Inspired by this post. What if Danny completely derails Injustice.
âThis is sooo not fair!â Danny huffed while dramatically falling in his bed âitâs like no one around here ever watched a heroâs fight on TV. Every time I show up itâs either an emergency and I have to save Sam the Cat from a tree he climbed before the poor thing falls or the ghost hunters are going to be on scene already and start shooting on sight! I never get to do my evil villain monologue. Lord of the Flies, I only managed TWO evil laughs EVER! And one of those times my voice cracked in the middle, which sooo embarrassing! Whatâs the fun of being a supervillain if the heroes wonât even let me give a proper monologueâ Danny pouted while turning to lay face down on his pillow.
âThere, thereâ Tucker patted his friends head in solidarity, âthereâs still a lot of fun to be had anyway. Remember that time we raided the GIWâs HQ and put neon orange paint on their laundry soap? Their looks of despair and cussing for the month it took to replace their clothes was priceless!â
â⊠yeah, that was funnyâ Danny answered muffled by the pillow.
âRight! And besides itâs not your fault no one knows villain x hero etiquette around here.â
âYeah, but itâs like they are singled me out!â Danny said turning his face around âevery other ghost gets to do their monologue. Box Ghost starts to give a monologue and everyone just listens politely before fighting him! It canât even be âcause Iâm a halfa or they wouldnât let Vlad do his evil speech. Moby Dick, even FREAKSHOW gets an uninterrupted evil speech and laugh, the guy isnât even a ghost! Just some random creep with more time than senseâ Danny groans.
âBeing a villain means you donât have to adhere to the conventional rules and can just do whatever thoughâ Sam remarked from where she was laying on a nearby puff âI say let the heroes worry about being âpoliteâ and just do your thingâ she gave her two cents.
âYeeaahâ Danny groaned long suffering âbut what I wanna is to give my monologue. I got it all wrote out and memorized, even got my act down to a T in the mirror. Itâs just⊠I worked so hard on it, I spent more time and effort in this than on all my lit homework from this entire year combinedâ
âThatâs not something you should be proud ofâ Jazz remarked dryly from the open door as she passed the hallway.
âIt just Frankensteins so much I donât ever get the chance show it up!â Danny finished as if he was never interrupted in the first place.
âSounds like itâs the heroes who are the problem-â
âAs alwaysâ Sam interrupted Tuckerâs musing.
âSo⊠what if you tried another hero? One who would follow basic courtesy like letting you talk before the battle?â
At that Danny sat up to look at Tucker in interest âyou mean like make another hero, like me and Cujo got Val to become Red Huntress?â He seemed to give it some thought before shaking his head âno, with Val it was a âright person at the right placeâ kind of thing, I canât just go around trashing peopleâs places and works to hope one of their kids takes up a cape and is more polite than the rest of the town heroes, thatâd be rude.â
âWell yeah, but what if you just went up the territory of another hero? Like, you can swing by Gotham and put a âkick me sticker on one of the Waynes or something, thatâs bound to get Batmanâs attention and everyone says the guy is super polite and a great listener! All the goons and officers-â
âYou just said the same thing twiceâ Danny chimed in and high-fived Sam.
â-who appear on interviews always talk about how the bat does everything in silence and how much attention he pays to details. The guy would be delighted to have a new villain in his city, Iâm sure he is starved for new material as far as villain monologue goes.â
âABSOLUTELY NOT!â Sam immediately shot down âGotham is the most gothic city EVER! I will NOT, have either of you visiting it without me, so not until summer vacation, which will take forever!â
âGOTHAM IS ALSO THE SECOND MOST CRIME-INFESTED CITY ON THE COUNTRY AND I DONâT WANT MY BABY BROTHER WALKING AROUND THERE UNSUPERVISED!â Jazz shouted from her room across the wall.
âOh yeah, that too I guessâ Sam agreed.
âFine, so not Gotham. Central City?â Tucker proposed.
âAre you crazy? The Flash is the fastest hero EVER-â
âThatâs debatable-â
âHe will not even give me time to open my mouth before we start to throw hands! Star city?â
âI mean, Green Arrow seems like a total Moby Dick, not sure he wouldnât immediately start shooting. Cost City?â Sam countered and proposed.
âI mean⊠isnât Green Lantern like a space cop?â Danny scrunched his nose âthatâs like a super GIW, right?â The three thought for a second and shuddered at the image.
âRight⊠so moving on, how about Metropolis?â The three thought for a bit.
âI mean, Superman is an alien, right? Iâd love to meet him!â
âMetropolis is supposed to be the unholy child of a Hallmark movie and a cartoon for little kids where everyone is polite and sweet and stuff, you can keep that to yourself and please do not include me on it.â
âThe main villain there is Luthor, so no worries of stepping on another personâs toes. To heck with that guy, he puts paywalls on EVERYTHING.â Tucker grumbled.
ââŠâ Jazz said nothing, which is close enough to agreement for them.
âSo itâs decided, Iâm going to Metropolis monologue to Superman!â
âYeah, the Boy Scout wonât know what hit him!â
â⊠wait, do you think he was an actual Boy Scout when he was a kid? âCause thatâd be pretty coolâ
âNah, there werenât boy scouts back when the old time heroes like him were kidsâ.
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Danny made good time to Metropolis. As a ghost he could turn intangible to avoid any air resistance or drag while also reducing his mass to zero. And, as he is creating his own propulsion by just thinking it, that means he could travel much faster than sound without worrying about causing problems for anyone. Really, his biggest issue is that if he goes too fast things get kinda blurry and itâs pretty easy to overshoot your target, so he had to stop to get his bearings and backtrack more than once, but he still made it to the city!
Upon arriving Danny took some time to go sightseeing as he likely wouldnât get the chance during his fight. Took a few photos sat upside down upon the globe of the Daily Planet to put on his twitter, ate a hot dog, went intangible to Lex Luthorâs office and pantsied him right in the middle of a meeting, you know, normal tourist stuff. Feeling good about himself he decided to move to the harbor as itâs far away enough that his fight with Superman shouldnât get in anybodyâs way.
He then did some (unneeded) stretches and jumped a bit to loosen up, then did a few quick voice exercises he wrangled from Ember so his monologue would go perfect.
He was just about to kickstart his fight by doing the most heinous villain act of his entire career that would be sure to get Superman down ready to throw hands. He carefully picked the wrapping of his hot dog and was ready to throw it (on the street! Not the sea, heâs a villain, not a monster) when he heard a crash from behind him. He turned curiously to see the reason and- WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK!
If asked later, Danny would freely admit that this was the fastest he ever flew because that was Superman and that was a pregnant woman he was punching in the air, the heck-
He fortunately managed to cross the distance in no time and overshadowed Superman harder than he had ever overshadowed anyone before. Immediately upon entering the body he felt a foreign wave of terror slam into him with such an intensity that it almost made his vision wave before he gritted his teeth and forcibly threw it at his core to convert in more ecto. Now in control he wasted no time in flying up and scooping up pregnant lady gently.
âOh man. Lord of the Flies, what! Who just- dude, yeah, pregnant woman scare me too since that bio class, but- What- Who does that! Thatâs- thatâs messed up Sups. Thatâs a pregnant woman, dude you canât just- the HELL!â Danny panicked while he felt the conscience of Superman in the back of his head gradually get his bearings with growing horror.
âOkay, okay, thatâs- thatâs not fine. She needs a medic and- Frankstein, this looks bad. I never saw someoneâs guts before, but- okay, calm down Fenton, keep it together. A hospital is not fast enough I will just-â now actively throwing his own anxiety and fear at his core on top of Superman to keep from panicking (too much) Danny took a deep breath and laid his hands on the womanâs side over her ribcage.
Being in Supermanâs body is disorienting and frankly an experience Danny could do without. He was already used to holding back his own strength, but his was kinda a âmind over matterâ deal with him being as strong as he could believe himself to be, Superman though⊠it was like there was no resistance whatsoever; air, flesh, bone, it all gave the same minimal resistance and if Danny wasnât used to going intangible he was sure he would have already crushed this womanâs chest by pressing too far. His vision was all wrong going too far and under the skin with the flex of muscles he didnât have and it was too loud and-
Deep breath. Itâs⊠fine. Send the panic attack to core, we have no time for panic now. âNot the first time you had to get used to powers mid-emergency Fenton, keep yourself together!â. With a last deep breath Danny focused back in the pregnant lady on his arms. He never saw anyoneâs inside before, but he could take his cues of what is around the bruised spots and that didnât look right, her heart also seemed to be beating too slow from what he could hear and there was blood and-
âRight!â He took another deep breath âmy vision is changing so much I might as well be blind and she is so close to death that no doctor would be fast enough to save her. Thatâs⊠fine, Iâve beaten worse odds. If Frostbite can be a doctor I can heal her. Letâs just⊠stitch her up⊠from the inside. Thatâs⊠fineâ.
Without knowing well what to do Danny awkwardly sent some ectoplasm on the womanâs body and âfeltâ around organs until he came upon what felt like a misshaped closed fist growing and shrinking in uneven intervals, figuring that might be the heart he used his untrained telekinesis to press and pull it in a somewhat regular interval. Since his sight wouldnât help him anyway with how it couldnât choose what to look at nor how closely he closed his eyes and tried to block all his senses, focusing solely on his ectoplasm.
He felt a second kind of energy running through Supermanâs body besides his own. One that was warm and strengthening for a lack of other words. In impulse he tried to divert some to join the flow of ecto going to the womanâs body, but it resisted being diverted, whatever it is itâs course was too rigid for it, different from his own free-flowing ectoplasm. Not willing to just give up Danny directed some of his own energy to âdipâ on Supermanâs and collect some before re-joining the flow, which⊠worked? Better than expected even as the heart he was forcibly pumping seemed to all but soak on the warmth infused ecto and start mending up.
âRightâ thought Danny âI can do thisâ a determination that seemed to echo his host as he could feel a wave of decisiveness from him and what felt like him deliberately trying to pull himself back to be as unobtrusive as one could be on their own body.
Now with a route in mind Danny got to work, using his ecto âtouchâ to try to feel around the womanâs body from the inside and awkwardly make things work however felt right. When he felt a pool of what he assumed to be blood outside the veins he telekinetically scooped it up and pushed it back where he felt a burst or sliced vein before stitching it up with a thread of ecto he then solidified inside the body. Bone was pulled back in a form that felt right-ish, torn muscle awkwardly pressed back together, still-
âI canât see!â He cried out âI canât see what Iâm doing, where things are how bad it is, how-!â
In the middle of his latest panic he felt a flash of determination from his host and a sudden focus razor-sharp and intense focusing on the eyes. It did nothing against his overshadowing, but the message was clear nonetheless.
âYou want to control the eyes?â Danny asked dubiously âyou are not gonna laser beam her down are you?â The presence recoiled aghast and then turned back to trying to control the eyes âthis is a terrible ideaâ, but despite his best judgment Danny still relented and pulled back his control over the eyes, Superman immediately took over, opened them and did⊠something? Like pulling a muscle and relaxing another while focusing somehow into a certain depth and suddenly Danny could see the bones of the woman and the surrounding bits of muscle and organs consistently. Not looking a gift horse in the mouth he proceeded to direct his ecto to put those back in a somewhat right way, now with a lot more confidence and knowing better what he is doing.
On the on they went, looking for parts that seemed damaged and putting those back together, the ecto keeping things in place and the warmth making the body heal much faster, when they got to fixing the damage to it. The fetus in particular seemed to soak up on the warm ecto like a sponge to the point that Danny had to spend more time ensuring it hadnât eaten up his previous work than actually fixing it. At many times Danny had to redo his earlier work now that he could see where he messed up, but gradually they got the womanâs body back in one piece that looked right-ish. In the end of the impromptu procedure Danny cautiously let go of the hold he had kept on her heart pumping it and it kept beating, albeit on a different rhythm than the one he guessed.
Finally, with a sigh of relief, Danny disentangled from Supermanâs body, figuring the local would have a much better idea of the best hospital to take his former victim(?) than Danny. For a moment the three stood floating there without knowing what to do. At some point what looked like Wonder Woman and Green Lantern had flown to stand near them, but thankfully hadnât interrupted. Now that he wasnât actively blocking out outside stimuli to concentrate anymore he could even spy what looked to be Batman on the ground near what looked like the cross of a sports car and a tank âprobably the Batmobileâ he reasoned.
He could see Superman gearing up to say something, so he spoke first.
âRightâ Danny clapped his hands in front of him âso, I did what I could, but Iâm really not a medic, or a nurse, or - strictly speaking - good at biology, so⊠you should probably get her to a doctor asap. I would recommend mine, but he doesnât really come to this dimension a lot, so-â
âThank youâ Superman cut him off quietly, a deep and sincere look of gratitude on his face âI was under the effect of Scarecrowâs fear gas, it almost made me kill her. I donât know what I would have done if I- just⊠thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Today you were a true heroâ at that Danny groaned.
âNot againâ he whined âI already get that from miss Albrey for that time rescue her cat from a tree and from mister Smith for not letting his son be run through, and- not important. Look dude, Iâm a supervillain, not a heroâ Danny explained.
For some reason all the heroes, even Flash who had just arrived, looked baffled by this.
âBut⊠you saved my wife? And⊠you just said you saved kids and cats, and⊠just⊠how come you think you are a villain?â Superman seemed to be genuinely confused by the concept despite him fighting villains every other day. Also, pregnant lady was Supesâ wife. Huh, good to know, but back to the matter at hand.
âWell, yeah? This was an innocent civilian woman you were beating the daylights out of like me ripping into Skulker, I couldnât just⊠leave you to it? Thatâd be horrible! Iâm a villain, not a monster, no matter what the GIW says and- wait, Iâm getting ahead of myself.â Danny shakes his hands walking on air from one side to the other.
âGIW? Look son, I donât know who that is, but you shouldnât believe everything people say, especially if itâs about you. Nothing you just described sounds like a villain to meâ The Man of Steel said to Dannyâs indignation.
âExcuse me!â He turned pointed a finger at the startled alien âI will have you know that Iâm a villain and a very cool one at that! I regularly raid bases of the government every time I hear about them having captured another person or ghost to experiment on! N-the scientists who opened a rift to the world of the dead in their basement so they can vivisect ghosts minding their own business call me the greatest menace their town has ever known!â Danny crossed his arms and filled his chest in pride.
âAl- right. So you are a⊠villain?â Superman said raising his hands placating.
âAnd a dang good one at that! I mean, a dang terrible one! Terrifying one? Well, Iâm scarier than Box Ghost, so there!â Danny pointed triumphantly, before shaking his head in consternation and pouting âI had this whole monologue ready for months, about my evil plan, why Iâm evil and stuff, but none of the heroes in my town stay still long enough for me to say it! I had come here so we could fight and I could finally get to give it, I had planned to litter in the street so we could fight and all⊠but now the moment is gone. And you should really take her to the hospital I think? I guess I can come back in a few days and we can have our epic showdown. How does Friday sound to you? This way I can stay up late-â
At that Danny seemed to realize something and looked up in alarm.
âLord of the Flies!â All the heroes jumped âitâs almost my bedtime! Moby Dick, Iâm going to be in so much trouble, oh no, oh no. Bye Sups, see you Friday, gotta goâ and then he flew up at top speed back home. The baffled heroes still reeling from the surreal experience and with more questions than answers. Unnoticed by Danny a cameraman and reporter nearby had captured the entire conversation.
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In the aftermath Lois is (finally) taken to a hospital and makes a full recovery. Their baby (Iâm tempted to have Clark and Lois name him Danny instead of Jon as thanks to Danny for saving him once they learn his name) is born healthy if somewhat liminar (your pick to what effect - if any - this has), Danny shows up later for his promised fight, he is received with a delicious homemade pie courtesy of Ma Kent and the heroes sit patiently to hear his entire monologue, which is great! They give him reason for his actions instead of fighting upon hearing his speech of how the anti-ecto acts are terrible and the GIW deserves having their bases messed up, which is less great. They then proceed to publicly claim he is a hero and the GIW are the actual villains, which is terrible! At least the anti-ecto acts were recognized as a blight that should never have been allowed to exist and scrapped, which, silver linings?
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