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Another DPxTFP idea with Cliffjumper

I feel like Dani with an I (Danny's clone) is underutilized in crossovers, so I'm sharing this idea I had.

At some point after being stabilized, Dani is off wandering and uses her intangibility to let herself into a parked car to sleep.

Meanwhile, Cliffjumper has an odd experience where a tiny organic lifeform somehow gets into his interior without him letting it in and falls asleep on his seats.

On the one hand, what the slag?!

On the other hand... Cliffjumper's a soldier in a long and terrible war. He knows the kind of tiredness that makes a being conk out in the first somewhat sheltered space they can find without more than a half-hearted prayer that they'll wake up again. He doesn't know what, precisely, this organic has been through, but he recognizes the way that a being who's been through the pit collapses.

Maybe that's why he finishes his patrol with a sleeping organic in his altmode and at a slightly more sedate pace than usual.

One thing leads to another, and Cliffjumper somehow ends up trying to care for an abandoned humanling (or whatever a human sparkling is called) whose creator apparently tried to melt her down for scrap?! What the slag?! Cliffjumper doesn't really know what he's doing, but he can definitely do better than that.

He just needs to do some research on the needs of small humans. He's pretty sure they can't fuel on energon, but this is the planet they come from, so whatever fuel they do take is bound to be fairly abundant here, right?

Basically, Cliffjumper is the first member of team Prime to get a human companion and does so in a "don't let anyone find out he's secretly keeping a kitten on base that he's definitely not supposed to have" sort of way.

Dani is having the time of her life going on adventures with her weird alien dad who has limited understanding of humans (and even less of ghosts) but is trying his best.

There's a lot of different ways this could go, but I'm imagining a scene with Cliffjumper (who survived his encounter with Starscream due ghostly interference) escaping the Nemesis, and getting brought back to base when Jack, Miko, and Raf are there and being like "oh, we're allowed to keep humans, now? Cool." *pulls Dani out of his chest compartment*

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Danny Phantom and Transformers Prime crossover where Danny meets Cliffjumper first

Most crossovers I've seen have Danny randomly ending up in Jasper for some reason and meeting the Autobots there. I'm surprised I haven't seen this angle.

Cliffjumper died on Earth (if that matters at all). Danny lives on top of a portal to the afterlife. Ghosts frequently come through for their own reasons. I think that if Ghost!Cliffjumper heard about a portal to Earth (where his comrades were still fighting), he'd go.

Danny and Cliffjumper might initially butt heads over a misunderstanding. Cliffjumper doesn't have malicious intent, but the TFP Autobots are clueless enough about humans at first that he might accidentally cause some problems while trying to figure out how to navigate Earth as a ghost.

Eventually, they'd come to an understanding. After all, they're both good guys and Danny would love to get to talk to an alien. Cliffjumper would hang out with Team Phantom for a bit. Cliffjumper would learn about Earth and ghosts from Team Phantom. Team Phantom would learn about combat skills from Cliffjumper. From there I can see it going one of two ways.

The US government is anti-ghost (see GIW) and the autobots are working with the government, so Cliffjumper has to stay out of sight while helping the Autobots behind the scenes (and slowly driving Starscream to a nervous breakdown). While he's doing this, he stays in touch with Team Phantom and occasionally helps them out because Cybertronians are social creatures and he needs to talk to people. It isn't until things get truly dire that Cliffjumper shows up with his new friends in tow.

Or

Cliffjumper makes his way back to Jasper and has a tearful reunion with the Autobots. He doesn't tell them about Danny or Amity Park until Unicron awakens, and then he's like "I know exactly who to call for this," because fighting powerful death entities is Danny's thing.

Either way, once the GIW comes up, William Fowler will want some answers about "who in the name of the Red White and Blue is trying to start an interdimmensional war we can't possibly win while we're already dealing with the Decepticon situation?" He's going to tear somebody a new one over this if his higher ups don't beat him to it.

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Transformers Prime and Danny Phantom idea with June

Danielle/Dani with an i (Danny's clone, for anyone who didn't see those episodes) grows up and eventually decides to choose a new name and build a life for herself.

She takes on the name June, goes to nursing school, gets a job at a hospital, and even has a kid.

She had some concerns about how her being half ghost and a once-unstable clone might affect her son, but Jack is a perfectly healthy human boy with no apparent affects from his mother's medical history, aside from slightly higher than average levels of ectoplasm in his system.

That said, the Fenton luck breeds true, and he gets involved in otherworldly shenanigans in high-school. June is only really surprised it's visitors from another planet instead of another dimension.

June Darby is not mad at her son for getting involved with alien robots, but she is disappointed he didn't tell her about the human paramilitary group or the giant spider lady hunting him before she was directly targeted by both.

(This was an unwise choice for both MECH and Airachnid. June may not have been the member of the family who earned the title of Crownbreaker by defeating Pariah Dark, but she's far from helpless.)