overgrown ruins. He has some toys (that are not modern) to play with, so his child brain is happy that he's got toys.
A few days later, Danny has a small ectoplasm pool to keep his Ghost Half full and partially sustain his human half, encountered some Teens. A boy with a cape and a strange mask, a big looking boy who is strong, a fast boy in red and white clothes, a girl with hair that looks like gold, and a girl with a strange wooden thing in her arms and a lot of sticks on her back.
After spending some time with them, Danny has decided he likes these people, they all like hik as well, but the one with the cape seems to be troubled by what the Darkman has said to him about Danny, he can feel the emotions from them all, but Darkman is harder to feel. He likes the boy with a cape because he always brings something to play with or eat, the strong one flies with him as well as the gold hair girl, the fast one plays with him rhe most, while the stick girl plays with her as well, in the form of her shooting things like his Ice targets he makes for her.
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