TW itās all a grand metaphor for medical abuse and parental abuse of disabled children
The justice league is now responsible for the GIWās top scientistsā personal pet project, an attempt to cure a condition the League has never heard of and canāt get much information on beyond what theyāre expected to do to keep them healthy and the treatment going in their medical wing.
Injecting non-meta human blood by the liter into a 14 year old boy, while bleeding bright green sludge from him- to hopefully completely eliminate his ecto-contamination.
The boy is lethargic and completely non-responsive at all times. Theyāre told ectoplasm makes people violent and that its removal is what causes the coma, and of course they immediately jump to Lazarus pits. It looks the same and sounds the same, and chemical analysis shows the similarities.
Bruce hopes this could be the answer to fixing- helping Jason.
The Justice League Dark is not involved, as surely the League knows all there is to know about the Lazarus pits, and the directions from the scientists are perfectly straightforward.
Who cares how grotesque it seems? Theyāre helping.
Danny, Tucker and Sam moved to Gotham for college. After, everything, was sorted out and settled down? They wanted to get away from Amity Park. And hey, Gotham have great scholarships!
Right now however? Sam and Danny were watching as Tucker tried, (and failed), to get a boyfriend. Danny had pulled out the camera after the first failed attempt. Tucker was being the worst. Poor Croc.
The video of the second attempt went viral. And neither of them were ever going to let Tucker live this down.
Danny: And here we have attempt four.
Sam: You'd think the man would learn a new approach....
Danny: He thinks Mr Jones needs an aggressive suitor. Something about the guy always being seen as big and scary?
Sam: Ahh. So that's why he's flung himself into his path. Screaming "let me love you".
Dressed up Tucker brings Croc things to liven up his den, low-light low-maintenance plants, warm furs, and spicy incense.
Then he moves on to foods, whole hogs and sheep, beef back, and exotics like moose and ostrich.
After that Tucker tries giving Croc clothing made to withstand his scaled skin and his rough lifestyle, beautifully designed to match Tuckerās Egyptian wooing-wear.
I feel like Croc would finally actually talk with Tucker when Tucker turns all wolfy and āmonstrousā, cause now he gets it, Tucker knows what itās like to be seen as less than human, he knows what itās like to be called a monster.
And then meets his two best friends. Goth Plant Witch, and Eldritch Ghost Prince. And like, yeah ok. This man has never been normal in his life has he. Also, you two are bastards! There's a damn meme of me fleeing Tucker!!!
Tucker and his besties helping drag Waylon out of crime and getting him set up n a decent job. Mostly so Tucker doesn't have to miss him when he's sent to Arkham? More likely than you think.
Red Hood drops in to interrogate Tucker at his flat. Danny and Sam are there for dinner and just look over. Like, oh hey! Didn't you want to see Waylon's parole furry?? Seems he has a parole crime lord instead!!
Waylon being advice from Roy, who he helped. The core Outlaws all wandering by to check he's not being pressured into anything. Like, we can totes beat him up for you!!
It's ALSO coincidentally? A lot harder to be scared of a meme? Like? Oh that's not Scary Giant Killer Croc(tm). THAT'S "Let Me Love You" guy, you know, they one who ran away from a dude a third his size like a distressed Victorian maiden seeing a mouse? Scrambled up a street light?
There was a funky compilation video.
It's HILARIOUS.
Because of course it was. Waylon has a resting Murder Face and muscles for days. He's being hunted for sport by a tiny string bean tech nerd that HAS to be asthmatic and probably reads tech manuals for fun. Itty bitty twig of a man. And here is this HUGE Meta going "EEK~! Not ROSES! Oh NO, weaponized hugging! He might take me DANCING! Run awaaaaaay!" Like the world's most BAMF looking tsundere.
The memes are brutal and endless. Thirst edits too.
Because honestly? The Reptilian Furries (which I can not spell to save my life right now, but are Scale-ies?) Are all going: "Saaaaaaame. Man has IMPECCABLE Taste." And people are Bonk-ing them with horny jail memes and reminders not to fetishize Metas etc etc.
All while Waylon is just? Look he's not even sure if he IS gay! Or Bi! Or ANYTHING! His dating years were spent being hated and feared. And adult years mostly in jail! Cool you jets just a BIT, my guy! He says, somehow folding himself to hide behind (mostly) behind Roy.
Which is fair.
Tucker can respect that. He ALSO didn't have the best time, dating wise. And he didn't even have obvious Meta powers. Does Waylon still want this nice elk he got him? It's juicy!
And just? Roy standing there? Like "you BETTER not pressure my boy into anything he's not ready for. I'm watch you, punk." Radiating Dad Energy.
Gotham would be SO invested in their weird Meme/redemption love story? Its? SO Gotham. You other cities wouldn't GET it. Jones had a hard life, yeah? Made bad decisions. Is trying to turn his life around and find love. It speaks to them. They've all been there. Heck, they even heard Brucie Wayne reached out!
Wants to hire the big guy! Desk job and everything! And yeah, maybe it's some rich guy publicity stunt, but? They hope he takes it. Hope he MAKES it, man.
Roy just staring down this college kid who is trying to convince one of his people to date them. On the one hand, this IS hilarious. But on the other, Waylon helped turn his life around. He's not letting this guy Fuck him about. No siree. At least the guy is consistent? Keeps bringing out gifts Waylon actually likes. Turned up with a modified phone and laptop that could survive his claws and general strength. Useful shit.
Tucker is trying to be respectful, and too about this. He swears. But he would really like his crush to give him even one chance? Please?
Waylon is all sorts of conflicted. Yeah Tucker is in college. But uh, Waylon is a good 15 years older. And an ex-con. As well as someone with very few career prospects. Add to that the fact he's never really been able to date before? How does he do that? Is he even into guys? Is he even into sex stuff? He's not had enough chances to know...
Oh no... not the "what could a hot young thing like him, see in a washed up old has been like me?" Spoken by a grizzled BAMF! The Gothamite Pharaoh-Kid/Waylon OTP club can only handle SO MUCH! Aaaaaaaaa-!!!!!
Roy is stood there, arms crossed, pinching the bridge of his nose. Sighs deeply. Pulls out his phone and calls Jason.
Roy: We need help. With Jones. Yeah, yeah.... Did you see the latest video? Yeah well.
Hangs up and points sternly at Waylon.
Roy: Stay the Fuck there. We are getting stuff put together. And asking those questions. The fan club is gettin creepy. So we gotta sort this!
Jason, Harley, Ivy and Selina arrive. Kori pulling up the back. They have a series of lads mags, for all orientations. Questionnaires. Theoretical scenarios. And food. So much food.
Jason: Right! Let's figure your shit out!!
Harley: This ain't gonna be a comprehensive test mind! But it'll be enough ta give ya an idea!!!
A few hours later Waylon is both drunk and mortified. The group are feeling pretty good about themselves. And Tucker turns up on his door step. Full Pharoh outfit. Gold shimmery make up that makes his eyes pop. The whole package. He's got a new cooker. Danny helped him make it run off ambient ecto. So even if Waylon is on the run? He can still cook.
The rest of them share a grin at the situation. And push Tucker into Waylon's lap 'by accident ' as they leave. Waylon will figure out if he wants Tucker from there. Roy snaps a quick photo and sends it to Tucker's friends. All of them are way too invested. And share info back and forth. Only hiding it from their respective idiot.
Two days later? Roy gets a text saying Tucker never showed back home. Are any of their side willing to brave Waylon's place, and the potential for psychological scarring? Roy drags Jason along. All four of them very much trying to play not it. None of them want to be the one to knock.
Danny:.... We could get one of their shippers to do it?
Sam: Have we, or have we not? Fought God like beings together?
Danny: I still don't wanna see Tucker's bare arse thanks!
Danny ancient and embodiment of space: Sam I can tell the molecules in their bodies to stop bonding and literally take them apart molecule by molecule. I can't wipe the image of Tuks ass from my mind nor banish him from existence to prevent that.
Now that they are together? Waylon is a proper gentleman to his love. Escorts him everywhere properly. Kiss on the hand. Opens doors for him. Pulls out his seat.
Gotham love them. It's so cute! The scary ex-mobster and his tiny twink. So in love, so cute. So Gotham! That, they say, is peak goals!
Danny, being a little shit, grins and refuses to call Tucker anything except 'Mr. Foley-Jones'. For weeks after the wedding. Tuck blushes every time. Gets a dopey, love sick smile. Not that Waylon is any better. But Danny is leaving that to Harper and Todd. They can tease their person, he will tease his.
Pariah Dark: The human you mated with? I mean the boy has your white hair and teenage frame, but those round eyes and pointed nose must have come from somewhere?
Clockwork: Ancients Pariah, Danny's adopted! There's no blood relation. I have custody, not blood rights.
Pariah Dark: *looks over at Danny who is looking annoyed while talking to an Observant, right before pointing them in the wrong direction on a wild goose chase and smiling smugly, pleased with himself*
Pariah Dark: Uh huh ... are you SURE???
Clockwork: I mean the rift did rewrite his DNA, and I WAS present at that moment. It could be that his DNA latched onto the closest source of ecto energy, me, and copied its structure to retain stability. Resulting in some of my traits and features being incorporated into his being.
Pariah Dark: ...
Clockwork: Holy shit he's my kid...
Pariah Dark: Are you going to tell him?
Clockwork: Probably not. It's more fun letting him figure things out on his own.
Once again a dad clockwork AU/fic prompt only where everyone else thinks CW is Dannyās dad.
Basically AU where in big fight in amity against some powerful ghosts (Maybe Dan?) everyone is watching Danny fight and then CW steps in to try and help but gets hit, Danny accidentally calls out Dad and goes to help CW. Danny doesnāt even realize heās called him Dadā¦.but everyone else does.
GIW, Maddie and Jack are freaking out because ghosts have parents? āPhantom has a parent? does he mean actually or adoptive orā¦.this changes so many theories. If itās biologically then ghosts can have kids?? If adoptive then ghosts have enough empathy and emotion to bond and care about a child and we have so many questions!!!ā
All of amity is also freaking out because itās just reinforced that the ghost kid saving them IS JUST A KID!
Vlad is currently being swamped with amity residents wanting theyāre mayor to address this and we have to stop attacking the kid! Vlad is both annoyed as hell that all his plans have gone to hell but also apparently Daniel has picked another parent andĀ itās not him! and he is pissed mostly because itās CW one of few ghosts he does not want to fuck with and so is plotting.
Ghosts are not faring much better either the ghost zone is in fucking chaos because Clockwork has apparently become the dad of the kid they have all tried to kill on multiple occasions. THEY ARE FREAKING OUT! Clockwork is a legend he is terrifying and they all apparently nearly killed his kid. In fact a large part of ghost zone are pretty convinced that Danny may like literally be Clockwork kids because yeah heās half human but honestly Clockwork is the master of time, he controls time if any ghost was going to have a kid with weird powers and able to change to a human it would be him.
The older ghosts and other ancients are all internally screaming because they know who Clockworks partner is. Now all the most powerful ghosts in the ghost zone have cork boards like Always Sunny meme drawing similarities between CW pariah and Danny. They are at this point convinced of a conspiracy in which they had a kid then Pariah went crazy and CW did some time shit to send the kid to the future and somehow make him human? They donāt know theyāre freaking out.
Clockwork is trying to explain that no Daniel is not his child, there is no official adoption and no he is not his Pariahās secret childā¦ No one believes him.
Other ancients: We have connected the dots
CW:NO you havenāt there are no dots to even connect
Other ancients:We have connected them!
Danny is dying of embarrassment in the human world, this is so much worse than accidentally calling a a teacher dad. Tucker and Sam are still dying of laughterā¦ less so when Fright Knight appears calling him āmy princeāā¦.and isnāt that a weird way to find out the CLOCKWORK IS MARRIED TO PARIAH.
Bonus: Pariah somehow busts out of the sarcophagus and busts into the tower
Pariah: WE HAVE A SON??
CW*head in hands* Ugh fine you know what just gonna roll with this
So, I've seen a couple stories where Danny is Damian's clone. How about we reverse it?
Danny was born Damian Al Ghul, being raised to be an assassin since he could walk. However, he had a good heart, and eventually his mother overstepped around him (maybe she killed one of his favorite caretakers? Maybe he saw her killing someone with a loving family?), causing him to decide to leave the League next time they let him outside.
He was discovered by the Fentons, got adopted, and had his name changed from Damian Al Ghul into Daniel 'Danny' Fenton. Over the years, his time in the League slowly faded from memory, only remembering that one moment that drove him from them.
Talia, meanwhile, tried to create another baby, but found she didn't have any more DNA from Bruce. However, she did have plenty of Damian/Danny's DNA, so she decided to simply clone her son, making sure that this one would never get it in his head to run away. She decided to let the memory of her first son go, completely overriding it with the new Damian, as if he had been the first son and not merely some clone, forcing everyone in the League to keep the fact a secret.
So, things continue on, Danny becomes Phantom, Damian becomes Robin, so on and so forth. Eventually, one of the Batclan stumble upon Danny and take an interest in him once they realize he looks like Damian.
They actually don't think that he's a clone, because he's older than Damian and records show him having a history older than Damian, so they believe that Talia had another child, which Damian is already a little salty about, because it means that his status as the heir of the League and potentially his title as the only blood son of batman are completely meaningless.
Unfortunately, their investigations lead to the League figuring out where Danny is, at which point Talia drops by and decides to reveal in front of everyone that Danny is the original Damian and Damian is a clone meant to take his place.
The only one who takes it well is Danny, who tells everyone to get off his porch before he activates the home defense systems because he does not care for this drama.
Whenever I redesign Danny's ghost form in my aus and try to incorporate the trope of "ghosts containing features that symbolize the way they died" into the design, my mind always inevitably wanders to the full extent of injuries his corpse could have sustained.
And, inevitably, since I tend to lean towards "plausible realism", my mind always wanders to how graphic those injuries would be.
Whether its the electricity that kills him or the radiation/plasma of the portal itself, the end result is the same: Danny is hit with enough sheer energy to rip a hole through reality.
His corpse is going to be covered in severe, charred black burns. If we wanna follow the route of high voltage electrocution: hello exposed bone.
That's enough heat to fuse the fabric of his suit to his skin. To steal from a friend: his eyes are gonna pop like grapes. Melt right out of his head.
Melt everything else too!
Danny's corpse could be,,, utterly unrecognizable. And it's as horrifying as it is intriguing.
Author's note: Just a couple of things. First, I don't know anyone under the name of Vanessa, it just came to me while I was writting, it sounded right somehow. If your name is Vanessa, I'm sorry and I hope you find this funny. Second, Danny and Damian have been dating for almost a year in this one.
PART 3/NEXT MASTERPOST
Batman and Robin advance in tense silence along the halls of the Watchtower.
The Justice League Dark discovered a century-old cult with global influence, mind you, with some of its members been important political and showbiz figures in the world. According to Robin, the League of Shadows had been aware of said cult for a very long time but that they never tried to join forces or do business with them since even Ra Al-Ghul thought that they were nothing but a bunch of harmless fools, or at least thatās what Damian said.
Well, said bunch of harmless fools decided that it was a good idea to kidnap Damianās boyfriend, his beautiful Daniel, since apparently, with the use of a magical book, they discovered that Daniel is the physical incarnation of the King of the Infinite. Damian must admit, the altar for the sacrifice had been well done; symmetrical and with colors that matched Danielās lovely eyes, they even dressed him up quite nicely with a fitting white suit ā how the hell did they knew his boyfriendās sizes he doesnāt know, but Damian already punched some faces for that reason ā. Anyways, things went to worse when they were late to rescue Danny and the King of the Infinite has already taken possession of his bodyā¦ or at least that was what the brood had thought back thenā¦
Dannyās silky black hair had turned a mystical wispy white, as if morning fog and a nebula had blended into soft looking locks. His smooth, ivory, freckle peppered skin had become a pale, glowing blue, as if he had fallen into a frozen lake, and his endearing freckles now sparkled like fresh fallen snow on a clear winter morning, a bright and ever flowing aurora borealis crowning his head. But what shocks Damian the most was Dannyās eyesā¦ His breathtaking blue eyes were taken away and in their place were these Lazarus green-no, it wasnāt Lazarus green, it was something brighter, cleaner, like an unnatural, no existing green star had taken residence inside his belovedās and only those eyes were proof of its control over Danielās body.
For a minute that felt like an eternity there was silence, Damian ā as Robin ā and his family had frozen in dread and horror when they saw the collective of the cult kneel on the floor so low their heads touched it. They were too lateā¦ they had failed Dannyā¦
āOh great king!ā the cultās leader exclaims, suddenly straightening on her spot but never leaving her kneeling position. āWe are the ones that have freed you from the shackles of your seal! You are now free to claim your reign over the living and-
āAnd then what, Vanessa?ā Danny ā because it was Dannyās voice - cuts her blabbering.
There is no ominous echo, not a thousand voices speaking at the same time when he moves his lips, heck, not even the classic stuttering lights and static noise. Nothing. Just a ghostly-slash-fairy looking Danny standing on top of the altar with his arms crossed over his chest as he glares at the cultās leader in annoyance.
What?
āI-I what?ā The cultās leader ā Vanessa ā mumbles, confusion clear in her face.
āIām asking you what you and little gang of misfits want, Vanessa! And I wasnāt sealed, not cursed nor any of those things, you idiots! Iāve been me the whole time! I just donāt go full eldritch because I wanna finish fucking high school and go to college!ā
āUh, are you guys hearing the same thing I do ācause to me that sounds like normal Danny.ā Dick says over the comms.
āW-what?ā Oh yeah, Vanessa is confused and behind her the rest of the cult starts to whisper among themselves. āB-But the book said-ā
āA book?! You did all this nonsense because of a book?! Who are you people, Chapman?!ā
āYeap, thatās definitely good old Fix.ā Jason acknowledged from his side of the comms.
āYou went into my house, kidnap me while I was napping on my couch, took away my clothes, fucking bathed me, and dressed me up in this-this fancy get up and then force me to transform!! So not cool!!!ā
āOooh, I think he is losing it. What you say Rob, he losing it?ā Steph says on her comms.
āWas I the only one who heard *FORCED TO TRANSFORM*, for real?!ā Duke adds right after.
āFuck you people! Just because you know someone has powers doesnāt mean you go and force them to use them! Thatās fucking dangerous you idiots! Do you understand how lucky you are that Iām not Pariah, uh?! The only damn reason why you idiots managed to come this far is because there are things that Time has to have happening or shit would hit the fan!ā Danny keeps scolding the cult. āLet this be the last time you idiots do this or a swear to every ancient!ā Danny says as he jumps down the platform. āNow, if you excuse me, I gotta get out of here before my furry boyfriend and his furry family arrive and see me like this. He has my whole place covered with spy cams and movement sensorsā¦ā
āOh, I think thatās our cue.ā Barbara announces as Danny keeps rambling about getting out of the cultās hide out.
āRobās ahead of you on that, O.ā Tim says on the comms.
āDaniel.ā Damianās voice is even and yet somehow it manages to overlap Dannyās upset ramblings, making the latter stop on his spot.
Danny turns around, eyes bright, bright, neon green, slit pupils thin and shaking. Damian notices the black sclera, the strange glittering, star like freckles against pale blue skin, the wispy, ethereal white hairā¦ all so strange and yet himā¦ his Danny.
āI can explain!ā Danny says aloud as he starts to walk towards Damian but the taller of the two just raises one hand, Danny halts immediately.
Damian turns around and walks away, vanishing in the shadows of the cultās hideout.
āHoly shitā¦ the King of the Infinite dates Robin?ā One of the cultās members whispers.
āDude, I think we just ruined the kingās love life.ā Whispers another.
Nightwing and Red Hood smack the nape of both cult members and make them faint.
āYou knew.ā Batman says to Danny as he stands by his side. Not a question, just certainty.
āAm I in trouble?ā Danny asks B, gaze still fixed where Damian blended with the shadows.
āCan you return their souls?ā B asks the teen, referring to the cult members.
āYeah, I just gotta erase the names from the book. Itās not that hard.ā
āWe will take you to the watchtower so you can explain the situation to the league.ā
Maddie: Your father and I knew that you were disappointed to miss out on the family reunion because of your husband's surgery, so we decided to skip it this year and come give you some support in caring for him!
Jack: As well as giving you a break. You must be under so much stress taking care of him and the kids!
Danny, having been lying about his marriage for the past two years to get out of family obligations: Wow... that's so sweet of you.
Maddie: I'm so excited to meet everyone! When you said you were moving to a new Earth, I knew communication through the Ghost Zone was going to be rough, but only being able to connect audio calls once every four months was much harder to endure than I thought it would be.
Jack: Not to mention traveling here. We had to do so many pit stops to fix up the Spectator Speeder and let me tell you, some of those floating rocks were hard to land on. Sometimes makes me wish we had your ghosts powers.
Danny: Yeah....you both went through so much effort. To vist me. In a different dimension.
Maddie: We three! Jazz is here too.
Danny: *gulps* The whole family is here.
Jack: Oh, don't make that face. The Fenton Reunion happens every four years. We'll see your aunts, uncles, and cousins next time. You're much more important to us, so no need for guilt.
Danny: I- right. Of course. Um, have you guys eaten? I can treat us to some dinner before we go back to my place. My, um, husband is at a doctor's appointment with my eldest while I did some work. I'm going on emergency family leave but I had to fill out the paperwork at the office today. Yup yup, thats why I'm here. At my workplace.
Maddie: You alright sweetie? You're sweating a lot.
Danny: I'm fine!
Jack: You work here? This office building is so nice. What does Wayne Enterprise do? I know you have a management position but I never really understood what department exactly.
Danny, who works in the mail room: Um, Wayne Enterprise does a little of everything. I'm in... communications.
Jack: But what exactly does communications do-
Danny: Excuse me for a bit. I have to let my husband know I'm going to be a little late.
Maddie: Oh! Don't tell the kids we're here. We want it to be a suprise. We brought gifts for all of them! Jazz is actually wrapping them up in the Speeder now!
Danny: Ha ha ha ha of course! Excuse me! *walking away pretending to be tapping a contact on his phone* shit shit shit. What do I do???
Damian appearing from the shadows: You told falsehoods.
Danny: Agh!
Damian: ....
Danny: Mr. Wayne Al Ghul! I-ugh- hello! I mean, good afternoon, sir. I ugh-
Damian: Silence
Danny: Yes sir.
Damian: I heard everything, and while I normally find lies distasteful, I find your parents endearing. It could benefit my family. I shall give you aid in your facade.
Danny: What?
Damain: My father recently had surgery on his right hip- a accident on our extreme skiing trip- and refuses to listen to our family doctor. He will not get the proper bed rest he's been ordered, but he would if you acted like his very upset husband with visting in-laws.
Danny: I- Mr. Wayne would never agree to that.
Damian: You seem to believe Father has a choice.
Danny: I-
Damian: I messaged Richard about the plan. He's gathering our siblings' support as we speak. When you arrive after dinner with your family, Father will have no time to deny anything. We shall trap him in social expectations. By the way, you are Timothy's safe queer adult who was there for him in the early years of his self-discovery journey and now he wants to help you. Its how we guilt trip father.
Danny: I can't lie to Bruce Wayne like that!
Damian: It's too late. Timothy already made a shirt of your face with the words "My Gay Yoda" on it. Your path has been chosen.
Danny: What-
Jack: Danny? Who's this?
Damian holding out his arms for a hug: Grandfather, I am Damian, Father's and Dad's youngest.
Jack: Damian! Its so nice to met you. Call me Gran-papa! *crushes him in a bear hug*
Damian in the most monotone voice ever: Gran-papa, I can not feel my arms.
Maddie: Aren't you just the cutest! Danny used to say the same thing at your age whenever his dad hugged him. I'm your Gran-mama, by the way! JAZZ COME MEET THE BABY!
Danny in a horrified whisper: Did my boss trap me in my own web of lies?
Danny has always known he's adopted. His parents never really hid it from him. According to them they found him on one of their ghost hunting trips in the woods bleeding out with no one in sight.
The rushed him to the hospital where countless nurses and doctors rushed him to the emergency room. Other than the bleeding there were countless other wounds and scars that needed to be treated along with the stabbing. During his treatment Jack and Maddie were explaining the situation to cops and social workers however when they tried to find his file they found nothing as if he never existed at all.
No one knows what happened to Danny. As far as the doctors police and social workers could guess is that Danny escaped from somewhere dangerous and they hunted him down but didn't bother checking if he actually died. During their time there Jack and Maddie became insanely attached to the child that looked at them curiously with some weariness and slowly warmed up to them. According to dad the night Danny ask them to hug him to help him fall asleep was the night they knew for certain that they were taking him home.
Danny believe them and never bothered searching for his biological parents since he was pretty certain that they weren't good people or the kind of people he wants to be associated with that was until his past came crashing down.
With assassins appearing in Amity park calling him Prince and grandson of the demons head trying to kidnap him and take him back somewhere with the vigilantes of Gotham appearing out of nowhere as well and his parents becoming more wary of the assassins and vigilantes to the point of suggesting that they take a vacation somewhere secluded was sending alarm bells to Danny's head
So he went to the only person that could solve this mystery.
Wes.
Wes figured out he was phantom as soon as he saw him in both forms. That along with some other mysteries makes Wes the only option Danny has as to figure out what's happening and the only one that knows about his phantom identity.
With the two boys looking coming face to face with assassins secret organizations and the justice League what will the encounter and what sort of trouble will they get tangled into? And will this evolve into something more?
I have seen batfam fics and ideas where time traveling Bruce gets the kids earlier and stops all the bad things from happening to them. But I can't help but want to combine this with the DCXDP demon twins AU.
Imagine time traveler Bruce showing up at the league of assassins years early demanding his son... Only for two children to come out. Now he is forced to learn he had another son no one told him about. He has no clue what happened to Danny in the original timeline, only that it must have been bad for Damian to have never mentioned it.
I'm just thinking about the possibility of Danny not existing in the original timeline. At least not as Danyal. Just, Clockwork deciding that for one reason or another Danny should be reborn and while he's considering options he notices a time distortion:
"Oh, isn't this a convenient development?"
Pop, insert Danny as Damians Brother, and to make things easier for Danny.
Danny is confusion, but he'll adapt and survive this crazy assassin's cult long enough to get back at Clockwork. Oh their dad is saving them? Great, he was getting tired of the strict rules and hierarchy.
Damian isn't surprised his twin so readily follows Father out of the league, after all, his twin has never quite fit well in the league. However, he would like him to stop pulling him with them. He's curious about Father, alright, but he's doing perfectly fine at the league. Danyal is lucky he appreciates him, or he would have cut his arm already.
Objectively, Danny's not really a thorough reader. It's come to bite him a lot of times, whether it's a botched writing assignment or building an Ikea desk that looks as mutated as his genes.
It had been a long week for him, both as Phantom and as Danny. Homework and tests were crammed, with chores and cleaning the lab taking up most of his free time. Then there was a few shades and blobs captured by the GIW, regular patrols and pot-shots taken by his parents at any given moment.
They got really, frighteningly close tonight.
He's just tired. The exhaustion probably played into their ability to clip him. (Yes, Jazz, he'd treated shoulder and bicep, he wasn't a complete newbie at this ghostly vigilante thing.)
He's aching everywhere, worked to the bone, and generally is hating his half-life. Maybe that's why he doesn't question why there's a book and a cryptic sticky note on his bed.
Danny doesn't even question it the next day, when he finally opens it up to see if it was worth his time. Seeing as its about ghost portals, he decides it is.
Because he's a fourteen-year-old and portals are awesome. He might not be the bright vial of ectoplasm in the fridge, but this is a no-brainer.
He's only a couple chapters in before he starts to skim and test it out himself.
Thankfully, he's recruited Sam and Tucker. He tries to follow the depressingly morose instructions, it's just that he's fundamentally bad at that.
It takes a week and times where he's pulling at his hair in frustration to finally, finally get a portal big enough to stick his hand in. He'd reached into it and grabbed something from Jazz's room.
He's definitely getting Clockwork a Christmas present. He's a weird little omnipotent dude, but this is useful.
So, he starts to test it out a little more. Randomly just walks through swirling ovals of ectoplasm into Tucker's room when he knows his parents are away.
He does try to keep it a secret, though. So help him if Vlad found out and tried to learn himself... that'd be a disaster, even if he wasn't successful.
One evening, on the cusp of spring and summer, he's out with his best friends as Phantom. His ghost sense had been going off, but once he'd ventured into the forest, it'd been an ambush.
Sam tried to reason with his Mom and Dad at first. Pleaded for them to see logic in their biases. Danny's been hit with something, and he's dizzy and now exhausted and in pain.
But the grass is growing a bit too fast around Sam's feet in her frustration, and their weapons are slowly turning towards her despite Tucker's loud and increasingly panicked words.
So he grabs his friends, and before he can really think through his options, he summons a portal beneath his feet.
Danny's not really thinking about where to go; it's the instinctual home-safe-please that he focuses on as a destination.
But as they tumble out of his hastily thrown gateway, it's immediately obvious to him that he's not at the Fenton household.
They're tangled out of the floor, Tucker wheezing as he has the air knocked out of him by Sam falling on top. And there's people at a big, expensive looking table, and all of them are turned towards the trio.
His ghost sense goes off. Sam whispers a horrified "Is that Bruce Wayne?"
Scratch that. Clockwork is getting coal for Christmas.
Is this a dimensional travel thing? Or do the events of DC and DP share a universe?
Because it's objectively funny if instinctually you're trying to teleport somewhere safe and home but the portal has you crash a billionaires family dinner.
But if they're separate universes I can think of a really cool reason Danny would end up in Bruce's dining room.
The DCU are a comic/tv series in the Danny phantom universe that the trio relied on for comfort/escapism.
Like, the Dcu has a mess of rogues and gritty, grim villainy but there's also protections for heroes and metas. Young heroes are given training! Batman is a respected figure in gotham! Bruce and his allies are powerful figures that can change the world in and out of costume.
The dcu can be dark but most of the time evil never really prevails.
Unlike in Danny's universe where the G.I.W seems to be the law and Danny and his friends feel hopeless in and out of hero persona.
I can see the trio being comic nerds for the sole reason that the dcu has laws that'd protect them if they lived there.
So I imagine Danny teleporting cross dimensionally going "Is that batman?!" At the same Time Sam is going "is that Bruce Wayne??" Before promptly passing tf out
Sam and Tucker are the ones who are left to explain.
Danny woke up aching and blurry-eyed. He was in a nice, but large and plain room where the filtered through the curtains just right and lit the room well enough.
He didnāt know where he was and frankly he almost didnāt care if his brain hadnāt finally caught up. Jumping out of bed in a panic, he scrambled for the door.
A man blocked the door with a raised eye brow and a crisp suit.
āThough I would prefer of you would stay to rest, I have a feeling you would not until youāve met with your companions once more.ā, the man said as he guides Danny down the hall.
He explains they were in the living room, talking to his employer. The man introduces himself as Alfred Pennyworth and that he will have refreshments ready in a moment.
Danny goes along with this because he is the intruder here and doesnāt want his friends to get in trouble for his actions; besides he wasnāt attacked or threatened yet.
Just wait it out until you see Sam and Tucker, Danny; you can do that much.
He belatedly thinks he should call Jazz and make sure sheās in the know when this is over. He didnāt want to know what sheāll do if he stays missing for too long with no contact.
Thereās some great angst potential about the idea that these kids know a hell of a lot about their lives. Because you know theyāre going to have to stutter through an explanation of how they know Bruce is batman.
Theyāre going to try and sugarcoat it like āwe donāt know everything, like there are different continuitiesā¦ I doubt itāll match up line for lineā¦ and itās not easy to keep up with every comic run, that shit gets expensiveā¦ but, uh, we know some of the pretty big eventsā¦ā and Tucker probably doesnāt even realise when he looks at Jason and frowns because heād always related his story to Dannyās purely for the dead and revived kid aspect, and Jason notices, they all notice, and he clenches his jaw but says nothing.
Then Danny walks in with Alfred and heās not in ghost form anymore and he looks exhausted and heās holding his arms around himself like he needs to protect himself.
Sam sees him before Tucker, lets out a relieved sigh that heās already healing, that heās here. She was getting more and more tense the longer he was out of sight.
They probably expect tests and requests for proof or some kind of evidence of the truth of their words because this is batman. Regardless of their own interpretations of the character, their reality now was that heās a real person and heās a paranoid vigilante that needs to be prepared for everything.
But Bruce asks Alfred to set up some rooms, Sam interrupts to ask that they share, much more hesitant than she normally is, but not enough to not interrupt batman. And whilst Bruce knows what teenagers can be like he can only see the shake in Samās hands, the weight on their shoulders, Tuckerās fidgeting. He acquiesces.
Bruce is still going to monitor everything they do, and there will absolutely be tests and confirmations the next day when they wake up after a 16 hour sleep. He probably contacts some of JLD for information about dimension travel and to be a mediator during their interviews.
But they are also kids who look tired and he knows it could be a risk, a trick, but heās not alone and heāll keep his eye on them until he has all the facts.
Good parents Jack and Maddie crying as their baby boy goes off to college. They've turned off the portal and are in the process of correcting their initial findings so everyone in town tries to avoid them otherwise you will be subjected to the new findings which mark ecto entities as sapient and therefore deserving of rights or gushing about how Danny is off to college since his small business pays so well. He did so well he rejected the scholarships from Gotham University because he said it would be better going to someone who needs it and they did such a good job raising him because look at how successful and generous he is!
The business in question is more of a cheat since being king of the infinite Realms means he is fluent in any language to exist. Safe, dead, or extinct the status of a language doesn't matter to him. With Technus's help he sets up and online portal where people can submit pictures or copies of stuff for him to translate at a premium price. He refuses to take any money from the fruit loop and the money he learns will go towards his clone's schooling when she gets to that point. Right now she is using it for her travels and sending them postcards.
People who claim his translations as their own get black listed with a huge fee coming out of their bank account for the breach of contract. He is trying to keep his business on the down low so those breakthroughs that get on the news are not what he is looking for. His main demographic is rich snobs with private art collections. What Danny doesn't know is that his main customers are the Justice League.
There are some clues but he kinda ignores them. Like when a document submitted is a summoning ritual he sends back a partial translation since the summoning is not good (there are worst beings they could summon but it will still be a hassle) however revealing knowledge of the banishment is harmless.
Gotham cultists hate him because they know he can translate the whole document/book but all of their attempts to trace the sage of tongues (trying to give invisobill kinda vibes) they find a dead end. They try submitting from different computers, locations, routers, anything, but just end up giving Danny more money lol
The Justice League is almost in tears because the jusyice league dark could not agree on the translation of the banishment ritual and everything they tried before had failed.
His favorite translations are the stories that give alien vibes. They talk about certain structures (he thinks it might be structures) as if they are common knowledge. Unknown to him those are Kryptonian fairy tales that Lois submitted. She didn't want to give Jon a funny accent so Clark can read them in Kryptonian while she does the English.
Duke having a hard time with an assignment, sends an inquiry asking if he offers homework help (he wouldn't be using it for career advancement which is against the terms of service BUT he would be claiming it for points so he asked) and that is how Tim finds out about this sketchy website that can translate anything. Danny feels the sincerity and sleep deprivation in the inquiry so he replies back "I admire your courage and will do you a solid but only if your promise to sleep a minimum of 8 hours. I'll know if you don't and snitch so go to sleep š“" The translation is attached and already in the format his teacher requested.
Steph: How is he gonna know?
Duke: Idk but he is a life saver!
Tim: Duke, did you just sell your soul for a homework assignment?
Duke: Let me sleep and then we'll see what happens š„±
Tim is driven crazy because he needs to know who is behind the website. And also because Constantine was kinda in the area and said no. Duke has his soul even if he doesn't sleep, lucky bugger.
Tim feels like the world is conspiring against him when it sends the cutest distraction in one his gen ed courses. He will date the cute guy AND solve this mystery out of spite.
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.
Ooh this is nice because if you add with it the trope of Danny understanding all languages dead included then he would totally know what theyāre saying in their chirps and whistles, even if they donāt understand his responses until he phases into it, working out the minor kinks. Itād be neat if he could tell they were ecto contaminated and thought that was why they had a stunted, modified form of ghost speak, leading him to want to interact and ghost speak with these people even more as he wasnāt expecting their sort of thing so far from Amity
Tim Drake is the CoCaptain of the Bats' Pirate Ship. While most Pirates are feared, however, the Bats tend to be Vigilantes of the sea, going after the more dangerous Pirate Crews that the Kings' Navy couldn't handle.
When reports come in of a sunken ship, Tim goes out to see the damage. There are seemingly no survivors, either those who lived were able to flee on lifeboats, or whoever didn't die from the crash was then eaten by the sea life itself. Before Tim could leave to make his report, he hears chirping coming from the captains quarters, and carefully checks it out.
Inside is trapped a merman, one who has definitely seen better days. His stomach was sunken in with ribs showing, his hands covered in healing scars from, what looked like, broken glass, and that was ignoring the other, more purposeful scars on his torso and tail, and his tail, a gorgeous dark blue with glowing yellow spotting reminding Tim of the night sky, was wrapped horribly in fishing net, some parts ripped and torn from the merman struggling to get free.
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All Danny wanted, was to see the stars. He knew he wasn't supposed to go to the surface, but the stars were so beautiful and he wanted to know everything about them. He'd sat on that rock so many times, and never once had he been seen- until he had.
Danny remembers vividly being trapped in the horrible clear box, only being let out so the humans could cut him, and run exams on his body, before being put back into the box. He was only fed twice a week, his meals consisting of horribly harvested kelp and sea grass, not a fish or clam in sight.
Danny didn't know where they were going, or how far he was from his pod, his only comfort was that he was still able to see the stars from his containment- until the crash.
Danny can't remember much of the crash, he hit his head so much of it was fuzzy- but he remembers the clear box shattering, and pain in his hands, before one of the humans wrapped the net around him, only for the boat to tip, and for him to flea, leaving Danny alone and disoriented. When Danny finally regained his bearings, he was alone underwater but still in the blasted ship. He tried to leave, but the net kept him trapped. At least a few small fish and crabs would sometimes wander in, so he didn't starve, but he was alone, trapped, and he couldn't see the stars anymore.
And then, breaking the monotony of his isolation, Danny heard movement around the ship. Maybe it was stupid, but Danny didn't care, he just didn't want to be alone anymore, so he chirped.
Danny moves to Gotham and buys an apartment building.
It was more just a fun project for him to fix up the building, seeing as how after he took over VladCo, and cleaning up operations, Danny was making more money than ever, even after donating to various charities. So yeah, he was bored and just wanted to get his hands dirty and personally repair the appartments.
Once everything was fixed up, he opened the appartments for rent. He didn't really want to charge people, especially in such an area as Crime Alley, but not charging someone rent is way more sketchy than just asking them to pay whatever they could or wanted to. He ended up just setting the money aside to use on the appartments should it need any upgrades or repairs. He doesn't only take money either, while he denies "physical" payments and/or narcotics, he'll take lessons, like the man in 2B teaching him to sew, or the woman in 5A teaching him how to cook, or the two kids who give him very interesting shiny rocks as payment, there was even a few people who paid by cleaning the appartment building's shared places. One teenager paid rent one month by giving Danny a pair of sickly black and white kittens they found outside(they're named Casper, and Specter, and they're the Building's Managers in Pest Apprehension, and Danny loves them).
Because the appartments are so close to where the working girls/boys run, they make up most of his tenants, so Danny asks them to not bring clients back to the apartments, its dangerous to let their clients know where they live, especially because there are other tenants, including children, in the building so its a safety risk. They all agree, they don't really want their clients knowing where they live anyway.
Some do get stalkers though, and Danny is quick to get rid of them. Or when burglars manage to break in, Danny stops them before they can take anything, and if he managed to miss the burglar, he'll personally replace whatever was stolen until they could get the original stuff back. (Maybe he should adopt a gaurd dog, at least for the intimidation factor. Cane Corso's are medium sized*, hes sure he could get away with getting something like that. Something to think about later.)
A lot of his tenants say Danny is really kind, but thats not how Danny sees it, and its something he loudly denies. He's a bored rich person who was taking advantage of his wealth. Him providing them a safe place to live, and a little bit of comfort isn't kindness, its basic human decency. He's not some saint who is doing this of his own kind heart, he's a normal guy who was bored and just decided to do something helpful opposed to harmful, and he shouldn't be praised for that.
*Danny's idea of Dog sizes is skewed, to him Cugo is a big dog, anything smaller than that is medium to small to xsmall.
Bonus
-Red Hood(or the bats in general) thinks the appartment building was suspicious. Maybe it was some rich guy just being nice, but outside of Bruce, stuff like that doesn't happen in Gotham. Maybe its money laundering, or its acting as an underground brothel, or the owner is actually a massive creep. Either way, they want to be discreet, they don't want to ruin a good thing for people in need if everything happens to be clean happenings. So, they go under cover, Jason acts like a working boy, Damian is a abused kid/teen on the run, Steph is hiding from a abusive ex, maybe Alfred gets in on it and acts like an old man whos boss just fired him because of with no severance pay?
-Everytime Danny starts to get bored, he buys another building to fix up. Not always appartment building's, maybe a hotel, or an auto garage, or an abandoned building he could gut and turn into rec center. You'd think Danny would be burning through money, but no, somehow Danny's happenings leaked and it was good press because people are buying things from VladCo more and more.
Currently obsessed with the concept of Danny 100% being the most Violent and youngest Wayne. I'm so sorry but the writing opportunityš„¹š¤
Danny's rogues were all dead so they can't actually... Die again. Likeā not in the normal way, that is. The only way that they could die is by crushing their core.
Cue Bruce Wayne and the whole family Finding out his extremely timid and closed off son/brother (yes, being ooc is the point here stfuš) is arguably the strongest being in the universe and admitting that he has a tendency to have intrusive thoughts and horrible mood swings so he doesn't trust himself with doing the family's... 'business' (knowing damn well he could kill someone if he gets too agitated) and they're almost not convinced.
Emphasis on almost.
Once they watched as the youngest of them all completely threw down a weird eyeball (they later learn is an 'observant'), threw a green dagger right beside it, kicked it violently and threatened to gauge it's eye out and disintegrate it for interrupting their dinner.
He apologized to the family soon after the thing disappeared, back to completely timid and embarrassed.
Extra, Danny finding out about Joker:
News: Joker found dead in strange circumstances!
Bruce, turning to Danny: Danny....
Danny, who placed a bounty on Joker AND his soul in the ghost zone: *gasp* He died of strange circumstances? How unfortunate!
Bruce: *sigh* Chum...
Danny: I didn't do anything, my hands are clean!
Jason, in the background: Kid ilysm you're my favorite brother now
Another extra, about Vigilantism:
Danny, in tears: Leave me alone!
Dick & Tim: C'mon, it'll be fun!
Danny: Absolutely not!
Jason, watching the chaos unfold: Guys I don't thinkā
Alfred: Master Dick, Master Tim.
Danny: Alfreeeeed!
Bruce, pinching his nose: *sigh* Stop trying to make Danny a vigilante.
Dick & Tim: Butā!
Bruce: No buts. We had an agreement.
Steph, in the background: A somewhat normal kid finally joined the family just leave him alone!
Danny, also in the background, sobbing: I'm already in charge of another dimension, give me a break!
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