One thing that makes me mad about DP x DC is when they pair Jazz up with one of the other members of the batfam, but it's one of them that the ages would make sense.
Like it's its Danny x Damien and they have Jazz dating Jason.
Jazz is 2 (TWO) years older than Danny. And I know most people throw away canon but you can't* have Jazz and Danny go to school together and then have them date people with such a huge age difference. At least for me it entirely throws off the vibe of the fic. It becomes all I can think about
*I say you can't but obviously everyone has free will and you can write it, it just doesn't make sense
I did it. Its a fic now. Based off this idea I had. A03 Next
Ellie misses her monthly check in with Danny. He finds her in the basement.
The first time Ellie destabilized Danny got panicky. Granted so was she. It was only thanks to the Red Huntress change in heart that she got out alive. A quick little jab of an experimental ecto-dejecto was all it took. She was off on yet another worldwide adventure. Unlike Danny, she didn’t want to go amongst the stars she wanted to sightsee. Find her own path in life. Freshly stabilized with some new equipment she was off. Her first stop was going to be Hong Kong. Now equipped with a phone and translation app Sam downloaded it. Danny wanted her to have at least one call a month to ensure she was safe.
Danny was just being overly protective.
Until he wasn’t. Week three hit and it starts all over again. Her powers being stripped, slowly turning into goop with prolonged use. She had barely explored Hong Kong. Ellie never got to figure out if the mysterious black bat even existed. She’d heard about it in some alley. The same one she was currently having her conundrum in. She wouldn’t make it to Danny on her own. Making the dreaded phone call she pretended not to notice the feeling of being watched.
The phone was a good call. Not that she’d ever admit that to Danny. Danny answered on the first ring and opened a portal the moment she explained. Showing up in full regal attire cursing as he walked through. Whoops. He had been in one of those council meetings.
Danny had just been pacing in the medical ward in the far frozen. A constant back and forth as frostbite began performing tests. Connecting her to tubes she was even in a clear tube at one point. It was as frostbite said a worst-case scenario. The reason Vlad had been so unsuccessful wasn’t due to a lack of DNA as he thought. Those of the infinite realm needed a core to maintain their powers. In Danny’s case, the Ice core is what allowed his powers to safely flow through him. Without it he would either fully die or just never have maintained a ghost form. The core is what allowed the balance between life and death.
She was not made with a core. Hence the destabilizing when using her powers. A core could not form over time without steady ectoplasma. They only grew. When Danny died in the portal accident it was the ectoplasma from the realm that created his core. Or the start of one. Frostbite was a tad bit confusing. Apparently, the core over time gets more mature as the ghost comes into their powers. She was made with DNA and ectoplasma. The powers the ectoplasma gave her would kill her. Vlad had the time for the ecto acne to create a core. Had his powers shown immediately after his college accident it was a one-way trip. No half-life included.
Frostbite found a way to temporarily as in maybe 24 hours max keep her staple as is. Meaning she could keep using her powers for the next 24 hours. His only solution was to attach her to one of his vats of pure ectoplasma. She’d be stuck in the far-frozen medical ward on an IV, with no powers nothing for at least a year. Frostbite says three would be his guess. Her having powers prior to the core was a setback.
Danny did something that seemed to surprise Frostbite. You could see the shock on his face. The way his eyes showed concern. Frostbite had looked at her and then at Danny.
Frostbite then pulled Danny out of the room. Ellie should have been concerned by that, but one of the yetis asked if she wanted to learn some fighting stances. That was much more fun than waiting in worry. If she was going to end up stuck for a couple of years, she was going to make these 24 hours the best she’s had. If it came to it, she’d stay in the medical ward. No more turning into goo for her.
When Danny came back, they had a solution. Ellie could receive a portion of Dany’s Core.
Those in the room seemed to be still at the admission. When she asked if it was safe for her the response was simply that there are cases where a parent ghost gave up a part to save their child when the core was injured or destroyed. As she was Danny’s clone it should be perfectly harmless for her. She would have no problems in the future.
After the procedure was done it wasn’t Danny who took her back to the human realm. Jazz had shown looking concerned telling her that Danny had kingly duties to attend to. Paperwork to handle the boring stuff. Jazz was happy to spend the next week coming to Sam’s to hang out with her. She wasn’t going to just leave before properly saying goodbye to Danny. Especially since Jazz was going to be heading off to Gotham U the following month. She had a full-ride scholarship. Jazz had refused any help from her parents.
Ellie had some new guidelines for the next year or two. Besides monthly in-person visits, a weekly call, and a minimum of a text a day she was back to exploring the world.
The first three home visits with Danny were some of the most exciting times she’s had. Danny’s rouges were super fun to help take down. Danny just told her she could go feral on them. It only took two home visits for them to flee from her.
His parents were a whole different breed. He’s warned her about the whole tear him apart molecule by molecule thing. But man, this was something else. The two even managed to get a hit on her.
On her next visit, only the box ghost was in town. Danny just let her deal with him. She made it last it would. Danny tended to keep their visit calm when he could. Go get food at the nasty burger, mini golf, and jazz-approved events. Jazz wanted them to have a healthy bond. Not one based on bashing in enemies.
It was that time of the month. Her visit day. She had stories to tell him. Ellie had met actual Heroes while she had been out and about. They tried to ask her a bunch of questions, but she honestly didn’t want to answer. Ellie would just turn invisible and stop breathing. If that didn’t help, she just traveled under the ground. Not in caves just underneath the ground. She had intangibility for a reason. Even figuring out how to maintain her temperature with the core. She could match the temperature of the air around her if it was cooler than 75 degrees. Danny’s ice core only allowed her to go lower than her standing body temp. She was super excited about the new use of his powers and one of the heroes was even an alien. Danny was going to flip out.
Ellie was so caught up in grabbing her phone to tell Danny she was here to notice the Fenton parents watching her fly in. Her quick look around revealed nothing. The flash of white happened, slowly transforming back into her human half.
Something hit her. It forced her to the ground. It was worse than when she was destabilizing. Her eyes began to shut. The last thing she saw was the blue and orange lab suits.
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It had been three hours since Ellie and he was meant to meet up. Danny had a day planned at Sam’s house. It was her 7th visit. The gang was going to have a movie marathon. All four of them. Now Ellie isn’t the best at showing up on time. Normally she’s only an hour or so late and always gives a heads-up.
No, he is not overbearing despite Ellies claims. Its bad enough to let a twelve-year-old be on her own. She’s nearly turned to goo in front of him twice. He has every right to be concerned with her well-being. Especially since she now had a part of his core. While there were no physical effects it did put her at risk. Ellie could be a target to anyone who wanted to get one up on the Ghost King. If it was possible, he would keep her in Amity with them. There were two problems with that. Ellie herself and then his parents. Ellie would never want to be stuck in Amity, she’s a free spirit. A small town would never be enough for her.
Then there were his parents. It was bad enough they managed to shoot her once. Now they were hellbent on getting the ghost girl as well. Overall, their whole ghost-hunting thing had spiraled. They were desperate to get their hand on a specimen. Danny’s been doing a lot of damage control.
The council was getting antsy. The whole situation was spiraling. The anti-ecto acts were in Congress now. All he can do is hope they don’t pass. Seeing how the GIW has been moving it seemed to be guaranteed. The group had no issues acting early. The last 3 months had been a disaster. Balancing being king, high school, his parent's babysitter, and stopping the GIW's attempts have not left time for much.
Today was not a day to worry about what his parents or the stupid ghost council wanted. He was going to get Ellie and start the movie night. Jazz was even willing to pop in via the web from her dorm room.
There were no responses to any of his messages. Now was a time to be concerned. It's almost hour four. Drastic times meant drastic measures. Did he have Tucker put a tracker in the phone they gave her? Yes. It was finally going to get used. He didn’t abuse the fact it was done. He did trust her.
He found the phone but not his little sister.
The phone was cracked.
On the ground.
Without her.
All he could do was hope this was some prank. It's not uncommon but, this would not be a good one. Ellie did lack a lot of social development. Vlad really didn’t program that in. Better to manipulate those who wouldn’t be able to tell and read him. That’s what this had to be right. Just some stupid prank to mess with him.
That’s it.
He’d go back to Sam’s, and she’d be there. Ready to laugh at him.
But she wasn’t.
The trio was on full alert now. Tucker was checking the tracker's history, pulling up cameras. The first place he was going to check was the GIW. They got a bug in their system a while back that makes rescues a breeze. Sam was taken a hands-on approach and would search Amity. Danny was going to go to Frostbite.
Danny promised he’d never take the infa-map again. Nothing was stopping him from asking. He’d beg if he had to. If they wanted him decked out in full regalia, he’d do it. Announce her as the princess that’s fine with him. Ellie won’t be pleased. She didn't even know.
The council wanted an announcement as it was such a big deal. A royal family was not common. There was only one other king who had one. Kingship was taken by the victor of a fight. The core of whoever took won then morphed. The ghost core slowly takes power from the previous king until the new core forms. Danny became king not as he was the sole combatant, but Pariah's Core after being resealed destabilized. It only latched on to him because he was the closest. It was a first.
He received all the Pariahs core at once. On top of his still-forming core. Danny giving up a piece of it before both melded could would lead to problems in the future.
Giving Ellie a part of the “kings” core, it made her part of the royal family. Becoming king meant taking power. Those after power in the afterlife didn’t typically have kids. She was the first official princess of the realm.
Danny refused to push any of the responsibilities on her. No official announcement had been made. If he had his way, there never would be. Once her core formed around his, Ellie would get to choose.
Danny didn’t notice his and Ellies phone next to Tucker as he left.
In record time he was outside Fentonworks. The ghost shield was on. Something wrong. He noticed the GAV was gone as well. Turning back human he headed in. Inside there wasn’t a note. Ever since Jazz was off at Gotham U his parents always left a note saying where they were. Booking it to the lab he got to the door. It was locked and the security system told him he was unauthorized to enter.
The shield was on. There was nothing to keep out. The lab was on lockdown.
They wouldn’t have.
Tucker had a built-in override to the lab. Activating it not only turned off the security system but the ghost shield as well.
Rushing to the lab he saw his worst fears come true.
There his little sister was. Strapped to a table, arms, and legs cuffed down. The cuffs glowing green had to be blocking her powers. Machines were connected to her. The beeps only taunted him. The worst part was the fact she was fighting the restraints her mouth gagged.
Jack and Maddie had strapped and gagged a little human girl down.
His sister.
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The team is on a routine mission when Phantom gets blasted by one of the goons wielding experimental tech. Unable to keep his ghost form intact he transforms back into his human form. Causing the rest of his teammates to think the beam had somehow brought him back to life!
The team starts to try to protect Danny and make sure he doesn't die again, always checking around every corner for a possible threat. How long will he last?
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The whole team was now standing around the training circle in the main hall. They had decided that Robin was going to be the one to fight the former ghost. Technically they would be the most similar, so it made sense. Phantom and Robin both stepped onto the white glowing circle in the center of the room. Beneath them two blue circles appeared.
The one under Robin's black boots read his name and stats, but the one underneath Phantom's red sneakers just read as a guest. Even their tech couldn't recognize him in his human form, figures. Danny looked back up towards the other raven-haired boy. He needed to win this so that they wouldn't baby him anymore, to at least prove himself. But then again was sure that they would still do it anyway no matter what happens here.
"Alright let's do this Boy Wonder." Danny smirked and fell into a more defensive position. "Unless you're scared to fight me." Robin did a stance similar and held his gloved fists out. He had removed all of his weapons before the fight, same with Danny, it was going to be one on one. No powers.
"Try not to hurt him too much Rob!" Wally yelled out. Danny and Conner both winced at the redhead's volume.
Danny rolled his eyes. "Guys, I've had worse than a teen in a traffic light costume punching me! Give it your best shot Robin."
Robin's eyes narrowed under his domino mask as he lunged forward. Danny quickly dodged out of the way and stepped back towards the center of the circle more. When Robin came closer again Danny tried to step behind him and trip him, only for Robin to somehow avoid it and jump up into a backflip, the show-off.
After a few more back and forth hits Danny smirked, Robin was definitely holding back when it came to actually attacking Danny. And that's just what he needed. Robin jumped forward again to do another mock blow and this time instead Danny grabbed onto his forearm and spun him over his head and onto his back on the ground. There was a red light that flashed under him with the sound of a buzzer. Most of the team around them gasped.
Danny grinned as he turned around and reached his hand out to Robin for him to grab. "See I told you. I know how to fight. Although I'm mostly self-taught, the other ghosts did teach me a few things, pretty much survival of the fittest back home." Robin grabbed onto the boy's forearm and accepted the help.
"You beat Robin?" Artemis asked in shock and disbelief.
Danny rolled his eyes and started walking out of the circle. "It wasn't that hard, he was holding back and-." He was cut off as he tipped over his own foot and fell to the ground with a thud.
Everyone on the team gasped and rushed to his side to help him up. "Are you okay!?" Wally exclaimed.
"Great, back at square one," Danny muttered under his breath before looking up at the rest of his team. "You Have got to be kidding me guys!" Danny called out. Conner grabbed him from under his arms and lifted him to his feet effortlessly, making Danny look like a puppy being held up. "I just tripped."
Wally gasps, "You could have died!"
Danny runs his hand down his face, he also realizes that Conner has still not let go of his sides, still holding him up in case he falls again. "I literally just beat Robin in a one-on-one fight!" Danny tried to shrug Conner off of him to no avail. "And name one person who has died by tripping."
Robin immediately held up his arm scanner and started to look it up. "That was rhetorical!" Danny called out exasperated. Robin put his arm down slowly. "I swear if death by coddling isn't a real thing I am going to make it one."
Megan floated forward a bit. "Phantom, we’re just worried about you. You just came back to life! We don't want you to die immediately again."
"Contrary to popular belief being dead isn't all that bad. Besides the ghost and human racism I mean." Danny shrugged. "And Conner could you put me down now?" Danny turned his head and raised an eyebrow at the clone who's eyes widened before he placed Danny firmly on the ground and stepped back looking sheepish.
Megan brightened up with an idea. Danny immediately felt in his gut that this was going to end up bad for him. "Then how about we show you how amazing life is again!"
"Excuse me?" Danny raised an eyebrow.
"I have only been on earth for a little bit and it is already one of the best places I have ever been to in my life! So we will show you how it felt to be alive again! And then you definitely won't kill yourself!" The Martian's voice was overly cheery for the words that just came out of her mouth.
Danny sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose. He didn't have anything else to do today. "Fine... Show me what you got." He was going to regret this, wasn't he?
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Alright, another chapter! I didn't realize I left this for so long, lol sorry about that. I am also thinking of turning this into a little bit longer of a story now. Probably like 12 chapters? Not sure yet. But I have some more ideas for it and want to add them. Trust me there are a lot more shenanigans to come. XD
Thank you for all of your amazing comments so far I love them so much! I read every one and always brighten up when I see them. :D
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